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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1935.
GROWING PERIL OF
YELLOW RIVER
Three Provinces In Grave Danger
EMERGENCY WORK ALONE WILL COST $1,080,000
Kaifeng
High officials of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission and of the River Affairs Bureaux of the provinces of Hopei, Ho- joan and Shantung, held an 'im- portant meeting here on March 28, to discuss the emergency, en- gineering work needed on the dykes of the Yellow River.
It was decided that nine items jot work must be proceeded with immediately, the complete execu- tion of which will necessitate an expenditure of $1,080,000.
Of this sum, the Central Government will be petitioned to bear an amount of $540,000, while the balance will be shared among the three provinces of Hopel, Honan and Shantung.
The work of strengthening and repairing the Kin dyke in north- ern Honanie estimated to re quire a sum of $460,000, which will be appropriated by the Ne- tional Government to the Yel- low River Conservancy Commis- sion.
The Commission has already petitional the National Economic Council to advance a sum of $100,000 for immediate use and
DALLA
Following the capture of Floyd Hamilton (below), his brother Raymond (top) Texas "public enemy No. 1" offered to sår- render to Federal agents at Dallas if he were granted a prison térm Instead of the electric chair. He was captured without resistance last Friday and sentenced to the chair on Monday.
NANKING REVISING EXPORT TARIFF Ministry Of Finance Working On Scheme
LOWER DUTIES EXPECTED
NON JUNE 1
Nanking.
With a view to developing the internal trade of the country, the National Government has decid- ed to revise the present export tariff
The Tariff Commission of the Ministry of Finance has been studying the question for the past several weeks and the re- vision is being discussed and formulated. As soon as definito measures have been decided upon, they will be submitted by the Ministry of Finance to the Central Political Council for their decision and later referred to the Legislative Yuan for en- actment It is believed that the work will take two more months to complete and that the revised tariff will come into force on June 1-(Chekini Agency).
WOMAN FINED $1,000°
A fine of $1,000, fa default six months hard, labour, was imposed on Ng Shim-chi, a 85-year-old mar ried woman, when she appeared be fore Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on a charge of having 2,740 heroin
at the same time dispatched a GERMANY DEMANDS Dills in her possession in Shamshui-
party of engineers to Poyang.. {(Chèkiai Agency)..
INTOXICATION PLEA
ARMY OF 55,000
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State, but at the creation of a mu- tual, security for all participants, and it felt that the participation of both Germany and Poland in the
· HITLER'S OBJECTION
pact would afford the best solu- Herr Hitler was not prepared, in tion of the problem.AGA he committed the offence, Lan Chol, present conditione, to contemplatePOLISH VIEWPOINT
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a mess-boy employed at the Whit the inclusion of Lithuania in any In Warsaw the Lord Privy Seat field Barracks was sentenced to sixpact of non-aggression: Germany learned the view of the Polish weeks' hard labour by Mr. E also suggested that if, in spite of Government on this question. Co Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon this pact of non-exgression and lonel Beck, the Polish Foreign Magistracy this morning for steal consultation, hostilities should break Minister, explained that " Poland ing a silk shirt from Lam Yau, a out between any two of the con- had, by her existing agreements “G-DAY BIKE RIDER fellow mess-boy."
tracting Powers, other contracting with the Soviet Union on the one Powers should engage not to sup hand and with Germany on the other, CONVICTED FOR LOITERING port the aggressor, in any way established tranquil conditions In another connection, however, upon her two frontiers, and the Pleading guilty to a charge of Herr Hitler dwelt on the difficulty question Poland was bound to ask loitering near the staircase of No. of identifying the aggressor. Ask herself was, whether any new pro- 280 Hollywood Road early this mor-led as to his view if some of the posal would improve or trouble the ning and for having in his posses-other parties to such pact entered good atmosphere thereby establish- alon eight keys, a knife and a cigar-into an agreement of mutual assised
cutter fit for an unlawful purpose, fance as amongst themselves; Herr The question of the Eastern Pact Cheung Fook, an unemployed, was Hitler stated that he considered this was, however, reviewed in a short this morning sentenced by Mr. Q. A. Iden was dangerous and objection interview which Mr. Eden had with A. Macfadyen at the Central Police able, as in his opinion it would tend M. Benes at Prague. Court to two months' hard labour to create special interests in a
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LIVED TO 102 WITHOUT A SMOKE
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As regards the idea of the Cen- tral European Pact, which was more particularly the topic of the Franco- Italian meeting at Rome, the Bri
In Moscow the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Anthony Eden, learned that the Soviet Government considered sh Minister understood in Berlin that the present international sl that the German Government did Mr. William Lacey, of Bennetts tuation made it more than ever not reject the idea of such an ar Cottages, Capel, near Dorling, Sur-necessary to pursue an endeavour rangement on the grounds of prin- rey, who will be 102 to-morrow, has to promote the building up of a ciple, but did not see its necessity, never smoked a pipe or cigarette.security system in Europe as con- and saw great difficulty in defining templated in the London communi- "non-interference in relation to The new "cut" in the Thames, que and in conformity with the Austria. Herr Hitler Intimated, between Weybridge and Walton, in principles of the League.
however, that if the latter Govern- addition to forming a flood relief. The Soviet Government emphas-ments should wish to conclude a channel, will be available as Aulised that in its view the proposed Central European Pact, he would alternative route for navigation by Eastern Pact did not aim at the consider it British Wireless Ser June 80.
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