PRICE OF SILVER.
EFFECT ON ECONOMIC
SITUATION..
."
LORD PASSFIELD WATCHING EVENTS WITH ANXIETY,
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Loxous, fune 5.
In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. H. Ramsbotham (Conservative, Lancaster), drew attention to the fall in the price of silver, which was.prejudicing the economic situa- tion in certain parts of the British Empire.
Hong Kong on a Gold Basis? Mr. Ramshotham asked whether the Secretary of State for the Colonics proposed to consider plac ing Hong Kong on a gold basis and of tempororily assisting those civil servants who were paid on a silver basis. "
Parliamentary Mr. W.
Lune, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, replied that Lord Pass field, the Secretary of State, had been watching events with some Anxiety.
Gommission's Report May Furnish Valuable Material.
""
:
The results of the inquiry by the Commission appointed by the Governor of Hong Kong raight be expected to furnish valuable mate- rial for the fullest consideration of the problem by the Secretary of
State and bis advisers,
Mr. Lunn pointed out that public servants in Hong Kong were al rendy receiving increased compen- Mation.
ZINA AND SILVER
SLUMP.
GOVERNMENT ADOPTING
MEASURES.
(THROUGH BLUTER'S AGRICY.]
NANKING, June 0. The Central Daily News, an off- cial organ, states that during the next two or three days the Nation- alist, Government is adopting men- ́sures to deal with the present silver situation.
Cancellation of Gold Export Embargo. Details of the draft proposal are withheld," but it is stated that it includes the cancellation of the gold export embargo, temporary cessa-
Regulation of Amount of Silver on Market.
LABOUR MINISTRY
RESHUFFLED.
NEW APPOINTMENTS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
The following in the official list of the Ministerial changes
Secretary of State for the Dominions: The Right Hon. Mr. J. H. Thomas,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1930.
INDIA'S PEACE.
RESOURCES FOR PRE- SERVATION SUFFICIENT,
{THNOGON SKUTER'S AGENCY,]
LONDON, June 6.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Wedgwood Bent replied to Sir Arthur Chamberlain that the re- sources at the disposal of the Indian Government for the pre- Lord Privy Seal: Mr. Vernon
servation of internal and external Hartshorn.
Minister of Agriculture: The RC Peace were sufficient. Hon. Dr. C. Addison.
State for Secretary of Colonies: Lord Passfeld.
the
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture Earl de la Warr (formerly Under-Secretary for Wars.
Under-Secretary for War: Lord
Marley,
Parliament Secretary to the Mines Mr. Departments
E. Shinwell (formerly Financial Secretary to the War Office).
Financial Secretary to the War Office: Mr. Stephen Sanders.
Minister of Agriculture's Resignation.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] The letter is published which Mr. Noel Buxton addressed to the Prime Minister in which he stated. that he was reluctantly compelled by ill-health to resign his sent and
POLICE RAID CONGRESS.
WAR COUNCIL COMMITTEE ARRESTED,
"
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BONDAY, June 6. Three hundred police armed with lathis and 30 with firearms under 20 European police officers sur. rounded the Congress headquarters for their third raid since civil disobedience was launched.
Six members of the war council of the Congress Committee were arrested, including the president, were Jeshi, and the documents seized, including the Congress bul- tin, which was published in spite of its prohibition.
A
RACE FOR THE OAKS.
WON BY ROSE OF ENGLAND.
(THROUGH AKWILX'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, June 6, The race for the Oaks resulted as follows:--
1
3
Rose of England Wedding Favour. ............ 2. Micmac
Fifteen.
Won by ran.
three lengths, with two lengths separating the second and third.
The betting was:-7 to 1 agst. Rose of England, 33 to 1 agst. Wedding Favour, and 33 to 1 agst.
Micmac.
CHANNEL TUNNEL.
