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FEBRUARY 22. 1931. BITAT SINGLE COP 10 CENTS. 1 LOCK, BRANCH,

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RESTRAINT ON GOLD UNCOMPROMISING SEVERE BLOW FOR LATEST NANKING WANCHAL SHOOTING

BAR GAMBLING.

DRÁSTIC MEASURES BY NANKING.

REAL HOPE OF IMPROVEMENT IN SILVER MARKET.

CURBING SPECULATION.

ATTITUDE OF

INDIA CONGRESS.

PEACE PROSPECT NOT BRIGHT.

ASK RAJ TO CONDONE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.

COMMUNAL RIOTS.

The leaders of the All. Indin Congress have been de liberating on Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's declaration of British policy, but it cannot be claimed that the prospects of

an carly settlement particularly bright at moment. The Congress leaders say they are prepar- ed to negotiate, but their preliminary demands are im- possible.

are

the

MR. SCULLIN.

OVERWHELMING LABOUR- ELECTION DEFEAT.

THE SENATE'S POWER,

Sydney, Feb. 1.

The Labour Government has uffered a serious, setbnek in the important by-election at Parkes, despite the fact that Mr. Scullin participated in the campaign.

SHIPPING

PLANS OUTLINED:

CHINESE-AMERICAN COMPANY.

OTHER LINES TO BE BARRED FROM INLAND WATERS.

JAPANESE ANXIETY.

The result of the election de clared to-day gives. Mr. Mare, the Nationalists candid ute, a majority of 8.813 over the Là our candidate. Mr. Martin. The age turnover of votes siver the 1929 election of mny i julged from the fact that formation of a Sind-American

Shanghai Feb. 1. The proposal by the Ministry Communications for the

INCIDENT.

MANTON TELLS STORY AT TRIAL

PLEA THAT MRS. XAVIER MEANT TO SHOOT HERSELF.

Ms. Marr lot his sent, or that Shipping Company, with vessels TALK OVER SEPARATION.

Deension.

has

to ply between constal ports and

inland Many members of the Federal | Chinese

whters, falines are dismayed by the re- evokeri considerable interest st. which they attribute largely

Theodispe sarer.

The scheme

FIRST ray of hope of an improvement in the THE

to the reinstatement of Mr. E. 6. among foreign shipping and silver market in the immediate future, emerges

as the Federal Trea-commercial circles here.

It is now revealed that the from a message from our Shanghai Correspondent

They declare that a general Ministry suggests that the vessels this morning, announcing that the Nanking Government

The "suspension of judgment" | election just now would probably should run between Shanghai and is imposing vigorous restrictions on the operations of

hai and Nanking. Hankow, Fan- the Shanghai Gold Bar Exchange, generally regarded until the arrival of Sir Tej mear the dismissal of the govern Canton and also between Shang-

chow and Tientsin. The Senate, which is now in a as the most potent influence. in the world silver market. Balahur Sapru, Mr. Srinivasament.

Sustri and Mr. Jayakar offers

shipping centre, and it is ment, may possibly hold up all believed that as result of vessela Colossal speculative dealings in gold bars in Shang-some hope that these demands positing to dictate to the Govern-contemplates improving Canton as Government business while Mr. plying directly between Canton hai have provided, it is contended, one of the principal will be modified, and the next

In future,days will be of vital importance. Theodore remains, in office, thus and North China ports, the causes of the collapse of silver prices.

compelling his withdrawal against import and export trade of Kwang- the wishes of Mr. Scullin, or atung will be expanded. however, only bona fide exporters will be allowed to buy

general election.

The Ministry of Communications or sell, the names of dealers must be submitted daily

Meanwhile, Mr. Seuilin is strly-has requested officials of the Minis- for examination, brokers will lose their licences for

over well-known American, shipping infringing regulations, and an additional safety

in te regain unity in his party, try of Foreign ATairs to approach a

with company,

extensive measure is contained in a requirement of a deposit of

itself at sixes and sevens

nexions in the Far East and ten per cent. on all transactions.

branch offices, at Shanghai and Hongkong, suggesting that nego- tintions be opened for the forma. tion of the Company.

It is the general opinion in Shanghai that the silver market will improve as a result of the measures. Meanwhile, Mr. H. H. Kung, commenting on the proposed silver loan to Chinn, hints that it will be unacceptable unless accompanied by a large gold credit.

SALUTORY EFFECT EXPECTED.

Immediate Observance,

twes,

Gandhi Present.

Allahabad: Feb. 1

A meeting of the tenders of the Congress was held here to-day, the Mahatma Gandhi being among thus present.

The gathering discussed at very considerable length the question of peace negotiations, and the reveals trend of the discussion that Congress is prepared to negotiate provided all political prisoners are released under a Amnesty order. that peaceful picketing

permitted. that breaches of the salt law feared, and that all repressive measures are withdrawn.

