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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 4. 1933.

JAPAN'S LATEST DEMAND

That Chinese Troops Withdraw From Tientsin!

Do Tokyo Militarists Mean To Enter China Proper?'

REPORTED SINO-JAPANËSE SECRET UNDERSTANDING

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)

TOKYO, March 3,

AMESSAGE from Lingyuan states that the Kawahara vanguard is reported to have entered Pingchuan, thirty-five miles from Jehol City, at eleven o'clock this morning.

NANKING, March 3.

The Government has instructed Yu Hauch Chung to reject the Japanese demand for the withdrawal of Chinese forces stationed at Tientsin.

LATER.

The report that China and Japan have reached a secret anderstanding in regard to Jehol has evoked the strongest denial by a Chinese Government spokesman, who branded the report as Man outrageouse c.. CHINESE CASUALTIES

PEITING, March 3,

Chinese casualties during yesterday's fighting to Jehol are placed at 1,500 killed and about 3,000 wounded.

EVENTS MOVING RAPIDLY IN JEHOL

PEIPINO, March 3. Router's special correspondent reports from Jehol that before proceeding to, the front, General Tang Yu Lin, admitted that Ling- yuan was surrounded on all sides. by the Japanese troops and the position there, was desperate. Ho said he wanted the world to know that he would fight to the finish, He declared that Manchukuo was hated here and would be resisted, He also assorted that the Japanese had been repulsed from Chihfeng

General Tang Ya Lin looks wort and tired.

JAPANESE TROOPS. BEATEN BACK

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]

PEIFING, March 3.

CHINA'S DELEGATES TO CARRY ON"

AFTER RECEIVING INSTRUC- TIONS FROM NANKING

TruROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)

GENEVA, Math 3. IT IS ascertained that Mr. Que Tai Chi, Dr. Wellington Ker and Dr. W. W. Yen have telegraph ed to Nanking resigning their posts as the Chinese representatives to the

•League

Their view is that the centre of gravity has shifted from Geneva to Jehol, where stout resistance should be offered.

HITLER ATTACKS NORTH-EAST COAST OF JAPAN SWEPT

DEMOCRACY

*Not Fighting To Save

Capitalism

GREAT CROWD APPLAUDS CHANCELLOR

(SANOUGH · BRUTER'S AGENCY.)

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BERLIN, March 3. AN attack on Democracy was made by Chancellor Adolf Hit- lar, in tite Course of wildiy applauded speech", the Sports Palace, which was broadcast throughout Germany Inst. night.

at

created values.

He said that Democracy never personalities whose work for demo

This was done by cracy was always destroyed. One tion than milliards of capital. genius could mean more for a na-

Dr. Wellington Koo has confirmed that he and his colleagues have offered their resignations as the Capitalism. I myself am a child "I am not fighting to SAVO Chinese delegates to the League As- of the people and if it can be prov sembly in connection with the Sino-ed that Marxism, by slaying 10,000. Japanese dispute.

people can make a paradise on earth, I will turn Marxist too," Chancellor Hitler concluded.

They felt that the close of one chapter had been reached at Geneva and were of the opinion that the Government might like to have new blood to represent its views,

In addition they were all very tired, having worked a long time, and they felt the need of a change. However, having received the in- formation for which they had asked from their Government regarding the position, and its plans, they had agreed to carry on.

RESTRICTION IN RUBBER

IS NECESSARY

(THROUGH REUTZA'S (AGENCY)

Official despatches were received | DUTCH GOV. FEEL CAUTION last evening stating that the Chin- eso counter attacked. at dusk and beat back the Japanese from Ling- yuan, where a rearguard action will be fought peading completion of a, strong last line forty-five miles long from Pingohuna, in the north- west, to Sutaokow, along the heights, forty miles from Jehol City. The line will be manned by

Hsuch Liang's

With Tingnan and other places Iost and Lingyuan surrounded, events appear to be moving rapid ly in Jehol province. "General | Marshal Chang Chang Isuch. Liang's troops here troops, have created the best impression

Defections have greatly facilitat- unong the people. They behaved the Japanese advance on Ling reli and pay for their food.

