1935-03-13 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1935.

VENIZELOS RELIEF WORK IN

REPORTED CAPTURED

CREEK REBEL'S FLIGHT

SEIZED IN

CASOS

(Special to "Telegraph")

(DV Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphis Msempes Ordinanes, ¿pi, Receivad, Baroh 13. 0.18 m.

Rome, March 12.

It is learned. in official circles that the authorities of Casos have seized and interned the Greek robe! leader, M. Venizelos, who will be treated as a political prisoner. United Press.

FLIGHT FROM CRETE

Athens, Mar. 12, The revolt of the Venizelists has been crushed.

M. Venizelos, his wife, and 100 officers who had supported him, have fled from Crete aboard the cruiser Averaff, and have landed on the island of Casos.

The Averoff later proceeded to Greece to surrender.-Router.

Caso8. is a small island to the East of Crete. It is believed that M. Venizelos may have attempted to escape from Canes, Crete, where he had been./directing the move ments of the revolutionary allies, and that he landed in CaBOR

Although Crete was largely in favour of the Liberal faction, which M. Venizelos led, the re- verses suffered on the mainland of Greece by the rebel forces ao probably responsible for the break down of the Venizelist movement in Crete. It had been suggested that an Independent Government might be set up at Canen, under M. Venizelos, but It now appears that all hope of the success of such a venture has evaporated.

ETERNAL OSTRACISM

Athens, March 13. Eternal ostracism will be the punishment of the Greek rebels, the Prime Minister, M. Taniduris, announced to-day during the course of a speech delivered while Athens celebrated the Govern- ment's victory.

SCOTLAND

GENEROUS AID FROM PRIVATE SOURCES

U.S. MOVE TO PROTECT

COTTON FARMERS

Recognising the necessity of assisting agriculture, and the value of the industry in providing a means of absorbing unemployed, Great Britain and the United States, are going their separate ways towards the same end.

SPORTS WRITER PASSES

WISDEN'S EDITOR DIES SUDDENLY

MR. SYDNEY J. SOUTHERTON

RADIO BROADCAST

Dance Music by The Maintainers Orchestra

A VIOLIN RECITAL

From ZAW on a wavelength of 200° metres (846 kilocycles):

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 6.6.10 p.m. Children's Studio Con

London, March 12. Mr. Sydney James Souther-cort ton, editor of Wisden's" Cricke 7-7.28 p.m. Light Orchestral Music.

From Meyerbeer's Treasure House ters Almanack since 1933, and

(Urbach). partner in the Cricket Reporting Molly on the Shoro (Grainger); Agency, died to-day, while at Shepherd's Hey (Grainger). tending a meeting of the Surrey Master Melodies. County Cricket Club at the Ken-Potpourri of Waltzes, No. 2 nington Oval.

Born in 1874, Mr. Southerton had been closely associated with cricket for many years. In 1894 he joined the staff of the Cricket Reporting Agency and has been a cricket re- ever since.

In the distressed areas of Scotland, expenditure of £106,000 has already been authorised, it was announced in the House of Commons, according to reports reach-porter and general sports writer ing Hongkong to-day. Generous gifts from private sources are acknowledged at the same time, their object being to provide employment.

The United States will probably take action to protect the cotton growers, whose future is uncertain owing to the state of the market.

London, Mar. 12.

It was announced by the Secre- tary of State for Scotland in the House of Commons to-day that the Commissioner for special areas in Scotland hnd been already authorised to spend approximately £100,000 on schemes of work in the distressed districts.

Other schemes involving a largo increase in the Scottish Com- missioner's expenditure

under active consideration.

wore

Sir Godfrey Collins also revealed that the Scottish Department of Agriculture had received a free gift from a prominent resident of Dundee, Mr. Mathews, of a 188-| acre farm, as well as a trust fund amounting to about £30,000 and other gifts, making a total of over £50,000 for the purpose of settling on the land unemployed men from Dundee.-British Wireless.

'COTTON CONTROL

CROWN OF

SIAM FOR BOY KING

CORONATION SET FOR MAY

NATION WILL CELEBRATE

In October, 1915, he was given a Itoyal West Kent Regiment, and commission in the Queen's Own

served until the end of the War,

At the conclusion of the War he was admitted to partnership in the Cricket Reporting Agency, and lio accompanied Chapman's M.C.C. tourists to Australin in 1928-29, rev presenting Reuter's and the Press. Association--Neuter.

