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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1935.

DEMORALISATION

COMMENT ON CHINESE EXCHANGES

'PRISONER'S DEATH

VICTIM OF GROWTH FILLING

ARMISTICE DAY

FULL CEREMONY AT CENOTAPH

The following additional details ceremony of of the Cenotaph Armistice Day, November 11; aro officially supplied:

London, Oct. 3T. Chinese exchanges can now be accurately described as in a state of demoralisation, says the Daily Telegraph, which criticises Nan king's lack of a definite policy and apaamodle action, alternately sup- sat na Coroner, assisted by a Jury presentative bodies are to be in porting and not supporting the market.

By 10.45 a.m. all troops and ro-

NOSE AND THROAT.

An Inquest

at the was held Contral Magistracy yesterday afternoon into the death of a prisoner named Ng Wing, who died at the Government Civil Hospital on Wednesday evening after an operation. Mr. Q. A, A. Macfadyon

Wolfe position, and immediately after- Messrs. J. (foreman), Fang Yin-kwan and wards the Pipce of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps' will com- Lee Mul-chi,

mence playing n. Lament.

The Oncer Commanding the Royal Air Force will arrive, fol- lowed by the Commodore, Hong- kong, and then by His Excellency the General Officer Commanding,

comprising

The Morning Post believes that official support has been with-

Mr. Alfred Paice, acting Assis- drawn pending the cessation of tant Chief Warder of Victoria Gnol. the present heavy wave of selling, stated that decensed, Ng Wing and some papers draw attention was sentenced to alx months im to the recent better reports of prisonment under the Deportation Chinese exports, but emphasize Ordinance on September 3 this that full advantage of the low-year. Ho was transferred to the ness of the dollar cannot be taken Government Civil Hospital until the Government's policy has October 28, where he died at 5 p.m. crystallized..

on October 30. Witness identified the body in the presence of Dr. G. Thomas at 10.30 yesterday morn Ing.

on

The clergy and choir will arrivo sext, with a prior rendezvous in fe Law Courts.

IIIs

At 10.56 the Pipes of the Hong- kong Volunteer Defence Corps will cease playing, and at 10.67 Circles interested in China are

Excellency the Officer Administer- of opinion that Chinesa Auances

ing the Government is due, to ar- rive. Then the massed buglers of will remain in a state of flux till the faxue of the Sino-Japanese Dr. G. Shaw, medical officer- the 2nd. Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers negotiations, and the possible in-n-charge of Victoria Gaol Hos and 2nd. Bn. East Lancashire Regi- fluence of the Leith Ross Mission pital, stated that deceased was nd-inent will sound the "Last Post," an British policy towards the East, mitted to the Gnol Hospital on Octo- and oftleers will salute.

ber 22, because he was suffering are more definitely known.

Some are of opinion that Chin- from respiratory embarrassinent ese speculators have inside in- due to a tube in the throat having formation, of the Government's in- come out. The tube was there be- present cause deceased had a huge tumour tentions, otherwise the

Buglers of the 2nd. Bn., Royal heavy shart selling exposes them of the nasal pharynx 'which black- to the danger of being badlyed up his breathing. The tumour Welch Fusiliers and 2nd, Bn. Cast caught owing to China's inability or growth was of such a nature Lancashire Regiment will sound that it could not be operated upon. "Reveille" Immediately after the to Import silver.-Reuter, ''

On October 28, decenned was last sound of the second round has transferred to the Government | died away,

London Alarmed

London, Oct. 31. The weakness of the Shanghai and Hongkong dollars is causing alarm In London banking circles.

The fall in Shanghai currency is attributable to a heavy speculative attack following in the wake of devaluation rumours, while Hong- kong is estimated to be two to three million sterling overbought | In sterling gold currencies.

op-

Business In Shanghal dollars is at a virtual standstill, quotation being almost purely nominal. Several business men have told Reuter's correspondent that they have been unable to arrange dinary commercial requirements.

The foreign exchange market. though outwardly calm, is appre- hermsive regarding French finances, Paris is now switching from rentes into oil shares and Kafira for greater safety, owing to grow ing opposition to the economy decrees-Renter,

U. S. SECRETARY OF WAR

MR. BERN AND PARTY LEAVE FOR MANILA

of

en

At 11 am a gun will be fired by one of H. M. Ships in harbour, the two minutes Silence commencing, The gun will fire a second round of blank to terminate the Silence.

