THE LEAGUE AND CHINA FLOOD VICTIMS.
'HEALTH COMMISSION TO
GIVE HELP.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,】
| Liu Wen Tas, who had just return- ed from Hunan desires to establish afeld-beadquarters in Changsha and to appoint General Kis Chuk Tung as the chict officer in charge of this held-headquarters, and all the units of the Hunanese army will be directly under his command. General Ho Chion's position 'will GENEVA, Sopt. not be altered although he is no There was a generous outburst of longer the head of the Funanese approval from the entire League Any in leaned that Chiang's Assembly this afternoon when a second decision is to save the face British resolution expressing sym of General Ho Chien and at the pathy with China in the flood disaine time to avoid General Ho asters was carried unanimously,
Lord Cecil's suggestion that the,
from turning against him as Gen. eral Ho Chien stiil possesses no
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1931.
KING ALFONSO'S
COURT.
FAITHFUL FRIENDS IN
FRANCE V
·SPANISH · EMIGRES'
PROSPECTS.
Paris. Quite a number of the Spanish emigren who were most closely attached to the court are staying at Fontainebleau. The Royal Family. are surrounded by a little colony of loyalists, which in-
MAN-MADE LAVA FOR ROADS.
HUNGARIAN CHEMIST'S
INVENTION
In one of the more southerly of
the United States, there is a lako of dried Inva. Dend level and.
smooth, it has been suggested as an alternative to Daytona Beach for Malcolm Campbells and Dons to make world's records on
Kays
CAPONE TO QUIT
THE RACKET.
RESPECTABLE LIFE AFTER PRISON:
J
GANGSTER PICTURES
CONDEMNED.
On the eve of his appearance in court recently to answer a Summons for infringement of income-tax and Prohibition Laws, Al Capone Je- olared his intention to "
quit, the racket" and become an ordinary citizen.
League's Health Commission should fewer than 30,000 loyal troops, ja oludes the Duchess of Victoria, too. Between this surface, formed wons When he has been sentenced he
give assistance to China was adopt. ed.
Mexico to Join League,
MEXICO CITY, Sept.
The Foreign Minister announces that Mexico is joining the League of Nations.
FLOOD RELIEF LOAN.
(Wah Ise Tat Pao.)
NANKING, Sept. 9. The Nanking Government mo.. nounces that the Central Political Council has adopted a plan for the issuance of a Flood Relief Loan to the amount of $60,000,000 of which $30,000,000 loan bonds will be put on the market this month while the rest will issued before the end of this year.
Hunan,
Duke and Duchess of Levers, the Duchess of Santonia, the Marquis de Torres, and other faithful ad-
herents to the Monarchy.
The forces' under Generals Ku Chuk Tung and Chen Sheng Are moving into Husap. The troops being transported by the Peiping A cortain semblance of Kingship Hankow Railway. Two divisions of is thus, kept up. The Royal Family soldiers under General Chen Chi occupy a suite on the first floor of As their hotel and their windows ver Sheng have arrived Hankow. the flood has not completely relook the Forest of Fontainebleau, cuded from the city these soldiers, have to change their garrison post along Wu Chang-lu, a town near Hankow.
NORTH AND EAST RIVER
FLOODS SUBSIDE.
CONDITIONS AGAIN NORMAL;
(From Our Own Correspondent,)
CANTON, Sept."9. According to a report from Shok. lung received here to-day, the flood FURTHER TAXES FOR WAR along the East River has entirely
JPURPOSES.
NEW: CANTON""EDICT,
disappeared, and the river is again running normally. The flood when at its height was six feet and three Punches above the normal level of the river. Vast areas of rice fields and (From Our Own Correspondent) villages near the banks were sub merged, and the damage done was CANTON, Sept. 9. #
considerable. All the low streets in Sheklung were also submerged, In order to raise "inore money for and the merchants whose establish military purposes the Canton Gov-ments were located there had to ernment has ordered, beginning to move their goods upstairs to escape
damage. day, the Cantou-Kowloon, the Canton, Samshui, and the southern
both the North and the East River Relief work is still going on in
will be sent to Leavenworth Pri- son, Kansas, in a private, railway car at his own expense. Within two weeks, it his physical condition warrants it, he will be placed with gang doing road work on the State highways, under the supervi
It is probably true that "Public
Enemy Number Ono" pleaded guil-
ago by the cooling of molten rook belched from the earth's interior, and a modern highway like the Kingwon by-pass, there is no ap parent connection, but i was re- cently prosented with a squaron of armed guards. foot simple of rend surfaco.com When the Queen receives her friends there is still a good deal of Posed of ordinary road stone melt formality the visitors carrying outed and fused together by a sort the same etiquette as was practised of volanne of human contrivance, in the Royal Palace in Madrid, Her Majesty spends a great part of her time reading, but goes out every day either in her car or for a long walk with the two Infantas. Among the emigres there is na turally a considerable amount of peculation as to the chances of a restoration of the Monarchy. King Alfonso, of course, keeps in close touch with his political friends, but there scris little real hope of his being invited to return to Spain in the near future,
Cosmopolitan Society.
The number of enligrés who left Spain after the revolution and have settled in France cannot easily le estimated, but it is put at soveral thousands
With a few exceptions the aris tocracy quitted the country with
probably never return, though in their King. A large number will
This is the invention, I was told, of an Hungarian chemist named Komics. Its basis is a furnace creating temperatures of the .cxy- acetylene blowpipe class, but con- suming the crudest of waste oil. With this furnace, Mr. Komios claims that he can reduce all fusi- ble rocks to a liquid form, that is, everything but chalk, slate, and Timestone.
