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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1982.
SITUATION AT SKIRMISHES RUBBER
**SHANGHAI
MODIFICATIONS
PEACE TERMS
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(THROUGH AKUTEK'S AGENCY.}
MANCHURIA
IRREGULARS ACTIVE IN ANTACHAN
(THROUGH AKUTSH'S AGENCY.]
HABUIN, Mar. 21.
SHANGHAI, Mar. 21. With both Chinese and Japanese Instructions demanding a modifica- Lion of the terms reached on March
It is reported that a hundred locomotives and more than 7,000 19, a complete agreement of the peace question may not be forth-wagons have been taken to Russia coming as early as expected. Re-by the C.E.R. up to March 15.
presentatives of China and Japan nre meeting at 4 n. in the pro- sence of Neutral Observera, "
It is learned that in necordtunes with instructions from Nanking.. the Chinese Delegaten will raíso the question of fixing & definits dato for the withdrawal of Japan-
ese troopa,
On the contrary, the modifies- tions de handed by Tokyo, which are reported to include the reten- tion of a portion of the Japanese forces at Wockung, are considered to be unacceptable in Chinero circles.
Conseqisently, a serious wrangle is expected at the meeting this
afternoon.
" INDIGNATION MEETING
DECISIONS
Erregular troopa have now com inenced raiding the western line in the vicinity of Antavchan
Pokoti
and
Two hundred of General Ting Tano's troops attacked Maoethes shan, but retreated after an hour's fighting.
RESTRICTION
'WHY CONFERENCE BROKE. DOWN
(THROOM REUTER'A AGENCY.)
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BRAZILIAN COAL CONTRACT"
75,000-TON ORDER GOES TO GERMANY
(THROUGH. REUTER': AGENCY,]
LONDON, Mar. 91.
INDIAN COMMUNAL | DROUGHT IN
PROBLEM
DIFFICULT AND CONTRO- "VERSIAL" QUESTION!
[URITIAN WIRELESS SERVICE. }
Committee
of
PALESTINE
ALL CREEDS JOIN IN PRAYER
i
(Reuter's Special Service.)
LONDON, Murch 20.
JERUSALEM, Mar. 21. Rudiy, March 20. That the rubber industry will now
Christians, Moslems and Jews A communiqué issued by the In. united this week-end in common have to work out its own salvation,
dia Office gives the text of a state-prayer for rain to end the drought without the least prospect of Gov.
ment published in Delhi, which says and heat which is becoming a seri ernment supervision of limitation Cables have been received at. Car-that His Majesty's Government have sus menace, causing considerable of output, is the view of well-in-diff stating that priors for 78,000 baken note of the inability of the apprehension regarding Palestinian formed quarters in the City, fol. tons of coal for the Brazilian rail-Consultative lowing the breakdown of the Angio.ways have been given to Germany. Round Table Conference to under-lems of Gaza are helding a three. the. and Trans-Jordan crops The Mos. Dutch negotiations.
Payment to be made in cargoes of take a settlement of the communal days fast in the hope that is They declare that a toniative coffee and other goods.
problem, which was reported to them will bo vouchanted on the fourth agreement between, Britain agd Holland could have been reached coal-market, but difficulties aroso inmittee's request that the decision churches, monques and synagogues Inquiries were made at the Walsh by the chairman, and of the Com day. Prayers are being offered in but for the difficulties in estimating view of the fact that Brazilian Grms should be given by His Majesty's throughout the country.
owe £1,000,000, for Welsh coal sup-Government the production of native-grown rub- ber in the Dutch East Indios.
plied in the past two yearE. It was on this point that the negotiations definitely broke down.
Fundamental Points.
From the variety of complexities, it is learned that the negotiators agreed upon three fundamental
JAPAN AND Pointe, namely... CHANGCHUN
NEW STATE'S POLICY WELCOMED
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]"
Toxy, Mar. 21.
