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HOOVER AND ROOSEVELT WILL MEET TO FIX

DE VALERA'S

GOVERNMENT

UNDEFEATED

Vote Of Censure Lost By Five.

LABOUR BACKS PRESIDENT.

Dublin, To-day.

The Dail by a vote of 75 to 70 rejected Mr. W. T. Cosgrave'a motion of censure of the Gov. ernment, which declared that Mr. Eamon de Valera had handled. the internal and external affairs, of the Free State recklessly and irresponsibly, bringing political and economic disaster.

Mr. de Valera, whom the La- bourites supported, replied the whole aim of the British policy was to drive the Irish from be-j hind the Government they chose and to restore the Government which worked an amicably with England.

Nevertheless, the vote was exceedingly close and there was an atmosphere of tenseness while the clerk of the House made his tally. While the Government) was well aware that it was safe with Labour's support, the gen- eral public was not aware of the understanding and watched the vote with keen anticipation.

Mr. Cosgrave, former Presi- dent of the Executive Council of the Free State, roundly rated the Government particularly on its "rebel" attitude towards the Bri- tish Empire. Beuter.

Means Test

Bill Passed

Measure Sustained By Big Majority.

London, To-day. The Government's Means Test Bill passed through all its stages yesterday, by a division vote of 252 to 41.

The Bill reduces the amount of disability pension required un-| der the Workmen's Compensa tion and Savings scheme which must be taken into account be- fore relief is granted.

un-

It was the Means Test Mea- sure against which such a storm of protest was raised by employed in England recently. The present Bill is something of a reform.

It is expected that General Sir Alexander Godley, Gøy- ernor and Commander-in-Chief at Gibraltar, and one of the two senior Generals of the Bri- tish Army, will be greated Field-Marshal.

BRITISHER FINED FOR FIRING GUN AMONG CHINESE

Might Have Caused Riot In Lunghwa.

INVITED POLICE TO RIDE.

(From Our Own Correspondent),

Shanghai, To-day.

What might have develop ed into a second Thorburn case was heard in the Bri tish Police Court to-day when a man named McMur- trie, an engineer with the China Navigation Company, was fined 40 shillings on a charge of wantonly discharg- ing a pistol in a public street in Lunghwa, Chinese Terri- tory, and endangering the residents.

The Magistrate observed that the defendant was ex- tremely foolish to wander into Chinese Territory and fire a gun, thus attracting a large crowd of persons who might easily have become inflamed.

The defendant admitted firing at the ground but not to the public danger and said he had invited Nantao Police officers into the automobile which had been lent him for his excursion.

When the so-called "hunger- EMPIRE DUTIES

marchers" came to London

and demanded the Government's sympathy and a hearing of their complaints, It was the Means Test which was their bone of con- tention. They claimed that a man must be proved in absolute- ly dire atraits before he could gain assistance and that such a rule bred misery and discontent. -Reuter,

TRAIN FARES TO CANTON RAISED.

New Prices Go Into: Effect To-day.

Preferences Effective

VON PAPEN'S

LEADERSHIP

THREATENED

Socialists Join Nazis In Opposition.

ANGERED BY ATTITUDĖ,

Berlin, To-day. Chancellor Herr von Papen's position became most precarious| when the opposition of the Nazis' was suddenly reinforced by the Socialists, who rebuffed Horr von Papen, refusing to discuss the political situation with him because he recently had describ- ed the Socialists as enemies of the people and because he was

antipathetic to all parties. The conducting of negotiations for the formation of a new Government is the President's business, not the Chancellor's, the Socialists maintain.

Union of Nazis and Socialists on any basis is a dangerous thing

JAPANESE TROOPS HURRYING TOWARDS NEW ACTION.

General Su Refaser To Negotiate With Delegates.

Harbin, To-day, Considerable Japanese re-. inforcements are streaming west- ward, presumably to open a major offensive against General So Ping-wen who, according to re- ports from Moscow, has given a blunt refusal to negotiate with the Japanese delegates.

