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COMMUNISTS LOSE GROUND

POINTER TO GERMAN

ELECTION

SOCIALISTS SUPREME

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUT.]

BERLIN, March 2.

A POINT. Its

ers of Commnoists proviously will now vote for the Socialists at Sunday's general election is given by the election for the workers and clerical staffs' conneils in the Bertin Municipal Electrient and Gas Worka

JAPAN FIGHTING FOR PEACE!

CHINESE PROBLEM ·

SOLVABLE..

MATSUOKA ANGRY

(THROUGH RENTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, March 2.

THE claim that Japan is fighting

alone for peaca, in the Far East and in respect of the Treaties was made by Mr. Matsuoka, Chief Japanese delegate at Geneva, in an interview with the Daily Mail.

He declared that a final peaceful settlement was impossible until the The Socialiste received 75 per whole Chinese problem had been cent of the votes and the Com-solved, and said that even the munists lost the absolute majority The Nazia polled negligibly for the Workers Councils.

The Bavarian Government has suppressed two. Nazi newspapers. It is estimated that 9,000 suspects have been arrested in Prussia.

POTSDAM SESSION

BERLIN, March 2. The opening session of the Reich tag is to be held in the Garrison Church at Potsdam, where Fred. erick the Great lies buried.

The number of persons arrested in the Rhineland and Westphalia now amounts to 2,030. Friedrich Stamper, the chief editor of the Socialist newspaper Foruperts, is among the arrested.

THE ROD OF IRON

BERLIN, March 2. THE death penalty for betrayal of military secrets and espion- aga on behalf of foreign Govern- ments, is, the latest addition to Ger- many's Iron Rule," instituted primarily for the suppression of Communist terrorism, which dur- ing the past few days, reached a climax.

Following on the Presidential Decres announced yesterday, con- stituting virtual Martial Law throughout the country, a fresh de- cres is announced to-day. In addi- tion to the death penalty for espion- ago, the decree allows imprisonment with hard labour up to a term of ten years for offering information to foreign Governments.

The round-up of Communists, in- cluding the Deputies of the Reich,

A sequel to the disastrous fire in

the Reichstag on Tuesday, on-

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Lytton Report laid down that it was essential to establish a strong Government in China under inter ational control.

Mr. Matsunka said that in his opinion the difficulties were so great that fow of the Powers would aasume the responsibility, and more aver, he did not believe that the Chinese, would accept international control.)

He added that he categorically asked a Chinese delagate at Geneva about the matter, but the latter did not reply..

Mr. Matsuoka said that he was certain that if the Chinese delegates had been compelled to answer, they would have refused the proposal.

Concluding, Mr. Matsuoka said that Japan would face all obstacles raised against the independence of Manchukuo.

CHINESE PERSISTENT

LONDON, March 2. The Chinese Charge D'Affaires afternoon, to put before the Bri visited the Foreign Office yesterday tish Government the Chinese views regarding the British bargo.

armя ern-

BRITISH ARMY ESTIMATES

VITAL POINTS WELL GUARDED

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1933.

WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

OBSTACLES BEING. REMOVED

COMMON TROUBLES

[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE,)

RUGBY, March 2.

WHERE BRITAIN. ERRED

WICKHAM STEED, TELLS

THE WORLD

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN!

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY]

PARIE, March 2.

THE Prime Minister, in the THE fundamental enor of the course of a speech in London Anglo-French policy at the to-day said the International outset of the Sino-Japanese dispute, Economic Conference ought to have said Mr. Wickham Steed, interview met before, but there were obstacles ed by Reuter, was not to inform in the way. They were now being Chida and Japan through the steadily removed,"

League or otherwise that the method "On Saturday,

new Govern of taking the law into their own ment will be installed at Washing hands was incompatible under the ton and at once we shall get into League Covenant, the Nine Power touch and at close quarters with Treaty, and the Kellog Pact, and the questions which mutually we unless cbligations were observed have to settle.

the country who failed to observe them would put itself in the wrong and court effective international disapproval."

