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SHANGHAI SHIPPING
CRIPPLED
CHINESE MILITARY IMPRESS LIGHTERS
LITTLE DOCK SPACE
FREIGHTERS ADVISED TO EXCLUDE SHANGHAI AS PORT OF CALL.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, To-day.
ESTABLISHED 1845.
| TO-DAY'S 'DOLLAR. — The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/4d.
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932. ́PRICE $3.00 Per Month:
SYDNEY HARBOUR
BRIDGE.
Handed Over to the
Government.
TO BE OPENED ON SATURDAY.
(Reuter's Special Service),
Sydney, Yesterday.
The new harbour bridge, describ jed by experts as one of the greatest of engineering feats of its kind in the world, has been handed over to
New South Wales Government.
£500,000 FOR CHINA
AN OLD GERMAN'S, LEGACY.
SECRET SERVICE FUNDS
1888- DUNLOP
he Pioneer
1932 DUNLOP still the Leader
PLOTTERS AGAINST A BALANCED BUDGET
GOVERNMENT.
Eleven Prisoners Now.
Standing Trial.
1
EXECUTION CERTAIN.
(From Our Own Correspondent) Shanghai, To-day.
The
Stiff Sentences for Looters. Chapel looters, when convicted,
The Court has ordered the extra- Idition of the eleven prisonera charged with attempting to over- throw London, Yesterday.
the Government. - - The suspects are now facing trial in the' The Morning Post's correspon-Military Court which is sure to The bridge, which coat over |£9,000,000, will be opened by the dent in Rome has reported that re-order wholesale executions.
Premier, Mr. Lang, on Saturday, presentatives of the Chinese Re-prisoners include prominent figures. Police are guarding Mr. Lang's re-pubile in Rome have gone to Bres sidence owing to threats by the sanone to take possession of a for-
Guard," "New
tune estimated at £500,000". an organisation
are receiving stiff sentences rang Shipping operations in Shanghai have been hostile to Mr. Lang's accialisation
This sum of money was being from six months to two years. badly crippled. Several detachments of Chinese policy, that he will not be elderly German, to China to be queathed by Heinrich Baase, an' soldiers have seized 40 Chinese cargo lighters en-mitted to perform the opening gaged in transporting freight from foreign vessels moored in the Whangpoo River to shoreside docks FRENCH SURTAX ON but a steel box was found in his in Shanghai. The majority of the comandeered lighters, with their crews, were towed farther up the river into Chinese territory by military launches, while others were conveyed up Soo- chow Creek to interior points. No explanations were tendered, excepting that the craft were re- quired for transporting troops and munitions,
The present raid is the third The harbour is now congested and biggest of series during with shipping, and there is little the last fortnight,
As a result there is great de- dock space available.
ceremony.
BRITISH GOODS.
Objection Lodged by Great Britain.
PORTUGUESE DUTIES.
Rugby, Yesterday.
used in her struggle against Euro- peans."
Basse died in apparent poverty,
room which contained title deeds, bank books, a letter of good wishes from the ex-Kaiser on the occasion of Basse's eightieth birthday last year, a signed photograph, and also a document showing that Bassa had seen service in the Prussian Guard.
CHINESE TROOPS CONCENTRATING.
ASSURED
POINTERS THAT CAN- NOT BE OVERLOOKED
EXCELLENT REVENUE RETURNS
FLOATING DEBT REDUCED BY TEN MILLION STERLING.
Rugby, Yesterday. Revenue returns issued to-night, giving the figures to last Saturday, leave no doubt that a bal- anced Budget will be successfully realised.
During the last week, the deficit was reduced by £12,000,000 and amounted at the end to £24,200,000, as compared with £44,100,000 and same date last year. The total receipts from Inland Revenue Taxes, since April 1 last, amount to £411,700,000, leaving £39,300,000 still to be collected to realise the revised Budget estimate of £431,000,000.
At Sung Kiang.
JAPANESE REPORTS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.]
