ANOTHER OUTBURST BY DE VALERA
4
DETERMINED TO WITH- HOLD LAND ANNUITIES
THEOUGH HEUTER'A AGENCY.)
Mr.
de
"We are
RE-ASSEMBLY OF PARLIAMENT.
CERTAIN TO BE ADVANCED TO OCTOBER 18
TUROGA BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 12. THE date of the re-assembly of
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1932.
PLEASURE 'PLANE DISASTER FEARED
HUTCHISON SENDS $.0.S.
FOR HELP
RESCUE VESSEL DASHES TO RESCUE
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 12. GRAVE fears aro entertained for the lives of eight persons who wore attempting to reach Britain by air across the North Atlantic, flying from America via Greenland, The missing are Mr. and Mrs. J. Hutchison, wealthy Americans, their two little daughters, aged air and eight, and four members of the crew of their big machine.
An "S.0.8." call was received at
SERIOUS QUAKE IN DUTCH E. INDIES
SIXTY HOUSES COLLAPSE
AT KAMPONG
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
FLOOD RELIEF COMMISSION
9R H. SIMPSON PRAISES CHINESE STAFF
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
CHINA TO MEET HER DEBTS.
STATEMENT BY MR. T. V. SOONG
"THROUGH REUTER's 'angNov]
MUI TSAI SYSTEM
IN CHINA
MINISTRY OF INTERIOR PROPOSES ABOLITION
(Tanovan ReUTER'S AGENCY.}
ANBEINA, Dutch East Indies,
LONDON, Sept. 12.
SHANGHAI, Sept. 12.
NANKING, Sept. 12. Sopt. 12
THE Ministry of the Interier has submitted to the Executive THE most serious earthquake felt THE great resource, organising
ability and the extraordinary MR. T. V. Soong has issued a
statement denying the report | Yuan a proposal for the abolition since 1898 occurred to-day, courage of the Chinese technical when sixty houses collapsed in staff of the Flood Relief Cop that China would default her loans of the mui teni system throughout Kampong. All the inhabitants mission is praised in a long article
China, evacuated owing to the fear of appearing in the fones by Sir maturing in September, stating tidal wave which has already visit Hope Simpson when dealing with that the Chief Inspectors of the ed Piru. No casualties have been the flood relief in China.
Salt Revenue have already been so far reported.
He emphasised that the Com-instructed to pay this month, as Inission Wis hampored in its efforts on the north bank of the usual, the instalments of £15,000
the Anglo-French Yangtaze by local Soviets and cites for
Loan, an incident in which the Soviet £115,000 for the Crisp Loan and Army in Honan overwhelmed the
sive effect to the Ottawa Ag Angningaalik, Greenland, from the In Hong Kong Headquarters of the Commission also an instalment of the principal
menta.
Long debator
are expected, especially as the Opposition intends
to resist and criticise the measure at every step.
LONDON, Sept. 12. THERE must be no talk of sur
Parliament is almost certain to declared render,"
bo advanced from the originally Valera, in a speech at Kilkenny, fixed date, October 27 to October re-affirming the Government's in-" 18. Thie is mainly Decessary owing to legislation to implement the tention to withhold. the land an.
Ottawa Conference decisions.. nuities from England.
Mr. Hamany MacDonald is close going to fight and win, but woly engaged in studying the Confer
ence documents. He is also ce- must be prepared for sacrifcca for
sulting Parliamentary authorities it is no soft bargain with Britain."
on procedure and draftsmen, who He argued that the present are already preparing the Bill to plight of Irish farmers was not "The ThoMAS entirely due to Duties," but to the fact that the purchasing power of the people in Britain was steadily dwindling, hence they wore forced to buy chilled instead of fresh meat. that denied Mr. Valera
the Free timidation existed in State, or that the Government were conniving disorder. Io lid not welcomed the formation of a "White Army," because it not necessary as the Government itself were making arrangements for a volunteer army throughout the country under; strict control of the Government and no other would he tolerated, "If we want- ed fifty-thousand men to-morrow we could have them."
in- GERMAN POLITICAL
was
water
Are people across the waiting patiently that some tion might develop in the Free State which would get them out of their present difficulties? We have no fear on that account,
Britain will have to prove hor title to the annuities in a fair court. We are prepared to agree to arbition, but there is to be no whatever unon the restriction
choice of our nominees. The choice of nominees by each party, and of the chairman should be without restriction.
