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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1933.
BUBONIC PLAGUE IN U.S. COAL CODE RUBBER CONTROL ANOTHER BRIDGE AIR DISASTER
MANCHURIA
Strict Precautions Being Taken
Dairen, Sept. 19. there and the suspension of the BUBONIC and pneumonic plagues fur and hide trame and is haiting have claimed more than six communications оп the Taonan hundred lives in the past fort- | Kaltung Railway. night in the Ssupingkaltaonan districts.
The SMR. announces it is launching an anti-rat campaign
DISARMAMENT PARLEYS
More Favourable Outlook
London, Sept. 19. The Disarmament conversation in Paris between the French Premier, M. Daindler, the Foreign Secre tary, M. Paul Boncour, the British Ambassador, Lord Tyrrell, and the Under-Secretary for Foreign AF- fairs, Captain Anthony Edes, be gan yesterday morning and was resumed in the afternoon, lasting in all for four and-a-half hours.
SIGNED
A. Compromise With Labour
Washington, Sept. 19. THE United States Coal Code was signed yesterday by President Roosevelt.
It provides a 40-hour working
week in the bituminous coal indus- try and axes basic minimum wages
FAVOURED
FOR CANTON
British Growers Meet From Ngou Ku Sha To
In London
Amsterdam, Sept. 19. THE Amsterdam correspondent of the "Financial Times" states that it is leamed in well-inform- ed Dutch rubber quarters that the
meeting of the British Rubber Growers' Association in London, for skilled and unskilled labour. yesterday, practically unanimoualý It provides for the marketing favoured control of production and Stringent medical restrictions of coal at reasonable prices to that
a committee was formed have been started to keep the be Axed by the industry under the which, in co-operation with the malddy from South Manchuria supervision of the National Re-Dutch interests, will work out tur Reuter.
covery Administration, and estab- shes machinery for arbitration of Labour disputes."
GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE
May Withdraw At Any Moment
President Roosevelt struck out the clause affecting the rights of Labour, to which the Labour leaders objected.
President Roosevelt. has altered the Coal Code so as to permit him, personally, to appoint the entire Board which will supervise the con-
ther detalls and approach British Government.
the
The Dutch growers are said to have agreed in principle.
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Shek Wai Tong
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Railway
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IN JAPAN
Two Military Pilots Killed
Tokyo, Sept 19. TWO military planes crashed in a snizuoka Prefecture while carry- Ing out night-fying practice.
Both pilots were killed-Reuter.
mountainous district of
THOSE CORAL
Canton, Sept. 19. Preliminary work for the con- struction of a new bridge from Ngou Ku Sha at Wong Sha (near the Canton-Hankow Station) to Shek Wai Tong, terminus of the Canton-Sam Shui Railway has begun, but the formal commencement of building will start on October 4 dfter a ceremony to be "performed by Suspicion Of Breach Mayor Liu Chi Wen..
The new bridge will be 1,800
It is learned that the principle of the destruction of rubber tap- ped in excess of quotas will pro- bably be maintained,, but it seems feet long and will be constructed that there is still some difference at cost of about $5,010,000 local of opinon regarding the basis of currency. The contract for build- quotas to be allotted to the Dutching this structure has been assign-
ISLANDS
Of Treaty
London, Sept. 19. "The "Times" in a leading ar-
to
dues of the bituminous coal in-East Indies, Malaya and Ceyloned to Messrs. McDonnell and states that there is nothing
dustry.
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The New Code which will operate within a fortnight, covers about 80 per cent. of the bituminous "coal THE possibility of Germany leav-output of the United States and
about 400,000 miners-Reuter.
Berlin, Sept. 19
ing the League of Nations adumbrated in connection with the Anglo-French talks In Paris, which the whole country is watching with undisguised anxiety.
The newspapers express the hope that Britain will not be deluded by "French subterfuges."
The Minister of Interior, Dr. Frick, in an address to 80.000 A communique issued afterwards school-children yesterday, said that stated that the conversation was if equality in armaments was re- devoted to an examination of the fused Germany, she would with- situation as it exists, before the re- draw from all International Con- sumption of the work of the Dis-ferences. armament Conference, and added: Herr Hitler's unofficial Ambasa- In the exchange of view, which dor, Herr, Rosenberg, yesterday de- took place in a spirit of mutual clared that if France refused to confidence, the representatives of fulni ber disarmament obligations, countries explained the Germany was released from her the two views of their respective Govern- obligations of the Versailles Peace nents on the various questions I Treaty.-Reuter. under considération, with a view to harmonising then.
"The British representatives arg reporting the results of their con versations to their Government. It' is anticipated there will be further conversations at an early date."