JAPANESE MAKE PROGRESS

CHINESE DENY THEIR

REPORTS

FIFTY MILE DASH

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)

PEPING, March 2

SENATOR WALSH

DEAD

ROOSEVELT'S MINISTER OF JUSTICE

TRAGIC HONEYMOON-

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGEÑOT, J

WILSON, S. Carolina, March 2.

KIDNAPPED BANKE

RELEASED

HELD TO RANSOM BY:

GUNMEN

LINDBERGH ECHO

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)

DENVER, March 2

banker and friend of Senator . J. Walsh, of Colonel Lindbergh, who was

CHINESE officials deny the truth THE death scurred here to-day M Charles Boettcher, the

· of Japanese reports that Chih- feng has been occupied. Despatches Montana, wito was named by from the front late last night state President-Elect Roosevelt as his napped by gunmen on February that Japanese planes and light Attorney-General only two days has been released, unharmed fro

to bombard the ago. artillery began Chinese foremost positions at Chih- Senator Walah died during his feng yesterday.

sleep aboard a train travelling to Officials are still-communicating Washington. He was coming from with Sua Tien Ying whom Tokyo Havana with his bride, who is u reports has turned over to Manchumanber of a wealthy Culian family. kuo.

Senator Walsh had presided. At the last two Democratic National Conventions.

The Chinese command is expecting a severa struggle for Chihfong to day as it is reported that 20,000 Japaness are concentrating for an

a motor-c 00 the outskirts Denver.

He immediately communicate with his father's home, whither h is being taken to be questioned by

The report that ransom totalling the police. 200,000 has been paid by his wil and grandfather is denied.

attack on the entrance to this vital CONDEMNED SPY" city, his wife who is shortly ex

Our common troubles should bring us intimately together in a determination to end the influences which, starting with the late war,

Failure to follow this policy had have been undermining the economic

pass fabric of our civilisation and pro-ists and the military party, and encouraged the Japanese national-

TOKYO, March 2 ducing a state of unemployment all led to the assassination of Japanese covering fifty miles since early "It is learned from Lingyuan that, over the world, threatening to in liberal statesmen, and the intimida-morning with hard fighting at volve the nations in bankruptcy and tion of peace loving elements in reveral points of the vanguard, the

ruin.'

"These are the issues which fact America and ourselves and other industrial nations as well..

"The British Government is anx ious to have them brought up at the Council table and pursued sleep. lessly until a way out has been dis- covered."

CANADA HOLDING

U.S. MONEY

MORE BANK HOLIDAYS

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)

MONTRELL, March 1.

As the result of the bank holiday

in American States, many United States Erina and individuals are depositing money in Canadian

banks,

NEW YORK, March 1. ́.

Japan.

HAMILTON SLATES

THE LEAGUE

LONDON, March 2 Britain's and the world's attitude to the war in the Far East was deplored by Sir Ian Hamilton in the course of an appeal for real disarmament in his rectorial address at Edinburgh University. Sir Ian said that the war might never have occurred had the Japanese BINY not been spoken to as if it were a prisoner in the dock. The silly and futile expedient of an arms embargo was so inflaming matters that it was impossible to know what might happen. He doubted whether most Kong and Singapore were lying people grasped the fact that Hong

practically within the grasp of the Japanese Empire.

Nothing short

of a big detachment from the Bri- tish Navy and Royal Air Service The regime of limited bank with-could defend them against a Japan drawals is now operating in "ten

ese coup de main; States. Not all banks are affected, for example, only half of Indiana's 600 banks are restricting with drawals.

Hattori brigade fought their way into Lingyuan late last night, and drove Chang Hsuch Liang's troops from the city towards the south- went of Pingchuan.

Before they fled the Chinese launched a counter-attack in an attempt to drive back the numeric ally weaker Japanese, but after two hours heavy fighting, during which Japanese aircraft covered an infan- try advance, by severe bombing of the Chinese artillery positions, the Chinese resistanee crumbled.

