1932-08-04 — Page 7

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1932.

CHINA'S DRASTIC

NEW DUTIES.

To Meet Deficiencies

In Revenue.

to

Shanghai, Yesterday, Dastic increases. In China's Customs duties are authorised by! ane schedule published-to-day,

Th object is to raise funds cover the deficiencies arising from the seizure of the Manchurian Custins and the new duties are to be efforced as from to-marrow, Augu£ 4.

Thity-four items in the normal

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Fallen Pound Has Greater Value

Brings Many Visitors To England

ENCOURAGES TRADE

THE CHINA MAIL.

JAPANESE MILITARY ROBBERY CHARGE AT

APPOINTMENTS:

Officers Named For Kwantung Army,

Tokyo, Yesterday,

SESSIONS.

Shanghai Banker Threatened With Knife.

GARDENER IMPLICATED.

It is learned on good authority Tam Yuen, Tse Kin Shau and that the following appointments Yan Shun all pleaded not guilty to the Kwantung Army will be to a charge of robbery by two or announced on August 8/*****more preferred against them be- General Nobuyoshi Muto, as fore Justice Wood in the Crimin- Commander-in-Chief.

nl Sessions this morning. * Licut.-General Kuniaki KoisO, as Chief of Staff.

Major-General ‘Okamura,

CENTRAL THEATRE

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

A POWERFUL, FASCINATING & DRAMATIC PICTURE OF REDEMPTION & LOVE.

Bowerful Drama of a Woman's Radomptlant

SHE sold her son!

A second charge of receiving stolen goods, was also made as against Yan Shun only, to which Foreign visitors are coming to doing nothing to induce visitors

ive Chief of Staff.

he also pleaded not guilty, tariff schedule are affected, the England for the summer season into buy.

"In all parts of the world." Major General Hashimoto, Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, for the chief among them being outlined, I pater numbers than was anticl-

for money but discovered. It took below.

pated some time ago.

"the prestige of Commander of the Gendarmerie. Crown, pointed out that the only one critic says,

Lieut-General Tadaya Inouye material witness in the case was

*more then that (to The Inty on artificial silks and

It was thought that the world British clothing and outfitting

buy it back] silk god's is increased from $58 per depression would stop expensive stands in a class of its own. Or will succeed Lieut-General Mori the victim, who, however, had re- picul to $73 per pieuk

travel for at least this year, but in other words, our sartorials Commander of the independently returned to Shanghai, He

Mori then asked permission to submit Columbia Misturas antine, Raw ilk duties are increased Americans and. Continental people goodwill is already established in ent garrison battalions. From this to sixty per cent. jare arriving here nearly every the mind of every foreigner be has been appointed Commander the evidence deposed by the vic

f the Fourteenth Division in tim prior to his departure. Yarns and thread are increased day at a rate almost approach-fure he gets here. "from thrty per cent. to fifty-fiveing that of the "good old days.” "But we have yet to see even succession

Lieut-General, this His Honour agreed. The per cent.

window-poster or showcard Matsuki. Koiso is at present case was then outlined. Silk pice-gods rise from do per One factor which is undoubt reading something to the effect: Vice-Minister for War and The victim was Chung Tim

odly drawing foreigners to this British Tailoring and Outfitting Inouye is Commander of the ling, a Shanghai banker, who centi to 7 per cent.

lothing is increased from fifty | ountry is the favourable rate of its Best Foreign Visitors Shimonoseki fortified area. had come to Hong Kong in Feb-

the money exchange for them. Specially Catered For.

Other changes include Lieut.-'ruary. He had taken a house in 75 per cent.

Money Refused. The dules on wines and spirits Where, under the normal condi-

General Honjo as Military Coun- Kowloon City, and had retained cillor, and Major-General Yoshiji as gardener. Tam Yuen who had

.

to:

To

From the Bierg

with

ROBERT AMES" JOSEPHINE. DUNE

·PTAN LINOW

vary, but the net result is increases tons, 100 dollars purchased £20,-"It is asserted, in some cases Tatekawa, at present at the ren similarly engaged by theEVELYN BRENT!

of between they now buy about £27, and the the Britiah tradesman has a sur- on the present duties. fifty

and eighty per cent.. Beer, franc has also considerably apprising prejudice against foreign Geneva Disarmament Conference previous occupant. The garden-

and formerly Military Attache er lived in a small outhouse... brandy, whisky and gin, are all preciated in relative value "since money. raised from fifty per cent, ad va-we went off the gold standard. "We heard of a ship-load of at Peiping, has been promoted

several hundred visitors from to Lieut-General. Only a small increase is imposed So a cheaper holiday can be) France who came, över to Eng- in the case of medicines, the new spent here than in many other land for a day's trip. The towns- duty being twenty per cent. a countries of the world, and the folk of the port at which they against fifteen per cent. under the hian from abroad has taken note landed knew they were coming. old schedule.-Reuter.

of that fact.

"But when those visitors went

lorem to eighty per cent. -

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GERMAN BANK'S OFFER.

Huge Note Is Due September.

New York, Yesterday:

Following the agnouncement that

!

