'SENATOR HUEY LONG'S
“KINGDOM
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Square Dealers Stage A Demonstration
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 28,1935. MR. HIROTA ANSWERS
MANCHUKUO
FRONTIER
Firing By Outer Mongolians
Tokyo, Jan. 26. The frontier incident which oc- Baton Rouge,
Shorty after proclamation of curred on Friday, when some Outer Lousiana, Jas. 26. martial law, a party of National Mongolian troops suddenly attack- Martial law has been declared
Guardsmen, raided the offices of ed, some Manchukue troops who here in the capital of Senator
the Square Deal Association, ap-were patrolling near Boir Not Lake. Huey Long's pollical "kingdom"parently searching for ammuni-
which farms the border between by Governor Allen owing to 'con- tion, but found none.
Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo, ditions of violence. tasuriection Senator Long adjourned the en-will be localised and settled amic- and disorder.
quiry into the plot illi February ably, according to official informa- 1.
tion reaching the Foreign Office from General Minami, Ambassador to Manchukuo and Commander of the Kwangtung army.
An official dispatch admitted that one Japanese and one Man- chukuo soldier were killed and an- other wounded.
The order follows the action last evening of two hundred members of the militant. "Square Deal" ör- ganisation who are exasperated at the
alleged dictational powers Senator Long has assumed in the State.
"Armed with shot guns. they seized the courthouse in East Baton Rouge arid held the build-
ing for three hours and they only dispersed when the leaders in- formed them that a truce had been arranged..
Senator Long arrived "to-day from New Orleans and opened "hearing" at the State House at which he charged four sheriffs, one district attorney and possibly one district judge "with plotting murder against certain offelals including himself."
BATTLE AVERTED
A pitched battle between Na- tional Guards and leaders of the Square Deal organisation" was narrowly averted at East Batoh Rouge airport where nearly a hundred armed men assembled to await the expected departure of Reuter. Senator Long.
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SOVIET DENTAL
Moscow, Jan. 27.
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CRITICS
Japan's Peaceful Intentions Reiterated
Tokyo, Jan. 26. Replying in the Diet to a leng- thy criticism of the alleged fallure of his foreign policy. Mr. Hirots, the Foreign Minister, stressed the fact that his speech of Tuesday last was based on his honest views of the World situation.
Mr. Hirota expressed his firm conviction in the Lower House yes- terday that there would be abso lutely no war during his tenure of
Eastern situation nor prevent its ominous development buy a solid understanding between America,. Britain and Russia without pre- judice to the existing position as regards Japan whether we ilke her latest aggrandisement" or not, declares the "Observer."
He added that he was working heart and soul for the improving The situation will brif gradual- and establishing, on a permanently from bad to worse. so long as basis, of friendly Sino-Japanese dominant extremists in Japan relations.
feel, as they do now. that no solld restraining force exists and that with impunity they may do what they please. Neither London nor Washington is yet clear and re- solved as regards the necessity for a Arm defensive agreement with each other and of both with Moscow. Reuter...
office.
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The National Guards advanced
He emphasised Japan's peaceful on the Square Dealers, who show
Reports that an Outer Mongo- | policy, though he admitted the ne- ed no sign of retreating, but, with lan force recently attacked a Man- cessity of armament, in view of the the arrival of another company chukue batrol on the western bor-heavy armament 'expansion car- of National Guards and the Bomb der of Manchukuo äre denied by ried on by other Powers. Gas Company, the Square Dealers the Mongolian Government ac- suddenly surrendered..
-cording to the Tass Agency and it Colonel Roy. Commander of the stated that when the frontier National Guards, disarmed the guard approached an armed body Square Dealers, who were placed of 17 men in Mongolian territory, under technical arrest. Only one the leader of the Mongolian force man was wounded.—
was seized and fatally wounded. Reuter,
Losses occurred on both sides in the ensuing skirmish.
The Soviet Government denies
involved or the Mongolian force was headed by a Soviet comman- 'der.-
EATING OF CHINA
Referring to Russo-Japanese re- lations Mr. Hirota said it was most
London, Jan. 26. important and practical to con-
Apprehension as regards the clude a non-fortlication agree- altuation in the Far East was ex- ment
between the "Manchukuo" pressed by Mr. Lloyd George in and the Soviet, by which he was speech at Birmingham at a din- referring to the Portsmouth Treaty ner of the Jewellers Association of 1905, which prohibits fortifica-
Mr. Lloyd George declared: "I tion along the Russo-Japanese think events in that quarter are border in Saghallen and also on gradually approaching a point
sia, which had worked most satis-tain can no longer safely put off factorily.—
and procrastinate. I.do not like Reuter.
to read cf China being eaten by gulps of a thousand "square miles at a meal. Surely that must stop." Reuter.
