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The

FIRST EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED U881

Tel. 20269,

No. 16593

三拜肅號五月九英港香

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1934.日七廿月七

RELIABILIT

SAFETY..

COLONG MILEAGE..

DUNLOP

SINGLE COPY 12 CENTS $36.00 PER ANNUM.

The World's Best Tyres

YOUNG NAVAL OFFICER KILLED AT MIRS BAY

INTERNATIONAL

ARMS RACKET

SENSATIONAL AMERICAN

RELEVATIONS

SIR BASIL ZAHAROFF'S

(

COMMISSION

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH”).

Telegraph. Copyright Telegraphic Messages Ordinanco, 1894. Received, Sept. 6, 0.28 m.)

WASHINGTON, SEPT. 4.

SOME OF THE SECRETS OF THE GREAT IN- TERNATIONAL ARMAMENTS RACKET, SHOW- ING HOW THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BIGGEST FIRMS IN THE "WAR TRADE” INTERLOCKED ACROSS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, CAME INTO THE SEARCHLIGHT OF PUBLICITY IN WASHING- TON TO-DAY.

The part played by Sir Basil Zaharoff in important transactions between Spain and American firms' was' revealed, including the fact that he drew $766,099 in commissions between 1919 to 1930 in connection with submarine construction for Spain.

INTERLOCKING OF BIG FIRMS

Sir Basil Zaharoff, Europe's mystery man of finance and armamente,

AUSTRIAN ALARM

CARINTHIA TROOPS WARNED

ITALY RUMOURED MOVING FORCES

Vienna, Sept. 4.

|ary measure.

.

..

One Hundred and Fifty Feet Fall Down Cascade

ONLY SON

OF EX-COMMODORE ⠀⠀

WALKER

BATHING PARTY TRAGEDY

LOSES FOOTHOLD ON SLIPPERY ROCK

MORTAL HEAD INJURIES

A distressing fatality oc- curred in Mirs Bay yesterday afternoon when a young Naval officer, Lieut. A.R.H. Walker, of H.M.S. Whitshed,

The prisma parada în prograin at the M.C.L. iwimming gain held at Repulse Bay yesterday after- noon. H.E. the Governor. H.E. Major General Borrett and Sir Thames Southorą aro esen in the picture, (Flistos-Ming Yuen),

slipped while rock climbing CHINA LOAN MEDICAL WORK AT GOLF CLUB

and was hurtled to death down a series of cascades,

Lieut. Walker was the only son of Rear-Admiral A. H. Walker, O.BE, B.N. (Retired), who wan

of

CAUTION

GERMAN BANKER'S

WARNING

It was also disclosed that Vickers Limited, the A fresh threat appears to formerly Commstore in Hongkong. British armaments firm, had asked the Electric Boat have developed to Austria It appears that II.M.S. Whitshed Company to withhold from the United States Govern- from the activities of the was on anti-paty patrol at the ment its knowledge of Brit isli submarine building plans. Nazi rebels.

time and Lieut. Walker and a party! JAPAN MONOPOLY

some twenty-five officers, and

ASPIRATIONS Troops are being rushed to the men went ashors at about 4.30 p.m. Carinthia frontier as a precaution-in Tao Kung Bay, near Mirs Point,

Berlin, Sept. 4. for a bathe.. Unconfirmed rumours are also Lieut. Walker was attired in a A word of caution con- sure to sing thy moved in the members of the party that he was cerning possible financial current alleging that Italian troops bathing costume and told the other

Australian going for a walk up the rocks at transactions with the Chi- direction of the frontier.

the rear of the bench down which

nese Government was sound- It is officially learned that all stream was dowing, troops throughout. Carinthia are When he had reached a heighted by a prominent, German prepared for an emergency oving of about 160 feet he slipped while banker in Berlin to-day.. to reports of auspicious 'movements (crossing the stream and lost. his among the Australian Legionaries balance. He fell backwards down who entered Yugo-Slavia after the a series of casendes to the beach generaly be regarded as being in nghting in July.

This romarkable testimony was given by Mr. Henry Carse, Pre- sident of the Electric Boat Com- pany, when he appeared before the Senate Commission, of which Senator Nye is the chairman, and which is investigating the netivities and profits of American Armament firms.

and he admitted that his company and the more famous British ar maments firm, Vickers- Limited,

have divided the world into ex- clusive areas for the sale of sub- marines.

ZAHAROFF COMMISSION. He stated that the two firms had inter-changed patents apply ing to ship and particularly, sub- marine construction,

Piled with questions by the

The Committee was visibly sur Commission's counsel, Mr. Carse outlined the amount of the comprised when Mr. Carae gave fur- mission paid to Sir Basil Zaharof ther testimony to the effect that and said that these commissions Sir Busil Zaharoff, the most my-

Some of the troops have already been despatched to strengthen the frontier defences.-Renter,

represented five per cent of the sterious figure in Europe politics POUND-DOLLAR

gross value of the deals obtained by his influence.

