OVERNIGHT NEWS PAGE
Britain
Seven Irish Terrorists Sentenced
London Apr. 3.
Seven men were found guilty at the Old Balley to-day on charges of conspiracy to cause explosion and of porscusing explosives or firearms. They were among 22 men and a girl committed for trial by the Bow Streel court on March 9,
The heaviest sentence of 10 years" penal servitude was passed on-a-35- year-old Irish terrorist named Wharton, whom the judge said was a member of a gang which dornmitted murders of British officers and others up to 1022, had fought against two different Governments In Ireland, and was a "hypocrite."
Three others, all young men, were sentenced to eight, five und four years' penal servitude respectively. The youngest was only 19 years of
sce,
Two youths were sentenced to the Borstal Institution for three years, und one other man to 18 monthả imprisonment.-Reuter.
India
Calcutta Memorial To King George V.
Calcutta, Apr. 3.
Sir Robert Reid, ueting Governor of Bengal, unveiled to-day a bronze statue of King George V which forms part of the memorial to the inte sovereign.
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Poland
Col. Beck Crosses Europe To London
Warsaw, Apr, 3. Berlin reports sald Colnnel Beck arrived at the Silesian frontier at 8.40 p.m. and departed at 9.11 p.m. without leaving hin conch. The German Foreign Office observed the bare formalities of sending the De puty Chief of the Protocol, Herr Vou Haler to the station to greet the Polish Foreign Minister.
his respects to and conversing with Herr Von Halem left after paying
Colonel Beck for Ave minutes. Three representatives of the Polish | Legation in Berlin also greeted
Colonel Beek..
Colonel Beck would make no statement to several newspapermen who had walted at the slation. United Press.
Calls at No, 10
London, Apr. 3. Mr. Arthur Greenwood, deputy Lender of the Opposition, called at
Reuter Bulletin. No. 10 Downing Street this morning.
Left for England
London, Apr. 3.
Col. Beck Jeff Ostend shortly after 11 am, and will arrive in London this evening.
When passing through Berlin he did not leave the train, which stopped there for 20 minutes. An official of the German Foreign Oflice called on the Polish Foreign Minister for five minutes.
Col. Beck's time in London will be left fairly free for conversations with Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Hallfax. He will attend a dinner at the Foreign Omge to-night, lunch with the King to-morrow and have dinner at the Polish Fanbassy-Reuter Bulletin.
Beek In France
the
Tuesday,
Manila Fire
Manila, Mar. 3. Fire destroyed to-day the suburban warehouse of the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Com- pany, one of the oldest Ameri- can firms in the Philippines.
The damage, estimated at 250,000 pesos, consisted chiefly of wood patterns for casting and alno storically valuablo woo- den models of early American construction · projects in tho Philippines-United Press.
Belgium
FINAL ELECTION RESULTS
Rexists Completely Defeated
Brussels, Apr. 3. The offelal election returns of the Belgian Parliament show the follow ing results for the Chamber :
Catholles 73 seats, gulned len scuts; Social Democrats 64 seats, lost six seots: Liberals 33 seats, guined ten sents: Flemish Nationalists 17 seats, gained one seat; Communists nine seats, unchanged; Rexists four seats, Antwerp lost sixteen; One Independent, the Technocrat One Legion representative.
Frenssen;
The Belgian Senate shows the ful- lowing distribution of seats: Democrats 35, lost four; Liberals 10, Catholics 38, gulned four; Social
eight,
Flemish guined dive;
Nationalists gained three; Communists one; Rexists one, Lost
The Anal returns give a total of 101 Senators for the Senate. Of the 202 Deputies for the Chamber and remaining 60 Senitors, 44 will be elected
three, lost seven.
by the provincial councils and 22 by the Senate itself, by a method of proportional representa- tion. The election results of the last two categories will not be announced. before April 12.
Ostend, Apr. 3. Col. Beek has arrived here and will cross the Channel at 11 am- Compared with the previous dis- Remer,
solved Parliment the newly elected Polish Press Heileent
Chamber and Senate show so far Warsaw, Apr. 3.
that the Catholies have become the Detachments of the regular
The press on Monday shows a
strongest political party in Belgium. auxiliary forces attended the cere
notable reserve j11 conunents on shifting the Marxista to second mony which was to have been perdon and in the forecasts on the pro-
Foreign Minister Beck's visit to Lon-place. Also, the losses of the Rexistr formed in February last but
noteworthy, although Bre
on the postponed owing to the death of Lord
bable results of
other band the Rexist leader. negotiations.
