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AUSTRIAN COMMISSARY DENIES CREATION OF EUROPEAN BLOC

HEAD-ON CLASH

IMMINENT

MORE HIGH OFFICERS

DESERT

FURTHER DEFECTIONS FORESEEN

(From A Special Correspondent)

Canton, To-day. ·

Because of Nanking inducements, Lieut.- General Teng Lung-kwong, second in command of the fourth army, and three regimental com- manders of the second army have deserted from here. The three colonels last night issued a mani- festo attacking their superior officer, General Chen Chi-tang, for launching a so-called anti- Japanese movement.

The second army is supposed to be very loyal to General Chen, and the defection of the three colonels is somewhat sur- prising.

Only two torpedo-boats deserted to Nanking, and the other two are reported to be still-in Whampoa.

Four Nanking divisions have been placed under the com- mand of General Yu Hon-mou, who has been appointed the new military head of Kwangtung. General Yu assumed his new posts as Pacification Commissioner of Kwangtung and Comman- der-in-Chief of the Fourth Route Army at his Tayu headquarters, Southern Kiangsi, yesterday.

H.K.-CANTON- SEA TRAFFIC

Better Business

Expected

! Kwangsi soldiers are being sent to Shaokwan to resist the return of General Yu's troops, while the second army has been sent back here from the North. A head-on clash be tween Yu's troops and Kwangsi forces is expected every moment.

the

The Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary, above, will enter King George V Graving Dock to-day as

She will not set out across the Atlantic until July 22. her engines are considered to need tuning up.

ARMS PRODUCTION

IN BRITAIN

Manking is counting on the ADMIRAL AS DIRECTOR

defection of more Kwangtung

STEAMERS TO SAIL AT 10 P.M. troops, in order that civil war

From Our Own Correspondent?

Canton, To-day.

may be averted.

Hong Kong-Cantou steamers Deserters

expect to do more business in passenger and freight traffic, as

Commended

By Nanking

the Customs authorities to-day. approved the sailing of night steamers at 10 p.m. instead of 4.30 p.m. The new schedule will take effect from August 1.

GENERAL

WAR OFFICE DISSATISFACTION

London, To-day.

In the House of Commons yesterday the Minister of War, Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, announced the appointment of Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Harold Brown as Director-General of Munitions Nanking. To-day.

He will be responsible for co- General Ho Ying-thin and other Production. People travelling to Hong Kung in the afternoon usually military leaders have telegraphed ordinating and expediting the production of take the train, which gets there the commanders of the two Can-

at Hong munitions, in accordance with the Government's two hours earlier. The travel-tonese

con-Kong, commending them for de-programme. ling public finds it more venient to arrive at Hong Kong serting and asking them to per-

than late at night.

torpedo-boats

INVESTITURE HELD BY THE KING Mother Of Dr. Melly Receives Highest Civil Award

London, To-day. His Majesty the King held an investiture at Buckingham. Palace yesterday morning, and among the recipients of how ours was the mother of Dr. Melly, of Abyssinia fame, who received the Albert Medal in

gold, which is equivalent to

the Victoria Cross in civil orders. The Yeomen of the Guard were in attendance at investiture. — Reuter's Bulletin Service.

the

EGYPT GT. BRITAIN AND GOOD PROGRESS IN

· NEGOTIATIONS

London, To-day.

"FRENCH FEARS ARE GROUNDLESS"

AUSTRO-GERMAN PACT NECESSARY

APPEAL FOR OPTIMISM

"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL-

Vienna, To-day.

In a broadcast yesterday dealing with the Austro-German agreement, Commissary Adam took the opportunity to dispel the fear expressed in some French papers that the agreement was the prelude to the creation of a German-Italian- Austrian-Hungarian bloc.. It was certainly a mistake, said M. Adam, to regard the restoration of friendly neighbourly relations between Aus- tria and Germany as a step towards the creation of any kind of European bloc.

During the last few days it had been declared repeatedly in most authoritative quarters that the Rome Protocols formed the pillars of Austrian foreign policy. These protocols did not ex- cinde any other State; on the contrary they were intended for the extension of economic and cultural co-operation in Europe, and accordingly no partner to the Protocols had, aimed at excluding Germany from participating in the settlement of the Danube question.

It could be nothing but advantageous if friendly relations prevailed between Austria and Germany, all the more since these two States needed unrestricted exchange of goods and ideas and were bound by the ties of race and speech.

Referring to the apprehen-

THE LIFTING OF SANCTIONS Special "Gazette

sion voiced in some papers that through the agreement Ans- tria's independence would now be really endangered, the speak- er stressed that Austria had conducted any never

anti- German policy nor would she ever do so in future. That would be contrary to the na- ture of the nation, which in its!

following Government constitution explicitly termed Gazette Extraordinary was. po- itself a German State.

blished to-day:—

The

Notification ORDERS-IN-COUNCIL.

in

of

A certain amount of optimism It is hereby notifed that, W28 necessary, concluded M.(view of the proposals adopted by Adam, in order to facilitate the the Co-ordinating, Committee consolidation of Europe, in which the League of Nations that the Austria, a small country in the Governments of Members of the lcrossfire of so many conflicting League 'should abrogate on the linterests, was especially interest-15th July the restrictive measures

ed.

-CZECH REACTION

in the early morning rather suade other captains of gunboats The fact that Sir Harold becomes an addi- in Kwangtung waters to obey tional member of the Army Council in connection with his new post has created a great stir in Ser- The motor vessel Lee Hong orders from Nanking-Reuter.

vice circles. It will probably be the first time At question-time in the House resumed her run as a morning steamer from Hong Kong this

that an Admiral is sitting on the Army Council, of Commons yesterday Lord Cran- morning. She will carry mails

and signs are not lacking that the War Office re-borne, Under-Secretary of State for Czechoslovakia, on the other No. 887 in the Hong Kong Govern to Canton and will return to the Colony this afternoon..

gards it distastefully.

