HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1933.
U.S. MONETARY, FISCAL EZRA BROTHERS SIBERIAN MAIL
& CREDIT POLICIES Important Meeting To Be Held
At White House
MR. ROOSEVELT PLACED IN
AWKWARD POSITION
Washington, Sept 24.
AN important conference is being REICHSTAG FIRE
held at the White House to- night at which Mr. Roosevelt will discuss with Mr. Woodin, Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Black, Gov-
ernor of the Federal Reserve Board
and other experts, monetary, scal
TRIAL
4
SENTENCED
DELAY
Sequel To Smuggling London Businessmen
'Activities
San Francisco, Sept. 24. The Ezra brothers were to-day each sentenced to twelve years penitentiary and were each ned $12,000-Reuter
[A message from Ban Francisco dated July 14, stated further revelations regarding the sumg gling activities of the Eara brothers were made to-day by the District
Attorney
7:
Hé declares that they caused to be sent to Ban Francisco no fewer than eight shipments of narcotics valued at over a million and half dollars, all of which got through
and credit policies to be pursued Atmosphere Of Tense according to plan
by the Government.
An official has denied the report that Government is considering the expansion of currency by issuing bank notes against Government bonds. It has been reported that £400,000,000 would be thus issued in order to, free deposits of the same amount which are "frozen' in closed or restricted in banks. The official also indicated that the Federal Reserve Banks did not intend to increase the present rate of open market purchases of Gov- ernment Bonds in
effort to encourage banks, to lend more liberally,
an
U.S. FARMERS DEMAND
INFLATION..
Washington, Sept. 23. THE clamour for inflation in the United States, is growing daily particularly among the farmers.
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Expectancy
Leipzig. Sept. 23.
It is the ninth shipment which was afterwards found concealed in oil barrels, aboard the Japanese Liner, Asama Maru, and led to their arrest. -
The District Attorney asserted that the Ezra brothers undertook these unusally large shipments in an effort to recoup the fortunes they had lost in various other ven-
An atmosphere of tense expec- tancy prevailed in the Court here, this morning, when Geordi Dimit- roff, the 41-year-old author and Bulgarian Communist leader was called to give evidence in the tures. Reichstag fire, trial, which opened on Thursday, last.
Van
It will be recalled that the Ezra brothers appeared in court on July der Lubbe, the 24-15 and pleaded guilty to year-old youth who is charged charges. Sentenced was postponed the with treason in connection with until September.] · · the burnng of the building. is also causing a new sensation by refusing to eat. The vagaries of the accused youth since the open- ing of the trial have created grave doubts as to his mental state.
Herr Stomper, the well-known Dutch advocate, who is legal ad- viser to Van der Lubbe, at the opening of to-day's proceedings
obtained permission for a doctor to sit beside his client in Court.
A meeting at Desmoines, Iowa, of the National Farmers' Holiday Association voted unanimously in favour of a "Farm Strike" for all agricultural products, and asking Van der Lubbe, meanwhile, Labour to co-operate in the strike maintains his habitual lifeless at- if the Government do not comply titude, listening to the evidence with its demands.
with bent head and drooping Meanwhile, in view of the al-shoulders. Occasionally an enig- most incredible number (estimat- matic smile its across his face. ed at 17,500,000) of Americans.xe- ceiving rellet, President Roosevelt has ordered hils U.S. $75,000,000 scheme to help farmers by feeding and clothing the destitute and un- employed, to start within a month.
The plan supplements the exist- ing Federal, State and Municipal expenditures amounting to hun- dreds of millions of dollars, and may be supplemented by the Federal distribution of 10,000,000 tons of coal during the winter.
Meanwhile, there are indications that the President hopes to inau- gurate "commodity dollars," as en- visaged by Professor G. F. Warren, of the "Brain Trust," before Con- gress meets in January.
This
will
release
about
0.8. $2,000,000,000 of frozen assets, in closed or restricted banks; for the benefit of depositors-Reuter.
CRISIS IN CUBA
U.S. Residents Take Refuge
Washington, Sept. 23. THE United States Government is making representations to the Havana authorities as the result' of the looting of an American citi- zen's home there.
