LIKIN AND COAST "TRADE DUTY.
ABOLITION EFFECTIVE FROM JANUARY 1,
[TROVAN REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANORAL, Dec. 21... An official notifention which Jns been published regarding the aboli tion of likin and the Const Trado Duty states that abolition will be effective, from January 1, and not January 33, as previously announc ed.
CHIANG KAI SHER AT HANKOW.
LEAVING SHORTLY FOR. NANKING.
(THROUGH FEUTER'S 'AGENCY.]"
HANKOW, Dec. 21. Chiang Kai Shek arrived from Kiukiang this afternoon on board the gunboat Yung Sui.
The Generalissimo is expected to remain for a very brief stay, and will then proceed to Nanking.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN UNITED
STATES.
EXPENDITURE OF $700,000,000 NEXT YEAR.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. An expenditure of 2700,000,000 for the relief of unemployment in 1031 is contemplated by President Hoover.
• Congress to-day adopted the Public Works Bill and Drought
Belief Bill for $110,000,000 and 245,000,000, respectively.
LONDON-CAPETOWN AIR ROUTE.
ITS EFFECT ON WORLD'S ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY.
(THROVOK RECTer's agency.]
LONDON, Dec. $1.
BANK OF KOREA AFFAIR.
CONFISCATION. OF ASSETS AND HUGE FINE.
(TRAQUOH NEUTER'S ROENCY.]
HARBIN, Dec. 19 The Roviot have ordered the
Vladivostock branch of the Bank of Korça to liquidate,
If the liabilities excred the assets, the whole available assets will be confiscated and the branch ned 6,000,000 roubles.
PRINCE OF WALES,
MAKING SATISFACTORY PROGRESS.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Ruony, Dec. 20. The Prince of Wales continues to make satisfactory progress. It is not, however, expected that he will leave York House to-day.
CHICAGO MAYOR'S BOAST.
L
PLEDGES FULFILLED, OR "NEARLY FULFILLED."
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
CHICAGO, Dec. 20, Mayor "Bill" Thompson has announced that he is standing for a fourth term of office at the elec- tion in February.
He claims that his previous pledges have been fulfilled, or
nearly fulfilled." They include the restoration of Washington. as a hero in public schools, and the eradication of
'British propaganda."
BUDAPEST COMMUNIST
TRIAL.
TWO RINGLEADERS GIVEN
LENOTJIY SENTENCES,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY |
BUDAPEST, Dec. 19.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1930.
JAPAN RAILWAY SCANDALS.
11
"CHALLENGE TO THE SHIPPING DISASTER IN THE NORTH SEA.
MERAPI VOLCANO SUDDENLY ERUPTS.
STATE."
EX-MINISTERS SENTENCED WITH STAY OF EXECUTION.
PROFESSOR AND ASSISTANT KILLED
OPPOSITION WILL FIGHT TRADE UNION BILL,
[TUKOUGH REUten's Agency }
{THROUGH ISUTED'S AGENCY.]
TOXYO, Dec. 20.
A sentence of ten months. im2
prisonment with two years' stay ef execution has been imposed on Mr. Ichita Kabashi, ex-Minister of Education, who resigned from the Cabinet in November, 1920, owing to his alleged 'implication in- rail- way scandals.
Mr. Kobashi has also been ordered to forfeit Y. 10,000, and Mr. Satake, Vice-Minister of Railways during the Tanaka regime, has been sen
tenced to eight months' imprison- ment, with two years' stay of execution.
Three others who were involved
were fined small ruins.
LORD' IRWIN'S SUCCESSOR.
LORD WILLINGDON APPOINTED VICEROY.
· ÏTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
LONDON, Dec. 19.
[TunoVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, Dee. 19.
LONDON, Dec. 20.
FINNISH STEAMER SINKS WITHIN THREE MINUTES,
FAMOUS ENGLISH CRICKETER DROWNED.
(THROUGH ARUTER'S AGEROR.]
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 19..
Thirty to 40 passengers are miss-
The eruption of the volcapo at. A. Horeuloan battle awaits mem- Merapi claimed an eminent victimbers of the House of Commonsing, including the cricketer, J. W. in Professor Werner Borchardt, after the Recess over the Chul H. T. Dougins, and his father, after lent by the Hamburg Tropical Intengo to the State," as the Opposi: the sinking of the Finnish steiner the Oberon within three minutes of a stitute to the Java Institute to con- tion indignantly describe
Trade Union BI, whilst intimat- collision, in the Cattegat Inte at duct climatological investigations.
