The V.R.C, held a successful swimming gala yesterday evening. Page 10.
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A Dinner Dance will be held on the" Open Roof of Repulse Bay Lido-weather permitting-and at Repulse Bay Hotel in event of bad weather, on Saturday, August 15 at 9 pm, and the usual Tea Dance will be held at Repulse Bay Hotel on Sunday, August 16 p.m.
An unconfirmed report states that on Wednesday night an arm-' ed robbery was perpetrated in Kowloon Tong. The victim" of the
KWANGSI CRISIS hold-up was a Chinese rent collec
SETTLEMENT
Demands Sent To Nanking
Wychow, Aug. 13. Four demands have been ad- Govern- vanced to the Central
ment by Generals L Tsung-fen and Fel Chung-hsi, Kwangsi lead- ers, for a peaceful settlement of the Kwangsi crisis. It was learned
from reliable sources to-day.' Thé demands are:"
1. That Generals Li and Pel shall be given government missions and funds to go abroad after their re- tirement.
tor who had on his person at the time $120 which was taken by his assailants: `Accosted and held up at the point of a revolver, the un- fortunate man could do nothing to prevent his, money being taken.
The following marriage licence was issued at the Registrar's Office; Lt. Cyril Hubert Burtees Wise, R.N., attached to HMB. Regent, and Miss Ids Florence Ritchie, of 40.
Kennedy Road, Hong Kong.
A telegram addressed to Robert Gohi, sa. President Hoover from Cebu is now lying unclaimed at the omces of the EE. Telegraph Co., Ltd.
Three cases of Enteric Fever were reported to the Health Authorities
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2. That General Li Ping-hsien, for the 24 hours ended on Wednes-. the Kwangsi chief of staff. should day. be appointed Pacification Com- missioner of Kwangsi, and General Hala Wei, another important Kwangst army leader, as deputy Paciication Commissioner of the province.
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3. That all military and govern- ment omcials In Kwangsi shall re- main at their posts..
4. That the Kwangai army shall? not be transferred from the pro- The application by the Egyptianvince and no Central Army shall be Government for membership of sent into that province. the League of Nations will have All the terms are considered as the full support of the British not acceptable to the Central | Government.
Government. It is understood.-- Union News.
Laws were joined by others in a little town of Lagranja about 50 The children were staying at the waiting fleet of junks They re-miles from Madrid, and thus found reserved points, dealing particu
With regard to the fourth of the moved the Toot and ave themselves in the middle of the larly with protection of foreign. captives.- Union News:
war zone. With the help of the interests in Egypt, this is at pre Spanish Nationalists the children sent efected by the capitulations were transported via Segovia to treaties under which foreign Portugal and finally boarded at powers who are parties to such Lisbon & German steamer which treatles were alowed to exercise conveyed them to Hamburg.-
extraterritorial' jurisdiction In re Transocean News Service,
gard to their nationals.
MR. KAWAGOE ON LONG TOUR
To Discuss North China Matters
oficiala,
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Shanghai, Aug. 13. upon all points at issue. The dor, sailed on the Dairen Maru on Mr. Kawagos, Japanese Ambassa- terms of the understanding have a two weeks' inspection tour of not yet been made public; but North China, where it is expected they are understood to be much that he will confer with high Chin- as to give ground for hope that ese and Japanese military and civil they will facilitate the adherence
Immediately after his arrival in of Germany to the desired agree Tientsin, Mr. Kawagoe is plunging 'ment, and will also smooth the into a series of interviews with way towards concord in the Far Lieut-Gen. Tashiro, Commander of Punctually at 8 o'clock the Fast. If that hope proves well the Japanese forces in North China, morning the airship, Graf Zep founded the Government may ping to conter with leaders of the after which he will proceed to Fel- pelin, started on its plath trip this year to Rio de Janeiro, fairly be congratulated upon hav-Hopel-Chahar Council.
`(“Hong Kong Dally Press' Special)
Friedrichshafen. Aug. 13.
In addition to 20 passengersing achieved a material advance On the return trio, Mr Kawagoe and 300 kilos of malla, the airship towards the elimination of naval will stop at Tsingtao in order to carries 400 kilos of freight con- competition throughout
exchange views with General Han the aisting almost entirely of 1ms of
Fu-chu, Chairman of the Shantung Provincial Government the Olympic Games- Transocean News Service,
Bruter-
world, and towards some allevia tion of the burden of armaments.
FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS »
French Press Indications
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"T"Hong Kong Daily Press" Special
Paris, August 13. The possibility of early Franco German negotiations is indicated by the usually well-informed editor of "L'Oeuvre," Madame Taboula, who writes that the problem of Franco-Gérman re-
RED MENACE IN KIANGSU
Peiping, Aug. 13.. Americans in Kiangsu to the east and south of the Yellow River. are being warned by their con- The British Government was suls to exercise caution in view of naturally unable to accede to the the fact that Biking Reds have now Egyptian request for promise of entered northwest. Szechuan, while moral support for unilateral de other Rads are active at Ninghsia nunciation of capitulations, but on the Kiangsu border. have agreed to support the Egyp Reuter, tian invitation to the capitulatory powers to a conference in Cairo during the coming winter when the cussed in an effort to negotiate a whole question wil be clearly dis-
settlement.
ALLIANCE BEGINS
The ""Times" says that in these
STOP PRESS
ALL-INDIA TEST. SELECTIONS,
London, Aug 13. lations is absorbing the attention negotiations may be an overde The following are the All-India: of responsible French circles in mentally the quilted pool te sare cricket selections for the Third their the fullest possible sup- Test which begins to-morrow at the ever-increasing measure.
Ovalley on
SILVER MARKET
London, August 13. London Silver prices to-day were unchanged as follow:----
Spot
Forward
Aug. 12 Aug. 13 19-9/1619-9/16. 10-9/18
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GERMAN-AUSTRIAN AGREEMENT
Satisfaction Expressed
Vienna Meeting
(Hong Kong Daily Press Spec al)
Vienna, August 13. Chancellor Schuschnigg" presided at a meeting of 21 regional, leaders of the "Patriotic Front" at Salzburg, at which the leaders unanimously reported the deep satisfaction felt by the · · whole population: throughout Austria at the re-establishment of normal, friendly relations between Austria and Germany," This're-establish- ment does not imply any change in the organisation of the Patriotic- Front
Foreign Minister Schmidt read a. declaration that no modification of Austria's foreign policy was contemplated. Transocean News Service,
The writer points out that, al- port... though political rapprochement It adds: “And so with complete Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram,
CHICHESTER AT PEIPING" between the two countries is very agreement on all points, British C. K. Naidu, Wazir All, Merchant, difficult, such an achievement occupation of Egypt ends and Ramaswami,⠀⠀⠀ Dilawar Hussain,
Peiping. "August might be more easy in economic British
with Egypt Jerangir Kham Mushtaq All, Captain Chichester, the New and financial spheres.--
begins."
Beqajilani, Nissar" and "Amarsingh. | Zesland "airman, arrived here at Transocean News Service.
Reuter
7.20 p.m. yesterday from Tsingtao.
Alliance
British Wireless.