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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1933

THE CORAL ISLANDS

NATIONAL STATE LOTTERY

THE SUEZ CANAL CO.

CHINA TO PROTEST; AGAINST FRENCH ACTION

TICKET 299281" WINS. FIRST PRIZE

Shanghai, July 31. The first prize of $500,000 falls to ticket No. 299287, which was old through the Shanghai Com- mercial Savings Bank.

Cantón, July 31. High officials of the South-west are paying great attention to the claim of France to occupy the Coral Islands and will take steps to retain Chinese sovereignty and In the presence of an enormous jurisdiction over the archipelago. throng at the Canidrome, the "Interviewed by the vernacular drawning of the First National Press, Mr. Hsiao Fu Chen, lead-State Lottery commenced early this afternoon, the results of ing member of the Kuomintang South-west Executive Committee, which are still coming in. said that the Kwangtung Provin- The first prize was drawn at

cial Government has been instruc- ted to file a protest with the French authorities, taking the position that these islands, in fact belong to China.

He said that the South-west authorities will announce to the world the justice of the claim and ask them to uphold Chinese in terests and righteousness."

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1.50 p.m.

seventeen minutes after the commencement. The drawing fell to Nor 226622 which an unsold ticket.

The Ministry of Finance, how half a million dollars as a special ever, replaced the prize money of

prize, the drawing for which took

late this afternoon. Reuter. The two second prizes were drawn by Nos: 263867 and 169614; the four third prizes were drawn by Nos. 268273, 241121, 148009 and 391224.

CHAIRMAN'S REPLY TO RECENT CRITICISMS

PAST AND PRESENT POLICY

OUTLINED

At the Annual General Meeting ed its policy on this collaboration, of the Suez Canal Company held which it would have been pleased in Paris on July 12, the Marquis to enjoy earlier but could not have

de Vogue (the president) said: found more cordial." The Suez Canal Company having! now completed two-thirds of its career can, like all human ventures, claim to have known both good fortune and bad fortune, both an proval and criticism. Without itself to be intoxicated by praise, yielding to adversity or allowing

its task and true to itself, while it has always remained faithful to endeavouring a proper under- the interests its shareholders with standing of its duties, to reconcile the interests of ita clients

. Features of Company's Policy.

most remarkable attempts at delu- often said, one of the greatest and sion that has been practised in mo-

Extremely bitter, criticism was THE CHARHAR SITUATION

levelled at it in its early stages, and from very high quarters Lord Palmerston, declared emphatical Turning to the Charhar sit- tion. Mr. Hsiao said that notwith. p.m. with more than ten thou-

The drawing finished at 8.15 That company is, as I have standing surface indication to the sand excited spectators gathered contrary, civil war between the to witness the proceedings.dern times." people's anti-Japanese allied Reuter. forces and the eleven Nanking divisions is likely to break out any time, the two opposing forces being only 50, miles apart. The outward calm, he said, is due to the humerous telegrams sent to Nanking opposing the use of force to adjust the Charhar situation.

Mr. Hsiao stressed that the eleven divisions are ordered for án attack in spite of the talk of pence. As regards the telegram sent by the South-west Political Council to Nanking warning that force should not be resorted to in suppressing the forces of Gen. Feng Yu Hsiang, Mr. Hsiao stat-

THE MUTINOUS

*CRUISERS

NOW UNDER CANTON CONTROL

Canton, July 31. Fornual appointments of the officers of the three cruisers Hai Chi, Hai Shen and Shuo Inve been made by General Chen Tsai Tang, Commander-in-Chief of the First Group Army, who is in-.

ed that no reply has been re-structed by the South-west Poli ceived.

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12 luore

tical Council to take control and direction of the three warships.