MR. W. CHURCHILL INDISPOSED
SUFFERING FROM PARATYPHOID
(TABAHOH REUTEu's AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 12. NEWS has been received that the statesman Mr. Winston Chur- chill is suffering from paratyphoid. He is in a sanatorium at Salzburg, Austria. Tho illness is taking a normal course.
PERPETUAL
MOTION?
BELL THAT HAS KEPT ON RINGING FOR 92 YEARS.
CRISIS
PRESIDENT HINDENBURG
DISSOLVES REICHSTAG
(THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.}
BERLIN, Sept. 12.
to-day HINDENBURG dissolved the Reichstag.
PRES.
THE "BAD, BAD
WOMAN."
MISS DORA MAUGHAN TO
LEAVE. ENGLAND.
fying family, reporting a forced landing in the sea just off the coast of Greenland. The party had hopped off from Juianahaab, north- east of Cape Desolation; and had eat across the southern tip of Greenland to fly up the coast towards Angmagaalik.
The British trawler Lord Talbot, in adjacent waters, picked up the distress calls which the ill-fated machine was rapping out periodic- ally, and headed at full speed towards the point indicated by the Contact between the messages. trawler and the plane was main- tained for over an hour while the sturdy little craft churned north with all the power she possessed,
дебно
Signals Fall to Get Response. Signals failed to get any ponse from the 'plano finally. But the trawler kept on, ber crew still hoping that they might bo in time.
At dusk the trawler hove to at
the spot which their messages in dicated the 'plane had come down, but there was no sign of the miss- ing ship. They searched in every direction, but found nothing.
LATER
To-Day
CLOUDY, OCCASIONAL
RAIN.
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FOBECAST AND REMARKS, ISSUED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 5.08 P.M., STATED:-
THE
PRESSURE REMAINS HIGHEST AT NORTH-EAST OF HOKKAIDO, AND IS RELATIVELY LOW OVER THE CHINA SEA
LOCAL FORECAST: N.E. WINDS, FRESH, CLOUDY, OCCASIONAL RAIN.
RUBBER INDUSTRY
IN JAVA
TAPPING
A later despatch from Angmag OVER 400 ESTATES CEASE salik says that the Lord Talbot renched the position indicated in the distress calls after only four hours of hard steaming.
аке всов
The position given by the distress- ed fliers was 65,25 North, 43 West. "I know I call myself a bad,
The machine was an amphibian bad woman,' but I do not think and there was every reason to sup. that I've been bad enough to bepose that she could ride the aver- It was not rough when sent out of the country."
Miss Dora Maughan, the Ameri- she landed. Her landing gear, the can variety star, who for the past undercarriage, had been detached six years has been in England when she stopped in Nova Scotia, and was sent to Edinburgh for the singing songs which ATO mors cheerful than decorous, made this later stages of the proposed flight. remark to a press representative.
A few hours previously the Home
Office had ordered her to leave the country not later than August 31. "I know my songs are not every- body's songs, but they cannot really corrupt morals, or else I should not have been allowed to stay my second week, let alone six years."
Like all working aliens, Miss Maughan has had a periodic licence from the Ministry of Labour. An artist distinctive in her line, she has hitherto hind her permit renewed without trouble,
́"Leave in Four Days." "I posted my passport to the Ministry asking for my usual ex- tension," she continued. "They kept it a month, and then the Home | Offien wrote, telling me to leave in four days. I went to the Home Office and explained that, as Lon- don had been my home for. six.) years, I could not pack and leave Has the secret of perpetual mo, in four days. tion been discovered?
Another fortnight was allowed Well, very nearly. At least to nio, and I am able to fulfil my there is a bell in Oxford which has engagements and say good-bye to been ringing unceasingly for ninety my friends. I am awfully sad two years of its own accord, and about it.” looks good enough to go on for
ever,
--
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
BATAVIA, Sept. 12. FOUR hundred and fifty rubber catates have completely aban- doned and 111 partially abandoned tapping, bringing the total of top ping abandoned since July 31, to thirty-one per epit, of the tappable area in 1931
SPANISH -ROYALISTS| KILLED RELATIVES
DEPORTED
NOW EN ROUTE TO SPANISH W. AFRICA
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
MADRID, Sept. 12. FIFTY-FIVE Monarchist political deportees, mostly grandees and including relatives of the ex-King Alfonso, Don Alfonso and Don Francisco Bourbon, have been sent to Cadiz from prison en route to Spanish West Africa,
ROUND-EUROPE,
POLISH PILOT WINS LONG FLIGHT.
