HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1932.
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WILD REPORTS OF FRANCE'S PREMIER
JAPANESE ADVANCE
MANY PEOPLE EVACUATE NANKING
ALL STEAMERS LOADED TO CAPACITY
Txovun KEVTER'S AGENCY.]
„NANKING, Mar. 8.
(were not in possession of all the
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Wild reports that Japanese" forces | facts, had occupied Kunshan and were
He suggested that the Lenge marching up the railway to Nan Communission of Enre having king caused the evacuation of many arrived in Mahuria, delegates people from here to-day.
All out should wait until the report was going stemmers are loaded to capa-submitted by its members. city.
CHIANG GOING TO THE FRONT
NANKING, Mar. "7. General Chiang Kai Shek is leav. ing shortly for the Kunshan front.
A CHINESE FEELER? .
SHANGHAI, Mar. 6.
In view of the urgent need to restore n "status quo.nute with special reference to public safety and the sanitation of Chaper," .. says an offlein report, Mayor Wu Te Cheng has notifled the Japanese j Consul-General' and other
Con-
sular Authorities that steps be taken in this connection.
Mr
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POLITICIAN
WARM TRIBUTES TO LATE. MONS. A. BRIAND
(REUTER AND BRITISH WIRELEĀS.)
Ruony, March 7.
The eminent French statesman, M. Aristide Briand, who died in his Paris home this afternoon, fol- lowing a heart attack, was "eleven and twenty-five times times Prime Minister of Franco
Minister,
BRITAIN'S NAVAL
* POLICY
No Slowing Down in Building Programme
FLEET AT FULL TREATY STRENGTH IN 1936
(Renter's Special Servic)
** We
CABLE & WIRELESS, INDEPENDENCE OF
MANCHURIA
LIMITED
DECISION NOT TO OCCUPY NEW PREMISES
(THROOGH REDTEN'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, Mar. 8. Owing to the adverse effect o the world. crisis on the revezines of its associated company, the Im- LONDON, MAT. 8.
perial International Communica. M. Briand had only been ill for
desire. our fleet to be ations, and which has entailed a was compelled to resign from disaster to the world if the British meats, Cable & Wireless, Limited, a week when he succumbed, though meance to no one, but it would be's drastic readjustment of arrange the office of Minister for. Foreign Navy were unable to fulfil its fung. Affairs on January 8, when he was
has decided not found to be suffering from heart ton properly declared the First
to occupy ita disease as the result of overwork Lord of the Admiralty in prosenthane just erected on Victoria Ean- nagnificent new building which it and excessiva cigarette smoking.
ing the Navy Estimates to the Hours of Commons. There can
He was in favour of analting a
M. Briand's Last Days, solemn declaration, affirming that
For a while he retired to his coun the fundamental principles of the try home at Cocherelles in Nor League would have to be the sole mindy, but he reluctantly consent basis for the settlement of the disad to doctor's orders to undergo putes. The declaration should retreatment at a nursing home.
He returned to Paris on Febru affirm the three principles laidary 28 and proceeded to his ab, down in the Pact of Paris and the where he took to his bed, only Covenant of the League, namely,
aceing intimate friends,
Anxiety began to grow on Thurs- the prevention of external aggres-day and worsoned during the week sion, the guarantee of territorial end, hope being finally abandoned integrity and the guarantee of poli- was conscious until the end.
on Sunday. The famous statesman tien independence.
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MASS MEETING IN LONDON
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Mar.
Advocate of Poses.
harlemont.
be no further slowing down, la theshed in order to clear a site A substantial building was de- building programme as replacement programme must
a steady for the new premises, which pre- sent an imposing appearance in the unflinchingly pursued."
Temple District,
be
The First Lord declared that the Estimates were the lowest since
1913
The Navy will have all the ships permitted by treaty in 1938;
EX-EMPEROR HSUAN TUNG ARRIVES
AT CHANGCHUN.
WELCOMED BY JAPANESE CONSUL
GENERAL
TO BE PROCLAIMED REGENT OF
NEW STATE TO-DAY
THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.]
CHANGCHUN, Mar. 8 of the crowd kow.towed as the THE CITY, TODAY, IS GAY ex-Emperor's motor car passed by, COLOURED FLAGS IN WITH THE NEW
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FIVE-recalling the days when the Mans, OUR OF EX-EMPEROR JISUAN
HON- chus were in glory..
