1933-07-11 — Page 9

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1933.

PARTIALLY

C. M. STEAMER SUNK

BUREAU'S

TASK

PURPORT OF MEETING CAUSES

CONFUSION

Collision Off Shan- tung Pen.

1 OFFICER, 2 SAILORS AND 4.OF CREW DROWNED

Shanghai, July 10

The 8. Choshun Maru, of the Steamship Co. which Dairen

left Tsingtao on Sunday evening the for Dairen collided with

China Merchants 8.6. Tunan off the Shantung Peninsula at.3.50 this morning.

The Tunan quickly sank. The Chostin Marn succeeded in ress

cuing 35 of the crew and 25 passengers, but seven persons re known to have been drowned, namely, one officer, 2 sailor's and 4 stewards.

The accident occurred owing to thick fog-Reuter,

TAIMOSHAN AT NEMURO

YANGTSZE RIVER LEVEL

Phenomenal Rise At Wanhsien

NANKING, JULY 10. REPORTS RECEIVED AT NANKING STATE THAT THE YANGTZE RIVER LEVEL AT WANRSIEN REGISTERED A PHENOMENAL RISE OF OVER THIRTY TEET THIS MORNING. --- Reuter

JAPAN'S TRADE

WITH AUSTRALIA®

Imports Exceed Exports

WISH TO MAINTAIN PRESENT RELATIONS

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Canberra, July 10.

SILVER DIFFICULTIES WILL BE

OVERCOMESEN, PITTMAN

STATEMENT TO BE MADE BEFORE END OF WEEK

ACCOMPLISHED

The Bureau which met this morning to consider what work, was continuable adjourned at p.m. It's task was only partially accomplished.

Reports were received from various sub-Commissions. The Bureau approved the reports of the Economic sub- Commissions on indirect protectionism and co-ordina- tion in production and marketing, both of which were, unanimously favoured for continuation.

SUBSIDIES AND COMMERCIAL POLICY

Owing to the complaints of The Bureau agreed to the businessmen regarding the in- establishment of a drafting, com- crease of Japanese imports,mittee to consider the case of sub- ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE BY Lieut.-Colonel White, Australian connoissiona on subsidies and

NAVAL OFFICERS

Minister of Trade announces that commercial policy in both of Mr. 8. M. Bruce has been asked which differences of opinion. are

with the British reported.

to confer | Cabinet ̧ in" London regarding the

Lient-Col. White points out that hitherto Japan has bought three times as much from Ans- tralia as she exported.

Tokyo, July 10, The yacht, Tainioshan, man-mutter. ed by five British naval officers. from Hong Kong, safely entered Nemuro, Hokkaido, at four o'clock this morning. Rester.

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U.S. Comments on Gold Standard.

New Yoak, July 10.

PRESIDENT Roosevelt is con-

fident that the World Econo- mic Conference will go forward, and he is greatly cheered by the new alignment in London as in dicated by the latest developments, according to Washington corres

pondents.

This drafting committee will place before the Bureau the

They declare that his scheme for different ideas and points of view. a higher world price level, will Regarding monetary questions. combination in Paris. Nor is the not be influenced by the gold bloo the Bureau agreed that the full United States Government dispos- Monetary, Commission shoulded to see the countries in ques

ing committee which will make The Government wish to main-meet at 4 p.m. to appoint a draft-tion. go off the gold standard."

recommendations to the Bureau to-morrow.

[The yacht which is carrying Lt. R. E. D. Ryder, of HM.Stain the existing cordial relations Olympus, 4th Submarine Flotilla : Lieutenant P. C. Francia, of with Japan, and will take action H.M.S. OUR: Surg. Lieutenant C. only where competition is unfair. Ommanney Davis, of H. M. S.Router. Bridgewater: Lirut, Commander

M. Sherwood, of H.M.S. Hermes;

and Lieutenant G. S. Salt, of H.M.S. Oswald, left Hong Kong on May 31

They are proceeding to England via Panama, and hope to reach Home at the end of March, 1994.]

JAPANESE SEND GUNBOATS TO SUNGARI DELTA

TO PROTECT MANCHUKUO

SHIPPING

WILL CONTINUE

TO FIGHT

Gen. Fang's Message To Canton

The decision to establish 2 drafting committee to consider the case of subsidies and commer

cial policy of sub-commissions appears to amount to the exercise by the Bureau of its overriding powers, as the balance of opinion

on these committees has been in favour of discontinuation of their discussions.

CANTON, July 10.

