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Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1881

No. 1480

二拜 號九月四英港香

TUESDAY, APRIL 9,

1935,

日七初月三

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BRITISH PLAN

MAY JOIN FRANCO- RUSSIAN ACCORD

OUTLINE OF POLICY FOR STRESA TALKS

London, April 8.

The British Cabinet has decided that its policy at the Stresa Conference will be that of a mediator and that it will make every effort to prevent war.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, Sir

VICTIM OF GUN FIGHT

KILLED BY STRAY BULLETS

נותןח

SHANGHAI TRAGEDY

Shanghai, Apr. 9. Mr. N. G. MacDonald, a Scota- employed in the new En- gineering and Shipbuilding Works, Lit, was necidentally shot dend, with bullets through the head and heart, during an affray between police and an armed robber in! Hongkow Market to-day,

He was proceeding to his office from his home, near-by when struck down by the stray bullets. He died instantly,

Mr. MacDonald was just round-

John Simon, the Foreign Minister, and Mr. Anthony ing a corner of the market when Eden, Lord Privy Seal, if he is able to attend the con- ference, will have the widest possible powers.

It is believed that Britain will join the Franco- Russian defensive pact and co-operate with Italy in a plan to revise the military clauses of the Treaty of › Versailles and the Treaty of St. Germain regarding the

armaments of Hungary, Austria and Bulgaria.

It is believed that Britain-is- adopting this policy in an effort to| start the rations · towards an all- inclusive European pact-United Preas.

AN AIR ACCORD

The United Press states thut the Daily Mail and Daily Express assert that s Majesty's Government has decided to urge at the Stresa Con-! ference the immediate conclusion of an air pact for all Europe, in- cluding Germany, with the object. first, of limiting the strength of the air forces in Western Europe and, second, of arranging for mutual ! assistance against power.

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It is understood that the sign- tories of such an agreement will be asked to set a limit upon their air!. forces, whereby-the-nir strength of the nations will be nicely balanced.

CABINET MEETING

London April 8.

The British Cabinet held a fur-

ANOTHER TREATY BREACH

AUSTRIAN ARMS DISCLOSURES

thy

'MILITARY AIRCRAFT

_(Special to "Telegraph”) ·

Telegraph. Copyright. Talegraphie Messages Ordinance, 1984. Receivad, Apr P. 3 d.m.

Vienna, April 8, Austria, following Germany's

violation

of the

ther two-hour meeting this evening lead, has revealed that she possed- with regard to the European situses a military air force in direct tion.

It was decided that the Prime

disarmament Minister, Mr. MacDonald, and Sir causes of the Treaty of St.

Germain. Simon, Foreign Minister, will re- port to the, French and Italian Governmente the results of the British envoye vialts to European capitals and that Sir John will make a statement in the House of Com- mona to-morrow in this matter.

over Vienna in connection with Fifteen Army planes to-day flew the annual Spring review of ali the forces of the nation.

It is not known how many of

the firing broke out. He Was directly in line with the target at which police were firing. He fell covered with blood, under a bar- rage of lead.

Steel-jacketed police, 15 the crowded street, had just caught up with one of three robbers who, armed with revolvers, had just finished a hold-up in a near-by residence. Police opened fire Immediately the crowd scattered, men, women and children falling over one another in a wild scram- ble for shelter.

The robber was wounded and aurrendered.

Among the casualties were a Chinese policeman and a Chinese by-stunder, both badly wounded.

Mr. MacDonald's body Was carried away a few minutes after the shooting occurred. He was instantly killed.

He was thirty-eight years of age, unmarried, and came to China in 1931-Reuter,

Reds Mass

To Attack

Hunanese

CHIANG KAI-SHEK RUSHING AID

RETREAT FROM KWEICHOW

..

It is not expected that much ac-these combat machines Austria that the Red forces In Kweichow." tions will in any way circumscribe possesses nor how long she has the Stresa talks or prejudice the been arming in the air. League Council proceedings on April 15.

