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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1933..

SETTLEMENT OF FUKIEN REVOLT

Peaceful Means Urged

In Nanking.

MODERATE INFLUENCE

Shanghai. To-day,

Whe talk of war between the Central Government and the the Fukien secessionists is in nir. a group of members of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang are in the lime- light by exercising moderate in- fluence with the hope that the Fukien revolt will be settled by peaceful means,

General Li Leh-chun, a veteran Kuomintang leader, who is lend. ing the movement, is expected to issue

statement an important outlining his attitude and making recommendations la remedy the situation.

White deprecating the rebels'' action of precipitating internal! strife. General Li believes that though the situation is serious. settlement the opportunity for

by poneoful means has not en tirely

Central Newal Agency

וידע

100.000 AT NANKING

MASS MEETING

Military Operations Advocated.

Nanking. To-day.

THE CHINA MAIL.

When Hitler Broke His Hammer

Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany, pictured at the ceremony marking the laying of the cornerstone for the new German art center in Munich. It was here the silver hammer, presented to the Nazi chief as a symbol of Nazi greatness, broke when the Chancellor tapped the stone,

Incident was looked upon as an unlucky omen.

AMERICAN MINISTER IN HONG KONG

Informal Visit To The Colony.

Dar hundred thousand people | GOVERNMENT HOUSE DINNER attended a mass meeting here this morning at which four couelutions i were passed.

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Firstly, that a telegraph. ag he sent to Marshal Chiang Kaishek Hitutsys

immediatel erden For a purotive expedition! ngainst the Fukien rebels.

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Secondly, that a telegraph mens age be sent to the Canton, Kwang 21. Theklang and Hunan comman-} ders urging joint military opera-] tions against the rebels,

Thirdly, that a telegraph. meau-| 20 be sent to the Nineteenth Route Army officers and men. orging loyalty to the Kuomintang. Fourthly, that a telegraph mess- ap be sent to the Central Execu

ON FRIDAY

Mr. Nelson Johnson, the Ameri ran Minister to China, has been

SETTLEMENT

ASSYRIANS

Tha

To-day's Short Story.

THE MAN WHO

GAVE GOOD

ADVICE

By Maurice Baring.

177HEN he was a child his baby, beetle; and Bell had said he would W

brother came to him one give it him in exchange for Mason's) day and said that their elder catapuit, which was faraous in the brother, who was grown up, had school for the unique straightness got a beautiful small ship in his or its two prongs. Mason went to room. Should he ask him for it? the boy who gave good advice and The child who gave good advice asked him for his opinion. said, "No; if you ask him for it "Don't swap it for your catty." he will any you are a spoilt child; said the boy who gave good advice, but go and play in his room with "because Bell's stag beetle may not it before he gets up in the morn-win after all; and even if it does, ing, and he will give it-you." slag bettles won't be the rage for The baby brother followed this very long; but a catty is always a advice, and sure enough two days catty, and yours is the best in the afterwards he appeared triumphant school." Mason took the advice. in the nursery with the ship in his When the races came off the stag hands, saying, "He said 1 might beetles were so erratic that no prize choose, the ship or the picture- was awarded, and they unmediately book,"

plcture-book | ceased to be the stage. was a coloured edition of Baron: The rage for stag beettles Munchausen's adventures; the boy succeeded by a rage for secret who gave good advice had seen it alphabets. One boy invented and hankered for it. As his baby secret alphabet made of simple brother had refused it there could hieroglypchics, which was imparted be no harm in asking for it, so the only to a select 'ew, who spent their next time his elder brother sent him spare time in corresponding with on an errand (il was to fetch a pin-feach other by these cryptic signs. cushion from his room), judging The boy who gave good advice was the moment to be propitious, he said not of those initiated Into the to him. May I have the picture- book that baby wouldn't have? "I don't like little boys who ask," an-

Now the

OFswered the big brother, and there

Problem For League Of Nations.

BRITAIN CANNOT ACCEPT SEPARATE LIABILITY

London. To-day In the

House of Lords last paying an informal visit to Can-night the Archbishop of Canter

Lury called attention quaintance of the leading members plight of the Assyrians and skid ni the Provincial Government and pressed by Sir John Simon, the he shared the hope ex- the Municipality, arrived in Hong Foreign Secretary, that the Coun. kong 10-day

cil of the League of Nations

ton, in order to make the nc.

That

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the

the matter ended.

'TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Crevasse," by Willlam Faulkner.

The child who gave good advice went to school. There was a rage, filmă

for stag beetles at the school; the mystery of the cipher, and he longed boys painted them and made them bo be. He made several overtures, PUN FACEA ON a chessboard. They but they were all rejected, the rea- | imagined—rightly or wrongly-that son being that boys of the second some slag beetles were much faster division could not let a "third divi- ¡than others.

ston squit" into their seeret.

