1934-11-23 — Page 1

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"From Contented Cows"

THERE'S CREAM

IN

EVERY DROP

Sole Agents: CONNELL BROS. CO., LTD. · HONG KONG & 8. CHINA

The dollar, on demand, closed

to-day at 1/7 Bu

FINAL EDITION

The

China Mail

Ext. 1845.

THE OLDEST · ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST

LADIES' AUTUMN FOOTWEAR

NOW ON

SALE

NOW ON

KOWLOON SHOP ONLY:

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Est. 1845.

·Corner of Austin

Nathan Roads, Hewloon

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PRICE $3.00 Per Month

CHILD HEIRESS NOW MARKED DOWN BY NEW YORK GANGSTERS

Hazel Forbes, above, the screen actress and former Follies girl, ia reported to have sold stock left her by her late husband, Paul Owen Richmond, heir to the tenthpaste and coconut millions, thereby

JAPANESE AQUATIC STARS HERE

INTERVIEW

DENIED

VISCOUNT SAITO

MAKES ATTACK

ON C.S. MONITOR

29

"GHOST WRITER'S

ALLEGATION

“NO-MENTION_OF_NAVAL

DISARMAMENT”

Tokyo, To-day.

With reference to the "Christian Science Monitor" interview claim-

climbing into the millionaire classed to have been given by him, the

The sale of the stock is reported

to have netted her $2,268,000.

Japanese ex-Premier, Viscount Makoto Saito, declares:

"I have seen no representative

OPIUM IN of the "Monitor" in recent months.

CHINA

CO-OPERATION OF

POWERS NEEDED TO

PREVENT TRAFFIC

Unilaterial Action Useless

GENEVA DISCUSSION

I have never contributed to such a newspaper any article on the na- val talks now proceeding in Lon- don, but early in August I ap proved an article written by a

free lance which did not touch on

navál Disarmament in any way."

"Ghost" writer, named Hils cher, states that the "Monitor" article was written in August as the outcome of several interviews summing up Viscount Sarto's | views on the naval outlook, and

Viscount Saito, after a perusal Geneva, To-day. and correction, approved of the Mr. Victor C. Hoo, Chinese article by his signature-Beuter.

Minis'er to Switzerland, in a state-

ment to the Opium Commitee

\'{Continued on Page 14. )

yesterday called attention to the MANCHUKUO

new series of measures recently enforced by China to combat the traffic.

The problem in China had be come more serious due, perhaps, to more rigorous enforcements of regulations in the West, he

East

were

SCHEME

OIL

Plans To Take Over Foreign Supplies

Changchun, To-day.

MELBOURNE

BOUND

CONSIDER THEIR

CHANCES BRIGHT

IN TITLE EVENTS

KIYOKAWA AND SAKAGAMI

DISCUSS BERLIN GAMES

(By "REFEREE") Masaji Kiyokawa, who holds the 100 and 200 metres back stroke world swimming records, and Yasutaro Sakagami, one of Japan's most promising free style swimmers, arrived in the Colony this morning by the ss. Kitano Maru en route to Melbourne, where they are taking part in the the London-Helbourne air wars. Melbourne Centenary Champlon- NAVAL

An Australian millionaire, Sir MacPherson Robertson, organized

thon la which the pick of the world's fliers competed for 1.8.876,000 in prizes.

250

FIRES RAGE

VIRGINIA FOREST CONFLAGRATION

ships.

Lady Furness, nee Thelma Morgan (right), hurried to New York to aid her twin, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, nee Gloria Morgan, and defend her character against charges hurled in the successful action of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney to gain custody of the Vanderbilt daughter. The sisters, are shown as they appeared in Europe a few- months ago.

LETTER TO AUNT

PHYSICAL HARM

THREATENED IN...

SECOND ATTEMPT

Gloria Vanderbilt Victimised

PRIVATE DETECTIVE CORDON ROUND WHITNEY ESTATE

New York, Te-day. -Private-detectives—are guarding... the 10-year-old heiress, Gloria Vanderbilt, day and wight on the Whitney estate at Old Westbury, Long Island, as the result of threatening letter received by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, ker - aunt who gained custody of the chi in the recent action against Glen- la's mother in account? latter's "fast-living.”

