TWO NEW TRADE AGREEMENTS
PACTS WITH ARGENTINA AND DENMARK
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
FOR FORMULA
TARIFF TRUCE
APPROVED BY UNITED STATES
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1933
MRS. GANDHI
RELEASED
IN JAIL SINCE FEBRUARY
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
POONA, May 11. LONDON, May 11. MR. Gandhi was inconditionally
released from, prison here to THE ORGANISING Committee
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
of the World Economic Conday.
[It will be recalled that on Feba ference is expected to meet here te day to endorse the British formulary 9, last, Mra. Gandhi was aca- tenced by the Borsad Police Courd to six months' imprisonment and fine of 300 rupees, or six weeks' in default.
RUGBY, May 10. THE Trade Agreements recently and signed with Argentina Denmark were discussed in the House of Cominons yesterday. The President of Board of Trade, Mr. for a tarif truce. Walter Runciman, said that the
The formula, which was drafted Agreements were with countries by Mr. Norman Davis, the United which had been in close commercial States onvoy in London, Sir John alliance with Britain for & very Simon and Mr. Walter Runciman, long time.
President of the Board of Trade, has been approved by America. Eight Ambassadors on Committee.
In Argentina, nearly all great developments of docks, barbours, railways and roads had been done out of facilities provided by Bri- tain. The total amount invested in providing the Argentine with rail- ways was estimated to be over $500,000,000 there being no invest ment with outside countries com parable with this within the ox- perience of modern industry.
upon
In the case of Denmark, a very large amount of industrial pros perity had depended not so much on British enterprise ss Danish enterprise in British mar kets. The balance of trade had for the last 20 years been preponderat ingly on the side of Denmark.
In 1930, imports from Denmark exceeded the exports to Denmark, five times. Following the exhibi- tion of British goods in Copenhagen, the ratio was reduced in 1932, to four to one, but that did not go far enough.
Denmark had now ander taken to increase the purchase of coal to reduce the. 1033-34 level, raising the percentage of British coal import ed by Denmark from 59 per cent. of the total to 80 per cent., which represented an increase of 1,350,000
-tons.
*
Denmark had now undertaken that coke purchases should not fall below the recent level.
Regarding iron and steel as the outstanding feature of the increas ed trade Mr. Runciman cited the order for the Storstrom Bridge, and mentioned a general understanding that for Government and municipal purposes; the first offer of orders of iron and steel should be made to United Kingdom firus, coupled,
in the case of the Government, with,
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE, 1.
RUGBY, May 10 Notification of the United States Government's endorsement of the British formula for a tariff truce has now been received.
The formula will be submitted for the approval of the Organising Committee of the World Economic Conference which meets in London as soon as possible. !
Sir John Siman is the Chairman, and the meeting will be attended by the Ambassadors of the eight Powers represented on the commit-
tee.
The formula is the outcome of the conversations in London be. tween the British Ministers and Mr. Norman Davis, United States Special Envoy.
Britain Desires' Reduction "of Taritia.
The
the
Prime Minister, in House of Commons, yesterday gave assurance in answer to a question, that it was the intention of the British Government to endeavour to secure at the World Economic Conference, a general reduction of
tariffs.
A message from. Bombay dated February 4. stated: Mrs. Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi has been arrested at the village of Ras
While a prisonor she attended to her husband during his "fast" Inst Autumn and she was
released shortly after that,
She was then engaged in the work of scaming untouchables" for entry into the Guruvayoor Temple, South India, and went recently to Ahmedabad.
She left for, the interior of Gujerat on February 2 with the avowed intention of organising wo men's Congress demonstrations.]
ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT
CAPT. BREMER STARTS FROM HELSINGSFORS
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOY]
HELSINGSFORE, May 11 THE Finnish airman, Captain
Breaner started to-day un ik flight round the world which in expected to last three months.
Capt. Bremner few castwards, using a Junker machine with an
FARM RELIEF BILL Amstrong-Siddeley Genet engine.
PASSED
$2,000,000,000 FOR FARM MORTGAGES
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
www
WASHINGTON, May 10.
PRINCE WILHELM'S WEDDING
POSSIBLE REASON FOR POSTPONEMENT.
HERR ROSENBERG
PRESENCE IN BRITAIN RESENTED
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
London, May 11,
In the House of Commons today,
CHINESE EASTERN
RAILWAY
PROPOSED SALE “RESENT- ED" IN CHINESE CIRCLES
"
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENOT.]
NANKING, May 10.