TUNG, WHO ARRIVED THIS ¡y proceeded to the former Manj) The Rogent-Designate immediate AFTERNOON PROCLAIMED
AND WILL BE cipal Hoadquarters which being
REGENT OF
occupying, as a residence. NEW MANCHURIAN STATE TO.MORROW,
The city will be illuminated to night in honour of his arrivalā
[A message from Mukden, dated
The decision thus brings into the market and of London's modern THE the the Academician, Six Herbert buldings which was designed by
Baker.
The leading economies, he said will be no combined manipvres of the Atlantic and Mediterranean LINDBERGH'S He will be remembered always Fleets this spring, and in the wes for his contributions to the causo
of peace among nations. Ha play-one of the fleet which had been ed an important part in the fram-reduced by 2:500..
ing of the Locarno Treaty and was. iont author with Mr. Frank Kel- lagg of the Pact of Paris.
His death is profoundly regretted A great bass meeting, organised in London whore he had many by the Langue, of National Union, friends. The King, in a telegram was held in the Royal Albert Halls with profound regret that I have to the French President saya:-" It this evening, the object being to learned of the sudden death of Mon- consolidate public opinion in regard sieur Briand and I have to express
Wu Te Chang's letter to Murni informs him that the Chi- nese intention to restore Municipal fanctions in Chapel, Wogsung and Kiangwan is going v In view, of the fact that Japanese troops are to the Far Eastern situation. still stationed in several of the districts concerned and in order to prevent any misunderstanding, F request that your military authori ties be duly informed in this con- nretion. Your reply is awaited:
Chinese circles regard the letter, as a fecler to ascertain Japanese "opinion.
APPREHENSION AT CANTON (From Our Own Correspondent.)
Canton, Mar. 8. Considerable apprehension. is being Jelt ameng the civilian
Earl Gray of Fallodon, famous for his efforts to prevent the Great War in the fateful days of July, 1914, president.
Lord Grey said that if the war have more military successen, but continued, Japan would probably these would not open to Japan the huge Chinese "commercial market which was of greater interest to Japan than to any other Power.
It looked to him as if, at any rate, the civilian element in Japan would be glad to get out of the unhappy business.
Lord Cecil decinred that the whole machinery of the League of
my sympathy at the lows of a dis tinguished statesman whose labours in the cause of pance and goodwill among nations will ever be held brance." in honoured and grateful remem
"Architect of Peace."
BRITISH STOCK BOOM.
NEW ISSUES HEAVILY
OVER SUBSCRIBED
[BRITISH WIELEJS: SERVICE:
RUGBY, Mar 7 Applications for the issue of £1,000,000 of Give per cent, stock by the Metropolitari District Railway Lord Tyrrell, the British Amare stated to have amounted to Prime Minister to Monsieur Tarbig recent isme of stock that has bassador in Paris, has transmitted
dieu and has also conveyed to birt been heavily over subscribed. a letter of sympathy from the over 250,000,000. This in the third
a personal expression of sympathy
ARE TAKING CAUTIONS TO
KIDNAPPED BABY ESUAN TUNG.
MEETING WITH" GO. BETWEEN ARRANGED
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THROUGH REISTER'S AGENOT.)
NEW YORK, Max. 7. The atost development in the draraatic kidnapping case is that the police intercepted a letter to Col. Lindbergh demanding "$500,000 as ransom and proposing a meeting tive at a restaurant near Mansfield, with Col. Lindbergh' representa Pennsylvania...
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Spitale immediazely entrained for Mansfeld.
It is reported the go-between
Two Men and Two Women Arrested.
arrested so day in a police trap set BRISTOL, Pennsylvania, Mar. &.. Two men and two women were £750,000 and Ming offered for the writers of the noto to Col. £15,000,000.