SHANGHAI, Mar. 91 Publication of the main points of
In adenowledging the Manchurian the pence
Government'e Note of March 19, tentatively proposals agreed by the Chinese delegatos but making no reference to Ka
The formulation of a scheme which failed would do more Harm to the industry than no scheme at all.. (2, And
The most vital No scheme would be of any use which would not cover the re- striction of both native and European production: (3) Any scheme must rodnee the production to such as extent that within a reasonable period, existing stocks could be reduced to normal propor- tions; in other words, by at least #fty per cont
Unsettled Market,
LONDON, Mar, 01.
16, the preliminary conferences question of recognition, the Japan The London rubber market is falready Zoubtfully received by Tokyoy have aroused a store of
use Government sent a communicattled, but it is generally be eventually be the outcome with the removal of all uncertainty.
SWEDISH ROYAL ROMANCE.
PRINCE LENNART IN
* LONDON.
WITH HIS LOVELY BRIDE.
Tho Prince who is to sacrifico his title to marry a lovely bride, the daughter of a business munn, Arrived in London last night "terrifically happy."
The language employed by the Prime Minister at the Round Table" Conference in London on December 1, emphasising the desirability of An agreed settlement of this ques- tion is recalled, and regret is ex- pressed at the information which has now been received;
Premier's Pledge.
LINDBERGH BABY MYSTERY
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"MOST PROMISING CLUE ''.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
NEW YORK, Mar. 20. The communiqué proceeds: "His "The most promising clue yet" Majesty's Government has been in- in the Lindbergh mystery is the formed that the absence of a comverdict of Governor Moore on the progress with the programme in-car buried in munal agreement is now impeding discovery of an abandoned motor dicated in the Prime Minister's Hopewell, New Jersey, yesterday.
a hay barn near statement of December.
Three men have been arrested "In these circumstances the Gov- and are believed to be connected ernment think it well to reiterate with a gang of determined young man of 22, and ter gave in the
Prince Leanart of Sweden is the pledge which the Prime Minis- but their connection with the kid tmotor bandits;
he greeted a Daily Mail reporter in
same statement, napping of Lindbergh's baby has his suite at the Dorchester, Park-
that in the event of a failure of not been established. lane, W, with the statement that ment acceptable to all parties na
the communities to present a settle nothing could ever make him re- the foundation upon which to build. gret the loss of his royal prerogarthe Governmen were determined tive.
Indeed, the Prince, who has coms
that even this disability should not be permitted to be a bar to progress. office Miss Karin Nisvandt, who is to apply a provisional scheme. to London to marry at a register and that they would be compelled 20, is very unconcerned about his
"His Majesty's Government de
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GRAF ZEPPELIN IN AIR
AGAIN,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN," Mar. 21. Eckoner in, command, took off, The Graf Zeppelin, with "Dr.
Pernambuco.
M. BRIAND'S LAST WISH
TO
REST AT COCHEREL
(Reuter's Special Service:)
PARIS, Mac, 9L. The date M. Briand's lake wish will be delßlled for he will lie in
his own ground below the village gemotory at Cochored where he loved to meditate. In order that those of his friends, who are al his grave may be placed beside candy buried in the churchyard, a low wall is to be taken down and rebuilt round the plot assigned for the late stateman's remains
OBITUARY
LORD MERTHYR PASSES AWAY
(Reuter's Special Service.)
LONDON, Mar. I. Lord Merthy, the owner of one of the finest herds of Shorthorn cattle in Wales, died today,
LONDON MURDER
MYSTERY.
"WOMAN VICTIM,
protest among leading loan) Chi- tion through the Japanese Coney lieved that a healthier position will future-despite the opposition of sire lo make it plain that they half an hour after midnight, for SIR B., SPILSBURY CALLED IN.
nero.
A meeting of the various civie bodies, including the numerous National Balvation Associations, has been held and the attitude of the Chinese representatives WIZA vigorously eriticised.
a general
The organisation of strike and indignation demonstra tions throughout China were dis- cussed.
