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SILM. PER ANNUM
RELIABILITY.
LONG MILEAGE
SAFETY.
DUNLOP
FARMERS KILLED BY ARMED BORDER RAIDERS
THE SECOND TEST
AUSTRALIA WINS THE TOSS
BRADMAN PLAYS
ONE CHANGE FOR ENGLAND
Melbourne, Dec. 30.
The Second Test match. opened here this morning before a large crowd in ideal weather. Australia won the toss and elected to bat. The wicket and outfield are both fast and heavy scoring is consider- ed likely.
Australia has made three changes from the side which leat the First Test, Ponsford, Nagel and Kippax giving way to Brad- man, Ironmonger and O'Brien. Ponsford is chosen as twelfth man.
• Jardine has made only one
MIZVANTUSIOONDAMNAEstate
INDEPENDENCE FOR PHILIPPINES
'
TEN-YEAR BILL GOES TO PRESIDENT
Washington, Dec. 29,
The House of Representa tives hús passed the Senate Bill granting independence to the Philippine Islands in ten
years.
The Bill now go to the 'President as both Houses are
agreed upon it. Reuter.
SHOT IN THE BACK
TRAGIC SEQUEL TO AN ATTEMPTED ROBBERY
COLD-BLOODED AFFAIR
Police in the New Territories
INIKERNBACHANANALIZAR££££tanut are scouring the countryside near
the border in an intensive search
INFLUENZA for three gunmen responsible for
AT HOME
SERIOUS EPIDEMIC IN BIRMINGHAM
LONDON LUCKIER
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a robbery accompanied by the kill- ing of two of the victims," which took place in an isolated spot near the Chinese border at 6 o'clock last evening.
The murdered men were Man Yung, aged 30, and Man Sha, aged 24, both farmers of Ping Tse Village, in Shataukok district.
A third man, Man Yuen-kwai, escaped and fed to Ping Tee
The Right Rev. Ronald C. Hall, who is to ba anthroned as Bishop of Victoria, Hongkong. He recently stated that he will not wear gaiters and apron, as gaitura make a Bishop "look like Mr. Pickwick t
fuberal**
FREE STATE~ WAKING UP
CALL FOR SETTLEMENT WITH BRITAIN
NATIONAL GOVT URGED
Dublin, Dec. 30.
the
EXCHANGE PUZZLE
NO RATES QUOTED IN SOUTH AFRICA
· GOVERNMENT'S
ATTITUDE
Pretoria, Dec. 29.
South Africa is definitely and irrevocably off the gold standard. Of that there is no further doubt,
The stirring appeal by Senator Vincent for the. formation of a National Party in the Irish Free State in opposition to
His Mr. de
Excellency
Governor although there is no intention by napped shaking hands with the Hon the South African Government Valera and his policies, has mat Mr. R. H. Kelewall at the opening of to join to sterling bloc with an
immmediate and ens tension, yesterday. (Photo: ': Yim the Tung Wak Eastern Hospital ex- thusiastic response in non-poli- tical circles.
The project has attracted wide- spread interest and with Mr. de Valera's majority in the Dail precariously balanced, the poli-
Vilinge, from where the police NEWFOUNDLAND ical situation is gathering in-
received an account of the affair.
Earlier in the day, Man Yung. came to Hongkong to sell rice, accompanied by two of his fokia.
VICTIMS IN PANIC.
CRISIS
COMMISSION TO BE APPOINTED.
PRICE SLUMP
FACTOR
terest daily,
Sanator Viricent has suggested that Mr. Coagrave and Mr. Mac Dermott, the leader of the Farmers
Party, coalesce to give a real lead
to the Free State. Up to the present, nelther Mr. Cosgrave nor Mr. MacDermott have indicated their views on the proposal.
MANSION HOUSE MEETING.
Fong).
GOLD TIDE TURNS
FRENCH EXPORTS TO AMERICA
HEAVY SHIPMENTS THIS MONTH
Paris, Dec. 29.
