STRIKE MENACE SIR KINGSFORD
IN AMERICA
Contínues To Hamper Recovery
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Washington, Oct. 10. Conflicts between workers and employers, the continuance of strikes all over the country, COR- tinue to hinder progress towards
recovery.
SMITH
Creates New Flight Record
"London, Oct. 10. Air Commodore Sir Charles "Kingsford Smith, who left England
last Wednesday to fly to Australia, Į continues to make record progress.
To-day he reached Sourabaya in the Dutch East Indies. having covered over seven thaisand miles
Thousands of steel and
coal strikers in the Pittsburgh, area re- "turned to work to-day, but there
are still thirty-five thousand min-in six days. ers refusing to return to work in Western Pennsylvania.
Coal strikes continue to create serious problems for Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky' and Alabama.
SILK STRIKE Meanwhile, silk strikers from New Jersey and Pennsylvania are protesting vigorously against the wage provided in the Silk Indus- try Code, and "ten thousand auto- "mobile and tocl, and die strikers have protested to the N.RA, alleg~ ing that their employers, are de- fiberately violating the Recovery
Act.
Recovery Administration regula.
He is using a new all-British Percival Gull low-winged Moth aeroplane, and is at present well ahead on the schedule of the ex- isting Ergland-Australia record of eight days, 20 hours 47 minutes set up last year by Mr. Charles Sc
--British Wireless.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1933.
"WHICH DOG
DOG WILL BITE
THE HARDER?"
SOVIET - JAPANESE TENSION TIGHTENS.
WILL JAPAN BE "JOCKEYED” INTO WAR
Tokyo, October 11, The Foreign Office is awaiting a full report from the Japanese Ambassador to Moscow, Mr. Ota, before decid-" ing the course of action to take in regard to the Moscow revelations. Before action is taken, however; the War Office and possibly the Cabinet, will be consulted.
"
"BOASTING AND BELLICOSE"
ARTICLE
Tass
RECORD BROKEN
Wyndham. October 11. Arriving at 5.12 p.m. local The possibility of the National time. Sir C. Kingsford Smith day recalled the recent boasting day by the
A Foreign Office spokesman to-jern Railway were reported yester
official News ting all wages soon is now envi. beat the England to Australia and bellicose" article in the Soviet Agency.
record by forty hours. Scott press which led him to the belief. suggestion that this solution taking eight days, twenty ing to "Jockey Japan into war. He has enquired into the charges on
that the Soviet was possibly try- Consul-General
It is stated that the Soviet of difficulties be studied with a
at Khabarovsk hours, 47 minutes last added: "As both brave dogs and which the Soviet employed of the view to adoption 'was made
coward dogs bark a lot, we must CER. were arrested. Senator Wagner, in the course of Reuter.
await developments before decid- ing which the Soviet is."
saged
1.
by
an appeal to the National Federa- tion of Labour to persuade its members to arbitrate before strik- ing.!
CONSUMERS' BOARD. The Consumers' Board has de- cided to create local branches to prevent profiteering and has also appealed to Mr. Ickes, the Becre- tary of the Interior Department. to postpone the pians for Axing the price of of) because. It is con- tended, the consumers' petroleum bill will be increased at the rate of $500.000.000 per annum, while the waxes of oil employees will not be increased under the Code by more than $125.000.000.-Reuter.
BRITISH TREASURY
RETURNS
London, Oct. 10. The latest Treasury returns show that the ordinary revenue for the i current financial year up to!
year.
AIR TRAGEDY
IN U.S.A.
Four Passengers Reported Killed
Chesterton, Indiana, Oct. 11. An air-liner exploded in mid air over Cresterton and crashed in
a nearby farm.
Four of the passengers who, were bound to Chicago from New York are reported to, have been kill- ed, together with the pilot, co- pilot and a stewardess.Reuter.
SEVEN VICTIMS
Later.
The total victims are seven, October 7, amounted to £287,223-three passengers including a pretty 723, At the corresponding date of last year, the amount stood at
€280,725,641,
The ordinary expenditure- to date for the current year totalled
£350.870,238, which 19
about £33.500,000 less than the total or- dinary expenditure at the corre- sponding date of last year.-Brit- 1sh Wireless.
HOME RACING Seminole Wins
Cesarewitch
London, October 11. The result of the Cesarewitch
was as follows:-
fi
1 Seminole. 100/6. ·
2. Loose Strife, 100/7."
air hostess employed to converse with passengers" on ong distance flights, and four members of the crew, All were charred and al most unrecognisable."
The wireless operator had just previously signalled all was well
The victims were trapped is a wall of fre. They screamed for help but the heat of the wreckage frustrated "all rescue efforts,Reu- ter.
