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PAUL RENNETS

SALE of

“CB" Corsetry

NOW ON

PRICE $3.00 Per Month

PACIFIC WAR GAMES

GAMES DECLARED TO BE ONLY ANNUAL MANOEUVRES

NO SINISTER MOVE ON AMERICA'S PART NORMANDIE

After a letter threatening. Pre- sident Roosevelt, was received at the White House, the Secret Ser- vice men arrested Thomas F. Mer- phy (above) at Boston sender.

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. CONDITIONS ON

the

JAPANESE ASSERTIONS DENIED BY SWANSON

POSSIBILITIES OF AERIAL ATTACK

NOT BEING TESTED

TERRITORIAL WATERS TO BE RESPECTED

Washington, To-day.

The manoeuvres of the American fleets in the Pacific are not aimed at Japan, declared Mr. Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of the United States Navy, at a Press conference yesterday. He added that he did not object to the Japanese fleet manoeuvring in the North Pacific provided it did not come within 2,000 miles of the west coast of America.

Commenting on the statement that the American fleet ap- proached too close to Japanese territory. Mr. Swanson said that he had repeatedly ordered that no units of the American fleet should cross the 180th meridian. He added that the approaching Japanese war games would bring the Japanese ships closer to Hawai than American vessels go to Japan.

He added: "We.consider Hawaii our territory, but we have CHINA COAST ab protest to make. The fleets are bound to manoeuvre some-

STORM CLOUDS ON.

HORIZON

BRITISH SHIPPING MEN DISSATISFIED

A

The conditions which resulted in a large portion of the shipping men on the China Coast calling a

where.

GOVERNORS

FAREWELL

TO COUNCIL

Presides At Meeting For Last Time

strike in June 1927, are once again POULTRY QUESTIONS ANSWERED în evidence, the China Maul is able to disclose on reliable information | received this morning.

One outstanding instance which was cited to our representative

Referring to the assertion of the Japanese Admiral Kato, that the manoeuvres came within 1,250 miles or 10 hours' fight of Japanese territory, Mr. Swanson emphatically denied that the

manoeuvres were designed to test the possibility of an air at tack. Reuter.

¡PLANS FOR A

FRANCO-SOVIET

CONFERENCE

Multilateral Pact To Be Drafted

OUTCOME OF LAVAL'S VISIT TO MOSCOW

His Excellency the Governor. ¡Sir William Peel, presided for the last time at a meeting of the Legislative Council held this. afternoon. A full roster of mem- that of the s-s. King Lee,bers was present, consisting of which 13 now lying at Taikoo the following:- Dock The local office of the com- H.E. the General Officer Comf pany is given

was

Road, West.

as No. 25 Queen's manding the Troops, Major-General 10. C. Borrett, CB, CMG, C.B.E.,

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Mr. Clande clated yesterday

A. Swanson de

that there was

no sinister motive behind, the U.S. Pacific Fleet manoeuvres.

SHOOTING OUTRAGE

· EDITOR VICTIM OF GUNMAN Devoted Wife's Futile Sacrifice

CREW JOINS

FRENCH STRIKE

Maiden Voyage Unikely To Be Delayed

SEAMEN'S UNION CLAIMS

Le Havre, To-day- Representatives of the Seamen's Union claim that 10,000 workers have been rendered idle as a result

of the crew of 1200 on the liner Normandie and crews of 800 on two, other French liners walking off from their ships.

The men are asking for 15 days" holiday a year with pay, old age pensions, and monthly payments, in- cluding time spent in harbour. Itj is not thought that the maiden voyage of the Normandie on May) 29 will be delayed-Reuter.

The United States Congres has voted the Congressional Medal to Major General Adolphus Washing- ton Greely, of Washington, D.C. who led the "farthest north" ex- pedition just 55 years ago. medal will be presented to him on his birthday.

5 YEARS OF PROGRESS

SIR WM. PEEL'S

WELL EARNED

RETIREMENT

Important Dates During Tenure of Governorship

SEVERAL ANXIOUS PERIODS

His Excellency the Governor, Sur Wilkam Peel, KCMG/KRE, and Lady Peel are leaving on wel-carn- ed retirement by the Empress of Japan to-morrow." His Excellency leaves behind him a fine record of work accomplished doing his five years' tenure of the position of Governor and Commander-in-Chiff of Hong Kong, and the good withes

of everybody in the Colony will ful

low him in the Indian Summer

his days

His Excellency was born on February. 27, 1875, at Boston Spa, Yorkshire, the son of the Rev. E. Peel He was educated. at Silcoates School and Queen's College, Cambridge. where he

was

11th Wrangler in 1896. gaming his BA degree the same Master's degree in 1931, when be year He was awarded his was also made an honorary Fel-

kow of his colleze

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT TO BE RECONSTRUCTED?