The United States Secretary of State, Mr. William Cordell Huil said that the State Department had received no details of the loot- ing, but apparently "nobody was injured. He added that condi- tions in the interior of Cuba were
Dimitrof, the Bulgarian, ad- mitted this morning that he had read in the foreign papers that he had been sentenced to death by a Bulgarian Court during his ab- sence from that country.-Reuter.
OUTRAGE BY LEIPZIG POLICE
FRENCH AIR MISSION
Moscow Visit Concluded
Moscow, Sept 23.
have con-
M. PIERRE Cot, the French Air Minister, together with other French officials, cluded their visit to Russia, and took off for Kieff en route to Paris, yesterday morning-Reu-
ter.
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Complain
London, Sept. 34.
DISPUTE OVER CER
Soviet Managers Questioned
Harbin, Sept. 21. The Post Once, which is receiv- Four Soviet departmental heads ing perpetual complaints from of the C.E.R. are being questioned businessmen regarding the delay by the Public Prosecutor in con in the Siberian mails to China, ex nection with the report made to plains it is powerless as China Changchun by the Chief Comptrol refuses to accept mall-bags from ler stating that the normal work- Manchukuo which it does not re-ing of the railway was hindered cognise." Viadivostock and Japan on account of the activities ot, are thus the only available routes. * dangerous sabotage elements." Businessmen when interviewed | The report also predicted the by Reuter urged that diplomatic railway would soon become bank representations be made to China rupt unless remedial measures were that she is damaging her own taken-Reuter. trade and that it is not" necessary' for. Her to be so punctilious-- Reuter.
BANDITS IN LUANTUNG
Villages Pillaged and Burned
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Petping, Sept. 23, The bandis situation in the Luantimig region appears to bel
TENSE SITUATION IN THE NORTH
Threat Of Renewed Hostilities
JAPANESE ULTIMATUM SENT TO PEIPING
Peiping, Sept. 24.
THE tense situation which is uris-
ing from the Japanese ulti- matum is being aggravated by re- ports that Fang Chen Wu is show ing no disposition to comply. `On the contrary 4,000 troops belong ing to Generals Chr. Hung Chang
Placed In A. Quandary,
Peiping, Sept. 23. The Japanese ultimatum to General Feng Chen Wu has pinced the Chinese military authorities here in a quandary, for while they are anxious to see General: Fäng's. troops leave the demilitarized
RED MENACE IN and Tang Yu Lin art stated to zone, they do not desire Japan to
S. CHINA
Kwangtung Troops themselves here for the purpose
Prepare For Action
(From Our Special Correspondent
Canton, Sept. 24.`
Five battalions of Kwangtung troops are moving from the Swa
ares to the Kwangtung- Fukien borders to prepare for an invasion of the Communists from South-west Fukien.
residents of Pelping, returning tow going from bad to worse. Foreign from Pettaiho, describe the fright- ful scene of burning villages lighting up the sky at night-time. As a result of the bandit activi- ties, most of the holiday makers have retumed from Peitalhe and
Chinwangtao in which
region,
carry out & punitive expedition against them, which is bound to result in further sanering for the common people in the evacuated districts.
have entered Hustjou from Jehol and "Charhar, while rumours "are adoat in Pelping that several hun dred plain clothes agents belong- ing Fang Chen Wu have muggled
of plotting disturbances.eral Ho Ying Ching has request- It is reliably learned that Gen-
Meanwhile, an official report
ed the Japanese military attache. shows that Fang Chen Wu's troops Colonel Shibayama, to urge the are at present at Niulanshan, Kwantung Army to reconsider its thirty-five miles north of Pelping.
Reuter.
FANG REGARDED AS A REBEL
decision and allow the Chinese to send special police to deal with General Fang's men. General Ho ponts out that General Fang Chen Wu has less than 2,000 troops, and that it will therefore be not dim cult to dispose of them.
Colonel Shibayama has already wired to Changchun for Instruc~~
Pelping, Sept. 23. A THREAT of renewed hostilities in North China is held out in a Japanese ultimatum to Generaltions-Reuter.!! Fang Chen Wn, the ex-subordinate That the situation is serious" of Feng Yu Halang, demanding the may be judged by the official retroops from the zone demilitarized Southward evacuation of his
now only a very few foreigners re. Port from Lieut.-General Wong by the Tangku Armistice, by the
main.
