1934-04-27 — Page 9

FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934.

SCHEME FOR

RESHUFFLING

OF EMPIRE

Ambitious Emigration Plan Published.

COUNTERING UNEMPLOYMENT

London.

A scheme for the re-distribution of the population of the British Empire. under a Chartered Com- pany backed by the financial guarantee of the British Govern. ment, was issued recently by the Empire Development and Settle- ment Research Committee, a non- political organisation of which Sir Henry Pagé 'Croft is chairman. -

The scheme was recently refer

red to in Parliament.

"Thie great central fact con- fronts us,atates the report. "Since 1914, net emigration totalled 1,246,000.

has!

"Had the average rate of the five years, price to the War been maintained, the number of emig rants would have been greater by some 3,000,000. When it is re- membered that the number of un-j employed, at the end of Septem- ber, 1933, was 2,300,000. the lesson is most striking.

"Since the War. £1,000,000,000!

the

has been spent in keeping life in our unemployed.

"At

this time, same astonishing parade exists-that, whilst there are millions of idle. Britons in the homelands, there are. hundreds of millions of acres of unoccupied territory in healthy of the Empire oversens capable of development."

areas

Americans in "Spy" Net

French secret police expect to round up a number of "higher-upe” in alleged International spy ring as the result of "partial confession, obtained, they say, from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz, Americka couple, held as suspects. Mrs. Switz is shown with her attorney during rocent bearing. Her husband, Robert, le shown in insert.

HONG KONG

DOCTOR'S FEAT

AT SEANCE

Attempt To Raise Hypnotised Girl,

DR. ALEXANDER CANNON

London.

women

THE CHINA MÄIL.

To-day's Short Story.

THE

ISLAND

By Maurice Baring.

"PERHAPS we had better not on the emerald sea. In the air

land after all," said Lewis, there was a strange aromatic

in-

as he was stepping into the boat; scent; and the stillness was heavy.

"I don't think it can be "we can explore this island on

habited," said Lewis, our way home."

"We had much better land now," "Perhaps it's merely a volcanic Bald Stewart; "we shall get to island cast up by a sea disturb Teneriffe to-morrow in any case, Jance," suggested Stewart.

"Look at those trees," said Besides, an Island that's not on the chart is too exciting a thing to Lewis, pointing to the wood in the

distance. wait for."

"What about Lewis gavo in to his younger companion, and the two ornitholo- Stewart.

-

gists, who were on

them?" asked

their way to They are oak trees," said

the Canary Islands in search of Lewis. "Do you know why I eggs, were rowed to shore,

didn't want to land?" he asked

"They had better fetch us atlabruptly. "I am not superstitious, (sunset," said Lewis as they landed. (you know, but as I got into the "Perhaps we shall stay the boat I distinctly heard a voice call- alght," answered Stewart.

ing out, "Don't land!'"

"I don't think so," said Lewis; Stewart laughed. "I think It) but after a pause he told the was a good thing to land," he said. sailors that if they should be more "Let's go on now.”

than half an hour late they ware not to wait, but to come back £n the morning at ten. Lewis and Stewart walked from the sandy bay up a steep basaltic cliff which jeloped right down to the beach.

"The island is volcanic," said

\LOCAL NEWS Stewart

BREVITIES

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Bridge Entries for the Contract Tournament close at 5 p.m. Monday.

"All the islands about here are vokanie," Baid Lewis, "We shan't be able to climbe much in this heat," he added.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Bitter Waters," by Luigi Pirandello.

They walked towards the wood,

"It will be all right when we get and the nearer they got to it the to the trees," said Stewart: Pre-more their surprise increased. It sently they reached the top of the was a thick wood of large cak cliff. The basaltic rock ceased trees which must certainly have two and an A fine of $20, in default

open grassy incline was been a hundred years old. When Statesmanship Failure,

weeks' imprisonment, was imposed before them, covered with myrtle they bad got quite close to it they on-Chung Kuen, a tailor, by Mr. Qand cactus bushes; and farther off paused. "The time has come to admit the

Central

a thick wood, to the east of which "Before we explore the wood,”. failure of statesmanship which

A thrilled audience of fashion-1A. A. MacFadyen at the a state of able

and medical has permitted such

men Police Court this morning, for be

olive trees. They sat down on the and see if we can get a general affairs to continue and to grapple watched recently one of the most ing in possession of 40 Macao lots a hill sparsely dotted with said Lewis, "let us climb the hill

The aun grass, panting.

beat view of the island." with the problem of the redistribu- remarkable experiments that the tery tickets at the Tei Wing Wharf

when Dr. yesterday.

