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No. 14TH

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1936.

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CHINA MAY MODIFY CURRENCY PLAN

RUMOURS UPSET

S'HAI MARKET

LEITH-ROSS JOINS CONFEREES

FOREIGN-HELD SILVER MAY BE SOLD

Shanghai, Jan. 6.

Circles close to the Ministry of Finance profess ignorance of the report of major modifications in Nanking's currency programme, contemplated by the Minister of Finance, Mr. H. H. Kung, and his advisers.

It is admitted, on the other hand, that the Chinese Govern- ment is closely watching the effects of the recent change" in the American Treasury's silver buying policy. In this connec- tion Mr. Kung, Mr. T. V. Soong, former Finance Minister, and Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, the British economist, have been in close conference repeatedly during the past few weeks.

Although the excitable local market was alive with rumours to-day, the only definite factors in the situation are these:

This was the last photograph taken of the three Europeans who, with 27 Chincan, comprised the crew of the lowl steamer Paringa. The photograph_was taken aboard a Japanese ship in which the three men travelled from The Master of the Hongkong to Australia to join the Parings, and shows, LEFT FUREGRUND, Mr. J. M. G. Yeill, Chief En- gineer of the Paringa; immediately behind wohont in Afr. 8. C. Southam, the Chief Officer, ill-fated ship, Captain A. Melanes, is seated LEFT BACKGROUND at the other table, and can be dis tinguished by the fact that he is wearing spectacles.

SEEKING NEUTRALITY

** | SAFEGUARD /

1. China is continuing to make direct silver buillon ship- ments to the United States, which are estimated to have reached a total of nearly $60,000,000 since December 21; and

2. The Chinese Government is making vigorous efforts to carry into effect the nationalisation order of November 3. Meanwhile, the American banks in Shanghai have accepted the offer of the Chinese Government to exchange their silver holdings for Government notes, at "par-plus. The premium they will be paid is five per cent. over a period of two years on two- thirds the amount of metal surren dered.

The British-and-European banke, and those of other nations, have not! yet decided upon what attitude will be adopted towards this offer.-Reuter, CONFERENCES DENIED

Shanghai, Jan. G.- Tho report that Nanking con templates a malor change in currency programme or that Dr. H. H. Kung, the Finance Minister, Mr. T. V. Soong and Sir Frederick Leith- in this.

its

Ross have been in the week-end, is

during the connection dented by authoritative quarters.

It is stated that there has natural- ly been An exchange of views during the past few weeks concerning the general financial situation, but all rumours which attach undue signi- fleance to theso. activities should be completely discounted, well informed quarters advise-Reuter.

SHANGHAI POLICE CHARGED

FOLLOWING DEATH OF BEGGAR

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GERMAN- JAPANESE ALLIANCE?

ALLEGEDLY AIMED AT RUSSIA

SECRET .PACT REPORTED.

London, Jan. 5. Unofficial but reliable British United sources have informed the Press that Germany and Japan huve initialul a secret military alliance.

Home.

NYE WANTS LOANS

FORBIDDEN

SENATE OPENS INQUIRY

out discussion.

Washington, Jan. 6.

ECHO OF PARINGA TRAGEDY

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR LOST MEN

COMMENT. ON COMPLEMENT.

Sun COST OF WAR IN LIVES OF MEN.

Italy Issues List Of Killed And Missing

ROOSEVELT AWAITS VERDICT

VITAL LEGISLATION CHALLENGED

SUPREME COURTİ TO DECIDE

Washington, Jan. 5. The United States Supreme Court, when it reassembles to-morrow, may announce its decision on three cases of vital importance to the Government's

programme.

MEDICAL AID FOR ETHIOPIANS

BRITISH UNITS FOR WAR ZONE

RED CROSS HEADS KEEP NEUTRAL ATTITUDE

Geneva, Jan. 5,

The International Red Cross here has declined to issue any information whatever on the bombing of Red Cross units in Ethiopia by Italian aeroplanes

The International Red Cross takes the stand that it wishes to remain neutral as between Italy and Ethiopia and will there- fore contribute nothing to the cause of either side by making statements at this juncture.

