MR.
BALDWIN'S POPULARITY
4
CHEERS AT EMPIRE
BANQUET
Last Public Speech As Prime Minister
-London, May 25.
A remarkable demonstration of affection was accorded Mr. Stanley Baldwin at his last public speech as Prime Minister at the Empire Day banquet in London. Lord Athlone presided and there were 1,200 guests including Cabinet members and Empire Prime Ministers,
When Mr. Baldwin rose to propose the toast of the British Commonwealth, the audience sprang to their feet and cheered the Premier, and the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" went round.
Mr. Baldwin described the Com. monwealth as the greatest poll-
tical experiment ever made, the
success of which might mean much to mankind
and failure might
mean disaster to the Crown-one tangible link which cannot be broken.
The Premier asked: "Could trade keep us together? Trade did not necessarily mean friendship. People quarrelled over trade, We want something more profound. I believe in the long run. we cannot hold together unless we recognise the common ideals, inspirations and love of freedom of the indivi dual and body politic.
"The constitution has not been evolved by logicians. The country could do without logic, but not without commonsense. We must- not try to define the constitution too much. Politieally, the saying is true that "the letter killeth, the spirit giveth life."- Reuter.
LEAGUE COUNCIL
Genera, May 24. The League of Nations Council held no public session to-play. The first pubile meeting will be held to-
morrow.
CABINET PREDICTIONS
MINISTERIAL CHARGES
London, May 24,
In view of the imminence of Mr. Stanley Baldwin's departure from the House of Commons where he has served so long. lobby gossip is busy Cabinet-making.
It is suggested that Mr. Leslie
Hore-Belisha, Minister of Tran- sport, may become Minister af Health in place of Sir Kingsley Wood; that Mr. Oliver Stanley. Minister of Education may succeed Mr. Walter Runcimen at the Board of Trado.
It is possible that Earl de la Warr may succeed Mr. Stanley and that Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary of State for Air, may become the First Commissioner of Works, 'and that his post may be taken by Cap- tala Balfour, a Conservative hack bencher and an expert aleman.— Reuter.
A two minute private meeting HONG KONG
this afternoon adopted the agenda without comment.
Thereafter, a secret session dis- cussed the relations of Journalists with the Swise authorities, M. Joseph Avenol and the Chinese' de- legate were commissioned to dis- cuss this matter.
A meeting of the bureau of the Disarmament Conference is fixed for Saturday.- Reuter,
VISITING BATTLEFIELDS IN FLANDERS
ROTARY CLUB
(Continued from Page 8.)
delegates returned to their home- town to report upon what they had seen and heard, they told, their fellows that the general feeling at the conference was that the Hong Kong Rotary Club was socially and financially sound; the only thing wrong with It was that it was nut Ruturian! Its "stock" did not rank 100 per cent, with other clubs in China. Just in what way Hong Kong Rotarians fall short of the London. May 24,
standards reached by their fellow The Australian Military conting- elsewhere we don't know; the re- ent to the Coronation are touring
ports published in the local news "the battlefields in Flanders. The papers unfortunately do not en- party consists of twelve officers lighten us on this very important twenty-five nurses twenty-three point. All we know is that one non-commissioned officers and of the delegates said he WAS ninety soldiers.
flattered to be told at the Nan- They visited the East Sallent on Sunday and laid king Conference:-"Your Club in wreaths on the Australian dead Hong Kong is 100 per cent. Anan- who are buried in the war cemet-cially sound and socially impec- ary there. To-day they visit the cable," which was very nice to
Canadian Memorial at Ypres.- Neuter's Bulletin Service.
know: unfortunately, the speaker went on:-"but it is not a Rotary Club!" We gather that Dr. C. T. Wang made a spirited address at the Nanking Conference, and in speaking about the aims of the Rotary movement said he regard-
INDIAN CONTINGENT AT HAMPTON COURT
London, May 24. The Indian and Burmese con- tingent had their final inspection at Hampton Court to-day. In the
ed it as a means of freeing success- absence of the Duke of Connaught
ful and substantial men in a com-. Field-Marshal Sir Willlain Bird-munity "from the danger of being wood took the salute às the con- tingents marched past.- Reuter
MR. OWEN O'MALLEY PROMOTED
·
London, May 24. Mr. Owen St. Clair O'Malley, C.M.G., Counsellor of the Foreign Office since 1933, has been appoint- ed British Minister to Mexico City. In 1925 he was Counsellor of the British Legation in Peiping.- Reuter,
REFUGEES FROM BILBAO
Paris, May 24. Fifteen hundred refugees from Blibao arrived at Bayonne in two Spanish vessels. The refugees were sent on to different parts of the country where they will be taken care of by religious and charitable organisations. Benter.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1937.
