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SPAIN IN THROES OF TERRIBLE YACHTING

GENERAL RISING?

COMMUNICATION WITH MADRID BROKEN OFF:

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LONDON, Dec. 18.

DISASTER.

CLASS-BOTTOMED VESSEL DESTROYED BY FIRE.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930.

BRUSSELS SUGAR CONFERENCE.

GERMAN DEMAND FOR LARGER QUOTA..

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insistence of the German demands for a larger export quota.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 15. MIAI (F.), Dec. 15. So far there are three dead and The Sugar Conference is threaten- Since three o'clock all telegraphic nad telephonic communication be seven missing as the result of aed with a breakdown owing to the tween London and Madrid and else-fire which broke out on board the where in Spain has proved fruit acht Eureka II. 15 miles from here. There were 135 people on board the yacht, which was fitted with a glass bottom to permit a view of the tropical submarine vegetation.

lens.

Madrid Reported Quiot,

MADRID, Dec. 15. Two military biplanes flew over the city this morning dropping.pro- clamations addressed to the soldiers that tho ropublican movement which had broken out was support. ed by the army and the people.

"If there is any resistance, the barracks will be bombarded within an hour.

The Rapublican elementa here de- elare that the execution of the two

The fire broke out yesterday afternoon,

The passengers, who became panic-stricken, rushed up and down! the deck, fearing to jump into the shark-infested sea.

The explosion of an oil tank,. however, indicated that the yacht was doomed, and a scoond explo sion hurled the survivors overboard. Another yacht, the Dorothea,

ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE:

SATIONS" WITH PREMIER.

EGYPTIAN MILLS, LIMITED.

HINDU-MOSLEM "CONVER-COMPANY HANDICAPPED BY

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·FALLING VALUES.

[THLOVEN REUTER'B AUENDY.)

MAHARAJA REPLIES UNEMPLOYMENT IN

TO MR. CHURCHILL.

CERTAIN WAY TO LOSE INDIA.

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LONDON, DEC. 14. The Maharajah of Bikaner, in a

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AMERICA

APPROPRIATION FOR RELIEF WORK. "

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, A more poncoful situation as

LONDON, Dec. 16. RUGBY, Dec. 14,

The first report of the combined About 30 Hindu and Moslem do Egyptian Mills, Limited, represent

ence drove to the Prime Minister's to September 30. AN

3,000,000 spindles, covers 17 months Churchill's speech on Thursday, meat relief is indicated by the action of the joint conference of legten to the Round Table Confer-3,800,000, with an aggregate of atatement in reply to Mr. Winston regards legislation for unemploy official country residence at Che- The Directors regret that the nake: "Does anybody in his senses Senators and members of the Hauss quers yesterday afternoon to con-world-wide fade depression and in believe that articulato India, em of Representatives in agreeing to

tensive competition have turned margins into losses. The Board's bracing the great majority of think eliminate the amendment to tho strenuous efforts to stabilizo prices

Emergency Public Works Bill, which would have doprived Presi-

EGYPT INCREASES SUGAR tinue their discussions upon the

question of minority safeguarde, DUTY.

This is regarded as a matter SCHEME TO CREATE A GOVT which the communities concerned must themselves settle, but the MONOPOLY.

Prime Minister's personal assist ance in the task of conciliation has been at their disposal in recent meetings.ne

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CAIRO, Dev. 14.

The delegates yesterday remain- The sugar import duty has been increased from 440 to 700 piastresed at Chequers until the ovening,

when they returned to London. per ton,

No statement was issued, but it

are being arranged.

The Council of Ministers has

to: a

did not meet with the success the ing people, can be content with Company had hoped, and from its permanent subordination inception it had had to contend bureaucratic system of Govern dent Hoover of the power to allo with falling cotton yarn values,

NATIONAL SPORTING

CLUB?..

"MONDAY NIGHTS " AGAIN,

ment, or can be held in subjection cute the money appropriated. by a policy of blood and iron " The members of the conference The Maharajah says that the further agreed to an appropriation

of 8118,000,000,

members of the Round Table Con- ference have reached the conclu sion that the "great dynamic force

DROWNING.

For some time it has been known stirring India" should be incorpor HUSBAND SHE SAVED FROM that there was a movement to startated in a federal constitution in a new National Sporting Club in which British India should be link

was addressed to a large number of

officers was the signal for a general hastened to the scene and rescued I also decided on collaboration with is understood that further meetings London, and Inat month a lettered with the Statega, "but we are

rising, and the representatives of

a new Government have been ap- pointed everywhere.

Madrid is quiet, and everything in normal except for the absence of the newspapers and the presence of numerous police..

The authorities regard the Janficta 48 a mere bluff.

