HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1936.
PAYMENT FUTURE STATUS RENEE HOUSTON SOVIET PARLEY
EVADING PAYMENT
OF DUTY
Extensive Smuggling In North China
QUESTION IN COMMONS
London, April 29.
In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. A. E. L Chorlton, Con- "servative Member for Bury, asked the Foreign Secretary whether he had drawn the attention of the Japanese Government to the serious consequences of extensive smuggling of Japanese goods through East Hopel, and enquired what steps were being taken for the safety of British loans secured by the Chinese Customs, .
Mr. Anthony Eden replied that the serious growth of smug- aling in North China has been engaging the Government's atten- tlon for some time past and had already formed the subject of re- presentations both to the Chinese and Japanese Governments.
In view, however, of the recent deterioration of the position and reduction of duty levied on goods entering North China by the de- militarised zone, the Government
authorities in checking smuggling, the effects whereof on Customs revenue has begun to attract at- tention.
A
ese
military
to be
Chinese expert, interview- at present was actively considered by Reuter recalled the Japan- ing what further steps could be
threat to resist taken to safeguard British trade the entry of Shans! Communists to In that ares and ensure the Hopel and said that the pact per- security of foreign loan services.
mizing Japanese troops The Foreign Secretary said that stationed on the Hope border he had no official information re-merely regularises the inevitable is garding loss of Chinese Customs
a cheap price to pay for abolition revenue, but a full report
of East Hopei autonomy. coming from the Embassy la China. Kouler:
.Ir
was
The Russo-Japanese agreement for a commission to delimit the northeast Manchurian frontler is also welcomed and it is hoped that it will pave the way to a similar agreement on the Manchu-Mongol border.
EAST HOPEI AUTONOMY
London, Apr. 29. Far Eastern circles welcome the reported abolition of the East Hope! autonomy regime as aï in-
Firmness in Chinese and Japan-. dication that the Chinese andese bonds reflect the City's hope Japanese are beginning to com- that the Far Eastern situation is Found their differences and is also generally clarifying.-- likely to strengthen the Chinese heuter.
AUSTRIAN MARCH! OF TROOPS
Salzburg And Tyrol Contingents
AIR FORCE MOVE
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Vienna, April 29. Austria is preparing to move contingents of troops from Vienna and eastern parts of Austris into Salzburg and the Tyrol.
the
Reticence is maintained In military circles, bas it is officially stated that troop movements ar due to training purposes, troops being transferred from the plains into the mountainous re- gions and vice versa.
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On the other händ rumours are prevalent that Germany is mak-
Bavarian and
UNREST IN SPAIN
Serious Incidents Still Occur
("Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)
Madrid, April 29. The political unsteadiness all over Spain shows no sign ot abating yet, disturbances of mate or less serious character being reported daily from places distand from one another.
OF EGYPT
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Italian Views On The Situation
("Hong Kong Dally Press" Special)
Rome, April 29.
The death of King Fuad of Egypt, is considered here to have aggre vated the situation in the Mediter ranean since in the opinion, of Italian political etrcles it anords Britain Increased possibility of bringing pressure to bear on the Egyptian Government, and con- requently on Italy.
Hence the Roman press regards the future developments with un- concealed misgivings, the "Messa- gëro" holding that in view of the hostile attitude of the Nationalist Wald Party towards the proposed treaty friendship between Britain and Egypt, the newly appointed Regency Council will be unable to resume the interrupted negotia- tions on the subject with the British Government.
Under these circumstances poll- tical circles here believe that the. British Government Will not hesitate to annex Egypt, a measure, so it is stressed, which would be calculated to itensify the already existing Anglo-Italian tension on the Egyptian-Libyan border, since would enable Britain to streng- then her military position in this region.-
Central News Agency.
KING FAROUK OF EGYPT
Departure By Boat From Marseilles
COURT MOURNING
"KIDNAPPED"
Amazing Affair At Edinburgh
RANSOM DEMAND
London, April 29. be informed of an amazing ad- The Secretary for Scotland 19
venture which Houston. "the famous comedienne. befeil Renee
at Edingburgh where Renee was "kidnapped" from the Empire Theatre by a gang of young men believed to be students.
Renee Was carried away by motor car in a state of undress after the doorkeeper had been tied
up.
Meanwhile two young men have demanded £25 33 Fansom for charity from the manager of the Theatre.
The Edinburgh. Students' Union has disavowed the kidnapping.
