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No. 18944
一拜禮號六月三英港香
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1933.
日一十月二 2 $34.00 PËR - ANNUM
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DUNLOP
SECRET MILITARY CONFERENCE IN PEKING
Nazi coup IN FREE
Utmost Importance Attached to Meeting of China's Leaders
CITY OF HAMBURG PREPARING FOR A
SEIZE CONTROL FROM
COALITION
Hamburg, March 5.
Acting under orders from Hierr Frick, the Reich Minister of the Interier, the Nazis have seized runtrol of the police of the Free City of Hamburg, where an anti- Nazi coalition is in power.
The Brown Shirts seized and, occupied the Town Hall.
The Burgmeister and the President of the Senate, Herr Petersen, has resigned.-euter.
STANLEYVILLE SAILS
ANTI-WAR LEAGUE
TOO LATE
LAST STAND
BATTLE IMMINENT IN JEHOL
FOREIGN REPORTS OF BRAVE EFFORTS
(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
(By Telegraph. Copyrigha, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, March 6, 11,53 m.)
PEKING, MARCH 6. WHILE CHANG HSUEH-LIANG'S TROOPS, ON HER WAY TO MAKING AN ORDERLY RETREAT TOWARDS THE GREAT WALL, ARE PREPARING TO MAKE A LAST DESPERATE STAND, TO-DAY JUST INSIDE THE WALL NEAR KUPEIKOW, THE
JAPAN
(Special to "Telegraph")
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(By Traph. Copyright. Tergraphic Mananges Ordinance, 1884. Reocfood, Marchi * 100 km.)
London, Mar. G.
The Belgian steamer Stanley-¡ ville, the crew of, which declared their willingness to leave the ship rather than take ber to Japan, to which country she has been sold, sailed this morning from Blyth, i with the crew on board.
Yesterday, the crew cabled to the British Anti-War Council sta ing that they would leave the ship if financial support..was forthcom- ins. As a consequence, a sum of £200 was collected for the seamer.
The vessel was delayed ten hours, owing to bad weather, but iwo members of the Anti-War League, who had travelled, from London to Blyth by "taxicub, had the mortißcation of seeing the
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One of the narrow passes through the Great Wall from Jehol to North China Chang Haneh-liang ordered that no troops be permitted through such" paiser. (Photo: Serge Vargassoff).
A peculiar type of machine-gun vied by Marabal Chang Haucht- the Jehol front. Hang's regulars. Picture shows an outpost on
(Photos Serge Vargassoff).
HITLER THE MASTER OF GERMANY
LEADERS OF CHINA ARE ASSEMBLING AT VEHICULAR COUNTRY GIVES MARKED VOTE OF
PEKING A CONFERENCE OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE.
General Ho Ying-ching, the War Minister, has al- ready arrived and Mr. T. V. Soong, with others, is expected at any moment.
The greatest secrecy is being preserved regarding the purpose of this gathering' of notables, but it is be- lieved that it is being held to consider the defence of the country against Japan.
Great tension exists in the Shanbaikwan area, where both sides are being heavily reinforced, the Chinese, it is reported, by two divisions of Chiang Kai-shek's
troops.
THE TENSION AT SHANHAIKWAN
An official communique reports developed into, a grim hand to
FERRY
SERVICE BEGUN THIS MORNING
FIRST TRAFFIC": Without any show to mark such an important event, Hongkong's first vehicular ferry service commenced at 7.30 o'clock this morning.
The commencement of the ser- Įvise was not generally known and the morning's business was poor. A public car was the first vehicle to travel from Honkong to Yau- ship disappearing on the horizon. much activity in the Japanese lines, hand encounter,
mati and an Air Force car, the These two men had taken all where there has been a large influx!
CAUSE OF DISASTER.
Grst to come from Yaumati to! night to make the journey, and of Japanese troops. they had with them the money col-Official circles in Peking also;
Official circles
Peking Hongkong. in lected for the crew-Renier. imply that Japan is now turning her.
The Man Kung will be used to eyes to Charhar. where steps are attribute the disaster of Jehol toi being taken to defend the border the collapse of the Volunteer maintain an hourly service for forees and the defections of the present month... The Man Kim) certain Chinese generals at will then be brought on to the crucial moments in the battles. run and a half-hourly service The smoke of battle is now. A warrant has been issued for commenced,
No passengers were carried to- dearing away from Jebol where the the arrest of Tang Yu-lin, whose
a licence has not yeti invaders have occupied all the rapacity is alleged to have provok-day, as
Officials of the NOT REGARDED AS AT chief centres following a general ed the populace to assist the in-been granted.
collapse of the defence, although vaders. Tang Yu-lin is now in company hope to have full licence ALL SERIOUS ·
the Chinese troops are holding out light with a handful of followers for vehicles and passengers in the in two places and are fighting des- Ho Ying-ching, the Minister of near future. perate rearguard actions.