SILVER MARKET
London, October 11. (From Our Special Correspondent). Following are the Silver Quota- tions on the London market to day:-
Spot
C Oct, 11. 18.5/16 Forward... 18.3/8
A representative of Manchukuo
It is reliably learnt that the So-replied that they were merely ar viet has refused to continue the rested for examination in connec- Railway negotiations here until tion with an inquiry regarding the arrested Chinese Eastern suspected transgressions of duty. Railway officials have been' releas-
ed.
Request Réfused
Meanwhile the Tass correspon-
The Consul General insisted on dent here is being examined this their immediate release, and the afternoon in order to decide whe-Manchukuo representative under- ther he should be expelled-Reu- took to forward the request to his
ter.
M. Litvinov, Russia's Foreign Minister.
Government, but the Consul-Gen- eral was not allowed to visit the arrested employees,
The Manchurian Assistant Ma- nager of the C.ER. has request- ed the Chairman of the Council of Administration to recognise the Manchurians appointed to the council in place of the Soviet em- ployees
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The Chairman refused to do so, and the Manchurian Councillors left en masse... The meeting closed owing to lack of a quorum.
The Emperor of Japan.
S.W. POLITICAL COUNCIL Many Subjects Discussed
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton. Oct. 11.
The regular meeting of the Southwest Political Council W28 held this morning im- mediately after ⚫he service at the Chungshan Memo- rial Hall to commemorate the es- cape of Dr. Bun Yat Sen from the Chinese Legation in London on October 11, 1896 after detention as a revolutionary by the Chinese Minis er.
Among the subjects discussed to-day were the recent *100,000,000 domestic loan floated by the. Min- Istry of Finance, financial support to General Fang Chen Wu and Wang Teh Lin and construction schemes according to the" Three- Year Plan. It is understood that Kwangiang will ask Nanking for a certain share of the proceeds from the American wheat, and cotton loan for the reconstruction of the province.
Mr. Huang Chi Lu (Wong Kwal Luk), a reserve member of the Kuomintang CEC., was appointed member of the South-west Politi-
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KILLED BY HIS OWN ROCKET
Tragic End To Inventor's Life
Berlin, Oct. 11/
Einhold Tiling, the inventor of
S. AMERICAN PACT
New Anti-War Treaty
Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 10.
A new anti-war treaty which
the rocket aeroplane was blown is hoped will serve to stabilse up and killed by his own rocket | conditions in South America 'has and two of his assistants, includ-| been drawn up and signed by the ing a woman, were seriously in- leading States of Central and jured.
South America.
The anti-war treaty outlaws ag gressions and the forcible acquisi- tion of territory.
was in
The disaster occurred when a party
charging the paratus
laboratory R Osnabruck. when the machinery exploded.
near
Herr Tilling recently offered the Post Office to establish a fifty min-. ute mall service between Berlin and New York.Reuter.
FLORIDA GOING
"WET"
By A Six-to-One Majority
New York, Oct. 10. Incomplete but substantial re- show that Florida is voting in a turns obtained at Jacksonville
ratio of six to one against pro- hibition,
Floria is thus likely to become
the thirty-third out of the thirty six States which are repaired to vote "Wet" in order to end prohi- bition.-Reuter:
It was signed at Rio to-day by the representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay in the presence of many diplomats and notabilities.
The only notable absentee from the list of signatories is Bolivia. even now engaged in a dispute with Paraguay (a signatory re- garding territorial rights, in the Gran Chaco.
Other South American" States, Peru and Colombla among them, are expected to adhere to the Treaty shortly.-Reuter.
Sourabaya, Oct. 11.
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith took off for Wyndham, the last leg of his fight from England to Australia at 4.55 a.m. local time. -Reuter.
PRESIDENT OF POLAND
Finds Romance After 65 Years
Warsaw, October 10.. The President of Poland has dis- prohibition-Reuter.
Florida voted 4 to 1 to against covered romance after 65 years.
CHIMNEY FIRE
He was married to-day tô bis secretary. Maria Dobranska, who earlier this year was divorced from: her husband, Capt. Nagorna, by special Papal dispensation.
Large crowds turned out to see the wedding which was attended by the Prime Minister, M. Alex- ander Prystor, while
Cardinal
cal Council.: President Chow La Call From Ko Shing Kokowsky blessed the union.
It is reported from China that Manchukuo police are threatening of Sun Yat Sen University recent the employees of the CER. with ly secured Mr. Huang's services as punishment, if they do not obey professor of journalism, because he the orders of the Manchuktio no-is a well-known literary scholar minee who replaced the arrested and former editor of the official Sovlet Chief of the Depot-Reu- | "Man Kwok Yat Pa."
ter.
