1934-11-16 — Page 1

Carnation

Cornation

"From Contented Cows"

THERE'S CREAM

EVERY DROP

Sole Agents:

CONNELL BROS. CO., LTD.

MILK HONG KONG & S. CHINA

The dollar, on demand; closed:

day at 1/7 8-4

The

FINAL EDITION

Court

China Mail

THE OLDEST - ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST

Est. 1845.

No. 28,884 HONG KONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1934. PRICE $3.00 Per Month

LADIES' AUTUMN FOOTWEAR

NOW ON

SALE

NOW ON

KOWLOON SHOP ONLY:

PAUL RENNET et CIE

Corner of Austin Nathan Roads, Kowloon

FRESH ONSLAUGHT BY COMMUNISTS EXPECTED NEAR KWANGSI

CHILD HEIRESS

CASE TRIUMPH

FOR MRS. WHITNEY.

ALMOST ABSOLUTE

· CUSTODY GAINED

"MRS. VANDERBILT WILL FIGHT

TO BITTER END"

Gloria's Decision At 14

New York, To-day.

The attorneys of both sides in the American child heiress case have drawn up an order for Gloria Vanderbilt's future, which is ex- pected to be made public on Mon- day.

The New York. "American" states that Mrs. Whitney, her aunt, won almost absolute cus- tody of Gloria for five days week- ly until Gloria is 14. Mrs. Whit-

пер

will have custody of the

SHOT STOPS SHAMCHUN FRACAS CANTONESE TROOPS

KING CAROL

child, but on Saturdays and Sun- BUCHAREST

days the child will to the guest

of her mother.

At the age of 14. Gloria

will be "free to

go into

INCIDENT

Court and make her own OVER-ZEALOUS

choice of guardian.”

The journal adds that Mrs. Vanderbilt is expected to appeal |

The "New York Mirror" quotes Lady Furness as saying:

"We interpret Judge Carew's decision as favourable to Mrs. Whitney and we are absolutely | shucked, but Mra Vanderbilt will fight, to the bitterend is any mother would."--Reuter.

FOREIGNERS DO

"NOT PAY BUSINESS

TAX IN CANTON

REQUEST SO FAR IGNORED

ROUTINE PROCEDURE!

[From Our Own Correspondent] Canton, To-day, Following the statement of Cap-|| tain Anthony Eden, in the House of Commons, on Wednesday, that foreigners in Canton and other parts of China should not pay the business tux, Mr. Wu Mei-sheng, Director of the Business Tax Bu- reau here, to-day reported to the Provincial Department of Finance that no foreign firms have yet-filed particulars with a view to paying this tax.

It is not known what further- steps the provincial authorities will take, but, in the meantime, foreign firms in Canton and Sha- mean decline to pay the tax or comply with its "routine proce

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ROYAL WEDDING ARRANGEMENTS Procession Rehearsal By Household Cavalry

SPECIAL STANDS ERECTED IN PARLIAMENT SQUARE

GUARDIAN OF

KING CAROL

CAPTAIN STRUCK DOWN WHEN HE APPROACHES

RAIL GUARD SEARCHED

CUSTOMS OFFICER

FORCED TO MAKE

HASTY RETREAT

Armed Party Rescue Pursued Official

RAIL WORKERS' RESENTMENT

An incident which nearly ended in a grave clash occurred at Shum- chun railway station yesterday afternoon, when a Customs officer was alleged to have made an at- tempt to search a member of the station staff.

The

Customs officers were

making a search of the passen

gers who had arrived by the 4 p.m. train, and it is alleged that Jone official commenced to rur his

UNDER NEW ORDERS

GENERAL HO TO DIRECT OPERATIONS

SZECHUEN GOAL OF REDS

IFrom Dar Own Correspondent]

Canton, To-day. Anticipating a Communist, onslaught into the Little North River regions near Kwangsi, Canton troops are under orders to move up to Lienshan and Lienyang which are just beyond southern Hunan.

