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No. 28,971
THE OLDEST - ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1935.
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AMERICA'S PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 STATED CORNERED
MRS. AIMEE
MCPHERSON:
IN COLONY
To Hold No Meetings
On This Visit
JUBILEE TOUR OF MISSIONS
Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, popularly known as the "Hot Gospeller," arrived in the Colony carly this morning by the RMS. Empress of Russia.
In an interview, immediately after the ship had berthed, she said that she did not know whe- ther she would stay in Hong Kong for a few days or proceed on to Canton where she had some business in connection with new mission which she was con- templating founding there. She will, of course, visit her late hus. band's grave nt Happy Valley and also the Matilda Hospital where her daughter, Roberti,, was born.
She stated that the whole • pur-- pose of her visit was to inspect the several mission stations it the East. She has already inspected those in Shanghai and Tientsin, and, after leaving here, she will 'conduct a tour of the Philippines i where she has just bullt a new church, but which she has not yet! seen. From there be will four- ney to Benares, India and will then go back through Greece and so complete the circle of the globe.
19 FOREIGN MISSIONS
She has altogether 19 foreign missions and 38 In the United States:
Mrs. McPherson will not hold any meetings in Hong Kong 38 her stay here will be so brief. She is hoping to arrive in Athens as soon as possible, as her mission
Elsa A. Sittel, an Alsatian-born American secretary, returns 'to New York after spending 10 days in a German prison for telling Customs inspectors she believed Reichafuchrer. Hitler had Jewish blood. The American Canaul In- terceded for her.
KWANGTUNG
SHORT-TERM
LOAN BONDS
Stabilising Notes Of
Provincial Bank
HIGH RATES OF INTEREST
OFFERED
CONTINENT FORCES STERLING DECLINE
U.S. EXCHANGE FUND
SELLS DOLLARS
ANGLO-AMERICAN CO-OPERATION
RUMOURS DISCREDITED
London, To-day.
With the British Control adopting the role of a mere onlooker, sterling further declined yes- terday under the pressure of Continental with- drawals.
The action of the Control has given rise to rumours on the Continent that the British au- thorities desire to see sterling lower, especially in terms of dollars.
BEAUTIFUL
JOSEPHINE C GOWNS
For The Early Spring
PAUL RENNERG CIE
190, Nathan Rd.
LIKE A BAT
The celebration of her 25 years as an evangeliet over, Mri. Aimes, Semple McPherson is now' in China to found a misalsa, av to the first of her four husbands, Robert Semple Our to attract national attention, and as she is to-day. Mrs. McPher son arrived in Hong Kong this morning by the R:M.S. Empress
of Rusain,
PEELTOWN DRAMA
ALL AVAILABLE POLICE BEING
RUSHED TO SCENE
$25,000 FILM OFFER FOR “SHOOTING"
| RAYMOND HAMILTON
WANTED MAN
TERRELL, TEXAS, TO-DAY.
RAYMOND HAMILTON, THE CURRENT "PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1" AND THE CONVICTED |MURDERER WHO ESCAPED THE DEATH CELL LAST SUM- MER, HAS BEEN CORNERED LIKE A RAT AT PEELTOWN, 25 MILES FROM HERE..?
All available police are rushing to the scene armed with ma chine-guns.
According to the well-known firm of mer- chant bankers, Robert-Benson and Co., the persis-photographs show her as she was in 1919, when she Brat begin tent bearishness on the Continent as regards ster- ling is based on a deep-rooted conviction bred from their own experience that every currency not linked with gold must sooner or later depre- RAPPROCHEMENT TERMS National Guard armoury
ciate.
· THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE FUND HAS BEEN SELL- ING DOLLARS TO KEEP PACE WITH THE DEPRECIATION OF STERLING, WHICH EXPLAINS WHY STERLING HAS FALLEN MORE IN TERMS OF CONTINENTAL CURRENCIES
(From Our Own Correspondent)THAN OF DOLLARS UNE
Canton, To-day
The $4,000,000 short-term loan bonds to be lasued: bý the Provincial · Department of Finance will be ready for subscription on March 20. Repayment of the loan will be made by the end of Au- gust, interest. being 10 per cent. per month.
