1933-01-04 — Page 1

Library, Sup

Sparton Model 10

•

SPARTON *SUPER

MODERN

Radio

Your Dealer

IDEAL RADIO

SERVICE Tel 27806.

The dollar, on demand, closed

"to-day at 1/8d.

FINAL EDITION

China Mail

Est. 1845.

THE OLDEST - ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST

No. 28,306

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1933.

POWERS WORRIED

SOLDIERS

RIOT IN

JAMAICA

Military Avenge Death

Of Comrade.

MANY INJURED IN STREET BATTLE.

Kingston, Jamaica, To-day,

Unprecedented scenes were witnessed here last night, of the when

soldiers

Northumberland Fisiliers, in- censed by the death of a was killed comrade, who

during a quarrel, rioted.

During the clash, in which the police and civilians were roughly handled by the infuriated mili- tary men, considerable. damage was done to property.

Est. 1815.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

BY JAPANESE THREAT TO

The wreck of "The Spirit of Fun," the world's fastest paa. senger plane, which crashed at Victorin Falls, Rhodesia, short- ly after leaving Hong Kong. The pilot of the machine, Captain James Dickson, was killed and his two companions, Mr. Arthur Loew, the film magnate and Mr. J. Rosenthal, injured.

uproar, RANGERS

For several hours the streets) of the city were in an and it was not until after the soldiers had vented their anger on all and sundry, that they were prevailed upon to return to the barracks.

The actual cause of the death of the soldier, Private Daniel MacDougall, is unknown, but it is stated that he was involved in a quarrel, and after heated argu- ments, the quarrel developed into serious proportions, result- ing in the unfortunate man, be- ing beaten to death by an angry mob.

PLAY THIRD

DRAWN GAME

Motherwell Consolidate Their Position.

HEARTS FIFTH POINT.

London, To-day

Motherwell consolidated their position at the head of the Scottish League table yes- terday when they beat Fal- kirk:

The Rangers experienced another set-back when visiting Partick, and participated in their third succes. The Hearts drew with sive draw, Dundee to keep pace with the

His comrades immediately set out to avenge his death, up the tramcars, holding taxis and motor cars. The drivers and conductors were hauled out of the vehicles without ceremony and badly beaten, many being removed to hospital for treatment.. Intervention by the police and

Glasgow team and the Celtic game. served to create; civilians only

The Hearts have hostilities, further

and the was postponed.- streets of the city quickly be secured five points from their three came a minature battlefield. All games over the long week-end. manner of weapons, were freely

Aberdeen, after two triumphs!

used, and many were cut and over Motherwell and Dundee, again lost their form and were forced to stunned by flying missles.

"No further deaths are report-concede both points to East Stirling ed, but casualties occurred in all by the odd goal in three. factions of the crowd.

After several hours of furious fighting, the soldiers returned to their quarters, and no further trouble is expected.

ESTATE OF

table with 38 points, followed by Rangers (36), Hearts (35) and Celtic (84).

Motherwell now lead the

The following were the results of yesterday's games:

English League Third Div, (N). Gateshead 2. New Brighton

Scottish League.

$10,000,000 Airdrie.

CONFISCATED A

To Be Used For Needy Fukien People.

FARMERS' NEEDS MET.

Amoy, To-day. General Taal Ting-kai, the new Pacification Commissioner for the Province of Fukien, assumed offica on January 1. S

His first assignment was to in- vestigate the estate of General Chan Kuo-fel, who was recently executed: General Tsal's investigations revealed that the total estate amounted to over $10,000,000. This has been confiscated by the Pro- vincial Government and will be utilised in the relief of distressed people la Faklen.

Celtic Cowdenbeath

Dundee

E. Stirling Motherwell Partick:

2 Hamilton

2 Kilmarnock

wwwww

NEW U.S. IMPORT TARIFF

PROPOSED.

Protection Against Unfavourable Currency Conditions.

Washington, To-day.

A Bill providing for a levy of additional tariffs on imports from countries whose currencies, are at

least 5. per cent, below par, was

introduced into the House of Re

Congressman presentativen by Hill-Reuter.

ECONOMIC BOYCOTT AGAIN SUGGESTED STRONG RESISTANCE TO BE MADE BY CHINA

MR. QUO TAI-CHI'S FORCIBLE

PROTEST

THE JAPANESE OFFENSIVE AT SHANHAIKWAN · AND| THE THREAT OF AN INVASION OF NORTH CHINA IS ENGAG- ING WORLD-WIDE ATTENTION- AND STRONG COMMENT IS VOICED TO-DAY FROM THE WORLD CAPITALS.

Following the drastic British comment yesterday, the German press refers to the Japanese aggression, stating that a political bat- tle is developing in Eastern Asia which will deeply influence Euro- pean politics. No official comment is forthcoming from Paris but a' section of the press urges that Japan be threatened with a economic boycott.