"GOVERNMENT AGAINST IT.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Lesbos, June 8,
An official Commission last March
reported in favour of the construc- tion of the Channel Tunnel, and it
was rumoured on May 30. that the Committee on Imperial Defence had decided against the tunnel en economic and strategie grounds.
In the House of Commons to-day, the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, announced that the Government had decided against the tunnel. He declined to state
circulate a White Paper in this to atk to be released from his AFRIDIS ENTER PESHAWAR. the reasons, saying that he would responsibilities.
connection.
In reply, Mr. MacDonald said he was greatly troubled to know Mr. Buxton's health would not enable him to carry on the Ministry of Agriculture, and added: "In asking His Majesty to accept your resigna tion we will not forget we owe to you the establishment of an institu tion for labour workera and the creation of many divisions of the Ministry of Agriculture which has laid the foundation for many schemes for home-grown produce. For these and other services agricul ture is deeply indebted to you."
A Peerage was conferred upon Mr. Buxton by the King this week, being included in the list of Hin Majesty's birthday honours."
Mr. Ben Turner Released. Mr. Ben Turner, writing to the Prime Minister, said: "The Coal Bill is practically out of the way, and after eleven months of hard, worry- ing work I ask you shortly to release me from the position of Secretary for Mines. I thank you for having given me the opportunity of serving your Government. It is an honour I fully appreciate, and I deeply regret asking you to relieve ine of "my office."
Mr. MacDonald, replying, accept- tion of transactions on the Shanged with regret Mr. Turner's resigna- hai Gold Bar Exchange and the tion, adding: The tremendous adoption of an "imaginary" gold amount of work pressing upon us from all sides makes life very hard, standard.
and whether we like it or not neces- sitates sacrifices in some directions in order that we may concentrate what influence we have in the best I hope, Another report is to the effect and most effective way. that the Government and the Cen-lthough the services you have tral Bank of China may buy up already rendered to the Labour all the imports of har silver so that movement have extended over a the Government may regulate the great number of years, that you will be able to continue them for a very amount of silver on the market.
long time yet."
LONDON - SINGAPORE ! TELEPHONE SERVICE,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
U.S. TARIFF BILL. AN "UNCONSIDERED. MEASURE."
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
LONDON, June 6. In the House of Commons, reply- ing to Mr. D. G. Somerville, who
WASHINGTON, June 6. drew attention to the telephone Warnings from the commercial facilities between London. and bodies in various countries that Java, Professor Lees-Smith said the enactment of the present Tariff that the question of establishing Bill will lead to retaliation have a wireless telephone service be provoked the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the tween London and Bingapore was
eing considered, "but it will be House of Representatives to declare Fome considerable time before. I that foreign nations resorting to shall be in a position; to make a reprisals will find them unprofit
able. definite statcinent on the subject."
WORLD'S TIN PRODUCTION. SCHEME TO CLOSE DOWN MINES FOR TWO MONTHS. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Lorbox, June 6. It is understood that the special: Committee nominated by the Tin Producers' Association to accelerate. the restriction programme, is con sidering a scheme to concentrate the bulk of the 20 per cent, curtail
NEW YORK, June 6. The Committee of the Importers' and Exporters' Association have telegraphed begging President Hoover to veto the Bill as on "un- considered meastire."
(THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.]
PESHAWAR, June 6. Considerable forces of Afridis entered the Peshawar district with the intention of attacking the
cantonments.
Reasons for its Veto.
LONDON, June 6." A White Paper says that the Channel Tunnel was rejected owing to the element of doubt about the feasibility of its construction, the weakness of the economic case, the
MUSSOLINI'S FALL OF CHANGSHA. SUPERSTITION THAT
SUCCESSOR..
*CONTINUATION OF
DICTATORSHIP,
(THROUGH BLUYER'S AGENCY.)
