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OUR JULY

OPPORTUNITY SALE

IS ON

PAUL RENNET * CIE

Chater-Road

Hong Kong

Nathan Road

Kowloon

WIDE POWERS GIVEN PRESIDENT IN NEW CHINA CONSTITUTION

If France ever has a Musolini, everything points to Colonel de la Rocque as being the leading can. didate for the position. The Colonel, head of the "Croix de Feu" association of war veterans · decorated for courage under fire, contrels an army of 100,000 fel- lowers..

INERT AND PASSIVE

BRITAIN'S

·ATTITUDE

RUSSIAN ELECTROCUTED

IN SHANGHAI

Repairing Overhead Power Cable

Shanghai, To-day.

Peter Sapojnikoff, a 40-year-old

TO FRANCE Russian mechanic employed by the

NO NEW PLEDGES

GIVEN.

NEW LOCARNO PACT REACTION

⚫ London, To-day. The communique issu- ed last night on the Anglo-French talks

Shanghai Power Co., was electro- cuted yesterday morning while re- pairing an overhead power cable.

He accidently came into con tact with a live wire at the topi of the pole and was hurtled to the ground-Reuter.

'FRISCO STRIKE

Escalator Scheme

Practicability Discussed

800 SIGN PETITION.

Views on the practicability of an escalator for the convenience of passengers on the Peak Tram passengers on the Peak Trami are expressed on Page 7 in fur- therance of the China Maifa 90th. Anniversary campaign to secure

which opened in London TRUCKS OPERATE the extension of the tramway to

O.G.P.U. POWER

LESSENED BY

on Monday and continu- NEW DECREE ed yesterday, was as achromatic as usual, and an approach to British official quarters did not reveal more.

SUPREME COURT

TRIALS.

SOVIET REVISION

Moscow, To-day.

AT 4 PIERS

DISPUTE HEARING

CONTINUED.

«PECIAL TO CHINA MAIL

(By_Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phic Messagea Ordinance, 1892. R ceived July 11, 8.47 a.m.)

here.

Queen's Road.

The proposal for an escalator, proposed first by Mr. Felix A. (Joseph, is strongly favoured as anTM alternative to the actual ex- tension of the line.

In the meatime, signatures for the petition continue to come in, over 800 having been received up to 11.15 a.m. to-day...

GIGANTIC FRAUD

Though the French San Francisco, To-day. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., non- To-morrow. the Hon. Dr. R.. H. Foreign Minister, M. The Industrial

Association's official Justice of the Peace and A decree has been issued laying Louis Barthou, declared truck are operating at four piers unofficial member of the Legisin- down the composition of the new

Meanwhile, the general tive Council, will give his views Soviet Commissariat of Home Af- himself quite happy overstrike movement continues. on the proposed extensión.. fairs, which is taking over the ex- his reception in London, The mediators yesterday con- traordinary judicial functions of it seems that the British tinued the hearings of the dis the O. G. P.-U. (secret police) and attitude to the French A spokesman of the shippers,

pute, which is charged with safeguard aspirations can be sum-Mr. J. C. Rohlfs stated: "The

IN CANTON ing the revolutionary order and the security of the State with med up in the neat shipowners are glad to meet the

representatives of the, employees Millions Of Dollars guarding public property and the phrase of "Le Journal," whenever they can be certain Said Involved. ** frontier, and with the registration "inert and passive bene that they are dealing with actual spokesmen."-- United Press, of the civil acts of the State. volence."

iper S. E. Levy and Company. SENSATIONAL TRIAL STARTS The Judicial Collegium of the,

NO BOARD CLASH Great Britain has given no O.G.P.U., which was hitherto

Washington, To-day. [From Our Own Correspondenti. empowered to sentence an accus- new pledges, but she clearly

The Chairman, Mr. Garrisen,

Canton, To-day. ed man to be shot without an stressed her desire for strict ful-

states that the new National Labour In connection with the gigantic open trial. is. now dissolved and filment of the existing

to make Board will not interfere with Presi-title deeds fraud, the 12 persons crimes affecting the security of France asked Britain the State will be tried by the public her appreciation of the dent Roosevelt's longshoremen and arrested at the premises of the

mediation French efforts in the cause of steel

boards-United Tien Po Real Estate Company at Supreme Court.

M. Genrich Yagoda. a rising European peace, with particular Press, per S. E. Levy and Company. Tai Hong Road, are scheduled to young official, has been appointed reference to the eastern Locarno the first People's Commissar of Pact, namely, M. Maxim Lit- Home Affairs.

vinoff's idea of a Franco-Russian

ones.

