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FIRST EDITIONS
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED - 1881
No. 1440
EMA #-†ALAR WEDNESDAY ULY 11, 1934.
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In a class by itself
FRANCE TO AGREE TO ERMAN REARMAMENT
LABOUR POLICY ON Contingent Upon Seven-Powr Eastern European Pact
L.C.C.
Education Facilities Extended
London, July 10.
A programme of educa tional development involving a total capital; expenditure of £511,400 was approved by the London County Coun. cil this afternoon.
The Council also made a grant of £50,000 to the Foundling Hospital Appeal Fund, thereby securing the purchase of the last portion of the site which will re- main an open space in per patuity in the heart of Loridon-British Wireless.
NULLAH OUTRAGE SEQUEL
CHINESE CHARGED WITH MURDER
REMAND TILL MONDAY
As a sequel to the recent out- rage in which five British child- ren were thrown into the nullah near the lower Peak tram ter- minus, a Chinese has been charged at the Central Magistracy with the murder of Michael Pine, the lad who succumbed in hospital to his injuries.
Threat ass in war sout of the nullah at the same four of the children were rescued, has been in hospital since. For a time, he was unable to make any coherent statement, and his con- Altion, resulting from a broken thigh and other injuries, was such that he could not be formally charged.
He has, however, now sufficiently recovered to be able to appear la Court, before Mr. Macfayden.
Aged 22 years, and described as unemployed, the accused is Ng Lol-yuen, alias Ng Yick-lan, alias Ng Yick-san, formerly residing at the premises of the Swatow Drawn Work Co.
BARTHOU-SIMON AGREEMENT
IMPORTANT RESULTS OF
LONDON TALKS
REVIVED HOPE FOR DISARMAMENT
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, July 11, 0.50 0.)
LONDON, JULY 11. BEHIND. THE USUAL CRYPTICALLY- WORDED OFFICIAL SUMMARY OF THE SIMON - BARTHOU CONVERSATIONS
THERE LIES AN AGREEMENT FOR CO. RELATION OF POLICY WHICH IS BELIEVED TO REPRESENT THE MOST. IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE
Shanghai inthe' Hoai Wavei— Top-Fortufts Idle enjoy dip in Hongkow Swimming Pool. Thousands people chose this.. method of firing relief from the sun's sweltering rays. Imet-A colis takes a noun day siesta inanı endeavour to forget about be heat/
STABILISATION OF THE EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE SITUATION SINCE THE LOCARNO PACT. The possibility of important French concessions to Ger
many in the field of armamente, largely bridging the points is now envisaged.
Plans have been formed for the conclusion of a Seven- Power Pact in Eastern Europe, to which Great Britain will not be expected to append her signa- ture, but which will depend upon the readiness of Germany to enter into it.
BRITAIN'S BENEVOLENT NEUTRALITY
RETURNS
SWELTERS
CHINESE AND THE RAIN GODS.
Shanghai, July 11. Disastrous failure of all crops in the great provinces of Chekiang and Kiangsu, seems certain unless the
Authoritative information glean-¡ but has clearly stressed a desire for drought fa soon broken.
ed after M. Barthou's departure the strict fullment
doubt ones.
con-
9290
LITHUANIAN
Remains
In Prison
Kovno, July 10, President Smetona to-day granted an amnesty to sixty- eight young officers who participated in the attempt at a coup d'etat on June 7. The ringleader of the affair, M. Valdemaras, re- mains in prison.-Reuter.
CANARY TS
REVOLT
FIVE SENTENCED
TO DEATH.
VILLAGERS TRIED
"BY MILITARY
VIRTUAL END
OF 0.G.P.U.
"HOME SECRETARY" IN RUSSIA
| YOUNG OFFICIAL APPOINTED
Teneriffe, July 10. The serious outbreak in the 2013 Canary Islands last year when a revolutionary strike occurred in
of existing
Petitions have been sent to the Mayor of Greater Shanghai and to The charge against him was that for Pars leaves little
France asked Britain to make the provincial authorities by a the Anglo-French he, did wilfully murder Michael that
of the group of prominent and influential Pine on June 22.
versations may be regarded as public her appreciation On the application of Detective among the most important moves French efforts in the cause of Chinese urging them to forbid the Inspector O'Donovan, the accused made since the war for the con- European peace, with particular slaughter of domestic cattle for
reference to the Eastern Locarno, one week to appease the rain gods. has been remanded on police solidation of European peace.
namely, M. Litvinoff's iden of a The heat wave-hua again swept custody until Monday, July 16.
