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China Mail

ESTABLISHED 1845,

No. 27,981 HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1931.

CURRENCY RAIDS CHECKMATED

SPECULATORS REBUFFED ON NEW YORK 'CHANGE.

NINE BANKS CLOSE DOORS

ONLY A TEMPORARY MEASURE. OWING TO CRISIS.

Boston, Yesterday.

Che

its deors, involving total pesits of $86,935,000.

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL.

In Cheerful Mood After Restful Night.

SLIGHT TEMPERATURE.

TO-DAY'S' DOLLAR. — The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/5 3/16

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

A tyre of unique construction built for those who

prefer superlative quality-

FORT

Fort DUNLOP

The Tyre Incomparable

COTTON NATIONAL SERVICE AT ST. PAUL'S

INDUSTRY

OPERATIVES AND

EMPLOYERS.

DON'T AGREE

REVISION OF

WAGES.

have

pre-

PRAYERS FOR SUCCESS OF

ADMIRALTY COURT DISARMAMENT MEETING

ACTION.

Arising Out of Ships'

Collision.

$80,554 CLAIMS.

RESCUING CIVILISATION

-ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY APPEALS.

FOR ONENESS OF NATIONAL LIFE.

Rugby. Yesterday, a difficulty, which her represen-

common

Rugby. Yesterday.

Sittting in the Supreme Court New York, Yesterday,

The latest report states that

in Admiralty Jurisdiction this Nine Massachusetts banks) Bear raiding of weakened cur the condition of Mr.

Winston

London, Yesterday.

morning, the Chief Justice (Sir| rencies bere lo-day was effective Churchill, who closed their doors to-day. Their]

A large congregation, includ-tatives at Geneva would have to was knocked ly blocked by the powerful - down in a New

A serious situation has arisen Joseph H. Kemp, K.C.) heard leagues, and representatives of face. It might not be possible action followed

claims exam-fernational Banks of New York, Sunday night,

York street on in the Lancashire cotton indus- consolidated

totalling all European countries, the Prime for them to accept some general ple of the Federal National Bank Paris, London and Amsterdam, uroved, and he was in a cheerful section

is slightly try. Operatives of the spinning $30,554 arising out of a collision Minister and his Cabinet col- reduction by a fixed

the between the rejected

China Navigation leagues, and representatives of percentage. But, within the of Boston which has also closed according to high Wall Street mood following a restful night. employers" proposals to ne Company's 5.8. Kiangsu, and the all branches of public life, com- classes of armaments there were

de-authorities. For example, short His son, Randolph. has received gotiate

跪 regarding return Nippon Yusen Kaisha's s.s. Tokoo- merce and industry, attended possibilities of a reduction. Bri- sales of Japanese yon have been nade almost impossible, and condition as follows:-

a cable reporting his father's to longer hours at

ka Maru. Sitting with his Lord- the National Service for World tain's representatives must be St. Paul's asked to strain every nerve to There have been over 1,200 speculators enquiring as to the

sent wager. Notice given by the ship, as Assessor, was the Har- Disarmament in

bring about at least'' 'true and bank suspensions in the United possibility of sulling Reichsmarks| "Temperat: 100.6, pulse nor Master Cotton Spinners' Federa- pour Master (Hon. Comdr. G. E. Cathedral to-day.

The Archbishop of Canterbury honest beginning in general dia- States since the beginning of the was similarly rebuffed.

mal, head scalp wound severe, tion to end the 1919 Agreement Hole, R.N., retired).

The action heard this morning said the civilised' world was aparmament. Sixty-one nations year, involving deposits totalling Bankers are of the opinion that two cracked ribs, slight pleural consequently terminates on De-

turning had bound themselves by the about $300,000,000. though the there is little danger of wide- irritation, right side, generally cember 31 after which, unless a was by the China Navigation prouching one of the closing is only temporary In the spread raids, such as occurred much bruised, progress satisfac new move is made, the spinning Company which claims $40,000 points in history, and he describ- Pact of Paris to renounce war as case of some 200 of them with seven months ago against the tory." --

British Wireless Ser section of the industry will be on damages and costs against the ed next February's Disarmament an instrument of national policy. deposits totalling $120,000,000.-- old Mark und French Franc.vice.

day to day basis, individual NY.K, while the latter are cross- Conference as the most memen- Were not their solemn pledges Reuter's American Service. Reuter's American Service.

tous assembly since the Peace enough to banish the fear of London, Yesterday. employers being at liberty to claiming for $40,554.

