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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1932.

BOLIVIA PARAGUAY DE VALERA'S

WAR

MR. BORAH SPEAKS CAPT. LANCASTER

FUTURE PLANS

OUT

ON TRIAL

MR. QUO TAI CHI IN LONDON

INTERNATIONAL

IRISH REPUBLIC

ENDEAVOUR TO

OBTAIN PEACE

TO INCLUDE

EUROPE MUST REDUCE ARMAMENTS

ALLEGED MURDER OF

N. IRELAND

(THROUGH ABUTER'S AGENCY.]

[THROUGH REUTER'S ADRŃCY.]

(THROUGH REUTER AND DEJTISH WINKLASA.]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. ALTHOUGH no formal declara sion of war has been made, fighting is still taking place in the Gran Chaco batween Bolivian and Paraguayan troops,

DUBLIS, Aug. 4. THE policy of the Fianna Fail Government is the establish- ment of an Irish Republic, includ ing Northern Ireland.

MINNEAPOLIS, August 4. NY Economia Conference is A

destined to failure unless the problems of reparations, war debts and disarmament were concurrently disposed of by International effortā, declared Mr. Borah last night.

ELTA

U.S. FLIER

ASTONISHING EVIDENCE GIVEN BY MR. KEITH MILLAR

(THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]

| RECEIVES A WARM

WELCOME ON ARRIVAL

Irunough REUTER'S AGENOT.]

LONDON, August 4.

AUTOGIRO PLANES FOR JAPAN

PURELY FOR EXPERIMEN-

TAL PURPOSES

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

LONDON, August 4, THE two autogrio 'planes pur

7 HEN interviewed by Beuter W on his arrival in London

chated for the Japanese Gov- ernment are being shipped to Mr. Qui Tai Chi, China's new Japan in the middle of August. Minister to London, said he be

It is understood the pinnes will lieved that gino-British trade would

be used for experimental purposes, tremendously increase with the

Lieutenant-Commander Kondo, Inauguration of a new era of pance Engineer-Commander жда

and reconstruction.

Engineer-Commander Machida have He added:

been instructed as to their uno at

Inhil aud

HAVE THEY BEEN

KIDNAPPED?

AMERICAN, SWEDE AND JAPANESE DISAPPEAR

· (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.]

PEIPINO, August 4. ANXIETY regarding the fate of

an American; Henry E. K: Vall; a Swede, Gustag Tornvall; and an unnamed Japanese who are reported to have disappeared in Shensi on July 23. They were last seen motoring from Kansu, twenty

He added that to hold

MIAMI, Aug. 4.

evidence a ASTONISHING These somewhat startlingly bald economic conference without

settlement of thesò problems would forthcoming in the murder trial The reprezentatives of nineteen American nations are to-night sign.

statements were made by a mein-be tantamount to playing Hamlet of Capt. Lanenster, well-knows Bri tish alrman when Mrs. Keith Mil- ing a statement for immediate ile-ber of the de Valera Cabinet dur without the Prince of Denmark.

Mr. Borah then dealt particularly ler in the witness-box declared that with its Immense potentialities, the Hanworth, Middlesex, aero- miles from Sianlu, spatch, calling on both countries to ling a dramatic intervention in with agriculture, declaring that the Lancaster had been most depressed when developed, will offer the

cease hostilitins,

Farmers' Demand.

"I ballava the Chinese market,

ultimate solution of the world's exciting debate in the Senate to United States must take the lead when he heard she was engaged to Britain Willing to Help.. day, when a motion was adopted 're because it only could save itself the American flier, Clark. He plan- economio ills and unemployment from depression through co-opera- ned to commit suicide in an aero problem. We believe that the Sine- queating the Government to re-open tion with other nations, but that plane crash, she said, in order that British interests are fundamentally WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.

in harmony." It was announced at the British negotiations regarding the land an

the cancellation of wor dehts she might have G81,000 of his in Foreign Office in London this nuities immediately.

