HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1932.
POLITICAL CRISIS IN GERMANY DISARMAMENT CARVALHO YEO JAP. ATTACK ON
STATE OF EMERGENCY PROCLAIMED
IN PRUSSIA
IS IT A VICTORY FOR THE NAZIS?
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BSALIN, July 20
THE Chancellor communicated the
State of Emergency.
LATER.
DIFFERENCES
THE BIG FOUR"
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GENEVA, July 20. THE "Big Four" aro engaged
in composing the differences re- garding the calibre of land artillery, the only outstanding point in con- ilict in the draft resolution to be submitted this afternoon to the General Committee of the Disarma ment Conference.
If agreement is not reached the matter will be reserved for the accond stage of the Conference after the holidays.
Central Government's devision
A state of emergency has been to a conference this morning of proclaimed in Prussia. -
Von acting Ministers in, Prussia,
This action against
Prussia Papen declaring that owing to the
amounts to a coup d'etat, prevailing conditions in Prassin he is unable to guarantee law and Troops have occupied the Prussian order owing to his duties as Chun State Ministry in Wilhelm Strasse, gellor, and that Dr. Bracht would and General von Schleicher, Minfe- act as his representative goveruter of Defence, has been appointed ing Prussia dictatorially until the Governor of Berlin and the Pro- new Prussian Diet ends the prevines at. Brandenburg, where he sent stalo mate. He agrees to
wields executive authority, being appointed Prime Minister,
Both the President and vice- Von Papen thus has yielded in the President of the Berlin Police have tannago of tanks and proposes a wishes of Hitler and Hugenberg, the Nazi leaders, who argued that
A Presidential deeree annule Prussia under Socialist rule was no longer camble of preventing the certain articles in the Constitution disorders which recently have multi-and authorises Schleicher to im- plied throughout Prussia.
A Dictatorship,
BERLIN, July 20.
resigned.
pose a censorship on the Presa, telephones, telegrams and letters besides permitting domiciliary searches and confiscations,
The resolution prohibits air at tacks, chemical, bacteriological, and It limits the incendiary warfaret real reduction and strict limitation in effectives.
The resolution invites the Naval Treaty Powers to confer regarding further reductions and invites the co-operation of other Powers, to which it invites the Powers to renow for four months, from November 1, the truce provided in the League Assembly resolution of September 20, 1931,
It also authorises extraordinary courts for the trinis of persons dis- oboying military orders, with the death penalty for armed resistance to the authoritics, for high trenson, damacing railways and using ex- ITALY
A virtual dictatorship, has been declared in Prussin owing to political stalo mate. Von Papen has been appointed State Commis- sioner, with Doctor Bracht, Ober Burgomaster of Essen, ny his deplosives. puty, which means that they rule Prussia almost with dictatorial powers.
MANY KILLED
IN BLAST ON
DYNAMITE SHIP
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE FEARED
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bont,"
LATER.
All neting Prussian Ministers have been dismissed.
KING OPENS
LAMBETH BRIDGE
COLOURFUL SPECTACLE AT
CEREMONY
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RUGBY, July 19. NEW five span bridge across BROCKVILLE Ost., July 20. the Thunes at Lambeth, erect A SHALLOW-DRAUGHT vesseled at a cost of £550,000, was open technically known as a "drilled by the King this afternoon. The bridge is an extremely graceful engaged in dynamiting structure, built of steel and cover shoals in the St. Lawrence Rivered with a skin of granite. It has near here, was blown to pieces impressive pylons, topped by lights at its approaches, and forms a very when its large store of explosive important part in the replanning was accidentally set off. It is fear of London's trallie arrangements by od that the entire crew, sare three opening up a new East to West
route across the capital, and there who are gravely injured, have been by easing congestion elsewhere.
The bridge was designed by Sir lost.
Reginald Blomfield and erected by Two are known to have died and Mesars. Dorman Long, well-known 11 are missing.
