THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1934.
FUTURE OF
SAAR BASIN
CONSIDERED
League To Conduct Plebiscite.
DANZIG AND SLAVERY ALSO WORRY GENEVA
London, To-day. Business before the Council of the League of Nations, which meets at Geneva on January 15, includes a further examination of the Boli- via-Paraguay situation, the Danzig question, and slavery.
The report of the Committee on the future of the Assyrian community in Irak will also be considered, and, at a later stage, of the proceedings, the question: of preparatory measures for a Saar plebiscite will probably be under discussion.
By the Treaty of Versailles Ger. many renounced, in favour of the League. the capacity of Trustee Government of the Saar Basin, and that ares is now governed by five members representing the League.
The Trealy provides that on or after January 10, 1935, a plebiscite is to be held to de- termine whether the Sear. re the gian is to remain under League, whether it will be un- ited to France, or whether it
will revert to Germany.
Van der Lubbe, the young Dutch Communist, who WAS guillotined yesterday morning at Leipzig, 18 days after his conviction on charges of hay- ing set fire to the Reichstag. The execution, which came as a surprise, has aroused public indignation in Holland.
NAZI EXPLANATION
OF EXECUTION.
Decapitation Not Milder Than Hanging.
Berlin. To-day. The decapitation of Van der
HUGE COST
THE CHINA MAI
OF AMERICA'S
To-day's Short Story.
NEW DEAL The Land Of
Green Ginger
Figures Produce
Criticism.
£2,347,000,000 ESTIMATE
New York.
to half the national debt.
The total is arrived at as fol- lows:
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By Algernon Blackwood.
the
TN his luxurious service flat the result. But they'd think
elderly Mt. Adam eat before romarding!" His pencil, mean“ the fire with a frown upon his while, scribbled a few words on the A startling estimate of the face, a frown not of anger or an-blank part of the letter.
"It is interesting," he paused a cost to the United States of noyance but of perplexity. It President Roosevelt's new deal was the cosy time between tea moment to reflect "how avery im- has been issued by the National and dinner; about his armchair portant detail of the experience was lay scattered a number of opened due to something in my mind at the Industrial Conference Board and unopened letters; he was time. All the ingredients were in a brief typewritten me. Something just used them, This body puts the total charges scanning at £2,347,000,000-a sum equal note, wondering how he should dramatised them. That's
deal with it, and this wonder was (imaginative gift, I suppose, alt the 'cause of his frown:
jshapes the raw material.” A "These newspaper symposiums." He could see it all as though it he grumbled to himself, "are a nul- were yesterday...Instead of thirty £630.000.000, sance! His secretary had gone years ago.
220,000,000 home, taking away with her the The shock, in his case, had been 497,000,000 dictated chapters of his book, his the sudden total loss, of the comfor- 440,000.000 twentieth
novel - his twentieth table fortune he had been brought successful novel, he remembered up to expect. The trustee, his guar 10,000,000 with a smile that momentarily dis-dian, had played ducks and drakes 100,000,000 placed the frown. "How I started." with it, and at twenty, an orphan. 50,000,000 he read the typed sentence before just down from Oxford with a pros-! 400,000,000 him. "What made me first begin pect of £2,000 a year, he found him
to write?" The frown came back. self instead with £50, perhaps less. Total
£2,347,000,000 Thought ran off into the mists of The figures have produced years ago.......He remembered İconsiderable criticism, since they quite well what made him first begin include certain contingent and to write. "But no one would believe
Public works
Valley
Agricultural Act", Farm credits Home loans Tennessee
project Federal relief Conservation work Bank Insurance
doubtful items amounting to me.".
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more than half the total. These His face grew quite puckered.... include £400,000,000 of farm He finally decided he would dictate credit bonds, issuable for mort-in the morning a few commonplace gage refinancing, only the in-paragraphs, giving facts, of course,
Veling at the plebiscito is to be Lubbe, the young Dutch Com-terest on which is guaranteed by yet not this queer incident that had
June 29, 1919.
