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Telegrams in Brief. “HARD UP" CHICAGO.
The latest report of the Com- munist troubls in Korea states that five more schools at Seoul have gone on strike, the students rushing out waving red flags About forty have been placed under arrest.
In consequence of almost daily collisions between Communists and Fasciats, and also between Com- munists and the police, all public meetings and demonstrations in Prussia have been forbidden.
The new cruiser H.M.S. York, built at Jarrow and launched by the Duchess of York 18 months ago, left the Tyne on the 16th instant for extensiva sen trials. She is of the "B" type of cruiser, having displacement of 8,400 tons and carrying six 8-inch guns.
MUNICIPALITY WITHOUT MONEY TO CLEAN STREETS.
'NO MORE CREDIT FROM THE BANKERS.
With
[United Press. Į
CHICAGO, Jan. 10. blizzard raging and street-cleaning activities strangely absent, citizens of Chicago woke up to-day to the fact that the Chicago municipality is "flat broke," pay. ing G.$4,000,000 a year interest on past loans, and that bankers are refusing further credit...
Un
The U.S. Senate by forty-eight votes to thirty-eight has devided to retain the existing sugar duties,
There is not enough money namely 2.30 cents per pound for world sugar, and 1.76 cents per
hand at the moment to carry on pound for Cubar sugar. The Finadequate sanitary work.
Streets ance Committee had proposed in- are blocked with snow, and the creases placing world sugar at 9.73 cents and Cuban sugar at 2.20 cents.street-cleaning department is being Several members of the British forced to utilize its few remaining Rubber Growers' Association, head. pennies to the best advantage in ed by Mr. S. E. Miller, the chair concentrating on the task of keep 1313 of Messrs. Harrison, anding the congested "loop district," Crossfield, Limited, have arrived in Amsterdam to negotiate with the Dutch producers. The discussions are of a preliminary nature. There is no definite plan in the air at the
moment.
SNOW, FLOODS, AND QUAKES.
AMERICAN TRAGEDIES.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE. Į
An
1930.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16. earthquake in Southern California, extreme cold in the North-West and Cork Mountain regions, and floods in the Middle West and the South have been reported during the last twenty-
four hours.
While building rocked in Los Angeles, Pomona and along the San Bernardino Valley, five hundred families were being driven from their homes by the overflowing, of the Wabash River in Indiana.
In Ohio the Blanchard averflowed so suddenly that at its banks Ottawa over two hundred were res cued from the second-storey win flows of their homes,
New records for cold have been reached in the Rocky Mountains regions. The thermometer showed heart of Chicago business activi-seven degrees below zero at Denver ties, open to traffic.
to-day, and six deaths from cold Many firemen have been dismissed are reported. recently in order to save money A vast area of snow extending as and insurance underwriters are far south as New Mexico is block- A message from Harbin to the Rengo Agency, Tokyo, states that threatening to increase insuranceing all the roads and mountain according to a report from Mukden, rates, while fires are increasing in passes. the Nanking Government has in-seriousness and the snow blockades formed Chang Hauch Liang that it repudiates the Habarovsk Protocol, in the streets render the task of na Mukden acted ultra vires, there the remaining fire-fighters more fore Nanking is unable to recognise dificult than usual. the coming conference. If Nanking persists in its present attitude Mukden will placed in an awkward predicament.
In the course of a 12-hour trial at full speed, the new British air ship R.100, attained 81 miles per hour, with 600 h.p. in reserve, this being eleven miles above the con- trnet speed. She easily beat the Graf Zeppelin's world record. Dur ing her trip, she was running into fe almost continuously. Sir Den nistoun Burney, who was aboard, declared that a cruising speed of '00 miles an hour-is,casily in sight
Arriving at Seattle on January 10 to sail for his new post as American, Minister to China, Mr. Nelson T. Johnson voiced a "great kindly feeling for the Chinese people among whom he has already worked for many years. He de- clined to discuss problems now out- standing, but said that he does not expect to see any immediate action as a result of the National Govern- ment's recent inundate declaring the abolition cf extra-territoriality. Mr. Johnson aniled on the Presi dent Grant.
was
- What are the Reasons↑ When the Chicago City Council voted dismissal of 2,000 eity em ployees as an economy measure, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson vetoed the move.
Explaining the situation to-day, Mayor Thompson said that re- casessment of real estate upon the demand of reformers was largely responsible. because the reduction cf valuations in the expensive "loop district"
came to G$300,000,000.
alone
"SPOUTER" STRUCK IN
SUMATRA.
YIELDING 0 TONS OF OIL
DAILY.
Bataafsche Oil Company has struck Weltevreden, January 8.--The
a spouter on the East Coast of Sumatra with a daily capacity of
200 tons.
The Company is preparing to un- dertake the intensive exploitation of the concession on the north coast of Achin which has not yet been,
Political enemies of the Thomp-passed by the parliament in Hol son regime, which has ridden in land.-Straits Times Copyright. triumphantly in three elections over the united opposition of every Chicago newspaper and the so-call-
"better element," declare that Kraft, thousands of loafing re Lupants of soft city jobs, and general public waste have brought about the embarrassment of Ameri. ca's second largest city.
