A
ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE AGREEMENT
SPIRITED VERBAL DUEL IN COMMONS
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]'
LONDON, May 1. SPIRITED verbal duel in the A
House of Commons yesterday between Mr. Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trads and Sir Austen Chainberlalu mark- vd the discussion preceding the nd option of Mr. Runciman's motion to reduce the duties affected by the Anglo-German Trade Agreement.
The House adopted the resolution by 993 votes le 31, after rejecting Sir Austen Chamberlain's motion for an adjustment to consult the affected interests, by 269 votes to
FLYING TRAGEDY. AT HENDON
VISCOUNT KNEBSWORTH
KILLED
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
he
Was
HỌNG KONG ĐAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY,
ANOTHER NAZI COUP
TRADE UNIONS TO BE
REORGANISED
(THROUGH RECTER': ADENCY, 1
WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
PRES ROOSEVELT MAY
at
VISIT LONDON
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, May 2.
NEW YORK, May 2. BROWN SHIRTS simultaneously ACCORDING to special corres. "Free Tride pondrats occupied all
Washington, which are members of the
President Roosevelt may attend the Unious Universal German Trade Union World Economic Conference. League throughout Germany. This
It is even possible that he will move inaugurates Hitler's campaign address the Conference, though it ta break the hold of social demois, understood that if he decides to cracy on employed workers.
travel to London, he will appear in the role of a guest, not as ย delegate.
LONDON, May 2 VISCOUNT Kuebsworth, son and heir of the Earl of Lytton and Member of the House of Commons, was killed at Hendon aerodrome last night, when a Royal Air For
which
piloting, plane Trashed.
Edward Anthony James Lytton,
Commissioner Engel wimpying the Viscount Krbswarth, would have heen 30 years of age on May 13. Berlin Headquarters of the Metal Educated at Magdalen College, Workers Union (fthe biggest Ger Oxford, he became a director of the man Trade Union), said the politics Army and Navy Co-operative So-of Hette would no longer be tole
was last year rated na Communist journals would iety in 1925, and elerted Vion-Chairman,
bave heursforth to submit to In 1931 he contested the Parlin Government control and the distri. mentary sent of Hitchin Division.ation nf
leaflets provocative Herts, and was returned as Con would not be allowed. servative member.
Hitler's coups which afferta social A well-known sportsman, Visist traite Unions with a membership rout Knebworth wrote a book on of five millions was carried out ut i "If the House does rut like the boxing for the Lonsdale Library, a m., throughout the country. Police and in addition contribed chap aided by Brown Shirts occupied all agreement, then they must get some- one else, to bargain, for them," heters on skiing for a winter sports trade union buildings, workmens
publication.
banks, consumerS co-operative stores and arrested fifty prominent leaders, including Leipeit, secretary of the Trade Union" federation ·
HO
Mr. Runciman said that if Gir Austen Chamberlain's motion was adopted it would be impossible for the loverment to continus tracte negotintions. He claimed that he had made a good bargain.
Maid.
Under the Anglo-German trade agreement Germany hug agreed to take a minimum of 160,000 tons of British coal monthly. in return for tariff concessions on a number of articles comprising toys, musical instruments, clocks, jewellery, hol- low ware, safety razor blades and chemicals.
The agreement May 8
SEQUEL TO
uperates trom
· FOR ALL"
FREE
THREE INDIANS BOUND OVER
Following a free for all which took place in Tin Lok Lane, Happy Valley on Saturday night, three Indians, Akbar Khan, Juwan Khan and Chalan Singh appeared before Mr. Schofield at Central Magistracy yesterday on a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner. The first two defendants were also charged with assaulting an Indian constable and with damaging his uniform.
Detective Sergeant 1. Fitches ap pared for the prosecution, and the fin two defendants were represent- ed by Mr. M. K. Lo. The third de- fendant, Chanan Singh WIES legally represented.
