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BRIGHTER DAWN FOR STRANGE VERDICT ON MORE UNREST IN
COMPOSER.
BRITISH TRADE?
“Prices Too High,” Says Death Due to Accident
Lord D'Abernon,
JOINT ACTION. NEEDED.
"London, Yesterday.
or Suicide.
LOSS TO MUSIC.
London, Yesterday.
INDIA.
Outbreaks of Violence
in Bombay.
GRAVE SITUATION.
London, Yesterday.
Will 1931 bring a brighter dawn At the inquest'at Hammer- for British trade?
The Government of India's re- Many writers, smith on the composer, Peter eceonomists and leaders of Indus- Warlock, a pathologist, testified view of the situation up to De try see a gleam of hope. On the con- that death was due to gas poison-cember 20 sees an increasing ten- trary, Mr. W. Hichens, Chairman ing. The two composers, Van dency on the part of Gandhi fol- of the shipbuilders, Cammell, Laird Dieren and Ireland, gave evidence. lowers towards the use of force, and Company, declares that as long The former said he visited and mentions the recent outbreaks as most of the basic British indus Warlock on the evening before his of violence in Bombay and Ahme- trios' costs and prices are higher death- and found him soher and dabad, and the recrudescence of than their foreign rivals British normal. The latter expressed the the terrorist movement in Bengal. foreign trade will continue to opinion that Warlock was worried A vigorous no tax campaign is be- dwindle, "until, like Australia, we about his work.
ing pursued in the United Pro-
suddenly awake to the fact that our A young woman with whom vinces.-Reuter. exports are insufficient to pay for Warlock had lived testified that
Economic Causes. the necessary imports." Mr.she attended a dance on the night,
Rugby, Yesterday. Andrew Naesmith, General Secre-of his death and when she re-
The Government of India's ap- tary of the Amalgamated Weavers turned in the morning she was unpreciation of the situation up to Association, says that the cotton in- able to gain admission. They had December 20 states there have dustry had definitely contracted not previously. quarrelled, but
never again to find employment for Warlock was worried over think-been further acts of sabotage in Bombay City, followed by clashes the same number of operatives. Ing himself a failure as a com with the police which, together Viscount D'Abernon describes poser. He had three days pre- with other recent incidents, show the present economic crisis as "the viously threatened suicide.
Deceased's mother testified that resistance to the boycott on most stupid and gratuitious in
the part of cloth dealers is being history, with all the essential cir- that her son had long been separ followed by an abandonment of cumstances except monetary wis-ated from his wife. He wrote to dom favouring an era of com-witness affectionately on Novem- the pretence of non-violence and mercial prosperity."
ber 15, saying that he had much an increasing tendency towards The explanation of this anomaly rather visit her at any time but the use of force.
The deterioration of the tone of is that machinery for handling and Christmas, which was for him a distributing the products of labour "season of gloom and melan- the Press continues and a small has proved quite inadequate. The choly"
section is giving direct or indirect, After evidence about the state incitement to crimes of violence." gold standard, which was adopted with a view to obtaining a stability of the gas pipe in the flat, the There is nothing communal in the The causes price, has falled in its main Jury gave a verdict that they outrages reported. function...
were unable to determine whether appear to be economic, supple- Lord D'Abernon emphasises that death was due to an accident or mented by the encouragement given by the spirit of lawlessness gold, to provide stability, must be suicide. intelligently and skilfully handled. The Coroner commented on the fostered by the civil disobedience movement. -British Wireless Ser- "This has not been forthcoming musical world's loss of a figure
vice. in. many countries and grave prominent, both in composition trouble has already occurred and and literature. Reuter. more serious trouble threatens, both economic and political." He bolioves there can be no lasting remedy until attention is concon: Social Party who supported Mr. J. trated on currency and credit, and Loughlin, the successful Democratie. believes that joint action between Socialist candidate. In the recent the principal. gold using countries municipal elections, have been ex- in the world would result in an im- polled from the party. mediate Improvement. "Appro- priate decisions by larger central banks could modify the world economic situation within month."Reuter.
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INQUEST ON - BOY, KILLED BY 'BUS IN NATHAN ROAD.
At an inquest held on Lau Kal ching, the 18-year old school boy who died after being knocked down by a 'bus in Nathan Road
policy in 1981 on the same lines as on. Docember 8, n verdict of "Death in 1980, except that it would not by Misadventure" was returned. apply to the purchase of native According to the evidence, the ac
own ten, as that particular phase
of the regulations already proved cident was unavoidable, the youth | impracticable, as native grown tea dashing across the road only a passed through other channels in few feet in front of the bus, defiance of the regulations.
which was travelling about 12
Jangan-Amsterdam," later,
The decision of the Dutch Indies miles per hour The driver ap Teagrowers Association meana plied hand and foot brakes, but Amsterdam, Yesterday. limitation to 233,000,000 pounds. was too late. A meeting of the Tengrowners' The Dutch piative tea crap amounts The inquiry was held at the Association decided almost unanim- to about 83,000,000 pounds annual Kowloon Magistracy, Mr. Butters ously to continue the restriction|ly-Reuter.":
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