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CHINA'S
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1932. 一拜禮 號一十月四英港香
RESOLUTION.
Prepared to Fight for Sovereignty.
BAY OF BISCAY LOYANG
DISASTER. AVOWALS.
SHIP FOUNDERS
IN STORM.
EMPTY LIFE-BOATS PICKED UP.
(Reuter's Special Service).
Paris, Apr. 10. The discovery of two empty life-boats, flouting about a hun- dred and thirty miles of Brest, has aroused grave fears garding the fate of twenty-one; seamen, part of the crew of the French schooner, Rouzic.
re:
APPEAL TO THE NATION.
(Special to "Telegraph")
or
STATUS OF WELLINGTON KOO
Manchukuo Cable Refused.
PIQUANT SITUATION.
PIRATE EFFRONTERY
OPEN OFFICES
AT WUSIEH.
日六初月三
135 THE ANNUM
SINGLE COPE 10 CENTE
"South China Morning Post Bldg.” Tuł
HINDENBURG IN AGAI
Nearly Six Million Majority.
GERMANY
MAKING HAY NR. POLLS
SHANGHAI. HEAVILY.
AMAZING STATE
OF AFFAIRS.
Shanghai, Apr. 11. Money, jewellery and mer- chandise to the value of at least The long-expected message $600,000 have been stolen by from the Manchukuo Government,
Nanking, Apr. 11.
(mission's Chinese
Assessor.
to
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NAZI-COMMUNIST FEUDS.
Berlin, Apr. 10. President Paul von Hin- denburg was re-elected to- day by a comfortable ma- jority.
The figures at ten o'clock this
PAWN-TICKET
A BIBLE
PEAK ROBBE
SEQUEL.
CHARGES AGAIN S.W.B. PRIVATI William Howells, a priva the South Wales Borderers peared before Mr. Schofield Central Police Court this ling, charged with having 1 into 153, The Peak, steali President von Hindenburg, re-travelling clock belonging to elected by a comfortable majority person as yet untraced, an
yesterday.
refusing permission for Dr. Wel-Taihu Lake pirate gangs in an lington Koo, the League Com- unprecedented storm of piracy. the Soo- enter Manchuria, was received at which has swept over the Sanking Foreign Offer late chow and other waterways near evening showed the veteran Pre- last night, necording to a Raomin Shanghai in the past six weeks.sident to be roughly 6,000,000 The estimate is unofficial but it votes ahead of Hitler, who polled
exceedingly well, with no chance "HOMO" MAKES A of catching up.
Loyang, Apr. 11.. The National Emergency Conference to-day adopted a resolution to the effect that the Chinese Government will resist,
forcé by
by diplomatic means, any nation which attempts to undermine China's political, territorial and administrative integrity. During a furious gale in Bay of Biscay yesterday, the
The Government will, under no Rouzie, pounded by enormous
agree. China." is the seas, began to sink and finally the circumstances, sign any
the crew ment which is incompatible with ground for the craft was abandoned,
this principle.
:refusal, aking to the boats.
the
report.
The non-exis- tence of "diplo matic relations between Man- chukuo and
stated
The resolution urges the entire It is British Ships' Effort.
the nation, irrespective of party or that the Chinese Two British steamers,
Minis- Armerata and the Deerpool, made class, to support the Government in Foreign
to ter, Mr. Lo Wen- of the whatever steps may be taken full speed for the scene
external aggression.--kai. refused to receive the mea- mishap and managed to pick up resist
ange and in- right of the survivors. Iftherto, Reuter. however, no news has been
structed the cable ofice to ¡notify the sunder
to this affect.
re-
ceived regarding the fate of the, remander of the crew and it is feared that the discovery of thej lifeboats means that they have perished,...
U.S. TIGHTENING UP BELT.
NATIONAL ECONOMY
A
PROGRAMME.
(Reuter's Special Sorrice).
A
"TENDERNESS" TO WRONG-DOER.
MR. CLYNES AND THE LEAGUE.
Dr. W. Koo.
„Protest tu Tokyo,
is believed to be very conservative. On Wednesday last week for in- stance, Chinese pierchants who had chartered a boat-frain lost $300,000 in treasure and inerchandise.
The bodyguards who were on the train to paptect ita valuable cargo and who were armed with automatics and machine-guns, capitulated without firing shot!
a
loot, the In addition to the desperadoes have taken prisoner more than a score of persons, in- eluding children and are holding then to ransong 2
SALES "NOW!"
