1934-12-26 — Page 9

NANKING'S DEBT TO CANTON

SUGGESTED METHOD OF REPAYMENT

SANCTION ASKED FOR BIG BANKNOTE ISSUE

IFrom Our Own Correspondent

Canton, Monday,

Mr. Ou Fang-pu, Provincial Com. missioner of Finance in Kwang- tung, und Dr. Wang Chung-hui the mediator Are Canton-Nanking

Ningpo, scheduled to arrive al Chekiang Province, this morning| en route to Feng Hus to see Mar. shal Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission, with respect to the financial rela tions between Canton and Nank- ing.

At Shanghai Commissioner Ou had a lengthy exchange of views with Dr. H. f. Kung, Minister of Finance, who suggested that Mr. Ou should 500 Marshal Chiang Kai-shek at his native home in Feng Hua. The final decision will. rest with Marshal Chiang as to the refund of the huge sums due to Canton by Nanking during 1926- 1929, and in regard other financial as well as political questions.

It is reported that Canton wants Nanking to repay the billion dol- lars to be used as silver reserve of the big dollar banknotes to be cir- culated here. If Marshal. Chiang sees no way to repay the huge loan, he will be asked to sanction. the

pledge the Central revenues security, it is understood.

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KATHLEEN BURKE

issue of the new banknotes and ACTRESS WHO PLAYED

"PANTHER WOMAN" GETS DIVORCE

Dr. Wang Chung-hui will return to Shanghai on Tuesday and will)· board a steamer for Europe some time next month. He has decided'

Los Angeles. Miss Kathleen to resume bis judgeship with the Permanent Court of International Burke, the 21-year-old Chicago girl, Justice at The Hague in Holland, who played the "Panther Woman

la a film version of H. G. Wells's; REDS IN KWEICHOW hook, "The Island of Dr. Morgau,"

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Yiao's troops should be removed to

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1934

THOMAS SEEKS NEW To-day's Short Story.

SILVER ACTION

China's Protests May Curb Administration"

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAT

Senator Elmer Thomas of

CHIMERA

By Claire D. Pollexfen

HE warm September day was ber the heavy sound of high-load- drawing on tranquilly to-fed harvest wain lumbering along be-

is consulting.other advocates for wards evening. As far as the hind him-te short, unintelligible increased use of silver in currency eye could see the countryside lay cries of the man urging his horses early in January, in the hope of in a mellow haze of golden sun--the cloying fragrance of ripening! agreeing upon a programme of new light the reaped fields, the blackberries.

He rode slowly, his weather-har- leglalation with a rational infla-meadows where cattle grazed, 'the tionary effect which will be lacking tawny crested woods, and the pla-dened face deep furrowed, his eyes the usual damaging results of in- cid winding river were all steeped pensive as the eyes of one of his in the beneficent amber glow. own kine. He wanted to think, to flation.

He said that increased prices and Even the squat stone farmhouse be able to tell Katherine clearly across the and concisely exactly what had hap- greater currency circulation could which looked out be achieved on the same controlled lonely valley seemed to have pened.

taken on a transient beauty as He hoped she would not be in one basis through silver legislation.

However, unoffelal experts opin- the westoring sun gilded its cold of her moods just because it was el that the Administration will be grey walls and spread a lustre now nearly six o'clock and she had over the rambling outbuildings expected him back in time for mid- cautious about further silver logia-

that surrounded it.

day dinner! Iation in view of China's protests The warm September day and the slow manner it has proceed-i

drawing on tranquilly towards ed in its current silver purchasing evening. As far as the eye could programme. United Press Der S.

see the countryside lay in a mellow S. Levy and Company,

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grazed, the towny crested woode, and the placid winding river were all steeped in the beneficent amber Iglow. Even the squat atone farm- thouse which looked out across thel

He might try to turn her atten- lonely valley seemed to have taken tion from himself, of course, by re-j on a transient beauty as the wes-marking as soon as he walked in- tering sun gilded its cold grey walls to the house; "Well, Kath, poor and spread a lustre over the rambl Mick's gone but like as not ing outbuildings that surrounded it. she'd reply that it was good rid-| SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

New York, Yesterday. Edward Halsey, riding his rickety dance to bad rubbish, and ask him. Wall Street expects a very dull'old bicycle down the lane that led in that crisp, sharp way of herd,

Favourable, to the farm, felt as if he were see why he was so late. pre-holiday session. factors were that the New York, ing for the first time the splendour ·Probably she'd refuse to listen Times business index was 82.1 as of this land on which generations to anything he might have to say against 78:7 last week and 77.1 of his fore-fathers had worked for about Mick at all she had always for last year, the highest since late their living. He felt solemn and disliked the old man, though June, and that the Federal Reserve he felt happy. He felt awed, too, ward had never been able to un- Bank reported bank debits on indi-because he had never realised until derstand why. For the shabby, vidual accounts standing at $8-to-day, when he stood looking down down-at-heel Irishman, who travell 117,000,000 as against $6,082,000,- at old Mick the pedlar lying deaded about the country selling cottons 000 last week, and $6,333,000,000 on an iron cot in the work-house and shoelaces, buttons and pins, and at the end of last year. The only infirmary, how fine it was to be whatever else composes the pack unfavourables factor was that the alive; to be able to enjoy the warmth of a pedlar, was a harmless soul.