It is reported that a good many of the Communists have reached western Hunan after giving battles to the Canton forces in the borders of Kwangtung. After reaching Western Hunan, the Reds are expected to turn north in order to reach Szechuen, Russia dor lish public vells, NO LOCAL OFFICIAL WAS ISSUED UP TO THIS MORN

The methods adopted hy Pre- · aident Roosevelt cannot give permanent relief of unemploy ment or bring a programme.of. planned economy, M. Josef Sta- lin, above, Dictator of Soviet

the noted British

in ma interview In Moscow, while pre dicting the Tallure of the “New Deal.

hands over the person of a ANGLO-AMERICAN

guard. The latter resisted and

ING, ALTHOUGH IT IS BELIEVED THAT TENSION STILL PREVAILS ON THE HUNAN-KWANGTUNG, FRONTIER. OF. FICIAL REPORTS FROM CHANGSHA STATE THAT THE COMMUNISTS HAVE BEEN DRIVEN OUT OF JUCHENG

· ́(YUSHING) - IN SOUTH-EASTERN HUNANI BAADA

called to his colleagues for assist- NAVAL ACTION IS CHINA PRESENTS

ancer A general scramble for

weapons was then made by the NOW CONSIDERED railwaymen who chased the

Customs official from the pre- CORDELL HULL SEES

Imises. ..

ROOSEVELT

The officer beat a hasty retreat towards the wireless station, hotly followed by the incensed rail REPLY TO BRITAIN EXPECTED

workers

In the meantime, the remain-

ONLY BORE PERSONAL der of the Customs officers

PETITION

Bucharest, To-day.

A man wearing a captain's uniform, attempting to ap- proach the carriage in which King Carol of Rumania riding yesterday, was knocked down, by the escort.

was

The man raised his hands above his head to show that he was unarmed. A mounted officer wheeled about, and the man was knock-

ed down either by the horse or by the off- cer's sword.

With the memory

".

TO-MORROW

Washington, To-day, The United States authorities are, stated to be considering the cau tious British overtures for joint

were turned out, armed with rifles. One shot, a blank cart- ridge, was sufficient, however, to quell the disturbance. Since, the armed raid made by a gang of Chinese on the Shumchun action in naval affairs if the Three- Market on Monday a stricter search. Party discussions in London fail.

OPIUM PROBLEM

TO THE LEAGUE

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission; has instructed Gen- eral Ho Ying-ching, Minister of War that he is responsible for

fighting the Communists and has

appointed General Hsueh Yao as Officer Commanding the van- guárd. fengn W

VEILED HINT TO MANCHUKUO ?

COMMITTEE'S REPORT

Geneva, To-day Death is one of the most com-ists. mon penalties for trafficking in CANTON PRUNES opium and narcotics in China un-

Genera Ho's troops and Gen- teraly Hsueh Yao's detachments are the crack units of the Nan- king forces. General Ho is re-

has been made by the Customs The Secretary of State, Mr.der the latest regulations communi- officials, and it is belleved that their William Cordell Hull, boarded the cated to the League of Nations, ac- zealous attitude has caused a cer-train carrying President Roose-

tain amount of ill-feeling among velt. to Tennessee in order to dis-cording to the report of the Opiuin

cuss the proposals. Mr. Hull Advisory Committee. returns to Washington to-mor-

the station staff,

CAMBRIDGE LOSE

TO DUBLIN

row when the reply to Britain is: The injection of morphia into expected.

another person for non-medical The proposals, which, it is un- derstood, were of a very tenta-purposes is also punishable by Gloucester's Rugby Win ing made to Mr. Norman Davis

tive nature, were reported as be-death.

The new regulations envisage| Over Oxford Greyhounds last Wednesday--Reuter. the cessation of all opium li-

chow, Central Hunan; to direct

operations against the Commun-

Garnette Northcott snapped at the moment the bands of Gov." H. G. Kemp of West Virginia were crowning her queen of the moun- ́31Rin festival, at Elkins, W.Va.

