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MLUA+ÆÆ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932.

台六廿月九

No. 11333

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LOCAL CURRENCY PROBLEM: COIN SHORTAGE

JOBLESS BIG GOLD STRIKE IN

MARCH ON LONDON

GOVERNMENT'S AIR OF

INDIFFERENCE

"RED" INFLUENCE] ALLEGED

London, Oct. 24.

The parties of unemploy

ed hunger marchers from

NEW ZEALAND.

·STAMPEDE ALONG THE

KAWARAU RIVER.

(Our Own Correspondent).

London, Oct. 25.

A stampede along the banks of the Kawarau River in Central Otage (New Zealand) has followed the disclosure of a gold strike described as the richest find of alluvial gold known in this generation.

Two unemployed miners were the discoverers, accord- ing to a mage from Well- ington.

several parts of the country (2) PRE

engaged in an anti-Means

Test demonstration are ex- pected to reach London on foot within the next few days.

the

MANCHURIA AND

·

LOAN QUOTA

ARE TOLD

They number several thousands WHAT COMMONS and some apprehension exista in certain quarters regarding possibility of disorderly conce during the demonstrations which will be staged. -

The hunger marchers were to- day the subject of questions in the House of Commons, concern- ing arrangements for commodation.

their

MINISTER'S ATTITUDE.

SIR JOHN SIMON ON FAR EAST

London, Oct. 24.

The situation in the Far East: was the subject of a series of

Sir ¡questions fired at John

The Minister of Health, Sir Simon, the Foreign Secretary, Hilton Young said the duty of in the House of Commons this making the necessary arrange-afternoon. ments for the accommodation of these people who had been in-1

Britain's at- Asked to defne

оп

Douglas Fairbanks, snapped aboard the Andre Lebon by a staff photographer, this morning,

POLICE PAY CUTS

REPRESENTATIONS. FRUITLESS

ECONOMIES MUST CONTINUE

TREASURY SHANTUNG

CONCERN ·

PREMIUM ON ONE-CENT & 5-CENT PIECES

EXPLOITATION REPORTS

CRISIS

NANKING OFFER TO HAN FU-CHU

A POSSIBLE NEW CIVIL WAR

(Specjal to "Telegraph".}

Tsinan, Oct. 25.

It is learned that the Govern- ment have requested General

A serious shortage of low- value coins, five-cent and one-cent vicces, is causing earnest consideration in Han Fu-chu to remain in, office land, at the same time, have Government circles.

asked for the withdrawal of his Both denominations are, at a forces from East Shantung. heavy prontum tnd there are sug- gestions of exploitation as a result If Han Fu-chu agrees, his oft- af this state of affairs. The avowed determination not to cense poorest people, Uiose who are com- hie campaign against Llu Chen- pelled to think in cents, are most inten until General Liu have been seriously affected.

drivon out of east Shantung bo The reason for the shortage is comes an empty threat. not easy to ascertain, but it is

Hostilities are proceeding for the suggested in Government eireles moment, but Han Fu-chu's reply to that a good deal of hoarding is the latest message from Nanking going on for asmo purpose or other is more important. not quite clear."

It is understood that the Govern- ment has decided to mark out five districts along the northern sca. coast as the garrison area for Liu Chen-nien.

BALANCE OF POWER.

RECENT ISSUE.. Nearly 700,000 new five-cent pieces ($36,000 worth) were fereed by the Treasury last month. On September 6, the premium on the evins was 632 per cent. On the 9th, it roso slightly and then fell Observers are of the opinion that auddenly until I reached 1.8 per this step is intended for the pre- cent. Sinces, they premium has servation of the balance of power. Again risen and at the present in Shantung.

WORKMEN CRUSHED

TAIKOO DOCKYARD

TRAGEDY

12-TON BULKHEAD GIVES WAY

"Terrible "injuries, fatal in one casc, were

suffered by three

workmen at Taikoo Dockyard yesterday as the result of an accident which occurred doring construction work on a new ship.