HENDAYE, Dec. 14. A message from Madrid states

✦ hat Colonel Galan (who was enn. tenced to four years imprisonment for attempting acoup d'etat in 1020), and Captain Salinas, two of the lenders of the abortive, re-

volt at Jaca, were court-martialled,

sentenced to death and executed.

Other officers were sentenced to life terms of "imprisonment.

General Strike Throughout Spain,

LATER,

It is believed that a general strike may be proclaimed through, out Spais. Hence the Government Ja contemplating martial-law, `

Poutical Leaders Arrested. It is reported that the ex-Minis ter for War, Señor Zamora, who is now leader of the Moderate Re publicans,

many of the people struggling in

the water.

The Eureka II. with her glass bottom smashed quickly sank.

PROTECTING EGYPTIAN

INDUSTRIES.

SAFEGUARDING AGAINST SOVIET DUMPING.

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Cano, Dee, 15... The Premier, Sidky Pasha, in the! coutso of an interview, declared"

that steps had been taken to pro- tect Egyptian products against Soviet dumping.

He said that he hoped the "con- versations?! with the American Minister would result satisfactorily regarding the high American tariffs against Egyptian cotton and onions.

He asserted that Egypt was able to satisfy her own sugar require ments. The new import duty would not touch the consumer, but would afford the necessary frotection.

4 Government monopoly.

sugar company in order to create

Excise Duty. Also Increased.

Cano, Dec. 15.

In addition to the import duty the Government has increased the excise duty from 225 to 300 piastres per ton in order to protect 28,000 workers employed in the Jocal súgar industry.

No company will be allowed to in- crease prices until it has reached

BRITISH DYESTUFFS ACT. |

Originator of the Conference. The delegates attending the Con- ference were the guests of Sir John and Lady, Simon at a luncheon at Wadham College, Oxford, to-day.

people requesting them to give told if we attain our purpose India their opinion as to whether it would will be handed over to a handful be nossible for a powerful group of of wild men who will finally, old members of the National Sport- ing Club to resurrect the club on plunge India into Chinese con the old Monday night lines.

It is explained that the present administrators of the National

fusion."

AUTHORESS OF BOOK THAT PROVOKED CONTROVERSY.

Mise Joan Lowell, the American authoress, who won a world-wide". The Maharajah of Bikaner says reputation with her book “The Thirty-eight years ago Bir John Sporting Club havo departed appre that if these dire results followed Cradle of the Deep," has obtained einbly from traditional lines, and the chief sufferers would be the divorce in Mexico from her hus- it is added that a number of its Princes and the people of India, band, Mr. Thompson Buchanan, o members are prepared to finusco a scheme that will have for its object while for every British interest In proposing the success of the the creation of a National Sport-imperilled Indian interests would grounds of incompatibility of tem Conference, Sir John Simon recalling Club to be run by members for suffer tenfold.

members.

was a Scholar at Wadham, and lunch was served a the Great

Hall,

"

an agreement in connection withed with gratification that it was a the Government monoply as regards letter from himself to the Prime maximum and minimum prices. Minister which contained the pro- posal that resulted in the Confer ence now taking place, He added: "You and I and all who study the Indian problem closely realise how much has to be done to translate general expressions into workable schemes. But what matters most of all is the spirit in which the work is undertaken, for no solution can ever be attained by a language of denunciation or by acts of violence,

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HOUSE OF LORDS: ATTEMPT

AT CONTINUANCE,

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Rugby, Dee, 15. The Government having deuid- ed not to renew the Dyestuffs Act, which was

passed for

a period of ten years and is due to expire next month, the House of Lorda to-day attempt edito-secure its continuance.-

Ruaur, Dec. 15.

and Señor Miguel ROYAL SHOOTING PARTY. This attempt will mean amending their meeting...

Maura, the famous Conservative leader, have been arrested at Madrid.

General Uprising Planned. ¿

MADRID, Dec. 14.. According to a report from Hen- daye, martial-law will shortly be proclaimed throughout Spain.

The Government has issued s statement to the effect that the revolt in Jaen was a prelude to a general uprising throughout Spain

and warns people to expect 'storn measures.

Rebel Leadora Executed.

MADRID, Dec. 15. The fate of the rebel leaders is now officially disclosed.

HIS MAJESTY ENJOYS GOOD DAY'S SPORT.

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Rudsy, Dec. 34. H.M. the King, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and H.R.H. Prince Arthur

of Connaught had an excellent day's sport on Saturday, when, in ano winter weather, they shot over the covers in Windsor Great Park, driving back to London in the

evening.

ing the schedule of the Expiring Iawa Continuance Bill,

In the House of Commonsan effort which also included the Dyestuffs Act in the schedule of the bill for a period of five years failed on division by 30 votes.

