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CHINESE ACCEPT AL

DEMANDS

North China Returning To Normal

The closing down of Kuomintang branches in Hope and the evacuation of Chinese troops, coupled with the impending de- parture of the Japanese garrison in Tientsin indicate that the situation in North. China is gradually becoming normal.

the

A detachment of Japanese troops was despatched in afternoon to Yaagtsun, fifteen miles from Tientsin, where it was alleged that damage was done to the Japanese military line. linking Tientsin and Pelping. A fresh demand for withdrawal of the entire corps from Hopel was made and a late Japanese official statement confirmed that all the demands had been accepted.

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After repairing the damage which disrupted the Japanese mill- tary line linking Tientsin and Pel- conping, the Japanese detachment re-

turned here from Yang:sun.---. Reuter.

Pelping. June 10. General Isogai and General Saka! have left for Tientsin where a second Japanese military ference is being held on Wednes- day to decide on the measures to be taken in the event of China not fulfling the demands still un- satisfied. particularly the evacua- tion of all troops from Hopei Province.

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witnessed

GEN, HO'S EFFORTS

Shanghal, June 10. Following the receipt of the necessary "authorisation from Nan- king. General Ho Ying Ching has ordered the abolition of all Kuo- the transfer of all Central Govern- mintang branches in Hopel and

ment troops from the province.

Troop movements are going on throughout · the province

vacuation began, while the offices of the Pelping Kuomintang im-

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TROOP EVACUATION Scer.es of tremendous activity as the military evacuation proceeded all night. The station was packed with officers and men of the Third Gendarme Regiment. their wives, children and household goods.

Huge crowds in a state of ex-mediately closed down. The de- from Tientsin is regarded as the parture of the Japanese garrison

best possible indication that the situation Reuter

cltement saw off the special troop trains snorting noisily from the city.

JAPANESE GARRISON

A further indication of the re- turn to normality in the North China situation is the fact that the Japanese military authorities have ordered the night trains on June 18 to transport the present Tentsin garrisor. en route to Japan. The "replacing units are expected' to

arrive on June 12.- Beuter,

ANOTHER INCIDENT?

Tientsin, June 10. An armoured car and a truck load of Japanese troops sped to Yangtsun Railway Settlement

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teen miles northwest of Tientsin this afternoon in consequence of the alleged burning of Japanese telegraph poles.

General Sika, who claims to be an eye-witness of the act; alleges that the Chinese Special Police arc

Is becoming normal

JAPANESE STATEMENT

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Peiping, June 10." A Japanese official statement through General Ho Ying Ching. says that the Chinese authorities.

have accepted all the demands

Reuter.

AMERICA WATCHING

New York June 9. The Sino-Japanese crisis. al- though reportedly on the mend. Is still a real worry, to the State De- Dartment of America, according to the New York Herald-Tribune Washington correspondent.

Although the Secretary of State. Mr. Cordell Hul, would only say that the developments in North China were being closely followed. it was manifest that officials were privately discussing the

grave possibilities of Japanese military

responsible. The Chinese author-activities South of the Great Wall.

ties are taking utmost precautions to avoid a clash.

Meanwhile the Japanese gun- boats, Tauta and Full, have arrived at Tangki- Reuter.

ENTIRE

WITHDRAWAL

Tientsin, June 10. Alleging that the troops belong- *ing to Yu Hsueh-chung's

army

were concerned in the incident,

The State Department's policy is said to be based upon the follow- ing four points:

1. Close co-operation with Great Britain, the composition of whose re-shuffled, Cabinet has

encour-

aged the hope that a course wi oe charted harmonious with that of the United States:

2. Abstent.on from any

action

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1935.

NEW BULGARIAN PREMIER

A latest portrait of Andre Toscheff, the new Premier in Bulgaria.

GOVERNMENT SCORES

IN ELECTIONS

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Monarchy For Greece?

Athena, June 9.

A striking, victory for the Gov- ernment is indicated in the first results, coming through from the general election polls to-day," which is a prelude to the plebiscite on the return of the monarchical Tegime,

after the holding of the free plebis- cite.- Heuter.

* GOVERNMENT GAINS

Athens, June 10, The election results so far show that out of 300 seats in the Nation- al Assembly the Government have obtained 285 compared with seven for the Monarchists, the

The Government, headed by Pre- mier P. Tsaldaris, favours plebiscite, while the monarchists, led by General Metaxas, want an immediate restoration of the mon- archy.

