1932-11-16 — Page 9

LATEST

NEW AIR-MAIL ROUTES

SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA NEXT YEAR

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it was hoped would be undertaken

BAN ON BRITISH SILVER

LATEST EDICT IN 'SOUTH AFRICA

(THROEGH RECTED'S AGENCY.]

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1932.

CABLE

CAPE TOWN,, Nov. 13. BRITISH silver will not he re

cognised as legal currency in !

MR. ROOSEVELT AND WAR DEBT ISSUE

WILLING TO CONFER WITH MR. HOOVER

(REUTER'S AMERICAN BARVICE]

AND

LONDON DINNER INCIDENT

CALL FOR TOAST OF U.S.S.R.

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AIR-MAIL NEWS

BOOM IN BRITISH CARS

TYPHOON HITS JAPAN

RHODESIA BUYS £25,000 WORTH

LOSS OF LIFE AND DAMAGE TO PROPERTY

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London, Oct. 20.--British cars

{THROUGH REUTER'S 'ACRNCY]

MINISTER OF WAR AT HANGCHOW

FOR INSPECTION OF AVIATION SCHOOL

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Tosro, Nov. 15.

NANKING, Nov. 15. London, Oct. 22.—Át, a dinner arranged by the Society for Cul-

show that dainage and casual HO YING CHING, Minister of tural Relations between the Pea are booming in Rhodesia as a re- OFFICIAL figures so lar compiled

War, this morning left, for night'a ples of the British Commonwealthsult of that country's departure ties in eastern Japan caused by

typhoon Include Hangchow, by motor-ear, to inspech. and the U.S.S.B. for the benefit of from the gold standard (reports last those who have visited Russia, the Houter from Bulawayo). Not a twenty-six dead, twenty-ave injur the Government Aviation School

ed, twenty-six missing and wides chairman-Mrs. E. R. Mansell-

pread damage to houses, bridges

were completely In Tokyo three people were kill wrecked, while 9,400 were partially wrecked and 30,500 inundated.

the last three etc.

ed, 101 houses

Wide Area Affected.

New York, Nor. 15, London, Oct. 2-The Director of 1

COVERNOR Franklin D. Rocse- Civil Aviation said yesterday tint

velt. President-elect, telegraph, it was confidently hoped the Aus tralian air mail would be establish- South Africa after November 1, ci to President Hoover yesterday nowing to wholesale importation that he would be, delighted to con- ed during 1933. There "would pro-† Ibly be joint operation by Impery following disparities in exchange fer in Washington on the War Debt Moullin, concluded an eulogy of single American car has been sold al Airways and an Indian Campany, which have deprived the raint of question bat added he was unable conditions in Itussin by calling on in Salisbury in

the U.S.S.R. and eo fenfirm their] between Karachi and Singapore, any profit made by striking their at present, to suggest a definite dinte then to tract stof months. During the period Septem. as he was going to Warm Springs, ideala in regard to the Soviet Un.ber to December of last year, which and the rest of the eastern section own silver coins.

Georgia, for a holiday and poli-ion. There was a dead silence for were the first threa months follow a moment, and then about a quaring the Colony's adoption of sterl tical conferences late in the presentter of the people present, all talking currency, the number of cars

TOKYO, Nov, 15.' ing excitedly, rose in a bewildered imported from Britain was 31, from

Canada 82, from the Union. 07 and A very severe typhoon has way.

They were lifting their glasses, from the U.8. 59. During the struck the Pacific coast of Japau. when Sir James Purves-Stewart, the eight months from January to and is raging over an astonishing- physician, who was sitting opposite August of this year, however, the ly wide area. Considerable loss of M, Mansell-Moulin, called out, figures show a remarkable change, life and dainags to property is "Gentleman, the King. There In that "period 148 care were im- feared, but information is scanty! was a roar of cheering, and the reported to the Colony from Britain, owing to the early breakdown of mainder of the company, who had 20 from Canada, 28 from the Un- communications. previously remained scatod, jumped ion and 27 from the U.SA. to their foot, lifted their glasses and, amid a storms of bees and hisses, drank the loyai toast.

by Australian Intereats.