Ferdinand de Lesseps was not man to be stopped by obstacles. We all know the energy and faith with which he pursued his work and brought it to a satisfactory

THIS COTTON DUMPING

GERMANY NOW ACCUSES BRITAIN

Berlint, July 31. Import duties on cotton yarns bave approximately been doubled from August 1, following a pro- test meeting of German cotton "spinners at which they passed a ing of British cotton yarns de resolution stating that the dump- prives more than 20,000 German workers of employment. Reuter

REJOINDER TO U.S.A..

GANDHI AGAIN ON THE MARCH"

UNDERTAKES FRESH' SACRED MISSION.

Ahmadabad, July 30. Gandhi has decided to vacato. the Ashram at Sabarmati and to begin a fresh sacred mission in the cause of India's indepen dence.

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march of thirty-two of the The "mission" will begin with Ashram, including Mrs. Gandhi and fifteen other women.

They will march to a village in the Rus Kaira "district and will there invite the villagers to parti, cipate in a new civil disobedience movement.

Two features characterise this policy: In the first place it is the company's constant care to keep tial task. Hence that continual the Suez Canal equal to ita, essen-

depth has been increased successive JAPAN INCREASES CABLE tinue the march. effort to enlarge the canäl; its

then to 13 metres, its width at the

from 8 metres to 18 metres and bottom frein 22 metres to 45 metres. and then to 60 metres.the bends improved and the banks consoldiat- ed, all this being equivalent to the digging of a second canal, which was at one moment contemplated,

with greater safety... Hence also and thanks to which the largest vessels can pass more rapidly and the improvement of every descrip- tion intended to facilitate the operation of the canal, such as the construction of workshops and roads, the purchase of the latest and most powerful equipment bath for land and sea

The "Gateway" to the Far East. Passage through the highest cut (52 feat) of the Suez Canal at Ismailla.-Photo by Agfa camera mul film.

A MORE DRASTIC STEP?.

There is no change in the officers and personnel of the three Questioned whether

vessels. Rear-Admiral Keung Sai drastic step will be taken vis-a-Yuen (Chiang Si Yuan) is op vis Nanking, he said that all pointed commandant of the fleet. conclusion. As success grew, criti Again, there are the measure depends upon the developments Other appointments are as fol- cism became less severe, and later taken for the bengst of the in Charlar. Personally Mr. lows:-Capt. Yen Hung Hsiang, ceased altogether. With the econo- sonnel, such as dwelling houses, Hsiao believes hostilities in Char- commanding the Hai Chi, Com mic crisis, these criticisms have schools, medical services and hos har is a question of tinic, because mander Tang Ching, executive the more piquant since it comes at sports. Well-being is a perequisite reappeared. This reversal is all pitals, and the encouragement of General Chiang Kai Shek. Chair- officer; Capt. Kwan Chi Chow, a time when a further reduction of good work, a mere sumy of man of the Nanking Military commanding the Hai Shen, Com-in your dividend brings the total this immense effort shows how high Commission, regards as enemy

mander Chang Feng Jen, execu-

reduction it has suffered in the lastly the company rates its duty. those who take up the cudgels tive officer; Capt. Yang Shao

three years up to 26 per cent, Still None dervies more advantage there- Lin, commanding the Shao Ho, An enumeration of them fills 30

other mischief is laid at our door. Form than its clients. against Japanese aggression.

Commander Li Pao Lin, execu- pages of a voluminous report, s monument of error and male. company is managed in an volence, tending to prove that theThe intention of the company "ex has always been to associate its

?

In view of the determination of tive officer. General Chiang Kai Shek to sub-

suppression of the Chinese Char- har troops and the extreme dan ver to the nation, Mr. Hsiao stat ed that in such an event the South-west will lead the people to prevent such traitorous act. General Feng himself is of course angry by the mobilization of the Nanking forces but will avoid civil war whenever possible, Mr. Hsiao added.-Central Press.

Capt. Chao Chung Han is ap

Fleet.

than a "barrier.""

'Dividend and Charges,

RATES

In the event of Gandhi's arrest, it is announced that the "other members of the party will con-

UNREST ON N.W FRONTIER

BRITISH PLANES READY FOR RAIDS.

