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三拜禮 號三月六英港香
WHERE CANTON TROOPS CONCENTRATE
CHECROLLT
FOUNDED 1881
No 14013
CANTON DENIES TROOPS MOVING AGAINST NORTH
CONCENTRATION FOR DEFENCE OLNY
POSITION STRAINED BUT STILL OBSCURE
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH”)
Canton, June 3. Confirmation is still unobtainable from officials here of the Domei News Agency's report that the South-west authorities had decided upon war with Nanking, but it is generally expected that Canton's anti-Japanese manifesto, issued yesterday, will have serious repercussions.
During the last few days the situation has ad. mittedly been fraught with possibilities, owing to the How- troop movements to the Kwangtung borders. ever, these movements are described as merely pre- cautionary, up to the present.
Canton at the moment is quiet as usual. Martial law has not been declared, as would undoubtedly be the case if fighting were imminent.
In connection with the recent troop movements it is learned that a full division has been despatched to the East River region owing to the fear of an autonomist rising in Fukien.
Some troops have also been despatched to the northern Kwangtung frontiers-Reuter Special..
Will Not Attack
Canton, June 5. Authoritative quarters here to-day denied that the Canton Government lind
any intention of opening hostilit- les mainst the Nanking forces, ni- though it was admitted that troops prepared on the border to defend were the province against attack.
-I-a-statement to Kenter this. morning an official spokesman sait that reports tint Generni Pai Chung- hsi had arrived on June 1 to attend an military conference were emergency untrue, and that Generai Pal Chung- hsi had been in Nanning since his departure from Conton a week agu. However, it is generally believed Jiere that grave developments are not
together impossible.
Bank Notes Slump
Owing to the uncertainty of the situation a panic has occurred in the
TEXTILE RAMP IN HONGKONG
MOVE TO EVADE.
P.I. CUSTOMS
JAPANESE DENIAL
An extensive ramp that has
money market, with notes further for its purpose the substitution alumping, giving the Hongkong dollar!
record premium of $735 for every of imported Japanese textiles $1,000-Reuter Special,
Experiments In Cabinet
for genuine Hongkong-made piece-goods has been unearthed by a Telegraph Special Repre- sentative.
In a special article on Page 7, he discloses that local merchants, majority of, whom are said to be Chinese, are using this method in order to enter Japanese textiles into the Philippines in contravention to
BLUM WORKING ON the "Gentleman's Agreement"
NEW PRINCIPLE
TWO WOMEN IN HIGH POSTS
Paris, June 2, M. Leon Blum, the Radical Prime Minister, is forming a Government on an entirely new principle divided Into three grades of ministers, Becralaries
of state and under-secretaries of state The principal portfolios allotted up
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tween the United States and Japanese manufacturers.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE
3, 1936. 日四十月四
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Towshan
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THE INTERNATIONAL VYNDICATE,
Although Canton authorities deny any intention of attacking the Nanking troops, they are concentrating forces on their frantiere to meet any eventualities. The above map shows the East River acctiont of the province where a full division was rushed last night in view of the runour that autonomists, hail at last risen, în arms in Fulcien. Kwangtung fears
that its borders will be threatened from the north and wort,
More Troops
Arriving At Jerusalem
ARAB VIOLENCE IN MANY PARTS
POLICE FIRE ON INCENDIARIES
Jerusalem, June 3.
There were renowed patbreaks of violence, anlping and bombing, throughout all Prfeștine as the Second Battalion of Bedfordshires, newly ar- rived from Egypt, t amped the streets of Jerusalem and camped on the slopes of Mount Scopus, pending as- signment to trouble areas,
Arabs ricted In Nazareth. They barbed the polles station there again and derailed 11 locomotive on tie Jerusalem-Lydda Railway.
ATTACKS TREATY ÖF VERSAILLES
SUMMONS LEAGUE ASSEMBLY
ARGENTINE TAKES
INITIATIVE
DECISION ON SANCTIONS
Geneva, June 2. The Argentine Government handed a note to the Secretariat of the League of Nations this evening, repeating the verbal demand, made on May 29, for a definite decision with respect to the continuation of sanctions against Italy.
