AMERICA SLASHES DUTIES
CANADA PRODUCE TO BENEFIT
RECIPROCITY
TREATY
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Washington, Nov. 13. Although the terms Cannila-Amerien
of the tratte treaty, which President Roosevelt has authorised the Administration to sign, are not yet published, it is belleved that American products on Canada's preferential list in- clude motor cars, from and steel products, chemicals and certain textiles,
In return, the United States is making concessions with resport to enttle, milk and ercam, and lumber.
Duties on numerous Canadian produels, it is believed, will be avar! reduced by fifty per cent. Canada is granting the United States a special tariff, plus addi-
with tional concessions, average reduction of over twenty- Avé pur cent. in import duties.
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The United States' reduction of duty on liquor reported to be fifty per cent, is limited to "American type" whiskey, which can only mean rye and what is known to this the trade as Bourbon. and
will be that there means change in the duty on Irish and Scotch whiskey-Reuter Spreint,
BRITISH TRADE CLIMBING.
IMPRESSIVE TOTAL
FOR 1935
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NO
THE HONGKONG
SERIOUS CLASH
IN CAIRO
POLICE FORCED TO
FIRE ON MOB
POLITICAL FEELING AT
DANGER
POINT
Cairo, Nov. 13.
There were further disturbances here this evening, following a huge Wafdist mass meeting which passed a resolution for non-co-operation with Great Britain and demanded the resignation of Nessim Pasha's Govern- ment.
The situation took a decidedly serious turn when angry crowds attacked police with bottles and stones, The police were forced to fire on several occasions, and it is understood there were many casualties on both sides.
The outbreak to-night was the climax of three days of political excitement over the attitude of Britain and the Egyptian constitutional question. TECH
CASUALTY LIST
| killed and 175 police and students were injured during rioting in Cairo, Tasta and Port Sald, Cairo, Nov. 13. Steel-helmeted polile opened Forty-five police were injured, fire with shot-guns upon a massed thirteen of them seriously, during | nich of students who were stoning the rioting In Tuntah, before the the British Consulate here and police opened fire on the crowd, (shouting "Down with England."
One civilian was killed and three were seriously injured.
The crowd burned a police lorry and motorcycle.-Reuter,
BETVÁLÍMETTİRAKELANDINE ZURECONCEITES REGATA ESI
The demonstrators were led by the extremist faction of the Waf-, dist party of which the Prime Minister is a moderate member.
The police were ordered, to fre after repeated fulile baton Thereafter ambulances
Particular criticism has been [charges. directed at Sir Samuel Hoare's clanged through the jammed speech at the Lord Mayor's bun-streets taking the injured to quet in London on November 9, hospital.
of a
no
DISPERSE CROWD
At Port Said the police dis- persed a demonstration in the native cemetery in connection with the anniversary of the death of Zaghicul Pasha, former Prime Minister and violent anti-English leader.
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1935.
ITALIAN PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
WATER HOLES WILL BE SEIZED
TANKS LOSS DENIED
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From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (846 kilucyeles):
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6-6-30 p.m. Children's Stailo Con- cert.
6,20-7 p.m. Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra.
'7.7.17 p.m. "La Valse" (Ravel).
7.17-7.30 p.m. Organ Recital
Sidney Torch.
Asmara, Nov. 13. General Griaziani's plan of advance in South Ethiopia will consist of seizing successively a
waler series of
holes, thus
by securing his communications.
As the water holes are few and far between, they cannot be attacked except from long dis- tances across the desert.
On
1. I want to be anappy; 2. I hate myself; 3. Love in Blogs.
7.10-8 p.m. From the Studio, A Voca) and Planoforte Recital by Owen Joco (Baritone) and Tony Lorena (Pianoforte).
Programme
The advance will be made by mechanised units armed with [1. machine guns,
arrival at n water hole, the transport will be formed into a ring facing the desert. It will then await a re-12. lieving convoy, and on the latter's
Songs: To Anthea
Hatton. Ah! Willow ....arr. Tane Wilson. Some Rival has stolen my True love' away..................art. Broadwood. Pianoforte Solu; Pas des Echarpes
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arrival the first convoy will make J. Songs: Two Hungarian folkCall and see them at
the next jump forward, leaving the water hole impregnably guard- ed.--Reuter,
LOSSES DENIED
Rome, Nov. 18: The Ethiopian reports of the capture of Italian tanks and the 5. killing of a number of officers near Dagabur is officially denied here.-Reuter.