Besides the Kwangtung. Prq»| there will shortly be the scene of vincial Bank, other private banks a revivalist. campaign and she will be naked to diatribute these] would be disappointed if she miss-honds, the denominations of]
ed' it.
(Continued on Page 0)
OLYMPIAD CLAIM. WITHDRAWN.
800,000 FRANCS INDEMNITY ABYSSINIAN GOVT.
: "ATONEMENT.
SOMALI TROOP MASSACRE SEQUEL
Djibouti, To-day.
FOR CHINA
ALLEGED
JAPANESE OFFERS
Shanghal To-day
A film company has offered $25,000 for the exclusive rights of filming the shooting of Ham!!- ton, but the officials are unable, legally, to accept the offer.
Hamilton recently raided the
at
Beaumont, Texas, escaping with eight rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
A few days ago he shot his way out of a police ambush, al- though his car was riddled with bulleta Renter
PEDAL CYCLISTS PROBLEM
Faris expecta that President Roosevelt will raise the price of gold in terrhs of dollars it ster of alleged Japanese terms of rapprochement, Including the re- The "North China Daily News" gives prominence to reports ling falls to 72.75, dragging the placement of General von Seeckt and his 300 German military dollar in its wake.
assistants by 300 Japanese officers and 1.400 warrant officers to Little credence is given in Lon- train the Chinese army, the engagement of Japanese nominees by British Death Roll Up 96 don to Paris rumours of an the National Economic Council instead of the present Western Anglo-American understanding advisers (many of whom were sent out by the League of Nations), Per Cent. In 5 Years behind the fall in sterling, the the funding of all or part of the unrecognised Japanese loans to objective of which is alleged to China, notably the Nishihara Loans, and the complete elimination
London, To-day, be to initiate a drive to compel of anti-Japanese propaganda from the text-books of the Chinese the Gold Bloc. to surrender.
schools. In return Japan offers to float a loan to assist China in House of Commons yesterday re- Replying to a question in the Reuter.
the present emergency.
garding the attitude of pedal
NEW LOW RECORD:* Paris, To-day. Renewed pes-
which are $100, $50, $10 and $5. The Abyssinian Government per cent. in bonds for various francs in respect of the Somali curve of sterling exchange in- In some cases, there will be 20 he paid an indemnity of 300,000 simism regarding the future Troop massacre on January 21, duced brokers last night to kinds of appropriations.
out of which the family of the "bear" the pound to a new low The $4,000,000 will be used to. stabilise the $10 banknotes of the French officer who was killed record level of 72.89-Reuter. Kwangtung Provincial Bank, have been awarded. 500,000 | which are worth about 85 per
francs. Reuter.
But Italian Delegate At cent. of their face value. After A Reuter's cable from Djibouti, Chancellor Of Exchequer
Oslo Uninformed
this requirement is met.
Rome, to-day.
Questioned
money will be used for military troopers and 88 Somalis had been NO HOPES FOR STABILISATION
expenses.
Security of these bonds
the
dated January 22. stated that a French administrative officer, 18)....
con-
massacred in French territory by marauding tribesmen from the
A Foreign Office spokesman yes- sists of the business tax and Abyssinian border province. terday reiterated that Italy had title deeds tax.
withdrawn her, claim for the allot
ment of the 1940 Olympic Games,
but apparently the Italian delegate FINANCIAL MEETING
at Oslo has not yet received." in- structions Reuter.
WEATHER FORECAST
OF THE POUND
ANGLO-POLISH TRADE PACT:
TO COME INTO FORCE ON MARCH 14
REDUCTIONS OF DUTY ON MANY. BRITISH GOODS
The
London, To-day.
The newspaper adds that these cyclists towards the restrictions reports are credited in authorita-imposed upon their use of the roads tive Chinese and foreign circles, by the recent regulations, Mr.
Hore-Belisha, despite Japanese disclaimers, and¦
the Minister of simultaneously publishes a state. Transport, said that nearly one- ment made by a spokesman of the fth of those killed on the roads Japanese Legation denying that were pedal cyclists.
