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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY,

NEW MEMBERS

BRITISH MINISTRY

OF

WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA

CHITTAGONG BOMB

OUTRAGE

S.S. NEVADA TOTAL LOSS

DOUBLE OFFICE FOR MR. BALDWIN

FRESH FIGHTING IN CHACO

THIRTY-TWO OF CREW DROWNED

{THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, Sept. 20.

SEVERAL new ministerial ap.

pointments necessitated by the mass resignation of the Samuelite Liberals from the National Gov- ernment were announced to-day.

The King has approved that Mr. dent of Council he appointed Lord Stanley Baldwin, the Lord Presi- Privy Seal, the office, from which Lord Snowden resigned. Mr. Baldwin will corabine both offices, but will hold the latter without salary,

Junior ministerial vacancies have been filled as follows!

Mr.

Hore Belisha,

National

Liberal, former-Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade to ba Financial Secretary to the Treasury in succes- sion to Major Walter Elliot, new Cabinet Minister.

The Earl of Plymouth, Conservas tive, former Under Secretary for the Dominions, to be Under-Secre tary of State for the Colonies, vice Lord Lothian,

Mr. R. A. Butler, Conservative, to be Parliamentary Under Secre tary to the India Office, vice Sir Robert Hamilton.

Dr. E. L. Burgin, Nation Liberal, to be Parliamentary Under-Secre tary to the Board of Trade.

Col. Morley Headlam, Conserva. tive, one time Under-Secretary at the Admiralty, to be Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.

National Labour,

The Labour supporters of the Government in both Houess of Par- liament to-day met the Premier at) No. 10, Downing Street and after- wards issued a statement affirming their unabated confidence in his leadership.

They regret the "revival of the fiscal controversy in a form they regard an altogether out of date

{THROUGH, REUTER'S ADÉNOY.]

LONDON, Sept. 20.. DESPITE the efforts to find an

Amicable settlement of the dis

pute between Bolvia and Paraguay, hostilities have now been resumes

ou a fair scale.

As the result of the renewal of to have captured the forts at Bou. fighting, Paraguayan troops claim queron and Taletto in the Gran Chaco.

Bolivia in responding to the offensive by making extensive pre- parations for a big-scale campaign,

Chile Outbreak. `- Meanwhile the peace of South

America continues broken elsewhere. It is reported from Santiago de Chile that a counter-revolutionary Movement has broken out. Nothing is known regarding the outcome of the new devolopment.

LONDON'S NEW LORD MAYOR.

- SIR P. GREENAWAY

CHOSEN

(BRITISH WIRELESS BARVICE]

Rrapy, Bopt. 20.

AT the Guildhall, London, to-day

Liverymen of the City chose Sir Percy Greenaway to be the next Lord Mayor.

He is head of the City firm of Daniel Greenaway, banker and general printers.

OBITUARY

And take the view that the "dif- EARL OF MAR PASSES AT

culties of the situation (both · at home and abroad are so great that to return to the old system of par- tisan government and bitter party warfare, would gravely prejudice the national interests and be 'con- trary to the national will."

KING AND QUEEN":

IN LONDON

BRITISH WIRELESS DERVICE]

AGE OF 67

HON, COL. OF AGRYLLS

[THEOGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Sept. 30. THE death has occurred of Earl of Mar, Premier Visconut and Baron of Scotland, at the age of

67 years.

GOVERNMENT GIVES WARNING

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

DARJEELING, Sept. 20. A HEAVY fine may be imposed

upon the section of the Chit tagong community concerned in the attack upon the European, Institute

last week-end when a British wo man was killed and sixteen other

A communique issued by the Gov. persons ware wounded. proment to-day says that the fine will be inflicted unless the pre petrators of the outrage are found by October 15, The Government declares that the attack could not have been arranged without the knowledge of the local people,

FURTHER 'QUAKES

IN GREECE

BRITISH SAILORS IN

RESCUE WORK

(DRITI WINELKAY SERVICE]

RUGBY, Sept. 29.