The note
proposes the Assembly should be convened for this purpose
on or about June 10,
It suggests the League member- states should face their responsibili- ties and the new situation arising out of the annexation of Ethiopia.
The League Secretariat Immediate- ly got in touch wth Dr. Edouard Benca, the Czecho-Slovakian President of the League Assembly, who will have to consult with Mr. Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary and President of the Council, before a date can be fixed for the Assembly meet- ing-Reuter,
IGNORING GENEVA
Rome, June 2, Italy's intention to ignore Geneva until sanctions are removed is believ ed to lie behind the docialon to cancel the Italian workers' delegation to the International Labour Office annual session.
EDEN RETURNS
London, June 2.
The Foreign Secretary. Mr. Anthony Eden, who has been spending the week-end in the country, returned to tho Foreign Offico to-day,
This morning he saw the Argenting Ambassador who gave him the first official intimation which the British Government has received of the proposal put forward by the Arabs fred on Government district General James Hertzog, while re. Argentine Government for aus early olleen at Hebron and also on an easing his faith in the League, atummoning of the League Assembly, Auglo-Jewish factory at Rehoboth. tocked the Treaty of Versailles bitter. Deuils of the proposal will be com- Near Jerusalem, police exelianged in the South African Senate mester-municated from Geneva to the British hote with Arabs who were attenpi-da, auerting it could be blamed for and other League Governments in due jug to burn Jewish cornflolds, wound- lang wue, which struck Europe.
dourse by the Secretariat-Itritish ing several of the incendiaries before
Wireless they frustrated them.-United Press,
FINAL ATTACK ON EVEREST
ONLY TWO MEN TO TRY FOR SUMMIT
London, June 2. Fragmentary despatches from India report the Ruitledge Ex- pedition against Mount Everest has commenced its final assault on the summit.
The party took advantage of a lull in the seasonably early monaoon.
Only two of the party are ex- pected to attempt the climb to the summit from the highest camp at 27,800 feet, and they, according to report, will be Eric Shipton and F. B. Smythe.
MONSOON INTERFERES
CONDEMNS TREATY OF VERSAILLES
HERTZOG FEARS IT MAY BRING WAR.
CONFIDENCE
IN LEAGUE
Capetown, June 2.
BOSTON GAINS ON YANKEES
CARDINALS WIN
AGAIN
BROWNS IN HARD LUCK
Now York, Juno 2.
SINGLE COPY 15 CENTS $30.00 PER ANNUM
BARED BUDGET
SECRETS
The Worlds
Master Tyre
Mr. J. II. Thomas, former Secretary of State for Colonies, has been found guilty of disclosing Budget secrets by the special fribunal which investigated the leakage.
Thomas Says Conscience
Still Clear
MOVED BY LOYALTY OF FRIENDS
GIVES ANSWER TO. TRIBUNAL
London, June 2, Following the announcement of the finding of the special tribunal that Mr. J. H. Thomas, former Secretary for the Colonies; was guilty of die- closing Budget secrets, the now re- tired Minister affirmed, in an inter- view:
"My conscience is clear.
READY TO ATTACK
RECORD
|QUEEN MARY WILL RACE HOME
LOADED FOR VOYAGE
New York, June 2.
Sir Percy Bates, chairman of the Cunard-White Star Line, in- directly confirmed reports of an attempt on the Atlantic speed record during the Queen Mary's castbound passage, when he said to-day:
"I believe she can easily beat the Normandie's record of four days.ele ven hours and forty-one minutes. With favourable weather ako may do it on her pasengo home."-
Meanwhile, an army of atowards, seamen and mechanics have commenc- ed preparing the Queen Mary for her departure at 10.30 o'clock бл the morning of June 5.
Her passengers on her home-bound voyage are oxpected to exceed those on her west-bound trip,---
United Press.
