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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1937

SURPRISE ANGLO-IRISH TALKS IN LONDON

Mr. de Valera Decides To Stay After Preliminary Conversations

Mr. Eamon de Valera, Fre sident of the Irish Free State.

WOMEN IN MATTSON

MURDER?

ANOTHER ARREST

Another

MADE

been

Charles Mattson, victim of this week's ghastly kidnapping tragedy.

FAVOURABLE ATMOSPHERE CREATED

LONDON, TO-DAY.

THE RETURN OF MR. EAMON DE VALERA, PRE-

SIDENT OF THE IRISH FREE STATE, FROM A VISIT TU

AN EYE SPECIALIST IN ZÜRICH, HAS UNEXPECTEDLY

OPENED UP IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN BRI-

TAIN AND THE FREE STATE.

MR. DE VALERA HAD CONVERSATIONS YESTERDAY

AT HIS HOTEL IN LONDON -WITH MR. MALCOLM MAC-

DONALD, TALKING WITH HIM FOR THREE HOURS DUR-

ING THE MORNING AND NEARLY TWO HOURS LAST

NIGHT. AND AS A RESULT THE PRESIDENT DECIDED TO

CANCEL HIS INTENDED TRIP TO DUBLIN AND TO STAY

OVERNIGHT.

An official communique says that “informal dis- cussions took place on a number of matters affect- ing the relations between the two countries."

It is understood that Mr. Malcolm MacDonald and Pre- sident de Valera discussed the question of the representation of the Free State at the Coronation and the Imperial Conference which follows.

STRICTLY PRIVATE

These picturesque delegates from Kirghiz, autonomous Soviet Repablic, lent colour to the impressive gathering in the grand hall of the Kremlin Palace. Moscow, which heard Josef Stalin describe the benefits under the new Soviet Constitution.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

A most

interesting talk was

given by Mrs. (Dr.) Nash yester- BATTLE IN

day evening to the members of the

St. Andrew's Women's Fellowship CHAMBER

in the St. Andrew's Church Hall.

The subject of the talk was "Diet THREATENED

in Hong Kong.“

VOLUNTEER BILL IN FRANCE

PLENARY POWERS

SOUGHT

of six months.

GERMAN ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE

FOUR YEAR PLAN'S PROGRESS.

MOTOR INDUSTRY SITUATION

Berlin. To-day.

RELIEF FOR SHIP MASTERS

US. DECISION ON MARON CASE

Washington, To-day." Mr. Henry Morgenthau Jr. Secretary of the Treasury, said at a Press conference that the co-operation given to Customs officials by officers of the ss. Moron, on which the biggest seizure of opium ever made in

Public interest in the progress New York took place last Wed- of the Four Year Plan the object|nesday, had caused the Tres- of which is to make Germany as sury Department to inaugurate independent as possible of foreign policy of waiving or greatly - supplies of food and raw materials, reducing in such cases the is so wide-spread that a new per-

fines which can legally be as- iodical to be called the "Four Year sessed against the vessels Plan, published by Dr. Gritzbach, carrying the narcotics. personal co-worker with General The Maron was technically Goering, makes its first appearance liable to the maximum fine of to-day and will keep in review the $100.000, for carrying about whole course of the development 4,000 ounces of opium. — of German economic life under the Reuter- [new plan.

Among the most interesting con- tributions to the first number is an article by the great authority! in the automobile industry. Dr. Werlin, who deals at length with that part of the Four Year Plan whose function it is to "motorise": Germany as quickly as possible.

As is well know, motorisation in this case depends primarily on giving Germany sdequate and de- pendable supplies of motor fuel and raw materials from which motors are manufactured The

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

first part of the task has made TEND

TENDERS

54 feet

The Rev. G. W. Sheppard, who, is at present in Hong Kong on his way to Australia, where he will take up the post of General Se- They also went into the con- versations in the near future-cretary of the British and Foreign stitutional position of the Reuter and British Wireless. Bible Society, after having sperit Irish Free State as a result of STAYING OVERNIGHT

over 20 years in the Far East, is

ENDERS are invited for the the recent Free State legisla- The fact that Mr. Eamon De sailing for Sydney on the NYK

making of two cement tennis tion, although it is gathered Valera is remaining in London Tacoma, To-day.

steamer Kitano Maru on January

Paris, To-day. such progress already that even courts on the ground of the Royal A Bill has been submitted for as far back as 1935, Germany was

