MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1933.
Hitler Endorsed By Germans INFLATION
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Twenty thousand "steel helmet- ers" marched in the Unterdenlin- den in the afternoon and were cheered to the echo by huge crowds as they formed up in the square outside the ex-Kaiser's Palace. They were addressed by their lenders and afterwards dispersed.
Polling ended at 6 p.m. und coun- Ling began immediately.-Reuter.
.
Communists Lose Heavily.
Hitler Assured Of Majority.
NAZI COALITION WIN OVER 50 PER CENT OF SEATS.
Berlin, To-day.
By midnight last night, the Nazi Party had secured 235 seats out of 532. Their allies, the German National- ist Party, returned 42 seats, Scats so far obtained by other parties are as follow:-
Socialists
DN
Communiste
44
Centre Party
56
Bavarian Peoples' Party -
20
German Peoples' Party
B
Christian Socialists
4
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BATTLE FOR
THE CHINA
To-Day's Short Story:"
MAIL.
U.S. CONGRESS SATAN'S
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CIRCUS
a
By Lady
Eleanor
Smith.
Another, and more powerful, is the demand of the farmers for. higher agricultural prices to re-
ONCE asked a circus artisting this period of time wandered duce the crushing burden of mort.
whom I knew to have work-from Tokio to San Francisco and gage debts contracted when wheat and cotton brought three times as ed at one time with the Circus Belgrade up to Stockholm and back mach as they do to-day.
Brandt whether or not he had en-again, as though the devil himself Indeed, the burden of debts geu.joyed travelling with this well-were at its heels.
His reply was And then I met an old friend, a erally, both on agriculture and la. known show.
Swiftly distorting famous juggler; whom I had not I offered dustry, is being denounced widely curious one.
& hideous seen for many months. as a fatal obstacle to
his features into recovery and any scheme likely to lighten grimace, he spat violently upon him a drink and asked him where he the floor. Not another word had been since our last meeting. He it will attract wide support.
Inflationist advocates in Con-would he say. My curiosity was, laughed, and said that he had been gress admit that currency expan- however, aroused, and I went in hell. I told him I was not much alon has dangerous possibilities. next to an old Continental clown, of a hand at riddles. He laughed but they do not see any other, way now retired, who had the reputa again.
"Oh-hell?" he said. "Perhaps Chancellor Adolf Hitler and out of the present vicious circle of tion of knowing every European
circus as well as he knew his own that's an exaggeration; but, any- his allies are now practically cer-deflation.
how, I've been as near to it as ever tain of securing slightly more
|pocket.
I want to. I've been touring with than 50 per cent. of the seats Ever since the depression start- "The Circus Brandt," he said the Circus Brandt." both in the German Reich and ined there have been advocates of thoughtfully. "Well, you know, the
"The Circus Brandt?" Reuter. the Prussian Diet. -
"cheapening the dollar" in Con- Brandts are queer people, and have
"Exactly, The Balkan States, large gress. In past sessions a
an odd reputation. They are Aus- Spain, North Africa. Then Holland number of such proposals have trian, and their own country-people and Belgium, and finally France. I been embodied in bills, ranging call them gipsies, by which they cleared out in France. If they'd from a proposal to abandon the mean nomads, for the Brandts never doubled my aaiary I'd not have stay- gold standard outright to more pitch in their own land, but wander
led with them." The election returns, up to 9 The Communists and German p.m. yesterday, show
a total of conservative schemes for issuing the whole world over as though the
secured on devil himself were
at their heels. Peoples' Party are both losing 4.476,100, roughly 13 per cent. of Government bonds and Femonetiz-In fact, nome call them Satan's ground while the Centre Party the expected total.
Berlin. Earlier.
A feature of the elections,
so far, has been the heavy Naz gains. In some cases they are as much as 60 per cent,,
compared with the
November election.
The Nationalists have made slight gains, and the Socialists
are holding their own.
is gaining slightly.
German State Party
Early Returns.
Berlin, Earlier.
The returns at that time were?
There is every prospect of the as follows:- Nazi Party and their allies ob- taining an absolute majority.
The state of the parties at 10)
p.m. was---
Nazi Party
5.535.000
Socialists
2,550.000
Communist
1,85,000
Centre Party
1,208,000
Nationalists
832,000
Bavarian Peoples' Party
697,000
German Peoples' Party
Other Parties
172,000 450,000 --Router.
