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HONG KONG DAILY

APRIL

GERMAN DIET ELECTIONS

KAMURA BRIGADE ORDERED

TO N. MANCHURIA

LEAGUE COMMISSION'S NOTE

TO MANCHUKUO

DOES IT MEAN RECOGNITION OF NEW GOVERNMENT?

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}.

Toxyo. April 23. A Rengd neaunge from Chang chun says, that the League Com- mission have formally, notified the Mandbakuo of their entry into Man ohuria. This notification is regand ed with significance owing to its bearing d the question of recog- nising, the new government,

TO BE TREATED AS ORDINARY TRAVELLERS

Jceeding to Kirin and Tungham and

the remainder to Harbin,

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ORGY OF LOOTING AT SANCHAE

MANCHUKUO TROOPS FORCED TO RETIRE

(THROUGH RECTER'). AGENCY.)

A wild.orgy of loating and dua

HARDIN, April 20.. action followed [

a successful at town of Banchae, thirteen miles to tack by Kirin insurgents on the the north of Tholaicho, yesterday morning.

MUXDEN, April B. The Manchukun Authorities yes terday arrested, but subsequently rolensed a member of Dr.. Koo's suite, who had accidentally left the South Manchuria Railway zone and entered Manchurian territory.

The insurgents ontered the city of Sanches without meeting with Meantime, according to a Chang-resistance, pretending when chat chun message, owing to the Bengue longed that they were troops loyal Commission failure

to the Manchukuo Government. to formally They were a party of over & o notify their visit to the Manchu sand strong, and ware described as kuo, it has been decided to treat.

demoralised." the Coramissioners as ordinary travellery, and refuse to assume responsibility for any untoward event if they travel in the more remes.commern in Manchuria.'

JAPANESE INTERFERENCE

INADVISABLE

Tokyo, April

As soon as they warb.within the city walls, they attacked the Man ahukuo garrison and heavy strest fighting, in which machine-gunt. played a prominent part, followed.

PLANES FOR

CANTON

AIR FORCE

AMERICAN CHINESE CONTRIBUTE FREELY

SENSATIONAL SUCCESS OF

NAZIS

[TARONGH REUTER1⁄4 lummox,]

BERLIN, April 24, One Nari supporter was shot dead by Communists in Berlin and another Nazi was stabbed to death a6 "Haniborn.

It is beloved that these wore the only election fatalities, although many people were seriously wound ed in the widespread faction fights, (From Our Own Correspondent.) which nepassitated hundreds of ar

rests by the police..

CANTON, April 93.

"Plane! Attacked..

INDIA CONGRESS TURKISH MINISTERS

MEETING

EVERY PARTICIPANT ARRESTED

(THROUDH" REUTER's admer:}

VISIT MOSCOW

AT INVITATION OF M. LITVINOFF

"{Renton's. Special Service.)

The

NEW DELU Aprit 24" At New Delhi to-day the Endian National Congress attempted to hold its annual ssssion in spite of Pash official prohibition,

af the Congrass Party managed to The Turkish Ministers are no smuggle themselves past "those campanied by a numerous suit of ing under the clock-tower in the Pasty, businessmen, civil servants, watching for them, and held a meet. Deputies, members of the Feople's main street of New Delhi.

soldiers and journalista,

CONSTANTINOFLl, April ed Premier, General Ismct. and the Foreign Minenter, Tenk Rush Dibey, have left for Every delegate who reached the meeting place and a great many Moscow travelling on a special who did not, were placed under Soviet merchant-ship to Odessa, arrest..

Despite the precautions taken to

The visit is an official one, at the prevent the meeting (Mrs. Naidu invitation of M. Litvinoff, the Rus was arrested for leaving Bombayan Forsign Colamisrar and is in the Presidqut Elect, Madan Moreturn for the visit by M. Litvinaff The Canton Aviation Department is in receipt of a message fromed and the police were everywhere ranching Delhi) numbers of members to Angora that Cotober.

