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FOUNDER 188: 二拜禮 號七廿月八英港香

TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1935.

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BRITAIN WON'T TOLERATE BLOCKADE OF AFRICA

WOULD RESIST WITH FORCE

QUESTION OF ARMS EXPORTS

WON'T ALLOW ITALIANS

TO SEARCH SHIPS ·

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH")

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messngen Ordinance, TROL.

Received, Aug. 27, 11.30 0.8.1

London, Aug. 27.

Well-informed diplomats to-day declared that Great Britain proposes forcible resistance to any attempted Italian naval blockade of North-east Africa.

Furthermore, Great Britain is ready to frustrate any effort on the part of the Italian Government to search British or other neutral vessels for arms or other material,

Meanwhile, Italian newspapers have been giving much prominence to reports of British fleet movements in the Mediterranean and Rear Admiral Ciano, the Italian naval war hero, has volunteered his services for the defence of Italian waters wherever the most serious threat is seen. Britain, however, has denied that she is moving any large warship tonnage to Malta-United

Press.

Paris, Aug. 26.

Those in France and elsewhere, but especially in Britain, who, imagine that. Mussolini is bluMng,, will be forced to admit they are wrong after reading Mussolini'«! declaration 10 the Daily Mail This is the view expressed in semi- official circles.

Il Duce has said, these authorit les continue, that if sanctions are voted against Italy she will im mediately leave the League and that whoever applies them will be met by Italy's armed hostility. the The Italian attitude, say French, lends support to the argu ment of Paris diplomats, who de precate recourse to sanctions,

asserts.

source

SEEKING JAPANESE SYMPATHY

STRONG ITALIAN

PLEA

"Runners'

Seek Free

Passages

RESIST ABOLITION

OF OLD CUSTOM

TEST CASE IN COURT

A test case involving the in- 1 teresis of four shipping com- panies operating on the Kong: moon run was heard before Mr. Macfadyen at the Central Police IG Court this morning, when Chinese, eight unemployed men, á farmer and seven widows, were charged with failing to pay their the when travelling on fares

eamer Yuet On from Kungmoon to Hongkong on August 26.

Detective-Sergeant H. J. Bald- win prosecuted, and the complain ant was Captain A. A. Warild, master of the Yuct On, owned by the Hang Tak Steamship Coni-

any 286 Des Voeux Road Cen-

.rii.

Four of the defendants plended guilty, saying they hari no money

to pay the ture. The remainder of the defendants pleaded that they offered 40 cents as fare for the journey, but this was refused.

Sergeant Baldwin Informed the Court the fare from Kongmoon to Hongkong was 80 cents Chinese currency, and went on to explain that the defendants

-wore 80.

called runners and had been in n and fro habit of travelling to without paying their fare., Some lime ago, the Hong Tak Steam- ship Company and three other shipping compaules came to an agreement whereby runners were not to travel free any more, and notices were posted up in July, to take effect as from August 1.

RUNNERS' DUTIES

The ranners, be added, received no payment from the companies, but merely showed country people the way to the ship leaving for Hongkong.

Last night there was a regulated attempt to over-ride the complain- were al- ant company. There

runners together 30 of these travelling on the Yuet On, and on her

the arrival at

Hongkong wharf the police were immediately sent for.

Au

American STRONG FEELING

Congress

Adjourns AGAINST SOVIET

LONG'S FILIBUSTER NO BENEFITS FROM

FAILURE

MIDNIGHT

SESSION

Washington, Aug. 27 Congress adjourned at anidnight. Senator "Huey" Long failed to achieve anything with in buster, though he talked for nearly! six hours. The third Debeiengy Hili was not enacted. Thus the

first

The ession of Pastore

venty-fourth Congress came to an end.

12.00 after

The House adjourned at

time. Washington

Mr. William C. Bullift, U. S. Ambasador to Moscow, who has presented a sharp unte of protest

the Soviet regarding revolution-tting the clock back.

his little daughter,Anu, propaganda, in here seen with

to

Girl Denies

Reports Of

Kidnapping

MYSTERIOUS 'PHONE

MESSAGE

POLICE. SEEK INFORMANT

Mercedes Ribeiro, the 17-year-old Portuguese girl who was reported to have been kidnapped in the early hours of this morning, returned to her home at 126 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon. She denied that she had been kidnapped.