(itsbrecht).

7.23-7.46 p.m. Pianoforts Recital by Mischa Levitzki. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 (Liszt); La Cam- panella (Paganini-Linzt); Stacento Etude (Rubinstem). Semiramide-Overture (Rossini). The Caliph of Bagdad-Overture

7.45-8 p.m. Hand Selections.

(Boieldlou),

8 p.m. Time and Weather Report. 8.03-8.33 p.m. Variety Programme.

Piano Duets-Goodnight Vienna

Medley,

Piano Duets Sunshine Susie-

Medley.

Song--Villa ("The Merry Widow").

Raie da Costa and Harry Jacobson.

Jeannette MacDonald (Soprano). Organ Solos-Medley of Old Songs,

Leslie James. Song Smoke Gets In Your Eyca.

Turner Layton (Tenor).. Piano Duola-Ain't Shỏ the Dainty.

CHINA'S TRADE Piano Ducts Want a Fair and

DEMANDS

CONSIDERATION BY BRITAIN SOUGHT

Nanking, Mar. 13. Acting on the recommendations from the Ministry of Industry, the Chinese Foreign Office will present a demand to Sir Alexander Cado- gan, the British Minister to China, for the same favourable treatment Bangkok, March 13.

of Chinese exports to Great Britain The Boy King of Slane will as have been accorded to German, arrive in the national capital at through the conclusion of naw Danish and Norwegian exports, the end of May for his Corona-tariff pacts with these nations. tion, which the Government is The Chinese claim is based on planning to celebrate ex-"the most favoured nation clauses" tensively.

contained in the existing Sino-Bri tish Tariff Treaty-Central News.

Washington, Mar, 12. Senator William B. Bankhead to- day predicted that none of the The now King. Prince Ananda The crow of the last warship in proposed amendments to the Bank-Mahidol, la only nine years of age. the hands of the rebels, the sub-head Cotton Control Bill would be He is the nephew of the ex-King, whose abdication is dated back to marine Katsonis, have mutinied accepted.

He also forecast a antisfactory February 3. Prince Ananda will; sgainst their officers. They have loan plan for the 1936 crop if the rule with a Council of Regency. seized every

commissioned man aboard and bave appealed to the condition of the cotton market re-

quired, Government for help-Renter

PLANTING NEW WOODLANDS

VALUE OF "ARBOR FESTIVAL

Nanking, Mar. 13. Reports reaching here from all principal cities and towns through. out the country indicate that the Arbor Festival was enthusiastically observed by the people yesterday. The festival fell on the tenth anni. versary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

A big gathering, which was representative of all classes, na well as the Government, came to Shiao Ling Mountain, outside the city of Nanking, yesterday after noon. Presiding over this meeting

Further he expressed confidence

PRESERVATION OF ST. PAUL'S

Square Man.

Carroll Gbbons and John W. Green. Voen! DuctaLooking for a little

bit of blue.

Vocal Ducts-What a little moonlight

can do,

Layton and Johnstone, 8.33-9 p.m. Concert Items. Songs Bedouin Love Song (Pinsuti). Songs The Bandeleru (Stuart). Cello Solos Menuet (Debussy).

Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone). Cello Solos-Gavotto Tendre

(fillemacher) Pablo Canals. Songs-Bolero-Les Filles de Cadiz (The Maida of Cadiz) (Deliber). Songs-Chanson Inilous (Song of

Indin) (Rimsky-Korankov). Song In my Garden (O'Keefe).

Amelia Gaill-Curci (Soprano).

Richard Crooks (Tenor). 9-0.20 p.m. From the Studio. A Violin recital by 0, Y. Lyen sccompanied by Professor E, Guaidi." Sonata No. 7 in F Major (Mozart).

9.28-9.30 p.m. Good Company- Medley (arr. Willoughby) played by the J. II. Squire Celeste Octet.

9.30 p.m. Presa Bulletins, Stock and Commodity Quotations.

9.35-10 p.ns. Vocal Gems. The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan). Ball at the Savoy.

