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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS; MONDAY, JANUARY 30th, 1928.

FAMOUS SPANISH AUTHOR GERMAN POLITICAL CRISIS.

"DEAD

VICENTE" BLASCO IBANEZ.

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MENTONE, JAN-97th. The condition of the famous Spanish novelist, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, is disquieting. He is stat ed to be suffering from broncho pneumonis and diabetes.

* MENTONE, Jan. 98th. The death is aancuneed of Blasco Juarez

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MENT,

ITEROVOR: REUTER'S 'AGENCY.}

BERLIN, Jan. 97th.

· EGGS AND POULTRY,

ECONOMIC COMMITTEE'S

REPORT.

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE

CLOSING "QUOTATIONS.

January 25tw, 1948. · E.K. Beat.....$1,200 buy, s ROOM FOR EMPIRE PREFER." Day London #129) nom.-

Chartered Back............£21 buy. Afercantile Bank, A. &B... nom.

Do., 0.14 apun

ENCE.

[BEITISH WIRELESS" BERVÍČK]

****-* -- Kuony, "Jan" 97the Some interesting particulars are contained in the report made by

East Asia Hack......373 buy, Canton Lararance 15 bay... Deion Kararmace

$300 buy.

the impenal. Economic Committee insurance .....kl. 848) Bay.

Uhing In Fl. 143 nom, Underwriters.40 nom.

Steamboats. HK Tags Indo-Chinas (Prot.)

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$26 bay.

..$401 DOM.

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A politicat dispute regarded as being so serious that it may lead to the breaking up of the Marx. Streseman Government, developed suddenly in the Reichstag to-day.

The Committee of the Reichstag

on the subject of eggs and poultry. Chins Fire Insurance....15 nem, adopted by Bfteen votes to thirtee

It is stated that while the coun- Hong Kong Fire Ins.......3820 nom. an amendment to the Government's try produces nearly half of the eggs Douglases School Bill, proposed by the which it consumes, it spent in the People's Party, and as the amend-year 1993 no less than £19,000,000 anent involvra as alteration to the sterling on, imported eggs, and Constitution, a two-thirds majority 2,930,000 on imported poultry frem

the Empire and foreign sources. of the Reichstag will be needed to

This country requires annually This majority the Bill can never somewhere about 3,700,000,000 egge. get as the large minority in the Uut of every 1,000 eggs which it Reistag is definitely opposed to the consumed in 1993 433 were pro

duced at home, 3 came from the Biu.

Irish Free State, & cash, fiobi Canada and South Africa, and 3 from Australia. There were 460 of foreign origin, distributed chiefly on tollows:-

[Ibanet, who

prolific romanciat,was 8 years old pass the Bill, visited the Far East a few years

·∙ago.}

GERMAN WIRELESS MEN ARRESTED.

AUTHORITIES RETICENT REGARDING THE AFFAIR.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BERLIN, Jan. esth. Mystery surrounds the arrress "of five soldiers of the Reichswehr bat-I tavion stationed at Giessen for allegedly sending out wireless mus- sages to foreign countries.

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It was originally announced that no charge of capionage was BUS- tainable against them and they had been released.

The Certy, which is most sidious to secure, the passage of the Bill, is furious and threatens to withdraw its Ministers, includ- ing Dr. Marx, the Chancellor, from the Government if the negotiations with the People's Party do not re- sult in the deletion of the amend

ment

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SHAREHOLDING SCHEME.

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Recur. Jan. 28th.

The Imperial Chemical Indus Later, however, it was stated trivs, limited, have issued particu- they were not released. On the lars to their employees of a share contrary numerous other soldier's holding scheme, framed with the belonging to

stations object" of enabling employees to

wireless

throughout Germany were arrested by the military authorities. The greatest reticence is being main tained regarding the affair.

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by the company, and shares includ [BRITISH WINKLESS SERVICE] ed in employees' estate.

BOY SCOUTS.