FURTHER earthquake shocks are

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{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)

SAN FRANCISCO, "Sept." 30. THIRTY-TWO poople were drown. ed from the thirty-five aboard the American freighter, Nevada,

which was wrecked off Amatignak Island, in the Dehring Sea, accord- ing to a wireless merengo received by the Dollar Steamship Co. from the President Madison which is bringing the survivors to Seattle.

The Nevada went ashore during a gale on the night of September 27 and in response to S.0.8. messages ships rushed to the rescue.

The Japanese cargo bont, Oregon Mar, located and stood by the Nevada but it was too rough to launch a boat before the Nevada was pounded to pieces on the rocks, Tho wrecked vessel, which sailed from Portland Oregon, on Sept. 15, was regularly engaged on the run to Japanese ports, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila,

reported from the neigh In Hong Kong

bourhood of Salonies where the Town Hall and several Government buildings are said to have been damaged and in the Chalcidice re- gion of Greece.

The casualties of the big quake: are now. estimated at about 300

dead.

Throughout to-day, rescue Par tics from the British warships which hastened to the scene have been busily engaged organising re- lief and helping thousands of re fugcen

CASUALTIES NOT YET KNOWN

[TREODON - REUTER'S LOKNOT.]

ATHENS, Sept. 30.

The final list of earthquake vic tims is not yet available as many bodiès are pinned beneath ruins. Many are possibly alive in the debris without hope of rescue.

Three hundred are known to be dend and a thousand injured, while three thousand are homeless,

British sailors continue the do molition of dangerous buildings, Many bodies have already been recovered.

The more violent shocks OC- curred at Chalcidice and one, at Salonica, where many of the im- portaat buildings now have large fissures in their walls.

Walter John Francis Erskine, | K.T.. J.P., 12th Earl of Mar and Rusay, Sept. 29, Kellie, was born in 1805, the eldest THE King and Queen this even- son of the 11th Earl. He was the ing ended their stay in Scot hereditary Keeper of Stirling land. The Royal train" by which Castle, and Hon. Colonel 7th Batta they are travelling South will lion Argyll and Sutherland High- Athenian society ladies are reach London to-morrow morning. laaders. He was also representa hasterng to the devastated areas His Majesty will during the day tive Peer for Scotland since 1802; to act as nurses, Survivors of give an audience to the Ministers Lord Lieutenant of the County of the disaster rolate that domestic who have resigned, receiving from Clackmannan since 1809, Chairman animale had a premonition of dia them their seals of office, and will of the Clackmannan County Coun-nater several hours in advance of inter hand these to the newly apol and President of the County | the great 'quake. They were panic. pointed Ministers.

WAS IT APPENDICITIS? :

CATTLE SCOURGE TRAT

MAY AFFECT MAN,

People who have had their ap. pendixes removed will be interest ed in a discussion which took place at Folkestone. They will be puz- zled to know whether they really had appendicitis or undulant for

ver.

Territorial Association.

Earl Mar was educated at Eton and was a Lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 1687 to 1892. His son and heir is Lord Erskine.]

SCOTTISH DUKE'S

DEATH

'FOLLOWING ILLNESS

AT FUNERAL

(BRITISH. WIRELESS BÉLVICE.]

The discussion took place at the

RUGBY, Sept. 29. annual congress of the National THE death occurred to-day of the Veterinary Medical Association of 3th Duke of Roxburghe, aged Great Britain and Ireland, and it fifty-x, who suddenly became ill arose when the delegates were con- when attending a friend's funeral Bidering the effects of contagious yesterday. abortion, a cattle courge. which might infect man and cause undu- lant fever. Dr. W. H. Andrews, director of the veterinary Inborn tory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries at Weybridge, in é paper on the subject said that

The Duke, who was the head of an old Bcottish family, had served with distinction in the Boer War and the Great War, in both of which he was wounded.

strikes and made frenzied attempts to escape from houses.

