HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1933.
‘BLUE SHIRTS” OUTLAWED
SLUMS IN LONDON
GANDHI SET FREE
Breaks Fast After 7 Days
Military Tribunal` Created
Dublin, Aug. 23. THE Irish Free State Government yesterday proclaimed General O'Duffy's Irish National Guard, the "Blue Shirts," illegal, and have announced the creation of a MIL- tary Tribunal to deal with poll- tical offences.
This action, which followed the meeting of the Executive Council of the Free-State Government, was anticipated as being inevitable fol- lowing the instructions of the Min- ister of Defence forbidding officers and men. of the Army Reserve membership in the "Blue Shirts" or any secret society.
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Concerted Plan For Clearance
London, Aug. 22.
throughout OCAL authorities
Great Britain are at present concentrating on schemes for the removal of 'slums and the provi- sion of alternative accommodation
For the most part these slums are situated in the older boroughs and are in the words of the Minis- ter of Health, Sir Wilson Young. a relic of the time when the gen eral law and bylaws did not pre- vent the establishment of housing conditions Intolerable according to the present standard.”
In a memorandum circulated" a few months ago, the Minister D
Poona, Aug. 23. Gandhi has been released conditionally. Reuter
Foona, Aug. 23.
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U.S. COAL CODE
CHINESE BLUE SHIRTS
Agreement Not Yet Fascist Party A Live
In Sight
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Organisation
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Canton, Aug. 29.
That the Blue Shirts or Chin-
CHINA'S POLICY SETTLED
Huang And Chiang See Eye To Eye
Tokyo, Aug. 23. The Government is satisfied with the result of the recent
interview between Count Ariyoshi and Huang Fu, according to a Foreign Office spokesman, a full understanding had been Huang assured the Count that
Washington, Aug, 28. The continued foilure of the coal industry to agree on u code Gandhi has now broken the fast for fair competition has led he started on Aug. 18.
General Johnson to assume the ese Fascist Party is a live force He hopes to in Shanghai and the Yangtze formulate final proposals to-day leader who arrived here from Han- Valley is attested by a Kuomintang and is anxious the code should be row. He told the writer to- adopted by the parties concerned day that he is not popular with reached between him and Gener- as he realises that an arbituary the Blue Shirts, hence he prefers alissimo Chiang and Wang Ching imposition of
to come to Canton for permanent Wei regarding China's policy to- code which
residence.
ward Japan. fundamentally objectionable
The spokesman, This leader said that the head- however, said that Japan must might be fraught with serious quarters of the Blue Shirts are
watchful waiting located at Hankow with branches persist in a
see whether in every town in Hupeh and that policy their activities have recently ex- Huang's professions will be tended to Szechuen where the translated into action,Reuter
SPANISH FATHER
KIDNAPPED
Health pointed out that the con- While Travelling To consequences.
General ditions of the present time were the meantime. O'Duffy remains adamant, and is auspicious for a concerted and de- completing arrangements to main-termined attack on the aims and tain his organisation. He is ap-called upon all local authorities parently ready to fact the conse- quences, but has advised all mem- bers of the Army Reserve to with- draw from the "Blue Shirta,”
em-
The Military Tribunal 13 powered to impose any punish- ment from a one shillingine to the death penalty, while the police are empowered to make arrests on suspicion, including suspicion of
concerned to submit to the Minis- try," before the end of next month, definite schemes for the removal within five years of all insanitary
and unsuitable dwellings. -
National Basis,
Since the war. local authorities have, in most cases, considered housing in relation to new struction to meet the demands of
con-
Yochow
Shanghai, Aug. 23. Father a Gallego belonging to the Spanish Augustinian Mission, Hunan,'
kidnapped by bandits, yesterday, while travell ing to Yochow. "
Father Gallego is a native of
was
membership of any association a population whose needs have ex-Castilla spain and came to China
ceeded the accommodation avail- in 1920.-Reuter. able and within the last 14 years. two million new houses have been büllt.
which is deemed unlawful Public meetings can be proclaimed. Reuter."
IR.A. NOT TO BE
SUPPRESSED A
Dublin, Aug. 23. The Irish Republican Army will not be suppressed till an all Ireland Republic has been creat- ed, declared the leader of the Goy ernment Party in the course of a discussion in
last the Senate night on the motion of Sir John
Keane that the Government's ac- tion in banning the Blue Shirt parades was unjustified.
