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SOCIALIST DEFEAT
"DREADFUL WASTE" OF WATER
COLONY'S CONSUMP- TION DENOUNCED BY DR. POPE
SUBSTITUTION OF SEA WATER A ‘DANGEROUS" SCHEME,
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ENGINEERING COMPPLICATIONS
OF
BRITISH SILK
INDUSTRY.
Sacrificed to France and America.
NEED OF ADEQUATE PROTECTION,
Memorandum Issued by the Silk Association.
London, Yesterday. The British silk industry has and the been sacrificed to France United States but it can still re- cover the whole of the ground lost if given adequate protection, declares a Memorandum issued by the Silk Association of Great Britain and Ireland, a copy of which is being sent to every Member of Parlia-
TARDIEU
SOVIET $8,000,000 LOAN TO TURKEY.
Mutual Trade Movement To Result.
Moscow, To-day. The Soviet is granting Tur- key a long-term credit equiva- lent to $8,000,000.
This is the outcome of the Turkish Premier's recent visit to Moscow.
די
The loan will be used to ae- quite the latest Soviet manu- factured equipment and will be repaid in kind by annual instalments.
The loan follows, a recent exchange of visits between Turk and Soviet diplomats, and indicates the economic friend- ship growing between the two countries.
FRENCH
h
a class by
Itself
ELECTIONS.
OPPOSITION GAINS 75 SEATS
FRENCH EX-PREMIER RESIGNATION EXPECTED
ESCAPE DEATH.
27 Killed in Lyons Landslide.
M. HERRIOT AIDS RESCUE WORK.
Lyons, Yesterday. Twenty-seven people were killed in the collapse of two houses at Courscher Bouville to-day as. the result of a landslide,
M. Herriot, the former Premier, had a narrow escape during a second landslide while assisting in
the rescue operations, which have been suspended owing to the danger
of further falla-Reuter. The Memorandum says it is in- material whether help is given by'
When interviewed by a “China Mail" reporter to-day, the Medical Officer of Health. (Dr. G. W. Pope) stated he was in agreement with Dr. H.ment. Balean's statement to the "China Mail" on Friday to the effect that the average person's use of 22 the removal of raw material duties gallons of water a day was far in excess of the quan-and an increase of customs duties tity required for normal purposes. He also agreed on manufactured articles, or by a direct tarif, but it is clear that a that the wastage of fresh water in the Colony was margin of protection is essential.— disgraceful, terming it as "dreadful.”
The salt
Reuter.
14TH DIVISION LEAVING?
Japanese Withdrawal from Shanghai.
Shanghai, To-day.
Dr. even if it was injurious to the rid- Asked for his opinion on Balenn's scheme by means of which er maine. salt water should be used for all "The wastage of water at the domestic purposes other than for street hydrants is terrible, and the consumption, Dr. Pope said: "I Chinese people often store more personally dislike the scheme, and water than they need. And then, think it is dangerous.
when the water is turned on again, they throw away the water which It is understood that the Foup... they have not used, and collect teenth Division of he Japanese forces is leaving Shanghai-Reuter. FLOOD DANGER.
Rapid Rising of Yangtsze Reported.
Water would have to be treated
the vast quantity of owing to Bewerage that flows into the har bour, and the constant movement of shipping. big and small." Ile continued:-"When Balean said there was no need to use fresh water for flush purposes
Dr.
more." he said.
Creditor nations, with large investments in Russia may protest against the loan by the Soviet, which has borrowed ex- tensively since the War.
FOUR KOREANS ARRESTED.
M. Herriot, who was Prime
Ministers in 1926, made a rapid descent from power, owing to public discontent over the fall of the franc, his Government lasting
AT ANY MOMENT
SURPRISING REST OF THE
GENERAL ELECTION
NOT GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THE ASSASSINATION OF M. DOUMER.
The defeat of M. Tardieu's Government ap- pears certain, according to the latest cabled reports from Paris on the Second. Balloting, which began yesterday, of the General Election in France. His resignation is expected at any moment.
The total gained by the anti-Government parties to date is 74, representing Socialist and Radical gains.
The final state of the parties, including five
only two boys. Later he became one Colonial returns, is as follows:-
For the Government:-
of the Cabinet formed by his suc-! cessor, Mr. Raymond Poincare, after whose election as Premier confidence! was Immediately restored.
