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JAPANESE MARINE

· SHOOTS CHINĖSE,

COMPENSATION AND FULL APOLOGY DEMANDED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGĦNOY]

HANKOW, April 0. A Chineno farmier was wounded by a Japanese Marine on Wednes day and died in hospital on Thurs- day, resulting in a strong anti- Japanese agitation.

The vernacular papers state that the death of the Chinese farmor was not disclosed until Saturday, when the Japanese Consul called on the Mayor to explain the inci- dent.

The Chinese are demanding the , punishment of the culprit, com- pensation for the deceased's franily and a full apology.

The Japanese Marine was pra tising with his rifle in harracks when one of the bullets was fired which struck the Chinese.

REDS EXECUTED AT TSINAN.

TWENTY-TWO INCLUDING A WOMAN.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

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SHANGHAL, April 6. message from Tainan states that 22 Communists, including woman, were executed there yester day.

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COSTS OF PRODUCTION IN

BRITAIN.

WAGES MUST BE CUT OR TARIFFS APPLIED,

[THROUGH RECTER'S AUENOY.]

LONDON, April 5. Quite a stir was caused by the declaration of Mr. Alexander, "First Lord of the Admiralty, that the

Economic Advisory Council had in formed the Government that wages must be cut or tariffe applied to „grods the workers consume,

Mr. Citrine, General Secretary of the T.U.C., who is on the Econ- omie Council; promptly denied that the Council had so advised, and added that the Labourites thereon would never recommend wage cute,

Mr. Alexander himself later co- plained he did not wish to intimate that the Council presented its re- port in the above sense, but he was of the opinion that there wna i widespread feeling among eeon-. omists and industrlaliste that the costs of production were toó bigh ard that the standard of living must be reduced by either wage cuts or tariffs.

RUPERT BROOKE

MEMORIAL.

STATUE UNVEILED ON A

GRECIAN ISLAND.

[TAROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

N. Y. K.-O.S.K. AGREEMENT.

MINIMISING COMPETITION ON CERTAIN ROUTES.. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

TOKYO, April's.

A ten-year agreement between

the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha has been signed.

Among other things, the agroe: ment provides for spheres of in. fuenco along certain routes, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha operating the Puget Sound run and the Ceaks Shosen Kaisha monopolising the eastern coast of South America,

A telegram from Oanka dated March 27 stated that two of the largest Japanese shipping com. panies, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, con- trolling more than 260 steamers nggregating almost 1,500,000 tons, had issued statement announcing that they had jointly entered into an agreement with the object of minimising competition on overseas trade routes.

PRINCES IN RIO DE

JANEIRO.

RETURN FROM SAO PAULO."

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

RIO DE JANEIRo, April 5. The Prince of Wales and Prince George arrived here to-day on their return from a trip, to the States of Sao Paulo and Minas- gernes and were received hy a re- presentative of President Vargas and his Ministers.

U.S.. STRATEGY DEMANDS

BATTLESHIPS. ́·

QUESTION-OF TONNAGES

AND- CALIBRES, "

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

WASHINGTON, April 5. Admiral Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations, indicated to-day that the Navy, Departament were care." fully considering the question of tonnages and gun calibres,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1931.

JAPAN OBSERVES LONDON PACT.

EIGHT THOUSAND DOCK WORKERS DISCHARGED.

· (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

TORTO, April 0. Eight thousand two hundred

BOY'S FIGHT WITH

MAD DOG.

SAVES HIS PLAYMATES FROM BEING BITTEN,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

BARGA, April & Although himself bitten, Master Moses Jacob atraggied valiantly with a mad dog in French Town The main naval ports affected are and held the animal till the latter Kure, Yokosuka and Sanabo.

Generous discharge allowancesas overpowered, thus preventing averaging Yen 705 have been grant. a rabid creature, from injuring his ed to those discharged.

playmates, with the exception of a small girl, who was the first vice two of the dog's attack,

naval dockyard workers were dis charged this morning as a result of the London Naval Treaty,"

HONOUR FOR NAVAL.