Mr. Havenga, the Minister of Finance, agreed that the gold standard had been abandoned in an interview with Router, and said that the banks are free to fix rates of exchange, which the Govern ment will make no attempt to influence.
The country's - monetary · policy will be decided by the Parliament of the Union In January.
NO RATES QUOTED.
One Interesting development...
during the day was the cancella
tion by the Reserve Bank of South Afrien of all exchange rates, no figures being quoted..
London, Dec. 29. Reports from various parts of England indiente that 1121 in-1 fluenzi epidemie provalis and that it has assumed considerable proportions, although it is stated
Returning home lu the evening. not to be so dangerous us that of three years ago. There were 30 they wore walking along a path between Kung Ling and Ping Tae. deaths from influenza last week.
and had progressed about half- In Birmingham, over thou way when they met three men Band workers in the various approaching from the other direc branches of the public services tion, who suddenly produced re-
The gold stream, after and the Post Offices were unable are absent from duty.
volvers and ordered them to put
A statement on the terms of the hell attended by a hundred and flowing for several years to undertake the despatch of According to the Public Health up their hands.
agreement between the Govern-thirty leading business and pro- from west to east, to France funds overseas on account of the Department of the London The victims were thrown into a
fessional men and presided over by from the United States, has action of the Reserve Bank. County Council, the position in panic, and instead of complying ments of Great Britain and Canada the Lord Mayor of Dublin. the metropolis is nothing out of with the order, took to their heels and Newfoundland regarding the i The meeting launched a new now set in the opposite change, Bowen coming in the ordinary for the time of the and scattered in different direc-assistance lent to the latter Gov-movement for the formation of a direction. additional shock bowler, replacing your.-British Wireless.
National Government embracing! Verity. Paynter is twelfth man.
ernment in meeting its. intérestall parties in the Dnil Elrann and The teams are as follows:
obligations has been issued by the the Senate. AUSTRALIA.
Dominions Office.
Ames, who is
agnis preferred to Duckworth on ac count of his batting and Bowes, who gets bis first chance in a Test Match.
Woodfull (Captain) Richardson,
Bradman,
McCabe,
Fingletoa,
O'Reilly,
Wall,
Ironmonger,
Grimmett,
Oldfield,
O' Brien,
ENGLAND.
D. R. Jardine (Captain)
G. O. Allen,
Nawab of Pataudi,
R. E. S. Wyatt,
Ames,
Hammond,
Larwood, Leyland,
Sutcliffe,
Bowca,
Você.
-Router.
B. & S. BOAT RESCUE
FISHERMEN SAVED IN YELLOW SEA
STIFF WITH COLD
(Special to "Tolegraph".)
-tions.
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ROBBERS OPEN FIRE.
Man Yung und Man Shu were shot
The robbers opened fire, and
down as they..ran.
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30, 95 d.m.)
Shanghai, Dec. 30.
London, Dec. 30.
It refers to the determined.at- tentpt-made by the Newfoundland
At the Munsion House, Dublin, yesterday, however, a meeting-waaj
PROPER METHODS.
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Banks throughout the country
con-
LONDON: INTEREST. The Intercat which has bien aroused În financial circles, in Nearly all bly vessels crossing London by the announcement of the Atlantic latterly have carried the
the suspension of valuable ballion cargoes to New vertibility of South African re York.
serve bank notes continues and In spite of the tendency, how events are being watched closely." The meeting passed a resolution ever, the opinion of qualified obAlthough no change was made Bullets whistled round Man Government, after the crisis of calling upon all those interested in servers is that there is no cause Yuen-kwai but he came through 1931, to put the country's finances the prosperity of the country, upion for alarm, although it means the in the nominal rates of exchange unscathed, and carried news of in order and how, with the assia.
further freezing of gold in between South Africa and London yesterday, business was confined the affair to the villagers. The tance of expert advisers from the all bellovers in peace by direct ne-America's vaults. police were already on the scene United Kingdom and Canada, and gotiation, to combine in one greal| France has no reason to fear.to very small transactions.
