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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1932.

MANCHUKUO AS A BUFFER STATE? POLITICAL TANGLE UNREST IN SOUTH

Being Discussed With Interest In London

T. V. SOONG SURPRISED KWANGSI FORCES GEN. CHIANG THREATENS TO RESIGN

AT CABLE REPORTS

"JAPAN READY TO POUNCE ON JEHOL"

"No Limits To Theory Of Geographical Propinquity”

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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, August 9.

THEN INTERVIEWED BY REUTER TO-DAY, ME. T. V. SOONG, THE FINANCE MINISTER, EXPRESS- ED BURPRISE AT THE CABLED REPORTS THAT THE POSITION OF MANCHUKUO AS A BUTTER STATE BE- TWEEN OHINA AND JAPAN WAS BEING DISCUSSED WITH KEEN INTEREST IN LONDON,

"THE STRAITS BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE MAIN- LAND OF ASIA ARE MANY TIMES WIDER THAN THE ENGLISH OHANNEL WHICH HAD KEPT THE BRITISH SHORES INVIOLATE· FOR CENTURIES, AND YET JAPAN FOUND IT NECESSARY TO SWALLOW KOREA," SAID MR. BOONG.

**THE PROCESS OF SWALLOWING THE NEIGHBOUR- ING TERRITORY CONTINUES WITH THE BEIZURE OF MANCHURIA, AND EVEN NOW JAPAN IS POISED FOR A DESCENT ON THE VAST WHICH IS THE GATEWAY TO PEIPING.

PROVINCE

OF JEHOL,

"IT WAS A BRITISH STATESMAN WHO SAID, 'THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO THE THEORY OF GEOGRAPHICAL PROPINQUITY,

"THE IDEA OF A BUFFER STATE IN MANCHURIA, SO READILY ACCEPTED BY THE TOKYO CORRESPON- ASTONISH- DENT OF THE TIMES' MOVES ONE TO MENT, AS BY NOW THE MEREST CHILD COULD UN- DERSTAND THE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN NATURE OF THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF THE MANOHUKUO.

A SECOND "POOH BAH"

MR.

PU YI, THE SO-CALLED CHIEF EXECUTIVE INDEED IS FITTINGLY NAMED AFTER THE IMMORTAL 'POOH BAH, AND THE "TIMES' CORRESPONDENT'S OPINION THAT A REMEDY HAD TO BE FOUND FOR THE DISREGARD OF JAPAN'S RIGHTS IN MANCHURIA COULD WELL BE SET TO THE COMIO STRAINS OF 'THE PUNISHMENT FITS THE CRIME'

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"ONE WONDERS IF A SECTION OF THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT AT LONG LAST HAVING ITS CON- SCIENCE PRICKED AND IS SEEKING JUSTIFICATION FOR INACTIVITY IN FACE OF THE FLAGRANT VIO- LATION OF THE NINE-POWER TREATY, WHERE GREAT NATIONS SOLEMNLY, AND UNCONDITIONALLY, GUARAN- TEED THE TERRITORIAL ADMINISTRATIVE INTEGRITY OF CHINA.

A COMPARISON

"THE PRESENT GRAYE CRISIS WHICH HAS ARISEN THROUGH THE RESIGNATION OF WANG CHING WEI IS NOT TO BE WONDERED AT, AND SHOULD NOT BE HELD UP AGAINST CHINA AS FURTHER PROOF -HER INSTABILITY WHEN IT IS CONSIDERED THAT JAPAN; THE SUCCESSFUL AGGRESOR NATION, ASSASSINATED TWO OF HER PREMIERS, HER MINISTER TO CHINA AND HER MINISTER OF FINANCE OVER THE IDEN- TICAL QUESTION OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.

"IT IS BUT NATURAL THAT PASSIONS SHOULD BE AROUSED IN THE DIFFERENCES OF OPINION EXIST- ING IN THE DESPOILED STATE OF CHINA, NOT ONLY .AS REGARDS HER POLICY, BUT THE METHODS OF TECHNIQUE AND TEMPO EMPLOYED TO RESIST FUR- THER AGGRESSION,

CONFIDENT OF NATIONAL UNITY.

