HOPES FROM TRADE
AGREEMENT
FRANCO-GERMAN TALKS BEGIN.
NEXT WEEK
London, To-day.
Everything points to growing interest being taken in the Franco-German trade negotiations which are scheduled to begin on March 3.
THE NEGOTIATIONS WERE DECIDED UPON AFTER THE DRASTIC FALLING OFF IN THE EXCHANGE OF COMMODI- TIES BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
Their object is the signing of a new trade treaty, and the opinion is
expressed in London that it will in-
clude an arrangement for facilitat- ing a settlement of accounts on the lines of the provisions included in and Belgo- the Anglo-German German treaties.
house existing clearing⚫ The
France and agreement between Germany has not functioned proper- ly, partly as a result of the fact that France has been receiving only a restricted quantity of goods from
the Reich.
STUDENT RIOTS
IN BUDAPEST
Police Called Into University
Budapest, To-day. Budapest is the latest continental capital to undergo demonstrations
and riots.
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 24, 1937.
Anglo-Canadian
Trade Pact
Ottawa, To-day
A new Anglo-Canadian trade agreement was signed yester- day, the contents of which will be announced in the two part liaments shortly-Reuter.
KANSU'S
PLIGHT
Ku Chu-Tung Leaving For Nanking
FOOD SHORTAGE MENACE
Shanghai, To-day. General Ku Chu-tung, Chief of the Sianfu Headquarters of the Military Affairs Commission, is expected to arrive in Nanking shortly to confer with the Gov- ernment regarding the rehabili- tation of North-West China, ac-
papers. cording to the Chinese news-
"
Ku Chu-tung, who is Chiang Kai- Hun- Following the arrest of
shek's deputy, has charge of the The opinion is expressed here that conclusion of a new agreement garian students for political activi-"}
between ties, several hundred students demilitary affairs of the four provin- ces of Shensi, Kansu, Ninghsia to facilitate payments
cinema France and Germany would go farmonstrated in front of a
shal Chang Hsueh-liang. to enable both countries to partici- against a film starring a Jewish and Chinghai in succession to Mar- The purpose of his visit evident- pate in restoration of world trade. actress.
Trouble also broke out yesterday, is to receive instructions aris -Trans-Ocean.
in the University, where police had
ary session of the Kuomintang | to be called in to quell rioting being from the decision of the plen- tween various factions--Trans-
C.E.C. concerning the anti-com-
the Ocean.
North- munist campaign in West and other affairs. concerning the provinces....
GERMANY SEEKING
ALLIANCES? (Continued from Page 1) being the natural outcome of the close racial bonds uniting the two countries, rather than as an event of high political significance.
The German Foreign Minister also spoke to the representative i Vienna of the official Italian news agency.
To him he said that the progres- sive understanding between Berlin and Vienna, furtherance of which had been the object of his journey, was designed to supplement in he monious manner the policy of peace that is being pursued by Herr Hit- ler and Signor Mussolini.-Trans- Ocean and Reuter.
OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE An official communique issued after the conferences between Baron von Neurath, the Austrian Chancel- lor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, and the Austrian Foreign Minister, Dr. Schmidt, emphasises the fact that the conversations took place "completely friendly atmosphere.”
It is declared moreover that the Austro-German agreement of July 11 has proved itself to be an ad- equate basis for the reinstatement
BERWICK ARRIVES
H.M.S. Berwick, of the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, arrived in the Colony this morning from the North via Amoy, She will remain in port for some time.
Meanwhile, reliable reports from Lanchow, the capital of Kansu, sug- gest that conditions in the province are by no means normal
the
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RAIN EXPECTED LATER The Royal Observatory reports that the ante-cyclone over China is
The civil administration is still disrupted while soldiers of doubtful The P. and O. s.s. "Bhutan" left affiliations are crowding into Shanghai for this Port on the 24th province, which is funding difficulty instant at 7 am and is due here in supporting them. The prices of increasing slowly in intensity and on the 26th at about 4 pm.
foodstuffs are soaring Renter.
NEW STRIKE WAVE IN AMERICA
THREE INDUSTRIES AFFECTED
OR THREATENED
NEW YORK, TO-DAY.
WITH THE STRIKES IN THE MOTOR-CAR FACTORIES ONLY JUST SETTLED, ANOTHER WAVE OF SIT-DOWN STRIKES IS SWEEPING THE UNITED STATES.
Aeroplane, submarine and-
shoe
of confidence and friendly relations RUSE THAT NEARLY manufacturers are affected by this
between the two nations.
TRADE AGREEMENT
relations.
SUCCEEDED
extending southward. The depres- sion is crossing Japan.
Forecast: N. E. winds, moder- ate to fresh, cloudy, some rain lat-
er
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
PUBLIC AUCTION
HE Undersigned have received"
Auction
Tinstructions to sell by Public
the 2nd March, 1937
commencing at 2:30 pm
at their Sales Room, No. 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture
comprising ----
latest industrial eruption.
The buge-Douglas aircraft fac-
Black Wood Ware, Teak Office & Referring to the trade agreement Sergeant Clews of the Royal En-tory at Santa Monica, California, of January 27, the communique smeers was nearly hoodwinked entirely suspended work when its
Room & Bed Room Furniture, Orn- states that more favourable com-when he saw a coolie take a vest (5,600 workers occupied the premises Drawing Room Furniture, Dining mercial relations between the two belonging to Sergeant Garrow of and refused to move.
At Groton, Connecticut, three aments, Brass & E. P. Ware, Porce- countries as a result of the agree the Seaforths. ment would have a beneficial effect The man, chased and caught, submarines are affected by a strike lain & Glass Ware, Cutlery, Elec- On View from Monday, the 1st. on the development of cultural swallowed two pills and pretended at the Electric Boat Company's tric Table Lamps, etc., etc.
to faint While Sergeant Clews works,
All the workers have downed tools March, 1937. for aid, the man got was lookin As a positive outcome of the
three more Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS, conversations, a committee for cul up and ran but was again arrested and construction on
units of the American naval build- of over a mule
Auctioneers rged this morning ing programme is being held up.
Hong Kong, Feb. 24, Keen, pleaded not In addition, a general strike of was remanded for 24 shoe leather workers looms to
morrow, unless a fifteen wage increase
The decision was in so far as this con- ing to-day of the
ng-Ocean
tural affairs has been formed which will take up its duties on February
FOREIGN POLICY
An important question in which hours. Furope and the whole world is in- terested, namely, that of
Central tions-are-
European policy, was touched pon but slightly by the
commumique, cerns
hich merely declares that both na-1
policy
complete harmony on
cent
oted at a meet
cutive Board
Printed and Published for the Pro- cise The News Gordon Cade Burnett, at
of general of the United Shoe Leather Workers Wyndham
Union Reuter.