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*#*#*#* TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932,

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"South China Morning Post Bldg.” Tel. 2454

MOSCOW'S WAR PREPARATIONS IN FAR EAST Submarines in Parts Secretly Brought by Rail UNDER TWO A LOCAL SOCIAL

STERLING'S

FALL

SEVEN CENTS IN NEW YORK

COMMONS PASSES

BUDGET PLAN

EQUALISATION ACCOUNT

London, Apr. 25.

A sensational fall in the value of sterling, by slightly over seven cents to $3.67%2 occurred on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. The fall in attributed in some quarters to the withdrawal of French balances from London, but

General Vassily Blucher,

known above,

China, Galons in De

the

of commander special unit of the Soviet Red Army in the Far East.

The

others ascribe it to the Neville Beachcomber

Chamberlain plan for preventing

tinctuations with his £150,000,

xchange equalisation account.

Nuisance

OFFICIAL ACTION

NEEDED

'The main business in the House! of Commons to-day was considera- ion of a financial resolution es- tabilsing the exchange equalisa- tion account provided in the Budget

Pointe remarks an and authorising the Chancellor to borrow a sum not exceeding £150,- fending by professional bench- 000,000 for this purpose-strung-combers are contained in the annual thening the curruncy and cheek-repinrt of the Sailors' Home and iny effects of speculation.

ACCEPTED BY HOUSE.

shameless

Missions to Seamon. Hongkong.

After stating, that it would [seem autvisable for the authorities The resolution was passed by to amend the local ordinances the House without a division.

dealing with the discharge of sea- Owing to the indisposition of men and enses of ship-desertion. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Major |the report states:

Eliott, the Financial Secretary to

the Treasury, introduced the re-

There are many professional

FORTIFICATION OF VLADIVOSTOCK

CREATION OF NAVAL AND AIR BASES

"EVENTUAL" CONFLICT

WITH JAPAN

LONDON REPORTS

STARTLING "REVELATIONS" DETAILING THE

"WE WILL FIGHT to the and in the cruas of peace," de- clared an order issued by the Soviet War Minister, M. Vor- oshilov, above. He

warned Soviet military forcin to be prepered

London, Apr. 26.

GOVERNMENT'S PREPARATIONS FOR THE "EVENTUAL STRUGGLE WITH JAPAN" CAR DIVES INTO

SOVIET

ARE THE SUBJECT OF AN ARTICLE WHICH IS GIVEN CONSIDERABLE PROMINENCE IN THIS MORNING'S MORNING POST.

The author of the article alleges that Russian troops in large numbers and large quantities of war material have been moved to east Siberia since the end

HARBOUR

MIDNIGHT MISHAP NEAR BLAKE PIER

Completing a journey at about' of last year. The units stationed on the frontier have midnight, a five-seater Oldsmobile been extended and the fortifications of ladivestock are public hitre er plunged into the being strengthened under the direction of experienced harbour and remained partly sub- engineers, including many German officers.

merged. The only occupant of the the mishap

NAMES

SECRET OF NOTED VICTORIAN AUTHOR

(Router's Special Servic»).

London, Apr. 25.

PROBLEM

SEAFARERS OUT OF WORK

UP AGAINST IT

The problem of unemployed iba- men is causing great anxiety to the Hongkong Sailors' Home and Miss Everet Green, the noted the Missions to Seamen, according novelist who for twenty-three years to the annual report just issued. wrote very successfully under that As is well-known, says the rest name and also as "Cecil Adair," port, there are thousands of un- has died at Madeira with the secret employed seafarers of the best type all over the world, and. possibly of her dual authorship well kept. Hongkong Is better in this respect Under the name "Ceell_Adair," than most ports of similar im- she achieved some very big auc-portance. Nevertheless there are cess, one of her novels, "Gabriel's several officers and engineers who Garden." selling 150,000 copies. either owing to ill-health, old age, Miss Green averaged three or the laying up of their vessels books annually and In the last have been out of work for a con- thirteen

years had produced siderable period and are now practi- thirty-five novels.

cally penniless. Throughout her career, Miss Nor does there seem to be any Green retained her Victorian chance of finding employment for characteristics, condemning modern them. Such money as they have fashions, herself wearing the traff. been able to save has long been Ing skirts and the high collars of spent, in the case of married men

the 80's. She always have her families at Home and elsewhere publishers instructions that having taken anything that could heroines depicted on the covers of be sent, and often to sand these her books must be "adequately and men Home simply means moving them to an even worso state of de- modestly dresend."

stitution than here. We cannot keep them for an indefinito period: on the chance of their being able: some time to pay off their debts especially as many of them already owe considerable sums aleewhere. :

She was over seventy years of

nge.

STOP PRESS.