The Repubilcan Opposition, which claims the support of 50 per cent, of the electorate, is ab-

INDIRECT HIT AT staining from voting.

BRITAIN

Another Thrust By Mussolini

Rome, June 10, Another indirect hit at Britain was made by Signor Mussolini in

speech to the Black Shirts at Sassari. Sardinia. when he said "this

so-called public opinion abroad is nothing more than ridi- culous ninny which will be burn ed up by the zeal of the Shirts,"

Black

Nowithstanding the obvious re- Terence, it is understood that

oficially warned to hold off po- Italian newspapers have been

cles against Britain. Disobedience of this warning will incur confis- cation of the issue as in the case of the newspaper "Ottobre" which alleged that Britain had supplied money to Abyssinia and said "I it, is war she is looking for she will have war."- Reuter

RUSSIAN WAITRESS

STABBED

Fatal Affray In Night Club

Shanghai, June 10, A Russian waitress, Vera Cher- nenko, aged 33, died in the hospital as the result of stab wounds re- ceived in a fight at a night club in Nemtra, who was arrested. Nantao with another waltzess, Anna

Police acers found Chernenko lying in a pool of blood in a room tending to irritate Japan whe stairs, Nemira standing by and

sobbing-Reuter.

any chance of a direct Sinc-

the Japanese military authorities Japanese solution remains;

approached General Ho Ying-

3. Determination to avoid pre-

ching and demanded the with-cipitancy; and drawal of the entire corps from Hopel to be completed within three days otherwise punitive action will

? taken.

GRAN CHACO WAR

Tentative Agreement Reached

4. Firm continuance of the po-. licy of non-recognition of Man- chukuo.- Reuter.

KIDNAPPERS OF WEYERHAUESER

Arrested Couple Confess

MUSSOLINI'S SPEECH.

1Special to the "Hong Kong Dalla Press" (Copyright).1

Paris, June 9. Mussolini's speech

before the departure of the Mobilised Third

Division for Eastern Africa from

the

The moriarchy foundered in 1924. when the Venizelos Government. "backed by the, Western Powers:

declared a Republic"

The King had antagonised Britain. France and Italy to such an extent during the war, playing on 'he side of the Central Powers, that his abdication was forced upon him. The final overthrow of the manarchists in 1324 was the natural sequel to the foreign embrollments and financial stormy days, of war,

crisis, through which Greece, had just passed.--- Neuter.

revolution,

RETURN TO THRONE

Athens, June 9. The summer residence of the Greek Royal Family at Tatol, near Athenis, and the former Royal Pa- ace, are now being renovated in throne of King George of Greece. anticipation of the return to the

The general election, which is a prelude to the plebiscite which is to decide whether the monarchical throughout Greece to-day. It is regime wil return, is being held proceeding quietly as a result of the strongest Government précau- tion against disorders.

The Com-

munists increased their vote but no seat. Abstentions ranged from 15 to 30 per cent

Venezel:st opposition quarters are of opinion that the Government's success means victory tor the re- public and a plebiscite on the monarchist question is not neces-

sary,- Heuter.

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*KEEN EXPECTATION [Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press Copyright).]

Athens, June 9.

The national elections which 1 were held on Sunday and to which all Greece had been looking for- ward with keen expectation, were unmarked by any untoward incl- dents. Although the results are so-far unavaliable it is expected that the Venezelist elements will be found to have suffered a crushing defeat.

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SEATS OF THE

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Mr. Baldwin And The Premiership

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London, May 25,

In view of their almost certain defeat the Venezelist adherents i have decided not to take part in the elections so that the issue res- tricted to the struggle between the Government party led by

(Special Air Mall Service) Tsaldaris, Kondylis and the rival faction headed by General Metaxas.

London, May 25 The French shipping strike These two partles, however, re- over. The Havre employees uf present practically the same poll- the Compagnie Generale Trans- tical and social ideas, the differ- atlantique decided to resume work; with so much corâdence, that Mr. If it be true, as is being stated tactical, Tsaldaris wishing to defer sail on her maiden voyage on Maylership from Mr. MacDonald in ence between them being mainly the giant liner Normandie will Baldwin will take over the Fre the decision of

Greece 20 as arranged, and the program-the near future, he will be able to should

change her republican me of festivities in connection. form of government to the monar- with the event will not have to duties which he will be assuming.

