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SOUNDMI 1081
No. 14741.
一拜禮 號五月三英香
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1934.
日十二月正
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REPRIEVE OBTAINED FOR NATHAN ROAD TREES
A NEW SAINT
Canonised by Pope
at St. Peter's
Romo, Mar.. 5.
Was
A new saint, Maria Micaela, an eighteenth-cen- Spanish girl, tury canonised by His Holiness the Pope with full care. mony at St. Peter's, Rome, to-day-Reuter.
ARIYOSHI RECALL
;
NEW JAPANESE POLICY
IN MAKING
BOMB ATTACK RUMOUR
(Special to "Telegraph")
(By Tetegraph. Copyright, Telegraphto
ope
Ordinames. 1891. Resolved
6, 18 maon.)
March
Tokyo, Mar. 5. The early recall of Mr. Akiro Ariyoshi, the Japanese Minister to China, as soon as the Diet ad- journs,
announced this morning by Mr. Koki Hirota, the Foreign Minister.
жда
Original Order for
for Wholesale Felling Now Withdrawn
UNITED STATES POLICY
"DISARMAMENT
ILLUSION
ATTITUDE AGAIN MADE CLEAR
(Special to "Talagraph”)
(Hy Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphio Meo
Ordinner. 1894. Received March
8. 836 am.}
Washington, Mar. 4.
Some misunderstanding
appears to have
arisen
regarding the part that the
United States may play in Signor Mussolini, against whose lis anti-Fascist exiles are alleged to
the solution of the disarma-have plotted, is shown above ski ing ment problem.
A belief exists among European leaders that representatives of i the United States, at the behest of President Roosevelt, will push negotiations for the signing of a multilateral non-aggression pact as a disarmament move.
Both President Roosevelt and
the State Department, however, to-day Indentul that the United States will adopt a purely passive jattitude during the negotiations.
NOT INTERESTED.
in the environs of Rome.
CANTON DISASTER
OVER 200 PERSONS MISSING
The President again emphasised FRENZY ON DOOMED that he has no intention of au- Mr. Hirata Indicated that Mr.thorising Mr. Norman Davis, ori
VESSEL Ariyoshi would be ordered to re-any other official representative, turn to Tokyo for the purpose of to participate in discussions of a conference by Foreign Office | purely European problems. -oficials on Sino-Japanese
lations.
It is possible that the result of the conference will be the "adoptien"ofTMn-new policy-on- the China question-United Prese
ATTEMPT ON LIFE
SHANGHAI RUMOUR.
Shanghai, Mar. 5.
re-
A story of an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Mr. Ariyoshi, Japanese Minister to China, when he attended the Memorial Bervice
The United States is interested:
proposals-United Press,
junks and sampans.
According to one account. the mal cause of the overturning waa that the passengers rushed to one side of the boat in order be among the first lo disembark on urrival in Canton,
KOWLOON PROTESTS SUCCEED
MATTER TO BE GIVEN
FURTHER STUDY
A reprieve has been secured for some of Nathan, Road's trees.
In view of the strong repre sentations' male to the Govern- ment since Friday protesting against the wholesale felling of the banyan trees in Nathan Rond, the origiiul instructions
THE PLOT AGAINST MUSSOLINI
Three Noted Exilos Suspected
Rome, Mar. 5. Three distinguished anti- Fascist exiles, well-known in intellectual circles in Paris and London. are alleged to be the brains behind the four accused of plotting against Mussolini,
men
The exiles will be tried "In contumacium.”—Rek- tert
REVOLUTION MEMORIES
DEATH OF GENERAL LEA'S WIDOW
ADVISER OF SUN YAT SEN
(Special to "Telegraph")
ily Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphia Msas adgra Ordinanas, "Taka. Roonised Karik 5. Je, noon.2
New York, March 4.. A vigorous personality well- known in China some twenty years ago died in New York to- day in the person of Mrs, Ethel
to the Botanical and Forestry TEAR-CAS IN Bryant Powers Lea, the widow
Department have been suspend-
ed pending further considera- tion.
The Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Sir Thomas' Southorn, in- formed Telegraph representa- tive this morning; that the gen- eral feeling of those making protent was that the removal of certain trees, at lue stops and at road junctions, was possibly 14 necessity, but the chief grievance was against the wholesale felling of the trees.
ARMED ROBBERY
PENCIL DEVICE ON ACCUSED
FIRST CASE OF As soon as-polest was made to KIND IN HONGKONG) the Government, the origiuni order was suspided. The mate.
of General Homer Len.
General Homer Len will be re- membered as a former military advisor of Dr. Sun Yat-sdn, who served the famous Cantonese lea- der during the revolution of 1911. General Lea was alac the author
of a book entitled "The Valor of which set out to show Ignorance," how the Asiatics could conquer the United States. He died when he WAS organising the post- revolutionary army.
Two sons survive Mrs. Lea,- United Près.
WOMAN BEGGAR FINED
TOLICE SERGEANT
PROSECUTES
ter will now be given further A specially-designed pencil, Aborigat too wrote de discharge of tear-gas cartridges, consideration by Government. with a device at one end for the precating the destruction of the was produced in the Police Court trees werd the Hon. Mr. J. P. before. Mr. Hamilton, this Braga, the Rev. Walton Rogers morning, when three men were the Kowloon Residents' charged with conspiracy to com- Asscelation.
mit an armed robbery at No. 60, So far, nineteen have been felled. Lockhart, 1st, floor, on Saturday, Dectective-Sergeant «Moran,^, of All these are within the stretch of The defendants were Cheung the Fingerprint Department, was the road from Kimberley Road to Po-kung, Fong Kwai and Yu accosted by a woman mendicant as the scafront. None has been re Chung, all unemployed
he was entering the Blue Bird moved beyond Kimberley Road. Firat defendant
Also Cafe yesterday.
The woman. Leung Kwong-uk, charged with possession of a
.:
OUTRAGE
was
M.. Contor, the famed French Airman, who is missing on
night to Copenhagen.
TERRORIST GANG
IN FRANCE
STAVISKY INQUIRY
"STRANGLERS":
FEARS OF EXPOSURES
Paris, Mar. 4.
A terrorist organisation is in existence which aims at strangling the Stavisky En- quiry, instigated by people prominent in public àfe who fear exposure..
and Canton, March 5. In connection with the dis- in world disarmament. She will aster, which overtook the motor
They will not stop even at not discuss Europe's peculiar boat "Szehai," plying between dificulties. Her polley in this Szehul and Canton, last even-
murder, declared M. Cheron, the Minister of Justice, and M matter was positively stated ining, over 200 passengers are
Dountorgue, following the startIlig the Note handed to the British still missing. One hundred and
revelations of the past few days, particularly those contained in the Ambassador last week snying accord with British disarmament and children, were rescued by THE NATHAN ROADrevolver and 12 rounds of amuni- was arrested and appeared before Stávisky cheque stubs, which re- that the United States were in sixty persons, including women
tion without a licence from the Mr. Balfour in the Central appeared so mysteriously, I. G. P., and also with having Magistracy this morning, with a attempted to draw a loaded ro babe in arms. Sergt. Moran stated "M, Cheron told journalists that volver to resist arrest,
she held out a tin bowl and shouted the Ministry of Justice. la pursu AN EXPLANATION Third defendant was addition- "cumshaw, taipan." A previous ing the terrorist gang relentlessly
DEMANDED
ally charged with possession of conviction was proved, and a fine of and believes that it in cornering
them. the pencil designed for the dis-$5 or ten days was imposed." Sir, Those who suggested, re-charge of cartridges containing The woman pleaded for a haw- commended and approved the out- gas, and ten tear-gas cartridges, ker's licence, stating her husband rage in Nathan Road should On the application of Sub-Ins died at the end of last year and hanged from the trees
that
re-pector Nolloth, defendants were she had no relatives in the country.
remanded for 48 hours in police As, however this seems
too custody. much to expect. It is to be hoped that the Unofficial members will do their duty, and, regardless of) the rebuff that they may receive, Insist in Council on a full explan-{ ntion of the circumstances.