"I HAVE NEVER PLAYED THE ROLE OF A PRO PHET, BUT I AM GENUINELY HOPEFUL THAT THE PRESENT INTERNAL CRISIS WILL BE SATISFACTORILY SOLVED, AND OUT OF IT WILL COME THE · CRYSTAL-⠀

OF A NATIONAL WILL THAT FURTHER LISATION SEIZURES OF TERRITORY WILL BE RESISTED WITH THE SOUROES-OF-A UNITED NATION AT ALL COSTS.......

HAVE BEEN PATIENT “GOODNESS KNOWS, WE BNOUGH UNDER THE UTMOST PROVOCATION, BUT THE "ACCEPTANCE OF PIOUS ADMONITIONS OF EUROPEANS CHANCELLORIES TO REFRAIN FROM AGGRAVA- HAS ONLY RESULTED IN OUR LOSING VAST TERRITORIES WITHOUT THE FIRING OF A SINGLE SHOT

A GREAT NATION IS BEING CRUCIFIED AND DE TOY, BEHOVES THAT SPECTATORS DO NOT SEEK TO LASSUAGE THEIR CONSCIENCES BY PARROT-LIKE ORIES OF THE PUNISHMENT FITS THE CRIME.

ENGAGE "REDS."

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GEN. LI TSUNG JEN BACK

IN CANTON.

CANTON, August 9. General Li Tsung Jen, Conunand- der-in-Chief of the 4th Group Army, has returned hora from Hongkong where he has spont the last two-days to recuperate his health The General returned to Canton by the 8.8. Fat Shan last Saturday.

Colonel Chang Yin Mau, Chief- of-Staff of the local Headquarters of the 4th Group Army interview- ed by representatives of the local press, stated that Gen. Li has re- cently suffered from throat trouble, which was the main reason for his trip to Hongkong.

The colonel, who also mentioned the movements of the Kwangsi ex-1 peditionary forces in Kiangsi assisting the Cantonese "army in their Anti-"Red" suppression ex pedition, spoke in terms of an early victorious liquidation of the campaign.

The Kwangsi forces under Gen. Wong Chan Pan sent to this pro- vince for the co-ordination and co- operation of the anti-" Red" drive in Kiangai, were first posted_at. Shaokwan for garrison service. They have been despatched to Shun-fung where they are taking over the gar irisan duties from the Cantonese Expeditionary Forces, and are en gaged in n vigorous offensive against the outlay's lairs in Yutao and Hingkuo,

In Hong Kong To-Day

FAIR TO SHOWDRY.

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, 18SUED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 5.25 P.M., STATED !---

PRESSURE 13 HIGHEST OVEN THE PACIFIC TO THE EAST OF JAPAN AND RELATIVELY LOW OVER CHINA. THE TYPHOON 16 LESA THAN 100 MILES TO THE S.E. OF OSHIMA MOVING N.N.E.

LOCAL FORECAST.-S.W. WINDS, ∙MODERATE; FAIR TO SHOWERY.

TYPHOON WARNINGS The following typhoon warn- ings have been received by the American Consulate General from Manila Observatory:

Mauila, Auga 10.45 am. Typhoon in about 130deg Long, E. and deg. Lat. N. inclining Northward.

Manila, August 9, 3.45 p.m. *** Typhoon in about 100deg. Long,

·E, and 28deg, Lat. N. inclining Northward.

CANTON'S MEMORIAL

TO SUN YAT SEN.

CHINESE DESIGN AND MODERN METHODS.

BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE BUILDING.

Significant of the progress of mo- darn constructional methods 'ns ap plied to buildings, is the recently completed Sun Yat Sen Memorial Auditorium at Canton.

FURTHER

COMPLICATIONS IN POLITICAL SITUATION

"NO REASON FOR 'ALARM "---MR. T. V. SOONG

[TROPOK REUTER'S AGENCY.)