TO-MORROW'S STORY-
To-morrow's story will be The Good Thing," by Colin Davy:
by Communes, and all residents on munist, following his conviction the government, as well as simi- first discovered his gift to himself. Two details only bear importantly who are over 20 on charges of setting fire to the jar sume for home mortgage ro. It had been due to a shock, this dis upon the story: his intense bitter- years old at the date of voting, will Reichstag, should not be inter lief bonds, also government-covery; and a shock, some say, can ness against the swindling guardian,
preted as a milder form of exe-guaranteed in the case participate,
of in-bring out latent possibilities in the whom he knew personally; and the Accution than hanging, states the terest only, and for the contin-mind hitherto ignored. Circum- question of what he could do to earn The League will take into count the wishes of the inhabitants Nazi headquarters.
They add that he was guillotin-gent liability involved by the stances, that is, are necessary for his living. These two, had he writ An expressed by voting and will de
government's bank deposit their appearance; unless life pro-ten the truth for the symposium, the Sovereignty under ed instead of hanged because, cide on
guarantee scheme.
duces them, the possibilities remain Mr. Adam would have stressed. For it was with those two, this which the territory is to be placed while hanging is an ignominous The figures also include £200,-unknown, inactive.
In the event of the British penalty reserved for traitors and 000,000 of processing taxes He remembered the shock in his thought and this feeling burning in- Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, such like. Van der Lubbe commit-leviable indirectly on consumers own case, the queer experience it tensely in his mind, that he had being detained in London in conted his crime out of conviction. of cotton, wheat, hogs, etc. produced, and the first hint of his gone for a walk to think things nection with the Disarmament con-Reuter.
Some critics, while discount-Imaginative gift that appeared na ajover.........
To him, at the age of twenty, the Nultations with the Ministers of the
ing the figures for the above)
situation seemed intensely tragic; reasons, refer to them as a time-i
British Government, he will be re- presented at the Council by
the
Lord Privy Seal, Captain Anthony Eden. British Wireless Service.
CABINET COMMITTEE}
ON DISARMAMENT Sir John Simon Reports To Colleagues.
NOTABLE CHINESE WEDDING
Lam-Chan.
F.M.S. MILLIONAIRE'S ~ DAUGHTER MARRIED
A very pretty Chinese wedding
London, To-day.
took place at the Roof Garden of Disarmament problems were fur- ther considered by the Disarmament the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday Committee of the Cabinet, which afternoon when Miss Lucy Chan, aat at 10 Downing Street for two daughter of Mr. Chan Wing, a hours yesterday afternoon.
Chinese multi-millionaire of Kuala tha
Mr.
by reminder of the great poten- WELL-KNOWN LOCAL tial costs in the administration's RESIDENT PASSES programme and of the prime im portance of maintaining confid- ence in the government's credit: -Beuter.
I$1,000,000,000 TO BOOST,. U..S.
RECOVERY Ja
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He recommends creating a special corporation to handle the bonds and to keep the agricultural re-financing on self-sustaining basis.
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Mr. A. L. Alves.
FOR MANY YEARS WITH CHARTERED BANK.
no one in the world before had ever been so overwhelmed by fate; his
anger against the psalm-singing guardian was of that bitter kind that could have killed. The young man was stirred to an intense anger, Land hatred. He could have mur- Jdered Mr. Holyoake. The swindler deserved it. And Adam, dwelling upon the years of dishonest specu The death occurred last night at lation that had left him penniless,] the Canossa Hospital of Mr. A. meant this precisely, Not that he Alves, who was for many years bread (actually wanted to commit murder, clerk of the Chartered Bank..
but that, he realised the possibility
Irwin and Mr. J. H. Thomas, the European creation of soft while. Bond Re-Financing. Mr, Alves was a long-standing he believed dismissed from his
ed.
and
WRA
Mr. Alves, who was 50 years of lay in him. He still remembered age, left, the Chartered Bank some with a smile to-day-how he finally time ago and established himself in dismissed the idea from his mind: Chater. Rond as A. L. Alves and "What's the use?" he had reflected Ramsay MacDonald,
He said that the Government re-Company, Importers and exporters. bitterly: "Even if I did; murder Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bald-Lumpur, F.MS., became the bride.
sponsibilities would be 'technically | He was unmarried and lived at 1 him the State would only murder me win, Sir John Simon Foreign Secre-of Mr. Lam Swee-chua B.A. (Hong increased by U. S. $2,000,000,000, Ormsby Villa, Kowloon. He is sur-in return. I should be hanged. tary. Lord Hailsham, Minister for Kong University), the son of Mr. but that it would be best to public-vived by a sister, the wife of Mr. Who murders is murdered in his War. Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, Lam Hew-cho.
ly acknowledge the moral obliga-Leo D'Almada senior, the well-known) tura.” The bride who was dressed in a tion. First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord
splicitor.
