THE HONGKONG - DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 28TH, 1925
'GERMANY'S NEW PRESIDENT.
MARSHAL VON HINDENBURG ELECTED.
SURPRISING RESULTS AT POLLS.
ATTITUDE OF WORLD PŘESS.
-LATEST, ÇÄBLES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) PRESIDENCY OF GERMANY. MARSHAL VON HINDENBURG
S ELECTED. "
LONDON. April 27th. Af a result of the Presidensial election, the Seven Per Cent German, Loan, which opened in Landon at 98. fell to 87)-about two points lower than Friday's quota
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BRITISH PRESS SURPRISED.
LONDON, Apt 27th.- Though most papers managed to issue "stop"Press" of Renter's annotince. mert Marshat von Hindenburg's elec tion there has not been time for con- sidered comment, beyond headlines ex- pressing astonishment at the result of Cologne's turnover to the Rhineland. It is" nost noteworthy that Marshal võn Hindenburg nearly equalled Dr. Marx at Thiesseldorf, ran him closer still at Solingen and secured a beasy intreuse at
Cohenz
Al the fist election the aggregates
Right Party...... 11,998,000 voter Lat Party 13,410,000 votes Communists 1,985,000 votes Then it was recognised that many selections from the Democrats would | gove the determining factor.
FRENCH PRESS COMMENT
PARIS, April 7th. The election of Marshal von Hindenburg Fas cansed
a sensation and surprise in
Paris.
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Paris correspondents of newspapers in Berlin attribute the result, to women vot- İNE PH same for Our Father Hinden- .burg,"
hr latia says the election will cause
EARLIER CABLES. THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.] VON HINDENBURG ELECTED.
BERLIN, April 8th." Marshal
Hindenburg has been. Plected President of Germany.
In drizzling rais, polling all over the country has been heavier thau on March
A few collisions between rival suc 29th. tions are reported, but none serious.
The only signs of enthusiasm in the capital is displayed by boys and youths" dashing along the streets in motor lorries waving Hags and cheering Marshal von Hindenburg or Dr. Marx.
PUBLIC TENSION INCREASES. Publie tension is apparently increasing as the results of the polling appear.
"LAPEST, VARLES-
MYSTERY OF A TAXICAB.
DEAD MAN MISTAKEN. FOR NOTORIOUS NAMESAKE
LONDON, April 27th.
It is now definitely established that the hody of the man Newton found shot in a taxicab and mentioned earlier is not that
satue name.
EARLIER CABLES. THE OUTRAGE AT SOFIA.^ CROWN COUNSEL TELLS OF PLANS THAT FAILED,
Sort, April 26th.. As a result of confessions of the accom plices, the Counsel for the Crown stated that it had been established that besides the Cathedral outrage the Agrarian Com
of the witness in the "A" case, though-munists-had-planned seven other at- | the papers found on the body bore the tempts in Sofia and in the provinces, including attacks in the Sobranje and ventral posts and telegraphs offices, but that the plans bad not materialised owing of the military
THE FIRST REPORT.
LONDON, April 7th. The dead body of Mr. Montague Noel Newton," the principal gure in the notorious Mr. "A" case, was found inside a taxicab at Bloomsburg, last evening Death was due to shooting
INDIA
ANTHROPOID-APES
URGED TO SEARCH
HILLS. SHIVALIK
ORIGIN OF HUMAN RACE?
Siuta, April 27th. Dr Ales Brdlicka, the Fous American
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to the stern measures authorities.
It is estimated that 200,000,000 lemn, are
needed to repair the Cathedral and to relieve the injured and families of the
dead.
LATEST, C-IBLES. ACCUSATION AGAINST. SERBS
LONDON, April 7th. Lieut. Col. Cecil L'estrange Malone, M.P., interview by the Daily Herald says that the Labourite Mission was in formed at Sofa that the Bulgarian Gov. ernment had proofs that the Cathedral
FAR EASTERN
NEWS.
CARLE
[From Our Own Correspondent.] MR, KENTWELL ACQUITTED, BEARING OF ALLEGED FORGERY
noon.
The jury, after being absent 3 minutes, returned a verdict of not guilty and Mr. Kentwell was acquitted.
SHANGHAI, DRUG "ADDICTS.
