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SINO-JAP. DIPLOMACY

AT GENEVA

POSSIBILITY OF JAPAN'S WITHDRAWAL

--FROM LEAGUE,

MR. MATSUDAIRA FORECASTS FURTHER

COMPLICATIONS

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

LONDON, April 18%.

Mr. Matsudaira has prolonged his stay in London to get in touch with foreign people here and to explain the Japanese * standpoint at Genova. At the end of the week ho draw Reutor's attention to the quietening of public opinion by the stoppage of " Oghting at Shanghai and the subsidence of the troubles in Man- churia, but forecasts more complications at Geneva when efforts; are made to bring the whole dispute before the Committee of Nineteen. He sincerely hoped the delegates would leave the com plicated problem in, the hands of the Chinese and JapanESS assisted by other representatives with precise knowledge and to members of the Lytton Commission whose report would doubtless" "contribute to the foal solution. !

CHINA'S DIPLOMATIC "MANŒUVRE

JAPAN'S ATTITUDE.

Tokyo, April 16. It is authoritatively stated that the Japanese delegation at Goneva will be instructed to refuse to participate if the Committee of Nineteen accedce to the Chinese request,to bake up the question of terms of the Shanghai armistice as the Chinese request in regarded as morely a maamuvre to enable them "to escape from reaching, an egren- ment: at Shanglini.

Japan is prepared to explain the course of the Shanghai negotia tion to the Lenne if it is de. sired, but will datly refuse to agres to the transier of the armistice, negotiation to Geneva.

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WILL JAPAN WITHDRAW FROM LEAGUE?

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY

HONOUR SLAYING

TRIAL

LIEUT. MASSIE'S POIGNANT STORY

WIFE'S 'PHONE MESSAGE

AFTER BRUTAL ASSAULT

{THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.];"'·

HONOLULU, April 15.

RECOVERY IN BRITAIN'S TRADE.

ENCOURAGING REVIEW BY MR. W. RUNCIMAN

UNEMPLOYMENT SHOWS DEFINITE DECREASE

[BAJTISH WIRELESS" AERVICE]"

APRIL 16 1932.

UGLY SCENES AT AUCKLAND

HUNDREDS OF CIVILIANS AND POLICE INJURED

DAMAGE ESTIMATED

AT £100,000

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PLANES FOR

CANTON GOVT.

STORY OF MUNITIONS DEAL

DIFFICULTIES OF FULFILL. ING A CONTRACT

..

From Our Own Correspondent.).

Roour, April 14 The operation of the Abnormal "ÁTOKLAND, N. Z. April 14.

CANTON, April 16. A poignant account of the attack Imports Orders har given. British

Fierce rioting and footing, in the Considerable public interest at on Mrs. Massie was given by her industries their greatest impetus curse of which hundreds of oiy-taches to the lawsuit which the husband, United States navalsiney 1021, declared Mr. Walter inna and twenty-three policemen Canton Government has brought lieutennat, one of the accused, when Runciman, President of the Board were injured, broke out in Auck-up in the City Court against giving evidence in the "honour of Trade, in a review of the onland, the largest city in North Mesars Siemanen & Company, slaying trial" Licut. Massle, told couraging results in the House: of how his wife telephoned Come Commons te-night, back immediately something. hor... · Although the unemployment rible has happened," and he 'rush-figures were still shockingly high ed home to find his wife in a piti-employment in Britain had increas able condition. She collapsed in hised by half a million in the past

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twolyk, months,

German firm for alleged failure to dever an order of goods Consist ing of three bombing 'planes and

CONFERENCES

CANTON

EXPECTED RETURN OF STATESMEN

MAYOR RESIGNS AFTER FISTIC BATTLE

(Trom Our Own Dorrespondent.)

CANTON, April 15. Generid Chen Tsai Tong is ex potted back in Canton either to pleted the burial ceremony for his day or to-morrow, He has coM:-. father, who passed away some eight years ago. He left Haiphong. his home, town, several days ago with his family.

Dr. H. H. Tung, Minister of ment, and brother-in-law of Mar Industry of the Nanking Covera

Island, to-day..

One of the gravest, disturbances in the History of the city, it broke out, when unemployed slashed with the pelice at the conclusion of a 180,000. machine-gun cartridges.shal Chiang Kai Shok, is expected procession of civil servants who The rat hearing of the case took were demonstrating against salary both plaintiff and defendant form place last Monday morning, when

ally submitted their cases to the

cuts.