1

RUGBY, Jan. 28th. Warn congratulations were re- ceived from H.M. the King and HRH the Prince of Wales upon the development of the Boy Scout movement, the membership Of which increased by 01,000 in the British Empire "last year, at the Annual meeting of the Association yesterday.

This enrolment of millions" of

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

A HAPPIER STATE OF

AFFAIRS.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

which statistica are forty years.

available for

Recay, Jan. 28th. "The number of days of work lost youth of the world. despribed by in Great Britain through industrial His Majesty as a triumphant si deputee was last year the "loweat vance towards the promotion of for the whole of the period for international brotherhood. The Chief Scout, General Sir Robert Baden Powell, reported there were now 589,000 Boy Scouts in the British Empire while 1,712,000 boya were being trained in 42 countries registered with the international bureau, is ideals and methods of the Scout Movement.

SOCONY DEALINGS WITH

... SOVIET.

STATEMENT BY U.S.

GOVERNMENT.

(THROUGH KEITER'S 'AGENOT.]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27th.

From China, 138; Denmark, 121; Russia, 47; Netherlands, 35; Egypt and Poland, 2 each; Belgium, 91; Italy, 11; Latvia and Lithuania, 27 Argentina, 10.

Do Shell Transporta Waterbosta..... Banguots

aan Mining Ad... Lang kata (combined).. 10. (single) S'ha plorations ....... Shanghai Loans Rathe.......

85/. nom. $18) buy, 48t com. 180/- nama. Tim, 181 buy Tis, 10 buy. Tix 483 buy. Tis. 6.10 buy.

I buy. £17/8 day.

By Special Appointment

to

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1999 bay, & sa

bizy. $5.96

bay, Bael, 6.10/2083

CHAMPAGNE

Tronoh Mines...... H., & K. Whach... ELK. & W. Docks.. Chins Frovidente

Jongkow .......................

163 buy. New Engineering... .................

.Tu. .6 Shanghai Docks Ewo Cottons It is evident, therefore, states

Tla, 7.45

7.45 buy. Orientals** the report that there ta room for Shanghai Cotton (old)... Tia. 464 buy. - Theo 20 bay. voluntary preference on the part

favour Ek down

buy. Empire eggs. The report adds that E.K, Lands $641 buy... bay9 whereas just before the war Russia Shanghai Lauds...T. 130 boy. supplied 360 per cent. of the im Humphreys Estates......$142 buy. poris of eggs, and Denmark 20 per Hong Kong Healties.. 3 buy 601 cent., How Russia, Latvia and † H.K.

thuama send only a small pro- E.K. Tramways $36.10 buy..

$1 Dom portion, whilst Denmark, Poland, Peak Tram (old) ****** Netherlands, Belgium, and China have substantially increased their Star Farrier

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80 per cent. of trade from foreign sources.

(old) ..............$10% bay. Lo (now).....87) bay, & sel. ELK Electrica

169 bus. 8+1

The displacement of Russia by Denmark, Netherlands and Belgium Marso Electrios.......$64 buy..

sol, 1⁄2 sa involves more than the substitution Telephones.....3445 buy. 4.35/j za. of one source of supply for another. China Bus of nom. Eggs coming from these three Singapore Tractions....11/9 countries are generally of superior China Sugar) quality, grading and packing to Halabon Bagarmon1272

DOM,

those which were received from Canton Ices, bu Rassis in the pre-war days, and Comente (combined)...... $11.25 1 command prices in London.com- parable with those of English eggs. The further introduction of market ing and export regulations in the Irish Free State, Northern Island, South Africa and Australia in the last three years has caused a mark ed improvement in the eggs.re. ceived from these sources.

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SUKKUR BARRAGE.