The China Navigation Co. are Conference. The late War had which armaments were the Mr. Winston Churchill is "do. make their own agreements with

represented by Mr. Eldon Potter, shown that great armaments symptom? They + were the ing splendidly." according to employees.--Reuter,

K.C., and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.G.could only lead to war, yet the symptoms also of selfish nation- eble received by his son in Lon don

(instructed by Messrs. Johnson, world was spending on them no alism, which was the ultimate this evening from his

Stokes and Master), while the less than £2,000,000 daily. cause of the world's economic de- mother in New York-Reuter.

N.Y.K. are represented by Mr. Britain already had made more pression. The only hope of res H. G. Sheldon (Instructed by substantial reductions in arma- cuing civilisation from its pre- Messrs. Hastings, Dennys and ments than any other country sent plight, he said, was to make Bowley).

and many thought she had oneness of the whole body of na- The collision occurred off Kow-reached the lowest point con- tions the ruling principle of loon Point on the morning of sistent with her safety and obl 'nternational life.

- British | March 22, 1931, Mr. Potter said gutions This very fact crente Wireless Service.

that the s.s. Kiangsu (Capt. Rit-

SALE OF A GIRL.

Defendants Fined and Cautioned.

WARNING TO OTHERS.

Two Chinese women and an elder- ly man were brought before Mr. E. H. Williams in the Central Police Court this morning on charges of taking part in the sale of first de-

JAPAN'S FOREIGN

POLICY.

No Change Is

Predicted.

MR. YOSHIYAWA.

Paris, Yesterday. Little or no, change in Japan- fendant's daughter. Second de ese foreign policy is predicted fendant and the man were also charged with unlawfully harbour- ing the girl after the transaction. To the charges defendents pleaded Kuilty.

by French observers of Far Eustern politics with Mr. Yoshizawa as Foreign Minister, Yoshizawa as a "diplomat who Le Temps characterises Mr.

has the soundest conception of For the prosecution, Inspector Sino-Japanese undertakings to John Murphy, suid Arst defendant the League of Nations and whoj was very hard up, and owed several showed the widest spirit of con- months house rent; so, with her ciliation in singularly delicate{ brother-in-law, conceived the idea

negotiation."—Reuter. of selling the girl, A go-between,

EDUCATION POLICY.

of the

At thy meeting Legislative Council to-mor- row. the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kote- wall, C.M.G., LL.D., pursuant to notice, will ask the fol- lowing questions:-

With reference to the re- mark

made by

the Hon. Colonial Secretary at the meeting of the Legislative Council held on October 22, 1931, that the Government would give serious considera- tion to my suggestion that a committee be appointed to consider the general educa- tion policy of the Govern- ment, will the Government stale-——

(1) Whether such a com- mittee will be appoint- ed; and

(2) If not, what step doos8 the Government pro- pose to take to give effect to the object in view?

Į

Paris, Yesterday.

Mr. Yoshizawa has accepted the Foreign portfolio and will be leaving for Japan very soon. The exact dute of departure, however, has not yet been fixed.) --Reuter.

AN UNDERABLE JAPANESE.

The

NEW LEGISLATION.

thei Attorney-General, at meeting of the Legislative Councill on Thursday, will move the second. reading of--

A Bill to amend and consolidate the law relating to intoxicating! liquors.

A Bill to amend the Public Ordinance, Revenue Protection 1927.

A Bill to amend further te Registration of United Kingdom Patents Ordinance, 1925.

A Bill to amend and consolidate the law relating to the taxation of tobacco..

A Bill to make provision for the taxation of bets on authorised totalinators or pari-mutuel and on contributions or subscriptions towards authorised cash-sweeps.

CARSTAIRS' DEATH ENQUIRY.

The enquiry into the dr cumstances attending the death of Douglas G. Cars- tairs, Area Manager of the N.A.A.F.I., who was found stabbed to death in his bed at No. 2, Luna Building, Kimberley Road, on the morning of May 21. will be. opened in the Kowloon Magistracy in-morrow after- noon at 2.30.

HOSPITAL FIRE.

