A STARTLING ALLEGATION
Soviet Scheme to Prevent War
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THE KULING CONFERENCE
No Change in Foreign Policy
· HONG KONG DAILY PRESC
TO ABOLISH BANDITS
Air-Mail Letter
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1933. SOVIET WARNED London
More Troops for Luantung
Pelping, Sept. 9.
Nanking, Sept. 9, Harbin, Sept: 9.
INTERVIEWED by Chinese Press- THE Harbin Times to-day con-
tains
men yesterday. Mr. Sun Fo: IT IS authoritatively stated that sensational article stated, the Kuling discussions end- alleging the Soviet has been in negotiation with "a certain powered that the leaders had gathered
ed on September 8. He explain to defend her from Japan.
there for an informal exchange of The article is headed:
opinion regarding outstanding problems, rather for a formal con- AFRAID OF WAR ference, hence no resolution was
adopted. Ceding Concessions
U.S.S.R. BARRICADING HER- SELF FROM JAPAN BY A
THIRD POWER.
Secret Negotiations Between Stavutsky And Hanson
The article authoritatively "as- serts that the Soviet Government agents have been in all directions frustrating the economic and military growth of Manchakuo and has been enrolling Manchukuo officials as. Communist agents with
Mr. Sun deprecated the rumours of a changed foreign policy, add- ing that China's foreign policy was primarily based on the prin- ciple of strengthening China's na- tional existence and sovereignty.
Regarding the American wheat and cotton loan, Mr. Sun said that
a committee would be formed to control funds and supervise ex- penditure..
He confrmed the report that the National Economic Commission would be enlarged, in order to give it effective and sufficient powers to attend to the economic development of China.
It is believed that the Japanese will be favourably disposed to the proposal-Reuter's Pacific Service.
by MANCHUKUO
Time for Talking has Expired
Harbin, Sept. 10.
British Cricketers For Canada And The U.S. Helping British Exports: Air Ambulances, Sian's Lead: Lord Chilston For Moscow Embassy London's Heat Wave Idea
REALISTIC
(Special Air-Mail Service)
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sense
Commission is considering sending. the Luantung Retrocession
late with General Hishikari for Consul-General the second, and The Manchukuo Foreign Minis- a delegate to Changchun to nego- try handed over to the Soviet permission to despatch Chinese troops to the Luantung area, on final, note regarding the O.G.P. allowed by the Treaty is insuf-chukuo steamer Tungsang on the the ground that the police force U. Officials' search of the Man-
aeronautics. These are suppl pressing the bandits in that zone. clent to handle the task of sup Ussuri River and the seizure of
mented by visit to the principal Landon, August 16. The farewell luncheon at Clarid ed library is available besides. It aeroplane works, and a well-stock- ten Russian emigre guards who The delegats will also negotiate
were carried off to Russia. It team of cricketers, who have sailed vital necessity for the creation of ge's to Sir Julien Cahn and his is generally accepted that there is a for the return of the walled city of Shanhalkuan,
warns serious consequences if for a tour in Canada and the Unit-airmindedness, not merely to arouse there is no immediate reply and ed States, was a most novel and enthusiasm but to reiterates the demand for an ingeniously arranged affair.
instil an air apology by the Soviet govern- formed into a cricket field. Imitation
The ball-room had been trans-safety in Aying.
which is so essential for ment, -the punishment of grass covered the foot, and the BRILLIANT METEOR · O.G.P.U. Officials, the return of pitch was marked out complete the emigres and points out that with "stumps Sir Julien and theness was no receipt of a satisfactory reply principal guests sat at tables re night. At 11.31 p.m. it came into and the continuous frequent viola-served for batsmen" and "bow vision near the handle of "The lers," and the guests were announe Plough," in the constellation of the tions of Manchukuo sovereigntyd by the on the frontier zones prove the like the waiters, wha in flannels. disappear above the horizon.
wicketkeeper," who, Great Bear, and swept down to Soviet is not desirous to maintain The menu, too, was set out in There was some haze in the at- as At its brightest illumination the match: The Guests v. Sir Julien meteor appeared to be nearly half Cahn's Eleven.
the size of the full moon, grey- white in colour with a greenish- rim
CHINA'S NEW "PLANES
ترسم
A meteor of quite unusual bright- over London last
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peace and retarding progress as a Wet night, while Mr. Wang Chin Christening Ceremony friendly and neighbourly rela-described the lunch is a two-hour nosphere and few stars were seen.
