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DRAMATIC SCENES AT

OLD BAILEY

SCREAMS OF WOMEN GREET PASSING

OF SENTENCES

AT CONCLUSION OF FIRE CONSPIRACY TRIAL

London, Angust 20. There were dramatic scenes at the conclusion of the fire conspiracy trial at Old Bailey, when screams of women relatives greeted the passing of the sentences..

One prisoner, William Herivel a silk merchant aged 69, fainted in the dock when sentenced to eighteen months' im- prisonment:

The sentences total fifty-one years.

Harris was sentenced to the maximum penalty for arsón, The chief prosecuting Counsel revealed before the sen tences were passed that about £270,000 was involved in the claims which were the subject the indictment...

Insurance companies have repudiated £110,000 of the claims sent in to them.

"JUDGE'S SCATHING SUMMING-UP

while

charges LONDON, Aug. 19.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1933.

SZECHUAN CIVIL TRIAL OF NAVAL

WAR

CADETS

CONLEICT OVER MANCHURIA

LIU'S TROOPS REPORTED EIGHT YEARS IN PRISON AT INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC

IN FULL RETREAT ·

DEMANDED

Tokyo, Ang.' 10,'

Procurators

THE Government

yesterday demanded sentences of eight years imprisonment on the eleven Military Cadets · con- cerned in last year's outrages."

The Naval Court-Martial is not yet completed.

Shanghai, Aug. 20. General Lin Hsiang has re- ceived a telegram from Szechuan, reporting that General Liu Wen Huei's troops are in full retreat to Sikang, marking the conclu- sion of the civil war in that pro-

There has been a growing agita vince.

tion throughout the country by General Liu Hsiang is assum-reactionaries, demanding leniency ing office as commander of the towards the accused owing to the Communist suppression troops in reputedly patriotic motives behind Szechuan in the near future. the outrages. Reuter, Reuter.

PETITIONS POURING IN

defendantsto

JAPANESE IN SHANHAIKWAN

MR. LIU'S REPORT ON

SITUATION "

Peiping, Aug. 18.

the Luantung Retrocession

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Tokyo,, Aug. 20. Petition after potition is pour ing in to General Araki's office, asking for leniency in the sen

RELATIONS

Band, Aug. 20.

A conflict has developed over the Manchurian issue at the Institute of Pacific Relations. The Chinese Delegatea declared that China would steadfastly refuse to recognise the political entity of Manchukuo. They claimed Manchuria is the logical outlet of China's teeming millions, and Japan's claim to the territory was much weaker:

ROOSEVELT SIGNS OIL, AND LUMBER CODES

EXECUTIVE ORDER FOR CODIFYING STEEL INDUSTRY

OIL OWNERS DISSATISFIED [".

WITH PRICE. FIXING PROVISIONS

Washington, Aug, 201 Pres. Roosevelt to-day signed the Oil Code and an executive order codifying the steel industry for three months. He then left by train for Hyde Park where he

The oil owners are dissatisfied with the price fixing provisions, but have promised Mr. Johnson to comply on patriotic rather than legal grounds.

The Japanese delegates did not expect opposition to the free en-will resume his holiday. try of Chinese, provided some guarantee was given of the friend- y nature of their migration.

If the Chinese emigrants adapt tences passed on the elevened themselves to new conditions cadets facing a Court Martial for prevailing in Manchukuo they the ussassination of Premier would probably be welcome. · Inukai.

COMPETITION IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY.

The Coal Code and Motor Code have not yet been completed.

It is estimated that one third of the nation's employees are now covered by codes :-Reuter.

Fres. Roosevelt who is endeavcaring. to reorganise American Industries.

