CRISIS IN RUBBER INDUSTRY..
ECONOMIC LAWS MUST TAKE THEIR COURSE.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1930.
COUNCIL OF LEAGUE CAR PLUNGES INTO INTERNATIONAL
OF NATIONS.
COMMISSION'S REPORT ON PALESTINE DISORDERS.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AORNOT.Į “
GENEVA, Sept. 3. The Council of the League" of Nations at its first meeting held to-day received the Report of the
SCHELDT.
TWO ENGLISH LADIES DROWNED.
{THROUGH REUTKE'S, AGENCY.]
BEAUTY CONTEST.
MISS BRAZIL". ELECTED AS "MISS UNIVERSE,"
[REUTER'S AMEXICAN SERVICE.]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 8.
The Totercational Beauty Contest
AIRSHIPS OF THE FUTURE.
SAFEST FORM OF TRANS- PORT YET DEVISED,
(THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY,]
LONDON, Sept. 8. Colonel V. C. Richmond, the
UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM.
RECAPTURE OF MARKETS THE SOLUTION.
(TAROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.Į
9
"POLAND-GERMAN
FRONTIER.
POLISH DEMONSTRATIONS-
AT-POSEN:
(THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.]
RUGBY, Sept. 7. The Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir Cecil Clementi, "after consultation with the Gor ernor General of the Dutch East Permanent Mandates Commission English chauffeur plunged into the Pereira ("Miss Brazil.") as "Miss tion of the British Association, now British Association now meeting at President Hindenburg's birthplace,
Indies, has announced that neither Government is prepared to support officially any acheme of rubber
restriction.
Over-production in proportion: to the world's requirements has
on the disorders in Palestine, which was issued on August 5,simultane- ously with the observations of the British Government on the Repors. of the Commission.
M. Procope (Finland), in pre
Universe."
LONDON, Sept. 9.
WARSAW, Sept. 8.* BRUSSELS, Sept. 8.
Fifty thousand Poles, including Professor T.. E. Gregory, in his A motor-car with two English
before the representatives of all the politica! address before the engineering sec-economic science section of the parties, demonstrated, at Posen, lady occupants and driven by an resulted in the election of Rollanda designer of the airship R.101, is an presidential address
meeting at Bristol, said that before Bristol, discussed the relationship to protest against Germany's at- "Miss Portugual" Ties for Second the shape of the R.101 bad been of rationalisation and unemploy tempts to have the Poland-German. decided upon special studies were ment. He said that rationalisation frontier, revised, and also the re- made- of fast swimming fishes, in the short run was not the remedy gent speeches of German Cabinet- There was now a possibility that for unemployment.
On the con- Ministers. the airships of the future would not trary, it was a factor making for merely copy the shape of the fish,
Scheldt as it was about to enter the ferry between Sainte Anne and Antwerp.
Both ladies, one of whom has been identified as Lady Auriol
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Place.
Fernanda Gonzales (Portugal) and Alice Diplorackou (Greece)
caused a crisis in the industry, thesenting the Report, emphasised that Horne (wife of Sir James Allan tied for second place, and Beatrice price for the commodity falling the Report must not be regarded as Horne, formerly senior resident Lee (United States) was third...
an attempt to supplant the anda substantially below the cost of pro-
tary Power in the exercise" of its duction.
In view of Dutch opposition, the duties. Even a Power so experi- Straits Government has decided enced as Great Britain in govern- that unilateral action would be ing peoples, of diverse characteris- worse than useless and has theretics was bound to be embarrassed fore reached the conclusion that by the special difficulties connected economic laws be allowed to take with the Palestine Mandate. Great Britain could only be reproached their course in the hope that by
if she did not attempt to promote this means stabilisation of prices
a Jewish national home or develop
will be realised and the industry will then enter upon a normal period "in which the supply and demand approximately balance each other" In London yesterday, rubber record of
The W
reached 1 4.3/10d. per pound.
kow
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] · Present Price Will Reduce Tapping,
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 7.
the existing institutions in Pales tine, and it was clear from past results that Great Britain's policy had not deserved such reproach.
British Foreign Secretary Replies.
