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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935. PRICE $3.00 Per Month

LADIES' AUTUMN FOOTWEAR.

NOW

ON

SALE

NOW ON

KOWLOON SHOP ONLY:

PAUL RENNET et CIE

Corner of Austin

Nathan Boada, Kowloon

MRS. CHARLES LINDBERGH GIVES EVIDENCE LASTING 45 MINUTES IDENTIFIES SLEEVELESS SHIRT

The new President of Mexico, General Lazaro Cardenas, is the youngest man ever to be elevated to the highest office in America's) neighbour republic. He is 39 years old, and of pure Indian blood."

SEVENTY-FOURTH

CONGRESS TO DEAL

WITH 2,400 BILLS

'JOE' BYRNS ELECTED SPEAKER

ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE AWAITED

FRED PERRY

GIVES IN

STATED TO BE ·

TURNING PRO

NEXT MARCH

$40,000 OFFER

HELEN- JACOBS WAVERS AS BRITISH PLAYER IS SAID TO ACCEPT OFFER

New York, To-day.

Britain, holder of the Davis Cup for the past two years, have receiv- ed an early setback for the 1935

serien.

Fred. J. Perry, world No. 1 ranking lawn tennis player, will turn professional after he arrives in San Francisco on March 23 from Australia, according to a statement made to Reuter by the professional tennis manager Bill O'Brien, who says that he is pay- ing Perry G$40,000.

Fred Perry has cabled to O'Brien asking him to have the contract ready when he arrives.

O'Brien adds in his statement, that he has cabled Helen Jacobs, 1984 Wimbledon finalist and America's No. 1 ranking lady play- er, and Mrs. Fearnley Whittingstall, the British ace, offering them G$20,-. 000 and G510,000 respectively, to John his professoional circus.

Washington, To-day. He further adds that Mrs. Fearni The seventy-fourth Congress, the

Fley Whittingstall (nee Eileen Ben- natt), has accepted his offer and greatest in the Democratic Party's that he expects Miss Helen Jacobs history met yesterday at noon for to follow suit-Reuter. a session which will deal with

CHAMPION'S CAREER

2,400 measures, many of which Frederick John Perry, is the son

are of great national importance. and Co-operative M.P. for Ketter- of Mr. S. J. Perry, formerly Labour Mr. "Joe" Byrns was elected ing. He is 25 years of age, and his Speaker of the House of Repre-rise in the tennis world has been sentatives, hut the legislative business of the session awaits the deliverance of President Roose- velt's 4.000-word message to

morrow.

There is general anxiety re- garding the budgetary situation. in view of the fact that the Treasury closed its books for the

meteoric.

(Continued on Page 9.)

APPEAL BY

ABYSSINIA

SURPRISES

first half of the fiscal year with a ROME NEGOTIATIONS

deficit of $1,699,935,000, while the public debt had reached the record figure of $28,478,664. Reuter.

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DYNAMITE SAVES DISASTER

Coimbra Cathedral Belfry Blown Up

BUILDINGS WRECKED, BUT NO CASUALTIES

Coimbra, To-day... With a view to averting a major catastrophe, the beffry. of the Santa Cruz cathedral which was yesterday report- ed to be tottering to its fail, has been deliberately blown -up-with dynamite,

IMPERILLED

LEAGUE TO CONSIDER QUESTION NEXT WEEK

Geneva, To-day. Abyssinia has appealed to the League of Nations under article -XI in connection with the fighting on the borders of Abyssinia and Italian Somall- land.

The Abyssinian government's telegraphic appeal to the League) of Nations alleges that Italian troops are massing` at GerlogubiĮ and have attacked' an Abyssinian garrison there, on December 28. Two Abyssinians were killed and

two were wounded by Italian air- craft flying over Gerlogubl. There

• The manacled Bruno Haupt- mann Ilters to the against him.

evidence

Lexington Enquiry

Veteran Hero At Helm

PANIC RUMOURS DENIED

New York, To-day An indiate enquiry has been ordered into the disaster to the s.s. Lexington, four of whose crew are now reported missing.

