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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1931.
BRITISH PREMIER'S
EUROPE'S MONETARY
BIRTHDAY.
Message from King
and Queen.
MANY CONGRATULATIONS.
Rugby, Yesterday.
The Prime Minister left London
SITUATION.
General Feeling of Optimism.
RENEWAL OF CREDITS,
Basle, Yesterday. Generally an optimistic feel- this morning for Seaaham Harbouring prevails regarding future to conduct his personal election developments is the opinion of a campaign. A large crowd assom-high official of the Bank of In- bled at the station to wish him Buecess and to congratulate him on his 65th birthday celebrated to-day. A large number of messages of con- gratulation, including a telegram: from the King and Queen, were re- ceived by Mr. MacDonald-British Wireless Service.
AMERICA'S NAVY.
Plea for the London Stipulations.
Washington, October 8. Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, naval chairman of the senate affairs committee, and Congress- man Fred A. Britten of Illinois, chairman of the house committee, announced to-day that they will in- troduce bllis in the next session of congress mandating that the navy be built up to the strength limits provided for in the London naval treaty.
This was their answer to the orders of President Herbert Hoover for the navy to cut its budget for 1938 to $300,000,000 from $401,000,- 000.
Britten and Hale have been in the sub- conference at length on
ject.
To Lay Up.
It was learned to-day that the navy, in order to comply with Pre- sident Horbert Hoover's reduction programme, plans to lay up one-fifth of the fleet and reduce the enlisted force by several thousand.
Some vessels in all classes rang- ing from battleships to submarines | will be withdrawn from service and placed in charge of care-taking
crews.
Details of the curtailment pro- gramme are as yet not completed, President Hoover ordered the navy to reduce its 1933 budget from $401,000,000 to $360,000,000,-Unit- ed Press.
A
MONUMENT UNVEILED TO
GREGOR MENDEL.
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FLOOD RELIEF. Reminder of King's Theatre.
In aid of the Yangtsze Flood Relief Fund, special pictures are to be screened at the King's Theatre to-morrow, the Direc tors of the China Entertain- ment and Land Investment Co. having generously agreed to devote the entire proceeds to this most deserving cause.
Prices will be as usual, and in all there will be four excel- lent pictures screened. These, kindly lent free for the ocea- sion by the Paramount Films of China, Inc., and Fox Film of Chinn, Inc., and Fox Film Corporation, will be as follows: Chan 2.30 p.m.-"Charlie Carries On."
5.10 p.m.-"Dishonoured." 7.15 p.m.-"Vagabond King." 9.30 p.m.-"Don't Bet on Women."
It is hoped that there will be large attendances, in order that the relief fund may sub- stantially benefit,
Corpses Everywhere!
A Shanghai paper states: The Chinese Foreign Famine Rellef Committee, 12 Jinkee Road, has allocated to date $468,000 for food and clothing and these funds are being kandled by twelve sub-com- mittees in the strategic centres.
These of the famine areas,
sub-committees are composed of representative Chinese,,and the Protestant and Catholic Missionaries,
News to hand from distribu- tors of food in the great lake flooded areas in North Kiangsu, tell of the people dying on all hands, and corpses are met with everywhere. As 'the win- ter approaches there will be an even greater demand for food and clothing for the starving people.
monument was unveiled to the memory of Gregor Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of plant heredity, at Neutitacheln during the Silesian Cultural Week, held re-ternational Settlements whose In addition, an exhibition board concluded its session with cently. of many of Mendel's personal be a long discussion on the general longings was held at his birthplace, monetary situation and decided to renew the existing credits of Heinzendorf, near by.
and natural the Reichsbank, and the Banks Leading botanists scientists from all parts of Europe of Austria and Yugo-Slovia, and were present at the ceremony. The invite to Baale the represents monument, which has been worked tives of the Central Banks of out of a boulder of Silesian granite, Central Europe and the Balkans consists of a number of reproduc-which restricted currency opera- tions of plant life, surrounding the tions with the object that the marble bust of the great researcher, conference should be able to co- who is represented as a deep, and ordinate regulations and mitigate kindly thinker. This is the second inconveniences. Reuter. monument to Mendel, the first hay- ing been erected some years ago at Altbruan near the Augustinian cloister, in the gardens of which ho carried out his researches.
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BURMA ROUND TABLE.
Chairman and Party Delegates.
PERSONNEL.
Rugby, Yesterday.
The Chairman of the projected Burma Round Table Conference and delegates from British polit!- cal parties who will attend are as follows:-
Chairman-Lord Pool.
Conservative Party Delegates- Earl Winterton and Mr. J. S. Ward- law-Milne
Liberal Party Delegates-VIB count Mersey and Mr. Isaac Foot. Labour Party Delegates-Mr. G. H. Hall and Major Graham Pole-British Wireless Service.
U.S. DICTATORSHIP ?
Purely Economic and Non-Partisan.
Philadelphia, October 2. Major General Smedley Butler of the marine corps, who retired on Oc-j tober 1, fulfilled the predictions of his friends when he crashed into the limelight uguin to-day with the proposal of a gigantie economic, dictatorship in America.
Butler said there was a group of multi-millionaires who possess a total wealth exceeding $5,000,000,- 000 who are willing to relinquish half of their fortunes in an effort to establish a form of beneficent dictatorship.
He said these men have recently been discussing such a plan, which would foster roadbuilding, school- ing, promotion of inventions, infant/ industries and other activities un- der an "extra-governmental agency hended by a man without capital- istic or partisan parties."
Butler proposed that congresa д dictatorship.-- legalize such
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GEOMETRY ACHIEVES ANGLE TRISECTION.
The trisecting of the angle by Euclidean geometry, believed for 2,500 years to be impossible, has been accomplished by the Rev. J. J. Callahan, président of Duquesne University.
It was one of three problems of geometry considered insoluble. The others are the reduplication of the cube-that is, finding a cube with, volume double that of a given cube; finding a square or Bome other and the squaring of the circle, or rectilinear figure equal in area to a given circle.
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The Tsang Foo Villa case, which 12 Chinese are charged with the wilful murder of a Japaneso at Kowloon City on the night Sep- tember 26, will be opened at the on Monday Kowloon Magistracy next, at 2.30 p.m.
The forthcoming wedding is on- Alberto nounced of Guilherme Yvanovich Vieira Riberio, of 6, Min-
A musical version of the "Pick- den Terrace, Kowloon, and Horten- wick Papers" will probably be pro-cia Maria D'Aquino Jorge, of 2, duced shortly at a New York Saitée Terrace, Kowloon, Theatre.
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