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SIGNIFICANCE OF TOKEN PAYMENT
Will It Be Regarded
As Default?
London, May 15,
It is understood in the Lobby of the House of Commons that the majority of the British Ministers are of the opinion that if a token debt payment on June, 15 is re- garded as default then no payment should be made. It is then left to President Roosevelt to indicate his line of polley.
Meantime the British Ambassa- dor has been instructed to get confirmation from the American Government if a token payment will constitute default in the case of Britain.--Reuter.
PLANE ENGINES FOR GERMANY
Sir John Simon's Explanation
London, May, 14. Replying to a question in the House of Commons yesterday re- garding an order from a German rm for 80 aeroplane engines plac- ed with Messrs. Armstrong Sidde- ley. the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, said that the full- nent of the order did not conflict with the terms of relevent inter- national instruments.
the
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BRITAIN NOT
A DEFAULTER
Debts To America
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1934.
UNEMPLOYMENT NANKING TROOP AMERICAN NERVOUSNESS
THE SUNGARI
INCIDENT
INSURANCE
Tension At Tsitsihar
House Of Commons Measure
MOVEMENTS
Kwangtung Fears An Attack
Tokyo, May 15.
A tense atmosphere exists at the
Japanese military headquarters at
London, May 14.
The early introduction in Par- (From Our Special Correspondent)
Tsitsihar, according to the Japan-liament of a measure for the con-
esc newspaper, "Asahi," as a con- sequence of the fing by the Soviet battery on the Manchukuq steamer, on the Sungari.
The
Captain Sakural, commander of a military detachment on board; was seriously wounded.
Manchukuo
protesting
to
was
IN RUBBER
Selling Leads To A Week
Market
London, May '15. Canton, May 15. American selling, due to a gene The South-west Political Council eral feeling of nervousness in the held an important meeting this United States, has resulted in morning to discuss' what should be weakness. of rubber, thus causing done with respect to Sino-Japanese disappointment as hoped in the a fair and relations and the efforts of the scheme to ensure National Government in extending equitable price producer, whereas
JUNE ROBLES FOUND
Moscow regarding the incident. taken in the House of Commons. Its authority to Kwangtung and many companies are not making Kidnapped In April
Reuter..
The earlier message stated that according to + report by the Tsitsihar correspondent of the
the vessel paper.
the Amur of
Was
solidation of existing acts deal ing with unemployment insur- ance is announced. There have been 35 such Acts since 1920.
The third reading of the new which has Unemployment Bill been subjected to prolonged ex
in committee amination
yesterday. -The Minister of La- Kwangsi. bour, Sir Henry Betterion, dės-
While minutes of the political were доб cribed it as a great contribution discussions to social progress,
owing to their importance on the London, May 14.
Inter alla, i restores in full, the situation, it is understood that any Questioned in the House of Com- Tokyo
cuts in the rates of standard un-attempt by Nanking to change the mons yesterday regarding the pre-fired on by a Soviet battery at the
and employment benedit which Slr political status of the two. Kwangs cise application of the Johnson confluence
said were
now will be rejected on the ground that Act, recently passed by the United Sungari Rivers, the report adding Henry Better:on
1 Japanese colonel was higher, having regard to the cost the quasi-independent position of States Legislation, as far as the tha:
of living, than ever before.
the two provinces is rested bonds and obligations of the Bri- aboard the vessel at the time.
The War Office in Tayo had re-
sanction of the Kuomintang Fourth tish Government were concerned. Sir John Simon said that the At- ceived a message that one member
National Congress. United of the crew was killed and another torney General of the States
had given
considered wounded.. opinion to the effect that the token! payments hitherto made by Great Britain do not constitute this country a defaulting debtor with- In the meaning of that act.
Replying to a supplementary question as to whether the token: payments would be held up until the position was clarified. Sir John Simon said that this would depend on the circumstances pregailing at that time.-British Wireless Ser vice.
BOLIVIAN AIR BOMBARDMENT
Paraguyan Capital Threatened
In reply to a further question, he said that the obligations of Germany regarding the import of neroplanes and aeronautical mat- erial were defined in Article 108 of the Treaty of Versailles and in the Paris Alr Agreement of 1926.