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Sir John Keane suggested that
Only 8 small. proportion those have been definitely allotted to slum dwellers and although many progressive boroughs have done excellent work" in tackling their local stum areas the action of the Health Minister in dealing with the subject on a national basis has stimulated interest gen erally and has enlisted public sup- port for the drastic slum clearance scheme now being drafted-British
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the Free State would be peaceful JAPANESE NAVAL
as long as the Irish Republican Army did not molest it.
"That Army was ready to usurp the functions of the Government when the Government was 110 longer complaisant."
The Blue Shirts were loyal and constitutional, but men of spirit
ELECTRIC ATMOSPHERE
COURT-MARTIAL
TESTIMONY OF A PLOTTER WHO WAS IN HOSPITAL
are not ülkely to stand by Uke sheep Tokyo. The naval court-martial before the slaughter. They would on the murder of Premier Inukai take steps to secure their own pro-was resumed on Tuesday (18th in- tection, Sir John stated.—Bruter. stant). The day's proceedings were entirely taken up by the exumina- tion af Second Sub-lieutenant Kishiro Ito. This officer is charged with action preparatory to rebel lion, as he did not actually take part in the outrage owing to his. being in hospital, recuperating from the wounds he suffered in the Shanghai campaign.
Dublin, Aug. 23. The Government's proclama- tion of Blue Shirts and the implementation of the public safety act have further charg- ed the atmosphere in the city, which is already electric, with possibilities of the arrest of inembers of the National Guard which may now be made on the slightest provocation leading to trial by a military tribune! with power to inflict inrestricted penalties, including flogging and death on a wide range of political offences.
LORD MARLEY RETURNS
TO SHANGHAI
Shanghai, Aug. 23. Lord Marley and M. Marteaux
are due at Shanghai on Friday on the British vessel Aeneas:
Lord Marley is expected to confer with Mr. Fessenden with regard to the approaching confer ence.-Reuter,
RE-ORGANISA- TION IN CHARHAR
Fang To Resist National Govt.
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Progress is being made with the retail code affecting five million shop assistants.
Meanwhile, the administration
government subsidised newspapers openly publish Fascist slogans...
is concerned by a tendency to rascist party that it attempts to crease prices and has instituted inquiries thereinto.
The unwillingness of some banks to finance the industry is also causing uneasiness.
General Johnson is attributing the canse to excessive timidity, bat is maintaining that, credit must be founded on confidence.-- Reuter.
SILVER MARKET.
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[From Our Own Correspondent)
London, Aug. 23. FOLLOWING ARE THE SILVER QUOTATIONS ON TIR LONDON MARKET TO-DAY:
SPOT For wax?
Aug. 23 Aug. 22 17.15/10 17.13/16 18. 1/16 17.15/18 THE LONDON ON NEW YORK CROSS RATE TO-DAY WAS: £1 94.521+
ENCOURAGING POSITION
British Treasury Figures
!!
Peiping, Aug. 28. Telegrams, received by Ho Ying Ching from Charhar in- dicate that Fang Chen Wa and Chi Hung Chang are adopting an
intransigent "attitude towards THE latest Treasury returns show the Government's re-organisation of the province, but Sun Liang Cheng, Liu Kwei Tang and
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that the total ordinary revenue
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assassinate critles of General Chiang Kai-Shek, Chairman of the Nanking Military Commission, who is the alleged leader of the Blue Shirts. Because of their menace, it is reported that mem-
and the
bers of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee Central Supervisory Committee in Shanghai will come to Canton, as they are strong critics of General Chiang Kai Shek and his pro- Japanese policy. -
FENG'S ATTITUDE
Towards Govern- ment's Overtures
Nanking, Aug. 23. MR. Ma Chao Chun and Mr. Fu Ju Lin, the members of the Central Executive Council who ac- companied Mr. Sun Fo when he' visited General Feng Yu Hsiang, Hit for Klukiang by air this)
General morning to report to Chiang Kai Shek on General Feng's attitude" towards the Gov- ernment's overtures.
Mr. Sun Fo may leave for Kiu- kiang to-morrow morning in General Chiang Kai Shek's private Sikorsky plane.--Reuter.
