BRUENING GOV. RESIGNS
ACCEPTED BY PRES. VON HINDENBURG
COUNTRY FACING GRAVE SITUATION
{TANOUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.}
BERLIN "May 30. RESIDENT voa Hindenburg
PRES
has accepted the resignation
of the Bruening Government.
LATER.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1932.
VILLAGE ROAD MURDER
Vigorous Cross--Examination of Zimmern
MR. BRUTTON'S COMMENTS ON
WITNESS' MEMORY
The Crisis which, has plunged ZIMMERN REQUESTED
Garmany Inta a grave situation on
the ove of the Lansanne Confer. ence is due to President von Hin
denburg's inability to agres to Bonio of the measures that Dr. Bruening intended to include in an Emergency Decreo.
The President is particularly op posed to the scheme to expropriate a part of the big land, owners estates, especially in East Prussia. for the redemption of State Loans made to them. This land was to be used for settling the unemploy. ed and impoverished peasants,
The land owners are violently opposed to it as it is a Bolshevis tic measure.
President von Hindenburg, who hurried back to town from Prussia, has evidently sympathized with his neighbours' complains
Other proposals of Dr. Bruening to which President von Hindenburg has objected are connected with
the reduction in pensions and doles, and some of Dr. Bruening's more democratio schemes.
NOT TO "HEDGE"
HEN the case against Cheng Kwok Yau, who is charged with procuring the murder of George Fung, was resumed before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central Magistracy yesterday, Edward Zim. mern was again in the witnessbox and after Mr. R. E. Lindseli, the Assistant Attorney-General, had finished with him. Mr. Geo. K. Hall Brution, for the defence, subjected him to ค cross. examination on many points raised in his evidence. The cross... examination was not completed when the Court rase.
Zimmera's ANSWOTS to some of Mr. Brutton's questions brought a remark from the latter requesting Zimmern not to
hedge."
CONVERSATIONS WITH ACCUSED.
Continuing his evidence from where he had left off at the previous bearing, Zimmern told the Cours that after arriving at Village Road on the sight of the murder, Cheng CUTS IN DOLE TO SICK AND drove the Austin car in which Zim
HARD-UP GERMANY...
NEEDY
[more CPTER'S AGENCY. ]
ERLIN. May 29. Chts in the due to sick pension- ers, widowy and orphans, are, con tained in the ecopenny masze ouslined in a new, emergency decree to be imposed this werk.
THE LAUSANNE CONFERENCE
BRITISH POLICY
REVEALED
PREMIER DETERMINED TO ATTEND
mer and Lau were also seated,
right round Happy Valley and then to town. On the way, said Zim- mern, Cheng turned round twice.. as though he felt that someone was following him. The nerased turned
Nervous and Shaky.
We left by the back entrance, and Went-up into Caine Road through the Old Bailey Street, waiting for abus for five minutes; when it came along we boarded is te go, to the Chui On Club win the. Vaiver-
ity. We discovered Mr. Lau on the same 'bus. He dropped of near the Nethersole Hospital, and we pro- creded, finally reaching the Un-
IN HONG KONG TODAY MAY 30
CLOUDY,
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, ISSUED DY THE ROYAL OBERVATORY AT 1.35 P.M., STATKED :-
THE ANTI-CYCLONI.19 NOW CEN- THAL NEAR TORVO. À TROUGH OF RELATIVELY" LOR PRCHHUNE EX- TENDS FROM ANNAM ACHOSE THE
PHILIPPINES TO THE PACIFIC.
LOCAL FORELANTE. WINDS, MODERATE: CLOUDY.
IRISH SWEEP ON
THE DERBY
TOTAL
SUBSCRIPTION
£4,128,486
THROUGH" KEUTER'S AGENCY] ·
LONDON, May 30, The total subscription to the Irish Derby Sweep je £4,128,480. Irish hospitals and charities will veerive over £1,000,0rb.
CASE
By Defence
PASSES
QUIETLY
SHANGHAI
DEMONSTRATIONS
FIZZLE OUT
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SHANGHAI, May 30, Rain proved a good ally to the police and effectively dampened the ardour of May 30 demonstrators.