First Return.
Nazi Party
Socialists
Communists
Centre Party
Nationaliste
1,891,500 703,300 550,700 447,800 312,800
Bavarian Peoples' Party 306,800
-Reuter,
News In Brief
Remonetizing Silver.
additional currency
ing silver..
Circus.""
"Is the Circus Brandt, then," I
asked, "as rough as all that?"
"Rough?" he said. "No, it's not rough. I can stick roughness. What At present three general courses
"I thought." I said, "that the 1 can't stand, however, is working. åre under informal discussion.
Circus Brandt was supposed to be a with people who give me the creeps. One is to amend the present gold remarkably fine show?"
Now you're laughing, and I'm not standard by reducing the gold fine.)
"It is," he said, and lit his pipe; surprised, but I can assure you that ness of the dollar, thus permitting | more currency to be issued on the "it's expensive, ambitious, showy. I've lain awake at night in my In their way these people wagon sweating with fear, and I'm present gold backing. Another is well run.
It's hard
"Please tell me," 1 asked, "what'
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
La increase the amount of money are artists, and deserve more suc-by no means a fanciful chap."
By this time I was keenly in- by extending the circulation pri-cess than they have had. vilege already enjoyed by certain to say why they're so unpopular, but terested. Federal bonds. A modest experi- the fact remains that no one will stay ment already made in this direc-with them more than a few months; Fung Sze. a Chinese married tion last session does not appear and, what's more, wherever they go. woman of 199 Hollywood Road, was to have had any effect, but adve-India, Australia, Rumania, Spain, admitted 10 the Government Civil eates of this method believe that or Africa-they leave behind them a Hospital last night, suffering from if the terms under which National nasty, unpleasant sort of reputation banks could issue such currency as regards unpaid bills-which," he an assault by her husband.
liberalised, between three added, blowing smoke into the air, Berlin, Earlier.
Tam lung-chi, a seventeen year and four thousand million dollars "is odd, for the Brandts are rich."
"How many Brandts are there?" The first election return is re-old electrician, who rode a bicycle at could be added to the currency. A
to know ported from Ramszel and shows Main Street. Aberdeen to the third school would add to the I inquired, for I wished
available by more about Europe's most elusive! that the Nazis gained votes at the danger of the public by riding with amount of currency
circus, expense of the Socialists and the
out holding onte the handle bars, remonetizing silver.
"You ask Bavarian People's Party, Reuter was fined $7 by Mr. Schofield at the
Central Magistracy this morning. 60 Per Cent. Counted.
Berlin, Earlier.
were
To-morrow's story will be the concluding chapter of "Satan's, Circus," by Lady Elennor Smith.
it was that frightened you so much." too many questions," "That I can't do," he replied, and Gold Hoarding Danger.
my last ordered another drink, "for the fact) Opponents of any "tampering" Bald he, "but this being with the dollar point warning reply to them, I don't mind telling is that I, personally, was not treat- A farewell dinner is being given fingers to the great flight of gold you that there are two, and thatfed badly during the bur. The last Spring, when they are man and wife-Carl and Brandts were very civil to me--Loo Ito Sir Joseph Kemp K. C. and Hon. from U.S.A.
The Indy is a bit of a civil, in fact, for they'd ask me Into Mr. E. R. Hallifax, S. C. A., on the foreign bankers were alarmed by Lyn.
Congress.mystery, but if you ask my opinion their wagon sometimes for a chat 'occasion of their retirement, by similar proposals in When 60 per cent, of the votes, their Chinese friends. The dinner More serious still, they declare, would say that she is of Mexican between shows, and I hated going- were counted, out of a total of will be held at the Kam Ling Hotel would be the prospect of renewed blood, that she was at some time or it gave me gooseflesh down my back. 372 seats, the Nazis had obtain-|
hoarding of gold by Americans other a charmer of snakes, and that Somehow-and you'll laugh again I which might casily drive the of the two she is, on the whole, the know-it was like sitting there talk ed 165, and the Nationalists, 27 at 8 p.m. on March 14. -- Reuter.
