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三拜述號十三月五英港香 WEDNESDAY, MAY 30,

1934.

日八十月四

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TRAGIC DEATH OF ARMED CIVILIANS ASSIST COLLECTIVE WAR

CONSUL'S WIFE

THEORY OF THE TWO BULLETS

YOUNG WOMAN VICTIM

OF NEURASTHENIA

Madamo R. G. Alves-Guerra, wife of the Consul-General for Portugal in Hongkong, who was discovered in her room at the Peninsula Hotel last evening with a bullet-wound in her head, succumbed to her injuries at the Kowloon Hospital at 5.15 this morning.

was at about six o'clock

IBN SAUD TRUCE EXTENDED

Gives More Time For Compliance

Cairo. May 30,

It is officially announced that Ibn Saud has agreed to a prolongation of the truce for several days, in order to give the Imam of Yemen the time required to carry out his peace conditions, Reuter,

SELENCIANCO

IN SUSSEX MAN-HUNT

LABOUR TURMOIL IN AMERICA

UNREST SPREADING

RAPIDLY

PEACE PARLEYS,

BREAK DOWN

Washington, May 29,

A perilous

situation

threatens the United States. Industrial unrest is leaping

sight that Senhor Alvester GERMAN BID from place to place like

on returning to the Hotel, WIN shocked, on forcing the door of

a connecting room, to find his

wife lying huddled up in a chair, į with a bullet-wound through her head and a small automatic pistol | In her hand. There were also indications that she had chloroform.

taken

The injuries to the head, wero extensive, and although she was' rushed to hospital, it was evident that she would not recover,

Two discharged büllets were found in the room, but, curiously enough, no-one appears to have heard any shota fred.

FOR EMPIRE

CLAIM TO RETURN OF COLONIES

SPIRITED SPEECH BY GOERING

(Special to "Telegraph")

wildfire and widespread stoppages and possible dis- orders are feared.

Labour lenders regard the in- dustrial situation ns ominous, though they hope to avert grave trouble in the steel and textile) industries.

While Union leaders belonging to the Amerlenu Federation of Labour have threatened, walk-į outs, further conferences have] been arranged with government] spokesmen.

STEEL WORKERS SMART.

The Union of Steel Workera is

(by Telegraph. Copyright. Teleprophie Hemarting under its Inability to

When found, the victim had a bullet-wound through the left temple, and she was grasping_theme Grifinance, pistol to her right hand. Two empty cartridges were also found [......

in the room. It is presumed that

the second shot was discharged as

49, 4.5% (an)

Recaiced

Berlin, May 29, The Nazi campaign for

the result of suddon pressure on the return of Germany's

the trigger, caused by

bullet entered the head.

cot-

defeat the industry's announced policy of dealing with the men through Company Unions and is

orposing, Independent unions to

the utmost.

The

Meanwhile, the negotiations at

movement in ing rapidly

favour of

શ

vulsive movement after the first former colonies to the Em-Toledo, Ohio, for the settlement,

of the strike in the motor Industry, pire of the Reich, was car-have broken down alter twenty NOT IN GOOD HEALTH. jried a stage further by four hours of conferences, and So-far-as-can-be-learned, the General Goering, Premier general strike an June 1, is grow deceased lady left no note of any of Prussia, to-day. kind. She had not been in good health for some considerable time. having suffered for some years from neurasthenia.

the

In a spirited speech on ocension of the investment of the so-called "Green Police," created by himself with the traditions of Madame Alves-Guerra, who was the former German East Africa a young and beautiful Parisian, Police Regiment, General Goering had been in the East for some declared that, as their predecessors tline. She came to Hongkong had fought, with the with her husband about two Army, so it would be their task. months ago from Canton, where it danger ever arose, to defend they had resided for about a year, the frontiera of their Fatherland. prior to which they had lived in Singapore for five years.

of Germany's colonies abroad was Much sympathy will be felt for forced upon her by the peace the bereaved husband.

treaties, but have

We

always The funeral takes place to honourably repeated that Germany the needs colonial soil or it will die morrow afternoon, leaving Kowloon Hospitni at 4 p.m. and of internal suffocation-Reuter passing the Monument at about Special. 5 p.m.

