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SILVER REHABILITATION PACT IN SIGHT
NANKING WARSHIPS ANCHOR OFF Expected
CASTLE PEAK
TSINGTAO SHIPS DISAPPEAR
EXCITEMENT IN LOCAL NAVAL CIRCLES
WISHART ON SCENE
The Hongkong naval authorities have to-day been following with the closest interest the movements of three Chinese warships of the Third Squadron, the Yat Sen, the Hai Yung and the Hai Chau, which put in an unexpected appearance in the vicinity of the Colony this morning.
The strong suspicion was aroused that they were vessels hostile to the three Tsingtao warships, which
in
London To-day
AN EIGHT-POWER AGREEMENT
The crack light cruiser, Yat Sen, of 1,650 tons, one of the vessels now lying RAPID PRICE INCREASE
off Castle Peak.
PREDICTED
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(Special to "Telegraph")
(By Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphie Messages Ordinance, 1884. Received, July 1. 2 ..
London, July 10.
MURDER PLOT IN
SOVIET SHOOTING INCIDENT
Arrest of Frontier Guards
Moscow, July 10... The frontier guards who shot the three Japanese fishermen at Kamchatka, off Cape Olga, have been arrested. The chief of the Kamchatka. frontier. guards is also reported to have been arrested. Investiga tion into the actions of the guards is now being con- Aucted. Reuter...
.
JAPANESENCIALMANAK PESMANLI BINDETERMINAHARONELE
It is confidently expected PORTUGAL
that an agreement for the rehabilitation of silver will be formalized to-morrow.
The agreement will be be-
Powers and it will last for a period of five years.
The Chiness warship, Hai Yung, which is similar to the Hai Chau (Chou) tween the eight leading silver
both of which are at anchor at Castle Peak.
SWOOPS
PLOTS AGAINST GOVERNMENT
JAPAN
SPECIAL GUARD ON BRITISH EMBASSY
MANY ARRESTS.
MADE
MINISTERS' LIVES THREATENED
Tokyo, July 11. The official residences of all members of the Cabinet
and other prominent Japan-
ese leaders have been heavily guarded by Japanese police since last night.
Rumours are spreading like wildfire as the result of the spectacle. It is understood that the precautions taken are, the result of the of a
eral important arrests by the ¡gendarmerie.
have gone over to the Canton Government and which, THIRD PARTY T. v. SOONG ON HIS provide for the three holding coun- THREE IMPORTANT serious ploc resulting in sev
apparently warned of the impending arrival of the Nanking warships, have now gone up the Pearl River to Whampoa.
The Yat Sen, one of the most modern of Chinese
INSURANCE
warships, built in 1931, carrying a six-inch gun and a 5.5 MAY BE COMPULSORY
inch gun, and her consorts were first sighted in the vicinity of Cheung Chau Island this morning.
They disappeared towards the
mouth of the Canton River and,
it would appear, having discovered
that the three Tsingtao warships Three Days
had disappeared, immediately put into Castle Peak Bay where they cast anchor.
The vessels, at the time of go-
to
on Chocolate
ing- press, were still lying in Biscuits
Castle Peak Bay with full steam
up.
Immediately, their arrival at LIEUT. MATTERN'S
Castle Penk was reported to the naval authorities, H.M.S. Moth was sent to the scene and she also .enchored, between the Chinese
warships and the shore.
WISHART ON SCENE..
ORDEAL
Moscow, July 10. Extreme fatigue and lack of knowledge of the country is believed to have been the cause of Lieut.
This afternoon, H.M.S. Moth James Mattern's crash in Siberia
was withdrawn and H.M.S. Wisin the course of his World flight. hart took her place, watching_the
It is interesting to note that the Hal Yung and the Hai Chau were two of the vessels which took part in the bombardment of Canton about ten years ago as a réprísal for the ousting of Sun Yat-sen, by
MATTERN OFFERED NEW MACHINE
IN HONGKONG
GOVERNMENT'S ENQUIRIES
It is learned that the Govern- ment is considering an Ordinance providing for compulsory insur ance against third party risks, to apply to every user of a motor vehicle in the Colony.
At the moment, the question at issue is the premium to be charged by the insurance companies.
The progress of the proposal is referred to in the roport of the Chamber of Commerce issued to- day which states that the matter receipt of a letter from the Hon. was brought to its attention by the
ment to invite the assistance of
WAY HOME
Flying to Rome As First Stage
London, July 10,
. Mr. T. V. Soong left London this afternoon on his return journey to China. He is travelling to Rome by aeroplane in the first place. -Reuter.
It is undertsood that it will
tries, China, India and Siam to limit their combined annual sales' to a maximum of thirty-five or forty million ounces, while the United States, Canada and Mexico, Portt and Bolivia undertake to buy their annual surplus, production and impound their treasuries.
