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No. 14828

四拜雞 號四十月六英港香

THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1934.

日三月五

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FORGERY GANG BROKEN ASTOR ROMANCE: HIGHER DUTY ON

IN KOWLOON

ROUND-UP

ANOTHER GLORIOUS

OF FILIPINOS WIMBLEDON

HINT OF NOTE PRINTING OVER BORDER

THREE HELD FOR BANISHMENT

(Specia) to "Telegraphi")

City Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphic Mes

Ordinaner, edgce

Received June IROL.

26, 0.35 a.mj

Washington, Juno 13.

The Treasury Department has

Over Hundred Men's Singles Entries

London, June 13.

One hundred and eighteen entries have been accepted for the Wimbledon men's singles lawn tennis cham- plonships, representing

nearly every country in the world. For the ladies singles. 86 entries been accepted. British iraz,

Wire.

revealed that a Filipino arrested GERMAN BORDER

in Kowloon confessed to counter-

feiting ten-dollar U. S. notes to

the value of U.S.$15,000

Thirty-nine of the notes, it was stated by the accused, were turned over to an agent in Shanghai.

I confession implicated four other Filipinos and a Peruvian Chinese-United Press,

10

K

The case wan brought hend quite recently, following in- formation that American $10 notes were being forged somewhere in Chinese territory.

POLICE HUNT.

CLOSED

TERRORISM IN AUSTRIA

£50,000 RING RETURNED

JOHN JACOB JUNIOR APOLOGISES

EMPRESS EUGENIE

DIAMOND

"LANGUAGE" TO FIANCEE

(Special to "Telegraph"

[ Telegraph, Copyright. Tricgraphic Alvar #spre Ordinance, ranke Received

Jann n.m.2

$1,

New York, June 13. A magnificent diamond engagement ring, valued at | £50,000, which was given by John Jacob Astor, Junr. to his former fiancee, Miss Eileen Gillespie,' has now been returned to him.

The ring was restored after he

an

NAZI INVADERS had sent apology required

ACCUSED

Vienna, June 13.

The Austrian Government, despite the pressure of the

A police hunt to clear up the Heimwehr leaders, is still refrain members of the gang operating In ing from violently forceful mea- the Colony led to the arrest of sures against the terrorist acti-

five men.

Ambrosia Ignnein,, who WELK residing at 17, Granville Rond,;

vitien.

In an endeavour to check the

.. Kowloon, is serving a sentence of ; epidemic of terrorist outrages, the

three months' hard labour for Director

of Security in uttering a forged $10 note in the

ordered the complete closing of the German frontier.

Palace Hotel,

It was a note purporting to have been issued by the Federal Reserv Bank of San Francisco..

DETECTED BY BANK.

:

This is as far as the authorities are at present prepared to go.

Even minor traille is prohibited. The peasants along the frontier are to be prevented from crossing

uf

ELIT

parents.

Miss by

Gillespie's

Young Astor, who is only twenty-} ene years of age and who is one of the world's richest young nien, acquiring a fortune of over $3.- 000,000 on attaining his majority,

John Jacob Astor..

LABOUR

SHOWDOWN IN U.S.

NEW ERA IN CHINA'S FINANCE

BUDGET ESTIMATE

MILESTONE

CENTRALISING PROGRAMME

in

Nanking, June 14. A great improvement China's finance administration was claimed by a spokesman of the Ministry of Finance, in an interview with Reuter this morning.

He stated that the Budget pub- lished for the fiscal year from July 1, 1934, to June 30, 1935, was the first time that the Ministry of Finance had made public an official estiminte of his anticipated revenues and expenditures for the coming

year.

Such action was a demonstration that the country's finances are be- defined Line managed according to

plan, due to the degree of stabilisa- tion anil order which had now been established by the Central. Govern-

STEEL STRIKE THREAT ment of China, and to the stendy

DECISION TO-DAY

broke off, his engagement to Ming PRESIDENT MAY alleged interference by the girl's Gillespie In January because of

parenta.

