1932-10-21 — Page 1

Sparton Model 10

SPARTON SUPER

MODERN

Radio

Your Dealer

CENTRAL RADIO

SERVICE

Tel. 23743.

The dollar, on demand, closed

to-day at 1/4d.

Supreme

Co

Library,

FINAL EDITION,

China Mail

Est. 1945.

THE OLDEST - ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST

No. 28,244

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1932.

Bat. 184

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

BRITISH CAPTIVES FREED- JAPANESE TROOPS

HOSTILE CROWD

SHOUTS ANGRY

JIBE AT PRINCE

You've Got Motors And

We're Starving.”

MOB CHARGE BROKEN.

London. To-day.

The "booing" section of a crowd and cries of you've got motors and we're starving,' which soon drowned the generali cheering, greeted the arrival of! Prince George, at Poplar last evening to upon the new wing of the Seamen's Rest.

Before

PREMIER PLANS EUROPE'S ROYAL BLOOD AT TO LEAD EUROPE

TO DISARMAMENT

UNION OF GREAT HOUSES.

Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Weds Swedish Prince.

Coburg. To-day... Europe's royal families thronged here to-day at the Culmination of the romance of Princess Sibylla of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha and Princess Gustav Adolf, son of the Crown Prince of Sweden.

The bridal pair are great- grandchildren of Queen Vic- toria.

There were sixty-seven members of European royal families, including four from England.

לו

The ceremony was colour- ful in the extreme.

The romantic atmosphere of the occasion lent to its attrac tiveness. →→ ..Reuter.

Police Fled

On Woman's

Great Deputations Plead For Peace.

CHURCH BEARS A HAND.

London, To-day.

The possibility of Premier Ramsay MacDonald shortly ac companying Sir John Simon to Geneva in order "to get a general and 2 better understanding amongst the nations of Europe, is mentioned in well-informed circles:

TENNIS INTERPORT.

HONG KONG •. SHANGHAI October 22nd & Ard

at the KOWLOON "CRICKET": FIR

DUNLOP” BALL

CHOSEN.

CLOSE ON BANDITS

BRITAIN BRITAIN STILL FREE IN WORLD MARKET

OTTAWA AGREEMENTS

RATIFIED

FREE TRADERS WAX BITTER

LONDON, TO-DAY,

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS TO-DAY APPROVED THE OTTAWA AGREEMENTS ON A DIVISION VOTE OF 451 TU 84, The Premier has received a BY ADOPTION OF THE NECESSARY FINANCIAL RESOLU- large and representative deputa- TION. THE CLOSING STAGES OF THE DEBATE WERE MARK- tion of the British Churches.

headed by the Archbishops of ED BY A SPIRITED ONSLAUGHT OF FREE TRADERS, THE Canterbury and York, and lead- EX-MINISTER OF THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT, MR. ARTHUR ers of other Churches, at the GREENWOOD, "ASSERTING THAT BRITAIN HAD ALLOWED Foreign Office where they urged the speeding up of the work of HERSELF TO BE BLACKMAILED BY THE DOMINIONS INTO: the Disarmament Conference. THE BARGAIN. The Archbishop of Canterbury hoped to see the restriction or

Labourites denounced the abrogation of the Russian trade agree prohibition of tanks, big guns, ment at the moment when the Soviet Government was negotiating submarines, military aircraft,

and warships of over 10,000 tons, for orders worth $500,000 in heavy engineering goods with Leeds. he said. and also urged the closest Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, in reply, indicated that negotiations co-operation with America. "

were shortly to begin for a new Anglo-Russian trade treaty with a Sir John Simon who was pre

EUROPEAN POLICE MRS. PAWLEY

OFFICER FACES · BRIBERY CHARGE

Acting Sub-Inspector

Waller Arrested.

ALLEGED ACCEPTANCE OF $50.

Acting Sub-Inspector H Waller, attached to Taipo Police Station, was arrested this week and' charged on Wednesday morning with accepting a hribe of $50. After the charge had been laid the case was adjourn ed until October 26, and will be heard in the Taipo Police Court at 10.30 a.m. A. S. I. Waller is out on $500 bafl.

The accused man joined the Hong Kong Police Force on January 18, 1921, coming out from England. with a batch of other recruits. He was pro- moted to Acting Sub-Inspector on May 25, 1929, and 1 Decem ber, 1930 went Home on leave. He returned to the Colony in September, 1981, was stationed for a time at the Water Police Station." He went to Talpo on March 26.

