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FOUNDED (ws 一拜禮 號四十月二十英港香 MONDAY, DECEMBER
24, 1934.
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HUGE CHRISTMAS
BUSINESS
SIGN OF RETURNING PROSPERITY
THRIVING TRADE IN ALL PARTS OF BRITAIN
(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1804. Received, Dec. 24, 9.40 a.mi.)
London, Dec. 23.
The Christmas of 1934; so far as Britain is concern- ed, whatever the weather may do, is certain to be cheer- ful. Shops, railways, transport undertakings of all sorts and post offices throughout the country have already reported unusually heavy business.
This sign of returning prosperity is confirmed by the Bank of England, whose returns show that bank note circulation, at nearly £402,000,000, is the highest since the boom years of 1920 and 1921.
The bank note circulation figure compares very favourably with those of 1933, which were £390,000,000, and 1932, which were £370,000,000, Seasonable supplies are abun- dant and cheaper than last year, indicating that the turn-over must be very considerably greater in view of the additional funds in the market.
BRIGHT DISPLAY
The big London stores making a bright display, and have great stocks of novel and два tractive gifts this year. The ingenuity of the manufacturers has surpassed all records and the stores are actually doing a record trade.
The same can be said of Man- chester and other northern towns. )
FOG LIFTING
The unseasonable and 'cloying fog, which harassed travellers yesterday and slowed down the rush Christmas shopping SEUKOD, has now lifted in most parta.
But there is no chance of an old-fashioncil white Christmas, as it remains unusually mild for this time of year throughout all England-Reuter,
PARIS SCINTILIATES
EXILE FOR. SUSPECTED PLOTTERS
ZINOVIEFF WILL BE BANISHED
ENEMIES OF STALIN
(Special to "Telegraph")"
filu Telegraph," "Capyright: Telegraphis Mes
24, Para n.196/
Our picture shows the big Dutch air liner which ca me to grief on a flight from Amsterdam, resulting in the four passengers and four crew ail being killed. The machine was the one which Parmentier and Moll made their night from England to Australia in the Melbourne sir race. The above photograph was taken when, during
that flight, the machine arrived in Singapore,
Saarlanders
Return For Plebiscite
BROUGHT TO VOTE FOR GERMANY
UPROARIOUS WELCOME
Saarbruecken. Dec. 23.
MAN WHO CAUGHT EMDEN
ADMIRAL GLOSSOP
PASSES
COMMANDED H.M.A.S. SYDNEY
London, Dec. 23.
China Trade
Shows Large
Fall In Year
IMPORTS FALL BY ONE QUARTER
UNFAVOURABLE
BALANCE
In striking contrast to the
The destruction of the German
Shanghai, Dec. 21. reception given to foreign troops cruiser Emden in the early days of The returne issued by the Chin- arriving here, to guard against the Great War is recalled by the cse Maritime Customs Adminis- disordera
Saar death of Vice-Admiral J. C. Ttratton show that for the oleven during the
who plebiscicite, an uproarious wel- Glossop, C.B.;
commanded sades Erdinants, 1991. Received. December come was given to 350 Saar- cruiser which brought the Emden's of China's importa was $947,030,- H.-M. A. S. Sydney, the light months of this year the total value landers from North and South career to an end, Moscow, Dec. 23.
America who stopped out upon
961, representing a decrease of Because the Soviet Govern- the railway platform to-day,
It was on November 9, 1914, that $206,476,070, as compared with the ment has insufficient evidence to
the Sydney drove the Emden ashore corresponding figures of the pre-
Cocos Island. During her vious year. convict them on charges of plot-home-country to
They have been brought to their an
vote in the carcer, the Emden captured no ting against the state and with plebiscite, the fares and expenses fewer than soventeen British mer- planning the murder of the paid in return for a promise to chant ships valued at approximately valued at $491,634,290, represent Exports for the raine period are Faria, Dec. 21. Leningard official, Kirov, it has vote for a return of the territory £2,000,000. "Scintillating" is the only word
Vice-Admiral Glossop, which can describe the gifts dis-been decided that Zinovieff and to Germany on January 31,
whose ing a decrease of $89,530,671 an As they emerged from played everywhere in the French (six of his companions will be
death occurred to-day, was 63 years compared with figures for the of age. He was a midshipman on previous year. capital, as most of them shine or sent into exile and not even tried station a great cheer arose. Arms glitter.
for the offences of which they were raised in the Nazi salute and H.M.S. Calliope at Samen in 1889,
the crowd sang The streets and shops.