LATEE.
Mr. Arthur Henderson (Great Britain), replying, said that the British Government had noted ap- preciatively the passages indicating
partner of Messrs. Jardine, Skinner & Co., East India merchants, "of Calcutta), were drowned.
The chauffeur was rescued.
CAPITAL OF ARGENTINA
QUIET.'
PLOTTERS TO BE SHOT
WITHOUT TRIAL:
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE?
Naw. Yona, Sept. 7. A message from Buenos Aires states that all is now quiet in the capital.
The new Government has issned a proclamation stating that all
will be shot without a trial.
Irigoyen Very T11:
The report that the Government the difficulties in governing Pales plotters against the new regime of the Straits Settlements has de- tine. The British Government were cided not to intervene in the pre- glad that M. Procope shared the Mandates Commission's view that "sent rubber crisis has been un- favourably received, although, the the British statement with regard decision was generally anticipated. to the suspension of the Jewish im migration permits should allay anxiety among Jewish communities.
similar statement is now expect
ed from the Government of the Dutch Indies.,
With the apparent failure of all schemes for organised restriction or valurisation, hope is now centred in the likelihood that the present price of fcurpence, a pound is low Enough to cause natural restriction in tapping, even including the Dutch-Indian planter.
The
British Government would shartly insic & statement regarding its future policy in Palestine, as it recognised that the promotion of the goodwill of the Arabs and Jews was indispensable to peace and prosperity... E
Report Unanimously Adopted.
LATER.
The Council unanimously adopted BRITISH COAL MINES ACT. M. Procope's Report after several members had expressed general COAL MARKETING SCHEMES | confidence in the mandatory Power.
READY.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RaGBY, Sept.-7.
It is understood that the coal pwners have reached an agreement to establish marketing schemes in all the districts under the Coal Mines Act, and that practically al the schemes are in accordance with the terms of, the Act or of" the model scheme recommended by the Mines Department.
o'h
BRIAND FEDERATION
SCHEME.
DISCUSSION IN LEAGUE COUNCIL.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.}
RUGBY, Sept. 7. At the League meetings which begin at Geneva this week, the Council to-morrow and the Assem- bly on Wednesday, one of the most prominent subjects will be M. Briand's Federation 'schenre.
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 8.
The ex-President Irigoyen, al
Twenty-six candidates paraded in evening dress and walking costume before the judges,
Bathing suits were barred..
WORLD CONTROL OF STEEL.
FAILURE OF INTERNATIONAL CARTEL
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.1
COLOGNE, Sept. 7. An attempt to keep the inter- national (Continental) raw steel cartel alive is to be made by the formation of separate cartels for
the release of products within the
framework of the existing organisa- tion.
It is acknowledged that the cartel cannot maintain, world control though no longer detained, is while important groups like Britair voluntarily remaining in the Land Poland stand outside Plata barracks accompanied by his daughter.
Senor Irigoyen is very ill, and he is being attended by two physicians.
.
SALVAGING OF THE EGYPT.
KEY OF STRONG-ROOM
FOUND."
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
BREST, Sept. 7. When the safe recovered, from the captain's cabin of the sunken liner Egypt was opened a bag was discovered containing the key to the strong-room, in which the gold ignots are stored.
The key, however, is useless, us the decks must be cut through be- fore the gold can be reached, but the presence of "the key proves
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It is almost certain, therefore.
but their sins would bear some thing of the nature of scales or feathers, thus providing special ducts through which the air enter ing at the nest would escape. The trend in the development at pre- sent indicated an increase in the size of airslips to twice their pre- sent capacity within a generation, but a larger number of smaller air- ships as distinct from a smaller number of large ones might be more beneficial from an economic point
of view.
Colonel Richmond concluded by observing that there was no reason why an airship filled with helium and driven by heavy-oil engines and sheathed with metal should not be come the safest form of transport yet devised
DIAMOND TO SUE PRUSSIAN POLICE.
DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF CREDIT."
(THROUGH MUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, Sept. 8. Through a Berlin solicitor, Jack Diamond, the noted New York bootlegger, is bringing an action for damages against the Prussian police for the time of Diamond's
unemployment.
