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DUNLOP Fort
In a class by itself
DUNLOP
FORT
SMUGGLERS OPEN FIRE ON CUSTOMS CRUISER
Devastating Reply With Machine-Gun Fire
INSURANCE FOR JOBLESS
un-
Will United States Be
Converted ?\
Washington, Oct. 22. The question of employment Insurance in the United States will be tackled by the Administra- tion on October 25th when Miss Perkins, Secretary of Labour, will summon State and officials, economists labour experts to a confer-
ence.
Sir William Beveridge, Director of the London' School of Economics, has .been invited to attend in an advisory capacity.Reuter.
LIN TIN ENCOUNTER
WOUNDED SEAMAN'S
·STORY
A JUNK FLEET SURPRISED
Five men were killed and two wounded in a one-side battle between a Chinese Maritimes Customs cruiser and an alleged smuggling junk near Lin Tin on Friday night.
Whe
One of the wounded men Chow Moon, a Beaman in the Customs servico, who was met with a volley of shots when lead.
INLAND SEA Ing a boarding party.
TRAGEDY
SEARCH FOR BODY
OF MRS. PREVOST
Ho foll with a wound in the
chest, after which the junk was raked with machine-gun fire, alli
Impressive scenes marked the funeral on Saturday of the late Colonel A. H. Kinnaird Watson, when the above photo was taken. (Ma Chaung),
DALADIRE'S NEW JOBS IN
RESPITE
on deck being killed with one CABINET MAY ESCAPE
exception.
Chow Moon told a thrilling story
of the engagement to a Telograph}.
representative..
It was at about 8 o'clock on Friday night that the Customs
DEFEAT
HOPES RISE OF
NOT RECOVERED cruisor came into contact with on COMPROMISE
emugglers' flest. Chow Moon Tokyo, Oct. 23, claims to have boon the first to presence, when
In spite of what appeared to discover their he authentic reports regarding weeping the seas with his glass, the recovery and identification of the copied the leading junk slink- the bodies of Mrs.-E. J. Prevesting past Lin Tin, and promptly and Mrs. Milnor-Barry, who were reported to his Commander. drowned when the Yashima Maru sank during a typhoon in the Inland Sea, the British Consulate. at Kobo Informed Router to-day that the body of Mrs., Pravoet was still missing.
WARNING SHOT.
110
on
Paris, Oct. 22.
A definito issue on the Budget proposals had not been reached when the Chamber adjourned until to-morrow.
favourable omen
AMERICA
OVER 3,600,000TM RE-EMPLOYED
LABOUR LEADER'S DEMANDS
sary.
ROAD BLOCKADES IN OHIO
FIRST ACTION IN FARM STRIKE WAR
PRESIDENT URGES PATIENCE
WASHINGTON, OCT. 22.
·OUR TROUBLES WILL NOT BE OVER TO- MORROW. IT MAY TAKE A YEAR. IT MAY
Captain Manners, H.M.S. Suffolk, anapped on Saturday with some of the Indy flag sellers. (Mee Chaung).
TAKE THREE YEARS but we are headed in the CARNERA right direction, declared President Roosevelt to-night in his nationwide broadcast.
The President made the occasion one for his first plain statement on financial policy; indicating that stabilisation, and not inflation, Was con- templated,
In an effort to placate 'the farmers, he declared that farm products prices would be forced up by some
means or other.
Meanwhile, the first action in the farm strike war has occurred at James, Chio, where farmer pickets have blockaded the roads leading to Sioux City, forcing several lorries to come to a standstill. No violence was displayed, the lorry drivers accepting the situation philosophically.
MR. ROOSEVELT'S BROADCAST
strike.
RETAINS TITLE
UZCUDUN PUTS UP GAME DISPLAY
BOUT GOES FULL DISTANCE
Rome, Oct. 22, Primo Carnera, the so- called Ambling Alp, retained the world's heavyweight championship to-night beat-
Washington, Oct 22. Over 3,000,000, workers have| been found re-employment since March, announced Mr. William H. Green, President of the Federation of Labour to-night.
President Roosevelt appealing time, however, pending the broad-ing Uzcudun, the challenger, Ile added, however, that despite for patience disclaiming any becast to the nation which Pre-on points in a fifteen rounds A warning shot, sent across the
The reapite is considered to be this marked improvement there lief that trade recovery could be sident Roosevelt, has promised for contest.
The bout was delayed for over bows from the cruiser's three-
for the were still ten millions out of work, stage-managed in a day, said that to-night." have
hence shorter hours, such as could four million mon had been re- Threat of a fight is made by two hours, but provided a keen. pounder, appeared to effect other than to cause an Daladier Government.
, Daladier still has grounds be achieved by fixing a thirty-hour employed since the Recovery Mr. Milereno, however, who left encounter when the contestants did The funeral of Mrs Milnere unusual bustle and activity
It was unreasonable-to-expect board, from which the contingency for hoping that the Radicals and week in all Industries were neces- machinery was established, but for Chicago to-night with the appear, Barry took place in a local cume-became more than evident that the Socialists will be able to come
Mr. Green said that the apparent every State and locality in the wed objective of enlleting the Carners won his fight despite in his right hand, rendering · it tery this morning..
the smugglers intended to give to an agreement enabling a com A number of Japaneso officials, battle.
