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£2,000,000 WORTH OF "THE TYRANNY OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS
BIG CONTRACT
THE G. E. C. TO EXPORT TO
... RUSSIA
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MODERN THOUGHT
London, Oct. 3.
NEW U.S. EXPORT
. FACILITIES
OIL CO.'S CONFER
FIFTEEN CONCERNS AND THE NEW WEBB ACT
NEW ASSOCIATION
New York, Yesterday.
New York, Yesterday. Through the Amtorg Trading The Bishop of Gloucester, in his ·Taking advantage of the factl- Corporation, Soviet Russia has presidential address at the Church |ities afforded under the Webb Act signed a contract with the Inter-Congress, expressed regret that for effecting economies by export national General Electric Company Congress had been unable to give trade executives, 15 of the largest for at least between one and two effect to its desire to invite Roman Oil Companies are considering millions starlinga' worth electrical Catholic representatives.
plans to organise at association The Malines Conference taught similar to the Copper Export As- apparatus for export.
The contract holds for two years us that there are Roman Catholicssociation. after which, if satisfactorily com- who would be glad to confer with The Standard Oil Company ofj plated, it will be extended for a us," continued Dr. Headlam, "but New Jersey, the Gulf, Altantic Re- further four yeare involving at it is difficult for them to do so fining, Roxana Petroleum and the least £800,000 annually. Reuter's while the Pope and English Roman Cities' Service Companies are ac- Catholics adopt an unfriendly attively participating in the project, American Service.
titude towards other Christiana."
and the new Association will prob The Bishop added that many ably start functioning on January Roman Catholics were dinaatified
1.-Reuter's American Service. with the tyranny of the Italian Curia and resented its intolerant at- titude, towards modern thought,
IN SUNNY SPAIN
FIVE INEFFECTIVE YEARS OF
DICTATORSHIP
BITTER FEELING
Bishop's Warning. ‹- The Bishop of Durham, in his sermon, asked what grounds existed for feeling confident that Christian- ity in England to-day was more firmly fixed in rational aceptance than that of France or Russia on
TRADE MARKS
ANOTHER ALLEGED “EVER-
·EADY” INFRINGEMENT
At the Socialist Congress held in
JUDGMENT RESERVED Madrid Senor Indalecio Prieto, formerly deputy for Bilbao, told
Judgment was reserved, at the how in the summer of 1928 King the eve of their revolutions? Kowloon Court yesterday, In the Alfonso tried to persuade Don The conditions preceding the re-case against the Kwong Timg Antonio Maura. the Conservative volt against Christianity in France Battery Co., who are charged by ex-Premjer, to make
himself and Russia were certainly present Mr. R. S. le G. Daniell, representa: Dictator. This royal proposal had in England now.
been conveyed though the Conde de
la Mortera, Maura's son, and was already, known of through revela-
tive of the National Carbon Co., on four counts of the alleged in- fringements of the "Eveready" trade marks.
Mr. G. S. Hugh-Jones appeared for Mr. Daniell while Mr. Hin-shing Lo (instructed by Mr. J. M. Hall) represented the defendant.
tions made by De la Mortera him-thorities and their own belief that self. The ex-Premier refused, public order is. maintained only and the King sought elsewhere in through repression is shown by the order to put an end to what his recent journey of King Alfonso to
as the sterile Canfranc.. Majesty regarded
Hundreds of citizens'
At the hearing, Mr. W. Schofield discussions in Parliament, writes were arrested on the eve of the intimated that there was not suffi the Madrid correspondent of the journey on the pretext of a plot cient evidence to justify a convic "Manchester Guardian."
which existed only in the imagin- tion on the charge of applying to Among the principal subjects of ation of the police. As to the batteries, labels which bore false these sterile discussions was that second, any detailed discussion is trade marks. In the case of the of the responsibility for the cam-difficult, or the reason that the Electricity" batteries the descrip paign in Morocco and the punish Government has for five years been tion that, they were manufactured ment of those who were answerable profuse with the expenditure of locally was not sufficiently false to for the terrible losses of men and money obtained through extraor-justify a conviction. material In the disaster of Anua! dinary credits. Financial authorl-
in 1921. The national resentment ties speak, however, of a very con- |
Mr. Lo argued that it was not
at these disasters had resulted in siderable increase in the public possible for his cilent to have Invented the design of the "Canton the election of a Parliament with debt and of a Budget deficit.
sign,
He remarked that the Na-
the mission above all else of fixing! Spain's Incontestable economic City" labels. He commented upon the responsibility for them. progress dates from before the the length of the usage of the de General Picasso had been instruct- Dictatorship, which is careful to tonal Carbon Co. had changed their ed to hold an inquiry, and. the prevent the press from any close activity of the Socialist and Re-examination of its monopoly policy, design during the past five or six publican deputies was imposing on a policy which profits only the year while the defendant had been this inquiry a reality highly incon- banks and a few great enterprises. using his throughout this period.