WELCOME DECISION

Reports from Rome, meanwhile, state that Italy's present Army of half a million men is the largest in Europe, without counting the

. The decision that the Prime immense. Itussian strength. Minister as well as the Foreign

(Special to "Telegrapi“)

Cunton, April 9. It is now definitely established after retreating from Kweiyang following their fallure to pene- trate the defence lines of the Government troops In that vicinity, are moving eastward with the object of re-entering Hunan and joining up with their com- rades under Ho Ling and Halho-

Minister should attend at Stresn.is Italy has reached this mark by Keh. welcomed in Paris. It is felt that calling to the colours 100,000 General Ho Chien, Chairman of the conference will thus be more youths of the 1914 class, and when the Hunan Provincial Government, nuthoritative.

the remainder of this class reports is calling a military conference at There is a certain amount of un-for duty, she will have 650,000 Changsha to deal with the situa certainty with regard to the British men in the ranks.-United Press. tion.

attitude in Paris and Berlin, though the German newspapers assert with confidence that Britain has decided against any encircle- ment of Germany by means of alli-. antes against her.

It is understood that M. Laval, the French Foreign Minister, will propose that Article Sixteen of the League of Nations Covenant should be implemented, so as to define and. render instantly operative obliga tions incurred in the event of aggression on the part of any power,

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BANK OF CHINA POLICY

EXCHANGE MARKET

DOMINATION

Shanghai, Apr. 8.

Meanwhile the frontier has been reinforced with all avaliable troops in anticipating of a des- perate attack by the Reds,

On the order of General Chiang Kai-shek, troops in the north- west under General Ho Chu-kuo, former defender of Shanhaiwan against the Japanese assaulta, aro now being rushed from Hupeh to Human to participate in the opera- tions against the Reds in this area. -Reuter.

in a statement made to press.

HUNAN PREPARES In addition to Britain, France men, Mr. T. V. Soong, Chairman

Kwelyang, Apr. 0. and Italy, he proposes that the of Directors of the Bank of China, vers, who returned last evening According to Army, air obser- Little Entente and the Soviet declared that the future policy from an observation light to spot should join in this act of defensive of the Bank would be purely com- the latest Red movements, the proparation, but he will emphasise merelal in nature, with domina main body of the Rede under Chu that the document is open for the tion of the foreign exchange Toh and Mao Chok-tung ls moving signature of all powers, including market as its objective: Germany and Poland.

He denied that the Chinese tricts of Kwalchow Province, towards the Eastern border dis- Signor Benito Mussolini, Italian Government was contemplating after falling in their drive on. Premier, accepts this scheme, it is fresh measures of control of the Kwelyang. believed, or will do as soon as he currency system, or that the It is feared, however, that they is convinced that it is workable. Ministry of Finance intonded to will But it is feared that Great Britain, withdraw the right of banknote area in their attempt to seek an menace the Hunan border while approving the document, issue from commercial banka. might decline to join the other Mr. Soong will soon start on a the Government forces from the outlet if they are hard pressed by nations in signing. It.—Reutor. tour of inspection of the branches West

"NORDIC DANGER”

Rome, April 8. There le considerable satisfaction official quarters here at the nows

(Continued on Page 11.)

Clyde Pangbourne, the American airman, who is to make an attempt to fly round the world in four and a half days, non-stop. His route should bring him within 100 miles of Hongkong. He is shown in picture tracing the route which he follow mỏ in the England-Australia race.

Col. Burkhardt

Promoted

BECOMES G.S.O. (1)

IN CHINA

"TIMES"

ATTACKS

HIROTA

ANSWER TO TOKYO CRITICISMS

A PIECE OF ADVICE

London, Apr. 9.

The Governments of the Great Powers will doubless be duly grateful to Mr. Hirota (the Japan- ене Foreign

Minister) for relieving their representatives of the necessity of succumbing to the unprecedented outbreak of the

malady. mysterious

morosis diplomaticus, declares the London Times, commenting on the diploma- tic corps' absence from the reception Kiven to the Emperor of Man- cliukuo, otherwise, Mr. Pa Yi.

But in the British ense the Japan- ese inct was Beutralised by the official spokesman's unwarranted attack on the British policy in China in his reference to the recent House of Lords debate.

The spokesman might prostaḥ- ly study Lord Stanhope's speech, the Times suggests.

