1934-11-30 — Page 1

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to-day, at 1/77-8.

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No. 28,896

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934. PRICE $3.00 Per Month

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195 aug

LADIES”. AUTUMN FOOTWEAR

NOW ON SALE NOW ON

KOWLOON SHOP ONLY:

PAUL RENNET et CIE

Corner of Austin - Nathan Roads, Kowloon

CLOSER RELATIONSHIP IS SEEN BETWEEN JAPAN AND SOVIET

JAPAN PLANNING

FOR INVASION OF

CANTON MARKETS

MINISTER MAY PAY A VISIT

PERSISTENT RUMOURS

(From Our Own Correspondent]' Canton, To-day,

Japan has mapped out a plan to compele more keenly in South China markets with other countries it is persistently reported here, It is yet uncertain whether the Japanese Minister to China, Mr. A. Arivoshi, will pay a visit to Can- ton in the immediate future. -

Better trade relations between South China and Japan were paved of by a recent visit to Canton Lieut-General Yoshimichi Suzuki, Military Attache of the Japanese Legation in Shanghai, The Japan- ese officer spent one and a half months in Kwangtung and Kwang;) si. He is said to have Interview ed Mr. Hu Han-min at Hong Kong and other leaders here and Kwangsi.

"The view of Japan in the minds of the South-western leaders has changed remarkably," the Military Attache told Japanese newspaper men upon his return to Shanghai. "They have arrived at the con- clusion that co-operation with Japan is essential for the estab lishment of permanent peace in the Far East on the basis of the prin ciple of a Greater Asia advanced by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. The result is that the anti-Japanese movement in South China has ceased almost completely."

Lieut.-General Suzuki concluded: his statement by declaring that; the time had come for the Japan- ese to push their trade in the South China markets.

Alrendy Japanese cement, cotton

This photograph shows Ellen Wilson McAdoo, 19-year-old daughter, of Senator W. G. McA doo, and her, actor-fiance, Rafael Lopez De Onate, 36, whose proposed marriage was delayed, after California officials started probe to determine whether De Onate was of Malay or Filipino blood, which would prevent a marriage union under the States law.

Nikola T. Uzunovitch, above, is the new premier of Yugoslavia, which is now ruled by the 11-year- old King Peter II, following the assassination of his father, King Alexander,

| FOREIGN FIRMS

REPORTED PAYING

BUSINESS TAX

WHERE CAPITAL IS PART CHINESE

COMPLIANCE IN CANTON'

· [From Our Own Correspondenți Canton, Today Although the vernacular pre here states that several · foreign firms in Canton have complied with the regulations of the Pro- vincial Department of Finance concerning business tax with the object of paying this, levy, it war learned yesterday that these firms have in fact been paying this tax ever since its inception.

A manager of one of the for- eign firms stated that his firm was owned substantially by Chin- eje. Some not only pay busi-

and woollen goods, machinery, WIMBLEDON BEAT ness tax but furnish a cash se-

sulphuric acid. coal. etc. are being; imported in increasing volume;

INTERNATIONAL

TEA COMMITTEE

REGULATION

LEYTON

F.A. Cup Replay

London, To-day.

In the FA Cup replay be- tween Leyton and Wimbledon.. who shared two goals at Wimble- CUT IN QUOTA NOT don last Saturday, the latter yes- terday emerged winners by the only goal scored. Reuter.

Wimbledon will Southend in the Second Round a week to-morrow.

EXPECTED

NECESSARY

EXPORT CURTAILMENT

London, To-day.

regulated

entertain

curity to the municipal authori- ties as a condition to carrying on business in Canton.

(Continued on Page 14)

WORLD'S BUSINESS LEADERS TO MEET

Concerted Action To Fight Depression

“SPECIAL TO CRINA "MATE.

Washington, To-day. The United States Chamber of Commerce has announced that the world's business leaders will meet

C.E.R. SALE PROSPECT

HIROTA REVIEWS

FOREIGN TREND

AT DIET SESSION

BETTER FEELING IN CHINA

MANCHUKUO PROGRESS.