broad upper lip, his stub of a nose,

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per S. E. Levy and Company, She said:

sales tax was decreasing the New of the sunshine and breathe deep He was ugly, to be sure, with his MONOPOLE

"He said everyone in Hollywood the east to intercept the bandits. was a half-wit, and if I stayed in After the meeting, General Wang Hollywood I would become a half- proceeded to Machangping to wit, too. direct operations.

"He wanted to take me to a farm

HIS MAJESTY'S CHRISTMAS BROADCAST

(Continued From Page 1) It is reported that 16 regiments in Oregon away from films for ever. under General Wang Chah-lieh are "He thought a woman's place After special greetings to the Do- now massing in the arcs of was in the home, and he wanted minions and Colonies he assured the Chung-on, Sie-bing, Machangping, to put me in my place. I wouldn't peoples of India of "my constant Yiuchow and Chin-yuen awaiting stand for it."

care for them and my desire that the Red outlaws. Three regiments Miss Burke won a national con- they too may ever more fully realisel under General How Tae-tam have test to find a girl suitable for the and value: their own place in the reached Wu-kong River and those part in the Wells film which was unity of the one family."

of General Yiao Kwok-tsai on their called "The Island of Lost Souls."

way towards Sie-bing. The Kwang-

si pursuing corps are also push-

He concluded by saying that it would be a full reward for the long and sometimes anxione labours of

ing towards Li-ping on the border NATIONAL UNITY IN CHINA his reign if he might be regarded in

of Kweichow in hot pursuit of the!

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the true sense as the head of a

Reuter.

It was queer to think of old Mick and wide, ungainly mouth—and he as dead. Queer, too, to realise that was none the handsomer for shav- because of it he himself was find-ing himself so seldom or for letting ing a new pleasure in the common-his lank, grey hair go unshorn so, place things that had been familiar that it fell untidily from under his to him as long as he could remem-shapeless hat and over the greasy

| collar of his big frieze coat.

there was nothing evil about the

FAMOUS SOLDIER

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Brig-Gen. C. D. Bruce RAISED FIRST CHINESE REGIMENT

London, Monday.

MAN.

But

Yet Katherine Halsey had been horrified when, some two or three

band say he had given Mick the years ago, she had heard her hus-

packie permission to live in the empty bothy at the end of the rick- yard.

mad?"

"What! bring that old robber' right here to our doorstep-and not The death has occured of a neighbour within call?" she had great and wide-spread family-Brigadier-General C. Dalrymple exclaimed. "Ted Halsey, are you

Bruce, C.B.E., F.R.G.S.

"What's mad about it? There's Brigadier-General Clarence Val- rympla Bruce was 72 years of age, the bothy going to ruin, and the having been born at North Berwick Poor wretch with no place to sleep! in 1862. Educated at Haileybury, nights and winter coming on." he passed through Sandhurst into "The man's a rogue," Katherine A message from Khabarovsk on the Army and was gazetted to the had told him, "a rogue and a vaga- Monday stated that Soviet officials Duke of Wellington's Regiment in bond!" had arrested a Japanese officer and 1882.. Mr. Ou Fang-pu announced his Manchu soldier-servant on the

escaping marauders. The van- (Continued from Page 1.) guard directed by General Liao Lew has reached Chin-ping and Meanwhile, it is learned in effected a juneture with the brig-well-informed quarters that Dr. ade of. Kweichow forces under Wang Chung-hui is expected to Brig. Gen. Chow Fong-jen. return to Shanghai sometime to-. In order to speedily clear up the day from Fenghua, where he had retreating bandits, General Wang gone to report to Marshal Chiang Chah-lich has requested forces of Kai-shek the result of his mission different routes to move to Kwei- to the South. chow to assist in the suppression movement. Central Press.

Reuter.

ESPIONAGE ALLEGED

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He served in India from 1888 ta'

"There's some who say he belongs to one of the best families in Ire

left home years ago because of a love affair or maybe it was poli- Itica? Anyway, he's old and he's

of Sir Francis Grenfell in Cairo during the Atbara campaign. In: The officer was stated to be taking 1898, in co-operation with General photographs with a film camera, while his servant was making notes, Sir Hamilton Bower, K.C.M.G., he ear destitute, and I've told him The can have the bothy. You don't want me to go back on my given word, do you?

The officer was also stated to be in possession of a map of the Sino-So- vlet frontier.

