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AL CURRENCY DRASTIC RUBBER
PROBLEM.
RPRISING LETTER
FROM HOME.“.
"ASSOCIATION UNAWARE
OF AGITATION!
PROPOSALS.
RECOMMENDATIONS BY ASSOCIATION.
VOLUNTARY EFFORT.
London, Sept. 30.
· A circular.. letter has been ad- dressed by the Rubber Growers') 2) Association to all its members sug- HONGKONG NEWS.riting certain delinite steps for Tthe rationalisation of production in suggestion on the part of order to expedite up equilibrium Chin Coast Qficers' Guild, between supply and demand. Hongkong for the establish-
Save had no
a
WEIHAIWEI NOW CHINESE.
HANDED BACK AFTER
32 YEARS.
GARRISON EMBARKS FOR HONGKONG.
HISTORY RECALLED.
TRIPLE FLYING MISHAR
THREE PLANES CRASH SIMUTANEOUSLY.
RA.F. PILOTS DEAD.
was Seriously injurere,zad
THE MANCHURIAN EPITOMES OF AIR
INVASION.
NANKING. ATTITUDE
QUESTIONED.
VIGOROUS STATEMENT
C. TWANG..
"VAIN IMAGININGS."
Nanking, Sept 30.:: Nanking's real attitude
baseless.
TRANSPORT.
NEW AIR-LINER FLEET FOR IMPERIAL AIRWAYS.
REMARKABLE CRAFT.
Ride safe
DUNLOP
"Britain's best."
Fedder Building. Tel. 24554
NEW YORK SHARE SENSATION.
UNDERWRITING FIRM HAMMERED
BANKRUPTED BY HEAVY SELLING WAVE.
DEPRESSION SEQUEL.
Londo Sept. 30.0
London, Sept. 20.. Two pilots of the ecoyal Air
Artet ofthe largest and, the Force were killed and TE WAS
most powerful air liners in the slightly injured to-desult
world, totalling ty thousand of one of the most be
Table
horse power, will do possessed by triple dying mishapon fecord.
Britain when the Imperial Air- British rule in Weihaiwei They were tying seplate nathi
ways obtains delivery shortly af came to an end to-day, when, nes and all three drished into a
to-ringboats intended for use o
eleven great now aeroplanes an Another remarkable selling The circular points out that it with due ceremony, the territory hillside near Arunde: Sussex, al-wards the Manchurian invasion the cleven thousand miles of air Exchange yesterday had a sen
wave on the New York Stock by the Home Government, less to consider any form of
compulsory regulation until the Was handed back to China in ac-most simultaneously. “
of the Peking and Tientsin area links to India and South Africa. sational sequel When Messra. a gold currency for Hong decision of the Dutch East Indies cordance with the recently-con- The airmen belonged to the is still the subject of consider- Eight of these machines, cach Sisto and Company confessed
has resulted in a rather Government is reversed, while any cluded Rendition Convention: 116th Fighter Squadron and they able speculation. Interviewed developing two thousand horse themselves unable to meet hishing letter from the reduction in the cost of production Sir Reginald F. Johnston,, who were tying Bulldog machines when to-day regarding reports in the power, are being built by the obligations and were hammer- their ers (Merchant Navy) Fede-would be mullified by a further fall has been Commissioner of Wei-they ran into a fog near Arundel foreign newspapers suggesting Handley Page Company, while theed. Another big firm operating on, Ltd., of London, through, in the price of rubber.
haiwel for several years and who They were flying close together that a suspicion is entertained other machines are huge four- ich channel the overtures The Association therefore sag-was, formerly in the Hongkong and practically at the same time by the Nationalist Government engined lyingboats capable of in three leading cities has been To conducted, which quotes geste to its members that there be Government service, took an im- they struck the tops of some trees regarding the military maye speeds.
transporting heavy loads at high | suspended. following opinion expressed an entire suspension of tapping if portant part in the ceremonies.