reflect that, arduous as chical system till after the elec-be altered. tions, while the Metaxas followers

whether

are the-

for the third time, the pokition of Champion, an- are desiring to settle the question other of the liners involted, sailed various in its responsibilities as Prime Minister is not quite so outright by Sunday's vote,

tor New York with only ten pas-that of the chief citizen in some

As victory to Metaxas' which

The 29,000-ton

Paris,

for

A majority for the Government is foreseen as a final result of the ccntest between General Metazas, who wants an immediate restora-

party sengers on board. On Wednesday, other countries. He will nos have tion of the monarchy, and Premier

is regarded as probable 275 people who had booked Tsaldaris, who reiterates his bellef for the return of the monarchy, it is

would mean that the people voted this liner arrived at Havre from can be wielded by the

the burden of the powers which President that the question of the future

Lad were Accommodated,

of the United States; he is not, for expected that the plebiscite will in local hotels by the owners of instance, Commander-in-Chief of regime of Greece will be settled be held shortly after the elections. in accordance with public opinion! Tranenceau Kan Min.

the vessel. A number of them all the State's forces, and he has were taken to New York by the not the dangerous power of retos. President Harding, and 180 left at He may be midnight on Friday in the Britan-choice of bishops but not about worried about ther

"postmasters."

THE EUROPEAN "THE MENACE OF

SITUATION

Peace Less Fully Guaranteed

Moscow, June 9. · Pessimistic views regarding the Europeah situation, were express- ed by M. Maxim Litvino, Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, at a banquet in honour of Dr. Benes. Crecho-Slovakian Minister for Foreign Affairs. who was in Mas- cow to-night to ratify the treaty of mutual assistance between the two nations.

"The

very "recent period strengthens our bellef that the peace of Europe is now less fully guaranteed. than ever before," da

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ARMAMENTS

Mr. Cordell Hull's Warning

Chest, Pen.. June 10. .The existence of a vicious cicle of greater and ever greater ana- menace to peace. economic stability

ада Interna- tional sanity, declared dr. Cardell

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Hut, addressing the graduating class of the Pennsylvania Military College.

Mr. Cardell Bull dened the

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to

resume

was

The decision reached at a meeting of about

SMILE AND LAUGH 2,000 of the stewards and sallors

Again, there are Involved.

advantages The President of the Republic. Mussolini. It may be

about not being in the position of necessary.

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M. Albert Lebrum, is to go to Havreier Mr. Baldwin to be photograph- on Thursday, and !! is possibleed-when he sets out for an aud- that he will spend the night, onlence with the King, but he has. board the Normandie.

not to "pilot his own aeroplane"" hẹn going a journey. He need not be seen controlling the high on spirits of a "magnificent chargez." ques- We have just had photographs of en of Signor Mussolini throwing a

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3,000 INVOLVED The strike, which began Wednesday. hinged on the tion of the permanence ployment as distinct from engage-gas grenade in the presence of ment by voyage,

soldiers and officials, and when a The men's original demand was Mussolini throws a grenade it must. for 80 per cent. of permanent em-

be thrown with an air. ployment.

The Br It is stated that they are now himself at the worst with watch- tish Prime Minister can content prepared to accept & 50 per cent.ing other people throwing things. ment. The Minster's award, how-speeches, he is not called upon to proportion of permanent employ- And though it is his duty to make Cagliari waLS discussed by

ever, is being awaited press on Sunday morning which

do so with the fervour or amic generally regards the Duce's state-

It was the Champlain men, who, American policy as one of United by leaving their work, started case of a Hitler or a Mussolini. He

the "effects" demanded in ment on Italy's African polley aclared M. Litvinoff.

the a reply to Eden.

States assistance in prevention joined by men in the, Normandie need not school himself always to the strike, in which, they were can smile, too, and even laugh, he Petit Parisien speaks of the effort regarding the

"In order to save it an energetic

war

and preservation of peace and the Lafayette. The strikers appear ruthlessly efficient and im- Washington, June 10..."manly and fearless gesture of the

creation of without abandoning The Department of Justice an-Duce who clearly and quite frank-strengthening of guarantees

collective

American were augmented by 700 men securities and

of placably determined. And, though the

the liner Paris, which arrived at there may be an unobtrusive de- j nounces the arrests of Mr. Herman ly revealed

traditions." - his intentions

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Havre from New York The total tective or two in his neighbour- and Mrs. Waley of Salt Lake City, Africa",

La suing from the League of Nations

He added that preparations for of those involved was thus brought hood, he needs no elaborate body- who have fully confessed to the

statutes are being" Imperatively

war in certain countries had up to about 3,000. kidnapping of George Weyerhaue-Tabonis predicts that Laval will

