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NEW GOLD POLICY IN
TO BE WAR UNITED STATES
MINISTER?
London, To-day.
The sury,
Washington, To-day. Secretary of Trea- Mr. Henry Morgen- thau, announced yesterday that as from Feb. 1 the Treasury is limiting its gold sterlisation operations to sums over $100,000,000 ac- quired in each quarter. In other words, gold acquisitions
up to $100,000,000 in each three
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 15, 1938.
MR. QUO TAI-CHI GIVES LUNCHEON IN LONDON
London, To-day,
The Chinese Ambassador in London, Mr. Quo Tai- -chi, yesterday gave a luncheon to all delegates from various China committees in Europe who attended the International Peace Campaign conference:
The company included representa- tives of different political parties.
Am-
Dr. Wellington Koo (Chinese YOUNG WOMAN ying (member of the Central Sup- SENTENCED IN
bassador in Paris) and Mr. Li Yu-
were
FORGERY CASE
érvisory Committee of the Kuomin- tang) were among those present.
After the luncheon, views exchanged on the situation, and it was found that general agreement
A young married woman, Fung Sui, existed, thus demonstrating the un-who was alleged to have engaged in ity among all sections of the Chin-systematic fraud by uttering forged ėse. community. Reuter.
bank-notes, choosing football grounds as "pastures green," was convicted at the Criminal Sessions. this morning and sentence to 12 months' hard la- bour by Sir Atholl MacGregor.
Accused pleaded not guilty to three charges-uttering a forged $10 note at the Sookunpoo football ground on December 11; uttering a similar bank- note at the Royal Naval Football ground on December 12; and posses- sion of a forged $10-bank-note.
FORGERY CASE DENIAL
The jury empanelled were. Messrs. S. Berg (Foreman), S. E. Souza Chung Kwan-ting, W. G. Williams, Chan Wai-chuen, Chan Man-sing and D. Black.
Convicted for possession of 150 forged bank-notes, purporting to be "Five Yuan" notes of the Bank
On December 11, Sergeant S. Brown, of China, Lee Wai-keung was sen- R.A., was on duty at Sookunpoo where tenced to four years' hard labour the Middlesex played the Hong Kong by Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell at the Football Club. About, 4.30 p.m. while Criminal Sessions this morning.
the match was in progress, accused ar- rived, brought a 30-cent ticket and Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant tendered a $10 note.. Accused entered Crown Solicitor, for the Crown, the ground and sat near Mr. S. E. Bux, with whom she entered in a conversa- explained that accused concealed the tion. She told Mr. Bux that; she was
notes in a small biscuit tin.
expecting a relative. A few minutes : Accused denied that the tins be-afterwards someone outside the ground
longed to him, and stated that when called out to accused "Has your rela- he was being searched by the Chin- and left the ground.
tive turned up." Accused replied "no"
were
The question of Mr. Winston Churchill entering the British Cabinet as Secretary of State for War is again raised by the "Daily months period will be allowed to in- Mail" in connection with rumours crease excess Bank reserves without
As the match now circulating of impending any offsetting of Treasury action.
Since $30,000,000 worth of gold officer that the tins, which
ese Revenue officer, he told the was coming to a close, Sergeant Tay- lor, R.A., examined the note and din- changes in the Government.
has already been acquired this quar-found alongside his luggage on the
covered it was a forgery. The paper states that the Comter, this amount will be de-sterilis-wharf, were not his.
FOLLOWING DAY mittee of Enquiry in civil aviation ed immediately by depositing $30,-
The following day, there was which was recently appointed has 000,000 worth of gold
After evidence by two Chinese match between South China "A" and drawn up its report which with the Reserve banks, Mr. Morter, accused was found guilty.
certificates Revenue Officers and Sergeant Suit- Cpl. MacCormac went along and warn- Eastern on the Royal Naval ground.
contains a suggestion that civil
ed Petty Officer Pethick, who was in genthau stated. aviation shall be withdrawn from
charge of the pay office, of what had the control of the Air Ministry and
happened, and asked to be notified should anything transpire. About 3.45 that a spécial Ministry for Civil
p.m., a woman came to the paybox Aviation shall be created.
