1939-05-16 — Page 31

Tuesday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

ILLEGAL RADIO SET: STIFF FINES GIVEN BY H.K. MAGISTRATE

Princesses Become Straphangers

FINES of $1,000 each werd

Sentence

imposed by Mr. T. J. Houston at Editors Risk Death the Central Magistracy this morning on Cheung Yat-san (28), Chan Yat-man (30) and Chau Kwong-ping (26) charged on remand with the illegal pos- session of a radio transmitter at Shaukiwan on May 1.

Mr. P. Y. Woo appeared for all three defendants and pleaded guilty.

Mr. D. W. Waterton, prosecuting on behalf of the Postmaster-General, sald at 7.46 p.m. on May 1, acting on Information received,

he raided n house in Marble Street, Shaukiwan and found a complete radio trans- mitting station there. Various docu- ments were niso found which reveal ed that messages had been received and transmitted in and out of the Colony.

The value of these messages If transmitted by the legal methods amounted to several thousands of dollurs.

warded,

CHINESE PRODUCE

'ILLEGAL' PAPER

SHANGILAI, (By Mall.)

THE Bino-Japanese War has pro- duced a counterpart to "La Libre Belgique." the famous Belgian news- paper which elusively appeared daily during the German occupation Belgium.

of

It is the "Nanwei Daily News," which has for its main equipment a mimeograph machine and a radio receiving

May 16, 1939.

No War Til Next Spring Hint By U.S. Legislators

WASHINGTON, May 15-IT HAS been learned from reliable sources that responsible quarters in the Administration ara, developing a movement to abandon neutrality legislation this session of Conerem.

It is understood that Senator Plitman and his colleagues ̋are - dlossing the advisability of delaying the legislation,

The State Depariment is also reported to be disturbed as a rezult of the indiscretions of the neutrality debates which has caused some embarrassment to the United Blates foreign polley.

The presence of British Royal- · | iy in the Unlied States is at present a factor working towarda the postponement of further neutrality discussions, at least for the balance of this month.

If the legislation is postponed It would be positive proof that legislative experts do not aniici- pate a major war before next Spring.'

Representative Sol. Bloom to- day said he plans to introduce a new Bill similar to the Gilletto BlUnited Press.

STRIKERS FACE BAYONETS

U.S. Coal Dispute Not Yet Settled

Imporial Airways' New Offer

HONGKONG- NEW YORK FOR £149

offered by travellers

UNDER new facilities Imperial Airways, Lid.. from Hongkong to the New York World Fair can completo the Journey In just over 13 days at a reduced cosi of £140 105,

Catching the flying boat at Singapore, the journey from there takes eight days to Southampton, where fifteen Atlantic steamship lines have been incorporated to carry the HARLAN, May 15.

passengers across the Atlantic. SOLDIERS were on guardTravellers can return by the authorities in the occupied area to-day on ten Harlan County same route,

very noses of the Japanese

He asked for the maximum penalty.act, and is published under the and also that the informers be re

Mr. Houston ordered a reward of $200 for the informers, and Aned each of the defendants $1,000. He also ordered the transmitting sel be confiscated. Mr. Woo requested that the documents seized be relurn-

ed to the defendants, and it Was stated that the Postmaster-General ralsed no objection. The request was allowed,

China In The Commons

Detention Of Sagres Protest

which their Mafestles will return from their Canadian tour is one of the vessels participating in the scheme.

of Pootung, across the Whang-coalmines while thousands of The Empress of Britain, the Cann- poo River from Shanghai,

Union pickets had been organis-dian Paciile liner in It contains advertisements, edi- turials, a literary page featuring ed to prevent the mines reopen- novels on patrioife themes and ex-ing. tracts from diaries, alleged to have been seized from Japanese soldiers

GUERILLAS AS EDITORS The editorial staff is believed to be drawn from the propaganda section of the National Salvation

Army a querila forco operating around

Shanghai,

The paper also publishes foreign news agency reports, obtained by

Nearly 800 National Guards armed

kong, Sini, Malaya, French Indo- These arrangements apply to Hong- China, Netherlands Indles and South and East Africa on the one hand, and the North American continent through ticket for combined sen and on the other, and henceforth open air travel at special reduced rates

with machineguns are prepared for any eventuality while United Mine

officials said workers Association they are ready

to station between 0,000 and 6,000 pickets around any of the mines attempting to without 矗 Union contract,

Mr.

agencies.