Less than two years ago a dis The actual opening ceremony tank a novel farm. After the King and occurred at almost the same spot cil's records, His Majesty used the in the river. There were 14 fatali pen to make an electric contact which caused the barriers across ties. Almost all of the dead on that the bridge to rise perpendicularly and this occasion are rivermen of into the air, Union Jacks break
ing from their tops. Thousands of Brockville.
school children who lined the bridge burst into cheers, while trumpeters of the Life Guards blew a fanfare.
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engineers.
DUMBFOUNDED
RELEASED!
SENSATIONAL TRIAL RECALLED.
༔ ཟྭ
DEPORTED FROM THE COLONY.
learns
JEHOL
SERIOUS VIEW TAKEN BY NANKING
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NANKING, July 20.
attaches great
COMMISSION AT
PEIPING
LORD LYTTON TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
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PEIPINO, July 20, Lord Lytton, M. Claudel, Dr. Timportance to the davstor Wellington Koo, Mr. Autor and Mr. menta in Johol and has wired to Donald arrived here at 10.50 a.m." Ohiang Kai Shek to return to by air from Tainanfu,
Lord Lytton was immediately The **Daily
Hanking to take up the matter, Fress" on good authority that Carvalho and it is probabls he will return taken by ambulance to the German Zeo, the Treasury clerk who was to Nanking from Hankow by alr Hospital. cantoaced to ten years' imprison shortly. ment in November, 1928, has been released from Victoria Gaol, and has left the Colony, it is stated under the terms of a Deportation order. He has thus served less than one-half of his sentence here.
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Yeo, the central figure is possibly the most scanational case iii local courte.during the last twenty years, was found guilty of uttering three forged cheques to the value of 30,000, draw on the Houg Hour Treasury. The cheques were nego- tiated through local banks. forgery of this cheques. A sum of was found not guilty on charges of $50,000 was eventually recovered by the Treasury, and it was stated that a further $130,000 in United States bonds in New York was held at the time in the joint name of Yeo and his wife.
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High military authorities con- fered this arternoon to discuss the tavuation and will re-met to-night.
CHINA WILL RESIST IF JEHOL IS INVADED.
PEIFING, July £0. Marshal Chang Hsueh Liang received
♪ telegram this after- noon from General Tang Yu Lin,
LORD LYTTONS ILL HEALTH DEPLORED
FIRM HAND NEEDED TO GUIDE COMMISSION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]. LONDON, July 20 "The news of Lord Lytton's ap
illness is most
Chronicle, London Labour journal
500 RED SPEARS
LOOT TRAIN.
CER. PASSENGERS KIDNAPPED
TWO GUARDS KILLED
[TUROVON NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
HARBIN, July 20 Yesterday 500 “Rod Spears" at- tacked and looted a' train' and the station at Woklimoho, on the Chinese Eastern Railway, 14 miles. weat of Imiampo,
Nine military guards and two passengers were killed. Thợ száw of the train, the surviving military guarda, and several passengers werg- kidnapped.
CER. FREIGHT TRAIN JUMPS TRACK
DRIVER, ASSISTANT. AND
HOBOES KILLED
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Hanais, July 20: On the morning of July 18 tha The difficulties of the unfor-River Telu washed out the Chinese
reporting that sit Japanese acro-parently grave declares the Yea day. planes brenbed Chaoyang yeater- deplorable,"
Official circles deny any know-to-day. consider it another pretest fortunate League of Nations' Commis ledge of the Ishimoto incident, and action, which the Japanese military sion in Manchuria have been grave allegedly have long been contem enough without any addition there plating. They point out that, acto," the newspaper adds cording to Japanese ropart, Captain Lytton has shown firmness in resist. Ishimoto, a liaison officer, was ing the impudent attempts of the carried away by irregular troops so-called Manchurian Government within Manchukuo territory, and to dictate to the Commission. that therefore the Japanese, and But the need for firmness is
"Lord
Eastern Railway line sixteen miles east of Pokutu. A freight-train, westward-bound jumped the track The driver and his assistant: and Sixteen five hoboes word killed.
