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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/5 1/16.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
KALTERPRISE LİG.
1888
DUNLOP the Pioneer
1932
DUNLOP still the Leader
INFLUENZA RAGING IN HUNGARY GOVERNMENT'S NEW LEAGUE COUNCIL EMBARRASSED
EUROPE IN GRIP OF SEVERE
WINTRY CONDITIONS
36 BELOW FREEZING POINT
HEAVY FALLS OF SNOW:: ICY WINDS SWEEP ALL COUNTRIES.
(Reuter's Special Service).
London, Yesterday. · Most of Europe is in the grip of real wintry weather. Much snow has fallen in Britain and icy winds are sweeping the country.
Barcelona is suffering the severest weather experienced in many years.
of snow,
Jugo-Slavia is wrapped in a mantle which is, in some places, four-feet deep.
Bosnia records a temperature of thirty-six below freezing point.
Intensified by the cold, an alarming epidemic of influenza is raging in Hungary, where, owing to its rapid spread, orders have been issued to all doc- tors to notify eases at the medical Central office. In some districts there are two or three cases in every house, and the death rate is increasing hourly.
New Import Duties Bill.
SHANGHAI TRUCE OBSERVED.
Fr. Jacquinot's Errand of Mercy.
AGRICULTURAL POLICY.
Additional Customs Duties Contemplated.
ORGANIZATION SCHEME.
Rugby, Yesterday. Government's agricultural policy was outlined in the House of Com- mons by Sir John Gilmour, Minia- tor for Agriculture, yesterday.
JOY - RIDER CAUGHT.
Crashes Into Rikisha
in Wanchai
THEN BRIBES CONSTABLE.
Tam Kwong-ip, (20),
3
car
CHINA NOW INVOKES ART.
XV. OF COVENANT
AN IMPORTANT STEP
WILL LEAGUE MEMBERS NOW SEND JAPAN INTO COVENTRY?
A new development has occurred at Geneva in He said the branch of agricul cleaner, who took an Austin car the Sino-Japanese dispute. It was not unexpected,
ture which had suffered most waaj
Government attached
A QUIET NIGHT.
Shanghai, To-day. The night passed off extreme- ly quiet.
a joy-ride in the early for there has been much talk about it these many At 8.00 a.m.. Father Jacquinot wheat growing, and that Govern-out for and Colonel Hayley-Bell, wearing ment proposed to assist growers hours of yesterday morning, collid-weeks past.
China has decided to invoke Article XV of the S.V.C. uniforms, led 13 French by a quota scheme, providing themed with a rikisha in Swatow Lane,, suns, carrying Red Cross flags, with a guaranteed market and en-Wanchai. When a Chinese con- and one English girl, into Chapei hanced price for wheat of milling stable appeared on the scene, it League Covenant, which is an important decision, from North Szechuen Road to quality. succour and rescue the numerous great importance to a long-range was discovered that the defendant for now the members of the League are confronted inhabitants believed to be still in policy, but immediate action was did not possess a driver's licence, by the possibility of resort to the provisions of the battle area, The party was
and that he had driven without the Article XVI, which provisions entail the employ- accompanied by four motor-
permission of the owner, Miss ment of economic functions to effect complete ces- trucks.
Elliot, of 1, Breezy Terrace, Bon- sation of financial, commercial and personal ham Road, who is his employer!! The Chinese and Japanese troops Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd., have On the way to the Police Station, intercourse with a State that resorts to War in dis- standing at ease in their respec-received the following telegram the defendant gave three dollars to regard of its obligations under Articles XII, XII
and XV. live defence lines. — Reuter's from Bradley & Co., Lloyd's Agents the constable as a bribe.
When charged before Mr. Scho-l in Swatow:***
Geneva, Yesterday. Artiles XII, XIII and XV.-Reu- "Have arranged with military field, this morning, Tam' admitted
It should be possible to hold, ter. that the Good Hope light will con-everything.
Detective - Sub-Insp. Rozeskwy immediately, a speciul session of tinue to function normally, but not the light on Sugar Loaf.
Ships said the rikisha was damaged to the League Assembly, which' cannot enter or leave Swatow be the extent of $7, whilst the rikisha China is entitled to call under tween 5 p.m. and 5 a.m."
There was no firing, except for an necasional shot from a sniper.j
Pacific Service.