A number of men were engaged in placing an iron bulkhead into position, when, without warning, the the supports gave way and Crown Prince Michael of Rumania bulkhead crashed into their midst. shown la London with his mother, The bulkhead weighed no less Princess Helens, during his recent than 12 tons, and although other visit, the sudden termination of which workers quickly skipped out of caused

soniation, particularly a

report had it that King Carol inthe way, three men were caught tended him to go to school in Eng-undor the enormous weight and

land for your.

suffered terrible injuries.

ATTACK ON NONNI RIVER BRIDGE

REPULSED AFTER TWO HOURS

KOSHAN ROUT CLAIMED

time is standing in the region of The most interesting feature of 5 per cent, Very few coins are the dispute is that if General Han London; Oct., 24.

now to reserve and there is every Fu-chu does not agree to the Gov- Representations made by the likelihood of another faste having ernment's proposals, he will place duced by Communist organisations titude towards the Report of the Police Councils against the to be made before Chinese New himself in the position of a rebel

Commission

and there is a possibility that the to leave their homes and proceed League

Man-second cut in the pay of Britain's Yeat. to London rested with those re- churia, Sir John Simon declared police, which is due to come into It is interesting to note in Government may order a "punitive sponsible for such demonstrations that until the Lytton Report had

that there la In the event of their failure to been considered by the Council of force on November 1 under the connexion with the premium on campaign' against him.

This prospect is being actively do ao, application could be made the League it would be undesir Government's economy program- five-cent pieces

always a decided Increase as Chin-

discussed-Kenter. by individuals in need to the able for the Government to state me, have failed.

ese New Year draws near annual- public assistance, authorities, but its attitude towards the Report, Following last year's financially. Last year, for example, the it would not be the duty of those either as a whole or towards any crisis and the drastic measures premium stood at 10% per cent. authorities to facilitate those de-particular proposals.

taken by the Goversment to cur- This is due to the li chi custom,WANG

Chan-shan last year, tail expenditure, police pay cuts! monstrations by making special arrangements-British Wireless.

WATERFRONT FRACAS

VICTIM'S SERIOUS

CONDITION

WILB

re-

were introduced in

two

instal-

the service of

by

which causes hoarding of coins until the festival

commence.

CHING-WEI NOT LANDING

0x-

Wong Chuen, 45, a fitter, had his akull fractured, besides aus- taining other severe injuries. He has since diod in Hospital.

OTHERS CRITICALLY HURT. Others of the Injured who were also taken to the Government Civil Hospital were:

!

Mnk On, 26, also suffering from head injuries which may prove fatal, and

Wong Hing, 45 whose legs ware crushed.

Police investigations appear to show that the work of fixing the bulkhead had not been far ad- Harbin, Oct. 26.

vanced when certain screws and the bulkhand The railway bridge over the nuts which' held Nonni. River which was the gave way. scone of a fierce struggle be- tween the Japanese forces under General Honjo, and the Man- HOOVER'S REPLY churian leader, General Ma was the

·TO ROOSEVELT objective of a sudden attack by anti-Manchukuo Volunteers yes. terday.

REQUEST TO TARIFF COMMISSION

The attack was launched by a party of about fifteen hundred troope with anti-Manchukuo. cavalry.

ed

CUSTOMS SITUATION. Mr. Peter MacDonald (Con-ments. The first, equivalent to five Aervalive) inquired what steps per cent. was enforced in October But Chinese New Year is a long have been taken by the British last year and the second waa to way off and it is thought there must be some other reuson for the

REFUSES INTERVIEW Government to ensure the payment become effective next month.

shortage.

Washington, Ont. 24. ON FRENCH LINER of the Manchurian Customs

Several police meetings have

ONE CENTS IN MILLIONS.