The Japanese reinforceinents, which are reported to have come straight from Dairen, are said to include Infantry, cavalry and ar- tillery-Router.

PREMIER SILENT

ON BRITAIN'S

AIR POLICY

Members Favour Plan Moved By Baldwin

for the Chancellor's party, for the Hitlerites and their new allies constitute a block in the Reich- CHEERS GREET ANNOUNCEMENT stag which can almost certainly swing a majority.

A glance at the table of repre- sentatives, indicates the position:

Nazis, 195; Socialists, 121; Communists, 100; People's Party, 52; German People's Party, 11; Centre, 70; Bavariana, 18: Others, 10.

The total of deputies is 582.- Reuter.

دادی

DOLLAR REMAINS STEADY.

Pound Weakens Slightly.

LITTLE CHANGE IN NEW YORK.

London, To-day,

1888- DUNLOP the Pioneer

1932 DUNLOP still the Leader

WAR DEBT POLICY

German thoroughness. A vivid realisation of war. Practis- ing a huge gås 'attack. Practically all the inhabitants of Pots dam recently participated in an imaginary air attack, taking re- fuge in cellars, etc. The scene of the Potsdamer 'Lustgarter after it had been "bombed and gassed" by aeroplanes.

$134,174 FOR

SUPPLEMENTARY

EXPENDITURE

Many Public Works Items On Estimates.

$12,500 FOR RAIN DAMAGE.

Many items of supplementary expenditure, totalling $134,174, will be put before the Finance Committee of the Legislative Coun- cil to-day.

Bandits

Capture

MUSSOLINI

WATCHING

REACTION

Belgian Note Sent To Washington.

MAKES SAME REQUEST AS BRITISH, FRENCH.

London, To-day. President Hoover and Governor Roosevelt, Pre- sident-elect, will hold a war debt meeting, probably in Washington, early next › week.

Meanwhile, a Belgian note has been delivered to Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson, in Wash- ington. It asks for the extension of the moratorium on war debts and for re-examination of the debt settlements scheme, citing

Freight Train the Anglo-French requests.

Accomplice ́ Applies Emergency Brakes.

Harbin, To-day.'

A freight train travelling on the eastern section of the Chinese Eastern Railway was captured under novel circum- stances when a bandit hidden on the train applied the brakes and brought the train to s stap

Flis comrades, who wore in

Mr. J..Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister, in the House of Commons yesterday, when asked for a definite under- taking that Great Britain should not be pledged at the --Disarmament Conference, to any scheme of controlling in- Lerational civil aviation One item of 827,000 is for special... which might famene de

expenditure on wireless tele velopment of the Imperial

graphic instruments and acces Air Transport, again refused

sorled. The necessity for this ex- to make any departure from

penditure was forseen when the the normal practice when

estimates for 1982 were prepared Governments are engaged in but it was thought that it might be important negotiations,

possible to avoid expenditure from Cheers greeted his answer and the local funds. On the return also the supplementary question, frem leave of the electrical en- which inquired whether he was ginear, he advised the immediate aware that the overwhelming purchase of additional receiving majority of the House of Com- and transmitting sets to deal with KNITTING MILLS

A slight rise in the price of all-mons members would support he growing traine ver failed to have any effect on him on the policy outlined by

An item of $12,600 is for the re-

the local dollar, which remained Mr. Stanley Baldwin on Friday pairing, of damage done by the steady this morning at 1/4%.

rise of a on bath prices.

.

night. Silver advanced slightly and Mr. Baldwin, in the speech and September, while a sum of | beavy rains during July,'' August quotations this morning showed referred to, advocated abolition $50,000 is requested for water- spot at 18 and forward at 18%, a of military aviation and careful works, under the heading "main- examination by nations of means tenance of City and Hill Districts." The pound weakened slightly for controlling civil flying, which This expenditure la caused by the yesterday, the London on New he considers practicable without additional maintenance expenses York cross rate being quoted at seriously impeding its develop for the Aberdeen scheme, the in-

G$3.314 this

ទ morning against G$3.33-5/16 yesterday: The New York on London rate, quoted yesterday at £-G43.33 was to-day quoted at £-G$3.321⁄4.