Harlan County Coal Operators listening to Chinese news broadcasts the torge S. Ward. Secretary of can be booked through all the usual For instance. Л passenger con Association said the majority of leave Singapore by flying boat on

fin

It is sold for one cent Chinese money, roughly one-twelfth English penny.

were

time to catch the Queen Mary for to New York on May 17. Similarly, leaving New York on the Empress

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of Britain on May 10, a passenger

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of associations of 27 mines are ready to May 9 and reach Southampton in

open "if adequate protection la as-

who want On the front page of a copy re-sured for all men ceivext in Shanghai was an advertise- work," but the Unions have predicted ment by a guerilla chieftain soliciting the only nine or ten mines will

will arrive at Southampton in time memebership for the Chinese Army attempt to

whether a showdown to catch the flying boat for Singapore and the Civilian Moral Endeavour It

It is doubt. Another advertisement will occur to-day or to-morrow on May 20. Association. was a notice in which four hosiery since it is pointed out that consider- factories thanked the guerillas for able "clean up" work is necessary is £149.10s; to or froin Singapore

before their emelcist investigation into

can be resumed: £145; to or from Durban' £140.108.; operations they LONDON, May 15.

charges that

buying The County appeurs calm despite the to or from Nairobi, East Africa

atmosphere of tension. The sheriff's £127.168. SIR JOHN WARDLAW. Japanese

goods. The main story concerned a clash office 10-day announces that a MILNE asked in the House of

between querillas and an arned Creed Bates was shot and killed in Japanese fishing trawler which had Concy last night during a drunken brawl. Another, Elmer Clark was shot

a deputy sher!!T and wounded by run ashore, in which the Japanese "suffered heavy casunities."

who The editors of the "Nanwel Dally said Clark attempted to stab News" are taking the same riska os him.

SOME MINES RESUME the editors of "La Libre Belgique" did during the Great War:

Six of Harlan County's 42 soft coal and execution.

mines have resumed operations on a non-Union basis under the protection of National Guardsmen's guns.

LONDON, May 15. PRINCESS Elizabeth and Commons to-day for a statement Princess Margaret went for regarding the seizure of the

arrest

steamer Sagres by the Japanese. the first ride of their lives! Mr. R. A. Butler replied that the in the Underground this Government was awaiting a reply to representations made to the Japanese. afternoon. They travelled Mr. Butler replied in the affirma- tive when asked whether the ship in an ordinary third-class

Several editors of the Belgian was still under Japanese control.

Asked whether it was not possible paper lost their lives, but none of smoking carriage, mingling

organ's stuff appears to io take steps to secure its release. Chinese with the other passengers Mr. Butler said: "I will certainly have been caught so far.-Reuter, from St. James' Park investigate the matter."Reuter, to Charing Cross-Reuter | AMBASSADOR'S H.Q. Special.

Admiration For British Defences

LONDON, May 15-Asked by Mr. C. G. Gibson in the House of Com- mons-to-day-where-Sir Archibald Clark Kerr's permanent headquarters were situated, Mr. R. A. Butler said that the British Ambassador found Shanghal the most convenient place with which to maintain touch with

British Interests.

Germans To Build Turkish Port

Building Up

New Chinese

Air Force

Tokyo, May 15. A caravan of about 4,000 Union

Three hundred Chinese recruits pickets to-day cruised the county but have been sent to Sinklang in Ch guardsmen armed with rifles, bayonese Turkestan, where they will be nets and machine guns kept them trained in Soviet flying schools at away from most mines.

Brigadier General Ellerbew Car ter who is commanding the troops has asked Governor Chandler to send

him-200 reinforcements.

Since its foundation In November,

This Soviet training centre bas already furned out 30 fully qualified Chinese pilots, who, according to reports reaching here from Harbin, Istanbul, May 15.

WON'T OBEY BAYONETS

have gone to Chungking to help to Following ratlication of the con-

reorganise the Chinese air force, The Unions to-day declared that

The military command hopes to vention under which Germany grants Turkey a credit of 150,000,000 reichs-most miners will refuse to return to complete this reorganisation by the

the path has been cleared for the mines "at the point of the bayo-end of June. marks, From Shanghai he could make the the signing of a contract relating to net" while the operators have plan-

the the construction by a group of Ger- ned to open additional mines to 1938, the Soviet flying school at fi necessary periodical visits to headquarters of the Chinese Govern-man arms of the port of Goelcuck morrow.

in the Gulf of Izmir.