Mr. Sun Fo left for Shanghai
and other leaders are re- safeguard against a direct colli- turning to Nanking from Kuling sion between Japan and the to-morrow, Reuter.
U.S.B.R.
It declares that the United States Consul-General in Harbin, Mr. Hanson, has for months been negotiating with the Soviet Con- sul-General, M. Slavitsky, for concessions in the U.S.S.R. Mart-
FIFTH NATIONAL
CONGRESS
Nanking, Sept 9.
time Province "for a certain gov- INTERVIEWED on his return from
ernment."
at Shanghai
Shanghai, Sept. 9.
AN elaborate ceremony took place at Hungjao. Aerodrome, here, this afternoon, when five Curtiss Hawk
planes, purchased with
funds subscribed by the public, were christened.
Kuling on the gunboat Hal- The negotiations; the article says, has at last attained results.
yang. Mr. Wang" Ching Wei said. that Chen Chi Tang and the other Shanghal Merchants, Shanghai The names of the planes are The Soviet is now prepared to Southern leaders had submitted a Labourers, Shanghai Boy Scouts, grant concessions and by so doing proposal to the Central Executive has achieved its purpose of de-Council for the postponement of Shanghal Students, and Shanghai fending the Maritime Province the from Japan's advance by creating Kuomintang Congress.
Ningponese.--Reuter's Pacific Ser- a third power, barricade. Reuter."
Mr. Wang added that the Gov- ernment was still desirous of send- ing delegates to Canton to consult
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'A LONG
scheduled
Fifth National
REIGN the Southerners in regard to na-
OF PEACE"
Much Progress in Hunan
Hankow, Sept. 10. UNDER the long reign of peace." said Mr. Chang Chun, chair- man of the Provincial Govern ment of Hupel, on his return to Hankow from Hunan, "the Gov- ernment of Hunan has quietly car-
ried out a programme of economic development of the province and is still making headway in many directions."
Mr. Chang Chun's recent visit to Hunan was in connection with a plan for the rehabilitation of southern Hupel, the execution of
tional affairs.
vice
SUN FLYING TO HANGCHOW
Mr. Wang was accompanied by Wu Chih Huel. Chang Ching
Shanghai, Sept. 9. Kiang, Tang Yu Jen and Tsen MR Sun Tung Kang, the young Taung Min. He was very reticent Chinese airman, is taking of concerning the rumours of Cabinet from here for Hangchow, to- changes and a revision of China's | morrow, on the third lap of his foreign policy, but denied that Ku countrywide tour by plane.- Meng Yu. Minister of Rallways, Reuter had resigned.--Reuter.
CHINESE MINISTER TO TOKYO
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Nanking, Sept. 9. IT is announced that Chiang Tso
to
Tokyo, who is at present in Kuling, plag, Chinese Minister will return to Tokyo in the near. future.-Reuter.
which requires the co-operation of STATEMENT BY MR. T. V.
the Hunan Government. He stated further that as the result of his consultation with. Gen. Ho Chien, Governor of Hunan, he would sub.
SOONG
Shanghai, Sept. 9.
slon. He said that after its re- organisation the Commission will
mit to the Nanking Government a 【NTERVIEWED by Reuter this scheme for the co-ordination of
morning, Mr. T. V. Boong con. Conservancy work on the inland firmed the reported reorganisation rivers with a view to improving of the National Economic Commis- river communication between the provinces of Central China. Hunan enjoys good harvests this year but poor means of communication do not permit its surplus food stuffs to be exported to other pro- vinces. Central News Agency.
FIFTH CORRUPT OFFICIAL
Given Long Prison Sentence
tions.
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Shanghai, Sept. 10.
Flight Postponed.
Sun Tung Kang has postponed his departure to Hangchow till 10 a.m., to-morrow. From Hangchow he will "ay to Anking, Hankow Changsha, Chengchow. Loyang, Bianfu, Paotingfu, Tatung, Kalgan, Sulyuan, Peiping and then back to Tsinan,
tions.'
Manchukuo officials at Harbin are of the opinion the time for talking has expired and it is necessary to adopt retaliatory measures.-Bruter.
