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ALL FRONTS QUIET

JAPANESE HALT ADVANCE

[THROCOM BEUTER'S AGENCY?

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JAPANESE ADVANCE ON PEIPING

QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF

COMMONS

(THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY)

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1933

MUSSOLINI FOUR POWER PACT

is

TEXT OF PACT APPROVED BY POWERS CONCERNED

(THRQÜCH_BEUTER'S AGENCY] `

ROMA, May 21.

Powars concerned in the Mus-

DEPORTATION OF MR. L. SIMPSON

STRONG BRITISH PROTEST. AT HARBIN

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGEÑOY]

LONDON, May 29,

MacDonald said that the Con-

a

TARIFFS AND THE WORLD CRISIS

MR. ROOSEVELT'S APPEAL

International Congress France and Japan on the

SIR GEORGE-PAISH'S ADDRESS

Defensive

A FAIRLY GOOD RECEPTION

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ANGLO-JAPANESE TRADE AGREEMENT

LABOUR REQUEST IN COMMONS

(THROUGH REITER'S AGENCY)

London, May 22.

the House of Commons, Mr. Lunn, Labour, requested the

with Japan not to enter any com- Government with reference to the proposed commercial negotiations

the League Assembly Report of February 24, and not to pursue any Sino- separate policy in the Japanese, dispute, but to consult with other members of the League with a view to concerting on a common policy.

London, April 23. LONDON, May 2.

ONLY the formal consent of the N the House of Commons, Mr.

Paris, May 10-Talk of a meste THE Japanese advance on Peiping

Sir George Paish yesterday ad- PRIPING, May 21. was mentioned in the House of

solini Four-Power Pact, British, sul General at Harbin had already dressed the International Congress ng between Premier Daladier and Chancellor Hitler at Geneva to dis- NO AEROPLANES appeared over Commems to day and Mr. Mac France, Germany and Italy, is berprete todox Simpson without this been called in Paris by the of France and Germany, was dissi of Commercial Exchanges which cuss as friends the mutual distrust Peiping on Sunday and the Duld repudiated the labour suglieved to be now required, after Mr. Lennox situation on all fronte is extremely gestion that Britain will propose which arrangements will be made trial in a British Court under French Union of Export Industries.pated to-day when Daladier reject-mitments contrary to the pledge in quiet.

an armistice leaving the Japanese for the signatures to be appended. which alone a British subject can Delegates from forty nations are ed any further cuts in military ex The Japanese troops do not ap. in possession of the occupied terri- It is believed that as the result lawfully be deported from Chinese attending the Congress, which will penditures. pear to be moving nearer to Peitory anying that such an action of diplomatic axchanges recently, Territory. He ackled that the continue all week and is to discusa The French army is strong and ping, for which reason it is be would be inappropriate unless it the text of the Pact has been prae Consul General had been instructed tariffs and the economic crisis. must be kept strong, the premier coming to be believed that if some corresponded with the wishes of tically approved, the British Am- to protest strongly against this

said. form of truce. is not in operation, both parties.

In the course of his speech Sir. bassador having conferred with breach of treaty rights," while the George Paish said the time had

On Defensive. then the Japanese drive has gono

Signor Mussolini after the latter's Charge d'Affairs at Tokyo had been come when persons concerned in the na far as they intend at present,

final talks with Captain Gering, instructed to ask the Japanese Gor-

Foreign office officials said Da the German delegate.

ernment to use its influence to pre- should make themselves heard in been put somewhat on the defensive maintenance of international trade ladier was aware that France had Germany had hitherto hesitated vent the threatened violation of the councils of the nation, otherwise by Hitler's reply accepting Presi to commit herself to the Fact, but treaty rights. recent events have," it is believed,

international trade would come to dent Roosevelt's disarmament, pro- brought about a change of attitude

a complete standstill with disastrous posals, presented Wednesday to the Mr. Grenfell asked: Has Sir John and the way is now clear. It is

consequences not only to exporters Reichstag Simon Any idea how far the reported that the Pact will be pre-

but to those engaged in every other Japanese will advance in China,sented at Geneva to-morrow to be

branch of business and to the To this question there was no initialled and the details will be

peoples of all countries without ex released at practically the Bame

ception, time.

Bentry Incident,

..

The Japanese sentry who was struck on the head with a sword by a Chinese youth, is still alive. His assailant, a man in his twenties from Shansi, who is not connected with any military organisation here, is still in the custody of the Japaneer military,

JAPANESE MAY OCCUPY PEIPING

Resistance Collapsing.

