GERMAN OFFICERS WALK INTO INTERNMENT
Our Own Correspondent) (By Telegraph. Telegraphic Com- munications Ordinance, 1894. Received, Sept. 12, 12.59 p.m.)
Shanghai, To-day. German radio announce- ments that Warsaw had been captured recoiled on Nazi heads in an amusing man- ner yesterday, according to a news bulletin broadcast by Radio Warsaw last night.
CANTON
RUMOURS
RELIEVED
CANTON, TO-DAY.
WILD RUMOURS STARTED FLY- ING AROUND CANTON WHEN THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES BEGAN A STRICT SEARCHING OF ALL CHINESE ENTERING OR LEAVING SHAMEEN, BUT ANXIETY WAS SET AT REST WHEN IT WAS LEARNED THAT THE WERE TRYING TO PREVENT ANY WILD FLUCTUATIONS IN EX-
JAPANESE
CHANGE, BY REGULATING THE TRANSFER OF HONG KONG CUR-
RENCY.
the
Taking advantage of
gloomy news over the week-end, Chinese exchange manipulators began depress- ing Hong Kong notes. On Sunday,
A group of German officers, includ- ing several Staff officers, calmly motored into Warsaw yesterday, ap- parently believing the German broad-September 3rd, the day when Britain. casts, and continued until they came to a Polish military post, when they were, of course, immediately taken prisoners.--Our Own Correspondent.
GERMAN CONSUL LEAVING OTTAWA
The German
the
declared war, the rate of exchange was about $300 Canton currency to $100 Hong Kong, but overnight rate dropped to $250, and later to as low as $220.
Backing up their declared inten- tion of stamping out speculation in any form, the Japanese immediately be- Ottawa, To-day.
gan strict searches of all Chinese Consul-General is with a view to preventing any large leaving Ottawa as soon as possible. quantities of Hong Kong currency be- The Swiss Consul has agreed to watching taken into or out of Shameen, the interests of German nationals. where manipulators had transferred Reuter.
their activities after arrests in city.
WOMAN'S DENIAL
Wong Bak-yiu was charged this morning before Mr. R.A.D. Forrest, with keeping an unregistered mui tsai; and with illtreating the girl.
the
As a result, the Hong Kong-Canton exchange rate improved to around $250.
Meanwhile, all is quiet on
Sha- meen and the small British com-
She denied the charges, and was munity are carrying on as usual.. remanded. Ball of $100 was allowed. 1 Reuter.
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No further progress has been made by the Japanese troops which landed at Wangmoon, east of Shek-ki yesterday morning. Chinese reinforcements have ar- rived along second defence line, the first line having been aban- doned yesterday following heavy shelling by Japanese warships.
Skirmishes occurred this morn- ing, but the Japanese have made no determined effort to push to- wards Shek-kl.
Fresh Japanese troops are be- ing landed at Wangmoon this morning. Our Own Correspon- dent.
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