AMERICAN NAVY #

PROMOTIONS

SELECTIVE SYSTEM IN FUTURE

(Spacial to "Telegraph"}

He added that the renunciation

TAX REFORM IN FRANCE

BIG REDUCTIONS IN INCOME TAXES

(Special to "Telegraph”j

fly Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphic Mom thy Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphia Messap

Ordinners,

• Received May 1491. Ordinance, 兰亲职高。 Received May 30 .37 .. -Bapse

30, 1.8 mm.)

Paris, May 30. Washington, May 29. President Roosevelt has signed the Bill passed by Congress which provides for the selective promo

tions of Heutenantn, lieutenant- commanders and commanders in

CLOUDY WEATHER

Sixty-eight Unions out of a hun- dred and three are in favour of the general strike,

AKRON THREATS.·

foreshadowed at Akron, Ohio,

Admiral | Marquis Togo, whose death occurred this morning.

JAPAN IN MOURNING

ADMIRAL TOGO'S

DEATH

STATE FUNERAL FOR NAVAL HERO

(Special to "Telegraph")

(Hy Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphie

Ordinance,

30 1.21 ..}

Freetred JAPĮ.

FUGITIVE'S RAIDS IN NIGHT

AEROPLANES. JOIN

IN SEARCH

MAN WHO SHOT

CONSTABLE.

London, May 30.

A man-hunt almost un- precedented in intensity in

ON AGGRESSORS

CIVIL AVIATION CONTROL

Internationalisation Schemes

London, May 29.

The Prime Minister told the House of Commons to-day that he understood two unofficial schemes bearing on the question of the internationalisation of civil aviation had been received and were being considered by the appro- priate department.-British Wireless,

the British Isles is still pro-GAME ceeding in Sussex, following

the wounding of P. C. Jex, Rush For......-

of Worthing..

Aeroplanes zooming over the Sweep

undulating country of the Sussex Downs, with observers keeping a constant look-out for a sign of Buspicious movement on the ground below, are co-operating in the search.

In addition, there aro fifty motor-cars scouring the roads and an army of five hundred civilians, many of whom are armed,

A band of Black Shirt Fascists are ale assisting the police in the hunt for P.C. Jex's assailant.

TWO COTTAGES RAIDED.* ·

It is revealed that the fugitive raided two lonely cottages during Inst night, seizing cash clothes and food,

and

Despite the fact that blood- hounds have been put on

Tickets

PUBLIC RESPONSE TO $I PLAN

ADMISSION PRICES

"

REDUCED

STRIKING SOVIET PROPOSAL

SECURITY LOOMS LARGE AT GENEVA

TRANSFORMATION SUGGESTED

(Special to "Telegraph”)

(Du Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphie Mes- DER Ordiaassor. "TORI. Received May 3 7.97 a.m.)

Genova, May, 20.

The most striking development at this afternoon's meeting of the Disarmament ConferencO WAS a proposal by M. Litvinoff, the Soviet delegate, to transform the Conference into a "Permanent and Regularly Assembling Con- |ference "of Peace."

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It is the Russian Idea that the Conference shoukl concentrate on the preservation of world and that it should devoto Itself largely to guaranteeing security ngainst aggressor nations;

GALLERIES CROWDED.

London, May 29. The galleries were very crowded and no fewer than fourteen foreign were present-United

Racegoers will be interested to ministers learn that the Stowards of the Press cided that henceforth the prices Disarmament Conference met ut Hongkong Jockey Club have do- · The General Commission of the of admission to the public en closure at Happy Valley are to be reduced by fifty per cent.

The new rates, which come inte

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the operation at Saturday's Meeting U.S. RENOUNCES

trail, under the charge of hunta- will be $1 for the general public men with full kit and horn, the and 60 conte for Service men. gunman has not yet been run to earth.

