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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1933.

LATEST AIR-MAIL NEWS FROM

RECOVERY IN CHINA

Effective Financial

Supervision

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.")

London, Nov. 29.

St-In his letter published

***The

Times" of Novem- FOREIGN ® TRADE

ber 0, Bir John Wardlaw Milne recommended the adop- tion of a less aloof and more helpful policy towards China and, as a first step, the removal of the British Legation from Peking to Nanking. From this letter, and from the arguments used in the House of Lords' discussion of this subject two days later, it would appear that those who advocate a policy of mort active support for the present, Government at Non- king do so on grounds of political and commercial expediency. Their arguments involve two-important assumptions: first. that the Nan- already king Government has made remarkable progress towards the restoration of prosperity; sec

larger ondly, that China offers trading possibilities than exist any other market in the world. observe May I be permitted to that, as matters now stand. neither assumption is justified?

WAS

When, at the end of July, the question of "Reorganizing China" "The Times." discussed in and the "new collaboration" be- tween Nanking and Geneva gen- erally regarded as a "hopeful ex- periment," I ventured to observe, In a letter published in "The Times" of July 30, that everything in the actual condition and re- demon- cent history of China

the strates

simple truth that reorganization scheme. can possibly produce any real or last- ing improvement. unless cludes provision for effective supervision of the departmental finances concerned."

1th-

IN CHINA

Extraterritoriality

JAPAN TO LEAD IN

ABOLITION?

Special Air-Mail Service

London, November. 29. In the second of a series of three lectures on Foreign trade in China," which is being given in the boardroom of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Mr. E. W. Mead, Reader in Chinese at the Manchester University, last even- ing completed his review of the historical facts which led to the establishment of the treaty port system in China, under which foreign traders live and do busi- ness in that country, and describ- ed in detail the beginning of the "modernist" movement and their Mikely effect on foreign trade there. Incidentally, he mention- ed that the most authoritative figure of foreign invesments in China is now giver as £700.000.000 of which" the British share is be- tween £200,000,000 and £250.- 000,000.

ارهم

LONDON

NEW PORTUGUESE TARIFFS

CO-OPERATION

FROM CANTON

THE 1934 NAVAL ANTI-WAR DELEGATES Adoption of Colonial Wanted by Nanking

PROGRAMMES

Treaty Ignored By Other Powers

(Special Alr-Mail Service)

London, Nov. 39.

IN CHINA

Lord Marley's Experiences On

His Recent Visit

(Special Air-Mall Service)

London. Nov. 29.

A large building programme, "to make good the Navy's acute short- age of cruisers and anti-submarine craft, is confidently anticipated in Service circles. Oficial, reticence is ascribed to the Government's 'Lord Marley, at a meeting in destre not to prejudice the slender the Kingsway Hall last night or- hope that still remains of a newganised by the British Anti-war disarmament convention. Ir that Movement, related some strange hope proves vain a new replenish- experiences be and Ebe other ment programme will be unavoid- able.

Corresponding action by the Dominions is also anticipated. To realise the new policy recently announced at "Canberra the Aus- tralian Government will have ta build two new cruisers, either of the Leander (7,000-ton) type, or the latest Admiralty 9,000-ton Canada and New Zealand are also showing a keener interest in Imperial defence. -

Class

There is a widespread, but er- roneous impression that a big pro- gramme next year would conflict with the London Treaty. As that agreement expires at the end of 1936, ships laid down for completion after that date do not come within its scope. The numerous British cruisers which are or will be over- age by then gives us an ample margin for new construction.

OTHER POWER'S SUBMARINES The Socialist Government which negotiated the Lazdon Treaty agreed to Umit our cruiser, fleet to fifty ships, but only for the strict ly limited period covered by the Treaty, and provided that other Powers reduce correspondingly their projected programmes."

This condition has not been tutalled. On the contrary, no fewer than thirty-two new cruisers have been laid down since the Treaty by the other four Powers concerned, and the basis on which we accepted such a drastic re- striction of cruiser strength no longer, exists.

The same applies to destroyers. As the Socialist Government point- ed out in July," 1930, "a maximum total of 150,000 tons for destroyers was agreed to ...subject to reductions in the submarine streng ths of other Powers."

members of the Far Eastern anti- war delegation had undergone on their recent visit to China The chair was taken by Mr. Percy Collick, and among. the speakers were two members of the delega- tion, Dr. Marteaux, a member "of the Belgian Parliament, and Mr. P. Vaillant-Couturier, both of of whom spoke in Frerich, their speeches being afterwards trans= lated into English

A SHANGHAI PRISON

}

FUTURE OF

LEAGUE

THE

Little Hope Of Agreement

Paris, December 18. Conversations with reference to the future of the League have been transferred to Parris, where M. Aveñol arrived from London