Mr. George Lansbury, on behalf of GENERAL resentment is being the Labour Party, made a deter-
expressed here in all Chinese mined attempt to arrange a debate circles in connexion with the pro- of Herr Rosenberg who is Here Hit- over iko presence in Great Britain posed sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway by Russia which, it is ler's representative, on the ground-held, would have an adverse effect that Facist propaganda threatened British intstitutions.
Several Labourites urged that Herr Rosenberg be requested to depart from the country-bứt the Home Secretary, Sir Jobu Gilmour, replied that if anything were done contrary to British interests, ko woulu give Rosenberg "marching orders."
NORTH-EASTERN UNIVERSITY
TRANSFORMED INTO CULTURAL CENTRE
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MURDEN, May 10.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN
·ANTUNG
ENTRY OF COOLIES FROM CHINA PROPER BARRED
(THROUGH ARUTER'S ADÈNCY)
DARIN, May 10.
UNDER THE direction of the THE authorities in Antung, it is
Cultural Centre.
Fengtien Bureau of Eucation, reported, have placed a tem- quarters of the now defunct Northporary check on the entry of coolien East University here will be trans- from China Proper. It is stated that so many Manchurians and formed into a Day and night classes will be held Koreans there are out of work that the influx of coolies merely and the Japanese Language will be
increases the number of unemploy- ed: This ban is not being applied to other Manchurian Ports.
This University is one of the four closed since the outbreak in Manchuria.
on Siao-Russian relations. While taught. sympathising with Russia's desire. to avoki friction with Japan, pub lic opinion agrees with the Foreign Office that the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway would constitute a violation of the Peiping and Mukden Agreements of 1984.
The independent Chinese paper Chun Ko Jih Pan says that it is difficult to reconcile the proposed Mr. Lansbury complained that Sirsale of the Chinese Eastern Rail- John, while excluding communist way with the repeated declarations propaganda. admitted Facist pro- made by both M. Litvinoff and M. pagands. The Speaker, however, Bogolonoff that Sino-Russian rela- disallowed the debate,
tions are based on the principle of friendship and full equality.
SILVER MARKET
From Our Own Correspondent.)
LONDON, May 11." THE FOLLOWING ARE QUOTATIONS ON POKE MARKET TO-DAY:
81LYER LONDON
J.
SPOT .......... FORWARD.....
May 11 19 1/16 19
May 10 18.15/16 10
JAPANESE LAUNCH BIG OFFENSIVE
(Continued from Page 1).
The Japanese military in Man- churia, it was reported, counselfed further delay because of the pos sibility, of obtaining the Soviet aven lower figure rights at later.
ALL READY
An earlier report from H. R. Ekins (United Press Staff Corres- pondent) dated Feiping, May 7 states:---
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY) a price preference of 10 per cent. THE UNITED STATES Senate
COLOGNE, May 11. On the other side, Britain had yesterday finally adopted the given an undertaking regarding Farin Relief Bill, including the inTHE postponement of Prince Wilhelm's marriage which was Danieb, bacon and ham. The agree-flation amendment authorising Pre- announcemed on Wednesday ap ment had schieved something in the sident Roosevelt to reduce the gold pears to be due to the inability of
A new Japanese drive on nor- thern China within a week appear- way of security for the future. content of the dollar or to order a the bride's eldest brother to attended almost certain today...
large expansion of currency.
The Bill has been sent to Presi-if the ceremony was held this dent Roosevelt for approval.
Argentine Problem,
An entirely different set of pro- blems presented themselves in re gard to Argentina, where, unlike Denmark, tariffs were high, and attempts had been made to secure a reduction in duties imported un der their tariffs.
Under the financial section of the Argentina agreement there had been
A new clause for the Inflation Bill permits President Roosevelt to. accept 8200,000,000 in silver as part payment of war debts, instead of the $100,000,000 originally propos- ed.
The Farm Relief Bill also em-
sent here about £1,250,000 to liquify powers the Secretary of Agriculture small transactions. Beyond that to try to raise agricultural prices total, the amount still due should to the average level of 1909-14, for be liquified through the process of Bonds issued on security of the Argentina Government, to be plac. ed in hands of representative au- thorities here and used by them for the provision of cash in starling in the place of frozen paper,
wheat, corn, cotton, rice and dairy produce and to the average level of 1919-29, for tobacco, by taxing "processors" such as millers, spin ners, weavers and refinera.
Revenue from this source will be handed over to the farmers to make This meant the liquifying of up the difference between the pre- about £10,000,000. Having once eent and pre-war prices. started this process of liquifying. The Bill also authorises a com. cash which had been frozen under pensatory taxation on competing exchange restriction, they hoped products, including imports, al the example would be followed though President Roosevelt is un- elsewhere, and everything would be derstood to have opposed the tax
month.
