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CHINA HOMEWARD) CONFERENCE
FREIGHT TARIFF NO. 17 Dated 15th February, 1936.
Part 2.
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DEATH
LONGBOTTOM-At the Kowloon Hospital on Sunday afternoon. July 12, 1938, Lionel Edward Longbottom.
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HONG KONG, JULY 13, 1936.
JEWS AND ARABS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936.
PROCEEDINGS
IN CAMERA
China Leaders In Conference
Nanking, July 1. The first regular session of the Central Executive Counell was held at the
party headquarters this morning, being attended by nearly all the delegates, The proceedings were in camera and nothing has hitherto been divulged as to what transpired.
General Tang Chih-sul, former Route the 19th commander of Army, arrived this morning from Shanghai. He dissociated himself from the movement for the alleged restoration of the 19th Route Army against Nanking.
Dr. H. H. Kung is giving a luncheon to-morrow in honour of Generals Tang Chik-slu, Yu Ban- mou, Tang Shao-yi and Mr. Wang Chung-hul.
ARMED CAMP IN SHADOWS BEFORE
BEFORE THE
THE EVENT
HONGKEW
Sequel To Murder Of Japanese
#
BLUEJACKETS IN COLLISION
HITLER RETIRES
TO BAVARIA
Planning A New Pronouncement
EXPECTED SHORTLY
SCHUSCHNIGG'S BROADCAST
Vienna Message Indications
Berlin, July 11.
.Shanghai, July 11. Hongkew: scene of the outbreak of hostilities in 1932, was once
Vienna messages foreshadow an
again transformed into a Japanese
important announcement to-night
armed camp last night as a sequel
Landen, July 11.
concerning the improvement in the Chancellor Hitler's flower-les- to the murder of a Japanese busi-
Austro-German relations. Chan- ness man, Mr. Kosaku Kayau. He tooned villa at Berchtesgaden holds celler von Schuschnige will broad-
secrets which all the was shot through the head "by an
Chan-cast at 9 pm. from Vienna, where unidentified assailant while carry-celleries and secret service agents it is reliably stated that the an- nouncement will, in part, take the tag the year-old child of a friend in Europe are seeking to discover. and leading another baby by "the It is believed that the Fuehrer form of a declaration that Ger- hand. The children were not hurt
many is willing to respect trian independence. A heavy force of Japanese blue- Jackets, steel-helmeted and with fixed bayonets, were rushed from the Naval Landing Party head- quarters to the area where the shooting
There they occurred.
SUN FO PRESIDES Party political affairs were re- The Arab disorders in Fales-viewed at length at the first gen- patrolled, afoot and on motorcycles tine, which began a couple of eral session of the CEC.
and lorries.
on
has retired to Bavaria in order to plan a new pronouncement foreign policy, which may be made on the eve of the Locarno Con- ference and the Olympic Games.
At the Olymple meeting the Nazis are making a very great et- fort to emphasise to the world the
peace-loving and prosperous side of German life.
Two of the bluejackets, riding a motor-cycle, came rita collision
TWO ALTERNATIVES with à motor'car, driven by a Bri- ton. Mr. C. N. Brooke, an ometi
Germany feels that there are of the Chinese Customs, and were only two alternatives either a conference of all five Locarno seriously injured.
A15-
The Austrian Legion in Germany will be dissolved, and Nazi pro- i paganda in Austria will be! abandoned; the 1000-mark tax on tourists will be abolished; per-
mission will be extended to Aus trians in Germany treely to pass across the frontier, and Austrian Nazis shall be admitted to the Austrian Patriotic Front, the only political party permitted in Aus- tria.