This statement has caused considerable surprise hero since It is felt that it will be difficult for the Red Cross to remain neutral if it is proved that its flag has been violated-Reuter.

NEW AMBULANCES ·.

on

Addis Ababa, Jan. 5. The foreign ambulance units, destined for service Ethiopia's war front, are steadily increasing in number in spite of the recent bombings of their flags by Italian planes,

GAS BOMBS DROPPED BY PLANES

The Netherlands contingent, In- cluding six docbors, is loaving Atkiis Ababa for Dessiye at once....

Norwegian and Finnish ambulances are expected to arrive at the Capital shortly, while further British Red Cross unita aro awaited from Galla- bat, on the southern border, and will be based at Dessiye. The British ambulance corps include a

number. of British nurses and doctors who have unhesitatingly volunteered for

ITALIANS ATTACK service at the front. Reuter Special.

·AT AMBAALAGI

tempably the Italians

INDIGNATION AT CAIRO

Cairo, Jan. 6. News of the bombing-of-the-.

at Egyptian Red Croas mission Daggahbur has caused considerable protest has Indignation here and a been sent to the League of Nations by Prince, Omar Toussoun and the Coptic Patriarch, pointing out that four days previous to the attack on the unit at Daggahbur gas bombs were

Naval Parley Hopes

by

TOO EARLY TO LOOK

FOR FAILURE

A Memorial Service for the three European officers who went down with

CASUALTIES the steamer Paringa somowkore off the Australian coast over a week ago,

NOT HEAVY The House of Representatives will be held nt St. Peter's Church in Foreign Affairs Committee will meet the Seamen's Institute on Sunday at

Dessiye, Jan. 5. on Tuesday and the Senate Foreign 8 p.m. The service will be conducted

Many gas bombs are reported to Affairs Committee on Wednesday, to by the Rev. Cyril Brown,

The missing men aro: Captain Allan First, the Hoorat Milla ense. In have been dropped by Italian planos consider the McReynolds-Pittman

Ofcer .Chief

Stephen which the Government has appealed MacInnes, neutrality bills which the authors Chester Southam and Chief Engineer | against the decision of a lower court yesterday around Ambaalagi, south of 'dropped on an ambulance. anticipate will be reported to the James G. 3. Yuill.

Egyptian students are reported from that the Government is not entitled to Makale, in an aeroplane attack L

killed.

Aro at-Fayum province-Reuter. House and Senate respectively with- The Paringa disappeared in a farce reguinte agricultural production, and which four Ethiopian soldiers wers Anti-Italian demonstrations

storm whilst towing the tanker Vincas that processing taxon are unconstitu-

to break up the concentra- from Adelaide to Japan on December tional, will claim the attention of the

{ tion of Ethiopian troops which has Senator Nye's proposed neutrality 28 and prolonged search since then judges." bill, which is slightly stricter and has failed to locate the vessel. The

Then, there is the case of a number been made in this area with a view The alliance is said to be principal-less discretionary than the others',

of Louisiana rice millers who are seek to threatening Makale.

Hundreds of bombs are also report- be Introduced to the Senate SINBUDUCNOSTERTIUZZE

ing a permanent injunction restrain- ly directed aguinat Soviet Russia and w has been in existence for the past Committee to-morrow but will prob

ing the Government from.collecting aid to have been dropped near Debra- tabor, about thirty miles east of Lake three months.

processing tax, ably be shelved, leaving Senator Nyo The report is entirely unconfirmed the alternative of moving an amend

Finally, the Court will rule on the Teana, on which sheet of water Great by official quarters, and is denied in ment to Senator Pittman's Bill in the

validity of the Bankhead Act, regula: Britain's, troops keep guard. No Senate.

ting the production of cotton, which damage is reported from this rald in | :

the north-Reuter, has been challenged.