HONEYMOON OFFER!

"If her parents had not inter-

efforts which have been made to centrallse and organise the coun-1 try's financial system along modern lines-Renter,

BEER IMPORTS

BRITISH WARSHIPS IN COLLISION

Codrington And Acasta

:. Damaged

London, June 13. Two British destroyers, H.M.S. Codrington and H.M.S. Acasta, were in collision off Malta during flotilla exercises last night. There were no casualties to the personnel.

some

H.M.S. Codrington was damaged forward and the Acasta suffered damage on the starboard side, her davits being torn away and boats damaged. British Wireless.

MR. CHURCHILL

URGED AT BREWERY MEETING

CONFLICT OF VIEW IN

DIRECTORATED

Conflicting views by Directors of the Hongkong Brewers and Distillers Co., Ltd, on the ques- tion of a protective tariff for Hongkong-brewed beer, were ex-- pressed at the annual meeting of the Company this morning,,

Mr. S. H. Dodwell, who presided, cited the duties charged on imported; beer in protection of the 'home- brewed article in Chlup, Indo- Chian, Japan and Ceylon, and added: "Whether

arc

over accorded fisen) preference, alongalde all other British brewed beers, de pends on the future policy of the Company. We are a free port accord- ing, for the most part, equality of opportunity to nil nations. Our our harbour facilities have in the past fully justified our policy of remainius

|STICKS TO GUNS ideal position and

HOARE-DERBY CASE

REPORT

DEBATE IN THE COMMONS

London, June 13. The Report of the Com-

TAKE ACTION CUSTOMS OFFICER'S mittee of Privileges on the

Pittsburgh, June 13.

for

DEATH

terment. It will be landed at to the Committee.

to

free port, but now that our free port is surrounded by the barrier reefs of high tariffs and our great entrepot trade is dwindling, it is nt lenst questionable whether it la n policy we should rigidly adheru 16.'

SIR WM. SHENTON'S VIEW.

all he

Sir William Shenton, a Director' of the Company, in the course of a brief speech, remarked:—On the. question raised by our Chairman, general principles, I am

to a protective tariff in this for our beer, I fear on notat Hoare-Derby case is being the moment able to subscribe to debated in the House of this Colony has, over a period of says, The prosperity for A great shot down in the

nearly a hundred years, been built Province of Voralbere has now have worked out all right," said the United States may be

the fered everything probably would increasing labour unrest in BODY ARRIVING HERE Commons to-night.

TO-MORROW

The debate was opened by the up upon the basis of what is known as the free port principle, Prime Minister who, in 2 Astar, sober and unsmiling, when forthcoming shortly.

I, for one, am not prepared The body of Mr. E. R. Collier, brief

speech. moved ..that to go buck on this polley without explaining his broken romance, Matters are likely to be the Chinese Maritimes Customs

In these days, tariffs, He proclaimed that he put his brought to a head if the bout officer, who met his death the House agree with the report, very deliberato and careful cen- foot down" when Miss Gillespie's crisis threatening in the how a few days ago, is being led to the questions raised by Mr common topics. A change in this

under tragic-circumstances at Hol. and traced the circumstances which sideration.

quotas, and trade agreements, ure parents "wanted to go with us on

brought steel industry develops.

to Hongkong for in- Winston Churchill being referred direction in this Colony, in my and re-crossing as is their wont. our honeymoon."

opinion, is largely a question for There are rumours of plans Queen's Pler at 2 p.m. lo-morrow. He said he was still wondering

He called attention the our bankers, merchants, shippers, GERMANS ACCUSED. why the sink had not been return-repressive measures that are, it is and the funeral will pass the paragraph in the report stating that insurance companies, manufactur

now being developest in Monument between 2.30 and 3 p.m. "Your Committee unanimously re-ers, etc., to decide, and until they The order declares that theyd to him. It was made, he said, said,

So far, no details of the circum-port that no breach of privilege has have given us their considered frontier, will remain closed until from one of the world's largest Washington.

stances in which Mr. Collier met Hipolito Phnom, a Peruvian the outrages cense and alleges that diamonds, which his grandfather With the Administration and the his death have been received been committed by Sir Samuel opinions, I desire to reserve my

Hoare or by the Earl of Derby." judgment. Chinese, of 46, Portland Street, Germans have been crossing the obtained in France many years country waiting tensely hoping locally, but a brief message re- arrested with a forged note in his frontier every night into Voralbergo, having been part of the against hope that something will ceived from Hoihow last evening before House.