BATTLE

richest men in and one of the Europe, whose connection with the armament trade is well known, Jad been paid a commission at the

rate of Avo per cent, on Basildone by the Electric Boat Com

work Gold Bloc May Be Forced

To Modify Policy Ile also disclosed that his company for the Spanish Government.

•STILL EFFECTIVE. The agreement with Sir

is still effective, he added.

pany and Vickers-Armstrong had

split profits and and divided the

U-BOAT INFRINGEMENT.

world into zones in which each He also stated that the German

atood

Washington, Sept. 4. Apparently. Britain has decided:

below.

Chinese

State loans must.

distress, declared Her Franz Urbly, the President of the Ger roan Asiatle Bank. speaking at the annual meeting of share holders of the concern,

FATAL HEAD INJURIES. The bathing party on the beach, attracted by his cry when he slipped, rushed to the spot where The greatest control must, he Iny in the stream crumpled up, therefore, he said, be observed An examination was conducted in any new transactions with ther

OXFORD UN:

Large Bequest By Doctor's Widow

London, Sept. 4

A bequest of £30,000.to Oxford University to be expended for the promotion of Oxford medical education; has been made under the will of the widow of the late Dr. Charles Williams British Wireless

STRIKE VIOLENCE

SOUTH CAROLINA RIOTING

GREAT TEXTILE

WALK-OUT

New York, Sept. 4.

MURDER

MISSING CADDIE

WANTED"

MAN TERRIBLY MUTILATED

Evidence of a brutal murder believed to have been committed in the early hours of this morning at the Hongkong Golf Club pre- mises at Happy Valley, was forth [coming when the badly mutister body of Fu Kit, employed as mo for tractor driver to the Club, was discovered at about 6:45 am. to-.. day

The body was found lying in the Clubhouse yard outside the locker; reom. There was a chopper. wound across the neck, which had almost severed the head, and an- other cut at the back of the neck, „as well as :n sevoro gash across the right forearm, evidently caused when the victim was defending. himself from blows by the chopper. NO DISTURBANCE HEARD

by one of the men, attached to hinese Government. ALEMİlete picture of the The victim, who was d8 years of

...

ge, was In the habit of slooping's in the locker room by himself, the

yet rest of the staff having their own

the ship's sick berth and artificial The boycott in China of oll rospiration applied but there was Japanese goods had recently been

Examination greatly relaxed, and business men paralysis caused by the no sign of life. showed that Lleut. Walker had re- should not ignore, certain mono- textile strike is not ceived very severe head Injuries polistic aspirations on the part obtainable.

se quarter MIRA

The body was discovered

discovered lying In the fall and badly dislocated his of Japan in the Far East, left thigh

Herr Urbig sald he expects that The workers have not obeyed near a camp bed by Ll Kwat pan, His body was brought back to the exports of silver from China the strike order in all parts of aged 13, a son of one of the caddiog chopper, the property of polled about ten vars

tendering me, the other not U-boats used during the war were to bring the pound. sterling down Hongkong immediately and taken will have an unfavourable renc-the country, although it is being the Club. A blood to the old 4.87 parity. It is falt to the R. N. Hospital. The funeration in the International silver loved that over 800,000 have in Club, was lator, found by the

zone.

American-owned

for orders in the built upon an

will take place this afternoon, market-Renter. "rival" zon

patent through the infringement The Electric Boat Company had of patents which Germany re- that the gold, bloc is in a position passing the Blogument at 4.30. free hand in the United States, colved from an Austrian concern, where it must modify its pro Cuba and other "United States with which the Electric Boat Com-rammerg

Good opinion has it that Presi- dent Roosevelt will not permit Vickers were supreme In Britain, He added that his Company had gold exports in any great volume; Canada, Ireland, India and so on. put in a claim for $17,000,000 for should they run as High as $100,- the infringement, but had ze-000,000 the Government in ilkely ceived nothing-Reuter.

· controlled" countries, while rany had a contract.

PATENTS PASSED,

American submarine patents were licenced to Vickers, who passed them, on to other firms in Japan, Holland and Spain.

Mr. Carso gald that the patent royalty income of the Electric Boat Company, Included from Messrs. Vickery,

$222,257 and the

Mitsubishi, $196,245.

GANDHI TO RETIRE

FROM POLITICS

to refuse export licences or to lower the gold content of the dol lar, either of which would prove embarrassing to the Treasury refunding programmo,

BRITISH FINANCE POSITION

AIR RACE OF CENTURY

THE

Slight

Decrease In Revenue

64 IN DASH TO MELBOURNE

Ha pienied that the company Differences Among The content in the same ratio as the the total ordinary revenue re-

had

ever refused the United States Its patents.-Vuited Press.

