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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1933.

CIVIL WAR NOW UNLIKELY

PEACEFUL

METHODS BY

NANKING

Military Measures As A Last Resort.

FUKIEN SITUATION MINIMISED

MARSHAL CHIANG'S

BID FOR SUPPORT.

Another Manifesto To Rank And File.

DECLARES ABILITY TO PUT DOWN REBELLION

han

Nanking, To-day.

Kai-shek Marshal Chiang Nanking. To-day, Despite many reported military again issued a lengthy message to movements following the Fukien the rank and file of the Chinese and Air Forces, ap- revolt, the Nanking Government Army, Navy appears to be inclined to mini-pealing for their loyal support of mise the seriousnes of the the Central Government in dealing with the critical state of the coun- situation.

A Government spokesman try which, be says, is harassed by stated this morning that al-another outbreak of revolt in Fu-

klen. though military measures were

Marshal Chiang interprets this necessary as a last resort to deal with the revolt, the Central Gov. revolt as an indication of the last ernment was trying to settle it struggle of the "Reds" for their ex- istence, this rebellious movement by peaceful means.

He believed that as long as being a combination of the Com- the Central Government main-munists, the Third Party and the Infned such an attitude, civil war 90-called Social Democrats, led by was not likely to be precipitated. Chen Ming-shu.

Central News Agency.

Litvinoff To Visit China.

INTEREST AROUSED IN

NANKING

Nanking. To-day Its fearned in to ad official cir thew that M Maxim Litvenoff, the Soviet Commissar

ol

Foreign

proceed

From the

United

Affairs, is expreted To direct to China

States before returning to Russin.: Considerable interest is routed by kis coming visit

for

According

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Washington

Marshal Chiang assures them of the Central Government's ability to put down this revolt by one meras or another. without causing much liloodshed, and expresses the hope that they will continue to proceed with the Central Government's ori- ginal

of suppressing programme

The "Red" menace-Central News Agency.

MARY PICKFORD'S PLANS.

May Appear On New York Stage.

New York.

теменко. М. Litvinoff as leaving Her plans for the future in-

definite, Mary Pickford has left) New York for Hollywood.

New York, whence he will probably exit for the Far East Central News Agency

RETROCESSION IN NORTH CHINA,

Shanhaikwan Ready For Chinese Control.

Tientsin, To-day.

All arrangements have been cum-)

In Reich Trial

Here are the principal defendants in the trial si Leipzig, Germany, which has aroused international in- terest Al Lop is Ernst Torgier, furmer Communist leader in the German Reichstag, and below. Ma Pinus Van Der Lubbe, a Dutch painter, who are accused of the plot that resulted in the burning of the Reichstag Builling.

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-day's Short Story.

THE

BLACKMAIL

affectionate

By John Galsworthy.

if rather alive, and complex,

as of a man

Tmocking friend who had said full of nerves, humours, sarcasms: of Charles Granter: "Ce n'est pas fund a deep continuous chinking un homme, c'est Un batiment," |sound arose-of Charles Granter seemed justified, to the thin jingling coins in his trouser pocket. dark man following him down The quiver settled into raised eye-] Oakley-street. Chelsea, that early brows, into crow's feet tunning out October afternoon.

on to the broad check bones, into « From the square foundations of sarcastie #mile dropping the his feet to his squarò fair beard corners of the lips between moust- and the top of his head under a ache and beard. He said in his square black bowler, he looked rather high voice:

very big, solid as granite, indes- "What's the matter with you, my tructible-steel-clad, too, for his friend?"

grey clothes increased his bulk in

"There's a lot the matter with

the mild sunlight; too big to be me, Mister. Down and out I am. taken by the board-only it bo I know where you live, I know your i submarined. And the man, dodg-tady; but-ten pound and Fil may ing in his wake right down to the nothin'."

Embankment, ran up once or two "About what?”

under his counter and fell behind

"About your vistin' that geil,

again, as if appalled by the vessel's where you ve just come from. Teu alzc and unconsciousness.

pound. It's cheap-I'm a man of Considering the heat of the past jine word." summer, the plane-trees were still With lips *LITT sarcastically very green, and few of their drooped, Granter made a little twittering leaves had dropped or derisive sound.

turned yellow-just enough to con- firm the glamorous melancholy of though he carly Fall. Granter,

lived with his wife in some man- stons close by, went out of his way to pass under those trees and look at the river.

This seaming disclosure of sen- the sibility, perhaps, determined shadowy man to dodge up again

REICHSTAG FIRE and become stationary close behind.

TRIAL

Full Confession By Van der Lubbe.

It was considered likely along "OTHER ACCUSED INNOCENT" Broadway that if Miss Pickford! does not begin work on a picture! within a few months she will return to New York ROON to appear in a play.--Reuter.

SHUMSHUIPO VICTIM IDENTIFIED

pleted for taking over by the thin-Tea-House Waitress In

ese, of the control of Shanbaikwan

from the hands of the Japanese.

Colonel Shibayama, military attache

to the Japaness Legation, is accoin-

Kowloon City.

The young Chinese girl who was

Leipzig. To-day.