KING 'SUFFERING following the invasion of Jehol.
WITH A COLD
(Special to "Telegraph")
Elly Telegraph. Copyright, Tolegrankie Mramore Ordinemor, 1904. Received, Merch 4 14.5 17. J
London, Mar. 6. His Majesty the King is suffer. ing' from a slight cold. The trouble is not regarded as at all serique, although His Majesty was unable to accompany the Queen to the Commemorative Exhibition of the Royal Academy yesterday afternoon.
The King attended divine ser- vice at the Palace chapel in the morning. Reuter. ·
WEDDING OF MISS SCOTT HARSTON
MARRIES POPULAR
ACTOR
inti
SMOKE OF BATTLE CLEARS.
War, arrived in Peking yesterday afternoon. It is felt that the im The main force of the Chi-portant conference to be held nese troops is' at present not far will lead to a better-prepared plan from the pass through the Great for further resistance 10 the Wall at Shihfengkow, while Japanese and there are many there is a smaller detachment stories in circulation of the con a little to the south-west of centration in the Peking area of|
These Chenglefu (Jehol City).
are the remnants of the three' gallant
Hsuck-liang Chang brigades from the Lingyuan front.
All other units have broken and are in full flight.
A STAND TO.DAY.
(Continued on Page 5.)
CHIANG KAI-SHEK SENDS REINFORCEMENTS
ACCOUNTANT IN THE DOCK
FUND CONVERSION
CHARGE
CONFIDENCE
A CLEAR MAJOIRTY
AMERICA OFF GOLD STANDARD
ONLY TEMPORARY MEASURE
GOLD & SILVER EMBARGO
MR. ROOSEVELT'S PROCLAMATION.
New York, Mar. 6. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS ISSUED A PROCLAMA- TION SUSPENDING THE GOLD STANDARD.
The proclamation gives the Na- tional Government absolute control of the nationé gold supply, places an embargo on the export of both gold and silver and forbids the carmarking of gold for foreign nations.
The proclamation further de- clares a National Bank Holiday until after Thursday when Con- gress meels. It also authorises national regulations for the issue of clearing-house certifi. cates and prohibits the hoard- ing of coins and currency.
TECHNICAL SUSPENSION..
President Roosevelt's confidants predict that the banks will remain closed until March 13 in order tu force gold from its hiding-places. There is no confirmation of the official Daily News report of an
Berlin, March 6. ERMANY HAS REACTED TO THE POLITICAL EXCITEMENT OF THE PAST FEW WEEKS BY abandonment of the gold standard. GIVING HERR HITLER THE MANDATE HE - SOUGHT.
"The proclamation amounts to a teclinical suspension of the gold standard, but banking authorities in New York, while interpreting
Hilter is now the master of Germany, unlikely to be the proclamation (which became unseated for four years, the normal life of the Reich-effective as from I am. today) as stag. His methods have triumphed and the people have removing the United States from the gold standard, state that the given him a decisive vote of confidence. Not only has suspension will probably only be for his own party returned a record number, 287 seats, as the period of the banking holidays compared with 196 in November, but with the two other terminating on Thursday, Right parties, the Nationals and the German Peoples; Hitler will have a clear majority of forty-six.
The system of electoral lists has resulted in the re- turn of all the leaders including Herr Hitler, who enters Parliament for the first time, Prince August Wilhelm, and Captain Goering,. (Nazis), Herr Hugenberg and Herr von Papen (Nationals), Herr Thaelmann and the aged Klara Zetkin (Communists), Herr Otta Braun and Herr Loebe (Socialists).
WISE DECISION. „
One" leading banking authority
which will terminate the drain, on said it was a "very twise decision" American gold currency which has reached serious proportions and simultaneously give Congress time to enact stabilising legislation of a more permanent nature,
cer-
In the meantime, -banking organisations are ready to issue hundreds of millions of dollars in the form of clearing-house ex-tificates, which, together with the currency already in circulation, it is felt will permit the transaction of adequate business during the period of the emergency,
There were clashes in some parts of the country, although on the whole, polling day passed in traordinarily quiet fashion all over the Reich.
NEW COMPOSITION OF REICHSTAG
Prussia, which held simultaneous (almost entirely in elections for the Diet, also de- Hitler, clared unmistakably for the Hitler regime, the Nazis securing 206 seats in the Diet out of 468 and the Nationals and German Peoples, 43 and 4.
