JAPANESE REFUSE REQUEST
"Rulers" Of Shanghai
Deaf To British
Complaints
Discrimination Alleged
are
London, July 6.
being Representations made both in Tokyo and Shang- hai to obtain the romoval of restrictions on travel in trame by Chinese workmen of British concerns, said Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in answer to a question in the House of Commons to-day.
So far, added Mr. Butler, the Japanese bad refused to accede to the British requests on the score of main- military necesstly and the lennnee of peace and order.
Sle John Wardlow-Milne, Conser- vative M.P. for Kidderminster, asked If the Government could furnish the repiles from the Japanese Govern- ment to the British protests of December 31, 1937, April 5. April 0 and April 11, in corection with
recent cases of assmult by Japanese on British subjects in the Internu- tionni Settlement.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1938.
COLONY'S REVENUE $4,436,118 ABOVE ESTIMATE IN 1937
DEMAND FOR H.K. MONEY
Issues Of Banks Up By Millions
DUTIES CLIMB BY OVER MILLION
The Treasurer's Report on the Hongkong's bank-noic issuc bus Accounts for the Colony for the result of the Sino-Japanese host-year 1937 was tabled in Legis-
lative Council this afternoon.
increased in remarkable fushidon as w
jes.
Since the outbreak of war there has been a steady demand for Hong kong currency, and the total note issue of the three note-issuing banks and of the Government increased during 1937 as follows: Government
$1 Notes Chartered Bank Notes
Dee. 31
19:0 $2,300,00
1 K.
Bank Notes
Mr. Butler replied that, shortly after inking office, General & Ugaki. the new Japanese Foreign Secretary. informed Sir Robert Crugie, the British Ambassador in Tokyo, that Mercantile he intended to examine personally
the
Bank Notes
all questions al issue between British and Japanese Governments
Lord Halltas, the Foreign Srepet-
Dec. 31
$3,425,000
1937
It discloses that the actual revenue collected during 1937 was $4,430,173 in excess of the estimate.
SPEEDING
ARMY'S PROMOTION
No Colonelcies For Mon Over Fifty
London, July 6.
The British Army Council will shortly announce important new Regulations which will have the effect of drastically rejuvenat- ing the Army, according to the Military Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and Morning
Post.
RADIO BROADCAST
Anne Winter and D'Aquino
From the Studio
Z.B.W. ORCHESTRA
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a Frequency of 845 k.o's. and an Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. And 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's per seconu
t
Stadio-The Children's Ilour. Hawalian Selections.
Hilo Hanakahi (Haickalea); On The Beach Of Walkki (Henry Kat- limal) Waikiki Stone-Wall Boys; Rock Me In A Cradle Of Kalun ending); Maybe It's The Moon )....Frank-Ferara's Hawei- Jan Trie; On The Dreamy Moana
Shore (Dyson)....S
South Sea Island-
and
Cielito ers: O Sole Mio (Di Capo); Liudo (Manuel M. Ponce).
Ferera and Pauluh! (Hawaiian Guitar Duet); Swanee Moon (Leon, Towers Pelosi): Rose Dreams (Shannon and Stasny). .George Ellott's Hawallan Novelty Quartet with vocal chorus,
