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AIR FORCE ESTIMATES INCLUDE £50,000 FOR KAI TACK BASE

Hollywood, to-day.-Lew Ayres (above) and Ginger Rogers were married to-day-Reuter Ayres will be seen at the King's Theatre at the and his vivacious bride Alhambra Theatre over the week- end,

ASSASSINATION SUSPECTS

ARRESTED MEN TO GO TO HANGCHOW:

Shanghai, To-day. The Chinese press reports that two suspects have been arrested, one named Wu Kang-hsien, and the

REDS OCCUPY 5 CITIES IN SOUTHERN HUNAN STRATEGIC RETREAT

INTO SZECHUEN ·

CANTONESE SECURE PRISONERS

[From Our Own Correspondent)

CANTON, TO-DAY.

THE RED MENACE IN NORTHERN KWANGTUNG STILL EXISTS, ALTHOUGH THE FIRST SERIOUS ENCOUNTER ON MONDAY BETWEEN THE CANTONESE TROOPS AND COM- MUNIST FORCES, AT YENSHOU, ON THE HUNAN-KWANG- TUNG BORDERS, RESULTED IN A SETBACK FOR THE IN- VADERS.

About 80,000 Red troops have arrived in southern Hunan from western Klangsi and have occupied Jucheng, Kweitung, I- Chang, Lingwu, and Chengchow. All these cities have been plun», dered.

Their retreat to Szechuen is being made by three routes. The left wing will pass through northern Kwangtung, while the right wing cross over the southern Hunan. The central route between the two wings is for high officials, radio equipment, and opera- tors and archives.

So far, only the left flank has met with resistance. The right! flank and the central body have passed through a great portion of southern Hunan. No fighting. has yet occurred with the Gov-" ernment forces coming down from Hengchow.

Asked whether it is true that the Cantonese troops at the front

a

CRYPTIC RULING CHILD HEIRESS

CASE

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Modera "Tarzan" are Kenneth Bradley and his brother, Harry, who Tor soute time have been in the densa Maine woods, near Greenville, without clothing and protection from the elements, living only on what they can catch or kill with a bow and arrow. They are shows taking ■ dip in a spring, located in their wooded haunt.

BRITISH NATIONALS

other Yi Wu-balen, in connection had captured stated that the MRS VANDERBILT ON ADD IN CHINA

with the assassination of Mr. Se military officer stated that the Llang-taal, the wealthy Chinese invading forces publisher, on Tuesday.

20,000, of whom about 2,500

One of the arrested; men carried were captured. He said that a pistol. Both are to be taken to fighting is still going on in Hangchow for questioning-Reuter. Chengkow (Shinghow) and Yen-

PROBATION?

New York, To-day. shou, on the Kwangtung-Hunan The protracted trial to decide whether the child, Gloria Vander- bilt, an £800,000 heiress, is to live

FORMER COLONY frontier.

BISHOP DIES

́RT. REV. G. H. LANDER PARLIAMENT TO with her mother, Mrs. Vanderbilt,

AT AGE OF 73

BE DISSOLVED

KING FAUD ACCEPTS CABINET PROPOSAL

or her aunt, Mrs. Whitney, ended yesterday, Judge Carew ruling that "the child Gloria is not to have in the future the life it had from the death of its father up till June,

1932."

The Judge declined to amplify his "cryptic ruling." but it is in terpreted by press representatives that the Judge is placing the mother on probation. remain-

London, To-day. The death occurred yester- day of the Rt. Rev. Gerard Heath Lander, Archdeacon of Bedford and Assistant Bishop stace 1933, and former Bishop of Hong Kong-Reuter. Seventy-three years of age, the Rev. Lander was ordained in 1884, of St. and was appointed Curate Bride, Liverpool, where he

St. Vicar at ed until becoming Benedict, Everton. In 1896 he was appointed Vicar at St. Philip, Lither land, and in 1905 went to St. Cyprian, Liverpool, where he was Han, Canon from 1904 until 1907.

