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IN PALESTINE

Death Penalty And Life Sentences

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1936)

MAJOR STRIKES IN FRANCE SETTLED

A

Sectional Trouble Not

Yet Over

STEELWORK FACTORY

"OCCUPIED"

Stay-In Movement Spreads To Morocco!

LAW TIGHTENED

A storm of criticism has been raised by Mr. Neville Chamberlain's personal reflec- tions on the Italo-Abyssinian dispute which may end in a debate

END OF LEAGUE SANCTIONS

Mr. Chamberlain's Reflections

MORE CRITICISM EXPECTED"

Paris, June 13.

A pleasant week-end feeling of rellet follows the settlement of the major strikes though some sectional strikes are not yet concluded, but events are tending to bear out M. Leon Blum's prediction that the effect all will be normal at the beginning of the week.

New str.kes are beginning to break out in the provinces, but at Amiens, Toulouse, Toulon and elsewhere the owners of big shops are prepared to give their staffs a holiday and close the premises instead of risking a stay-in movement which has now spread to Morocco.~~Reuter.

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STEELWORKERS DOWN TOOLS Hong Kong Dally Press" Special

Paris. June 13, While in Paris workers in lorries paraded the streets in triumph on Saturday in celebration of their victory preparatory to returning to work on Monday, the position in the provinces is by no means so satisfactory and it seems unlikely that there will be a resumption of The newspapers give consider-Work before the middle of next able prominence to the discussion week. aroused by the speech of the Chan: cellor of the Exchequer at a poll- leal dinner on Wednesday even- ing, in which, as the Prime Min- ister subsequently explained in the House of Commons, he put for- ward, suggestions with regard to the end of the League sanctions,

London, June 13.

which were "provisional reflections

where

ers

AGREEMENT. EEACHED

IRLS

Päris, June 13. Agreement between the employ- ers and workers in the metal in- dustry was

at last reached evening, and 35,000 metal work-

in greater

will. re- Paris sume work сп Monday. -Fac- tories occupied by the workers will be evacuated at once. The strike of building trade workers was like wise ended, with the exception of

some minor groups.

their

Several new strikes broke out in

Before the building trade work-. fact. on Saturday, the most im-

ers return to work they will, how- portant being at the Umphy Steel-ever, hold a mass meeting in the works at Nevers,

18.000 Bols de Vinciennes to celebrate! hands downed their tools and oc-

victory." Since the pro- cupied the factory,

clamation inviting the workers to attend the meeting warns eventual participants that street processions are not permitted, it is hoped that the meeting will pass without any untoward incidents,

In Toulon the proprietors of the largest department stores have locked out employees in order to

Op the Italo-Ethiopian dispute prevent them taking possession of which had occurred to him-Mr.the premises, even temporarily.

Transocean News Service Chamberlain-personally.

Despite Mr. Baldwin's additional cominent that the Government had yet reached no conclusions on the. matter discussed by Mr. Chamber- lain in what was practically an im- promptu discourse to an “exclusive and politically educated audience," there is vigorous speculation in the press as to the relation of the Chancellor's observations to the policy the

of

British delega- tion at Geneva when the Count- cil meets on June 26. writers Lending to anticipate the Govern ment's decision according to their Individual hopes or fears,

A number of questions will be addressed to the Foreign Secretary in the Common, on Monday arising out of the Chancellor's reported remarks, and in Parliamentary circles there is a growing feeling that will be found convenient to have an early debate in the Com- monon. foreign affairs.

Journalists In touch with the state of Parliamentary business mostly fix on June 22 as the likely day for the debale, but others anticipate an earlier, da'e. Mr. Chamberlain's speech last Wednes- day was strongly criticised by the leader of the Opposition, Major A:lee, speaking at Oxford last night, and also by Lord Davies. addressing a demonstration in South Wales.- British Wireles

TIMES COMMENT,

London, June 13. The Times," commenting on Mr. Neville Chamberlain's recent speech, in which he announced his opposition to the polley of con- against Italy, says that single-handed pressure

tinued sanctions

by Britain for Lee readmission of Italian Imports would be just as misguided as action in the con- trary sense would have been six months ago.

It is common ground that the miscalled "sanctions" are

not a

FASCIST STYLE OBSERVANCE

Rhetorical Utterances

Condemned

("Hong Kong Dally Press" Special

Rome June 13.

Public

* Strong exception is taken to the "empty rhetorical exhibitionism" Fascist Party Bulletin which states In a special order published in the

that this is becoming an increas- ingly marked feature of speeches glorifying the foundation of the Italian Colonial Empire. utterances in this style, continues the Bulletin, are "by no means in keeping with the dignity of the occasion" and all party authorities are instructed to take measures to counteract this tendency since "the Increase in the historical responsi bility of Fascism renders strict observance of the Fascist style! more than ever necessary."--- "ransocean News Servin

SECOND TRAINING

SHIP

Horst Wessel Launched At Hamburg

'Hong Kong Daily Press Special

Haniburg, June 13. The German

Navy's second training ship Horst Wessel" was launched there on Saturday in the presence of Chancellor Hitler.

