JAPANESE FEAR OF FASCISTS
SEMI-RELIGIOUS
SECT RAIDED
LEADERS IN CUSTODY
(Special to "Telegraph"}
Tokyo, Dec. #
Upwards of a hundred leaders of a. mysterious"religious cult known ar the Omotokyo are undergoing police questioning following Sunday's care. fully plannet police raids in Tokyo, Kyoto and elsewhere,
The police are convinced that the society, which is not recognised as a legitimate religious body, is engaged upon some activities disrespectful to the Imperial household, for which it
prosecuted.
may bo
Simultaneously officials are watch ing all incoming foreign newspapers and magazines na a result of the Fale ease and also
recont
user reign language.
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The
apotoky's Society is described
Fasciat, tendencies.
One newspaper Intimates that un American, Professor W. E. Lammott of Meiji University, has been ques. tioned in this case. However, Pro- femar Lammott categorically denies hia connection with the Dinotokyo. He said he was recently questioned concerning an article published local- ly dealing with Japanese religious beliefs, but he understands his ex- planation to the authorities was entirely satisfactory.—United Press.
LEAGUE MAY REJECT
PEACE PLAN
(Continued from Pape 1.) direction will be left to Italy, entirely.
It is understood the new plan does not provide for the suspending of sanctions during peace negotiations.
Diplomats declare that for the first time since the Italo-Ethiopian erlais developed the British and French are in complete accord.-United Prean.
FEW DAYS LEFT
London, Dec. 8. It is understood the Anglo-French pence offer will be submitted to Ethiopin and Huly on Tuesday and will request Emperor Selassie and Signor Mussolini to reply before the Committee of Eighteen meets Thursday to vote on the oil embargo plan.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, DECEMBER
BOMBINGS ROUSE US. POLICY
ETHIOPIANS
HIGH INDIGNATION AGAINST ITALY
DESSIYE AGAIN UNDER RAIN OF EXPLOSIVE
Addis Ababa, Dec. 8.
Intense indignation has been aroused in Ethiopia over the Italian air bombardment of Dessiye.
The Ethiopian Government denies the Italian statement that the town itself is a centre for troop concentrations and military preparations, and declares that no soldiers were pro- sent in the town during the bombings, there being only one policeman and one anti-aircraft gun.
Beyond saying that not much damage was done, the Gov- erament gives no details of yesterday's second bombardment by five Brescia planes.
Before leaving in the direction of Asaab, one of the raiding planes dropped a pamphlet reading, "Long Live Italy, Il Duce and the King! With our tricolour flag, we are carrying the badge of the victor, a sign of civilising Rome. Salute the Negus for us, and ask him if he has digested these biscuits."
RED CROSS PROTEST
BOMBOMROTON TUELNATUCANIGE
Seven Red Cross doctors at Dessive AVALANCHE have signed a protest declaring that in the hospital enclosure Red Crass emblems are numerous, and in theiri proper places. The protest neds:
TAKES TERRIBLE TOLL -
"We protest and stigmatise this as an inhuman act before the opinion of the whole civilised work!. · We declare that over forty bombs were thrown on to the Red Cross enclosure, killing and wounding
tena of victims. several
A Dessive communique unonces that the Italian troops have retired und
are now fortifying their line at Aksum, Adown and Adigral with
barbed wire and machine-guns at every hundred yards, evidently ex- preting an attack of which the Ethio- inn military leaders at Dessiye are:
ignorant--ficuter,
VETERANS' 'BONUS A CERTAINTY?
PAYMENT LIKELY IN
BONDS
Washington, Dec. 7.
It is certain that the next Congress The Cabinet meets on Monday to up will vote for the payment of the prove the plan, prior to its being Veterans Bonus. The payment will forwarded to Addis Ababa and Rome.probably be mude in bonds, -United Prenn.
DETAILS OF FORMULA”
Paris, Dec. 8.
The Francu-British Peace plan goes much further towards meeting Italy than any hitherto put forwardi
According to
well-informed French source, the proposal is that
n
the whole of the Tigre would be given to Italy, with the exception of Aksum. and the provinces f Ogaden and Dannkail. Moreover, Italy would
Congress is likely to be i svasion until next June.
