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No. 28,525

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1933.

GERMANY MAY

Dr. Frick

WORLD TRADE

RECOVERY NOW

IN PROGRESS

Industrial Production

Increasing.

DEPRESSION'S LOWEST POINT IN 1932

Britain's Gain In Car Trade

London, To-day.

The latest League of Nations re- view on "World production and prices" slates that there are couraging signs that the low point of the world economic depression

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WITHDRAW

SEEKS ARMS EQUALITY

ANXIETY OVER

PARIS TALKS ON

JEAN HARLOW TO MARRY A HOLLYWOOD CAMERAMAN

Film Star Flies To New Mexico For Third Wedding

Yuma, New Mexico, Ta-day. The Alm star, Jean Harlow, or

DISARMAMENT iginator of the platinum blonde

Threat To Ignore Versailles Treaty.

OUTSPOKEN COMMENT BY OFFICIALS

Berlin, To-day. The possibility of Germany leaving the League of Nations is adumbrated in con- nection with the Anglo-French talks in Paris, which the whole watching with un- disguised anxiety.

country is

The newspapers express the hope that Britain will not be deluded by "French subter- fuges."

craze, arrived here by plane at 4.30 am. yesterday to await a Justice to marry her to Mr. Coason, a Hollywood cameraman.

This is Jean's third marriage. Her last husband, a film producer, committed suicide by shouting himself.Reuter.

SHANGHAI

FLOODED BY

·Est. 1845.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

ZAMBRENE WEATHERPROOFS

ARE

Superior.

BERNARDS' OF HARWICH.

SOON FROM LEAGUE OF

THE BONINS FORTIFIED

JAPANESE

NAVAL DEFENCE

IN PACIFIC

Port Lloyd Converted

To Air B

INFRACTION OF

་ ', -

TREATY

INGTON

Disturbing Reports In "The Times” |

London, To-day. "The Times" in a leading article,

TYPHOON RAIN o-day, on the Bonin Islands, states that there is nothing to show whe Considerable Damagether any of the island were fortified

In Many Areas.

WHANGPOO OVERFLOWS

Hundreds Of Office-Workers Late This Morning

Shanghai, To-day.

The Town Crier's annual' vocal ́contest held at Lyme · Begia, Dorset, on August 24. Mr. W. Abbot, the Lyme. Regis Town Crier, shows the bathers how it is done, - (8. & G.).

on February 6, 1922, when the US. TROOPS Washington Treaty was signed. If they were not then fortified, and the rumour of the conversion Port Lloyd to an air base is a fact, the change would seem perilously Dear to an infraction of article

RUSHED TO

MANZANILLO

Lashed by the tail-end of a typ Nineteen of the Treaty. hoon for the second time. this; month, many streets in Shanghai Assuming that Chichijima was not fortified, in 1922, the pre- this morning presented a sony cautions taken a decade later spectacle, Driving rain and high and redoubled the year would wind swept over the city through arouse suspicions GARANTE was passed about the middle of The Minister of Interior; Dr. Frick, out the night, while the Whangpoo ous breach of the Arts, “but it 1932, and that in spite of the pain an address to 80,000 school reached overflow point at 10.30 is possible that the Japanese wish to give no foreigner, 'a ial setback in some countries in children yesterday, said that if p.m. yesterday, the first quarter of 1933, industrial" equality in armaments was refused The streets of the Central Dis. chance of watching the tactical exercises of their warships and production in general is showing an Germany, she would withdraw from trict, as well as many parts of the naval arcraft near the Islands,

fall International Conferences.

French Concession and Hongkew were flooded during the night, the or of studying the conversion of Port Lloyd into a commercial air Herr Hitler's unofficial Ambassa-water in some places reaching analyses the features of the in der, Herr Rosenberg, yesterday de- depth of more than four feet,

port, the leader suggests. dustrial depression since 1929, states that the volume of world cared that if France refused to ful- trade as a whole fell between fil her disarmament obligations, that year and 1933, by about 27 Germany was released from her obligations of the Versailles Peace Treaty.---Renter.

upward tendency,

The review, which carefully.

per cent.

