HOPEFUL DISARMAMENT
OUTLOOK
Less Ambitious Objectives In View
Geneva, May 26.
On the eve of reopening the Ulsarnament Conference, hopes of work proceeding on the old lines but with less ambitious objectives are raised, firstly by the prospect of the Soviet developing a plan for inutual assistance which is already promised
The.. French support. plan is based on continental col- laboration in the definition ol aggressor and sanctions against a guilty party. It is understood the plan will be very elastic and per- mit of regional agreements 1 general agreement is not attain
able.
Then
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1934.
GRAN CHACO WAR
Paraguay Blames Bolivia
(Special to HE. Daily Press")
Geneva, May 28. The representative of Paraguay' at the League of Nations, Caballero de Bedoya, officially informed the
CRIMINAL ACTS IN AUSTRIA
State of Siege Declared
(Special to "Hong Kong
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DISORDERS IN TOLEDO
Peace Offer Rejected
New York, May 26. Daily Press")
While the strike.of lorry-drivers (Hỳ Telegraph. Copyright, Tale praphic Massages Ordinance,
in Minneapolis, which led to riots 1894- Received, May 27, 4.30 a.m.3.
in which one person was killed and Vienna, May 26. 100 persons injured, has now been. The Austrian Government pro- settled, the plans advanced by the SOUTH AFRICA'S League on Saturday that in the claimed a state of slege for the Federal Mediator, Mr. Charles warfare with Bolivia, Paraguay no whole country on Saturday because Taft. to "end the strike at Toledo longer feels bound by the obliga-of criminal offences against the have been rejected by the strikers. tions of international law because dynamiting law, acts of violence Rioting showd signs of dying Bolivia has already violated it, and against public safety and a mat- down last night, while 1,900 mem- to vote. despite
from clous attempt to throw the tele-bers of the Union met D'amerous notes
renewed this Faraguay, did not show any will. graphic system out of operation. but disorders were ingness to abandon the barbarie To prevent new attacks against morning in which the casualties methods-Transocean Kuo Min. the clergy, guards were stationed include a Lieutenant of the Na- in front of the palace of bishops, tional Guard and one civilian, who houses of prominent members of were wounded by snipers. London, May 26: Fierce fighting between Bolivia the "Militant Catholic Unions" and Paraguay is proceeding in the and many hundreds of ordinary
tren Chaco region, according to clergy. messages received in London."....
As Pilgrinis to Battlefields
London. May 26.
A pligrimage of ex-service men from S. Africa to the battlefields on the Western Front will take place early next month. Ex-service men there is the plan in and their relatives are due to ar which the Scadinavian,' Swiss and rive in Southampton" on June 4 Spanish delegations are represent and several ceremonies have been ing a great advance on the Italian arranged in London by the Brit- suggestion of a truce with "arma-ish Empire Service League and ments at the present level. It is British Legion working in thought that Mr. Henderson may operation. support this plan
Some quarters are of the opinion that it is probable Mr. Norman Davis, on especial instructions from President Roosevelt, may urge concrete agreement on the super- vision and control of armaments. Opposition thereto is likely to come from Japan.
in
Finally there is a prospect that Britain will try and save the Aerial Convention from wreck although It is understood Sir John Simon will not make definite proposals. The British Delegation is undoubt-
co-
The King will receive the pli- grim's at Buckingham Palace on June 8 and later the same day a reception will be held by the High Commissioner for South Africa in London.
The party will travel to Belgium on June 9 and after visiting Ypres will go to Arras and thence to the South African National Me- morial, at Delville Wood.
They will afterwards go to Paris and Brussels British Wireless.
edly wholeheartedly in support of KING'S CUP AIR
any initiative" in this connection
-Reuter.
NORMAN DAVIS-BARTHOU
CONVERSATION
11
- Paris, May 26, The French Delegation at the Disarmament Conference will be M. Barthou. Petain, Pietri and Denain. M. Massigli will be an assistant delegate."
Mr.-Norman Davis and M. Bar- thou had a long conversation this afternoon when both agreed that it is most expedient to keep the Disarmament Conference alive and restore it to health,
Reuter.
REQUIREMENTS OF FRANCE
A solution at Geneva is not im-
·RACE ·
Prince George Competing
London, May 26. The King's Cup Alt Race, which
HEAVY LOSSES
A despatch from Asuncion " re- ports that 12,000 Bolivians suffered considerable losses when attacking the Paraguayan positions.
A "New York Times" despatch from La Paz on the other hand, reports tbat the Paraguayan
forces have so far lost 6.000, in a decisive battle now in progress.- Reuter.
JAPAN'S TREATY
AGREEMENTS
Comment by Dr. C. C. Wang
London May 26.