*

are

his

Mr. Theodore.--Renter.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN W. C. PASSMORE.

NEARLY FORTY YEARS WITH DOUGLAS CO.

of

The

are

con-

DRAMATIC evidence was given this morning when

the trial of Mrs. J. M. Xavier, charged with shooting Mr. A. J. Manton at a Wanchai flat on December 27 last; opened before Mr. Lindsell. The victim said he had been living with Mrs. Xavier for six years as man and wife,. and they were tolerably happy, though she neglected the home. He had tried to break off the relationship many times but had given way to her pleading.

On the day of the shooting, he again discussed the matter, over the tiffin-table. Soon afterwards, he heard three shots and found he had been hit. He ad- mitted that it might have been an accident and that Mrs. Xavier asked him to shoot her before he left the house.

The defence will be that Mrs. Xavier intended to commit suicide in front of Manton, after long brooding over the pro- posed separation and that the shooting was an accident.

"SHOOT ME BEFORE YOU GO!"

the Police.

It is however, pointed the for the original charge of

Manton.

Life Sentence Maximum. The maximum penalty s being imprisonment same,

the for

had

brother

me lowards the

'Three Shots Fired.

To Fly Chinese Flag.

that the The proposals are American company shall supply vessels to run on old and new

Mr. P. M. Hodgson, of Alessrs.] "Accused told me that she Failing in health for a long routes under their management. period, Captain William Cooper Flying the Ohinese flag, the Tso and Hodgson, appears for the been out to make her arrange-

Mr. D. L. Strellett, of ments, remarking, 'My Passmore, formerly of the Douglas vessels will be registered with the accused. The demands reveal the hand of Steamship Co., and a resident of Chinese Government and will be Messra, G. K. Hall Bratton. in and sister are going to look after Gandhi, being in

Humphrey's Bulidings, Kowloon, subject to Chinese navigation re-watching the ease in the interests me. I said...That is very kind J. of them.' She then said she would ser of the chief witness, Mr. A. Shanghai, Feb. 2. ferent opinions regarding the posi-message to the Deila Teuld,

suggested passed away this morning at angulations. It is the general opinion that advanced are. His death will be lees

Shanghai-Nanking, Manton, and Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, not want the $50 monthly allow After a week of rumours suz tiun of Kiukiang Road is a factor

large circle gesting that the Chinese Govern in the economic life of China: athless these points are conceded mourned by a

of Shanghai-Canton, Shanghal-Han- the Public Prosecutor, appears forance I had agreed to make over

to her, and I said 'All right.' there is little hope of peace.

friends and colleagues Hongkow and Shanghai-Foochow

"Accused next asked me.-*Do ment propared to close down the times it has been described as cons

out that New charges were substituted Exchange,

The meeting passed a resolukong and on the China Cust with Shamrial Gold Bar

trolling the silver markets of the

at-you want your tiffin now? I re- been world, which is true up to a point. tion, reiterating the Working whom he enjoyed a long associa

the type of vessel

piled. Yes, please. She called which little attention ha paid by the operators, it was dis and the amount of speculation prCommittee's decision that the civil tion. To his wife and child who Company said to be concerned will tempted murder, these being

extended the

And it extremely dimeult if not (a) of wounding with intent to the amah, who was in the kitchen, Flosed this morning that the costing there has also been describdisobedience movement shall co-arrive him will l

and at the same time she heracif National Governmont has decided, 'nd as colossal.

tinue, and also a further resolu deepest sympathy in their Morrow, impossible to navigate the Pearl do grievous bodily harm, tlon declaring that the boyent of Cupt. Passmore juined

(b) of unlawfully and malicious run towards the kitchen, and pre- the River up to Canton on account of not to close the Exchange, but to "When it comes to dealing with

essential that foreign cloth must go on until the Douglas Steamship Co., in Febru- their draft.

ly wounding with intent to main.sently turned back with a plate of inge very strict regulations de speculation it is

The nearest point to which disfigure or disable or to do other fish in her hand. She put the wild should not be mixed up with nation has required the power to ary, 1888, as third officer of the signed to prevent further

to A.Jplate in front of me and turned courts both

s.s. Haiphong. He became first vessels of the type can approach grievous bodily harm inoxelude foreign cloth by total pre-olds. gambling. Thr specalation fu gold bars.

away behind Whampao, IN have kibition or by a prohibitive tarifeer in 1892 and master seven England atel America

bedroom. Unless the Canton Government later, when he took over ifferentiated between

years Officer Burned Alive.

command of the s.s. Thules. His is prepared to develop Whumpay Meanwhile a serious disturbanc

Sears

service subsequently by constructing motor roads and with earned for him the title of senior railways linking Canton

"I pulled my chair forward, and captain, and it was not until 1927.

theas reached out for the knife and under a heavy handicap.

ing with the Magistrate on

I heard the repert point of not entering a plen

ut Tork.

fired in quick nearly forty years after joining. with the undies will start life. stated Mr. Hodgson in agree that he severed his connexion with This was due to

this initial stage of the proceed-of two shots

behind Tue. the Company.

sliccession

A -health.

