1931-03-13 — Page 7

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1931.

HISTORIC SPEECH ON INDIA

Gandhi to Make Salt. Borand, Bombay Presidency,

Yesterday.

(Continued from Page 1.)

THE CHINA MAIL.

DEATH DURING FILM

DEATH DRAMA.

Cinema 'Manager Killed in Sound-Proof Room.

POLICE BAFFLED.

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS. ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Social Functions. Today Tea Dance Kong Hotel. **

To-night-Dinner

at Hong

Dances

at

Hon Kong Hotel and Hotel Cecil.

To-night-S.P.C.A. Peninsula Hotel.

Carnival,

March 17-St. Patrick's Society's Ball, Peninsula Ilote!?"

March 20-Yorkshire Society's Dinner.

Entertainments.

structure. The work was going There always had been and there n in India and here. We were sill was genuine anxiety among plaring now a test upon the hon- many of his supporters as to whe-

Berlin, Jan. 21. nur of Britain, not only upon its ther at this moment the delegates Three thousand Berliners in the hommar-but of the capacity who had been at the London Con- great Mercedes Film Palace were at of Britain to face a very difficult ference were going to India. He ten o'clock last night watching in political situation.

felt it only fair to relieve them of spell-bound excitement a murder that anxiety and to acquaint them drama being enacted on the screen, with his opinion. When he was while at the same time, not thirty asked on Monday if he had any yards away from them, in a small objection to an authentic state-room in the same building, the ment going out after that decision manager of the theatre was being had been come to he felt he would murdered by a mysterious naanilant. much rather that no statement The detectives of the Berlin To-day - Queen'à were made. These conversations police to-day pronounce his death "So This Is London." were private but he noticed there to be the most baffling murder my- To-day

Central was some communication between stery in Berlin during the last few "Hit The Dock." that committee of his Party and years.

To-day - Majestic hostile section of the Press and he

AL 10.15. last night Ifans "Little Accident." preferred that any action he took Schmoller, the forty-nine-year-old | To-day Star Wild Scenes.

should come out authenticated by manager of the theatre, was dia- "It." Bombay, Yesterday.

knew the result covered by & programme Beller To-day- World Wild seche

witnessed might be unfortunate in its reac-sitting dead at his desk were

in his "When a Brother Snerilces." (Chi- his morning at the Congress tions in India; he believed, how-sound-proof room. A thin trickle nese picture)... building, which the Government ever, that what had been said of blood stained his colfar. He had To-day "Art & Mrs. Bottle" of Bombay seizel in October and since and during the present de been shot in the throat.

by A.D.C., Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m. bas now restored in pursuance of bate might help to remove those,

To-day-Concert, Helena May in- the Irwin-Gandhi agreement. misunderstandings.

stitute, Kowloon,

At the exact hour at which Gandhi a year ago to-day started on his famous sealt march, the Mahatma left this morning, ac- companied by Vallabhai Patel, on a tour of the Kairn district en route to Dandi, Where on the shores of the Indian Ocean he pro- poses once more to make salt on March 14.

himself. He

Safo Rifled.

The police, who were immediately Tribute to Viceroy. Two hundren Congress volun-

summoned, found that the safe had Proceeding, he expressed the been rited and the entire takings teers, mostly armed with lathis, took possession of the building confident hope that the Govern-of the evening had been stolen. last night and ran up a red flag. ment would not think of effecting Nobody had heard the shot. This They lay down in front of the any major changes in the existing fact, however, could be accounted building and prevented the mem-constitution whilst all these great for by the sound-proof walls of the bars of a procession who arrived questions discussed at the Confer-office.

this morning for the formal open-ence were still in process of negn- The police, although they re- ing of the building from entering, tiation. Referring to the conver mained on the premises throughout until they received an assurance sations between the Viceroy and the night examining the entire that their grievances would be Gandhi, he deprecated the use of staff, discovered practically no clue

such words as "Victory and Sar-to the murderer's identity. immediately considered.

