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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934.

NEW OKADA CABINET AT WIMBLEDON

FORMED

FORMER POLICIES TO BE CONTINUED

Mr. Hirota Remains As Foreign Minister

Tokyo, July 5.

The following is the composition

of the new Cabinet:-

Premier: Admiral Okada.

Minister for Foreign Affairs: Mr.. Hirota

Finance Minister: Mr. Masanobu Paju."

War Minister: General Senjuro Hayashi

Navy Minister; Admiral Osumi. Minister of Justice: Mr. Naoshi' Ohara

Minister of Communications: Mr. Takejiro. Tokonami, fir

Minister of Agriculture: Keisuke Mochizuki-Reuter.

Mr

HIROTA'S CONDITIONS

Tokyo, July 5. Other portfellos are expected to

be filled to-night.

Mr. Hirota agreed to remain in the Foreign Ministry on the under- standing there will be no change in foreign policy and no change is contemplated as regards his sub- ordinates.

Admiral Okada is apparently embarking on polley of the military and naval establishments being responsible for national de- fence, while other national polleles will be guided by "career" men..

SHANGHAI'S

HEAT WAVE.

More Foreign Casualties

sun.

Shanghai. July 5, Shanghai continues to swelter under # blistering

Since June 25, the average maximum dally temperature has been 101.31 degrees Fahrenheit, which is en- tirely unprecedented since the ob- servatories were established here 1 1874.

A strong breeze this morning alleviated the general "discomfort, but there is still no sign of rain. The Chinese farmers are daily in- voking the gods to send rain.

The heatstroke deaths include seven foreigners. The latest are Herbert Fawcett. of Messrs. But terfeld and Swire, and Private Murrell of the Second Battalion. Worcester Regiment.-Reuter.

NANKING RECORD.

Nanking July 5. Despite showers of rain two days ago, the heat wave continues

As the Seiyukai Party and Min- selto Party at present are not re- presented in the Cabinet. broadly speaking there will be no change in Japan's internal and external, financial, military and naval unabated. policles-Reuter.

PORTFOLIOS WITHDRAWN

Tokyo, July 5.

A lagt minute hlich occurred in the Cabinet, making the Seiyukai Party feeling slighted by admiral Okada offering them only minor portfolios, and forced Mr. Toko- nami and Mr. Mochizuki to with- draw their acceptances of the Communications and Agriculture portfolios with the result that seven minor portfolios are still

.vacant.

7.

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The Seiyukai leaders are in con- ference and it is believed that the vacancies will be fixed

4

to-morrow.-Reuter.

MR. SUN FO'S OPINION

Tokyo, July 5.

up.

A message from Yokohama says that Mr. Sun Fo, in a Fress Inter- view expressed the opinion that Sino-Japanese relations will be promoted politically and economi- cally by Mr. Hirota's decision to remain in office.

Mr. Sun Fo, queried about the possibility of an interview with

President Roosevelt, said that if

The temperature in the shade reached 100.4 Fahrenheit. the highest on record this season.- Reuter.

INDEPENDENCE DAY

Death Roll Of Twenty Eight

i

New York, July 5. Twenty-eight deaths associated with America's Independence Day celebrations; including three from fireworks, seventeen from motor: accidents and six from drowning. occurred yesterday.

The total is considered to be small taking into account the vast holiday traffic. Reuter.

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President Roosevelt invites him for SAN FRANCISCO

an interview he will accept.

He added that the Nanking Government opposes Fascism and is making preparations for the adoption of constitutionalism.- Reuter...

OLD POLICY TO CONTINUE

Tokyo, July 5.

It is now known that Viscount Salto recommended Admiral Okada as Japanese Premier, to the Coun- cil of Elders yesterday morning thus substantiating the belief that the new Government will carry on Viscount Salto's policies with scrupulous attention to probity and discipline in the Civil Service, and careful planning to meet the potential 1935-1936 crisis.

