HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY MARCH 2, 1932.
CARNAGE UNCHECKED AT SHANGHAI
IMPORT DUTIES
BILL
COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO ADVISE GOVERNMENT
(THROUGH ZENTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, March 1. Sir George Mays has been ap- pointed Chairman. at 2 salary £4,000 annually, of the Com- mittee to advise the Govern- ment in the application of tariffs under the new Import Duties Bill, which operates from to-day. Sir Sydney Chapman and Sir George Allan Powell, pia colleagues, will receive £3,000 each,
TARIFF ERA IN BRITAIN BEGINS
"IMPORT DUTIES BILL BECOMES LAW.
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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Feb 20 The House of Lords to-day passe Mr. Neville Chamberlain's Import Duties Bill by 120 votes to 12.
The Bill later received the Royal Assent.
The Free Trade era in Britain is now it an end after a struggle. by the Protectionists for ever thinly
услга.
The new duties come into effect as from midnight
Lord Snowden Opposes BRITISK WINELESS SERVICE. 1
REGRY, Feb. 20. Chief interest in the debate WRA centred in a speech by Ford Snow den, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, in exercise of his rights un- der the Cabinet's agreemont to dif fer on the tariff issue, vigorously opponed the Bilk
bain had
In the course of his speech, ho said there was no evidence that Bri
1 pormanent adverse balance of trade.
The infallible barometer to show whether there Wha an "adverse balance was the exchange value of erling, which was not falling. It has been stable for the last few months and was showing a tendency to rise. He submilded that no case had been made out for a depar ture from the present fiscal system and that the claims made for the Bill were unjustified.
CONDITIONS IN INDIA
"RED SHIRT" PLOT COLLAPSING
[BRITISH WIRELESH, SERVICE,]
RuanÝ, Reb. 20.
Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for.
India, in the House of Commons,
PEACE PROSPECTS DISAPPEARING
CHINA'S DEBT TO LEAGUE
NEARLY 10,000,000 GOLD, FRANCS
[THROсan "EUTER'S AGENCY,]
LONDON, Feb. 20,
and Japan vis-a-vis the Longus of The Bnancial situation of China.
Nations was explained in the Rain Anthony Eden in reply to Sir House of Commons today by Cap- Alfred Knox
The Foreign Under-Secretary stand that to the end of 1931, the total respective contributions of Cliina and Japan due towards the League's expenses were China: 14,900,000 gold franes; Japan: 17,200,000 gold francs.
The Japanese contributions had all been paid.
Between 1922 and 1920, China's payments became 9,708,000 gold franes in arrears. The Eleventh Assembly decided that this amount was payable in equal instalments over a period of twenty years. Four hundred and eighty-one thousand gold francs had since been paid, leaving 0,20,000 francs still out- standing.
China had also paid 718,000 gold franes on account of her contribu tion of 1,438,000 in respect of 1931. China's indebtedness to the Lengue was therefore 9,947,000 gold' francs.
Sir Alfred Knox: Does a country which has not paid ite subscrip tions exercise the fullright of mom- bership.
Captain Eden Yes,
UNEMPLOYED IN GERMANY
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POSITION GROWING.
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SERIOUS
(Reuter's Special Service.)
BERLIN, March 1. » of the Binaller towns in Germany During the past fortnight fifteen. havo ecased the payment of their liabilities owing to the continuously growing number of unemployed.
in the provinces of Pomerania, and The situation is particularly bad Silesia,
CINEMA FIRE IN RUSTCHUK
FIFTEEN PEOPLE RECEIVE
INJURIES
(Renter's Special Servic:)
Виробни
Rrreaux, March 1. Fifteen people, were injured,» in- during a general survey of condi- cluding children, when podie tions in India, said the present stricken spectators jumped from situation was satisfactory. The the gallery to the pit following ai Government of India had acted outbreak of fire in a cinema here. with great judgment and efficiency.
The two film operators fled but In the space of a few weeks, the were later arrested together with "Red Shirt" movement showed the manager, signs of collapsing. In the North West Frontier Province, the No. Rent campaign had virtually come Ho an end, mainly owing to the wisdom of the Governor, Sir Mal- colm Hailey in romedying legiti- mata grievances.
Subversive activities wore on the wane in the greater part of India,
FRANCO-ITALIAN
COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT
(Reuter's Special Service.)
ROME, March 1. An agreement has been reached in the Franco-Italian negotiations for a commercial convention. The convention will be signed shortly.
ONE WOMAN AT A BANQUET-
AND 300 MEN..
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Mrs. C. Turner, Mayor of Greon
BEER STRIKE" IN-
GERMANY
PROTESTS AGAINST TAX
(Reuter's Special Service.)
