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No. 28,404 TH HONG KONG, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1933.

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BERNARDS' OF HARVICH

Chater Road.

GENTLEMEN'S

ELABORATE MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS IN BERLIN AND MOSCOW

Mile. Maryse Hilz.

MLLE. HILZ

LEAVES TO-DAY

FOR HANOI

Hops Off From Kai Tak

At 10.45 A.M.

TOKYO TO PARIS FLIGHT

MAY DAY

IN GERMANY

AND RUSSIA

Extensive Preparations For Stupendous Displays

HITLER AND STALIN TO LEAD CELEBRATIONS

London, To-day. Germany and Russia will this year compete for May Day honours.

After hours of tedious waiting for good weather. Mlle. Maryse Hilz, the French aviatrix, took off". from Kai Tak this morning at 10.45 o'clock. Conditions ahead are uncertain, but the intrepid fly-

er expressed her determination to

reach Hanoi to-day.

Unprecedented preparations

have been made in Berlin,

where a record crowd of 1,000,000 have been induced to attend a "Labour Day" parade and a stupendous fire- work display, reproducing, according to the newspapers, "The din of a modern battle ground," followed by a one- hour speech by Chancellor Hitler, conveyed through 100 loud speakers.

The address will reveal the first section of his "Four Year Plan" for German re- storation.

GREECE RESTRICTS COFFEE IMPORTS

Coffee From Dutch Colonies Exempted From New Rule

Athena.

Parliament has passed a bill which will be permitted only in restricting the import of coffee relation to the export of Greek goodsport

Coffee imported from the Dutch colonies will remain exempted from this rule.-Trans-Ocean.

SOVIET - JAPAN

TENSION OVER

C.ER. DISPUTE

Scathing Article In

Harbin Times.

SOVIET OFFICIAL'S LETTER "BARKING OF A MAD DOG"

Harbin, To-day.

The threat that Manchukuo will. be constrained to resort to force to solve the Chinese Eastern Railway

To prepare the path for a party dispute is contained in a scathing purge and a big new industrial article in the Japanese-owned news- Įprogramme, the authorities in Russia have staged an unpre- paper, the "Harbin Times," which

Mile. Hilz, who arrived in the cedented and most impressive characterises M. Kouznetsoff's Jet- Colony at 5.15 p.m. on Saturday tableaux of industrial scenes and after a 10-hour non-stop flight illuminated portraits.

ter to Li Shmo-ken, the Manchukuo

from Shanghai, intended to M. Stalin has made a substan Director General of the Chinese make her departure from Kalia food ration concession

Tak yesterday morning. Shej took off at 7.30 a.m. but the bad visibility forced her to return and she landed at the aerodrome

again at 10.30 a.m.

The bad weather encountered

since the commencement of

the day. — Reuter..

·

Spain In Fete.

SOCIALIST EDICT FORBIDS ALL WORKL

for Eastern Railway, as the "barking of

á mad dog,"

The article says that his demand that normal working conditions should be restored on the Chinese Eastern Railway evokes laughter, as it is "equivalent to a highway rob- Madrid, To-day. All the restaurants here, yester- ber professing intolerance of steal- her return trip from Tokyo has day specialised in cold packeted ing."--Reuter. caused Mlle. Hilz to abandon her luncheons for to-day, when every | attempt to establish a new te manner of work is forbidden ex- cord for the Tokyo-Paris fight. cept the duties of Doctors and un- and she now states that she will'dertakers, by a Socialist edici.' "take no chances."

Even the Post Offices will go slow and only accept telegrams at triple rate.

(Continued on Page 7)

SPEED PILOT IN S. AFRICA'S OVERSEA

COLONY

TRADE

Favourable Balance Of

£37,000,000:

BIG INCREASE ON 1931

No Alarm Felt In Tokyo.

JAPANESE FORCE HALVED IN NORTH MANCHURIA.

(Reuter's Special Serviet,)

Tokyo, Saturday.

The grave view reported to be held abroad regarding? the Japanese-Soviet tension, finds little echo in responsi- ble quarters in Tokyo, either Japanese or oreign,

NAZI RIVALS

MUST SUBMIT

TO HITLER

'Steel-Helmets *” To Bel

Absorbed.

MANY DEFECTIONS REPORTED

Leader Asked To Resign Hir Reichstag Sext

Berlin, To-day.