Three Inmates Perish.

chic), was approaching Hong Kong from Swatow. There was a threat but it passed and at of fog, 7.35 am.. the ship cleared Lye- moon Pass. Then fog again threatened with visibility of about half a mile. Nevertheless, ' Captuin Ritchie put his engines 21 half-speed, and set his courte W.N.W. for Kowloon Point.

The course and half-speed was maintained until 7.45 when there was fog with visibility of about a

"LOCAL SHARE

MARKET.

No Special Feature This Morning.

QUIETLY. STEADY.

The official summary fasued by

AN UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATION.

Policeman Dragged Off Horse.

DISORDERLY SCENES.

London. Yesterday.

quarter of a mile. The Captain, the Stock Exchange to-day states: Disorderly scenes occurred

Counsel emphasised, knew pre-

cisely where his ship was at this

Sales.

Banks, $1,500. Providents (new), $2.45. Telephones (part paid), $26. Lane, Crawford's (old), $61⁄2.

Sellers. Providents (old), $5.15, Providents (new), $2.85, Raubs, $42.

FRESH AND FINE..

The Royal Observatory's ra port issued this morning states: A strong anti-cyclone is cen- tral to the North of the Lower Yangtaze Valley.

There is no special feature in the outside the London County Hall TERRIBLE SCENES.

time and it was not a case of a market to report this morning, this afternoon, when a large pro- Charlottetown, Prince

ship lost in a fog. He was north everything being quietly steady. Edward Island, Yesterday. of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, MUZZLELESS. DOGS.

Terrible scenes were witness- with the Channel Rock and the ed last night when Owners Fined.

a fire des- Refinery In line. troyed a hospital, three inmates It was under these circum- Lieut. H. Westlake, of the Volun-of which were killed. One was stances that the distant signal of ship Was heard teer Defence Corps, was fined 38 by trapped in the blazing building another

and two oturs leaped to their at 745 on the port bow. Mr. Williams this morning in the deaths from an upper storey. The signal was one long blast, That defendant had committed Central Police Court, en two sum- Three hundred mental patients which obviously meant that the many thefts of a similar nature monses for allowing his dog to be from Japanese people in Hong Kong abroad without a muzzle, on Decem dash out in the bitter cold. Captain Ritchie put his engines

in nightclothes were obliged to signalling ship was in and on the mainland, was the state ber 4 and 8 ment made by Detective-Sergeunt.

Reuter's Special Service. Mr. Westlake-The' dog had Kennedy in the Central Police muzzle on when he left the house Court this morning, when an un-

on both occasions. employed Japanese, named Sabura

Sergeant Alexander sald he saw Tomonaga, pleaded guilty before the dog running about in Garden Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham to two Road near the Peak Tram Lower Icharges of obtaining sums of $3 and Station. and had no trace or ne

$7 respectively, by false pretences. muzzle on it. The complainants were M. Miyamoto and Papa Seto.

"

Defendant explained that the deg had since been destroyed.

SOUTH AFRICA AND GOLD STANDARD.

Sergeant Kennedy said that, on On a similar summons, Mr. D. the afternoon of Saturday last, de-Gordon was fined $5. fendant went to Mr. Miyamoto, living at 115 Hennessy Road, Wan-į, chai, and said that he had been sent there on the authority of Mr. Hachiums to collect a loan of $3. The same evening, defendant tele phoned Papa Seto, at 41-43 Ben- nessy Road, and, explaining that he was $7 short in his change, aald he

The messenger

Smithfields, (Orange Free State), Yesterday. General Hertzog, in a speech who was not in Court, was engaged, would send a messenger round to to-day, gave a solemn assurance and finally the girl was sold for get the money. $120. This transaction took place turned out to be defendant.

The Sergeant went on to HAY in August, and the girl stayed at Yaumet with the

that the case was referred to the person

Japanese Consul, who decided that bought her until December 12.

the defendant must be charged. The prosecution did not intend Defendant had been sent away from taking a serious view of the case, the Colony but had returned. In view of the fact that first de-

Sentence of two months' hard.

who

fendant was poor, but, in general labour was passed.

Interests the prosecution wished it

to be known that any person taking

part in any transaction, the object alleged..

of which was the disposal of a

1

On the charge of taking part in

NEW SOVIET ORDER.

No Work No Food.

to

a fog.

dead slow and altered his course to N.W. by W., because he concluded that the other ship was outward-bound as in fact it was. The Japanese ship came in sight at 7.50 about 200 to 300 yards distant, and, Mr. Potter stressed the point, it was about 2 points on the port bow.'