RUMOURS AGAIN RIFE IN

POLITICAL CIRCLES

London, To-day. Talk of a reconstruction of the Government and even of a general election in the Autumn has revived now that the end of the India Bill is in sight.

Reconstruction is expected to come some vine as a Cadef in 1897, his sucres He joined the Malayan Civil Ser time, partly because of the excessive strain of sive posts in that service including A sensational shooting outrage the Premiership on Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, ang, in 1925, and Chief Secretary that of Resident Councillor, Pen of the city's most fashionable Who carries out a prodigious amount of reading to the Government, FMS 1926- squares when a gunman shot. Senor with troublesome eyesight, and partly because of 30 Finally His Excellenty officiat Meroqueseda, the wealthy proprie the normal opportunities for re-arrangement Government and High Commis ed as Officer Administering the tor and editor of the paper E

which occur during the long life of any Govern-sioner, FMS, during May and

June 1927.

*IMPORTANT DATES Rumour was at its busiest last

The following are important evening and the likeliest story dates in His Excellency's tenure of circulating in the lobby is that the Governorship of Hong Kong: Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Stanley Baldwin will change places dur ing the whitson recess.

Lima, To-day-

occurred in broad daylight, in one

Commercia, with a revolve

The wife threw herself in frontment. of her husband and both fell mer tally wounded by five shots.

The gunman then tumed the gun on himself, and was wounded. Reuter

“DANGER LINE”

Tension Increases

Illinois

SALES TAX DEMANDS. AGAIN IGNORED

In

This vessel was formerly flying D.S.O.: the Hon. the Colonial

Moscow, To-day. the Chinese flag, but the owners, Secretary, Sir Thomas Southern A joint communique on the de- for reasons that are obvious, dejKB.E. C.M.G.; the Hon. the Attor-sult of the conversations between cided to run the vessel under the ney General, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, M. Laval and the Soviet leaders British ensign. To do this they KC. O.B.E.; the Hon. the Secretary emphasises that both countries must employ a British master, alfor Chinese Affairs, Mr. N. L. are striving for the same end: chief officer, and a chief and

se- Smith; the Hon. the Colonial Trea-the maintenance. of peace cond engineer.

surer. Mr. Edwin Taylor; the Hon. through the organisation of gen- the Deputy Inspector-General ör eral security. Police, Mr. D. Burlingham; the It adds that the conclusion of Hoo.

Springfield, Ilk, To-day. Commander

Hole, the Franco-Soviet pact in no way G. F. RN. (Retired), Harbour Master: detracts from the aim of forming

For the fourth time the Dlinois the Hon. Dr. W. B. A. Moore, Direa regional Eastern European pact

House of Representatives failed to tor of Medical and Sanitary Ser-of non-aggression. consultation, pass the 3 per cent. Sales Tax de vices; the Hon. Director of Pable and non-assistance to an aggres.manded by the Governor to provide Works, Mr. R. M. Henderson; and Sox, and that the two Govern- funds for the State to qualify for the following unofficial membersments will continue their effort Federal relief grants, The Hon. Sir W. E. I. Shenton, Kt, to bring about the formation of the Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell, the Hon. such a pact Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G. ~ LL.D., the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, the Hon. (Continued on Page 9)

OPIUM TRAFFIC IN FAR EAST

Japanese Delegate Invited To Geneva Conference

DR. HOO'S OPINION

Geneva, To-day- The opium seizure com-

mittee has decided to ask the Japanese representative to attend and give evidence concerning the illicit traffic in the Far East.

Dr. Hoo, the Chinese delegate, said that he would welcome Jap-1 anese collaboration, but he ques tioned whether a State which had left the League, as Japan had done. was legally entitled to collaborate in the work and, therefore, he felt that he and the cozamittee were not in a position to express an opinion-Reuter.

JOHN BUCHAN HONOURED

London, to-day. It is officially

In the meantime, with 200,000 unemployed and their families cu. off from relief, the situation is becoming worse and is nearing the

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LAVAL LEAVES FOR WARSAW: "danger line”

Some 2,000 unemployed demon- Laval,strated at a -mass meeting in

Moscow, to-day.-M

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SOUTHERN CROSS French Foreign Minister, has de Chicago, while crowds of excited

DRAMA

Navigator's Heroism Saves Crew

Sydney, To-day.

parted for Warsaw to attend the spectators, jammed the galleries of funeral of the late Marshal Pilsud the State Legislature at Spring-į

ski-Reuter.

field--Renter,"

Large Expansion Revealed

ELEVATION OF LEGATIONS

TO EMBASSIES.

