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THE SIX China Mail

Drain Engine Oil only every 2500 miles

40 miles an hour even when NEW-co tedious "breaking-in"--the result of precision workmanship and careful inspections.

HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25, Queen's Road C. & at Stubbs Road.

The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

No. 27,695

REDS IN COLONY TROOPS ENLIST FOR

RAIDED.

Taken Completely by Surprise.

SURRENDER INEVITABLE.

KIANGSI WAR.

Army of 2,000 Recruited

în Canton.

ATTACK ON REDS.

ESTABLISHED

1846

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931.

PIRACY SUSPECTS.

HOKLO MEN APPEAR IN COURT.

HOLES IN THE SAIL.

No Fire Arms.

RIGHTS OF MOSLEMS

NERVOUS ABOUT INTERESTS.

INDIAN NEEDS

TO-DAY'S

DOLLAR. --- The

closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/-.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

BANK RATE UP.

INCREASE OF £3 IN JUST OVER A WEEK.

OTHERS FOLLOW SUIT.

Sydney, Yesterday, The Bank of New South Wales has again advanced its telegraphic transfer exchange rate on London to £118 per cent. buying, and £118% selling. Other Banka will follow suit-Reuter..

[A message dated January & stat ed that trading banks and the Com- Gonwealth Bank, who were greatly

increase the exchange rate on London to 15 per cent, hurriedly met and re- luctantly decided to increase their rate of talegraphic transfers to £115 for buyers, and £115% for sellers.]

NO DIVIDEND.

Local Branch. Pedder Bldg. Tel. 24554.

BRUTAL ATTACK ON BRITAIN'S SHARE OF

BRITISH LADY.

Sikh Severs Her Arm with a Sword.

DIES IN HOSPITAL.

Lahore, Yesterday.

SHIPBUILDING.

Nearly Forty Per Cent.

of World's Output.

LLOYDS RETURNS.

London, Yesterday.

The Hokio men arrested in con- nection with the attempted piracy of a junk, off Pedra Blanca recent- ly, made their second appearance before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning.

Mr. T. Murphy, Second Assist- Quietly but relentlessly, the

Canton, To-day. ant Director of Criminal Intelli- Police are continuing to wage war General Chang Yim of the 9th gence, asked if his Worship could against the Chinese Communists Erigade attached to the bist Divi- give him a day for the hearing. in the Colony,

sion has mobilized 2,000 newly en- He explained that Mr. H Acting on information received listed troops from Canton, prepara- Somerset-Fitzroy (Public Prosecu about a proposed meeting last tory to leaving to-day, January 14, tor) would be engaged for about evening, others of the Criminal for Kinngsi, The Bureau of Fub-three days at the Assizes, which Investigation Department and alie Safety has been requested to open on Monday. The only evi- posse of men carried out another hunt the city for available coolies dence available was

Rugby, Yesterday. that of the Members of the Federal Struc of their "ightning raids" on the to carry war materials and food complainant's junk, and, Mr. ture Sub-Committee meeting place, in the Chinese sec-stuffs.

at their The troops will first en- Murphy added, the merchant ship final meeting to-day discussed the tion of the City.

train to Shaokuan and march The raid was

to would not be here till January 24 draft report which the Chair-GERMAN SHIPPERS TO OFFER and Monica, aged seven and six. cent. abroad. so well planned Kiangsi, via Nambung. Generals

man, Lord Sankey, read them and undertaken so quietly that Tsai Ting-kai and Chiang Kwang- Replying to his Worship. Mr. yesterday.

6 PER CENT. BONUS. Various the gathered Reds were tuken nei will proceed to the Kiangsi Murphy said that there were no made reservations, notably the members completely by surprise and were front next week to direct the opera-fire arms found nor any blank Moslems, who emphasised the

COMPENSATION MONEY. rounded up without any difficulty. tions.

shells. There were also no visible necessity for a minority safe- They were so taken unawares

marks on the complainant's junk. guard in the constitution, and

Hamburg, Yesterday. that they were unable even to at-

Acting under orders, the 124th His Worship: Not even a hole Conservative members of the Par- Hamburg-America and North-Ger The newspapers state that the tempt escape, not that such an tit-Brigade of the C2nd Division under in the sall?