should not be considered unless the aurance as a wedding present. But

CHINESE CONSPICIOUS. abandoned the evening that the Acting Secretary.

problem of reparations was per- Capt. Lancaster

A most cordial welcome was General of the League of Nations

manently settled.

project when he learned the insur

oxtended to the new Chinese has suggested that His Majesty's

When Europe reduces the burdenance company had failed. The demand was moved by thei

She detailed a violent quarrel | Minister, Mr. Quo Tai Chi, who Government in the United King-farmers' leader, Senator Counihan, of armaments, the. United States dom, and the French, Gerraan, who arged the de Valera fiovern would be glad to cancel the debts between the two men on the night arrived at Waterloo Station nt Italian and Spanish Governments ment to settle the matter at once

as an investment for permanent of Clark's death, but their differ- noon from Southampton where the ences were composed later, she said. | Majestic docked from New York should support through diplomatic and leave us within the British prosperity,

Capt.

звельть Lancaster channels, the appeal isted

charged this morning. oh Commonwealth, which is the only August 1 by the President of the hope of Ireland's salvation." League Council to the Governinenta of Bolivia and Paragany.

Mr. Counihan deplored that the dispute was really a manoeuvre by Britain's representatives at La Mr. de Valera to get the Free State Paz and Asunicon have been in out of the Commonwealth and pro structed to inform the Governments vide an excuse for the establishment of Bolivia and Paraguay that the of one kind of a republic, British Government is anxious to At this point, Mr. Connolly, the give all possible support to the ap: Postmaster General, intervened, and nos of he President of Council asserted plainly that the Govern and to the moderating action of ment's policy way an Irish Republic, | the friendly nations assembled at including the six Northern coun Washington. The British Govern- tries.

ment has informed the United That, he declared, would remain States Government of the above Mr. de Valora's policy until it was

achieved.

netion.

The threatened war between Boli-

via and Paraguay emanates from fifty years of discusion over the ownership on a hundred thousand square miles of territory in the Gran Chno region.

Since 1863.

Tho frontiers in this district havo never accurately been deronrented inco the splitting up of the Spanish Empire in 1543.

Each party to the dispute ndvan ces ancient Spanish charters and Imperial decrees in support of their claims and there has been perennial friction due to the fact that both countries occupy parts of the disputed territory and have established forta therein.

"I can tell Ramsay MacDonald,” he added, "that he has no hope of gotting his war delta to America even considered as long as this ques. tion remains open,

The debate continued in the same spirited tons and its termination was the passing of the resolution

referred to

Tariff War Failure.

The next six months will pro

duce a climax in American affairs shortly after the discovery of calling for quick action in order Clark's apparent suicide, when in- to remove the basis of the trouble vestigators declared that, notes, al due to reparations, debts and dislegedly found by Capt. Lancaster and written by the dead man, ex- pressing a desire for death, were in fact forgeries. Capt. Lancaster, it was alleged, had written the notes

armament.

A WASHINGTON SENSATION

'MR. ROBERT LAMONT RESIGNS

【THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

WASHINGTON. Aug. 3.

MR. Robert Patterson Lamont,

who succeeded President Ho over as Secretary of Commerce on it, Hoover's elevation to Chief Executive, has tendered his resigna-

tion.

A large crowd was at the station in which members of the Chinese Legation with their wives and children wore conspicuous.

drome.

SEVERE DROUGHT IN NANKING

WELLS AND "PONDS DRIED UP

(THROUGH REUTKA'S AGENCY.)

NANKING, August 4. THE capital is facing the worst

drought in decades, many wells and ponds have dried up, making the water shortage acute problem.

01

The greetings were most informal and resembled a family party,

Mr. Quo Tai Chi wore a grey

The weather bureau pessimis- suit and Panama hat, while thetically predicts hotter weather with Legation Staff wore morning dress. out rain. Clark's body, with a bullet wou? The whole party lined up for t Superstitious inhabitants are or- to dragon temples to pray for rain.

himself.

in the head and a revolver beside Proan photograph, Mr. Quo Taiganising fantastic costume parades it was found in the Miami bunga-Chi benming delightedly.

low where he, Mrs Keith-Miller Mr. Chen then shepherded them and Capt. Lancaster were living to the Legation, together. All were fliers, the wo man an Australian aviatrix of some distinction.