(Continued from Page 1).

36 iniles to the cast of the city. while the vanguard of Lieut. Gen. Hasayemon Sakamoto's Sixth Divi. sion was located nearing Sauho, 3 miles to the east. Renge dispatches from the front said Chinese resist- ance was collapsing.

Arrests Cause Panic in Tientsin,

TIENTAIS, "May 19.

Panic broke out late to-day in the Chinese section of the city as a result of the arrest of two arm ed Chinese alleged to be Manchukuo agents leading a plot of reaction aries to capture the city.

the

Mr. Alorgan Jones asked May we assume the. Japanese are now at liberty to occupy the whole of Powers at Gereys. China without protest from the

Mr. MacDonald replied: Certain ly not.

answer,

HERBERT HINKLER

A Great Airman Lacking a Settled Task

(Special Air-Mail Service) ·

FRANCO-RUSSIAN PACT

COUNTRIES PROMISE NOT TO FIGHT EACH OTHER

LONDON, May 2. News from Florence reports the

PARIS, May 18. discovery in the mountains not far

The Chamber of Deputies to-day! from Arezza of the body of Mr. ratified unanimously the Franco- Hinkler, the airman who set out Russian non-aggression pact sign- on January 7 on a flight to Aused by Edouard Herriot, then pre tralia and has since been missing. mier, last November 29.

Herbert John Louis Hinkter was one of the great pilots who did most things well and got most of his satisfaction out of doing them, He could never make proper capital out of his achievements. His fer- tile mind was continually throw ing up ideas, many of which, he presented to his employers. He made at least two great flights, out of which another pilot might have gained wealth.

It was the first "auch treaty the Soviet, government has completed of the great powers, with one though a pact was signed in the fall with Poland. Negotiations for a non-aggression pact with Japan have fallen through.

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Both France and Russia, alies before the World War, undertake never to resort to arms against the other, either alone or in conjunc

third He did, in fact, tion with

The power. reap some financial benefit from his agreement was hailed in the press fast flight to Australia in 1928, but when it was signed as an important the whole of that large sum was instrument in stability of expended later in the construction Europe.

The Chinese, fearing a recurrence of the riote of November, 1931, when reactionaries sought to oust the present authorities, locked and barred shops, and troops turned out and established martial law..

Members of the 'patriatic society pulled a rickaha through streete bearing the dead body of a well dressed young. Chinese, who This yielded him no return, and of an aeroplans of his own design. had been shot. He was declared to be a Manchukuo agent murdered make a living when he set out on he was stil finding it difficult to by the Society for the Exter-bis last adventure.

The two arrested suspects reveal- ed a plot to enpture the city which the authorities frustrated. Among the Chinese troops which patrolled the streets were many so-called Big Swords, armed only with decapitation knivca.

mination of Traitors."

KALGAN NEXT OBJECT OF

JAPANESE DRIVE

ĮTHRÄUCH REOTER'S AGENCY]

CHANGORUN, May 29 KALGAN is the next object of the present Japanese drive in North

China,

In an interview given to Reuter, General Kaiso, Chief of Staff of the Kwangtung Army, declared that control of Kalgan was essential for the security of Manchukuo's west ern boundary.

General Koiso declared that the halt of the Japanese forces on the line at Miyun and Tangshan mark- ed the completion of the campaign which he asserted had as its object the climination of the Chinese bases for an attack on the Great Wall.

RECORD SALE OF ENGLISH BIBLES

OPPOSITION OF THÉ COMMUNISTS

tures in all parts of the world.

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the

IN MEMORIAM

MISS F. COLE

(Special Air-Mail Service)

Able But Not a Business Man, business sense as he had air and If Hinkler had had na good a

mechanical sense he would not have been taking the riska of re cord-breaking flights at the age of 40 His ingenuity seemed endless. The Avro Avian and the Cirrus engine with which he went from England to Australia in 15 days were fitted with a dozen gadgets" of Hinkler's invention, which im. proved the efficiency or made easier the maintenance of the machine ing Home.

LONDON, May 2. The following appreciation 15 from the pen of Miss E. B. Griffith, who has for many years been associated with Miss Cole on the staff at the Yangchow Train-

from which so much was demand- Miss Cole sailed from England ed. During his association, prior in September, 1894, travelling un- to that fight, with the firm of A. der the escort of Miss Murray, V. Roe his contributions in ideas with whom she was prvileged to to the development work which work for many years. the firm did were numerous generally valuable.

and

par-

Although she had a deep love for

at the end of

THE EMPIRE FAIR

The Empire Fair will be open on Wednesday, the 24th May from 12 o'clock, noon, to 10 p.m. Qa the 25th, 26th and 27th May (ie., Thursday, Eriday and Saturday) the Fair will open at 9 o'clock in the morning and close at 10 o'clock in the evening.