7.28 Closing Local Stock Quota- ons
7.30 Variety.
Powell). CONST
Of this excess $1,210.911 was on Account of Dulles, all subheads of which showed considerable Increases. The
most important was $802,203 in respect of Tobacco Dulles und was mainly owing to the closing down of North China factories with quent increased activity in the local Industry. $20,756,888 $25,372,604 | The abnormal ineretese in popu-
lation was responsible for the greater part of the Improvement in may $124,863,771 $199,688,798 items of revenue, particularly import duties on liquor, assessed this stud
a upoly
54,001,100 $5,175,570
$154,012,147 5233,682,97 ta asking Sir Robert Craigie
The estimated note que per raplia It 15 before the wor was about $100 he ran report any progress
now well in exerns of $200
whether he
th these enses,
11
Mr. Butler, replying to St John Hasion, Conservative MI Bolton, said that Lord Halifax wan
the Britis Embassy Shanghai to report regarding The allegation that Japanese comineretal shipping does not pay regulae hai bour dues and fees in Shanghot
Sir John Haslam requested that a strong protest be marfe Japan against such serlous discrimination against foreign skip Reuter,
J
TRAFFIC MISHAPS INCREASE
59 Killed In Past Six Months
SUBSIDIARY COINAGE In roa-quence of the winter. feating to white! the supremo Rei 10 been
+10
introduction
POPULATION INCREASE
Under these new provisions, no ofleer over the age of 30 years will be promoted to the rank of Colonel, A large number of elderly Majors will be asked to retire on pensions that will be increased from £300 to 1480 per annum, in order to open the way for the promotion of younger officers
Vocal-Some Of My Songs (Mabel Wayne); Intro-Little Man You've had a busy day: Ramona; His Majesty the Baby Sung by Mabel Wayne at the Piano (with Violin Cello): Vocal with Orchestra-It's No Fun (Ager-Newman-Mencher); Blazin' The Trail (Samuels-Whitcup Len Berraon with Or- chestra: Orchestra-Love, For Ever 1 Adore You (Miller and de Michell); Ninon (From A Song for You') . . . . Reginald King and His Orchestra Vio- with Cavan O'Connor (Tenor); lin and Pinno-Mr. Isaac's Mango! The pension of offers not attached (arr. Coell J. Sharp); Orleans Batlled to Stails will be substantially in- (arr. Cecil J. Sharp)... Elsie Avril erenser, and the period of service and Everal de Jersey; Military between the ranks of Lieutenant and Band--Palms Or Victory-March Captain will be shortened to eight) (Blankenburg), Hipp, Hipp, Hurrah!
Trans-crunt,
--Murch (Kunoth)....Massed Mili- tary Banda.
The considerable in rene at royal-, ties collected from the various Bats years. portation servers was mitrely dur to the miffus of refugees froma. (libra
A
ray
Invest and s CCH CENTURY
since exposed November 1935.
during th the Gevenment decided last you, with the advies of the Royal Mint authorities, to replace the cupro-nickel with a new are f nickel eins somewhat larger in NiZP
There has been a substantial m- in the number of traffle acri- ANODEO
dents in the first half of 1938, us compared with the corresponding
period last year. For the first stx months of this year, the number of accidents was 1,939, of widch 687 people were injured and 59 killed, as gainst 1,130 during the same period in 1937, of which 400 people were Injured and 37 killed.
During the week ending at 8 aun. un July 2, there were altogether 82 accidents, resulting in the death of one and Injuries to 20.
The person killed, a Chinese of 27, died from injuries received whilst alighting from a moving trancar.
Of the persons injured, 22 were pedestrims, one was a bus passenger, four were tromear passengers and two were bicycle riders.
causes.
BIG MEXICAN OIL DEAL
New York, July 6. The signature of the New York
firm of W. R. Davis & Co. to pur- chase Mexican oli to the value of US$10,000.000 is reported trom Mexico City.
and having a security om geeully designed to defeat ordinary methods of entertentang
40
Prstai! Revenue. $1.244.500 WAN almut by several fnet The break down of the cable company's services
nabling
Shanghai diverted considerably business to the Radio Testeggi Office. The expalis un of air mail services, merenced the plutonenal postage rates, and
of the Camat Stamp was
excess ibuted largely
The expenditure for the year was 507,008 less than the Budget provide
Personal Emolument: aruntedj In $12.895.942. being $824,081 Jess thou the estimated flture of $13,718,- 916, coefly as a result of the Levy Salaries which operated for the first half of the year.
under Uits hend,
ths to the end of 1937
eurity aim nickel eins to the face value of $392,500 had bera put into etresulating concurrently with the Cupro-ntekel, 19 Issue. (It is the intention of Govern- ment to withdraw
latter the supplies of the new
POINS become avaliable).
JES
to The
In addition to a small quantity of
Other Charges nummurted to $4,575,- silver coin still in active cireubition | 327 showing a saving of $00,530. the following amounts of subsidiary A sum of $1,510,296 was expended
coin were in circulation on December -ua. Public Works Extraordinary, 31, 1937:
Cupro-Nickel Cupro-Nickel Security Rim
Nickel Security Him
Nickel
-
Ap
Die
Fac East Wa
vd by the brought sharply to untbrenks of hostilities between China Juan, but the immediate finon- effect upon Hongkong was bene-
teral
8 Local Time Shenal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Studio-A Concert by Anne Winter (Soprano). Gasion D'Aquino (Tenor) and E. O'Neil Shaw (Plano),
Seville Rossini),
Anne Winter: Una Voce Poco Fa ("Barber of 2. (1) Una Furtive Lagriman ('Elisir (b) Da! Conipl.