It was contended that the tenta- tivo peace agreement was humiliat- ing to China, and a strike" and de- monstrations must be regarded as serious possibilities if note of the protest is not taken.
The meeting. after a lengthy, discussion, decided to issue two circular talegrams, "one addressed to the people of China and the other to the League of Nations, the United States and the Lytton Commission.
CALL TO MASSES
at Changohun welcoming the News State's declared policy of an Open Door, equal opportunity and re- speet of existing treaties.
CHINESE FLOOD SUFFERERS
URGENT APPEAL FOR FUNDS
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.1
LONDON, Mar. 31. An urgent appeal for funds for the relief of Chinese flood sufferers, to-day's Times, signed by the Arch- is made in a letter appearing in
bishop of York, Lord Cecil, Sir Charles Addis, Sir Arthur Dalter and Sir A. E. Whyte, among others. The letter discloses the receipt In the first telegram, the mass08 of a message from Sir John Hope of China are urged to rise up like Simpson stating that unless addi- one ma in opposition to any tional funds are immediately pro Arcement in which China's terri-vided, he will be unable to carry on torial sovereignty is signed away the work now in his hands:
In the secund, it is stated that China will never recognise the validity of such an agreement, "even if it is signed by the Chinese delegates.
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TOUR OF INSPECTION
SHANGHAI, Mar. 24. Trulle was completely blocked on the Bund in the vicinity of the Cathay Hotel from 8.48 to 0.20 this"
terest being taken in the activities. of the Lytton Commission.
Thonsand of people, foreigners and Chinese, gathered at the Cathay Hotel from 8 o'clock on- wards to watch the Lytton.Com. mission Icave on their tour of in spection of the Chapel-Kiangwan battle-lines.
Twenty motor.cars,
including
A sum of £100,000 mouthly is needed to enable the necessary minimum work of relief and con- struction of dyes in the next three months if a repetition of the disastrous foods is to be avoided this year,
A small committee has been form edwith an oes in London to re ceive subscriptions."
DEAD.
WOMAN GASSED: MAN DRUGGED..
A doctor and his wife were found three carrying a Japanese armed dead at Harley-road, Hampstead, escort, left for Pungtazepoo at 9.20. and at the inquest the problem may
The Commission is then proceed. | be raised of "Who died first ? ing through Kiangwan and Chapel
Besides the
of Lytton Commission, and numerous Japanean delegates, the touring party includes. Dr. Wellington Koo and several other Chinese.
membera
The couple are:
the
Dr. Francia George Simpson (50); .
"
Macneill
Mrs. Anno Simpson (42). They were married at Hampstead register office in 1930, "
young man,
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APPOINTMENT
MR. JUSTICE WRIGHT TO BE ELEVATED
his grandfather, the King of Swe-realise the responsibilities involved den, to the match.
in this undertaking and will not Bir P. Later Explains.
This is the first of a series of Imagine a young man who speaks fail to discharge them. They are In House of Commons Sireult to detect any accent. His of the difficult and controversial ing nine passengers,
English so perfectly that it is dis-engaged in a careful re-examination year. The giant airship is carry voyages to South America, this Philip Cunliffe Lister read the dark, curly hair and sallow comple-questions which arise and it is their rubber communiqué. Ho remarked xion contrast strangely with the that during the discussion the whole
Arm intention that there shall be NEW JUDICIAL position was carefully reviewed in popular idea of the Scandinavian no avoidable delay."" order test the practicability of any scheme of restriction, but the. eunclusion was reached that the practical difficulties were such as to precinde the adoption of a comprehensive scheme with any rea sonable prospect of success. He considered this conclusion inevit able in the circumstances and had been reluctantly accepted" by bath the governments concerned, He was deeply indebted to representa tives of the rubber industry for their help during the negotiaions.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Roosy, March 20. A Colonial Offer Communiqué #tates:
and
a series of discussions dating back The negotiations were preceded by
to July, 1930.
