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FIRST EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph.

YOUNDED 1981

No. 34275

ID 4t+TJERNF TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1934.

WINSTON CHURCHILL MAKES

SENSATIONAL CHARGE

JAPANESE NAVAL BREACH OF HOUSE

ATTACHE DEAD

Found Hanged in Hotel Bedroom

Naples, Apr. 17.' Commander Sinsuke Ohtani, the Japanese Naval Attache in Rome, found dead in his room at a local hotel last night,

WAS

It appears to be a case of suicide. Ho was found hanged.-Reuter.

HANGED BY

.

TOWEL

NAPLES

HOTEL

TRAGEDY.

JAPANESE NAVAL ATTACHE'S END

Naples, Apr. 17.

The suicide of Commander! Ohtani, the Japanese naval attache, has caused a shock in Japanese diplomatic cir- cles.

Investigation 'at' the hotel, sechs to suggest that he came to Naples. with the intention of taking his life. He arrived at the hotel during the afternoon and asked for a room with a bath attached. He looked tired and was carrying very little baggage, but as he was a regular elfent of the hotel this cnused no comment.

At eight o'clock in the evening, a servant knocked at the duor and entered the room.on.receiving no reply, to ind Commander Ontuni lying dead in the bath, hanged with

towel from the shower.

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PRIVILEGES

SIR SAMUEL HOARE AND

It is estimated flut he ind been dead some two hours before he was.

found.

Nu letters or documents throwing any light on the affair were found. Servants at his home in Rome ex- pected him back to-morrow. The Counsellor of the Legation. Mr. Iwate, has gone to Naples.-Renters;

FORCED TO TURNİ

BACK

R.A.F. Flyingboats Meet Strong Headwinds

LANCASHIRE

MINISTER RETORTS

"MARE'S-NEST”

London, April 16.

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL FURNISHED A SENSATION in the House of Commons this evening when he asked leave "to refer a matter of grave im portance to the Committee of Privileges."

Mr. Churchill proceeded to make accusations against the Secretary of State for India, (Sir Samuel Hoare) and others, including Lord Derby, alleging grossly irregular conduct in bringing pressure to bear

on witnesses giving evidence

Mr. Winston Churchill

SIBERIA MAILS

PRESSURE IN THE. COMMONS

THE MANCHURIA, ROUTE

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LOST AIR-LINER MYSTERY

Sir Samuel Hoare, who de- clares that Mr. Churchill has discovered another mare's. nest.

before the Select Committee SHARP RISE

on Indian Constitutional Re- form.

!

The charges were warmly denied by Sir Samuel Hoare,

NI

BRITISH TRADE

who explained exactly what hap: SOME INTERESTING.

pened.

Mr. Winston Churchill asserted! that when Sir Samuel Hoare, in 1933, learned what evidence the Manchester Chamber of Commerce proposed to submit to the Indian

Select Committee, he with others, notably Lord Derby (former Minister of War) exerted pressure on the Chamber, with the result that the proроней evidence...was fundamentally altered,

Mr. Churchill, said that he did not doubt that the action of Sir Samuel Houre and Lord Derby was well-intentioned.

"GROSSLY IRREGULAR."

FIGURES

RAW MATERIAL IMPORTS

London, April 16. A further increase in overseas trade is disclosed in the Board of Trade returns for March.

Imports.Just_month_were_of_the value of £61,989,627, as compared with £57,363,079 in February and £56,351,012 in March of last year.

MORE EMPLOYMENT.

FIRST REPORTED SAFE

STORY LATER DENIED

CONFUSION OVER DISCOVERY AT SEA?

(Special to "Telegraph")

Shanghai, April 17. When all hope had been jabandoned, the missing Can- tion air-liner is said to have has been found adrift off the Chekiang coast.

from

message emanating Hangchow Raya that the giant Sikorsky flyingboat, badly battered by rough weather, was found by a plane sent out by the Hangchow Aviation School lato yesterday! afternoon.