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LIU CHUNG CHIEH RESIGNS
Nanking. Aug. 23. TANG YU-Jen, Secretary-General of the Central Political Coun- cil, assumed the concurrent post of Administrative Vice-Minister of for the current financial year up Foreign Affairs this afternoon. to August 19 amounted to Mr. Tang succeeds Mr. £222,320,767. At the correspond-Chung Chieh who has resigned
ANTI-RED DRIVE
Liu
Nanking, Aug. 23.
THE Central Political Council to-
His statement included a revela- Chang Yung Ying are concilia- ing date of last year, the amount Reuter, tion of some interesting facts, Ask- ed by the President what made history. mind to turn to outrage for the re- Sub-lieutenant Ite construction of the country, Second
replied: was born in Aomori, so I know well the starving condition of the petty farmers. impasse of Japancso" capitalism. It is all due to the What interested me in the plot was my desire that by freeing the people of the shagkies of capitalism, I would enable farmers to get ade quate food and clothes."
Concerning, the immediate occa- No dramatic arrests are at pre-plot, related that it was the in- sion of his participation in the sent expected. However, it is believed the Government will be gin by confiscating arms in pri- vate hands.
Immediate interest is centred on a meeting of the National Guard at Cootemore to-day, which General O'Duffy plans to address. -Reuter.
vence of Nissho Inoue's philosophy which is featured by such a teach- ing as that "What comes out of destruction is either the. better or the worse, no continue until the better comes."
Averting Superfluous Murders Then, after expressing his disgust At the naval armament reduction, resulting from the London Treaty, the officer directed his resentment against General Ugaki, and Ad
totalled £217,783,488. Ordinary One report states that Fang rent year totalled £35,000,000 less expenditure to date for the cur- Chen Wu is now raising Feng's than the total ordinary expendi- abandoned, banner, calling him-ture at the corresponding date of self the acting C-in-C. of the last year British Wireless. Army, but this is not taken People's anti-Japanese Allied
seriously as Fang is unable to raise more than four thousand troops.-Reuter,
YELLOW RIVER IN FLOOD
2,000 People Drowned In Shansi
Peiping, Aug. 23,
THE food anxiety has now turn
ed to Shansi.
FOREST HILLS TENNIS
FURTHER DELAY IN U.S. TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
Forest Hills, Aug. 22.
“No Play To-day" ()
For the third time since the opening of the American na-
day sanctioned the appropria- tion of $15,800,000 as expenses in connection with the anti-com- munist drive in Honan, Hupeh. Anhwel and Kiangst-Reuter..
CANTON-K'LOON RAILWAY
Chinese Share Too Low
tional women's tennis champion- (From Our Special. Correspondant ships this sign was displayed at Fores tHills to-day:
Canton, Aug. 23.
Rain fell heavily again and fur- Proposals for the revision of the championships. The remaining ment have been completed by a ther delayed the finish of the Canton.Kowloon Railway agree,
to-morrow-Reuter.
BERNINA ALPSmirals Taniguchi, Okada and Taka Pastehchow, 120 miles northwest matches have been postponed until
TRAGEDY
Funeral Of Eton Masters
London, Aug. 22. THE four Eton masters. Messrs. Powell, Blater, Howson and White-Thomson, who lost their lives on Pis Roses in the Bernina Alps last Friday, were buried to
na responsible persons for of Talyuanfu, was nooded when leading, the situation to that, say. the Yellow River over-dowed, and ing;
So hard was my sentiment it is reported that scores of sur- against them that when we, con-rounding villages were inundated. federates of the plot met in Jan- Further south Tulin was flood- uany last, I suggested a plan of ed, and it is reported that 2,000 bombing from the air on various were, drowned and much damage quarters harbouring such agents of done. "
HOME FOOTBALL
AYR BEAT LANARK
London, Aug. 22.
special committee composing of
Hu Tang Chan, acting managing director of the Chinese section, Mr. Lee Ohuek Por, traffic manager,
Mr. Bu Chi Halen, committee mem
ber of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, and Dr. Chien Shu Fan, well known local lawyer it was exclusively learned to-day,
The nature of the proposal will
this rotten capitalism. I gave up There has been a considerable, the suggestion as I was reminded rise in the river in this section, AYR United. who conceded 17 not be divulged until the matter by Nissho Inoue that Even police and it is feared that as the water goals in their two opening is formally submitted to the Bri men, detectives, judiciary officials flows down, the situation in South matches, recorded their second is section for consideration, but and pressmen are the Emperor's Hopel and West Shantung may be win in four games yesterday when it is understood that the main fluous. murders must be averted as subjects as we are; so such super-come worse.--Reuter.
they visited Third Lanark and receipts to be apportioned between won by 7 goals to 4 in the First the Chinese and the British sec- much as possible.'"'"