"My Mind Made Up."" Uneoncornedly, his dark cys twinkling through horn-rimmed spectantes, he spoke of the romance which has stirred the whole of Europe
He would not permit Miss Nien-
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.30 p.m., stated:--
•
The anti-cyclone is central of the cast of Shanghai, moving eastward.
Local Forecast :-N,E, ́winde, fresh; moderating; generally cloudy,
BIBLE STUDENT IN DIVORCE CASE:
HUSBAND GETS DECREE.
A decrec nisi was granted against a woman said to be a devoted Bible studens by Lord Merrivale in the Divares Court,
of
Mr. Sydney Harold Hunt, a County Council employee, Brunswick-square, Gloucester, peli- sioned for the dissolution of his marriage with his "wife, Lucienn Rebitt Hunt, of Shooter's Hill- road Blackheath, S.E., on the ground of her misconduct with Mr. George Ernest Sibley
the direction
Scotland Yard detectives, ander of Superintendent Cornish, are inquiring into the death of Mrs. Dora Alicia Lloyd jat an apartment house in Lanark-4 villas, Maida Vale. She had appa- rently been strangled,
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The woman was found dead be- tween two and three o'clock in the afternoon lying unclothed on the bed in a room on the ground floor of the house.
A Man Priež
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
Ruaar, Mar. 20. The King has approved that Mr. Justice. Wright Jo appointed
Mr. Lloyd, who is believed to Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, in have lived for some time in Madilim who is retiring from office on succession to Viscount Duneding Valo, and hooked the room, only April 5.
three weeks ago.....
SALVATION ARMY BAND AT THE PALACE
ROYAL AUDIENCE
(Reuter's Special Service.)
A strange feature of the case is that no suspicious sounds werb heard during the night or the early hours when, it is. believed, Mrs. Lloyd met her death,
It is understood that the police are anxious to communicate with amaa, who is believed to have accompanied Mrs. Lloyd to the LONDON, Mar. 30.
house late the previous night. The King and Quden to-day
The apartment house is owned by listened for an hour to the Salva-a blind man, Mr. Alfred Frederick These allegations were denied by tion Army Regent Hall band, play Haddock, who has been there for Mrs. Hunt and the co-respondent.ing its jubilee in the forecourt of the past 20 years. Mrs. Hunt cross-petitioned for a de Buckingham Palac cruelty by her husband of a kind baby sister, Margaret, were taken cree of judicial separation alleging Wore
Little Princess Elizabeth and her
Flashlight Pictures. which made her life with him im specially to the Raises to hear the.
Immediately the woman's death desertion, Mr. Hunt denied both in the Chinese Room on the first of detectives was sent to Lanark- possible. There was also a charge of music and sat with Their Majesties was reported to the police a squad. allegations, and this cross-petition floor, while thousands of Londoners villas, Superintendent Cornish was was dismissed.
gather at the Victoria Memorial the first to arrive, and was closely Except slapping her face once to and in Constitutional Hill
followed by Divisional Detective- clared he never treated her with William Boath, played several airs from Brotland Yard, were tous stop her going into hysterics he de-
The band, which was founded by Inspector Mallet and photographers physical violence.
at Their Majesties request and number of fashlight photographs in afterwards the bandmaster was the bed-sitting room.
the given an audience and congratu
During
afternoon Sir lated upon a fine performance.
Bernard Spilsbury, the patholo gist, was summoned and carried "BOAT RACE NIGHT
out a preliminary examination, from which it is understood be came to the conclusion that the woman had been strangled A number of marks wore, detestedi, on her throat and finger-prints were taken.
