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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1933.

ULTIMATUM ISSUED TO NEW VICTORY TO THREAT TO KILL London Air-Mail Letter

CUBAN OFFICERS

TIME LIMIT OF TWENTY-FOUR

HOURS

Apprehension Felt: Tense Situation Prevails

Havana, September 12.

"Dr. San Martin hus sent an ultimatum to the officers in the National Hotel giving them thirty-six hours to come to terms with the Government.

Washington, September 12:

Mr. Hull has formally declared the United States will welcome any Cuban Government representing the will of the people and capable of maintaining order throughout the island."

REPORT OF SMUGGLED ARMS

Navana, Sept. 12. HAVANA is full of Tumours of impending trouble, interest being centred upon the National Hotel where Mr. Sumner Welles, the American Ambassador, and his Jamily are staying.

In the hotel, under American protection, are alse about four hundred Cuban army officers, who left their commands when the latest revolutionary outbreak oc- curred...

The USS Mississippi, which is All employees of the National lying in the Harbour, prepared for Hotel have now walked out, leav- action, is carrying a crew of nine ing the guests including the US. hundred blue jackets and a com- Ambassador and about four hun-pany of Marines. dred Cuban army officers, without service.

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"Cuba Resentful.

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ment will restrain the United

The Cuban public is resentful of No reason has been given for the presence of thirty-nine Ameri- the lightning strike, but alarm is can warships in Cuban waters, but felt, and rumours are rife in the appears to believe that the fear of city in expectation of something offending Latin-American senti- serious happening.

The National Hotel is, incident-States government from armed in ly, lying under the protection of tervention in Cuba's affairs. the fourteen-inch guns of the American battleship, Mississippi, which is lying in harbour with nine hundred blue jackets and a company of Marines ready for any emergency.

A tense situation prevails and some apprehension is left. Supplies Stopped. When wives and friends of the Cuban officers in the National started bringing food supplies, the soldiers on duty outside stopped further supplies to the officers in- side, who are among those who left their commands when the latest revolution broke out.

The new President. Dr. San Martin, issued a statement to-day as follows:

"We desire American friendship based upon the absolute liberty of Cuba. We are not anti-American, but we are against Imperialism in its forms."-Reuter.

U.S. RECOVERY PROGRAMME

Strike

THE NAZIS

EINSTEIN

Danzig National Party Bodyguard Formed In

Liquidated

Danzig, Sept. 8. The German National Party of Danzig decided to-day to follow the example set by its sister group in the Reich, voluntarily to liqui- date its organisation, according to an announcement made by the leader of the Danzig German Na- tional Party and former President of the Senate. Dr. Zieb....

In a public statement he invites all party members to give the National Socialist Government their unstinted support, assuring them they would not be discrimin- ated against on account of their former party affiliations.

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After the disappearance of the German National Party from the political scene, the Clerical Center Party is now the only one remain- ing <of the former bourgeois groups.

Some weeks ago Centrist func- tionaries were vehemently opposed to a disolution, but it is believed they may change their opinion in view of the decision taken by the German Nationals. which leaves the Centrists in complete isolation.

Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,

Lord Snowden on Germany

London, Sept. 6. Lord Snowden writes concerning; the German revolution that, if the revolutionary government galns confidence in its own stability and. grants a suitable measure of free- dom to all parties and classes, "the world will follow its efforts at so- clal and seonomic reconstruction with understanding, especially if Germany continues to adhere to her foreign policy as laid down by Chancellor Hitler In tils last speech before the Reichstag.

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These words are contained the foreward written by the form- er Chancellor of the Exchequer to the book on the German revolu- tion by the former Member of Parliament, Mr. Joseph King.

Lord Snowden says further that the extraordinary growth of Na- tional Socialism in Germany is little understood in Great Britain.

The injustice done to Germany: by the peace treaties, the failure. of the great Powers to carry out

As a result of this step by the Miners Threaten To their obligations regarding disar- soldiers, the officers issued a pro- clamation to the people of Cuba denying the rumours that "they have been trying to provoke the United States to intervention.

Arms Smuggling.