"Large numbers of refugees from J'amore"<"Birte).
Shanghal and South China came into the Colony, while the practical ces- sittion of trade with the interior of China through Shanghai resulted in un increased volume of trade passing through Canton and other Southern Coast ports, a large part of which
ted via Hongkong was condu
Dai
4.
Prati Gaston D'Aquino; 3. Plano Soto- O'Neil Shaw: Ballad (Debussy)
E (a) Let Me Gaze On The Vision Faust" Gouned); (b) E II Sol Dell'Anima ("Rigoletto"-Verdi), Anne Winter and Gaston D'Aquino, 8.35 Studio Concert by Z. B. W. Orchestra.
2,
Figures of China's trade for the last five months of the year show
Woman and Song Wine, that while there was a very consider.
Judex (Gouned) (Strauss); fable reduction in the total trade a Z.B.W. Orchestra; 3. Recorded:-(a) much large percentage of it passed | Rio Grande (Sea Shanty); (b) Billy through Hongkong with a resultant increase in the actual trade of the Boy (Sea Shanty) (arr. Terry); (c)
(Sen Shanty) Shenandoah
(arr. Colony with China,
Terry) John Goss (Baritone) and The Cathedral Male Voice Quartet; 4. By The Sleepy Lagnon (Eric The Slirine Of The Sun Coates): 5, (Elliott).Z.B.W. Orchestra.
INCREASED POPULATION
Face Value,
LOAN WORKS
works Expenditure on lon
"As a result both of the greater 10 cent $1,500,000
5 cent
50,000 therized by Ordinance No. 11 of 1934 petivity and of the increase in popu- hiring the year 1937 amounted to lation, which has been estimated at as much as 20 per cent., practically 202 500 $1,057,215, which was met by an ad-
The all the wanee from surplus balances.
up to Deremiæer i substantial increases, 30.000 i total expenditur
31st, 1917. was 524.123,484, defulla C "The which are shown in Financial Return Nu 8.
10 cent
5 cent
GAS MASKS FOR PARIS
the
Paris, July 7. The General Council of the Seine Department has ordered 1,700,000 205 masks for distribution population of the Prench capital
The sum of 132 malllion frames has been appropriated for the purchase of gas masks, and 15 million trains for their storage.
Expenditure mounting to $58.543 2 eurl of certain additional works which it is proposed to charge to a Crew Lain was Bunced by un atif-
vance from surplus revenge,
9 London Relay-The Open Golf Champlonship.
sources of revenue showed by Bernard Darwin from the Royal
An account of the morning's play
St. George's Golf Club, Sandwich. receipts from rates were D.10 Studio Concert by Z.B.W, higher owing to the smaller number Orchestra Continued.
of vacant tenements, these having 1 (a) Morning (Grieg); (b) Death sunk from nearly 3,000 in January Of Ase (Grieg); 2, Three Dances to under 1,000 in December.
trom Nell Gwyn (Edward German); "Liquor and tobacco duties also(a) Country Dance; (b) Pastorai showed substantial increases while Dance; (c) Merrymakers' Dance.... many minor iteins such as enter-Z..W. Orchestra. The loans outslunching; after wr,bug) tolmunent tax and the royalties pay- All meroverable and bad debts able on gross receipts by omnibus amounted to $295,490.
companies reflected A sum of and ferry $500,000 Whig transferred during the increase in population. year to Revenue from the Reserve
"As regards expenditure, the total Account now stands at $338.- was very close to the original estim- at which need to ate. Larger savings would have been realised but for the unexpected ex-
the
9.30 London Relay The News 8.50 Efrem Zimbalist (Violin), Tallahassee (Scott); The Zephyr
30, No. (Jeno Hubay-Op.