The delegatin, said Lord Marley, on a week's visit had a reusing reception in Shang-Meanwhile, the French Govern- hai, though when they arrived ment is awaiting the visit of Sir there it was to find that thou- John Simon: However, it is not sands of Chinese sympathisers expected the persuasiveness of Su with the movement had been put John Simon will alter the French into prison. He and the members Government's attitude regarding

of the delegation considered it absolute re-armament by Ger their duty to obtain bermission to many and the fundamental re- visit one of the prisons not far form of the League of Nations. from Shanghai. It had been Reuter built to house. 700 prisoners,' he said, "but there were 2,700 in it.” In some of the cells built for three

huddled together. Many of them

Preference

Lisbon. December 18.

colonial pre- A large ice of ference has been granted by a decree reducing the tariffs on tea and rice imported from Portuguese Colonies by 70 per cent and on other goods by 60 per cent. Sugar and tobacco are not affected.

The tariff on foreign tea has been increased by 10 per cent., simultaneously.

2.,

All State establishments are compelled to use a number of Colonial products, like and

tea

coffee, exclusively-Reuter..

Leaders

{From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, Dec. 18. " According to information 'em- anating from local omcial circles, the report that Messrs Sun Fo and and Hsuang Shao Houng will shortly come to Canton to confer with the leaders of the South- west has not been confirmed.

It is rumoured that the Nan- king Government is anxious to secure the co-operation and sup- port of the Southwest, and has ap- pointed Messrs Sun Fo. and Husang Shao Hsung as its plent potentiaries. It is stated that

HOUSE OF LORDS their mission to the South is to

REFORM

Reduction of 700 To 300

convene with the "members of the Southwest Political Council and to request the Kwangtung military leaders to mobilise all available forces in Kwangtung to launch an attack on Fuklen. It is learned that if this proposal cannot be accepted, they hope, at least,. Kwangtung will not offer any morai OI material support to Fukien.

According to a high offcial of the Southwest Political Council. the turning point of the present now rests un political situation Kwangst, although the authorities of the Nanking government do not expect Kwangs to mobilise troops against Furien.

London, December 18.- The House of Lords to-morrow launches ita mast contentious issue for year, when the Marquis Salisbury, former lender of the House of Lords, Introduces has Bill for reform of the House of Lords, The first reading is expected to be taken on broad principle, with-

sound On the other hand if Kwangsf out details, in order to

Nanking. Kwangtung opinion, but Lord Salisbury, it is supports. understood, will tentatively pro-will have to follow suit. He also pose that membership be reduced intimates that the Nanking Peace from 700 to 300, in addition to Delegation headed by Mr. Charg Chi left here for Nanning hoping to induce the Kwangsi military authorities to remain neutral-in case of a Fukien-Nanking confict. This spokesman pointed out" that Nanking promises to appropriate 2 handsome amount of the Cot- ton Loan from the United States: to Kwangsi to speed up ̈reçon- struction, and will also set aside a sum of $500,000 each month for military expenditure in Kwangsi.

prisoners they found ten men YUCHI STRIKES the Royal Princes, the law lords,

SILVER MARKET

(From Oar Special Correspondent)

London, December 18. Following are the Silver Quota- tions on the London market to-

day:

Dec. 18 Dec. 16

181 184 18.11/16'18 The London on New York cruss

Spot Forward

ROCK

and some ecclesiastics.

The House would be empowered to delay legislation pending the approval of the country, while the Housee of Lords would be re-

of both Houses for the certifica- tlon of money Bills.

But No Danger Of presented on a joint committee

Foundering

The Government is expected to follow closely the trend opinion, as Ministerial circles are of the

the opinion that-

Government should deal with the reform of

Shanghai, December 18. The 'coast steamer Yuchi, struck a submerged rock at 1.30 a.m. an, wenchow, while en route to the House of Lords in the e- rate to-day Velored at £0.9. Shanghai from Foochow with over time of the present Parliament 5.134.

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were loaded with heavy chains as they struggled to make their way about the prison factories.

But instead of reducing submar- ines, the other Powers have largely increased them. Since the London cases with extraordinarily effec-Treaty was signed they have com- tive results when the firmas had pleted and laid down 115 new not stood strictly on their treaty submarines, France alone having

ballt fifty-eight, and Italy thirty-policemen, rights.

four.

a hundred passenger and a large cargo of fruit.

Reuter.