ROME, June 5. It is understood that Count Ciano, the Minister of Communi- cations, whose son was last month married to Edda Mussolini, the daughter of the Premier, has been placed by the Fascist Grand Coun. cil first on the list of possible auccessors to Signor Mussolini as Head of the Government and Primi Minister.
The list is now being prepared for submission to the King, an case of need.
The decision to continue the post of Head of the Government (which Signor Mussolini created) after Mussolini retires, means virtually continuation of the Dictatorship, because the Head of the Govern ment does not depend on the vote of Parliament, but can only be appointed or removed by the King.
GOLD EXCHANGE.
(Wah Tes Fat Poo.)
LONDON, June 6.
In view of the sensational rise
in the exchange value of gold, the Ministry of Labour and Commerce held a conference with its staff to discuss relief measures.
Some proposals were laid out, which have been submitted to the Ministry of Finance for considera- tion.
If
CITY QUITE PEACEFUL.
[THROWON REUTER'S AGENOT.)
SHANGHAI, June 6. A message from Changsha states that 4,000 Kwangsi troops entered the city today.
The city is quite peaceful
It is reported that Pei Chung Hai- has arrived there, and that Li Tsung Jen is expected shortly,
TSINAN TOTTERING TO ITS FALL?
DIES HARD.
TEMPLE OF SEA GODDESS DRAWS PILGRIMS...
GOVERNMENT CANNOT STOP SUPERNATURAL CULT,
Over 100,000 pilgrims visited the "Temple of the Sea Goddess" in Yuctshing this year. The Canton Government, which has spared no paina during recent years in ite war against superstition, must have been discouraged to learn that the number of pilgrims going to that
THREAT TO HSUCHOW AND shrine was so great this year in
HANKOW,
The position of the Nationalist troops has become once again pre. carious, as Tsinan and Changsha are believed to be on the verge of capture. The loss of these two capitals of Shantung and Hunan will prove a heavy blow to Nan. king, as Hauchow and Hankow will be threatened once the other two cities are in the hands of the rebels. According to a Chinese cable from Hankow, the public in Chang sha, alter the evacuation of Gover- nor Ho Chieu's troops, dispatched representatives to the Ironsides" asking them to enter the city to maintain peace and order. "Ironsides were expected to en- ter the city on Friday evening.
spite of anti-superstition pra. paganda. The following report, appearing in a Chinese paper, gives a vivid description of the scene in the temple on Wednesday last, on the occasion of the birthday of the goddess.
Unusually large numbers of pil- grims came to Yuetshing cn and before Wednesday last from Can- ton, Hong Kong and nearby and remote places throughout Kwang- tung. Yuetshing, a small town ca the West River, mid-way between the Canton and Wuchow, was busiest centre on the occasion. It is due to the existence of the tem- ple that the small town has been made famous and flourishing. The This year's celebration was per- baps the most enthusiastic on re- cord. No fewer than 323 pailou (archways) decorated with green- were erected, in addition to many ers, flowers, coloured silks, etc.; bamboo sheds, on which Chinese orchestras played and theatrical The performances were staged. deafening noise of fire-crackers, the cries of peddlers and the hustle and bustle of the crowds added to the din. The volume of smoke from joss sticks, joss papers, etc., is said to have been as dense as that from a locomotive, and those worship.
A later report says that the van. guard of the Ironsides" have
entered the city.
"Transides TIENTSIN CUSTOMS.
REPOSITORY FOR "NEW
MONEY.
(THEOTOK RZUTER'S AGENCY.) ...
PEPING, June 6.
