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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1933.

REICHSTAG FIRE HOME RACING FEAR OF WAR IN NORTH CHINA PARTIAL END OF INTERNATIONAL

TRIAL

Dimitroff's Sister Gives Evidence

Leipzig, Sept. 25. The Court is still engaged in probing the political past of the Reichstag fire accused. There is not yet any sign in the "evidence of the outbreak itself.

Dimitroff's sister gave evidence this morning, when she exchang- ed frequent affectionate smiles with her brother till the Judge told her to desist "ts this was a serious business." She was not sworn in because she is a relative of the accused and is entitled not to reply to questions if she does not wish. She described the efforts to brief a leading Paris Counsel for her brother's defence and quoted ber brother's letters howing that his activities were entirely connected with Bulgarian Communism,

Call-Over For Cesarewitch

London, Sept. 25. Following are the latest call- overs for the Cesarewitch and the

Cambridgeshire:---

Cesarewitch.

Quiscard 8/1 t and o Ximenes 100/9 t and o Negro 100/80 18/1 Beau' Frere 18/10 201 Erain 20/10

Sandals 22/1 t and o Roi de Paris 12/1 o Nitsichin 22/1 o

Statesman 25/1 o 28/1 t Loose Strife 28/1 t and Blandearna 33/1+ and o

Cambridgeshire.

Coton Easter 20/1022/1 4 Andrea 25/128/1 €

CANTON NEEDS

TAX ON RICE

Dimitroff was twice wained to To Protect Farmers hehave himself.-Router.

And Public

SWISS FRONTIER (From Our Special Correspondent)

VIOLATED

Armed Nazis Cross Border

Zurich, Sept. 23.

Canton, Sept. 25. We need a tax on foreign rice, to protect farmers and the general public, because almost 80 per cent. of China's population are engaged in farming and agriculture," declared Mr. Ou

ANOTHER alleged serious viola-Fong Po (Ou Fang Pu), Provin

Ten armed Naal "Storm Troops" crossed the frontier in pursuit of three Germans, whom they arrest- ed and maltreated in the presence of a solitary Swiss frontier guard.

The Nazis then took the three

prisoners.-Reuter.

fugitives back into Germany as

BRITISH RAILWAYS

Weekly Earnings £119,000 Up

months is absolutely false.

about

Fang Defies Japanese

Militarists

NATIONAL

PERNMENT

JAPANESE PLANE, DROPS BOMB

NEAR SHUNYI

Peiping, September 25.

The situation created by Fang Chen Wu appears to be getting more serious every day.

It is now stated that Peiping stands in danger of at tack, against which the local authorities are helpless until the advancing forces cross the Tangku Armistice line, a few miles from the City, as the Japanese authorities at Chan chun still refuse permission for Chinese troops to enter the demilitarised zone in order to clean up Fang Chen Wu and his allies.

According to some well-informed Chinese sources this is a move by Fang Chen Wu, Tang Yu Lin and their allies to oust the present Peiping regime.-Reuter.

FANG'S ASQUITHIAN ATTITUDE

patriotic and not anti-Japanese and

mavement was purely to march into' Eualju.

Squabble Over, Pas Yu Lin,

Nanking, Sept. 25. Mr. Wäng”“” Ching Wel, president of 'the 'Executive: Yuan, had a con-- ference to-day with Mr. Huang Fu, chairman" of the Pelping Political "Affairs Readjustment » Committee, with regard to the situation in north China,particularly concern ing the removal of Lieutenant General Pao Yu Lin às police chief of Peiping.

Owing to strong opposition of the Pelping populace and the north eastern generals, the removal can- not be erected at once, but it is understood that Messrs. Wang and Huang will devise a means to this end.

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The removal of Police Chief Pao | is in accordance with the decision of the third "Kuling conference, which decided that all the police chiefs in Tientsin, Tainan and Taintao must be removed and ré- placed by members of the Blue Shirt party,

Such change is necessary because the situation in North China while

C.N.C. STRIKE

But Woosung Affair

Still Unsettled

(From Our Special Correspondent)

in

ZINC CARTEL

To Be Dissolved In November

Amsterdam, Sept. 95. A DUTCH Press report says the International Zinc Cartel has decided to dissolve on Oct 31: The proposal emanated from the Bel-

The cartel meets at Brussels on

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Canton, Sept. 25. Owners of cargo stored the godowns of the China Naviga- tlon Company. Etd. are taking gian group. delivery of their property, as the warehouses. were thrown open Sept. 30. from 10 am to-day for a perlock of three weeks. Meanwhile the Woosung affair remains unsettled. No Taikoo steamers come to Canton as their cargo cannot be fore Commissioner of Customs F

At a hearing last October: be discharged here owing to the boy-X 4. Elbe representatives of cott by the Kwangtung Seamen's American manufacturers testified Union.

that Japanese importations of electric light bulbs had risen to about 20 per cent. of the total American consumption. and that of. last year 18.000.000 Tamps were brought in- to the country.

