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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1937.
HENLEY
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RESULTS
Henley, July 3.
In glorious weather the finals of the Saver Goblets was contested and was worr by Vesta who beat London by three lengths in the time of 9 mins. 43 secs.
Stewards Cup:-Leander defeat- ed Thams by a length. Time: 8 mins. 32 secs.
Grand Challenge Cup:-1, Viking (Germany); 2, Jesus College by half a length. Time: 7 mins. 35
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Visitors Cup-Trinity Hall beat Oriel easily in the time of 8 mins. 18 secs.
blamond Sculls: Hasenohrl (Austria) defeated Coulson (Cana- da easily. Time: 9 mins. 12 secs.. Ladies' Plate:-Clare College beat First Trinity by a length Time: 7 miru, 38 secs,
Aviators throughout the world will be watching with keen anti- cipation on the evening of July 5, when, after months of the most · elaborate tests in weather observations the Imperial Airways 18-ton liner flying boat Caledonia and the Pan-American Airways's giant "Sikorsky will make the first Anglo-American trials from opposite directions with a view to the establishment of trans-Atlantic, service.
Allowing for adverse winds nor Her crew consists of a pilot, first mally from the west, the Caledonia | officer, engineer, two wireless en- Wyfold Cup:-Won by London: An automatic pilot has with Walton 'second by half ...a should cover 1.893 miles from Ry,gineers hanna, at the mouth of the Shan- been fitted and she will continual-length. Time: 8 mins, 20 secs. non, to Botway, Newfoundland. In
ly be in touch with both sides of Thames Cup:-1, Tabor (Ameri- the Atlantio and all shipa en route.ca); 2, London. Won by a length. 16 hours, but as a matter, of safety she carries enough petrol for the flying boats start together and if
By a gentlemen's agreement bath Time: 7 mins. 31 secs. complete 3.223 tes via Montreal the weather delays one the other to New York
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Opium Smuggling
Further Evidence In
1
Javanese Prince Case
MINISTERS AT KULING
Nanking, July 3. Ho Ying-ching and Ku Chu-tung has gone to Kuling by air to re- Fresh evidence for the prosecu-ceive instructions from General- tion was heard before Mr. W issimo Chiang Kai-shek prepara- Schofield in the Javanese Princetory to going to Chungking- case when it was resumed at the Reuter. Central Magistracy on Saturday.
WARM WELCOME Charles D. Evans, ship's carpen-
Preparations are being made at ter and Wong Yau alias Wong Chungking to give a warm welcome Kwai-shun, well-known merchant to General Ho Ying-chin, Chair- and property owner, are charged man and General Ku. Chu-tung. with smuggling oplum out of the Vice-Chairman of the newly-form- Colony to New York on board theed Military Organisation Com- said vessel Javanese Prince. It is mittee for Szechuan and Sikong alleged that the oplum was given The two generals are to Evans by Wong.
due At Chungking by air on July 5 and The prosecution is in the hands will be met at the aerodrome by of Mr. W. M. Thomson, the Assis-General Lin Hslang. Governor of tant Superintendent of Imports Szechuen, and other prominent and Exports. Evans is represented provincial leaders who are specially by Mr. W. A. Mackinlay while Mr. going there from Chengtu to greet
V. T. Prior is defending Wong.
Yessi Bin Dollah, boatswain of the Javanese Prince was closely examined by the defending solici tors.
UNTRUE EVIDENCE Mr. Prior addressing, the witness sald:
I put it to you that in order to save yourself from going to prison, you have come here and given 'evidence which is untrue.
Witness-No.
Mr. Thomson: Was any induce ment of any kind offered you to make you give evidence?
Witness-No.
was
The next witness, called Besant Singh, watchman employed by the Prince Line.
He stated that at about 2.30 am on June 17, he was on duty when
Evans walked up the gangway with two suit cases. He stopped Evans and said the sult cases must be searched, but Evans refused and, pushing his way past, went to his cabin.
them - Reuter.
JAPANESE FORCES
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IN NORTH CHINA
Shanghai, July 4. Strong instructions given to any Chinese envoy in recent years was delivered to Ambassador Hsu Shih- ying on the eve of the envoy's re- turn to Tokyo. They call for with- drawal of all Japanese forces from North China and the complete abandonment of Foreign Minister Hirota's "three principles."
The Instructions are understood to", contain points:-
the following four
Reuter,
13.
