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China Mail

No. 25,922,

THE CANTON MINT.

TO PRODUCE SILVER COINS?

A SYNDICATE.

Move to Re-open Institution; Hong Kong Interest.

PROBABLE EFFECT ON LOCAL TRADE.

[From Our Political Correspondent.]

Yet another aspect of Chinese national finance and Kwangtung finance has arisen. This concerns the Mint in Canton, which is Government property. In connection with the project to re-open this institution for the production of silver coins, an important ques- tion has to be considered together with its effect on the Canton money market, South China trade in general and economic relations with Hong Kong.

Hong Kong interests, according to a very well-informed source, ure associated with a-syndicate which is to have a working capital of H.K.$1,500,000 with the object of an output of $150,000,000 from the Mint.

$1,500,000 PROJECT.

It is necessary to go back to 1928 to trace the origin of the idea. The late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Chinese Revolu- tion, then had his headquarters in the Cement Works at Honans, on the other side of the Canton River, opposite the city.

Disturbed political con ons caused an adverse feeling it in fluential quarters and delay in- sued. An American interviewed the authorities on several occa- sions, travelling back and orth across the Pacific, but he failed to secure an official concession..

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ESSEX SWAMPED.

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TYPHOON 100 MILES AWAY.

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OUR ATTITUDE.

NO RECOGNITION.

BY THE MAIL MEN,

One of our Silver Suspenders goes Thirty-six pages of the last issue this week to "Disgusted Peaklle" of, the H. K. Govt. Gazette are who admitted in the Press that he devoted to a draft Ordinance to

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London. Yesterday. W. R. Hammond, the Gloucester- The typhoon is now about 100

amend the Widows' & Orphana* Pension Ordinance 1908, but wo shire crack batsman, again distin-miles from Hong Kong, moving In the House of Commons, re-wanted a bath.

Chamberlain said His Majesty's

The Hot Water Spell....I-C-E.

regret to observe that no provision fa guished himself in the game against west and west-north-west, accord. plying to questions, Sir Austen

roade for the Relations & Government would regard Man- Essex which terminated yesterday ing to the Observatory.

Friends of Anopheles Mosquitoes Unless it takes a more north-churia as a part of China and at Chelmsford in a victory for the

This Week's Great Hope-bred on Crown Land, and which are former county by seven wickets, ernly track, of which there are would not recognise that Japan

no indications at present, no very has any special interests there Regulation of weather now pos- undoubtedly killed occasionally by Hammonil scored 244 in the first serious increase in wind is anti- other than those. conferred by sible; Mr. Claxton lowers heat by the K.C.R. Trains. It is sincerely hoped that this emission will have treaty and those mentioned in Mr. decrees.

the attention of the Unofficial Mem- innings, thus helping considerably cipated. In allowing his side to compile the The forecast until noon to-mor- Shidehara's statement at the

Punters whose fortunes varied bers when the ssid Ordinance comes respectable total of 623,

row is:-N.E. to N. winds, moder- plenary session of Washington

Conference on February 4, 1922. call those celebrated Downs "Upsan up for the Second Squawking. Freeman, in the Kent-Hants Ax-lating, overcast, rain.

Pressure is highest to the east Sir Austen replied in the Downs" now. ture, did well with the ball.

of Japan.

negative to a question whereby

Chorus of Indian moneylenders at The next American lecturer on the Summary Court on Fridays *— Up to noon to-day the Star any other signatory of the nine- down and Mead scored centuries.

Northants were severely licked Perry launches and the Peak Power Washington Treaty (apart motoring in this Colony might do An eye for an 1.0.U. by Notts, thanks to George Gunn Tram were running, as also were from the protests of the Peking worse than suggest a new name for and Carr, who both got to the 100-the Yaumati ferry boats. There and Nanking Governments) had the place--Honk Konk.

was an absence of small Chinese stated it does not recognise that the second innings.

craft in the harbour, The Men-Japan has special rights and in- Sutcliffe, one of Yorkshire's open-of-war were still at anchor in the terests in Manchuria.-Reuter. ing pair, made a century after Harbour.