Outlining the facts of the case, Sergeant Fitches' said that at about
AIDING AND ABETTING"
AN INTERESTING POINT
The interesting point as to whe ther a person sitting in the lack
of a car which was being driven without the permission of the own er was aiding and abetting" was settled by Mr. Wynne-Jones at Cen-
al Magistracy yesterday when he discharged the three persons con- nected with the offence.
The defendants were charged to- gether with another man who has already been convicted and fined 8175 for driving a car belonging to Mr. A. R. Cox without a licence and without permission.
In giving his ruling, Mr. Wynne Jones said: "As far as I can see mere permissive acquiesence is not aiding and abetting except in such cases where there is definite duty
Wissel ex-Minister of Labour and
three editors
All ancialist Trade Unions will shortly be reorganized in a form roosonant with the Nazi movement!
HITLER'S FOUR-YEAR
PLAN
CHANCELLOR'S REMEDY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
THROUGH REUTER') AGENCY)
BERLIN, May 2. SYMBOLISING the disappearance of the last stronghold of Marxism and the end of class-war. fare in Germany, yesterday's May Day celebrations throughout the country were on an elaborate scale.
Chancellor Hitler, in a broadcast aid on the public to assist in pre address before a huge gathering at Deli-the Tempishofer nerodrome, yester venting a further offence.
fimt berate abstention in that case would day evening, outlined the be aiding and abetting,
year's programme of the Govern
and as far as I know, there is no
This offence is a misdemeanour, ment's Four Year Plan.
He said that he hoped to reduce Begal duty laid on the public to unemployment by public and pri prevent a misdemeanour from bevate works and compulsory labour. ing committed. So that the mere service in which every young Ger permissive presence in the car is man would have to serve a period
of manual labour. net aiding and netting. men were not assisting in driving the car, tooting the horn or using 6 p.m. on April 29, the Inspector the brakes. I have examined the
not
These
in charge of No. 2 Police Station legal point raised in this charge
We begin by giving treaties the importance they deserve," he said, "especially as far as agriculture is
affected thereby.
President Roosevelt has asked Mr. James Cox, the Ohio news paper proprietor, who was Dam cratic nominee for the Presidency in 1920, to join the United States delegation.
M. Norman Davis has been in- structed to press for an immediate even if it includes tariff truce, Franco-British reservations permit- ting a sertax if the dollar depre cintes to a damaging extent.
Gold Embargo Tightened. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
WASHINGTON, May 2,
The United States Treasury has prohibited gold exports to meet maturing United States obligations held abroad or to pay interest on the coupons thereon.
SILVER MARKET
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
LONDON, May 2 FOLLOWING ARK THE BILVER QUOTATIONS ON TER LONDON
MARKET TO-DAY:
SPOT FORWARD
May 2 May 1 301
201 201 20.9/18
ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL AGREEMENT
GRANTING OF NEW CON- CESSION: APPROVED
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TEHERAN, May 2 THE COUNCIL of Ministers here:
MAY 3, 1933
·SOVIET ATTITUDE TOWARDS CHINA
WILL ALWAYS RESPECT CHINESE RIGHTS
[URITISH WIRELESS SERVICE,)
DISPUTE OVER C.E.R.
TORNADO SWEEPS
ARKANSAS
TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE
KNOWN KILLED
(THROVAH REUTER'S AGENCY)
SITUATION ADMITTED TO BE GRAVE
THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOV].
NaNKING, May 2.
HARDIN, May 2.
NEW YORK, May 2 A CEREMONY such as is seldom A GRAVE situation is officially TWENTY-FIVE people are knowni
witnessed in Nanking, minaked
have admitted to
Arisen be- to be dead, while hundreds are the presentation of the credentiale tween Manchukua and the Soviet injured, as the result of a tornado of the new Soviet Ambassador, M. over the Chinese Eastern Railway, which struck the states of Arkansas. Rogonelov, who drove to the It is announced that the Soviet | and Louisiana yesterday.. Government. Office in a special state will not return the evacuated roll carriage accompanied by members ing stock. Customs officials at of his staff.
Manchuli are reported to be re- Soviet aero- turning to Russin. planes are active on the Manchu-nose Eastern Railway continues. kuo frontier.
