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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER

1933.

PACIFISTS MEET IN SECRET

FOR THE LOVE

OF A GIRL

Anti-War Delegates Hear Chinese Views

Shanghai, Oct. 3.

How delegates' from the World Committee Against War aùcccoded, despite the oficial ban, in holding

.

MEN FIGHT WITH

AXES & KNIVES

FOUR KILLED

Belgrado. A pitched battle with axes and on Saturday at an undisclosed knives in which four were killed, Shanghai address a secret con- fifteen gravely injured, and scores ference of some 60 representatives wounded, had taken place in Bos-] froin various parts of China, after nia. It was to detormine who the Banja Luka district, named should marry a village beauty of Mars Kap.

a stenithy overnight assembly and Vigil by the light of candles stuck in bottles, was described In

|

When the beautiful Mara Kap

a lengthy statement to the press leaped from her window nud, last night by Lord-Marley, who knife in hand, ran to her lover look the chair at the meeting, Vna shouting "I am yours," she In face of the local authorities'tarted one of the most bloody affrays Bosnia has known sincò attitude, said Lord Marley, it had the Great War. been found necessary to abandon

Richest of the girls of the Banja tho international conference repre- senting all Pacific countries,

Lukn district, this 17-years-old though a conference of United bonuty had already been the in- 'States representatives took place cont cause of much. bloodshed, in New York on September 29. All the young men of soven

villagee wanted to marry her! Saturday's meeting, which WILB "perfectly legal," had to be kept But she herself wanted only Vaan secret because of the danger of ndejkovitch, a poor but strikingly

handsome young widower. Arrest undergone by all Chinese attending. Between 50 and 100

Her parents refused to consent who had attended the meeting Into this match and found her a rich

The most painted and photographed spot in Somerset-and possibly in Britain-is the Old Yarn Market in the lovely village of Dunster. Photo shows an artist at work.

support of the Anti-War Con- young farmer, Dragomir Privitch SHOULD LABOUR

ference had already been arrested, and they heard that one had boon shot, declared Lord Marley, while torture had been applied to sthers in order to extract names and addresses.

Assembled By Dark.

So that the presence of Euro- peana should not attract attention, the foreign delegates proceeded to the meeting place by dark the night before the conference, arriving one at a time, he himself proceeding there by a circuitous route, continued Lord Marley. In an empty room they waited for early morning, when the con ference started. Those present included trade unionists, students, university professors, and an official delegate from the 10th Route Army. No applause was allowed, and so as not to betray the presence of the assembly.

from a different village. When the day came for the betruthal, Mura publicly refused Dragomir," saying she would marry Visa or no one.

MARA TO THE RESCUE.

Dragomir then collected a hand of some 60 young friends, all all armed with axes, knives, stukes and agricultural implements, and dot out to attack his rival. But Mara heard of this and running by field paths warned Vasa,

BE

RETURNED

Semi-Dictatorial Methods Subject of Dispute

London. Oct. 2.

TREASURE OF FAR NORTH

Exploring Hudson Bay Territory

MINERAL WEALTH

UNTAPPED

ARTIFICIAL BLOOD FOR CATS

KEEPS FELINES

ALIVE

Knoxville, Tennessee. Artifelat blood made from CONS has kept cats alive at the Univers sity of Tennessee.........

This arfinetal blood han nó cor- At the present moment a sturdypuscles, the little packets, holding, Httle ship, the Nascopic, is chug the red materials of blood. Here gang through the waters of Hud-

son Bay and quietly making hitofore it had boon believed that tory as he goes.

corpuscles aró, Indispensable for Sao la repenting the unspectac- The respiration of vertebrate. ine but far-reaching achievements animals, The Tonnossas, paperi- of other Empire ships which havements disprove thiạ. moved allently down the centuries

and across uncharted seas to Just boon announced in the magn- Results of the experimonta havo build and build and build the zine "Selonee. Tho world as we know it today,

Let us consider her prosafe pur pose and her crew of very unas- suming men who would smile at you if you suggested that they wore opening up a now Empire,

Following a precedent not, somu years ago, when it was decided by

grtiocini blood was made of the hemoglobin,

the red substance, taken, from, cows blood and mixed with ringer, • solution, a liquid containing min eral anlts

Cats which had lost virtually

the Canadian Government to send all their own blood received the patrol atenmer annually to the artificial blood. The report states. Northern shores of Canada amtthot there were virtually no cor the islands in the Arctic Circle, puscles teft in the tiny realdue of which are almost continents in ¦ the ents' natural blood. themselves, the Nascopie recently

"Theno cats," says the report,

left Montreal, and by the time shears able to walk, run, seo and

returns in October she will huge covered 12,000 miles.

hear. They are able to jump to considerable

COST OF THE KING ALEXANDER Mekend, of the Department of Feight, Judge distances correctly

LEAGUE

BRITAIN AND ARREARS

FOR ISTAMBUL

VISIT

er two

and make their wag about in n normal manner,"

reflexen appene to

"All postural and equilibratory

he normal. When dropped upside down they land on their foot. Respiratory

Aboard her there fà Major B. L. the floor from a

the Interion, who is in charge, and nine other scientists, each speciali sing: in koine department of TURKISH INTEREST IN biology, geology, had botany. With them, too, a doctor, who will hand jat Baffin Islaid to relieve u mydlicni officer already there, who will con. Angorn, Oct, 2.. Turkish political circles hera tinue his lonely and extensive rates are, however, higher in these enfmala than normal. The show a attach great Importance to the in- Practice for two years, amil, ong tended trip of the Jugoslav Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who easily aroused and mag becomo members of the Royal marked tendency to sleep, but aro Couple to Istambul.

will take the place of others anuite netive for a brief period, The opinion is expressed here the outposts.

only to lapse into sleep again that King Alexander's decision of visiting Istambul way prompted

The purpose of the voyage rather suddenly," Vana also gathered a large if and when the Labour Party is group of friends, armed hastily returned to power, and the other the League Assembly to-day, inde by members of the Turkish more remote sections of the hemoglobin of their artificial blood

In the Budget Commission of by the recently-concluded Turconds simple enough on paper. It is to visit the settlements and

These cats ultimately dio. But and marched to Mara's house. ardently defending parliamentary the Financial Secretary to the Governmont, suggesting the con-Hudson Bay coast, to being relief's falls to carry on its respiratory Greek Pact, as well as declarationsports and trading centres on the the reason is not that the red the girl's house. After a parley authority, is expected to be the British Treasury Mr. Hore elusion of similar political con- and supplica to the workers, there, work at delivering oxygen to the

Belisha, called for the reform of vantions among the Balkan states. and to study plant and native life body calls. the system whereby members of Optimistic, forecasts concerning and mineral occurrences. the Lenguo which had failed the possibility of an thimediato

The rival "armies" met beforo.

A fight between two factions of the British Labour Party, ono

| favouring sem-dictatorial methods |

considerable Influence in party.

MEASURES URCED AT GENEVA

London, Oct. 6.

1

LAND OF SECRET RESOURCES.

It was decided that Marn should feature of the 33rd annual confer- he asked to decide which of the ence of the party which opened men she should marry. Just here to-day. then Mura appeared at the win-

to pay their contributions to it conclusion of multi-partite con- dow, a butcher's knife in her Sir Stafford Cripps is the lender yet enjoyed all the privileges of yantions are, however, received hand. When asked to choose of the dictatorial faction and his membership.

There with some reserve.

It is in this last aspect of the It is be- sho jumped from the window, chief opponents are the leaders of In a review of the situation in

lieved in Angora that the meeting work that so much that is roman China, Mme. Sun Yat-sen alleged

raa to Vaso and putting herself

Great Britain he pointed out, of the Turkish, and Jugoslavian the lies, for it concarna ha ex at his side shouted proudly "Trades Union Congress, who wield alone pays one-tenth of the cost of Government honda in istambul ploration of a new country for that the National Government was being aided by foreign loans and

am yours."

the the League and the British Em-would merely serve as a basis for Canada and the Empire. The armaments on condition that these The earnged Dragomir then

pire as a whole provides at least all oventual accord which might be entire North-West Territories of were used in campaigns to erushcharged with his Afty men. Mara Sir Stafford and his supporters one quarter of the league's in-joined by Rumania and Czecho- Canada, of which the shores of

slovnkin. Sovietised regions which were stood side by side with Vasa, try- would pledge the party, when re-come.

Hudson Bay form a part, cover an "probably the least badly governed ing to shield him from blows and turned to power, to rush an Emer- "The League does not frankly

The opinion is also expressed area of 1,309,682 square miles.. part of the country.". Spokesmen using her knife with good effect. goncy Powers Act through parliansk us to pay what others do not here that the possibility of such and the population is a mere 9,723. The hand is virtually unexplor from Manchoukuo then described The battle raged for half-an-hour ment, authorising the government pay, but it asks us to pay more agreements might Induce Bulgaria

ed. Venturous trappers, enter- warlike preparations by the before a patrol of gendarmes to impose, the full Labour Partythun would be required if all to reduce her present claims. Japanese on the Russlan' border, arrived and separated the com- "new" deal" programme the States paid their subscriptions"

prising aviators, and inquiring travellers, prospectors, and en where White Russians were said batants.

country without parliamentary ob-he said.

gineers have bluzed many trails to have been employed in con-

struction.

He proposed measures to pre-

there. The map of the district is tinuous raids into Soviet territory.

clude the continuation of defaults) Scores of suggested resolutions by the States members concerned.

But it is still a lund of secret re- reasonably necurate in its outlines, Two representatives from Sovietia-

submitted by local units of the The arrears ed areas also spoke, after which

laat outstanding party, advocating such action, will December amounted to £900,000.- the meeting adopted a manifesto

be before the conference. On the British Wireless. declaring that-imperialist-powers

other hand, there are scores of were ranging their forces round

resolutions condemning Fascism the Pacific for dismemberment of China and war against Russin, -and-that-the-Kuomintang had be

trayed the Chinese people. Resolu- tions were passed against "anti- Communist terror," the granting

of loans and sending of warships

MORTALLY WOUNDED.

Vasa was found to be mortally wounded, with axe wounds on the head and back, three of his friends are on the point of death, 15 youths are in hospital with severe injuries and dozens and dictatorships of all descrip DR. KOO'S ATTACK of others are hiding their tions and tending to pledge the -wounds-in-their-own-houses-for | party to purely constitutional and"

fear of arrcat. Mara was al- most the only, combatant un- Injured.

When Mara heard that Vasa

to China for 150 to continue would die she tried to hang her,

parliamentary procedure,

Mr. Henderson's Position

Mr. Arthur Henderson,

Hecre

ON JAPAN

CHINESE ATTITUDE

RUBBER INDUSTRY, RESTRICTION AGREEMENT IN

SIGHT

sources.

Instead the deaths come from the red material, escaping trom the "load" because It has no covering, such as the corpuscles furnish, to keep it from getting out of the veins and arterica into. other parts of the body.-Retitor.

ADOLPH IS NOW. SATISFIED

PAYS $5,000 FOR WIFE'S CLAIMS

Los Angeles, Califórnia, A complete settlement for $5,000 (£1,000 at par) of all claims by his wife, Kathryn Carver, in her recent petition for divorce has been approved by Adolph fenjou, the

great love" of the screen.

The settlement was made at a

is a country where the days London, Oct. 5 are very, very-long or very, very Despite difficulties still to be short: where continuity of food

tion appears to have begun. overcome, a decided move forward supplies is at the mamrut a doubt towards rubber production restric-ful matter; where transport facili- ties make rapid settlement or ex- Well-informed circles report ploitation impossible, and where conference of attorneys represent from The Hague a forcenst of an life is a mighty adventure and a

Ing Miss Carver and Mr. Menjou. early meeting.

The $5,000 ls in addition to $150,- contest with tlie raw elements of In Batavia, A Conference of

000 (£30,000) which Mr. Menjou nature. Government Commissioners for

But the Nasuople's voyage will gave, Miss. Carver In cash and nativo rubber districts of the undoubtedly confirm the imprea-securities last November, Dutch East Indies, will go far to-aion that for all the superficial wards determining the Dutch at- barrenness the Territories are a Carver agreed to file an amended In return for the settlement, Mien It was reliably learned to-day titude. She wears, however, that at all which returned him to parilament that the Foreign Office plans to terror" in Germany was also con-

vorituble treasure-house upon the, Despite the suggestion from rail of which, in course of time, divorce complaint, eliminating all demned on the grounds of the risk who was seriously but not fatally troubled waters and secure the action taken by Dr. Wellington Koo not possible until Spring, the be through whose hands

costs she will not marry Dragomir, is expected to pour oil on the request reconsideration of the Dutch sources that restriction is great communities will thrive, mention of another woman and of a similar tyranny arising in

merely charging cruelty, She injured, and will kill him and her passage of a compromise resolu at the General Assembly of the lief seems to be gaining ground timber und minerals for the mor-Menjou was too attentive to a Now will pass charged in her first complaint that China,

self if her parents insist on trying tion.

