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TRIPARTITE CURRENCY PACT
Invitation To Italy
And Germany
London, To-day.
UNITY NEED IN CRISIS
BORDEAUX, TO-DAY.
THE REVELATION THAT HIS RESIGNATION HAD BEEN
TAXATION
INCREASES
Paris, To-day.
DUE TO THE GRAVE INTER- Tax increases, design- NATIONAL SITUATION WAS ed to bring in between MADE BY M. LEON BLUM,
EX-PREMIER. AND NOW 8,000,000,000 and 9,000,- VICE - PREMIER IN THE 000,000 francs, will be the CHAUTEMPS GOVERNMENT, IN A SPEECH AT A SOCIAL second part of the pro- IST MEETING HERE YESTER-gramme initiated by the Finance Minister, M. Georges Bonnet, says the "Paris Midi."
DAY AFTERNOON.
M. Blum said that when the
dramatic debate began on June 20, alarming news was received from Rome, London and Berlin.
The Leipzig torpedo incident oc casioned à diplomatic crisis, the consequence of which was difficult to gauge.:
The new tax measures, the journal declares, will be sub- mitted to Parliament in the form of a Bill on Thursday or Friday this week.
It was impossible not to realise
The paper says that Government that France could not throw all leaders are especially eager to have her weight into the scale at such a the taxation measures well under critical moment if she was engaged
way by July 11, when the C Con- in a long political conflict, prolong-gress of the Socialist Party opens ed perhaps by social conflicts.
"One asked also," M. Blum add- ed, "whether the expectation of in- ternal difficulties did not have a share in development of the situa- tion.
"This was enough to make us
in Marseilles, so that the Party can be presented with a fait ac- compli and forced to come to a de- finite decision. Trans-Ocean.
take the decision to resign-Ren-Ten Killed
ter..
Record Rainfall Registered
At Gipsy Coronation
Warsaw, To-day. Ten were killed and 20 wounded in disturbances after the crowning of Janusz Kwick, an itinerant tink- er, as King of the Gypsies before 5,000 Gypsy delegates here yester- day,
A record rainfall for this year was the result of the typhoon" Janusz Kwick is shortly visiting which, after apparently consti- Rome to interview Signor Mussolini tuting a threat to the Colony, respecting the Duce's reported offer turned northward and has now
to provide a national home for filled up.
-
Interviewed by Reuter yesterday,
Between 10 a.m. yesterday and gypsies in Abyssinia. 10 a.m. to-day, a rainfall of 7.04 inches
the new King said he was also bring-
was registered by the Royal Observatory, bringing the ing up the question before the total rainfall since January this League of Nations-Reuter. year to 40.25, compared with an
average of 40.60 inches.
A considerable drop in temper-
ature has been experienced, yester-CHARGE OF day's maximum being 87 degrees
being 87 degrees ATTEMPTED
and the thermometer dropping this morning to 79 degrees.
Pressure is now highest over the
MURDER
That Italy and Germany should Pacific to the east of the. Bonins, Li Chan, aged 28, was this morn- also be included in the tri-reported the Royal Observatory this ing charged before Mr. K. Keen at partite currency agreement (be-morning, and depressions are si- the Central Magistracy in connec- tween Britain, France and the tuated over South China and Man-tion with the attempted murder United States) and that a stabi-churia.
Natar Khan in the Central Police lising fund for this purpose The immediate forecast for Hong Station on Friday at 9.15 p.m. Chief should be established, was one of Kong is South winds, fresh to mo- Detective-Inspector J. Murphy, was the proposals made by the Bel-derate, cloudy with rain, probably in charge of the case which was ad- gian Premier, M. Paul van Zee-improving later.
journed for a week. land, during his recent confer-
It will be recalled that the de
in
United States Government.
This is according to the
Although yesterday's
heavy
ences Washington with the downpour flooded many streets in fendant fired a
red a shot at the Indian Hong Kong, no damage resulted constable in the Central Police New from the "blow." Several minor station, missed and gave himself
landslides were reported but
all
up at the Charge room on Friday roads are open to traffic.
night.
York correspondent of the "Obser:
ver.
"
The correspondent adds that al- though M. van Zeelang denied rum- ours to the
baffect that he had pro-
Gen. Tashiro Unwell
posed
loant there are
-Tientsin, To-day: grounds for believing that he sug- gested extension of the currency It is reported that Lieutenant- General Tashiro, Commander-in- agreement to Italy and Germany
He i
is reported to have insisted Chief of the Japanese Troops "in that this would make the tri-partite North China, is to leave Tientsin agreement an effective instrument for Japan for medical treatment be- Our Own in the field of international finances. cause of ill health. -
Correspondent. rans-Ocean.
Italian Losses In
Bilbao Drive
Rome, To-day.
volunteers were killed in the recent drive on Bilbao, says an official casualty list issued yesterday Trans-Ocean.
Seventy-five. Italian