SECURITY BASIS The letter threatene physical

LAND BAILIFFS FINE REDUCED

Kiyokawa is one of the most brilliant back-stroke swimmers the world has ever known, and recently shattered the 400 metres record held by Toshi Irive by covering the distance in 6 mins. Second Appeal For Re-hearing Routley Care Indicated - 30.2/5 seconds to clip 11.3/5 seconda off the previous mark?

In the 100 metres back-stroke event he recorded 1 min. 8:2/10) seconds to beat George Kojac's 1928 record.

Sakagami 'accompanied the Japanese Far Eastern Olympic

In a written Judgment follow ing the re-hearing of the case against the land bailiff, Mr. W. J. Routley, Mr. J. B. Lee, Kost High Winds Impede

loon Magistrate, to-day reduced 2,000 Fire-Fighters

the original fine of $100 to one team to Manila this year, whereof $10, and ordered that the $15 Charleston, W. Virginia,

The showed up very promisingly, compensation paid to Mrs. Lam To-day.

and has since lowered both the should be returned to Mr. Rout- "Whipped to fury by high winds. Japanese Inter-Collegiate records ley. 250 forest fires are raging almost for the 100 and 200 metres free beyond control throughout this style.

wooded, mountainous State. The A student of Waseda University. fires have already destroyed Sakagami won the 100 metres free thousands of acres of woodland style in 69 seconds, and the 200 and have surrounded several metres free style in 2 mins, 14 small towns, which, however, are seconds, 6 seconds off J. Weissmul- not considered endangered.

ler's world record. thousand Two

fire-fighters

Continued on Page 9.).

said. Also, events in the Far With a view to implementing the from all parts of the State are preventing China recently proclaimed monopoly by waging gruelling battle against from devoting the necessary at taking over the supplies held by the conflagrations and have con- tention thereto.

foreign oil interests, the Three trolled some of the fires. Others The campaign in China, he Eastern Provinces Government has are gaining and the fighters are

One man was" said, could not be limited to un-appropriated 600,000 yuan as initial hoping for rain.

killed by a falling tree at. Zion ilateral action by China. China

Mountain-Reuter. needed the co-operation of the

expenses.

An official news service reports Powers administering leased ter- that the following supplies of oil ritories and concessions, where there was a danger of foreign are stocked at Dairen alone:

trafficers being punished too lightly. Reuter. -

Standard Oil Company of New York,

192,000 cans;

Texas Oil Company, 630,000 cans; Asiatic Petroleum Company 50,000

cans;

MIXED RECEPTION Other companies, 884,000 cans.

TO PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN REFORM

-Renter,

CUSTOMS TARIFF REVISION

Changchun, To-day.

MODERATE OPINION The revised Manchukuo Customs

PREDOMINATES

INDIAN PRESS CRITICAL

tariff has been put into operation.

-Reuter.

RUSSIA WILL

SOLVE AMERICA'S

BIGGEST PROBLEM

INSULL TRIAL

Utilities Tsar" Did Not Unload Own Stock

“ACCOMMODATION; CHEQUES" NOT RECEIVED

Chicago, To-day.

In the closing stages of the trial

GOLD ORE SHIPMENT of the former middle-west Utilities

TO TACOMA

PROFITS TO PAY INTEREST ON

AW LARGE US, CREDITS

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL New York, To-day.

The United Press" has learn- ed that Russia is sending ship

FARMER'S PURSE loads of gold ore to Tacoma to London To-day. STRENGTHENED

The first reactions to the report of the Select Committee

on Indian Constitutional Reform have been generally in accordance with expectations.

Indian press comments, in the main, are highly critical and are disposed to magnify the safeguards and "special responsibilities" placed in the band of the Govenor General and the provincial Gov

ernora,

At the other

of conserva

mal

Contin

Income Up £200,000,000 In United States

New York, To-day Although the drought lasts Summer ruined thousands of American farmers, it is official- ly estimated that the higher prices it brought will increase the total income of the can agricultural com #1934 to about £85. increase of about

The Incr

well below

build a reserve of hard money for the purchase of American goods.

