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Hongkong Telegraph.
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FOUNDED 1891
No. 14004
THURSDAY, MAY 25. 四拜禮 號五卄月五英港香
1933.
日二初月五
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MORGAN ENQUIRY METHODS PROTEST
A COL. LINDBERGH
Mr. J. P. Morgan.
GANDHI
WEAKER
SIXTEEN DAYS OF FAST
CONDITION STILL SATISFACTORY
(Special to "Telegrapli")
Bu Telegro, Musongen Urdhvæsere,
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Breed M
Poona, May 25
The Mahatma Gandhi has now ! been fasting for sixteen days und |
turally he is growing weaker, į though his resistance has falai-l fied the predictions of his medi- eal attendants.
Mr. Gandhi, who is fasting for| The purpose of compelling further! modification of "Untouchability?" is now unable to sit up by himself) or even to turn over in his led without assistance.
His son, Devadas, has cabled to his brother in South Africa stating that their father's vitality is slow- ly ebbing.
Nevertheless, Gandhi's condition: Kenerally, in view of the length of the fast, is still satisfactorgi and is there are less than fire
FIGURES
AMERICA ASTOUNDED BY LIST OF NAMES
POLITICAL STORM BREWING
(SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH.")
By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Mensages Ordivanet, tant. Band, New MA, BUR H
WASHINGTON, MAY 21. SENSATION FOLLOWED SENSATION WHEN THE SENATE INVESTIGATION OF THE AFFAIR OF THE FAMOUS PRIVATE BANKING FIRM C J. P. MORGAN AND COMPANY WAS RESUMEN TO-DAY.
In an atmosphere of subdued excitement, a list of sixty bank officials and directors under obligation to the firm was read, containing names which spread astonish- ment as they were read out. They include
Mr. W. II. Wandin
ANTI-CUINESE
TS
TURBANCES
IN MEXICO
Peking Truce
TOKYO DENIAL NOT EXPLAINED
GENEVA DEFINES
ATTITUDE
(Special to "Telegraph")
1330 Teleoraph. Copyright. Telegraphic Ordinance, 19). Becalved May 25, 19.7K att
Shanghai, May 25. The denial by the Japanese War Office that a Sino-Japanese truce agi cement has been reached has caused much speculation.
Despite the denial, however, the belief persists in thanglai and! Jelsewhere that an agreement for|- The ressation of hostilities has been
BOYCOTT SEQUEL: reached, as reported from Peking.
3 LYNCHED Mexico City, May 25. Sericus disorders taking
Mr. Richard Whitney, President of the New York jan anti-Chinese form have
Stock Exchange,
Mr. Mortimer Buckner, President of the New York
Clearing House Association
taken place in several parts
of Mexico.
Threo, Chbeggere lynched at Villa Bana and serious riotz ne-
Mr. Norman Davis, America's unofficial envoy in conied the commencement of
Europe,
General Charles Dawes, ex-Ambassador to Britain, Mr. Charles Mitchell, ex-chairman of the National City Bank of New York, now on trial on charges of income tax evasion,
an anti-Chinese boycoti in Chi- huaben State.
A large band of Mexicans, arin- ed with huncheons, in Chihuahua City prevented Chinese vegetables farmers from entering the ely with their produce.
SHOPS PICKETED.
Mr. Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the United kets outside Chinese shops in the
States Steel Corporation,
Mr. Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury.
It was stated that a loan of six million dollars to Mr. Mitchell is still outstanding, but that General Dawes and Mr. Taylor have repaid theirs.-Reuter.
!
Another group established pie.
jeity and prevented them from
doing besiness.
Fist-fights between Chinese and
accurred ¡ Moxienna
at Juarez,
where racial feeling is running very high, but the disturbances were quelled by the police.- Renter
days of the fast remaining, it is MORE NAMES IN THE on Company VLADIVOSTOCK A
hoped that no complications will). set in.-Reuter,
ANOTHER AIR RECORD
LISTS
|G.$11,000,000 in income tax
1929.
