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E. 1965.
THE OLDEST - ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST.
No. 28-630
HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1934.
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GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS.
BRITISH ARMED EXPEDITION
SENATE
MAY DELAY
GOLD BILL
REPUBLICANS WISH TO STUDY MEASURE,
$2,000,000 DAILY LOSS UNTIL
BILL IS PASSED
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.
Bu Telegraph. Copyright. Telegra
phic Meannars Ordinaner, 1881. Re-| ceived January 22, 435 a.m.)
Washington, To-day.
Following the passing of the
COLONY'S 1933 TRADE DECLINE
IMPORTS FALL 19.7%
AND EXPORTS 14.6%
TREND TOWARDS ORIENTAL RATHER
OCCIDENTAL NATIONS
THAN
A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE TRADE OF HONG Gold Bill by the House of Repre-KONG FOR THE YEAR 1933, ISSUED BY THE STATISTICAL sentatives it is generally believed OFFICE OF THE IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DEPARTMENT,
STATES THAT THE COMBINED VALUES OF IMPORTS AND that there is a deliberate more in EXPORTS OF MERCHANDISE (EXCLUDING TREASURE) DE- the Senate to delay the passage of CLINED BY 17.5% AS COMPARED WITH THE YEAR 1932, the Bill until late this week. The AND 29.4% AS COMPARED WITH 1931.
Republicans charge that they have Imports recorded a decrease of 19.7% as compared with 1932, not been given a chance to study and 32.1% as compared with 1931; while exports decreased by the measure.
14.6% as compared with 1932.4 and 25.6% as compared with
The House of Representatives 1931. members favouring the Bill included 286 Democrats, 68 Republicans and five Farmer Labourites,
The United States Treasury is] losing U.S.$2.000,000 daily until the Gold Bill is passed.
Mr.
RECORD GAINS ON
WALL STREET.
The declared values of imports of merchandise totaled $500,9 millions in 1933, $624.0 millions in 1932 and $737.7 mil- lions in 1932.
Exports were valued at $403.1 millions in 1933, $471.9 mil- lions in 1932. and $542.0 millions in 1933.
British
PRICE $3.00 Per Month:
TO BE SENT TO NORTHERN SUDAN
The people of Yorkshire gaye H. R. HE the Prince of Wales a rousing reception during his four-day tour of the towns of the East and West Ridings, as patron of the National Council of So- cial Service. The picture shows a 'cheering throng at Barnsley, where the Prince opened the new Boys' Club (8. & G.),
BRITAIN
TO RECOGNISE
MANCHUKUO?
Morning Post." Advocated By London
#4
"TRADE FOR JAPË FAND
#REST" OF THE*
Both President Roosevelt and the Treasury Secretary,
Treasure imports amounted to The value of imports riccíved] Henry Morgenthau, have urged $38.1 millions in 1933, as com-from Japan showed a marked in- that the Bill be passed by topared with $85.3 millions in 1932, crease, and there were also slight morrow at the latest, in order to and exports to $134.1 millions as increases in imports from
East Africa, British West Indies, facilitate the Treasury's financing against $140.0 millions. plans.
With the exxception of practi-India and South American countries. Mr. Morgenthan told: Scursorically negligible increases in the Imports from Japan totalled $68.3 Fletcher that action to-morrow imports of Chemicals and Drugs, millions in 1931, #21.5 millions in
London, To-day?). is imperative. United Prosa. Liquors, and Minerals and Ores, 1982 in beavy decrease, due to the there were decreases in all the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods), The per S. C. Gold Bur Co.
The suggestion that the groups of imported commodities and $25.8 millions in 1988.
time has come for the Bri- tish Government to consider in 1933, as compared with 1932, chief declines were recorded by the the most prominent being Build-United Kingdom which fell from
the recognition of Manchu- ing Materials which fell from $76.9 millions in 1932 to $52.2 mil-
kuo is made by the London $12.9 to $9.3 millions; Dyeing lions in 1933: Australia from $12.0
Morning Post, to-day. Materials from $6.0 to $4.4 mil- to $8.1; Canada from $0.2 to $4.9:
Commenting on the proclama- lions: Foodstuffs from $211.8 to Malaya from $9.1 to $6,0; Belgium
from tion of Mr. Henry Pu Yi, the $166.9 millions; Oils and Fats from $12.9 to $8.4; China from $52.2 to $35.6 millions; $170.0 to $155.2; French Indo-China newspaper states that now that Paper and Paperware from $15.7 from $52.7 to $42.4: Netherlands Manchukuo has lasted for two Goods East Indies from $61.6 to $38.9: years, and has evidently come to P..to $9.4 millions; Piece
$1.2; and stay, there is an obvious case for from $107.8 to $75.1 millions: Sweden from $3.2 to
}༄་། Total recognition. Tobacco from $9.5 to $6.5 mil-U.S.A. from $46.1 to $81.2. New York, To-day. The New York Stock Market lions; and Sundries from 871.5imports from the British Empire fell from $133.7 to $98.3 millions; last week made the broadest ad- to $64.0 millions.