The Kawahara, brigade, advano ing from the north-east entered Lingyuan this morning, and joined the Hattori troops which last night entered from the south-east.

Saichung reports are that the Hat after nightfall. tori vanguard entered Lingyuan Severe fighting

preceded the occupation.

LINGYUAN, March 2. The Kawahara vanguard occupied Sutnoling. between Lingyuan and Pingchuan at 4.30 p.m. to-day.

NOT GUILTY

DEATH SENTENCE QUASHED

Paris Jan. 27.-Henri Onilbeaux, whom the French sentenced to death by default in 1919 for having furnished intelligence to the enemy during the War, was to-day asquit tod at his trial by Court-martial here.

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The prosecution abandoned the case, and the military judges re- turned a unanimous verdict of "not guilty." Guilbeaux returned from abroad and gave himself up last August on account of his anxiety to establish his innocence.

At to-day's hearing a witness for the defence, M. Jacques Reboul, described as having been entrusted with "an official military mission to Geneva," denied that a certain Paul Schlessinger, with whom Guilbeaux had been in relation, was a German agent. "But in view of the source of my information I can only give evidence in camera," the witness explained.

A well-known writer and journal-. ist, M. Marc-Henry, also declared that Schlessinger, whom he knew German well, had never worked for the Secret Service, and a William Plumer thanked

The mess that Britain was get- ting into came from a fundamental

no motion at all, and all would fault in the constitution of the

be stillness. League. No one, least of all the

We can signatories, believed in the sincerity but we can get very near it. The never quite get there, tinues, and 200, have been arrested THE British Army Estimates totalYork banks could meet all deposi- covenants, treaties and plans. The motions of the atoms, and so we Guilbeaux for helping her to escape.

of those who signed pacts and effect is to eliminate thase, random Mrs. League was unwieldy and too slow hope to obtain more information from Russi in an emergency.

about the constitution of the atoms themselves."

in Berlin and hundreds elsewhere.

The success of the Nazi Party at

LONDON, March 2

£37,950,000, an increase as com. the General Election to be held on pared with last year of £1,482,000. Sunday, is almost assured, and the The establishment

remains the leader of the Centre Party, Herrane

at 148,700. The strength Kaas, when addressing a meeting of the regular Army inclusive of of 10,000 at Cologne, indicated that British troops in India is 5,000 his party are prepared to co-operate below establishment compared with with the Hitler Government after 8,000 the previous year, but the the election.

British troops in India will be up to establishment.

This support will give Chancel lor. Adolf Hitler an absolute ma- jority. The latter has, however, ex- pressed his detormination to rulo the country with the

present

. Cabinet, whatever the outcome of

the election.

SAXONS ANNOYED

BERLIN, March 2. Herr Schieck the Premier of Six- ony, has strongly protested to Herr Frick, the Reich Minister of In- terior, that the Saxon Government was not consulted before the ban

on Communist meetings and periodi cals, which applies to all States was imposed.

The Saxon Minister of Interior intimates that he will not impose the ban, even though the Federal Government intervene.

BRITISH INTEREST

COLUMBIA-PERU

DISPUTE.

REPORT OF LEAGUE COMMITTEE

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE:]

RUGBY, March 2. THE Irish Free State delegate,

ed to the League Council the pro- Mr. Sean Lester, has present-

the settlement of the Columbia- posals of the Leticia Committee for Pern dispute.

The raport proposes that pend ing negotiations for a final settle- ment, the Pesuvian force evacuate Leticia, and that an International Commission constituted supervise the zone and maintain order with the aid of Columbian troops.

be

to

LONDON, March 2 The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, was asked in the House of Commons last night whether his attention had been drawn to thei The Committee has been in cou serious situation in Germany, and stant touch with the United States whether he was satisfied with re-and Brazil. Both nations approv gard to the security of British livesed of the proposals.

and property in Germany. Alsó, whether he proposed to make any representations to the German Gov-

ernment.