liamentary tempt would have proved success-Chang Tat, stationed in Swatow

Delegation Mr. Murphy replied that the made clear in a joint declaration cided not to pay a dividend this again many-Lloyd Companies have de- ful because the Police had seen to area, have moved to the Kwang-jank's sail bad many holes, and that they desired to see more of year, but will distribute that and had the place well sur-tung-Kiangai border, guarding all that it would be rather difficult to the picture before giving it their of six per cent. derived from sums rounded and all possible exits the strategic points, and will begin tell whether some of the holes approval. The Indian States also released by the United States on well guarded.

a drive on the Reds when the order were made by bullets or not!

made a point that they did not de- His Worship remanded the desire to discuss or vote on questions sequestrated during War time- account of shipping property The surrender of the Reds was of general offensive is tasued. The

248th Regiment under Chen Kue are fendants for another week. complete. They submitted quiet-massing at Yaoping and Fungshun

affecting British India alone, Reuter. ly and within a few minutes were districts, while the 247th Regiment

while on the other hand they being led under a strong guard to under Li Chen-liang and the Train-

MORPHINE CASE. did not contemplate that the ques- tion of paramountcy would come Police Headquarters where they are now undergoing close inter-ing Regiment under Lo Chin-ying

INDIAN MONEY LENDER

within the purview of the Feder. at Pingyuan, rogation in the Detective Offices.

al Government. It is understood that some "arti Chao-ling, Hing-ling and Wu-wah,

CHARGED. cles" were also seized and these awaiting further are being carefully examined.

Yelling, "I am Д Congress Lloyd's shipbuilding returns LORD PEEL AND HIS surprised at the independent action wallah; I am going to kill the show that the world's, construc- of the Bank of New South Wales to General," a Sikh armed with a tion output of shipping for the DOUBTS.

sword rushed into the bungalow year ending December 31, 1980, of Captain Curtis, of the Indian excluding Russia, from which no returns available, Army Service Corps, and struck there are Mrs. Curtis, severing her left arm, totalled 2,326,086 tons. then broke her right wrist and Of this amount, 39.1 per cent. knocked her unconscious. He represents shipbuilding construc- also wounded her children, Shellation in Great Britain, and 60.9 per Mrs. Curtis died in hospital to- One hundred and eighty-one day, but the children are pro- vessels, representing 908,802 tons, gressing. The servants secured were constructed in Britain, the Sikh, who was recently re-which is 207,844 tons less than leased from prison, where he serv-for the quarter ended in Septem- ed six months for Congress acti- ber 30, 1930, and 661,952 tons less vity.-Reuter.

than for the quarter ended De- cember 31, 1929, respectively,

Quiet Submission.

Drive On Reds,

concentrated are

enter Klangai.

instructions to

According to telographic advices,

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BAIL ALLOWED.

Khem Singh (30), an Indian

Whether or not the arrested the 60th and 61st Cantonese divi men will be charged before a Magistrate will depend on the re-aiona have approached as far as money lender, of No. 3, Parkes sult of their interrogation and, to Chingkuo in east Klangal, and are Street, top floor, pleaded not an extent, the nature of the seized ready to launch an attack against guilty before Mr. Butters at the the Communist bandits in Ningtao, Kowloon Magistracy this morning. property.

the bandits stronghold.-Canton when charged with offering or News Agency.

pretending to deal in morphine on January 8 and 12.

EXPORTS OF DRUGS.

AMOUNT ALLOWED BY THE

QUOTA.

A JAPANESE QUERY.

Geneva, Yesterday.

Anti-Red Campaign.

'The

Peking. Yesterday.

One week's formal remand was vernacular newapapers granted at the request of Detec- atate that the anti-Communist tive Sergeant Fitches, defendant's campaign in Kiangsi is not pro- request for bail being opposed. gressing favourably, and assert His Worship, however, over-rul- that the Eighteenth Division hased the opposition, and allowed a joined the "Reds," while two other bail of $10,000.

A pleasing ceremony marked the Divisions have been surrounded. opening of the proceedings of the

The Kinngsi chairman, Lu Ti- Opium Committee to-day when aping, is reported to have wired presentation was made to. Dame his resignation owing to his Rachel Crowdy as she was leav-failure to suppress the Commun- ing the Secretariat of the League lats. after a decade of work for the

The papers further assert that

SMALL FIRES.

OUTBREAK AT KWONG FUK CHEUNG SHIPYARD.

opium and humanitarian sectione Central Government has de

Two small fires were reported to of the League.

