SQUABBLE OVER
CHINESE
EASTERN RAILWAY
MANCHUKUO THREATENS TO USE
FORCE
UNLESS LOCOMOTIVES AND COACHES
ARE RETURNED
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
HARDIN, May L In recent months relations ap A THREAT that Manchakuo willpeared outwardly to be improving he constrained to resort to until the C.E.R. dispute aroseM For to Rulve the C.E.R. issue is contained in another senthingar
ticle in the urbia Times, which characterises Mr. Kuznetzov's latest
.
ANGER AT MOSCOW
Moscow, Apr. 27. letter "as the Barking of a Mnd A despatch froth Khabarovsk quot
ing Dur
competent sources" published The article says that his demand her today said that Tapanese that normal working conditions eireles in Manchuria, acting with should be restored on the C.E.R. the approval of the Japanese cokes laughter as it is equivalent Kwantung army headquartera at to a highway robber professing in Mukden, had adopted ʼn plan to tolerance of stealing."
size the Chinese Eastern railway from Russin.
CHINESE WAR MINISTER'S VIEW
This would be accomplished "un- der the pretext of transferring the road to Manchukuo," the dispatch said, and would he "a Arave violation of the Peiping and Muk- den treaties providing for the con- struction and operation of the
road."
PRING, Apr. 27. The high tension area in the troubled affairs of the Far East to- night appeared to be shifting to
A despatch published by the offi- the Manchukuo-Siberian border,
cial government newspaper Pra where growing bitterness is being ada recently asserted that the al- engendered by the dispute over the leged seisure was timed for May 1. Chinese Eastern Railway's opera- j
The Priping and Mukden trenties General Ho Ying Ching, Chinese Provided for joint Chinese and Rus- sian operation of the strategic minister of war, issed a commani-northern Manchuria line of nearly que describing the situation there 1.000 miles, which was constructed as extremely serious, and noted that Japanese forces were being with about years ago
tir.
drawn from North China.
"On the basis of confidential information the Russo-Japanese dispute over the rolling stock of. the Chinese Eastern Railway is sufficiently serious that a conflict may be expected any time," the statement bluntly declared.
Division Moved.
WON'T RETURN ROLLING
STOCK
HARDIN, Apr. 27. The Soviet directorate of the Chinese Eastern Railway to-day definitely refused the demand of the Manchukuo directorate for the
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1933
BRITAIN'S SHARE OF MAY
BOXER INDEMNITY
QUESTIONS ASKED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY.]
LONDON, May 1, MR. Baldwin Answered Foreign Office questions in the House of Commons in the absence of Sie John Simon who is indisposed.
Mr. Wardlaw Milne asked whe. ther any memorial, counparable to that secured by the United States
in the shape of Peking University, had been arranged to mark the sacrifice of the British taxpayer in remitting his share of the Boxer In- demnity to the aimount of appro- ximately five times us great as in the case of the United States?
Y DAY IN EUROPE
FOUR-YEAR PLAN FOR GERMANY
TO BE ANNOUNCED AT LABOUR PARADE
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY),
LONDON, May 1.
GERMANY and Russia will this year compete for May Day celebration honours.
The preparations in Berlin, where a record crowd of a million will be induced to attend “A Labour Day" parade include a stupendous firework display, reproducing [ac cording to the newspapers) the din of a modern battleground.
ALL QUIET AT NANKING
LABOUR DAY. PASSES QUIETLY
THROUGH EXOTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, May 1, LABOUR DAY passed off quietly
here.
A meeting was held this morning when propaganda literature was distributed in typical fraflet which briefly traces the labour movement in China and urges all workers to unite to resist Japanese Imperialism.
SOVIET AMBASSADOR ON
WAY TO NANKING
[THROUGH BESTER'S AGENCY]'
Saingual, May 1.
MANCHUKUANS speech by Herr, Hitler which will THE Soviet Ambassador to China,
ATTACK DOLONOR
----.........
TEN THOUSAND TROOPS ON THE MOVE
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
PRIPING, May 1 A CHINESE telegram from Kal-
gan states that 10,000 Manchu- kao troops, under the ex-Volunteer Lin Kuei Tang, and with the assist
of the Japanese, attacked
Deloner with aeroplanes and tanks
April 23 and occupied the city
un Faturday evening.
