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SKIRMISH NEAR SHANGHAI. GUERILLA
A close up of Lord Lytton taken white he wha addressing a meeting
In Shanghai,
LOTTERIES
URGED
IN ENGLAND.
PRESSURE IN COMMONS.
BILL PREPARED.
(Router's Special Service).
London, Mar. 22.
JAPANESE OFFICER MANCHURIA
SHOT DOWN.
SNIPERS ACTIVE NEAR KIANGWANCHEN.
COMMISSION CLOSE BY.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
Shanghai, Mar. 22, 10.31 a.m. THE MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE Inquiry Com- THE
mission headed by the Earl of Lytton were half an hour late for a brush between Chinese snipers and a Japanese platoon, in which the officer in charge of the platoon was wounded and one of the snipers was killed. The incident occurred at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, in the vicinity of the Labour College at
League Kiangwanchen. The
members, their secretariat and Japanese hosts, arrived at the spot, to find attention being given to the wound of the officer. the snipers having been by that time put to flight.
ONE OF ASSAILANTS KILLED.
It appears that a small party of ¡Ehini lay still in their retreat, and The promoters of the Irish Hoss! Japanese soldiers, necompanied by was round, to be dead when the pitals Sweeps was auxiously await-). an officer, was passing the faturing party reached him.
ing news of the fate of the Lot-
erica Bill in which the whale of Great Britain in interested, which Sir William Davison will ask leave -day to introduce in the House of
145
Commons,
The Bill weathorities lotteries in Great Britain mider specified con- ditions.
The Irish promoters fear that the passage of the bill will prave a ser ints blote to the Frish sweeps which, get most of their money from Bri- tain.
Irish Proposal.
It is understood that it the Bill is passed, efforts may be made by the Irish promoters to come la Agreement, with those responsible for the promotion of the British sweeps, whereby the two syndicates might run alternate sweeps.
Even if leave is given to-day, however, the BI will be unable to advance further unless it is given facilities by the Government.
The rejection of the Bill will be moved by Mr. Hopkin Morris, the Liberal M.P. for Cardigan, Presi dent of the Lianelly Rugby Fost- ball Club and a son of a Congres watimanī Minister.
NOTHING BLUE ABOUT
THIS STOCKING.
British Investor Activities.
j
In view of the proximity of the allege at Klangwinchen where League Commission at the time of The first shots the affair they were then in- ring broke out.
Kiangwan vere ineffective, hat the cecand speeting
Racecourse sillade, fired while the Japanese and premises in the district the gumeds at all points were enufioned trends were scattering to mover, rounded, the offirve in the leg.
to question เย detain all Mas-
The Japanese immediately began to stalk the snipers, advancing lowly upon their place of hiding, returning the fee.
When they came within striking distance of the spit, where three pinin-clothes rifleineu were, opera- b. they went a feree fire into
or region, and then charged.
TWO ESCAPE.
Two of their assolants beal a
hasty retreat and succeeded in making good their escape.
-
The
THE SHANGHAI
ELECTION.
Results Expected To-night.
("Telegraph" Special).
Shanghai. Mar. 22.
pizions characters.
The vigilance of the troops In the sphere of the Extion tour was redoubled and the visit was com ipleted without further incident.
CHANGE IN TOUR
Reuter adds that the petivitios
the part of snipers caused
i last-minute change in the four made by the Lytton Commaissjon. The Jajnoise officer was bit not far from the spot where the party,
The was sightseeing.
Japanese allege that many sripers are betive)
ROPE COMPANY PROFITS.
85 CENTS DIVIDEND
PROPOSED.
The report of the Directors of
Hongkong Rope Manufactur
ing Co. Ltd., for the year ended 21st December, 1931, sintes:
The balance al eredit of Profit & Loss Account, for the year end. Polfing for the Municipal Cound 31st December, 1931, is $214.- with $62,915.-16 wil elections is proreerling smooth-810,36, which,
Over eight hundred voters at- brought forward from the
total 35 tended the Administrative Build-vious year, makes
for appro- to register their $277,729.82 available
priation.
ing vestereins London, Mar. 22. The operation of tightening the votes,
pre- of
the
The Directors recommend belt is not synonymous with A Polling etoses at 3 o'cluck this; dwindling stocking in this troubl-jatterson and the final result is following distribution:-To pay a lividend of 85 cents per share. ed island, judging from the fact | experted round about seven affered for investment in the past though the American and Jato entry forward to credit of next that over £270,000, has we cluck. Surprises are expected, ring, $170,000; to write off Plant and Machinery, $7.729.82; two or three weeks in response fo.
panese candidates are considered
total capital issues for under £9,000,000.certain of election.
year's account. $100,000: $277,729.82.
The "Stags."
to rent a toys buying i
have been Although the Japanese com- Directors.--Under Article
munity is smaller than usual ow- (b)) Sir Robert Ho Tung and Sir A Port of London offer afing to the exodus ta fapan during Elly Radoorle, K.B.E., retire, but
particularly efamorous.