Lindbergh on Saturday demanding
quired £2,000,000 and applications The Nyasaland Government Te-
850,000 as Tansom,
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in the has also made a new issue, asked on behalf of Mr. Stanley Baldwin. The Croydon Corporation, which
name of his colleagues and him for self, assured the French Govern. mout of his deep sympathy in the great loss the French nation has suffered in the passing of my old friend. We have bean working together for well over a generation reached a total of about £60,000,000, These over-subscriptions are re and I feel his death with a peculiar
population in Canton as a result of Nations for preventing war must koonness. M. Briand dedicated the garded as a demonstration of the
current rumours to the effect that be dangerously affected unless they scores of plain clothes Japanese closely adhered to the position that Government agents, bent upon mis disorder in China could not justify chief have arrived in
breaches of country's obligations Canton. under the League of Nations These alleged Japanese spics are Covenant. usually described
as young men dressed in foreign clothes and able to speak. Cantonese. Their mission in Canton, according to these rum- ours, is to create trouble to provide
THE 19TH ARMY'
A SHANGHAI OPINION
whole of his long-life, without re-great change that has come over ing good understanding between the investment market during the apite, to the high purpose of creat peoples, for which his name, will
PAL few weeks. ever be a famous monument, mere lasting than bronze. He was indeed an architect of peace and his inss
will be deeply felt not in France, ing tribute was paid by the chair- only, but among all men of good, mna, Monsieur Hymans. will throughout the world.".
BERLIN
'REDS" AND PRESIDENCY
GOVERNMENT NOT PERTURBED
(Reuter's Special Service.)
BERLIN, Mar, 7. The Nazis and the Commanista pagandising regarding the are extremely active in their pro Pre- sidential election campaign.
Slogans are being painted upon pavements and walls
Geneva Tributes. The Nineteenth Army receives n
When the news of M. Briand's a pretext to the Japanese Govern cordial, if somewhat unorthodox Geneva of the Standing Orders death was rend at the meeting in tribute from our Shanghai_con- ment to dispatch a naval expedi- temporary the North China Daily Committee of the Disarmament. Con
Whether this is true or not, the on March 4. We give the follow / silence with bowed hands. A touch- Ineeded new friends to take the place cover of darkness, and tons of
News, in a lending article published forence, the delegates stood in ing extracta
(Continued un previous column.)
tion to South China,
A
Jack the Giant Killer, in the fairy tales, David in biblical lore
removed.
THE JAPANESE, WHO ARE MAKING ALL PREPARA- TONS FOR THE CEREMONY, February 8, stated: The AG
mimistrative Committee" has issued STRICT PRE-
SAFEGUARD a statement in the name of the new. independent State formed by the four North-Eastern Provinces of China, to the effect that the game of the new State will be Manchow
do, with Changchun as capital.
It's ruler will be called Chinchang)
ARRIVAL OF EX-EMPEROR
LATER
Ex-Emperor Hsuan Tung, who arrived by special train at 3 p.m.. was granted af” the station by the moaning · Dictator; and he shall be Japanese. Coneuf-Ganeral, "Mi Chan | provisionally installed as such sarit{} Sham and others who bowed three formally initiated by the people times as the ex-Emperor alighted according to the Constitution, to followed by his Consort and two be promulgated in the futuro, ” other Indiangisi?*
The name of the new ers will ba Outside the station Chinese Tatang, meaning Great Union, di troops and police kept back huge The new dag will be yellow, with glimpse of the ex-Emperor. Many the upper corner:] crowds who surged forward for a te bine; white and black bars in
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QUEEN VISITS SAFE DEPOSIT
(Reuter's Special Service.)
LONDON, Mar.
The Queen visited the premises of the London Safe Deposit Co. in Lower Regent Street to-day, and desconded to a vault forty feet below the roadway, where the lock. od, a steel box -which is her own personal property, in which she will be able to store private treasures, if she so desires.
The Queen used a
gold key in- scribed with her initials and the Royal Crown
During the debate in the House of Commons, on the Navy estimates Sir Austen Chamberlain referred which show a considerable decrease; to the passing of M. Briand, re
Her Majesty's belongings "should" be perfectly safe, as in order to marking that the cause of peace
inted upon got to the safes, as unauthorised Police are taking "no chances
of those who had passed away. Not
person, would have to pass nine their protection of the city.
man was better a friend of that literature are being poured out by tests of identification, and force a large number of special police off.
cause and no man had served that printing pressce. curs, armed with Mausera, are main gain their place in the gallery of day, they had ond essential picco of survive him may find the encourage the wireless: tower, where it fut locks.
