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GOVERNMENT AID FOR COLONIES

OFFER TO SHOULDER LOSSES OF WEST INDIES AND MAURITIUS

£500,000 TO BE ADVANCED

London, Yesterday. Secretary of State for the Colonies has telegraphed to the Governors of the West Indies and of Mauritius to the effect that the British Government are prepared to shoulder half the Colonial Gov ernmenta' losses up to £300,000, in respect of the West Indies, and £200,000 in respect of Mauritius, if the Colonial Government will guarantee the lenders in respect of half of any losses on advances made to assist the next sugar crop. Reuter.

AIR DISASTER

Bodies of French Aces Found

Brussels, Yesterday. The bodies of the French air- men, Roux, Cafllot and Dedemont, who disappeared while Dying France last January after a suc- cessful flight to Madagascar, have been found, with their aero-

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大英三月十五號,德拜六日 中華民國庚午年弍月十陸日

SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1930.

COLONY'S FINANCE ITALY AND FRANCE

Revenue and Expenditure

The financial statement of the Government for the month ended November 30, 1929, showed the revenue derived during that month 88 $2,042,211.96. The expenditure

the same period during $1,812,454.21.

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The balance in hand was still on the right side; the ten million mark being still maintained. The figures are:-

Balance of 'Asiets- and Liabilities on October

Revenue from Novem-

ber 1 to 10

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Expenditure from vember 1 to 30

Balance

No-

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NO PROGRESS MADE AFTER CONFERENCE OF LEADERS

DEADLOCK REMAINS

London, Yesterday, M. Briand (France) and Signor Grandi (Italy), conferred alone for a whole hour to-day. Extreme eagerness is felt over their meet- ing, as the chief, immediate Inter- est centres in the French and $10,054,882.59 Italian deadlock. Signor Grandi to reply to 2,042,211.90 afterwards declined

journalists who interviewed him, $12,007,091.58

but M. Briand admitted that no 1,812,454.21 progress had been made.-Reuter. .$10,284,649.34

GHANDI'S APPEAL

A valise, containing jewellery and other goods to the value of £200, was stolen from a motor-car belong- ing to the Hon. Reginald A. Fellows, the English banker, at Nice.

plane, in the Kasai forest, Belgian Congo.

Address to Native Journalists

ARRESTED MAYOR

Ahmedabad, Yesterday. Gandhi and his followers at six This indicate how they met this morning left Nawagaon, and with disaster, and clears up the reached Vasna, where they are The mystery of their actual fate. halting until this afternoon-

party will spend the night a Matar. Reuter.

Addressing journalists this morning, Gandhi appealed to them to be patriotic and support the country's cause.

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Speaking to villagers at Nawa- gaon last night, Gandhi con-- gratulated eight headmen who had resigned their posts in protest at Vallabhai Patel's imprisonment. He exhorted the villagers to facture and wear khaddar (home- spun), and volunteer as civil dis-: obedience workers. Gandhi's ex- hortations resulted In the signations of the police headmen of the villages of Vastia and Maralal. The villagers vowed in the presence of Gandh! not to all the vacancies-Reuter.

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Calcutta's Mayor Leaves

Calcutta, Yel‘erday. Large crowds gathered to wit- nees the departure, under arrest, A of Sen Gupta for Rangoon. motor-car procession accompanufed him to Outram Ghat. where he embarked aboard a ship for Burma.. Sen Gupta was profusely garlanded, his forehead being painted with vermilion marks on the occasion of;

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Volunteer Salt-Workers

Foona, Yesterday. A "war council" of eleven has been appointed to organise passive resistance in the Poons district.

A hundred volunteers have en- marh to rolled, and resolved to the suburb of Bombay on the sea- coast and manufacture Balt. Reuter.

WAR FEARED Eruption of Strife in North

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Peking, Yesterday.

A Imessage from Taiyuanfu states that all the Shamsi Gènerals who had gone to Taiyuanfu to hold a conference with Yen Hel-shen have returned to their commands, and it is feared at Talyuanfu that bostilities may break out shortly, as Shih Yu-san continues to move northward, and Nanking- troops continue to arrive at Tainanfu, A further fifteen hundred men ers rived there yesterda".

* Shih-Yu-can has gone from Chengchow to Hopel, and the Kuo mincban - forces are "advancing from Tungkuan to Chengonow. It is anticipated at Taiyuanfa that they intend to occupy Cheng chow, thus forcing Shih Yu-san's hand.

Lu Chung-lin and othe Kuo- minchun: Generals have telograph tonishment at his resignation, ed to Yen Hafsban, expressing as- Furging him to remain to- strive might and day for the Farty and nation and plodging, the

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