In conclusion, Mr. Lo said that if venient to the elements compromis-The smaller industrial concerns ed. A Commission of Inquiry, com-and the commerce of the country his Worship held against him posed of 21 deputies drawn from are passing through a crisis.
all parties, was set up, and it was
The Catalan Question widely rumoured that it would bring home the responsibility to
The Catalon question, perhaps the King himself, who, it was said, the one which most demands the had directly intervened with Gen-exercise of fact, has been exacer- eral Silvestre, behind the backs of bated to such a degree under the the Commander-in-Chief, the High Dictatorship that it must be one Commissioner, and the Minister of of the gravest preoccupations of War, to secure the disastrous offen- any future. Government. alve on the failure of which Gen-military, Dictatorship has not even eral Silveatre
the full support of the army, auleide.
Still graver have been the errors
had committed
:
The
In
his submissions there was the ques tion of mens rea. He quoted au- thorities wherein it was laid down that it was a good defence if the defendants had acted innocently.
PERSIAN WOMEN
MEN IN COATS AND TROUSERS
VEILS DISCARDED Basra. According to reports re- In the end the King found his committed in the domain of foreign
The rapprochement with ceived here, the Shah of Persia, policy, Dictator in General Primo, de
Fascist Italy,
demonstrated in Riza Khan Pahlevi, has decided Rivers. The Goernment made no King Alfonso's journeys to Rome that in place of the heterogeneous appeal for popular support; the in the autumn of 1928 and in garb now affected by Persian men people, disillusioned by a long
October last, appears to have been they are in future to wear coat and series of unpopular Governments, left no call to defend this one; it confined to these simple demon-trousers and the new type of
Persian headgear. fell without resistance and without the existence of any
strations there is no evidence of
It is also stated that Parliament military dignity.
agreements, but it has been paid will shortly pass a law permitting The Dictatorship
for by the creation of an atmo-women champions of the emancipa- The popular demand for the
tion of their sex to leave their fixing of the responsibility for the sphere of distrust in world, and
especially French, opinion. The homes unveiled. Moroccan disasters persisted, but sympathy of the Spanish for the ever. not disposed to compel the military. Dictatorship diverted Italian dicatorship was further traditionalist to discard the vell if Ita force from the compromised shown in the negotiations concer- generals by charging the formering Tangier Another bad mistake! A few years ago women who dis- Governments with responsibility for was the withdrawal-clearly under carded the vell at Resht were as- | all the troubles of the country. In King Alfonso's Inspiration from months ago women were not allowed a few days a strict censorship was the League of Nations. organized which put an end to the In the past year, since Senar freedom of the press and of assem Sanchez Guerra, fasued his man-
The Shah, how.
they wish to retain it;
saulted by a mob.. Even a few
thoroughfares and promenades, but to-associate with men in public
without hindrance.
bly, and effectively prevented ex-ifesto of September 13, 1927, and now both sexes go, about together Ministers from either defending left Spain, the opposition to the their record or attacking the new Dictatorship, has made considerable Mr. F. G. Sale, says the "Japan and unconstitutional regime. The prograss. The various Opposition Advertiser," gavo a farewell lun- Dictatorship was the continuance of parties have formed a united front. cheon on September 27 to Mr. A. G. the policies and evils of the pind There has among the King's Hong Kong and Shanghal Banking with the further evils of muzzled serious thik
consequently been Kellogg, agent in Tokyo of the press and Parliament.
Pacification had to be achieved de Rivera But there are diff for the United States. The affair entourage of getting rid of Primo Corporation, who will leave shortly In Morocco, and it fell to the Die-culties in the way of this. Feeling was held at the offices of Sale and tator to achieve it; but every time has grown more bitter in the Company. In addition to the direc he ventured into the fields of home country, republicanism has spread tors and senior members of the or foreign policy his star was farther, and there are not less but firm, those present included; Mr. against him. After five yeara (on more reasons to-day why the Cortes, A. C. Leith, who is succeeding entry into power he asked for feared in 1923, should be feared Mr. Kellogg as agent of the bank; ninety days) his effort to create. a still. new political (his own word is "national") organization remains unsuccessful.co
Mr. "A. E. Graves, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; Mr. C. F. Thomas, of the National
Apart from the pacification of Vice President of Hangchow, Col- Mulder, of the Netherlands Bank; Morocco the programme of the lege is now in Yenching Univer Mr. J. S. Baker of the Guaranty Dictatorship embraced three capital points: the restoration of publicityIn the near future, Mr. Wu Company of New York Mr. A. order financial recover
will make, an Intensive study of Elked and Mr. J.,W Stackhouse, [ejucational institutions through- of the New Zealand Insurance Com- Lout china,
pany.
The Rev. Andrew V. Wu,, former City Bank of New York; Mr. G. I
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