1930-11-04 — Page 7

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1930.

BANDITS BUSY.

AMERICANS ATTACKED IN CAR.

NO ARRESTS MADE.

Peking Yesterday. The latest foreigners to suffer attack by band are two Amori

can

springs tady Corporal Fred Knauf as partermaster Sergeant Wandt.

shan.

Six bandits, fivef whom were in uniform, apene heavy fire on the 'marines' autoude yesterday afternoo!!, seventeen, miles north Peking, wild the Ameri- Cs were returning from Tang- The Americans stopped the car. but the bandits ccntinued to fire, even while they were getting out. came perilousty Some of the shots near, but the marines were hit.

One band it the held up the marines, while five searched them, securing $130, a gold watch and chain and a flashlight.

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STORMY S. ÁMERICAN| FORMOSA'S REBELS. EPIGRAMS DUE

POLITICS.

Latin Republics Hold Record for Revolutions.

PRESIDENTIAL FORTUNES.

A glance at Fresidentin fortunes during the last few months could scarcely be stimulating to the ani bition of wound-be leaders in South America.

Leas

nosident of Brazil was seriously

were

Finally the bandits made with their booty, and the marines proceeded to Tangshan and raised

but no soldier's the alarm. there, and though the authorities at Peking are taking stepa in the there have been matter hitherto no arrests.-Reuter.

President Irigoyen, of Argen tinn, himself, who is now contem-

financial policy, narrowly escaped assassination eight months aKO,

SIX HUNDRED STILL UP IN ARMS

'TROOPS'' LOSSES.

Tokyo, Yesterday, According to official-despatches it is estimated that about 600 tribesmen are still in revolt.

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Down the ages the kind of pen used by writers has a profound The troops engaged thus far effect on what they wrote. For have lost six killed and 11 tunal Strowski, a member of the wounded in addition to which the French Institute, has been writing police.have lost six kilied and one in Comoedia (Paris) on "changes in language and syntax, changes Wounded.

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Miscellaneous. " To-morrow-Benevolent Society Jumble Sale, City Hall, 2 p.m.

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November 7-Lantern Lecture by Mr. T. J. Price, St. Andrew's Church Hall, 9p.m.

Four months ago there were

A battalion of infantry and dependent upon the Instrument severut attempts to assassinato President Leguis, of Peru. They further detachments of artillery used in writing the pen, the failed, but the revolutionists had belonging to the island garrison fountain pen, and the typewriter, better luck last month, and the ex have been despatched to the all of which made their influence President is now in prison. than a year ago, there was a deter-scene of operations as reinforce-felt upon the style of writing."

"If one wishes to understand mined attempt to murder President

Owing to the unusual cold the great works of the sixteenth wave a number of cases of frost centuries," it is pointed out, "one Ibanez, of Chile, and six months ago, or a little less, the Vice-Pre bite have occurred among the must never forget that they were wounded. Recent elections in Brazil troops, according to Press des-written with the goose-quill. The

patches-Reuter.

goose-quill was very flexible; it and Argentina were enlivened by

bent and spread the more pressure pitched battles, in which many were

that the hand used upon it. In killed, and the State of Parahyba

writing with it, a rigorous hand The Americans neted about a was for some time in a state of

was condemned to trace naught hundred Chinese proners whom netive revoll. Paraguay has lately

but huge letters or else produce of slege," and the handits had also robbed of con in a state

confused and heavy tracks on the they several Presidents have been gov- their valanbles, and white

paper.

Old Time Delicacy. were being kept prisoners they crning without a national Legisla witnessel a hold-up, of a motor-ture.

The cost of operating the League "The people of olden times were bus many of which run on the Peking-Tangshan road.

off plating in prison the results of his of Nations and its auxiliary or endowed with a lightness of hand, Licensing, Board, Council Char-

ganisations, the International that is to say, a grace and delicacy Labour Office and the Permanent which were both natural nas well Court of International Justice, as cultivated at the same time, in during the fiscal year 1934 has the proportion to which their writ The Economic Crisis..

been fixed at £1,198,657-less than ing was neat, fine, and small. In Immediate 'causes, no doubt, are the cost of building one modern this connection the manuscripts of economic. South America (in which battle cruiser.