. . .
A resolution was passed demand ing, inter alia, the fortification of Poland's western frontier and the boycott of German goods.
Similar demonstrations were beld elsewhere it Poland.
the tenth
Dr. Treviranus effigy swinging The real problem on a gallows was carriad.. was what use consumers could makę! of the margin of the purchasing power resulting from the recapture and the expansion of markets fol- lowing a reduction of costs in con- sequence of rationalisation. II con- sumers gratified their new wants, then in the long run rationalisation Speaking recently at a demon- would not involve unemployment.stration to celebrate Growing productivity gave society anniversary of the plebiscite of a margin to play with, and this East Prussia (in which 90 per cent. margin was the source from which of the inhabitants expressed a de- unemployment could be relieved.sire to remain in Germany), Dr. Those countries whịch, had the high- Trevirahus reformed to the Vistula est standards of life ought to be region of Poland as an unhealed those employing the largest propor-wound in Germany's eastern flank. tion of their populations in the He said the future of Poland could supply of luxuries. Eventually only be assured if Germany and. hopes must be based on the known Poland were not kept in a state of elasticity and responsiveness of perpetual unrest by unjust fron- capitalistic society. Organisation tiers
Dr. Trevirabus added:-" Our capable of surviving shocks of war in a post-war period was hardly eyes se with grief the land which likely to perish, because it was to-day is lost to us, but one day learning to turn the arts of pro- it may be re-won. A day will come duction to better use in the future when a fight for justice will fres, that it did in the last hundred Germany and Europe."
years.
BLIZZARD DESTROYS ANDREE'S PARTY.
The speech of Dr. Treviranas was the subject of a demonstration at Warsaw on August 31. by 10,000 people, when a resolution was pass ed condemning all claims aiming at any diminution of Polish terri-
that manufacturers of certain pro-detention and also the costs of his REMAINS OF THIRD MEMBER tory and declaring that Poland
ducts will be giver a free hand.
The whole question will be settled at a meeting at Lieg on September
19.
INDIAN CONGRESS LEADER RELEASED.
(TANOUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.]
ALLAHABAD, Sept. 8. The Pandit Motilal Nehru has been released from gaol.
い
- LATER Motilal Nehru was released on grounds of ill-health.
INDIAN MAIL-TRAIN DERAILED.
journey, from and to the United States, and ale damages for loss of credit caused by his arrest, and the subsequent publication of the affair in the Press.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
BIG BUSINESS EXPECTED.
[UNITED PRESS.}
New York, Sept. 1.-Although the New York Stock Exchange is closed to-day, Labour Day, many brokers officers are remaining open and" preparations are under way in anticipation of heavier trading when the market opens to-morrow after a holiday period lasting from Friday last.
"
Forecasts are optimistic and it is believed that the depressed bus Dess conditions will alter with the arrival of the autumn season, with attendant relief of the unemploy
that the liner is certainly the P. & FISH-PLATE BOLTS REMOVED.ment situation and quicker moving 0. Egypt.
The safe also contained a' mail-
In consequence, it is probabl tant by the end of the month the industry will be ready to embark what amounts to a drastic change in its organisation, since.
M. Briand is to address a special from that point all collieries in the conference upon it on Monday bag much damaged by seawater, in country will be regulated as to afternoon and is known to desire which were British diplomatic docu- standard tonnage and quota, and that his proposals should figurements dated 1922, when the Egypt coal will take its place with rail. formally
Assembly's ways, electricity, gas, "broadcasting and other enterprises which have agenda. Opinion regarding them shows some differences among the come under a substantial measure delegates from different States. of legislative control.
The Amalgamation. Commissioners special
The British insistence that any European organisation shortly to be appointed will begin should be kept strictly within the with schemes where progress has al- ready been made, and will do all League framework is supported in inany. quarters, but otherwise there
upon
the
they can to promote voluntary in some discussion whether the amalgamation and avoid the use of economic or the political aspect of their compulsory powers
the scheme should most advisedly be developed.
SANTO DOMINGO VICTIMS CREMATED.
