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-#1 ŁAZЯ#G MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1932.
日一初月二
BINGLE COPY to QENTH
LINDBERGH
GETTING
DESPERATE.
SHANGHAI CABLE BREAKDOWN.
IN TOUCH WITH CAUSE OF FAILURE
KIDNAPPERS.
READY TO PAY RANSOM.
New York, Mar. 6. Colonel Charles Lindbergh is reported to be growing desperate in view of the Ini- Jure of the police to trace the whereabouts of his young son, and to be contemplating direct negotiations with the kidnappers.
1
The afe n-turni of torongel baby within forty muht booty bert ratmisel, prosiebel the Pan
de ved, Gending to The New York Amr mandar
'Th Jere! 11 bac ade mot Far the Apture of the Falsapper. and the police offer? to track them are continuing relentlessly
Nando 6,255,00
RANSOM MYSTERY,
There is some mystery podariling
For ammunt demanded as TAN
in the note which was felt planed to
the will of the windĐA through
which the baby was taken.
It is known, hosterve, that the
|
UNKNOWN.
SHANGHAI ISOLATED FROM THE
OUTSIDE WORLD.
OBSCURE SITUATION.
THE
THE OBSCURITY OF THE SITUATION IN SHANGHAI-WITH NO PEACE. NEGOTIA. TIONS PROCEEDING, BUT THREATS OF A RE- NEWAL OF HOSTILITIES TAKING THEIR PLACE| --HAS BECOME MORE PRONOUNCED TO-DAY BY THE COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF CABLE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SHANGHAI AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
The last remaining line, the Great Northern Com- pany's cable to Hongkong, failed at about four o'clock; this morning and all efforts to restore communication had proved unavailing up to the time of going to press. The cause of the breakdown is unknown, but it is stated that the interruption is between Amoy and Shanghai.
THE LAST INFORMATION RECEIVED INDICATED THAT THE JAPANESE WERE MAKING FURTHER EN- CROACHMENTS OVER THE TWENTY-KILOMETRE LIMIT.
note threatened harm to the MANILA CHINESE ANOTHER RUMOUR!
if the money demanded was
puid, if the contents of the mulc
were divulged, or it the mettent of Dagement suggested w
the police.
jiselasınd
THREATENING NOTE,
its naturs WH
threaten
that its existence was denied for
hours.
I
was not denied. It may, weVel, is considerably greater, though the famous airman says he is pre- ired lo meet any demand.
IN DIRECT TOUCH,
Major Schotel,
✓
MOB RIOT.
FIVE JAPANESE
BADLY HURT.
The first serious repercussion in
SCOTCHED.
JAPANESE LEAVING
CANTON.
Manila of the Sinn-Japanese con | NO QUESTION OF
Bict occurred on Thursday when || five Japanese,
en f
numbers of the
The Japanese, alf in were sight-rein. walking along Calle aloutofelock in the when suddenly **
They
i
GENERAL EXODUS,
The biggest crowd seen in Throgmorton Street since 1914 thronged the street on Saturday after the Stock Exchange closed, na a result of
a remarkable shure boom. Photo shows excited broken outside the Exchange on the occasion of the last "crask”—the suspension of the gold standard.
CHURCH PISTOL,
DRAMA.
PRESIDENT OF PERU SHOT.
A
"
YOUNG BURGLAR
SENTENCED.
MAGISTERIAL LENIENCY IGNORED.
KAI TACK MOTOR SMASH.
CAR'S DASH INTO NULLAH.
THREE GRAVELY INJURED
Fears are entertained for the life of a seven-year-old boy, one of a party of four four people involved in serious motor accident at Kowloon City.
A car drivon by Mr. A. Xavier crashed over the nullah skirting the aerodrome at Kni Tack and com-
pletely overturned, and but for the timely assistance of Air Force men, it is probable that there would
| have been three fatalities,
The occupants of the ear were: Mr. Xavier, of 16. Macdonnell i Konst. Slight abrasions,
Miss Wai pui-ying. Shock and immersion,
18. ingred
Mr. John Phillip Soun famous bandmaster and.com. poser of Marches, whose death is reported.