Tokyo, To-day. Addressing the Diet yesterday, Mr. Koki Hirota, the Japanese

Foreign

Minister, declared

REDS REPORTED

5

ADVANCING ON

WUCHOW REGION

TWO DAYS' MARCH AWAY

FOREIGN. SHIPS STAND-BY

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, To-day. Considerable panic exists in Wa- chow, the leading city in Kwang- , which is threatened by the 50,- [000 Communists who occupied |Hoyten (Hohsien) ``on November 27. H.M.S. Cicala is ready to pro ceed to the West River port to as-

His Highness the Duke of Kent, who was married yesterday to Princesssist H.M.S. Robin in giving pro

Marina of Greece at Westminster Abbey, is here seen in a gramophone re- cord factory, listening carefully to the process of production.

at Japan's rela- RESIGNATION tions in Europe, America and China had grown increas- ingly cordial because a better understand- ing among the Pow- ers regarding Jap- an's position in East Asia.

OF BOLIVIAN

PRESIDENT

He rejoiced that the so-called Man- chukuo was making rapid strides, and re- marked that there had been some im- provement in the re- lations with U.S.S.R. giving the instance that fishing activities in north- ern waters had pro- ceeded without trou- - ble.

the

He foreshadowed- the early conclusion of the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway, though some time must elapse before minor details were settled.

Reuter.

The International Tea Com. OXFORD RUGBY in Paris in June to attempt to TYPHOON CHANGES

mittee has fixed a

figure for tea exports from India, Ceylan and the Dutch East In

dies for the year beginning April 1, 1935, at 82.5 per cent. of the standard export of 807.714,396

WIN

Gloucester. Beaten

London, To-day. lbs. A cut in the quota is not In a friendly rugby encounter unexpected, it is said.

at at Oxford yesterday, the Dark

A leading tea merchant, in an Blues beat Gloucester by 12 interview with Reuter, explained points to 8-Reuter.

present a united front to obstacles

retarding recovery.

It is said that the International

Chamber of Commerce has called

or-

DIRECTION

REPORT CLEARS UP MYSTERY

To Face Military Tribunal

Santiago de Chile, To-day. The mystery surrounding the fate of President Salamanca, of- Bolivia, has been solved by an official disclosure that he has de- finitely resigned.

it is learned unofficially that the resignation was wrested from President Salamanca by the military staff when visiting the Gran Chaco front. ·

It is declared that he has

A photograph of the Duchess Kent taken on a hiking tour Bosnia.

tection to British nationals there.

As there are many American missionaries in Wuchow and en- virons, the U.S.S. Mindanao was the first foreign gunboat to reach the river port. The Min- danao is large enough to eva- cuate all Americans if necessary. Hoyuen is about 60 miles north lof Wuchow. There is no high- way between the two towns, which are, however, connected by the Ho River. By crossing the rugged regions, the invaders may reach Wuchow in two days, while the trip by water can be made in three days.

All the buses in Kwangsi have been commandéered for the fransportation of troops to the eastern borders. Kwangsi has s good system of dirt roads, but there are no railways. If suf- ficient troops are mustered at of Wuchow, there will be no danger into that city. The Reds are, how- ever, advancing 'southward, hop- ing to secure foodstuffs and. warm water clothes from the

been arrested and transported by TRIBUTE TO SCOT

plane to Santa Cruz to be judged by a military tribunal. Reu- Įter.

A message from La Paz yesterday

stated that the President of Bolivia, Dr. Daniel Salamanen, his two daugh iters, the President-Elect, Senor Tamayo, and the Minister of War, Senor Erriqua Hertzog, were reported

WAR HEROES

St. Andrew's Wreath

At Cenotaph

A wreath was this morning laid

richest Kwangs! city.

WHOLE WORLD

LISTENS IN TO ROYAL WEDDING

to have been seized by rebel troops at the Cenotaph by the Chieftain Science Brings Empire

in the Chaco-Boreal region where the lof St. Andrew's Society, Mr. A. S. President went to change the high, MacKichan, and Mr. D. S. Robb, command of the army owing to the in memory of those Scots who fell failure against the Paraguayons.

during the war.

Others present were Mr. A. L

CREDIT CONTROL IN Shields; Mr. D. S. Rabb, Mr. B.

GERMANY

To Altar

ARCHBISHOP'S TRIBUTE

London, To-day. Wylle, Mr. N. M. Currie, Mr. K. §. No wedding has been attended Morrison, Mr. H. R. Forsyth, Mr. by such a vast company, of wit- E. M. Bryden, and Mr. A. Steven-nesses-as-was-that of H.-H. the Duke of Kent to Princess Marina of Greece, which, in the presence

Recommended By Bankson.

Committee

Berlin, To-day. Drastic control of credit in-

RAILWAY SMASH AT WORMLEY

stitutions in Germany by the Gov Level Crossings Queried

ernment is recommended in the re-

port of the committee of enquiry into banking, presided over by Dr. Huge Schacht, President of the

Reichsbank.