EMPIRE DEFENCE JAPAN TO FILE
No Common Policy
Y
Yet Mooted
London, May. 24.
An Imperial Conference com- munique states that the question
PROTEST
Alleged Incident In Swatow
Shanghai, May 25.
A message from Tokyo states
of defence was considered at a meeting of 50 of the principal de- fegates in the Prime Minister's that the Japanese consular officials at the House of Commons were instructed this morning by in Nanking, Canton and Swatow Mr. Lyons presiding. Sir Thomas Inskip opened the discussion fol-
room
the Foreign Office to dle a pro-
test against the alleged detention
"UNCONDITIONAL
SURRENDER”
Ultimatum To Bilbao
2
Was
Bayonne, May 24. "Unconditional Jurrender" OT 'merciless war" is the gist of the ultimatum broadcast from the In- surgent headquarters at Sala- manca to-day.
Any possibility of a truce summarily dismissed by the In- and ill-treatment of a Japanese officer, Kiyoshi Aoyama, by the surgent spokesman, and in most
energetic terms. Swatow police on May 22.
The Foreign Office action follow-claims that, according to Govern
The Salamanca communique ed the receipt of a' report on the incident from Mr.
ment sources, ten bombs hit the Yamazaki, at his roquest instructions were are and would be out of action Japanese Consul at Swatow. and lencia and that she had been set battleship Jaime Primero in Va-
did not specifically touch the Clight cruiser to proceed to Swatow riven for three destroyers and one
for protection and property.- Neuter.
lowed by Mr. Mackenzle, Minister for National Defence in Canada and Sir Archdale Parkhill, Austru Han Minister for Defence: The meeting was adjourned to to-mor- row morning. It is understood that Sir Thomas Inskip exhaus- tively surveyed the organising pro blems of British
rearmament but
lonial defence measures which it is expected will be reviewed at a later meeting. The Dominions defence ministers who spoke gave a resume of their problems and how they were tackling them but it is under- stood no plans have yet been moot-
of Japanese lives
for some me.
A Basque delegation to Bayonne has stated that an unofficial com- mission of three British experts has arrived at Guernica to investigate the bombing of that town. The findings of these experts will be telegraphed to Senar del Vayo, the
ed for a common defence polley for FRENCH AIRMEN galists representative at Geneva.
the Empire.- Rentre.
EMPIRE VULNERABLE
London, May 24. Although Bir Thomas Inskip Minister of Co-ordinated Defence, dealt with problems of Imperial se- curity at the Empire Conference this afternoon, he had previously outlined his views in this matter at the Empire Press Union Conference now in session.
Sir Thomas emphasised that the question of defence was no longer
of sole interest to the United King- dom and stressed the principle of the primary responsibility of each portion of the Empire for its own
defence.
UNLUCKY
Held Up At Ford Bayard
Shanghai, May 25.
It is offcially stated from Fort Bayard that Marcel Doret and Francols Micheletti turned back and landed there at 10.20 am.
Until the receipt of this message there was much anxiety for the safety of the airmen as they had not arrived in Shanghal up to
--Reuter.
U.S. MILITARY MISSION
Gen. MacArthur en Route To Philippines
יד
Shanghai, May 25, General Douglas MacArthur, head of the American military lasion to the Philippines, arrived in Shanghai this afternoon aboard the President Coolidge, accom- noon after their. take-off from panied by his wife, the former Miss The Empire, he declared, was as Hanoi close on midnight. It was Jean Faircloth, whom he married vulnerable in its parts as at its feared that they may have been in New York on April 30, centre and the maintenance of the forced down as the weather on the He is due to arrive in Manila trade routes was a prime essential China coast was most unfavour-hext Sunday- to the existence of the commorable for flying. Despite the rain: Router. wealth of nations which they link-crowds walted at Lunghua zero- drome ready to give the airmen a
ed.
Fort
A plan had been prepared to warm welcome if they turned up. meet any emergency and to main- A later message states that the taln unsevered co-ordination be- airmen are resuming their fight tween the diferent parts of the from
Bayard to-morrow Empire, Sir Thomas went on. Lit-morning, weather permitting.-. tle remained to be done in perfect- Reuter. ing and training the three defence
The airmen are making their services.
second attempt to win the French However, he felt the press. had Alr. Ministry's prize for the first
emphasised too strongly the vul-
nerability of Britain to air attack.
In passing, the Minister mention- ed that 59 Dominions and India officers had in recent years passed through the Imperial Staff College. -Reuter.
