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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1931.
FLOOD OF WORDS.
SOVIET DIPLOMAT GILDS THE
LILY.
WOOING JAPANESE.
SUNDAY OPENING.
BILL FOR CINEMAS AND
THEATRES.
OPPOSITION' PLAČATED?
GERMAN GUESTS.
SPECULATION ON SUBJECTS OF
DISCUSSION.
EFFECT OF REPARATIONS.
at
The
Osaka, Yesterday.
Rugby, Yesterday.
Rugby, Yesterday. Speaking at a gathering of lead- Amendments to the Sunday Per- The German Chancellor and ing industrialists and bankers at a formances Regulation Bill, which Foreign Minister loft Berlin late luncheon at the Osaka Club, of have the approval of the organisa- last night for their visit to Eng- which he was the guest of honour, tlons representing employers and land, in the course of which they the Soviet Ambassador, M. workers in the theatrical industry, will have conversations Troyanovsky, referred to the grow will be considered within the next Chequera with the Prime Minister ing Sino-Japanese trade and out- few days by the House of Commons and the Foreign Secretary. lined the Soviet's programme for committee to which the 'Bill has invitation was inspired by a desire the development of the Asiatic been referred.
Ita establish closer touch with the territories of the Soviet Union. Subject to certain conditions, leading German statesmen, and He pointed out the possibilitles the Bill permits local authorities by means of personal exchangea to for the openings for Japanese to licence hails for musical enable those engaged in the con- machinery, ships and material and and cinematograph exhibitions ofversations to gain a fuller know- said that the Soviet were ready to animals or of inanimate objects, ledge of the problems confronting place orders to the extent of 40,- and debates, on Sundays. It has both countries. 000,000 roubles or more.
been opposed by those who object ta There has been much specula- He emphasised that any restric- Sunday entertainmenta of alltion as to the subjects likely to be tion placed on Soviet exports would kinds, and by those who claim that discussed during the visit, and the react unfavourably on Japanese ex theatrical and variety entertain- newspapers assume that the effect ports to the Soviet, and added that ments should be brought within the of the reparations of Germany's
was necessary to conclude a scope of the Bill.
economic position will be raised. credit agreement with Japan aimilar.
It is, however, recognised that im- to the agreements with Germany
mediate concrete results cannot and Italy and other countries position the stage, may have an be expected, in regard to this or important bearing on the future of other questions raised during the [A message dated from Tokyo, the measure. Amendments which week-end.-British Wireless Ser- the 2nd inat stated that negotia are put forward in the names of tions were in progress for grant some prominent Conservative and ing Yen 50,000,000 credit, for Labour members provide that thea thirty months, to the Soviet.
ag well 28 cinemas may Soviet Ambassador proposed to be opened on Sundays, that the dia- purchase electrical apparatus, iron-trict councils with populations of more than 20,000 may decide the | Sunday entertainment question in their own areas, that there hall/ be a six day week for workers `un ployed on Sundays and no compul- sory Sunday work, and that joint boards of equal representation of [employers and employees shall' re- gulate Sunday employment-Bri- tish Wireless Service.
it
-Router.
It is believed that amendments now drafted, by satisfying the op-
The tres
ware and steamers from Japan.)
ON THE ROCKS.
GERMANY'S DESPERATE FINANCIAL POSITION.
BUDGET. DEFICIT.
Berlin, Yesterday.
A few hours before leaving for England, Dr. Bruening and his Cabinet completed the task of trying to bring at least temporary relief to Germany's desperate
financial position.
It now rests with President Hindenburg to decide whether the Government's drastic "emergency decree" for raising necessary re- venue will be enforced or not.
LONDON VARSITY.
ARCHITECT OF THE NEW
BUILDINGS.
MODERNIST TENDENCIES
Rugby, Yesterday.
Lon-
was ap
At a meeting yesterday of the The present Budget deficit is roughly £60,000,000, to which must Court of the University of be added a further £40,000,000 de-don, Mr. Charles Holden ficit from the Budgets of Federal States and cities. Details of the "emergency decree" are being kept very secret.-Reuter.
HEROIN HAULS.
HIDING PLACES ON TWO STEAMERS.
pointed architect of the Univer sity's new buildings in Bloomsbury- to the North of the British Museum.
The cost is estimated £2,000,000 to £9,000,000.
at from
of
vice,
LORD RITCHIE.
RE-ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY.
At the first meeting of the new Board of the Port of London Au-
thority the Rt. Hon. Lord Ritchie of Dundee was re-elected chair- man, and Mr. C. F. Leach, vice- chairman. Lord Ritchie and Mr. Leach have been chairman and vice- chairman of the Authority respec- tively since 1925.
The London County Council has appointed Mr. A. Baker, J.P., and Mr. H. J. Greenwood, D.L., J.P. (members of the council) and Mr. W. Devenay, J.P., and Vice-Admiral A. G. Hotham, C.B., G.M.G. (not members of the council) repre. sent the council on the board of the Authority. All those members, with the exception of Mr. Baker, the have previously represented London County Council
Board.
on the
FIT AGAIN.
PHILIP SNOWDEN BACK AT
HIS POST.
his
Mr. Holden is an architect modernist tendencies, who has de- signed many notable buildings In
Rugby, Yesterday. The Chancellor of the Exche- various parts of the country, in- cluding the remarkable block of que, Mr. Philip Snowden, has now offices which form the headquarters setback in health, following over-
aufleiently recovered from
of the Shanghai, Yesterday.
Underground Railways
work after ha recent operation, to The design- Customs officers here have seized at St. James' Park. 391 lb. of pure heroin aboard the ing of the new University building return to his full duties.
He attended the usual weekly 18 one of the most important Dutch steamer Gemma, and 179 lb.
architectural.
Cabinet meeting yesterday, and aboard
undertakinge In the Japanese ateamor
England of the present century-to-day intends to take his place Durban Maru.
in the House of Commons.- The total value of the two hauls British Wireless Service.
British Wireless Service.
la approximately £10,000.
Aboard the Gemma the drug was cleverly concealed in plece goods. Aboard the Durban Maru it Was concealed in barrels of olives.
Both ships had arrived Europe. Reuter.
POLAR SUBMARINE.
from
SPEED TRIALS TURN OUT
WELL.
FRENCH ART,
BAN ON LOUVRE OFFICIALS
REMOVED.
AN EARLY START.
ENGINE DRIVER M.P.
Mr. H. C. Charleton is one of the seven former engine-drivers in the House of Commons. He is the only one who sits for the city or town to which he drove his engine every day. He used to drive the London to Leeds express one day and take it back the next.
While he was still an engine-] The submarine Nautilus, Sir driver he spent his holiday in at- Hubert Wilkins' Polar submarine, tending the University Extension has concluded a satisfactory speed, courses at Oxford.
trial.
Provincetown, Mass,
Yesterday.
Rugby, Yesterday. The Daily Telegraph states that
Her commander says she the French Government having re-will have
a cruising speed of versed its decision to prohibit the
eloven knots. Louvre authorities from contribut- ing substantially to the projected The submarine is already stock- exhibition of French art in Lon-ed with.food sufficient for eighteen don, the exhibition will take place menths, and fuel oil sufficient for as originally planned In January from 4,000 to 5,000 miles,Reuter's next-British Wireless Service.
American Service,
Genuine
BAYER
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Leeds, which he has represented
Mr. Charleton, who is 81, was born at Kentish Town, and was educated at Mansfield Place Board School and the Working Men's College, St. Pancras.
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