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SOVIET ACTIVITY ON MANCHUKUO BORDERS
NEW SHANGHAI PERIL
JAPANESE RONINS'
THREATS
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
CHINESE CHAMBER
WARNED
(Telegraph Special.)
Shanghai, Aug. 31. Japanese in Shanghai are now threatening to resort to counter. a campaign of
terrorism if the boycott ac- tivities are not stopped.
This new factor in the Sino- Japanese situation has caused 'n tremendous sensation and if the threat develops into action, it is difficult to see how fav more serious trouble can be avoided.
RIVER GUNBOATS
CONCENTRATE
AIR RECONNAISANCES. ALONG SUNGARI
MUCH SPECULATION
(SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”).
HARBIN, AUG. 31.
FRESH THE PRECISE SIGNIFICANCE OF
ACTIVITY ON THE MANCHURIAN BORDER BY SOVIET AIR AND NAVAL FORCES IS THE SUBJECT OF SPECULATION IN HARBIN..
According to information from Japanese official sources, the Soviet are concentrating their river-navy in the vicinity of Tunkiang, at the confluence of the Sungari and the Amur Rivers.
The official report states that there are at present some twelve Soviet gunboats, a transport-steamer and two barges at Tunkiang.
year. It
According to the Chinese news-
now stated, there have papers, societies to combat the ac-
At the same time comes abeen no frontier clashes and no tivities of the Chinese "Bloody Associations" are now being or denial of the Manchukuo allega-crossing of the border by Soviet anised by the Japanese ronins. tions that the Soviet military forens.
~SCARLET CLOTH SOCIETY,"
to the chairman of the Hongkew
command in the north has erected barracks, and has built
of
·HEADQUARTERS IN CHINAL.
MORE WAR DEBT ECONOMIES
REPAYMENT OF 42 PER CENTS.
£2,000,000 SAVING IN
INTEREST
London, Aug. 30.
Gazette
To-night's Londnu contains An announcement giving notice to the holders of the 41% wat lona 1925/45 that the loan will bé repaid at par on 1st December next, together with the six months' interest Interest on due on that date. the loan will then cease.
Notice is als given to the hold- ers of 4 Treasury bonds 1932/34, that they will be repaid at par on the same date with the four months-intercat due on that date. Interest on the bonds will then conse.
Following the success of the Five Per Cent: War Loan con- version scheine, the ments were anticipated.
announce-
They wore in fact foreshadowed in a Treasury statement last night.
OVER £150,000,000
The outstanding amount of the
Photo showing Nazis in a state of excitement in the Rolchstag, a net
uncommon occurrence.
VON PAPEN'S VEILED
DICTATORSHIP
JURY'S MIND BLURRED
CHENG CASE DIRECTION CRITICISED
TO-DAY'S "APPEAL"
HEARING
The summing-up of the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) in the recent trial of Cheng Kwok-you for procuring the murder of George Fung was attacked by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.C., before the Full Court this morning.
Mr. Jenkin's attack was based on eight points submitted yostor- | day, which he declared were essential for a fair and correct summing-up.
"The Chief Justice. In the second line of his summing-up. said he was taking the case en brond general lines," said Mr. Jenkin," and he added, 'I hope rightly."
Proceeding, he said the trial Judge had confessed he was not following the usual course and had
unusual one. "No-one will deny that the case was very lengthy and difcult," said Mr. Jenkin.
EMPTY NAZI TRIUMPH IN pointed out that the case was an
REICHSTAG
45% per cent stock is £153,222,970, HINDENBURG ORDER
comprising utly £140,000,000 £ a little I lo stated that a secret Janon- trenches and entanglements The Chinese newspapers her the Trensus Bonds and
1925/46,-gpresenting the out- ese society, the "Scarlet Cloth within Manchukuo territory in confirm, with information from over £13,0) of War Loan
other. sources, the report of
of £900,000,000 at standing balance letter the vicinity of Manchuli. Society has addressed a
Soviet naval concentration It will be recalled that the Tankiang. The
issued in 1915. Chinese papers Branch of the Shanghai Chinese Manchukuo Government a fort declare that the Soviet have! The date of repayment coincides General Chamber of Commerce, night ago presented a demand to
their naval head-with the amortisation of the un- in established Sovie! Consul-General warning him against carrying on the
quarters at Tunkinng in spite of converted residue of the 5% War further with anti-Japanese ac-Harbin for the withdrawal
valve a refunding operation but tivities and the boycotting of troops and the destruction of the the fact that the city is on the Loan. The cancellation will in- Japanese goods.
the form which this will take will defence works alleged to have Chinese side of the river.