Brata, July 365 AN ultimatum has been delivered North-West Frontier, demanding to the Balauz tribe, on the the surrender of notorious agita tors

The tribesmen, who have been

with the terms of the ultimatum frontier, have failed to comply causing disturbed conditions on the

and an attack will be launched

upen them from "the air

bombers is standing-by, awaiting A squadron of Royal Air Force orders. They will begin bombing at dawn on August 1. following the expiration of the ultimatum.

British troops are also moving have threatened to attack against the Upper Mohamands, who the friendly Halimazi tribe: The a tack has not yet materialised but warlike jirgas have been held at which Bajauris were present. Router

BRITAIN'S LAST WARNING

Simla, July 81 Rifle fire fusillades were direct-

Gandhi told Reuter that he is contemplating something similar to the march to Dandi on March Tokyo, July 31.

12, 1930, when the civil dis- Following the American aboli obedience movement was launch- tion of Receiver To Payed with the breaking of the sulted by British aeroplanes when

announced a drastic increase in

warning him that villages would arrangements the Japanese De partment of Coinmunications has

they dropped notices at the Khar Headquarters of the Bajuri Chief Press Rates, operative from

be bombed at dawn to-morrow if August 1.

the British ultimatum to surren der agitators was not comphed

lows To Europe, 58 sen, and to The present rates are as fol-

China, 14 sen per word.

The Full rate charges will be come To Europe, Y2.44 and to China, 59 sen, but both the Press Rate and Full Rate charges are subject to change every three months in accordance with the. gold franc rate which, at present, is based on 71. sen-Reuter,

laws.

had been disclosed in a letter to He also stated that these plans the Viceroy which requested an interview, though the request was not accompanied by any threat or condition-Reuter."

BLIND GIRL SECURES

First Class Honours At Oxford

AMONG those who took first

LONDON, July 29.

class Honours in history in the Oxford University class lists, which were issued yesterday, is Miss Hozel Winter, daughter of the

JOHN O'CONNELL late Colonel Winter.

RELEASED

KIDNAPPERS RECEIVE

$40,000

NEW YORK, July 30,

well-known Democratic family

JOHN O'Connell, a relative of the

of Albany, N. Y. Stats, has been released by his kidnappers. ductors for more than three weeks He was in the hands of his ab- before negotiations were completed. payment of a

The initial demand was, for the

ransom of US $250,000, accompanied by a threat that John O'Connell, who is twenty-four years of age, would be shot if the police were called in,

It is understood that after con-

returned

mit to the Japanese involving the pointed staff captain of the fleet, travagant" manner, that British clients with its good fortune, and siderable haggling between the ab- The official title of the squadron interests are deliberately sacrificed that is the other. During these is known Kwangtung High Sen by it, and that for world trade last 30 years, reductions in the sentative of the family, the release ductors go-between and a repre- the Suez Canal is less a "bighway" transit charges have always kept was secured upon payment of a Commander Ting Chi Chang,

pace with increase in dividends, ransom of U.S. $40,000. These ridiculous attacks, a staff officer of the fleet, said in which we are pleased to note the most exactly, since the total of home ately.—Beuter. an interview that the organization shipowners have been no party, reductions in charges effected dur-

to They have balanced one another al The victim has now of the office of the commandant could be regarded by us as negli is the same as the other naval gible. However, there wae danger command and added that the of public opinion being misled and station for the three warcraft bas of harm being caused to the spiri- not yet been decided. Most like-France which is so necessary to the 1,680,000,000.

tual entente between England and ly, the men-of-war will be assign- whole world. ed patrol duties along the coast of Kwangtung and Hainan Island

We have therefore decided to re-

NO PROTEST FROM S. CHINA (From Our Special Correspondent)

etc." Canton, July 31.