SAAR RUMOURS, DECRIED

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raised the Chinese Regiment at Wei Hal Wel himself.commanding the regiment for six years,⠀

Katherine, shrugging, her shoúl- He was dangerously wounded in 1900 In the fighting round Tientsin dera, had turned from him as from for the relief of the legations at a natural-born fool. "Have your Peking. He subsequently became own way, then," was all she said. Commissioner of the International:

So Ted had his way and the gang-

Police at Shanghai (1911-1914)

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yesterday that he is proceeding bank of the river Ussuri, at a point 1989 and subsequently on the staf land," Ted countered, "and that he to Fenghua shortly to deliver an 20 miles to the south of the town of SOUTH-WEST MAY HAVE

autographed letter from Mr. Iman. Chen. Chi-tang. TO AID KWEICHOW

OUTSIDER THWARTS (Continued From Page 1)

-PRISON-BREAK- After repeated requests of Gen- eral Wang Chia-lieh, Chairman of (Continued from Page 1.) the Kweichow Provincial Govern- ment, the advance guard of the The Police were equally prompt Kwangai troops have reached in taking action, the prison being Yungkiang Eastern Kweichow in surrounded with a cordon of Euro- pursuit of the Communists, who pean and Chinese reserves. A have evacuated north-western simultaneous general search of A thorough investigation showed

forces during the Revolution of ters in the disused cottage where Kwangsi. Further advance is held the goal revealed that a cell, pre-that alarmist rumours circulating in and was in command of the defenceling old tallyman took up his quar in more prosperous times farm ser- up until definite instructions arviously occupied, was empty. The the Saar in regard to alleged inci-

prisoner who was eventually located dents involving troops of the inter-1911 to 1918, relinquishing this post a on the roof of the printing shop, wag national force were baseless; on the on appointment as Adviser in Folice ants had been housed. But no Affairs to the Chinese Government.harm came to the Halseys because stating caught, and placed in a new cell. contrary the troops, particularly the

He travelled widely in Asia and of him. To be sure, there

times when a chicken would disap- that the Central authorities He had somehow managed to climb British, were establishing cordial Europe and was the author of a

relations with the inhabitants,--|

number of books on travel and pear mysteriously—and eggs vanish Reuter.

occasionally from the nests, but no aporting subjects.

one could ever prove that Mick.was the culprit, though everyone WORLD COTTON PRODUCTION DECREASE REPORTED

quick to put the blame on him.

It wasn't often, though, that he was to be seen hanging about the farm: Gentrally he was up and away by daybreak, with the shape- less black pack slung over. his shoul ders and his long, threadbare coat of grey Irish frieze flapping against

rive from Nanking.

A report published In Iocal official

paper

have permitted the

mobilisation to the roof of his cell and had re- of the Kwangtung and Kwangai moved the tiles.

forces for dlapatch to Kwelchow is

ot confirmed. 'General

Wang

Chia-lieh is in close relations with

Personal Pars

Canton, whose authorities are likely Mr. Edwin S. Cunningham,

to assist him in ousting the Red American Consul-General In Shang- New York To-day-The Cotton desperadoes Irrespective of the de- hai and Dean of the consular body Exchange has estimated world cision of Nanking.

in that city arrived in the Colony production at 22,691,000 bales Kwelchow is a happy hunting on Sunday by the ss. Tibadak, on against 25,827,000 last year-United ground for the Communists, owing an inspection tour of South China, Press, per S. E. Levy and Com to large quantity of rice and salt

pany.

MILITARY OFFICER IN CAR SMASH

Lieut. Ramus Hurt

were

Was

-Lieutenant Ramus, R.A., was re- to be found there. The provincial Mr. Abbas Khan was elected al

moved to the Government Civil his heels. force alone is not strong enough to trustee of the Suuni Section of the U.S. FACTORY EMPLOYMENT Hospital on Sunday morning, suffer Many a time Halsey, returning deal with the outlawa, and the Muslim Community of Hong Kong

ing from a cut on the forehead, from the sheep folds in the lambing question is whether Nanking or at an extraordinary general meet New York, To-day. Roper's sustained in a motor accident in season or after tending a sick cow through the night, would catch a Kwangsi troops will enter that pro-ing of the Society, held at the states that industrial production Stubbs Road, vince.

Mosque, Shelly Street, last Sunday. for the last fiscal year Increased The car, an Austin Seven, driven glimpse of old Mick setting off a 24 per cent, while factory em- by Mr. Railton, of Messrs. Jardine, grey shadow of a man fading into New York to-day The Conference New York, to-day-The Bocurities' ployment gained 26 per cent and Matheson and Co, Ltd, skidded and the morning mists. And always he Board has reported that the November Ecomonic Commission has ruled that payrolls 48 per cent. United turned over Mr. Rallton escaped wore the heavy frieze overcoat and business improvement equalled the all listed companies must publish their Frees, per S. E. Levy and Com- uninjured, but the car was badly the ancient felt hat August level-United Press per S. E. officers salaries.United Press per 8,

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