Dr. C. C. Wang, Chairman of
the
The
civilian was wounded in the jaw while standing in the courtyard of
་་
his own home. By order of the Cabinet,
President Roosevent is watching frontier to the Reich at Kufstein the situation in Toledo very close. is closed because the vast hookedly, but he sees no cause for undue cross found on Saturday morning alarm. was painted on the mountainside.
It is considered unlikely that. This prohibition applied also to the Federal Government should small traffic people, that is, those step in. it would use troops, but who live on the frontier, all local it might bring pressure to bear on passes being for the time being the employers to induce them to withdrawn except for those per- accept the strikers' sons who are In employment on the other side of the frontier Transocean Kuo Min.
Old friend bulb LOREA PARIZODA
SILVER MARKET /
(From Our Own Correspondent)
London, May 28
demands. if
these are considered to be reason- able-Reuter,
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ADMIRAL TOGO CRITICAL
prices to-day Celebrations Marred
London silver were down 1/16ths as follows:-
May 25 May 26
19.9/18 191
Spot Forward
191 *19.9/10 The London on New York cross-
the London Chinese Association. rate at closing to-day was 5.09-1/16
In a letter to the "Manchester compared with 3.09 at yesterday's Guardian,” contrasts Japan's closing. solemn assurance that she "scru- 'pulously observes all treaty agree- ments in force as regards China" with the stipulations of the Nine Power Treaty, especially. Clause No. 1.
Yet, Japan has wrested from
is the most important annual event China four of her richest provin-
of its kind in Britain, promises ces, and has set up a puppet gov- this year to be exceptionally in-ernment, in which all control to Thirty-eight entries the smallest unit is In Japanese teresting. have been received which include hands.
er.
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CONSUMPTION OF TIN
Increase Over Last
Year
PRELIMINARY NAVAL DISCUSSIONS
France Accepts Britain's Invitation
Paris. May 27.
The French Government accepts
the British Governments invitation. FUTURE
to join the preliminary naval conversations between the Ave signatories of the Washington Treaty of 1922.
THE
It is pointed out that the con Comment on French
versations will be bilaterated and
conducted in ordinary diplomatic | channels.
Policy
(Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press").
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It is understood that the 'French Government attaches the greatest importance LO this preparatory |·
By Talegraph, Copyright, negotiation which will dent not graphic Messages Ordinance. only with procedure but get down, Received May 27. 1.30 am.) th bed-rock in the naval limits- tion problem.
Berlin, May 28 M. Barthou's significant speech
in the French Chamber summar-, The French Government, saya
French foreign policy ing the the "Journal des Debats," must shows. according to the opinion of see to it that she participates in
the semi-official" · "Diplomatische this very delicate negotiation “
Pollsche Korrespondenz" issued under the best possible condition on Saturday. that France is pre-
The unfavourable terms the French accepted at Washington in 1822 owing to lack of preparation
should serve as a lesson.
pared to commit even a greater
breach of the Treaty of Versalles than the one with which Germany" is charged. "Korrespondens” Moreover the German Navy was says further that Barthou's speech. not counted in 1922, but now it is revealed no new standpoint but in the full fush of a revival and constituted merely a renewed at- may hold surprises, the journal tempt to vell France's armament adds
intentions and deny Germany the The *Intransigeant " declares equality status promised her in that France has reached the limit December, 1932, of disarmament and can go no
Germany's own "further without new guarantees of Sair plebiscite question has at-
security.-Renter.
stand in the
ways been-clear and unmistakable -true to the" stipulations of the Treaty of Versailles and complete readiness to guarantee full Hebery and ballot. On the other hand, Germany dads herself unable to provide any extensive guarantees about the future of treasonable or Tele non-native elements. The Saar
"DYNAMITE EXPLOSION IN SPAIN
Special to "Hong Kong
Dally Press"} (By Telegraph, Copyright, graphic Messages Ordinance, Raceiced, May 26, 7:30 pm. }.
180)-
· Madrid, May 26, Half a ton of dynamite exploded
atatute contains no such obliga- tion. Barthou's demand that after" the plebiscite guarantees given. by Germany for the security for af the. Saar, those now living in avoids the clearest stipulations in the Versailles Theaty."
Tokyo, May y The country-wide celebrations of Japan's Navy Day on the twenty-ninth anniversary of the Battle of Tsushima Straits by the Emperor to the children were marred by the news that Admiral Togo, who had been confined to
·bed with sciatica since last sum-
her, was now in a critical condi-in a firework laboratory at Alicante tion owing to bronchial compitca on Saturday, the cause being un-
known. tions and throat trouble--Reuter.