M. Daladier, questioned by the press after the meeting, said that much progress had been realised since last June and the points of view of Britain and France had come considerably closer together. -British Wireless Service.
Paris, Sept. 19.
WORLD TRADE
RECOVERY
Britain Leading Car Producer
London, Sept. 18. THE latest League of Nations re-
In addition to the favourable im view on "World production and pression created by the Anglo prices" states that there are en- French disarmament conversations couraging signs that the low point semi-official circles here state that of the world economic depression the parallel exchange of views with was passed about the middle of the Italian Government through 1932, and that in spite of the par- normal diplomatic channela is protial setback in some countries in gressing satisfactorily.-Rauter.
British Premier Busy.
London, Sept. 19. Messrs. Loveday and Stoppani, Directors of the Financial and Economic Sections of the League of Nations were yesterday received by the Premier, Mr. Racsay Mac- Donald in his capacity as Chair- man of the World Monetary and Economic Conference.
It is understood that the work done in carrying forward the de- cisions reached by the Conference before its adjournment last July was reviewed.
The Premier also received dur. ing the day three distinguished
the first quarter of 1933, industrial production in general is showing an upward tendency.
1929,
The review, which carefully analyses the features of the in-
strice dustrial depression states that the volume" of world whole fell between trade as a that year and 1933, by about 27 per cent.
Referring to individual indus- tries, the review states that the decline in the automobile industry. was more severe in North America than in Europe, which increased its share in world production from 11 per cent. in 1929 to 27 per cent. In 1933.
الم
A RIVAL TO NEW YORK
14
'National Stock Exchange"
Trenton, New Jersey, Sept. 18.
NEW "National
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RUBBER RESEARCH New Uses Must Be Found
Singapore, Sept. 15. The need for more intensive re- search för finding new uses for rubber by the Rubber Research Institute is stressed in the report of the committee which has been considering the work of the Institute in view of the generally accepted view that for the next four or five years the potential production of rubber is Hkely to be substantially in excess of world consumption.
The committee concludes that Stock Ex-with regard to the necessary fact- porated here this morning, with
change" was formally incor- litles available and the need for the object of compelling the New periments most of this consump- a specialised staff for actual ex- York authorities their recent decision to imposetion research must be done heavy taxation on stock transac England under the London Ad- tions."
visory Committee. with. funds pro- vided by the suggested new con- stitution of the Institute.
to
reconsider
The moving spirit of the new Exchange is Colonel Freiday; a prominent New Jersey Democrat.- Reuter.
U.S. COTTON "PRICES
In
...
Gorman, Incorporated of 268. The Bund.
Construction work will extend over a period of two years. When completed, the bridge will join up the Canton-Hankow Railway with the Canton-Sham Shut Railway and will afford better means of communication over what is now a wide stretch of water.
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TYPHOON HITS LUCHOTM
1,200 Houses Destroyed
Tokyo, Sept. 19. A SEVERE typhoon has swept Lucho since Monday morning. Twelve hundred houses were' den- troyed, seventeen fishingboats sant, eleven are missing and heavy damage was done to agri- culture. The typhoon is now striking Kyushu. All ship com→ munications, including the ferry- boat service between Shimonoseki and Fuzan have been suspended. Reuter.
REBELS MARCH ON HAVANATM
Havana, Sept. 19. THREE hundred heavily armed rebels are marching here from Camaguey led by Captain Juanblas Herrandez, the leader of the re- volt against Machado.
tele.. to-day, on the Bonin Islands, show whether any of the Island were fortined on February 6, 1922, when the Washington Treaty was signed. If they were not ther fortified, and the rumour of the NEW POST FOR GENERAL
WU conversion of Fort Lloyd, to an air base is a fact, the change would tion of article Nineteen of seem perilously near to an infrac- the Treaty.
Assuming that Chichijima.was not fortified In 1922, the precau- tions taken a decade later, and redoubled this year, would arouse suspicions of...a more
serious but it is
of
breach of the Article: possible that the Japanese wish to give no foreigner a chance watching the tactical exercises of their warships and naval aircraft. near the Islands, or of studying the conversion of Port Lloyd into
commercial airport, the leader
suggests.
It is to be hoped that this is the true cause of the Japanese attitude. "The Times" continues, otherwise the prospect of con-
Nanking. Sept. 19. THE Executive Yuan this morning appointed General Wu Teh Chen, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, to the concurrent post of acting gardson commander of the Shang- hai-Woosung area.
NÀNKING TO TAX RICE
Nanking, Sept. 10. THE Chinese Press quotes an
official of the Finance Ministry as saying that the Government is imposing a tax on imported "rice" in the coming Spring at the latest, In spite of the opposition of Canton merchants.---Reuter."
