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Hongkong Telegraph.

POUNDED 1881

No. 16883

一拜禮 號一卅月十英港香

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1932.

ü三初月十

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1888 DUNLOP the Ploneer

DUNLOP still the Leader

"Bouth China Morning Post Bldg.” Tol' 24554.

UNEMPLOYED IN RIOTS IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE

SCUFFLES

WITH

POLICE

ATTEMPT TO WRECK A

MOTORCAR

POLICE BATON

CHARGE

London, Oct. 30. Sharp scuffles occurred be- tween police and unemployed demonstrators in Trafalgar Numbers Square to-day.

were injured and taken into custody.

The trouble commenced with

An effective photograph of Trafalgar Square, where rioting occurred yesterday, taken at night,

a wrecking campaign by a party AN ELEGANT

of hooligans. They started to break the windows of a nearby shop and then held up a motor. car endeavouring to make pro-i gress through the throng.

The driver was In plight. He was forced to desert the car and efforts were made to overturn it without success.

11

serious

RINGLEADERS ARRESTED.

FRAUD

BOGUS FACTORY INSPECTOR

BELIEVED TO BE A PORTUGUESE

Palice investigations following|

EXPERTIZIMLARINIZUBSZGYDONNAY

AFTER RELEASE

We have received, just as we go to press, a photograph of Dir. Charles Corkran, Mrs. Pawley and her husband, taken at Newchwang on the arrival of the released captives after 45 days in the hands of bandits, which strikingly conveys its own story. - It will be published in our second edition.

(FIPAZEAGUNTIE 1223|GARRANTZITETENOREZONANCIJALNA

When it was observed that the the report that a foreigner, pos- BLACK SEA TRAIN situation was rapidly getting outing. as an Inspector of Factories,

has been going the round. of_fącz!'

of the control of the police actingtories on the matuland and de

in isolated incidents, policemanding

a

"squeeze" froni the managements, have led to the baton charge was ordered and the

conviction that the man mob was quickly dispersed, though Portuguese, of short and thin not until several of the police and build, but with an elegant Ap- the rioters had received minor in-earnace which his well-pomand- jed hair and neat suit of grey

serge, emphasised.

juries and many of the ringleaders of the disturbances had been ar-

rosted.

DISASTER

Death Sentence for Stationmaster

This elegancy was also impart- INTERFERED WITH ed to his fine gestures, and heị never spoke except through the

him

The disorders were the outcome medium of a Chinese interpreter of a large political meoting which who "ddently" followed" was addressed by the unemployed, about.

SIGNALMAN

Moscow, Oct. 30.

THREATS IN VAIN

|JAPANESE: AND GEN. SU PING-WEN

HABAROVSK FILLED WITH TROOPS

RUSSIAN REFUGEES'

STORY.

Harbin, Oct. 31. Four Russian refugees, whose ages range from 24 to 19, arrived from Habarovsk

AMICABLE PEACE yesterday by steamer and

NOW SOUGHT

were arrested by the police for being without documents.

The youths state that fifty military and many civil serò- planes Are stationed Habarovsk and that the town is filled with troops. They decided to risk everything and escape from the U.S.S.R. owing to the insufliciency of foodstuffs

for civilians.-- Router.

(Special to "Telegraph”.) -

Harbin, Oct. 31. Threats having failed, the Japanese military authorities are now making vigorous efforts to secure the return of General Su Ping-wen to the Manchukuo folde by negotiations involving a pos- sible financial settlement.

In view of Su Ping-wen's com munication to the League in which The vowed never to lay down his arms until Manchuria has been freed from the oppressive yoke ofj Japanese militarism, it is doubtful whether the anti-Manchukuo gen- jeral w succumb to Japanese [blandishments.

TSITSIHAR PERIL

ATTACK REPORTED

IMMINENT

SECRET AGENTS AT WORK

Harbin, Oct. 31. A tense situation prevails

Su Ping-wen engiucured the widespread mutiny in North Man- chuli which resulted in the cap- ture of large numbers of Japanese; residents and die severance from at Tsitsihar in the face of Manchukuo control of a huge area the threat of an imminent from Manchuli ainost to Tsitsihar. attack by large anti-Man- chukuo forces and suspicions

ULTIMATUMS IGNORED.