WORLD DIVIDED INTO AREAS

Vickers And Electric

Congress Leaders

Madras, Sept. 4.

The Mahatma Gandhi has do- cided. to withdraw from the active leadership of the Congress. Party as the result of differences with Pandit Malaviya and other Fenders according to the correspon Washington, Sept. d. |dent of the `· newspaper). Hindi Striking revelations regarding from Warka..

Boat Company

the bullding of submarines-wore

AERO GLUB'S. PLANS

downed tools

Mr. Sloan, the President of the the spot. T Textile Institute, claims that the "All the employees are said to

Intest Agures indicate that at least have satired, before. 11 o'clock last

In quarters of a million-eclton night, and none of them heard any

operatives are still working, and sound of a disturbance proclaims that thousands more

would have remained at their jobs. MISSING CADDL

except for intimidation.

One of the caddies, however) Minor outbreaks of violence could not be traced this mornings have already occurred in several and the police are now ondeavour of the strike arena as the resulting to find.bis whereabouts. Ho! of clashes between pickets and said to have quarrelled with ENG deceased, two days ago, when th

man per invNAMORA Hatter accused him of tamperines

It is estimated that European gold hoarding exceeds $1,000,000,-

London. Søpt, 4.7.

NATIONAL GUARD HARD with the mutor tractor and is glat 000. It is rumoured that Britain

Exchequer returns show that,

PRESSED,

ed to have

have threatened to

to kill would formally change the gold exclusive of self-balancing items.

driver. The most serious disturbance The police investigations are in 1.S.. dollar

content may be ceived during the current financial

......⠀⠀ London, Sept. 4. seems to have occurred in South the hands of Detective Sergeante changed.

year up to September 1, amounts Further cheapening of all cur- to £207,005,278, "At the 'corres-

There will be a lot of squeering Carolina, where lorry-loads of Fitches. A reward of $250 in be

ing offered by the police for the rencies appears inevitable-ponding date last year, the amount in and tight packing even at the deputy sheriffs have been rushed

bf. thỏ missing: ead Stean, Culbertson and Frite. 27, was £241,167,0459999previn RAF base at Mildenhall Suffolk, to Greer, following reports that die.

banda de Total ordinary expenditure to the London to Melbours Air the pickets are "over-running" the

when the 64 planes entered for. date is £287,228,208, which is 2/2 marathon race in October arrive National Guard. SERIOUS AFFAIR

mbe during the week preceding the The American Federation of IN CHAOYANG

during the past week totalled 48,588,865, of When the line-up for the race Silk Workers claims complete suc- JAPANESE SOLDIERS Which 44,901,000 represented in is made, tiny single-seater Mothe CC6s in the silk section of the

atriko Reuter, land, revenue and £3,920,000 Cus-will be seen alengelde huge multi-

engined planes. It will probably | AND VILLAGERS toms and Excise.

Poking, Sept. 5. Receipts from Income Tax to pravé impossible for all the con-

millions more than" 21185.

Rovanto collected, raco.

made to-day by Mr. Honry Carso The decision will be announced-

A message from Chadsteh, Je-date, nt £47,380,000, excoed by tostants, however, to line up on patitors from abroad for assem hol, states that a dispute between over seven millions the amount the field at the same time. Owing bling and teating their machines when giving evidend before a at the next meeting-of the Japanese soldiers and the villagers collected at September 2, 1038, to the large number of entries, before reporting to the herodrome procautton against from which the start will be made. Congress Working Committee, of the Chaoyang District develo but revenus from Estate Duties and also which is awonbling at Warha on od into a serious armed conflict on is three militons lower, at £30.130, accidents it is likely that the They are Gravesend in Kanti

Senate Committed of Enquiry Into the relations between

States, armaments September 8, after which, Gandhi bedamay, in which many casualtion 000,-British Wireless.

and inrge foreign

planos will be étaried at shortBrian 2H

Intervala pe

The actual times will be checked.

Mr. Henry Carse la tho Pré will undertake an allindia tour

conflict was suspended sident of the Electric: Boat Coma maand

Andrew, ölüb En submarine and push on with his constructive through the mediation of local. And are holding en routes Dr #1143

foreign missionaries Central Admission is by Unket only and these 81x Important airports harq

may be ohi *from members

been selected for the, uso

pany, the largest

bullding firm in the United Staten, I program -Reuter,

Newar

Alr Port, Manchester piand

com Bouthampton Failed PreTA

PESSIMISM IN

N. R.

USA

FACE

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