Referring to individual in dustries, the review states that the decline in the automobile industry WEB North

more Revere

America than in Europe. which increased its share in world production from 11 per cent. In 1929 to 27 per cent. In 1932,

Britain And France Nearer Agreement.

FAVOURABLE IMPRESSION

CREATED

London, To-day. The Disarmament conversation between the French Premier, M. Daladler, the Foreign Bri-Secretary, M. Paul Boncour, the

It adds that Britain has re placed France as the leading in Paris European producer, and in 1982 attained a record output tish Wireless Service,

SIBERIA MAIL HITCHES,

Outward Letters Not Being Sent.

The water in Szechuen Road is three feet deep, and hun- dreds of people were late for business this morning owing to the partial dislocation of the bus services.

It Is to be hoped that this "Is the true cause of the Jap.- anese attitude, “The Times" continues, otherwise the prospect of continued limita- tion of naval armaments and, fortifications in the Pa- Rickisha are plying for hire in

cific' will recede still farther. waist-deep foods, while abandoned Įmotor-cars are to be seen in many An explanation of the rumours

streets..

regarding the Bonins would cer The wind 'rose rapidly throughout tainly allay legitimate anxieties, yesterday evening, and before 10.80 the paper concludes. p.m.. had reached hurricane force, accompanied by heavy rain. Hoard- ings were blown down, and other; rising of the river. damage was done, mainly due to the¦

Bandbag barricades prevent- ́ed the flooding of many base- ments, but considerable damage. was done where no precautions were taken-Reuter.

British Ambassador, Lord Tyrrell, and the Under-Secretary for For eign Affaire, Captain Anthony Eden, began yesterday morning || and was resumed in the afternoon, TYPHOON EAST OF

Jasting in all for four and-a-half hours.

SHANGHAL

A communique issued after Local Weather Forecast. wards stated that the conversation

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Shanghai, To-day.". was devoted to an examination of The typhoon is situated about Agitation in the columns of the the situation as It exists, before 150 miles eastward of Shanghai, North China Daily News for the re-the resumption of the work of the moving northward. sumption of the mail service Disarmament Conference, and add- Fair generally, with moderate, Siberia, has brought out the "ined:

northerly winda, is the forecast jasued to-day by "the Royal ́Obber-]

formation that letters despatched. "In the exchange of view, which

from Europe and marked "Via took place in a spirit of mutual vatory, Siberia and Dairen" are reaching confidence, the representatives of their destinations without hindrance. the two countries explained the

On the other hand, letters from China via Siberia are not.

being sent by that roule,- Reuter,

LOCAL DOLLAR UNCHANGED.

Silver Prices Advance,

The dollar remains uncha

to-day, opening at 1/43

Bilver prices, both

ward, advanced." W

18 7/16 and

The Crosstrate,

Tork, 31, 184.81 and New York

on London is 2-084

BLACKBURN WIN

views of their respective Govern FROM NEWCASTLE, menta on the various questions under consideration, with a view to |harmonising them,

Avenge Away Defeat By Odd Goal.

"The British representatives are reporting, the results of versations to their Gører

is anticipated there wil ther conversations date”

Correspondent's Views

On New Bases,

"

The fortification of the Bonin Islands in the subject of an article published to-day, from a correspon. dent of The Times:

the

The article – refers,

refers suggestion that "the reported

= conversion of Fort Lloyd-to a naval and air base portends. the Japanese abandonment of

Strong Anti-American Feeling In Cuba.

BUT BOYCOTT. LARGELY DISREGARDED

Strikes In Interior

that ant

Cubs

is still luigh, resid here are largely disregarding

|JACK SHARKEY

BATTERED · BY

--KID LEVINSKY.

Crowd of 30,000 Hear Winner's Taunts.

FORMER CHAMPION WINS ONE ROUND OUT OF TEN.

Chicago, To-day,

Outfitters.

CHATER ROAD,

HONG KONG

NATIONS

COAL CODE SIGNED

NEW CONTROL

OF BITUMINOUS

COAL INDUSTRY

A 40-Hour Working Week.