FURIOUS GALES GOLD BARS LOST that any Soviet detachments were the border, along Korea and Rus- where the United States and Bri-
IN BRITAIN
Widespread Damage
At Ilfracombe
London, Jan. 28.
Dropped Out Of Air Liner
London, Jan. 26.
Beuter.
SILVER MARKET
Bars of gold worth £6,000 fell
(From Our Own Correspondent) from the Hillman Airways air!
London, January 28. ner Rying from Parts to Eng- Loidon silver prices to-day were larid to-day. It is thought that 1/16 up as follow: the cargo fell off the
Jari. 25 Kent, Sussex
Jan. 26 Spot 24-5/8
coast
cf
When the air liner landed at:
Forward.......24-3/4
24-11/16 24-13/16
Furious gates reaching 86 miles an hour accompanied by storms of snow, sleet and hali is sweep- ing the British Isles. The gaie started early yesterday and is still continuing. An Inland wind Essex, it was found that the tug- London on New York cross rate uprooted trees and tore down tele-gage compartment had been rip- at losing to-day was 4.8882 com- phone wires and electricity cables ped open by the gale in which pared with 4.8775 at closing yes in one case in the path of a train the air liner was severely buffeted.terday.
demolished hoardings
and
and
chimneys.
Many roads were blocked with snow, of which showers occurred in the London area and heavy falls in the Northern and Eastern Counties.
Several fishing vessels round the coast were unable to reach shelt- er before the storm broke and were in distress but no llyes have been lost...
of heroism
"Among many acts reported was that of a doctor and a nurse who crossed ten miles of raging sea, with an eighty-mile blizzard blowing, to help an in- jured man on one of the Shet- land Islands.
The wind reached ninety miles an hour at Пfracombe,
The other contents of the Com partment were also missing.- Reuter.
GRAND JURY CALLED
To Investigate U.S. Allegations
Washington, Jaa. 27.
INFANTA'S JEWELS
→ MISSING
Paris, Jan. 26.
OMINOUS DEVELOPMENT
London, Jan 27. Nothing can control the Far
KING'S JUBILEE PLANS.
London, Jan. 25, It is understood that, detaled plans for the principal celebra- tions in connection with the Jubilee, on May 5, of the King's been completed, and the full pro accession to the Throne have now gramme will shortly be submitted for His Majesty's approval,
The programme has been drawn up by a Committee consisting of members of the Cabinet and the Lord Chamberlain
of the Eart Cromer Reviews by the King of the three fighting Services are included, and a State Ball will probably be held at Buckingham "It is too dreadful, not for my Palace during the celebrations sake, but my grand-children's."| British Wirden. said the Infanta Eulalia Aunt of ex-King Alfonso, to Reuter's re- presentatives, alluding to the my- sterious disappearance of several hundred thousand pounds' of her jewellery.
worth
VALVERDA IN TOW
London, January 26, Jewels in Spain at the time of H.MS. Frobisher which with the Revolution were regarded as H.MS Guardian have been stand. private property by the Governing by the British tanker Valverda, ment, who ordered them
to be disabled by fire in the Atlantic, placed, in the Bank of Spain. The has now taken. her in tow and is
proceeding to Bermuda.
Earlier attempts to do so had been frus-
"A number of Federal officers Bank later informed the Infanta Devon, are involved in allegations of that there was no record, of their
conspiracy to defraud the Govern receipt.- ment in connection with a four-Reuter. million dollar project for a canal
this morning, smashing the ar- cade, which is the main shopping centre- and doing much damage to houses and fishing craft. Old re-in Texas into which the United "sidents describe the gale as the States attorney. Mr. Leslie Gar-..
worst within their memory.—
nett, has ordered an investigation. British Wireless.