Sino-Japanese Move To Be Effective To-mOITOW

Nanking to-day. The elevation of the China Legation in Japan and in the Japanese Legation in China to the rank of Embassies will be simultaneously announced in Nanking and Tokyo to moTTOM. Mr. Suma visited Mr. Tang Yu-gen at 5 pm. yesterday, when the arrangement 2003 made. Reuter.

JAPANESE

ALLEGED TO

WANT MACAO

Rumour Cabled From Shanghai

OFFICIALS GOING TO LISBON TO NEGOTIATE

[From Our Own Correspondent] -

Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith In Britain's Overseas Trade day a cable dispatch from Shang-

and his two companions, who narrowly escaped drowning while flying to Tasmania and had jettisoned their cargo of mail, owe their safety to daring act by Mr. Taylor, the navigator, who climbed on to the struts, carrying a Thermog flask in a handbag, and ̋ob.

stated that HM the King has ap-tained oil from the dud centre

proved the conferment of a Barony of the United Kingdom on Colonel John Buchan, Governor-General Designate of the Dominion of Canada-Reater.

engine and used it to revive

the sick motor, thereby en- abling the Southern Croes to reach Mascot zerodrome. Reuter

Canton, To-day. The Min Kaw Jin Poo, the local official paper, published on Tues

hai stating that Japan is plan- Mining to buy Macao as a naval London, to-day Expansion intirely to shipments of manufac-and aerial base and commercial, Britain's overseas trade is revealed tured goods. For the first four centre to feed South China with in the figures for April published months of the current year the ex-Japanese goods. by the Board of Trade

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LOCAL TENNIS.

STARS INVITED

TO GO NORTH

Invitations Sent To Ranking Players

SATISFACTORY RESPONSE FROM LADIES

Although the Interport tennis contest for the Taggart Shield does

1930

May 9. His Excellency lands in Colony, and is greeted at Queen's Pier by the Hon Mr. W. T Southborn, Officer Administering the Government; HE. Rear-Admiral R. A. 8. HL, and HE. Major General J. W. Sandilands

May 31-Attends opening ceremony of HK. Flying Club.

Je 3-Takes salute at King's

Birthday parade

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GALLANTRY AT

SEA

Kumsang Chief Officer Honoured

not take place until late September Mr. J. Fant, chief officer of the or early October, in Shanghai this Indo-China SS. Co's Kinsang, year, present indications are that who

already the reci the Colony, will be able to send up pient of the Royal Humane So

team, as there has been a'ciety Badge for gallantry at sea.. ready response to the invitations was further honoured this after- which were sent to all 1934 rank; noon when he was presented with ing tennis players, and particular the Bar of the Boyal. Humane ly from the ladies' section.

Society by the Harbour Master, Judging from the present ac Commander G. F. Hole, B.N. (Be ceptances, the ladies' section will tired) in the presence of the Hon be very strong for Miss E. Hancock, Mr. JI Paterson, and other. runner-up in the Ladies Open Sin directors of Jardine, Matheson & gles, Miss M. Griffiths, a quarter Co., Ltd finalist, Miss A Mackenzie, another (Continued on Page 12)

WEATHER FORECAST

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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA STILL UNCONSCIOUS

The anticyclone is moving] London, To-day Aircrati eastward and now extends from T. E. Shaw, better known as Law-

cess of imports over exports of Japanese officials, according to east China to south-west Japan rence of Arabia, who was gravely Imports were 6 per cent more merchandise amounted to £811 mil-the report. are on their way to The depression is moving east injured in a motor cycle accident than in April of last year, and those lion, or $14 million less than in the Lisbon to negotiate for the purward across Hokkaido. A de on Monday, is still reported, to be of articles wholly or mainly manu- corresponding period of 1934 chase of Macao, although the pression appears to be forming unconscious, British Wireless factured were of greater value than Owing to the Easter holidays there Portuguese Government may not to the east of the Southern Phi-Service.

in any month since February 1932, were fewer working days in April agree to this sale As this matlippines The local forecast for Lawrence of Arabia is still un- except last October than in the previous month, and theter is in its preliminary stage, to-day, as issued by the Royal conscious and his condition is an- Exports showed an increase of 10 comparisons were affected by this everything is being done in the Observatory this morning, was changed, but it is stated that the per cent, as compared with April factor gez

Tutmost secrecy.

east winds, fresh to moderate; hopes of ultimate recover 1934, the rise being due almost en-

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cloudy

likely to improve.