PERILOUS FINANCIAL SYSTEM
AMERICAN PEOPLE OVER-TAXED
New Orleans, Nov. 13. Mr. J. F. T. O'Connor, address- bankers here, predicted that deposit would be granted rers to pre- insurance corporations vent a repetition of the epidemic of bank closings occurring during the past twelve years,,
Songs.
Had a Horso
Korbay,
Shepherd See the Horses Fonming
Mane
4. Pianoforte Sulast
From an Indian Lodge
Andante Gavotte
Songs: The Moor Eldorado
Five Eyes
.Korbay.
MacDowell.
.... Gardiner. Gardiner.
Robin Milford,
.... Walthew. Armstrong Gibbs,
8 pm. Time and Weather Report; Stock Quotations,
8.05-17 p.m. Chinese Studio Con- cert.
11 p.m.
8.05-10
Close Down.
p.m. European Pro- gramme from Z.E.. on A Fre-
quency of 640 kilocycles,
8.05-8.18 p.m. A Jazz Piano Recital by Ronald Guurley.
8.18-8.30 p.m. The Mills Bro- thers.
1. Sweet Lucy Brown: 2. Don't be afraid to tell your mother; 3. Jungle. Fever: 4. Sleepy Head.
8.30-9 p.m. Grand Oper Orchestral--"Parsifal" Symphonic Synthesis from Art. 3 (Wagner); Duets-"Aida"-To Die so pure and lovely! (Verdi): "Aida"---The
(Tenor); ArinsBoris Godunov Fatal Scene (Verdi), Rosa Ponselle (Sopenna); and Glovann! Martinelli In the town of Kasan (Varlaam's Song); (Moussorgsky). "Prince Igor Song of Prince
Galitaks (Borodin)
Mr. Lewis Brown. President of the Johns Manville Company,
the mounting cost - öf|tin, spoke on government, which, he said, is threatening the strangulation.
in which the Foreign Minister de-
No-one was killed by the police clared that His Majesty's Govern-fire. One student was killed at ment had", advised against re Tanta when a stairway' collapsed enactment of the 1923 and 1930 during a meeting and another dieding Constitutions on the grounds that as a result of a wound from a the first was unworkable and the random shot fired by one of his second was universally unpopular. 'fellow-demonstrators.
Sir Samuel Hoare denied that Great Britain opposed the returni of a Constitution suited to Egypt's requirements, but it has been suggested that Britain' hás London, Nov. 13. On the eve of the general election. intention of arging reintroduction Constitution. It was this the preliminary figures dealing with overseas trade for October have suggestion that fanned the fire of
uurest in Cairo to-night. been publisher. They show sub-
-Excitement was intensified when stantial increases in every direction.
Exports for the month are nearly Wafdisis late last night decide £40,000,000 against £24,000,000 for to withdraw their support from
Nessim Pasha on the ground that ever, there was renewed rioting inkets and restricting employment, September, and imports are £73.-
he was not prepared to disregard Cairo following a meeting address-United Press. 500,000 as against £61,000,000.
Exporta from January 1 to Octo-the advice of Great Britained by Nahas Pasha, the opposi- ber 1 totalled £352,000,000 com- Reuter. pared with £326,000,000 for the corresponding period in 1934 and Imports for the same period totalled £612,000,000 compared with $804,- 000,000-Reuter Special.
London, Nov. 13. Preliminary figures of Oversens trade in October, published by the Board of Trade, show that the total exports of United King dom produce and manufactures were valod at £39,865,000, com- pared with £34,098,265 in Septem- ber and 36.748,545 in October, 1934.
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Total iniports were £73,383,000, compared with £60,830,697 September and £68,993.689 October, 1934)
in
Total re-exports were £1,732,000, against '£3,810,838 in September #4d £1,000,668 in October, 1934.
