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BRITAIN'S INTEREST

IN CHINA

Latest Step Hailed With. Satisfaction

London, June 11.

Financial and business circles interested In China, whose opinion so far has not been available owing to the Whitsun hali- days, hall the appointment of Sir Frederick Leith-Roes with profound satisfaction as the most important step Great Britain has taken in the Far East for many years.

It is emphasised that previous efforts were expressions of mere benevolence and the present appointment is something concrete, signifying Great Britain's decision to take that active part in Chinese affairs to which her Interest in the Far East entitle her as repeatedly arged in both Houses of Parliament and other influential quarters.

While obviously there is no information yet as to what Sir Frederick Leith-Ross will do, it is an open secret that his busi- ness is" to devise somë scheme for financially assisting China on permanently useful lines. Furthermore his appointment was not announced until America and France promised to send experts of equal standing.

There are good reasons to be- lleve that the Treasury Board of Trace and the Bank of England are interesting themselves in Sir Frederick's appointment. It is understood that he goes with the plenary powers of his position in the Treasury which tacitly implies that the latter must support his recommendations..

HOME PRESS VIEW

THE SITUATION

"Japan Has Only One Policy

Lendon, June 11. Commenting on the supposed the

The appointment is also wel-divergence of views between comed as recognition of the grow ing stability and prestige of the Chinese Government, In which connection the steady improve

nt of relations between Canton nd Nanking is greeted with gen- eral satisfaction.

The Japanese demonstrations which seem to occur at the same time as the announcement of the appointment do not pass without remark, for even papers tradition- ally friendly to Japan. evince re- gret and apprehension at her re- cent doings in North China.- Reuter.

** DOIHARA'S PLANS

Pelping, June 11, General Dolhars has again changed his plans. After confer- ring with the Kwantung Army

beads at Changchun; he has left for Tientsin, where he is due to night or to-morrow in time to at- tend the Japanese military con- ference there.-- Heuter

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NANKING WARNING -

Nanking, June 11. The National Government Issued a Mandate to the people to-day

enjoining them not to take an

Japanese Army and the Foreign office, the "Manchester Guardian” says that what the Army has done Jupan has done and there can be no going back on this or any other occasion.

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Japan has only one polley to- wards China and whatever may be sald in speeches

different periods it is the polley of the twenty One Demands of 1915.

Apart from Russia there seems. no power in the West or East ke- ly to check this slow Invasion.-- Reuter.

ANNEXATION POLICY

London, June 10. Japan's annexation--for that is what it will amount to in fact- of the most important province in Northern China is the logical continuation of a policy which was begun four years ago with the

| capture of Mukden,” declares the "Dally Heraid" in the course of a leading article.

action or express any opinion tend-dismay that her drive is coming

ing to provoke El-feeling of for. eign nations, nor to form organisa- tlons whose objects would be pre-

tions of China

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1935:

ILLNESS OF ADMIRAL

Naval Authorities Reticent

Shanghal, June" 11.

The lness of Admiral Bir Fre- deric Dreyer, Coramander-in- Chief of the China Station, is con firmed, but the nature of his ill- ness has not been divulged.

A Wei-hel-wei message, states that the naval authorities refuse to give out any information in this matter. Reuter.

GUNBOAT LEAVES

H.M.S. Decoy left Hong Kong yesterday for Wel-hal-wel with a dector and a nurse on board.

Enquiries made locally elicited the news that the despatch of the med'cal assistance, was in accor- dance with instructions in the usual routine inanner.

The same quarter was unable to supply any information as to the indisposition of Admiral Sir Fre deric Dreyer..

SILVER MARKET

London June 11. London silver prices to-day were up 1/2 as follow:-

י,

June 8 June 11 Spot

.32-11/16 33-3/16 Forward 1.32-15/16 33-7/16 London on New York at 2 pm. wo-day was 49225 compared with 4.9162 at closing on Saturday.

BRITISH DUTY

ON BACON

Danish Suppliers Alarmed

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Copenhagen, June 11.. The announcement that the Bri- tish Government is planning to in- troduce import duty an foreign bacon is creating widespread in-

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BRITISH REACTION TO

HERR HITLER

Baldwin Pledges Candour And Sympathy

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London, May 25.

Mr. Baldwin took the earliest opportunity, in the important Commons debate yesterday on Imperial Defence, of welcoming Herr Hitler's "striking declaration on Tuesday as a response to the Prime Minister's recent appeal. He promised that the Gov- ernment would give it the fullest and fairest consideration.