Chinese cavalry were forced to than 1,000 evacuate when more
lain-clothes Mongol bandits rose up and disturbed their rear. Chinese Advance on Chinwangtao.
PRIPING, May 1.
The advance of the Chinese troops' in the Lusaho region is reported to have resulted in the Decupation of Peitaiho, The Chi- nese are now sairi tu be advancing on Chinwangtao.
returi of locomotives which Man- PRESIDENT CERRO
churians declare were taken into Russia by the Soviet government.
The Japanese army has trans, parted a division and large quan tities of ammunition into North The Russians said it was impos-: Manchuria, while Soviet are concensible to return all within the time trating at Vladivostok, Chito, imit set by the Manchukuo offi- Khabarovsk and Pogranichnya." cials.
In Peiping Chinese, sources were puzzled to account for the with- drawn of Japanese forces from Narth China, following sharp re- sistance from Chinese troops.
A LONDON OPINION
LONDON. Apr. 27. The London Daily Express, de- Some said it might be a move inclared today that the unofficial preparation for a final blow:
and that peace terms will be an- Sino-Japanese war is about to end nounced shortly.
ASSASSINATED.
CIVILIANS AND SOLDIERS CLASH
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LIMA, May 1. FOLLOWING the assassination of
President Cerro, a clash oc curred in the streets between 801- diers and civilians. Several were
Others speculated whether Gen- eral Chiang Rai Shek may have come to some understanding with
These include the recognition by killed and many injured. the Japanese, whereby the latter China of Manchukuo and the crea would retire to the north of the tion of a Great Wall boundary be fireat Wall and China would retween Manchukuo, and China, the engnize Manchukuo.
Ground Gained,
Such rumours came on the heels of the news that, Ho Ying Ching had summoned leading Chinese gen- erals to a high conference to map nut an offensive whereby the Chi nese hope to drive the Japanese out of China proper.
Express said.
China will thus lase possession of Jehol province.
A demilitarized zone would then he established on both sides of the wall.
Eastern Railway.
The newspaper also reported that Iarge Japanese reinforcements are approaching the Siberian border. whore Japan and Russia are in a The Chinese determination to reheated dispute over the Chinese sist the Japanese south of the Great Wall was seen in the announcement that the Chinese lost 4,000 in kill ed and wounded during the past five slays of fighting near Kupeikow. During that time the Chinese gain- ed considerable ground.
It was uncertain, however, how far the Chinese would take advan- faze of the opportunity which would be offered in crise hostilities should develop in northern Man churia.
The railway dispute has been in the making for some weeks.
Demand Return. ·
The Manchukuo directorate of the Chinese Eastern Railway charged that 83 locomotives, 140 coaches and
2,000 freight cars were moved into Russian territory, the property of the Chinese Easter Railway.
GREAT WELCOME TO MATSUOKA
ROOSEVELT TO INSIST ON JUNE DEBT PAYMENT
NO AGREEMENT
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
WASHINGTON, April 27.
M. Rogomaloff is entraining for It is ex- Nanking this morning.
This will be followed by an hour's
be conveyed through a hundred loudspeakers, in which he will re veal the first section of his four-pected he will present his Creden- year plan for German restoration. tinls to Mr. Li Sen. Chairman of
In Russis
To prepare the path for a party purge and a big new industrial
the authorities programme,
the
National Government
morrow.
to
M. Bogomoloff will be accom- anied by his wife and they are expected to stay in the Capital for some time to confer with Chinese
Russia have staged an unprecedent ed and most impressive tableaux of industrial scenes and illuminat-leaders regarding a suitable site for ed portraita
a Soviet Embassy there and an
M. Stalin has made a substantial other matters. food ration concession for the day. Spain.
THROUGH BRITER'S AGENCY.]
MADRID, May 1.
ALL THE restaurants here, yes-
terday specialised in cold packeted luncheons for to-day, when everymanner of work is forbidden except the duties of Doctors and undertakers, by a Socialist edict.
Even the Post Offices will go slow and only accept telegrams at triple rate.
SILVER MARKET
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
LONDON, May 1. FOLLOWING ARE THE SILVER QUOTATIONS ON
LONDON THE MARKET, TO-DAY!
SPOT FORWARD
May 1 Apr. 2. anj
194 200/16 191
GENERAL CHANG CHI KIANG IN HONG KONG.
AN ARDENT SUPPORTER OF SPORT AND ATHLETICS.
