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No. 1994
二拜體 號七月三英港香
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1933.
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JAPANESE ISSUE FRESH WARNING AT TIENTSIN
PRINCE OF WALES TO CHIANG KAI-SHEK
HOLD LEVEE
KING'S COLD TAKING NORMAL COURSE
London, Bar, 7.
It was oficially stated at Buck. ingham Palace to-night that the King's cold continues to take a normal course.
Ilis Majesty will not hold the first levee of the season at St. James's l'alace to-morrow. The Prince of Wales will represent his father, who will probably remain indoors all day as a precautionary measure.-Router.
PEKING-BOUND
DRAMATIC MOVE IN WAR SITUATION
MAY LEAD TROOPS
TANG YU-LINE
WARNED
CLAMOUR FOR THE DEATH PENALTY '
JEHOL CITY TAKEN
"
BY 128 MEN
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(From Our Special Correspondent).
(By Teleprack. Copyright. Telegraphlo 'Hessages Ordinanca, 1606. Received, March,
7, 11.08 m.)
Peking, Mar. 7.
Chagrin over the debacle!
for
· PEKING, MARCH 7, THE DRAMATIC ANNOUNCEMENT WAS. MADE TO-DAY THAT MARSHAL CHIANG KAI-- SHEK IS NOW ON HIS WAY TO PEKING.
The Generalissimo arrived at Hankow at three) o'clock yesterday afternoon from Nanchang and left almost immediately for Peking aboard a special train.
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Important conferences have already been held between Marshal Chang Hsueh-lang and General Ho Ying-ching, the Minister of War. The arrival of Chiang Kai-shek is thought likely to precipitate events. ·
An ominous situation appears to prevail at Tientsin, where it is reported that the Japanese consider that Nanking's Reply to the Japanese Consul's warning in regard to the Boxer Protocol provisions is unsatis-
in Jchol is growing in North Chiang Kai-shek factory. China and the death penalty is being demanded General Tang Yu-lin, the Governor of the province.
It is alleged that his rapacity was the real cause of the desertion
of, his soldiers to the enemy, pre-
fence.
JI
was
motor-car, #
The Japanese have informed General Yu Hauch- chung to that effect, adding that they reserve the right to take effective measures to protect Japanese lives and property as and when they think fit-Reuter.
mand.
MAY LEAD FORCES,
Sir Francis Lindley asked the Japanese Government to take mea- sures for their protection.
View of the Great Wall, along the southern border of Jahol, showing the district blanketed in ios and snow.. (Photo: Serge Vargasnoff). ̧ ̧
UNEMPLOYMENT IN AMERICAN BANKING
BRITAIN
SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT IN FEBRUARY.
.com-
London, Mar. 6. The Ministry of Labour return shows a reduction of 46,427 in the total number of persons unem ployed on February 20th, as. pared with ane month ago.
'The total number of men, women, girls and boys wholly un- employed, temporarily stopped and normally in casust employ- ment, last month was 2,856,638. ---British Wireless.
ANTUNG DISASTER
BOATS CAPSIZE IN. ROUGH SEAS
PASSENGERS
FEARED MISSING
CRISIS
FRESH OFFICIAL STEPS: FILM INDUSTRY MAY STOP
EUROPEAN REACTIONS
New York, Mar. 7.
Strenous efforts are being made to prevent the banking crisis from" entirely disrupting trade and in- dustry, though the natural effect of the grave situation is revealed in a message from Hollywood stating that the film industry executives are contemplating stopping all work.
FIRE PLOT CHARGES
ELEVEN MEN & WOMAN AT BOW STREET
"VAST FRAUD
CONSPIRACY":
(Special to "Telegraph”)
€89, Tolagraph, CopyrigAL Idlegraphic Names Ordinames, 1891. Racaived, March T, 1.65 am).
London, Mar. 6.
Losses by insurances companies running into six figures through what counsel for the prosecution described as a "vast conspiracy of fraud," were outlined at Bow Street Police Court this morning when the case was opened against the eleven men and a woman ar- rested last month.
They are all ebarged with con- spiring, between January 1, 1925, and the present time to defraud insurance companies by setting. fire to property, and making false and exaggerated claims for losses. TWELVE DEFENDANTS,
The defendante are: Leopold Louis Harris (84), asses--
sor, Mapesbury-toad, Brandes- bury. William Herivel (GB), silk agent
Leinster-terrace.
Harry Gould (46); salvage mer
chant. The Drive, Ilford. Louis Jarvis (15), gown mapužaç- turer, Deerhurst-road, Willes- den-lane.
Felix Bergolz (43), manufacturing| Mrs. Dagmar Rebecca Bergotz
jeweller, Carleton-road, N.
(36) Carleton-road, N. Henry Christopher Priest (35), Bernard Bowman (42), traveller. printer, Wynchgate, Southgate.
Ravensdale-road, Stamford HU), Judah Leon Dywien (42), ladies"
outfitter, High-road, Ilford.
The moratoriums are preventing the film companies Leonard Riley (42), sales manag from paying salaries.
The New York Stock Exchange Committee an- nounced to-day that the exchange will remain closed until further notice.
