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MORE DEFECTIONS FROM CANTON

FOUR TORPEDO-BOATS DESERT

MARTIAL LAW AT BOCCA TIGRIS FORTS

¡From Our Own Correspondent:

Canton, To-day.

Four torpedo-boats of the Canton flotilla, representing the -cream of the naval force, deserted from Whampoa late yester- day afternoon and have since declared their support of the Cen- tral Authorities. The four torpedo-boats arrived at Hong Kong at 8.45 p.m. last night.

The Bocca Tigris forts on the estuary of the Pearl River sighted the four craft passing at about 7 pm, and signalled them enquiring, where they were going at that hour. The command. ing officers of the four boats ignored the signals and sped past.

NO ANTI-JAPANESE EXPEDITION

Proposal Rejected By Plenary Session Of CEC;

Sanking, To-day. The plenary session of the Central Executive' Council of the Kuomintang has rejected a pro- pczal to launch an anti-Japanese expedition--Eeater.

PANIC PREVALENT IN CANTON

GENERAL YU ASSUMES SUPREME COMMAND PEDESTRIANS AND MOTORISTS SEARCHED

From Our Own Correspondent]

Being a new hand, the com mandant of the forts believed

ASSASSINATED IN SPAIN

DASTARDLY CRIME BY "POLICEMEN” MURDER AGGRAVATES

STRIKE SITUATION TEN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION

This latest picture of Farouk I, King of Egypt, shows the 16-year-old that the torpedo boats were boy who rules the ancient land of the pyramids as be arrived at Saids Zenah carrying out exercises and made mosque, Cairo, for worship last month. no attempt to stop them. Since last night martial law has been declared at, Boces Tigris, for fear that other gunboats may desert.

Two of the torpedo boats were

Madrid, To-day.

Senor Calvo Sotelo, a leading Conservative politician and possible dictator in the event of the Rightists' returning to power, was found mur- dered in a cemetery here yesterday.. Whether he was killed after arrest in the morning or at the hands of political adversaries who tricked him from his house is not known.

A body of men described as a Lieutenant of the shock police, several other policemen and two Civil Guards, presented them- selves at his residence and arrested Senor Sotelo, but the chiefs of the police and the Civil Guard express ignorance of the mat- In the meantime the political situation is critical, the Cabinet ter. holding a protracted meeting. No strikers have returned to work, despite the Government's orders to that effect.

LOCAL FETE NATIONALE work, despite

CELEBRATIONS

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Later: The Sotelo murder is likely to evoke extensive Fas cist and Monarchist reprisals on account of new facts discovered relating to the crime. The body was found in the river, not the cemetery, covered with knife and hatchet wounds. The assas

built by Thornycroft, Ltd, Eng PLEASANT FUNCTION AT FRENCH sins are stated not to have been police but Radical hooligans dis-

land, and the other two

were

two torpedo

CONSULATE

guised as police officers.

Later: A Captain, four Lieutenants and five men « af the shock police have been ar- rested on suspicion of murder-

ordered from Italy. Each boat? has a speed of 45 knots and is equipped with

Judging by the very large and cosmopolitan gathering which tuts, machine-guns and depth charges. The rest of the Can- attended the reception given by the French Consul-General, M.ing Senor Sotelo, Reuter.

~Madrid:"Absther grave (mur- armed Jules Luereum, at his residence in Peak Road this morning to RIGHT PARTIES SEETHING. ton navy are launches. The biggest ship is mark the anniversary of the Fete Nationale, the occasion would

body of the Spanish Monarchist the light cruiser Shao Ho, but perhaps be better described as the "Fete internationale," for every der was discovered when the dead her engines are out of commis- community in the Colony joined in the rejoicings.

sion.

mere

It is rumoured that more! generals are being induced by Nanking to go over to their side. LOCAL ENQUIRIES

Local enquiries this morning jelicited the following informa-

tion:-

The two Torpedo Boats, No. 1) and No. 4, of the Canton Navy, arrived in Hong Kong at 8.45 pm) last Sunday night, making the journey between Canton and the Colony in the record time of 2

hours. Canton, To-day.

They were anchored off Stone-

the direction of Taikoo Docks!