By kind permission of Com. mander G. E. Middleton, the Band of H.M.S. Cornwall" will dive open-air concerts in the Pavilion opposite the Peninsula Hotel each evening during the four days of the Fair, from 8 o'clock to 16 o'clock in the ever- Ing.

SILVER MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, May 22. FOLLOWING ARE THE BILVER QUOTATIONS ON. THE LONDON

MARKET TO-DAY ÷

May 22 183

SPOT .... FORWARD...

May 20 10.3:16

THE CASE AGAINST M. C. HARMAN

Witness's Deal in Chosen Shares

20,000 PER CENT, PROFIT

tars.

(Special Air-Mall Service)

to

LONDON, May 2.

But Freach skepticism of the chancellor's good faith has been re- flected in all ranks of officialdom, the Press and the public." This at- The nations had been engaged in titude succeeded that of yesterday a universal endeavour to return to stunned ut Hitler's professions of when officials professed to be fairly the deplorable conditions of former good will at a time when he was ex- centurica, under which nations were pected in all European capitals to compelled by their situation and threaten to refuse to yield in any environment to be practically self-direction.

contained units of production and

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of distribution. It seemed to have | VON HINDENBURG'S been forgotten that world progress MESSAGE

was dependent upon international

tintions for a new Anglo-Japanes

Mr. MacDonald replied that nego, agreement were not at present contemplated He added that the mutter has no reference whatever with the Sino-Japanese political situation.

CHINESE Y.M.C.A. DAY SCHOOL

TO CELEBRATE TWENTY-

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY.

policy and upon international co- | Washington, May 18-The bends The local Y.M.C.A. Day School operation.

of four more governments, Ger-will celebrate its 23th anniversary The growing interdependence of many, Spain, Nicaragua and Vene- to-day with a full programme. In the nations on all sides of their ac-zuela sent pleasing acknowledg. the morning at 8:00 o'clock there tivities had brought about a statements to-day of Roosevelt's pro- were be flag raising exercises befors universal well-being which for a world non-aggression the entire student body, faculty could not have been attained by pet, telegraphed to 51 govern- and friends of the school. At 2:00

mental leaders Tuesday.

o'clock in the afternoon, there will any policy of cecocomie nationalism. The growth of the modern world in President Paul von Hindenburg, or/and other activities. In the even- The most noteworthy was from be an exhibition of students' work Germany, who said:

ing an entertainment will be held

of a

NAVAL MOVEMENTS.

population and in prosperity must be attributed to the growth of in- This declaration, in which you in the Y.M.CA. Auditorium com- ternational co-operation and to the show the world the way to eliminate mencing at 7:30 o'clock. A special welding together of the whole hu- the international crisis, met with edition of the school paper commo man family into an economic unit hearty approval throughout Cer-morating the occasion will be dis

tributed. of mutually interdependent nations many. The statement which the The change in the mentality of German chancellor made yesterday statesmen and of peoples from far with the unanimous agreement of sighted vision of the forces and the Reichstag proves that Germany bas decided to co-operate unselfish- policies that promoted the well-ly in overcoming the political and being of all peoples to a short economic difficulties of the present sighted outlook that injured both moment.". the general and the individual well- being had entirely destroyed all the advantages which progress accom plished since the war should have brought about. The spirit of economic nationalism had indeed be. come so pronounced that all, the

forces for progress and increasing prosperity had been rendered of no

avail.

Other their approval previously included governments to signify Great Britain, Sweden, the Nether- lands, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Latvia, Mexico, Cuba, Panama, France and Switzerland.

IT DEPENDS," SÄYS

JAPAN

H.M.S. EAGLE DUE ON

JUNE 10.

H.M.N. Caradoc of the Firth Cruiser Squadron, is expected to arrive from Nanking and Hankow to-morrow for refit.

The Aircraft Carrier Eagle is expected to arrive on June 10 from Singapore, and England.