Very few Englishmen realise that when they cross the border they are is a different country with different
traditions.-Dr. Greenhouse Allt.
EXEMPTED GOODS. WHEN THE JAPANESE CROSS THE WOOSUNG CREEK
A LONG LIST.
London, Yesterday,
The long list of goods exempt- ed from the general ten per cent, ad valorem duty under the Im. port Duties Bill, includes gold and silver bullion and coins, wheat in grain, meat. tea, raw| rubber, raw cotton, flax, hemp,[ Cotton Bed, rapeseed, linseed, raw whel. hides and skins (not) including goatskina), tin unset precious stones, News- papers, periodicals, printed books, printed music, and newsprint.- Reuter,
ore,
Preference for Dominions and
Colonies.
Rugby, Yesterday.
The text is issued of an Im-
ports Duties Bill which provides
ed.
empted goods, chief among which are the following:-
Gold and silver bullion and
JAPAN'S CAMPAIGN IN THE S'HAI AREA ENDS
ADMIRAL'S STATEMENT
ECONOMIC SITUATION IN SHANGHAI CAUSING ANXIETY,
cluding bacon, ham and edible JAPANESE ATTACK ON NANTAO. offal (but not including extracts and essences of meat, or meat
MARINERS PLEASE NOTE.
Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd., are Lloyd's Agents in Hong Kong.
necessary, and accordingly, with the exception of wheat, wool and meat, all agricultural and horti cultural produce would be inetu-| ed within the scope of the Import Duties Bill.
Additional Customa Duty, he said, would be imposed on any particular product, if recommend. ed by the Import Duties Advisory Committee.
In connection therewith, mait- and certain horticul ing, barley tural products would receive par- ticular attention.
Sir John Gilmour said a Com mission would be set up for the
! reorganisation of the milk indus- try; that a scheme for the organi sation
the bacon
of
and, provided there was feasible
mote some form of quantitative
scheme for marketing home crops,
ARTICLE XVI
"Sanctions of the League."
1. Should any Member of the
KINGSFORD SMITHMAY League resort to war in dis-
JOIN THE CHINESE?
AUSTRALIAN AIRWAYS FLEET UNDER OFFER
NEGOTIATIONS PROCEEDING
London, Yesterday.
regard of its covenants ander Article 12, 13 or 15, It shall ipso facto be deemed to have com- mitted an act of war against all other Members of the League, which hereby, undertake imme. diately to subject it to the sever- ance of all trade or financial re- ations, the prohibition of all intercourse between their tionals and the nationals of the covenant-breaking State, and the revention of all financial, com mercial or personal intercourse between the nationals of the covenant-breaking State and the
па-
Air Commander Kingsford-Smith may become nationals of any other State, whe- Chief Commander of the Chinese Air Force, ac- her a Member of the League or cording to the Daily Herald's Sydney correspon- 2. It shall be the duty of the
dent.
were damaged.
not,
Council in auch case to recom-
ary, naval or air force the Mem-
industry Commander Smith, in an interview, admitted mend to the several Governments (From Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, To-day. would be undertaken forthwith, that he had quoted Chinese officials a price for his concerned what effective mili- For the first time in a fortnight, Shanghai to- satisfaction from the scheme Australian Airways Fleet, but declined to discuss bers of the League shall several- to be used to protect the coven- for a ten per cent. Customs ad day obtained respite from the sound of gun-fire, evolved, Government would pro- the question of his own services, beyond remarkingly contribute to the armed 'forces
that he was without a job, and would consider any ant of the League. valorem duty on all imported as a truce was observed to enable Major Hayley regulation of imports.
3. The Members of the League xyuds, other than those exempt- Bell and Father Jacquinot, both belonging to the The appointment of a reorgani- offer.-Reuter.
agree, further, that they will na- The schedule enumerates ex- Shanghai Volunteers, to proceed to Chapei on the sation commission to consider the
turally support one another in merciful errand of evacuating women and children and such action as was deemed coolie received injuries to his knee. Article XV, as all the Powers financial and economic measures for the regulation of The car's madguard and radiator have delegates already in Geneva, which are taken under this Arti- trapped in that area since the beginning of the out-necessary
Imports of the main crop of
The Chinese delegation feels cle, in order to maintain the loss coin, wheat in grain, meat, in- break of hostilities.
there is nothing to lose by tak-nd inconvenience resulting from potatoes was also being contem- pinted.