It is reported that scores of rifles and small arms together with am- munition have been smuggled into the National Hotel, concealed under the chases of motor-cars-Reuter. BATTLESHIP PROTECTS

AMERICANS

Havana, Sept. 11. THE United States Ambassador and his family, together with a large number of other Ameri- cans, have been concentrated for safety at the National Hotel cover ed by the fourteen-inch guns of U.S.S. Mississippi, one of most modern hattle-

the America's ships.

Washington, Sept. 11.

INTENSIVE efforts are now pro- ceeding with the object of giving a further spur to the re- covery programme.

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mament, and "finally the economic depression, had driven the German people to desperation and render- ed it docile to the leader who ex- pressed the nation's innermost feelings and who proposed a pro- gramine of relief.

Brussels, Sept. 6. The Catholic organ Libre Bel- As a further step towards pro-gique," which is generally consid- viding ample banking credit. Pre-ered to maintain close connections sident Roosevelt has been in con- with the government, publishes to- ference with Treasury officials, day the Federal Reserve Banks and "Since the assumtion of power by 2 statement which reads leading figures, in the Reconstruc- Adolf Hitler. German-Belgian re- tion Finance Corporation on the lations had greatly improved. The under the expansion programme. issue of ensuring the nation's needs much-discussed border incidents No official announcement has have not been encouraged by the been made, but the Governor of new German Government, but on the Federal Reserve Board said the contrary, have almost entirely that the banks, while demanding

disappeared." adequate security, would continue to meet the situation.

Two Codes In Limelight. "The Coal Code and the Retail Price Code are in the limelight at

MOVE TOWARDS the moment.

FASCISM

Austrian Chancellor's Speech

The miners of Weat Pennsyl- vania have decided to spur the owners to accept the Coal Code providing for a 32-hour week and wages of $3 a day by calling a

meeting on Wednesday, represent ing sixty thousand men, to discusa

The paper attributes the impro- vement in German-Belgian rela- tions to Premier de Brockqueville's intervention in connection with the projected "affixing of the inscrip- tion to the monument in honour of the men who perished in Aug- ust 1914 at Dinan and which was to have read: To the victims of Fury,"

The paper says that such

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England

Paris, Sept, II. IF a hair of Professor Einstein's head is touched, German hos- tages, marked down in Paris, would answer for it.

Air-Mail

The Harewoods Of Yorkshire: The Royal Train: Sir James Barrie's Residence: Testing London's Taxis: The “Fire Trial" Judge: Lewis Carroll's Memorial: A Centenarian

(Special Air-Kall Service)

This threat was made to-night by. M. Bernard Lecache, who pre- alded over a crowded meeting at French criminal lawyers made im THE EARL OF HAREWOOD Salle Wagram, at which twa

the accused in the Reichstag fire passioned pleas for the defence of trial, which they were not allowed to make at Leipzig.

A clamour for names followed M. Lecache's dramatic declaration, but he refused.

man.

Over Six ven-

LONDON, Aug. 23. The Earl of Harewood, who is to entertain the King during his visit to Leeds, is the head of a family which has Brawls outside the hall among turies' connection with Yorkshire people unable to gain entrance re- Harewood House, which was. sulted in the detention of a score built in 1760, to the design of John of people, including one English-Carr, also the architect of Lytham Hall is a grand example of the early modera English mansion. Chippendale had a hand in the furnishing, and his bills are care fully preserved among the archives. As might be expected of a family which once spent half a million in electioneering, its treasures have somewhat diraicished. But it still has a eplicction of old china the value of which may be estimated from the fact that a former Earl refused £12,000 for three vases.

A hundred Jewish selence stud- ents in England are forming a voluntary bodyguard for Profes- sor Einstein during his stay in England.

It will be recalled that a Ger- man secret society is alleged to be "seeking Professor Einstein's life. It is alleged that he is the anony- mous author of the "Brown Book"

Reuter.

Professor Einstein whose life is threatened by a German Secret Society.

