HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1936.
JAPANESE CONSUL WARNS GENERALS
M. VAN ZEELAND
VAN ZEELAND HAS ANOTHER TRY
Efforts To Form A Cabinet
BELGIAN POLITICS
("Hong Kong Daly Press Specia,
Brussels, June 9.
Because M. Vandervelde, the Prime Minister, is unable to form a cabinet, M. Pau Van Zeeland, former Prime Minis- ter who resigned last week, has accepted the King's offer to do
50.
M. Vandervelde's efforts were 'unsuccessful because the Catholic party, which headed the poli, was unwilling to co-operate with the Socialists.
M. Van Zeeland has already be- guh negotiations with the various political parties.
It is stated in quarters near. to the new Premier that he has
already drawn up a programme
which he will present to Parila- "ment and that he is resolved to risk defeat sooner than make concessions to any party. I is therefore belleved M. Van Zealand will seek the co-operation of personalities belonging to the Socialist, Catholic and Libera: groups, who, however, will not be expressly mandated by their res- pective parties to represent them. Transurian News Service.
AS YOU WERE
German & Brazilian Trade Treaty
"Hong Kong Daily Press" Special,
Berlin June 9. Pending a conclusive issue to the new trade treaty negotiations now in course of progress with the object of replacing the current agreement that expires on July 31 between Germany and Brazil, the Governments signed a provisional treaty to the effect that until such time 1.5 the new treaty is drawn up."the old one will remain valld.
this
The essential feature of treaty is that full most-favoured natior treatment prevails between the two countries.- Trosincean News Servic
POLICE CHIEF GOES
Was Intimate Friend Of M. Chiappe
("Hong Kong Dally Preas" Special)
Paris, June 9.
AT CANTON
Serious Repercussions Threatened
WANTS NO UNTOWARD
INCIDENTS
Shanghai, June 9.
message
A warning by the Japanese Consul-General to General Chan Chai-tong is reported in a from Canton received by the Japanese newsagency, Dogtei.
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The message says that Chan has been warned against unduly exciting
popular bodies ägainst Japan and that the Consul declared that any untoward incidents involving Japanese would have serious reper.
cussions.
The Consul added that the Japanese Government would maintain strict neutrality in the dispute between Canton and Nanking.”
General Li Chung-jen has been similarly warned.-- Reuter,"
COMMONS STATEMENT
London, June 9. Signs of tension had recently appeared in the relations between che South-Western provinces of China and the Central Govern- ment, sald Viscoun: Cranborne, Under-Secretary
ton are endangering the peace of the Far East for no discoverable motive other than the satisfaction of a personal enmity.
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Had these politicians been in office in Nanking, the "Morning
ROMANTIC LIFE ENDED
John Hays Hammond Is Dead
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BOER WAR FIGURE
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New York, June 9. The death occurred at Glouces- ter. Massachusetts, to-day of Mr. John Hays Hammond, the Amert- cun mining engineer who achieved world notoriety when he was arrested and sentenced to death after the Jameson raid in South Africa in 1898. He had been ill for a long time. Reuter
Leader of an adventurous life. Mr. Hammond was born in Sun Francisco
1855 and after gradunting at Yale, studied mini- Ing in Saxony.
As a mining expert he travelled the world and towards the end of the 19th century found himself in South Africa where he was asso- clated with Cect Rhodes and the Barnato brothers.
One of the four leaders in the Transvaal reform movement, he was arrested by the Boers after the Jameson raid and on a charge of having instigated it, was sen- tenced to death.
The sentence was communted to 15 years in prison but Mr. Ham- mond was released on payment of
£25.000.
He was actively connected with mining and other interests until his recent illness. One of his sons' 1s John Hays Hammond junior, celebrated inventor.
PARIS RESUMES WORK
WILL HE RESIGN?"
Coal Strike To End To-day
BLUM'S PROPOSALS
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Paris June 9. " Although the strike is not yet totally over, mine-owners and miners have reached an Agreement and the coal strike is expected to terminate to-
morrow.
At the meeting of the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon the Prime Minister
tive
(M. Leon Blum)
London, June . will submit legisladon for collec- Mr. J H. Thomas, former Secra- labour contracts, a 40-hour ❘tary of State for the Colonies, who
workers. week and pay during holidays for resigned following an inquiry into
the leakage of budget secrets, an-" nounced to-day that he will speak in the House of Commons debate on the Tribunal report on Thurs day.
The proposals are expected to be carried by Thursday and pre- sented to the Senate before the
week-end.
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"Le Matin" stated to-day that the new labour agreement is an experiment like the "New Deal" in America-- Reuter.
