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NEW MINISTER TO CHINA

JAPAN SAID TO BE SUSPICIOUS

ASSOCIATION WITH GENEVA

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1933.

ANTI-CHANGCHUN

PLOT

CHINESE OFFICERS

ARRESTED

Mukden, Sept. 1. The Press ban on news concern- ing an anti-Manchoukuo plot by Chinese soldiers was removed Into last night.

Lieut. Col. Shang Chiu-hainny. staff officer of the Chinese Nation- Tokyo, Sept. 6. nl Salvation Volunteer Army; Japanese official circles are Major-Gen. Pao Feng-lung and said to regard the appointment fifteen others were arrested by by the British Government of Major Kikuchi, of the Japanese Mr. Alexander Cadogan as Gendarmerie force in Manchuria. British Minister to Chinn within July 27 in the Chineas City of

Mukden, it is learned. suspicion.

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It la inferred that the appoint- According to Japanese oljeinis, ment. of such дтп

Mr. the Chineic planned to blow up the Cadogan, who is credited with American Consulate-General here deep knowledge of the situation on May 7; the British Consulate- In the Far East, following his General on May 12; the Mukden very close connexion with the Railway Station on May. 31; the League of Nations, indicates a tram car track in front of the British Intention to uccelerate Mukden Railway Station on Juno technical co-operation between 4 and the, government opium Chinn and Genova and indirectlyureau on June 27, Each time the to strengthon Anglo-Chinese re-

Iations.

In view of this, the Impending arrival of Dr. Rajchrunnn in China and Mr. T. V. Soong's unfriendly attitude towards Japan, tho Japancae Government will not change its watchful waiting polley towards China.

Japancae discovered the plot and thwarted it. The arcated Chinese were handed over to the Mukden olice on August 19 after being questioned by the Japanese gen-

darmerie.

The announcement said that the

troops.

Chinese also attempted to organise anti-Manchoukuo foreas by start- ing a rebellion among newly- organised Manchoukuo Major-Gen. Pao was reported to: have attempted, "to, organise volunteer corps, with 1,000 mount-: ed men at Chiniwangtao.

Another

group of

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21st

MURDERER WHOM LAW. CANNOT PUNISH

CONVICT KILLS A MAN IN PRISON

Belgrade.

A convict in the gaol at Slavon- ska Pazheka has killed a man but the law cannot punish him.

and, with another man named He is named Rudolf Bajzek, ffoltz, was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for thefts with

olence.

They slept in the same cell and worked in the same gang in prison.

But Bajzek always complained that he was Innocent, and had been sentenced owing to the false evidence of Holtz.

LIFE AND DEATH WARSHIP IN GALE

STRUGGLE.

CRIMLY ENACTED ON TRAIN

MANIAC AND..

WARDERS

arrived here.

Cosenza, Italy,

H.M.Ş. CORNWALL STRUCK BY TYPHOON Flying the paying-off pennant, H.M.S. Cornwall returned Hongkong from her summer 'crules) to northern waters shortly after noon yesterday.

to

A LORRY DRIVER CHARGED."

SEQUEL TO FATAL SPILL

ON ISLAND ROAD

SHARK AHOY!

SIGHTED IN CLEAR. WATEIL BAY ON SATURDAY.

CHINESE FLIGHT,

A party aboard Mr. A. E. A mysterious woman on the road Edgar'a yacht had a thrilling ox- 18 attributed na baing the sole perience on Saturday when they cause of a lorry turning over on were making for Clear Water Bay Island Road on August 24, and after a squall. They were Just As she steamed down the har-killing Li Hing, a coolle, who was passing an island off the mainland. bour to her anchorage, the Corn- seated on the top of a load of fish when a shark, stated, to be about. wall showed practically no signs of together with some other coolles. ton feet in length, was seen follow- A grim fe-and-death struggle the experiences she had under- Police Court proceedings against ing, the boat at a distance of about two warders in a between a homicidal maniac and gone in the typhoon that passed in-Le Loung, the 'driver of the lorry, twenty feet. It kept close to tie second classland near Shanghal on Saturday were commended boforo Mr. yacht for some time, but as the compartment. while

the train night.

