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BERNARDS OF HARWICH.

FOR

CONSULATE SHIRTS & PYJAMAS LILLEY & SKINNER FOOTWEAR ROLLS RAZORS : WOLSEYS KNITWEAR : MACCLESFIELD SILE. NECKTIES: `MOORES FELT HATS.

CHATER ROAD,

HONG KONG:

LORD BEATTY'S GRAVE WARNING OF BRITAIN'S NAVAL WEAKNESS

MR. PHILLIPS

DISCHARGED

BY COURT

Wanchai Manslaughter Charge.

DEATH CERTIFIED DUE TO

NATURAL CAUSES

Mr. Douglas Churchill Phillips, second engineer of the s.s. Wing Tai, charged with the manslaughter of an African negro, Suzeff Hames sy, who died following a fight at Wanchai on October 4, was dis-!

MORE READING RESTRICTIONS MUST BE RECTI FIED

IN GERMANY

Books Banned On Pacifism Darwinism, Freudieanism

Berlin, To-day,

Books on pacifism, Darwinism and Freudicanism are banned from All German bookstalls under new regulations sued to-day.

Books in a foreign language or translated from foreign languages must not be circulated by lending libraries unicos they contain Nordic German sentiments in form A content.-Reuter.

charged by Mr. Schofield at the Cen- JOHNNIE HEARD tral Police Court this morning, the Magistrate remarking that it cer- tainly seemed to a great extent that; the blows struck by the accured were in self-denfence.

IN CAR SMASH

Well-Known Jockey's

Narrow Escape.

COLLISION WITH LORRY

NEAR STABLES

Mr. A. J. P. Heard, the well- known jockey, had a narrow escape this morning when

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motor lorry hit his car Ford V.

Dr. J. E. Davey, Medical Off- cer in charge of the Government Civil Hospital, who made the post mortem examination, stated in evidence that death was duej to natural causes. The decensed had been suffering from u die- cused kidney and uremia.

Mr. T Murphy, Assistant Director of Criminal Intelli- who prosecuted, asked gene, the Magistrate not to dismiss the. charge before hearing further] evidence. He suggested that) death might have ben necelerat-! Mr. Heard is in the Government ed by the action of the accused Civil Heapital suffering from a se- The deceased was apparently in vere shaking and face injuries. a state of perfect health at the. Dr. McGowan informed the China time and, had the accused not re- Mail that he thought he would be taliated. might not have lind the fit to ride at the Race Meeting to- apoplectie fit which, according to morrow. medical evidence, followed,

Police Statement.

wife and lived in Wanchai.

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8 Saloon, and completely wreck- ed if at the junction of Shan Kwong and Village Road, Happy Valley.

The accident occured st 9 a.m.. while Mr. Heard was driving the direction of the Hong Kong

Outlining the facts of the caso Mr Murphy said that the deceased. Jockey Club stables. The lorry In African negro with British struck the Ford car on the left passport, came to the Colony about front wheel, and carried it across four years ago. He had a Chinese the road to the opposite pavement. The lorry, which is owned by He had been frequently seen in the Yue! Hing Restaurant, the vicinity of icensed quor carrying a load of crockery shape and on some occasions 10 approach Europeans, the suspicion being that he was soliciting on be half of prostitutes.

At about 9 p.m. on October 3, the deceased and his wife were seen to be quarrelling by a Euro- pean police sergeant in Wanchai. bal as the man appeared to be under the Influence of drink the officer moved off.

was

and

food, and this was mostly thrown into the road.

ARMOURED CAR. CRASH

Volunteer Board To Report.

A Board of Oßcers, under the. At 12.50 a.m. the same night a Chinese constable was attracted to

Presidency of the O.C. Hong Kong Johnston Road by the cries of Volunteer Defence Corps, Col. L. G. number of Chinese. On going to the scene he found the accused kneeling by the decesand, who was

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Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E., will assemble at the P.W.D. Garage, Wanchal, on Monday morning next, for the pur- pose of reporting on the condition and the future efficiency of No. 1 Armoured Car.