Such conclusion of the reader."

Commissary Muller, however, the conversations as had been reached chief of the ten detectives in charge could not have been reached in the of the inquiry, has already formed circumstances by any other Bri-a clear theory of the crime. ton than Lord Irwin. great tribute

Half an hour after the opening, however, malcontents re-appeared and bombarded the Congress building with stones, and, armed with lathis, attacked the "loyal" volunteers, a score of whom were slightly injured. The Police were called out, but Mr. Nariman, the President of the Bombay Con- gress, pacified the aggressors by promising satisfaction of their claims.-Reuter.

1917 Proclamation.

Rugby, Yesterday, Opening the Indian debate in the Bouse of Commons this afternoon the Conservative Lead-

Nervy: "If the operation is ➡dangerous and it

It was a

could not judge the ultimate effect office receipts.

Sports.

T

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE, HONG KONG

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Society will be held at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on MONDAY, March 30, 1931, at 5.30 pm. for the follow- ing purpose!—

(a) To receive the Report of the

Committee and Statement of Accounts for the past year, (b) To elect the Officers and Com-

mittee for the ensuing year. (c) To consider the manner in which St. George's Day shall be celebrated. (d) To transact any other bünf- ness of which due notico has been given.

Theatr

Theatre

Theatre:

Theatre. attend.

Theatre.

See Diary on page 8.

Meetings. March 16-A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel, 11.30 a.m.

March 18-Green Island Cement Co., Exchange Building. 11.30 a.m.

March 18-Dairy Farm Ice &

Cold Storage Co., Ltd., 2, Lower Albert Road, noon.

March 20-Hong Kong Automo- bile Association, Jardine Matheson Board Room, 5.30 p.m.

March 30-Society of St. George, Jardine Matheson's Board Room, 5.30 p.m. "The murderer," he said, "must

Home Mails to his character have been

acquainted intimately To-day Inward from Europe character which had given him with the habits of the murdered via Suez (Karmain); from Europe prestige in India that nothing else man, who overnight, between 9.30 via Siberia (Khyber); Outward for

They and 10.15 13., could have afforded him.

counted the box-Europe via Siberia (Karmala), 6

p.m. "Only a person who had worked To-morrow-Inward from Europe Home died slowly, but whatever in the building could possibly have via Siberia (Saarland); Outward happened the settlement had de found his way about without asking for Europe via Marseilles (Khyber), finitely enlarged the area of good-, for directions. I would defy any 10.30 am. will and of co-operation.

other person to find his way through The question of a constitutional, the labyrinth of passages behind was by far the stage leading to the manager's og rament of India the most important and most dif- office.

e

Extremism in India

or at

cull Imperial question we had ever "I see the murder like this: At

Lammerts Auction. March 18-At 3, Peak Mansion. household furniture, 10.30 a.m.

Miscellaneous. March 23-St. Joseph's College

had to face. More important even about ten o'clock the murderer prize distribution, 5 p.m. than party unity was the unity of opened the door leading to the all. Parties on this subject, He sound-proof cflce, closed it behind was firmly convinced that writings him, opened the inner door, and} such as appeared in the Daily Mail entered.

night nurse to his wife since it would do more to loss India for

was known that her death must the Empire than anything else. "The manager must have known soon take place, and he elected to The ultimate goul dépended not on him well. I surmise this from the stay up alone with her during her force, but on goodwill, sympathy, comfortable and informal attitude last night. and understanding between India in which he reclines in his chair.

Two Shets.

Mrs. Johnson had been uncon.

All Members are requested to

P. S. CASSIDY,

Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, March 12, 1931.

DON'T FORGET

S.P.C.A.

BALL

TO-NIGHT

AT

PENINSULA HOTEL.

POLICE INTERFORCE

SPORTS.