A NEW BUND At the same time, the building of a new bund in Honam suburb has been undertaken by the Wah Yick Company. The new praya will run from the Inner Harbour near the Customs Flagstaff to the foot of the Pearl River Bridge. The total length is 7.300 feet, construction expenses being $2,475,000. Piling of the new bund is completed but walling will begin next month when the sum mer flood will have receded.
Honam suburb has become more prosperous since the com- pletion of the Pearl River bridge four months ago. The once quiet asphalt streets there are now the paper concludes. heavy with motor and rickshaw traffio, as vehicles can go over to Honam via the bridge.. To
The fortification of the Eonin A MESSAGE from Thus states facilitate communication, the Islands is the subject of an article city yesterday for Tacken, wherce Following are the Silver Quota- license fee of $10 a year imposed published to-day from a corres-he is proceeding to Semirystchensk
SILVER MARKET
(From Our Own Correspondent,
London, Sept. 19.
tions on the London market to- day:
Sept. 19 Sept. 18 Spot
181" "18 5/16 Forward
IB1 181 New York, Sept. 18. THE American Cotton Conference rate to-day closed
The London on New York cross have unanimously decided to
at £-US
· $4.791. ··
Dealers Want 20 Cents A Pound
call on President Roosevelt to use his powers to Infiate currency in order to raise cotton to 20 cents per pound and cotton seed to U.S. $30 per ton-Reuter.
OUTLET FOR U.S. COTTON
Com
of three million
New York, Sept. 18." NEGOTIATIONS for the purchase bales of American cotton for French in- terests will open this week on the It adds that Britain has replac-arrival of the international bank-
British economists, Sir Arthur ed France as the leading European er, Mr. B. C. Neidecker, from. Paris. Salter, Sir Josiah Stamp and Sir producer, and in 1932 attained a -Reuter.
Walter Layton.
record output.-British Wireless
Earlier in the day, he had dis- Service, cussed Disarmament questions with the United States delegate to the Disarmament Conference, Mr. Nor-« inan Davis, who afterwards left for Paris and Geneva.-British Wireless Servise.
TYPHOON RAIN AT SHANGHAI
Streets In Central District Flooded
WHEAT ADVISORY
" COMMITTEE
'SHADOW TRIAL IN LONDON Regarding Reichstag chairmanship of the United States
Fire
JACK SHARKEY
BEATEN
By Second Rate Opponent
Chicago, Sept. 19.) Winning only one round out of ten Jack Sharkey, former heavy- weight boxing champion of the world, was outpointed last night by Kid Levinsky, a second-rate chal lenger.
on public motor cars has been abolished, and soon there will be a. bus service between Canton proper and Honam suburb,
tinued limitation of naval arma- the ments and fortificatons in Pacific will recede still farther. regarding the Bonins would cer- An explanation of the rumours
tainly "allay. legitimate anxieties,
Correspondent's Views On New. Bases.
DR. LO TO MEET
DR. YEN
Nanking, Sept. 19.
that Dr. Lo Wen Kan left' that-
pondent of "The Times."
to meet Dr. W. W. Yen, Chinese The article refers to the sug- Ambassador to Moscow. Dr. Yen gestion that the reported conver-left Moscow on September 15. sion of Port Lloyd to a naval and
After the meeting Dr. Yen and air base portends the Japanese Dr. Lo will visit Eli and South
Sinktang-Reuter.
abandonment of the Ladrones and 'other Pacific groups in 1935, when she will dissociate herself trom
NEW MARATHON the League, and states that it is
RECORD
Fine Performance By Harper
-Glasgow, Sept. 19.
equally possible that the Japanese intend to hold them and create a powerful base in the Bonins for their protection,
It is certain that the Chichijima Base further strengthens their al- most impregnable position in the Western Pacific, and its conver- sion into 1 an air-base scarcely seerna consonant with Article Nineteen of the Five Power
SIBERIA MAIL HITCHES
Outward Letters Delayed?
Shanghai, Sept. 18
Ernest Harper broke the world's Treaty. the article states-Reuter. AGITATION in the columns of
the "North,,China Daily News". the resumption of the mail.
The pre- MILITARY CADETService via Siberia, has brought
two hour record covering a dis- tance of twenty miles 1804 yards 2 feet and six inches, vious record by H. Green of 20 miles 952 yarda was set in 1915. Reuter.
(Continued from "proceeding Col.) first round, and had him most dis- tressed in the second, "
Sharkey showed Irequent signs
SENTENCED
Sent To Prison For Four Years
Tokyo, Sept. 19.
out the information that letters despatched from Europe and marked "Via Siberia, and Dairen" are reaching their destinations. without hindrance.