cause more loyally, and we who and affixed a gigantir Red Flag to
The Communists went further twenty-tan steel door equipped with taining the closest watch on un- heroes beenus the best in human equipment on which every army ment and the stimulus to continue tered for hours before it could be
a keyless combination and time familiar faces. They are seen day nature which, happily, has a way since the world began has set store, his effort by following his exam- and night in groups of twelve or Hoof coming to the top more often-courage everywhere, combing Hotel and than men and women, in their mo-
plo. lodging houses, stopping
So, although Shanghai cannot desty, think, hna over a sneaking honestly say that it was ever very Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, satisfied with the employment of motor
interview In an
The Government Party has been at Geneva, the buses and taxicabs and searching sympathy for the bottom dog or onthusiastic when it heard that the said that few statemen of our times normal methods of appealing, to the their occupants for illicit frearms, the "litt un"
In many respects 19th Route Army were to be station had won so noble a place in the public, with placards on the street These precautionary measurce are specially manifest on Shaki Road flattered by recribing to them, even after the relations between Japan- alike by his love and devoted ser freedom demands strength
the 19th Route Army would be ed in its neighbourhood, although, history of mankind as M. Briaati, corners announcing: and other places in the vicinity of the limited virtues of Kipling's co and Chinese became difficult vice to his own country, and by his
Germany's fight for justice and Shameen. The writer, while going Lost Legion." It is still open there were always fours of the in wholehearted work for the cause of ity. Germany Unite.
and to Wongsha station this morning in to doubt whether they have the tentions of the 19th towards the peace and international friendship.
Vote for firm recognition of the dislocated Settlement, it must pay tribute to At this difficult moment in the Lea
Hindenburg." Chinese Government. It is even bravery and a readiness to make gue's history we can pay no better dates, Herr Winter, is unable to One of the Presidential caqdi- more open to doubt whether they the ultimate sacrifice in defence of tribute than by doing, our utmost participate in the propaganda as ho- ever intended to be put in the posi-in cause-nebulous though
that fo cherish the great institution, in is still in prison. tion of apparently defending that cause may have been. Even on the building of which M. Briand Government. Their campaigning Wednesday, when most of the 19th devoted so much enthusiasm. in Kiangsi had hardoned them to Route Army had been withdrawn the changes of direction and objecthurriedly from Chapoi to retreat tive, of banner and colour.
before the advancing Japanes
'bus, was stopped and searched no less than three times on Shaki
Fload,
"LEAGUE ASSEMBLY
MEETING -
SIR JOHN SIMON'S
PROPOSAL:
Press "Tributes.'
LONDON, MAT: 8.
GERMAN COUNSELLOR
OUTRAGE
VICTIM MAKING SPEEDY RECOVERY
‹ (THROUGH" REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Moscow, Mar: 7. Herr von Twardowski, the Coun-
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.58 p.m., stated:
The anti-cyclone is nearly stationary in the vicinity of Shanghai,
Local Forecast-N.È winds, moderata; fine to aloudy.
AMERICAN STUDENT
MISSING.
LOSS OF MEMORY, FEARED,
SALE OF A BOY,
EIGHT PERSONS CHARGED IN COURT.
WHAT POLICE DECOYS FOUND
A well-dressed man named Tro Kwok Ban of Staunton Street, to gether with his concubino and two other men and four women, were charged before Mr. „Wynne. Jones yesterday with being concerned fn a transaction for the sale of a small boy.
Detective Sergeant D. Fitches, proseduting ufd that on March 3 a number of children were brought down from Canton and kept in a hut in Kawloon City behind Kow loon Tong. The first defendant, who was the principal tenant of the hut, was known to the police as having been implicated in the sile of children before.
A decoy was sent to the hut and, through the second defendant, vas introduced to the first. There the derpy met the other defendants with the exception of Tae Kwok-nin shid the concubino, who subsequently in- tered into the cast It' was" arrang- ed that the "decoy should return the following day with an uncle to purchase one of the boys,
An* Uncle,”
The police put up an uncle But the fact remains; this ill-forces, one or two there may have.
who was acat to the hut the next clad, imperfectly equipped, varie been more-romained behind de The whole world is paying tribante
day whilst a party of detectives. gated, predominantly youthful spite their offloors' requests and to M. Briand as the Apostle of
followed immediately afterwards BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE} army was caught up in a fight with declared that they would wait with Peace." All newspapers devote:
the men of Japan.