It is obvious that the importance|ings.

Pablic slight pause and I again heard thu Opening the case. During the war, Capt. Passmore

"I did not realise I had been hit played his part in assisting the of the formation of such a concern Allied entse, when it commanded lies in the fact that, with the Prosecutor said that Manton and other one.

I jumped the web. Hiniching, which was tem- backing of the Nanking Govern- the accused had been living to by

flag, the vessels will have full Lockhart Road, Wanchai and the burned my right arm. people. He helps to make a free villages resented the action, and on the Basra run.

defendant in a crouching position, market, and he provides lodgings

Extremely popular, both in his rights ou the inland water trade, incident from which the present up and turned around and saw the in which may be denied to foreign proceedings resulted, verres half turned away from and back. for new issues until such time as the Mostem summoned ak from a

business and amongst his

December 27, when the accused

I saw n The road investor comes tnd may neighbouring village,

hundred of Several

revolver in her left hand with the The Nanking Government sug shot al Munten, firing three shots, ing towards the bed. the friends, the passing of Capt. Pass-companies. them mul pats them away with the

I start- muzzle pointing upwards. arrived, community anney he has saved.

Moslem

more will be greatly

Counsel said that the parties

ed forward

and

took the revolver attacked the Sikh village, burn-many years he resided at the Kinggests that the head office be estab-all of which took effect. ed and lonted the shops, threw Edward Hotel, subsequently mov-sized at Shanghui.

Japanese shipping interests had been living together as man from her. I then found that I all the beef in the village into ing to Kowloon, where he took up

are understood to be approach and wife for six years. the Hindu temple and renerally residence in Humphrey's Build-

ing the Nanking Government

Recently they came to the

In I was there that he died ran wild until a strong force ings.

with the object of protecting ing of the ways.

sequence, the woman was of police arrived and restored early this morning, following

Japanese rights of trade

highly strung condition. She order-Renter.

rather long illness.

infund wilers. Meanwhile it is reported that the revolver with which she munications has reached an under law in Kowloon. the Nanking Ministry of Com-the shooting from standing with Shanghai bankers

the Ten Articlos, it is learned, have and on the question of spreulation been prepared for transmission to Mr. Hartley Withers, the well- the Shanghai Gold Bar Exchange known writer on economic subjects on Kinking Road, and to the us some very interesting sen- Shanghai Stock and Produce Fences in his luck entitled "War changes, for immediats observance and Lombard Street. He says:

The anti-gambling

measures

have been approved by the Centrul Political Council, and they strictly prohibit brokers from buying or selling gold bars on behalf of parties who are not bona fide ex-

is dealers

foreign! ports ti exchange.

The names of the people en- gaging in transactions on the Exchange ure to be submitted Tor dafly examination.

is reported from Rawalpindi.

Many persons were killed and wounded and a Sikh Jamadar a native officer) was burned alive during fierce communal rioting in a village about forty miles from Rawalpindi.

Now speculation is not a view in itself. It is a stupid way of losing one's money, but the speculator is Apparently, the treble develop quite a useful person sa long as heel from the fact that a Moslem is not given rope enough to low was found cooking beef in

Inland Waters Traffic.

him to become a danger to other | honrding-house. linda and Sikh | norarily converted into a transportment, and by flying the Chinese1gether for some time at No, 375, by the first two, but the third

"Obviously in any legislation it)

have it contemplation, re- Violation of the order will entailiy the withdrawal of the licence feeding Kinkiang Rond the Gov-1 the braker concerned, while severe ernment might to be guided by a

be imposed in panishments will

statement of the functions addition.

[sporulation such as this,

Ten Per Cent. Margin.

There is no suggestion that the Nanking Government contemplates

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Irresponsible Element.

of

At present all that is known is the complete closing of the Ex-that there is talk in Nanking of change as has been previously hint restricting the activities of the exchange dealers, but it so it willi The safety measures Introduced have to be done in a way which will have a salutary effect, especially will not inflict harm on the cam- that requirir the payment of a ton munity. By making a free market, per cent, margin as a deposit on all as Mr. Hartley Withers says, mer. tranactions..

AIMEE MACPHERSON

VISIT.

CONFUSION CAUSED OVER NAMES.

felt. For

The funeral has been arranged 10 take place to-morrow afternoon. passing the monument at 5 o'clock.

