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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1934.
CANTON NEWS AND NOTES
FOREIGN TRADE OF JAPAN
BRITISH TRADE
Still On The Increase
Return of Air Mission
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton. July 29.
Tokyo, July 28, Despite obstructive medsures ab- High officers of the Canton Army road. Jana.t's foreign trade, as re- Air Corps will go to Hong Kong to- morrow to welcome home Lieut.-Vealed in the latest statistics, is
showing a steady since the rëw year."
General Wong Kwong yul, Com- mandant of the Army Air Corps, who will arrive
the Colony aboard the Italian steamer Coate Verde on August 1.
at
SITUATION
Increases Shown For Half Year
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London, July 27."
In reviewing the British trade situation in the House of Copi- mons to day. the President
of
OFFER OF FREE DOMINION MEAT
약
SCHOLARSHIP
German Friendship With China
EXPORTS
Agreement In London
London. July 28.
(From Our Special Correspondent)"
A general agreement in principle Canton July 29, The Sun Yat Sen University here that Dominion exports of meat to is offered a free scholarship by the the United Kingdom, should be reduced to approximately the
development the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter / Alexander von Humboldt-Stiptunsi levels prevailing in standard year
the
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to-
Runciman, said in the first This is due largely to
months of this year exports
which was an change in the policy of catering telled £190,000,000, to the principal markets to one increase, of £15,000,000 over the of developing markets everywhere,orst six months of last year. General Wong, is accompanied by notably in Central and South
The most notable increases in Colonel Ting Chi Hsu, wing com- | America, Afrien and Egypt.
exports referred to the woollen mander, Colonel Met Lung On. It is noteworthy that the ex- and worsted trades, which showed director of the aircraft works, and port of cotton and textiles bas Colonel Chang Ch! Shuen, adjut-created a new record- ant of the air force. The four Reuter
officers Arst visited the United
States, and then they proceeded
to Europe. En Croydon they Saw
an aerial exhibition staged by the Royal Air Force.
The Canton air mission later went to France and Italy. They left Brindisi on July 8. General Wong Kwong-yulhas secured necessary equipment and informa-
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MILITARY MOVEMENTS (Special to "Hong Kong Dally Press")
(By Telegraph Copyright." Tele Tenphjo Merzages Ordinance. 1803. Ferrived, July 20, 1-30 a.m.)
Vienna. July 28. According to the Neue Frei
t for the Improvement of the Presse all Italian Alpine roads Canton Air Force
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agreement were based has been reached at a conference in London between representatives of the Bri- tish Government and the Demin- lons High Commissioners.
German educational institute. in. Berlin. Board is also included in 1931/32 on which the Ottawa mest this scholarship, and the success- ful candidate has to provide only travelling and personal expenses,
In making a selection, the Sun. Yat Sen University is requested to recommend a candidate with a bachelor's or master's degree who has a reading knowledge of the German language. The Alexander
a £3,000,000 rise on the half year and in machinery and iron and steel. each of which showed a rise
You Humbolt-Stiptung hopes that of £2,000,000. These figures, he said, Although not sensational, the holder of the scholarship will to the be able upon returning to Ching showed the tendency was
to teach German to Chinese right direction.
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Negotiations will now be carried on with a view to applying the principle during, the six months which began on July 1 the day following the expiration of the Ot-
tawa meal agreements. ·
A communique issued stated "It was recognised that during the per- lod in which the Exchequer subaldy
No improvement had occurred students as à means to strengthen is being paid to a home producer
in the cotton trade, which re- mained one of the most unfor-, tunate of the great industries. He was.
however. hopeful that schemes now being discussed Lancashire might produce better results.
Unemployment Figures There had been during the last
eighteen
months
1
remarkable
friendship between China and Germany.