Schofield nt tre Central Magistracy vessel drew in to the shelter of the rocked and swayed over the points Interviewed aboard the warship, ed for further hearing to

yesterday afternoon, and adjourn-elifts the shark disappeared out in at sixty miles an hour, was related Commander LMR Campbell sale afternoon.

this | sen" ngain. when the Naples.Iteggio express that the Cornwall proceeded to

A charge of

There have been: several repor manslaughter, Francesco d'Angleo, a danger Whangpoo River, when intimation defendant, was withdrawn by Sub- this your..

Beal Island, near the mouth of the originally preferred against the of sharks appearing in local waters ous lunatic, was being taken to the Nocera Asylum. Leaping to of the typhoon.

was first received of the approach Inspector Saunders, of the, Traffic his feet suddenly, he attacked the two warders, who were accom Saturday afternoon, and, although and proceed on the other two of Department, who said he had in- The wind gained in intensity on structions to withdraw this charge panying him, with bottles.

He smashed a bottle over tho

the Cornwall was between thirty dangerous driving and carrying One day when they were at head of one of them, almost blind and forty miles from the centre of ten passengers in excess. exercise in the prison yard he

ing him and then attacked the the disturbance, gusts which ex- Mr. Hin-ahing Lo, instructed by stabbed Holtz with a cobbler's next one.

eceded 120 miles an hour were ex- Mr. J. M. Hall, appeared for the knife, killing him.

A flerce fight resulted in the perienced between 8 and 9 p.m. defendant, and tendered a plea of Death sentence in Yugo-Slavin warder being overpowered and

Two other vozacis, u Chinese not guilty on both charges. is only given for brutal murder seriously injured, but before be- ship and a Batterfield and Swire As a result of the manslaughter for gain, so the Court could onlying, overwhelmed he succeeded in ateamer, were also obtaining what charge being withdrawn, the caso give Bajzek a life sentence. But puining the communication cord. shelter they could from the low will be dealt with summarily. a life sentence in Yugo-Slavia As the train stopped passengers

lying islanda.

Doctor's Evidence. ends after 20 years--and the man from

Despite other compartments

Dr. Thomas, of the Government had only begun to serve 20 years along the corridor to see what had velocity of the wind, the strong Civil. Hospital, sald that the de- current kept the Cornwall almost ceased received head injuries, and happened,

They found d'Angelo, snarling broadside on to the gule, and. It denth was due to fracture of the with murderous frenzy, brandish- was this that was responsible for Ing the neck of a broken bottle the loss of the ship's seaplane.

An exceptionally heavy gust tore over the injured warders. When he saw the other passengers, he the upper structure of the seaplane gave a about of fury and rushed from the wires holding it down to at them, but was tackled and overwhelmed by an officer of the Fascist Militia.

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short time before, So the law could not punish him.-Reuter.

MORE BRITISH PLANES

MANUFACTURERS

INCREASE OUTPUT

London.

Another instance of Japan's concern over the appointment of Dr. Rajchmann as the League of Nations' technical adviser [to] China, la provided by the decision of the Japanese Foreign Office to Hond Mr. Sugimura to China. His task is said to be that of investigat- ing whether Dr. Rajchmann's Manchoukuo Chinese soldiers were activities in China are really arrested on April 8. They were "non-political." Mr. Sugimura headed by Ling Chin-tung, who may be expected at Shanghai at formerly belonged to the the end of this month-Central Route Army of the Northeastern

Figures which the Air Ministry Anti-Japanese National Salvation has published indicate that British News Agency.

Army. These men are accused of aircraft manufacturers are gain- attempting to blow up the Mukden ing a substantial lend over their railway station on January 4 and foreign rivals. In the European the waterworks in the S.M.R. zone market alone, the total value of in Mukden on March 2.