QUICK RISE POSSIBLE.
The sponsors of the scheme be- lieve that the announcement of the agreement will bring silver prices In America to between forty and
ARRESTS
Lisbon, July 10.
A series of arrests has follow- ed the official communique an. nouncing that measures were to be taken to dissipate the revolu- tionary-atmosphere which the enemies of the Republic have been displaying lately.
Dr. Antonio Sergio, the former
Other residences over which special police guards have been pinced precautionarily include the British Embassy.
The arrests
were made in Ibarngi Prefecture, where the Blood Brotherhood plot which re- aulted in the assassinations of Mr. Inouye, Baron, Takuma Dan and, last year's May 15 outrages were hatched.
SECRET CIRCULAR:
fifty cents. It is pointed out how Democratic Minister and ever that approximately one hun- Colonel Aragao, who is famous for dred million ounces of speculative his action in German West Africa £32FF 32FF silver is now floating on the New in 1915, were among the first to
The arrests followed the dis York market and that this must be dragged into the net..
They had only recently returned|covery-that-circulars were being neficial effect of the agreement to Portugal from Spain where secretly distributed throughout
they had been awalting for the the entire country by the Seisanto. can be felt.
announcement of the amnesty for reactionary group, which
U.S. INDUSTRIAL CONTROL
TEXTILE, CODE SIGNED
HIGHER WAGES: FEWER HOURS
be absorbed before the füllTMbe-
It is confidently predicted that those responsible for previous re-allated to the notorious Black silver will jump to sixty cents anvolutions against the Dictatorship. Dragon Society... ounce when the agreement has It is apparently suggested that The eircular instructed the
they at been fully ratified..
once began plotting members of the group to assemble against the government upon their at the Meiji Shrine, to which the CONFERENCE POSITION. return to Portugal.
twenty youths belonging to tho- Meanwhile, M.
It is also revealed that the Aikyojuko organisation connected" Bonnet, the French Finance Minister, tells the colonel in command of the Thirty- with the May 15 outrages also re-- Volitved that the World Economie was arrested on Saturday on a Fifth Infantry Regiment at Viana Press that he
sorted, Conference would continue its charge of conspiracy-Reuter. sensions for twelve more days and
States
then go into recess until September,
ASSASSINATIONS PLANNED..
It is reported that the Prime Minister, Admiral Baron Salto, the
He also belloves that the dollar, JAPAN'S INCREASE IN Minister for War, General, Araki,
will be stabilised by then.
2011-
Mr. W. E. L. Shenton enclosing It is learned that he lived for copy of a Draft Motor Vehicle visitors, arriving at Castle Peak three days on chocolate biscuits (Third Party Risks) Ordinance. shortly after three o'clock. which he was carrying, and when which was under consideration by A police launch is also lying these had been exhausted, ex-Government, and stating that ho near at hand..
perienced the greatest difficulty in had been requested by the Govern
Washington, July 11. securing food.--Itruter.
American cotton textile
A message from Washington says the Chamber in ascertaining from workers are to have a maxi-that Mr. Louis Howe, the British Insurance Companies in mum of a forty-four hours! dential secretary of President Roosevelt, has predicted that the Hongkong what Juneau, Alaska, July 10. charge would be in respect of a
a respect of a week and a minimum wages his Hakka subordinate, Chan Lieut. James Mattern, the policy for $50,000, complying with of twelve dollars weekly in until the sub-Committees are pre- Kwing-ming. They
round-the-world flyer the terms of Section 6 of the pro- the ships American are armed with three six-inch guns who was lost for nearly a month posed Ordinance. and eight four-inch guns.
MYSTERY VISIT.
In northern Siberia and who was rescued a few days ago, will re-
$50,000 STIPULATED.
:
pared to submit preliminary re-
DOLLAR DEPRECIATION.
POPULATION
record,
and a number of prominent fin anciers were marked out for ass assination.
It is believed that the..special Conference will shortly adjourn Exceeding a Million in police. guard at the British Em- bassy la due to the fact that the Seisanto, with which the Indian 1932 southern mills and ports..
seditionist, Rashbi Hari Bose 18 thirteen northern mills.
Tokyo, July 11. closely connected; appears to be For the first time on
behind the present anti-British. sume his fight in, a plane be- "Mr. Shenton's letter stated: abolished as from July 17.
Child labour in the mills is to be Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in the Japan's Increase in population over campaign in Japan-Reuter.
