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No. 28,356

HONG KONG. SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1933.

Fat. 1943.

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FORT

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

MR. ROOSEVELT TAKES OFFICE AS UNITED STATES PRESIDENT

BANK HOLIDAY

OPERATING IN

30 STATES

R.F.C. Funds To Aid Solvent Banks.

CHICAGO RAISES RE-DISCOUNT RATE TO 31 PER CENT

New York, To-day. There are now 30 States partici- pating in the restrictive measures on bank deposits. Georgia and New Mexico being the latest additions.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has raised the re-discoun! rate to 31 per cent.-Reuter.

Washington, To-day.

It has been made known that the resources of the Reconstruc-! tion Finance Corporation are now available for hard-pressed but solvent banks in the States that: have imposed limitations on with- drawals. Reuter.

68359 MILLION WAR DEPT. BILL APPROVED.

Washington, To-day. The Senate has finally approved the G$350,000,000 War Department Bill-Reuter.

U.K. TRADE WITH ARGENTINE

Negotiations Show Good Progress.

SUB-COMMITTEES MEET

London, To-day. Trade negotiations which are

President Roosevelt.

B.I.F. Proves Successful

Many Inquiries For Rubber Products.

London, To-day. The British Industries Fair closed last night, and is of. cially described as an un- qualified success.

Malaya exhibitors

Bay that inquiries for new rub- ber products far exceed the widest expectations. Reu- ter.

"Modify Exchange Restrictions.

MR. BALDWIN URGES QUICK

ACTION.

London, To-day. The urgency of effecting modifica tions in exchange restrictions, which are one of the main handicaps to ¡ trade recovery, was again emphasis-

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MR. HOOVER LEAVES THE WHITE HOUSE COLOURFUL CEREMONY AT WASHINGTON

ELABORATE POLICE PRECAUTIONS OUTSIDE THE CAPITOL

WASHINGTON, TODAY.

PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER AND HIS REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION RETIRED FROM OFFICE TO-DAY AFTER FOUR YEARS' GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AMID COLOURFUL PAGENTRY, MR.. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT WAS TO-DAY INAUGURATED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.

Thousands gathered at an early hour at the Capitol to wit ness the ceremony and extensive Police precautions were taken to prevent any renewed attempt at the life of the new President. Hundreds of Police, mounted and on foot, guarded all the ap. proaches around the Congress buildings.

The customary pomp and pageantry attended the ceremony which was comparatively brief, Mr. Roosevelt's inauguration .speech lasting only eight minutes.

After he had taken the oath President Roosevelt proceeded to the White House which he will occupy for the next four years. Vice- President Gamer took the oath as Vice-President and members of the new Democratic Cabinet were also sworn in.

The Roosevelt administra- tion will proceed immediately to cope with the many pro- blems, foreign and domestic, which confront the Govern- ment."

New taxation to reduce the big budget deficit will be considered.

and arrangements will be made for the forthcoming War Debt Confer- ence with the British delegation, which is expected to arrive this month.

Years of Party Office

Fed.

1789-1797 1797-1801

A special Session of the United States Congress will be called early in the spring.

List of American Presidents.

Name George

Washington ministerial John Adams .... Fed.

Thot. Jefferson.. Dem. Rep 1801-1809 James Madison. Dem.-Rep. 1809-1817 James Monroe .. Dem. Rep. 1817-1825 John Quincy

Dem.-Rep. 1825-1820 Jackson Dem. 1829-1837

Whig

proceeding between the represented in a speech by Mr. Stanley Bald tives of the United Kingdom are being conducted by three sub-com- win, the Conservative leader at mittees, dealing respectively, with luncheon during his visit yesterday export of goods from the Argen- to the Birmingham Section of the

British Industries Fair. tine to the United Kingdom, export

Mr. Baldwin is the from the United Kingdom to the! Ar-eating, and exchange restric- bead of the Department of Scienti-

fe and Industrial Lions.

Research, and Matters under discussion by the during his visit to the London Sec- sub-committee of exchange include, tian of the Fair on Thursday and at possible steps that can be taken Birmingham yesterday, he displayed for freeing part at least, of the special interest in the exhibits of frozen peso credits in the Argen- goods, in the production of whien by the Depart- tine, with a view to assisting the scientific research recovery of a normal flow of trade ment had been of service.-British Buren between the two countries.

While no decisions are to be ex- pected for some time, in view of the complex questions involved. good progress is being made und meetings of the three sub-commit- tees will be continued next week. -British Wireless Service.

Slight Rally

On Wall St.

Market Uncertainty.

New York, To-day.

It is impossible to diagnose to-day's rally, reports' Mesara. E. A. Pierce and Company. We would allow the New York Market to reveal itself as to whether the upturn means the approach of constructive deve- lopments which, at present, are undisclosed.

Wireless Service.

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE

A Critical Pass Reached.

PREMIER AND SIR JOHN SIMON GOING TO GENEVA

London, To-day.

The Premier, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, are going to Geneva shortly to make an effort to stimu- Jate the Disarmament Can- ference, which has reached a critical pass.