The decree does not imply that Pact of mutual assistance.. The the O.G.P.U. has been disbanded. Pact is open to Germany, but but that the Soviet feels its she is shy of adhering to it. power is established and that milder means of protecting the

GERMAN ATTITUDE

The French hold the opinion

State are possible. Reuter. that if Britain shows even a

DEVELOPMENT IN Germany atil! declines, Germany's

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$511,400 GRANT FOR

· EDUCATION.

£50,000 To Foundling Hospital Fund.

London, To-day.

•

bé tried again to-day by Mr. Ou Fang-po, Provincial Commissioner of Finance.

In the trial to-day. Mr. Ou will be assisted by two other officials. of his Department. The prisoners

are held at the Municipal Bureau

of Public Safety,

Millions of dollars are involved in the fraud, as several owners of platonic feeling towards it, and if

A programme of educational deve houses have been robbed of their isolation. will be all the more lopment, involving the total capital property by the production of ap-forged titled deeds produced by NEWFOUNDLAND marked. The British attitude is expenditure of £511,400, was

to go ahead. She is not queering proved by the London County Coun- rival claimants.

the cil yesterday afternoon. others pitches as long as Eastern Locarno

The Council also made a grant of. Pact does not impinge the Western Pact by ex-£50,000 to the foundling hospital tending the responsibilities of the appeal fund, thereby securing the signatories to the latter.-Reuter, purchase of the last portion of the site which will remain an open

Special Expenditure

Of £1,300,000.

HELP FOR FISHERMEN

London, To-day. Answering a Parliamentary ques- tion regarding the economic situa- tion in Newfoundland,' the Do-l minions Secretary, Mr. J. H. Thomas, said that the Commission

ANGER OF GODS space in perpetuity in the heart of

CHINESE SEEK TO

WOO WEATHER.

of the Government had already SHANGHAI MAYOR PETITIONED

made considerable progress with development schemes in Newfound- land and Labrador, and authority had recently been given for a special) development expenditure of £1,300,- 000 to be. financed by long-term | loans from the Colonial Develop- ment Fund.

This expenditure would be devoted to the bullding of fishing vessels. for purchase by fishermen on the instalment plan, to road construc- tion, with a view to facilitating agricultural settlement, and to the development of the harbour at Port au Basques and a railway terminus on the West Coast. British Wire- less Service

The Colonial, Secretary, the Hon. Sir Thomas - Sontkorn, K.BE.,: C.M.G. will formally open the Wanchai| Children's Playground at 5.50 p.m. this evening.

Shanghai, To-day, Petitions were made to the Mayor of Shanghai, Mr. Wu

London-British Wireless Service,

Most of the victims are Overseas Chinese who cannot attend to their property here except through agents. Ir some cases, the claimants had their deeds registered by the Municipal Bureau of Lands.

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Overcome by fatigue and heat, Alice Marble, of California,

is shown as she was carried from the tennis court at the Ro- land Garros Stadium, Paris, after she collapsed during play in the French Women's Championships. Miss Marble, who is the U.S. Wightman Cup player, was taken to the American Hospital, where she spent "several days resting.

COMPLETE SWING

FULL COMMAND BA

OF COUNTRY'S

ARMED FORCES

OFFICIAL CONTROL

ALLOWED.

FOREIGN CAPITAL CURB

Nanking, To-day. Vital changes are em- bodied in the revised draft constitution, not- ably the introduction of the Presidential system of Government..

*-

Swinging from one extreme to the other, the drafting committee gives the President very wide powers, including the supreme command of the country's armed

ROTTERDAM RIOTING forces, authority to de-

LITHUANIAN AMNESTY TO

·68 YOUNG OFFICERS,

Attempted Coup D'Etat Ringleader Remains In Prison

Kovno, To-day. The President of Lithuania, M. Antanas Swetons, 'has granted an amnesty to 68 young officers who participated in one attempt to bring of a coup d'etat here June 7. The former Premier, M. Valdemaras, the ringleader, how- eyer, remains in prison Reuter.

N.R.A. HEAD

on

"WOULD LIKE

TO GET AWAY" CONTROL BOARD

SUGGESTED. ́

WILL SOON BE MORE THAN A ONE-MAN JOB

;

AGED WOMAN

ONLY

HURT REAK||

POLICE IN FIERCE

BATTLE

INHABITANTS FORCED TO KEEP TO HOUŠES

clare war and negotiate peace, to appoint and dismiss the civil and military officials, and to proclaim and suspend martial law.

Persons engaged in active military service are ineligible for. the Presidency, Vice- Presidency, and other adminis trativa posta, including provin clal Governorships.

Provincial, district and muni- Rotterdam, To-day.cipal Governments, are not allow- Following the strike of casual ed, without authority, to borrow workers here on Monday as a pro- from foreign sources or to use test against the cuts in the dole, foreign, capital. grave rigting broke out in the

.

