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PROMINENT SOVIET LEADERS FACE TRIAL
TRIAL ON CHARGE OF TREASON
BLACK-OUT PRACTICE IS QUITE SUCCESSFUL
Colonel Irwin Gives His Impressions
CO-OPERATION APPRECIATED
BY GOVERNMENT
In a broadcast talk over ZB.W. last night, Colonel N. M. S. Irwin, D.S.O., M.G., G.S.O. (1), discussed the Black-Out practice held on Monday night.
Colonel Irwin said:-
I feel sure that the people of the Colony would like to know what the Authorities think about Monday night's Black-Out practice, and I have the Governor's permission to talk to you for a few mor ments about it,
The practice Black-Out was quite successful. The threat of the $1,000 fine was not, I believe, the principal actuating force but the willingness and determination of the people to co-operate with the Government. This is the most satisfactory feature of the practice.
the I was flying over and round the darkened. House lights," on Colony between 8 to 9 o'clock and other hand, were rather more con- I will give you my impressions. I spicuous but this was to be expect also flew during the Black-Out in ed if people really were trying to December so I am able to form live their normal lives indoors. a comparison with that occasion,
But even in their case window
RIFLE ASSCN. COUNCIL HOLD MEETING
Major D.H. Steers To Be Home Representative
A meeting of the Council was held on Tuesday evening at the Hong Kong Hotel. The following were present:-Major R D. Walker. M.C.. President and Chairman of the Council, in the chair: Major Money (2/R. Scots);} Lieut. R. R. Hammond-Chambers (1/Seaforth): Surg-Leut. J. B.¦ Mackle (H.K.N.V.F.); Captain A. Urquhart (HKV.D.CJ; Capt. G. P. Carless, R.M. (H.M.S. Tamar); Lieut. R. F. Jenks, R.N. (4th 8/M. F.R.C.). Capt. I. B. Trevor (H.K.V.D.C.); Bt.-Major G. P. Murray (Garrison Adjutant); Major D. H. Steers, O.BE.. R.E [Honorary Secretary). and Mr. J. Hargreaves Honorary Treasurer). It was decided that owing to the imminence of the forthcoming
Annual Dinner should be deferred until the end of the year.
'The general effect of Monday'sights, with a few exceptions, af. "Association" Prize Meeting," thei
practice was good. Trafße which
though visible from the ground or Was No prominent in December,
not visible from 1,000 feet were was on this occasion practically in- visible from anything above 1000 from the higher altitudes at which feet or so. The trains, buses, ferries,aiders will normally ny. and Peak trams appeared to be well
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The application for affiliationi by a unit of the Garrison Was considered. and the Honorary Secretary was instructed to write to this unit, pointing out that the Rules already provide for the
Field Dressings CENSORSHIP IN milation of Rife Clubs of small
Money To Buy
Sufficient money to buy - over¦ three thousand field' dressings has already been received for the Daily Press Field Dressings Fund, Thou- sands of these outfits are needed, and still more donations are re- quired for the purchase of miater- lals.
SHANGHAI
RIGHT RESERVED BY JAPANESE
Shanghai, Mar. 2. The Japanese authorities reserve
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PREMIER INQUIRING INTO GIBRALTAR STATEMENT
London, March 1.
The attention of the Prime Minister was called in the House of Commons today to statements made at a military parade at La Lines, on the outskirts of Gibraltar, on Sunday last by General Queipo de Llano in relation to Great Britain and Gibraltar.
Mr. Chamberlain was asked whether representations would be made to the Spanish Insurgent authorities. The Premier, in reply, said that he was asking for a report on the accuracy of the accounts which had appeared in the press, on receipt of which he would consider what importance should be attached to these alleged statements.
He added that he had no reason to doubt the accuracy of reports but that before considering steps it was desirable to obtain official confirmation—(British Wireless).
A Transocean message from London on Tuesday stated that General Liano had made a somewhat arrogant assertion that British possession of Gibraltar was soon to terminate,
AIR FORCE ESTIMATES
SHOW BIG INCREASE
Vote For Civil Aviation Is.
