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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY SEPTEMBER
HUNDREDS DEAD
PIAGUE RAGING IN, MANCHURIA -
U.S. RECOVERY-
IMPEDED BY MANY STRIKES
PERSONAL MATTER
VATICAN REPLY TO PRAGUE. REQUEST
Romo, Sept. 20. Dairon, Sept. 20.
Washington, Sept. 20. The whole of Manchuria 18 unit! Widespread strikes. Involving The Vatican na net the Czecho- od in a thred line defence against 90,000 workers in various Indus- Slovakian request for the recall of Monsignor. the southward sweep of bubonie trics-in New York, Philadelphin, the Papal Nuncio, and pneumonic plague at present and New Jersey are worrying Pre-Cirneci, with the decision not to raging north of Supingkal, and sident Roosevelt and his assistants Intervenio in the matter, giving the claiming hundreds of lives. in the National Recovery Drive. opinion that the question is In-
The first dofonce is confined to
These strikes involve a sorlous significant and should be settled fighting the plague in districts impairment of purchasing power personally between the Papal Nun- known to be infected. The second when it is most needed to speed up clo and Czecho-Slovakian Govern. main defence extends to Cheng-business and re-employment.
mont-Reuter. chiatun on the Lino River, midway An uncertain factor is whether between Mukdon and Hainking, President Roosevelt will use infla- and the third and last check is at tlon to increase purchasing power. Supingkat.
Conflict of public opinion is die closed. on this point.
Mr. Henry Harriman, President
The trouble between the Papal Nuncio and the Government aruse when Msgr. Cirdeci wrote to the leader of the Slovak Popular Party, complaining that he had been in
The Kwangtung Government, the South Manchurian Rallway, the Japanese Embassy, Manchuko, the of the U.S.A. Chambers of Com-sulted in Prague... North Manchurian Railway and morce is of the opinion that Pre- The non-Catholic Press, follow- the U.S.S.R, are sparing no ex-sident Roosevelt docs not wanting the publication of the letter pense in maintaining rigorous in-money inflation but credit infla-accused the Nuncio of, interfering spection of all travellers,
tion, which he regards as being in the internal affairs of the coun Other anti-plaguo activities in- very sound.
try and of attempting to incite the clude the establishment of isola- Artongements have already been Slovake to separate from the rest tion houses, the disinfecting of made for commencing the construc-of the community. Manchu bath houses, a wholeenletion of 37 warships, including four The Cabinet çénsured the letter war on rata and the suspension of 10,000 ton cruisers, and involving and decided to request the recall river traffle.
an expenditure of £47,000,000. of Mnsgr. Cirnecl.
The last epidemic occurred in 1928 when 1,200 died.-Renter.
WANTED IN NORTH,
·HUANG FU'S DEPARTURE. DELAYED
Shanghai, Sept. 20. Although his presence in North China is urgently required, no date for General Huang Fu's departure has yet been fixed, says the Shum' Pao.
The newspaper adds that General Huang failed to reach a complete understanding with the Government concerning financial and diploniatic affairs in North China, and will not return until a settlement is reached.-Reuter. · ·
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MEMORIAL SERVICE. ECHO. OF ASSASSINATION OF TENG-WEN
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SHANGHAI TYPHOON.
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Shanghai, Sept. 20. Sections of tho dykes protecting the sea coast at Woosung collapsed night, leading to the destruction during the typhoon on Monday or 60 per cent of the cotton crop between Woosung and Paosban, Public bodies hore held a ser-four miles distant, according to vice to-day in memory of a sub- Chinese reports,
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