NANKING'S FINAN CIAL STRINGENCY.
NEW GOYERNMENT ENDEA VOURING TO RAISE A LOAN.
MARSHAL CHIANG GOING. TO NANKING.
¡THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
"SHANGHAI, Dec. 30th, he financial stringency in Nah-
Jy is Ekely considerably to affect the Government which is en- deparing to raise a loan of
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31st, 1927.
ENGLAND'S VILE- ANOTHER SHANGHAI FIRST
WEATHER.
GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT:
MANY ROADS IMPASSÄBLE.
[BAITIAN WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, Dec. 30th."
POLICE OFFICER
SHOT.M
SEQUEL TO ARREST
KIDNAPPERS.
(THROUGH EXUTRE'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, December 30th. The countryside in southern Eng-
Detective-Sergeant F. G. Camp- land remains snowbound and albell was shot in the abdomen ̧this though a gradual improvement is' reported in some of the main roads many are still impassable and the work of clearing is hampered by the continuanor of sharp frost.. High winds have dropped, how
morning when a squad of foreign detectives were arresting two armed kidnappers in a bedroom, of a Chinese house. The squad then ared killing one and seriously wounding the other kidnapper
revolvers. Campbell died while being taken to hospital.
UNDER. GROUND" IN FAR EAST
OPENED IN TOKYO..
TO BE EXTENDED.
(THROUGH REUTKE'S AGENor.]
Taxro, December 30th
THE "MOTH."
AIR MINISTRY ORDERS TWENTY
TO BE USED FOR COM. MUNICATION.
[BRITISH WIRKLISS SERVICE."
Brasy, December 30th. An order for 20 of the latest two Patterned on the New York seater Moth type of aeroplanes system, and claimed to be earth-fitted with 30 horse-power Cirrus quake-proof, the first underground mark second air-cooled engines, has railway in the Far East was open-
to the public this morning. At present it is only a mile and a half and connects the important railway
RADIO IN SHANGHAI. THE FRENCH BANK
RATE REDUCTION.
WHY BROADCASTING HAS
CEASED.
MEMBERSHIP OP 500 NECESSARY.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 97th. At the termination of the carol service at Shanghai Cathedral, which was broadcast by the C.BA. on Wednesday last, the following address was made on broadcasting and the objects of the Association to further same which has just been formed.
Radia broadcast in Shanghai has
PARIS NEWSPAPERS.
COMMENT
[THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY.]
PARIB, December 30th.
the reduction in the bank rate an
The newspapers comment upon:
France. It is now at its lowest ines the war and is lower than those of all the great countries. except the United States.
The Journee Industrielle says the reduction shows. that France's financial conditions are quite sobad and was evidently effected because of the exceptional abundance of
$100,000 on the security of the ever, and the English Channel is Both were armed with automatic terminus at Bono with the pleasure nication between aerodromes and ed in fostering-a demand for such capital on the Paris money market..
Sal Tax of Canton, which has calmer. Bailings are being reum- longreased its monthly contribued from Dover to Calais to-day,
tion of $2,000,000. Chekiang's 21000 is now being diverted to paya Ho Ying Ching's troops, while then Tiao Yuan is retaining all theevenues of Anhwei.
Asaesult Nanking authorities are ford to rely solely on the revenues of Kiangau.
Chingai Shek is expected to go to Naging on January 3rd, but has postpred his resumption of the Generissiate till the coa clusion of the sassion's fourth plenary meting of the Central Executive ommittes and the Central Specal Committee of the Kuomintang when the new Cabinet will be annouced.
Fifteen hundred of Pei Chung Hai' 13th Corps from Kashing entrained for Shanghai were yester
The air services to the continent from Croydon operated yesterday and an unusually large number of passengers was carried.
Frost has checked the flood in the Thames valley and the situation in Canterbury and Maidstone has im proved, the floods caused by the overflowing of the Stour and the. Upper Medway having subsided.
Roads which were flooded are now coated with ice.
The railway services are now practically normal. Traffic on most of main railway lines has been but little affected and London North Eastern Railway worked no fewer than two hundred additional trains during the holiday season despite snowdrifta and frozen points and carried about 275,000 long-distance passengers and 400,000 parcels.
The International telephone ser- vices have now been resumed but day surrounded yest of Süngkiang communication with the Continent by a regiment of Ho Ying Ching's is hampered owing to many of the
STORMY WEATHER
IN JAPAN.
RAILWAYS DISLOCATED AND WRECKS FEARED,
(THROUGH REUTEE'S AGENCY.]
