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CONTINENTAL LETTER
Political Uncertainty in France: Negro Boxer's i
Victory: Million Unemployed in Italy; Hitler in Conference; Trotzki's Tragedy:" Strange Strike at Prague: Big Storm at Lisbon
PARIS
January 18, The second interview came even more unexpectedly between Hitler Paris, January 17-The Boncour and Hugenburg, the loader of the Government's fate is still in the National People's Party. Accord- balance ne a result of the Cabinet'sing to reports from a reliable final approval of the Finance privaba source, Adolf Hitler called Minister's proposals for balancing and discussed with him the poli- on Herr Hugenburg this afternoon the budget on which to-day'a
tical situation. On both sides, morning papere carry extensive however, the strictest dicrotion is comments.
has been going on between the two being maintained regarding what men and whether anything definite was agreed upon.
IMPERSONATING A POLICE OFFICER
CHINESE SENTENCED
Sentence of three months' hard! labour was imposed by Mr. Wynne- Jones at Central Magistracy yes. terday on a Chinese who was found guilty on a charge of having lm personated a police officer.
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Detective - Sergeant Murphy ap peared for the prosecution and the defendant was represented by Mr. TROPICAL MEDICINE. M. A. da Silva.
According to the prosecution, the defendant was stated to have visit- od the second foor of No. 8, Sai 14, and after searching the three Street, on the evening of January cubicles on the premises, told the occupants that he was looking for opium.
"
Sir A. Chamberlain's Appeal
THE PROBLEM OF MALARIA
THE CARAVAN '
ROBBERY
FURTHER LOSS REPORTED
In conticction with the robbery at The Caravan," &T Oriental goods shop on the ground floor of the Feninsula Hotel in which about 85,000 worth of property was stolen, a further loss of about $1,000 has been reported to the Police.
bery was first discovered by the It will be recalled that the` rob- manager, Mr. C. M. Hall, at about 10 o'clock on Sunday morning when approximately 190 rings of various designs and settings were stolen..
Police were immediately informe-
Le Nouvelle and other papers se to the Government are the Daly ones to express unqualified approval of M. Cheron's drastic schome which, they insist, present It was already noticed during the only possible exit from the the Lappé election campaign that rather muddled financial situation. a tacit understanding existed be All other papers including Letween the National Socialista and Matin, forecast serious conflicta ze the Hugenberg party to abstain a result of the Finance Minister's from such extremely bitter and insistance upon paring down the violent attacks on each other as salaries of the civil servants and marked the inst general elections. the war pensions oven though the" plan was "sugar-ovated" with the to this suggestion is, however, not Whether Hitler lenta willing ear announcement of the planned in known, but in circles usually well stitution of a state lottery. The informed as to his intentions, it urgans of the Right take violent is again stressed that he is ro- exception, to the 700,000,000 Francs solved, come what mas, to continue reduction in the defence estimates, the attitude of determined oppo- while the Socialist organs em-aition to the present Government. phasize the need to reduce the army estimates still further.
In these circumstances it is dif. feult to see how the Government pects to mobilize in the Chamber a majority for M. Cheron's pro- that an early dissolution of the personated a policeman, and the feller. It was up to this country misunderstand that problem. He gramme inasmuch as a two-thirds
Though the hope has not yet been abandoned to find a compromise solution between Hitler and the incline more and mero to the view Chancellor, parliamentary circles
Reichstag is now almost unavoid will not seek a conflict with the ablo. Chancellor von Schleicher
On the principal tenant denying that there was any in the house, the defendant then took out a book and demanded $10, at the same time stating that, as the occupants.
Bir Austen Chamberlain, chair- usually paid this amount to policeman of the Court of Governors of men, they should pay it to him as the London School of Hygiene and he was a policeman.