MISSISSIPPI FLOODS
Scenes Of Horor Reported
Mark, Missouri, Jan. 27. Terrible scenes of horror and suffering in the flooded cold wa- ter river basin of the Mississippi are described by an official sur- veyor who reports that the death roll may never be revealed,
Thousands of people in the out- lying towns and settlement were praying for food and clothing, while the population of negroes were huddled together with cat- tle,
IMPRISONMENT FOR CRICKETER
A special Grand Jury has been summoned for February 6. It will
London, Jan. 28. be the first to be summoned since The Northamptonshire County the famous Tea Pot Dome scandal cricketer, Mr. V. W. C. Jupp has in 1929,
been sentenced to nine months' Critics alleged to Congress that imprisonment" in the Second the Government has been de- Division aud disqualified from frauded, of millions of dollars in driving for two years, in connec- handling vast sums, allotted for tion" with an accident in which public works In the past two the car he was driving killed a years.-
pillion passenger on a motor-cycle Reuter.
last summer.—- Reuter.
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(Special to the "Hong Kong
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LOSS OF THE
MOHAWK
Forty Seven Dead And Missing
New York, January 26. The casualties in the Mohawk disaster cabled earlier, as 14 pas- sengers and 52 of the crew not ac- counted for are now stated to be 47 dead and missing and 110 Coast Guards announce
rescued.
London. Jan. 25. In his speech at the annual the Lloyds Bank, meeting of
reviewing the industrial outlook Chairman, Mr. Beaumont Peast, sald Britain had made const-that 31 bodies of passengers have derable progress on the way to so far been picked up. recovery, without any spectacular.
The missing include Mrs. Julian Peabody, nee Celestine Hitchcock sister of Tommy Hitchcock, the famous polo player, Mrs Folder and her husband the architect, and Mrs. Kraemer, the wife of Dr. William Kraemer of Delaware, who
measures.
She had shown a spirit of give and-take, had made a number of trade treaties with nearly a score of nations, and even her adoption of some measure of Protection had, he believed, illogical as it might seem, "helped to open the eyes of the world to the fact that 'excessive nationalism “· was an enemy to the peace, both political and economic, which the world so greatly needed. "British Wirsiču.
MARQUIS LOTHIAN IN. BERLIN
AGRICULTURAL
SHOW
Marred By Fatal» Accident
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(Special to "Hong Kong Dally Press"") (Ba Taigraph, Copyright,
Maxxay graphic-
Urdinence. Beceived, January 26, 4.30 p.m.)
Berlin, Jan. 26. known here as "Green Week" The great agricultural show
which is combined with thrilling displays of horsemanship
cul- minating tournament was opened on Satar- day by the Lord Mayor of Ber- in, Bahna, in the presence of many members of the Cabinet and a host of high officials B$
and a large number of other diplomatic representatives, the international note being heigh- tened by the attendance of de- putations of farmers. from France. Sweden, and Hungary:
in en international
was due tu arrive in England well as the Polish ambassador yesterday on board the White Star liner Olympic,
The Mohawk is the fourth Ward liner to come to grief since the Morro Castle fire. The steamer
Cauto was in trouble off Florida in December, and the liner Havana ran aground on a reef or the coast of Florida.
It 13 understood that the Mohawk was leased to replace the Havana, and this was her first voyage under the flag of the Ward Line.—* Reuter..
OFFICIAL ENQUIRY
Berlin, January 26. After the recent visit of Lord trated by heavy weather. The Allen Hurtwood, interest is arous- Frobisher reports that the Val-ed by the visit to Berlin of Mar-
"New York, January 26. verda is not very manageable as quis Lothian, understood to be The United States Steamboat the latter's rudder is out of action, purely private but he may inter. Inspection Service opens an en- but it is hoped to repair this to- view Herr Hitler to adcertain the quiry to-day into the loss of the day. HM.8. Guardian is proceed- German standpoint on disarmá- Mohawk at which the surviving
·ing to "St. Lucia—
ment and similar questions-officers and members of the crew British Wireless.
Bouter.
are expected to give evidence.
The Ward Line denies the state- ment that the Mohawk cut across the Talisman's bows.- Reuter.
SIR JOHN SIMON'S HONOUR
Public Vindication Hailed
By Press
unsparingly are glad that his honour which should never have teen impugned has been publicly vindicated."
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Later in the day the proceedings, were marred by a tragic accident which befell one competitor in the riding tournament whose horse took a jump over the wall foo short, thus throwing the rider, then turning a somersault and coming down with its full weight on the prostrate man's head. The injured rider, Axekoist, who is a troop leader in the Blackcoate died a few minutes later in the first aid roomi, from a fractured skull and spine. Transocean Kuo Min ̈“
ITALIAN PROTEST TO
GREECE...
