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SWEDISH MATCH
KING'S" ESTATE
BANKRUPTCY FIGURES
(TAPOBAH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 10. BANKRUPTCY figures relating to the late Mr. Kreuger's catate show liabilities of 1.171,000,000, and assets at K98,000,000,
The Kreuger & Toll Company liabilities are shown at K781,000,- 000, 'and' assets at K500,000,000. -
According to documents, it was revealed during the course of pro- ceedings, the Match King's " debtors included the Conmanist leader, Kilbom, to whom he lent K35,000 in addition to K100,000 to Kilbom's newspaper.
COPENHAGEN INDUSTRIAL
EXHIBITION
PRINCE OF WALES TO OPEN
BRITISH SECTION
[Rovа REUTER': ¿Cuncy.}
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 10.
IT in officially announced that the Prince of Wales ia arriving on September 24, to open the British Industrial Exhibition. He will be the guest of King Christian in Royal Palace.
AFTER-CARE OF
TUBERCULAR PATIENTS
TRIBUTE TO SIR P, VALLIER JONES
fORITISH WINKLER SERVICE.
Ruony, Sept. 10.
TRIBUTES were paid at the Conference of International Union Against Tuberculosis at the Hague, yesterday, to the work of Sir Pendrill Vallior Jones, founder
SPANISH GRANDEES
RUINED
HOME RULE GIVEN TO CATALONIA
(THROUGH HELTER'S AGENCY]
MADRID, Sept. 9.
MANY of the wealthiest grandees of Spain have been reduced to penury by the logislation ap- Proved by the Cortes amid scenes last two days. of almost wild enthusiasm in the
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1932.
NEW YORK FERRY DISASTER
POSSIBLE DEATH-ROLL OF
OVER 100
{THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 10, MANY of the casualties on the Terrysteamer Observation who were rushed to hospital are so seri ously injured that their recovery is unlikely, and the death-rell will possibly total a hundred. Swarms of small boats are still searching the river for a trace of the thirty missing, but it is feared their efforts will be in vain.
A feeling eye-witness account of The Cortes to-day finally dis- the disaster is given by an iron- posed of the two most important
worker who just missed the boat. measures of the session, passing Ho was still shouting replies to the the Catalan Statute which gives jovial taunts of his pale on board Catalonia a wide measure of long when he saw the hull of the ill. sought Home Rule and also dispos-fated vessel rise from the waters ing of the Expropriation Rili and splinter into a thousand pieces. He himself helped to pull a number of the exhausted and injured, who were swimming about fecbly, to the shore.
The latter Bill provides for the expropriation of the property of the nobility and most of Spain's three hundreds grandees will be rained,
The biggest victim of the whole- Anlo seizure is the Duke of Madinaceli.
The Duke was recently deprived of thirty villages for his share in a Monarchist plot and he now loses, under the new Bill, over 125,000 acres of land. He is now almost penniless.
The deputies rose in the Cortes and cheered the double event like schoolboys breaking up for a
holiday, which in fact they were actually doing after four months of intonae labour.
SPAIN STOPS "RED" DEMONSTRATION
AUTHORITIES FEAR AN- OTHER EXTREMIST RISING,
Madrid, Sept. 5.-Serious mca. sures of precaution taken by the Spanish authorities, who fear sa- other extremist outbreak here.
The Police refused the com- munists the solicited permission tr hold a meeting in ons of the large cinemas in the centre of the capi Trucka with armed civil guards, are patrolling the district where the demonstration, was plan- ned.
tol.
Soveral clashes have occurred he
Two Coincidences,
same
The dead now lie in the ferry house where, in 1901, a thousand victims of the General
GERMANY AND ARMAMENTS
FRANCE'S REPLY TO GERMAN NOTE
[BRITION WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Ruay, Sept, D.
THE French Ambassador called
this morning at the Foreign Office and was received by Sir John Simon to whom Monsieur
Fleuriau handed, for his informa
TRAIN DERAILED
ON C.E.R.
OVER 100 REPORTED KILLED. OR INJURED
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY}'
FURTHER BANDIT-
OUTRAGE
BRITISHERS ATTACKED ON GOLF COURSE
(THROBOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, Sopt. 11.
CHANGCHUN," Sept. 11.
A MESSAGE from Harbin states OVER a hundred people were
that two Englishmen, includ: killed or injured as the resulting Mr. Henson, manager of the Da of the derailment, forty miles from Hong Kong & S'hai Rank, wore tion, a draft of the Note which the Harbin, of a train leaving here slightly wounded when resisting an attempt by five bandits to kidnap French Government are despatch inst night. The locomotive and six them while playing golf on Satur ing in answer to the German Gov-ccaches were smashed.
day afternoon. ernment's Note of August 20.