5); Song (Glinka-Zimballst), Persian
10 London Retay-Men Who Make The Shows'
Leontine Sagan will be interviewed A dispute whether gas masks air raid shelters allord better
The obtual contciation of $160.011, pense perasioned by the disastrous by Dudley Gloss concerning some of pro-to the 4 Conversion Loon Sinung, yphoon of September 2 and fection to the population
rip
i.
jeover existing loans.
has thus. Pun was as usual invested b: steriing! tional expenses caused by the cd her best-known London Theatre pro-
ART TO AID CHARITIES
An exhibition and ade of pictures
The
of Vienna University (for the Chia-
La Borula at par
Revenung this issue.
UNNECESSARY CREDIT
TREASURER'S REPORT
hostilities.
prepared
in
ductions. Pittard.
Singers (A).
Presented by F. H. C. Of the 82 aveldenis, 34 were colli- sions between vehicles, 30 were colli- for the lime belag, been decided insecurities.
A sum of $360,000 was: “pidemic which visited the Colony
10.20 London Relay-The B.B.C. sions between vehicles and pedes-favour of gas masksj--Trans-Gecan, expended tre redeeming 3 Dollar in the late summer, and by various trions, and 18 were due to other
con- accordance supplementary expenditure IN
Margaret Godley; Margaret Rees; with the terma of t Ordinace ection
with refugees and other Gladys Winmill; Doris Owens; Brud- Hems arising out of the Sino-Japanese bridge White; Martin Boddey; Ston- ley Riley; Samuel Dyson, Conduct- The sum of $1.810,208 expended ed by Trevor Harvey; Madrigals and It was found unnecessary to issue on Public Works Extraordinary dur- Ballets: Now is the month of may- dtering 1937 Y of the remaining in the year was somewhat less than In aid of Chinese War charities will $11,000,000 of Bonds authorized by the amount budgetted for and was (Morley) Flora Gave me Fairest Flowers (Wilbye); Hope of my Heart be held on July 11, 12, and 13. at
the Ordinance. The works covered in fact the lowest for some years. (Word): Hark; all ye Lovely Saints St. John's Cathedral Hall by by this Loun were financed by an This was due to the fact that the (Weelkes);
All Creatures Now (Ben- Estimates were Hongkong Working
advance from the surplus revenues of Artists' Guild.
time when It The exhibits include original wo
the Colony without difficulty.
WRS still cuts by Dr. Emma Milch-Bormann,
necesnett); Folk-song Arrangements: The wood-
Ces Spring-time of the Year (orr, Vaug- sury to observe thic strictest
test han Williams); Richard of Taunton reonemy,
while extra work occasion- Dene; Peggy Of Ramsay (arr. Ger- "From the point of view of ed by the repair of typhoon ese Red Cross), and modern Chinese Government finance the main feature damage necessitated the postpone (are. Vaughan Williams); There was yard Willams); Bushes and Briars paintings by the late Mr. Wong Olof the year 1937 was the passing of ment of various works. On the other a Tree (arr. Holst): The Campbells hung (for his refugee mother). the acute flaancial stringency of the hand in addition to the sums spent
The exhibition will be opened ai 5.30 p.m. on July 11 by the Very Rev. Financial Secretary in his Report.
afe Comin' (arr. Mansfield). previous two years," slates the out of revenue on Public Works 10.50 Orchestral. Denn J. 1., Wilson, after which a talk
a total of $1,113,909 Extraordinary &
Emperor Waltz, Op. 437 (J. will be given on the exhibits.
The Estimates provided for a de- was spent from loan funds.
Sirouss).....Vienna Philharmonic nelt of $3,408,910, revenue being put "As already noted the surplus of Orchestra conducted by Bruno at $23,100.250 and expenditure at assels over liabilities at the end of Wolter. $32,259,180, In the actual result the year was $14,003,278. The great. 11 Close Down. revenue exceeded the estimate byer part of this, c. $10,320,208, was $4,436,110 and with a small saving advanced to loan funds pending re- TO COACHES of $147,038 over estimated expendi Imbursement from the insur of the ture a surplus of $1,085.140 was remainder of the 34% Doline Loan; X*.
but total cash resources ignoring COST $18,000
surplus of assets on gust deposits earmarked for special funds Paris.. December, 1937, was $14,002,270, & amounted to $5,034,113, expenditure by nuch more satisfactory figure than The Kowloon-Canton Rallway inst was anticipated when the Estimates year was $18,000 for repairing two for 1037 were
In the railway coaches darnaged by Japanese Autumn of 1930. aircraft.
