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PIRATE FIRE RETURNED

BY EAGLE PLANE

ALL BRITISH CAPTIVES SAFE

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Effective Work By British Navy And Air Force

An important item of news furnished by Reuter last night in the "Shuntlen" piracy, which has now happily ended so far as the safety of the five British captives is concerned, was that an acro- plane carrying out reconnaisance flights was fired on by the pirates. The Bre was returned and it was then observed that Mr. Nicholl and Mr. Shen "Tien Ling were in a 'sampan. All the British captives are safe.

It now remains for the Chinese troops to net the desperadoes in the cordon which they are throwing around the pirate lair, and also effect the rescue of the remaining captives.

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British officials in London are cautious in tone when questioned.. about the possibility of replacing the guards on British ships. The matter, however, is Ilkely to be brought up in the House of Com-

mons.

International policing of the seas "in one of the worst adminis tored zones in the world" is urged by the London "Morning. Posi" falling better control over the examination of Chinese passengers.

Chefoo, June. 21.

H.M.S. Wren, which arrived at 5.45 p.m. to-day, informed Reuter that H.M.S. Eagle arrived on the scéne of the piracy on Tuesday afternoon and commenced im- mediate nights!

Continuing the fights on Wed- nesday, the discovery was made of a group of junks ten miles from the west mouth of the Yellow River.

After being fired on and return- ing the fire, the observer spotted a sampan containing Mr. Nicholl and Mr. Shen. Tien Ling, who were removed to the Eagle.

Lleutenants Luce and Fleid, Mr. Brand and Mr. Watson were re- leased at 6.30 p.m.

It appears that Mr. Nicholl and his companion were en route to the village to negotiate for their release when it was found they had been freed-Reuter.

MRS. NICHOLL OVERJOYED

Shangha June 21: "Words are quite inadequate to

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PROTECTION OF NATIONALS

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1934.

FELICITATION WINS

The Ascot Gold Cup

London. June 21. Felicitation at, betting odds of 9 to 2: "won the Ascot Gold Cup to-day in a field of ten starters by the wide margin of eight lengths from Thor II, the entry Tum France, carrying odds of 100 to 7.

Lord Derby's Hyperion, winner of last year's Derby, had to be con- ient with third place, one and half lengths behind Thor II. Hyperion's betting odds were 8 to 11.

In the special place betting, Felicitation was evenly back-

portionate.-Reuter.

GERMAN LINER SINKS

After Striking A Submerged Rock

Stavenger, June 21. The German Liner "Dresden" sanx this morning.-Reuter.

Oslo, June, 20.. One thousand passengers aboard the German liner, "Dresden," en- joying a pleasure cruise on a ford on the west coast of Norway, near Haugesund, this evening, were ter- riñed to hear the ship grinding on a submerged rock, practically rip ping off the bottom of the liner and flooding the stokehole, causing a heavy list.

An S.C.S. message brought the British battleship, HMS. Rodney.

"her arrival, the Captain ground- ed the liner in the bay of an island.

RECOVERY IN AMERICA

Large Financial »

Allotment

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CLEARING. HOUSE FOR GERMAN TRADE

France Likely To Follow Britain

A CLEARING SYSTEM

“AGRUMENT · ·

Washington, June 20. President Roosevelt has signed

London, June 20. the Deficiency Bill allotting over

The reply of His Majesty's Gov for Government $2.800.000,000 finance for the year beginning ernment to the German Govern.. July and appropriations for ment's note announcing the deci general relief, public works and sion of the Reichsbank to, suspend cash transfers on German and drought rellef.

long-term debts abroad was hand- | [Special to the “Hong Kong Dally The President also signed the ed to the German Ambassador In

Prema” (Copyright).] Rayburn Bill providing for the London this afternoon.

London, June 20. establishment of a Federal Com-i

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, The British mission to regulate the communica.