Court

to sit fo în Canton to-morrow now conferring with Mr. Hu Hec Chazon Government. Dr. Kung is moming for a, conference with the

Min on the mattor in Hong Kong

Financial Problems,

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Mariries from H.M.S. Philomel, the light cruiser depot ship, were Hitherto twenty arrests have been of the Canton Military Headquarcial Government of Kwang, summoned to quell the disorders., Mr. To Yick Húm, Chief of Staff Mr. Fung Cho Man, Commis sioner of Finance of the Provin

arms," and "I want to die" was all she was able to say, He took In the course of his speech, Mr. her to hospital where she finally Runciman said Britain was told him how she had been brutally in Europe, with commercial activi the most highly-industrial country attacked while walking, and de- ties still the greatest in the worldmade. clared the murdered maar Kahaha. Britain's trade with Europe mpra- was her principal assailant,sented, until recently, nearly one- third of her foreign trade, but there † advisa Lord" Lytton to enter: Man- An operation was performed at the had been a great shrinkage of

urin via Dairen, and to first in-hospital to prevent pregnancy, European traffic. /// spect the railway zone, where the Japanese troops are able to afford fall protection to the Commission und Dr. Wellington Koo, as it is difficult to granted their safety if they take the Shanhaikum route.

COMMISSION'S BUSY WEEK From Qur Own Correspondent.)

ParING, April 16.

As far as can be gathered the Commissioners atill, intend to go to Manchurin via Stanhaikuan and a station but they are unlikely to “special+Arnia is waiting "at the depart before, Sunday or Monday. They had a very busy week, inter viewing Chang such Ling and he advisers for 3 or 4 hours every afternoon, while in the mornings they took evidence from other Manchurian gendrals. officials, Mungol Princes, educational lend es, foreigners from Manchuria and Tientsin and Japanese from Tien

Tokyo, April 15. Regarding Cant, Eden's reply in the House of Commons concerning the Japanese communication relat ing to the application of, - the ↑ trin, Eeague Convenant to the "Man churian dispute, it is learned that no despatch was sent to Britain, but that Mr. Matsudaira communi ented the Japanese Government a

Fy

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RECEPTION COMMITTEE'S

ESCAPE

Mrs. Fortescue, who had hitherto com most composed, broke down

Imports Kept Down. Britain might have suffered much during her evidence. Clarones Dmore but for the action taken since Amow, the aged United States last August, and they could look "Marshall Hall," announced that back on the effect of that policy with some satisfaction. The import Fa plea of insanity would be enter of large quantities of goods with ed on behalf of Kahahawa's mur which the country could most pasily derer. An earlier witness said afford to dispense had been cut

duwn, and the expenditure on non that the rope binding Kadiah&was essentials bought from abroad had body was ahtainable only in the been harboured for more pressing Naval Base.

nafds.

CHINESE EVACUATE

YOKOHAMA

GOVERNMENT ORDERS RETURN TO SHANGHAI

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SHANGHAI, April 15.

or

The Abnormal Imports Orders of last winter appeared to have kept down imports by at least £8,000,000 directly and! £10,000,000 £17,000,000 indirectly. In the West Riding of Yorkshire, there war greater activity than for years pasta the mill having ceased short-time work and many of them werg, work, ing overtime. There were signs of A raviva in some, although act all, branches of the cotton trade. The manufacture of electrical machinery was regaining its foreigh market as well as retaining its home cu tomers.

The Chinese Government has. British trade was taken on export If the measure of activities of endered all nationals living in alone, it would be found that Bri- Yokohama to prepare to return totain had suffered less from world

shrinkage than any other country. foreign shipping line to dispatch a steamer to Yokohama to transport the citizens to Shanghai.

CHINESE TROOPS ADVANCE

a

ALONG SOOCHOW CREEK

"Tokyo, April 20. According to the Chinchow Press attitude to Sir John Simon verhalembers of the Manchukuo recep

The contents have not been re tion committee who were proceed-China and has arranged for vealed but there is reason to being to Chinchow for the purpose of lieve he intimated that Japan Welcoming the League Commission would withdraw from the League, had a narrow escape as the rail rather than agree to the 'anplica-

way police discovered an attempt to wreck the train near Talingho. tion of Article XV...to Manchuria.

Nine persons have been arrested. JAPAN BLAMED BY CHINA

JAPANESE EXPLANATION GENBVA, April 15.

CEVA, April B. The Chinese, delegation has com- municated to Sir Erie Drummond detailed memorandum concerning The ensures taken by the Chinese Government in compliance with the Council's resciutions of September persists. 20 and December 12, 1931. In a covering letter Mr. Yen says that į the measures the Chipcae Govern- mentre taken to carry out the Founcil's reschtiona frustrated the Fananere Government, which must he held responsible for the state of affairs in the Three Eastern Pro- vinces.

