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UNEMPLOYMENT
IN
UNITED STATES.
RETURN OF EROS.
Londoners Are Pleased,
RUBBER CONTROL.
SCHEME.
RESULTS OF ELECTIONS
Nanking, Yesterday.
It is officially announced that the results of to-day's elections are as follows:
Lin Sea, Chairman of the National Government.
Sun Fo President, and Chen Ming-shu Vice-President, of the Executive Yuan.
Chang Chi President, and Chen Cheng Vice-President, of the Legislative Yuan.
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Tai Chi-tao President, and Liu Lu-yin Vice-President, of the Examination Yuan,
Yu Yu-jep President, and Ling Wei-feng Vice-President, of the Control Yuan
C. C. Wu President, and Chu Cheng Vice-President, of the Judicial Yuan.
It is considered significant that the occupants of the six highest, positions in the new Government are civilians.
STANDING COMMITTEE OF C.E.C.
The following nine members of the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Council were elected this afternoon:
Chiang Kai-shek. Hu Han-min. Wang Ching-wei, Sun Fo, Yu Yu-jen Ku Men-yu, Chi Cheng, Chen uofu, and Yeh Chut-sang (who was elected Secretary General of the Kuomintang).
The Standing Committee of the Central Political Council will have only three members, namelyChen uo-fu, and Yeh Chut-sang and Hu Han-min. -
chairman of
The Nanking group favoured Yu Yu-jen as National Government but the Canton group supported Lin Sen. --Reuter.
THE DIPHTHERIA EPIDEMIC
INTERVIEW WITH M.O.H.
BOIL THE MILK KEEP AWAY FROM CROWDS HOME PRECAUTIONS.
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Grim Spectre of
"Starvation.
$700,000,000 NEEDED.
Washington, Yesterday. The spectre of starvation faces millions, declared Mr. Hudson, Executive Secretary of the Welfare Council of New York, employment question before the giving evidence on the un-
Senate Committee to-day.
Nearly seven hundred million dollars are needed to relieve un- employment in the coming year, according to Mr. Goldsmith, Director of Jewish Charities, in Reuter's American
Chicago. Service.
NOTED GANGSTER ACQUITTED.
"Baby Killing
Episode.
AUGUST INCIDENT.
"
OLD LANDMARK.
of
Rugby, Yesterday. Interest was shown by crowds passing through Piccadilly Cir- cus to-day in the "Statue Eros," which after an absence of over six years, was replaced dur- ing the night of the island site in the Circus where the road- ways have now been re-arranged,
facilitate the round-about
"New York, Yesterday. Vincent Coli, a noted gangs-to October, and, with Giordano and ter, who was arrested early in traffic system.
45 Per Cent. of 1929 Output.
SENT D.E.I. TO APPROVE.
London, Yesterday.
The Financial Times Amster dam correspondent states that he has gathered from n generally reliable source that it is under- stood, a scheme for rubber re striction has been completed after discussion between Anglo. Dutch interested parties and mailed aerially to the new Gov- ernor of the Dutch East Indies, where it is due to arrive early in the New Year.
INLOP
DASHING FROM INDIAN LIPS
THE CUP OF FREEDOM OFFERED BY BRITAIN
PREMIER'S COMMENT
GANDHI'S SENSATIONAL STATEMENT ON HIS RETURN TO INDIA,
London, Yesterday.
"It is very hard, when Government has given more proof than
The scheme provides for re- any of its predecessors, that it is preparing, in conjunction with striction of production by Euro- lenders of Indian opinion, to broaden Indian freedom, that exponents pean plantations of 45 per cent of violence and disorder are dashing the cap that is being offered of their 1929 output. Native output in the Dutch East Indies from Indian lips," declared Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, when inter-
viewed at Lossiemonth regarding renewal of disorder in ludia.
will, probably, be reduced pro- portionately.Reuter,
JAPAN IN MANCHURIA. Increased Military Activity.
CHINESE PROTEST NOTE.
Geneva, Yesterday.
The Premier added, that every Indian who cares for his Mother- land must share Government's regret at recent happenings which do not represent baffled, oppressed India struggling to be free, but a mischievous movement for the trampling upon of Indian progress. "REDS"" DISORDERS.