ESTIMATED FIVE THOUSAND DEAD.
[REITER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
SANTO DOMINGO, Sept. Smoke from countless funeral syres hung over the city to-day as the bodies of the victims of the hurricane, now estimated at 5,000, were consigned to the flames.
STATE COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
YEN HSI SHAN ARRIVES AT
-PEIPINGARMANI
(THROUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY.]
It is generally believed that the British delegation is by no means enthusiastic about entering any political' commitment beyond those involved in the League member- ship, and is inclined to prefer that precedence be given to the economie side of the project.
The British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, had a con- ference yesterday with the Cana dian delegate, Sir Robert Borden, and will maintain the usual close contact with all the Dominion dele- gations.
foundered."
To-night, as the "weather has im- proved, the Artiglio is preparing to return to the scene of the wreck.
SON TO DUCHESS OF BRABANT.
COUNTRY DELIGHTED WITH NEWS.
{THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.)
BRUSSELS, Sept. 74 The Duchess of Brabant, the Crown
rincess, to-day gave birth
(THROFGH MAUTER'S agrnor.]
CALCUTTA, Sept. 7. A mail train from Calcutta to Dacca was derailed 70 miles from Calcutta owing to the removal of the fish-plate bolts, thus separat ing the ends of the rails.
FETHI BEY ÁT SMYRNA.
cf goods both manufactured and farm products.
FOUND..
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 7. The whaler Isbjoern, which was despatched to White Island with journalists on board, reports having located the remains of Andree's camp and having found parts of a human skeleton, presumably the remains of Fraenkel, the third member of the Andree expedition.
Scientific instruments, weapons and Fraenkel's notebook were also found. The camp was in excellent order and the death of the explor ere appears to have been the result. of a swift catastrophe, such as n blizzard,
BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT.
A FASCIST CRITISM.
would never allow itself to be de- prived of oven an inch of liberated territory,
The Foreign Minister, M. Zaleski, to whom the resolution was convey tion that the Government would ed, gave an assurance to the delega-
never permit any violation Poland's rights.
U.S. INVESTIGATION OF
'CHINA. TRADE.
FRANCE AND ENGLAND HOARDING GOLD!
UNITED PRESS. ] ·
San Francisco, Sept. 1-China" trade hearings conducted. bý
the
The topic of the day in the ecmmittee headed by Senator Key Italian Press is the world-wide Pittman were completed here to- growth of unemployment, and by day. the side of high praise of the Many suggestions for improve. Fascist schemes to provide work ment of the China trade situation in the coming winter are printed were brought forward toward the black pictures of the situation in last, but pactically all the plans other countries. Popolo d'Italia would require large advances of in a long reference to the unem funds. All agreed that fighting in MODEL OF H.M.S. VICTORY.ployment crisis in Great Britain, China must cease before there can be marked business improvemente. MARINE ARTIST'S WORK THAT
Former Senator Cannon of Utah OCCUPIED FOUR YEARS.
advocated a world policy of basic co-ordination as regards use of gold and silver. He said that the decline in the price of silver has all Asia by three-quartere
Ja
..:
TURKEY'S NEW PARTY NOT attention,
REACTIONARY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE,]
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 8.
J
OBITUARY.
writes.
"Our thoughts turn to the mea- sures which our own realist, Medi- terranean, Italian, and Fascist me A wonderfully perfect model of thod would adopt to solve that H.M. S. Victory, designed and exe-crisis: a rural policy, exploitation cuted by Wing Commander Harald of the land still uncultivated, reduced the purchasing power of. Wyllie, the marine artist and return of labour to the countryside,
Senator Cannon attributed the archeologist, for Lord Louis Mount-renewal of mining machinery, a batten, is an view in one of Mesure proper balance between working silver decline to boarding of gold Selfridge's windows in Oxford- hours and wages, large colonial ea- by France and England. street. Shown at the request of the terprises."