Gravo trouble had boon anticipat-aun Malaviya, was detained on Captain Wu Kam Ngw, who is in on them armed with carbines. Americs in connection with the At Dusseldref the pilot of Anancial campaign for purchasing Nazi propaganda plane made a mare planer for the Chaton Air forced landing, and was roughly Force,

stating that

nearly handled by Communine assailanta $8,000,000 has been raised The result of the election is not, Through the good offer of the finally known, but it has already Chinese associations, every Chi-emerged that the Nazis have sacur- hese national on the Pacids Consted. a brilliant success. " is being approached and asked fo In Prussia, eighty per cent. of contribute to the funct

The 1 the votes have been counted,, giving sponse, the message added as the Opposition 188 seats as against Been generous and spontaneous156 for the Government. The amount subscribed thus far is Opposition seats, 149 are held by Of the

bombers and pursuit planes. sufficient, to buy over 40 modern the Nazis. - two months ago, during which time Captain Wu went to America he has been delivering addresses on the necessity China's Air Force to the various enlarging Chinese public organisations there. He expects to return to Canton three months hence.

CANTON GUARDS AGAINST "REDS."

After a bitter fight lasting over 4TH two hours, in which over fifty were killed and four or five times" that number wounded, the defenders wor defeated and routed and fled

Heavy fre was opened upon a goods train which attempted to pass the station. Those aboard emerged unscathed from this ordeal, but the train was soon afterwards derailed owing to the removal of the fish plates.

TERRIBLE OUTRAGES Tho raiders then proceeded to a It is authoritatively stated that systematic looting of the city, turri the War Office has urged Generable outrages being committed they Houjo to try to induce the Man. paid attention first to the til at "oliukuo authorities to modify thearthing away.

the railway station, taking every attitude towards Dr. Koo, though Jokichi Tanaka, the ex-Amuan dor to Moscow who is at present in Mukden, considers that the Man chukuo's decision not ke tracted, for which reason it is fo advisable for Japan to interfere. ANOTHER "DIES NON'

GENEVA, April 25. That efforts are being mide to influence the Chinese "to resume negotiations at Shanghai is regard. ed by the Japanese ne a valid rea- son for securing further delay in Tokyo is able see eye to eye with the delegation here.

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M. Hymans i atilla disposed to grant the Japanese the utmpat in- dulgence in the matter of delay, consistent with the feeling of the runk and Ale of the Committee of Nineteen and the Chinese request for an early meeting, hence to-day will most likely be another dies

HON

COMMITTEE OF NINETEEN

The locomotive and twalve wagons crashed down an embankment and were absolutely wrecked, while other cars were badly damaged.

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AIR SQUAD. ORDERED

TO SWATOW

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

ranks. The Communists have secur- The Communist successes have not. been included in the Opposition ed 62 seats and are likely to hold the balance of power in the Dist.

Nasi Triumphs. \.-

150 Arrests.

The polics soon got wind of the moeting and speedily intervoned, arresting every participant, totall: ing about 160

Later in the day, further 219 total of arrests in the past four arrests were made, bringing up the days in connection with the Con- grass to 630

police in the mosting, the partici Prior to the intervention of the pants of which claimed to be an open meeting of the forty-seventh session

The visit will last sixteen days.

GREECE GOES OFF GOLD STANDARD

(THROUGH KEUTER'R· ` AGENCY.]

ATHENS, April 23... Greece has decided to go off the

of the Indian National gold standard, Congress, the gathering adopted several resolutions.

affirmed that the goal of Congress One of the resolutions passed ro is complete independence for India and expressing confidence in Mahatma Gandhi as the solo Dicta-

tor.

The final results of the Diet elec. tions in Bavaria, Anhalt, Hamburg and Wertemberg. show that every where the Nazis have made pheno. mena gains, while in the still in complete returns from Prussia, the Nazie bave increased their seats: Sróm to.180!

The meeting also approved of the, alist allies will enable the Nazi Committee of Congress in Bombay, The co-operation of their Nation-resolution passed by the Working to form the Government in Anhalt, regarding the re-launching of the while the attitude of the Centre civil disobedience movement and the Party will be the deciding factor boycott of British goods. in Wertemberg..

INTER.

In Hamburg and Bavaria thore CANTON, April 23,

will be no government change al munist, activities in Canton as a doubled their, voten.

Fearing a recrudescence of Comthough in Bavaria, the Nazis have result of the recent fall of Chang Natie Gain 180,000 Votes in Berlin, show, Southern Facien, into the hands of the "Reds," the authori ties here have adopted special pre- cautionary measures.

Fidler has both won and lost. Particular Despite the immense Nazi gains in attention is being paid to new comers. Hotels and lodging houses that the present, government inder Fruscia, the probable outcome is in the city are being searched Otto Brian will carry on nightly for undesirables. Special minority government with the help: police officers are marching into the Communists.. groups both day and night in the streets to reinforce the ordinaryons was the complete collapse of The feature of the Prussian elep police force. searched and any person showing People's Party, the Economie Party Motor buses are the German National Party, the the shitest suspicion is question- and the State Party.

