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UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA.

No Recognition From Washington.

Washington, Yesterday. It is authoritatively learnt that the United States has no intention of officially recognis ing the Soviet, despite the re- cent agitation on the matter.

A resolution requesting the re-establishment of diplomatic. and commercial relations with Russia was introduced by re- presentatives on April 22,- Reuter's American Service.

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SOLDIERS TURN LOOTERS & RIOTERS.

Town in Manchuria Is Stripped.

BANDITS DEFEAT DEFENDING FORCE.

No. 28,090

HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 25, ∙1932,

PRICE $3,00 Per Month.

150 INDIAN CONGRESSMEN

ARRESTED

· POLICE BREAK UP BANNED MEETING

CONGRESS ARRESTS TOTAL 630 IN FOUR DAYS

CONFIDENCE IN GANDHI

EXPRESSED.

New Delhi, Yesterday.

VICTORIA GAP MURDER.

Accused's Sensational Plea of Guilty.

COMPLICATED TRIAL OPENS.

Accused's Plea Not Accepted.

a class

by Itself

HITLER'S SUCCESS IN GERMAN

ENGLISH CINEMAS MAY CLOSE DOWN.

Entertainments Tax Protest.

DIFFERENCE OF £3,500,000.

London, Yesterday. There is the possibility that practically every cinema_in_the

The April Assizes resumed before; the Pulsne Judge (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood) at the Supreme Court, this morning, when the Victoria Gap country may soon be closed for murder case was opened.

twenty-four hours as a protest against the re-imposition of the There are four accused in this Entertainments Tax upon cine. case, namely, Cheung, Man, alias

fù.

tors' Association in a statement

ELECTIONS

NAZIS MAKE TREMENDOUS GAINS EVERYWHERE

COMMUNISTS LOSE HEAVILY

EX-KAISER'S SON RETURNED AS NAZI DEPUTY.

The elections in Germany to-day have increas- Cheung Ngo-wai, alias Cheung Honma seats priced up to sixpence,

So serious has been the effect ed Adolph Hitler's power, his party, the National- ching, alias Wong Hoi, alias of this tax on box office receipts ist Socialists, or Nazis, making tremendous gains Ki-kwong, and Cheung Ku-wah, that the Cinematograph Exhibi- in all parts of the country. Despite his defeat by The entire meeting of the Indian National Cheung Taze-san, and Cheung Sau

have expressed the fear that President Von Hindenburg in the Presidential Congress was arrested to-day.

theatres elections two weeks ago, Hitler is progressing in Despite precautions to prevent the holding of. The charge against them is that five hundred cinema

they, on February 18, 1932, at or may have to close down.

The Association has decided his march towards power, and his party's successes the Congress session, which was banned by the near Victoria Gap, murdered one Government, numbers of Congress members man Teang Tal-kai, alias Teang King-kai, to send representatives to Paris to-day may have a momentous effect on interna- aged to smuggle themselves into the city. They og student who lived with his next week to investigate the tional matters. In Prussia, the all-important cen- parents and other members of the effects of the recent tax strike held a hurried meeting under the clock tower in the family at 273, Main Street, Shauki- which closed all places of enter-tre of Germany, a dead-lock has occurred and the Nazis may be kept out of office by a minority Gov- Å wild orgy of looting and main street.

Because of certain statements Mr. Reginald Crow, ex-Presl- when destruction followed

which the second accused was alleg dent of the Association, in an ernment existing with the support of the Com- body of a thousand demoralised

Police speedily intervened. ar-jobedience Campaign the meeting ed to have made subsequent to his interview with Reuter, said that munists. troops of the old Kirin army, pretending to be Manchukuo resting every participant, total re-affirmed. its faith in non-arrest, his Lordship decided, in the forces, entered Sanchae, 13 miles ling about 150, while 219 more violence.

Harbin, To-day.

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to the North of, Taolaicho, yes. terday morning and immediate ly attacked the Manchukuo gar-

rison.

arrests followed later, bringing the total arrests in the past four days in connection with Congress to 680.

Prisoners at Large,

Lahore, Yesterday.. Despite a most active search.

so far no trace has been found Heavy street fighting follow-

Prior to police intervention of the 10 prisoners who escaped ed, in which machine-gun play meeting, which the participants yesterday while being conveyed a prominent part, but after two claimed constituted an open meet-from Aligarh to Lahore.

Twenty-five prisoners attacked hours the defenders were de ing of the 47th session of Con-

were adopted the police escort at Narwana, a feated and routed. Altogether gress, resolutions

the Congress small station between Delhi and fifte

on both re-affirming, that men were killed sides and many more wounded. goal was "complete independ- Bathinda. The head constable The raiders then loote therence." An expression of con-was killed and another constable to fidence in Gandhi as a sole dicta- wounded. Ten prisoners escaped city, paying first attention the station, till it was stripped of tor was passed. Approving the into the jungle with three police everything.

resolution passed by the Working rifles and 60 rounds of ammuni- The remaining 15 were Committee in Bombay regarding tion.

