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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1933.
CONTINENTAL LETTER
THE FRENCH BUDGET: GER ́ ́MANY'S SILVER COINAGE: "SEVERE GOVERNMENT IN - POLAND: LUCERNE'S WAGNER MUSEUM
PARIS
THE SATOCHU CANAL
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL
BIG FAMINE RELIEF SCHEME
.An Acrimonious Debate. Peiping, Jan. 5.-An interesting Paris, January 13.-The rapidly ceremony took place at Kucibus manded by Major French, after increasing opposition to the Minie yesterday morning when the Jazo- wards Lord Ypres. Later he did ter of Finance, M. Cheron's drasticchu Irrigation Canal was turned police work at Alexandria under scheme for balancing the budget is over by the Chinese International Lord Charles Beresford In 1900 manifesting itself among all classes Famine Relief. Commission' to the he served in H.M.S. Centurion in of the populace but particularly Suiyuan Provincia)....... Government the North China Expedition and amongst the civil servaata who are and by the latter to the Minshe took a leading part in the storming up in arms against any farther mut chi Irrigation Association. of the Isiku Arsenal He was in their salaries and threaten to frequently mentioned in British strike.
LONDON, Jan. 3. Spaad Kings in " Air Cycles."*
Flying the new Lowe Wylde "air eyele at Hauworths on Dec. 2, Mr. Kay Don, until recently holder of the world's bent motor-boat speed record," Flight-Liout, G.I. Stainforth holder of the world air speed re- cord of 407 m.p.h. Haces were also held between this slow plane and a harse. In one the horse" wOH, and in the other Flight-Lieut. Stainforth beat the horse by 2-5 sec. only. In the air race between Mr. Kaye Don and Fit.-Lieut. Stain forth the two, pilots wore Reuter
and American dispatches, and in However, it is understood, that addition to beingmade a C. Beven through the negotiations are and receiving the China Medal, he for the moment broken off, Guvern. was awarded the Second Classment quarters anticipate that they Cross of the Royal Crown Order will be taken up again in the of Prussia He retired in 1920. The Hidden “Eye."
that reports
hidden
equally mounted and started level, cameras have been installed as an The race was three laps each, less experiment ju some offices in than a mile, round the aerodrome.Chicago to take moving pictures of Mr. Kaye Don owed his victory unsuspecting workers. When the (5 min.23 BOG. against his. op- pictures are shown in slow motion ponent's 5 min. 31 sec.) to his elonay alnckness can be detected. The ser work at the turns. Ft.-Lieut cameras are so well hidden that no Staioforth's greater familiarity typist can be sure whether her em with high-speed heavy aircraft led ployer has decided to hake the ex- him to adopt the wideturning, periment or not. method essential with the large aeroplanes, but unecessary in very light machine, which can turn easily and with very little banking in a small radius, The Poem of the Empress of Japan.
Policemen as À‚D‚Ü‚'s,
course of today.
According to several evening papers M. Cheron is prepared to abandon the salary cut and would instend, as proposed by the Socialist leader Leon Blum, pare down the army estimates and establish a state lottery to provide the badly needed
Major O J. Todd, Chief Eng gineer of the China International Famine Relief Commision, who left for Kueihua on December 30, represented the commission at the chief engineer and field manager ceremony in his dual capacity as for the canal project. Mr. Feng Hai, Commissioner of Reconstruc tion of the Suiyuta Provincial, Government, took over the canál on behalf of his province.
The Supervisory Body.
The Minishenchu Irrigation As funds.
sociation, will henceforward ad. The Minister of Posts, Mminister the canal. Its boards Laurent-Eynao, and Minister of directors is composed of three re Economy, M. Domonzie are reported presentatives each of the China to press for such a solution, and in International Famine Relief Com the course of an nerimonious debate mission, the Suiyuan Provincial wthin the Chamber last night re Government and the Suiyuan pub pudiated their earlier assent to Mlic. The executive head of the as- Two Civic Guards and both pro-Cheron's schemes, indicating at the sociation is Mr. T. Now, formerly mirent Irish speakers have been same time their intention to resign secretary of the Rural improve- appointed A.D.C's, to Mr. Donal should the Finance Minister persist ment of the Commission, who will Buckley, the Governor-general of in the proposed salary cuts.
have his headquarters at Kueihua. the Trish Free State. Mr. Buckley Until recently Queen Marie of is himself a retired tradesman. Roumania, who once wrote novels He has nncounced his preference under the pendonym Carmen to be known as "Seneschal in ylyn w the world's only literateur of Governer-general, and he ary Quern. Now the Roumanian leclined to live in the Viceregal Royal novelist must share that dis- Lodge. tinction with the Empress of
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The Unemployed. Paris, Jan 14.-France'anem- ployed at the end of the first week of January totalled 284,000. repres senting an increasing 10,000 over the previous week. However, these official figures are generally consi. dered as abreliable inasmuch as the alien unemployed workers are not pording to press estimates, nearly included. The actual total is, ac
Silver Coinage.
