1935-01-14 — Page 1

Carnation

"From Contented Cows"

THERE'S CREAM

IN

EVERY DROP

The dollar, on demand, closed to-day, at 1/8 B-4.

The

FINAL EDITION

China Mail

Carnation

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

Est. 1845.

THE OLDEST - ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST

No. 28,932

HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1935. PRICE $3.00 Per Month

Est. 1545.

BEAUTIFUL

JOSEPHINE C GOWNS

For The Early Spring

PAUL RENNET et CIE

190, Nathan Rd.

Kowloon.

GERMANY FORESEES 80 PER CENT TRIUMPH IN SAAR PLEBISCITE

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U.S. Train HITLER TO FORMULATE LAWS

Crash

AUGUSTA SPECIAL DERAILED

Luggage Van Ends Up In Barber's Shop

Charlotte, North Carolina,

To-day.

Two people were killed and two injured when six coaches of the crack Southern Rail- way's "Augusta Special" were derailed.

The engine and two coaches overturned and the luggage van, which fell 30 feet down an eimbankment, crashed. through into the barber's shop of an hotel. Reuter.

U.S. RELIEF WORK ALLOCATIONS

Automobile Strike.

May Be Averted

INFLATIONISTS HOPE TO SEE NATIONALISED BANKING

The use of part of the $4,000.- 000,000 allocated for relief work to assist in private industrial fin- ancing is now under discussion, states a special Washington cable to Messrs. S. E. Levy and Com

pany.

Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler photo. graphed while enjoying a holiday at his newly acquired mountain home,

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TRAGEDIES IN

SHANGHAI

Russian Cabaret Girl Found Dead By Soldier Lover

YOUNG EUROPEAN WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE

Shanghai, To-day. Several tragedies occurred in ||Shanghai during the week-end.

While the Administration, an- nounces that labour conditions are.

A Russian cabaret girl named better than they were a year ago

Olga Diakonova, aged industry itself is feeling less

29, optimistic, although it is hoped that was found dead in her attic room the threatened strike in the auto-by a private of the Inniskilling Fusiliers who had befriended her. mobile industry may be avoided.

Wage costs in this line have been A 17-year-old Russian girl, who increased by 33 per cent, and gen-had been forbidden by her parents

COMPLETE ORDERLINESS

AT BALLOT

GOOD HUMOUR SHOWN BETWEEN

BITTER OPPONENTS

NAZIS AND COMMUNISTS JOKE TOGETHER

BERLIN, TO-DAY. REICHSFUEHER ADOLF HITLER WILL HEAR THE RESULT OF THE SAAR PLEBIS CITE AT HIS MOUNTAIN HOME AT BERCH- TESGADEN, WHERE HE IS NOW STAYING.

The Wilhelmstrasse was most optimistic last night regarding the result. In some quarters the forecast is that 80 per cent, will vote for Germany.

The programme of events following the Saar's return is being discussed. First several questions-must be settled with France, including the mines and the replacement of French currency by Reichsmarks and the revision of the Franco-German trade agree ment, allowing for the priviloges which France has hitherto en- joyed in the Saar.

CERTAIN LAWS WILL BE PASSED BY REICHLEADER HITLER AFTER GERMANY HAS TAKEN OVER THE SAAR. THESE ARE UNDERSTOOD TO BETONE CLAIMING REICH 80VEREIGNTY OVER THE SAAR; SECONDLY, DEAL- ING WITH GERMANY'S CUSTOMS SOVEREIGNTY; THIRD- LY, REGULATING THE DEALING IN FOREIGN CURRENCY; FOURTHLY, PROVIDING THE MEANS TO PAY THE SAAR- LANDERS FRENCH DEBTS. REUTER.

Saarbruecken, To-day AUTOMOBILE CLUB is estimated that 97 per cent. of the electorate had voted when the booths closed at 8 o'clock last juight.

BOMBED

Nazi Headquarters. Objective

Saarbruccken, To-day. It is reported that a bomb was yesterday thrown into the offices of the German Automo, bile Club at Neukirchen, the headquarters of the local Nazi party,

One wounded assailant escap.

