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China
The
NINETY-FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION
'HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1935
ROAD EXPENDITURE
IN HUPEH
Local Bankers Agree. To Make $1,000,000 Loan
Hankow.
In order to speed up the con- struction of the various high- ways projected in Hupeh, the Provincial Government has been negotiating with local Chinese
MILITARY SCIENCE | HIGHWAY BUILDING
IN KIANGSI SCHOLARSHIPS
Over 4,500 Kilometres Made Last Year
Nanking Students To Study Abroad
ONE FOR ENGLAND, TWO FOR GERMANY
Nanking.
- More than 4,500, kilometres of highways were constructed in Kiangai province during the past year, according to a report by Mr. Lung. Hok-sui, a member of the Receipts Three students who recently provincial government. banks for a loan of $1,000,000, passed the competitive examina- from freight and passenger & traffic offering part of the authorised tions held by the Inspectorate- during this period totalled
Mr. Lung also but as yet unissued 24th Year General of Military Training have than $2,900,000, Hupeh Reconstruction Bonds as been selected for study abroad on stated that the completion of 5,000 kilometres of waterways in Kiangai security.
Government scholarships..
It is understood that the-banks It is learned that one of the would he announced shortly. have agreed to make the loan successful candidates will be sent and that a formal agreement will to England to attend the Royal shortly be signed. - (Chekial
Military. School, while the other Agency);
two will go to Germany to study at a German military college in Berlin..
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Motor Boat For Police
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The term of their study abroad (Cheklai will be five yeara. — [Agency),
DISARMAMENT DEBATETM
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RAIN OF STRAW IN ITALY
Wind Lifts Haystack
Strange things happeneď dyring af series of storms which swept across Italy recently.
At Corbezzi a rain of straw fell.. A tremendous wind lifted a hay- stack about 70 feet into the air, tore lit in pleces and scattered, the saw Jall over the countryside. The amendment to the Labour
(Continued from Page 1),
It is notified that sealed ten- ders in quintuplicate for the sup- ply of a teakwood single-screw motor boat for police service at the Tai-0, will be received at Colonial Secretary's Office until motion to be moved by Sir Austen dines were thrown up on to the noon, of March 22.
The hull, machinery, and equip. ment
On the west coast millions of Bar-
Chamberlain, expresses the desire shore and fishermen filled large bus- are to be of first-class to secure limitation of armaments keta full with shovels. material and workmanship to the by international agreement, rejecta
IN COMMONS
entire satisfaction of the Gov-the method of unilateral disarma- CATTLE BILL'S SECOND READING ment, and approves the Govern-j ernment Marine Surveyor.
ment's policy as equally necessary for the defence of the nation, and for the discharge of international obligations.-Brish Wireless Ser
LOCAL BANK NOTE CIRCULATION
$162,854,732 During '
February
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(Continued From Page 1). He thought the best method of dealing with the situation for the benefit all interests concerned would be a short extension of the existing arrangements for asalat-The ing the home producer, particular- ly as the schems established last July had been proved to work Bmoothly.
LONG-TERM, POLICY
The returns of the averageContinued from Pagë 1) amount of bank notes in circula- MORE REVENUE WANTED tion during the month ended In theory this scheme is February 28, and as certified by protect and encourage provin The recent Government memor- the Managers of the respective cial industries as a means to andum on the subject was evidence banks, give the Chartered Bank as bring back prosperity, while the of the close study they were giv- $21,862,628, the Hong Kong and primary consideration is to pro-ing to the long-term policy for the Shanghai and Shanghai Bank aduce more revenue as a sot-off to meat industry, he continued, and $139,521,382 and the Mercantila decreasing returns from other the question would be discussed in Bank as $1,970,722.
detail with the Australian Prime
taxes.
These three banks carried apocfe' Planned economy was first in-Minister when he arrived in Eng- in reserve totalling $142,400,000, troduced in Germany and was land. made up from $8,300,000 from the later adopted with success in Britain had a special responsi- Chartered Bank $182,750,000. from Great Britain and Japan. Under bifity towards meat exporters since the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, this scheme, the Canton Cham-she remained easily the largest and $1,350,000 from the Mercantile ber of Commerce hopes to check consumer of overseas supplies. Bank.
overproduction and amalgamate None could accuse Britain of nar- some of the big industries as a row, economic nationalism in her means to cut down overheat and meat policy, but she could not ne other expenses.
glect the Importance of the home Canton is not exhausted of all livestock Industry, which was also ver like Shanghai, but the de important to the customer, for pression here is due to world-many other British Industries, in- "To achieve this the co-opera-wide causes, the decline of the cluding shipping, used to bring tion of all nations is essential. silk industry, and the heavy ap store cattle from Ireland for fat- That is our object and that is the propriation for military and de-tening in England. result we must surely strive to fensive purposes. --
LORD PRIVY SEAL'S URGE FOR PEACE
(Continued from Page 1).
achieve.
"It is because I believe so deep-
ly in the truth of what I have just said that I am so happy to
RETURING FROM LEAVE NEXT MONTH
The Bill was read a second time after the defeat of the Labour mo tion for rejection by 120 votes to 28-British Wireless Service. (“
have been entrusted with this important Mr. Louis Beale, H. M. Commer- The court-martial held in Valla-; mission."
cial Counsellor to Legation, now on dolid, Spain,, to try 76 persons
It is understood that no date leave in England, and who previous-accused of having committed crimes has yet been fixed for Mr. Eden's ly has been reported as giving a during the Marxist insurrection in visit to Moscow and Warsaw, but well-nigh fabuleur, number of Inter-October, 1984, acquitted eleven, it is hoped that it will be possible views to people interested in trading sentenced 88 others to terms of im- to arrange for it towards the end conditions in the Far East, and esprisonment aggregating 22 years, of the present month-British pecially. in China will return to his and condemned the two ringleaders Wireless Service.
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