Stewart agreed, and they climb- down on the dry rock; there was tion of man-power and the evil of West End has seen, unemployment.

Alexander Cannon, the psychiatrist

not a cloud in the sky nor a ripplejed the hill in silence. When they Yuen Hee and Yeung Chung! "There le an emergency, and it at one time Doctor in the Hong

service. at- chung, two lorry drivers, were requires emergency measures with Kong Government the vision that looks ten, twenty tempted to show at the May Fair charged before Mr. W. Thompson at ́or a hundred years forward."

phenomenon Hotel how the

It is stated that between 1920 and levitation might be produced.

1932 over £200,000,000 had been! It is a mystery of Tibet.

of the Central Magistracy this morn

ing, for speeding along Hennessey Road towards Causeway Bay. Yuou

spent by the various Governments i A slight dark-haired girl, Kyra Hee was fined $7, while Young's

with

TONKIN AGROUND OFF NAUCHAU IS.

No Serious Damage But Tug Dispatched.

reached the top they found it was! not the highest point of the island, but only one of several hills, go that the view was limited. The valleys seemed to be densely wood- ed, and the oak wood was larger. than they had imagined. They lay down and rested and lit their pipes.

"No birds," remarked Lewis gloomily.

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"I haven't seen one-the island extraordinarily still." Bald

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on schemes for the unemployed-Nijinski, daughter of the famous case was remanded one week. Had that sum been spent in mass Russian dancer, volunteered to be

In honour of H. Excellency Mon- seillement, 200,000 settlers with the subject of the experiment. families of three (wife and two Within a closely packed circle signor Mario Zanin, Apostolle De-i

The 8.8. Tonkin ran aground on children) could have been settled of watchers, she lay down and legate to China, a reception will permanently overseas

every placed her head on a pale green be given by the Italian Consul Nauchau Island, of Fort Bayard, General, Comm. A. Bianconi, on 275 miles from Hong Kong, yester hope that the £200,000,000 would silk cushion.

The farther they had penetrated have been paid back over a period Dr. Cannon held before her eyes Friday, May 4 at 6 p.m. in the Jaco-day morning, and is still stranded.

The local agents, Messrs. Messa- of 30 years, and that the whole or hypnoscope an instrument of bean Room of the Hong Kong

geries Maratimes, et Cie, state that inland the more oppressive and nearly the whole of the money could his own invention with

a bright, Hotel.

no serious damage has been sustain-Bultry the air had become; and the have been provided by private enter-concentrated light which quickens|

Leung Tong, an unemployed Chin-ed, and, as yet, no news has been pungent aroma they had noticed prise.

"Further," it is stated "this great | The eyes of Kyra Nijinski clos-jese and a returned immigrant from received that she has been re-floated, directly was stronger. It was like Er that of mint, and yet it was not two The Taikoo Dockyard and mass of people would have been ed. Her limbs became inert, She Holland, was sentenced to given new hope, new opportunity breathed heavily and spasmodical- months hard labour by Mr. W. M. gineering Company of Hong Kong's mint; and although sweet it was and livelihood, instead of remaining ly. And then the watchers, ten-Thomson, at the Central Police tug 8.8. Taikoo left Hong Kong inat not agreeable. The heat seem HOME OFFERED FOR TOBACCO THROWN a burden on their fellows in Great sely silent and expectant, saw ber Court this morning, for the theft of night, and since leaving no message to weigh even on Stewart's buoy-

moral and fingers twitch. Britain and suffering

an Ice-cream tray, two spoons and has been received at the Dockyard. ant spirits, for he sat smoking in A violent spasm

The ss. Tonkin le operated by the silence, and no longer urged Lewis shook her body, and the legs were cup, the property of Chow Sin, a

Chinese hawker living at Old Main Compagnie Indo-Chinoise de Navi- to continue their exploration. raised into the air.

