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FIRST ELECTIONS UNDER NEW ACT IN INDIA

DELHI TO LOSE

OLD FACES

STANDING IN THE PROVINCES

New Delhi, To-day Voting for the new Legisla- tive Assemblies for such pro- vinces in India as is provided for in the Government of In- dia Act began yesterday.

Altogether 30,000,000 men and women are entitled to vote. The inhabitants of Assam. Bengal andį the Punjab with a total popula tion of 90,000,000, will be the first to go to the polls and will be fol- lowed by the electors of other pro- vinces during the next five weeks. the last province to vote being Madras on February 20.

Once the provincial legislatures

THE CHINA MAYE TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1937

More than one-third of Madrid is said to have been destroyed in repeated air raids.. This picture shows a whole row of homes reduced to ground level

have been duly elected, the pro- ASTONISHING

cess of determining the composi-

tion

PEACE

These i

TERMS

of the Councils or Upper Chambers will be begun.

should be completed by April 1

Many members of the Legisla-j

tive Assembly are seeking election YANG PLAYING FOR

to the Provincial Assemblies and.

as. under the new Act, they can- not be members of both the Cen-

Provincial Assem-¡ tral and the blies it seems probable that after

the present session of the Assen oly, many well-known figures will disappear from the Delhi political

stage. Reuter.

ADOLF HITLER SCHOOLS

New Plan For "Youth" Organisation

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TIME

SPLIT IN LABOUR CONSCRIPTION

LEFT WING

Socialist League And LLP.

London, To-day.

A split has occurred in the left

wing of the British Labour Party. The Socialist Leagre decided by

com-

STORY RIDICULED

BUT ARMY TO BE GIVEN, NEW CONDITIONS

London, To-day.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES CORONATION

CAMPAIGN AGAINST HEROIN TRAFFIC

Notice has been given that the

STAMPS

Lower Pootung Spit light-buoy is FOR HONG KONG

to be discontinued. The Buoy marks the edge of the Pootung Point..*

spit off

Suffering from injuries received during a fight, Yak Sak, aged 30, was yesterday admitted to the Government Civil Hospital

Design Common To

Colonies

London. To-day- Arrangements have been approv

ed by the King for a special Coro- nation issue of stamps to consist Sir Atholl of three denominations in one com- man design in each of the coloni-

Heavy Sentences On Man And Woman

Appearing before Remarking that severe war MacGregor at the Criminal Se ings had been issued by the Court ssions this morning, a 25-year-oldal dependencies. with regard to dangerous drug street coolie. Wong Chau was sen- cases, the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl tenced to 12 months' hard labourĮ MacGregor, sentenced 52-year-old

Wong Ngau, and a woman, Lo Ng. for assault with latent to rob

Similar arrangements are also being made for Newfoundland. The issues will be on sale from 12th

to three and a half-years impri- The P.'& O. "Corfu" is ex-to 31st December. sonment,' with hard labour, for

270 pected to arrive from Singapore

the unlawful possession of

It is not anticipated that the new

ounces of pink paste, containing bringing the Home mails to

morrow at 4 pm The vessel will permanent colonial issues will be heroin, and 8614 heroin pills on again for Shanghai on Thurs-ready before the end of year. The stamps will be of the same shape day at 5 pm.

and size as the Silver Jubilee issue

December 19 last.

The man. stoutly denied any connection with the pills.

process. The

The St. John Ambulance Asand will be printed in single co- The following jury was Cat- panelled: Messrs. LB. Dobsonsociation and Brigade are holding lours by a recess

their Annual Bail on February design of the stamps includes the Chau Hau-ienng. Chen Kin cho

King and Ho Ju-nam, Is Hung-watt. L. G. 12th at the Hong Kong Hotel un portrait of both the

der the distinguished patronage of Queen in a setting of Cormation da Lima and Cheng Sau-tsang:

Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant His Excellency the Governor, Sir emblems including the crow, orb, Crown Solicitor, appeared for the Andrew Caldecott, CMG., CBE, Word of state and sceptre. The Kt of Grace 0. St. J. and Lady date of the Coronation is inserit Crown, and outlined the case.

Caldecott. There will be. in addi-ed at the top of the design and Man's Strange Habits

English and Chinese the name of the issuing territory Revenue Officer A. W. Grimmitt, tion, an (Mr. H. A. Taylor, Government Mo-cabaret the programme of which pears at the base with the duty labels in the lower corners. -Bri- nopoly Analyst, and a party of is entirely new to the Colony.

tish Wireless. Chinese revenue officers raided! No. 24 Upper Lascar Row where:

HISTORIC TOMB IS UNEARTHED

Relics Of 3 Kingdoms Period

| grave of · Sze-ma Chao, the second

Canton, To-day.