Japanese Government on January 1 of the magnitude of British in- It is understood that Chiang Kai-terests in North China and warned cipitating the collapse of the de-shek has been in receipt of tele-them that damage thereto would en
grams from many parts of the talt claims for compensation. Tang Yü-lin
last seen country urging him to lead the
On the outbreak of hostilities trotting on a pony to Peking un-Chinese troops in North China
in Jehol, the British Consul at aware that a warrant had been against the invaders of Jehol,
Mukden gave the authorities a issued for his arrest and that his It is reported that large forces
list of the British subjects in property in Peking has been con-fare being sent to the Peking area
Jchol. fiscated.
from Southern China and that A foreigner, in
General Taxi Ting-kai, of XIXth offered to give him a lift, but he Army fame, will be given the com- delined the offer and continued to
Mr. Woodin, the Secretary of. Mr. Morgan Jones asked whether! Peking, Mar. 7. amble along in the midst of his
According to the latest advi- the Treasury Department, has 30- Japan had replied and Sir John ces received by the Naval au- things, to handle drafts for food All approaches from Jehol to
thorised banks, family, mounted on Mongol ponies. Poking are strongly guarded by
among other Simon asked for notice of the thorities regarding the position JEHOL CITY CAPTURE. the Chinese forces, despite Jap-question,
of the s.s. Antung, which is shipments and to cash cheques on anese assurances that there will . The popular clamour "has been be no
aground on Mofu Point, Hainan, pursuit of the "defeated unable to stomach the revelation troops. Marshal Chang Hsueh.
Replying to further questions, there is reason to fear that some limited reopening of banks to ac- that the capture of Chengtefu, Ilang has sent further telegrams Sir John Simon said there was no passengers are missing. cept new deposits, from which un- Indication of a universal agree. Two of the Antung's Boats cap-rectricted withdrawals will be ment with the decision "of the sized in the rough seas while con-permitted. British Government forbidding the veying the passengers to the beach. export of arms to China and Japan, That left this country in a situa tion which could not be allowed to continue.
thanks to Tang Yulin's flight, was
effected by a detachment
Japanese numbering one hundred
and twenty-eight men!
Tang Yu-lin's execution is be- ing demanded as "an apology to the nation."-Our Own Correspon-, dent.
WARNED IN TIME
TANG YU-LIN TURNS TAIL
(Special to "Telegraph")
(ly Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphia Messages Ordikanas, 1784. Received, March
Peking Mar. 7..
Chinese troops passing through the Great Wall at Kupiekou Pass. (Photo: Serge Vargatzoff).
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ARMS EMBARGO FAILURE.
1.-
ANHUI SAILS...
the United States Treasury.
He has also authorised" the
MARKING TIME.
38
Apart from these steps, the The a... Anhui left for Hongkong bank crisis may be regarded at 8 p.m. last night with passengers marking time until Thursday's This was the first matter which and crew of the Antung. The An-special session of Congress, would be taken up by the Prime hui haa on board 286 out of 400 Minister and himself at Geneva passengers, and 69 out of the crew this week.
Geneva.
of 111.
The Argentine Government announces that the dollar link with the Argentinian peso has been abandoned in favour of, the franc..
The Governor-General of the announces from
have issued a statement, to the effect that the American ac- tion marks "the triumph of English banking genius and the dominance of sterling."— Reuter.
ITALY TO STAY COLD.
ing director, Gladstone-grove, Heaton Moor, Stockport. Beraard Marks (46), tobacconist,
Mortimer-road, West Ealing. -
Ernest Wolfe (42), fishmonger,
Benthal-road, Stoke Newington. The Director of Public ProBECUL tions took a very serious view of the caac.
LOOSE TONGUE ALLEGED. The prosecution outlined the circumstances in which the whole- sale frauds came to light, how the alleged conspiracy was. disclosed Out of the Tever of speculation in ignorance to a man employed in European capitals reacting to by the Intelligence Department of the United States crisis. emerges Lloyds.
London, Mar. 6.
a statement that Italy will not Further information, he said, abandon the gold standard even came from an Italian, whose debts
-(Continued on Page 5.) had been paid by the prosecution® and who subsequently had been. paid five pounds weekly for his. assistance in running the defend- ants to earth.
LOCAL DOLLAR
RISES
BUT CONDITIONS UNCERTAIN
The case was adjourned...
BAIL REMOVED.
In the early proceedings bail was granted to all the defendants, ranging from £20,000 in the case: of Harris, Gould, and Jarvis, to
The Antung is reported to be He intended to communicate
flooded fore and aft, and is likely to with the principal powers as to be a total loss. The weather con their proposals before leaving for ditions still continue to be rough,
and the vessel, completely alan-Philippines Last week's embargo decision was doned, is being badly buffeted by Manila, that all banks in the ishocton market, the Hongkong £2,000 in the cases of Priest; Bow provisional and if the attitude of the waves. the other powers did not promote an international agreement it FOLKESTONE ON SCENE. would not be a" reversal of that de-
eigion if the Government had to reconsider it. They had always contemplated that the only per-
Reflecting the rise in silver on|
lands will remain open-Reuter, dollar rose 3/8ths this morning to man, Marks and Wolfe.
