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No. 14164
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1933. H一十月十
HITLER'S SPEECH AT BORDER
VICTIM'S FUNERAL
RUPEE'S LINK WITH
STERLING
No Change of Policy Contemplated
London, Nov, 27. In the House of Commons to-day, the Secretary for India, Sir Samuel Hoare. said there had been no the Cavern- alteration. in
ment's policy in regard to the rupeo. which was to with the link maintain sterling at the rate that had prevailed since the, Currency Act was passed by Indian
in 1927.- Legislature British Wireless,
"MARTYR" FOR GERMAN CAUSE
HINT TO NAZIS IN AUSTRIA
Borlin, Nov. 27.
The Reichswehr soldier, Schumacher, the victim of the Reithimwinkel incident, given a State military funeral at Nuremberg this afternoon.
was
It was distinguished by the pre- sence of Herr Hitler in person, as well as General Blomberg, the
CAMILANUARYLYLYNNI Minister of Defence, and the
leader of the Reichswehr.
THE RAFFLE QUESTION
BISHOP HALL'S VIEWS
· UNDESIRABLE AND UNWORTHY
Bishop Hall takes a strong
General Blomberg deposited wreath on the grave on behalf of President Hindenburg:
Herr Hitler, In a speech follow- ing the gravesitle ceremony, des lie cribed Schumacher as a martyr for the German cause.
SACRIFICIAL DEATH.
He declared: "If millions of our fellow tribesmen.ncross the fron- Lier were able freely to raise thair voices, they would solemnly brenk with the murderers of Schumacher and their principles.
"The sacrificin) death of Schu-
line against the organisation of macher must not become a source raffles in a letter communicated of embitterment, but of firm fulth in the homogeneousness of all Gormans."--Reuter,
to the Telegraph to-day.
The Blahop writes:
public Sir, In view of the
in the Interest at the moment queation of raffles and gambling and the fact that many Christian people have asked me my opinion about it, I ahall be glad if you. would-kindly-allow-me space to give my views.
sible.
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French political difficulties. M. Marny, President of the Finance Commia. sion of the Chamber, talking to journalists at the Elyses.
FUKIEN CAMPAIGN
CHIANG KAI-SHEK TO LEAD
AIR, LAND AND SEA OPERATIONS
Nanking, Nov. 28.
The Government is about to take decisive action against the Fuklen "Poople's Government." In well-informed circles it is ex- pected that Marshal Chiang Kal- shok will assume command of al punitive expedition to Fukien.
..
The Seventeenth Nanking Army
UNION STOCKYARD PARALYSED
Chicago Strike For Wage Increase
Chicago, Nov. 27.
The Union stockyards, the
largest in the world, wore paralysed by a strike to-day, when seven thousand members of the Livestock Handlers Union downed toola in support of their demand for restoration of the 1920 wage rate.
The main entrances to the yards were picketed. Scores of trains laden with livestock were strand- ed in the yards, but were un foaded by "white collar" squads. -Reuter,
has been mobilised for the Fuklen-macam A Cheklang frontier on which hostilities are now expected at
nny moment.
Extensive troop movements are: taking place in Hupeh and Hunan, The Hupeh army under General Hou Yuan-chuen has been orderedi to concentrate at Yochow to await transport to Nanking, while their posts in upch will be
the division under) Commander Fan Shek-aang.
FAMOUS ACTOR A CHINESE occupied by
DIES OF
HEART ATTACK
J
FRENCH STAGE FAVOURITE
M. FIRMIN GEMIER
HIKER
WALKS FROM HONAN
TO LONDON.
THREE YEARS OF ?JOURNEYING.
London. Nov. 27.
NANKING WARNING.
Nanking, Nov. 28. The Nanking Government has any that Informally declared obligations illegally entered into by the Fukien rebel Government with foreign countries will not be recognised by the Central Govern- mentCentral News.