CONFUSION PREVAILS COVERNMENT offices and public bodies were again in receipt

While considerable confusion pre- of a telegram from General Fang Chen Wu, field commanderails as to the exact purport of this morning's Bureau discussions of the people's Anti-Japanese forces HARBIN, July 10.

in Charhar stating that he will regarding the proceedure to be adopted pessimism is less justified fight the Japaness to the last dite today, according to a member of THREE gunboats and three troop regardless of any armistice or ur the Bureau who, when interviewel, transports ure leaving for render Nanking has concluded said it had been recognised as. the Sungari Delta, and two gun with Japan. boats and two transports carrying It is heart-aching to rep, dangerous to divide the world into Japanese troops are leaving for that the Japanese are attempting be made to find a middle course blocs and strong endeavour would the reported object of protecting to capture eastern Charhar," his followable by both the main divi- Menchukuo shipping from the at- telegram said. "Those who hear sions at the Conference. tacks of Soviet Red Guards-Beuthis coming invasion receive a cold

shudder. However, my troops and MONETARY SUB-COMMISSION

are determined to Fight the Japanese and will not turn back despite the overwhelming odds.

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HONG KONG-S'HAI

EMPRESS OF ASIA PASSES

*REBEL CRUISERS

(From Our Own Correspondent]

SHANGHAI, July 7. Passengers on board the Empresa of Asia had a very pleasant voyage from Hong Kong to Shanghai on July 3 and 4. The sea was calm. There was bright. sunshine and & good breeze. The Empress arrived at Woosung about 9 a.m. on Wednesday.

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it

We are fighting for the istence of the Chinese race and diguity and shall continue the stuggle irrespective of cost and sacrifice."-Central Pres

KIANGSI RELIEF

ASSOCIATION

CANTON, July 10. ATA recent meeting of the Kinngsi Relief and Charitale Association, it was decided that each county and town in the South- west provinces will organize a branch association to raise funds for relief of Klangsi victims.

Overseas, bodies are also requested

THE NANCHANG · CAPTIVES

Two Officers Escape From Bandits

'PLANES RECONNOITRE

COUNTRY

NAZIS NOW IN COMPLETE POWER

HITLER REGIME FIRMLY ESTABLISHED

BRITISH LOAN TO CHINA

Questions In House Of Commons

LONDON, July 10. IN the House of Commons Mr. Remer asked whether Mr.N. Chamberlain was aware that Mr. BLIN, July 10.

T. V. Soong was now negotiating THE Nazi ight for political with London bankers for a large power in Germany has ended loan for China. He asked if he' with the disappearance of the would make a condition thereof Catholic Centre Party, proudly that the proceeds should be ex- declared Chancellor Hitler in pended in purchasing goods in stirring address to 70,000 Storm Britain, Troops at Dortmund yesterday,

"Gigantic tasks confront us, but we shall master them" he declar ed, "Nobody can resist us” ·

Speaking on the changed condi- The identity of the escaped mentions in the country, he stated that can not be established at present,

the first task was the education of Mr. Hore Bilisht replying, re- but it is reported that, benefitting the individual German for the new minded the questioners, that no from a relaxation of vigilance on State which was now beginning, foreign loans were being iszed, the part of the bandits, two men Every German must have Ain London at present. As far as made a dash for safety and suc- thorough as well as pràctica ceeded in getting away...

schooling.

SHANGHAI, July 10. ACOORDING to Japanese re- ports, two of the three kid. napped British officers of the Nan chang have escaped from their captors.

The Japanese anthorities

now

are

stated to have sent aero- planes to reconnoitre the country- xide and assist the officers. Reuter.

A DENIAL

DAIREN, July 10. The Japanese gendarmerie and other authoritative sources deny that the two Nanchang officers have escaped, nevertheless the reports

grow more vircumstan- tial though at present nothing de- finite is known.

It is possible that the denials are due to fears that conârmation rumours might make the situation more complex.-Renter.

BRITISH REPRESENTATIONS AT TOKYO

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LONDON, July 10. being

That fresh representations are made to the Japanese Government by the Japanese Am bassador with regard to the urgent state, Mr. William Cordell Hull, the captured officers of the Nan

The United States Secretary of necessity of the early release of is expected to make a constructive chang, was announced by. Sir John statement to the Conference early Simon at question time in the this week.

House of Commons today

The Baltimore SHT states Reuter. that the decline of the dollar i not only attributable to specula. tors or Governments, but is rather due to national processes atan ing that nothing has been done to lessen the flight of the dollar on account of inflation signs.

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one of the best informed newspaper The New York Herald Tribune,

in America, asserts that no stabi lisation in terms of gold can be expected until the middle of 1935, when United States prices have reached a satisfactory level and the Budget balanced-Reuter.

Compromise by Bureau Likely.

