NANKING STUDENT
OUTBREAK.
RUMOURS OF LANDING OF BRITISH SAILORS.
AFFAIR FIZZLES OUT.
Nanking, Apr. 6. The trouble caused by the student demonstration against the British Arm, the International Export Cor- poration, which started on Thursday and threatened to develop into a riot of serious proportions, has been settled.
As is usual in such cases the wild- eat rumours were circulated when excitement was at its height. It was freely stated in the streets that
British marines had been landed from H.M.S. Cornwall and that six workers had been killed. These reports, although absolutely base less, incensed the crowd and it was only the firm stand taken by the authorities which prevented wide- apread damage from being done and possible lives from being lost.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,
CANTON'S MAYOR A
RETURNS.
THINKS NORTHERN REBELLION WILL SOON END.
MUKDEN LOYALTY,
YOUNG THIEF'S
STORY.
STOLE TO GET MONEY FOR
SICK SISTER.
THEN BOUGHT WATCH.
When #
THIS CURRENCY.
HOW THE MAN-IN-THE STREET SEES IT.
[By "Cynicus."]
ir-
The mind of "the man in the street" may ba deplorably ignorant mind in a general sense, Canton, Apr. 10.
young Chinese was but it unquestionably is an Mr. Lam Wen-koi, the Mayor of charged before Mr. Lindsell at the quisitive mind. In the matter of Canton, has returned to the city Central Police Court, this morning exchange, it is a particularly in after an absence of close upon two with stealing a travelling rug and quisitive mind, and for the last months. Mr. Lam went North in various pieces of clothing from few months it has been trying to the middle of February as one of Mrs, Rahina, a midwife living at grapple with a problem which has the Delegates of the Provincial Belcher's Street, and other articles completely baffled it. "Why should Government of Kwangtung at the from a carpenter at Des Voeux the market price of silver knock Third Plenary Session of the Road West by whom he was em- twenty-five per cent. off the pur- Kuomintang which opened at Nan-ployed, it was stated by the police chasing power of local currency, king on the 1st March.
that with the proceeds derived and, what is more to the point, From Nanking, Mr. Lam was from pawning the stolen property, twenty-five per cent. off the sterl- sent North on Official business for the defendant bought for himself ing value of the man in the street's the
Hea gold wrist watch. visited Liao-ning (Peking), Tsing- tao and Shen-Yang Mukden), and was much impressed with the prospects of development in Minn- churia.
Central
Government.
Mr. Lam is convinced that General Chang Hsueh-liang and
a
nard-earned savings?"
APRIL 11, 1930.
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What has happened to six-pence Defendant endeavoured to con. vince the Court that he was sud- in every dollar since the dollar denly recalled to the country by crashed? Somebody has got it, sister who had fallen dangerously and the question which seemingly
Dr. Harston and adjoining the Peak ill, and pleaded that he stole to cannot be answered is--who?
Unfurnished. Convenient, find some money for her.
The people who deal in dollars Hospital.
Four bathrooms, Drossing room. "And yet you bought this gold as a grocer does sugar, wisely comfortable and cool. Six rooms and kong or Mexican dollar has fallen tion. Gas and Electric Light. Use in sympathy with the price of of Tennis Court. Saltable for a Mess silver which is the basis of China's of five, or could be easily divided to currancy. And there they leave suit two couples.
Close to Tram Station and Motor Road.
The International Export Cor-the Manchurian authorities are watch?" his Worship pointed out assert that the value of the Hong-hat and cold water. Modern sanita-
poration-suspended operationg some Lime ago on account of military disturbances north of the river. When it was re-opened on April 3, the Corporation could only take on 200 workers as compared with the 2,000 required when the season is in full swing.
Student Intervention, The rejcted workers from the factory gathered in front of the factory gates and mobbed the 200 men who had been re-engaged. Four of these were injured, one seriously.
The news that there was a labour riot at the factory spread like wild. fire and the students of the Central University and the Nanking Univer- sity held a mass meeting the follow
He further
absolutely loyal to Nanking and will asist the Central Government in the suppression of the rebel
on Kuominchun. states that there is considerable dissension between General Feng Yu-hsiang and General Yen Hsi- shen and that the alliance is not likely to last long. According to Mr. Lam, the Central autnorities have the situation well in hand and should have no dificulty in suppressing the rebellion.
On the return of the Mayor from Nanking. Mr. Luk Yau- kwong. Director of the Municipal Bureau of Education, left for Nan- king to attend the Educational Congress which is to open in the capital on the 15th April.
Mr.
