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FOUR-DAY RESPITE IN ANTI-JEWISH BOYCOTT

ROUBLE

FEARED

TO-NIGHT

EALISATION OF THE

CONSEQUENCES

GOEBBELS THREAT

Berlin, April 1.

iis announced that the anti-

ish boycott will begin at ten

Dr. Goebbels

bek this morning, but will be IMPORTANT

ed off this evening until April]

announcing the decision, Dr. bbels, the Minister of Propa-1 da, explained that there has! ia noticeable decline of the dity campaign" abroad,

b proved the success of the ott threat.

• Gocbbels also declared that mproved situation proved that an Jewry has absolute power mit or stop the campaign td..

boycott will be resumed at m on April 5 unless the ity campaign ceases before

If the boycott has to be med on April 5, will resumed in a manner cal. ted to destroy German declared. Herr broadcast "bbela, in 3

resu last night, ey

want," he said, "to live in with the world. We want work. We do not want to make

ies unnecessarily."

CONOMIC DISLOCATION. ie suspension of the boycott is rded by disinterested circles

Berlin

5 recognition

SEIZURE

RED PROPAGANDA FACTORY RAID

SHANGHAI POLICE DISCOVERY

1. 128 4.m.)

(Special to *Telegraph”).

(Tdegraph, Copyright Telegraphie · Mes.

Recrived, Apr dinner. 1894.

Shanghai, April 1. "A remarkable seizure has been made by the Special Branch of the Municipal Police as the re- sult of a surprise raid on a Chi- nese building in the Internation. al Settlement.

મ

Special efforts have been inade by the secret service branch latter-

to unearth secret stores of Com munist records "and the raid has brought these efforts to a success-" ful conclusion.

Vast quantities of subversive: documents were found,

INVISIBLE INK.

THREAT TO NAVAL TREATIES

FEAR AROUSED BY JAPANS LEAGUE WITHDRAWAL

"SEPARATE" NAVY FOR MANCHUKUO?

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages" Ordinance, 1894. Received, April 1, "1.40 am)·

LONDON, MARCH 31.

THE EFFECT OF JAPAN'S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE LEAGUE ON THE QUESTION OF ARMAMENTS FOR MANCHUKUD IS EXERCIS ING THE MINDS OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENTS BOTH IN LONDON AND WASHINGTON."

Will Japan make use of Manchukuo to build her navy beyond treaty limits? Will she make naval and military demands on behalf of Manchukuo at the Dis armament Conference? These are among the questions being asked.

DAS

High above the clouds, the peak of Momt Everest is shown in this picture. An attempt to fly over the mountain will be made now at any moment by the Hariton Expedition.

BRITAIN'S BUDGET

DEFICIT RESULT OF DEBT PAYMENT

SOUND POSITION REVEALED

London, Mar: 31. A remarkably sound budgetary

It is pointed out that the appointment of a naval command at Changchun is of considerable significance position is revealed by the publi and that if Japan establishes a "separate" ravy for Man cation tonight of the year's re- chukuo, the spirit of the Washing and London Trea-venue and expenditure statistics, ties will be destroyed.

REVIEWS OF THE SITUATION

"

the total deficit of £32,279,000 including the anticipated pay- ment of the American debt ing !stalment.

Skilful conversion" operationa saved the country £30,000,000 in Considerable attention is paid, tion, irksome and says that mean-interest payments. to this question in the well-known while, the swollen military budget The financial year ended to-day

reviews.

L

THAT

FOUR-POWER PLAN TEXT

EXPLANATION GIVEN

IN LONDON..

London, Mar. 31.

It is authoritatively stated that the text now pablished in some newspapers of the so-called Four-Power Plan represents the first tentative drift-produced for ́discussion signed by Mumalin) 21. the Komo meeting with Mr. Ratosay

MacDonald and Sir John,

Simon

with does not fully correspond the text which the British Ministers took

Paris and dis cussed

with the subsequently French Ministers

to

As the project is still under Active discussion and examination

the respective capitals, it cau- - not at present be said to exist in any definitive form.-British Wireless.

ANOTHER GRAVE AIR CRASH

THIRTEEN KILLED AND INJURED

CANADIAN M.P. BADLY HURT

© (Special to "Telegraph”)

(Telegraph. Copyright. akgen Ordinance,... 1894,

1. Milo.am.

Telegraphia” Mas- Received, Apri

New York, Mar. 31.

The famous Winnipeg basket- ball team, who recently won the amateur championship of Canada and have been touring the United States, were, victims of a fatal

ALCINEAMTEN FEATURES VERA SALA DE aeroplane crash near Kansas City

[to-day.

must give enlightened Japanese and the returns issued by the AIR CRASH The Spectator saya plainly that economic cause for serious an- if Manchukuo is an independent xiety.

Treasury show that revenue has amounted to £744,791,000,

Excluding the payment to the United States Government, expen- diture amounted to £748,114,000.

