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四拜城十三月六英港香,
DAY JUNE. 30, 1932.
日七廿月五
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MACHERIA POSTAL ADMINISTRATION FEUD
CHI
TREAT BLOCKADE
SIBERIA SERVICE
IMPERILLED
H.K. POSITION
Shanghal, June 30. The National Government is de termined to employ every means: in their power to prevent the threatened seizure of the Postal Administration in Manchuria.by. the Manchukuo "puppet" governi ¡ment;
One of the results of the policy already formulated may be the Interruption of the mail service to Europe via Siberia,
The Ministry of Communicationa, Nanking, has addressed A MEMO- raudum to the International Postul Union at Geneva, informing them of the announced Intention of the to seizo Manchukuo Government the postal administration on July
1.
BLOCKADE INTENDED.
The Ministry of Communications, | after detailing the facts of the Chinese situation, declares the
Government's determination to blockade any postal services set up by the Manchukue puppet puthori tics in the event of the threat of seizure being carried putt.
The blockade will. I
•be made effective by means of the Kus- pension of all remittance and mail services between Chino Proper and Manchuria, while all for outgoing mails destined Europe will be despatched by boat, instead of via Siberia, which necessitates passing through Harbin.
It is estimated that there are 370
WUCHOW BECOMES A VEN ICE. The remarkable photo above shows the main street of Wuchow flooded to a depth of four feet, with boste plying for hire in the plaso o friokakas. The picture was taken five days ago, since when the river has risen much higher, being now
bout six feet below the record,
HELEN
CHOLERA
Another atfange picture taken in the heart of Wuchow's businas district, showing a large junk on the extreme right among the craft making use of newly formed waterways.
PEACE IN LAUSANNE AFTER A STORM
DE VALERA HARBIN RUSSIAN BLUFF
CALLED
COLLECTING LAND
· ANNUITIES
London, June 30. Mr. Stanley Baldwin is expected to announce in the House of Commons to- day, the Government's in- tention to introduce a Bill next week empowering the Government to collect the
SCANDAL
CHAUFFEUR - SHOT BY CONSULAR
OFFICIAL
DRUNKEN ORGY
(Special to "Telegraph”)
Harbin, June, 30. The veil of secrecy which has surrounded the circum- stances in which Chinese chauffeur, who died from a bullet wound, received his injury, has been lifted. The chauffeur, It is now alleged, debt, being withheld by the was shot by the Secretary of the Soviet Consulate, M. Yakovletť, Irish Free State, by a duty when the latter was drunk. The on Irish goods imported shooting took place on May 22 and man died on May 28. The into Britain.
facts or the allegations have, only
sum
of £1,500,00 repre- senting land annuities
the
It is anticipated that the Bill just been revealed.
PRIME MINISTER AGAIN will provide general powers to
INTERVENES
AIR OF CHEERFULNESS
WITH
LAUSANNE, JUNE 29. IS BUBBLING OVER TAUSANCE
Care RS of all kinds, although the atmosphere is much less tense after a Franco-German thunderstorm last night, caused by German allegations of misrepre-
INDISPOSED TUNG WAH'S sentations in the French newspapers.
UNABLE TO PLAY YESTERDAY
branch post offices in Manchuria, in MEN'S DOUBLES
addition to the three main General Post Office establishments. Ren- ttr.
ALTERNATIVE ROUTES.
A Telegraph representative wa informed by the Postmaster. General this afternoon that the situation in almost unprecedented. Hongkong has had no previous in- formation of the development and it is not definitely known what effect the Chinese. Government's blockade would have upon Hongkong's ser-¡ vice via Siberla
HUGHES AND PERRY IN SEMI-FINAL
է
CASES
STATEMENT BY DR. POPE
"The sixteen cases reported on Tuesday were all from the Tung Wah Hospital." said Dr. G. W. Pope, Medical Officer of Health! this morning.
They were discovered by the Superintendent of the Kennedy Town district who had them im- mediately removed to the Kennedy Town Hospital. There is no dambt that these cases should have been? notified, and the failure to do so
i can only be laid down to omission
To-day it was reported widely that in response to urgent appeals by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Herr Von Papen had accepted the principle of making a final pay. ment in lieu of reparations, but only when normal con- ditions are restored in Germany.
deal with the situation as it de-i velops and will be passed in all its stages without delay as an emergency measure.-Reuter.
THE NAPIER WILL
MISTRESS TO MAKE ALLOWANCE TO WIDOW
The
(Reuter's Spacial Service).
M. Yakovleff, who had been nicknamed "Uncle Misha” in Harbin, is a well-known cabaret babilue, and it is declared that he was accustomed to threaten the cabaret girls with his revolver. which he always carried.
AN ACCIDENT.
