SMUGGLING STILL RAMPANT
NORTH CHINA REVENUES AFFECTED
Sir Frederick Maze Sends Another Report
Shanghai, March 14.
Organised smuggling in North China "which continues to affect seriously the Customs revenue and reduce the funds available for the foreign loan service" is the subject of another report to the Govern- ment by Sir Frederick Maze, who draws attention to recent cases in Tientsin and Tsingtao impairing China's sovereignty and Customs authority.
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The report says that' Japan's general attitude in North China towards the sinuggling situation ́ constitutes contravention of the *Japanese Treaty of 1898 and Tarif
Autonomy Agreement of 1930.
It further emphasises that the only radical solution of the smug- gling problem is restoration of China's supremacy in the foreign- controlled East Hopel area.- Reuter
NEW STINSON
"PLANE
South-West Aviation Corp. Contact
Canton, Mar. 14. "
A new Stinson passenger plane with three motors and accommo- dation for ten passengers will augment the feet of the South
REDS THROW OUT FEELERS
American Correspondent To Probe Situation
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Hankow, March 14, Reports that the Reds are ready surrender to the Central Authorities are mere feelers, as nothing definite is knownL
to
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1937.
BRUCE HOBBS TO RIDE IN THE "NATIONAL".
SPANISH WAR
VOLUNTEERS
Arrests At French Frontier
Paris, March 13.
Several arrests of persons en- deavouring to pass the frontler in order to serve in Spain were made by the French frontier guards on Saturday. This is the first action of this kind since the closing of
the frontier.
Th
Ten men of various nationalies were halted as they were making their way through a wood within a hundred yards of the Franco- Spanish frontler.
Furthermore the police arrested in Perpignan two anarchists, a Spaniard and an Italian, who had been playing a large part in sub- terranean activity for supporting Red Spain:- Transocean News Service.
GLORIOUS PAGE
Not The Youngest Jockey In Race
It is a mistake to suppose that if the sixteen-year-old Bruce Hobbs takes a mount in the Grand National-be will probably ride Mrs. M. Scott's Battleship or Mrs. F. A. Clark's Flying Min- ates he will be youngest jockey in the history of the race, writes. Home correspondent. Percy Woodland, one of the leading steeplechase riders of his time, reminds me that. bls brother, William, rode in the Grand National at the astonishing age of thirteen years.
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What is more, the boy, riding his "father's Marple, Anished fourth in a field of 23, the winner being Old Joe. it had not been intended that Uttle Woodland should ride in this race. The Jockey who was to have taken the mount was noticed, to be rather "under the weather" about an hour before the race. "This won't do for me," said the elder Woodland, and, "turning to his small son, added, "here, you shall ride Magple."
"I will not mention the crest fallen jockey's name," said Percy | Woodland, in telling me this story a day or two ago, "but he after- wards became quite a famous rider." It was W. Woodland's first ride in steeplechasing, and I have seen it atated that his boots and breeches were loaned to him by Fred Archer.
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6in.. bushed wiin gorse. To-day jump 20 is a thorn fence (gorse), 5ft. high; 3ft, wide.
Jump 28.13 & "thorn fence (gorse), 4ft 11in. high, 3ft. wide, ditch on far side 5ft 8in. 'wide, i 4ft. deep." The last two jumps at present are fences 4ft. 7. high and 2ft. sin. wide. Becher's Brook tence is 4ft 10in, high, 3ft. in. Members of this famous riding wide, the natural brook on the far Herbert, who was family began their careers early. side being 5ft 8in. wide, with a
a trainerin | drop of 6ft. 4in.
Madrid, Mar. 13. To-day we have written a glori- cus page in the defence of Madrid, thus terminates a Government The New York. Herald-Tribune communique, which states that the assigned Mr. Victor Keen, 163 cor-
end has come to the days of bit-France when he died in 1930, rode Valentine's Brook fence is much respondent" in Shanghai, to fly to
ter and fierce struggle. The com- a winner on the flat when nine Fushi alias Yen An in Northern Sherst, headquarters of the Communique also claims that the Gov-years old. Percy was not quite
munists, to find out the real situa- tion. It is expected that Mr. of propaganda. Keen's coverage will pierce the fog
Union News.
DR. SUN YAT SEN'S
POLITICAL WILL
ernment had not only taken the initiative in Jarama and Guadala-
jara but has also obtained favour able results including the whole- sale capture of war materials in Trijeque, 45 miles from Madrid,
On the other hand Insurgent Headquarters in Salamanca state that the threat towards Madrid is becoming very acute on account The "Kung Ping Po," one of the of the relentless push from the leading Kuomintang Party news north and south which has isolated West Aviation Corporation, as the
papers of Canton, recently publish- the whole capital, while the three contract, was signed yesterday be-
ed a lengthy article of great his- Northern columns are closing in tween a representative of the 8tin-
torical value and importance, gra-
on Guadalajara. It also claims son Aircraft Corporation and Mr.phically describing and recording success in the offensive against Liang Chin-sang, secretary of the the death and last moments of the Vacia and Madrid which was car- South-West Aviation Corporation.
