1932-08-02 — Page 4

MORE TRAGEDY IN CHINKIANG.

ANOTHER CAT CETS HER CANARY.

Chinkiang, July, 13.-There is always something happening in Carlonie." So runs an oft recur- ring phrase in Chronicles of Car- lonie" from the pen of Winifred

Duke appearing in the Weekly

CANTON-HANKOW

RAILWAY.

NEGOTIATIONS FOR LOAN FROM BOXER FUND,

Nanking, July 25.-The Ministry of lailways is understood to be negotiating with the Board of Trustees in charge of the British

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1932.

THE MYSTERY OF Japanese delegation to the League

of Nations General Assembly att

issued Geneva, this autumn, was to-day by the Foreign Office.

JEHOL.

WHEREABOUTS OF MISSING JAPANESE UNKNOWN.

CHINESE GENERALS TO' CONFER.

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Appeal to the Country.

Nanking, July 24.-Mr. Wang Ching Wei, President of the Execu-

RUSSIAN SHOOTS

HERSELF.

A SHANGHAI TRAGEDY.

Shanghai, July-A tragedy tive Yuan, has issued a circular occurred yesterday morning at iclegram to the civil and military Wayicong House when, a Russian authorities throughout the country woman, Misa A. Mastikova, shot calling upon theni to mako prepara.

Boxer Indemnity fund for a loan Chinchow, July 24-The where tions for resistance against Japan herself, dying three hours later at

of 8875,000 for the completion of the Canton Hankow Railway.

abouts of Mr. Gonshiro Ishimoto of the Kwantutig Garrisóh, the con- For the last link of the Line benecting file' who was allegedly kind.

in tween Shiuchow, northern napped by Jehol troops or the army of General Chang. Hsuch Liang on Kwangtang and Chuchow, in cen- tral Hunan, a sum of 8123,000 will July 17, continued unknown to-day be required for survey work, and although, Mr. Sich Lu Si, specia! $700,000 for paying of the roadbed emissary from General Tang Yu Lin of Jehol, continued his work of mediation between thie Japanese and Jehol troops.

Scotsman, There is always some thing happening here, and the par ticular happening calling forth this, is a cruel murder case.

The criminal, or criminals have left eo many foot prints that there is no possibility of blaming a rat. It is all the clear that a "bird fancier" is the cruel culprit, and ¦ and laying of tracks, so another cat-canary, tragedy is added to the list.

But happily, in this case there

According to reports from another

eso invasion and defence of the na- tional territory.

The following is a free transla tion of the telegram :--

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The woman called at Wayfoong|1 House and rang the bell of the fat occupied by Capt. Kennedy, who "In a telegram dated the 10th awoke, argued firmly but gently inat, Chang Hauch Liang, director with the woman and told her to However, she apparently did not of the Poiping Pacification Head-go away, then closing the door.

leave the building, quarters reported as follows:

A little later she managed to trains, a detachment of Japanese troops forced their way into the enter the flat, by way of the kit- Chaoyang Temple at noon on the chen. After scrawling a few words & p.m.-Local time, and weather

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is no household pet to fall undering left on the floor to tell the suspicion. The criminal must be

tale. Now it would seem as if jus- muse of the army of ente that day and night parade the roofs of ad- joining ikuses, and which keep our dog, busy when they dare to descend into our garden.

Evidently however he was T- guard last night and that wicked prowler attained his end. A broken (Continued on next column.}

glad that there is one less to prowl and work havoc.

a tristol and shot herself in the

right temple. This occurred at 7.23

...

been trying to rescue Mr. Ishimoto, fire when our garrison forces at the latter was handed over to the tempted to check their advance. tice is overtaking these feline fiends, beadquarters of the valunteer army Subsequently, a squadron of five

Dr. S. G. Kirkby-Gomes, who lives we find to-day a dead cat not far of General Chang and is confined Japanese military bombera made s from the scene of the murder. Sosomowhere near Liudinho, to the raid upon Chaoyang city, dropping at Wayfoong House, was immediate. even in eat land there seems at times southwest of Chuuyangsau.

over thirty bombs on communica-ly called in to render first aid. to be summary justice and we are