Montaigne and Paseal, are excel

Montaigne was British capital is heavily engaged)

It appears that the estimated ex-ient examples. is feeling the pinch of the times. penses of the League for the com-slow and precise, Pascal rapid and Exporis from Argentina for Apring year will exceed those of last hasty, but they both wrote with. of this year were 32.7 per cent

year by some £70,247, the increase their hands elevated." below April, 1928, and this la 'typi being due chiefly to the advance But the goose-quill did not last cal of the declines the first Cour contemplated in the operating exa very long time. It was quickly months of 1930. The fall is both penses of the World. Court and the worn out, and the time it took to in tonnage and value, and the Ararection of a Swiss League wire-make another, cut with a knife as. gentine peso has been steadily de- less station.

Should the plan of keen as a razor blade, was suf- elining.

the majority of the "Committee of cient to permit the mind to collect This course,, does not explain Thirteen" for reorganisation of the itself. Nobility of thought, pre- everything. There was no strong administration of the League bu cision,, oase, and the fullness of movement to assasinate Mr. Seul-put into effect, the expenditure the classical style were all, lin when his Budget proved unpo would be about £24,000 more.. doubt, due to the care exacted by pular and not even Mr. Hill's politi-

At the beginning of 1930, how the goose-quill. cal opponents have suggested that ever, according to the report of "The steel pen, which made pro- he should be put to the torture as the League treasurer, there was angress in writing more rapid, did a substitute for the wage tax..

unexpended surplus of £45,421 left away with the attention the writer over from 1929, due to curtailment had been forced to give to the Presidents Who Will Not Go.

for such extreme of the Secretariat's expenses. The goose-gaill. The same pen point One reason course in Latin America is that the World Court showed a surplus of lasted for a long time. It auto International'matically brought about that writ- governing powers are not easily $14,307, removed by election or other peace. Labour Office appeared with a de-¡ing was more consistent, and it ful methods when the country ficit of £10,896. After deducting permitted the heaviest hand to wants a change of Ministry.. Pre- that deficit and applying about write snely if the pen point was sidents succeed themselves, or 28,000 to pay off the mortgage on fine.

It necessitated some attention, taste. the Secretary General's residence, Sometimes name their successors.

was purchased by the however, one had to dip it in ink, the President resigns shortly be which fore an election. The Vice-Presid-League last September, and other and if one did so too rapidly or

The half pearl jewellery, especial- ent then takes charge temporarily, charges, the League will be able to risked the danger of making blots while the ex-President, goes out on refond to its members around on the paper. Here the fountain

pen stopped in and led us towardly the rings and earrings, are really. an election campaign and usually £31,838 from last year's levies.

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YOUNG. PLAN:

GERMANY AND REPARATIONS PROBLEM.

BANKER'S PLÉA.

Berlin, Yesterday. At the opening of the new Reichsbank building in Dresden, Doctor Luther, the President of the Reichsbank, declared:

"Germany must always show.

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the world that she insists on carrying out the section of the Young Plan which stipulates that

wing.

During a long term of office, with all, the resources at his command, a strong President makes many friends and disposes neatly of his enemies, so that it is very rare in- deed for the dominant group to Avast proportion of the papula tion in Latin-American countries is illiterate, and this section ordinari. ly takes a great dent-less interest

lose an election...

but the

no

The Iridium Foint. "From the moment that the

PEARL EXHIBITS. INTERESTING COLLECTION AT KOMOR'S.

Valued at over $100,000 is Mr. Kodaka's exhibition, of pearls and culture pearls, which opened yes terday at Komor & Komor's art gallery, St. George's Building for It is attracting. ten days only. many buyers and other visitors. A wonderful display of pearl and pearl There jewellery is to be scen.

is a display of strings of graduated pearls of prices from $100 up to These are rings with white gold or thousands. mounted platinum of British and Parisian styles at prices to suit everybody's Mr. Kodaka has not forget- ten the men, for beautiful pearl

studs, and tieplus at all prices are

exhibited.

all nations, affected must co- In the usual election campaign than which confronts the League is col forth Rather than interrupt this sure how the gem orginates.

operate for a solution of the rd parations, problem."

takes in a council election.

