HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1936.
SANCTIONS TO BE LIFTED
SAYS REPORT
Be
Asked To Drop
Abyssinia May Be
Her Request For
A Loan
VIEWS OF FRENCH GOVERNMENT
Geneva, July 3.
It is understood that the Committee of Co. ordination of the League of Nations, which decided on the application of Sanctions, will recommend between July and July 10, that they be abolished.
The Abyssinian request to the League for a loan and the declaration of non-recognition of Italy's annex. ation have been referred to the League Assembly. It is expected that efforts will be made to persuade the delegation to withdraw the request for a loan.-Reuter..
Yesterday and today delegates debated the reform of the League. M. Delbos, the New French Foreign Minister, declaring that the weapons of the covenant were not used with their maximum efficiency.
The Danzig question has been placed on the agenda for the Council and will come up for discussion on Saturday.
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M. DELBOS France's Delegate
COVENANT OVERHAUL IS LIKELY
Geneva, July 3. On the resumption of the debate on sanctions to-day the Frenc Foreign Minister (M. Delbos dealt mainly with.. France's' attitude to the League.
He said that the reason for France's setback Was
the that weapons of the covenant were not used with their maximum em clency by collective action. That was not the fault of the covenant, he said, and the French delega- tion would not, therefore, propose any amendment of the covenant but would only strengthen its eff- ciency.
M. Delbos suggested that every state should
express what aid it could expect from collective action.
The next Assembly vote, he sug gested should be on a decisive in- terpretation of Article XVI, rela- tive to sanctions.
bers of the League wished to rely upon such a scheme, then as M. Max.m Litvinoff of Russia) so well had said, they must defend it by all means, even ty resort to armed force.
Referrying to the objection that į the burden of the application of military measures would fall prin- cipally upon the major powers. Mr. Koo declared that it was fair that the stronger powers should contribute more since they had th greater. Interests at stake, and so would beneft more from peace.
For the effective organisation and maintenance of peace, the principle of universality was indis- pensable. Mr. Koo concluded.--
Beuter.
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NEW ZEALAND'S VIEW
Geneva, July 2
WANTS BIG" LOAN
Haile Selassie's Request
To League
PRESS GALLERY SUICIDE
Shots Ring Out At League Session
HALL IN AN UPROAR
Geneva. July 3.
Stofen Lux, Ctechoslovakian · press photographer, shot him- self in the gallery of the League Assembly Hall while it was in sessiohi to-day.
Lux is reported to be still alive. The sudden revolver reports in- terrupted the session and threw the delegates Into an uproar, which however soon died down.
Business was resumed as 600h as Lux had been removed to hospital.
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MAKE SACRIFICES
The Assembly was most impress-
AGITATORS AGITATORS TO SAIL
FROM HONG KONG
ed by Mr. Eamon de Valera's NOT RESIGNING
thorough-going proposal that the Great Powers get together and make sacrifices, because by a frac- tion of the sacrifices war would entail, the present menace could be averted.
The issue could be cleared up temporarily by the French resolu- tion, now drafting, which reafirns Article X, relating to the preserva- tion of territorial integrity, and by the appointment of a commission examine the Italo-Ethiopian dispute and to report to the A sembly in September.
to
DANZIG QUESTION
In the meantime an emergency meeting of the Council is contem- plated to deal with the Danzig crisis, over which Mr. Sean Lester, the Irish High Commissioner for Danzig. has been specially sum
moned to Geneva. '
Mr. Baldwin Denies
Rumours
COMMONS SPEECH,
London, July 32 ... Rumours that the Prime Minister, III and con- Mr. Baldwin, was templated early retirement were emphatically denied by him in a speech last night.
The Premier, after a long spell of work had felt rather tired and had not been sleeping well, so he had remained in the country at Che- quers for three days-such an un- usual course for him as perhaps to explain rumours.
PASSAGES ON PRESIDENT JEFFERSON Startling Report From Shanghai
SHIPPING WARNED
TWO SOLDIERS ACQUITTED
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Concerned In Death Of Japanese
ONE FOR ASSAULT
Peking, July 3. Herbert Cooke and Ralph Hunt, the British soldiers charged with implication in the death of Kisahw Sasaki Japanese officer in the Manchukuo Defence Department, were to-day discharged by the Bri- tish Consular Court.
Delivering reserved judgment to- day the Magistrate, Mr. N. Fitz- maurice. said there was insufi. cient evidence against either.
Shanghai, July 3. Chinese authorities in Shang- hal announce the receipt of a report from a reliable source that 300 alleged agitators have He held however that there was booked passages from Hong a "prima facle" case against Cooke Kong for Shanghai on the 'Pre- in the case of assaulting Onishi, sident Jefferson.
another Japanese who was with The President Jefferson is due to Sasaki when he met his death. leave Hong Kong on July 6.