AMERICA'S NEXT . CABINET

WASHINGTON SEERS ACTIVE

While Mr. Franklin Roosevelt has not yet defented President Hoover in the election, political prophets in Washington are al- ready selecting his Cabinet for him.

Mr. John W. Davis, former Ambassador to Great Britain, is the most probable choice for Secretary of State in the event of Mr. Roosevelt's success in the presidential campaign, according ta current expectation.

Mr. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War in the Wilson cabinet, now practising law at Cleveland, is re garded as extremely well-qualified

Herr Brachi, who is to act as Minia-for the post; and strong re-

ter of the Interior in Prussis.

presentations on his behalf are anticipated: Mr. Baker fa con- sidered to have been one of the ablest members of the Wilson cab-

REICH CONTROL IN [inct, and "insiders" say that he

PRUSSIA

POLITICAL FUSION

PROPOSALS

A COMPROMISE AGREEMENT

Berlin, Oct. 30.

had a very prominent part in die- cussions of International policy during the World War.

MR. POLK QUALIFIED,

Mr. Frank L. Polk, formerly Under-Secretary of State and for Ja time Acting Secretary, is also likely to receive consideration in the event that Mr. Davis and Mr.. Baker are required for other posta, but he does not have cxtensive political support..

The "edge" given to Mr. Davis livered to Su Ping-wen threaten-operation with the attackers between the State Ministers of

Although ultimatums were de- of. plans for internal co-

The constitutional struggle in advance speculation rests upon his prestige as diplomat and ing large scale military action us he did not release all his Japanese According to the Japanese news- Prussia and the Von Papen appointment would command high attorney, and the belief that his prisoners, the Japanese military papers, the anti-Manchukue forces Government having been over-confidence at home and abroad. consider it best to arrange, if they are moving on Tsitsihar and are come by a compromise agree- can, an amicable settlement.

All disinterested observers con- endeavouring to encircle the city, ment, the political fusion of the

cede the availability of De- of Reich and Prussia will be accom-mocratic cabinet material of ex- The mutineer general now con-with the supposed Intention trols about 260 miles of the west-storming it when the moment plished to-morrow.

ceptional talent and administra- jern section of the Clinese Eastern

considered ripe.

An official announcement will be tive experience, and this fact is Railway between Manchull and It is stated that secret agents and made defining the proposals As a sequel to the Black Sea Tsitsihar and ho would undoubted-anti-Manchukuo sples have been ex- the fusion and making various ap-mocrats as an asset in the

for extensively agitated among De- wreck Wai- [uxpress

disaster, thely be able to provide a but the majority of the demonstrakuen, manager of the Yuet Yee Supreme Court to-day passeil resistance.

strong tremely active in Taltaihar conduct pointments in consequence there- paigu

ing anti-Manchukuo propaganda of.. tors had dispersed in an orderly Lung Knitting Factory at Mong-sentence of death upon M.

and proparing to nasist the Volun Herr Bracht and Herr Popitz, Young, and William G. McAdoo, Messrs. Davis, Baker, Owen D. manner immediately after the kok, who was induced to part with Bulakoff, the Station Master.

teers when their attack is launch-Reich Ministers without portfolio, are mentioned as the possible meeting. The disturbances were money. describes him ล of

ed.-Router.

(will take

Prussian Ministries of the Interior and and their qualifications are com "big four" in the cabinet, Finance respectively,

Herr Braun, the Reich Minister Stimson, Ogden Mills, Hurley and pared with those. of Mesara. of Food, will be entrusted with the the most prominent advisors in Prussian Ministry of Agriculture. President Hoover's cabinet.

¡center.

One of his victims. Lau

jold.

his

THE WHIPHAND. Besides, the difficulties involved caused by hooligans wno romain-singularly, youthful appearance, He was convicted of interfering"} ed behind looking for trouble-certainly not more than 25 years with the work of his Assistant, in the task of dispersal of

named Vonteer, by arbitrarily forces, the Japanese evidently fear The area of Mongkok where signalling the line clear while it that military movements along the GER. would probably cause the are situated a large number of was occupied by another train.

displeasure of the Soviet, par- ticularly. now when delicate! negotiations have been commenced,

FASTEST

FIGHTER factorles, has been the "Inspec-

IN WORLD

BRITAIN'S LATEST

WONDER-CRAFT

AUTOMATIC PILOT

(Our Own Correspondent).