New York, Sept. 30 on the hillside and prasiteit.
ment of the North-Eastern When all the new craft, are in Messrs. J. A. Sisto, and Commi the China Association; cxcess of expenditure over in-On the completion of the rendi- Flight Lieutenant Gerald Arra Forces in North China, Dr. C. T. service, the Imperial Airways will pany, a big firm of underwriters
come not increased... le the subject of gold cur- one is not thereby in comunion; the Britsh Garrison, con- sir, the pilot of one mase, Wang dismissed the reports na have more than thirty giant pas were hammered on
was killed. Sergeant dirkisauw,
the Stock Mor China has been in the
senger aeroplanes and airboats in Exchange to-day for insolvency. the Association advocates considers sisting of Company of the some time, the agitation, tion of the question whether the End Batty Arry and Sutherland the gilet of the secona muenine,
This is regarded as the most. The Foreign Minister characterised regular, operation along Empire *SUP- to be subsiding, and losses would be curtailed by main Highlanders and other details enmbed later, while File. Oficer them as "the vain imaginings of die fair routes.
important Wall Street failure representataining the maximum production:
embarked on H.M.S. Cornwall, Geoffrey Pawson, pilot of har rumourmongers who haring Each of the new geroplanes will since the collapse of the market s yet, from the European It is also urged that there be which is due to arrive in Hong-third, escaped with ninos, injuries. Fowing fresh discord."
the tacked the wrong horse are bent on accohimodate forty puasengers, the aulamn of last year. unity in Hongkông)
postponement of tapping in respect kong on Monday next.
H.M.S. Cornwall will remain ried.--British Wireless.
No 'passengers were being car- As a matter of fast," added Dr.of a Pullman car, a wing span
will have a saloon-as big .theon Uncertain o Federation, which was ask of young rubber and an abandon-
Wang
"there is a complete under-140 feet, requfring, wing slats afNo statement has been issued to appeal on the matter to the ment. of tapping in older areas here for ten days after her arrival,
standing..
the between
National and will then proceed Home via retary of State for the Domi- xiving only small yields-Reuter.
Government and the North-eastern large as the main planes of the change Committee in Singapore to be recomniissigned.
provincial authorities."-Router,
famous Moth light aeroplanes regard to the assets or liabilities Ashs, added it was doubtful of ita
唉 They will be capable of a speed of of Sato and Company but it is Pay to enlist public interest in
120 miles an hour.-British Wire learned that the bamring was And, as, so far as the British
Blesk. le was concerned, the mutter
the result of a strong fuelling) too technical and distant..
movement which caused prices to slip rapidly down.
Meanwhile, it is. learned that: Messrs. J Loftus, who' are also members of the New York Stock Exchange: and; the Chicago Board of Trade ̄ fail- ed to open its depreät Los Angeles fo-day and were immediately sus tions by diplomacy than "oy
relijel, "ruma their membership of strategy.
London, Sept. 30. the litora Stock Exchanges a At the League Assembly to-day, A spokesman of the Manchurian
Los Angeles Suspension. Government told newspaper rer-Lord, Cecil made a vigorous attack respondents at Mukden yesterday on the dilatory methods of the
Enquiries from. New York re that the Manchurian occupation League in dealing with the slaverycarding the suspension of Messrs. of Peking and Tientsin was ear problem. He declared that there J. J. Loftus brought a message ried out with the express object were still about five million slaves from the President of the Call- of shortening the duration of the in the world.
He complained that the proposal Messrs. Loftus, who specialise in-
fornia Exchange stating that war in the North and confining"
of the British delegation to.con-
Surprise
Fell.
de apparent ignorance of the Ja Association regarding the agitation as expressed in the spapers on the question of the any's currenes, has been re- ed with amazement by Capt.
Lotranson, the Secretary of
36 that he cannot conceive how
London, Sept. 30.-
On the London exchange to-day, rubber touched a new low record at 3, 5/8d. per pound, à decline of 1/8d on the day.
Tin also fell 2 113. 30. per ton
£1257s. 6d.---British Wireless.
DELAY IN HÖLDING CONFERENCE.
Leased in 1928,
So far as British interests are concerned, the history of Weihai- we began in 1898, the year in which the territory was leased to | Great Britain “in order to provide Great Britain with suitable naval barbour in North China, and.
4
FRAUD BY PILOT APPRENTICE.
FRISON FOR UNLAWFUL CONVERSION.
Cheng Liu, apprentice
let em-
Mukden Declaration.
