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INSURGENTS DESTROY CARGO VESSEL WITH ARMS

GENERAL YUE HON MAU ENTERTAINED

Chinese Merchants Do

Honour.

General Yue Hon-mas, Commander-in-Chief of the Fourth Route Army and Pacification Commissioner for Kwangtung Pro- vince, Mr. Lau Wal-chee, Commissioner of the Kwangtung Recon- struction Department and some ex-officials of the Chinese Gov. crument, who arrived in Hong Kong from Shanghai on Monday last, after attending the Third Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee, were entertained by the members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce at a lunch party; which was held at the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday afternoon. In welcoming His Excellency Gen. Yue Hon-mau, the Chair- man. Mr. Li Sing-kal, speaking In Chinese said:—

"It is indeed 2, great honour and pleasure to have His Ex- cellency General Yue Hon-man, Mr. Lau Wal-chee and other im- portant officials of the Canton Government to attend to-day's lunch party. We Chinese who love our country, and always re- member our native land, consider tlist when the officials of our Government pay Hong Kong a vit, it is our pleasing duty to give them a most hearty welcome.

Japanese Royalty

For Coronation

Visiting Canada And

New York

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Tokyo, Mar. 9. The Emperor and Empress are giving a farewell banquet to-night to Prince and Princess Chichibu who are leaving Yokohama on March 18 for Vancouver en route

"General Yue Hon-mau, who controls the military forces of the Kwangtung Province, and watches over the safety and welfare of the

people, and whose distinguished `career had always evoked feelings of admiration, is honoured and respected by the people of Kwang- tung, and well-known to all as a most popular and able defender of

SPANISH SHIP WITH

NAME AND FLAG

BRITISH

"WIRELESS MESSAGES CAUSE CONFUSION

A tragic aspect of the Spanish civil war has been brought home to one of the parties in the conflict which had counted on "bringing safely to port a vast amount of war material ordered in the United States. The insurgents, against whom these implements of war were intended to be used, had kept a careful watch for the arrival of the vessel carrying the cargo, and once having sighted they lost no time in seeking its destruction.

A strange part of the affair is that wireless messages were sent out by the ship which had been attacked, purporting to be a British ship, and this sent a number of British destroyers to the rescue, besides causing much confusion to other ships who picked up the distress call.

A REUTER BULLETIN SERVICE MESSAGE FROM BORDEAUX CLEARS THE MYSTERY. IT SAYS: THE FRENCH MARITIME AUTHORITIES HERE DECLARE THAT THE SPANISH · STEAMER MAR CANTABRICO, WHICH WAS SUNK. BY THE INSURGENT CRUISER CANARIAS. FLEW THE SPANISH FLAG ON HER STERN AND THE RRITISH FLAG ON HER BOW. SHE ALSO HAD THE NAME “ADDA-NEWCASTLE PAINTED ON THE SIDES.

London, March 9. After many hours of anxiety last night arising from 8.0.8. reports that a British passenger and cargo

British destroyers were hastily 180 presumably the ship sank. despatched to a point. 90 miles Destroyers are now returning to. west of Gironde Estuary, which 3.0.S. messages gave, and late last liner had been bombarded in the night one of these destroyers Bay of Biscay by the Spanish | H.M.S. Echo said: "Have been rebel cruiser Canarias, set on frein visual communication with and was sinking. It was learned Spanish cruiser Canarias who the report states that the ship alleged to be about midnight that had arisen from confusion in re- the Adda was a Spanish ship by laying of wireless messages.

name of Mar Cantabrico. Her When the alarm was given four crew are on board the. Canarias,

the Province. And, as the Chinese EUROPEAN GETS

nation is now at a' changing stage for the better, we hope that Gen. Yue Hon-mau will do his best to satisfy the hopes of the people."

MR. LAU WAI-CHEE

"As to Mr. Lau Wal-chee, whose

to London to attend the Corona-energy and ability in the execution tion on behalf of the Emperor. of all important reconstruction Whilst in Canada they will be works of the Province is so well- the guest of the Governor-General. known to you all, we hope he will After a stay in Canada, Prince and long continue to work for the Princesas Chichibu will proceed to welfare and prosperity not only for New York and thence to London the country, but also the indus- aboard the RMS. Queen Mary tries of its citizens. keuter,

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Col. H. C. Harrison is seen on the extreme left of this picture, laken at the annual race meeting. The Hon, Dr. Li Shu-fan is In the centre, talking to a lady friend.