Good For Trade.

the German Bank and Discount Co. WARM WELCOME FOR

would be unable to. meet its $25,000,000 note, due September 1,

Router learns that the bank offered

foreign holders of participation cer

SIGNOR GRANDI.

OLD BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS.

Rothschild's House" Quits Germany...

www.

Reuter.

NATIONS SEEK TO PREVENT

WAR..

(Continued from Page 1.1

Long Dispute,

Washington,' ‚To-day.

On March 31, at about 7,30 p.m... the gardener entered, the house to make a telephone call, a practice which had been permitted in the past. After using the telephone, the gardener left by the back door, and almost immédiately after 6 men entered by the same door. The third prisoner had been iden

qi.

One of the men threatened Mr.

?

It should be good for British round to the shops of that par- frade, but our tradesmen are ac- ticular town, the majority of ensed of not being alert enough traders refused to do business United Kingdom is anxious to tified as being one of the intrud- in their efforts to draw money with them because they would give all possible support to the ers from the pockets of the for-not take French money, and prac-appeal of President of the League rigners while they are with us. tically no facilities for changing Council and to the moderating ac- Chung with a knife, and Me The charge has been made French money into English cur- tion of friendly nations assem-Chung and his family were bound that, in seaside places and our rency existed in the town itself."led at Washington. The Gov- and gagged.. Boxes and trunks ment of the United Kingdom haa were ransacked, and the thieves de- "show" towns shopkeepers are Was it Folkestone? :

informed the United States Gov-parted with watchex, jewellery. ernment of the above action.

clothing and about $280 in cash. British Wireless Service.

After some time, Mr. Chung was! able to free himself.

A search revealed that the gur The threatened Paraguayan-dener had disappeared, and he wan Bolivian hostilities emanate from not seen again until his arrest on 50 years of dissension over the June 11 together with Tee Kin-| ownership of 100,000 square miles shau in a cabicie in Canton. On of territory in the Gran Chaco June 15 acting upon information region, the frontiers of which were received.. Police went to abouse never accurately demarcated since in Des Voeux Road West, and there the splitting up of the Spanish arrested the third prisoner empire in 1663. Each party ad-

The case is proceeding The three per cent. semi-annual-

The last German branch of the vances the ancient Spanish char- coupon due on September 1 will be When Signor Grandi the new famous banking house" of Raths-ters and Imperial decrees to sup- pald as usual. The issue was made Italian Ambassador, reached Lon-child, the firm of von Goldschmidt-port its claims and the perennial in 1927 in America to finance the don to-night, he was met at the Rothschild in Berlin, which, was friction is due to the fact that German industrial credit;?

The station by the Foreign Secretary, one of the leading private banks both occupy parts of the disputed Deutschebank's inability to dis- Sir John Simon, who greeted him in the German capital, has. with- territory and have established charge the obligation is primarily warmly and expressed pleasure that drawn from active business and forts therein. due to German control of exchange, their collaboration at Lausanne and will be taken over by the state- The United States and 18 other which was very severely rationed Geneva was to be continued through owned. Rekchakreditagesellschaft. American nations, signed the note since last year's crisis.-Reuter. Signor Grandi's appointment to Thus, the great banking dynasty of mentioned earlier requesting the Rothschilds, which was found. cessation of hostilities and declar-

Italian Ambassador.

tificates in the loan repayment in Arrival In London As "blocked" Reichsmarks or a cush Bonus of two per cent. in dollars, if they would agree to extend the re- demption of certificates for three years.

IRISH FARMERS

AVOID TAX.

Seek Moratorium Land Annuities.

Dublin, Yesterday. Mr. De Valera's ruling that farmers must continue to pay land

SIR J. SIMON'S GREETING.

London.

..

London, Yesterday.

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HUGE INSTITUTION.

Berlin, July 15..

DYNAMITE CARRIER

IS FINED.

Owner Is Held For Questioning.

Two hundred sticks of dynamite The new Ambassador will pre-fed in the beginning of the eighing they would not recognise any and 240 detonators in a large, lock- sent his credentials to HM. the teenth century by Mayor Amschel Conquest of territory by either ed rattan basket, were brought into King, when His Majesty returns to Rothschild in the latter's native nation resulting from war.-Rea-Central Polite Court this morning, London next week, after which he city of Frankfurt-on-the-Main and.

ter.

Fin connection with a case in which will leave for a holiday until late subsequently became the world's

a Chinese stonebreaker was charg September when he will take up per-leading international bank with EUROPEAN COMMITS SUICIDE. ed before Mr. W. Schofield with manent residence at the Italiau branches at Vienna, London, Paris.]

unlawful possession. Embassy-British Wireless-Ser-Naples and elsewhere, will not be (Continued from Page 1)

represented any more in Germany.

vice.

annuities, although they are no U.K. AND AUSTRALIA longer being paid to Britain, was anxiously discussed at a meeting of CONFER AT OTTAWA.

farmers at Waterford. In a re- solution it was resolved that view.

ing the Government action with Delegates To Examine consternation and surprise they de Definite Proposals. manded a moratorium pending the settlement of the question between the two Governments-Reuter.