London, Oct. 31.

tor's" field of exploitation within the past few days, but it seeme that not many have been imposed upon.

The Police have the matter under close investigation.

ARMISTICE NIGHT

DINNER

Vanteer was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for not preventing Bulakoff from interfering.

The watchman and a signalman were sentenced to six years' im- prisonment and one year's in- prisonment respectively for their part in the terrible disaster, in which it is alleged, ninety persons were killed and over three hundred were injured.

The disaster occurred on Octo-

ARRANGEMENTS WELL ber 16 and the Soviet endeavoured to prevent news of its gravity from leaking out.---Reuter,

We

IN HAND

The world's fastest military air-

informed are

that the! craft, having passed the most ex-arrangements are now almost acting teats under all comitions, complete for the dinner and will be shown at the International Ex-Active Service Men at the smoker which is to be held by Aoro Exhibition which is opening | Peninsula Hotel

'On Armistice in Parle on November 18.

Night. A fairly large musteris The machine is the latest plane expected, an extension until I a.m.

been constructed for the British Royal has

recommended, and points to મા very

in the

arc

RECENT BRAWL

SEQUEL

TWO COOLIES FACE MURDER CHARGE

Air Force. It is a Fairey Firefly everything single-seater fighter, equipped pleasant evening.

The decorations

A charge of murder has now with a supercharged engine, de-; veloping 800 h.p.

capable hands of Mr. Tatterson, replaced that of grievous bodily case against Lo harm in the The plane has a normal speed of R.N., who has a great deal of

Chang und Lo Tack, market 240 miles an hour, four miles a

experience in such matters, and coolles, following the death in capital concert minute.

programme hospital of Tong Tent whom they It is also equipped with an un-being arranged. There will be no are alleged to have fatally in- canny device called "The Automa-speeches and the only toast, apart Jured in a brawl in which bamboo tle Pilot."

from the usual loyal one to be poles were used on the central honoured, is to be "Our Fallen waterfront recently. Comradea".

THE TYPHOON

over

is

are most

FIFTY YEARS OF SERVICE

RETIRES

over the

in Moscow, with a view to the con- HONGKONG BANK MAN cellor, Captain Franz von clusion of # Russo-Japanese) understanding. 'They anxious to avoid any dispute with the Soviet at this stage.

They are, therefore, making overtures to Su Ping-wen for the purpose of arranging h mecting to discuss the points in dispute between him and the Manchukuo, Government.

I Su Ping-wen agrees to negotiate, Japanese and

Man- chukuo ropresentatives would pro- cood to the venue, probably chult, by air.

cam-

REICH CONTROL.

Mr. Young is mentioned most Yesterday, the new "Iron" Chan- frequently as Secretary of the Treasury, although observers con- Papen

sider that his numerous large issued a decree abolishing the Prussian Ministry of Welfare as business interests might make his London, Oct. 31.

well as various

appointment Inconvenient. departments of Mr. Harry Davies Campbell other Ministries the functions of Jones, senior Manager of the which will be taken over by Minis- Hongkong and Shanghai Bankingters of the Reich-Reuter, Corporation, retires to-day, hav ing completed fifty years' service with the Bank.

Mr. Jones, who is 69 years of age, was with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Manila from 1885 to 1906, being in charge ar

Man-Manager of the various Phillp-

to

pines branches, from 1897 to 1906, during the Spanish regime and American occupation.

NO NEWS FROM PRATAS

HOPES OF EARLY INFORMATION

BELIEF IN ABILITY.

Mr. Young's strength rests on a widespread bellef in hie ability and his success in a variety of difficult national and international enterprises and the presumption that his appointment would com- mand the confidence of Anancial New York.

Mr. William G. McAdoo, famous during the war as Secretary of the Treasury for management of the. great Liberty Loans is 'Demo-

HEADQUARTERS MOVED.