Toxro, December 30th. Blizzards, heavy snowfalls, and tempests in North-western Japan are dislocating the railway traffic and many wrecks are feared with considerable loss of life,
FILM FINANCE.
AN ANGLO-AMERICAN DEAL
First Army who wanted to disarmes to Paris and to Zurich and BIG CONCERNS.*
them, but eventually allowed their train to proceed Lungwha after Headquartere had explained that the 13th were en route to Hankow.
BANDIT OUTRAGE IN CHAPEL
(Wah Tr. Yat Pas.)
SHANGILA, Dec. 30th A bandit outrage raged in the
Chaped district of Shanghai last night, and about 45 shops were thoroughly plundered.
RUSSIA AND CHINA.
(Wah Tas Tat, Pao.)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 30th, According to a telegram from Kirin, the Russian authorities have detained many Chinese who were immigrating into Russian territory. They declare that no Chinese will be allowed to proceed to Russia for any purpose."
As a reprisal, the Peking Govern-
Baale being down.
Forecasts indicate, a' continuance
of the frost during the week-end with possibility of further sh falls.
Shortage Of Food And Fuel.
Kvary, Dec. 29th.
J
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
New Yoax, December 30th. The United Artista Theatre Circuit Inc., bave announced that
The Latest weather foreckat aflorus hope that milder conditiens it has arranged to acquire approxi- wif relieve the plight of innabiranta mately a 25 per cent. interest in the of towns and villages which are New Standard Film Co., Ltd., a still snowbound and in many of British, concern. which real hardship "da being ch dured owing, to a shortage of fuel and food supplies,
"Reports from all quarters tell of men struggling for miles on loot, or-horseback actoss fields deep in snow to take food supplies to re- mote districts and of gallant efforts made by doctors to reach patients in isolated places.
The work of clearing roads of snowdrifts has been rendered even more difficult by severe frost which has turned the drifts into prssses of ice.
Even London has been threaten- ed with a shortage of fuel and food supplies. Coal merchants have been getting supplies of coal satis- factorily by train but have been unable to deliver it to householders Covent Garden supplies of vege owing to the icebound streets. In tables are short as these, come mainly by road. Milk supplies have been considerably affected but are now being delivered nearly norm ally.
It appears that the transaction was carried out by Mr. Joseph Schenk, president of the Unned Arsists, and Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Ashfield, representing the New Standard Company, but it is stated that the British group will retain a controlling interest in the new organisation.
GOVERNOR-GENERALS OF DOMINIONS.
NO LONGER INTER- MEDIARIES.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE»]
Rucay, Dec. 30th. The decision of last year's Im
A large number of French people perial Conference that the Gover are held up in England through nor-Generals of Dominions should an accident to the Channel steamer cease to be intermediaries betweenm meit has also issued an order pro-Engadine which made a fresh start the British and the Dominion hibiting Russian immigrants, into for Paris, to-day by the Newhaven Chinn
THE NORTHERN WAR.
(Wah Ter Tat Pas.)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 20th. No serious fighting has occurred during the last few days between the Shansi troops and the Feng tieneee, Skirmises are reported to have occurred
Shihohin
chuang.
Dear
YANG SEN ALLIED TO NANKING.
· [NAVAL WIHKLISB.)
ICHANG, Dec. 20th. A representative of the Nation- alist Government arrived at Ichang to-day (December 29th) from Nan- king, and it is stated that General Yang Sen. appears to be more de finitely allied to this Government now than he was formerly.
COMMUNISTS ARRESTED.
[MAVAL WIRELESS.
KIUKIANO, Dec. 29th That catemple are being made to ppress Communism is shown by announcement that the Defence mmissioner has made numerous eats of Communists in this dis
quarter of Asakusa Eventually it will be extended to nine miles in the western suburbs...
NEXT SCHNEIDER
RACE.
LIVERPOOL SOUTHPORT
COURSE.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, December 30th. The course between Liverpool and Southport, which has been niggest ed for use in the next Schneider Trophy race, ps inspected yester- day by Captain Wilson, of the Royal Aero Club and Lieutenant Kinkhead, one of the competitors in this year's race,
The Mersey Harbour Board have offered
every facility for the com- peting machines and a fine stretch of sand along the course would, it is suggested, provide an ideal grandstand for spectators and would ensure safety for spectators and competitors making forced land- ings.
AFGHANS STUDYING
POLICE REFORM.