WIEN
- £2,000,000 Five Per cent. Stork, the hostilities, all the eligible vo- being eligible offer themselves for
issued at 101,
avergab.ters are ensting their ballots for re-election. serihet twenty-eight times,
the Japanese candidates, Mr. Fu- Meanwhile, revenue officials are Kushimin and Mr. Okumoto. extremely gratified. The year's in- come tax estimate has already been reallaed with ten dugs to go
"It is magnificent," exektimed an offelal at Somerset House, show- ing undisguised delight at this new experience.-Kenter.
Auditors.-The Accounts have been audited by Mossrs. Linstend It is also certuin. that the & Davis and Meanra, Percy Smith, Americans, Messrs. Carney and Soth & Fleming, who offer them- Raven will be auccessful.
selven for re-election.
Eleven For Five Sent.
The fight, therefore, is really be- tween the remainder, comprising Captain J. J. Bahnson, a Dane, the manager of the Great
Northern
The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone hus wenkened, Telegraph Company, and the Bri- It is central near Nagasaki nndtish candidates, six of whom have moving eastward. Another is already served on the Council, forming over S.E. Mongolia, Local The Britlak candidates nr forecast: N.E. winds,
moderating: overcast finer Inter.
strong. Mesars.
Arat;
H. E. Arnhold, B. D. F. Balth
A. B. Boll,
A. J. Hughes,
N, Leslie,
ii.
M. Cumine.
P. W. Massey.
A. do C. Sowerby,
G. E. Mardon,
A. M. Cannan.
No excitement has attended the polling-Reuter" ond." Our Own Correspondent,
UPRISING.
PITCHED BATTLE AT HANHUTOU.
RAILWAY CUT.
Jouth Chlas Morning Post Bidg." Tel. 94354
CAMPAIGN BEGUN.
Tokyo, Mar. 22. Japanese troops have been heavily engaged in fighting to the south of the Chinese Eastern Railway and cast of Changchun, the capital of the new Manchurian State. According to brief reports res reived by wireless from Japanese military stations. Japanese fantrymen and Chinese irregulars died on March 22, 1832, is being cale. north- to-day. Scones from "Faust" will hutnu, fty-miles to the fought a pitched battle at Nan-brated by Germans all over the world be a feature of the Canton celebra- tion. Our picture show Goethe's of Tuinhaa yesterday.
home at Frankfurt-on-Main..
Thirteen Japanese soldiers: were killed and fifty wounded. The Chinese lost over 150 kill-
ed in the grim struggle,
The clash sychronisert with anj
The centenary of the famous Ger man post, Wolfgang Goethe,' who
Princess
utbreak of activities by irreg Elizabeth's
lar forces over an extremely wide
ares, their enterprises Including House Blaze.
The
at
an attack on Tatun Station, to
Changchun. the south of enilway track was destroyed this point, --Reuter.
TOKYO AND!
SOVIET.
RUSSIAN FORCE ON BORDER.
DISCUSSION IN MOSCOW.
MINIATURE HOME DESTROYED.
London, Mar. 21. The miniature house which was designed and built in Wales and presented to the Duke and Duchess For York for, their daughter, Prin- cess Elizabeth, was destroyed by fire to-day when being transported
rond to London for exhibition.
The Duke. In a telegram to the Lord Mayor of London, expresses deep regret at the destruction of this wonderful specimen of Welsh craftsmanship.
The furniture which is in keup- ing with the model house, was in a separate vehicle and is safe. The house, which was big enough for the Princess to walk about in, will be rebuilt. British Wireless.
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Moscow, Mar. 21. Events in Manchuria con- tinue to provide occasions for meetings between M. Karakhan, the acting Com- missar for Foreign Affairs
clare that the transportation and and Mr. Hirota, the Japanese
concentration of trueps along the Chinese Eastern Railway WIL Ambassador-in Moscow.
aimed at the protection of life Further queries by M. Karakhan and property and had no strate to-day elicited an assurance from
vical object, Mr. Hirota that the Japanese | Mr. Hirota gave an assurance Army in the Kwantung Peninsula that Japan would observe the was closely watching the activi Portsmouth Trenty. ties of the Russlan White Guards.
The Japanese Government bas
RUBBER CRISIS.
Sharp Break in Price.
Optimistic View of
an-M.P.
BRITISH ABILITY.
London, Mar. 21.
"British rubber companies
THE BLACK BREATH.
M. TROTSKY'S NARROW ESCAPE.
CAST ON LONE ISLAND.
which are still able to exist must SECOND SHOCK.
continue to reorganise and I am quite certain that they will have no difficulty in producing at a considerably lower price than the Dutch.
This was the opinion to-day ex; preased by Mr. E. T. Campbell, M.P., who was for many years con- | nected with planting enterprises in the Dutch East Indies, both rubber and tobacco. He acted as British Consul in Java for many years.
Constantinople, Mar. 21.