A warehouse and five ad- Joining buildings were totally de- stroyed, several roofs being blown
"Korrespondenz" concludes by half a mile away. Up till now saying. that Germany expects the zeven dead and thirty-two injured League of Nations to discharge its Kuo obligation of arranging the Saar reported.-Transocean
plebiscite to take place at the time and in the manner stipulat- ed by the Treaty of Versailles. The failure to do so would constitute. a patent breach of the treaty from which the already badly weaken- ed prestige of the League of Na tions would suffer still further. Transocean Kuo Min.
ARGENTINA
BRIDGE
Ceremoniously Dedicated
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Teir 1394.
PRESIDENT USES N.R.A. POWERS
They discussed various forms of several new types of fast civil Dr. Wang says that it is useless
London, May 26, procedure in that connection but planes and engines. There is to subscribe to any Treaty, when The May bulletin of the Inter-
GOERING LEAVES did not reach any conclusion-among these newcomers a Teny- the stipulations can thus be twist-national Tin Research and Deve-
Percival New Gull, entered by ed to mean exactly the opposite lopment Council shows" a
29 per
BUDAPEST Prince George, which has a speed of the real meaning.
cent. increase in tin consumption of over 200 miles an hour; a Com-
(Special to "Hong Kong Paris. May 25.
Therefore, the acceptance of for the year ending March, 1934,
Daily Press") per Streak entered by Lord Wake-Japan's assurance, was bound to as compared with the previous
(y Telegraph,' Copyright, possible, declared the French For-field. and a new British Klemm shake the foundations of Inter-year."
(Special to the “Hong Kong Daily | graphic Merages Ordinance. Eagle entered by Mr. Gandar Dow-national morality and to place a This amounts to approximately
Press" (Gopyright).]
Beceited, May 27.430a.m.) premium on Treaty violation, he 729,000 long tons as compared with
Budapest, May 26. Among new engines will be a déclares-Reuter-
100.020 long tons the March.co
Georing left, Budapest by air- 200 horse-power Gipsy Six, Pobjoy
Hamburg, May 25. sumption being 10,300 long tons.
plane on Saturday for Berlin. The The "Argentiniz Bridge" span-German Minister, von Mackensen, as 'compared with 9,306 long tons. Cataract and Wolseley A.R.9
The American consumption was ning Hamburg harbour was cere- 58,777 long tons, as compared with moniously dedicated on Friday. 35.902 long tons, this being the Argentine's national holiday, Budapest, local members of the under the NRA. to impose addi- most encouraging feature,
Tin plate production, amounting to 3,230,000 tons, shows an increase of nearly 1,000,000 tons over last
eign Secretary, M. Barthou, in the course, of a debate on foreign po- lley in the Chamber of Deputies to-day.
He added that he had promis- ed, the President of the Disarma- .. ment Conference, "Mr. Arthur Henderson. his help. No issue was closed, but the French policy er established types. remained on disarmament and equality of rights coupled with security.
The performance of these new entrants will be closely compared by aviation enthusiasts with long-
The Race which takes place on July 13. and 14 over a 800-mile- long course is divided into four
He denied that France's last rounds with probably eight heats disarmament isolated fr first round. four in the second in the third-British
note
op
France. He declared that Britain and two
was
understood her position. It not impossible "for France. and Italy to agree to а cordial and Insting Entente.
Bovlet's
He would, welcome the entry into the League, but it was too early to say, whether France would support her demand for a "permanent seat on the League.
Council. Reuter,
JARDINE'S FEE OF £5,000
For Reporting The Tests
Wireless.
FRENCH AIRMEN SET OUT
To Break Own Record
ILLICIT TRADE IN DRUGS
Exposure of
·Bulgaria
Geneva, May 26. The Opium Advisory Committee to-day heard sensational" révela- tions on the illlet traffic in opium
year.
the presence of a large gathering including many prominent business men and political leaders.
State Secretary Ahrens, in: his
opening speech, declared that the The bulletin concludes by point-long cherished wish of the people Ing out that the world" automo- of Hamburg had at last been
for the bile production
year gratified by the creation of this units; as concrete, symbol of cordial friend- amounted to 3,183,000 compared with 2,005,000 units last ship between Germany and Argen-
tine... year-euter.
and narcotics by Bulgaria from INTERNATIONAL SAVINGS | Juncture was also
Mr. Fuller, the American repre- sentative of the Committee:
Russel Pasha, Chief of Police" in Cairo, said that Bulgaria was the one
SOCIETY
The completion of this great engineering teat, at the present significant of the conciousness of the National Socialists in Germany' that friend- ship and understanding between
After
Nanking, May 26. An emergency resolution sub-nations were matters of prime im- big, source remaining
portance. inmitted by Mr. Ma Ying-chun, pro-
three rousing Europe for the manufacture ofviding that the International Sav- cheers for the Argentine people Paris, May 27.