There is a new hope for
Franco-Russian Pact of Mutual back to the Shanghai area and for disarmament convention,
Assistance, a pact open to Ger-hundreds of miles around, after a without calling for additional
many, but Britain is shy of adher-short spell of comparatively milder commitments by Britain.
ing thereto.
weather when the temperature Johnson
TWO MORE CASES OF DOG-BITES
VICTIMS SENT TO HOSPITAL
Two further cases of dog-bite are reported by the police today, and in both instances the,victime have gone to hospital for treat meat.
FL
It is learned from the most re. Hable sources that the outstand- ing results of the talks are:
FRANCO-SOVIET SCHEME.
Tong Wah-wing, of 24 Front Germany.
her
"GO AHEAD."
even
latter's
The French opinion is that if Britain shows
a platonic feeling thereto and Germany still Britain has agreed to regard declines, Germany's isolation will with benevolent neutrality the be all the more marked.
The British attitude is: "Go Franco-Soviet scheme for a Soven-
queering are not Powers Eastern European Pact of ahead. We
80 including other's pitches
long as the Assistance, Mutual
Eastern Locarno does not implgn Row, Wanchal, reports that at 7.30 France, on her part, has in- on the Western by extending the
and responsibilities of the willingness p.m. yesterday when he was pass timated Ing a house in Wanchai ho was readiness to grant important arms signatories."--Router. bitten by a white chow. He has concessions to Germany. logalia- since been admitted to the Governing reasonable German rearma- mont Civil Hospital, and the dog ment, provided that Germany la proposed has been sent to Kennedy Town.
prepared to join the A weman named Ilo Tal-hing. Eastern European Pact of Mutual
21 Kal Tack Bund, reports Assistance. of" having been bitten by a dog be longing to a Mr. Abhis. She has been admitted to Kowloon Hos.
These two points are regarded pital, and the dog has been sent to Mataukok.
48. certain to impart the bodiy- The Chinese woman who was ad- needed fresh vitality to the dying mitted to Kowloon Hospital on Disarmament Conference, which Monday morning believed to be la expected to resume its sittings suffering from hydrophobia died at in a much more healthy atmes
mid-day yesterday,
ARMS PARLEY REVIVAL?
phere, although obvious many technical points will remain to be cleared away.-United Presa.
OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE.
London, July 10,
The French Foreign Minister.
RUSSIAN KILLED IN SHANGHAI Electrocuted While Repairing Cable
dropped to below a hundred.
General
The relief was only short, how. Tired
ever, and purely relative, No rain has fallen; it was just not quite so blazingly hot as it was,
Yesterday, however, the mer. cury again climbed and 101.8° were registered in Shanghal. The farmers of Chekiang and Kiangsu are constantly praying for rain to save their crops-Reuter. RICE LOOTING IN CHEKIANG
Hangchow, July 11.
SUGGESTS BOARD FOR N.R.A.
a village on one of the islands, the Spanish authorities; being defied for some considerable time, had a sequel to-day.
Five of the alleged ringlendera In the revolt were found guilty by court-martial and sentence of death was passed.
.:
Moscow, July 10,
An important change in internal administration in Soviet Russia was finally authorised to-day.
A decroe has been issued laying down the composition of the now Commissariat for Homa "Affairs, which is taking over the extra- ordinary judicial functions of O.GP.U., the secret politic police.
The new Home Secretary will also be responsible for safeguard- Ing revolutionary order and the security of the State, the guarding of public property and of the frontier and for the registration of the civil acts of the State,
The Judicial Collegium of the O.G.P.U. which until now has been empowered to sentence an necused to be shot without an open trial is now dissolved.
OPEN TRIALS
Crimes affecting the security of the State will be tried In the Supreme Court..
Home
Genrich Yagoda, a rising young official, has been appointed first People's Commissar for. Affatrale p
Settlement of this appointment
kalasted putting the pro posal into operation, pečes
It is staled that the decree doos:: not imply that the O.G.P.U. hay boon-disbanded but that the Soviet Government feels that ita power being established, a milder means of protecting, the State to possible-Reuter:
YAGODA'S PROMOTION.
An exclusive United Presa cable states that M: Yagoda was formerly assistant Chief of the Ogpu.
The Ogpu, will be completely re organised and its organisation will become part of the newly establish- ed Department of Internal Affairs.