British aircraft exports during the They are reported to have estab-past three years was £1,180,482 in of those of the United lished their headquarters in Sinti-

Britain's nearest com- tung last year together with Chang-Fu-liang, commander of the plainclcthes snipers in Manchuria. Chang went to Peking when the Japanese gendarmeries arrested his men on April 8-United Press.

BRITAIN ATTACKED IN JAPAN

INDIAN AGITATORS' ATTEMPTS

Indian malcontents In Japan who for many years past have striven hard to win the sympathy and support of the Japanese people in their fight for Indian free-

excess

States, potitor.

Over the

complete three-year

ran

He was handed over to the police at the next station.--Keuter.

A SOCIAL FUNCTION

IN MANILA.

FAREWELL TO MAJ-GENERAL

BOOTH BY OFFICERS

The Governor General of the Philippines, Hon. Frank Murphy, and his staff, were to, attend a farewell reception at the Despidida of the Army and Navy Club. Manila, last evening, in honour of Major General and Mrs. Ewing

Booth.

som," have lust added three E FORMER MINISTER compared with £149,663 from the United States Army transport

publications,

at re-

gular intervals, to their campaign of lecture tours, pamphlets (here- tofore almost always in Japanese) and magazine articles.

CHARGED

RELIEF FUNDS USED

FOR PARTY

rod, the United States holds a alght lead in the Far East mar- kets, but the position was re- versed in 1932, when the value of Major General and Mrs. Booth exports from the United Kingdom | aro leaving the Philippines for to these markets totalled £186,297, | San Francisco to-morrow by the

United States.

During the three years covered by the Alr Ministry statistics, the United Kingdom aviation exports to other parts of the Britsh Em- pire exceeded those of the United States by £1,968,170.

Of the total of 2,160 engines exported by the United States last year, 2,010 went to Soviet Russin.

One of these publications is called "World Federation" and its editor is Mahendra Pratap whose

Berlin, Aug. 31. activities during the World War

The Public Prosecutor of Berlin on behalf of the former German Kalsør at Kabul, are well-known: opened-legal-proceedings-to-day--Reuter

against Horr Andrew Hermes, who as formerly Minister of Agricul- ture and Minister of Finance in the Reich Government.

Another in a monthly pamphlet entitled "The New Asia." This is published both in English and Japanese, and proclaims itself as the "organ of the New. Asin As- anciation which stands for the complete independence of Asla." Its editor and publisher la Rash Behari Bose, whose terrorist ac- tivities in Indin between the years 1912 and 1916 forced him event- ually to flee from India.-Reuter

London Children Healthier

AN ENCOURAGING REPORT

London. London children are becoming healthier.

He is charged with continual dishonesty to the disadvantage of the Prussian Agrarian Bank and the German Peasants' Bank.

Herr Hermes is accused of hay- ing employed funds destined for the relief of agrarian unions for the benefit of the "Christian Peasants' Association," of which he was chairman.

The ex-minister, who was arrest- ed and taken to a detention house last March, was recently released but has now been brought up for

trial once more.

Herr Hermes is a Catholic and was a member of the Centre Party, He was the first post-war Minister of Agriculture in Germany and was Minister of Finance in the Wirth Cabinet during the time of the French occupation of the Ruhr-Renter.

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This item of nows is contained HONEYMOON ON

in the report of Sir Frederick Menzies, the School Medical OM- cer, in his report to the London County Council for the year 1932. Sir Frederick says:

The progreek during school'

ufe

DEVIL'S ISLAND

SACRIFICIAL QUEST- OF S.A. WORKERS

Paris.

A PRACTICAL MAGISTRATE

CURIOUS PROCEDURE IN PARIS COURT

Parks

MI. Daniel Misse, A Paris magistrate, prides himself on "be- ing eminently practieni.

A woman was brought to his court who had been sued by her dressmaker, She had refused to pay for a dress on the grounds that it did not fit her.