Reuter. the re-launching of the Civil Dis. brought to Lahore.

A goods train passing the sta- tion was heavily fired on and was subsequently derailed owing to the removal of the fish-plates. ! The locomotive and twelve wag- gons crashed down the embank- ment and were absolutely wreck- ed, while the other cars were

Two badly damaged.

of the

train crew, both Russians, were killed and three seriously injur ed.

Owing to the fact that the tele- graph wires had been cut off the news did not reach Harbin till 8.30 yesterday evering, on which a breakdown train immediately left for the scene.

COOLIE SENT TO GAOL

A scavenging coolie, employed by

LOCAL CELEBRATION OF ANZAC DAY

WREATH LAYING AT CENOTAPH

DINNER TO – NIGGHT

The wreath laying ceremony at the Sanitary Department, was sen- the Hong Kong cenotaph took

tenced to one month's hard labour

by Mr. Wynne Jones in the Cen-place at 11 a.m. this morning, when tral Police Court this morning, for many assembled to pay tribute to throwing a brick at one of two those who died.

rikishas, which were parked at the Four wreaths were laid, followed

a

wan West.

OVERCAST.

The weather report issued by the Royal Observatory to-day states:

the

The

to anti-cyclone north of the lower Yangtezc Valley has strengthened con- siderably.

The depression is moving northeastward and is now central to the north of Hok- kaido.

Forecast: N.E. winds, fresh to moderate: overcast, mist and rain.

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tainment in Paris.

the imposition tax was a war.

the cinema trade had agreed that The Communists, as well as the many minor time measure and that every parties, suffered big reverses, and the issue seems Chancellor of the Exchequer to be clear-cut between Hitler, and Chancellor alnce had promised that it Bruening.

would be removed at the first

opportunity. The tax turned Many riots occurred, hundreds being injured, profits of many theatres into while a few deaths are reported. losses. The difference in profit

Communists Lose, Hitler won and lost.

and loss, on which income tax could either not be collected or

Despite have to be repaid, amounted to the immense Nazi gains in Prus

LOTTERY FOR

BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP.

Nazis Progress to Power,

Berlin, Yesterday. The final results of the Elec-

at least £3,500,000 per annum sia the most probable outcometions for the Prussian Diet in since the Entertainments Taxis that the present minority Beve Anhalt, Hamburg and was increased.

ernment, under Ottobraum, will Wertenberg show everywhere carry on with the help of the phenomenal Nazi gains, while in- Communists.

complete results in Prussia show A feature of the Prussian re- that the Nazis have increased sults has been the total collapse their seats there from mine to of the German Nationalists, the 160. People's Party, the Economic

The co-operation of their Na Party and the State Party, while tionalist allies will enable the in Hamburg the Communists Nazis to form a Government at lost heavily.

Anhalt, while the attitude of the The Nazis gained 130,000 Centre Party will be the deciding votes.

factor in Wertemburg.

There is no change in the post-

although in the latter the Nazla has been in existence for about One of the Nazi deputies elect- doubled their votes. Reuter three or four years, was brought ed in Prussia is ex-Prince August | before Mr. Schofield in the Central Wilhelm, the ex-Kaiser's fourth Police Court this morning, charged son. with the unlawful possession of

Police Discovery at Japanese Club.

Haochito Tanaka (55) manager

interest of justice, to put him trial first, and accordingly the man,

Berlin, Yesterday. Cheung Iu-wab, was charged alone of a Japanese Club, at 90 Johnston One million votes in Prussiation in Hamburg and Bavaria, this morning, with the murder of Road, which caters for seamen, and were wasted on freak parties. the youth.

The prosecutor

conducted by Mr.

T. M. Hazlerigg, acting Crown Solicitor, while Mr. Somer- set Fitzroy (instructed by

Was

Mr.

J. M. d'Almada Remedios) appear- led for the accused,

Accused Pleads Guilty.

162 Nazis Returned.

WARMTH

won 156 seats. The Commun- 162 ists, not included in the Opposi

timber 52, and are likely to 200 hold the balance of power..

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WITHOUT WASTE

Early Results. With 80 per cent. of the votes counted in Prussia the Opposi- tion has 186 seats including the seven books of lottery tickets.