A

Civil Hospital to consider the pos- There will follow the hymn "O sibility of making an opening into Got our Help in Ages Past"

maased the stomach in order that he might (played by

bands). be fed, as it was becoming increak-prayer and Blessing by the clergy; ingly difficult to feed him. When with "God Save the King" at the deceased was first seen by witness, conclusion a note was made that sudden death was likely to occur at any moment because of this tumour. Some months ago, witness had seen de- vensed when he was sent to the Government Civil Hospital and examined by Professor Digby and other medical men to see if any- thing could be done.

Had on Operation

His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government will lay a wreath, followed by the General Officer Commanding, the Commodore, the Senior Air Forco Officer, the Royal Merchant Navy,

Officer

representative of the Chinese Community, a representative of the Consular Body, and representatives of foreign Navles and Armies should they so desire.

Ad- Illa Excellency the Officer Dr. G. H. Thomas, of the Governministering the Government, ment Civil Hospital, stated that de Excellency the General ceased was admitted to hospital on Commanding. October 28.at 2.10 p.m. He had a

the Commodore, large growth filling his nose, mouth

Officer Commanding Royal Air, and throat causing difficulty in drinking and cating. Witness took deceased to the operating theatre the next day, and attempt ed to remove seme of the obstruct ing growth, but the growth bled so extensively that he did not recover. Deceased dial at 5 p.m. on October

1

was

Force, and their staffs, the clergy

and choir and all civil officials will

then depart; when wreaths will be laid by the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force, British Legion and old Comrades Association, and. by civilian bedles,

off, and Individuals may then lay At 11.20 the troops will march

wrenths.

will remain silent and at ease until All troops and representatives the civilian bodles have completed the laying of wreaths.

As stated in the S. C. M. Poat

BU

A post mortem examination of the body made yesterday morning, when witness found that the growth was very extensive. It eroded the bones of the nose and jaw right to the base of the skull. yesterday, in connection with the The United States Secretary Deceased's internal organs ap-Armistice Day ceremony, specin! War and his party, who are peared wasted, probably due to in-accommodation for three hundred route to Manila to attend the sufficient nourishment. The im- persons is being reserved to the inaugural ceremonies of the mediate cause of death would be north of the Law Courts. Applica- Philippine Commonwealth, sailed haemorrhage which had taken place. tion for tickets should be mude be- on the U.S.S-Chester-at-4.30-p.m. atuce the opening of the wound, Core November 6 to the Staff Cap yesterday.

and the possibility of Mr. Dern had arrived from Can-amount of shock. After the opera mand.

a certain tain, Headquarters, China Com- ton early yesterday, and after real-tion the wound

was plugged and ing for some time he visited Mr. deceased was taken back to

Following the Cenotaph cere V. M. Grayburn, Manager of the ward, where he died shortly after laying ceremony at the Chinese mony, there will be a wreath- Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and warde.. was the latter's guest at morning After hearing the evidence, the ten, while Mrs. Dern and her son jury returned a verdict of death went on a shopping expedition. from natural. causes, adding that Immediately after the War they were satisfied everything had Secretary left for Fanling, where been done that could possibly be he, together with the other mem-done for the deceased. bers of his party, had lunch. They did not play golf there, however.

On, returning from Fanling the whole party repaired, Inmediately to the Chester, which left shortly afterwards for Maniin.

The War Secretary will not be visiting Hongkong again on his present trip for after leaving Manila he will tour the Philippines and then return to America vin Honolulu and Midway Island.

"General" Dern

Canton, Oct. 31.

FOREIGN TRADE

PROPOSALS FOR DRASTIC CONTROL

Canton, Oct. 81.

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A drastic measure, which may

War

memorial at the Botanic Gardens, details of which published yesterday.

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REPLY TO LORD SNOWDEN

SIR JOHN SIMON ON TRADE

London, Oct. 31. In a broadcast address last

lead to complete government control night, Sir John Simon, Liberal National, replied to, the attack on the National Government delivered by Lord Snowden on the previous" night,

of provincial foreign trade, is ox- pected to be introduced here in the near future, as soon as it can be approved by the Government, 1 Mr. George H. Dern, the aecording to reliable information

He claimed that it was the policy United States Secretary of War, from officiat circles.

of the Government which had res- had read the local vernacular The

lored confidence ao that money measure is reported to papers, he would have been sur- have been included in a proposal could be borrowed cheaply und en- prised to know that he is now a now under the consideration of couraged enterprice so that more full-fledged general. All the Chin the Political Research Institute, people have been employed, which ese papers here to-day referred to which suggests the establishment was responsible for the reduction Die Secretary of War as General of a "Foreign Trade Control of employment since 1933 and not | DernUnion News."

Lord Snowden suggested a mere passive acceptance of the General Improvement in

world conditions,

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