Geneva, May 15. Under these obligations Ger-
The remarkable threat to bomb many undertakes to prevent import of aircraft armoured or the Paraguayan capital Asuncion, the Bolivian Foreign protected in any way or equipped made by 10 receive any engine of war, or Minister in a message to the Ler apparatus for the sighting or dis-gue froin Dapaz says that it was charge of engines of war. These learned from reliable sources that obligations did not, therefore, Bolivian prisoners including officers affect the Import of engines or of high rank, on the pretext of the Bolivian air bombardment of Cha- other aircraft parts in general.
His Majesty's Government would co posts, be obliged to draw lots to continue to use their best endea- decide which of them is to be shot vours to see that no export of should the question arise. material from Great Britash Con- flicts with the relevent provisions of the treaties to which they are parties. British Wireless.
ITALY SIGNS TRADE AGREEMENT
With Austria And
. Hungary
Rome. May 15. Agreements between Italy, Aus- tria and Hungary, designed to give a practical effect to the economic protocols of the Rome pact, were yesterday signed by Bignor Musso- lini and the Austrian and Hun- garian Ministers...
They provide. inter alla." faci- lities for the export of wheat from Hungary, concessions in favour of Austria for industrial, products, and also concessions in favour of Italy In respect of typical Italian pro- ducts such as eitrous fruits-Reu-
ter.'
WORLD CRICKET RECORD
ויי
Established By Ponsford-McCabe
London, May 15. W. H. Ponsford and S.J. McCabe, the Australian, tourists, established "a world record for a third wicket partnership. They added 389 runs, beating the 375, runs made by Pat Hendren and Hearne In 1923.
McCabe scored 192 runs and bat- ted for two hours and six minutes in the course of which he hit twenty one fours,
Ponsford had the distinction of contributing an unfinished 223.
The Australian score is now 465 for 4, which places then in a win- ning position against the MC.C. as the latter scored only 362 runs. The visitors are thus 103 runs uhead with six wickets in hand Reuter.
allowed to
the
write
It was also reported that prisoners' rations are reduced and they are not home.
The report adds that shouto these "crimes of anti-" civilisa-
A
TIBERIAS CITY RUINED
The
Heavy Loss Of Life
on
a
a profit when price is below six
New York, May 15. pence.
It is realised that the scheme is revealed
The country has been electrified slow worker full, the benefits.by a cryptic announcement from maturing in 1935. Nevertheless Tucson, Arizona, that June Robles. certain section are urging intro-has been found alive, but very 11, stronger degree of June, the six-year old grand duction or a restriction, pointing out that the daughter of a wealthy Arisopa ran- benefits con- cher, was kidnapped on April 25. scheme at present sumers at the expense of producers A demand of $15,000 ransom was The bill also extends to a pos-
which is manifestly unfair. Ameri-made, under threat that if that can selling is further aggravating sum remained unpaid the child the situation.
would be seriously injured.. sible 52 weeks the present period
The Kuomintang. South-west of 26 weeks during which a man
The overnight recovery in New The police, backed by a strong Committee and the may draw benefit as of right and Executive
York is interpreted in some circles public opinion, conducted an inten- are without enquiry regarding his South-west Political Council
as indicating the belief that shouldve search, and recently discover- means. It is estimated that about off-springs of the Fourth Congress. 602,000 will benefit by this pro- which replace the power of the the price continue downwards, the ed a house in which June had been
and committee may be forced to raise held captive, but she was no lon vision "in the course of a year, at Central Party. Headquarters
quotas, but well-informed quarters ger there. the National Government as a cost of about £7,500,000.
Kuomintang affairs and consider any action by the com- The Bill closes the gap between gards the age of leaving school and that central administration in Kwang-mittee in the near future is most of entry into insurance by placing tung and Kwangsi. Although no improbable.-Reuter
à duty on the local education au- official instructions thorities to provide instruction for Nanking to
re-
came from two abolish these
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A man was arrested on suspicion, and the activities of the searchers was redoubled, in spite of the fact that it was beginning to be felt that June had suffered the same
unemployed boys and girls and organs, hints were made through NEW SEAT FOR fate as Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh's
empowering the Minister of La the Press and propaganda sources bour to compel their attendance.
of the Central Kuomintang "head-
two organs
The Minister claimed that the quarters, that these solvency of the insurance fund had should be abolished. been secured and machinery pro- Resentment is "felt in official
LABOUR
vided to maintain it. The es-circles here over such suggestions Upton Division Of
tablishment of an independent and Party leaders stand firm on board for central administration legal and constitutional grounds and direction of policy is provided that the two organs should not be abolished. Abolition of these two for.
organs, would mean the end of the South-west regime here.
