THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 8, 1937.
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FRENCH DEFENCE LOAN CAMPAIGN
DEMOCRACY NOT OUTWORN
CALL BY DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
LEAD FOR WORLD PEACE
Democracy is no outworn creed but represents the very lifeblood
of the British Empire.
This statement was made by the Duke of Gloucester in a striking speech at the New Zealand Day dinner of the New Zealand Society at the Savoy Hotel
Bill To Be Rushed Through Chamber And Senate
KWANGTUNG'S FIVE YEAR PLAN
Canton, To-day. Well-informed circles state that the Central Government will fin- ance reconstruction work in Kwangtung. Generaliss mo Chiang Kaishek, President of the Execu- tive Yuan, is reported to have as- signed $100,000,000 in this year's THE BROADCAST APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY IN CON-badget for the purpose. Mr. T. V.
PARIS, TO-DAY.
to Canton to map out the pro- NECTION WITH THE NEW DEFENCE LOAN, WHICH WAS TO Soong and Mr. Sun Fo are coming HAVE BEEN MADE BY PRESIDENT ALBERT LEBRUN YES-gramme for 1937.-Our Own Cor-
respondent. TERDAY, HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL EARLY IN THE WEEK.
Meanwhile the Government has decided to accelerate passage STOLE WATER PIPE "These are fateful days for the of the defence loan bill through Parliament. world," he added. "New politics! theories are growing up and the old ideas of democratic govern- ment are being challenged.
"It is at such times that New Zealand and the other members of the British Empire can make their greatest contribution to the wel fare of the world by showing the value of peace co-operation and by keeping alive the torch of liberty and progress.”
re-
as cost of re-
Public
Wong Sin and Wong Kai were this morning fined $25 each, when Discussion of the measure is text of a circular letter which is to they pleaded guilty before Mr. W. expected to take place in the be sent to prefects of all depart-Schofield to the theft of a water Chamber of Deputies on Tues- ments and will request the latter to pipe from the Tai Tam-tuk day morning, and it is hoped it appoint committees, each compos- servoir. will be passed and sent to the led of 18 prominent local personages The defendants were also order- Senate the same day. Reuter for promotion of the loan. and Trans-Ocean
Propaganda for its promotion willed to pay $25 each
placement. thus assume dimensions unprece DETAILS NOT SETTLED
dented in financial history, since not Mr. Thompson of Detailed conditions regarding the only the co-operation of leading off- Works Department was the com- The Duke's references to de-issue of the French armament loancial and private personages has plainant and it was stated that this 140-cracy were interrupted by
have not yet been decided, accord-been secured by the Government, pipe was used cheers and applause.
but all methods of publicity, such gency. ing to press reports here..
The Minister of Finance, M. Vin-as press and radio, are to be en- "Some of us over here are hop-cent Auriol, yesterday conferred listed in a national campaign. ing that the end of our long Eng- lish winter is almost at hand,” add with several well-known financial Trans-Ocean.
experts. ed his Royal Highness.
New Zealand Memories
"Personally I do not, because I He received the director of the have been spend a few spare days Ministry of Finance, M. Rueff, and that I have in hunting the fox on the doyen of the legal faculty at a horse which I was given while I the Sorbonne, M. Allex, and dis- was in New Zealand.
cussed with them various technical "Somebody once said that New and legal aspects of the loan. Zealand was a brighter Britain." Following the conference with That has always struck me as these two financial experts, he call- a particulary happy phrase, and ed on the Premier, M. Leon Blum, the clear brightness of the land and the President of the Senate, M. remains with me as a most vivid Jeannedy.
memory of my stay there.”
The Duke went on to recall some
of the incidents of his own visit to the Dominion.
.
CIRCULAR DRAFTED
In consultation with the Minis-
the
ter of the Interior, M. Dormoy, the "Certain events stand out in my Minister of Finance drafted memory, " he said. "Surfing and a picnic on Christmas Day at Piha
under the crimson blossom of the future in receiving fair and fa- į pohutukawa, trees; fishing in the vourable treatment ・・・ which the Tongariro for rainbow trout, whose mother country has afforded us in size would leave any English the past.”
fisherman speechless at further In front of the Duke attempts of exaggeration; sheep model of the Arawa, the war canoe stations on the Canterbury plain, which, according to tradition, and one of the most vivid of all, brought the first Maoris from the
assembly of Maoris at mystic isle of Haiwaiki.
an
Rotorua"
It was just 97 years since the
•signing of the treaty of Waitaingi which the Maoris acknowledged the sovereignty of Queen Victoria There had been difficulties since that time what country could hope for a century without diff ties including cricketers
US. PIG IRON FOR JAPAN
Bringing to a total of 180,000 tons the purchases of American pig iron. contracted for by the Japan Iron Man- ufacturing Co., a new deal providing but for the delivery of 30,000 tons during New Zealand had a record of the latter half of 1937 has been con- which New Zealanders might be cluded The Japan Iron Manufactür- justly proud.
ing Co. last autumn“ signed a contract for the supply of 150,000 tons of pig “New Zealand is a country of iron from January to June this year high ideals,” added the Duke, "but at the former price of Y150 a ton r her ideals have had a way of being realised."
Premier's Message
A message from the Prime Min- ister of New Zealand, Mr. Michael J. Savage, was read It stated:
Japan formerly purchased only small quantities of pig iron from the Unit ed States, obtaining her supplies main- ly from Russia, India and China.
"The Dominion of New Zealand by- has always been devoted to the the Royal Family with feelings of sincere affection and loyalty.
The bonds of sentiment which bind our country with the United Kingdom are continually being re- newed and strengthened and I feel
onfident that we in New will always be as fortunate
A
scheme, is being prepared for a costing $180,000, to eliminate dangerous corner between Market gh and Leicester, where Mr orthway, the Northamptonshire
utomo- itway ety
the
in case of emer-
Guildford has given $302 to King George v. Memorial Fund.
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