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"From Contented Cows"

THERE'S CREAM

IN

EVERY DROP.

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The dollar, on demand, closed

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Ext. 1845.

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THE OLDEST-ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST,

No. 28,749

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1934.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

WE PRESENT A Gorgeous Display

of Gowns.

AND OUR PRICES

ARE- RIGHT.

PAUL RENNET et CIE

180-190 NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON

U.S. SILVER BILL IS PASSED IN SENATE WITHOUT

MISSIONARIES

THREATENED BY

CONCLUSIVE VOTE IS SECURED

BANDIT GANG BORAH STATES PROBLEM SINO-AMERICAN

LETTERS DEMAND

$200,000.

"PAYMENT OR DEATH"

Shanghai, To-day.

A correspondent of the "North China Daily News" reports the receipt by the Haichow Southern Presbyterian Mission of a letter: from bandits demanding $200,000 in consequence "our ammunition and arms is insufficient. If this sum is not forthcoming within two or three months the penalty is death."

The first two of the Tour names signed are well-known

bandit

chiefs who were largely responsible for the capture and murder of Mr.

con-

1. W. Vinson two years ago.

Such blackmail letters are stantly received by wealthy Chinese) in this district, and the bandits are

constantly carrying out their threats, but this is the first time the Presbyterian missionaries have

been singled for such threats.- Renter.

WARSHIPS BOUND FOR NANKING

Japan Investigating Kuramoto Case,

萨

Shanghai. To-day. The Japanese destroyer Ashi jeft here for Nanking yesterday parently in connection with the missing Vice-Consul, Mr. Kuramoto, while the cruiser Tsushima is sche- duled to leave for the capital to-day.

STILL UNSOLVED

"BUT IT IS A STEP IN RIGHT

DIRECTION

""

BENEFITS ENTIRE WORLD

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL

(By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1891.

Received June 12. 8.52 1.22.)

Washington, To-day.

.

COMMERCE

STABLE EXCHANGE VITAL.

SIR ARTHUR SALTER'S OFFICIAL REPORT

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegra phie Messages Ordinance, 189%. Re- ceived June 12, 7.08 a.m.)

New York, To-day,

"The Economic Forum" has pu- blished a condensation of Sir Ar-

"

It also defeated the Thomas amendment, basing the 75 to 25 ratio of gold and silver mone- tary reserves on the market price of silver, rather than on monetary values, by a vote of 65 to

The United States Senate yesterday passed thur Saller's official report to the the Silver Bill. It defeated the Huey-Long Chinese Government, and stressed amendment, providing for free unlimited coinage the passage that the Silver Bill at a ratio of between 16 and 17 to one to gold, by "blocking her exports and spread- would retard China's recovery by

a vote of 59 to 18.

ing deflation."

The report says that China's primitive trade me- chanism cannot withstand such deflation without seri- ous consequences.

the book Other portions of deal with the disastrous Econo- mic effect of China's military struggles against Japan and her own Communists.

17.

Supporting the silver legislation, Senator Borah urged the overhauling of the monetary system to curb the concentration of wealth. He blamed the gold standard and the world war for the present world conditions,

He called the Bill a step in the right direction, but added that it did not solve the problem. He said that the solution must come other than by the retention of the gold standard.

AMENDMENT

Arranged a neatly as peas in a pod, a group of U.B. destroyers, two abreast, pass through Gatun Lock, Panama Canal, during the recent record transfer of the feet from the Pacific to the Atlantic. in 47 hours. Every type of vessel, 111 in all, passed through the famous W& terway without hitch.

Sir Arthur Salter said that POND & SABELLI IN ROME

China does not use silver te pur chase imports, instead, she uses foreign currency balanceom URGING THE CONSIDERATION OF SILVER FROM A STAND. Bales of exports. Therefore, a POINT OF WORLD TRADE HE SAID THAT WORLD TRADE NEEDED stable exchange is vital to Sino- United THE RESTORATION OF PURCHASING POWER AND A MEDIUM OF American

Press, per S. C. Gold Bar Co. EXCHANGE-MORE MONEY.

UPWARD BUSINESS TREND IN U.S.

Meantime, the cruiser Idzumo is 100 Per Cent. Position reported to be steaming for Nan-

king from Harkow-Reuter,

BRITISH ADMIRAL

IN WEI-HAI-WEI

Practically Whole Fleet Assembled.

Wei-hai-wel. To-day.

In Market."

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. Bu Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phie Mensages Ordinance, 180L, Re |ecived June 12, 7.08 n.M.)

New York, To-day.

The "Brookmire" business jour nil predicts a resumption of the upward business trend in the near ¡future.

commerce.