U.S. ANTI-DUMP September

ING ORDER

D. S. Yuogholm of the Weating- house electric company with fac- tories making laraps in New Jer

nominally ander General Ho Ting Hits Two Japanese sey, testified that 71,000,000 bulbs

Ching, minister of war is really In the hands of the north-eastern, and north-western generala. Hence the police chiefs connected with these generala must be disinissed.

Central Press

Products

orders

U.S. COTTON LOAN against incandescent lamps and

TO CHINA

Washington, Sept. 19. Another blow was given cheap Japanese Imports to-day when the Treasury department nounced anti-dumping'

rubber soled fabric-top shoes from Japan.

The orders sald had been found that import of these articles W34 likely to injure domestic industry and "kely to

Japanese Advised Not be sold in the United Siates"äte

To Buy

less than their fair value.”

were imported in the first nine months of 1933 and that as a rem sult 2,000 persons were thrown out of employment.

Similar complaints were made earlier against the importation of Cheap Japanese rubber-sole, can- vas shoes and demands made for an increase of import duties. N

More allegations that Japair was dooding the American market with 'cheap' goods following the decline of the yen were made at another hearing held by the ens toms bureau, protests being made: by producers of matches and can ned fish.

Relief without awaiting action by. "Congress... is available chiefly through anti-dumping orders and by the flexible clause of the tariff act of 1930, but lengthy hearings are necessary in any event

Some countries, notably France, have provision for Immediate executive action" to: raise duties to offset currency depreciation),

NO NECESSITY FOR INFLATION!

President Hoover asked the For more than a year domestic.

federal tariff commission to In manufacturers of these products vestigate the whole tarif schedule Peiping, Sept. 25. Japanese had

nave been urging that the govern- to determine whether"many com=” Fang Chen Wu quickly replied Chinese advance

not stopped the

ment take action and, a series of modities were adequately protect at Kuruan re- cently, the

Tokyo, Sept. 22. tion of the Swiss frontier by cial Commissioner of Finance, iu to the Japanese ultimatum

Government troops German "Storm Troops," occurred an address at the weekly memo-Japanese sources a delegate from whereas the Japanese complaintese Nationalist government in- dis-

hearings was held last year, buted in the face of depreciated According to well-informed would have cleaned up

Oficial Japan is behind a major action was delayed.n

foreign currencies.” Fang. difficulty experienced by the Chin early yesterday morning at Otter- rial service this morning..

Similar protests have been made bach, near Basel.

Fang called on the Japanese Mill caused the Chinese troops to fall posing of the American cotton pur dominions and in a

Great Britain and various number of tary Attache here, stating that, back, leaving Fang Chen Wu free chased with the recent 850,000,000 European countries: Kwangtung consumes

Fang's 90,000,000 piculs of rice yearly,

including loan from the Reconstruction Fin-Holland and Germany, against a Mr. Ou said, while imported rice asked

One paper declars that it is the Japanese

ance Corporation, it was learned food of cheap imports since Japan. *army is about 9,000,000. picule. In "walt and see."

to contended that the Japaness to-day at the foreign office. They refuse to ultimatum shows a determination

left the gold standard in Decem- view of the fact that Kwanging to reach the suburbs of Peiping in not have been better done than sentatives of Finance Minister T. withdraw from Huaiju and expect to suppress Fang but this could ed at Shanghai, to which repre-

The Japanese cotton mills locat- ber, 1931. and anti-dumping bar takes up only one-tenth of foreign a few days and hope the Japanese by allowing Chinese troops Intov. Soong offered a portion of the

riers erected in many instances: - (Continued on next Column). rice, Mr. Qu declared that the army will refrain from action till their own territory. to clean him statement by rice merchants that then The Attache then trans-up, the Chinese troops then. with least for the present upon the cotton, declined to purchase at

for consumption of only three chun and it is reported that forinity with the spirit of the minister to China, it was learned. Kwangtung grows enough rice mitted the reply

to Chang- drawing, which would be in con-advice of Akira Ariyoshi, Japan's the reply is not satisfactory Tangku Truce for after all the and that measures will be taken Demilitarised Zone belongs to Artyoshi told the spinners that Because of keen foreign com- against Fang at the expiration of China.”

the purchase probably was against petition, native rice is sold at $3

the ultimatum.