AND BRED CATS.
A. MUTINY VETERAN
TALKS.
A veteran of the Indian Mutiny, the Muori Wars, and the American Civil War, in which he fought for the Confederates, Mr. Johnston McKenzie, aged 100 years, and 7 months, passed through Wellington A resident of a few days ago. Rolleston, Canterbury, for the past ten years, he arrived from the south by the Rangitira and went to Nelson by the Kaiton in the even- ing,
I've been in more wars than I got thanks for," said the old cam paigner, his brown eyes shining from beneath their busy brows
-
Cattle-Stealing Adventure,
and carried off its resources
of
of the Anglo-French
grain and cash, Yet, when the £230,000, army retreated, the Commission restarted work with a newly re gruited staff,
It is estimated that a thousand workmen on the north bank of the Yangteze lost their lives in one month due to Soviet.raids.
WHY WANG LEFT NANKING
(TĤNOGOM· RECTER'S AGESCY]
of
The Times in a leading article on the subject says: It speaks well for the spirit of Chinese employees of the Commission who faced perils
NANKING, Sept. 12 without Binching': "Indeed the account of their work in the pre IT is reported that Mr. Wang Ching Wei's recout departure try in the Yangisza Vailey give the from Nanking was due to the re- impression that the Chinese dejection of a proposal to appoint serve better leadership than the Standing Committee of the Central
valence of Communism and bandi
Revolution has given them."
| NEWCHWANG
OUTRAGE.
RANSOM RUMOUR REFUTED.
There is no truth whatever in the reports that the bandits who kid- napped Mr. Charles Corkran and Mra. Pawioy near Newchwong have demanded the payment of $20,000
18 Yasom.
The local naval authorities have
received a wireless message from H.M.S. Sandwich, relaying in formation from the British Consul at Nowchwang declaring that no ranson has yet been asked for as contact has not yet been establish- ed with the captors of Mr. Corkran and Mrs. Pawley,
two substitutes as members of the
Political Council owing to the ab- sence of General Chong Kai Shek and Mr. Hu Han Min.
U.S.-JAPANESE RELATIONS.
AMBASSADOR ALARMED AT AMERICAN OPINION.
MANCHURIAN DOUBTS.
Tokyo, Sept. 7.-Rumours that the Japanese ambasador to the United States, Mr. K. Debuchi, will not return to his post follow- ing his home leave, persisted to day on the eve of the Ambassa dor's arrival in Yokohama morrow on the Chichibu Maru, accompanied by Mrs. Debuchi and this their daughter, Miss Taka..
"It is urgently desired." the
proceeds, " that message erroneous report should be Bun- pressed as it is likely to lead to a relaxation of efforts to trace the captors and establish contact, and similarly, a relaxation of public interest and such diplomatic pres- sure as may ultimately be required to achieve success in securing their release."
*** DOCTOR " TO DIE.
DRUGGED AND ROBBED PATIENTS.
:
to-
PAOTINGFU STUDENT
RIOTS
FOUR RINGLEADERS:
EXECUTED
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
PRIPING, Sept. 12. FOUR of the ringleaders in the student riots which occurred at Paotingfu in July were executed to-day.
MURDERED FOR LIFE INSURANCE.
EX-PUBLIC DEFENDER AND CONVICT SENTENCED,
San Francisco, Sept. 6.-Frank J. Egan, former public defender, and vert Tinning, an ex-convict, were convicted by a jury to-day of first degree murder with leniency re- commended, which means life im- prisonment
The jurors had deliberated for more than 70 hours over the case, which involved the murder of Jessie Soott Hughes, b widow, to permit Egan as beneficiary to col- leet her life insurance
No emotion was displayed by. the defendanta in receiving the jury's decision. Mrs. Egan stared straight ahead, and shext no tears.
Counsel for Egan announced an immediate appehl, and Egan said: "I am just beginning to fight."
Verne Doran, another ex-convict originally charged in the case, ber came a witness for the stato and will be tried separately.
MURDER OF CHICAGO REPORTER.
