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ITALIAN AIR ARMADA

Take Off For

Labrador

TENSE EXCITEMENT AT

REYKJAVIKS.

Reykjaviks, July 12. The Italian flying boats took off at 6 am. for Labrador.

The city was early astir in anticipation of the start of the Italian flying-bosta on their 1,500 mile trans-Atlantic, hop. At 4.50 a.m. the airmen went to theiy| machines and examined their engines. When all was ready they took their places at the controls, General

Balbo gave the command to go, after which the machines rise one after the. another from 6.n.n.--Reuter,

MURDER PLOTS

IN TOKYO.

FRESH DISCOVERIES.

BY POLICE

Tokyo, July 12. FOLLOWING the arrests on Mon-

day night and Tuesday morn ng, the police are reported to have disevered a mumber of ting' of benzine last night, stored in a hiding-place with quantities of in- flammatory hand-bills, banners and other incriminating evidence, strengthening the belief that assassinations and

incendiarism had seen planned, in spite of the protestations of innocence on the part the arrested persons- Reûter

GOLD FEVER IN S. AFRICA

FORGOTTEN AREAS AGAIN BEING WORKED

Johannesburg-The higher price now being paid in the world's markets for raw gold is having the effect of turning attention to every possible source where gold may be obtained, and all over South Africa prospectors, mining engineers, and speculators are probing the pes- sibilities of old and half-forgotten goldfields long since abandoned.

Already there is intense activity at places such as Pilgrim's Rest, where the diggers toiled in 1971; in the Barberton areas, which have been neglected since 1883; in Klerksdorp, where operations ceased in 1900, and in the Heidelberg fields, of which practically nothing

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933

UNEXPECTED

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TRADE

YANGTSZE

DEPRESSION

Shipping Companies Hard Hit

NANKING, JOLY 12. REPORTS RECEIVED AT NANKING STATE THAT CHINESE AND FOREIGN SHIPPING COMPANIES WHO HAVE BEEN HARD-RIT BY BUSINESS DO PRESSION

THE YANGTZE PROVINCES, DUE TO A BREAKDOWN IN RURAL ECONOMY AND FEAR OF ANOTHER FLOOD ARE CONTEMPLAT- 1sti CONCERTED MEASURES то CORTIAL THE YANOTSZE SERVICES, -Reuter.

TOYS VIITTYTCTTTELI,

SOONG TO CONFER WITH MUSSOLINI

CHINESE FINANCE MINISTER

IN ROME

ROME, July 12. MR. T. V. SOONG, the Chinese

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Finance Minister, arrived here to-day at 7.10 p.m. After a brief stay he will continue his journey to China.

met at

train from the frontier and was Mr. Soong travelled hy special

Suvich and Signor Aluisi

the station by Signor Mr. Soong will see Banito Mussolini to-day.-Reuter.

Premier

SOVIET SABOTAGE

ON C.E.R.

Veiled Threat By Manchukuo

HARBIN, July, 12. THE Harbin Times, commenting

on the sabotage by Soviet ad- ministrators of the Chinese Eastern Railway and the unceasing ignor. ing of Manchukuo officials, thus preventing amicable administra tion of the Railway, states that this policy. will result in relieving Soviet administrators of all thority.

au-

Commenting on the, Tokyo Con ference on the sale of the Rail ing of the Manchukuo officials way, the paper suggests the recall- owing to the deadlock and the in sincerity of the Soviet representa tives in connection with the price has been heard since the Boer War of sale and the ownership of issues.

There are even reports of renew--Reuter. ed prospecting in the Orange Free State and at Kynson in the Cape Province, which have been closed since the middle of last century.

The most popular prospecting dia- trict of all, of course, is on the western extension of the present Rarid

in the region of Potchef- stroom and Klerksdorp, which were very popular mining areas between 1885 and 1800; at one time these fields produced as much as £100,007

in one year, but die wealth and progress of the Central Rand lured away the prospectors of those days and geological difficulties discourag ed the others,

Romantic tales are heing told of prospectors who have remained faithful to certain districts, con- tenting themselves with scraping R hard living from their finds antil

EUROPE CHINA FLIGHT

CHINESE PILOT MAKING

GOOD PROGRESS

RANGDON, July 12.

SUN TUNG KANG, who is flying left here

from Europe to Nanking,

Reuter.

for Bangkok to-day

PRESENT SITUA-

TION IN CHINA

the long awaited mining revival Criticised By London

takes place.