".
this months ago, are
how assuming morning, presided over by Mr. Sun Fo. Altogether 165 delegates at- the proportions of 1 regular
tended the meeting and approved revolt. Each day brings its toll the membership of the sub-com- of turbulence in town and coun-mittee of five examining the pro- Try: riots, ambushes. arson. posals. There was no session in shootings, snipings, and all man- the afternoon, and the sub-com-
mittees are meeting ner of outrages against life and
morning. property are becoming endemic
The next general session will be payable on and after 10th August, from Dan to Beersheba and from held at 8 pm. on Monday under near the place of tragedy, have vinced that neither. Britain nor that she is not against restora-
1936, at the offices of the Cor poration, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
THE REGISTER O F
Terusalem to Jaffu. The impos- tion of curfews, the arrest of agitators, the substantial rein- forcement of the British forces SHARES of the Corporation will have so far proved of little avail be closed from 27th July, to 8th
against the all-pervading manifes August, (both days inclusive) during which period no transferations of violence. With law
of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
ад
to-morrow
the presidency of Mr. Chu Cheng, been rounded up for questioning.
be observed in memory of Mr. Hu Han-min. Generalissimo Chians Kai-shek will deliver an address and Mr. Chang Chun will submit
at which three minutes' silence will
a report on foreign affairs. The
In the course of the investiga-Powers aiming at the conclusion tion of the shooting of Mr. Kayau, of the pact which Herr Hitler made thirty or forty Chinese coolies who the basis of his peace plan; or no- were sleeping on the pavement thing. The Wilhelmstrasse is iron-
Italy' will agree to a one-sided solution, such' as a firm alliance between Britain, Italy, France and Belgium against Germany, in the tocol, which is favoured in some sense of the March Locarno, pro-
French circles. The German view united
DEATH IN HOSPITAL
of are
Mr. Kayau was thirty-two years immediately after he was shot, and He was rushed to hospital
Italo-German front on questions reform of the relating to the League.
he died there at 1.05 a.m. to-day.
British police officers have gone is that France fears an reports of the various Yuar will
to the scene of the crime and are also be presented.
co-operating with the, Chinese po- lice and the Japanese Consular and naval authorities in Investigat- ing the case.
PEACE HOPE
Nanking, July 12. "So long as there is hope for peace, peace will not be abandoned and unless our sacrifices meet the final limit we will not lightly talk about sacrifice."
The crime occurred in Chinese
administered territory, adjoining the international settlement.
A Japanese -woman heard # muffled report and turned in time to see
Mr. Kayau collapse in the street. But she saw no sign of ang assailant.
lessness such as this there can be Neuter. no compromise: the first duty of the Mandatory Power is to restore order, and there can, of course, V. M. GRAYBURN,
be no question of inquiry into Chief Manager-grievances until such time Hong Kong, 7th July, 1936.
violence has been thoroughly 4548 stamped out.
The Arab leaderz have been offered. and have re- fised, the despatch of a delega-
"Conditions for peace have their tion to London to represent their limits and if such limits are ex-by the usual Japanese warning to The shooting has been followed case except on condition that their ceeded, we can only find resistance the Chinese authorities, who are main demands are conceded in through sacrifice. Since my ap urged to do their utmost to ap- advance. That is a condition pointment I have maintained that prehend the culprit and also "to which no
relations Government could Sino-Japanese
should. provide better protection for Ja possibly admit. As an alternative through diplomatic channels, findpanese nationals in future.”
TO LET WELI Appointed Offices,
Kederate Rent.
Apply SECRETARY,
HONG KONG Broox EXCHANGE.
the British Government have an [8935 nounced their intention of ap- pointing a Royal Commission: but this, too, is provisionally in abeyance until the disorders have
LOCAL RESIDENT
PASSES
Mr. Lionel Edward Longbottom
POPULAR OFFICIAL
OF. P.W.D. “
Mr. Longbottom will be remem- bered for his very kind disposition and a host of friends in the Colony
will miss him very much. He was
Cricket Club, playing regularly in
ceased. An inquiry would be a mere futile formality unless anở. until the Government are in a position to implement its findings.
This is the gist of General Chan Chun's report on foreign affairs at yesterday's second plenary session
and
fundamental readjustment readjustment has been the main topic of Sino-Japanese negotia- tions." said the Foreign Minister Reuter.
ATHLETE INJURED
"Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)
Helsingfors, July 10. Matt Jaervinen, who holds the record for spear throwing sprained a tendon badly while practising on Friday, and had to go to hos- pital, so that he will not be able
FRESH TROUBLE
.