Mr. Hirota, the newspaper con- tinues, knows that nothing, would please the British Government bet- ter than that a good and durable Sino-Japanese understanding should Lieut. Colonel Valentine R. Burk-be reached. His knowledge makes hardt, D.S.O., RE, RA., has been the language of his spokesman less appointed. 6.5.0. First Grade, explicable, the paper conelndes — China Command, with effect as Renter, from the Autumn. This announce- ment was made to-day.

Colonel Bertherdt was Military Attneho at, Polping in 1932. He WIS' commissioned to the Royal Artillery in 1903, won his cap- tainey in the first year of the War and thereafter received promotion rapidly. He was Staff-Captain, Royal Artillery 28th Division, nt the outbreak of War.

He was three times mentioned in despatches, being decorated with the 0.5.0.,

Legion of Honour and Croix -de Guerre

He was with the Inter-Allied Commission of. Control, Germany, in 1920-23 and was 6.3.0. (2) and Brigade Major in North China, 1023-28-Reuter.

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JAPAN CONSULAR CONFERENCE

Frencham

Tells Of

Captivity

HARDSHIPS OF ̄FORCED MARCH

RED CHIEF'S GENEROSITY

WHITEAWAY'S ALL-ROUND REDUCTION

SALE

MONDAY, April 8th to 13th EXCHANGE UP 1

PRICES DOWN !

ARMS LIMITATION

"IMMORAL”

LUDENDORFF GIVES HIS OPINION

SELF-STYLED HEATHEN PROUD OF BELIEFS

(Bp Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, April 9, 9 n.30.)

Munich, April 8.

"I am an anti-Christian heathen and proud of it," declared the seventy-year-old Field Marshal von Ludendorff, in a birth-day interview given to Reuten to-day.

He gave it as his opinion that any limitation of armaments was immoral.

The re-introduction of conscription in Germany guaranteed peace, he believed.

He thought all peoples, even the French and Ger- mans, wanted peace, he said, but they mere being in- cited and driven to war "by those underground powers which secretly seek to dominate the world.".

DEFENCE OF GOLD STANDARD

BELGIAN INQUIRY

ORDERED

HOLLAND'S POLICY

Brussels, April 8.

Field Marshal. Ludendorff is ataging a political comic-back simultaneously with the celebra- tion of his seventieth birthday and he will complete his recon- ciliation with the Nazis to-morrow when all public buildings in the country will be flag decked in als honour, by order of Herr Hitler, former corporal of Ludendorff's

army,

The Reichswehr loaders will ceremoniously visit him and offer congratulatory speeches.

WAR RECORD

von

Next to Field Marshal Hindenburg, Ludendorf is prob- ably the most conspicuous of Germany's war figures. He it was who took charge of tho assault -upon-Lloge.Ho-was-the-first-

German to enter the citadel.

It was learned here to-day that the Governors of vurious National

Under von Hindenburg in East Banka of the gold nations held a Prussia, he made his name as a conference throughout the day at strategist against the Russians, Baale.

and although his superior officer As a result of the conference got the glory, it was Ludendorff they agreed that the gold cover who was the brains of the com bination. They won Tannenberg for currency should be from 67 to 63 per cent.

and the battle of the Maurlan Lakes together and devised the Mr. famous Dutch financial expert in 1915.

Leonardus J. A. Trịp, the great drive against the Russians

reduced

"BLACK DAY"

Shanghai, April 9. Details of the captivity of Mr. and Mrs. Frencham, the Austra- lian missionaries, show that the young couple were held for three days at Ninklang before being who is Governor of the Bank of Holland and President of the Bank TRADE PROBLEMS

forced to march through the snow of International Settlements, in- in billy country

After the failure of the offen- to. Llachlapa, DISCUSSED

Szechuen, where, although their dicated that he had made plane hardships were severe, they were

to maintain the stability of the Bive against Verdun, von Hindon- burg and Ludendorff camo to the Shanghai, Apr. 9.

fairly well treated.

Western Front. Ludendorf ap The Japanese Consular Confer-

These plans, he said, may neces proved of the retreat from the enco, presided over by Mr. Arlyo- Mr. Frencham obtained NB sitate a new rise in the discount Hindenburg line early in 1917 shi, Japanese Minister to China, interview with the Reds chieftainvite, and, in any case he intended and thereby probably saved the resumed Its proceedings this and pleaded with him to liberate to maintain the gold standard-German armies from a serious morning at the local Japanese his wife, whose health had beenUnited Preas. Consulate.

severely affected. To-day's discussion is being Two days later both were set mainly confined to Japanese trade free and given a cane and sedan

problems in China.

florin.