LYTTON ADVISED TO TAKE DAIREN ROUTE

It is learned from Japanese quar ters that the difficulty of admitting Dr. Wellington Koo into Manchuria as the Chinese AasesBOY no the League Commission of Enquiry

Death Threat."

AT NIGHT

POWERFUL FORCE FACING JAPANESE POSITIONS

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Other Countries Buffer. The decrease in the first quarter of this year, was £11,000,000 below that of the first quarter of last year. but whereas our diminution had been 11 points, the United States shrinkage, taken over the whole three months, amounted to than 35 per cent., Germany fell 21 per cent, France 33, and Netherlands over 34.

more

the

British industries had adapted themselves to "the needs of the pre santo time, and workneonle bad shown a tranquility and determina tion unrivalled in the world. Bri- tain might be accused of slipping Japanese circles further reaSON:

off the gold standard and aaorific that the failure of the Shanghai

The reported advance of the 84thing the leadership of the financial anistice negotiations was becouse Chinese Division along the Soo.world, but, an Lord Revelstoke had the Chinese plenipotentiary was how Creek under cover of dark-stated, while we have given up the threatened by death by Chinese Fress, is ensating a star in foreign leadership, nobody else has taken students if he signs a dishonour-eireles in Shanghai,

it up? able armistice.

Foreign military authorities are The plesipotentiary, according to extremely reticent on the subject. the Japanese, has taken refuge in lut state that this is an ominous a hospital in the French Concession procedure because the position now on a plea of illness,

aaid to be occupied by the Eighty Eighth Division would ba the strategie paint for the Chinese to attack the Japanese left-Bank, or for "the Japanese to advanco..

It is further reported that

autiously increasing.

Sholled by Shrapnel,"

on

J

ters, Vice President of the Yen tong Military Academy, who is named as plaintiff, did not appear and the matter was handled by his lawyer, Dr. Tsin Shih Fun.. Messrs. Siemseen & Company was represented: by Hor Eckert, his counsel being Dr. Wang Chuen Kit. A number of foreign

Nanking Interferes.

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who has been away, in Nanking, for

conference with Marshal Chiang: Kai Shek and others in sounection? with the flotation of the $30,000,000 loan and the problem of financing the anti-Communist axpedition to Kiangsu and Fukien, is also expert- cd to be back in Canton, either Nanking. Government is willing to Walter tomorrow or the next day. The

against the Communists to the Avance the presens campaign extent of 3000,000 a month, or one half of what Canton, had asked for. Through the influence of Mr. Fung, Nanking has also approved of the fotation of $30,000,000 loan,. which will start tomorrow, Satur jay.

AUCKLAND, April 15. Queen Street this morning gives the impression of having been shelled with shrapnek. 250 plate glass windows were shattered, and the total damage is estimated at £100,000,

Royal Naval Reservists. were precautionarily called up, and squadrons of mounted Volunteers have arrived in the city.

Special foot and mounted police including Dr. Wagner, the and navad pickets charged the mob German Consal General in Canton when rioting broke but again in were present at the initial hearing, the number of windows amashed in the shopping district. Owing to the riot insurance premiums plate-glass have risen fifty per

During the course of the hearing, cent. Riot fire cover is unobtain-it was stated that the non-delivery

Fisticunts at Waterworks. Meeting. able owing to the prohibitive, of the goods was due to the action

It is learned that. Mayor Lin Ki rates; the companies are asking a of the Nanking Government which Wen his tendered his resignation thousand per cent above normal. was then at war with Canton, The to the Executive Council for the goods come in a Germana ship be-South-west, as a result of the re- longing to the Richmer Company.cert fistic fight at the Chaton The Nanking Government had ad Waterworks between his brother, vance information of the matter, Shau Hop, and Mr. Shia Kam and wher ship, arrived in Trung, son of Mr. Shine Fat Saing, Manila on its way to Hong Kong,

a prominent high official of the the authorities at Nanking inter

Canton Government. The fatio. vened. They ordered the Richmer combat courred at meeting of Company to:

the shin the Board of Directors of the straight to Shanghai and deliver Waterworks Mr. Liu was injared- the cargo to the Nanking Govern- so badly that he had to go to the ment. The Chinese Consul-General hospital Both,. however, have: in Manila, a representative of the severed their connections with the Nanking Government,, also took pa Waterworks pince, The resigna

OBITUARY

FOUNDER OF DETECTIVE

AGENCY

WILLIAM, J. BURNS, PROMIN

ENT AMERICAN

{THROUGH ISCTER'S AGENCY.]