For the ten months January to October, exports totalled 361- 613,000, against £325.756,000 for the corresponding period of 1934: Imports totalled £612,410000. against £605,290,000, and
exports £15,255,000, against £43,- 672,000,-Riritsh Wireleus.
BRITISH STEEL PRODUCTION
HIGHEST FOR PAST EIGHT YEARS
TWO KILLED
Cairo, Nov. 13. Two student Nationals were
DAY BY DAY
Police restored order every-
where curly in the afternoon. llow.
tions leader,
The police quelled the rioters by firing volleys of blank cart- ridges over the heads of the milling throngs.-United Prest,
NEWS IN BRIEF.
IT IS BETTER TO HAVE A LION AT
THE HEAD OF AN ARMY OF SHEEP, THAN A SHEEP AT THE HEAD OF AN ARMY OF LIONS.-De Pue.
Was Sum
The Manila Observatory, reporting, at 8.45 nm. to-day, states that the typhoon is situate in the east of the Visayas Islands, moving W.N.W or IN.W.
St on
La Kan, unemployed. tenced to eight month ed tabour by Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central
this Magistracy
morning.
from charge of having returned bunishment before the expiration of his term of ten years received in July inst year. Defendant was arrested in Des Voeux Road West.
salesman,
Josef Gafrik, aged 47, appeared before Mr. Macfadyen at
**
Theodore Chaliapine (ass). 9-9.75 p.m. Daventry News Bulle-
9.15-9.30 p.m. Hawalian Music.
country with Away In Hawaii; Honolulu March; He stated that John K. Paaluhi); On the Bench of Kohala March (Frank Ferera and cent. Waikiki (Waikiki Stone-Wall Boys). 9.30-10 p.m. Dance Tunes of
taxes, consume twenty per of the national Income and must be added to prices, limiting mar-Not-so-long-ago.
THE MEMEL SITUATION
BRITAIN WATCHES
DEVELOPMENTS
10 p.m. Big Ben: Press Bulletins, 10.10 p.m. Close Down.
MAN QUERIES FINE
TOLD HE CAN MAKE APPEAL
Li Wing, 39, unemployed, was charged before Mr. E. Wynne- Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with possessing ni illicit still and apparatus at No. 242 Reclamation Street, second
oor: possession of 20 gallons of“ fermenting material; and posses sion of 75 gallons of dotiable Chinese spirits.
London, Nov. 13. Developments in the political situation In Memel, where the Governor has nominated one of five Lithuanian members in the recently-elected Diet, in which German Memellanders hokt 21 seats to four, to the new Direc tory, are being closely watched by the British Government as one of the signatories of the Memel
Revenue-Ollieer A. W.. Grimmitt Statute. The Statute
that the provides prosecuted and stated that the Directory should enjoy still was large enough to distil the confidence of the Diet, and the 14 to 15 gallons of spirits a day,
of the An fadian Police constable, Mohna-result
efforts of M. on which about $20 duty-could be
The Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Inspector returned froni General of Police, Home leave aboard the P. and O. tunchi this morning. Sub-Inspector Broke and Sub-Inspector Hopkins also refined from leave by the same liner. During Mr. King's absence. Mr. . Burlingham Inspector General.
s
RA acted
the Central Magistracy this morning ed Ishaq, appeared before Mr. S. F. Borchestus to form a Government charged. The still was new and on charges of failing to report his Balfour, at the Central Magistracy which will scenre the support of was actually working at the time arrival in the Colony and wiling to the ring, charged with having the majority in the Diet is awaits of the raid. rentify the police within one week offainst bribe of $2 from Chan Chased with interest.British Wire-
address. Defendant Hollywood Rond in Dernier 30 least his change of
with a view to infiuencity: him in the admitted both offices and was fine $25 on the first harre and Sto on Performance of his duty as a Geveri
Second, clarice Safi-Inspector jemedies appeared far the defendant, ment ervant. Mr. J. M. D'Almada
Ritchie proséented.
and asked that a date be fixot for the bearing of the case. Mr. Balfour re- manded defendant until 2.30 p.m. on November 20, ball being allowed in
5200..
