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· GERMAN FINANCES EASING THE FLOOD SERIOUS FLOODING IN

UNSTEADY

BUDGET DEBATE

GOVERNMENT THREATEN TO RESIGN

INCREASED TAXATION

Berlin, Yesterday. During the course of the budget debate in the Reichstag the Chan- cellor, Herr Mueller declared that unless the Budget were passed the Government would resign, and that the situation in Germany being 30 critical party politics ought to be kept in the background. It was es sential to introduce a Budget which would not leave

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KING EDWARD HOTEL'S BASEMENT

1

PICCIOLI'S CONDITION

U.S.A.

TOWNS INUNDATED

IOWA, ILLINOIS SUFFER

Water several feet high stood in ALABAMA, GEORGIA, NEBRASKA the basement of the King Edward! Hotel yesterday when an examina- tion was made. It is understood! that an attempt will be made to run it off to-day by clearing the drain covers (

THOUSANDS IN DANGER

Montgomery, Alabama,

Yesterday.

The work of turning over the de- Very serious foods are following in Alabama, bris continues. No discovery of the heavy rains

Nebraska, Iowa and unusual interest was made yester Georgia, day, the "China Mall" is informed. Illinois. Alabama has suffered.the All four injured parsons in the worst. At least five towns are in- Government Civil Hospital have undated, including Flomaton and made progress towards recovery, Brewton, where 10,000 persons are and are believed to be out of dan-reported to be in danger as they are Yeoman Andrew Piccioli, et without food supplies. Four thou- deficit, ger. A thus could proof the U.S.S. "Memphis," ought to be sand were cut off on the 14th inst. *be given to the reparations" discharged in about three months, at Elba.

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only

experts now. meeting in Paris it is anticipated.

that, despite her necessitous

condition, Germany would leave

no stone unturned to fulfil her ob Bigations.

It is estimated that a Budget de- | ficit of the £18,950,000 would have to be met.

The Government proposes to in- crease the beer tax, death duties. property tax and also to derive ad- ditional revenue from the spirits monopoly Reuter.

FLYING EPOCH

A NEW SERVICE OF AIR LINERS

BRITISH ENTERPRISE

London, Yesterday. A new service of air iners between London, Brussels and Cologne is to be commenced by the Imperial Airways on Monday.

The service will leave Croydon aerodrome at 8.30 each week-day morning and Cologne will be reach- ed at 1.45 In the afternoon. At this town, connections will be made with German air Uners to other cities, which will be brought within less than ten hours of London-British Wireless Service.

WAR DEBTS

FRANCE AND ITALY PAY FURTHER INSTALMENTS

"FINE TO CLOUDY"

"N.E. winds, moderate; fine to cloudy" is the forecast until Hong noon to-morrow for Kong, the adjacent coast and Formosa Channel,

At 11.27 a.m. to-day the Ob- aervatory reported: "The anticyclone has dispersed. Another is forming over S.E. Mongolia. Moderate monsoon may be expected along the S.E. coast of China and over the China Sea."

BIG LEGACY

£200,000 FOR CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

TO AID SCIENCE

www

London, Yesterday.

At present it is impossible to estimate the number of dead and In- jured as communications have been cut off. Seaplanes are drop- ping bread for those maroon-| ed and in BOTNO areas na- tional guardsmen and coastguarda by to attempting

of motor-boats. Reuter's American Bervice.

are

means

rescue

OLO CUSTOM

"SUPERSTITIOUS PRACTICES” IN CHINA

PERSUASION FUTILE

[From Our Correspondent]

Canton, March 15. The Nationalist Government has done its utmost to persuade the people to give up "superstitious practices" but in Canton, except for a small minority, the public do not seem willing to part with time honoured usages. For instance, during the month of November and

In his will, Mr. John Humphrey again in December, the authorities Plummer, of Southport, who left here called upon the public to cele £271,000, bequeathe to Cambridge brate the new-style New Year University £200,000 for science-in British Wireless Service.

VAN LEAR BLACK

FLYING MILLIONAIRE HELD UP IN AFRICA

INFLUENZA VICTIMS

placa of. the Lunar New Year. A good deal of propaganda, was Indulged fn, in an effort to get the people, to give up the old calendar, but when the time came for the celebra- ton of the new-style New Year, hardly anybody celebrated it, only the officials following the injune-! tion of Nanking. On the night of December 81, the streets were as Mr. Van Lear Black has been held quiet as on. every ordinary night. the sum of £2,125,000, being the up at Broken Hill as his two pilots Nobody decorated his premises, no seventh instalment payable under and mechanic are suffering from in-one hung the flag up, and there was

fluenza-Reuter. the Italian war debt funding agree- ment of 1926.

London, Yesterday.

The Italian Government duly paid

to the British Government to-day

The sum of $125,000 in gold was released to the Italian Government In accordance with Article 7 of the Agreement.

The French Government also paid to-day the sum of £4,000,000 to the British Government as a sixth pay- ment on account of the French war debt.-British Wireless Service.

Mr. Charles M. Schwab, the United States steel magnate, arrived at Plymouth recently from New

York.

TO-DAY ONLY

Bulawayo, Yesterday.

JAPANESE BUDGET honorific arches, bringing out the

· PASSES THROUGH BOTE

:HOUSES

How- no burning of fracrackers. ever, when the Lunar New Year came round, the citizens celebrated it as in times of old, putting up flags, and burning fire-crackora from morning till night. Accounts were settled at the end of the old lunar year and the jollification was old. Tokyo, Yesterday. exactly as days of The Budget for this year, calling It will be recalled by many that for Y:1,752,000,000, including Navy when China became a republic, the Estimates of Y.268,000,000, and new regime from the very outset Army Estimates of Y,231,000,000, called upon the people to observe has passed both Houses... the Gregorian calendar but with-

Supplementary estimates will be out the desired result. presented shortly-Renter.

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VIOLA DANA

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OSHER ITTY ELLY MAJESTIC

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The authorities have likewise done their utmost to get the people to give up religious practices and have gone to the length of convert- ing temples into schools and museums, but the people keep on observing old religious practices. The public were told not to keep up the old "extravagant", marriage and funeral practices but they have paid very little if any hoed to the injunction There is a war DOW OF against fortunetellers but the people keep going to them for ad- vice.

To make a long story short, the authorities have not been a bit successful in their efforts to pèr- suade the people to give up "super- atitious practices."

A CONFLAGRATION

OVER 1,000 BUILDINGS GUTTED

IN JAPAN

MANY HOMELESS

Tokyo, Yesterday:

Over one thousand buildings were gutted, including two banks, two schools, a cinema, and

ldings in a fire whic

dnight at ford

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