The amendment will probably he

The proposal will be made in the House, of Lords that the Act will be repowed for a further twelve months only with the view that meanwhile there may be a full and impartial investigation into the LONDON'S AIRCRAFT LAND-state of the dya industry,

·ING ACCOMMODATION. UTILISING ROOFS OF BUILD INGS AND THE THAMES.

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Rugby, Dec. 34, The General Purposes' Committee of the London County Council states that the question of provid-

carried and will be sent back for reconsideration: by the House of Commons:

GREAT BRITAIN'S NAVAL CONSTRUCTION.

Colonel Galan and Captain Manuel Garcia were executed, and Captain Salinas and Lieutenant Muniz and Lieutenant Gilbert were sentenced to imprisonment for life. Events at Java Narrated in Govern-aircraft landing accommodation SPREAD WITHIN LIMITS OF

ment Note,

LATER

The Government has issued a long Nate dealing with the events at Jaca.:

in Central London is receiving care- ful consideration,

The Committee was recently re questod by the Council to consider the practicability of utilising for. garage and other accommodation for air machines in Central London the river Thames, roofs of large buildings and the roofs of other

TREATY

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RUGBY, Doc. 14 The First Lord of the Admiralty," Mr. A. V. Alexander, epeaking at

Members' Complaint,

There is obviously no room for

two National Sporting Clubs in London, and it is also to be doubt ed whether one formed now could adopt that name.

"Britain would` suffer some loss; we should lose our all.".

Now York dramatist, on

perament.

the

The Cradle of the Deep"-the English edition was entitled "Child He asks: "Is it within the bounds of the Deep"-described Mim of reason that we, with our eyes Lowell's life as a child at sea in a open, shall throw our country into windjammer. It roused a furious controversy, in America. It was the molting pot ?"

Members and former members of the famous organisation which for so many years had its head quarters at Covent Garden, and in the basement of whose build. ing so many great fights were to cabin and confine the tremendous staged, have professed themselves national forces stirring her to her to be disantisfied with what they depths in a non-National Govern- called a change of policy that

Ho declares, that a certain way denounced as an autobiographical calculated to bring about the ultiboax. mate loss of India, is "to attempt Sailors said that the storms she described could not have blown in those latitudes, and that the cargoes she mentioned nerer. came from those.. ports.

er derided her They nautical terms.

camo into existence when tomment, which she has outgrown.” porary premies had to be sought. in Soho

Provincial Contests,

India as`s Pillar of the Commonwealth.

On

the other hand, Miss Lowoll

The informal discussion between leading British Indian delegates to the Indian Round Table Conference

They complained, too, that the inconsultation with the Prime scheme to lease large and costly

On the contrary, the way to re-maintained that her book was real- Minister with a view to reaching places like Dorchester House was tain Tadia under the Crown is for ly true, and famous eritics and sen agreement on the Hindu-Moslem far too elaborato, and that any differences on the communal quas project to run a club on the lines the British through Parliament to writers supported her claim. tion were not resumed yesterday.

of the great athletic clubs of the reject all doubts and fears" and Miss Lowell is the doughter at a No time has been fixed for resum United States, or that saltered recognise the strength of the retired sa captain, Nicholas Wag-

the rules that women would be ad In these circumstances it is 'ermitted to membership as well as righteous forces they themselvesner, who lives in Los Angeles. She pected that the next step will be man, was doomed to failure. created, and, with the spirit of married Mr. Buchanan after saving to consider the draft report which

courage and bold imagination and him from drowning. After she left. has been propářed by its Chairman, Mr, Arthur Henderson.

Since leaving Covent Garden liberality worthy of a great people, the sea she earned, her living as a The Report, which was circulated some months ago the National to members of the Sub-Committee Sporting Club has perhaps failed place themselves at the head of the telephone girl, waitress, nurse, yesterday, same up the views ex-to retain its old prominence, and new India and secure her content typist and film notrees. She took pressed by its members during the this year, as it had no boxing hall.

ment by a national system of Gov. Fart in the Chaplin film, "The recent discussions,

of ite 'awr, it was forced to enter The Plenary Sessions will prob- into partnership with boxing pre-ernment in a stable federal system. Gold Rush." ably be held to-morrow, and will moters in the provinces to stage its That, policy was applied to Canada, it is expected, remit to the, Federal contests for the Lonsdale belts,

and South Africa, which were how Structure Sub-Committee for report. The present manager of the pillars of the Commonwealth," further important questions com National Sporting Club is Mr. prised in the 12 heads of the subject Lionel Bettinson, a son of the late prepared by Lord Sankey. These Mr. Frggy" Hettinson, who was include the character, powers and one of the founders, and when he responsibilities of the Federal was recently spoken to, he stated

Executive, which raises issues of

considerable difficulty.