DELEGATES.

MI WAKATSUKI MÁY BE MEMBER OF PEERAGE.

March

Tokyo.

30. Informed

circles here to-day predicted that Mr. Reijira Wakatsuki, the chief of the the Japanese, delegation to London Naval Limitations Confer- fercies of 1930, will be elevated to the peerage in recognition of his work in aiding in the negotiation of the London Naval Treaty.

As the Foreign Office prepared to recommend rewards for the mem- bers of the Japanese delegation to London last year there were in- dications that Mr. Wakatsuki ma bo made a Baron and that Admiral Hyo Takarabe and Mr. Teuneo Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador to the Court of St. James, will re- ceive the Grand Cordon of the Rie- ing Sun.

Master Jacob plunged headlong and grasped the animal's throat.

Master Jacob is prefect of a public school, and his presence of mind averted wholesale injuries.

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ALL-INDIA MOSLEM

CONFERENCE.

DECLARATION BY PRESIDENT.

[TUROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI BOY SCOUTS.

SPLENDID MUSTER AT JAMBOREE,

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(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SHANOHat, April 0. There was a splendid muster at the Boy Scout Jamboree,

The Jewish troop again won the Rotary Club Shield and also a trophy presented for international competition by the Shanghai City Council. The Chinese Boy Scouts and the Jewish Wolf Cubs won the

Fraser Shield,

GERMAN ARMY STRENGTH.

FRENCH STATEMENTS

.RESENTED.

Berlin, March 9.-The Reichswehr Minister, General Groener, intre- duced today the budget of his muistry in the Reichstag and took the occasion to reply to M. Maginot in the French Chamber.

The latter's statements in the French Chamber that France bas already disarmed, that Gormany is NEW DELHI, April 5, still a military Power to be feared, and that Germany as the aggremor The British are willing to no-

in the last war must accept per manent inferiority in armaments, cept 80 per cent. of India's demand forthwith," declared. Mr. Shaukat have produced remarkable

un Ali, presiding over the All-Indiaanimity in German opinion which should assist the Government in Moslem Conference.

piloting the military. credits He hoped that the Hindus would through the Reichstag, rendered now accept the Moslems' demands. lopsided by the desertion of the

Nationalists. "Let the Indian States and Hindus and Moslems put their SPEECH BY PREMIER OF heads together and present a united

U.S.S.R.

demand to the British people," he arged.

ANGLO-RUSSIAN

· RELATIONS. ·

The Begum Mohamed Ali, chair- woman of the Reception Committee,

Civil War Danger

Since Herr Groener's remarks re- present the convictions of the over- whelming majority of Germans, and foreshadow the point of view of Germaa delegates to the Dis aridament Conference they are im .portant.

FRANCO-ITALIAN NAVAL TREATY.

DIFFERENCES OF OPINION ARISE.

NEW SOUTH WALES. POLICY.

FURTHER PERIOD OF .SOCIALISM.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SYDNEY, April 6

İTUKOYON REUTER'S AGENCY,)

LONDON, April 5.

The Enter Conference in New Telegrams from Paris indicate that differences of opinion have South Wales, after yesterday adopt. arisen between the French and ing Three Year Plan" on the Italian Governments over the draw.drastic lines of the Sovint Five- ing up of the proposed Naval Year Plan by 57 votes to 44, to- day reversed its decision by" es Agreement.

The French are reported to devotes to 35 as a result of extenstio sire to continue their obsolete lobbying, and adopted Premior vessels, particularly cruisers and Lang's motion in favour of fur destroyers, between 1933 and the

Naval Disarmament Conference to ther period of socialistic policy. be held in 1938 in order to keep intnet the margin over the Italian naval forces, while the Italian Gov. ernment is of the opinion that there should be no replacements during this period in order to leave the 1936 Conferenco, a frée hand,

MAYOR'S REFUSAL TO PAY RATES.