MORE NOTES.

Shanghai, Yesterday. long while, putting together 111

THE SIGNALS.

It is reliably stated that the against Derbyshire who lost by an

The No. 4 typhoon signal was Nationalist Foreign Ministry is innings and 52 runs.

still hoisted this morning. AC delivering Notes to the represen according to a typhoon warning tatives of twenty-four countries,

mark

Ash-

Lancashire could only secure Arst

side.

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Is it reasonable that the public The Cabinet has decided to adopt should be subjected to the indignity of sharing a First Class carriage the Race-course Betting Bill......

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as a Government measure......The with a Water Buffalo on the K.C.RT decision is regarded as a personal

Something hatched at last!..... triumph for Mr. Winston Churchill. -British Wireless Service.

much- the oplum from those “Winnie" now says that the maligned preserved black eggs for

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inning's points from Worcester, issued at 7.35 a.m. the typhoon believed to be requesting the Im.Bill's former opponents are show-, which China has been famous. who made a gallant stand in the was in Lat. 21 degrees N. Longmediate revision of Chinese ing horse sense. DETAILS OF SCHEME.

second innings after having to 115 degrees E., travelling in a treaties, whether they have ex-

The liner "Mamifius" has arrived The scheme proposed was to follow on, Gibbons and Fox (148 W.N.W. direction, with a radius pired or not.

There is no truth in the rumour with the repatriated crows of the coin $150,000,000 in denomina- not ont) were the saviours of the of 60 miles. Later at 10.15 am. It is understood that Japan is that a number of radio enthusiasts Commonwealth liners....-Dally tions of 20 cents, 10 cents, 5

the report stated: Typhoon in Lat. particularly disturbed concerning who had been celebrating in a press cents, with only the relatively

21 deg. N., Long. 14 deg. E the uncertainty of her position as friend'e house tried to fix & loud Were the seafarers as black as small proportion of $500,000 in

London, Yesterday. travelling West.

the Nationalist Government may speaker on to one of those new they were painted? dollar pieces.

Gloucestershire beat Essex by

NO RIVER BOATS. seven wickets.

Owing to the approach of the Gloucester 628 (Hammond 244) typhoon, no river boats left for and 30 for 3.

Canton this morning

Much excitement and anxiety Essex 161 and 988 (O'Connor 214,

The 20 cents piece is now cur- rent tender; the old Imperial 10 cents piece has vanished; and the only 5 cents pieces issued came out years ago in a base metal and

wore soon "lost" from the mar ket.

Among the terms discussed was that of fineness. Accord ing to the "China Mail's" in- formant, 65 per cent. was mentioned. The law of China, however, lays down 75 per cent. Considerable interest was dis- this Colony but were intermit-played in the fineness as 66 per tently in the limelight because of their relations with the rulers of cent. would leave a margin of 25

Subsequently, he got in touch 'with a group of Hong Kong mor- chants who have not been very prominent in their business in

Canton from time to time.

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SEEKING BACKING, These merchants were pressed. They gave the Ameri- can promoter $5,000 as expenses for another trip to the United States with the object, it is be. lieved, of obtaining financial or material backing.

The

Complications set in. group of merchants maintained that the American had lost the sympathy of the Equitable Bank ing Corporation.

per cent. clear profit on turnover, after deducting all expenses.

SILVER FROM AMERICA. The name of the "Equitable Banking Corporation" was men- tioned again. The Chinese name given was the "Ta Tung" Bank. These two characters can be the mandarin or northern rendering of the Chinese name of the Equit- able Eastern Banking Corpora

tion.

Russell 113, Parker 8 for 165).

Freeman Again.

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By 288 Runs. Notts beat Northants by 288 runs. Notts 298 (Jupp 7 for 110) and 369 for 3 declared (George Gunn

159 Carr 100 not out).

Northants 154 and 216.

refuse to be bound by the exten super-ice-chests and to get another sions granted by Chang Tso-lin-bottle of soda water out of the

wireless set. Reuter.