RIOTING

National Guard Ordered Out

San Francisco. July 4. In view of the seriousness of Tuesday's waterfront trouble, the National Guard has been ordered to stand by ready for riot duty! They are armed with the new vomiting gas

Governor Merriman stated that he is ready to act immediately to protect State property.

The "Asahi Shimbun" declares In the meantime, President that Admiral Okada has agreed Roosevelt's Labour Dispute Board with the ex-War Minister, General has called a hurried meeting in Hayashi, that the new Cabinet an effort to settle the conflict by would approve a plan for the re- arbitration.Reuter. plenishment of armaments and

equipment. with the centre of i gravity in Manchuria.-Reuter.

KURODA AFFAIR

Tokyo, July. 5.

'Baron Nakajima, former Minis-

ter of Commerce was summoned

to the District Procurator's office at

Miss Helen Jacobs

In Final

Londen, July 5,

THE ARMY

New M.T. Companies

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 20.

Ir

OPINIONS ON SILVER

Refutation By Mr. Wiggins

London, July 5,

"TRAITOR TO ADOLF HITLER"

Name To Be Filed Off From Daggers

also reported that the

The approval given in 1931 for In the semi-final of the Women's the reorganization of the RAS.C. Singles, at Wimbledon to-day, Miss. with a Headquarters and Work- Helen Jacobs (America) beat Miss shop Wing sà a Training Centre, Hartigan (Australia) 6-2, 6-2. the formation of a Training Bat the Monetary Polley Committee of Mr. W. M. Wiggins, Chairman of The match was played in stifling talion and the introduction of the Federation of Cotton Spinners "heat, the players offering a con- standard companies, is being ex- trast in styles.

Association in a letter to the

(Special to the “Hong Kong Halty') plan, was killed in his private ́re- tended this year. Miss

aidence. "Manchester Quardian." strongly

Press" (Copyright.)] Jacobs chopped heavily Nos. 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, refutes Sir Alfred. Salter's allver

It is with enormous speed and served 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, and 38 Com- article of June 28, Mr. Wiggin

Berlin, July 4. Enely.

The vacation period scheduled Miss Hartigan played a type of form to

panies have been altered to con- says, that while Sir Alfred Salter by the deposed SA chiefs for all

the new establishment protests against artificial raising Stormtroopers women's game played 23 years ago,

throughout the and Mobile Repair" Units (Nos. 34. of silver, the truth is that all Gov. Reich during the month of July Bavardan ex-Premier "Kahr, and a fast underhand type of forehand '36, and 37) are also included. ernments drive which used to be called Nine new standard companies are "whitstroke." She controlled this approved for formation and they anely but her backhand was very will be numbered from 43 to 51. weak, also her volleying.

A mechanical transport company;

bodies of a number of prominent dicials have been found on the moors near Dachau, meluding the

silver by demonetizing and forcing new Chief of Staff, Lutze, ela--Reuter

artidcially depressed was upheld by the order of the the Reichswehr officer Scheringer.

Miss Hartigan won the fifth and has also been approved for Mala.7ight to gold for hoarding and stormtroop commanders. The or-

sixth games in the first set andya, and it will be numbered 52. the first and sixth. games in the second set

The match lasted 35 minutes. Reuter

Miss Round Also Wins

Miss Dorothy Round (Britain)

won the other semi-final, defeat- ing Mde. Mathieu (France) 6-4. 5-7, 8-2.

Mde, Mathieu, with a long dow

NEW CENTRE BADGES

A centre badge, for the Colours of

The Lincolnshire Regiment has been sanctioned in the form sphinx, the plinth incribed Egypt "Within two clarions, thereon a

and the Roman numeral X." The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry has adopted the castle and on as

unwanted stocks in the world.