Business was lighter on the Now York Stock Exchange yesterday. only 1,000,000 shares changing handa, me

Messrs. E. A. Pierce and Com- pany state in their report that it is purely a traders' market, for

ment.

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POLICE OFFICERS. GO ON LEAVE.

Leaving For Home On S.S. Corfu.

ambush beside the track, im- mediately fired several volleys. into the train.

They then charged and, meet- ing with no opposition, cap ́ ́tured and looted the train,

A Russian driver and fire- man were taken prisoner.- Reuter.

TO ASSIST BIG INDUSTRY PLAN Three-Year Scheme In Kwangtung Province,

COTTON, HEMP AND SILK.

Italy's failure to follow suit in asking for a moratorium is excit ing interest in Italy, where it is generally believed that Musso- lini is closely watching the American reaction to the Anglo- French notes before disclosing bis hand.

any

"Any move to revise the war debts by this or other Congress would be de- feated," declared Mr. Rainey, Democrat leader in the House of Representatives yesterday when asked, sta comment on the situation... Yesterday, it was suggested that President-elect Roosevelt would evade immediate discus- sion of the war debts issue. The announcement of his intention of meeting It. at once is a happy augury to some observers, Reuter.

Shanghai Court Discussed

House Of Lords Gives Topic Airing.

London, To-day. Lord-Peel in the House of

creased price of coal and the re- In order to carry out the three-Lords yesterday read a motion newal and repairs to certain sec-year industrial Plan in Kwang-drawing attention to the agree- tions of the mains system. tung Province, Mr. Lim Wan- ment constituting a Shanghai A further item of $15,000 is re- hol, Chairman of the Provincial Special District Court, and asked quested for the maintenance of Government of Kwangtung, has the Government what steps were Kowloon waterworks, principally ordered the crection of three being taken for revision. He added that the Foreign Office had due to the expansion of the distri- factories. bation services and increased cost Mr. Lim Wan-hol intends to intimated to him the view that encourage the home knitting in- his motion was inadvisable at the dustry, and in doing so, will present time and he had there erect factories for cotton, hemp fore postponed the motion. and silk knitting, a

för filtration and chlorination.

PRI

RAILWAY CENTRE. PRINCES VISIT. TO

Ride In Driver's Cabin

Of 75 M.P.H, Train,

BILL RECEIVES traders are in close touch with the Mr. L B. V. Booth, A.S.P., Act

-Lord Hailsham said the Gov- Yesterday, Mr. Lee Kue Yang, ernment was indebted to Lord ROYAL ASSENT tape. We advise waiting deve-ing Director of Criminal Intelli- lopments," the report concludes. gence, and Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P.,

Inspector of the Raw Silk Bureau, Peel for his consideration of the Only a slight change took place formerly Chief Detective Inspec

left for Shanghal on Mr. Lim's Shanghai difficulty. The reason in industrials, rails and utilities,tor, are proceeding on Home leave

instructions, to study the silk of delay was that the course of according to the Dow Jones aver- on board the 6.8. Corfu, on Satur

knitting industry. affairs in Shanghal was such that ages Industrials showed a down- day." During their absence, Mr.

London, To-day. Castry to say with any certainty, who On Mr. Lee's return to Canton it was impossible, until recently, ward trend, dropping 81 to 65.26, W. R. Scott and Mr. W. P. Thomp while utilities also experienced a son will act in their places. Prince of Wales and the Crown have already been drafted for to discuss the matter or not.

equipment from Euroce Plana ther it was in the public intereat drop of 10, being quoted at 28.95. Polico Sergeant Carson, Johnson Prince of Sweden yesterday visited the erection of the silk factory in Reuter. Ralls, however, rose slightly, go and Bowers are also leaving on the "nerve" centre of the Southern the silk producing district of ing up 08 to 29.39.· ̈

Saturday on the-Corfu..