Further receipts of £10,000,000 is £24,700,000 less than that to: Shanghai, To-day. Reports continue to be received will bring the total of the In the corresponding date last year. The revised. Budget contem- It is suggested that his fortune in Japanese military circles of a come-tax and Surtax up to the
plated a total reduction in the represents a special Secret Service steady concentration of Chinese amount estimated to be received year of £16,200,000, but Supple- mentary Estimates of £600,000 In the course of Parliamentary fund from the late German Im- troops in the interior, near Shang in the year.
hai. It is believed that the com❤j
Customs and Excise receipts have since been presented. answers to-day, Mr. Runciman, Pre-perial authorliles-Reuter
mandeered lighters are being are 29,400,000 up on last year, The Floting. Debt was reduced sident of the Board of Trade, said,
increase in the whole year of now stands at £612,875,000, bes are reported £7,600,000.
ing £7,000,000 less than at the Nanto firms cently to have made extensive ship-
The total expenditure has corresponding date last year.-- ments of barbed wire and cement amounted to £807,000,000, which British Wireless Service. under Government orders and, it is said, these, stores were destined for Sung Kiang, where several Chinese divisions are known to be concen-
movements..
that the Government had made it LYTTON COMMISSION utilised to facilitate these troop as compared with the estimated in he week by £10,000,000 and lay in unloading cargoes, and The majority of overseas clear to the French Government this is causing considerable losses freighters are unloading in the that they took exception in princi- GETTING DOWN TO IT. to shipping companies. Freight- stream, depending largely upon ple to the imposition of a French ers have been notified to exclude native boats to remove their surtax on any, British goods. Shanghai as a port of call and to cargoes, inasmuch as there is an He also said that the question discharge Shanghai cargo else inadequate number of foreign was being considered of making where.
lighters. těna, the slut ihan preprésentations to the PortuguesC Government regarding the recent decree, increasing duties by 20 per LORD LYTTON'S DECLARATION, cent. on most descriptions of goods. -British Wireless Service.
COMPOSITION OF
UNITED KINGDOM
DELEGATION.
Preparing for Ottawa.
NOT YET CONSIDERED.
LEAGUE ASSEMBLY.
Commission of Nineteen.
MEETING TO-DAY,
Geneva, Yesterday.
UNFOUNDED REPORT Russian 'Plané Forced
Down.
Private Conferences Being Held
(Renter's Special Service.)
Shanghai, To-day.
trated.
FORTIFICATION OF
HONG KONG
LEAGUE INQUIRY COMMISSION.
Elaborate Preparations in Nanking.
FOR RECEPTION.
Nanking, To-day.
CLEARING HOUSE SYSTEM.
Proposed Franco- Hungarian Agreement.
NO ADVANTAGE TO BRITAIN,
Rugby, Yesterday.
Lord Lytton declared
London, Yesterday." that his Commission will In the House of Commons to-day, remain in Shanghai unther Government would be pre-
Mr. Mander (Liberal) asked whe til negotiations for peace pared to reconsider the treaty are under way and peace under.
took not to fortify Hong returning here from Loyang to meet proposed Franco-Hungarian agree
which Britain
Mr. Lin-sen, at the urgent re-
In Parliament to-day, Mr. Run- under-quest of Mr. Wang Ching-wol, isciman was questioned, as to the Tokyo, To-day. The report that a Russian plane seems assured.
Kong in the event of the Washing- Lord Lytton and the League Comment to provide a Clearing House the' mutual A meeting of the Commission of was yesterday forced down by a
Lord Lytton intends to ton treaties and Fact of Paris being mission for whose arrival elaborate arrangement for Ninetean, appointed by the League Japanese plane to the East of
[liquidation of export tråde. He preparations are being made. broken. Rugby, Yesterday, Assembly, to deal with the Sino- Pogranitchnaya is believed to be interview as many pro-
Captain Eden replied to the effect The Commission will be quarter-said that, after full consideration, The Prime Minister to-day states Japanese dispute, is to hold a unfounded, as queries made in that almost immediately after the meeting at 3.30 o'clock to-morrow Mukden have elicited no reply.minent people as possi-that he was unable to define Governed in the Officers' Moral Endeavour the Government had reached the sible who were concernment's policy in the eventuality Association and the offices of the conclusion that no Clearing House Ministry of Railways-Reuter. system yet devised would be of ad- ed in the recent trouble.
vantage to British trade. He did [not think that any such system In the meantime, a series
would eliminate the handicap-of- exchange restrictions in existence on the Continent-British Wireless Service,
Reuter.