SILVER MARKET“
(From Our Own Correspondent)
London, Sept. 9. Following are the Silver Quota- tions on the London market to day:
'Spot
Forward
13.
To complete the scheme an pire, in white coat and bowler hat, stood at each end of the room CRICKET AT SEA
The team, which is now on board; the Empress of Britain en route for Canada were in high spirits as they boarded the boat trilin at Waterloo. They all looked extremely fit. If my memory of the Eopress of Bri: tain's gymnasium and other sport ing facilities serves me, they should have no excuse for being their fitness during their short sea voy
Age:
which they can
There is even sufficient space in have a practice knock Sept. 9 Sept. 8 18.1/16
THE SHIPPING EXODUS 181 181 181 Anyone who was at Waterloo at The London on New York cross
that fairly early hour" would have rate to-day was: £1-4.521.
had little difficulty in helieving the ping exodus trem Southampton, stories of an unprecedented ship- I had rashly promised to take part of a friend's luggage to the SHARP FALL IN PRICE OF station. In the packed station
GOLD
yard auceeeiled in getting- e porter, who disappeared to fetch a Earrow.
PYYSILESITESFFIE
London; Sept. 10.
A sharp fall of 1/8 occurred in the price of gold to-day at 129/21 per fine ounce & premium of four pénce over the French franc
One feature of yesterday's bul- lion market was the offering of £825,000 of bar sold. This was all disposed of, a large proportion be- ing bought on continental
It was a full ten minutes before be reappeared, saying that he had only just then managed to get one so great was the demand. It was well I had plenty of time in hand HELPING BRITISH,
EXPORTS
NEW AMBASSADOR TO
MOSCOW
The formal announcement of the appointment of Lord Chilston as British Ambassador at Moser, in succession to. Sir Esmond Ovey, was made by the Foreign Office yesterday evening as
follows:-
The King has been graciously pleased to approve the appointment of the Viscount Chilstan, K.C M.G., his Majesty's Envoy Ex- traordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary at Budapest, to be his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordin
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BEER
BEER IS
TONIC
Beer not only has food value, but it has for many persons stimulating proper ties and tonic properties. It is distinctely a tonic in many respects. All these
· properties, together with the effect on the palate of people who like it, go to make it a beverage which has so many advantages that you cannot compare any other beverage with it,
MR. A. CHASTON, CHAPMAN,
· F.I.C, F.R.9, (evidence before the Royal. Commission of Licending.)
ary and Plenipotentiary at Mos COTTON CONTROL
cow. The first official notification of Lord Chilston's appointment was made yesterday afternoon, when it was announced that "the King received in audience this mor
PLAN
ning Lord Chilston on his appoint Acreage to be Limited
ment as Ambassador in Moscow."
THE GLOWGRAMME” “
It
Washington, Sept. 10.
The heat wave has produced at DR. Wallace has announced that, least the bright idea in the Lon- the Farm Adjustment Ad don' theatres. This is a new type ministration will embark on a cot- of programme described pictures ton control plan limiting the 1934..
to 25,000,000 acres. quely as a "glowgramme, which acreage may be read in eamfort after the Reuter. lights have been turned down. is printed on a black background in white transparent letters and inserted in the ordinary gramme. The theatre-goer has only to raise it against the light from the stage for all to become plain.
SC- The review undertaken annually count. The large amounts of gold of the membership of the Overseas being offered in the bullion mar- Trade Development Council has led ket are partly explained by its re-to the appointment of three addi aale at a profit of previous pur- tional representatives of trade and SCORING CHANCE
SHOE-MAKERS ON chases of the metal-British Wire-commerce.
STRIKE
Capitalists to be. Taught a Lesson!”
Canton, Sept. 10.
the
less:
Lt. Col. J. Colville, M.F. the secretary of the department, by virtue of his office chairman of the NEW MINISTER TO Council, has the assistance of a
CHINA
British Choice Welcomed
number of men whose names are held in high respect in the indus trial world.
The new recruits to the Council are Sir William Clare Lees (wanag ing director of the Bleachers' Asso ciation), Lt. Col. R. K. Moreoin (a director of Mesars, Belliss and Moreem), and Sir Charles Selig man (a director of Messrs. Selig man Bros.).
