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War Debt Formalities

HERE, THERE

EVERYWHERE

NOTHING NEW IN THE WORLD

A doctor who read an account of the successful operations in Ameri en on patients with facial paralysia writes:

DRAMA OF A YEAR

SALIENT EVENTS OF

1934 REVIEWED

GREAT

AIR RACE PERHAPS "MOST SIGNIFICANT

(By G. M. Murray)

TITE have now finished the played out. "W

"In 1908 or 1906, at the London

London. But the tragedy was not yet Hospital, Mr. James Sherren found

On July 25, Dr. the facial nerve of a girl about 18 years of age had been divided as a

story of Bleak House, Dollfuss, the little Chancellor, result of a mastoid operation, with and are sitting down to enjoy the was shot in his office, and bled consequent facial paralysis on one first chapter of 'Great Expecta-to death on a sofa. War hover- Bide.

tions:""

That sentence fromed over Europe in those dark "We operated, in the presence of last April's Budget speech epito-days, but the moderating influ- ence of Herr Hitler, - and the Dr. Henry Head, by going deeply mises the tale of 1934.

In several directions promise prompt mobilisation of Italian among the important structures of the neck until he came to the twelfth has not resulted in performance, troops by Signor Mussolini, sayed cranial nerve. He divided this but in others the expectation of an ugly situation.

Germany, where the National longitudinally, for two or three better things hus. not entirely

Socialist State became even more inches, and brought one part to the failed..

At home the year was made firmly established, had her sovered distal end of the facial

notable by three big events-the troubles. On June 30 a revolu nerve.

"In a short time the facial nerve launch of the great liner Queen tionary plot among certain sec... began to take on its functions again, Mary: the air race from Britain tions of the Brown Army was and there was hardly any trace of to Australia; and the wedding of crushed with an iron hand. by facial paralysis when the patient! the Duke and Duchess of Kent. Hitler.

The royal wedding made 1934

Spanish Terror

left the hospital.”"

BAD OLD DAYS

are

a year of grace. Of all the Trouble long threatened in twelvemonth's happenings it will Spain culminated in a Terror live longest in the memories, of during October. A general Vienna is going back to the bad the largest number. Certainly it strike coincided with a Red old days of horse traffic congestion. was the most picturesque event rising and a Separatist rebellion The explanation lies in the high of its kind for over twenty years. in Catalonia, promptly quelled by: taxes on cars, which

forcing

loyal Government troops. Sea Ship And Air Ship

Com- private owners to give up motoring. The launch of the ship Queen munist rebele made the stoutest The recent decree which forbids Mary was another great thrill for stand in the Asturias, where lorries to travel more than 60 miles the nation. For nearly three whole-detachments of police were is driving commercial lorrted off the years the gigantic hull of "534" exterminated, and other loyalists, including priests, were fiendish- roads."

had rested on the stocks, mute! The tax on private cars is intend witness of a great maritimely tortured to death. ed to bring grist to the Austrian nation's inability to complete its. And over all the Continental proached from the side of New Budget. The restrictions on lorries proudest project. Then, the two imbroglia loomed the shadow of Zealand, the explorers have thus are meant to help the railways. greatest rivals in the North the forthcoming Saar plebiscite. Jin a non-stop flight, "linked" the] The actual results will he loss to Atlantic trade merged their con- Coblenz in August Herr Hitler. At a great demonstration in extreme fringes of South Ameri-the revenue, and.chaos in Vienna. cerns and the Government grant-

announced that it was the only ca with the lands rendered fa

ed its promised assistance. mous by the heroic deeds of

territorial question oustanding The most significant event of

between France and Germany. Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen.

1934 was the great air race. The The link," indeed, is of the ex-

The tension relaxed when with Australia in under Farmer Bentover:. "That drought flight to tremist tenuity, for it was spun cost us over 6000 bushels of whent three days by two British air-the expresa agreement. of Ger- Mri. Bentover: "Yes, but there is men, flying Яп all-British many British soldiers arrived in in air. But the exploit has been safely accomplished and others nothing without some good. During machine. was an achievement the territory just before Christ- that dry spell we could at least get which opened the world's eyes to as part of an international

will follow.

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led.