CAPTAIN LANCASTER'S MURDER TRIAL.

London, Yesterday."

„Police Investigations_led_to_the arrast of the owner of the explo sive, who is now being detained. The old Frankfurt house Was

The smell still persisted and Mr.| discontinued early in the "present owe again went to the bathroom.gnol was imposed and the confisca

A fine of $100 or two months' century after the male line of the This time Kanls said he was having tion of the dynamite and detona Frankfurt branch of the Rothe-la bath, and that he would turn the tors was ordered by His Worship. Childs had become extinct. The last gas off immediately. Not satisfied,

น

Removes Gas Key.

Rothschild of Frankfurt, Baron Mr. Lowe said that he wanted to MR. FORREST'S ODD ACCIDENT. William von Rothschild, left only come in and attend to it himself. one daughter, who, in 1928, mar-He also peeped throught the key- ried Baron Maximilian Benedikt von hole and listened, but could neither which Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, of A peculiar motor accident in Goldschmidt, another prominent see nor hear anything. Frankfurt family of great bankers.

the Treasury, was involved, was Baron Goldschmidt later took the Af Ottawa to-day, the principal name of Goldschmidt Rothchild passage, and Kanis came out from

Mr. Lowe then moved off down the revealed in the Police reports

this morning. event was the meating of the Unit- and became the head of the Frank the bathroom and entered his own Mr. Forrest was driving his ed Kingdom and Australian delega furt firm. He retired from busi-room. tions, to examine the definite proness some 20 years ago, but is still bathroom, and removed

Mr. Lowe returned to the Street, when an Indian man walk- car yesterday morning in Pedder nosals affecting each country. living at the age of 94 and reput from the pipe main after seeing that Mr. Forrest stopped and found the keyed off the footpath into the car. (Continued from Page 1) Similar meetings between the ed to be one of the wealthiest men it was properly turned off.

other Dominions are to be held suicide in an aeroplane crash, she during the next few days, and

in Germany.

He then went to Kanis's that the left front wheel was sald, in order that she might have from them it is anticipated that the senior partners of the Berlin Mr. Kanis, there will be no fur. reversed the car, and the Indian "Until recently his two sons were room and said, "It's all right now, resting on the Indian's foot. He G$1,000 of his insurance as 3 definite conclusions will emerge. bank von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, ther escape of gas." At that time, released his foot. wedding present... But Capt British Official Wireless Service. Lancaster abandoned the project

which was closely affiliated with Mr. Lowe thought there was an When asked by Mr. Forrest if when he learned the Insurance

some of the Reich's leading indus accidental leakage, and the possi- he wished to be taken to hospital company had failed...

Mr. Gonzalez Diaz, living at 3 given for the discontinuation of the occur to him.

trial undertaking. The reason bility of attempted suicide did not the Indian made no reply and She detailed, a violent quarrel Kimberley Villas, has reported to Berlin bank is that the members of

walked away. between the two men on the night the Police the loss of a Singer the firm are desirous of retiring the latter was reading a book.

When be left Mr. Kanis's room, of Clark's death, but their differ sewing machine, valued at $100. ences were composed later, she

said. T

Moh Chuen-tai, a female servant Capt. Lancaster was charged shortly after the discovery of employed at 5, May Hoad, was sent Clark's apparent suicide, when to the Government Civil Hospital investigators declared that, notes, suffering from an unknown form allegedly found by Capt. Lancaster of poisoning, alleged to have been and written by the dead man, ex self-administered. Her condition pressing desire for death, were regarded as not serious.

Transocean „Kuomin.com

OCCASIONAL RAIN. (45

weather

To-day's from the Royal Observatory states:

Pressure is highest near the caster, it was charged, had written ⋅ Objecting to the boatmen remov- Bonins, and a shallow depres- the notes himself.

*king cinders from the foreshore atsisión covers 8.W. China.

In fact forgeries. Capt. Lan- Malbatt

Clark's body, with a bullet wound Tai Kok Tsui, Shamshuipó district,] » The typhoon is situated

the chead- and a revolver" beside cinder coolies became incensed and about 150 miles: was found in the Miami bunga- a fight ensiled.” During the fight,

"and""Cüpt:" Lancaster

Mrs. Keit

one of the boat tokis, Cheng Sing

Cheroo, moving "Nix

Fo

(66) sustained inforles to his head the and was removed to the Kowloon woman an Australian aviatrix of Hospital. Some distinction.-Rout

derate; cloud

rain.

Mr. Lowe then went downstairs to attempt to turn off the gas at the main," but could not do so owing to the stiffness of the point.

"Mr. Lowe was not disturbed again until 7 a.m. this morning,

Wife Can't Explain.

A MECHANICAL HORSE

Considerable. Interest -has-been. taken recently in a three-wheel motor; tractor produced by a well- known' British firm and known as the "Motor Horse. This vehicle in

- Mrs. Mura Kanis, wife of the generally used for hauling drays, deceased, was staying at No. 8, and, it replaces the horse between

the

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