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hia wife. Eventually he had occa
PASSES QUIETLY Ision to objest to the association of his wife and Mr. Sibley. He com- plained that his wife was often out
(Renter's Special Service.) motoring with Bibley and neglect-
LONDON, Mar. 201 ing the home. In 1929 she went to
Shortly before midnight detectives "One of the quietest Boat Race a religious convention in London nights on record" was the verdict Barnet hoping to obtain more defi- went by car to an address at Friern with him
of London police inspectors after nite information She left him in December 1929, thousands of merry-makers cele movements of the dead
regarding the and following an anonymous. com brating the Oxford and Cambridge Their inquiries, however, did not munication he employed a detective.struggle and the Anglo-Scottish
produce any new clue. duct at addresses in Charlton Park Piccadilly Circus last night. terrace, Charlton, S.E... and Policomes guarded the statue of Shooter's Hill-road.
Eros until midnight, when the re vellers were beginning to thin out. No untoward incident of any kind occurred,
WOMINY
The British and Netherlands Gov. ernments, in association with re- presentatives of the rubber growers in British and Dutch overseas tar- ritories, have been engaged in nego practicable scheme for the improve- vandt to be present, Nor, tiations in order to see whether a ment of the rubber suituation could Mrs. Lindberg, Misa Nissvandt's be revised. In the course of these uncle and aunt, there. negotiations, the British Netherlands Governments have con- about the marriage," the Prince "My mind is absolutely made up sulled the Governments of Ceylon, said. Malaya and the Netherlands In- dies.
"It was accident which brought Miss Nissvandt and me together. morning, revealing the immense in DOCTOR AND WIFE FOUND situation, the two governments have my life. I was staying with my After a careful review of the But it was the happiest accident of been forced to the conclusion that father, Prince Wilhelm, at his under present conditions it is im- castle near Stockholm when Miss possible to frame and operate an in- Nissvandt came to stay with her
Anonymous Letter, ternational scheme which would sister at her home near by. My
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were marri guarantee the effective regulation of father gave a party, to which theed in July 1914 and have one child. the production or export of rubber."
two sisters were invited.
Mr. Hunt's case was that Mr. "Then I met her. But at firat Sibley at times stayed with him and Certainty Needed,
I did not like her at all. "But you must remember that was only a boy of 15-and boys of 15 don't like girl, even when they One of the chief considerations are 13 and charming. which led the Colonial Secretary, "Only a few weeks passed before Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, to enter I changed my mind and then, two into negotiations was that all bent. years later, I made up my mind to informed opinion, whether rescri-marry her. I knew then that there anti-restrictionist, rewould be opposition from my fu- tionist er cognised the desirability of getting mily, but I was determined that Letters, addressed to the Coroner certainty. The stocks of rubber in nothing could hake me from my He now made charges of miscon-rugby international, departed from and to relatives are expected to being estimated at about six hundred
the world at present are huge, be intention.
"In those days I knew that some SHANGHAI, Mar. 91. read at the inquest.
thousand tons. It was agreed that thing was happening to me-I was A number of leading military Misa Pearson, housemaid, if the stocks could bo got down to
a little bit too interested in her. officers, including the various found Mrs. Simpson lying in the three hundred thousand tons, or six generala in command of the Nine gas filled kitchen with her head near months' supply it might be regard
Mr. and Mrs. Bernadotte. teenth Route Army, to-day wired a gas-oven,
"It is history that I have been ed reasonable. their congratulations to General On a table close by was a medical
deprived of my royal status in Chiang Kai Shek on his assump-hool, which was open at a passage though the difficulties regarding deprived of it from the day, of my Negotiations showed that al Swedan-or rather that I shall be tion of the chairmanship of the dealing with suicide. Military Council,
After turning off the gas, Miss come, and that it might be possible, course, I am still 'His Royal High-
plantation rubber might he over marriage. At the Pearson went to summon Dr. Simp- although difficult, to deal with na ness Prince Lennart," but when I on, and found him dead in bed. Ative production by quota in Ma- have married Miss Ninavandt wa hypodermic syringe and several laya and Ceylon, insuperable diffi-shall become Mr. and Mrs. Berna bottles were near the bod...
culties arose in regard to the Dutch dotte. East Indies, it being found, impos... There is no estrangement, how- sible to ascertain even the area of over, between the King and myself. News the native production in Sumatra, "We chose England to begin our note and Java, A scheme based on a voyage, because England is the land quota for plantation rubber and ex- of freedom. We shall be here for port duty for native rubber was thran weeks, the qualifying period said the circumstances were unusual. Lord Merrivale, giving judgment, then considered."
for marriage, and we shall see a The conclusion
It was not disputed that the wife was, however, lot of London.