The papera ait why the Japan-Japan's national interests

and It is reported here that the ese or 84 apicul, yet there is no Kwangtung Army has decided on Zone pointing out that the sud- the Japanese public, because of allowed Fang to enter the likely to arouse the resentment of Another material improvement market for it, be continued. Each bombing operations on the morn den Japanese determination to the likelihood the funds the Nan- in traffic receipts was recorded by year China importes rice, lumber, Ing of Wednesday, while it is also oust them would come better if it king government realized would the four main line railway com-wheat and cotton to the amount under orders to enter the demili-Fang from entering the forbidden tion or the purchase of arms which

the Nishi Brigade is had come early enough to prevent be used for anti-Japanese agita panies last week, says a Home of 81,800,000,000, and Kwang-tarised zone from Kupeikow in or- territory Reuter

might be used against Japan or tung alone spends every year der to take action against Fang

for civil war. 8100,000,000, on foreign rice, Chen Wu-Reuter." The total earnings were $80,000,000

Peiping, Sept. 25. and sugar

Nanking Worried. £119,000 higher than for the, cor- 8700,000 on oranges, grapes ap- Chu Min Y1, Secretary General tsin and is conferring with Shih The Chinese press declares that Nanking, Sept. 25. Fang'a delegate is visiting Tien- responding week last year. ples, etc.

of the Executive Yuan, stated this Yu San, who is living in "the "If we go on spending accord-morning the Government is greatly Japanese concession there. ing to these figures, the countryed by Fang Chen Wu and Chi cemed over reports that Japanese exercised over the situation creat- Chinese circles are gravely con- will be impoverished," Commis- sioner Ou asserted. The de-marching in the direction of Pel-Special Police at Miyun in the Hung Chang whose troops are troops yesterday disarmed 120 pression in recent years is due to ping through territory demilitaris- Demilitarised Zone; explaining the diminishing capacity to buy ed by the Tangku Armistice. commodities on the part of the farmers, and their poverty is largely attributed to the close of the rice market in favour of for sign products. Consequently, to revive prosperity, we have to help the farmers by giving them protection in the local marketa."

paper.

Notable features of the returne

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reported

Fang-Japanese Alliance?

that the step was nécessitated by the unsettled, situation and stat-

A foreign office spokesman" stat-

to revise the stand he has taken." instructions from Tokyo but that ed that Ariyoshi lacked specific the "foreign office had no reason

the cotton at. Shanghai most dif- proceeds Nanking will realize from

President Roosevelt Takes Firm Stand

BATTLE AGAINST DEPRESSION TO BE INTENSIFIED

Washington, Sept. 25,

Authorities here expressed the opinion that the Japanese refusal to purchase will make marketing

ficult and seriously reduce the 'net

No New Move On Inflation. the loan.

It is learned Mr. Roosevelt sees

Washington, Sept. 25.1 The White House Conference at-. The Japanese milis at Shanghai no necessity for inflation as long cent of the cotton consumed in are responsible for about 75 per as the Government is able to bor-cretary of Treasury, Mr. William

tended by the United States Be

Meanwhile, conservative"

advisers are urging a redefinition of the monetary polley and control of the dollar exchange.

Woodin and the Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank Board; ME, Black and other experts, open- ed yesterday at 9 pm.

are that, for the first time for many months, receipts from minerals, including coal, show an increase over the corresponding week of 1932; and that the Lon

Chu Min Yi declared the au- don, Midland and Scottish pas-

utmost to liquidate the situation, turned when normality returns thorities, while exerting... their ing that their rifles would be re- senger receipts for the year to

would endeavour to leave room for though it was generally under China When they rejected offers row at moderate interest, suma date (34 weeks) are actually in

a compromise in order to spare stood that the Special Police were made by Nanking omdals it was needed for recovery, excess of those for the first 34

North China further military there for the purpose of main reported at Shanghai they were weeks of last year,

trouble. He added that the branch of taining those normal conditions.holding out for lower price be the Military Council in Felping During the past five weeks the

had been authorised to deal with ultimatum to Fang stande, and led the market

The President's secretary stated In the meantime, the Japanese cause they considered they control receipts for all classes of traffic

the matter and that Huang Fu is North China is watching anxious-

*

that the purpose of the Conference Shanghai dispatches reported the

was to review the financial situa are £502,500 higher than they

returning to the North within a ly to see what steps the Japanese Chinese are faced with losing

tion, particularly with a view to few days. were in the comparable five weeks

will fake on September 28, Huang Shaoh

„- heavily on the loan - Additional Although the latest figures, since ensuring that credit is available Siung when According to Chinese reports," dimenities are the demands from the inception of the NIRA” in to agriculture and industry. he returned of 1982; those for passengers KILLED BY 66,000-VOLT China, via Kuling, also professed dens any connection between proceeds of the cotton sale and most cases, re-employment is over over, was contemplated immediate -

here from North although the

Japanese ✨ firmly many interests for a portion of the March, show no improvement in being £961,000 up, freight £288,000

anxiety over the Fang Chen Wu Fang Chen Wu's movement and also of the wheat bought with a two million. up, and

movement as well as the prevalence themselves or the Manchonkio, portion of the loan and the pro- £146,600 down.