MR. CORKRAN

AT YINGCHOW

Dirty, Cut Were.

Treated.

FEARS FOR HER CAFTORS.

Newchwang, Today.

Mrs. Muriel Pawler and Mr. Charles Corkran arrived here safely at 10.80 o'clock on the night of Octobém and were handed over Captain Kawahito to the tish Consul ́at Yh Station. Both the are well, but dirty minous. They apparent thrived during "their" vity, for they have both in- creased in weight. that they were we throughout by the who had the mentality” of children......... They Sa with the best food obtufhäisk chickens, eggs, Chinese brown sugar, pancakes and macaroni.

Their handing-over by the bandits to the Japanese mili- tary authorities was effected at the village of Tapan:

-rainy weather delaying their

return

Murder sent, replied sympathetically and view to securing a better proportion or orders from Rusela than Lord Howard On north-east of Panahair.

British Consul's Sharp

Note At Harbin.

Harbin," To-day.

recalled the motion for qualita- previously.

tive disarmament, which origin- ated with the British Delegation to the Conference.

ejected and three arrests were Jung-kui, and handed over a copy in Europe, Reuter.

made.

When the debate in the House

Mr. MacDonald, in a brief ad- of Commons was resumed yester dress, declared it would take a day on the financial resolutions moral catastrophe to separate to give effect to the Ottawa the arrival of the The British Consul-General, Mr. Britain from America in the mat Prince a number of unemployed. C. F. Garstin, to-day called on the ter of understanding regarding Agreements, the Foreign Secre rushed the building but were Chief of Police. General Chin disarmament. They were trying tary, Sir John Simon, dealt with to effect a similar state of affairs the contention put forward by Sir Herbert Samuel that it was of the British Inquest finding on The Archbishop's Ples. unconstitutional for the executive Communist influences appears the murder of Mrs. Woodruff, and The Prime Minister and Sir body to bind the Commons in to be more and more strongly felt and agitation and mob scenes personally translated paragraphs John Simon received the delega- negotiating commercial treaties proying a worry to the showing that the police were guilty tions in the Locarno Room at involving taxation for more than

the Foreign Office. The deputa- twelve months. authorities and to the property of gross dereliction of duty, as the tion represented established and. He cited instances to show holder. Looting, as in the riot- evidence submitted proves that non-conformist churches desir- there was nothing new, in under ing of Tuesday, may be expected several Chinese police in the ous of assuring the Government taking a treaty which bound if crowds of demonstrators get vicinity of the hold-up and mor of "unreserved support in all Parliament for a number of years out of hand. --"Reuter.

efforts to obtain a substantial with regard to duties which der, fled helter-skelter and hid in

measure of international disarm- ament.

are

LUTHER SUPPORTS near-by garages"and shops. GERMAN CABINET Summing up, the final paragraph

ECONOMIC PLANS

Must Curb Imports To Save Market.

CHANGES HIS ATTITUDE.

Berlin, To-day,

of the finding reads that the

British authorities trust that the

Chief of Police will give serious

attention to the fact that at

no

(Continued on Page 7:)

ARCHITECT FINED FOR SPEEDING.

time from the beginning of the outrage to ita culmination in the Mr. E. G. S. Dale Drove

murder of Mrs. Woodruff and the

capture of one of the four bandits,

did the police make any attempt

"A strong home market which whatever to apprehend the bandits guarantees the nation's food on rescue the victims.

Without Lights.

NATHAN ROAD INCIDENT.

Mr. E. G. S. Dale, architect of supply can alone form a solid The Japanese Command, inter- Messrs. Leigh and Orange; ap- basis for Germany's foreign viewed by Beuter, lasued a state peared before Mr. Butters in the ment that the police reorganisation trade," declared Doctor Luther, to bring about a more efficient Kowloon Magistracy this morn- President of the Reichsbank, in force, must be completed immedling, to answer four counts in con- a speech at the Overseas Club, ately, and that the activities of nection with dangerous driving

in his car, on October 4 last, supporting the Government's kidnappers must ceass.-Reuter.

economic programme,

He said the Government was

forced to resort to a plan for re- M.C.C. SCORE 77 FOR

imports

ONE WICKET,

stricting agricultural owing to the trade measures of foreign countries, with whom the initiative now lay in regard to the removal of barriers to free exchange of

This Mon

the means

Leyland Dismissed At Perth For 15.

