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NINETY - FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935
FEDERATION
DISSOLVED
BY DECREE ACTION BY GERMAN AUTHORITIES
FUNDS PROVISIONALLY CONFISCATED
► CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Berlin, To-day-
·
MOTOR INDUSTRY ANALYSIS OF
IN BRITAIN
Great Expansion
Disclosed
SECOND-LARGEST EMPLOYER
OF LABOUR
Eondon. To-day-
ROAD ACCIDENTS IN GT. BRITAIN
Important Figures Issued
SPEED FACTOR. POTENT CAUSE OF TROUBLE
Statistics issued by the So!
London. To-day- ciety of Motor Manufacturers Figures were issued yesterday The branches of the war vet-and Traders show a great ex-by the Ministry of Transport. erans association of the Steel pansion of the British motor in- analysing the 1,500 fatal road The industry gives sccidents which occurred in Helmets, more recently known dustry. as the National Socialist Front work to nearly 1.250,000 people first part of this year. Fighters Federation, in Ber-in the manufacture, sale, repair. The analysis is based on po- Pomerania and operation of motor vehicles, tice report, as in the case of a lin Brandenburg, and Ostmark, as well as all the and thus claims to rank second similar inquiry two years ago. paly to the distributive trades but at the desire of the Minis- subsidiary organisations were dissolved yesterday by an order as the largest employer of later of Transport, the present in- vestigation bas been more of the secret police, all the bour.
The output of new motor searching and comprehensive- funds belonging to these bodies!
The sole of main causes tc; having been provisionally con-vehicles has shown a remarkable
recovery ⭑TOM the depression which accidents were attributed fiscated.
The secret police append to the period, reaching a total of 342499 were errors of drivers 251 per decree ordering the dissolution in 1934, against 136.600 ten years (cent, of pedal cyclists 15.9 per
earlier, and 233,805 in 1929, the cent of pedestrians. 49.3 statement setting forth the res-
cent faults in vehicles or equip “THE DOG NAPPER" sons, for this act, declaring: "The Peak year before the crisis.
of men: 3.7 per cent, road conditions political development of these organisations has in the last few motor vehicles last year was more 0.5 per cent, animals 1.0 per cent.
other causes 47 per cent weeks assumed forms disposed thar 14,250,000
In connection with the reduc- Of the pedestrians killed. 85.1 to bring the authority of the Na tional Socialist State into dis- tion of five shillings per horse per cent. were themselves the sole credit.
The numerous declara- power in the private car or main cause of the accident. tions made by the members and which came into effect in January, Victims of fatalities were 559 per leaders of these organisations re-an interesting claim is made that cent. pedestrians, 20.2 per cent the Exchequer has already been cyclists, 129 per cent motor real an attitude in opposition to
reimbursed for the sacrifice of A cyclists, 62 per cent, passengers or even hostile to the State.
quarter of the former rate of tax and 18 per cent, drivers. Of the DECREES IGNORED "Decrees issued by the State by an increase in the number of pedestrians killed 30.2 per cent authorities and intended to apply cars maintained and in use dur-were cuder 15 years and 49:4 per to the National Socialist Fronting the winter months-British eest. were over 55. Fighters Federation as much as Wireless Service."
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to others have been either ignor- ed or evaded. Until quite re- cently the Federation has been receiving into membership men who never served at the front, and others from among the Mar- xists and other former political parties hostile to the National Socialists, so that the Federation has really become a reservoir of oppositional and reactionary forces.
The total value of exportS
POLAND AND THE FREE CITY
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Danzig. To-day.
per
EXCESSIVE SPEED Among the errors of drivers, ex- have
20
essive speed is stated to been responsible for more cidents than any other single error, while fur pedestrians, cross- ing the road with apparent is- attention to traffic was an error which caused twice as many fata- lities as any other.
Of the fatal accidents reviewed, 304 per cent, occurred at cross-
An unforeseen meeting took roads or road-junctions and 61.2 "The dissolution of the Ber-place yesterday at the Polish per cent.
on straight roads
OF
lin, Brandenburg, Pomeranian port of Gdynia between Dr.bends with a good sight line.
The worst period of the day for and Otsmark branches of the or-Greiser. President of the Dan- ganisation was therefore order-zig. Senate, and the Polish For-accidents is between 5 and 7 in ed for reasons of public safety, eign Minister, Colonel Beck, ac- the evening-British peace and order." Trans-Ocean cording to an official statement Service.