The meeting, it is understood, fu

Kwanti, last Sunday, when No, .1

ULM BETTERS

FLIGHT RECORD the sequel to the accident near TO AUSTRALIA Car ran off the road into a paddy- Beats Kingsford-Smith The members of the Board are

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IN 1935

TERRIBLE RISKS OF NAVY

ECONOMY

“DEPLORABLE BLUNDER IN REDUCING CRUISERS FROM 70 TO 50"

LONDON, TO-DAY,

BRITAIN'S NAVAL WEAKNESS MUST BE RECTIFIED AT THE NAVAL CONFERENCE, OF 1935, SAID LORD BEATTY, ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, IN A SPEECH TO THE NAVY LEAGUE, YESTERDAY. BRITAIN HAD RESTORED SHE URGENT-. HER CREDIT BUT AT "TERRIBLE RISKS." LY NEEDED 70 CRUISERS YET, AND AT BEST, SHE CAN- NOT HAVE MORE THAN 50 BY 1936, HE SAID...

Moreover, the personnel had been dangerously reduced. For example, the United States personnel of 107,000 represented an increase of 60 per cent. over 1914. Japan's 88,000 in 1931 show- ed an increase of 74 per cent.. while Britain's 90,000 was a de- [crease of 35 per cent.

Britain's naval malatenance expenditure was £43,000,000, which contrasted with the United States" £75,000,000, said Lord Beatty.

Regarding cruisers he did not cavil at the American demand for party, but Britain's acceptance of 50 instead of 70 was a grave and deplorable blunder.-Reuter.

Earl Beatty.

EUROPEAN FACES TWO CHARGES

Castle Peak Taxi Robbery.

TWO INDIANS EXONERATED BY CLARKE

George Clarke, age 21 years, an unemployed seaman, was this morning remanded until to-

the: person

US. NAVY KEA WARNING.

British Antagonism To Naval Building.

Washington, To-day. The American Navy League have prepared a letter for de- livery to the British Navy" League warning it that the "continued British antagonism toward the United Stater na- val building policy would block the assolutely éstential co operation between the two ng- tions."-Repber.

STOCKS CRASH ON WALL ST.

Industrial Issues Slump 5 Points.

New York, To-day, A further heavy slump occur red on the New York Stock Mar

morrow at the Kowloon Magisket yesterday, drops of five tracy on charges of assaulting points being again recorded in a taxi-driver on the Castle

Industrial several holdings. - Peak Road, and larceny from

averages plunged 4.57 to 84,38,} Two Indian youths, Mohamed while rails were down 243 to who 83.98. Utilities and bonds show Lieut. T. H. S. Galletly, Adjutant Baksh and Abdul Rasheed to the Corps, Lieut. J. F. Wright, were detained in connection with ed better résistance, declining ULM AIDED BY CREW OF THREE and Liedt, E. R. Fletcher,

O.C. the Armoured Car Company, the affair, were exonerated by only 91 and 80 to 28.24 and

Clarke, and consequently, were not 84.11 respectively. charged.

By 11 Hours.

London To-day

Mr. Charles T. P. Ulm, the

Australian airman, 'flying an Avro Ten high-wing monoplane. landed in Australia at 12.15 xáo.

to-day, thet, is 3.45 a.m. G.MT. STOP PRESS

having completed the fight from

England in 6 days, 17 hours, 45 minutes.

This establishem a fresh record. for the journey and beats by 11 hours, the record set:"up, eight days ago, by Air Commodore Bir Charles Kingsford-Smith,

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The latter's record of „days, 141 hours, 44 minutes

record holde for mo flight, as Mr. Ulm had three - companions, Menora, Allen and Taylor, co-pilota, and Mr. kdwards, navigator öl

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It is learned from the French Hospital, Causeway Bay, where "Mr. Heard in detained, that. It - {$fa-highly improbable that he will be discharged before'Bun« day... Hia condition Enot

... serious.

Clarke in stated to have been last employed on the sis, Glenearn.

ARMISTICE DAY IN

BRITAIN.

King's Decision On Arrangementa,

· London, To-day. The King has decided that the celebration of Armistion | Day. November 11

follow, the?

on a Saturday

Fadopted it

PUBLIC. REMAIN ALOOF

New York, To-day, Mr. Walzer said that traders continue to be hopeful that the worst of the stock liquida, tien has been exhausted, but the public continues remain- ing aloof from the market until the professionals make the necess tech Hons-UP..per

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Reichsing Fire Telaf' By Wärid Lawyers-Famens lawyers from all over the world met ta šegál commission of inquiry, al Carey Street, London-under the auspices of the world commit- teo for the relief of victims of German Fasciam -- to determine the responsibility for the burning of the Reichstag.