General Chang Chi Kiang, Director of the National Exercise Buteau of Nanking was welcomed by the local Chinese Athletic As- sociations at the Tai Ping Theatre on Sunday afternoon.
The different associations gave displays of Chinese boxing and swordsmanship, young boys and girls participating.
General Chang urged his hearers to support the movement for en. Couraging"
games and athletics among the youth of Chipa.
HOW PORT ARTHUR FELL
TO JAPANI
REMARKABLE STORY OF A RUSSIAN ADVENTURER.
SMOKELESS ERA IN
SCOTLAND
£400,000,000 Gas Grid. Scheme Outlined
BENEFITS OF OIL FROM BRITISH COAL
(Special Air-Mail Service)"
London, April 13. The erection of a gas grid for Scotland nt a probable cost of £400,000,000 and an era when the country will be smokeless wag en- visaged before the Scottish National Development Council in Glasgow by Mr. Robert Maclaurin, Stirling, ac- cording to a report in the Bulletin.
Mr. Maclarin presented this pic ture of the future Scotland in mov- ing for the appointment by the exe- cutive of A committee to inquire into the possibilities of obtaining oil from British coal..
At present, ho aaid, we were im porting about 8,250,000 tons of oil that displaced from 12,000,000 to 16,000,000 tons of British coal. If those imports continued to increase at their present rate, within the next 20 years we would be import- ing something like 16,000,000 tons of oil, displacing from 24,000,000 to 30,000,000 tons of British coal.
ANGLO-PERSIAN
TREATY
RAILWAY TO LINK UP IRAQ AND INDIA
(THR00TH REUTER') AGENCY.)
EFFORTS TO BREAK UP STEEL HELMETS
INTERNAL STRIFE. IN.........
GERMANY
(THROUGH, REUTEL'S...AGENCY]
LONDON, MAY 1.
Bentas, April 30. THE Anglo-Persian oil agree STRENUOUS efforts are boing" ment has opened the path for made to prevent the break-up an Anglo-Persian treaty.
of the Steel Holmet organisation, In connection with the agree which has been seriously under according to the London mined, by the action of their com Daily Express, the Shah of Persia mandor, Dr. Seldte, in joining the has agreed to send a Plenipoten-Nazis. tinry to London to negotiate a pact for close commercial nod diploma Steel Helmets to follow his example Dr. Seldte urged members of the
ment.
tie co-operation between the two countries.
"The past mentions the exclusion of Russian influence in North Per sia and a railway linking up Tran and India:
INDIA COMMITTEE
UNIONIST CRITICS DEMAND SMALLER BODY
(Special Air-Mail Service)
and the eventual absorption of the organisation by the Brown Shirts is envisaged as the result of an announcement by the Nazi deputy- lander, Herr Hese,
Herr Hess insists that members of the Steel Helmet organisation who wish to become Nazis must. cut themselves entirely adrift from their own group, Steel Helmets can only join the Nazis, as did Dr. Seldte on April 9, if they Syst abandon membership of the Steel · Helmets.
He adds that no member of the Nazi Party can be a member of the Steel Helmets.
Strongly Resisted.
LONDON, April 11. With the issue of the names of the remainder of the sixteen peers nominated to serve, with an equal
This patent attempt to break up number of M.P.s, on the Joint the Steel Helmets is being strong- Select Committee of the two Housee y resisted by many important on Indian Constitutional Reform figures in the organisation, but al- the personnel of this body is fully ready there have been many defec- revealed.
tions. Following is the list of members of the Upper House selected the purpose:
Archbishop of Canterbury. Lord Chancellor (Viscount
key).
Viscount Burnham. Earl of Derby.
Lard 'Hardinge of Penshurst.-
Lord Hutchison.
Lord Irwin..
Marquis of Linlithgow.
Marquis of Lothian. Earl of Lytton. - Earl Peel.
Lord Rankeillour. Marquis of Reading. Marquis of Salisbury. Lord Suell.
Marquis of Zetland.
Meanwhile, Dr. Seldte, who is fur, Minister. of Labour in the Hitler-
Cabinet, has been asked by the leaders of the German Nationale, to which party he originally be longed, to resign his seat in the Reichstag.
San-
The sixteen representatives of the House of Commons who will serve on the Committee are:
Conservative.
He has not yet replied to this request.
