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THE HONGKONG
Diplomats❜ Strange Allegation
Non-Intervention
Body Surrendered ́ To Italy, Germany, Observers Claim
London, Oct. 27. Diplomats have asserted that the Non-Intervention Committee "surrendered" to Italy and Germany because of the nature of the Volunteer agreement, which 'virtually isolates Russlu from the programme, and be cause Russin would not consent
to
an equal numerical with- drawal of foreigners on both sides.
Meanwhile Spanish press agencies at Gibraltar state that 1,000 Moors and 300 Italians have disembarked from the Nazi ship Deutschland at Algeciras-United Press.
Parliament Gets Busy
FIRST READING OF THREE NEW BILLS
London, Oct. 27. Government Bills introduced and read for the first time in the House of Commons to-day, were one tu nake further provision for securing the renting and exhibition of a cer- tain proposition of British cinemato- graph flims, and for restricting blind and advance booking of films; onc amend the National Health Insurance Act so as to make certain persons under sixteen eligible for medical benefit, and another to lower from 50 to 10 years of age at which blind persons become entitled to old pensions.-British Wireless.
Trotskyists "Removed"
Soviet Jews Loyal To Stalin's Cause
Moscow, Oct; 27.
to
age
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1937.
SUSPECTED New Status
OF HATEFUL For Britain's ALHAMBRA
PROFESSION Territories
Chinese Sent To
Prison For Year
Important War Office Appointment Announced
London. Oct. 27. .Colonel Sir John Brown has been
re- by the
Said to be a professional in pre- paring young women for prostitution, Le Chuen, 32, unemployed, was charged before Mr. E, 11imsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy, this morn; } appointed "Deputy Director-General ing with harbouring a 16-year-old of the Territorial Army at the War girl without the consent of her Office in accordance with the parents. Plending qulity, he was organisation foreshadowed sentenced to 12 months' hard labour War Secretary a week ago, to provide Detective Sub-Inspector R. Cun- for n new Importance of the Ter- ningham, said defendant and his riigriai Army in the scheme of mistress, Sat Koo, went to a village nailonal defence. in the San. Tuk district in August to hire women to be seamstresses and dressmakers in Hongkong. He met
the girl, Chan Pin-lan, and during the absence of her mother on a visit, took her away with him. tim. She lived with him in the country and in Marne for a while, and though she ran away. twice, was brought back by the defendant.
Laler, defendant brought her to Hongkong and in the middle of October rented rooms on the second floor of 527 Shanghai Street. On October 18, she managed to get away again, and made a report to the police.
Though the police had no proof
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Sir John Brown has been granted the local rank of Major-General, the first to be gazetted in the Territorial Army since the war.
In professional life an architect, he joined the volunteers as a private at the age of 21 and during the Great War served in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine, Arst as an Adjutant and afterwards commanding the Fourth Territorial Battalion of the Northamp tonshire Regiment. He was National Chairman of the British Legion for four years.
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of it, defendaal was believed to have again last week. sold a girl' for prostitution in Hong-cruits for the Regular Army in all kong and another in Macao. He was a professional in preparing young women for prostitution, it was alleged.
It
Large-Scale Intervention Contemplated.
Rome, Oct, 27. is Icarned on excellent suthority that Signor Mussolini has completed preparations for large-scalo Intervention In Spain II Non-Intervention plans fäll on Friday, and if France and Russia resume liberty of äction.———
Reuter.
MARGIN REDUCED
Drastic Revision Of Requirements In New York
Increase of districts showed
288 over the corresponding week of last year, the total being 620, out of which 314 · Joined the Infantry-Britisla Wireless,
BRITISH PRESS TRIBUTE
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the latest phase of the fighting In Shanghai,
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The territorial gains are of little moment to them, continued the com- ment, save insofar as they further their prime and only objective-the destruction of the Chinese armies as an affective fighting force. for they have made little headway towards this objective. The have, Indeed, killed two or three hundred TOMORROW thousand Chinese soldiers, among them many of the best under the Nanking command, but their ten bloody weeks at Shanghai (even if the struggle there is not further pro- longed, which, seems an unlikely con- tlgency) may one day be proved to have laid the foundations of n China Imilitary strength such as
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Washington, Oct. 27, legend. He is still, for the most part, Drastic revision in stock, market under-trained and under-armed, and The lust vestige of Trotskyist wreck-margin requirements, to become still-because he cannot afford a ing is claimed to have been cicaned effective on November 1, are up at Birobidzhan, the first Jewish nounced by the Federal Reserve ries an umbrella: but he has held for autonomous district in the Soviet, Board. which is claimed to be a rival of Palestine homeland.
n.
The margin for the purchase
of
are
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Imposed, several
officials, has been denounced refused to comment on the revisions, and removed from office.
but in other quarters It is believed According to a newspaper report they will tend to drive up stock mar- the Trotskyists seized control of the ket prices, since both changes offices in Birobidzhan and sabotaged calculated to encourage the purchase, the construction of Settlement for rather than sale of securities. Jewish farmers. It is alleged that M. Khavkin was
was working under the orders
of M. Varelkchis, a prominent former Bolshevist, who was recently sent to the Far East by the Kremlin to purge the Trotskyists, but who, himself, is now denounced ag a Menshevik-leuter.
WARMER TO-DAY
IN HONGKONG
HUMIDITY ALSO RISES
SLIGHTLY
It is understood the Board confer- red with Stock Exchange Com- mitice before announcing the change.
The margin requirement on short sales is an innovation for the Federal Reserve Board regulations. Therto there has been an absence of Govern- ment regulations.
The New York Stock Exchange has previously required short sellers to put up a margin of 10 per acnt...
Reuter
SOLD OBSCENE PICTURES TO DETECTIVE!
Temperature rosa by two degrees this morning, the 10 nm. reading at the Royal Observatory showing 70 Charged before Mr. R. A. D. against the 77 of yesterday. Humidity Forrest at the Central Magistracy also went up, the figure this morning this morning with exposing indecent being 75, representing three per cent. pictures to the public at Queen's higher than the previous reading, Road Central near-Lee Yuen Street
Maximum temperature yesterday on Wednesday, Pun Pang, 41. was 80, two degrees more than Tues-employed, was fined $10 or two day's highest, and the minimum was wecks hard labour in default. 73, also two higher than the previous day's lowest.
Total rainfall since January
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Detective-Sergeant Soutar Pun accosted Chinese detective in 1 plain clothes, and showed him some
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Young Pilot France Sends Faces Court Sharp Notes November 4 To Spaniards
The summons against Leo Kim- fal, For East Aviation Flying School) pupil, charged with flying without a pilot's licence, as a result of his disappearance last month, was lx- ed for hearing at 2,30 p.m. Thursday, November 4, by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
on
Mr. E. 1. Williams will prosecute, while, Mr. C. Y. Kwon will appear on Lee's behall,
Paris, Oct. 27. France has renta strong protest to the Valeticla, and Balamanea rovernments asking them both för guarantees for this safety of French skips and the Air France aircraft-Reuter,
The notes follow atincks on a French civil aerodrome Minorea and the sinking_of__a French gleamer, the Quedmella, by aircraft.
ten weeks ground which he was ex- pected to lose in one, and he has given way only under a bombard- ment which might well have dis- lodged any modern infantry under but in the future, his resistance at similar conditions. Not only to-day,
Shanghal will have its moral effect all over China-Renter.,
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