A little boy called Bell possessed At last the boy who gave good the stag beetle which Wo8 the advice offered to one of the initiat- favourite for the coming races.ed the whole of his stamp collection Another boy called Mason was con- in return for the secret of the alpha- sumed with longing for this stag bet. This offer was accepted. The boy took the stamp collection, but

WORLD'S WHEAT the boy who gave good advice re

PROBLEMS

Advisory Committee Meets In London.

ceived in return not the true alpha- bet, but a aham ona especially manu-- factured for him. This he found Mr. Johnsan came fran Shanghai would be able to make a satisfac-

Fout later; but recriminations were to Canton by the Isabel, the yacht tory and enduring solution of the

useless; besides which the rage for of Admiral 'pham. Commander-most perplexing and difficult pro

secret alphabeta acon died out, and in-Chief of the US. Asiatic Fleetblem of finding a place of settle.

was replaced by a rage for soqua- and has spent four days in Cantonment for the Assyrian people.

SUB-COMMITTEES TO REPORT riums, newts and natterjack toads. where he was entertained by thel

The boy went to a public school. Replying for the Government,

BY JANUARY 22 Heading Government officials.

He was a fag. His fag-master hud Lord Hailsham, Minister for War, He arrived in Hong Kong by recalled that after the war, which

two faga. London. To-day.

One morning the other five Council members urging them special train his morning, accom the Assyriana had entered at the

The Wheat Advisory Commit-fag came to the boy who gave good panted by Mr. Clarence Spiker. instance of Russia, Great to hurry to Nanking to discuss the secretary to the American Lega- had saved them from annihilation presidency of the American Am

Britain tee meeting in London, under the advice and said:

"Clarke (he was the fag-master) country's pressing problems.—Reu-

ition, his visit to the Colony being by keeping many thousands of them bassador to London. Mr. R. W told me three days ago to clean his lof an entirely unofficial nature.

He's been staying | in refugee camps at considerable ex-Bingham, yesterday reviewed the football boots. He will attend a reception, atpense.

world wheat situation and ap-forgat-

oul' and hasn't used them, and 1 which Admiral Upham will be a fel-

He'll want them to-day, and Since that time, he said, Britain pointed two sub-committees to evening and has promised to low-goest, at the American Club this had assisted them to settle on lands consider the proposals of the im-now there isn't time. I shall pre- present at the St. Andrew's Ball at and in other sultable places. It was

be which they occupied before the war porting and exporting countries, tend I did clean them."

"No, don't do that," said the boy. :thr Peninsula flotel to-morrow not possible to settle them in one the next meeting on January 22 who gave good advice, "because if into the main committee who will you say you have cleaned them he much for report to the Governments con- will lick you twice as Sir cerned.

having cleaned them badly-say you Assured The sub-committee on market forgot." The advice was taken, and nor, Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G.the Mandates Commission at Geneva conditions with the United States the fax-master merely said. "Don't

forget again." presiding, respon representative

fer.

THEATRE LICENSEE FINED $50

Locked Escape Door Of Operating Room.

OBSTRUCTION OF GANGWAY ALSO ALLEGED

light.

hommogeneous community

He will be entertained at dinner. Europe. together with Admiral and Mrs. Up- Lord Hailsham denied that ham, by His Excellency the Gover-Francis Humphreys had

K.R... at Government House on that Britain would accept Friday night.

They will make their report at

And

sibility for the future safety and comprising of representatives of A little later the fag-master had W. Nelson Johnson and Mr. Spik-welfare of the Assyrians after the Great Britain, France, Germany who gave good advice to hell him some friends to ten, and told the boy Mr. Lee Ry-lup, licensee of the er are the guests of Mr. Douglas cessation of the mandate and the en- Canada, Australia and Hungary:x eggs for not more than three Lee Theatre. Percival Street, was. Jenkins, Consul-General for the trance of Tray into the League of are instructed to report before minutes and a half. The boy whe

fined $50 by Mr. Hamilton at the 'l'nited States.

Central Police Court this morning!

for causing a stairway in the theatre

to be obstructed by a locked door ou November ut 10.26 p.m.

Pleading guilty, Mr. T. P. K. Kemble, counsel for the defendunt, said that the door in question was an alternative escape door in the operating room of the theatre, which only existed for the requirements of the Fire Brigade Department. On the night of the visit by the

NEWFOUNDLAND

ORE EXPORT.

Imports Into Britain Resumed.

Nations

Christmas. To a question by the Mandate,

gave good advice, while they were The sub-committee ou mer- Commissión whether Iraq had

un the fire, took part in a rag which sures to increase the consump-was going on in the passage; the reached such a state of develoption of wheat will meet in Paris result was that the eggs remained ment that they could be relled upon early in January, and will be pre

seven minutes in

to exercise religious toleration, Sir sided over by a French represen-They were hard. Francis Humphreys has replied tative that he was satisfied Iraq could be

boiling water.