The rectorical authorities are inquiring into the affair.--- Reuter
RUBBER QUOTA INCREASE
Märket Recovers From Shock
WITH JAPAN
Frontier Incident Problems
Moscow. Apr. 20.
A semi-oficial account of the recent conversations at Tokio be- tween the Russian Ambassador, M. Minister, Mr. Arita, says the Soviet Yurenev, and the Japanese Foreign
commission to investigate the con- représentative suggested a frontier, ficts on the Manchurian border and also a commission to demar- cate the Manchuria Mongolia frontier. starting from the eastern end."
the Japanese Government to take In the meantime he requested
steps to establish order on frontier.
the
Mr. Arita generally agreed with M. Yurenev's suggestions, and add- ed that orders had already been, given forbidding Japanese troops to cross, the border.
It, violations occurred, he said, they must not be ascribed to "ma- levolent intentions."
M. Turenev disagreed with this contention, and said if violation occurred they would have undesir- able consequences.- Heuter.
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INNER MONGOLIA
INDEPENDENCE
Prince Teh Plans
New Regime
CHINESE REPORTS
Pelping, April 29.
The Secretary General of the Mongol Local Autonomy Council, Prince Teh Wang, is preparing to establish an independent gor. emment at Pangkiang according to reliable Chinese reports, which add that the personnel has already been decided and a formai proclamation is expected shortly....
Prince Teh Wang himself will be the Chairman of the Gov ernment, but the only ather Mongol accupying a high position will be the Minister of Justice. Japanese officials will control the Ministries of War, Finance, Education and Communications.
No direct confirmation of the re- parts is available, but it is most signideant that Prince Teh's local representative, after denying him- self to visitors, entered a hospital, and a well-known Japanese has been pressing Prince Teh to secede from Nanking.
It is uncertain what area of Inner Mongolia the new Govern- ment would control in view of Nanking's recent measures to counteract Mongol disaffection, as for instance the establishment of a separate Mongol Council for Sui- yuan, which is theoretically limited in 'functions to Prince Teh's Coun- cil to Chabar.-
HOPES OF SOLUTION
Shanghai, Apr, 29. Soviet Russia's acceptance of Japan's proposals for settlement of border issues which the Soviet Am- bassador, M. Yurenev, conveyed to London, Apr. 29.
the Foreign Minister, Mr. Arita, a The rubber market has somewhat an interview on Monday herald- recovered from the shock of yes-ed the paving of the way to an terday's quota increase which the amicable solution of frontier
de. Reuter. "Financial Times" calls an attemp; { limitation.* Preliminary arrange- to test the stability of the existing ments are expected to be discussed price.
in Tokyo between Soviet and Jap- anese representatives.
The Financial News" believes that the Committee is satisfied with
According to the "Asahi Shim-
from
HOPEI GENERAL DISMISSED
Felping. April 29.
the
SECRET VISIT BY YIN JU KENG
Tientsin April 20. Mr. Yin Ju-keng, Chairman of the pro-Japanese. Autonomo Council 'n Tungchow, arrived here secretly last night and re- gistered in a hotel in the Japanese concession under heavy guard.
The Tungchow chaiman, tm-. mediately called on Major General Hayno Tada, commandant of Japanese troops in North China
It is reported that the Japanese stre demanding Generat Sung Cheh-yuan, Chairman of the Hepet-Chahar Political Council, to appoint Mr. Yin as a member of the Council. It is understood that General Sung turned down all these demands. Union N103.
SUNG'S AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN
"Peiping, April 20.
a price of about eight pence which | bun," Japan desires the border the increase should not prevent issues settled on the spot by a joint the commodity reaching. The Com-'| commssilon of Soviet, Manchukuo
General Shin Ching-ding, ·2 mittee is intent on avoidance of and Japanese representatives:
member ol the Hope-Charhar M. Yurenev in a two-hour inter- excessive prices which are likely
Political Council and councillor- te retard expansion of demand or
view with Mr. Arita on
It is reported that General Monday Tead to recurrence of Dutch native afternoon accepted the Japanesfication commission was dismissed Hopel-Chahar Political Council, general of the Hopei-Chakar paci-Sung Cheh-yaan. Chairman of the London! Apr 29. troubles which has played for proposals for a joint commlesion
OR office yesterday for demarcation of the Manchu- charge that he had accepted Crown Prince Farouk.
has signed an agréément - with the six-safety. teen-year-old son of King Faud,
The "Financia News" also re- Russia frontier and a "joint com-
Japan for a joint defence against large sum of money from a cer- the Communists. marks that speculators will not be mission for settlement of frontier bain source to be used to under-
disputes.