Asked whether the three gun- While Chinese officials here are boats Yung Hsiang, Hai On and considerably stirred

over the Chu Yu are coming to Canton French. occupation of the nine Comander Ting said he has not Coral Islands, the French Con- yet received word from these sulate General at Shameen has gunboats.-Central Preis, received no protest from the Kwangtung Provincial Govern- ment or the Inspector General of Foreign Affairs.

BORDON CAMP INCIDENT

CHINESE PROTEST TO BRITISH GOV.

ply.

England's Participation.

"

ing that period represents a sum of 1,700,000,000 gold francs, whilst

the total of dividends distributed greater extent. While it is true annually, over and above the divi- that shipments from Europe to dend of 1884, amounts to Japan have fallen by half, ship. ments from Japan to Europe have nothing. trebled; here the tolls count for

own accord, waived, this parallel Moreover, the company, of its plan when, owing to the effects of the economic crisis, shipping found itself in ore straits; and in spite of the decrease in your dividends, two successive reductions

On the other hand, the Board of fr Trade shows that from 1831 to 1932 imports into England from all sources fell by 18.4 per cent., but in from countries beyond the Suez

for

England dropped as a whole by 8.6 per cent, while those to coun- tries beyond the Suez Canal in increased by 46 per cent. Where, therefore is the depressing influence of our tolls And what remains of all this commotion except that the tolls seem heavier to those countries whose currency has de preciated! The Suez Canal Com pany, however, is not responsible for this depreciation, and one can not see why it should be made the victim of it. (Applause)

A Task Loyally Carried Out.

and de Lesseps was to give his 68 centimes in 1931, have reduced ing the same period exports from The express intention of Ferdin- charges, of 25 centimes in 1830 and Canal by 3.8 per cent. only. Dar- enterprise a universal character, the transit charges by 15 per cent. and, for this purpose he had re. Thus the company, after having served blocks of shares for those shared its good fortune with its countries for whom he thought his clients, has itself shared their ill work, offered the greatest interest. fortunes. The participation of England, like that of France, was designed to be French circles in Shameen believe

40,000,000 francs but the diatribes.

Risks of the Undertaking. that whatever negotiations that

of the British Government had im may be taken up between China

The cutting of the isthmus of pressed capitalists, and and France over the occupation of

while Suez was the largest undertaking France subscribed nearly 104,000,000 ever attempted with private capital, the Coral Talands by the latter, the

fthat is 52 per cent. of the capital) French Government may consider

A substantial return was there and the other nations together fore legitimate. Is the return to the matter only with the Ministry

London, July 31. "

6,000,000, England only contributed day excessive Some people, in of Foreign Affairs in Nanking.

The Chinese Legation has later she realised her mistake, and initial capital of the company, but 42,500 francs. It was only 20 years order to assert this, point to the The islands, it is pointed out, lodged a written protest against the kindness of fate permitted her if, as is.only reasonable, one adds are more than 500 miles south of an incident during the recent to reap the fruit of efforts which to this capital the yearly sums Canton and cannot by any stretch military exercises of imagination be within the juris- camp, in which the word Chinese the Khedive Ismail was a master which exceeds Frs. 2,200,000,000 the and kept its promises within the

she had been unable to defeat. The appropriated from profits at Bordon

purchase of the 176,000 shares of works of improvement, the total of having loyally carried out its Task However that may be, the Suer diction of the Kwangtung Provin was used hurlesquely. Part of a stroke of Lord Beaconsfield.