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BERLIN, Feb. 20. Abeer strike," which at first. was treated as an excellent joke, is now a matter of serious concern for thousands of thirsty Berliners," Even the famous bear restaurants, are now offering their guests lemo- brewers are sending out drays load- nado and soda water while the ed with the hundreds of brewery operatives temporarily unemployed. It is intended to enforce the boy- nott until the Government reduces. the beer tax, which at present it Armly refuses to 30.
ALFONSO WANTS HIS
THRONE
wich, was the only woman among MANIFESTO IN CIRCULATION
more than 300 men at the Lord Ma
yor's banquet to the members of the Court of Common Council of the City of London. at the Mansion House
I was hotla bih embarrassed, "!
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[Renter's Special Service.)
MADRID, Feb. 20. A joint manifesto, apparantly sho told a Press Association repor issued by ex-King Alfonso and Don dar náterwards. This is my first | Alfonso de Bourbon, urging Spani year of offer and I doubt whether ards to work for the restoration of I shall have many such enjoyable the Monarchy, is being circulated evenings during 11,4
privately in Madrid and elsewhere::/
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JAPAN PREPARING FOR
TREMENDOUS ONSLAUGHT
CHINESE PRESS DOUBTS JAPAN'S SINCERITY
JAPAN LANDING WAR MATERIALS AT TIENTSIN
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
AT TANGKU
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Shanghai, March.1, 11.50 p.m.
WHILE GENEVA, IS TALKING OF PEAOK IN THE FAR EAST, THE WAR
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IS GOING ON AS STRONGLY AS EVER, HERE, AND IT APPEARS THAT NOTH- ING IS LESS LIKELY THAT AN EARLY CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES,
-TIERCE FIGHTING HAS BEEN GOING ON ALL DAY ON THE KIANGWAN FRONT AND THE JAPANESE ADMIT HEAVY LOSSES IN GAINING TIVE HUN- " DRED METRES, FIGHTING FOR EVERY INCE, WHILE 712 CHINESE WOUNDED PASSED IN TO THE SETTLEMENT TO-DAY, UNDOUBTEDLY, AS MANY STILL LIE ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
CHAPEI IS COMPARATIVELY QUIET BUT JAPANESE SHELLING CAUSED A TREMENDOUS, FIRE", JUST OUTSIDE THE BORDERS OF THE SETTLEMENT WHICH IS LIGHTING UP SHANGHAI WITH A FIERCE LIGHT,
CARNAGE UNCHECKED. DESCRIBES "THE BATTLEFIELDS. THE JAPANESE ELEVENTH DÍVISION HAS LANDED AND IS READY FOR OPERATIONS AGAINST THE CHINESE LEFT FLANE AND ANOTHER DIVISION IS COMING.
·JAPANESE. WAR-MACHINE GATHERING STRENGTH
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THE JAPANESE WAR-MACHINE APPEARS TO BE GATHERING FOR A TREMENDOUS ONSLAUGHT"
STRENGTH
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REFORTS FROM AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES HERE CONFIRM THAT TOKYO WILL NOT AGREE TO A SIMULTANEOUS WITHDRAWAL OF THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE TROOPS AT SHANGHAI AS A PRZEDMETARY TO PEACE TALKS, THEY ARE STILL INSISTING AS A PRELIMINARY CONDITION TO PEACE THAT » THE CHINESE WITHDRAW TWENTY KILOMETRES FROM SHANGHAI AND DE- MOLISH THE WOOSUNG FORTS. THE CHINESE ARE NO MORE WILLING TO AC CEPT THESE TERMS NOW THAN BEFORE THE BIG JAPANESE" OFFENSIVE BEGAN ON FEBRUARY 20,
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QUO TAI CHI CHINESE VICE-MINISTER FOREIGN AFFAIRS, WHEN INTERVIEWED BY BEUTER, SAID THAT JAPAN'S UNWILLINGNESS TO AGREE" TO A SIMULTANEOUS WITHDRAWAL SHATTERS ALL HOPES FOR A PEACE-
OF
FUL SETTLEMENT."
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BELIEF JAPAN IS PLAYING FOR TIME
SHANGHAI, March 1
THE INFORMAL MEETINGS ABOARD H.M.S. KENT IN THE PRESENCE OF ADMIRAL KELLY, WHICH IT 18. BELIEVED MAY PAVE THE WAY FOR AN ULTIMATE SETTLEMENT, HAVE BEEN TERMINATED AND THE PRO- POSALS EVOLVED HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO TOKYO AND NANKING DY THE PARTIES CONCERNED.