A deficit of £3,323;000 "is reach- cd after providing £174 millions

he undesirable economic dis-

All the writings were carried out don which would inevitably in invisible ink, but the application w the strict exercise of the of a process which the police had State as Japan clalma and insists. The Saturday Review describes yott, and this viewpoint has in readiness revealed in full detail despite the refusal of the rest of Japan's withdrawal from the Lea ce1arged by Nazi members of what appears to be the complete the world to recognise the regime,gue of Nations as catastrophic for

Cabinet:

archives of the National Labour it is entitled to equip itself with the League's influence in the Far Federation and the Chinese Com- an army-and what is more pertin- East, but it denies that war will munist Party's central organisation.ent in view of the existing Naval result, though Japan may be for- for sinking fund.

The discoveries included a num-Treaties-with a Navy.

eed to continue the armed defence The payment to the United of the puppet-State Manchukuo-States was £28,956,000, making a Reader.

tatal deficit of £32,279,000.

Many people consider - that ·

whole campaign has not

no much an act of de- against the "foreign city" campaign as an al- to appease the Nazi emists, who have been in- 1 to anti-Semitism for

very much doubled, how- whether the policy of p bent will prove successful.

TROUBLE FEARED.

lsh circles feel that once the It has started, the Nazi will not be able to hold ollowers in check and trouble ed this evening. v. Goebbels' broadcast ad-

last night has not al id this anxiety.

the meantime, preparations e boycott are well in hand and ler that foreigners shall seÇ. the position,! eriousness of is in ungrammatical English iming "Germans defend your- kainst the Jewish atrocity 'ganda" wil be posted.

"!

LLAR DECLINES

AGAIN

MARKET CONTINUES

DULL

ber of lengths of striped cotton cloth such as is used for shirting, which," after being subjected to chemical treatment, were revealed

SERIOUS SITUATION..

If Japan proceeds to endow its protegee with ships of war out-

the

to contain manuscripts, Communistide the limits set her by circulars, notifications, handbills, London Naval Treaty, a very books etc.

seridus situation will arise.

OVER 1,800,000 CHARACTERS. A conservative estimate of the number of Chinese characters al pearing on each linear fool of cloth is approximately 3,750.

Therefore, It is believed that the forty-three lengths of cloth "con- fiscated show a grand total of no fewer than 1,612,000 characters.— Reuter.

MR. MATSUOKA IN WASHINGTON

PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT

►

(Special to "Telegraph")">

The New Statcaman, dealing with the same issue, says that it ia to be expected that Japan will, at the Disarmament Conference, i demand increased armament both for herself and for Manchukuo.

ISOLATION IRKSOME.

The Week-end Revice expects Japan to find her voluntary isola-!

WORLD PARLEY

TALKS

BEING CONTINUED IN LONDON

London, Mar. 31. The conversations between. Mr.

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TRAGEDY

DEATH OF MR. R.

STEVENS

PASSENGER BADLY INJURED

1

Thirteen of the fourteen persons in the machine were either killed or injured. It is not yet kuowa how many of them are among those fatally hurt.

The basketball team, known as "The Toilers," were returning . home after participating in the United States National Champion- ship.

As against the payment to the United States there would nor- In connexion with the fatal mally have been received, since crash of Mr. R. J. Stevens, test last July, £30 millions fre pilot of the Far East Aviation allied war debta to Britain and

The injured include Colonel Sampson, member of the Canadian

House of Commons, who had

| several bones broken.

Four of the thirteen victims are known to be dead.-Reuter.

VILLAGE HUTS DESTROYED

FIRE BREAKS OUT ON MAINLAND

from reparations and a further Co., at Liuchow on Thursday, it 57 millions from Dominion war (now transpires that a Chinese debts, the relief of debts, etcetera passenger who was also in the making. £371⁄2 millions in all at plane was seriously injured, current rates of exchange.

No detailed account of the Reparation and war debt pay-mishap has yet been received by under ar- the Company, beyond the state- ments, however, arc, Norman Davis, chief United States rangements made at Lausanne, ment that the crash occurred when

Three, huts in Ngai Tain Wat the Lausanne the machine which Mr. Stevens village, in the Kowloon City dis- delegate to the Disarmament Con- suspended until ference, and the Prime Minister and agreement has been ratified or was piloting was preparing to Foreign Secretary. were continued until a decision has been reached land. It is thought possible that trist, were destroyed by fire which broke out shortly before 5.30: this. this afternoon.

..not to ratify that agreement. If the machine nose-dived.