SARASOTA, Florida, April 13. William John Burns, the founder and former President of the Burns

International Detective Agency, has died at the age of 70. Baltimore on October 18, 1881, and William John Burns was born in

eceived his education at parochial and public schools and at a huset- ness college. He married Annie Ressler, of Columbus, Ohio, on July 5, 1880, He was a Roman Catholic, and a staunch Repub- lican]

COMMERCIAL EDUCATION

SOCIETY.

(Renter's Special Service.).

active part in changing the destination of Mayor Liu, it is learned tion of the boat The Nanking from reliable sources, wild be Government, moreover, threatened accepted, and Mr. T K Ching.. to close all the seaporte in Chinese the former Mayor, has been named waters to the ships of the Richmers. his possible successor. Company in addition to imposing nther punishments for carrying LONDON WELCOMES contraband of way for the rebel government in Cantony" It #56 further anda 'known to the Ger

MR. MELLON man shipping company that the Nanking Government would not

ANGLO-AMERICAN hesitate to dispatch gunboats to

FRIENDSHIP the high seas to enforce its will.

'Chiang Kai Shok Benoits.

The Richmer Company had no choice but to comply to the order

EX

4:

[THROWN REUTER'S AGENCY.]

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LONDON, April · Ï4." "All the world, particularly

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of Nanking, and the boat sailed to Americans, have watched with ad Shanghai stead of Hong Kong.miration the hefoic manner CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN She got the goods for which Can-ple of Great Britain have faced As a result. Marshal Chiang Kai which the government and the peo LONDON IN JULY

ton had paid.

their difficulties," declared Mr. This being the case, it was point Andrew Mellon, now "American ed out Messrs. Siemssen & Com. Ambassador, in a speech at the Pil- pany could not be held responsiblerime Dinner this evening. for non-delivery of the cargo: No

The British people have not Mora People Employed.

LONDON, April 15. foreign merchant in Ching could hesitated to add to their already From September 1080 to "March. world are discussing reparations, ernment from taking such action. other and the world."

While the Governments of the have prevented the National Gov.heavy burdens in order to meet 1931, the number in employment

their responsibilities towards Tosyo. April 10.

diminished by well over a quarter war debts and tariffs to cure the The proper thing for the Canton

economic ills, business men of a million. From September,

Mr. Mellon declared that he was Government to do, it was further re According to Press despatches.

Serious Submission. drafts to replace,casualties will be

1931, to the end of March, 1930, pproaching the problem through argued, would be to take the mat-impressed by the feeling that Bri

improved salesmanship despatched to the region of Chin- Reuter's Geneva correspondent

there had been an increase of near-

ter up either with the Richnertain had turned her most difficula chow from Kored for the purpose understands that the Japanese

At luncheon in London, Sir Company or the Nanking Governorner and had the situation in ly a quarter of a million in om- playment. This remarkable change programme which will bring toen & Company,

Francis Goodenough outlined a ment, and not, with Messrs. Sième of amplifying the patrol work I member of the Assembly Com.

hands against bandits.

As the Lytton i mitee of Nineteen, will submit to Chinese forces are gradually and showed that the country's position London as the end of July dis.

Sir John Simon, replying, TO Commission plans to visit Chin the meeting of the Committee on

had improved by no less than 486,000 tinguished Businessmen from all the extraordinary nature of the day and Britain was firmly resolved

It is very, probable,

that Anglo-American feeling was .considering never more friendly than it was to show it is believed in Japanese Saturday, the foregoing explan

At present there is an extreme-in employment.

While every other country show countries in Europe, the United ly powerful force directly opposite "ircles, that the decision to send į tion of the failure "of the ncgOLID thevJapanese positions on the north ed a heavy decrease, Britain alone States, Canada and India for the up to the Supreme Court at Nan- matter, that the case will be taken

to cultivate that happy relationship Cres showed an increase in the number

congress Bank of the" Soochow

International king for final settlement, now that and to use it for the benefit of the Reuters Further Japanese Withdrawal,

Canton is again in harmony with whole world. of persons employed. The first intimation of the mave,

The British sections are prepar- Nanking. The next hearing here Over 300 foreign, manufacturers

Prince's Speech. Tokyo, Aprit 16. ment of this Division came from had, in the last nine months, con ing the ground thoroughly by a will take place on Saturday morn The War Oflice momces that Mrs. Calvert, the wife of an Amur templated the establishment of fac series of sectional conferences, the ing orders have been issued for the fan doctor, who, according to thetorics in Britain, whilst seventy most unortant of which will be withdrawal of further unspecided China Fress, informed the Munich British manufacturing firms were addressed by the Prince of Wales. units from Shanghai to Jupán. pal Police that she had observed the expanding their work or setting up who will also speak at the closing

approach of plain-clothes Chisene how undertakings with the assist session of the congress, soldiers in the rear of the Shanghai ance of foreign experia. Sanatorium, on the western out- skirts of the International Settle- mant

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replacements is in all likelihoodtions. "

due to Japaneso anxiety for the ariety of the Commission?"

