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COLONY TO LOSE ITS GOVERNOR

Hong Kong's ambition to retain Sir Andrew Caldecott as Governor of the Colony is not to be satisfied.

An official communique issued by the Colonial Secretariat this afternoon, gives the text of a telegram received from the Secretary of State for the Co- lonies as follows:

"I have received telegram (1) from Unofficial Members of Executive Coun- cil, Hong Kong, and (2) from Chinese Members of Executive and Legislative Councils pressing strongly for your re- tention at Hong Kong on the ground of outstanding qualifications for the post and asking that the question of your transfer may be reconsidered.

"Please inform these gentlemen that I have read with pleasure their tri- bute to yourself and have every sym- pathy with their desire that your ser- vices should not be lost to Hong Kong, but that your appointment to Ceylon was decided upon for reasons of high public' policy and that I regret there can be no question of its reconsideration."

NEW PLOT AGAINST

STALIN'S LIFE -

TWO ARRESTS MADE WITHIN THE

KREMLIN REVEALED

TIME-BOMB IN STUDY

THE NUMEROUS PLOTS TO KILL, JOSEF STALIN, THE SOVIET DICTATOR, HAVE NOT CEASED. THE LATEST EFFORT TO DO AWAY WITH RUSSIA'S MAN OF IRON WAS DISCOVERED IN THE KREMLIN ITSELF, AND STÄLIN IS NOW FORCED TO CHANGE HIS WORKING HOURS AND OFFICE EVERY DAY, ONLY THE MOST INTIMATE OF HIS ENTOURAGE BEING AWARE OF HIS WHEREABOUTS.

The correspondent in Moscow of the German newspaper "Angriff" is the man who has revealed this fresh internal up- heaval to the outside world, according to a despatch from Berlin through Trans-Ocean.

The correspondent reports that last Friday two electricians were surprised by Stalin's body- guards when in the act of fixing a time-bomb in a room next to the Dictator's study in the Kremlin.

WHEN LORRY

AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

BUTTER

THREE DIE GERMANY AND JAPAN TO MOUNTS FIGHT SOVIET THIS YEAR

More Sensational "Disclosures" "At Trial

PAVEMENT

SHOCKING MISHAP IN QUEEN'S RD.

Two little children, walk- ing on the pavement in Queen's Road West, short- ly after nine o'clock, were killed this morning in a distressing motor accident.

BRITISH FLEET PATROLS ROUND SPAIN

RESPONSIBILITY UNDER CONTROL SCHEME

A third fatality in the shock- ing affair was an adult Chin- ese, who was terribly injured and died in a few minutes, while a third child was injured

London, To-day- and taken to the Government The machinery of the non- Civil Hospital-

intervention committee will Responsible for the accident start working again to-day a motor-lorry, No. 1063, when the sub-committee meets which coming down the Pokfulam to discuss the control plan for Road incline with the intention of Spain.

was

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Geneva In Happy Mood

Geneva, To-day. The League Cormcü is în hap- py mood, having settled two thorny conflicts, the Sendjak and Danzig.

The Alexandretta dispute was finally disposed of by an agreement to form a commis- sion to prepare the definite text of the Statute for the Sand- jak, while agreement has also been reached on all questions affecting Danzig.-Beuter.

RADEK

PREDICTS WAR

IS CERTAINTY

THAT GERMANY AND JAPAN HAVE DECIDED UN

WAR WITH RUSSIA THIS YEAR TO STAMP OUT COMMUN-

ISM ONCE AND FOR ALL, AND THAT GREAT BRITAIN'S

NEUTRALITY WOULD BE SOUGHT DURING THE CON-

FLICT, ARE THE LATEST SENSATIONAL “DISCLOSURES”

turning into Queen's Road, is according to the "Evening Stan- VIENNA DIVORCE TO EMERGE FROM THE MASS TRIAL OF FURMER SO-

alleged to have been proceeding dard" it is planned to divide the

at too fast a pace and the driver Spanish frontiers into the follow- being unable to take the turn pro-ing eight sectors:

perly, mounted the pavement. - 1. The Franco-Spanish fron-

The four victims were run tier in the Pyrenees, to be con- | down, the two children being kill-trolled by France.

ed almost instantly.

GRANDFATHER AND SON'S

FAMILY

Later.

2. The northern Spanish coast-

line, from the French coast down

DECISION

STRIKES NEW NOTE IN AUSTRIA

Vienna, To-day. to the Portuguese northern fron- A husband and wife belonging |

races, Aryan and tier, to be controlled by the Brito different tish and French fleets...

Semitic, was for the first time re- 3. The land frontier between cognised as a valid reason for di- tragedy involved four members of Spain and Portugal, for control of vorce by the Civil Court here yes jone family, the aged grandfather, which sector details have not yet

his two grandsons and a grand- been decided upon.. daughter.

It is now learned that the

FLEET PATROLS

VIET OFFICIALS NOW PROCEEDING IN MOSCOW...

Visions of the terrible nature of the conflict were conjured up by allegations that Japanese agents in the Soviet had planned to fill troop trains with deadly bacteria in time of war.

Radek was first on the witness stand yester day morning and, says Reuter, predicted that a Russo-Japanese was a certainty this year.

He said he had received a message from the exiled Trotsky through M. Piatakoff, alleging that a deal had been carried through with Germany for this purpose. He predicted war some time in 1937.

Germany, he alleged, wanted

terday.