Formed in 1930, when Sir Geotge Gillett was head of the department, the Council devotes special atten tion to problems of British export trade and to the means which can
sion.
pro-
M. Tindall, the Harrow cricket captain, has a chance to-day of achieving the rare feat of scoring century on his first appearance
for a leading county.
Batting for "Middlesex, against Nottingham at Trent Bridge, on Saturday, Tindall made 81 not out, and he will therefore resume to-day needing only 19 to reach three figures,
I wish him - luck. My Wisden shows me that the feat has been inst twelve years, and twenty-eight accomplished only four times in the times in all since 1883- AN INDIAN PAINTER
U.S. DYERS ON STRIKE
New York, Sept. 10. THE dyers and Cloth Printers Union have called a strike to enforce a higher wage code. Four- thousand workers are affected,
QUEEN ANN IS DEAD!
AND OTHER LOCAL P. 0.
·DISCOVERIES.
The Postmaster General and. the Collector of Stamp Revenue in pursuance of section 19- of: the Stamp Duties Management Or- of 1911, have given notice in the dinance, 1911, Ordinance No. 96-
some
be placed under the charge of a(From Our Special Correspondent) standing committee of three, com- posing of Mr. Wang, Ching Wei, Mr. Sua Fo and Mr. T. V. Soong. The Commission will have full powerTO-DAY is the fourth day of the
London, Sept. 10.
current number of the Govern for the disposal of the American
The appointment of the Hon. strike by. workers in
ment gazette that the use of all Loan, which will be used solely for Cheung Sheng, Ping On Fook, Fi A. Cadogan, as Minister to China
dies bearing the effigy of His late. construction purposes..
Keung and Kwok Wah rubber is warmly welcomed by the Sun-
Majesty King Edward VII which Mr. Soong denied the reported factories in this city. Owners of day Times. Whose columnist
wandiwala, who is known as the duties of postage (of which dies Recently I met Mr. E. H. Bhi- were in use previously for denoting reorganisation of the National the these factories refuse to pay "Atticus" describes it as being badapted to promote its expanOrpen" of India. Government, which was not disa due of 45 cents, for every hun-exactly right drawing atten
have been available for Originally a sussed at the Euling confabula-dred pairs of rubber shoes manu- tion to the Hon. Cadogan's work A LEAD FROM SIAM
bank official, he denoting also stamp duties) has showed such artistic gening that the been discontinued, and that from factured, to the Mechanics' Union,
Tata family, the great Parsee in and after the 31st day of Decem With reference to the Fifth Na-whereupon the workers went on with the League of Nations, and
Air ambulances, Red Cross dustrialists, enabled him to complete ber, 1933, those dies will not be tional Congress, Mr. Boong said the strike as a protest.
points out the ministry in China scheme for which has just been ap- his studies in this country, Paris, lawful dies for denoting the pay situation was exactly as reported in the press. He added that Mr. of which they are members, the diplomatic orbit. He says that sparsely populated countries.
Supporting the Mechanics' Union is altogether outside the ordinary proved by the Air Ministry, are Florence, and New York,
ment of stamp duty chargeable-by perhaps of most spectacular use in He has already painted many In law, including, postage. Wang Ching Wel would shortly strikers contended that the due had the Hon.A." Cadogan not am told that the first air ambued to execute the portrait of Sir I dian notchles, and was commission- issue a statement in this connec- had been payable for some time been available there would have lanes was started in Siam, about Henry Wheeler, Governor of Bebar
A WORD TO PHILATELISTS. Holders of Hong Kong, Bostage when asked about the Govern children and their general wel- appointment from outside the province of Ubol, and the govenor
Mr. Soong was extremely reticent used for the education of workers been something to be said for the seven years ago...
Plague. broke out in the distant bar Hall.
and Orissa, now in the Patna Dur stamps bearing the effigy of His late Majesty King Edward VII are The Finance Minister called on pointed out that this due was ap
fare Furthermore, the strikers diplomatic service like certain re-telegraphed that unless help was lay and Lady Jackson, and he is 1st January, 1934, or, if preferred, His other sitters include Sir Stan. advised to use such stamps before BEING the Afth official found General Huang Fu this morning proved in 1830 by the Provincial China's problems are novel and possible to control the mortality Countess. Howe, having already done eral for exchange
cent ambassadors to: Washington. sent immediately it would be im now completing a picture of the to apply to the Postmaster Gen- and discussed the finances of North China.