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M. Herriot is better known the Radical who presided over the
Plot Against League application of the Dawes Repara-
Commission.
HARBIN ACTIVITIES.
tions Plan. Unfortunately M. Herriot's party insisted on an ag- gressive internal policy and there was a "strike" of Ministers.
M. Herriot gave a new direction}{. day Four Koreans arrested here Franco Farman relations. To him must go the credit of initiating the Chinese section of the city
was left to M. yesterday are alleged to be the a polley which it ring-leaders of an organisation Briand, keenly alive to changes of planning terrorist acts against the popular feeling, to carry out. The France German rapproachement League Commissioners when
dates from June, 1924, when M. they arrive from Changchun.
Herriot took office. The Chinese troops who were advancing on Harbin from Ashihu have now been defeated and are retreating..
SIR MILES LAMPSON AT PEKING.
Nanking, Yesterday.
Extreme Right
Right
Left Republicans
Centre Group
Total
Against the Government:-
Radicals Repub
Socialists
Communists
588 8 3885
149
cialists
Total......
21
349
It is not considered, says Reuter, that the as- sassination of President Doumer has greatly in- fluenced the trend of the election, although the rumours that his assailant, Dr. Gougouloff, was a Bolshevik may have lost the Communists some
Dr. Pope agreed that there was lot of wastuge of fresh water through leakages at the hydrants. "If the public would only notify every time as salt water could adequately do the Water Authority the work, he could not have been they see a leakage, the defect will
Hankow, Yesterday. aware of the true position. Ibe promptly attended to, and thus
Owing to the incessant rain-i
Reports from the Sungari Sir Miles Lampson arrived by would not like to give any exact much wastage will be prevented," ported that the Wutai Dyke is in
the urged, adding "only this morn- the Yangtsze are rising. It is re- River state that the Japanese ad- air from Shanghai on Saturday figure, but a vast majority, say
ing I came across a leakage, and reported that the Watai Dyke vance down river continued with morning and left for Peking by
train on Saturday evening after votes. between 70 and 90 per cent. of the immediately telephoned the Water danger and residents in the vicin-the arrival of reinforcements.
It is reported that Fangcheng conferring with Lo Wen-kan. local lavatories, are flushed with Authority informing them about ity are petitioning the authori-
and Sunsing have again been oc- Reuter. sea water. The middle levels are it."
ties to take preventive measures.
cupied and the expedition is pro- flushed with nullah and well water,
--Reuter.
ceeding to Kiamusze. It is while it is only the Peak houses;
understood that the Japanese are that are flushed from Government mains. Flushing from Government mains is about ten per cent., I can! safely say."
Kowloon Houses.
(Continued on Page 7.)
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MRS. MASSIE MISSING rapidly establishing an air bare
"All the houses in Kowloon," he remarked, "are flushed with either nullah or well water, and the only two buildings that get their water! from Government mains, are the Kowloon Hospital and the Kwong|24] Wah Hospital."
"The scheme for salt water Alushing has been under considera- tion for years, and I know from? the P.W.D. Engineers' report they do not favour. ít, and are not very enthusiastic about the scheme," add-
ed Dr. Pope.
Engineering Complications.
IN HONOLULU
NEW SENSATION IN "HONOUR SLAYING" CASE
REQUIRED AS WITNESS IN RE-TRIAL OF HAWAIIANS
Honolulu, Yesterday.
at
THREAT TO TSITSIHAR.
f
General Ma Says That He Will Bomb City.
Harbin, Yesterday, According to Japanese reports, Ma Chan-shan has received seven aeroplanes from Taheiho and established an aerodrome at Pentamen, on the Koshan rail- way. He intends to bomb Tsitsi- har.
Yesterday morning 600 anti- A sensation has been caused in Honolulu by Manchukuo troops attacked Hai- but the engineering complications the disappearance of Mrs. Massie, the wife of Lieut. lin but were forced to retreat and multiplicity of pipes and mains, Thomas H. Massie, U.S. Navy, who figured so pro- ever, Wokhimoho is now occupied Speaking of the storage resevoir, minently in the "Honour Slaying" trial, which by anti-Manchukuo. forces. which is under construction in the ended on Wednesday by the Governor commuting Reuter Botanical Gardens, Dr. Pope said the sentences of ten years' hard labour which had
Dr. Pope said that it was not the
expense that mattered, in the main,
it would involve.
