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BRITISH EMPIRE AS MODEL FOR NEW LEAGUE
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL
HEAVY DEFICIT In
SIX MONTHS --
United States Budget Figures
Washington, Jan. 3.
The first six months of the fiscal year in the United States has terminated with a deficit of $1,156,000,000. The gross public debt has reached $24,000,000,000 -Reuter.
BRITAIN COMPLIES
SAFETY OF FUKIEN
RESIDENTS
WITHDRAWAL.
ADVISED
The
London, Jan. 3. Chinese Government, having decided to take warlike action to suppress the rebellion in the province of Fukien, re- quested the British Charge d'Affaires in Pelting on Decem- ber 30, that British subjects in Amoy, Fouchow and the neigh-| bourhood be warned to with- draw to the islands of Kulangsu and Nantai respectively for safety.
About 300 British subjects live
REVOLUTION
ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS
DISAPPOINTMENT EXPRESSED ON ALL HANDS
NATIONAL ECONOMIC PLAN
Washington, Jan. 3.
"The finest repeal of the Constitution I have ever heard," was the pithy comment of Mr. McNary, the Republican leader, at the conclu sion of President Roosevelt's first personal address to Congress, when he dealt generally with the Recovery programme and objectives.
President Roosevelt, looking' quite coalont
Interesting Italian Suggestion
MUSSOLINI AND SIMON
OPENING OF ROME CONVERSATIONS
Rome, Jan. 3.
The use of the "charter" of the British Common- wealth of Nations as'a model for the reform of the League of Nations is the interesting suggestion put forward in
GRAVE C.E.R. Rome in connexion with
CRISIS
Italy's demand for League revision.
SIR EDWARD ELGAR IMPROVES
Able to Return to His Home
London, Jan, 3. During the past fortnight there has been an improve- ment in the condition of the eminent composer. Sir Edward Elgar, who has been in a nursing home at Worcester since October 8th, when he underwent an abdominal operation. He returned to his home to-day and no further bulletins will be issued at present.. British Wireless,
It is understood that the future | mamun
RAILWAY MAY CEASE of the League formed one of the
principal subjects discussed be- NEW MOTOR TO FUNCTION
COAL SUPPLY
tween Sir John Simon and Signor Mussolint to-day when the British Foreign Minister, who was accom- panied by Sir Erie Drummond,
OBSTRUCTION British Ambassador, began his
Harbin, Jan. 4.
General opinion in the House and out of it seems to be that the President said extremely little in a very long speech, but there is reason to believe that, apart from prior discussions with political leaders helping to clear the way. Mr. Roosevelt is assured of an harmonious may be compelled to suspend its
session.
His speech was greeted with applause from all parts of the House particularly when he made allusions to gold stabilisation and when
A grave crisis now faces the Chinese Eastern Railway, which
services unless agreement is reached for the purchase of coal from the Siberian mines.
he asserted that prosperity depends upon the has been aggravated by the farmers' well-being.
in the province of Fukien, of whom PROTECTION AGAINST EXPLOITATION
the great majority normally resid?
in Antoy and Foochow The greater number of these residents have thelg homes"our" the - Islands mentioned and conduct their busi- ness of the mainland.
"""We are definitely on the road "¡ proceed with the National Plan,"
dent.
to recovery," claimed the Presi
}
The reminder if the British "A line has been rightly drawn subjects in the province consists between those to whom recovery chiefly of missionaries.
means a return to old methods-w
The British Consuls at and Foochow have been instructed those for whom recovery means 10 advise, at their discretion, reform of many of the old methods, British subjects to withdraw to {readjustments of ways of thinking places of saiety.
Amoy the number of which is small-and
1
The fact that the advice of the Chinese Government has thus been passed on to British subjects in no way absolves the former from Ita due responsibility to do is utmost to attord protection and to damage to British, properly. not only at. Amoy and Foocllow throughout the province.-British Wireless.
averd
and therefore of many of our social and economic arrangements,
alter when necessary, and in all "Our task is to improve, to
cases to go forward.
END OF LAISSEZ FAIRE.
"We have asked many citizens but to surrender their licences to do as they please in business, but the State has given in exchange pro- tection against exploitation by fellow men and combinations,
President Roosevelt assorted
Such National Plan. In a generation or two, would re- turn many times the roney spent upon it by conserving natural resources and enabl ing millions of people to take better advantage of their op- portunities,
FOREIGN. FIELD.
President Roosevelt said: "I can- Turning to international affairs, not present a picture of complete optimism. We seek, with our neighbours, avoidance of terri-¡ torial expansion and Interference by one nation in the affairs of another.
The possibility of the Railway ccasing to function has already created a tense situation, which
publication of the acrimonious correspondence between Mr. Li Shao-ken, of the Manchukuo Foreign Office, and M. Bandúra, Soviet Vice-President of the Rail
way.