At the weekly conference of the Press, Chu Ao Hang outlined events in connection with the Cus toms at Tientsin since April 30. wished to retain new money' from the Increased Customs merely to prevent the South from obtain
The Tientsin authorities ing it.
be
In a wire to Nanking, Governor Ho Chien said that tection of his troops had turned over to the and that he had no alternative but to evacuate the city. In conclusion, he begged to allowed to resign all his positions For his failure to defend Hunan,
Ho's troops have withdrawn to Yochow to join the Narking troops under Hsin Ton Jen and Chien Taping in the temple could scarcely breathe. The temple was so crowd- Chun, who have been dispatched to
had waited all day long, could not Hunan to assist in the defence ed that many of the pilgrims, who against the "Ironsides."
get admission
The local villagers refused to join great cost, the long period before He emphasised that Yen Hsi Shan Route Army who were withdrawn in addition to 2,000 incandesceat
them:
The Nanking troops of the 6th from Kwangsi have arrived at Han- kaw on their way to Hunan to co-operate with the troops there. The situation in Hunan has caused concern to the Nanking Government.
the capital expended could fructify, and the small amount of employ- Many of the Afridis withdrew,ment it provided.
The Government, in addition to but gangs remained and destroyed. culverts and filled trees on the economic and military considera-wrote to the Hong Kong & Shang-grave
tions, reviewed the possible diplo strategic roads and then retired.
matic reaction and the Committee Royal Air Force 'planes attacked them, and later a column marched of the Imperial Detence were un oat and engaged the gangs durable to find a single advantage from a military point of view: On the ing the whole of the day.
increase military commitment.
Enemy at the Gate. Reports from Hsuchow indicate that the fall of Tsinan is imminent, the city being pressed upon by the
The nature of the country render. contrary, they found that it would Chinese and foreign bankers who main body of the Shansi troops,
ed their ejection from the district exceptionally difficult.
The troops sustained some casual:
ties.
-INDIAN UNREST.
AERIAL ACTION TAKEN.
THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.]
SIMLA, June 5. There has been some increase in unrest among the northern tribes along the border of the North West Frontier Province, and aerial action has been taken against the tribes and also against the concen- trations of the Haji of Turangzai and his son, which are reported to have increased with the arrival of contingents from Bajaur.
Agitation at Tirah has increased, of and considerable movement Afridi, tribesmen is reported.
Several thousands, carrying red standards, are reported to be ad vancing towards the Peshawar dis trict.
The other tribal districts tre quiet.
INDO-CHINA AFFRAY. ANNAMITE GUARD FIRES ON DEMONSTRATORS.
---་དི;་
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
PARIS, June 5.
GOVERNMENT CALLS. CONFERENCE"
The
There was
In the evening, 30,000 lanterns,
transformed into day. umps, were lit, and night was also a fireworks display.
Some of the more ardent pilgrims bought a bottle of the so-called "sacred water," drawn from a spring in the temple, reputed to be a cure for minor maladies:
It is estimated that over $500,000 was spent by the pilgrims in ob- servance of the occasion.
bai Banking Corporation requesting them not to remit money to Shang- hai, but the Bank was still remitting it. It had been suggested that a committee be formed consisting of would have custody of the funda till the civil war, is over, thus en who have arrived on the worth suring that neither side would. oh bank of the Yellow River.
SITUATION IN TSINAN. tain the money, but Mr. Maze wired foreign Consuls in the city have UNEMPLOYMENT AT HOME. Mr. Bell refusing to agree to the repeatedly requested Han Fu Chu, The Northerners con. the general commanding the Nan- proposal.
JAPANESE DETERMINED TO Bidered that Mr. Maze's attitude" king troops there, to evacuate the Hao has replied that he
KEEP HANDS OFF" was unfair, so the Tientsin authori- city. ties advocated that when the would quit if, as and when neces
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] Peping Government was established sary, and added that the Central [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Government also did not wish to Mr. Maze should not be employed.
Tokyo, June & LONDON, June 5.
Chu Ao Hsiang stated that as involve Teinan in the fighting..
