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CHINA AIR

SERVICE

HONG KONG THE STUMBLING BLOCK?

MANCHUKUO VISAS BARRED

LATEST EDICT BY CANTON GOVERNMENT

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8. 1933

THE CN.C SQUABBLE

CHINESE TO FIGHT BRITISH CONCERN?

(From Our Special Correspondent) Canton, Aug. 7. The China National Aviation Corporation has no definite plans

Canton, Aug. 7. to start their air mail service with Passports and visas granted by South China owing to some diffi- the Manchukuo cannot have any culties in the way. It is felt that legal effect and recognition in Woosung" affaire, as Hong Kong has declined to Kwangtung province, and this permit their planes to land there ruling applies particularly to in regular flights, the South China foreigners and White Russians service would not be profitable who travel to China with pass without connection with Hong ports issued by the Manchukao

Foreign Office."

Such foreigners Kong.

will be denied entrance to any ports or cities of this province.

It is said that the officials of the Company will fly South on August 10 in order to take up the matter again with the Hong Kong

anthorities.C'entral Press.

ISSUE OF NEW BANKNOTES

BY KWANGTUNG BANK

CHARHAR DISPUTE

SETTLED

FENG'S TROOPS BEING WITHDRAWN

A CURIOUS TRIAL

ASSASSINATION OF CHAPLIN CONTEMPLATED

Tokyo, Aug. 7.

Peiping, Aug. 7. Canton, Aug. 71

The Charhar situation may be A curious element of tragi- Following the refusal of the Chine Navigation Company, Ltd. considered as settled, according to comedy was injected to the trial and the Kwangtung Seamen's the opinion of those in well- of military and naval cadets in. volved in the outrages of May 15, Union to adjust the so-called informed circles here.

General Heiung Ping, the 1992, by the revelation that the enterprising people have formed a sort of co-military councillor who participat perpetrators seriously contem operative society to maintained in the Shacheng Conference, plated the assassination of the shipping service between Canton when interviewed, confirmed the alm star, Charlie Chaplin, who report that an agreement had been was visiting Japan at the time. and other ports.

The Society is

reached for a peaceful settlement. The explanation given for this preparing articles of association or incor-

Troops belonging to Sung Cheb plan was:- Charlie is a popular poration and will submit then to Yuan, the rightful Chairman of figure in the United States and a the authorities for approval, The Churhar have already been sent particular darling of the capitalist plan calla for co-operation between from Shucheng to take over class. We believed that the kill

Hsuan Hua and as General Feng ing of him would cause a war merchants and the Kwangtang Hsiang's troupe have been with America and thus, so to

crew.

The Kwangtung Provincial Government is instructed by the Affairs to notify all municipalen's Union who will furnish Nanking Ministry of Foreign

This Society will and county officials to carry out therefore be in a position to have this ruling, and accordingly the a long sustained struggle with the various organs under the provin- China Navigation Company, it is cial government are notified to reported-Central Presk.

this effect.

(From Our Special Correspondent) | lience

Canton, Aug. 7.

Neither Chine nor any other foreign power "except Japan has recognised the bogus Manchukuo, its passports have no validity in Canton or anywéré in the Kwangtung, according to The Kwangtung Provincial notification of the provincial Bank to-day issued for circulation! government. This non-recogni- banknotes of 85 denomination for tion of the doctrine is further re- the convenience of the general inforced by the decision of the public. Steps are being taken to League of Nations not to admit issue also banknotes of $50 and the legal existence of this Japan. 8100 denomination. The newese puppet country, it says. notes released were printed by the This decision effects the White American Banknote Company. Russians more than any other Banknotes of other denomina foreigner, because they are living tons already in circulation are in Manchuris as exiles and cannot 91 and 810, but as it is desirable secure

passports from

Soviet to have 35 notes they are hurried Russia. It is learned that if ly stamped and circulated in the Russian emigrecs in Manchuria money market.

wish to come to China, they have to apply to the Nanking Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the nearest Chinese Consulate General for passports or vises if they have already secured passports from

MINERS DEFY "ROOSEVELT

PRESIDENT'S TERMS REFUSED

New York, Aug. 7. President Roosevelt has been defied by 20,000 Pennsylvania "coal miners who have refused to accept the President's settlement

terms.

meeting

જ્ઞ

The miner's Brownsville overwhelmingly voted

the strike continue, at least until "

Friday.