Mr. Liang stated to-day that all
famous party leader Dr. Sun Yat-ried out in full force and resulted the airlines of his company are Peking, arter undergoing an opera-
sen in the Hip Wo Hospital at in many dead bodies being pled being maintained as usual
up..unburied, in the woods, olive He
tion for abscess in the liver.
groves and Jarama, Valley.- ridiculed a report in a Hong Kong
According to this interesting re- | Reuter... paper stating that all the planes.
cord, the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's of the company were out of com- mission
so-called "Political Will" Was Mr. Liang stated that four Stinson monoplanes are in
drafted and written by Mr. Wang operation although the
Ching-wel, but when asked to sign Chang
it Dr. Sun Yat-sen sald, "I will Keng, was smashed some time ago.
In the near future, Mr. Llang longer"
not sign to-day-wait a few days said that the Canton-Fano! line
The record states that linking with the French air mali
some days afterwards, Dr. Sun will be augmented by a route via
Yat-sen signed the document with Pakhol and Kwangchouwan. This his death bed.
a steel pen, when propped up on is for the benefit of the French re- sidents in that leased territory
Union News.
FRENCH GIRL
FROM CHINA
Missing For Month
·
In England
A 20-year-old French girl, Mar-
OPERATIONS HELD UP Madrid, March 13-A large scale plot to kidnap General Mlaja nas been unearthed in Madrid, It was also intended to foment trouble between the Socialists and Byn- dicatists, according to official an- nouncements.
Thirty people have been arrest ed including five police officers, Yat-sen's last words before ex-
It is also stated that Dr. Sun Madrid was shelled for four hours
and the centre of the city is suffer piring were "Peace- Struggle-ing considerably. The insurgents Save China,”
Spirit Of "Old School Tie"
Mr. G. Lansbury's Belief
What do people think at the "old school tie"? In a speech Mr. Duff
claim to be only four miles from Guadalajara but the Government asserts that the militia took the Initiative in this sector and pushed back the enemy.
Bad weather is holding up the operations in Northern Spain and as a result there is a lull in the fighting around Oviedo.- Reuter.
PROTEST TO LEAGUE Geneva, March 13.-A protest
sixteen when he had his first ride In the Grand National; and three
Drumcree, a triumph he supple- years later he was successful on
mented on Covertcoat, besides win- ning the biggest jumping events in France:
the same, as Becher's, excepting that it is not quite so wide and the drop is 3in. lesa. The Jump immediately preceding the water Jump, usually referred to as the "Chair" fence, is the open" ditch. This thorn tence (spruce) is 5t 2in., and thus the highest jump on the course It is 9ft. 9in. wide. and the ditch on the takeoff side is 6ft. wide. 2ft deep. there being a guard rail of ift. sin in front of the ditch. The water jump la 16ft. wide overall with a thorn fence
FENCES AND RIDERS In the course of our chat, Percy Woodland expressed the Interest- ing view that the Liverpool, fences. were in his young days. "It was (Borse). 3ft, high and 2ft 6in. wide, are nothing like as stiff as they
possible then, he states, "to walk along the top or any of the fences from one end to the other, but if I were to try to do the same thing to-day I should sink in un to my thighs."
According to Woodland the pro-. cess of making the tences less for- midable and easter to get through on the top. though their actual height has not been reduced, set in after the War, and he claims. that the obstacles have never re- gained their former density. I pointed out that just as many horses seemed to get round in the Grand National in the old days 11.5 the average number under existing conditions. To this the reply was that the standard of horsemanship over the Liverpool country was higher then than now.
Names were quoted of a number of famous Grand National practi- tioners for whom there are few counterparts to-day, and it was suggested that the riding of the amateura
in the Foxhunters'
Grand National is better than the Chase on the day following the
in the big race. show made by many of the jockeys
These are down-
right opinions which may not be generally accepted and will prob- ably be the subject of discussion among the steeplechasing com- munity. At all events they come on race riding over the fences."
guerite d'Anjou,, of Pandora-road: Cooper, Secretary for Waz, deplor~against the presence of Italian re- from an unquestionable authority West Hampstead, said to be the
ed the fact that the phrase "should gulars in Spain has been received daughter of a consular official ate one always calculated to canre Peking, appeared before Sir Follolaughter," states the "Daily Tele-by the League from the Foreign"
Graham-Campbell at Bow street, states the "Dally Telegraph."
She was charged, as
an allen, with falling to notify her change of address. Replying to Sir Rollo, she said she had entirely forgotten
to do so.
