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BRITISH WAR DEBT. NOTE

OUTFITTING TRADE WILLINGNESS

TROUBLES

Moderate Year For Wm. Powell, Ltd.

'CREDIT DISCOUNT SYSTEM INSTITUTED

"Your Directors are fully alive) to the necessity of increasing the turnover and attracting new cus-

TO CONTINUE

DISCUSSION

Amount To Be Paid Primary Question.

FRIENDLY REPLY

London, To-day.

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934.

TORIES RETAIN WESTON

Three-Cornered Contest Lowers Majority.

FORTY-THIRD BY-ELECTION

To-day's Short Story.

The Keepers Of The Sanctuary

By A. V Hall.

London, To-day. Winsortentous conclaves collection of circular, thatched

WHILE the elders sat scratch-the white trader whose "camp"----

With a considerably reduced the whelps of the tribe made huts built about a central com- majority, the Conservative Party merry on the smooth, dizzily-pound-lay almost in the shadow yesterday retained the Weston-toppling lip of the council stone for tall Ngwe mountain, their super-Mare Parliamentary seat High rose the kopje, bald and abode.

at the by-election, caused by the grey. It looked like a tower, Now Andy's garden lay in the Couched in a friendly tone, the appointment of Lord Erskine to like a megalith, like one of tiny vlei: between the camp and tomers. and it is in this con-British Government's reply to the Governorship of Madras. those monstrous relics of the the bill itself; and when the Rection that I would like to men the United States war debt note,"

The polling was as follows: dawning of man's soul, blood-mealies and the tomatoes were tion that we have just institated handed to the State Department Mr. Orr Ewing, Conservative, 21,203 tingling in its antiquity. The ripening it needed a strong fence

a special credit discount sys yesterday, reiterates Britain's votes. tem, said Mr. E. M. Raymond. willingness to resume discussion Chairman of Directors at the on the matter whenever it ap-Totes

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Mr. Scott Stokes, Liberal, 7,351 narrow southern face of it rose and a vigilant gun-boy to avert a abrupt and sheer above the midnight -raid upon the crops. Mr. A. Millett, Labour. 6,715 votes. mopanis foliage without so much And în M'ailkadzi'a country annual meeting of Messrs. Wilpears that there are favourable This was the forty-third by-as a cranny for a rock-rabbit to neither the one nor the other liam Powell, Limited, to-day. prospects of success.

election to take place since the find foothold; but baboons know were commonly to be met with. Those present were Mr. E. M. The note expresses the view)

One morning then, about a year Raymond, Chairman, Messrs. J. H. that the primary question for General Election in 1981; in many nothing of verigo: those young- Seth and H. Overy. Directors, Mr. settlement is the amount that cases resulting in Labour gains sters bickered, screeched, turned ago. Andy had discovered

from the Conservatives. The cartwheels, and wrestled with scene of havor! 庭 elephant W. L. Alexander, seereary, and should be paid having regard to

upon that over-fcouldn't have laid waste that Messrs. A. Nissim. H. J. M. dejall the circumstances of the debt. Parliamentary representative, how-utter unconcern

The following is the text of His ever, remains unchanged as the hanging slab, cheating disaster at garden more completely. Figueredo and Wong Ping-fan,

the very last possible moment- "All hands turn out!" he or- Majesty's Government's reply to the result of the other contests. shareholders.

In a straight fight with the (with a careless handgrip, or withdered the village headman; and United States note: Moving the adoption of the

peculiar side-slides] the youth of M'silikadzi's pre- the Chairman

"After careful consideration of candidate at the General Election, one of those port and accounts

Lord Erskine returned a majority | by

which a means of

mpakey pared promptly for action: for the note which you addressed to said:

to defy the law of every nigger loves a baboon drive. June 12 of 29,360.-British Wireless Ser-seems able Gentlemen:-"Our turnover for Sir Ronald Lindsay on

gravity.