Hitler will thus have a dear Mé, Li Yhustkan," the well-mujority of thirty-eight. The known local merchant, figured as Socialists in Prussia secured 79 complainant at the Central Police Court this morning when an ac
21, countant in his employ at Bonham Strand was charged be
with Mr. Wynne-Jones
Pursued by the Japanese towards Two Divisions Now in the foulent Curersion of $190
the Great Wall, the survivors of the Lingyuan battle propose to make a anal stand against their attackers to-day.
Threatened Zone
(Special to "Telegraph")
Telegraph TBy Telegraph, copyright, Ménages Ordinance, 1881, Received, March;
1140 am.
Meanwhile, a fleet of Japanese aeroplanes are dropping bombs on all approaches to Chengtefu in order to protect the Jehol capital, from hands of stragglers,
FOREIGN: PRAISE.
Much interest was taken
Foreign observers who have seen social circles in London in the much of the more recent fighting, wedding, which took place at St. returned to Peking to-day, from the James', Spanish Place, London, of battle area and express high praise
Peking, Mar. 6, 11.33 m.
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SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS
New York, Mar. 5. The Washington corre
Many of the middle classes, who had not intended to vote, changed their minds after the spondent of the Daily News Reichstag fire and the revelation states that he has learned by the Government of a Red |
from a prominent Democrat conspiracy.
Except for the Communists, who at the White House that the lost 21 seats, the other parties United States will be off the are little changed from November. gold standard officially as A typical Nazi success was re- well as technically to-
PROVISIONAL
gistered at Hamburg, where the OFFICIAL FIGURES Hitlerites polled 318,000 against 207,000 at the last election. The 39,289,854 Communists her dropped from Total voles
Seats,167,000 to 144,000.
Sub-Inspector A. H. Elston pro-Nazis secuted, and, in applying for a re- Socialists mand, indicated that there was a Communists possibility of other charges, as it Centre now appeared there were other Nationals Bums involved,"
Bav, People The police objected to ball at Ger. People An official communique de- this stage, an the total amount in- Chr. Soc. ... clares that the situation at volved was stated to be about State Shanhaikwon is becoming in $10,000, creasingly critical.
The defendant was formally re More Japanese troops are ar-manded until Wednesday. riving there by train, while! of the valour displayed by Changi Mr. Billy Leonard, the well-known Hsueh-liang's regulars in resisting Japanese neroplanes are daily reconnoit ring over the Chinese Miss Esme Scatt fieavy Japanese onslaughte. ictor, and
fines. Haraton; eldest daughter of Mr. They tell of a grim nine-hours' and Mre. J. Scott Harston, of battle in which the Japanese | Hongkong.
brought all their available resources Mr. C. D. Melbourne, formerly into action before the order was of Hongkong, gave the bride given for the retirement from away, and the reception was Lingyuan, and of a further stand subsequently held at the Charing for three hours at Pingehunn in Cross Hotel.
the face of powerful attacks which!
.
CLOUDY WEATHER The anticyclone. has moved It is learned that a consider- able body of Chinese troops ar- southward and is now centred to rived in this area yesterday, the west of Shantung. Fresh men They are reported to include soon will prevail over the China two divisions which have been coast and the Northern China Sea,
Locall forecast N.E. senio, the North by Marshol
fresh: cloudy.... Chiang Kai-shek---Reuter,
winds,
Votes 17,264,323 7,176,226 "4,746,031
287 119
79
4,289,354
71
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3,131,330
52
1,206,293
20
438,800
382,035
335,259
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BERLIN "RED."
Despite the Nazi gains and the Communist losses, Berlin, remains "Red," though the Nazla are the largest party, the result being:- Nazis, 1,031,045 against 720,613 in November;
Socialiste, 647,231 against 146,644; and Communists, 729,474 against 860,837.
over
The Nazis are exuberant sents, the Communists 62 and the the results, and it is regarded as Centre 62,
quite probable that they will arrest
morrow."
President Roosevelt is calling's. special session of Congress to meet on Thursday to deal with (Continued on Page 7.)
VICTORIA SCORE FREELY
DARLING IN GREAT FORM
Melburne, March 6. Fine weather prevailed to-day all the Communist Deputies and when the match between the M. SWARM TO POLLS.
thus keep un absolute majority, C. Cand Victoria was resumed. Runs came at a rapid pace during People swarmed to the polling without the help of their allies, booths in a manner which has not Meanwhile, the Nazis are con- the morning, Victoria putting on been experienced since the Freal-tinuing their policy of suppressing 116 runs for the loss of twe political opponents. The entire
Darling batted brilliantly and The great increase in the number Socialist Press has been suspended dential election of last year.
wickets.
Interval when the Victorians had of voters, making the largest for a fortnight in Thuringia, was 72 not out at the lunch Reichstag in history, has been (Continued on Page-5.).
made 164 for 8-Reuter,
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