Government · has Mr. Neville Chamberlain, an- tions industry.

postponed. sending of the reply nounced last Friday that the Bri-note to Germany on the transfer The Communications Commis-tish Government intended to take question because the disinclima- ed, while on the others it was pro-racing to the assistance but before sign will be established on July 1. action in reply to the Reichsbank tor of the city towards the es

President Roosevelt later signed

decision unless any negotiations tablishment of a clearing system the Loans to Industry Bill to en- undertaken should, before July has become much stronger, able the provision of capital to result in a satisfactory agreement instance, it is pointed out that industry through three channels. and a Bill was introduced in the the pasalvity of the English trade. sum of $276,000,000 is House of Commons this afternoon. balance with Germany, in the first

for five-year loans The available

Bull authorises the set-quarter of 1934 was only 0.2 mil- through financial Institutions or ding up of clearing offices for col- lion pounds sterling as against In extraordinary circumstances,

lecting and dealing with certain 0.6 in the first quarter of 1933, directly by the Government to

debts and also the imposition of and 1,5 millions in 1932. But the in- industry.

restriction on Imports from certain dispensable condition for a satis="" foreign countries,

factory working clearing system It was presented by the Chan-is a heavy balance because it "is to Cher- cellor of the Exchequer and read out of excess, sums due for the first time.-British Wire many by British exporters that British creditors trade remaining less.

as now-would receive their in- terest payments. ·

SOVIET ARMY AND NAVY

Greater Mobility Sought

Moscow, June 20.

Red control of the Army and Navy is provided in an

One-man

Foreign Government order issued by the Central Ex-

Responsibility

measures taken

London, June 21. The London Morning Post" in paying a tribute to the prompt by the Navy, stresses the foreign Governments' responsibility for the protection of their nationals "in one of the worst administered zones in the world."

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ecutive Committee, whereby M. voroshilov, Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs, who suppressed the Kronstadt revolt in 1921, is appointed Commissar of War and head of the "Commissariat for the Defence" of the Soviets."

One hundred of the panic- stricken passengers Jumped and swam ashore, but all the others wert landed by boat Four are missing and are believed to have been drowned. One boat contain ing 20 women/capsized.

The Captain and crew have abandoned the ship, which, with three holds full of water, is lying in shallow water.

All the passengers were Ger- workmen from the Sear district The cruise was organis- ed by the German Workers Front. -Reuter...

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SILVER MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Londen. June 21. London silver prices to-day were The Revolutionary Military Coun. cil and the Collegium of the Com-up 1/16th, as follow:- missariat of War and Navy have been dissolved.

Reuter.

The order is intended to secure central control of, and greafter mo If a more strict examination of bility in, the Army and Navy Chinese passengers as now nounced proves to be insufficient, international policing of these seas may have to be organised.-Reuter.

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express my admiration and appre- REPLACING THE

ciation of our Navy," said Mrs. Nicholl to Reuter on learning of

her husband's release.

Mrs. Nicholl added: I am quite

a different person to-day."

She telegraphed

GUARDS

her grateful Cautious Attitude of

thanks to both the Admiral, Str Frederic Dreyer and the British Minister, Sir Alexander Cadogan.

Mrs. Nicholl met the ss. Shun- len on arrival in Shanghai this afternoon in order to take care of her husband's luggage and to get a first-hand account of the piracy. -Reuter.

MR. ROSS IN DANGER

Cheloo, June 21, The condition of Mr. J. P. Ross, third officer of the s.s. Shuntlen; which has been very critical, re- mains unchanged.

Three openings have been made into the head through the skull and a bad fracture.

The patient was informed of his mother's expected arrival this afternoon and expressed great joy at her approaching visit-Reuter.

HÖFE ABANDONED

Chefoo, Later.

All hope of saving the life of

Mr. Ross has been given up.

The doctors have announced that but for Mr. Ross' youth and vitality, his life would have been despaired of, as the base of the skull has been very badly clubbed-Router.

CAPTIVES CAST OFF

Peking, June 21,

All five British captives are now free, having been picked up from sampars by the British destroyer, H.M.S. Whitshed, and the aircraft- carrier H.M.S. Eagle. One of the 20 Chinese captives has also been released.

Home Officials

London, June 21. Government offidals here, ques toned on the possibility of replac- ing the guards on British ships.on the China coast are cautious in tone, pointing out the expense and practical difficulty of supplying

men.

Shen Tien-ling, Minister of Interior in the Peking Government.

Marshal Wa Pel-fu, with Nan- king Chinese naval and land forces is busily engaged in round- ing up the "pirates, who are addi- tionally being closed la by General Han Fu-chu's troops.

The gunboat Hal

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Forward ... 19-15/16 20 The London on New York cross- 2 p.in. to-day was 5.03- rate at 11/16, compared with 5.30-7/8 at closing yesterday.