Prices are rising rapidly due to war conditions. Petral is now $10 A case. Cars here loaded with food for the front are unable 10. leave due to shortago, of petrol. GEN, OUNG TO REORGANISE

19TH ROUTE ARMY

- LATER. Apparently no war in China is now complete without the famous Nineteenth Route Army. Marahal Chang Hmuch Liang has appointed General Oung Chao Yen, the famcus defender of the Woosung Forts during the Shanghai war to

Command roorganise and division of the Artillery for the defence of Jchol., General Oung is already in the Province and has started his duties, being assisted by Wa Ko Jen, also of the Nine teenth Route Army

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General Tang Pu Lin wires from Jehol denying Japanese mamours that he has defected and states that be is fighting to the last and is going towards Chihfeng to-day.. LONDON CHINESE ANXIOUS,

LONDON, March 3.

yuan.

Sun Tien Ying, the ex Kuorninchun general, has defected to Manchukuo, while a battalion of Tung Fu Ting's troops have also

gone over.

Marshal Chang Haush Liang's stand, the failure of which will forces are preparing to make a last menn complete success for Japanese Manchukuo drive.

JAPANESE OCCUPY

PEIKUNG

[TRBOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

the

TOKYO, March 3."

A message from Lingyuan states that the Kawahara vanguard is continuing its advance and has occupied Peikung. It is expected that Pingchuan will be occupied shortly..

SSUTAOLING OCCUPIED

(THROUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY]

LINGYUAN, March 3.

LONDON, March 3,

in which consider A scheme

CAUTION regarding the introduc- tion of the scheme for forced restriction in rubber is necessary, and the Dutch Government have only to

Britain co-operate,

will fully ed by the Minister of the Colonies were points stress. in the Second-Chamber at Hague, yesterday, according to a The

dam correspondent of the Financial message received from the Amster- Times,

Wore

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Indicating that the Dutch Gov- ernment

willing to consider the rubber situation in the light of present circumstances, the Minister, replying to a question, said that the Government would have to be most prudent in future, in view of past experiences.

The elections take place on Sun- day.

German Communist Leader. Escapes.

Thachmann, has escaped to Copen-

BERLIN, Murch 3. The Communist leader, Ernst hagen according to newspaper.

Hamburg

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NON-AGGRESSION POLICY

UNANIMOUS ACCEPTANCE AT GENEVA

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE..]

BY TIDAL WAVE

Dead 541; Missing 404; Injured -1,000

+

Village of Funakoshi "Completely

Wiped Out

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

TOKYO, March 3. THE OFFICIAL FIGURES OF CASUALTIES CAUSED BY THE EARTHQUAKE AT EIGHT THIS EVENING- ARE: DEAD 541, MISSING 101, INJURED 1,000

ALATER. Fully three hundred miles of the north east coast of the main island of Japan appears to have been devastated by the tidal

WAYC,

The region of the havoc extends from Ishinamaki to Shiriya, the northernmost tip of the island, while even Hokkaido was affected.

Over a hundred are reported to have been killed at Omoto. while numbers are drowned and missing at other points.

Twelve are known to be dead and forty-five are missing at Tanobata, while there are thirty dead at other points,

The village of Funakoshi is reported to have been wiped out completely.

Hundreds of houses have been destroyed in other villages. Five are dead and several missing at Cape Erimo.

Although Kamalshi appears the worst affected, a number of other towns have suffered heavily.

EARLIER.

The casualties in the earthquake reported so far total about 450 dead and injured and 150 missing.

15,000 HOUSES WASHED AWAY

TOKYO, March 3 Many lives are feared lost, and

houses are reported to have been washed away by a tidai a Japanese mining village, follow- wave which swept over Kamaishi, ing severe earthquake shocks, early this morning.

