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FOUNDED 1001
No. 14175
£# WI+** FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1933. 日一廿月十
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DUNLOP
TYRES
SERIES OF SHOCKS IN EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY Herr Hitler's Disappointing Reply to Signor Mussolini
· Ronald Colman, the popular ke man
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NO PROPOSALS TO
MAKE
EITHER ON LEAGUE OR DISARMAMENT
FRENCH ACTIVITY
London, Dec. 8.
A succession of shocks to
adventurer of the screen, who is be-high expectations from the floved to have arrived in the Colony
aboard the Pres. Jackson this mor ning. Mr. Colman is apparently not xooking publicity and is ballaved to be travelling under an assumed name.
The Mysterious Mr. Colman
FILM STAR AVOIDS PUBLICITY!
diplomatic negotiations on the disarmament situation occurred during yesterday.
Meanwhile the clear indica- tion has come from France against any inclination to em- bark upon direct conversations with Germany at this stage.
France first desires to make Bure of her position with Czecho-Slovakia and other of the smaller Continental Powers. before making any move.
The chief comes from Rome, Reuter's correspon-
M. Bença, the Czecho- dent announcing that Signor Slovakian Foreign Minister, has Mussolini is profoundly dis-accepted an official invitation appointed by the attitude of to visit Paris on December 14 Germany..
and after the conversation thero has been concluded, M. Paul Boncour, France's Foreign Signor Mussolini, follow-Minister, will visit Warsaw ing his gesture in support of and Prague. Germany's announced demand It is assumed, therefore, that for reorganisation of the a common policy will be dis- League, has been in communica-cussed towards the Italian de |tion with the German Am-mand for the reform of the bassador, but the Ambasador League, which, in French eyes, last night Inform 11 Duce has assumed most importance Ronald Colman, the popu- that Herr Hitler had no pro- in the current political situa- lar English film star and the|posals to make, either in re- tion. feminine fans' greatest gard to disarmament or the It is also thought unlikely screen love, is in the Colony reform of the League of Na: that any French conversations
tions.
with Germany are likely until at this moment but we print
The Italian Premier is be- an assurance of indentity of
tain has been obtained.-Reuter. very pleased.
his photograph because it lieved to be surprised and not view between France and Bri-
appears that this is the most Hongkong will see of him.
The modest star arrived at dawn to-day aboard the President Jack-
kon, clothed in an alibi and self- DE VALERA
effacement,
Hotel managers have sought him In vain to offer their most palatial suites, but Ronald will have none
of them.
Anxious girls have powdered their noses and shown extravag
FIGHTS WILL SUIT
ance with their paint, whilst re- AN OLD WOMAN'S
A
porters have exhausted their voca- bulary in vain pleadings for telephone interview.
"We're sorry," sugs the Chief Purser, the Second Purser, and the Third Purser, "He's right here but we can't locate him right now."
"Please don't mind us. We don't mind waiting. Inve you looked in the bathroom?"
LOOKED EVERYWHERE.
BEQUEST
BROTHER LOSES ACTION
IRISH DILEMMA
MR. DE VALERA ON THE BRITISH NOTE
Dublin, Dec. 7. The Senate to-night approved the recommendations of the Im- perial Committee on economic consultation and co-operation.
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Colabrations marking the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of Czecho-Slovakia as an indepen. dent State, Included a big dispisy of military stren 7th in Prague. Photo shows armoured care passing -
through the street.
CHICAGO FORGERY
SENSATION
Large Counterfeiting
Plant
ปี
Seized Chicago, Dec. 7. Half a million dollars in counterfeit money, and complete counterfeiting plant, were seized in a raid on a cottage here after the arrest of two men, one alleged to be a henchman of Al Capone, who were found carrying $30,000 in counterfeit notes. Reulor-
SHIPPING WAR
VAIN FIGHT AGAINST SUBSIDIES
BRITISH ACTION DEMANDED
London, Dec. 8. British shipping interests have been driven at last to seek the help of the Government in de- fending themselves against the unfair competition of subsidised foreign rivals, says The Times.
BEWARE OF
THE BULLION PUNDITS
GEN. JOHNSON HITS HARD
ROOSEVELT DEFENDED
Washington, Dec. 7.
The claim that President Roosevelt had saved the United States from printing press inflation was made by General Hugh Johnson, the Recovery Administrator, to... night,
General Johnson, who was. nd- dressing the National Association of manufacturers, who are among the Recovery Administration's severest critics, culogised the President's monetary policy, which he said had preserved America's cradit, increased its gold reserves;“. menantius increased the country's exports
and decreased its imports.