Sir John Simon replied: "I re- ceive of course, frequerit reports from His Majesty's Ambassador in Berlin, on the situation. There is no specific fact to add to the mat- ters of fact already reported in the press.

"As regards the safety of Bri-

EVEREST FLIGHT

PLANES LEAVE CAIRO FOR ANNAM

(DRITISH WIRELESS SKEVICE.]

Kuopy, March 2.

A prominent New York banker declared that the leading New

tors' demands with little trouble,

The Governor of Alabama has declared, a' ten-daya' bank holiday.

EAST TOURE, Ill., March 1. Three banks here, have limited the withdrawals of deposite

to b per cent.

NEW ORLEANS, Ln, March 2.

A THREE days holiday has been

decreed in Lousiana for "all public business, including banks and other public enterprises."

SILVER MARKET

LONDON PRICES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

ON

LONDON, March 2. FOLLOWING ARE THE SILVER QUOTATIONS

*THE LONDON MARKET TO-DAY:

Mar. 2 Mer, 1 17

17.1/16 17.1/30 171-

SPOT

FORWARD

LORD LYTTON'S REWARD

THANKS FROM NANKING

[1HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NANKING, March 2

ON behalf of the Nanking popula- tion a large number of public bodies have sent a joint telegram to Lord Lytton thanking him for his just attitude towards the Man- churian dispute. The telegram describes Lord Lytton as not only a friend of China, but the sentinel of world peace and justice.

LABORATORY FOR

ONE MAN

Then the judges retired to hear M. Reboul give his evidence in camera.

Discussing the possibility of, dis integrating atoms by these forces

The Case Recalled. and so transmuting metals-which would give results on a much larger Guilbeaux, whose trial began on senle than those already obtained Tuesday, was born of French par

Mr. Boettcher was kidnapped af the door of his garage immediately en his arrival by air from Kanganj

pecting a child, being in the car at the time. The gunmen, on leaving, händed hor は note stating that "the_Lindbergh baby woulds have lived if the ransom had been poid:””

KANSAS CITY, March 2 Mr: Harry Haley, the incle of Boettcher, has been informed by telephone by Mrs. £12,000 ransom Boettcher's release.

Haley that was paid befor

CERMAK IN EXTREMIS

{THROUGH REUTER'S · AGENCY)

Miami, Florida, March 9, MAYOR Anton Cormak has bee

transferred to a specially con- structed oxygen room in the bor pital, here

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Lord Rutherford said that Sir ents in Belgium in 1984, and had SIMPSON'S Arthur Eddington considered that considerable connection with Ger with five to ten times the magnetic many before the war. In 1915 he forces now available transmutation was called up to serve in the French should be posible.

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Lord Rutherford described how the magnetic and electrical pro- perties of metals at these very low

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Atom

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"If alloys could be produced with better conducting powers than those

ALLEGED THEFT OF PRIVATE PAPERS

LOCAL BUSINESS MAN

CHARGED

BRITISH TRADE WITH RUSSIA

EXCESS OF IMPORTS

[BRITISH WIRELEŃS BERVICE.]

RUGBY, March 2 IN reply to a question in the House of Commons it WAS stated that during the past "eleven yesas, from 1922 to 1832, there was £138,300,000 excess of imports over exports in the United Kingdom's trade with the Soviet Union.

Cambridge. The possibilities of great economics coud be effected Mr. Wynne Jones at Central Ma The United States exports to the the Royal Society's Mond Labora- What we are now hoping to get is gistracy yesterday with theft of Soviet Union during the same tory at Cambridge, in which the a-scientific background which will certain private papers belonging to period exceeded in value the im stom will be subjected to the tell us if this thing is conceivable Mr. C. Tomes of 16 Felix Villas.

Mr. D. B. Evans appeared to ports from that country by greatest magnetic forces which man and, if conceivable, how we might prosecute on behalf of the complain-

has yet produced, were described expect to do it."