After Midnight.

FARMERS PROTECTED.

London, To-day. The Ottawa Agreements Bill re ceived Royal assent and a Trea- sury Order makes the Ottawa Pre- ferences effective from midnight| to-night with certain exceptions on the list. This announcement was made officially, yesterday.

Police Officer's Case On

Their Royal Highnesses, the

Ballway's London to Brighton Shun Tak, while the two other TECHNICAL SCHOOL

electrification scheme, at Three

Bridges, in Sussex. They travelled stories for the cotton and by one of the new electric trains and hemp industries are already in rede most of way in the driver's construction. touched 76 mp.b.ar

DESTROYER FLOTILLA ON MANOEUVRES At Three Bridges they inspected

Criminal Sessons List cabin, during, which time the train

NEEDS FUNDS.

Generous Subscribers Contribute $400,000.

|--A further $50,000 là needed be-

The Increase In the first and Meanwhile, Great Britain is elill The Criminal Session, for the cases which will be heard by the the huge generating" station second class fares on the Kawloon in the midst of discussions with month of November opens on Paisne. Judge are six charger of and showed great Interestin The Eighth Destroyer Flotilla and Canton Railway become effes Governments outside the Empire Monday, November 21, when the larceny against Chan Bang, Your the macldnery recording the move comprising H.M.S. Whifshed fore, the work of construction of tive to-day. Third class fares re- who are seeking "most favoured case of Rex versus Acting Sub-charges of larceny and two of ments of every signal and point on Bridgewater, Seannew, Moorhen, the Technical Institute for the main unchanged.

nations" concessions in the 'Im Inspector Herbert Waller, charg- receiving stolen goods against the system. The Princes after- Wild Swan, Wishart, Verity, poor children of the Colony can, be The following is the paw mense British market, at the same ed with accepting a bribe, will be Tsang Kau, robbery by two or wards returned to London by the Whitehall, Wren, Witch and

commenced. schedule of prices

time opening their own doors to heard before the Chief Justice, more persons against Sin Kau-sama train

Veteran left the harbour last The sum of $400,000 has already British goods.

Sir Joseph Kemp. Inspector Facheuk, robbery by two or more les

avening for manoeuvres In the been collected, and plans for the As long as they do not affect the Hoare will be in charge of the persons against Chiu Fuk and On Monday, MakSheung, 44, vicinity of Bay They will Institution have been prepared. Dominions, to whom the Mother case, and Mr. J.-A. Fraser will Chung Yee, and finally, a charge living at Fanili

inat-return to

Kong at the begin- Among those who have donated to Country's Agreements are very prosecute of assault with intent to rob tempting t

Motorining of week

7 the cost of the building · are Sir 115105) vital, arrangements with foreign

and, the flotilla Robert Ho Tung, Mr. Fo Yick pang governments can be made

aquatic gala, ifnclud- and the late Mr. Fung Plag-shan. $5.00

r-polo game against the The, total donated by these thrae,

benefactors: 17:3800,000)

Kowloon to Canton,

New Rato Old Rate KEKORT And Claas $8.109 2.60

·1st Class VATTNE 55.103

Canton to Kowloon,

1st Class

17.20

$4.00% 11:40

21- Class Bed: Clar

$140

time:

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deven-cases for the breach of

any deportation orders will be hea

at An Yenng-shing, and Tso Bus Com vehicle an-ko.

- Pha Tau Kok Road, ra identa ~^Mr. T. 8, Whyte Smith will fell into a bucket fill, of bojling t prosecute in these latter cases. She died of her burns

before His Honour the Pui

Mr. Justice Wood