Blackmail, by Georgel

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Portrait." by Aldous Huxley.

Ravaged and streaked, as if he had lived submerged, he stood carefully noting with his darting, "Come оп. Guy'nor-I'm des- to have that ten dark eyes that they two were quita perate; I mean alone; then, swallowing violently pound. You give it me here at aix so that the strings of his lean neck jo'clock this evenin, if you 'ven't writhed, he moved stealthfly up be-jgot it on you." His eyes fared side Granter, and said in a hurried, suddenly in his hungr face. "But hoarse voice: "Beg pardon, Mister jno tricks, I ain't killed Huns for

ten pound, and I'll say nothin"." nothin?."

The face which Granter turned Granter surveyed him for a A sensation was created in the towards that surprising utterance moment, then turned his back and Reichstag fire trial. yesterday was a good illustration of the way- looked at the water.

"Well, you've got two hours to morning, when Van der Lubbe, Ing. "And things are not what they

'seem."

Above that big building of įget it in-six o'clock, Mister; and in a long coherent speech, de..

a body it quivered, ridiculously no tricks-I warn you."

The hoarse volce coased, the sound of footsteps died away;; ORDER FOR BRITISH Granter was alone. The smile

AIR-ENGINES.

manded that the trial be speedi- ly concluded.

He declared that the other accused men had nothing to do with the fire. — Reuter.

“) alone set fire to the Reichstag

panying Mr. Too Sheng-ming, found strangled on a vacant piece Give me sentence of twenty years' formerly member of the Luantung of ground at the junction of Sa!

pose.

But 1

Retrocession Commission, to Shan-Young Chol Street and Boundary penal servitude, or death. haikwan from Tientain for this pur-Street. Shumshuipo, early yester cannot stand this trial uny longer,"

day morning, baa been identified Van der Lubbe mid. The return of other preses along 48 Leung Sam-mui, aged 15, of 107 You Chow Street, who was employ- ed as a waitress

the Great Wall to the Chinese Government is postponed until early next year. Central News Agency,

CHINESE CUSTOMS

SERVICE. Fears That Rebels May Gain Control.

FOREIGN DIPLOMATS CONFER ON PRECAUTIONS.

Foochow, To-day. Crowing apprehension is felt as

10 the possibility of eventual Beizure of or Interference Wilh The Customs service in Pukien by the rebels, as has been implied in the "people's Government's" de- claration which, in dealing with diplomatic problems, emphasised: the necessity of effecting the com- plete autonomy of Chinese Customs Service.

The local foreign diplomats have exchanged views concerning pre- cautionary stapa against such deve-

lopments.

However, some quarters believe that the rebels would not venture on such steps before their position

is well consolidated. Mr. Eugene Chen is alleged to be

offering

friendship to two certain Powers.

-Central News Agency.

LOCAL ESTATES,

Chicago Merchant Leaves $2,900.

Goon Fong-kin, allas Goon Hong, allan Goon Kus-wal, merchant, Ista of 424, West Street, Chicago, USA., left local estate valued at $2,000,7-

Letters of administration - have: been granted "to Goon" Wong-shi, widow.

Letters of administration in the estate of L Kung-yun, late of Kut villago, in the Rok Bhan' District, Kwangtung, who left local "ertäte sworn :" under $1,200, - have been granted to Li King-chlu,"

Belgian Government's Third Contract.

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IN THE

•

ROOF GARDEN, HONG KONG HOTEL,

ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8th, 1933, AT 5.45 P.M.

A CORDIAL INVITATION IS EXTENDED TO ALL.

The thing was too absurd to pay FROGS BURIED FOR

London, To-day. For the third year in succession, and after a close investigation of began nero-engines made in many coun- trica, the Belgian Government has Kestrel super-charged engines.

Five in all are accused; Ernst at the Fun Hot Torgler, a well-known German Com- And three Bulgarians, Tea Rouse in Prince Edward Road. munist,

No arrests have yet been made Georgi Dimitroff, Blugoi Popoff and but it is expected that Important Wassili Taneff being the others placed a contract for Rolls-Royce developments may follow the Iden- tification of the body. Statements The trial has now been going on for

being taken

the more than three months, having be

gun on September 21.

Are

also from

friends of the murder girl.

Aimee Home to Fight Divorce

Assisted by Okpt. Harold, MoC

Hutton, famous evangelist, appears in die st Norfolk, Va., to,pons for photographeru

· Almos said she was shocked by the bewa

action and that she stilj

The order this time is for 24 unita.

to pay attention. How

34 YEARS?

Amphibians Unearthed Alive In New York.

COURT MARTIAL

SENTENCES

Two Corporals Reduced To Ranks.

attention to. And, instantly, his highly sophisticated consciousness many visits had he made to this | distressed flower-girl? Three! And all because he didn't like hand. ing over the case to that Society

Schenectady, New York. which always found out the worst. They said private charity was dan-i

Five spotted froge unearthed EDUCATION OFFICE ORDERLY,

90 DAYS' C. B. gerous, Apparently walduring the wrecking of a build-

it The rated power of all nine types!

