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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Impossibility Achieved
Auto-Telegraphy For Chinese Characters
TOKYO, July 19.
CURRENCY POSITION
Chungking Unworried At Developments
CHUNGKING, July 19.
A SPOKESMAN of the A LONG-IMAGINED Impos- sibility in telegraphy will pos- Ministry of Finance to-day issued sibly be solved if the claims of a statement anying: "The fall the engineers of the Ministry of of the Chinese dollar need not Communications are fulfilled. serlbusly affect the country's
Under the guldance of Dr. economy as a whole." Matsumaya, chief of the Engineering
the
Section, three young engineers elnim The stalement added that to have invented an apparatus by policy of the Chinese Government in which Chinese. characters will easily maintaining a currency adapted to be transmitted in telegraphle com-the national economy and capable ut serving freely as a basis for legitimate
munication,
The process of typerwriting is sald transaction remained 'unchanged.--- to have been applied in the new ap- United Press. puratus, Hitherto, Chinese characters
have been transmitted by the media
of figures in four units, but the 'new'
telegraphic instrument can transmit
Puppets Peg To Pound
TOKYO, July 19.
the complicated characters directly. It is authoritatively revealed that and make them apprar automatically the Tus Raing Commercial Bank, in the recorders.
3,000 Characters
only issue bank of the "Reformed Government," has decided to discon- tinue its connections with the Chung- king currency and will maintain an About 3,000 basic Chinese charac-independent exchange level in terms | ters will be used in operating the new of pound sterling af öd. apparatus, while about 0,000 ad-
The authorities of the China Affairs ditional characters will also be pre- sented by extending the basic signals. Board on Tuesday consuited Mr. The service of translators in coding Takeshi Washio, Vice-President of Chinese telegrams will be dispensed the Hua Haing Commercial Bank, with in the new procces. One com regarding the continuous depreciation. plete set of the new apparatus, in- of the Chinese dollar. cluding the transmitter and receiver. will cost about 5,000 yen.-Doniel.
TALKS IN TOKYO
(Continued from Page 1.)
The decisions to suspend linking up with the "Fapi" and establish an independent exchange standard were cabled to the authorities of the Cen- tral China Liaison Ofve of the China Alfairs Board and the Hun sin
this Shanghai Bank nuthorities in morning.
Necessary mensures to stabilize the new currency value are understoud Ito be under contemplution. It is junderstood that besides being a trade PRIPING, July 20.-Mob attacks currency, the Hun Hsing Commercial hercafter be steadily are notes will on Brilish property at Tsinart
advanced in ordinary circulation. reported by Japanese sources.
Domei,
from England-Trans-Ocean.
·
Tsinan Attacks
These state that yesterday a large Chinese mob entered the offices of n British shipping company and wreck- ed all the furniture and equipment.
Two uther British Arms, Dunlop's)
Jumber
quickly and o
company, closed the shutters of their premises, whereupon the mob attacked them, but before much damage was done, Japancsc
gendarmes arrived
dispersed the mob.
and
DIVER'S DRAMATIC
STORY AT THETIS INQUIRY
(Continued from Page 1.)
Japanese reports state that Britons stern would have stayed up for days,
from Kalfeng, believed to number weather permitting.
six, who were recently threatened
by the local Chinese authorities and
told to leave by July 19, are prepar-
"Torrible Disclosure"
"We had ships at Scapa Flow stand-
ing to travel to the coast, but coning on one end for months," he de- firmation of this has not been TC- ceived here-Renter.
Anti-British Campaign PEIPING, July 20-The Hain Min Hi, the Japanese-organised political party, is striving by nit means to stir up anti-British feeling.
clared.
When the Attorney-General fold Cox that the forward hatch of thei Thetis was not filled with Fasten- ing,clips, Cox declared he was staggered. He added that his plan of salvaging the submarine would not have worked "in view of the terible disclosure."
The Attorney-General
interposed
and said that Cox was not entitled to
The latest moves consist of half- page advertisements asking all those Chinese in British employ to leave immediately, and Chinese landlords make observations of that sort. He to cancel all house cases with Britons.
as instructed people.-Reuter,
added that a phrase like "terrible áls- closure" was not justified, and would The notice adds that those who fall do a certain amount of harm to un- to comply wlit be treated disturbers of the effort to establish a new order in East Asia, and will be subjected to punishment, together with their families.
attack
Future Trial Dives
LONDON, July 19-In the House The threat is already having effects of Commons lo-day. Mr. Geoffrey the more nervous Chinese Shakespeare announced that it was decided, pending the enquiry, that employees.
The Japanese-controlled-press-pon. novel vessels capable of communitat- tinues to
British missioning with a subatorine-while-sub- schools, churging them with "cultural merged will attend diving trials, when the diving submarine wit tow ogression."
Japanese reports declare that 21 marker buoy to show its position. Britons left Kaifeng on July 17 after Civilians attending the trlais will the Chinese have opportunity of making an ultimatum from
thorities there.
practice escapes in tanks with the Japanese residents in Pelping held Davis apparatus, and the number of trials mass meeting late last night and men aboard during diving
closely scrutinised.-- passed a resolution to "drive Britain would
Reuter. from Asia."Reuter.
Tyrol Expulsions
an
be
Swan Eggs Stolen
Oakland, Cal.
BERNE. July 10,--The Swiss
This city's "meanest" thief stole Foreign Minister has informed the Federal Counell that the Italians ve swan eggs, all that Mrs. Swan of have given an assurance that Swiss Lake Merritt's Duck Island, produced forced to leave southern Tyrol will be this spring. As awans usually iny (umpensated fairly, and not treated the eggs only unce a year, it is feared worse than the German-speaking there will be nu cygnets on the lake! Tyrollans-Reuter,
this year.
July 20, 1939.
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SALE OF HANDICRAFT CAUGHT RED HANDED Refugee Function Postponed Burglar Arrested in Act Of
To Next Month
Breaking Padlock
Q
The Sale of handicrafts by the Caught in the act of breaking a South China Industrial Works for padlock with crowbar in York Refugees under the sponsorship of Building about 6 a.m. on Tuesday,
Chinese the Hongkong
Women's Cheng Sap-sam, 30, unemployed, ap- Club and the Shanghal Christian peared before Mr. R. Edwards at the Women's Temperancy Union which Centrul Magistracy yesterday, when was scheduled to take place on July he was sentenced to three months and 22 has been postponed to August 1 two weeks hard labour after plead- from 11 na to p.m. at St. John's ing guilty to two charges of larcony Cathedral Holl
of padlocks, and possession of a The reason for postponing the crowbar it for an unlawful purpose. Solo is because the sponsors desire
to obtain better results, for the better) Det-Sergeant E. T. Stewart said. the results the more refugees the Cheng, who was arrested by a watch- Institution can provide for. The man, admitted having stolen two handicrafts that will be sold in the padlocks from St. George's Building Salo will be very cheap while for an July D. The locks were sold to cech article bought the buyer will be, a stali in Lower Lascar Row for 80, helping directly some refugees to cents each," The buyers of the locks | make a living.
said one had a broken spring. The Among the many hundreds of locks were ordered to be returned to
things to be sold are handmede em- the owners, · broideries. bod sheets, pillows,
Mr. W, N, Brummel was present in cushions for the home: clothes, toys, shoes for children; and hand bags, Court for the Hongkong Land Invest- garments, sporis shirts and pyjamas, ment Company Limited, owners of
the building. for adults.
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