The heaviest proportionate de-foreign imports falling from $490.4 1,000 stocks are higher than the clines in imports were Tobacco, to $402.6 millions.
1,000 Stocks Advance On Previous Week.
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. (lly Telegraph, Copyright. Telegra ale Menses Ordinance, 1981. crived January 22, 848 am.)
vance of the past year.
Over
corresponding stock of the pre- vious week, while 48 were lower, and 40 unchanged.
Wall Street bullishness is growing and it is generally believed that the market is about to stari a new for ward movement. Some observers, however, be. lieve that, a recession is overdue. -United Press,per S. C. Gold Bar Co.
R.F.C. TO CONTINUE
UNTIL 1935.
which fell from $12.9 in 1931 to $9.5 in 1932, and $6.5 millions in 1933: Oils and Fats 654:2, $52.2 and $35.6 millions; Paper and Paper- ware $16.2, $15.7 and 39.4 millions;
(Continued on Page 8).
Piece Goods $131.7, 3107.3 and $75,1 STOP
de
PRESS
millions; and Building Materials $15.3, $12.9 and $9.3 millions. Corresponding Drops In Exports.
There were corresponding lines in the export groups, with the exception of Metals, which increased from $30.2 to $33.6 millions, mainly NEW SILVER SCHEME IN WASHINGTON. --
jon account of shipments of Chines
Tin Slabs: Minerals and Ores, which rose from $0.9 to $1,5 · mil- ilions; and Vehicles from $1.5 to $2.1
millions.
Washington, To-day. Senator Wheeler states that the Washington, To-day.
American" silver group has `com-] President Roosevelt has signed'
As compared with 1991, Building promised on a plan which is a “par- the Reconstruction Finance Cor- Materials exports Tell from $9.6 to chase proposition; designed to poration Bil! extending the Cor.
$4.8 millions; Dyeing Materials stabilise : silver and to keep it 'poration's life to February 1, 1935, from $6.6 to 33.9 millions; Manures pegged to gold so that there will be and increasing its lending power by $16.3 to $9,8 millions; Oils and Fats no fluctuation.
·U. S. $850,000,000.-Reuter.
“If Manchukuo means se- curity and peace, it also means trade not only for Japan but for the rest of the world.
NEWFOUNDLAND, COMMISSION
APPOINTED
Six To Administer Oldest Colony With The Governor
London, To-day, The Newfoundland Commission. appointed to administer, with the Governor, Sir John Middleton, K.B.E the affairs" -of
idland, consists of... Choʻch
Prime Minister, Mr. F. G. Alder dice, Sir, John flope-Simpson, Mr. W. R. Howley, Mr. T. Lodge, the Becretary of State Mr. J. G. Pud- dester, and Mr. E. N..B. Trentham. ...Reuter.
GENERAL ARAKI RESIGNS
Japanese "Dictator's" Illness.
DIRECTED MANCHURIAN
OPERATIONS
Tokyo, To-day. General Sadao Araki, the Jap lanese War Minister, has tender-
19TH ARMY
GENERALS
SECEDE
Declare Loyalty To Nanking.
END OF FUKIEN REVOLT
Nanking, To-
Declaring their loyalty" Central Government, Shen Kwang- han, Mao Wel-chou, Ou. Shou-nien and Cheng-yen, Divisional Comman [ders of the Nineteanth Route Army, | have telegraphed to the Plenary Session of the C. E. C. and to the
ARAB RAIDS REPORTED ATTACKS ON
NORTHERN
FRONTIER
HALFAYA MAY BE
· OBJECTIVE.
-KHARTUM : FORCE INCLUDES: OF ARMOURED CARS
Cairo, To-day, An expedition con- sisting of armoured- cars together with machine-gung, will leave Khartum for the north, according to the Khartum cor- respondent of a ver- nacular paper.
It is rumoured that Arabs have attacked the northern fron- tier of the Sudan and the expedition is en route to Don- gola, where it will
to Dar Bain to deal with the Arab raid ers
According to an- other rumour the ex- pedition is on its way to Halfaya to deal with the Arabs, National Military Connell stating but no further news can be obtained at that they have seceded from the Rebel Government and have order-present, Reuter.
jed the cessation of military oper-
ations with a view to effecting · «| pesceful settlement,
The telegram adds that General Tai-chi has been nominated as tem- Nineteenth porary head of the Army.