PRESSES SILVER PARLEY
SENATOR KING'S
CAMPAIGN
ROOSEVELT OPPOSED
Washington, June 2. "I nude no disclosure of Budget
Scontor William King to-day de- scorets to anybody."
clared it his intention to promote a discussion on the monetary uses for After reviewing the evidence hellver at an Inter-American gave before the tribunal, Mr. Thomas conference.
pence said:
dignities I suffered.
liv indicated that the inclusion of a "No-one will ever know the in-¦ drapssion on silver in the confer- and my family have ence's agenda wouldnutomatically fuil his proposal for an inter- Thousands of letters
American-silver-conference-which-le- from allasred President Roosevelt to convoke classes of people have given me help in a recent Senate resolution and and encouragement, and the true com- which was pigeon-holed by the Com- radeship of my loving wifo and family mittee for foreign Relations, enable me to bear up."-Router,
Anglo-Polish Naval Talks
SEEK TO EXTEND TREATY PLAN
London, June 3.' Informal Anglo-Polish naval coti- versations, with a view to extension by bi-lateral agreements of the principles embodied in the recent London Naval Treaty, were resumed at the Foreign Ofee this afternoon.
Anglo-Russian talks of a simillar reverse at the hands of the Chicago character, which were interrupted by White Sox, who battered the Yankee the Whitsuntide holidays, will be pitchers for seventeen hits, including resumed on Thursday-British Wire two homers by Radcliffe, and won- eleven to nine. The Yankees hit thirteen. New York carried the light end of three divided
The Now York Yankees suffered a
An attack by the South African After a day of rest the Big Longues |Primo Minister, General James Hert-swung back into action to-day with a
zog, on "the cursed treaty of Verush anilles," was a feature of the debate in the Senate to-day on the motion of the Vice-President of the Senate that the activities of the League of Na tions should be limited to world
Darjeeling, June 3. Untimely monsoonal weather has nullified several years of the most The writer believes that, of 4,464,- | careful preparation to conquer Mount peace. 303 yards of a certain line of texilles Everest, Nature's lost stronghold, exported to the Philippines during the Frustrated in their original plans, confident the League would yet attain The Prime Minieter said he was month of April, no less than 3,000,000 the climbers led by Mr. Hugh its high ideals, but he urged the revi- yards passed the Customs barrier in Rutledge recently reported that they slan of the treaty of Versailles. Manila with false markings.
were contemplating an attempt by a hazardous
route to the summit.
If war came, declared General Experts regarded this route
Hertzog, that treaty.would be respon being a practically impossible one sible for it. even under ordinary weather condi-
Amazing methods are being cm- ployed by unscrupulous merchants in order to falsify customs declarations
U3
He added that nobody could con
These methods include the cutting tions. In consequence of the latest demn Great Britain for not disarming of Japanese brands and trade marks weather forecasts that a monsoon, is because she was the ono country which from the Japanese textiles and sub-strongly active in the Mt. Everest had done her best of that respect stituting Hongkong brands; the sub-region, with no prospect of early stitutiori of 1 "top-dressing of improvement, local experts describe
to now include that of Foreign Minis ter, given to M. Yvon Peniston of genuine Hongkong products in cases the poslilon us: hopeless, and unti- ter for War. to M. Rucart, Defence, M. Daindler, Minister of of Japanese textiles: and the entry cipate that the Rutledge party will of Japanese goods without Consular abandon its efforts until next year. Finance, M. Vincent Auriol.
Two women are included in the declarations. This latter system In-Reuter, Cabinet fur thu first time. The volves the loss to the importer of Under Secretary for Child Welfare only 100 pesos, the amount pale as Madame Lacore and the Under Rarantee that a declaration will be Secretary for Scientifle Research is forthcoming. Madamo Curie, daughter of the
is
Mr. K. Midzusawa, Consul General' famous scientist who discovered for Japan in Hongkong, states that radium and herself a listinguished his investigations reveal that no research worker in these realms. Japanese merchant has exported
cotton textiles from Hongitong to the) Philippines since November 15 last, when the agreement, came Into force,
Reuter-
STRIKE SPREADING
Paris, June 3.