Harbin, July 94.-A force of anti-tions, postal and other military while a fire brigade emergency am. Manchukuo troops numbering 500, and civil administration buildings, bulance was summoned, and in a attacked the Nakamura detachment, and pouring down a fusillade of few minutes the woman was at the Jaccording to reports received to-machine-gun fire. As a result,

day, at Hablicheng, 40 miles north-number of civilians was killed or west of Kiamusze on the Sungari wounded,' river,

"Apart from instructing the gar Messages from Imienpo state that rison forces to take vigorous pre- the city is surrounded by anti-cautionary and defensive measures Manchukuo forces and an attack is as well as celegraphing to the Chin. imminent. It is impossible, howes Minister at Tokyo to lodge a

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"With the national crisis grow from the muddy field.

The floods resulting from the con.ing increasingly graver daily it is tinuous rainfall, washed away the earnestly hoped that all military ballast yesterday on the Chinese and civil authorities will direct Eastern Railway at a point 70-miles their subordinates to strive with one west of Harbin. As a consequence mind for the defence of the nation. a freighter jumped the track early They

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The Protest in Tokyo.

It is understood that in its protest to. Tokyo, the National Government declares that the new Japanese aggression in Johol con- stitutes a deliberate aggravation of

the situation and a flagrant breach of the League resolutions and the various international pance pacts. The Note adds that Japan must as- sumo full responsibility for the consequences of its renewed acts of violence,

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RACE OF ASSASSINS.

WOMAN EXPLORER'S

DISCOVERY,

BOGUS CONSUL.

POST OCCUPIED BY BRITON FOR A YEAR.

Two swindlers who sold an Eng- fishman a bogus diplomatic post. have been sentenced to terms of im- prisonment at Nice. The English man paid a 'cheque for £100 for a. Betitious post as Consul of Hon duras in the principality of Monaco...

The swindlers, who posed as ne-

It is also learned that besides notifying the League of Nations of the unprovoked Japanese aggres- sion in Jehol, the National Govern- ment has also instructed the various Chinese Ministers abroad to call the

One of the last strongholds of the attention of the various Fewers to the latest move on the part of the Assassins, the strange Moham medari sect, whose rulers killed by Japanese military.

Replying to telegram from dagger and poison for six hundred President Wang Ching Wei, Gener-years before, the Crusaders went to al Chiang Kai Shek, in a message Asin, has been discovered in the received here last night, states that mountains of Northern Persia, by in his capacity as President of the a woman explorer. Military Affairs Commission, he has Mins Freya Stark, who has com already despatched telegraphic inmunicated her discovery to the structions to General Chang Hsueh Royal Geographical Society, states Liang to assist in the resistance of that massive battlements are still the Japanese invasion of Jehol. standing, and that three large before the position came to the

water cisterns, cut in the rack, re knowledge of the Honduras Gov main as evidence of the prepara-emment, who lodged a complaint, tion of the fortress for a long siege, and the fraud, was then disclosed. It was finally sacked by Hulagu, the Tartar, in 1250.-

Despite reports that the stun tion in Ichol has cased for the time being, Government leaders are not relaxing their attention, as there is reason to believe that the Japan ese military are bent upon the oc cupation of Jehol and that the of a more romantic system

credited diplomats, also offered in return for a small fee to obtain for the Englishmen the Grand Cross of Albania and a Portuguese decora lion.

The Englishman, occupied his, "port" for a year, it is alleged,

While occupying his office as the representative of Honduras, it is: Local inhabitants, however, toll further stated, the "Consul" ns...

of water sumed the non-existent titlo at Duke

present incident is only the prelude supply. Sheep, they say, with of Plenues and Marquis of Gran-

to a large scale attack.-Kuò in water-skine tied beneath them, were ville.

Tientsin, July 3.-General Tangput into a steep tunnel 900 feet be

Yu Lin of Jehe! has further remov-low the eiitle and persuaded to the

ed his personal belongings of four ascent by wolves released by the The annual dinner of the Royal motor truck Tvads and his first and Assassins behind them. Because of

of Central Asian Bociety was held on second wives and four children into this legend the passage is still called July 7 at Grosvenor House-Park- his house in the Italian Conocasion, the Gurgu-Mish or "Wolf and I lane, with Field-Marshal Viscount?

here.

Allenly in the chair.

-Ram:"