Hls duty was to put the report of jewels possession, is

serving in order to commit outrages,

the Empress be accomplished at the eleventh stated that he succumbed in the ⚫ sentence of

month's one

hard

hour to ward off the strike of American Hospital there a The Austrian Government bas Jabour.

100,000 steel workers, delegates result of injuries in an explosion. submitted to the Italian Under- Three other Filipinos, whose Secretary for Foreign Affairs,

from steel mills all over the names are withheld, are at present Signor Suvich, all the material Miss Gillespie's parents stateburgh by car, bus and train for country are pouring into Pitts- in pollee eustody, being held for that has been collected which that Mr. Aster was offered the the Convention of the Amalgamat LARGE CREDIT FOR banishment.

could prove that Germany is guilty | ring and other non-transferable ed Association of Iron, Steel and of inspiring the outbrenka of ¦ presents eight days after the violence.

romance was dramatically ended, Tin Workers, at which the strike

decision will be inkan. upon condition that he wrote apologising for the language that he used towards Mian Gillespie and retracting the threats that he made concerning her and her family.

The forgery was detected when the note was paid into the bank from the Palace Hotel and inform- ation that forged notes were being uttered was laid by the American Consulate.

now

LIGHTWEIGHT T.T. TRAGEDY

SLACKENING EXPECTED,

The

Government, however, ex- pects a slackening of the tension and has not, therefore, taken the aggressive steps demanded by the

VETERAN KILLED IN Heimwehr.

ISLE OF MAN

London, June 13. The veteran rider, John Simpson, on a Rudge, won the lightweight tourist trophy motor-cycle race in the Isle of Man at an speed of 70.81 m.p.li.

average

J. E. Nott un a Rudge al 69.79 m.p.h. was second, and G. Walker. also on Rudge, 67.67, was third.

During the race, a fatal nccident befell the veteran racing motor- cyclist, Crabtree, who won the race. In 1929-British Wireless,

crown

Eugenie.

:

PARENTS' STORY.

He had now done so and

matter was at an ond.

the

Dr. Dollfuss probably has high hopes that the Ilitler-Mussolini Mri Astor has since become conversations at Stea will bring an engaged to other girl-Reuter end to Germany's active stimula- Special, tion of chaos in Austria against Italian interests.--Render.

BRITISH TRADE

GROWTH

NOTABLE INCREASE

ON LAST YEAR

:

fotalling

ITALY'S BATTLESHIP DECISION

Question Raised in Commons

London, June 13.

READY FOR STRIKE.

The lenders of the Union claim that over one hundred thousand |workers out of 100,000 had declared their readiness to down tools at any moment.

PHILIPPINES

SEQUEL TO DOLLAR DEPRECIATION

It was due to Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Derby that the House should give a clearcut decision as

to whether or not they were guilty of a breach of privilege.

MOLESTATION OF TRAWLERS

MAKE AMENDS

Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking | NORWAY WILLING. TO immediately after Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, said he did not modify |

London, June 13. his original charge and Unimed that the report established that the Questioned as to what reply had Secretary of State for India and bien received from the Norwegian Lord Derby, jointly and severally, Government to representations re- Washington, June 13. from the best of motives and in Harding molestation of British shly The Senate to-day passed the

ping off the coast of Norway, Mr. Tydings Bill establishing on the

porfectly honourable manner, en-Anthony Eden, in the Commons, They assert that they are able books of the Treasury Department, deavoured to deter the Manchester said the Norwegian Government, in to close the activities...of nearly a credit in favour of the Philip Chamber of Commerce from pre-un interim reply, stated that an every mill in the country,

pines of $23,862,750 in connectionsenting the evidence that they de- explantion had been requested More conservative leaders, like with the reduced gold content of sired before the joint committee from the competent authorities, and Mr. Tighe, are striving to reach a the dollar.

that should it..prove that British compromise to prevent the strike.