He asserted that the strike was practically useless, the long including Admiral Arızaka, were Rapidly gaining on the 000 feet promise to be reached on the pro- buying power of the workers had huge territory of the United awaymon's support for the the fact that he fractured a bolte
starch and September, but owing equally and simultaneously.
a battle to determine whether the present.
first separating them, the cruiser Poned six per cent, cut in the increased. 30.7 per cent between States to share the improvement
to the rise in prices the real in-
farmers had become the mental Lieutenant-Commander Prevest closed in with the smuggler, and salaries of civil servants.
The survival of the Cabinet is, creases was only 20.5 per cent,
slaves of usurers and industria- Lieut. Commander Milner-Chow Moon claims to have been
He estimated the employment
lists.. Barry have arrived in Kobe and the first to leap aboard the junk, in fact, now conaldered to be a
increase at half a million monthly expect to rejoin II.M.S. Eagle in leading a boarding party after a definite possibility.
picturesque fashion of old.
"Even Government forces in the between April and July, 580,000 Hongkong.
They were met by à fusilade of
have been resist-in August and September. These Meanwhile the search for the shots, and Chow Moon fell wound-chamber body of Mra. Provost is
con-ed, with a shot through the left ing the salary and pension reduc-later figures were the more strik- tions suggested by the Premier. ing as industrial production dur- ing August and September de- of his chest. tinuing-Reuter,
The attitude of Hitler and Gerlince by about eleven per cent many's withdrawal from the arma conference and the League of Reuter... Nations is considered by officials as strengthening the Cabinet but political squabbling la stil) viewed LIQUOR DUTY IN an overshadowing the interna- tional crisis.
and
THE POU YUI-YI INCIDENT
FRENCH EFFORT AT MEDIATION
FIVE KILLED,
It was then that the machine- gun on the cruiser was brought Into play, and a devastating hail of lead poured into the ranks of the smugglers, five of the six crew were killed.
M. Daladier urges that the heaviest sacrifices must be made
AMERICA
The Government intended to ease the gold embargo and to create A Government market for gold under the operation of the Finance Re- construction Corporation.
COVERNMENT EFFORTS.
FOCAL POINT.
The contest was fought under floodlights in the Piazza di Stona, before flity thousand spectators, including Signor Mussolini and the British Ambassador,
GAME FIGHT.
re-
It was Italy's first opportunity of In an attempt to meet the wishes of the farmers, the Farm Ad-seeing their champion in action in The R.F.C. would be authorised ministration has suggested an Ima championship contest and his to buy newly-mined American gold mediate loan of seventy-two cents victory was received with a at prices to be determined from a bushel on their wheat, which is markable demonstration of on- time to time.
estimated to require $260,000,000, thuslem `The Dollar, he added, would The re-financing of farm debts is Uzradun put up a wonderfully being speeded up while Farm Debt game fight. He tackled his glant bo revalued after the restora- Conciliation Board have bean es- opponent with the courageor a
Spanish bull and took punish tion of price levels, and main-tablished in fifteen States,
ment in the early rounds which tained so that it will not
would have knocked cut losa courageous mangg change in purchasing or debt-
New York, Oct, 22.
For sheer pluck, he took the paying power in the succeeding-
The focal point of the farmers honours of the fight, but Carmora generation.
strike movement is apparently in actually won every round of the The United States is, in fact, Des Moines, Iowa, where Mr. contest with the exception of the A programme to obtain al
Uzcadun's eyebrow was opened in anid President proclaiming the strike yesterday, Mr. Kam Chiu-hou and the Japan- by another Customs cruiser which that the heaviest pressure, had minimum of five hundred million committed for the time being at Milereno, Chairman of the Farm tenth in which the battlers broke ndinnor had joined the first, two more been brought to devaluate the dollars in revenue from the liquor least to a managed currency, Itera Holiday Association, officially fairly even es Consul-General to
Signor Mussolini watched every cultural programme was neither reception at the French Consulate captive junks were added to the French currency but declared that tax in the Arst sear after the Roosevelt, to take the gold value stated the administration's agri-the fifth round.
his government was as determined ropeal of prohibition is being of the dollar firmly in our own economically sound nor corrective movement of the fight with Interest. yesterday, at which M. Bonnafoune prize-flect.
to mediate between
No
The sole survivor, himself bad- ly wounded, surrendered without further resistance.
Canton, Oct. 23.
The upshot of the battle had a new developments. In the salutary effect on the other junks are reported. of the fleet. The one following- Pou Yui-yl caso The Franch Consul-General at in the wake of the firsat, was cap. Shameen, M. Bonnafouac, invited fured, and in further operations
tried
parties,
the
to assure the balancing of the LARGE INCREASE budget. It was on this issue that
he took office lust winter.