́UN-GERMAN” BOOKS BURNT
HUGE BONFIRE IN BERLIN OPERA SQUARE
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, MAY 11, HUGE crowds assembled in the
Prime objectives of the campaign would be Tientsin, Peiping and Kalgan, it was understood,
The Japanese were understood to have virtually completed the pro- gramme of the offensive, which call- ed for an advance along the Urga road against Kalgan, another Peiping-Mukden railway against Peiping and the third down the Peip ng-Mukden railway against Tientsin Still another division, it was understood, would move westward along the Mandarin high- way from Chinwangtao.
Opern Square here, last night
Japanese military and legation to watch the giant bonfire of "un- officials admitted that spectacular German" books, staged by the and large-scale operation south of Nazis in pursuance of the campaign the Great Wall were contemplated in a "matter of days, or perhaps for purging German literature,
Uniformed atudents escorted van-hours." One official said that loads of doomed books which were "nothing can stop. it."
of
Official Japanese quarters in accompanied by caricatures Jews, including a bust of Dr. Tokyo, Peiping and Shanghai have Magnus Hirschfeld, known world frequently declared that an offensive chology.
would be launched against northern
NON-RECOGNITION OF MANCHUKUO ·
REPORT ADOPTED BY SUB-COMMITTEE
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GENEVA, May 10.
for THE SUB-COMMITTEE
Non-recognition of the Man- chukuo Government met for two hours this morning and discussed the report submitted by the League Secretariat which was approved with slight modifications.
The report will be submitted with recommendations to the Full Advisory Committee this week-end.
SHING MUN VALLEY SCHEME
CONTRACT FOR GREEN:
ISLAND CEMENT CO.
The Government has decided to award to the Green Island Cement Company the contract for the first year's supply of cement for the construction of the Shing Mun Gorge Dam.
Deliveries will commence in December next.
NEW AIR SERVICE
1
CANTON TO BE LINKED UP WITH SHANGHAI
„{THROUGH RENter's Agency.]
NANKING, May 10. THE Eurasia Aviation Corpora
tion is planning the establish. ment of an air service between Canton, and Gian, which will, link up with the Shanghai-Hankow line at Hankow and the Shanghai- Tihua line at Sian. Test flights on the new line are expected to be made this month.
The Memorandum drown up
Mr. Chu Chia Hua, Minister of and circulated by the League Se- Comraunications has telegraphed cretariat to members of the Sub the authorities in Kwangtung, Committes appointed to deal with Hunan and Huper requesting them the question of non-recognition of
to extend every possibile assistance. Manchukuo was prepared by Mr. LI Ching Chung who has gone small committee consisting of
the Secretariat. three members in co-operation with to Canton will make the necessary
LOAN AGREEMENT CANCELLED
·REFUND TO BE MADE TO CHINA REALTY CO.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-]
of
arrangements.
NEW ORDERS ISSUED
FORBIDDING GENERALS TO RETREAT!!
(Kuo Min News Agency).
Peiping, May 5.-The situation at Kuyuan, 70 miles north-east of Kalgan, provincial capital of Char har, has become tense since the oc- cupation of Tolun. (Dolonor) by the combined Japanese and "Mad ohukuo" units last week.
The vanguards of the Manchu
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM: NAVIGATION CO."
EXPANSIÓN PLANNED BY MINISTRY OF COMMUNI- UATIONS
Kuo Min News Agency)
Nanking, May 5.-It is under. stood that the Ministry of Com munications is raising the sum of thirty million dollars for the ex- pansion of the various shipping. routes of the China Merchants S.N. ∙Co.
According to present plans, over 20 new vessels, of an average_ton- nage of 3,000 to 4,000 tona and tex vessels of a tonnage of 500- to 3,000: will be purchased for the develop-: ment of the northern and southern lines of the Company. Sevarul. ocean-going vessels will also be pur-... chased for the opening of new routes to Singapore and Annam.
It is understood that a special Purchasing Commission will be ap- pointed for the purchase of the new vessels...
IN HONG KONG TO-DAY
MODERATE; CLOUDY.