of banditry in the Luantung re- the Japanese milkery appear to tests of established importers of gion.--Reuter,

be at least on speaking terms American cotton against any sale Japanese Air Bald.

with Fang was it is stated that below the market price: yesterday a Japanese 'officer from Miyun visited Hallu, which is a

minerals

BODY-LINE BOWLING

Deprecated In South Africa

Johannesburg, Sept. 23. THE South African Cricket As

-FLASH

Tragedy At New £6,000,000 Power Station

the new £6,000000, Battersea Dow

Felping, Sept. 25. A Military Council communique few miles, to the west of Migur issued this evening states that at

A man who touched a switch at 3.20 p.m. to-day a Japanese plane and had a long conference with. new over Shungi, north of Fel-Fang Chen Wu and, though the er station received a shock of 66,000 ping, circled several times and been reinforced, this has not pre- Japanese troope at Miyun have

volts, and was terribly burned by

then dropped one bomb, one Li

JAPANESE DUMPING

The battle against depression is likely to be intensified as Gen. Jahnson" "plaris. inaugurating. gigantic "Buy Now" campaign on Oct. I for stimulating circulation of monty,

No new move on indiation, how-

cepted as eliminating the probabl This statement is generally ac

Hity of any direct inflation of cur arency, at least, for the present and

indicating that the Government will do their utmost to put into circulation, the huge frozen" de postts of closed and restricted) banks.

The Government's new Plan co- ordinates the four Federal agencies Shanghat, Sept. 22. Chinese spinners were tuputh with a view to releasing tied up dea

It is understood that the Con

of releasing such

a great fame that burst out with east of the city, and flew off in a chiang, the former : Feng Yu atas to-day against what they/Posita, placing hanks on a sound/ference da centred on the Problem

a noise like an explosion.

The man, Herbert Cryer, aged |` forty" of Mayfair-avenue, Ilford, a Metropolitan-Vickers' foreman, was rushed to St. Thomas' Hospital, where he died, soon after admis ston,

Three other men suffered from

sociation decided yesterday not shock. to follow Australia's example of legislating against "body-line"

INTO "LIVE" SECTION." }

bowling, but passed a resolution - An official of the London Power deprecating the deliberate use of Company said that Cryer had a bowling liable to intimidate or in- permit to Inspect exterior switch jure a batsman,

band gear which was "dead,” but he went inside into the "live" section for some unaccountable reason.

The opinion was expressed that this undesirable practice should

"I can only presume,” added the

not be counteracted by giving momcial, that accidentally he pires greater power...

The Association appeals to all Unions to use, the best endeavours to discourage the use of such bowl- ing and trusts that all captains will always exercise their author ity to maintain the spirit of the game. Reuter

north-easterly direction-Reuter. Hsang subordinate, from taking say is the dumping- of Japanesefooting, reconstruction of finance

Chinese Comment,

Pelping, Sept. 25. All responsible Chinese papers here this morning editorialise bitterly against Japan concerning the Fang Chen Wu movement.

They complain that if the

MORE FIGHTING REPORTED

Kiukiang, Sept. 25. There are rumours here of heavy brushed against the 86,000-volt | fighting in the Nanfeng “and Kian. switch He must have been burn-areas.

ed almost beyond, recognition, for Last week was full of incident the fame Izom such a contact, to in Kiukdang, owing to the dally. say nothing of the electric shock arrival of troops from Nanking and would be at least twenty feet long. the North The latest arrivals are "Cryer was one of the most com- a boat-load of recnifts from Klang- sama petent of foremen electricians."," suReuter,

vented the forces of Chi Hmg

over, two districts to the West of Miyun, and adjacent to that place.

-Reuter

SILVER MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent) Lond Bept: 25. Following are the Silver Quota tions on the London market to dayt

Bept. 25 Sept

Mr.

and co-oportion that would gre÷/ cotton goods into China at rid habitate banking capital by the cukrusly low prices. purchats of preferred stock The terda They say the dumping cam-Farm Credit Board and the Home cans Daign aimed at Chinese com Loan Administrations would panies on which the governmen place mortgage, assets with readily take is relying to absorb the cotton saleable bonds (virtually-guara purchased – under the American

eing, mortgages); while cotton Joaninh

new: depósitors will be. by a guaranty corpo

The United States Reconstruc tion Finarica Corporation recently loaned China. $50,000,000 to finance the purchase of cotton and wheat. The Chinese government intends to sell these commodities tain funds therefrom for rehabuita dot paying

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