How Germany Will Deal With Unemployment
AGRICULTURAL, CANAL BUILDING AND ELECTRICAL SCHEMES
(Special to "Hong Kong Dally Press")
(By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphic Messager Ordinance, 1891- Received, March 28. 4.30 z.m.)
Berlin, March 27.
Reichs Labour Minister, Seldte, called the Berlin representatives of the foreign press together on Tuesday evening in order to give. a resume of the plans of the Reichs" government for dealing with unemployment during the the coming year.
The Minister began by remin- ding the gathering that at the end of February 1933, there were over six million workless in the Reichs whereas at the end of February this year there were only 3.4 mullions. This, said the Minister, is the best indication that the Government, is on the right track so that continuation of methods already so successful could pro- m/se the end the Government confidently expected to achieve.
GERMANY'S FOREIGN
TRADE
Berlin, March 27.
cerain misunder-
alternatives, writes
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1934.
ANGLO-SOVIET | NEW METHOD OF MR. ROOSEVELT
TRADE
New Pact Increases Business
London, Mar. 29. "The effects of the Anglo-Russian trade agreement are conspicuously shown in February returns. Russian purchases in Great Britain are 34 per cent, above February of last year; machinery is 264,075 against £35,127; textiles €17.155 against "£208; rubber £189.365 against £6,097; tea £175.834 against £32,084."
MORE RIOTING IN INDIA
To clear up standings respecting the Reichs The total of Russian purchases policy towards foreign trade and being £902,863 against £673,400. effect upon the Reichsmark cur- British shipping chartered by rency, the Reichsbank president, the Soviet also increased from Herr Schacht, published a state-33,200 tons In February 1933, to ment. special for a foreign trade 218,000 tons last month.-Reuter. number in which, he explains that Germany, under no circumstances can afford to dispense with her great foreign. trade. Germany has only two Schacht, either considerably re- duce her present standard of ly- Ing or to obtain the necessary raw materials by import. The col- lapse of the world economics com- monly called depression due to re- DRAINAGE OF SWAMPS
parations would have long ago Herr Seldte outlined the method been overcome had not the second in general which included agricul- serious mistake been made, name-
ly that the two chief tural drainage
creditor of swamps and
countries, Great Britain and the moorland, regulation of river United States, had both depreciat- courses, land settlement on smalled their currencies. Germany ab- farms, canal building. improve-
to follow this ment of postal traffic system" in
solutely declines example. the Relch, extension of gas, water rency but only the transfer pro-
Germany has no and electricity to isolated dis-blem..
rlets, house repair, and renova- tion. home building, and clearing cause, as foreign critics often say. Our position is strong not be- up of slums.
we are debtors but because mora- The Government has granted lity and common sense are both three and a half milliard marks on our side, this is the only sound
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cur-
Sub-Magistrate Killed
Madras, Mar. 28, An Indian sub-Magistrate and three police constables were killed during rioting in a village in the Tanjore district during a Hindu festival The police fred on the
rioters, killing three-Reuter.
TO RELIEVE
PAYING TAXES
DEFIED
Only Provincial Bank Representatives Over-
Notes Accepted
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Ride Veto
Washington, Mar, 27. The biggest vote against the Canton, March 28, Administration, up to the present, here to-day for the various coun-fices
2. batch of tax inspectors left occurred on the Independent of ties to ace the tax bureau are col-President Roosevelt vetoed on the Appropriations Bill, which lecting provincial bank-notes and ground that it contained increased not allver coins from the country
allowances to people.
war veterans and Government employees, greatly ex- ceeding the Budget estimate.
The House of Representatives voted 310 to 72 to over-ride the Presidential: veto.
Most of the paper money is cir- culated in Capton, for as a rule the country people are not accus tomed to using paper money and insist on being paid in 20-cent coins. Now that they have to pay tax in government bank-notes, the country folk will have to buy the potes here and pay their home
The voting in the Senate, to-day. is problematical-Reuter.
town tax bureaux for the various GREAT SPYING
imposts.