It is reported that, as a result of It is also reported that Geneva
from the has been officially informed of the the situation arising London, Apr. 10.
developments regarding the status Shanghai trouble, all Governmental denunciation of countries of Dr. Wellington Koo and that a authority in the surrounding water- which, while condemning the Sevigorous protest has been lodged ways has broken down and Japanese dispute, had supplied with the Trakya Government, desequently the conditions prevailing arms and ammunition to the comclaring that the Japanese Governare the worst in living memory.. batants, was made by Mr. 4. B. ment must be regarded as the real So well organised are the pirates Clynes, ex-Home Secretary, speaks-author of the message and held at the present time that they openly ing at Portsmouth to-day.
responsible for any hindrance conduct offices in Wusich and other
fle expressed the opinion that need in the way of the Com- inland towns to facilitate the sale the situation would be better if mission in performing the task of the stolen property and the pay
the League had given a straighter entrusted to them by the League. ment of ransoms.
The figures were:
Hindenburg Hitler
Thaelmann
18,628,100
18,541,200 3,480,000
DISCOVERY.
MINISTERING ANGELS
IN HOSPITAL.
ling a false name and addres pawn-broker when disposing article. He pleaded guilty three charges.
Sub-Inspector Chester stated that the residence, which Howells broke betwe and 9 o'clock on Thursday was unoccupied, but a care was left in charge. This ma noticed nothing unusual wh made his usual round earl the evening. The following Sir-The following Hines haveing at about 10.30 o'clock, just filtered through from the re- he opened up the promises tentive section of my diminutive mit house-repairers, he yet stock of grey matter:
Howells fast asleep. The ware sent for from Mount Station and took defendar charge.
Another million votes only wore! atili to be counted and Hindenburg was therefore assured thus early of an absolute majority.
re-
The President does not know that he has been elected, as he refused to stay up to learn the result which will be given him at seven o'clock to-morrow morning (3.p.m. H.KA Ume)
Oh, woman in our hours of cuse. Uncertain, coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the
brow.
When effecting an entry the house, Howells had tak his boots and hat, climb waterspout on to the upper
sleep. He was still
aslee
A ministering angel, thou The tact la ave been nederstimtouint with a hammer wrang Street Clashes.
dry dock by the medicamerali uker to broke two and no less than three very charm glass, and unlatched the A number of clashes betweening specimens of such ministerios by inserting his hand and a con- the Communists and the Nazis, angels have, during the past few ing it from the inside. H
through the night,minutes, been hovering around my
made a thorough search : of lasting all heralded the opening of the poll repair berth. The quotation lacs
Interior, opening cupboards. ing booths for the presidential appropriateness in that the pain drawers, but had discovered
and anguish have not, as yet, ballot in Berlin.
One Communist was shot dead, materialised. Between you and maing, valuable, and had then go Two hundred arrests were made and "Annabelle." I am the victim 10.16 the following morning in the course of the disorders, but of an intense itch-a sensation of the caretaker returned. the majority were subsequently such excruciating ecstacy that vio lent scratching of the integument on an unaffected lower limb appears Polling opened in duit weather to afford Infinite relief to frendant's belongings at Victoria which was favourable to a heavy zied arm upon which scratching is poll as many people abandoned strictly forbidden. their plans to spend a day in the
"Annabelle" will, of course, con- country. As the morning wore on the only evidence that vital clude that I have at last been meted clection was progressing was the out just punishment for the sins Junusually large number of people of my self-centred, vicious past. on the streets and the remarkable | Perhaps it will cheer her still fur- litter of electioneering, pamphlets-ther to learn that a Chinese friend and polling tickets,
who began his career as a medical student kindly informed mo yester day that I had contracted leprosy
talk to the aggressor than song,, The Earl of Lytton has de- The pirates are said to have re-released. statesmen thought necessary. finitely stated that. Dr. Welling- | presentatives in Shanghai who keep Washington. Apr. 10.
He hoped that the permanent |
member of the them well informed of the move Economy Prebody, of the Langue would agree in ton Koo is a National
League Commission. If the Man-ments of possible victims. Reuter, to save the future than 130
tenderness hel designed
chukuo Government refuse en. States between G.$160,-shown towards any wrong-doer
has!
trance to Dr. Wellington. Koo they when they are satisfied that A
are refusing entrance to the Com- mission as a whole, The Com- mission cannot enter if permia- sion to enter is refused one their members.-Reitter.