NANKING, August 0.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION HAS BEEN FURTHER COMPLICATED BY THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT GEN- ERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK WILL PROBABLY RESIGN.

SENT GENERAL CHIANG, YESTERDAY,

A BRIEF. BUT BLUNT, TELEGRAM TO HO YING CHING AND CHU PEI TEH ORDERING THEM TO PROCEED TO

WITHOUT DELAY TO SHANGHAI

PERSUADE WANG CHING WEI TO WITHDRAW HIS RESIGNATION,

THE TELEGRAM CONCLUDES: "IF WANG CHING WEI RESIGNS, I WILL RESIGN · ALSO."

CHANG RESIGNS PACIFICATION POST

IT

NARRING, August 9. OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THAT THE MILITARY NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AND THE EXECUTIVE YUAN HAVE RE- CEIVED IDENTIC TELEGRAMS FROM CHANG HSUEH LIANG RESIGNING HIS POST AS PACIFICATION COM- MISSIONER AT PEIPING.

THE TELEGRAM MAKES NO REFERENCE TO WANG. CHING WEI'S CHARGES, BUT EXPRESSES THAT HIS ABILITIES ARE NOT EQUAL TO THE DIFFICULT SITUATION.

ENTIRE CABINET RESIGNS

:

SHANGHAI, Aug. 6. FOLLOWING THE FAILURE OF CABINET MINIS- TERS TO INDUCE WANG CHING WEI TO WITHDRAW HIS RESIGNATION, THE ENTIRE CABINET RESIGNED THIS AFTERNOON AND SENT A JOINT TELEGRAM ΤΟ THE GOVERNMENT AT NANKING ANNOUNCING THEIR RESIGNATION,

* CABINET MINISTERS AT ŇANKING HAVE · JOINED THOSE AT PRESENT AT SHANGHAI IN THIS ACTION.

MERE "FORMALITY "

MR. T. V. SOONG WHEN INTERVIEWED BY REUTER THIS EVENING DECLARED, THAT WANG CHING WEI'S' POST OF PRESIDENT OF THE EXECUTIVE YUAN WAS SIMILAR TO THAT OF PRIME MINISTER IN OTHER COUNTRIES, HENCE HIS RESIGNATION MÜST BE FOLLOWED BY THE WHOLESALE

RESIGNATION

OF THE CABINET. THIS WAS ΤΗΣ PRACTICE IN ALL COUNTRIES AND IT IS NOTHING AR

WHICH

TO BE ALARMED. UNTIL THE NEW OABINET 18 FORMED, THE. RESIGNING MINISTERS WOULD CARRY ON THEIR DUTIES AS USUAL,

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SIMILARLY DECLAR- ED THAT THE ACTION OF. THE MINISTERS WAS MERE "FORMALITY."

has

CHANG PLEADS WITH WANG

CHING WEI

PEIPINO, Aug 8. pillar of the Nation and the Marshal Chang Houch Liang foundation stone of national at despatched the following fairs, and are looked up to by the telegram in Mr. Wang Ching Wei: rank and file as the man who saved "Being responsible for defoding the nation, you should not desert the territory under my control, the capital and leave the national an obeying the will of the Contral troubles unsolved. Government now, as before.

"I ask you to resume olles im- "If you feel that my remaining mediatey, so that the affairs of the not be disrupted. in office will upset internal as well nation will as diplomatic affairs, let me know Please do not hesitate a moment to and I will instantly resign without enhanco my guilt.” hesitation However, should you!.