Now £2,925,000
CROWDS SHOUT OUTSIDE
COURTHOUSE
"Death To Fascist Vipers"
ALLEGATION TO OVERTHROW
SOCIALIST STATE
Moscow, March 1.
The famous glided ballroom of the Noblemen's Club of Tsarist days was chosen for the trial which opened today of seventeen prominent Soviet leaders and four of the leading doctors in the Kremlin charged with treason.
Taking their cue from the press, crowds which surrounded the courthouse shouted "Death to the Fascist vipers."
NY
Capital sentence is considered to be a certainty. The indictment read at the opening of the trial alleges that on the instructions of a hostile foreign State. the accused organised a group of plotters to overthrow the Socialist State and also attempted to, dismember the Soviet Union by detaching Ukraine, Georgia, and Armenia maritime provinces and other territories.
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The indictment accuses Trotsky, Rosengoltz and Rakovsky of being members of the British Intelligence Service and the German Secret Service, and Rakovsky is also accused of being a Japanese spy.
Amongst the 21 accused are
CONSPIRACY AND Yagoda, tromer head of the secret
ESPIONAGE police, Bukharin, ex-editor.of the
Moscow, Mar. 2. Izvestia and former president of the Comintern, Rakovsky, presi- against the 21 former high Soviet The act of accusation drawn up dent of the Council of People's functionaires now on trial on Commissars for the Ukraine. charges of espionage and con-
59 NEW AERODROMES ACQUIRED Grinko, Commissar of Finance, spiracy was read to the military
SINCE APRIL, 1937
London, Marph 2.
The air estimates issued this morning shows a total of £73,509,000 strength.
for the coming year as compared with £58,500,000 last year. The. It was unanimously decided that gross estimate is £111,502.000 which is reduced to a net total by the captains, members, and re- deduction of £5,718,000 for the Fleet Air Arm and a grant of of the Inter-Colonial teams, £2,284,000 for other appropriations in ald, and £30,000,000 loan taking part in the NRA. Over-provisions.
sext
seas Match, and the Inter-Colonial: The grant for the Fleet Air Arm shows an increase of £1,518,000 team events at the Imperial in order to meet the increase in strength and training of personnel. Meeting at Bisley, should be pre- sented with the specia! Gold Blazer Badges, free-of-charge. by the right to censor all incoming the Association. Contributions of any amount wil and outgoing mail in Shanghai,
evening.
The Honorary Secretary, who,
Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong. Cheques should be made out to the The spokesman declared that no Daily Press and endorsed Field censorship had yet been instituted Dressings Fund.
and he was still without definite ¡Information if it would be put into
be welcomed and may be sent to said a Japanese Embassy spokes at the last Council Meeting. had reply to questions this been appointed Home Representa- the Daily Press. Marina House, man in
tive of the Association on his
United Kingdom.. return to the
elected as 11 was unanimously additional Vice-President, and also select granted sole authority to such teams. and to speak. on behalf of the H.K.R.A.. at the
DAILY PRESS FIELD DRESSINGS FUND Amount previously acknowledged £5/3 and $278.08. Master Tsang Kuen-wai $10. Total £5/3 and $288.00.
effect.
Japanese censorship is, however, generally expected in foreign ci cles to be instituted in the course lof the next fortnight-(Reuter).
27 CASES OF SMALL-POX
132 Deaths Last Week
The Metropolitan Air Force has increased since April 1935 from 52 to 123 squadrons, comprising 68 bomber squadrons, 30 Aghters, fourteen general reconnaissance and torpedo bombers and ten for army co-operation.
The number of types has been reduced thus simplifying produc- tion.
Between April 1935 and March 1938, 4.500 pilots, and 40,000 air- During the week ended midnight men entered the Air Force and a
Krestinský, assistant Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Rosenhoitz, Com- missar of Foreign Trade and Rykov, Lenin's successor as Premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republies.
(Reuter).
THE DOLLAR
T.T. ON LONDON: 1a. 2.7/84. T.T. ON NEW YORK: 31-1/16.