CHINA AND FRANCE.

Shanghai, Yesterday.

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Opinion. Is strong in Talpo that in the next estimates provision should be made for the construction of a Bat Roost, in order to relieve the congestion in a certain local Belfry, ¤ ¤ "Goyt, Officers Charged with Ferry Offences" "China Mail" A three-legged chicken was hat headline ...... Ferry' disgraceful,

This week's Welleriam:-"I totally

sald to the dyspeptic.

agree with you," as the pork chop

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Following the publication in Hong

"A feature of the match was a homer by Bautista who Bocked a. Oh, no Emmeline! Though the fast one to left field in the fifth was caused yesterday by the re- The Foreign Ministry has Magistrates often commit ather frame."

This is an excerpt from a local ported approach of the typhoon. issued the text of the Note ter- people, they very seldom commit

baseball report and not something The No. 1 signal was hoisted dur- minating three Conventions rela- themselves.

about Jiggs sneaking home at night. Kent beat Hampshire by eight ing the early part of the day, tive to frontier trade between wickets

while last night the 6. 4 signal, China. and France, namely the

The report anent the Immaculate Convention of Tientsin of April immersion was premature.....For Kent 363 (Ashdown 130 and 120 was put up. for 2).

Junks all made for refuge at 25, 1886, the additional Commer-

it the person the typhoon shelters, and incom-cial Convention, signed in Peking, omitting to shroff Hunts 181 (Freeman 6 for 57) ing steamers such as the river June 26, 1887, and the Convention concerned has been cashiered. and 350 (Mead 130).

boats which arrived from Canton supplementary to the same sign- last night, left wharf as soon as ed in Peking June 20, 1895.

The Nationalist Government the passengers had disembarked, taking anchorage at Stonecutters, declares that the above mentioned At about 6 p.m. when heavy Conventions shall be considered drops of rain were beginning to as terminated from July 7, 1928, fall, the Star Ferry boats had and proposes that the Chinese their awnings stripped ready for and French Governments imme-ched at Wanchai. This sort gen-what? the emergency. The naval ships diately appoint plenipotentiaries erally ends up in a local restaurant. departed from the sea walls and to negotiate new agreements on went out into the harbour, ready the basis of equality and mutual ito steam ahead if necessary. respect for sovereignty.

so much of Dr. Voronoff's operation in the Tasmanian Mail, we have In the meanwhile the National- According to a report the wire. less station at Pratas had been ist Government will promulgate In England.....The scientist is received a destroyed by the typhoon, and interim regulations in order to merely putting the "gland” observations Rre

being made maintain land trade relations be-"England." from Hong Kong.

tween China and France. Reu- A message received yesterday ter. at 3.15 p.m. at the Harbour Office from Gap Rock reports that the

Local diary for Sunday arid A report from Yunnanfu atates weather is cloudy; sea moderate;!

The Hong Kong representative and a wind blowing N.N.E.; later that the French acting Consul at attending that section of the League Monday, Entertainments. World reported as blowing in a westerly Mengtze has been assaulted and of Nations at Geneva, dealing with (Theatre). "The Gap Deceiver," Of Wanchal or Wong-nei- direction.

slightly injured by disorderly sol- the protection of Anopheles mosqui- diers. There are no details con- toes, stated that he was authorized, chong? cerning the incident but it is un-by the Taikoo Anopheles Anglers derstood that the French author- Association to offer a prize of £100- Ities do not regard the incident for the best design of a humane That's the stuff. Why should the seriously-Reuter

trap that would kill mosquitoes in- North have all the excitement? stantaneously in order to replace the! cruel steal toothed traps which The "Evening News" says that brought about a lingering death by the Nationalist Government is

Sutcliffe and Leyland. Yorkshire beat Derbyshire by an innings and 52 runs.

