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ROOSEVELT MAY INTERVENE
Deadlock In Motor Trade Strike
Washington, To-day, Miss Frances Perkins, Secre- tary of the Labour Department, yesterday twice conferred - with Mr. John Lewis and motor trade union leaders.
It is believed that MË Roose velt will be forced to intervene if the deadlock continues, despite his known reluctance to take any such action.-Reuter.
FORD AND. CHRYSLER THREATENED
Later: In the midst of the
Mr. negotiations,
Lewis hss issued a defiant statement that the United Automobile Workers Union will tackle the Ford and Chrysler factories as soon as the present strike is won.
The huge Fascist, cruiser Expana, which carries eight 12-inch gun, fred-seren ahots at the United State Gunboat Erie (shown above) near Fort Musel, off the northern coast of Spain. The shots went wide, and the Espana steamed off at full speed when sailors of the Erie were Oficials of the Spanish loyalist piped to their stations and uncovered the ship's 5-inch guns. government have launched an investigation.
CHINA PROGRESSING TO WAR?
the AMAH SENTENCED FORCES THAT
He added that there will be no. half-baked compromise in General Motors strike.
Meantime, a shortage of glass! has resulted in the placing of the Chrysler factories in Detroit on a part-time basis, fifty thousand employees being effected: Re-
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BIRTHDAY OF DR. SCHACHT
Germany's Leading *Economist
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who has been one of the most prominent figures in world' ' news recently, notably in connection wità--his pronouncements on Germany's colonial - aspirations, celebrates his 60th birthday to-day.
President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics for the Reich and Prussia, Dr. Schacht, is the son of a 'merchant. Herr Vil- liam Schacht and his wife Con- stance who before her marriage was' Baroness von Eggers.
Dresdner Bank and became gover-
After completing his Univer- sity courses, Dr. Schacht engaged on a variety of occupations both practical and theoretial. In 1900 he was assistant in the Depart- ment at Berlin concerned with the working out of commercial treaties and from 1901 onwards business manager of the Associa- tion itself; in addition he worked {for a number of years as economic collaborating expert on the Prus- A dismissed amah was brought
A sentence of a day's imprison- giaz annals. In 1908 he took before Mr. Q. A. A Macfadyen
ment was imposed by Mr. J. A over the management of the at the Kowloon Magistracy yes-
Fraser at the Central Magistracy economic section of the Dresdner terday on alternative charges of
yesterday afternoon On Yacob Bank; in 1908 he became acting- stealing and receiving property;
Characterizing the western Juman Khan, an Indian clerk aged chairman of this institute. The belonging to Mrs. Ratelife, of 11) Tak Shing Street, top floor, in world as being caught in a tide 26, employed in the Accounts Office, early war years saw him financial whose employ she once had been. which is carrying it toward war. Police Headquarters, who was scand currency advisor to the Bank- On Wednesday Nawab Khan, Mr. Nathaniel Peffer, noted writer case of the larceny of $100 from ing section of the Central German Far East, the counts Office, while employ-Government in Brussels. In 1916 P.C.E. 385, met the mah coming and lecturer on the
question whethered as public servant, on Janu- he resigned from his post at the out of a building at the corner voices the Berlin, To-day. of Austin Road and Cor's Boad, China, too, is not giving free rein ary 15.
Defendant was represented by ning director on the Bosid of the The possibility of an impending carrying something wrapped in a to the same forces which is carry-
ing the western nations to the Mr. A. el Arculli who said:
National Bank of Germany and in declaration by Germany on Bel-pillow-case under her arm.
1922 with the fusion of the latter gian neutrality is being discussed On investigation, he found the brink of another session of blood-
The defendant has been in the with the Darmstadter Bask, was bundle to in French and British papers.
contain six silver shed.
It was put by Mr. Peffer at a Government service for the last managing partner of the newly There is no real basis for these knives, two silver plates, a pewter speculations, Trans-Ocean learns pot, a glass rose bowl, and a tiffin meeting of the Pan-Pacific ten years, since November, 1927. formed Darmstadter and National from German political circles.
Ratcliffe Association in Shanghai, at which He is quite a young man-being bank. fash.
Reparations Expert It is pointed out here that was notified, and at the Yaumati the association and the China In-only 26 years of age. He is mar (Continued at foot of nest Col) Police Station she identified the stitute of International Relations ried and has a young wife and
aged respectively -On November 12, 1923, he was articles as, belonging to her. were hosts to the well-known writ-two children,
er. Mr. Peffer returned to China four and five years, to support. They were valued at $72.