The eventual absorption of Pre- sident Hindenburg's ““Steel-helmet" troops by Chancellor Hitler's "Brown-shirts, is egyisaged as a result of an announcement made

yesterday by the Nazi Deputy Lead-

er, Herr Hess, that members of the "Steel-helmet" troops can only jom the Nazis by agreeing to submit un reservedly to Hitler lendership.

and by first abandoning · member- ship of the "Steel-helmets."

The announcement also forbids Nazi members to join helmets."

"Steel

A recent photograph of Adolf Hitler.

Wrestling has become very popular and the sport has now in- vaded England. N. Morrell (Manningham, Yorks) just before he threw E. Weeks (Bolton) in the second round of the feather- weight Catch-as-Catch-Can contest daring the National” Amateur Wrestling Championships held last month at Prince's Hall, Lam- beth, London. (S. & G.) ·

ANGLO - PERSIAN

TREATY Negotiations For Close Co-operation.

A RAILWAY TO LINK INDIA AND IRAQ

har

London, To-day.

The Anglo-Persian oil agreement

opened the path for an Persian treaty.

GEHRIG HITS

7TH HOMER IN

US. BASEBALL

Yankees'

Double" Against Boston.

FALLENSTEIN'S FINE DEBUT

New York, To-day. Lou Gehrig, 1931 home rqs. Anglo-king, banged out his sixth and seventh homers of the seaBOIT in the Yankees first game against Boston yesterday. ***^ Babe Ruth hit his Arth homer wbija, Lazestiendile two to his fiit to give the Yankees the double"

In connection with the agree according the London Daily Express, the Shah of Persia

has agreed to send a Plenipoten-as the result of their win by 8 to.8 in the second game of their double- fary to London to negotiate a pact header with Boston.

for close commercial and diploma-

Detroit Tigers, who went down tic co-operation between the two to the Browns in their first encoun- ter, made's good recovery in the countries. It is already reported that]

second game to win by 5 to 1 there are many defections in the The pact mentions the exclusion Stone and Walker both hitting two ranks of the "Steel-helmets" des-of Russian influence in North Per-circuit clouts. pite the leaders' efforts to pre-sia and a railway linking up Iraq. Results as cabled by Reuter were vent the falling away, b

and India.-Reuter.

ns follow:--

National League.

Herr Franz Seldte, leader of the Stahlhehi, and Minis- ter of Labour in the Hitler- Government, went over to the Nazis on Friday, laking many of his followers with him. He stated that those who refused to follow him would be released from the membership oath.

The step has been long ex- pected, and was hastened by the purge of the opposition elements, including Lieut.-Col. Duester-

PERU PRESIDENT ASSASSINATED

Y

Serious Clashes Occur In Lima.

MILITARY FIRE ON ANGRY MOBS

R. H. 0 ว

E.

DOLONOR

CAPTURED BY

MANCHUKUANS

10,000 Troops Attack In Mongolia.

JAPANESE ASSIST WITH TANKS AND AEROPLANES

Bandits Also Harass Chinese Defenders

Peking, To-day. A Chinese tele gram from Kalgan states that 10,000 Manchukuo troops, under the ex-Volun- teer Liu Kuei-tang, and with the assist- ance of the Japan- ese, attacked Do- lonor with aero- planes and tanks on April 28

pied the occu

city on Saturday evening.

Chinese cavalry were forced to eva- cuate when more

than 1,000 plain- clothes Mongol ban- dits rose up and dis- turbed their rear. Reuter

CHINESE ADVANCE IN LUANHO

Peitaiho Occupied

Peking, To-day

The "advance of the Chinese troops in the Luanko region is re- ported to have resulted in the oc-

New York:

cupation of Peitais, The Chinese Fallenstein pitched for first time are now said to be advancing an

in Major League.

Chinwangtao.—Renter. Boston

3 6

New York Boston

Berger hit a homer."

Philadelphia Brooklyn

O'Doul hit &

Major Doolittle To Visit Canton,

Lima, To-day. DEMONSTRATION - FLIGHTS

The President of Peru, Lieut.. berg, Second-in-Command, who The Daily Telegraph "" be- IN PURSUIT PLANES

was dismissed on Wednesday Col. Luis M. Sanchez Cerro, Pittsburgh lief that the Japanese movements last, and Major Wagner, Federal was assassinated here yesterday. Cincinnati south of the Great Wall are in Chancellor of the force. Major J. H. Doolittle the famous Figures showing South Africa's tended to mask troop movements American flier and one time win overseas trade for the year ended further north is branded as ab.. ner of the Schneider Trophy arriv- December 31, 1932, have now surd and mischievous, as on the been made public. They show a contrary, the Japanese strength in North Manchuria has been cut:

Capetown,

ed in the Colony on board the 8.5. favourable trade balance of £37, by half since February last, President Lincoln this afternoon, at 000,000 as compared with only when two infantry Brigades and 2.30.