Steps are being taken to prevent
the alleged agitators from landing and the co-operation of the Con- sul General for the United States has been sought, as the President Jefferson belongs to an American concern.
A Chinese official called on the Dollar Steamship Company. to-day and requested the can, cellation of the passages al- ready booked.
The matter is being brought to the attention of other shipping companies.- Reuter.
SOUTH-WEST INVITED
Nanking, July 2 General Chin Chai-tong, Gener- General Fel al Li Tsung-jen and Chung-hsi have been sent person- al invitations to attend the second plenary session of the Kuomintang chiefs at Nanking.
He Was given particularly a other reasons.
Mr. Lester is most indignant at In fact he mentioned it was first his, treatment by the Germans and time he had done so while Par- It is possible that Poland may be llament was sitting during the 18 invited to act as intermedlary be-years he has held Government | tween him and the German Gov-office.. ernment. Reuter. Geneva, July Z. Emperor Halle Selassie has laid itung Kung Daily Press" Special)
Geneva, July 2 before the League Assembly two re-
As a result to the conversations solutions, the first requesting a League members' loan of £10,000.- between Eden, Beck and the Dan- 000 under the terms of the Coven-zig High Commissioner, Sean Lea- ant; the second calling for the Aster, which took place on Thursday sembly to proclaim non-recogni- morning, it was decided at a secret session of the Council held tier. of forcibly annexed country.
states Covering note
that on Thursday evening' to put the Ethiopia is taking these steps to Danzig question on the Council's Invoke a clear manifestion of the Agenda and request the Senate come to majority of the League members. President, Greiser to
Geneva. The matter will come up Reuter
for discussion at the Council's ses- sion on Saturday.--
All members receive invitations as a matter of routine if not for
It is officially confirmed that welcome from all parties cordial when he entered
Kwangsi is sending three delegates the House of Commons during the afternoon to Nanking to attend the CEC and a Labour member, in putting session, including Cer. Chang Yin- a question to him regarding the Kwangsi Arms, Li Yin-len and Government's knowledge of extent to which German air arma- It is expected that the delega- ments had attained, said the Option will sall in the next few days. position were glad to see him back in his place.
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New Zealand's High Commis- COVENANT OVERHAUL
stoner, Sir James Parr. Informed M Delbos characterised as ab- the League Assembly that his Gov- surd and a paradoz the rule of ernment favoured maintenance unanimity. Before the Council and intensification of sanctions could take action the present un- against Italy.-- animity rule should be preserved | Reuter.. 'generally, but if concillation efforts falled the Courell should be able to offer every obstacle to war, he' declared.- Reuter.
CHINA'S VIEW
WAR LIKELY"
London, July 2 Explaining the reasons for the raising of cantions against Italy, Mr. Baldwin, speaking at a dinner here to-night, said that the mo- ment had come when further pres- sure might lead to war, and once war were loosed in Europe no-one could know how far it would
Geneva. "July Dr. Wellington Koo, the Chinese representative at the League As-spread. sembly session, speaking in the If Britain is to impose sanctions sanctions debate to-day, said the again she would do so with open eyes, and the realisation that her action would probably bring war.
unhappy events of recent months' wers the natural sequence of the
League's fallure in the case
こ
armed aggression, started in Sep-
other.
Small Nations Express Their Views
Transocean rews Service.
ITALIAN PRESSMEN ALL LEAVE Solidarity With Expelled Colleagues
Geneva, July 2". Haying previously taken the bit between their teeth and vehe- mently protested against the abo-
Geneva, July 2. Iitlon of anti-Italian sanctions.
The Italian délegation to the the small nations to-day accepted League Assembly announces that the inevitable and turned their the remainder of the Italian jour- attention to en immediate and nalists have left Geneva In order thorough overhaul of the League to mark their solidarity with those Covenant, though they are in no
of their companions who were ex- way unanimous with regard to the methods to be employed.
Dr, P. R. Munch, Danish Foreign Minister, preferred Improvement
in the operation of the League to a revision of the Covenant.
Sir C. J. Parr, the New Zealand High Commissioner, advocated in-
"We go to Geneva in the autumn, viting all non-member states to to consider the future of the attend the Assembly session in
tember, 1931. by. one member-League and to make another effort September. state of the League against an-. to assure peace by collective secur- Jhr. A. C. D. de Graeff, Holland's Ity. It is our strongest desire to Foreign Minister, favoured modi- bring together France and Gerification of the Covenant because many, without whose collabora recent events had killed the hope tion the peace of Europe is impossi- of more satisfactory results if an- other case of aggression by R ble." he asserted.