The position that has arisen in It is announced that the "stay-in Hongkong is not the fault of the atrikos" have spread to fifty-one new Japanese merchants. They are faith metallurgical plants and ten additional chemical plants, raising the tee of fully adhering to the agreement and Idlo factories to seventy-six, we are very much embarrassed by the ano-kh of France's dieavy industry.
situation." United Frose.
Full Story on Pape
ITALY'S LIST OF DEAD
2,766 WHITES DIED
·IN ETHIOPIA
casualties list,.706. white
Aecording to the official anal
CO-ORDINATING DEFENCES
luck as always, were beaten by
St. Louis Browns, playing in · bad Washington in spite of a batting burst that nettet tham eleven runs nineteen hits. Washington, by sonic fluke, turned fifteen hits into fifteen runs, and despito four errors got a
decision.
on
phis five to four in an ordinary sort
Detroit Tigers defeated Pizindel of game, hitting tere to, rinc, cont
nitting
one to two errors.
leas.
FORMING NEW CABINET
VANDERVELDE ASKED TO ACT
Brussels, June 2,
to the leader's disapproval.
awing
The Secretary of the United States Treasury to-day said that he favoured bi-lateral monetary discussions, while Senator King told the United Press "the Inter-American Peace Counter- would be ideally suited to in- cuss the silver question.""
ence
However, the Department of State has indicated its hesitancy in accept- ing the plan inasmuch as oMelals ['insist that the conference should avold
economic suhjects-United Press.
SCIENCE STUDIES ECLIPSE
EXPECT TO OBTAIN VALUABLE DATA
"London, June 2. Many expeditions will study tho eclipse of the sun on June, 15.
The eclipse, although lasting only two minutes, is considered of great. acientific value and data concerning system are expected to be derived the planets and stars and the salar
from the study of the scientista.
Twenty-eight Soylut expeditions have spread themselves over Siberia to watch the eclipse and a British 6x- pedition is now stationed at Omsk and
phenomenon. Router's Bulletin Service.
Boston Improved its position in the King Albert to form a Governments walling for the
M. Vandervelde has been asked by where it standa second to the under Socialist leadership. Yankees, by beating Cleveland, which
is challenging closely for accond As a result, M. Vandervelde is con- berth, Boston scored fourteen runs sulting the Jenders of the Liberal and
en fifteen hits, Kroner contributing a Catholle Parties regarding the forma. SHANGHAI MAN useful homer, The Indians hittion of a MinistryRenter's Bulictin thirteen and built up nine runs. They Sorvice. had one error, ¿
ST. LOUIS GAINS
POISONED?
STOP PRESS MYSTERIOUS CASE AT
FRANCE FOLLOWING
BRITISH EXAMPLE St. Louts went farther ahead in the National League by 'defeating Paris, June 2
Brooklyn Dodgers Ave to four, and France may follow Britain's step in
Collins' homer was the deciding fac- creating a Ministry for the Co-Ordinator. St. Louis hit eleven and Dodgers
Shanghai, Juno B. nine.. The Dodgers lost the game on tion of Defences.
The Japancao news agency, Domei, their
wo, our errors. St. Louis had but reports from Canton that the Kwang-
Lung Government
ordered
to four, on Suhr's homer, with twelve
Pittsburgh Pirates bent Boston five mobilisation, Kwangsi's mobilisation wog senounced by Domel last night, hits to ton. Boston had two errors..
-Reuter. The New York Chicago ganie war postponed Router.:
Rome, Junu 3.
It is rumoured that M. Daladier will Italianse given the past of Minister of Na- lost their lives in the Ethiopian war. tional Defence, in which he will have The number of native troops kill-control of the Ministries of Marina, ed is given as 1,699.-Reuter's Bulletin War and Air-Reuter's Bulletin Ser Service.
vice.
BAN TING, SIAM
Kuala Lumpur, June 3. Dr. J. §. Wchster, a native of Shanghai, died here last night In mysterious circumstances, · sug- gesting poloning:
Dr. Webster was in charge of a group of estales at Ban”. Ting, near Dan Klang, northern Slam. -Reuter.
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