Whilst inside the dredy was offered It might have their "atore of rifle ammunition to leaders and columns of biographical LONDON, Mar. 7. retreated from Chapei five weeks got one of the onemy before they details, and The Times says, M.
one of the children for $300. It China's acceptance of the peace aga Some spirit of obstinacy embraced death by shooting or Briand's death has removed the resolution passed by the Generalized it. It had no delusions about burning. It is only fair to record greatest, diplomatic figure of the
was stated that another of the boys Committee of the League Assembly te ability to withstand the enemy this epic of tab 10th Route Army post-war period to whom peace was
had been sold the previous day, on Friday, was indicated in telefor any length of time. It know because so little was exported of it a passion. His decline coincided
It has been reported to the police After the arrest of the first six grams from General Chiang Kai perfectly well that here was war, and so much was said to its dis with the recrudescence of nation-
that an American student named defendants, the police were inform- Shok and Mr. T. V. Boong, while even if called" a President of the Council of Minis. could not be conducted by pecuni that having been compelled by the fluence was withdrawn, European was shot in the neck and hand white duck trousers, grey felt hat sold to a man in Staunton Street. quasi-war, which credit. And, let it be remembered, "alism in Europe, and, since his in- sellor of the German Eubaaay, who Jack E. Bryant, 2-3 years old, fivered that one of the boys had been ters, which were read to the meetary tactica
feet eleven inches tall, dressed in i Those who fought in accident of fats to become heroes along a broken rond, mbi recovering, from his injuries, and grey overcon, has her mits. On visiting the house, Tse Kwok- ing of the Assembly at Geneva toit fought to the denth. So, all of of the moment, the officers and men along a broken rond. day by the Chinese delegate, Dr. a sudden as it were, the 19th Route of the 19th played their role right W. W. Ten,
The Daily Telegraph says he was
injuriesing since Monday morning from, thosan and his cohoubine were arrept- Army shook off its unconventional lustily, and not without a sense of a grout internationalist and a good have expressed their regrets to the press hotel where he was fired. Whilst on the Boor, a aung hip
The Soviet Government, who During the subsequent discussion, habits, and proceeded to appear in humour. the British delegate, Sir John the world's news as an ordinary meticulously avoided disturbance,
They carefully-almost Frenchman.
Berlin Foreign Office at the outing temporarily. He is travelling Simen emphasised the importance, modern organization conducting of foreign property. They display- to whom France Instinctively bad skis assailant, a
The Daily Mail: He was a man rage, says that Herr von Twardow round the world with a Friend: nam was produced showing that the boy needed O. R. Bradford, who made the had been purchased for $200, but of local negotiations for the settle warlike operatione against another. od no intention to come into the recourse in her hours of difficulty Stern, belongs to a group of to report to the polic
Mon ment of the disputes...
Improviantion had to be employed Settlement Thenc qualities may and danger.
| only $15 had been paid on accoun But, however that may, by the wandienppear when the stimulus which The Daily Herald: He was an of the 19th Route Army showed, produced them lite gone. That is illustrious warrior for peace.
The officer remarket that it was that short And beredt an they were all the more reason why, in the The News Chronicle describes him
a very bad case as it was not only of most of the elaborate parapher hour of their defeat, their bow to as a champion of peace, and the
the sale of one child but an attempt nalia required by the soldier of to-
to sell others no well, th internationa3 ghould receive this respectful saluto. Frenchman..
audience, they Daily Express as an international
The case wae adjourned until
The situation, he said, involved tno vsefulness of the league and they had to show that the League was indispensible ne an instrument of peace. They could not well pro ceed to discuss the dispute as they
(Continued at foot of next rerumn.)
certain foreignarn
rorists, acting under the orders of
that Stern has confessed that the The Soviet Goverment allego motive of the crime, was to bring about strained relations between -Russia and Germany.
The missing man is said to be.. of a quiet, well conducted type, of memory..... and is probably suffering from loss Anyone sing this man is ro quadled to communicate with the police for the American Consul.
Friday.