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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933.
REVIVING RUSSO-JAPANESE THIS SIMPLE
TENSION ALARMS
ARCHITECT HONOURED
∙CHOSEN TO DESIGN NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDING
London, Dec. 20.
Mr. Vincent Harris, the noted | architect appointed for the now Government Buildings in White- hall, is 54 years old and won the competition in 1914 for the Board of Trade Building, construction, which was postponed owing to the War.
He has much notable work to
It la believed in London that Russia already has 250,000 troops on the Amur bordor and 450 noro- planes at Vladivostock and Nikolak. Including 40 heavy bom-
MORE RUSSIAN
bors. TROOPS FOR
FAR EAST
C.E.R. STRUGGLE ROUSES FEELINGS
• Russia's non-aggression pact with Poland and her rapproche. ment with France are also cited as boing calculated to free her hands In the Far East.
SALE DEADLOCK.
Meanwhile, negotiations for the salo of the C.E.It, have reached a complete deadlock.
his credit and has great skill in |---- Signs of increasing tension. Russia has lowered the sale price adapting English renaissance to between Russia and Japan contemporary requirements.
.
|are again attracting anxiour
attention in London. -
The new Government offices bow- contemplated will stand between: Whitehall and the Embankment The Soviet authorities at Mon- and will houso about 5,000 civil cow are reported to be much In- Hervanta. It will occupy the site consed by the action of "Manchu- of Montage House and of houses kuo" in appointing a manager for in Whitehall Gardens now used by the Chinese Eastern Railway over the Cabinet secretariat and other the head of M, Rudy, the Soviet manager, and by other alleged in- the line. 'terference with Russian control of
staffs.
The Air Ministry, Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Transport and the Stationery Office will take The decree has been issued an- part in the change of quarters, nouncing that it is intended to and other departments concerned strengthen the defences of Russia will probably be the Ministry of on her Far Eastern frontler. Agriculture and the Dominions
Office.
It is expected the new building
will cost over £2,000,000.
For new offices in Edinburgh, which will cost about £4090. Mr. Thomas Tait is the architect selected.-British Wireless,
NO AGREEMENT. ›
LANCASHIRE UNMOVED BY JAPAN'S REFUSAL
London, Dec. 20. Lancashire. is not surprised by the Tokyo -announcement that Japan is not prepared to ratify on agreement as to working hours in industry, which was drafted by the International Labour. Con- ference.
The Japanese attitude, it is thought, frustrates the hope re cently expressed by Mr Walter Runciman In the House of Com- mons, that through the offices of the Labour Conference it might be possible to alleviate Japanese world competition-Router.
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but Japan has made little advance tu a sum equivalent to 220,000,000, on the original offer of Y,00,000,000, Both parties are now reported to be using overy devico to block each other's trade on the railway.
Added significance is lent to the decree feaued by the Boylot exempt- ing peasants in the Amur and the maritime provinces of Saghallen and Kamchatka from compulsory grain lovios, abolishing all taxes in kind, raising the price of labour paid by the State and increasing the pay of the whole Far Eastern Army by 50 per cent. for the ranks and 20 per cont. for officers.----- Reuter.
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