It is announced that Miss Cath- Early yesterday morning, 56 votes against 38. with 23 ab- General Mei Chun-lla, who has staining. against forming a The War Secretary. Mr. Duff defendants were found. The place! erine Beatrice Pegg, daughter of just returned after negotiaton front with the Independent Cooper, speaking on recruiting in was being used as a beroin pill Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Pegg, will mar said he hoped factory containing all the neces-ry, Mr. Francis Joseph Soden at ing the peace settlement with Labour Party and Communists and London to-day,

for the pro-St. Joseph's Church on Friday, the rebel lead,er Yang Hu- thereby openly opposing the off shortly to make an important an-sary pamphernalia cheng, in Shensi, went to Feng-cisi Labour Party policy of de-nouncement concerning the conduction of pills. First defendant February 5, at 330 pm. Follow- hua to intreview Generalissimo clining any negotiations with the ditions of service in regular army. was in this apartment and his ing the ceremony, a reception is

Communists.

Recruiting for the territorial handa were heavily coated with a to take place at 8, The Peak, Chiang Kai-shek.

Later, a special meeting of the army had improved but for the pink deposit. His hands were so

Mr. Paul Braga and Miss Aut It is learned that General Socialist League minority was sum-regular army it was not so good thickly covered with the paste that Mei carried with him the terms moned to discuss the situation and he hoped the announcement Mr. Grinmitt scraped off a large drey Winsel were married at St An ancient tomb, said to be the

Andrew's Church on Saturday. of the revolting general to the created by the majority's decision would have the result of bringing lump.

On a wall was a formula for the The Rev. J. R. Higgs officiated, son of Sze-ma Yen, Prime Minis- Generalissimo for considera-)-Trans-Ocean.

a satisfactory increase.

He denied reports attributing to mixing of powder before the ad-The bridegroom is the youngester of Wei in the Three King

son of the Hor. Mr. J. P. Braga doms period, (214-589), has been him the suggestion of conscrip-dition of heroin.

and. Mr. Braga. The The man, when questioned, stat- OBE

discovered at a point near Hoh- tion in peace time.

"Conscription would not solve ed that he went to visit a friend, bride was given. way in marriage sien, about 50 kilometers north of our problem. We do not want a who was not at home, so, accord-by Mr. Hugh Braga, elder brother

Wabu, Antwel ↑ vast army for home service but aing to his usual habit, he took of the bridegroom.

The tomb was elaborately de- small highly trained specialised of some of his clothing and began

interfering with his friend's In view of the numbers attend-signed, with a tunnel leading to army for peace time service over-

goods. This was his usual habiting the Burns' Dinner at the Pen- the interior where brass candle seas."

and brass basis were He saw the pink paste, picked insula Hotel on Monday, Jamary tables In the event of war there was

up and started rolling it between 25, the General Committee of the found little doubt

that conscription the palms of his hands as he used Society regret that no more names shape doors and one semi-circular would come and come quickly, but to roll buns at a tea shop.

can be accepted for attendance at entrance. not even most the patient citizen The jury, after bearing evidence,

this function. without retiring, returned a ver dict of guilty.

tion.

It is stated that the rebels de- mand: that the Central Govern-

· Munich, To-day. tnent reorganise the present com In addition to nation-wide cam-munists in North-western China paign for the erection of training into national armies to be support- centres, the Hitler Youth Or-ed by the Central Government and ganisation will benefit from a new stationed in Shensi and Konsu ordinance initialed to-day by They also demand that Marshal Chancellor Hitler.

Chiang Hsueh-liang be restored

and

PLAYING FOR TIME

EXTRALITY IN EGYPT

Abolition Conference

Invitations

London, To-day

and

-It is based on proposals by Dr.(civil rights and reinstated as their Fey

Herr

Baldur von chief, and that the North-eastern Schirach, and provides that all army and the rest of the armies It was confirmed in London to National Socialist schools erected in Shensi and Kansu. be responsi-day that the Egyptian Govern of the most authoritarian in future will be regarded as ble to hím chìy.

ment has issued invitations to the totalitarian state would accept preparatory schools for the Na-

interested Governments to attend conscription for service overseas tional Socialist Party and will

a conference at Montreux on April in peace time-British Wireless. bear the Fuehrer's - name.