Under Andy's generalship, they the year has been disappointing, but His Majesty's Government in the

Andy Gordon, storekeeper at I am glad to say that we seem to United Kingdom feel there are two

| M'silikadzi's, paused at the eum-. have obtained our share of what questions to which it may be useful

mit of the kafür path below and learned against his battered push- bike to watch. He clapped his hands.

business there was.

re

Very few re tail stores have maintained their turnover, and I regret to state that,|

to make further reference.

STATEMENT OF FACT

vice.

ANGLO-GERMAN DEBT TALKS Discussions Described "Very Friendly."

SPECIAL TO CHINA NAIK...

"Voetsak-you

bijanne!"

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thleving bob-

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "For Art's Sake” by Nancy Hale.

bo-

"In the first place, His Majesty's up to the present, there appears to Government would observe that in their note of June 4 they did not be no sign of a revival of trade.

"Your Directors are fully alive to state that the payment of the Bri-

To which the baboon sentry—a the necessity of increasing the turn.tish war debt was legally contingent

jlone, statuesque figure on the pin-scoured the hills within a ten-mile over and attracting new customers, upon the payment of debts due to

(Iy_Telegraph, Copyright, Telegranacle-replied with a bark which radius, driving the baboona and, in this connection, I should like them. What they said was that it his Messages Ordinance, 1894. He was merely the simlan equivalent fore them to a neck of rock where to mention that we have just would be impossible for them to ceived June 28, 12.46 pm)

of "Sez you!" Eer the rock-folk, the Inkoos could take wholesale London, To-day.

though allegedly poor mathemati-vengeance as the creatures filed stituted a special credit discount contemplate a situation in which

With a view to withdrawing cians, are quite sufficiently acute past his stance. scheme, the details of which Mr. they would be called upon to honour

obligations to the Berlin moratorium and also to differentiate between the smack Many old men baboons fell that. Overy, Managing Director, will be in full their war

others while continuing to suspend averting the threatened British of palms and a rifle-crack; more day to Andy's rifle, till at last a pleased to explain to anyone in- all demands for payment of war clearing office against Germany, over, the baboone of the hill-coun-slut, with a suckling babe cling-| obligations due to them. This was the German transfer delegation try around M'silikadel's kraal had ing to her neck, sickened him of On May we moved into our new premises, in the Hong Kong Stock a statement, not of law. but of fact. opened negotiations at the Trea-long ceased to confuse this man the slaughter by an act of down-

"Secondly, regarding the sugges-sury at 11 a.m. yesterday. Exchange, and I think shareholders

of strange habits with the village right heroism. This baboon-wo- After a two-hour meeting a braves whose badge of final and man, scared by the shouting of the will agree that it is a store in which tion of payments in kind, His Ma-

jesty's Government would recall that communique was issued and ex-

terested.

convenience has been studied 10

we can take pride. The customers the experience of the German re-plained the viewpoints, adding complete manhood was a head-boys behind her and the crack, every way, and the Staff deserve parations showed that the transfer that "the discussions were very

difficulties are not solved by a system friendly." They continued ini of deliveries in kind,

the afternoon. United Press, per S. E. Levy and Company.

great credit for the efficient man ner in which the removal was car ried out.

are

"I think the Accounts presented

1934 POINT OF VIEW "As the Committee presided over

self-explanatory, but I should by General Dawes pointed out in CAPTAIN FINED

1924: In their financial effects, de-}

like to point out that your Directora liveries in kind are not really dis- heva considered It advisable to write tinguishable from cash payments. down "Furniture and Fittings" by further $938.25, leaving the book:

with!

$1,000

"In fact, economic objections to Sequel To Collision Of value of this asset at $2,300.00." equal force to deliveries in kind Chinese Steamers.

The adoption of the report and

cash payments would apply

were

accounts was seronded by. Mr. H. to consist of indigenous pro-

unless those deliveries

of Д debtor country,

ducts

Shanghai, To-day.