King Sends Message Of Sympathy
London, July 4. The official casualty list in the Brymbo colliery disaster thirty dead, six injured: The pit shows is flooded and it is expected the bodies of the dead men will not be taken out for three or four days, The King has sent a message of sympathy to the relatives of those disaster.--- who lost their lives the
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
PRES. AGUIRRE
St. Jean de Luz, July 3.
temporary headquarters in "his After residing for sometime in
humble country home in the still unconquered portion of Biscay. President Aguirre has left Basque territory and joined the Basque troops at Santander. On the eve
of his departure he issued a protest to a world burning with indigna- tion against those who robbed us of our country." The Insurgents claim to be advancing on the Bas- que front. Santander was bombed yesterday causing death to eigh- teen civilians.-- Reuter's Bulletin Service.
MAJORITY FOR DE VALERA
Dublin, July 3. The latest voting state of the Parties are:-De Valera 17, Cos- grave eight. Independents five. Labour two, which gives De Valera, a slight majority over the com-
Heuter's Bulletin Service.
1. Dissolution of the East Hopelination of all the other parties.- and North Chahar regimes shall be a pre-requisite to any Sino- Japanese economic rapprochement, 2 The Hirota three principles must be completely withdrawn. Any Japanese policies tending to colonize North China or to impair
Evans told him not to make a noise as the cases contained whis-China's territorial and administra-
3. The Japanese garrison in
key. The witness, was not satisfied | tive Integrity will be fatly rejected." and asked him to produce the keys. He Ufted the corner of one of them It broke and witness saw Lome ting.
$250 OFFERED Evans then appeared very frightened and taking some notes from his pockets, tald witness to take $250 and not bother him 'any more.
The stu, Evans said, belonged to a Chinese and the boatswain and he had been given $250 to take the opium to the ship. Wit- neas told Evans to let him know.
North China must be recalled
4. Unrestricted flying by Japan- ese over North China must cease.- Union News
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ARAB, JEWISH OPPOSITION TO
SCHEME EXPECTED
Jerusalem, July 4.
According to a report from authoritative Jewish sources the London Royal Commission to Palestine recommends® division into three classes of terriotry, namely, Arab, Jewish States and British Mandated Argus.
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The Jewish state is to comprise country is to be the Arab state,, the whole of the upper and lower joinable by the Trans-Jordan. Galilee Valley. Eadraelon coastal The Commission, "the report plain and part of the southern-alleges, declares that all the pro- district, also the towns of Haifa, posals it heard and considered Salad, Acre and Tiberius,
were merely palliatives and it was therefore necessary to go to the root of the problem.
The British area comprises Jeru salem, Bethlehem and Nazareth, also a corridor extending on either side of Jerusalem on the Jaña rand to permit Arabs access to Jaffa port. The remainder of the
PARIS STRIKES
Paris, July 3. Three thousand metal workers in Paris started a sit-down strike franc per hour in their wages. demanding an increase of one Employers have offered forty cen- times and at present the situation is a deadlock. The proposed strike to-day by hotel proprietors as a protest against the week did not materialise as em- ployers and employees have now agreed that the question of hours be settled by the Labour Inspec- Reuter's Bulletin Service.
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If the foregoing proves accurate very intense Arab and Jewish op- position to partition of the acheme is expected-Reuter.
A DREAM
FULFILLED
The Empire Air Mail
This the first year of a new forty-hour reign, is to be distinguished by a great historic event of Empire- wide importance, the establish- ment of the lid. flat rate for mails by air. and the transport of all first-class mail by air to all parts of the Empire on the main air routes.
AMELIA EARHART
RESCUED
New York, July 3 According to a broadcast from
Honolulu, Miss Amelia Earhart has been rescued by a British vessel.
Reuter.
WEAK SIGNALS PICKED UP.
Los Angeles, July 4. A wireless amateur reports to have picked up weak signals, be- Neved to be from Amelia Earhart's acroplane, at 12.30 p.m." (British) Standard Time) Reuter.
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The dream, which none took seriously when organised air com- mercial transport began to take. form after the war, comes true.
Nineteen years ago the most sanguine asked to forecast the date when a British Government
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would legislate for the sending of Amur River Incident CHARTERHOUSE
all first-class mail to the domi- nions and colonies by air, would not have hazarded any earlier than 1950.
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BRITAIN'S LEAD
the countries on the air route to Yet within the next few weeks South Africa will get the mall from the United Kingdom by the swiftest and most expensive means of transport bearing, the ordinary lid. postage stamp for -0% let ters and id. for postcards. No country among those now follow ing Great Britain's lead in this
great enterprise will equal it for
cheapness:
India, Burmah, and 'Malaya will come into the scheine before the end of the year, and Australis early next year.