Det.-Insp. Minter,
graph."
Investigation showed that many people take the old school the as seriously as Mr. Duff Cooper-but
AINTREE FENCES EASIER
I it, is true that the Aintreé fences are easier than before the
and the 121t. of water is 3ft, deep. PLUMPTON MEETING
ABANDONED
- Plumpton's one-day meeting had to be abandoned on account of flood water on the course. Far- ther rain at Nottingham made it a little doubtful at one time whe- ther it would be possible to run off the
programme there, but
at noon the Stewards decided
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In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.
in favour of racing. Naturally the MERCHANT NAVY WEEK
for the
ground was extremely soft, and during the afternoon mist prevent- ed the onlookers from seeing very much of the racing. In several cases Belds were remarkably strong, there being 19 runners for the Wollaton 'Chase and only one. fewer for the Mansfield 'Chase.
With the Eari of Athlone as manufacture, and even ranneoin Runners
Mansfield President, a Merchant Navy Week, parades. 'Chase included the Grand Nation- the arst of its kind is to be held al entrant, Flying Minutes, who, at Southampton from July 17 to ridden by D. Morgan, finished 24, states the "Evening News" It third. An extremely easy winner is being organised to bring before here was Perfect Part who bad
the public the manifold and es- fallen recently at Haydock, but had sential.services of merchant sea- previously done well over
men. The receipts will be devoted fences at Leicester and Wolverto The Missions to Seamen, which hampton. This time he scored by care for British merchant sailors
At Southampton In July
20 elngths from Duan-Mor.
the
all the world over. In view of the conditions under foot the absence of Corpach from in an area larger than that avall- In the sheds on the new docks the Annesley Maiden Hurdle was able at Olympia, the Southern not unexpected. There was a well- backed winner in Smerwick, who, carrying the colours of Mra. H. M. Hollins for the first time, was an unknown quantity under these rules. In the autumn this Achtof gelding bed run well on the flat in Ireland.
Beveral jockeys were injured by falls during the day. E. J. Carr. broke a collar bone. J. Bissill hurt his ribs when Lurid fell. This horse broke a shoulder and was de- stroyed., Fawcus was cut about the
Minister Delvayo who declared that the present offensive is being made by four regular divisions of the Italian army, namely three Black-War It is equally the case that a shirts and one Littoria, under certain number of the obstacles Italiari generals. In addition to were relatively insignificant fty vid Sedberghian, and former Rug- gades, one German and one Italian: 30 were then ordinary hurdles. 3rt. face.
these, there are two special bri- years ago. Jumps 5, 20, 28, 28, and of Scotland by captain of England, said: "There are other German regulars
for varying reasons.
Mr. W. W. Wakefield, M.P, an
Yard, said the girl, after being recent years the fact that the old and four companies of motorised
school tle-any school has been sections in Carabinieri.-- obtainable at any haberdashers She
Renter. lor sixpence, regardless of whether you were really there or not, has contributed to the contempt shown in some places.
sympathy, with others."
London, Mar. 13-Reports from Salamanca state that further Nationalist successes were record- ed. The communique adds that
Police Seek Aga Khan's Host
missing for about a month, was found practically destitute. originally came to England to visit her uncle.
Her uncle. in evidence, stated that she had been brought up in
"But Mr. Duff Cooper is right. considerable luxury; but her father. After all, the the shows that you several villages were occupied on recently had large money losses.
Search is being made by the po- and it became necessary for the
have a common Association and the Guadalajara Front, to the ice of Tanganyika for a young gir to obtain employment
north of Torifa, thus representing Indian merchant who on a lavish "She came to live with me in
Mr. George Lansbury, M.P., who a straightening of the line. Na-scale entertained the Aga Khan Kent," he continued, "and tried
was educated at elementary day tionalist aeroplanes report that re- during his East African tour, sta- to get work. While I was in Paris, schools, said: "I have no objecfugees are streaming from Chuadates the "Daily Telegraph Marguerite was told by the Home we had none. It was only a very
tion to the old school' tie, although I lafara.
A warrant for the man has been Office to leave England by Jan, 20. ordinary school I was at yet I'm successes,
On the heels of the Nationalist Issued on a charge of defraud- Had Studled Law
comes the statement ing local banks of a sum of about "I wrote to her telling her to
proud of it. I deplore the idea from Madrid that on the Guada- £200,000 by forged documenta Join me in
Paris, but she tele-or Harrow or one of the 'class'
that it is necessary to go to Eton lajara front the. Nationalist ad-
This is a large sum for Dar-es- graphed that she was not coming schools to catch the spirit of the nouncement adds that it must be is feared.
vance was checked, and the an- Galaam, and a local financial crisis From that time she disappeared."
old school tie The uncle, who offered to take
assumed that this was brought charge of the girl while he com-
about partly by the arrival of the municated with her parents In
reinforcements sent by the Gov- China, added:
U the fact that the Nationalist forces, after four days of intense Aghting. are showing signs of fatigue.
to remain in England if suitable crament and partly due work is found for her."