Two of the train crew bathed Russians were killed and three seri ously wounded.

graph wires have been cut, news of Owing to the fact that the tele: the mishap did not reach Harbin until 8.30 p.m., last night, upon which w breakdown train was im mediately despatched to the scene.

MUNITION FACTORY.

ACCIDENT.

SEVERAL WORKERS KILLED

IN MOSCOW.

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Moscow, April T.-A score of workers succumbed to poisonous fumes in a munition factory near Kazan which had been working over time for the last few weeks. producing poison gas shells. By some mishap, one of these, shells. burst when a consignment of them wore carted from the factory to the nearby railway siding. The invisi-i ble and odourlem terror spread im- mediately, striking down all the workers employed in transporting. the shells who had no time to warn their comrades, while the gas was swiftly wafted towards the factory that the Government has no inten-though one was able to give the where a dozen workers succumbed, tion of changing its attitude to wards the Committee of Nineteen, donned their gasmasks. However, alarm whereupon all the others consequently ao fresh instructions

JAPAN'S ATTITUDE

UNCHANGED "

TOKYO, April 25, While it is authoritatively stated

some 50 had already broathed the

The 4th Squadron, of the Caston Air Force is preparing to leave active part in the present anti- Carton for Swatow to take an Communist campaign in Fukien, The Squadron will hop off as soon

a weather permita.

Admiral Chen Chak is also die. patching a number of his gumbonts to Swałow and Swabue te reinforce the garrisons there.

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The gathering reaffirmed its faith in non-violence.

CINEMA STRIKE THREAT

ENTERTAINMENT TAX PROTEST,

(Reuter's Special Service.)

MAKING CRIME WORTH WHILE.

JUDGE COMPLAINS OF LENIENCY.

HOW YOUNG MEN ARE TEMPTED.

Mr. Justice MgCardie attributes the remarkable increnes in crime in this country not to drink or pover ty, but to inoffective punishment of the offender..

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Sorious urime, he told the annual meeting of the Royal Society for the Assistance of Discharged Pri soners on March 16 is greater than at any time during the past sixty yedurs.. He mentioned especially

cinema trade since the emergency

LONDON, April 24 housebreaking shopbreaking, bur The heavy losses suffered by the glary, theft, fraud, and the like. Entertainments Taxes havo, at last MeCardio continued. budget of last year increased the to-day are too severe," Mr. Justice "I do not think that sentences

stirred the exhibitora to-strung pro- of the increase of crime is due to "A good deal test.

There is a possibility that prae-

the persistent criminal.. The Nazis gained over 130,000tically every cinema in the country votes in Berlin, while a million may soon be closed fon twenty-four] whole on freak parties. votes were lost in Prusedd ne 12 hours as a mark of indignation of thy entertainments tax upon cinema seats priced up to ad

lost heavily

In Hamburg, the Communiste

Prince Elected:

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So serious has been the effect of One of the Nazi deputies elected this tax on box office receipts that in, Prussia was Prince August Withe Cinematograph Exhibitors' helm, the ex-Kaiser's fourth aon. Considerable

Association, in a statement issued LATER, to-day, express fear that five, hand the Prussian Diet elections, show close down permanently.

The provisional final figures in led cinema thoatres may have to

fear is felt that the Communist

armies in occupation of Chamachow may advance into the north-eastern part of Kwangtung.

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued by the Royal Obrervatory at 2.13 p.m., stated:

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The anti-crelone is central· over the lowen Yangtze Valley. It continues to increase in in- tensity and has spread south- eastward, The depression re mains to the north af Hokkaido and has become deeper..

Local Forecast:-NE winda," fresh aloudy; mist drizzle or rain.

GÅLE STRIKES CANTON (From Our Own Correspondant.)

CANTON, April 93.

The Oriminal's Belief.

"I have records, that would astonish. many,, of men bound ovar for the first offence, getting six months for the fifth, and a similar sentence for the tenth offence.

UNITED STATES AND SOVIET

„RECOGNITION REQUEST"

REJECTED

{THROUGH""REUTER'S AGENCY. F

·WASHINGTON, April 941-

as United States Government bevat It is authoratively learned that

no intention officially of recognis ing the Soviet despite the recent

agitation to this endi

A resolution requesting the ro establishment of diplomitic and commercial relations with Russia was introduced in the Houas of Representatives on Friday.

