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EVE OF CONGRESS
RECORD ASSEMBLY
AT NANKING
Canton, Nov. 11, A Canton-Nanking understand- ing is further assured with the departure at 8,30.n.m. to-day of a further batch of South-west lead
The following quotations on the London Block Exchange have been received by Messrs. Swan, Culbertsoners, Including Mr. Lin Yun-kal and and Fritz in conjunction with Reuter. Mr. Huang, Yu-cho, respectively Chairman of the Kwangtung and Kwangsi Governments, and Mr. Huang Lin-shu, Kwangtung Education Commissionur. They go to Nanking.
Nov. 8. Nov, 11. British Government Securities War Lohn 3%
redm. after 1952 £105
Chinese Bonds
44 Bonds 1898
44
(Eng. Iss.).... £1024
Loan 1908. £ 99%
5% Боть 1912 £ 784
5 Reorg. Innu
1913 (Ln. Ins.) £ 135% BC Bands 1926-47 € 0714
Railway (Supi.
£104%
£102 £
€ 77
£ 02%
£ 09
5% Shal-Nanking
Rly
£ 76%
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kly
£ 31
£74
£ 29
5 Tient.-l'ukow
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£ 2K
£ 26
5 Honan Rly,
30
+ £ 20
1011
£ 464
£ 43
£ 10% Banks
£ 59
I 60
£ 824
105
£1034
14/11%
6% Hukuang Rly.
5 Lung Tsing U.
Hai fly. 1013 . £ 1744
Foreign Bonds and
German 74 Int.
Loan 1924. Japan 5 Sterling
Lonn 1907
Japan 6 Sterling
£ 83%
Loan 1924 ....496
(Ldn. Regd.) .. £104%
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Military officers also necom- panied the party. They were Gen- chief of eral Chan Yin-ming
Army, staff of the Kwangal General Wei Yan-sung, a divi- sional commander of the Kwangsi Army, and Mr. Chen Yau-hwen, a member of the Central Executive Counell,
They are travelling aboard two by private planes sent south General Chiang Kai-shek and they | should reach Nanking just in time for the national congress,--Reiter Special,
Safe Arrival
Canton, Nov, 11. According to a report just re- colyed here. Mesars. Lin Yuen-kai, Huang Yue-cho, Liu Chi-wen and Chen Yao-hoon, General Wai Yuen-shung, General Chang Yen- jen and representatives of the Provincial and Municipal Tangpu who departed for Nanking by air at 8.46 this morning to attend the 5th National Congress safely arrived at their destination
this 1.30
afternoon.-Central PreaN,
at
Reuter adds that the Canton, de- legates arrived in Nanking at 1.05 m. and called on Marshal Chlang Kai-shek during the, course of the afternoon.
Record Assembly
Nanking. Nov. 11. All is now ready for the opening to-morrow of the Fifth Kuomin- tang National Congress, postponed from last year.
Over 400 delegates from all parts of Chinn, including several Provincial Governors and some of the highest milliary commanders, ns well nk representatives of Chinese communities abroad, have alrendy gathered in Nanking, and the number
the at- surpasses fendance at any previous congress, while the expected arrival-of-tho South West Delegates sometime to-day also serves to emphasise the national character of the con- ference.
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Subject to the approval of the Executive Congress, the Central Conimittee meeting this' morning elected the presiduum, comprising persons, including Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, General Feng Yu- hsiung und Messrs Wang Ching wei, Lin Sen, Sun Fo, Yu Yu-jen, Chang Chi and Tai Chi-tuo.-- Reuter,
Preparations Complete
Nanking, Nov. 11, After extraordinary heavy work of the past few days the prepara-- tians for the 5th. Congress to- morrow were at last completed at n late hour lo-night.
The building “of the Central Kuomintang Headquarters hils been gaily decorated with flags, at bunting and other attractive decorations. In view of the shoot- ing outrage which occurred on the 1223 opening of the. 6th. Plenary 516 Session the local Police and Gen- 40.23/32 darntes have been instructed to
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take all necessary precautions to give full protection to the delegates at the opening ceremony to-morrow morning.
No less than 700 sents have 36.1/16] been arranged in the main hall of
110% the Headquarters.
Holiday
The agenda for to-morrow, will
20.1214 include the following:
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2161 1. All delegates will assemble at 4.97 the Dr. Sun's Mausoleum at 10 .., where they will pay respects
227 to their late leader.
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2. The opening ceremony will be held at the Maliṣoleum Hall.
3.The prelimary meeting of the 101% Congress will be opened on the 13th. at the Kuomintang Head- quarters.-Wah Kiu Yat Po.
-British Wireless.
THE VERY IDEA!
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ous girls on the beaches at Bondi and Manly."
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Sense and Non-Cents
Mr. Wang Ching-wei Better
Nanking, Nov. 11.
The bulletin issued to-day des- eribes Mr. Wang Ching-wel's general condition as "very good."
-Reuter.
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Reading all that's been written DEFENCE OF EGYPT
about the dollar and silver, it appears that by hanging on to $5,000 in silver coins, you stand a good chance of making £125 if you can smuggle
it out of the Colony,
Which doesn't interest us a bit. If someone can tell us how we can make
FIVE HUNDRED BRITISH WARPLANES ARRIVE
Paris, Nov. 10. French dispatches from Alexan- }
our $18-in-dirty banknotes pay n-bill-drin-state that 500 British war-
IN
Taking The Air
for $60 they'll be doing a real service.planes have arrived in Egypt during the past ten daya and that' the R.A.F.. personnel has been in- creased. The reports also state that a new aviation camp is being constructed on the out-skirts of Port Sald,
This stratosphere flight just shows to what longths some Americans will parto get away from the New Deal.