He also discussed the possibilities of an Atlantic service. On the Newfoundland route, he said, ther

W.XM

THE OTTAWA AGREEMENTS

MR. MELLON ON THE WORLD SITUATION

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pretailing west wind and the possibility of accurate weather Forecasts small. As to the sub. Arc tie route aerose Greenland there! was considerable difference of opin-j jon. It would permit 500-mile stages, but it would involve elabor-} ate and expensive ground organiza- Lien. Even then, he was danhtful! whether regular operation through- out the year would be possible. The only advantage of the route by way American Ambassador, speaking of of Lisbon, the Azares and Bermuda utawa at Manchester on Oct. 20,

better that it offered

said: Our first coneer must be the It was weather conditions.

to store prosperity within our longest route and involved a sen crossing of 2,075 miles, Another w borders and build up the con

sumption capacity of people.

was

suggestion was to make the cross-

LONDON, Oct. 21.

Mr. Andrew W. Mellon, the

our own

If we in America can

do

at

month.

fle will telephone in President floover the date of his departure, however, and added, he was confer ring with Democrat leaders of the present Congress at Warm Springs, He hoped President Hoover would see them at his earliest opportunity because in the last nonlysis the immediate question raised by the British and French and other Notes

creates a responsibility which rests upou those now vested with execu- tive legislative authority."

Once

New York Bankers Anxious.

at.

time to

New York, Later, Mr. Hoover has received Mr ing by way of the Cape Verde Ishat by means of our tariff and

Roosevelt's reply. laids to the West Indies to take

you ran do the same ing for Great

Mr. Hoover's staff will not com- advantage of the prevailing easter- Britain by your agreements ly winds and to fly eastwards on the Great Circle courses from New Onwa, then, fet as wish each other ment on the reply but think he is Ault Mr. foundland, where there was a pre-well and outer upon a friendly perfectly willing to hold a confer vailing westerly wind. When the race to see which can do most for

Meanwhile, many prominent Great Circle route had been estab-our usa people, knowing that in Roosevelt.

euch country' increased pro-perity lished, as it would eventually best inevitably have a favourable Americans are beginning to insist and when the route across Canada effect on the other mud on the rest on the urgency ef the situation. was operating, there would be an of the world al We all be Lending New York bankers are consent extension arrow the Pacific to make sorry to lose some of our trade with anxious that. Congress this the shortest way from Europe you tempararily; but, after all, without delay to a calling down of to the Far East.

world currents in trade, as in other the obligations to within the pay. Referring to air subsidies, he matters, buve a way of adjustinging capacity of debtors.

If we can show further leniency printed out that last year Ct. Bri- themselves nod the trade which we tain paid only 520,000 in subsidy, may lose for the time, being as the it is in the interests of the Ameri whereas the indirect subsidies of result of these agreements will not, can taxpayer," says the Washing the United States amounted to in the end, be worth nearly so much ton Star," and Congress is unlike. £3,500,000; France paid £1,580,000; to us as a mere prosperous Greatly to turn n deaf ear." fiermany. 2020,000; Italy £768,000: Britain as a customer." Holland £175,000; Belgium

Poland,

and £163,000;

143,000: Carcho-Slovakin £137,000,

4

ECONOMIC WAR INTENSIFIED

DRASTIC FREE STATE

TARIFFS +

(Special Air-Mail Service)

re-

World Economic Conference. On the subject of the World Economic Conference, he said: "America has no desire to place undue restrictions on the scope of the World Economic Conference; and in excluding from discussion tariff rates and other falters over which Congress alone has final jurisdiction, we are merely giving warning in advance against raising. hopes which cannot possibly be

realised."

DESTROYING THE MOSQUITO

YOUNG FRENCH GIRL'S INVENTION

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Other points he made were:

