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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1937.

CORONATION OF FRENCH GUN SECRET

THE KING

Ceremony To Last

Two Hours

London, April 5. The Coronation service at West- minster Abbey, which will shortened by about hour

an expected to last two hours,

be is

After the King has been pro claimed to his people, the Arch- bishop of Canterbury will conduct the communion service. When the Creed has been read the King will be anolated, after which the communion service will continue, ending with the singing of Te Deum,

The King and Queen will then proceed in procession to St. Ed- ward's Chapel where they will change robes.

The orchestra playing the Coronation ceremony will consist

BETRAYAL

PRESS REVELATIONS

CAUSE STIR

"Le Jour" Facing Charge Of Espionage

Paris April 5.

At the request of the War Office, the Public Prosecutor has opened proceedings against the newspaper ""Le Jour" which, it will be recalled, some time ago published an article asserting that the construction secrets concerning the new ten-centimetre anti-aircraft gun have been betrayed to Soviet Russia.

The Public Prosecutor lays the charge that the attention of

of sixty selected players under foreign sples was drawn to the IN AUSTRALIAN

the conductorship of the chief mvention of the new gun by the BB.C. Bandmaster.

The Coronation procession will be rehearsed during the next few days.

The Australian contingent to the Coronation · held

the first route march in London to-day, led by the drums and fifes of the Coldstream Guards!--- Heuter'i Bulletin Servire.

BRITISH ARMY ABROAD

Long Service Problems

paper's revelations.

Commenting on the initiation of proceedings against the "Le Jour." that journal calls it absurd that a paper is being prosecuted for espionage although a member ofI the Popular Front Cabinet himself delivered the plans of the gun to the Soviet Russian authorities.- Transocean News Service.

DR. BENES AT BELGRADE

Enthusiastic Welcome AL. StationTM

Belgrade. April 5. President Edouard Bencs of The reference by Mr. Duff Coo-Czechoslovakia arrived at Belgrade be this morning and was met by per, Secretary for War, when presented the Army Estimates, to Prince and Princess Paul' and all, the possibility of changes in the Cardwell system has aroused con- siderable interest, states a Home correspondeak.

The system, which was initiated by the reformer after whom it is numed, was intended to save long scrvice

abroad by balancing the home battalion of a regiment with a foreign service battalion. thus ensuring a constant flow of young soldiers from Great Britain to In- dia and the Colonies with relative-.

ly short service.

The essence of the scheme was that out requirements in units abroad should exactly balance those at home

members of the Cabinet at the station. Dr. Benes was given an enthusiastic welcome.

The visit of the President soon after the conclusion of a treaty between Italy and Yugoslavia will be of interest to students of Euro- pean affairs as it may affect the political Europe-

Reuters Bulletin Service.

situation

in

Western!

HU KUANG LOAN SETTLEMENT

O-

WATERS

Japanese Fishing Vessels Active

Port Darwin, April 5.

"

Seventeen Japanese pearling Juggers were captured by a Gov- ernment patrol boat in Australian waters off the north coast and re- leased after the skippers had been warned.

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WORLD SUGAR PROBLEMS

London Conference Examination

London, April 5. Economic problems" concerning the world's sugar production will be exhaustively discussed at the World Conference which is to be opened at the Foreign Office to- dây, under the chairmanship of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Pre- sident of the Council

Twenty-two countries will be re- presented and they include all the important sugar producers except Italy. Japan will be represented by an observer only. The British sugar-producing Colonies will be represented by the Colonial Or- fice.

Questions on the agenda include prices, production, subsidies, boun ties, quotas and tariffs.

The world's annual sugar pro- duction before the Great War was twenty million tons. It has now

Be- risen to thirty million tons. fore the war, the price was £10 per ton. It rose to £140 per ton during the war and then steadily fell until it is now, about £6 103.

While it is possible that the pre- sent Conference may endeavour to make an attempt to restrict pro- duction, such a course is unlikely to be favoured by the British sugar-producing Coontes.- Reuter..