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, ISSUED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY ́ ́AT, P.M... STATED :-
THE ANTICYCLONE 18 NOW "CEN-. TRED TO THE SQUTH "OR KOREA, THE DEPRESSION · · PROBABLY RE- MAINS OVER SOUTH MANCHURIA,
LOCAL FORECAST:--E. WINDS, MODERATE, CLOUDY,
FLOUR INDUSTRY
EXEMPTION OF TAX-
(Kuo Min News Agency),
Nanking, May 5 Measures governing the exemption from taxa tion of four destined for famine. relief were announced by the Minis try of Finance yesterday. Simul taneously instructions were issued to the Consolidated Tax Bureau
NANKING, May 10. THE Ministry of Communications announced that an agreement has been concluded between the troops under Liu Kuci Tong in the various provinces to conform China Realty Company and the in the vicinity of Tatiangti, less therewith, China Merchante Company cancell-than 10 miles south of Tolun, were The new medgures, are 'necessary. in the loan agreement and annexes repulsed yesterday by the Shansiin view of the early dissolution of signed by the former Managing provincial units under General the National Flood Relief Commnis- Director of the China Merchants Chao Cheng Shou. Five Japanese sion, which has hitherto been in which have been declared illegal airplanes scouted over Taliangti charge of the distribution of four
and Shuichuankow on Wednesday for relief. Such supplies will here by the Chinees Government.
The Agreement provides that the morning and bombed the Chinese after be handled directly by the China Merchants Company refund position,
different organizations in charge of: While the 41st Army under Gen- relief activities, and the new condi-: tea eral Sun Tien Ying has been in- tions have to be regulated differ $70,000 already advanced in equal instalmente spread over nstructed to attack the rear of the ently. period of 10 years, plus 8 per cent. Japanese at Tako and Shanghuang- chi, south-western Jehol, the units interest.
under Generals Tang Yu Lin, Feng Chan Hai, Chao Cheng Shou and Liu I Fei have been entrusted with the task of jointly resisting the enemy north of Kuyuan." instructions have been issued by the Peiping Branch of the Military Affairs Comuniasion, forbidding the various generals to retreat.
done on Britain's part to facilitate ing of imports during the tariff wide for his works on sexua! psy China if Chinese did not desist in the China Realty the sum
similar transactions.
truce.
Regarding. a possible reduction of The Bill provides for the re
of tariffs, representatives of Argentina financing
farm mortgages had undertaken that, in regard to through a 82,000,000,000 bond issue goods on which a substantial proan Government and land banks.
portion of importa into Argentina was delivered from the United Kingdom, and in respect of which proposals had been submitted to them for a reduction of custome duties, to revert in general to the rates of duty and valuation of duty of such goods in force in 1930.
Discussions were to be continued in Argentina..
EMERGENCY BILL
PASSED
TO AVERT FINANCIAL
CRISIS IN BELGIUM Mr. Runciman pointed out as a (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] remarkable fact that no less than 99 per cent of the chilled beef
BRUSSELS, May 11. exported from Argentina came to A BILL to grant emergency powers Britain. They had to bear this in to the Belgian Govern- mind in dealing with Argentina. ment was adopted, yesterday by 15 votes to 11, by a special Commis sion which the Chamber appointed to examine it.
The measure gives the Cabinet power to make taxation and salary changes, and to "take measures to ensure the nation's credit and re store the country's finances,
THE LATE CAPTAIN
CAREY
-་ཡ་
LOST OVERBOARD.. PRESUMED DROWNED
ĮBRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
LONDON, May 10. COLONEL D. J. COLVILLE, Secretary for Overseas Trade,
in the House of Commons yester
day, said that the inquiry into the
►
DECLINE IN BRITISH TRADE
FIGURES DURING 1983 |
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, May 10.
The
their fighting along the Great Wall.
"
APPEAL TO CANTON
Strict
FREIGHT FOR FOODSTUFFS
DR. HSIEH SHOU KANG DECORATED BY KING ALBERT OF BELGIUM.
[Kuo Min News Agency)
Nanking, Mayor Dr. Hsich Shou Kang, former Chinese Minister to Belgium, haa been awarded a first-class-medat. by King Albert, för has services in promoting Sino Belgika cultural- understanding, according to a re- pert received here from the Chinese Legation at Belgium. Dr. Haleb has recently written in French book entitled West a
and East
As the books were consigned to the flames, the names of the au thors were read out amid cheers.
CHINA WILL RESIST A similar literary "auts-da-fe".
Chinese declare the Japanese are was held at Frankfort-On-Main, planning to incorporate another au- before a crowd of 15,000 spectators. tonomous region in North China
Narl Delegate in London, similar to Manchukuo, and probab. Japanese plane flew overhand and TORITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
ly establish Hairy Pu, Yi, former dropped six bombe, killing 38 in "boy emperor," at its head, if the the crowd and wounding fifty or RUGBY, May 10. " drive is successful. The Chinese, more. Sir John Simon, questioned in the however, say they will resist the House of Commons yesterday, with Japanese drive, and not yield_nor- regard to Dr. Rosenborg's visit, thern China the way they did Jehol said: "The German Embassy re
province.