West Ham
London May 15, The Labour Party gained a new seat in the House of Commons when Mr. B. Gardner was return- ed as Member for the Upton Divi-
son..
K
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June is stated to have been found
partly buried under a heap of Cactus five miles outside Tucson- Reuter.
ITALIAN PLANE RECORD Refuted By French Ministry
(Special to the "Hear Kong Dally Press" (Copyright.)]
Jerusalem, May 14 city of Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, which is almost exclusively inhabited by Jews, was all but entirely destroyed by a cloudburst on Monday. Twenty
One of the duties of the board been dead bodies have so... far
is the promotion of welfare, but it recovered from the ruins but it is is not the Government's intention Mr. Hsiao Fu Chen, outstanding feared that the death roll will
that the board should take over critic of the Nanking Government, exceed one hundred. Fifteen
the various voluntary occupational declared in a weekly memorialston of West Ham at the bye- hundred police and military have
centres which had been doing service yesterday, that General been despatched to the scene of
valuable work among the unem-Chiang Kai Shek, President of the the disaster for rescue work-ployed.-British Wireless,
Nanking Military Commission, has stationed fully-fourteen divisions Transocean Kuo Min.
in Fukten allegedly to suppress the Reds but really to threaten Kwang-3,464, as compared with a Conser-Received: May 16, 7.30 p.m.)
vative majority of, 5,108 in straight fight with Labour at the last eltction..
Jerusalema, May 15. Almost the whole of the ancient the Sea of Galilee, inhabited mostly by Jews. city of Jiberias on
has been runied as a result of torrential rainfall...
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Whole streets have been wasted away with heavy loss of life.
A force of 1,500 troops assisted the strong forces of the police by searching the ruins for dead bodies. Hitherta twenty have been recovered.-Reuter.
SILVER MARKET -
(from Our Own Correspondent)
This statement is believed in Farby circles as the beginning of a rupture with Nanking. It is said that Nanking troops are to be transferred from Honan to Hunan in order to encircle Kwangtung with Nanking troops just across the border. Sensational develop- May 14 May 15 ments are expected within
19-5/16 weeks.
London, May 15. - London silver prices to-day were down 3/16ths for spot and forward as follows:-
Spot ...... Forward.....
19-1/2
19-1/2-
19-5/16
The London on New York cross-
tion" be officially confirmed. Boll ALARM FELT AT rate at 2.00 p.m. to-day
ian alcraft wili bomb Asuncion. Meanwhile the discussion or the Chaco dispute which was to have been held in a public meeting of the morning, was unexpectedly postponed till thursday.-Reuter.
EMPLOYEE ARRESTED
AIN HARBIN
Alleged Sale Of Secret Plans
[
Dairen, May 15
A sensation has been caused in official circles here by the report alleging that a certain Consulate here purchased" secret plans and sketches from an employee of the Eastern Three Provinces and Telet Telegraph Company, last April
The employee was arrested in Harbin and brought here yeserday evening-Reuter.
CHIHSIEN
By Japanese Visit
Peiping, May 15. According to Chinese reports the populace at Chinsien were alarm- ed by the sudden arrival of 200 Japanese troops from Esindung.
A Japanese plan ecircled over the town yesterday afternoon. Later two Japanese planes car- ried out demonstration flights at Malanyu, dropping two bombs in an open field,
The local Chinese authorities
bombs were informed that the were dropped for practice purposes. --Reuter.
DUMMY ACCOUNTS WITH accusing
BROKERS
Chicago Speculative Trader Charged
Chicago, May 15. Charges of maintaining 34 dum- may accounts during 1930 and 1931, with eight brokers who conspired with him to keep digantic grain deals secret were yesterday made against Mr. Arthur W. Cutten, one of the biggest speculative, traders on the Chicago gram market, by the United State Government.
He pleaded not guilty.-Reuter.
WAR DEBT: PAYMENTS
These demonstration follow the announcement of May 11 by the Japanese Kwangtung Army, China of frequent breaches of the Tangku Truce.