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The Foreign Office has issued the following statement; "His Majesty's Government have had). before them a full account from Capt. Anthony Eden, Parliamen-

Andrew

.......

Adams

Wm. Henry

Harrison Martin Van

March Lo

April 1841

Dem.

1837-1841

James Knox Polk Dem. Zachary Taylor.. Whig Millard Fillmore

Whig Franklin Pierce. Dem, James Buchanan Dem. Abraham Lincoln* Rep.

1846-1849

1849-1850

1850-185%

1853-1867

1857-1801

1801-1806

Andrew Johnson. Rep.

1805-1809

Rep.

1860-1877

187711881

March to Sept. 1881

Simpson

Ulysses Grant Rutherford Birchard

Hayes. Rep. James Abram Garfield❤

Cheater

.... Rep.

New President's Career,

Franklin Delang. Rogevelt the new President was former Govern- or of New York. Born in Hyde. Park, N.Y., in 1882, Mr. Roosevelt Was

educated at Harvard and He married Columbla Shcool. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1907 and practised with Carter, New York. Ledyard & Milburn, Since 1924 he has been a member

Skating on the pond in Wimbledon Park Golf Course, Wimble don, during the recent spell of wintry weather. Miss Yvonne Tay- lor and Miss Ailsa Gibb, clever exponents in dual effort. (S. & G.)

2,500 FEARED LOST IN JAPAN

EARTHQUAKE DISASTER

Death

Roll Reaches 1,535, And

948 Still Missing

Tokyo, To-day, The official figures, sund, wt midnight,

of the earthquake casunities, give the number of dead as 1,536, missing 948 and

jured $38.

Nearly all the casualties occur red on the North-East coast S Japan, where the tidel wave

ter.

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COMMUNIST

SUPPRESSION

IN GERMANY

20 More Arrests On Plotting Charge.

Berlin, To-day.

'CHINESE LOSE

1,500 KILLED;

3,000 WOUNDED. Casualties In Yesterday's Fighting.

JAPANESE ALSO SUFFER HEAVILY

Peking, To-day- The Chinese carnalties in yester 'day's fighting in Jehol are placed at 1,500 killed and about 3,000 wounded.

Details of the Japanese losses are not yet available bat are known te

be heavy-Reuter.

"Remove League Sanctions."

MR. AMERY'S COMMENT ON FAR EAST AFFAIRS.

London, To-day. "When Japan established her- self in Manchuris, she restored order and there should not be any

farther delay in recognising her

position there," declared Mr.

C. M. B. Amery, Conservative M.P, speaking at Birmingham yes- terday. A

"Then we had better get on with” the aquipment at Singapore and Herr Victor Schiff, Foreign News put dunelves in a position to de Editor of "Vorwaerts," the German fend our rights and defend the [League, {1,"wo want to support it, Communist organ has been arrest and finally, insist on a revision of led, together with 20 other persons. the Covenant, eliminating the

wrecked enormous damage-They are charged with plotting Clauses containing penal sanc- against the Government, an offence,tions," Mr. Amery stated-Beuter. for which the maximum penalty is death.

APPEAL COURT

of the firm of Roosevelt & O'Connor. FOR HONG KONG

President Hoover becomes Mr. Hoover to-day.

From 1910 to 1918 he was a mem-

Draft Bill Published In Gazette.

FULL COURT TO HEAR LOCAL APPEALS

A reward of £1,000 has been offered for information regard. ing the burning of the Reich- stag, on Tuesday last. Reuter,

A Monarchy In Germany?

BAVARIA SEEKS TO REGAIN RIGHTS OF STATE.

Berlin, To-day.

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Chiang Kai-shek Urged To Fight. OVERSEAS CHINESE DEPLORE

INACTIVITY.

The telegrams said that for Com-

Canton, To-day. Nanchang press dispatches state that the local telegraph, office has received over thirty telegrams, from. overseas Chinese public bodies re- questing General · Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the military affairs commission, to lead his troops. The Draft Bill of an Ordinance A Monarchist manifesto is pub-northward to resist Japanese inva- to amend the Criminal Procedure lished by the Bayerischerkurier, ders. Ordinance, 1899, is published in the organ of the Bavarian Peoples' Party, which declares that these the Government Gazette to-day.

weeks of political excitement and munist suppression a portion of his The amendment provides that longing aroused

before troops may remain in Kiangsi and the procedure of the Supreme the question as to who will be urged that General Chiang must not

repeat the failures in sending rein- ¿ Court of Hong Kong shall be, as protector of the peoples' rights.

forcements to Jehol as in the Shang- the The inviolability of

bai and Woosung Öghting last year. nearly as possible, the same as!

Bavarian State says this is not practice and procedure in criminal

only a proof of the respect for the present heir to the throne, causes and matters in the High Court of Justice and the Courts of

Prince Rupprecht, but is also (Continued on Page 4) Assize in England. This will make

Alan Arthur Bep.

1881-1886ber of the New York Senate, and possible, the hearing of criminal Grover Cleveland Dem. 1886-1889 from 1913 to 1920 be was Assistant appeals in the Colony, eliminating

1889-1803 Benjamin Harrison Rep. Grover Cleveland Dem.