Music in the Air.

10-11 p.m. From the Studio, Dance Music by the "Maintainers” Dance Orchestra of H.M.S. "Suffolk" by kind permission of Captain E. Manners, R.N.

Ex-King Prajadhipok, who has retired to his estate at Cranleigh. England, approves of his nephew's in maintenance of cotton prices. selection as heir to the throne.

BILL BEFORE HOUSE Senator Bankhead said that he The Council of the Regenes, com--

OF LORDS favoured the Impounding of all,prising Prince Anuwaban and

10.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, cotton held in the Commodity Cre- [Prince Abitaya, is already active,

London, Mar. 12.

Rugby Mid-day Press News, Further dit Corporation and Government News of the abdiention of King- The second reading took place London Stock and Con.modity Quota- Pool.

Prajudhipok and the proclamation in the House of Lords to-day of tiona. There is a mixed opinion on of King Ananda, up to to-day, the Bill to preserve the found 11 p.m. Close Down. Wall Street regarding-the-im-had been suppressed. A strictations of St. Paul's Cathedral, by mediate trend of equity prices, due censorship is being maintained controlling excavations. for build- entirely to the prevailing nervous. | over the whole of Siam.-Reuter, ness in the cotton market.

SLUMP TO BE AVERTED. Mr. Roosevelt discussed the situation with Senator cotton Richard B. Russell, Jr., Democrat of Georgia, to-day."

After the discussion with the President, the Senator expressed the opinion that the United States Administration would not permit cotton prices to drop to any great extent.—United Press.

OLD AGE PENSIONS

Sacremento, March 12.

CHINA OPPOSES C.E.R. SALE

WILL PROTEST TO MOSCOW

Nanking. March 13..

It is learned in high official eireles that the Chinese Foreign Office is prepared to issue an in- portant statement to the world explaining China's position in

Ar Chen Kung-po, Minister of The California State Assembly Industry, read an interesting re-to-day approved a resolution ask-dealing with the Illegal transfer port on the accumulated results of Ing Congress to adopt the Town of the Chinese Eastern Railway to the observanco of the Arbor send Plan.

Manchukun, Festival, which had ita inception in The plan proposed by Dr. F. E. Instructions have been given to 1930.

Townsend was to give all over Dr. W. W. Yon, Chinese Ambas- He said that since that year the the age of 60 years $200 per sador at Moscow, to lodge a pro- trees planted by, the people in month. The resolution now goes test with the Soviet Government. various provinces on successive to the Senate.-United Prces.

~Central News. Arbor Daya amounted to 29,958,770, of land,

covering 538,706 now while those planted in plantations under the direct control of the Ministry of Industry during the period 1932 to 1934 were estimated at 13,526,771

He concluded by saying that the Government's afforestation pro- gramme. would be successfully carried out through the observance of the Arbor Festival by the people In years to come.-Central News.

MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE

EUROPEAN GIVEN

ary 1.

REMAND

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

EVERY MAN IS VALUED IN THIS | Banished for 10 years from January, WOULD AS HE SHOWS BY, 18 CON- 1929, Ng Wan, 31, was sentenced to 12 DUCT THAT HE WISHES TO BE VALUED, months imprisonment by Mr. W -Bruyere.

ing purposes within a prescribed EUROPEAN LADIES

area.

Speaking in support of the men- sure, the Archbishop of Canter- bury said that enquires made some years ago, when anxiety was first felt in regard to the stability of the Cathedral, revealed that the

greatest danger lay in a possible weakening of the foundations. British Wirelcas.

S'HAI MARKET REPORT

EXCHANGE RATES

STEADY

ROBBED

THIEF GETS EIGHT MONTHS

puree from a perambulator In Nathan Road on March 9, Wong Kouk, nged 24, an odd job coolic, was arrested hy Police Inspector Clarke in a scavenging lane while running away.

After attempting to a steal a

This morning he was brought before Mr. Grantham at the Kow- loen Magistracy, and further charges of stealing a handbag con- taining jewellery and mis- collaneous articles valued at $166,80 from Miss Fowles on February 27, were proferred Shanghal, Mar. 13,

against him. The defendant plead- Rates are stendy on the Foreigned guilty, to all charges and was

sentenced Exchange Market this morning.

to a total of eight Trading, however, continues dull months' hard labour.