The vessels are equipped with
made heen erected by the Soviet troops.)
not necessarily be
Im- machine-guns and quick-firers,
mediately and the newspapers SPY'S REPORT.
anticipate that the terms on which It is now suggested that the
the Treasury will offer a refund- a result of the
It is also reported that aeroing loan may not be disclosed be- hoycott which is being retively complaint was based upon in-
the new Soviet fore the end of September. supported by the Chamber, many formation which lacked founda-planes from
have Japanese merchants
been tion, being based upon the report military aerodrome at Habarovsk
A net saving of about £2,000,000. ruined.
of "spy" who apparently saw are daily reconnoitring the Sun-
regions, in interest in next year's Budget Is with
were gari and Amur River athe defence works which The letter concludes
and have never undertaking lights a considerable expected to bo effected by the re-i warning that the Scarlet Cloth erected in 1929 Society will resort to drastic ac-been removed. During the last distance up the Sungari-Reuter payments decided upon. tion if the anti-Japanese societies are not suppressed.--Renter.
"DRASTIC ACTION."
The letter says that already, as
anti-Japanese
LONDON TRAFFIC. CRISIS
STRIKE OF BUSMEN LIKELY
London, Aug. 30.
The threat of a serious disloca- tion of London's transport is con tained in the decision of a delegate conference of the busmen to do! mund that the Executive of the Transport Workers' Union | | thorise a strike as from Septem
TERROR IN MUKDEN
“SHOT ON SIGHT" WARNING
CHAOTIC SITUATION IN
THE CITY
ber 23rd. This is the date on SILENT STREETS
which the Company's proposed wage reductions operate.
This demand is tantamount to decision to strike, unless a set- tlement can be arrived at through further discussions between the men and the Company in the mean- time.Reuter.
SEVENPENCE FOR A VOTE
BRITAIN'S BARGAIN
ELECTION
London, Aug. 80.
AIR RECONNAISANCE.
FINAL AMOUNT IN DOUBT.
amount which
EGYPT GOLD will have to find in December as a
QUEST
result of last month's gigantic con- version operation and the present repayment proposals will not be known until after September 30 as the holders of £189,000,000 worth
Berlin, Aug. 30.
MASS OF EVIDENCE.
"We know, too, that there was an excoptional mass of evidence. The evidence of Zimmern and Christie alone occupied 100 pages [of the Judge's notes, and the Jodge said that their evidence contained [difficultios, Improbabilities and:
WHILE THE HITLERITES WERE WAXING inconsistencies.
ENTHUSIASTIC OVER THEIR FIRST SUC. CESS IN THE NEW REICHSTAG TO-DAY, PRE- SIDENT HINDENBURG, CAPTAIN VON PAPEN AND GENERAL VON SCHLEICHER WERE PUT TING THE FINAL TOUCHES TO THE ESTABLISH- MENT OF A THINLY-VEILED DICTATORSHIP IN GERMANY.
That the Junker group now in control of the poli- tical situation have dropped Hitler definitely and are determined to keep him out of power is no longer doubted..
To-day, it was revealed that the Chancellor, Cap- tain von Papen, has received full powers from the Pre- sident to dissolve the Reichstag if it demands the annul ment of old or new decrees or attempts to counteract his domestic policy. Documents to this effect have been signed by President Hindenburg and the datelines have been left blank.
"If there ever was a case in which u mass of evidence should have been
sifted, in which there should have the fullest direction in which the jury should have been givsh every assistance in solving the difficulter this case is one.
"What is the possible state of mind of this jury as regards the evidence of Zimmern and Christic on this summing-up.
"Firstly, the whole of - the" Zimmern and Christic evidence had been admitted and placed before them as proper material
for their consideration,
MURDEROUS HATE "Secondly, they were directed that the purpose of that evidence as a whole was to establish two things-the existence of murder- ous hate in the mind of the prisoner and the attempt to bring
£500,000 IN BULLION of Five Per Cent. War Loan (re-EX-CROWN PRINCE RUMOUR REVIVED whether the Grown had proved a
RECOVERED
(Special to "Telegraph")
about the murder of Fung through Zimmern and Christie.
"Thirdly, the Judge directed that the issue in the case was
accused was the man who employ- ed Lau to organise the murder. They were directed that there The Communists responded with was a distinct gap between the of "Red Front! Bail evidence of Taul which did not shouts Moscow.!"
implicate the accused and the As Frau Zetkin, supported by jevidence of Zimmern and Christic. two women Communists fettered] "Is it not clear that in these down the steps, she was replaced in jelreuniatances, the trial Judge the Speaker's Chair by Captain should have assisted these gentle- men by directing them how they could bridge that gap?
presenting the balance of the ori- ginal loan which by July 31 had neither been converted nor car-
It is indicated that the Govern marked for repayment) will have the option of asking for repaymentment proposes to issue emergency decrees dealing: with their by the date. London, Aug. 30. As the claims for the repayment economic program at the begin
of this Loan by July 31 amounted g of next week. More than half # million!