Service.
NEW DECREE LAWS
ISSUED BY FRENCH
OFFICIAL CIRCLES Towards Economic Recovery
issued by the Senate.
Dr.
Greiser was paying a visit to PROSPERITY
the port of Gdynia, where Co- lonel Beck tres about to leave
for Helsingfors.
The conversation which ensued,
which proved to be of considerable length, covered all matters of in-
terest to both States.
AGREEMENT INITIALLED Another message states that an agreement between the Danzig and
FIGHTING UNEMPLOYMENT BY Polish Governments was initialled
PUBLIC WORKS
at Danzig yesterday afternoon, whereby the Polish Government revokes the Customs decres of July
Wireless
RETURNING
TO ENGLAND
Holiday Expenditure Higher
INCREASED RAIL TRAFFIC RETURNS EVIDENT
London, To-day. The greater prosperity of the Paris, To-day. 17, prescribing that import duties country is reflected in the holi- Some 83 new decree laws is are only payable at Folish Castoms day expenditure this year, of sued last evening comprise four houses, while Danzig repeals. the the higher levels of which there categories dealing, firstly, with measures taken in consequence of are various indications the protection of investors; the Polish decree, providing for The railway traffic returns secondly, with economic re- the duty-free import of certain are an example. The total re covery, chiefly by the speeding goods into Danzig territory. ceipts of the four main line rail- Canton, To-day. up of public works; thirdly, Further details will follow on ways for the week ended Aug- Questioned as to the work of with the reduction of the cost of the completion of the present nego ust. 3 were $3,944,000, an in-j improvement of sericulture now living, as the result of agree tations to regulate all the outcrease of £13,300 or 3.5 per cent being carried on, the director of ments between the Government standing diferences between Danas compared with the corres- the. Sericulture Bureau
told and representatives of provision mig and Poland-Trans Ocean Ser-ponding week last year. The press representatives on Wed-merchants; and fourthly, with vice
increase on passenger rercipta is Desday that success has been the modification and elucidation
50 per cent. attained in producing a hydrid of the decree laws of July 17.
The Bank of England return. cross which yields silk of good M. Laval told the press that the bankruptcy law and increase the evenness and softness.
decrees of July 17 restored bad-responsibility of company direc-issued yesterday shows a rise in He said that demand for this setary equilibrium and saved the tors, and was also annnling the note circulation of $3,500,000 to kind of milk in the American silk franc.. The latest decrees pre import quota system for some in- a new record of £411,800,000 fol- market is very great, but be repare for the economic recovery dustrial products; but not for lowing a similar expansion last gretted that due to the present which is the essential aim of the agricultural products; while other week of nearly £7,500,000.
The record circulation attained facilities and capacity of the egg Government. Simultaneously they decrees anthorise the Prefect of production station at Yong-chi.complete the measures already each Department to fix maximum last Christmas which is usually of only's limited number of egg-taken for the lowering of certain retail prices for meat, with penal-the peak of the annual curve
note, circulation, was £408,261,857. sheets can be supplied to farmers consumption prices, equalising ties for non-compliance.
FARM RENTS-CUT
RETURN OF CONFIDENCE more fully the burdens and sacri- in each crop.
While chiefy accounted for by ffices
Farmers will benefit by a 10 ZONAS MORE STATIONS.
According to the director, four SPENDING SCHEMES per cent cut on farm rents and holiday expenditure, the under more egg-production stations will Unemployment will be fought a reduction in the cost of fertili- lying tendency of the note cir be established in Langshen, Shin-by the spending of 3 miliard sers. M. Laval concluded that calation to expand emphasises a lem, Leg-lin, and Kwoonshan, and france on roads, level crossings to-day the already pressing recovery and the returning the original station in the north and anti-food, defence and also financial crisis was averted, and confidence.
This improvement is further district will also be expanded. other public works, financed by to-morrow the renewal of activity
After this plan is achieved, it is cans, and by the creation of would follow if the nation re-illustrated by the growth of new sure that egg-sheets will be suf central anti-unemployment -com-sponded with discipline to the capital issues. A total of £58,
to meet the demand in each mittee to supervise the limitation consequently the demand of foreign artisans, the protection of-sit will come out of French workers, and the sup
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will 900,000 in Jaly brought the is and snes of new capital during the first seven months of the year to £139,900,000, as compared with £85,000,000 and £76,300,000 pect
period of 1934 and 1933- Wireless Service.
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