LOCAL, DOLLAR
UNCHANGED
MARKET LOOKS STEADIER
+
On the first two charges fines of $250 each, or, in default, three months' hard labour were impostu, and on the last a fine of $10, or 197days, was imposed. Sentences to run concurrent.
On being fined defendant said, Admitting the theft of a pair of
"According to your Worship's leather slippers from No. 206 Des
powers you cannot fine me so Ron Central, Hu Ying-nam,
much on the second charge, be- 2-year-old unemployed, was renten:rd|
Cruse
I did out have much to one month's hard labour, by Mr.
Man Kam-sing, 53, unemployed, the Central Police Macfadyen at
material" appeared on remand before Mr. E. 1. Court this morning. Sub-Inspez tor
Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Muglas
Defendant admitted that he had Tyler stated that defendant went into tracy this morning on charge of The official rate of the Hong-ten to twenty cattien of fermenting London, Nov. 13. The production of steel ingots the slop and inspected several pairs having compared with two others t
kong dollar was unchanged at 1s. material.
His Worship stated that he im- of slippers. fie eventually selected in custody, between August 1 and and castings in the united King-
pused such a heavy, tine in order dom in October amounted to 907,-ne, pair and while the shopkeeper's November 3, to commit a crime of 4%, this morning.
attention was distructed, defendant violence at No. 30 Nathan, Rond, Business was done early on at to deter people from doing this 300 tons, compared with 855,900 slipped out of the shop with the first floor. Detective-Sub-Inspector Is. 4d, and later at 18. 4.13/16d. sort of thing. "You can appeal tona in September and 821,000 slippers, under his jacket. He was L. Whant stated that he land her
charge. The market looks stendler at thesp against it if you like," he added. tons in October, 1934.
constable when the instrueird to withdraw the arrested by `a October production
against the defendant with his Wor- rates. the slippers fell out. JA
ship's permission. The police offered no evidence against the sun. De- duction of pig iron in October was Lo Tung, -beatman, WILS einarged fendant was accordingly discharged. 544,300 tons, compared with 529.efore Mr. W. Schofield, at the Cen- 600 tons in September and 527,110tral Magistracy, this morning, with
highest since March, 1927. Pro
MORE SHIPPING ORDERS
:
having assaulted another boatman,:
Several banishees appeared before
DEATH SENTENCE ON RUSSIANS
SPIES OF HARBIN
́GOVERNMENT···
Khabarovsk, Nov. 13.
tons
In October, 1934-British | Lan Hung, on board cargo boat No. Mr. Macfadyen at the Central Magin Wireless,
3344V at dardine Wharf on Novem- trucy this morning..each elarged with her 12. It was alleged that when the committing a breach of the Deed defendant was trying to leave the tion Ordinance, Leung Sang, wharf in his boat, the tide was, who was banished for a period against him, and as he attempted to of 10 years on May 20 this year, was London, Nov. 13. turn the boat it collided with the sentenced to six months' hard labour. The recovery In shipbuilding complainant's boat. The complainant A similar sentence was imposed on noticeable in the last six weeks then alleged that the defendant rush- Ko Cheung, who admitted returning
ed
his boat and struck him from his team of five years banish- was further illustrated to-day by with chopper, while the defondant) mont. Ho, was banished on October sontoneed to denth the Russians, orders received by
Inst. Another banisheo. Cheung Middles alleged that the complainant came borough firm for nine steam to his bost and struck him with an Ping, aged 20, who was unnished for to strawlers for Hull and Grimsby iron bar. Both men were bound over 10 years on December 25, 1031, was owners, and a 600-ton oil-burning in personal bonds of $50,cach to keep remanded for one week for further
inquiries to be instituted, .coasting vessel,-British Wireless, the peace for one year.
&
on to
The Red Army Tribunal has Sorkin and Bublin, who emigrated
Manchuria and
Russia as "spica of a cer- tain Government at Harbin."- United Press. --- ·---
STRIKE WILL SPREAD
New York, Nov. 13. High labour union officials ex- press the fear that the Gulf Ports longshoremen's strike will aprend to the Atlantic ports unless it is settled shortly-United Preen.
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