SILVER BATTLE IN AMERICA

Immediate Passage

Demanded Washington, Apr. 16. A special Senate. Silver Committee meeting to-day unanimously demanded the immediate passage of silver logislation.keuter,

SILVER

SELLING

DELUGE

AMERICANS BEGIN TO UNLOAD

NOT EXPECTED TO CONTINUE

London, Apr. 16.

GERMANY'S

NOTE TO BRITAIN

RE-ARMAMENT SCHEME DENIED

HEAVIER COSTS EXPLAINED

London, Apr. 16. Germany's explanation of the heavy increases in her provisions for military; pur- is that no rearmament involved, the extra expenditure being for long- needed replacements.

poses

The Note addressed by the Gorman Foreign Minister to the British Ambassador in Berlin In tho reply to the enquiry regard Ing the increases in the German naval, military and air estimates, was presonted to the House of Commons by the Foreign Secre

The Noto states that, in regard

All the occupants were well,

Late this afternoon thetary, Sir John Simon, In reply to

a question. according to the message, despite London silver market ex- the fact that they had been drift perienced a sudden wave of living on very short rations, with-selling on American account. represents an

ing on the sea for a week and

out

than any supplies, other emergency provisfona aboard. -

OFF CHENHAJ.

to, the estimates for the army,

664.6 million Reichsmarks, which Increase of 172

The deluge of orders appears to millions, the "increased expondi». have been caused by a atatement ture is necessary for the prepara- attributed to Mr. Henry Rainey, tions due to take place in course Speaker of the House of Repre of the budget 'year for the con- The report says that the Sikorsky sentatives, that President Roose version of the Reichswehr into a was discovered some distance out velt questions the advisability of short service pray."4 at sea, off the town of Chenhai, proceeding with silver legislation The allocation of these mums in Choklang, which appareatly means now.

the budget for this purpose arises,

NAVY.. OBSOLESCENCE.

a position about thirty miles south Although prices shed & forthing front the state of the negotiations of Volcano Island-around which after the official close and although in regard to the disarmament the search was concentrated and a small amount of business was question. in the south-enat corner of Hang-dono at even three-eighthe under chow Bay.

the official fixing the market was The Hangchow report suggests not unduly perturbed at what is Expenditure for the naval that

the

aboard pergang

the considered to be a shake-out of the budget has been estimated at 26 Sikorsky have been rescued as it weaker bulls.

million Relchsmarks. This in- mentions arrangements for the It is pointed out that the silver creased expenditure of 60 millions carriage of the wreck of the plane bloc in Congress have not dim-is due to the increasing eust of back to Shanghai.-Central Newa.inished their determination to pass the systematic renovation of long

| the_silver_bill=Renter.

REPORT OF SAFETY

DENIED

Evidence of Disaster Picked Up

forters.

STATEMENT DENIED.

since obsolete unite-of-the-Ger ma fleet, the replacement of which, partly on the ground of the security of the crews, longer be postponed.

can no

Messrs. Swan Culbertson and Fritz have received a cable reveal ing t similar upset on the New York market, a sharp break occur cannot be regarded as an arma The Budget of the Air Ministry ring upon the uncovering of atop ment budget, It

Consists of f lous orders. The statement of Mr. budget for air transport and a Rainey was Inter denied. It is budget for air protection. It is believed that the decline was overestimated that the expenses for to-day. done with partial recovery likely air transport will amount to 160 million Raichsmarks against the previous year'a 77 millions.

AIR SUBSIDY.

THE RAINEY STATEMENT,

Wachington, April 16.