The most gruesome of these MR. Liu Shih Shen, a member of missives was a parcel containing Commission, who went to Shan-nine blood-stained little-fingers, haiwan to endeavour to arrange cut off from the hands of the

take over the Shanhalkwan petitioners who, in a strongly "Sentences ranging from 14 years! pleaded not guilty to all charges walled city from the Japanese, re- worded petition, declared they the lower and middle priced for the lumber producing indus- i industries that the minimum wage-

tumed this morning without ac- are willing to lay down their lives penal servitude for the leader, against them. Leopard Louls Harris, four: A feature of Judge Humphreys complishing his mission.

for the cadets.-Reuter. Mr. Lin ascribes the Japanese months imprisonment for minor summing-up was his scathing at- defendants, were to-day imposed, tack on Capsoni, whom he describ-failure to hand over the city to

ed as a blackmailer and a highly the fact that since General Muto, LEADER OF THE

Commander-in-Chief of the dangerous, criminal; though, De

BLOOD LEAGUE added, it was impossible to prose-Japanese forces in Manchuria, cute him. His chief regret was died, there is no responsible per- that he was unable to pass on son at Changchun to make the de-

to

on the 16 men found guilty at the Old Bailey yesterday on charges of conspiracy to cause ares in Lon- don in order to defraud Insurance Companies.

!

During a discussion on com- petition in the textile industry, a Japanese spokesmen maintained that Japan had won the hold over textiles owing to the superiority of their machines, also by cen tralized management.

The British representatives ex- "pected a lower cost of production owing to reorganisation which the industry in Lancashire was at present undergoing. They dis-

The lowest depths of infamy Capsons the sentence he so richly cision, as General Hishikari has REFUSES TO BE TRIED BY

not yet arrived.

Mr. Liu also states that the Japanese wish to establish a tele- graph office at Bhanhaikwan and maintain it there even after the

were reached when Capsont's deserved..

The proceedings are estimated wretched wife was set to do the actual burning." declared Judge to have cost £50,000 the fees of Humphreys, referring to the burn-one counsel alone, together with amounted ing of a silk company's premises refreshers," having in Oxford Street, London, when to £5,000. The cost of 200 wit-retrocession of the City. — Reuter. concluding his remarks after a

nesses

13-hour summing up in the Lon-Reiter.

don fire conspiracy trial,

The trial, which is the longest ever held in the Old Balley, came to an end yesterday, when the jury, after a 4-hour retirement found all 16 defendants guilty on a varying number of counts. Sen- tences will be pronounced to-day, thus bringing to a close the 61 weeks' hearing.

The jury retired at noon yester- day to consider verdicts dealing with at least 141 counts, involved

has also ta

.

be met.

BERNIA ALPS: TRAGEDY

"FOUR ETON MASTERS KILLED

MUCH SUFFERING IN HOPEI

.:

INCOMPETENT

JUDGES

ment cites the opinion of the steel of the fixed Code will exceed an average of 40 cents per hour. to organise in Trades Unions, with

LUMBER INDUSTRY.

Washington, Aug. 20. Pres. Roosevelt signed the code try, but the leaders of the petroleum industry are demand ing a more rigid control in the price of oil and have informed Pres. Roosevelt and Mr. Johnson, Industrial Recovery Administra tor, that they are unable to accept the Oil Code in its present form. CLOSER UNION OF

ROOSEVELT APPROVES

NEW STEEL CODE

Employees are allowed the right

constraint. —Router.

ISLANDS

TRINIDAD NOT KEEN ON EXPERIMENTS

counted -

Japan's claims to-Reuter superior methods and referred to the effects of the depreciated yen. Tokyo, Aug. 20. Nissho Inoue, leader of the It was suggested that quotas and Blood League the slayers of other methods of international Baron Dan, the Finance Minis adjustment would prevent unfair ter, who is now in jail is troubling competition. The British the Judical officials by refusing tended that stabilisation of "cur- to be tried by the judges in rencies constituted the keynote President Roosevelt. It provides Charles Ferguson, Chairman, Sir

M. Sakamaki's action is being publicly criticised as unprecedent cd in the history of Japanes instice.

**I TALK PEACE

con-

Banff, Alberta, Aug. 19. MB. Inazon Nitobe, Chairman of the Japanese group at the In-

statute of Pacific Relations, which opened here on Monday last under the Chairmanship of Str. Robert Falconer, has denied the statement credited to him that Japan and post-Russ are preparing for war.

Shanghai, Aug. 19. charge. M. Sakamaki personally to the question.-Beuter. General Huang Fu, Chairman called on Inoue yesterday and of the Peiping Political Council, offered to hold the proceedings in arrived in Shanghai from Nan-any way he liked but the latter king at 8 a.m. to-day.

turned down his proposal: Interviewed by Reuter, Gener. al Huang said Hopei, Province Pat Resins, Aug”, 20 had suffered enormously in the in 14 different fires, alleged - to ---The bodies of the four Eton have been started by a "fire-rals- | mastera now lle op stretchers recent sighting The area, affect before the Altar in the Churched was forty times larger than Ing gang."