Offer to Besign, resign your post on my account, Addressing Chiness 'Pressmon this will deepen my souse of guilt. at his residence yesterday after Following the lines of all modern causing an anarchical state in the noon, Marshal Ching. Houéh public buildings, (theatres, halis, Central Government, which is the Liang simounced that he had hotels, etc.) complete absence of in-last thing I desire.

naked General Chiang Kai Shek tervening columns throughout its

"I have just telegraphed to the to go to Peking himself, or to interior is the key-note. When it Contral Government to dismiss me appoint a responsible substitute is realised that the internal dimen- and relieve me of all respousibil-pending which the young Marshal sions of the Auditorium vre 245 feet ities, at the same time choosing a will exert the utmost efforts to keep long by 207 feet wide and 160 feet suitaba person to succeed me. peace and good order in North high, some idea of the enormous

"Considering that you are a China, constructional problems to be over- come ann be realised. This fact is further emphasised by reason of the complicated outline and formation. windows in the upper walls of the of the exterior.

dome. and Giant steal trussos

A distinctive feature of the facade Fanced methods in cantilever con- treatment to the front portion of struction made this feat possible. the building is the broad expanse Over the center of the auditorium of glass doors and windows, which is an octagonal dome 130 feet in ensures adequate lighting to the The external diameter, and supported on four ground floor space. steal trusses, each 19 feet high. appearance of the structure is Those, in turn, are supported by greatly enhanced by nicely-disposed reinforced concrete columns with ornamental detail which carries Boston, August 2-Cholers has special rollar castinga

round the entire length of the broken out among Government building below the eaves.

troops engaged in communisti Embodying the very latest in bandit suppression campaigns in constructional methods and materi. Honan, Hupeh and Anhwei pro

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CHOLERA AMONG GOVT.

TROOPS.

CONSIDERABLE NUMBERS DIE DAILY IN HANKOW,

IN GERMANY.

CATHOLIC CENTRE, PARTY CONTROL SITUATION

(THEOBOK REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BERLIN, Aug 0.

The political situation is still

and hopelessly tangled

party haggling continues, but it may be taken for granted, that Herr von Papen and von Schleicher will be in the Government which presents itself to the Reichstag on August

30.

The key to the situation remains with the Catholic Centre Party, hended by the Ex-Chancellor Dr. Bruening, which will only tolerate participation of the Nazis on con. ditions which prevent the latter's

Ministers running wild.

The Centre Party will immediate. ly overthrow the Government il it attempts any experiments to which it objects.

The Nazis will probably be offor. ed a couple of minor Government posts with a promise of something more important later.

Buthless Measures,

LATER.

AMERICA

ECONOMIC BLOCKADE TO PREVENT WAR

DOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 0 An economic blockade of the belligerente, it is believed, has been unanimously agreed to by other South American States in the event of Bolivia insisting on war with Paraguay.

It is named, semi-officially," that the Argentine Government, in con- junction with the Governments of other States, is studying possible coercive measures to prevent fight- ing

The blockade will be complicated pa it is a fact that the West Coast:

ports are more important than the La Plate trade with Bolivia and, Paraguay, but it is thought that if the Argentine and Chile agree, the belligerents will he strangled at

the outset,

NEW JUDGE FOR JAMAICA

CEYLON OFFICIAL

APPOINTED

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}

"Ruthless menaures" foreshadow. ed by von Papen to terminate the reign of terror are likely to bo em bodied in a decreo by President von Hindenburg inflicting the death.

Runuy, Aug. 8, penalty for such offences as high. M. the King has appointed Mr. treasodi, arson, use od explosivea,

Puigno Robert Lyall Grant, damaging railways and anned op Judge of Ceylon, to be Chief Justice position to State Authorities. of Jamaica, in succession to Gir.

Anyone possessing arms during Fiennes Barrett Lennard. disorders in which life is lost may Mr. Lyall Grant has been Paisne also be shot, irrespective if whe Judge of Ceylon since 1928 and has ther they are guilty of murder.also served in Nyasaland, and There will be no appeal from the Kenya, verdicts by the Spocin Courts which will be set up.

Meantime, various outrages such as bomb-throwing and shooting ar reported

from

parta Germany.

انه

OTTAWA RUMOURS

DENIED

TWO IRISH DELEGATES RETURN TO DUBLIN

· [Through" REUTER AND BRITISH

WIRELESS.]

of

Ottawa, Aug. 8. RUMOURS were in circulation to day to the effect that Mr. de Valera had ordered the withdrawal of the Irish delegation from the Imperial Conference as a result of his dispute with Britain.