Accompanied by Europeaa ing its intention to fight the mea, night. assistant, Borchardt, was being sure line by line.
Added to this, numerous Liberals lowered by ropes into the crater of definitely indicate their refusal to Merapi to test the emanations of swallow some of the unpaintable heat when the volcano, which has clauses, even with the "jam" pro been inactive for 40 years, suddenly rided by promises of electoral ro
erupted. •
form.
The Finnish steamer Arcturus and several other steamers aro standing by.
Thirty-six persons have been rescued up to the present
[The Oberon, built in France,
The Bill is at present undergoing a microscopic examination by is a Finnish steal-screw vessel of Liberal committees, specially formed Conservative and 3,008 tons, owned by the Finnish
have willo
Angit.] lawyers to elucidate 'all "ambigui- tics.
BATAVIA, Dec 10. perished in the Morapi volcano It is leared that" 90 persoas
disaster on Thursday,
Flood of Lava Fours:on Villages..
The Liberal Committee will re- port on January 20, with a deci- BATAVIA, Doc 20. Professor Borchardt and hission will be taken whether to sup- assistant perished not at Merapi port the second reading, and to crater, but at another, Merapi vol- scek amendments at the wane on the west coast of Sumatra, mittes stage, or to oppose the Bill whither they travelled 10 days ago, throughout.
The native guide returned injured- and declares that he fled after the cruption,
.com-
The crucial point will be the clauso regarding "contracting out," to which Liberals are strongly opposed.
Troops vainly searched for Pro- fessor Borchardt for several days.
The Government is expected, He therefore probably perished in however, to take a cautious line the eruption at Merapi Minor, by sending the Bill to the Stand- It is officially announced that
Heavy thunderstorms are prevailing Committee, thereby prolonging Viscount Willingdon, Governoring over an extensive area around, the legislative process, but increas General of Canada since 1920, will Merapi, and rain and mud are falling the Government's safety, as in replace Lord Irwin as Viceroy of ing in the villages, which are in the event of defeat of the Com. India.
darknees, owing to the thick smoke.mittee the Government will not be come raging
Small mountain rivers have be- compelled to resign.
torreate, hurling
their course, masses of mud and rocks, down
[Lord Willingdon, who was creat- ed a Viscount in 1924, Is, G years of age. His first appoiitanent was as Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1905-1919. He was Governor of Bombay from 1913 till 1910, when he became Governor of Madras, He was Chairman of the Delegation| from the Boxer Indemnity Com mittee which visited China in January-July, 1920.
Wood, has beca Viceroy of India Lord Irwin, formerly Mr. Edward
since. 1926.]
"Tipped" For Post Ten Years
Ago..
LONDON, Dec. 20.
BRITISH RAILWAYS' WAGES
.:DISPUTE.
COMPANIES. AND UNIONS AGAIN FAIL TO. AGREE.,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LORDON, Dec. :18. The Central Wages Board has considered the proposals of the railway companies and Trade Unione, but no agreement has been reached.
Ten years ago Lord Willingdon, India's new Viceroy, was influen- tially "tipped" for the position but was not appointed. Recently he had been completely forgotten The claims will now probably be among the innumerable personali-submitted to the National Wages ties, including Lord Gorell and Board about the middle of January, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, put forth hy the newspapers as Lord, Irwin's.
successor.
The trial of 41 Communists, ne-
Unanimous Approval. Great surprise has been occasion. Cused of attempting to overthrowed by the news, which, however, in the State, resulted in the ring no way mars a unanimous chorus leaders, Ferdinand Weiss, former of approval at the appointment, head of the Trunk Telephones at which breaks the tradition that a Moscow, and Michael Hay, a jour been appointed Viceroy,
provincial ex-Governor has never nalist, being sentenced to seven and a half years and four years'
Will the London-Capetown Air Route Revolutionise the World's Economic Geography" is a ques- tion being debated in London in consequence of the bid the air route is expected to make for the con-prisonment, respectively. tract, for the transport of gold from the Rand mines.