KIDNAPPED
In view of misleading statements regarding Britain's position which have appeared, it is necessary to make it clear that the document was communicated, not for the purposes of consultation, but of information. Sir John Simon thanked M. de Flaurian for his courtesy.
い
It will be recalled that the Ger-
It is the worst disaster in the history of the C.E.R.
The rails, it is alleged, were maliciously removed by bandits, who robbed the survivors.
man Note has already been handed THE GALLANT 19TH. to His Majesty's Government for their information. The Govern-
the facts regarding the latest phase of the Franco-German conversations which will continue to receive their very careful study.
PLANS.
Slocum ware laid. It is a coinciment are thus fully in possession of CANTON MEETING DISCUSS dance also that Police Commission er Mulrooney, who is now direct. ing the rescue work, arrested the master of the General Slocum after the disaster. At that time he was an ordinary policeman. A further coincidence is that the explosion oc curred in almost the as the General Slocum tragedy.
It is generally presumed that a boiler exploded; but one witness de- clared he saw the boiler itself, whole and undamaged, hurtling through the air.
The Observation enpsized when lying alongside a pier a few years ago; since when the iron workers have feared to travel on her.
There will be an official investi-
gation of the allegations that the boat was unsafe, and that the safety valve was held down while steam was being up
39 Killed.
NEW YORK, Earlier. The latest casualty figures give thirty nine killed and fifty-eight injured in the ferry steamer disas ter. Several passengers are missing. Three separate inquiries are to be instituted to ascertain the re- sponsibility for the mysterious ex- plosion; for which most of the sur
old boilers.
DISARMAMENT
CONFERENCE BUREAU TO
MEET SOON
[REUTER AND BRITISH WIRELESS. }
GENEVA, Sept. 0,
MR. Arthur Henderson (Choir
man) has convoked a meeting of the Bureau of the Disarmament Conference for the 21st instant.
According to a resolution of the Disarmament Conference, such con- vening cannot be postponed, though should Germany fail to send a re- presentative to the meeting, the Bureau has the power to adjourn its deliberations to a later date.
TO RAISE FUNDS FOR
MAIMED SOLDIERS
HOME.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) :
BRITISHERS
BANDITS DEMAND $250,000 RANSOM
(THROUGH REUTER'S, AGKNOY.]
DAIRES, Sept. 10.
LYTTON REPORT ON MANCHURIA
GERMAN NEWSPAPER
COMMENT
(TORODÓD. AKUTER'S AGEROT.)
BERLIN, Sept.–0.
THE Japanese forcant of the
Lytton Report has not aroused comment in the German newspapers,
with the exception of Lakalanzeiger, which describes it as a makeshift report," and says that the attempt to suggest anything approaching a decision and doing justice to both sides has failed.
BRITISH OPINION:
THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.
LONDON, September 10 While it is recognised that two- THE captors of Mra Mariel
Pawloy and -- Mr Charles coming ovents the publication of Corkran are demanding a ransom the Japan Manchukuo Treaty and of n. quarter of a million dollars, which the British Consul at Now the Lytton Report-will constitute chwang says should be naid by the a major crisis in the Far East, re- Government of the. Manchukuo, which is responsible for the main tenance of peace and order.
Avolding Danger,
sponsible British opinion tends to await the definite contents of the Lytton Report, regarding the parts of it which leuk out as misleading and not informing to public opin- ion...
The Financial News, however, re-
NewCHWANG, Sept. 10. Mrs. Pawley's father, and Dr. Phillips, who is a Medical Mission ary, are confident that contact can be established with the kidnappers marks that enough is already known through the mediation of former patients; but he requests that the to indicate that the two documents name and the location of the inter will be mutually exclusive, which mailiaries shail be withheld.
CANTON, Sept. 10. The present trip of General Chiang Kwang Nai of the 19th Route Army to Shanghai being the subject of much discussion here, pressmen sought an interview with Mr. Yung Kwei Ching, officer-in-
For the purpose of avoiding dan fundamental opposition must pro- in Canton when they were told that Authorities insist that release shall either by the League or Japan, or charge of the Army's headquarters ger to the captives, the British duce deeply, significant decisions General Chiang had gone to confer he negotiated without any resort to both. The paper further observes with General Chen Ming Shu on fighting. controversy in Manchuria and the the subjects of the Sino-Japanese- civil administration in Tukien pro-
vince.
ANTI-JAPANESE MOVEMENT
that pacific relations are almost af
a deadlook and that out too much importance need be attached to the continued presents in the Paciffe, el the United States, fest, but that the stirrings of nationalism in
admit of at tween thein.