GERMAN NO LONGER

Berlin, Aug. 30, Capt. Goering's organ, the Na- tional Zeitung, of Essen, gives the following inaugural list of persons who are to be deprived of "Ger- man citizenship:

Prof. Einstein,

Herr Grzesinski, former Police Prefect in Berlin, and his assist ant, Herr Weiss;

Herr Wels and Herr Breitscheld, Social Democrats:

Herr Abegg and Herr Weismann, former Prussian Secretaries of State; and

Herr George Bernhard former Chlef Editor of the Vosslache Zeitung."

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claimed his Swiss citzenship.

Prof. Einstein some time ago re-

LORD MELCHETT AND THE JEWS

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again

THE ROYAL TRAIN

He was master, moreover, of the art of anticipating questions and answering them before they were asked-a disarming attribute in legn! warfare.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND

ALICE

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I hear that Mr. Lloyd George is to enveil the memorial to 4 Lewis. Carroll" which has been erected

on the west short at Llandudno,

There is nothing distinctly Welsh about Alice in Wonderland But the fact remains that," although the story was born on the banks of the Thames, the greater part of it was written in North Wales.

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Gogarth Abbey,

Dodgson stayed regularly quent guest of Dean Liddell, the..

He was a fre

father of the original of Alice, who, had a sumner residence in the neighbourhood.

The memorial, which stands aft high, represents the White Rabbit. The famous Royal train, which Mrs. Hargreaves, the original is generally housed in the great Alice, will have a replica for her sheds at Wolverton. will be used self when she attends the opening once again, when the King leaves ceremony. Sandringham for Harrogate.

All the big railway systems have WOMAN DIES AT 101 special Royal coaches, but at Wol- saloons are parked the two State saloons originally built for King Edward and Queen "Alexandra.

The King's coach is decorated in a scheme of green. That of the Queen has pink for a motif. The rest of the train is officially called "semi-Royal,"

Mrs. Marianne Earling Baker. who has died in her 102nd year at Kingswood Hanger, Gomshall, Sur- Tey, was present at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington and visited the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Special linen for use on the Royal train is in the charge of Afr, Howlett, the King's chief valet. BALNABOTH HOUSE

Glenprosen,

Balnaboth House, where the prime Minister has been the guest of Sir James Barrie, is only about 12 miles from Thrums, of the famous

the native town author.

family, and has been well-known It is an old home of the Ogilvy to Barrie from his boyhood.

She was fond of gardening, and after her 100th birthday frequently worked among her dowers with a light fork.

Mrs. Baker had two nieces, who were over 20 years old, and o cousin who lived to the age 111.

THE ETON TRAGEDY

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BEER

A TOAST

"To the praise of Gam- brinus, that old British King,

Who devised for nation (by"

the Welshmen's tale)" Seventeen hundred years before Christ, did spring

The happy invention, a pot

of good Ale."

OLD SONG.

HONG KONG'S MOST MODERN CABARET NOW OPEN YELLOW DRAGON DANCING ACADEMY

Address:- KING'S THEATRE BUILDING 6TH FLOCK

FIRES IN NEW FOREST

Result Of Serious Drought

the shadow of a tragedy such

Etonians will re-assemble under their personal mourning of those who knew the dead mastera is add-

Eton of four men itself, for Mount Roseg has rolled ed a corporate grief for the school

whose advice and support wount have been of in- master, Mr. Claude Elliott. The land continues and the fore-

London, Sept. 11. estimable value to the new head-THE prolonged drought in Eng- death of three senior house-masters cast indicates that no break in and an assistant. master Her

within the fair weather is to be expected. three months of his appointment is for the present. a tragic prelude indeed to "Mr. Elliotz's headmastership.

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The house is not referred to any of his books, bus Prosen through the estate, is mentioned in Water, the little stream which runs.

The" Old Lady Shows Medals."

BLOOMSBURY'S TAXIS

Anyone walking through one of the past fow days would have been Bloomsbury's quiet squares during surprised to see about fifty taxi- cabs lined up round with the drivers talking in groups the square, on the pavement.

were

The water shortage problem 13 causing some anxiety in the small towns and in villages in several parts of the country.