FOOTBALL

SHANGHAI POLICE

versus

SOUTH CHINA

ATHLETIC

and the Government of Great Bri-There is not the slightest sign ofscious for some days. She had tain, and the great work of Lord any movement of surprise on his known for a long time that she SUNDAY, March 15th Irwin was that he had after many part at the entrance of the murder-could never recover, and about a) years of suspicion bridged the gulfer. by ability and character.

fortnight before her death she sent for the Deanery servants and bade them "Good-bye."

"I can imagine him making some Ile did not believe that the bulk such remark to the murderer as, of the party in the Commons or 'Now, my dear fellow, what can I She faced death with remarkable the country took a different view do for you? just as the murderer courage and remained calm and from that expressed by Lord Peel levelled his revolver and fired point-tranquil to the end. and by himself at Newton Abbott. blank.

Manchester's poor boys and So long as he was there he would

"The murderer seems to have girls have lost b kind and well- earry out that policy in no nig-been trembling violently with ex-beloved friend.

eltement as, still clutching his re-

Was your own gardly spirit. wife, would you recommend it?"

Houpecked Doc.: "Dash it all, I'd insist on it."--

Smith's Weekly, Sydney.

cr, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, recalled the terms of the 1917 Proclama tion, reminding members of his Party that it recognised that the Empire was a lying organism. It was in constant process of evo lution. The process was being speeded up and few would have foreseen even a few years ago to what point it would have brought

Gandhi's Policy.

volver in one hand, he gathered MOMENTOUS STEP IN

CHURCH REUNION.

The Secretary for India: Mr. together the notes lying on the Wedgwood-Benn, said that Bald- table and added them to a bag full win's words would be received with of silver which he took from. the relief and delight in India. After safe. Ils hand зуда shaking so paying tributes to public officials, badly that, without meaning to do particularly to the police and to so, he pulled the trigger a second the patriotism of the Indian dele-time and fired a shot into the steel- gations to the Round Table Con-coated outer door through which ference, he said that these dele- he had come.

gates had returned convinced of "Beside himself with fright, he. the good faith of the British Par- then rushed out of the door, down linnant and so were able to ex- the stairs, and through the wings plain the work of the Conference of the stage to the street."

Decision of Patriarch Who Faced Death.

LETTER TO PRIMATE.

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Admission to Covered Stand $1.10 including tax.

had been freed from Turkish inter- ference. After the horror of the massacres of Orthodox bishops and people in Smyrna and by the Black Sen he was urged to leave Stam

boul rather than suffer similar fate on the return of the Turks. Ho resolutely refused to leave his people:

Twice, he was brutally sasaulted The Archbishop of Canterbury in Phurnar, and once carried away has received an historic document by marauding and hostile bunds of from His All Holiness Meletios II., Turks, but it was not until his own to their countrymen. As a result Three people claim to have seen a Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, Synod begged him to withdraw for the relations of the great Domin- the area of co-operation was ex-man who may have been the mur-setting forth the dectalon of the the peace of the Church that he ions with the Mother Country. I tended.

derer, but as the description in each Holy Synod of the Metropolitans of went or board the British gunboat could not be supposed that in It was understood that Gandhi's case is a different one, the police the Apostolic and Patriarchal Golden Horn, and was taken In this world of evolution India policy was to substitute co-opera- do not as yet attach much import- Throne, of Alexandria to recognise safety to Greece.

tion for non-co-operation and ho ance to those clues.

the validity of Anglican orders, had said that he would strain every The organist of the cinema de-held to be invalid by the Roman term to make this provision at set- clares that he saw a man dressed Catholic Church.... tlement permanent.

alorie was static.