At the close of London Stock by the time he returned to the as a result of a strenuous effort national movement with the object France is still "brimful of gold." path and saw the dead body of by the whole community very large
The tlde
turned towards Exchange to-night, South African Man Shu, who had received two reductions in public expenditure of ending the economic war and America when on December 7, the mining shares remained on the wounds in the back, being taken were effected.
concluding trade agreements with gold dollar exchange rose to the weak alde, awaiting further news to the Mortuary.
Great Britain, to arrange to settle point at which it became profit- regarding the exchange position.
able to export gold to America, Reuter and British Wireless. namely, 26.62 francs.
In the three weeks'ended De- cember 23, at least 249,000,000 franes worth of gold "was export- ed to the United States and a further large consignment was despatched to New York to-day,
Man Yung, who was also shot in the back, was conveyed to the Kowloon Hospital, where ho died at 6.50 a.m. to-day.
No trace has been discovered of the gunmen, who were seen by After having abandoned every Man Yuen-kwal running in the hope of rescue, eight Ningo direction of Shataukok, heading fishermen were picked up by the for the Chinese border. 5.8. Shengking in the middle of! the Yellow Sea on Wednesday¦ morning.
The junk to which the men were clinging, nearly stiff with cold.;
DEATH OF MR. C. P. was badly water-logged and might
ROSS
have sunk at
any moment. The shermen were brought to Shanghai and later left for Ningpo. PASSES WHILST ON They alleged that their junk was
WAY HOME
wrecked by an unknown steamer, which made no effort to rescue' the crew.
The derelict craft had drifted
Many residents w] learn with the deepest regret of the death of for hundreds of miles on a strong
REVENUE DECLINE...
It was hoped that the budget for the annuities dispute, to casure the year ending June, 1933, could the maintenance of the Anglo-Irish be balanced by economics but Treaty subject to alteration by the there had been a further sharp fall
in the prices of the commodities in proper method.—Reuter. which Newfoundland is particul- arly interested, necompanied by a
serious decline in the public re- HAN VISITS YOUNG
venuo.
Recent information has made it clear that it is not possible for the
NEW IMPORT Newfoundland Government to pro-
DUTIES
ANGLO-INDIAN QUID PRO QUO
London, Dec. 29,
vide out of its own resources the full instalments of the interest due on January 1 on its external | debt.
MR. BENNETT CONSULTED.
MARSHAL
FIVE DAYS' TALK IN PEKING
Peking, Dec, 29. General Han Fu-chu, after five days' visit to Peking to confer During Mr. Bennett's recent with Marshal Chang Heub-liang. visit, an opportunity was taken to left this afternoon for Tientsin on consult him upon the aspects of his way to Tainan-Reuter. the situation of special interest to the United Kingdom and Canada and it has now been arranged that
Mr. C. P. Roen, of the British India current before the Shonking. a Following the passage by the S.N. Company's department of Butterfield and Swire vessel on the Indian Legislature of the Ottawa a loan shall be made available to Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Shanghai, Weihaiwel, Chefoo, Agreement, the Treasury has the Newfoundland Government to Cu. Hongkong.
Tientsin run, sighted her on Wed- lasued an order bringing those onable the service of the debt to The late Mr. Ross, who had been neaday morning-Renter.
in 1-health for some considerable |
time, left the Colony about two months ago, bound for Home, but i
w
parts of the Ottawa Agreements be met in fulli
Act Into operation which Im-1, Of this loan, one half will be ad- plement the Agreement with Indin vanced by the United Kingdom yon behalf of the United Kingdom. Government and the other half by
he was so Ill on arriving at Penang TOKYO RESEARCH The effect of the new Treasury the Canadian Government.
that he had to be taken ashore. Later, he was able to resume his voyage, and he arrived safely at Marseilles, where he was met by his wife. En route to London, however, he passed away December 17th.
on
The deceased gontleman, who had lived in Hongkong for many extremely popular years, WAS
amongst a wide circle of friends,
INSTITUTE
COMMISSION TO SIT.