In the Reichstag, shotiy before to £48,000,000, it is certain that pounds worth of gold and silver with the repayments announced the motion for adjournment, the have, up to the present, been to-day, the Treasury will need at nur bera eleste one of the Big Goering. recovered from the wreck of the least £201,000,000 en December 1.
sunken P. and 0. liner, Egypt,!
by the Italian salvage-ship, į Artiglio.
LOW INTEREST.
Peking, Aug. 13:
It is quite certain, however, that Mukden is in a state of
The Artiglio to-day docked at the Government will be able to complete chaos as a result of Plymouth with another ton of borrow at remarkably low rates the activities of the "Volum-gold and silver, carelessly lying and will have no difficulty in meet- ing all its commitments on terms: about the deck in boxes.
large say- The bullion was, however, very which will represent a carefully guarded when ones. It ing.
It is expected that the necessary had been hoisted on to the quay- side. It was placed in a special funds will be raised by short-term
borrowing-Reuter and British van, with heavy iron bars, for con-
Wireless. veyance to London.
teers" who have disorganis- ed the town.
All public utilities have ceased to operate and the services are not likely to be restored for
The salvage-ship is returning some time, according to Chinese official circles here, who declare to the wreck immediately in pur- that they have received reliable suit of the remainder of her value-
able cargo.-Reutar. information of the events in Mukden.
com.
HOME FOOTBALL RESULTS
PRESTON & CELTIC WIN AT HOME
PONY STRUCK BY MOTOR CAR
LEG BROKEN: HAS TO BE DESTROYED Lieut. H. R. R. Prior, of the Royal Artillery, reported to the police yesterday that a China pony belonging to him was being ridden
Captain, Goering, one of Hitler's most trusted Heuten- ants, elected Speaker of the Reicheter.
Four of the Nezl (Fascist) group, Captain Hormant, Geofing, as the Speaker of the House.
BIG MAJORITY.
TO SEE PRESIDENT.
In accordance with custom, Captain Goerlig and the Deputy Speaker will now request an in- terview with President von Hin- denburg.
Captain Goering was a dashing aviator during the Great War, He commanded in 1918 the air squadron named after von Richthofen. the "Richthofen Circus."
He was Hitler's right-hand man In the "boor-cellar" putsch in Munich in 1928 when he was wounded,
up
"But a perusal of the summing- discloses this fact-there is
(Continued on Page 7.)-
STOP PRESS.
Nanking, Aug. 31. In a loading article on Britain's Far
Eastern policy and Sino- British relations, the official organ. the Central Daily Neirs afpressen TRUSTED LIEUTENANT,
the opinion that Britain"'cannot He is, in fact, one of the men in affort to remain undecided at the The Japanese military are con-
whom Hitler has the completeat ducting n strenuous campaign in Last year's general election in an effort to discover persons con-
confidence, because he is the born present critical moment, the out- Britain was the cheapest on record corned, in creating the confualon.
organiser and because of his come of which will bo vital permanent poace in the Far-1 so far as the cost of each vote was Orders have been issued
worldly polish. concerned. The total expenses of manding the inhabitanta to remain
Son of an old Prussian family and also British economie the candidates necording to Indoors under pain of being shot
which had numbered ministers of
British statesman in formu. State in its ranks, husband of their policy must look for White Papor Issued to-day amount-down without warning. ed to only £654,105. -
That auch ruthless measures are
in Queen's Road East, opposite The voting was 367 to 210 in Swedish baroness, member of the. The proceding election in 1929 considered necessary reveals how In the Second Division of the Wellington Barracks, by a mafoo favour of Captain Goering and the Refohstag during the war he dis- contúry hence, abys thank which resulted in the return of effective the campaign of the English Longue, Preston were at when motor car No. 322 overtook announcement of the result was tinguished himself as a fighting which expressca, dissatisfe the Labour Government cost Volunteers has been and suggests home to Barnley to-day, and made a tramcar und passed between the the signal for a wild butat df en omcer and was awarded the order the lack of comment on
that it is "getting on the nerves" no mistake about the result, pony and the tram.;
thusiasm by the Naxfs.
of "Pour la Merite," something of British official circled £1,218,507.
Forming the biggest group in much higher than the rather mexion with Count Uchid Votes polled last year numbered of the Japaneso. Router,
winning by six goals to one.
The car struck the poffy and 21,088,878 and cost a little over
In this First Division of the broke its off hind leg. The the-Relghatag by a considerable cheaply bestowed Iron Cross. Hø
Manchuria apósch --Re sevenpence, as compared with The Empress of Asia leaves for Scottish League, Celtic entertained animal was subsequently destroy margin they rose as on man walka, with; a slight limp as the
alling two yeare Manlis, Dep-into-day, and not d'Arr and won by four goals to one, ed at the BABYrdebot. The shouting: Wake up Germany! result of an old billet wound.
London, Aug. 30.