LONDON, Oel. 23. "The rapid and abnormal increase in production which the war made The machine for attracting and necessary and out of which America destroying mosquitoes by the mil has been sometimes accused of pro-lion, which hag already made it fiting, is the direct cause of most of inventor, n young French girl, London, Oct. 20.-At the opening of the Dail in Dublin on our troubles to-day especially in famous was indirectly the result of Oct, 19, drastic new Irish tariffs agriculture and basic raw materia literary inspiration. Germaine were announced and an intensifica-al. The present economic crisis is, Gourdon, determined to spend her summer holidays a year ago in the tion of the economic: war between in part, the price we pay for war. the Free State and the United The United States provides a mar marsh land of the Camargue, to see Kingdon seems therefore the most ket for nine-tenths of all the pro- the places of which Marie Gasquet probable next development in the ducts of American industry." countries' dispute. The new duties Stage Set for Spurt in Trade. -varying from 50 to 15 per cent. with reductions for Imperiai pro- The Ottawa Agreements have wide already len put into force by ference are imposed on

range

1

Sir James Purves-Stewart, who was the principal speaker, referred the to the medical work in U.S.S.R., and expressed qualified approval of the conditions. "But," he concluded, "go to Russia and ace for yourselves, and you will come back more proud than ever! before that you belong to, this great country."

In Hong Kong

To-Day

FAIR

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, 188ʊED BY THE ROYAL OBERVATORY, AT 5.15

P.M., STATED:-

THE ANTI-CYCLONE OVER N. THX CHINA IS STRENGTHEN (NO,

SITUATED TO THR

TYPHOON

IS

E.N.E. OF TOKYO, MOVING N.E. LOCAL FORECAST:-N.E. WINDA, Fats; FAIR,

DOCTOR ATTACKS THE B.M.A.

QUESTION OF PROFIT FROM INVENTIONS

(Special Airmail Service)

speaks in her book; but was driven from the district by mos quitoes. She, therefore, et herself to study the destruction of this post and she was assisted by the fact of manufactured articles, the Donvinsons and the British that her father a scientist and a yarus spectacles and eyeglasses, Parliament will follow suit within specialist in ultra-violet rays, had silver. broate, gun-metal goods, a week or two. Now that manufac-noticed how these rays attracted in-genrch Council, the British Medical pipra, picture frames etc. Presi turers and merchants of the Empire sects and eventually she devised a as regards sort of combination of lamp and dent de Valera is understood to know where they ar have received a renewed assurance duties and preferences, and that melion pump with which, this sum- of the support of the Irish Labour they can expect these conditions to mer, she was able to destroy some Party, whose seven members hold remain unchanged for a period of thing like 140,000,000 mosquitoes ined them of their just reward not the balance of power in the Dail. five years, the stage is set for a spurt in trade, which should com- municate itself to the rest of the world if financial and political cir- The essential cumstances permit.

* PROSPERITY WILL is that there has been a

COME"

MR. WALTER RUNCIMAN OPTIMISTIC

(Special Air-Mail Service)

lowering af tariffs or increased pre-· ferences on a very large range of British exports to other parts of the Empire, and Britain's freedom to bargain with foreign countries remains unimpaired or the whole range of manufactured goods.

twenty-one niglite.

EINSTEIN GOING TO

'AMERICA

APPOINTED HEAD OF MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL

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London, Oct. 21. A remarkable, Attack on the British Medical As sociation and on the "high priests of medicino." was made to-day by Bir Ernest Graham-Little, M.P. for the University of London and n well-known physician. Sir Ernest strongly denounced "the trade un- on Lyranny" of the Medical Re Association and the two Royal Col leges of Physicians, and Surgeons towards the researches of private individuals which, he said, depriv

only of praise but of profit.

Sir Ronald Ross, Referring to the work of Sir Nondid Ross, whose discovery of the cause of malaria saved thousands of lives, Bir Ernest said: "He, who revolutionised life in the tropics, in later life approached such a de gree of poverty, as to be forced to sell the MS. of his epoch-making work. Yet large sums of money are now-spent-in-subsidising research which seldom leads to important discoveries and, in addition, me dical inventors are supposed by a silly custom not to make a profit from their inventions,

Proft from Inventions,

The inconsistency of the Medical

would." He added: "I have had

LONDON. Oct. 23, a life-long connection with ship.