Senator King defended the Bill fand said that he believed Fresi- MORE WAR DEBTS

dent Roosevelt would seek silver agreement with other nations.

"It is manifested that the President is anxious to help silver to a place in the mone. tary system." he said. "The Bill would benefit the en- tire world," he concluded.

Senator Hatfield said that there: was no need to extend currency. He said that the present gold | stocks were ample to back five! times as much money as was at present in circulation.

SOLDIERS BONUSES

The Silver Bill passed after the "We regard the current economic Senate, by 51 votes to 31, Senate H.E. the Commander-in-Chief, developments, plus the future qui had rejected the attempt to amend China Station. Admiral Sir look, aufficiently satisfactory to jus-it, providing for the payment, of Frederic Dreyer, aboard H.M.S.tify a 100 per cent. position in the Suffolk, urrived here at 10.30 market, it states. United Press, a.m. to-day.

per S.C. Gold Bar Co,

Practically the whole fleet is) HENRY OF PLESS

now assembled here, including

H.M.S. Berwick H.M.S. Cornwall, Į H.M.S. Cumberland.

H.M.S.

Engle. H.M.S. Medway. H.M.S.

PETITION

Adventure, and several sloops, Upper Silesian Property destroyers and submarines. Reuter.

CHOOSE WATERY GRAVE

Seized By Poland.

NEW PROBLEM FOR LEAGUE

London, To-day.

soldiers' honusea.

+

The vote on the Bill was 54 to 25. It immediately went to can- ference.

PROFITS' TAX. The House of Representatives" measure provides for a 50 per cent. profits tax.

The Senate measure exempts pro- fits through mining or industrial

operations.

LONDON SHIPMENT

Washington, To-day.

DEFAULTERS

Czecho-Slovakia And Belgium.

Washington, To-day. Belgium and Czecho- Slovakia have officially in- formed the United States that they intend defaulting the war debt payments due on June 15, thus following the lead of Great Britain. France is the only country expected to pay. Reuter.

SINGAPORE JOINS TEXTILE WAR.

Ordinance Passed To Impose Quotas.

Singapore, To-day.

POND AND SABELLI

GERMANY'S

RETURN TO

THE LEAGUE

Early Parleys Urged By Mr. Henderson.

SECURITY COMMITTEE

London. To-day.

The Legislative Council here yes- ITALY AND HUNGARY EVADE terday passed an Ordinance regard- ing quotas for foreign textiles aim- ed against Japan and containing a clause establishing re-export depots in order to cause minimum inter- The Treasury Secretary, Mr. ference with entreport trade-Rou-: Henry Morgenthau, said that the ter. Sir John Simon, the Foreign Federal Assay Office in New York Secretary, in reply to a question had received a 5,000,000 ounce al In the House of Commons yester- day, said that a petition had ver shipment from Londen.

It, in believed that It was been lodged by Prince Henry of Pless with the Secretary of the chased several weeks ago for the League of Nations relating to the account of the stabilisation fund.-- the alleged action of Polish authori-United Press, per S.C. Bold Gar Co.

Man Jumps Overboard From B. & S. Boat.

DEATH JUMP FROM FERRY

on

A third-class passenger Butterfield and Swire steamer, An-ties in taking possession of his hui, jumped overboard while the main enterprise and estates in vessel was moored to buoy No. 3 Upper Sclesia...

yesterday morning and was drown- Sir John Simon added that in

ed.

The man, whose name was Tang Kin-fat, was on his way from Bing apore to Swatow. Ila body has not yet been recovered.

FERRY 'SUICIDE

accordance with the usual pro-| cedure in urgent matters it

Optimism Holds. On Wall Street.

pur-

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. (Bu Telegraph, Compright, Telegra- would be placed on the League phie Messages Ordinance, 1804, Ra Council agenda immediately,ceived June 18, 7.08 a.m.)

Pending ita examination, he

New York, To-day, was unable to make any state- Optimism continuen on

Wall ment. British Wireless Ser-Street. Favourable trading factors vice.

are the belief that a building boom is imminent and the continuance of foreign interest.

NO U.S. BASEBALL GAMES

Unfavourable factors, are prot

MUNICIPAL TAXES BOYCOTTED.

'Japan Chronicle”

In Trouble.

Kobe, To-day, The printing machinery and other movables at the offices of the "Japan. Chronicle" will be seized as the result of the non-payment

municipal of faxes which the newspaper is alleged to have boycotted, to gether with other holders of

· perpetual leases-Reuler..

