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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY

WEATHER REPORT.

States, have raised, fears of isola-

tion and a week after the customs

Yesterday's weather repoit, fore- | project was announced Mr. A. HEN cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 3.15 p.m., atated:-

The anti-cyclone has weakened and moved eastward it is now cen- tral to the N.W, of the Bosins. The depression to the east of Tournane in stationary.

DERSON informed the House of Commons, that he had just return- ed from Paris where he found French opinion in a state of very natural perturbation." An irony of the situation has been that M. BRIAND; the most eminent pre tagonist of "United States," of Europe has had to be the lender of the opposition to the Austro- German move towards the very | objective which he himself has been recking. It is most fortunate, how. ever, that i statesman of M. BRAND's experience and breadth London Office: 53, Fleet Street, of vision should be representing

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Hose Kosa, MAY 21, 1931.

French opinion at this time. The moro ruthless and peremptory | methods of M, Poiscate, for ex- ample, would merely harden op- position. Mr. HENDERSON has, throughout, handled the situation

with admirable skill. He has seen

both sides of it, and has insisted on the need for a careful examina tion of the proposals and all that they involve. Germany and Aus- EUROPE AND THE AUSTRO-trin have protested that the 1922

GERMAN CUSTOMS UNION.

The course of the negotiations aris ing out of the Austro-German pro- posals for a custome union between those two countries show the vast difference between Europa to-day and in pre-war times. If any two ||major powers had decided, prior to

August, 1914, upon such a union it would have been announced as a fait accompli. 15 protest had

21, 1931.

News and Views ⭑

An American Tragedy.

★

The Children and "! Genesis,”

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, Mr. Epstein's sculpture Genesis," after having been seen by the elect at a West Tnd gallery,

Why did Mrs. Volgin, a Russian immigrant, shout her son and two daughters dond at Colorado Spr inge, U.S.A.? Reuters agmey gave the fallowing explanation: Her held in review of the great Bri- husband told the police that she | tish public in Manchesters' muni- had become distraught because her children were becoining Americanis cipal art gallery, where they queued ed, and were saying, 'Oh, yeah," up to see it. And it came to para "Aw, gee," and "O.K.” at every that the Moral Welfare Associn opportunity.

tion decided that children and |young people should not be allowed to see this lump of stone. Now the Manchester Watch Committee

Elegant Speeches.

Before the Budget was introduc ed Herr von Kardorff, Vice Presid. ent of the German Reichstag, was entertained at a smali luncheon in the House of Commons. His health by Mr. Ian Macpherson and the was proposed with great elegance Vice-President of the Reichstag, with equal elegance replied. After which, with pleasurable anticipa tion, the assembled company troop- el upstairs to hear the "Budget specch

Emy!...

So, with the United States, we

neceded in pacifying China. New markets were created and old ones fortified. Under the happy in fluence of our trade missions the Chinese soon learned to eat bread. The vast demand for wheat which arone bridged the gap which had Protocol was not being violated, previously existed between produe and Franco has said, equally' voci-ing and consuming power." 31. ferously, that it was. Fortunately, Randolf Churchill (aged 20) in his Mr. HENDERSON has persuaded they of his (imaginary) ten years

dictatorship of the Empire. protagonists to get this point clear- ed up by the World Court of Arbit- ration. No one expects that the question will be finally settled by a legal decision on a point about which jurist may reasonably take either view. The two Centre Powers termly act on ve customs union

and France is as obstinately op posed, and an academio ruling will bot be accepted by the loser,

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A Japanese Prima Donna in

London.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local.

A young couple from Canton committed suicide at a local hotel.