Derby 234 and 199. Yorks 485 for 8

declared

(Sutcliffe 111, Leyland 149).

Warwick Follow On. Sussex beat Warwickshire on first Inninge.

Four Centuries. Lancashire took first innings points from Worcestershire.

Lancs 446 (Hallows 154, Watson

The only reference to the bank,

Sussex 481 (H. Parks 127). whichever was intended, was that! it was to be the repository of the

Warwick 308 (Parsons 130, Tate $1,500,000 capital, nearly all of [Note: A "China Mail" repre- which was

6 for 75) and, following on $45, for to provide working sentative called on the local office funds (or security) for the pur-6 (Croom 104 not out). of the Equitable Eastern Banking chase of silver from America. Corporation when he Was The former official who was in- courteously informed that there terviewed informs the "China is no Equitable Banking Corpora Mail" that Mr. Samuel Wong tion but an Equitable Eastern was appointed head of the Mint; 115). Banking Corporation in Hong and that he was instructed to

Worcester 127 (R. Tyldesley 6 for Kong and an Equitable Trust Co. proceed to the United States on a36) and, following on, 474 for 8 af New York in America. The mission for the Mint; that Mr. Gibbons 140, for 148 not out). Equitable Eastern Banking Cor-Lam King-wan, a former district' poration categorically denied that magistrate, is to be manager of It was interested in any way in the syndicate; that a native of the Canton Mint. Further para-Kwangsi is to act as liaison officer graphs in this article should between the syndicate and therefore be read in conjunction Kwangtung Government; and, Lorde to-day Eton made 126 and 44) with this explanation.]

that an office would be opened, for two wickets. probably in Canton, with the ob ject of maintaining close contact

LAST YEAR.

Reuter.

Eton and Harrow.

London, Yesterday. In the Eton and Harrow match at

Harrow, scored

The enterprise was not aban-with the money market and faci Wireless Service.

doned. Several officials of the

tating the exchange of coins "old school" joined forces with into Hong Kong currency to con- the merchants. Legal advice was tinue purchases of silver. sought in Hong Kong on the mat- ter.

Nothing happened until

the advent of Marshal Li Chai-

NANKING & CANTON.

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TYPHOON WARNINGS.

Following is the local system of typhoon warnings ---

NO. 1.

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upwards

CONSUL ASSAULTED,

Peking, Yesterday.

SHIPS ON YANGTSZE.

Shanghal, Yesterday.

. Dean Inge says he la sorry to see Kong of an article by A. J. Villers

very large number of into communications from local residents complaining that the story might apply to them. The top headline, Longing for the school summer it will be recalled, was "My Ensiest

Job." holidays-Exer-sighs books.

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"Martial Law in Canton”.

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From a Divorce Court report: "matrimonial. →→ THREE. fumm Town (born Dunn), but he had an uncontrollable tempor and the lat-

drafting identic Notes to Britain, breaking their frail little legs. America, Japan, France and Italy, demanding the withdrawal If our afternoons become hotter, ter part of our life was far from of their warships from the Yang talpans will have to

warn em-

happy.'". .....The quarrel is realis- taze River, pointing out that mill-ployees that they had better not tically conveyed. tary operations in the Interior watch the clock or he will watch the

cause many to fume.

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I have terminated, and that there hands.

Friday's Great Thought:-"Asia- A

(in is therefore no necessity for war-

is older red) is signal No. 1 which means: ships at the river ports for the

This talk by the Nationalists of tic civilisation A typhoon exists which may pos-protection of foreign lives and sibly cause a gale at Hongkong, property, while their presence is putting more taxes on smoking will European."-H.K.D.P. within 24 hours.

contrary to international law,—— Reuter.

A local contemporary, in re- only of the Canton Treasury, but

The No. 1 night signal is

Somebody said that wet weather cording a burglary at a flat occu ANOTHER CONFERENCE. - also of the bankers, merchants shown in three lights, white,

Shanghai, Yesterday. a healthy. A Peak resident who pied by a Chinese actress at Wan- and even small traders in Canton. white, white.