At present only one scholarship is available. The oder was a re- sult of the visit of a representative of the Alexander von Stambolt Stipting to Canton, He went round the new grounds of the university, at Shek Pet and was much impressed by the new build-
gs under construction.
students to study political science, The scholarship requires the
social sciences. The scholarship is
full are crowded with troops in On A Mysterious Mission, mountain equipment. Among those A Japanese official believed to mobilised is the first mechanised be the director of the Asiatic De-division of 8,000 strong consisting
the Tokyo Foreign or tanks, armoured cars, the most change in the country's unemploy- partment of
modern types of heavy and lightment agures, but any further big Office, has arrived here with Mr. Hattori, Japanese. Vice-Consul in artillery as well as six and eight-reduction could not be expected economics and other subjects in Canton, following the recent con-wheeled motor lorries.
from expansion of the home mar- ference in Formosa. This Japan- The mechanised units are mov-xet alone which had done so well reach saturation ese attempted to interview high ing along from. Udine to Tarvisas nearly to Chinese omclais but has not yet walle the Bersaglieri bicycle troops paint. It was necessary to rely on secured a definite time for making and the Piedmontese Uhlans are world trade, for further substantial a call. Probably he will call on an advancing along the road of Monte, improvement in the employment official designed to meet him by to Croce. The soll on which these ngures. the municipal authorities
military movements are taking. place adjoins Carinthia Transocean Kuò Min.
The Japanese consulate general la Shameer
to receive declined
wish newspapermen and did not
to make known the mission of this, official in Canton.
Nanchang Parley Postponed Lt.-General L Shang Yung, staf officer of the 1st Group Army, started last Thursday for Nan- chang to attend the anti-Commun- ist conference called by General Chiang Kai Shek, but returned from Hong Kong updn learning that the conference is postponed from August 1 to a latter date.
It was reported that there is a dissension in the Red camp and that the Communist soldiers can no longer fight. "On the other hand, Amoy reports stated that the Communists are making a strong attack on northern Fukien with a view to reaching the sea.
However, the southern Kiangs! front held by Cantonese troops is very quie The Reds are not
South tothering about the
buc appear to be concentrating, their efforts to capture a port on the coast of Pukien. It is said that the Nanking military authorities have sent cruisers to the Fuklen
coast so as to prevent the contact by the Reds with the outside world.
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FLEEING INSURGENTS (Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press")
(By Telegraph. Copyright, Tele Messages #rdinance, graphic
1894. Received, July 29, 150 am.}
Belgrade, July 28 Hundreds of Austrian insurgents sought refuge in Yugoslavian ter- Saturday, the feeing ritury' on men being so hard pressed by pur- quers between the towns of Rag- they threw gon and Mura that first their rifles and then them selves into the river and swam to safety to the foreign shore.
All
World trade was unfortunately still paralysed in many regions. The best they could say was that the decline was being arrested. and that Britain's share in the festricted world trade was definite- ly on the increase.
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Mr. Runciman' said he had sign- ed commercial agreements with 13 ccúntries and negotiations were proceeding with four others. In every case, the agreements show- ed an increase in British exports to the countries concerned.
of beef the United Kingdom, Gov- ernment would desire to arrange for a programme of imports of meat into the United Kingdom so that the value of the subsidy might not be depreciated by excessive imports. It was arranged that the Governments concerned should ex- change views and information as to steps necessary to effect this purpose."........... British Wireless
an attempt to encourage Chinese A WIN FOR THE
students to "study in Germany. The German Consul General in Canton is instrumental largely in arranging this scholarship.
At present the medical school of
the Sun Yat Sen University is taught mostly by German pro. fessors and the system of instruc- tion and requirement are modelled after German universitles
A PITCHED BATTLE
Formosans Take. Law Into Own Hands
F
Amoy, July 23.