One old. Fellow, the owner of a once famous mine in the Northern Transvaal, for twenty years has lived in the lion-anfeated bush that surrounds his property waiting for the time when the bigher price of gold will make his mine workable again.

TALKS IN PARIS

MR. A. HENDERSON'S TOUR OF EUROPEAN CAPITALS

LONDON, July 11.

Times

NANKING GOVERNMENT

PRAISED

علی سام سال

BLOW TO WORLD

CONFERENCE

| AGREEMENT IMPOSSIBLE BY

MONETARY

SUB-COMMITTEE

CENTRAL BANK CO-OPERATION IMPOSSIBLE

DISCUSSION OF SUBJECT ENTIRELY PREMATURE_U.S. DELEGATION

AGENDA FOR VARIOUS SUB-COM- MITTEES BEING REMOULDED

London, July 12.

Another severe unexpected blow to the World Economic Conference struck this morning's meeting of the Monetary "Sub-Committee on technical questions which, after an hour and a half's discussion on the question of cen- tral bank co-operation,, it is understood "concluded that agreement was impossible and decided to report to the Bureau in this sense.

It is believed the American attitude, which coloured the debate, was that the discussion of the subject was entirely premature.-Reuter.

AMERICAN ATTITUDE RESENTED

for

Co-

and

London, July 12. British Delegution to the Econo- This decision not only curtails mit Sub-Committee the previously agreed prograrome, ¦ Ordination, Production but the American attitude is Marketing. resented by the gold bloe and is The communication gives the expected to have repercussions on opinion that the current high price level will not last, while in view of the uncertainty of world on remoulding the conditions the large excess agenda of the various committees of potential production over any

the whole programme.

Meanwhile, work is being con- centrated

on a basis of a modified pro-demand is probable for some time, it is essential to prevent gramine,

STATISTICS CITED

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U.S. DOLLAR WEAKENS Sterling Steady On Gold Currencies

LONDON, JULY 12. THE DOLLAR WHICH OPENED AT 4.851 ON TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE MARKET, AFTER FLUCTUATIONS WEA-' XENED TO 4.67 WHERE IT HAS THE APPEARANCE OF BEING HELD BY AMERICAN INTERVENTION,

STERLING REMAINS STEADY ON

· GOLD' CURRENCIES WITH FRENCH FRANCS A LITTT. WEAKEN AT 85.03. COMPARED WITH LAST NIGHT'S CLOSE OF 84.84.

COITPERTTERITVETTEFOTI 701 CONGRESS MAY- SUSPEND....

Civil Disobedience Campaign

POONA, July 12

THE Indian Congress leaders yes. terday conferred with Mahat- ma Gandhi as a preliminary to to-day's Congress Party meeting.

It appears certain that the Civil Dischedience campaign will be

suspended and replaced by a

structive programme. Government of India will mitigate If so, it is possible that the its attitude and release some of the political prisoners.

The India Office yesterday issu ed the following official communi-

que

The most flourishing section a relapse to the disastrous situa-papers, that Mahatma Gandhi had on the economic side is the tion which led to the world Sub-Commission for CdOrdina- agreement.. tion, Production and Marketing, which reported, that apart from continue on tin, coffee the wheat question, work can dairy products on finite proposals have been anb

mitted..

and which de-

USEFUL WORK ACCOMPLISHED

con-

Statistics are cited to support the contention that, taken in conjunction with s probably angniented production, and

THE S.S. TUNAN

TRAGEDY..

142 Casualties Reported

NONE MISSING FROM CHOSHUN MARU

Dafen, July 12. Nècording to a detailed account of the disaster given by an officer

DEPORTATION OF MR. L. SIMPSON

Case Raised In Commons

EDEN'S REPLY TO MR. LANSBURY

London, July 12.

The case of Lenox Simpson was. again raised in the House of Commons, to-day, at question • time.

Capt. Eden alter reviewing the published facts said in the cir- Cumstances all possible uppro- of the Choshan Maru only halfpriate action had been taken. of the s.s. Eunan's crew (100);

Mr. Lansbury stated that the and 86 of the 151 passengers House had not been informied were rescued, leaving. 168 miss that the Japanese Authorities | might have been rescued by theeral, at Harbin, that Simpson ing, although some of these had convinced the Consul-Gen- three Japanese steumers which

are still searching in the vicinity. therefore, was it not the Govern Was guilty of any offence,

Ruhrs that five Japanese sailors were drowned" were denied: there were no casualties amongst the passengers and crew of the Choshun Maru.-Reuter.

