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Anxiety For Jardine HOSTILITY TO Steamer Allayed
PRAGUE ACCEPTS Anxiety over the safety of the Jardine steamer Yat-
MOST, OF SLOVAK DE ANDS
Prague; To-day.
DALADIER'S FINANCE BILL
Paris, To-day. shing (1,424 tons, Capt. Clarke), aroused by in- After M. Herriot, President of ability to get into wireless touch with her, was the Chamber of Deputies, had ap relieved this morning with receipt of informa-pealed to the Socialists to recon- tion that the vessel was leaving Hoihow for sider their attitude of opposition to Hong Kong after taking five days on the trip the Financial Plenary Powers Bill. the latter met again at 1 o'clock from Haiphong to Hoihow.
this morning.
Although no agreement between Believed to have received a severe buffeting in the typhoon south of Hong Kong, the Yatshing has been delayed over two days.
the Czechs and the Slovaks had been achieved last night, it is re- ported that Prague has accepted several of the Slovak demands.
the
Chief points of contention are in- dicated by the league of the Hlinka Party, Dr. Sidor, who declares in the "Slovenska Pravda" that question of recognizing the indivi- dual character of the Slovak people] and the Slovak language as only official language in schools and official quarters, had not caus- ed difficulty and the Czech Govern- ment had agreed.
the
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Dr. Ng Yuk-kim, of No. 436, Regarding the Slovak National Nathan Road, first floor, appear- Diet, agreement had also been ed before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett achieved, but it was impossible to at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day obtain Czech consent to the demand charged with possession of a wire that employment of all public of-less set without a licence. ficials, school teachers, railway Mr. A. E. Jeffries, Inspector of workers and so on should be placed Wireless, who prosecuted, said that entirely in the hands of Slovak au at 12.15 p.m. on September 16 he thorities.
visited the address and found a] radio unwrapped on a table close to an electric switch in the waiting
Other Slovak papers report that obstacles were encountered when the question of the authority to be vested in the Slovak National Diet came up for discussion, the Slovaks having demanded
certain powers that the Czechs wished to reserve for the Central Government in Prague. Trans-Ocean.
$1,000 LOSS
-room.
Asked for his licence, de- fendant said the set was left in his care by his brother-in-law only a few days and had not been operated. After further investigation, Mr. Jeffries went on, it was found that a radio agent had repaired a radio for defendant about five months [ago." Mr. Jeffries produced the bill.
A fine of $100 was imposed. was stolen from his residence yes-
Mr. L. Dubar, residing at No. 2, May Road, has reported to the Police that the jewellery which terday, was to the value of $1,004.
Hungary Demands Token Entry Of Troops
Prague, To-day.
In a new Note communicated to the Czechoslovak Government, Hungary again urges fulfilment without further delay of certain demands. These demands, it is learned, are One, release forthwith of all po litical prisoners of Hungarian na- tionality;
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Two, immediate demobilisation of all soldiers of Hungarian national- ity and permission to be granted them to return to their homes;
Three, the formation of a special detachment under a mixed command to protect life and property in the territories in question and to main- tain law and order;
Four, a token occupation by
garian troops along the
er.
towns of
After the meeting the Socialists refused to make any declaration On the way to Hong Kong from but indicated that they had de Haiphong, via Pakhoi and Hoihow (cided to abstain from voting. (Hainan Island), the Yatshing is reported to have been out of wire-
Co less communication with the lóny for 86 hours owing to the storm.
Ball Originally scheduled to from Hong Kong for Foochow yesterday, the ship, which left Hoihow this morning, is now not due in the Colony till noon to-
morrow.
Although the Yatshing escaped the full fury of the storm, she was obliged to run for shelter along the coast, and to anchor up for the bet- ter part of 48 hours.
LANDSLIDE FATALITY
The Finance Commission, which met after the sitting of the suspended last Chamber was night, voted in favour of the Bill by 18 votes to 5. with eighteen abstentions.
The Premier, M. Daladier, addressing the Commission, said the Government had no intention of imposing ex- change control.
The Finance Minister, M. Mar- chambeau, in a speech to the Commission, let it be understood that gold in the Bank of France would be revalued.
The Chamber met again at 2.30 this morning-Reuter.
the hillside. During this morning's heavy rain, in bed in a hut on a landslide occurred at Shan Kwong Though her father, who escaped, Road, Happy Valley, as a result of quickly went to rescue, the child which a nine-year-old girl, Wong died of suffocation shortly after Chi-mun, was buried while sleeping she was dug out..
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