Mrs. Rateliffe said defendant a week or two ago after an ab-As a Goverment servant, he has appointed Reich Commissar for years to gather contributed to the Widows and currency affairs and in this posi- tion effected the stabilisation of used to be her wash amah, and sence of seven had been discharged about three material for a new book on the Orphans Pension Fund for the last
He most ably repre- eight years. He has been a Volun- the Mark weeks ago.
The stolen articles Far East. had been in the dining room. The eastern and western bemi-teer, and at present is in the Police sented Germaan interests at the discussions of the Dawes Com- coming closer to-Reserve spheres are gether, in his opinion
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note on the ground of the Depart intended transformation of
Reichsbank. In America the people now have ment where he was at the time, much more information about and picked it up. He admits that. China. Nearly all of their in- It is not a case of snatching or formation is inaccurate, however. stealing in the ordinary sense of "I am not so sure that informa- the word. He saw an opportun ition must be entirely accurate to ity and he fell
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SIR FREDERICK LEITH ROSS
Results Of Mission In Far East
be of value," he continued. "At least their information on the Fari East stimulates an interest in the Asked by Mr. H.. Day (Lab.) | Orient."
London. To-day.
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More especially is he known for his unwavering opposition to the unsound accretion of foreign credits and the economic madness of reparation payments.
At the Paris Conference in 1929 which was convened under the chairmanship of Mr. Young, with Ia tide which is aweeping it toward the aim of finding some -final
another war
solution to the reparation pro- in the House of Commons yester- The same forces are also work-
Japan, accorto Mr. Peffer, blem, Dr. Schacht was Germany's day to give particulars of the re-ing at present in both parts of the seems to have committed itself to chief delegate. On April 2, sults of Sir Frederick Leith Ross's world. At the moment at least the same course that is sweeping 1930, be resigned from office as mission to China, Viscount Cran-fi these forces seem to be potential- the western world toward a world President of the Reichsbank be- borne, the Under Secretary ofly destructive.
confict Japan also has become ing unable to support the German State for Foreign Affairs, replied The whole world is mutually in-nationalistic, militaristic, policy of that time in the matter that in the course of the Mission terrelated, "The German-Japanese perialistic. Japan has also be of reparations. to the Far East, Sir Frederick alliance a but in exclamation come industrialized in much theị He has been Herr Hitler's Leith Ross visited Tokyo twice. point after a fact that is already same way that the western nations closest collaborator in the realm
These visits, he added, aforded in existence.”
have become industrial mations. of economics in Sir Frederick with a very useful What is happening in the world} Mr. Peffer then dropped into a years. opportunity for an exchange of to-day, he said, is essentially the series of questions asking whether economic cumulative effect of the industrial China is aware where the western views on financial and questions of common interest to revolution, the scientific revolu-world is and why, and whether JAPAN BEER PRODUCTION the United Kingdom and Japan, tion, modernism, or whatever man China is aware where it is itself
REACHES NEW HIGH. but Sir Frederick was not com- may choose to call it. missioned to negotiate
Beer production in Japan dur~ West Also Has Crisis particular points and in fact did
"Mary books and articles have side, he said. Chisa seems to be ing 1936 totalled,57,073,340 not conclude any agreement.
been written about the crisis in pursuing. industrial development American xallons, a 25 per cent. Reater.
the East. Yet, at the moment, it at a tempo very much like that of increase over the previous year. is a greater question whether the the western nations.
Increased consumption at home western hemisphere will survive Nationalism Exaggerated
brought about by better times was
O
2017
of March Last, ex-
going.
Looking at China from the out-
the last few
Chancellor Hitler, in his Reich-in its present form,” he declared. China, also, seems to be de-credited for the rise in output. įstag speech
“I don't think that we will des-veloping an exaggerated national- pressed Germany's willingness to troy ourselves, but the form of ism similar to that in Europe. conclude a non-aggression pact westem civilisation will probably This rise of nationalism has been. also with Belgium. There was, undergo a marked change.” spurred by the abuses suffered by (however, no immediate induce- This crisis has been brought China not only during the past] ment for this as long as the plan about by two important trends, he several years, but during the past for a Western Pact was still un- said. One has been the exagger-hundred years,
der discussion, which, in the event ated rationalism during the past These are the same two trends of its realisation, would render 125 years since the Napoleonic that have unleashed forces in the any special arrangements as un- Wars. The other has been the west which many thinking people necessary. Berlin political circles too rapid development of natural are now trying to stop. Whether add that general and political resources, without regard of the the Chinese will awake to these conditions have so far mot chang-† social consequences.
tendencies and think out where ed since that Reichstag speech. Trans-Ocean.”
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These two trends have caused China is or should be headed for the western world to be caught in was the vital question for Chiza.
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