Reuter.

eral costs by 19 per cent. the in-to see a married man, took a quan-ed, firing-at-his-pursuers dustry. is therefore unwilling to tity of potassium permanganate. agree to any further increase, as it She is seriously ill, but is recover- can only keep active now owing to ing... attractively-priced products,

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DERELICT MENACE

TO SHIPPING

Shum Chih To Tow Asia To Colony

The derelict steamship

Toa

Maru of Osaka, with the name of

Complete orderliness prevailed. everywhere and good bumour be- tween bitter opponents marked the closing of the booth presided over by the British supervisor, Mr. Ren Greene, Nazi and Communist.assis- |tants" laughingly vicing with each⋅(

other to help him seal the urn.·

A huge crowd outside... the town hall polling station watched the Saar pollicemen bring out the urns and broke into a roar of cheering, with-- shouts of "Hell Hitler" and Nazi salutes.

The whole throng sang the German

Kosaburo Tukano, the owner of SHANGHAI WOMAN national anthem and the "Horst-

a food stand in a Japanese theatre

in Hongkew, surrendered to the police as the slayer of Masayoshi

CASTS VOTE.

Akashi, proprietor of a Japanese General Goering's Plane

At Her Service

danee hall, whom he stabbed in the back, following a Quarrel-Reu- ter.

WEATHER FORECAST

Shanghai, To-day. The Shanghai woman mentioned i as having made a 16-daya' journey vla Siberia to cast her vote at Pressure has increased consider Saarbruecken yesterday, is Frau

Her arrival in Berlin was delay-

wessel" song when the urna were carried off in lorries guarded by the detachment of East Lancashires en route to Wartburg, where all the

Saarbuecken urns are now assem- bled. The others will arrive by train all through the night, guard- od by troops-Reuter.

Promising Outlook

Geneva, to-day Prospects of a speedy settlement

Asia also painted on the stern and ably over Mongolia. An irregular Ida Mondenach. bow, situated Latitude 21 north, anticyclone covers China, Mongolis, Longitude 118 east (about 150 and Manchuria with an extensioned two days on account of snow of the Saar question looked brighter miles due south of the Colony), is south-eastward over Japan, The storms in Russia, but she managed last night. slowly drifting in a south-west direc-local forecast for to-day; as issued to reach Saarbruecken in time to tion states a wireless message re- by the Royal Observatory, was east vote, through ceived by the Harbour Master from and south-east winds, moderate, placing an aeroplane at her dia the captain of the s.s. Apoey which freshening later north-east posal-Keuter..

is standing by.

The position is very dangeroua

to navigation states the message

as there are no signs of life on

board the derelict.

The 6.8, Shun Chih, of the Wo Fat Shing Company, left last night to tow in the derelict ship, and not to relieve the s.8. Apoey of her -passengers,

COLONY TENNIS SEMI-FINAL

L. Goldman and Miss R. Han cock, favourites for the title, will meet Capt. Manners R N. and Mrs. Grimble in the Semi-Final] Round of the Colony Mixed Dou- bles Lawn Tennis Championship at the GR. C. on Wednesday, commencing at 4 pm

The marriage will shortly take place between Theodore. Hammeh Shearman Allen; Engineer of Mears Thos. Cook and Son, and Florence Mulholland, of the same addrers

Splain, leave

The peaceful completion of the

omen for the rapid settling of General Goering plebiscite is regarded as a good formalities, every effort being mado to ensure the question being "dis- posed of at the present session of the League Council-Reuter..

SAAR REFUGEES NOT WELCOME

Holland Issues Orders To Frontier Guards

The Hague, to-day It is officially reported that Dutch Government baa- the fro

pecti

A knighthood and the Nobel Prize in medicine are proposed for Dr. Awlan Ray Dafoe, the backwoods practitioner who saved The Dlonne quintuplets. Dr. Dafoe is to visit the eastern Amerl can cities to tell doctor there of his experiences with the famous bables born in the Canadian-wilds,

Helmuth Bracckner, who has been relieved of the Nazl governor- ship.of Bilesia, is believed to have lost his post because of his open" opposition to the new economic policies of the Party.

CANTON - NANKING RAPPROCHEMENT

IS NO NEARER

Hu Han-min Will Not Go To Nanking

STICKS TO HIS ORIGINAL PEACE TERMS

CURRENCY QUESTION

RELATIONSHIPS

BETWEEN STERLING

DOLLAR AND FRANC

DISCUSSIONS AT

BASLE

BRITISH TREASURY OBSTACLE TO STABILISATION ·

London, To-day.