ENORMOUS TAX INCREASES.
UNITED STATES'
PROGRAMME.
G$1.100.000.000
SOUGHT.
Washington, Mar. 6. An annual increase in the taxa.
Louis Hang-fai. aged 7. Fractur- tion of the United States of eleven ed skull.
hundred million dollars (£200,-
Louie Chut-ying, aged 7. Shock. | 000,000 at pur) is provided in the The three Chinese passengers new Tax Bill which is to be in- live at 40, Nga Thin Wan Road,troduced in the Ifouse of Re- Kowloon City.
presentatives on April 7.
The chief proposal provides for a 2% per cent. Sales Tux, which is expected to yield G$595,000,000. Onis foodstuffs, newspapers, magazines, books, and articles
After Dark. According to the police, the crash was heard at 9.15 o'clock on Friday night, and several of the mon on duty rushed to the spot, which is about 100 yards from the used in places of worship will be entraper to the aerodrome. Mr. exempted.
Xavier had been thrown clear, and, ; Increased individual income although very weak, was endea- taxes are expected to yield G$112,- vouring to extricate the other 000,000, and increases in the Cor- three, who had been pinned ander-paration Tax is expected to pro-
menth the upturned ear.
the
The Air Force men waded inta
duce $21,000,000 additional.
Further increases of revenue are
water. and, ultur much difficulty, suerected in lifting the to be obtained from Eetate Duty car sufficiently to enable the three and Arnusement Tax.
tha
water,
None in a position to know prepared to disclose the ami getunded, though the Bytom
crew of the ss. Shhiyo Marui were j Considerable spevatiation S41,000 when put to Cal Landbergh, | mobbed by some 56 Chinese on the Hongkong this morning reparisur
Gandara and Ongpin the significance of a report that.
to be taken out, · ·All were in an Cables and radiograms are to The five Japanese were taken Canton had linen ordered to leave he entire Japanese community of
SECOND OFFENCE. -:unconscious
semi-conscious
be taxed five cents per mcasage. board their ship.
condition, having been pinned between 31 and 40 cents, and ten- and were arriving aboard the s..
Lima, Mar. 6. A sensational attempt to
Three days after having been ar- funder uniform. Fatshan this afternnon, proved to
re- Prompt rested for burglary and given an useitation measures were applied, cents per message above that were, he based upon a misapgironension. passinate the President of Peru.
continued until the figure. Ongpin ali We were informed by the Jap-Senhar Sanchez Cerro, was within Pportunity by the Magistrate to and were
tura over a new leaf, a young ambulance arrived.
Petrol, oil fuel, and crude all afternoon janese Consulate-General, on makan are of success turday.
Chinese who was bound over by Mr. There was about two feet of will be taxed one per cent. WIATY mobing enquiries, that fifteen Jap-1, The drama was enacted in
Home brewers and bootleggera Co), Lindbergh is in idreet touch
All the Chinese residents of Canton, mestly local church, while Senhor Cerro Schofield at the Central Police water in the nullah at the time,
was attending Mans. A shot rang Court on Thursday last again and although the tide was run-will be hit by an excise tax on with the kidnappers; but
laboard the Fatshan.
krape con- New York American states to-day arrival of the police, leaving their
round, with a bullet through the morning and was sentenced to six but for the arrival of the Air Remaining in Shameen arej that Lindbergh a desperate man five Japanese victims anconscious roughly three hundred Japanese]
months hard labour.
Force men, the three pinned centrates.-Reuter's American Ser- after five days of abortive police on the street.
Last Thursday, the defendant beneath the car His assailant was arrested im-
would have bad vier. Pandemonium res nationals and there is no question mediately and was found to be a pleaded guilty to " search-las derided to employ twined in Chinatown as a result of a general yxudus undess. quite member of the Opposition Party, burglary at 11, Water Street, where
charge of little chance of escaping. racketeers, "Salvey" Spitale and
unforeseen developments casue. Irving Bitz, to act as go-betweens.