Department of Interior. Mr. Soong, expects
A special plane carrying doctors one of Lord, Howe to be in. Shanghai for a week.
The Mechanics' Union threatens
are constantly changing,
stamps of the current issue. and "nurses was despatched to the The British Minister midst not Sexul flying ground within half an Western art. He told me he thought that unless the fourteen rubber -Reuter.
I was interested in his opinion of factories in Canton pay their usual
be an official pedant and must hour, and in three hours the goy that art and artisie work was dis dues, it will order all the rubber realise half his work lies outside ernor had got the assistance he appearing in the West, and that connection to recall an old music, It may not be out of place in this workers to go on strike as a "pres- formal grooves. He must have needed. sure to bear on the capitalists."
ite place was being taken by what hall song about Queen Victoria, ac The King who was educated at might be termed "labour-saving ceptuating her feminine side, that insight, foresight, sympathy and Eton was an impressed that he or Owners of the factories argue patience; qualities which the ganised four specially equipped artists but not beautiful works torian music-halla, must remember, which produces intelligent M. Sickert and all students of Vic that the due was paid to the Me- Hon. A. Cadogan has shown he aeroplanes, to fly to any part of chanics' Union during the regime.
(From Our Special Dorrespondenti
Canton, Sept. 10.
guilty of corruption since the enforcement of the Three-Year Plan, Ho Kwok On, chief of police of Yung Yuen County, was sen tenced yesterday afternoon to twelve years 'imprisonment,
tion.
ment's foreign policy,
The Special Administrative TRUNK
Court which tried the case
also
found that Ho was in conspiracy with Lee Szé Tong, the County Magistrate who will be separatety tried. Two other defendants in-
MURDER
CASE
dicted under similar charges were Remedios Brothers en
acquitted owing to lack of evidèrice against them.
Route to Macao
and that this contribution waa
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of Lee Tak Hin, but since he has possesses to a large degree. Reu- the country where there was a ser- MISS SITWELL'S BOOK ON been ousted as Chairman of the ter.
Union and since readjustments
ious outbreak of sickness, They have since done valuable work.
have been effected such due should PROF EINSTEIN AIRMINDEDNESS IN
be cancelled."\
Trade depression, they insist,
makes it impossible to render this, IN LONDON
Based on
SCHOOLS
QUEEN VICTORIA"
Shanghai, Sept. 9 U.S. NAVAL ADVISER AT PATRICIO dos Remedios, the onerous contribution.
self-confessed murderer of the the present production, the levy
·GENEVA
hapless Choy Ling, and brother, Jose Eulula dos Remedios, They have sought the assistance will arrive in Hong Kong on Tues-of the authorities in cancelling day morning on the Messageries this due, while the Mechanics'
London, Bept 10. - Maritimes liner, Felix Roussel, Union has ordered the workers in
Einstein" "arrived in from Shanghai
other factories to prepare to quit London mexpectedly, Last their work in case the capitalists night, to spend some weeks in the remain armé”
English Coutit valde.
his would amount to some $130 a day. An Unexpected Visit Britain is being taken by the far le her life of Alexander Pope
Washington, Sept. 10. Mr. Roosevelt has appointed Rear Admiräl Leigh ne Naval Adviser to the American Delega-
tion at Geneva Reuter
The two brothers are en route to Macao for trial-Reuter."
of postage
in the habe that it may find its way
into a footnote in Miss Sitwell's
It began
book.
I like Queen Victoria I'll tell you for why- Because she's a queett and
mother!
I hear that Miss Edith Sitwell is writing a life of Queen Victoria. She intends to take her great sub- A new and important step to-ject with becoming deliberation and wards the dissemination of air may give three years to her task. mindedness amongst the youth of Miss Sitwell's only biography so
formation of seronautical accieties published in 1900. Her book on in public schools, The first of this Queen Victoria will be the first im type his, I hear, heen inaugurated portant book by a woman on the as an experiment at Westminster great queen, and it is said that she School om London. Valuable work will have a good deal of fresh mat- is being done in the holding of leaderial which was not available for | ▼ KING'S THEATRE BUILDING tures by well-known authorities on Mr. Lytton Strachey,
HONG KONG'S MOST MODERN
HOT #CABARET
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