narcotics and was therefore at-ings Society of Shanghai beland. its President, the Argentine The French armen, Codos and tracting all the scoundrels in the forbidden to take new Members, Consul-General, Dr. Daner took Rosal took off at 5.10 a.m..to-day world.
and that the Ministry of Finance the rostrum and made an impres-
in
the last
An attempt to beat their Mr. Fuller said that Bulgaria should investigate the Society's sive speech outlining the steady D. R. Jardine has been retain own world's record for a non-stop had imported in the course of the accounts, was adopted this after growth of trade between Hamburg "ed by the London Evening flight in ́ a straight line. .:
year 1933 sufficient material to noon by the National Finance Con- and Argentine during Standard” to report the forthcom- |- They are dying in a westerly manufacture twelve times the "le-ference and will be referred to the 105 years. Transocean Kuo Min. ing Test matches in England on a direction and hope to go across gitimate drug supply of the whole Ministry of Finance for early exe- fee of £5,000. Cabling to the the Atlantic and the American world, whereas in 1930 her m-cution. Time" of... India E. H.D. Sewell continent to land at Ban Diego ports of materials for the manu- Mr. Ma Ying-chun scathingly says:
Reuter.
Cricketers behind the scenes are much intrigued to know whether. Larwood, even if it, will play in the Tests.
He has received an offer of £2,000 to report the Tests. Can
a professional refuse that and ac- cept £40 as a playing fee.
"
'I learn from a good source that
he is contemplating to decline
to play in the Test matches, out
of loyalty to Jardine," and in view
of the decision to prohibit "body line" bowling. On the other hand,
he owes a duty to Notts who have allotted a "beneft match to him In 1935.
Jardine's fee of £6,000 to report the Tests is causing purists
ends
to ask where amateurism and professionalism beging, but cricket is not Rugby or rowing.
NEW YORK TO ROME FLIGHT
'facture of drugs was insignifcant.; attacked the Society, which is al- Russel Pasha described Bulgaria leged to have collected 850,000,000 as having the best smuggling or from the Chinese Reuter. ganisation in the world, and ex- plained that the former Chler of. Police in Sofia was head of one London, May 25,
narcotics factory, while a chemist, Captain Pond and Lieutenant who was head of the country's Babelll, the two American airmen, Public Health Department, direct who made a forced landing in ed another Reuter.
Ireland after crossing the Atlantly!
in an attempt to reach Rome, and
OFFICIAL DISMISSED.
Geneva, May 26
SOVIET OFFICIALS ON -
TRIAL
Moscow, May 25. Twenty-nine high officials most
HIMALAYA EXPEDITION
· (Special to “Hong Kong
| Daily Press") (By Talegraph, Copyright, Tolo prophic · · Masnagar” Ordinance, 1894- Barrined, May 27, 4-30 a.m.)
Berlin, May 26 News has been received from the German Himalaya expedition, now at Nangaparbat," that they had
ly Members of the Communist successfully completed this stage Party, are among a large gang of the journey according to pro-
who came down yesterday on the As a sequal to the narcotic ac-which is being tried at Kiev to-gramme. The snow line above the Welsh coast when trying to com- cusations the Bulgarian delegate morrow on a charge of illegal sell Raklot glacier was reached on plete the journey, arrived at Heston to the Oplum Advisory Committee ing of food and clothing in the May 16 At this point, 3,000 metres aerodrome near London to-day, has announced that the new Gov. Here they hope to eliminate the ernment has dismissed the official engine trouble; after which they will continue to Rome, :
They expect to start on the re- turn aight to America in three weeks' time British Wireless."
Ukraine,
It is alleged that they diverted mentioned by Russell Pasha. State property, which they sold
The Government has requested privately for their own profit. information to enable them to deal promptly and effectively with drug trame-Reuter.
The maximum penalty for this offence is death by shooting Reuter.
altitude, headquarters would be fixed for the time -being. All baggages have arrived so that the 500 carriers will now be discharged. The show at this spot is several metres high and the weather 18 bád Transocean Kuo Min
the Legation staff, a large gather- ing from the German colony in
Washington, May 26," President Roosevelt to-day exer- cised for the first time his powers
National-Socialist party and offic- tional import restrictions when he ers of the Hungarian Aviation announced additional duties rang- the airground of ing between 5 to 23 cents per Mayyasfoeld to give him a hearty square yard for rugs, of which the send-off Transocean Kuo Min. ́ ́
-corps were on
chief material is cotton-Renter.
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