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KEY TO PEACE

IN FAR EAST IS

MANCHURIA.

MR. YOSHIZAWA'S

IMPRESSIVE. SPEECH.

SOVIET MASS TRIALS.

Corruption & Criminal Neglect.

MANY INDICTED.

Riga, Yesterday.

A number of new mass trials are being organised by Soviet authorities. They will come off in the next three weeks. They follow as the result of an inves-! |tigation held by u special commis- Tokyo, To-day, sion into the causes of inefficiency "Manchuria is the key to peace in the transport of food and in the Far East." declared Mr. other commissariats throughout Yoshizawa în an impressive the USSR. Hundreds of officials speech on Japanese foreign policy have been arrested for corrup at the opening of the sixtieth tion and criminal neglect. Forty session of the Imperial Diet this five, including the heads of a morning.

fruit and vegetable trust, were! Declaring that Manchuria re-arrested in Leningrad. Twenty

number of question confronting the Japan workmen will be committed for ese Government and one which trial as the result of the commis- was engaging the profound at- sion's investigation of chaos in tention of the entire world, he the inventions department- attributed the present situation Reuter.

presented

the most important

to the fact that China was tak- ing advantage of "Japanese com- plaisance" to set at naught the treaty of contractual rights and interests. He added. "Our pro- testa and warnings were availing, and the patience of the Japanese people had been severe- ly tried before the blasting of the railway line which preci- pitated the

un-

collision between

officials and a one

WELCOMED HERE.

Governor-General of

Indo-China.

SIR W. FEEL'S GUEST.

H.E. Pierro Pasquier, Governor-

Chinese and Japanese troops." General of Indo-China, arrived in

Reasserting that. Manchuria the Colony at 8 o'clock this morn- was the key to peace in the Faring on the French mine sweeper East. Mr. Yoshizawa continued, Inconstant. He was welcomed by "This was true before the war Capt. Coltman, A.D.C. to H.E. the between Russia and Japan, and Governor, and Lieut. Cameron,

it is even truer to-day. We were, A.D.C. to H.E. the G.O.C, and in the past, responsible for peace made an unofficial landing. He and order in Manchuria, and our will pay a call at Government responsibilities there are now House, and in the afternoon to- enhanced,"

gether with his party will go for

He emphasised that Japana sightseeing tour in the New Ter- harboured no territorial ambi-ritories. tions in Manchuria, and declared In the evening Mons. Pasquier, that she would uphold the prin- with Vice-Admiral Herr and Staff, ciple of the open door and equal will be guest at a banquet at Gov- opportunities for all

ernment House, given by Sir Wil- Mr. Yoshizawa charged the lam Peel in their honour. Chinese Government with dir To-morrow, the principal func- ectly fostering and encouraging tion will be an official reception enmity against Japan.

ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932.

TO-DAY'S

DOLLAR ---The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/4 11/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

HAS FRANCE TORPEDOED THE LAUSANNE CONFERENCE?

SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS MADE AGAINST GERMANY OF TREATY VIOLATIONS

POWERFUL GERMAN ARMY IN MAKING

Paris, Yesterday.

A sensational allegation, that Germany was preparing a powerful army in spite of the Treaty of Versailles was made in the Chamber to the Foreign Affairs Committee by General Bourgeois and Monsieur Eccard, members of the Senate Commission entrusted to report on armaments.

General Bourgeois declared that Germany was organising her indus- try and armaments on parallel lines which permit of the

most rapid mobilisation of war supplies. He added that the most active propaganda was being carried on to inculcate a spirit of revenge, even among school children.

M. Eccard declared that the German Budget contained, under camon- flaged headings, much larger expenditure on military purposes than was admitted.

The allegations, which will be discussed at a later date, have pro- foundly impressed the Comittee--Reuter.

(Reuter's Special Service.)

Berlin, Yesterday.

German politicians' patience is evaporating as the possibility of the Lausanne Conference meeting on January 25 fast recedes.

Many newspapers express the opinion, that France has successfully torpedoed, the Conference.

Government quarters emphasise a refusal to agree to a prolongation of the Hoover moratorium until 1933, as this would postpone a solution of the Reparations problem.

INSULT

ADDED TO INJURY.

Dentist's Patient Robbed.

extraction.

i'

London, Yesterday.

PEASANTS FIRED

. UPON.

Action of Soviet Frontier Guard.

cover

FIXED DEPOSIT RECEIPT.

Á tyre of unique construction built for those who prefer superlative quality

FORT

Fort DUNLOP

Dispute Leads To Litigation.

$8,000 INVOLVED.

The Tyre Incomparable

WOMEN AND DISARMAMENT.

Monster Petition Sent Off

A BABY'S PART.