The bitterness between organised
Administration apparently
and the wing with the poll
being conducted by the Literary Dipent Indicating a percentage of 55 to 45 against the New Deal-Scan, Cul- bertson-and-Fritze
CLOUDY WEATHER
The unticyclone has increased con
received sufficient land for accommoda-siderably in intensity and extended Lion of 1,600,000 colonists.
88 Lives Lost As City Houses Crumble
Moscow, Dec. 8. It has been announced that 85 persons were killed when an avalanche swept down upon the city of Kirovsk, on the Kola Pen- insula.
The avalanche came from the towering peak of Yuk-. spor Mountain and with a most frightful roar descend- ed upon the city.. Nothing could resist it. Houses crumbled under the tre- mendous impact and streets were blocked with its debris. Few details are at hand.- Reuter,
Later,
Two-slaryed houses were completely destroyed by the fall of ice and snow and although 2,000 workers were rushed to the rescue of those trapped, they only succeeded in extricating 47 alive. Three more persons later died of injuries, bring- Ing the death-roll-to-88 Renter,
TWO TYPHOONS
It is understood that Sir Samuelsouthward and eastward. Pressure is
The Manilu Observatory reports n Hoare has agreed that this territory highest over Mongolin. The typhoon should be limited on the north by the wire surve moved rapidly west- 8.35 nm. to-day that a typhoon is ward; it is crossing Luzon in about crossing Northern Luzon, moving Lat. 17 N. on a westerly truck. Local west, and there is another in about
137 Long,, 14 Lat., moving W.N.W. forecast:-N.E. winds, fresh; cloudy.
eighth degree of latitude, un the west by the thirty-sixth degree เฟ
and on the south by the longitude, and frontlers of Kenya and the Anglo- Egyptian Sudan.
This is stated to be double the territory which the British originally #greed might be offered as a concess- lon to Italy.
ETHIOPIA TO HAVE PORT
Ethiopin would be offered, for this extensive piece of country, the port of Angab, with a corridor through Italian soil to the sea.
But in the event of Italy refusing to code Aszab the British are still ready to cede Zella to Ethiopia, in order to effect a settle- ment.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
NATURE
KNOWS NO GREATER POWER THAN THAT OF ONE GREAT STRONG MAN-Stewart Chamber-
STRONGLY CRITICISED.
RECIPROCAL TARIFFS A MISTAKE
WORK MUST BE PROVIDED
(Spacial to "Telegraph”)
Washington, Dec. 3 Mr. George N. Peck, who recently resigned his office as Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Trade,
RADIO BROADCAST
Relay of Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra
2. E. K. PROGRAMME From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 365 metres (846 knocycles):
5-7 p.m. Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra. 7-7.25
Operas, p
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7.25-7.38 p.m. Kinderscenen " (Scenes from Childhood)
(Schumann) by Yves Nat (Pianoforte). p.m. Concert Items.
yesterday made a statement of biller Killarney...Richard Crooks
his
opposition to the reciprocal trade treaties.
He says that he stands opening (Teier); Violin Seles-Duetto ("Song
own private offices to fight for his without
Words") (Mendelssohn); namely, that the only way Venetian Gondola Song theory,
No. to expand foreign trade is to do away (Baudelssohn). Lionel Tertis; Songs with the "most favoured nation
Sirenes Vaine (Waldteufel); principle reciprocal tariffs.
own
and to substitute individual Dolorua (24/10), Ninon Vallin
Ho pointed out that the inclusion of the most favoured nation principle" in reciprocal tariffs resalte in the general reduction of tarifls, in return for which "we obtain some scattered
concesso WARNING
Major George L. Berry, fornur Divisional Officer of the National Recovery Administration and member of the Labour Board, told the United Press to-day that business would face continued high taxation and possibly increased deficits unless Industry provides work for the employed.
Bij
(Soprano);
morrow
late to- (Rowe)... Richard Crooks (Tenor).