CHIANG TSO PING RETURNING TO JAPAN
Yum Wan, officer commanding night of September 28, otherwise Despatches from foreign sources the first. independent division, action would be taken. in that region state that refugees who stated that the Communists from..." Funing are" pouring into Changli, telling of how their vil made their appearance at Sha lages have been burned and pll- How (Sha Kow) and Fung Shih laged by bandits during last few (Feng Shih). Fukien towns yery
close to Kwangtung.
Shanghai, Sept. 23. General. Tang Yu Jen, inter-
declared that! Chiang Tso Fing would leave for
to-day, It is noteworthy that Fang Chen | viewed wu is regarded by the Chinese Government as a virtual rebel,
days...
These foreign despatches give detalls of Chinese reports, declar-
ing that bandits are being insti- gated by Manchukuo agents under a bandit named Lao "Hao Tze,
General Ho Ying Ch has ap- pointed a small Comm.
lon made up of members of the Luantung Retrocession Commission" to nego- late with the Japanese authori- ties here and in Tientsin, for the despatch of further forces of -a.m. to-day, taken to Police Head-armed Chinese police into the de-
quarters. stripped naked searched for weapons and docu- bandits.-Reuter. menta.
...
Shang Hang, another town further inward, is garrisoned by the first independent division, hence the appearance of 3,000 Red troops at Sha How and Fung Shih means that they got to the rear of the Cantonese lines and attacked them from behind. Al though General Wong's report
Japan early next month to resume
The ultimatum is contained in his post. aeroplane, complete with machine-ports leaflets which a Japanese military· General Tang denied the re-
of direct Bino-Japanes guns, scattered during a half-hour negotiations, saying that under visit to Peiping this morning. tion among the Chinese popula tion-Reuter.
The ultimatum caused consterna
GEN. MA CHUNG
YIN
and militarized zone, to deal with the stated that the Reds were driven Reported Again In
The Secretary of the Russian Embassy intervened and the two journalists were released in the afternoon...
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Leipzig, Sept. 23. Two prominent Russian journ alista, Madame Lili Kith, Berlin correspondent of "Isvestia," and Herr Bespalov, Berlin correspon-
The Police Chief apologised. dent of the Tasa Agency, were
Russian journalists were not ad- summoned from the beds at 7mitted to the Reichstag are trial
(Continued on next Column).
-Reuter.
AMERICA AND DISARMAMENT
Significant Statement By Secretary Of State
Washington, Bept. 24..
SIGNIFICANCE 13 attached
A Brighter Outlook,,
London, Sept. 33.
SILVER MARKET
(From Our Own Correspondent)
London, Sept. 23. Following are the Silver Quota- tions on the London market to- day:
Sept. 23 Sept. 22 Spot
·187'. 181 Forward"...... 18.0/16 18 The London on New York cross rate to-day closed at £--US. $4.781.
into the mountains, the fact, is established that the enemy is within striking distance of Kwangtung soil.
Revolt
the present circumstances was impossible.
this
He added that a Sino-French commercial pact would be signed soon, since an agreement had al- ready been reached on all pointa
under discussion-Reuter,
MILITARY ATTACHE TO TOKYO
Nanking, Sept. 24. Chiang Teo Ping, Chinese Minister to Japan, told pressmen this morning that the Chinese Government had decided to ap- point à military attache to Tokyo.
Nanking. Sept. 23. Fresh complications have arisen East Kwangtung is vulnerable Kan is investigating the situation in Sinklang, where Dr. Lo Wen and can be defended only by a on behalf of the Central Gover- Sírailar posts would later be
re-created in the Chinese Legatione
Sheng Shin Chai and Liu Wen Lung, the Sinklang Governor and
or death at the hands of
He continued to say that both the Chinese Legation at Tokyo and himself had po information their regarding the report that Mr. Arita was replacing Mr. Ariyoshi as Minister to China-Reuter.
SOONG GOING TO PEIPING
superior forer. The border towns ment, according to Chinese are fortified by trenches, ma-ports, which state that Generals in other foreign countries. chine-gun pests and barbed wire.