The consequence, of the present

Tokyo, May 19.-Japan's acce- The Submarines Otus, Orpheus, situation, in which every possible tance in principle" of President Osiris, Olympus, Perseus, Pandora obstacle was placed in the way of

Roosevelt's peace appeal, but with and Proteus will leave Hong Kong, debtors paying their debts in Roods strong reservations, probably will for Wei-hai-wei on June 3, on their

be dispatched to Washington the summer cruise. or services, was a condition of middle of next week, a foreign almost universal bankruptcy, and office spokesman said to-day. unless a complete change was soon The outstanding reservation would made in the policies of all countries

concern what was called the high-fare of China while promoting in-. it would be impossible for the ly laudable" proposed pledge not ternational cooperation for econo-..

mic regeneration.. strongest borrowers to honour their debts.

The Chinese statesman promised that China would do ber utmost to assist.

To-morrow' be will call on Presi-

to send troops across frontiers.

Replying to this most important "It is of vital importance," he proposal," said the spokesman, concluded, “that the Governments. Japan must call attention to the

Soong bade farewell to state des and peoples of all nations should peculiar situation in the Far East.

partment officials in preparation realise that unless the spirit of

"Were Japan, surrounded by nor for leaving Washington after his Yet for the last four years Hink- had not called her to China Ioration was given at London Guilding is at once exercised and replaced heartedly. If the world recognized dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and

the Chinese people, yet the Lord Further evidence for the prosecu economie nationalism now prevail. mal states we would be able to give economie conference here. ler had been virtually unemployed. direct work among them: She came

a clear cut answer, accepting whole- He spent much of his time on the to Yangchaw for some months of

hall yesterday in the charge of by the spirit of international co development of his own tiny ma- language study,

conspiracy

defraud made

tre Great Wall as the boundary bethen proceed to New York to ad- chine. The he took a Puas Moth which time she was asked to re

against Martin Coles Harman and operation, bringing with it the re-tween Manchukuo and Ching we dress the Council of Foreign Re- to America and investigated poesi-main on in the Training Home as

three other prominent City direcmoval of every kind of hindrance would accept unreservedly."

lations, the China Society and the to the international exchange of bilities. There still seemed.

The official Japanese reaction is Foreign Policy Association. ticular plage which be could fill, the moment, disappointed, yet sno one of the staff. Surprised and, for

goods and services, a state of uni- the same as accorded other recent and so he came home on one of said Amen, and a short time

versal bankruptcy and universal dis- peace moves, such as the British THE BRITISH DELEGATION those amazing fights, apparently after added Hallelujah.'

tress without precedent will be the arms reduction plan, the alleged Since unpremeditated and so wholly un- that day these two words sum up

inevitable consequence."

menace of the large armed forces London, ME 18.-Prime Minister announced that the world was sur her life and service. She often used

of Russia and China making it im. J. Ramsay "MacDonald--announced prised one day to find the pilot it them and when, a

perative to maintain a large milit- to-day in the house, of commons, short time had believed to be in America land before her home-going, she was sak.

ary, establishment, and to refrain that the British delegation at the ing on the coast of Africa.

from commitments it is maintain-world-economic conference will be er to give a message at the La-

ed.

hended by Neville Chamberlain, dies' Meeting in the Mission Home,

chancellor of the exchequer. Shanghai, it was, as at the begin

Stanley Baldwin, lord president sing, though with deeper acquies

of the Council, was omitted. cence and deeper praise, Amen,' 'Hallelujah."

Washington, May 18.-T. V. This was accepted to indicate that Soong, Chinese Finanos Minister he will probably conduct debt. who has been in Washington for a negotiations with the United States fortnight to conduct economic con- concurrently with the conference. versations with administration

be a strong demand for this edition, both at home and abroad.

Russia Closed

This home.

The other three defendants are:

of Lancaster-gate, W.;

Berkeley Fairfax Conigrave, 81,

sall-rond, W.; and

Herbert H, Pounds, 84, of Rus-

Emil Georges Changeat, 36, of Bartholomew-road, N.W.

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Defendants are accused of un- lawfully conspiring together and with other persons unknown to cheat and defraud such persons as then ware shareholders in Chosen Corporation Ltd.

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY LIMITED

$50,000 FOR SHAREHOLDERS,

The Directors will recommend the following allocation of profits for Mr. Henry Baby Clefford, who the year ended April 30 1933 at the was, formerly secretary of Chosen Corporation,

the forthcoming Annual meeting of questioned Shareholders. concerning certain shares which had been acquired for him personally in Chosen Corporation, agreed that he sold a quantity of them to Mr. Harman for £500.

Mr. F. de Verteuil (defending): -Making a profit of 20,000 per cent, I

Yes.