CHOLERA ABOARD

EMP. OF CANADA

AT TOKYO

[TOVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

The official announcement regard HELD UP FOR FIVE DAYS ing the resignation, which has Meanwhile, Mr. de Valera's tariff caused a sensation, declares that war against Britain is not meeting Mr. Lamont is desirous of re with the success he anticipated, entering private business, but it is His effort to dam the stream of believed that there is much more to British coal to the Free State has it than that and that Mr. Lamunt. completely failed up to the moment and the President found themselves and he is resorting to new threats, unable to agree upon an important

Many merchants are continuing point of policy. to buy very large quantities of Bri. tish coal despite the additional

In the hat week, these forts hava burden of five shillings a ton in been the scenu of several engage-duty, owing to its superior quality as compared with Continental coal.

menta,

Clash of Opinion.

TOKYO, August 4.

FOLLOWING the death, from

Mr. Quo Interviewed.

Mr. Quo Thi Chi when interview: j ed by Router, declared that what ever the report of the Lyiton Com mission might be, China would give it hearty endorsement in the hope ON of arriving at a peaceful settle- ment, in accordance with the spirit of the League Covenant and the Nine-Power Pack.

China had the greatest faith in the League as an agency for peace and the beginning of a new world

order.

Ever since the Japanese aggree sion, China had observed every re- solution passed by the League Council Assembly, and China ad and fairness of the Lytton Commin- every confidence in the integrity

cholera, of a Chinese firemansion. aboard the Empress of Canada, the nuthorities have decided to detain the vessel for five days, in

It is noteworthy that the Beere-order to take precautionary mea The Note signed by nineteen American nations in Washington warn them that if they du

Mr. de Valera has though fit to tory of Commercs and President spren, including the disinfection of

nut Hoover recently burned midnight the ship. to-day, requests, the immediate re-transfer their orders to the Can-Joil together conferring with in- sabion of hostilities, declaring that tinent, he will put a prohibitive dustrial interests upon the crucial no official recogntion will be given tariff on British coul.

to any conquest of territory by

either nation as the result of a

+

war.

BOLIVIA'S REPLY TO

LEAGUE

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.],

JA PAZ, August 4. The Bolivian reply to the League of Nations' appeal for a peaceful settlement of the dispute with Paraguay, while not refusing a pacific means for the solution of the controversy declares: "Ther Inets place Paraguay outside the law and obligo us to defend our. selves energetically,"

OBITUARY

PROFESSOR G. LOWES

DICKINSON

A NOTED WRITER

(TEROVGY REUTERʼs Agenor.]

LONDON, Aug. 3. THE death has occurred at Gay's Hospital, after an operation, of Professor Goldsworthy Lowca Dickinson, Fellow of King's Col lege, Cambridge, and well-known

writer

The deceased, who was a son of the late Lowes Dickinson, artist, was a most prolific writer. In 1014, he wrote his Essay on the Civilis- tion of India, China and Japan, this following a world tour which be undertook in 1012-13 on a Kalın Travelling Scholarship.

SIGNOR GRANDI IN LONDON

ITALIAN AMBASSADOR

WELCOMED

(URITISH WIRELERS SKOVICE.]

Ruosy, Aug. 3.

unemployment problem.

It is understood that one of the

suggestions for ameliorating the In Hong Kong

terrible conditions was the initia- tion of a five-day week.

It is believed that, following the conference, as effort was made to draw up a programme and that an irreparable breach developed.

Mr. Lamont was a prominent business man before responding to President Hoover's appeal to join the Cabinet in March, 1020,

Successor Appointed.

