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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932.

TO-DAY'S

DOLLAR. ---

The

closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/2d;

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

JAPANESE ATTACK ANTI-JAPANESE MOVE TERRIBLE PARLIAMENT CENTRE Company Nesting.

ON FUSHUN

AGAINST 1500 CHINESE

NANKING. ATTEMPTING TO AID THE CHINESE SILK INDUSTRY,

PROPOSALS TO GOVERNMENT

(Reuter's Pacific Service.)

Mukden, To-day.

IN BERLIN.

Communists Wreck Two Restaurants.

PAMPHLETS DISTRIBUTED.

London, Yesterday. Shouting "down with the Japanese peace-breakers and wor the agitators" a party of Communists smashed windows

on

and wrecked the interior of two

DEATH OF SUICIDE

His Distraught Condition

Japanese restaurants situated in Falls As Result Of

the West End of Berlin, and then escaped, leaving a quantity of pamphlets---Reuter.

Heart Attack

Japanese forces co-operating with aeroplanes THE FIGHTING NEAR Then Cuts Him- are launching an offensive against a band of fifteen hundred Chinese who are active to the north of the Japanese mines at Fushun.

The Chinese attacked the Yentai mines on Monday after which they withdrew to the moun- tains near Fushun.

The Japanese forces in that area are mobilis- ing with the object of eliminating them,

AID TO SILK INDUSTRY,

Nanking, To-day.

The Ministry of Industry is considering plans for assisting the Chinese silk industry which has been badly hit firstly by Japanese competition, then by the world depression, and lastly by the fighting in the Shanghai area.

It is stated that ten million people engaged in the silk industry are affected in Chekiang alone.

It is proposed that the Government should purchase large quantities of cocoons, exempt silk from an export tax and increase the duty on im- ports of foreign silk.

KREUGER & TOLL

TAZANG.

Japanese Plain Clothes Soldiers Responsible.

DR. YEN'S COMMUNICATION.

self With Razor

OF RIOT.

Sir Richard Squires Marooned,

MANIPULATING PUBLIC FUNDS.

St. John's, Yesterday. The Government resigned when the Premier Sir Richard Squires was marooned in the House of Assembly by a howling mob waiting outside.

Rioting occurred, and very

Foff DUNLOP

a class by Itself

MESSRS. GANDÉ, PRICE & CO., LTD.

STILL GOING STRONG

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS' BUSINESS ENTERPRISE IN COLONY.

early in the proceedings the doors GRATIFYING RESULT FOR PAST YEAR

and windows of the Parliament building were smashed by a mob demanding an enquiry into the

Twenty-five years' business enterprise in the Colony is the

charges against Sir Squires for proud record of Messrs. Gande, Price & Ca., Ltd., who celebrate

manipulating public funds, but their Silver Jubilee this year. the Government, Party refuses

any investigation.

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The 25th ordinary annual meeting of the Company was held Prime Minister's Escape. at the Office, 2, Ice House Street, at noon to-day, under the chair- While an angry mob of 10,000

were shouting Throw Squires manship of Mr. S. C. Pank, who reported gratifying results for the into the harbour," Sir Richard past year's work.

(Reuter's Special Service.) London, Yesterday.

Squires, the Prime Minister, The net profit was $36,800.95, and the Company was able to de- The distraught condi- helped by

reached a house near the Parlia clare a dividend of 8 per cent, with bonus of 5 per cent. per share, tion to which Mr. Henry ment and escaped through the and the Office Staff was given a month's salary as bonus.

Geneva, Yesterday. Dr. W. W. Yen in a communi- Hughes - Onslow, Chief rear entrance. cation to the Secretary-General

ment

Tazang.

Coroner saidat Mr.

three clergymen,

1. The demonstration followed a

lows:--

CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH.

Seconder's Remarks,

JAPANESE SUFFER Hughes - On was MR. STIMSON'S VISIT of 8 per cent. per annum for the able to place such good Balance

BAD REVERSE.

Attacking Fangcheng.

TO GENEVA.

Conference,

of the League denies, on the basis Taxing Master of the public meeting, presided over by of a report from General Chiang Law Courts was re-a clergyman and representing

The net profit for the year under after they have been seconded, I Kwang-nai, the Japanese state-duced through ill-health, business professions, to demand investigation of charges that the of a lively fusilade be- tween Chinese and Japanese sol insomnia and operwork, Ministers had falsifified the min- review amounts to $36,800.95 to shall be pleased to answer to the best of my ability any questions which has to be added the balance members may care to ask. diers on the north-west edge of was described at the in- utes of the Council.