LOST SCOTT MSS
"DISCOVERED
In Archives of Museum in Moscow
Moscow, Dec. 7. The manuscript of Sir Walter Scott's novel. "The Talisman," which
was the bought by
Russian Ambassador in London in an.. auction in 1868 for £1,000 and which was subsequently lost, has been found in the archives of the historical museum.-Reuter.
He warned the manufacturers to beware of the gold standard advocates, the bullion pundits who are at present most vocal and the so-called “Captains of Finance" who for several years had "skinned the country alive by mlanamed securities."
PUBLIC DEBT GROWS,
The report of the Treasury reduction showing a substantial in the Government's deficit over the frat five months of the prosent fiscal year, despite larger expondi- tures in the relief and recovery programmes,, is viewed here strengthening the President's position...
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The comment is made in refer-moto-day, showed a five months' de- ence to the resolutions passed
MATSUOKA terday by the Council of the Cham-
GESTURE
URGES NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
RESIGNS FROM SEIYUKAI
Tokyo, Dec. 8.
ber of Shipping, urging Govern- ment action.
The journal points out that Bri- tish shipping has carried on a long and gallant fight against unequal competition and it is now clear that unaided, it has no hope of Huccess.
The tramp owners' scheme for a moderate subsidy, estimated to cost £2,000,000 yearly may have to be adopted as an emergency mea- igure, but the ultimate objective Mr. de Valern, replying to a taunt that the Free Slate "could not
must be to make subsidies urnaces- walk into the British Common-
sary by bringing direct economic London, Dec. 7.
wealth with one leg and out of it
pressure to bear upon forefign gov- Mr. de Valera, President with another," said that co-opera- A dramatic appeal for the estab-ernment to abandon subsidies, and of the Council of the Irish tion was based upon absolute free-alment in Japan of a truly Na-to give reasonable treatment to "We are sorry," replied the Chief Free State, successfully de-dom of choice to enter and to leave. tional Government was made this British shipping. Reuter.
Referring to the moral and Con-morning by Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, Purser, the Second Purser and the Third Purser, "We've looked every-fended an action in the Pro-stitutional right to accede, Mr. de who was Japan's Valera said that the purpose of his spokesman in the where. You'd better ring back bate Division of the High last despatch to the British Govern- League of Na- later."
Court to-day.
ment was to get the position clearly tiens' meetings Manchurian And so on.
The case concerned a will made defined, but they ran away from it.on
He expressed the hope that the dispute, and one But we know that he has come
the most from Manila: that he is going to in favour of Mr. de Valora by a British Government would under- of Senttio; and he is travelling with seventy-two-year Irish woman ratand that the Irish people were not influential poll- cluso named Miss Polly Fitzpa going to be a slave people and that ticians in the his secretary.
And we know that he is appear-trick, who bequeathed her entire they would not be content to have country. ing in "The Masquerader" on Sun-estate, valued at about £3,000 to
ddy.
Meanwhile the masquerade still going on.
CONVICT SHIP MUTINY
the Fianna Fail leader. Is The brother of the testatrix the validity of 'the will
FORTY KILLED STORY DENIED
Parla, Dec. 8.
any dietation-Renter.
contest round that Miss Fitzpa- FRANCE STICKING trick, at the time. of making the will, was of unsound mind,
The Court decided that Mr. de Valera's counsel had established the validity of the vill
It was stated during the hearing that Mr. do Valera Intended to use the money as a trust for public purposes.-Router.
from American One-Year Loan
Over-Subscribed
Washington, Dec. 7.
:
A sensational. report Algiers stating that a mutiny hád occurred on board a Fronch con- viet ship which was bound for Guland, and that forty convicts were reported to have been killed Proeldent Roosevelt announced in a desperate fight with their to-night that the issue of $950,- gaolers, is partially donled by 000,000 worth of One-Year Corti- Fronch semi-official quarters.
Acates of Indebtednosa
dated
TO GOLD
FINANCE MINISTER'S
ASSURANCE
Paris, Dec. 7. The Government declares cate- gorically that Franco will not abandon the gold standard, sald M. Bonnot in
tho
courao of the Budget debate In
the Chamber to- day.