JUNGLE FIGHT WITH PANTHER

Wood-Cutter's Des- perate Fight

LUCKY BLOW WITH AN AXE

mortal

SEREMBAN, July 1 LONDON, July 10. Attacked by a ferocious black to gain the support of the Soviet, near Tampin, a Chinese wood- The effort of the gold countries panther in the depth of the jungle Mexico and Hungary for their cutter had a desperate battle for pory was the only animating fea- his life. Although the man was ture of the week-end proceedings terribly mauled, and his flesh was of the World Economic Conferencs, torn and bleeding from the razor- pending to-morrow's critical meet sharp claws of the enraged animal, ing of the Bureau:

he managed to inflict a The three above-mentioned coun-wound, and escaped. trie's abstained from voting when Faint from loss of blood, and the Conference's adjournment was suffering from the shock of his The meeting of the Monetary evaded by votees to 6, but though terrible ordeal, the man, Yap Suai, Sub-Commission, number two, on their support will be the deciding managed to stagger back to home, the re-establishment of an Inter-factor to-morrow, there are no in national Monetary Standard, whichdications that it will be obtained. preceded the Bureau meeting, end- ed indecisively. No date of the Sub-Commission's reassembly, was decided on. The session discussed a suggestion by Mr. Walter Eliot on behalf of Mr. N. Chamberlain, that the Commission continue to work on the ground that a return to the Gold Standard be facilitated by an agreement on principles of work- ing that standard in future,

well-known contention that it is M. Bonnet opposed, with his now necessary first to know whether the Conference is ready to put a ter mination la exchange fuetuations due to speeslation

Mr. Pittman, Chairman of the

to form similar branch associations Silver Sub-Committee, said he will.

FOUR RESOLUTIONS

The Empress of Canada passed in their cities and colonies. This be in a position to fully report on at Woosung on her. way to Hong proposal was approved by the the silver question before the week- Kong. The armed guard of about Kuomintang Southwest Executive end twelve soldiers, transferred from Committee. Central Prem the Asia to Canada. The Empress ships have been carrying an armed guard for about three years be- tween Hong Kong and Shanghai. Any pirates found on board these Empress ships would meet with more than they expected if con. fronted by these stalwart men, who, even at meal time keep their rifes slung over the back of their chairs.

northern command.

·SIAM AIR RECORD SPOILED

CRASH IN A REMOTE

DISTRICT.

On: a proposal of the Chairman, M. Kienbock, the meeting unazi- mously decided to refer to the Bureau the four resolutions already 4 adopted.

First: Requiring the earliest.) stabilisation possible.

Second: That gold be recognized as the standard.

Third: Monetary gold not to be

in internal circulation.

SILVER DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME

BANGKOK, June 28. After wonderful freedom from On Monday night, July 3, there was much surmising on board the accident since its inception the Empress at the sight of three Chi Aerial Transport Co., of Siam. Ltd., nese cruisers to the west of the lost their first machine and piloted

Fourth: The fixing of a gold- Empress making their way slowly this week. The mails were salved, towards the South. These cruisers but the pilot was killed outright, cover of 8 per cent.-Reuter. were evidently the ships which Both 'plane and pilot were insured. have parted. company with the The accident, dus, it is premised, to engine failure took place at a On Tuesday evening, July 4th at very remote point on the regular about o'clock four whales were air route, and it will be some time

LONDON, July 10. observed to the eastward from the before the experts from Bangkok Senator Pittman when interview. Empress. Every few minutes can get to the scene of the fatality,ed by Reuter in London gave the columne of water were blown into and return. The dead pilot-a opinion that a complete silver the air marking their position. careful and able man-had over 700 agreement would be reached, possi. Three of them were evidently quite hours flying experience: A relief bly sometime this week. The main close together, another was some inschine was put into service forth stumbling block, namely, the dead- distance from the three. The back with and the normal schedule is Jock with India and the subject of of one was seen above water being maintained-Singapore, Free long term restriction of exports several timesG

Prens

had been overcome-Beuteri

where he collapsed. He was 'rush- ed to the Tampin Hospital where be now lies.

action which the Bureau is to re- shoulder, and his parang, thrust

A straight vote on the course of

With his axe alung across his commend to "the Plenary Confer in his sarong, Yap Suai left his will probably be ence is not likely, and the issue 'kongai' for the jungle at Gedoh, thus preventing a unanimous deci working. He was trotting along a compromise, near Gemencheh, where he was sion by the Bureau to the Confera track when he was surprised to .sba a black panther Blinking

·· Bomé observers consider that the through the jungle towards him. Dollar's "approach to parity with Buddenly the beast burst through

stabilisation sooner than was ex-in his right shoulder, and carry- Sterling may mean that the Ameri- the jungle and flung itself upon can delegation is free to discuss the woodentter, burying its fangs

pected.----Reuter.

ing the man" backwards beneath its weight,

ence.