Division of the Scottish Football tion. The Chinese section at the last revision conference complain- League, N
Results as cabled by Router:
ed that they received, too. low a 1 Rangers
percentage of receipts in propor- tion to the length of the Chinese section.
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As an episode, the officer told the President about his pains over carrying bomb from the front to
ADMIRAL CHAN Clyde
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day in one grave in the Protestant use for the plot, when he ne hit AT PORTSMOUTHt. Mirren A
Cemetery at Pont Resina.
With a Chinese bullet while he was talking with another officer about
At Eton to-day all shops were the superiority of the arms of the shut and the college was closed to Chinese troops, considering that visitors for an hour-British Wire-there were many dud, shells and homba used by the Japanese troops.
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the event of their plot failing. T heard of the failure the next
A Certain Ambassador, to be Murdered
SHOWN OVER WARSHIPS AND, DOCKYARDS
Mew London, Aug. 224 ADMIRAL CHAN CHAK
anorning to the remaining confede Towards the end of the day's pro ly commander of rates met for a second scheme, and coedings fecond Bubljeutenant Ita Navy accompanied we decided we would assassinate patated, "I could,
the Ambassador and the Consil of take part in the May 15th
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It was also learned that the Kowloon section has not yet been approached for a conference with a vision was erected when the then view to revising the railway.agree- National Government was estab-ment. As soon as the Chinese sec- labed here in June, 1831tion has everything ready, the Bri
It is said unofficially, that the tish section will be requested to Kowloon section is not unwilling appoint representatives of this to resume negotiations with the parley. Canton section, but the British Initiat line would like to know whether the
try of Ralways would
"matter again or whe
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Provincial Government: ed by the Nankir
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HISHI KARI AT CHANGCHUN
Japanese Minister To Manchukuo
Changchun Ang 23. Hishi Kari arrived here last night. He was met at the station by a large, crowd, includ- ing a representative of Mr. Pu Vi, Manchukuo and Japanese officials.
He presents his credentials to Mr. Pu Yi on August 25.- Reuter.
FLOODS IN HONAN
300,000 People Homeless
Peiping, Aug, 23, While the floods in Honan are no worse, inundations have caus- ed widespread suffering.
THAT $50,000,000 LOAN
Has U.S. Made A Mistake?
The
Shanghai, Aug. 29.
Evening Post special Correspondent from Peiping says that representations are being made to the U.S. Minister in an effort to safeguard America's ditures resulting from America's participation in foreign expen-" $50,000,000 long to China. This follows the discovery that Euro- pean interests are trying to secure from the loan, and declares it is a major share of the purchases
strongly felt in American quar-, ters that Washington made a mistake in failing to stipulate
that American manufactures should receive preference in the expenditure of the proceeds of
the loan.
The " Evening Post," in an editorial, says that there is every reason to feel that the proposals made to Gen. Johnson for trans- mission to Nanking to form a tactful suggestion have behind them every support of common ethics.-Reuter.
SHAI MURDER TRIAL
Tense Moment In Court
Shanghai, Aug, 23. There was a tense moment.in the Brtish Police Court during the preliminary hearing of the murder charge against Mrs. Hadley when a Russian barber who was giving evidence said, "We saw a woman stab the man with a knife."
The barber's wife corroborated
this.
The Court Room was filled with interested spectators, main- ly women.
A. Catholic priest wiring to the C.I.F.R.C. to-day, from Tackow, East Weih Wei, North Houan, says that five hundred villages Mrs. Hadley was wearing the are flooded and all crops ruined. same cotton print dress which Three hundred thousand persons she wore when arrested. She are homeless with no food or was calm and composed anð clothes and relief is urgently listened outwardly unaffected to required.--Reuter.
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