House of Commons, described the a twelve months' period has exeed- Complete mystery Aurrounds
The sponsors of the expedition it is proposed that no person shall This is the result of the signing, dollar's depreciation as a "very ed one million. their appearance, for while the have cabled its leader to fly an use or permit to be used a motor by President Roosevelt of the disturbing factor, but to a very According to the oMcial 132 MARKING OF GOODS general bellef is that they were aeroplane to Anadir and hand it vehicle on a road unless there is a first to be presented by an the artificial. It is not based upon increase in population was 1,007,000. Cotton Textile Code, which is the large extent unnatural and figures just published, the In- sent in pursuit of the Tsingtao over to Mattern.
policy of insurance in existence in dividunt industry for official ap trinsic economic factors, but is Router, mutineer warships, a' belief con
The leader will be flown home respect of third party risks which proval under the provisions of the chiefly the result of speculation firmed by advices from Shanghai, in a Soviet plane later.-Reuter, there are reports, which are less credible, that they may be joining
the mutiny.
The authorities, naturally, aro reticent about the subject.
POPULATION' OF GERMANY
TWO MILLION MORE WOMEN
Borlin, July 5,
longing to the rescue expedition. "You will note from Section 4 that
VIENNA BANK SCARE
MISTAKE BY A CLERK
complies with the Ordinance. In Industrial Control Bill. ordinary cases the amount stipula- Ited is $50,000.
which started in Continental circles UNPRECEDENTED POWERS. and was followed by American The insurance in question will The Bill, it will be recalled, speculation. It la possible that wo of shall see a reversal of this process be compulsory and before proceed-authorises the expenditure ing with the mattor the Govern-American $3,300,000,000 for public in the autumn.-U.P. Commercial ment desire
Courtesy, South China to know what the works and gives the Government Service. public will be called upon to pay unprecedented powers to encourage Gold Bar Company, by way of premium for the pur and, if necessary, to enforce sweep- pose of complying with the terms ing regulations regarding in- of the Ordinance."
dustrial output, wages and prices ANOTHER KIDNAPPING
INSURANCE COMMITTEE.
in the next two yearn.
The adoption of the code wili
Vienna, July 8. Great excitoment was caused on The Chamber wrote to the Se- have the effect of increasing wages Tuesday morning in the Austrian cretaries of the Fire Insurance in the textile industry by thirty National Bank when sirens began Association, Hongkong, conveying per cent, and reducing hours by to shriek and armed guards rush- the suggestion of the Insurance twenty-five per cont.Reuter." ed through the building to occupy Sub-Committee of the Chamber
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OUTRAGE
Year-Old American's Life Threatened
Albany, July 10.
DAY AND NIGHT BATTLE
GEN. FANG CHEN-WU ATTACK ON DOLONOR
Mukden, July 19
CUSTOMS ORDER NOW
AMENDED
The British Chamber of Com merce, Shanghai, notifica that Article 1 of the Chinese Maritime Customs Regulations for the mark ing of goods destined for Chin has been altered to read as
follows
""All ́imported goods, as well jak their containers and packing, must The Kwantung Army has do-
bo marked in a conspicuous place spatched reinforcemontato with the name of the country o Doloner to resist the attack on origin (to., the country of pro tho Japanese troops. by General duction or manufacture) in Chinest Fang Chen-wu, whose vanguard characters. Such marks are to b was repulsed on July 9th by the of a durable nature. In end 20 garrison at Dolonor, after fighting however, where marking wi which lasted all day and night-Chinese characters presenta Reuter,
ficulties, the language of country of origin may be instead.
The population of the German Reich is now estimated at, 65,800,- their posts at the novon entrancos, that the Association (as a body the Government stated that it had 000, according to provisional re- the heavy steel gates of which had including within its membership no intention of proceeding with turns taken from the recent consus. In the meantime boon closed au- Insurance Companies in Hong the proposed legislation without This figure includes 830,000 In-tomatically. The counter shutters kong) would be willing to obtain giving due notice of its intention. The Police have learned that the habitants in the Saar district... wore likewise dropped and nobody the information desired by Govern
FURTHER DETAILS.
24 year-old John O'Connell, a rela--~ The population of the old German was permitted to enter or Jaavo mont. Empire was numbered at 07,800,- the building until it was discover The Fire Insurance Associa "At the request of Insurance tive of the O'Connell brothers, well- 000, but the latest census shows an ed that the alarm had been caused tion appointed a Sub Committee to Companies, Government supplied known Democratic leaders, was kid Increase of 2,700,000 as compared by an official in the cashier's office go into the matter, and in roply further information on points of napped on July 7. with-tho-figures for 10261 who, by mistake, had pressed a to the Insurance Companies' re- dotafle widzi
A ransom of G.$250,000 is de
781-700000070whis-rtemalos "system which; thus: proved alta nd TU NURLAKER
FAIR TO SHOWERY The Royal Observatory reports that pressure is higheat over the he Pacifc to the onst of Japan ji relatively low over South-
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