Naval arrest has

that the question of an equit-overnight and will probably con-23

Recreation Club, Hoog made as a result of the inten-able adjustment of Anglo-Irish fer with Mr. Malcolm Macdonald.

banning volunteers for Spain obtaining from its own resources Kong, at Causeway Bay. financial differences was in the Secretary of State for the Do-

The Royal Army Medical Corps and it provides that the mea-chiedy by synthesis. 925,000 tons

The dimensions of the courts 'sive day-and-night hunt for

minions, again, has created sur Association will held their fort Sares shall take effect from a of motor fael out of the 2,000,000 are as follow:-- the murder of ten-year-old actively pursued.

prise and general satisfaction in nightly dance on Saturday, at the date to be fixed by internation- tons needed at that time..

Length

114 feet Dublin and there is a hope that Peninsula Hotel, commencing 8.30 al agreement and for a period

Breadth "This fraction increases from will At the evening meeting between something tangible

emerge p.m. The Band of the 1st Bn.

Thickness month to month," writes Dr. Wer-

4 inches the two statesmen, the conversa from the discussions.

the Royal Ulster Rifles will, by: Penalties range from impri-lin, so that within 15 months we Police have opened up a new tions were strictly private, and

Sealed tenders in It is felt that Mr. De Valera will kind permission of Lt. Col. R. Msonment from

triplicate to six shall cover all our needs in light for the making of tennis courts". which should be marked Tenders line of enquiry overnight on even Mr. Dulanty, the High Com-make a good bid for the settle-Rodwell and Officers, provide the months and fines from 100 to zooter fuels." that women were concerned in London was not present. clues suggesting the possibility missioner for the Free State in ment of outstanding Anglo-Irish music.

10,000 francs. -Renter. differences in view of the general

He then reveals what has hither-will be accepted by the Mainten- There was an encouraging at-

to been quite unknown, namely that ance Commander, HMS. "Tama It is understood that Mr. Mac-election next Department, at Donald took

A bitter domestic fight is

until Noon on Thursday, 28th Jan- the opportunity of the introduction of the new Irish tendance yesterday evening in the pected by political observers when needed for Diesel motors, the solu- even with regard to heavy oils, Sacremento. have detained a man seeing whether the atmosphere is

nary, 1937. Jacobean Room of the Hong Kong the volunteer bill is debated. The tion is near at hand. for questioning whose description such as will enable further con-

The Royal Naval Recreation The first meeting between Pre-delivered a lecture under the ans-ers from Parliament to take

Hotel, when Mr. G. P. de Martin Government is asking plenary pow-

+Club does not bind itself to ac- is said to tally with that in the

By utilising the Reich's resour-jcept the lowest or any tender. sident Eamon de Valera and Mr-pices of the Dante Alighieri So-measures the Government Police notices posted throughout

all ces in coal, lignite, and peat, all Malcolm Macdonald was also at ciets. The Consul-Gezeral for Italy, necessary to prevent the recruit motorisation will be produced at deers fuels, light and heavy, needed for tended by Mr. J. W.

Dalanty. Com. A. Bianconi, introduced the ing and departure of volunteers home CB, C.B.E the Irish Free State speaker. High Commissioner in London, Mr. Denis Devlin, of the Irish

the affair.

The Police

the country.

The man, whose face is scratch- FAR EAST DRUG

ed is stated to have claimed that

he was once a patient of Doctori

Mattson.

The Police said he also ac- mitted having escaped from a luna- tic asylum.

lipstick on the running board of It was the discovery of a piece of

an abandoned motor-car found of the shocking near the scene murder that led to the belief that there may have been women in the case.Reuter.

TEHERAN TALKS BREAKDOWN

RING REVELATIONS

SENTENCE PASSED

autumn, following

Pree State constitution.

STATEMENT PROMISED

for Spain.

The JCJL ss Tjisondari is

one

Paris, To-day..

This development is not only COMMUNIST THREATS

important for the home market al Afairs and Mr. Sean M. Bren. Sailing for Amey on Tuesday atticular, threatens heavy attacks on port," adds Dr. Werlin. The wri- The Communist Party, in par-but highly significant for our ex-

Free State Department for Extern- İ

inan, the President's aide-de-camp. The conversations are being re- sumed this evening and Mr. Mal-

6 pm

A service men's whist drive

is

to be held at the YMCA on

ON MARIA WENDT colm Macdonald said that a state Monday at 9 pan.

BEING DEPORTED TO SHANGHAI

Los Angeles, To-day. Maria Wendt, the

was arrested

ment would probably be issued later.

