THE --HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 30, 1938;
GENERAL STRIKE BEGINS THEORETICALLY
$1,000,000
Offer To Midnight Tension in France
Quins Is
Turned Down Though Paris is Quiet;
TORONTO, Nov. 29. IT 15 announced that an offer, reputed to be $1,000,000 for the appear. ance of the Dionne Quins at the New York Fair, has been rejected.
It is further stated that the offer included an addi- tional $50,000 for the ex- hibition of the Quins par- ents--United Press,
4-YEAR
Capital Entirely Mobilised
DALADIER'S MEASURES TO
DEFEAT AGITATORS
PARIS, Nov. 30,
ECONOMIC PARIS PRESENTS A NORMAL post-midnight appearance, except for discreet
PACT
RUMANIA TO SELL WHEAT, OIL TO GERMANY
BUCHAREST. Nov. 29. FOUR YEARS German- Rumanian agreement providing, apari from wheat mies, for a very large delivery of oil, was discussed
Marshal Hermann Goering at Leipzig on Saturday learned here from # reliable source.
groups of police guards on the underground stations.
The underground and bus services are assured until the usual hour of about 1.15 a.m.
At the same time, the authorities have taken precautions to guard the principal buildings in Paris, as they have also done in the north of France, where troops are patrolling the town halls, stations and post offices.
Only two newspapers hitherto have appeared here, the Le Matin and Le Journal, both consisting of four pages.
shares improved from two to four points.
but
it
The
room for expected arrests.
Government preparations of main- taining order on Wednesday have reached a high state of completion, visible. A although few signs are large number of cells in Cante prison, which is one of the largest prisons in Paris, have been empiled to make
between King Carol and Field- The general strike began in theory at midnight,
last, It is as the night services are assured of effectiveness,
cannot be gauged until later, when the early morning worker's normally report for duty.-Reuter.
Political circles claim to know
that agreement in principle was reached at Leipzig for close German- Rumanian economic co-operation.
Details will be arranged between the Rumanian Government and the German trade delegation which has been staying for some line in the Rumanian capital.
Germany will pay for the deliveries of the most important products of Rumania with manufactured goods. and by constructing new equipment for the Rumanian oil industry.
The projected agreement is said to be so für-reaching that the Rumanian oll industry must increase its produc- tion in order to fulfil it.
READY FOR CONFLICT
Paris, Nov. 30. Thousands of mobile troops and
REQUISITIONING NOT ILLEGAL
Paris, Nov. 20. M. Daladier, in a statement the guards have cordoned off the labour afternoon, replied to the charges that districts of the city.
requisitioning of the railways was
He declared that the Government
of
The Labour Confederation head-illegal. quarters at midnight were virtually military headquarters, with couriers rushing about. The leaders Insisted acted by virtue of the Acts that by abon to-day 5,000,000 Parliament of 1877 and 1935, where workers would be on strike.
by requisitioning could be ordered by decree.
It is expected the climax will be reached between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m., when 225,000 railway workers will go on strike, while
army
Dn
of
The reason for the intended close economic
between volunteers will attempt to continue ed-Reuter. co-operation Rumania and Germany is stated to skeleton schedules.
be the failure of King Carol, during his vie
visit to Britain and France,
the
secure
In the event of his breaking the
to revolt, M. Daladier will emerge with:
desired for-reaching the greatest prestige enjoyed by any-
body since M. Poineaire.
His mea-
consensus
in of opinion Chamber circles to-night was that M. Daladier is complete master of the situation, and it is therefore un- likely that Parliament
be will convoked on December 13, as hitherto planned, but will probably meet on December 20, so that a second acssion will not be necessary before Christ- MES.
That the strike is becoming in- creasingly unpopular among the
railway workers is indicated by the secret of the ballot taken in the Parts centre to-day, 90 per cent. workers expressing themselves op- posed to the strike.
Such decrees had been issued by
That the Socialist party of M, Leon M. Blum's first Socialist Government Blum does not intend to relinquish in 1936, and had never been reselnd-the fight against the Government is indicated by the decision of a meeting of Socialist Deputies to hold a meeting of Chamber Deputies of all parties on Friday in the largest
Chamber building. hall of the
The original tention was to use the main Assembly Hall for the pur-
PARIS CITY COUNCIL APPROVES POLICY
Paris, Nov. 29. economic help of both Western
After an all-night session, which Powers for Rumania. Especially sures are the boldest Bince 1910, lasted into the early hours of this disturbing was his failure to obtain when M. Briand invoked the mill-morning, the Paris City Council, after pose, but this was altered when it
a promise of larger whent and oiltary to avert R railway strike purchases.-Trani-Ocean.
