OFFICIAL
STAND ON
NUDISM.
NO DECISION YET CALLED FOR.
INDIAN GUARDS
FINED.
TAMPERING WITH PASSPORT CERTIFICATES.
IL
UNUSUAL CASE.
HAVE
Although no motive other than
desiro 10
themselves The Government has not defined trouble was alleged against two ite attitude as yet regarding the Indian guards who were stated to have tampered with certain pars- Hongkong Nudist movement, *
port certificates, Mr. L. II. V. Telegraph representative was Booth Assistant Director of formed by omein ut the
Criminal Investigation), applied Colonial Secretary's Office this
before Mr. Wynne Jones, at the morning.
Central Police Court this morning, No application for the renting the imposition of substan- of a brach for the use of Nudiststial, fine on the two men who were has been received by the Govern-charged with arriving in Hong- ment, and until this step has Fren on without valid passports. taken the authorities cannot in- Mr. Hin-shing Lo (instructed diente their attitude regarding the possibility of allowing the Society the use of a bench.
Mr. B. E. Lanepart, President of the Society, when seen later. was, however, very hopeful that the Government would sympathetic car to their request.
Island Seclusion,
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 14. 1932.
This picture shows the side of the Chuan Chow looming up in the foreground, close to the stern of the distressed Venezia, taking off hey
The photo also gives an impression of the fog, nothing being
visible short range from the two ships."
be Mr. J. M. Hall) appeared for The two men and in entering a ulen of guilty drew his Worship's 1 of the to Schedule attention
Ordinance, which Passporta
"No person shall enter reath: the Colony unless he has in his possession and brings with him into the Colony a valid passport:" Provided that no person shall he The Superintendent of Crown
rongleted of an offence against Lands had already been inter- this regulation if he proves that viewed and according to Mr. hud 10) his passession and expressed thebrought with him into the Colony personal view that there seemed some other official document e
his nationality reason why the authoritiestablishing should not necede to the Society's filentify and subsequently desires. There were, this official proved by the Captain Superin- informed Mr. Lanepurt, rumerous tendent of Police." stretches of beach of Lin, and Ma Wan Islands, all of which were milen away from any village or dwellings.
passengers. lest
Lanepart bad
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Lantau,
The realul of wach beaches was $30 per annum for 40,088 square sufficient teel. und Leaches to allow the, Surety to take as touch as balt a million
square feet,
There
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10 The Nudista obtained the permission of the Government to hire much land, they would also be able to erect matsheds
Over
area of 500 square feet for restai of $12 per year, or for squnty feet at $20 per annum.
Nominal Rent.
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a
Identity Clear.
and
SHANGHAI WAR LOSSES.
CHINESE OFFICIAL
FIGURES.
GERMAN ELECTION.
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three hundred and ninety votes re- ¦corded in this village, Hitler ole |tained 228 and Hindenburg 167,
At 10.34 num. Hludenburg had Official Chinese casualty figures strikingly advanced on the preyi- have now been published revealing lous poeffien and at that time held Mr. Lo said that the defence
that 9,000 officers and men werent absolute majority, the votes res when the was complete if and defensanta could establish their killed or wounded between Januarycorded being: bleality and the fart that they28 and March 3 in the fighting with loud been in Hongkong before. He the Japanese forces around Shang-
et pointed that on to his Wors, and. hip in extenuation of the offence. There was evidence of their na tionality and also of their idenity. and the fact that they had beesulted employed as cards immediately upon their return showed to a certain extent 1 bat The papers which they had were approved by the polien.
Furthermore, they had been in the Colony for many years, he They hat It had been suggested to Mr, thought six or seven.
the behaved themselves well and he Lanepart, however, that if
the inspector Government were sympathetic to underslomil.
would speak highly of wards the movement, the Society guards
He (Mr. Lo) thought t them. might secure the ground 212
was one of those eases where his nominal rent of $10 a year.
Arting on this advice, the Worship should merely convirt Soriety had formed J Working and exercise his prerogative and Committee, which will next week not expel them from the Colony. begin their task of selecting a site They were a good distance from
they ha an either of these three islands, their native land, where and after having accomplished families to keep, and it would be this, would make their recom- mendations to a general meeting of members. If the meeting con Armed the committee's selection, the Society would make immediate appleation for the renting of the
ground from the Government.
great hardship if they were not allowed to remain in the Colony.
Permits Issued.
Mr. Booth said the defendants Both
In addition, 500 hinese cooltex | were killed,
Hindenburg liter... Thelmut Dexterbury
Winter.
,9,550,748
5,618,056
2,661,268
.1.190,783
63,624
COLOGNE TENSION.
