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to-day at 1/7-1

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LADIES' AUTUMN FOOTWEAR

NOW ON SALE

NOW ON

KOWLOON SHOP ONLY:

PAUL RENNET et CIE

Corner of Austin Nathan Roads, Kowloon

MILK HONG KONG & & CHINA

ROOSEVELT LEANING MORE TOWARDS FEDERAL CREDIT CONTROL

IN

COA.

Attired in flowing Hindu tume and sandals, Miss Madeleine Slade, who discarded a high pasi. tion in British society to become a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, in pictured in Washington after con- ferring with Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House. Miss Slade, known to Hindu patroits as Mirabai, as- serted she had an "interesting talk" with Mr. Roosevelt;

DISASTROUS FIRE

SWEEPS WUCHOW

RIVERSIDE AREA THIRTY BUILDINGS

DESTROYED

SIGNIFICANCE SEEN IN NEW APPOINTMENT UNPOPULAR WITH THE ORTHODOX PARTY

N.R.A. IS HIBERNATING

It is expected that serious, fundamental changes will be made in several Governmental administrations and corporations, particularly in the Public Works Administration, stafes a special Washington wire to Messrs. S. E. Levy and Com- pany.

The_appointment of Mr. Eccles, Utah banker, to the Federal Reserve Board is unpopular with the orthodox party, who con- strue this move as a further example of the President's decision for more direct control of credit through the Federal Reserve Board. Mr. Eccles is a supporter of "the recovery pump being primed rapidly" and he is also a staunch believer in Government- al control of credit.

Five out of eight members of the Federal-Reserve Board are in favour of President Roosevelt's policies.

THE NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION IS HI- BERNATING, AWAITING COURT DECISIONS ON CONSTITU. TIONAL QUESTIONS ON WHICH REST ITS SCOPE FOR RE- NEWED LEGISLATION TO CONCRETE ITS POWERS.

It is generally felt that Presi- dent Roosevelt is inclining to-

GRAIN PROBE IN wards more conservative ideas in

AMERICA

Futures Act Violated By Chicago Traders

SPECIAL TO CHINA 'MAIL.

his treatment of the various problems confronting him, and that he is seeking a course which

will be more acceptable to the conservative party.

He is "alao

beginning to put the muzzle on boisterous trouble-makers.

It is thought possible that the (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra. Government may seek an interna- WESLYAN MISSION THREATENED, 4tional cotton convention so as to

[From Our Own Correspondent]

19, 8.02 am) Washington, To-day.

Here is the pitheed of the mine at Pecs, Hungary, where 1,200 went, lato self-imposed impri- sonment 1,000 feet underground for five days until their employers granted them a rise in pay. Threatening to cut off the ventilating system in the mine and commit mass suicide, the striking miners had sent up word to "buy 950 coffins-we are ready to die!" before mine officials acceded to the demands di

COMMUNIST STRONGHOLD-

CAPTURED:

Yutu Falls For First Time, Since Taken In 1930

Nanking, To-day." Reports from Nancharitate that Government troops Fasterday captured Yutu, in Southlangsi, which has been in hands ca Communists since 19307-Renter.

safeguard the interests of the SHING MUN DAM The Grain Futures Commission American cotton industry during Wuchow, Nov, 16. has suspended the trading privileges the present period of the crop

restrictions. An extensive section of a river of the Chicago Board of Trade

Until consumption catches up front district was threatened by a members, Messrs. Adrian Ettinger with supply it is considered un- fierce conflagaration which destroy- Swing, and Brand, and has also likely that a state of inflationary cfted Mr. Thonias Howell, a noted ed over 30 buildings here to-day trader, to appear at an investiga- price condition can be attained. Only after many hours of desper- tion on January 14. ate work were the flames curbed.

All accused are charged with The fire broke out in a house inviolating the Futures Act.-United the Saam Kwok Shui district, near Press per S. E. Levy and Company. the banks of the Foo River and the

West. River, and swept with remark AMERICA LOOKING

able-rapidity to adjoining-premises.

which were mostly residences.