DIVORCE SUIT

ported to have arrived at. Heng-FIRST CASE

UNOPPOSED IN

SUPREME COURT

EXPENDITURE IN-

FACE OF DEFICIT

RED WAR CAUSES BIG DRAIN

DEFENCE WORKS LOSS

Custody Of Children Decided In Camera

LONDON UNIVERSITY ROMANCE

"decree' nisi,” the first in the history of the Colony, was granted this morning in a petition for di vorce at the Supreme Court, by the Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. A. Mac Canton, To-day, Gregor. The petition was not op- The heavy expenses of the cam- poked. paign against the Reds and the big]

[From Our Own Correspondent]

London, To-day. JAPANESE NAVAL DELEGATES censes in China after six years. In a friendly. Inter-Varsity GIVE LUNCHEON PARTY-. Certain persons, chiefly aged deficit between revenue and ex- The petitioner, Mrs. Dorothy rugby encounter yesterday,

folk and inveterate smokers, will penditure have prompted all Gov. Florence Soares, was represented Dublin University swamped London, To-day-The British be allowed to smoke opium, but ernment offices under the Kwang Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed Cambridge University by 28 ministers who have been taking part all sales of opium to such people tung Provincial Government to do by Mr. M. K. Lo; while the res points to 5 at Cambridge.

in the Naval conversations, were will be subject to licence.

pondent, Mr. Alfred Maria de away with

unnecessary expen Lourdes Soares, was represented by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed

In the other friendly encoun-entertained at a luncheon yesterday The Chinese representative in-diture. ter, Gloucester defeated the Ox by the Japanese Ambassador and sisted that the collaboration of a The revenue for the present by Mr. G. G, N. Tinson. Mr. E. ford Greyhounds by 18 points to his colleagues, at the Japanese Em-certain Power was necessary, fiscal year has so far yielded 81 Potter was for the intervener. 9--Reuter.

bassy-British Wireless Service, otherwise the Chinese Govern 715,729.20 as against expenditure Mr. A. M. L Soares.

ment'e anti-narcotic campaign of $58,408,347.12. The deficit of

of the Marseilles crime still fresh, foul play was natur ally feared, but the ·SPECIAL TO CHINA MATE mised that political pressure will

"Washington, To-day, man was merely The United States Treasury an-mined metal.

be for a higher price for domestic armed with a per-nounces that it has no knowledge sonal petition to the King-Reuter.

New Silver Battle Forecast For would be in vain Reuter.

Forthcoming U.S. Congress

SAAR London; To-day.

Special stands for spectators to wliness the processions to and from Westminster Abbey, on the occasion of the wedding of H.R.H., the Duke of Kent to Princess Marina on November 29, are now being erected in Parliament Square and elsewhere along the route, and arrangements are being made by the Board of Works to carry out the scheme of decorations a which Consist mainly of flags auspended from horisontal poles fixed to the and upper windows of public

ontinued on Page:13.1

APPEAL

German Memorandum Signatories

REQUEST FOR ACTION

Saarbruecken, To-day. The Saar Governing Com mission, it is announced, has asked the supreme Tribunal of the plebiscite to take proceed" Ings against the signatories a German memorandum; for libelling Governmen --Reuter

that President Roosevelt intends to The United States imports of make an early announcement of a silver recently have continued to new silver polley The Treasury be relatively small, as

as compared Secretary, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, with the ultimate legal require made no significant comment when ments-United Press per S. E. questioned - regarding silver, dis-Levy and Company. missing the queries jokingly.

Observers opine that the Ad- WEATHER FORECAST

ministration is still canvassing the

with

situation with a view to forestall- Fine weather generally, ing the possibility of drastic silver fresh north-east winds, was the legislation at the next Congress weather forecast for to-day, as is- when politi

sued by the Royal Observatory this silver advocates will

morning. continue t ir, pre

of silver rese

allver

TYPHOON WARNING

$26,697,617.91 is much larger than The co-respondent, it is under- that of the previous fiscal year, stood, is not in Hong Kong,

For the curtailment of Govern- Custody of the children was mant expenditure, a committee of later settled in Chambera. five high officials has been form- The Court sat early to dispense ed by the South-west Political with the case.

Council to examine the Budget of The couple met while the res each government office. The Compondent was studying at the Lon mittee will permit Government de don University, and were mar- partments to adhere to the previous ried at Cambridge, on May 25.

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1920 There is one child by the marriage, Inez Soares, born in

SPAIN'S WAR ON November, 1926,

LABOUR

Cortes Sanctions Seizure Of Funds.

Madrid, To-day The Spanish Cortes has pass esolation, by 161 vote

vour of the dissoluti

Cand the seizure of

ated in the -Reuter

Mrs. Soares arrived from Binga- poro yesterday by the and 0.

NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHEMISTRY

Columbia University

· Honoured

Stockholm, To-day.

been for