THE NANCHANG ·

CAPTIVES

Questions In House

Of Commons

EFFORTS TO LOCATE MISSING OFFICERS

over for the report in some news. "There is no foundation what

written to the Viceroy of India,

London, July 12. seeking an interview uncondition- Capt. Eden, when questioned ally, and stating that the Viceroy in the House of Commons with had replied that he was not pre-regard to the Nanchang, captives, Pared to consider any such requests said that the Japanese-Manchu adhered to the policy of civil dis- kuo authorities are taking new as long as the Indian Congress obedience. secondly a tin price of £100 perceived by the Viceroy from Mahat- the Nanchang officers are held steps against the bandits gener- "No such request has been really in the district in which tion, it is likely to cause a serious ma Gandhi.-Reuter and British increase in the supply of tin not under the Committee's control

existing scheme. and thus gravely jeopardise the

Mireless Service.

BRUTAL MURDER AT CANTON

CANTON RAILWAY

complished on timber, coal, wine Useful work has also been ac

and sugar while copper and Consideration of the gener cotton are already under sideration, but no delegato unade production, with particular re- question of the regulation of tin any concrete proposals thereonference to a continuation of a EMPLOYEE OF KOWLOON

The Secretariat has invited in- possible extension of the existing dividual delegations to submit a agreement, will he urged by the list of commodities they require British Delegation when the to be discussed in preparation of World Economie Conference the plenary meeting of the Committee on Co-Ordination, Economic Commission to-mor- Production and Marketing hegins its examination of the tin ques tion this afternoon.

row.

Agreement in a Fortnight?

LONDON, July 12

It now seems clear that the gen.

night.

A SINGULAR CONCLUSION Differences of gold countries ariti non-gold countries are cryptically summed up in a state-eral opinion among the delegates nent by the Mexican delegate, to the World Economic Conference declaring they had come to the is that there are a sufficient number singular conclusion that both of subjects to occupy the attention sides, are right. Pres. Roosevelt of the delegates, with some hope of is justified in not acceding to agreement within the next fort transitory stabilisation, while theIt is anticipated that the Plen position of delegates for stabilised ary Session of the Conference may currencies were equally justified, then be convened and its further work adjourned, it necessary, until BRITISH CABINET MEETING

autumn. The morning's Cabinet meet- ing was attended by Mr. R. MacDonald and all the British delegates. It is understood they considered the Conference situa- tion.

London, July 12.. The incident itself is chiefly

STEINHART IN LONDON . 18 a symptom of

Mr. Laurence Steinhart, the internal disorders, says

the newly appointed U.S. Minister a leading article on to Sweden, who, it has been re-

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STABBED

A particularly callous murder afternoon, Mr. Pau Cheung Hop took place at Canton last Sunday being the victim of a brutal re- venge planned by three of his ex- fokis who some time ago he had occassion to dismiss from his ser- vice for misconduct.

ployed by the Canton-Kowidon The late Mr. Pau, who was on Railway, was at the time of his death walking along the East Bund intending to pay a visit to his club. He was unaware of the fact however he was at this time employees mentioned above. After being shadowed by the three ex- following him for some one of these miscreants

distance Mr. Pau and managed to pick a overtook

The most important of several Mr. Pau of wrongfully dismissing quarrel with him. He accused of yesterday's private meetings was certain members of his (Mr. Pau's) that of the Conference Bureau, staff. The quarrel led to blows be which had before it the report of tween the two and suddenly the the Drafting Committee on work foki drew a dagger and stabbed of the Sub-Commissions of Mone- his former master in the stomach, tary Commission of the Conference a wound which eventually caused The first of these is dealing with death immediate financial measures and the other with permanent financial measures.

Adoption of Raport.

brief sitting of the

After

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ир

committed the crime, in the con- Ng Yau, who is alleged to have fusion that reigned and through a crowd gathering, managed to make

Fau's body was later removed to good his escape.

His two panions were however arrested. Mr.

nearby hospital.

com.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD

Another concern for a generation past has kept £12,000 worth of important machinery standing in the bushi always carefully oiled and greased.

