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No. 23299. ·號玖拾玖佰式仟叁萬弍第 BAUJETER HONG KONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1933. 式拜體 日辟月赊年叁佰玖仟春英 Price
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COMPLICATED POLITICS
(From Our Own Gorrespondent.)
Kiensi, FebruaryTM 25.
CAPTURED BRITISH OFFICERS
ATTEMPT TO FLY OVER MT. EVEREST
'MR. PEARS. RETURNS WITH | TWO BRITISH PLANES SET
BANDITS' DEMANDS
OUT ON TRIAL FLIGHTS
(THROUGK REFLER'S AGENCY)
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
PURNEA Apr. 3.
NewсHWANG, Apr.-3 FL PEARS, Third Engineer of
the Nanchang, who was captur ol by bandits along with three fellow officers, when the ship was lying off Nowchwang on March 30, returned to Nowchwang to day at noon, carrying the bandits' demands
The captives are being kept in the Panshan district can b
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At present Kueichow is in a very chaotio condition politically. Last April General Wang Kia Lieb, a Kueichow man who had been for some time an exile in Hunan, came over the border with professed com mission from the Nanking Govern- ment to displace General Map Kuang Chiang, who had been head of the Covernment for about three yours. Mao yielded to him without; "No further details are available.” any fighting and practically drop ped out of political affairs on the numbers of soldiers have got seat surface. But evidently his officers tered from their commands and did not get the treatment they de took the opportunity to go out on sired from Wang, so waited their their own. So there are, binding time to get rid of the aders. I and loose soldiers levying living have heard no likely explanation of as they can from the villages and how it began, but hostilities started travellers. We met on witch gang about middle of November. There a few days ago, 100-200 rides quar was some fighting in several places, Pered in a market town. They look- but Wang was forced to abandoned hungrily at the boxes of our the capital without a fight and flee newly arrived workers, but allownd onstward. He hovered on the us to pass uniolated, an Kwangai border reorganizing his forces until mid January when he made a rapid move in fiercely cold weather. There are some of the heaviest fighting this province has.
The winter has been rather severe. This, of course, meat that the sarth was well frozen and, crop prospects good, if seasonable rains come. Over most of the provi
HONG KONG A YEAR AGO
MEMORY OF THE DRY SEASON ever known, and at last Wang's forces aot about the siege of the capital, Kueiyang. They threaten ed to starve the city into submis-
mon.
the only winter crop worth men tioning is opium. Last year's crop had trouble finding a market. It seem to be moving better now.
THE Houston Everest Expedi
tion's two Westland 'planes took off, fully equipped, towards the Himalayas at 8.15 a.m.
The wind velocity having de- creased substantially.
Height of 35,000 Feet Reached. Purea, April 3
The Westland 'planes reached a height of thirty-five thousand feet on their trial flight over the Hima- lens.
IN HONG KONG- TO-DAY
FINE TO CLOUDY WITH FOO OR MIST
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER HLPORT,
ROBECAST AND REMARKS, 198UED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 522 P.M., STATED :——
„PRESSURE 18 RIGHEST LY, THE PACIFIO TO THE NORTH-EAST OF GER BONINS, IT IS PROBABLY INCREAS- NO OVER CHINA. THE DEFERR STON KEMAINS IN THE YELLOW SKA
LOCAL FORECAST: E. AND NE. WINDS, MODERATE, ELOUDY WITH FOG OR INTE
SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST BRITISHERS
ALLEGED MILITARY AND ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
Moscow, April 2 MR. Alan Monkhouse and Mr.
Charles Nordwall, two of the British employees of Metropoli tan Vickers who were arrested by the Ogpu and provisionally re- leased, have been formally charged with military and economic espion- age, wrecking activities and bri- bery,
The other four Englishmen, Messrs. Thorton (chief construction engineer), MacDonald, Cushny and Gregory are not mentioned in the charges, but it is now clear that all six will be tried by the Soviet courts.
Over all the N.W, section of the The defenders finally escaped province, there is shortage of northward and allowed. Wang to food. Away up in the corner bor take control of things unburdered. dering on Szechuan and Yunnan There is a persistent rumour that corn is already 85 per bushel and some of the Mao forces in S.W. of people are trying to keep alive by the province have drawn help from digging fern roots for the starch, Yunal and are fighting their way That will come to an end as soon toward Kaelynng. It is also said as the fern begins to grow, and The British Charge D'Affaires that Mao's chief henchman, General the earliest crops they can get will visited the imprisoned man in the Yu Kuch Taai, has gone to Nanking still be two or three months away. presence of M. Vishinsky, the to try to enlist assistance there and It means starvation unless they get Public Prosecutor, to-day and he that ha with Mas are arranging to holp. They are already going stated that all are in normal“ get help from Szechuan. The com- hungry. If they had not been health mon opinion is that the trouble is hardened to want and close living It is rumoured in Moscow that not yet finished. Wang has strong they would already be dying. But the staff of the British Embassy is disaffection to overcome and will they have not been pampered by packing, but Reuter is authorita need something more than the mili-high living. They can never afford tively informed that there is no tary skill which he has shown in meat to eat, and usually got on even foundation for the suggestion that the recent fighting.
without malt.. But they do have to the British diplomatic staff is lea Of course, business is badly inter-eat something to keep alive. And ring or is contemplating leaving. The rupted. “An is always the chee in they are as good, people ne the position has not changed. China during military operations, country holds.
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