Another factor perplexing the Chancelleries is the future of Austro-German relations, but ac- cording to Vienna despatches. no
agreement has been reached.
AUSTRIAN INDEPENDENCE
the recent appears that Austro-German talks have broken owing to Herr - Hitlers re-
It
down
resumed in the autumn. fusal to give definite recognition to Austrian Independence, but will
R
German diplomacy has suffered setback through Dr. Greiser's
Dr. von Schuschnigy will pre- bably not mention the Hapsburg restoration question as it is not imminent, but Germany in return has declared herself in principle
tion.-
Reuter
POWER BEHIND
Vienna, July 11. It is believed that Signor Mus- solini is the driving power in the Austro-German reconciliatior. agreement being broadcasted from Vienna to Berlin to-night. The agreement is bound weightily to change the European situation,
Its announcement is all the more surprising, as earlier reports were pessimistic in character as regards the likelihood of reaching common views. Herr von Papen. the Ger- man Minister at Vienna, Baron
von Neurath (German Foreign Minister) and Herr von Ribben trop (German Ambassador-at-
Large) participated in the final
talics with Chancellor Hitler at Berchtesgaden.
It is reported that
a personal iniculence at Geneva, which has meeting between Chancellor Hitler made a bad impression on the and Chancellor von Schuschnigg world generally, including Ger-
is being arranged on German ter- many's Polish friends. Within 24 ritory, possibly at Berchtesgaden The Kayau incident has created hours the Ministry of Propaganda early next month.-- fresh source of Sino-Japanese soft-pedalled the German presa Heuter, friction, just when the Kuomintang jubilation. Meanwhile Rome des bas assembled at Nanking to dispatches indicate
Signor CUSS means of appeasing the Mussolini' favours
intervention, she objects to M. Litvinoff's scheme 'South-west's demand for a wa which may have received the se-
that the Russian feet should be against Japan..
cret benediction of the Wilhelms-permitted an exit from the Black trasse.
Sea In order to intervene in the Mediterranean, afterwards return- ing without anyone being · per- mitted to pursue it- Reuter.
It is hoped the incident will be localized, so as to avoid further
embarrassing the Nanking Govern- ment's efforts to compose internal)
diferences.
As the investigation proceeds. further details are coming to light to train for several weeks. Never- It appears that, a Japanese passer theless, Jaervinen intends to go to by heard two shots and turning the Olymplad----
Kaw a black gowned Chinese in Transocean News Service.
fight,
that
MONTREUX 'HITCH ́`· The Anglo-Russian deadlock at the Montreux Conference is watch ed with keen interest. For the first time for many months Itely sympathises with British polley, na
The man rushed past him àpa as MR. BALDWIN ON
he "did so turned and fired with a revolver, but without exect.
This witness gave chase, but the
black gowned man vanished up an
aileyway-
JAPANESE ACTION
Shanghai, July 11
Japanese residents, are most in-
MR. EDEN
ALL SOLICITUDE
(Special Alf Mall Service)"
London, June 25. One of the notable thingsTM in
(Later cables on this maiter appear on Page 9)
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY AT HENLEY
TO COMPETE THIS YEAR
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 24.
at Henley. The competition en-
· DR. JOSEPH GOEBBELS Propaganda Minister in Germany
LOCAL AND GENERAL
It is notified for general In- formation that the operation of the provisional Commercial Agree- ment between His Majesty's Gov- ernment in the United Kingdom and the Egyptian Instituting most-favoured-nation treatment reciprocally between Egypt and Hongkong, has been prolonged, by a further exchange of notes, until February 16, 1937.
Government,
The forthcoming wedding is an- rounced of Miss Aline Eugenie dite Helene Hamelin, teacher, and Mr. James Phirozahaw Petrigura, archi- tect, both of Shanghal
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. M. J. Abbott to per- form the duties imposed on the Land Officer by section 9 (2) of the Land Registration Ordinance, 1844, during the absence of Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith.
The name of Mr. V. T. Low has been added to the list of ay- thorised architects.