London Silver Market
(Our Own Correspondent).
London, Mar. 2. London silver prices today were unchanged for "Spot" and down 1/16 for For ward," as follows:-
Mar. 1. Spot.... .20-1/16
Forward.....19-7/8
Mar. 2. 20-1/16
19-13/16
tribunal today.
vestigations carried out by the The document. alleges that in- People's Commissariat for Home Affairs had proved that the BC- cused had organised on behalf of. certain foreign states inimical to the Soviet Union "a group of Right Wing extremists and Trotskyists" whose aim was to conspire against the Soviet Republic in order to destroy the exisiting Socialist form of society and substitute a bour- geols capitalist regime.
The accused are further charged with attempting to dismember the Soviet Union.
The group founded by the ac- cused is said to include Trotskyists, adherents of the late M. Zinoviev. Menseviks, social revolutionariea and Ukrainian bourgeois-national- Ists.
In support of the prosecution, a large quantity of documentary. material relating to the trial of
special meeting of Colonial repre- Saturday, 132 deaths, from small- thousand pilots entered the R.A.F. MADAME CHIANG of Marshal Tubachevsky and other sentatives, which is being
vened
nero-
of
con- pox occurred. Victoria had. 111 Volunteers Reserve. by the N. R. A. Council, cases and Kowloon 45. Tuber- Since April, 1937, 59 new during the Imperial Meeting at culosis took a toll of 105 victims,dromes. have been acquired Bisley, on the proposals put for while other notifiable diseases which 30 are already occupied.", ward by the H.K.R.A. Council re- claimed 20.
'The vote for civil aviation has fresh Twenty-seven
or increased from £610,000 to £2,925, sent this or any other Colony, by small-pox were reported
during 000-(Reuter). serving members of the Regular the 24 hours ended midnight Fighting Services who have
Victoria re- Tuesday. 19 from
and turned home, at the expiration of eight in Kowloon. Four cases of their tour of duty abroad.
dysentery were also reported.
BRITISH SOLDIERS FACE SERIOUS Barding the eligibility to repre-
CHARGES
London, Mar. 2. Air Force officer at the point of In the Stratford, Essex, Police the revolver, to drive them in his Court today, two soldiers, Van Den car to the East End of London.- Byrg, 37, and Kaye, 16 were Reuter), charged with shooting with intent to murder and possessing revolvers and ammunition with intent to endanger life. They were furthe- charged in conjunction with Frederick George Clark with de- manding money by menace. All three accused were remanded
POLISH STATESMAN
PASSES
Warsaw, Mar. 2.
The death is reported here, of Dr. Vladislav Graszynski, former Polish stateman, at the age of 85. Burg and Kaye are troopers of Dr. Graszynski headed several the 12th Royal Lancers, who are Polish Cabinets, but his chief con- alleged to have held up with re-tribution to the history of the volvers two police mobile patrol young Polish Republic was when, officers near London at midnight. as Finance Minister, he created The men stole the officers' car. the currency and taxation systems. abandoning it later, and forced an-(Transocean).
TURNING THE PAGES
Page 2,-Soldiers fined. New air Page 8-Leading article:
mail schedule.
Page 3-Food page. R. A. F.
bomber tragedy,
Page 4-Anglo-Italian negotiations to begin. Shanghai fracas. Japan sums up position China.
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China can win. Mr. J. P. Braga on housing problem. Brilliant dancing display.
Page 9-Chinese repulse Japanese on Wuhu front. Latest cables.
cases
Other matters of minor im- Since January 1 there have been portance came before the meet- 1572 fatalities from small-pox. ing, after which it stood ädjourn- ed.
Tuberculosis totalled 735 deaths since the beginning of the year.
BRITAIN AND
AMERICA
IN AGREEMENT
Japanese Press And London Naval Treaty
Tokyo. March 2.
Some kind of agreement between England and America in con- nection with the invocation of the escalator clause of the London Naval Treaty is likely, the Yomiuri, a leading Tokyo daily, says in an article today.