The funeral will take plan on in the Shangbai hostilities last The bodies are so badly smashed year. He added that the authori Leopold Louis Harris, who 15 that the opinion is the victims were

ties were now concentrating their charged on 32 counts pleaded killed in the early stage of their efforts for the relief of the war guilty to "25, Including nine

sufferers, but stated this could eight hundred feet fail. charges of ́arson. Judge Hum- phreys instructed the Jury to re-

not be accomplished for several turn a verdict of not guilty on the

months. remaining seven charges.

PLEADS GUILTY TO. 25 COUNTS | Monday.

Five other defendants, including

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Party SHp Down Glacier On Roser Peak.

Pat Resina, Aug. 20.

A grim tragedy of the Alps. in-

Louis Jarvis, pleaded guilty to 48 volving the deaths of four of

WEEKLY TREASURY

ISSUE

£45,000,000 Allotted

EM

General Huang Fu is leaving returning to Peiping-Beuter. for Mokanshan shortly, before

SUN TO INTERVIEW FENG

Nanking, Aug. 19.

Eton's most popular musters, one of whom has a brother at Welhal- wel, occurred. near here, on Thursday, last, when the party, who had made an assault on the treacherous slopes of Roseg Feak, slipped over a precipice and 'fell several hundred feet into a chasm. The discovery, yesterday by a guide, of an ice-axe and snow arrived at Taian at midnight, en APPLICATIONS for tenders for spectacles on the 13,000-foot Roseg route for the sacred mountain of Treasury bills yesterday totall-Peak in the Bernina Alps, was the Taishan, to persuade General ed £369,125,00.

terrible Feng Yu Hsiang to visit Nan three months was £45,000,000. deaths of three Eton house-mas¬ king-Reuter.

+ London, Aug. 19..

frat... indication " of

The amount allotted in bills at tragedy which

the resulted in the

The average rate per cent of theters, Mr. H. E. H Howson, Mr. E. tenders accepted was 6/1.08d. com-v. Slater and Mr. E. W. Powell

pared with 5/5.10d last week British Wireless Service.

PREMIER NOW A GRANDFATHER

and one assistant master, Mr. C.

R." White-Thomson..

The bodies were seen huddled to- gether at the foot of a dangerous precipice. They had evidently fallen several hundred feet.

It is learnt that Mr. Sun Fo

CONFERENCE AT KALGAN

Sung Cheh Yuan, Chairman of

Peiping, Aug. 19,

"The incident has puzzled offi- cials and the trial,has been poned indefinitely-Reuter

databaAREDEEMÄÄ

SILVER MARKET.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

LONDON, Aug. 19, FOLLOWING ARE THE SILVER QUOTATIONS ON

LowDow MARKET "TO-DAY : HAN

Spor

THE

Aug. 18 Aug. 18 17.13/16

FORWARD.-17.15/16

173

18 THE LONDON ON NEW YORK CROSS RATE TO-DAY WAS: £1= 84.01.

CANADIAN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

JOE KIRKWOOD WINS WITH 282

Toronto, Aug. 20. JOE Kirkwood with an aggregate of two eight two won the

"I talk peace, not war,” he de- clared.

Other Japanese delegates em- phasized that Japan did not in- tend to prepare för: war," The polley is definitely one of peace, they assert-Reuter.

INCREASING ECONOMIC

CONFLICTS.

Nitobe,

Washington, Aug. 20.