The dead body of an unknown U.S.A. off the gold standard, as worse, although that is saying aling to two big cats that were just However, all this is waiting to pounce after they'd} Chinese was this morning found out-happened recently in South Africa. good deal,
on my part, finished playing with you,
tions:-
Nazis
Socialists
I swear
The following is the provision-ide the Tick Sang Lui Din Board-That might cause a general finan-pure guesswork of final result of the German elec-ing house, 8 Connaught Road West. cial panic, with wholesale closing although, having seen her, I can tell I believed, at the time, that Cari The deceased had an extensive of bonks and general defaults on you that she's a handsome piece, and Lys could see in the dark. Now, fracture of the base of the skull and loans and mortgages. This latter still a year or two on the right side of course, that's ridiculous, and 1 And now," he said firm-know it, but I still get the creeps many other bruises and abrasions might happen owing to the fact of forty.
of the when I think about them. I must that since the inflation scare which ly. "I will speak no more over his body.
have been nervy-over-tired, you also followed the Civil War sixty Circus Brandt."
And we talked instead of Sar-know, at the time." Chan Sin-chi, an accountant em-years ago, many American mart- played by Li Yau-tsin, was charged gages are repayable specifically in rasani, of Krone, of Carmo, and of
Were the gold standard Hagenbeck. this morning before Mr. Wynne-gold.
doubtful appears Jones, with criminal breach of abandoned
284
118
Communista
79
Centre Party
71
Nationalists
52
Bavarian Peoples' Party
20
German Peoples' ' Party
7
Christian Socialists
6
State Party
5
it
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A year passed, and I forgot the trust in respect of $190, which whether it would be possible legal- amount he committed to his own usely to abrogate such clauses in con- Circus Brandt, which no doubt dur- Reuter. instead of paying an account.
The case was remanded for week.
Feminine Vote Important Factor in Spanish Elections on April 23.
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tracts by mere act of Congress
a without recourse to 'the long-drawn (and therefore dangerous) process of a formal amendment to the Constitution.
Li Kau, a returned banishee who was this morning charged with breach of the Deportation Ordin-
Compromise Probable. Much will depend of course upon ance, was sentenced to 12 months* the attitude of President Roosevelt
"DON'T GO CAP IN HAND TO U.S"
I asked, whether anyone else at the circus had been similarly affected by the Brandts, and he wrinkled his brows, as though trying to remem ber, with obvious distaste, any further details of his tour,
"There's one thing that happened so that all could see," he remarked after a pause, "and that was in a wild part of Rumania, somewhere near the Carpathian mountains. We were passing through a little village, on our way to a town a few miles' distance, and the peasants came flocking out to watch us pass, which Whether the reasoning in faulty re- The accused was banished for 10 more extreme proposals of the in-by the employees shuring the losses was, of course, only natural, for the show is a very fine one. Then, in mains to be proved in the elections, years on. November 18, 1931 and re- fiationists. But if he were to set as the profits of the employers. but to all political leaders it seemi apparent that entrance of the women turned in the same year.
one or the other of these widely nepar-hard labour by Mr. W. Schofield at to inflationary legislation." Pro-
ated compa.
the Central Magistracy.
Into the
wwwww..c
The
un
arena will give the munici-
that of
to
minboat into the water. He was taken
bably he would veto any of the
his face resolutely against any
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has uncertainty not been bucket fell off the cable at the that the disaffected Congressmen notional income-that is, on an in-again
"Well, it was funny. that's all.. diminished by the fact that feminine Green Island Cement Company's in revenge might block his own come which the taxpayer has not re- groups of all the republican parties wharf, knocking the victim off his measures for restoring prosperity, celved-is concealed by the differ. They scattered like rabbits-rushed have held an assembly and
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Therefore it seems probable that ence of name and by the slight dif-into their cottages and banged the demand that women be given promin
Lump them to-doors. The wagon was shoved out ent places in the party candidacies.to the Kowloon hospital auffering the new President will seek a com- ference of dates.
"The elections
will fill half the num-from severe head and body injuries, promise on the inflation question, gether and it would be seen that the of the rut and we went on, but in
possibly by agreeing to a moderate income tax is not 5a, but from 78. the next village there was no sign V. V. E.S. O.P. ber of seats in the municipal councila
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He reported the FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES knocking badly,
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