Lord Londonderry, in the Lords, gave faller detalh of the new air programme which Baldwin announced in the Commons. The home Air Force will be practically trebled to two years in which time there should be a first-line strength at home of 1,500 machines. Same 22.500 more men, including 2,500 additional pi- lots, will be required.

Mr. Baldwin made a profound impression by the tone and sub- stence of his speech. The first impression of the British Govern- ment was that Herr Hitler's speech was striking. elaborate " and deserving of examination with sympathy and with candour. It was clearly a response made to the Prime Minister's appeal to Ger- many on May 2, to make a positive contribution to peace, and it, cer- tainly made some points more precise. Mr. Baldwin singled out Herr Hitler's declaration that Ger- many wanted equality in the air only with the strongest Western Fower, his hint of a lower limit on such an air force. and his accep- tance of the Western Air Con-. vention first mooted in the Anglo- French declaration of February-3. There might now be some hope of an Air Pact, coupled with agreed limitation of the size of air forces, and even with safeguards for civi- Ilan populations—a matter which Herr Hitler seemed to share. our views.

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** DETERMINED STEPS These, Mr. Baldwin claimed. were determined steps They did not reflect panic, and should not arouse it. They did not justify any special charge against the past conduct of the Air Ministry. The whole Government took res- ponsibility both for not dolag more In the past and for not doing less now.

SOLE AGENTS:--

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

ITALY'S BELLIGERENT

ATTITUDE.

Sharply Criticised In London

.. Firially Mr. Baldwin declared that in view of Herr Hitler's speech in which there was "some light," he had torn up his original nothing by the substitute, which percration. But the House lost

was an intellectual revolt against the need to take precautions against barbarities nearly 2,000 Years after the Christian religion Was founded.

reminder that political fears distracted countries from tackling their fundamental domestic and economic problems. Received, June 11, 7-59 p.m.)

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thanking them for their courage and exhorting them to continue to stand firm.

Referring to the opinion of other countries' as regards Italy. the Duce termed it as a "Judicrous effigy which would be burned by the Black- the Aery spirit of shirts."" concluding with the words "the struggle will be carried on for the nation's progress, peoples' development and the honour of

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and an appeal to the Labour Party to believe that if they had been

London, June 11. the Government they could not Signor. Mussolini's speech, in have acted differently. This ap-

which INTEREST IN PEACE

he declared that Italy peal was accompanied by an ap- could afford to ignore foreign Nevertheless Great Britain, must plauded compliment to the op- public option, is sharply criticis- make her defences stronger. Mr. position for the way in which,

"Daily Telegraph" Baldwin recounted how this con- though reduced to a handful, they which says that Italy may con- viction had been forced upon the had helped to keep in being a free

our flags".- tinue to strengther her forces in Government by a series of in- quiries at the prompting of the Parliamentary institutions.

Parliament and to keep respected | East Africà but warlike speeches

should cease. ME. Committee of Imperial Defence. Baldwin's speech ended amid gen- The conclusion reached and con-eral and heartfelt cheers. firmed by every inquiry was that re-equipment was required both to defend ourselves and to fulfil our international obligations. We had so often paid so heavy" a price for our habit of neglecting our de- fences after a war; and we could not be caught unprepared again. No one feared or challenged our.

The "Herald" says the movement could have been stopped four years ago, but the British Government regarded the first aggression with complacency. British Tories, who once exulted over the thought that terest here as England hitherto equipment. Our every interest "the Japanese are going to Aght had been the main importer of

was in peace, and aggression on the Bolshies for us," now see with | Danish bacon,

our part was inconceivable. Our present Denmark supplies strength would be a buttress to British consumers with about 70,-peace-lovers and a deterrent to the bellicose. Unlike a democracy. 000 pigs weekly, conforming with the

an authoritarian State could arm agreement between the two countries which runs till the close behind an impenetrable curtain. Lifting a corner of the curtain, as of 1936 and which expressly stipu-Germany had done, could not in lates that Danish bacon shall en- spire full confidence. That could ter Great Britain free of duty.

only came when the curtain was Denmark has consequently been removed altogether.

Govern- ment to send "delegates to London to discuss, the proposed daty, but agriculturers point out that the latter would hit the Danish in terests all the harder since its proceeds would be utilised to

southward and that her object is to drive British trade and influence out of China-and Sir Frederick judicial to the international reis-Leith-Ross is being sent to Nan "It is especially important to be king to stem the tide by examini-

ing the economic situation: friendly with our neighbours, sava the Mandate.