.

call

RUSSIAN SENT

A further discussion on matters all the payments normally, due to Mr. A. V Harvey, the local morning On receipt of a TO GAOL

to be considered at the World this country since July 1932 had Manager of the Company, was to the Kowloon Fire Brigade attend Economic Conference may take been received in full, the budget have flown to Liuchow this mored Damage to the extent of $370 DISOBEYED ORDER FOR Paris next week.

place before Mr. Davis leaves for would have been balanced with aning to investigate the accident, was caused by the fire, which is

surplus of 5 millions.

but in consequence of bad weather believed to have originated in one EXPULSION

The data of the Conference resis The budget which made to pro-reports from Wuchow, the trip has of the huts through an inmate If conditions lighting an oil lamp which ignited on the League Organising Com- vision for receipts or outgoings been postponed.

inmates of the huts escaped. A For disobeying an order of ex-mittee, of which Sir John Simon is for reparations and war debts, improve, the fight will be made mosquito net. Fortunately, the pulsion, a Russian, Michel, Zoo-chairman, and a meeting of which £766,800,000 and a total expendi- to-morrow,

A small fire broke out on the (egraph, Copyriplet Telegraphie Mbridsky, was sent by Mr. Wynne-has not yet been summoned Bri- ture, including a provision for the

first floor of 61, Catchlek Street,. sages erdivance, Laws. Recries, ..14 TH )

Jones at the Central Police Court, fish Wireless.

einking fund of £121⁄2 millions of

which is used as a store room. Washington, Mar. 21.

to-day to prison for two months.

£746,000,000. Mr. Matsuoka was received to-

Det, Sergt. Mottram stated that day by President Roosevelt to Zoobridsky, was one of two ment whom he was presented by the who some time ago arrived at Can- Japanese Ambassador, Mr-ton from the North in a junk Debuchi.

They had employment for some

The Japanese delegate also Lime and Zoobridsky then came to visited the State Department Hongkong, but, being destitute where he met Mr. Cordell Hull,—and without a passport, wAB Reuter.

charged before the Court and 'sen- tenced to 14 days' hard labour, and an order made for his ex-

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT

LAD DIES ON WAY TO HOSPITAL

millions.

.

capital payment of which account should be taken in any final set-

"tlement."

by the Commercial Printing Press. A quantity of oil covering paper, INCOME TAX DOWN.

used for printing purposes," WAS Income tax and surtax yielded

The flames were ex- 312,200,000 which is 134 mil- INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. damaged.

tinguished by the employees. lione less than estimated, Estates Excluding the payment to the The fire occurred shortly after 2 daties yielded 466 millions, Which United States Government, pay-a.m. was one million more than the ments from the fixed debt charge! estimate. Customs and excise for interest ctcetera, have amount- Hongkong dollar declined

Mr. William Russell,, late Govern yielded £288 millions against aned to £202% millions and for the ment Marino Surveyor, and his this morning to 1s. 32d.

daughter, Miss Mora Russell, Jeft for A Sanitary Department motor estimate of £300 millions. Sundry sinking fund to £17% milliona. market locally continues very

An additional sum of £2,655,000|6ydney to-day by the x.s. Nankin. with practically no husiness CONVERSION LOAN He had disobeyed Lant van was involved in a fatal ac- loans and miscellaneous provided

order, and in returning here. by cident on the Prays near the Tai a surplus over the estimate of £64 representing. Interest on savings certificates has been met from train was discovered by Sergt. Hing Wharf yesterday afternoon,

000. Actual expenditure amount On the expenditure side the fixed borrowed moneys, when a boy was killed.. Russell of the Water Police.

The reduction in the sinking ed to £46844 millions representing Tseng So, the driver of the van, debt charges were fixed for the year DEMAND

Zoobrideky said he came back, for the purpose of being assisted has reported to the police that at £276 millions for interest and fund payments below the amount a saving of £10% millions. London, Mar 31.by a friend, who had given him while proceeding along Connaught management of the debt and anticipated in the budget is due to the effect of the rise in price Tenders for £15,000,000 22 per some money to go to Shanghal

Road Central in a westerly direc-millions, for the sinking fund, cent, Conversion Loan 1944-19 and Sergt. Mottram said the defend-Lion, a boy, Lan Ki, aged 11, sud- The payment to the United of giltedged securities, following with the market easy. The Treasury bills were opened to dayant had $12, which was more than denly ran across the thoroughfare States is shown in the return as the war loan conversion operation, 455,000 compared with £811,955,- The total amount applied for ex-sufficient to buy a deck passage near the Tat Hing Whar, and war separate and single item within on statutory and contractual sink 000 year ago and is made up of eseded £79,000,000. The amount of to the Northern port. An expul-knocked down by the right front the year's budget expenditure: ing tund requirements.

Treasury bills £775,995,000 - azd Conversion Loan allotted was £9,-

The lad received This is done to mark its special, The Budget estimate for the sup ways and means borrowing from additional H.K.V.D.C. Order that there may, 3rd April, at above receiving their requirements would be seen off on the steamer, textos injuries to the head and character, for in making the pay ply was £447,204,000. Since then the public departments of £94, that there will be a Full Band 165,000, applicants at £94% and son order was unnecessary, as he mudguard.

·Wireless and after completion of the two legs, and died in the ambulante nient the Government reserved the supplementary estimates have been 550,009-British

on the way to hospital. at Headquarters, in mufti, in full.-British Wireless,

months' sentence.

right to treat the whole sum as a presented amounting to £21,614,-|Reuter.

London. silver dropped

China was a small seller' he market was very dulet.. the official fixing, buyers satisfied and the market

y quiet.

ork reports silver down

date is 3.41.7/8d., weak.

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