NO LOCAL FUND, There is no fund, in the Colony or any Home of Rest for theka men and we seriously put forward-thin problem as one which calls for careful consideration and action," not only by the Gulids and Com

It is declared that a number of submarines have car at the time of

Harbin, Apr. 26. been transported in parts from the Black Sea to Vladi-was Fung You, the driver, who

The Japanese occupied Shiktno-panies but also by the powers that vostock where they have been reassembled by German escaped with a ducking.

Just before, the car had land-hotze yesterday morning. :- bút engineers and mechanics. It is believed that fifteen to

Pier. The driver then swerved Vladivostock.

be.

It has been suggested that there

solution. The purpose of the fund, benchcombers who work their way twenty submarines have already been launched ́ated a number of passengers at the trouble is reported from both the should be permanent accommoda-

he explained, was to provide a from port in the East following the j greater control over the currency, warm or cool weather arvording to The fund was to build up the old taste, and exist on the charity of the dollar exchange account that gave men of the Merchant Service and them a nucleus of £25,000,000, and Navy, whom incidentally they are in addition, the Treasury sougnt power to borrow for the purpose that fund, a stim not exceeding #130,000,000.

LONDON POSITION..

It would be used to purchase and hold foreign securities of all kinds, Although large it was not out of

really disgracing, and of local organizations. More often than not the officers of the ships car cerned are glad to see the last of them and nothing is therefore said In the Authorities.

CONTINUOUS PESTS.

little as

NAVAL AND AIR BASES

ANOTHER WARING.

the vehicle round to return, but be-eastern and western sections fore he could change gear, the car, the Chinese Eastern Railway. proceeding at 20

hour miles an

The line had been torn up

as it ran along the waterfront,

TRAGEDY

ACCIDENTAL DEATH VERDICT

London, Apr. 25.

of tion for such in the new Homs and Institute, but for very many rea- sons this is quite of the question: It may be na well to say that even:

troops sent from Imienno caught;

up with the Chinese raldera and fighting is reported to be going

on.

of Anti-Govern- Large forces ment troops are reported to be active at different points, forty and eighty miles, west of Hurbin: on the C.ER. Japanese troops are being hurriedly despatched

went over the edge, and dropped few miles went of Imienpe and The suggestion is that Vladivo hostilities outside Manchuria, and into a clear patch of water, nar- the telegraph poles and wires de- stock is being rapidly converted it will be easy to cause provocation rowly missing some harbour craft molished.

air when an excuse for action is need-moored in the vicinity.

A station twenty miles west of into a powerful naval and

The driver managed to get clear) force base, though the naval ed.

"This mechanism for provoking of the submerged car, and scrum-Imieupo has been looted and burn- farves may be more or less limited

conflicts is well known to the toil-bled out of the water, landing oned by unknown troops. Japanese to numerous submarines,

It in also declared that an aux-ers of the Soviet Union. The the steps leading to Blake Pier. iliary air and seaplane base is policy of the Soviet Government is Their Consuls will have nothing being created at the Bay of unalterable. It fights for peace! seule with the gigantic movements to do with them, so long as they Posich, near the Korean Frontier, and has no reason to depart from

a single menacing the Japanese naval this basic line in its foreign policy. THE WINDERMERE of liquid capital during the last have even 80 few months.

dollar in their pockets they can bases in Northern Korea--Reuter, if the peaceableness of the U.S.S.R. is interpreted by the Japanese im- of ide not be arrested for vagrancy, und The liquid resources

perialists as a sign of weakness world had been setting towards Frases have been known of such

The Tass Agency reports, "in and inability to protect the borders of the Land of Rising Socialism. London because of the confidence Bien, when arrested and placed in engendered by the speedy repay-the House of Detention, returning connexion with the projected rald, much the worse for them.

the four hours on the Soviet Consulate-General in ment of last year's credit and beat the end of

them daily in Harbin," that the Pravda, bus is-

WILL FIGHT AGAIN. chuse of the balancing both of last freedom allowed

Concluding, Pravda declares: year's

budget. order to look for work with five or sued a fresh warning to the Jap- and this year's

Junese military in an article entitl-The Land of the Soviets has never Starling thereby been strengthened ten dollars in their pocket.

A verdict of death by accidental from Harbin to disperse them. but the recent fluctuations bad! This sum having secured theirjed: "Warning to Provocateurs."

permitted and never will permit proved an embarrasment, not mere-release and served its purpose is "Autumu melodies with the old invasion of its territory nor the drowning was returned at the in- Reuter.

to traders in Britain, but to returned to the beachcomber's tune "Bandits are being repeated." conversion of any of its parts into quest at Windermere this afternoon traders in sterling in many other friends from whom it was borrow. says the paper. "Last autumn and buffer state. For the integrity on Mr. Edward Taylor Scott, the countries. The new account was aed and the man continues to be a winter, 'baudits, netlog on orders of their country the millions of Editor of the Manchester Guardian, are of the Japanese military and using toilers of the U.S.S.I. fought the who lost his life when a dinghy in capital account and was not to be Ipest until somehow means drawn upon for revenue purposes. Found to ship him away or he con- their money and their weapons, interventionists and came out vie- which he and his son were sailing.