Rehabilitation In

Rural Areas

Nanking, Mar. 3.

arrangements are being made for the southern section of the pro- vince.

A nation-wide rural rehabilita- tion programme is being carried out in different parts of the coun- try with the object of injecting financial Ure-blood into the farm-proaching the Farmers Bank of

ers who are in dire distress, ac- cording to a general survey made public in Nanking recently.

To assist the famine-stricken and war-scarred peasants in north

The Fukden authorities are ap-

China for $2,000,000 and the Fu- klen Provincial Bank for $1,000,000 loans which will be used to assist the farmers in that provines,

To readjust sinking funds of Shens, the Slan branch of the the rural co-operatives in Kwang- Farmers Bank of China has dis-lung, the authorities are planning patched agents there to extend to open a provincial co-operative treasury Initation fund amounting credit loans to the farmers and to assist them to plant their spring to $3,000,000 wheat. "The bank has already ex- Similar arrangements for rural tended $200,000 for the establish-rehabilitation work are also being ment of credit co-operatives in carried out, in the provinces of north Shenal last year and similar | Klangen, Hönan and Anhwel.

BADLY INJURED

Surprise Attack In

Hotel Room

Mr. S. V. Archdeacon, an en- gineer from the Yunnan Govern-

ment, was attacked in his room at the Gloucester Hotel at 11.30 last night.

He said that while he was asleep an unknown person entered his room and attacked him with ản electric torch lying on a table beside his bed, and struck, him several blows on the head which! caused grievous injuries. He caught hold of the assailant by the neck and a struggle ensued for about 20 minutes. By the time assistance came to him, the at- tacker made good his escape.

FLYING BOATS DELAYED

One Arrives At Kai Tack

AIR-COMMODORE TEDDER HERE

Unable to find their way through heavy fog encountered outside Hong Kong while en route from Singapore, the five Royal Air Force flying boats, coming here to parti- cipate in the manoeuvres mencing on March 21, were forced

com~

down about 12 miles south-west of Lantao Island. One plane, how- ever, continued the fight and ar- rived at the Kai Tack air base at 5 p.m. In it were Air-Commodore Tedder and Wing Commander

He mentioned that had the 'struggle lasted for another Ave Dunn.

minutes he would have been un- able to last and would have been killed by the merciless assailant. Mr. Archdeacon also stated that he had received a threatening note, believed to be from the assailant, a few days earlier in the week.

constant

The planes were in communication with Kai Tack and shortly after making their landing, a message was flashed the local base, as a result of which the des- troyer HM8. Dainty was rushed to the scene to stand by the planes

Mr. Archdeacon was hurriedly throughout the night. removed to the War Memorial Hospital where he received · im- mediate attention. He appeared to have been badly injured.

He arrived in the Colony three weeks ago and was due to leave here for Canton to-morrow even- ing.

The flying boats were, originally expected to land in Kowloon Bay between 3.30 and 4 p.m. yesterday, despite the thick weather they were dying in and at 2.30 p.m. yesterday were reported to be ap- proximately 100 miles distant.

Mr. M. J. Abbott, Mrs. G. F. Hots and Mrs. Abbott in happy

spirits at the Race Course

hartour."

tons, owned by Cla Maritima del The Mar Cantabrico of 6.632

Nervion of Bilbao, left New York on January 6 with a cargo of war materials and other supplies in- cluding eight aeroplanes- "British Wireles ·

(Other messages on page 9);

LONGER LEAVE IN

THE NAVY

Foreign Service Periods

Admiralty Orders issued recently

stated that certain conditions of

service have been reviewed by the Australian Goodwill

Lords Commissioners of the Ad- miralty, according to the "Man- chester Guardian."

They have decided that the scale of leave for foreign service shall be increased from seven days to eleven days for each complete period of six months' service.

This increase will apply forth- with to all men proceeding on foreign service.

Mission

DUE HERE

TO-MORROW

Headed by Mr. Angus Mitchell, Governor of the 65th Rotary Dis- trict, an Australian Rotary Good- A request that when returning

will Mission will arrive in Hong on board from liberty the search-Kong early to-morrow morning in ing of ratings below leading sea-

the s.4. Taiping. Accompanying men should be abolished was not Mr. Mitchell are his wife and granted on disciplinary grounds. daughter.