1.30

#

Senator Lang, arch enemy of President Roosevelt zunl enfant terrible of Congress, arose at the last moment to frustrate the Presi dent's plan for adjournment with the Deficiency Bill enacted.

WAN

To the growing irritation of the outraged Senate. Senator Long spoke for between five and six hous, contending that 11** fighting for a "prifciple", namely, that the House had been denied a vole in the Senate's cotton

and wheat loan amendments,

The flouse hat returned the Deficiency Itill to the Senate earlier, where administration len- ders asked for unanimous consent tire to reconsider and withdraw Amendments. Senator Lony ob- jected and began his Alibuster, re- pulsing all angry Senators who de- imanded that he yield the floor. Thus the Defeleney B dies and with it the cotton and wheat amendments.-Reuler Special.

AIR TRAFFIC INCREASES

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

FIGURES

London, Aug, 26.

freight, malls and

RECOGNITION

MOSCOW SILENT AFTER NOTE DELIVERED

1894.

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")

(Bu Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages. Ordonaner,

Received, Aug. 27, & a.m.)

Washington, Aug. 26.

It is, considered that the note of protest sent to Russia yesterday, with respect to the activities of the Comintern directed against American institutions, is one of the most sharply worded since the United States ended its relations with the Central Powers in 1917.

It is noteworthy that recognition of the Soviet Government by the United States was expected to bring to America orders for heavy industry products, that it might help in the settlement of American' claims against the Russian Government, that in Russia Ame- rica might find in the Far East a powerful "friend in need," and that recognition would provide for official Soviet supervision and control of Communist activities. within the United States.

BRITISH

Actually no huge commercial orders have materialised, there has been no settlement of the Rumiun debt, there is no assurance that Russia would be a friend in the Far East If needed, and

MERCHANTS has been no check upon

ARRESTED

HELD BY ITALIANS

IN ERITREA

ETHIOPIA EXODUS

tu

thero

anti-American political activities.

Speeches and resolutions, sini- ing at the fostering and nourish- ing of a revolution in the United States, which have featured the Comintern in meeting of the Moscow, are considered the last straw which must break the back of American patience.

PAPERS SILENT

Moscow, Aug. 26.

M. Maxin Litvinoff, the Foreign Affairs

absent Commissar, is from the capital, and no oficial from statement from the Government

not to

to

is forthcoming respecting the American note of protest.

The newspapers have not carried word of the protest.

The Foreign Office declines to make oven an Informal statement of reaction and refused to predict when a roply could be expected.--- United Presa.

AMBASSADOR'S ANSWER

Washington, Aug. 26.

The girl left her home last night to go to the 9 p.m. performance at the Oriental Theatre, but did not this home. At return.

telephone morning, however, message was received at her home from a man who gave his name as

The continued rapid increase of Yam, saying he was the driver of PÁRALLEL

motor-car No. 1259, and reporting air traffic is shown by figures for

Aden, Aug. 26. that the girl had been kidnapped by passengers,

reports According COURSES

several Chinese dressed in Euro-milenge of the Imperial Always Massawa, Eritrea, fifteen Indians, pean-style clothing. Neither the services.

Italian The French policy remains: no

Rome, Aug. 26.

Comparing the first quarters of all of them British subjects, have man who sent the message nor the

by the been arrested stone shall be left unturned by

this year and last, the passenger A striking plea for Italo-

car could be traced by the police. Fourteen of the parts agreed Franco in trying to localise the

Subsequently, the police uscer-ton miles were 664,836 against authorities following the alleged conflict and maintain as far as Japanese understanding was made possible a friendly understanding to-day in the Gioral d'Italia, com-to pay the fare; some offered to the telegram sent pay half the fare, and others to-

tained that the man who sent the 367,038; freight ton miles were despatch of messages to Aden ad-

further merchandise message was not Yam, but another 127,213, against 87,811; and mails vising business associater between Paris, London and Rome. menting on Above all it is the aim of French from Tokyo to the effect that fused to pay at all.

person whose identity, they have ton miles were 200,425, againat ship The third defendant, Chun Luk,

136,066, while the passenger miles Massawa-Reuter. been unable to establish.

total reached 5,884,234, against; LEAVING ADDIS ABABA statesmen to prevent the spread-public opinion was coming round ing of the inevitable hostilities into a better understanding of the

Italian viewpoint with regard to 26, unemployed, had $9.40; the

The next development in the in- 3,830,609.