Mrs. Schule and her son, who attended to give evidence. Her 'husband was assassinated in Koenigsberg, and the boy was forced

to view his father's corpse under threat.--(8. & G.).·

CHANGCHUN

BOMBARDED

BY SOVIET

Chinese Reports Of Planes Over Changtu. PROMPT DENIAL BY TASS.

** Moscow, To-dayTA

Tension in the Russo-Japan- ese dispute, which had been eared dugng the past few days, has been heightened by sensational reports in Chic newspapers, which allege that Soviet aeroplanes have bom barded Changchun, and also that Soviet planes have flown over Changlu.

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The official Soviet Tass news agency states that the reports are absolutely untrue. -Reuter.

Japanese Generals Promoted.

ARAKI RECOGNISED,

Tokyo, To-day.

Lieutenant-General Sadao Araki, Minister of War, and Lieutenant- General Iwane Matsui, Commander- In-Chief in Formosa, and former) chief military delegate to the Dis- armament Conference, have been promoted full Generala.

The two military leaders were formally installed at 9.80 this ing-Reuter.

GERMANY'S

WITHDRAWAL

FROM LEAGUE

Official Notification

To Geneva, BRITISH. MINISTERS, MEET

PAKON DISARMAMENT

Berlin, To-day. The German Govern ment has officially noti- find the Secretary: General of the League

from the

of Nations of Germany's withdrawal League. - Reuter.

London, To-day. The Disarmament Sub-Committee of the Cabinet-members of which include Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, and Lord Hailsham, Min lister for War, met at 10, Downing Street yesterday afternoon-Bri- Itish Wireless Service."

Germany's Case For Revision.

Geneva.

The post-war International strug- gle over arms resulting in Ger many's decision to withdraw from morn-the-world disarmament conference and the League of Nations, dates from the 1919 treaty of Versailles [by which severe restrictions --WETH ||

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US. BANK RATE REDUCTION

Of Little Significance.

New York, To-day. The Federal Reserve Bank has reduced its interest rate from 22 to two par cent. The reduelion la thought to possess little zigul- ficance...

It is construed as a further adjustment to the curren market money rates which are below Federal Reserve Jeyel ter”.

NOW OFF NAGASAKI-

ved

diles south:

recast Issued

morn.

The German army was re- duced to a prefentional`forém së,100,000 men enflated for 12- year periods, the mury, to.... a "enset, dafenso, feet," and

defenses were dismantled. “der Allied supervision.

FARMERS ON STRIKE

DISSATISFIED

WITH RECOVERY - DRIVE IN U.S.

Prices Increase, But Incomes. Drop,

FARM UNREST 15 GENERAL IN MID-WEST

St. Paul, Minnesota, To-day. The Farm Holiday · Association yesterday called a general strike in the farming industry. The stop page will commence at moan to- morrow. Rester.

Washington, To-day.

The dis-satisfaction of the Ameri- can farmers with the Recovery Ad- ministration is in evidence in many parts of the country.

The primary object of the Farm Holiday Association's: call for a general strike is to: compel the Administration to formulate a Code for agriculture, and also to raise prices by a stoppage.

A secret meeting of the direc tors at St. Paul, drafted a nation-wide ultimatuma, which states:

"We will pay no taxes or in terest until we have first cared -for our familien, FRUTA -- "Weet will pay no. fnterest- bearing debtr undi we śreçsiva the cost of production

"We will buy only that which complete necessity de

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"We will not sell our pro ducts unless we receive the cost of production, but will exchange our products with Labour and the unemployed for the things we need?”g The extent of the strike problematical, but farm' unrest is general in the mid-West.

Governor Resigny : from" "N.R.A. The Farm Union of Montana has asked the Governor to declara a wheat embargo, while the Governor of Nebraska has declared that the National Recovery Administration has made the farmers' condition worse instead of better.

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Ex-Governor Keith-Neville has resigned the, Chairmanship of the Nebraska Recovery Administration and the. Washington Farmers' Ad- of ministration because he is out sympathy with the N.L.A.

Senator Norris has told tha Administration that Washing- ton farmers are losing com fidence as prices have increas ed while incomes have drop- pedi

has suggested the retire

placed on Germany's military might ment of Liberty Bonds with new money instead of the Government's by her world war foes.

policy of conversion, auct

Meanwhile, the Government w doing their utmost to overcome | disparity in prices which

crux of the problém, ha il divo

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US. EMBARGO ON FOREIGN LIQUOR."

To Assist American Distillerien

TREASURT LOSES

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FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.

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