1.500 RUGBY, March 2. AT Geneva to-day, the Political Commission of the Disarma ment Conference, adopted by 27 votes to nil, the revised sect of the British proposal, that signa solemnly reaffirm they will not, in tories to the agreement should any event, resort to force as

an instrument of national policy:

SILVER MARKET

LONDON PRICES

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, March 3 FOLLOWING ARE THE HILVER QUOTATIONS ON TAR LONDON MARKET TO-DAY:

Mar. 1

SPOT

FORWARD

Mar, 3 17.1/18 17

17

17.1/16

2.30 a.m., were exceptionally severe. The tremors, falt in Tokyio at Only minor damage is, however, re- ported from the city.

Rescue workers and supplies are being pushed to Kamaishi to aid' the stricken population, and it is expected that the death roll is con siderable:

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POLICY OF CHEAP MONEY

MAY LEAD TO INCREASED PRICES

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

Roosy, March 3,

FINANCIAL CRISIS IN THE Chancellor of Exchequer,

AMERICA

DISCLOSURE OF G.8116,000,000 LOSS IN MONETARY GOLD STOCKS

The Chinese community in Lon-od Sautooling, between Lingyuan

The Kawahara vanguard occupi- MANY STOCK EXCHANGES CLOSE DOWN don is most anxiously following and Pingobuan, at 4.30 p.m. to- the news of the Jehol events as day. given in the papers and wireless bulletins.

The exiled community, though small is determined to do its ut- inost to help the Chinese forces on the Jehol front.

A number of seamen and labour. era havo banned together to con- tribute funds from their wages, and some seamen, carning only £2 per week, are contributing as much as ten shillings of their pay.

UNEMPLOYED IN BRITAIN

REDUCED BY VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS

AMERICA AND THE ARMS EMBARGO

[THROUGH RESTER'S AGENCY.]

WASHINGTON, March 3.- Britain had not asked the United States to join in the embargo on the export of arms to China and Japan declared Mr. Castle, Under- Secretary of State yesterday.

Ha added that the State De- partment had not received any communication regarding the mat- ter from Britain,

“ SIAM NOT AN AGENT FOR JAPAN "

The Consul General for Siam in Hong Kong, Mr. J. T. Bagram, has received the following communica- tion from the Siamese State Coun cillor for Foreign Affairs

(THROUGH REUTKE'S AGENCE.]

WASHINGTON, March 3,

EVIDENCE of the seriousness and the acuteness of the bank crisis is contained in the weekly statement of the Federal - Reserve Board, dated March 1.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in the House of Commons yesterday, said that it was impossible to isolate sterling prices completely from the! effect of the fall in world prices.

World prices had fallen some 20 per cent, the last 18 months, he was not without hope, that the policy of cheap money and plenti ful credit, which had brought about that result, might, if continued, lead to an increase in prices.

The process would undoubtedly be greatly facilitated if an interna tional agreement could be obtained for the solution of present world problems.

BRIGHT CRICKET AT

This "discloses a loss of G.$116,000,000 in monetary gold stocks, and an increase of $732,000,000 in money in circulation.M.C.C.

Money la circulation has increased by G.$1,137,000,000 since March 2 last year.

A message from Olympia states that the Governor of Washing- tom State has proclaimed a three-day hank "holiday," while news from New York is to the effect that the Governor of Ken- tucky has extended the State bank "holiday" entil March 11.

50,000,000 PEOPLE NOW AFFECTED

restrictive

MELBOURNE

SCORE 321 AGAINST

VICTORIA

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

MELBOURNE, Mar. 3.

BRIGHT cricket was witnessed

The village is 200 miles north of Tokyo, and lies 10 miles inland from the east ecast of Honshiu. "

Tremors Felt in England.

The greatest earthquake recorded

LONDON, March 3. in the 28 years' experiens of Mr. Shaw, seimologist at West Brom- wich observatory, near Birminham, was felt yesterday evening. It be- gan at 5.43 pm, at a distance esti msted at 8,000 miles.