The duty of the tax
Inspectors is to prevent the bureau
officials from demanding cash,
are
the
British Effort To Stamp Out Lotteries
DRASTIC MEASURES CONTAINED IN NEW BILL
London, March 27.
ducted by newspapers or in con- participation in latteries in Eng-which does not depend to s Tub¬ Drastic measures to suppress nection with businesses, success in
ing and Lotteries Bill which was land are provided in the new bet-stantial degree on skill. read for a first time in the House would be able, on conviction, to Offenders under the measure. of Lords this evening.
heavy dnes on the first offence and to imprisonment for subse quent offences British Wireless
The purpose of the measure is to amend the law with respect to betting on tracks where "sporting events take place, including the horse race-courses, to authorise, law with respect to totalisators on
subject to restrictions, the estab- lishment of totalisators on dog race-courses, to prohibit betting on tracks with young persons under seventeen, and parimutuel betting except by authorised totalisators,
ORGANISATION and to amend the law regarding
Alarm In Czecho- Slovakia
lotteries.
The second half of the bill deals entirely with lotteries and"." prize competitions and is of a drastic character
People in the country naturally "glad to pay taxes in bank-notes, because under existing depreciation a one-dollar note can be bought with 90, cents silver. In other words, payment in paper currency means & reduction of ten
WHEN QUILTY per cent, of the taxes. However,
Every person will be guilty of an the circulation of the bank-notes.
Pague, Mar 27. offence who, in connection with "The greatest outside Canton will relieve
spy case. in the any lottery, either in Great Britain history of Czecho-Slovakia is rear elsewhere, prints, sells, distri local congestion and automatically vealed by the newspaper, Narodny-butes, offers or advertises, or has raise the value of these notes.
The present dull season in Can-
Listy.
In his possession, for sale or dis- ton is due not so much to business have been arrested
Already three hundred people tribution, any lottery tickets; or depression as to the depreciation participation in a great espionage tes, or has in his possession for for alleged who prints, publishes or distribu- bank-note crisis has a bad effect journal, which states that a num-a lottery, any matter descriptive of the provincial bank-notes. The organisation, according to: the distribution, any advertisement of an government revenues, and as a ver of employees of the famous of a drawing or intended drawing result Mr. Lin Yun Kal Chairman Skoda Armaments Works at Pilsen of a lottery, or any list, whether of the Kwangtung Provincial Gov-are included. ernment, has embarked on a re-
complete or not, of the prize win- trenchment polley by eliminating also been detained as the result of lottery, or any other matter relat- Workers at other factories have nera, or the winning tickets in a innecessary officials and delaying police investigations into the rämling to a lottery, being matter of not productive in nature.
nature calculated to act as an in- It is alleged that espionage was ducement to persons to participate being carried out in Czechio-in that lotters or in other lotter- Slovakia by two different groups, zes. Communist group for the Soviet 2 Nazi group for Germany, and a
Reuter,
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to finance these plans. The Min-way to recover for Germany its UNEMPLOYMENT all construction works which are fications of the organisation.
ister then announced that although former importance in foreign, that the Budget for 1934 made provi-is, world trade.-Transocean Kou
sion for these gigantic operations, Mi
It was balanced without any de-
felt. Thus these plans in no way represented a danger to the stabil ity of the currency. That this is sols proved by the fact that after one year's fight against un- ämployment the amount of cur- rency circulation has not been sub- stantially Increased.
RELIEF WORK
The relief work, said the Minis- ter, is undertaken in full consciou- sness that such measures were only of a temporary nature, the main object being to give such stimulus that the workless would soon be engaged in normal ways thus ren- dering refer scheme superfluous. For instance, the scheme of grant- ing loans to enable young couples to marry helped the labour mar- ket by creating an increased de- mand for furniture, clothing, house fittings as well as taking women out of men's jobs.. Besides those
U.S. NAVY
To Be Increased To Treaty Limits
WASHINGTON, MARCH 28. MR. ROOSEVELT HAS SIGNED THE VINSON BILL AUTHORISING BUILDING THE UNITED STATES' NAVY UP TO THE LIMITS PER MITTED BY THE LONDON NAVAL TREATY-REUTER..
U.S. GRAIN MARKETS
Many Factories Being Built
Canton, March 28. With a view to promoting home industry and relieving the jobless, the Provincial Department, of Re- construction
been making haste in carrying out the plans for establishment of factories in this 'province.
has
According to the Department those which have already started operation are the Sai-chuen Ce- ment Works, the Sulphuric Acid Factory, and the Bik Flature, and those in process of construction are the Sai-chuen Electric Power House, the Sodium Factory," the Sugar Refinery, the Hemp Filature, the Cotton Mill. the Woollen Cloth Factory, the Beer Brewery, the Paper Manufactory. the
Steel
public works mentioned, the Gov-Exodus of Speculators Works, and the Hyro-electric Power
'ernment has embarked on the work
of covering Germany with motor roads. Other engagements such
as voluntary labour service, em- ployment of youths on farms and other forms of supplementary `la- bour, Government has aiready ar- ranged to procure. Nevertheless "the Government expects that the brunt of the burden of finding work will be voluntarily underta- ken by private enterprise
Finally, the Minister emphasised the need for stimulation of Ger- many's export trade which, he said, could not be dispensed with-Tran- sacán Kuo Min.