WELL-KNOWN DOCTOR TO OPER A HOSPITAL,
The following correspondence was, rė cently excharged between Dr. "W. E. O'Hara in the Shanghai Municipal Council:
· CASE ENDS.
Shanghai, March 19th, 1995. BHITIAN BARRISTER CLEARND.
DEAR SIR-It is my intention, if the SHANORAL, April 7th.
Council approve, to open a Hospital for After four days hearing, the ease in the treatment of narcotic addicts amongst the Chinese. From my observations I Lawrence K. Kentweil, And that many opium sackers are anxious which Mr. barrister-at-law, practising in Shanghai. to give up the habit and they can only he helped if put in an institution and put ander close observation. propose open- was charged with possessing and uttering - forged banknotes of the Bank of Coming such place with a fully qualified usi
a fully qualified nurse. I would net aa munications, "was concluded this after-dent, British dictar in the hospital and visiting Physician and attend at the hon pital daily. Such institutions are in exist ence all over the world and are doing much good in the treatment of such cases.
རྣཔཔཝ They exist in London and New York and are recognized by the authorities. As the latest advance in treatment condemos the ĮTELOUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.]
immediate wutting off of the drug as dan- ACQUITTED ON BOTH COUNTS.
gerous to the patient it is necessary for.. SHASHAI. April 27th.
a time to allow a certain quantity of the
[] of cases T- The well-known barrister, Mr. Lawrug before a cure can he effected, and
I intend keeping records rence Kentwell who was indicted, in the cluding the amounts of drugs given to each patient. These records will be open before His
I Supreme
have out- fur inspection if necessary. British
my Honour Judge Sir Skinner Turner, onlined my ideas to Dr. Davis and two charges of being in possession of scheue meets with his approval. I would like to have the sanction of the Council to the opening of this Hospital Trust- and ustering forged bank-notes, "was ac-
W. O'HARA, F.R.C.S., ED.
Court
Strong police patrols bave been posted anthropologist and the Curator of the outrage was planced and drganised in quitted by the jury this afternoon on both hg for an early reply,, I am, Yours truly,
everywhere.
The first three Berlin stations gave Dr. Marx a fifty per cent. majority, but later eight combined Berlin districts show Marsbal von Hindenburg 10,064, Dr. Marx 6,339, and Heer Thelmann 894. »
Later.
At nine in the evening Dr. Marx had Hindenburg 1.554,000; Marshal von 1977.000 and Herr Tharimann 251,000.
At t in the evening Marshal von Hindenburg had 255000; Dr. Marx 2,482,000, and Herr Thaelmann 418,000,
The foregoing includes the figures from Marshal on Hindenburg's strong- he East Prussia.
Later.
At ten thirty Marshal von Hinderburg bad palled 3,552,000 votes and Dr. Marx
5,733,000.
At eleven the position was :--Marshal von Hindenburg 300,000: Dr. Marx 7,100,000
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Serbia; and it believed that the Serbian Government was at least indirectly re-
possibie,
M. Schober, Austrian Chief of Police, told Colonel, Malone at Viensa "that all police departments in Earope had agreed on a general roundup of Communists in the very near future.
YUGO-SLAVIA'S ATTITUDE.
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[FROM THE DAILY BULLETIN M. KARAKHAN IS ILL. MAY BE COMPELLED TO REFUSE DOYENSHIP.
Sauthsonian Institution at Washington, who came to india to examine the dis- covery of five different species of fossils of anthropoid apes in the Shivalik Hills, in an address here, urged India to take up seriously the re-search of these hills,
PEKING, April 20th. which he thought contained important
It is understood that M. Karakhan is evidency of the origin of the human race.
highly gratified with the Diplomatic The scientific world, he sild, was look-
Corps offer to become doyen, in which BELGRADE, April 27th. ing to these bills to add to its knowledge.
Moscow has approved, but it is, stated After the British, French and Italian
that M. Karakhan's health is not very He felt that it was established by finds
Ministers had informed the Government good, and he may leave China soon, already made that man's origin, was these
In view of the likelihood of the anthropoid apes; and that only the brain that the Conference of Ambassadors hac had developed and changed during the
agreed to Bulgaria's temporarily increasJapanese Legation being raised to an Japanese past bail a million years; and it woulding her militia, the Yugo-Slav Cabinet Embassy shortly, there will be a
met. It decided to confine itself to dedoyen before long. be the inain again which would in tremanding the strict fuiflment of the clause determine the charge in man half a million years hence. All human races, ingiuding African negrora and whites had the same origin, but the difference in intellectual development made it impos- sible for them to be equal.