وبان

PIERRE LAVAL

SETS OFF ON

BIG MISSION

GREAT SEND OFF

AT PARIS

FRANCO-ITALIAN: HOPES

Paris, To-day

M. Pierre Laval, the French Foreign Minister, left at 8,20 last night by the Paris Rome express and resounding shouts of "Vive Laval," and "Italie."

He was seen off by the Czecho- slovakian and Yugoslavian Minis tera, M.-Politis, the Greek Minis- ter, and General Denain, also a group of red-shirted and bemed alled Garibaldians, the greyhair. jed leader of whom warmly wished MLaval bon voyage and good luck.

The enquiry will be conducted by]

Before entering the train; M. Laval made a statement that he was happy to go to Rome to seal

Franco-Italian friendship and to John Lindbergh, second son of Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh, is photographed work with Premier Benito Mussolini for the first time as his famous mother cacerts him from kindergarten near on a task which was never more his Englewood, NJ., home where he plays three hours each morning. The indiapensable, namely the recon. little fellow is 27 months old, having been born five and a half months after

| the kidnapping and death of the Lindberghs' first børn in,1982. ciliation of their two peoples,

--

The Italian Ambassador to Paris travelled by the same train Rau ter.

(Continued on Page 10)

TILDEN HAS DOUBTS)

New York, Later. Tilden told Reuter that he was of the opinion.

FRONTIER INCIDENT

IN KWANGTUNG

that Porry may Bill CHINESE MERCHANT KILLED BY

withheld turning professional un- til after the 1985 Davis Cup ser lea is over. Perry is due in San Francisco on February 28 not March 28-Reuter.

SHIPPING DISPUTE DEADLOCK

OWNERS' MEETING

TO-DAY

GUILD DEMAND COMPLIANCE BY TO-MORROW

FRENCH SOLDIERS

[From "Ohe Own Correspondent]

Canton, To-day.

"I PUT IT ON MYSELF"

HAUPTMAN'S

UNEASINESS

THROUGHOUT

COL. LINDBERGH IN WITNESS BOX

CRASH DURING NIGHT

Flemington, To-day.

In

In a low voice and with eyes filled with tears, Mrs. Charles A. Lind- bergh yesterday gave evidence, lasting 45 min- utes, in the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, a German carpenter, who is charged with the kid- napping and murder of the Lindbergh baby in 1932. The Flemington courthouse was again crowded to capacity.

She described

ographi of, her baby's

and tiny

eless put it on myself.

Because French Colonial troops in Indo-China opened fire and killed a Chinese merchant in Fangshing, South-western Kwan lessly in his chair through- tung, the native town of General Chen Chi-tang, Canton military chief, the Fangshing county government has telegraphed an ac edunt of the matter to the Kwangtung Provincial Government ask- ing for instructions on how to deal with the situation..

SZECHUEN

TROOPS LEAVE

MENACED AREA

Captain Fried, the veteran hero off my clients sign the agreement CONCENTRATION ON

many ses rescues,

The captain of the Lexington has denied the reports that a panic occurred after the collision. Pas sengers also confirm that the crew behaved in the most orderly way Reuter,

(Continued on Page 14.)

NAVAL OFFICERS HONOURED

Military O.B.E. In New Year's List

Shanghai, To-day, Two naval officers, well- known on the China Coast, are included fo the New Year honours Ust

They are Lieut. Comman der E. H. Hopkinson, staff

KWEICHOW

INEXPLICABLE MOVE

[From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, To-day.