The monks at Mount Athos Monastery are prevented from joining in the rescue work. They are cut off from the rest, of the peninsula by mighty crevasses from which is issuing a sulphurous ndour.

SIR ROBERT HO TUNG RECEIVED BY THE POPE

"THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]

Roup, Sept 30. SIN Robert Ho Tung, distinguish od Hong Kong financial figure, had an audience of Pope Pius to-day.

Sir Robert has been on an ex- tended tour in England and the Continent.

50 YEARS OF LAUGHTER

GIVING

He was a personal friend of the MR. MACDONALD'S TRIBUTE King and Queen. He is succeeded

was now certain that contagious in the title by his nineteen-year-old abortion might infock man. Many con, the Marquis of Bowmont

cases were probably still undetect

ed, but the total number was com- paratively small. The organism had a very low virulence for the average human being, but there wore susceptibla individuala.

MORE MARRIAGES IN PARIS

Sir W. Dalrymple Champnoys, of YOUNG PEOPLE UNDISMAYI

ED BY ECONOMIES

TO SIR HARRY LAUDER.

London, Aug. 23-In a letter re- gretting his inability to be present at Six Harry Lauder's jubilee can- cert at Arbroath on Tuesday, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald wrote :-

To-Day

CLOUDY, PROBABLY

SOME RAIN

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT," FORECAST AND REMARTA, 188UED AY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY' AND P.M. STATED

THE ANTI-CYCLONE HAS WEAKEN- EÐ NÚT, DEMAINS OVER THE LOWER YANGIBZE VALLEY. ParsJUDE CONTINUES TO BE LOW OVER THE PACIVIC TO THE EAST OF THE PRILIPPINES. *

LOCAL FORECAST :—Ë, WINDS, MODERATE CLOUDY, PROBABLY - BOME RAIN..

LONDON FLOWER

GIRL

SUMMONED AFTER 35

YEARS

London, Aug. 24-Mrs. Lydia Joseph, of Fairbank-street, Hax ton, who has sold flowers outside the Stock Exchange for 38 – years, was summoned at the Guildhall today for causing an obstruction in_Throgmorton-street. There was also against her in respect of her son, a young man out of employment, for permitting him to help her in the business of a street trader. It was alleged that he was not licensed:

Kummons

Through the help of sympathis." ere, Mrs. Joseph was able to em ploy counsel, and Mr. E. C. Ran- dall appeared for her.

Constable Will anid, that Mrs. Joseph thrust flowers in the facen of passers, compelling them to walk into the road.

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OCTOBER 1, 1932.

THE LYTTON

REPORT

FULL TEXT DELIVERED AT NANKING- FOREIGN OFFICE

'{THROUGH 'REUTER'■ ADEŃOY.]

THREAT OF WAR IN SZECHUAN

PLACATORY MOVE FROM. NANKING

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

TIBETAN TROOP MOVEMENTS

DENIED BY DALAI LAMA REPRESENTATIVE

Nanking, Sept. 23-Current ru ports of military. movenionta among the Tibetan troops in Hist NANKING, Sept. 20. kang in-preparation for & general NANKING, Sept. 30.

as the result of enmity between Szechuan-Heikang forces are deni THE full text and Press summary CIVIL war is brawing in Szechuan offensive against the combined

of the Lytton Report wore formally delivered to the Chinese

the provincial militarista, accorded by Mr. Kung Chio Chung Ni representative of the Foreign Office at 7 p.m., to day, bying to private messages feceived resident

Dalai Lama at Nanking to-day. a member of the Lytton Commission

The representatives of the Sre- Staff.

chuanese generals who are resident in Nanking hold a meeting this morning and decided to wire their respective chiefs to avoid conflict.