Lau Hing-pang, Chief Secretary to
charge during the
spector Bloor: He told me ho spent the money he got for these things in gambling.
His Worship (to defendant):-it! You have been gambling; that is what it is? How old are you?
Defendant:-17 years.
His Worship: You appear to be under 16.. You will have six strokes on each charge, or 12 in all. The watch will be returned to the original complainant be cause it was bought out of the proceeds from her property.
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ing day and passed resolutions sup the Bureau of Education, will be CHINESE THROWS JACKET IN country. Certainly not silver. porting the unemployed workers. neting They decided to march together to the factory on Saturday and to absence of Mr. Luk You-kwong.
stage a demonstration there.
who experts to be away from. Can-
REVOLT AGAINST
NANKING.
General Chiang Kai-shek, how-ton only for about three weeks.
Our Own Correspondent. ever, issued instructions that no student was permitted to leave the city. The Export Corporation is located at Usiakunn, outside the city wall and all the city gates were heavily guarded with police and soldiers. The danger lay in the pos- aibility that the students, influenced by red elements might come into conflict with the guards
at the gates. This danger, however, was fortunately avoided.
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THE HARBOUR.
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Local listeners-in had oppor puity last evening of listening to an interesting talk on cancer by Dr. Alexander Cannon, who spoke from the Hongkong broad- casting studio. Dr. Cannon spoke of the increasing death rate from cancer, of the fact that while the
Last October, the Hongkong A GODOWN at Whitfield Road con- paper money was at a premium insisting about 2,500 sq. ft. next to any part of China, roughly sixteen Kwong Sang Hong Glass Factory. A sentence of five months hard per cent. over the supposed price of Please apply to Kwong Sang Hong labour was imposed by Mr. Whyte silver. It is such a notorious fact Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy that China is simply flooded with this morning on a Chinese who paper money that has no backing, was charged with stealing a jackel that the British prestige and integ- containing $1.30 in money and rity at the back of our money, Pave documents belonging to an en-it a rightfully inflated value. Did kiver of the steam launch Seagulla sudden crash in the price of lying alongside three lighters at the world's silver remove the (Continued from Pope 1 Kowloon godowna.
reason for that premium? The It was stated by Detective Ser-man in the street fails to see how
could. Nanking geant Kellett that the defendant it to ching. has returned after attending the national went on board the launch at 8utter fool! Nevertheless, the fact athletic meet at Hangehow,
somebody o'clock last night and was seen remaire It is understood that he has leaving with a jacket which he had sacrified the goodwill value of postponed his departure to Han- taken from the engine room. He British money as represented by the importance of early diagnosis kow as he wishes to attend the was chased, and in running away Hongkong currency, and what is and treatment. national Boys Scouts review on threw the jacket with his contents is, that somebody has benefited by the tragic aspect of the problem, April 18, in which five thousand into the harbour. He was arrest-the substitution of Boy Scouts are expected to partici-ed, but the jacket was not recover-cheapened metal for our good at work in the silver mines! Other pate.
name, in place of piece of paper wise, what on earth is their It was pointed out that there actually in demand and bought at argument? was quite a lot of petty larceny 25% more because of the good on the water front,
Kiangsu-Honan Border.
The situation on the Kiangsu Honan border is quiet. The Ho- panese hold Kweitch and show no inclination to advance.
ed.
The defendant had a previous conviction for larceny, having only recently been discharged from
mittee has issued an appeal to the
The Central Executive Com-gaol.
Shansi troops to rally to the sup- The Tatsuti Maru, one of the port of the Central Government, three largest and most magnificent recalling "their meritorious ser- motor-ships ever built in Japanvices during the northern punitive and appointed to be run on the expedition." N.Y.K.'s Orient-California Service,
CRICKET.
Of course, 'he's
that
name at the back of it.
an
has
grossly
com-
It surely cannot matter one iota what the price of silver is at the mines. If it doesn't pay to work it, why should we have to make it pay, or why should we be com- pelled to suffer heavy loss just because silver has proved an un- workable and unprofitable mercial proposition? After all, if there is a glut of the metal, that is surely the fault of the fools working it! The de Beers people found a more practical system to The following will represent the control the price of diamonds. We shan, Feng Yu-hsiang, the Western Indian R. C. 1st XI. in a League have seen the price of rubber Hills elique and the reorganisa- match against the Craigongower regulated by controlling output,
The Kuomin news agency con- Was ondered from the famous tinues to carry messages from Mitsubishi Dockyard in Nagasaki. North China asserting that dissen. The construction work was start. ions are rife between Yen Hsi-.
ed in December, 1927 and the launching took place on April 12th last year.