HAKODATE
Expected
New York, March 28. An exodus of professional specu- lators from the grain markets to other commodity exchanges is an ticipated by trade circles If the Smith Bill is passed. The Bill is the first legislative expression of the administration's proposals for a regulation of commodity changes. The Bill, which was in- froduced to Congress amends the Grain Future's Act and aims at re- gulating transactions by providing means for limiting short-selling apeculation. Dealings in grain fu- tures by a comratssion of mer-
ex-
House
Press.
Yong-kong-Central
nsa
Bome of the government bureaux will be merged into one means to cut down expenses, and a single organ may take the place of various industriaf bureaux.
L.L.C. TOWN PLANNING SCHEME
London, Mar. 27,
It was announced at a meeting of the new London County Coun cil to-day that instructions have been given for the preparation of a town planning scheme for Lon- don.-British Wireless
STOP PRESS
London, Mar, 28. Two holiday express trados from London to Edinburgh with hundreds of sleeping passengers collided in a dense fog at 2 a.m. At Doncaster the first train was held up by a signal the second dashed in the back thereof and smashed the refrigerator van, which was laden with meat and
ALLEGED SOVIET foodstaffs and the parcels van
AGITATORS
Expelled From Manchukuo
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Harbin, Mar. 28. This morning nine., Soviet Com- munist agitators, C. E. R. emTM ployees, who are alleged to be im-
FIRE chants will be regulated by licensing plicated in anti-Manchucktio con-
DISASTER
Death-Roll Increases Daily
Hakodate, Mar. 28.
As the search among the ruins of Hakodate continues, the num- ber of victims discovered is in- creasing daily.
The death roll is now expected to exceed two thousand, Already 1,878 are known to have died the fre. The property loss is. about: 150,000,000 yen-Reuter.
AUSTRALIA'S TEST TEAM
Sails For England
Fremantle, Mar. 28... The Australian Test cricketers sailed for England-to-day, aboard the ss. Orford, a military band playing!" "Australia's Sons Let's Rejoice For We are Young and Free."
measures.-Reuter.
AMBITIOUS AIR SHIP SERVICES Forecast By Dr. Eckener
London, Mar. 28: vices were forecast by Dr. Eckener Three trans-Atlantic airship ser- in a speech in London last night;" arstly, Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro; secondly, Rio de
Janeiro to Washington and Europe; thirdly, North America (possibly Washington) to a junction near the Fyreness and on to the Dutch Indies,
Four, airships will be needed, each to carry nity passengers, half a ton of mails and 15, to 20 tons of high grade freight-Reuter.
NEW ITALIAN RAILWAY
Special to the Hong Kong Dally
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spiracies have been deported, to the U.S.S.R. M. Slavutskyvisiť- ed of the Foreign Ministry and strongly protested. He declared the men to be innocent.-Reuter.
REICHSMARK QUOTA. TIONS
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).]
Berlin, March 27. Reichsmark quotations (without suarantee);
and tore away the end of the mail van but the steel framed pás- senger coaches resisted the shock. No person was hurt.
SILVER MARKET (From Our Special Correspondent)
London, March 28.- London silver prices to-day were as follows:-
Mar. 28 Mar. 27
191 20
FRENCH CIVIL SERVICE
All Departments Heavily "Axed"
Paris, Mar. 27. Eighty
thousand French civil servants are "to be retired and their positions left vacant by vir- tue of a Cabine; decision which will be made known by decree in a few days, according to reliable reports.
Simultaneously, the "pluralism". system, under which, very often, ane Government official occupies several posts, will be abolished.
Que of the most important ef- fects of these economy measures will be a considerable reduction in the appropriations for State salaries, .'
an
It is estimated that the total saving, will be in the region of Fr.2,500,000,000,
appreciable proportion of the economies totall- ing four miliards of francs needed to balance the Budget Reuter.