League member arose. Reuter.
China felt all the more keenly the loss of prestige and authority by the League, he went on. China sincerely believed in the principles on which the League was found- ed, and always loyally and faith- fully supported it. If China now accepted the new collective deci- sion of the Assembly, despite her profound sympathy for the other party to the conflict, she would do so in the same spirit as she had applied sanctions, provided only that such acceptance was in no way prejudicial to the funda- mental principles of the Cove- nant.
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The Chinese delegation held the opinion that the failure of the League' with regard to sanctions was not due to the insufficiency or inefficacy of the measures provided by the Covenant, but rather to the policy and method of application adopted.
PARTIALLY APPLIED
JAPANESE POACH
SOVIET WATERS
Moscow, July 3,
The seizure of four Japanese fishing vessels by Soviet subjects while fishing in northern waters is confirmed by reports from Petropavlosk,
considerably increased.
On June
the
Answering this particular ques- tion the Prime Minister said "It is always more difficult to obtain ac- curate information about a country in which no estimates on defence are published. Government how- ever is satisfied that information at present in our possession derived from a variety of sources represents the actual state of affairs as far as they can be accurately obtained.
British Wirelcan..."
"SILVER" MARKET
r
(From Our Own Correspondent)
London, July 3. London "Silver prices to-day pelled following the demonstration were down 1/8 as follow:--
July 3. In the Assembly Chamber against
19-3/8 Emperor Haile Selassie.
19-7/16
*Spot
They have all gone to another Forward Canton and will go home to Italy together.--
July 2
..19-162
..19-9/10
SOVIET CRITICISM
Of The Dardanelles Agreement
ming Chle:
Mue Wen-chang
--Reuter.
of
Staff of the
ATTACK ON WATER RESERVOIR
Arabs Are Repulsed By Watchmen
Jerusalem, July 3. Arab snipers to-day attacked the water reservoir on the outskirts of Jerusalen., but were repulsed by watchmen who dispersed, the at- tackers after firing a number of shots.
It is understood that one Arab was fatally shot.
Deciding to deal with the charge summarily, the Magistrate form-
ally charged Cooke with assault and causing bodily harm. „
Cooke pleaded not guilty and his counsel, Mr. P. H. B. Kent, open- ed his defence.- Reuter.
ALIBI CLAIMED
Mr. Kent said the defence would rely on an alibi.
He admitted that Cooke had viafted .the establishment but would prove that he left before the time the alleged assault took place.
Moreover, he said,. Onishi, who formed the bulk of the prosecu- tion's evidence, had Enked Cooke, and Hunt together but actually Hunt had not left the barracks that night.
Cooke patrolled the town as a policeman in company
military with a soldier named Heal. he said..
Mr. Kent added that he did not doubt that "certain witnesses in- tended to accuse particular men of a particular assault."-- Reuter.
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JAPANESE STATEMENT
Peking. “July 3.
A Japanese Embassy spokesmanı is a statement this afternoon said that although the British Court. had decided not to proceed against Hunt and Cooke. In connection. with the death of Sasaki because. there Was insuficient evidence. there was no doubt that Baraki's death had been caused by certain British soldiers. The Embassy had, asked for instructions from Tokyo, he said.- Reuter.
INCIDENT SETTLED
Peiping, Jule 3. The Fengtal · incident, ・ which arose over the detention of a Japa-". The town of Hebron where a Dese army officer and the manhand- British officer, and a private wereling of a trader by Chinese troops, wounded yesterday by an Arab ¦ has been finally settled at a Sino- ambush has been and £2,000.-Japanese conference,
Reuter.
MORE AMBUSHES
Jerusalem, July 2 Ambushes of police and military patrols by Arab marksmer still the order of the day in Pales- tine..
are
A British officer and private were slightly wounded when their patrol was fired on by snipers on
Besides, replacing the Chinese troops at Fengtal. the Chinese authorities have agreed, among other things, to formally apologise for the offences against Japanese subjects, to deprive the battalion. commander responsible of his rank; and to pay damages to the Japanese trader allegedly handled and detained Beuter.
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the outskirts of Jerusalem to-day.
A new step has been taken by PRESENTS CREDENTIALS the Arabs to embarrass the Gov-
Nanking, July 3. Bong Bang Daily Press' Speelal)ernment. They have started a
Mr. Kawagoe, Japanese Ambas- hunger strike in the concentra-sador to China, presented his cre- Moscow July "2. tion camp.***
dentials to Mr. Lin Ben this morn- ing.
Those present included Chang Chan, the Foreign Minister, and officials of the Government.-- Reuter.