According to approximate ap propriations the League intends to

Origin of the Pearl spend about £45,000 in furthering disarmament in the coming year.

The pearl originates through The Assembly and Council meet ididium point is placed on the ings are expected to cost about paper it runs on without stopping, sickness of certain molluscs, but 45,367, and Economic Section ac- the words themselves are heaped the pearl molluse (meleagrima tivities are allotted £63,050. For up, and it traces a continuous margaritifera) which lives in the seas of the East, is the most valued. the work of the Health Section thought which does not cease until £55,000 is est aside, and for the the end of the line is reached. Philosophers of old tried-to-find Social Section Kopium, child wel- The band goes on mechanically, how pearls originated but up to the automatically, and ordinary 18th century without result, and One dificult financial problem phrases, banal expressions, flow

even at the present we are not quite fare &c.) $17,618. the average suburban ratepayer lecting dues from its members. easy and gentle low the writer it is supposed that because of a Last year 89 per cent of assess refuses nothing which this scratch on the shell or, if any He said the world's capital

ments were paid on tirde, which language offers him; all seems foreign matter enters, it is right Dictators By Other Names.

Fucked away covered with a chalky mat should be distributed all over the

Even when-Latin-American 'cons was slightly less than the previous well world, not hoarded in a few titutions contain a no-re-election year, when 83 per cent of moneys As to the typewriter (the ter and that is the sole matter pinces. As Germany's fulfilment provision, there is a way round it. dae were received. Last year's machine) "It did not permit of in which really forms the pearl. of her obligations depended on an Most of the Presidents do as Irigo-average, however, was higher than complete phrases or words. Each Japan started 80 years ago to Increase In her exports, it was yen did the other day, and as Pre the three years preceding 1928. letter necessitates a particular cultivate pearls by placing foreign essential that the world's markets sident Dias of Mexico did in 1880 Arrears amounting to 526,400 were action and appears on the page matter into the oyster shell, but should not be barred or limited elect one of their friends as succes received in 1929, as Against with surprising neatness No more when the first shipment came to hut be opened to natural competigor, with a private understanding £63,182 the year before, vague scribbling. No more. Paris they were puzzled whether to tion..

that they themselves shall again be Although publicity to one of the obscure or complex ideas,classify them as genuine or arti He concluded by declaring that nominated when the next turn most vital factors of the League,One of my friends who uses ficial, for it was impossible to state It spends very little in this direc fountain pen as well as a type which was which mless they cit German currency, was unshake- able-Router:

All through Latin America thero tion. The library and publicationa writer told me that the machine the pearl into two. But the halfed has been a tendency to personal department, however, will receive almost always forced certain pearl was not of much use. st" Governments. The various Pre around £85,000 from the yearly phrases upon him, either quite

TEA CORSI DA Faldents strenuously deny that they budget. Overhead expenses are short or quite long ones. At any are dictators, but they organise the always a large item for the rate, such as were not habitual police under military administra League, amounting approximately with Him for my part, balleve Hen, and stay in office by fair means to £880,000 for the year. The that the epigrammatic tone to be or foul. In a picturesque-South Labour Office budget is around New Delhi, Yesterday American phrase, "they keep their £850,510, while the running found in American Books is due to phonographie record. When that Sen Gupta, who was arrested airest in the trough aver penses of the League proper w/ the machine 1,Eyer now we can time comes we will again encoun

INDIAN JAILED. SPREADING SEDITION IN NATIVE LAND.

comes,""

Amritsar on October 26, has beenThe long chain of revolution all be it is gatimated in the vicinity sentenced to one year's simple im over South America are largely due of £690,000, prisonment, on a charge of spread to an effort to get rid of *

ing sedition-Reuters Governments, or would-be dics

Sen Gupta,the acting Pre-tatorships, in favour of Liberal sident of the Congress, was arrest

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Ich will soon ter a new revolution in style.

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