Oeuvre Madame dictated.

reached a point which well nigh

guard. The Minister of Mercantile Mar ser, son of a millionaire lumber shortly focus his diplomatic acti-

"The "continued persistence of the national borders. It was in-that he would cot discuss the mat- paralysed productive effort within ine told a delegation of the men operator of Tacoma who was re- vity on the Italo-Abyssinian conflict The Foreign Ministers of Para- leased in a wood after ransom of in order to prevent that problem

the systematic struggle against cumbent on those nations which fer further until the strikers had collective organisation of securi recognise its menace to turn, the returned to their duty. guay and

Bolivia have accepted $200,000 had been paid.

chce more being referred to Geneva from those states which are guilty of such policy and reiterate.

ties demands intensified activity spotlight of publicity on the terms of the mediators, and The youth arrived at his home since Italy

immediately

intimated communicate in a badly shaken condition as he d'Orsay that they would rather concluded.

to Qual terested in this. organisation," be with all their power that'excess in. their decisions to their respective had wandered about till he reach- quit the League than accept the Governments.

ed a farmhouse where a kindly condemnation desired by Britain.—

armaments Cap only lead farmer fed and dry-clothed him Transocean Kuo Min.

disaster. and brought him by car to his

Reuter. parents.

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Buenos Aires, June 9.

A tentative agreement for the settlement of the Gran Chaco War now almost three years old and rapidly draining the belligerents, Bolivia and Paraguay, of their re- scurces of men, and

money, has now been reached.

The present agreement provides for the cessation of hostilities for a fortnight, with a possible exten- sion of the truce."

THE TERMS

The present arrests have result- ed from the most elaborate man- hunt machinery ever assembled being set in motion by the author- ities who believed that the kid- appers belonged to a notorious

It is revealed that the terms of" "the final agreement standing, are: that both sides should reduce the sizes of their standing armies by 5,000 men; that no re-armament gang guilty of, many crimes, in- be undertaken; that the delineacluding many murders, tion of a neutral control-zone be

Writing

in

LARGEST SEAPLANE IN THE WORLD

The

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U.S. TRADE MISSION CONFERENCE

Paris, June 10, 37-ton Commander of Herman and Waley are also im-Paris" claimed to be the largest carried out, this area to be ad- plicated in other crimes with the seaplane in the world, reached a ministered by an internationa32-year-old blacksmith Mahan, for height of 20,000 feet 1r. 57 minutes. Shanghai Commercial and Savings

military commission.

Failing settlement of these points by direct negotiation the dispute will be submitted to The Hague Court of International Justice, providing both parties agree to this step.--- Keuter.

whom

2 search throughout the country was begun. Both Waley and Mahan possess long prison records-Reuter,

MONEY RECOVERED

New York, June 10.

ileuler.

from Mahan's Car abandoned... when cognised.

A detective has recovered $15,000 | -Reuter.

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ARIYOSHI LEAVES FOR CHINA

Kobe, "June 10, Mr. Ariyoshi, first Ambassador

Bacharest, June 18. to China, left for Shanghai this minister of Justice,

Mihain Popoolel, the former morning on the Shanghai Maru through his heart by his brother was shot and presents his credentials to Stefah, who thereupon committed Mr. Lin Sen on June 14.- Reuter.

RUN ON THE 1.S.S.

CEASES

suicide. Though his condition is considered 'serious, doctors have hopes of saving Poppich. He o cupied the ministry of justice, in the successive Voevod and Manir cabinets till the resignation of the Voevod government in November 1933-

Shanghai, June 10.. The United States Trade Mission members have opened a five-day' conference of Chinese business- member of the Legislative Yuan, men, including Mr. Ma Yin Chu,

Mr. K. P. Chen, manager of the

Bank, Mr. Chang Klang Nau, da-

Moscow, June 10. puty governor of the Central The famous parachutist, Kon-

Shanghai, June 10, Bank, Mr. Sing Loh Hsu, general sulya, jumped from a height of Despite the Bank holiday, the which was manager of the National Commer 7,445 metres without oxygen ap International Savings Society was he

cial Bank, and Mr. Tau Yee Fel. paratus, thus beating his own pre open until noon, but few bonding that the run had manager of the Bank of China-vlous record of 7,220 metres-holders took advantage as compar ceased Reuter,

ed with the previous days, indiest Reuter

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