The Increase in the number of any concrete.proposals had been made by either party, although pedal cyclists killed in 1985, as it was true that Japan had taken compared with 1928, was 96 per up a strong stand as regards cent, whereas the corresponding anti-Japanese propaganda,
figure for pedestrians was only 8
Colonel Kagesa, assistant mili-per cent. lary attache, declared that Japan Pedal cyclists, he said, constituted new Anglo-Polish trade only asked China to cease dis-the major part of the problem of London, To-day.
criminating against Japan as re-road accidenta. He was confident Questioned in the House of Com- agreement signed in London on gards the appointment of for that the House would sustain him mens yesterday with regard to the Wednesday will come into force sign advisers.
{in taking all measures that might high price of gold bullion, indicat-provisionally, pending ratification, It is variously reported that a be practicable to circumscribe this The anticyclone over China has in- ing a fall in the value of the paper on March 14. Its provisions will time limit of six or nine months peril, particularly when such a creased moderately in intensity and pound, and asked whether the Gov-
has been set for compliance measure added to the convenience moved eastward. Pressure is now ernment proposed to take any steps affect some 50 per cent of the to- Meanwhile, it is stated that Gen of the pedal cyclists themselves. highest near Nanking. A shallow to arrest a further fall, the Chantal United Kingdom trade with eral. Doihara. Chief of the British Wireless Service. depression is moving eastward cellor
of the Exchequer, Mr. Poland, and about 70 per cent. of Kwanting army, is going to Can- across north Japan; pressure is re- Neville Chamberlain, said that be the trade in manufactured goods. ton very shortly in an effort to KING'S ABDICATION latively low over Indo-China. The was aware of the fall in the ex
bring the South-west within the local forecast for to-day, as issued ternal value of sterling, which was
Réductions of duty have been scope of the rapprochement. - by the Royal Observatory this mor- of course, a different thing from secured for many classes of Unit Reuter,
LIKELY SEQUEL TO Acting in concert with General ning, was east winds, moderate to the internal purchasing power of ed Kingdom goods, the principal Chiang Kai-shek in Hankow, the freah; cloudy, some drizzle or light the pound
SIAMESE- REPLY local Chinese bankers and business
rain
IN HANKOW
BRENTFORD CHECKED
Measures To Prevent Economic Crisis
Shanghai, To-day.
READING FORCED TO DRAW AT NEWPORT
London, to-day.
Brentford's promotion hopes were leaders yesterday met and mapped checked yesterday at Nottingham out measures when they were forced to a goalless economic crisis.
for preventing an draw by the Forest: In the Second
The Central Bank, the Bank of
Division of the English Football China and the Bank of Communica League.
Reading were also held up to the
tions have fasued $4,000,000 loans Third Division (South) when New to the native banks, to help the lat port, playing at home, phared four ter to tide over the settlement due
goals---Router,
(Tables On Page 5)
this month.
The three leading Chinees banks have decided to continue to make loans to the smaller organisations with a view to alleviating the CAPTAIN TOWER NOT GUILTY financial situation.
of the
Meanwhile a meeting. The third and industrial and comm rta-martial arising has passed, a resol sion
een the action on the
and Basist trade and
Router,
Man madam pants (Continued on Page 167):
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rings, motor care and commercial RADICAL · NAZIS'
NEW VENTURE
chassis, textiles, machinery, and chemicals.A
Wiping Out Catholic Schools In Bavaria
Arrangements have been made for definite import quotas for Un- ited Kingdom goods in Poland, and a number of purchases, ar- rangements have been concluded
Berlin, To-day exporters in the United
and Importers in For Radical Nazis, to wipe out the The sensational attempt by the
Catholic schools in Munich has been extended throughout the whole of Bavaria by a decree of the Minister of Culture Harr Schemm, abolish
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EUROPEAN LADY HAS
exiating
London, To-day.
It la considered" "highly probable that the King of Slam will abdi- cate after receiving the official no- tification of the' refusal of the Siamese National Assembly to comply with his demands, accord- ing to The Times,
It is expected that if the King lly, abdicates his 11-year-old
Prince:
Immediately » be
#f. Counc
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