Another request was that the ! first period of engagement should be seven and five years instead of the present twelve. The Lords Commissioners decided that it was a matter of policy and outside the scope of the review,

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CLIPPER SERVICE RATTLING INTO

Bookings For

Macao Flight

On or about March 24 the first of the Clipper air liners will leave Alameda on its inaugural flight to Hong Kong. According to schedule, the plane should reach the Philip-

BARBARISM”

SEE LEADING ARTICLE ON PAGE S.

LADY'S DEATH IN HANKOW

Hankow, Mar. 9. The death has occurred of Mrs.

pines on March 30 where it will Marquart, wife of Rear-Admiral leave with a number of prominent Marquart of the U. B. Yangtse Manila businessmen, who have sp- patrol- plied for passage on her. for Reuter, Macab. The bookings do not in- elude those which have been made at Alameda, Honolulu or Guam.

The Manila Het includes Mr. Barry Baldwin, Manager of the Luneta Motor Company: Mr. E. Bradley Fairchild, of Welch Fair- child. Ltd., and Mrs. Fairchild: Mr. R. P. Aiken, of Swan, Culbert- son and Fritz: Mr. M."6. Kestler, Secretary of the Philippine Manu- facturing Company. and Mrs. Kestler: Mr. Sofronio Abrera, Manila attorney: Mr. Juan David. Mr. L L Wilson, Mrs. M. Harris Golding, Mr. Hector Rosario, Mr. Felipe Juyco and Mr. Ricardo de Castro.

R.M.A. DORADO

The RMA. Kal Tak yesterday afternoon,from Dorado arrived at

Penang with one passenger, Mr. G. Varaschini. The plane also carried 2.200 kilos of freight and 248.398 -kilos of mall matter.

THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON LONDON: 15. 2-27/32d.

T.T. ON NEW YORK: 30-1/4.

London Silver Market

(From Our Own Correspondent).

London, Mar. 9. London aliver prices to-day were. down 3/8 for "Spot" and 5/16 for "Forward" as follow:

8pot Forward

Mar. 8

NEWS INDEX

Amusements

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Among the members of the party are Mr. C. H. Holmes, Mr. H. F Cargecg, with Mrs. Cargeeg, and Mr. A. J. Fakersley, of the Mel- bourne Rotary Club; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Arnold, of Albury; Mr. and Mrs. A. Bilson and Mr. and Mrs. Max Castles, of Colac; Dr. and Mrs. Max Castles, of Colac: Dr. and Mrs. 8. Newing, of Essendon;' Mrs. A. Gray and Mias Gray, of Brighton and Miss P. Davis, of Hobart

Arush" programme has been arranged for the visitors by the Rotary Club of Hong Kong. The Australian visitors will be taken for a motor trip around the Main- land, then brought to the Hong. Kong Hotel for the luncheon party to be held in their honour. A motor drive around the Island will take up the afternoon programme following which the visitors will be taken on board the ND.L. liner" Scharnhost prior to their depar- ture for the North the same evening.

Lady MacGregor and Mrs. Hopkins at the races. In the back- ground, to the right, are Messrs. A. Gillard and L.-C. F. Bellamy (bare-headed).

World Affairs

In his broadcast of "World ! Affairs" relayed from Daventry through Z.B.. last night, Mr. H Mar. 9 V. Hodson drew attention to the 20-13/16 20-7/16 decision of the Grand Fascist 20-3/420-7/18 Council to considerably increase Italy's armaments and military strength and this might be taken as a retort to Great Britain's re- armament plans. Italy, he said, was a country that had just worï a Page 3, 9 very expensive war and was pay- Page 7. Ing for a costly army of occupa Page

tion; War machines were easier Page 12, 13 to start than to stop Italy's Page 5.

readiness for war had caused other Page 10.

countries to feel that they also Page 4. must be ready, just in case. But the vital fact, said Mr. Hodson, was that nobody wanted war.

·Cables pungi Company Meeting

Court Cases

Finance

Local Diary

Mail Notices..

Radio Programmes Shipping

Sport

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Broadcast

Referring to the present day,

scene and 1914. Mr. Hedson com mestes on fear and economia pressure as one of the root causes of feIt she wanted "her colonies then Germany would have no other alternative but to go ahead with self-sufficiency. It was Britain's belief that the economic problem should be con- aldered separate from the colonial problem.

Mr. Hodson also referred to the Dart President Roosevelt played in the reciprocal agreements between. the United States of America and other countries. Great Britain also had a great part to play in this world economic problem: