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The

FIRST EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1893

No. 14284

五拜歳 號三廿月三英港香 FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1934.

日九月二

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All that is known about tyre making is embodied in

DUNLOP TYRES

JAPANESE ADMIRALTY SPIKES. HIROTA GUNS

SCOTLAND YARD NO NAVAL RATIO

AND STAVISKY

BRITONS POSSIBLY

INVOLVED:

GALMOT CRIME

DISCLOSURE

Paris, Mar. 22.

France is aghast at the wide- ramifications of the spread Stavisky scandal which are boing brought to light by the new evidence accumulating daily.

been

Scotland Yard has now en tered into the matter officially, It is possible that prominent Englishmen may later prove to have

involved in the

gigantic windles carried out

by Stavisky.

Developments

are expected to follow the in- vestigations

ried

out by Inspector Can- ning. Chief of the Special Branch at Scat- land Yard, who just - has

turned to Lon- dan after spend- ing several

days in Paris,

TC-

The latest evidence which has Astounded the public shows a direct connection between Serge the seven-year-old Stavisky and murder of a member of the Cham ber of Deputies at Cayenne,

CALMOT MURDER.

-A letter produced to-day at the Commission of Enquiry "hearing, in Stavisky's handwriting, and obviously written by him although the signature is missing, indicates that M. Galmot, the Deputy for Guiana, having thwarted Stavisky "must disappear."

The poisoning of M. Galmot at Cayenne was one of the unsolved mysteries of 1926,

was It ndw appears that he responsible for revealing to the police in 1926 the whereabouts of Stavisky, who was about to from France.

"flee

MARKED FOR DEATH. Stavisky's letter Indicates that Galmot was marked for death for his intervention, and the Deputy the six months of died with swindler's release from detention. -Renter.

U, S. NAVAL BILL APPROVEÐ

Washington, Mar. 22.

The Senate has passed the Naval Expansion Bill without even a roll- call. The measure now goes to the President-Reuter.

CONCESSION

IMPLICATION IN LONDON REPORT DENIED

Tokyo, Mar. 23.

The surprise created in London displomatic circles by revelations of Mr. Hirota's overtures to the United States offering preservation of the naval status quo in exchange for recognition of Man- chukuo, seemed to have found a strong echo in Japanese naval circles.

The

This

Tokyo Navy Office does not contemplate any reduction in the demands which it proposes to make at the forthcoming naval conference.

was made clear in an informal statement issued in Tokyo this morning, a statement which destroys the whole basis of the negotiations insofar as they recommended themselves, i

TIENTSIN BANK

ROBBERY

SHROFF HELD UP AT ENTRANCE

THIEVES' HAUL OF $37,000

(Special to "Telegraph")

Tientsin, Mar. 23.

A daring daylight robbery out- rage was carried out by two farmed thugs at two o'clock yes- terday afternoon in the French Concession.

The victim was a shroff of the

Bank of China, who was just enter

of the Chinese ing the offices Agricultural and Industrial Bank carrying with him about $37,000 in banknotes.

After holding up the shroff at the point of the pistol, the robbers seized the bug containing the bank botes and made off before an alarm was raised.

The Tokyo Navy Office stale- nent, anys in effect:

The

London

that report Japan is expected to be satisfied with the existing naval aile in return for which the United States is amending the unil- Japanese immigration law, grunting Philippine, independ- ence and avithdrawing her milit- ary bases in the islands, and extending recognition to Man- chukuo not based ipon ` the"]

real facts of the situation.

"There is no change in the present determination of the Japanese Navy Office to insist upon a change in the

present naval ratio."-Reuter,

NO ALARM IN NANKING

*WolzwaBwjtop an a cornog pokojovat jo mund - a je otios smage singad ang wavuno y lava o pauza au se sering encapunu pus sanoq zolaq odaya Buikoazlop (aspainije kupiorad smo oyuq yɔym oly v

HAKODATE FIRE

DISASTER

650 Killed and Over 460 Injured

Tokvo Mar. 23. The Cové Central of Hokkaido reports that 650 were killed and 450 serious- ly injured in the Hakodate fire catastrophe...

Over 92,000 parsons are homeless, 23,000 houses having been destroyed.--- Reuter,

LABOUR UNIONS REJECT

OLIVE BRANCH

SEARCH FOR OIL

IN BRITAIN

SUDDEN GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION

ON THE VERGE OF DISCOVERIES?

The

London, Mar. 22. Government have under consideration measures to stimulate a search for petroleum oil in great Britain.

Since the programme of drilling financed by the State ended twelve years ago, no large scale effort of this kind has been made, but the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Waltor Runciman, in the Commons to-day, stated that- the Government had recently re- ceived indications of renewed interest in the subject and had, therefore, decided to review the whole situation.

As a result, the Government werè ut once Introducing legisla tion with the principal object of removing some of the main dif-

DEMAND CONCRETE ACTION FROM culties which are said to have

U.S. GOVERNMENT

BUDGET SECRETS PRESERVED

"RECOGNITION NOT AN AIR MYSTERY MR. CHAMBERLAIN-

EXPECTED

(Special to "Telegraph”)

SOLVED

CRIM DISCOVERY IN SNOW

MISSING LINER AND VICTIMS

AT NEWCASTLE

AN OPTIMISTIC MOOD

SITUATION MORE HOPEFUL

WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE

strike.

on

stood in the way of search extensive scale and to secure the orderly development of any oll discovered.

STATE OWNERSHIP.

Mr. Runciman said the bill pro- vides that the ownership of all petroleum which may exist in Britain, but which is at present- unknown, shall be vested in the State

to

Rights of the owners of the sur- face to be recompensed for dis- turbances to their property and loss of amenity will be safe- Washington, Mar. 22.

guarded.. An olive branch has been Persons who wish to search offered by the Government to and bore for all must obtain I the workers in the automobile licence, payment being mado industry which it is hoped will the Exchequer on any oil produced, Those who soeure a licenco secure a further respite from: the menace of a widespread will make their own arrangements with the owners of the land for the necessary facilite hut where General Hugh Johnson, the such facilities cannot be obtained London, Mar. 23.

N.R.A. Administrator, Indicated by agreement provision will be to-day that the Government plan- made for security, a grant of the The Chancellor of the ned the immediate appointment of facilities considered by the court Exchequer remains silent on a Committee to investigate the to be necessary, on terma which

charges lodged to the effect that the court will determine. his plans for the forthcoming the employers were discriminating

DILL INTRODUCED, Budget though he revealed against union workers.

The Measure was introduced The union leaders have replied into the House again last night that he is

of Lords this highly pleased with both to the offer stating that while they evening and read first time.

do not wish to precipitato à It is understood that the and future pro-strike, they must insist upon im- promptitude and surprise aature mediate coffcreté Government pro- of the Government action was posals for settling the dispute. due to the fact that negotiations. Reuter.

were already in progress between foreign and British interests to exploit oll deposits in Britain

Nanking, March 23.

circles Nanking official have calmly received the re- ports of a new trend in have notified the Chinese author the United States and Japan.

The French police authorities diplomatic relations betweenĮ ties, requesting their co-operation in tracking down the robbers.---

As the bellef grevails that the Central News.

Slates Government will

Buenos Aires, Mar. 22. The grim discovery of an acro- continue to adhere to the non-plane half buried in the snow in recognition principle vis-a-vis Manchukuo, the Nanking Govern the mountains near Mendoza has ment does not think it is necessary solved the mystery of the disap. for China to take any displomatic pearance of a giant Pan-American present action.-Central News.

Airways liner in July, 1932. jspects.

- JAPANESE FISHING

SUBSIDIES

Californian Interests Complain

Mater

"INCREDIBLE."

Four well-preserved bodies were found inside the wreck and four others were found buried beneath

it.

It

Shanghai, March 22. Interviewed by, pressman this

The giant machine was on its afternoon, Mr. Cunningham, the American Consul-General In way from Chill to the Argentine Shanghai, said that to him the with fifteen persons aboard. report of American recognition of disappeared when crossing the Manchukuo was incredible. He Cordilleras in a snowstorm. (Bu Telegraph. Copyright. Telsprophio Res did not think that the United An

search wha exhaustive Ordinance, 25, 9.19 məmək,

engt

(Special to "Telegraph")

Addressing a large meeting at Nowcastle, Mr. Neville Chamber- sin declared that everywhere in England the revival of business confidence was clearly marked.

No longer was there any doubt that recovery had set in in Britain, more definitely and more palpably than in any other of the great

(Special to "Talograph")

By Tetegraph. Copyriant. Telepropio Me British Wircices and Reuter,:0

mges Ordinance, 23, p.79 a.m.)

