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SHANGHAI EXCHANGE may be no question of devaluation,

CHINA'S CONCERN OF US. INFLATION PROSPECTS

Shanghal, Jan. 30. The Journal Finance and Commerce, in-its review of the exchango market for the week ended January 26, inter pfia, statos:

to

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NEW AMBASSADORS APPOINTED

China's Choice Known As Friend To Tokyo

(Special tó "Telegraph")

Shanghoi, Jan. 31.

It is officially announced here that Japan and China have agreed to ambassadorial appointments.

Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, Chair- man of the National Relief Commission. and former Premier of the Peiping Cov ernment, will be China's Ambassador to Tokyo; and Mr.. Hachiro Arita, former Minister to Belgium, will be Japan's Ambassador -China. Formal proclama-

to

tions will soon be made,

It is noteworthy that Mr. Hsu Shih-ying is an Impor- tant member of the pro- Japanese Anfu clique. United Press.

SERIOUS CHARGE

,

YOUNG MAN SENT

TO. PRISON

"I think I must make it clear that we object very strongly to this," said Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at the Kewlean Magistracy this morning in sentencing a 25-year-old shoemaker, Li Man, to six months hard labour, when he pleaded guilty to having carnal unmarried giri knowledge of an named, Wong Sze-mui, aged 14 years and 10 months.

Chinees Affairs,

In answer to the charge, defendent admitted the act and pleaded that he did not know the girl's age. He further alleged that the girl was "looking for money as a prostitute.

Inspector K. W Andrew of the Secretariat for peared for the prosecution and stated that the girl was employed at an opium divan at No. 400 Reclamation Street, first floor, for

wage of

80 cent

day. Defendant was customer of the divan. On the night

of January 23, defendant and the girl, by mutual agreement, went to a cinema and after to supper. Later,

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1936.

SUGAR PRICE CONTROL

WORLD ACTION NOW UNLIKELY

U. S. UPSETS SCHEME

London, Jan. 30. Tho prospects of an International Sugar Conferenco being held very shortly appear to be receding into the distant future.

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It was generally expected that the British Government would have al- ready issued worldwide invitations to attend a meeting either in February Dr March, and the fact that no an nouncement has been made to this effect is generally attributed to the unsettling factors arising from the recent United States Supreme Court decisión, coupled with the inflationary sentiment of devaluation rumours ro- sulting, therefrom.

Apart from the possible reperens- sions on world sugar prices and pro- the disturbing American duction of news, however, it is felt that succes- sivo disappointments and the long perlod of low prices have done much to prepare the ground for inter- national negotiations, while the futili. ty of producing, sugar sine dio for world outlets in increasingly re- cognised,

in-

Although it is somewhat premature to

to attempt

foreshadow the ultimate result of a world conference, it is considered that the active support of auch A powerful consuming terest as the British Empire would help considerably to ensure a satis factory outcome. Nevertheless, many sugar producees continue to call the Government's polley, whereby sub sidies are only diminished as market conditions improve, as too parochial, amounting to putting the cart before the horse-Reuter,

SUGAR QUOTA

WHEN KING WAS 'IN HONGKONG

Page Of Pictures To-morrow

To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Pictorial Supple- ment will prove of exceptional Interest, as it will contain a full page of pictures of the visit to Hongkong in 1922, OR Prince of Wales, of His Majesty King Edward VIII.

In all, there will be eight pic- turen. They will depict His Royal Highness' arrival, show him. Inspecting naval and mill- tary guards of honour, being welcomed by school-children on the Cricket Club ground. photographed aboard H.M.S. Hawkins and being conveyed through the streets in a special sexlon chair.

In view of their historic In- terest and value, the pictures should make a special appeal to our readers at this time,

The Supplement will also contain current local pictures, the popular Entertainment Pare, and a page devoted to special features.