(Langenberg); Maeushla 8 pm. Time and Weather Report; Stock
'Quotations. 8.05-11 pm. Po ng Theatre (Chinese),
Pro.
on a fre
11 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-11 p.m. European gramme frem ZE.K. queney of 640 kilocycles,
8.05-8.38 p.m. "Yes Madam," 8.38-8.55 p.m. "Bullet. Egyptien Suite" (Luigini).
8.55-9.10 p.m. Songs by Perey Heming (Baritone)..
He said that industry's failure to 1. Jock the Fiddler; The Ballad do this would mean continued relief Monger, "Songs of the Fair" (East- and "in either event, business fools hope Martin); 2. Fairings; Come to the bill and there is no other answer the Fair. "Songs of the Fair" ไป the
employment queattan. (Easthope Martin); 3.. Joggin' along United Press,
the Highway (Samuel); 4. The Devout Lover (White).
FIGHTING HONGKONG
POVERTY
(Continued from Page 1)
by 213 the number of new cakes dealt with during the preceding year.
To some extent the increase in the 'number of cases may be due to a growing knowledge of the Society's
but in all probability 1 x mainly by the increase of poverty consequent on the trade de- pression which has prevailed during the past year,
Of the 1,173 new cases death, with during the year, 207 were reported to the Society by officers of hospitals, dispensaries, clinics and Government Welfare Centres and by magistrates and police, and 219 directly by parents, relatives and members of the public, while forty-seven were found by the Inspectors.
For the first time in the history of the Society Kowloon produced the highest number of cases, namely 424,| while Western Hongkong produced 398 and Eastera Hongkong 301.
REAL POVERTY
9.10-9.30 p.m. Daventry News Bul- letin,
9-30-9,43 p.m. "A Blackpool Selec.
tion"
9.43-10 p.m. "Everybody's Songs." 10 p.m. Big Ben: Reuter Press Bulletin.
10.10 p.m. Close Down.
GIANT FRENCH AIRLINER
LONG FLIGHTS ON OCEAN ROUTES
Paris, Dec. B. France's largest zying-bont, the Lieutenant Levaisseau of Paris, hop- ped off to-day from Bordeaux on non-stop flight to Dakar.
to the
The machine in en route French West Indies, where it will be fitted for passengers and will make a demonstration flight to South Afrien. -Reuter Special,
ultimato welfare of the child can hard- At the end of 1932 the Committee ly be over-emphasised, and the estab reported that the average monthly lishment of the three branch offices income per head in the Society's cases right in the poor district has-been- was $203, at the end of 1933 the the means of securing adequate superi figure had dropped to $2.40. A year vision without the necessity for in- later there had been a further drop curring the expense of engaging addi- to $2.05 and for the past year the tional Inspectors. It has also greatly figure is $2.01. In the cast of 21 furthered the Society's aim of bring. fuinilles concerned in cases investiga- ing educative measures to bear upon et this year there was no income the mothers, whatsoever, while in the CILSO of 866 An important side of the Society's provision for those children families the incums amounted to less work
$1 per head per
who are orphaned or whose parents are so wholly destitute that they are entirely unable to care for them. It is the aim of the Society, by the use of the facilities afforded by existing institutions, to make such children useful eltizens,
KR
If some more concrete evidence of than that supplied by figures poverty RR to income be desired, it is furnished by the fact that out of the 1,173 new cases investigated by the Society during
ing the
year nu fewer than families could not afford such costly
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
The opening of the Parochini all accommodation as that provided by a!
but had to content themselves and Public Lending Library is to. take
At the close of, the previous year the Society was contributing towards place at the Rectory of St, Turcks's with bed-spaces.
borne in mind that there the maintenance of thirteen boys in It must p.m. The Rev. Fr. G. Byrne, S.J., will is not in this Colony any equivalent the St. Louis Industrial School. Five Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, Second Assis./speak on "One of Our Greatest of the British poor law relief and of these boys have been transferred to
lain.
on short
tant Colonial Secretary, with Mrs. Forrest left on Saturday leave to Shanghal.
Church on Thursday at 6.30
Needs."