Village Settlement, Cambridge-tween the demonstrants and the vivots blame the twenty-four years In Hong Kong outstanding problems in connection CONSUL LONGES A STRONG Chint on pasy compromies be-
shire, for the after care of tuber-policy, but nobody was seriously in
culous patients.
In a paper contributed by Sir Vallier Jones, he declared that the village settlement was essential in the interests of public health. Pap-:
worth had succeeded because he had made use of the business acumen,
jured. Absolute calm is reigning in Madrid.
DEPORTED SPANISH
MONARCHISTS.
industry and skill of the patients FLEET OF SHIPS HELD READY
who had solved their own economie problem.
The importance atinched to the
TO TRANSPORT THEM,
Madrid, Sept. 5-It is moured after-care was demonstrated by the hore that the first group of monar inct that the International Com-chists sentenced to deportation will mittee, over which he will preside, leave Madrid this morning. is to study collate, and co-ordinate methods employed all over the world,
JIMMY WAKER
"SHANGHAIED "
THROUGH BEUTER'S 10ENCY.]
NEW YORK, Sept. 10. "I AM being Shanghaied by a medical man," "declared Mr. Jimmy Walker, ex-Mayor of New York, who sailed for Europe by the Italian liner Conte Granda. It is learned he is making the round trip
to Europe and retura for the sake of his health.
PRINCE GEORGE IN SCOTLAND
TOUR OF FACTORIES AND WORKS
أمة
Three motor trucks are said to
be held ready for this purpose by the authorities in the yard of the gaol, where the convicts have been confined. Each of the trucks would carry 30 prisoners to Alcazar Ban Juan, whenco a special train will tako them to Cadiz
It will be recalled that a whole flotilla of ships is waiting in the port of Cadiz to take on board the convicts.
RECENT RIOTS IN
SPAIN.
MONARCHIST "REBELLION" PETERS OUT.
The special correspondent of the Christian Science Manitor via
The Federal examination will be of a criminal nature, while the County police and the Iron Work- ors' Union are making their own investigations. The Union alleges that the vessel was chartered by the City as a forry Unseaworthy and undermanned.'
There have been no arrests, but Captain Forsyth, the 24-year old master of the vessel is under daten- tion in hospital, where he is lying questioned. His father, aged sixty- in too serious a condition to be
six, and who piloted the ferry, is among the dead,
WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA
LARGE FORCES CLASH IN THE GRAN CHACO FOREST
[Through fruTER'S ADENOK.
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 10. LARGE forces of Bolivian and Paraguayan Troops have clash- ed in the Gran Chaco Forest along an extended front, according to de- spatches from La Paz.
Aeroplanes and heavy artillery participated in a 24-hour battle round the Bolivian stronghold of Fort Boqueron, which the Para guayans claim to have captured Considerable casualties are reported
To Day
PROBABLY SOME RAIN,
YESTERDAY'S WEATHED ZEPORT, FOBECAST AND REMARKË, 18SUED BY THE ROYAL ONSERVATORY AT 5.30 P.M., STATED
PRESSURE CONTINUES' 'HIGHEST. OVER THE PACIFIC TO THE NORTH- EAST OF HOKKAIDO¦. THE DEPRES- SION REMAINS TO THE SOUTH OF HAINAN.
LOCAL FORECAST: N.E. WIND, FRESH; CLOUDY GENERALLY; PROB- ABLY BOUE RAIN,
TRIUMPH FOR
"General Tsai Ting Kai has also gone up north on a similar mis- sion," continued Mr. Yung, and will not return to Fukien until the
with the administration and "Red" suppression in that province have been satisfactorily thrashed out!"
Maimed Soldiers.
PROTEST
(THROUGH REUTER'S. AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Sept. 10.
The articlo concludes by saying that in the Autumn the crisis. moy well lie in the decisión as to who
the weakness or exacerbation of na tionalism is to predominate. Who ther, with the difficulties in her regarding the anti-economic background, Japan will be Japanese movement in Kiukiang.
compelled towards, or precluded from, implementing her ambitious Manchurian programme, This must be one of the major decisions of the
The Police Recreation Club was IT is learned that the Japanese the scene of a meeting of all sec Counsul at Kiukiang has lodged, tions of the community this aftora strong protest with the Chinese noon when they discussed plans for authorities the raising of the required fund for erecting a home in the City for the maimed and disabled soldiers of the 19th Route Army. The representa- tive nature of the meeting was elo- quent evidence. of the eateem in which the men of this Army aro held by the public here and some very elaborate suggestions were put forward. The plane, however, have not been definitely decided upon as ret, though it should not be more. than a day or two when the decision will be released for publication.