Emphasising that the Sovict's polie to China would always be based on the principle of equality through respect of the rights and interests of the Chinese people; 31. Bogomoley said the would strive to make the resump. tion a development of normal rela tious with China
of strengthening peace in the Far East and the whole world.
Sovier
th means
Mr. Lin's Reply. In replying Mr. Lin Sen, Chair- an of the National Government, said that China would spare no effort to contribute towards their COMINOTI дол! in strengthening world peace.
NANKING MEMORIAL
SERVICE
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING, May 3. AT THE Memorial Service at the Kuomintang Headquarters this morning, Mr. Wang Ching Wel again took occasion to answer criti cism in certain quarters levelled against the Government. Mr. Whng emphasised that the anti-
and anti Japanese resistance
were Communist campaign
ot
A Second Protest.
TOKYO, May 2. The second Soviet protest in re- gard to the Chiness Eastern Rail- way dispute alleges that Manchu kuo has violated the Mukden Agree ment of 1924, providing for joint operation of the railway. Mat" chukuo denies that the agreement is binding and suggests n treaty.
Embargo en Gold,
ria, where a dispute over the Chi-
Developments of the last few days have ended separatist im trigues and talk of occupation "of Tientsin and Poiping by the Japan. ese for the time being.
Foreign military attaches here interpret the Japanese drive at Kupeikow as intended to drive the Chinese out of artillery range of Kupeikow, but do not anticipate an approach appreciably nearer Pei- ping. new
Heavy Losses. Chinese reports to-night stated the Chinese were forced from their CHANGCHUN, May 2. positions at Nartiennen by an at- The Manchukuo Department of tack on three sides accompanied byt Finance has drafted regulations a terrific artillery and aerial bomb- governing the virtual embargo on ing attack, the Chinese evacuating: the export of gold, which it is ex-as darkness fell. pected will be enforced some time The Chinese paid a heavy price. this month.
for the attempt to hold the posi Under the new regulations ations, which commands the strate- special licence will have to be obĮgie Kupeikow pass, having lost tained before gold may be export-some 4,000 men during the day, it
was stated. ❘ ed.
CHINESE BACK IN KEY
TOWNS
Chinese military officials claimed the Japanese suffered similar losses, but this was denied by the Japan-
esc
Start Drive on Mongolia, Harbin, Apr. 9.-It is under- Peiping, Apr. 99.-Chinese dis stood here that the Manchukuo patches from Kalgan to-night stated
equal importance; the latter could government will offer a final compro-Manchukuo Chinese Volunteers promise to the Soviet state in re-were preparing to invade Chaber gard to the locomotives and rolling province from Jchol. stock which have been sized from the Chinese Eastern Railway.. Man- chukuo will propose that a mission be appointed to decide the ownership of the rolling stock.
not be relaxed even in the face of the Japanese aggression.
Regarding the extraordinary Kuomintang Congress on July 1, Mr. Wang pointed out that the Gay ernment did not call the meeting with the intention of evading res ponsibility, but with a view to re-
inforcing its actions.
SURVEY OF THE NGAI
MOON CHANNEL
eceived a telephone, message to the and I have decided to discharge such as to protect our production sence of the Persian Minister of making the survey.
ROAD HOG. FINED,
FAILED TO PRODUCE
LICENSE.
Mr. Yu Kai was fined $15 for
effect that a fight was taking place the defendants. among some Indians in Tin Lak Lab Accordingly the Inspector despatched two Indian constables and twen Chinese constables to the scene, but before they had gone many yards from the station they net the rst and third defendants in custody of Indian constable No. 213 and a Mr. Bonnar who lived at No. 1, Tin Lok Lane, second floor.
Constable No. 209, the complain- ant in the desault charge neninst the first and svernd defendants was on duty in Wanchai Rond at the time when he saw the third defen- dant running towards him asking for assistance. Before he could
foiling to pull in to the left to
"Our commercial policy will be without harming the interests of
our farmers,"
LIFE OF WILLIAM DUNBAR
com-
The messages stated the volun teers had received fresh supplies and arms from the Japanese, and were preparing to attack Dolonor. The Chinese garrison thare. guarding the atrategic caravan route through Mongolia to Urge, was ordered to prepare to resist.