DR. NADOLNY RESIGNS

Germany Appoints New Minister

Berlin, June 21.

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A further $300,000,000 is pro vided for five-year loans to be provided for five-year loans to be made by. the Reconstruction Finance Corporation directly to industry with a limit of $500,000 to any single borrower.-Reuter,

FRENCH EFFORTS TO REACH AGREEMENT

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PURCHASE OF COTTON

Washington, June 21.

Paris, June 21. French economie The Federal Relief Administra-

experts are tor announces that a minimum of going to Berlin in order to secure 255,000 bales of cotton will be an agreement for the transfer of bought for tellet purposes.-Reu- the Dawes and Young Loan pay-"

ter.

ments.

If the talks are not ended by July 15, it is expected that France will establish a clearing house for

CONDEMNATION Franco-German trade-Reuter.

OF N. R. A.

Code Authority

in Revolt

Washington, June 21. The London""Morning Post," in ing and dyeing industry is the first to revolt against the Cades and charges General Johnson and the National Recovery Administra- tion with bad faith in suspending the fair trade provisions of the Code.

Mr. Harkness, Chairman of the

UNIVERSAL DROUGHT

Relieved in Many Places

Ländon, June 20.

For

Moreover, when the trade bal- ances of the British Do- minions and Crown Colonies are incalculated, the possibility of a clearing system disappears. For fristance the Arst quarter of 1934 in the latter countries alone "had an export surplus to Germany of 5.775 million pounds so that the British Empire taken as a whole for the first quarter of 1934 had an, export surplus to Germany, in other words, a clearing deficit of 5.575 · milion pounds Sterling.- Transocean Kuo Min.

ENTOMBED IN MINE

Frantic Rescue Work

The world's drought problem is

The Chinese gunboats, Tung Tin

still unsolved although it has been

and Ting Hal are searching the

relieved by rain in many places at

Berlin, June 23. home and abroad.

Numerous, miners are entombed coast for signs of the pirates and

The seriousness of the situation' in a mine near Beuthen in the captives. Chiu is lying off Chang Shan, Tao. ! : Dr. Nadolny, German Ambassa-Code Authority, declares that the in London is indicated by a Upper Silesia as the result of an made Metropolitan Water Board notice earthquake lasting seven seconde keeping watch for any movement dor at Moscow, has resigned and recovery programme of the pirates who may try to go Herr von der Schulenburg, former conditions worse and, with aban- threatening compulsory restrict which caused the collapse of a to sea again”

Minister at Bucharest, succeeda donment of price control, ractions in a week, failing further considerable voluntary reduction keteering is again springing up.

in use by consumers in the inter- The action affects 11,000 fac-

val. tories and 350,000 workers Reuter.

The Chinese. Commander-in-Elm Chief of the Third Naval Squadron It is stated that the change will at Wet-Hal-Wel is under örders not affect Germany's policy to- from Nanking to take all possible wards the Soviet, Reuter.

easures to rescue the captives and round up the pirates-Reuter.

BRITISH WIRELESS REPORT

London, June 20. British seaplanes reconnoitring It is expected that the question trom the aircraft carrier. H.MS. will be raised in the House of Com-Eagle, are reported to have picked mons.-Reater.

Nevertheless pressure is likely to be renewed here, especially in view. of the fact that British Naval Officers for the first time were kidnapped.

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Nicholl addressed to the British Consul at Tsinaniu.“

up Mr. G. D. Nicholl, one of the Englishmen who were "kidnapped by pirates from the steamer "Shuntien." near the mouth of the Yellow River, in China. on Mon- day.

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Meanwhile it is learned from

Mr. Nicholl was found in B Tsinanfu that General Han Fu Chu's forces are closing in on the sampan, accompanied by a Chine pirates and throwing a cordonese, probably one of the 20 natives round the pirate lair from which who were made prisoners at the it will be impossible for the ban- time.. dits to escape.