Mr. Quo Tal-chi, in a press in terview, asserted that the Shac- haikwan move was part of a Jap- anese scheme to restore Henry Pu-yi to the throne of Peiping. He said that China would offer strong resistance.

the League, thought the social- 1st organ Populaire again' urges that Japan be threatened with an economic boycott.- Reuter.

Mr. Quo's Interview.

London, To-day.

No comment has been cabled

Mr. Quò Tai-chi, the Chinese as yet from the United States but in view of Secretary of State Minister in London, in an out- Stimson's recent Sarnings to spoken interview to the British Japan a forcible American pro-Presa on the eve of his departure test is expected.

Fierce Fighting,

Tientsin, To-day. According to Japanese, re

GALE RAGES ports which are confirmed by

IN BRITAIN

the most reliable foreign' · sources, Shanhaikwan was captured by Japanese Infan try after flerce fighting short. ly after 2 o'clock yesterday. afternoon.

Air Service Continues Despite 60 M.P.H. Wind. Despite their promise to issue

London, To-day. The southerly gale con- tinued round the coasts of Britain yesterday and very heavy seas were experienced in most places.

Air services between Lon- don and Paris were continú- ed despite winds of forty miles per hour at 5,000 feet. Machines helped by the rail wind completed the journey to Croydon-from Paris in very

fast time, British Wireless Service.

a further statement locally con- cerning the Shanhaikwan situa- tion, the Japanese authorities have made no announcements. Reuter.

Berlin, To-day.

for Geneva declared that every successive session of the League opened to the echo of Japanese guns, and now they wore thunder ing from Shankhaikuan, gateway to Peiping and Tientsin.

DUNLOP Fort

In a class by itself

DUNLOP FORT

INVADE CHINA

Yehudi Menuhin, the wonder boy violinist, who is regarded as the greatest musical genius for the last 100 years.

FREE STATE

IN TURMOIL

OF CAMPAIGN

Mr. Cosgrave's Fighting Speech.

NATIONAL PARTY TO BE FOUNDED.

Dublin To-day The Irish Free State has now embarked on a period of intensive political activity following the dramatic deve- lopment in the Irish political situation yesterday. Alderman Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, describes the dissolu- tion of Parliament as a panicky move with a view to taking other parties by surprise. He is, how ever, continuing with his plans to form a National Party,

Mr. W. T. Cosgrave, Free State President before Mr. De Valera! assumed office last year, has opened a vigorous campaign. The general election takes place on January 24.

NO DRASTIC

ACTION BY

LEAGUE

London Paper Deplores Strong Measures,

COMMENT ON MANCHURIA.

London, To-day.

In a leading article, under the heading "The League and Japan," the "Daily Tele graph remarks that the hos" tilities at Shanhaikwan are not only regrettable, but.. they are bound to increase the anxiety felt in British official and political circles regarding the outcome of the Manchurian controversy.

The paper considers that it would be lamentable if the Com mittee of Nineteen is deflected by the hostilities from seeking to reconcile the views of Tokyo and Nanking on the future 'ata- tus of Manchuria. :

It deprecates the attitude of those who are urging the League

to take drastic action against

Japan, and says that Japan, out side the League, would be far

less subject to restraint and that

the threat of the Japanese march towards Peking would then take on substance which it does not now possess.

It adds that Britain, in any event,tharine reason to embroil herself with an old, proud friend and a former ally who is rightly regarded as the main bulwark against Bolshevism in the Far East. Reuters

U.B. Watch Closely.

Washington, To-day, Secretary of State Stimson is said to be watching the Shanhai- kuan situation closely-

There is no effort here to mini mise its seriousness. Reuter.

Geneva Perturbed.

Geneva, To-day. League circles are gravely per turbed at the resumption of hos tilities in the Far East and fear The Cosgrave Party at a confer that they will completely destroy ence to-day welcomed the Lord any chance of effective and con- Since the publication of the Mayor's proposal and hopes that ciliatory action by the League. "Vor- Lytton Report, the League was un-all elements concerned will co- Reuter. waerts" refers to "the new Japable to plead a lack of impartial operate in implementing it. anese predatory raid into North facts." China" as having begun.

The latest development in the Far East has called for consider- able attention in the German press.

The Socialist organ,

Mr. Quo Tai-Chi.

"The time has come for a show- The "Vossichezeitung" re-down," he said. The League had marks that the Japanese explan-shirked their duties for fear of the The gale, which raged along the ation must be accepted with Japanese threat of withdrawal, east coast of the British Isles, yes- scepticism in view of previous but the League was crawling under terday and on Monday, caused con- events and the Lytton Report, the iron heels of militarist Japan, aiderable damage at sea-side re-and that the Japanese are conan unworthy existence.

1

3

sorts, and nine lives were lost fronted with a foreign political

v. Queen's Park

3 St. Johnstone

2

2 Hearts:

2. Aberdeen

2 Falkirk

0

SHARP RISES

when a trawler foundered off constellation holding compara- Stonehaven. At other towns along tively few dangers for them.

s.

that doubt ΓΙΟ the coast, life-boats were busy at-There.

battle political

is de tending to the many small craft a that found themselves in difficulty.veloping in eastern Asia which will deeply influence Europe poli- ties.