Peking, Sept. 30. An appeal to militarists in China for generál disbandment as the sole means of ensuring peace and, order will form the basis of General Chang Hsueh-liang's
second, declaration to the people of China now in the course of pre- Orption. The Marichurian Ipa-
for the better protection of Bri-ployed at Holt's Whared
at the Kowloon Mag: tish commerce in the neighbour-Mr. Gutters is to der will great by dialaine ing seas The territory, which charge of having fili,dulently con- comprises an area of about 288 vented a sum of $125, the property Coast Officers' Guild, who CENTRAL. EUROPE INDICATES square miles, with an irregular of the Company to his own use on
coastline of 72 miles. is situated a few miles to the west of the October 31 last year.
He pleaded guilty. north-eastern promontory of Shan- tung, and contains more than 300
Detective-Sergeant Poyntz said villages, in which dwell the bulk the the defendant was employed as S on June 6, last that the the Report and it resolution on the of the population, extimatud at a coxswain on a tug of the Blue Coast Officers Guild, appre-subject of the reduction of arma- over 160,000 people.
Funnel Company last year. He the acute position of mer
ments. The German, Austrian Weihaiwei Woa A
fortified was given $135 to pay the crew in ervicemen owing to the and Hungarian delegates, how-Chinese naval port before the uut October and absconded to Shanghai the war zone to Honan
A Association could remain
ware of the strength of public
DISAPPROVAL.
Geneva, Sept. zo
- on the subject in Hongkong. The Assembly to-day adopted
5,000,000 SLAVES IN
THE WORLD:
LORD CECIL DISSÄTISFIED.
WITH LEAGUE.--
...
condition of the long-ever, abstained from voting on the break of the China-Jafian War in with the money. He came back to General Chang Hsuch-liang, heene an International Conference in trading, were suspended fol-
the
The slump in New York is at
rrency decided to make ground that no date has been 1894-95. The forts, which had Hongkong about five months ago added,
was considering certain had been rejected by the Commits lowing their teful to submit their books for amination by to the Home Govern fixed for the General Disarmament been constructed not long before and was employed as an apprenties important proposals to Napking tee, and deeply regretted that the the Exchange Committee Reu
Conference.
Two weeks advocating the, cessation of the League did not itself take more by German engineers, failed topilot at Holt's Wharf. Currency Wanted. M. Briand declared he was con- save Weihaiwei from falling into ago the defendant paid back $100 war and a scheme under which all energetic steps to deal with the tera American Service,
rinced that the November meeting the hands of the Japanese during to the Company. Defendant was armies in China would be treated situation. of the Preparatory Committee on that wir, and a large part of the seen in the Harbour Office yesterday as Government troops. In viewThe report of the Sixth Com-.truted to fears arising from the Disarmament would see a comple-Chinese fleet based on Weihaiwei and recognised by Capt. Riggs. of the success of the occupation mittee on Slavery was adopted, political situation in Germany and
the British Manchurian but
delezation to the heavy decline in commodity Capt. H. P. Allgood-If your of Chihli, Worship, registers
a 'conviction. Government was optimustiere abstained from voting British values such as wheat, cotton. rub- ber and silk. The market"; "has would like you to make it an ex-warding the acceptance of General Wireless.
also been affected by the decline ample.
Chang Hsuch-lang's suggestion.
in automobile "registrations and It is understood that the Nun- Two months' imprisonment king Administrative Courbell ha
the reports of poor earnings by imposed.
addressed a telegram: to Genera
several of the largest business Chang Hsuch-liang suggesting
corporations. that Nanking bè given control of the Tientsin Maritime Customs.
Nanking War Claims.
upsequence, a telegram atched to the Officers
Federation, tion of its work. bunt Navy)
was captured or sunk. Admiral London, urging that the
Lord Ceeil was anxious that the Ting Ju-chang, who commanded rettyof State should direct General Disarmament Conference the feet, committed suicide." Government to fix the local cur should be held as soon as possible. jeyton, a gold basis. It was but he did not think that a date ]``
Japanese Occupation. mited out that, on the present hould be fixed if there were a ver basis, the officers and men danger that it would have to be and district for some time after The Japanese held the island the Merchant Navy and others postponed. re suffering great hardships.
the war, pending 'the final settle-
He believed that it could bement of the terms of peace, but
d that firm action was required.eld next year but he did not wish in 1898. following the seizure of On July 28, the Officers (Mer- In the his hands-Renter.
ant Navy) Federation replied to
ls request. The full text
of
ir letter which is dated July
, as follows:
Unsatisfactory Reply,
We duly received your telegram
COST OF LIVING DECLINES..