Riga, Yesterday. "No work no food" is the sub- In an effort to avert collision stance of a new order issued by Captain Ritchie put his ship full the Soviet. The order states speed and helmed hard to star- board in order to pivot his ship that every ablebodied man, woman and child in the Soviet round the Japanese ship's bows. cotton districts must work in the The move did not avert a colli- cotton-fields, and that food will sion, but it had the undoubted be distributed strictly according effect of minimising the damage to the amount of work done. done. Reuter's Special Service.

SLIGHT INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYED.

that the Government of South Africa would not depart from the gold standard. He added that at

Rugby, Yesterday. the next session, of Parliament An increase of 6,297 in the legislation would be introduced total number of persons un- for the establishment of South employed is recorded in the Africa's own monetary coinage latest weekly return of the system.Reuter.

Ministry of Labour.

MR. THOMAS CANCELS

HOLIDAY TRIP.

Rugby, Yesterday.

human being, would be prosecuted, the sale, first defendant was foed Mr. J. IL Thomas, Dominions Replying to his Worship. Insp. $10, whilst the other two were fined Secretary, has cancelled his Murphy said that the case came to $75 each. On the charge of bar plans for a trip to South Africa, light through a complaint made to bouring, which was an alternative owing to pressure of Govern the Society for the Protection of one, the second defendant and the ment business.British Wireless

Service. Children, but no eruelty had been man were cautioned..

Of the total of 2,627,324, out of work, 436,243 are women, and 109,442 are boys and girls. British Wireless Service.

The question of responsibility was then argued at length and the the Court adjourned for tiffin interval.

SOVIET SUGGESTION.

Far Eastern Round Table Conference.

1.

Riga, Yesterday. A telegram, containing a aug- gestion for a Far Eastern Round Table Conference, in which the

Humphreys (old), $18. Trams, $21. H.K. Electrics, $78. Canton Ices, $5%.

Lane, Crawford's (old), 81⁄2, Entertainménta (new). $16. Hotels (old), $14.90. H.K. Lands, $80. Chinese Estates, $05. Peak Trams (old), $15%. Telephones (part paid), $25%. Dairy Farms, $234. H.K. Amusements, $20,

H.K. Government Loan, $2% per

cent.

premium.

Buyers. China Lights, $27 60. Venezuelan Goldfields. $2. S.C. Enterprises, $10.

NATIONAL MARITIME BOARD,

Pressure gradients are steep over S. Ching and the N. China Sca.

Forecast:-Northerly winds, fresh: fine..

Hainfull

Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10a.m.-to-day -nil Total since January 1, 79.03 Inches against an average of

82.54

inches.

inches defelt 2.50

Temperature.

The temperature at cortain specified centres this morning

at 6 o'clock was:-

Hong Kong

68

Масае

70

Pratas Island

70

Foochow

58

80

81

70

Chefoo

Shanghai

Manila

London, Yesterday. cession of unemployed arrived The National Maritime Board for the purpose of sending a de- has agreed to a reduction of ten putation to the Council. A police per cent in the pay of naviga- man was dragged from his horse tion, engineer, and merchant) and traffic to all approaches of officers with effect from January Westminster Bridge Idislocated. 31, 1932. Reductions of the The services of Mounted Police pay of sailors, firemen, and cater-were necessary to disperse the 'ing staffs will be considered in demonstrated.—Retter*, Special January.-Reuter.

Service.

*Inda

Soviet is willing to participate, EUROPEAN SHIP'S OFFICER MISSING

was published by the Foreign Commissariat today. It is to be handed to Mr. Yoshizawa when he arrives in Moscow en route to ship's officer is revealed in Police She-wan, states that the Chief

The, disappearance

ce of a European Fook Loong Shipyard, at Cheung

The Buy Man may glean the 'news of the day, if he turns to the back page and

Tokyo, The telegram is a re-reports this morning. renda News Tabloids and

sume of the Soviet's attitude to Overnight Cables Summarised.wards the Manchurian problem. ':

Captain J. Mitchell, master of the 8.8. On. Lee, lying at the Kwong -Reuter.

Oficer, Mr. D. F. Fairfax, aged 30 years, has been missing since Saturday morning. Mr. Fairfax is La native of Scotland.