Detective Sub-Inspector Whant, and the market is without any prosecuting, stated that while the particular feature.

Rates continue stendy at 10.15 complainant. Miss Hormour, of a.m.

No. 51 Kimberley Rond, was talk- There is scarcely any businessing to a friend outside No, 63 Nuthan Road on March 9, defen. Schofield at the Central Magistracy being transacted, however. The this morning for returning before the Chartered Bank is reported a small dant was actually seen by the com. plainant's friend to take the purse expiration of his term. It was stated buyer of exchange. for the same offence.

from a perambulator and conceal that he had been sentenced once before

In his jacket. The complainant GOLD CLAUSE SUIT struggled with the man

trieved her puree, but the man rap Washington, Mar. 12.

away,

and was subsequently caught Members of the United States by Inspector. Clarico in a scaveng Folice Court this morning for assault Government intimate that they in-ing lane nearby. ing Tong Chau, unemployed, by stab-tond to seek an early determination Falling to appear before Mr. A. Wing him in the back with a penknife of the Gold Clauso suit filed by Mr. cuff-link was found in bla pORSCS- G. II. Grantham at the Kowloon in Wellington Street on Friday. Both Magistracy this morning, to answer parties formerly worked in the West Robert Taft on behalf of the Dixie slon, which was recognised by Miss a charge of riding a bicycle without Indies where they had an altercation. Terminal Company of Cincinnati.- light in Nathan Road at 10.45 p.m. on The complainant dlsappeared when United Press. Tuesday, Harold Lewis, aged 18, a discharged from hospital but was pre- musician of the President Wilson of sent in Court to-day. Det-Sergt. Fow-

The Dollar Steamship Line advise that their s.s. President Hoover will arrived from Shanghal, Kobe, Yoko- huma, Honolulu and San Francisco at Da.m. on Tuesday, March 14, and will) tie up at the wharf at that time. This steamer is scheduled to sail for Manila by Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central at 9 pm, the same day.

Yu Wing, 24, mendicant, was sen- tenced to three months' hard labour

well..

FINE WEATHER

It

and re-

When the man was arrested, a

and the man was further

Sh with the theft of her bag

Mias Fowles was walking along Nathan Road towards the Peninsula Hotel on February 27, when she missed hor purac. A report was made to the police but the thief could not be found until the defen-

The purae belonging to Miss Hermour contained $33.12 misozlianeous articles.

A. E. Ainsworth appeared before San Francisco forfeited his bail of $10. lie stated that the wound had healed Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning to answer alleged by the polles against Chan Shop-lifting on a small scale was

moderate anticyclone has Ham Hon, aged 21, ahemployed, was formed over. North China and a charge of manslaughter arlslug War 26, unemployed man, when he brought before Mr. Grantham at the Manchuria and a ridge of moderate-dant was arrested. out of a motor accident on Febru-appeared before Mr. Wynne-Jones in Kowloon Magistracy this morning, and ly high pressure extends across the the Central Police Court this morning was sentenced to six months' hard la Loochoos to the Bonin Islands, Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios and pleaded guilty to stealing a brown bour for stealing a fountain pen from The depression is moving into the appeared for accused, and on the singlet from the Hop Cheung shop; Ma Chung yes, a student, in Maple application of the police a week's two white cotton singlets from the Street on Monday. The defendant Pacific to the north-east of Japan. remand was granted;

Ng. Wah shop, and a roll of elastic had four previous convictions against Local forconst-N. E: winds, light Ball was fixed in $500, with two from No. 1 Kwong Yuen Street East. him, and was under police supervision. to moderate; fine to cloudy. substantial sureties. If these are fendant was arrested in Yuan Hing man, ordered him to be placed under Dotective-Sergeant Fowlle sald de The Magistrate, In sentencing the not for forthcoming, the Magis- Pawnshop on Monday afternoon, at police supervision for a further two Invitations have been issued for the trate intimated that Mr. Remedios' tempting to pawn the elastic: Three years commencing from the date of his St. Patrick's Society Ball, to be held recognisance would be accepted. months' hard labour was imposed. ¡ releasă, from prison,

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