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WHITAKER BOND APOLOGISES

Slander Action By Sir John Simon Withdrawn

London, January 25.. .Settlement of slander action in which the Foreign-Secretary, Si John Simon was plaintiff was an- nounced to the Lord Chief Justice in the King's Bench Division this morning.

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Defendant was the Methodist minister, Rev. Whitaker Bond and the words complained of uttered in a speoch he delivered at Dereham in which he saidi "What is the cause of warfare It is your legislators men in your cabinet for their money is invest- ed in armament firms. They are prepared to make money out of warfare

and bloodshed.

The reason why Simon has been run- ning down the peace ballot pro- moted by the League of Nations Union is because his money is in- vested in an armament Arm."

DREADFUL ALLEGATION Counsel for Sir John Simon såld 1 was a matter of great regret as he felt compelled to bring the action. "I hope it is scarcely necessary to say that the whole of his words are absolutely and utter- ly untrue. Sir John does possess one single investment in single armament company

one

not

and the dreadful allegation that his actions have at all been in- fluenced by his investments is ridiculously and utterly false.

"In fairness to defer'dant,, Sir

NEW YORK DEEP IN SNOW

Thermometer Stands At Zero

New York, Jan. 25. The total dead throughout the

United States as a result of the snowstorms in the past two days is now 180, including 25 drowned in the Mississippi floods

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935.

PARIS MONEY MARKET

Holders Of Francs Nervous

me Court against the Washington Administration's "gold-clause" ab- rogation.

Paris, Jan. 24 To-day's rise in the premium of forward dollars and sterling was a result of bull speculation John desires me to say that Bond Is not the originator or first discision of the United States Supre- in anticipation of an adverse de- seminator of this foul calumny. For more than two years past in this country, on the continent" and in the United States there have been hints, innuendoes and vèlled suggestions which Sir John has done his utmost to combat by correspondence and other means. But nothing had arisen which gave the opportunity of definite legal action being taken and Sir John Simon is ready to believe that defendant spoke as he as- sures him he did, impromptu at that meeting what was the effect of those other poisonous writings upon his mind.'

DEFENDANT'S REGRET Counsel put in a signed state ment by defendant in which he said "I realise the serious accusa- tion I have made and deeply re- gret it. I am convinced that it was entirely untrue and how wholly unjustified the charge was, tender my apologies to Sir John Simion. In foregoing any claim to damages. Sir John Simon has treated me with great considera- tion and I express my regret for the pain and expense which my ill-considered and unwarranted statement has caused him".

The record. of the case withdrawn by consent.- British Wireless,

INTERPORT SOCCER

Four Selections Dropped

WAS

Shanghai, Jan. 25. «

K S. Suen (Three Cultures), 6. H. Van (Tunghwa) LK.. Tai (Tunghwa) and J. Shute (Police), who were among the chosen for the "Shanghai soccer interport.

New York to-day is under 17 have advised the Football Associa-

After Friday, no more steamers will arrive in New

York from quently gold shipments have al- Europe until February 4 Conse

ready been suspended.

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The development of a bull post- tion is causing

iightening of money markets, which has been accentuated by the reluctance of halders of francs to lend, owing to fears of devaluation. This ner- vousness has been increased by uneasy anticipation of M. Paul Reynaud's devaluation speech in the Chamber of morTOW.

Deputies to-

The tighter

money conditions

are viewed with disfavour by the that it is not over-concerned with Government which has hinted the situation, implying that mea- sures will be taken to relieve the opposition of the banks who are money market by overcoming the reported to have abstained from helping the authorities thus far because of their objection to the Government's cheap money policy. Parts is quoting "daily money" at five per cent.; one month terms at four-and-a-quarter; and three month terms at three-and-a-quar- ter- Reuter.

SILVER MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent›

London, January 25. London sliver prices to-day were unchanged as follow:-

Spot

Jan. 24 Jan. 25 24-6/B 24-5/3 Forward 24-3/4 24-3/4 "London'on New York cross rate at 2 p.m. to-day was 48762" com- Dared with 488 at closing yes-

terday.

inches of snow. The thermometer ton that they are unable to play. SAAR AMNESTY

stands at zero."

A snowslide on the side of a

Greenburg, of the Jewish Re- creation Club. has NOW beer

mountain near Nelson in British brought in to the side Columbia overwhelmed 2. goods Beuter. train, killing three rallwaymen→→ Reuter.

ENORMOUS AREA FLOUDED NATIONAL

New York, Jan. 25...