Peace Rumour is Denied. London, Apr. 27. Quo-Tai Chi,
In the event that the Soviet re jects the proposal, as is anticipated here. Manchukuo will abolish the joint directorate of the Chinese Eastern This is tantamount to a de facto erizure of the railway..
Peiping, Apr. 28. The Japanese Chinese minister to London, to-day army has launched a terrific offen-indignantly denied that China was ive with Nantienmen na the objecment with Japan, as reported in tering into a secret peace agrce-
office
The Ngai Moon Channel is an im portant waterway, and the British, threatening to continue the the London Daily Express.
march to Peiping if the Chinese Admiralty deem it wise that a suri
Shanghai, Apr. 28.-The foreign stage a.counter attack, vey should be made of the channel.
At Nanking categorically However, is the channel is in Chinese waters, the British Naval
Peiping, Apr. 28-Advancing in denied reports printed in the Zon
don Daily Express to the effect that. yesterday approved the grunt Authorities have invited Adiniral the wake of ing of the new concession to the King Ying and Mr. Chan Chu Japanese and Manchukuo forces, agreement with Japan
the withdrawing | China
1. was negotiating pence Anglo-Persian Oil Company, The
China's determination to continué agreement was signed in the pre-fat to coperate with them in Chinese troops reoccupied Chin
wangtao and Peitaiho today, ac resistance against the Japaness In Finance, the Minister of Foreign and Admiral Ng King Ying and Mr. sanguinary battle at Kupeikow pass
Negotiations have been completed cording to advices here, while the vasion in North China was reiterat
ed. Affairs, the Minister of Justice,
Chan Cho Tat have returned to in the Great Wall north of Peiping and Sir John Cadman, Chairman
Mr. Matsuoka Sees Emperor. Canton to make their report to the entered its eighth day. of the Company.
Tokyo, Apr. 8-Yosuke Mate: The entire Japanese eighth divisaoka, chairman of the delegation Head of the Canton Navy Depart
sion was hurled against the Chinese which withdrew from the League of south of Kupeikow, according to Nations discussions at Geneva, who Japanese advices, and although it arrived home in America. yester was claimed that Lieut. General day, proceeded to the palace to-day Yoshikazu Nishi's troops occupied to inquire after the health of Em- important positions the points were peror Hirohito and report that he not specified.
Many modifications have been made on the old concession, and the Persian Government have the right to cancel the agreement if the Company wish to liquidate or
agreement, The cancellation is subject to two years' notice.
allow another car to pass and also Masque in Edinburgh in fail to carry out the terms of the
for failing to produce his license; to a police officer.
Chief Inspector Marks giving evidence said he had followed de fendant,
who
was
driving Austin, from Arsenal Street, along
June
ment
CAPT WH. G. GOATER LEAVING
„POPULAR AND EFFICIENT ADJUTANT OF THE VOLUNTEERS.
་
Scene Shifted,
had returned.
Then after inquiring as to the Empress health he proceeded in The withdrawal of the Japanese company with Foreign Minister and allies from the Chinwangtao Yasuya Uchida to the Emperor's
London, April Within the Queen's Rond Enet, to the City past decade Edinburgh has pro- do anything, however, he was Hall. The whole way defendant duced a number of masques and kicked down by the first and had one wheel in the centre of the The notable success of the last of for the working of approximately cular will suffer a very great logg weeks ago, has changed the whole mission.
pageants of great historical interest.
Goater in from the
here.
7:
his work at Geneva,
The Company agrees to engage Persian employees as far en nos- sible and also to pay £10,000 an- nually for the education of students proceeding to England to study en
The community in general and Lwan river area at the eastern end offices, where for half an hour he ginearing.