TOO LATE The "News

The fact tha: severe punishment

Chronicle" to-day

is threatened against violators say that in sending Sir Frederick / invited by the British

shows the apprehensiveness of the Leith-Ross to China the British Nanking Government.-- Reuter

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any Japanese demands,

Government shows some apprecia- tion of the danger of the siuation EMISSARY FROM TOKYO to Britain's own stake in the Far

East. Tientsin, June 11.

"But it is too late," the paper General Doihara arrived by air says. China, as her meek submis- and conferred this afternoon with sion to high Japanese military officers. however outrageous, shows, is not including Colonel Selyakita, who is in a position now to accept advice a special emissary from Tokyo from any other quarter but one. bearing lastructions to the Army That is a fact only less serious to Command in North China röncern- Western powers than to China her- ing the methods for ensuring self- Chinese falfilment of the Japanese Reuter

demands.

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"TIMES" VIEWS"

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CLASHES IN AFRICA

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Maragra Ürdianes. 1291. Received, Juve 11. 1-30 p.m.)

Paris, June 11.

HOPEFUL IN FARTS - Mr. Attlee, however, was uncom→ fortably unable to respond fully to the appeal. He agreed that Herr Hitler's speech was hopeful in parts, he asked that the Disarma- ment Conference should be sum- moned to follow it up, and he stood for a tree Parliament and for pro-

The paper points out that Duce's assertion that Italy alone. has the right to decide about her interests is not confirmed by facts and goes on to stress that Mr. Anthony Eden had already insist- ed on the duty incumbent on the three powers, Italy. France and England, by virtue of the treaty of 1908, to consult with one another in all questions concern- thg. Abyssinia.

per national defence. "But he rak-

Moreover, both Italy and Abys ed up opposition to this kind of sini, are members of the League defence on the ground that the of Nations, and their differences past bandling of foreign affairs are susceptible of a peaceful set had been "deplorable and that tlement by the League. stronger armaments were not Italy, so the paper concludes, necessary for us to play our part would commit a serious mistake in collective security. A pooling if she imagined that she could the only true answer to the admit- derided by Mussolini, and could, of forces through the League was

dely international public `oplaton

ted menace of a powerful and sus with impunity, repudiate her pected non-League Fower, More-greements. --- over, the Government's plans left

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under discussion.

LOYALTY TO KING

CAROL

(Special to tire “Hong Kong Daily Fress" (Copyright).].

Bucharest, June. 10.

FRENCH PRESS VIEWS

Paris, June 11. Neither the Press nor the inter- vention of the Powers will deter

Italian the

government from carrying out its intentions in Bast Africa" was the conclusion drawn from Signor Mussolini's Sardinian speeches by "Le Temps” Cortes- pondent in Rome.

Il Duce is determined to begin

military action to assure the safe-

DANCING CONTEST. IN GERMANY

British Pair's Success"

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Berlin, June 11 International Society's dancing contest, held at Bad- nauheim with the participation' of the "Imperial Society of Teachers for Dancing" of London was, won by the British pair, Mr. Jamen

London, Barrell and Miss Elsa Wells of

The second prize went to the Germans. Herr Werner Moeller and Fraulein Lisa Sangenneach of Munich.

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DRUG SMUGGLING INTO HOLLAND

Three Men Arrested

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* By Telegraph, Copyright," "Tala- lonies as well as to give the Italian Received, June 11, 4-30 p.m.) people the sole remaining chance

The Hague, June 11. of colonial expansion, asserts the correspondent, who predicts that ties and poisons has been discover · A large scale smuggle of narco- the "Stresa front powers will be

ed by the police here who arrested

FIRST-LINE AIR STRENGTH Torning to actual figures, Mr. Baldwin fully admitted that, though his statement of the Ger- man air strength last November had probably been right, his fore- cast of the development of that strength had been completely wrong. No one could have fore- seen the rate of acceleration ac- hieved. Even to-day the Govern- ment were proposing to act, not on their own information, but on that given by Herr Hitler to Sir John Simon in Berlin. Herr Hitler then said Germany had achieved parity with ourselves and aimed at parity with France. France had about 1,500, Arst-line machines, ex- clusive of ber forces in the Ear East. That was the figure, there- The fifth fore, which we should reach as The communist anti-fascist de- rapidly as possible-and an inter-native land and the proclamation Abyssinian question,

return of King Caro II to his not try to satisfy Italy The Japanese destroyer Full. the Foreign Minister,

monstrations held at Algiers rejection in a later speech showed of the King was the occasion for taking off for Tientsin from Tang-diplomatists, declares the London police during which numerous de 1,500 first-line machines at home. Palace which