PROVINCES OUT Hong Kong Daily Press, Special)
Paris, June 8. While general relaxation in the tense situacion of the. särke situation is noticeable in Paris and its environs, the strike move- ment in the provinces appears to be gaining further ground.
Negotiations opened between employers and workers of the various trade groups in the Metro- polican district is beginning to bear fruit. Thus agreemen: in principle was reached by workers and employers, of the building trade. Certain questions however
for Foreign Post" asserts, they would have MADRID STRIKE still remain to be settled, so that
Affairs, during question time an
done no better than Marshal
Japan.
the House of Commons to-day. Chiang Kai-shek in dealing with
There seened to be.ro sufficient reason as present 50 take an alarming view of the situation re- garding smuggling in China, he continued.
"China's resistance to encroach-
Northment is impossible in China's pre- sent state," it adds, "There is noth- ing necessarily unpatriotle about Marshal Chiang's willingness to come to terms with Japan. (Sun If Yat-sen did it before him). they had the immediate welfare of China at heart the Cantonese, in his place, would do the same.
Conversations were being con. tinued between the British Am- bassadors at Tokyo and Nanking the Chinese and Japanese Governments and the Japanese Government had sent an official
and
of the examine the situation.
Foreign Ministry
"I understand that the Japanese garrison is being reinforced," con- cluded Viscount Cranborne, "but in other respects the situation is unaltered."— Henter,
FINANCIAL STRAIN.
London, June 9. In a long review of the North China smuggling incidents,
The
Tinies" to-day em- phasises the helplessness of Chinese to face armed and ruthless smugglers who are in- creasing the loss to the Chinese customs.
"The strain upon what is really China's financial mainstay is ex- tremly serious." says the newspa- per.
"The general political signiä- cance of this ind.reet attack by Japan on the integrity of China, which she has pledged herself to respect, is obvious and so is the unfair advantage which Japanese
goods are obtaining over British and would continue to obtain even 1 the official tariff were lowered. "The hope remains. concludes the article. "that the Japanese Government may change its methods."-- Bruter,
CHIANG SPEAKS
Nanking, June 9. The first official pronouncement upon the Bouth-west situation
by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, the Central "Government's leader, was made to-day.
He declared the Government would continue to adhere
to its
The Director of the Paris Police, polley of safeguarding the nation's
M Gulchard, who was an intimate interests.
friend of the former Prefect of He admitted there had been dif- Police and the present President
Ierences between
Nanking and
he believed the
of the Parks Municipal Council, M. Canton, but Chlappe, has been placed on the Kwangtung and Kwangs! leaders retired list and has been replaced would not seize upon the Govern- by Police Director M. Marchandment's foreign policy as "an alibi who in contradiction to his pre- to
start а civil war," nor
decessor in önce, is enjoying the proclaim their independence. full confidence of the Left Parties,
He emphasised that such ques- It is generally expected that the
tions as declaring war and ne- change in direction of the Paris gotiating peace rested with the police is only the first of many Central authorities, not with important changes in the person minority inspired with personal ner of the French administration feelings. that will be made by the new re-
Marshal Chiang announced that gline of the Popular Front.
a plenary session of the Centrai
would
be
The Socialist paper "Populaire" Executive Commlitee announces with satisfaction the re- held to discuss the situation, and tirement of M. Guichard who, it
he hoped Kwangsi and Kwangtung says, always showed indulgence, to
would attend tri full force. the Right Wing political leagues and demands that the Government annul the full annual salary, due to the retiring Prefect of Police, of 250 000 francs- Transeran New Service.
ENDANGERING PEACE
Condon, June 0. The Morning Fost" declares that
once again the politicians of Can- Heuter.
Were General Chiang Kai-shek's personal position alone at stake we should have little regard for the, manoeuvres of Nanking and Canton, but the danger ts that the corisequences of these manoeuvres will extend beyond the politicians responsible for them.
"The Cantonese intransigence will revive the Japanese military jun- ta's credit and enable it to urge Its policy for rapid action in China. Neuter
PRIMATE PUZZLED
Activities Of Chinese Generals
London, June 3. Speaking at the annual reunion
CONTINUES
work probably will not be resumed before Wednesday or Thursday.
The personnel of the interna- tional Sleeping Car Company,
Workers Seize Goods likewise has been satisfied.
In Shops
Hong Kong Daily Press' Special)
Madrid, June 9. The
here general tension owling to the strike in the building trade, now in its sec- ond week, is still increasing. In the suburb of Cuatro Caminos, the strikers forced their way into shops and "requisitioned" provi signs, shoes and other articles.
In several restaurants the strik- ers refused to pay and suggested to the proprietors that they should submit the bills to the Anarcho-
trade
Syndicalist Union, of which the majority of the building workers are members.
