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FANG CHEN WU HEADING

11

FOR CHARHAR

Another Little War Comes

To An End ·

‘REBELS" FEAR TO ATTACK GOVERNMENT. TROOPS

Petping, Sept. 27. THE Fang Chen Wu bubble ap

pears to have burst,

While Japanese militarists are stil holding their hand. Fang, lastead of attacking the strong "Chinese Government forces holding the Armistice Line, is now moving north-west and has apparently headed back, for Charhar whence he came.

With the Chinese Government troops unable to enter the demili- tarized zone, and with the Japanese army remaining stationary, Fang has a perfect get-away of which he is making use.

Whatever his objective for driv- ing down on the zone it has falled, but it appears he is getting away again none worse for his adven- ture.

Official Communque,

Tokyo, Sept. 27. War Office communique says that troops belonging to Fang Chen Wa and Chi Hung Chang have evacuated the demilitarised zone in North China, in accordance

Chiang Returning to Tokyo

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933.

GERMAN CONSUL WILL DE VALERA

AT SHANGHAI

4/11

Placed On Retired

List

2.

FALL?

Fate May Be Decided To-Day

Dublin, Seut. 27. Shanghal, Sept. 27. THE crisis which has been brew- Ing in Ireland, for some time DOCTOR Walter Fuchs, the Geris likely to be brought to a head man Consul at Shanghai since to-morrow at the opening of the August 1939, has been placed on Dail the retired lat in accordance with the "new German legislation." It is believed this is due to re- gulations whereby all Government oficiais must be able to prove Aryan ineage as far back as

"Napoleon's Time."

Shanghai, Sept. 27." Chlang Tso Ping, Chinese Minis- Dr. Fuchs has steadfastly refus- ter to Japan, arrived here from aed to make any comment.-Reuter. holiday in Soochow this afternoon.

Interviewed by "Reuter,” the Minister declared he, was leaving for Tokyo within a week. He

denied the reports that he had NEW CONVERSION

been entrusted with an important mission by the Government,, saying. that there is no way of improving Sino-Japanese, relations Japan realizes her blunders.- Reater.

unless

Another Incident At Tangku

Tientsin. Sept. 27. Another incident occurred at Tangku yesterday morning, when the local Japanese military au- thority, suddenly served a notice to the Chinese railway guard at

LOAN

British Treasury's Offer

London, Sept. 26: PARTICULARS are announced of demanding the new Government issue consisting of the addition of £150,000,000 to the existing 24 per cent Conversion Loan, 1944–1949, to be subscribed partly by cash and partly by conversion...

the railway station their immediate evacuation de- clacing that the Japanese garrison troops were adequate to maintain local peace and that the service of Chinese railway guard could be dispensed with.

The Chinese railway guard. with the request of the Kwangtung powerless to offer resistence, did comply with the demand of the Japanese-Central News Agency.

Army. Reuter.

Desire To Avoid Bloodshed,

Peiping, Sept. 27, JAPANESE military authorities are

against

withholding action Fang Chen Wu, partly on account of a desire to avoid unnecessary

gloodshed and partly owing to as-

surances from Ho Ying Ching that the Chinese are able to handle the, situation.

Rebels under Chi Hung Chang are now also aproaching the Ar- mistice line.

Chinese reports allege that two Japanese planes dropped two bombs on Kaoliying with the re- sult that two Government troops were killed and three wounded.→ Reuter.

Support From Canton.

(From Our Special Correspondent;

Canton, Sept. 27. FOR the support of General Fang Chen Wu, the Association for the Relief and Assistance to Volun- teers to-day remitted $30,000 na- tlonal currency to the General's headquarters in Tu Shih Kow, Charhar,

YELLOW RIVER

Mr. De Valera will be fighting on two fronts for this time he meets the organised. opposition of the United Ireland Party, while he is being hampered by the increasing violence of his nominal supporters

In the Irish Republican Army, whom he has repeatedly vainly denounced as playing into the hands of his opponents, by their

Inwlessness.

Labour Threat,

The support of Labour, which was bought at the price or a vir- tual Labour dietatorship, is not substantial as Labour is dissatis- fed with De Valera's Bill for the Relief of Unemployment and is

reportedly antagonistic to the revi-

val of the Public Safety Act. with its secret Draconian - Tribunal, — Reuter.

Beer Boycott Battle.

