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No. 28,520 HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1933. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

DEFINITE

DE VALERA SLIPPING?

EARLY IRISH

ELECTION IS

PREDICTED

Gen. O'Duffy To Start Campaign.

Labour May Break Away From De Valera

Dublin, To-day. Anticipating an early general elec tion in the Irish Free State, Gener- al O'Duffy, Director-General of the Irith National Guard, will begin a month's organising campaign next week.

General O'Duffy's prepara- tions are based on the belief that support given to Presi dent De Valera's Party by the eight members of the Labour Party, who hold the balance of power, is unstable, and that the President will be forced to dissolve the Dail.

The recent pay cuts have not in- creased Mr. De Valera's populari- ty with the Labour members, but earlier opinion was expressed that

$

HIGH GRADE GENTLEMEN'S

OUTFITTING

AT HOME PRICES

BERNARDS' OF HARWICH

CHATER" ROAD,

HONG KONG.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRADING CONDITIONS IN BRITAIN

General O'Duffy

BILLION FOR

SMALLER U.S.

BUSINESS FIRMS

R.F.C. To Extend

Huge Credit.

ROOSEVELT DECIDING FINANCIAL POLICY

A BUSINESS SOVIET FRONTIER GUARDS.

RECOVERY

EXPORTS

INCREASE

IN AUGUST

Imports Decrease For First 8 Months.

ALL TRADES SHARE IN IMPROVEMENT

London, To-day. From many reliable sources, re- cently, evidence has been forthcom ing of a definite improvement in trading conditions in Great Britain, The best possible confirmation is provided by the Board of Trade re- turns, issued yesterday, which show that the improvement is not com- fined to a few trades and industries only, but to business generally.

For the eight months to the end of August, imports decreased by about £35,500,000 as compared

ARREST JAPANESE

Manchukuo Negotiating. For

His Release

Harbin, To-day. Soviet. frontier guardi arrest- ed a Japanese names Kameyama on September 10. mars

Kameyama, who is employed by the Manchukuo Customs at Sul- tanho, was walking in the bills. east of Pogranitebnaya at the time. *Manchukuo in now negoti- ating for his releago-Router...

FRENCH AIR

ARMADA FLYING

TO MOSCOW

Political Significance Of Visit.

RUSSIA SEEKING" FRANCE- AS ALLY

Anti-Hitler: Move

Paris, To-day.

with the corresponding period off Hundreds of people, including last year, while over the same per- the Soviet air attache, cheered the iod, the decrease in exports was farewell departure of M. Pierce Cot about £8,500,000

French Air Minister, for Moscow.

In recent months, how- ever, figures have tended to improve, and those for Aug^ usi are regarded as excep tionally encouraging.. Ex- porté last month, tolalled £35,297,184, as compared with £32,043,245 in Angust,

Washington, To-day. Decisions which may influence he would be able to keep a majori- the United States Administrations' ty in the Dail if he avoided a de-financial policy have been reached, finite breach with the party according to rumours following Reuter.

President Roosevelt's long confer ence yesterday with the heads of the Reconstruction Finance Cor-} poration, the Farm Credit Adminis- tration and the Federal Reserve Board, the Comptroller of Currency of £3,432,077, which is entirely and the Under-Secretary of the due to the larger amounts of raw Treasury.

materials entering the country.

UNITED IRELAND

MOVEMENT.

New Party Appeals For Funds.

Dublin, To-day

however, has not been disclosed.

"A big organization drive for a The nature of the decisions, united Ireland is now being begun in every parish in the Free State," says an appeal for funds issued by! the new United Ireland Party ini

Dublin yesterday.

The appeal adds "At any moment! a General Election may give the people a chance to end their pre-! sent condition calamity."-Reuter.

of national

GERMAN JEW'S SUICIDE

Victim Of Racial Persecution.

WELL-KNOWN EXILED LAWYER PROF. ALSBERG

Berne, To-day. Despair, caused by bad health and the racial persecution which drove him into exile, has ended the life of the prominent German Jewish criminal lawyer, Professor Max Alsberg, who committed aufcide at Samaden yesterday,

Professor Alaberg, who was fifty-alx, acted as counsel for the defence in some of the most im- portant trials in Germany since the War. He was also the author of two plays,

After the Nazis' accession to power in Germany, he was forbid, den lo practice.Reuter. ::

DEATH OCCURS OF PLAYWRIGHT!