How a worse tragedy was avert waggons were smashed, ed is shown by the fact that the trans-Siberian train passed over
minutes earlier.
ROTTING PONTOON
COLLAPSES
A month after his sentence Yeo appeared before a Full Court to make a complaint against the re-
uot the Chinese, should be respon-only just beginning, and it is not cords of certain witnesses having sible. It is further stated that no a phantom State of Manchuko this section of the line only thirty- been withheld at the trial, but the Government troops were involved which will really test the energy point was not allowed.
in recont fighting, which was only and capacity of the Commission. Maintalried His 'Innocence. between Japanese troops and irre- There is a much more formidable Yeo stoutly maintained through-gulars, but that, if the Japanese claimant to its attentions," con- troops attempted to penetrate to cludes the News Chronicle point- Jebol, General Tang Yu Lin is pre-edly.
No Cause for Anxiety. pared to resist the invasion with all the troops at his disposal.
PEIPING, July 20. Lard Lytton who is suffering from internal infection contracted in Tokyo, and is not a recurrence of old his trouble, is making satisfactory progress at the German Hospital, where he is staying for a few days for a complete rest from all business.
RE-SHUFFLE OF MINISTERS out that he was not guilty of any orgery, and it was suggested in the course of the trial that the signa tres might have been obtained by [TANOVOX REUTER'S AGENCY.]
a trick" The court was crowded at every hearing, the case arousing intense public interest-
Rov July 20. ITALY is dumbfounded by the re- signations of Grandi, Mosconi, the Finance Minister; Giuliano, Education; Rocco, Justice and Bottai, Corporations.
Mussolini becoties Foreign Minis-
ter.
A sequel, some months later, was the sting of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation by the Government for the re-credit ing of the 8260,000 involved in the Irauds. After a lengthy hearing judgment with costs was given for
ths Government,
Forgeries!
In the course of his summing-up, the then Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, asked the jury to state whether the cheques were genuine or not, dealing particularly with the suggestion that signatures of Mr. C. Mcl. Messer (then Colonial Treasurer), and air. T. Black, of
the Treasury had been obtained by a trick.
The official explanation is that the resignations дго part of Mussolini's schems of changing the Government periodically in order to afford others a chance, but the more general impression is the Duce's disappointment that Grandi and Mosconi failed to get a clean ate at Lausanne for reparations In addition to fiva Cabinet and war debts. Ministers and a number import- ant under-secretaries, there is a new Finance Minister, Guido Jung, who is an expert in foreign trade. The new Ministers of Justice, and Education, De Francisci and Ercole, are rectors of Rome and ence." Palerma Universities, respectively, while Mussolini also assumes the Corporation's Portfolio,
The Japanese troops in the Chin- chow Chaoyang area are believed to
number between 8,000 and '8,000.
Instigation Charged. According to the vernacular news. papers, there has been a scries of minor incidenta during the past week, arising from Mongol bandit It was stated this evening there NO cause for anxiety and activities, alleged to have been in- stigated by the Japanese military although he is very weak there is authorities. This strengthens the no fever. It is expected he will re- general belief that the Japancao cover shortly and resume his duties will attempt to invade Jchol RooDer on the Commission, or later.
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100 TRIPPERS THROWN INTO WATER
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HARBIN, July 20.
the ROTTING“ pontoon Yacht Club beach, overcrowded with handred trippers of all ages, awaiting the ferry yesterday evening, collapsed and threw the whole crowd into the river.
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Sportsmen and life-savore hero cally dived for hours and dragged from the river women clasping their children. Several victims were, yo vived by artificial respiration.