ALL ROADS WATCHED.

All roads out of Sussex are being closely watched and escape Mais considered impossible.

P. C. Jex was shot when about

a burglary at

A major labour conflict is also Cancer of the larynx was connection with

Tokyo, May 30. to apprehend a suspect, wanted in home of the great Goodyear works, the direct cause of the death High Salvington, on the outskirts in consequence of the demands of this morning of Japan's |ol Worthing---Houter. the rubber crease in wages to

workers for an in-

75 cents an national naval hero, Admiral

sent forty cents an hour.

or as compared with the pre- Marquis Togo, at the age of DISARMAMENT NOT A

They also claim a guaranteed 86. work year

WAR PREVENTIVE of forty-four weeks,

The Prime Minister, Admiral with half-pay for periods of idle-Viscount Saito, visited the Em- peror and obtained the Rescript The rubber workers are very for a State Funeral, the time and strongly organised in their union, place for which will be fixed by but the demands are almost cer-the Privy Council which is meet- tain to be rejected by the emi

ing this afternoon, ployers-Reutër.

ness.

PACIFIC COAST THREATS

GENERAL STRIKĖ WARNING (Special to "Telegraph") Elly Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic

Reseinek Ordinance, 0170 30, 5.21 .m.)

San Francisco, May 29.

Flags were flown at half-mast and doors were draped with black crepe throughout Japan.

American Secretary of

War's Opinion

(Special to "Telegraph")

.

(Da Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphia Msai Ordinanor, 2211, Rossived

A message from Washington records tributes paid to the memory fof. Admiral Togo by Admiral | 46, 842 .m

Standly, Chief of Naval Opera- tions, and Admiral Bristol,

The

reduction in the price of aweep tickets from $5 to $1 is pro- viding most popular, no fewer than 1,300 through tickets having al- ready been sold,

The big sweep Stokes

on the Juling io being splendidly sup having already been taken up. ported, between 64,000 and 05,000

BRITISH ENGINEER INJURED

Twenty-Seven Die in

RIGHTS

CUBAN TREATY

APPLAUDED

SPEEDY MESSAGE TO CONGRESS

(Spacial to "Toleguapli”)

(Dy Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphie kézm

Ordinares, 2004. Reerived

Washington, May 29. President Roosevelt has sent

Kailan Mine Disaster a. Message to Congress recom

...

Tientsin, May 30.

mending the early ratificating of the American Treaty with Cuba, A disastrous fire occurred, in a drawing particular attention to coal mine at Tongchlachang (be the fact that it omits the right longing to the Kailan Administra-to intervens. tion) early yesterday morning,

"By the consummation of the when twenty-seven miners wore treaty, the U.S. Government makes burned to death or suffocated, while it clear that it is not only opposed n number were injured including to a policy of armed intervention, Tayn British engineer:

but renounces rights of interven- Over 100 miners were rescued tion and interference." Washington, May 20.- from the pit under circumstances Mr. Dorn, Socretary of the War of great dificulty, the pithead terised the Treaty as the greatest

Senator Koy Pittman charuc Department, giving testimony being filled by dense smoke. pronouncement since the Monroe. before the House Military Com- Central News. -

Doctrine. Mr. Cordell Hull as sent amittee in connection with the for an message to the American Am- Thipaon Bill, providing bassador, Mr. Grew, asking him increase in the personnel of the Histo convey to Mr. Hirota "the Army to 180,000 men, anid that sincere condolences of the United the argument that disarmament States Government and people.[will provent war is "illogical," The Emperor of Japan Has lost n "Such a tenet has put the United devoted servant, the nation has States in a poor position."-- lost one of its illustrious men and United Proza..

world. in lost

highly 11 - United cateemed personality."

Admiral Togo, who was born in

Kar

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The Doumorgue Government's The entire Pacific Coast

Fiscal Roform BIN. WILS in-

MR. HULL'S MESSAGE.