Iulia, if she developed intellectually,
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a tremenilus distrust of Germany in About tfteen million votes have yet at great strides could catch up the White
Frame and it will be most difficult for M. Painlevé to urge in the Chanther a rapprochement with the Reich,
Le Journal says that any foreigners switnessing the German Nationalist-mati festations during the past twenty-four bours, can hardly believe in the patie sentiments of Germany,
L'Erlu de Paris asserts that the elec tion shows that the mentality of "the Kernan people is unchanged. There can not longer be any question of a muttial guarantee treaty.
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to be counted. Approximately eighty- five per cent of the electors-baye voted.
reces.
Dr. Ales Redlicka hopes to return to America in October, after visiting Java.
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The midnight results from twenty Australia and South Africa. electoral districts" of a fistal of 'thirty- hvgive Marshal vou Hindenburg 8,085,000; Dr. Marx 7.981,006; and Herr Thaelmann 970,000. “
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At twelvethirty the results in" twenty; districts were Marshal von Hindenburg, $1,308,000: Dr. Marx,
10,112,000; and 1,318,000
Herr
Thaelmann,
", LATER. LB Nouvellerstates that Germany is The umficial Spal 6gures are:-Mar- rolling down the gradient, at the bolton
von Hindenburg, 14.69.000; Dr. of which is the abyss of empire and shal
Thaelmann, Marx. 13,749,000: "Herr |1,780,000.
revenge
dr
PREMER'S HARD TASK.
PARIS, April 7th
An article in Le Matou states that the
The figures for Berlin are:-. Marx,
situation, created by Marshal von Hinden-854,000; Marshal
von Hindenburg,
burg's election, will prejudice Germany 385,000: Herr Thadmans, 145,000. especially as it will be impossible" for any French Premier to advocate recon- ciliation with Germany.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S VIEW.
LONDON, April 7th. Mr. Lloyd George, interviewed. said that the election of Marshal von Hinder- "hurg was inevitable after the Rabr and Cologne pinprick policy. He did think the election would profoundly affect German policy. ARBUTERS AMERICAN SERVICE) | WASHINGTON IS, SILENT.
"WASHINGTON, April 27th.. Official circles are not surprised at the election of Marshal von Hindenburg, though officiala refuse to comment on the result...
FIRST OFFICIAL FIGURES.
The oficial provisional, âgures khów that 30,348.000 votes were polled.
Marshal ron
14,630,000.
Hindenburg
secured
Dr. Marx, 13753,000. Hurr Thitimana, 1,932,000. RIOTING NEAR KARLSRUHE. Two persons were killed and others were injured in rioting in connection with the Presidential election Karlsruhe.
near
A Nationalist crowd tried to storm. the town hall of Katibor, in Silesia, and collided with the police There were many arresta
AMERICAN PRESS VIEWS.
Voting shows that Marshal von Hio- New York, April 27th.denburg led in Pomerania, East Prussia and Bavaria, whilst Dr. Marx led in The New York Press generally view Berlin, "the Raineland and the Hukr. the result as the hero-worship of a At Cologne there was unprecedented military leader."
The Herald-Tribune states Germany is excitement and beavy polling. Marshal again turning towards defanec, obstrucvon Hindenburg's party were very oc tion and isolation. The paper warns the tire. There is a great turnover in the Rhineland, which is the stronghold of rest of the world to be an its guard.
The New York Times asserts that en Dr. Marz.
thusiasm has swept aside sound argu- ments, based on Marshal von Hinder-
burg's age and the suspicion of bia
LATEST, CABLES.
Royalist leanings. The early restoration THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
of the Hohenzollerns is not likely, hut the election will serve pa a cover, behind
which the Kaiser could return. Never- theless this would be running an enor mous risk, by inviting unsettlement at home and distrust abroad.
Senator Borah, interviewed, said he did not think the election would necessarily us disturbing. He did not believe the talk that Germany was preparing for another war.
PEN PUT THROUGH NAME OF THE FAVOURITE.
has been
Loxoox, April Zitb. Picaroon. the favourite, scratched, for the Two Thousand Guineas, to be run at Newmarket on Wednesday The pea was put through his name at 5 o'clock an Saturday afternoon.
AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE:-
FOUR NEW SEAPLANES NOW
UNDER ORDER...
MELBOURNE, April 97th, The Minister of Defence confirms the report "that the Australian Air Force is ordering four seaplanes, which will cost *pproximately £8,000 sterling each.
Seagull maphibian type of The marbine has been adopted, in order to vivinte the necessity of establishing a seaplane Lase at Sydney.
PARIS TO NEW YORK.
FRENCH TO ATTEMPT FLIGHT WITHOUT STOPPING.
Pars, April 27th. Le Matin nanonites that the French Naval Air Corps are constructing a giant hydroplane with a motor of 60 horse. power. The machine is being built with a view to attempting a non-stop flight from Paris to New Türk-Harak;
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EARLIER CABLES.
SOVIET AND IRELAND.
GIFT FOE STARVING WORKERS FROM RED CROSS.
Broi, April 26th.
A message froin Moscow states that the Soviet Red Cross is sending £200 to the starving workers in Ireland.
ELECTION AT AMIENS.
M. KLÖTZ IS RETURNED TO THE
SENATE.
AMIENS, April 28th. Ex-Minister Klotz, Radical-Socialist, was elected to the Senate by 937 votes against 127 votes pofled by M. Gradel, Republican, and 11 by M Thierry,
Socialist
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in the Ambassadors' decision, "inuviding' for demobilisation of the new levy at the end of May.
BARLIER CABLES.
OBITUARY.
TIENTSIN'S LOYAL CONSTABLE, TIETOIN, April 26th. The death bax öccurred here of Chan Pro Hang, the only policeman who re-
E. 5. B. Rowe, Esq..
Secretary,
Municipal Council.
Council Chamber. Shanghai, April 14th, 1995 Si-an directed to acknowledge receipt of your letter of March 9th, in which you express the intention, subject to the Council's approval, of opening a Hospital for the treatment. of narcotic addicts amongst the Chinese,
In reply. I am directed, in view of the arrangements you propose to make for medical attention to the patients, and having regard to the records you propose. to keep of the cases treated and of the quantities of drags administered in cach- ease, to convey the Council's approval to the institution of the Hospital.--Į, ex, Sir. Your obedient servant,
E. S. B. RowE,
Secretary. Dr.-W. E. O'Hara, F.R.C.S.. Ed.
·MANILA RAILROAD. ECHO OF SPANISH RULE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
An echo perhaps the last, of Spanish
[RECTERS AMERICAN SERVICE mained loyal to the Municipal Council rule in the Philippines, makes itself
INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES.
MR: KELLOGG FAVOURS U.S.A. JOINING TRIBUNAL
WASHINGTON, April 26th.
during the Boxer rising. As i reward the Council ordered that he was never to be discharged.
DEPARTURE OF CHINESE COMPETITORS.
heard in the report of the Manila Rail- road Company, which was issued re- cently. The railroad was built with British capital and was for many years run by a British company; now, however, it is just a holding and not an operat ing concern, and derives its revenues. pounds worth of investments in Manila Railroad Company of the Philip- pines, the latter being an American con-
cero.
the
Addressing delegates of the American THE FAR EASTERN OLYMPIAD. solely from some five and a half million Society of International Law, M. Frank B. Kellogg (Secretary of State) declared that he heartily favoured America's participation in an international tribunal for the settlement of international dis-, pytes.
EXCHANGE STABILISER.
ALLEGED AGREEMENT BETWEEN LONDON AND NEW YORK.
WASHINGTON, April 26th
gold basis.
of thr
It appears that when the administra tion of the Philippines was Laken over by the Americans twenty-five years ago, the ousted Spanish authorities owed the rendered, this amounting to approxi railroad company a small sum for services nately £18,000. In the hope that some day the money might be recovered the lebt was carried in the company' books Various attempts were made to recover it, but without result, and now, it seems, the company has decided to write it of a loss What was thought to be a favourable opportunity of pressing the company's claim against the "Spanis Government arose during the past year and the chairman, accompanied by Mr.
"ĮFROM OUR ÈHINESE CORRESPONDENT, Į.