HA

His successor has already been an- nounced. He is Mr. Roy Chapin, chairman of the Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit, with which he has been identified since 1901. is 82 years of age and th's will be his first active participation. in

CHICAGO, August 4.

WHEN Bignor Grandi, the new Ambasador, reached London tonight he was met at the station by the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, who greeted him warmly politics. and expressed pleasure that their collaboration at Lausanas and Mr., Lamont's friends state that Geneva was to be continued through his resignation from the Secretary- Signor Grandi's appointment to ship of Commerce was due to heavy. London.

losses, necessitating his re-entry The now Ambassador will pre-into business. sout his credentials to the King when His Majesty returns to Lon- don next week, after which he will Joave for a holiday until lato September, when he will take up This permanent residence at the

Italian Embassy.

INDIA'S FUTURE CONSTITUTION

MASS MEETING AT

POONA

(THROUGIL ·RKUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE "ANTI"-JAP. BOYCOTT

SERIOUS CASE AGAINST LEADING CANTONESE.

(Wah Ti Yat Pao.)

Canton, August 9, Another Japanese boycott scandal similar to Peng Tao Leh is causing

To-Day

OCCASIONAL RAIN IM.

PROVING LATER.

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, 188UED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 5.13 P.M., STATED :-

PRESSURE JA HONEST NEAR THE BONINE, A BĦALLOW DEPRESSION COVERS SOUTH-WEST CRINA. THE TYPHOON 18 CROSSING Nontu Konea on a N.E. TRACK.

LOCAL FONTCAST.-S.W, WINDS, MODERATE; CLOUDY, OCCASIONAL RAIN, PROBABLY IMPROVING LATER.

PAGODA LIGHTS

WEIRD FIGURES SEEN

IN CANTON

Canton, Aug. 4-The tower of the Luk Yung Monastery on the Pago da Street, the scene of the emission of a mysterious flash of light on the night of last Saturday, has aguin attracted public attention by reason of a further incident of this kind which took place on Tuesday night.

Promptly at 9 o'clock on Tuesday night a flash of light made its ap- a great sensation in Canton. Peng poarance on the tower in question, Ko Seng, a member of the Execu- it was witnessed by a large number tive Committee of the National of monks who were reciting their Salvation Association is alleged to prayers in the moastery at the have connived at the importation time.

WARSHIPS OPEN FIRE

CHINA'S "VOLUNTEER "

TROOPS

[THNOVAX REUTER'S AGENCY.]

fire

DAIRES, August 4,

"

FLOODS IN NORTH

MANCHURIA -

C. E. R. THREATENED WITH SERIOUS DAMAGE.

(THROUGH FIUTER': AGENCY,)

HARBIN, Aug. 4. NORTH Manchuria is suffering

very Reverely from the floods, and the worst has yet to come. The rivers are still rising steadily. rain is still falling and larger and larger arena are being devastated. The eastern section of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which up to now. has escaped the havoc is threatened with serious damage. Twenty wash- outs have already occurred on the track between Imienpo and Hang- tanhotze,

The western section of the line is nwash over immense stretches.

Imienpo is reported to have BéBIT flooded. One of the river damu was destroyed by the water, flooding's vast area

WARSHIPS at Yingkow opened

Boat Rescue. Efforts,

en "Volunteers last Trains conveying boats have beon night, which aircraft were despatch-sent as far as possible to try and ed from Mukden to bomb a con evacuate the residents. It is esti centration camp of 2,000, who it is mated that hundreds of square mlity reported, are preparing to renew are under water, their attack on Hatching.

Some of the streets in Harbin It is alleged in Japanese circles are flooded, due to the fast that that Chang Hsueh Liang, has furthe drainage system is now below. nished the "Volunteers " with the river level, while residente $500,000.

across the river are living in upper rooms and attics.

Mr. Que Tai Chi recalled that he visited London after the Pence Conference in 1919 with Dr. Alfred Sze, He testified most cordially on the friendly relations existing between Chin and Britain and launching a flank attack against emphasised the community of the the "Red" remnants holding Hing. Sino-British national interests and kuo. their attitude of mind. He also emphasised that like the British, the Chinese possess commonsense, a high degree of love, reason and justice.