40TH VICTIM OF DISASTER

CHILD SUCCUMBS IN HOSPITAL

"It should end all jealousy and misunderstanding in South Ameri-

CA,

Senator Lewis, co-author of the "We Platt Amendment, said: should not presume the guardian- ship of Cuba.. However, we must be in a position to protect her against herself and should main- tain the right to intervene in the More than a fortnight after the case of riots getting out of

the government. 1847, was the non of a petty re- SOCIALIST WAR ON occurrence, another death from control of tainer of the Lord of Kagoshima.

the gas explosion at Weat Point is United Press.

the

Ho

FASCISM

recorded. The latest victim to succumb to severe burns is a five-{ year-old ind, Loung Yan, who died

4.80

at

p.. yesterday at the Government Civil Hospital.

troduced Into the Chamber of may be paralysed in the near Deputies last night.

future by a general strike It alaw at stimulating revenue which is being threatened as the U.S. Navy and authorialng that by a reduction of direct taxation. all future graduates of Annapolla The maximum rate of inconseja result of the failure to shall be appointed Enaigns.-tax is reduced from thirty-six to secure

began his naval carcer at the a settlement of the age of 16, and five years later he United Press,

twenty-four per coat, and a num- ter of irritating and comparative longshoremen's dispute.

had actual fighting experience.

MEETING BEHIND He studied in England from 1971 [ly unproductive taxes are abolish-

Denouncing the latest peace to 1873, and in the Japan-China CLOSED DOORS offers, the strike leaders to-day War he commanded the cruigor

Leung Yan's danth has brought GILMAN'S The whole bagia Pressure in now highest over sources is generally broadened.the matter was fatile. The em- the sinking of the Chinese trans of revenue said that further discussion of Nantwa, among his exploita being

Brussels, May 29, the total fatalities to 40, and the number of those who succumbed to Hokkaido and the Sea of Japan. It Reuter Special,

The struggle against Fascism injuries at the Hospital to \20. romajna relatively low in a trough

ployers do not mean to make any port Kowaing, a British steamer formed one of the principal sub- extending from Indo-China across

genuine concession. The organi-ying the British flag. Luzon to the Paclic. Local fore.

Jects for debate at the meeting of Bors threaten to bring about After the war, he was promoted the Executive of the Socialist

the cast:-Bast

moderato; BATTLE WITH POLICE general strike along whole Rear Admiral, and in 1890 he was Labour International, under the winds,

MARINE COURTS other made Vice-Admiral. He was Com- cloudy.

const, involving all the unions.

mander-in-Chief

Nanking, May 29, The proceedings, which have Russo-Japanese War, Tacoma, Washington, reflects Fund Chief of the Combined residency of M. Vandervelde.

The Nanking Executivo Yuan Shanghai, May 30. the spirit of San Francisco. The and won much fame in the battle been held in camera, began on has adopted a recommendation There was a running gun battle local branch of the longshoremen fought on May 27th. 1905, in the May 27 and concluded at dawn to submitted jointly by the Ministries London, May 20. outside Woosung Harbour yeater- held an emergency meeting to-Tsushima Straits.

day.

of Justico, Communications and In the House of Commons, the day between a number of pirate day to discuss the latest settle- Admiral Togo was mado Supremo

Reports on illegal propaganda Navy focurts in the trading ports the establishment of President of the Board of Trade, ships and patrol boats of the

offers

received - from and unanimously War Councillor in 1900, while three measures were Br, Runcima, said it was hoped Klangau Water Polico.mont

to reject it. man * reary later --he- - was promoted

Germany,

Austria, Latvia...and | .....

order to handle legal caGOS agreement botwoon Britain and caught robbing a fishing boat. different branch of the longshore- the coronation of King George V move the Secretariat next April Novel, to be introduced, in the Holland would be opened some In all, three of the pirate boots | mon's union hae taken the same being a member of the suite of from Zurich to a less expensive Chinese Judicia); administrative time next month-British Wireless, were sunk-Router..

attitude-United Press.

Prince Higashi-Fushimi.Battery country-Reuter,

system ---Central Newca.

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