Few master have more surely in Mr. Edward Vero Slater, house- spired devotion in their pupils than

up to Slater were, at first, & past few days have devastated master at The Timbralls. Etonians day of the fires which during the There were further outbreaks to- little daunted by his apparent fer-hundreds of acres of heath and love him. ceness, but to know him was to commonlands causing heavy dam- age by the destruction of planta- tions, particularly in the South of England.

If they had thought it was an-

As a house-master he was e-sue. other taxi strike, they would have The Timbralis.

cess, from the moment he took over been wrong, for these cabs. awaiting their turn to have their THE PRINCE LEAVES FOR altered meters tested by officials of Yard. the Carriage Office of Scotland.

London, Aug. 30. Prague by air yesterday, will reave Lord Melchett, who reached

Already several hundred. cabs are on Monday for Vienna where he will have a conversation showing a new minimum fare of on the road with, the altered meters with Chancellor Dollfuss. Lord ed.. instead of 6d.; but there are Melchett spoke to-day of Germany 8,000 cabs in London, and the task he said, "that I am an enemy of and the Jews.

"It is maintained in Germany," take several weeks.

of changing all their meters must

the German people. That is quite THE MEASURED MILES untrue. I have old and Intimate

BIARRITZ

Troops from the Aldershot Com- mand, wearing gas masks and hel- mets, have been engaged since Saturday in fighting a fire near Petersfield and at Bordon Camp military operations have been sus pended to release the troops for Are aghting.

The Prince of Wales left England He flew to Paris in his private yesterday for a holiday at Biarritz. aeroplane piloted by Captain Field by the Fire Brigade in the County One-third of 115 calls answered en, taking lunch with Sir Philip London Council area during the Sasson at Lympne and reaching week-end were to deal with burn- Paris; just before six o'clock last ing grass and undergrowth. evening,

Extra patrols are on continuous Colonel Bone, the British Air At duty in the New Forest where the tache, and A. Girandot, the com-first ares occurred during the week- cestors came from that country.ed and tested at the Nationaled the Prince, who after a few mo

When the meters have been altermander of Bourget Airport, greet end. British Wireless. I am not an enemy of the Ger Physical Laboratory, the cabs are Em- man people, put I am a friend of taken in batches to four central Colonel Bame to the Britiaall, the INTERNATIONAL

ments' conversation drove off with points in London-of which Regent British Ambassador. None of the "My standpoint concerning the square, Bloomsbury, is one and oore of press, photographers and TEA COMMITTEE anti-German boycott is very sim-dealt with at the rate of fifty a reporters was allowed by the police. ole: There will be no more tarday at each centre.

inscription would have constituted a gesture which would have been a general coal strike unless a extremely untimely at a moment prompt agreement is reached, when the relations between Bel- namely bowing to the Code.

Ten thousand miners are alrende glum and Germany are on their relations with Germany. My an-

way to normalcy.-Trans-Ocean Kao Ming

THE VATICAN AND JEWS

German Action Criticised

Vienna, Sept. 12.

on strike, while the owners and A VARIETY of constructions are Union officials are conferring in

being placed on a remarkable Washington. speech broadcast last light by the' Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Engelbert for postponement, by the Con- In the meantime, despite a plea Dollfuss, hinting at his future. sumer's Board, utmost efforts are programme, but it seems fairly being made to complete for signs- clear that a modified form of Fasture this week the Retail Price cism is contemplated.

Code, maintaining prices at least

While Dr. Dollfuss announced ten per cent. over invoice cost.- "the end of Parliamentary Alberty Reuter. however, he refrained from men-

tioning Fascism."

Dealing with the need for the

development of B settled social ANOTHER BLOW

system, he advocated a corporate State on Italian lines, replacing

employers gulds, and employees

trade unions, and it is anticipated that the next Parliament, if it ever reassembles, will be composed of Government nominees repra senting all walks of society." -

"We repudiate terrorism, but we must govern with authority," de clared Dr. Dollfuss in the course of a vitally importance speech...

