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Cour

BEDFORD

HADE, IN ENGLAND

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE.

The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Lid

The British

TRUCK

Incorporated in Hong Kong. itubba Road, Happy Valley.

Economical 27-hp. 6-cylinder engine -reducing vibra- tion, reducing engine-wear, reduc-: ing time-off-the- road, reducing : ex-.

penses.

on demand closed to-day at 174-1-25)

FINAL EDITION

China Mail

Est. 1345.

THE OLDEST - ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST

No. 28,407

HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1932.

∙1845:

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

ROBBED IN PIRATES AMERICAN WOMAN ROBBED IN PIRATES ATTACK

--BANDITS

ROB SHIP'S

SURVIVORS

Pirates Board Wrecked Steamer.

TWO AMERICANS SEARCHED

13 Of 398 Chinese Passengers Kidnapped

Shanghai, To-day. Two Americans, the Rev. R. A. Ward and Miss Ruby Whitcombe,

FARM RELIEF BILL PASSES

FINAL VOTING

Inflation Amendment Accepted By U. S. Representatives

Washington, To-day," The Inflation Amendment and the Farm Relief Bill passed the House of Representatives yester day by 307 votes to 86.

The new clause for the Infla Lion Bill permits President Roose- velt to accept $200,000,000 in sil ver as part payment of wär debts, Instead of the $100,000,000 orl ginally proposed.-Reuter.

were on board the Chinese steamer OATH BILL PASSED Yungsbin, which went ashore on

BY DAIL **the Chekiang coast to the south of Ningpo on Monday morning while on the way to Shanghai from Foo- chow.

De Valera's Rebuff To Britain.

Although the other passengers FREE STATE ABOLISHES OATH

OF ALLEGIANCE were put ashore on a barren island in lifeboats and fishing junks, Mr. Ward and Miss Whitcombe remained

rain.

Dublin, To-day. on board, as it was pouring with Festive scenes were witnessed in the Irish Free State last night, fol- They were mortified to see ban-lowing the "announcement that the dits appear and rob the passengers Oath of Allegiance had been abo- of their valuables and other polished. The Bill, which was finally sessions. The bandith then board-passed in the Dail by 75 votes to ed the vessel and searched and 56, now automatically becomes!

two Americans, also taking everything of value from the law. and the Governor-General of the Free State has signed the Bill The passengers, with the excep removing the oath from the consti tion of thirteen Chinese whom the tuting bandits carried off for ransom, Have arrived in Shanghal on board the

robbed the

steamer.

rescue, steamer Chipshing.

All of them, to the number of)

*398, have lost almost everything|

they possessed.--Reuter.

GERMANY

OPPOSES

ARMS PLAN

Disagreement To All Amendments.

OVERSEAS TROOPS AS COLONIAL POLICE?

London, To-day.

Mr. Sean T. "O'Kelly," the Vice-President of the Free

State Executive Council, and De Valera's right-hand man,

ANGLO AMERICAN AGREEMENT

FRIENDLY MEETING WITH

MR. ROOSEVELT

MR. MACDONALD PLEASED WITH RESULT OF WASHINGTON PARLEYS

LONDON, TO-DAY

THE PRIME MINISTER, MR. RAMSAY MacDONALE LANDED AT SOUTHAMPTON "YESTERDAY AFTERNOON: AFTER HIS VISIT TO AMERICA. HE DECLARED HIMSELF.

WELL PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS OF HIS VISIT TO

WASHINGTON. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND HE FOUND THEMSELVES IN MOST COMPLETE "AGREEMENT AF TO THE OBJECTS IN VIEW, AND THE TALKS ON HOW TO DO IT WERE OF A MOST FRIENDLY NATURE.

"We discovered that we were both very hopeful of common action. I shall report to the Cabinet, but so far as I am concern. tion of Mr. Norman Davis, the American delegate at General That was very helpful," Mr. MacDonald said..