United Press.
PARIS MOBILISED
on animated debate, and despite the was intimated that the doors to the protests of the Marxist and Com-Assembly Room would be closed and munist Aldermen, passed a a resolu- guntded by members of the Garde tion by 47 votes to nil (the Left Wing Mobile, This action by the Socialists Paris, Nov. 29. parties abstaining) expressing cone will constitute the calling of a Rump
to refusal It is estimated that M. Daladier idence in the Government which is Parliament as a protest against M.
ry Dalndier's
convoke has reinforced the Parks garrisons determined to take all necessary with 40,000 troops and mobile measures to assure a normal food Parliament in the inmediate future.
With the Radical-Socialists supply for the population, and the Dandler has kept Labour maintenance of liberty of all citizens Right Wing Deputies absent, it is re- guessing, as he is keeping most of to go about their dally business dur-garded as certain that the meeting Subject to use by ordinary ship his preparations secret, and he has ing the present internal disturbancee will be without noticeable results.
Improvement Started
CANTON HARBOURS
By Japanese
Canton, Nov. 20.
cuards..
AL
-Trans-Ocean.
One of the most remarkable fea- tures of to-day's franc dealings was
Trans-Ocean.
and
ASKED FOR CUMSHA
Alleged Collector On Behalf of Policeman
Sentence of six weeks' hard labour
ping in future, the Japanese mill-not made any official announcement tary authorities have started harbours to the number of reinforcements FIRMNESS OF FRANC Improvement in Canton, Whangpon sent to Paris during the night. and Honam side by side with the
London, Nov. 29. The closed barracks hide the num-
The strength of the franc on the operations to
to remove mines and boomber, however, tanks and armoured eve of the general strike in France from the Pearl River,
As the result of the efforts made cars are visible through the gates of attracted considerable attention in the by the
the the garrison courtyard at the Ecole Japanese authorities,
City. in the centre Militari,
of Paris, harbour of Whangpoa is at present where normally only a few horses able to accommodate three 6,000 to 0,000
tons vessels alongside its wharf, can be seen. There is a reclaimed land about The Premier has also moved up the fact that the French authorities was imposed on Leung Wah-ming. 100,000 tsubo In area near the Runs and artillery secretly.
were practically the only sellers, and 32, unlicensed hawker, when he was only convicted by Mr. R. Edwards at the Whangpon harbour and the prospect Mediation efforts have failed, and while buying pressure was is highly promising for constructing neither the General Labour Federa- moderate, the former enabled the Central Magistracy yesterday on a new harbour along the reclaimed tlon, nor the Government is able to insertion of a supporting peg for the
harm to So Tim, 19, and Ko successively lower levels. land.
18, both unlicensed-hawkers, on A quay-wall G20 metres long has
The Federation and Communist
The Armness of the frane was November been' newly opened along the re- Party face the risk of dissolution revealed in the forward market, It was said that the defendant went claimed lank at Sunti, to the north-there is sabotage or clashes with the where discounts were narrower than to the complainants' stall and said
money west of Honam and ships of live military in connection with the strike. for a considerable perlod, at 34 for he was collecting
for an
draft are able to anchor-United Press.
1.107 centimes for three months.
constable, who was on Indian police con alongside it.-Domel.
Well-informed circles were of the duty. Two cents were handed over MOBILE GUARDS DISPERSE
opinion that the frane buoyancy was to the defendant, but later the de CROWD
due to rather heavy bear covering, fendant threw the two cents at com-
stali.
that saying based on the belief that the Govern- { plainanta'
the Valencia, Nov. 20.
anti-strike measures After a short affray, mobile guards ment's
were Indian was not satisfied. Later the along and One Unaware He Was In dispersed 1,000 demonstrators in the destined to prove successful, in which Indian constable came
town of Raismez, north of Valenclen-case genuine repatriation is likely to kicked over the stall Ines, who marched there it is report-receive a definite fillip-Reuter,
metres
SOLDIERS INTERNED
British Territory
| retreal.
ed, with the intention of attacking! the police station.
оп
FRANCE CONFIDENT Nearly 100 more Chinese soldiers
Paris, Nov. 20. Six men, arrested for attempts to were interned at the Fanling quar-
Confidence that Premier Daludier ters yesterday, half of them having prevent workers from carrying come in the previous night and the their duties, were being temporarily will emerge victorious in the present prevailed in French remainder coming in during the day, held, pending their removal to prison, strike crisis
to They will probably join their Hitherio 40 arrests have been made economic and industrial circles comrades on the steamship Ll long, for interference with building con- night.
structionReuter.
we of having Inßicted grievous
The complainants went up to the defendant and "beat him up". The defendant was then alleged to have under his from produced a knife girdle, and attacked the complainants. Indian constable B717, said that hr did not know the complainants Or the defendant. He was on duty at Hillier Street on the day in question, In convicting the defendant, Mr. In Kowloon Bay.