The pirates. all of whom were Sir Alexander Cadogan. British armed, are believed to have' num- Minister to China has paid high bered 30 or more. They embarked tribute to the Chinese authorities, as passengers and overpowered the both central and local. who are Captain on the main deck, and doing their utmost to effect the then went to the cabins where the release of all captives and the ap- officers were asleep and prehension of the pirates.-Reuter. them" prisoners. The women

board the Shuntien were NAVAL OFFICERS SAFE

molested

The British destroyer, Veteran, is patrolling the coast near where the captives are belleved to have been landed.--British Wireless

ADMIRALTY MESSAGE

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Shanghai, June 21. Lleuts. Luce and Field and Messrs. Brand and Watson, whe were released in a sampan at 6.30 Apparently the bandit morale p.m., yesterday are aboard HMS. has been broken by the manner in Whitshed, proceeding to Chefoo, which the Chinese troops have į where they will arrive to-day.

* London, June 20. closed in on them and by the re- In releasing the British captives,

The Admiralty announces that lentless pursuit of the party by the pirates hope to obtain the as-

according to information received aeroplanies from the British air-sistance of the British authorities craft-carrier H.M8. Eagle.

in negotiating with the Chinese, from His Excellency the Comman- der-in-Chief, China Btation, "Ad-

The careful combing of the Government. 'coast and hinterland by the planes The pirates told. Mr. Nicholl miral Bir Frederic Dreyer, four of disclosed + suspicious looking that they are friendly towards the the kidnapped passengers of the ss. Shunilen, Lieutenants Lace Government, but are party yesterday, in which Euro- British peans were observed. The planes against the Chinese Government, and Field and Mesers. Brand and Watson are now safe as the result followed the party throughout the They appear content to keep their

of naval action against the 'day, till dusk:

loot and maintain, their immunity,

pirates. of the Between 5' p.m. and 6 p.m. the fearing the closing, in captives were pushed off in sam- Chinese troops.-Reuter. pans by the pirates, and were subsequently picked up, one by e plane and the others by the destroyer. It is reported that the pirates sent messages by Mr, G. D.

The four men are said to be in good health and are now aboard HMS. Whitshed.":

MINISTER OF INTERIOR

Chefoo, Jume 21. "No Information has so far been The Chinese captive released by received here regarding the other the pirates with Mr. Nicholl is Mr. prisoners-Reuter.

has

WAR BETWEEN JAPAN

AND RUSSIA

Statement By General Hishikari

Dairen, June 21. General Hishikari has assured Reuter that there will be no war between Russia and Japan.

He said: "Despite warlike pre- parations in Siberia there is at present absolutely no cause for war. Japan's policy, according to Mr. Hirota, is based on super- negotiation and conciliation."

General Hishikarf declared that the purpose of the Soviet demon- strations was possibly for discredit- ing Japan and aggrandizing a menace against whom a formia- able army is necessary.-Reuter.

ANGLO-DUTCH SECRET AGREEMENT

Japanese Reporta Denied

PROPOSALS FOR NAVAL RATIOS

Japan's Claims

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London, June 20.1 American naval circles in Lon- don feel that the time has come for the British to submit definite proposals for naval ratíos, "

In the meantime a Tokyo cable states that a claim that it is essen- tial to revise the 5-5-3 ratio of the Washington Naval Treaty W&5 made by a spokesman of the Japanese Admiralty to-day, who added that it was a mistake to imagine that Japan was financially unable to stand the strain of naval, competition.

American naval experts in Lon- London, June 20.

don comment that Japan must į "There is no foundation for the support her claum by far more reports published in a Japanese cogent reasons than hitherto be- newspaper that Great Britain and fore the claim can be discussed. the Netherlands have concluded a

British officiala ere of the Becret agreement for an united opinion that Tokyo has raised the front on military and economic same as being more vital to "the matters in the Far East, and that United States than to Great Eri- the Commander-in-Chief of the | tain. British troops in Malaya will It is too early to say what the shortly visit the Netherlands, ac- British attitude will be should cording to authoritative informa-Japan demand naval" paritý tion received by Reuter-Reuter,

Reuter.

The drought has been broken in Paris, ironically enough on the first day of the "Grande Bemaine" open air festivities.

corridor,

No reply has been received to signals given by tapping..

The rescue party are working frantically-Reuter.

Moderate rains have fallen in Bavaria and other parts of cer- reported In Russia, the weather many while slight rains occurred is favourable for growing crops.

A new heat wave appears to be in Czechoslovakia,

In Yugoslavia and Austria, how-replacing the rains which early ever, the weather remains hot and this week brought relief to the rainless, though in the rest of farmers in the Western States of Eastern Europe useful showers are America Reuter.

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