Peshawar, Yesterday. Dressed in white and garlanded individual "Reds," shouting revolutionary slogans, march to police posts and offer themselves for arrest. Otherwise, the situation has improved. Erected in 1893 as a memor
British troops have three others unnamed, chargedial to the late Alfred Gilbert, to
been withdrawn from the city. "Reds" were twice dispersed when with murder in the first degree, symbolise charity and love, be- A freak Chinese note handed the first occasion, and four were killed and eight wounded on the attempting to hold a meeting at Gonda. Twenty were wounded on has been acquitted. Reuter's came a well-known landmark. to the League Secretariat de second occasion. The area is now quiet. The total number of arrests American Service.
[Some time in August, in the on reconstruction of the Under- troops and proclamation by Gen-
It was removed during the work tails the movements of Japanese in the whole Province are, at present, 763-Röüter. course of warfare between rival ground Railway Station. criminal gangs, two little chil-There were many signs to-day clares, appear to denote increas eral Honjo which, the note de- dren were wounded
and three that its return to Piccadilly coming Japanese military activity killed outright, while at play on mands popular approval-Bri-with the intention of extending morning was the signal for an at- to undergo any amount of suffer- a street in New York. The out-tish Wireless Service. rage aroused public indignation
Burying the Shaft.
occupation-Reuter.
at the time, and the Police Com-1 The Londoner's Diary, in the missioner was obliged to take Evening Standard of December a FLOOD RELIEF IN
drastic and energetic steps to has this: bring the perpetrators of this abominable incident to book.]
DANGEROUS DRIVING.
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CHINA.
£250 Contribution.
Anti-Gandhi Demonstration.
Jave the nation a fiery ordeal, but Bombay, Yesterday.. if there is no single ray of hope, Mahatma Gandhi's arrival this I won't flinch from inviting you
tempt by a thousand "Untouch-Ing."
able" volunteers, armed with
Face Bullets lothls and carrying black flags, to
The Mahatma also said that in stage an anti-Gandhi demonstra- the last fight they had to face. tion, on the pler.
Jathis (clubs), but in this fight Twelve persons were injured in they would have to face ballets. a clash with Congress volunteer's He déclared that if the recent before the police disarmed them. ordinances were repealed, Geneva, Yesterday.
Mahatma's Sensational Statement. would advise Congress to Co- "If a fight becomes inevitable, I operate with the Round Table The Society of Friends, of invite you to be ready for it," is Com aittee, but what he learnt They were all aware, of course, Britain, has contributed £250 for the sensational statement made by after his arrival In Bombay left that the loosely-used term "Eros" flood relief in China, which, with Gandhi in a public speech here little hope of co-operation, unless should, officially, be "the Shaftes- other sums, has enabled the des-'
Now that the return of Eros to Piccadilly Circus is n matter of so much public discussion, I have been sounding my friends, knowledgeable in London lore, concerning Ita sym- bolism
he
bury memorial fountain"; but only patch of an Egyptian bacteric the evening. Ife added:- The was to lose all sense of self- one of them knew that the statue is logist, assistants and a travell
"I won't give up my attempts to respect.--Reuter.
When seen by a China Mailed, again, goes to confirm the representative this morning, suspicion placed on milk as the with regard to the diph-source of infection. therla epidemic, Dr. G: W. Keep Away, from Crowds. Pope, M.O:H., first of all pointed Asked as to the advisability of out two errors which had ap-closing down public places of en- peared in the Press, other than tertainment and schools, Dr. the China Mail, and asked that Pope said that he would not say corrections be made in order to that it was not advisable, but the remove any possible misunder-position is not yet such as to standing.
warrant official steps being taken
a pun in bronze on the great states ing laboratory equipped with in this direction. The warning.
man's name The first point made by Dr. "Keep away
anti-smallpox and anti-cholera from crowds,” in
Love hurying a shaft in the heart vaccine. Pope was that he was reported yesterday's China Mail, be
Among the Govern- What might have resulted in afof humanity that is the idea con-mente which responded to the to have stated that the trouble siders ample for the present to serious accident, involving H.E. the veyed. extended from Shamshulpo to put the public on its guard and was related in the Central Police that the Inscription on the base of Poland, Denmark, and Sweden.