The new concession only allows the Hong Kong Volunteers in parti. of the Grent Wall, occupied two reported verbally the result of his second defendants. Mr. Bonnar tramtrack. Defendant had two
No written report will be, sab from his verandah saw the assault. friends with him and they were these, The Masqua of Sir Walter half of the original ground, in wher Captain W. H. G. Goater, Sino-Japanese North China situa-
Another Indian Constable, then laughing and talking.
Witness Scuft, has now led to the formation South-west Persia and stipulates D.S.0. M.C. who has been Adjution in startling fashion, shifting mitted, as the Emperor already has same on the scene and he actually sounded his horn six or seven times of a Masques and Music Committee that the Company must give up tant to the Defence Corps since the scene of operations north of been acquainted with the results of
the which has for its main object the portions which cannot be worked May 22, 1939, leaves for home on
June 7.
At Tokyo the war office stated by 19:38. annual production of a znasque
Captain As well as 4/- gold per ton the
he Japanese already have returned to the Great Wall from the Lwan dealing with the circumstances of Cempary will pay to Persia one some celebrated figure in Scottish fifth of the net profits. In the
river triangle of about a thousand antiquity, or with some spicific event of sterling falling the Com-
square miles, whereupon Chinees period more than usually striking pany will compensate Persis for
detachments recrossed the Lwan the loss on exchange: The conces-
river and advanced northward and important,
along the Peiping-Makden railway- The founder of the committee, sion will run for 6 years. which is composed of a number of influential persons", in Edinburgh, ik Miss I. P. Grant, who is well thetical, in the life of Dunbar, and known in Scotland through her it has been the author's endeavour to depict the general circumstances works on Scottish domestic and social history. Mars, W. J. Thom of the Edinburgh of his day, as to provide a dramatic son, the Lady Pruvost of Edinburgh, has been elected president, and Lord chronicle of Dunbar's career. Clyde chairman. Other members of action is confined between the years the committee are Lord St. Vigeans, 1490 and 1513, and begins with the Sir Patrick Ford, Lady Margaret return of Dunbar from France. Sackville, Mr. Thomas Innes, Mr. Marriott Stevens, Mr. Hubert Wel.
wow P.C. 280 lving assaulted by the but the defendant took not first and second defendants. As he slightest heed. approached, the second defendant ran away, but the first was arrest- ed. Together with Mr. Bonuar the Intian constables took the first and third defendants to the station. The second defendant 'came to the station about half an hour later with a view to bailing the first de- fendant out, but he was recognised and arrested.
His Worship: Have you any evi- dehee against the third defendant? Sergeant Fitches: No. He is only charged with disorderly con- duct and not with assaulting the constable. There had been some dispute about Money Loan associa- tion.
Ramifications Revealed. Mr. Lo said that the first defen- dant had a quarrel with the third defendant over mopey loan associa tion, and eventully they came to blows, resulting in the latter Fun- ning away, but returning later with two Indian constables. The first defendant said that the constables
IN HONG KONG TO-DAY
FAIR TO SHOWERY
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND NEMARKS, 188UED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 6.30 ́F.M... STATED 3~-~
AN ANTI-CYCLONE IS DEVELOP- ING OVER N. CHINA. A DEPRES- PION IS SITUATED Ovin KOREA,
AND PRESSURE 18 MODERATELY LOW
OVER INDO-CHINA,
LOCAL FORECAST:-S., WINDS,. MODERATE, FAIR TO SHOWERY.
lington, Principal of the College of Art, Miss Eleonoral Cameron, and Mr. John Buchan, M.P.
7
Well S
Its
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, which was stationed here in 1926, and will rejoin his regi- inent at Maidstone. During his Uree years in Hong Kong, he has made a large circle of friends by bis kindness and courtesy to every- ne, and he will be greatly missed by the Volunteers, and those who
have the fortune to come into con tact with him.
said if the Chinese again attacked A Japanese military spokeson the Great Wall positions the recent
southward advance would be repeat ed however.