Lien Cheng and Chang Ting, Pacification Commissioner, respec- two important towns in West tively, narrowly escaped capture Fukien, have remained in the mutinous bodyguard when en hands of the Communists. Up route to meet General Ma Chung in the North Fukien front, it is Yin, who had sued for peace.
The mutiny, which was nipped reported that the Red forces are in the bud, is believed to in the vicinity of Shun Chang been incited by General Ma *****80 miles north-east of Yen Ping Chung Tin's representatives, Yao It appears that heavy battles were They were therefore placed under HONG KONG TRADE COM- fought around Shun Chang, as it arrest and taken to the Tihua.".
MISSIONER
is officially reported that the 19th A further estrangement is re-r Route Army twice recaptured" ported to have occurred between Huang Fu, is probably leaving that town.
General Ma Chung Tin and the Shanghat on Monday for Peping provincial authorities as a conse for jointly handling the gence of this incident, but whe-China situation Reuter, ther hostilities have been résum-
Yesterday's Disarmament con- Mr. George Pelham Expected
On October I
versations in Parts are understood to have been encouraging and helpful and to havs carried still
to the intimation given to the Press by the "Se- cretary of state, that if Disarma- ment is wanted by foreign powers the United States can do nothing to prevent the enforcement of further the work of adjusting the penalties against treaty violators.
Mr. Hull said Mr. Norman Davis United States Governments which views of British, French. and had not yet reported the outcome had been the object of earlier talks of the Paris conversations, but it
is possible some agreement might in which Capt. Anthony Eden and be reached which could be taken Mr. Norman Davis had had with
French. Ministers. to Geneva. Reuter.
less threatening, but the dtuation U.S., BRITISH AND FRENCH
In Havana was critical.
LI Several other houses "iri the suburbs of Havana were looted last night and many Americans are taking refuge in United States warships as a result of the `grow- ing disorders. Reuter. ⠀
SEVEN BRITONS STILL HELD IN MILL
Cienfuego, Cuba, Sept. 23. The troopa sent to Boledad to reinforce the half-dozen Rural Guards protecting the seven Bri-
tons and three Americans isolated
GERMAN TARIFF
RETALIATION
PARLEYS
The Colonial Secretary Informs us that a telegram has been re- to the effect that Mr. George Pel- ceived from the Secretary of State ham has been selected to fill the dual appointment of Commercnai Secretary to Peiping Legation and Trade Commissioner, Hong Kong. By these preliminary discussions, Mr. Pelham will take up his duties It is hoped to smooth a way when at Hong Kong on 1st October, the Disarmament Conference is 1933. resumed and there is every reason to belleve much progress in this direction was made.
London, Sept. 22.
As the results of the preliminary FURTHER Conversations on the conversations have to be laid be- draft Disarmament Conven- fore fifty or sixty nations at the tion now before the Disarmament conference for discussion and 2p- Conference took place in Paris, proval, no question of final agree- yesterday."
mentarises in connection with The French Premier, M. Dala- these talks but they none the less dier, and the Foreign Minister, M. serve a useful purpose.. Paul Boncour, attended a luncheon party
According to "Times,"
at
ques-
BRITAIN'S SOUND
POSITION
Premier's Plea For Support
CANTON RICE TAX
Increase In Price May Not Last
(From Our Special Correspondent)
have
Chih Ping and Chang Ya Shao.
ed
is at present not known.
CANTON BREVITIES
Canton, Sept. 24..." Flying in formation, the twelve Kwangi airplanes hopped off this morning for Lin Chow by Wnchow. Clear skies and soft breeze greeted the airmen all the way from. Canton to Wuchow
B
The squadron was under the command of Brigadier-General Lam Wai Shing Can Wel Chen), who was formerly head of the Canton air force during the early regime of General Li Chal Bhum.
Nanking. Sept. 23. -Local press reports state that V. Boong, accompanied by
ADMIRAL DREYER
North
To Pay Visit To Japan
Wei-hal-wel, Sept. 23. HE. the Commander-in-Chier, Ching Station, Admiral Bir Fro deric Dreyer, K.G.B. CB (CVI), CAB. (16ilitary), CBE, left here for Japan this morning on board FALS, Kent,
Sir Frederic is accompanied by. Lady Dreyer, on board HMS. Fal-
mouth.Reuter.