It asserted that the latest vio- lation occurred" when the Chinese Ared on a Japanese detachment on legitmate duty near Chinsien, within the demiltiarised zone created by the truce, and warned the Chinese 'that they must assume the blame should trouble in the zone recur.
INCIDENT SETTLED
Pelping. May 15. Chinese reports state that the Chislen Incident has been settled
was
5.10-15/16 compared with 5:11 at yesterday's closing.
SINO-JAPANESE MEETING
Mr. Wang I Tang At Tokyo
BRITISH AIR FEATS
"New Records
Achieved
London, May 18.
two
A world altitude record for an aeroplane fitted with a heavy oll engine was made by H. J. Penrose, Chlef Plot of the Westland Air- craft Company, who carried out test flights with the Mount Everest inter-Expedition.
Tokyo, May 15. Mr. Wang I-tang, member of the Peiping Political Council viewed the War. Minister yesterday afternoon.
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that Penrose here It is belleved
reached a height of 28,500 feet, which is 5,500 feet higher than the previous American record, but the Agures are awaiting confirmation.
He had lunch with the Premier to-day and will be discussing Bino- Japanese problems-Reater.
U.S. HOUSING SCHEME
Backed By Heavy Finance
Washington. May 15, Legislation has been introduced
official
Twa air records were established by British fliers to-day. Flying Officer EL. Mole broke the British. duration gliding record of 442 minutes by remaining in the air for 488 minutes at Dunstable.- Reuter.
GENERAL YANG CHIEH
as the result of negotiations be into the United States Congress To See R.A.F. Trian
housing
ing Display
tween Yin Ju Keng, Administra for the promotion of a tion Inspector of the Chih Sien programme.
It will provide for the establish Miyun district and Colonel Matsui, director of the Japanese Military ment of a home credit insurance
London, May 15. Mission In Tientsin both of where- co-operation, with a capital of
General Yang Chieh who is due of whom are at prescat in Tientsin. U.8.$200,000,000, the creation of an
Japanese troops sent to Chiristen unlimited number of local mort- from Paris on May 22, will be stay- un May 13 have been withdrawn gaze associations with a minimum ing about ten days, visiting the paid up capital", of: U8.35,000,000, government on the invitation of and the situation is quiet.
College, Sandhurst. "Yin and Matsul are continuing and the establishment of a Feder-the Staff negotiations in Tientsin for the retrocession of Malanyu and the withdrawal of Manchukuo police instalment from Wantienmen, south Qupelkou.
Reuter,
IN SILVER
-Washington, May 16.. Serator. Thomas of Oklahoma explains that his proposal to ac- cept allver for war debt settlement will be at the rate of 50 cents per ounce for the June only. Reuter.
al savinge loan Insurance corpora- Aldershot and Woolwich and see tion with a capital of U.9.8100,000.- something of the Navy and also 000 with power to insure solvent RAF training display, He will financial institutions and to serve probably visit the Vickers Works as their liquidation agent-Reuter. at Barrow-Reuter.
election caused by the resignation
of Mr. A. J. Chotzer, the Con servative Member.
(Special to "Hong Kong
Dally Press")"
In a three-cornered fight, Mr. ( Telegraph, Copyright, Tele
Ordinance. Gardner secured a majority of graphic Mazaager
а
The polling was as follows:- Mr. B. Gardner (Labour), 11,998 yotes.
Mr. J.. R. J. Macramara (Conser- vative),, 8.534 votes."
Mr. Fenner Brockway (Indeperi- dent Labour), 748 votes. Reuter;
OIL MILLIONAIRE RELEASED
Ransom Presumably Paid
Hollywood, May 15.
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Paris, May 15, 1934.
It was recently announced that an Italian aeroplane carrying ? tons of ballast reached an altitude height of 438 metres and that this was a record.
The French Ministry of Aviation thereupon replied that at recent
tests made under officials super-, vision a French Fighting plane ab Villacoublay carrying the same amount of ballast had risen over a thousand metres-Transocean- Kuo Min.
Wullam Gettle was kidnapped “ st Thursday, when a ransom of $75,000 was demanded. Presum-
Simultaneously with the disably this amount was handed over,.
notwithstanding the fact that the covery of June Robles, it is an- nounced that William Gettle, the missary with the money yester kidnapped oil millionaire, has been day was intercepted by hijackers. and had to shoot his way to free- released and is now en route for
dom-Reuter. his home.
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