He was on his way home with another Russian on the morning of May 22, when he presumably fired the revolver in a spirit of drunken abandon and accidentally wounded the chauffeur, who was
driving a hired car..
fs and that M, Yakqvloff was accompanied by M: Vladimiroff. the secretary to the manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, “M. Vladimiroff, who is suspected of being implicated in the affair, left Harbin for Moscow on June 2,
It is said that the authorities London, June 29. enormous legal expenses are now applying for the extradi- Within a few minutes of information that the re-which would certainly have beention of M. Yakovleff and M. port was in circulation, official German quarters totally incurred in the Napier Will dis-Vladimiroff.
pute action In the Probate Court, denied that Herr Von had agreed to any such proposal. had it been fought to the bitter Mr. MacDonald is cheerful and declares that every tafled by an unexpected announce. end, have been considerably cur- thing is going all right. M. Herriot is also cheerful, ment that the case has been settled He said he had always been an optimist. Asked whether by agreement. the Conference would continue, another French dele. gate declared: "It will continue more than ever."
or ignorance on the part of those VON PAPEN AND FRENCH REPORTS
responsible.
The amount at stake was over £1,200,000, left by the automobile
Democratic Party
expert, the late Mr. M. S. Napier, Sensation
to Mr. Fryer under a will dated 1923. The widow, Mrs. Napter, claimed on behalf of herself and four children, that the 1929 will was obtained by undue influence and asked for, the 1935 will to be
London, June 29. Britain, America and France to-day qualified for the semi-finals of the men's doubles at Wimbledon, while Miss Helen Jacobs sensa. tionally defeated Madame Mathieu to establish the ex- Normally, Siberin mails are senti
treme probability of an all- to Shanghai and forwarded from
American women's final. the circumstances, there. In
Lundon. June 29. Chancellor, Herr Von Pupen of a granted probate. Miss Mary Heeley ht
It was stated that Mr. Napier Shanghai might refuse to despatch
done lera, and under the circumstances
oc-statement ranging over the long had lived with Mrs, Fryer from Important developments them to Manchuria. Mr. Breen is extremely well, but is not
con- the people responsible for not no-curred to-day in the Repurations conversations which took place 1916 to his death. She was the wiring to Shanghai for informationsidered good enough to extend tifying the authorities would be Conference at Lausanne when the yesterday between the dele.
Mrs. Helen Willa-Moody. Another liable. This is not, however, on the matter.
factor has, however, entered into matter for my department. I don't the question. The semi-final bo- think any further steps will be tween Airs. Moudy and Miss taken, in view of the fact that In the case of past emergencies caused by civil wars or other dis-eeley should have been played, the cases were discovered."
yesterday. Mrs. Moody was in- turbances, the Hongkong Post disposed anch permission Was
HONCKONG'S POSITION.
Ofice has sent
mails for
the
"Any person, layman or practi- || floner, is compelled to notify cho-
.
FATALITY RATE.
given for a postponement. Such Siberian route to Kote, the Japán postponement cannot, of course, uses had been notified this HT- Dr. Pope added that no further ese Post Office sending them on to go on indefinitely. Mrs. Moody ising, although he believed one or Vladivostock. This route takes a Inot seriously unwell, however, little longer.
Should politicnt considerations and it is expected that she will two notifications were coming 16 prohibit the use of this alternativee it to play, perhaps to-morrow Hongkong thirty-four cases have
route, the mails would be sent vin Canada, which again is speedier than the ordinary services via Suez,
hand. Singe the outbreak in
HUGHES AND PERRY.
been notified, of which number 26 proved fatal. Two or three pat- Britain's representatives in the ients have been discharged. Men's Doubles semi-final are "The high percentage of fatali- G. P. Hughes and F. J. Perry, ties does not necessarily four Davis Cup pair of last season, that cholera is always so fatal,
mean
COMMUNAL RIOTS They have been playing splendid. The percentage of fatalities at
RECUR
are
ly together and conceded the commencement of an epidemic more than an outside chance for may reach 100 per cent, and to- the title, although Allison
and [Wards the end the recovery rate Van Ryn, the holders, will take u (Continred on Page 7.)
TWO KILLED AND 90 lot of beating.
INJURED
Bombay, June 29.
killed and ninety injured in grave rioting be- tween Hindua and Moslems in North Bombay to-day.
Two persons were
Hughes and Perry to-day de-
feated Sidney Wood and Gregory HONGKONG DOLLAR
Mangin (U.S.A.)'in straight mets,
after some strenuous battling in UP SLIGHTLY the first twe.
con-
and sole beneficiary under the 1923 eritical phase in its proceedings gates of France, Germany will. was turned, largely owing to the Britain suggested that the
To-day it was announced that i intervention of the British Prime ference was on the verge of break- Mrs. Fryer had agreed to allow Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. down. These fears were allayed Mrs. Napier's wife the sum of £20,- The publication by the German after a further meeting held this 000 and £3,000 per annum, Mrs. evening, at which the six inviting Napler agreeing to withdraw the
to proceeded
make reflections upon her husband's arrangements for the completion |lestamentary capacity. of the work of the conference.
THE SHARPE SUICIDE
BRITISH ENQUIRY IN AMERICA
POLICE HELD TO BE BLAMELESS
Powers
CLOUD CAST.