Kramme, United
and $210,000,000, 090,000 been tentatively agreed between wrong has been done.-Renter. President Hoover and the Economy Committee of the House of Repre sentatives.
The Committee has been can- terring with the President at the White House and it is understood that the figures do not include the savings that might be effected by the consolidation of Government activities or by reductions in ap- propriations.
DOLLÁR AGAIN UNCHANGED.
LOCAL MARKET VERY QUIET.
- KREUGER DEBACLE.
INTERNATIONAL MATCH CORPORATION'S LOSS.
Wilmington, Apr. 19, Allegations, of mismanagement i resulting in lusses exceeding G.$250,000,000 have been made against the International Match
·Corporation of which the late Mr. Ivar Kreuger 'was President,
Although silver is slightly down
The Royal Observatory reports that in London. the Hongkong dollar; remains unchanged at 18. 2.5/8. the anticyclone is moving eastwards The market is very quiet, with and is now central near Tokyo; the nothing doing in the way of depression remains over Tongking.
business.
The London fall of 1/8th was ebiefly due to poor support. Chin bought at the decline, and the market closed steady.
Silver prices are unchanged in New York, where the market is stendy.
The cross-rate has improved to 3.79%.
MORE MENINGITIS CASES.
EIGHT DURING THÈ WEEK-END.
in
Eight further cases of cerebro- spinal fever have been reported to the health authorities for the forty-eight hours ended yesterday. Of these, four were in Kowloon,
Оло and three in Victoria Shaukiwan.
Other notifnble diseases for the same period are three of small- pox, thros of typhoid, and.one of diphtheria.
DE VALERA RIDES HIGH HORSE.
"IRELAND NOT A COLONY."
London, Apr. 11.
of
WINNING PRIZES AN “EMPLOYMENT.”
UNIQUE DECISION.
HAT STOLEN IN CATHEDRAL.
BOY SCOUT DETECTS CULPRIT.
wor-
A series of thefts from shippers at the Roman Catholic Cathedral had a sequel before Mr. Wynne Jones at the Central Pulice Court this morning when an unemployed Chinese appeared on a charge of stealing a felt hat belonging to Mr. Lo Pok-wan.
from
IL
Unofficial Final Figures.
Pawn Tickets in Bible. On Friday afternoon, the d
racks were searched by the and two pawn tickets were from between the leaves of að One ticket related to Army ment in respect of which police were not charging him the other had to do with a tr ing clock, a Falconer 8-day strument, the origin of
refuse Howells consistently divulge. All he would say, being canutioned, was "I pi
in a virulent form (the result-
it," and when asked whore,`r The official final figures will not there will be no doubt in "An-
"I am not telling you any mor be known until to-morrow. The nabelle's" mind-of corrupt as-
When enquiries were mad unofficial final figures are:
aociation), but as I have not, up to
the pawnshop, the people there the moment. been banished to the' Hindenburg
desert island which he so strongly duced a slip of paper on Hitler
Howells had been requested t recommends for such cases, I, per Thaelmann
3,706,808. sonally, am living, In hopes that his name and address. Both to be found to be faise, and now fo may prove -Reuter, the affliction
the subject of the third char chicken-pox or nettle rash.
19,367,688, 13,410,003.
'MISSING MAN'S
RETURN.
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN BLOWN TO PIECES.
killed.
The hammer which Howell used in effecting an entry int Peak residence was taken by from the Chinese Chr Cemetery at Aberdeen, whith had gone on the previous having slept there until 8:6 on the following afternoon.
Previous Conviction.
Inspector Chester Woods 'duced a previous conviction ag Howells when he received: weeks for receiving goods from another Peak realdance.
An officer of the Borderers informed the Court that H was in 1929 sentenced to dete by a District Court Martial desertion.
A bill of complaint has been j "Ireland is not a British Colony: filed in the Chancery Court by ajshe is one of the oldest nations shareholder asking for the in the world, with all the rights to the charge.