BRITISH FINANCE | TENSION FELT IN MEXICO,
CRISIS CREDITS NOW ALL REPAID
TROOPS STANDING BY AT OPENING OF CONGRESS.
CHIANG KAI SHEK
REPORTED RETURNING TO NANKING
(THROUGH · REUTER'S IQENCY,)
SHANORAL, Sept. 10
year.
A TALK ABOUT
ANN HARDING.
IT is reported that Chiang Kai
Shek will shortly return to Nan-THE BEST OF FRIENDS king from Hankow to attend to urgent Government business. M&M
STUDENTS ON STRIKE
OBJECTION TO PRINCIPAL'S DISMISSAL
1 SHALL NEVER MARY ANYONE ELSE.”
London, August 8-Ann Hard- ing's ex-husband arrived in London to-day from Hollywood and talk- ed about Ann Harding
Press Wireless sends the following to have bean suffered by both sides A. TRIUMPH for British finance call as a precaution against possible Matala is reparted, the reason be her fame film blonde was mak-
account of the recent monarchist The fighting began at dawn yester "uprising" in Spain:
day, when, strong columns of Boli Madrid, Aug. 11-Antimilitary vian troops advanced from Fort Bo- and antimonarchist demonstrations queron against Poro and Valensia are being organized here by Repub- after an intensive artillery bom- licans at the result of the surprise bardment, but the Paraguayan for attack on the General Post Office ces held their defences. Moreover, and the War Ministry by a small they claim to have carried out a band of Monarchists, comprising a successful counter-attack, handful of officers and civilians President Ayala of Paraguay
ÍTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,)
LONDON, Sept. 8.
is shown in the prompt repay ment, which is announced to-night, of the Frz.2,300,000,000 subscribed in 1931 by French investors during the
nancial crists.
clnas.
The students who, this time, are Her ex-husband name is Harry. boys, state that they will not attend Bannister He is an actor. He is school pending a formal inquiry by very tall, very bronzed and very tional Departament
responsible officer of the Educa blue-eyed.
circumstances of the Principal's dismissal and other matters pertain in to the general management of the school.
SCOTTISH SOCIALIST- PARTY FORMED.
Ann and É” he said, are the
"Shall we ever marry again 1 cannot answer that question. But 1 can tell you that I shall never marry anyone else.
You see, binge in Hollywood are very difficult for married folk Very difficult I managed Ann'as business "affairs and “L” màile enemies, Yes; I was responsible for her very big contract with KKO, and I was acting with tha company, too. We found our post. tion untenable,"
Colombo, August 4-Following
They were divorced last March, Mexico City, Sept. 1.-The Mexi-hard on the recent atrike, by girl you may remember; and the can National Congress opened to students of the Siddartha Training grounds for the divorce were that day, with all troops ordered to School, another strike of over 200 they wanted to preserve their remain in their barracks ready for students of the Rahula Vidyalaya of love." Ann Harding thought that disorders.
ing a report that the services of ing it impossible for her husband vious official denials, that President tho Principal had been discon-to have any stage career of his
Rumours persisted, despite pre- Ortiz Rubio will retire. He is All-
tinued.
The whole of the foreign credits late Gen. Alvaro Obregon.
ing out the unexpired term of the obtained by the Treasury during President Rubio, however, opened the national emergency have now the session of Congress, vigorously [BRITISH WIRELEON SKEVICM)
been repaid. Y
A heavy task still awaits the denying rumours of political unrest
The local Buddhist community is bent of friends. She saw me off RUGBY, Sept. 9.'
was determined to satisfy the ne PRINCE GEORGE, who returned which resulted in a sharp battle in complains of the silencer Treasury, but it will doubtles be and promising that the Government much excited and a suecting is being Los Angeles, and I shall no doubt
easily carried out. from Biarritz by air yesterday, the streets of Madrid early yester-neutral Powers and Washington,
cessities and hopes of the peasant convened to inquire regarding the meet her when I return. City authorities estimate that left by night train for Scotland. day.
ggg from which Paraguay has not re- roughly £90,000,000, will be requir He arrived
He said that the “attitude of at Aberdeen this A serious outbreak is reported ceived any communication, thus emed to redeem morning, where he made a private from Seville, where Gen. Jose San-barrassing her relations with the Water, the balance of the other nations" and obliged Mexico tour of factories and works, and juro is understood to have placed League of Nationa. Each side de- £150,000,000 worth of
to readjust her tariffs on a protec Treasury
tionist basis. later proceeded to Balmoral, where himself at the head of the insur-nounces the other for attacking Bonds will be converted or repaid the King and Queen are in resi- | goats.
without formal declaration of war. during the autumn. dence.