To-day all these people are reap Times in ing the reward of their patience, the mutiny of three Chinese ported, will be "Roosevelt's and hoping that the World Econo cruisers. It declares that the re- third envoy to the U.S. Delega- Bureau, under the Presidency of mio Conference will so fix the price volution which of gold as to enable them to spend

was to have tion at the World Economic Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, there the rest of their days in comfort-unified Chim has had a contrary Conference able circumstances, if not wealth.

arrived from Newport was adopted. effect. Nevertheless, it finds the York to-day.

It recommended that the Sub. picture has a brighter side and When interviewed he described Commission on immediate measures DISARMAMENT gives as an instance the gallant the newspaper statements that he for financial reconstruction should effort being made by the Nanking is carrying new instructions from Proceed in the first instance, to the Government to put its house in Roosevelt as "grossly exagger- debtedness, and that the

discussion of the subject of in- order, revive trade and to estabated." He had a long talk with Sub-Commission, dealing with per- second lish authority in the Central Roosevelt before leaving, but manent measures should take

TO INCREASE SERVICE. Provinces.

he had received no instructions the resolution adopted by its sub-

committees on central bank

TO FAR EAST It adds that T. V. Soong has for the Delegation.

operation and on the creation of balanced, the Chinese budget, During his week's stay in Lon- central banks in certain countries MR. Arthar Henderson, President while the threats by Cantonese don, prior to taking up his where they do not exist, and THE Norddeutscher Lloyd will

LONDON, July 12, of the Disarmament Confer and Feng Yu Hsiang and other appointment at Stockholm, he pursue through its sub-committees ence, opened disarmament con- versations in Paris with M. Dala war lords

the examination of the question of war service to the Far East. Ac

resume, on August 6, their pre- to will meet delegation members unlikely Dier, the Fresch Premier, and M. provoke Chiang Kai Shek to but his visit is not of the charac-agenda which may by general their vessels will call at Dover silver and other subjecia on. the cording to the Daily Telegraph Paul Boncour, Foreign Minister.

It is understood that the discus distant civil wars.

waste his military strength in ter implied.Router.

agreement, be considered suitable instead of Southampton---Router. sion centred on international con-

If Chiang CONTROL AND PRODUCTION

for discussion. trol of armaments including those Kai Shek and his colleagues, can

OF TIN

Shipping Subsidies. manufactured in private factories. finally assert their authority ini

London, July 12, Az authorised by the General the Yangtaze Valley the petu-

Sub-Commission on Commission of the Disarmament lance of Canton, the ambitious Tín Committee to the World Bureau, yesterday decided, to apposed of representatives of France, sub different points of view, put for An appeal by the International sidies for merchant shipping, inward during its discussions,

conformity with the decision of the nference, Mr. Henderson will Kwangsi clique, or Feng will not Economic Conference for wider poins

The Drafting Committee is com rhold simlar conversations in need to trouble them much co-operation in the control of draw up a report embodying the Kingdom and the United States.

a Drafting Committee to Italy, Japan, Norway, the United r European capitals.—British cleas Service.

production was submitted by the (Continued at foot of next column) British Wireless Service.

Reuter.

are

The

Co-

captive. Efforts are being made to locate the two officers, who, tion) managed to escape on July it is reported (without confirma-

7, and rescue the other.

British Consular representa- | authorities the danger to the tives. luve impressed on the

officers of any direct military action against their captors. Reuter,

WE

ment's duty to discover why a British citizen had been dealt with, as it was known, without the disclosure of any charge, to the Consul?

Capt. Eden said the chirge was revealed.

Mr. Lansbury then intimated the matter would be raised again. -Reuter,

¡A message. dated London May 2 stated:-In the finuse of Commons, Mr. MacDonald said that the Consul General at Harbin had already protested at the threat to deport Mr. Lennox Simpson without a trial ja British Court under which alone a British subject, can lawfully be deported from Chineso Territory

He added that the Consul General had been instructed to protest strongly against this breach of treaty rights, while the Charge d'Affaires a Tokyo had been instructed to ask the Japanese Government to use its in- influence to prevent the threatened vio- lation of treaty rights.]

SILVER MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent)

LONDON, July 12: FOLLOWING ARE TAB SILVER QUOTATIONS ON THI LONDON MARKET TO-DAY :

Spor

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July 12 July.11 18.7/16 17.13/16

·FORWARD....... 19:9/10 18.1/16

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