Dublin, Sept. 27.

with damaged FIFTEEN men

heads were sent to hospital last night after a pitched battle between the police and Republican hooligans in connection with the English beer boycott.

Several thousand people surged round the premises of Mears, Bass, Ratcliffe and Gretton, ston- ing the windows.

The price of the issue for cash subscriptions: 16 294 per cent. The arrival police reinforcements giving a yield of £2.13.2 per cent.towards midnight was followed by in interest only, and a yield of scenes of wild disorder-Reuter. £3.3.1, or £119.7 per cent., allow-

ing for redemption in 1944 or 1948 respectively.

The price of the existing loan, of which £55,000,000 had been Issued by tender before the weekly

FLOOD DISASTER lastes were suspended at the end

3

50,000 People Drowned

of May, is 941.

Instalments are spread evenly over the next two months, the last payment being due on December 1. The Arst interest payment of £1 will be paid on April 1, 1934.

SILVER MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent; '

London, Sept. 27/ Following are the Silver Quota- tions on the London market to- day:

Sept. 28. Sept. 27 Spot...N

18.8/16 Forward....... 18.7/18

181

The London on New York cross

Holders of 4 per cent. Treasury Bonds due on February 1 next may Nanking. Sept. 27.

convert their holdings into the loan FIFTY thousand people drowned,

$3 from October 1, receiving million starving and

£108.7.6 of Conversion Loan for rate to-day closed at £-US. two

$4.731 million 'affected, is the oœcial esti-

every £100 nominal of Bonds con- mate of the losses caused in the verted, and will receive on Febru- Yellow River floods, which devas-ary 1 next a special interest pay- tated the triangle lying between ment of £178 per £100 of such the New and Old channels of the Bonds, and on April 1 a full hall- River in July and August.

year's dividend on the new loan.

The estimate has been prepared after a careful survey of the area made by plane and officials of the Rellef Commission, which been rushing supplies to the desti- tute peasantry.

has

Bonds outstanding is £50,757,000 and holders who convert will re- ceive a preferential allotment of Conversión Loan.

The amount of these 4 per cent.

0

RUSSO-GERMAN TENSION

The saving on interest, if me Over Persecution Of

total amount outstanding were converted, will be at the rate of £934,246 per annum,

Soviet Press"

Moscow, Sept. 27,

U.S. NAVAL PROGRAMME

Refusal To Postpone Building

Washington, Sept. 27. The United States administra- tion has informed Great Britain' that America is unable to post- pone any part of her naval con- struction programme. This de cision follows on the recent British communication regarding the proposed American naval building up to Treaty limits.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT STILL UNDECIDED

Regarding Deflation And Devaluation

WORKERS OBJECT TO IMPOSITION OF CODES

New York, Sept. 27. is among the latest schemes pre- The British representations on ALTHOUGH Mr. Roosevelt has sented by the National Recovery not yet reached a decision on Administration. It provides a 48- the watter were made to Mr. the questions of deflation and hour week and a minimum hourly Norman Davis, United States de- devaluation, it is realised at the wage of 40 cents. "legate to the Disarmament Con. White House and State Department General Hugh Johnson, head of that a stable monetary policy is ference, the basis of the conten-imperative to carry out a steady the Recovery Administration, yes- tion being that the execution of recovery programme. the entire naval

programme

might prejudice Disarmament.

It is understood that Britain has acceped the American answer as final. Router.

More Optimism at Geneva

Geneya, Sept. 27. The efforts to find a working formula before the Bureau of the Disarmament Conference meets in October, were continued terday.

yea-

Although little progress was recordable on the main difficulties connected with the German claim to re-arm a more optimistic note is becoming manifest.

The Italians are still apparently continuing the role of inter- mediaries. Senor Aloisi, Italian Foreign Minister saw the German delegation yesterday morning and the French and British delegations in the evening-Reuter,

INDO-JAPANESE TRADE

Termination of Treaty Postponed

Remonetization of silver by the retirement of bonds by the issue of treasury notes. is urged by Mr. Johna Simpson, President of the Farmers' Unions who in a letter to

terday signed nine Codes in the minor operation. hospital where he is undergoing a approve six more Codes before re- He expects to turning Reuter

next week.