Tokyo, July 3.
The solution of the Amur: River incident, in which Soviet gunboats clashed with Manchukuo troops, is
ORGAN
received by various quarters here Appeal ""To Save":
with satisfaction.
Priceless Work"
Observers point out, however, that the solution reached in Mos- cow between the Soviet Foreign save the magnificent Schütze "or" An appeal for a purchaser to and Commissar, M. Maxim Litvinov,
gan in the old chapel at Charter- Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, provides up was made in a letter to the The Japanese Ambassador, house school from being broken only for withdrawal of the Boviet Editor of the "Morning Post" troops and gunboats from the Sen-signed by Dr. Stanley Marchant,
auta and Bollshol islets and res-
toration of the status quo ante,
This means, it is stated, main- tenance of the eight lighthouses on the islands by Manchukuo and the settlement of Manchukuoans on the island for farming or placer
mining.
Principal of the Royal Academy of
Music: Sir Walter G. Alcock, or- ganist of Salisbury Cathedral; Mr. H. Goss Custard, crganist of Liverpool Cathedral; the Rev. J. H. Burn, Rector of, Whatfeld; the Rev. Andrew Freeman, Vicar of Standish; and the Rey. Noel Bona- via-Hunt, Vicar-designate Stugsden.
of.
They point out that the organ
Arab Governor Australia. À U.S. Thesis Pleasing miral Philly's death occurred at tween Holland and the Nether-title to the islets. In question, in Edmund Schulze, and that its ma
To Germany
INTO
QUESTION OF TITLE Observers are also of the opinion necessary between Japan and the was the last built by one of the that further negotiations will be Soviet regarding the question of greatest organ builders of all time, view of the Soviet's claim to them. terial value alone has been asSERS-
Both Japan contend that the islets belong to
and Manchukuo fed by experts at £3,000, It has Manchukuo, as was demonstrated ion of a new chapel, for which it
been in disuse because of the erec by settlement there of Manchu was unsuitable on account of its kuoana, In accordance with the size and shape. technical waterways
consists of four Manchukuo at Tahelho last year.
agreement The reached between the Soviet and manuals and afty-two speaking
stops, besides couplers and acces Military aircles in Tokyo state ories, and it is available "at 2 the opinion that it is necessary for lue the writers add.
price well below its material va-
each participating country will x till the Soviet troops have evacuat
Japan and Manchukuo to pursue In the British Empire scheme an attitude" of watchful waiting its own postage rates on letters ed the islets.” and postcards for the other parti- Heter cipating countries.
organ
tunity for some church, contem- Here is an unparalleled oppor- plating the purchase of an organ, to acquire an instrument of out- standing beauty of tone.
Lord Wakefield's Tribute To Admiral Phillip
Viscount Wakefield,
Philatelists collecting air mail panied by representatives of the stamps will ere long have a nar- of Bread-street, London, rower field to exploit, for ordinary visited Bath recently, and, unveiled postage stamps will suffice where, a memorial in the Abbey to Ad-in many cases, special stampa pave miral Arthur Phillip, founder and been used.
From June 1 all Dutch mails be-
Bath, and he was buried inlands East Indies will be carried by Bathampton Church, There was air at 12 cents (about 3d.) for the a procession from the Gulfdhall to first 10 grams (0.35 oz.), and if the In a speech which caused satis. the Abbey, where Lord Wakefield, sender prefers to send by boat he faction in German diplomatic cir- in unveiling the tablet, said. cles, Mr. Francis Sayre, "Assistant
must expressly indicate it, and the Arthur Phillip, to Secretary of State, said recently, courage "and widot is sense of 20 grains.
his rate will be 12 cents for the first "In the last analyals the root justice and his resourcefulness in causes of war are not infamed face of difficulty and hardship we countries abroad, by air without Belgium will send letters to racial hatreds or national pre- awe the emergence of a great peo-extra charge. France is about to judices, but underlying economic, ple. partners with ourselves in this introduce non-surcharge air mail financial or other policles of a Empire. We are resolved that his throughout France. Freemasons in Glasgow are non-co-operative nature which in memory shall be honoured in the when the men came aboard so that considering a suggesting to erect time produce tense problems from Motherland as it is honoured in they could be arrested. The wita Masonic temple costing £100,000, which war seems to bellicase minds the great Commonwealth of Aus- ness placed another watchman at which would be ready for, opening to offer the only way of escape." Evans door.