One hundred 'deaths have oc- curred in the United States from the blizzard and floods which have been the worst for half a century. The Mississipp!' and the "small- er rivers are rising steadiiy flood- ing an enormous area. Motor boats rescued thousands of people from tree tops, and roofs where many are still marooned. At least ten were reported drowned at Clarksville, Mississippi.

Towns isolated, trains derailed, -cars held-up, trains-marooned and telegraphic communication inter- rupted are some of the existing "conditions. The temperature is

below zero over large areas.- Reuter.

VANCOUVER ISOLATED

Ottawa, Jan. 25.

RIFLE

ASSOCIATION

Kenya Leads In Competition

London, Jan. 25. The following were the results of the National Rifle Association competition in which there were twenty entries

Kenya

Barbadoes

1137 1107

Federated Malay States 1092 Southern Rhodesia 1088

Gold Coast Shanghai

1085

1075

Outside of Shanghai there were

Vancouver is virtually isolated no other catries from China. There

DECREE

-Some Sentences

Cancelled

HAUPTMANN PAPERS

SAVED FROM FIRE

By Defence

Frantic Effort By

Counsel

Flemington, Jan. 25: Valuable "defence documents in the Hauptmann trial were drama- stically saved from fire shortly after mitnight by the defence counsel House containing offices. in a building opposite the court-

Screaming sirens awakened the town and brought residents to the scene. Mr. Fisher, one of the de tence counsel, dashed into the blazing building despite smoke and flames bundles of papers which are re- and emerged carrying quired for the defence of Haupt-

mann.

Jus

The autbreak was most danger- owing to highly explosive ammonia tanks in the vicinity. Volunteer firemen after a hard fight eventually controlled the re.

Hauptmann under direct examina- The defence is expected, to have tion the whole of to-day, after

EARLY EVIDENCE

Flemington Jan. 24/ On the close of the case for the prosecution to-day, counsel for the defence made an immediate -de- mand for a directed verdict of ac quittal, declaring that there was no evidence.

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on the day on which the ransom with his wife on the night of the was paid also, Hauptmann was

kidnapping and celebrating his birthday with a party of friends on the night the ransom, was paid,

He concluded with the startling assertion that the defence would produce a man who had been in court throughout the trial and who was last in contact with the real kidnapper.

Hauptmann then went on to the witness-stand.-

Reuter,

HAUPTMANN'S STORY Hauptmann told how he had entered the German army in the early days of the War at the age of 17 years and had been gassed in action.

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unsuc-

in prison in Germany in 1923 but He admitted that he had been said he had been released on" which an adjournment will be parole. He related his er faces cross-examination by the self into the United States.. moved until Monday when prison-cessful attempts to smuggle him- prosecution.

There was

a brief sensation when Frederickson, recalled to the stand, and who was Mrs. Hauptmann's employer at the time of the kidnapping, refused to swear. that Hauptmann called at bla bakery on the night of the crime.

Mrs. Frederickson

then evidence that she attended a party at Hauptmann's house in Novem- ber, 1933, given in honour of Isidore Fisch's departure for Europe, Fisch being the man who, the defence holds, gave Hauptmann the ran- som notes in payment of a debt Heuter..

MUSICAL EVENING

Flemington, Jan. 24. "

|

Kave

The prosecution contended that Hauptmann was guilty because he broke into Colonel Lindburgh's house with intent to steal, sub- sequently committing battery on the baby and if they had no itv- ing soul who say Hauptmann they had the nursery note in his hand- writing, the fact that he built the ladder used, and got from him the

At the continued hearing this sleeping-sult the child was wearing afternoon, Hauptmann went back when last seen alive. The judge on the stand. thereupon denied the motion for. He said he had worked in the acquittal

Majestic Apartments from March 15 to April 2, 1932, quitting work Mr. Lloyd Fisher one of the because he was paid $80 for a permanently on the latter days counsel for the defences in-his month's labour Instead of $100, as opening speech, said that the de: promised. He was at home all fence would show that on the day-night on the night of April 4, tools and went to look for work friends... of the crime Hauptmann took his spending a musical evening with

PRISONER'S MOVEMENTS

and would account for his actions Reuter

ABYSSINIAN DANGER

Joint Action Urged By Italy

"(Special to “Hong Kong

Daily Presi") (By Telegraph. Copyright, Tetr graphic Morrage:

Ordinance, is Received, January 25, 4.30 pan.)