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some other country.

Non-recognition of the Manchu kuo includes the boycott of all their products to anywhere in Kwangtung in accordance with

recent decision of the South- west Political Conncil.

ANXIETY IN DUBLIN

It was stated on Saturday that CAUSED BY ADJOURNMENT

as a direct result of President Roosevelt's intervention a truce had been arranged in the Pennsy Ivania coal dispute, whereby 70.000 men would return to work. Existing hours and wages were to be maintained, pending con sideration of the whole problem by the Coal Code --Reuteri

50,000 Picket Frick Mine.

New York, Later.

Fifty thousand other miners -have decided to extend pickets at the Frick mine which the owners have announced, will be re-opened to-day.

The reason for the continuance

of the fight is attributed to the

inen's displeasure at the failure of

their leaders to recognise their local committees in the industrial: truce-Reuter.

MINERS REFUSE TRUCE

PRES. MACHADOS

REGIME

CAUSES REVOLUTIONARY STRIKES

withdrawn, Sang's troops will proceed to Kalgan.

Hsung Ping, when questioned regarding the repeated reports of the fall of Dolonor to the Japanese and Manchukuo troops, declared that the report was untrue" but added that the situation there was

critical.--Reuter

GENERAL WU'S VIEWS.

Canton, Aug. 7." Lieutenant General Wu Chung Chieh, executive officer of a route command of the people's anti- Japanese allied forces, arrived here to submit a report to the Havana, Aug. 7. conditions of the north-west to Military rule has been declared the leaders of the South-west. owing to widespread revolutionary . Concerning Nanking Charhar strikes against Fres. Machados relations, General Wu said that regime. There were several the Central authorities made casualties in street disturbances false charge that General Feng and serious rioting is reported in Yu Hsiang, Commander-in-Chief the interior, The American Am- of the people's anti-Japanese bassador has intervened but so far allied forces, is usurping power unsuccessfully.-Reuter.

this accusation was levied in order and authority in Charhar but that to discredit patriotic and high aims of General Feng.

FRENCH FLYERS CROSS ATLANTIC

Declaring that Nanking's pro- clamation that the Charhar issue will be adjusted by peaceful ̧ means, General Wu" asserted that LAST SEEN OVER RHODE Nanking troops are closing in on

ISLAND

PARIS, Aug. 7.

AT 8.22 p.m. yesterday evening

the two French Hirmen, M. Codos and M. Rossi, who left New York at 4.41 a.m. on Saturday, on an attempt to beat the British long distance fight record, passed over

Paris.

It is thought that they will com- fortably beat the existing record ary & by the British R.A.F. flyers of 5,340 miles established on Febru.

Kalgan and are reinforced by armoured cars.

ed

On the other hand, Manchu-

intö

CONDITIONS IN SOVIET RUSSIA

Struggling Through A Very Lean Year

“THE MACHINE OF SOVIET EXISTENCE

(By W. H. CHAMBERLIN, Special Correspondent to "The Christian Science Monitor."}

Moscow-To revisit the Soviet building activity which charne- capital after an absence of six terized the first Five-year Plan. months is to obtain a mixture of old There are fewer uptorn streets; and new impressions. Last autumn, fewer disorderly piles of dirt when it became generally known bricks, lumber and whatnot which that weeds had choked out a con- invariably mark a Russian construe siderable part of the harvest, it tion enterprise. The tacking on of was evident that Russia was facing additional stories to houses as a difficult winter and spring, so far means of providing supplementary as food supply was concerned. living quarters has ceased. Ore. While there is no actual starva hears nothing definite now about speak, we could kill two birds tion is Moscow, with every citizen the buge Palace of Soviets which with one stone. This haivete

was supposed to rise on the huge receiving a basic bread ration, sup assertion caused a titter of amuse-plemented to a greater or less de bare space caused by the destruction ment in the Court Room in which

of the Moscow Cathedral and s even the Judge and other atten-

number of adjoining buildings. All this is symbolic of the fact that dant officials joined -Reuter.

in the whole country' the emphasis to-day, is not on constructing new plants, but on learning how for existence. operate those which are already in

U.S. FEDERATION OF INDUSTRY

20,000 ADDITIONAL JOBS

grea by what he may get in his factory or office dining room, plus meagre and irregular supplies in the co-operative stores and purs chases at exorbitant prices on the free market, there certainly is un- the claasee which cannot benefit by dernourishment, especially among

publio dining rooms.