The mob attacked, and incena-

of $25,257,48 brought forward from On the contrary he states that quest held by the Pad-ed by the delay in obtaining en- December 31, 1930. leaving Mr. Pang Kok-sul said:- the firing on the night of March dington coronz.

try, they destroyed furniture, 362,058.43 at the credit of Profit In rising to second the proposal In reconstr sting the files and documents in the base and Loss Account, which the Direc- of our Chairman, it gives me great 31 near Tazang was due to the fact that Japanese plain clothes

ment of the House of Assembly. tors propose appropriating as fol-pleasure to note that the Directors of

h the Reuter. soldiers attacked the Chinese cause

and Maragement together with positions.-Reuter,

To pay a dividend at the rate their staff have once again been. year, namely, 80 cents per share Sheet before he, and I am sure I seized with 'a violent

on 18,105 shares, absorbing am only voicing the sentiment of heart attack when he

$14,184; to pay a bonus at the the shareholders by congratulating rate of 5 per cent. per annum for them on the results obtained for went to bed. He got up In View of Disarmament the year, namely, 50 cents per the year under review. I have at two o'clock in the

share on 18.105 shares, absorbing therefore much pleasure in second-

write down $9,052,50; to morning and dropped

the ing the Chairman's proposal. (Reuter's Pacific Service.)

goodwill by $10,000; to pay

Carried unanimously. Harbin, To-day. twenty-five feet from the FACILITATING ACHIEVEMENTS. bonus of one month's salary to the

Other Business. There nre strong rumours room to the ground

Office Stall, absorbing 31,579, and Mr. Leung Yan-po was re-elect- here that the Japanese troops

Washington, Yesterday.

to carry forward the balance ofed a Director of the Company on operating on the Eastern section where he lay unconscious

Declaring that economic bur- $26.942.93 to next account. the proposal of Mr. C. Bond, Then dens and a of the Chinese Eastern Hallway for many hours.

menace to world You will note that besides writ-seconded by Mr. D. Rumjahn. have suffered a bad reverse. he regained his senses, the last few months, President which your Directors deemed ad- man, seconded by Mr. Leung Yan- On the proposal of the Chair- peace had been increasing during ing down the goodwill by $10,000, The Japanese are attacking Fangcheng, a hundred miles to struggled upstairs, leav- Hoover said that Mr. Stimson visable, provision has been made po, Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and the north-east of Harbin, which ing a trail of blood, got a was going to Geneva in the hope for the payment of one month's Matthews were re-elected Audi- is strongly held by Kirin forces The Prime Minister will preside

A tremendous sensation has who refuse to recognise the Man- razor and locked him- of facilitating positive achieve salary as bonus to our Office Staff, tors at a remuneration of $750.

ments at the Disarmament Con-which I am sure, will meet with

Attendance. over the Four-Power Conference been caused here by the pre-chukuo regime.

self in the bathroom ference-Reuter's American Ser- the approval of the shareholders, Supporting the Chairman were which opens at the Foreign Office liminary report of the English

where he cut his body in vice.

as it is mainly due to their zeal Messrs. Kenneth Chan and Loung to-morrow to consider the situa-auditors, Price and Waterhouse, tion in the Danubian countries. (who investigated the Hatry HOUSE OF COMMONS various parts, though not SIR

and assiduity that we have been Yan-po (Directors); and Mr. C. such a favourable Bond (Secretary).

preeant ware Shareholders report before you.

With these few remarks I have Messrs. J. Fleming, Chow Tung- much pleasure in proposing the sang, Pang Kok-sui, Pang Kwok- S. Yamauchi, and D. adoption of the report and state-fatt,

THE FOUR POWER CONFERENCE.

Italian and German Opinions Awaited.

LASTING TWO OR THREE DAYS.

Rugby, Yesterday.

both the French and British de-

legates, who are now familiar with

SENSATION.

Preliminary Report of English Auditors.

BALANCE SHEET OMISSIONS.

Stockholm. Yesterday,

REASSEMBLES.

Shanghai,

of Trade

He fatally.

was dis- covered still alive at

ing, but died shortly afterwards.

His Career.

SAMUEL HOARE able to place

ON INDIA. Legislative Assembly's

Motion Defeated.

SATISFACTORY REPORT.

Д

ment of accounts as presented, and Rumjahn.

TRIAL BY SPECIAL TRIBUNAL.

Carlo Alpi Sentenced to Twenty Years.

COSGRAVE PARTY MEETING.

Anglo-Irish Treaty Must Be Upheld.

Government will be represented crash), to the effect that the by the Chancellor of the Exche- balance sheet of Kreuger and quer, the Foreign Secretary and Toll on December 31, 1930, the President of the Board of grossly misrepresented the true Some Progress Made in eight o'clock this morn- Trade. All these ministers took Anancial position of the Com- part in yesterday's Anglo-French pany, and under Kreuger's per- conversations which may prove sonal direction entries had been to have been a deciding factor in made eliminating substantial

BRITISH COAL RESTRICTIONS. reaching an agreement among balances which were owing to

A verdict of suicide the four Powers.

the parent company by him and

Rugby, Yesterday. while of unsound mind Although these preliminary other subsidiaries.

The House of Commons re-

Rugby, Yesterday. conversations were regarded by

Stockholm, Yesterday. assembled to-day after the was returned.