The threatened celebration com- pleted fizzled out, excepting for a few handbills, which WeFA dás! tributed in a desultory fashion,, und one minor attempt to hold a meet- ing in the mill district,
Many newspapers and industrial concerns were closed and flags wore fown at half-mast. Chinese re-
E
The prize fund which is i£2,801,043, is divided into twenty-eight units presentatives assembled at the rach with a first, prize of £30.000: tomb of the victims of the May 30 second prize of £18,000; and aineident in ip2s, and some slogans third prize of 210.000, Drawers of were shouted.
There! Luther horses £1,700 each.
are 2,800 prizes of £100 and ten resibial prizes of £164 each.
CALL OVER AT VICTORIA CLUB
to-day revealed that "Orwell is The call-over at the Victoria Club
favourite.
The Ages were as follows. !"
LONDON, May 30," Orwell (o. 85/40 41).
round one at Diabatsu's (Arsanniversity terminus, where we alighted 10079 Miracle (t. and o.).
Street) and witness naked neetsed, who looked pervous,, whether some one was following the car.
4117
Mr. Lindsell: What exactly do you mean by nervous?
Witness: Pretty shaky, with his hunds. I asked him what was the matter and he gave me nó reply:
and went down to the Chui On Club by a sloping road."
2/
1007
Herperus (1. and 6.).
100
Cockpen (o. 13/1 taken).
100/6
Dastur (1. and o
"Cheng was not the mun I had known him before; he was nervous and shaky and his face was pale," added Zimmern.
2271
April V. (o. 25/1 1aker),
28/1
Firdaussi (t. and o.),
29/1
Porto Fino, (t. and o.).
331
Wyvern (6.35/ taken).
40/1
Andrea (o, 50/1 taken).
66/
Spenser it. and o.).
46/1
66/
Celebrator (t. and o.).
66/1
100/1 JOD/
Totalx (1. and o.).
Jiweh to. 100/1 t.),
Leighton (t. and o.).
100/1
200/1
2001
Bachus (o. 2001 taken). 100/1 Buckle (o. 200/1 taken). 125/1 Jackdaw II. (t, and o.). 125/1 Summer Planet (t. and o.).
Peter Planet (t. and o.), Corey (1, and s.).
Mr. Lindsell: Did he give any reason for getting out of the ear at the Kwong Hoi Kee and going by this route to West Point Not that 1 can remember.
Wna "the car running all right as far as the Kwong Hoi Kecî--- Yes.
Witness, answering further ques- tions, said the accused drove the ear at about 25 to 30 miles per hour which was faster than his sunl speed. After passing Murray Bar
We arrived at West Point at racks, near the Hong Kong Cricket Club's ground, accused gave Lau a. 10.30 or a quarter to 11 Cheng dollar and said that he was unable took over ten per cent of the bank y take him to the Chiu On Club in a game of pai kau and made 831. and that he would take him some
The game, lasting for about an 'other night as Lau might have hour, took us to 11.30 or 11.43 After that he watched other people A patement that the British toy. trouble with his mother. ernment representatives 1x the further on he gave Lau #13 and Sambling. Át 2 a.m. Lausanne Conference would press said: Use this for yourself; spender. At 4.30 am. I left the Club.
(THROUGH BLUTER'S AGENCY,]
LONDON, May 20
to the utmost for consideration of, it in the morning." not even merely debts and repara-
A little
tions, but also the bigger Froblem Witness said that the car was then of dwindling international trade, driven to the Kwong Hoi Ree firm was made by Mr. Ramsay Muc Donald Premier, in an interview in Queen's Hond Centra).
There
with the Daily Mail at Tangiemouth, Lan got out and went away,
Ho said that it was an interna
Mr. Lindwell: Describe in exact
was able to settle for itself.
Lional problem, which no nation detail, as well as you can remem He hoped that the Lausanne Con her, what happened inside the shop
ference would boldly fuck it. in all its aspects.
The Premier expressed his deter minution to go to Lausanne because ! be believed the business to be trans- acted there was össential to Great!
Britain's future economic position.
OTTAWA ECONOMIC
CONFERENCE
AUSTRALIA WILL NOT BARGAIN
(Reuter's Special Service.)
MELBOURNE, May 20, The spirit in which Australia will enter upon the Imperial Econe mic Conference at Ottawa hor was given expression to-day by
Pooped Through a Shutter.
Witness: First he told the "boy" to get someone to park his car in the garage. He closed the main entrance himself and tocked the
door. He then peeped out into the street through a shutter in the door, Then he got hold of me by the front of my jacket....