Exports last month represented £33,068,630 worth of United King | dom manufactured goods, voal and In bringing the matter to the other raw materials and £5,631,427 | attention of the House, he had no of re-exported merchandise, main- Shanghai, Apr. 17, 11.20 a.m. thought of impugning their perly raw materials dealt with by First tangible evidence that the sonal motives, but he felt it to be merchant firma. Excluding re-lost air-liner met with disanter grongly irregular for members of exports, the comparative export reached Shanglini this morning by the Commission to press witnesses figures for the previous mouth and steamer from Chinhai, Cheklang, to alter their evidence.

for March, 1993, were £30,060,451 It consisted of a Chineas Post The statement attributed to Mr. The House agreed to Mr. Win- und £32,550,721. It is noteworthy Office mail-bag, a cloth bag, two Rainey was to the effect that This increase In due to the r aton Churchill's motion, after a that owing to the Easter holidays, books, forms addressed to the Foo-"allver legislation will not be in placement of the obsolete acroplane chorus of approval by the lenders there were two fewer working chow agents of the C.N.A.C., ancluded in the Administration's material of the private German nir of all sections of the House, includ- days last month than in March, envelope containing baby's com-programme during this session of transport company. Lufthansa. Ing Sir Samuel Hoare! ..

1988,

Congress as President Roosevelt which, as in other countries, re All were sodden but in a good doubts the advisability of going calves Government subsidies; lo cx- state of preservation,

ahend with the legislation now, penses necessary for increased preferring to continue present security in air, and for the in- purchasing powers under the Lon-stallation of lighting and wireless

Conference Fishermen are reported to have don

Silver Agree direction-finding systems owing to Of the Increase over Marco, found these articles

ment."

winter

operations und night flying on April 11 of re-exported, merchandise main-

Mr. Rainey Bald, according to on long distance lines; and to the between Kingtanskan Island and 1988, of £6,618,015 in imports, over the Cheklang coast and took them the report, that he understood the development of oversea air trans- In the course of his reply to Mr. four million pounds is represented to Chinhai where a Chinese mee-Treasury was buying all newly purt and of scientific investigation

| by increased Imports of raw Churchill, Sir Samuel added that materials, and indicates additionni hanic shipped them to Shanghai. mined silver in the United States in the sphere of air transport gen- Sir John Simon. Foreign Secre- the Manchester Chamber of Com-employment in staple industries. It is understood that dredging and that Canada, Mexico, Peru erally,

Estimates for air protection ary, replying to a series of Com seemed to him to destroy any In every classification of im-operations will be conducted, but and Spain were doing the same ro- mona questions concerning the chance of negotiations between ports of raw materials and articles it will be difficult as the depth garding their sources of supply, amount to 60 milion Reichsmarks.

there is thirty fathoms. Siberian mail route, gave an assur, India and Manchester (which mainly unmanufactured, there was

Officials of the C.N.A.C. um- be lost to promote the resumption tho mail service through Manchuria,

London, April 16. Britain does not contem- It is probable that the three powerful Singapore Royal Ar plate taking any step likely Supermarine-Southampton to compromise her political fyingboat, which were due to relations with China. This arrive in Hongkong at two o'clock!

Force

this afternoon, will arrive at was made clear in the House

of Commons to-day.

The Secretary of State for Indio said he would welcome the enquiry. It would provide a chance once again to prove that Mr. Churchill had found a mare's-nest,

SIR SAMUEL EXPLAINS.

morec'a original memorandum

occurring.

The value of re-exports In March last your was £3,883,020. Į

an increase last monilover March,

FOUND BY FISHERMEN.

Reuter.

AIR RAID PROTECTION.

later hour.

Owing to strong winds, the machines, which started out early this morning, have returned to the north of the Philippine Islands, according to latest Information.

They will probably refuel and ifance that no opportunities would eventually had a happy issue) ovon 1988. For the first three months Phatically deny the report that the weather conditions are more

He felt bound to brily this to of the current year, Imports are plane itself or the occupants havo) SILVER PROBLEM for this purpose since the organis favourable, will start out again in

the notice of the Manchester valued at £25,690,789 more than in time to arrive here at 4 p.m. As the matter involves political Chamber,

the corresponding period of last The machines, under the com-

year, but they are £9,620,612 loss PRES. ROOSEVELT mand of Group Captain S. W. issues, however, he was forced to

than in the first three months of Smith, O. B. E., Omcer Command-decline, for the present, to accept

TOUR PLANS ing the R. A. F. in the Far East, the suggestion that representations are on a coastal tour, having taken be made to China that maile be off from Singapore on April 2.

transmitted via Manchuria and Dairon.