While Mr. Franklin Roosevelt is venues upon which foreign loans been held to discuss the situation District Councils all were based to the Chinese Govern- and the

tem-attacking the Republicana for With regard to cent pieces, The former Nanking Premier

The original swoop was

President tariff policy, the their auccessful, over the country decided to seck 3,500,000 were issued in December and Kuomintang Leftist leader, porarily

but ment.

lias instructed the. Sir John Simon, replied that the cancellation or postponement of last but at Chinese New Year the Mr. Wang Ching-wei, arrived in

Japanese violently counter attack-loover

and compelled premium was about 10 per cent. Hongkong this morning aboard the

the anti-Tariff Commission to investigate Manchurian authorities had de-the second instalment. chired their intention to pay their

After the festival it eased. To- M.M. Liner Andre Lebon, travel-

Manchukuo forces to withdraw eighteen of the major industries - OFFICIAL STATEMENT. Tong Taat, whose skull

quota towards

day, after the issue of that large ing with Madame Wang Ching after two hours of bitter fighting of the United States, to determine arc sufficfently Fractured with a bamboo pole in foreign loana. No agreement had, An official announcement was, additional number of coins the wel, their young daughter, Dr.

in which the Chinese loyalists whether they

protected. and the the fracas between market coolles however, been reached for carry-however, fasued to-day the premium is as high as 12 per cent. Loh Kwong-lam

used hand grenades,

In his message to the Com- the Central waterfront Sun. on their lying at the Governing out this intention, though liome Secretary and the Secretary This has necessitated an order for Premier's two secretaries.

miston, the President points out Mr. Wang's cabin was besieged

of thirty ment Civil Hospital in a critical Manchurians had remitted certain of State for Scotland, stating that more coins, and an issue will take

it had been declded, regretfully. place before Chinese New Year but he declined to grant anyʼiator./statement regarding their losses that the currencies

countries have now depreciated that the cuts must be imposed.

from five to fifty-five per cent. The reason for the shortage is

KOSHAN FIGHTING. Dr. Loh Kwong-lam, who has

which has reduced the standard of They claimed to have routed living in those countries and noarding or partly, to the increase attended Mr. Wang Ching-wei dur- hi the population.

Ing his illness, told Telegraph another party of 1,500 anti-widened the cost of production At present the premium on ten- representative that the ex-Premier Manchukuo Volunteers who attack between them and the United cont coins is only one-fifth of one needed complete rest. He addeded Koshan. The Volunteers fled States.--Reuter.

after their defeat with the per cent. Up to December, there that the patient was in bed and

alight discount. Some he intended to remain on board Japanese in hot pursuit. It is Was years ago the Government were during the vessel's brief stay in alleged that they lost two hundred killed while the Japanese claim forced to demonetise the coins on Hongkong.

were only two account of their having reached

that their losses such a discount.

killed and one wounded.-Router.

sums to Shanghai-Route",

state. For the last twenty-four

hours he hud +onsclous, and

Un- tyren

police the

1933.

authorities being informed that TENSION IN the need for the utmost economy not known, but it may be due to

far off

re-

the end may not be are anxiously awaiting his covery to consciousness in order to secure his depositions on the

vent of that evening.

Meanwhile Lo Chung und Lo! Tak, market fokis, who have been held in custody as a result of the affair, were brought before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central Magi- atracy this morning, charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Tong Taat.

Del. Inspector John Murphy re- ported on the serious development which may cause a revision of the charge, and requested a three days' remand with the accused in police custody.

The two accused wore according ly remanded.

STEAMER HITS LIGHTER

CARGO OF BEANS LOST

SHANGHAI

ANXIETY IN HOUSE OF COMMONS

"WITHIN BOUNDS"

(Our Own Correspondent).

London, Oct. 24.

The situation in Shanghai is causing some anxiety in England, following reports

The announcement declares that in public expenditure is still im- perative.

Last year's economies must be continued in their entirety and Indeed, other sources of economy must be found.

The total of both cats in no case will exceed ten per cent.-Reuter,

EMPIRE RADIO STATION

STARTS OPERATIONS VERY SOON

London, Oct. 24.

119th.

OT

coins.

a

views,

The party is proceeding. to Europe, and Dr. Loh said it is uncertain when Mr. Wang will return to China.

""

ANGLO-DANISH TRADE

A

The Japanese have made

in the engagement.

THE FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE

· BRITAIN STILL IN HOPES

London, Oct. 24.

no

CANADIAN LOAN

·-FLOTATION

EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS

Ottawa, Oct. 24.