CONFERENCE called. Nanchang, Nov. 27. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has summoned the commanders of
EXPRESS
WRECK
BATTLE
FOUR JAPANESE KILLED; EIGHT WOUNDED
C.E.R. EPISODE
Harbin, Nov. 28. The wrecking of the Siberian Express caused re- markably few casualties.
There were over alx hundred passengers On board, and''ab
STRANGE OPIUM together there were eight coaches
ALLEGATION
PERSIA SUPPLYING
MANCHURIA
WITH BRITAIN'S SUPPORTI
London, Nov. 27.
wrecked when the engine jumped the damaged raila and hurtled down the embankment at "fifty miles an hour, yet only ten pay- sengers are seriously injured, none being killed. ·
The lightness of the casualty roll is attributed partly to the fact that the Pullman conches were of all-steel construction.
BANDITS ROUTED.
Eighty Japanese guarda stormed and routed the bandits,, who were entrenched in a nearby blockhouso murderous fire into
Allegations that opium is and poured being transported from Persia the helpless and freezing pas- into Manchurin, largely in Bri-sengers as they climbed out of tich ships, and that the authori- the wreckage..
ties at British ports and de. Four Japanese soldiers were pendencies en route are facilitat-killed and eight wounded in the ing the traffic, were made by Mr.attack on the blockhouse. Tho Rhys Davies' during question-number of casualties among the time in the House of Commons bandits is not known, but is be to-day.
lieved to have been heavy. Sir Jonh Simon, Foreign Secret
Paris, Nov. 27. M. Firmin Gemier, the S. C. Poon, twenty-one years various armies to Nanchang for aary, replied that as far as could be KIDNAPPED RELEASE. famous French actor and of age, a native of Honan Pro-military conference.
The anti-Fukien expedition, it le lascertained,, the suggestion made. The Japanese troops succesdeă - by Mr. Rhys Davies was unfound-in securing the release of the director of the Odeon vince, China, has arrived in learned, will mainly consist of ed.
Sir John pointed out that the passengers who were kidnapped in Theatre, died to-day follow-London having walked all the strong detachments from Central
Government forces other than Sino-Japanese Committee of the the early stages of the affair. ing a heart attack. He was way, except of course scross those now engaged in "Red", sup- Assembly of the League of Nations The express was bound from
the Channel.
pression in Klangal.
had adopted a recommendation to Harbin to Manchull. It crashed 63 years of age.
Besides instituting an effective their Governments in regard to at 9.40 p.m. between Lamatiensu blockade of the Fuklen seaports, the application to Manchuria and and Shacknotzu, near Teltaihar the Central Government is plan- Jeho of the provisions of the Reuter. force to assist in the operations gard to oplum, and the Advisory ning the despatch of a strong air International Conventions in re- against Fukien.-Central News.
M: Gemler
allowed NO FURTHER PROTEST (1) Rates-I never
OFFERED
was outstanding Poon travelled by way of Tibet, any kind of raffle to be held in
among modern French actors. He India and Persin, passing through my own parish at any bazaar for! which the Church was respon- As the construction engineers was an ardent admirer of Shake-
I have no right to make anticipated, the 270 labourers speare and was said to be one of Turkey, the Balkan States, Aus- the same ruling for Christian working on the Hongkong and the greatest "Shylocke" the French tria, and France.
The journey has taken him near- | Churches in the Diocese, but Shanghai Bank site, who came out stage ever produced. would like all Christian mon and on strike yesterday as a protest In recent years he had devotedly three years. Several other women to know that in my view against the introduction of the his ettorts to the organisation of Chinese youths started the long
and un- undesirable
European, tally system. returned an International Society of the to work this morning. The men Theatre, (2) Gambling.-Gambling is checked in on arrival and there sign of boredom. does not get at the root of the has been no further protest voiced.
raffles are worthy.
Prohibition
matter. It is our business In the
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до
ACTOR BY ACCIDENT.
a
for
The work of excavation was re-j
M. Gemier has the son of a small Church to help people to find life umed this morning and in addi- innkeeper, served his apprentice-
worth tion to the men already on the ship with a locksmith, become Intereating and living that gambling becomes njob a further 60 men have been chemist's assistant and gravitated
chiefly are
to the stage when dismissed harmless signed on. They childish nuisance or
labourers who were formerly em incompetence. recreation.
nloved on the Canton-Kowloon Tailway.
A
SOCIAL NEEDS. May I say how much I agree that in view of the tremendous
Once in the theatre, he soon
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trek with him, but only Poon per- severed throughout;
He partly worked his way and
was partly supported by chance friends. He has a large album of autographs from notabilities upon whom he called on his way.
He intends to visit Ireland and Scotland and then to return home via America.--Rower.
LESSONS OF THE DROUGHT
GOVERNMENT TO AID RURAL AREAS
•
Committee of the League had.re- commended that applications for the export to Manchukuo of oplum and dangerous drugs should not bo granted unless the applicant pro- duced a satisfactory import` certi ficate, in accordance with the Geneva Oplum Convention of 1925,
into Manchukuo contrary to the and that goods be not imported Convention,
Concluding, Sir John Simon gave
NEW CRUISER'S RECORD DASH
28.1 KNOTS FOR 39 HOURS
London, Nov. 27. The Admiralty atate that the
'on hér
from
London, Nov, 27.
an assurance that the action of average speed maintained by the The Minister for Health, Sir the authorities in Britain and in new cruiser, Achilles, Hilton Young, informed the Com- all British dependencies would thirty-nine hour voyage mons to-night that the Exchequer continue strictly to accord with Gibraltar to Portland last week had placed one million pounds at our international obligations and works out to 28.1 knots,・・
recommendations his disposal to assist local authori-the Two children, Luk Lui (8) a girl;tles, where necessary, in the pro-League-Reuter.
supplies
social needs of the Colony at the STRIKE THREATS IN ANGLO-FRENCH TARIFF and Mak King (4); a boy, suffered vision of better water
present time gambling can hard-
ly be called a harmless recreation.
I do not however believe that
these social needs can ever be
Once more, it
GOLD FIELDS
SOUTH AFRICA
mat by the kind of methods im MEN ALREADY OUT IN ployed in Ireland. seems to me, the practical com mon-sense, of the English people has shown itself before the world in refusing to allow any of its social resonihilities to be mot In this dubious way.
RONALD HONGKONG.
BOMBAY MERCHANTS AT LOGGERHEADS
Leaders Defend Cotton Agreement
Bombay, Nov. 27. Following the Indian, Morchants' Chamber's action in expressing disapproval of the recent cotton agreement between the Lancashire and Indian cotton mill owners, Sir Manhohanda Ranji, the Pre-
Johannesburg, Nov. 27. Two hundred gold miners are involved in a strike in the new State arena over the dismissal of one of their colleagues.
DISPUTE
M. Laurent Eynac to Visit London
London, Nov. 27.
A message from Paris states that the Minister of Commerco Disputes have broken out in and Industry in the new French other mines and meetings between Cabinet, Mr. Laurent Eynac, will the mine managements and the shortly visit London to discuss underground workers are pending with the President of the Board The minors of the Brakpan will of Trade, Mr. Runciman, questions hold a strike ballot to-morrow. relating to the French discrimina- Router.
tory duties against British goods. Mr. Runciman last week an-
loss these
discontinued counter-measures would be taken. British Wireless.
BRITISH TRADE BOOM
RAILWAY DIRECTOR
OPTIMISTIC
London, Nov. 27..
burna to their bodies yesterday in rural areas. when an oil burner aceldentally caught From this amount, grants would cost of their clothing alight at their home in be made 'towards the Kwong Ming Street. Both were sont schemes Initiated' within the next to the Government Civil Hapital.few years-British Wiralens.