and tendered a $10-note, which was discovered to be a forgery. She was detained and Cpl.. MacCormac and the Police were summoned.
now
The paper goes on to say that the Premier, Mr. Neville Cham- berlain, will take the occasion to rearrange
the view that they expected the ac- High officials yesterday expressed
tion would be non-deflationary. Reuter.
the Cabinet whereby theN. K. LITTLEJOHN
paper hints at the possibility of the Minister for Air, Lord Swinton, being transferred to the Admiralty, while Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, would go from the War Office to the Air Ministry. This would have
AND MISS JEAN DALZIEL TO WED
JAPANESE "GOODWILL" MISSION
Tokyo, To-day.
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At an identification the woman was identified by Sergeant Brown; Cpl. of seven. MacCormac and Mr. Bux from a group
Lt. Gen. Nanao Matsui, brother of Gen. Iwane Matsui, commander- Mr. Whyatt suggested that one of in-chief, Central China, is leaving the reasons why the woman choose foot- for Peiping on Saturday to head a that the people who collected money ball grounds was because she knew student goodwill mission.
there were sailors and soldiers who The party will include 60 stü-were not so expert in detecting for- the effect of leaving the War Office| The forthcoming wedding of Mr. dents from thirty universities all series as shop keepers. vacant and the "Daily Mail" sur-Norman Kemp Littlejohn,
Accused was found guilty by the civil over Japan.
jury on all counts, mises that the post might be of engineer, of No. 8, Po Shan Road, The mission's avowed object is The Chief Justice imposed sentences fered to Mr. Churchill, Trans- and Miss Jean Houston Dalziel, to promote friendship with stu-of 12 months' hard labour in each dents in Chinese educational in-case, the sentences to run concurrent- stitutions. Reuter.
ly.
Ocean.
YEN LEVEL TO BE MAINTAINED
Tokyo, To-day.
residing at The Seven Sisters, North Point, was announced this
morning.
of the Hong Kong Hotel, and Miss Maria Alexandrovna Taras, and Mr.
Mr. Kirill Alexander Kaluzhny, FOG AND DRIZZLE
BODY DUMPING CHARGE
Wong Nai, a married
woman,
Hugh Stewart McKay, electrical The Royal Observatory reports engineer, of No. 6, Causeway Hill, that the anti-cyclone has weaken- The Government's decision. to and Miss Williamīna Miller, nurse,
ed considerably, a part having was this morning charged before maintain the yen exchange at the of Halero, Wick, Scotland, have also moved eastward to Korea; pres- Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central présent level of 1/2d was reaffirmed announced their weddings.
sure appears to be maintained to Magistracy with dumping the dead to-day in the House of Peers by The marriage between Mr. Chris-the north west of Shantung. The body of a child in Kam Wah Lane, the Finance Minister, Mr. Kaya. toffel Daniel Hermanus Bottelier, depression has moved into the Shaukiwan, yesterday..
Mr. Kaya stated that the present Chief Steward of the 8.a. Tiisadane, low pressure area covers Tongking child was alive when she was tak-
Pacific to the east of Japan and a
The defendant stated that the exchange policy was being pursued and Miss Helena Barten, nee Fuks, and the northern part of the China ing it to her boat. She was going by the Government because the of No. 807, Rue Bouregt, Shanghai, Sea
for help to carry the child when: "devaluation desired in certain has been announced to take place quarters would not contribute to shortly in the Colony..
she was arrested by a scavenging coolie. improvement in the balance of in-
The case was adjourned,
Local forecast: E. winds, mo derate; cloudy with fog; mist or drizzle.
ternational payments, but would, on S. C. Miller, of the Asiatic the other hand, invite various dif- Petroleum Co. was this morning between the Civil Service Cricket ficulties, including financial confined $4 by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest Glub and the Hong Kong Football fusion."-Reuter.
for driving his car along the path | Glub.
Mr. Croftan, of No. 247 Prince Edward Road, has reported the loss of a watch from his residence.