The Kuo Min news agency has caught a cold says that it is chai, said sum's administration in Kwang-posals by the Kwangtung Govern

Coming at this time when pro- į

OTHER VIEWS.

NO. 2.

"As a result of smart police states that Marshal Chiang Kai atlshoo of lies. tung

work part of the Jewellery has ment for one year's autonomy ! From inquiries made in Hong No. 2, meaning: Gale expected shek is leaving Peking for Nan-

since been recovered..." A former Canton official now have been turned down by the Kong business circles, it appears from the North, ie, from an king in the latter part of this Miss Margaret. Beavan, the Lord in Hong Kong, on his way to National Financial Conference at that Mr. Lam King-wan has ar area between N.W. and N.E. of month to attend the fifth plenary Mayor of Liverpool, asid:"You After describing a raid by the Shanghai and Nanking, vouches Nanking, it will be seen that derived here and is stated to have the Colony, is a cone (in black) session of the Central Executive, should not apoll me like this Lord Police, the narrative concluded

pointing upwards,

Committee on August 1. The Mayors are not allowed flowers, I (in the same paragraph) with that Mr. Koo Ying-fan, formerly marcation of provincial and na- discussed matters with friends,

Kuo Min news agency under- am a man...Is That S07 Minister of Finance for the National control may become a moot Mr. Samuel Wong has not tionalist Central Government and

stands that General Feng Yu- booked passage for America,

glang, General Yen Hsi-shan and All the same. for the Kwangtung Provincial

our experience, Is Will it be necessary for Canton The capital of $1,500,000 has Government, was interviewed fol-

General Li Tsung-yen will also at that some minor officials in Hong lowing an introduction by Mar- to obtain Nanking's approval not been fully subscribed.

tend.Reuter.

Kong, who can never become Lord shal Li Chai-Bum.

before assigning the working of A counter-proposal, which is

Mayors, are not averse from having the Mint?

no more than a rumour, is that

a›bouquet thrown at them occasion. Will the output of aliver, the coins might be minted abroad

*ally. coinage in Kwangtung be subject and shipped back to Canton, the to the direction of the Central estimated profit being such that Government or the Provincial it would provide for freight, in surance, interest, etc., and still

This was a few months before the Communist rising in Canton. last December. The Canton Gov- ernment was in dire financial stralia. A crisis was impending in the Canton money market.

After further negotiation, it was noticed that some of the group of merchants had broken away

from their colleagues and were acting on their own initiative and that the old school" politicians vere less prominent.

point.

Government!-

STOKER CHARGED.

The No. 2 night signal is white, In the report of the Empress green, green. ****

Hotel incident, published Thursday's issue, a paragraph should have read o

(Continued on Page 14).

SKIPPER PASSES.

the following

There was, however no trace" of the jewellery or the money."

"This is the month of dinners," gravely announces the "Daily Mail." How hungry everybody. will be in August!

TheWoman Builder whoops What material does be

headline.

Part of an announcement by the Sanitary Board reads: "Disease- producing parasites are therefore Mr. Leo d'Almada prosecu whilst defendant, who was not possibly present on the surface of 1807 legally represented, pleaded not plants. The parasites we know

wall the issue : of an leave a margin." "independent","currency" be an In political circles, the opinion obstacle to financial unification is that the advent of the National

A woman says that fencing is the which "Nanking is striving to Conference at Nanking is likely Captain H. Davenport died last guilty Instead of the garbled are distinguished by their account

books, chits and receipt forms, and coming sport for women But a schiesst

to prove a serious obstacle to a night at the Matlida Hospital: The manner in which it was prenen Such are some of the questions decision being made arbitrarily funeral passes the Monument at thanks to an error in proof read-there-la no posibility of calling woman has fenced chways about

them anything but skroll: 10% amx-to-morrow: now engaging the attention not in Canton.