BRITISH COLONIES OPPOSE
SUGAR RESTRICTION
Ex-Sultan Of OPENING OF
Morocco
SUDDEN DEATH IN FRANCE
Paris, To-day.
LONDON
PARLEYS
RISE AND FALL OF PRICES
Moulay Abdel Hafid, former Sul-
London, To-day. tan of Morocco, who has lived at
Economic problems connected Enghien-les-Bains, near Paris, since the Great War; died suddenly yes-with the world's production of sugar will be exhaustively dis- terday.
cussed at the world conference which is opening at the Foreign Office to-day, under the chair- manship of Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, President of the Coun- cil.
He was Sultan at the time of the critical Agadir incident between Germany and France, which almost precipitated a European war.
He was invested by the French Government with the rulership of
Twenty-two countries will be Morocco in 1912, but soon after this he abdicated following serious in-represented at the conference, including all the principal pro- ternal unrest.
ducers of sugar with the excep- tion of Italy.
His brother, Mulay Yussef, father of the present Sultan, succeeded him and he was given a pensión and a villa outside Paris. Trans-Ocean. and Reuter.
LOOKING AT THE FUTURE
TELEVISION CABLE
A television cable system, linking the Alexandra Palace transmitting station with the chief "programme sources" in London, is being plan- ned by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Japan will be represented by an observer only.
The British sugar-producing co- lonies are represented by officials of the Colonial Office.
Questions on the agenda include prices, production, subsidies, boun- ties, quotas, and tariffs.
WORLD FIGURES
THE CHINA MAIL, A 1937.
STOP PRESS
Reich May
Protest
SOUTH AFRICAN
DECREE
Berlin, To-day.
The decree of the Government of the Union of South Africa, regulat-
eigners in the mandated territory, ing the political activities of for- has caused the greatest resentment throughout Germany.
It is regarded as virtually cer tain that the German charge d'affaires in Pretoria, Dr. Wiehl, will make representations to the Union Premier and will present a Note protesting against the mea-
sures.
The decree declares that with the exception of British subjects, all those living in the territory cannot belong to any public bodies or poli- tical organisations on the threat of fine or imprisonment-Trans-Ocean.
COLONEL BECK MAY RESIGN Ill-Health The Cause
Paris, To-day. The Polish Foreign Minister, Co- lonel Joseph Beck, intends to resign, says "Le Jour."
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US. CONTROL OF MONEY MARKET
Govt. Bond Purchases In Open Market
The world's annual production of sugar before the war was 20,000,000 tons. This has now risen to 30,000,- 000. The price before the war was £10 per ton. It rose to no less than $140 per ton during the war and then steadily feel until to-day it is Colonel Beck has just returned to Poland following an extensive stay now about £6.10s.0d. per ton.
While it is possible that the pre-on the French Riviera owing to ill-nounces that it intends to buy sert conference may endeavour to health. make an attempt to restrict, pro-
The Ambassador in Berlin,
M.
This was announced by Sir Noel duction, such a course is not likely Lipski, is mentioned as a possible Ashbridge, Chief Engineer of the to be favoured by the British sugar successor.-Trans-Ocean. Corporation, when he lectured at colonies.-Reuter.
Franconia Tourist
Robbed
CUSTOMS UNION SUGGESTED
Between Bulgaria And
Yugo-Slavia
the Royal Empire Society, London. The system, Sir Noel explained to the “Morning Post" after the lec- ture, will consist of a single main cable with side spurs leading to the
Chan Wing, 40, unemployed, was principal theatres, the Cenotaph and Whitehall, and vantage points
to three this morning sentenced. on
months' hard labour by Mr. K. Keen procession routes.
Alexandra Palace Station is alwhen he pleaded guilty to the theft ready connected with Broadcasting of a fountain pen from Dr. C. H.Slavia and. Bulgaria is proposed in House, via the Post Office's trunk Moore, a tourist of the S.S. Fran- telephone exchange near St. Paul's, conia. The theft occurred near the
Wharf yesterday. and it is the extension of this cable Tung which is contemplated.
"Plugging-in”. Van
Belgrade, To-day.
A customs union between Yugo-
a leading article in the semi-official newspaper.
to
The organ comes to
the conclu sion that the recent treaty of amity taken. between the two countries will lead enable distant shots to be Television, he added, was more ad-to increased trade. Trans-Ocean.
its 72 Received In New York
THEFT OF DRAIN- COVER
an-
Washington, To-day. The Federal Reserve Board
Government bonds in the open mar ket with a view to exerting in- fluence toward orderly conditions in the money market," and in order to facilitate the orderly adjust- ment of Member Banks to the 16 2/3 per cent. increase in reserve re- quirement which comes into effect on May 1.
Well-informed
state quarters that the purchases are intended to iron out sharp price fluctuations.- Reuter.
NEW DALAI LAMA
Earlier reports that the authori- ties in Lhasa have sent two special envoys to Kokonor to search for the reincarnation of the late Dalai Lama were confirmed by Hsi-jao- The special "television-van" now vanced in this country than in any
chia-tsou, a leading Tibetan scholar, who has arrived in Nanking to give being constructed for the Corpora- other. tion will be able to "plug in"
a series of lectures on Tibetan cul- at any of these Sir Noel also revealed that the electric cameras
ture in National Central University. points, and in this way it will be sound transmissions from Alexan-
Since the death of the late Dalai possible for the television pro- dra Palace were being received at
"The cover cost only $8 but ita Lama more than two years ago, gramme director to cover a large New York, at certain times of day, proportion of London events.
and he had no doubt that in that removal was dangerous as it left the people in Tibet have been anxious- The extension of the outside ser- case the vision signals were also hole unprotected," said Mr. Lissa- Ly awaiting the birth of a new Pon- vice to cover such fixtures as the crossing the Atlantic. He thought, man when he appeared as complaintiff to take care of their political Wimbledon lawn tennis finals and however, that engineers would find ant against Chan Yau, aged 27, who as well as religious welfare. the cup final at Wembley, Sir Noel it an impossible task to build up was charged this morning with the At the time of his departure from indicated, will have to depend on a picture from them-mutilated as theft of an iron drain cover from
Ming Lung Street, Shaukiwan. the further extension of this sys- they would be after the crossing.
Defendant was sentenced to tem-possibly in connection with Col. A, S. Angwin, Deputy - En- the Post Office's normal telephone gineer-in-Chief to the Post Office, weeks imprisonment by Mr. E. network. Sir Noel forecasts that hazarded the prophecy that televi-Williams.
television screens will be sion transmissions to the Empire
“very soon indeed.”
would become possible in produ
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that high lama priests there had Lhasa, the visiting savant revealed already ascertained through tradi- tional practices a reincarnation in Kokonor.
Pending the discovery
new
the electric camera, the He also stated that the existing the television system now Post Office "high definition" cable
and The Royal Observatory reports hese, he suggested, would from London to Birmingham pictures to be taken with Manchester was to be extended to that the anti-cyclone remains over indoor lighting, the size of Leeds and Newcastle. It is the China, pressure being highest along to be increased, and existence of inter-linking cable the Yangtze Valley. The depression greater mobility given to perform-facilities which is likely to deter- has moved north-eastward and now ers. He also predicted that the use mine the places in which future covers Japan.
Forecast:-N.E. winds, moderate of the "telephoto lens," in conjunc-television stations will be establish- tion with the camera, would soon ed.
to fresh; cloudy generally.
Dalai Lama, the Tibetan- scholar added. Tibetans i
early return to offg the
the Pan-
the
chen Lama, saying that, all previous | misunderstandings concerning
latter's projected removed.
arn have been
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