COUNCIL FAVOUR

SUMMONS.

TENSION ON THE ADRIATIC.

JUGO-SLAV BISHOP RETURNS ITALIAN ORDER.

Belgian, March 30-The tension between Italy and Jugo-Slavia con- tinues and was further stiffened by An open letter rent to Signor Mussolini by the Prince Bishop of Dalbach, Jeglich, who was recent Rochford (Essex)The Rural rities. In this letter the Prince- ly doported by the Italian autho- Council favoured the issue of a summons against Alderman Albert Bishop amounces that he was re- Martin, Mayor of Southend, in re- turning the high Italian order pect of the rates of a grocer's shop awarded to him for services render- owned by him at Hockley, but in order that. the council should not od in connection with the repatria take what was, in the opinion of tion of Italian war prisoners from Mr. Harold Rankin, chairman, of Slovenia. As long as he is not con- the council, an undignified action, sidored worthy to tread Italian soil the chairman paid the rates him. self.

It was stated that the letter con taining a cheque for the rates, minus discount, was wrongly ad

a late post- dressed, and bore mark, and consequently did not arrive in the time stipulated for discount allowance.

he cannot, reconcile it with his diguity to wear an Italian order.

TELEPHONE LINK-UP ACROSS WORLD.

The thesis that Germany bore the exclusive responsibility for the wared that the request for the allow CONVERSATION BETWEEN NEW

historical research, he said, and Germany had nothing to fear from the re-examination of this question now inly an objective international com- niittee such as had always been naked for by ber Government. were pri

LATER.

Germany had fulfilled the dis-

rect.

Riga (Latvia). March 9-To-day Molotoff, Stalin's nominee to the post of President of the Council of Commissars (Prime Minister) in steression to Rykoff, continucu his appealed to Moslem women to dis-had been exploded by international lng political speech to the All-card the veil and enter public life. Union Congress of Soviets.

The Viceroy later called an in In the course of the speech Molo- formal conference of prominent teff, reviewed Soviet relations with Moslen leaders who are Great Britain. He referred with Delhi. satisfaction to the Mixed Conimi: The conversations "

to consider the vate and lasted for 00 minutes. claims of the two countries against Bion in London each other. He anid that it was

armament, elapses of the treaty as the Inter-Allied Commission had efforts of influential circles in the nccessary to follow elcsely the

certified. Not only were the police in no way dependent on the Reich- The Moslem Conference has pass-wher and their organisation, in Conservative Party to destroy

ed a resolution with regard to the cordance with the guarantees for It is gathered unofficially that the Auglo-Soviet relations,

Speaking 是 the

economic recent, communal riata, deploring their civil character demanded by Navy Department still considera that battleships of 35,000 tons are atuation in the U.S.S.R., Molotoff the wanton aggressiveness" of the Inter-Allied Commission, but the Hindus, declaring that a con. Maginot's figures were incor- essential for American strategy, referred to the unsatisfactory con

tinuance thereof will lead to civil owing to the combination of strikdition of transport, and quoted ns ing power and great cruising radius. an instanca the southern railwayments of England and India that 150,000. Of these men, only

war, and warning the Govern

The police force numbered 103,000, on which 10 per cent. of the rail the spineless handling of the situa2,000 were in barracks. The armed way engines are in need of repair, tion by continued pandering "to estoins guard did not number and to which it has been necessary

send a special commission of in-Congress will lead to the complete 32,000 men. ruin of India. quiry from Moscow.

Coal production, Molotoff said, Supporters of the resolution, in was unsatisfactory in that only the course of their speeches, ex- two-thirds of the Plan had been ful-pressed themselves very strongly, filled, Everything possible hnd Mr. Shaukat Ali deprecated & been done, he said, to mechanise spirit of revenge, and anid that con production, but 20 to 45 per wherever the Moslems felt forced cent. of the new machines still re- to fight they must not lay hands on mained unused. The Duieprostry women, children, old (mmense electrical warka and can- temples, als at the Dnieper Rapids) and other great Soviet undertakings. were being successfully carried on with the help of foreign experts.