A report from Loyang states 12th to negotiate for the abolition The Adolf Hitler schools will that General Yang Hu-cheng's of the regime of capitulations in be units of the Hitler Youth Or-readiness to suspend military ac- Egypt, and the institutión -of-a,

ganisation and will be under|tivities for an armistice of

one period of transition for the mixed "Hitler Youth" control.

month was simply to delay the ofcourts-British Wireless, Adolffensive of the Central Government} Hitler school will be an out-so as to organise his troops for standing qualification for service resistance. as a State or party functionary. -Trans-Ocean,

Passage through

Another report from Loyang NATIONALISATION

OF ARMAMENTS'

states that the communists dis- jagree with General Yang's truce] with the Central Government, and RICE SCARCITY IN have elected Pang Tek-huai as

Commander-in-chief.

CANTON

Action Ordered By Government

More Factories Taken Over In France

HITLER'S VILLAGE

HEADQUARTERS

Fete Marks Beginning Of Work

Berchtesgaden, To-day-

There are three round-

A stone tablet is found in front "It is not theft, I just took of the first door, and other arti- them," was the statement made by cles have also been unearthed.

the au- Li Lam, aged 2, house coolie. On instructions from

have been when brought before M. K. Keen thorities, the relics NON-INTERVENTION day charged with having stolen Hobsien for custody.

at the Central Magistracy yester transported to the county seat of

five dimmer plates, worth $150,||~. from Morrison Hall, Hogg Kong Defendant, who had University. 10 previon's convictions, W25 bound over in $50 for one year. Inspector Kirby, prosecuted.

SESSION

The Show Must Go On?

:

London, To-day.

The Chairman's sub-committee] · of the Non-Intervention commit-

The traditional inangura fete tee met at the Foreign Office this was held here yesterday on the afternom and considered the fur- It is also reported that the com-

occasion of the erection of an auther steps that would be required. munists are organising a students'

xiliary chancellory for the Fue to put into operation a scheme corps in Sianfu, and that one re-

Paris, To-day.hrer, Chancellor Hitler being per-of supervision designed to secure giment of this kind has been es- In application of the law for the sonally present.

the application of the non-inter- tablished. — From Our Own Cor-nationalisation of the French

The Secretary of State, Herrvention agréement. respondent.

armaments industry the following Lammers, in a short address, said

The Committee received parti- works have been taken over by the the building was to serve as the calars regarding the progress made French Government: The aero-beadquarters of the German Chan-by their technical advisers in their place works at Loire-Mienpart, cellor and his staff when he was examination of certain aspects of the armaments and aeroplanes on a vacation at his mountain the supervision scheme. works of Marcel Bloch and the home near here. war material factory of the So Later: A message from Nan-ciete Aerona du Sud-Ouest king states that Generalissimo Trans-Ocean.

TERMS REJECTED

But Another Effort Being Made For Compromise

Canton, To-day. To relieve the rice shortage, General Huang Mu-ching, chair-

of the ภคท

Pro- Kwangtung vincial Government, has ordered' the Canton Hankow Railway au-] thorities to dispatch five special trains to Changsha, Hunan,, in order to transport rice.

Rice merchants here purchas-Chiang Kai-shek has instructed ed 10,000 tons from Changsha General Ho Ying-ching, the War sometime ago but owing to lack Minister, not to accept the terms of railway transportation the rice of the Shensi rebels, and to order has not been delivered. The Government forces in East Honan scarcity is strongly felt and the to prepare for attack.

risen several

An unconfirmed times

report states price has

sent during the last two weeks---Union that the Generalissimo has News.

Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, with|- a number of high staff officers of the Military Affairs Commission,

BRITISH INQUIRY IN PALESTINE

Commission Holds Last Meeting

HOME FLEET IS UNDER WAY

Two Months Cruise

Begun

London, To-day. The Home Fleet left yesterday

to Loyang, to negotiate with the on a cruise from which it will not rebels directly.

return to home waters before the

It is stated that the Young Mar- end of Kasch. shai will be appointed to replace. The ships taking part in the General Kus Chak-tung as the cruise, are under the command of Director of the Sian Ecadquarters Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse-- in charge of the military affairs Trans-Ocean.. in North-western ́ ́ ́China.

Own Cerrarpondent.

THIRTEEN YEARS WITHOUT LENIN

Moscow, -To-day.

FAIT ACCOMPLI IN ABYSSINIA Turkey Accepts The Situation

Istanbul, To-day.

KOWLOON TONG EXCITEMENT

Chase Follows Theft In Mr. Rapley's House

MR. SUMA TO BE PROMOTED?

Recalled-From Nanking

Mr. Yakichiru Santa, Japanese Consul-General-in" Nanking, "has been recalled to Tokyo.