It is notified that at the expira- tion of three months, the name of
the Chung Shan Hotel Co., Ltd.,
will, unless case is ahown to the contrary, be struck of the register and the Co. will be dissolved.
It is notified that His Excellency the Governor-in-Council has ap- pointed the hours of 11.30 p.m. to 12.30 am, ab additional or further hours between which blasts may be fired at the south side of Stan- ley Peninsula,
Lady Caldecott has graciously 'consented to open the Eu Tohg Sen Gymnasium at the Hongkong 'Uni- versity at 4.45 pin. on Wednesday, July 15. After the opening cere- mony, tea will be served in the Gymnasium,
A bankruptcy notification states that a second and final dividend of $23.70 per cent, has been declared in the case of Joseph Mathias Pinna, clerk
It is notified that His Honour the Chief Justice has ordered that the next Criminal Sessions shall be held on Monday, July 20. at 10 am.
Mr. Robert Hormus Kotewall, C.M.G.. LLD.. to be an Unofficial Member of the Executive Counci with effect from July 3.
Mr. laude. Bramall Burgess to be a Police Magistrate in addition to his other duties, with effect from April. 35.
for the Foreign Secretary. Again tered is that for the Wyrold Cup. and Its Relation to Poetry."
One case of Small-Pox was re- last night he was all solicitude | We wish the Glasgow four success,
but whether that is achieved or ported to the Health Authorities for for Mr. Eden
not the University Bost Club are the 24 hours ended on Friday..
The proposal for a Royal Com mission has found no favour with the Arabs, because in their view no inquiry is necessary. Their quarrel, as it seems, is not so much with the administration of the Mandatory as with the terms We have to record with deep of the Mandate itself. The Man- regret the death of Mr. L. E. Long-date prescribes the establishment bottom which occurred yesterday in Palestine of a Jewish National as a whole. An enormous amount afternoon at the Kowloon Hospital
of capital has been imported inte after a short illness. He closed his Home, subject to safeguards for 50th year of May 4.
the civil and religious rights and the country by the Jews; new in- material interests of the Arabs.dustries have been created, un What the Arabe want is a com- exploited land has been taken! plete reversal of this whole policy; into cultivation, new tovus have "Palestine for the Arabs" is the been built and new exporte Vigorous representations about a member of the Civil Service slogan of their present revolt. developed. Palestine has never the Kayau murder were made by the lawn bowls tournaments. He They are not primarily concerned been so prosperous in her history. Mr. Sugihara, the acting Japanese Mr. Baldwin's speech at the close
At to-morrow's meeting of the was also connected with the Kow- as to whether or not the safe and she was one of the few coun- Consul-General, to the Mayor, Mr. of the suctions debate last night tries in the world which under- Wu Teb-chen, this morning, follow was his allusion to Mr. Eden.
For the first time a Glasgow Uni-Rotary Club, Mr. Gerald Sydney leon Golf Club and in the York-guards have been duly observed. shiremen's Society he was a very
ing a conference of the Japanese Already in Lanarkshire on Satur-versity crew will compete this year will speak on "The Value of Music It might conceivably he proved by went an uninterrupted expension diplomatic, consular, military and day he had pleaded for sympathy popular committee member.
the Commission that Jewish im during the recent universal slump. naval officials. daughter in the Colony to whom migration has been proceeding at It may be that the lion's share of
too great a pace and that specific the advantage has gone to the dignant and the tension in Hong damage has been suffered by the Jews rather than to the Arabs; itków is acute. However, the murder is at present being treated, as a WAR SERVICE
Arab community in consequence, may be that the Arabe, or many local incident; "not calling for told him when he appointed him to be congratulated for their en-
of them, are worse off than if the diplomatie action at Nanking. Serving in the Great, War in But even if that were so, nó re- France, the late Mr. Longbottom commendations of redress which Jews had stayed away. These are
NAVAL THREAT had three war medals the 1914 might be made, short of a total questions on which it would be
Owing to the Kayau incident the Star, Great War Medal and or stoppage of further immigration, both improper and premature to Japanese Lagship Izumo, which Medal, and he also held the Long would placate Arab animosity, at express any opinion pending the¦ was scheduled to leave for Formosa vising his son he had admonished;} political-influence, Bections of the | 1, Chittagong 2, Bangkok 6. Small- He rendered distinguished service. any rate so it would appear from report of the Royal Commission this morning, cancelled her de him to accept both with equal being mentioned in despatches its present temper. That is, of But one cannot ignore that there parture. Vice-Admiral Kondo, Com unconcern. while in France.