Since Italy is confident that both sulted in serious clashes with the that Mr. Baldwin meant to have. ku, grounded owing to the closure Times" in a leading article to-day.

a sumptuous banquet at the Royal Powers will ultimately be found was attended by willing to agree to the revision of of the internatinal bridge and was

monstrators were injured and He disclaimed any contention that members If Mr. Hirota's desire for a Bino-many hundred arrests were made, numbers were the full measure of general staff, leading personages diplomatic activities during the quickly refloated.

government, the treaty of 1906 in Italy's favour, The incident. caused minor friction between the Japanese understanding is any according to a report from the strength. We were

thing more than a pious' aspira North African correspondent of superior at the moment in train-

probably in public life.

next few months will doubtless tion, it must be very disturbing to the communist newspaper "En- ing; but, he thought and Hermier, Tatarescu, conveyed the Pondent, who expresses the ex- In an address of loyalty, the pre- pursue this aim, says the corres-, blm and profoundly disappointing manfte."

seemed to agree that numerical to those Chinese statesmen who A Pefping message states that regard "reasonably friendly rela

equality would make easter the congratulations of the country and pectation that Italy will start a more or less comprehensive pry- twa Central Government divisionis tions with Japan as essential to

negotiation of an air convention stressed that this day was es- stationed

pecialy noteworthy through the gramme of military operations in there evacuated by their country's recovery from a south-bound trains

youth of devotion to their king. great manifestation by the nation's Abyssinia during and according to generation of confusion and civil

the progress of these internation- Reuter

war.

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The conference discussed 'question of the withdrawal of the Kwangtung Army units within the Great Wall

MISHAP TO DESTROYER

Japanese naval authorities and Chinese officials in charge of the bridge,

SIR ALEXANDER'S CREDENTIALS

London, June 10... The latest news from Peping and Tokyo leaves no doubt what ever that the Japanese military party has had the best of it in its recent conflict with Mr Hirota, and the

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NARROW ESCAPE FOR GEN. DENAIN

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Nor will these military excursions allay the andeties of other powers having an interest in the Far East. They can only mean that the Japanese militarist faction 17~ tends to have its way; that they graphic Massages Ordinis, interpret the "sincerity which

Received, June 11, 3.30 p.m.) Pelping, June 11. they demand...of the Chinese" as Bir Alexander Cadogan will pro submission, and that they intend ceed by air to Nanking to-morrow to play the part of censors to their and expects to present his ereden-own Foreign Office, and perhaps tials as Ambassador on Saturday other departments of state,

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and of a limitation,

Could these numbers be rapidly attained? The question was im-

anniversary of the shattered it France and Britain 'do' three membre of an international

of the

portant because the organization In his reply the King de-

dia-

STAND FIRM.

on the

gang of whom one is a Chinese sailor. The narcotics had been. introduced into the Netherlands. hidden in coloured crayons.--- Transocean Kuo Min

JAPAN AND THE LEAGUE

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

Brussels, June 10

A declaration that Japan will of production appeared

clared that youth was the coun-

again assume a place in the quietingly more perfect elsewhere try's strongest hope and that he

League of Nations Societies fr than here. The improvement of had their ethical and cultural in-

the near future was made to Rome, June 10 our organization was being closely terests very much at heart.

June 10 president of the 19th' Infernation- Mussolini drove 1891perience had been enlisted in the monies 30,000 members of the Cagliari on Saturday, by repeating considerable interest here on Mon

studied, and Lord Weir's great ex- During the subsequent cere- speech, made to the

home his al Congresa of the League of troops at Nations Societies, and aroused task. There would be a Supple- youth organisations as well as its essential points in a new day." mentary Estimate later, and the 14,000 members of the military speech to the placing of very large orders; but training associations parched past Bassert on Monday,

Blackshirts in The president, who is the the Government were determined the King who was the recipient After being welcomed by a that he had good reason for Italian senator Gianinni, stated to allow no profiteering, and trust- of enthusiastic ovation from the wildly enthusiastic demonstration. believing his information to be ed that the industry would not try huge crowd of spectatora- Il Duce addressed the population correct to exploit its position,

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and the troops from the halcony, Transocean Evo Vin

Paris, June 11. The air minister General Deniain narrowly escaped death during the inauguration of the new flying feld at Cabora

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