Butchers' shops will reopen to- day, as the shop-owners and em- ployees have come to terms.

PRESS WARNING

paper

The Radical-Socialist "République" publishes an article. warning the Government that "the fate of the Popular Front dependa on a rapid settlement of the pre- sent social conflicts," It points out that the France has

economie life of come to a partial standstill. and that the French ex- port business has sustained seri- ous losses as a result of the strike. since many orders from abroad which normally would have gone to France were placed with the foreign competitors of French im- porters during the strike.

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The paper refers to the fact that the employers and workers had al- agreement on principle between

ready been reached on June 7, and declares that the continuation of therefore absolutely unjustified. the strike beyond this date was

Trananeran News Service.

MASKED PIRATE ATTACK

Egyptian Cargo Ship Ransacked

Major C. R. Attlee. Tabour Opposition leader. Who bas been prominent in the House of Commons recently with his criticism. of the Government.

NEW AIRPORT IN ENGLAND

Enterprise Of Three Municipalities

London. June 13. The Mayor of Brighton, Hove and Wortning attended the open- ing to-day near Shoreham of a new airport which is the joint en- terprise of three municipalities and is so situated as to serve equally well each of these important re- sorts on the Sussex coast.

of England and Midlands will be connections to Isle of Wight, West available.

British Wireless,

AST

SILVER MARKET·

(From Our Own Correspondent)

London, June 13. London Silver prices were unchanged as foliow

June 12. 19-7/8

Spot

Forward

19-15/16

10-day

June 13. 19-7/8 19-15/16

Jerusalem, June 13.

New and drastic regulations in- volving the death penalty and Life Imprisonment for acts of terrorismi

THREAT TO FOOD SUPPLIES

DOCK LABOUR STRIKE

IN BELGIUM

are provided in a proclamation GRAVE OUTLOOK. IN

issued by the High Commissioner. Sir Arthur Wauchope.

Punishment may be applied in respect of firing on troops, bomb throwing. and interfering and tempering with communications.

District commissioners may im- pose collective fines and confiscate property where there is reason to believe that the persons caused such offences to be committed or ever, refrained from assisting in the discovery of the offenders.

The authorities are determined the way of do nothing in negotiating with the Arab strikers until they ceasc disturbances and intimidations.

to

INDUSTRYTM

THE COAL

"Bong Kong Daily Press" Special)

"

Brussels, June 13.

A serious threat to the food supplies seems imminent if the dock labourers' strike continues much longer, there already be- Ing a shortage of chilled meat throughout Belzium, while perish- able provisions in a number of vessels in Antwerp harbour are now completely spoiled,

The outlook in the coal ind. stry is also disquietening, 20,000 miners now being on strike, whica complete stoppage in the Borinage district was unanimou ly decided upon on Saturday at a meeting of the miners and trade union in Hornu.

The

strike movement is still f

The High Commissioner in a gaining ground. particularly dec'aration paid high tribute to. among the miners. Practically all the British police and forces in the the miners in the Liege region are performance of their duties.- Idle, and the strike is also now Krater's Bulletin Service,

spreading to the other mining

COMPLETE CURE FOUND

Experiment Treatment For Hay Fever

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London, June 13.

A treatment for hay-fever which has been given a trial over a period of five years at St. George's Hospital in London has proved successful 1 99 per cent. of the cases The treatment involves the application of lonised zinc to the inside of the nostrils. Three or four applications are given, after which the majority of pa- tients are free from attacks of! ordinary hay-lever for a year.

Precautionary applications are given at the end of swelve months and again a year later, and after that there is usually no recurrence of the trouble.

British Wireless.

FAMOUS AUTHOR DEAD

MR.

G. K. CHESTERTON

London, June 14.

The death has occurred of Mr. G. K. Chesterton, the famous British author-Re ter.

was

Gilbert Keith Chesterton born at Camden Hill, Kensington int 1374. He was the son of the late Edward and Marie Louls, Chesterton,

DARINGLY ORIGINAL

WES

adopt philosophy."

a

definitely

reactionary

areas.

The striking workers of the Government-owned arms factory

GENERAL STRIKE IN VENEZUELA

Oil Production Affected

Caracas, June 13. The general strike in Venezuela

at Herstal occupied the factory has spread to the oil fields. result- buildings, but left the works when ing in considerable reduction in gendarmes who had been sum- production of petroleum. The au- moned by the management arriv. thorities are dealing with the ed on the scene.-

situation drastically and have Transocean News Service.

modified the law to which the strikers object.