Heuter's Bulletin Service,
Algiers, July 2 Rioting involving Arabs, Jews and Europeans is occurring almost Arabs. daily, and to-day 1,000 carrying a red flag, attempted to take a small town near Algiers
Renter's Bulletin Seruice.
SWISS VIEWS Hong Kong Daily Press" Specia..
Berne, July 2 The Italian argument that the demonstration of fournalists dur ing the Nexus' speech in the Lea- gue Assembly, is & matter con- cerning merely Italy and the Lea- gue of Nations but not Switzer-
The paper "Isvestla" severely criticises the draft agreement sub- land, is emphatically rejected" by the semi-official paper "Der Bund." mitted by Turkey relating to the The paper takes pains to point Dardanelles Straita. The paper out that Switzerland enjoys full describes the Document as “ang- sovereign right also at Ceneva and thing but friendly towards the that the territory used by the Lea-Soviet Union, whose frontiers not gue of Nations is by no means in only border the Black Bea, but
Police and soldiers were rushed]; possession of ex-territorial- rights also extend to the Baltic Sea, the to the scene and after a few hours" The point of view maintained, ap- Pacific Ocean and the Arctic."
Italian The paper declares that according bombarded the police and troops dispersed the demonstrators, who parently also by oficial quarters is, therefore, extremely to recent Dress reports a contract with paving stones brought br curious, says the paper, stressing for the construction of Dardanelles
lorry,- that although the President of the fortifications has already been League of Nations Assembly may given to one of the "imperialistic have authority within the con- Powers" and expresses; andetý at fines of the League of Nations the increased influence of the in question, Turkey, 25 building, the Swiss sovereignty 18 power
the fortlication thereby not restricted in any way, evidenced by
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LORD STANLEY CHIEF
London, July 2 Lord Stanley, it is learned. is proceeding to Switzerland to re-
It is alleged that Japanese when the Soviet guards approach-The Swiss authorities" are thus contrast - poachers have encroached "almost ed. The Japanese captans will be fully entitled to do whatever they on to the Soviet shore" and have prosecuted for having violated think it with the private persons
territorial waters by poaching,
who have been legally arrested at 26 two : Japanese Japanese reports that 20 Soviet the request of the President of the « Sanctions, he declared, instead schooners were found ashing at soldiers crossed the Manchurian League Assembly, concludes the of being applied in their entirety. Trekhpolosny Bay, on the east border at Shaochan on June 27. were applied partially and halting-coast of Kamchatka and inside the clashed with the Manchurian tron- ly, without determination and three mile limit. They were deler guards and kidnapped a cow. promptitude which would have tained. produced a far greater effect.
The Chinese delegation belleved that collective security was the only system that could finally en- sure the maintenance of tin'versal. peace, and the prevention of arm- ed aggression. But if the mem
paper-
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LONGER STUDIES
Paris, July, 2 The Chamber of Deputies, by a
and two peasants are bricially denled and are described by the Two others were caught dur- soviet as a pure invention. ing the next two days, one at
The only frontier incident re- Suvich Bay, in West Kamchatka ported on June 27 was the arrest and the other at the mouth of
on the Soviet side of the border of vote of 488 to 80, passed a bill rain""] the Opal River.
two ing the school leaving age to four- an unknown Chinese with The latter had set 200nets horses.
teen, and in soute cases to sixteen.
Reuter, Bulletin Service which they threw into the sea Reuter.".
place. Lord Stanhope as leader of the British delegation at the Mon- treux conterence; concerning Tur- key's remilitarisation of the Dar- danelles.
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MURDERER'S END
Colonel Aizawa Faces Firing Squad
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Tokyo, July 3. Colonel Aizawa faced a firing sqund to-day and was executed for the murder of Gederal Nagata on August 12, 1935. Found guilty of the murder in December, Aizawa spent months in appealing to higher tribunals It is understood Lord Stanhope His last appeal to the Supreme returns to assume his duties 36 Court-Martial was dismissed on First Commissioner of Works
Wednesday Reuter
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The conterence will probably be resumed on July 6.
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NO 'FIRE ALARM
Optical Illusion At Budapest
Mr.
"Hong Kong Dally Press" Special),
Budapest, July 3
· An exceedingly curious na- tural phenomenom gave rise on false Thursday evening to a alarm that the Hungaţian House of Parliament, was in flames.
The policeman on duty outside building, noticed. about sunset. that the vast cupola was Juridly. coloured red, which was due to the reflected light, the outlines of the dome aquiver, owing, a5. W25 subsequently found out, to the ascending hot air currents, and the root apparently enveloped in flames, which was due to clouds of myriads of insects R
When the Fire brigade arrived the optical illusion was discovered. Transocean News Service.
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