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23321. 晚堂廿佰叁仟萬弍第日初月肆年酉癸 HONG KONG, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1933 登拜禮 日登月伍年叁卅佰玖仟壹英 Price.
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10 22 18 26 | 26 1.28 AXAM. AM. AM. AM, AM, Mixed] P.M. | PX, F,M.PK, F.M.[FM] 5.10.
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Talpo Dep
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Yaumati.Dap. 683
Shatin ...Dep. 6.45
Dep
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Fanling Dop" 7.18|
Dep. 7.20
Shumohua..
Sheanghai...
5.02 0.157.18 5.15 8.278.00 5,286,4181
9.24 1010/11.41) 12.19 1.377... 9.36 108111.58 12.81 1,39†... 9.50 10.4312.08.13.45) 1,52)*...
9.53 1080 12.16 12.40 150.. 10.00 11.01 13.32 12.50 2.06).
5,826.48(8,10 5.12 6.57 20
5.47 7.028.84
9.149,43 10.11110812,07 1.04 8,11 2,59
Arr 7.20 6.53 | 9.20) 9,48) 10.17 11.12[13.48 1,10 2.17 8.06 5, 18 5,53) 7.08) 8,40
Canton...A.... (11,28) ..... 8.80
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WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
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KING
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)]
LONDON, April 20.
FOLLOWING the meeting of the Preparatory Committee of the World Economic Conference, it was announced that His Majesty the King would open the World Econo. mic Conference, to be held in the building of the Geological Museun, South Kensington, on
June 12.
new
Mr. Norman Davis, informed the Preparatory Committee that tho United States delegation intend- c. at the opening of the Confer ence, to propose tariff truce,
No New Tariffs.
LONDON, April 29. No new tariffs, exchange restric tions, import quotas, or prohibi tions of dumping, induding export quotas, aro details of the United States proposal for a tariff truce as communicated to the Preparatory. | Committee by Mr. Norman Davis. The
FRENCH AIR-LINER
DISASTER
HALF-STARVED SURVIVORS
FOUND
BRITISH PLANS FOR
DISARMAMENT ·
RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM UNITED STATES
THROUGH REUTER'A AGENCY. 1
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}.
Loknox, Apr. 29. AFTER a five-days-gil-over-the dead bodies of our of their; comrades, the throw suitors of WHAT is regarded as the First the French air liner, which urushed
fruits
of
GENEVA, Apr. 29.
the Washington in the desolate wastes of the Apeu- { taiks was realised yesterday, nines on Monday last, have been when Mr. Norman Davis, the United States delegate to the rescued."
General Commission of the Dis Disarmament Conference, told the armament Conference United States would, join with that the
others in resisting amendments which would upset the balance of the British Disarmament Plan
When found by the search party, the trio were half-starved, having been without food for some days, and in the last stage of nervous prostration..
Pitful scenes marked the meeting of the rescuers and the rescued, the survivors greeting their saviours hysterically, blundering down the steep mountain slope to meet them before they collapsed in a food
of tears.
the
This is regarded as tantaniount
American receptanes” of to Plan, thus indicating that the Washington talks had advanced. further than the official communi cation would have-led one to bè lieve.
די
Nourishing, foods were prepared Mr. Davis anouncement is in- for the famished trio, who ale wolterpreted, moreover, as an admoni. fishly at the first food they bad tion to Germany, that any attempt seen since the meagre supplies car- to upset the balance of the plan will ried on the aeroplane became ex- not be tolerated and that America Lausted.
is determined to oppose any re- armament by Germany.
Conference will decide the duration of the truce, but the
Even then they were too weak United States desire that such and overwrought to atempt the truce should operate until any journey to a neighbouring village, Brcements reached at the Confer
The giant plane crashed in ant ence shall have been ratified by the almost incredibly inaccessible, spot respective Governments of the na-and the survivors stated that they | tions concerned.
were unable to move in the perilous countryside. They gave a graphic account of the attempted landing in
(Continued on Page 0).
RECENT EVENTS IN GERMANY
CRITICAL REVIEW BY
LORD GREY
(UNITISH WIRELESE SERVICE.]
Rudny, Apr. 29. VISCOUNT GREY, who wus Foreign Secretary in 1914, re- viewed some current world problems with particular referanco to the re- cent events in Germany in an ad- dress to the delegates after his re- election yesterday, as President of the Liberals' Council.
At the outset be expressed warm approval of the step taken by_the' Prime Minister, in accepting Pre- sident Roosevelt's invitation.