It is argued that the air route will offer a big advantage through the quicker journey, saving the in- terest charge on the gold in transit, Arising from this is the sugges tion that Cairo will become the world's centre for gold: distribution and oust the Bank of England's world's predominance.
London bullion brokers. at present are sceptical. One of them, on boing interviewed to-night, remark- ed facetiously that “it is very much in the air,” adding 'that gold-den?- ing is a very skilled job, "Where the refinery in Cairo 1. Where aro the Rothschilda and the barbra 1′′*
[BRITISH WIDELESS SERVICE] Service Flight from Heliopolis to Capetown.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND
JEWISH AGENCY.”
DISCUSSIONS NOT YET..!
COMPLETED.
(BRITISH WIRELESS FERVICE]
Ruany, Dec. 19. -
Swiftness of Collision.
LATER.
The disaster to the steamer
Oberon was so swift," said the sur- vivors on board the Arcturus, which has just arrived with gaping side, "that the heavy-hearted Captain ou the bridge was scarcely aware of what had happened.",
British Survivor's Narrative." Mr. Erezat Martin," a British sur... vivor, relates that a party, includ ing both the Douglases, were chat- ting in the smoke-room at 0.30 on Friday night in foggy weather.
The ahrieking of sirens was fol lowed by a terrific crash, which sent Mr. Douglas. sen., dashing below to steure lifebelts, but Mr. Douglas, jun., taking in the situa tion at a glance, rushed downstairs to bring his father on deck. Im- mediately afterwards the ship lurch- ed, and Martin was thrown into the Twenty-one of the pasengers water. He did not see the Dou- aboard the Oberon, of whom soglasen or his wife (who was down- far as is known four were British stairs) again. (three women and one man), were saved...
Four British Passengers Saved.
LATER.
Struggling in Flaming Oil, Other survivors recount the ap-: The crew numbered 63, includ-palling predicament of the people ing women, and 32 were saved, struggling in the sea amid the flam ing oil which belched forth from including the Captain and officers, the stricken vessel.
The Arcturus had 24 passengers, one of whom was British.
[The Cattegat is an arm of the North Sea, a continuation of the Skagerrak southward, between Sweden and Deumark. Its length is 150 miles and breadth varies from 10 to 70 miles, The Cattegat com- municates with the Baltic Soa by the Sound and Great and Little Belts]
DISARMAMENT DRAFT CONVENTION.
Forty Survivora, 'IMPORTANCE OF PROPOSED
COPENHAGEN, Déc. 21. PERMANENT COMMISSION. The Scottish steamer Hengest arrived with four more survivors of (THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY.] . the sunken Oberon.
They are members of the crew, LONDON, Dec. 10. In the House of Commons to-day, collision.
who jumped into the sen after the Mr. Hugh Dalton, replying toThey happened to find an empty. Commander Kenworthy and Cap-feboat, which the Hengest sub- tain Edon in regard to foreign equently picked up. affairs, said that it was hoped that when the figures finally fitted into
LATER. the draft convention recently drawn
Seventeen of the Oberon's passen. up by the Preparatory Disarma ment Commission, the disarmament gers, 14 adults and three children, are missing, including both the tranty would emerge. Some people Douglases, and also the Britons outside the House said that the named Vickers, Mrs. Williams and draft convention was perfectly use her child, and Mrs. Ernest Martin. less, but the convention as it stood; Four seamen survivors, already would lend itself to the total dis-referred to in an earlier cable, state armament of the world, if public that the collision accurred at 9.30 opinion were right.
in the evening.
He has the merit of being re- immoved from political controversy,
As announced on November 15, as 20 years have elapsed since as Sub-Committee of the Cabinet Mr. Freeman Thomas, he sat in has been "meeting the leaders of the the House of Commons ng a Liberal. Jewish Agency, and a further meet-reviewed the draft convention of Indeed. Lord Willingdon has al-ing was held to-day, ready received preferinonta from Conservative, Liberal, and Labour administrations..
It was stated during the trial that both of them had maintained direct communication with Moscow.
Six other accused were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from, 20 to 20 months and 21 others from one month to 20 months.
Twelve were acquitted.
WHY REVOLUTION IN
SPAIN COLLAPSED.
