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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1934.

LAW AND ORDER AT ANY PRICE

ROUMANIAN GOVERNMENT'S

RIGOROUS ACTION

F

Near Panic At Railway Station

PREMIER'S BROTHER-IN-LAW FIRES

AT ASSASSIN

[Special to the Hong Kong Daily Press (Copyright.)3

Bucharest, Dec. 30. The Roumanian Government is taking rigorous mensures in order to nip in the bud any attempt on the side of ultranational- ist circles to take advantage of the present state of excitement and uneasiness for the purpose of instigating disorders. A Ca- binet. Council, late on Saturday, decided to proclaim a state of зlege and press censorship throughout the country. In a mani- festo, addressed to the nation, 2. Government stresses its firm determination to maintain law and order by all means at its disposal.--Transocean Kuo Min.

Sinala (Roumania), Dec. 30.

A highly dramatic scene took place on Saturday forenoon at Binala Station shortly before the departure of the train carry- ing the dead Premier's body to the Roumanian capital. Duca's brother-in-law, a large landowner named Policu,, suddenly forced his way, Into the room of the station building where the late Premier's murderer, Constantinescu, was being kept pending his- removal to Ploesti, where he is to face court martial Before the guards could intervene Policu drew his revolver and fred one shot at Constantinescu which however missed its mark. Policu was overpowered and disarmed before he could pull the. trigger a second time.

In the midst of the tumult caused by this incident another detonation occurred at the Royal waiting room of the station building causing a near panle among the hundreds crowding the station. After police and military rushed to the scene it was dis- covered that a boy had stepped on a revolver cartridge lying on the floor of the waiting room. The exploding cartridge had severely wounded the child. It has not yet been ascertained how the cartridge came to be lying in the waiting room. The Rou- " manian press continues to express its abhorrence of the crime stressing that this was the first political assassination in the country's recent history. One paper speaks of "the country's at- mosphere being heavy with the bloody reek of anarchy". but political circles are convinced that Constantinescu's atrocious deed will in the end strengthen the Government's authority by rallying the overwhelming majority of the population to its sup- port-Transocean Kuo Min

POLAND'S FRIEND

Warsaw, Dec. 3. The Polish press" pays warm tri-

he is believed to be a member of the disbanded anti-Semitic Iron

Guard' organisation.

He had three accomplices, but he himself threw a bomb besides firing the fatal shots.

AN ABORTIVE MUTINY

Serious Affair At

Rio de Oro

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally ¦ Fress" (Copyright.}] ̧.·

Madrid, Dec. 30.

News of an abortive mutiny in the African colony Rio de Oro, costing the Hives of a Spanish captain and a native soldier, reaching here to-day re- sulted in the immediate dispatch of a gunboat to the colony. The commandant of the fort at which the half-hearted insurrection .oc- curred has been recalled at the same time.

SPAIN AND THE

VATICAN

New Agreement Probable

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.}]

Madrid. December 30.

RUSSO-GERMAN RELATIONS

Litvinoff's Speech Criticised

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press (Copyright.)I

ble

Berlin, Dec. 30.

It is stated on good authority Asemi-official commentary on a special delegation, probably | Litvinoff's speech concerning headed by Foreign Minister Ro- | Russo-German relations warmly mera, will shortly leave for Rome greets the Soviet Foreign Com- In order to negotiate a new agree-missary's wish for the best possi- ment regulating the relations be-

understanding between the tween Spain and the Vatican. The

two nations but finds it difficult to new Spanish envoy to the Holy

reconcile the tenor of Litvinoff's See will not be named before the address with its generous сол- contemplated agreement has been clusions. concluded-Transocean Kuo Min.

き

OLD BURIAL PLACE DISCOVERED

Believed To Date Back To 3,000-B.C.

Special to the Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright.}],

Rome, December 30.

The statement says, "it must evoke astonishment that the Rus- sian Commissary in a speech of such high political importance should refer to information on whose trustworthiness he himself casta reflections, bringing up in- cidents which have been already ofcially disproved, while placing amall value on the utterances made by representatives of the German Government regarding Russo-Gernian relations. The Soviet Government with which Germany enjoyed close political- economic relatioris for the past decade, if acting in the spirit shown by the concluding lines of Litivinott's speech, would have keen under the obligation to make as sharp a distinction between the oficial announcements of the Ger- man Government and irresponsible words of private persons