In this way the notion was-sa
Dominions Secretary, were present-satin, carried a bouquet of roses,
member of the Victoria Recreation mind. accompanied by four, The White House, has disclosed
The other "Important detail" con- The only other member of the bridesmaids, also dressed in white that President Roosevelt favours Club, where he formerly gained:
The funeral takes place this after could be do to earn his living? He Lord Londonderry, who is absent in Misses Florence Chan, Pauline Lee, American railways through sinking noon, passing the Monument, Happy dwelt upon it with eager concentra Committee is the Minister for Air, satin. The bridesmaids were the amortisation of, the debts of the reputation for himself as a gymnast.cerned his immediate future. What
funds without raising the rates, Valley, at 5pm.
tion. He reviewed a dozen futures: India, where he is inspecting Royal Annie Chos, and Doris Chan. Air Force units.
Mr. Walter Hunt B.A., performed instead of refunding through addi-
the stage, journalism, the motor trade, then in its infancy; insurance, This was the first meeting of the the duties of beat man and the tional borrowing extensions.
It is also disclosed that the Pre- TILDEN DEFEATS VINES were Messrs. H. C. Ministers to whom the Disarmament groomsmen
Emigrating he thought of many sident plans to recommend the re question has been remitted since the Sung, M. H. Lau, and H. M. Lee. return of Sir John Simon from his The wedding ceremony was perfinancing of the U. 8. $2,000,000,000| |-- (Continued from Page 11: fields and calling, but realised ha wanted was trained for none. The choice visits to Paris and Rome.-British formed by the Hon. Dr. S. W. Tao, home loan bonds, including s Wireless Service.
O.B.E., L.L.D., and among the very Government guarantee of principal Both players will be seen in 'as of work, of something that he could large gathering of guests were the and interest. --United Fress per 8.tion against Cochet and Martin do, troubled him obsessingly. There Hon. Sir. Shou Son-chow. C.M.G., C. Gold Bar Co. Mesara. Yew Tong-sen Kan Tong po, Teo Po-nin and many graduates and undergraduates of the Hong Kong University.
PRINCESS ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT. ·
Condition Satisfactory.
London, To-day. Princess Arthur of Connaught yesterday morning underwent abdominal operation in a London nursing home.
On
WEATHER REPORT
Plas in New York on February 19 were a hundred, a thousand possible after the French aces have com futures open to a fellow, he die pleted their, South American tour, covered. It was the choice that he Cochet is the leading tennis play: found impossible. At a given' mo- The broadcasting authorities ar to have visited Hong Kong, playment in anybody's life, he reflected, notify that the relay of concerting in exhibition matches with far a number of possible things lie walf- ling he can take, only one, but the from the Helena May Institute beques Burgnon, Rodel, and Landry
multiple choice la there. tween 6.80 p.m., and 6 p.m., accord-{in 1929, MA
ing to this evening's published pro- On that occasion Cochst beat He had been walking for some gramme, will not fake place. The W. Lo, then champion, 6-1, 7-6 and time, and in a circle apparently, for Fair, with fresh north-easterly relay from the Hong Kong Hotel will partnered Enid Lo to victory he now found himself wandering The operation was successful and winds, in the forecast Issued by the continue from 5 pm, to 6 p.m. In-againat Burgnon and Mrs, Totten towards the water-front of the an the condition of the Princess is Royal Observatory to-day.
satiefactory.
News of the operation was tele-ja phoned to Sandringham, where the King, who is the Princess's uncle, is in residence, and also to Sidmouth, where the Duke of Connaught, father of her husband, Prince Ar thur of Connaught, is spending part of the inter-British Wireless Service.
H.M.S. WHITSHED FOR THE NORTH:
Relieving Wishart In Shanghai,
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