Paris, Aug. 26. fourth defendant, Lam Kwan, 42, Africa to Europe, this

Ethiopia.

cident occurred at about 11.30 this Still more recent statistics, re-

Apparently prompted by the con- The paper declares it is im- farmer, had 80 cents; the sixth

morning, when the girl's father referring to May this year, show an Labour has a different view of

"The whole Covenant, possible for Italy and Japan to defendant, Wong Châu, 54, un-

ceived a telephone message, ap increase of 70 per cent., as com- tinued exodus of foreigners from

M. Troyanovsky, the Russian the case.

parently from the girl herself, pared with the similar period in Abyssinia, the Bank of Ethiopia and nothing but the Covenant," is be at loggerheads in view of the employed, had $1 in his possession

worry, and 1984, in the number of Empire air has announced the suspension of Amissador here, said Moscow Both need Yec, 41, widow, had $4.40. All telling him not to the slogan of these organisations.fact that their development la and the twelfth defendant,

Chinese cur- adding that she would soon return passengers passing through Croy the sale of foreign currency sind would reply satisfactorily to the

die, according to a French report

American protest nobe. don Airport. A mixed committee representing along similar lines.

from Addis Ababa.

Ifo

personal expressed the the International Syndical Federa- new territory no the growing the money was in

During the most recent twelve After the return of the girl this months for which figures are avail-

Departures from Addis Ababa are

opinion, however, that "anything tion of Socialist Workers' Inter-populations can expand and find rency.

OLE TIME SYSTEM

afternoon, she was interrogated by able-March 31, 1934, to April 1.

occurring daily. national has confirmed the resolu-natural riches denied them ut

The Italian Lagation continues that American citizens in Moscow tion demanding that the League

the police, and stated that the rea- 1934-air liners of Imperial Air to remove its archives and the ray about the United States le Both found the door shut to

Captain Warild explained that

son she did not tell her father ways operating on European and foreign shop-locepers aro making insignificant compared with the Covenant and peace treatles shall be respected in overy part. The them after the Great War, and the system of carrying so-called

⇓ custom dating where she had gone was that it was Empire routes daw 2,482,864 miles inventories of their goods, which propaganda in the United States

too late to ring him up. resolution supports the ultimate both found themselves faced with

against the resistance of the League of back to the olden days in China.

and carried G5.659 passengers and Imposition of sanctions

Nations, which denied them the They directed country people to

respective Legations. The polico received further in-over 2,000,000 pounds of mails and they are communicating to their against the Soviet."-United Prese, makes war upon

the needs of the ships leaving Kongmeon and right to fulfi Italy she

formation from the girl, and they freight.-British Wireless. Abyssinia.

for every ten passengers the run-

are now ondeavouring to trace This powerful French organisa. dynamic population.

The identical nature of the ner was given a free passage. The tlon has appealed to all kindred

were recognised. This the man who sent the first tele bodies to organise demonstrations Italian and Japanese problems

must lead the nations to political system had been done away with phone message. olidarity, the paper pursues tho in France- and abroad-Reuter.

some years ago on the Canton run theme; they must be united and three or four years ago on against opposing forces. Italy's the Wuchow trip, the Kongmoon The Government is now prepar-action in Ethiopia would in no trip remaining. It had been re- ing a detailed atatement of the way interfere with the interests cently agreed that the runners Italian case against Abyssinia to Japan because Italy seeks in be dispensed with on the Kong present to the League Council, Ethiopia only security, and terri- moon trip, and notices were post- The Council meets on, Septemberories open to work and trade with ed up to this effect. The interests civilised nations, and not mono of four shipping companies were 4. Official quartera are reticentollon and closed doors. Still involved in the issue, and this regarding the reason for calling oss would these doors be cloned was a test cno. an extraordinary moating of the or reasons of race. Reuter. Cabinet at Bolzano, stating that

ITALY'S CASE

Rome, Aug. 26.

and that

home.