to

office

Mr. Roosevelt blames bankers for the Farm Act and Recovery Act, adding "It is their plan to destroy you People are overwhelmingly NEW PLANS FOR the disappointed and disgusted with

recovery programme. They still have confidence in you but no faith whatever in the programme." Interlocked with the NIRA. efforts is the dificult armament question. Special Washington cor- respondents point out that USA. acquiesence to the British sugges tion of the suspension of laying

down

would have meant the suspension of 40,000 tons of construction. It is

projected cruisers

WHITEHALL

Offices To Cost £2,000,000

· London, Sept. 28,

assumed that it USA builds the II anticipated that the Gov- cruisers Britain,

ernment will shortly sanction anki perhaps Japan, would wish to match them, the preparation of plans for the resulting in a considerable waste construction, on the embankment side of Whitehall, of a new block of tonnage.-Reuter.

of Government Omices costing ap- Froximately £2,000,000.

.250,000 U.S. Workers Strike.

New York, Bept, 27..

The act authorising the erection:

STRIKES arising out of the in-of these buildings was passed 21 position of codes in the United years ago, but the scheme was post- States are now involving 250.000 poned owing to the war and the

workers, while the restlessness of need for economy. At present the

the farmers and the Wall Street atas of some departments in Westminster are working in intransigeance" are combining to

present to the recovery campaign buildings on which the Govern another crisis. The country is ment is paying rent, while the ac anxiously awaiting some decisive commodation in some instances is, action by the president in the shape considered inadequate and insult-

able. of a monetary polley announce- ment.

The slowness with which credit is flowing to industry i indicated Tokyo, Sept. 27.

by the weekly Federal Reserve FOLLOWING receipt of the Bri-statement, estimating that Reserve tish notification of the decision deposits exceeded legal require to postpone the termination of the ments by over US 8600,000,000, Indo-Japanese Trade Convention all of which represents idie capital, for a month to Nov. 16, the Japan- Senator Wheeler has revived his ese Foreign Office has instructed silver remonetisation scheme. Mr. Matsudaira to request the post- ponement till the Simla Conference has ended-Reuter.

JAPAN'S NAVAL REGULATIONS

ston applications opened yesterday GERMANY has diplomatically de- Powers of Naval Chief

Investigations" reveal that the disaster was partly due to brigands and troops breaking down dykes. General Fang Chen Wu is send-Yellow River was rising rapidly.

for defensive purposes when the

Cash applications will be open- ing a daily wireless report to the

ed and closed to-morrow, Conver- authorities here reporting the Vast areas are still under water movement of his troops and urging while, elsewhere, river silt is from

and will be closed on October 3, funds be remitted to him for the four to five feet deep, which rex- recovery of Jehol. In one of hisders the soll valueless for years to Separate prospectuses are being messages, General Fang' stated come.

issued by the Post Ofice and by that Tang Yu Lin who was res- Field inspectors report that par- the Trustee Savings Banks, pro- ponsible for the "Jehol debacle ents are giving away their child-viding for, cash subscriptions, to the realised his mistake and is sending ren, hoping to save their lives"dur-18sue of 23 per cent, Conversion his troops to assist General Fanging the coming winter.----Reuter. Loan to be held on the Post Office register and for the conversion into that issue of 4 per cent. Bonds held on that register.

in the recapture of that province,

Although the South-west Poll-

tical Council has appointed Gener-

al Fang Chen Wu as Commander- SIR M. LAMPSON

In-chief of the North-west Anti- Japanese forces, it is deemed pro- per that in the interest of expedi- ency remittance to him is best sent in the name of the Association for the Rellet and Assistance to Volunteers, which is under a duty to raise money to support fighters against Japanese invaders.

Meantime, the People's National Salvation Association makes daily seizure of Japanese goods. The latest haul includes piece goods, marine delicacies, clocks and wat- ches, screw drivers, glass ware,

sugar, and others,

Details of Kaoliying Fighting. Peiping. Bept, 27.

Now On Farewell

Tour

Peiping, Sept. 27.

Bir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, accompanied by Mr. Teichman, took off this morning by air for Shanghai.

After a week's stay there, they will proceed to Nanking, where Details are now coming in of the they will remain for the " Double fighting at Kaoltying yesterday. Tenth celebrations and pay Reports state that a body of Gen-farewell visita, A eral Fang Chen Wu's cavalry gai-

loped up to Käoliying and managed Sir Miles and Mr. Teichman to gain an entrance. A small will then return to Peiping to Government force of 300 men put make preparatione for their de up a resistance and street fighting went on for a considerable time, parture for Egypt.-Beuter. the invaders, being finally sur rounded and defented.