Port Arthur by Russia, the British Government asked for and obtain-. ed a lease of Weihaiwei and the! adjacent territory "for so long a period as Port Arthur shall re- main in the occupation of Bussid.? In 1901, the territory, which had been administered, first by, naval
Hongkong asking us if we LOWEST IN ENGLAND SINCE and then by military officers, was
d us the Secretary of State the Dominions to fix the Hong- currency on a fold baris, and kommumicated forthwith with
THE WAR.
placed under the control of the Colonial Office, and has since been administered by a civil Commis sioner appointed by the Crown.
was
ETTER” THAN THE
REPUBLICANS..
DEMOCRATS WANT REPEAL OF PROHIBITION,
LORD BIRKENHEAD'S
FUNERAL.
ASHES TO BE INTERRED AT COUNTRY SEAT,
Londöri, Oot, 1.
Huge Paper Losses, Although the downward ten- dency has not been so startling as Nanking, Sept. 30,
a year ago, stocks in every section Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, has
of the list havé suffered, some of sent telegrams to Nanking inform. The body of the late Lord Birken-them very heavily. Thousands of ing the Government of the capture head was taken last night from his shares have been thrown, over- by the Nationalist forces of London residence to the chapel in board in the course of the past, New York, Sept. 30.
Lanfeng this morning marking a Grays Inn, of which the Earl was week, and even the new speed Tuttle, at the Republican candidate, along the Lung-Hai Railway. chapel until Friday, when it will be keep pace with the thing.
Following the numination of Mr most successful Nanking assault a bencher. It will remain in the tickers have been hard pressed to for the Governorship, the Democra. The Kuominchun forces along the cremated. The ashes will be re- In one day last week,market? the State Convention, at Syracuse, Lung-Hai Railway are retreating moved to the deceased's country values of stocks declined by at New York, has re-nominated Goy and the Nationalists, are about seat tear Banbury for the funeral least a billion dollars, and the error Franklin Roosevelt.
ten miles from Loyang..
on Saturday..
frices of leading stock such as The Democrats,have now adopt The Nationalist Division Only Commander McGrath, Lord United States Steel and Radio Cor- ed an even "wetter" planks than the operating near. Chengchow has Birkenhead's closest friend,porations have been dropping ever At the Washington Conferetice Republicans. They re-demanding also telegraphed reporting accompanied the body to Grays since. Radio Corporations were in 1921, Lord Balfour announced | the absolute repeal of Kuominchun general retirement Inn. where it was received by five | quoted at 17 eight days ago," and The figures show an average per-that Great Britain, was prepared, Eighteenth Amendment. Reuters and stating that a Kubminchun" "Masters of the Bench Reuter on Monday they closed at 28, a centage increase as compared with under suitable conditions.. to Te American Service."
withdrawal from Chengchow is July, 1914, for all items included store the territory to the full
imminent. Railway communiça- Ly the Ministry of Labour in their sovereignty of China. Shortly
tion west of Chengchow has been statistics, and never fell below 60 afterwards, [4] Anglo-Chinese
cut by a successful Nationalist. for the first time at the beginning | Commission met and drew up a
offensive.
A of April, this year. Two months Rendition Agreement. This was later, it was devon to 54 and at the lady for signature in 1924, hut beginning of Septembrs it soul at ut coup d'etat la Peking which re- suited in the overthrown of the
London, Sept. 30, The index figures of the cost of Department concerned; but, alivior in Great Britain have been pected, the reply was unsatis lower during the past six months than those recorded previously, at any time since the way.
To will note that in our cabled we expressed some apprehen-
h being able to enilst public on this side on such, a feal and distant matter, (as the British public is con- 44.
are in touch with the China gation, but do not, as ret, know the official attitude of that is on the matter of Hongkong | 67. hey:
No Representations,
Rendition Move,
In 1920, the monthly average per- Government necessitated the post- rentave her we ranged from 60 to ponement of rendition pending
W 4
CENSUS DAY.
+
FIXED FOR APRIL 26TH. NEXT YEAR.
Sept.-30.
the
*NEW LANCASHIRE
COMBINE.
FIFTY SPINNING MILES IN MERGER.