Mr. J. P. Morgan testified that; although he did not pay Incame tax in the United States in 1911
DYING PORT
Colonel Lindbergh and and 1932, he paid income tax dur- DIVERSION OF TRADE
Mr. Young
(Special to "Telegraph")
ing those years in England,
FAVOURED CLIENTS.
IN C.E.R. DISPUTE
Harbin, May 25.
The truce has been precivert by business men. Chinese and foreign,! as a welcome relief from the sun-
past penae of th
fortnight, but Chinese circles continue to om
Manchurian
Reports Puzzle
JABAR SINAUJINIKANTH BALLOONS ESTRADALAR
U.S. NAVAL ORDER RESCINDED
NO REDUCTION IN FLEET STRENGTH Washington, May 24, The plan which was 'an- nounced last week for the placing of one-third of the ships of the United States Navy on rotating reserve"- has been abaricloned, al Icast for the
present. Reuter,
HALLUMS TRIAL CLOSING
FINAL SPEECH FOR DEFENCE
THE LEGAL ASPECT
it
Mark William Halluns, whi on trial at the Scasions charge of the nunslaughter of Chinese girl on April, was recalled Thy the Chief Justice. Mr. Justing 20:33:53ANLARINICIAood, this morning.
DEATH OF
MR..
JOHN SWIRE
BENEFACTOR OF
H.K. UNIVERSITY
BIG INTERESTS IN HONGKONG
Mr. Fraser is conducting the Crown's ease, while Mr. H. C. Macnamara, is for the defence..
His Lordship---Mr. Hallums, DH this occasion, were you carrying any arms yourself? No,
Had you a revolver on board --- Yes. But you were not carrying ht--You! Have you Some rales fon board:-- Ver
TO SCARE.
The question
L. 1.
NOW
this.
want to Why did
you use the three pounder shell? I used it becaone It made
#
phasise that it is merely a local
We have to record the death bigger noisy and would be more inilitary arrangement does not in
ia England yesterday of Mr.suggestive in searing the people any way affect the issue as a whole,
Chinese
honds, reflecting the John Swire, senior member of and stopping them from thros..RE general optimisai,, continue ir! the firm of John Swire and Sons, things at me.
London anch Butterfield upward trend.
Swire. Hongkong.
The
and
Mr. J. Palker. in charm of the outdoor Custoins staff, who was MIXED FEELINGS.
Swire subpoenaed, to attend, said that Meanwhile, the reported enelu- was
and the accused bore a good character re-and was twice commended to s sion of a truce has been received although with mised fedlings by the Chinese side in Hongkong
time knowledge. It was usual in the in his life, he was a frequent Customs service only to commend “
swappers.
Jate Mr. Joha in his 72nd
year he did not at any
opinion that if the reports are true, interest in the Colony, and was
The Si Wan Pan expresses the visitor in connexion with his large officers with very good recorda. an Hou. LL.D. of the Hongkong University.
it will mean the abandonment of China's policy of continued resist- Jance-Reuter,
LEAGUE ATTITUDE
DEFINED
CHINA'S RIGHTS.
Geneva, May 21. News of an impending Sino- Japanese armistice has caused an surprise at Geneva,
I father, whose manie was
DANGEROUS BUSINESS. Witness had experience all over
# dangerous China, and it was also John Swire, and who was business to board junke, on ay- even better known in the Far East, was the founder of the busierat o armed opposition. The ness, known throughout China ase or bombs, The Kwan Lati, of junks used either rifte fire, gun
Che Taikoo firm.
The degree of Honorary Doctor which the neeused was in charge of Laws was conferred upon the had been attacked on several oc- Jute Mr. John Swire in 1925, when easions, on one of which a Chinese- similar honour was bestowed seaman was killed. Such attacks had happened to witness himself. upon Sir Henry Pollock.
UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENTS. Mr. Macnamara-In connexion The Vice-Chancellor drew at-with this case did you personally It koy become increasingly tention to the fact that when the receive information regarding this evident of late that there was no idea of the Hongkong University junk? posibility of China maintaining was first monted, the Talkoa firm
POLITICAL CONDITIONS.