League of Nations on September in London that the Dutch fepre-kets of the world. to make her do so.-Renter

One resolution submitted de- 29. According to

York stage actress. the Foreign sentatives will be here within n

"I will let the suit go by default," plores Mr. Henderson's prolonged Office, Dr. Koo attacked the Japan- fortnight. The end of the year will

Menjou nid, "I do not want to absence, from his duties as secro-ese attitude toward China before see an announcement of a definite

Already the question of food indulge in any recrimination or to

internal warfare, and the use of self. Found in time, she tried tary and treasurer of the party, Aanchoako as a base for attack later to cut her throat-but only fresh from his overwhelming vic- on the Soviet Union. The "Fascist wounded herself badly.

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Kuomintang Attacked

Lord Marley went on to allcge that Kuomintang lenders in the pay of Japan had sold, cotton, from the American loan, to Jupan at considerably lower rates than they

SCORES OF DEAD

tory in the Clay Cross by-election

"HARMFUL"

-Tokyo, Oct. 2.

FOOD SUPPLIES.

tary while he is presiding at the the General' Assembly of the decision, it is suggested.---Reuter-Aupplies has been occupying scien- bring about unpleasant publicity."

eneva Disarmament Conference. League Covenant and the Kellogg Other resolutions praise his "in-peace pact and that the military valuable patience and persistence" action in Jehol and northern Chinn ignored the resolution of the in the cause of international peace League adopted last Spring, and disarmoment. A third de- plores his action in meeting Signor leaders here, the Chinese attitude

In the opinion of government: Mussolini and Herr Hitler, when at the League meeting is regrett- he recently toured the European abia and harmful to Far Eastern capitala Ih the interests of the peace and Japan cannot help being Disarmament Conforence. suspicious of China's sincerity for

might have got, and that $10,000,- BUBONIC PLAGUE IN 000 of the proceeds of this loan NORTH SPREADS had been spent on aerodromes for "Internal warfare" instead of for

Dairen, Oct. 2. education and reconstruction. As The death roll is mounting in punishment for showing sympathy North Manchuria as a result of with Red troops, he said, 3,000 men the epidemic of bubonic plague, of the 19th Route Army had been and according to the Hygiene buried alive, and 1,000 thrown Bureau of the South Manchuria overboard from river transports.

Railway, over 200 persons died and-out socialistic policy, one re- It is now decided that all the in the Nungan district, 40 in solution rather patiently suggests order Mr. Akira Ariyoshi, Minister foreign delegates will leave to- lengshing and about 130 in the that the name of the party should to China, to confer with the Nan-

Tunglinge changed to the "Socialist Press. gether, probably tomorrow by the Tungliae Area. The

King Government shortly-United Askeladden. At Vladivostock, ac-

district has also been very hard Party." Another would rescind cording to cable received hit. In Chuchistzu, which has a previous rulings that barred the Jesterday, Lord Marley will be population of 250, forty persons Communist Party of Grent Britain met by Mrs. Medel, the American have already aled, while the from affiliation with the Labour OFFICERS ENTERTAIN. whose letters were alleged to plague has pracllently wiped out Party. have been intercopted by Japan the village of Malinyingtzu, killing ene, and who is to take him 34 of the 43 inhabitants there. The

helped to organisa the collec-

tion of funds in America for the Jewish settlement in this Siberian town. Later Lord Marley will join his colleagues in Paris.

sons are down with the plague.

03,

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tine minds. In the agricultural-Reuter, research laboratories of the Do- minion new types of wheat are being evolved which can mature In a shorter space of time than known. Where a mun can grow grain for his daily bread there also can he ve,

any yet

those of Africa, were found a year or tivo ago by accident, and the task of erecting refineries has just been finished.

STAKING THE CLAIMS.

In 1981 silver deposits were

BRITISH CARS GO AHEAD STRONG CHALLENGE TO AMERICA

Colombo.