MUNITIONS PRODUCTION
London, May 25. Mr. Baldwin presided at the sixth meeting of the principal delegates to the Imperial Con- ference at No. 10 Downing Street
Paris to Tokyo flight in under 100 hours. They appear to have been dogged by fate again as the time limit expires at 4 pm. Hong Kong time to-day (Wednesday).
RAILWAY OFFICIALS
EXECUTED
Alleged Trotskyist Band Of Spies
were
Moscow, May 25. executed at Khabarovsk close to
Eleven railway oficials the border of Manchukuo as mem- bers of an alleged Trotskyist band of sples, wreckers and diver- sionists.
The accused were charged with
WORLD AFFAIRS acting under instructions from the
BROADCAST
when, according to a communique. England's New
yesterday's discussions on defence initiated by Sir Thomas Inskip were continued by Mr. Savage Havenga (Union Finance Minister) and Lord Zetland and a further statement was made by Sir Thomas Triskip
TERRITORIAL ARMIES": Mr. Duft Cooper outlined the steps taken to bring the organisa- tion and equipment of the regular Territorial Armies up to date." regarding the Royal Air Force.
Lord Swinton made a statement
was adjourned until to-morrow when Sir Samuel Hoare will make a statement on behalf of the Navy.
The discussion
Prime Minister
An Interesting study of Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who, at the end of this week will take over the
high office of Prime Minister in succession to Mr. Stanley Baldwin, was given by Mr. H. Wickham
Steed in his broadcast on "World Affairs relayed from Daventry through ZBW last night.
Mr. Wickham Steed commented that however careful Government-
departments and their heads were as to what ought and ought not be done, there were moments when fairly swift decisions had to be made and these were entirely for the Prime Minister.
VITAL AIR LINK The suggestion that Australia should be given a mandate over! Nobody seemed to be able to say the New Hebrides, ut present definitely what everybody wanted under Anglo-French Joint control to know about Mr. Neville Cham- nas not yet been considered by the berlain. There was a prophesy in conference. These islands are on the direct route between Canada lain's Government would be a some quarters that Mr. Chamber-
and Australia and may prove to purely business one and these be the vital link in future air com munications.--
quarters had gone so far 48 to nickname.. the Government as Reuter
HOME CRICKET RESULTS
London, May 25.
too self-contained and blind to the needs of the community in which they lived." We wonder whether this explains the criticism levelled at Hong Kong Rotarlaus that they are financially solvent and socially impeccable (lovely word!), but definitely not Rotarian. A "columnist" wrote the following pungent little paragraph in com- menting upon this surprising re- velation:-"The stock of the Hong Kong Rotary Club is not high in Rotary circles. But, hang it, you know, after all, it's a British co- lony!" Anyway, the fact seems to be clearly established that for some reason the "Hong Kong mind" does not readily adapt itself to Rotarian principles, and we shall be in- terested to learn what the "Peakites" intend to do about it. Meanwhile, we are intrigued (an- other perfectly lovely word) to from which we note that a Hong Kong paper (Bri- Hong Kong: like Shanghai, has its gather that tish), commenting upon local housing problem, and its landlords economic and "social conditions; and investors (Chinese as well as says "the plain, unpleasant truth foreign) 1s that the Colony, or some part local affairs and
whose sole interest in conditions 1s
"Chamberlain Limited."
Japanese Intelligence Service and causing wrecks on important Far Eastern Railways--
Reuter,
LINDBERGH BABY MYSTERY
London, May 25.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY
STATIONS
TIME-TABLE
On and after May 1st, 1837, until Farther Notics.
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1.08 128 1.50 3,58 5.00 5.197.55
1.89 1.59 1.08
6.378.02
(1.34 1,114,185,80814
1.57 2,25430...6,528,27
Kowloon...Dep. 8.80 8.25 Taumati Dep. 88 Shatin Dep. 8.50 Talpo Dep. 7.08 Taipo Market.
Dap. 7.08 Fanling... Dep. 7,20 Sheungahui.
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DEPARTURE FOR GENEVA
Dr. Kung Expresses Thanks
Londen, May 25. Vice-Admiral Bir Herbert Meade- Fetherstonehaugh, representing His Majesty the King, Sir Alexander Cadogan Sir Frederick Leith-Ross and many friends were present at Victoria Station to bid farewell to the Chinese delegates on their departure for Geneva..
MAN WITH
REVOLVER
Mrs. Roosevelt's Talk Incident-
Weet Liberty.