CLEAN BREAK WITH PROHIBITION
A
Chicago, June 29. sensation has been created by an unexpected turn of events at the Demo- cratic Convention at Chi- cago, which has been com- mitted to a policy of Prohi- bition Repeal. The decision was reached to-day
the flatform
Committee
of
the Convention, the voting being 36 in favour of adopting a straight Repeal plank and eighteen against. The decision was most unex- peeted as it was generally suppos-
At the conclusion of yesterday's SUNDAY CINEMAS ed that the Committee, which is
meeting, a communique was issued that the President, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald would to-day report on the position arising from the Franco-German conversations to the six inviting Powers.
French press.
GERMAN ATTITUDE." ·
1.
BILL PASSES THIRD READING
on, WIN
practically controlled by Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, the Governor of Now York Sinto and the favourite for the Presidential nomination, was planning to avoid definitely committing the Party to jrepeul.
The second plank adopted by the Committes is a declaration against the cancellation of wor debts.
London, June 29, The cloud was cast over the con- The third reading of the Sun- ference, however, when this morn-day Entertainments Bill, permit- ing Von Papen'a outline of Tues-ting local authorities to reach day's conversations was publish- their own decisions regarding the ed to correct what it was stated opening of cinemus and
This decision was, of course, were misleading, reports in the passed in the House of Commons very much expected as any other
by 140 votes to 56 to-night.
policy would undoubtedly Injure (Router's Special Service).
During the debate, a new clause the Party's prospects among the was moved on behalf of the Gov-farming fraternities of the Middle London, June 20,
In the course of the Von Papon ernment providing that ve per west Reuter. The American police have been
cont. of the sum ear-marked for:
⚫ Luter. exculpated on the charge of brutal announcement, it was stated that charity out of the profits of Sun- third-degree methods in connexion Mr. MacDonald asked the Gerday performances should be trans-committee's recommendation for a The Convention has adopted the HOLDERS IN KEEN TIGHT.
with the death of Miss Violet man Chancellor whether he could ferred to a Cinematograph Fund Prohibition Repeal plank-Reuter, BUT MARKET RATHER Sharpe, the British nursomaid bring about a final solution. The polico were compelled to open Menzel and Oliff by three sets
Allison and Van Ryn eliminated}
to be established under the direc- who committed suicide after a The German Chancellor, it is tion of the Privy Council for the police examination in regard to stated, replied as follows: The purpose of encouraging the use to one. This provided 11
The Hongkong dollar rose 1/8th the Lindbergh baby kidnapping confidence of the world can only and development of cinematograph JAPAN'S AIR FORCE thrilling contest. Monzel and
be restored if tho victorious as a means of entertainment and Oliff were a set-all at the end of this morning to Is. 3.1/Bd., but outrage.
IN MANCHURIA there is a slightly easier under-i The Under-Secretary of State for Powera could decide to remove instruction.-Reuter and British Mr. J. W. Franks, according to a the second and seemed likely to tone to the market, very littio Foreign Affairs, Captain Anthony. the discriminations contained inWireless. roport issued from Police Head-win the third. They faltered, business passing.
Eden, told the House of Commons the Treaty of Versailles. If, in -quarters, lost an umbrella valued at however, and 6-6 was called, for
15 either on a Kowloon bus or at the the American to break through China bought and there was small General in New York, after a care-security were re-established, the In London, silver is up 1/16th. to-day that the British Consul- this manner, Gorman equality and Star Forry last week.
A Chinoso who was found wandor and capture the next two games business on a quiet market. After ful examination, was convinced German Chancellor could envisage ing about Queen's Road West, near for the docisivo net.
the official fixing, the market ruled that Miss Sharpe was not inter- the possibility of Germany par- Water Street. In the nude, caused Air Force in this region in Injuries sustained in a fell into the
Boussus and Merlin are other quietly steady, with small buyers rogated under conditions of severe ticipating in a general effort to much excitement yesterday. It was sad to be eighty acroplanos as the nullah at Hill Road, West Polat, contenders which are certainly at the quoted rates.
physical strain. necessitated the removal to the not to be desplacd.
wards the reconstruction of world deemed that the man must be insane minimum. The French Now York reports rise of
and he was taken to the Government There was, therefore, no ground trade.in the form of a contribution Civil Hospital for examination. There Many of them are tri- Government Civil Hospital yesterday of Yuen Sing-hi, aged 28, of 80, First pair to-day defeated Miki and 1/16th in silver,
a steady for official British representations which pre-supposch, however, the he was curtified as being insane and bombing planes KESA (Continued on Page 7.)
[to Washington.
on Page FLA was removed to the Mental Hospital, to #Telam
fre on the maddened
erowds on
four occasions.-Reuter.
Blewet;
market,
EASY
DA
EIGHTY PLANES IN THE-
REGION OF HARBIN.
Harbin, June: 30,
The strongth of the Japanise,