Crooswyk quarter last night, shots being fired both by the rowdy ele ments and the police.

The only casualty so far report- jed is a 70-year-old woman, who.

was hit by a stray bullet.

Reuter.

COURT MARTIAL AT TENERIFFE

Revolutionary Strike Sequel.

Teneriffe, To-day.

A revolutionary strike in a village

Large forces of mounted police and military police were rushed to the scene, and the rioters met them with a hall of bullets from in one of the Canary Islands Inst the windows of houses. The year had Its sequel yesterday when Washington, To-day police, hampered by the darkness, five men were court martialled and The National Recovery Admin were compelled to retire until sentenced to death.

During the strike, two Civil istrator, General Hugh Johnson, searchlights were brought to play

Guards ware killed. has recommended President on, the district; Roosevelt to appoint a commission A stringent order, forbidding the

Ten other accused

were sen-

to direct the N. R. A. and to allow delivery of food, mail, and news-tenced to between one and 20 years' papers has been issued, while the imprisonment, which is subject to him to retire."

Inhabitants of the houses in the confirmation-Reuter... General Johnson stated: "I redistrict have been forbidden to commended to the President that leave their houses.

TYPHOON ALMOST this will not be a one-man job when it passes into the, field of {administration.. "I suggest A barrister, has been arrested, on a

board or a commission.".

Canton Section Of K.C.R. 7o Seek ofice until Congrens next

Asked whether he would con- tinue in

ments, General Johnson answered

Big Increase In Profits To-morrow that it was probable that he would,

although he would like to get

[From Our Own Correspondent? [the sharing of profits and he hop away.

ed that the Chinese section would "I will, however, stay as long Canton, To-day. ·

be able to secure 80 per cent of as the President thinks he needs Representatives of the Minis the receipts Instead of the pre-me," he added.-Router. Teh-chen and to the proviatry of Railways and the Chinese sent ratio of 65.

*(Continued on Fage 9), cial authorities, by a group: of prominent Chinese yester-

BANK-DIVIDEND

day to forbid the slaughter of domestic cattle for one week to appease the rain gods as the result of the pro longed heat wave.

• After a short spell of tem- perature under 100 degrees, the mercury yesterday climb ed to 101.8.

Farmers in Kiangsu and Chekiang are constantly pray- ing for ram to save the crops.

Reuter

section of the. Canton-Kowloon There will be other discussions Railway left here for Hong Kong between the Canton and Kowloon

The Secretary of the Indepen- dent Socialist Party, a woman

charge of sedition-Reuter.

COTTON GINNING DEBACLE.

U.S. Industry Refuses Agreement.

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.. (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phie Messages Ordinanen 1894,

by train this morning to ex sections en mutaal co-operation change views with officials of on the operation of this interna It is announced by the Hong Kong Sceived July 1, 137: a.m.jer nem the Kowloon section for a revi-tional railway, according to Mr.and Shanghai Banking Corporation sion of the agreement.

Woo, and details of the negotiations that an Interim Dividend of £3 per Formal negotiations will take and conclusions will be announced share, subject to Income Tax deduc- place to-morrow In Hong Kong in three or four daya. :- and are expected, to end in a few (Continued, on page 12.) days. The signing of the new agreement, it is understood, is to be done in Canton,

MrWoo of the

rangtung...” Provincial

WEATHER FORECAST

Generally fair, with local showers

rateg

tion, has been declared for the half- year ended June 30, at the rate of 1/5% per dollar. The dividend will be payable on and after Monday, August 13, at the Corporation offices.

"To-day, in thé, 85th-anniversary "of Inauguration of the Victoria Be-

MoAn informal colo be held at 6.30 p.m. thin

creatio bration

Washington, To-day. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration has abandoned. its attempts to bring the United States cotton ginning industry under the marketing agreement due to the fact that the ginners refused to recept any agreement without provisions": fixed rates for ginning services, United Press, par B.B. Levy and Company,

STATIONARY.

Was.*

re-

A typhoon warning from the Manila Observatory ceived here this

morning, showing that a typhoon iɗ in about Longtitude 125E, Latitude 18N, al- most atationary. The message wÀS received at the American Consulate General here at 9.30 a.m.

LOCAL RAINFALL

The local rainfall recorded at the Royal Observatory during the 24 hours ended 10.30 a.m. to-day Rewas 0.08. inch, bringing the total...

Bince January 1 to. 42.85 inches, as compared with a normal average of 42.80 inches.

DOG BITES AMAH

Ho Tal-ling, an amah, was moved to the Kowloon Hospital yes- terday, after having been bitten by La dog belonging to Mr. Abbas, of No. 21 Kal Tak Bund, "her master. The dog was sent to Mataukak. for Lobservation.