This point of view was support- Committes of Portsmouth Navy After referring to the abortivo ed by Mr. Isaac Ezra of San Weck, it attracted a great deal of efforts of both Conservative and Francisco, Both witnesses contened- Labour Governments to solve the ed that China. Is "broke," largely The model was built from the problem, the journal continues: because over-expansion of credit American buying original drawings used in the con-Meanwhile the unhappy state of has reduced struction of the Victory and shows affairs grows worse. The mines power. her as she was when first cominie are still working with steam plant, signed in 1778 to fly the flag of Ad- and this in the century of electri „mizal. Keppel, “ Vice-Admiral of the city. Nearly all machinery, parti- Blue." Her guns number a hun- cularly in the cotton industry, is dred as they were in the Battle of old nineteenth-century pattern. Fethi Bey, whom the disturbances of St. Vincent Before Trafalgar The workers, although they may more' were added, The model took belong to the Labour Party, want prevented making speech on four years to build and every detail to do little work and to receive im- The whole country is delighted Saturday, spoke at Smyrna before of internal construction was ac perial wage, which the Continental with the news, which was
curately carried out. It has been worker does not lay claim to, and a large and enthusiastic audience.
masted and rigged from the old on Saturdays all wish to go off to nounced by a salute of 101 guns. Fethi Bey denied the Govern Admiralty establishments and every the country like wealthy people and The Prince has been haptised ment party's insinuations that the spar and piece of rope has Cabinet Ministers. In this way Bandouin Albert Axel Marie Gü
beer made to a scale of 3/18in. Ift. much wealth remains under the soil tave..
new opposition was reactionary, The model is an actual working and distress is encamped on its aur The famous Burgomaster Max, in and, for example, wanted to return model of a ship of the line in full face; one half of the land is not Mr. Straus wie born at Ligonier, snil and could be launched with exploited from the agricultural Ind, in 1980 and became connected a loyally-worded proclamation, ex-to the fez and Arab characters.
un with his father's mortgage, and loan. presses the popular joy at the birth,
Fethi Bey declared that the op- every hope of success if the owner standpoint, while, 2,000,000
desired. As it is, it is shown log | employed, fill the towns are business in 1884. Four years later Moscow, Sepi bom which will secure the continuance
""position, on the contrary aimed at
ging: nine knots with the wind just A grent Empire, the greatest of he was admitted a partier, and B Three traders and three em-
developing Mustapha Kemal's reabalt the beam. The waves aur alt timenig abandoned almost to the time of his death was president ployees of cooperative institutions of the dynasty ** were sentenced to death and others
publican labours and ensuring free robhaing fee ir barmeded verta Strzen & Co
while the reminder fa a lacquered past centuries there was in every also of the Frankdin Trust and to various terms of imprisonment His Royal Highness Prince Leo-speech and responsibility of the the blue of the deep sea. The Englishman the blood of a navi Savings Bank, Chicago. He was pold, Duke of Brabant, married, rulers, It was necessary to con- miniature caying of the figurehead gator or of a colonist, the British president of the American Society Her Royal Highness Princess struct new railways, but he object and stern was executed by Captain subject of to-day no longer cares for Thrift and the author of E Astrid of Sweden in 1990. Aed to the agreement concluded with CK Bampton, the head being to sail for distant lands. After tery of the Thrift Movement in that of George III, and took a saving colonized vast area, oversen, America" He was the originator daughter was born in the follow the Swedish and German groups na year. The model will be shown for the colonizing will of the race of the Straus plan of financing loans ing year.
being too onerous..
bout & fortnight
seems exhausted.?!
on buildings and industrial plants.]
RUSSIA'S FOOD SUPPLY.
PERNICIOUS SPECULATORS SENTENCED TO DEATH.
[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENOT.]
charged with "pernicious specula
PExIxo, Sept. 8. tion 2 Marshal Yea Bai Shan arrived Tere last evening. “
It is alleged that the culprits dis organised the food supply by forg ing tens of thousands of food cards and selling them at speculative
It is announced that he will take up the post of Chairman of the State Council to-morrow morning. prices.
to a son, who is the heir presump- tive to the Throne.
an-
MR. S. W. STRAUS.
[REUIEL'S, AMERICAN SERVICE.]
NEW YORK, Sept. 7 The death is announced of Mr. Simon William Straus, the well- known banker, at the age of 6s.