INAUGURAL SPEECH

London, April 5. In view of the increasing ac-

Delegates of twenty-two coum- tivity of Japanese fishing vessels tries were present at the opening

POMMERY

POMMERY ET GRENO

CHAMPAGNE

THE WINE OF KINGS, THE KING OF WINES

CALDBECK,

OPIUM WORTH

£50,0000

Seizure

on the northem coast, the Com- monwealth Goverment is const-ference in the Locarno Room of

of the International Sugar Con New York Harbour dering the sending of two sloops the Foreign Office, to these waters as a preliminary to establishing a permanent naval patrol- Reuter.

ANXIETY FELT FOR AIRLINER

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in his inaugural speech emphasised that

WILS ta

FOUND IN SHIP

the best service that could be FALSE WALLS rendered to the industry give it some assurance of stability and order and that should be the fundamental object of the agree- After three months' surveillance ment. He suggested that the con- Federal detectives arrested seven ference should seek to secure in- men and confiscated £50,000 ternational agreement" for main-worth worth of opium, concealed San Francisco, Apr. 5. tenance of a reasonable balance in false walls, aboard the British Anxiety is felt for an airliner on

between supply and demand on freighter Tay Bank, which arrived the route between Burbank, Call-the world market fornia, and

City. The liner left Burbank at 10a.m. on Saturday and has not been heard of since. She was due at Kansas City on Saturday evening. Reuter's Bulletin Service,

Kansas

The conference w sit afternoon in private.-- Reuter

this

FORTY-HOUR WEEK IN PARIS

Monday To Be Closed Day In Future

Paris, Apr. 5. The forty-hour week was "In-

retail shops in Paris to-day except

recently from China.

A allent, figure, semaphoring

BOLE AGENTE :

MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONGKONG HOTEL; 'REPULSE BAY HOTEL;

&

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;

HOTELS LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel der Wagons Lite, Peking,

from the short to someone aboded TWO ARMY

the ship, gave the signal for the raid, Twenty-five detectives surprised the man, and took him into cus- tody. The prisoner identified him- self as William «Bonazi.

Searching him, the detectives found a torn ticket, bearing

OFFICERS

CASHIERED

Chinese characters, in his pocket. Sentences Of 3 Years

Quickly one of the agents donned Bonazi's clothes and took up his position at the pier.

In a few minutes another man

of the freighter.

A second man, apparently satis-

BALLOON MYSTERY London, April 5. There are many advocates of a

Financial papers in giving reversion to the old and discredit minence to the Hu Kuang settle-

Milan, Apr. 4. An abandoned stratosphere bal- ed system of a long service Armyment, draw attention to the fact con with instruments showing abroad and a short service Army that all of China's outstanding in- that it had recently attained the

agreed that this debtedness is at home. It is

now settled and altitude would at once solve the recruiting compare this with the continued found near Montemagno.

of 22,000 metres, was augurated with the closing of allaved to the agent from the deck problem in this country, but the default of some countries placed disadvantages of the long service in better circumstances. Hu Kuangey by peasants. All Instruments members of their familles serve.

The wreck was found accidental | those where the proprietors and Army are considerable.

strengthened half to a point, but appeared to be in order, Several Parisians are anding difficulty in anticipated and discounted. terms for some time have been notebooks kept in French and Ger- buying their daily needs. Monday Neuter.

man were also "found, but there will be a closed day in future: was no trace of the passengers or Several newspapers are raising any indication who they were. The prices, partly blaming the Institu- military authorities took posses-ion of the forty-hour. sion of the wreck to make further

France started summer time this investigations.—-

morning.---

Reuters Bulletin Service.

How would it be possible to re- crult them for, say, 15 or 21 years service in foreign parts, when it 18 known that one of the present re- cruiting difficulties is that the re- cruft dislikes serving even five years abroad?

Certainly, the pay would have to be largely increased and every man must be pensionable, which would become a very heavy charge as the years passed by.

DEATH OF FORMER SULTAN

Paris, Apr. 4. The former Sultan "oz Moreeen,- Perhaps the greatest objection of Mulal Hand, who lived at Enghien all to the scheme is the certainty les Bains ever since the War, died Sultan Mulai

service army

DOYLE TO MEET KING LEVINSKY

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|BADMINTON SINGLES

TITLES RETAINED

Transocean News Service.