Perth, To-day

SWISS HELION

SERIOUS CHARGE

WITHOUT BAIL

Indecent Assault On Young Girl Alleged.

REMAND TO TOMORROW..

Grave Charge

Manslaughter Count Follows Inquest.

London, To-day.

It is repor troops are south in ope district of bank of the guarded by

700 reformed pected that the

The sequel to the finding of of 160 men

the corpse of a man, Georgelobliged to surre Hawke, on the road near Henley there was a friendly Mrs, Pawley, with on October 10, a jury at the in- being made that no anime quest at Henley to-day brought would be shown towards the

in a verdict that Hawke was kill-dits, and that the latter shor

ed by a car driven by Lord visit Dr. Phillips, her father: Howard of Effingham, who was (Continued on Page criminally negligent.

Lord Howard has been com. mitted for trial on a manslaugh-

SIR JOHN SIMUN, might be imposed upon particuter count.

lar kinds of goods. If such mat-- Lord Howard is 27 years of ters were to be opened to review age, the son of the fifth Earl of every six or twelve months they Effingham.

Reuter

CANTON'S NEW

INDUSTRY PLAN

NOW OPERATES

Government Approves

would be creating a paradise for those who indulged in lobbying on behalf of particular interests. Sir John Simon stated it was absolutely untrue, that the Otta wa Pacts precluded Britain from bargaining successfully with for- eign countries. Since the recent changes in the tariff policy had been made, the Foreign Office had been visited to "an unusual extent by representatives of die ferent countries desiring to negotiste on trade matters ky He recalled the unavailing efforts of the late William Gra ham to promote international tariffs and said they failed b been conceived by Mr. Lim Wan- cause Brittin then had nothing kai, chairman of Kwangtung with which to negotiate. As a Province and Commissioner of motor result of the Ottawa Agreement Construction, and approved by

Britain now had opportunity auch

A cand of an alleged indecent assault on a Chinese girl, aged 18, en Inland Road,' ... Shankiwan diftrict, yesterday,

Mr Wynne-Jones in the Central Police Court

when native of Defendant was accused of ed on the gray dangerous driving, driving with- Accused Heatribed out headlights switched on, fail engineer, employed at ing to notify change of owner- hart Road, Wanti ship of the car and failing to stop with having carnal when called upon by Traffic the girl, Cheung Won, Sergeant L. C. Fennell, in Nathan consent Road

The

It was atated by the prosecu-was tion that Mr. Dale drove at a speed of about 80 miles an hour

whereby enormous disparity between the economic position The M.C.C. cricket team, which in Nathan Road, where part of of creditor and debtor countries arrived at Freemantle on Wed the thoroughfare is under rep

near the Junction of Frince could be balanced or reduced to a nesday, participated in their first ward Road. Defendant reasonable level a match of the tour there yester hind

He hoped the voluntary con- day when they played against a dent version loans of other countries team of West Australian

would open up the possibilities 20

of reduction of Germa

burden of interest Joans.

¡ers.

been

Social Reforms.

SLAVES TO BE FREED.

(From Our Own Correspondent), Canton, To-day "A five-year Industrial plan has

As she never had before of make him. It is, in fact, in the early ing with other countries. →→ Bri stages of its operation. It am but ber tish Wireless Service.

MR. WANG COMING

TO COLONY

Believed On Way To Germany

braces-plans for the development of industry on a large scale, and includes provision for the erec tion of factories for the manufac ture of caustic soda, bleaching powder, an industrial chemistry. experimental plant, sulphuric acid factory, salty refinery, fertilizer distillery and other

the

STOP PRESS

BRITAIN AND GOED.

London, To-day.

At the Bankers' dinner at the Mansion House last night Sir E. Hilton Young declared. that the pound had proved itself mdre stable than ro and the price fall had been legs severe in the Great Bri tain than in the gold coun tries

A return to gold would be possible only when it was made clear that the gold standard” would be worked. properly, and the conditions: set out in the Ottawa reso- lutions satisfied.29

Mr. Montagu,

that one of the which we, epeal cally, wished to were frozen credit out Europe. There thing which im ness and the pr bankers

the name extent as those frozen credits.

He referred to