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DEMONSTRATIONS IN FRANCE

Foreigners Involved To Be Expelled

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daly Fresa?" (Copyright).]

Paris, July 21.

- The Home Ministry announces that a total of fifteen hundred and thirty five persons were arrested in the course of a protest demonstra- | tion on Friday night, this number including eighteen foreigners who will be expelled from France in ac- cordance with a warning isqued previously.

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A great majority of the arrested persons meanwhile have been re- leased after their identity was es- tablished.-

lransocean han Min

NO SERIOUS INCIDENTS

Paris, July 20. The protest demonstrations agains, the decree laws held by civil servants and pensioners yes- terday afternoon passed off with but serious incidents owing to the thorough precautionary measures aken by the authorities, though the police were forced to arrest some 1,200 demonstrators, the ma- jority of whom, however, were re- leased during the night.

From the early afternoon a large police force, reinforced by Garde Mobile" detachments on foot and en horseback, took up positions in and near the Place, de l'Opera and other important traffic centres, Shortly after six o'clock a small group of malcontents began to form in the streets leading to the Place del'Opera behind-the police barrage.

These rapidly increased to a dense wall of shouting and singing demonstrators, who, however, were admirably handied by the police, who showed perfect. discipline and great determination.

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MOB DISPERSED De:achments of the steel-hel meted Garde Mobile" gradually drove back the demonstrators and dispersed them without using their bators or other arms. Uniformed police and plainclothes men from time to time seized the noislest. de- monstrators and took them, to pa- trol cars stariding in readiness.

A number of demonstrators 25- tempting to erect a barricade in the Boulevard Haussmann before the famous department store Ga-

HAPSBURG. MONARCHY AND HEIMWEHR

[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright).]

Vienna, July 20.

The Clerical monarchist paper "Volksblatt" has published "a re- port of a meeting of, the local Heimwehr "detachment at Inns- bruck, Tyrol, which appears to show that the idea of the restora- tion of the monarchy, of which

Prince von Starhemberg is one of the leading exponents, is not being

met

leries Lafayette were driven off by a mounted detachment of the "Garde Mobile," which quickly dis- persed the crowd there without meeing resistance. By 8 o'clock the streets of the capital had been cleared, and spasmodic attempts to resume the demonstration were quickly prevented by energetic po- lice action.

RETRENCHMENT

IN DANZIG

Currency Protection Measure

(Special to, the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).]

Danzig. July 20.

The great programme" of "re- trenchment and wholesale eco- nomy announced by the Senate some weeks ago as essential for the maintenance of the stability of the Danzig gulden has now been put into effect. despite systematic obstruction from opposition parties:-

the

For instance, a large number of The total number of demonstra-retired State officials who are en- tors in the central part of the city titled to. pensions partly from was estimated at between 15 and Danzig and partly from the Reich, 20 thousand, the majority of whom and who draw altogether suma were Communists.

amounting to 16,000,000 gulden, are being induced to leave Danzig and return to the Reich,

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The demonstration may have serious consequences for civil ser- vice employees caught in the act "Those who do so will receive of participation, since the Govern- full pensions in Reichsmarks, mens signified its intention of ap- irrespective of the depreciation of plying the most rigorous messures the Danalg gulden, whereas those against those disobeying the edict who insist on remaining in Danzig prohib.ring open-air manifesta-will lose their pensions from "the for- 2 Trantorean Kuo Min

Reich because of transfer difficul- ties and must accept the full dis- advantages of the currency depre- ciation on the Danzig part of their incomes,

ORDER RESTORED

Paris, July 19. During the demonstration ot some thousands of civil servants

The result of the announcement

here to-night, who held

of the necessity for making a a mass meeting in

choice is that many families are protest against the

new of the preparing to set up

homes

contemplated economies Government which involve cuts in their salaries, about 1,000 arrests were made, according to the Pre- fecture of Police.

The Government has previously given warning that it would not tolerate strikes on the part of. civil servants. Strikers would be replaced by unemployed workers. the Government stated,

The demonstration of the civil servants, in the neighbourhood of the Place de l'Opera ended at a few minutes past eight to-night without any grave incidents hav- ing occurred. But five hundred were arrested early in the even- ing.

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Six thousand mounted police and ordinary gendarmes were on duty in the area.

just cross the nearby frontler at Marienburg or in East Prussia. In this way the Reich is relieved of

certain transfer embarrass- ments and the Danzig Senate economiser since the full pensions are paid by the Reich,

No.compulsion is being exercised and the choice remains open until September 30, but those who choose to return to the Reich will also receive financial assistance to defray the costs of removal.--- Transocean Kuo Hin

CROSSING ALPS ON ELEPHANT

Berne, July 19. Emulating the great general of The demonstrators sang the Carthage, Hannibal, who led his "Internationale" and shouted Com-armies across the Alps against grunist slogang raffic was tem- Rome, the American writer, porarily held up.

Richard Halliburton. has set out Order. however, Wäs quickly on the back of an elephant for restored following repeated police Great St. Bernard Pass. "charges. Reuter

EMPOWERING LAW IN SPAIN

(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press (Copyright).T

Madrid, July 20. An empowering law to enable the Finance Minister to take all the necessary steps to put the State finances in order has been passed by the Cortes.

The

The problem to be solved is the removal of a deficit of 750,000,000 pesetas on" the total State expen- diture of 4.8 milliards of pesetas. with enthusiasm by the achieve this partly by retrench- Government proposes "to Frince's own Heimwehr,

According to the paper thement and partly by appropriate measures for economile revitalisa- on, whereby the State revenues will be increased. The Govern- ment firmly intends to carry out agricultural and electoral reforms. The State 4 per cent, loans. reached 79.5 yesterday, which is the highest quotation since 1013, when it was 80.82.-- Transocean Kuo Xin.

leader of th Innsbruck Storm de- tachment named Schober declared in the course of a speech that many patriotic persons were opposed, to the idea of the Hapsburg mon- archy, and that many members of Heimwehr strongly object to being looked upon as wanting in patriot- ism or even as traitors because,

they do not sympathise with this Ideá as others do.

Schaber added that the Heim- wehr, moreover, protested against the machinations of certain legi- timist circles, who are openly aiming at breaking up the Heim-' wehr in order to realise their am- bitions-

Transurean Kuo Min.

EXPLOSIVES LAW SENTENCE

BANKHEAD ACT OUTLAWED

Sherman, Tex., July 19. The Federal Court here ruled to-day that the Bankhead Cotton Control Act was unconstitutional (

It granted an fnjunction sought by a Texas ginning. frm against enforcement of the provisions of the Act.- Renter

RUBBER EXPORT DUTY REDUCED

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Fress" (Copyright).1|7

Vienna, 'July 19 Another death sentence "for of- fence against the explosives law

Batavia, July 20, was passed by the Court of Assizes The export duty on native rub-- at Ried on a Social democrat ham ber has been decreased to 20 ed Otto Reis who some months guilders per 100 kilograms on a ago threw some wire over a high dry basis. The duty for wet rub- tension cable, thereby causing the ber for export from the harbours town of Eberschwang-Ried to be of the West Coast of Sumatra, plunged into darkness and afford: Diambi, Palembang, Bouth and ing the socialists the opportunity East Borneo Bengtails and In- of diatributing leaflets of an in- dragiri 18 guilde

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The whole ride will take. 35 days. Two Indian mahouts" are leading the elephant.- Reuter.

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