According to the same returns, the Horstwessel and ten years later was a lieutenant. are are suspected. brighter than, over and the street
Bong.
on H.M.S. Royallst during the of the total amount of unfavour Gregori Zinovieff, the man who
But there
Samoan troubles of 1899. vendors are dolag a rearing trade some say was responsible for the accordance with
no flage, in
able trade balance, namely, $455,- in.
the
For his services in the war, he996,671, Shanghai alone claims Huch goods a
decree.- bag-pipes, attempt to Bolshevise the British Reuter.
was given the C. B. decoration, as encyclopaedias, silk ties and army in 1924, with Kameneff, who
well as the Japanese Order of the
$303,617,982-Central News, patent oyster openers. The whole is thought to be responsible for eity is in carnival spirit-Renter.the murder of Kirov, and with five
Rising Sun (Third Class) and the order of Officer of the Legion of other suspects, will be exiled at
Honour. He retired in 1921, and was made Vice-Admiral in 1926.- The seven men were arrested
Reuter.
BONUS PAID
Washington, Dec. 23.
once.
A survey of various industrial carly this week and have been in companies and organisations custody in their homes aince. throughout the United States, It was alleged at Leningrad that shows that they have resumed the Zinovief was the chief of an anti- boom-time practice of granting Christmas bonuses to employes.- United Press.
MANY KILLED IN U.S. MISHAPS
New York, Dec. 23. The opening of the Christmas trafle was marked by several ac cidents. Three people were killed and 14 injured in a train collision
Stalin group in the old capital and that he had organised, with his associates, plots against the state. The arrest of Zinovief and his followers, however, had nothing to
at Delaware, Ohio, while three activities, tried and put to death
within a few hours.
were killed in an aeroplane crash at Wartburg, Tennessee.
were
the
H.M.S.Seamew Still Ashore
POSITION IS NOT DANGEROUS
Latest news of the stranding of the river gunboat H.M.S. Scamew
FLIERS' BAGHDAD BURIAL
LAID TOGETHER IN ONE GRAVE
Army Officer
All that is known about tyre making is embodied in
DUNLOP TYRES
JAPANESE SEIZED ON FRONTIER
PENETRATED SOVIET TERRITORY
SUSPECTED OF MAKING STRATEGIC SURVEY
(By Telograph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, Dec. 24. 9.15 a.m.)
Moscow, Dec. 23.
On the heels of the reports that Japanese and Soviet troops are facing one another on the river Wudaho frontier and that a certain tension exists there, with Russian planes reconnoitring the Japanese positions, Soviet officials are investigating what appears to be a case of penetration by Japanese to secure strategically, valuable information.
The Khabarovsk officials have in their custody a Japanese officer and a Manchukuo private soldier found in the frontier village of Verkhne-Nikolski, where the officer was allegedly making photographs and the private doing sketches.
WRONG ROAD TO RECOVERY.
WALL STREET'S WARNING
CONFIDENCE NEEDED
(Special to "Talagraph")
(Du Telegraph. Copyright. Telaprophio Mas Mose Ordinance, 1921, Rectlerd. Dreamhar 24, 10.10 0.m.)
The Russian authorities charge' that the officer was found fully urmed, with sword, revolver and camera, extra aims and photo- graphic mapa of the Soviet- Chinono frontier. He also had a notebook in which wore numerous entries, all in Japanese.
STRANGE EXCUSE
The officer gave a strange excusé for having crossed the frontier.
He told his questioners that he was in search of a five-year-old. boy and two peasants who had crossed the boundary and who were said to have been detained by Soviet officials.
The officer and private are both Being detained while the Soviet oficiale-make-further inquiries United Press.
ON USSURI RIVER
Moscow, Dec. 23. Reports from Khabarovsk state that Soylet officiala have arrested - Japanese officer and his soldier Ussuri, 20 miles south of the town servant on the bank of the River
of Iman.
New York, Dec. 23. Wall Street is snickering at the expectation of the Federal interest will force funds into Reserve Board that a lower bank business investments.
The offer is said to have be Wall Street exports, point out found photographing while his that if the loss of ban income due also stated to have possessed a to lower interest could have
map of the Sino-Soviet frontier. brought about a rally "We would have had it long ago." They say! that the reason money does not little boy who had fied from
He said he was looking for a hut
go into business la simply that on the Chinese side of the frontfer there is no need for it.
across to Russian soil-Reuter,
"What we need is orders," they assert.
Doubtless, they admit, there are vaat sums of money eagerly Investment which
Hurt In Crash awaiting an
CAR OVERTURNS ON STUBBS RD. A motor-car mishap resulting in Injury to Lieutenant Ramus, R.A., occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning when an Austin Seven driven by Mr. Railton, of Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd., skidded and turned over on Stubbe Road.
do with the recent execution of is to the effect that she is still) White country', the
Guards throughout the aground, but that her position is These men were seized in connec-
authorities atute. not dangerous.
The Robin and the Cicala are tion with other alleged terrorist still standing by, whilst the salvago tug despatched from the Naval Yard is making temporary It will be recalled that thel
repairs.