The Committee spent the day former Kuominchun leader

cided to transfer the troops of the the Kowloon Fire Station last Sun night. About 7.50 a call was re- discussing the crucial Article VIII. of

Liang-sing to Kinngal to reinforce ceived and three appliances wers draft convention, the Government forces-Reuter. the dealing with the allocation of quotas to countries manufacturing. morphine and cocaine.

of

propos-

FATE OF SEAPLANE.

the TRADE WIND SAID TO HAVE

FALLEN INTO ATLANTIC.

Mr. Sato (Japan) ed A readjustment quota for a country manufac turing only a portion of its own needs, and that the manufacturing country might export druga with-

OFF THE AZORES.

espatched to a alight outbreak In the Kwong Fuk Cheung ship- yard at Cheung Sha Wan

Only

was received 1

buckets were used."

Another call 11.50 p.m. when a heap of rubbish on the roof of a cook-house In Woosung Street became Ignited by a apark from the chimney. For tunately no damage was done.

Taimoshan Blaze..

TIMBER THEFTS.

a bonus

CHANG'S PLANS.

LEADER TO GIVE UP HIS POSTS.

America's Share.

It is estimated that 1,417,184 tons were constructed abroad, of which 282,030 was in the United [States, 218,215 in Germany, 179,677 in Italy, 174,215 in France, and 160,078 in Holland.

The bulk of the Norwegian ton- Peking, Yesterday,

nage was built in Britain. The According to apparently reli-world's construction of motor able Chinese reports from Tien- ships represented a tonnage of

VICE-COMMANDANT.

J

At the Kowloon Magistracy this tan, Chang Haueh-liang contem-1.352.709, and that of oil tankers Lord Sankey to-day drafted a

morning Ma Choi, an unemployed plates relinquishing his posts of 907,298,

Seven vessels of 17,000 tons further paragraph to add to the Chinese, was fined $10 or two commander of frontier defence in committee's report noting these weeks' imprisonment for alealing Manchuria and Chairman of Liao-were built in Great Britain for particular reservations and mak-two pieces of timber from the Saming (Fengtian), and handing over the Dominions.-Reuter. Lee Chau woodyards in Canton Wan Fo-lin would Road yesterday.

FINE WEATHER.

To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:

ed.

The anticyclone has weaken-

It remains central over the Lower Yangtze Valley.

Strong monsoon along the S.E. coast of China and over the China Sea.

Forecast:N. winds, strong;

ine.

Rainfall.

Rainfall to 10a.m. to-day ali. Rainfall since January 1, 0.11 inch against an average of 0.37.

Temperature.

The temperature at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock was:-

A similar sentence was imposed on Chan Cheuk (24), a street coolle, for stealing a plank measuring" 22 feet by one foot from the WD Yuen timber yard in Mongkok Road.

to Chang Tao-hsiang.

replace

Chang Tso-hsiang as Chairman of STARVED FARMERS.. Kirin; and Kao Chi-yi, at present director of the Peking-Mukden PRESIDENT APPEALS FOR Railway, replace Wan Fu-lin 63 Chairman of Hellungklangg

$10,000,000

DROUGHT SUFFERERS.

Washington, Yesterday. President Hoover has appealed

to the American public to contri- bute at least $10,000,000 for the relief of sufferers of the severe" drought in the rural States. Ron- ter's American Service.

Chang Hauch-lang would then devote himself entirely to hia post as Vice-Commandant of the bers when they came to consider Headquarters in Peking, He is the completed proposals for a reported to be wiring asking" "the Federal Constitution could modify consent. of the Central Govorn- any previsional assent they had ment to these proposals. given. They of the Liberal Party The reports state that if these delegation saw no reason to de-arrangements fructify, Chang will part from the opinions he go to Mukden within a week, and expressed in a recent speech, after two months of winding up which were based upon two as-[his affairs there, will go to Peking sumptions, firstly, .that the at the end of March to organise Hindu-Moslem question would be hle permanent headquarters.-Reu-MEANS settled, and secondly, that theter. Federal Constitution would be brought into effective operation.

Not Realised.

SOVIET RIGHTS.

Sir. Mohammed Shaft, speaking MAY HAVE TO SEND TROOPS

on behalf of the Moslems, said. that when he made an earlier speech he hoped that a Hindu- Moslem settlement would be ar- |rived at before the final stage of the conference. That hope had

Hong Kong

42

Macao

40

Pratas Island

68

Manila

76

Foochow

50

Amoy

42

39

not been realised, and it became

28

21

Swatow Chefoo Shanghai

TO MANCHURIA.