Canton, Sept. 24. Having failed to petition the Provincial Department of Finance to repeal the rice tax of 1 nation-bang
Dr. C. C. Wa, former Chinese al currency per pical, rice mer. Condelences and wreaths were Minister to Washington, who ar- sent to-day by several military off-rived in Hong Kong last night cers here in there private "capac-" from Shanghal aboard the Fresl- ity as last tribute to the Inte: Gen-, dent Cleveland, is expected to eral Chen Chtung Ming (Chen vidt Canton sometime this week. Mr. Hu Han Min sent his daught Kwing Ming) who died in Hong Kong last Friday, Fe
er Hu Mu Lan to Shanghai to Continned on next Column). company. Dr., Wu to Hong Kong
chants have no alternative but to register the amount of imported rice and pay the impost accord ingly.
has
from
AMERICAN LABOUR AND HITLERISM
Boycott Of German Goods Likely
the British Embassy. tions under discussion were the
London, Sept. 23.
Government at a of rice is due largely to profiteer. where those present included, in contents of eventual disarmament E Prime Minister appealed for
The slight increase in the price, continual unity in support of in the Soledad sugar mail, yester- dor, Lord Tyrrell, Sir John Simon, cluding international supervision public meeting held at Kilmarnock, ing and will drop to normal value. day arrested thrée. Communist Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Captain leaders of the strikers, but subse- Anthony Eden.
on which it could be accepted by last nightm
when rice comes.. quently released them-Reuter,
After these conversations had all parties. The British Govern-
*He claimed that the strong, posi- concluded, a conference which ment insisted on giving convention tion of Great Britain, both nuan- Kwangai and Yangtaze provinces. lasted for two hours took place at the test place in the discussions cially and induirially were the re- Lient General Wong Kuk Cho, the Qual D'Orsay,Those present and keeping conditions to the sult of Government's work duri. Chairman of the Kwangel Pro- were Lord Tyrrell, Bir Jahn Simon, secondary proportion. The main a period : 1 extreme dimculty. He Captain. Eden (Great Britain); 14. purpose of the conference, there- pointed to the rise which was tak
vincial Government, telegraphed Paill Bontour, M. Leger and M. fore, was to discover how far, asing place in wholesale prices, des- from Nanning stating that nice Massigli,(France); Mr. Norinan suming the necessary of conditions, cribing this as one of the most planters and dealers in his pro Berlin, Sept. 23,5
Davis,” Mr. Dalles, and Mr. Hugh France was prepared go in dia- scientine ways of increasing both GERMAN decree issued yester-Gibson, American Ambassador in armament. Here the British re- the demand for labour and wages vince are sending rice for sale in
authorises, from to-- Paris (0.8,6.). A communique presentatives at once found rea given to labour, and pointed out Kwangtung day, retallatory restriction on im- Issued later, states that the pur- son for encouragement. They that *meanwhile purchasing power ports from countries which “res-pose of the exchanges of views was found the French Goverment pre- Had also been maintained: Trade trict the import of German goods, to reach an understanding which pared to go farther after the pre- was showing many hopeful night, millen since the beginning of this our, has issued a statement indicat except where existing treaties would facilitate the debates of the liminary period than before, and and British currency had earned year. He said the Government was ing that American Labour may, boy. He added that american labour sanction such restriction.5)
Disarmament Conference when re- they found also a nearer approach the conidence and respect of the working to increase world con- cott German products and describis becoming convinced a boycott 1 sumed at Geneva next month, and to a Franco-Italian understanding world.
fitores sumption and to secure, by varied Hitlerite rue as mediaeval and the only thing to bring- that substantial progress has been than at any previous time, on the There had also been a fall in ous means, a proper share for revolting He said terrorism in the German tyrants the ablíorrence made in this direction British contents of disarmament conven- unemployment of nearly half a Britain of that increase-British | Germany had gone to wilder and in which their rule is held by the Wireless Service.
tionBritish Wireleza, @
#2, (Continued "on-next onluman) Wireless."
wilder extreme and had resulted | rest of the wor
day.
The decree, however, will be en- forced where a third nation en- Joys benents denied to Germany,
-Renter.
war on trade:
Washington, Sept. 24. MR. Green, President of the even the death of many mion
American Federation of Lab-