Pay & Dividend of 10

per cent on 25,000 shares fully paid

up

Pay a Dividend of 10

SOONG'S RADIO SPEECH

leaders expressed appreciation of THE SOVIET the interest that President Frank- lin D. Roosevelt has taken in-Chi- 3,000.00. nas” problem-to-day in a radio

broadcast speech,” “

She was not altogether out of Both in the Overseas Dominions touch with the Chinese, for në she and in some parts of Europe finan had opportunity she visited In (Special Air-Mail:Service)

cial depression has affected the cir- their homes, and-until very recent culation, but in France, Germany, venis had a Sunday class in the Switzerland and Estonia an increas- Pi-shi-kiai LONDON, May 2.

church-her church The British and Foreign Bible ed circulation is reported. Society will present. on Wednesday result has occurred notwithstanding

As pas looks over Miss Cole's (May 3) to its 129th Annual Moet- the activities of the Communist life, one characteristic stands out

per cent, on 50,000 ing in the Queen's Hall (to be who have opposed, in many instap-

above others--her faithfulness. presided over by Sir Alexander C, the distribution of the Serip Hidden in #sense behind Miss

stiere 85.00. paid up 25,000.00 Transfer to Reserve Glegg) a remarkable statement ree- turea. Russia is still closed to the Murray for twenty-eight-years, yet

After further questioning Mr.

Fund

9,139.70 pecting the circulation of the Scrip- operations of the Bible Society.

In Asia

abe was faithful in things great and Clefford about other dealings in And Carry Forward 12,485.03 In Asia there is increase, though ministries in the Yangoho Train de Verteuil suggested that having small. There are diversities of shares between 1923 and 1028, Mr. During the past 12 have China shows a drop owing to the ing Hoine. At one time or another spent £11 10s on shares Mr. Claf-

871,604.73 fewer than 10,817,470 copies been circulated-art increase of unsettled condition of that coun

Transfer the amount at Credit 85,188 over the preceding year. try. A record distribution is during her long term of service ford had made altogether in the Whilst the number of Scripture por ported from Japan Korea, In them all, and when Miss Murray, Clefford agreed. He said 8800.30 to Reserve Fund, thus mak thirty-seven years she performed various transactions £1,529, 12s. 6d. of Forfeited Shares Account, viz., tiona was lessened, Bibles and Tests. dia, Ceylon and Burma also show feeling no longer able for the work, that while he was still secretarying a round: suta of $10,000.00 tɔ ments increased respectively by gratifying advance.

Africa has increased its circulation, retired, Mias Cole was invited to of the company. Mr. Horace Bray be transferred to this socount.

take charge of the Training Homs broke held shares for him as his The total number of Scriptures and so also bas South America..

"The reason I had a in English circulated in the friDuring the year 12 new versions After thirty-seven years of ser nominee. tish Isles by the Society last year have been added to the Society's vice, she was forced to give up nomines," added witness, was that The Sanitary Board at today's 857,000, comprising 415,000 list of languages-including four through an illness which continued I wanted to conceal from my direc meeting will consider a letter from Bibles, 168,000 Testaments, and 277 for Africa, six for Asia, one for for one and a half years. Every tors that I was dealing in Chosen Government relative to the ap- portions. The number of copies of America, and one for Europe. The thing that loving oare and skill shares. Nominees are common."

pointment of the Honourable Mr. the Scriptures in English sent ab total number of languages now on could do for her was done, but on

As the Court was about to

out to ad A. G. W: Tickle to be Vice-Presi road was 664,000, making a total the Society's list in 607

Wednesday, February 15th, at two- Journ, Mr. de Verteuil said that dent of the Sanitary Board while Deficit On Years Working for home and abroad, of 1,511,000.

thirty in the morning she gently he never intended by any remarks acting as Director of Public Works Since its publication in July The Society's income for the past fel) ssleep' and passed quietly in- he made at the last hearing to and a letter from Govaroment re- 1931, 817,000 copies of the Shilling year amounted to £342,856 fall to the presence of her Lord and suggest that the Director of Pub-lative to the additional conditions. Bible have been issued of which of nearly £28,000-and the expendi. Saviour Whom she truly adored lic Prosecutions acted on the mug to Chinese Restaurant Licences for 480,000 wate sent out in the year ture to £959,209, leaving a deficit Well dons, thou good and faith gestion of any group of financiers. the prohibition of spitting in Chi

ful servant,' under review. There continues to of 298,533 on the year's working.

The bearing was adjourned. nese Restaurantirysztalostet

31,000 and 59,000.

W38

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Moscow, May 18-The Soviet“. government plans to participate in the world disarmament conference: Soong said Roosevelt had taken opening June 12 at London, it was a deep persons) interest, in the wel-earned to-day-

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