London-Aug. 18, “ The new United States Steel "THE 'report of the Commission Code has been approved by - consisting of General Sir

Charles "Orr and Mr. MacNellt Campbell of the Colonial Office, which has been dealing with the question of a closer union of the Leeward Islands Windward Is-/ land. Trinidad and Tobago, re- commends that the Islands, form- .

for a 40-bipe week, averaged over. a three months" period, with 48 hours in a six-day week as a maximum per employee

An eight-hour day is provided for all regular employees after November, 1 or as soon after as

production reaches 60 per cent of capacity. He

The Code is effective for 90 days as a trial period, and the agree

ing the Colonies of Leeward and

Windward Island should be united | into one Colony, under a Governor, with hexquarters at Saint Lucia. ̈

GERMAN THREAT inidad, the former has always

TO SHIPPING

RESTRICTIONS TO BE

WITHDRAWN-

The report states, that whatever advantages may have accrued from the amalgamation of. Tobago with,

been a financial burden to Trink dad since the amalgamation, and Trinidad is strongly adverse from embarking on more experiments in the direction of a closer unfon with other islands. —British Wires less Service.

BANTY, CANADA, Aug. 14. Restrictions on international in-

London, Aug. 19. tercourse forpe, nations to expand

CONFERENCE took place yes- their apheres of influence to obtain self-sufficiency, Inazo

terday at the Reich Ministry German Japanese publicist and advisory of Economics between editor of the Osaka Mainichi, de-officials and representatives of clared at the opening session of foreign shipping companies in the fifth biennial conference of the Germany, in reference to the re- Institute of Pacide" Relations

cent order under German Foreign He

control regulations deplored the increasing Exchange economic conflicts throughout the which had led the Companies to world, and a spirit of "intoler. fear that discrimination would be A

practised in favour of German pas ance between nations.

senger steamship lines

are

The conference was of an har- monious character and representa

HEAVY IMPORT

DUTIES

PROPOSED BY DUTCH

EAST INDIES

› Batavia, Aug. 19. --

luxury goods of 20 per cent PROPOSED Import duty on plus a 50 per cent. surtax is in- eluded in the Government - END aiming at strengthening thể în- ancial position of the Dutch East

Reasonable adjustments necessary in intercourse between na- tions of varying culture," he said, "but excessive restrictions defeat tives of British "shipping lines ex- Indies by increased import, dudes.

pressed "satisfaction with the ar- rangement, which been devised to

their own purpose.

Excessive self-sufficiency inevit

meet criticisms, t ably persuades the unfortunately Berlin press reports state that situated nations to guarantee their the effect of this arrangement will own economic security by adding be to remove restrictions on for- The party, all of whom were ex-Charbar, is returning to Kalgan Canadian Open Golf Champion outside territories to their politic-eign shipping companies' activi pert climbers, left Samaden with to-morrow and, as soon as he has ship. The holder, Harry Cooper, al orbit a m out guides on August 16 on what arrived, will call a conference and Lex Robson being joint run-Hu Shi, leader of Chinese An oficial announcement by the THE second daughter of the was intended to be their last ex-

Prime Minister Dr. Joan Mac- Pedition before returning to Eng-with Fang Chen Wu, Sun Liang-Up with two ninety Genie thought, decried armament rival Ministry of Economics is to be Barazen next with two nine three-vios" between anations: Evidently made later-British Wireless Ser-

·kinnon, gave birth to a daughter

Cheng, Chang Yun Yung and Reuter, to-day, Mrs. Mackinnon," Whoc la

Way Missed.

Chi Hung Chang, all subordinates

London, Aug. 19.

the wife of Dr. A. Mackinnon" took They spent the night at Clerva the degree of Bachelor of Medi-Hat on the mountain-side and cine and Surgery Thortly before climbed Roser Peak on Thursday their wedding on September 30 hut apparently missed. the way while descending and slipped on a glaciers

-1939.- Reuter

PARADES BY

"BLUE SHIRTS

BANNED IN IRISH FREE STATE

A rescue party was sent out in mediately the guide reported the discovery of the bodies, but it was Impossible to reach the spot before.

of General Feng Yu Hsiang.

his latest information is that the Sung Cheb Yuan states that Blanchukuo troops which occupi ed. Dolopor recently, are not advancing further.

affairs of Charhar, General Sung In reorganising the military

will have the assitance of Chiang All four victims were very popu Po Cheng, resident representa lar at Eton.

tive of General Chiang Kai Shek.

Reuter.

Mr. Powell a well-known Oarsmen having rowed, in the Cambridge boat from 1900 to 1908. He also won the Diamond Sculls at ~Dublin, Aug. 19. Henley in 1812 - THE Minister of Justice yesterday Mr. White Thomson, a science Issued a statement declaring master, is the eldest son of the that if any uniformed or armed Bishop of Ely. parades of General O'Duffy's Mr. Howson is a grandson of ““Blue Shirt" organisation are held Dr. Hugh Butler, Master of on Sunday, the organisation will Trinity, while his brother com- be, proclained. —Reuter.