BIG DEFICIT SEEN.
He told the Radical Socialists
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SUGAR CARCOES. Loaded to their utmost capacity, It appears that the Japanese with sugar which was obviously Consul-General is still awaiting intended to be contraband, the DEATH OF CAPT.
instructions from Tokyo before junks and their crews were es-" making a definite reply to the corted to the Kongmoon Customs Chinese protest,
In the meantime a wireless call bnd brought the fast Customs
MR. LIN SEN
PRIVATE VISIT TO FUKIEN
Foochow, Oct. 23. Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the Nanking National Government, is proceeding to Fullen, his native province, on board the gunboat Yingaul. He is expected hore this afternoon.
Station.
A. H. STEWART
•
cruiser Kengmoon to the scene, FORMER CHINA COAST
SHIP'S OFFICER
with a medical officer and first-aid Aupplies, and. Chow Moon was transferred aboard
and
hor
brought to Hongkong, where he
REVENUE
Washington Oct. 29.
drafted by the Administration.
It will necessitate raising the 'domestic tax from $1.10 to 82.60 a gallon, while the present import thx of $6 a gallon fixed by the Waya and Means Committee of the House of Representatives will pro- bably be reduced,..
at 150,000,000 gallons and the domestic supply is only 100,000,- Nows has been received in the 000 gallons-Router. is now at the Government Civil Colony of the untimely death of
Tam Yuichi, allad Tam Chung, Hospital. It is thought that al- Captain A. H. Stewart, formerly
merchant, of Tol Shan district, dlod though seriously injured, his life
skipper of the Douglas steamship on July 18, 1927, leaving $7,900. Letters of administration with the le not endangered.
will annexed to the extató have been Haining,
Captain Stewart, for years one granted to Tam Chi.shi, widow. of the most popular men on the China coast, died at Home on
Lin Tin is outside British waters, in the Canton River delta,
COOLER WEATHEIL
His visit is said to be of privatd
The Royal Observatory. reports nature, according to his spokesman, that the anticyclone over China has
Central News Agency,
incrensod considerably in intensity; Japan.
A Chinese woman was admitted to
| Saturday,
necessary,
International influences. hands to prevent disturbance from
so far as farmers' ills were con- cerned,
"Our demands, petitions and
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UZCUDUN'S PLUCK. GOLD DEALINGS.
Before the bout, Max Schmeling, Whenever necessary, he added, prayers have been made a politi- the German champlon, was taken the Government will buy or sell cal football for Jingo politicans into the ring and introduced to the gold in the international markot who are controlled by Wall Street crowd. He shook hands with both The strike association has do
contestants.d po Uzcudun fully earned the ap plause with which he was greeted
only verdict possible. Reuter
CATHEDRAL FUND
It is estimated that fifty million in order to continue the move to- money lords," he declared, as, the consumption is estimated / maintain continuous control?spatched a flying squad to other when the refered announced the
He was far from satisfied with Middle West states to urge far- gallons will have to be imported warda a managed currency and to
the rise in the prices of farmers there to join the strike, the producta. It was his policy to chief aim being the halting of Increase and extend the rise in foreclosures on farm mortgages,
VIOLENCE DEFENCE, prices, which had not hitherto felt benefit,
Undoubtedly many farmers in the Middle West are very des porate but other large bodies are reluctant to embarrass the N.I.R.A.
The following donations to tho by joining the strikers.YAAN A
Miloreno, meanwhile, la' report-St. John's Cathedral Repair Fund ed to have announced that farmers have boda recolved inco, the last Washington, Oct. 22.
Victoria A mighty tug-of-war bemust not be dispossessed of their listing
homes and that violence would be Nursing Staff, tween President Roosevelt used to prevent sugh an oven- Hospital and two million indignant The effect of the farmora netion Latliam
tuality If necessary, Mr and Mrs. H. Reg.
Notice has been given of the forth- coming wedding of Mr. II, A. de He joined Moasri. Douglas, Figueiredo, clerk, of Liberty Avenue, Lapraik and Co., in 1804, and re- Kowloon, and Miss Amalia Maria Inquished his command on the s.s. D'Assumpc
"and if it cannot be done one way, we shall do it in another." -Reuter,
TUG OF WAR
LATEST DONATIONS ACKNOWLEDGED
a depression covers the Sea of Hiloing in October, 1931, when he wedding is announced to take farmers from twenty-three will not likely be known imme-M. F. Kay
precooded Homa on retirement,
diately, though the repercussions Previously acknowledged Shipping circles both in Hong place shortly of Mr. John Merlin Jay: States is in prospect. Local forecast North-east-
are partly responsible for a fall the Government Civil Hospital yester day after attempting suicide by winds fresh fine to cloudy, pro-kong and on the China coast will engineer oflour, B.F.A.Francol,
The situation in the farm striken prices on the Stock Exchange,¦ and Miss Dorothy Allee Crawley, of bably some light rain; cooler, - fool his death a movere loss. swallowing opium,
2, Ventris Road; Happy Valley. district is quiet at the present-Router
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