SUPREME COURT

The Foreign Office are sending a special messenger to Shanghai Chinese and with copies of the English texts on Sunday morning, arriving at Shanghai on Sunday afternoon and distributing copies SOUTH-WESTERN Press at 8 p.m. on Sunday, to the foreign Press and "Chinese)

GENEVA, Sopt. 30. been convened for to-morrow by The Committee of Nineteen has

the Chairman, M. Hymans, in accordance with the request of Dr. W, V. Yen on the purpose of deciding time limit within.. which the League Council should be called on to submit the report on Menchuria.

ITALY'S CRACK

AP

NOT RECOGNISED BY NANKING

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)

NAMMING, Sept. 30. PPARENTLY without ether effective means to prevent the cstablishment of a south-western branch of the Supreme Court "in Canton the Judicial Yuan to-day instructed ail Chineso Courts not to recognise rulings given by the Southern Extra Legal Tribunal,

Despite official denials, burs ENGINE TROUBLE CAUSES still persist that the Cantonese

LINER

DELAY

{IAROUGH RIUTEr's abençt.).

LONDON, Sept. 20.

THE Rex, Italy's newest and largest ship, which left Genoa on Tuesday on her maiden trip may possibly be still at Gibraltar on October 4, the date she is due in New York.

The hush-hush policy of the com pany has concealed the defects which caused her late arrival in

Gibraltar, but it is rumoured that her turbines and dynamos need at tention.

Not a word, of the accident has been published in any Rome news

paper.

Router's Gibraltar correspondent wires that the passengers, who in- clude the United States Ambassador in Rome and the ex-Mayor of New York, Mr. Jimmy Walker, have now been allowed to go ashore, the com- pany having appareatly "given up hope of a quick repair of the trouble and of concealing the cause of the breakdown:

CHANGES IN THE PRESS

authorities are contemplating the organisation" of a branch of the Military Council.

According to the Tibetan repre sentative, the contending forces are remaining at their positions across the Chinaha Kiang (River) and at present no hostile move. ments are being taken by the Tibetane pending a peaceful setšje... ment of the trouble,

In the meantime, a delegation of nine representing the people of Heikang province is on its way here to petition, the Ontral Autho rities for immediate measures to settle the Hsikang, problem. The stolegates will first stop at Hankow to see General Chiang Kai Sher, President of the Military Affairs) Commission,--Kuo Min. (S

CANTON HANKOW RAILWAY

LOAN CONTEMPLATED FOR COMPLETION

Nanking, Sept. 20. Completion of the entiro Canton-Hankow Rails than half to a full column. way within three years, instead of To-day there was not one. part of eleven years as would be required i the terrestrial-and, should he add, under present arrangements with of the celestial-world which was the Board of Trustees of the British not of interest to the British pub, Boxer Indemnity Refund for the lic. There was no quarter of the appropriation of funds, extending globe where it was not imperative through that period, is under con that the Press should have ita, resideration by the Ministry of Rai presentative.

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The Age of Combines, Combines had replaced the indi- dual newspaper owner, Indeed, there were many who, judging by present tendencies, thought that the age of the big zombines had only just begun. With the inhabi- tanta of the world becoming more and more dependent and interde pendent, and the demand for world news.hecoming ever more intense,

WAYI.

It is learnt that the Ministry is planning to raise the sum of over $30 million necessary for the pro- ject by pledging the eleven annual instalments from the British Boxer Indemnity Refund as security for large loan-Kuo Min.