The most vital need of the Soviets now, he said, was for technical

WORLD TRADE

DEPRESSION.

LOW PRICE OF SILVER NOT THE CAUSE.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, April 8. The drop in silver is not among the important causes of the world depression, according to the bank ers G. M. P. Murphy & Company, who suggest that a rise in price might cause China more hardshipstery. than had resulted from the drastic decline.

Donial by White House.

WASHINGTON, April 5.

categorically deny

ciatials.

Class War.

Molotoff quoted Lenin freely throughout his speech, and, in men- ISLAND, OF SKYnos, April 5.

tioning the recent trials of alieged laid In connection with Mr. Arentz's anti Soviet organisations, The entire population, pictures- quely dressed in native costume, statement, officials at the White alreas on the necessity of the class turned out at dawn to meet the House

that war. He concluded his speech by steamer bringing M. Venizelos, the President Hoover intends to sum saying that the whole world was Greek Foreign Minister, the British mon a conference of administrationvided into capitalists and so Minister in Athens, and a number officials, as he feels that the United of writers of international distine States has little interest in the tion who attended the impressive problem apart from its hearing on

world trade. ceremony of the unveiling of memorial to the poet Rupert Brooke, in the form of a nude figure of the poet, inscribed in Greek, and English to "A noble immortal friend of Greece and poetry."

It is the work of the Greek sculp- ter, Michel Tombres, and was erect- ed through the efforts of an inter- nctional committee comprising 200 European" and "American "literary

men.

Skyros is an island belonging to Greece, and is in the Sporades group, to the east of Euboea. The population is 4,000.].

HIS. MAJESTY UNWELL.

SUFFERING FROM A SLIGHT COLD.

[TÁNOUGH NEUTER'S``AGENOT.] [

"LONDON," April $.” 1.M. 'the King is suffering from aalight cold and though not con- fired to bed is a precaution, keeping to his zoom in Windsor His Majesty was unable to attend divine service, but carried out a certain amount of official business.

Castle.

REPEAL OF DECREE DEMANDED.

GERMAN NATIONAL SOCIALISTS AND NEW ORDER.

Berlin, March 30.-The immediate repost of the Presidential decroc temporarily suspending certain con stitutional liberties, the freedom of the Press and of political meetings, the former especially intended to curb the excesses of political hooli ganism, was demanded by a joint conference at Nuernberg of the leaders of the National Socialists of the German National and People's Party.

During certain periods in his tory, he said, the two systems might exist side by side. "Let the capita list world,” he said, “make its own deductions and wo shall make. ours.

men or

French Armaments. France, on the other hand, Gen- cral Groener declared, had not dis armed, but only reorganised her atmaments on modern lines. Three hundred and twenty thousand men, the Minister sinted, served more than one year in her army; office work had been taken over by 30,000 civilians.

Indian States Attacked,

Did France's thousands of tanka, The mover of a resolution, which aeroplanes and guns, and ten thou- xas passed, demanding separate sunds of machine guns speak of dis- electorates and 33 per cent, repre-urmament, the German Reichswehr sentation on the Federal Legisla. Sinister asked. The number of ture, declared that the Indian divisions in peace time had been States delegation to the Round Table Conference conspired to join the Federation in order to "down" Moslem India, whose only safe guard was to have some provinces where they could live in peace and safety.

They could not tolerate the Army being in charge of a Hindu Cen- tral Government. If Congress won power by fighting the British, the Moslems would fight:Congress:

INDIAN RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN STATES.