Life Policies - And

.

Suicide

company.

And 18 Months

Sentences, were promulgated re- cently on the two Army officera appeared before courts-

who

fed that all was well, was just about martial at Chatham last month on to step into a small boat to rowout charges alleging improper conduct to the Tay Bank when the detec-against boys, most of whom were tives swooped from their hiding Scouts.

OPTICAL

DEVICES IN

INDUSTRY

Detection Of Impurities

affecting

Selentine, discoveries practically every industry from the making of steel to jam-boiling will be discussed at a conference on ig- dustrial physics, which is to be held by the Institute of Physics in Birmingham shortly.

The subject of the conference will be "Optical Devices in Re- The Pre- search and Industry." sident will be Professor A. Fowler.. one of the leading authorities on:

place and captured him. He said Captain Jocelyn Leathley Heber he was Dominick Butto.

Chase, Royal Engineers, has been At almost the same moment sentenced to

three years' penal other detectives arrested Butto's servitude and to be cashiered; and the analysis of light so as to show brother. Then they rowed to the Tay Bank and

Captain Henry Thomas Lloyd the material from which it comes. subdued the Chinese crew before there was a Loftus-Tottenham, Royal Engi- chance of resistanc.

neers; sentenced to 18 months hard labour and to be cashiered,

The War Office announcement of the findings added:

SUIT. AGAINST SHIP

concealed in false walls.

The Tay Bank, which тав

"The King, on the advice of the

This is the technique by which astronomers obtain the great balk

their information about the stars: Professor Fowler, this. presidential address, will tell in- dustry how the same technique can be used to detect impurities in their products.

In the folds of the Chinese gown of the decay of physical and moral suddenly to-day.

worn by the ship's carpenter they fitness after long 'service in the Band was invested by the

Judgment was reserved by the if the life was ended by deliberate found the other half of the ticket tropics.

French över Morocco la 1912 Court of Appeal recently in the suicide. If that was so, then it taken from Bonazl. They search-Secretary of State for War, has The arguments against a long but soon after serious blood-appeal which raised the question followed that such an act was noted the freighter and uncovered confirmed the findings and sen- Recent triumphs of the method,

tence of the court and commandDr. E. Moore, Director of the Br are that we shall shed accompanied by graves unrest whether the Royal Însurance a wrong as against the insurance six hundred. brass containers, probably not get the men, that, broke out, whereupon Mulal Had Company were able to pay on

ed that the sentence be carried tish Scientific Instruments Re- into." effect." even if we did, the cost would be abdicated in favour of his brother insurance policies taken out by Lord Justice Romer-As at pre-

search Association, told a repre- enormous, and that demoralisa- Mulal Jpuse, father of the pre-Major Charles William St. John sent advised, I think you are right scheduled to sail for the Orient pointed Adjutant of the 19th Lon-included the discovery that an un- Captain Chase is 30 and was ap-sentative of the "Morning Post,... tion would be inevitable.

sent Sultan. Mulai Hand then Rowlandson, who

shot himself in saying that a contract with with a cargo of American motor don Regiment (St. Pancras), TA, wanted pink colour in glass was went to France.—

just before the policies would out a suicide clause is not against cars, carried a crew of 30. After Transocean News Service. „

have expired through non-pay-

In December, 1935. public policy. Nor even a con-questioning the crew, the agents

due to a nickeltron bolt which bad

ment of premium.

tract with a imodifed suicide freed all but four men.

He was formerly with the Westfallen into the molten" glass; and Judgment had been given clause. It is not a direct or in-

African Frontier Force, and the the detection of only one part m Immediately after the raid 'a and in direct invitation to the man to 90,000 dollar suit was filed against Captain Loftus-Tottenham, who specimen of steel.

Sudan Defence Force. company

100,000 of the metal, chromtum, ainst the favour of Mrs. Agnes Emily de la commit suicide.

the ship by the New York collec-is 32, was Adjutant of the 58th Poer Beresord. the Major's niece,

CAPTAIN OATES'S CASE

The general object of the can- tor of the port. This action is and administratrix of his estate, Mr. Roland Oilver, EC., con- taken according

London Divisional Engineers at ference is to show how close is the to law, which for a sum of £42,469 15. tinuing his reply for the company, provides for a penalty against the

the time of the offences. agreed subject to liability. Mr. said: "Bir William has cited the shipowners of 25 dollars for every tions in the Boy Scout movement.