M. Brabourne.
The
Degrelle, will sit in the Chamber for majority of the papers warn the readers not to expect too much,
the first time. Another remarkable According to the
newcomer in the Chamber Is the Poland paper. expects to get a loan of about 30 mil-
"Technocrat" Frenssen from Ant- Hon Pounds from England.
werp, who wants to reorganise the world on a technical basis and who The Polska Zbrojna, the organ of only recently the
was arrested by the army. stresses that Poland's Belgian police on an insanity charge. forelgo policy will remnin Ui1-
Since the Liberals also scored, n changed. In spite of England's gain of ten seats in the Chamber, a guarantee.—Trans-Ocean,
two-party Government made up by the clerical Catholic und Liberal Parties, which together hold the ab- solute majority, Is to be expected in the near future.-Trans-Ocran.
The statue, which was designed by Mr. William McMillan, shows the late King in the robes which he were at the Delhi Durbar. The model of the statute was approved by Queen Mary.-Reuter Bullethi.
Germany
Budget Indications
Total Votes Cast
Brussels, Apr. 3. Participation in the Belgian Cham- ber clcction decreased slightly in comparison with the last election, since 2,333,329 votes were cast as against 2,362,454 in 1036.
Review Of Situation
London, Apr. 3. Mr. Neville Chamberlain is ex- pected to review the whole field of Europe affairs, after which Sir Ar- chibald Sinclair will speak for the Liberals, Mr. Hugh Daiton will wind 113 for the Labourites and
and Sir John Simon for the Cave
Mr. Winston Various guarantees amounting to £123,000,000, including £40,000,000thony Eden and Mr. Lloyd George for the promotion of exports are the are exported this time to join the The Catholics have about 33 per outstanding features of the 1930 chorus of approval of the Govern- cent, of the total votes. Liberals 17 budget. An-announcement-in-the-ment's-new-course which it is pre-per-cent Suchil Democrats 30per Law Gazette reveals that the Govern dieted. will come from all sides of ment bus no intention of presenting the House. The vote on the motion cunt. cut and dried budget figures to the can thats public.
fidence in the Government.
Berlin, Apr. 3.
Mr. An-
Flemish
Nationalists: & per cent, and other parties 2 per cent.-
be. interpreted 15 con- Trans-Ocean.
The House of Lords will meet at
The Finance Minister has been authorised to assume guarantees to £18,000,000 for the promotion of In-Lord Halifax on the European situat dustries within the limits of the four lion and the Government's foregn year plan.
policy. United Press.
3.30 p.m. to hear a statement from Italy
In future it will be very difficult to guess what Germany is spending on armaments and defence-Reuter,
TZE TAM LOTTERY
Many Gamblers Appear Before Magistrates
Before Mr. T. J. Houston at the Central Magistracy yesterday, two meri, Ko Ki, 33, and Lai Sang, 19. wero charged with keeping the ground floor of No. 21 Po Tak Street, West Point, as u common gaming house for the purpose of carrying on atze-tam lottery.
Ko was fined $50, and Lai $30 or two months' hard labour. Both had previous convictions. A sum of $2.99 picked up from the gaming table was given to the Court Poor Box.
Arrives in London
London, Apr. 3. Colonel Beck has arrived at Dover. -Reuter.
GERMANY WATCHING
Berlin, Apr. 3. The Wilhelmstrasse is awaiting the outcome of the Polish Foreign Minister's conversations in London with the full realisation that Ger- many's future in the East, may be involved. Herr Hiler sounded
Italians Working For Appeasement
Rome. Apr. 3. Britain and Italy are reported by authoritative quarters to be working behind the scenes for a general Euro- pean appeasement. 龄 According to well informed
sacrosanct
warning to Poland and Britain in quarters, Britain is doing her utmost his speech at Wilhelmshaven un to mediate between Italy and France Saturday that Germany will not or the understanding that Italy allow herself to be encircled by a mediate between Poland and Ger-
of hostile powers, group
many. More specifically, observers have
Fascist circles understand that the Interpreted these words as a last behind the scenes activity regarding minute warning to Colonel Beck that mediation, which hardly seems to fit Poland wil abandon her policy of the Italian press comments that Italy neutrality and
with nuintains her so-called friendship Germany only at her own risk. Mr. rights, must be recognised as a pos- Chamberlain's assurances to Poland,sible basis for negotiations of England's aid in case she is at France. ito So, 50, unemployed, charged They maintain that Germany has no Italy's
tacked. does not please the Nazis. This would mean undoubtedly that
minimum demands for with keeping a common gaming house at 588 Queen's Road West, first floor,
intention of moving an army against jurisdictional settlement of was fined $25 or month's hard of creating an anti-German feeling disputes must be considered.
friendly Poland and accuse England Tunisia, Djibouti and Suez Canal labour. He also run the gaming in an effort to frighten Poland on ever, before any real entente
for London. the eve of Colonel Beck's departure be established. United Press,
house for tze-tam, "A sum of $1.73 seized by the police went to the Poor
Box.
Wan-
Before Mr. 1. A. D. Forrest, Kwok Kuen, 19, student, and Kwok Ping. 40, stevedore, Were charged with keeping a common gaming house at 109 Hennessy Road, third, floor, chai, un April 1. Ten others, Kwok Kong, 20, clerk; Kwok Nul, 10, single woman; Yeung Chun, 22, married woman; "Yip Yuet, 52, married wo man; Leung Tal-ko, 25, married wo- man; Wong Ching, 42, married wo- men: Kwok Wing, 31, unemployed; Kwok Wah, 21, stevedore; Lau Tin, 22, servant boy; and Kwok Kau, 18, student, were charged with gambling in the premises.
Detective-Sergeant T.
German political circles express France the opinion that if Poland joins the front with England and France against Germany, Germany will be
with
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HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
Spain
Bringing Madrid Back
To Normal
April 4, 1939.
Casado In France
Marvelles, Apr. 3.
Colonel Casado and other members of the former Spanish Republican Defenco Junta arrived here on the British hospitat ship Maine. Other Iepublican refugees Aboard were General Menendez, chief of the Army of the Levant, the national commliteo of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Union, and 200 other civil and military personagen.
These refugees embarked al Gandia last Thursday aboard the British destroyer Galatea and reported they were going to England-Reuter Special.
Madrid, Apr. 3. The Nationalists are continuing their efforts at stamping out Repub lican elements and have rounded up already 22,000 milletanos. Motor car owners have been summoned to op- pear within 20 days and show ilcences to prove ownership.
The Civil Governor, Senor Luis Balarcon, has taken charge of hos Japan
pitals, workhouses and beneficent! institutions which he found in ज्ञ
filthy state and fondless except for a few dry crusts and a few ounces of lentils. He entered the Hospital del Rey yesterday and found that all the food there was there for 700 patients was a few scrups of bread. Nearly all the personnel had decamped.
Sanitary Inspectora have been or- dered to carry out an inspection of the city armed with tons of dis- rnfectants,
Hundreds of railway workers are now in the Sierras, north of Madrid, laying ralls and insting fortifica- tions. It is estimated that it will take 48 hours to allow normal com- munication with northern provinces.
United Presa.
Franco's Entry Delayed
London, Apr. 3.
REACTIONS TO PEACE MOVES
Tokyo, Apr. 3, Commenting in their editorials on wong Ching-wel's the Japanese newspapers this morn
new statement,
express sympathy with the stand
made.
The Yomiuri Shimbun' says, "We are definitely not satisfied with the so-called peare terms in his previous statement, although we are in com-
with plete accord
his view and policy on stabilizing East Asia per- An Exchange Telegraph message manently through mutual co-opera- from Lisbon to-day states that Gention and friendly relations cral Franco's arrival in Madrid has Japan and China.
between been postponed because he has been i with influenza
"It is true, Wang started the peace at Burgos,- United Press,
movement at
at the risk of his life, but under present circumstances Hanoi French Indo-China is not the proper place for Wang himself nor for his peace movement,"
FLEET HANDED OVER
In
Paris, Apr. 3. Two cruisers, one submarines, 11 torpedo boats and two transports that his statement should be regard- The Miyako Shimbun considers which belonged to Republlean Spained as his will, in the expectation of and were interned in France salled his own possibly imminent death. for Spain to-day after being handed thus appealing to the proples of Fast over to General Franco's representa- Asia.—Domei, tives-Reuter Bulletin.
Many Refugees
Opponents to Peace
The death
Tunis, Apr. 3.
Hanol, Apr. 3. The Spanish Republican fleet left ming, although
of Mr. Tsong Chung- Bizarte at 6 p.m. yesterday manned found regret, will never affect Mr.
a matter
for pro- by Nationalist crews and carrying 2,300 refugees. The refugees remain-the outgoing Kuomintang leader de-
Wang Ching-wei's ing at Malnussy number 1,600.clared on Sunday in reply to a num- United Press.
SUCCESSFUL YEAR R.A.M.C. Association
Annual Meeting
belief in peace,
ber of written questions sent in by Domel's staff correspondent at Hanol, -Domei.
Appeal To Leave
Hanoi, Apr. 3. It has transpired that three emis- saries of Madame Chtung Kai-shek arrived here from Hongkong on March 31 by aeroplane. The object to persuade Mr. Wang Ching-wel to of the emissaries is understood to be
to abroad,
The annual general meeting of the Hongkong Branch of the Royal Army Medical Corps Association was held
Whether they have established con- at the Urban Council Chambers in tact with Mr. Wang has not been the General Post Office Building yes- ascertained.Domet." terday, with the President, Colonel J. T. Simson, presiding.
The Secretary, Sergt. Major Mne Tientsin farlane, reported that the Association had had a successful year, while the Treasurer.reported that the balance in hand amounted to £18. 10. 2.
Mr. Macfarlane said:
"During the year 1938, the local branch of the Association held several social entertainments which included ten dances at the Peninsula and Cecil Hotels respectively, a tennis: at home, the annual cricket match Corps), and the annual dinner. (past versus present members of the
The Dances
were attended by a
fair number of Association members their wives and friends, and were strongly patronised by local residents of the Colony,
"I am proud to be able to state that the conduct of those attending was such as to enable the functions to be voted "second to none" In the district.
"The tennis "at home" was urranged in May and proved a very successful entertainment, the excitement being increased by the introduction of a tin and bottle curnament.
of
BANDITS RELEASE
MR. DYOTT
Tientsin, Apr. 3.
Mr. H. F. Dyoti, Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Chinese budits more than two weeks Tlentsin, who was kidnapped by
go, was released near the town Shlaochen, 25 miles east of Tien- tsin at 11 a.m. to-day.
British
that Mr. yott is in a healthy condition des- denied, however, pite
17 days of privation. They that they knew whether or not any ransom had been paid for his release.-United Press.
said omciola
Mr. Dyott. 62 years old, Managing- Director of Messen, Wilson & Co., was kidnapped by three Chinese from his home at No. 1 Newchwang Road, in the former German Concession. The "The annual cricket match, after having been repeatedly postponed within a few minutes of the abduc- ear of the kidnappers broke down inclement weather, etc. tion and but owing to Civil Service Club Ground and 2 nese the victim could have been res- was played on December 3 on the Chinese police and a crowd of Chi- for the apathy of n
sulted in a win for the ex-Corps members. It is hoped to
cued. It is alleged that the kid- reverse this result during 1930, as, I am appers belonged to a pro-Japanese informed, the Past have yet to be
gang beaten by the Present.
Japanese Co-operation
Tientsin, Apr. 3. A party of British and Japanese this morning went to the spot near Hslauchan, seven miles inland from Kaku on the Tientsin-Taku road, and there obtained release of Mr., Dyott From the bandilis holding him.
Detalls are being withheld for the present.-Reuter.
Annimi Dinner Well Attended "The third annual dinner was held in the Cecil Hotel on October 15, and was very well
attended by both serving and ex-Corps members, The evening proved very successful from social point of view und we were pleased to welcome in our midst the D.G.MS, Hongkong, In the person of how- Doctor Selwyn-Clurke. The Presi-
dent of our Branch, Colonel J. T Simson, from whom we hoped to glean many secrets, delegated his arduous duties to the Chairman, who, in a witty speech, summarised the activities of the loent branch during the year.
could
"As this function seems to have
Governor To Attend S.P.C. Ball
His Excellency the Governor will attend the Ball organised by the Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children, to be held at the Penin-
releated from her obligations to Lebrun May Become become a perinneney it is hoped we sula Hotel on Friday, April 14.
Poland under the treaty of friendship which was signed in 1034 and which has another five years to run. So far, observers point out, this treaty has served to reassure Poland that Germany has not intended a sudden coup to recover the Polish Corridor and Danzig-United Preys
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President Again
tu
Paris, Apr. 3. President Lebrun's Intention stand for re-election was seen in his citation, in to-day's
at speech Montelimar, of the late President Loutlerts's famous phrase "I did'not come here for my pleasure, and I do not intend to cleur out for others pleasure.
A total of 158 Socialist Deputies, 14 Republican- Socialists and a substantial number of Radical-Socialist deputies are opposing President Lebrun's re-cles- tion, but to-day's statement Indicates he intends to defy the opposition and accept the Invitation to stand for a second term.-United Press,
who prosecuted, and he understood H correct and what is wrong with Socialias, Senators,alis
Mr. M. A. da Silva was representing the others?
all the defendants, and asked for a
dute. The case was accordingly ud-
journed to 2.30 p.m. on April 14.
The two keepers were allowed ball
of $5 each.
dissolute
hookhn. distaff
disonnnnee dinstasteful English Oxford Dictionary spell-
cúrsonl
of $100 each, and the gamblers bailings of these words will be found on
pape.
shall be able to hold future dinner, will be in attendance.
The dance bond of the Royal Scots etc. In more fitting surroundings.
"I am pleased to be able to report that a donation of ten pounds was forwarded to the Central Fund during 1038, and we were able to make a grant of five pounds to the widow of one of our late members.
"Summing up. Gentlemen, the A5- sociation seems to be holding its own in all respeels and I earnestly request all members to co-operate and help carry on the good work."
The following Committee was then elected for 1930:
Colonel W. D. Arthur, M.B... Pre- sident), Sergt. Major L. J. Macfarlane (Secretary), Stuff Sergt. A. H. Alex- ander (Treasurer), and Cpl. Hanlon, Q.M.S. Jull, W. Elliott, A. Steven
Committee members).
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