Meanwhile the local preaя, Chambers of Commerce and mer- chants, backed by Manchukuo officials, are bazily agitating for revision of the Railway's reigat charges.-Renter..
ANGLO-LATVIAN TRADE
PLANS FOR A NEW TREATY
London, Jun. 3.
A Latvian delegation will áîtive "We are all secking the restora-in London to-morrow to open tion of international commerce in negotiations for
Anglo- ways which preclude the bullding Latvian Commercial Treaty, and up of large favourable trade will meet Major Colville, Parlia
LAGNY RAILWAY that the Government's credit had balances by one nation at the mentary Secretary of the Depart
DISASTER
SIX OFFICIALS. TO BE CHARGED
Paris, Jan. 3.
been fortified by drastic reduc- tions in expenditures and economies.
expense of the other."
TRADE BARRIERS.
kums on
ment of Overseas Trade at the Board of Trade. The delegation will be led by the Latvian Minister An overwhelming majority of Fears of aggression and the in London, M. Charles Zarine.
The кoods in which Latvia in the banks which were re-opened expenditure of vast last Spring are in n sound con- armaments continued, with the particularly interested are timber, dition.
building up of trade barriers, butter and bacon, and Britain's
peace or trade agreements. to prevent any grent progress inexport intercats to Latvin
cern con and Merrings,—British Wireless,
Six hundred million dollars in Six officials of the Eastern frozen deposits are being restored Railway are being charged in to depositors in banks which are connexion with the terrible dia- not being permitted to re-open. aster at Lagny on December 21, when over 200 people lost thir. lives.
The charges are inattention, imprudence, Ineffetency, neglig ence and the non-observance of regulations-Reuter,
U.S. SEEKING LIQUOR REVENUE
New Tax Proposal For Congress
PREMIER'S HOLIDAY
Con-
cannot participate in the political The United States, he added,
arrangements of Europe, but is NRA, ACHIEVEMENTS. ready to co-operate at any time in practical measure on a world basis
ENDING. the achievements of the National armaments and the lowering of The Prime Minister is expected
The President weat on to review for the immediate reduction of Recovery Administration in secur, trade barriers.
London, Jan. 3.
ing the re-employment of several
to return early next week to Lon millions of
WAR DEBTS. men and the
don from Lossiemouth, where ho (organimation of Industry, together
has been spending the Christmas with an assurance of reasonable United States, President Roosevelt probably
Regarding war dobta to the recess. Later in the work, he will profits together.
visit the King at said he expects to report on this Sandringham-British Wireless, Industry will pay proper condi-matter separately later.
tions to labour.
rc-
The abolition of child labour was a distinct achievement of the N.R.A.
NATIONAL PLAN. "We have created as a permanent fenture of our modernised indus- trial structure n system by which
TRICKS OF THE RICH,
Returning to the domestle · pro- blems of the country, the Prealdent
conversations, with the Italian Premler at the Palazzo Venezia this afternoon.
"The meeting waa cordin)" states
official an
communique issued at, the conclusion of the meeting, which lasted for two
hours.
EXPLORATORY TALKS.
ROAD TO PEAK
SAVING OF OVER
TWO MILES
FRENCH ADD TO
QUOTA LIST
TRADE BARGAINING WEAPON
IMPORTERS DUMBFOUNDED
Paris, Jac. 3.
Importera of British goods are dumbfounded by the netion of the French Government In reducing the existing quota by seventy-five per cent, and subjecting 184 new categories of goods to the quota system as from January 1.
The surpriso le greater as it follows so closely upon the aboli tion of the exchange surtax at the request of the British Govern- mont.
The new list of quotas Includes machinery, steel cutlery, motor- -Cars, motor-cycles, tin-plate, rubber goods, woollen cloth, hosiery and sporting implements.
It is understood that the quota changes are designed primarily to give France a bargaining weapon in the trade nogotiations to bo undertaken with different countries, notably
Britain, and Germany.
Work is to commence in the near future on the widening of Magazine Gap Road, between
A secondary consideration is May Road and Stubbs Road, the protection of French industry, in order to make it available for particularly against German com- motor traffic. When the scheme | petition.
It is understood that provisional have arrangements
been mado
It is understood that the first, is completed, the road will have conversations were exploratory of a width of approximately 20 the ground and that Signor Musso- feet. Hini explained the lines on which
The matter is as yet only in its for Anglo-French trade negotia- he wants the League of Nations preliminary stages, but tenders tions at the end of Feburary;—— revised.
are now being called for. The
As regards disarmament, it is scheme, when completed will fl Reuter. believed that the Italian and Bri-a long-felt need, for not only will
tish viewpoints are very close.
it relieve the congestion of motor
traffle in Queen's Road East but NEW GERMAN ARMY
avill greatly facilitate motor access
SIGNIFICANT ARTICLE. Italian-attention is chiefly-con-between the city and the higher centrated on the artificial irregu-
At present, vehicular trafic to larities of the Pouce Treaty, rather the Peak has to proceed along
levels.