2. Received

March

*1294. Recu{red. March States Government would embark undertaken and enrried on forewilised countries of the work.] automobile Industry unions at the 1

Washington, Mar. 22. - President Roosevelt to-day re- ceived

representatives of the Apart from his optimistic re- White House and conferred with fereirco to trade, however, the them for some time. It was later Chancellor gave no hint of the informally stated that the situa Budget prospects,

tion was not hopeless.- United Press. Incidentally, he declared his re- to believe that the dif- between Britain and

The police have been asked to in-

on such a headlong step and re-over a year before it was aban- vestigate the whereabouts of Ho Lui

San Diego, Mar. 22. | verse_ita ́diplomatic principles indoned with investigators stil! you, aged 11, an inmate of the Vic-

Owing to tarin Home at Kowloon City, who has;

complaints from the Far East-Central Néwe, wondering how the machine could been missing for severni days. It is American fishery interests, Mr.

have, apparently, vanished into feared that she has been kidnapped. Lawrence T. Hopkins, chief

thin air. Baheries investigator for the

The bodies beneath the machine funni United States Tariff Commission,

show that the passengers sought ferences investigating reports that

salvation by jumping

In the middle of the conference out-Japan were insoluble, In view of Kenter.

their united sentiments, mutual [between Inbour lenders and Pre- respect, long friendship and their ident Roosevelt at the

ist

STOP PRESS Japan is subsidising Japanese

NEW YORK RIOTS

New York, Mar. 22. Following the worst rioting for years, police are massed in Times Square to provent further blood- shed and vandalism.

The Mayor, Major La Guardia has appealed to the rioters to

desist, asserting that they hayo

fishing borts operating In Callformla waters and selling

GERMAN “REDS"

SENTENCED

their catches in the United States. PLOT TO DOPE TROOP

United Prcas,

ANGLO-POLISH TRADE

BRIGHT HOPES OF AGREEMENT

RATIONS.

Leipzig, Mar. 22.

AFTERMATH OF GALE

old alliance.--Reuter.

ROYAL DEFENCE CORPS

TERRITORIAL ARMY UNIT

PLEASING RESULTS.

KAILAN MINERS'

STRIKE

AN ARBITRATION PLAN

(Spacia) to "Telegraph")

Tientsin, March 23, The situation in the Kallan min- White Ing district is easier and the House, Mr. William Green, Presid. strikers are quiet..

Mr. Tho Sheng-ming. Commis- sent of the A.F.L. emerged and atated that substantial progress aloner of the Luantung Special Ad- towarda i settlement has been ministrative Zone, has returned to made.

Tangshan from Tientsin to set up This is a very pleasing and an arbitration bureau to handle the dispute. Ho hopes the miners may interesting Conference," he said. be persuaded to return to work

President Roosorolt's merry pending a

laugh was audible ostalde.

Newa,

settlement-Central

The longshoremen of the Pacific who threatened to strike over London, Mar. 22. wages and closed shop issues have HOSPITALS RUGBY

acceded to the President's urgent Replying to a question regarding appeal to postpone action-Be

·CUP FINAL the Royal Delanco Corps, the for-ter.

announced mation of which ho

presenting The Army

The Supreme Court has given

FURTHER REPORTS. In verdict in the trial of six Cont- munists, who were charged with

OF LOSSES criminal possession of enough

Reports continue to reach the eyanide potassium to poison 18,000 people.

police of incidents connected with It was alleged that the accused Wednesday morning's gale, had planned to dope the rations of A sampan was found, floating, London, Mar. 22.

without anyone on board, oft Green Members of the United Kingdom Storm Troops. Trade Mission, which, under the tonced to terms varying from a police launch to

Four of the accused were non-faland yesterday, and was towed by

Yaumati slip not to the s chairmanship of Sir

Eugene fifteen months to three years, and Who whole crow of a dishing funk when Ramsden, recently set allows the other two were acquitted-which comized three milen off Tup Entiniaics recently, Mr. Duff A dance was given in the Canton with the representatives of Felish Reater.

Moon, Taipo district, is believed to Cooper, Parliamentary Secretary Club on Wednesday by the indies of have been drowned,

to the War Office, said this body Shameen for the men of the West River Flotilla. About 40 men attend-

London, Mar. 22, conclusion of a trade agreement both countries are acreed on the Two men who set out in a sampan would not be used for any purpose ed and all thoroughly enjoyed them. In the Hospitals Rugby Cup to the benefit of both countrica, possibilities of increased trade. from the Salkung district to buy other than those which

selves. A sold, collation was served They express much satisfaction the task of the Governments will fish at Nine Pine Islands have not Territoriniana the ferritorial during the vani Kore popular than St. Thorens's by 82 points

now. fulfilled. It evening. These evening Final to-day, St. Mary's defeated with the contacta mady and point bocomo muchonsler-British | returned, and are out that when the Industries' of ¦ Wirelesni

perished in the storm.

Army-British Wireless, IN!

bollove that conversations

been led away from the racketeer

industries will facilitate the

ing elements.-Reuter.

the

ST. MARY'S WINS EASILY

were the ten dances given previously. Boven-Rexter,