A dispute over a fixed deposit re- (Reuter's Special Service.) ceipt of the Bank of China for

London, Yesterday. $8,000, was heard by the Chief The monster Disarmament de- Justice (Sir Joseph H. Kemp, K.C.) claration, bearing two million in the Supreme Court this morning. two hundred thousand signa

The plaintiff in the case is Ng tures, was given a grand send- Chi-chow of 64, Bonham Strand off to-day at the Women's Inter-. West, and the defendant was Lul national League House. Cho-wan of 14, Kwong Hon Ter The signatures, packed in brown paper parcels, were load- Mr. H. G. Sheldon, (instructed ed into a decorated housevan for Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & transport to Victoria for onward Master) was for the plaintiff, while despatch to Geneva on Friday. the defendant was represented by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.C., (instructed parcel in the van symbolising the A baby girl placed the first

hopes of the future generation. by Mesars. d'Almeda & Mason).

race.

by

The plaintiff claimed that under

an agreement dated August 29, was wrongful or in fraud of the

and Mining Co., and the If, which was not admitted, Siu Foo Chung Hong, of Swa- had acted in fraud of both the tow, the plaintiff deposited the sum plaintiff and the defendant, the of $8,000 with the Bank of China latter would say that the plaintiff and a receipt for the money was was stopped from denying the Issued in the joint names of the rights of the defendant to retain plaintiff and one Siu Kwok-leung, the fixed deposit receipt against or who was President of the China until the repayment of the $4,000 ko Farming and Mining Co.

loaned to Slu, because of the plain- This re- ceipt was given into the custody of, tiff's conduct in allowing the fixed. the man Siu, -

deposit to be issued in the joint

1980, between the China Farming plaintiff,

About January, 1991, in breach names of himself and Siu, and in of the agreement referred to, the allowing it to be in Sin's possession. China Farming and Mining Co. By this conduct, inter alia, the de- closed its doors and discontinued fendant was induced to believe Bio came repayable to the plaintiff. business, whereupon the $8,000 be- and act as he did.

Points By Counsel. Instead, plaintiff alleged that on In stating the plaintiff's case, Mr. rongfully and in fraud of the closing of doors and suspending of

that following January 28, 1981, the man Siu Sheldon said plaintif transferred the fixed deposit Mining Co., the plaintiff approached business by the China Farming and

the

be

receipt of the Bank of China, for the $8,000, to the defendant.

Siu on February 6 but failed to get What Was Claimed.

the return of the fixed deposit re ceipt, and on March 30 wrote to hima The Foreign Office states that

Plaintiff claimed from the Court: claiming 88,000 or the return of the conversations between the Gov-

(1) the return of the fixed deposit receipt, but nothing came of it. ernments chiefly concerned in

receipt and damages for its deton-

Dealing with the agreement which the Lausanne Conference have

tion; and

was between the China Farming and not yet been concluded, and it is;

(2) a declaration that the fixed Mining Co., and the Foo Chung evident that the Conference eat-

deposit receipt is the property of Hong, Counsel said that it shored not be begun as early as January

the plaintiff.

terms under which the plaintiff be 25.

The defendant does not admit came the agent of the China Farm Further conversations are now

that the plaintiff deposited the fag and Mining. Co., for the dia in the morning at Victoria Lodge, a visit to a dentist, but it is adding Government hopes that it may It is bad enough to have to pay progressing, and the British

$8,000 under the agreement referred tribation of fertiliser in what is Referring to the League of 18, The Peak, the residence of the insult to

Bucharest, Jan. 11. to, and does not admit, that because known as the two chow district. Nations and America: he said French Consul-General, which will comes along and fiches your hat, factory agreement in regard to attempted to cross

injury when someone be possible to come to

Five peasants were killed and the fixed deposit receipt was issued a satis three seriously wounded as they by the Bank of Chine in the joint after six months from date of it be

The agreement both, following the clarifying ex-be attended by both French and coat and wallet while having an the procedure to be adopted at Dnieper into Soviet Russia under it was an acknowledgement that posal of fertiliser by the agent provided that

planations of the Japanese Gov-Annamitas.

the frozen names of plaintiff and the man Sin ing entered into, the minimum dis ernment, were now better able to The distinguished visitors sail

the Conference, in the course of This, however, has been the un- a few days.Reuter.. appreciate the Japanese position to-morrow afternoon on the crui

of darkness last night. the money was deposited by them would be 1,000 baga per month in relation to Manchuria,

The party, was discovered by a jointly. ser Waldeck Rousseau, flagship of fortunate experience of Mr. H. F.