J. N.
U.S. ADMINISTRATION
COGITATES
to
Pathotic scenes were witnessed during the foundering of the boat,
held at Hongkow on Saturday for On the Events of the which took about ten minutes. Pas-
the Japanese soldiers killed dur
Ing the Shanghai "War," is in circulation here.
Past Year
Washington, Mar. 1.
sengers, young and old struggled frenziedly with each other för a [chance to escape. 'Many were trapped in the cabins and were drowned.
It was mostly those who were able to swim that were rescued by sampans and launches.--Central
The story goes that a youth, who is believed to be a Korean, throw a tube of explosive into the. President Roosevelt, twelve compound where the service was members of his Cabinet, the Vice- In progress, but the "bomb" did President, Mr. Garner, and the
explode. The aseallant Speaker, Mr. Rainey, dined at News, escaped, after doffing his coat to hotel here to-night to discuss aid in concealing his identity. oventa since the Presidential Central Newos.
inauguration twelve months ago.
not
THE SOVIETS AND
MANCHUKUO
main.
be
Previously, the President had DEATH OF MR. J. R. CADOGAN.IN]
worked on a broadcast speech to be delivered at 11 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on March 5, in
which he is expected to reveal the futuro of the National Recovery Administration.-Reuler.
BORDER COMMITTEE this afternoon, states that Presi
AGREEMENT
(Special to "Telegraph”)
(By Tilegraph. Copyright, Telegraphie Mon
Ordinance.
March 119). Naanised 5. moon.)
Harbin, March 5. The Manchukuo Government has decided on negotiation with the Soviets on the establishment of a Russo-Manchukuonn Border Com-| mission, whoso task will definitely to nettle the frontier „Jno,--United Preza.
be
MARYSE HILTZ OFF AGAIN
LEAVES TSINGTAO ·
FOR SEOUL
Tsingtao, March 5. Mlle, Maryse Hiltz left Tsingtao
HINTON
POPULAR RESİDENT
PASSES
A United Press message, received
Widespread regret will be felt dent Roosevelt is addressing the N.R.A. Code Revision Conference at the death of Mr. J. R. Hinton, of Mesars. Butterfield and Swire's, to-day on the future of the organi which occurred at the Canossa
Hospital this morning
from
wution.
CRICKET "TEST" FOR ・ QUAKE VICTIMS
pneumonia.
4X-
NANKING
PLANNING TOUR OF YANGESZE
VISIT TO MR. WANG CHING-WEI
(Special to "Talograph")
MRS ROOSEVELT'S TRAVELS
·40,000 Miles in Course of a Year
REVOLVERS IN SAMPAN
ORDER MADE FOR CONFISCATION
·PRINCE MURDER.”
The Publle Prosecutor, M. Dijon, told M. Cheran to-day that tha theory of suicide in the case of BI. Prince, the Chief of the Public Prosecutions Department, must be ruled out entirely. M. Prince was murdered - because he knew loo much connected with the Stayisky seandat.
It is believed that M. Princo" already had sufficient, information to justify the arrest of a number of men, whose detention would cause sensation,
Before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning,
IMPORTANT CLUE. Dectective Sergeant Poyntz.upplied
The police authorities have dis for the confiscatioin of four revol Landon, March. &. . Contrary to the custom of wives vers and 450 rounds of ammunition covered that the hunting kalfs of previous Presidents of the which were found by the Yaumati found beside the body of M. Fringe United States, who have usually Police in a sampan at the Yaumati was sold by a small store in Paris only three days before the murder. been content to remain at the Typhoon Shelter
The suicide theory is regarded Acting on Instructions, Sergeant White House to superviss domestic
and a party of Chinese ridiculous. M. Prince was. maiters Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt Poyntz has travelled over 40,000 miles detectives rowed out to the Shelter deceyed from Paris by a telegram
last and visited all parts of the coun-searched an unoccupied. Aampan ously ill. la body was terribly Wednesday evening, and stating that his mother was seri try, making sixty-seven specches
It is stated that the authorities
In the first year of his husband's which was drifting in the an-mutilatat Fresidency, according to the Daily chorage. In the sampan the arms Mail
Mrs. Roosevelt is now planning an aerial visit. to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The late Mr. Hinton, 'who WVAH 33 years of age, was
popular both amongst
his colleagues and a large circle of friends, who will hear of his demise
On her travels, Mra. Roosevelt Nanking, Mar. 6. with
He was a
keen Sir Alexander Cadogan, British for information concerning the has always kept a keen look-out cricketer regret.