course, no reason why the inquiry is evidently room in Palestine for mander of a Japanese naval land- Never
ing party, issued a stern warning Foreign Secretary (You have the After the War, Mr. Longbottom should not be held. The terme of both Jews and Arabs, at any rate to the Chinese authorities, that he most responsible post in Europe") was appointed Chief Draughtsman! of the Public Works Department on the Mandate cannot be abandoned as far as the economic aspects of would take whatever steps were have been set in the world's view
as enjoying once on this land of policy. It will take place probably road safety by poster-persuasion, September 24, 1924, and he arrived and the Mandatory Power has no the matter are, concerned. This necessary to protect Japanese fe
Mr. Eden in September. There are broad Continental countries are more ruthless. In Germany the Gov- in the Colony at the end of the intention of abandoning them; affords.encouragement for the be- and, property if they were unable paternal sufferance:
favourings sort of loose alliance with the insurance companies" by following month, He was Acting but it is in every way desirable to lief that the problem of ensuring to do so "or show a lack of good listened to it all with palpablely three groups of opinion-e ernment has reached an agreement
embarrassment. The good inten- Inspector of Works for a period discover whether any specific in an amicable political accommoda The anti-Japanese sentiment was tim behind the remarks was be with either the Liberal or the Lawhich drivers of motor cars and during 1925. His last Home leave was taken in April 1933, terminating juries have been suffered by the tion between the two communities discussed at a conference at Shang-yond question, but was It a real our Party, another the conti motor cycles, even if they are in- at Christmas time in the same Arabs, and where possible, to re- should not prove ultimately inhal of the Japanese resident omcers service to Mr. Eden to representance of the existing independentured, will in rature have to pay
medy thon....
soluble. The task of the Manda and military attaches throughout him as so young and dependent action, and a third inclined to a part of the damages in any RecI- dent they cause. This, it is be- DRASTIC ROAD ́RULES lieved will help to educate the The funeral passes the Monu- It is not in dispute that the tory Power ja to make both parties China, and the Kayau affair was and as mortifed now at the more revolutionary attitude....
League's fallure largely because reviewed PRAY
While Glasgow and the author motorist to a greater regard for "zequest is made that all RB. Old Policy of a Jewish National Home realise that it holds, and intend 42 calibre revolver was found he had been more sanguine than
The deceased leaves a wife and
great sympathy will be extended in thel sad bereavement,
Service and Good Conduct Medals.
year.
ment at 5 o'clock this afternoon. A
Comrades will endeavour to be in Palestine has brought great economic benefits to the country
present.
faith."
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• “You are very young," he had
"So far you have had nothing but roses, roses all the way, but be fore long you will get "brickbats." Mr. Baldwin had told him this too, and like & Chesterfield ad-
before can a British
terprise.
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The Health Bulletin of Eastern Ports for week ending July 4 is as THE SCOTTISH NATIONALISTS
It seems to have occurred to the follows:-Pingue: Bassein 1 case, Scottish National Party that their Calcutta 1. Cholera: Bassein 1, movement is slow in gathering Calcutta 52, Negapatam 3, Rangoon
the position. ~Suggestions are be- Karachi 1, Moulmein 5, Rangoon, 2. membership are not happy over Pox: Bombay 10. Calcutta 27, ing made that something should Chittagong 11, Shanghai 3, Osaka 1. be done about it, and a conference. is being arranged to review the whole question of the party's
to hold, an absolutely even in soute bushes near the scene of Mr. Baldwin with his years could ties generally in this country con- human life by using his bank book halance between them.
last night's shooting-Reuter
permit himself to be? i
duct their campaigns to increase as a textbook. “
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