Crown
Witness did not wish to answer the struggle, militarily against made an offer of £40,000 for its to question, and his Lordship" Japan's superior organisation and endowment, which made the agreed. Replying further, wit- realisation of the scheme possible, ness said only 3 pounder shells mechanisation.
League etrefes, therefore,
wel-
and later supplemented that con- were carried on the launches, come the report that bloodshed will tribution by a further $100,000, be ended,
LAUNCH'S ARMS. the income of which is devoted to the Engineering Department.
Cross-examined by the He agreed that the names of Mr. The serious effect which the
These benefactions were the con-prosecutor, witness said that the William H. Woodin, present Secret-suspension of through traflic via
It is not yet known whether sequence of Mr. John Swire's very Kwan Lui enrried a three-pounder. Teletaph. Copyright, Titary of the Treasury Department the Chinese Eastern Railway has Messages #tribune, 1874 Received 1
there will be any political condi-keen interest in the education of two machine guns, rifles and re- had upon
Vladivostock is shown and Senator MeAdoo, former
tions attaching to the armistice the Chinese. in a report stating that this once.
volvers. Washington, May 21. mocratic Secretary of the Trea
agreement. Several mory prominent names sury and an aspirant for the Pre dourishing port is almost dead as are now revealed to figure in the sidency were among the Hat or far as trade, is concerned. list of persons who were allowed those allowed to pacebase stocks spdzial privileges regarding the by special arrangement with Mor Trographie
pan's-Reuter, Berrived Aber: Purchases of stock, including:
Colonel Charles Lindbergh, the world famous nieman,
17,250 Ft. Fall Before Opening Parachute
(Special to "Telegraph")
(Tringth, Copyright. Mamed Ordinance, Lips. 24, 1830 pm)
Landon, May, 24. A world's record delay-parachute drops has been accomplished at the Netheravon aerudróme by Mr. John Tranum.
Mr. J. J. Raskol, a director of General Motors, and a prominent! Democratic lender,
Mr. Owen D. Young, the banker. Mr. Thomas W. Lamont, the l
Mr. R. B. Mellon, the brother of
He jumped from an Air Force aeroplane whilst lying at a beitt banker, of 20,000 feet, falling 17.260 feet) before opening the parachute.
I the former Secretary to the The parachutist drifted five Treasury. miles before landing safely.— Reuter.
NEW U.C.C.U.
APPOINTMENT OF
QUAKER
(Special to "Telegraph")
PRESS PROTEST,
SENATOR BORAH'S CHALLENGE
4
On the other hand, returns re- veal that freight traffic to Dairen via the South Manchuria Railway is increasing steadily:
this evening that the American people, in these times, when such tremendous powers are exercised by the Secretary of the Treasury Department, are entitled to ex-
Wants Mr. Woodin to oct that, like Caesar's wife, he
Resign
(Special to "Telograph")
123, n.43 a.m.)
(should be above suspicion,
*SHOULD RESIGN..
Senator Borah is believed to be of the opinion that Mr. Woodin labould resign his position la the
Itoosevelt Cabinet,
The remarkable ramifications of the Morgan business have attract- od immense public intercal to the
Senate's Stock Market Investignt- Ing Committtee.
His counsel at the hearing was
He resided at Hillingdon Replying to the Judge, winens House, Essex, und was a very keen said it was not his duty to inspect Its felt here that Ching is, horseman, being a master of fox- the arms, but if a officer fired a of course, free to dispose of her hounds. He also published a book shell he would report to him. territory as slie chooses.
on Anglo-French horsemanship,
ANGLO-JAPANESE
}
On
this occasion,the accused report- ed in the afternoon.
Answering Mr. Fraser, witness Baid the Customs had two flags in use during the past ten years. The present flag was brought in four years ago.
If, however, China, while sign-I ing the trace, nevertheless Insists) upon her rights in Manchurla and does not consent to recognise Manchukuo, the attitude of the League to the Far Eastern silun- tion will not be affected by any! anch local arrangement.--Renter-PROPOSAL AGREED ONtions according to the circum-
ALL QUIET.