Joining the army 18 д Şub. Lieutenant in 1914, Captain. Goater
Stubborn Resistance, bad a distinguished war record and saw active service during the Great
Nishi's division, aided by artil. War both in France and Belgium lery and airplanes, was hurled into. where he was wounded. On several the conflict north of here when the occasions he was mentioned in 10th Infantry brigade of Maj. Gen. despatches, and was awarded the Tadashi Kawahara failed to smash S.H.W.M. and V.M. medals, the the stubborn resistance of the en- Distinguished Service Order and trenched Chinese, who include some the Military Cross
of the Nanking regulars of "Chiang Kai Shek. 22
Men and women. who realize that appearance counts always have well- polished shoes,
Did YOU “Nugget" your. shoes this morning?
"The Seven Deadly Sine," The central incident in the mas- que will be the "Dance of the bar's most celebrated poems, whicans adjutant to the Volunteers until Seven Deadly Sins," one of Dun-
Lient. T. H. S. Gellatley will act
Nishi's objective is merely the will be staged as part of the revels the arrival of a successor who has destruction of the Chinese between A Post of James IV. Time. on the occasion of the marriage of not yet been appointed.
Kopeikow and Miyun, and it was The first masque to be presented Jaunes IV. to Margaret Tudor of
not intended even to occupy Miyun, Money Loan Association. What I by the committes will have for its England. Some evidence exists
about 40 miles north of Peiping, feel about this case is that even subject the life and times of Wm. that this "dance" was in itself astitious sentiments. With this and much less Peiping itself. if your Worship spent two or three afternoons going into this case, and Dunbar, the Scottish poet who masque, written by the poet for in view she persuades Dunbar 10
Scottish appear at midnight in the guise of to-night that the Japanese had The Japanese legation announced whatever verdict you may reach, flourished during the reign of James performance before the I am sure there would be other, and whose work has of late Court. Each of the vices, accom. Pluto at the Mercat Cross, where occupied Nantieamen, following
Bummon the King and hard fighting lasting all day. troubles to follow. Therefore years aroused the keenest interest panied by an appropriate follow. he will would suggest that your Worship in literary circles in Scotland: The ing, in turn makes his appearance, nobles of Scotland to appear before bind the defendants over."
text has been written by: Mr. Lewis the noct reciting the verace descrip-him within 10 days The King.
Intrigues Ended, Sergeant Fitches informed his Spence, the Scottish poet and writer tive of each, the whole ending with however, discovers the plot and At least a portion of the Japan- Worship that there had been non folklore, who has heen a student a diabolic fandango of the Seven Dunbar is doomed to perpetual ese Manchukuo forces withdrawn "I might also tell you," said Mr. series of fights in that district over of the work of Dunbar for more Sins and their henchmen in concert, banishment from Edinburgh, which from the Lwan river area have been BOOT Lo," that, according to my instruc- the Money Loan Association, and than a generation. It will be pru- The latter senes deal with the he quits in company with Jean shifted westward to the Kupellow tions one of the constables concern- suggested that if his Worshipduced by Mr. James Wallace Ball eve of Flodden and the disputes be-Drummond, of whom he has long front, it is believed. Some reports ed in this case, is the brother of a would bind the defendants over, it in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, from twee James and his English | been enamoured, man who had.some trouble with the might put a stop to 34 12
queen who, despairing of a peaceful
fell on him and threw him to the ground, and during that time the second defendant intervened saying that as the first defendant was al ready on the ground, the cobstables should not assault him.
Mr. Lo went on to say that the Case was very conflicting as each defendant had a different tale to tell, and suggested, that his Worship should bind the defendants, over.
first defendant some years ago in His Worship bound the defen Tuesday, June 13, to Saturday, June
connection with the latter's wife, dants over in the sum of £50 in two
17.
and I understand there is some dis- sureties to be of good behaviour for of striking incidents, real and hypo- The masque is composed of a series pute going on now about the Indian i one year.
Several of the more notable of issue in the argument between the Dunbar's poems, translated into of an appeal to her consort'a super-aited in the course of the ranaque, two countries, conceives the notion modern English, will ta sung or re-
are that the withdrawal from the occupied area was to permit zer forcing of Japanese units along the Soviet border of northern Manchu (Vontinued on next Column)
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