He came to Hong Kong as Bishop of Victoria in 1907, and remained in the Colony until 1920. From 1924 until

1992 he was Assistant Bishop to the Bishop of St. Albans.

WEATHER FORECAST

Alexandria, To-day, Nessim Pasha has announc ed that King Fund of Egypt ac• cepted the proposal of the Cabinet that Parliament be die solved almost immediately and the

constitution present abolished,

The new Ministers will de- cide when the new elections will be held.-Reuter.

DOG BITES EUROPEAN

www.

P. C. Macdonald, of the Naval

was bitten yea Dockyard Police, terday by a dog owned by Signal- Fair, with fresh north-east winds, man Stewart, of H. M. S. White- was the weather forecast for to-day, hall, He was treated at the Na as issued by the Royal Observatory Ival Hospital, and the dog was sent this morning._______

to Kennedy Town for observation.

The canvas chuty method of escape from balding on fre (left) was demonstrated at the annual Fire- Brigade display before, tremendous crowds at the No. 2. Police Station at Wancha yesterday (Right)% Incident during one of the competitions(

SHANGHAI IMPOSITION

DECLARED FAIR

IRREGULAR CANTON

ROUTE TO

SINGAPORE UNDER SURVEY REDUCING ATTACK RISK

TO MINIMUM

IMPERIAL DEFENCE DEBATE

London, To-day.

At the Imperial Defence Debate in the House of Lords yesterday, the War Minister, Viscount Hailsham, emphasised the necessity of an ade- quate Army, and gave details of the progress which was being made with the programme to in- crease the air force, announced on July 19.

HE MENTIONED THAT £80,000 WAS BEING SPENT ON THE SINGAPORE AIR BASE AND £50,000 ON THE AIR BASE AT-HONG KONG.

A squadron of dying boats were surveying, an alr route between Singapore and Hong Kong, he declared, He said that the possibilities of dealing with enemy bombers were much greater than at the end of the war. The Government's policy was directed at reducing the risk of attack as far as pos sible. A

THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO STRAIN EVERY NERVE TO PRO- INTERNA- DUCE AN ATMOSPHERE OF TRANQUILLITY WHEREBY TIONAL DISARMAMENT MIGHT BE ACHIEVED, BUT, MEANWHILE, AND THEY COULD NOT DISREGARD THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES UNILATERALLY DISARM.

Referring to the naval talks,,

he said that it was impossible to AIR ARMADA SECOND

give definite information while the conversations were in prp- gress.

The whole of our navel posl flon is being most carefully, cor sidered, in relation to our abso- lute requirement," he said..

"(Continued, on Paga. 9)

Jamaica's Contribution

·To Imperial Defence

Kingston, To-day.

TO NONE AMERICA'S THREE YEAR PLAN

Washington, To-day. The United States Army Air Corps has submitted a Budgetary request for 800 new aeroplanes, “500 · which are required to replace obao- lete machines.

METHODS

At the suggestion of H.E. the The Air Corps plans to spread Governor of Jamaica, Sir Rans-construction over three years, bring- LONDON, TO-DAY. 4 ford Slater, the Legislature has ing the total strength to 2,400 war REPLYING TO QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE OF COM approved that Jamaica annually planes, and giving the United States MONS, YESTERDAY, CONCERNING CHINESE TAXATION OF contribute £10,000 to imperial the largest and most up to date air BRITISH SUBJECTS, THE LORD PRIVY SEAL, CAPTAIN defence.

The Legislature has agreed to per, S. E. Levy and Company. ANTHONY EDEN, RECOUNTED THE LEGAL POSITION, AND REMARKED ON THE DEMANDS RECENTLY MADE ON FOR pay the perisions of the British EIGN NATIONALS, INCLUDING THE BRITISH; OWNING West India Regiment amounting PROPERTY IN GREATER SHANGHAI, FOR THE PAYMENT to £8,000 per annum, commencing

from 1931. OF THE LAND VALUES TAX.