(Special to “Hong Kong. Daily Fress");:"
New York, January 26. At the enquiry into the Mohawk disaster, after the evidence of Captain Wang. master of the Talisman (the other vessel in-
(By Telegraph, Copyright, Telec volved in the collision) alleging Received, January 25, 4:30 pm.).
Fgraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894-
that the Mohawk suddenly swerved in the Talisman's path, | suggesting" that she did so owing to the failure of her steering gear, Chiet Officer Pedersen of the Mohawk stated that the steering gear and telegraph connecting the bridge and the engine room sud- denly failed, but the Chief En gineer of the Mohawk gave evidence that he was unaware of
Tokyo, January-27... The Yomiuri Shimbun states
London, January 26. that after the King's Jubilee cele- Sir John Simon's successful brations in London in May, Mr. action for slander against the Matsudaira, the Japanese Ambas- Rev, Whitaker Band who had sador will proceed to Japan on alleged he had a pecuniary in furlough and consultation with terest in munitions which affected vative) says the "British publie is Borên, Jan. 26."
the Foreign Office, returning to the Government's policy is wel London in time to participate in comed frrespective of the party as the Naval Conference in October a vindication of British political Reuter.
morality.
To commemorate the campaigns all sharing avaling food of that celebrated Roman Soldier, Scores of children were rescued Nero Claudius Drusas, who lived from almost frozen death, while from the year 38 B.C. to the year many were trapped without warns B.C. and who is chiefly renown ing in inundated
houses. Thou- ed for his conquests over. Ger- sands of cattle have perished manic tribes in the Rhineland, Nurses were working heroically to
Mussolini has notified the prefect of ease suffering and prevent
Bozen that he intends to have a disease Reuter.
FOURTEEN DEAD
MALARIA TOLL IN CEYLON
Colombo, Jan: 28.
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The "Dally Telegraph (Conser mercifully free from corruption of railure to lower the Talisman's Captain Wang, criticised for
the defendant in this case but boats were rowed to other rescue a kind so wilfully suggested by boats, said that the Mohawk's life statements have been made both shipe in Britain and abroad in the past Second Officer Nannestad of the few years to the effect that mem Talisman saw no reason why the bers of the British Cabinet have Talisman should have lowered large holdings in armament firms her boats- and are moulding British policy Reuter to their own ends. Unfortunately It is less easy to take action when such statements are made outside of this country. But those who
The "Dally Herald" (Labour) to-day says that "Bir John's vin- dication in court of his personal integrity will give genuine satis faction to everyone who has any statue erected in the main square Excluding deaths in the hospicare for morality in public Hie. of the city, the monument to be tals and on planters' estates, over The charge made was the most regarded as a gift from the City 2,000 died, of malaria in the Kegalle terrible that could be brought of Rome to the City of Bozen. It district during the first half of against a man in his postilom bave been sincerely misled should will be remembered that Bozen is January,
No one who knows Bir John could note that the Foreign Secretary zard in British Columbia is now situated in that part of the Tyrol As the wells and streams are for a moment suspect him of being | deliberately -- sold ) - Investments 14. Floods in the Fraser River which Austria was forced to cede drying up through lack of rain, | influenced in his politics by any made out of office at a loss rather forced many to abandon their to Italy by the terms of the Treaty rescue workers are compelled to pecuniary: motive: But the acthan incur, the suggestion, that he former Commander-in-Chief homes and hundreds of cattle of St. German at the end of the supply water as well as food to the cusation was made. It was essen- W28
a minor the United States fleet from heart have been drowned.
World War,
afflicted Reuter,
Franenccan Kua Mi
Heuter
Vancouver, Jan. 27.
- The death roll from the biz
tial to rebut it, And we who have degre
on occasion, cribølsed, his policies
"explo
FORMER U.S. ADMIRAL'S DEATH
Washington, Jan. 26. The death is announced
Irat Robert Edward/ Coont
Athens: Jan 20, The Italian Minister called on
the Greek premier to lodge a com- plaint about the attacks made against "Italian House," whereby every window in the building has been broken. At the same time he gave the assurance that complete calm prevails on the Dodecanese Islands
The premier, Saldaris, took cognisance of the Minister's private and semi-ometal com declaration, but answered that
asserted to the contrary munications from the Dodecanese
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