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China ail Mail

No. 27,995

ESTABLISHE 1845.

HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUAR 4, 1932.

GANDHI NOW IN JAIL

“LAST RIDE FOR LONG N. S. W. LABOUR

TIME."

HIS ECCENTRICITIES STILL SURPRISE.

PATEL ARRESTED

Events in India have come rapidly to a tread.

Gandhi and Patel (President of the Congress) have been arrested and taken to

Poona Jail.

OVERWHELMED..

Local Government

Elections.

617 SEATS LOST.

BLACK D FOR DIPHTHIA.

Few More Ces May Be Expeed,

山

PRECAUTIONS MU CONTINUE.

tok..when Dr., Up to noon G. W. Pop M.OJvad inter viewed by a China grepresenta- tive, no fresh case htheria had been reported.

Replying to a quib, Dr. Pope said that be was prßred to ɑsay

The United Australia Party's that the epidemic og definitely

tact:

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/5 5/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

JUST ARRIVED

DUNLOP 1932

TENNIS BALLS

(PRESSURE PACKED)

NOW OBTAINABLE FROM

FED PUTCH PLUCKY SWEDISH

FAILS

WORKERS LACK ENTHUSIASM.

:

RUHR PLOT

SITUATION IN HAND.

an

GIRL

Lone Odyssey in Motor Boat

THREE WEEKS VOYAGE.

Stockholm, Xesterday..

:

ARMED ROBBERY SEQUEL

Detectives Alleged to

Be "Fierce

"STATEMENTS' RETRACTED

-The Kak-Hang„Village (Kow

The lone Odyssey of a plucky 20-loon City) armed robbert, wase year-old Swedish girl, Anna Cede-against two Chinese wapm blom, from Stockholm to Vienna ined before the Chief Justice (Sir

Joseph H. Kemp, KC.) am outboard" twelve-horse-power

at the Assizes this motor boat, was related to-day. Sydney, Yesterday.

Cologne, To-day. The boat was compelled to keep when, on the completion of

a considerable distance from the evidence, the Crown CREU, NAS Vigorous resounding successes at the render control, but aspects a few combined with the workers' lack

Police measures, Baltic coast, encountering rough

closed. cent Federal Elections have been

water and often filled with waves, Mr. Hin-shing Lo; for the de- followed by the overwhelming me cases yet asus of con- of enthusiasm for a revolution, necessitating balling for her life. fence, put the first accused in defeat of the Left Wing Labour-

Only between Dresden and the witness box. This man bald Dr. Pope also food with our nipped in the bud what is be- ites in the Local Government

lieved to be an attempted Com- representative that the period In Calcutta a "War Council” triumvirate, with a "Dictator" elections to the Councils in Syd of incubation at our to five munist New Year putch in the Regensburg was the boat transport that at the time of his arrest two

ney and adjacent shires.

of 678 sents the Left Wing days, it would log If contact Ruhr district, which was timed ed by tall owing to the dangerous Chinese detectives struck him ber

would be indefinitu be pointed to coincide with the ten per Labourites supporting Mr. Lang, the Premier of New South out, if precautionontinued to be cent, cuts in wages.

Bands of Communists, Wales, secured only 61-Reu- ter's Special Service.

With regard to paint made in pouring rain, desperately made Thursday's Chinga regarding an effort to persuade the work- two cases recordeds Having occur ers to down tools. Only a few red in the hafur Dr. Pope hundred workers responded and was able to-day tospel the natural many were promptly dismissed. misgiving which rose that the Agitators in Essen and .else- floating populatiore beginning to where unsuccessfully tried to be affected.

hold up the tramways and des- troy the telephones.

has been alected, the Provincial Congress Committee being suspended.

GANDHI "BUYS BRITISH"

Calcutta, Yesterday, Bombay residence at 8 a.m. under A "War Council triumvirate. Regulation 25 of 1827. The with one of the lesser known warrant merely says he was ar-

members as "Dictator," has been elected at an emergency meeting of the Provincial Congress Com- mittee, which, it was decided, will in the meantime suspend it self.

The new body meets imme- diately to decide which "unmoral laws," will be broken first, also to initiate a boycott of British goods.

Bombay, Yesterday.

Gandhi has been arrested.

Gift to Bodyguard.

rested for "good and sufficient reasons."

The arrival of six Police, headed by Commissioner Wilson, caused a flutter. The occupants) of the house tried to secure ac¬ cess to the tent where Gandhi was sleeping, but were prevent ed.

LOCAL SHARE MARKET.