In Parliament

of an august and distinguished

congregation, was solemnised in Westminster Abbey yesterday.

Vast multitudes of people, who throughout the route of the wed- ding procession, followed the ser- vice in the Abbey in hushed silence as it was broadcast from scores of outdoor loudspeakers, Asked in Parliament yester-and in millions of homes, not only

London, To-day.

A conference which will centre. Likely To Strike Hoihow firstly, on stabilisation of curren- On Present Track cies; secondly, on the revival of

It declares that it is necessary day whether, in view of this in Britain but throughout the inter-nation movements of goods

The typhoon is situated in to form credit control and office week's railway accident at the Empire and in many foreign and capital; thirdly, on the about Long. 121 east and Lat. 18 control of all credit institutions to level crossing at Wormley, in ountries, were unseen ganisation of production and mar-

wit authoriza- which the engine-driver and nesses who joined in the service. keting; and fourthly, on the inter- north, moving north-west, accord- compel them to secure

In his brief address at the con- that they be adequately solvent.take measures to abolish leveljclusion of the ceremony, the Arch- Reuter.

crossings, the Transport Minis-bishop of Canterbury, who con- ter, Mr. L. Hore Belisha, explain-ducted the service, said that as a ed that the road across the rail-result of a new and marvellous in way at this place was not a pub-vention of science the whole nation lic one, but a private farm track and Empire had become wedding

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that the distributing trade quite Oxford meet Cambridge in the national transportation problem, to a report from the Manlla Ob-tion for operations to guarantee fireman lost their lives, he would ficient tea was not being released unjustifiably feared that suf- annual match at Twickenham on United Press, per S. E. Lavy and

and that they would be short of

supplies. As a result, they had

Tuesday, December 11.

started buying heavily, leading SAAR PLEBISCITE

to a rise in the price level, which

appeared to draw out Invisible

stocks and also attracted. teas from other countries.

(Continued on page 9.)

League Will Discuss Problem Next Month

London, To-day.

Company.

TROOPSHIP'S STORY STAY Dorsetshire Arrives And Leaves This Morning

servatory at 8.15 am. to-day.

·

On its present track it is likely to strike Hoihow, south of the Co- long. It is, however, still over 600 miles south-east of Hainan

Island.

Since 3.15 p.m. yesterday it has changed its course from west- north-west to north-west.

'WEATHER FORECAST:

ZEPPELIN HANGAR

· NEAR TOKYO

Purchase Negotiations Taken For Granted

Tokyo, Nov. 26. HUGE SILVER SHIPMENT The League of Nations has been H.M. TroopshipDorsetshire,

Negotiations for the purchase of TO CANADA convened for December 5 to begin which arrived from Shanghat this The anticyclone is stationary à Zeppelin dirigible from Germany discussions of the arrangements morning, carrying a battalion of the over China and Manchuria, and for the establishment of a Man- Montreal, To-day-The largest for the Saar Plebiscite, which takes Queen's Own Regiment, left for has increased in intensity, prea chot silver shipment to reach Montreal, place in January. At Its conclusion England and intermediate ports at sure remaining "highest to the day comprising 740,000 ounces, bas ar- the Council will have before it the 11 am, carrying various details north-west of Shangtung.

The suff rived hero to file, December deli- memorandum received from the from the Colony,

typhoon la situated less than 100 veries, bringing the total sliver Yugoslavian Government in refer Among those who left by the miles south-south-east licensed for values on the Canadian ence to the incidents connected troopshi CPL W T Camp-moving north-west commodity exchanges to 2,214,858 with the assassination of King Bell, the Hong ong Area and cast, according to bances United Press, per S. E. Alexander at Mardellles last month, tính

this Levy and Company Pieko Milane

Teast winds, fresh

-British Wireless Service.

who is on his way Home

Manila,

bserva north

Japan 'airship - service: ¡to- red to have progressed

the Japanese pio Athe heme to

PROVINCE STATUS SOUGHT

(Continued on page·9.), UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASE IN AMERICA

South-West Africa May Washington, To-day-The Secre

Join Union

Windhoek, To-day.

tary of the American Federation of Labour, Mr. William H. Green, has reported that there are 10,672,000

islature has adopted, unemployed in America in October, otes to 6, a motion re as compared with 10,122,000 in

that South-west Africa October

be administered as a fifth

of the Union of South

that business activity per cent. less than in Octo

subject to the provisions ber last yeu United Press, per S.

League mandate-Reuter Ex Levy and Company