"Case adjourned for: to-day." sald M. Masse curtly, "and will you please appear before me this day week in the dress in question. will then decide whether it fits you, next casel"

In the next case a buyer and a wine merchant disputed the quall ty of some wine.

M. Masse, ordered his clerk to pour out a glass for him.

He scented the bouquet, rolled the wine round his tongue and smacked his lips.

"Damages against the seller," he declared.-Reuter:

CONQUEST OF THE ARCTIC

WITH A NEW TYPE OF ICE-BREAKER

Moscow.

A new type of ice-breaker, which can steam 6,000 miles without re-fueling, has been designed to

occasion.

the extremely high

NOTED AIRMAN ON TOUR

OF COUNTRY-

Noaking, Sept. 5. The Chinose airman, Gun:Tung- kung, who took off from Tsinan. this morning on a tour through- out China, arrived here at 4 p.m. to-day;

Mr. Sun is leaving for Shang- hai at 10 a.m. to-morrow. akull and apertusion of the Brains Mr. Sun recently flow from deceased. having been violently The ujuzles were compatible with Berlin, to Nanking.-euteri flung out of a moving vehicle and and, striking. his head against a defendant. These mon the ship, and carried it overboard. wali of rock with projecting owners of Hsh. He did not notice

points.

were

The full Intensity of the typhoon passed by p.m., but extremely gusty weather was experienced spot, had been submitted, and

After plans of the road at this a woman on the road just before

the accident. practically the whole of the night evidence of identification given by With the exception of the loss of deceased's brother, Too Loung, a

“Frightened” Says a Grocer, the seaplane, no damage was done licenced driver, said that he had shop at Stanley, said that hu Chiu Yeung, master of a grocer's to the Cornwall, which sailed for driven this forry the previous day; boarded the lorry to go to Hong Hongkong next day.

in

The Cornwall will remain and on previous occasions, but had

found no difficulty with the steer-kong to buy goods. He pald Iport until Friday morning whening. The brakes too were right. nothing as fare, The load was not

she will depart for England for He never had

Higher than the sides of the lorry. relt and recommission.

much difficulty In

There were .14 men on the lorry, Commander Campbell was for whenever he drove.

negotiating the particular bend

including the driver and the other merly stationed aboard H.M.S. Kent, and was appointed to RMS that the brakes of the lorry had the lorry while it was in motion. In reply to Mr. Lo, witness sald man seated with him in the cab...

He did no see anyone climb into Cornwall this year.

been readjusted before. the last The lorry was travelling down the ocension being one month before hill at a speed, much faster than the usual speed, and he heard someone Pang Tim, who was seated bc-shout twice to the driver to roduce. side the driver, said that the lorry started from. Stanley about 5.45 speed. He did not hear the driver reply. He was frightened. Tho a.m. on August 24 for Hongkong

of the supports

Canvas cover with a load of fresh fish. The lond was about a foot higher than the bends, in the road. This did swayed when the lorry went round

AIR RIVALRY

JAPANESE REPORT OF

BRITISH AMBITION ·

asta-

the accident.

Ho

was not frightened "when the lorry

Shanghai, Sept. 5. the sides of the lorry. About ten Japanese reports, from Tokyo men boarded the lorry when about not usually. happen. The load of Grant,

state that General Maurice Cohen to start. These men were all soatfish fon moved first to the left and The farewell was to be attended (former adviser to the late Dr.ed in the body of the lorry. He then to the right just before the by offloers' and their ladles from | Sun Yat-sen),

Baw no one board the larry while accident. The lorry turned over all over the Philippines, the Army kong, has been muthorised to ask to the driver on the way.

who is in Hong it was in motion. He did not talk suddenly, and he did not realize

how it happened. Officers of the Phillippines, and Canton's approval of the their wives, acting as hosts for the bishment of a British controlled went down the hill towards Repulseness said that the driver knew he Cross-examined by Mr. Lo, wit- The decoration of the Army and company to compete with the Bay. He was not thrown from was on the lorry, although he did