"There is every likelihood," the journal says, "that the agreement will be concluded notwithstanding the strong denial of Mr. Cordell Hall of the existence of any secret accord."
NO CREDIT FACILITIES TO ITALY
RESIGNS FROM AIR POST
famous State trials have been collected,
The act of accusation affirmed that the defendants in the present trial entirely lack support among Hankow, Mar. 2. the population of the Soviet Union The reorganization of the Chia- and rely exclusively on promises of ese Aeronautical Affairs Commis-armed assistance from foreign ston became effective on March 1states to realise their programme when Mr. T. V. Soong assumed of dismemberment and disintegra- office as Chairman of the Com-tion of the Soviet Union,—(Trans-. misaton succeeding Madame Chiang ocean. “ Kal-shek who resigned.
The post of Secretary-General has been abolished and Madame Chiang appointed a member of the Commission.-(Reuter),
MR. HSU SHIH-YING.
Hankow, Mar. 2.
London, Mar, 2. In the House of Commons today,
Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, former am- the Secretary for Overseas Trade,
bassador to Japan, is mentioned Mr. R. S. Hudson stated that no A Chinese, was found an ad- as a candidate for the post of crédit facilities had been "granted | mission to the Tung Wah Hospital) chairman of the Szechnen Provin- to Italy. He wild that the present yesterday to be suffering from fish clal Govemment, as the new ap- negotiations were in connection poisoning. The "man was found pointee, Mr. Chang Chun, has with clearing the agreement made lying in a serious condition in Per declined to take up this post- in 1936 and the new agreement cival Street.
(International). may increase the trade of the two countries.-(Reuter Bulletin).
CHINESE SUCCESSFUL ON
(
TAOCHING LINE
Tokyo Dissatisfied
Chengchow, Mar. 2. NO REPLY FROM HONG KONG
The Chinese forces which cross-
ed the Yellow River in northern Honan and recaptured Hwahsien
Shanghai, March 2.
Strong dissatisfaction is felt in Tokyo over the "failure of the in a counter-offensive on February Government of Hong Kong to reply to the Japanese Government's 27 are steadily forcing back the request for the suppression of Chinese newspapers engaged in anti- Japanese on the east sector of
Japanese propaganda,” says the official Domel News Agency in a the Taokou-Chinghua Railway, milltary advices received here redespatch from Tokyo today. Page 10.-Sport news and notes. The paper referred: to reports | Apart from the question of such veal.
The report says that on learning | to say, Mr. Nakamura pointed out
the They are expected to reach that a number of prominent Chi-that
publication of anti- Paze 11-Race carnival reviewed: that Anglo-American naval accord accord it is quite natural for
Britain, who is now attempting to Taokou, the east terminus of the nese newspapers had received per-Japanese propaganda by these Page 12-New York Quotations,
mission Hong Kong Stock Exchange bad, been concluded as a prelude secure European peace through railway momentarily.
to issue Hong Kong newspapers "might eventually
Death of famous Italian poet.
Meanwhile, another column of editions the Japanese Government harm the friendly relations, be- Page 13 Radio programmés.. to a tri-partite conference between rapprochement with Italy and
operating in instructed the Japanese Consul- tween Japan and Britain." GThe Bervicen. China Pages 14 and 15-Shipping news. England, America and France to Germany, to fear that unrestrict-Chinese
Arrivals and Clearances. Direcdiscuss the invocation of the es-ed naval expansion would irritate southern Hopel has recaptured General in Hong Kong, Mr. Naka- No reply to the Japanese Con- calator clause as the result of other European Powers thus bring- Changyuan on the north bank of mura, to ask the Colonial authori-sul-General has been received from the Hong Kong Government- Page 16-Corinthians win again, Japan's refusal to divulge naval ing to naught her peace activities. the Yellow River in that province. ties to withdraw the permits.
building plans.
In his demarche, Domei goes on | (Reuter)., Rifle shooting results..
Page BCRma notices and news.
Page
Page 7-Hong Kong trade return
financially prepared for pro- tracted war.
records. Remuneration claimed,
tory.
-(Reuter).
troops
-Central News)...