Chan Chung, unemployed, was sen- tenced to ten months' hard labour by Mr. W. Schofield, nt the Central The forthcoming wedding is an Magistracy this morning, for having With regard
the Ambarie nouneed of Dr. Li Shu-piu, of 2 Tram-returned from banishment before the of expiration of his term of ten years, provinces in Ethiopin, the Emperorway Pali, and Miss Ellen Tran, would be request to send a demand Gray House, Fokfulum..
received in June this year. The de fendant was arrested in Wanchai dis- triet.
for protection of these to the Lengye
of Nations, and such protection would
including
Italians,
The P. nd O. liber Carthage from Singapore, with the English tails, is
nt
be exercised by technical counsellors, due here at the pilotage grounds
The
the proposals have been sent to Mr.8 am, on Thursday. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister
and it is believed there can be little The annual ball of the Hongkong doubt of their acceptance. They will St. George's Society is to be held at then be communicated to Rome and the Peninsula Hotel on Friday, Addis Aimba, and the Governmenta January 31., It is to be on similar there will be asked to reply before lines to that of last year," December 12-Router.
thin
in there circumstances the above the Aberdeen Industrial School, where figures indicate very clearly the need all are making excellent progress in for the Society's work.
their vocational training. In addition It is
"desirable to reiterate to contributing towards Procity enquires into
the main- that the
the tenance of these five boys, the Society means of the family. in every case is now maintaining 12 further twelve with which it deals and that it does
boya
at the St. Louis Industrial not, unless there are exceptional-rirSchool. cumstances, give nas
assistance Ir the family income exceeds $4 per head cost of maintaining the deaf and dumb The Society continues to bear the per month. Moreover, the Society boy who acts as caretaker at
the does not normally give pecuniary ald, Street Boys' Club and to contribute A fine of $25, in default one month's
but confines its help to the supplying towards the maintenance of two boys hard labour, was imposed by Mr. W.
of milk ar other food for the children at St. Joseph's College and two girls Schofield, at the Central Magistracy who are its particular care and to at the Orphanage of the Chinese this morning, on Ng Hong, unem
ensuring that all
sick children obtain Sisters of tho Precious Blood and ployed, who admitied
stealing 11
proper medical treatment.
other children at the Canossian In- pounds of lead from Taikoo Dack- During the year now under review stitute and the Victoria Home and yard. One piece of lead was con- the Society has provided, milk or Orphanage. cealed underneath his hat on his head, steered medical attention
food in 807 casca
and and another piece was tied round his secured
in 404 cases,
"TACTFUL WORK A youth named Hul Ming, aged leg. FIRST REACTION
The policy of trying to make the It is difoult in a report of 19, was admitted to the Government
family self-supporting has been pur- nature to give a true pleture of the Rome, Dec. 8. Civil Hospital yesterisy suffering First reaction to the Anglo-British from wounds caused when he was singlet belonging to Mr. W. Lampriti tende have been provided.
Charged with the theft of a cotton levnees and the necessary stock-in. Their work calls for a high degree
sued as heretofore ani! 32 hawkors work of the Society's Inspectors. peace proposals seems to be an im-struck with a chopper during a fight from No. 19 Prince Edward Road,
skill
and
unfalling tact and kindness pression that the improvement of the in Graham Street.
towards.t those with
whom they come first floor, Chau Kwong, 34, unem terms for Italy is notable. The offer
| played, was sentenced iv xix_wookn' Blace the Society commenced
its In contact.
It la not too much to say that the Bois, residing at No. 201|hard labour by Mr. 1, 1. Wynne-
active life in August, 1030, It has
Society owes to their unremitting zeal Prince Edward Rand, had reported dones at the Kowloon Magistracy dealt with a total of 4,202 cases in to the poltee that while driving car this morning, Inspector Pertallion volving the welfare of 8,004 children. such success as has been altained.