As the troops Lined up for in-

A five thousand year old burial spection at the military

place containing several hundred camp, Cape Juby, at the command of a human skeletons has been discov native officer, according to the ered near Caltagirone, Sicily,-dur- official report, & native soldier re-ing excavations for a new church fused to obey and raised his gun. building, Scientists believe that The Spanish captain Caule leaped the skeletons date back to about between the soldier and the ha-3,000 years before Christ-Trans-Bovlet have asked from their own tive officer and caught the dis- charge full in his breast. The shot formed the signal for a general riot which, since only half of the

ocean.

troops turned against the officers, GERMAN TROOPS

ended with the mortal wounding. of one rebel injuries to others and the fight of fourteen

as the

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS LINER CRASH

Ten Occupants Killed: Mechanic Badly Burned

FOG THE CHIEF CAUSE OF THE

DISASTER

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.)}' Following the terrible French train disaster on Christmas Day, another tragedy though not on so large a scale but none the less distressing. is reported from Brussels, where ari Im-. perial Airways liner cashed in a thick fog, resulting in the death: of ten occupants.

Brussels, Dec. 30:

A fully loaded passenger plane crashed to the ground like+ a flaming Roman candle at Ruysselede Airfield; near Bruges, this morning leaving only blackened bodies of ten inmates, when: a Cologne-Brussels-London airliner of the Imperial. Airways. pounded head on into the antenna mast in taking off. All eight- passengers as well as the pilot and the radio operator were Bri tish. Three travellers had entered the plane in Cologne, five csme aboard at Brussels-Transocean Kuo Min.

Berlin, Dec 30 Chancellor Adolph Hitler as well, as Air Minister Hermann. Goering expressed the sympathy of the German people to the British Nation on account of the berrible air distaster, near Bruges. Transocean Kuo Min

PETROL TANK EXPLODES

Brussels, December 31. ed near Bruges and as a result ten An Imperial Airways liner crash- occupants were killed-Reuter.

than dress each others burns, and one mechanic was sent to hos→ pital with a badly burned face.

It appears that fog was the Ruysselede, December 31. chlef "cause of the disaster.

The How narrowly the occupants of" pilot falled to see the lights always: foreign critics since the formation the Apollo" escaped incineration burning at the Eohlt Pylons Wire- of Soviet-Russia. Commissary was revealed by wireless mechanics less Station as the fogbank was Litvinoff says that "the Soviet who were immediately rushed to only three hundred feet above Union does not meddle in domes- the scene and began tearing away ground and the pilot must have tic policies of Germany, therefore the fabric parts of the machine, endeavoured to keep under it. it is all the harder to understand One mechanic' was clutching the. how he characterizes the National arm of an imprisoned passenger

of when the petrol tank exploded and miles an hour and then was en- Communism inside Germany as a the "Apollo" burst into Bames tangled in the aerial, putting the propagation of the extremest sort and the rescuers were forced to long wave transmission out of ac- of anti-Soviet ideas."-Transocean leap back. They could do no more tion-Reuter. Kuo Min.

CONGRATULATED Socialist party's combatting mutineers

Into the jungle-Transocean Kuo Mia.

CIVIL WAR IMMINENT

Grave Crisis In Havana

Havana, December 31. Arrangements are being made for the removal of British

sub- Jects to safety as a result of fears of the biggest battle that has so far occurred here, and civil war is imminent.

Huge shipments al arms, ammunition and tanks tor

bute to the murdered Roumanfan Premier who was regarded him as The a sincere friend of Poland. papers point out that Duca al- ways believed that a" 'Polish-

A Deputy. M. Constantinescu, the Opposition Forces were land- Roumanian alliance would con-who was with M. Duca, was wounded here.-Reuter. stitute one of the surest founda-ed. tions of Roumanian's foreign M. Ángelescu, Minister of Edu- policy.--Transocean Kuo Min.

cation, becomes acting-Premier.- Reuter.

"NOT A GOOD PATRIOT"

AN ENEMY'S" SORROW

Bucharest, Dec. 30. Following the assasination of the The assassin of M. Duca, the Ru- Roumanian Premier, M. Duca, a manian Premier, is Constantines- flood of messages of sympathy is cu, a 26-year-old student at the pouring in at the capital. One Bucharest Commercial Academy. cablegram came from George His accomplices are Calimati, who Bratianu who was one of the late is a coffee-house keeper, and a Premier's bittérest personat en- | man named Dioubenimaje. emies, Bratianu declares that the atrocity greatly stirred him. The entire press voices abhorrence of this dastardly crime.-Transocean

Kuo Min.