A transport vessel of the Asiatic With Tainanfu apparently destin- The Government's anxiety about soon as a Government is set up it
Petroleum Co. was hit by a shelled to change hands in the next few unemployment is expressed by the Peping. Mr. Maze will be summon
of the cargo on board is believed to watching the situation anxiously, be heavy.
but is determined to maintain a Prime Minister in a letter to theed to Peping as Inspector-General, from the Shansi artillery. The loss days, the Foreign Office here is City Corporation announcing that and if he refused he would be dis
policy of "handa off.” a conference in this connection be missed and a new man appointed. tween representatives of the Gov- The Northern authorities were con ernment and local authorities wil sidering three steps: (1) To move the Customs House to Chinese ter- be held at the Guildhall in June.
ritory in order that Mr. Bell and his staff should move to the new Customs House: (2) if Mr. Bell ENGLAND-AUSTRALIA AIR refuses, dismiss him and appoint a
SERVICE.
AUSTRALIA RAISES IMPORT- ANT CONSIDERATIONS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
new Commissioner: (3) establish Customs House at Tongku, where captains of ships could make a de- daration of the rains of the goods on board their ships and the duty be
On both the Lunghai and Peping Hankow Railway lines, the situa tion remains sluggish, Clashes arc, however, reported to have occurred arly every evening.
On Thursday evening, there was an incident at Hsiakwan, outside Nanking City, causing much dis- order. A riot was started by over 100 wounded soldiers, of whom several were seriously wounded by the garrison troops. was soon quelled.
4
The trouble
collected accordingly. This would prevent the foreign Customs officials at Shanghai and others HUNAN SITUATION CRITICAL. CANBERRA, June 5. helping the South by giving papers. In the House of Parliament to before sailing from Shanghai. Yen
· [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] day, Mr. Scullin, the Prime Minis-Hai Shan always desired peacefu! ter, said that during his forth and legal methods, as he was most
CANTON, June 6. The military situation in Hunan coming visit to England for the anxious not to destroy the unity of
He had Imperial Conference he would dis- the Customs.
waited is reported to be criticali cuss with Lord Thomson the deve several weeks during which money The Ironsides and the Kwangsi lopment of the England-Australia was still being remitted to Mr. T troops under General Pei Chung
V. Soong.
If the unity of the Hai yesterday formally took posses Customs is destroyed the responsion of Changsha, the capital of sibility will rest upon M. Maze the province. and Mr. Bell."
air service. Government was
The Australian
A message from Dabat, Indo-turally sympathetic to the plan, but many important considerations China, states that a serious affray must be taken into account, in- occurred at Phuiam, in Chelon Pro- cluding that of finance. vince. an Annamite guard being forced to fire on 2,000 demonstra tora.
Two of the latter were killed and
17 wounded.
STREET - BRAWLS IN BERLIN.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]
-BERLIN-June-5- Serious street fights occurred here to-day between the police and Communist demonstrators
The Hunanese forces garrisoning the city retreated northward along the railway towards Yochaw and Wachang.
Tsinanfu is regarded as the sid test of Baron Shidebara's policy of reliance on the Chinese authorities and their assurances of protection for Japanese residents, as opposed to Baron Tanaka's policy in 1927 and 1928 of military expeditions. Hence another Tsinan incident would be a serious blow to the Hamaguchi Cakrinet. Despite the imminence of the city's fall, few Japanese are leaving Tsinan, nearly. the entire colony of 2,300 remain-
g.
some 40 miles north of Kwangtung. They were supposed to follow.cn the heels of the enemy into Chang- sha and help Ho Chien's. men to crush them. And such would have have been the course of their march had it not been for the fact that General Wong Shiu Hung and his Anny were still lurking on the Kwangsi-Hunan border and ready to march eastward to Shinkwab. and fight their antagonists from be- bind in co-operation with their allies. It is because of the fear of their retreat being cut off by Wong, General Ho Chien, Commander Shiu Hung's man if they ventured in-Chief of the, Hunanese forces, is too far from Kwapgtung, their bass. so discouraged at his failure to of supply, that the Cantonese, keep the Kwangi-"Ironside" coali forces are unwilling to proceed to tion in check that he has wired to Changsha to meet the enemy. But Nanking asking that he be relieved sharp eye is being kept on the of certain military and civil respon movements of General Wong Shin sihikities. He even wants to resign Hung, and unless he can be dis his post of Governor, complaining posed of, it is not likely that Can- The bonds will bear interest of that his subordinates, like Colonel ton can offer effective help to four per gent.. and will be redeem- | Liu King Sui, have not been doing | Hunan in its present task of com- ed in eight instalments.