A

TO RUSSIA

fire-float was rushed to the scene,

but by the time of its arrival the

ROOSEVELT ON

· POWER RATES

FATALITY

FOREIGN EXCHANGE STABILISATION

Permanent Fund Now Being Urged

TO INSURE STABLE DOLLAR AFTER UNREVEALED MONETARY ́PROGRAMME CONCLUDES 2

· SPECIAL TO CHINA M

CARDINAL GASPARRI PASSES

AT AGE OF 82

Man Who Codified Church Law

Rome, To-day, Cardinal Gasparri, the 82-year- old Under-Secretary of State at the Vatican, who served under three Popes, and who codified the Church Law, died here yesterday,

Router.

(By:Telegraph, Copyright, Te MOCK AIR RAID

phio Massages: Ordinanes," 1893) Br ceived November 19, 809 ami),

Washington, To-day,

It is learned that United States

Coolie Caught By Rock foreig

Avalanche

ON NANKING

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ANTARCTIC STRAIT

BYRD CONFIRMS

EXISTENCE DURING SEVEN-HOUR FLIGHT Concealed Water-Borne

.

Ice Ridge

e

50,000 SQUARE MILES EXPLORED

New York, To-day. The famed explorer, Rear-Ad- miral Richard Byrd, has obtained evidence tending to confirm the existence of a wide strait dividing the Antarctica.

A strait of concealed water- borne ice lies between the Queen Maud and Edsel Ford ranges.

Rear-Admiral „Byrd, in" 1 seven-hour flight from his ex- pedition base at Little America, explored 50,000 square miles. — Reuter.

wirelessed An earlier message, from Little America to New York,

stated that after waiting for a month for clear weather, Hear Ad- miral Byrd, accompanied by four companions, departed from the Ap- tartic Expedition's base. at Little America last Friday on the first exploration flight since last sum mer.

Rear Admiral Byrd and his com paniona few over a hundred miles in the direction of the Routh Pole.

PAN-AMERICAN

READY FOR TEST

FLIGHT TO EAST CLIPPER PLANE FOR

CHINA HOP.

PLANS FOR JANUARY

Washington, Nov. 14.

Government economists are study Need For Better Line ing the possibility, of the establish-

Of Look-Out Posts permanent Valted States foreign exchange stabilisa-

FAILURE IN ARRANGEMENTS tion fund to insure a stable dollar after the unrevealed United States

Nanking, To-day. San Chi, a 84-year-old Chinese monetary programme has been

The mock air rald car

It was learned to-day that the coolie, was fatally injured at the completed.

ried out here on Saturday

Pan-American Airways will Shing Mun Dam yesterday at It is reported that the Adminis-

has revealed several interest-

make a test air-mail flight from 4.15 p.m., when he was partially tration may possibly ask for an-

ing facts. burled by a fall of rocks.

thority to make the present U.S.

The capital was not given San Francisco to China, vin Denies Government Has Sam Chi kustained multiple in-82,000,000,000 stabilisation fund sufficient advance warning, while Honolulu and Manila, shortly

juries to which he succumbed two permanent in as much as experts

after January 1 with the re- Advantage hours later at the Kowloon Hos- believe that there is little possi-it took the power plant five min-cently developed clipper trans

utes to shut off the electric sup

port plane. pital.

bility that world currencies can be

ply instead of two minutes as ex- put on a permanent basis by Jan-

It was also understood that Birmingham, Alabama, To-day.—

uary 30 1835, which is the maxim- The rickshaw coolles responded make test flights over the north-

pected.

Pan-American was prepared to um date on which the stabilisation nobly, all immediately extin fund can exist United Press, per guishing their lights, as did the The Post Office department, how-

ern route. S. E. Levy and Company

mat-hut dwellers.

Honolulu-Manila-route,

was reported favouring the NEW NAZI DRIVE IN GERMANY

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flames had obtained a firm hold on Better Hopes For Trade While en route to Warm Springs, "WHITE HIBISCUS”

Beveral buildings. Land fire-fight-

ing appliances were transported by lighters, from the mainland.

Entertained

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

Dozens of hose lines were (By_Telegraph, Copyright, Teleorm brought into play, the firemen con-phis Messages Ordinance, 1891. E=- centrating their efforts on keepingceived November 10, 8.02 a.m.) the fire within the blazing area.

Washington, To-day.

President Roosevelt made a speech here yesterday.