In La Coruna, where the municipal workers and em- ployees are striking, the all- thorities were forced to re- engage Catholic sisters for the local hospital as the lay purses had joined the strikers.
In Madrid the police seized the depot of the revolutionaries where several hundred uniforms of the Guardia Civil were found.
The Left Radicals again com-
of the Victoria Diocesan Associa-mitted several bomb outrages in tion to-day. the Archbishop of the capital, causing considerable | Canterbury referred to the puzzling damage.
So far neither he nor Sir Al- red Butt, both of whom were im- plicated in the leakage allegations. have indicated whether they in- tend to resign their seats in Par- liament, though the Government whips are most anxious that this
course be taken in order to spare the House embarrassment.-- Reuter.
TO FIGHT DRUG
MENACE
League Committee's Programme
"Hong Kong Dally Press" Special)
Geneva, June 9.
At the close of its 21st ses- sion, the League of Nations Opium Committee adopted a working programme for the next section of its work. The following items are on the agenda:
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CONVOY CRASHES INTO AMBUSH
Snipers Still Active In Palestine
MORE TROOPS "COME
Jerusalem, June 9.
Another ambush occurred on the Jericho Road to-day. The road Was barricaded and a convoy crashed through the obstruction under heavy fire from snipers. When
reinforcements" arrived the snipers departed.
The Arab editor of a newspaper At Jaffa has been arrested and taken to a concentration camp.
The second
battalion of the bringing the strength of the gar- Cheshire Regiment arrived to-day,
rison up to seven battalions.
Despite the alertness of the police and military, sniping and bombing continues, al- though with slight effect. Last night a patrol of the North Lancashires repulsed an attempt- ed ambuscade. ploded at
Two bombs. ex- Bethlehem but
до damage was done- Reuter.
NEW ROUTE FOR 'PLANES
Australian Service Changes
Melbourne, June 9. Reorganisation of Australia's internal air services will be necessary as a result of the Australian Government's ac- ceptance of the British plan. The British scheme. which was at first rejected by Australia, is for a bl-weekly fiying boat service on the Singapore-Darwin section of the England-Australia air route, to begin in August next year,
The strike in large department stores in Faris, however still con- tinues. since the negotiations begun on Monday failed to pro-
Preliminary preparation of the duce results.
on To avoid conflict conference
supervision and banks de-limitation of raw mater.als, with employees, the clared themselves willing to meet
Examination of the situation" re- the latters' demands.
of garding supervision
Indian hemp and its by-products."
Examination about the extent of Queensland, Instead of the present
The clerical staffs of four of the largest Insurance Companies
SILVER MARKET
(From Our Own Correspondent)
London, June 9. London Silver prices to-day were down 3/16 as follow:—
June 8 20-1/16 20-1/16
Spo: Forward
June 9 19-7/8 19-15/16
On
the
in the French capital, other hand, proclaimed a strike
nad on Monday
cccupied the premises.
addiction to narcotics.
Examination of the supervision
of drug stores,
COMBATING NARCOTICS At the same time a diplomatic conference met under the Chair- manship of the Dutch delegate. M. Limburg. to examine the draft of an agreement to combat legal trade in narcotics, 42 states being represented. The object is to
The flying boats will use a new route from Darwin across the Gulf of Carpentaria to Bowen, North
service from Darwin to Coota- mundra (New South Wales) vla Charleville (Queensland).
The Cootamundra Charleville section will probably be abolished and smaller machines used be- tween Brisbane and Darwin. Realer.
strengthen the measures envisaged MORE IN WORK
in The Hague Convention of 1912 and the supplementary Conven- tion of 1925. and 1931. The new Agreement is to contain the to lowing items:
extended to
International agreements the purpose of a more punishment for narcotic
for
severe smug-
the
gling.
em-
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also The strike De Luxe Restaurants, Champs Elysees, where the ployees" suddenly refused to serve thr- guests and occupied the establishments. Several restau- ranus however opened agala after situation in China, saying it was i An announcement that the an hour, a puzzle to which he found it im- Municipal Government of Murcia,
the demands having been granted in the meantime, possible to discover a due.
which is composed of members of
where In the provinces
the "What are the relations," 'he
the Popular Front, intends to pull strike movement began several asked, "between
generals who down several churches and monas- days later than in Paris, the roam and move about in a way tries to make way for a boulevard, strike is still gaining ground. which sometimes suggests tragedy caused considerable excitement f The total number of strikers, in and sometimes comedy as If they among the population of that Northern France is estimated at are stage armies?"-
city.
400,000, and several hundred fac- tories are still occupied by strikers. "WhLe Government quarters on Monday expressed confidence, that work would generally be resumed on" Tuesday, it is now generally believed that the strike will hard- ly be terminated before the end
Leuter.
