THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1933.
CANTON'S BID FOR $15,000,000 LOAN
The posting of the proclamation announcing the restoration of capital
punishment in Austrin.
'CONSTABLE · ROBS ANOTHER
SIX WEEKS' GAOL SENTENCE
Six weeks hard labour was passed on Sung Chen-ban, a Shan- tang constable, PIC.D. 57, by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when he of pleaded guilty to a charge theft of a blanket belonging to another, constable.
Mr. W. La B. Sparrow, A.S.P., told the Court that defendant, who was attached to the Mongkok Police Station, was on duty be tween, mikinight and 4 a.m, on Da- comber 17. Complainant, D. 244. was also on duty during these hours, and they returned to the station together. Complainant then found a rod woollen blanket to be missing from his bed. Ho suspected defendant and neeused him of having atolon it.
After an argument between the two, defendant took complainant to a stall in Mongkok whura the blanket was found. Subsequent inquiries revealed that defendant had returned to the station at 3 4.m, and took the blanket out with the idea of pawning it later.”
Mr. Sparrow said defendant hart been in the Force for nine months and bore a good record until re- cently. Now he had nine reports pending against him.
Asked why he stole the blanket, defondant said he was feeling cold at 3 am, and he went back to the station to get the blanket to cover himself.
His Worship:-Don't make worse, young man.
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KOWLOON TONG BURGLARY
EUROPEAN'S HEAVY
LOSS
A burglary attended by the theft of over $1,000 worth of property, occurred at the homo of Mr. J. R. Jones at No. 104, Water- loo Road, Kowloon Tong, in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The property, comprising cloth- Ing, jewellery, and bric-a-bracs, were stolen from the drawing room and bedrooms, The more valuable Articles wore takon from a wardrobe.
Mr. Jones was sleeping in his room when the burglary took place, and was not aware of it until he woke up the following .morning.
from
SATISFACTORY SILVER GROUP HOPES
PROGRESS
REPORT TO CHAN
CHAI-TONG
FLOTATION IN SOUTH
Shanghai, Doc. 18.
GET SUPPORT
Roosevelt Action to
Avert Inflation?
Informed quarters in Washing- ton express the opinion that Pre- stdent Franklin D. Roosevelt may announce some sort of silver re- monetization policy before the end of the year..
It is said that the President Canton Government negotiations would prefer to follow his present with Nanking for a $15,000,000 monetary programme through in- loan, have now been definitely con- definitely, until he thinks prices firmed by a statement issued by have reached such a place that the. Mr. Yung Teh-cho, General Chan dollar could be stabilized. Chal-tong's resident representa- tive. In Nanking.
However, with Congress always holding a potential threat of In- After a series of conferences fiation, he might yield to inflation with Nanking lenders over this pressure, going part way along the
In
Police
-Marlene Kowloon City loan and the Fukien situation, Mr. silver monetization pathway. Station, called into the case, dis-Yang is leaving for Hongkong and order to prevent the allverites in
was Canton to-morrow to submit the Congress from running Hot, a back-door covered that forced open, and they are detain-, results of the negotiations to the! ing two servants with the view Canton Government, to discovering how this could be
done without their knowledge.
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TWO BANISHEES SENTENCED.
It was revealed that
prisoner
was a confirmed thief and had fre-
What the President does, it was said, will depend upon whether he Mr.. Yang says that the Canton thinks he can hold Congress Provincial Treasury
been cheek without some such move to radical in- heavily burdened with the interest placate
has
on $60,000,000 worth of bonds lationists. issued during the 1920 Kuomin-1
tang expedition to capture Nan-
the more
IN NANKING
in
LEAVING SHORTLY FOR NANCHANG
Nanking, Dec. 17. General Wang Shao-hung, Minis-
Inner Mongolia,
Dietrich in Paris, the centre of attraction, though Frince commenta unfavourably
the fashion she has not.,
en
PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE
RESOLUTION AIMED
AT U.S.A.
Montevideo, Dec. 15. A subcommittee al the Pan- American conference has decided in support a resolution declaring against intervention by one state into the affairs of another,
The resolution was presumably aimed at the United States and which the military intervention ahe has exercised in the past in
king and Peking and that since WANG SHAO-HUNG this issue of bonds, and during the last three years in particular, the MAN WITH BAD Canton Government has been in o poor financial condition. It is, RECORD
therefore, the Canton Govern-i Pleading guilty at the Criminalment's wish to secure a loan of Sessions this morning to a breach $16,000,000 from Hongkong and of deportation order, Chan Sam Canton leading banking interests, was sentenced to three year's hard who would be provided with ample Inbour after Mr, J. A. Fraser, As-security by the Nanking, Govern Bistant Attorney General, had ment, which is however, undecidedter of Home Affairs, has returned given details of his life of crime. which portion of the national to the capital from his mission to
revenue to devote this purpose.
The statement also explains the He is reporting to Mr. Wang om Latin-American countries, serious banking crisis in Canton Ching-wei on his mission and healthough the. United States and failures of the numerous informed Reuter this morning that native banks, which are now look- he would shortly proceed to Nan- ing to Government assistance in chang, to see General Chiang Kai-ed that no recognition be extended Chan Kan pleaded, guilty to a some form or other. Concerning shek to report to him the situation territories forcefully gained. This Was designed to discourage similar offence, but said in ex-tha Nanking government's month-in Mingolin as well as in North
warfare between Bolivia and tenuation that he had come to ly subsidy, for bandit suppression, China.
Paraguay in the Gran Chapo. take the remains of his parents to Mr. Yang says that the contribu-
"The political existence of & the country.
tion now is $700,000 a month.
state is Independent of recognition by others," the resolution said.
The territory of a State is taviolable, and cannot be occupied for monetary reasons or otherwise by another.'
quently returned when deported, spending five of the last seven years in prison for this offence and Tor larceny.
Prisoner was stated to have been convicted for armed robbery und to have been deported many times. A sentence of five year's hard-labour was imposed,
"Istamboul."No useful purpose will be served by publication of your letter.
While enroute to the south, General Wang broke his journey at Teinan to Interview Gen. Han Fu-l chu but did not And time to see General Feng Yu-hsiang who is still residing on the Taishan Mountain.
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