Under frontier, guard detachment short-

the agreement, too Berlin, Yesterday. He also expressed satisfaction Vice-Admiral Herr, for Manila, Shields, a resident of the European

On January 23, 1981, the defen $8,000 would have to regarding the Soviet's

News of the postponement of ly before they had reached the dant lent the sum of $4,000 to the deposited by both partica in the. "Im-where the entourage will return

Y.M.C.A. He went to. a dental sur- partiality and non-interference." the recent visit of Governor Gen-geon in Alexandra Building yestar the Lausanne Conference reach-Russian bank of the river. When man Siu on the security of a half Bank of China, and tale was done

In conclusion he referred to eral Dwight Davis and stay to at-clothes peg in the waiting-room, official circles, but there is no the guards opened fire in accord- and a promissory note given by Siu agent for a period of 5 years, and

day, leaving his coat and hat ou ed Berlin too late for comment in the fugitives refused to stand, share of the fixed deposit receipt

冠

The agreement appointed the the hopeful terms of the Dis- tend the Army manoeuvres which armament Conference from which are being held in Manila toward or lobby. After he had been attend- doubt that the Government deep-ance with the instructions issued for $4,000.

ed to he discovered that his coat and ly regrets this development, recently by the Home Minister,

Defendant claimed that he had ed satisfactorily, the agent would after that, if the arrangement work- hat had been stolen.. Inside the fearing it is bound to aggravate after previous attempts of the acted in perfect good faith in his be appointed for another period, and

was a wallet the economic difficulties of not same nature had been success dealing with Siu, and any claim (If the China Farming and Mining Co

only Germany but the world.— ful.-Trans-Ocean Kuo. Min.

it be true, which is not admitted) could not appoint any other dis Reuter.

that Siu had no interest in the tributor in the territory. $8,000 and no right to endorse and Another clause provided that it hand, as he did, the fixed deposit after six months the agent could receipt to the defendant, be, the de- not dispone of any fertiils fendant was not concerned with. er, it could explain to

the Denial of Frand. -

Company

up the give The defendant believed that Sin agency. It was also agreed was entitled to a half share of the that money owing by the agert $8,000 and entitled to negotiate and could be deducted from a secure a loan, and give, the fixed security of $2,000 which the deposit receipt as security. De agent placed with the Com- fendant denied that the transfer of pany, over and above the the fixed deposite receipt to him sum of $8,000 forming the subject

of the dispute.PNG PAN

Da Legal Effect Of Transfer,

Speaking about the fraudulent

he trusted something tangible the end of the month. would be forthcoming in the shape of an agreement "nilke rational, equitable and contribu ting to the establishment of per- manent peace in the world.-- Reuter.

FINE TO CLOUDY.

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

The anticyclone is central to the East of Tokyo, moving East. Another is forming over N.E. China.

Forecast: N. E. winds, moderate; fine to cloudy.

Rainfall.

Ja

Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 am to-day-ni Total since January 1-nif against an average of 0.68 inches

deficit. 0.68

Inch deficit 0.68 inch.

Tag Temperature.

The temperature at certain specified centres this morning at: 6 o'clock w

Hong Kong

Prates: Island

82258887

GOING TO INDIA.

SIR ERNEST BENNETT.

Rugby, Yesterday.

Sir Ernest Bennett, member of the Round Table Franchise Committee, who, last week, was prevented by illness from ac- companying the other members to India, will sail from Marseilles on January 29-British Wire- less Service.

pocket of his coat containing $76,

"POP"

A new series of comic strips "Pop" commences in the China Mall to-day. The ar- tist, is Mr. J. MUlar Watt, whose fins sense of humour and, his skill' as a caricaturist, have created a great demand for his work amongst news- papers everywhere.

EXPULSION OF JESUITS

FROM SPAIN?

CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY?

Madrid, Yesterday.

Cos of Jesuits from Spain

Rugby, Yesterday.

An authoritative statement regarding the Lausanne Repara- tions Conference, fixed to ba opened on Monday, is still await- ed. Meanwhile, exchanges con- tinue between the various: Gov- eraments concerned regarding the procedure to be adopted. British Wireless Service

LAND SPEED RECORD.

SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL TO

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Beave

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Rug Kesterday.

You are busy. Yet you want to be informed of the news of the day. Then, turn ̧ ́ to the back page and glean

the news.

It's there con- veniently summarised for

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1,000 PESETAS FINE FOR transfer of the fixed deposit receive

CATHOLIC COLLEGE

CONVENT CLOSED DOWN

erday.

Bilbao

to the defendant by Bit when it had become returnable to the plaintif on the termination of the agreemen because of the China Farming Mining Co. going out of business January, 1981, Mr. Sheldon that it was not alleged that the fendant was a party to the

dat trasfers but that did not the plaintiff's claim to the him of the fixed, deposit In law, he said, the transfer of the dend Siu to the defend It at the very