ROOSEVELT COMPROMISES WITH LABOUR

Washington, To-day.

The United States Coal Code waK signed yesterday by President Roosevelt.

It provides a 40-hour working week in the bituminous coal indus- try and fixes basic minimum wages for skilled and unskilled labour.

It provides for the marketing of coal at reasonable prices to be fixed by, the industry under the supervision of the National Recovery Administration and establishes machinery for arbi- tration of Labour disputes.

President Roosevelt struck out the cause affecting the rights of Labour, which the

· Labour" leaders objected. -

· President · Roosevelt has altered the Coal Code so as to permit him, personally, to appoint the entire

· Winning - only, one round out of tan Jack Sharkey.duct of the bituminous coal industry. Board which will supervise the con-. formér ženyyweight, boxing"- "champion of ""of the world, was outpointed last night by “Kid Levinsky, sinecpad-ráte

challenger.!!

The New Opde which will operate within a fortnight, cocks, about. 25. per vent: of the bifuntinous coal out

A crowd of 80,000 saw the 400,000 miners.--Ret the order to boycott American attempt at a comeback after his U.S. COTTON

Boston Gob, fail, diamally in his

companies in connection with the strike at Manzanillo.

Soldiers yesterday routed Communist demonstrators who were inciting workers to strike along anti-American lines.

"An American destroyer has arrived at Manzanillo, and troops are being rushed to the strike area from Santiago.

Prendent Grau San Martin who took over the Presidency on September 10 following the resignation of Dr. Carlos Cespedes y Ortiz on Septem- ber 5 yesterday predicted that solution to the crisis was ime minent.

It is indicated that be may surrender the Press- dency.

the Ladrones and other Pack-HONG KONG NAVY

fic groups in 1955, when she will: dissociate "herself from the League, and states that it is equally possible that the Japanese intend to hold them and create a powerful basa ini the Bonins for their protec» tion:

It is certain that the Chichijima- Base further strengthens their al- Western

most

sion into an air-ba

DAY

H.M.S. Eagle Open To Public

SEAPLANES TO GIVE DISPLAY

smashing defeat at the hands of Primo Carners two months ago.

A crowd of 30,000 saw Levinsky out-point Sharkey. The verdict of the judges was unanimous, Sharkey being credited with only one round out of ten, namely the seventh in which he showed flashes of his old championship form with lefts to the jaw and body,

Levinsky floored Sharkey with a amaashing right to the head in the færst round, and had him most distressed in the. second.

Sharkey showed frequent signs of wilting in the following rounds under, the relentless pounding of Levinsky, who jeeringly called Sharkey to come and take it as he drove him to the ropes with

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“NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE.”

Wall Street's Reply To Stock Taxation.

Trenton, New Jersey, To-day.

SA new "National Stock Exchange" ¡was formally incorporated here, yes- terday, morning, with the object of compelling the New York authorities to reconsider their recent decision to impose heavy taxation on stock transactions.

The moving spirit of the now Exchange is Colonel Freiday, pro

New

nocrat

OVA APPEAL

Judgment

B. Given

LEADERS SEEK

INFLATION

Call On Roosevelt To Act

WANT PRICE RAISED TO

20 CENTS A ̃ ̈ POUND -

New York, To-day. The American Cotton Con- ference have unanimously. decided to call on President Roosevelt to use his powers to inflate currency in order to raise cotton" to 20 cents per pound and cotton seed to U.S.$30 per ton. ----- Reuter,

FRANCE TO BUY US: COTTON.

3,000,000 Bales May Be Purchased.

New York, To-dey." MBC. Neidecker, the well- known international banker

who is President of the French”“ brokerage firm of... that mame, arrives here, to-morrow to pár«. chans"-- 8,000,000 balesof American cotton for: Brench сопад

United States- agricultural:

officialsári maid to be willing, to sel|all that

Heidecker and forReuter and Prees, per 8C Gold

Bar Co.

SELLING STRIKE THREATENED,