Be was convinced that the co-operation
Meanwhile, the German arcend- ments were submitted yesterday, suggesting, inter alia, an extension of prohibitions and the destruction of defensive weapons to show that Germany is most determined in hex demand for equality.
M. Massigli, the French delegate, criticised the amendment as prac a thick fog when flying team imtically destroying the British pro- possible..
possis,
Captain Anthony Eden, the
The crash rendered the wireless British delegate, expressed, both apparatus useless at Kantee them astonishment and perturbation, and could repair if on order le trans-hoped that the amendigent gras not mit their position.. The whole five | Germany's last word. days was spent huddled over the Mr. Arthur Henderson, President. dead bodies of their comrades in of the Disarmament Conference. the cabin of the liner.
Captain Eden, and Dr. Nadolny of Germany, will meet privately to- day to try to solve the difficulties.
TENSE SITUATION NEAR BORZIA
SOVIET MOBILISING
TROOPS
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
HARIN, Apr. 29. SOVIET troops are entrenching ic the Vicinity of Barzia, 68 miles of the United States was one of the from Manchuli, and reservists be- most important factors in pull-ween the ages of 28 and 35 years ing the world round"
The meeting between President Roosevelt and Mr. MacDonald had been a meeting of utmost goodwil! between two men who had a real
desire to see the world relieved of its present difficulties.
Irkutsk Districts, according to the are mobilising in the Chita and Chinese Prees here.
It is stated that Soviet citizens'
have been warned to prepare for nil eventualities and to refrain from any action calculated to provoke
Russo - Manchukuo
CURRENCY TRUCE REACHED
RESULT OF WASHINGTON CONFERENCES
A
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]
WASHINGTON, Apr. 29. TEMPORARY currency truce to. become effective with the tariff trace before the assembly of the World Economic Conference, was agreed upon by President Roose- M. Herriot, during the Washington volt, Mr. Raunsay MacDonald and
conversations.
The announcement was made by the New York Timer to-day, and the newspaper further stated that Ger- many and other countries will be asked to join in the temporary
menaura
several months.
Referring to Germany, he said that he could not help feeling very strained depressed at what had happened lations. there lately. "What would anyone
Sterling and the dollar, it is pro. feel it at this moment Germany was Meanwhile, the Soviet Vice-Pre-posed, will be pegged at the aver as powerfully armed as she was insident of the Chinese Eastern Rail-age market value over a period of 19141 The fate of Europe would way has advised Manchukuo that be regarded as most insecure. the U.S.S.. is the sole owner of the "The great security of peace now, railway and that the Manchukuo is that Germany is not armed and claim to joint ownership is equi. not in the position to go to war valent to an attempt to nullify the The whole trend of her policy and Peking-Mukden Agreements of 1984. the tread of her mentality has been to shock British opinion, which after the war was undoubtedly in many ways sympathetic with Ger many.
FRICTION GROWS
We felt that Germany, though defeated, was a great nation, great the Japan-U.S.S.R. disputo over The growing tensity of feeling in in science and music, and some of the Chinese Eastern Railway, is in- the great men we honoured were not dicated in the Japanese official"} only Germans but also Jews," said Lord Grey.
the
Harbin Times, newspaper, which states that it is useless to negotiate with the U.S.S.R. Now measures must be found to solve
the issue.
"Suddenly there comes this at back on Jews, showing that Ger- many was not prepared to give them even tolerance. Our efforts after the war tended to create a The Manchukuo‘Government must peaceful feeling, but today, the investigate the illegal nuts, of the situation has tremendously dis- Soviet officials, even if this means appointed public feeling in this resort. to arms, the newspaper country.
adds.
"A few months ago, a speech such as that Sir Austen Chamber- It urges that the U.S.S.R. should lain made in the House of Combo forced to immediately return the mona recently, would not have com- property removed from the Chinese manded the universal assent, it did Eastern Railway. comminil. I associate myself with what be said and what the whale fr House of Commons endorsed.·'
Herr Strosemann, and Doctor We cannot make concesions or Bruening. hold out the hand of peace con tinually, unless that gesture is to "We want peace, but it seems be reciprocated. The present mo- to me that we have come to a point ment is not one: at which we can when the British Government must go, on with the same policy as we rely upon the League of Nations in would have pursued in the case of standing by public covenants, and (Continued at foot of next Column) | treaties," he said.
The British economic advisers, who accompanied the British Prime Minister to Washington to parti cipate in the discussions, are re- maining in the United States for an indefinite period, to watch, the possible effects of the inflation measures passed by the Senate yes- terday.
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ME B. Wylie speaks on ** The Evolution of News," to St. An- drew's Club Members, Church Hall, 9 p.n.
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