There are Afteen inches of water in her holds, but the ves BEST-SELLERS IN LONDON sel is in no danger of foundering. wirelessed for assistance. she However, in view of fears of pirates who are known to infest accompanied the locality the gun-boats Klang- yuen and Taukwan have gone to

The European delegates, sald Lord Marley, were day and night by detectives and

The old traditional method fol- lowed by British traders in China was to leave their business with With regard to the present pra- the interior in the hands of & posals for a policy of helpfulness Chinese agent, because; although and closer co-operation with the foreigners might travel in the country, they could not lease pre- present rulers of China,. may, I, be allowed once more to draw atten- mises there and set up signs out- tion to this all-important aspect side such premises. But in recent of the matter and to point out years a number of firms, parti- those interested in oll, that under existing conditions no cularly amount of support rendered to cigarettes, and chemicals, had been Chiang Kai-shek's Government.exploring the, interior with the ald no organization of a gendarmerie of the Chinese agent, and in some or, removal of our Legation to Nanking, can possibly restore pro- sperity to China or increase the people's buying power and our trading opportunities?"

can real improvement any hoped for the present desperate condition at the peasantry must be relieved.. and this can only be done by means of some effec- tive system of financial superv!- sion, which shall set a limit to the insatiable rapacity of the Government even after they pass-HELP TO UNEMPLOYMENT four minutes; in the slow strangu- provincial and local officiala-ated into the interior and had left present wholly uncontrolled, de- the merchant's control into that spite the "power and Drestige" of his agent's; and the controver- attributed to Nanking.

sy which had resulted from, this had been unending. Hence the inclination on the part of some merchants not to worry about their treaty rights.

Before

be

Space does not permit of any detailed exposition either of the intolerable burden of taxation now imposed upon the peasantry or of the economic conditions which in many fertile districts are driving the hopeless farmers from their homesteads, leaving the land untilled. I may, how

in the intertor.

While in China a part of his business had been to deal with cases of what was described as illegal taxation The British Government had al- ways held that the goods of the British merchant remained under .0f the British the protection

EXTRATERRITORIALITY

In outlining the events of the last ten years Mr. Mead emphasis- ed the importance of the demand

We shall have, only 88,000 tons. of underage destroyers by the end of 1836, and will therefore be 82,000 tons below 'even the grossly in- adequate total permitted by Treaty.

London, December 18.

and every Chinese render help. man or woman who visited them

The Yuchi is insured and sa? was liable to be imprisoned with-vage plans are being considered out trial and tortured. In the by the underwriters-Reuter, ..... prisons they discovered that there were two methods of exécution-

and quick slow strangulation- strangulation.

the strangulation death followed in

Quick BRIBERY AND

lation death did not take place for eight or twelve hours. "After one of our meetings," said. Lord

An order for one million boxes Marley, "our chairman was ar-

CORRUPTION

Corps Trial

of tim plates has been received rested. He has not been heard of Evidence at Salvage from Canada by the Richard since. Thomas group of companies in South Wales. The order will give employment in the tinplate trade alone to 15,000 men for ten week -British Wireless.

......

They had originally expected 2.000 delegates from the whole of China to the congress, said Lord Marley, but every possible hall was refused them. They had thus to change their plans at the last moment. The whole of China was

London, December 18. Bribery and corruption in my business started before I was born, declared Leopold Harris

of the Chinese Nationalist Govern! NEW MINISTER represented at the congress, but when giving evidence at the trial

ment for equality in international relations and the abolition of ex- traterritoriality. There was still

TO

CHINA

Sailing

26th

January

ever, cite, as a fairly representa- tive case, that of the agricultural "Hslen" of Nancheong in Shensi, a once thriving district with a fighting in China, but since 1928 population of 240,000. According China had been absolutely united Chinese on her" foreign policy. To-day it to figures derived from official sources the amount ac- was particularly interesting tually received in local and pro-read the Chinese press, because vincial taxes. Under 17 headings, it seemed to be pointing to the by the authorities of this dis-likelihood of an agreement being trict, during the past year, was made between Japan and China 8804,345. As most of the "special". and to Japan's abandoning all her

The Hon. A. G. Cadogan, with taxes are "farmed out" for collec- extraterritoriality. If that hap-

his wife and daughter, will leave tion, however, the total amount pened there was a possibility of for China from Marseilles on Jan. extracted from the peasantry was other Powers tumbling over one 28, by the F. and O. liner Chitral. very much larger, and to it must another in an effort to arrive at Reuter.

be added the amounts levied by agreements; just as happened in the Central Government on salt, the case of the tarif. That would

London, December 18.

SANDRINGHAM

wine, tobacco, etc. Under these mean that traders, if they wert KING AND QUEEN GO TO conditions It is not surprising, | wise, would have to adjust them- though very "significant, that, selves to the new regime and make whereas the average price of sure they were not caught napp- home-grown rice in China lasting...