Three Seriously Hurt. he had gained admittance to the j house by inserting a knife between
Mr. Xavier, who ́was driving the the cracks of the front door and car at the time, escaped with only levering back the wooden staple light abrasions, and did not go
The New that Jersey State police, denje.
| Wooped upon them.
the nese were able to escape before the ; women and children, were arriving and the President fell to the peared before his Worship this aing out, it is almost certain that, malt syrups and
it in staled that the famous air-
now in direct touch
men
the kidnappers.
with
“SQUEEZE” FROM
HAWKERS.
FORMER CONSTABLE
kers.
GAOLED.
hard
the rioting.
CHINA READY FOR ARMISTICE.
The arrivals from Shameen to- day are merely people who are tired of the restrictions upon their
movements in Canton as a result
Of the Sino-Japan4** Lension, Having hex+5) confined!
their! ti hames. Hiore or less, for some
BERWICK GOING
HOME.
shoulder.
Reuter.
EMPIRE FOOD ON EMPIRE DAY.
He disturbed the inmates and was
the other three chused into the back of the preto hospital, but
more seriously hurt, and anises where he was caught, later were
were taken to the Kowloon being handed over to the police, Hospital. There it was found When brought before the Magi-that Louie Hung-fal, a boy, had SCHEME CATCHES ON strate he was bound over in a sum heen dangerously hurt, having
on
the
CANTON WANTS
FUGITIVE.
MULTIPLE CHARGES
Making his firat appearance as Publle Prosecutor in Court, Mr. R. E. Lindsell was for the Crown, 38- Mr. sisted by Mr. T. Murphy. Hin-shing Lo was for the fugitive, The opening of the extradition proceedings was set for 2.30 on. | Monday, March 14. ¡¿
ON CONDITIONS.
Shanghai, Mar. 6.
LAID. General Tsai' Ting-kni, the rom. 1-works. mander of the XIX Route Army,
Multiple charges, including stated to-day that the Chinese
IN MALAYA.
of $200 his Worship remarking
arson, piracy and robbery, were troops were prepared to support
that he did not want to send the sustained a fractured skull.
ut Enquiries the Longue's request
Kowloon alleged in a Governor's warrant For
Malnya is supporting the scheme Ja to gol. The defendant was Hospital this morning revealed against Leung Chung-ting, who ลท armistice. provided the Japanesej
sponsored by a women's com also ordered to be sent back to the that the boy is in an extremely appeared before Mr. Schofield at confined their activitives to the
mittee of the Fellowship of the country.
condition and may International Settlement and its
not the Central Magistracy this mor During the early hours of yes. critical Sentence of four months'
British Empire to advocate "Em-
but the other two are ning. He in wanted in Canton, immediate vicinity. Inbour was imposed by Mr. Wynne
pire Meals
Empire. Day." terday morning, the defendant recover,
and intends to contest his extradi- At the present Jones, at the Central Police Court Japanese forces are constructing
moment, the MAY COME BACK IN Under this scheme, the women of entered a house in Third Street by improving.
The car fell about 15 feet, und |tion. this morning, on a former Shan-defence lines from Nanziang lo
DECEMBER.
the Empire are asked to agree to similar method as in the first in-
disturbed the was completely wrecked. It was tang constable who was convicted Liuho, and have advanced a con
ase at their tables on Empire Day stance but again
huuled out of the nullah on Satur- ILMS. of obtaining "aqueeze" from haw-siderable distance beyond
Berwick, one of the May 24th), 1932, and succeeding inmates and was arrested. the 10,000-ton county class cruisers al-years, solely the food products of
It was stated by Detective Ser-day morning. twenty kilometres ligit at many tached to
Kent Kinner before Mr. Schofield Mr. Xavior told the police that the China Squadron. The Empire. It was alleged by the prosecution points. that the defendant accosted haw-
leaves for Home. on Wednesday. A Fellowship of Housewives this morning that the defendant he had come out of one of the Extensive Japanese kors from whom he demanded pay-preparations are reported on the commissioned. She is expected to and in supporting the movement,
military where she will be relitted and re- has been formed in Singapore, was sent away from Hongkong on side streets and that the car had the Taiping junk immediately toppled over the unguarded nul- aftor Weihaiwei constable who was re- the transport of tanks and heavy in all probability will resume duty day might begin in Malaya with gularly employed in the Police guns, indicating, it is said, the on the China Station at the end an early cup of Malayan tea.