EX-WAR MINISTER'S ·
RESPONSIBILITY,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Pross Enthusiastic. The newspapera enumerate his exceptional qualifications" for the post, when the gravest re- sponsibilities are facing the ad- ministratore of India.
The Daily Telegraph says that India is receiving a true and under-
The discussions have not yet been completed, and tim meetings will be resumed at the beginning of January,
WORLD'S GOLD HUNGER.
standing friend. No Viceroy ever
edge of the land. went to India with a riper know- NEW
The Daily Express says that the appointment marks one of the rare otcasions when it is posible to congratulate the Government with- Lout reservation.
SOURCES OF SUPPLY
REPORTED.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Dec. 20.
Sir Charles Addis warning re garding the world's gold hunger hus focussed attention to several new sources of supply which have been reported during the past few days," notably at the meeting of the Panama Corporation, at which the Chairman stated: We hope to take a long-step towards assisting in fulfilling the pressing world re quirements."
The News Chronicle congratu- lates Lord Willingdon upon his mublic spirit in accepting a post HENDAYE, Dec. 10.
that will impose a great physical It is reported that Señor Alcala and mental strain upon a man of Zamor, former Minister for War, his age; and hopes that when the arraigned in connection with the time comes he will take to India a recent revolt, told the Court which message of perce and goodwill in new and la conducting a preliminary the solid terms of a Ruoay, Dec. 20,
quiry into his conduct that he generally acceptable constitution..
The Times pays tribute to Lord Three Vickers Victoria aeroplanes Republican manifesto which
accepted full responsibility for the Willingdon's charin, tact, and Another instance is that crowds of the No. 10 Squadron, stationed dropped from
of American unemployed have flock freedom from pedantry, and says that he will certainly be welcomeded to Navada, where they havo at Holiopolis, will begin a service Madrid.
by hosts of old friends in every established a mushroom town, flight to Capetown or January 12,
"Scotti Camp," lured by unauthen. part of India.
ticated stories of a gold strike, Indian Delegates to Conference
Another stampede is foreshadow- Pleased,
ed when the winter is over in Ontario, hear the township of Ban- nockburn, where gold is reported to have been discovered in commer- cial quantities,
the air
..
WAS
OVCT
He said that a Republic in Spain was to have been declared on The pohines are of the type | December 15, and that one of the which evacuated the Europeans revolutionary leaders had been de from Kabul during the troubles in tailed to conduct the Royal Family Afghanistan last year.
In the course of their flight they will go througly troop-carry tig exer- cises at three of their halte, and this will be the first acession on which African native troops have been transported by air.
to the frontier.
The revolutionaries relied upon 17 garrisons to join to the revolt, but the hastiness of Captain Galan at Jaca-which cost him his life upset the whole movement,
There were characteristic expres- aions by Indian delegates to the Round Table Conference.
The Maharajah of Nawanagar said: "The appointment could not be bettered."
[It is the considered opinion' of the Bank of International' Settle- Sir Abdul Qaryum Khan (North- ment that the world credit struc All Arms to be surrendered.
West Frontier), thought the aptare is threatened with completo LATER. pointment "excellent,
collapas unless the central banks A message from Madrid declares Sir Akgar Hydari anid: It concertedly devise means of yo that
storing its stability, declared Sir. steady progress towards will be most welcome in India."
** | added that “Lord Willingdon has | läst week.
The machines are fitted with two normality is reported from all over Sir Chimanlal Setalvad (Liberal) | Charles Addis, speaking in London
(BRITISH WIRELESS. SERVICE]
RUGBY, Dec. 20. In the House of Commons, during the debate on the adjournment for the Christmas Recess, Captain Eden (Conservative) expressed a hopo for the success of the coming World Disarmament Conference,
The Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. H. Dalton, roplying, the League of Nations' Preparatory Disarmament Commission.
He referred to the importance of the proposal for a permanent Com mission as a concrete recognition of the principle embodied in the League Covenant that arrange ments were not only of national but of international concert. A success ful treaty could be negotiated on the basis of the draft if world public opinion would demand an agreed re- duction in armaments. The Govern. rent, with the support of a united nation, would go forward with the task of helping to build the founda tions of peace,
SOVIET PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS.
PRESIDENT M. RYKOV. RELIEVED.