.
ita main function will be for the
more equal distribution of water.
"When the water from the
Shing Mun Valley rushes into
been imposed on the four accused.
.
Massie Family Leaves.
Honolulu, Later.
pardon of the four accused, sign-
ed by 1,400 persons, has been sent to the Governor.
Story of the Assault. The famous "Honour Slaying” origin in an assault made last year on Mrs. 1assie, wife of the defendant, Lieut. Thomas H. Massie.
the rider mains in Hong Kong Mrs. Massle, accompanied by the man on the lower level grabs her husband and mother left for all he can get, and consequently, San Francisco to-day, the man living in Caine Road, which is practically on the same A party of heavy-fisted naval case had its level as the storage tank, will not officers who opposed the police be able to even tap the water. It when a native boarded the ship in may ease an engineering difficulty, an attempt to serve a subpoena on but whether or not it will ease the Mr. Massie saved Mrs. Massie Mra. Massie left a party near water problem, I cannot say, he from being served with the sub- added
Terrible Waste. Dr. Pope said that, in his opinion, there was great saving of water in turning of the supply,
poena..
The object of the subpoena is said to be to prevent her leaving Hawaii immediately.
In the meantime, & petition for
Waikiki Beach and while walk- ing alone was set upon by a gang
Her failure to appear as a wit ness in the re-trial on May 25 of the four, Hawaiians, accused of (Continued on Page 12.);
after a sharp engagement. How-
FAIR.
To-day's weather
BRING BACK SILVER, URGES CHURCHILL
Paris, Yesterday. The early returns indicate that. the swing to the Left continues. Out of 128 results so far, '74 are for the Opposition and 54 for the Government
The defeat of M. Tardieu's Government now, appears to be certain,
Socialist Gains. Including the 251 Deputies elected at the first ballot, 476′
DEFLATION CONDEMNED have now been elected out of a
AS "HIDEOUS PROCESS”
SILVER NOT TO BE TREATED LIKE A SACK OF POTATOES.
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USA.
total of 615.
The results so far show big gains of Socialists and Radicals at the expenses of M. Tardieu's bloc...
The state of the parties at 11 am. was for the Government: Extreme Right three, for the Right 114, the Left Republicans 54, and the Centre 48.
Against the Government: - Radicals are 108, the Republican Socialista 38, the Socialists 96, and the Communists 17
State of the Parties. The total returns at 3. â‚...
London, Yesterday. trenchant condemnation of the "hideous process of deflation" which was the main cause of were 591. The state of the the world's ghastly present-day muddle, was utter-parties was as follows: For the Government:Extreme Right 5, ed by Mr. Winston Churchill to-day and broadcast for the Right 131, Left Republi throughout America from London
He earnestly advocated Anglo-American co- report operation to provide a workable money system A decisive Left victory is a
from which the whole world would benefit.
from the Royal Observatory states:-
Pressure is highest over the Pacific to the East of the Bonins in a feeble anticyclonic area extending westward, to the Yangteze Valley
as
Depressions are situated over. Tongking and to. the. North of Hokkaido.
Forecast:-South winds, moderata, fair to showery.A
ap-
can Socialista 47, Socialists 125 Communists 21/
Victory Obvious...
proximate against a Government majority of 78, with 19 standing out.
There is no doubt that when
Mr. Churchill declared that comrado and ally, therefore we the price difference of gold and should consider more carefuly the Chamber meets M. Turdleu ailver ought to excite the concern the part it has to play in world Government must retirées
Gains and Losses, of the world's statesmen, adding housekeeping
So far the gains and losses in characteristically that silver Is
Finally the ex-Chancellor (
ap. So
the money of billon of humans pealed to Britons and Americans to-day's ballot for the Gove and ought not to be treated like not to stand gaping helplessly atment are: Extreme Rich each other, but to take counsel one, the Right 15, the Left Re Back of potatoes,
together and reach a common publicana 26 and the Centre understanding on the money Group 20
Fire (Continued on Page 74)
gold's policy. Reuter.