A majority of the casualties res)
from air bombs and, ar-
Excitement is running high in tery shells,
Cologun, and there have been The official Chinese military sporadic disturbances at various statement
said that the 88th centres. Serious trouble is not ex- Division, comprising natives pected, at least until the result is of Chekiang and Klangeu pro known Meanwhile an anxious vinces, lost, one-third of its folal atmosphere prevails in the streets, Atrength..
Nazis nud Communists fitting from shadow to shadow, furtively eyeing each other and ready for any eventualities.
CLIC
The Chinese figures were not as detailed
casualty Japanese figures. The latter, translated on
When three-quarters of the the same basis as above, reportedį
vates had been counted, Presi- ATALY and navy per- 2,416 soumel killed or wounded, and 50 dent llindenburg stil had an ab- solute majority of 220,000, the civilians killed or wounded.
figures being: Hindenburg Hitler Thaelmann
NEW CRUISER DUE TO-DAY.
SERIOUS EXPLOSION
RECALLED.
To relieve HM.S. Berwick on the China squadron, H.M.S. De- vonshire is due to reach Hung kong at 6 p.m. to-day. The Ber wick. which left last week Home, is to be fitted and commissioned, and is due to return in about six months,
Duesterburg Winter
.14,358,567
8,293.003
3,781,580
1,717,100 83,795
EX-ROYAL VOTES.
The members of the ex-Royal Family living at Potsilam voted at an early hour. The ex-Crown Prince is believed to have cast his vote for Hitler and this is taken for granted in the case of the ex- Prince August Wilhelm, who is a member of the Nazi Party.
joined the guards in 1925. of them bad good recurds and in Fline, 1981, they both resigned. Not for the Frivolous
They had no passports at that Mr. Lanepart emphasised that time and as the police inalsted on The Society is for earnest-minded | everybody having a passport and people only. They did not wish knowing that it was difficult to
for
When a million votes remain- the foolish and frivolous to join secure a passport in India the the Society. It was their intenta defendants, when they left,
red to be counted. Hindenburg had back from his former tion to practise the cult as was were issued with permits.
position, being a shade heing done in Germany and other they ever went back to Indin, the
In addition to bringing the behind an absolute majority, with parts of the world, namely by the perinit stated that the police bud playing of games, athletics And no objection to their returning to usual personact of naval officers, the odds against bis getting in Xymnastics.
Hongkong provided they obtained a men and marines, the Devonshire without the necessity for a for-
crews for ther ballot. In Germany the enlt was very passport in India from the nu- has on hard relief
II.M.S. Moth and H.M.S. Senmew. advanced and was part and parcelarities there.
The defendants left Hongkong The men to be relieved on those of the daily lives of the people,
vessels are to be transferred to on board the Santhin on June 17, The Society hoped to make it an
to Eugland of H.M.S. Vindictive. | essential to the people in Hong- 1881. Mr. Both heard nothing kong. Not only had the move- more of the men until he received
The Devonshire, which is of ment a huge recreation ground of a letter from the Commissioner the same class as the other erui- foresta, fields and rcadlows in of Police in Caleutta dated Fe-sers on the China fleet, is the ves Borlin. but once a week the mem-bruary 10 and received at the be sel on which a serious explosion bers of the Society gave mixed ginning of March, Attached to occurred about two years ago, awimming demonstrations in one the letter were the two permits Issued to the defendants by the Hongkong police. His Worship would antire that the proviso in the one case had been X-ed nut with a typewriter and in the other
of the public baths.
"Too Frightened". Asked If the local Society in tended to introduce similar iden in Hongkong, Mr. Lanepart re- plied in the negative, adding that the people here. were frightencil,"
it had been erased.
when one of the turrets exploded, killing several men.
asking for a substantial fine, be
The Agures were: Hindenburg Hitler
Thaelmann Duesterburg Winter
18.094,535 10,835,093
4,746,195
2,473,999 103.828
PRAYERS IN COLOGNE. Many thousand Cathelles in Cologne prayed all night long for the success of the Protestant, Pre- sident Hindenbury despite the fact that Herr Hitler is રા Catholle).