FRANKLY WE HAVE NOT of private conferences
Government was formed a Cabinet afternoon.-Reuter. Committee was appointed to super- vise the preparations for the Ottawa Conference, so far as the Government in the United Kingdom) was concerned. It had been con-1 tinuously at work since then. The Composition of the United King- dom delegation to Ottawa has, how- ever, not yet been considered by the Cabinet. British Wireless Ser- vice.
STOP PRESS
Tokyo, To-day. Although no details are divulged, it is learned from authoritative sources that the Government has cabled in structions to Shanghat approv ing a compromise truce plan in principal, leaving the local commanders to settle detailed arrangements.
Nanking, To-day.
The Government has decided to appoint Dr. Wellington Koo as Chief Delegate Sing the Shanghal Peace Conferences.
W-Nanking, To-day......... The Eurasia Air Service is werking feverishly to establish a new Nanking-Sianfu air ser-- viče. “Ordinarily, stops will be made at Hruchow, Chengchow and Loyang, The Nanking- Loyang section will be put into operation" almost.
order to facilitat
ISLANDS' CLOSER UNION.
Commission for Investigation.
British Government's Reply.
are being held in an en- deavour to clear the path for a fully constituted Peace Conference. These conferences are being attended by Chinese, London, Yesterday. Japanese, British, The Under Secretary for Air French, American and gave the Members of the House Italian representatives.
TO DISARMAMENT QUERY."
of Commons what, apparently, is the first official hint of "Govern-|
toward ment's attitude
the
PROMINENT
TRADE UNIONIST.
Mr. W. McL Citrine.
mentioned.--Reuter,
SPORE NAVAL BASE
Admiralty Growing Anxious.
NO PLANS READY.
London, Yesterday. The state of affairs regarding
NEW BILL BEFORE THE HOUSE
Foreign Forced
Labour.
Rugby, Yesterday,
the Singapore Base is unsatisfac tory ad is now engaging the earnest attention of the First
In the House of Commons to-day, Lord of the Admiralty, according under the ten minutes rulo, Com- to Mr. Wallace, Civil Lord of the mander Locker Lampson was given Admiralty, who sold so in the leave to introduce a Bill to prohibit course of a debate in the House the importation of goods made by of Commons on the Navy Estim foreign forced labour The Bill ates.
was brought in and formally read Mr. Wallace explained that, for the first time. British Wire- although seven and three-quarter less Service. million sterling had appeared in
Rugby, Yesterday! : The Colonial Secretary, Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, stated in the House of Commons to-day that the French disarmament proposal Governors of the Leeward Island, made in Geneva.. Windward Islands and Trinidad. He asked: “Have we auflcient are in general agreement as to the confidence, in any international desirability of a Commission being body, to place in its hands the appointed to enquire into the ques- safety of the British Empire or tion of the closer union between eight million Londoners?MER these islands, and that he had He replied to his own query: under consideration the appoint-
Frankly we have not
Mr. Walter McLennan Citrine sent commitments- were £4,036, or. But, if ment of such a Commission.— British Wireless Service.
The objective of the Disarma intends to leave for the Far East 000 to the contr ment Conference had the fall this Autumu to investigate trade only the work
and support ympat
of the unionism on behalf of the Inter contract wa ple, but in this: Im national Federation of Trade Wo
we could not a.ord Unions-Reuter
TEA IMPORTS INTO BRITAIN.
London, Yesterday.
In the House of Commons to s Mr. Walter Runciman ann that the increase of tes imp
Februar vera simb to imp
dificulties
* COMING EAST.
London, Yesterday!
the Mr. Citrine has ion of Bri with the Trade Uni
ite leader:
associated
the Estimates, our ectual pre- DAIL AND OATH OF
there
ALLEGIANCE,
London,
day.
to remove the dath
Mr. De >-day? “We Love it We
of the
MRS. GANDHI RE-ARRESTED. AND SENTENCED,
Bombay, Yesterday. Gandhi's wife who was released from prison on February 29, wAE arrested again to-day and sentenced to six months' rigorous imprison- ment.-Reuter, ka
OCCASIONAL RAIN.
The Royal Observatory's report issued this morning states.
The anticyclone has been absorbed by another, forming overNE. China..
Forecast:-NE. winds, mo- derate general overcast, occit sional rain.
Rainfall ove Rainfall for 24 hours andr ed at 10 am, to-day 0.10 inch. Total since January 1--4.54 inches against an "average of 4.41 inches excess .18 inch
Temperat