An enthusiastic welcome was accorded to Mr. MacDonald when he reached London, several members of the Cabinet and other distinguish ed people including Mr. Norman Davis and the American Charge D'Af«- faires, Mr. Ray Atherton, being on station platform.

Mr. MacDonald will broad- cast at 9.10 p.m. to-morrow on his American visit and the World Economic Conference, regarding the success of which,, he expresses strong hopes.

Meanwhile, he will make statement in the House of Com-] mons to day, and discussion on the subject will take place next] week in the House. British Wireless Service.

Tari Truce Proposal.

GOVERNMENTS TO REFRAIN FROM RESTRICTIONS.

London, To-day.

ITALIAN ENVOY IN WASHINGTON,

Very Pleased Roosevelt Conference.

Washington Today Signor Geldo Jung, the lian Foreign Minister, who ar- rived here yesterday to engage in discussion with President Roosevelt, was most pleased after a talk of more than one hour with the President.

EN'S HIGH GRADE.

OUTTTTTING

AT HOME PRICES

BERNARDS OF HARWICH

CHATER ROAD,

HONG KONG

ON

"A crowd of 50,000 attended the solemn ceremony of the open- Ing of the Holy Door at St. Peter's, by the Pope, which Inaw gurated the beginning of the special Holy Year proclaimed to commemorate the 19th centenary of the death of Christ.

(8. & G.)

NAZI CONTROL OF INDUSTRY

Krupp Surrenders To

Hitler Policy.

ADAPTING ECONOMIC FACTS TO POLITICAL NECESSITY

Berlin, To-day. Following the absorption

of the German Trade Unions, the Nazis chave: sasured

CER. FRICTION EASES

STEAMER

OPEN DOOR”

POLICY FOR

MANCHURIA

Washington Receives.

Assurance,

DOUBTS IN LONDON

Fear That Britain. May

Very Great Trade”

Lend

An uncertam policy chukno might lase great trade, declared St. Clair Smallwood, the meeting of the Far [tion of the Lende

merce yesterday.

of Com

Lieut. Col. Smallwood who was 25 years in the Far East, and plan- ned China's first air routes, said

Banditry & Communism that he had received an official statement from Tokyo through the Chief Anxieties.

Japanese Ambassador to Lond

RUSSIAN POLICE TO CHECK Mr. Matsudaira, referring to an al-

"RED" ACTIVITIES

leged statement made by the Ja-

Harbin, May 4.

panese Privy Councillor, Mr. Tetuzi-

Banditry and the spread of kama, to the effect that the " Communism appear to be the Door" main elements in' the situation be adh

of the League of Garn the Chinese Eastern Ball- men Industrialists.

A communique issued after the

ed that ther

Manchuria can only in the case of nations

· ptatement da

development of..

Man-

of some of its members, while a wel

from the number of refugees vicinity of Weishako and Shihtow the natu

are arriving in Hartlachuria.. owing to the depredatory activities Referring to gold, it was of bandita.

thought that with proper methods of dredging, Mant churia would bé a large con- ~tributor to the world sup- ply" of gold. ... Six million ounces had already been taken out of the country. The statement concluded by advocating the sending of a Trade Mission to Manchukuo at the earliest moment, and also the establishment of a committee in

The Russian Press says Man- chukuo has decided to increase the number of Russians in the rallway police force in an attempt to check the spread of Communistle paganda.-Reuter.

conference, between Chancellor Club at Fullard has cloned, owin to the alleged Communist activitie Hitler, Herr Krupp and Von Bohlen, states that the latter re mains President, with Herr Otto Wagener as Chancellor Hitler's hetze The two statesmen generally economic adviser. surveyed the World Economie Con-

Herr Alfred Moeller, another ference problems, and Signor Jung By the terms of the tariff truce Inter told reporters that the clear-Nazi economist, will act as Reich proposal which the United States ing of the political atmosphere be Commissar, delegation intends to propose at the tween the nations was essential to meeting of the World Economic economic reconstruction." Conference, participating. Govern- ments will be invited to pledge themselves to refrain, during the period of the truce, hom creating or making any material and up- ward modifications in tariff rates and from imposing any new restric: CHELSEA tions or enhancing any existing restrictions against the importation