Rome, Jan. 25. Emphasising that the present internal condition of Abyssinia is akin to anarchy and questioning the country's suitability to remain

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

Saarbruecken, Jan. 24. The Saar Governing Commission published on Thursday in the off- cial gazette an amnesty decree giving effect to the decision of the League of Nations Council on Jan- vary 17 and the motion carried by the Governing Commission on Jan naty 22, cancelling the sentences Inflicted as punishment for acts prompted by political motives or connected with political events. Sentences more than six years will be reduced and partly served sen- tences are halved. Terms of hard labour will be commuted to simple imprisonment. now pending will be quashed pro- The prosecutions

before January 17 and no heavier punishment than six years gaol or a mere fine would be expectable.

In political circles here it is as Excepted from the operation of serted that though the Abyssinian the amnesty are crimes of robbery Emperor had. modernised his with violence, incendiarism, Inten- tional imperilment of railway transport 'and infractions of cus- toms régulations.

by the blizzard for three days. were none from Malta and Ber-viding the deeds were committed Several trans-continental trains muda.—

are

marooned in the Rockies Reuter,

owing to snowslides. Gangs of

men are tolling to clear the Unes.

· Reuter.

LAGNY TRAIN DISASTER

FRENCH JOURNALIST

PASSES AWAY

(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press")

(By Telegraph, Copyright, Tula graphic Mesiages Ordinance. 1893. Received, January 20. 5.30 p.m.)

Parts. Jan. 25. Albert Jullen, the well-known and foreign editor of "Petit Parialen" died from pleurisy at his home in the south western part of France. He was 65 years old.

Driver Acquitted Of French Journalist

Manslaughter

Meaux, January 25. Transocean Kuo Mini

The train disaster at Lagny, during Christmastide in 1933, in which over two hundred were killed, was recalled by the Correc- tional Courts acquittal on charge of manslaughter of į Dau- bigny, the driver of the Paris- Strasbourg express""

A

GIFF TO MIDDLESEX

HOSPITAL

London. Jan, 25.

Besides this main amnesty de- cree, Ave others have also been proclaimed remitting. punishment of a less serious character, among others was one repealing a series of decree formerly proclaimed in connection with the Plebisalte transocean Kun Min.

FRENCH FOREIGN

LEGION

Applications From Young Saarlanders

Paris, January 25. As a result of the large number

PEKING PALACE TREASURES

London, January 25.

be sent by the-

Exhibits to

Clicquat

Veuve

DODWELL & CO., LTD. Sole Agents.

Tel. 20636.

COLLISION OFF NEW JERSEY

Steamer Mohawk Beached

col-

Queen's Building."

OBSTRUCTION

BY POLAND

Indifference To Eastern Pact

(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press").

New York, Jan 24 The 5000-ton American steamer Mohawk, which left New York (By Telegraph, Copyright, Tele- Mexico, and the Long Island Received, January 25, 1-30 p.m.): to-day, bound for Havana and graphic Messages Ordinance, · · 1894. Railway steamer Talisman lided four miles from sea-girt New

Paris, Jan. 25," News from Warsaw that the Jersey.

Prussian Premier, Hermann Goer- signals, two coastguard lifeboats had accepted an invitation from Both ships sent out distressing, who is a passionate hunter, at once proceeding to the scene his Police friends to go hunting from Asbury Park, New Jersey, there is seized upon by Pertinax The Mohawk, which is carrying a in "Echo de Paris" to launch a crew of 107 and an unknown num vigorous attack, on Foland's foreign ber of passengers, was beached policy. after lowering her lifeboats.

The Talisman is a Norwegian steamer of 4,765 tons

It is understood that there has been no loss of life Reuter.

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--:· BOATLOAD MISSING

1.

New York, Jan. 25. The majority of the Mohawk's passengers and crew were picked up. One boatload containing the Captain is missing. Coast Guards at New Jersey report sighting flares off Springlake.

"Germany's eastern satellite" 's not a complimentary epithet ax- ed to Poland who along with Germany, in the opinion of Per- tinax, is out to block the estab lishment of the "League of pacl fic peoples."The German-Polish treaty in outward appearance, re- sembles any other non-aggression pact but it might have a much... deeper and more significant effect such as the Franco-Polish alliance) and the Polish-Roumanian

-tente.

The Talisman's bow stove 1. The vessel is proceeding slowly to Poland's Brooklyn.-

Reuter.