Post-Holiday Business Quiet.

RATES MAINTAINED.

taken the disease demot flourish.

in

At several places bombs ex- ploded harmlessly.

Dr. Pope said it the two har- bour cases occur in one of the ships of the Roy Navy, which he regards-as disting from the float- The Police last night declared ing population, term usually that they have the situation well The official summary issued by applied to boat ple only. These in hand.-Reuter. the Stock Exchange to-day states: have so far not in affected by the

The resumption of business after epidemic.

Gandhi was awakened and, as the holidays was rather quiet at he was observing a day of silence, the morning session, but rates he merely smilid to the Commis-seemed to hold their own. sioner who handed over the war- rant. which Gandhi read and!

Gandhi's eccentricities con-handed back.

tinue to surprise everybody. .

Just before he was due to go

on a

Touching Scenes.

to Ahmedabad to-night the All the Gandhi Ashramites Mahatma changed his mind, to participated in touching scenes the consternation of the authori- of farewell. Most of the women ties who, it is reported, had pre- wept bitterly. His wife was pared an elaborate plan to arrest smothered in tears and begged him at midnight

quiet the Commissioner to take her stretch of the railway north- with her husbano; but Gandhi ward of Bombay, Gandhi remain appeared in the best of spirits, ing in the hope of more promis- his face wreathed in smiles. ing developments of the negotia- Before his removal Gandhi tions.

wrote to Patel, of whose arrestį he was then unaware:-

Before his departure on what he considered his "last ride for å long time" Gandhi ordered a selection of the "best English". watches, from which to choose two for the Scotland Yard detec- tives who acted as his body guard from Europe.

Upon his Secretary remon--

"Infinite is God's mercy.j Please tell the people never to swerve from the truth and non-violence and never to finch to give their lives and all to win Swaraj.” (

War to a Finish. Patel appointed Babu (Rajen

strating that Swiss timepieces dranth Prasad, a member of the would be more in accordance with Congress Executive, to succeed

Sales

Bafika, $1,475. Unions, $416. Ewos, Tis. 18.20.-

Buyera.

Wharves, $1682. *Hotels (old), $15.20. Chinese Estatas, $95, H.K. Electrica, $783⁄41⁄4%. -Cements (old), $193⁄41⁄44/

Watsons, $16.85. Constructions (new), $1.85. Providents (old), $5. Providents (new), $2.40. Trams, $2244- Singapore Tractions, 8/.: Agriculaturals, $10.20. Powells, $3.35,

Sellers.

Ranbe, $39. Entertainments (old), $164.

UNION JACK CLUB FOUNDRESS DEAD.

Miss Ethel Rosalie Ferrier Me-

the spirit of the anti-British him as President of the Con-Caul, the foundress of the Union boycott, the Mahatma retorted:"gress."

British watches were procured and inscribed: "With love M. K. Gandhi.”

1

Valla Bhai Patel, President of the Congress, has been arrested.

Gandhi and Patel have been! taken in a motor car to the Yer- wada Jail, Poona, where Gandhi was imprisoned in 1980-Rou -ter.

"I promised the watches when Before going to jail Patel sent the Delh! truce was still in

a message to the nation saying: force."

fierce war to a finish, but I "This occasion will be a hope the nation will make the fect spirit of non-violence.” supreme sacrifice in the per-

Under Restraint.

London, To-day. It appears that the Ordinance under which Gandhi was arrest- ed allows him to be kept under restraint during the Govern mont's pleasure. Reuter,

“Good and Sufficient Reasons."

Gandhi was arrested at his

JUNIOR ATHENAEUM.

be accepted in the best interests 'of the club.

is niade clear that the Welling- will retain its name and its club-

Wellington is,

Jack Club in Waterloo Road, which when they visit London, has died in is the "home" of many Service men

nursing home at the age of 64.

· STILL"· FINE.

The Royal Observatory's re- port issued this morning states:

The anti-cyclons over 8.W. China is moving Eastward.

A typhoon E.NE of Pelew Island is moving westward.

Forecast:-N.E. winds, mo- derate; fine,

Rainfall

Belated

PRISON STUDIES WIN $7,500-

Bications.

FOR CONVICT. A total of cases, Dr. Pope said, were report on Saturday, Changed Fromilliterate - Into and at first sighthis “seems dia.

Well-Read Man. appointing as it owed an increase over the previoufday (New Year's

Benny Sabbatino, transformed Day) when only two cases (one by 12 years of prison from a non-Chinese) reported, but,

currents in the Elbe.

cause he denied having been con The voyage lasted three weeks.cerned in the robbers? They | Reuter's Special Service.

struck him twice, and on the second occasion he said: “If you AMERICAN NAVAL

PROGRAMME.