The financo
assurance
HONGKONG HOTEL MYSTERY
RESIDENT ABSENT FOR A WEEK
MUI TSAI ISSUE
AGAIN RAISED IN PARLIAMENT
THE GOVERNOR'S DESPATCH
London, Dec. 7. The old issue of the mui tsai problem in Hongkong
The Treasury statement, lasued
ficit of U.S.$772,465,675, compared with a deficit of U.S.$1,151,985,- 520 for the corresponding period o last year, bringing the total public debt to US.$23,534,115,771, as against U.S.$22,638,672,560 on June 30,
Governmental Income for the 'five-month period
aggregated U.S.$1,136,504,402, compared with receipts of only U.S.$480,894,151 for the same period of last year, the Trenaury statement showed. Total expenditures for the period undor review amounted to U.S.$1,908,969,977,
against U.S.$1,832,897,681 in the atmo emer- poriod of last year, when rency expenditures were consider ably smaller.
ns
WALL STREET ATTACKS.
Wall Street's vociferous oppost-
cropped up once again in the tion to his policies and the ntar-
forces
House of Commons to-night.shalling of its powerful
against him apparently have not Replying to Mr. Mander, who greatly intimidated the President, sought information regarding for he has asked the special United
the progress achieved in carrying States Senate committee in-.. out the Mui Teal Ordinance, Mr.vestigating the stock market to Hudson, on behalf of Sir Phillp make definite recommendations Cunliffe-Lister referred
to for the reform of stock exchango despatch from the Governor (Sir practices. The President... in- this morning
The management of the Hong-William Peel) dated July 4 deal-dicated that such recommendations lasued a public
kong Hotel has reported to the ing with the matter.
will be submitted to Congress at manifesto, pro-
Police that one of their residents,
Mr. Hudson pointed out that the next session, with a view to claiming his demand for the Mr. R. A. Wright, has been miss the registration provisions applied regulatory, legisination. abolition in Japan of all political ing from his room, No. 224, since only to ex-mui taal girls and that parties on the ground that they Friday last week,
Mr. Matsuoka
in time of national crisis. Matsuoka has formally announced his reported disappearance he had To give point to his demand, Mr. and wearing spectacles. Prior to his secession from the Seiyukat boen staying at the Hotol for thiroo Party and the resignation of his weeks. A seat in the Diet--Reuter.
·SECURITY FACTS.
stand in the way of national unity an Englishman, is of medium bullà employed for the purpose
Mr. Wright, who is described as three full-time inspectors wore
of The President also asked the exercising supervision over them. Committee's opinions regarding
Particulars of prosecutions taken the Federal Securities Act, recontr under the Ordinance were given ly enacted by Congress for the and the despatch stated that no protection of Investors by com Mr. Wright effects were just as case of Ill-treatment of a re-pelling investment bankers and ho left them in his room. The gistered mui tsal had been re- promoters to afford complete de mystery has been hoightened by a ported.
ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE
PROGRESS REPORTED.
roport that as Into as last night n Soveral benevolent institutions man resembling Mr. Wright was
acon in the adjacent Gloucester were helping the Government to Building,
find openings for girls seeking other employment.-Reuter,
MR. BACKHOUSE'S ESTATE The late Mr. James Horbert
CLOUDY WEATHER The anticyclone remains centred
tho
tails of securities offered public and providing stringent' penalties for inaccurate or true statements.
un-
Sonator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Florida, chairman" of the special committee, told the United Press that the committee's Investign- tions led to recommendations for Federal.control of stock exchanges. and Fedoral supervision of stock
London, Dec. 7. Minister gave an In the House of Commons, the Backhouse, merchant, formerly of that President of the Board of Trado, 10, Peak Mansions, Hongkong, who the frane will bo Mr. Runciman, said the negotia- died on January, 18, left local over the Sea of Japan and has do-exchange operations-Router. protected
from tions for a new trade agreement estate valued at $146,700, Probato creased slightly in intenalty. pressure although
he with the USSR. were still pro of the will has been granted to
Backhouse.
It seems to be admitted that December 15 was over-subscribed. some trouble of a serious naturo The lists have boon closed. occurred on the convict ship, but The money is to be devoted to outside according to semi-official quarters the retirement of loans maturing stressed the serious position of the coading, and progress had been the widow, Mrs. Alma Ellaine Local forcast:-NE, winds, fresh ed to the local health authorities on
no convicts were killed Router
Jon December 16---Reüler,
Treasury.—Reuter,
made. British Wireless:
cloudy.
One cuus of meningitia was report
Wednesday.