The Komios Procesa.
in the
So far, except perh matter of cost, he has achieved no- thing new. The possibility of melt zag stone is well enough known, Thot real question was: could it be made a practical proposition?
As explained to me by Mr. Nor
mond merchant who has acquired man Weisz, a Hatton Garden dia.
ty as the only way of resigning his leadership of his Chicago gang and retaining his life.. Capone admitted in a final interview with the Press that he wanted to drop everything, go into legitimate business, and live quietly with his family. As long as he was. free this was im- possible. But when ho had served. his sentence it is likely that others will have taken his place, or that the gangs will have been wiped out.
It was also admitted by Capone that the Secret Six," a committee of Chicago business leaders, had killed the racket Capone said he Believed that any sucesssor to his job would find that it did not pay any longer.
The gangster added that he wanted the public to "get him right. He had never done any thing worse than sell a little bear and alcohol and cheat the tax col- lentor. He thought that bankers who robbed poor people. of their money were guilty of a greater crime...
section of the Canton-Hankow Bail districts. The benevolent Locieties all but a few cases, such as that the world rights on-behalf of an example of me," he said, "and I'm
way to add 20 per cent," to the usual fares and freight charges, the extra money thus collected to be turned over to the Military Head quarters. Several thousand dollars should bo'raised daily through such
a measure.
CHIANG'S TROOPS FOR HUNAN.
[CENTRAL NEWS.]
THE WORLD'S WORST
WAS
Befusal to Act on Film, "The Government have made an in Capton, including the Fong. Pien Benevolent Hospital, in Upper Sai the Duke of Miranda and one cr
an are still busy distributing two of King Alfonso's personal English syndicate, the Komalos pro-
not complaining. But they should rice and other foodstuffs, to these friends who are suspect in the even ceas, of road-making is as follows.tures as terrible stuff for kids,"
get after crooked bankers." flood victims.
He described cinema gangster pic of the Republic, there is no legal The surface to be treated is rough and said they encouraged the impediment to their doing so
younger generation to become hood. The Spanish aristocracy
aly, spread with any material availums (gangsters). He declared that he had been offered £400,000 to write largely a class of privileged land. able (provided it is fusible) and the a book of his memoirs or to go on owners, Some of them lived c
to the filmis. But he had declined furnace shaped to the desired cum-
because of the bad influence any and managed their estates ut bar, passes over it on rails. Four such notion of his would have upon many spent a large part of the year to six hours are required to molt.
Bocicty. in Madrid, San Sebastian, or abroad. Not a fow belonged to a
the rock or stone, which after cosmopolitan society whose country moulding sets in about the same is the fiviera, Paris, and Denu- time ville, and for these their present exile implies vory little change
The majority of the fugitive
STAMP.
RHODESIAN ISSUE CON- - SIDERED AN EYESORE.
CHANGSHA, Sept. 8 Chiang Kai Sheh has decided to Philatelists should, according to dispatch his own troops under the aesthetes seize the unique oppor command of General Ku Chuk Tungtunity of collecting the "world's to Hunan. It is understood that worst stamp which has just been General Ku Chuk Tung will suc issued. ceed the...present post. occupied by It is the new Rhodesian.......!two: General Ho Chien and will take penny," which is meant to portray charge of all the military and civil affairs in Hunan,"
the Victoria Falls in full flood, it is, were rich, and, having placed their however, so vague that it is often money prudently, are still quite General Ho Chien's subordinates placed head downwards when the well off. The revolution was sim are now planning to unseat him | impression, according to one critic and it is feared that conflict will is that of an ice berg floating mering for a long time in Spain, start before long in the province of dangerously near land.'
and the supporters of the old re- Hunan."
It is estimated that the stamp gime had ampla opportunity for will acquire great value in years to come, as it is hardly possible that taking their capital abroad and the issue will be long continued. thus securing their financial future
From another report it is stated that Chiang Kai Shek after due consideration with his delegate, Mr.
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Expensive Hotels.
The road is treated half width
at a time. A perfectly level rough- surfaced pavement is produced of any required thickness, which needs no surfacing or upkeep and will not wear shiny and smooth.
dayı.
ly
The Furnaces.
411 ex-
As to post, 27,600 worth of fur- nace would make three kilometres of road of averago width in eleven The furnaces apparent
made are
in sections, which join up "like panding bookcase and can be dis Most of the exilen, therefore, may
mantled and removed from one job continue to live much the same life to the next. Once you have your ns they lived before the crash. In furnaces, 30 per cent, of the road Paris they occupy the most expen-making costs, is the oil fue.--crude sive Hotels pending docision as to refuse for which at present there a return to Spain or settling teh no known use and which can be had for the cost of removal, nitely, abroad. Many of them, who
How the process will impress road would like to go back are waiting to see what the Republic will do:
engineers when they are invited to It is possible that in a year's examine and report on it. I can time the circumstances will be more not tell. I have not soun the Kom- Ics furnace at work, though it has favourable, and, moderate opinion.
rando strips of road in a backyard having asserted itself, encourago
at Briston. But the "olid Lit of the emigrés to drift back. In anv. case the political situation should most impressive. Mr. A. G. man-made tava bed on my table
be more clear than at present.
Throssell in the London Daily The question of the land is nn.
Telegraph. turally the one which interests the emigrés most. The Republican Gov- ment has given an assurance, in the 1 Levent of nationalising schemes materialising, that property will not be taken without compensation. But as this compensation is to ce calculated on past payments to the tax collector, which the proprietors were generally 'skilful in ovading, the prospect is not a bright one, and may rat, therefore, prove sufficient temptation to bring about. anything like a generhl housing
movement
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Capone concluded, and then live a respectable life."
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