ARTEMENTALENTENDUJUUTIS

TWO MILLION PASSENGERS:

FINE WORK BY LONDON UNDERGROUND

London, Jan. 30. It is officially announced that the number of passengers carried on London Transport Railway Services during the day of the King's funeral was 2,000,000, the same number'ne on Jublico Day.

On Jubiles Day traffle however, was spread over 19 hours, but on Tuesday practically all were carried before

Most of these people travelled bo tween 5.30 a.m. and 8.30 a.m.

Batavia, Jan. 30. Under new ordinances for the † noon. ro-organisation of the sugar industry; the production quota here for 1937 has been fixed at 1,400,000 tons.- Router.

EDEN SEES FOREIGN

the pair went to the Wa Hop Boarding EMISSARIES

House. At the hotel the girl's name was given an Wang Sze, and her axe aa eighteen.

TALKS LIKELY TO BE FRUITFUL

The following morning, the girl'a elder sister saw the girl washing certain garments and questioned her. The girl admitted something of the matter, but not all. Subsequently a report was made to the police. De

The Foreign Secretary, cobbler fendant was employed as L and carned over $10 a month, 5

th, and was y Eden, had conversations to-day with a number of representatives of engaged to marry another girl.

His Worship (to defendant): It is foreign powers, who have taken the

defence to this charge that you

no

London, Jan. 20.

Mr. Antho-

The station which handled the largest number of passengers, 120,000, was Hammersmith.

For wit hours trains ракнес through Charing Cross underground station at the rate of 200 trains bourly,

These trains comprised a total of 8,316 care. British Wireless.

THE CIVIL LIST Renewed Provision When. Parliament. Mects

London, Jan. 30. Parliament reassembles on Tues- day,

Yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet discussed the programme before the Commons and reviewed the International situation. The first business ot Parliament will be to receive a

of thanks from message

address of which House voted last week, and which was presented to His Majesty by the

Monday. Shortly after Parliament, resumes steps will be taken towards an Act making renewed provision for the the King

Civil List, following the death of

The

constitutional procedure is that

thought her age was over sixteen Kortunity of being in London, for! King Edward' for their

of

the

international altuation in terms.

general

Mr. Eden called on

Privy Councillors on

Georgs.

The onus is on you to make certain

girl's

age.

This morning, Defendant: I asked her and who said that her family was poor and her Prince Faul of Yazo-Slavia at the father was living in Macae, with a house of the Duke of Kent, where the Prince Regent has been staying since sweetheart and did not support his family, and she had to go out to he arrived in England. During

day he saw at the Foreign Office Dr. The girl's mother appeared in Court Towfik Rushdi Aran, Turkish Foreign the House of Commons recolves a

Minister; M. Fund Aslani, Albanian and stated that the girl's father was Foreign Minister; and M. Lozoraibs, unemployed, but used to be a brick- layer. He was 47 years of age. The of Lithuania. This evening, f. Lit. vinoff, Soviet Commissar for Foreign had an interview with the Secretary.

make money.

message from the King, placing at State certain. the diapoua) of the hereditary revenues which attach to the Crown. The Government will ask the House to appoint a Select Committee to report on the Civil List. will in due course form the basis of a bill- British Wireless.

girl's elder sister was also presentosphere in which the states- Its recommendations

In Court. She (the sistor) was un employed at present, but she would And a job as a waitress.

out.

His Worship (to the mother): men have met in London in the last Now you had better stop sending few days has been unsuited to specife these young girls around............... or detalled negotiations, but the Im The Mother: I have to send them that the informative talks of a gene pression in well-informed cireles is ral character which the Foreign Se acc the

cretary has had with visiting Minis- ters are likely to

to prove

in- in

feelings of mutual confidence which an essential basis for the construc

His Worship: But you result of this work.

The Mother: We can't all stop at

home.

The Magistrate (to defendant): I

think I must make it clear that we object very strongly to this. You will go to prison for six months.