DECLINE IN GOLD STOCKS

francs.

breakdown.

Von Ludendorff, on August 8, 1918, offered his resignation to the Zurich, April 8: High Command when the British According to an official state. chair and some money, together The gold stocks of the Swiss attacked from Amiens and smash- ment, the main purpose of the with a body-guard and cook, who National Bank on April 6, 1935 ed a way through his lines. Ho. Conference in to gather reports accompanied them to the border were reported as 1,600,000,000 | called this Germany's "Black Day" from Japanese Consuls in various of Red territory.

and the beginning of defeat. On Parta In Chinn on the Intest de-

Mr. and Mrs. Frencham are now. This representa a decline of October 25 he was relieved of his velopments of anti-Japanese acti-at Hanchung awaiting the arrival 119,000,000 duc

to the Belgian offee-Reuter Special. vity, enabling Mr. Ariyoshi to submit a general report on the sub-of Mr. Moore, China faland Misecure as well as withdrawals from ion Superintendent of the Pro-fear of a June referendum regard- ject to the Japanese Foreign vince, and a trained nurse, who in the Swiss monetary policy. Office-Central New.

United Press. are on their way from Shangiral.

PRESIDENTS SON

A SCHOLAR

*MR. JAMES LIN NOW IN OHIO VARSITY

It was reported when Mrs. Frencham was first taken, that she was about to become a mother, Reuter.

CROYDON-PARIS FLIGHT

RECORD ATTEMPT

The

-TO-DAY

DEFENCE OF GOLD

Basle, April 8. Addressing the Bank of Inter- national Settlements Administra tive Counsell here to-day `- Mr." | J, A. Trip, the new President of the Bank, announced his intention as President to support all efforts to defend the currencies of the gold nations.

Ho described tho michista réa which would be adopted to defend the guilder, by the Netherlands National Bank.-United Press,

JUVENILE CRIMINALS

IN RUSSIA

"BOY GANGSTERS" IMPRISONED

Cha

(Special to "Taingraph”)

(Special to "Telügymph") Columbus, Ohio, April 8.

Telegraph Capyright. - Telegraphie Mr. James Lin, son of the

BELGIAN SCANDAL?

Missages Ordinance, 1895. Resolved, Agrit London, Apr. 8. President of China, was to-day enrolled at Ohio State University machine in which Jones and De Havilland .Comet

Drussels, April 8.

Moscow, Apr. 8. Arising out of the judicial in- to begin work for his Muster's Waller flow from England to Aus vestigations of manoeuvres. which especially crimes of violence, are Criminal activities, and more Degree in Economics.

trails and back in 184 days, and led to the devaluation of the assuming such grave proportions He transferred here from Columbia Univeralty where he has machine of the same type, has carried out a rald upon the offices of age, that a decree has been which, together with the second Belgian franc, the police to-day amongst minors over twelve years recently completed his graduate boen bought by the French Gay of a number of financial nows issued making them amenable to studies United Praze.

ernment, will, to-morrow, be flown

which conducted pro- the laws of the land in the same. papera from Oroydon to Parke in the of. the Bank, and for this reason Hance, Marshal Chiang Kai- ho will not be able to carry out shek, who is directing the cam-

chow border and at the same time hope, of broaking the record of 67 Paganda in favour of devaluation. way as adulte.

Currency purchases by various. A group of boy gangstera" nie long-planned, ripeto. Szechuan paign: Kwelyong na Instruct ordered the despatch of the unit, The distance in a straight life vestigated, as will various secret to from lay sentenced at Tashkont

units minutes for the journey.

banking houses will also be In was to-day in connection with the work of ad General Ho Calen, Military stationed in Hupel, Into Hunan to ds 220 miles, and the Comet le transactions made since the State ment for terrorising, school boys the National Economie Council. Governor of Hunan, to mobilise a remforos the defense positione expleted to take about 45 minutes, took control of exchange-Reuter and committing rowdyism in the Central News,

strong force on the Hunan-Kwel-

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