Mr. Lindsell: Notice anything.. about him at the time?
Witness: Just as he entered, I felt his hand. It was icy cold. I asked him what was the matter and
:
we had sup..
Cheng was still there when 1 left, and he did not leave with me,
toe verandah.
Royal Dancer (. and o.).
WORLD'S WATER SPEED RECORD
KAYE DON POSTPONES ATTEMPT
Mr. Lindwell: Describe the cir
(Reuter's Special Service.) cumstances of your leaving the Club... Cheng took me out ou
LONDON, May 29. Surprise has then created by news Here is fifty from Lake Garda, Italy, indicat dollars," he said; I want you doing that Mr. Kaye Don, has abur go to Canton." I asked him why.doned his attempt to create a Dey and he replied: "The trouble is England 111, and is returning to world's speedbont record in Miss that you drink and talk too much." England to discuss modifications of
told him that it would be very 1oolish for me to go, but he insisted, telling me that he would follow me afterwards. I asked him, "Why Can ton-7,” and he remarked that there was the long distance telephoon with which he could keep in touch with me. He gave me the names of two Chinese hotels at one of which I was to stay in Canton.
Gave Him Fifty Dellara.
the craft,
It is supposed that some trouble has developed with the craft as it was only a few days after his ar I did over 112 miles an Hour in rival in Italy that Miss England
an unofficial trial.
was more than satisfied with the Mr. Kaye Do then said he
craft. He declared that at no time during the trial-when the record
more,
DEMONSTRATORS CHECKED
(THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, May 30. Several attempte at demonstra tions were made this morning, on the evasion of the anniversary of the May 30 incident in 1995.
Incidents decurred in the French Concession and the International Settlement, but the police had no difficulty in checking the demon- strators,
POLICE SURROUND BLOCK OF SHOPS.
THIEF'S REMARKABLE
ESCAPE..
CHINA'S FOREIGN
MINISTER
WANG CHING WE MAY CARRY ON
(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.}
STRATOSPHERE EXPEDITION
PROF. PICCARD'S
PLANS
(Reuter's Special Servics.);
BUCHSELA, May 30.
Professor Piceard's second pro- jected trip next month to the outer !! limity of the skin, known to scientists as the stratosphere, was Į discussed by him ip an interview
with Heuter. NANKING, May 30, A local news agency reports that He said: The main object of at yesterday's Bonnion of the For the expalition is for the further eign Relations Commission of the Nationel corect, in Lewen study of cosmic rays and to com Kan resigned the post of Foreign plate observations made the laat Minister and recommended that time. I shall pilot the balloon my "Mr. Quo Tai Chi be appointed to
acceed him.
self with 1] le companion. Max Mr. Que Tai Chi, however, de Cosyns, who will assist with th clined to accopt nomination and scientific experiments. I-am taking annowaced that he was preparing practically the same scientifle ap- to go to Londoa" immediately aš Chinese Minister to Britain will be recalled that he was re- cently offered this position and, according to repented reports, re- fused the appointment.
It parutas as the last time, only. I
shall add a wireless Fes
It is believed so that Mr. the light there is to concentrate in Chiang Tao Pi indicated that heong burning ray on the man whose was relong to Tokyo as China's work, he says, may well be re- Minister to Japan.
+1
Mr. Lo Wen Kan was persuaded garded as the greatest recorded to carry on a Foreign Minister at effort of human genius." He has Nanking.
mide dry bones live. He has taken Cesar from the historians and put him into history.
1:
LO WEN KAN INSISTS ON RETIRING
LATER, Through this book walks a man, tonight that. Wang Ching Wei wil with the head of a thinker, the lean Political circles are freely stating You see him as he was: sinewy, Lemporarily take over the Ministry body of a hard soldier, the mouth of Foreign Affairs while retaining of a woman. You see him squan- the Presidency of the Executive; desing his money and plunging into Lo Wan Kan insists on resigning bribe his way to power. You see
sons of debt in order to buy and. and returning to the Ministry of him merciful. You see him mer- Justice, while Que Thui Chi, who cifeus, patting ruthlessly to death has been freely, discussed as his those who would stay the advance successor, insists on taking up the of his grand conception: Rome the post of Minister at London to mother of an Empire of equal sons. which he was recently appointed.