Britain's Friend,

There he lived outside Athena

He declared that the Conserva. tive Party atood exactly where it did on January 26, when a state-

In a long black cloak hurry across The statement withdrawa Its in a cottage, a magnificent figure ment which not yet been chal. The result of the conversations the stage. He recognised him, he precautionary negative to the ac in retirement, until, on the death lenged was made by Lord Peel. had been received with universal says, as an artist formerly employ- ceptance of the validity of Angli of Photlus, the Synod of "Alexan- It stood exactly where it stood approval in India and had resulted at the theatre.

in the speech he delivered lasted in a marked, inprovement in The atmosphero created week at Newton Abbott, in the trade. course of which he said: "Our was one in which it would be very main objective is clear, namely, much easier to have baffled them, the objective of an All-India It was the earnost desire of the Federation. But when we have Government to continue with the stated our objective we must not least possible interruption the con- forget that many grave difficul stitutional dixcussions of the ties have to be surmounted before Round Table Conference.

DEAN'S NIGHT VIGIL

PSALM AT BEDSIDE OF DYING WIFE:

can ordinations, and pronounces dría elécted him despite the efforts that If Anglican clergy should join of Anglophobe enemies, and ho the Orthodox Church they would reigns now over the Orthodox of Africa, still, as ever, the stalwart not be re-ordained,⠀⠀

Such a remarkable step towards friend of Britain. reunion has come about through

Ho vlaited Britain last year to the Lambeth declarations, which attend the Anglo-Catholle Con- have satisfied the Holy Synod Ingress and the Lambeth Conference, regard to the teaching of the going upon his arrival to the The Lord is my Shepherd; I Anglican Church in the matter or shrine of King Edward the Con- we can attain it,” He had 'theni There were important practical shall not want. Yea, though. I Apostolic Succession, "a real re- fessor in Westminster Abbey to added that what they had at pre-difficulties in the way of sending a walk through the Valley of the ception of the Lords, Body and bless this country. sent was only framework. The Parliamentary Delegation to Indis Shadow of Death, I will fear no Blood," and as to the sacrificial The decision of the Synod is details were not filled in and many und there was much preliminary evil.

aspect of the Holy Communion, likely to have important results in of them would present serious work which fudians themselves "For Thou art with me; Thy rod and the sacramental character of the cause of reunion, between the difficulties, Apart from the must undertake in particular issues and Thy staff they comfort ma."-ordination.

East and Canterbury, and creates pledge of the honest attempt to left open by the minorities Sub-Paalm 23.1. confront these difficulties, and Committeo. The Government re-

"We rejoice," says the Fatriarch, profoundly interesting problem"

thus to carry on the work of the the greatest importance. They Manchester, standing alono beside and we congratulate your Beat-in the question of the catholicity:]

"to see the middle wall of partition as to which is right, the Eastern garded this work in India se of Dr. Howlett Johnson, Dean of being thrown down more and more, Churches or the Church of Rome, Conference, the Conservative Party was not committed." would seek the co-operation of his dying wife, repeated the whole tude that under God you have had of the Anglican Church.

Referring to what had appear leaders of every Party in re of the twenty-third Pasim just be the fellcity of taking the Initiative ed in the Press within the last 48 establishing, contact with the fore she died in the early hours of in, furthering that work

hours, he said that there had been a great deal of excitement about nothing. It was perfectly. obvious that after the conclusion

British Wireless Service. Indian side of the Conference

Manchester.

Melettos II. was Archbishop of

the morning.

The household staff were asleep. Athens during, the premiership of New Brunswick growers of seed and the dean, out of consideration Venizelos. Throughout the war 'he potatoes have had their best season for their comfort, did not, rouse was a devoted "friend" of Great of many years,, according to C., He them to tell them the news until Britain and bar, Allies, and always Godwin district: inspector at the

of the Conference the Govern: Hinka; “It is pitiable to see 80 daybreak, Instead, he called his an advocate of close relations. bs Dominion Experimental Station at ment trust decide, the next steps man weak-willed men about.wife's sister, Mrs. Maddocks, to tween the Orthodox and Anglican Fredericton. Among other things for continuing Its work. It was believe in being master in my own the bedside, and then he himsels Communions, A simple matter of procedure The Government had doubtless

considered divers course of action

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