KIPPAX ILLNESS
CARRIER OF DIPHTHERIA GERM
London, July 10.
It is learned that Alan Kippar has been ascortained to be a car Ten other men of the village, who rier of the diphtherin germ and is were also tried by the same court, being kept at Manchester under woro sentenced to terms of immedical observation,
The swab taken of Chipperfield's Washington, July 10.
prisonment varying from one to
throat was not definitely negative General Hugh Johnson, twenty years. Administrator of the N.R.A. The sentoncos are subject to con- and he too is in hospital in Man-
ohester. appears finding the job too frmation by the Madrid Govern much for him and is anxious It may be recalled that two civil
to hand over. :
ment. guards were killed by the islanders
It was learned to-day that in the course of the disturbances The persistence of the drought
General Johnson has recommend- Reuter,
·CHIHLI FLOODS
RUSSO-JAPANESE- RELATIONS
The remaindor of the team pro- coded to Sheffold for the match against Yorkshire British Wire) less.
The U.S. gunboat Argus left Hong- kong yesterday afternoon for Can- ton.
THE
HILLMAN MINX
HANDSOME
ed: President Roosevelt to appoint M. Barthou, left London for Paris in Cheklang has forced market this afternoon at the conclusion prices to forbidding height. Arn
tlonal
Recovery Administration of his visit to British Ministors, consequence, an outbreak of rice Commission to direct the Na- communique Issued from the looting by coolles occurred at and to allow him to retire.
the forth-east
He stated: "1. have recommend. Foreign Office says: Friendly Changan, a town to the
the President that this conversations between British and of Hangchow,
At Hangchow, hundreds of people ed to (Continued ons Page. 7.)
are queuing up outside the offices won't be a one-man job when it of charitablo organisations, which ranges into the field of adminis MILITARY MEASURES In Brief
tration. sell rico to them at a cheaper price..
suggested a
a Board or a
IN MANCHURIA have -Control Nesus,
Commission."...
Harbin, Julý, 11. Asked whether he would con-
It la reliably learned that 12,000 tinue in office until the next Con stress meets, General Johnson Chinese labourers recruited inside answered that that is probable, the Great Wall have been sent to although he would like to get the north-western Manchurian bor der designed to work on the con away as soon as possible.
structioil of highways trenches and an astoundingly profitable and other, military defence works along the border near Manchull Investment
Japanese garrison forces at Man
have been in Experience its undeniable cha chull and Chalanor ha
in a trial run, PRINCE & UNEMPLOYED,"
creased London, July 10. According to a Boviet report, a London to the Midlands to-day to cently discovered engaged in spying top of the pole and wassent of Peking rose by seventeen feet on Coventry and to inspect occupa The latest developments indicato markot is virtually 'dead, but rephrasò, employed by Le Journal contact with a live' wiro at tho The Yungting River, to the west make 'n tour of Nuneaton and for, the Japanese at Khabarovsk
atrained Central Newzi hurtling to the ground. He was Monday, but recoded about five tional centre for the unemployed, that Russo-Japanese relations are
British Wireless, foot yesterday afternoon. mains steady at the London parity. "Inert and passive benevolence."
forty years of age Reuter. The Treasury continues inactive.
SILVER MARKETS
NO NEW PLEDGES.
London,, July 11. STEADY IN LONDON.
The communiques of the Anglo- & NEW YORK
French talk are us schromatic ns.
Shanghal, July 11. Mosers. Swan, Culbertson and usual and approaches to British
Peter Sapojnikoff, a Russian of quarters hay
have not revealed official
mechanic employed by the Shani Fritz have received the following cabled advices on the state of the any more.
Though M. Barthou declares him-hal Power Company, was electro- silver markets.
YUNGTINGHO RISES
17 FEET
Peking, July 11, Northern Chihli and places west Peking are jeopardised by flood- miof the low-lying areas are following Incessant rain.
and I much done to
I am prepared to stay, as long as the President thinks he needs me."-Router.
London, July 10-The market self ng quite happy at his reception cuted yesterday while repairing many feat-under water opory The Prince of Wales flow from group of White-Russians were re
in London, it sooms that the British no overhead power cable. damage has been
into and crops was steady after the fixing, on
the fixing,
attitude towards French aspirations He accidentally came Amall Indian buying.
New York, July 10-The sliver can be summed up in the neat
Britain has given no new pledges,
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