SAILING IN CRUISER

GOLD INQUIRY URGED

GAMBLING PROFITS

COMPLAINT

The nature of the British Reply

EFFORTS UNSUCCESSFUL.

His efforts, however, were un- Chambor did successful. The nothing as a result of the repre- sentations he made.

1932.

MAIN EXPORTS.

Exports compared for the same It was not until four months perlods show increases respective- to the recont Chinose Note in re- Hard to the Treaty of Tientsin, later that representations alongly of £6,011,996 and £2,387,333. 1868, and the Commercial Treaty, the same lines were made by the

The increases in exporta fall 1902, is now being considered in Lancashire delegation that went consultation with the departments to India. It was this that foduced mainly under the hendings of iron of the government concerned, and the Manchester

to and stool, non-ferrous metals, their memorandum, →→ Pending the completion of such mand

woollen maqufactures, chemicals

་

Chamber

consultation, it would be im- Router,

possible for him to make any state-

·ANOTHER VERSION.

Washington, April 16.

mont regarding its, torms-Reuter.

London, April 16.

..

been found-Reuter.

U.S. Minister to Meet Professor Rogers

In last year's budget only 13 million Relchsmarks were provided tion of air protection was, at that time, only in Its first stage. The newly-developed organisation is de- voted to the protection of the civil population against air attack. Its consiste in the erection of guaproof cellars, the training of (Special to "Talograph")

squade for the rendering harmless of poisonous gases, the development Peking. Apr. 17. of a fire extinguishing system, the It la loprned from the American training of special squads for warn-

• (Special to "Telegraph")

Legation that Mr. Nelson T. John- Inga, tochnical repairs and the ron- (hy Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphie Mason. American Minister to China; doring harmless of poisonous gases Ordinanes, 238. Rassived Apr® will proceed to Hankow early next and other similar measures.—Bri-

wook whence he will proceed, to tính Wirelena. Washington, April 16.

Shanghai to meet Professor Rovers. He is expasted to consult with Professor Rovers on the allver THE LATE MR. OTTO issuo,-Central News.

KAHN

IN JUNE

Arrested in the street, a young

New York, Avril 16.

It is learned that President and motor cars--British Wireless. Roosevelt is planning to sail on June 23 on n trip to the West Mr. White introduced a resolu-

Indics, Panama and Hawali, do tion into the House of Represen The removal of six gunny bags from With the Government's full On a charge of avoiding paying bis pending on whether or not Con-

demanding tatives to-day

an a house under construction in Wynd concurrence, the House of Com-fare on a Chitts Motor Bus Company gross has adjourned.

| woman, Ho Pul-ying, was fèund to The late Mr. Otto Kuba, the investigation of all gold transfc-ham Stret led to a charge of theft mens ascented a motion moved by failed to appear before Mr. Macfadyen! The President is expected to have 310 Hongkong Yee Chong Po-pui famous German-American banker.

being brought against an unemployed Mr. Winston Churchill that cor- in the Central Police Court this mor- make use tions since January 1.

either of the U.S.S. lottery tickets concealed in her girdle, laft personal estato valued at about The speaker declared that ape-war ayer this morning. Defendant tala matters which he claimed hing, and his bail of $25 was estreated. Houston or of the U.S3. Indiana. Brought before Mr. Macfadyen in the US$15,000,000, which is equally

brench nt culators had profited by more pleaded guilty and admitted a previous constituted a

the Inspector James stated it was a very polls-ten-thousand-ton cruisers was fined $200 with the alternative His widow.ls otherwise adequately Central Magistracy this morning, she givided between his four children, than U.S. $226,000,000 since deval- conviction for stealing two years ago. privileges of the Houso be re-obvious case of attempting to do and will be escorted by two of three weeks' hard labour. Inspee tation of the dollar-Router, Three weeks' hard labour was imposed. ́ ́(Contínsied "bit-Pape ́7;)"

fraud the Company..

destroyers.--United :Press:

tor James prosecuted.

provided: for--Reuter,

man named Wan Hang, before Mr.