Street, Shaukiwan.

gation, and left Hong Kong on Mon- day for Haiphong.

physical deterioration.

.

Financial Benefita

hypnosis.

A Deep Swoon.

"The immediate financial benefits Her head and arms pivoted up-) to Great Britain would have been awards from the small of the back. relief in unemployment benefit amounting approximately to $75,-

A strong vibration possessed 000,000 spread over ten years, a re-

the sleeping figure. Women turp-· on school space,) Hef in pressure with consequent-saving in education ed away their heads only look grants, and a relief in housing ex-again a moment later, too fascinat- penditure by municipal. and statsjed by the strangeness of the event authorities,"

seven, came

RUSSIAN WITHOUT PASSPORT Stowaway On The President Grant.

RETURN TO SHANGHAI

BY SAME BOAT

J

■

"I think the island is inhabited," said Lewis, "and that the houses are on the other side. There are some sheep and some goats on that hill opposite. Do you see?"

STAMPS

Novel Transaction In New York

PHILATELIC PRECEDENT

New York...-

די

BUC.

INTO STREETS.

10,000 Pounds Dumped In Bulgarian Village.

Sofie.

FIRST BOYS BORN FOR TEN YEARS

Long Spell Broken In Bavarian Village

When the police descended on the village of Bossilograd, near Has- ELECTROCUTION FOR "Yes," said Stewart. "I think

kove, to 'search for contraband they A private residence in Brooklyn, found the main street paved with MOHAMMEDAN they are mouffion, but I don't think

the island is inhabited all the carrying a first mortgage of £2,100 tobacco. same." No sooner were the words ($10,500) and. containing eight It had been thrown there by the Precedent Established out of his mouth than he started, rooms with bath, has been consign-villagers when they got wind of the to close their eyes.

bis: feet, cried, ed to the Y. Souren Company, raid. Knowing that it was smug- In Massachusetts. and, rising to She fell backwards, and, after & WILL The fundamental idea of this re-

"Look there!" and he pointed to a postage stamp dealers and gled, they hoped that the police thin wreath of smoke which was tioneers, to exchange for a collec would not be able to find the owners. shuffling of population scheme is to few moments as though in a deep

PROTESTS INNOCENCE with woon, Kyra Nijinsk again went!

rising from the wood. Their tion of stamps having an appraised establish villages oversess

Although there were more than 10,000 pounds of tobacco in the settlers drawn from the same home through the convulsive movements

langaor seemed to leave them, and value of £1,700 ($8,500).. Nicholai Ivanovitch 'Kuznètzoff,

Boston, Massachusetta.

This is the first time in philatelic street. Reuter. locality. Each settlement would be of raising her legs and head.

stowaway, named after the home town.

She seemed to be triving to float 29-year-old "Russian

Abmed Osman, the first man of they ran down the hill and reach- It is also proposed that various in the air, but all that was achiev-was charged before Mr. Q. A. the Mohammedan faith ever to beed the wood once more. Just as annals that a parcel of real estate

a small auction catalogue for disposal. powers in the nature of monopolies ed was a difficult gymnastic feat. MacFadyen at the Central Police given the death penalty in Massa- they were about to enter it Lewis has ever appeared in a stamp Mr. Souren explained that stampe should be granted to the Chartered "You will awaken when I have Court this morning for entering chusetts, has been electrocuted at stooped and pointed to Company with regard to the control counted

the per- the Colony without a valid paas- the State prison for the murder of plant with white flowers and three of land, the granting of trading suading voice of Dr. Cannon, "and port.

nine-year-old Nellie Keras, of Nor-oval-shaped loaves rising from the estimated to be worth at least

root,

(£1,700 (88,500) might be submitted Sergeant Mottram said that de-wood, Massachusetts. licences and the right to act as sole you will be refreshed and happy."

