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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1931.
FLEXIBLE CLAUSE IN SURPLUS WHEAT. EMPLOYEES WANT TO
TARIFF ACT.
Decision That Affects
U.S. Importers.
RESULT OF TEST CASE.
MARKETING SYSTEM OF CONTROL.
FRENCH CONFERENCE.
Paris, Yesterday.
At the plenary session of the Agricultural Conference to-day, it was resolved to favour in systoin of control for the marketing of surplus wheat..
Conference Ende
BUY NEWSPAPERS.
3 Large U.S. Concerns To Be Sold.
MAGNATE'S OFFER.
New York, Yesterday.
New York, Yesterday. A decision of the greatest con-
Employees of the Evening World, sequence to importers is involved
the Merning World and the Sunday in the ruling of the United
World have requested the surrogate States Customs Court that under
court to allow them to buy the flexible clause of the Tariff Act.
paper, while a third offer for them the President is empowered only The European Agricultural Con- has been made by the newan per to alter the rates and not the ference ended without tangible re-mmgnate Mr. Paul Block, who is wording or meaning of any clause sults. The conference decided offering $5 600,000. in the tariff.
'The decision
was not competent to American Service. was given in a settle the details of marketing, but
that it
test case brought by the Fox members of the Conference under- River Butter Company against took to import certain quantities of changes made by the late -Pre- surplus wheat from, central sident Collidge affecting Swiss castern European countries.-Reu- Imports. Reuter's American ter.
Service.
R.101 DISASTER.
EXPERIMENTS TO DECIDE CAUSE OF ACCIDENT.
VALUABLE RESULTS.
Rugby, Yesterday. The Under-Secretary for Air, Mr. F. Montague, informed the House of Commons today that at the request of the Court of En- aviry into the R.101 disaster cer tain experiments were being car ried out at the National Physical Laboratory with a view to fixing more definitey the cause of the accident.
Very valuable results were ex- posted from these experiments.
Reuter's
and U.S. FEDERAL BOARD
[An earlier report stated: what M. Brland described as the Arsti tangible result of the movement for a European federation was initiated on February 23 with the opening at the Quaid'Orsay of the European Agricultural Conference, attended. by the representatives of 24 Euro- pean States, to consider the blem of Europe's cereal export sur pluses. M. Briand, welcoming the delegatos, declared that the moment had come to put Eurpean solf- darity to the
pro-
test. What really
was at stake was not the question of the distribution of cereal sur plus, but the maintenance peace.]
TIN RESTRICTION.
of
which are not yet complete. Moat MEETING WITH DUTCH INDIES
of the Court of Inquiry's report made it impossible to complete the inquiry before the experimenta were ended.-British Wireless Ser- vice.
FLIGHT TO BASRA.
DELEGATES.›
LIKELY LEGISLATION.
London, Yesterday,
In the House of Commons, to-day replying to Major Ormsby Gore (Cons.) regrading likely legislation
APPOINTMENT OF MR. EUGENE MEYER.
Washington, Yesterday. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Mr. Eugene Meyer, of New York, as Governor of the Federal Reserve. Board, in succes- sion Mr. Roy Young-Reuter's American Service.
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Rugby, Yesterday. A squadron of Royal Air Force flying boats, which left their base recently on a flight to Basta, are reported to have reached Malta. British Wireless Service.
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