In London, silver rose. 0/16ths,',
HAMMOND · HITS FREELY
INDIA'S REACTION,
Is. 3344. Quotations are, how-To-day, the magistrate refused, It is learned that Tang Yu-lin
A message Treceived by the
ever, nominal, and no business ietu grant bail-Reuter" Bombay, Mar. 6. has been riding leisurely towards
being done without cover. naval authorities from H. M. S. Folkestone stated that the warship American gold embargo decision chiefly due to speculative buying,
Business circles expect, that the Kupekow, on his way to Peking, bilssfully unaware that he is no from the Central Political Council. would be universally accepted-Likin and the . S. Kamo were al-
to Nanking asking instructions manent agreement was one that was anchored near the Antung.will slightly depress the commo-There were small offerings. After
The Chincac customs cruiser alty markets.
the official fixing, the market ruled longer regarded inside the Great A lull prevailed yesterday, but Reuter and British Wireless.
Bullion brokers anticipate
anfirin,. due mainly to the absence of Wall as a hero.
Chinese círcles believe that hosti. |-
standing by, but left early increased silver demand from sellers. lities will be resumed sometime
'this morning.. On being apprised of the real this week, when General Wan Tu-
There are no quotations from circumstances and of the recen-lin, who is commanding the re-
The Antung is lying with her |
New York. tion awaiting him, Tang Yu-lin gular remnants has received de- turned round and departed for finite orders from Peking. another destination,"
BOUND FOR CHARHART
It is revealed for the first time that many of the high officers un- der Wan Fulin, including a divi He will probably go to Dolonor aional commander,
killed and from there to Charhar, during the fighting and the
Tang's mansion in Peking has retreat.-Special.
heen sealed up by the police and
were
NETHERLANDS AND decks awash with a 20 degree
JAPAN
MR. "MATSUOKA AT THE HAGUE
it is also reported reliably that BRITISH WARNING TO visiting Holland to convince the
several more truckloads of his personal possessions have been scized-at-Kupeikow:--Renter.
JAPAN
list. Nobody is now aboard the HUGE WITHDRAWAL doomed vessel, but approximately 120 Chinese passengers are ashore opposite, the wreck,
No communication Pis possible with the stranded passengers wing to the heavy swell, which incidentally also prevents any possibility of the Antung being looted" while it persisia.
Washington, Mar. 7. Anxious shareholders with- drew G$962,000,000 in 450 member banks during the week ending March 1, accord- ing to a Federal Reserve › Board statement-Reuter.
FIFTY-THREE NOT OUT
AT LUNCH
Melbourne, Már, 7. Hammond was again in delight BIG FRENCH LOANful form to-day when the M. G. C. resumed their match with Victorin In glorious weather.
PROJECT
TO BE RUSHED THROUGH CHAMBER
Paris, Mar. 2.
The Hague, Mar, 7. Mr. Matsuoka has arrived from Berlin. He stated that he is only
Dutch Government and nation of the_complete peaceful intention LIFEBOATS STOVE IN. Chinn and with the improvement A plan for a consolidated loan MENACE TO INTERESTS
of Japan.
The Folkestone met with of silver prices, purchasing power for which it is hoped the lists will IN NORTH CHINA.
crete form had not been in his Antung's lifeboats are discernible ed London, Mar. d. mind,--Reuter,
ashore, stove In... Answering a question regarding
По
A Non Aggression Pact in a con- lifeboats or rafts, but some of the throughout India will be increag-be opened on Monday, will be pre-
Silver, has already appreciat While working eboard, the 5. 1 The Commander of HM. g. here from fifty-four to fifty-six the possibility of the fighting bei Maru yesterday a coolie, Hui Folkestone adds that no lives rupees per hundred tolas,
Fukaang 41, accidentally fell into the are now in danger. The Folkes- No. 1 bold. He received head in tone is remaining near the An- juries and was sent to the hospital by tung until the tugboat Taikoo
ZANGARA CHARGED WITH MURDER
Miami, Mar. 6 ween China and Japan spreading Zangera has been indicted for into North China, Sir John Simon the murder of Mr. Anton Cermak, said that Sir Francis Lindley the the Mayor of Chicago-Reuter British Ambassador, reminded the
police at Tsin fhm Teul.
arrives to-morrow,
Indian Nationalist business men, led by Sir P. Thakurdes, tha: Procidant of the Imnerini Bank of India, Bombay Circle,
Eighty-eight runs were put on before lunch for the loss of twoi wickets. scoring being fairly dice, Wyatt was dismissed, after scoring 29 runs,
-Scorce:
M. C. C.--321 and 117 for 3 Victoria: 327.
-Reuter
sented to the Chamber to-day and rushed through Parliament.
The loan purposes to meet the
FAIR WEATHER. grave budget deficit and to fin- The anticyclone is now ance housing, fortifications and over the Gulf of Pechili. Fresh | rural electrification-Reuter, monsoon will prevail
The amount of the loan will China" conât and the No | probably be about ten thousand↑ China Sea. Local forcast million francs.
i winda, fresh, falta