LONDON-SINGAPORE AIR SERVICE
OPENING ON MAY 4: HOME- WARD TRIP IN SEVEN DAYS.
London, April 25.-An air ser- viec, linking up London with Singapore via Amsterdam, opens on May 4.
Sir Samuel Hoare. Secretary for India Mr. R. A. Butler. Under-
The outward journey will take Secretary for India; Sir Austen Chamberlain; Mr. J. C. C. David- eight days while the homeward trip set, Chancellor of the Duchy of will occupy seven days. Lancaster; Lord Eustace Percy Earl Winterton: Sir Reginald Craddock; Sir Joseph Nall the Hon. Edward Cadogan: Sir John Wardlaw-Milne; the Hon. Mary Pickford..
Liberal National,
TRAGIC BUS ACCIDENT NEAR ALGIERS
Paris, April 23.--Twelve natives Sir John Simon, Secretary for were killed and fifteen gravely in- Foreign Affairs..
Liberal,
Mr. Isaac Foot.
jured to-day when a motor-bus plunged over a precipice near Al- giers owing to a failure of the brakes. The accident occurred in the immediate proximity of the Major Attlee, Mr. Morgan Jones, famous grotto Palestri.-Trans-
National Outlet for Gas. ' He saw no reason why these im- ports should be allowed to continue to displace our coal, because, he believed, we could benefit Scotland, and Great Britain for that matter, if we started to produce oil from Mr. Seymour Cocks. British coal.
We would require to carbonias close on 100,000,000 tons of British coal in order to get 8,000,000 tons
of oil, and he estimated the capital cost at £100,000,000. But to pro- duce oil economically in this coun- tay we wanted an outlet for the gas. That point inised the question of developing a gas grid for the whole of Scotland to provide an outlet for gus. Given that outlet we could manufacture oil at about 3d. per gallon, at which price we could electrify our railways with Diesel oil engines.
Smokeless Fuel Era.
General Chang and the members of the Welcome Committee made said that the administration ex-ceived by an enthusiastic audience, A White House statement to-day speeches, which were very well re- pects debtor nations to meet the including many Chinese ladies. installments on their war debts to the United States which fall due on June 15 and total $144,000,000. This is interpreted to indicate that President Roosevelt is determined TOKYO, Apr. 27.
to hold out America's control over ese national solidarity and popular results at the world economic eon-
A huge demonstration of Japan-
the debt situation to insure real approval of the conquest of Man-ference which is scheduled to open churia and secession from League of Nations was given to it is exepected that the debt ques. the in London on June 12, after which day upon the double occasion of tion will be gone into extendedly. the homecoming of Yosuke Mat- suoka and the ceremony of enshrin-
Berlin, April 24-A Russian ad- ing at the national pantheon the
venturer who calls himself Egon souls of those who died in battle with the Chinese since November 2, von Tilinski and claims the some-
Mr. Maclaurin maintained that for the emperor during the past 18 Included are General Yoshi what dubious distinction of having year,
was the cheapest source of heat, and nori Shriakawa, commander of the together with other Russian officers electricity could not compete with Matsuoka, head of Japan's dele-Japanese forces at the partial oc during the Russo-Japanese war, gation to the League, returning eupation of Shanghai last year, arranged for the fortress of Port it, a therm of gas being equal to from his dramatic conflict at killed just a year ago by the ex-
Arthur to fall into the hands of ten times as much electricity. Gas Geneva and what is considered here plosion of a bomb hurled by a
the Japanese, was sentenced to-day at ik per therm was cheaper than A demand was fasued that they to have been a successful propagan-Korean.
by the Berlin Court to eighteen coal for household use. be returned. To enforce this de- dizing journey across the United
Walked Out.
months' imprisonment for Eaving mand and prevent the removal of States, was welcomed like a victori-
defrauded prospective brides whom
Under such a scheme we could additional freight cars Manchukuo ous general.