THREE COMMUNISTS BEHEADED
Dusseldorf, Mar. 27. Three Communists were behead- ed this morning for killing a Naz "Spot
storm-trooper on June 6 last year Forward ...... 19.15/16 29.1/18 in the course of a Communist at- The London on New York cross-
jack on the headquarters of the rate at the closing to-day was storm-troops at. Erkrath $5.10 1/16...
New York.... Paris
Amsterdam
39.67
603.11 58.96 77,46 15.1825 ransocean Kuo Min.
Paris Sterling. Dollar
Japanese Cement In Hong
Kong
ITS USE QUESTIONED IN HOUSE
OF COMMONS
London, March 27 nine cases, and mixed cement in All Australia was tuning in to :
Rome, March 27: In the House of Commons, yes- two cases, bear the farewell ceremonies over- The Ministry of Communication terday, the Conservative member The Becretary of State for the
announces that the new railway for Stockport. Mr. S. 8 Hammer- Colonies, Bic Phillip Cunliffe Lis will be opened on 23rd April. The aley, inquired why, despite His ter, replied that it was a univer-. opening of the Florence Bologna Excellency the Governor of Hongeal practice in all Colonial Govern Ene, which cuts the distance be- Kong's assurance that as much ments, to give preference to Brit tween Rome and the north by over British cement as possible, shouldish goods when possible.....
the wireless, but they were disap- pointed by an announcement that a ban on broadcasting as well as upon writing had been decreed by the Board of Control,
The members of the Davis Cup teain salled at the same time, They were subject to a similar ban, -Reuter.
D
1 hours, the great advantage derly be used for public works, out of He was unaware of the circum- 42 Jobs, the Government had spect- stances to which Mr. Hammersley ded Japanese cement in 30 cases, referred, but promised to Inquire. locally-manufactured cement in Reuter
ing from Increasing speed is to be extended to foreign traffic after May, 15 Transocean Kuo Min,"
General Goering, commuted to life imprisonment, the sentences of death passed upon seven other Communists for complicity.-Reu- ter.
LATE DOWAGER QUEEN EMMA
Simple Funeral Ceremonies
The Hague, Mar 27,
The funeral cortege of the late Dowager Queen Emma proceeded in solemn state through thronged -streets to the Palace Royal Mausoleum at Delft, which con- tains the remains of the Dynasty from William VI to the present day,
At the request of Queen Wilhel most simple character, involving mina, he ceremonies were of the the absence of foreign royalties. Reuter,
The Hague, March 28.4 Hague Mr. Wunea King, accom
The Chinese Minister af the panied by the Chinese attache estatalane of the late Queen Emma Mr. Wu, fald a wreath on the In the name of the Chinese Repat He, Mr. King also attended the burial service at Delft Renter
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bring or to invite any person to It is also made an agence to
send lottery tickets or advertise- ment into Great Britain for sale or distribution to send or to at tempt to send money received, or any document recording the sale or distribution or identity of the holder of any lottery ticket out of Great Britain, or to use any pre- mises or permit their use for pur- Doses connected with a lottery.
*EXCEPTIONS
CUNARD-WHITE
STAR MERGER
Bill Passes House Of Lords
LONDON, MARCH-28. THE HOUSE OF LORDS, TO- DAY, PASSED THE THIRD READ- ING OF THE CUNARD-WHITE STAR MERGER AILL WHICH IS NOW AWAITING ROYAL ASSENT.. -REUTER.
U.S. MINISTER AT DUBLIN
To Present Creden tials to Gov. Gen.
Washington, Mar 27. The "American State Departmens has announced that the United States Minister to the Irish Free State, Mr. McDowell, is expected Hand .bls. Credentials to the Governor General in the cus- tomary manner.
to
He merely paid, yesterdag, the usual official call on President Eamon De Valera, as the Foreign Minister" left with him the usual-
Execmption is given to small lot duplicate credentials which were terles, incidental to certain enter, addressed, "George the Fifth, De-
fender of the Faith."-Reuter. tainments, where the prizes, are not in money and are not the only inducement to persons to attend the entertainment
Frivate lotteries, conducted by members of a Society established for other than gaming, and among, persons who work or live on the same premises, are also exempted.
The Bill also contains restric- tiens on prize competitions con-
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
London, Mar, 27. In the Scottish League, on the ground of the Clyde F. C. to-day, Hearts defeated Clyde by two goals to one. Reuter,
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