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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1937.
CHINA'S ECONOMIC RECOVERY NEEDS STABLE CURRENCY
Italian Plane
Important Survey At MEN LEAVE
Tragedy Shanghai Chamber Of
Rome, To-day.
Two were killed
when
an
Italian military plane crashed at Ciampino aerodrome, Rome, yesterday. Trans-Ocean.
near
MONKS DEFY COPTIC CHURCH
Barricade Themselves In Monastery
Cairo, To-day.
Commerce Meeting
HELD TO
OUTLOOK HELD
BE EXCELLENT
SHANGHAL, TO-DAY.
FACTORY
UGLY SITUATION AT SANTA MONICA RELIEVED
SANTA MONICA, TO-DAY. AN UGLY. MOOD. IS EVID- ENT IN THE STRIKE WHICH HAS RENDERED IDLE THE HUGE DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT WORKS HERE.
hundred Two
officers have GIVEN A STABLE CURRENCY, SOUND GOVERNMENT been sent to the factory under AND INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PEACE, COMPLETE RE- orders to arrest the strikers and | COVERÝ FROM THE TRADE DEPRESSION IN CHINA IS AS-repossess the plant for the own- of a Coptic SURED, DECLARED JUDGE C. H. FRANKLIN, PRESIDENT OFers, using guns and tear gas. if A regular siege monastery near Assiut, in Upper THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ADDRESSING necessary. Egypt has now been proceeding for THE ANNUAL MEETING YESTERDAY.
two weeks.
Business, he said, is already A number of its hundred odd monks had been ex-communicated on the up-turn, which can large- by the Coptic Patriarch and orderly be attributed to stability of ed to leave the monastery.
Refusing to obey, the monks bar ricaded themselves in the fortress like building.
with Well armed and provided plenty of food, they appear to be able to withstand all efforts to dis- lodge
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the currency, which has helped to allay fears in certain quarters, while good crops and the absence of floods in the Yangtse Valley were a contribution, to internal peace.
Tension is increasing as an un- umum identified speaker yesterday advised with the strikers to resist force force.
Netherlanders To Watch Frontier
Paris, To-day.
It is officially announced that the members of the internation- al commission which will super- vise the Franco-Spanish fron-" tier will be Netherlanders. Reuter.
Recovery bad undoubtedly been retarded by smuggling in North China, the American shipping | Wa¡LBYDEX0132ŒHUR£££
strike and the Sianfu crisis. AMERICA'S,
The result of the latter incident,
however, was most encouraging as PUBLIC ENEMY ·
it appeared that China had emerg-NO. 1 CAPTURED ed from it more closely united than ever before-Reuter.
CHANG HSUEH LIANG MYSTERY
Delays Departure From
With
Fenghua
New York, To-day.
The officers were sent to the works following the voting of 400. indictments on felony and con- spiracy charged by the Grand Jury.
Meanwhile the strike has spread to the Northrup Corporation, a sub- sidiary of the Douglas Company, where 1,000 men are employed: Reuter.
MEN ABANDON FACTORY
Santa Monica (California),
plant yesterday Bla
To-day.
Advised by their lawyer, the sit- America's present Public Enemy down strikers occupying the Doug- No. 1, Merele Vanderbush, whom las Aircraft Works here left the G-men have been trailing for two months, was one of three gunmen. captured by the police in an attempt to hold up a bank at Katonah yes terday. Reuter.
LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST
The men were escorted by police with warrants for the arrest of 400 of the strikers.
A force of 500 police, under de- puty-sheriffs and armed with tear and machine- riot
guns
gas,
The Royal Observatory reports guns, was surrounding the factory Shanghai, To-day that the anti-cyclone appears to be when the capitulation was made. Marshal Chang Hsueh-moving into the Eastern Sea. It Two Government mediators went liang, leader of the abortive Sianfu has decreased in intensity, and pres-into the factory and pleaded with rebellion, delaying his departure sure is highest over the mouth of the men to leave peacably, after a telegram had been despatched to for Nanking from Fenghua, specu- the Yangtse.
Forecast: E. Winds, moderate; President Roosevelt by the strikers
asking him to intervene.-Reuter. cloudy.
lation about his future continues unabated.
The Chinese press points out that the north-eastern
army still regards him as their leader, even though pressure of circumstances compelled them to abandon demands for his reinstatement.
their
INFLUENCE STIEL STRONG"
GERMANY CONDEMNS
THE HAPSBURGS
While Marshal Chang lingers in STRONGLY DISAPPROVE AMBITIONS
Fenghua, he evidently continues to wield considerable influence in the affairs of the nation, judging by the number of important leaders who have consulted him.
Recent visitors to Fenghua are
FOR RESTORATION
Berlin, To-day.
The attitude of overt hostility adopted by the reported to include General Wang Nazi Party towards the Hapsburgs has not
Shu-shang, former divisional com-}
mander under the "Young Mar- changed.
DEVELOPMENTS FORESEEN
Austro-German
out, Aust
ment
writer
ping
shal," who is being appointed Paci- This declaration is made by the Reich during the Great War is fro fication Commissioner of Kansu, well-known German correspondent, in the memory of all Germans, is one of the provinces involved in Dr. Halfeld, in an inspired article at variance with Germany's entire the rebellion.
in the "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" policy and hence is also opposed to
The Hapsburgs, he says, have the come to be regarded as "m-Ger-signed last year- Others were General Chiang man," and all this play with the In this agreem Ting-wen, Governor of Fukien and idea of restoration merely serves to
pon middle one of Marshal Chang's captives in show the extent to which Shensi last December, and General Europe must be considered a miser- Mu Teh-hui, former managing diable result of the Versailles Treaty. rector of the Chinese Eastern Rail Austrian insistence that return way during his regime in Man of the Hapsburgs is purely a domes- churia
tic affair is strongly demed by Dr. If Marshal Chang eventually Halfield goes to set in motion an impor
Beuter
RESTORATION UNWELCOME ain of Restoration of the dynasty, he whose enmity towards the
ed herset with the
guises herself Country
nan
Finally, Dr. Halfeld contends that restoration would cause unrest throughout Europe and would be an obstacle to a European settlem
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