The oil will be for delivery, prin cipally through W. R. Davis & Co., and European companies, to Germany, Italy and Sweden,
It is estimated that 10,000,000 barrels are involved, with delivery to be made over a period exceeding a
year.
Payment will be US$4,000,000 cash and the balance in European equip- ment for the oil industry-Reuter,
OLD OFFENDER GOES TO GAOL
With nine previous conviellons for larcentes beside Low
4
for other offences, an unemployed man, Leung Kun, was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour by Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith at the Central Magistracy this morning for the theft of a pencil from Chan Cheung, a shop assistant, al Des Voeux Road Central, yester day afternoon. Sub-Inspector M. J. Flailery prosecuted.
BOMB DAMAGES
Included in the
TYPHOON NOT THREATENING
prepared
to
ed
LOANS
EXCHANGE RATES
July 6. July 6, 177.55/84 177.49/04
Genova.
21.00
21.02
Berlin. Athens Milan
12.30
12.294
D47%
547
.04%
0313
.10.00
10.00
.8.00
800%
22.40
22.40
10.30%
10.801
1121⁄4
14254
22094 20.21
220%
20.18
4.0417
4.04
Nom
Nom
110
110A
in, 3d.
1/518
4.98
217
1/3
1/2
672/2
.20
217 0724
18.00%
2014
212
10
19
103%
British Wireless.
1. 31.
.02d.
"As regards loans the position re- Oalo "The deficits then anticipated for urized by the Dollar Loan Ordinance,
mains that of the $28,000,000 auth- Amsterdam. Total expenditure by the K.C.R. 1930 and 1037 would have reduced 1934, $14,000,000 has been issued. Stockholm
Copenhagen was $14,842,751 which, despite record tho surplus of assels about The balance of $11,000,000 is avail-Prague. revenue, was well within the es- $8,000,000.
alste for issue when the funds are timated expenditure for the year.
This satisfactory result
Helsingfors. achieved, almost
Was required, expenditure being advanc
Brussels. entirely by
from general surplus balances in New expansion in existing sources
York. of the meanwhile as already noted. Vienna revenue; no new or increased taxes This system is being continued for were imposed during the year,
Lisbon the present as the liquid resources Hongkong "General conditions of trade in avaliable appear Buffelent to meet A typhoon is reported 200
China, which had already shown the immediate needs but the necessity Bombay milca signa of improvement in 1930, im- of issuing the remainder of the loan Montreal south-east of the Paracel Islands, proved steadily in the first half of as soon as circumstances require is Yokohama within 60 miles of Latitude 14 north 1837 and Hongkong shared in the kept in mind, and Longitude 113 cast. The typhoon, general greater activity of trade, which is approximately south of The improvement in the narcial Sir Kingsley Wood, the Minister Hongkong, is travelling in a wester outlook was therefore sufficient to for Air, announced in the House of By direction towards Indo-China and enable the salary levy to be removed stable during the year. The Ex- Rio de Janeiro...311 The currency situation remained Buenos Aires...18.00 Commons to-day that during the six not towards this Colony. months 10,140 men had uppilod for enlisting the location of the cyclone, was SINO JAPANESE WAR roney Ordinance, 1938, and fluctug Silver (forward) 10% ment in the Royal Air Force hoisted at Blackhead Fort Bignat "During the latter part of the your tions in the rats during the year War Loan.......1024 British Wirolass.
station this morning.
the general Improvement in economic were small
MANY ARMY RECRUITS
London, June 20.
CURRENCY
Bahnrest..
Montevideo...
.1/618
.4.004
ended July 2, a total of A non-local typhoon signnl, show. / with effect from the 1st July, 1937. change Fund set up under the Cur. Silver (Spot) ..10%
Mackintosh's
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CHARLEY GRAPEWIN • JESSIE RALPH 2 Based upon the Havelby Pemi 5. Beck ↑ Asbested for the Siege by Deen Davis and Devild Dark
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