Bad conditions in the country dis tricts are eloquently attested by the numerous beggars, mostly peasants in bark shoes, and by the increas ing number of waits who may be seen on the streets. Grim stories of out-and-out hunger come from southern and south-eastern Russia, Washington, Aug. 7.

from the Ukraine, the North Cau- The formation of an American casus and from Kazakstan, where the Federation of Labour is pre-she wholesale perishing of their federation of industry similar to the nomadic natives seem to have suffered very much as a result of dicted by the development nation-

livestock. at recovery campaign..

Not All PessİMİATA. General Johnson has approved Yet the agricultural atmosphere a temporary code of the meat is not altogether surcharged with packing industry providing for a pessimism. Following the All Union forty-hour week for 140,000 embers" of collective farms in Mos- Congress of "shock brigade mem- ployees, resulting in 20,000 addi- cow last winter there have been tional jobs.-Reuter.

more recent local congresses in the Middle Volga region and in the Tartar Republic, where successes in improving labour discipline and pro- ductivity are reported:

INESE * BOYCOTT

New York, Aug. 7. The anti-Chinese boycott in the

H

kuo irregulare ander Li Chi State of Tampalipas has been Chun have been incorporat-extended to Tampico, according to the regular units the Times of Mexico City. Reuter, of the Nanking armies," General Wu said. Furthermore, these pro-Japanese soldiers are given a compassionate grant as an couragement for their adherence to General Chiang Kai Shek.

**It is therefore clear that Man-

en-

with the fight from England to chukuo irregulars are the allies of Walvis Bay, South Africa.

Japanese

Press.

MRS. GANDHI RE-ARRESTED

The figures of the spring plant- ing are optimistic, indicating that in the middle of May the area under cultivation WB6 about 25,000,000 acres more than on the same dute last year. Of course fundamental relief of the present food string- ty and definite upturnin grietural output can only be ex- pected after the new harvest is gathered. Then it will be more possible to forecast the future of collective farming.

Bread and Circuses,

Bread and vircuses" is an old, Roman recipe for governing. While the provision of bread in the Sovies Union certainly leaves something to be desired, the situation is better as regards amusement and recrea tion..

A successful theatrical season iş coming to an end with a carnival in which all the bost theatrical and operatic troupes will present their outstanding performances. Big

in the stadia help to keep the Jounger generation fit and active.

Moscow" seems, almost restful-in the sense that no big changes in the established social orden -sċem

sport meets in the city parks and

grooves; one witnesses the annunt possible. Life flows along familiar spectacle of the workers in an in- dustrial centre (Tuda was selected this time) beseeching the Sovich Government to issue a loan, to which subscription of three weeks* pr a month's wages, must be unani- mous, but at the same time "volun tary." Gregory Zinoviev and Lea Kamenev, ousted from the Commu- hist Party last autumn, havo learn- ed the error of their ways and have published the standardized grovel- ing recantations which are almost

as typical of Soviet life as First of May parades, food queues and crowded street cars ;.

So the machine of Boviet exist- enco rumbles on One suspects that the man behind it have one eye of In the meantime Russia is simply the coming harvest, another on pos- struggling through the far end of a sible Japanese expansive designs in distinctly lean year. A list of the the Far East, with perhaps an oc food rations allotted to the unem-casional hopeful glance in the direc+ ployed of Milwaukee excites won- tion of Washington, since Roose

velt's direct communication of his dering amazement among the Rus sians to whom it is shown. "It disarmament message to President looks like the ration of a respon nace. The responsible worker" iu Russia is the holder of an important Soviet or Party post.