At the opening of the meeting of the General Commission of the Dis- armament Conference, the British. delegate, Captain Anthony Eden, The Oath Bill was passed by the of goods which would give domestic announced that an agreement had Dail on May 19, last year, by a been reached with the German dele majority of eight, but was amended Producers additional advantage as gate, Dr. Nadolny, on the question by the Senate and given a new sec- compared with foreign producers. of amendments to the British draft tion; which delayed its action. Furthermore, the truce would Mr. Eamon De Valera, President provide that the Governments convention directed to exclude mili-

of the Free State, stated that the should agree to introduce no ad- tarised German Police from the cal Oath of Allegiance was not manda-ditional direct or indirect subven culation of Germany's armed forces. tory in the Treaty and must be re-tion for expansion of their ex-

Later, however, Dr. Nadolny moved as a "relic of medievalism" port industries or any discrimina refused to accept the plan in con- and an intolerable burden.eu-tory trade methods or any addi- vention for the standardisation ter.

of continental armies. Captain

Eden declared that the proposal

tional measures to promoto dumping, etc. See

was essential to the balance of UNEMPLOYMENT have been invited to attend, the

STCSS

the British plan, but further pro

was impossible, and the discussion was adjourned.

(Continued on Page 4.)

ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL

-SHARES SLUMP-

Repercussion Of New Agreement,

London, To-day, The full terms of the draft settle ment reached between the Par Government and the Anglo-Pe Oil Company have not yet "published, but the summaries

"agreement, appearing in the

From Taberan, correar received

They

sed W:drop of.

IN MALAYA

Local Relief Suffices For Europeans.

London, To-day.

"I am informed that the pre- sent income of the European unemployment fund in Malaya from public subscription, || la sufficient for local roller with- out, Government ⠀⠀⠀ assistance, stated 4 Bir Philip Cunline

tery Becretary: the Colonies, i

ekterday,

to car

the

A text of the proposal is to be sent to the 64 nations whichi

Conference, which opens on June 12, in London, q

The whole world agreed that the United States', `participa- tion in Signor Mussolini's Four Power "pence club" would be very helpful-Reu- ter.

ESCAPE

RELEGATION

Away Win Over Cup Finalists. ROCHDALE'S FINE EFFORT

Log

Chelsea esc

to the Second Divi

Manchester

The Wolves, Leiceste and Black

the £30,000,000 LOAN TO in the pre

FRANCE

Private Operation,

· London "To-day.

betber

Chancellor of Exché-

Bolton

Teft

zone:

Everton, Cup over Sheffie Perk

ders triump

like conclu

after winning the

Von Krupp has under-. taken to bring his powerful organisation into line with the Government policy,

"adapting economic facts to political necessity"-Reuter.

INTELLECTUALS RESIGN

Defection Of Two Nobel

Prize Winners.

17. MORE JEWISH PROFESSORS DISMISSED

Berlin, Later. Herr Fritz Ha the

hist, and Nobel: of 1918, has ro The Directorship of

Wilhelm Inail" ysical and Electro

CRAWFORD

pro-

AND MCGRATH famdon to assist in the inter

ELIMINATED change of goods - Reuter.

The Bournemouth Championships.

HUGHES AND LEE PROVIDE FIRST BIG SENSATION

Vivian

Piwo sensations were pr the r-finals of Bourne

Hard Courts Championships when Jack Crawford and McGrath, two

elimmate

Hughe

two Br

Crav

Open Door To Be

-Maintained.

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENTS

VASINFORMATIONS

Ington, to day

Department

announced that it informed that the

"Open Door

suria will be strictly

FRENCH ENVOY FETED IN LONDON.

ring Minister Guest

Suld not