Five hundred additional guards- has turned out about 260 Chinese

pilots. ment, and other places such

The contract, it is stated, was sign-men have been ordered to reinforce Pelping, where a branch office was Admiration for Britain's defence | maintained-Reuter.

ed on May 12,

the 600 already on duty, The work will entall the expendi- The Unions are demanding the ture of 14,000,000 Turkish Pounds, withdrawal of the guardsmen which, and will take four years to complete, they say, is

the law

GUARDS KEPT BUSY

London, May 18. The "Times" New

York

correspon-

Prices in most groups on the Lon- Guard turned back 3,000 copiminers don Stock Exchange moved up sight- on the way to picket mines belong-ly to-day, through business was small. ing to owners who did not sign the new agreement last week.

London, May 15.

effort was expressed by

former

Woygand,

the BURMA ROAD Chief of French General Staff in a speech at

General

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a dinner in London this evening to LONDON, May 15-Replying to-Trans-Ocean.

Hurma- 100 officers of the French Reserve, questions respecting the who have been visiting England. China rond In the House of Commons to-day, Colonel H. H. Muirhead,

peaceful pleksited Press.

of

General Weygand spoke of the Under-Secretary of State for Burma German Planes Land dent says troops of the National

11th,

"orderly, calm, and faultless method" said that rather less than £28,000 with which every branch of national had been expended on improvements, defence in Great Britain had been towards which no contribution had organised, and the "resolution and been made from any source outside courage" represented by the adoption of Burma, of compulsory servico.

Asked whether he would give

In Holland

About six mines have re-opened in this orça.

Stock Exchange Is Steady

London, May 15.

Oils attracted inttention, Anglo- Egyptian especially meeting with steady buying,

Katrs maintained

carly small

Troops have now been placed on the borders of Kentucky to prevent gains. Home industrials were most- from otherly better, and elsewhere quietly any influx of miners

steady conditions prevailed.

Amsterdam, May 15. Two German military aeroplanes He said the French people would serious consideration to the defence made forced landings in Holland at of Burma against unauthorised Renkum and Leeuwarden respec- feel rull greater confidence when Chinese immigration, Colonel Muir lively to-day. they heard what the visitors had hend said that while these fears The pilots sald that they lost their States.Router. seen, but he urged that efforts must would not necessarily arise, the per-] way, be redoubled so that Britain and manent consequences of the road France would be able to face any at-wera recognised as being important, machines were seized pending a de- tempt at domination or upsetting the --Reuter. world.--Reuter Special.

More Credits For

Germany

Berlin, May 15,

ANTI-BRITISH ACTS

LONDON, May 15,--A question on organised Japanese

They were detained, and the

cision by the military authorities.— Reuter Special.

caused by the restrictions on trac propaganda facilities in the Yangtso gainst British interests in the Japan- ese-controlled districts of China was usked in the House of Commons to- day.

In reply, Mr. R. A. Butler said

Mr. Moreing also asked whether they had been any further discussion with the ofeern and the Admiral commanding the China station,

Mr. Butler sold that contact had

The Standstill Agreement between that recent reports from the Consul- been maintained, and the Govern Germany and foreign banks has been General in Shanghai, who had raised ment realised the seriousness of the prolonged for one year, it was off-the matter with his Japanese col- situation.---Reuter, cially announced to-day.

league in the early part of last month,

showed that this propaganda acti- | DRITISH AID The announcement says that nego-vity had diminished in intensity. tutions ended with gratifying pro- The situation would continue to be LONDON, May 15-Asked whe- gress, and the foreign creditors re-watched, and if necessary, repre-ther his attention had been drawn to gard the agreement as the most sentations would be made, Reuter. constructivo of recent years.

The main feature of the agree- ment is the provision whereby with

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the fact thut, despite the Japanese occupation of many towns, the Chi- nese Government liad been able sub- stantially to Increase the Industrial LONDON, May 18-Regular tael-potency of provinces and districts litics are not yet available, and dia- küll under Chinese control, Mr. R. H. cussions on the subject are proceed- Cross, Parliamentary

Secretary to

New Aeroplane Factory Built

LONDON, May 15-Sir Kingsley Wood has announced the establish- ment of a new acro engine factory u the vicinity of Glasgow.

Among commodities, sugar cased on August liquidation, with buyers reserved.

Wall Street was quietly steady.- Reuter Special.

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BUCHAREST, May 15 The Rumanian Ministerial Council to-day decided that all Ruinanion Ministors in|must place one month's salary at the 12 months, and will employ 10,000 disposal of the national defence fund. men.Reuter.

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Thracian's Rescue Work Acknowledged By Gift

SIATOW, May 12 (By Mail),

A pleasant and unique ceremony took place this morning when a silken Joss Flar was presented to the destroyer Thracian as a token of grailiade for prompt resine work; & Jast 'Hunday's squall, when many sampans full of refugees crossing from Kach.oh were swamped. *****

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