The fall in silver resulted in the

consequently intensined the fall of commodity prices which added to the taxpayer's burden particularly in India, and subsidised Chinese industrialists at the expense of peasants

·

Lancashire has already felt the 12 to 20 pence.-Reuter. beneat of the rise in silver from

borate instructions having been vON PAPEN NOT DISMISSED given 'out already by various local

Berlin, July 4 der decrees that no Stormtroop Herr. Franny von Papen remalna unit may participate in uniform Vice-Chancellor of Germany to the or civilian attire in any meetings general surprise of all This is and parades without the express presumed to be one direct result sanction of the group leader in of Chance or Hitler's interview, charge, and that the "honour with President von Hindenburg, dagger', 'Introduced by Roehm as i and, la believed to be the outcomĖ a mark of distinction ду be of Hitler's pact" with the Conser continued to be WOEN provided į vatives. Reuter the narde of "the traitor, to Adolf Hitler" which is inscribed in these daggers be filed off with-

ing skirt, led 3-1 and 4-3, but Miss shown in the Great Seal of the stated that it was lamentable that out delay-Transocean. Kuo Min

Round made it 5-4 with a very fluky volley off the handle. They were succession in baseline and backhand duels in the corner where neither's backhand was good enough to obtain the winner.

The second set went to 1-1 2-2

and Mde. Mathieu 4-2 and 5-3 after a lengthy rally. Miss Round made it 5-5 with a fluky net cord stroke.

·

there-

THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE Sir Arthur Salter, in his article.

China's influence was not exercised ciation of silver but for stability. strangly, not for artificial appre-

Her Interest entitled her to

** A RUTHLESS "SEARCH

Berlin, July 4.

Duchy of Cornwall, with a strin- ged bugle-horn pendent from, and the whole ensigned with the Duke of Cornwall's coronet. The King's Shropshire Light In- fantry badge will be a leopard's face inside a stringed bugle horn in 1930/31 because silver was fall officials of Chancellor Altier are

LANGUAGE PASSES

Lieutenants C. D. T. Pope, the Royal Artillery, and G.

of

a

dominant influence in silver policy. She escaped the world depression:

ing.

Since sterling and the yen were G. of gold and sliver was moving ap ward, the position Was reversed.

In the third set a remarkably bad decision gave Miss Round the Green, of Black Watch, have pass | Chinese exports have declined and

second game which appeared to upset the

Frenchwoman Miss Round was 4-1 and 8-2. Her superiority seemed to be only in. her legs.

Both semi-finals were the poorest standard for many years.-Reater.

ed the preliminary examination in

there was a serious adverse balance of trade, necessitating the export of treasure,

Russian at the School of Blavonic and East European Studies. Cap- tain J. A. Gammons-Williams," of The South Wales Borderers, is The evil was accentuated by the noted as qualided in Part "A" of † drain of silver from the interior the lower standard examination to Shanghat owing to general in- in Hausa, while serving with the security. Thus a abortage of cur- Nigeria Regiment at Kaduna. rency was threatened with a for- Lieutenant P. G. Day, of The York ther decline in prices. THE THIRD TEST and Lancaster Regiment, passed China must restore her internal Part of the same Hausa ex-conditions to enable foreign capital amination. and also while serving to again flow freely to China the some time ago in Nigeria.

article concluded.

Edward

Paynter Invited

London, July 5: Edward Paynter, Lancashire left hand batsman, has been invited to proceed to Manchester to-morrow and hold himself in readiness to play in the Third Test against

Australia at Old Trafford-Reuter.

MARRIAGE OF

BESSIE LI

To Be Attended By Diplomats

London, July 5. The marriage of Dr. Sze Ming Sze to Miss Bessie Li on Saturday promises to be a brilliant event. A number of Chinese and foreign expected, including friends from the Foreign Ofce and Diplomatie Corps.

guests

are

PROMOTION PLANS

It is expected that the publica- tion of the new plans for promo- tion and retirement affecting the British and Indian Armies will be made in the autumn. The Iridian plan was "detalled in The Times" of April 23, and the home plan has

been referred to from time

to

SILVER MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent)

London, July 5. time in relation to current pro- up three-sixteenths, as follow:—

London silver prices to-day were

July 4 July 5 20.11/18 20.7/8 Forward ....... 20.13/18 21

motions.