"AS M. Yurenev, however
the slow in perceiving that the Com
number of Japanese mittee does not desire their in-stressed that Soviet Russia destres mine the loyalty of the forces troops in North China will be in-
commanded by General trusion in the market, and says the creation of a committee to
Sung, creased to 15,000, Major-General that next year the percentage may settle border conflicts.-
Cheb-yuan. easily be 75 or 80 and producers | Reuter. wih face an encouraging prospect.
Reuter.
was last night proclaimed King of Egypt in accession to his father who died in Cairo yesterday
The Boy King. who been living for the last six months in Eng. land, will leave London to-morrow for Marseilles where he will em mark in the P. & O. liner Viceros of India which will divert its courac land him at Alexandria next
Tuesday.
King Edward, who yesterlay Bent personal message of condolence
In Cordoba, for instance, Mar- xist and Syndicalist labourers de- to King Farouk, had ordered one cinred a general strike through week's Court mourning for the late their Unions "until further notice" King to begin to-day- to signify their dissatisfaction } British Wireless, with a large factory for refusing
to re-employ workmen discharged during the October rebellion in 1934 All traffic is consequently
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SILVER MARKET
(Fram Our Own Correspondent)
London April 29. London Silver prices "to-day were down.1/16 as follow:-
Apr 28 April 28 20-1/4 20-3/18 20-1/4 20-3/16
REGENCY COUNCIL
{ Cairo, Apr. 28.
Spot
Forward
The Crown Prince Farouk of
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at a standstill all shops, cud- Egypt, heir to the throne of King Fuad, is under age, and his father's
ing large scale military preparing bakeries, being shut. tons along the Austrian frontiers.
Preparations are being made to receive the infantry from Vienna in the frontier districts of Auss- ferh and Kupstein.
In Madrid the green groceries death yesterday necessitates the are on strike, because the middle-appointment of a Regency Council. men are driving up the prices. Many shop windows were broken. One baker in Madrid was shot dead on Tuesday because he act Nine train loads of troops left ed" as strike breaker. Styria for the important ralway The Government Gazette
O junction of. Bischofshofen and Monday published a decree sus- preparations are being made to pending the activities of one receive several squadrons of the pollee colonel and one police Austrian Air Force at Innsbruck Lieutenant for no reason- airport.
Fransocean News Service.
Reuter.
PRIMARY ELECTION
TREND IN U.S.
Washington, Apr. 28. The features of the primary elec- Bons in the states of Pennsylvanin and Massachusetts are the over- whelming endorsement of Presid- ent F. D. Roosevelt and the prefer rence for Mr. Alfred Landon, Go ernor of Kansas, as his Republicar, cpponent.
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MORRO CASTLE ECHO
Captain's Widow Files Suit For Damages
NEW U.S. DOCK FOR CUNARDERS
Ready For Arrival Of Queen Mary
The names of the Regents, which it is understood King Fuad ap- proved in 1922, are contained in a sealed document only to be open- ed in the event of his death. It is understood further that if one of the Regents, named in this docu-
London, Apr. 29. ment is unable to
It is announced in New York assume these that a new dock under construction duties, the Egyptian Cabinet will t accommodate 'Cunard-White have the right to appoint someone Star diners will be ready to receive in his place-
the Queen Mary on her arrival in Reuter
June-
British Wirele
REGRET IN ENGLAND
London, April 28. News of the death of King Fuad, which occurred at one o'clock
. New York; Aprii 29. A suit claiming £50,000 damages (local time) to-day at the age of has been filed in the District 68, was received in London with Court, Brooklyn, by the widow of great regret. The Assistant Mary Robert Willmott, Captain of the shal of the Diplomatic Corps, Mr. Morro Castle, who died before the J. B. Monck, called at the Egyptian ship was afre in September 1934. Legation this afternoon and also The widow alleges that addi- at Kenry House, Kingston-on- "In Pennsylvania, where President | tional work caused by an incom Thanies where the Heir Apparent, Roosevelt was opposed by Colone. petent crew aggravated her hus Prince Farouk, is residing, to ex- Breckinridge, a friend of Coloni band's weak heart and brought | press the condolences of the For- Charles Lindbergh's and and out- about his collapse.
elga Secretary. The Prince also re- apoken antagonist of the New Deal, Keuter.
ceived a private message of sym- pathy from King Edward. The British Government has telegraph
returns in the Democratic primary
thus far show 51,106 for President
Roosevelt and 3,180 for Colonel ton Baker, President Wilson's Sec-ed a message to the Egyptian
Breckinridge.