The relations of sterling to the dollar and the franc are under- stood to have been the chief topic at the monthly meeting of the Bank of International Settlements held at Basle yesterday, which was at- tended by Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England and M. Tannery, the new Governor of the Bank of France, according

to the "Financial Times," mak

In Paris It is believed that the 'main obstacle to the international

NAVAL INSPECTION stabilisation of currency is the

TO-MORROW

1,152 Ratings To Take Part

PLANES TO SWOOP FAST SALUTING BASE

Six companies, comprising 1,152 men, will be taking part in the Royal Navy Lispection by

British Treasury, which, it is re- ported, considers such a step in- opportune at the present time, in view of the danger of stabilising

the pound with the dollar at its

present level and will not move until there is a considerable re- laxation in the existing trade re- striction and also a revised agreement fa come to respecting. inter-Allied debts.

Thems is also some scepti cism as to whether President Roosevelt Is willing to stabilise

His Excellency the Commander-the dollar at its present level, in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Frederick Dreyer, K.C.B., C.B.E.,

at Happy Valley to-morrow at 10.15 a.m.

thus abandoning his preroga=? tive of further devaluation. Leading French financial circles opine that France would refrain: Capt. Errol Manners, of H.M.S. from any attempt to re-adapt the Suffolk, will be in command of the frame to a new possible level of the naval ratings who will wear march- dollar and sterling in the event of ing order and who will be drawn their stabilisation. from the following vessels:

The Financial Tim New York

"A" Company (240 men) from Kent correspondent states that the Bälted and Suffolk.

States Government may declare a "B" Company (240 men) from moratorium if the Supreme Court Cornwall, Hermes, and Adventare.

"C" Company (240 men) from 8th Destroyer Flotilla.

"D" Company "(180" men) Medway, Bruce, Falmouth, and Submarine Flotilla

че Companу [Royal Marinen.

decides the abrogation of the gold clause is unconstitutional, as such a from ruling would add a staggering th amount to Government, corporation

(180 men) from and other gold-rlause debts.

Wall Street, however, belleves

F Company (18 to each guns that the Court will uphold the abro- Howitzer Battery of four guns. gation, but that the decision will be

Fifteen aircraft from H.M.S. hedged so that the case, can be re-. Hermes will swoop past the saluting viewed later. Reuter, base, weather permitting. The morning. planes practiced the manoeuvre this

CAR SKIDS AND TURNS OVER

European Lady Driver Uninjured

MAGAZINE GAP ROAD MISHAP

FALSE REPORTS IN

NORTH

Circulated To Benefit

Nanking Bonds

[From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, Saturday,

MR. HU REITERATES HOPES. Reports

of a coming Canton-

FOR PEACE AND UNITY Nanking co-operation, and the in- vitation of Mr. Hu Han-min to

From Our Own Correspondent] Nandag, as circulated by press dis patches from Shanghai, are dis have had fatal consequences, occur- An accident, which might easily

Canton, To-day. counted in well informed circles red yesterday evening at six o'clock, king news agency stating that

Reports circulated by a Nan here

It is learned that unless there is a bar 2826, and driven by Miss M, G. the South-west Political Council, when an Austin Seven tourer, num Mr. Hsiao Fu-chon. a member of change in the policy of the Chlaus Patterson, of No. 2 Conduit Road, is "gravely ill" are now revealed Kai-shek Government, Mr. Hu Han-skidded and overturned on Magazine to be without foundation, as the min will not go to Nanking or pro Gap Road, at a point 100 yards from veteran leader was visited last ceed abroad. It is also said that the Stubbs Road corner, Mr. Liu Lu-vin,, right-hand man

Mr. Hu Han-min, is not any political mission at

In an interview at Bhi Wang Ching-wel Executive Yuan, years thes

levening by his friends and col The spot where the accident took leagues and discussed political place was situated near the affairs with them Mr. Hsiao is sidence of Dr. J. M. Gray, of No. 518 in the best of health. The Peak,

The reporta from the same. Miss Paterson, who was alone in source stated sometime ago that the car and who was returning Mr. Belas would soon, return to some, was uninj

Bangkok for goot

LOCAL NAVAL TRAGEDY

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