being a member of the
Minister to China, has arranged to progress of the "Now Deal." Some- CHARITY MATCH AT HKG.C, and was also a member call on Mr. Wang Ching-wel, acting times she dropped quietly into a
of the Hongkong Club.
Foreign Minister of the Nanking farmhouse and discussed crops. BOMBAY
Deceased loaves a widow and Government, to-day, preparatory to Another time, she visited the Went young child, who are at present in bis official call on Mr. Lin Sen, Virginia mining centre during the England, and whom he had hoped Chairman of the National Govern-height of the strikes. Reuter. A three-day charity match into rojoin shortly, as he was duement of China, on Tuesday for pro-
for leave this month. The utmost sentation of his credentials. sympathy will be felt for the widow in her bereavement.
Bombay, Mar. 4.'
ald of the earthquake victims was begun to-day between the M.C.C. tourists and an All-India XI.
Scoring was kept on the low alde. The funeral is taking place this The M.C.C. batted first and com-evening at 5.30.
piled 224, to which Mitchell con- tributed 01. The India XI hod acored 65 for two wickets when stums were drawn.
FAIR WEATHER
India's Test captain, Majer O.K. The antleyclone, is' contred over Naldu, in an interview with Reu- the Lower Yangtao-Valley. and has ter, said he was definitely giving increased in intensity. The de
Shortly after his arrival from CHINA'S Shanghal yesterday morning. Sir Alexander told Chinese pressmen that he was favourably impressed by the general outlook In China.
are closer on the track of the were found.
His Worship ordered the arms murderer than is generally sup
posed-Reuter? to be confiscated.
FANLING GOLF.
CAPTAIN'S CUP. TOURNEY
NOTED COMPOSER PASSES AWAY
"NORMAN O'NEILL
(Special to "Telegrapha"). N. K. Littlejohn with n card, of 83-1469 qualified for the Cap (By Tetigraph. Copyright, Talaprosità Mau, Ordinanas, 1894. | Required - Maroh POPULATION's Cup competed for over the Bits dau).
Old Course at Fanling during the
London, Mar week-end.
The death has occurred of the Other lending scores were well-known composer, Mr. Norman WS. Kay 89-1871, H. N. O'Neill at the age of 63 youn
80-11-15, music to the Blue Bird. Mary
(Special in "Telegraph”) -
Shanghal, Mar. 5.
He was determined to do his best According to a census survey Williamson_89-14-75, D. S. Robb His principal works
Bio-Biting
friendly relations, and as soon as he interior, the total population of There were 38 entrica had completed hid irst omcial mis- China is estimated at $74,821,000, Over the New Course in the the fairy play Through the Green alon at tour of Central China, and then These figures, however, are only 85-1174, and W, Woodward 90- talna; and many other playe
capital would make a not including overseas Chinese, same competition, M. N. Cootes Deor, and The Gods of the Aloun at the on the resumption..of her flight up serious cricket-in order to give pression remains to the cast of proceed to Peking. He would proban estimation No accurate con- 1674 tied for the qualifying He composed numerous cölin to Seoul at ten o'clock this the younger men a chance. Hokkaido, Local forecast N.Eably all for Hankow on March 10. uses from various provinces are position and will play off. There and planoforte plecos and a large -morning--Reuter..
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winds, moderato; fair, jung
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