£18,000,000 in the previous year, one cavalry Brigade were with- Although, during the year, South drawn southward for the Jehol He is only spending about 24; hours in Hong Kong as he is due Africa exported 88.1 per cent, of operations.

to leave here to-morrow night its products to the British Empire These troops have not yet re- for Canton, where he will make -85.7 per cent. of which went to turned from the south, demonstration flights on a Cur- the United Kingdom-she imported tise Hawk, single seater pursuit during the year only 55.5 per cent.

of her requirements from the Em DOLLAR STEADY AS plane;

'pire, of which 40.6 per cent, came This plane mounts the Wright from the United Kingdom.

SILVER DECLINES. Cyclone 700 h.p. engine which The United States took 0,5 per drives the plane at a speed of 216 m.p.h. at an altitude of 6,000 feet. cent. of the Union's products, but Major Doolittle's mechanic Mr, South Africa bought 13.8 per cent. E. R. Bayless is now in Canton as of her requirements from the Unit sembling the machine The pur- ed States.

Pound Gains In New

York And London.

The local dollar this morning re-

As a result of his defec tion, Herr Seldte has been asked by the National Party to resign his Relchatag seat, He has not yet replied to the demand. Reuter

Nazis To. Control Church

Immediately following the crime, clashes broke out in the

St. Louis streets of the capital, between soldiers and civilians."

bomer e

Pepper bit a homer. Chicago

Herman hit a homer.

St. Louis Chicago

American League,

2 81 4112-17270

Several were killed when the military fired into the angry mobe, and ambulances were busy throughout the night picking up the injured. President Cerro was elected for a period of five years In October, Boston 1931, and took office in December, New York the same year. Forty-four years Lou Gehrig hit two homera. Berlin. of age, he became a prominent

country when, Boston In furtherance of the National figure In the Socialist: effort to control Pro with a military Junta, he onsted New York as testant German church life and President Legula by revolutionary Babe Ruth and ercate united German evangelical methods, in 1980, Reuter,

homers. (Continued on Page-4.) 5.

PROTESTANT CONSTITUTION

ORDERED:

Mauritania" To Be Turned

Into Select Cruising Clu

Chicago

Krons Clevel

Club

Detroit

St. Louis

Levey hit a homer,

Detroit

London, To-day.

over 8,000

One entire deck; ker feet of spa

pose of the demonstrations. is to Last year the Union exported remained unchanged at 1/43⁄41⁄2′′ prove that the machine is capable goods totalling £69,000,000 a drop. Silver prices again showed a de- of performing as specified. This of £2,000,000 on the corresponding line, both forward and spot closing The Mauretania, once the most 'plane is the first of about 20 mh-jfigure for 1981-Reuter, UN

on Saturday at 19% us against 20 luxurious liner afoat, is to

service on the Atlantic and becoms chines, which have been purchased

on Friday

the London on New, club in the world, thia Midnight dances

by the Canton Government. O GERMAN- HISTORIAN HONOURED T. The round gained further ground the Brat dowting

Major Doolittle is the manager of the aviation, department of the Shell Petroleum Corporation at St. Louis, Mo. He is now on leave and has taken the opportunity to test ma- #chinos, for the Curtiss Company.......

(Continued on: Pagi::15,)

The Royal "Dania

his rinn, Professor,

Goe

Ocean

rday

swimming

Stone and Walker each hit tw

homers,

NEAR SHANGTU RUINS.

Dolon-Nor (the Seven Lakes, so called on account of the number of small poola in the neighbourhood), is in Mongolia, about 150 miles Northeast of Kalgan.

Near the spot are two lama tem- |ples, and 25 miles to the North-

| west are the extensive ruins of Shangtu, an ancient Monogollan capital, city of the Kubla Khan of Coleridge's poem,

18TH AMENDMENT REPEAL.

Wisconsin Urges End Of Prohibition.

Madison, Wis

Wisconsin's constitutional com vention called for the purpose has voted unanimously: “In favour of the ing amendment, to the federal constitution, repealing the eighteenth" or national prohibition

Wisconsin thus became the se cond state to formally take the step. [Michigan: "previously

fed the repeal ame

Your other states

(within the

years for: it to