TROUBLE AHEAD?

Tokyo, Yesterday. According to a report reaching

AIRSHIPS.

OF SAFE TRAVEL, IN THE

FUTURE.

The use of dirigibles as a meana. pictured to President Hoover in a of safe travel in the future was.

speech at Washington, by F. M. Herpham, vice-president of the Goodyear Company, who said that. his company's faith in dirigibles was undiminished in spite of the R101 disaster.

Harpham stated that the Good- year Company had Invested more Moh Teh-hul, when he than $5,000,000 is equipping its

necessary for him to make a de-ne of the Government depart claration that, in the words of the ments, the Soviet Intimated to resolution of the All-India Moslem General conference of December, 1927, no was leaving Moscow, that the dirigible plant at Akron, Ohio, and ing quite clear that, although constitution by whomsoever de Soviet might feel compelled to has created, with the co-operation agreement had been reached by a vised shall be accepted by Indian send troops to Manchuria to pro of the California Institute of Sir Malcolm Delevingne assured The Radio Company received a A spectacular blaze was witness majority of the committee on Mussulmans unless their inter-tect the rights of the Chiness Technology, a research organisa- Mr. Sato that such countries' message from the steamer Presi-ed last night about 7 o'clock when many important matters, there ests are adequately safeguarded. Eastern Railway, if China fails to tlon composed of the best en-

In the limits of its quota for domes-

tic consumption or re-export.

New York, Yesterday.

rights were clearly safeguarded dent Oldfield to-day saying that the South West corner of Taimo- the right to modify his opinion the Mussulman community that it agreement.

was reserved to every member He desired to say on behalf of observe the terms of the Haborovsk gineers.

WAR DEBTS.

SUGGESTION GIVEN A COOL RECEPTION.

stating that it understood that the seemed to have, increased and

Reuter's, American Service,

Mr. Sato then withdrew his pro-the St. Miguel (Azores) wireless shan was weli alight and burning before the final picture is com- was not prepared to accept the posed amendments.-Reuter.

It is further reported that troop station had broadcast A message fiercely.

At midnight the blaze plete, and that this applies to Bri-proposals of the report for trans-ovements of both the Soviet and tish and Indian members alike. ferring responsibility until ade-the Chinese are taking place in aeaplane Trade Wind fell into the threw a vivid reflection into the While the continued absence of a quate safeguards were insisted, the vicinity of the Sino-Soviet bor sen 20 miles off St. Michael's Is-sky. This morning a large black Hindu-Moslem settlement is de land, in the Azores, and asking patch can be seen showing the explored, it is nevertheless pointed

der, but it is doubtful if these Bir. Jinnah maintained that a ships to keep a look out for it-tent of the fre.

settlement of the

Hindu reports can be taken seriously Moslem question was a condi Router. tion of procedure to the com- pletion of any constitution for India, and declared that unless safeguards for Mussulmans were provided which gave, a complete sense of security, and unless their co-operation and willing consent was obtained, no constitution would work for 24 hours.

Serious Doubts.

OFFICIAL SILENCE,

[Anxiety has been felt in Amorles over since Sunday, the seaplane Trade: Wind, carrying Mrs. Beryl Hart, the widow. owner,

and Flight-Beat. Madaren, the pilot, having beon 28 Official circles have generally hours overdue. They left Now York given a cool reception to the pro-on January 4 on an attempt to fly

Washington, Yesterday.

posal of Mr. Albert, Wiggin in re-

the Atlantic to Parist

gard to the cancellation of war

MIXED COURT.

NANKING PRESS FOR RENDITION.

Nanking, Yesterday.

It la reported that the French

debts. This la interpreted as PLANTS FEEL COLD. Government has agreed in prin- meaning that persons associated

out in conference circles that, vital as settlement may be to the working of the constitution, it need not necessarily impede the task of making the constitution and that the emergence of an at- tractive constitution might con- ceivably have the effect of stimu- lating conciliation.

Final Judgment. During to-day's discussion, the elple on the rendition of the Mix-Lord Chancellor pointed out the od Court in the French Conces-importance of the committee not

LOAN TO CHINA.

JAPANESE PRESS NOT OPTIMISTIC.

- with the administration are st HOTHOUSE TO BE BUILT INón,- Shanghai, and the Chinese pronouncing final judgment on any India Federation materialising,likely to misterialise.

CANTON.

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AMERICAN'S DARING ESCAPÉ.