The block in promotion in the

British service has engaged the close attention at the War Office

Spot....

A ruthless search for signs of treason is proceeding graft and throughout Germany Trusted

closely inspecting the files and ac- count books at the offices of the Stormtroops, while railway stations, border mountain

the frontier

passes, and ports are being watch-

ed cessantly for fugitive rebel trying to escape the drastic purge of the Brown "Army.

Stormtroop leaders who may be

The black-uniformed Nasi Shock Storm Troops, picked for their loyalty to the Farty, are most hostile towards the Storm Troops, many of whom are apparently swinging violently to the Left, Even before the events of this week it was widely stated that one-third of the total of 2,500.000 Stormtroops definitely had Com- munist sympathies.

DEATH LIST WITHHÈLD

Berlin, July 4. The week-end death list is still withheld and possibly will never be published, as apparently the Government desires to spare the country further" shocks after the news of the shooting of General von Schleicher, and Captain Ernst Roehm, the Stormtroops leaders.

This reticence is encouraging METOUTS. For example, one, re-

for some years, and concrete pro- The London on New York cross-port states that about 150 people

2.00 p.m. to-day

RUM

posals are now under considera- rate at tion as a result of the Stanhope 5.05-3/8, compared with 5.05-7/8 Committee having

completed its at closing yesterday. deliberations. One of the" propo- sals may be to extend the present system of placing selected äffteers

on

"

succumbed

Such figures are pure guesswork. but it is widely suggested, that a baca number of private, animosities were settled in the hope that a few extra shootings would noticed among the general execu "Sons.—Reuter

GEN: TSAI TING KAI IN EUROPE

a special list" for accelerated advancement. For some time now tenures have been shortened and lieutenant-colonels have been pro- placed in colonels' moted and

Promotion from appointments.

Studying Military Tactics one regiment to another has been frequent for those most fitted for acceleration, and the brevet 673-

Brussels July 5. At the eleventh hour it was dis-

tem has been revised. It is hoped General Tsai Ting Kal, who is covered that printed forms which in the future to continue in a staying in Belgium, will leave for; the bridegroom should fill up at broader form the special category Paris on July 17 and for England modern Chinese weddings were of those senior officers who may in August He will make a pro- non-existent in England. "The pormally be expected to secure longed stay here studying munici- Chinese Consul has, however, pre-high rank on merit and in other pal administration and military vided written forms adequately cases to fix a limit beyond which | tactics—Reuter.

officers will not go and to retire l-fulfilling the law.

General Tsai Ting Kal was the The Chinese Legation where the them directly they reach the, non-famous leader of the Nineteenth ceremony takes place being Chin-employment stage. This will bring Route Army in the Shanghai ese territory, an English ceremony on officers at an earlier age. "War" and more recently was.con- is not required.

cerned in the Fuklen / rebellion which was suppressed by Nanking.

The bride's dress will be of pink China slik and made by an English dressmaker to Chinese design.

Miss Bessie LI told Reuter: have always worn Chinese dress and always shall."-Reuter...

The bride is the daughter of Mr. Li Ming, while the bridegroom is the son of Dr. Alfred Sze. Mr. Qua oftclate at the

FRANCO-SOVIET Tai Chi Will

. RELATIONS

7 km to-day for interrogation in British Sympathy

connection with the Kuroda scan-

dal.

Baron. Nakajima resigned from the Saito Government in February in consequence of charges of "lese majeste" concerning a mediaeval Emperor.-Reuter.

5 PEOPLE INCINERATED

To Be Enlisted

ceremony.