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"My niece had been studying law in a solicitor's office, but left there Sir Rollo Graham-Campbell when told she must quit the coun- adjourned the case until May 5 to give, the uncle, an opportunity of "Her fathers at present in a communicating with the Home Peking hospital and her mother is Office and the girl's parents in in great distress.
try.
China "I would like to ask the Home Me d'Anjou was released on Office for a permit for Marguerite' her, uncle's bail of £10.-
The Aga Khan visited East Africa during the tour he made in
CORONATION SEATS
London, Mar. 13:
celebration of bis Golden Jubilee as head of the Ismaili section of the Moslems. His host here was Esmail Bosacinali Hasmani, who was supposed to be very successful in business and to have "siderable fortune.
He placed his own fleet of sero- planes at the Aga Khan's disposal FLED FROM TOWN
Rallway is generously providing space for a series of exhibits, de- monstrations, and displays show
ng practically every phase of life chant seamen are equipped. and afloat. Visitors will see how mer-
how the merchant navy houses,
will be open to inspection. among Representative miercnant" ships
them the Queen Mary and E- press of Britain. Other attractions will include tours round the docks and Southamton Water, flights in aeroplanes and trips in speed boats; a ship in dry dock; "dan- cing, concerts, and the singing of
Bea shanties by seamen; a ball on
ashore. board a liner, and a popular dance.
ADMIRALTY HELF
The "Admiralty and all the lead ing shipping companies are co- operating to produce a result which will set forth in the most. Impressive and comprehensive way that has ever been attempted, and a more or less concentrated arms, feeds, clothes, transports form, the work of the merchant protects and re-creates shore-service in peace and in war, the dwellers.
tives of its officers and men, and the multiplicity of the cargoes
In
carried.
There will be shown model ships of every type; modern marine in- struments and equipment; model Apart from its educational and lighthouses, lightships, buoys, and entertainment value, Southamp other navigational safe-guards; ton's merchant navy week should trawling and whaling gear; special bring home to thousands, the exhibits from the Royal Navy, and "absolute dependence of every in- others illustrating the work of the habitant of Great Britain and the merchant navy during the war in British Commonwealth of Nations convoys, minesweeping, and patrol upon a merchant feet adequate to work; exhibita dealing with cruis- carry the huge quantities of food, ing liners, coastal pleasure craft, raw commodities, and manufac yachts, power and speed boats; tured articles without which we the carriage of malls by ses, and cannot exist as an Empire. the transmission of messages by cable,
The offices of Merchant Navy Week are at the Seamen's In- stitute, Queen's-terrace, South ampton.
MANY MODELS a "con-"]`There will also be on view models) of a coal mine and an oil field; a Canadian tumber camp, atock FRENCH AIRMEN farm, and wheat held; sheep and fruit farms in Australia, New Zea- land, and South Africa; and !
A week ago he left the town in
feur.
DAMASCUS
Damascus, Mar. 13.
i Making an attempt to dy from. Paris to Tokyo within 100 hours... the French airmen Pissavy, and Cornet arrived here to-day.
The airmen took off from Le Bourget on Wednesday and have" already stopped twice, at Bastia (Corsica) and Tunis
a car accompanied by his chauf- tea, coffee, cocos, sugar, tobacco,
The authorities are ZUW
and rubber plantations in other using aeroplanes and wireless in parts of the world-everything, in- their efforts to trace him.deed, connected with the raw His car has been found abandon materials carried in merchant ed, but the police suspect, that he ships. laid a false trail, double back to Demonstrations will include a the Coast and is now making off to diver at work; life saving at sea; Many seats along the route for | the south in a dhow......
Ilfeboat and fire drill; deck games; viewing the Coronation have been Dar-es-Salaam banks have now passing through the Customs French airmen in the past few Theirs is the third attempt by In the course of the Government allotted to the High Commission-stopped further commitments and loading and unloading cargo, a months to reach Tokyo in 100 counter-attack, several guns were era of the Dominions and for are calling in advances, Credit day in the life of an RN.V.. sea hours and so gain the £3,000 prize captured as well as nine prisoners Dominion visitors.
generally is being withheld and man; displays by Ben Scouts and offered by the French Air Minis who were all described as Italians Applications for seats will have many firma may be involved in boys from the training abip Mer- try to the first pilot to accomplish
Neuter.
to be made to the offices of the financial disaster as a result of the cury; net and cigarette making the feat (Other cables on Brain on page 6) Commissioners concerned.--Renter.alleged 1088.
weaving and other processes of Reuter.