Foreign circles in Poiping arenounced that unqualified buildingtin premises. It is understooo at present undecided whether the contractors will not be alloved to the north. They have been sent to Ishimoto episode is an isolated in- | take work. It is learned that a that a
publicity programme will be cident or the beginning of un in- petition will be sent to the Govern-arranged on "the present situation. vasion of Jehol, for which the ment by the Canton Building in Manchuria." ground has been prepared for some Workers Association on behalf of weeks by propaganda from the unemployed Workers. Japanese Information Bureau at Tientsin, which is believed to voice For forging the signature of one the views of the Japanese Army. of the Canton high officials on a The balance of opinion here is referenes" Chinese man and that, major trouble is not likely to a girl were sentenced to a year's death." occur before the Lytton Commis-imprisonment by a Canton M officials amounted to grave negligion leaves China, but, of course,gistrate.
it is impossible to predict the line
The jury held that all the cheques were forgeries, adding, in reply to another direction by His Lordship, that the absence of adequate sanerviaion on the part of Treasury
aster similar in-almost every way Queen had signed the City Coun- Foreign Affairs will probably be In Hong Kong
OPTIMISM ON EVE OF
CONFERENCE
EMPIRE'S DELEGATES AT OTTAWA
(BRITISU - WIRELESS SERVICE.]
In an address, the King recall ed that since his parents opened the former Lambeth Bridge 33 years ago, great alterations had occurred in the social conditions of London. The population of the vast area called Greater London had increas
The now Under-Secretary for Suvich, who will represent Italy at conferences abroad.
Grandi's resignation makes him favourite for the vacant Ambas sadorship at London.
The resignations' bombshell was followed by a minor sensation due to the publication of a decrec establishing government control of stock exchange tracsactions under which the Finance Minister is authorised to examine stock trans fers, and stock-brokers automatical- by become public officials,
CHIEF RESIGNS
ed by 3,000,000 and among other CANADA'S RAILWAY things, they had seen the advent of motor-cars. Fresh problems had been created for the local authorities by these changes. To guide and con trol the development of London, im- rove its housing and its means OTTAWA, July 19.
of communication, and raise the THE British Delegation to the Im standard of ever-growing amenities perial Economic Conference, of daily life, were described by the reached Ottawa to-day and receiving as tasks of paramount im-
portance and complexity.
ed, an enthusiastic reception from After expressing his personal a huge crowd. They were officially interest in London's traffic pro welcomed by Canadian Premier Rt. blems His Majesty said the new Hon. R. B. Bennett, and many Lambeth Bridge would remain a other Canadian Ministers, and were monument to the skill and energy Inter received by the Governor of enginecra, architects and all General, Lord Bessborough, -*-
grades of workers, to whom he Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Chief offered congratulations on the com British Delegate, in the course of pletion of their great enterprise a statement at the conclusion of his Four workmen, a mason, a steel journey, referred to the useful cun-erector, a pier sinker and a clerk
of works, representing the ferences which took place during
to the King.
mea
passage from England, with indus- who built the bridge, were presented
trial advisera and fellow delegates from other parts of the Empire who also travelled by the Empresa of Britain. He said the progfess made was a good augury of the Kelpful co-operation which he anti- cipates will mark the Confercnco proceedings.
MOTORIST RACES
LINER
CAPT. BENYON IN 8,000- MILE TOUR TO INDIA
We recognise the double op portunity," he said. "Delegatee can reach agreements increasing trade between the different ports of the Empire, thus promoting a greater well-being of every unit.
· [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] But, also, wo believe the methods wo adopt will set an example to.
CONSTANTINOPLE, „July" 20, the whole world in breaking down CAPTAIN YATES BENYON, who obstacles to commerce and aiding i.is motoring to India in zn at revival of industry and trade, thus tempt to bent the British India lin. bringing peoples safely through the ar, Manors, on its 8,000 miles run to trago depression of recent times." Calcutts arrived here to-day
SIR HENRY THORNTON RESENTS CRITICISM
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
OTTAWA, July 20. SIR HENRY THORNTON, Amori-
can-born president of the Cana- dian National Railwaye and ond of the highest paid executives in the world, has resigned from his post owing to criticisms of his policies.
To-Day
OVERCAST, RAIN LATER.