'London, December 18. According to present arrange- ments their Majesties the King and Queen will leave London on Thursday for Bandringham, where

will spend Christmas British Wireless.

they

"London; December 18. Several arresta were made yes-

year was 813 a picul, the staple, Sir Kenneth D. Stewart presid- could be imported from Siam or ed in the unavoidable absence of Salgon at $10 a picul, and that Sir Christopher Needham, China, an agricultural country with the cheapest labour in the world, imported in 1932 no less than 1,340,000 tons of rice and nation? Is it not evident that 893,000 tons of oats. It is equally unless some effective system of significant that the Nanking Goy- fiscal and financial supervision SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE ernment's proposed remedy for can be introduced by the friend- this parlous situation (directly ly" Powers, similar to that or attributable to predatory taxa ganized after the Taiping" up. tion) is to levy an import tax, on heaval ̈ ̈ by Sir. Robert Hart, no foreign rice and other agricultural amount of political support can terday during a demonstration produce!

arreat the process of economic hear the German Embassy, where demoralization, which began with a large crowd gathered after Such being the plight of China's the Revolution of 10112 And, um marching from the East End of peasantry one may pertinently in less this process can be arrested London. References to the Reich quire atat point, and by what what is to prevent a repetition of stag fire trial were shouted as they means, could the transfer of the the recent history of Manchuria British Legation from Peking to on a wider scale?" a residence nearer to the centre of things' produce results calcu lated to restore prosperity to the

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1903.:0. P.- BLAND. Thatched House Club; 3.W.1.

only by each delegation sending one or two representatives, instead

five minutes of

of Miles of the Salvage Corps," Harris merely carried on the prac- of coming in large bodies. Thertices already existing. It WEL held public meetings in small tea- simply a question of our having shops-ive minutes of speeches, to compete with the methods of our translation, and competitors. Harris said he never then away before the police could tempted people, but awaited till learn of it.

they hinted they were susceptable to money payments in return for their services. The Salvage Corps as long as Harris had known it had been corrupt. He said Miles was aware of the corrupt practi place by Chinese guards, The ces in may 1930: It was Miles who

"As for the conference itself, said Lord Marley. "I do not know to this day where It took place." They were led singly in the "dark the night before to the meeting-

conference took place in an em. pty house, and they left again under cover of darkness..

had advised him get rid of an employee who reported office cor- ruption to Miles. Up to then Miles had reeived no payments from Harris.s

LONDON STOCK MARKET perintendent in the Balyage Corps, Referring to the unnamed su-

Harris said he was receiving babes ever since, he became an London, December 18, Sterling on New York 5/14, on officer in the corps. Counsel pass", ed Harris a list of officers in the Paris 834-

The stock markets opened quiet Balvage Corps and asked him, to but the undertone is good. A mark those he had bribed. Harris renewed firmness of British Gov- found it quicker to mark those ernment stocks was displayed, who had not been bribed and

Gold, 128/9d.--British Wireless.

...

ENGLAND FOG-BOUND

crossed out one name. He passed it back The name crossed out was the son of one who had heen, bribed by Harris He related how he put £50 of his own money ona Hok for Miles account. The dog won and he paid, Miles. What is the name of the dog?, asked Counsel, Golden Liar, replied Harris Reuter...

London, December 18, With the exception of southern Essex, Kent, and Burrey, the whole. of England and North Wales was enveloped in fog throughout yester- day. It was particularly dense on the Mensey, side, where traffic both Many, English rivers, whose levels The Police ultimately permitted on the river and in the city was are low and streams aluggish. the National Secretary of Inter-disorganised. Road conditions were owing lack of rain, are covered national Labour Defence to hand particularly bad throughout the with ice which is also forming on In a petition at the Embassy country. There is no prospect yet the Upper Thames.-British Wire British Wireless.

of any break in the cold spell less.

marched

(Special- Air-Mall Service)

NANKING GOVERNMENT

CONFIDENT

Nanking, December 18 ofcial utterances profess -CON fidence that the Fullen.* forces will be crushingly defeated in the Che- event of their attack on

ex- kiang. Major hostilities are peated soon as the secessionist have government is reported to ordered an offensive or the north « Fukien front

London, Nov. 28. Best-sellers this week show a variety of taste in their readers Here are those most sought for: Lord Riddell's "Intimate Diary of the Peace Conference and After," Romola Nijinsky's life of her hus

Questioned by pressmen rezard- band, Mr. Michael Sadleir's "Bles- sington-D'Orsay," ". Mr. Arthuring the likelihood of Nanking is- Bryant's "Samuel Pepys." H. V suing a punitive mandate: a Gov- Morton's "In Scotland Again," and

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hostilities would break out, as soon as the rebels came in contact with government troops-Reuter.

to the According

Shanghai minute favourites are Misa GB. Evening Post 15.000 Communis: into Stern's "The Aug" and Lady troops have been obsorbed Eleanor Smith's "Christmas Tren." the Paklen Army-Reuter.

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