Shanghai Business Men Challenge Premier's Attitude
COMPLACENCY ENTIRELY
CONTRARY
TO FACTS
Shanghai, To-day.
pared to support that optimism with more firmness of action than hitherto has been shown.
It adds that the American and French Chambers, who are work- ing in close association with the British, are also most perturbed at the complacency shown by Mr. Chamberlain, which is "en- The British Chamber of Com-tirely contrary to the facts."- merce of Shanghai has sent a vigorously worded cable to London
Reuter.
for transmission to the Foreign PUPPET VISIT TO
Office, protesting against Mr. Neville Chamberlain's statement in the House of Commons, when he declared there was no need to feel despondent over British trade pros- pects in the Far East.
The telegram declares that the Chamber does not feel that the optimism expressed by the Bri- tish Prime Minister is justified unless the Government is
pre.
PRISONER TAKES LIFE TO AVOID TRIAL
Mak Chi, aged 30, who was yesterday committed for trial at the Sessions on a Dangerous Drug charge, by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy, later hanged himself in the Old Victoria Gaol while waiting to be transferred to Stanley.
The man was found hanging by an Indian Guard going his rounds at 10.30 p.m. last night.
The deceased had cleverly woven a rope from the strands of the matting of his bed and used this
for the purpose.
DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR TO LIVE IN PARIS
Soir.
Paris, To-day.
PRINCE KONOYE
Shanghai, To-day.
Liang Hung-chih, Chairman of the Executive Council of the pro- of Nanking, will travel to Japan Japanese "reformed government"
about the middle of November in mier, Prince Konoye, various Cabi- order to meet the Japanese Pre-
net members and other Japanese leaders.
BELGIUM
CHARGES OF
COLONIAL POLICY
TREASON
Brussels, To-day.
The Minister of State declared in the Chamber of Deputies yes- terday that Belgium cannot give up her African mandates except in agreement with those who en- trusted them to her.
As regards Belgian Congo, the Minister added that there could bo no question of ceding even a part of it.-Reuter.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY SEARCH BY BACON
SOCIETY STOPPED
AGAINST FENCIK
Prague, To-day.
The Carpatho-Ruthenian Minister, Dr. Fençik, who had plenipotentiary powers to deal with the new fron- tier between Czechoslovakia and Carpatho-Ruthenia, is expected to share the same fate as the first Carpatho-Ruthenian Prime Minis- ter, Brody, recently arrested.
In Prague political circles, it is assumed that as in the case of Brody the Government will demand that Corporative Committee of the National Assembly surrender Fencik. When this demand is com- plied with, Fencik will be arrested.
The motives that induced the Government to take this step are, it is declared, the same as in the Brody case. Frencik is reproached with having worked for cession of Carpatho-Ruthenia. Details of the accusations made are not yet known. Frencik belongs to the Russian Na- tional Party in Carpatho-Ruthenia.
LONDON, TO-DAY. THE SEARCH IN WESTMINS- Although the visit is stated to be TER ABBEY FOR THE TOMB OF merely a courtesy visit, it is be- THE ENGLISH POET, EDMUND Brody's Party and the now dis- lieved that the journey is connected
SPENSER, IN THE HOPE THAT sloved Russian National Council in with the present Nanking negotia-
IT WOULD REVEAL EVIDENCE Carpatho-Ruthenia had worked tions of the joint commission
TO PROVE for
THAT WILLIAM closely together within the frame- amalgamation of the pro-Japanese FRANCIS BACON HAS SO FAR
SHAKESPEARE WAS IN FACT work of the Woloschin Government. Nanking and Peiping regimes, and
Brody, has already been sentenc- that Liang-Hung-chih is going to RESULT.
FALLED TO PRODUCE ANY ed, according to the "Nowa Tokyo in order to receive new in-
Swoboda," the organ of the present structiona.-Trans-Ocean.
Digging had been undertaken at Carpatho-Ruthenian Prime Minis the instigation of the Bacon Society ter, Woloschin. on the strength of a document dat- No confirmation of the news that
KWANGTUNG GOVT. WARNING
ing ment the year 1600 in sentence has been passed and if
which
is made of the so what, has been stated. It is, burial of Edmund Spenser. It is however, known that Woloschin stated in the document that famous has ordered the confiscation of the contemporary authors each wrote private property of his predecessor. Linhsion, To-day.
an eulogy on the dead poet and that-Trans-Ocean. Anyone found paying tax or ex- the verses and quillpens were de- tending financial or material sup
posited in the coffin. The assump sidered as traitors, according to a port to the enemy will be con- tion is that the verses written by William Shakespeare would prove proclamation issued by the Kwang-to bear the handwriting of Francis man, residing
Tang Kai, aged 25, married wo
at Leighton Hill people throughout the' province. tung Provincial Government to the
Bacon.
Road was yesterday admitted to A number of coffins have been the Queen Mary Hospital, suffering ernments and their illegal actions lieved to be that of Spenser. There come time after admission.
Non-recognition of puppet gov- unearthed, among them one be- from opium poisoning. - She died in areas now under the enemy's oc- is, however, no way of establishing cupation is reiterated in the pro-it with any degree of certainty.
clamation. - Central News.
HIGH OFFICIALS
INJURED
Chungking, To-day.
The Westminster Abbey authorities have therefore refused to grant per- mission for opening of this coffin,
-Trans-Ocean.
SIX ORANGES
The Duke and Duchess of Wind-the Central Executive Committee Mr. Chang Chiang, member of sor intend to make their permanent of the Kuomintang, and Mr. Liang of larceny and receiving, an Indian Pleading not guilty to charges home in Paris, declares the "Paris Shang-tung, member of the Peo-special guard, Khuda Bux, 23, was ple's Political Council, were wound- The Duke intends to rent a small ed in a Japanese air bombing remanded for a week by Mr. E. palace on the. Boulevard Suchet in whilst inspecting the morale and Himsworth this morning at the the immediate neighbourhood of discipline of the Chinese troops. the Bois de Bologne. The "Soir" the front.
Kowloon Magistracy. at
states
that the Duke and the Duchess will take over their new home on January 1-Trans-Ocean,
VICAR LOSES SPARE WHEEL
The Rev. Mr. Rosenthall, of St.
Central News.
HIGHEST HONOUR FOR M. PONCET
M.
Khuda Bux, according to the prosecution, was seen by a Chinese watchman to steal
Sunkist Six oranges on board the s.s. Empress of Japan yesterday whilst the vessel was lying at No. 1. Wharf, Kowloon Godowns:
Paris, To-day, Francois-Poncet, outgoing M
Andrews' Church, Kowloon, between ambassador to Germany was de- George Yan-Chan, of No. 2 High 8 p.m. on Wednesday and 3 p.mcorated by President Lebrun with yesterday, lost a spare wheel and the Grand Cross of the Legion of tyr, stolen from his private car Honour before proceeding as new No. 2032, while it was parked out- Ambassador to Rome, - Trans- side the Church.
Oceans
Street, has reported to the police that between 2 and 7 a.m. yester day, his residence was entered by an open window, and money and clothing to the value of $45 stolen.
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