NO REPLY IS EXPECTED FROM TOKYO BEFORE TO-MORROW. IT IS RELIABLY STATED THE CHINESE ATTITUDE IS THAT A MUTUAL WITHDRAWAL OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE TROOPS IS ACCEPT- ABLE PROVIDED NEUTRAL POWERS GUARANTEE THAT THE JAPANESE WILL
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NOT ADVANCE AFTER WITHDRAWAL. SIR MILES LAMPSON IS DUE HERE AT 4 P.M. FROM NANKING AND IT IS HOPED HIS INFLUENCE WILL HAVE A FAVOURABLE EFFECT ON ANY FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WHICH SO FAR HAVE BEEN ONLY OF A MOST INFORMAL AND PRELIMINARY NATURE,
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LEADING CHINESE PAPERS EXPRESS DOUBTS AS TO THE SINCERITY OF THE JAPANESE DESIRE FOR PEACE. THE "SHUN PAO SUSPECTING THE JAPANESE ONLY AIM AT GAINING
FLW DAYS' BREATHING SPACE
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WHILE THEY POUR IN RE-INFORCEMENTS ON THE BATTLE FIELD.
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THE SIN WRN PAO EXPRESSES THE OPINION THAT THE DESIRE FOR PEACE CREDITED TO, TOKYO 18 BELIED BY THE THREAT ΤΟ BOMB THE RAILWAYS.
JAPAN'S REFUSAL OF PEACE TERMS
NEW YORK, March 1
ΤΟ AGREE TO
·AND JAPANESE
1 18 ANNOUNCED THAT TOKYO IS NOT PREPARED MUTUAL SIMULTANEOUS WITHDRAWAL OF CHINESE TROOPS FROM SHANGHAI.
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JAPANESE MILITARY STORES FOR TIENTSIN
TIENTSIN, March 1. IT IS AUTHORITATIVELY LEARNED THAT THE SS. TENCHO MARU, FLYING THE JAPANESE · MILITARY FLAG, ARRIVED YESTERDAY AT TANG--
FROM DAIREN WITH LARGE QUANTITIES OF MILITALY STORES, IN- CLUDING FIELD GUNS, SHELLS," MACHINE GUNS AND RIFLES.
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THE STORES ARE BEING BROUGHT UP TO-DAY AND TO - MORROW TO THE JAPANESE CONCESSION AT TIENTSIN.
IT IS ALSO LEARNED THAT CORRUGATED IRON BARRACKS ARE BE.. ING BUILT NEAR THE JAPANESE MILITARY WHARE AT TANGKU CAPABLE- OF ACCOMMODATING A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF TROOPS.
THE CHINESE HAVE PROCLAIMED; MARTIAL LAW. AT TANGKU: 80 FAR ALL IS QUIET
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CHINESE, NURSES FOR SHANGHAI. ***
PARTY OF FIFTY LEAVES
HONG KONG
About fifty" Chiness nurses and 'members of the St. Jolm Ambulance Brigade left "yesterday by the as „President Lincoln for Shanghai to offer their services in, connection with Red Cross work that is so urgently needed for the relief of thousands of wounded Chinese.
The party includes thirty women nurses from the Tung Wah and Kwong Wah Hospitals and Light from the Chinese Y.M.C.A. and the romainder are members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade.
These fifty members were entar. tained at ten by their friends at the Hong Kong Hotel on Monday and again at a dinner party at the South Chian Restaurant before boarding the President: boat for the North.
Local Relief Funds,
'LIGHTHOUSE RAID CONFIRMED.
BRITISH KEEPERS CAP- TURED BY COMMUNISTS.
Confirmation of the report that the British lighthouse-keaper of Breaker Point
赶紧 Lighthouse Swatow has been captured and. carried of prisoner by Comiqunists has been received from the Naval Authorities, who state that two European man, two, Chinese women, four children and one, cook were captured by a party of about 100 aiders who afterwards returned to the hills with their captives. The Chinese customs officials, and whet light has been kept going by five sighted yesterday by HM.8. Kep- pel the destroyer despatched to or receipt of the report of the raid, Swatow by the Naval Authorities was working normally.