Enter via Dairen.'

Enstructions have been cabled to

Mr. Yoshida, the Japancae Assce sor to the League Commission, to

BRITISH BUDGET PROSPECTS

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LITTLE HOPE OF INCOME TAX REDUCTIONS

N. Chamberlain introduces his Budget on Tuesday it will provide light relief for married men through adjustments in allowances,

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the

New Factories Working.

Society for Commercial Education,

of

the

but na reduction in the tax rate. SHANGHAI FINDS TIME TO turars of many various nationali-give the Dominions, and they had

LAUGH

AT NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE S.M.C

WIDOW COMMITS SUTTEE

NINE MEN ARRESTED AS ACCOMPLICES

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(VAROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.]

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His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, addressing the gathering, asid that the appointment of Mr Mellon as America's Ambassador in Britain was a great gesture on the part of the American people.

It could not fail to strengthen mutual faith and hearten us to tackle the problems besetting us.

His Majesty the King, in reply to & Loyal Message from the Pil grims, expressed, pleasure in a sociating himself with the welcome to Mr. Andrew Mellen.

GERMAN SILVER COINAGE

ANOTHER INCREASE

ence Mr, Runelman said they In the last few months, produc would go there with a sentiment tion had started in forty-three of strongly in favour of Imperial ae those factories built by manufaction. Britain had advantages "to The prospect of lower boer duty is

ties and covering a wide range of advantages to give us. freely canvassed, while thera is a

The "Gov- industries, all of which were cover- belief that the tea duty will be

orament were already making con-

PATHA, April 14, od by the Importation. Orders of aiderable progress in the sorting of re-imposed with a preference for

Nine men of Thakur, a casto last winter,

industries in which tariffs could be village of Kandauli, were arrested Empire grown tea. This is leading

Ho thought he could prophesy conferred with the greatest advant to day and are to be charged with to great activity in the tea trade.

that some result would follow from age, and the Dominions, also work-aiding a widow to commit suttes... Foreign grown" teas are at pres

the very wide range of dutios which ing on their schedules, are examin- Police witnesses depose that they sent noriving in London at twice

had since been imposed. the normal rate, în în ‘attempt to

ing the industries they think Bri saw a widow on her dead husband's The iron and steel industry, opal,tain can most help forestall the duty, while blenders

funeral-pyro marine engineering and ship- Any effort made to extend the [Suttee is an THROUGH ~LEUTER'S AGENCY aro transferring tea from public to

SHANGHAI, April 15-building showed no-material-sign trade of the Empire would not be custom whereby the wives of a

ancient Indian (THROUGH REUTER'S JOLNOY,). private warehouses in view of a All Shanghai is laughing over the of improvement, Their condition on an exclusive basis, in the sense possibility of the former becoming tact that burglars attempted":to

dead man sacrifice themselves on was causing the greatest anxiety, that it would shut Britain off from their late lord's funeral pyre as a

BERLIN April 14 LONDON, April 18”. banded after April 10.

rob the house of Mr Bell, the new and there appeared no chance of a the rest of the world. Having mark of supreme loyalty. It has Gorman Cabinet) to-day sanctioned The Council of the Reich (the Hopes of barassed tax-payers While there is some division of Chairman of the Municipal Council revival until there was a marked made a secure position in Britain heon made illegal under British the minting of silver coins of that the Budget would bring them opinion regarding the rate of duty on the same day whereon his cpl- revival in the world's trade. ** relief in the form of a reduction into ho expected, the opinion in the leagues elected him to that post-

the next stage was to extend traffic law. but the practice has never face value of a hundred million badian Ottawa Conference, come tax are rapidly waning.

within the Empire, so as to extend been entirely eradicated in India, marks, which will raise the total tea market generally places it attion, as if to signalise that happy Referring to the Ottawa Confer-British trade along freer channels particularly in the more remote circulation of coined money to over It is now believed that when Mr. 4. per pound.

cvent.

(Continued at font of next column.) 'throughout the world,

districts and villages.]

1,500 million marks.

TEA DUTIES MAY BE RE-IMPOSED

From Our Own Correspondent.)

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