The order wis seen as fouusha- dowing his transfer and promotion to the post of counsellor of the Japanese Embassy in Washington.“ Residents of Kowloon Tong were While the date of his departure awakened early this morning by has not yet been set, Mr. Sunda It was hoped the report of the the blowing of police whistles in will end an unbroken ten-year term of service in China when he Dorset Crescent. The Fuehrer himself addressed technical advisers on these matters

It appears that two Chinese leaves for Japen. Before going a few words to the assembled would be received by the end of

climbed the veranda of No. 18, to Namiding, he headed the press fworkmen and declared that be the week fhimself was once a humble mem- The Committee resumed con- the residence of Mr. and Mrs. F. burean of the then Japanese Legs- His earlier ber of their ranks. He pointed outsideration of the report or the Rapley and took a quantity of tion in Chins here. that they were all striving for the possibility of extending the agree jewellery, in addition to other pro- posts included Peiping and Cap- welfare of the German nation, re- ment to cover the supply of fin-perty. gardless."of - whether they - wereļancial aid to either of the two par- The occupants were roused, how- working on the building or in it ties in Spain and this report will ever, the thieves decamped and fol- after its cœíplation,

be further considered at the next lowing the blowing of police-whist- The festival was of a semi-pri-meeting of the subcommittee.

les, a police officer chased the men vate nature, those present includ-British Wireless.

into the hills where they succeed- fing only the Fuehrer, his staff,

ed in making good their escape. the construction workers and the village population-Trans-Ocean.

SERIOUS FRACAS

· IN QUEEN'S RD. Four Seamen Sent To Hospital

CAROL'S VISIT TO POLAND

Warsaw. To-day.

In addition to the already an-

nounced visit of King Carol of Rumanis to this city, it is report- ed that the Governor of the Bank

MISSED HIS OPPORTUNITY

Judge's Comment

Juror's Lateness

ton.

KENT APPROVES NEW:

THAMES TUNNEL

Kent County Council has unazi- mously decided to join with Essex. County Council în · promoting Ma BI inFarliament for the.com struction of the Thames tansel at

On-Dartford to connect Kent and

Essex The tunnel is to be com pleted by October, 1947, and will cost about £3,000,000. The tunel When his name was called, at will be slightly smaller than was the Criminal Sessions to-day, to

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of Bumanis plans to visit the Pre- sident of the Bank of Poland at Įthe beginning of February, and Four semen of the s.z. Lucy: Moller were admitted to the Gov- the Rumanian Minister of Edu serve on the jury empanelled in originally intended, and pede. ernment Civil Hospital yesterday cation, .. Angelesen, will annive comection with an attempted rob-strians and gou-mechanically pro bery case; Mr. S. Dung could not Pelled vehicles will be excluded.

suffering from injuries received here at the end of February

Trans-Ocean,

during a fight with other sezmen

in Queen's Road West yesterday. The fight took place outside, the

be found!

Five minutes later he appeared {and apologised, stating that he

zaissed both bus and ferry. residence was between 25 to 40

His

FORTHCOMING WEDDING-

minutes Journey from town.

The forthcoming.

Jerusalem, To-day The Royal Commission held its] last session here yesterday and will start for England via Egypt during the next few days...

During the final session, an Arab representative severely cri ticised the Palestine customs tariff which, he charged," was intended} to stimulate Jewish immigration since protection" to ~ unprofitable The 13th anniversary of Leain's The Turdah Government have St, Tuen eating house. Stools, Jewish industries failed to protect death is to be observed through instr cted their Minister at Roue benches and poles were used. Yni Amb industries in a similar mat- out the Soviet Union on January to inform the Italian Government Fat and Eon & mg-lin are in^a

"By your delay responded, the Mr. William Thompson - 22 with special ceremonies, to be Turkey, his decided to with serious condition while Wong Ka-

Chief Justice, you missed the attached to the Before the Commission-leares characterised by the slogan, draw, ite legation in Addis Ababa po and Woog Zing-fung sustained Poland and Japan plan to elevate chance of sitting on the shortest of Memes Jar here, the High Commissionier for “Thirteen Years Without

bkah injuries to the beadNA

their Legations to Embassies, case at the Sessizit, I think 34 Company Palestine wilk report in [ing] All thesizes, chemire

Inis Six other men who were also in cording to press reports here, the will be sufficient punishment for Elizabeth the general situation in Palestine. of ammonement, will be

the fight have been arrested and step to take elect at the beginning you when I assure you that Trans-Ocean

detaineds

will have to "zwa

nez.

shoul?

POLAND AND JAPAN.

Warsaw, To-day.

of April Trans-Ocean.