SILVER MARKET

{17cm Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, July 10. FOLLOWING ARE QU (PATZON0- ON

· HÁZKÉT "TO-DAY :

SPOT

FORWARD

THE SILVER THE LONDON

JULY 8. JULY 10,

18.1/10 177

18 ...... 18.3/16 THE LONDON ON NEW YORK CROSS RATE TO-DAY WAB:"£1- $4.813.

Saved by Lucky Blow.

"I whipped out my parang with my left hand," said Kap Suai, as he lay, swathed in band- ages, in hospital, "and grasped my axe with my right. I slashed the beast's head with the parang, and its warm blood gush- od over me. It released my should- er and dropped to the ground.

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"A second time it sprang at me. I dropped my parang and seized my are with both hands and swung A blow."at the boast Growling savagely it leaped aside, and then came at me again. On several oc- casions it scratched me, and once knocked me over, but every time I: managed to free myself somehow.

"My strength was failing rapid. ly for I had lost a large amount of blood. Then I swung my ̈axe again in a final desperate attempt to kill the panther. The blow

NATIONAL REVENUES IN mashed into its skull I was saved."

KWANGTUNG

WAN

Bruised and bleeding he stagger- ed back to hie kongsi, and harried thenos to the hospital, Later in the day the District CANTON, July 10. Forest Officer and Yap Suai's NATIONAL revenues collected in brother visited the scene of Kwangtung during May the struggle. There were signs amounted to $7,143,738 while the of terrific battle having expenditure was 87,288,608.

taken place, and the ground was Provincial revenues collected for soaked with blood. the same period were figured at The panther was found lying 83,879,750 e against $4,426,367 In dead nearby with a huge gash in expenditure.—Central Press. its head.—Singapore Free Prean.

Mr. Grattan Doyle asked whe ther authority for a long to China had be refused until de- faults by the Chinese Government debta on the railway loans had been remedied

he was aware no negotiations of the kind suggested were occurring..

The second task, was to conquer Mr. Hannon asked whether the unemployment, which had risen to principles mentioned in the ques- the greatest figure with which the tions would be observed if such State had ever been confronted. Ioan were issued, to which Mr. He claimed to have reduced the Hore Relisha, replied it Was army of unemployed by 2,000,000 | hypothetical question-Beuter. “ in two months, and he would con- tinue until he had solved the pro- blem.

the

The Nazis would restore consumptive capacity of the Ger man people and re-invigorate trade and industry, he said-Reuter

.

100,000 Hald by Nazis.

BERLIN, July 10.

It is reliably stated that at least 100,000 people are now locked_up in concentration camps in Ger many, including well-known scien- tists, medical men and politicians. Hundreds of Republicans are un- willing to leave the Fatherland as fugitives from Germany.-Beuter.

IN MEMORY OF MR. F. H.

HOLDMAN

We have received on behalf of the Hong Kong Benevolent Society the following donations in me- mories of the late Mr. F. H. Hold

man

H. A. Mills E. V. Reed

$5.00 3.00

U.S. DEFICIT OF

$1,750,000,000

BUT 3.2 HELPS THE POSITION.

WASHINGTON, June 30. The United States closed the fecal year to-night with a deficit of $1,750,000,000, the second larg est peace time deficit in the his tory of the country.

tional 31,240,802.063 given to the This does not include as addi: Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion, which, if included in the (Continued on next column).

CHINESE FLIER PROGRESSING

RANGOON, July 10.

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THE Chinese flier Han Tong who is flying from Europe to China has arrived at. Akyab from Cal- cutta-Reuter.

FRENCH FINAN- CIAL OUTLOOK

Present Position "Gloomy

ST. POURCAINS. July 10..

M. LAMOUREUX, French Minis

ter of the Budget, in a speech, yesterday, revealed that, if the pre- sent Treasury position is favour- able, the outlook for 1934 is gloomy,

He pointed out that certain re- ceipts of 1933 will not recur, while expenditure will increase with the stout efforts, necessary to maintain the stability of the franc.--Reuter.

budget, would make the deficit ap- proximately $3,000,000,000, amount included $3,050,000,000, and

Expenditures outside this latter. income was only $2,800,000,000,0

As a result the government was forced to borrow to

highest figure since 1922.

cover the

debt up difference, bringing the publio

to 822,500,000,000,- the-

More than $10,000,000 monthly;

is being received in the treasury

as revenue on 3.2 per cent beer:

for summer days when energy quickly flags

Let ‘Ovaltine'-cold-help you through the enervating, steamy summer Bow bere

It should be your daily food drink during the summer months. In this delightful beverage prepared from ripe barley malt, creamy milk, and fresh contained every food element needed for the creation of energy and the mainten ance of health and strength. A glass of cold "Ovaltine' makes the lightest summer meal complete in nutritive value.

OVALTINE

The delightful

COLD

Summer

ink