ENGLISH FIRM TO SUPPLY THE SLUICE GATES.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

Rucsr. Jan. 27th. all signs pointed to happier times the Sukkur bartage on the river The contract for sluice gates for ahead for Great Britain. There Indus, the largest of its kind in were half a million more men and the world, has been placed by the women employed in insured trades

Arthur Steel Maitland, made this Tao Minister for Labour; Sit statement in a speech at Lichfield last night, in which he said that

an

than four years ago, and there was India Office, with an Ipswich firm. increase of 130,000,000 days The gate, 60 feet wide and 18 feet deep, will be fitted in each span worked...

Each gate will: of the barrage. weigh about 40 tons.

He warmly comended the joint efforts of the Trade Union Council and the influential body of em- ployers to establich industrial peace

baacs of comperation.

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R.A.F. ROUND-INDIA FLIGHT.

The report that the United States Shipping Board has ordered 24,000 tons of oil, presumably Rus-FIRST sian, from the Standard Oil Com- pany of New York, to be delivered to Near Eastern porta, has led the Government to deny that it thereby bas tacitly approved the trade rela- tions of the Standard Oil Compazy with the Soviet.

It is officially stated that the Gov- erament is in no way involved in the transaction,

the ordering of

oil is a matter of routine, which is carried out by the Shipping Board In making the contracts, the scource of the oil is not specified.

FIGHTING IN MEXICO.

FEDERALS AND REBELS KILLED.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE. ] "

New Youx, Jan. 7th. Reuter's correspondent at No gales, Arizona, states that the United States Consil from Mazasian has arrived at Nogales, and reports that a heavy engage ment occurred' laat week at Ixtlan, Jalisco, between Federal troops and robels..

In the course of the battle in which several hundred rebela, parti cipated, 37 rebels were killed, while fourteen Federal soldiers were shot dead.

ADMIRALTY APPOINT-

NINE THOUSAND MILES

COVERED.

xxxxx

1.

WITHOUT MISHAP.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

CALCUTTA, Jan. 27th. The RAF flying boats have the Hooghli, alighted safely on and they have now covered 5,000 of the 23,000 mues of their pro- gramme without mishap. It is the first round-India fight, which opens up possibilities of other Empire air routes."

The flight has touched inter alia at Karachi, Bombay, Mangalore, Colombo, Trincomales, Cocanada Chika Lake and Madras.

CHILE'S OIL...

NO CONCESSIONS TO ALIEN

*INTERESTS.

NEW PETROLEUM BILL.

[REUTER'S 'AMERICAN SERVICE.]

SANTIAGO DE Chie, Jan, 27th. According to the terms of the Government Petroleum Bill, u pending all concessions except to Chilean subjects, which has passed the Chamber and is now before the Senate, the applications of British and American interests for oil con- cessions in Southern Chile will be rejected.

MENTS.

The Bill authorises the Chilean [BRITISH WIZELKAR, SERVICE} Government, to explore the region on it's own account, reserving the Ruosy, Jan. 27th right, to grant concessions as it H.M. the King has approved the sees ita, after determining whether following appointments

there is oil, and if so, how much. Vice-Admiral William Fisher, to When the Government's Bill was be Lord Commissioner of the Ad introduced, applications for con miralty ads Deputy Chief of the cessions were pending from the Naval Staff, in succesmen to Vice- Standard Oil Company of -Now Admiral Vernon Haggard who is Jersey, the Pan-American and the to be Lord Commissioner of the Anglo-Mexican Oil Companies, the Admiralty and Chief Supplies and last named representing the Royal Transport, in succession to Vice Dutch and Mexican Eagle Com „Admiral Fisher.

paxies.

CABLE WIRELESS.

U.S. FIRM TO OPERATE. TO

EUROPE...

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

NEW YORK, Jan 27th. The Commercial Cable, Company confirm the reports that they are. taking over the Wireless Station at Sayville, Long Island, with the object of opening a wireless service to Europe,

As 500m as Arrangements are completed with the foreign Govern- ments, the Company will build. receiving stations in Europe.

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RUGBY, Jan 27th.

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Amsterdam.............

Berlin

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