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mands a destroyer on the Chiria

General O'Duffy, in annotincing Station.

PROPOSED SALE OF C.E.R

"ADDITION TO SOVIET DELEGATION

Moscow

GERMANY BEAT

*

* BRITAIN

AT ATHLETIC MEETING AT WHITE CITY

20

ties.

· referring to ... recently -- announced vice. programmes for naval building in

the United States and Japan, he

said and

The peace machinery in the Pacific built up for a decade is DOW scrapped.'

Speaking from a British view-| point, Herbert Samuel said Bri- tain's only interest in the 'Orient was to promote tranquility and prosperity.

VERMANY beat Britain by 76 Bir Robert Falconer of Canson, points to 50 at an Interna-in welcoming the conference, cited tional Athletic Meeting held at the long American - Canadian the White Ollye friendship na sh example to în-

Borth Meyer, Germany, won the spire other Pacife nations. hundred Yards in ten seconds. He also won the two twenty yards in twenty-two and 1/10 secs. ONE

GERMAN TRADE UNIONS

NOW CONTROLLED BY NAZIS

London, Ang 18 THE British Labour Party has called for a boycott of German goods and services by the General

All other taxable commodities

will be taxed at flat rate at 12) tax Reuter. per cent., plus a 50 per cent, sur-

INDIAN COTTON FOR BRITAIN

ANGLO-INDIAN COTTON CO-OPERATION

London, Aug 19.

A GREAT advance has been made

A towards the fulllment of a scheme to establish a new. Anglo- Indian organisation to secure co- operation between Indián" cotton- growers and Lancashire"

According to the "Daily Telegraph' Manchester correspondent ·ar- rangements are being concluded for making a shipment of about 20,000 bales of Indian cotton to Britain which will be spun and woven in Lancashire and re-ex- in co-operation with Indiary growers Reuter

ECHO OFE

REVOLT

Sir Robert evidently sensed an under-current of apprehension at the conference due to the strained Council of the Trades Union Con- ported to India, to be marketed, relations between some of the coun- gress, which meets at Brighton TRADE WITH CHINA^^ tries represented, despite the mild-early in September.

ness of the utterances of speakers. The Council stressing the severe

Leaders were US. LEADS THE WORLD

attempting to setback sustained by international Ada | droid issues that might threaten to Trades-Unionism, owing to WASHINGTON, Aug 14 break up the coriference.

Näziseizure of Germant="Tr Department of Commerce ad The question of maintaining an Unions urges a boycott in the vicen to-day: from Shanghai said amicable conference appeared a hope of bringing home to the 20-% the parade of the Blue Shirts, ried-Reuter.

mat the United States led the difficult one, as most of the ques: German - Government an which was to have taken place. -Mr. Howson is a brother of Com-.

M. Barysluivkov, a member of world as exporters and importers tone of prime importance in the crimes committed cannot be cor: last Sunday, said that he was armander J. M. Howson of H. M. S the board of the State Bank, has in Chinese Zoreign trade during Pacific involve antagonism of ban must be made so effec-

doned. ranging for ceremonies to take Witch of the 8th. Destroyer been appointed financial expert to the dust half of 1933, a place in every county in the Free Flotilla. which is at present at the Soviet delegation now political outlook in northern and the current session due to the revert

The report also: stated that the Ruskia was not represented at tiver that the German people will commemorates the deaths of Grif-has been on the China Station for He is leaving for Tokyo. Reuter. proved.

the present regime State an August 20. when Ireland Wel-hal-wel Commander Howson negotiating the sale of the C.E.Rester Chinz was greatly In Canadian law barring the nomi

and to: wa of freedom about four months.

last Monday the postponement of None of the victims were: mar-

ath, Collins and O'Higgins,

Aug,

of Cummúnists.

Havana, Aug. 19. FIGHT soldiers have been arrest- covery of four bodies in the Car ed in consequence of the dis illo Atarer fortress, where ex President | Machado - formerly / manded political C. prisonera.