"My suspicions were aroused this and the co-respondent had lived in Ridden by the Australian light morning when she did not make her reached that an export duly on na "I have my cine-camers and I the same lodgings for about 18 weight jockey, W. Elliot, who came usual appearance. Thinking that tive production gave no guarantee shall take pictures. I have my months. In 1994 the wife complain- specially from Australia, Mfr. D. J. she might have beep unwoll I took of a reduction in the native output "saxophone and lute, too, for Iad of her husband's association with Davis' Phar Lap, the Australian a cup of tes to her roomTher and the negotiation vers discon las all the music that is dezember of ent champion, only on the Agaw "I shall go to theatres and see amateur theatrical company. Thora Caliente Handicap worth $60,000 Dr. Simpson was educated at. The effect of the failus of the what London has to provide there, was no doubt that a friendship had He covered the distance of one and Sydney, where he was well known negotiations on the rubber market and I may even go to night clubs grown up between the husband and a quarter miles in the time of He had been in practice at Hamp-han, it is believed, been very large for I am told that those are the that woman, but there was no sug minutes, 2.4/5 seconds, which is a stend since 1930.
ly discounted....
homes of saxophones."
gestion that it was a guilty one. record for the track.
CHIANG STILL POPULAR
AMERICAN NAVAL MOVEMENTS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 20.
six sub.
for reconditioning
A Warning Note.
·
Six destroyers and marines, at present stationed in Misa "Pearson told Manila, have been instructed to Chronicle reporter that return to the United States on warning her against gaa was found April 18 to be placed in eserve on the kitchen door.
A friend of the family told a At the same time, the arrange-News-Chronicle reporter that both ments for the possible early with Dr. and Mr Simpson recently drawad of the 3let Indantry Regi- made their wills. He added: ment from Shanghai have been "I do not think his practice was very successful ha bad very few
changest The US transport Chaumont which has been held in readiness to proceed to Shanghai to take these troops to Manila, has now been ordered to sail for San
Frindsso on March 30,
patients,"
tinued.
...
moment, of
är
Mrs. Hunt's case was that she came to London in December 1929 for an operation, and Mr. Sibley, at the request of her parents, came to help her.
Afterwards, they lodged in the
duot same houses, occupying separate rooms, and there was no miscon
One allegation of Mra. Huns was that her husband had her sent to a mental liospital;
Mr. Bibley, the co-respondent, denied the allegations."
Judgment,
The police express the opinion that people nowadays have grown more responsible. They still cole brate the time-honoured festivities in Piccadilly but no longer is damage done leading to dozens of arrests,
AUSTRALIAN HORSE WINS $50,000
AQUA CALIENT (Mex), THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOY.]
Mar. 20,
Taxi-Drivers Questioned, Detectives were questioning taxi- cab drivers and employees at hotels in the Maida Vale district, with dy viow to gathering more information regarding the woman,
that Ara Lloyd occupied a flat at Inquiries by a reporter, revealed Portsdown-road, Maida Vale, some years ago, together with a three- years-old child, who it was stated Was her son. On several occasions the father of the boy visited the address to see the child,
Landlady's Story,
Mrs. Kaddock told a reporter: "Mrs, Lloyd had her own latch- kay and invariably came back Inte at night.
no repouse try knocking aud I curd the door, which was her body lying across the bed, which un astcued. 1 was horrised to so was in a state of disorder. I at once sent for the polion,"
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