KING CRITICISED

Treaty

of

AN

AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME

Hindenburg's New Year Speech

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.)]

Berlin, Dec. 30. .. President. Paul von Hindenburg delivered to-day to the German Army and Navy his customary New Year's combination of con- gratulation on past performance and an earnest exhortation to continued loyalty at the end of

man. people.!! this significant year for the Ger-

The Minister of War. General Blomberg, presented his New Year's wishes in a similar happy vein declaring that "a good for- tune in 1933 again bestowed unity upon the German people which sees in us an expression of its re- awakened vigour and unity." Transocean Kuo Mín.

SILVER MARKET

FISH POISONED "IN FRENCH RIVERS

[Special to the Hong Kong Daily Press (Copyright.)]

Paris, Dec. 30.

Two rivers in Northern France, the Lys and the Bourre, have been poisoned by unknown persons. In-

numerable thousands of fish are

seen drifting dead on the surface

Transocean Kuo Min.

FRENCH BANK DIRECTORS ARRESTED

For Alleged Embezzlement,

It is estimated that the "Apollo" hit the Pylon Light at a hundred

BRITISH AEROPLANE INDUSTRY

Steady Increase In Business

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally

Press" (Copyright!)]. -

JAPANESE AMBASSADOR IN MOTOR ACCIDENT

Car Skids On Ice-Covered

Roads

(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.)]?

London, Dec. 30. British as well as foreign air armaments were mentioned at the annual general meetings of two leading British airplane works, the Haviland Aircraft Company and the Fairey Aviation Company. the Haviland The chairman of Company stated that the demand for from foreign governments military planes is steadily in- creasing but that he was unable to say more. He could however

Berlin, Dc. 30. inform his hearers that the Havi The Japanese Ambassador Nagar and works have been experiment and Councillor Fujii suffered slight ing the last two months with a concession, when, the motor-car. new type of bombing plane. The in which they were travelling. speaker hinted that these experi- from Berlin to Potsdam skidded Two directors of the Banquements have been carried out on on the ice covered road and came Parisiene de Bourse, a company behalf of the British Air Ministry. to an abrupt halt against a tree.. with a capital of one and one

Similar experiments for the Bri-Passing motorists took the Am half million francs, have been ar

tish Air Ministry were announced bassador and he Councillor to the

Aviation works which are also urb where physician's pronounced working for the Belgian Govern-"| the injuries,not to be of a serious ment. It was mentioned that nature. The Ambassador expecta growing Belgian orders necessitat- to be able to attend New Year's. TO ATTACK HIGH SPEED ed a considerable enlargement of reception at the Reichs President's

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.)]

Paris, Dec. 30.

Second Russian Five From Our Special Correspondent) rested for alleged embezzlement by the chairman of the Fairey latter's home in Gruenewald sub-

Year Plan

Constantinescu who was a can- didate for the Fascist pro-fierman

Moscow, December 31. organisation, the "Iron ard" at The programme for the second the recent election, stated that he Five Year Plan to make the So- shot M. Duca because as a Free- viet Union a rival for ber most mason he was not a good patriot, powerful neighbours. Just pub-

J

London, December 30. Following are the Silver Quota- tions on the London market to- day:-

Spot Forward

Dec, 30. 19.1/16

....... 19.5/16 The London on New York cross

£UA

FRANCE OPTIMISTIC

A Council of Ministers has de-lished, provides for the volume of rate to-day, closed at cided to arrest all members of the production up to the end of 1937. 5.124. Paris, Dec. 30.

"Iron Guard" and to take further As compared with 1932 when the The murder of the Roumanian drastic measures to maintain or first Five Year Planterminated Premier made the deepest impres-der.

It shows an increase of two-and- slon in French political circles M. Duça was aware of the signi-a-half times or nine

times over where the deceased was highly ap-acance of the "Iron Guard" move- pre-War production.. preciated as a great friend of meat and of the support it was Seven thousand miles France and as the initiator of the receiving from abroad, and recent railways

of new Franco-Roumanian

are foreshadowed and ly dissolved it in order to safe- also the doubling of Agricultural Friendship.