His Worship forfeited the provi- Force. Payments
made intention of pursuing their cam of December.
bond.
ordering the defendant from time to time, but during the paign westwards-Renaha
Under the scheme, the help is to pay
The spot where the crash oc- fine of $200 or in default course of an argument last week a
The Berwick is being replaced sought of all private householders undergo a term of two months curred is a fow feet from the district watchman appeared on the
by H.M.S.Devonshire, which ar- and the managers of all elubs, hard labour. He was also given scene of u similar car smash about scene and the defendant was arrest-LEAGUE DEMAND IN March 15, and will remain with them
rives in Hongkong from Malla on hotels and restaurants, asking a further four months imprison- six months ago, when an R. A. F. tender, containing two Air Force ment for yesterday's offence.
mon, dived into the nullah. AB the China Squadran antil the Ber-
1 To promise to make the meals SHANGHAI.
rate of wick returns.
of that day Empire meals, An anonymous donor has given it was going at a high
speed, the tender did not over- 2 in the cage of clubs, hotel and £61,500 towards the provision of turn, bat landed on four wheels. restaurants, to allow the fact an infectious diseases hospital to the occupants escaping with minor of their promise to be publish- the City of Wakefield. ed in the Press.
ment of five cents on behalf of a Simogħud-Nanking Railway, for arrive in England on April 25, and Lady Clementi suggests that the his to "aving been dealt with by lah in making the turning,
were
ed. On the man over 80 copper cents were found, as well
As a
little over a dollar in ten cent and
five cent pleces.
Inspector Shaftain, who prosecut-
"""
ed, asked his Worship to take UNITED STATES
serious view of the case. He re
a
marked that the defendant had nerved a period of five years in
Yesterday, Capt. C. N. Royne and officers of the Berwick gave n farowell reception on board the cruiser. The function was attend- ed by a large number of friends, New York, Mar. 6.
who enthusiastically toasted the President Hoover has directed success of the ship.
CO-OPERATING.
the Police Force, but at the expira- tion of his contract about two Admiral Taylor, the commander- years ago, he was not re-engaged In-chief of the United States owing to his unsatisfactory con- Asintle Flool, to join the othor The Honolulu Braves, bakeball duct. Since then he had been in neutral comanders-in-chief in in- from Manila aboard the .. Shinyo champions of Hawail, arrived here Hongkong, but had not been doing vestigating the situation and re- Maro. It was at first hoped to ar any work, the police being of the porting to the League Assembly on range series of matches in Hong opinion that he had been living the
cessation of hostilities.kong, but this has now been found from axtortions-from-hawkers-Renter
Impossible.
ous
4
Previous 'Mishap.
The City Council a few weeks injuries. There are no protect In addition, those who were ago rejected a £71,000 scheme in rails along the edge of the nullah, which has a few foot of now willing and able to do so, might which had been proposed for a
hospital on the ground that econo-water in it at high tide, but la
often empty. my was necessary in those days, (a) Giving an "Empire" lunch and they substituted a scheme of or dinner that day, serving repairs and slight extensions to the only Empire food.
old hospital at a cost of £5,000.
be asked to help further by:
The Royal Observatory rep (b) In the case of such re- The anonymous donor has now that the position, ota
staurants and stores as promised, to pay the difference be of depression f make special · displays' of tween 25,000, plus $4,500, the value in unpe food, reserving such dis of the site, and the original an plays for Empire products; timuto - 361,600;7
EXCHANGE MARKET
FEATURELESS.
SILVER PRICES SHOW DECLINE.
With the dollar unchanged:
18. 4.13/16d. on demand, the local exchango market la featureless, practically do busingas passing.
Bliver la down in London 1/10th spot. and 1/8th, forward. China bought and sold, and the Continant
13.07 STPUT & decline of I market dull. The thethe
iproved to