Ahmedabad, Aug. 7. Mrs. Gandhi and fifteen other OF DAIL

In spite of encountering violent Nanking and that the anti-women congressites were released London, Aug. 7. storms while crossing the Atlantic. Japanese allied forces are its from gaol to-day but were re-sible worker," said one acquaint There is an uncomfortable feel the Frenchmen wirelessed that all enemies. This is really disheart-arrested on refusing to remove to ing in Ireland. that the adjourn was well and that they still had éning. And yet the Nanking the specified area:-Reuter. ment of the Dail till August 92,500 litres of fuel left. They will Government is daily talking of.

If the food situation is very will be followed by troublous continue to fly eastward aa far a prolonged, resistance against the

much what might have been anti- times. Ominous evidence fuel will permit.

aggression. Central PIRATE TREASURE cipated last autumn there has been marked improvement in the supply afforded by armed police and civic

of manufactured goods. For the guards patrolling the Free State

REHABILITATION OF

PROFESSOR AND AN ANCIENT ärst time in many years suits, shoes Parliament House and Govern

CHARHAR

CODE.

and furniture may be stocked up in ment Buildings in Dublin, while

Peiping, Aug. 7.

stores without attracting hordes of a close watch is being kept on

Ho Ying Ching told Press-men

Santiago, Chile-Mr. Richard E. eager customers. Part of this tem- callers.-Reuter.

world's record flight of 8,887 miles this morning that the rehabilita- Latcham, who left Bristol, Eng-porary appeasement of the chronic goods famine" may be attributed on a close circuit, made an attempt tion of Charhar will be tackled by land, 40 years ago to seek his for- to increased production; part to the

tune on the west coast of South on the British record three days Sung Cheh Yuan as soon as he America, has been engaged private fact that people spend abnormally after the completion of the RAF reached Kalgan, using his dis-ly by a Chilean Government de large proportions of their incomes

Accompanied by M. Boussoutrot, cretion concerning the irregulars partment to find hidden treasures on food.

Sale of Extra Bread. he left Paris on February 11, but under Feng.

THE CORAL ISLANDS

FRENCH OCCUPATION BEING STUDIED

Brownsville, Aug. 7.

Canton, Aug 7. Seventy-thousand Pennsylvania The Coral Islands and the miners have now refused to accept situation in Charhar were dis- the truce to which their leaders cussed by Mr. Tang Shao Yi with and mine owners' agreed to upon representatives of the Press last Pres. Roosevelt's intervention. Saturday. He said that the ques They have decided to continue the tion arising from the French oc- strike because they are dissatisfied cupation of the nine Coral Islands that-their leaders have not gained is being studied by the Kwang. the owners' recognition of the tung. Provincial Government. United Mine Workers' Union.— "Reuter.

·U.S. MISSIONARIES FLEE

AND TAKE REFUGE AT

AMOY

The Frenchmen are piloting the monoplane "Joseph Le Brix" which carries 1,770 "Gallons of petrol and is equipped with short ware wireless.

M. Rossi, who together with M. Boussoutrot jo holder of

Aight.

-Reuter.

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Kalinin has aroused hopes that a end of the American traditional policy of complete aloofness from the Soviet Union may soon be in sight.

DUCHESS OF YORK WINS BOTTLE OF BEER

SUCCESSFUL FISHING AT LONDON GARDEN PARTY

The Duchess of York won a bote tle of Beer at a garden party in London in aid of the Princess, Elizabeth of York's Hopital for Children, London.

It was a prize in a fishing com- petition. Patrons were given rods. with which to try to hook dummy bottles of champagne, whisky, and beer and if successful received bot- tles of the genuine thing.

was forced down the same day at Concerning Dolonor, he said it Casablanca. The pair had planned to By non-stop to South America. Was untrue that Japanese and Manchukno troops had already entered that city, though there had been a concentration at Wei- chang for several days in pre-

at elever enough for hoop la Mm. Godos, and Rossi sent a wireless message to the aerodrome paration for an advance.

Flyers Hear Vienna,

MUNICH, Aug.7.

gold and silver which are re- puted to have been buried in the Atacama desert by seventeenth century pirates who were known as "Brothers of the Black Flag."

Mr. Latcham, who is director of the Natural History Museum here, was chosen to lead an expedition to the desert regions, because he is the greatest Chilean authority here at 12.90 a.my stating that they He had informed the Japanese on ethnology, archaeology, and folk expected to pass over the city authorities of the changed Char-lore. If he fails to decipher the within a few minutes, and would har situation and had requested secretly coded documents of the pirates which have been discover continue to Vienna. Up to 1 a.m., them to communicate with the ad, the search will be abandoned.

ever, their plane had not been Kwangtang Army, asking that sighted.