The husband was seeking a di- vorce and pointed out in his” pe- Radek testified that Pistakoff told him that Germany need- One of the little boys, rushed

tition that the different racialed a year for diplomatic preparation, her military preparation 4 The Spanish coast from the strain in his wife, who was of Jew being already complete." to hospital, is in a critical con- Portuguese southern border along ist ancestry, had gradually un- dition and is not expected to live. the Straits of Gibbar to Maladermined the marriage and had Great Britain's neutrality and

The lorry was, it appears, ga, to be controlled by the British finally resulted in a complete es demanded the costipleta- !swinging out of Pokfulam Road

{flect and making the sharp turn left. The accident occurred outside No 7 Police Station,

NEW. NILE DAM COMMENCED

Being Built Close To Cairo

Cairo. To-day. totalling 2,500,000

.

mangement.

dom of the Danube Basin and 5. The Spanish Mediterranean coast from Malaga to Cartagena, ment and in its verdict explained

The Court accepted the argn- the Balkans to be controlled by the German that the varying outlook on life of ment was provided by Kynazeff, Confirmation of Rader's state

feet.

the two races must make itself manager of the South Ural Rail- 6. The Spanish coast from felt in married life and they there-way, who declared that the Ja Cartagena to the French frontier, fore granted petitioner his to be controlled by the Italian Force-Trans-Ocean, fleet.

7. The Balearic Islands, where the territory held by the loyalists! jis to be controlled by the Italian fleet and Majorca by the French deet

Contracts

8. The coast of the Spanish Egyptian pounds have been plac-Morocco zone, to be controlled by ed for construction of a new Nile the French fleet. dam twenty-four kilometres down- The entire control, according to the "Evening Standard," would The press, which reports the have to take place outside Span- project, states that the scheme ish territorial waters. Trans- will give employment to 10,000 Ocean, workers for three years.

stream from Cairo.

Work on the new dam has al- ready been begun.—Trans-Ocean.

CHAN CHAI-TONG IN BERLIN

Pays Visit To Famed Brown House

Munich, To-day.

A Chinese delegation, headed | by General Chan Chi-tang, a mom- ber of the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Kuomintang, yester- day paid a visit to the famous "Brown House," headquarters of

Lev Shapiro, a member of the special body of troops attach-the Nazi Party.

ed to the Kremlin and generally regarded as the Dictator's: The visitors showed great inter- "shadow," has as a result been awarded with the highest Soviet est in the various details of the decoration, the Order of the Red Star, which was presented to organization, explained to them by him by the Executive Committee on Tuesday.

A decree issued by the Com- cluding many officials in the mittee commends Shapiro for Kremlin, the jealously-guarded his "energetic action in fight fortress in which the Communist ing counter-revolutionary acti-Dictator lives. vity" and "for saving" "Stalin's life.

Meanwhile, another Trotskyist trial is foreshadowed as a result of many camAKÁgu against M

The political consequences of al successful attempt on Stalin's life Bucharin, a prominent member of would be senzational, and the activities of the GPU. the dread the Soviet Academy.

Lieut. Col Roereder, who is at- tached to the delegation during their stay in Germany. - Trans- Ocean,

LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST

that the anti-cyclone has decreas The Eoyal Observatory reports

ed considerably in intensity:" and ha-divided, the southern part hav ing moved into the Pacific to the

ed Soviet secret police, have beeri Accusations -- of, anti-Stalin south east of Japan, the northern redoubled in the past few days. / activities were hurled against him part, zemsizing over Manchuria

MANY "GRILLED"

at a meeting-of- Tuesday, while

Hundreds all over-Russia have workers on the been rounded up and put through nounced him for his

the Dictator.

depression: is may Eastern Sea

STOP PRESS

New York, To-day,

With nearly 1,000,000 home- iesa and a death-roll ap-

proaching 500, the flood waters

are beginning to fall at Louis-

ville, Kentucky, for the first time for a week.

The bulk of the river is now

sweeping foward the Missis- sippi Valley, where the War Department has completed preparations to evacuate the 500,000 inhabitants of the val

ley at a moment's notice should

it prove necessary. Rescue workers

(covered 12) "bad

while

$400,000:0

UNPRECEDENTED POWERS

New Enabling Act In Germany

di-panese held views similar to those

stated in the former's evidence.

Berlin, To-day. Four items are on the agenda of the meeting of the Reichstag. scheduled for January 30, the most important of which is a pronounce- ment by the Chancellor, Herr Hit Ier

Other items are the formal con- stitution of the new Reichstag | elected in March last year; election of the Beichstag President and a vote on the new Enabling Act which will give the Reich Govern- ment unprecedented powers.

Trans-Ocean.

MARTIAL LAW IN

SHANGHAI

Anniversary Of War With Japanese

Shanghai, To-day. Today being the 6fth annivers- ay of the Shanghai War, martial law has been declared in the Chin- ese areas in Shanghai Repre sentatives of different schools and pubille. bodies are to pay a tribute at the Shanghai War Heroes Tomb this ginkmorning-Our Own Conta- pondent.

TOOK HAMBER TO DYZGAMITE/

was admitted to the Civil Hospital yester.

Gove day

explosion of dynamite. Ze bad

ft on the site of the Quee

pieca

Hospital and tried to hammer

Inail through It

RAILWAY SABOTAGE Kynszeff is alleged to have ad- mitted to 3,500 attempts at train wrecking in two years, two thon- sand of these being made in 1935. In one accident 63 were killed and 164 injured.

Kynazef further stated that be had been blackmailed and had de- (Continued on Page 9)

Shanghai Ladies Hockey XF Coming

We have been advised by Mrs: Harrop, Hon. Secretary of The Hong Kong Ladies' Hockey Association, that the visit of the Shanghai Ladies' Hockey team will definitely ma terialise.

According to present: ar rangements, the team soil ar- rive in the Colony on Februi

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