SHANGHAI RAILWAYS

the great, changes which must in-Nanking, Sept. 20-The Minis evitably be made in production try of Railways is planning to con- necessitated more and more capi- struct short branch lines in Greater Shanghai for the development of tal being introduced.."

the municipal area

If he were asked to give à fore cast of what would happen 60 yeurs hence, he would hazard the opinion that the changes would be

An order to the Nanking Shang- hai and Shanghai-Hanghow Rail: way Administration instructs that,

Squads of dockyard hands have been working all night long, on as radical as those which had survey operations he started im the ship's turbines. It appears that taken place during the last gen mediately and an estimate of cost

i see vast prepared for the construction. CE she was speeding at twenty-five oration. He could knots an hour until she was within change for the better in produc feeder lines linking the following

Chenju and Jersfeld two hours of Gibraltar, when a tion and material; larger and places: defect developed and caused her to brighter papers; the introduction Chenju and Kiangwan; and Kiang slow down to ten knots an hour, not only of coloured supplements, wan station and Jukong village on On her trials down the Ligurian but the advancement of illustra the bank of the Whangpoo River, coast, the average speed of the tion by means of photogravure, co- half-way between the International liner was 20 knota.

lear, and additional line and Settlement and Weonung. The last artistic work. The art of publishline aims at the development of ing would be improved by the er. Jukong village into an important tonsive use of the aeroplane Wire waterfront area-Kup Min. less and television' would be a com monplace both for news and pic- tures, and speed-up in mechanical production would be followed by a further development of world-wide news. The additional expense to meet these great reforms would ba met by the ever-increasing de- mands by the advertiser-upon. space. Advertising in this country. was in its infancy advertising not only for the sake of increas- The annual conference of the Ining the sale of ordinary articles

Shanghai, Sept. 6-The total of domestic use and promoting stitute of Journalists opened at great industries, but also for ad population of Shanghai last month, Cardiff on Aug. 22,-**

vancing the interests of towns, including the Chinese city, Inter- national Settlement and French provinces, and even empires," BUC-

USE OF BULLETINS IN

INDIA.

NEWS SERVICE BY B.B.C..

Sir Emsley Carr, who was elect- ed president for the second cessive year, in his opening ad dress, said that the year just, pase-

SHANGHAI

STATISTICS

TOTAL POPULATION OF OVER 3,000,000

Several complaints had been made to the police,

Alderman Sir W. Phene "Neal: Unless you can produce the people who made these complaints I shall attach no importance to them.

The Constable: They will noted was memorable, not only in the did not think broadcasting would Mamicipal Bureau of Public Salater come forward

Mrs. Joseph was finad 2s. 6d. The summons in respect of her was dismissed.. bi

TREASON TRIAL IN

BAN ALBANIA

son

SEVERE SENTENCES IMPOS EN ON INTELLECTUALS-

Tirana, Sept. 17.-The trial of cannot possibly got down, to Ar- the 40 intellectuals on a charge of

for

My Dear Harry, I am so BOTTY

It would be abaurd to deny the Concession is 3,005,780, according power of broadcasting, but so far to the latest census returns.com-

(59,660 foreigners,pag

as this country was concerned he piled by the Greater Eheaglas anna's of the institute, but also in materially affect the position of the Of these 2,917,103 are Chinese the annals of the profession. A late evening papers. The spoken 183,921 Chinese reside in number of old established papers word would never replace, the had ceased to exist. Unemploy printed word. D ¿mant had been rifer And yet, ssd- dened as they were at the loss of these old friends, would be un

wise to regard the future of the industry with dark forebodings,

Disturbing Aspect.

Chiness city, 971,097 in th national Settlement and ar 4.

There was, however, an interna the French Concession The tional aspect of this questionber of foreign residents which was very disturbing the faci: the Chinese city, 20,471 and 12,00 lities which broadcasting gave to respectively in the two foreign

it was computed that the 4881 papers which did not subscribe to

gate circulation of the nation and the now services maintained by the Compared with the provincial daily and Bunday news British Press and sent not every month of July the population, papers in Britain to-day was 29, day by the B.B.O. In India, there shows an increase "of 1,864” per: 000,000, of which, 22,000,000 was n were hundreds of papers published sons. Kuo Min. tional newspaper circulation. The in the vernacular of a seditions. annual value of morning and even-character whion did not enpscribe