Pan-American Airways in Navy Club was supervised by Far Eaat.

the side to side. He did not know how not tell him. He did not board Captain M. M. Caplupin, who has The report concludes that the the lorry overturned.

the lorry while it was in motion, In reply to Mr. Lo, witness sald nor did he see nine others do it... -had-considerable--oxperience---In-

these matters. A feature of the Japanese officials are following that he did ask the men not to He did not sco a woman on the road evening was the massing of the with close interest "the future board the lorry in such numbers. before the accident. national colours and standards of development of the Anglo-AmeriHe did not given them permission.

can air race In South China”-nor did defendant. He was not The hearing at this stage was the various organisations which

Reuter.. comprise General Booth's last per-

paid by these men, nor was the adjourned until this afternoon, manent command.

GOLD STAMPEDE

RUSH TO SELL AT HIGH PRICES

London, Sept. 5. The rush to scil gold has been resumed in consequence of the rise in price of this commodity.

Gold was 1309, 4d. per ounce to-day, having declined from the record set on September 1, when it rose sharply, by 131⁄2d., to 130s. 8d. But it is still nine pence above parity,

A half million sterling in bullion was taken by the Continent to-day. Dealers are receiving large amounts of jewellory, including many valuable pleces which have been paying safe deposit box rent

for many years.

One old gentleman offered overal particularly beautiful and that they should be melted down in costly golden goblets on condition his presence. Hiding his emotion, he watched these splendid pieces of craftmanship destroyed...

This was only one instance of many private tragedies, due to

diminishing incomes. Reuter.

"In 1992 the general improve- ment which had taken place during the preceding years has strikingly continued and new records have been achieved. Personal hygiene in particular has made note Three men and one woman of

TUBERCULOSIS? worthy advance; the nutritional the Salvation Army recently set state of the child while in atten-sail for the dreaded French cen.

REMARKABLE CLAIM dance at school has been main- viet station of French Guiana, tained.

which includes Devil's Island..

BY PROFESSOR They are going into voluntary

Berlin. is towards healthior conditions and exile in the cause of humanity and the leaver child is the healthiest two of them, Captain and Madame

Sensational claims to the din of all the groups, both in boya and Hausdorf, had been only married

cavery of a cure for tuberculosis girls, save for a failure to main-a week or two previously. The

have been submitted by an Ameri- tain the Improvement in dental other momber of the party is

** | carry man's conquest of the can professor here. conditions and the continued Captain Adjutant Pean..

Arctic a stage further,

Professor John Harthan, of alight increase of spinal curvature It is proposed to give a healthy

It has been planned by a group Glendale, California, announces in the older girls, who, at the end nim in life to discharged convicts of Boviot naval engineers, in con- that his research work has re- of elementary school life, are who are not allowed to leave the sultation with experienced ice- vealed a serum harmless to the growing faster than the boys" country and to provide material as breaker captains.

patient, which has never fallod" Encouraging factors noted, how well as moral comfort for these out. The new co-breaker, named to effect a cute of tuberculosis. over, ars that the percentages ofasts The Salvation Army of Cholluskin has been bull in Hoeffer the case of German. children with serious dental cere have learned a number of Danish shipyards. It is expected woman, who, having lost an entire decay adenoids and enlarged trades, such as soap making and at Leningrad very shortly, and lung from the discase, hea, It is tonsils and lack of personal clean- | jam making, which they hope to lingeswere all the lowest ever be able to teach the convlete, but Preparations for a voyage from Beclared, already started to grow. Archangel to Vladivostok will be a new long after injection with resorded. Careful enquiry reveal are not taking out any tools or made immediately it arrives the serum.

Harthan-80 Intende of that definitely undernourished machinery with them as they must The Gleamer fe intended to hold Professo

asanatorium-it children were fewer than one in and out which trades will be mosty PRODERATO ROCAW of 60, and short

Jappropriate,Reuter,

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