WHITEHALL GARDENS
TO DISAPPEAR,
A CHARMING BIT OF OLD LONDON,
With simple funeral services, the body of the Inte: Edward W. Bok, editor and philanthropist, buried on January 10 at Lake Walls, Florida, in a crypt at the hase of a monument symbolic of his A picturesque part of London is life. This monument was erected a likely to disappear Boon-the Gear- few months ago as a means of ex-gian houses in Whitehall Gardens pressing his gratitude that ho,
under a scheme which the Govern arriving in America at the age of ment is considering... six years as an immigrant boy from the Netherlands, had been permit- ted to rise to a place of affluence and power.
As the interment took place, from the famous singing tover of the Bok bird sanctuary dedicated a few months ago by Mr. Calvin Coolidge as then President chimed out the favourite music of the philanthropist. Mr. Bok had expressed the wish that the Gnal rites might be as they took place.
In the course of a discussion at
This is due to a revival of a pro- Fosal to rebuild the area between Whitehall and the Embankment with up-to-date and large Govern- ment offices, in which would be housed those departments at pre- seat occupying various buildings scattered about Central London the Air Ministry, for example, the Ministry of Labour, and the Board of Trade.
Need for Centralisation.
Achin province, Sumatra, extends from the river Sinkel, longitude 09 degrees E to the west end of the island. It has an area of 20,500 square miles, a coast line as exten-
sive as that of France and a no-
pulation of about 150,000. The capital of the province is Achin. near the northwest extremity of Sumatra, on the river Achin. It is near the sea and connected with the post of Olele by rail.-Straits Times.
SHIPS IN HARBOUR.
The following ships were in harbour yesterday:-
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Shiralu, Kumakata. Maru; A.P.C. Wharves:-Kowloon: Karmala,
-North Point: Turbo: Jardine Matheson's: Hopsang: O.S.K.: Canton Maru: Douglas Laprak: Häining.
Docks-Kowloon: Hop Sang. Lung Shan, Cua Cum, Hai Ching, Lach Tray, Bokuyo Maru, Venezia, Kohatsu Maru; Taikoo Chung Kong, Chengtu, Ixion, Kingyuan, Sun Chau; Cosmopolitan: Riberio.
Buoya-Al Khiva," A2 Tjisoroca, 42 Royal Prince, A4 Korea Maru, A City of Mandalay, AB Iyo Maru, Sunning, B11 Kalgan, Cla Pro- At present the Ministry of näinent, C17 Hermod, B24 Everett, the Hague regarding the mobilis-Labour has separate departments A26 Invincible. At Lyceinoon, A28 tion of war debts and reparations,
in Montagu House, Whitehall; City of Kobe, B34 Kwei Yang, C33 M. Tardieu, the French Premier, declared that it was essential that Old Palace Yard. The Air Minis- C39 Wong Shek Kwong, CC Fro- Richmond Terrace, 'Whitehall; and ¦ Mao Lre, B36 Canton, B38 Helikon, Germany should give a guarantee not to raise a railway loan or a try is spread over Gwydyr House, mise, C41 Limehow, C42 Hiram, C43 Shunchib, 150 Zurichmoor, B51 Sunland, As Diomed.
Post Office loan, and not to issup a
Whitehall; Adastral House, Kings- And foreign, loan of any description, way; and Tavistock Place. until the first issue of the repara departments of the Board of Trade tions bonds were made. The Ger-
are in Great George Street; Great man delegated at the Conference Smith Street; Tower Hill; Old declared that they were not in a Palace Yard; Dean Stanley Street, position to give the suggested guar-Millbank: Carey Street; Cornwall antee without consulting financial House, Stamford Street. experts. It is understood, however, that after lengthy discussion the German delegation expressed them selves as prepared to agree not ta attempt to obtain a loan in the foreign market during the financial year beginning April 1. This agree.. ment is acceptable to Germany on condition that the creditor Powers give authority for the German Rail- ways and Post Office to Boat a £25,000,000 loan in the American market at an early date.
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following warships were in port yesterday:-
lasia.-Tamar, Bruce, Marazion, Iroquoia, Moorhen.
North Arm.-Herald, Thracian. West Wall.-Kent.
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Dock. Seraph, Sterling, Petersfield.
No. 1 Buoy.-Hermes.
Buoy Cornflower.
In the event of the scheme pro- ceeding, Scotland Yard and the Inigo Jones banqueting hall would naturally remain intact; it would be the smaller residential houses that would go.
PRINCE LINE,
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FROM NEW YORK.
THE T. S. TE
SAVOLLARIA,.
ROYAL PRINCE” having arrived from the abore Port An official at the Office of Works on 15th instant, Consignees of Cargo are stated that the plan arose out of hereby informed that their Goods are the demand for work schemea in being landed" at their risk into the connection with reducing unemploy-Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon ment, but rested, of course, on its Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, own merite as work that required Kowloon, and stored at Consignses' riak to be done.
and expense,
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods New Design Necessary.
are to be left in the Godowns, where Before the war, indeed, there had they will be examined on Tuesday, flat been held a competition for a de- instant at 10 am. sign of new buildings on the site, All Claims must be presented within then smaller than that at present 15 Days of the Vessel's "arrival bere, available. But this design, by Mr. after which date they cannot be re- Vincent Harrie, would not be sult-cogno Claims will be admitted after the able now, owing to the increased ares of the site at the Government's Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the disposal.
No decision had yet been taken na to who would undertake the de- sign of the proposed buildinge, or whether there would be another. competition. The work would, no
or the schvald
Foreign Men of War.-U.S. gun- and would involve legislation of beat Helena..
zome kind.
22nd instant, will be subject to Hent,
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