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Colonel Beck has amrmed anew course. Poland wishes to have just as little to do with the Eastern pach as Germany and all arguments on the part New York, Jan. 25. The Ward Line announced early down by the Polish foreign minis- of M Laval "have been tuned to-day that 14 passengers and ter. Although Poland is

68 TEMPORARILY MISSING

members of the crew of the spring of the peace treaty it Mohawk are not yet formally ac- wishes. to disavow the treaty's

Chinese Government to the ex- hibition of Chinese art to be open-5 ed at Burlington House, London, next November will consist of counted for. 1,500 treasures from the Palace

Coast Guards state that the

paternity. Museum in the Forbidden City of

Mohawk is lying on her side that Poland is making a common Pertinax in concluison asserts Peking.

These are at present miles off the shore- stored in Shanghai warehouses

Reuter and will be convoyed between that port and Singapore, by a

cause with "Pangermanism," de- Elaring that the Franco-Polish al- llance and the Polish Roumanian alliance would not stand the

Transocean Kuo Min...

British wership as a precaution BANK MONOPOLY straf much longer

against piracy on both the out- ward and homeward · voyages.-- British Wireless

a member of the League of Na-CABLE RAILWAY TO BE tish tions, Italy approached the Bri-

and French Governments

preservation of integrity of the urging to take joint action for the frontiers of their respective colon- les adjoining Abyssinia

AUCTIONED

(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Free).

(By Telegraph, Copyright," "Tele- graphic Messages Ordinance, 1894 Received, January 25, -80 p.m.)

Innsbruck Jan 25

army, his authority does not ex- pension cable railway up the Aus The sale by auction of the sus tend through the whole country trian Tyrol side to the summit at which is populated principally by the famous Zugspitze, the highest of a number of princes each with frontier, is one of the items on Nomadic tribes and under control peak on the Austesa German blo own army.-- Transocean Kun Min..

the agenda of the gedaal met ing of the Austrian Zugspitze Rat way Company convened for Febr.

Transocean Kuo, Min.

SUPPORT FOR THE NEW DEAL

London, Jan. 257

A meeting of Liberal Party leaders presided over by Sir Her pert Samuel gave a very cordial welcome yesterday to Mr. Lloyd George's campaign, being con- Vinced of its value as a stimulne which it i supplies. meeting

DANGER

British Banker's Views

London, January 24.

CHINESE MISSION:

-IN EUROPE

London, Jan 25, Mr. Blu Ting Tao and military members of Mr. Yu Fei. Peng's mission are leaving for Italy to- marrow en route to China,

A scheme for the nationalisation of banks was the subject of a During the past three months, vigorous attack by Mr. Reginald with the special assistance of the McKenna at the general meeting War Office, he has minutely studied of the Midland Bank, of which he various units of the British Army, is' Chairman.

particularly transport matters and After pointing out the dangers seen demonstrations of light and

of a monopolistic system and the benents derived from the present banking organisation, Mr. Mc- Kenna praised the Government's policy of cheap money which, if continued, would lead to further internal recovery.

heavy tanks, also cavalry and fantry, manoeuyses. Reuter

TWENTY DROWNED AT WOOSUNG He admitted that progressive home recovery inevitably entails

Shanghai, Jan 25, larger imports which, however,

Chinese reports state that. facilitate interest payments on twenty persons were Overseas investments. Therefore most of them studenta, on In the aggregate the balance of way home for the New Year payments was substantially un- days, when ferry boat capsl changed and the only way to off Wousin.. in the middle of expect the yield of overseas In Whangpu on Wednesday vestments to recover is by freernoon. purchases of primary products by sudden zeren of wind debtor countries. London, Jan. 25.

the little crazi A French team driving a Renault while gold prices have fallen

Sterling prices remain stable, Reuter motor car gained ret place with which is a striking benefit result des of gold.

MONTE CARLO RALLY

Renault Car Gains First Place

rally.

He

A further gift of £20,000 has of applications from young Saar- noted with special satisfaction that 1613 points in the Monte Carlo ing from Britain's abandonment myse The Court gave him the benent been made towards reconstruction landers since the plebiscite to Join of the doubt in regard to the and equipment of Middlesex Hos- the French Foreign Legion, a new possibility that the signals failed pital by Mr. E. W. Meyerstein, this regiment will be created making to work properly and also ex- bringing his personal contribution it the sixth Legion regiment, but culpated the Eastern Raliway to this fund during last year to the approval

Company Reuter

over £200,000 British Wireista.

Arst be obtained

Reuter

Mr. Lloyd George put in the lote front the need for reduction in barriors which in their view were the main trade

unemploy

Interi

ment must cause of continu

A British triumph car driven by Under the old 1,611 points. Ridley's Triumpit stated deflationa JC. Ridley was second, obtaining cline of sterling was placed first in the small car a deği category

British, Wireles