MAN SAID TO HAVE KILLED LINGLE,
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Sept. 4.-MI. Harry Seaton, assistant United At the Foreign Office it was said States District Attorney here, to. it is not certain whether or not day asked the state of Illinois to Mr. Debuchi will return to Wash extradite L. M. Marlow on a charge ington. A government spokesman of slaying the late "Jake" Lingle, explained, however, that rumours Chicago Tribune reporter whose the Foreign Minister, Count shooting in the subway, entrance of Yasuya Uchida, definitely has de-a Chicago railway station, proved *, cided Mr. Debuchi will not go back nation-wide, sensation three years to America are not correct. It ago.
would be difficult to find a man to Mr. Seaton said that Led Bieth- supplant the ambassador in the ers, found guilty of the murder Washington post, the spokesman after extraordinary, detective efforts Bnid.
by police and a member of the
The Foreign Office confirmed re- Tribune staff, and now serving af parts that Mr. Hiroshi Saito, term at the state penitentiary at counsellor of the Japanese Em-Joliet, Illinois, had implicated Mar- bassy in London, has been trans-low.
feared to Washington as on addi- Lángle was police reporter Madrag, Aug. 18.-Posing as an tional counsellor for the Embassy whose death was immediately link eye specialist, a man named Ba
there, The present counsellor, Mr.ed with Chicago's “ racket rulers,”, boolal rendered his patients un-Kato, formerly consul-general in for his underworld connections were conscious and then robbed them.
In Jehangirpur, Agra, he pretend 'ed to be able to cure blindness. He
called was
to treat 趄
Tientsin, is charge d'affaires in the absence of Mr. Debuchi.
- Admiral. Nomura's Mission.
partially blind. The "doctor gave him some medicine which made
It also was reported that plans him unconscious. :
to sead Admiral Yoshisaburo The boy's mother came to see how Nomura to the United States and
her cou was getting on, but was Europe on a special mission to ex- horrified to find him dying. He explain Japanese policy, have not
ments and money were missing. A been entirely worked out and may be, abandoned. Admiral Nomura post-mortem examination indicated has not consented finally to make dhatura poisoning.
Wrapped up in an overcoat, and with his wooden log stuck out in front of him, Mr. McKenzie was Berlin, August 29.-Poland emerg-sitting on a cat neur the gangway ed victorious in the Round Europe of the Kaitos when an interviewer flight, the Polish airman, Zwirko, found him about an hour before the
Vossel sailed. who was formerly a War pilot in the German army and is the holder of the height record for light aero- planes, scoring 461 points as against
pired in the evening. His orna- Miea Maughan received the offer 458 awarded to each of the next best competitors, the Germans, Poss and Morzik. It is noteworthy that Morzik was the victor and Poas Mr. McKenzie was not disposed second in both the proceeding to tell of his battlefield memories.
The bogus doctor was arrested the trip, it was said. Considerable Round-Europe flights.
For him the rear of cannon and the and other men came forward say-Position to the plan also has do Although Mozzik won the speed rattle of musketry have lost the ing that. Baboolal had robbed them aliets who hold the sending of a veloped among extremo Nation- test on Sunday, when he flow a glamour, but he does reflect with of ornaments and cash after render
special envoy might be. interpreted distance of 300 kilometres at an pleasure upon cattle-stealing on the ing them unconscious. average hourly speed of 241 kilo- Scottish border in the days of his Baboolal was tried for murder in Washington, Paris and London as indicating a weakening of metres as compared with 214 kilo- youth, "I got some of their cattle and robbery and sentenced to trans. Japan's attitude with regard to metres achieved by Zwirko, he was or some of their hide," he recol-portation for life and various terms Manchuria. On the other band a unable to recover the ground lost lected. Save My mind is not of imprisonment. He appealed to in the preliminary tests,
like yours," he had nothing to say the High Court and the local Gov. Considerable The cup presented by the French about the adventurous years which eramant applied. for an enhance Aero Club, and hitherto held by followed, pleading a faulty memory ment of sentence.
His service during the Maori Germany, thus goes to Warsaw,
He was sentenced to death." where the next Round-Europe flight Wars was as a member of the Armed Constabulary, and he has a will start two years benes
good knowledge of New Zealand. He was last in Wellington twenty' years ago,
of an engagement in New York the It was made by a Charing Cross same day as her notice to leave, and instrument maker in 1840, and has cabled her, acceptance. stands in the Clarendon Laboratory, So it isn't the work and money It has never been repaired or had I'm bothered about,” she said. a part replaced,
"I feel hurt at being turned out The bell is worked by a "dry of a country I've grown to love. pile" battery consisting of 8,000 I was born in America, but my small paper discs coated with zinc father and mother came. from and copper and encased in two Durham, and I've always looked glass tubes. A little metal gong counerted by wire to each tube, and upon England as home."
is
between the gongs bangs by a silk thread a small metal ball.