No correspondence about the American war debt could be more correct, or more courteous than that between the British Govern-

It must be plain even to those some salt out of the shakers!"

the astonishing potentialities of police force from which French ment and that of the United

the modern aeroplane. Almost and German troops were exclud- States, and none could make less least familiar with, the conditions The of the Antarctic that a superb

"Who was that gentle- overnight, the earth had appre- change in the position.

ciably shrunk.

Momentous, too, was Japan's American Government presented achievement. has to be added to man?"

Host: "Ah, that's a great man!! Its bill at due date a bill now the thrilling records associated.

During 1934 the greatest ques denunciation of the Washington with a Continent almost barren writers of our day."

He's one of the 10,000 foremonttions in Imperial polities have Naval Treaty and her decision to iswollen by arrears of interest -

Mr. Balchen

been Britain's air peril; and the Press for naval equality in princi- and the British Government res-(of all but heroism.

India Report, now incorporated ple with Great Britain and the ponded that conditions have not has thus scored another triumph,

United States. changed materially since the defew from Little. America to the faster than this?"

for more than five years ago he Man: "Conductor, can't you run any in the Bill.. Both will come to a

head next year, and the decisions Roosevelt's prestige Increased: In Washington President cision six months ago that dis- South Pole and back, with one Conductor: "Yes I can, but I have reached upon either may even the dollar was revalued and silver cussion of a final settlement could not be initiated with any turn journey.

stop for refuelling on the reto stay in the car.”

tually decide the fate of the was nationalised. What Mr. Ells-

Empire. chance of success. Both parties, worth was able to observe of the

LOCAL NEWS

Obituaries Home Events we may feel, thoroughly under-region whether land or sea

BREVITIES

Belgium, lost her gallant ruler, Other concerns touching, men's King Albert, through a moun The United States' demand and the British few remains to be told. At any over which he and his companion

hearths and homes have made taineering accident; and Ger- response are formalities to be re rate, whatever either saw is of Messrs. Logan and Amps, was of drought the worst for two Hindenburg, who was succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel M. H. Logan. 1984 unusual. The second year many the aged President von peated at intervals until world'

new. All that side of the Con- the speaker at the Rotary Club centuries brought an trade conditions have altered.

tinent is an empty and, to geo-tiffin in the Hong Kong Hotel Roof water shortage, discomfort, and

acute by Herr Hitler as the Leader and On the British side there is no repudiation, although the John-graphers, an aching blank.

Garden yesterday, Mr. A. L. Shields distress in many districts, and in presiding. Lt. Col. Logan spoke December a proposed national on "Progress in Modern Building water survey, Construction."

It was the first year of the "great silence" at, night, and of The P. & O. 5.8. "Somali left the exotic Belisha beacons in the Shanghai for this Fort yesterday, London streets. In this year and is due here to-morrow at about also pay cuts were restored, in- 7 p.m.

cómé tax reduced, and the motor- car tax lowered.

stand each other.

son Act laid it down that failure

to make payment in full would be regarded as repudiation. Bri- tain is ready to discuss terms whenever external trade condi-

ARMED ROBBERY

BY TWO MEN

tions have so altered that any Attack On Gardener At

Kowloon City payments can be made without bringing chaos to commercial

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RACE PROBLEM IN AFRICA

Black Dominion Proposed

markets. The" world has not yet! Trang Choi, a gardener, of Ts discovered a means by which Ku Ling village, Kowloon City, re-

Four months' hard labour was For the first time for 25 years The Chief Native Commis- . large amounts, whether in gold ported to the police this morning imposed by Mr. B. I. Wynne-Jones an Englishman and an English-sioner for Southern Rhodesia or in goods, can be passed with- that his house was the scene of at the

Central Magistracy this woman won the Wimbledon lawn (Colonel Carbutt), writing in the out recompense from one country an armed robbery at about 12.80 morning, on Sin Hung, unemployed, tennis championships, while the journal published annually under.. to another without imperilling

found guilty of the theft of a purse Open Golf Championship, held by the auspices-of-the-Native- am-to-day-He said that he-was the trade and industry of the awkened by two men armed with containing $1.80, from the pocket of America since 1923, also return- Affairs Department, suggests as recipient. Any resumption of awakened by two men, armed with Lau Kai.