The Central News says that Dr. building and ship management. Albert Einstein, who many regard London, Oct. 21,--An optimistic There is to more competitive busins the greatest living mathemati attitude to the trade depression and ness. We don't get the benefit of gian, has accepted a life appoints Reach Commeil in seeking to to the future of the shipping in protective tariffe, and yet through ment us head of the School of dustry in particular, was adopted out recurring epochs they have mathematics of the New Institute prevent individual scientific work by Mr. Walter Runciman in a maintained their prosperity, their for advanced study created in 1030 ere from reaping remuneration speech on Oct 20 when he opened eminence it science and mechanica by a grant of £1,000,000 from Mr. from their inventions while them thenow headquarters of the la: I know it is very foolish to pro- Louis Bamborgor and Mrs. Felix selves absorbing very large sums of public money for subsidised re- corporated Society of Auctioneers phesy, but I do not mind taking Futd, former owners of the L. Bam- and Landed Property Agents. He the risk-of-saying that when the berger & Co.'s Nowark departmen- search said the speaker was criti- oled by a departmental-committes, said: "If we continue to take the recovery does come upbuilding tal store. right course, if we maintain that will be in the very forefront, and As hond of the mathematics, de-nnd it has become a burning ques same spirit, if we are as enterpris if the same spirit of enterprise is partment of the new university, Dr. tion whether the nation is getting ing as our forbears, if our inven- displayed in other directions there Einstein will-live there from-Det anything like a return for the tive genius is as inexhaustible as will be the same resulta. For this ber to April, returning each sum- money which it spends on subsidis- | theirs, there is no reason why we reason and because I have great mer to his home near Berlin for a ing research.

hould mot emerge from this depres faith in the staying power of our period of rens and private study. sion relatively stronger than wa people, I think it can be said al- The ideal of this institute is that entered into it. Invention was an though from my position as Fresi It should be a free socioly of element of the first importance in dent of the Board of Trade I do scholars-free, because mature per- the return to British prosperity not see signs of an immediate resons animated by intellectual pur when it came, as inevitably it covery, I am absolutely certain that suits must be left to purade their

"own" 'orida' in their own way;" (Continued as foot of next Column) recovery will"come,”

|

-As, moreover, those engaged in preventive medicine flud, their re muneration considerably less than those engaged in practice the most nanbitious men and women are not attracted by it, and this is a posi- tion which it is imperative to alter

NEW EDITOR FOR

PUNCH"

E V. KNOX SUCCEEDS SIR O. SEAMAN

(Special Air-Mail Service)

London, Oct. 21.-Sir Owen Sen mat is retiring from the editorship of "Punch." after a tenure lasting twenty six years, and thirty-five years of staff connection with the paper. He is the author of several volumes of light verse, and annona ces that he will continue to write, but not his reminiscences.

His successor, Mr. E. V. Kunx, "Evoo" is whose pen-name of familiar to readers of "Punch" is ason of Dr. E. A. Knox, à former Bishop of Manchester.

there.

Cheng Tien Hui, vice-Minister arrived at Hangehow last night for an inspection of the local tribunals. of Justice, is reported to have

T. V. SOONG RETICENT

?

REGARDING HANKOW

CONFERENCE

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NANKING, NOV. 15.

The violent storm swept in last night from the Pacific after having pursued a semi-circular path from the east coast of the Philippines, and within a brief while had wreck-i ed telegraph and telephone lines and had caused the suspension of MR. T. V. SOONG arrived here from Hangchow this morning the main railway between Tokyo to attend the Executive Yuan and Osaka.

meeting.

Landslide Disaster.

When interviewed, Mr. Soong As far as can be gathered, at stated that Chang Hsueh Linng least seven Prefectures are 'experi- might return. to Peiping by pr encing winds of high velocity, but to-day if weather conditions per although much damage is feared, mitted. Mr. Boong declared that I he could not disclose the result of details are not yet available.

Two serious disasters have been the recent political conversations reported up to the present moment. at Hankow between Chang Houch

Chiang Kai In Yokolama a big landslide oc- Liang and curred, hundreds of tons of earth beyond stating that they concerned crashing down from a hillside and the political situation in North burying thirty houses,

Furious efforts are being made in an effort to save inmates who many be still alive in the ruins although unable to get out. Three bodies dave been recovered by the search

parties.

China.

Shok,

collapse of a house caused an out- break of fire, which fanned by the tempeat, swept through the whole district. Five hundred houses were Numazu Fire Terror.

destroyed by the blaze, and hun- In Numazu, some fifty miles to dreds of people have been rendered the south-west of Yokohama, the homeless No details of casualties

(Continued on next column.) are yet available.

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