It is presumed that the Blers instructions be issued to Japanese missed Munich, or were flying too troops to cease their advance on

Dolonor, qu'onde anal gi high to be observed.-Reuter,

The withdrawal of all Japanese troops from the P.M.R. is expect ed to be completed to-day, but is still deadlocked, the Japanese the resumption of through traffic

insisting that trains be run to Mukden. Reuter,

Mr. Tang expressed a fear that since the French has occupied the

Petrol Supply Diminishing, Coral Islands, France or Japan

Vienna, Aug. 7. may vie for the occupation of the Siaha Islands which are undering Rumania en route to Aleppo, Codos and Rossi are now cross Chinese flag and jurisdiction.

In view of the outbreak of which they hope to reach before hostilities between the Nanking their fast diminishing petrol sup divisions and the people's anti-Ply gives out. Failure to reach Japanese allied forces, Mr. Tang Aleppo may cost them the long- Peiping, Aug, T

said that such happening is not distance record. The flyers have Foreign advices state that unexpected, since the Central wirelessed that their petrol con- determined fighting between the authorities do not desire resistance sumption. is abnormal, possibly famous Nineteenth Route Army against the Japanese, Although due to a leak in the tank. and Communists in the Lungyen the South-west have received no diatrict, 120 miles west of Amoy, confirmation of this skirmish, The fliers passed over Rhode has forced American missionaries Mr. Tang said that members of

10.30: 8.m.-Reuter, in that area to flee to Amoy. the South-west Political Council For fear that the fighting might Council will issue a solemn warn spread to Amoy the U.S. Navy ing in this connection during the of the South-west Political Coun- has sent the patrol boat Fulton next few days.

cil, and Press reporte stating he by at Mr. Tang is on rotation daty has left Canton for Tang, Chia

are re-assure this week as a standing member Wan Amoy in order to

incorrect Central American citizens there.-Reuter."" (Continued at foot of next column)' Press.

from Foochow to

Island

Later

SILVER MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent)

--LONDON, Aug. But FOLLOWING ARE THE SILVER „QUOTATIONS - ON THE LONDOM" -MARKET · TO-DAY:

Aug. Ang 4 SPOT..............i 127 Jan 177

· FORWARD J. (19)

187 THE LONDON ON NEW YORK: CROSS RATE TO-DAY WAS: £1-* $4.501

The Brothers of the Black Flag," according to Mr. Latcham, were Oriental pirates, for the most part Egyptiane, Araba and Jews, who operated in the Spanish Main between 1606 and 1630. Their base had been located on the northern Chilean coast and it had been

their secrets. ascertained that they had used five different languages to maintain'

The Anglo-Chilean refused to divulge the exact place where he was at work but admitted that his area of research had been reduced from 25 to: seven aquare miles. He added that although his employers were primarily, interested in "find- ing the treasure he himself was absorbed in the scientific aspect of the expedition, which had already made valuable: subterranean dis-. coveries in the Atacama desert.

In modern industrial develop ment we have largely lost sight of the fact that the primary, TERSON, for industrial enterprise is to fur- nish livelihood to workers, Donald R. Richberg, counsel for U.S. railroad labour organizations.

If a long queue of waiting Mus covites & few months ago usually meant the arrival of a new con- signment of shoes or textiles, such At the hoopla table the Duchess line to-day, as a rule, indicates tried for a sceny, spray, and when either a sale of extra bread or a she did not quite manage it she supply of newspapers. For shortage commented It's no good I am of paper has created a curious newspaper famine in Moscow; and it is now something of a privilege if a Soviet citizen is permitted to subscribe for the leading news papers, Izvestia and Pravda,

In strolling about the streets one senses a slackening of the frantic

The Duchess, who was wearing a long coat and frock of rose beige silk crepe and a hat of fancy straw some hidden treasure, and watched to match also staked a claim for a display of dancing by pupils of Miss Italia Conti

The rich goodness con- tained in Ovaltine is obvious as you drink it, For giving & maintaining Health it stands supreme

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