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCA,Ţ,
Moscow, Deo. 19. - The Central Executive Committee of the Societs have relieved M Rykov, at his own request, of the Council of Presidency of the People's Commissaries.
M. Vinschelav Molotov has been appointed to speceed f. Rykov.
GANDHI'S SON AGAIN ARRESTED."
SPEECH ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
(THROUGH REUTZE'S JQEKUY.7
SUBAT, Dec. 19. Gandhi's song Ramdas, who was Napier Lion 450 horsepower en- Spain,
Tooently released after serving a rohes, and Kareenah capable ofl A TYLNEITEN PONG OF MUnto tande friend Treydood gegnikon bed the cum of the motion proce
TRANSNEY ALSO BE U Madras bahan ceny the taste the westly day her f carrying 23 soldiers and their equip. The Province of Alicante appears Union) said: "Lord Willingdon monetary gold were locked up in "He was taken into custody for mont, Wità a full load they have to have produced the most serious worked on the Montaguo reforma the United States and France, and making a speech on vivil disobedi.
incidents of the revolt. The pea- sants completely dominated several small towas in the Province, for some little time.
a cruising speed of about 80 miles per hour and a range of nearly 500 miles.
in a liberal spirit."
Mr H. P. Mody (President of the Millowners Association) thought "the appointment ae good as any."
is one of the predominant causes Pence on the 10th instant at the of the continuous fall in prices, village of Matwad, where contra which seriously menaced the stabil band salt is alleged to be illegally ity of the credit structure.]
manufactured.
The total survivors is now 40.
The Oberon was holed amidships, and the Captain immediately order ed the boats to be lowered. Life- belts were issued, but everything happened so quickly that only two out of the eight lifeboats could be unfastened before the ship sank Nobody got into the boats from the ship itself.
LATER.
As the Oberon sank the Captain, Erik Hjelt,, jumped into the sea with his wife and little child, but
his wife was drowned.
Capt. Hjelt managed to swim with the child until picked up by the Arcturus, but the child was found to be dead, a victim to the cold.
.
The Danish ship Garm picked up two of the missing women members of the crew and transferred them to the Arcturus.
THE NEW
SPALDING
MULTIDOT
.!
Another steamer nearby was com- pelled to stop her engines for fear of, the propellors massacring the swimming passengers and crew, and was compelled to restrict assistance to helping other vessels by means of torches.
A Poignant Moment," There was a poignant moment on board the Arcturus, when Captain. Osse Hjelt helped to drag in a man clutching his frozen daughter. The man was his brother, Captain Erik Hjelt, of the Oberon.
2.
Tributes are paid to the British passenger, Mr. Vickers, who sprang.. overboard to rescue a compatriot, Mrs. Williams, but both drowned.
were
Broadcast Appeal for Lookout, STOCKHOLM, Des. 21.
A broadcast sent out an appeal to the coastal inhabitants to keep a lookout for possible survivors: clinging to buoys or wreckage, but it is feared that it is hopeless to expect further survivors.
Passengers Caught Asleep.
HELSINGFORS, Dec. 1. The owners of the Oberon and the Arcturus have received a message. from the Captain of the Arcturus stating that the Oberon sank within three minutes,
Most of the passengers. were asleep in their cabins, and there. fore they had no chance to escape. owing to the Oberon's heavy list to starboard, which was as much as 80 degrees.
All the lights were extinguished. immediately after the collision.
The Captain immediately closed the watertight bulkheads, but it is. uncertain whether they functioned. the most
The Oberon was equipped with equipment, and was insured for up-to-date life-saving
£80,000.
Douglases on Business Trip,
LONDON, Dec. 20. The cricketer, Mr. J. W. H. T. perished in the Oberon collision, Douglas, who is feared to have. was returning with his father from Finland, where they had been on n business trip as timber merchants...:
LASTS TILL; EF'S LOST.
KRO-FLITE
GO
BALL
CAUSES A SENSATION
THE ADVANTAGES OF THE MULTIDOT
EASIER TO HIT because the dos Indicate more accurately the pad of the bojl which should be struck
EASIER TO FIND because the dots are brightly contrasted with the ball and surroundings. EASIER TO IDENTIFY bocmusé”, It's the only ball with the scientifically placed doh."
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