0 Rangers St. Mirren Morton Third Lanark 4 Clyde

not played.

--Reuter.

(Table on Page 12.)

No Forward Business

Stock Exchange To

Deal In Cash.

INS. AFRICA

GOLD SHARES

Activity In Kaffirs Spread.

Our patience has been strained to breaking point, and unless reasonable pro gress is made to effectively apply League principles, we may be forced to reorientate our policy," the Minister con- cluded

"Ho

Mr. Congrave in a Oghting speech said: "The Fianna Fail is on the run before the people's wrath and its own ac cumulated fallles through the shirking of all responsibi. Htles."

He further said that his Party wore convinced that an adherence

one,

"

SHANHAIKWAN QUIET.

Japanese Reading To Compromise.

Peking, Later.

All has been quiet in Shan- haikuan since the Japanese sc- cupation was completed.

A Japanese Legation spokesman to the Treaty with Britain was issued a statement this morning necessary for Ireland's economic that the Japanese are ready to salvation, and that their case for reach an amicable compromise if the revision of various financial set-the Chinese are also ready tlements with Britain was a strong There is no sign of panic in the Peking area and the atmosphäre, After ending the economic war is as calm as it has been in the The "Borsenzeitung" declares

conceded that the general their first efforts would be tor past few weeks. The general be-- that French and Czecho-Slovakian

prescut not likely to come further factories are turning out wee sentiment in Britain was on the wards the negotiation of a trade lief is that the Japanese are at South now that Shanhaikuan isin pons and ammunition wholesale side of justice and peace agreement with Britain.

Interviewed by Reuter. after-

their hands-Reuter. for China and Japan.

Dublin, To-day, wards, Mr. Quo alluded to the likell hood of demanding an early meet- The expectation that 80 Fianna kwan as a "terrible box onlng of the Committee of Nineteen Fail candidates will be returned at If the situation develops in North the forthcoming election, 18 EX China

pressed in an official statement He asserted that the Shankhal-issued after a meeting of the party ings for the Inevitable pro-kuan move was part of the Japanese executive, which decided to run 08 test from Nanking

scheme) to restore Henry Fu-YI to candidates,

The Tageszeitung" con- siders the ovents in Shanhai-

the ears for China and no

less so for the League which will awalt with mixed feel-

2

High Expectations.

CHANG REPLIES TO

¿ULTIMATUM.

Japanese Provoked Resistance.

Peking, To-day London, To-day.

Replying to the Japanese ul Considerable rises in South African gold mining shares, featur. The a paper believes that the the throne at Pelping and over The party's full programme will

lora at a public meeting In Dublin lang says that the Japanese, must ed yesterdays business on the Lon League and America ard to be run the whole of China north of be submitted by Mr. Eamon De Vatimatum, Marshal Chang Hsueh- bear the responsibility for the don Stock Exchange, At a meet shown clearly by the latest mill the Yellow River. It is understood that the Honging of the Exchange Committee a tary operation that Tokyo is "But this time there will be tomorrow.

stigated it. He declares that the Chinese, although provo Generk! Tsal Ting-kai stated that Kong Stock Exchange and the Hong decision was made against the prin acting without the slightest re strong resistance like there was at In the last Dail, the Fianna Fail Shanhaikuan episode élnce, they the money extracted from people by Kong Sharebrokers Association ciple of regular closing hours gard for Geneva resolutions, and Shanghai last year, be said. If had 70 seats out of 148-Reuter

solely in accordance with vital Geneva is not to disappoint China, A Panicky Move.

she must adopt an altogether dif- With the prospect, of a general not resist until the Japan force should be refunded, as the have jointly decided to do cash operating on Saturdays.

feren, policy, because there is no election in the Irish Free State Ined their troops towards farmers were in need of money dur business only after the end of The sharp rise in gold shares had Japanese interests.

common ground for conciliation, three weeks time, following upon and triad to scale, the ing the coming spring season. January, and have not Ered any a stimulating effect on the

The Chinees Government have. De Valera's sudden action announc Marshal Chang req long expect the present more, butled early this morning, Dublin has Chinese to forwar fod of intensive communications to Messrs. Chan Lim-pak, Ha Chung-ag definite in regard to forward and in some

MT DOU

thought that embarked on a

Government and not to l chow, Chau Wab-man and Lath Yam settlement after the January BattleAVEN

eal horself on this political activi

(Continued on Page 4.)

chuen were elected to t

the Advisory ment day

Board for this year, at meeting of The move is to restrict forward pro the Board of Directors of the Tung business in the purchase and sale Wah Hospital held yesterday afte

shares

"ZOOM"

cathe

Bhares British Wireless

French Hint Of Economic

*** Boycott.

The French policy regarding the Sino-Japanese issue is that at should be left in the hands of

attack

tar

dfd