11 comprises representatives When the fag-master pointed, this so relied upon, and responsibility of Britain, Italy, Germany, the out and naked his fag what he meant for that view rested upon the Bri Argentine, Australia. Rumania by it, the boy who gave good advice. tish Government and not upon the and Yugo-Slavia." --Reuter, Mandates Commission.

He never

give any assurance

London, To-day. The Dominions Secretary, Mr. J. Brigade Officer, the operator, who H. Thomas, said in the House of that after Britain gave up the man- had sole charge of the key, arrived Commons yesterday that he under-date she would guarantee the pro- late, entering the operating room by stood that negotiations had taken tection of minorities in Iraq. the ordinary door, and in his hurry place between the "commercial forgot to unlock the second door. Lerests concerned.. which it

The Magistrate, in convicting. hoped would result in the increased said that it was this sort of thing use in future of Newfoundland ore that caused disasters.

in the United Kingdom,

Mr. Kemble pleaded not guilty to

ins

WAN

He understood that importations)

re-

& second summons for permitting of this are had recently been the gangways in the theatre to be sumed after a considerable lapse of obstructed by bamboo trestles, lad-time-British Wireless Service. ders and decorating material. He admitted that the bamboo poles and other material wore in the theatre.

but anld they were placed in a re- cess and were not in anyway Csus- ing an obstruction,

BRITAIN'S SOUND FINANCES.

Mr. J. C. Fitz-Henry, of the Fire Expenditure Lower By

Brigade Department, said that a surprise valt wan made to the theatre al 10.25 p.m. on Nov. 9. The theatre was being decorated at the

Over £32,000,000.

Lord Hailsham pointed out that in the recent 'disturbances. the ¡Assyrians attacked first and, had they succeeded, a first-class war would have

broken out with the certainty

of very serious repercussions.

GERMANY'S NEWS AGENCIES.

Big Firms Amalgamate

Berlin, To-day.

persisted in his statement that they had been exactly three minutes and had timed them by his watch. So a half in the saucepan, and that he

the fag-master caned him for telling lies.

The boy who gave good advice grew into a man and went to tho university. There he made friends. The well-known news agencies, with a man called Crawley, who went to a neighbouring race-meeting Wolff Bureau and the Telegraphen Union, are being amalgamated for one day and lost two or three hun Economic reasons onder the title of

dred pounds.

"I must raise the money from.s

On the other hand, the excesses Deutsches Nachtrichtenburo.

of the Iraqian. after subduing the Herr Otto, Meyer, of the Tele money-lender somehow," said Crawf Assyrians were quite unjustifiable hen Union, has been appointed ley to the man who gave good ad- and had merited and received the Managing Director of the new con-astor hear of it or he would send vice, "and on no account must the | severeat condemnation,

cern," while the post of Chairman With regard to the efforts of the Committee of the Council of the will be taken by Herr, Hugo Bruck League to find a place for the re-

mann, of Munich,--Beuter,

settlement of the Assyrians in

foreign country, the problem"; pre-ț

RUGBY GAME OFF

The

me down; or write home, which would be worse,"

"On the contrary," said the man who gave good advice, “you maust" gó straight to the Master and tell him all about it: die will like you twice

much for var" afterwards)....... ka!

sented very great difficulty and it The rugby game „between seemed that up to present no suit Club "A" and the Royal Navy "A never minds people getting inte London, To-day, able place was available. time and a large quantity of bam The latest Treasury returnsThe Iroq Government had under which was to have taken place this scrapes when he happens to l boo trestles and decorating material show that the ordinary revenue for taken to make a substantial contribu afternoon on the Club's ground, thom, and he likes you and believes was lying in the gangways. There the current' Anancial year up to tion towards whatever cost might has been cancelled.

you have a great career before you was a poor nodience in the theatre November 25 amounted to £965,- be incurred in re-settling the Asay-a

Crawley went to the Master "of at the time, but nevertheless the 800,103. At the corresponding rians.

dhe | be backward in sharing any, dn, his college and made a clean breast material would have caused a serious date of last year amount it stood at: The view of the Government was jancial responsibility with the other of it. The Maater told him he bad obstruction in case of emergency, he £355,099,664,

be that, apart from the special ras, members of the Langus, but Ordinary expenditure to date for ponsibility of the Iraq Government, could give no assurance, The Magistrate adjourned the the current year totalled £450,942, there; rested also' a very great rua. would, individually-or apart Case for a week to enable him to 665; as, compared with 2463,166,190 ponsibility upon the League of Na, the League, accept visit the theatre with the prosecut-un to the corresponding date last lions as a whole, a don

and independent; Ang officer ́and counsel,

year British Wireless Service. #He did not think. Britain would/Wireless Bervice.

said:

any

he bean foolish wary foolish; bat be arranged the whole matter (in such manner that it never came to the care of Crawley's-extremely violent "Lempered, and puritanical father.

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