On the other hand, letters from China via Siberia are not being sent by that route-Reuter.
A Denial.
Shanghai, Sept. 19
A crowd of 30,000 saw the Boston London, Sept. 18. Gob fail dismally in his attempt at THE Wheat Advisory Committee a comeback after his smashing de of wilting in the following rounds The military cudeta 'concerned held two meetings yesterday at feat at the hands of Primo Camera under the relentless pounding of in last year's May 15 outrages the Foreign Ofice under the two months ago."
Daily News" the Postal Officials Levinsky, who jeeringly called were to-day sentenced to four CONTRARY to the "North China The verdhet of the judges Sharkey "to come and take it as years' imprisonment, Instead of state that all, mails from Europe Ambassador, Mr. R. W. Bingham. Was unaniļnous, Sharkey be he drove him to the roper with the eight years demanded by the to China marked via Siberia The proceedings were mainly de-ing credited with only one round valleys of blows to the head and Prosecutor on August 19-Reuter are sent to Manchulí Vladivostok voted to preliminary discussion cut of ten, namely the seventh in wild "haymakers, which occa and the Committee adjourned until which he showed flashes of his old sionally landed devastatingly, to-day. London, Sept 19.
The members selected as their the jaw and body,
championship form with lefts to Sharkey was guaranteed £5,000 The "Shadow Trial" in London Secretary Mr. A. Gairas, formerly
win or loss, but the result bas of those accused of the Reichstag Chief Statistician of the Canadian smashing right to the head in thetrieving the heavyweight champion- Levinsky floored Sharkey with a dashed his hopes of a chance of re- fire has finished taking public Wheat Fools, who has recently been evidence, it will publish its find in charge of the Grain Informa-
(Continued on next Column).. ship-Renter ings on Wednesday. The wit tion Service under the. Empire nesses to-day included the four- Marketing Board.—British Wireless teen and a half year old son of Service.
the Torgler,
Communist leader
Shangbai, Eept. 19... Lashed by the tail-end of 2 typhoon for the second time this who is awaiting trial at Leipzig. month, many streets in Shanghai
Young Torgler said his father's this morning presented & BOKTY
wrists had borde chain marks spectacle. Driving rain and high wind swept over the city through when last he saw him four months
ago.-Reuter.
out the night, while the Whang- poo reached overflow point at 10.30 pm. yesterday.
The streets of the Central Dis-ed motor-cars are to be seen in
many streets.
REDS CAPTURE LUYI
District Magistrate Taken Captive
AUSTRIAN POLITICAL
CRISIS
DOLFUSS MAY DROP MAJOR FEY
Vienna, Sept. 19:
ways agree.
trict, as well as many parts of the The wind rose rapidly through- French Concession and Hongkew out yesterday evening, and before were flooded during the night, the 10.30 p.m., had reached hurricane water in some places reaching a force. accompanied by heavy depth of more than four feet.
rain. Hoardings were blown
Nanking, Sept. 19, The water 11 Szechuen Road is down, and – other ́damage was LUXL in Eastern Human, was
It is possible, however, that three feet deep. and hundreds of done, mainly due to the rising of 13, who looted the city, setare
captured by bandits, on Sept. THE political crisis has been ne
centuated in consequence of a Dolkuss, will drop both Fey and people were late for business this the river.
to a number of buildings and took meeting of Heimwehr leaders at Count von Starbemberg and rule morning owing to the partial dis- Sandbag barricades prevented prisoner the District Magistrate Innsbruck who formulated de-alone. location of the bus services. the flooding of many basements, whom they carried off with a num- mands including the suppression Far from contemplating retire
Rickishas are plying for hire in but considerable damage was done ber of other residents the follow of the Defence Minister, Vangola, ment himself, Dollfuss has-az- -waist-deep floods, while abandon"' where no precautions were taken, Ing day, upon the approach of by Major: Fey, the strong, man; ranged to so to Geneva at the end
(Continued on next Column). Reuter,
Government' troops.
with whom (Dollfuss does not, ala of the week-Reuters
FILM STARS THIRD MARRIAGE
Yuma, New Mexico,
Sept. 19.
and Japan then to Bhanghai, hence the delay. On the contrary, letters to Hong Kong are sent via Dairen. Reuter.
ANNIE BESANT INDISPOSED
The film star, "Jean Harlow, or- iginator of the platinum blonde crise, arrived here by plane at 4.50 B.m. yesterday to await a Justice to marry her to Mr. Cos son," "a Hollywood cameraman. 14.
This is Jean's third marriage. Annie Her laat husband, a film producer y 1 She has been in bed committed suicide by shooting him- month and her strength self.-Renter.
diminishing-Reater.
Madras Sept. 10. Besant is serio
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