Holding that the

dress of baboon skin.

crack of the gun in front, leaped This tribe, in particular, had convulsively when she saw the good reason to know and respect white man so close, dislodging her picania. Those behind jostled her along; in another moment, she and the rest of the tribe had passed the danger-polo while

TRADE PACT WITH "FRANCE.

the whelp, finding hit Cf uban-

wards the enemy,

Signed At Foreign Office. doned, tottered bewilderedly

London, Te-day.

Andy, coveting that little morsel of red-dish, bristling fur for a pet, The Anglo-French Trade Agree- ran out from his firing-position to

ment was signed at the Foreign secure it. But the mother was too Office yesterday afternoon by the quick for him. Back she came, Overy, and carried unanimously.

collision be- Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, fear overborne by 'concern, and The retiring director, Mr. E. Mexcluding re-exports, and unless tween the steamers

Teingen and and President of the Board of snatched up the babe almost from Raymond, was re-elected on the pro-they were to be accepted by the Fuchow near Kiangying, on Janu-Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, on under his outstretched handa. For posal of Mr. H. J. M. de Figueredo, creditor country and consumed ary 17 which caused the drowning behalf of Great Britain, and by the a long second she had crouched, seconded by Mr. Wong Ping-fan. by it in addition to the normal of 40 of the 5.5. Fachow's pas- French Ambassador. on behalf of clasping 'It her little black but-

The re-clection of the retiring course of trade. If the United sengers, was due to negligence on France-British Wireless Service,

ton-eyes measuring and defying auditors, Mesare. Linstead and Kingdom were not to receive pay-the part of Captain Liu Pel-sheng, EFFECTIVE ON SUNDAY the man and his gun. Then she Davit, at a fee of $325, was carment in goods exported

London, To-day. on com- of the Tsingen, he has been fixed

ran-leaving Andy prey to a queer ried on the proposal of Mr. A. Nie-mercial account, her exchange re-21,000 by the Shanghai District The Anglo-French,trade agred- sense of embarassment-s feeling sim, seconded by Mr. H. J. M. de sources available for the purchase Court.

ment has been algned and becomes that he had been persecuting his Figueredo.

of cotton and other goods from Zau Yung-sen, an other Teingen effective on Sunday, thus terminatown kinsfolk unawares. America would be still further officers, was fined $600 and both ing the trade war quotas and re- And, though, he was no more a diminished.

were ordered to pay $10,000 com- taliatory duties on the same date as sentimentalist than most men whe

the Anglo-German trade pensation to the

is live in loneliness and exile, the scheduled to commence, unless it is feeling remained: it was strange Fuchow.-Reuter.

averted by the current negotiations. —ard yet not so strange, perhaps while he esteemed and United Press, per 8.E. Levy and that, Company.

ever befriended the Abarosi of the vicinity as niggers; his Idler Imaginings turned to the rock-folk for stmulus. A

AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS BREAK BARRACKS

Outburst Against Heimwehr.

Graz, To-day.

Austrian regular army

NO PRACTICABLE PLAN

- "Therefore, His Majesty's Government do not at present ses any method of putting such plan inte practice which would be likely to commend itself to the Government of United States.

"In the view of Hla Majesty's

Four hundred, soldiers of the Government, the primary question

owners

of the

Canton Merchants Oppose New Road-Widening Measures

(Continued From Page 1).

Residents of An Kung Street de-.

War

TARIFF WALLS MUST BE LOWERED

(Continued From Page 1)

+

Not so strange, because in those hundred hills, tossing their naked] heads around and about M'eilika-

broke for settlement is the amount that clare that there is no big business barracks here yesterday and de-should be paid, having regard to there to justify opening up that monstrated in the Public Square all circumstances of these debta.

thoroughfare.