A Dominion internal loan of afghty million dollars is being floated at the end of the month, according to unofficial, but reliable advices..

It is stated that the loan · will: consist of G$25,000,000 In throe Sir John Simon, in reply to a year four per cent. bonds at 90.20, Parliamentary question, referred and a twenty-year four por cent.. to the proposal which the British, Jon of G$55,000,000 | at 98.46- Government had made for a Four-Router. Power Conference, and the ob jactions raised by the German Government to the Conference tak ing place in Geneva,

. FERRY PRACTICE. A Telegraph representative went this morning to the Yaumati Ferry Mr. Hu Han-min, leader of the wharf and tondered a ten cont Kuomintang Rightists sent his pleco for a two cent fare. In re daughter, Miss Hu Muk-lan, to turn he received only seven cents, sac Mr. Wang Ching-wol when the ex-Premier five cent piece, and two one cent liner arrived. The

received Miss Hu and Mr. Au In an interview with the secretary Fong-po, representative of General of the Company, he was informed Chan Chai-tong, as well as The British Broadcasting Cor-that the reason for the deficiency number of Kwangst friends, of growing ill-feeling be-poration's new Empire Breadcast-of one cent on the transaction was tween the Chinese and ing Station at, Daventry will com-due to the fact that the company December used a money changer's, licence on Japanese' communities. menco operations

each of their wharves, which en- titled them to give only nine cents Anxious members of the House' The Postmaster General stated in exchange for a ten-cent plece. of Commons requested a statement in the House of Commons that it from Sir John Simon regarding the

MONEY-CHANGERS1.

BIG ORDERS FROM "Wo have taken out a. presont position, and the Foreign was hoped it would serve all the Dominions and Colonies. The pro- Secretary answered one question

EXHIBITION cise capabilities of the station could changer's licence because it wo had As the 8.a. Solstan was manoeuy. but avoided another,

Ho reported that the Sino-only be determined by experiment. to buy copper conins we would only

London, Oct. 24. No contribution towards the receive 98 cents in exchange for ring to plek up its buoy on arrival Japanese tension in Shanghai

Colonel Colville, Parliamentary yesterday, it collided with A

appeared to be on the increase, but cost was at present being made one dollar piece he added. lighter loading cargo alongside added that apart from isolated in by the territories concerned "That means that we would be los Secretary to the Overseas Trade ing savon conta on every dollar Department, stated in the House the B.. Linan.

changed at the minimum with the of Commons that he had been In- The lighter sank immediately, stances, the movement had been British Wireless, becoming a total loss with 100 kout within bounds, following

"Actually our logs would be much business actually transacted at the The Royal Observatory reports States intends to begin next year sacks of beans which had already action by the Mayor of Greator been taken aboard. The crow Shanghai in cooperation with the the formation of a Japanese Dolum at its present rate. formed by the organisers that the were rescued, and no loss of life is authorities of the International fonce Corps in Shanghai which heavior. In giving change for British Exhibition at Copenhagen that the antleyclone remains over the construction of another ben

Settlement.

he said, "may lead to grave practen cent piece, our Jons on a two was in the neighbourhood of one N. China. The typhoon appeara thousand ton cruiser,

cent transaction works out at million pounds,

to be stationary to the west of eight-inch guns.

The new vessel will be one tices."

Large orders for coal and other the Balintang Channel. Lobál JAPANESE DEFENCE CORPS./ Sir John Simon said he was un-loss of 85 per cent, which is be

also made.--British forecast:-N.E. winds, fresh, ten allowable under the Lond Mr. A. O. Morsing (Conservative ablo to answer that question at yond the capacity of any com- goods were

Naval Treaty, Reuters® find generally. Wirafean.' or Freston) inquired about the moment,

pany".

reported.

.

J

The lighter master, Chan Kwal, claims a total loss of 23,800 in a

report which he has since made to the police.

money

He said the British Government, however, did not intend to let the matter drop.-British Wireless.

THE TYPHOON.

AMERICAN NAVAL

BUILDING

NEW CRUISER TO BE STARTED

Washington, Oct. 24.

It is announced that the United

carrying