Through a spesial process, available only at Tacoma, the gold will be refined and sold to the United States Government for cash

Insult

Tear" Samuel Insul on charges of Fraud, the coun

sel for the de fence emphati cally denied) that Insull un loaded his ow

Mr. F. H. Loseby, solicitor for Mr. Routley, indicated that he would again appeal in the

case.

On September 18. Mr. W. G. Routley was found guilty on a charge of assaulting Mrs. Lam Yeut-fong at Po Kong Village, He Kowloon City, on July 20. was fined $100, in addition to $15 as compensation to the com plainant.

An appeal against the verdict was made by Mr. F. H. Loseby,

of Messrs. Russ and Company,

accused's solicitor, and the re hearing of the case was com menced on October 8,

"

STATEMENT BY

SIR JOHN SIMON

harm to Gloria, :: but does not mention kidnapping her. - Reuter

BARLIER THREAT --

ON SITUATION "If you value the life of your

SECRET DEALINGS RIDICULED

TREATY DIFFERENCES. OUTLINED

London, To-day

child, don't fail to meet me in front of the Metropolitan Theatre in Brooklen on Friday evening at

10:30.

These words in crudely pen- eilled note, were sent to Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt mother of Gloria, the 10-year-old heiress to £800,000 on October, 25. In con sequence the police throw a cordon

A statement on the Naval around her house, conversations, now proceeding in They also kept the appointment London was made during the at Brooklyn, but failed to discover debate in the House last night in the writer of the note.

Sir

an address to the throne by The note did not mention the John Simon.

He recalled that, the Washington form of injury intended against Treaty of 1922 was one which would Gloria Vanderbilt, but it was en go on indefinitely, unless notice was bellished with a couple of circles given to terminate it. The London similar to those used by the Lind- Treaty of 1930, on the other hand, bergh baby kidnappers, was made for a fixed term and au- tomatically expires, at the end of 1986, unlees, as is contemplated and hoped, a new, Treaty could be nego- tiated.

Another difference between the

treaties was that the Washington Treaty, entered into with five great

powers, was one which dealt with limits in respect of capital ships, jaircraft carriers, and the maximum size of the biggest cruisers, whereas the London Treaty dealt with

WEDDING PRESENTS cruisers more in general, and with

VIEWED

Duke And Princess Drive To St. James

£30,000 FOR HOSPITAL AS GIFT TO ROYAL COUPLE

London, To-day.

destroyers, consequently both trea ties were in affect involved in the present deliberations..

(Continued on Page 10.j

ASSASSINATION ECHO

Hungarian Politician

-SHIELDING REAL CAUSE

stock before the A large crowd gathered outside Deplores "Calumnies” crash of the Buckingham Palace and cheered Utility Securl Princess Marina and HRH the ties Company,"1 Duke of Kent when they drove In regard to with Their Majesties the King dation and Queen "to St. James" Palace total yesterday afternoon to view their 1.S.841,wedding presents.

chequ Jing

620,

These make a wonderful dis

by the Govern play and include gifts from many

One shipload has arrived.

en doutement counsel, the defence declared countries. and ano Both

estimated that Insull had not received any of

them

Continued on

14The banks were outselling him."

counkel deciá

FRENCH POLITICAL LOSS

Reut

Continued on page 9)

WEATHER FORECAST.

Geneva, To-day. Dr. Echhardt, the Hungarian representative on

on Larrival elcomed the

MONMOUTH BEAT GLAMORGAN

County Rugby Series At Newport

OXFORD'S TRIUMPH

London, To-day, Monmouthshire beat Glamorgan by 16 points to 11 in the County Rugby Championship at Newport yesterday.

Preparing for their annual Varsity match at Twickenham. on December 11, Oxford Univer sity beat Mr. R. V. Stanley's fifteen by 12 points to 7-Rea ter

The Dark Blues have only three more games to play before the Twickenham classic. Lon don Scottish on Saturday, - v, Gloucester next Thursday, and y. Rosslyn Park on Monday next.

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