Despite the precariouness of. Dr.' Dollfuss's position, with Naxi pres-

the Jews..

within a quarter of a mile of the

about.boycotting if justice is given Here, officers from the Corringe Prince's plane, and a large crowd Leaders To Meet In to the German Jews by the Ger- Office test each cab over measured man Government.

SILVER MARKET

which had been waiting to catch a

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ground usually two or three miles -and then affix the official, seal, limpse of the Prince were likewise It is expected that every cab in disappointed. The Frince's plane London will have been fitted with returned to Sunningdale afterwards the altered meter within six weeks, as he was travelling on to Biarritz The alteration does not necessitate

by train the provision of new meters, and (From Our Own Correspondent)

The Prince left Paris by the 338 treat ment of the Jews is ravealed as

the cost is borne by companies who train for Biarritz... the explanation for the doubts ex-

London, Sept. 12. own the meters, and hire them to pressed by Berlin quarters on Fri-tions on the London market to MR. JUSTICE HUMPHREYS

Following are the Silver Quota- |

the cab owners.

Rome, Sept. 11. garding Germany's

TO PROHIBITION ROMA Catholic displeasure re-

Water Ville Goes

Wet"

Water Ville, Maine,

Sept. 12. After leading the prohibition

sure on the one hand and doubts movement for seventy-five years about some of his colleagues on Water Ville has voted wet by a the other, it may safely be said that the majority of the Austrians 2 to 1 majority. This is the 25th

day regarding the ratincation of the Concordat between Vatican and Germany.

The Secretary of State, Cardin- al.Pacelli, had a long conversation with the Pope before the Concordat was signed, but it has now been forwarded to Berlin,

memorandum consisting of an Accompanying the ratification is injunction from the Vatican to Germany in which the main point

will support opposition to violent State to repudiate prohibition. stressed is that Jews must be

penetration, by the Nazis,”

Hence his political opponents are compelled to refrain from open hostility.

Reuter.

To blend his supporters, Dr. from the fact that the Vatican Dollfuss has founded the "Father-wished the memorandum to form land Front with variant of thean anner to the Concordat Swastika as the emblem Reuter Router.

treated with Christian charity.

day: !

SPOT FORWARD

Sept 122 (r. Justice Humphreys, though ... 182/16 he recognised in the handsomest 18.5/16 way the service of the jury in the Taz LONDON ON NEW YORK fre-insurance trial, is not to be in

CROSSRATE

4.6722099 cluded among the judges who whole-heartedly support the jury system in all its various ramifica tions,

PREMIER LEAVES BALMORAL

More than once he has pronoune- ad the grand jury not to be the palladium of British institutions which many people suppose it to

WINDFALL TO EXCHEQUER

£870,000 In Death Duties

London, Sept. 11.

London

London, Sept. 12, AN International tea committee representing three producing .countries has been constituted in; London the fighti

* India, Ceylon and the Dutch East Indies each have four mem

•bers on the committee,⠀

The chairman ta Mr. R. Grábam (Iridia) and the deputy-chairman. is Mr. Clifford Figg? (Ceylon).

The Dutch East Indies are re presented by Messrs. P. Leendertz, D. Dolderhes WH. Daukes, and PA Waller Reuter.

A joint petition was submitted to, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by

DEATH duties amounting to over the overseas Chinese in Siam, re- 2670,000, will be payable on questing that a commercial: treaty

Treatment of Roman Catholics THE Frime Minister, who has been bef

London, Sept. 11. is likewise mentioned as a matter the guest of the King and At the Bar he was an expert in the estate of Mr. Robert Fleming be concluded with the Siamese Reich. worthy of the attention of the Queen since last Wednesday, left the art of condensation. He spar- the head of the firm of London fiovernment as early as possible so

It is believed that the rumour mouth. To expected he will resembling the material

COTTONDAN Balmoral Castle to-day for Loudteed neither time nor trouble as Merchant Bankers who died in that Chinese Congulate General of a hitch over ratification rose turn, to London, towards the end speeches whether for prosecution or is estimated at 22,174808-Brits try for the protection of Chinese for his July The gross value of the estate could be established in that conn, (lentinued on previous column), of the weekBritish Wireless defence.

Wireless

merchants interests.