Construction of 120 New Ships.

DETAILS DISCLOSED.

Washington, Yesterday,

say so let it be so." He said this to avoid being beaten further.

Mr. Lo pointed out that it was alleged by the prosecution that when on the way to a bus to go to the Yaumati Police Station, he. (No. 1) said to his cantors: "Nothing can help now. He (Kwok Chun, principal witness) has recognised me, so I confess my guilt right away ways

The accused denied that he ever said this to the detectives, A Bill providing for a ten and he also denied that he had year programme of construction taken part in the robbery. of 120 new warships, to cast best Violence of Captors.". $616,260,000, will be introduced. Further, the accused alleged in the House of Representatives that when in the bus, one of the to-morrow..

detectives anked him what his It is announced by Mr. Vinson, share in the rolibery. Chairman of the House Naval and he replied that he had had Committee, that all the vessels, nashara in it The det except two aircraft carriers, are he alleged, became. Herce designed to replace over-age and afraid of what he had to face, he obsolete ships.

Hot told them that his ehe programme, little over 180. Thị

Mr. Vinson's

he painted out, tually two of the virtual illiterate into a well-read

man and a student of the law, which has been approved by the serted was not true and cases reported ofaturday were to has won a suit against two for Navy Board, also provides for because of the viole his knowledge, old cases, one mer members of the State Parole the completion of sixteen ships cantors..

and therefore previous to the

dven

of which was at est a fortnight old, Board, who, he charges, kept him at present under construction, at First accused also admitted

ini gaol three years beyond his a cost of $91,500,000 to include that, under pressure epidemic. Twother cases wers

proper, term. A jury which seven eight-inch gun vessels of certain names to the Chinese, one umown. These he

each. Reuters 9 those of men who heard evidence before a Supreme 10,000 tons does not regard epidemic case, Court Justice awarded him American Service..

part in the robbery, so that actually he now ease-occur.

$7.500 damages, red on Saturdas among the non-

It is not the first suit Sab- Chinese populan, and this alone batino has won as a result of his

A JUDGE ON JUDGES.

he regards as epidemic case. Ofnrison-cell studies, in which the "I am not quite so credulous as the five cases orted on Saturday, law vied with Plato, Kant and other judges, seem to be," said Judge three were in Hg Kong and two in Freud for his attention.

Crawford at Southend County Court, Kowloon..

In the Supreme Court at when he learned that another Yesterday, on two cases were re Rochester in 1928, the warden of court had not apportioned Compen Both atients were Chin- Auburn Prison, was ordered to eation money among various de ported. ese, one being child and the other pay him $1,250 damages and was pendants

woman.

RELESED BY

BA DITS!

Lady Masionary in Fechow.

WELS TREATED:

Fonchow, To-day.

Miss Halvetadt © has been re-

ken per sons named he said, were not robbers and he had giv by force.

The case is proceeding

MEL WALTER-CHESTERTON:

The death has Ottawa, at the age of fined $250 for contempt because "It seems to me that some courts Walter Chesterton, an t he failed to heed a habeas corpus do what people, ask them to do, not GK Chesterton. writ his prisoner had obtained. what Acts of Parliament say they Architect and artist,

shall do. I get cass after case from Chesterton designed other courts, and I have to try to bulldings in Montreal undo some of the mischief they have including the Ottawa Post

Ho was born in Keni

STOP PRESS done"

London To-day.

In a leader on the occupa tion of Chinchow, the Times Bays that the attitude of the League of Nations toward the new situation must ob-- viously depend on the pri

leased and a red høre last nightmarily action of the Japan--

in good hea-10 She was wall treated by thebandits Renter.

[A Foochow part of December 28 stated: Christ

spent in the hands

of bandits why the unhappy." - Late which befel MBurrlát: Haverstadt, of the Method Episcopal Mission at

Rainfall for 24 hours and Hatang Wald While travelling as launch near the passenger ed at $10 m

Pagod anchore on Thursday, alter,

· Total

noon she and on Chinese were "cape Lagainst "KI

tured by brigads, and all efforts to phtalis:ber-rel hitherto have prov

inch defle

re of 0.10

#t-certain

this morning?

ese Government

The absence of effective responsible Govern- ment in China to-day is the best defence of Japanese action,

The cause of all recent disputes between China and the other Powers, has been the shiftiness of Chinese and, still more, the

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