New York, Nov. 16. Edward Orville Delarin, the American aviator and soldier of fortune who participated in the abortive attempt at a Chilean re volution by flying with a party of plotters to Concepcion from Ar- gentina, has returned to Buenos: Aires with a thrilling tale of his escape. With a hacksaw blade be cut the bluges of his cell in the military prison at Concepcion and Tokyo, Yesterday.

succeeded in eluding the guard. Editorialising on America's pro- Walking all night and avoiding posed silver loan to China, the highways he reached open country, leading Japanese newspapers re-where, with money which ho, had He had serious doubts of an All-gard the proposal as not being succeeded. In hiding from his cap- unprepared to discuss any such

tore, he bought a horse. Using step-Reutera American Service.

Foreign Ministry is requesting of the difficult problema under but all avenues leading to "it The Kokumin considers that pocket, compass and a tourist map An earlier message stated Tho

that delegates bo appointed to discussion. The object of the re- should be limited in the case of a there will be difficulty fu obtain he set a course for Argentina. He question of the cancellation of war, „debts, as a means of ending the pro-

open negotiations--Reuter port was to state certain general complete breakdown or of a grave ing the co-operation of other eventually reached the ranch of s cent world depression has again come

broad principles and issues with emergency endangering the peace Powers and advises the Japanese wealthy Turk near Zapala, Argen- to the fore. Mr. Albert Wiggin, chair- man of the Chase National Bank, in

The Association of Relatives arguments for and against. They and tranquillity of the country. Government to refrain from partina, almost completely exhausted. In view of the recent cold of May.10 in Shanghai is soon to had to recognise that they were Mr. Sastri regretted that it was ticipation,

by his hardships, hia annual report to shareholders, de-

The Hocht, after polating out clares that, the question of the can-weather that keeps the flower in the be dissolved, according to the not plenipotentiaries and that necessary to put a block in the name cellation has an importance far beyond Central Park from blossoming, the Chinese papers, can auditor's ac- there were many eminent and of the Moslem community upon the difficulties, expresses the fear the dollar magnitude of the debts in- Bureau of Public Works has count of the disposition of wise statesmen in India and in further progress if the. Moslem de- that America and Canada are real world's record for divorces, tolved. Apart from the chestion of planned to build a glass hothouse $150.000, the compassionate grant Britain entitled to express opinion mands were not mot in full. He ly aiming to undermine Japan's hitherto held by Reno, Nevada. thrmly convo the cancellation) he is therein so as to nourish the lower by the 8.M.C. having boon as on these matters, whose counsel should have thought it possible to economic influence in China, Reu-

In the Roumanian capital petitions good bushes for the United States soeds and to protect them from be pared. Nearly $110,000 has been and advice would not only be help trust to arbitration or to the do- tex

are being filed at the rate of 100 Government to initiate a reduction of Ing destroyed by rats and worme disbursed to relatives. Of the reful but necessary to v final com- cisions of the Government of India

a day. The reason la an odd one. debta at this time.]

The hothouse is to be erected in the mainder $20,000 went to the con-pletion of the plans, arrived at after careful considera-

One of the Government's economy" eastern corner of the Park, with a struction of a memorial tamb, and Lord Reading said that they tion. Some such method might

measures has been to forbid mar Work on the erection of the length of 80 feet, a breadth of 20. the cash balance, after expenses would remember that the conclu- stil save the situation. The only

and wife both to be in State em- Dr. Ban Yat-sen Sponse statue at feet and a height of 5 feet, Tep-have been paid, will be handed to slonk, were provisional because safeguards to be favoured word zo-

ployment, Married oficial couples the Shanghel North Railway Staders for the construction work will Mr. Yu Yah-ching for Tale-keep the Conference could not frame agarding defence, external affairs

are countering, by netting them ten compound will be thmenced be invited following the complate in te same to be dependen In constitution but on decide broad and certain aspect of part

selves technically divorced. They Bhank | drawing of the sketch Canton maintenance of the tokat, his principles The understanding mountey Upon all other subjects

then go on living happily together from the outset was that mem- *Continued on Page 9.)

and still hold down their jobs.

convinced that would be

on February

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IN CENTRAL PARK,

Canton, Yesterday.

amounts to $12,800%

MANCHURIAN MATCHES.

Mukden, Yesterday. The organisation of a combine for the control of the manufae ture and sale of matches through cul Mancifuria has now been com pleted-Beater.

Bacharest now claims. the