Confusion Over Administration
Harbin, Oct. 11. The Soviet General-Manager of the Chinese Eastern Bailway, has countermanded all orders issued by the Manchukuo Assistant Manager, resulting in serious con- siderations.
Moscow, Oct. 11. Further incidents between the Soviet and Manchukuo over" the Manchukuo is considering coun- management of the Chinese East-tor-measures.-Reuter.
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INDEPENDENCE
Oct. 10.
18.5/16 18.3/8
The London on New York, cross £=U.S.
3 Rol de Paris. 100/6.
Thirty-three horses ran.
The
rate
winner winning by four lengths, four lengths between second and
bird-Reuter.
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OF PHILIPPINES
Rejected by House of Representatives
Manila, Oct. 10.
THE House of Representatives to- day approved by 58 votes to 22, the action of the Senate in re- Jecting the "Philippines Independ- ence Act. Reuter.
ANGLO-AMERI- CAN WAR DEBT TALKS
U.S. Tariff Walls Hold Back Settlement
London, Oct. 10:
INTERNATIONAL
MOTOR SHOW
Fine Exhibits At Olympia
London, Oct. 10. The International Motor Show which will open at Olympla on Thursday and which will continue for ten days, is attracting large numbers of visitors to London
from abroad.
A graduate of the University of California, Mr. Huang, has had long connection with the Kwang tung Provincial Kuomintang and wrote iluminating editorials in his daily on Canton-Nanking relations during the Kuomintang C.E.C. in extraordinary session here in 1931. Mr. Huang returned to Canton some time ago after a protracted stay in Shanghai
THE TAIMOSHAN Arrives Safely At Vancouver
"
The "Taimoshan" arrived at Van- couver on September 12, after rather tedious journey from Japan Shortly after learing Nemuro (Japan), she ran into the tail and of a typhoon. The Taimoabam was hoved to for 20 hours behaving very well in reefed mizzen and foresail fa back.
On leaving Dutch Harbour, it was intended to make the trip to the West Coast of Alaska. They left in a moderate South East gale, but shortly afterwards the wind fell right away and they were becalmed." Plans were then altered and the course set direct for Victoria (B.C.) With the wind then making, Tai- mosban logged. better than 850 miles in the next five days when they were again becalmed and on one day, was actually carried, back three miles. They eventually Drivers of new models, are thus arrived in Vancouver on September relieved of all mechanical anxiety 12. The ship and crew are in fine and an important contribution is condition:
"Undoubtedly the main feature of the show is the adoption at least by practically all the British mo- dels of simplified gear mechanism. Six years ago, the self-change pre-selective device was ploneered by a British Arm and this has set a fashion which has, in varying forms, been adopted, by all the leading manufacturers
thereby made to road safety.
The respective numbers of care and chasis on view, will be Britain 205, Canada and the Tited States 34, France 33, Italy 14, Belgium 4. and Czecho-Blovakia 3. The prices of the models 'range from £104; to
3,540-British Wireless.
THE Anglo-American debt talks were resumed at. Washington to-day, M
Sir Frederick Leith-Ross of the British Treasury, Sir Ronald‘Lind- say the British Ambassador, and Mr. Bowler. Financial Secretary.to the British Embassy, represented A lecture on ""The Settlement of the British Government, while Mr. International Debt "will be de- Acheson, United States Under-ilvered by Mr. Gustillo, M.Sc. Secretary to Treasury, and Mr.Com.) on Friday, 13th October, at Livesey, represented the American 8.30 p.m. in Room K of the Uni- Government-British Wireless. versity All interested are wel
CONDITIONS ALTERED
come.
Washington, Oct. 10. garding the amount Britain had in Following the war debt kon- mind to offer, as a basis of settle- versations to-day, Mr. Acheson rement. A vealed that Sir Frederick Leith- The British delega's asserted Ross urged the radically, altered that the United States tarif wall world economic contions.un had interfered with payments in foremen when the settlement was goods thus limiting the scope in made, za justification for the rp which, transfers could be made. „duction (of: Britain's" ooligations." The negotiations will be resum-
* No suggestion was: advance' ré- ed to-morrow. Reuter.
FIGHTING IN TURKESTAN
Turkis Leader Wounded
New Delhi. Och 11 Severe fighting between Tungans and Turkis' forces in Chinese Tur kestan has resulted in heavy losses on both sides.
A determined attack was laun- ched on the New City, Kashgar, by the Turkis on Sept 26, during which their leader Tem Fik Bey. was wounded,
Tungans' troops are at present holding the city under Ma Chan Tsang, Q
Yark and the New City are bez leved to be still hold by Turkis troops, although the Old City is re- ported to be held by a large force of Khotan troops Reuter
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