As the battery charges each gong, the ball, attracted and replied, awings to and fro, and the ringing can be heard seven feet away, though the apparatus in in a sealed glass case only ten inches high.
That seems near enough to per petual motion, but there is a
"It is a wonderful thing," said an official of the museum to a press
part of it will wear out one day,"
And of what use is this scientific marvel? Not the slightest, except to demonstrate this type of battery.
DECLINE IN SOVIET
FOREIGN TRADE.
GERMANY AT HEAD OF IMPORTING COUNTRIES.
The money prizes which are awarded to the first three competi- tors amount to 100,000 francs for wirko, 20,000 for Poss and, 25,000 for Morzik.
MURDERED: FOR RS, 37. BODY FOUND FLOATING IN RIVER.
**F killed them all, and bred cats instead, the old soldier retorted when asked whether he had any relatives here.
Mr. McKenzie confessed that he was going to "the hottest place' in New Zealand," Nelson, to avoid the Canterbury winter.
FRENCH ADMIRAL SEES
EMPEROR.
COMMANDER AND OFFICERS
FETED IN TOKYO
section of opinion favours ending some very high personage to the United States on a special mission to improve. American Japanese relations. Pro ponents of this scheme would have a visit made along the lines of the visits of the British Prime Minis ter and the French Premier to Washington last year. Minister will meet Mr. Deburchi in Representatives of the Forel
Yokohama, to-morrow and escort Moscow, Sept. 6. The foreign representative, but naturally some trade of the Soviet Union during
him to Tokyo, where he will confer with leading members of the gov the first five months of the present
Tokyo. Sopt. 3.-Vice Admiral year shows a shrinkage of its total
Barthelot, Commander-in-Chief of ramont and acquaint them with the details of secret conversations volume to the amount of 180 mil-
the French Eastern Flect, accom lion Rubles as compared with the Munshiganj, August -The body Napier, he said was the second panied by two staff officers and the he had with the American Secre corresponding period of 1931. Ex of Rajmohon Bhui, a middle-aged warmest town. He only took these French Chargé d'Affaires in Tokyo, tary of State, Mr. Henry L. Stim porta totalled 233.7 millions while Hindu of Pura village, was found trips occasionally, when he had the proceeded to the Imperial Palace son, before leaving the United
nation. The voyage from Lyttelton this morning and was received in States, importa reached 335 million Rubles, flotting in the river near Mulebar.
It is known Ambassador Debuchi In respect to imports Germany. Rajmohon arrived here to draw had given him no trouble. "I hard audience by His Majesty the Em
is gravely concerned about the hands the list of countries of origin the pension of his master, Babu know the ship was moving " with Great Britain taking the so- Kamini Kumar, Mukerjee, amount and he did not expect the smaller H.T.H, Prince Fushimi. Chief of state of American opinion with re- cond place while the latter is first ing to its. 37, and left for Purn vessel to have any different effect. the Naval General Stall, was the gard to Japan's activities in Man- in respect to Russian exports with village after taking a meal at the Mr. McKenzie is now becoming host at a luncheon party given in churia and elsewhere in China and The house of a relation at Rancho. paralysed, and walks with the aid the Kasumignaeki Detached Palace soms obsetgers believe he will tell Germany as a close second,
of two sticks, one of which is an this afternoon in honour of Ad- the government frankly that: Janan United States hold the third place in both respecte Their exports to
Irish shillalah, which he guards miral Berthelot and some 20 off stands to lose a great deal unless. Rusin having decreased during the
jealously. He still eats heartily, cern. Adiral Okada, the Minister she is able, by her actions, to con period under review by over 100
disposing of a steak and two or of Navy and many high naval sings the people of the United million Rubles as compared with the
three cups of ten for dinner, with officers were also present at the States that she has not embarked. admitted enjoyment:
functions
-on a course of ruthless militarism, *same 5 months of 1931,
SPANISH DIPLOMATIC
DISCIPLINE.
Madrid, Bapt. 5-The Cabinet to-day authorised the Foreign Minister to dismiss all those mem bers of the diplomatic circles, in cluding Ambassadors and Minis BTS, who are displaying a hostile attitude towards the Republican re gime..
The post-mortem examination of the body revealed marks of vio lence, and It is believed Rajmohon was murdehod for the amount to was carrying and his body thrown into the river."
peror.
traced back to show that be was considerably more than even an extraordinarily well-informed news- paperman.
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