League's appeal to aid in food. Governor's (Sir William Peel) car It is sometimes forgotten, too, relief are Holland, Spain, France, the Peak. What he actually use their discretion.
Erroneous Statement.
said was from Sheungshui to the
Peak, which, he commented, was
an entirely different proposition.
Adequate Hospital Accommodation,
соп
Might Have Collided with Governor's Car.
STIFF FINES.
Another matter was the report Questioned us to reports that for driving in a dangerous man-cause it comes that the Naval Hospital is full. accommodation at the hospitals ner.
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS.
Harmaton's Circus is expected here about the end of January. Mr. Richard Bell, the manager, arrived yesterday to secure a site.
Cour this morning, by Sergeant the statue was written by W. E. Reuter. B. G Baker, when a Chinese driver Gladst^ne. It is a noble and was summoned before Mr. Schofeld sonorous tribute-memorable be-l from one who. in: Shaftesbury's own words, "ever He emphasised that it is not has been severely taxed during Sergeant Baker anid he was voted in resistance to my efforts." due to diphtheria. So far he has the last few days, Dr. Popo gave escorting His Excellency the Gov no knowledge of any case of it as his opinion that hospital ac-ernor to a race meeting at Happy diphtheria occurring in the per-commodation is not yet fully Valley on November 28 last, when sonnel of the Royal Navy.
taken up.
along Queen's Road East, near the Asked about the floating popu- Treatment in the Home, Naval Hospital, defendent, who was lation generally, boat people in-
Our reporter asked if there approaching them, drove his car eluded, Dr. Pope said that he has was any objection to treatment past a lorry at the junction of Wan- no knowledge of any case among at home, and Dr. Hope said that chai Road and the Wanchai Market them.
there was none whatever, if the very busy centre. Unboiled Milk Suspected. trouble is treated in its earlier What he was scared about, said The tracing of the source of stage, and the advizibility of go-the Sergeant, was that the Governor the disense to the drinking of
might have been in danger. milk, which had not been boiled, is supported by the fact that the
Military cases, which have so far occurred, were among the the Military families, not a single case having occurred among the men in barracks.
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"WORLD'S SURPLUS OF COTTON
London, Yesterday,
De-
fendant was rushing back to town
The record-breaking supply of in order to take more fares to the cotton in America and the seri- races.
Empire
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A fine of $25 was imposed.
A similar penalty was meted out! Cotton-Growing to another Chinese driver, who
In barracks, the doctor point-ous position arising from it is ed out, the men get their milk discussed in the current issue of served to them after it had been the boiled, whereas in the familles Review, which states that the was stated by Traffic-Sub-Inspector the boiling of milk before drink-prospective American erop is Nicoll to have travelled along ing Is a matter of personal likes enormous, even when compared Queen's Road East, near the Naval and dislikes,
with 1926, n record year. But Terrace, at a speed of 30 miles an matters are worse to-day owing hour, and to have cut in between a Up to the time of the inter- to the fact that world consump van and a moving tramcar. view, 12.80 p.m., to-day, six fur- tion has fallen from sixteen mil van was forced to stop in order to ther cases of diphtheria have lon bales in 1926 to eleven mil-avald a colllafon. been reported. Of these one is lion, last season. It will require
Six More Cases,
a Chinese imported case, one ana substantial increase of com infant from a wealthy Chinese sumption to prevent a carryover family, and the other four non- of thirteen million bales by July Chinese. Here, again, it is elg-31, 1932
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hificant that only the better The position of Egyptian. cot- classes of whatever nationality ton is almost as bad, for supply are the sufferers. The fact that will be more than twice last sea the poorer classes are not affect son's consumption.--Reuter.
The
You are busy. Yet you
want to be informed of the
news of the day. Then, turn
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
Better Tone Reported This Morning.