CAMBRIDGE TEAM TO PLAY OXFORD

London, July 4. The following have been chosen London, July 4. to play for Cambridge University The question of Franco-Soviet | in. the annual cricket relations is expected to be given against Oxford to commence at prominence in the talks between Lord's on July 9-

Simon, which begin on July 9,

match

APPOINTMENTS

DUKE OF YORK UNDER- SURGICAL TREATMENT

The War Office announces the following appointments:-

Colonel G.W. Meade, D.S.O, M.C. to be Commander, Royal Artillery, 1st. Division, the appoint- ment to take effect about August next.

London, July 4. Colonel E. St. G. Kirke, D.S.O.,this afternoon, says that F.R.H. A bulletin, which was issued to be Chief Engineer, China Com- the Duke of York has been suf- mand, with effect from December 21, 1934...

TOM MANN ACQUITTED

明。

London, July 4 The 78-year-old Labour leader. Mr. Tom Mann, and his associate, Mr. Harry Pollitt, were acquitted

....

fering from à poisoned hand, which required surgical treatment [ on Tuesady. Rest in essential for | him for the next few days-Eri- tish Wireless,

GRANDSTAND COLLAPSE

New York, July 5.

the French Foreign Minister, M. F. H. G.. Chalk (Brasenose) cap-at Glamorgan Assizes to-day Two inmates of Welfare Island. Louis Barthou, and the British tain, D. F. Walker (Brasenose), on a charge of making seditious Prison were killed and 40 injured Foreign Secretary, Sir John C. H, Townsend "(New College), speeches.

when the grandstand, from which R. G. Tindall (Trinity), A' Barlow It is alleged that the offences they were watching a baseball New York, July. 5. It is understood that M. Bar- (Brasenose), J. W. Seamer (Brase-occurred in February, shortly became between teams of prisoners, Five people were incinerated thou destres to obtain British nose), N. 8, Mitchell-Innes Brase-fore the so-called "hunger mar- collapsed-Reuter. yesterday. when an seroplane sympathy for a Franco-Soviet nose), F. C. de Saram (Keble), chers" from the provinces of Scot-

New York, Later. in which they were joy-riding rapprochement and British help P. Singleton (Brasenose), L land," converged on London. for aIt is now learned that the crashed and burst into flames in allaying Germany misgivings Dyson (Christchurch), N. 8. demonstration in Hyde Park casualties are three killed and near Stanager, Iowa Reuter, regarding such a move.-Reuter, Knight (Wadhɛm)—Reuter.

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56 injured Reuter...

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JURY'S AWARD SET ASIDE

Premier of Alberta "Vindicated.

Edmonton, July 3.

The Chief Justice of Alberta,

Mr. Justice Ives, has dismissed the

of Alberta, the Hon. Mr. J. E. jury's verdict ordering the Premiér

Brownlee, to pay Miss Vivian Mac- Millan $10,000 damages for' entiée... · ment and seduction, and Her father the co-plaintin, - $5,000, Reuter.

It was alleged that Mr. Brown-

lee carried on misconduct with. Misa MacMillan, the daughter of the Mayor of Edsan, for a period of 24 years. Miss MacMillan entered. the Government service as a typist in 1930, at the age of 19. Brownlee strennonsly denied tØé charges.

BRITAIN'S MONETARY

POLICY

London, July 4 Mr. Neville Chamberlain, during a debate in the House of Com- mons on monetary polley, decilized: to nocede to suggestions that a committee should be act up to make a new enquiry into the sub-: Jeet.

He said: "We have sa mund a banking system as RC bave ever had before. We have cheap capital. We have general confid- ence in finance and we have a stable exchange.

MYSTERIOUS” KILLINGS-

*Under these circumstances I Munich, July, shalt not set up a new enquiry to Bavaria is alive with reports of investigate new experiments when mysterious killings last night. we have secured so much-suCCESS is known that Herr Beck, director under four present policy-British of the foreign students' associa Wireless,

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