Kentucky, May 28 A man was arrested and a large revolver taken from him wille Mrs. Roosevelt was speaking to several thousand persons at the inauguro- tion of a school,
The arrest followed when pocta- tors called the attention of the aug thorities to the outline of a heavy weapon under the coat worn by
the man. He was later released on
""
Mrs. Rochevelt was not informed of the incident until after she had Anished her speech-
Renter.
The leader of the delegation, Mystery surrounds the reported Dr. H. H. Kung, been by Reuter birth of a Lindbergh baby. No said: "The three weeks' stay in information is obtainable at the London has left most pleasant bail. Lindbergh home at Seven Oaks, memories. I was very strongly while the London clinic which impressed by the British ad- Colonel Lindbergh is reported to herence, to ancient traditions and be visiting daily denies that Mrs. the unsurpassable dignity and Lindbergh is a patient there. It is pageantry of the Coronation, and dennitely established that last but not least by the cordial Mrs. Lindbergh gave birth to a friendly feelings tówards China boy in a London clinic where she among leaders of Government, in- registered under the name of Mrs. dustry and finance: Charles her husband's Christian name.- Reuter,
BOW
CAPT. MANTIUS KILLED
Chancellor Hitler's Air Force Adjutant
PACIFIC. SHIPPING
London, May 25. The following is a communique
"Before I arrived I was deter- mined to fulfil to the fullest pos-y the Shipping Committee at the sible measure the mission of good Imperial Conference:
The second meeting of the Fact- will with which the Chinese Gov- ernment and people entrusted to ac sub-Committee or the
com- me. I am happy to say that the mittee on shipping questions was ready responses of China's friends held at the Board of Trade under: the chairmanship. of Mr. Walter made the task easy and I can hope that my visit has forged another Nash The question of American link in the chain of Sino-British shipping competition across the friendly relations and co-opera. Tasman Sea and trafic was dis- cussed. The meeting adjourned to tion. I thank all friends who so kindly extended hospitality and May 27 Reuter
assistance."
On the other hand, Mr. Lloyd
Berlin, May 25. George had appealed to Mr. Cham-Hitler's air force adjutant, and a Kung will be medically treated at Captain Mantius, Herr Adolf After his visit to Geneva, Dr beriain for leadership. He had not companion, Sergeant-Major Hen-Nauheim.
He hopes to return.
yet displayed the foresight of his ning, were killed in an aeroplane to London later. father. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, which crashed between Kiel and Mr. T, K. Cheng and other and the post of Premier would now Berlin to-day. give him his chance.
Anancial delegates are staying on Mr. Wickham Steed then sketch-much distressed by Capt. Mantius Reuter.
Herr Hitler is understood to be in London- Mr. Neville Chamberlain's death. He was оде of three
Middlesex best Cambridge. by ed 202 runs. Middlesex 341 (Felton career in the Government and officers drawn from the army, 171, Hulme 96) and 199 for 7 de-sold that he was Minister for navy and air force respectively who clared. Cambridge 231 and 107 Health in two Baldwin Govern were attached to Herr Hitler for (Smith 4 for 25, Peebles 4 for 29)ments and in that post Mr. Cham-special service. They accompanied Reuter.
berlain insisted that the public should get the full value of the him on all official occasiona
Reuter. public money that was spent. He always stuck to his job and never sought popularity.
of it, profits from poverty and dis-that sort of interest which is ex- ease. Man will and shelter, even pressed in figures on if he must sleep afty to a room"
dividend warrants and in bank pass-books.
Mr. Wickham Steed remarked that he could well remember Mr. Chamberlain's Arst Budget speech. It was just short, plain speaking finance.
Mr. Chamberlain had always called himself & Unionist although he had never formaken the broad
HAINAN ISLAND AS. NAVAL STATION
that
Nanking, May 26. British diplomatic circles here deny current reports iri the Japanese newspaper, saying that Britain wishes to develop Hainan principles in which his father. had Island as a naval station for Erl-. pinned his faith
tish warships. It is said To the speaker's mind. Chamberlain wants to be a truly demarche.
Mr. there is no necessity for such a
national Prime Minister. He had: Foreign investments for Hainan come into a very happy inheritance are intended purely as a commer- and England could look to him for clal venture. leadership with confidence.
Union News,
LOAN TO CHINA
London, May 28. Questioned regarding the post- bility of a loan to China before his departure for Geneva, Dr. H. H Kung replied that it was impossible to say anything at present, He had every reason, however, to be satisfed with his reception "Beuler."
RUBBER COMMITTEE.
MEETING
London, May 25, To-day'a meeting of the inter- national Rubber Committee was confined to routine matters. No communique was issued. Bruser