He was Maringer In Yokohama No nows has yet been received cratic candidate for Senator from The headquarters of the Japan from 1907 to 1911, being in charge by the Royal Observatory from California. If successful, Presi eso Army in Manchuria have just of all the Bank's branches in Pratas wireless station since 11 dent Roosevelt would probably been removed from Mukden Japan. He has been Joint Mana- p.m. on Friday, when typhoon depend on him as a powerful ally In Changchun, to which city Genera!ger in London since 1912, was force wind was being experienced the Sonate. If he should be do- Mato and his staff have already from 1923 to 1926 on the Com- there. It is understood, howover, feated in Hoover's home State by mittee of the Overseas Banks' that the station is in communie- a narrow margin, he would pro- proceeded-Router.

Association, boing re-elected for nation with Shanghat and Manila bably at!!! be regarded as éligible further three years in 1926, and on short-wave, but the wave- for à Cabinet post. " was Chairman and Vice-Chairhan length being used is not known in În 1926-27. He married Mias Hongkong. Efforts are, however, "AL" SMITH FAVOURED. Victoria Earnshaw in 1805, and boing madeo to secure this in- there are three sons.-Reuter.

The qualifications of Mr. Alfred formation, and then it is likely E. Smith, the defeated prosiden- that more definite nows will be tial candidate, for a cabinet post, received of the effects of the are of course, evident. Since he typhoon.

LIU HOLDS TSITSA.

HEAVY FIGHTING AROUND LAICHOW

יו

+

-outside of the

BIG FIRM FRAUD ALLEGED

J

Peking, Oct. 29. Foreign reports from Chofoo

The China Navigation &.s. Kay-has enlisted in the presidential report that heavy fighting is

campaign, a cabinet appointment ing was in very close proximity to may be offered him, if he destres No oficial guests are being The now charge was mentioned taking place at Lalchow where

the typhoon on Saturday, while on such a plan. An anticyclone remains

her.way from Bangkok to Swatow, invited. Any balanco after the by Det. Inspector John Murphy General Liu Chen-alon is holding

MERCHANT GRANTED Information has, however, been

Senator Carter Glass, for a time North China; the typhoon is necessary expenses have been when the coolles appeared on ro-out against greater numbers.

defrayed will be divided equally mand before Mr. Wynne-Jones at : Five hundred of General Liu's

received that she has not been Secretary of Treasury in the Wil- eltuated about 100 miles cast of between Earl Halgs Poppy Day the Contral Police Court, to-day troops are holding Teitsa whore

$100,000 BAIL

damaged. She is expected here son cabinet, and co-author of the South Halman, moving westwards. Fund and St. Dunstan's Home for The officer said that consequent 100 of General Han Fu-chu's

Charges involving losses of from Swatow to-morrow.

Federal Reserve Act, fa also fre- Moderato to fresh monsoon will

the Blind.

on this dovelopment, ho, would cavalry appeared

over a lakh of dollars were brought

¡quently mentioned as a Cabingt prevail along the China coast and

possibility. We have been requested to ask want a wook's ramand to enable walls...

against Chan Sik-nin before Mr.

Senators of both over the Northern China Sen.

Public Prosecutor to bo General Liu's troops are carry- Schofield at the Contral Police, the King Fuk Wo firm at 66, parties have paid tribute to his Local weather forecast: N. E. all those who propose to attend, the

provided they have not already brought into the preceedings. He ing out sporadic raids at Laiyang Court this morning by Mc Hin- Bonham Strand East,

extraordinary talent in fiscal winds, fresh; fair.

done so, to send In their applica- explained that the charge may be in quest of food, clothing, etc, but shing Lo (instructed by Mr. Potor After legal argument between matters, and he has had a leading tions for tickets as. Boon as modified to manslaughter after Chofen remains quite, the Chinono Bin).

Mr. Lo and Mr. F. X. d'Almada, part in most fiscal and banking Liont-Colonel B. D. Matthews, possible, as it may be necessary consultation with Mr. J. A. Fraser.ruiser, Halchang, being in the The defendant was alleged to sonr., who appeared for the delegislation during the last-de- the Secretary of the Royal Hongkong to close the list at an early date, of Accused were formally remand-Inner harbour, where are also have forged and uttered a power fendant, his Worship romanded cade. His appointment would Golf Club, returned from leave which, however, due notice will ed for a work. Mr Horace Lo is British and American warships of attorney and with it to have the defendant, granting ball in have the political advantage of yesterday.

| appear In the press.

appearing on their behalf.

taken control and management of sum of $100,000.

Reuter.

.