Tropical Medicine, speaking at the The occupants denied this and be-annual meeting of the Court said camo suspicious, There was a heated that through the generosity of the argument and the defendant was Rockefeller Foundation, they were
and took him into, custody. held until the police, who had been in possession of a magnificent in informed of the matter, arrived stitution, specially built for its work and beautifully equipped. secution had given evidence, Mr. Trustees not merely for their ori After the witnesses for the pro- They had to thank the Rockefeller Silva put his client into the witness ginal endowment, but for continued, and investigations showed that box. The story he told was that od help to tide them over the diff. entry had been gained by one of he was instructed by a policeman, culties of the present time. But the two doors which give admis whom he did not know, to go up he confessed that he felt
sion to the shop, and that a dupli- to the house in question and see shame in having to appeal again cats keep must have boon used. if there was any opium on the to the Foundation on behalf of an premises or any gambling going on institution placed in the heart of occupants. He denied having im which was not the country of Rocke He did so and was set upon by the another Empire, and in a country
and the British Empire to see that the funds for the current expen- diture of the institution and for its development should be found from British, sources.
reason why the charge was trump- ed to hide their guilt. ed was because the occupants want
His Worship, however, found the defendant guilty, and passed sen-
majority is required for rushing the scheme through the Chamber which is understood to be extremely re-Reichstag, as he considers that a luctant to agree ns the deputies are being deluged with protests against but contribute to the again increas-tence as stated.
new election campaign could not the Government's plan from all parts of the country and from all ing most undesirable political fer- classes of the populace.
ment, besides from hampering the !revival of business, but on the other hand, he will not shirk from fight if a confflict is imposed upon
The Armament's Trade.
The Government to-day sanction
ed the formation of a committee to study thoroughly all questions re- lating to the manufacture and sale of firearms and the trade in woa-
him.
tornado as she was unable to enter the harbour.
some
would not say that there was more malaria in the world to-day than when Sir Ronald Ross made his discovery, but he thought it would puzzle anyone, to prove that there was less. Special steps were being taken in many fields, by the light of that discovery, to keep down or eliminate malaria, but towards the ultimate destruction of the taken the first stops. disease they had as yet barely
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Expressing gratitude to the Company, Whether any loss of life was in waned the Prudential Chair of which has endowed what will be curred is not certain at the moment, Public Health" in the school for a Death of Trotzky's Daughter.
but the first-aid stations were kept term of seven years, Sir Austen Jameson) said that 153 students, The Dean. (Professor WAW. busy with attending to injured invited ather institutions of a simi- Berlin, January 18.-In a pas people: The amount of the mate-lar kind to consider whether it was
giving the whole of their time of pons of all sorts. The committee sionate letter addressed to the rial damage done is variously esti- not in the interest of those whom school course last year-a very con their studies, passed through the will be under the supervision of contral committee of the Russian mated and in any case is consider they represented also to support siderable number, remembering that. the war-council and will include Communist Party, Leon Trotzki able.
the work of a school of public appointments in the Colonial ser representatives of both the Gov-accuses Joseph Stalin of having ernment and the General Staff, as chused the death of his, Trotski's, | GENEVA.
hygiene-and-tropical-medicine-In vices and elsewhere were fewer than well as M. L. Jonmaux, Secretary daughter Sinaide who recently com
these days, business General of the Federations redemitted suicide, in a Berlin suburb... Bernard Monke "Migrate" to character tended more and more to this session with of whole time of every in former years. They had opened Unions and the Geneva delegates, M. Aubert,
The committee will also take
ment and security plan destined for Genova,
A Boxing Hub-bub! Great excitement reigns in the sporting world here as a result of last night's scones in the Palais des Sports where the Cuban e boxer Kid Tornero, was awarded
in a mood of depression caused by prolonged illness.