It is believed here that with thin
PLANE FACTORY
f
FOR CHINA
Curtiss Co. To Provide Entire Capital
It seems to us, therefore, ed his resignation owing to his that the British Government, illness preventing his attendance latest development further hostill- which so precipitately recognised at the Diet session, according to ties in South Fakten may be avoid- CHINA TO BUY 60 MACHINES the Spanish Republic. might, now an unconfirmable report in the ed.--Reuter.
consider it is not: the time to Japanese newspaper, Azahi,
make a virtue of necessity in Reuter. Manchukuo, the journal declares. -Reuter.
M.C.C. WIN BY 6 WICKETS
Marriott And Barnett Outstanding.
General Araki has been confined CANTON POLICY IN
FUKIEN AFFAIR
to his bed since January 1, with all the symptoms of pneumonia..
Since the outbreak of hostilities in Manchuria, he has been one of the outstanding figures of Japan, and is the only member of the High Command who did not come from the officers' caste, rising to his pre- sent post from humble origin.
Successor Nominated.
Tokyo, Later,
Not Reorganising 19th Route Army.
A YEAR
Shanghai, To-day.
The Chinese papers report that the Government has reached an agreement with the American Curlins Avia- tion Interests for the estab Hahment of an aeroplane fac- fory at Hangchow. Woodbr The Curtiss, Company will put up the entire capital of $8,000,- 000, while the Chinese Govern ment will buy the factory's out The Kwangsl, Delegate General put, which is estimated as: 60 Huang Hsu-chu, and General Chen machines a year: Reuter. Chai-tang's representative, Mr. Yang 97
DELEGATE'S ASSURANCES:
Shanghai, To-day-
Teh-chao, arrived here yesterday SYDNEY ADMIRAL
morning from Hong Kong "..., aboard
INDIAN TEST SKIPPER SHOWS
ALL-ROUND FORM STE
Nagpur, To-day. from $43.4 to $30.4 millions; Place The scheme is intended to pre- The wiles of C. 8, Marriott, the Goods from: $75,8 to $555 millions, vent a flood of silver from entering Kent schoolmaster who took 6 He has recommended General
European Trade Falls,
the United States from abroad, and for 35, and a hurricane, century Senjaro Hayashi, Inspector-Gener China, Japan, French Indo-China, will be offered as an amendment to by Barnett, the Gloucester pro al of Education, as his successor. had wired Nanking urging the co-
SOVIET HONOURS LENIN. Monster Meeting In the Colony, mainly at the expense
Slam and India all: Increased their the Monetary Bill,——Router, shares of the total import trade of
fesalonal were responsible for
It has been confirmed that
· General: Arakd his tendered
le zzaignation. N
the M.C.C. touring eleven beat-Reuter, ing the Gentral Provinces and,
the "President Cleveland,""
Interviewed by pressmen, Mr.
PASSES
Yang Teh chao denied that Canton A Founder Of Australian
sation of hostilities in Fakken, and that General Chen Chai-tang had any
United Kingdom, U.S.A., Germany, JAPAN'S PEACEFUL Berar eleven by slz wickets you AMERICA'S BAN ON intention of reorganising the 19th
of the Netherlands East Indies,},
Moscow.
Moscow, To-day.
POLICY."
Malaya, Australia and Belgium.
The British share fell from 12.3% Passages from hitherto unpublish in 1932 to...:: 10,4% in 1983, ... while
Tokyo, To-day, ad articles and letters by Lenin were China Increased her share from
Charging the Soviet" lenders, published in Soviet newspapers yes 27.2% 81%; Japan from 3.4% serday for the occasion of the tenth la 5.0%; French Indo China from Molotov, M Litvinov, M. Buden anniversary of Lenin's death which 84% to 85%; Blam from 93% to and others with deli
was celebrated throughout the go- 10.0%; and Inde from 28% to ing the ballet that Japa
87%
to invade the Boviet,
value of imports received Foreign Office spokesma
far from 7.8 per cent, In 1981 to 7.4 per a statement to the pr
1932, and 43 per In that Japan's 'only'
any from 6.1 per cent, to * pasowful polley,
alaya from":141
1.5 per bent and 1-2
terday, y
The local team batted first and totalled 195 to which C. K Naidu, the Indian Test skipper contributed 107 Marriott play- ed havoc with the more in-
nced batsmen
...repled; WILH.
BOOTLEGGERS.
To Have No Place In Legal Industry.
that he
Route Army and placing it under his own command, de la
He added that the Canton Leade
was not prepared to do anytales,
unless ordered by the Governi
He said "Chat as Gener Ming-shu and... Ma
Navy.
WILLIAM CLARKSON
Bydhe
ure: yes- miral
the
ian Navy