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Worth His Weight In Silvar
One despatch adda, that` 25
Notice in yesterday's, Telegraph large planes, have flown to Anglos that a Hongkong man changed hin Egyptian Sudan, within striking colour through taking too much silver nitrate. Ordinary silver has done distance of Laka Tsana-United that to a lot of people lately.
Press.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, ·NOVEMBER 12, 1935.
Maureen O'Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Adrienne Ames in "Woman
Wanted", now showing at the King's Theatre.
AUSTRALIAN GIRLS
RETURN
GLAD TO BE BACK IN THE
COLONY AGAIN
BURGLAR SENTENCED
..
METHODS EARN NICKNAME OF TRE SPIDER*
ARMISTICE DAY
TWO MINUTES SILENCE
AT HOME
London, Nov. 11..
In every town and village throughout Britain the 17th annl-. versary of the Armistice was com memorated with the form of service similar to that at the Cenotaph which was as usual at- tended by members of the Royal family, the: Cabinet Ministers and the Opposition lender, the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker, Ministers, ex-Ministers, -High Commissioners, representatives of the Merchant Navy and. represen- tatives of various religious de- nominationé.
The service which was conduct- ed. by the Bishop of London was preceded by. 2 minutes silence, during which business and other) activities of all kinds all over the country were suspended. The observance of this great silence, which is a most impressive fen- ture of the Armistice ceremony, hns not been weakened by the passage of years.-British Wire-
TCRA,
Duke of York Deputises A returned banishee, LF Wong-yan,' 23. known
Londen, Nov. 11. "the በ።
spider," War sentenced to terms of imprisoment Unsettled weather prevented the totalling one year when he appeared | King's attendance at the Cenotaph before Mr. Schofield at the Central ceremony at Whiteball. The Duke Magistracy yesterday.
of York deputised in the absence
After
All looking fit and well and all a little worried over the extra few pounds they had put on during their six weeks' stay in Japan, the party of Young Australia Lengne
The defendant pleaded guilty to of the Prince of Wales in Edin- girls touring the Far East arrived charges of returning from banish-burgh. back in Hongkong yesterday by ment, and to stealing a gold watch The Duke of Kent accompanied the President Pierce and are stay-and chain and two opium pipes, valued his brother, while the Queen and ing at the Peninsula Hotel. in all at $210, from 155 Hennesy (cther members of the Royal Family the fountain pen, watched the ceremony from Hongkong's welcome to the Road, third floor; n
17, young Australians when they first clothing and a felt but from
Hennessy Roni; a silver watch and Home Office.
the two minutes silence arrived from the south was warmly chain and parse containing $61, from vast crowds led by the choirs of appreciated, for the girls yester Hennessy Road, third floor; and the Chapel Royal and of West- diy expressed their gladness to be the theft of
watch a silver
minster Abbey joined in a service back in the Colony, partly because, fountain pen from 149, Thompson conducted by the Bishop of Len-
they are tired of Road. they stated, seeing so few European" faces,
Lau Kam, unemployed, who pleaded partly because it is a step nearer guilty to receiving one of the stolen home, but mainly because their fountain pees, was sentenced to four
80 months hard labour., memories of Hongkong were pleasant and they feel they have It Woa stated Lay Detective-tended by large, reverent crowds many friends and well-wishers in Sergeant Fitches that Wong-yan all over the country. Reuter
known as "the spider" because
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don.
Detachments of the army, navy and air force formed a wide square around the Cenotaph.
Sirailar ceremonies
Irish Version
were
Dublin, Nov. 11/ A cheering crowd burned the Union Jack here today following
the Colony.
of his methou of thieving. He Travelling over most of Japan apparently tied a rope to the roof and spending six weeks there, the mid entered each floor by this means, whole of which was crowded with Lau Kam kept watch for him. action, the girls feel they know a good deal about the island Empire and they impressed the visitors have had in Japan and Shanghai.meeting protesting against with their friendliness and good-The girls leave by the Taiping on will.
Thursday at noon.
After they had settled into the Peninsula Hotel yesterday after-
.
At the Peninsula
noon the girls had a free after- The dance which will be held noon and evening. To-day they this evening in the Rose Room of will probably be present at the the Peninsula Hotel is the first Trooping of the Colours by the function of the season to be held Lincolnshire Regiment at Sham at the Peninsula. It is in honour shui po, and have the afternoon of the Australian girl visitors, and free. They will be entertained in is being held under the auspices of the evening at a dance given in the Australian and New Zealand their honour by the Australian Association. Those who are tak Association at the Peninsula ing parties are requested to ar- Holul.
range with the management of the To-morrow will include a trip to hotel for table reservations, which the Peak. The full programmé is must be made before 4 p.m. to-day. not arranged yet, and the stay Tickets, which cost $3 each, are here will be in the nature of a obtainable from Mr. A. W. Ingram, "holiday" following the rather or members of the Committee of tring round of entertainment they the Association.
# College Green anti-imperialistic the observance of Armistice Day-- United Press,
BRITISH MINERS
VOTE OPENS ON STRIKE' ISSUE
London, Nov. 11. Voting opened for to-day for half a million miners as to whether they will call a national strike to higher enforce demands wages.
for 2
A majority for the strike is ex- pected, but whether the necessary two-thirds majority is for a strike to be actually declared will be furthcoming is doubtful-Renter.
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