His Worship ordered defendanting the case before the Assem- he above measures, and that Measures for assisting the fish-to pay $7 to the rikisha coolie as bly, and the more publicity they they will mutually support one Chinese circles are becoming increasingly ap-ing industry, however, were still compensation, and imposed fines obtain the more it will be to another in resisting any special measures aimed at one of their preserved in any airtight con- prehensive of the Japanese attack on Nantao, in-recalving consideration. British totalling $45, with the alternative their advantage.
They are, accordingly, sending number by the covenant-break- tainer), live quadruped animals, cluding its arsenal, following Japan's protest Wireless Service.
a note to the Secretariat this ing State, and that they will take fish of British taking, raw cot-
evening.
the necessary steps to afford pas- (including
China Decides.
sage through their territory to China has decided to invoke the forces of any of the Mem- Article XV of the Covenant. bers of the League which are
What It Means.
co-operating to protect the The sting in Article XV of the covenants of the League. League Covenant lies in that it is 4. Any Member of the intimately bound up with Article League which has violated any XVI involving the use of econo-covenant of the League may be mic functions to complete the declared to be no longer a Mem prevention of financial, commer- her of the League by a vole of cial and personal intercourse by the Council concurred in by the members of the League with any Representatives of all the other State that resorts to war in die Members of the League repre- regard of its obligations under sented thereon..
ton
manufactured against the firing of warships.
cotton waste), flax and hemp HIGH MORALE OF CHINESE. ⠀⠀ (not further dressed after scutch-
Admiral Nomura, over tea cups, told Foreign ing or decorticating); hides, skins, newspapers, printed books pressmen to-day, that the day when the Japanese and printed music, newspapers in forces cross the Woosung creek will be the day rolls, wood, pulp, raw rubber, iron ore (not including chrome when Japan's campaign in the Shanghai area will iron ore), scrap iron and scrap] end.
concentrates, wooden pit props,
steel, iron, pyrites, tin ores and ADMIRAL NOMURA SAYS. sulphur, mineral phosphates of But the Nineteenth Route Army seems deter- lime, unset
precious stones, mined to continue a defensive war to the last ditch. radium compounds, and ores.
The Bill also provides for pre- A tour of their front line outposts revealed a ference to Dominions, India, high morale animating them. Southern Rhodesia, Mandate
some signs of cheerfulness. Territories and Colonies.
Where it is shown that goods JAPANESE MARINES CELEBRATE.
the commissioners to be ap-
There were even
of 48 days' imprisonment.
Secretary of the Shanghai Rifle Association has been blown up. All the records of the Association have been lost.
SHANGHAI ECONOMIC SITUATION.
The internal economic situation is causing con- cern among Settlement Authorities. There is also evident a growing restiveness among the thou- sands of idle workers.
The myriads of refugees, who have flocked into the Settlement, are accentuating the gravity of food and health problems, which have been acute enough all this while, but now with restriction of the credit and the cessation of business among majority of Chinese bankers and merchants con- fusion is being added to it all.
are imported for re-exportation,| Amid grotesque shambles, a feudal scene was pointed under the Bill, may allow witnessed at midnight, when Japanese marines, goods to be imported free of dropped their weapons, lifted army mugs, drank duty.-British Wireless Service. the health of the Emperor, shouted "Banzais!" and
I do not read so much philosophy sang the Nation Anthem in commemoration of the possibility of internal disorders. and theology as I used to, because if the 2,592nd anniversary of the birth of the Empire. I agree with the writer I know most RIFLE ASSOCIATION RECORDS LOST. of what he wants to tell me, and if Severe damage has been done by gun-fire in the Kiangwan area, where the residence of the
I do not his arguments, make no im- pression on me-Dean Inge.
The authorities, however, are fully mindful of
DAZED REFUGEES.
People are going about the streets dazed and crushed, and their minds seem to be numbed by the relentless march of events.
THE SUNKEN M2.
An Admiralty Statement.
marine. remained habitable after she sauk.
Nine vessels were employed with the object of detecting any tapping or signal, but without re- Ault Echosounding gear was used in the search, and Investiga- Rugby, Yesterday.
tion has shown that this account- From statements issued by theed for some of the tapping report- Admiralty, regarding the sunken ed. submarine M2, it appears that no No bodies have yet been either evidence has been found to show recovered or seen in the wreck
that any compartment in the sub- British Wireless Service.