YESTERDAY'S - WEATHER REPORT, PORECAST AND REMAHK8, 18RUED OX THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 5.35 P.M., STATED :-
PREBURE 18 HIGHEST NETWIEN, THE LOOCHGO AND BONIN Islands. THE DEPRESSION OVER TONGKING APPEARS TO HAVE FILLED UP, THE -TYPHOON ENTERED THE CHINA SEA THIS MORNING AND IS NOW ABOUT 150 MILES TO THE WEST OF APARRI MOVING N.W.N.
LOCAL. FORECAST:-East wINDS. MODERATE FRESHENING CONSIDER- ABLY, FROM N.E. LATER, PINK at FIRST; OVERCAST RAIN LATEN.
TYPHOON WARNING..
The following typhoon warn- ing has been received by the American Consulate General· from Manila Observatory :
Manila, July 20, 2.35 p.m.-- Cyclone or typhoon W., of Northern Luzon, less than 100 miles distant moving W.N.W.
MORATORIUM
ORDER IN BRAZIL
PAYMENTS SUSPENDED UNTIL AUGUST 20
[TAKOUŮM BRUTER'S "MENGE"")
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According to a report from the Bureau of Public Safety, Canton, notorious gangster has been caught in Nam
Hoi ·diatric?, Kwangtung, and sentenced to
A telegram from Canton states that over 500' wounded soldiers have
the Japanese military authorities A meeting of the members of the been transported to the city from will take, although Japanese Lega-Canton Press Association takes the Canton military hospitals. tion circles discredit the stories that place this afternoon at the Associa- |(Further Chino news will be found an invasion of Jehel is impending. (Continued on next rytum576)
on page Three and Four)
FROM CHINESE NEWSPAPERS.
Mr. Wang Ching Wai, the Chairman of the Executive Yuan, has informed all Chancellors of Government universities that 08 from July no levies will be mace by the Government on university funds.
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General Chang Fat Kwai, the Commander of the famous Ir aides," has tondored his resignation to the Nanking Government, which, it is understood, has been accepted
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According to a telegram from Shanghai large shipment of at Japanese goods has arrived Shanghai, most of which are to be transported to Yangtse ports,
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It is reported that General Li Young King, Commander of the 3rd Cantonese Army arrived in the Colony by train yesterday. It is understood that he will leave for Swatow shortly in order to direct operations against the "Reds."
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According to a telegram from Canton General Wong Chi Man, the Commander of the 8th Division of the Cantonese troops, has de finitely postponed his return to Canton and will continue derecting operations against the
Reds."
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Sir Henry was appointed chief of the newly-organised national railroad system in 1982. At think time the system was all and in efficient.
The Dominion Government spent millions improving the trans-Con timental road, and millions bulld ing branch lines and competing with the Canadian Pacifio Rallway.. The debt of the system which Bir Henry directed was staggering. A DECREE has been issued by the near Nambung, north of Kwang and it was severely injuring its Cabinet Connell authorising tang, considerable losses were suf old-established competitor.
suspension of all payments due in fered by the Government troops Criticism has grown in intensity. Brazilian currency until August 20 General Chan Teal Tong, the Ita culmination is Sir Henry's next,
Commander-in-Chief of the Can retirement. No successor, has as The effect of the "decree is that tones forces, has ordered a detach. yet been named." There is good rea of a complote moratorium. It is ment to be despatched immediately son: to suppose, however, that some apparently designed to tide the na to Namhung in order to relieve working agreement may be made tion, over a period of financial Commander Chan Cheung's troops, with other railroad interests where stress and until the Government R by the operating losses and the has taken steps to secure the posi- ' The Department of Reconstruc drain on the Government resources tion of the country at home and may be stemmiod.
abroard.
General Cheung Yim, the Com mander of the 61st Division of the Cantonese forces, will arriva Can- ton" from "Amoy this afternoon by
plane.
As a result of the recent RIO DE JANEIRO, July 20. engagements with the Reds"
tion of Canton has recently sa (Continued on ntel Column.)'
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