ed to this country. In Test a solution of the problem of white. payments in present conditions him and took jewellery and money,

cricket England was beaten. by and black development in British would be a heavy blow to the to the total value of $21,

Two months' hard labour was im-Australia-the "Ashes" chang-South and East Africa, the for- American recovery plans, and As they were ransacking the posed on Fan Yee, by Mr. E. Ling hands after being held by this mation of a dominion north of President Roosevelt must feel house a police whistle was sound- Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis-country since 1982.

the Zambezí in which the Batisfaction that the anticipated

tracy this morning, for the theft of

Troubles Of France

interests of the native would be reply has come. The debt musted by somebody outside.

a clock. On hearing this the burglars de-|

One might almost call our year paramount. Northern Rhodesin.. continue to be a bookkeeping camped, and while they were run-

humdrum compared with that Nyasaland, Tanganyika, and. transaction to be solemnly are ning away one of them, who slip- Klondyke Whist Drive le being experienced by some countries. Uganda are envisaged as: this sented and acknowledged at reped and fell into a pool of water, held in the Sailors and Soldiers Consider France, where 1984 black dominion. gular intervals, until both parties

Home this evening commencing at began with the disclosure of the feel that an agreed settlement

8:50 p.m.

The charge for admis- Stavisky scandals; för six weeks. can be carried through without.

alon is 60 cents, including refresh afterwards Paris was the scene of wrecking the machinery of inter-

COUNTERFEIT COINS

ments.

sporadic· rioting, which reached national commerce.

tragic proportions on February 6 Charged with possessing and Mr. V. M. Grayburn of No. 355. and 9, when police fired on the tendering 32 counterfeit 10-The Peak, was this morning aned crowds, barricades appeared in cent pieces, Kwan Pok, a 20-85 for allowing his dog to be on the streets, the Ministry of year-old unemployed, was Ben-

Marine was burned, great mobs tenced to six months hardla- the road, without a muzzle,

fought with sticks and stones,

Non-Stop Across The Antarctic

was arrested...

For the first time the Antarc-bour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at For stealing a camp-bed, Wong many people were killed and hun- tic Continent has been crossed the Kowloon Magistracy this Fuk alias Wong Nam, unemployed, dreds injured. non-stop by an aeroplane. The morning. Chan Chui, 27-year

FOUND WITH ARMS

It was France's unfortunate lót

credit for this striking feat be old unemployed, charged with was sentenced to one month's hard longs to Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth alding-and-abetting, was sentenc labour by Mr, E. I. Wynne-Jones at also to be the scene of the ass- and his pilot, Mr. Balchen, who ed to three months' hard labour.the Central Magistracy this morn-assination, on October 9, of King

Ing.

Alexander of Jugoslavia and M have thus succeeded in their se-

Barthou, the French Foreign cond attempt after "an/earlier

The brilliant young Chinese vlo-Minister, Lallure. They flew from Decep tion Island, a spot that is undis- Charged with being in Posse recital at the Helena May Institute

linist, Mr. Sitson Ma, will give a Tragedy Of Austria

Or Austria, whose forlorn and tinguished on most maps, near sion of a revolver, a dagger, and at 6.30 p.m. on Monday, February lovely capital saw ruthless civil Graham Land, about 600 miles three rounds of ammunition on the 11. The programme consists of war in February when an south of Cape Horn, and crossed hill-elde at Saiwanho, Au Chola Prelude, Bourres, Gavotte and organised Socialist insurrection the vast unexplored wastes of coolle, was remanded 48 hente in Rodeau, (Bach), Brahms Sonata in was suppressed only by the artil the Antarctic Continent to Police custody by Mr G. Mozart's Concerto in D. Aubade lery of the Government forces, Little America, at the head of Thomson at the Central MagisProvincial); and Hejre Kat! (Hu- and with the loss of between 800 the Ross Sea. As this section of tracy this moralny. Inspector S

12 and 1,000 liveskite

u Des Voeux Road C. Phone: 28607, the Continent is normally ap-Logan is in charge of the cass

"Mummy, I have been playing postman, I pul a letter in every

"Where did you get the letters?”

In your drawer there a Bandle tied up with blue ribbon."