The shocks, which ceased at 9 p.m.; were so severe, that levers wera thrown from the sockets. It was impossible to obtain a complete re- cord.

CANTON NOTES

Embargo On Silver

Coins

MAGISTRATES GAOLED

(From Our Own Correspondent)

CANTON, March 2.

The

The Canton Chamber of Com. merce is submitting au applica- tion to the authorities for the em- bargo on the export of silver coins merchants hold that the embargo from the city to be lifted, has not achieved the objects for which it has been imposed, as smuggling of large quantities of coins is taking place with the re- sult that the shortage of coins in the city continues to get worse. The effect has been a use in the value of the Hong Kong dollar as against local currency, which is greatly de- trimental to Canton trade. It is therefore asked that the embargo be lifted. The Ires circulation of coin, according to the merchants, will end the smugglers' activities, and will actually cause less coins to be taken out of the city. .....

Building Up a Clean Civil Service.

A special tribunal in the city has finished the trial of an ex-magistrate of a district in the north of the province, who has been found guilty

MR. ROOSEVELT, IN WASHINGTON “seingaudea

INAUGURATION CEREMONY

TO-DAY

(THROUGH RESTER'S AGENCY.]

WASHINGTON, Mar. 3. PRESIDENT-ELECT Franklin D. Roosevelt has arrived hero in readiness for his inauguration on Saturday

Union Station was heavily guard ed on his arrival, even Presamen being held back several hundred feet from Mr. Roosevelt's train, and police, mounted and on foot, formed a living square as he motor ed to the Hotel Maydower, in drizzling rain.

NEW SPEAKER FOR U.S. HOUSE (THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY)

WASHINGTON, March 3 MR Henry T. Rainly of Illinois had been elected speaker in the House of Representatives in succession to Mr. Garner, the Vice- President-eléch

UNITED STATES NAVY BILL

HOUSE ACCEPTS CUTS

MADE BY SENATE (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY).

WASHINGTON, March 3 THE House of Representatives has approved the Naval Appro priation Bill as amended by the. Senate.

The Bill now goes before Presi dent Hoover.

Bill for the fiscal year, 1934, The Senate yesterday passed the after reducing the amount of. G8315,419,000 voted by the House, to G8308,000,000,

FL

TRAGIC MOTOR ACCIDENT INQUEST OF CHINESE WOMAN

death of a Chinese woman who was A Coroner's inquiry into the knocked down and fatally injured. by a motor lorry on the morning of February 19 at Causeway Bay, near the Poin Ground, was held at Central Magistracy yesterday. Mr. W. Schofield sat as Coroner,and was assisted by a jury comprised of Mr. H. S Mackay, Mr Coates and Mr. Wei Tiong Tsong

According to the evidence given; the deceased,-who was a fat wo man, was carrying two baskets when she was knocked down by the lory. The lorry was closely following a tram-car when the deceased suddenly dashed out ber tween them. She was immediate ly taken, to the Government Civil Hospital where she died an hour later from shock and injuries to the brain.

The inquest was adjourned until Friday afternoon.

PRESTON BEAT GRIMSBY

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY]

PRESTON North End secured two valuable home points when they

LONDON, March 2

beat Grimsby Town by 4 goals to 2 yesterday..:

Preston, who are making a def from the Second Division have se termined effort to avoid relegation

five games. oured seven points from their last

IN HONG KONG TO-DAY

GENERALLY OVERCAST

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, 188UED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 3.40 P.M., STATED :--

THE ANTI-CYCLONE CONTINUES MOVING EASTWARD AND IS O CENTRED OVER S.E.. MANCHURIA. MODERATE TO FRESH MONSOON WILL PERVAIL ALONG THE S.E COAST OF CHINA AND OVER THE NORTHERN CHINA SEA