Queen Empress Entertains Indian Ladies,

RUGBY, Dec. 15. The Queen Empreis will receive the wives and daughters of the Indian delegates to the Round Table Conference at Buckingham Palace this afternoon.

The function will be quite formal.

NEW. HOSPITAL FOR NERVES.

FIRST OF ITS KIND IN ENGLAND.

An experiment which will have

that he had no knowledge of the

proposal, to start a new club,

Early xt week, however, ho continued, "I hope to be in a position to indicate the building where we shall resume our Mon- day night programmes.

It is impossible to say more at the moment, but we have secured a place where the National Sporting Clob will again promote contesta

EYEBROW GIRLS WARNED.

DANGER TO HAIR IN QUEST OF BEAUTY.

A warning to women and girls of the dangers of injuring their hair in the quest for beauty was

The Note says that a party of offeers and some soldiers and pen souts" surprised the authorities on buildings in the streets where the Rotherham, claimed as an advant-far-reaching effects and which may given by Professor. H. J. Harper-

:

age of the London Naval Treaty revolutionise the whole treatment Roberts, of Liverpool, in a lecture the right of the lath inst,, aud skyline is sufficiently level for the that the Government could spread of nervous discrders In this at the London College of Phy called out the troops on the pretext construction of superstructure platit building programme within the country, was inaugurated last siology. tanta Republic had beeu proclaim forms for the taking off and alight units of the treaty over five years, month when Frincess Helens So great is woman's desire to

ing of light aircraft. ed throughout Spain:"

and so equal employment of inbour Victoria opened the Woodside improve her beauty," said Afr and capital in the industries con- Nerve Hospital at Muswell Hill Harper Roberts, that she will cerned. He thought one cruiser (N. 10)

suffer any indignity and. take any would be built at Birkenhead and is the first hospital of its kind risks. two destroyers on the Clyde..

The loyal troops and gendarmes | resisted and killed three rebels, but

the latter assorted themselves and BRITAIN'S FILM INDUSTRY, formed a Revolutionary Committee, cut communications and reized arms and uniforms for their civilian ad- herente.

This motley force advanced on Huesca in motor lorries

Soon after dawn on the 13th inst., however, when ten miles from Huesca, the rebel "army " encoun- tered the Government troops, in- eluding artillery, which opened fire. The rebels flod, leaving behind two dead and 25 wounded and a quantity al difles and working guns

LARI

REMARKABLE ADVANCE IN

SIX YEARS.

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Ruany, Dec. 15,

AMERICAN BANK FAILURES.

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in England, and it has been- estab- "The practice of shaping the lished in the public interest for eye-brows is the latest craze among the treatment by the latest and most women. If the process is continu Scientific methods of those functioned for some time and the hair re- al nervous and kindred disordera plucked indefinitely, what is going to which, by reason of the stresses to happen when the fashion wings of modern life, all classes of society round again! It is going to be a appear to be increasingly subject shock to the smart woman when she It will meet the needs of people finds that she has permanently des with limited incomes, who have un troyed some of the hair." til now had practically no placo Carling the hair with pins or where they can receive adequate waving irons was declared by Mr. treatment, since theirs is not a Harper-Roberts as dangerous, physical trouble for treatment in j The pins are all right when ordinary general homital or ured with discretion The enid,

by dtaid With in a mund t'vans Medals

La serious abuse, because in order to get a tight curl the strain on the roote often resulte 'in the hair belug torn from the akin,

The Daily Herald, commenting on the recent progress of the British film industry, and on the fact that THREE SMALL PROVINCIAL 120 feature pictures are, at a cost

INSTITUTIONS CLOSE. of £1,350,000, to be made next your. points out that of this sum

"[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE] £1,000,000 will be paid to workers.

The Z

route your CORATION

"NEW" "TURK, Dec 14 The firing squad, which exccuted remarkable advanco during the Inat the leaders in the Spanish revolt at six years partly, to the 1027 Film The radyou the small provincial

There is accommodation at Wood Jaca were chosen from a regiment Act, but chiefly to the energy and banka continues, whose loyalty had been suspected ability of the men and women in Three more have closed in the side for thirty women and twenty The soldiers carried out their control, and emphasises their re Middle West, including the State men. It is interesting to note that orders.

sponsibilities to provide intelligent Bank of Elroy (in Wisconsin), more women than men suffer from The twa officers who were entertainment free from shoddy where it is stated that $400,000 the milder forms of nervous die. executed died bravely.

morality and faleo human values." were deposited.

institution.

orders.

Dyeing is another danger. Woman's hair to-day is badly in need of a restoure.”

YES!

Two hundred thousand copies of "The Cradle of the Deep" wera sold in five weeks in America..

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