COLLIERY WALKOUT"

In the meanwhile no trams or Brussels, June, 12. The coal strike in Belgium has

buses are running st Caracas. spread to the large felds of Hai-"

Bakeries are kept open with diff- nault Province, around

cuity. A pirate radio station where over 1.000 men have struck unable to locate has been broad- Mons, which the authorities have been at five collleries.

The men of the Liege district are already out.- Reuter.

caating sensational and unfounded

rumours.-

Reuter.

GERMAN-FRENCH BRITISH MINISTER

1.

SOCIETY..

Reception Held In Berlin

The

IN ETHIOPIA

Sir Sidney Barton On Holiday

London, June 13. Sir Bidney Barton. British Minister in Abyssinia, and Lady "Hong Kong Daily Press" Special) hallday. They were given an en- Barton are leaving for England on

Berlin, June 13. thusiastic send off at the station. German-French Society. At a luncheon given in bis which has been recently founded honour by the foreign community and which aims at promoting at Addis Ababa prior to his de- Franco-German rapproachement,parture, he received hearty thanks gave a brilliant reception here on and praise for his splendid work. the occasion of the inauguration in guarding the safety of Britt- of its clubhouse, when they en-shers and foreigners during the

muny distinguished recent troubles at Addis Ababa.

He became editor of The New Witness, 1916. Later works are tertained

Irish Impressions, 1919; The super-cuests including the French Am-Reuter's Bulletin Service. stition of Divorce, 1920; The Re-bassador at Berlin, M. Francois. turn of Don Quixote, 1927; Robert Louis Stevenson 1928; Generally Speaking, 1929; and Come to Think

of It, 1931.

NOTE-BOOK

ductive of some of Mr. Chester-

1st.

Between 1905 and 1930 there have been only two breaks in the con- tinuity of this work-once at the

Poncet, Chancellor Hitler's Ambas- sador-at-Large, Herr von Ribben- trop and a delegation from the Franco-Allemagne Committee in.

Paris.

3.

Professor Ton Arnim, who is Society, in welcoming the guests chairman of the German-French

Servicemen's Association respond-

Transocean News Service.

CEREMONY AT FRANKFURT

He was educated at St. Paul's

It was in 1905 that Mr. Chester- Slade School, and began reviewing College and attended classes at

ton began to contribute nis "Note art books for the Bookman, and

Book" to the "lustrated London then for the Speaker, and since News," following the short period stressed the importance of the then has contributed to the Dally ed a page which previously had on the relations between France during which L. F. Austin had all-task assigned to the Society since lasting peace in Europe depended News, Literature, Pall Mall Maga- zine, Bookman, Speaker, Black and

been enlivened by the pen of James and Germany. The Chairman of White, Echo, World. Clarion, Eng- Thus opened up a journal- the Franco-Allemagne Committee. lish Illustrated Magazine, Bystand-stic association destined to last a Fourneau, as well as the re- er, Fortnightly, and Independent! quarter of a century, and to be pro- presentative" of the French Ex- Review, Illustrated London Newton's best work as an English essay-ed.- Bucharest. June 13.

New York Times, etc. He Brandishing knives and pistols, Editor of G. K's Weekly and Pre- masked pirates attacked the Egyp-sident of the Distributist League, tian cargo ship Mabro in Braila, They approached the ship in row- boats with muffled oars, and climb-

He studied art, and early ex-beginning of the war, when he had ed aboard by means of rope ladders, bibited remarkable precocity with a serious accident, and again for surprised the sleeping crew and pen and pencil. His first publica- a few weeks during his visit to tion was "The Wild Knight” (1900) Palestine, when the "Note-Book" The piraces ransacked the ship a volume of poems. A master of was contributed by Hilaire Belloc. with removing money, valuable his point of view, Chesterton de his long connection with the "Lon- Not content paradox) and daringly original in Mr. Chesterton was very proud of carpets and oriental goods they lighted an ever-increasing public don News," which he regarded as Wessel who, it will be recalled. wrote and composed the famous

with startling criticism of life and an illustrated paper of real educa- song which has now become Ger-

Coastguards saw the pirates letters, with fantastic fiction and tlopal value-and wöt (an he put many's second national anthem

quitting the Mabro and opened volumes of essays. Among these it) "stuffed with dogs and fire, but missed. Police boats at- and who was murdered by Com-tempted to follow the marauders, Tremendous Trifles, 1909; and the

are All Things Considered, 1908: duchesses." munists some years ago.