"What's that?" he asked Stewart, to him for appraisal and his valus To the last the prisoner protested agents for dealing with produce and With a deep sigh Kyra Nijinski cused came to the Colony hidden other matters relating to the settlers, came out of the hypnoaia. She in one of the life boats on board his innocence, Durinig his last who was the better botanist of the tion would be final. The owner were quite stipulates that the issues must be smiled and asked what had hap the s.. President Grant, from night of life he turned to the Koran two. The

Shanghai last week. He was not and repeated, over and over again: white, and each had six pointed entirely of the nineteenth century, United States or foreign, or a com-

A 30 year's spell has at last. discoverod until the liner Was There is no

God but Allah, petals.

"It's a kind of garlic, I think." bination" of both; and used and leaving the harbour, near Lye Mohammed Is. the apostle of Allah!"

caid Stewart.

unused specimens may be included. been broken in the little Bayar- he WAS found moon, when

Nellie Keras disappeared · on

If two or more collections of the lan village of Kohlhunden with by a ship's officer,

He was Christmas afternoon, 1982. Several Lewis bent down over It "It

of a local farmer. transferred to the pilot's boat and daya later her body was found an- doesn't smell," he said. "It's not stated value" are submitted, the the birth of twin boys to the wife was taken back to Hong Kong. dera wood pile in the cellar of ber unlike moly. Allis flavum; only owner of the house has the privilege For 10 years only girls have it's white instead of yellow, and of making his selection-Beuterbeen born to the inhabitants of Neither the ship's officier nor the own house.

the flowers are larger. I'm goinį

the village, and it seemed as if local company made any report to Osman, who lived in an the Police: New York

ment above that of the Keras to take it with me."

He began stooping, away the CRUSHED BETWEEN the population would die out of

lack of male issue." Accused wandered around the family, and All Osman, who was not More than 1,000 merchants. There are 56 houses in the little manufacturers and buyers of New Colony for a few days, and was a relative of Ahmed's, were subse-earth with knife so an to take village of Destinka, near Skutee, York have formed an organisation found on Wednesday by Sergeant quently arrested. Each denied his out the plant by the roots. After Bohemia, and each has been visit to be known at the Merchandising Hunter on the waterfront on Wed gulit and accused the other of the he had been working for some od by State Bailiff Council to combat what the call-nesday, friperie A101 and equitted but minutes he exclaimed, "This is the The villagers, have refused to ed "The encroachments" of Naxis Bergeant Mottram said that, as Ahmed was found guilty-Reuter toughest plant. I've ever seek; I contribute to the costs of building and their propaganda in this coun- the President Grant is due to a school in a neighbouring village, try. "gra

arrive in the Colony from Manila

-Ileuter.

BAILIFF THREATENS

VILLAGE.

Forcing Contributions For New School.

Prague,

pened.

FIGHTING NAZI PROPAGANDA. New York Traders Form Organisation.

Bach family in the village in A fund of $5,000 raised by aub- to-day the accused will be sent asked to pay 10 shillings, a year; hcriptions turned over to the back to Shanghai by the same and the baliff has now noted in Emergency Bedence Fund, of the boat. Bergeant Mottram sach house a piesa of furniturs on American Jewish Congress to for a conviction, but without im- bar which he will, if necessary, dis- finance 'a' programme of anti-Naat poging any term of imprisonment. train to raise the money-Beuter, education and / propaganda-Ben and an order for accused'a

pulsion was made,

ter

יי

Personal Pars.

flowers

can't get it out." He was at last successful, but as he pulled the root he gave a cry of surprise, "There's no bulb," he said. "Look Fred A. Collarins, the Only a black, root." TO and Mrs. Collarius arrived Stewart examined the plant Colony from San Francisco can't make it out,” he said...

(Continued on Page 21)

COFFINS. Stowaway Forced To Reveal Himself.

Munich.

Kohlhunden is now" "hoping“ that the spell has been perman- ently broken-Beuter

were three bodies for burial here.. San Juan, Porto Rico. Investigations revealed a boy of: Faint cries for help from the hold 16, wedged so tightly between the of the liner Borinquen bound ither coins, that he could not more. The from New York were reported to young stowaway' had struggled to the captain by a nervous watchmia: free himself for many hours but at For the hold contained three inat had been forced to call for help.. dawer-covered coffing, - in "" which Reuter