NAVAL COMMAND TAKES PRECAUTIONS,
(From Our Own Correspondent;}
SHANGHAI, Mar. 1, 3.56 p.m. are taking special precautions to The Japanese Naval Command safeguard the Flagship, Idzumo, against possible treachery under cover of darkness by Chinese bar. may be allowed to drift towards the ges laden with explosives which cuser in the vicinity of the Japai ese Consulate These precautions Tuesday afternoon to blow up the are necessitated by an attempt on Idzamo by touching depth mines and causing torrific explosions lieve there had been an earthquake. which jed Shanghai residents, to be-
It is understood that the two special performances at the Queen's Theatre last week for the relief of the Shanghai, sufferers yielded 91,700. Special performances are to he giver in other theatres operated by the Hong Kong Ammermenta, Limited, who are confident that The Japanese authorities have re- their contribution will reach a sub. leased Wang. Keng, a Brigadier stantial Agure:
Commander of the Nineteenth Army, who was chased into the The management of the s.s. Chuan Astor House Hotal and arrested Chow, Hong Kong-Macao boat, has after he had. back, seen loitering ; announted that twenty per cent of ing in the vicinity of the Flagship, near the Japanese Conmilate, build-
ite entire carnings for one week drumo, as it spying on the situa- from last Wednesday will be sent to ton of the warship. He was then the Tung. Wah Hospital for the re-handed over to the Japanese Gen- lief of the Shanghai sufferers..
The Directors of the Tung Wah, his release,
darmerie who have now effected Hospital have been informed by denied that Japanese Marines per It is emphatically numerous Chinese educational in- ticipated in the arrest of the stitutions and public organisations General who has now safely return- that they are organising concerts ed home. and theatrical performances for the l Shanghai relief fund.
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BRITISH REACTION:
Iranovon REUTER'S AGENCE, ]]
LONDON, March 1. Hope tinged with scepticism characterises the British reaction to the latest Shanghai develop-
menta,
HEAVY OFFENSIVE ON
KIANGWAN FRONT / (THROUGH REUTERS AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Mar. 1, 1.48 a.m. The man in the street is bewilder- The main body of the 11th ed by reports of conflicting parallel Japanese Division, about 12,000 peace negotiations at Geneva and strong, are landing five miles, Shanghai accompanied by prepara- northward of Ligho, in the Yang- tions for a renewed Japanese offen- tsze Estuary, beyond Woosung,
i sive.
The Times emphasizes that the
The Japanese forces launched a heavy offensive on the Kiangwan Chinese stubborness has not weak.. front this morning, seroplanes and med nor the Japanese sceolution Artillery carrying out a vigorous to land, the necessary troops to bombardment.
achieve her objective, It, there Japanese troops in Chapel are fore, is an error to regard the awaiting the success of their com Japanese latent proposals as Д rades at Klangwan before trying to bluff. They might perhaps be so storm the Chinese lines, but a described if Tokyo insisted, purely spasmodic exchange of firing con. os a Sino-Japanese settlement but tinues.
they have invited the collaboration of all the Powers concerned in the Far East.
GEN. SHIRAKAWA TAKES, OVER
The Time orges every party to contribute its utmost to a selfie- At 1 p.m. General Shirakawa, Britain, to claim any particular pre- ment, and says there is no desire. by who has been directing the disem cedence in the settlement but there. barkation of the Eleventh Japanese, is not the slightest support for the Division, arrived at the Headquar; { "pusillanimous counsel of Mr. ters formerly occupied by General Lansbury to withdraw our forces · Uyeds-a Japanese cotton mit just and evacuate all our antionals. outside the eastern limits of the Settlement
It is estimated that the arrival
of the Eleventh Division brings up
LORD CECIL'S ATTITUDE Lord Cecil in a letter to the
the strength of the Japanese forces Timce is able to withdraw, in re-.. to 45,000, while the expected land. sponse to criticisma, anything con- leg of the Fourteenth Division, tained in his letter in the Times of within twenty-four hours, will swell Feb. 18, which he signed with the total to 69,000,
others because the Japanese policy. is a serious blow to the collective maintenance of peace, and the policy has already cost not only thousands of lives but has increased the economic difficulties in the world.
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP JAPANESE WÄRSHIPS
SHANGHAI, Mar. 1, 3.34 p.m. Throwing an enormous spout of water high in the air and rocking the whole of Shanghai, two mines exploded in the Whangpoo River early this afternoon, a short dis tance from two Japanese cruisers which they were obviously. Intended to destroy. The cruisers were, how ever, not damaged.
A Cry of "earthquake" was taken up by terrified thousande as the buildings swayed. The vibre tion lasting severni seconds. ·
PARIS AND WASHINGTON PLEASED Official circles in Paris and Washington are delighted with the Sino-Japanese developments, while at Canovs much credit is being given to Sir John Simpa
Washington points out that Sär John Sinon initiated the armistice movement and that he has several times in the past three days been People rushed to the street and in touch with Mr: Btimen. crouched in doorways fearful at It is considered here, however, buriel under a pile of rules, but no that pesos is not yet certain, suck terrible fate overtook anyone. especially a face of the oft-rapeet- One of the mines exploded within od decision by Nanking to send a Atty fest of Japanese Flagship, mamitive expedition against the new Idzamo.
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