General Yu Hon-mou, who has just been ap cutter's Island, but this morning pointed Pacification Commissioner of Kwang- mysteriously left their berths and tung, replacing his superior officer, General Chen proceeded through the harbour in Chi-tang, is expected to reach Ta Yu, Southern They were seen passing the Bath- Kiangsi, this afternoon as a prelude to assump-ing Pavilions at North Point by numerous people, but, instead of tion of supreme military power here.

coming alongside the dockyard Although General Chen Chi-tang has been dismissed from his post as Pacification Commissioner of Kwangtung, he had walls, they left the waters of the Colony for an unknown destina- never assumed that post and retains his self-appointed title as

It is presumed that they! tion.

Commander-in-Chief of the First Group Army. It is not yet cer- have left for Swatow, where they

PALESTINE UNREST

Ambushers Severely Dealt With

Jerusalem, To-day. British troops turned the tables on Arab insurgents trying to ambush a party of soldiers of the Corps of Signals repairing tele- phone wires Dear Jenin. The rifle shots of the ter *rorists were heard by troops, who rushed to the scene în lorrics and sur- Founded the ambushers, seven of whom were kill- Bulletin ed. Reuter's Service.

SUPERSTITION DEFIED

ac-

FASCISTS INVADE RADIO STATION

Incident Re

From

"Madrid, To-day. A body of Parcists, invaded

the broadcasting station at Valencia on Sunday night and,

after overpowering the a- nouncer, announced: over the microphone that by next morning the wireless and other communications word be in the hands of the Fas- They then hurriedly departed before the police ar rived--Reuter's Bulletin Ser-

vice.

The guests were received by leader. Senor Calvo Sotelo, was M. Luerquin, who paid the most found in the Almudena Cemetery courteous attention to everyone yesterday and investigation pro who attended Light refresh-ved that murder had been com ments were served in the spaci-mitted

From information so far 2vail-· ous hall of M. Laerquin's resi- dence and the music, provided jable it would seem that although by the Hong Kong Hotel string no warrant for the arrest of Senor had been issued by the trio, added to the gaiety of the Sotelo

cists. competent authorities, the Mon- occasion.

The toasts of His Majesty the archist leader was apprehended President of the by men dressed in police uniforms King and the French Republic, proposed by Mon Sunday night, who must have Luerquin and His Excelleney the murdered him a short time later. Governor respectively, were The "police officers" in ques- corded musical honours, and were tion, it is said, told Senor Sotelo, received in time-honoured fashion when making the "arrest," that he His Excellency the Governor, would be taken to the police Sir Andrew Caldecott, Kt. CMG headquarters. The police au- C.B.E., attended by Capt. W. J. Rthorities, however, emphatically Cragg, A.D.C., and Lady Caldecott deny ever having had any know- were amongst those who attended, ledge of the "arrest " while others present included the

The report of the assassination

Pretoria, To-day. Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, His Hon-of Senor Sotelo, who was con- Mr. Oswald Pirow, Minister for four Sir Atholl Macgregor,. the sidered the real leader of the Defence, interviewed by Benter Hon. C. G. and Mrs. Alabaster Spanish Nationalists, has caused on his return from London, the Hon. Dr. R. HL Kotewall,remendous excitement among the stated that the most influential C.M.G., the Hon. Mr. J. 1. Pater-adherents of the Right parties-quarters in Britain agreed that son, the Hon. Mr. T. N. Chan, the Trans-Ocean Service.

there can be no permanent Hon. Mr. Edwin Taylor, Mr. E. P.

basis for a peaceful agreement

WHOLESALE ARRESTS

GERMANY AND COLONIES

Need For “Adequate” Compensation

tain whether he will make a graceful exit or put up a fight.

Taking no chances, Nanking troops in Southern Hunan have will join several other ships be advanced to Yi Chang and Chen Chow, which are close to the longing to the Central Govern- Kwangtang border. General Tu Hon-mon's army is moving ment

The vessels are in the hands of force the decision of the second plenary Session in abolishing the two young captains of about 36 Well-known Germans and Mrs. A. R. Wellington, Miss cists were arrested in Madrid last peasa ime sve aderate coes

southward from Kiangsi. These military movements are to en-

semi-independent status of the South-west.

GOLD BARS EXCHANGE DRASTIC CHANGES IN SHANGHAI

: Shanghai, To-day. According to a recent meet- ing of the directors of the Gold Ears Exchange, the directors fees have been cut by 50 per cont, and the staff salaries by 30 per cent. It was also decid-

years of age, Captain Kwong Man-

Married On 13th

EL Lang, Mr. T. M. Hazelrigg, Mr. Madrid, Later: Following the with Germany unless the Ger- and Mrs. Renner, the Hon. Dr murder of Senor Sotelo, 185 Fa mans are given adequate com-

Helen Yu, Mr. L. Rondon, mem-evening, and other arrests were meaning terraritorial compen- bers of the Consular Body and made in the provinces-Renter.. many others.