London, To-day.

The death occurred early this morning, from- pneumonis, of Mr. Allred· Butro, O,B.E., the well- known playwright, brother in

The Reconstruction Fin- ance Corporation have ad- mitted that they are at- tempting to find means for extending. U.S.$1,000,000,- 000 credits to the smaller business. United Press, per S. C. Gold Bar Co.

U.S. DOLLAR

ΤΟ

REMAIN DEPRECIATED

Higher Salaries For Americans Abroad.

ADMINISTRATION REQUEST FOR CONGRESS :

Washington, To-day.

A request to the United States Congress to raise the salaries of diplomatic and all other American employees abroad who are affected by the decline in the dollar is to be made by the Administra- tion, according to information here,

This is generally interpreted meaning that the Adminis tration does not expect the United States dollar to return to the value existing before the abandonment of the gold ard United Press, per C. Gold Bar Co.

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SouthBritish Wireless

1932.

Imports, compared with Aug- Just last year, show an increase

Some of the principal In- crease in exports, compared with

year ago, oc-

cur in fron and steel, woollen manufactures, elec- trical goods and cutlery and hardware. British auto- mobile exports also continue to increase.

:

BRITAIN'S SOUND

FINANCES.

Revenue Still Rising; Expenditure Falls.

London, To-day.

The other two planes which Jare accompanying M. Cot, Jeft earlier, but all three will reach Moscow together.

GOVERNOR'S

OPTIMISM

FOR MACAO

Col Miranda Tells Of Development Plans.

A NEW AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT

Results Of Conference In Portugal

Predicting a bright future for Macas, where an Agricultural De- partment is to be established imme-

"Parliament in Splints.”—Workmen are now buny erecting diately, the Governor of Macao, Lt. scaffolding around the Houses of Parliament for repairs · to the stonework.

"A. Dizzy Task."--Workmen erecting scaffolding around the famous "Big Ben" clock tower, (S. & G.)

EARL OF KERRY

KILLED

Falls Under London Tube-Train.

HEIR TO MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE

London, To-day. The Earl of Kerry, aged. 19 years, eldest son and heir of the sixth Marquis of Lans- downe, was killed when he fell under a tube train in London, last night. The first two car riages of the train ran over : his body.

LONDON SEES

FIRST CHINESE

WEDDING

Non-Christian Ceremony

At China House.

The French

comes about as a result, qe Kusɛla's desire to seek news friends: as a consequence of Hitler's In 1928, the Earl of Kerrywe anti Comunist, regime, a victim of a succession of 11- which has broken off Russą

terminating nesses,

in pare German fles Russia espé-, typhoid fever. He is described cially desires French assist"

as an exceptionally brilliant youth. ance, instead of German, In He had returned from a tour in reorganising their civil and

Germany, yesterday morning and military aviation services.

was due to rejoin his family in Owing to the French alliance Ireland to-day,-Roulèr, with the Little Entente, the The Earl of Kerry is survived by French rapprochement with Rustwo brothers and two sisters. Isia should entail a more peaceful His father, the Marquia" of! atmosphere m Eastern Europe. Lansdowne, served with distinc -Reuter.

tion in the Bouth African War, and was also a Senator of the Irish Free

to 1929. The] - Marquis is also well-known as an author, having written five histori- cal publications.

POLISH AIRMEN State from 1922

CRASH

One Pilot Killed; Other Hurt.

› FATAL ATTEMPT AT LONG- DISTANCE `RECORD

Moscow, To-day,

The two Polish airmen, Colonel Filipowicz and Cap- Laisi-Lewonsewaki, who took off from" Warsaw ɛnt: 10.56 "aM.

DROUGHT BROKEN IN BRITAIN

Farmers Cheered By Rain,

LONDON'S FIRST WET DAY FOR SEVERAL WEEKS

STUDENTS FROM KIANGSU MARRIED

London, To-day.