Our resolution is to redouble the struggle for Communism' sa taught by Marx, Engels, and Lenin,'

Taking all in all, Molotoff declar ed, the Soviet's international nosi.PUBLICATION OF UNFRIENDLY tion was stronger than it had been. Those who dare to disturb the peace and attack the Soviet Union will be the first to suffor," he said

KING AND QUEEN OF SIAM:

ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME

IN JAPAN,

The manifesto issued by them ITAROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.). asserts that the decree was primarily directed against the forthcoming

TOKYO, April 0. A salute of 21 guns at daylight plebiscite for the dissolution of the Prussian Diet which is being pro and rockels greeted Their Majesties moted by the Right Itadical organi-the King and Queen of Biam on zation "Stee helmet" and demands their arrival at Kahe at seven that the Reichstag be immediately o'clock this morning. convened to debate and decido onAll the ships in harbour-were- the Presidential decree. The mani gaily dressed, fcato ends with an appeal to the President to part with his present advisors and to lend an ear to those who elected him to office."

An official-reception - committee boarded the liner Empress of Japan and accompanied Their Majesties to Tokyo.

STATEMENTS ORDINANCE.

(THROUGH AEUTER'S AGENCY.]

NEW DELHI, April 6 The publication of statements likely to promote unfriendly re- Intions between the Indian Govern- ment and foreign States will henceforth be punished-up-to-two- years' imprisonment or a fine, or bath, under a new Ordinance.

OBITUARY.

·COL. LOUDON GORDON,

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

reduced, but the number of Gener-. nis and Staff officers had been in creaand by 50 per cent, as compared with 1914. France's military ex penditure had also greatly increas ed since the war, and now reach-

ed the figure of 18.2 milliards of francs (£130,000,000),

Franos, General Groener continu- ed, had not begun to disarm, and still possessed in her army the strongest instrument of war in the world.

Socialist speakers who followed criticised the amount of the mili tary budget, but supported the Sinister in his reply to M. Ma ginot. Those who accuse Germany. of having secret armaments must say where they were, how they were eoneuled and paid for, was the tenor of their remarks.

SCHNEIDER CUP CONTEST.

AMAZING-SPEED EXPECTED FROM BRITISH SEAPLANES.

(THROUGH HEUTER'S ADENDY.]

LONDON, April & %

A. speed of over 400 miles an hour is expected to be achieved, according to the Morning Post, by the two new supermarine seaplanes fitted with Rolls-Royce engines, which will be used by the British * LONDON, ~ Aprilˇ5;:. team in the Schneider Cup con- The death occurred to-day of test, and in a dive they will very Colonel Loudon Gordon, who was probably exceed 500 miles an hour, formerly Commander of the Shang-compared with the present world hai Volunteers...

record of 357 miles an hour.

The rating committee recommend. ance of the discount, which amount. cdl to 88, 4d., be granted, but this found only two supporters on the council.

Mr. Rankin said he had written personally to Alderman Martin, but he declined to pay.

Alderman Martin last year gavo £38,000 to Southend's new hospital scheme, and is reported to be one of Southend's wealthiest men.

Alderman Martin stated: "I had no idea that the matter had gone Finance Committee. As a matter. so far as to be discussed by the

YORK AND JAVA,

New York, March 30-Regular between radio-telephone service United States and Java will be in- augurated to-morrow, it was an nounced here to-day by officials of the American Telephone and Tele- graph Company, the Inttinational Telephone and Telegraph Company' America, and the Radio Carporation of

of inet, the cheque was drawn and The telephone circuits to Java posted two days before the, date will operate to New York and due for discount. All this is some thence by radiophones ñeross the

to take proceedings for the discount relayed by cable to Amsterdam. months old, but I remember the Atlantic ocean to London. From clerk rang me up and threatened London the conversations will be

which I had deducted from the amount before posting the cheque.

A shortwave radiophone circuit will operate on the relay from

I told them to get on with it.” Amsterdam to Java.

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"Marrying "White Horse?

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the choicest makes of Scotch

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