Kuominchun Evacuation.
Ninking, Sept. 30. Chiang Kai-shek has telegraphed to the Government that Feng Yu hajang has decided to retire and
London, Oct. 1, ; 67. The figures have been fu- the establishment of a settled Gov-
The Registrar General qn-that the Kuominchun ars evacuat- A scheme is nearing completion Rugared mainly by be chcupnes, ciernment recognised by the Powers.nounces that, subject to confirming their positions on the Lung for the formation of another big food-Britisif" Wide
lion by the usual statutory proce-hai Railway. The local comma-amalgamation in the Lancashire dure, it has been decided that der, Chi Huang-chang has sent cotton trade.
have been talking to the Sec
this afternoon, hit he falls
Marked Change.
drop of nine points. This in spite of the fact that the call money rate has been reduced from the. phenomenally low rate of two per cent, to one and a half per cent,
MILITANT STUDENTS AT HAVANA.
PITCHED BATTLE ROUND THE
· PRESIDENTIAL PALACE. et while the subjért of gold
Havana, Sept, 80. y for China has been in the
At the time when the British Au- April 26th, 1981, shall be Census delegates to confer with Chiang The merger will affect about fifty
A pitched battle between armed some time, the agitation ap-which war ihrersed in the now-tharities occupied Weihniwei, the Day in connexion with the forth-Kai-shek on terms of surrender. spinning mills controlling four students and police occured round. be subsiding, and they have rajers upon the currency uuesti territory was a roadless, desolate coming census.-British Wireless. Chiang Kai-shek requests that million spindles the coarse, spin the presidential palace on which representations as yet from According to the letter, they had 'truct of land inhabited by a poverty-
_____ Ma Fu-hsiang and Chang Chih-ning section of the industry in the the students marched shooting into uropean community, in Hong-['not heard of it two and a half stricken peasantry who earned a
chiaus, former Chief of Staff of Rochdale, and Oldham districts. the air and shouting "Down with onths after the outburst of pul bare subeffence by fishing and till-reclaimed and put under cultiva the Kuontifichun (wht, is at pre- The amalgamation is expected to President Machado 19 believe that the China Asie opinion. Even if the China ing the roll of trade, other than the flon; good roads have been sent in Shanghai) proceed to the be the second largest combine Police reinforcements were rush. Is the only organisation Association had not received direct barter of dried fish for native wine, constructed in place of the former front immediately to confer with in the Lancashire cotton industry.ed up to guard the palace, the country apart from our representations from the Hong none existed, for the simple rea- mule-tracks; and industry and com-him concerning the re-organisa-Reuter,
students attempted to disarm them, that is likely to have been kong, community he would have sin that the Territory produced no merce have been fostered. To-day tion of the Kuominchun.-Reuter,
and firing broke out in the course. Shed on the matter, and we thought that that time they commodity suitable for export. a common sight is the congestion of Peking, Sept. 30
of which six of the combatants were ping in close contact with would have seen the paper and But 32 years, of Britian rule have the roads leading into Port Edward. The delegates from Feng Yu- papers here, which may now be seriously wounded. The fight last
learnt of the titude of the public produced a striking change in con with lines of earts bringing in the Chief of Staff; passed here on that the telogram may call for the There has been intense unrest, in
hsiang, including Lu Chung-lin's regarded as Manchurian state ed for half an hour. ditions in the territory.
produce of the Territory and the isfactory & Bewidering towards the agestion.
Capt.Laurenkon emphasised that Unhampered by excessive taxa-neighbouring Chinese districts, or their way to Mukden. It is stated retirement to private life of Chiang Cuba or months past, President enting upon this, Capt. co-operation in such a matter is tion, the people have been enabled carrying back into the interior im that Chang Hsueh-llang is anxious Kai-shek as well as Yen Hai-shan Machado's enemies claiming that he on said he was amazed to essential. The reply was, he said, to rise from poverty to prosperity: ports for distribution, Revenue has to hear the views of the various and Feng Yu-halang, and the sum is a mere puppet of powerful the China Association was most unsatisfactory and bewilder agricultural pursuits have been kept pace with the general prosper-sides before issuing his second" moning of a National Assembly at American financiera, Reuters Fre of the local agitationing.
developed waste land has been 167.
peace telegram. The vernacular Tientsin Router
American Service.
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