The United States, he said, dri's like the towers of, a long- against Prince Starhemberg and They regret that up to the pre-

All streets in the shopping die-was approaching a period when it dead city, there was an air of my the Heimwehr.

sent it has not been possible to They beat Heimwehr men in the make further progress in this tricts and better residential sections must broaden its metallic base stery to which those spes, rather streets, and other troops with fixed matter, but they will welcome an are well paved for vehicular traffic. by including silver remonetisa-than the bland, childlike people of In modernising Canton, the Muni-tion, which did not constitute in the villages, belonged. It was not bayonets, were called out and drove opportunity of resuming discus- the demonstrators back to the bar-sion whenever it may appear that cipal Bureau of Public Works some-flation-United Press, per 3. E as absurd as it seemed to endow

times has to condemn corner houses Levy and Company. the present conditions have до The Incident arose from the far passed away as to afford fav.in the course of road construction. Heimwehr assault on Tuesday on ajourable prospects for settlemont, soldier, since when the soldiers have and they are sincerely anxious to possibilities in this direction, His con Majesty's Government cannot, at troversy all, or any, matters which present, see any method for pat might disturb the harmony of Intions between the two countries, which would be likely to practic

plan

racku.

been confined to barracks.-Reuter, remove from the sphere of

U.S. NOVELIST DIES IN SAN DIEGO,

Eugene Manlove Rhodes At Age Of 65.

San Diego, California,

To-day.

|—British Wireless Service.

GERMAN EXPERIENCE KPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL,

Washington, To-day.

The British note to the United States has rejected the suggestion

Itself to the United States," the vote adds.-United Press, per E. Levy and Company.

NOTE COMMENDED

London, To-day. The arguments in the British

thona tall basaltle freaks with 7.899,000 UNEMPLOYED, human-or perhaps pre-human- SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.. associations: that country reeked (Dy Telegraph, Copyright, Telegro of man's antiquity; in a score of phi Massages Ordinance, 1861, Eekloofs and sun-scorched peaks ceived June 28, 1158 pm)

thers remained implanted upon The National Industrial Consuch as staggered the mind of the New York, To-day the imperishable stone evidenca ference Board has estimated the trader with fantastic possibilities.

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unemployed in May, at 7,899,000, a That aged Chief M'silikadzi decrease of 0.6 per cent, on last himself refused with all a 'nigger's month and 40.2 per cent, under the obatnacy to be drawn into Andy peakmonth of March, 1883---Gordon's conjectural, (discussions. United Fress, per §. E. Levy, and "Ah, ah! How should I Company.

know,....?!?. It was a fact thné the old man's great-great-grandfather

foot in this fumbla, of hfllang advince-leader of the great-fn- (Continued From Page 1). vasion And Mailikadri's anposs Becondly, to find facts, and talos tor, had been greeted by the Appropriate, afirm

::. LONGSHOREMEN:

for paymenta in kind because they war debts not are generally com- are impractical. It pointed out mended in the press. A | ROOSEVELT ARBITRATOR FOR had been the frat Muntu to set The death occurred yester- that Germany's experience, of pay" The Daily Telegraph describes day, of the well-known novel· ing reparations in kind demon the logic as unanswerable and Mr. Eugene Manleve strated that the "transfer difficul- urges that an Impsase has been Ithodes, at the, age, of, 65-tles" were unsolved thereby reached and that the time has Hautake well (If the United Kingdom did not comes to get down to parutacts Mr. Rhodes, who was a cowboy receive payment for goods export in friendly conference, in New Mexico for 25 years, based here on commercial account, "gan writing for publication in ita exchange resourem available

1906.

NO COMMEŃT-

Among his novels, ami for the purchase of cotton and The British not “Good Mên and Trus," "Bransford other commodities from the Unit, bere without

În Arcadia," "The Desire of the ed States would be still farther

Moth," "West 4 Wait," "Stepsons, diminished. VERA

of Light" "Say, Now Shibboleth" muharafors, "while not..

and "The Copper Streak. Trally to give further consideration

rvers beli

garding the cou inks of f "dia- rock-folles" with crimination and discharge of em- chi

bitr

Britain advan

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