PARTY VISITING ENGLISH CITIES.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, December 30th.
been given to the De Havilland Company by the Air Ministry and will be used by the Home Defence Air Force for purposes of commu-
These machines, military centres. which are in wide use by civilian fying aluba, have a top speed of 103 miles hourly and a cruising speed of 88 miles. Economy in petrol con- samption will be effected by thei employment on tours of inspection and for other purposes of communi cation.
to
had a chequered existence and has been almost entirely administered by firms dealing in receiving ap- paratus, and consequently interest-
It has been the experience of such firms that the costs involved have been quite out of proportion to re- sultant sales and, one by one, they have core to the perfectly reason- able conclusion that the game was not worth the powder and shot. **
Consequently, the Kellogg or gagization'e recent decision abandon the broadcasting of for eigu programmes and, later, still, akike intention expressed by the Radio Supply Company, has made alandantly clear that even the limited
heretofore programmea available will shortly cease and the large foreign community in Shang- hai, and indeed this part of China, will be deprived of what might well become an important medium for the transmission of news and in tobacco structive amusement, as is the case
elsewhere.
PALESTINE RELIEF FUND. SIR ALFRED MOND'S EFFORT.
[BRITIAM WIRELESS - SERVICE.] "
RUGBY, Dec. 29th. Sir Alfred Mond is raising a fuad of £20,000 for the relief of unem ployed in Palestine. Mr. Bernhard Baron, the millionaire magnate, has subscribed £3,000 to wards the fund.
Thus, it became clear that either A substantial sum has already radio activity must be allowed to been transmitted to Palestine by die or, alternatively, its life main Sir Alfred Mond who himself contained by means of some form of co-operative effort. The idea of the tributed £1,000.
China Broadcasting Association was, therefore, conceived.
UNEMPLOYED IN BRITAIN.
900,000 "FEWER THAN A YEAR AGO.
【BLITIAN WIRELESS SERVICE]
Buany, Dec. 29th. The Minister of Labour announces that on December 19th the total number of unemployed in Great This was Britain was 1,099,900. 25,333 lese than the week before and 49,811 less than a fortnight pre- viously. It was 209,839 less than the year before.
H.M.S." RODNEY'S " STEAM TRIAL.
[BRITISH WIRKLIST SERVICE.]
RUGAT, Dec. 28th. The new battleship Rodney Plymouth today for twenty-four hours steaming trials in the English
·Channel:
DOGS, TO REPLACE HORSES.
FATE OF A FRENCH RACECOURSE.
Now, from whatever angle the question is viewed, certain facts stand out clearly and these are ?
First-money has to be found. Second-compulsory raising of "funds by taxation or otherwise is
entirely out of the question.
The Echo de Paris observes that enable the the reduction will Banque de France to tako full con- considerable time has been diverted trol of the discount. which for a
elsewhere,
2 (REUTER'S -AMERICAN SERVICE)
First Gold Shipment From New York,
NEW YORK, Dec. 28th. $10,000,000 worth of gold bullion has been shipped to France, and is destined, according to the French the Banque de newspapers for France in connection with the forth coming stabilisation of the franc
LATER. Well-founded reports state" that the $10,000,000 gold shipment to France will be followed by two- further shipments of a similar. amount.
is
The total outflow of gold from the to December 27th United States up
803,808,000 Financial circles are giving close attention to the currency position of Europe, and it is expected that the Bank of Italy will shortlyat- tempt to purchase guld.
It is opined that such a purchase will be made in New York in, pre- ference to London in view of the
premium on the sterling exchange.
Discount Rate Reduced,
PARIS, Dec. 20th. Third-a means has to be devis The Banque de France has re- ed whereby the minimum number duced its discount rate from five to will enjoy programmes without four per cent. Payment.
Fourth and last-a programme has to be provided-at-regular |———:
times from lined available | market reports, the remaining por material and such as to renson- tion of these periods being devoted -ably satisfy a particularly to short addresses or light music.
diverse community..
At the outset and at least until things have passed the preliminary stages, the affairs of the Association are being handled by a committee, these being Mr. P. H. Colv, en- leftgineer-in-chief anet keneral man
ager of the Shanghai Mutux. Telephone Co.; Mr. R. W. Davis, managing director of the North- China Daily Ferny nad Mr. C. S. Taylor, acting engineer-on-chief and mannger of the Municipal Electricity Department. It is per- haps not unreasonable to say that committee so constituted may be confidently looked to for resilia-if such are obtainable, and that there is furthermore no cause for appre hecaion as to the fate of the funds subscribed.