PETROLEUM FIND IN ITALY.

for

the near future.

and

in

Calling the amah from the kitchen, pait-was bleeding in the right arm. Convent her out to fetch 4 policeman, while I put the revolver in my packet and made my way out of did the house and to the Police n brother-in-Station."

Manten's Story.

Didn't Realise Injuries,

living then

a lean of $10,000,000 which

Replying to tho Magistrale. will be devoted to the reorganisa- Alfre, Joseph Manton, tool ing

several weeks in Manton said that even then he did tion of the Chinn Merchants Steam worn after

hospital, then took the witness-not realise that the first two shots Navigation Company.

Public had also wounded him. At the Another big shipping company stand. In reply to the with Chinese capital, is the Ching Prosecutor, he said he was a Station he handed the revolver to vessels Traffle Inspector of the Hongkong Acting Sub-Inspector Hynes, and Кес IMPORTANT DISCOVERY

which has many Shanghai, Feb. 2

there until the ambulance and' a

Ltd, Prior to the Chants in the past and to-day havé

AFTER 20 YEARS.

Tramways, operating In North China,

was taken to the. had been

he been able to secure rates for their Some confusion, has been creat-

few plying between Shanghal and shooting, he

second Government Hospital. It was not It is the general opinion that bills which in other circumstances ed here in connexion with the

Rome, Feb. 1.,

Canton. General Chang Hsser- the silver market will improve would not have been passible, and news from New York stating that

After twenty years of unsuccessfang la one of the principata in with the accused on the as the result of the measures that brings into prominence the the well-known American evange

Another man wounded in three places.

Proposed to Separate, who stayed on the floor above.. As was pointed out in the North case where speculation proves of list, Aimee MacPherson, and her ful searching for petroleum in Italy, this company, which le conten-floor of No. 375, Lockhart Rond, until after he had been admittad com- daughter, Roberta, left Honolulu gushes yielding 175 gallons per pinting Increasing its activities and Wanchai, having been there for there that he knew he had been China Daily News on Thursday last benefit to the commercial

bearded with them.

The Magistrato:-Any reasOTE On December 27, Manton con- week, the influence of the Gold Bar munity. When, however, to refer on Saturday for Shanghal aboard minute have been found at Fon-the purchase of new tonnage in wolve months.

s.. President Wilson The teviva, Rear Parma-Bruter, the Exchange on the silver exchange again to the above, passage,

tinued, he enme home at five why accused should do this?

Manton-Not that I know of, position is undoubtedly very great, speculation becomes a danger, it message added that Mrs. MacPher-

London, Feb. 1. and it has been noted that operators is obviously time for action. Pro son was travelling under the nape

The Flitancial Times says that the SIR ANDREW BALFOUR, minutes to one o'clock in the after

noon, and sat at the dining table. sir.

Mr. Fitzroy:What did you pro there have been able to force ex-bably the sunest view to be obtain of Mre, Poate,

There

has been complete mis-

Accused, who was in the kitchen, change up when the price of silvered on the matter is that of the understanding here by the use of sale of a hundred thousand tons of

then appeared and took a seat pose doing at this time?

Manton-We proposed to had gone down and vice versa. exchange brokers handing the Mrs. Donte's name, as Mrs. Poate sugar to the Far East run the

also at the table. The floor was This ability will bo considerably bills of importing and exporting and her daughter label who are fected in one contract through the

divided by the position given to separate. I proposed to separato rooms. from her. She said she had made Isssened as a result of the roguln-Arms, and in the prosent state of aboard the President Wilson. intermediary of London

two wardrobes into two London, Feb. 2,

arrangements and was tions which are to be put into fores. affairs. It is interesting to

note travelling from Honolulu to Shang- brokers.

The sugar has been placed with

satisfled. --Our Own Correspondent. thut so far as can be learned the hal, undor British passports, are

well-one buyer in order to avoid any dis-

The death is announced of Sir Where they were sitting could be her freer market which the Exchange the wife and daughter of

Allowance Not Wanted -Niad been living with her?

Manton:-Yor Describing the conversation

(Continued on Page 7.). Thore is, however, an irresponsible, chant in Shanghai, who is in no minimising any adverse effect on or of the London School of Hygiene

Reuter.

which ensued, Manton said. element with funds and know-way connected with Almen Mac-the-final accomplishment of the and Tropical Medicine since 1923-

Chadbourne Plan-Router. (Continued on Page 7.).· Pherson-cuter.

Newspaper Comment,

The NC. -D- News, commenting on the rumours of Government ac stion said: There and many di

sugar

DEATH OF A NOTED SCIENTIST.

:

affords, offsets the greater evil. known and respected British, mor- turbance b Eastern markets, thus | Androw Balfour, K.G.M.G., Direct-regarded as the llvif room. The Magistrate:-1 gather you