Well-informed legal-opinion antici DESPERATE WAFARE pates that the processing taxes will be

Addis Ababa, Jan. 5. declared unconstitutional, which will

at President Desperate wide open warfare strike a severu blow Roosevelt's New Deal Administration all fronts, in an effort to drive the and may necessitate the imposition of Italian lines deeper into Ethiopia and now taxes, thus upsetting the Govern consolidate the positions at present ment's promise that no, now taxation, menuced by guerilla attacks before

the "little rains" halt the fighting, isį. was contemplated.

The overthrow of the Agricultural indicated. Adjustment Administration by an ad- vorse declan would be a bombshell for Congress, while the defeat of the be Bankhead Act would render the cotton otseks," control programme more difficult and The arrival of two new divisions of upset the cotton market very seriously. white Italian troops at the Delo sector of the proposals so far had been com- desires full discussion of the common. Router.

Jodicates that an attack may be expletely discussed and that Japan still pected there,

to simultaneously There is urgent necessity for the upper limit. However, they had no

objection Italians to protect their Makale com cussing Japanese and British pro

posals. The Administration is anxiously munications, and activity is anticipat

led in that direction.

Meanwhile, the majority of press. awaiting the verdict of the: Supreme

Furthermore, the Italians have an

dospatches reaching Tokyo indicate Court in connection with the AAA, the Bankhead Act and the processing nounced that punitive expedition will there is little hope of an early agree-

exact "the severest punishment as ment United Press.

Ethiopian bola reprissi (or barbaric The Government is reported to be practi

will start to widespread roady to strike back promptly if the they A.AA. in outlawed However, its utilisation of poison gas as a weapon strategy la dependent upon whether in the coming offensive.--- Unite

The

a

Nevertheless, it is said that the

Meanwhile, the Senato Munitions German and Japanese general staffs have reached a military agreement, if Committee, of which Senator Nye is chairman, to-morrow opens its in- not an outright alliance.

Such reports have been recurrent quiry into "the current which drew! for the past two years, it is recalled, America into the world war." It but never has there been such foanda: plans to invite the financier, Mr. J. tion for the belief in their truth.P. Morgan, and his partner, Mr. T. V. Lumont, to give evidence in con- financing of the United Prest Bays Its innection with the Tho formant declared that the Germans victorious Allies, which Senator Nye Japancen pian envisaged pact states will be used to influence Con- Rgainst Communist activities, pregress to pass logislation forbidding Shanghal, Jan. 0.

within the realms of the the making of loans to any belligerent Sergeant Ernest William Peters, 31, sumably and Probationary-Sergeant William signatory countries, and which would nations-Reuter. Alfred Judd, 20, both British, and he be pablished; but that it contained a longing to the International Settle secret sanex, in which were specific arrangements for military co-opera- ment Police, have been committed for trial in His Majesty's Supreme Court for China on a charge of murder.

alleged

The informant sald that the under- The charge arises out of struggle with a Chinese beggar. The police officers are unid to have thrown standing contained, eighteen articles, the man into a creek, from which he including the provision. that each was rescued Intor, but as a result of plodges its benevolent neutrality in which he died of pneumonia.--Reuter, the event of a general war.

WASHINGTON FORECAST

BONUS BILL LIKELY TO PASS

Washington, Jan. 4. Further Government regulations of business are expected,

The Veterans Bonus payment legis. lation is expected to pass, with the payment most probably being made in the form bonda:"

tion in the event of Russia attacking Mongolia as a unit in the Soviet

aysteen. either of the two poword,

British officials have indicated that they are unaware of such a pact.

Polish officials have denied that they are a panty to it, although there aro rumours abrond that Poland involved.

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"Wo don't know what they are doing. But we do know that Outer Mongolla is closed to everybody ex- copt Soviet citizens," said the spokes- manUnited Press.

RELATIONS TENSE

Tokyo, Jan, G. Regarding the reports circulated in Богорада circles indicating that Soviet-Japanese relations were be spokesman declared to-day that Rus-

Rome, Jan. 6.

in

It is officially stated that Italy's battle losses since the outbreak of the war Ethiopia and up to December 31, totalled 390 killed and 14 missing, in all ranks..