PRESS CONTROVERSIES but, aided by the darkness. they novels, the Napoleon of Notting "The Fleet-street Journalist of disppeared.-

HI, 1904; Manalive, 1913; and Fly-the old days," Mr. Chesterton ance Keuler.

ing Inn, 1914.

said during a press discussion, Els monograph on Browning, "was not a snob, though he may 1903; Warts, 1904; and Dickens, sometimes have been a blackguard. 1908, abound in passages of happily He often dressed in the roughest flluminating appreciation and his Victorian Age in Literature, 1913, interprets that age with a daring

The christening ceremony was performed by the mother of Horst

At the same hour as the ship permanent undertaking, and a col- was launched (12 noon) a wreath lective experiment can only be was laid on Horst Wessel's grave brought to an end

in the capital on behalf of the collectively. The right reinforcement (positive Commander-in-Chief of the 'Ger-

man Navy.

Bruter's Bulletin Service.

APPOINTMENTS BY VATICAN

as well as negative) of the struc- ture of peace, in the light of the international failure to apply the preventive machinery of the Cov- enant, overshadows the question of how and when, the Powers con- cerned may decide to end the at- tempt at counter-aggression by Hong Kong Daily Press" Bpecial) measures of passive economic re- sistance.

In the interests of general Euro- pean peace the paper stresses the constructive value of Anglo- German exchanges and urges the need of clearing the way for the visit of a British Minister to, Ger many Reuter.

Rome, June 14.,

bound and gagged them, "

from stem to stert

stole the crew's clothes.

3

NEW COMMODORE

London, June 13. Captain M. L. Clarke has been

appointed to succeed Captain Mark Wardlaw as Commodore in that does not preclude sympathy Charge of Naval Establishments, Singapore.. Reuter,

"I Osservatore" announces that

DR. THOMAS MOON the Pope has appointed as Papal Nuncio in Vienna Monsignor

New York, June 13. Castano Cigognani, who now re-

The death has occurred of Dr. presents the Vatican in Peru The Thomas Farker Moon, Professor at Papal Nuncio in Bucharest is to Columbia University and well-

be Monsignor Andrea Cassulo, known authority on International Papal Legate in Canada-

relations.

Travanceon Near Service."

Kenter,

小

DETECTIVE TALES

clothes and drunk in the lowest taverns, but his idea of the na ture of a controversy was far more logical and coherent than that which prevails to-day, and he did produce clearcut and connected He was an adept at new tales of arguments. When I fought with the amateur detective, such as The say, Bernard Shaw or Blatchford, Innocence of Father Brown, 1911. we did at least know what each In 1913 his play Magic was pro- other stood for. We started with duced in London, and in 1917 ho a fundamental hypothesis which published A Short History of Eng both sides understood, and we land, amazingly good commentary fighting about. But in many of an unconventional bus were quite sure of what we were

of letters in England who has had have now there is a vagueness and Powys says he is the only man the journalistic controversies we the originality or the insight or Icoseriess which seems to begin in the temperamental courage to nothing and end nowhere.

WIDE POWERS FOR DUTCH BANK

Better Control Over Money Market

Amsterdam, June 13. Wide powers for the Nether- lands bank in order to strengthen Its influence are contained in a Bill tabled by the Government in the Second Chamber, amending the Government's contract with the Pank as from its expiry on March 31, 1937.

The amendment will enable the Bank to adopt a definite open market polle, enabling it to control the money market better than at present, since the Bank is now only able to exert its influence by alter- ing the bank rate."

The Bank will be authorised to buy and sell and bills and Treasury bills from "second-hand."

New Home Of China In order to strengthen and band's

Institute

("Hoor Kong Dally Press" Special

Frankfurt-on-Main, June 14.

The new home of the China Institute connected with the China seminary of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University here was open- ed yesterday in the presence of the Chinese Ambassador in Berlin,

Also present were

Binancial powers special, reserve fund of 10,000,000 guilders will be created, bringing the general re- lieuter, serve to 20,000,000 gulders.--

cordial thanks of the Institute to the Reich and civic authorities for the sympathetic way in which all their proposals and requests had Chinese Government and the new been treated, "He also thanked the

Chinese Ambassador in Berlin and many other friends of the Institute

in both countries through whose

home, had been made possible. combined efforts alone, the new

Mr. Cheng Tien-tong. and the German Ambassador in China, Dr. Trautmann. distinguished guests, Chinese stu- dents at Frankfurt University, the Lord Mayor of Frankfurt Dr. "Krebs) and a large number of prominent people from the worlds and particularly in those of Dr. In all the speeches that followed of art, science and industry. The Cheng and Dr. Trautmann, great sented by Barm von Neurath of this new home and the part it German Foreign Office was repre-emphasis was laid on the function

The inaugural ceremony, which took place in the rooms of the ed by Baron van Borch, former New China Institute, was perform

Chairman of the China Institute German Minister to China, and In a short address he welcomed the guests and expressed the

of friendship closer and closer. would play in weaving the strands

thousands of exhibits accom- The guesta then inspected the

patrician dwelling house overlook modated in the very nne old.. ing the River Main. Transocean News Bervice..