He was the resort to English courts." 1838-1837 Secretary of the Navy. Wm. McKinley*

1897-1901 Democratic nominee for vice-pre- Rep.

Provision is made under the new Theodore Roosevelt Rep. 1901-1909sident in 1920, but was defeated.Ordinance for the assigning of William

In the course of a distinguished counsel and solicitors as legal aids 1913-1921 career he has been member of a in capital cases, cases reserved and number of Government and State appeal cases. Previously, provi- Calvin Coolidge Rep. (a) 1923-192s commissions, He is also a membersion was only made for this aid,|

of a number of education trusten in capital came Herbert C. Hoover Rep. 1929-1933 ships and president of the New Franklin Delano

Howard Taft.. Rep.

Woodrow Wilson. Dem.

Warren Gamaliel

Harding, Rep.

Roosevelt..

* Assassinated.

1909-1913

1921-1823

1925-1929

1038

(a) Flected an Vice-President. THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.

The complete Roosevelt Cabinet is

Industrial, rails and utilities all showed an upward trend, rising 1-tary Under-Secretary for For-}as follows:

65, 82 and 65, respectively, while bonds declined 81 to 73.21.

Business 'done was averaga, 1,410,000

shares changing

handa-Router.

cign Affairs, who has represent-

Senátor Cordell Hull, Secretary

ed the United Kingdom' at of State.

Géneva in recent weeks, of the| Mr. William H. Woodwin, Trea- present position at the Disarma-sury, ment Conference.. The Govern- Mr. George H. Dern, War. ment is deeply impressed withi ·Senator Thomas J. Walsh, £2,000,000 LOAN FOR NORTH the necessity of giving all pos- Bible assistance to enable the Confeernce to reach an early de- cision.

IRELAND

London, To-day,

Justice.

All appeals will be heard by the (Continued on Page L.) - Full Court.

Japanese Can Have Jehol When

as never

STOP PRESS

JAPANESE NOT IN JEHOL

STIFF CHINESE RESISTANCE,

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Shanghai, To-day. Reports that the

We Are All Dead, Dectares Tang Japanese troops have

Chengteafu.

of

General Tang Yu-lin, governor of but we must draw the Japanese beyond Jehol province, told the United. Prese hol rail heads and extend their com in an interview on March 1 that "tha munication lines," General Tang said. "The heaviest and most decisivo Japanese can have this

fighting will occur northward of Ching- all the Chinese are dead, vines when Senator Claude Swanson, Navy.

He prodicled that the

present phase tahfa, in the vicinity of Chinfan, Ling- Mr. Harold L. Ickes, Interior.

of the Sino-Japanese confict, Japan's yuan and Pingyaan."

As a result of the Chinese plan Mr. Henry C. Wallace, Agricul- | drive to poniens Jeho), will develop int

defense, news of further evacuations a major war in North China. Lure

Tang said the Chinesa Mr. Daniel C. Roper, Commerce for a strategie withdrawal of forens plan called

"doesn't mean wa, will surren- Miss Frances Perkins, Labour... appointment of Mr. Leo

westward, the retreat moving slowly in der "Tang sad. We will fight to the of Northern Ireland, in 3% per d'Almada a Castro, Jr. to be a mame, Mr, James A. Farley, Post Office. the face of the Japaness advance, and cent stock, redeemable in 1984. The bar of the Board of Education for Mr. Homer 8. Cummings, is a designed to be as expensive to the Hundreds of camels were plodding ice price is to be 09-Brush All announced in the opera ported to be the choles for Governor apanese in men and munitions es por hair way to the various passer **)) around Chengtohfs, bearing supplies. Of Wireless Barvica.

General of the Philippines.

"We hate to abandon these cities, food and munitions to the defenders.

. Underwriting arrangements were

made in London yesterday for a £2,000,000 loan for the Government "The

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period of two years, Tice Cher. 3. M..

mand Gazetta.

WAR

entered Jehol City are premature” and cannot be confirmed either in Tokio or Peking.

A

message from Jehol, last night, states that the Chin- ese troops are put- ting up a stiff resist- ance. → Reuter,

"You have already made blunders and delays in the Shanghal war," *We the telegrams pointed out, hope you will not repeat the same inactivity and mistake this time.” --Central Press.

South West Troops For Jehol

TBAI TING-KAI MAY HEAD

REINFORCEMENTS.

Canton, To-day, 20 Military, preparations are being. made by Kwangtung, Kwangsi anď Fakten to dispatch their armies to. Jehol to resist the Japanese ag- gressora. General Tsai Ting-kai,, commander of the famous 19th- route army in Fuklen, is said to have expressed a desire to lead the ‚vanguard northward..

Apart from leaving a suffelent number of troops to suppress, the Communists in southern Klangai and western Fukies, all the avall- able forces in the three proviness / will join the expeditionary force.

NA significant development is the announcement that General Wang

Chia-leh, chairman of the Kwel- chow provincial government, will | join the expedition by dispatching, | one full division. The Kwelshow troope will go northward at the same time with other forcas whem they reach the borders of Kwof- chow/---Central Press.