There is an additional list of dead. It includes the names of 259 workmen who have died of disease or accident during the cam- paign.

Recent figures published by the Suez Canal Company show that nearly 30,000. men have turned to Italy. on transport vessels suffer.- ing from wounds or disease.

Reuter

The United States diplomata here coming tense, the Foreign Officers

are most sceptical, arguing

A SOVIET PACT?.

Tokyo, Jan. O

that

taxes.

'DECISION TO-DAY?

Washington, Jan. 5.

on

The first step in this campaign will intensified acroplane bombing

the court rejects the entire act or Press. “Ş merely invalidates the processing

GOLD BOND ACTIONS

The Corintoas

PETITION

NOT LIKELY TO BE DEFENDED

London, Jan. 5.

(of: Carnarvon,

(Special to "Telegraph")

Tokyo, Jan. 6. The Foreign Office believes that pre- dictions circulated in some quailors in London to the effect that the Naval Conference will be disrupted In January, are premature...

spokesman sald to-day that nose

L'APPEAL TO BORAH

New York, Jan 5

A group of eastern Republicana has Borah, urging him to become a pro- published a telegram to Sonator nidential candidate neminee and lead

"movement to preserve. Institutions."United Press

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such an understanding is most un-sian newspapers at Habarovsic and Vincas, which broke away from the taxes.. likely to have been reached at a time Moscow seemed to give such an ime Parings when the tow rope parted,

It is generally expected that the when Germany is courting British pression while, on the contrary, went ashore at: an exposed position Bankhead Act will be held un- COUNTESS' DIVORCE

calm about a mile from land. All hands constitutional due to its compulsory Japanese newspapors took a

on the Vineas were saved, eve political sympathy-United Press.

view of the situation.

Some confusion has been created by feature-United Press. "If Europe considers the situation reports concerning the local records The Foreign Office to-day issued a tense. It must be as a result of the of the thros British officers of the statement, declaring it was not in-tone of the Soviet press," said the vessel who were lost in the disaster. On enquiry, from Mr. W. E. Kirby, The Townsend old-age pension formed excopt through newspaper spokesman.

Secretary of the China Coast Officers

Washington, Jan. 6, scheme will not pass during this so reports, that the Mongoliana had en- He added that the Soviet-Japanese, is learned that the last incal

Annual nogotiations, concerning

Mac-

Among the Supreme Court's claims alon but it is likely to be a major late torod Charhar. In the futurEL-

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Moscow concerning Outer grounds, were procooling smoothly Innas was as Chief Officer of the

agrocmant had been vessel Fodk On. Mr J. G. Yalll and ligants sonk

www of, the Control Yuan, is goingh_to] expected to ba 10 per cont. above that from of 1915, with steel and railroad earn Mongolia, a spokesman said the mul- and that an

It is worthy of note that the deadline for the divorce

It is understood that the Earl of Singapore shortly to welcome Mr. Ku ings relatively better than in most tllade of despatches wore confusing, reachal concerning prices, and rates Mr. S. C. Sontham were respectively, each dollar in Federal gold obligations, dell, of New York, has filed a petition Mr. Hau Chung-chi vice-president

aomo asserting that the Soviet and of exchange. The only remaining Chief Engineer and Chief Omoer n linen, eta b

United Press)

Goverment-RouterRE, MIZUN The returns shown in current politi-Outer Mongols had signed a mill-question concerned the possibility of the Wing Leo until she passed to for such claims was --December 31,

(Continued frem Rugs (18) suits are outlawedUnited Prest, cal polis ars not considered as conclu-tary, pact and others that the Soviet a long-term contract, thus avoiding the Portuguese flag isst year. Mr. 1996, after which date all further Carnarvon will hot defend the sult Han-min on behalf of the National

டிக். planning to Include Outer the annual discussions-United Press. alve Swan, Culbertson and · Frite.

Commenting on the various reports Japanoas leases, of Soviet fishing ongagement of the late Captainer list there are 12 claims in which the daughter of the Into Mr. Jacob Won

TO WELCOME HU HAN-MIN

Nanking, Jan. 8.“