When the Republic was establish- War in Hall a Dozen Places. The Secretary for India, Bired General Banjuro was in com
LONDON, Sept. 9. Samuel Hoore, who will be the mand of the civil guards and bĩa Warlike operations, involving
GERMANY UNABLE guest of Their Majesties for a faw decision to support the new régim" | heavy fighting sporadically, are go- days will fly to Balmoral from his did much to enable the revolutioning on in half a dozen places in home in Norfolk on Monday," to be decomplished without blood | South America unchecked.
shed. Last February he was trans- The unofficial war between Bolivia
We share our daughter Jane, ferred for political reasons to the and Paraguay is still proceeding,
London, September 2-In view but my wife or Miss Harding- carabiniera a corps of military according to dospatches from Reu-
of the decision recently taken by has her more than I do. She was police whose chief duty is to patrol ter's correspondent' at Asuncion,
the Independent Labour Party, the with me for a month before I left. the frontiera Latterly there have who says that hostilities are now
In connection with the report that Scottisli members of the Indepen" It is possible that. And may been frequent reports of his dis-in full awing.
Germany has already notified the dent Labour group who disapprov- come back from films to the stage Batisfaction with the Republic Bolivia has opened a heavy offen-
United States of her inability to ed of this step, yesterday held a and, well, we may meet ther The Government has sent chesive from Fort: Bouqueron, says an
meet the payment of 23,000,000 meeting in Glasgow in the course again." It was on Broadway that Sixth Regiment from Madrid to official message from the war-zone.
marks which falls dus on Septem- of which & Scottish Socialist Party we met before our marriage --5 deal with the Seville outbreak. •*. All pacifcatory efforts by the
ber 30, it is noteworthy that French was formedabad
years ago today The attackers in Madrid, who did | neutral" Powers have failed ̈ of
LONDON, Sept. financial and political circles are The new Party, decided, while
Harry Bonister is looking for not exceed 200 in all, do not ap- effect. Their latest scheme, to give PERSISTENT rumours circulated awaiting with considerable interest giving its support to the Labour plays with which he
through the City to-day to the the decision of the French Govern Party, to be autonomous, and to Broadway can return to pear to have had the backing of Bolivia a......" corridor "to the sen LONDON, Sept. 9. either military or civilian elements has so far met with no response. effect that Germany has indicated ment regarding the payment to asring the financial resources of the You have all the playwrights, Nannouncement has been made capable of bringing solid support or Braham Buonos Aires able to meet loan payments due at Excluding capital repayment, gende
Brazilian
to the United States that she is un- Amarica due on September 15. group to conduct socialist propa-bo said, and I went to meet flint the British Government is to a movement the aim of which Reports
them. It's smart society comedies making representations to Managua appears to have been to set up a from Brazil also indicate that the the end of the month...
France should pay approximately,
It is believed that the Scottish we want for Broadway. Terrible regarding the murder of British dictatorship, NJAA insurrection there is Spreading.. Similar reports were in circula- (830,000,000 before the end of the Socialist Party will be supported state of affairs therefo sublects in Nicaragua by bandite. The attack on the Post Office waThe Government is now faced with tion in Paris, but Reuter's Washingya anticipated that the Herriot dent Labour Party who have ex-ward, who is brilliant, and I wil by these members of the Indepen- I would like to meet Nool Co This development serves to re-led by a former chauffeur of G. new revolutionary movements by ton correspondent says thab⠀⠀: Mr. It is call that glaven-British-subjects Primo de Rivers and by the youth three other States besides 8am
present their disapproval of the certainly see Seymour Hicks in have been murdered there since ful son of Duke de Infantado. Paulo, Including the powerful Ria
LLP.'s soparation from the British The Gay Adventure and Ediék April, 1031
A. (Continued on: Page 5.). ing Province..
Labour Party H
Evans in Evensong *2.19
BRITONS SLAIN IN NICARAGUA
GOVERNMENT MAKES REPRESENTATIONS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
PAY
M.30,000,000 LOAN DUE
ON SEPT. 30-
{THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
announcing that no formal notics of postponement of dent repayments has been received from Germany. |Mr. Mills has, however, been 'dis- cussing the matter with the, Ger man Embassy.
French Position.
..
Ogden Mille, Seoretary to the Government will decide to pay the Treasury, has issued a statement interest and postpone the capital {Continued ut foot of nezt column.), instalment.
-NEW MOVE BY SECEDENS FROM 1.L.P. GROUP,