Matsuoka, career diplomat, form-ho relieved of large sums of money produce, smokeless fuel, and we officials cloved the junctions of the
or vice-president of the South Man-on the strength of his extraordin would then have a smokeless Scot- A cheering throng estimated at churia railway and graduate of the ary yarn. Tilinski claims that the Iarders at Manchuli and Pogranich- and the waterfront at Yokohama less than eight months, having been the Russian traitors, three drafts would be as cheap as coal at 30s. Chinese Eastern on the Siberian 50,000 and more jammed the piers University of Oregon, has been gone Japanese paid, for the services of land. Smokeless fuel nt £2 per ton muya to all except through interna- when the Asama Maru arrived from despatched early last fall to Geneva totalling Y. 138,000,000, to be re: a ton for household use, and it had tional mail and passenger trains. San Francisco with Matsuoka and when the League prepared to take deemed in three instalments. Owing to be remembered that we didi Russian despatches from Kaba- the other members of the returning up the Lytton mport on the Sino- to, the World War, his share of damage to the extent of 15s. for rovak alleged that the Japanese Geneva delegation. A special train Jananene Manchurian condict. Y. 48,000,000, he stated, had, not every ton of coal burned in the raw were trumping up the Chinese East-carried them to Tokyo and here. ern Railway situation as an excuse. Matsuoka was greeted at the station out of the session of the Assembly
He led the Japanese delegation yet been paid.
state. In 1924, Tilinski was sentenced. The total expense of a gas grid Plot for Control,
by the entire cabinet of Premier at Geneva in February, in a drama-by a Swiss Court to six years im- for Scotland, said Mr. Maclaurin, Saito.
tic gesture of protest against that prisonment for having borrowed borly's adoption of a committee re- considerable sums of money on his would run to £400,000,000, but that Thousands shouting "banzai "
part condemning Japan.
alleged claim, the Swiss judges sum would be spent fargely on crowded the big plaza in front of In the United States he spent flatly refusing to believe his story. metal, which would give a very mucis the station and lined the streets to
month conferring with The Berlin Court was likewise in- required fillip to our iron and steel the imperial palace, where the en- various officials and making ad- credulous all the more so as defen- industries. He knew of nothing be- voy immediately motored and bow- dreeses explaining Japan's side of dant steadfastly declined to pro- fore the country that would effect duce a single witness to the alleged savings and benefits such as he had cd before the palace gates as hom the dispute. His role fulfilled a age to the emperor.
youthful ambition to become an agreement. Trane-Ocean Kuo Min. indicated. This morning the imperial court, interpreter of his country and members of the cabinet and army people to the rest of the world.
He went to the United States not go fully into the points made and navy leaders assembled at Yasukuni shrine, dedicated to the when he was only 13 and wont by Mr. Maclaurin, but obviously a is of red or batetik hondatements were not for the empire, for a solemn Shinto University of Oregon.
Emperor Hirchito and to Tokyo in 1904 he passed a for fully accepted, otherwise the scheme the empress personally paid hom-eign office examination with high would have been going on before age to the spirits of those newly honours and saw secretarial service enshrined there.
in Washington, and Moscow before being sent to Manchuria as vice rosident and director of the strate- gic.8.M.R.
ose
It was charged that the Japan- were plotting to disorganize traffic on the railway, seize control and expel Russian employees and officials. Counter-darges of wy tematio interference and seizure of rolling stock were made by the Japanese.
Russo-Japanese tension has been mpted from time to time since the commencement of the Japanese campaign in Manchuria in Septem-
ber, 1931.
Early in Nes juve propem non-aggression pact between Japan and Russia which Japan spurned.
Recently Japan has been more receptive, but made a number of counter-proposals, such as discus sion of means of settling all-die- putes and the delineation of the Siberian-Marchukua border.
ceromony.
-Line Streets,
Those total 1,711, killed in Man- churia and at Shanghai in fighting (Continuga at foot of next col.).
alut
3.
Returning
пом.
A subsequent meeting of the Executive Committee remitted the subject to the Chairman's Commit tee for considertition.
Sir James Lithgow, Bt., chairman, said that while he would accept the suggestion that the Execution Com- mittee should consider the matter, he painterization hayotoacido were making a great many investi gations by technical committee, but that policy was subject to financial resources being available,
Not Fully Accepted. Bir Jumes added that he would (Continued on previous column).
Socialist..
Oceán Kuo Min.
for summer days when energy quickly flags
Let Ovaltine'-Cold-help you through the enervating, steamy summer, now here
It should be your daily food-drink during the summer months. In this delightful beverage - prepared from ripe barley malt, creamy milk, and fresh eggs-is contained every food element needed for the creation of energy, and the mainten- ance of health and strength, A glass of cold 'Ovaltine' makes the lightest summer meal complete in nutritive value.
OVALTINE
The
delightful COLD
Summer Drink
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