Tibet.
courses in this academic year. Thoir
the United States.
be conducted by great companies students a very gratifying number Genova, January 18-Two monks and corporations.. It was necessary in these difficult times and students
to look increasingly to the directors According to Berliner Zeitung am part in the deliberations on the fitlog Trotzki in his letter, a copy tery, the Fathers Melly and Coquez, the name of all their shareholders, students came from all parts of the of the damous St. Bernard monas-of these great concerns to, do, in would be enrolled in two other. final text of the French disarm of which he forwarded to his accompanied by two lay brothers, that which used to be done by the world. Last year they had 12 from German translator, charges Stalin loft for Tibet today where, on the individual, but now, like the busi with having conspired with the Thassa Paes, in an altitude of ness themselves, could be done only police of the capitalist countries in 13,000 feet, the order will build a by corporate effort. Reduced to its porsecuting himself and his family, now monastery to continue, ite, bare minimum, without any further depriving his daughter of her traditional work of bringing succor development, the income of the Soviet citizenship, the Sovietto and of rescuing straying van school was £10,000 a year too little returning to Russia, which, to famous, dogs, & work which no must at least fill that gap. authorities prevented her from derers with the assistance of their Trotzki assorte, the German phy- Switzerland which it had for cen;
to mest ita expenditure. They longer has the importance in ths decision on points against the sicians had declared to be the only turies past, ha, with the advanco of the world middleweight cham-bandoned all hope of returning to Pass is no longer dangerous evcu in means for saving her life mag her old life in Russia and of re- winter time, when scores of auto pionship.
The crowd violently disagrees joining her husband and children, mobiles pass daily by the monas with the referee's decision and his daughter Had finally sought
tery. rioting ensued on an unprecedented refuge in death, but, so the letter
The order expects that the Hima three years when all the monks and
The Late Sir Ronald Ross.
A. large Ningpo junk, recently chartered by its owners to a Chin- ege shipping firm to carry over 1,000
rework by his studies in during the week-end by a band of the late Sir Ronald Rosa did a Cheklang, was held up and pirated In the field of tropical medicine; piculs of beans from Dairen to
malaria, but to suppose, as the marauders not far from Woosung.. speaker found some uninstructed people did, that the problem of ed, wers taken away by the pirates Both the junk and the cargo carri
iny brothers will emigrate to Tibet. Continue on nezt column.)
scale both within and around the conoluces, it would be untrue to laya monastery will be finished in malaria was solved was wholly to and the loss is estimated at more.
Palais des Sports, necessitating the interference of the Police.
The sentiment of the spectators is shared by foreign Press corres- pondents present at the bout, who state that the referee's decision hus wronged Marcel Thil and that at least a draw should have been de clared.
ROME
say that she died voluntarily, the truth being that death was forced upon her by Stalin," PRAGUE
Strange Strike Scenes. Prague, Janary 17.-Probably tho strangest of strikes over witnessed has broken out here to-day, accom panied by extensive disorders and unique street scenes,
Unemployment Increasing, Rome, January 17-The tide of
Taxi chauffeurs, char-a-bane own unemployment is steadily increasers, and a number of private car ing in Italy, the number of un-owners were striking as a protest employed workers having, accord. against the almost unbearable taxes ing to latest official returns, reach-on motorcars and gasoline. ed a total of 1,130,000 on December the whole country and the city movement speedily extended over
31.
MADRID
The
streets were choked with motor vehicles refusing to move, includ- ing some ten thousands of cars and Bnow in Spain
buses from the country districts as far as the Carpathians from where Madrid, January 18-The quite they had travelled, often through unusual spectable of snow-covered snow-blocked streets. All efforts of streets, trees and roofs offered the police to get the drivers to itself to the people in the Spanish move ahead were mot with cries of capital when they awake this morn derision. A huge meeting took ing, the cold weather prevailing place to-day on an island in the throughout Europe having brought Molden River. The mob then about heavy showfalls in Northern shoved largo autobuses crossways Spain and the Castilian plains In over the streets thus blocking them Madrid the roof of a circus col completely. lapsed arnder the burden of mow white shipping in the harbour of Vigo is paralyzed by a blinding
bnowstorm.
BERLIN
Political Chiefs Canter. Berlin, January 17-Two, highly significant though still rather mysterious interviews bes tween Adolf Hitler and two lend
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When the police and firemen tried sixted, whereupon the police charged to move them away, the mob re- the chauffeure with drawn swords, wounding a number and making many arreste LISBON
Lisbon,
ing politicians have taken place was visited to-day and have further added to the uncertainty of the political situation, fo
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ex lieutenant Gregor
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