Meanwhile, it is believed

APPROVES OF POLICY

that

The theft of $100 from

trai

Mr.

SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE

HONG KONG

ANNUAL BALL, 1937.

TEMBERS are reminded that it is proposed to hold the

the Government's Spanish policy, ter then turns to the other part M

of above function on FRIDAY, 29th ́ from January, 1937.

LINSTEAD & DAVIS,--

Secretaries & Treasurers. Hong Kong, 15th Jan, 1987.

It is, however, regarded as cer- of the problem, namely, that tain that the plenary powers will supplies for raw materials be obtained, especially since the which the motors themselves are

It will prove Government will declare express-made

of considerable assistance to the Secretaries if In part, this problem has been lists of guests are sent za soon ly that it will use its full powers the subjects which they are dis Hotel, was mentioned at the Cen-countries.

Barnes, firing at the Hong Kong only simultaneously with other carried a long way towards solu- as possible to their offices, 1st cussing are the Anglo-South Irish

tion by the subtraction of alumni-foor, Exchange Building. constitutional position, the pros when Mat Hing was bound over volunteers, the French Government other metals and partly helped by

Magistracy this morning

In connection with the ban on‡nium and magnesium steel from Chinese pects of a better mutual under-\for one far on the promise of his is making another move to isolate a wider use of compound substan- |

some standing and the recruiting of vo- girl who weeks 2go carrying a large lunteers for Spain from the Irish parents to refund that part of the Spain.

ces, including synthetic resins supply of illicit drugs, alleged Free State.

money he had spent. Man Hing! It holds that neither the Valen-familiar in the form of bakelite. ly on behalf of a big interna-

was 21 apprentice boy at thejela nor the Burgos hotel. tional drug ring with wide! It is known that the activities

authorities-Trans-Ocean. agree to true and effective spread ramifications, was of some groups in the Irish Free) brought into court yesterday State are causing President De

Katoyama Toni, Japanese wo-therefore the frontier and ports of

trol on Spanish territory and that CZECH ANSWER TO PUBLIC AUCTION to receive sentence, having Valera some anxiety and that he man, was this morning fined $10 foremost importance for traffic to

ACCUSERS fully recovered from her agrees with the British policy of by Mr. J. A. Fraser at the Central Spain should be watched.

non-intervention in Spain, and, in- Magistray for failing to register

Aerodromes Thrown The Court (says Reuter) pass-deed, in the British direction of as an alien on her arrival in the international control

France seems prepared to accept along the latest reports from Beirut, ined sentence of ten years impri-foreign affairs generally as well Colony.

Defendant, whose hus-Spanish border on French soil. be as in their defence plans.-Reu-band is a resident of the Colony. Instructions were given negotiations which were besonment and ordered her to

London, To-day, said she was too busy during the French Ambassador in London to Czechoslovak Goverment to for ing conducted between Turkey, deported to Shanghai forthwith. ter.

The invitation extended by the It will be recalled that Maria | Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq

holidays to register

later inform the British Foreign Office eiga military or air attaches for the purpose of forming a Wendt, who is said to

forgot about it. common front against any at. daughter of a high ex-official, SECOND HAND tempt at influence on the part attempted suicide shortly after

Moslem Nations Fail To Agree

Jerusalem, To-day.

A breakdown appears to have ness. occurred, according to the

be the

of foreign powers, chiefly Great her arrest, and that two other DEALER'S ESTATE

Britain and the Soviet Union suicides occurred after her arrest,

The suicide in

Shanghai was

To Widow

and

MESS BOY GIVEN SENTENCE

Seaforths Nearly Lose Silver

accordingly.-Trans-Ocean

CON-

to

the

Open

الأسد

in

THE Undersigned have received.

Tinstruction to sell by Public Anction on

Tuesday, the 19th. January, 1937 commencing at 2.30 pm

at their Sales Room.

Duddell Street

A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE-

Prague to make a complete per- sonal inspection of the Czechoslo-j HERRIOT ON FRENCH AIM

vak aerodromes has been accepted comprising:-

Fine Teak Wood Bed Room- & by the British Air Attache. Differences between Turkey one in Shanghai and one on a Able To Leave $16,000

FOR PEACE

The invitation has been given, Dining Room Suites, Drawing and Iraq, particularly regard-ship travelling to New York from

it is understood, to enable foreign Room & Office Furniture, Carpets ing. Mosul and its oilfields are Bermuda.