LOCAL FORECAST WINDS MODERATE CENERALLY OVERCAST.

of extorting bribes, and sentenced this morning when the M.0.0. won the toss and batted in the meat. Right of appeal has been to a term of four months imprison- penultimate match, of their Aus refused. This is the second case in tralian tour against Victoria,

There wery about 2,000 specte which an official has been sent to the course of a few months in tors present in fine weather and prison, another district magistrate on a good wicket they were treat having sometime ago been sentenced NEW YORK, March 3, the Stock Exchanges at San Fran ed to some delightful batting, to a term for having planted popps the bank holiday" has now been New Orleans Cotton Exchange have Hammond, the famous Glowester more former datelet anglasade ity, many

The number of States joining cisco, Cleveland, Detroit and the notably on the part of Walter within his jurisdiction. Yet augmented by the imposition of closed, while a number of livestock all-rounder.

the nécou

California, Nevada, Oregon, Loui- are idle.

measures in Arizona, markets in the agricultural centres At the lunch-interval, the M. swaiting bls/triel. för

now under detention in Canton this Bres

corruption, are rapidly slana -and Oklahoma, where the

C. C. had obtained, 100 runs for Thess cases are intended to show houses on the His Majesty's Government has closing of the banks varies from advanced the re-discount rate from contributed 50 in some magnificent to set up, a clean civil service in estato values.

The Federal Reserve Bank has two wickets, to which Hammond, the loop) authorities determination quently, there four to five days.

Ance the province. American citizens, living in eighteen Altogether over fifty million He claimed. no political credit the controversy between China and States are now affected by the morn

hitting two and half to three per cent. Hammond wes in for exactly 49 it may be noted that several ma

In this connection, The ferry servi for their efforts, which, he said. Japan regarding Manchuria For toris. It follows that the crisis in

More

minutes, He hit, eight hours and gistrates-in the eastern districts of the bridge which is s

other hand, advi arose out of a remarkable and this reason its representative at these States will influence depositars

two sizes, obtaining 44 out of his the province have lately been com by travellers Taxe NEW YORK, March 350 runs in boundary hita rapidly growing movement in which Genova abstained from voting when in other States where maratoria that the Governor, of Idaho has scored 83 not to

A mbarage from Boise City stater Sutcliffe went into lunch having larly in pushing ahead various cresteduced by the Governmen mended for good services, partidul-; boats running" as farries- an increasing number of people the question came before the Ae have not been declared to get their while it is Announced from Austin their score to 321, Sutcliffe 75, Tate had doveted themselves to helping sambly. Rumours appearing in the money out of the banks if they that the Governor, Ma Fergu- not out, during his innings Tato the unemployed.

construction projects, decreed a 15-day bank holiday, After lunch this M.C.P. carried

sideration of the present, foreign Press that His Majesty's

As to the sampans, possibly can precipitating similar

hand wagons are not-

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

RuGay, Marca_3. THE Minister of Labour, Sir Hen- ry Betterton, made refer- ence in the House of Commons, last night, to the excellent and success- ful work done by voluntary or ganisations in finding occupation for the unemployed, ;

By their activities, work of some kind or other had boon started in about 500 different areas, covering at present, about 150,000 persons.

issued the following communique:

"It is the policy of His Ma jesty's Government to be neutral in

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Government is acting as an agent conditions in other States.

for Japan in the purchase of arms, or in any way aiding Japan, are entirely without foundation,

tock Exchange Close, result of bank holidays,"

on had declared a financal mora-hit Afteen four's, torium for Texas and has ordered Ironmonger took a wickets for 84. all banks to be closed until March. Victoria, at the close of play

were nine muus, for no wicket.

ara

Honam Land Boon. One of the immediate effects of the bridge has avoided? Bridge is the boom experienced in will still be used for the con the opening of the Pearl River mity for those with bosta, land values in Honam. As a re- of goods across the fiv Pratinued at foot of next column.where, motor vehicles