CHINESE ART EXHIBITION

KING CAROL PAYS A VISIT

banking circles apparently entertain

London, Jan. 30. | serious' fosts of infiation fa ono form King Carol of Rumanis visited the or another and, although inflation Chinese Art Exhibition to-day, and may not be desired by the Gavern- was received by Dr. Cheng and other ment, it is problematical as

members of the Executive Com- whether the authorities could prevent mliteo. it-and inflation in America vitually King Carol displayed special in concerns, China.

terest in the collection of Jades, of the statement that America has pur-Router.

"Tho Wall Street Journal repents which he has a collector's knowledge, chased 500 million ounces of sili from Chira, and China's Finan

the Minister has given

"The market during the past wook `lasbeen quiet and orderly, cons that the quantity WAR OF

quently. It has been about as dull as less than this, it would be of ad- it has ever been since the introduction vantage to all concerned, therefore, If of managed currency.

some official, pronouncement whrs

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ANTI-TRUST LAW TESTED

POWERFUL ILS, SUGAR

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BIG RAILWAY CONTRACTS

L.N.E.R. DEVELOPMENT SCHEME

London, Jan. 30, Contracts worth more than half a million sterling have been placed by the London North-Eastern Rathway in connection with the programma of development under the scheme for a Government guaranteed loan of £27, 000,000, the prospectus of issue of which was published yesterday

The orders include 180 now passen- gor coaches and five hundred specially constructed wagons for the convey- ance of containers-British Wireless,

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Washington, Jan.. 80.

WAGE INCREASES The Surreme. Canet, honra menta in the Rucer Institute CRAG

London, Jan. 30. next Monday and Tuesday, and the Changes in wages which came into hearing may sawit in one of the operation last year, according to re- moetės sensational anti-trust ~law | porta received at the Ministry of La- decisións simen that againat: - the | bour, have resulted in total net in- | Stendard (1) Company in · 1011.

creases estimated at about $195,000 This It elves the court an opportunity in the weekly full-time wages of about to define the extent to which a trade 2,337,000 work people-British Wire- mandation 14 entified to go inlega. Industrial self-regulations

Calcutta, Jan. 31.

involves the Institute for

„NOT WITHDRAWING An explosion in a coal, mino has controlling prices through sales only made on the matter, since the poople occurred at Behar in which one Euro-at an onenly, annmeed Agore. The There has been some uncertainty have the right to know what backding pean and five Indian miners have Government contomis this

Tokyo, Jan. 81. as to the future, due to the riso once their money has....

violates Foreign_circles here are pleased again of the London-Now York cross-

been killed, and four Europeans and the anti-trust lawn "and suppresses with the Canadian Pacific Steamship "Silver prices have been steady ow. twenty-nine Indians severely injured competition. In addition it is alleged Company's Montreal announcement rate but, as exchange did not rise ing to the demand by India. But and taken to hospital. Twenty more that numeroom har restraints of that it is not withdrawing the Em above the danger-point of 5.01, no though substantial, Indian buying has are believed trapped underground. chango has been necessitated in the not been sufficient to maintain the| Reuter."

trade have occurred, "

presses of Russia and Asia from the oficial buying rate for American price level,

The Inaltase confonds the law Pacific service-United Praio. : forbide anle “undae” restraint and Hanian Ste netivities are undue United Prosa:

dollars or in the selling rate for"stor- Most Far Eastern residents will

agree with the Financial Times that

It would be far better for, America to

Ing.

"The fooling locally is that the pre-drop her programme than to koop sont rate fully discounts the inflation changing her pulley, concludes the trend in America. But though there Journal-Reuter.

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EDUCATION BILL

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| Nolasco_da Silva, of- No. 7· Garden Read, when he pleaded guilly before Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones at the Kow- loon Magistracy, this morning to e

at Nathan Road near Gascoigne Road front Tights on private car No, 3397 at 0. p.m. on

Traile Sergeant Paton was the complainant.

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