At very low temperatures, Proe defendant. A ples of Not ant and Mr. Horace Lo represented private tour of inspection of the the ordinary ideas about metals Gence asked for a week's remand, laboratory.

were reversed. Iron was no longer

G8519,000,000.

Karl Weiss & Crecho Slovakian already known, all electrical equin business man, was charged befors

meat would become obsolete" and

tish lives and property, I must as THE leaders of the Houston Ex. The aim of the British Govern- by Lord Rutherford during fessor Kapitze explained, many of Guilty" was entered and the de-l sume that the German Government pedition left Camo yesterday ment in the negotiations now in will continue to discharge their re for Annam in their three Puss progress is to secure an improve sponsibility in reference to British Moth aeroplanes, in continuazes of

ment in the balance of trade. subjects and interests in Germany, their journey to India, where they

The present Anglo-Soviet trade and I therefore have no ground for will attempt. a fight over Mount agreement expires on April 17, and making any representations to the Everest.

negotiations for a new agreement German Government."

A fourth machine,a

are continuing. R.A.F. 'plane, will follow the party at' a later date.

PERTINENT QUESTION IN COMMONS

POWERS OF THE LEAGUE

THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY ]

LONDON, March 2 MR. Geoffroy Mauder has given

notice of a question in the House of Commons as to whether |

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IRISH AFFAIRS

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE -

RENOUNCED

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

DELIN, March 2

the question of simultaneous with THE Irish Dail, by 75 votes to drawal of Ambassadors and-Minis-. 19, carried the motion of Pre- ters from Tokyo has been under sident Eamon De Valera that the consideration, as unanimously re- Kemoval of the Oath of Allegiance commended as a possible step by Bill be sent to tho ženatol with the the League Assembly in 1921. substitution of 1983 for 100

inoro than

It has been built for Professor the ideal material for a magnet and which was granted, bail in the sum P. Kapitan, the Russian scientist, liquid oxygen was so strongly mag of $250 being granted. who was been working for morenetic that it could be made to throw than ten years in Cambridge. tra glass rod violently upwards.from

its surface to the celling three Lady Houston's yacht Liberty, The two chief features of the Professor Kapitan added that the which recently had a narrow escape laboratory are, first, that the sudden shock to the electrical gear from serious damage by fire, is per- equivalent of the whole power out when it was short circuited for haps the most remarkable yacht in put, of the Battersea Power Station 1-100th of a second to give the the world. She was constructed at can be concentrated for a small enormous current required, was so cost of £270,000 on instructions fraction of a second on a space not great that n "miniature earth by Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, the Ameri an inch across, and, quake" was produced. For this can newspaper millionaire Mr secondly, that matter can be sub reason the recording apparatus was Pulitzer who was almost blind, jected to these enormous forces, at placed no the far end of the labora- wished to have a haven of perfect temperatures within degree of tory, where the observations would peace of the const of the United the lowest possible (about 450 have been completed before the States, from which he could direct Fahrenheit) when the stem in more earthquake shook had arrived. his newspaper enterprises. He ask- easily pulled from its normal

And to show his powers as a Led for a maximum speed of no arrangement.

magician, Professor Kapiten passed more than six knots, but this order "At ordinary temperatures," a stream of liquefied hydrogen could not be carried out, and the nection with the proposed moving about in a random manner the tube being so greatly cooled In his determination to get as said Lord Rutherford, atoma are through a glass tube, the air round finished Liberty could steam at ten on munitions to the Far East.......

An Order in Council was being at a very high epced. At the lowest that it liquefied on its outer sur | near complete absence of naise ár completed be tabled the possible temperature there would be; face and fell in a hissing pool on possible, the millionaire spent House,

(Continued on next Volumn): the floor of the laboratory.

£70,000 on sound-proof rooms,,

CANADA'S EMBARGO

APPROPRIATE ACTION “

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