-connection between industry and Both bad held important post-physical science. Justice Swift held that it was not case of Captain Oates. It was ounce of contraband narcotics against public policy, as the com- said that when Captain Dates found abroad their vessel. RC. F. Nichols (Middlesex)pany had pleaded that they went out he committed suicide to

should pay. easily retained the men's doglės title at the All-England Badmin- Mrs. Beresford cross-appealed ton Championships at the Royal on the question of insanity (the Horticultural Hall, London, recently. Jury having found that the Major Was sane when he committed when he beat the Cheshire player,

suicide) and on the ground of T. P. Dick, in the final by 15–8,

misdirection. 15-7, and won outright the challenge cup presented by Colonel Arthur Hill, the octogenarian President of the Association, who was present. He

After Lightning Visit To California

Jack Doyle has been matched. with the American, King Levin aky, the fight to take place at Wembley to-day. He intends to go to California and back before the fight.

The erratic Irishman's training programme in not one to com- mend itself as ideal to a boxer striving to re-establish himself in a career in which he has never risen to the highest honours.....

Levinsky's record, without being imposing, suggests that he will test Doyle's boxing ability.

Easy Wins For Nichols And Miss T. Kingsbury

has twice fought Carnera to lose The left-handed Miss T. Kings- on points; Max Baer beat him on bury Won the

women's singles points over 10 rounds in 1932, and without losing a single ace against knocked him out in the second Miss D. Doveton, of Somerset, and round in 1934; Kosel beat him will have a chance of making the on points over 10 round. One of cup her own next year. It was his latest victories. was over a remarkable feat, and only took Tommy Loughran,

about a quarter of an hour.

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save his friends.

any large extent is almost impos sible.

mance

“In my submission he did not

REDUCING NOISE IN

In military aeroplanes the silen commit suicide at all. If, on go- BERLIN STOCKHOLM BOMBING PLANES icing of engines and airscrews cam Ing out, he had happened to run

AIR LINE

only be done so long as partir- into a rescue party and had been

Cause Of Fatigue To Filots

is not adversely affected, rescued, could it have been said

But with the advent of the closed that he had attempted to commit

Berlin, Apr. 4.

cabin it becomer poesfile to: insit- On behalf of Mrs. Beresford, suicide? I submit that the death A direct, non-stop airline

A spécial atudy is being made of late the occupants from, the noise of Captain Oates was accidental, Berlin - Stockholm was organ- the pilot's cabins of large Royal and thus greatly to improve their although his action brought about feed by the German Lufthansa Alt Force

bombing seroplanes, comfort, his death. He did not commit and the Swedish airways company, with the object or reducing noise. The method consists in the and inaugurated to-day. The dis- On long-distance journeys notes spraying of parts, which resonate tance of 980 kilometers via the accentuates fatigue and reduces and in lining the cockpite with Baltle Sea is the longest European the crew's efficiency.

sound-deadening material "The same may be sald of a non-stop ling Four hours was the Machines in use up to the pre done with commercial machiner captain who stays in his ship as time spent on the Arst voyage, sent, including the Heyford, which has permitted a good deal of In- it goes down. If he is rescued it while the only other fastest way of forms the bulk of the heavy bomb formation to be collected spont would not be said that he attravelling takes 19 hours or nearly ing equipment of the Gervice, have how to alienes aircraft cabins, and tempted to commit suicide by re- a whole day and night.---

mostly been fitted with open cock-this information is now being ap maining in his ship".

Tronsiceun, Wews Service.

pite in which reduction of noise to piled to military types.

gir William Jowitt, K.C., interven ed recently to make plain, as he said, his submission on the plea of public policy. It was that the suicide in the sense that a man only public policy concerned in would do if he blew out his this case was to allow freedom of brains. contract. If that was right the public policy plea was eliminated and it became a pure question of conter t

Under the insurance policy the insurers contracted to pay, even

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