LEADER
Commander-in-Chief
than upon technical disarmament, Queen's Road East and Wanchal General von Fritsch Now while, ne regards League reform, to Magazine Gap via Stubbs Road, a distance of approximately four the newspaper Lavora Fascista, in miiles. With the opening up of a significent article, demands re- Magazine Gap Rond tu motor construction on the principles re- trafic, there will be a saving of about two and a quarter miles, the gulating the British Common- approximate distance being only
wealth of Nations.
The journal declares that pro- on those lines werd, in porula fact, presented in Paris in 1919 by E.t.sh statesmen.
Sir John Simon and Signor Mussolini will meet again to-mor- row.-Reuter.
A NAVAL RACE WARNING
ITALIAN COMMENT ON SITUATION
one and three-quarter miles.
+
NEWFOUNDLAND PREMIER
ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO LONDON
Berlin. Jan. 3.
Baron von Fritsch has been appointed Chief of the Army- Command, in succession to Gen- eral you Hammerstein.
•
General von Fritsch was on the General Staff during the war. Ho became Major-General In' Novom- ber, 1930, when he was given command of the First Artillery Division.
General von Hammerstein took over the post of commandor-in- chief in November, 1930, and has been a prominent figure in the Reichswehr since the Armistice. Mr. F. C. Alerdice, Prime Minis-There has always been some ter of Newfoundland, arrived in doubt regarding his attitude to- London to-day on, a month's visit,wards the
London, Jan. 3.
Fascist policy of
being mot by a representative of packle the army with anti- the Prime Minister, Sir Edward | Republicans.-Reuter, Harding, Permanent
Under-Se-
cretary for Dominion Affairs, and Ceremonial Secretary Dominions Office.
of the
Mr. Alderdice will discuss with Rome, Jan. 3.
the Dominion Secretary, Mr. J. H. The report on the Italian Naval Thomas, to-morrow, various ques- Estimates, tabled in the Chamber, tions arising out of the present recommends a European ngree-position of his Government. The ment to apply the spirit of the question of the appointment of Four-Power Pact to naval dls-three Commissioners for the armiament.
Dominion will also be considered.-
The report utters a warning that British Wircicas. the world has already started a raco in naval armament, arising from the Japanese penetration of Manchurin, which has stirred American apprehensions, causing her to increase her Navy, which, in turn; is lending Britain to lay down more ships-Renter.
ACCRINGTON BEAT DONCASTER
their debts, had made token pay-holders and the public.
Several nations, acknowledging
ments. Others had defaulted.
The President also said that the Finland alone had paid in fully, strong arm of the law was required LEAGUE FOOTBALL
against crimes of organised bandi try, lynchings and kidnappinga.
PROHIBITION REPEAL. It will continue under the supervi- foreshadowed stringent 16. Je learned that one of the sion of the government, but not against persons and groups who Prohibition should materially ald mensures He thought that the ropeal of first measures to be introduced in under its arbitrary dictation." the House of Representativen il
have been living off their neigh-in eliminating crimes arising from He looked forward to the not bours by unethical and criminal the legal trafic in liquor. be one seeking to impose a liquor very distant future when annunt methods. Ile tax, estimated to yield $500,000,-appropriations
cnatiguted tax The Government would continos of government dodgers and the high officials of to supplement the work of State 000 annually, exclusive of tariff would wholly be covered by cur banks and corporations who had and other agencies for the relief rates,—-Rentor, j
rent revenue, enabling work to grown rich at the expense of slock- (Continued on Page 7.)
Washington, Jan. 3.
INDUSTRY AND ART.
GOVT. APPOINTS COUNCIL
London, Jau. 8. The President of the Board of Trado has appointed a røpre-
COUNTY RUGBY
CHAMPIONSHIP
GLOUCESTER. BEAT CORNWALL
London, Jan.-3. Two postponed county champion- ship rugby matches were played off to-day
At Ilford, Eastern Counties de- feated Hampshire by 9 points to alx. At Bristol, Gloucester defented Cornwall by fourteen points to oight.
Hampshire and Gloucester are the winners of their groups, the tables being as follows:
0
31 77
4 Go' 100
South Eastern Group. Hampshiro. 6.4 0 1 80 31 sonlative Council to deal with Counties 6.3 1-1 72 30
Middlesex .. 4 questions affecting the relations Kent
2 1 1 4418 41 1 1 2 betwton art and Industry,
Burroy Tho Council comprises twenty- SubKcX seven members, under the chair- In the Northern Section of themanship of Mr. Frank Pick, Vice- Third Division to-day, Accring-President of the London Passen Gloucester ton Stanley defented Doncasterger Transport Board and President Bomerset Rovers by four goals to one of the Design and Industries Cornwall
Association, British Wircless.
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