Transocean News Service.
HITLER'S PEACE
PLAN REVIVED
("Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)
Berlin, June 9. After a long interruption, caused by the develop. ments in East Africa, the diplomatic discussions of Hitler's peace proposals of March 31 are about to be resumed.
As preparation for these diplo- matie negotiations, the British Government published on May a collection of documents to in-
of the week- Trandcean News Service/
CITY STILL QUIET
UNEMPLOYED FIGURES
mygland and W
London, June 8. A further marked, decrease in the numbers of unemployed is shown Agreements for the extradition in the return for May issued by the of narcotic smugglers.
Labour Ministry to-night. The Foundation of a Central Bureau | Ministry estimates that on May 25 for the superpiston and summart- the number of insured persons sation of measures for combating aged 16 to 84 In employment tri illicit trade.
Great Britain, exclusive of agricul Agreements for closer co-tural workers, was approximately. operation of the Central Bureaus. 10,831,000. This was 119,000 more Transocean News Service.
than on April 27 and 472,000 more than" on May 20, 1935.
Agricultural workers became in- sured at the beginning of May, but statistics of the numbers of such workers in employment are not yet available:
VETERAN DIPLOMAT (Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)
The Hague, June 9. The Netherlands Minister at Brussels, Dr. Tjarda Van Starken-. On May 25 the numbers of re- borgh-Stachouwer, who has been gistered unemployed were 1,705,042, appointed
General of comprising 1,397,755 wholly unem- the Dutch East Indies, will take ployed, 225,286 temporarily laid off, up his duties next September. He and 82,002 normally in casual em- began his career in the diplomatic ployment. The total was 126,188 less than the month before and 339,710 less than a year ago.--- British Wireless.
Governor
service in 1913. Transocean News Service
GERMAN EFFORTS
Owing to the absence of news- papers in the provinces news of the atrike settlement in Paris has travelled slowly, and it is impos- "Hong Kong Dally Press" Special) cc-sible yet to state how many have But after returned to work. Generally speak-
Berlin, June 8, That the great national "cam-
a meeting this afternoon between ing the situation is still unalter-paign against unemployment con-
tinues to make rapid headway, 18 clearly proved by the official ata-
Paris, June 8. The capital still wears the ap- pearance of an English Sunday in certain quarters where the big de-
still partmental stores are cupled by the strikers. documents" compiled by Dr. Fritz Buerger on behalf of the German the representatives of employera ed High School for Politics.
and workers, over which the Min- Meanwhile, 1,500 Dunkirk doc- For this publication, which is ister of the Interior, M. Salengro. Eers have struck and are threaten-tistics issued on Monday by the form the public about the events considered certain to play an im- presided, I was stated that there Ing to disrupt the cross-channel Heich's Institute for Labour Ser- leading up to the termination of portant part in the coming nego-was hope of an agreement being service, while miners of du Nord vice, showing that during the the Locarno Treaty and about the tations, the Ambassador at Large, reached and work starting again and Pas de Calala bave struck, as negotiations that followed," the Baron von Ribbentrop, has writen to-morrow.
they decided to do on Saturday. German reoccupation of the de-a preface, in which occurs the fol- The end of the strike of petrol The miners" delegates are meet- militarised zone on March 7,
lowing passage.
suppliers to-day resulted in an in-ing the employers to-morrow at "Germany has an earnest wish crease in street traffic. but the taxi Doual when it is expected that to sign agreements of peace with drivers may strike to-morrow.
Rettlement will be reached.- its neigbours, and to build up a It appears that taxi drivers, Bruter. new Locarno in the West. In his shop-walkers and suchlike
STAY-IN STRIKERS great Peace Plan, the Fuehrer and not included in the newly- It reproduces the texts of all Reichs Chancellor offered Europe signed Labour Charter, which only. Seven Insurance company pre-of 1835-5 was more than overtaken
Paris, June 8. important diplomatic documents, a new Locarno. The resolutions and speeches between people wish nothing more ardently possible that such trades may strikers bringing the total num-ed unemployed, which is the least German covers industries. It la.. thereforemises are now occupied by stay-in by the present number of record- 1919 and March 31 1938, and bears than to see this treaty realised."-strike in order to secure their ber of strikers to 10,000,-~- the title "Locarno; A collection of Transoczon News Sermine
inclusion in the Charter.
Reuter
The German Government has now on its part issued a simi- lar collection of documentary evidence bearing on the same theme.
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month of May the decrease in the number of unemployment was far greater than that in April.
272,000, which brings the number The total drop le figured ak
of Jobless at the end of May down to 1,491,201.
This means that the increase in unemployment during the winter
for many years past.
Transocean News Service