British Wircivan. The principal demand of

the the House of Representatives steel workers la recognition of where a simliar Bill was rejected their right to choose their own earlier this week.-Reuter,

for representatives

collective bargaining, in other words, the termination of the system of Com- pany Unions in the steel industry.

PRESIDENT SEEKING POWERS.

-Reuter.

The measure han boen sent to on Indian constitutional reforms. trawlers had been subjected to un-

PULITZER PRIZE FOR SHANGHAI?

YOUNG RUSSIAN'S

REWARD

Shanghai, Jung 34.

warrantable interforence, the Ner- wegian Government were fully pre- pared to make good tho wrong.--

MR. KURAMOTO'S British Wireless,

EXPERIENCE · ·

Leading Doctor Sent From Shanghai

One News has reached Shanghai that

Shanghal, June 142

leading

of Shanghai's

year local Rusalan, is one of three Nanking to attend to Mr. Kuramoto, alternates on the nomination of

A report from Washington anys. London, June 13.

that sweeping powera to enable Preliminary Board of Trade re- Six Bolton Eyres-Mongell, First the strike are reported to be in President Roosevelt to deal with turns of British overseas trade for Lord of the Admiralty, suld in the preparation and will be contained SILVER BILL SENT TO May whow imports

House of Commons that his at in a new Labour Resolution, the 161,727,000 against £56,330,000 intention had been called to Italy draft of which it is stated in be PRESIDENT April, and agalant £57,276,000 decision to lay down immediately ing rushed by the Administration. Mark Ginsbourg, a twenty-five- Japanese doctors has arrived in

1938.

two 35,000-ton capital ships. xports were valued at £32,759, 000, against £30,100,000 in Apri 1934, and £30,765,000 in May, 1938

re-exports

$4.787,000 against £5,019,000 in April and

1,820,000 In May last year. For the five months, January to May, 1934, Importa totalled £301, 249,000 ngainať £267,063,000 in tho and London Naval Treaties, to HEIGHT OF PYLONS TO mons question about danger to years without promotion and assort. corresponding pariod of 1933. take part in preliminary bilateral Exporta for the five months conversations in the future. Al!

Minor Amendments Approved

Washington, June 13.

The Silver Purchase Bl has boon sent to President Roosevelt, after the House of Representatives: discussed and approved and minor amendments made during Ita passage, through the Senate.

· Router.

and

The whole subject of future naval limitation in connexion with the 1935 conference was under the government's close consideration.

Invitations had recently been issued to four other countries, signatories of the Washington

1

CROYDON AERIAL

DANGER

BE REDUCED

totalled · £167,008,000, against relevant technical questions £148,877,000, and re-exports would, it was hoped, be discussed

London. June 18. £24,708,000 against £19.911,000.- In these conversations.-British Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secre- British Wireless.... ........'

Wireless..

tary for Air, raplying to a Com-

of the

יד

the teaching staff of the School of who will not be questioned until he of his Journalism of Columbia University recovers from the atrain for a travelling scholarship of experiences. US$1,500, boing ono

Chinese, despatches from Nan- Pulitzer prizes for 1938-Reuterking attribute his strange interlude to disappoinment that he had re- mained as Vico-Consul for many

afrozaft from the overlicad-electric | that he was also mortified when he nylons at Croydon, said orders had Was not included in the lists of been issued for their immediate guesta at the dedication of the reduction to a maximum height of new Foreign Office building-Ron-

tar. 135 feet--British Wirelene..

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