LOST £600,000

FORD SHARES TOU

1,000 In

the Ministry of Health, said that in a number of instances the dis

my drivers will not let me out of state ended today in draconic ver 000, and of. Bunday newspapers In the past their readers had

diote. Boven of the kocused were | £7,000,000. ease was diagnosed as other com-

to rely for news on the English || harness. This is a great disap-sentenced to death by hanging, long to-day were the solid co-papers published there. To-day EARLY INVESTOR WH plaints. Sometimes people had According to statistics just mado pointment to me. For 50 years, you fourteen to life-long penal servi-lumns; gone the single headlines; these vernacular papers were cap- their appendixes taken out.

public by the different Paris muni- have been making us happy, and, tude, thirteen to 15 years penal gone, with one or two notable ex turing those broadcast messages, Professor C. S. Wilson, of the eipal offices, the prevailing finan- the art you have employed has not servitude, while only fourteen were ceptions, the three-deckers. In and the "failed B.As on their London School of Hygiene and cial stringency has not affected the had a tinge of the degrading in it. acquitted. Among the accused was their place, the bright open make staffs were transcribing them into Mr. Albert Suelow, Tropical Medicine, said that un- marriage rate, contrary is the case. You have dealt with the great the former President of the 8-up with descriptive heading the the vernacular for publication, original shareholders in the dulant fever was not well recog though there are fewer church fundamental human simplicities preme Council, M. Tchekoreshi, small, bright leaderettes, full of The consequence was that the pro- Motor Company nised among the medical profes- weddings.

and have taught us to find joy and who was sentenced to three years fact and fancy,

moters of these seditions, publica Detroit at the age of t mion, and practitioners had mis. At the mairie on the 5th Arron-inspiration in qualities and feeling imprisonment. There were also, á Fifty years ago the reading pub tions, with little or no capital at Mr. Etrolow invested taken: It for appendicitis, influendissement inquiries to a human-on to the good things in number of priests of all three lio was supposed to have anly one their command, were able to sup the frst year belo za, and gall tones. Records had young-couples were just sager as-human-life

oreeds prevailing in Albanin, interest in life-home politics. The ply news from all parts of the cent been collected of 120 cases of un-ever before to be married and were "Although jubilee is a word of namely Greek Orthodox, Roman "human interest" story was a thing world and produce papers which sold his shares for dulant fever in Great Britain and more optimistic than the econo-honour it is also ominous, but Catholic and Mohammedan,

absolutely unknown, and the con- competed with the English papers, had kept the shares. Ireland. The disease was most miste There ten to twelve marri-hops that for many years yet we

tenta were na solidly Victorian as Thus the B.B.C. was unwittingly longer he wo common in adult males, and its ages a day was the rule may see that merry-twinkle in-your-

the mahogany furniture so char subsidizing papers of a seditious 600,000,000 severity could be gauged by the

:

The mairin of the 17th Arron-eye, hear that infectious laugh, and eve been over yen wecks Most cases in which no cooking crisis had wisdom and fine hinnan tenderness that it was in Arbroath that he won views of new books filled more culty was to be overcome it was not daj, where fact that the average duration had dissement gave figures of 40 a week, bo drawn to you by that pawky yesterday, Sir Harry Lauder midteristic of eng Verbatim re character at the expense of the After Ballin porls of speeches and extensive, British taxpayer How this diffi Strelom want this country occurred in the town The prominent Paris churches re which are the resence of your a prize for singing. That was a space than the news, Foreign polisasy to see. A committa, has been population, and reasons were ad port fewer weddings, which is a genius.”

knife. He made his start in Aries were almost disregarded, and appointed to consider the whole Detroit, he vanced for believing that the vehi. state of things perhaps unhappy Acknowledging the toast of his broath 50 years ago, and that was foreign news rarely occupied more question and make recommendathansands of cle of infection was usually milk for the dressmakere, but papa is health at a luncheon at Arbroath why he was celebrating his jubiles

no doubt relieved,

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or dream.

work at the

helm