Wrecked on a lonely island in the Sea of Marmora, ex- posed to bitterly cold wea- ther and a howling gale, without shelter of any kind, M. Leon Trotsky, the exiled Russian leader, had an excit- ing adventure yesterday which might have cost him his life.
He added that a steady low price
M. Trotsky was a member of u was always preferable and in the fishing party, angling off "Dog" long run more profitable than Island in the Sea of Marmora. continuously fluctuating nervous market as had now prevailed for when a sudden gust of icy wind, over a year owing to the restric-known in this part of the world as "The Black Breath," drove the lion negotiations.
motor-boat on the rocka.
MAROONED.
New Low Record.
A sharp break in the price of Trotsky and his two companions rubber followed the announcement just managed to scramble ashore that the proposals for the regula-bofore the boat was capsized and tion of production or the export of smashed. rubbor had been rejected.
They were marooned on Dog Spot price was quoted at one and Island through the night, experi seven eights pence, the lowest on encing bitterly cold weathor from record, but it recovered later to one which no shelter was available. and fifteen sixteenths.
Ashing Rubber They were rescued by a
smack which observed their sign- shares were nominal.
Sirals this morning.
Questioned in Parliament. Philip Cliffe Lister said he was atisfied that the coneluxion of the negotiations was inevitable in all the circumstances and it had been reluctantly accepted by both the British and Dutch Governments.-- Reuter and Britíah Wirelcnn.
ARREST MADE ON TROOPSHIP.
ALLEGED FRAUD IN
· RESTAURANT.
SECOND MISFORTUNE.
Later. M. Leon Trotsky's luck appears to be out at the moment.
After his very narrow cscape from drowning, he was informed that his long-hoped-for holiday at Carlsbad, the Czecho-Slovakian health resort, where he was to have taken the cure, had been can- celled at the last moment,
The breakdown of the ar rangements was due to the re fusal of the Turkish Govern ment to guarantee to place no obstacle in the way of his re- turn to Turkey.
A few minutes prior to the de- The Czecho-Slovakian Govern- parture of the troopship Lagen-ment consequently notified M. shire for England yesterday after-Trotsky that they wore compelled noon, with 207 ratings from Hong-Ito withdraw the permission pre- kong, Detective Sergeant Meviously given for him to enter. Hardy went on board and arrested Czecho-Slovakia.-Router. Private S. C. Bursford, R.A.S.C.,
GTI
warrant issued at the in- stigation of Lane, Crawford, Ltd.,
Bursford was bright before
The Japanese military authori-no intention whatsoever of leay-Police Court this morning ties were prepared, if necessary, Ing troops on the Chinese Enstera to repress any political insurgent | Railway," he delared. activity directed unint Soviet 'COUNTER-QUESTIONS. Itussin
Regarding the new Government Mr. Hirutu countered Mt. in Manchuria, Japon re-affirmed Karakhan's interrogation with a her adherence to the principle of series of questions regarding the the Open Door.
concentration of Soviet troops on the Russo-Korean border and the construction of All nerodrome
PORTSMOUTH TREATY.
M. Kurakhan's suggestion that there.
troop movements the Japanese
M. Karakhan asserted that alt violated the Portsmouth Treaty, such reports were without founda- was dented by M. Hirota, who detton-Reuter,-
Mr. Wynne
nne Jones at the Centrai aud obtaining cre- charged with dit by fraud other than by false pretences at Lane, Crawford's Res- laurant on Sunday.
O.E.C. Marton appeared on behalf of Lane, Crawford, Ltd.. the defendant entering a plea of nat guilty.
The hearing of the case Par ixed for 11 am. on Tuesday next, bail being allowed in the UM OF $250. In the event of bail not being produced, the defendant was remanded in military custody.
The Lytton Commission in Shanghai-Our photo shows the Earl of Lytton addressing. important gatherin'e ka has attended in Skongkak. In the pistorm left to right, front row: ATI Coy, Dr. Wallington Koo, Lord Lytton, General Wong Kuen, of the XIXth Army, and Mr.W*
Mayor of Greater Shanghal
ROAD-RAILWAY RIVALRY.
Leaders to Thrash Out Problems.
London, Mar. 21. A committee, comprising four, representatives of the railways and four of the Arms engaged in goods transport by road has been set up with comprehensive terms of reference as follow:
To investigate the facts relating to the total costs of the highways aystom-including the regulation of trade; the incidence of those costs, and the contributions of the different classes of users of me- chanically propelled vehicles.
To consider and report on the nature and extent of regulations, which In view of modern economic development should be appiled to. goods transport by road and by rall, and, in the light of any con clusions reached under these heads, to make such further, re- commendations as they are able to. frame designed to assist the two |aiden of the industry to carry out their functions under equitable conditions which, adequately Bado- guard the interests of trade and Industry; and to report by; thì end of July-British Wirelcan, Phi
Last week's health return shown eight cases of small-boj: (six) deaths), and two of evróbro÷spínal; Lover (one death). One of the typhoid canon ant.one of small-pox were imported. There were also 66, deaths from pulnionary tuberculosis,