The unprecedented rush of wo- The cause, it must be agreed, the permen to the poll was the outstand permits were impounded by the mits were issued with the intention Ing feature of the elections in the Calcutta Police and sent to Hong of helping Indians to obtain pass-Rhineland. Thousands of Catho- kine. Having received the let-ports. It was. In fact, a serious lies oude a pilgrimage to the The objects of the Society were to take serious-minded people ter and the two permits, enquiries offence to tamper with the per- ancient chapel on the outskirts of away from the turmoil of the city were made as to where the de-mits, and might amount to for-Cologne at midnight, and knelt for
fendants were and it was dia Kery and allow them to get back to covered that they had, in
natural state of life.
fact,
three hours. in the bitter cold. His Worship:-11 does amount renty thousand pilgrimis at- for findenburg's success. It was because they felt the returned to the Colony, although to forgery.
was not known how as they did Mr. Booth: It does actually. tunded a special Mass at the Government would appreciate the
In reply to his Worship, Mr. Cathedral between two and three They had not have passporta, progressive and healthy objects of returned to the Colony and had Booth remarked that had the do'clock in the morning, of whom the movement, that they
taken back again in thefendants applied for passports clover thousand received bren hopeful of receiving sympathetic Guards Department. The Guards from the Indian authorities, they union at fifteen special altars. consideration for their nime and Department, continued Mr. Booth, would have been given them.
The churches in the Rhineland requests,
was not at the Police Headquar
were also thronged all day long. ters, but at the No. 7 Police Sta
were
AMERICA AND THE FAR EAST.
SUPPORTING LEAGUE
POLICY.
tion.
ju!
Serious Offence.
Mr. Jo-I think Mr. Booth ought to know that it is very diffl- cult for them to obtain pasaporta.
His Worship:-It may be dim cult, but we are doing our best to help them by giving them these documents, but they have tam- pered with them.
Flagrant Forgery. Mr. Lo: They were obviously
In view of the fact that the police had issued the defendants with the permits, which distinctly stated that they must obtain passport. before leaying India, and view of the fact that the per- mits had been tampered with, the police took a serious view of the London, Mar. 13. cane from the fact that they had Sir Jólm Simon, In an interview deliberately dodged the regula with Renter on his return to Lon- tions and ordinance.
They hadtually fools, den, stated that he hoped the re-committed a more serious offence Bolution passed by the League in altering the documents, but Assembly on Friday would the police were propared to over
Com-
WOMEN POLL HEAVILY.
Women began to Rock to the
polla as soon as the booths opened. The great majority are believed to have voted for Hindenburg.
An 84-year-old nun left the eloistors for the first time in her life in order to vate.
I lie in bed and let "How can | Hitler in?" declared another wo- Hin Worship:-They were ac-man, who, though very ill, despite the orders of her husband and her Mr. Booth agreed that there was doctor, rose from a sick bod to go no motive except to save them to the polling station.
a very These are typical Instances of selves trouble. It was
It the keenness of the women voters,
wrong.
ultimately lead to a settlement of look that as the defendants were ignorant thing to have done.
was a flagrant formery, He was of whom it is estimated that at
the crisis in the Far East.
~~Renter.
not trying to obtain any money or asking for a substantial fine as a least 90 per cent. went to the polls. Ho expressed gratification that anything like that, but merely to deterrent The police did not. Mr. H. L. Stimson, the U.S. Secre- get to Hongkong without the want permits mutilated. tary-General. of Stato, had com- trouble of obtaining passports.
Hie Worship imposed a fine of municated with the Secretary- So far na the police, were coll- General of the League indicating cerned, he (Mr. Booth), was not 350 each and was faformed by Mr. Booth that the defendants. would that the United States approved asking for an expulsion order and would support the League's because the defendants had been not lose their present Jobs as policy.-Router.
in Hongkong before, but he was guards.
VICTORY CERTAIN. ́
Berlin, Mar. 14. The outstanding feature of the election is that although Hinden- burg missed by a haire-broadth, ha
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Wachow, Mar. 10. The Wuchow Municipal govern- ment is continuing its progressive plan of improving the streeta of the city. One important street is now in the process of being re- novated, and a sewer lald.
It is expected that in the near future work will be started on the widening and levelling of Fa Hong Kñal. According to present plans the street will be widened and lowered 16 feet, in order that it will be on a level with the in- tersecting streets.
Fu Hong Kaai will then be one of Wuchow's leading thorough- fares, as it has situated on it the C, and M. A. Men's Bible School, Д large primary school, да well as a large public building. -Our Own Correspondent.
is certain of a decisive victory in the second ballot, when only a bare majority will be needed.
Hindenburg's magnificent ́fight against the bolsterous Nazi cam- paign has astonished even his most optimistle supporters, espe-. cially in Bavaria, where the valoran Field-Marshal swept the board, obtaining from two to thres times as many votes as the con fident.Hitleritos.
Hindenburg also crushingly triumphed in Berlin, but the Nasla gained votes all over the rest of Germany as compared with the 1980 election.--Reuter.
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