He made a, denial that federal power rates were below private rates because the Government does not pay taxes.

He said the Government was de monstrating proper business me-

SLAYING

Doke To Be Given

New Trial

Woodland, Cal. For a time the Weslyan Mission The Secretary of the American thoda to reduce rates and increase The story of the lovely bride of was menaced, but the outbreak was Federation of Labour, Mr. Wil sales of appliances, thus greatly the White Hibiscus will be told brought under contro! before the liam H. Green, on Saturday de increasing consumption. United in court again on December 4, flames could reach the building. clared that Russia had been re- Press, per S. E. Levy and Company. when Judson Doke comes up for

The greater part of the property cognised by the United States destroyed consisted of residences. for a year, but expected the trade The cause of the fire is not yet boom had so far, not materialis- known.

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RED SITUATION

IN SZECHUEN

General Liu Reporting To Nanking

Nanking To-day. General Helang, the Szechuen Commander-in-Chief, is due here in one or two days' time to confer with the Government leaders on

led. Both countries were still | groping for a solution of the tan- gled problems.

The prospective Russian mar-| kel, however, was beginning to figure importantly in the heavy industrial revival calculations. United Press per S. E. Levy and

MEXICAN GOLD MINE RE-OPENED

Rich Yield Seen

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL..

the Communist situation in his (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra province.

phie Messages. Ordinance, 1894, Be He intends to return to Szeived November 19, 8.02 cm.) (Sai

chuen immediately the discus- | sions are completed-Reuter

WEATHER FORECAST:

Washington, To-day.

Dr. WF Goshag, Curator of Minerals at the Smithsonian In- stitution, has returned from Mexico bringing samples of gold ore yield-

Cloudy, with probably some lug as much as 10,000 grams per rain, and fresh north-east winds, ton from the Old Conquistador ~was the weather forecast uforst mines, which were recently-re-

day, as issued by the Royal Obser opened United Press, per

vatory this morning.

Levy and Company."

trial for the slaying of his whis'a lover, Lamer Hollingshead. 23- year-old University nophomore and poet.

Because a jury of farmers, after [80 hours, could not determine whether he was guilty or innocent, Doke, a city official of San Lean- dro and world war veteran, will face a second jury who are her pected to decide whether he was Justified in taking the west's stern adwritten law into his hands by Shooting Hollingshead, according to the prosecution, "like a dog.” Doke's first trial was declared a mystcal after the jury selected failed to reach a verdict United Press

US. HIGH-GRADE BONDS CONSIDERED OVER HIGH

"PRESS DEPENDABLE INSTRUMENT"

Berlin, To-day.

A sum of £16,000 has been set aside to train young-jour; nalists on Nazi-lines stated the Minister of Propaganda,: Dr. Joseph Goebbels at the first annual convention of the German Press which yesterday telegraphed to Reichsfueher Hitler stating that the German Press is now a dependable Instrument of the National Socialist State.

-Reuter

TEMPORARY DEPOSIT INSURANCE EXTENSION?

}:

ever,

The raid demonstrated the need for a better organised network T. Trippe, Fresident of Pan- of look-out posts. Similar man- oeuvres, on a larger scale, will be American, recently exchanged cor respondence with Postmaster-Gen- held later. Reuter.

eral James Farley on the possibili- ties of trans-oceanic "clippers" mail

AIR RAID TEST and passenger flights, requesting

TO-MORROW

the support of Mr. Farley's depart

Alarm Will Be Given

At 7 PM.

ment, s

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THANKSGIVING DAY DECLARED HOLIDAY

President's Speech

___________ Washington, Nov, 15. President Roosevelt's annual

The Public is reminded that to morrow at 7p.m. there will be short test on the lines of an air- raid. The alarm will be given by three maroons (as discharged with No. 10 Typhoon signal), fol- lowed by three rockets, and by Thanksgiving Day proclamation, the ships sirens. Street lamps and issued to-day, called upon certain other conspicuous. lights American people to "dedicate our will be extinguished.

selves anew to the work for the bet If conditions are favourable, terment of mankind.” one or more, aéroplanes will fly The President said this should be over to observe the effect, and Hane “with gratitude in our hearts these will be spotted by search for what already has been accom-

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ovember 29, mal holiday

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