A party of 30 athletes, composed of 13. boys. 8 girls, and 7 offerrs, making up, the Canton contingent National Delegation to the Far Eastern Olympiad, departed for Shanghai on bourd the s... Amboise, which sailed from Hongkong yesterday. It is neces Bury for contingents from the various It is reported that the agreement be-parts of China to participate in a pre Jiminary competition at Shanghai so an tween the New York Federal Reserve
to elimate thow who are unlikely to Bank with the Bank of England, to take qualife in the final contesta at danila
on May 18th next. Mr. Hui Man Fai, L. Higgins, who was until 1977 the sterling bills in the open market as
physical director of the Canton company's general manager in Manita, There they found the prospect of mak an exchange stabiliser is regarded by.. assisted by Mr. Yau Kie went out to Madrid for this purpose many officials as tantamount to placing Cheong and Mr. Kwong Ping Kong sing any recovery so slight that, on their
The eight. in charge of the athletes, the New York bank's gold reserve behind girls are candidates for the basket balladvice, the directors decided that to the it is agreed that this, will inenl
and the valley ball teams to represent intur further expense in connection with culably aid British efforts to maintain a China. Most of the girls are from the the claim would be folly. The meeting True Light School, of the American of the Company is to be held on April 6th, states the thing Express and Tele- Presbyterian Mission in Canton.
graph, and shareholders will await with some interest the details of the visit and the reasons given for the decision." A more cheerful item of information in the "BOXER INDEMNITY BILL.
Company's report is that, a tour of in- ADVISORY COMMITTEE'S POWERS.spection by the late general manages showed that the railway property we A Standing Committee of the House being maintained efficiently.
It is a long time since information of of Commons, presided over by Sir Robert Hamilton, on March 31st considered the the condition of the railroad, which China indemnity (Application) Bill, forms the security for the whole of the which seeks to provide that any sums company's investments, was directly ob received after December 1st, 1929, on actained by a representative of the com-
be
Consequently, so satisfactory a count of the Boxer Indemnity, shall,
to educational or other purposes, report by one who is so well qualified. applicial to the mutual interests of
by personal association with the railroad in the past must be very gratifying to Ching or Great Britain, The proposes that the purposes to which the those concerned,
be applied shall be deter. money in mined by the Foreign Secretary, after consultation with an advisory committee which shall include at least one worror and one citizen of the Chinese Republic A long debate took place on an amend He started life from a modest position, but developed an exceptional business ment moved by Mr. Ponsonby to confine acumen and, at the time of his death, the application of the money to the educs was a man of cragg's Island," so
meana Hetloval and cultural purposes.
Mr. Ronald McNeill was the proprietor of.
Mr. C. E. Niasenger, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, said that the Board had not been advised of the re- agreement ported agreement, but an could he negotiated by the bank without reference to Washington, and that there was no reason why the bank should not help the movement.
NOTED SPORTING FIGURE DEAD. Mr. Harry Togg, of East Molesey, Surrey, who died recently, was for many years a familiar figura in the district, and came of a well-known family of boat builders and watermen which has for many years been connected with East Molesey and Hampton Court.
measure
pany.
POLICE COURT ITEMS.
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A Chinese was sentenced to two months imprisonment by MnE W Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy. yesterday for having stolen on Sunday $16 in money, a pair of spectacles anık a knife, from the quarters of Jamadar
to Whitfeld Barracks.
Chajja Singh, 1st Pack Battery, at
Under-Secretary well known to frequenters of the river for Foreign Affairs, said, the amendment at Hampton Court, for many years, and would only hamper the advisory com- also owned Tagg's Hotel at Hampton mittee, which might be relied on Court bridge, which, at the end of the exercise its discretion in the direction
Later he pro- Two young Filipinos were sentenced last century, was in great favour with both nations would desire. members of the theatrical profession, who posed to move an amendment which would to two months imprisonment by Mr. ran a four-in-hand there daily from have the effect of increasing the mem-E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magi Priccadilly-circus, The Old Surrey bership of the advisory committee from tracy, yesterday, for stowing away on board the President Meining hounds also used often to meet there in ten to eleven, in order to give power to
from Manila Defendanta said that they The amendment was rejected by twenty-wanted to go to America to study. His the days before the district was so ex add to the Chinese clemezt. tensively built over. Mr. Tagg was him- self to menn horseman, and its a whip six votes to five, and the Committee ad-Worship said he must make an example
of them, and sentenced them as stated. journed. of considerable ability.
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