The Tin Yat will leave here: every morning for Hong Kong. Thus the day steamer service continues as usual, despite the suspension of the Lungshan and Sui An.

steamers

DRASTIC ACTION IN PALESTINE Houses Dynamited To Stop Sniping

RAILWAY SABOTAGERS MAINTAIN ACTIVITY

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Democratic Support For Landon

the

Topeka, Kansas, To-day. Colonel Breckenridge, former Democrat candidate at the primary elections, has an- nounced that he is supporting! the Republican, Governor A fred Landon, against President Roosevelt for the Presidency-

Reuter.

of bullets.

ASSASSINATION

IN SPAIN

Alleged Confession By

-Police Officers REVENGE THE MOTIVE

- CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Madrid, To-day. After a cross-examination which lasted the better part of the members of the A sergeant of the Royal Lan-night, the 15

two officers, cashire Regiment was injured police force, with when a lorry which he was Captain Moreno and Lieutenant. Railway sabotagers maintain guarding fell over an embank-Garrido, confessed to the murder their activity. They have dam-ment Reuter's Bulletin Ser-jof Senor Sotelo as revenge "for aged the main line west of vice.

Jerusalem, To-day

Jerusalem and a railway bridge SUGAR FACTORY STEKKE

near Tulkarem by means of ex- plosives. Four houses in an

the death of the shooting of their. Lieutenant de Castillio by

Hamamdija sugar Fascists. Cairo: The factory was occupied by striking

Captain, Moreno and the mur

taken by them in connection with On this point the Austrian the dispute between Ethiopia and Government was in full sympathy Italy, His Majesty has made on with the foreign policy of the the 10th day of July, 1936, an Or- der in Council, intituled "The German Government

Treaty of Peace (Covenant of the League of Nations) Order, 1936," revoking the Treaty of Peace Prague: The Austro-German (Covenant of the League of Na- reement, although in some quar- tions) Order of the 25th October, ters considered disadvantageous 1935 (published by "Notification

hand doubtless results in a num-ment Gazette of the 15th Novem- for Foreign Affairs, stated that

had been made in the ber of advantages, says the Prager ber, 1935), and Orders of the 9th But Sir Harold achieved out-progress standing success in his previ-Anglo-Egyptian negotiations and Presse, most likely inspired or and 19th November, 1935 (pu-

cials ous posts, and the latest ap-the discussions had now reached eyes dictated by the highest off-blished by Notification No. 16 in the Gazette of the 3rd January, pointment indicates the

Gov-the point where it was found pos- ernment's desire to bring the sible to appoint a drafting com-

The paper declares that Czecho-1936) as from the 15th July, 1936. The application of the Order in army organisation up to the mittee, composed of representa-slovakia has always considered the

standard. highest possible

tives of both parties, to draft the Austro-German conflict & liability Council of the 10th July, 1936, Reuter

texts of all the military clauses and not an asset for itself in for-is similar to that of the Order of land the referendum.

eign policy, and points out that the 25th October, 1935, and it is A second legal adviser of the Czechoslovakia has never attempt-provided that the revocation of Foreign Office arrived in Egypt on led to increase the tension between the former Orders shall not af July 5 to participate in the dis-Germany and Austria, since shejfect:-- cussions. The Sadan civil clauses realised that this conflict would

sooner have not yet been reached-Reu-naturally be settled

İlater. Trans-Ocean Service.

AMERICA'S HEAT WAVE

CITIZENS COUNTING THE HUGE COST

New York, To-day. With cooler weather fore- cast. citizens are assessing the tremendous cost of the 12-day heat-wave; the death roll of which was over 2,000 and the crop damage $1,000,000,000- Reater's Bulletin Service.

WEATHER REPORT Pressure continues highest diver Arab village near Jaffa were workers on Monday and evacuated dered de Castillio were implicated dynamited because they har-

yesterday, the police immediately in the killing of Right-wing poli-the Pacific to the east of the Benins; shallow depressions are boured snipers

Exemplary punishments im- taking the opportunity to make a ticians some months ago..

The President of the Republic situated over South-west China posed by the Palestine Court in large number of arrests. The clude eight years, penal servi number of dead and wounded re has suspended the Cortes Session and the Gulf of Pechili Southa tude on an Arab found carrying sulting from the battle between for one week, in order to prevent winds, moderate; fair generally, Mills bombs near Jerusalem, the workers and the police on clashes in the heat of the prevail-was the forecast for to-day, an

this morning and five years on a resident of Monday is not yet defined-ing excitement. — Trans-Oceaniased by the Royal Observatory. Hebron found with a quantity Trans-Ocean Service.

Service

tex

Lady Caldecott, wife of His Excelency the Governor, will pres xide at the opening ceremony of the Eu Tang Ben Gymnasium, «noen above, at the University this afternoon. (“China Mell" photo).

(a) their previous operations

or or anything duly done or suffered

under any of them;

(b) any rights, privileges, obli- Igations or liabilities acquired, ac- eruing or incurred ander any of *them;

(a) any.

investigation, legal' proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obli- gation, liability, penalty, forfei "ture or punishment as aforesaid; and-any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be continued or enforced, and such penalty, liability, forfeiture for punishment may be imposed as if the said Orders had not bees revoked.

A copy of the Order in Council will be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette when it lis received in the Colony.