CONSUL'S SPEECH

In proposing the Toast of the CHINESE SOCCER

TOURISTS WIN

King the French Consul said:-.

"Your Excellencies, Ladies and

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All-Swatow Beaten By 8 To 1

the

sation, not anywhere on face of the globe but in Africa.

Mr. Pirow added that he [found a lot of support for the view that Germany's, co-opera- tion with Africa was vital for the maintenance of the white civilisation of the continent. Benter.

All local newspapers are pro-kwong, commanding No. 1 Boat,

-CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL hibited from publishing the and Captain Tang Shui-long com- Both Of-

Berlin, To-day. sweeping Nanking decisions (manding No. 4 Boat.. affecting Canton. However, ficers were in England last year

The civil wedding took place be- tween the well-known airwoman. Gentlemeni, panic is prevalent here owing studying navigation.

Joy being incom- to the proclamation of emer- COMPLEMENT OF THIRTEEN

Police and

Some naval officers from, the Elli Beinhorn, and the equally plate when solitary, the French gency measures. gendarmes are searching pedes Cantonese warship Shai Woo were well-known race-driver, Berndt community of Hong Kong, glad 21|--

also on board the two Torpedo Rosemeyer, of the Auto Union, they are to celebrate their Na- trians and motorists.

Boats, the total complement of here yesterday, which date (the tional Day, the fete of their be-

The South China Athletic Asso-REFORM OF LORDS which is 13.

13th) was specially chosen by the loved motherland, la douce France, ciation football team which is The torpedo boats, which were young pair in defiance of the would not feel perfectly happy now on a tour of Siam, but which Legislation Held Up By

¡Continued on Page 12) built in Italy last year, are about popular superstition. 60 feet long and are capable of

Although the two favourites of

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MR. WING-KON LOO

Before the Supreme Court open-twin torpedo tubes and two anti-the German public had wished to ed that the charges for golded this morning with its first case, aircraft machine guns, in addi-celebrate a quiet wedding, the bar transactions be raised to 20 the Hon. Attorney General, Mr. tion to smoke screen apparatus population of Berlin refused to cost forego the occasion to demonstrate cents per bar, effective from C. G. Alabaster, made an applica-land wireless. They each

de their affection for the young pair. farge to-morrow, instead of 4.25 cents tion before His Lordship the Chief $600,000 to build, and were

and in consequence a Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, to livered last year." as hitherto Beuter..

throng, armed with innumerable admit to local practice as a bar- SOVIET ROUBLE LOAN rister, Mr. Wing-Kon. Loo, son of find your work full of interest and bouquets of flowers, awaited the the former Chief Justice of Can-I hope that you will have a suc- newly-weds as the latter tried to OVER-SUBSCRIBED

cessful and happy career. I trust slip out unobserved from the of Schmerzendorf town hall after According to the application, you will emulate the

Moscow, to-day-The new So viet 4,000,000,000 roable loan was over-subscribed by 227,000,000 within ten days. Benter.

Sir Atholl MacGregor said: "Mr. Sour father and stain the heights the conclusion of the nuptial cere

properly monies at the Registrar's office. Loo, you have chosen the best pro-to which his merits very

Trans-Ocean Service. fcasion and I am sure you will raised him...”,

1,580 HEAT WAVE VICTIMS

101 IN NEW YORK

New York, To-day. The death roll from the beat has reached, 1,580, in- cluding 365 in Michigan, 240 mots (af which 167 were

In

in Chicago), 173 in Wisconsin. 132 in Ohio and 101 in New York-Reuter.

is at present in Swatow, beat the All-Swatow team by 8 goals to 1

recently after leading of the 18-

Graver Problems

London, To-day. terval by a solitary goal...

Chan Tak-fai opened the scor Addressing a large deputation ing for the visitors in the first from bath Houses of Parliament, half, and added two more to which stressed the importance of complete his "hat-trick" in the reform of the House of Lords, the second half." Leving Yok-tong. Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bald- the former Colony Interport wing-win, said that owing to the grave half, who captained Swatow, then problems occupying the whole at- scored their only goal, following tention of the Government and which the South China tourists the controversial nature of the added further goal through Ho subject he would be unable to in- Kar-keng,Lai Shin-wing and itiate any legislation in that con-

Beater Wong King-chong