The Government losses are given

As one killed and' 10 wounded.

It appears that the main body

Arrival at Shanghai

Shanghai, Sept. 27.

Sir Miles Lampson and Mr. Teichman arrived from Peiping

of General Fang's forces is now at 8.40 p.m. to-dayBeater.

at Fanchiao, a little to the north of Kaoliying. This la" inside the demilitarized zone, and General Fang"via" preparing an attack" on the Government troops' manning the armistice line. Reuter.

“Politically" III.

*** Shanghai, Sept. 27. General Huang Fu is now plead- ing sicknels, and the date for his return to Felping has been inde Anitely postponed. Reuter.

manded the revocation of the Soviet order for the expulsion of German journalists from Russia, but M. Litvinoff, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs has declined to Rccede to the demand.

Enlarged

Tokyo, Sept. 27.

have been NAVAL regulations

revised enlarging the powers rerable to reprisals for Germany's Stan concerning "questions relat

He declares that expulsion is pre- | of“ Chief of the Naval General

Systematic persecution of repre-ed. to scheme national defence," sentatives of the Soviet press.” implicitly carrying authority to The drastic action of expelling block naval reduction or limitation The amount so issued will be ad-all German newspaper correspon of agreements if necessary... ditional to the £150,000,000 to be dents from Russia is reinforced by Reuter. Issued through the Bank of Eng land-British Wireless Service.

LORD MAYOR OF

LONDON

Honoured On His Retirement

London, Sept. 27. His Majesty the King has ap proved the conferment of a Baronetcy upon Sir Percy Green- away, on his retirement from the Lord Mayoralty of London, also the conferment of Knighthoods upon Alderman C. A. Collett and Mr. W L Threlford, retiring Sheriffs-British Wireless Ser- vice

Sir Percy Greenaway. elected to the Court of Com Council in the City of

Firing will be carried ou from in 1917, and has been actively Forts during the week ending 7th connected with the administ October 10, 8. under : —Oct. 3rd, tion of the City In this con- 10. am, Stonecutters.. Ares affect-

the withdrawal of the correspon-

dents of Soviet official Taas agency IMPROVEMENT IN BRITISH and the Soviet newspapers, "Tavestia,ogrd. "Pravada," Berlin.

from

An official statement explaining the withdrawal and expulsion of the German correspondents de clares that the action taken view of the impossible conditions created by the German Govern- ment bodies for the work of the Boylet pressrepresentatives in Germany, who suffered arrests, searches, etc, and were anally re- fused admission to the Leipzig, trial where representatives of the press of other countries were ad mitted."-Benter.

FINANCES

London, Sept. 23.05 The latest Treasury returns show that the ordinary revenue for the current year, up to September 23 amounted to £268,113,307. At the corresponding date of last year the amount stood at £261,880,8852

Ordinary expenditure to date, for the current year, totalled 2346,007 032, which is about £32,090,000 Iéss than the total ordinary expendi- ture at the corresponding date of last year.Britiah Wireless Ber- ¡vice.

China's Inability To Absorb Share Of World's Products

SIR G. B. HUNTER URGES LARGER USE OF SILVER

London, Bept. 27. simultaneoudy purchase <eliver to SIR G. B. Hunter, a prominent, supplement our gold and thus help

engineer, in a letter to the 'Ching India and ourselves, <eTimes,"^-, stresses the disastrous results economically and politics due to China's inability to absorb her share of the World's produ owing to the Town of GIVE North of Kani-Châu. - Oct. 5th. 6. several committees and in 1981 while he does not advocate bl n... Stonecutters. South of Kap, wis nimously elected Senters tallinna ne saya silver is: uable i top many wayske me additions to "old

ed South of Eep Sing Mun and nection he has been Chairman of

Sing Mua and North of Ke Sheriff and Alderman of the City, we can accept ayer for exports

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· The Office of Works has already

asked the Royal Institute of Bri tish Architects to nominate ten architects, whose names will be submitted to the committee making the final selection."

It Is sipulated that the architects nominated shall not be over 55 years old

The "scheme, if proceeded with A Code involving:500,000 workers į will take some years complete. in the Merchant Marine Service 'British Wireless Bervice.

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