PHILIPPINES
America Second In Rifle Match
Shanghai, July 24. The International Rifle match took place at the rifle range on Sunday and was won by the Philippine team with 289 pts. The American team was 2nd with 287 and the English team 3rd with 283. Seven teams entered; two were absent, the Swiss and the
Following was the result:--
Philippine
A pitched battle between a handful H. Evangelistá of Formosans and Chinese military. Iglesias men took place at Hasan yesterday shortly after one o'clock in the after-
A. Orden
noon.
He expressed the opinion that world trade was too much at the mercy of sudden political distur bances for him to make any, op- timistic prophecy, but he thought the essential conditions for trade revival were present, if only a gen-
From information gleaned, it ap -ral restoration of condence ab-peared that the Formosans
Hosan employees of a factory in Sometime back a coat was, atolen from F. Hutchinson the premises, and suspicion was levelled at a Chiness labourer who was in the M. Jordan habit of coming to the factory to draw C. J. Langley
Insurgents not voluntarily giving road could be secured. up their weapons were overpower | British Wireless. ed by the Yugoslavian frontier police and forced to join their more. peaceful, comrades in the inter- ment camps.
The Belgrade Press on Saturday reports the insurrection movement a growing stronger all over Aus- tria with Carinthia as the storm centre where the insurgents were holding many towns.-- Traneceran Kuo Min.
STYRIA TROUBLE ENDS (Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press")
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(By. Telegraph, "Copyright. Tele graphic Messager Ordinance, 1894. Received, July 28. 5-30 pm)
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Vienna, July 28.
According to an announcement, the Heimatschutz purgative action 1 Styrla may now be regarded as at an end The Heimatschutz com- panies from Upper Austria and Salzburg in Lower Austria, acting Jointly with the Heimatschutz in Styria have cleared the frontier districts of all insurrectionista. Regular traffic has been resumed almost everywhere.
The losses of the Heimatschutz which, with the Federal army and the gendarmerie carried out the fighting, have been very heavy, According to the latest reports, thirty were killed in Styria. In Carinthia mumerous skirmishes took place in the evening with stragglers of insurgents. Other wise everything was quiet in Upper and Lower Austria, from Varari- herg to Burgerland.—— Transocean Kuo Min..
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and he was summarily seized and dragged into the factory. The For mosara set upon him, it was alleged,
England
'A' COY, LINCOLNS HOLD water from a well there.
AQUATICS
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No. 1 Platoun's Narrow Victory
"A" Company of the Lincolnshire Regiment held their annual aqua-
Yesterday the man visited the well,
and the poor man was so badly man- F. R. L. Carey.... 30 31 34 95 handled that a soldimself to interV. Sharmazi
who happened V W. Ribbons to pass by, took upon fere..
The allegation was that the Formosans told the soldier to mind his own business, otherwise he would be treated to the same fate. The
the sports at the European YMC.goldier left to get reinforcement. Hec. G. Hoh
A. Pool on Saturday afternoon when. Pte. Lockett as a result of a win over Cpl. Chicken iria 50 Yards Free Style race, secured the Championships for No. 4 Platoon
with a total of 23 points against | No. Z Platoon with 22 points.
Pte. Lockett, and Cpls. Chicken and. Flear were the outstanding competitions.
Results follow:-- Inter-Platoon Relay Race (25) 50,
50, 25 yards):——— 1 No. 1 Platoon; 2 No. 4 Pla- toom; 3 No. 2 Platoon; 4 No... 3 Platoon..
Time: 1 min. 44 secs. Diving (Teams of two men)
I No., Platoon; 2 No. 4 PIB- toon; 3. No. 3 Platoon 4 No.
Platoon.
150 Yards Free Style:
1 No. 2 Platoon; 2 No. 4 Pla- toon; 3 No. 3 Platoon; 4. No. 1 Platoon,
Time: 2 mins. 7 seca.
Long" Plunge:
returned with an officer and some N. S. Li men, but the Formsans, nothing daunted, attacked them all; in the S. L. Chu melee, the officer was badly bruised and his
uniform was torn.