capsized.-- siders it as well to move ou else served as the pretext for extending torious. If necessary the prole on Lake Windermere where. Such men hung alfout fie the Japanese occupation of Man-tarian fatherland will again" fight | British Wirelens. Explaining how the Government vicinity of the Institute, Naval churia. The old version of the anyone infringing its safety. Let been this not be forgotten by the un- proposal connected the issue de Canteen, Sailors' and Soldiers' Bandits' melody has now

the task under bridled elements of the Japanese partment of the Bank of England Home and similar places. with discarded since and the new fund. Major Elliott pitiful and quite untrue stories of taken by Japanese imperialism military who are now seeking an

give endless has become more far-reaching.

exit from the blind alley into said the issue department held a linisfortune. and

which their adventure has driven, cover against the note issue which trouble to those responsible for

them." mounted in all to £400,000,000. | running these Institutions as well The management of that depart as to the men from whom they so ment was under the Bank of Eng-Eshamelessly cudge.

STERLING CONVOY.

land, subject to notifying thef

Treasury of securities payable.

and the profits of the note issue

were paid to the Treasury.

Their note issue had been under the expert management of the Bank of England and

su jreat

Wan

the confidence engendered throughout the world that country after country had joined what was called the sterling convoy and the pilot light of had followed Those expert managers.

PARITY RATE.

19.400

COLONEL "BOB" SHORT

POSTHUMOUS TITLE LIKELY

USE OF DYNAMITE. "The Japanese imperialists are now making use of dynamite," goes on the newspaper. "The White Gaards, who do not dare take a single step without the knowledge and instructions of the Japanese authorities, have already attempt- ed to blow up the Sungari_bridge and are

Eastern littering the Branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway with dynamite with the aim of exploding Soviet-Japanese

relations.

Nanking, Apr. 26. It is reported, that the Govern- "By the orders of the Japanese, mont Inteuds conferring the pos- innocent workers, employees of the humous rank of Colonel on "Bob" Chineso Eastern Railway and citi- Short, the American aviator who zens of the Soviet Union, are being vas killed in an aerial battle with arrested and tortured in the Japanese airmen in February-ture chambers of Harbin.

Reuter

The gold held by the lepartment, said Major Elliott, could only be valued ust Kold par It was not proposed to revalue the gold for that must

MARSHAL FENG'S nwalt the re-stabilization of ster link at the rate at which it was

RESIGNATION decided to restabilly t The effect of the proposals was that

Nanking, Apr. 26. the issue department was abso- The Central Political Council lutely solvent in every contingency as accepted the resignation of and the note legua would bo Marshal Feng Yu-halang from the covorod by real

assets.post of Minister for Home Affairs, British Wirrions and Router. -Reuter.

IDIOTIC TALE.

DOLLAR RISES A FARTHING

SHARP DECLINE IN CROSS-RATE

BOARD OF TRADE PRESIDENCY

ROYAL ASSENT TO NEW ACT

London, Apr. 25. The House of Lords met special- ly to-day to pass the President of the Board of Trade Bill through all Its stages, to enable Mr. Runciman to take his place again in the House of Commons.

A sensational drop in sterling, slight rise in allver, and an ad-

Afterwards, a Royal Commission vance of a farthing in the Hong- kong dollar are features of the ex-ul and signified Royal Assent to

the Act.-British Wirelces. change markets to-day..

Silver rost in London 1/8th, Speculators spot and forward. tor-bought, but there were small offer HELICOPTER FLIGHT

inga, the market being quietly steady. After the official fixing. the market presented no special

"The redoubtable General Ma feature. Chan-shan," Pravda proceeds, "Ins

ENGLAND TO CAPE TOWN

London, Apr. 25.

Silver remains unchanged in New also been placed on the sccho. York, but the cross-rate has dropp- The Idiotic tale of his being in cd to 8.674. Soviet territory has been resorted The Hongkong dollar has ad Mr. J. N. Young, an ox-Roval to. The tactical line of Japanese vanced a farthing to 18. d., with Air Force officer. began the frat The Jong distance helicopter flight to- imperialism makes it more than the market quito steady, clear that the military want again business rate is about 16.8.8/8d., day when ho left England for to try their luck. The Japanese but there is little Inclination to do South Africa, 9.000 miles distant.

British Wireless, imperialists are preparing further business. A

if such were given passages Home

it would be no real solution and in

some casca practically a death son- tence. The future for them would be at best parish relief or the work-. house.

GREAT SCOTT!

AT SINGAPORE IN 62 DAYS

London, Apr. 25. The British airman, Mr. C. W. A. Scott, who left England Inst Tues- day morning, flew the 1,200 miles from Rangoon to Singapore to-day, and is now well ahead of the best previous record for the part of Journey from England to Australia that he has 80 for covered. British Wireless.

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