The defendant pleaded guilty
But, in all seriousness, my tem- pointmeat of receivers for the of nationhood; and British states-
porary indisposition-I alncerely corporation and its associated men must abandon thele inanne secuted, said that yesterday morn- Sub-Inspector J. Dick, who pro-
trust that it intends to be only of companies, -Renters American ambition to dominate the, Irish,”":
a temporary nature, as a perpetual Servict
Thus Mr. de
ing Mr. Lo was attending the ser- Valera, in the
itch of the intensiy to which I am vice ni the Roman Catholic course of speech at Ennis to a Cathedral and had left his sent to
being subject is not the sort of crowd of six thousand people, in
blessing one wakes up in the night and prays for as I was remarking, on the which he disposed of any hope of participate in a part of the ser-
my temporary lapse from corporeal scat, from which it WAR taken change in his attitude-Reuter. vice. He left his hat
roctitude has resulted in the open- nway by the defondant, There
A curious acquel to an accident ing of my eyes to the fact that had been quite a number of com- plaints, although none had been which recently occurred near Mont-we still have women around us to whom the terms life and service made to the police, of such thefts | pellier. when a lorry carrying are almost synonymous, I suppose
persona attending the Cathedral. The troop of Boy dynamite caught fire and blew up. "Annabella" will laugh herself into Scouts attached to the Cathedral is the return home yesterday of hysterics over this admission, but before she starts I would remind volunteered to keep a lookout and the driver, of whom no trace could her of what somebody once said A Middlesbrough man has been yesterday morning during the rofused unemployment benefit be service one of the Scouts, S. Faria, be found after the explosion, and about mental stagnation, wearing nssumed, had been worn-out' clothes from sheer fo.ce taking Mr. who, it was cause he is "earning a living by saw the defendant
mid- of habit, being seared, in entering newspaper.competitions." Lo's hat..
It appears that the man tried to stream of switching over from a On enquiry his Worship was in- "The claimant," states the Um- pire, "has been fortunate, lucky or formed that Faria had, not been put the flames out, but the Bre dead horse to a live one, etc. But spread so rapidly that he had to this by no means signifies that I particularly skilful, which ever be able to attend Court.
According to the correct torm in which to do-
Sub-Inspector run for his life, and was about have been converted overnight from scribe
My dis the measure of succcan Dick, the defendant was banished fifty yards away when the explo- chronic misogynist into a delud-
ed woman-worshipper. which has attended his efforts, for life from Singapore in 1929 sion occurred.
approval of the allure-by-artifice and in 1929 he succeeded in win-following four previous convic.
After that he says he could re-type remains unabated as a mat ning at least two prizes, one £100tions there.
member nothing excopt going to tor of fact, it has been accentuated and the other £25.
Sentence of three months' hard Marzolites and taking the first boat by contrast--but I now humbly "In view of the systematic man- labour was imposed.
which was sailing, and which land- offer my apologies to a minority of nor in which the claimant has com-
od him in Algiers. He then bogan Hongkong women whom-I had pro- to realise what he was doing, and' Sergeant Hon Pau, of the Hong-wired to his wife to say that hously entirely overlooked.
took a The soldier has always been re- rained and no doubt hopes to gain, kong Pellee Force, passed away in was returning. He then
garded as the porsonification of I can only come to the conclusion his native village in the Tun Kung bont back to Marseilles..
bravery, and yet in a whole lifetime District on flor, a Iong that he is following an occupation
ho may be subject to only a few who joined the that he derives a profit from,
Force in August 1914, was 41 years
After having partaken of a nom- months of actual danger. A prima He adds that proof was not of age and ls survived by #widow given that for six months before and four young chidran Heywan ber of sweets this morning, Lo Chun- donna or a screen artist may have The late Mr. A. L. Macrowan, his claim the man's profit did not granted thred" wenkski sava and was lol of 88, Laichikok Road, is stated the world at her foot and be in a destinfos of his felkrwmunkra
sister? An exile, lénviting due to have returned to day but this to have been poisoned. He was reposition to command exhorbitant. But what of a Hought exceed 88, 4d. a day on an 'average morning his widow bowelded Police moved to the Kerong Wah Hospital remuneration for her services a
result simply of opportunity and ovor that period:“
Huarters of huand's denike in a serious condition. Logan
Director of Messrs. Bradley and Co. Ltd, who passed away....at Home on Saturday.
peted for monetary prizes for 20 years and the prizes that he has
On the charge of house bres defendant was sentenced to months. For the theft of clock, he received another, mi and for giving a false name an dress to the pawnbroker Bo fined $20, with the alternati two weeks' hard labour. All' gentences wore ordered to be e consecutively.
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