There was, of course, no truth in the reports, which were based upon a hint that certain, members of the delegation had been recalled.

It was officially explained later that in response to an urgent sum mone from Mr. de Valera, two members of the delegation, Mr Ryan, the Minister for Agriculture in the Free State Government, and Mr. Meyrick, the Secretary of the Agriculture Department, are leav ing for Dublin to-night.

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Their presence in Dublin urgently required in connection with an 'important agricultural report," but, says the official an- nouncement, their departure in- dicates no change in the position of the Irish delegation at the Con- ferente. Other Irish Ministers and officials are remaining at Ottawa.

Mr. Ryan's Assurance.

forence personally that the depar Mr. Ryan also assured the Con- ture of Mr. Meyrick and himself did not imply, in any shape or form, the withdrawal of the Free Atate delegation.

These statements have effectively disposed of the series of sensational rumours to the contrary.

DOUBLE ATLANTIC

FLIGHT

MOLLISON'S PLANS

NEARLY READY

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Rucny, Aug. 8." MR. J. A. MOLLISON, who was

recently married to Miss Amy Johnson, is leaving Stag Lane Aerodrome to-morrow for Baldon- nal, Ireland, preparatory to at tempting a both ways light across the Atlantic.

Starting Next Week, Mollison will leave next week. on the outward journey if the wea ther is favourable, Noxt week ho will have the advantage of obtain-- ing an averago full moon

As on the western crossing the prevailing winds are headwind s increase in strength in the higher altitudes, he hopes to fly as low as possible to Newfoundland; then turning south for Harbour Grace, where he will re-fuel before con- tinuing to New York.

Mollison estimates that the cross- ing will take 23 hours and he hopes to make the return flight after a few hours' rent only. He is not carrying wireless,

BELGIAN COAL STRIKE

LITTLE CHANGE IN POSITION

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOV.]

BRUSSELS, Aug. 8, THE general strike of coal miners.

declared by the National Con gress of Miners yesterday, did not materialise in the manner expected. Meanwhile, the negotiations be tween the Free State and the

Although the vote at the dele Dominions are proceeding quite Bates' meeting was practically un- smoothly.

snimous,

the general body of miners-or rather, those not al- whole-hearted support, ready on strike-failed to give their

It is presumed in Ottawa that the important agricultural report refers to the position of agriculturs in the Free State as a result of the 'Anglo-Irish tariff war.

SINN FEINER TO BE DEPORTED

SEQUEL TO ALLEGED MURDER PLOT

[Turovon REUTER'S AGENCY.]

als, the Sun Yat Sen Mengrial may vinces,nccording to reporte horeDAN Malone, alleged Sinn Feiner, who was arrested following be classed as, a successful combinato-day. A considerable number of

Externally, the building presents a very prepossessing appearance. Ite scale immediately impressa, while its attractiveness is main tained further in the form of well balanced gable roofs, crowning tion of modern design and typical soldiers well as civilians are suspicion of a plot to assassinate which is the massive octagonal dome Chinese Architecture.

Wald dying daily from the epidemic. Mr. J. H. Thomas, is still detain roofed over in typical Chinese man- Messrs. Anderson Meyer & Co., General Chiang Kai Shek has ed.

The police state, however, that ner with pergoda-like hip-roofs. the engineers, are to be warmly ordered the provincial government Central top lighting is obtained congratulated upon the successful authorities of all three provinces the only action pending against through generously proportioned design and construction. this to start prevention work immedi him is in respect of proceedings

atoly (Continued at foot of next column) remarkable building.

for his deportation.

situation was intensived, but only In the Liege coalfield, the strike

partially, but in the "Central Bel gan and Charleroi fields, though strikes are widespread, tho posi tion shows no change to-day "from Jast week,

BELGIAN AIR FORCE

ALL ENGINES TO BE BRITISH

[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE)

Rüder, Aug. B THE Belgian Air Force, which has for some time been partly equipped with British machines," is to have all its neoplanes Otted in future with British pero engines.