The liner has a displacement of 22,000 tons and the gross tonnage of 16,971 tons. Her length is 381) feet, beam 72 feet, depth 42.6 feet. The Tatsuta Maru is equipped) with four sets of Sulzer Diesel, engines capable of developing
tionists,Reuter,
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19,600 S... in total and a speed save the Five Power Naval Con: of 21 knots. The passenger ac ference as such. commodation comprises 239 first cleas, 96 second class, and 501 atcerage class.
It was learned from American sources that draft proposals have been submitted by Messrs. Stim- son Morrow and Gibson to M. Briand and Signor Grandi for a Five-Power Treaty, of which 24 Three-Power pact would form a
In planning the construction of the liner and her sister ships, comfort, speed and safety have been the foremost thought of the Company. All the latest devices, part. for assuring the security
of passengers are included in the equipment.
and The Treaty would be divided stability of the ship and the safety into three parts. In the first place it would provide for a capital ship holiday. a speeding up in Not only does the Tatsuta Maru scrapping, an extension of the Washington clauses regarding air- represent, from the technical point of view, the last word craft carriers from 10,000 tons or shipbuilding, but the Company has more to smailer ships. Also, a also spared no pains to ensure that promise would be agreed regard categorical global tonnage com it shall meet the demands of the ing special and exempt ships. modern, discriminating travelling public in respect to cabin accom- would be on the humanisation of The second part of the Treaty modation, cuisine and service, submarines and the third part thereby converting it into a most would be the Three-Power Agree- luxurious floating hotel rather ment. The first and second parts than an ocean liner.
of the proposed Treaty would be The salient features embodied signed by all the Five Powers and in the accommodation for passen-the last part by Britain, America gers, are Its extraordinary and Japan only-Reuter, "roominess" in decks, public
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for
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both glass-enclosed and open beauty of its public rooms, promenade decks. There are also they exhibit complete modernity a ladies' hairdressing parlour, in appointment combined with dark-room for amateur photo exquisite taste, as manifested in graphers, and finally the branch the decorations office of the Sumitomo Bank oning various periods famed board, where all exchange of money, for their elegance and splen- cashing of travellers' cheques, dour in architectural and remittance business, etc, etc. will artistic accomplishment. The de- The handled to the great con-corative work and furniture in
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cancer is local and the growth ac- pessible it is curable, and stressed
Does it seem possible that any real expert in the world-to-day would recommend a country jeopardise its prosperity to the almost worthless basis of silver?
to
It doesn't surely matter whether our dollar-is fixed at 1/6 or 2/- as long as it is fixed. It would at least then command the same respect from China that it com- manded when it carried a premium of 15%! We were not then on a goid basis, but the fact remaine that when we were to all intents and purposes on a paper basis, our paper. was worth very much Con the IRC ground on surely the same can be done with more than is that precious metal Saturday at 2 p.m.-A. A. Rum-silver. Our wiseacres say aol which we have suddenly been Jahn Capt.). A. H. Rumjahr, Apparently they are willing to sea driven to. A. H. Madar, A. el Arculli, A. Kour Minu, A. R. Minu, J. S. A. Cur-jalarming depths just from the mind of the man in the street, and There remains one fact in the reem, S. A. Ismail, O. Ismail. A humatarian motive of keeping men that is that a few thousand dirty M. Rumjahn and P. R. Errnee.
pieces of paper bearing the name worth of a Hongkong bank were 25% more to him than a cartload of allver, and yet, nobody can tell us why this should have happened. It may be that the banks run the Government, but why, remains one of the tantalising problems con- nected with the whole wretched matter. Another poser. If the silver dollár is regulated by the price of silver, why is it that the xame old idiot in the street can get a better price from some banks than others? The variations have been as much as a penny in the dollar, which seems to indicate that either the price of bar silver has nothing to do with the matter, or that some banks are philan- thropists. If we are really on a silver basis, surely a picec of silver fashioned in the form of a coin would be worth its intrinsic value in weight of that metal. The Hongkong dollar is not priced in accordance with the price per ouncò of fine silver, plus the minting and freight necessary charges. Even now we are higher than Shanghai, which proves that Gilver has nothing to do with the matter, and that our unweildy dollars are no more nor less than tokens. If they are tokens, their value can most certainly be fixed, although the great snag would be that somebody would be denied the privilege of gambling in our currency, hence the assertion that we must pin our financial standing to a country verging on, bank- ruptcy. The man in the street, poor ignorant fool, doesn't believe that there was any justification for Hongkong's financiul debacle, and so far, tobody has been able to convince him that there-wae,"i
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