State and to guard the

protect output. Bome newspapers criticise King Jewish and other minorities. Carol's "personal" policy which fact makes him responsible for the powers, he was engaged in sup- Assuming virtually Dictatorial weakening of the authority of the pressing the incipient nationalism Roúmanian Government. Thus

as. an example to the formation of the Echo de Paris" draws the storm

Troops" on conclusion, that Roumania is not

the Nazi model only passing through a dreadful economic and financial crisis but The murder has revealed an un- is also in the midst of a seri-suspected fanaticism in, the bitter ous moral crisis, which, according cleavage between, the old political to the paper, is attributable main-paries, headed by M. Duca's Li- to the decrease of the govern-berals, and the young generation of ment's prestige under ex-Premier Rumanian Fascists, who are im- Vaida Volvod.

bued with revolutionary aims..

The entire Press agrees in con- aldering Roumania's situation as critical. They also venture to Bay that the fatal shots will produce

far reaching consequences-Trans-

ocean.

廁

AUDIENCE WITH KING CAROL.

New-York, December 30.

M. Duca's body has been taken. to the Royal Palace at Pelesh and will be accorded a National funeral.

“IRON GUARD". LEADERS ARRESTED

Following King Carol's appoint- ment of M. Angelescu, the Minis- ter of Education, as Prime Minis- The Rumanian Prime Minister,ter of Rumania, the Cabinet met to decide the measures to be

M. Duca, has been assassinated.

An eight hundred and thirty production is planned, as is per cent, increase in motor car the completion of the Volga Don also

Canal, and a afty per cent. in crease in the number of students. Reuter.

ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE

Good Progress Made In Negotiations

London, December 30. The Anglo-Soviet negotiations in London during the recent mon- ths, for the conclusion of a new

Paris, December 31. France hopes to bring Germany back to the League or reach an agreement on Disarmament. at Geneva, that is the gist of the

bassador, M. Poncet, will make in demarche which the French Am-

Berlin next week-Reuter.

NEW AIR RECORD

and fraudulent misrepresentation. -Transocean Kuo Min.

RECORD

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright.)}

Paris, Dec. 30, The French aviator Doumerc will shortly attempt a new attack on the present high speed worlds record for landplanes. Eis ma- chine is equipped with one en- giné of 1,000 h.p. The French Aviation Ministry is offering a prize of 500,000 franes for bring- ing this record back to Transocean. Kuo Min.

RUBBER RESTRICTIONS

Batavia, Dec. 30 The Conference of European rubber-growers has appointed an Executive Committee to formulate the views of the Conference. Miami. December 31. The Committee met -to-day and The American airwomen: Fran- began the work of drawing up a ces Marsalis and Helen Rickey draft quota scheme for.early pre- have landed after establishing a sentation to the Conference.-Reu- women's air endurance record of ter.

237 hours, 42 minutes: Reuter.

M.C.C. IN INDIA-

TURN ON THE HEAT!!

Severe Cold In New York

New York, Dec. 30.

-New York City is shivering in the most intense cold since 1920, with the thermometer Ave' degrees below zero.

according to a message received adopted as the result of M. Duca's temporary-trade agreement, have scored 270 for 8 at the conclusion The Hudson River is frozen over.

here yesterday, from Bucharest Assassination.

made good progress.

Good Start Against Calcutta

Calcutta, Dec. 30. The 'M.C.C. touring party had of the first day's play in their hard and the British steamer. M Duca was shot dead with a The arrest of the leaders of the outstanding are serious, they have here to-day.

While the points at issue still three-day match against Calcutta. Ouse Bridge," is ice-bound at revolver by student at Sinaia "Tron Guard," including General been considerably narrowed. Walters probable partner Boston has broken all recorde railway station last night He Cantacuzino, acting-leader of the They are now under discussion-

Poughkeepsie received three bullets In the organisation, continued through in Moscow between Lord Chiston, for Herbert Sutcliffe in the Tests for cold with the temperature de- brain.

out Friday night, but it is reported the British Ambassador, and Magainst Australia next summer, grees below zero. Rallway traffic that the actual leader, Codreanu, Maxim Litvinoni. Soviet Commissar scored 87, while Townsend (52) is seriously dislocated has disappeared since the dissola for. Foreign Affairs, who has re- and Verity (48) participated in an Even the famous Twentieth tion of the movement was an-cently returned from visits to the unbroken ninth) wicket partner. | Century, Ltd,” ran, în "half an nounced by the late Premier United States and Italy. British ship which has yielded 108 runs. hour late, which is an almost un- Reuter.

Wireless Service.

Reuter.

heard of happening-Reuter.

M Duca, had just had an au- dience with His Majesty, King Carocl

The student has been arrested His name is Constantinescu, and

the Fairy works--Transocean Kuo Palace on Monday-Transocean Min.

Kuo Min.

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