Japan. We hear that the Empress, Biggest Electric Clock, Nagako, who is 20 years old, and
A huge electric clock, the largest women, is accomplished in the arts dum as bein erected on the front who, like many high-born Japanse of its kind in the United King. of poetry and painting, has just and Buildings, Trafalgar 1,000,000. composed on ode dedicated to the Square, London. The face of the BERLIN lepers of Japan. The Imperial clock is 33 ft. in height, which poem, by command of the Emperor is 10 ft, longer than that of Big Berlin, Jan. 14. The Government Hirohito, is to be recited in all the Ben. The minute hand from hicel of the Reich will discontinue the loper hospitals in the country.
to toe is 17ft. or eft. longer than Countess Asks for Licence to Beg. Big Ben's, and it travels over threemanting of silver coins of which at miles a day, or at the rate of more present 1,300,000,000 marks are in Countess Karoline Cziraky, once than 1,000 miles per annum. The circulation. In a statement to this effect Minister of Finance Count a lender of the wealthy Hapsburg mechanism is contained in a. box Schwerin-Korsigk déclared that, Imperial aristocracy in Vienna only 3ft. wide, ft. from back to contrary to the rumours circulat and Budapest, her brother-in-law froat, and 13in. high. The clocking in the Press, the Government having been a Chamberlain to the never requires winding, being would not avail itself of its right Emperor Francis Joseph, on Dec. worked directly by electricity from to issue additional hard-money to 24, formally applied to the Buda- a power station, and the hands the amount of 200,000,000 Marks. pest police for a licence to beg in and numerals are illuminated at At present the Minister added, the the streets. She is completely des night. (The clock is to advertise vaults of the Reichshank are clogged titute. She is the second wild of Messrs. Fulford's Bile
Heans, with silvercoins and the issuing of the Tata Conat Johnna Cziraky,, manufacturers of. Zam Buk and
now coins would necessitate a re- whose sunrt equipage, decorated Peps) 1.C. Urquhart.
organization of the present system- with scarlet and drawn by four
including the disappearance of the horses, was a well-known sight in
unwieldly Five-Mark pieces which, both capitals.
white in size equalling 1 silver dollar, are actually worth silver
Dr. Kilgour's New Fost.
Sir Joseph Duveen and Hull.
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It will not be surprising if Sir Joseph Duvéen elects to adopt a title on his well-meritad elevation The Itev. Dr. R. Kilgour who, is to the peerage which will have an retiring from the British and Association with Hull, where he Foreign Bible Society, under the was born 03 years ago, and of limit of 65, has been appointed which ofty he is proud-to-be-a ficiating chaplain to the Boots freeman. In fact, the first of his Guards and other Church of Scot-art benefactions the value of which land and; Presbyterian troops in must amount to nearly half-a-mli the Lotion district. He succede lion sterling-was the gift of Ed. the Rov. Alexander Macrae, whoward Stott's "Good Samaritan " held the office. for 32 years. Dr. to the art gallery of his native Kilgour takes over his new duties city on the site of which had been en January 1. During the war he his fathers first place of business served as chajilain to the new bat-on landing from Meppel in Hol talions of the London Scottish land. The worship of the memory when they were in training at Richmond Park..
The Budget.
dollars.
DESSAU- ·.·
Over 40 Miles Long. Built in 1929 as the result of an agreement between the Com mission and the Suiyuan Provin cial Government, the canal was formally dedicated in June the fol- lowing year. The main canal is over 40 miles long and has no less than 14 lateral canala. The total cost of the project is estimated to
exceed $1,000,000, the greater por- tion of which came from the China Famine Relief, Inc., U.S.A. The intake of the canal is at Tengkow on the Yellow River and next to Paotouchen, the terminus of the Peiping-Suiyuan Railway
HYGIENE IN THE FAR EAST
DUTCH EAST INDIES SYSTEM
DESCRIBED...
In the epurse of a lecture, entiti- ed Hygiene in the Far East," which he delivered in London on November 1 last under the auspices of the Chadwick Public Lecture Trust, Professor Kielstra, of Lay. den University, Holland, gave on account of the work of the Public Health Service in the Netherlands East Indies.