During the past year the Society No. 2148 in Nullah Rand yesterday, stated that defondant untered the
It is perhaps the
the greatest tribute to she knocked down a man named Lam premises by the back stairway and has continued to maintain its three the manner in which they have
over- Lin, who was riding a bicycle. The through the servanta verandah.
branch offices, which are located in the como all the deep-rooted prejudices West Point District, in Wanchai and which in the Society's early days sent Wux
pro. Mongkoktai, and the extent to which vented parents from seeking the
ald and that they offices are used by the poor
havo during the
tho overcome An order for the confinention of 80 on charge of Court & montes shown by the fact that duri
reluctance of However,
toels of raw opium was made by Mr. Jozing hung on the rst proof 180 Brst ten months of 1936 there have
the uneducated poor to avall them- British and French have merely ex- 1. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Wellington Street, Tsang Tang-mut,
been 22,040 visits to them by parents solves of western medical treatment. tended their offer to include additional Magistracy this morning. Inspector 30, widow, pleaded guilty, and was
or other persons concerned
in cases.
past ten months
tho desert land in East Ethiopia, Signor
In most cases theso Mussolini will probably refuse the stated that about 8 o'clock last night two
In making Ellis,
the application, Aned $250, with the alternative of
who being their homes and bave attended to 22,940 formula-United Press.
children to be Indian warder, Bahadur Khan, was an Inspector Thorpe stated that at the chil
examined
Branch
Offices, and the Kowloon way back to the Lalchikok Prison time of the police raid there were and to receive food and weighed persons who called at the Society's
The Inspectors have during when he saw two men who ran away soventeen girls in residence. Li
the
Inapoctors have rendered valuable The Kung Shing Lecture Hall at when they saw him approaching. The Fong, 56, also: a widow admitted paid 5,330 visite to homes either on viens at the hospital and clinic at Caroline Hill Road, opposite the Souths warder searched the vicinity and on being the keeper of a sly brothel on the original investigation, of cases or Shanishulpo, China Athletic Playground, will be the roadside he found two tins con- the second floor of 184 Wellington for the purpose of supervision. opened by the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith taining the opium. No claimants Street, and was fined $76, or eix The Importance of constant. super deeply to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. appeared in Court:-
weeks' hard labour in default.
vision as a means of ensuring the servicen.
is therefore considered worthy of
not
Mr.
Signor Mussolini's view is Much depends upon the location of two additional provinces to be ceded to Italy, besides the Tigre and Ogaden. If they llo to the west of Ogaden lospital.
Italy's anawer may be suitable
exploitatile lands
for these are
for
if the
him
to
the Kowloon
Brought before Mr. Macfadyen at the Central Polles this morning
OVER 4,000 CASES
The
month hard labour. Sub. visits by mothers represent 1 During have paid visits to 339
year
The Committes wishes to state how
appreciates the Inspectors”.
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CAR. DRIVER. FINED
CARRYING TOO MANY PASSENGERS
COMPANY CAPITAL
REDUCED
COURT GRANTS APPLICATION
Falling to answer summonses on An application for reduction of two previous occasions, LiOn-so, capital was made by Messrs. Nickel, licensed drivor of public car. No 121,
16" and Lyons, Ltd., of Tokyo, before the was arrested by. warrant and brought before Mr. E..I.. Wynne-Jones at the Chief Justice, Bir Atholl MacGregor, Kowloon Magistracy this morning at the Supreme Court this morning. and fined $25, with the alternative of
one month's hard labour, for soliciting Appearing for the petitioners, Mr. passengers on Talpo Read near Felho H. C. Macnamara, instructed by Mr. Street on November 10,
MM Watson, said the petition was In fining the man, the Magistrategining to the one made by Messrs. sald, "I hope Inspector Nicol will re- commend your licence to be suspended Lane, Crawford, Ltd., some time ago. by the Inspector General of Police, I He asked that the order, if granted, seo that it has been suspended once be advertised once in the South China. already this year. That is the only Morning Past, the Government way of dealing with you."
Defendant admitted fivo preylous Gazelle, and the Jupan Chronicle. convictions for carrying excers pas-
His Lordship, granted the order. sengers. :Traffle-Inspector A. Nicol and directed that it be advertised in- prosecuted.
the papers mentioned.