A party of six Afghans has' ar“ rived in London from Kabul to study the organisation and methods of the English police. Early in the New Year, they will visit Birming- ham as a typical provincial town, and, later, they will return to London to examine the methods of LURE FOR BRITISH VISITORS. Scotland Yard and to extend their study to the Metropolitan Police system. Tarsi Khan, the Afghan Minister of Kabul, was six months in England, during which he made imself thoroughly familiar with police organisation,
RELEASED FROM THE FOREIGN LEGION.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] Dieppe route. •Other waited at Governments will take effect in Folkestone for the Maid of Orleans | Australia on Sunday, after which
Regay, Dec. 29th. which left Boulogne for Folkestone telegrams will pass direct between
John Harvey, the Englishman' at mid-day with 836 passengers aboard and was afterwards leaving the two Governments. Copies of whose sentence of imprisonment for for Boulogne again. It was hoped the communications will be handed desertion from the French Foreign this morning that the French boat to the Governor-General for his Legion was recently remitted by the wishing to CROSS from Dover to information. Calais but at mid-day it was an- nounced there would be no Dover- Calze sailing to-day. The Now- haven-Dieppe and Southampton- Le Havre services are normal.
would be available for passengers
When the Cunard liner Aqui-
MR. PHILIP SNOWDEN'S
RESIGNATION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Dec. 30th. The newspapers are of opinion
French Government, was formally released from the Legion to-day. He had been excused from serving the remainder of his texa of enlist ment in the Legion.
Harvey left at once for Cardiff his home town.
1!
tania arrived at Cherbourg Inst evening, en route for New York, her commander, Sir James Charles. decided that the high wind sad that Mr. Philip Snowden's resigna GERMAN EXPLORER SAFE. seas made it too hazardous to gotion from the Independent Labour into harbour. The liner had to Party was hastened by differences cruise around outside the harbour of opinion with regard to the UNFOUNDED REPORT OF DR. all night. She managed to enter at nine o'clock this morning after being held up over twelve bours,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)
A Frozen, Desert," je
LONDON, Dee: 9th.
Arctic conditions of extraordinary
Labour proposal as to the surtax; which Mr. Snowden contended should go to debt redemption and not to Socialist scheme,
FILCRMER'S MURDER..
{THROUGH REÜTIS'I AGENCY.;
CALCUTTA, Dec. 29th. The German consul here has re- ceived a message stating that the report last August of the murder of a German scientist named Filchmer
The employment of heavy snow severity. have transformed Britain ploughs has permitted traffic on the into a frozen desert. Heavy snow-main railway lines, but numerous falls have blocked roads, isolated branch lines have been abandoned on the Chinese and Tibetan, border towns and villages and interrupted an bogelees owing to the appalling is unfounde It is now ascertain telegraph and telephone com conditions, ⠀
ed he and his companions are safe mumcation. Sheep and cattle have Canterbary was submerged under and expected to reach Ladakh
several feet of foods during the shortly, hot been overwhelmed.
The food market has been dis short thew. Now the frost has located, and in many cases food returned and the streets are en supplies are completely cut off. crusted with two feet of in
A number of main roads have A fierce gale in the Channel has been partially cleared by prodigious caused the suspension of cross- efforts, but many have been blocked Channel services for four days, and again through heavy winds shifting 1,000 travellers to England, includ Mons. the Ambassador, snowdrifts often ten to twenty feet ing deep.
Fleurian, are marooned indefinitely. (Continuous foot of neat colurum.) at Boalogue.
"
Reference to news and other re- ports, prompts me to speak with s very considerable degree of satis faction, which I believe will be shared by listeners concerning the close association of the North-China Daily News with this China Broad- Carving organization. Under their direction, the news and other re- ports will be authentic and reliable.
Reverting to the question of pro- grammes, I am glad to be in a position to announce the making of tentative arrangements for the broadcast of the Majestic Hotel orchestra and also of the Municipal Orchestra Messrs. Moutrie's have undertaken the provision of well balanced programmes of the best that orthophonie records and repro-
duction
... Instructional Lectures/ Concerning Sunday transmission, the broadcast of Church services is contemplated and steps have al ready been taken to deal with the Holy Trinity Cathedral services in a far soore efficient manner than assumption that a fair proportion heretofore. Arrangements will also of those at present interested in be made for the provision of con- radio broadcast would at once be certs and addresses of come members of the Association.propriate to the day." I have
'À Generous Offer, ?