SERIOUS STUDENT RIOTS
IN RUMANIA
MINISTER OF INTERIOR'S HOME RAIDED AND DEMOLISHED
nounced in the Commons that un- CUZA PARTY BESIEGED BY TROOPS
were
LABOUR MOTION OF CENSURE
Major Carver, Director of the DEFEATED IN HOUSE
OF COMMONS sident of the Chamber, and Mr. London and North Eastern Rail- H. P. Moody, the Chairman of the way, told the Hull Chamber of Com- Mill-Owners Association, have re-Commerce to-day that his
pany had so much faith in the con- signed from the Chamber.
London, Nov. 27.
In the House of Commons' to-
The Committee is now continuance of the upward trend of night, n. Labour amendment to the sidering a modifcation of its re-trade, which began last July, that Address in Ronly condemning the solution to avert the crisis which they wore speeding developments Government's handling of affairs such resignations would cause costing nearly £3,000,000-British at home and abroad was rejected
by 424 votes to 53.Router.
Reuter:
Wireless.
Bucharest, Nov. 27. I changed their tactics and went to Serious disturbances occurred the home of the Minister of the to-day at Jaaay, where members Interior which they entered and of the anti-Jewish Cuza, Party practically demolished. barricaded themselves in a re- sidence and defied Government troops for hours.
SUPPRESSION ORDER.
of the
STABILISATION OF DOLLAR
LATEST NEW YORK REPORTS
New York, Nov. 27. The Administration is stufiying carefully the possibility of sta
The Archilles is a 7,000-tone cruiser of the Leander class, built at the Birkenhead yard of Messrs. Cammoll, Laird and commissioned in October.
She has 72,000 horse-power but her run home irem Gibraltar was made nt three-fifths of this power.
The speed she maintained is be lioved to exceed any before ac- hieved for long distance steaming by a warship of her type. The maximum speed of the Achillen in put at thirty two and a half knotus, --British Wireless.
bilising the dollar at 55 gold cents SLUM CLEARANCE
and will endeavour to maintain an atmosphere of dollar stabilisation until after the December bond re- financing.
Stocks dropped to-day as much as she points on an accelerated turnover which was apparently due to the strong dollar which
armed supposedly on account of
PROGRAMMES
OVER 1,800 SCHEMES SUBMITTED
London, Nov. 27. European short covering and also
Sir Hilton Young, speaking in due to possible interpretation of recent developments as an indica- the House of Commons to-night tion that the Administration would on the problem of slum clearance, likely change its monetary polley. who had received his circular re- said that of 1,717 local authorities This, however, is unsubstantiated.
Business sentiment which is als quiring the submission of schemes against Inflation, also alded the for the total elimination within The outbreaks occurred follow-dollar dug to the expectation that Ave years of all slums and the There were nearly a hundred ing n Government announcement the Treasury will handia Decom-provision of alternative accomoda- students besieged and they re- that the Cuza organisation was ber financing in the usual way tion, all but forty-five had now
submitted programmas“ without dmculty. This was inter- of to bo suppressed. serious incidents elsewhere reach- The number of wounded in the preted as meaning that no inflation satisfied him that they were taking ed their ears.
clash between the armed guards would be resorted to-Per Swan, action-British Wireless. A thousand Janay students, all and the membora of the Cuzn Culbertson and Frits.
A Chinese youth, aged 14. ombers of the Caza Party, mada organisation is not known, but
Chan 28 years, who licensed hawker, was
fused to surrender until news
or had
an attempt to raise the alege of the disturbance is regarded as attempted suicide. by jumping from on a charge of Teltering and pl the house by divorting the at very algnificant au Jassy usually Ysemail forry launch In the harbour structing by hawking sword on Blaks tention of the troops, but baulked gives the lead to the rest of yesterday evening, was rescued and Pler, by Mr. Halfour, at the f nyentre In their alm, they suddenly Rumania Router.
sent to the Government Civil Hospital., Court; this morning 37%