in 1939--the bicentenary of the
tralla of which he was the found- The condemnation by the Assis- er.". Between 6.30 and 6.45 in the Glasgow Province.
tant Secretary of "cutting off The Mayor afterwards gave a morning, a motor car came to the
The proposal has come from Sir other nations from access to need luncheon at the Guildhall to Lord British Empire flat rate air mall of the vindication of air transport rate of this unique masterpiece
The financial provision: for the side of the ship with three girls Alexander B. awan, Provincial ed raw materials" was felt to give Wakefield and a number of guests scheme was announced last week. now recognised even by cautious should communicate at once with and the boatswain, who went to
Grand Master of Glasgow, who support, to German requests for Replying to the toast of his health, Subsidies for the operation of the administrative and Post Office the his cabinË vrugt
thinks that Glasgow-one of the the removal of the American em- Lord Wakefield said not the least services will total £9,000,000 over officials! Bo About twenty ave minutes later. largest centres of Freemasonry in bargo on the export of hellum sup- of Admiral Phillip's gifts was a the fifteen years of the agreement,
Rev. Noel Bonavia-Hunit, a fire broke out in the engine room Scotland-should have a building plies..
When the Empire air services
Stageden Vicarage, Bedford." and witness was told to turn out worthy of the city.
profound grasp of the immense on a decreasing scale from £750,- are operated by the new dying peal is prompted solely by a sin- Mr. Bayre aisg condemned "in- possibilities latent in the youthful 000 in the first down to £450.000 boats and big highspeed land air cere desire to rescue from Ima The writers add that their ap alt available men,
"We have nothing at all to be ternational preferences and trade colony. Within a few months of in the last year. In each of the Uners now being steadily put into minent dissolution a priceless work Later in the morning, Mr. Hol- compared with the Masonic temples discriminations. War could not be the establishment of the com- years at least £185,000 will be paid operation, there will be, weekly, or are lands came from the head office in England," said Bir Alexander eliminated by force of arms normunity, such was his far-seeing by countries participating in the two services to Bydney, two to and witness reported the affair to in an interview with "The Bulletin" by emotional pacifism, Mr. Sayre Imagination that he was able to scheme, some of it to the British Durban, three to Bingapore, ave to him. At 2 p.m. Mr. Holland had in Glasgow. "It would be most said, but by "shaping national po report to Lord. Sydney his con- Government, some to Colonial air India. three to East Africa, and done nothing so witness went to appropriate if members of the licles along more co-operative ndent prophecy that the country services him again and it appeared that movement could come togethernes." there was a misunderstanding as and decide to erect a Masonic
dog would prove the most valuable ac- pcrial Airways,
co-operating with Im- nine to Egypt he had mentioned whiskey when temple in Glasgow in time for the vention of the Women's Tem-It has been clear, proceeded Mr. Bayre was addressing a conquisition Great Britain even made.
At present the schedules are: to talking of the opfum in the suit bicentenary celebrations in 1939." perance Union. He read a mes- Lord Wakefield, that Phillip's
LOSS OF £260,000 A TEAR Singapore, alx to seven days; to Cape Town, six to seven days; to Sir Alexander pointed out that. Bage of welcome from the Presi-judgment was sound. Our ins enterprise at first be fulfilled, but to Australls, ten days.
Ports for the week ending on tene Not without loss can this great Karachi, three to four days; and The chief officer and Mr. Holland though £100,000 was mentioned dent, who commended the union men in Australia, historically still it is expected that this loss will These eventually, when much 26, 1937-Plague. Bassein 3 cases. then went to Evans' cabin where as the cost of such a building, he and its Interest in world peace, young nation, stand in the eyes not be more than £200,000 a year, nine will be done by night by the Cholera: Calcutta zi canes, Negapa- the suit cases were found. On was taking into account the fact "We are ready at all times" of the Motherland and of the and that the loss will decrease. Instructions, witness took them to that this sum would cover its said the President, to co-operate whole world as a great people in the Revenue once in a taxi.
facilities already in an advanced tam 17, Rangoon 1, Bangkok 2. entire erection and also form the with all nations and all peoples to their strength of purpose. and sonable outlay," as, indeed, it is. Cape Town, 4 days; Bingapore, cutta 3, Karachi 1 death, Madras The Joss is regarded "as a rea- stage, will be brought down to: Small-Fox Shanghal 3 cases, Cal- The case was adjourned at this basis of R substantial endowment make the spirit of peace a prac wealth of achievement an exam And what a proof of faith in the days; Karachi, 21 days; Bydney, 10 cases Chicken-Pos. Bombavio
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