The lone will be secured on the
Australia's share of the subsidy
SINEWS OF WAR. for the Singapore to Australia. link of the line would amount' to £600,000, spread over a period of LOAN BONDS TO BE ISSUED. five years.
(Wah Tu Tai Pao).
"
EX-KING FERDINAND.
VISIT TO DUTCH INDIES.
PHROUGH ŽLUTKEʼN AGEBOT,]
AMSTERDAM, June 15. The Handelsblad learns that ex- King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who al police and demontrators were Ornithological Congress here, in is now attending incognito the wounded.
Street Sghting between Com, tends shortly, to visit the Dratch
Indies. RUGBY, June B. manists and Fascists and also be inta. conference was held at Liver. Itween the police and members of
BRITISH AERIAL SCHEME. LINKING MIDLANDS WITH LONDON AND CONTINENT. ".
[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVIOL]
a much shorter space of time in-poor tout) transide gene
Both sides fired shots, and sever-
stead of spreading it over a full put forward by the Imperial Air-ly been getting more frequent.
Fifteen people have been killed year as originally planned ways for linking up the great Mid-
land centres with London and the in such affrays in Germany during the past month, and the Bavarian Continent.
Government has forbidden · all' street
The scheme in offect will mean the closing down of plants all over. the world for two months.********** It is proposed that the service be It is stated that the scheme, in run twice weekly throughout June, order to be effective, must become July and August, to test the de- operative immediately. An official mand for quick transport to announcement in this connection is Belgium, France, Holland and
Germany, expected next week.
demonstrations by ́ ́ ́any political party which has a uni- form,
Similar orders will probably be
issued in all other States.
"ARRIVAL" ÁT" SEVILLE.
THROUGH REUTEE'S AGENCY.]
MIDAID, June 3. The Graf Zeppelin arrived at Seville at 2 o'clock this afternoon, successfully completing the journey across the Atlantic.
PERING, June 6. Yen Hui Shan has decided to issue loan boade to the value of $4,000,000 to meet the war ex- penses.
new additional taxes.
NANKING DENIED JAPANESE INSTRUCTORS,
TEROUGH.REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ارام
TOKYO, June 6. Owing to the devolopment of the military situation in China adverse to the Nanking Government, the War Office here has suspended the arrangement to send military in structors to the Nanking War College.
Little or no resistance was offer ed to the invaders.
their beat.N
batting against the Kwangai-"Iron- No reply has been forthcoming side" combination. from Nanking, "...
When the Ironsides" and Meanwhile, Chang Fat Fui, leader Kwangsi troops quietly klipped out of the Ironsides," has formed a of Kwangsi for Human and Kangsi, Kovernment of Hunan, appointing they proceeded in three routes himself as Governor of the pro- under the respective commands of vince. He is at present reported Chang Fat Fui. Pei Chung Hai and th be concentratene bis ferres in Wana in Hanoke out wwers of pangha, prepire THEN CHEN y Per tory to march northward," with | Chung Msi started first in different Yockow and Wachang as their directions and Wong Shin Hung remained behind to fortile the rear. obiective.
The three divisions of Cantonese It was their plan that Wong Ship forces dispatched to Hunan in par Hang should lead his men to Cher
"Ironsides " and chow to attack the Cantonese snit of the Kwangsi troops are still tarrying troops from behind in case they in Chenchow, a city in Huma, should press too much on their
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