NOT HANDLING CARGO

WAR runners

runners

Captain Warild asked his. Wor- ship to take a serious view of the cane, The defendants did not travel alone rs they had baggage and many baskets of merchandise. "It is just an attempt to buck

marked. the companies bye-laws," he re-

only administrative questions will the be discussed, Ethiopian and other questions of national importance will not be

Seattle, Aug. 26. introduced. But it would be in

The Longshoremen'a Union to- kooping with Mussolini's sense of the dramatic that he should make ay announced that a coast-wide some pronouncement regarding his soll had voted 8.388 to 1,319 in

present The Magistrate pointed out that Intentions in Ethiopia while Bur- favour of renewing the rounded by his troops in North contract. However, the union vot- the maximum Ano was $25, but ed5.201 to 4.789 to refuse to this was a test case he would He will be at Bolzano in connec-handle cargo loaded by strike-Impose a fine of $5, or ten days'

great with the

army breakers in British Columbia hard labour, on each of the do-

United Press,

Hondants. (Continued on Page 12.)

Italy.

tion

home.

DOLLAR AGAIN DECLINES

MARKET

UNDERTONE

EASY

GENERAL PRESENTS

MEDALS

WELLINGTON BAR- RACKS CEREMONY

Meanwhile, the Emperor of Ethiopia has decided to create a Legation in the Imamate of Yemen, across the Red Sea.-Router.

JAPAN NEEDS MORE ROOM

diplomatie

His

Lieutenant- Excelloney General O. C. Borrett presented

EMIGRATION RIGHTS Long Service and Good Conduct Medals to a number of men at

IN PACIFIC Wellington Barracks this morning.

London, Aug. 27. The Hongkong dollar declined

The Daily Herald gives promin- farthing this morning, the official The recipients of the medals were: 8th Heavy Battery (RA.),— rate on opening being 18. 111⁄2d. M/Gor. G. B. B 8.q.,8. Hence to an article to-day asserting Business rates ware 1s. 11.11/16d. sellers and 1s. 11.13/16d. buyers. Dexter, Sgt. R. Champlon, L. Sgt. that the Japanese Government in

F. Hall, Gar. W. Smallwood. preparing to open Very little business is reported,

1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regotiations with Great Britain, Holland and other powers, with the market being dull, with thegiment C/Sgt. T. Darby.

2nd Battalion East Lancashire the idea of accuring emigration right in the Pacific for her aur Re·mont-Sgt. H. Draper. undertone inclined to be easy.

Hongkong Brigade (H.K. & plus population.~~-

ad Genk, Taskim All 5. Br. R.A.)-Sgt. H. Morris, Sher Zaman, Moman Khan. aoya Army Service Corps,

Staff Sgt. A. L. Helghton.

ed

In London, silver prices decline 1/8th yesterday. America bought, while India and China oper- tod both ways, the market closing steady,

In New York, silver declined quarter.

UNION PLEASED

Now York, Aug. 20..

Long- The president of the shoremen's Unton, Mr. Joseph P. Ryan, applauded the American protest to the Soviet.

"Unless," he said, “wo act soon. it is likely we shall have to use firearms to expel Communists from the American Labour move- ment, before they upset It"

He said Communists had filtered Into the Army and Navy and had practleslly wrecked the fur work- Fern union-United Press.

COTTON EXPORTS

Cordell

Washington, Aug. 26. It is leated. that Mr. Hull and Mr. Saito, the Japanese are pursuing

The paper says it, in thought Ambassador,. that if Japan saw some prospect negotiations respecting a gentle- of her emigration needs being met, men's agreement to limit Japanese

Philippines-Reuter. she might be prepared to modify cotton textile exports to the matters-Reuter.