PRICES ADVANCE.
by
The official summary issued the Stock Exchange to-day states:
A better tone prevailed at the opening session this morning, and prices were marked up generally. Sales Hotels (old), $15.
Buyers.
St amboats, $24,** Wnarves, $153."
Hotels (ald), $15. Hotels (new), $14%
Realties, $11.80.4 Ewos, Tis. 15. **). Star Ferries, 898. Electrics, $78.
Cements (combined), $19.60. Cements (old); $123⁄4 ̧ Dairy Farms, $29.10. Powells, $3
Constructions (old), $5.55. Constructions (new), 31.90. Waterboats, $24.
to the back page and glean--Providents (old), $63⁄41⁄4%4. the news. It's there don- lerlently · summarised for you.
Providenta (new), $2.40, H.K. Lands, $22. Chinese Estates,' 505.-- Trams, $22.
LADY ASSAULTED
AND ROBBED.
Matron of Military Hospital.
SUSPECT HELD.
Mias E. St. Quintin, Matron the Military Hospital, *WWE
At about five o'clock, Miss St. Quintin was walking along Bowen sustained severe injuries to hor purse, when, suddenly, she was at». tacked by a Chinese, who sneaked up from behind her. The lady was knocked into a nullah, falling
a.
height of six or seven feet. She sustained severa injuries to her of face and hands, besides being bruig-
ed about the body. the
The Chinese made away with her Miss St. Quintin
The season in Java was an ex- victim of a cowardly attack by a purse, and left ceptionally successful one, while in Chinese in Bowen Road yesterday Manila large crowds, attended daily afternoon, as a result of which she
The Circus is much bigger than when it visited the Colony two years
ngo.
is now in bospital suffering from shock and injuries,
BATA'S 'PLANE COMES TO GRIEF
China Lights, 827/2, Telephones 'part paid), $294. China Agricultural Developments, $10.10.
Watsons, $16.30.
Vienna, Yesterday.
lying in the nullah. -
About an hour later, whilt. Police Constable Fand Singh (444) waE patrolling in Macdonnell Road, he noticed A Chinese walking alang hurriedly with..something bulky under his jacket, which" he, covered with his right hand. Hia suspicions aroused, the constable approached him, and as he did so, the Chinese bolted. He was chas- ed into the village of Tweng, West man jumped into a nullah, and Two exhnuated airmen stagger-ed, and near. Scandal Foint, the
Austria, to-day, and stammered conilaued to run, with the constable out a story of how they crashed in hot pursuit on the bank. How- in the mountains in a fog, and ever, the Chinese stumbled and fell, | had been wandering in the snow and was arrested by the Indian.. for two and a half days in search When searched a purse was found: of help. One was the well-known in his possession... 1932 Settlement Days.
British airman, Neville Stack, The Committee of the Stock Ex-who
This purse was Inter traced back had been piloting the to its rightful owner, and after change have fixed the following wealthy Czecho-Slovak dates as the Settlement Days for manufacturer, Bata, on a bus was taken to hospital.
boot help had arrived, Miss St. Quintin The culprit. ness trip with the ultimate des was taken to the Central Police tination as the Far East. The Station, and brought before. Mr. machine was wrecked, and Stack E. H. Willams in the Central Police and the pilot were unhurt. So Court this morning, when he gave far there is no news of Bata and his name, as Tang Shing. He was the other passengera.
charged with theft, and, secondly, Later. with assault.
H.K. Amusement, $19.90,
Sellers.
Hotels (old), $15.30. Itauba, $40.
the ensuing year:-
Tuesday, January 20. Friday, February 26. Tuesday, March 22. Tuesday, April 26. Tuesday, May: 24.
Tuesday, June 28,
-Tacsday, July' 26..
Tuesday, August 30. Tuesday, September 21, Tuesday, October 25. Tuesday, November 20. Tuesday, December 20.
It now transpires that Neville Inspector Shaftain, for the pros*. Stack was not in the acroplane secution, informed his Worship that which crashed, the sole occu-Miss St. Quintin was badly hurt, pants of which were Lukas, art and suffering from shock.
The Magistrate. remanded
lng pilot, and a mechanic.. Reuter,
accused for 48 hours.