"As the tax is legal under Chinese. law, non-discriminatory, and reasonable in comparison with the amount generally paid by the Chinese, British subjects have been advised that effective sup- port cannot be guaranteed to them in the event of their getting into difficulties with the Chinese authorities through the non- Payment of tax, he said.

Pressed to explain what the de- cision meant, the Judge said that In regard to the business tax) the ruling was also designed to demanded in various places, in- keep lawyers from knowing. Judge cluding, recently. Canton, Cap- Carew is conferring with counsel of tain Eden stated that as the re- both sides to-day.-Reuter.

TYPHOON STRIKES PHILIPPINES

Devastation Reported From Eastern Islands

·LOSS OF LIFE FEARED

Manila, To-day. Another typhoon has struck the centre of the eastern Is fands of the archipelago. Heavy damage to property is reported and feared that

there is some loss of life. - Reater,

According to a report issued by the Manila Observatory at 7.50 a.m. to-day, through the American Consul-General, the typhoon situated in about Long. 122 eas Lat. 15 north, moving north-west

Or its present course the ty phoon will pass north of Manila in the direction of MaenoEN,

His Excellency the Governor has beep pleased to appolet Mr. William Jamer Carrie to be Head of the Sani- tary Department and President of the Sanitary Board with effect from November 15, 1984

gulations, generally, had been vexatious and unpractical in character, with unfair and irre- Bular methods of assessment, and enforcement by arbitrary execu tive action rather than by law, British merchants resisting pay- ment had been afforded the full- est possible support by the Bri- tish representatives. —Reuter.

KIDNAPPING HOAX

Rev. Askew Acquitted In North Carolina

"HOT GOSPEL" MINISTER -NEEDED REST

Raleigh, N. Carolina, To-day. The Rev. R. H. Askew, the "Hot Gospel Minister, has been ac

GERMANY DENIES quitted on a charge of carrying out

RUMOURS

"False Documents On

Saar Situation"

Saarbruecken, To-day. The German Front in the

kidnapping hoax and attempting to obtain U.S.$25,000-Reuter.

(Continued on page 9.).

TRAGIC END TO RUGBY PLAYER

Saar has submitted a lengthy International Falls From

memorandum to the League

of Nations, In which it claims all the documents recent-

ly discovered in the houses of Germans were placed there by evilly disposed persons.

It cites the evidence German emigrant allegi attempts

that

Express Train

London, To-day,

Dr. Vincent HM Coates, the former English Rugby international, met with

sad death when he fell from an exp

was terribly mutil

Battleships Essential- To Fleet?

Earl Beatty asked whether the battleship was a vital part of the fleet and if so, what the Government, proposed to do regarding them,

Lord Hallsham replied that the capital ship was an essential element in the battle fleet on which the whole structure of the naval policy depended.

armada in the world.-United Press

VATICAN® PROTEST

TO BERLIN Suspended Professors Still In Office

DISMISSAL SOUGHT-

Berlin, To-day. A fresh conflict has arisen with the Vatican, which al- · leges German violation of the Concordat.

The Vatican recently suspended from priestly offices two Profes

He added that the number of sors of Theology who publicy ap- cruisers required to provide proved the castration law. adequately for ses communications The Concordat

requires the

Was "a matter of most serious con- Government to dismiss them, but sideration."-Reuter.

they are still in office-Reuter.

The resignation of the French Ister of Interier: followed criticism of the precautions taken to guard the slain King Alexan der during his fatal Visit to Marseilles. My Albert Barrant? (above) was responsible for the royal guest's safety.

SCOTTISH AUTHOR

PASSES

Mr. John Joy. Bell At Age Of 63

London, To-day. The death occurred yesterday of Mr. John Joy Bell, the noted. Scot tish journalist and author, at the age of 60 years-Reuter.

Since he started, his career as an author In 1898, Mr. Bell wrote 65 books and plays, his latest publica- tion being "Scotland's Rainbow West, last year.

UNIVERSITY FOUNDER PASSES IN NEW ORLEANS

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New Orleans, to-day The death yesterday of the Rey, lever founder of the

Louisiana