SHANGHAI, May 6. quested that this gentleman should
Meanwhile continued fighting Before turning his attention to be received at the Foreign, Offics was reported from various sectors the Japanese throat along the Great
Permanent Under-Secretary along the Walk conversation with him on Tuesday. saw him on Monday, and I had a
Wall, General Chiang Kai Shek Reports from Shankhaikwan said has naked Cantonese generals to a fleet of Japanese airplanes was join an anti-communist campaign, "He gave some information as dispatched from Suichung to bomb the official Kuo Min news agency
Chinese at Shenshochen, south of reported to-day. the Wall, following heavy Sine. Japanese fighting there Friday."
The government news agency said the invitation has been officially Further activity was also report-accepted which it interpreted as ed in the region of Nantienmen.. significant both in a military and In compliance with a petition
political way.
from the Peiping Chamber of Com BOMBERS OPEN UP
Hitherto communists at herce, the Ministry of Railways tacked only from the north, and orders that the special reduced. were always able to escape in other freight rates for the transportation MAITIAL LAW has been decla An Ausgros, May 117 directions, but with Cantonese of foodstuffs on the Peiping-Suiyuaned throughout the country for co-operation and pressure exerted
the duration of hostilities wil Bolivia
to the recent events in the internal policy of Germany, and I explain ed to him with equal frankness, the prevailing opinion m this country on the subject."
CAMPAIGN,
were
SPECIAL RATES TO BE EXTENDED,
(Kuo Min Howa Agendy)
Nhaking, May 6.
OLD PEOPLE TO BLAME!
MR. WU CHIH HUI'S VIEWS
SHANKAIKWAN, May 6 A fleet of Japanese airplanes were (Kue Min News Agency) dispatched to-day from Suichung to on three sides, the new campaign Bailway should be enforced for ant bomb Chinese concentrations at officials believe they will be success other three months. The period for Tainan, May 6-Mr. Wa Chih Shenbochen, insida the Great Wall, ful in eradicating the communist the special rates expired on April 30 but is now extended until July Hui, the veteran Party leader, who following heavy Sino-Japanese threat. passed through here an route to fighting in that area yesterday. The decision was interpreted as 31 Peiping, told Fress correspondants It was thought possible the move indicating some elements of the to-day that the panacea for the meat constituted the first step in Cantonese are disposed to cooperate cause of the death of the late Cap- BRITISH imports during April opinion, in the rehabilitation of campaign in North China to in meet the emergency
present
situation lay in his Japan's threat to reopen a military with the national government “to tain Carey of the "Discovery, was held under the section of the Mer- totalled £818,100, and exports the rural district, the promotionduce the Chinese to casas fighting Nanking government authorities chant Shipping Act under which re-exported, 23,630,000,
of native industry and the improved along the Great Wall
Kalso welcome, the organization of a the mercantile marino
For the past four months imports ment of the country's military
PEIPINO, May Peiping political committee subor Superintendent at the port of dis totalled 2210,072,000 as against equipment by the purchase of heavy ́ Chinese" "newspapers – published dinate to the exemtive yuan, com-
£246,900,000 last year, exports, artillery and military airplanes, charge is required to verify the £116,116,000 as against £197,118,000, He said that the responsibility reports of an alleged Japanese members, which they hope will
under indignant headings to-day prising a majority of non-party- statement in the log as to the cause and re-exporta, 218, 172,000 and, blame for the present situation bombing incident inside the Great mean the extension of government of death.
Inquiries of this kind were not against £30,787,000,
4212 really rested" with old people, like Wall yesterday in which many influence through the cooperation open to the public,
himself who, though having person- | harmless villagers were declared to of elements hitherto aloof... The superintendent confirmed the fering from a'nervous breakdown, ally- experienced the humiliation | have been killed.
Despite dificulties of various log entry. “Lost - overboard, pre-left his cabin in the early mom imposed by the Sino-Japanese war While & country fair was going kinds and new troubles the_Bin- sumed drowned." It was surmised, ing in a dazed condi and fell of 1895, had however failed to teach on near Lulung, on the banke od kisng internal situation, remained that Captain Carey, who was sul- overboard,
the people to avenge themselven. the Luan river, it was asserted, u: steady, the report said,
officera
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
(THROUGH REUTER 8. AGENOT
Parapmay is notifying the league of-naticos of the existence State of war.
COUGH LINCTUS
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR COUGHS, COLDS ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS AND ALSO VERY EFFECTIVE FOR THE PROTECTION" OF THE CHEBT AND THROAT, ETC.
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