It appear that between three Four people were killed and five test against the wholesale execu- forepart and two
British Labour Party lodged a pro- | The Scamew was holed in the
and four o'clock in the morning, infured in a motor-car collision at tions of those suspected of treason were alightly flooded. She
Mr. Ballton was driving the car, compartments Lincoln, Nebraska, wh three when Zinovieff was arrested, and aground carly on Saturday morn
No. 1079, up Stubbs Road with Lieut. Ramus wore killed and five seriously demanded that the Soviet authorling when a heavy fog decended
na passenger, Baghdad, Dec. 23. when, about twenty yards from jured in a hotel firo at Carlsbad, ties should guarantee Zinovieff and over the West River, where the flying fraternity to-day paid their Gap Road, the vehicle akidded and Statesmen and comrades of the the junction with Wongnolchung New Mexico-Renter.
his followers & public trial Seamew was engaged in anti- last respects to the men who died came to grief in the side channel. United Preas.
piracy patrol.
YARD'S HOLIDAY.
London, Dec. 23.
A gentleman's agreemont on-
ables Scotland. Yard to practically CANTON-SHANGHAI
cloao on Christmas day, Crooks traditionally keep an unwritten trace, enabling the Yard to release all but twenty-five of its staff of 500.
PLANE DELAYED
:
FORCED LANDING AT
WENCHOW
Shanghai, Dec, 24.
Austrian Amnesty
ran
Vienna, Dec. 23. ·· The Government to-day
camps
R. A... F. PAYS RESPECTS
in
the Dutch aircraft, Uiver, recently.
The car was badly damaged,
The bodies of the eight victims and Lieut. Ramus received a of the big airliner, which crashed nasty cut on the forehead, which in the desert on an attempted flight was later treated at the Govern from Amsterdam to the Dutchment Civil Hospital. Mr. Railton Indles and return, wore buried in fortunately.
the British cemetery here to-day injury.
in
oreaped without
will give a better income than the banks do. Such an argument is confirmed by the heavy over-
Scores Perish
In Bandit Raid
subscription of relatively attrac-TRAPPED IN BURNING
the
VILLAGE
Peking, Dec, 23.
According to
tive Government bond issuca. Wall Street anya that Federal Reserve Board's methods are opposed to natural. methods, since ordinarily the demand for Federal Reserve Board is making Yutien. District, the surrounding matter comes first. Instead, the
a message from
an effort to produce the money villages of the City of Yution were first, and find the Investments seriously ravaged by a large group afterwards.
of bandits last week ond. Experts repeat that the obstaclo
Many shops and private houses to business recovery will be re-at Ko-chia-chang and Yah-hung- moved as soon as confidence re- chino were looted and burnt, while turns, when the dollar is the village of Tangchiachuen was stabilised, and tho budget completely ruined, no single house" balanced.--United Press.
Protecting Investors
U.S. LEGISLATION CONTEMPLATED
being left undamaged by fire.
At least 100 people were burned to death-Central News.
CATHOLIC AID FOR REHABILITATION:
3,000,000 VOLUNTEERS IN CHINA
It is true 300 can be on the spot
the presence of the
Washington, Dec. 22: within ten minutes, and it is truo
British Ambassador to Iraq,
Utility holding company legis
Peking, Dec. 24. tho foreign minister of that that crooks themselves dosire to
member of the Dutch Reformed lation seems certain during the an-state, members of the diplomatic Church-Router.
On his return hore" from an celebrate. But for years past the
next Congress. Lower A passenger plang belonging to nounced a Christmas amnesty.
ratos extensive tour of inspection of Yulo poace of Scotland Yard has the Chinese National Aviation Cor-
corps and leading lights of the It announced the release from British community.
are likely to be forced on operat Church, affairs, in Central, China, been undisturbed.
DUTCH REQUEST poration was forced to make a concentration
ing companion, 19
the Rt. Rev. Mario Zanin, Apostolle 6,000 of This is not the case in Warsaw, landing at Wenchow yesterday Socialista and Nazis, the former British aigen, and were laid in
The collins were carried by
The now Securities Commission Delegate to China, declared In an Tho Hague, Dec. 23, not mindful of the old school the journey to Shanghai from Cantot uprising and the latter since the wards covered with mass of requested the Baghdad authorities The President's com where the light-Angered folk are during bad weather, when on the imprisoned since the February single long grave, which was after The Royal Dutch Airlines have faltempting to be moderate, and interview with pressmen yesterday that 8,000,000 Chinese Catholics tradition and do not play the game. She is expected to resume her rebellion in which the late Chan- flowers and wreaths, to arrango for the bodies of the message on January 8. is expected for the reconstruction of China in congressional were willing to offer their services They invariably apoll the police journey to Shanghai this morning, cellor Dr, Dollfuse was murdered. The burial service was conducted Ulvor, victims to be transported to to be constructive-Swan, Culbert-various spheres of activities
(Continued on Page 14);
Reuter.
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