WOMEN'S THOUGHTS

ON MEN

THEY WANT A PLAYMATE

MISS ROSIE DOLLY'S OPINION;

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What do women think of men ☀" This age-long question found vaaying answers at a gathering of women in New York last month.

Miss Rosie Dolly, the dancer, who was married recently to Mr. Irving: Nateher, a rich Chicago man has also aired her views on the subject. She was seated amid a bower of roses in her hotel suide with the beaming countenance of her husband close beside her.

"You see," said the lively dans ser, her green eyes, glinting bright By, "Eve had experience. I now - mer They want companions when they marry

"They want their wives to play, be merry and happy, and not take life too seriously. Man wants playmate, not a drudge

Men Are Weaklings:"

This sympathetic appraisal, af mere man found no response with the American novelf. Mise Geben cette Carneal who said yehemmt

I hate men. They are under always wanting more than you can give them. If some women become "gold-diggers" that le their compensation.

ft men prove themselves lack- ing in tendomens and passiony let them pay for it. Money can tide & Women over the rough spotsy. and she is crazy if she thinks nothing of it,

Another author, Miss Any Pine shot, called men weaklings.

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I am sure women to-day long for a man who can not only enjoy! a prize fight but also can walk in the country and enjoy a without too much gush," she said.

"Modern women are not self- sufficient, and this softness of

man makes Women 220

The result is that men get to be lieve that crime is worth while, and Society gets no protestion at all.

"A large number of young men realise that punishment is not ademodera hesitating on crime may fall if they

The Would-be Butside,

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the Government parties to have ob The Association has decided to taimed 182 seats and the Opposi-send representatives to Paris next quite to the crime committed happy. They can't lean on them tion, 200 One hundred and sixty-week to investigate the effects of "I say publicly that a great deal if they wish to. two Nazis are included in the 200 the recent tax strike, which closed of injury is done by giving a man. The Communists, who will prob.all places of entertainment in Paris.who has committed his tenth offenceman

"I love to read about the pioneer- ably support the governmens, ob-

Mr. Reginald Crow, ex-President of housebreaking no greater punish-tive. because life made, him rug He was much more attrac tained 37 seats, and other parties, of the Association, in an interviewment than, that given to the man ged three,

said that the cinema trade agreed who has committed his second or to the imposition of the tax as a third offence:

a third author, Mrs. wartime measure and every Chan

Thyra Winslow, spoke cellor of the Exchequer sitice had

I think men are noble," she promised that it would be

declared. removed

Women's leisure s at the Arst opportunity.

"The Chairman (Mr. F. P. Whitely always the gift of you ma The tax had turned the profits bread) has condemned those who women's complaints about their

"I listen to thousandios of many theatres into losses, sent people to prison for attempting husbanda-their infidelity, their The difference in profit and loss. suicide. I have tried many of these drunkenness, their extravagance on which income tax would either cases during the last sixteen years, But no man ever comes to me not be collected of would have to and I can say that juries have a complain about his wife her trivi- be repaid, amounted to at least noble babit of recognising the ality, her boring conversation, Her £3,500,000 per กบ since the changing conditions of society and seldabness, perhaps her unfaithful. Entertainments Tax had been in the kindlier views of to-day. They news." creased,

THE EUROPEAN OUTLOOK.

MR.. BALDWIN AND MENACE OF SMALL STATES.

NETWORK OF TARIFFS HOLDS UP TRADE.

have been sent to Geneva, oficial deadly fumes and are hovering beafternoon shortly after 4 o'clock, the European outlook in a speech

quarters appear to be more hope ful that Bir Miles Lampson's efforts So reach a settlement at Shanghai may succeed.

JAP. TROOPS FOR N. MANCHURIA

(THROUGH EKUTER'S AGENCY.]:

TOKYO April 25.

tween life and death.

ESTATE TO EX-KING.

ALFONSO.

SPANISH MARQUIS' LOVE FOR FORMER MONARCH.

Madrid, April 17.--Probate has been granted to the will of the late

perty.

YEN 100,000,000

EXPEDITION TO THE HIMALAYAS.

YOUNG POLICEMAN SHOT DEAD.

are reluctant to find men or women acquit if they can. If the facts. permit I bind over such, person: AS plead guilty or are found guilty.

"The difficulty is that now and again a man has told me he should try again to kill himself, as life was not worth living, You see the dilemma of a judge if he were to let EARLY MORNING TRAGEDY IN shortly afterwards. I don't know

WEIHAIWEL what would be said of the judge.

