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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1935.
RUSSIAN
WOMEN UNEMPLOYMENT
Their Plight In Shanghai
Geneva, Apr. 29.
The League of Nations proposes to establish vocational training centres. cheap Litchens and spec- lal hostels in Shanghai, states. a report by the Trame in Women and Children. Committee of the League.
report
are
IN BRITAIN
Big Decrease In Numbers
London, April 29. A drop of 109,000 in Britain's unemployment figures last month makes the total improvement since the end of Wanuary (277,000,
This step will be taken in or-
Not one of the principal Indur». der to remedy the situation fac tries showed a decline, while sub-
Russlan ing
women refugees, stantial increases were recorded in more than one in every five of engineering, coal mining, building, whom, the
asserts,
textiles and ship-building. prostitutes,
Fifty-four 'per cent. of the un- The Committee says that thou-employed have. at this moment, sands of women have been driven been idle less than three months, from Manchuria by economic ne-
and sixty-four per cent. under four cessity, and their situation is months. Only twenty-two per daily becoming worse in all the cent. have been out of work for big seaports of China.
more than a year.
Or nearly 10,000 Russian women
A bright feature has been the ir. Shanghai, 7,200 are between improvement of conditions in the the ages of sixteen and forty-distressed areas, like Wales and five, and of these 22 per cent. the North-west of England where are known to be prostitutes.—
decreases to unemployment were Reuter.
and registered of 3:000
15,000 respectively. Realer,
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TIN STOCKS CONFUSION
London, Apr. 29.
The chairman of the tin Buffer Stock Committee to-day announ-
་་
OVER ALL AREAS
London, April - 29.
A big increase in the number of
ced that there are 800 tons of persons in empoyment, and a cor- buffer stocks now in New York. Į responding diminution in the num- where it was stored inadvertently ber out of work, is shown in the in non-reporting warehousés. monthly return of the Ministry of
were
Out of this a quantity of 170 | Labour. tons arrived to New York on It was estimated that on April March 28 and was stored in April. 15, there
approximately A further 870 tons arrived early 10.320,000 insured persons, aged this month. bat the whole 16-64, in employment for which amount will be placed in report- comparable. Agures are available. The total was 120,000 more than ing warehouses during May,--- Reuter,
`year ago.
NEW HEAD OF RED CROSS
Paris. Apr. 29. Admiral Grayson. head of the American Red Cross, has been elected chairmars of the Inter- national League. of Red Cross societies, in succession to the late Judge Barton Payne, at a meet- ing of the Board of Governors To-day.
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The numbers of unemployed "persons on the registers of the Employment Exchanges on April 15 totalled 2.044.460. This was 109,410 less than the number on the registers on March 25 and 103,735 less than the year before. The latest total comprises 1,833,302 'men. 57.989 boys, 300,943 women and 52,228 girls.
A gratifying feature of the re-. turn is that the diminution in unemployment during the period under review was spread over all areas, but the most substantial advance was in the North-Eastern area of England None of the principal" "Industries in Britain showed any marked decline in em ployment.-
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cum. Pf. 18) Berlin, April 29, Congo-Naim (1.80) Herr Robert Ley, leader of the Cons. Gas, NV. (2) 224 Labour Front, has issued a mani-Cons Of (28) festo claiming that there will be Cont. Oli (25) no unemployment in Germany by Corn Prod (3) the end of the year.
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STERLING ACCOUNT
to be used to pay creditors in the United Kingdom to whose credit
I possible mutilation,
LESS INDIAN VISITORS
(spodar Air Malf. Bervice) -
London, April 29. Colonel Colville, on behalf of the President of the Board of Trade, 'announced in the Commons that as a result to the Angio-Italian nego- tiations it was agreed that the best course for the present is to con- This special Sterling Account is tinue with certain adaptations of | the provisional arrangement which | | was concluded on March 18,
Either Government has a right lire have been deposited in Italy to terminate the arrangement at in respect of United Kingdom ex- the end of any month from June onwards,
ports to Italy, and freight for car negotiations for a definitive agree-riage of goods between the two nient. The arrangements now made, | countries in British, ships. He which come into force on May 1, hoped this arrangement would being held in India, are set cut in an exchange of notes in full operation in a few days' dated April 21, the text of which time. is published.
or.. to propose new.
ALHAMBRA
So Nations Walk Dangerously
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, April 8. "A the end of the war many in this country and in others em- braced the doctrines of nationality, earth.
But," said Mr. Stanley Baid- win, speaking at Llandindrod Wells, last night, it has been found that the keys do not' fit; that heaven is as far away as ever. We fought the war to make the world safe for democracy, and the world is not safe for democracy and all that that word means | to-day;"
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Versailles had not been accepted as wise and just by all to whom ine settlement applied, and now, Fanarting under her homilration, Fondon, April 8 ́ Germany had refused the lot State and melal functions during assigned to her and had re-armed. the London season will lose sorat He believed that Germany- of the glamour by the fact that though we should not tease to try only few of the Indian princes to win her from these ideas
regarded the League 45, pawn in will be here. Nearly all the struggle for hational power maining at home to take part in
And domination, the various Durbars which are be-
The Mabarajas of Kashmir, As regards the Italian system of Bikaner and Fatials are the only Colonel Colvile drew particular regulating imports, certain modi princes who are coming over of attention to a feature of the agrees Beations are to be made which will cially. They have been command ment whereby the Italian Govern- give the system greater elasticity ed by the King to attend as his ment will arrange that all persons in various respects, and at the ADC., and wili ride in the pro- in this country from whom pay-
same time, provision is made in cession to St. Paul's Cathedral on ments are due to persons in Italy regard to the United Kingdom in May 6.
The nations," said Mr. Bald win," are not walking in the way of pesce, but in those dangerous roads which may lead to was Vega
Where the war mind is, where fear is, where suspicion is, there will armaments be gathered to- gether," he observed
But Britain did not want war did not take with any enthusiasm to wearing gas masks and it war
country would play her part with
in respect of Italian goods export port trade in certain classes of Those coming in their privaty could only be stopped by letting ed to the United Kingdom on or goods, such as raw wool, which are capacity number four the Mathe aggressor know that war would after March 18, 1936, and of subject to special regimes in Italy. harafes of Jalpur, Dewas Juniornot be permitted in Europe, this freights earned by Italian ships A second exchange of notes sign-Branch) and Rajpipla, and this the rest of Europe to see that no carrying goods between the two ed at the same time is designed to Raja of Tehri (Garhwal). This is aggression took place countries and due on or after May facilitate exports of Newfoundland about one-tenth of the number who Mr. Baldwin who was address 1, 1933, shall be authorised"" by
at normally spend the season in Lon-ing the Assembly of tile Erangeh- creditors in Italy to make such cod fish to Italy
ral Fine Churches of England, and
payments to a special Sterling Ac- Colonel Colville stated that don each year count at the Bank of England, into negotiations for trade agreements They will be particularly missed Wales, said having been in inter- Which all sums received from are at present proceeding with in the polo held, for none of those national politica, for a gooch many
years
he would, notsyrite himsel Italian exports to the United KingZiypt Para Epsini, Turkey and | coming 1 bringing a team. Dually
"down as: pessimist but would dom, and from the freights refer Uruguay
two teams of pontes ses brought Frather" say that, at times he felt Batik Wiralem.
that he was living in a madhouse.
red to above, are to be paid.
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