WEATHER FORECAST

An unknown first-class Chinese passenger on the ferryboat. Map Wai, jumped overboard while on a trip from Mongkok to Hong Kong at 10.80 o'clock last night, The No major league American base and the expectation of light trading ate south or variable winder was ferryboat stopped, but no trace of ball games were scheduled for de- until Congress adjournUnited the weather forecast Iained by the the body could be found.

Preás ver S.C. Gold Bar Co. Royal Observatory this morning.

New York, To-day... taking on some recent favourites

[cision, yesterday-Renter.

Cloudy and abowely, with moder-

In bringing the meeting, of the Disarmament Conference General Commission to a close at Geneva yesterday after- noon, the Chairman, Mr. Ar- thur Henderson, expressed a wish that the private conver- sations, with the aim of secur- ing Germany's return, would proceed with the least possible delay, otherwise he might' have to call a meeting of the Bureau.

Italy and Hungary: intimat ed that they would join the Security Committee, only as observers, as they wished for more universal security than, regional pacts possible.

M. Litvinov, the Soviet de legate, reserved the right to raise the question of regional security an

m continents other than Europe. British Wire less Service.

SUCCESSFUL

FLIGHT MADE

FROM LONDON

ENGINE TROUBLE

RECTIFIED.

FAILURE ON LONG DISTANCE RECORD

Rome, To-day. The two airmen, Captain George Pond, a former United States Navy

MORE OUTRAGES

PERPETRATED

IN AUSTRIA .

BOMB EXPLOSION. IN STATION.

Four Injured.

Vienna, To-day. More outrages were reported from various parts of Austria yes-" terday evening.

Four people were injured when

a bomb exploded at the West Sta- tion on the arrival of the Osten ex- press, while detonators exploded during patriotic demonstrations in Vienna and Salzburg.

An electric pylon was des troyed by explosive at Bludenz. Rails were again torn up in two laces, but were quickly repaired.

A huge haul of hand grenades. bombe and explosives were found under a hut in a Vienna allotment garden.-Reuter.

14 KILLED IN AIR CRASHES

Three U.S. Catastrophes Reported.

TWO INCINERATED IN MILITARY BOMBER

Londen, To-day. Yesterday was a bad day for air....... craft.

In addition to an American dis

aster in which seven people were killed in the crash of on air liner: in the Catskill mountains. New York, a Buenos Aires messagt states that five people were kill jed and five injured when a trans- Andean air liner, flying from Buenos Aires to Santiago, crash- ed at Junin, in the Argentine.

"Two men were incinerated and 簉 two seriously injured when military bomber crashed on to the roof of a house and burst into flames at Chartres, France.

CURB TO FASCISM IN BRITAIN

pilot, and Lieut. Sabelli, the Italian-Reuter war ace, who left New York on May 15 in an attempt to fly direct to Rome, landed here yesterday, after a flight from London.-Reu- Iter.

The trans-Atlantic flyers, fall- new long-distance flight record

ed in their effort to establish a

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Home Secretary's Note Of Warning.

2

PUBLIC PEACE NOT TO .

BE DISTURBED

when they were forced down milc with engine trouble half

London, To-day. In a statement in the House of inland on the Co. Clare coast, in the west of Ireland, 81. hours Commons on the recent disorders at the Fascist meeting at Olym- after they left New York.

pia last week, the Home Secre For 21 hours they were forced tury, Sir John Gilmour, said that to fly blindly across the Atlan- the country, as a whole, would tie owing to bad weather condi-agree that a disorder on the scale recently witnessed could not be tions, Fog and rain prevalled tolerated, and if it continued it practically throughout the jour-might be necessary to arm execu- tive authorities ́with › further ney.

powers for the purpose of pre- After re-taking off, the flyers serving public order. Iwere again forced down on the He was not here concerned to ep- English coast with a recurrence portion the blame between the Fas

clata and the Communists, but it of engine trouble.

was the function of the Government The Leonardo da Vinci, their to preserve law and order and they plane, is powered with a Wright 36 would be failing in their duty If

motor, capable of developing 300 they allowed any faction to dlaturb

the public peace, horse power. It has a maximum speed of 150 miles per hour and cruising speed of 120 miles,

They were certainly: "not" "pre." spared to allow the maintenance of

Jorder and the maintenance of free, Institutions to be usurped by - any private or irresponsible body, no matter what might be its avowed aim or object.

LOCAL RAINFALL

Rainfall, in the Colony during the

1 PERSONS INJURED 24 hours. ending at 10.30 m, to' day amounted to 0,45 inch. ~*~ The The above statement was made in total rainfall since January 1" in xeply to a number of questions_ad» 20.82 inches, against an average of dressed to the Home Minister. 28.77 Inches,

(Continued On Paga 12.)