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The vanquished party went off to This farther reinforcement. time they returned with police and more men, and they cause armed V. Agudar They demanded the Formosas to eur. Caldas render the poor captive Thia was Alvaro Marques refused and further fighting took place. After a hard set-to, the Formosans had to capitulate, and four or five of them were taken into custody.
SHIPPING BECOMES NORMAL AGAIN
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80·97 79 256
FIRE WOOD JUNKS
According to a Canton vernacular" paper, 11 is reported that owing to
Only A Few Vessels Delayed heavy rains which fell in the Can-
By Typhoon
Shanghai July 24- The typhoon which passed Shanghai has now gone, and once again ships
ton districte, during the past few days, the water in the West river has reached high levels.
The fire-wood junior and timber rafts, that had assembled at differ
are coming and going according to ent points of the river, took ad- schedule. As far as Shanghai was vantage of the opportunity to sall
i No. 2 Platoon; 2 No. 4 Pla-concerned the typhoon has been a to their respective destinations,
toon; 3 No. 1 Platoon; 4 No. 3 Platoon. Distance: 33 ft. 3 inches 20 Yards Dash
1 No. Platoon 2 No. 2 Pla- toon; 3 No. 3 Platoon 4 No.
1 Platoon.
Time: 144.5 secs
50 Yards Free Style (Deciding the
̈championship):-
1 No Platoon 2 No. 2 Pla-"
toon wd A
London, July 28. Captain Raineri Biscià. Itallán naval expert who is arriving in Half Mile Team Race (Bwun on London this evening, will on Mon-
(Friday): V day have conversations with the Foreign Office and Admiralty off- cials.
1 No. 2 Platoon: 2 No. 3 Pla- -toon; 3 No. 3 Platoon; 4 No
* Platootk Times: 15 mins. 10) secs.
The object of the visit is prepare for more formal naval talks in ze- lation to next years Conferences 1-No, 4 Platoon which are to take place in the 2-No. 2 Flatoon. autumn
British Wirelen.
*A FINAL FOINTS
No. 1 Platoon
No. 3 Platoon
23 pté. 22 pts. 10 pts. 10 pts.
blewing as it broke the run of con- tinuous hot weather. The wind was
It has been reported that over
not strong enough to cause damage.thirty firewood Junks from the The Whangpoo did not overflow as Pok Lo and the other districts, it did last year, and the only people with thousands of pleuls of fre- who were e seriously troubled were the wood have left for Canton, and it shipping companies. Both the Chan is believed that there will be a Navigation A. Shuntien and as Bias ran in the price of Are-wood both kiang, which should have arrived in
Shanghai yesterday, are coming in Canton and Hong Kong.
in to-day. Both vessels sheltered during
Sunday at Tringtao.
Yesterday the Shantien from
醜
Chefoo and Wehtival left Tsingtao today at Old Ningpo Whset from and she expected alongside the Tientsin, though her arriti ist French Band at 8 am, to-day. The definite. The sa Yuensang from 1. Sinking is arriving at the French Tsingtao will be alongade: Hant's Bund at 7 am grafu for Beruhen schedule time. The as
The aa. Shun-Wharf to-day only a few hours off tian" will leave again ports on Wednesday at noon. The from Foochow arrived washing Yesterday Bintang is leaving for the south on evening and is now at buoy à 21 Thursday. The GN. 6. Luchu Due to the typhoon the D.K.K. 5. which was alsor delayed arrived in Hoten Mary at Tringtwo miled from Shanghai yewberdayavaning Pand. In that port. yesterday, and is expected leaving from the French Barat Ka Mongade Whigpu Wharf between now today for Turen anel Newebang 3's, and 10 to-day. She will Among the Indo-Ching, B.N, Oil from Shanghai for Daiyon. vie verol, the de Tlognag Be expected. Tangisa at Gam. to-morrow,
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Coroner Disagrees With Jury.
Funds Needed For Hospital.
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