Canal Company is conscious pl cial Government or the South-west Political Council. It is not a local brigade in operation, which was

ratio is far from being what some framework of its concession, incident arising within Kwangtung not a public spectacle, was rout by the force of events and not by cidence of our tolls on the price It remains none the less true that people say it is. As to the in- or Kwangsi, it is unofficially said, ing so-called Chinose bandits the will of its founder the Suez of goods, it is easy to show by yesterday draw inspiration from This policy will, to-morrow as and the French will decline to commanded by Generals Yo Yo Canal Company assumed from its unchallengeable statistics, that it is those two fundamental ideas which negotiate the dispute with the local and Rum Foo

origin' the character of a French very slight. Thus, for the year have hitherto been the cause of its Chinese authorities, an

The Legation observes that the times reproached on the other sidely low, it only exceeded 3 per cent. of cordial co-operation between undertaking with which it is some 1832, when prices were particular success the maintenance of a spirit Chinese officials declare that the Bordon incident followed a verbal of the Channel by people ill-in in very exceptional cases. Are all those who, in various capach, nine islands are the homes of hun protest against the inclusion of a formed as to its history. Yet it duction in charges, however great, ties, contribute to the carrying on dreds of Chinese fishermen from Chinese pirate junk in the Ports- has never taken advantage of this would not therefore have an ap- of our undertaking and the em chipelago sa the outposts of their month naval display. The ad- narrow nationalism For an overs much more heavily are they affect that the Suez Canal shall remain Kwanglung who regard the ar

in order to shelter itself behind apreciable effect on prices. How ployment of every effort to ensure Country just as much as Hainan miralty then deleted the word bearing selfishness. Island. They further declare that Chinese.

More than ed by Customs duties and by the equalto its high tank, so that only the lack of a strong navy has It is learned that assurances lice, the company has of its own

that, and incapable of bearing ma-currency wari prevented the stationing of Chinese will be given that the word Britain an important place on its

Egypt when the time comes for us to hand it back to bor, sball and warships permanently in those

accord given the interests of Great

in perfect working order the in- watera before the arrival of the Chinese will be ignored in future board, and it prides itself on, hay As to the volume of traffic, it is which in the past she confided to strament of progress and of peace French dispatch boats.

ing for more than 50 years found not affected by our charges to any the good faith of our company.

service events.--Reuter

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Trade Figuren,

Miss Winter was born blind, and all the text books required for her. University work were transcribed into Braille for her.-British Wire-

·Tea,

WORLD FLIGHT COMPLETED

MATTERN BACK IN NEW

YORK

New YORK, July 30. AFTER a whole chapter of ace- Jimmy Mattern,

dents, including two crashes, the American round-the-world flier, completed his journey to-day, arriving in New York aboard a machine fent to him by Canadian friends.

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It will be recalled that Mattern was lost for three weeks in the snows of Siberia.-Router.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE

MARKET

DOLLARS. WEAKEN TO 4.611

LONDON, July 31. fairly quiet with dealings on the The foreign exchange market was

(Continued' on next column).

with.

In the meantime, is column, of, Indian troops, supported by Mountain Artillery, has proceed ed to Dand to assist the friend- ly Halimzai tribe which is threat- ened with attack by turbulent Upper Mohammedans across the Afghan frontier. Reuter

"SILVER MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent)

LONDON, July 30. FOLLOWING ARE. THE

SILVER

ON THE LONDON

- QUOTATIONS

MARKET TO-DAY:

SPOT

July 30 July 20 17.15/10 18 FORWARD.... 18.1/16 18.1/16 THE LONDON ON NEW YORK CROSS RATE TO-DAY WAS: £1= $4.38

KIAOCHOW-TSI- NAN RAILWAY

TWO MILLION YEN PER MONTH FOR REDEMPTION

Nanking, July 31. The Board of Directors of the Kinochow-Tsinan Railway have yen mouthly for the purpose of decided to put aside two million

redeeming the railway from the Japanese, which would require about forty million dollars:-

Reuter.

amall side. Dollars opened at reacted to 4.58 but weakened again 4.52, were offered to up 4.03, then to 4.61Reuter.

Children

ake to 'OVALTINE' COLD

Instinctively

Youthful appetites are hard to please in the summer) Its food is eaten the need for energy-giving nourishment is

Cold "Ovaltine" is

refreshing but it supp nourishment

easily digested form enjoy this delightful tonic d

OVALTINE

The

Summer

delightful COLD Drink