Blackmail! A consideration came,ing at the General Electric fac of Kestrel engine la 626 horse

Corporal Hayden Brealey and the tory have raised the question of power, but the height at which that perching like power is delivered varies with the branches of his mind; why hadn't whether they could have been Corporal John Doughty, former

ago and still The mentioned the flower-girl to his buried 34 years

School Instructors attached to degree of super-charging.

live. When fully super-charged the wife, and made her do the visiting:

The building was erected 34 the Lincolnshire Regiment, and Why? Beauss Ölgs would haya said unit delivers its normal 625 horse- power at 11,500 feet above sea level. the girl was a fraud. And perhaps years ago and the clay surface Private William McArdell, for she wast. A put-up job! Would on which it reated had been amer Orderly at the Command The maximum output at the same the scoundrel have ventured on this swamp until the company drain- Education Office and attached to

threat at all if the girl were not be-ed it.

height is 600 horse-power.-British; Wireless Service.

BEREAVED.

CTOW

оп

has

been

hind him? She might support him Professor James W. Mavory the South Wales Borderers, who with Hest. His wife might balleve of the Union College Biology were charged with several of- who LEADING RESIDENT - them Sho-the had such a vein Department,

fences under the Official Secrets of cyniciam! How sordid, how studying one of the frogs, said Acts of 1911 and 1919, and con domestically unpleasant!

there were indications that the victed by a Military Court Mar Mrs. Bell's Death.

Granter felt quite sick. Every amphibian had spent all of this tial at Scandal Point a week ago, decent human value seemed sud-century nibernating in the clay. have been sentenced as follows: denly in question. And a second Workmen who found the frogs FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON. crow came croaking, Could one tossed, them aside believing they

Corporals H. Brealey and J. Doughty are reduced to the ranks.

Private McArdell is sentenced to 90 days confinement to har racks.

leave a scoundrel like this to play were dead. Scientists of the The death occurred at No. 374, his tricks with Impunity? Oughn't company decided to investigate, The Peak, this morning, of Mrajone to go to the police? but found only one frog to work Dora Bell, wife of the Hon. Mr.He stood extraordinarily still on. Four of them had other W. H. Bell, general manager of dappled leaf dropped from a plane- notions and had hopped awayed over by Major H. St. G the Asiatic Petroleum Company tree and lodged on his bowler hat: Reuter.

(South China), Ltd.

at the other end of him a little dog

It is requested that no flowers or mistook him for a lamp-post. This OPIUM SMUGGLING letters of condolence, be sent, but was no joke! For a man with a re- putation for humanity Integrity any who would have wished to do and common sense--no joke at all!

to may send, Instead, a small)

A police court meant the prosecu» donation to the Hong Kong Ladles tion of a fellow-creature: getting Benevolent Society "In Memory of him perhaps a year's imprisonment, Dora Bell."

when ane had always felt that

Home:~

INTO AUSTRALIA.

Depression Causes Marked Decline,

Canberra, Federal Capital

The Court Martial was presid

Thoyla M.C. supported by Cap tain D. D. Michell, R.A., and Lieutenant J. L, Jordan, South. Wales Borderera, (a

During the trial sensational, din- closures by Private Derham of the South Wales Borderers, the prin {cipal-witness for the prosecution,

were made.

Derham stated that as a result of Can Territorya: an arrangement between" Private

- Mrs. Bell only returned to the punishment practically, never fitted Colony with her husband on crima!

The records of the Customs De McArdell and Corporal Bresley, Thursday last, after a vacation at Staring at the river, he seemed partment show that there has re- Army 2nd Class Examination papers to ses cruelty hovering over him-cently been a marked decline in the with questions and answers" for The funeral will pass the monu-self, his wife, Society, the flower activity of persons engaged in the Mathematics, Army and Empire and ment, at 5pm. to-day,

|girl, even over that scoundre) attempts to smuggle opfum into Essays, were handed over to Brea

naked cruelty, waiting to pounce Australia. This is attributed by ley for a sum of $100, and candi- SALVATION ARMY CHIEF HERE on one or all. Whichever way one ombers of the department, to the dates in, the September examinations

ponorent turned the thing was dirty, cruel depression, s Since were instructed on the papers be Commissioner Alfred J. Benwell, No wonder blackmail was account. Owing to the extensive and fore the examinations, on lines' sug- Commissioner for China of the ed such a heinous crime. No other elaborate precautions taken by the gested in the papers... Balvation Army, accompanied by human act was so cold-blooded, department to prevent the entry of At the close of the trial scathing Mrak Benwell arrived from the Tere spider-like, and allmy; noze plans ritorial Headquarions at Feking this ed so deadly a dagger into the morning in the Empress of Japan, bowels of compassion, so aviscerat and will stay in Hong Kong for one ad humanity, so murdered faith!

fons returning to the North (Continued on Page 10).

ofum, it has been ascertained that comments on the Command Educa the prics charged recently by per tion Ofics, and the haphazard run- sons disposing illegally of the drugs ning of the Department, were made has become prohibitive, and the by Lieutenant J. W. Hope, Adjutant market in consequence has declined: to the South Wales Borderers, coun-

-Reuter

"sal for McArdell,