The presentnisation, which
originated in 1804, stated the lec Big Order for 'Planes.
turer, consisted of a large staff of Desaan Jan. 14-"-Lufthansa,” doctors, assistants and vaccinators, the big German air-traffic corpora partly European and partly In- tion, has given to the Junkers works dian, spread over all the islands here an order valued at 2,000,000 and an establishment of modern la Marks for the early delivery of aboratories for exprimental work. number of airplanes which are to be put into the company's services. WARSAW
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Death Sentences. Warsaw, Jark 14-As many as of his parents is one of the news 350 death sentence have been execut peer's abiding virtues, and his in- ed in Poland during the past five timate friends know that he never years, according to a speech made grown weary of counting his debth the leader of the opposition in to them--especially his mother, the Beyn's Legal Committee in who was the true helpmate of her connection with his demand that the state of siege now in force throughout the country be abrogat ed. The motion was, however, re- The journalist author and warjected by the government majority so that the present state of affairs norrespondent, Mr Henry W.
will continue. Nevinson, is to be married about
A good outlook for the Budget show in the revenue figures for the period April 1. to Dee. 94, which husband.. reveal that the deficit was lower by Mr. H. W. Nevinson to Marry
23,874,207 than at the correspond- 1.
Mira Evelyn Sharp, ing date last year.
Five-Seater Autogyro,
The Air Ministry has ordered the middle of January to Miss LUCERNE A five Beater autogyro Aying Evelyn Sharp, journalist and machine, which is to be fitted with authoress.
a Panther 500 horse-power mngine.Barter Fair" Doing Well. This will be the most powerful and
the biggest machine of its class. The new machine will accommodate six persons.
Death of Major-General J. E.
Johnstone.
Richard Wagner's House. Lucerne, January 13.-The muni- cipality decided to-day to convert
Lovers of art and also artists the House Triebchen here, in which
After speaking on the prejudices of the indigenous population and on the progress so far made under difficulties, Professor KielstraTM con- cluded that the Public Health Ser vice should confine its work to such general hygienic measures as the draining of swamps, the regulating of rivers, and the improvement of housing conditions until ethnologi cal and social observations showed that the indigenous population was ripe for more individual medi- cal treatment.-Engineering,”
CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING CO.
SATISFACTORY DIVIDENDS
DECLARED
The results disclosed by the re-
are doing excellently at the Barter Richard Wagner lived for some time port of the Chinese Engineering Fair now being held at the curing a period of great stress, and Mining Company for the 13 Porte de Versailles. Artists are into a Wagner Museum which is to months ended Juhe 30 are decided- exchanging their pictures for goods be opened on February 13,, the day ly satisfactory. Net earning have or services. Last year business of Major-Gen. James Robert John the value of about £3,000 wis when 30 years ago the great com increased from £47,849 to £168,638,
poser died in Venice. Lone, C. 3.; who died at Worthing done, but this year the Fair has amount of 146,000 francs has to 7 per cent.; both free of tax
and the dividend is raised from. on Christmas Day, aged 73, look been even ruore successful. No been set amide by the municipality This favourable outcome of a year a prominent part im the relief of money changes hands, One artist for the purpose of reconditioning which was marked by a further de the Pekin Legations during the who is much in need of medical North China Expedition. Born in attention has given a picture to the house and to furnish it with
Richard Wagner relics. 19x8,, he joined the Royal Marine surgeon in payment for an operac Light Infantry in 1878 In the tion which he is shortly to undergo. Egyptian campaign of 1988, he was Another palater is to have a bottle adjutant of the battalion com- (Contimed at foot of next Column)
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terioration in trade: conditions in China's was due to the restoration of normal transport facilition on of Chablis every day for a year. line which serves the coal mines in the Peiping-Lisoning Railway-the Other exhibitors have sold works to which the company is interested restaurant, keepers in exchange for to larger sales of coal and to re- dinner coupons.
duced expenditure. Moreover, the (With Mr. G. Bernard Shaw at Bea. company also benefited in making Mr. Shaw, who is taking part in remittances from China from a the world cruise, of the Canadina rise in the average, rate of exchange "Fsale liner Empress of Britain from 11-32d, for 1930-31 to 1s élimbed Mount Vesuvius, when the 216-16d. The sum deducted for in- ship called at Naples and later, come-tax, too, was smaller at when visiting Pompeii, he said: £71,795, against £96,099. A feature No wonder God overwhelmed it' of the balance sheet is the large with dust and ashes; I hope He cash holding namely, 551,309, will do so again." Mr. Shaw current liabilities WAIKE TO Tags camera fem thus hier only £185,000
briskly and refuses to give any
hit autograph, He says the s
press of Britain is the only
where he can write,” per When asked if what he i
current"
less favou
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