Senator William Borah, Repub- can, was unopposed in the prim-
ary.
To, Massachusetts"
Republican
primary Mr. Landon "leads easily.
retary for War.-
Keule
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LATER RESULTS
Washington, Apr. 29, The following were fater resuts. Pennsylvania: President Roose- with 4,283 votes, ex-President Her-velt 180,804; Colonel Breckinridge best Hoover has 477 and Senator 10,927. Borah 313. Mr. Frank Knox, the Massachusetts: Mr. Landen 41, Chicago pubfisher, lags with 218.
020; M. Herbert Hoover 3,858; Mr. Hitherto only one Democratic Knox, Senator Borah and Mr. Van voté has been cast against Preald-{denberg combined 4,756,—— ent Roosevelt. It is for Mr. New- | heuteṛ.
Government.
Newspapers print long accounts of the late King's reign and pay tributes to his work for the educa- tional and scientific development of his country.
Calo messages describe the ar rangements for the funeral, on Thursday. According to press in formation, plans for the return of Prince Farouk have not yet been made. Heuter's Bulletin Seruice.
APPOINTMENT FOR N.Z. PREMIER
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London, Apr. 29. announced from No. 10 Downing Street that the King has approved the appointment of Mr. Savage, Premier. of New Zealand, as a member of the Privy Council Router's Bulletin Service.
General Shih is said to have been under surveillance for some time on the suspicion that he might be working for Nanking.
General Feng Yu-hsiang- Union Newa.
MANDATES HELD He was formerly a subordinate of
BY BRITAIN
Call For Government Declaration
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· DISSATISFIED WITH LEAGUE
Treasurer Resigns
London, Apr. 29. The Parlamentary Committee of the Empire Industries Association
London, Apr. 29. passed a resolution last night re-. Lord Queensborough has resign- cording its considered opinion thated as Treasurer of thể League of the territories held by the British
Empire under mandate offered no Nations Union.
solution to the problem of over- He has written to the Secretary crowding in white countries, that stating that the League at present the scope for white settlement is
an effective negligible, and that ressonable op- cannot function,as portunities for settlement of all instrument for peace.. nationals exist to-day and are not Heuter. taken advantage of."
Hayao Tada, G.O.C. Japanese troops in Tientsin, will be pro- moted to be leutenant géneral
Foreign circles here opine that Japan is merely using the Com- munists to strengthen her post- tion in North China- Union NewPS,
ARMY CHIEFS TO VISIT MOSCOW
("Hoox Kong Daily Press“ Special).
Riga, April 29. The Chiefs of Star of the Esthonian and Lithuanian Armies will leave for Moscow this week. Unofficially it is declared that the officers will visit Soviet Russia merely to attend a parade of the Red Army. Quarters close to the Government here admit that various matters of
military in- terest will be discussed with Soviet Russian army quarters. Transocean News Service.
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The resolution also declared that & change of sovereignty would not make the raw materials of these territories more accessible to world buyers than to-day, and that any reversal of repeated pledges that no change of mandate, would be considered would be a breach of falth unless by express desire, of
1 parties concerned, and that 46 mandated territories, more espec isily Tanganyika, are of vital strat- egic. Importance.
tee calls upon the government to For these reasons the Commit-
declare that abandonment of Bel- tish mandates is not open to can- alderation
British Wireless..
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TERMINAL PORT
*HONG KONG'S REFUSAL TO AGREE
London, April 29,
In the House of Commons to-day, - Major-General A. W. T. Knox (Con, Wycombe) drew the attention of the Secretary of State for the. Coloties to the fact that the Hong Kong authori- ties recently refused to agree to an American proposal to make Hong Kong the terminal port for the regular trans-Pacifle alr service after the Macso authorities had accepted the proposition.
Mr. J. H. Thomas replied that he was not aware of any re- cent application on behalf of American Interests. If such a TD- quest had been made the Government, would be prepared to give It favourable consideration. He had ascertained, from Hong Kong that no request had been 'madoBenter.
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