Ynar
Panorama of Life.
The Government is faced with a most difficult task in appointing a new Foreign Minister, but under
You see him swooning in epilepsy; Ministry ennnot long be vacant, for shoulder to shoulder with his men thepresent circumstances the You KLA him taking his place which reltson Wang Ching Wei is when the warfare was hard and long, likely to take over for the time! You see him subduing a mutiny being.
with a word. You see a youth, sprung from a rotten governing class, set- ting his hand to use the corrupt methods of that olans in order to sweep it away.
·CHINESE MILITARY
ATTACHES
CONSIDERED NECESSARY, BY CHIANG
(THROUGH RUYTER'a mursor.]
NANNING, May 30.
There is much else to be seen; the whole panorama of Roman life in the time of the decadence; Cœaar's long bid for political power; his passing on from that to an almost superhuman military prestige; his return after nine years to find the Roman great ones set against him; his taking up of the challenge; his faming clean-up of Italy in,.a It is understood that Chiang Kai, civil war; his pursuit of the Shek is considering the appoint remnants of opposition throughout, To prevent the escape of a man ment of a number of experienced, the world as men knew it in thos who had broken into the shop of military officers to serve as mili- days. the Electrical Supply Company; taay attaches to the Chinese Lega You will see him dallying with Brown Street, Manchester, the tions..
Cleopatra beside the Nile, and you police, during the early hours of Owing to Enancial difficulties, may accept Mr. Buchan's challenge the morning, surrounded the block few military attaches have been to decide for yourself whether of shops and offices bounded by stationed abroad, but Chiang com Cleopatra's son Cæsarion was his Brown Street, Market Street, New siders such a step desirable to child. market Lane, and Pall Mall facilitate the investigation of naval When those who work on the pro- and military developments. mises arrived yesterday morning, foreign countries. they found the offers conducting a search of eupboards and other places of concealment.
About midnight it was found that
the Electrical Supply Company's premises had been entered, and the of the shop had been broken ope manager was summoned. The tili by a screwdriver, which was found
Consi
JULIUS CAESAR, JOURNALIST.
WHEN ROME HAD HER "HANSARD.”
DAY.
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He gave me the fifty dollars, and asked him, how about Chriatie. He told me not to any anything to Christie and gave me a further ten said, "If someone is trying to look dollars to hand to "him, for his yakan bar. Miss England III. pilot pany, was found in the basement for the dole, which in those days
fan, e. rice eating.
for you and give you a hiding, I
A week or ten days before the am here to protect you," and her conversation I had told Cheng that pied, No, follow me." It was then that we went into the Kwong there were no prospects for me with
Hoi Keo.
chis business following him to the cinema and gambling places, hold of my coat and told me "Fung ton.
What happened inside He got and that I would he going to Can-
is dead. I was surprised and ask On leaving the Chit On Chit
Minister of Trade and Customs ined "How do you know?" and he. 4.30 am, I went back to the Tung-
replied, "Lai rang me up in my shan Hotel, and found Christie. house and swore vengeance. Wit-sleeping in Room No. 50. I roused nosa said that accused went on to
him and saying something to him, I warn you not to speak to gave him the ten dollars. We went anyone about this, because if you out and hid some congee. Christie
a most encouraging statement.
It in the British Government with whom big arrangements can be made, if we agree upon big ar y rangements," said the Government spokesman, Mr. Gullett, discussing
¡
Talkative Cicero,
The great gures of the time pass before us in full dress or in swift Fecatches of vision. Old Cieero comes and goes, philosophising, orating, loving Cesar, always look ing for a sop from his hand, now given some little job to keep him quiet, now patted on the head" and sent back to his books with friendly ́encouragement." It was Cicero who flashed out the great parase: "Wo are slaves to him and he himself to the times."
near by, and alibut 108. n was missing. The "company have two shops, Nos. 4 and 8,” Brown Street, on either side of Bridge REPORTS OF NEWS OF THE water Chambers. which open into
Meet, too, Mark Antony, grosk in habit, a savage in appetites, Brown Street. There is acers to a general basement froth the Cham-
almost illiterate, without the bera, and it was found that the Julius Caesar arranged for
"Meat rudiments of statesmanship.