Reviewing the Indian political| participants as so helpful as to Auditors, checking the books Easter vacation.

situation the Secretary of State for justify general adoption by of Kreuger and Toll, state that During question time the Pre-

India in his statement to the House European statesmen of this assets, which in reality are non-sident of the Board

[Sir Henry Hughes-Onslow, to-day said that the general- situa- method of approaching the pro- existent, have been put down in said that Government could not O.B.E., was born in 1871, being tion continued to show improve- blems besetting the Continent, the Company's books since 1930. regard as satisfactory the reply the youngest son of the Inte ment during the past fortnight, and ITALIAN COMMUNISTS. OPPOSITION TO OTHER POLICIES no decisions were made, so that

Amazing Revelations, received from the German Gov- Henry John Hughes-Onslow of that convictions in connection with and Alton-Albany, the civil disobedience movement Stockholm, Later.

London, Yesterday. ernment regarding restrictions Balkissock

Rome, Yesterday, Other entries, entirely elimin-on British coal imported into Ayrshire, N.B., and since 1908 showed a decline in the North-West The trial by a special tribunal Opposition to any policy which

the one another's views, can ated, are liabilities or establish- Germany and were making fur- has been the Master of the Province, also in the Bihar and of twenty-two Italians from might endanger

Anglo- enter to-morrow's conference

ed book assets shown as subatan- ther representations.

Supreme Court of Judicature. Orissa and Central Provinces. Emilia on a charge of plotting for Irish Treaty was declared at a with perfect liberty to change

Regarding the Ottawa Econo- Sir Henry, who was unmar- In the Punjab attempta by the reconstruction of the Com- meeting of Cosgrave's Party in those views, after hearing the tial assets. There are instances

Ahrars to revive picketing in munist Party in Italy resulted in Dublin.. opinions put forward by the Ger-where book assets are entirely mic Conference, which opens on ried, was one of the founders of

fictitious or were duplications July 22, the Dominions Secre- the Amateur Football Associa- Amritaar were proving ineffectual, the leader, Carlo Alpi, being sen- The meeting recorded vigorous man and Italian representatives. of assets appearing in the books tary said that Government were tion, of which he was the first on the frontier the situation in tenced to twenty years' imprison- opposition to any policy which, by depriving the Free State of don as Chief of the French de- and loss accounts and, through sentatives of organised labour in other athletic circles being

and twelve years respectively, with the British Commonwealth legation, and Herr Von Bulow fictitious items, the profits for should be attached to the Unit- Hon. Treasurer of the Eton Bion in certain areas.

Sir Samuel Hoare added, that in and the remainder of the sen- and other nations, would not only Head of the German Foreign Office, reaches London early to 1930 were considerably increased, ed Kingdom delegation and were Ramblers Cricket Club, Vice- morrow from Berlin,

The Investigation Committee in communication on the subject President of the Harlequin Foot the Legislative Assembly a motion tences ranged from seven years endanger it economically but ball Club and formerly Hon against pressing on with constitu- to one year, except the five who would destroy the hope of na- and the Board of Kreuger and with Dominion Governments.

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of the Old Etonian timal reforms while Gandhi is in were acquitted. Reuter.

jall was defeated without division, Toll are trying to find means for liquidation which will safeguard Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Football Club, creditors and also permit them formed the House that some pro- He was a member of the Gov--British Wireless Service. The re-elections of the Rt. Hon. to continue the business of the gress had been made during the ernment Committee for the Re Kreuger companies-Router, Sino-Japanese negotiations being gulation of, Crowds in 1928, and Mr. Montague Norman as Governor

conducted in Shanghai, though from 1914 to 1919 was Sub-Committees. He was appointed of the Bank of England daring the :-

Two further of Sir Ernest coming year, and

Parliamentary there still were certain points on Inspector of the Special Consta- Chief Taxing Master in 1980. Musgrave Harvey as Deputy Gov-vacancies are in prospect by the which agreement remains to be bulary, HQ.C.D. During the As an author Sir Henry wrote were announced to-day. retirement, of Sir Newton Moore, reached. Conferences between War he rendered valuable assist "A Lawyer's Manual of Book- This is the thirteen successive year who represents Richmond, and Sfr the two sides was still proceeding ance to the Government by pro. keeping," the standard work Mr. Montague Norman has been Rennell Road, Member for Maryla with the assistance of representa curing and organising the volun prescribed for the Examination elected, says a British Officiel bone, according to a British Wire- tives of friendly Powers-Britary workers required by the of Candidates for admission as

tish Wireless Service.

various Government Offices and Solicitor) Wireless message,

lesa message:

M. Flandin, the French Finance

Minister, kas remained in Lon- of associated companies. Mani- favourably disposed to propose Hon. Secretary and later the Pre- Bajaur continues to improve, but ment.

pulations extended to profit that business advisers and represident. He was also well-known there were signs of communal ten- Two others received fourteen the advantages of membership

It is expected that the Confer- ence will last two or three days. -British Wireless Service,

ernor

THE SILVER CONFERENCE.

tional raunion-Reuter.

Treasury, Major Elliot, informed the House of Commons to-day that the Government has not re- ceived any official representations No Representations

concerning the holding of an in- Received.

ternational silver conference, and the Government does not propose London, Yesterday.to initiate any action in the The financial Secretary to the matter. Reuter.