The provisional final returns || Nazis' ́ 149. The Government Prosecuting, Mr. T. Murphy, for Prussia are as follows:— A.S.P., said that acting on informa- Government Parties tion, Police visited the premises Opposition (including 162 last night, under a warrant issued The landing will be recalled by

Nazis) After the charge had been trans-under the Gambling Ordinance. De Communists many as one of the greatest in-

About lated to him, the accused caused a fendant was in charge at the time, Others... cicnts of the Great War, 20,000 Australian and New Zealand sensation by pleading guilty.

and he produced, through Mr. Itoh, troops took part, later deriving the His Lordship (to accused): You who acted as interpreter, the tic name of Anzacs. In addition there are charged with killing Tsang Tal-kets, from a drawer of a desk, at If you did kill him which he was sitting, and from a were other units, including the kai. famous 29th Division. The cam- you are right to plead guilty, desk in another smaller room. junction of D'Aguilar Street and

if you did not Queen's Road Central. When seen by the sounding of the "Last Postpaign Issted nine months, when an but

you Last night was the closing night of You a Japanese billiards championship by Sergeant Brown, defendant and by two buglers of the South Wales evacuation was ordered, thus bring- should plead not guilty. the two rikisha coolies were having Borderers. The Anzac wreath was ing to a close a glorieus occupa- are entitled to have all the witnesses and, it was alleged, a lottery was called' and have the case proved. being run in this connection. Two a row, and abusing one another. laid by Mr. C. de S. Robertson, tion."

Will you plead again? Defendant was seen to throw a M.M., escorted to the Monument by

billiard tables were fully occupied, The accused pleaded guilty

and there brick and was in the act of throw- Mr. F. P. Franklin.

were about thirty second time.

Japanese on the premises. ing another brick, when a Chinese Miller, laid a wreath from the The local celebration include a

His Lordship: Do you under- constable prevented him. He strug Scuth Wales Borderers, and Com-dinner to be held in the Roof Gar stand what you are doing and that that about 300 tickets had been cir- From defendant, they learned gled, but was finally overpowered mander G. H. Morris, H.M.S. Tamar, den of the Hong Kong Hotel by the if you plead guilty I must pass culated among the local Japanese and taken to the Central Police laid a wreath on behalf of the Australasian community, to-night sentence of death on you? Station by Sergeant Brown, the Commoore

community. No other tickets ware and Staff and Officers Several officers of the South Wales Accused: I plead guilty; I plead found, even after the Police

had Chinese constable and an Indian and Men of H.M. Ships in Hong Borderers, one of the units com-

searched likely places on the pre- sergeant.

Kong. The British Legion wreath prising the 29th Division will be

mises. was laid by Col. Robertson, escort-guests at the function,. Dr. H. D.

Mr. Murphy, continuing, said ed by Mr. Law.

Matthews will take the chair, and will propose the toasts "The King,"

JAPANESE RAW SILK SALES RISE.

Tokyo, To-day.

The largest sale of raw silk in history is reported in the vernacular press, the Japanese, Government selling 108,000 bales to American interests at

a low price.

The silk involved is what the Government took of the mar ket in 1980 in hopes of bolster- ing the market. The loss from that move is estimated: *Y.100,000,000,

Lt. W. K.

Dinner To-night.

guilty!

Mr. Fitzroy Interposes.

Mr. Fitzroy here interposed to his Worship would observe that on Other representatives in atten-

his Lordship the reverse side of the ticket, and dance at the Monument were, Lt. "The Anzacs, and the Allied Forces point out to

amend the counterfoil was stamped a Westlake, H.K.V.D.C., R.S.M. C. A. at Gallipoli," while Mr. C. de S. that last year

the Criminal Pro-chop, which was produced by the Robertson will reply on behalf of ment to Norman, and Sgt. R. Jenkins, the Anzacs. The senior officer precedure Ordinance was passed giving defendant. Owing to the fact that ent of the South Wales Borderers the trial judge the power to change defendant was fairly well known will reply to the latter toast. Fol. a plea of guilty to one of not gully, here, Police allowed bail in the sum lowing the toasts, there will be a and he asked his Lordship to of $100. However, the offence com- musical programme incorporating exercise that power in this instance. mitted was serious in that it ap

He remarked that he did not fore-peared that the lottery was being Community Singing.

To-day is the 17th anniversary of the famous Gallipoli landing, poignant day in the memory of all Australians and New Zealandera

Anzacs the world over are to-day celebrating this famous campaign, The whole function will be broad-see that the accused would plead carried on in secrecy, no advertise- and in London and many other cast from Z.B.W. starting at 9.20 guilty, and It was advisable to ments being displayed in the club change the plea because there were at all. The tickets seized totalled cities of the world Anzacs gather

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lives in the

Allipoli

Kre pan.

It is estimated that 60 persons legal points which must of necessity 96 will be present at the dinner, which

is the first of its kind to be held

the Colour,

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Hi Worship:imposed ine $100, and ordered confiscation of the books and tick

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