TRADE PARLEY
CONDITIONS
Tokyo, May 26. At a joint conference of colton industrialists and
T
Peking, May 24, All is quiet in Peking And there have been no further develop No further particulars of the supposed truce Shave beened to accept the British proposal reported.--Reuter, '
ments.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL.
Witness stated they took precau-
stances. When a boarding party (Continued on Page 13.).
liste strendent Government CURRENCY TRUCE
for an Anglo-Japanese trade par-
ley on the following conditions, Firstly, that it deal only with cotton-goods;
QUESTION
USE OF THE TERM DEPRECATED
to
Dissatisfaction at the methods Cu Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphic employed in the enquiry into theMrget Grilinaner, 1994. Breslved May Morgan company's affaire are voiced in certain newspapera, Washington, May 24. SECRETARY which suggest that the hostility
Peking, May 24. towards the "moвey trusts," A serious political storm
While both the Chinese and Ja- Secondly, that the British Gov- which is a traditional force in appears to be gathering
panese authorities are still re-ferament co-operate for the pur U. S. politics, has had something
luctant to discuss the truce agree-pose of making it more effective to do with the conduct of the following the revelation at Mr. John W. Davis, formerly
ment and much less to admit it, and
London, May 24. Answering
ак question hearings. Reuter,
the Senate enquiry into the American Ambassador to Britain.
the circumstantial evidence con- Mr. Woodin's position is curious.
Thirdly, that there would be a whether negotiations were in pro- working of the firm of J. P. Ho took very little interest in poll-
tinues to confirm it. The Japan- guarantee that no further tariff gross for a currency truce durinkt ese advance hus definitely stopped rise would be, made Morgan and Company, that President Roosevelt's invitation to ties prior to his acceptance of
in British the period of the world economic and the Chinese troops are quietly possessions. Reuter.
Baldwin, In conforence, withdrawing to the arranged lines. the Secretary of the Trea- become Secretary of the Treasury,
Parliament, said it would be in- Foreign military observers de- sury, Mr. W. H. Woodin, had although he was popularly sup
convenient to make a statement aa clare that the present military BACK TO NATIVE/ posed to be a Republiclan. He
position is consistent with the
HEATH certain dealings with the has always been a close friend of
to any general questions which Truce which ha
has boon
arranged.
might from time to time Mr. Roosevelt, and like Senator Telegraphie firm.
under informal_discussions London, May 24. Received Blay
This afternoon a foreign au- Hull, he believes in lower tarifs,
tho "The Prime Miniator, Mr. Ram-twoon
Governments in thority of unquestioned reliability It was revealed that Mr. Woodin although he has spent the greater Washington, May 24, |was formerly on the list of bank
informed Reuter that a pre-aay MacDonald, loft London by air anticipation of the conference.
Ha deprecated the term ourroney. His predecessor, Dr. Sewell, 18 hearing, it was stated that in con- ligation to Morgan's.
In the course of to-day's enquiry officials and directors under an ob- part of his life as a manufacturer.
He was President of the Ameri-iminary truce was reached yester for Lossiemouth this afternoon
day which will be subject to con- and will be absent from London truce, which seemed to be open to can Car and Foundry Corporation returning to China in October to
firmation by the duly appointed for about ten days.—British Wire-| misapprehension.--British trast to the years 1931 and 1032 resume his duties as professor at when no tax was paid, the firm of tack, ou Mr. Woodia. He declared Roosevelt Cabinet Router.
Senator Borah is leading the at- from 1922 unt! entering the
dologaton,--Reuter,
foto. Chongtu-Reuter.
fly Telegraph, Copyriishi. Telegraphis Mcarabae Ordinance, ta Received May |
45, 11-30 pm.
London, May 24.
The well-known Quaker misalon-
nry, the Rev. Robert J. Davidson'
MR. J. P. MORGAN'S INCOME TAX
(Spacli) to "Talegraph”)
(Du Palmartph. Copyright.
33, F. Nomad
has been appointed Secretary of Mges Ordinanec, 1895.
the United Commission of Chris- tinn Universities in China.
como
bu.
Wire.