type.ap
neglected to refer to the intention to inspire instructional lectures and addresses sad also to broadcast any speeches of a motable nature which may from time to time be delivered.
can give. It is also PARIS.
gratifying to note that & number Problem of Bubscriptica, "When greyhound racing with
of capable artists have already As to the problem of subscrip- | come forward with offers of co- parimutuel betting is begun in France, which is expected to be tions. A subscription which would operation in the giving of periodi next spring, a bid will be made be quite inadequate with a small cal concerte and, indeed, I must equally confess to my surprise that the Arst for patronage from the Lon initial membership can don sporting public who can spend well become more than sufficient least of the Executive Committee's week-ends on the "Continent.
should the objects of the Association present troubles lies in the direc- Dunkirk, with the support of the be fully realized and radio becomeson of programme provision. Northern Railway of France, is a part of our daily life as else "pushing a scheme for setting up where. After some thought, it was a dog racing" track at Malo-les decided that an aantal subscrip Bains, the seaside resort outside tion of $10 would take care of the the city with which it, is connect Anances at the outset and at the ed by a short tramway. Negotin same time be such as not to be tions are in progress for the trans-bardensome. Of course, this de- fer to a dog racing society of the cision was necessarily based on the racecourse, which has never paid its way.
The idea is that Londoners will welcome the opportunity of spend ing holidays and Sunday after- Continental doge of various fast noons on the Continent and seeing
When the creation of this Associa breeds greyhounds, alonghis, and tion was contemplated. Mr. Roy an Delay of the Kellogg organization borzois-pitted against one other. The new London-to-Paris indicated that he was withing to route via Tilbury and Dunkirk will give full co-operation. As a result be an easy means of travel.
of tentative negotiations, the China Broadcasting Association holda provisionally the right to adminis ter and control all foreign broad- east from the efficient studio and station operated by the Kellogg Company, subject only to the pay- rent of a nominal: rental for the purpose of regularizing the transac tion. I feel that the thanks of all interested in radio are due to Mr. DeLay both in respect of this co- operation and also because of the money and effort which he has ex- pended for a very considerable time in the somewhat thankless and even more protlem tank of operating the well known K.IL.C. broadcast under conditions, which I know partook of little that could be described as encouraging,
Track Wear Le Touquet... In addition to the Paris area, where efforts are being made to ar range for a track at the Velodrome Buffalo and at other places outside the city limits, companies have also applied for authority to open tracks at Rouen, Lyons, Lille, and Le Crotoy, a few miles from the Channel resort of Le Touquet..
The whole question of dog racing in France is dependent, however, on the Senate vote on the Bill at present before Parliament, and it is not expected that active opera- tions can be undertaken before May at the earliest.
WEATHER REPORT.
电
The continued existence of the Association is altogether and on- tirely dependant on co-operative working. That has yet to be justified for the total membership enrolment since the announcement of the proje ted formation of the Association erre 9 days ago is but approximately 100, representing funds of less than 1,000 dollars
This is but one-fifth of the minimum membership, which will. justify the promoters in putting their plane into effect, for it has been decided very definitely that nothing will be done in the absence of adequate support. Any other course of action would be manifest- ly ill-advised and would only in- volve those whose time is well filled in purposeless effort. I hesitate.to criticise the spirit displayed in this. raatter but I have no option and. I
would nak you to give dispassionate consideration to these not too en--- couraging facts.
1 remains, for me to appeal to listeners not only to support the China Broadcasting Association by
Tentative Plans, a Yesterday's weather report, fore The approximate times of broad- cast, and remarks, issued by the cast will be 1 to 1.30. pip, 6.30 to Royal Observatory at 6.05-p.m., 7. p.m. and 9 to 11 p.m...
Time signals, probably taking the stated
The anti-cyclone over China has form of transmission of the new strengthened lightly, Fresh mon- Custom Clock, clames, will be goon may be expected along, the biondcast at the commencing time their own membership but sloo to S.E. coast of China, and over the of each of the three periods, and the first portion of the 1 p. and 6.30pm, hradenat will be devoted to news items and exchange and
(Continued on next Column));
RAE FLIGHT TO THE EAST.
(THROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY.)
Chins Sea, MALA
Local Cock, Dec. 29th.
Forecast N.Ewinds, The Royal Air Force Flying Boats fresh to moderate,
generally have arrived.
cloudy.
impress on alf') and sundry, the necessity of joining the Association at grice if the abandonment of our plaas is to be avoided and Shang
bai is not to become inartidulate iny. the radio mo
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