Order is to impose as from January 1 duties upon various foreign imports, including husked The Newfoundland Government rice, linseed and various vegetable have agreed to the appointment of INVITATION TO MR. oils, while articles placed upon a Commission consisting of two
HOOVER
(Spacini to "Telegraph”)
(g Telegraph, Copyrights
being of a gonial disposition, and Message Ordinance, 1841. Keprived. Desember news of his death comes as a great | 0.2 m
Tokyo, Dec. 30. shock to all who enjoyed his
The National Economy Research friendship. Much sympathy will institute is planning to invito be felt for the widow and little President Hoover to Japan to daughter in their sad bereavement. give a series of lectures when, hoi
leaves offes In March next.
Reuter.
опо
STOP PRESS
JAPANESE GIRL'S
DEATH
the bulk of which came from the AFTER FALLING INTO
Bank of France.
The swing in the gold point pendulum, however, is not con.
HOT BATH
sidered to be responsible for any- A littlo Japanese girl, named thing like all the gold that has Hiroko Ikeda, aged three years and been exported from France.
ten months, met with a serious ac- A large amount, it is believed ideat at 20, Macdonnell Road on representa the movement af capital socking a again.-Reuter.
now field of Wednesday afternoon, as a conee- quenca of which she later died from her injuries.
MANCHURIA TAXATION
INCREASES ON A BIG SCALE
Tokyo, To-day. The South Manchurian Railway Is reported to be opening accounts with the Central Bank of Manchu- kuo, in order to place it on a firmer foundation.
The S.M.R. budget for the cur- real year totals Yan 170,000,000, compared with Ten 113,000,000 for the Manchukuo.
It appears that a hot, bathda
ittle girl and that and
been prepared in fell into
Silo was severely scalded, and, In a serious condition, was rushed to the Victoria Hospital. Every- thing possible was done for her, but she passed away yesterday morning.
LEAGUE LOAN TO AUSTRIA
FRENCH GUARANTEE BILL APPROVED
the free list Include shellac, members nominated by the United .of broken rice and indian hemp Kingdom Government,
whom will be appointed in con- sultation with the Canadian Goy- orment and a third nominated by FRENCH FINANCE the Newfoundland Government.
The purpose of the Commission will be to examine into the future had scored 42 runs for the lossa capital levy, the imposition of amendment, to the Austrian Loan
SENATE APPROVES CASH VOTE
Paris, Doc. 20.
of Newfoundland and In particular
At the lunch interval, Australia
to report on the financial situation of one wickat.-Router,
| and the....... prospects and measures necosanry to securò financial stabi- lity with a view to dedinions being reached and appropriate arrange.
The Senate to-day approved the ments made before the debt in- Cav. UR. A. D. Blánconf, Consul Tho Institute has been organle- General for Italy in South Chinn, weed by Mr. Chikuhei Nakashima,. Monthly Vote on Account, of five terest due on 1st July, 1999 mat- among the passengers who arrived in leading Parliamentary member milliard francs. The Government uros. Hongkong by the President Madison
on his patent from Shanghai and of the Selyukni and President of have now sufficient cash to last The Commission will be appoint- NAVI where he has been spending the Nakashima neroplane factory, until the next soasion in the ed as soon as possible,British
Router
middle of January.-Router:
Parlo, Dec. 29. The recently appointed special The Government having made finance committee has formulated the issue, a matter of confidence, plan for Manchuria, providing the Chamber to-day rejected by for an increase in the income tax, 387 votos, to 180 an Opposition inheritance, luxury, and gasoline Bill under which France taxes, as well as an increased tax on beer-Reiter.
At the Supreme Court to-morrow morning, before the Chief Justice,
of the guarantoos a portion League's three hundred militon schfiling loan to Austria-Router
The wedding will shortly take place Sir Joseph Kemp, the hearing of a between Mr. Jonquim Pedro Claudio petition for a receiving order against Xavier, of 1, Liberty Avenue, Kom- Mesers. Steger and Co,, general im-loon, and Miss |_ Clotoldo Mari porters and exporters, of 2, Connaught, Hyndman, 28, Kobinson Road, Hons Road Central, will take place, p kong