The first non-Christian Chinese wedding was celebrat ed yesterday afternoon at China House, Gower Street, the headquarters of the Chinese students in London:

The bridegroom was Mr. Liu Tun-wen, of Kiangsi, graduate of the London School of Economics, and, the bride. Miss Chang Heu-ying, also from Kiangau, She is an art student, at present visiting London..

•

Col. Antonio Jose Bernardes de ¡Miranda, in an interview with the "China Mail" this morning, detail- ed decisions affecting Macao which were made at the Portuguese Im- perial Conference.

"While Macao. is not greatly affected by the Conference, the

powers of the Governor were en- larged," stated His Excellency.

"The new Agricultural · De-

partment will prove of great im portance in the new development plans for the Colony provision is made for the building of several blocks of houses for the poorer classes, to ensure clean and hy. gienic_quarters for the workers.

"The future. of Macao is bright,"

de stated Col

·Miranda, In asserling that through the new financial and economical expansion * of her Colonies, Portugál in; ·

tends to‘Tegain her old place ♪in. International affairs,

His Excellency's concluding words" referred to?the Portuguess. Imperial Conference, attended by fall -- Governor, of, Pártuguese Colonies, from which he had just returned,

"His Excellency and his wife, at- |tended by his A.D.C., arrived in the Colony yesterday by the Cremer [from Singapore' and have been staying at the Hong Kong, Hotel. The party left for Macao at 1 p.m.

The distinguished Chinese painter, Mr. Pe On-hau'per-' formed the ceremony, the best man being Lieutenant Wangto-day by the Bui Tal. Ko-tsan, who has just passed out from Sandhurst ---Reuter.

BIG GAINS

IN ISLAND

Work of the Conference.

The Conference, said IIis Ex- cellency was officially inaugurated on June 1 at the Houses of Parlia ment, Lisbon. The President of the Portuguese Republic presided, with all the members of the

RESERVOIRS Cabinet and a large gathering fu

Position Better Than

In 1928 Drought."

NO EXTENSION YET OF HOURS OF SUPPLY:

The total water storage in

1.

the

attendance:"

The actual work of the Confer- ence was conducted in the Colonial "Offca in different, sessions. At these were present the Minister" of the Colonies, Dr. Armindo Monteiro, one of the greatest Continued on Page 4).

Island this morning, amounted to FARMERS WANT 1,736,000,000 gallons, showing an INFLATION Simultaneous with the break of increase of 289,000,000 gallons

London, To-day.

Latest Treasury returns show that ordinary revenue for the current financial' year up to September 9 amounted to £250,428,045200 At the correS» ponding date of last year the amount stood at £248,654,267. yesterday in an attempt to Ordinary expenditure to date for

break the French · long-dis» the current year totalled £205,086,

tance records, crashed, near 006, which is nearly £82,000,000

- here to-day,

Kong, Britain's drought, which has alture at the corresponding date of less than the total ordinary expén-}· Rog

persisted throughout the Wummer without further rain the reservoirs Captain Lewoniewski; died of his

continue to rise for a few days And will months, has ended. last year-British Wireless Ser- injuries. Colonel Filipowicz, who

Is the Polish: Director of Civil Rain has been falling persistent- yet, ivice.

Aviation, Is in no 'danger Reuly over London and other parts of

LONDON STOCK MARKETS.

Cheerful Tone Generally.

London To-day.

left ans

The Block Markets generally

cheerful tone,

Kafirs closed at about the best points of the day on Continenta buying

*3/British, Fands” finished: with War Loan 5% per cent at?

rubbens and Chome 'raile

ter.

the abnormal dry spell in Hong during the past 48 hours. Even Abolition Of Processing

The storage position is now appre

the country for nearly 24 hours, clably better than it was on Sept and has gladdened the hearts or tember 18, 1028 when the dry apell all but the urban, sur-bathers, responsible for the 1929 water

The break in the almost tropical shortage, had set in.”

The storage on September 18, conditions is particularly welcom-1928 mounted to 1,658,000,000 ed by the farmers, who have ex-

gallona.NE perienced considerable anxiety. No extension of the present

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