(Continued from Page 11 governments to satisfy themselves & Rugs, Oil Paintings, Pictures, apparently insurmountable.

regarding the allegations which Clocks, Curios, Ornaments, Cat- The Turkish delegation, at that of a Frenchman, a prominent Tam Hau-chi, alias Tam Cheuk A second-hand clothes, dealer,

bringing all countries to the verge have appeared at various times lery, Silver & E P. Ware, Alumin- all events, has left Teheran, member of the community.

wan, alias Chan Po-yuen, who Pang Sing-ling a boy employed of a dangerous precipice and giving in the last twelve months in Ger-ium & Brass Ware, Porcelain & ostensibly to obtain new in-superintendent of

rise to many dangers. the Paulun

man and other newspapers-Bri- Glass Ware, Electric Heaters & He was hunt- died on June 25, 1935, at No. 11, at the officers' mess of the Sea- structions in Ankara In all Hospital. M. Stev.

Lamps, Coir Mats, Silver Matches, Cedar Street, Shamshuipo, left

France was ready at any momenttish Wireless. forth Highlanders was this morn-j

Enamel Bath, Gramaphones & Re- probability, it is thought, the ed for eight days in Shanghai and local estate to the value of $16-ing sentenced to two months into enter into reasonable agreements

cords, Typewriters, Wardrobe & delegation will not return for was then found in a dying co-100. Probate of the will has been Prisonment by Mr. K. Keen at the and the expected to meet the poli- ́D.EL LOAN CONVERSION

Cabin Trunks, Curtains, Cushiona, the further negotiations which dition under a bush in the French granted to the deceased's widow, Central Magistracy. He was found tical affairs of other nations just

Amsterdam, To-day.

Linen, Filters, Kitchen Gears, etc. Concession. were to be resumed shortly.

Wong Shiu-wan.

guilty of the theft of nine silver as she was determined to defená Trans-Ocean.

Suggestions that he may have

her ow

The new 3 per cent. Dutch In-Letc. Local estate, valued at $23.400, forks and spoons valued $92.50 on

dies conversion loan which been poisoned by other of

Tuesday. the was left by Lai Ka-yuen, who died

PERIL OF MISUNDERSTANDING gang were made when patholo- on December 16, 1935, at SherCrow heard a noise in the Messate in dispersing misunderstand.nounced, be for 150,000,000 guld-

Sergeant MacKay said Private

She would never fail to cooper-recently forecast will, it is gical experts failed to identify the Chiu Village in Toy Shan Dis- and going up saw defendant there ings between nations which were 96.314 per cent.

en and will be îsaned to-day at trict. The deceased's son, Lui with ais overcoat on the ground. often more serious than a direct redeemed within a period of 30 Britannica" Fat-cheung, has been granted the his cost, the articles were clash of interests.

years.—Trans-Ocean. found

It redounded to the credit of the Defendant in the witness box present Chamber, concluded: 154 made allegations against Pri-Herriot, that it had unanimously vate Crow and said the articles approved the necessary financial had been planted on him for spite sacrifices being made for the com-Mr. Alfred

The forthcoming wedding (of) Lieut. R. Mackenzie stated that try's defence. It was proof that architect of No. 6, Cameron Road,

Victor Alvares,

the Chinese boys and the waiters ing the mother country there was of No. 35, Granville Road, has there had been no trouble between when it was a question of defend- and Miss Maria Socarro Botelho,

*only one' France. Trazs-Ocep been announced.

poison which caused his death.

ROYAL TOURNAMENT

probate of will.

LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST

DANZIG AND LEAGUE

Danzig. To-day---Danzig will bel represented at the next League) of Nations Council Session which] commences on January 21 by Herr Greiser, President of the Danzigi London, To-day-The Royal}, " Senate and will be "accompanied Military Tournament will be held The Royal Observatory reports by his Deputy State Councillor Dr. at Olympia again this year. Per- that a strong anti-cyclone covers Boettcher, states an official and formances will be given between China and Manchuria, nouncement just received here-May 27 and June 12-British Forecast:-E and N. E. winds,

Wireless.

fresh; fair.

Trans-Ocean...

of the mess.

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was

also

an-

A Selection of Black Wood Furniture

and

Volumes

"Encyclopaed

The loan will be

ZA

FORTHCOMING WEDDING

an

of

4 Sets of Valuable Chinese Li- terature

1 Large "Milners' Safe” On View from, Monday, 18th January, 1937.

Terms: Cash on Delivery

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers Hong Kong, 15th. Jan, 1957)