Pacification.

The Cantonese soldiers in Shun- fung are now busily engaged in pacifcation work in that town and He also eulogised the work of its vicinity before marching further Sir Miles Lampson in bringing into the "Red"-infested areas in the about a closer and, more sympa-eastern borders of Kiangsi for the

RECAPTURE OF SHUNFUNG

PUSH BY 19TH ROUTE ARMY

Canton Aug. 4-Full detail concerning the recapture of the town of Shunfung in the south of Kiaogui, from the hands of the Communists, has just been received at the Canton Military Headquar- tera. The report throws light on the headway gained by the day- ernment armies now taking part in the anti-"Red" campaign, making it impossible for them to hold on any longer to their stronghold in Yutao and Bingkuo.

It was on Monday morning (August 1) that the expeditionary forces under the command of Gen Aral Beung Han-ping entered the town after its evacuation by the ** Reda."

Outlaws Fide to Anshí,

The outlaws are now retreating towards Anshi, their last base of operations where the main body of the communist outlaws were hiding.

in

Both General Yu Han Mino and General Heung Han Ping, have. arrived at Shunfung where their forces' received an enthusiastic wel-

for carrying on the second stage of the anti-"Red" campaign.

CANADIAN TIMBER FOR

of Japanese goods. This case is M_Hsieh Ying Eak, a prominent come from the people of the town. BRITAIN

said to have wide-ramifications and local lawyer, who_is_at_the same. A conference was held by these two POONA, August 4. to be even more serious than the time a member of the newspaper commanders, and plans wore laid (BRITISH WIRRERAS BERVICE]

A MASS meeting led by Legis- previous case which culminated in fraternity of Canton, testified to lative Assembly members also the executive of Peng Tse Let.' the accuracy of the discovery for prominent ax-members and poli Peng Eo Bong is representative he happened to be with the monks The 60th Division under the 19th Roouy, Aug. 3.

ticians of many different creeds, of the Canton student body on the during the occurrence.

Route Army has already entered It is claimed that weird figures Kiangsi and is now pushing for AT Ottawa to-day the principal passed a resolution demanding the committee and it is learned that

event was a meeting of the Un simultaneous withdrawal of anti- a number of students are involved, wore mon above the tower when the ward, towards Suikan which is ited Kingdom and Australian Torrorist Ordinances by the Gov The Executive Committee of the flash of light was on. The tower, guarded by a large number of Com delegations to exsarine definito pro- ernment and the Civil Disobedi-National, Salvation.Association held an old structure of clay, is not munist remnants. The Ceneral Gov- posals affecting each country, once Campaign by the National an urgent meeting yesterday and bedecked with lamps nor with other sramant forces under General Yu, Similar meetings between the Congress; also the reestablishment decided to send a delegate to kinds of lighting at night, Mors who commands the 2nd column of other Dominions are to be held of the Round Table Conference Shanghai to trace Peng Lo Seng over the Rights of the staircase the Cantonese Expeditionary during the next few days, and from in order to resume co-operative who is on his way toShanghai on leading up to the tower have been Forces, have taken up positions to them, it is anticipated, definite con methods for discussing India's behalf of the National Balvation closed to visitors for a number of the east of Kiangsi, preparatory to

Association. clusions will emerge,

future, constitution.

(ntinued on next column.).

years

LORD LYTTON ATTENDS MEETING

[MIROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PRIPING, August 4. completa annihilation of the desper-DESPITE the heatwave Lord adoes.

Lytton left hospital for the Over 20 aeroplanes have been sent first time this morning to attend from Shackuan to Shunfung where a two hour meeting of the Com a temporary aerodrome will be mission at the Peking Hotol, after built so that the planes can remain | which he returned to hospital there during the period of the last where he will continue to stay as stage of the anti-"Red" expedition a patient. that has been launched by the (Further Far Eastern News an) various government armies.

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