A galo struck Canton yesterday

London, April 18.-Dealing with effecting no little damage to pro in North Wales last night, Mr. in the storm and capsized in mid- the Council, said that nothing had expedition for exploring the Hima,& man out and he destroyed himself

Two sampans were caught. Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of

Munich, April 14~The German river. Fortunately, no lives were done more harm economically than aya regions will leave for India on lost. On land many trees were up- the splitting up of Europe into duration, lasting less than an hour, rooted

The gale was of short many would-be self-sufficient states April se from Genon. The party is

"I do not think mere confine- and the post-war mentality that headed by Herr Merki, a Munsch, made all these small units behove engineer, and includes among itement chin ever reform a man at all. that they could be self-sufficient members two Americans, RECORD SALE OF RAW

Weihaiwei, April 18-In the early Reform must come from a man bim- hours of the morning, a young That created in Europe, he said, a

solf and his desire for reforma policeman stationed near the Ba Instead of returning to Kores

SILK

vast network of prohibitions and

tion may come from the prison man Catholic Convent was ap to morow

is scheduled, Major Marquis Valdecillas, who died here LOSS TO JAPANESE GOVT. OF than anything else with that froer the rest of the world. Not until interests of society demanded it, I policeman drew his pistol to defena tariffa which were interfering more the cost of what has been done in "Stern though I should be if the pected to be a thief When the officials and visitors. ad aproached by a man whom he ap General Kamara's Thirty-ninth last month. Under the terms of Mixed Brigide has been ordered this will, the marquis leaves hin

trade which is essential for the that has been stopped and we could have never lost and I do not be himself, the men beat him on the to proceed to North Michuris to entire fortune, estimated at £800,000

Fworld. Assist in the suppression of the to his former monarch. Even so,

If he wore. asked, Mr. Baldwin fother countries of Europe, could we in the possibility of human nature, pistol The policoman, now lies in speak on terms of equality with the lieve any judge will ever lose faith head, with a pole and matched the activities of bandits and insurgents, however, the bulk of the late mar

continued, why he referred in such begin to work for what is essential, The operations of the various quis estate will pass into the

Toxyo, April 25. a way to these European units whan and that is larger economic unity praising the work of the society faring from concussion of the brain. Mr. Justice MeCardie added, in hospital in a serious condition sul- forcas hostile to the Manchukuo possession of the Spanish state, be history is reported in the verna-

The largest sale of raw silk in he had advocated a tariff in Britain and freer trade throughout the I hope my heart is as WRITI Government are becoming increas cause it consists largely of real eular newspapers this morning.

ever since the War, he would reply: world."

The robber rushed to the Bla ingly disturbing.

estate in Spain and of deposits in

We have never needed that tariff Mr. Baldwin added: "It is neces told it is not as warm as that of other policemen dead and arintching that of most men, although I am Gate of the city where he shot an- Spanish bank, and also because, all ing 180,000 bales to American inter- veloped as I have described and no nation can enjoy prosperity at MW, J. H. Brodrick, the made good his escape

The Japanese Government is sell more than to day in a world de-sary to learn that in the long run such property will become subject ests at a very low price, the silk with a world mentality such as the expense of other nations. Just South-Western Polide-court Magis. The identity of the man is un-

most women." (Laughter.)

the dead man's animatic pistol to confiscation the moment it be involved being that which the have described, because the inore asthe presence-of-one retter sppiertrate, declared that the Probation known but the police ars actively A message fam Changuhun an-comes the property of ox-king Government took off the market in tarif barriers are created the more in a basket will rat them all of Offendera Act was becoming engaged in making inquiries,

at The Tamura Brigade Alfonso, who has become an outlaw 1930 in the hope that they would anxious are these countries to find do the presence of one country positive danger of greating crime suspected that he-is-a-stranger

Mandaukus in his country and whose property enccond in heistering the prios, some markets at any price, and it which is economically unhealthy Probation was looked upon, not as the place but was looking for morning and stuter rights have been forfeited to the The loss on the tale is estimated is Britain which has bean, paying I prevent sound health in other coun-a favour to be given, but as a right for the.. that part of the Brigade ie pro- "state.

to be at least 100,000,000 yen.. (Continued at: foot of next column tries

for the purpose of committing Berles "ollowhere

"BRIGADE TO DIVIDE

【THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY

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'to be'deminded