In the great water of the British motor-care still continue Mackenzie and elsewhere there Equipped as it la with an out The government, therefore, will in the race for the lend in the total while one of the strangest migra- found, and by the end of 1932 no

better Sino-Japanese relations.to gal on their American rivals are streams which abound in fish,

number of registrations in Ceylon. tions in history, that of a herd of fewer than 3,799 claims for miner The American lead has now been reindeer Into the North-West, is als of all kinds had been staked on the eve of completion after two out. The number is increasing reduced to 91

Total registrations at the end of years on the move. The animals rapidly; prospectors rush

to June, excluding Canadian cars, and continuous supplies of sonie copper, zinc, Izad and nickel "finds" will provide a nucleus for huge chosen locations by aeroplane, Iwere :-----

United Kingdom..

of the most nourishing meat in have induced minor but significant the world..

migration movements, and the acrial links with the populous the output of the mines in the far To an increasing extent, too, slowly, surely mounting values of

towns of the South are being es- away back-blocka reflect the be

ablished, and regular air liners: ginnings of a movement which in will, when the time is ripe,, qug: time will add wealth to the world mont the supply of the necessities and prosperity to the Empire an of life.

will encourage men to throw North and still further North the roads and railways which are the essential precursors of modern civilisation.

There are 28 separate suggested

EVENING COCKTAIL PARTY AT H.K.V.D.C. QUARTERS

United Staten'....

9,403; 9,664.

At the end of April this year, the figures were: United Kingdom United States

9,850; 9,652. -Reuter.

SCHOOL CRICKET. WINDSOR, PERFORMS WELL AGAINST LA SALLE

But before the exploitation ponsible on a wide commercial way with his test-tubes." and scale, the scientist must have his

to Birobidjan. Mrs. Medel has epidemic has now reached Raiyin-resolutions on international peace taia, across the Liao River. The and only six on disarmament.

The second of a series of avon- disease is most widespread in the One resolution on war debts and Saupinkai-Taouan area, where be reparations calls for the "repudia- Ing cocktail parties, inaugurated

Weather conditions, it is true, tween four and five hundred portion of all debts due by us and the by Col. Bird and Officers of the

cancellation of all debts due to Hongkong

are severe, but man's capacity for Volunteer Dofonco

acclimatisation is infinite. It is Corps, was held. at Volunteer

w known fact, moreover, that the Dr. Marteaux, of Belgium, told j

Various resolutions suggest the the Pipe Band of the Scottish Com- Headquarters yesterday ovoning, the press. that all the foreigners

St. Joseph's College defeated La rigours of the elements abate arrived with different views, but

adoption of a national minimum many providing the musical onter Salle College in an Inter-Collegiate over Innd which is cultivated. had reached the conclusion that

wage and legislation to impose tainment,

cricket match on the latter's ground will be more active than aeden

The pursuits of the people too the Chinese Government whe "Bo

shorter working weeks, ranging, His Excellency the Governor, yesterday by 10 runs. nourly Fascist in Its cruelty and

Los Angelos, Oct. 2. from thirty to forty hours-Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E..ed woll for the Josephians, the for- the earth is an arduous business The ploneer with the capital and G. Windsor and H. Asome perform-tary, for winning minerals from microscopen and elaborato reports, injustice that if it is a queation at Los Angeles by a violent seismic

All the houses have been shaken United Press.

accompanied by Lady Peel and mor scoring 40 runs, and the latter and it is in the mineral resources machinery respects the laboratory of choosing between a Fascist or a tremor which occurred in South

Capt. Walter A.D.C. were among taking 0 wickets for 85 runs. of these great lands that the un-export above all men, and upon Bovlet Government, would California up to Santa Barbarn.

the many guests present. Hia Ex-Alves was the top scorer for Lature undoubtedly lles Already, the merry little complement on choose a Soviet one as the bottor No casualties have been reported from Mr, Fung Kung-un to the Street G. Bird, D.S.O.. O.B.E., Com- credit. Bowling honours were shared Lake, deposits of radium which neefing new outlets and new The reculpt-of-a-donation of $25 colloney was received by Col. Lallo College with 24 runs to his in the region of the Grunt Bear the Nascople the eyes of Industry, of the two.".

so far.

Sleepers' Fand is acknowledged. mandant of the Volunteer Corps. by A. Masters and R. Bilve, nch of give promise of being as rich asfelde, are at this moment fixed.

whom claimed three, wickets.

WO

EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH CALIFORNIA.