****** Hauptmann - stirred res

out his gruelling ordeal. Colonel Lindbergh, famous American afrman, then gave evidence, saying that he heard a

According to the report of the crash during the night of the magistrate of Fangshing county, kidnapping, such as would have several convicts in a gaol in French been caused by a ladder falling territory close to the Chinese bor- outside the house

der escaped from confinement and The prosecuting counsel, dur-

crossed over on to Chinese soll ing his address earlier, made a French troops were in pursuit of significant disclosure about the the fugitives and opened fired on ladder, declaring "Hauptmann them, but instead of hitting the got this ladder right around his- fleeing convicts, the soldiers killed a neck. He took part of the mater- well-to-do merchant who was on the lal to his attic and there built the

ladder with it" Reuter. Chinese side of the border,

(Continued on Page 9) NEW ANGLE TO CRIME

Flemington, later.

drawn up by the China Const Officers' Guild by to-morrow the Captain W. E. Kirby, Secretary of |shipping strike will be called off, the Guild, informed me this mor-

The county authorities took up presentative of the six ship-owners ning," stated Mr. Peter H. Sin, re

the matter with the French authori- ties, but did not receive satisfaction.. concerned in the strike, to the Momentous developments are Finally, they asked the Kwangtung Mr. Edward Belly, defence coun- China Mat this morning.

taking shape in Kwelchow follow Provincial Government to settle the sel in the Hauptman Trial, has an- Two of Mr. Sin's clients, the ing the entrance of the Commun matter. The county officials main rounced plans to broadcast bis ad- owners of the s.5, Chuen Chow and ista into the Province. The latest tained that the French troops should dress and has said that the defence the s.s. Lee Hong, who have already advice to hand states that the

not have opened fire when the con-will seek to prove the didnapping agreed to reign the agreement and Szechuan divisions are moving to victs crossed the frontier and enter was planned in the Lindbergh's pay the arbitration scale of wages, wards Kwelichow with the object

home, but not by a member of the instructed him this morning not to of assisting General Huang Chised Chinese territory,

The Kwangtung Provincial Gov family implicated. He added that sign the agreement. Heh, Chairman of the Kwelchow ernment will consider this Incident

"All my clients agree to pay the Provincial Government, in stamp on Friday, as officials are still absent, disclosed to the Court, are involved five persons, whose names will be arbitration scale of wages, but they ing out the Reds.

enjoying a three-day New Year and said that the child was carried

refuse to sign the agreement drawn While Szechuen troops are on holiday. jup by the Guild" stated Mr. Sin the move to save Kwelebow, Can- They had, he added, agreed to con- ton leaders say that Szechuan te

(Continued on page 9.) S

being over-run by the Communists CRISIS

are also tanks in the neighbourhood.officer et Shanghai, and Sur- STOP PRESS

It requests the application of

It crashed in the principal Article XI of the Covenant and thoroughfare, completely demol ishing both the post office and that every measure for effectually safeguarding peace should be taken.

the prison.

Nobody was injured, but the (Continued on Page 14)

electricity, transport and tele-

phone services, ara interrupted

geon-Commander D. W C Murray, medical officer at Wel-Hal-Wei

Both have received the O.B.E. (Military); — Reuter,

and the city is cut off from the Canton Municipal Projects

remainder of the country

3 CHILDREN HAVE NARROW

to the

istrue

(From Our Own Correspondent) -- man engineering firms are pre-

As par

gns to sul Canton, To-day-Foreign ten-Mu ESCAPE IN RICKSHAW ders, with designs, are invited by

the Canton Municipal Govern Lorry No. 8109 crashed into pument for a new Pearl blio rickshaw No. 400 this mornbridge, to link Canton

at about 10:30 am. In Queen's Tai Ping Road South, nea near the King's Theatre. The Hong Kong steamer whary

Ngo Chow in Ho

children

rickshaw was badly

this locati

est part of the River

British

and are asking Nanking troops to procced: Immediately to Szechuan. (Continued on Page 1)

HITLER DENOUNCES CAMPAIGN OF LIES

IN

downstairs from the house rather than by the ladder from the nursery window.

Mr. Reilly, who has appeared in over 1,000 murder trials in the last 25 years gave an example of why hele com

fered one of the ablest s in the United at the conclu of his

LOOMS JAPAN

Europe-And U.S. Will defer

Feel Repercussions

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Auckland, To-day, Germany. Worthy Home

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