As an indication that the money
said he was satisfed with Edwards One soldier
not market was who was taken into
-experiencing custody yesterday afternoon said he
uneasiness, it was pointed out that the evidence given by the witncares belleved had no intention of giving up the
the return of capital at the beginning for the prosecution, and bel fight but did not know that he had
of this week was over four times that that the defendant did go and ask
for the Indian constable. wandered into British territory. He The Government has ordered legal of the previous week-end. French for money
Edwards took into considera- said he was Private Wong Kong-yce proceedings against the two joint securlies gained between
and industrial on that the defendant had been of the 151st Divlalon under General Secretary-Generals of the National 2.75 francs to-day,
detained for about three weeks, and Mok Hay-tak. Ha seemed very tir-Raliways Federation, who on Novem-
there had been some provocation.
Detective-Sergeant LH. Oakley
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ORDERED
Paris, Nov. 20.
ed and had obviously been campaign-ber 21 circularised all -regionul
ghard,
ing!
branches, urging- railwaymen to Also opprehended was a Chinese strike. Boy Scout whose enthusiasm had led
him
to carry weapons with him The law under which the action though he had been warned before is taken provides from three to five. that if he came into British territory years imprisonment for anyone armed, he would be interned as a threatening to impede the running of soldier.
|troina.-Reuter.
More Trouble On Polish-
Slovak Frontier
Pressburg, Nov. 29.
The official Slovak - press service announces that, Poles, on Sunday Mitt two villages and also the district of Namestov, outside the agreed.
dimoineraliou.,
Aslovaks -characterise the occupation” as
moe:thai thủ-slovak Government will demand "19%.
lory—--Trang-Ocea
HAVE
YOU
REACHED
THAT
CERTAIN
AGE"
85 and
Mr.
prosecuted.
Games Afternoon And Sale of Work
A most successful Whist and Mah- jong Drive, organised by the Christ Church Women's Guild, was held yesterday afternoon in St. Andrew's Church Hall. The proceeds will be devoted to Church Funds,
Later in the evening, there was: male of work at which assorted hard- ware, which was to have been on sale at the Christ Church - Garden Fete recently, was sold, w
"Besides, the hardware from wortha, thers were knitted garment MED ERECTA Hooda : displayed; on:
rvor
Several motor car accidents in the New Territories have occurred recently, and these pictures by Staff Photographer illustrate the fate of two private cars when they came to grief on New Territories roads this week. Top picture shows the offside of the car completely buckled, while below the vähicle finiibed half. way down an embankment alongside the roadway.
SHOULD HUSBANDS AND WIVES HAVE SEPARATE FRIENDS?
I'm just going
out for an hour, dear. I want
to see some
・of the boys
NEXT MORNING
I know it's all right Jim having his
own friends,Mother.
It's the modern idea but it does wony d me- I see so little of him.
AT THE DOCI
Oh Jim, I wish you didn't go out so often in the evenings. I see so little of you these
days
These modern theories are a very well Ann; but when I was young we'd say
You say you always wake fired, and feel. washed out and dull, that's bound to tell on
your looks. Your houble is Night Starvation. My advice is.
Horlicks at
bodhime
6 WEEKS LATER
My goodness, the nicest place in the world is here with you, Ann, by the
fireside
Darling Jim!
that a man
who stayed out in the evenings usually had a dull
lifeless wife at home
SD HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT
I'm glad I got rid of my tiredness
thanks to
Horlicks
2 EVENINGS LATER
Sorry I can't be home for dinner darling I've got to attend that Sports Club
Committee tonight I'll have a bife
in town.
THEN ANN READ A MAGAZINE ARTICLE- #Z SAID:
"Too many wives fcel constantly tired, list- less and 'nervy."This tells on their looks frightfully,"
HEAVENS, THAT'S ME!
Imust see a doctor about
AND WHAT AN-IMPROVEMENT IN HOW ANN FELT AND LOSKED
Do you wake tired every. moming? Look tired? Feel nervy
TAKE HORLICKS hot cupiful every night at bedtime - will ́end that dreadful tiredness, bring the sparkle bäck, to your face and restore your attractive liveliness and galety
once more.
HORLICKS
GUARDS AG. NIGHT
NST
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