by breaking open a premises, No. 8, had been enterea "Hansard" to be published, re- Pompay, the «fortunate youth, but door in thegularly recording the debates in not so lucky man; and Crassus, the basement
th Roman senate, writes Hluckless millionaire, whose insensate The intruder had then remove Spring.
ambition was to lead armies in the was actually, if not officially, x-six wireless cabinets from the steps He was a pioneer in popular | field. He did, and his bloody ceeded were the engines full que
of an iron stairway leading to the journalism, for he ordered the ma-head was flung on to the stage" at and has the was capable of mich shop above, mounted the stairway, gistrates to have a summary of im the Parthian court, where a com
and forced an entrance by break-portant news inscribed on white pany of strolling players were por- The official record, held by Coming through the boards with which washed walls in various parts of forming." modore Gar Wood, is 111.7 miles the top of the stairway was closed. Rome.
A crowbar, belonging to the com He introduced a "means test" Later a parcel containing a wireless was granted in torn, sat was found abandoned in a pass- age and some loud-speaker units were discovered in a cupboard, as if they had been placed there in readiness for removal.
He came home from the subjugn-causing thereby a first-rate nationaf The intruder had also forced tion of the known world," "and scandal." Meet the denizens of the several of the doors of cellars in men held their breath to see what clubs and kennels, the glory and the the basement (in an attempt it is the master of the world would do grime of Rome, the seething com- thought, to elude the police), had with his winnings." Within six motion of a time when all that broken open a door leading from months he was dead, stabbed in tradition stood for seemed crashing. the Chambers into the Market twenty-three places at the foot of Street premises of Messrs. A. H. Pompey's statue. Martin, tailors, and had also "fore
Irony.
ed by Kaye Don, bettered 112.5 in her uncficial trial.
PACIFIC FLIGHT
FAILS
BROWN RETURNS AFTER SIX HOURS
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SEATTLE, May 20.
He reformed the calendar
A Roman Gangster.
11
Meet Clodius, the chief gangster
in Rome, and learn how he smuggled
He shook an old world to pieces himself into the festival of the and sketched a mighty plan for the Bong Dea, the goddess of fertility, rebuilding of the world anew. to which only women were admitted
ed the degr of an office on the top There was something ironical in floor, though in either of these that, for Cesar had taken away! cases had anything been taken. Pompey's wife and given him, in
Meet, pre-eminently, the man who strode that world like a Colossus, till littlo men had nothing else to de but-
Creep under his huge legs and
poop about
STAVCA..
To sock ourselves dishonourable
Many thanks to Mr. Burhan.
hand
do, you know what the consequence returned to the Hotel and I left. will be." I said. "Alright, A that morning on the Fathan the Conference,
We do not intend," he went on, right, I won't talk. I won't tell."
which sailed at 8 o'clock. Prior to Nat Brown, the former U.S. army to haggia in the interests of trade I had at that moment a eign-boarding the stedmer I bought a aviator, who took off this morning It is a mystery how the man return, his own daughter. in any spirit of animesity, and we retta in my mouth," said Zimmernewspaper from a seller near the in an attempt to fly to Tokyo non-escaped with such a close guard on All these things and many more. certainly shall not attempt metiu- and searching for a match in my Hong Kong Hotel in order to find atop, was compelled to return by the block. The theory is advance you will learn from Julius lous or niggardly, weighing of our waistcoat pocket I found the receipt out if what Chung had told me
a broken oil line, making it imed that he cluded attention by as Crear by John Buchan (Peter would like him to take thus respective concessions.
given by Mesars. Lo & Lo, and about Fung was true.
ponsible for him to continue the sociating with those who had legiti Davies, 5s, net). Mr. Buchan has many of the figures from history's journey..
mate business on the premises yes given us nothing now about Casar; mausoleum, dust them, breathe into He landed at 1p.m. Pacific time, terday morning. It is also thought but he has cleared the windows of their nostrils the breath of life, and approximately six hours after the probable that he had secreted hẩm musty secretions and allowed all set them walking as here wast time of his take-off.
Felf on the premises overnight.
(Üontinued on nese Column.). "great Cresar.
If wo were no foolish, as to de-asked Chang what he was going to At Canton I stayed at the Tang scend to mere bargaining, more do with the paper. He took it fromAh Hotel, in Room No. 61%. I was harm than good would come from me and throw it into the backyard there for four or five days. The Oktawa,"
of the house.
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