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NINETY-FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1935
TSINGTAO HIT BY DEPRESSION
Wholesale Closing Of Shops
SEEKS PERMISSION TO MAKE RELIEF-BOND ISSUE
Tsingtao.
QUEZON TO LEAVE US. ON MAY 17 Hopes Governor-General Will Accompany Him
It is learned that Senate. Pre- sident Manuel L Quezon does not) expect to visit. Washington again! before his departure. for the Philippines,
FLOOD RELIEF IN HOPEI
Students Exempted From Tuition Fees
MEASURES TO PREVENT
PLAGUE URGED. -
Tientsin.
Tsingtao, the famed "Riviera of
As a measure of relief to the re- He left for San Francisco last sidents in the flood-stricken areas: the East," has been badiy hit by the prevailing business depression Friday in order to sail from that in southern Hopei, the Provincial President Coolidge Government has decided to exempt alory with other once prosperous city cities in the country: -
Friday. The President from payment of tuition fees for Since the beginning of the cur-Coolidge will arrive in Manila on the Spring term students
schools in these areas. rent Chinese lunar year, no less June 8.
next
on the
in all
than 146 shops have been closed Previously, Senate President At a meeting of the Hopei Pro- money is extremely tight on the Quezon indicated that he planned vincial Yellow River Flood Relief market. In the circumstances, the to return to Washington once mor: Committee Mr. Tien Chia-lai. it- Banks are very reluctant to extend before his final departure from the presentative of the flood refugees loans to merchants, which natural country.
of Changyuan (on the Hopei-Homan ly results in a further intensifica-| tion of the depression-
Senate President Quezon is border) proposed that in view of hopeful that. Governor-General the urgent need of funds for the In order to afford relief to the Frank Murphy, now in a hospital rehabilitation of the district. the merchants, the Municipal Govern in Detroit. will be able to leave on Yellow River Flood Relief Lottery ment is understood to have decided the same vessel The Governor be continued for another year: to dispatch Mr. Kuo Ping-ho, Munt General went to Detroit recently to
Mr. Chia, Hung-nien, another de- i 2 tonsilectomy. cipal Commissioner of Finance, to undergo Nanking to see Dr. H. H. Kims. operation was delayed, however.¡¡egate of the food refugees, pro- aposed that to prevent a possible in- Minister of Finance, to seek per because he was suffering from
cidence of plague a plague pre- mission to make a bond issue. Atibad cold and infirenza.
vention corps should be organised and free medicine be distributed in the flooded areas. ma (Chekiai. Agency).
local Chinese banks to organise a relief scheine by which merchants
the same time, it has ordered the
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£100,000. WORTH OF BOOKS BURNED
Police Declare They Are Obscene
New York
More than 25,000 books, pic Itures and photographs, valued at
PASSES AT 67
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Externally 100 Foland's position is probably more secure than ever, in view of the ten-year pact with Russia and the fact that the Franco-Polish alliance still holds good-
FIRST MARSHAL Joseph Clemens Pilsudski
ALSATIAN LASSOED IN A SHOP
Evaded Capture Until The Police Arrived
An Alsatian puppy ran into a shop in Arthur-road, Wimbledon Park, London It snapped at the assistants who tried to capture lit..
It was given a bone, liver and some biscuits but still defied
about $100,000 and judged obthe First Marshal of Poland, and capture and settled itself in a scene by the police and the had been Inspector-General of the back room. courts, were destroyed by burn-Polish Armed Forces, and Minister
used.
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The "harvest" was the result
1930.
A message was sent to Wim- ing at police headquarters at of War since 1926. He was also bledon police station, and two New York Three furnaces were Prime Minister in 1927-28, and in policemen arrived with leather
gloves, ropes and chains. He was born at Zalow, District The dog was lassoed and taken of a seven-months drive by the of Wilno, on December 5, 1867, and in the police van to the address police to rid the city of obscene was educated at the College at on the collar. literature. Many raids were Wilno and the University of made, resulting in a number of Kharkof, where he was studying for 2 medical degree. He parti- During one raid 650 photo cipated in the revolutionary move- graphic plates and 200 book meat against the Russian aristo- plates were seized.
arrests.
Many of the books were bound in fine
cracy, led the struggle of Polishl destroyed Socialists for Poland's indepen- leather: dence, and was persecuted by the Several hundred copies of one Russian authorities during the
suppressed edition were said to period 1887-1908. have been sold at $20 2 copy.
US. CLEAN SWEEP IN DAVIS CUP
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China, represented by Paul Kong, who is now playing for the He saw his campaign come TUC.R.C, and W. Lock Wei, now inj Most of the books were priced fruition when be found himself Canton, Jost all five matches! at from 20s. to £5.
Four head of the Military Commission against Australia in 1924. Sixty-eight publications sold
created by the Provisional State years later Paul Kong and Gordon! on news-stands, many of them Council on the ground of the pro- Lam failed to take a set from the amazingly bold, have recently
clamation of the independent Americans (George Lott and John Poland by
Austro-Germany ou Hennessey in the singles and Bill November 5, 1916, and he occupied Tilden and W. F. Cohen in the Warsaw at the head of devoted doables). troops and took supreme authority over Poland in May 1926.
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