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London, Yesterday. Sir Samuel Hoare, Air Minister,

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ALL-DAY DISCUSSION AT

GENEVA

QUESTION OF REVISION

Geneva, Yesterday. The League Labour Office dis- cussion continued all day. Resolu- tions were proposed to submit points for revision to a Special; Committee but failed to secure a majority whereupon Mr. Thomas

LABOUR

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EMIGRATION, INDUSTRY AND UNEMPLOYMENT

COLONIES DEVELOPMENT

London, Yesterday.

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has rendered to the House of Com-stated that the revision of the ing a group of employers, headed mons an account of the progress Convention would be automatic at by Lord Melchett and the Trades Union Congress, has issued a new and plans of airships R100 and the end of the R101 on the Air Force Estimates, They would be completed about the same time in the late Spring. Both would cost about the same, which

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ten-year period,

measures fostering emigration and namely, October 1929 but he would, interim report chkdy dealing with meantime, submit proposals to the Governor of the Labour Office for stimulating industry, coping with a solution of the difficulty Reuter. unemployment, and encouragement of nationalisation. It recommends that Government and Municipal

CHINA AND FRANCE

WHAT THE NEW CHINESE MINISTER SAYS

orders be placed in Britain under a

Crown Colonies Development Com- mittee. It should be formed for the purpose of the development and the placing of orders of plaat in Bri

After their shed trials they would engage in a number of trial flights within reach of Great Britain. STATEMENT TO PARIS PAPER tain, and that the Government

Thereafter the R101 would fy to i Egypt, then to India and the next! step would be trans-Atlantic, across to Montreal.

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should create and maintain a Deve- Parls, Yesterday,

lopment Fund capable of financing Mr. Kuo Lou, the new Chinese the mare important schemes of the Minister, has stated to ""Le Temps" Government and that an inquiry. There was every reason to believe that he would do all that was pos- into the currency and banking undertaken.- that airships would be regularly laible to tighten and develop econo- policy should be making imperial. lights within amical and intellectual Franco-Reuter,

Chinese relations. He added that year-Reuter.

he would hand over to the Paris Institute for Chinese studies copi.

AFGHANISTAN

EX-GENERALISSIMO ENTERS UPON THE SCENE

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Peshawar,. Yesterday. General Nadirkhan, ex-Generalis- įsime of Afghanistan, who had been living in retirement in the South of France for some years, arrived from Nice and proceeded to Khost from Peshawar a week ago. He was last heard of at Kohat where, replying to a deputation which urg. ed him to support Amanullah, he Baid his chief aim was to save his country from bloodshed. It was expected that Nadirkhan would go to Kabul to negotiate with |Habibullah and preparations were

made there for his reception, but when it was learned that he was not arriving, Habibullah ordered the confiscation of his property,

All Ahmed Khan of Jellalabad, who was deposed after the repulse of his advance upon Kabul early in February, is still at Peshawar,

The rumours that Amanullah is advancing upon Kabul are not con- Armed.-Reuter.

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.£91,849,000 Exports ....155,665,000 These figures show decreasea of £24,714,000 and £11,214,000 respec- tively compared with January Reuter.

Access to New Capital

SETTLEMENT

PEACE BY NEGOTIATION?

Shanghai, Yesterday. The present prospects point to the probability of the Hankow troops accepting instructions from the Central Government. It is re liably reported that the Nanking Government is demanding, firstly, the abolition of the Provincial Political Councils of Hupeh, Hunan and Kwangtung or the re- moval of His Tsung-tu from the chairmanship of the Hupeh Council; secondly, the removal of Ho Chien and the reinstatement of Lu Ti-ping as chairman of the Hunan Council, and thirdly, the withdrawal of all and Hankow troops from Kiangal from Hunan.

London, Yesterday. The necessity of thoroughly re- conditioning the organisation and equipment of British industries is stressed in the final report of the

Hsiao Li-tsze, Nanking's special Committee on Industry and Trade delegate to General Feng Yu-helang established in 1924 under the chair-¡ in connection with the Hunan issue, manship, of Sir Arthur Balfour. has returned. He states that Feng The Committee does not belleve Yu-hsiang is anxious for a peaceful that any of the principal basic in- lasue, but in any case will obey the dustries are so weakened by the decision of the Central Party head- long continued depression as not to quarters. have the power within themselves to take the first measures towards their own regeneration.

Doubtful Loyalty

Hankow, Yesterday, The report declares that at all There is a quiet consensus of costs the power of access to new opinion that the Hankow troops capital must be regained, to achieve would be unable to withstand an at- which measures of financial recon-tack from Nanking since the atruction and writing down capital, loyalty of certain Generala is most Shanghai, Yesterday: and amalgamations in order to in-doubtful. There are Do Indica- The "North China Daily News" crease the size of the business unit tions of general mobilisation here understands that the Salt Revenue may be among the essential steps or that a settlemant by negotiation Department has placed sufficient to be taken:

i likely to fail. Troops going funds with the group banks to Dealing with Empire markets, the down the Yangtze are only suffi- meet foreign Joan obligations report particularly draws attention; clent to hold up the opposing forces secured thereon and due shortly, to the high value of Imperial pre- for the time necessary to permit the being sufficient to meet the Crisp ference-Router.

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be tending toward seriousness. The lalest from Changsha is that Ho Chien has resigned, having sent his resignation to Nanking' Instead of to Hankow. This is

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has arrived at Kinklang from Nanking and that skirmishes have already commenced on the border. Homan in Trouble

Shanghai, Yesterday. A Nanking message says dismissal of the entire Provincial Party Affairs, Directorate for Honan, en acount of "unwarranted criticism of the Central Executive Council and defiance of its decl sions, has been decided upon, on the ground that the former op- posed the method of election, of delegates to the forthcoming

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A Peking View

A message from Peking says that General Pei Chung-hel (who is a friend of Hankow), in, the course of a circular telegram dealing with the Hunan altuation, urges the Cen- tral authorities to maintain a calm," tolerant attitude..

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