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AMUSEMENT TAX PROPOSAL.

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HOME SYSTEM NOW UNDER CONSIDERATION

SLIDING SCALE. That Government is at present

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OJNUKU 五羊漿 *Enter FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1930.

AMERICA ADMITS

SEVERE SHOCK.

!

PRESIDENT HOOVER ON THE TRADE DEPRESSION..

CONFIDENT SPEECH.

New York. Oct. 2.1 An 'important speech wad delivered by President Hoover on the subject of the economic depression in the United States and the world generally at Cleveland, Ohio, to-day.

considering the method of opera-sident Hoover, is worldwide in its The depression, declared Pre- tion of the Entertainment Tax scope, but it is not necessary for in England, with a view to apus to wait for the recovery of the plying it to the new Amusement Test of the world.

Tax in Hongkong, provided for

exceed ours.. We shall need again "The difficulties of other nations in, the Budget for next Fear, to undertake 10 assist was the official reply to an un-cooperate with them." and

quiry made by the Telegraph this morning concerning system to be adopted.

the

President Hoover was address-

ing the annual convention of the Americau Bankers Association, and he added that the United The Government has obtained all States had had a severe shock to details from the Home authorities its economic system, which had

to the working of the tax in been disorganized. England, and will take from it Notwithstanding the ruch forms as are applicable to however, the fundamental assets shock, the particular circumstances of of the nation were unimpaired, its the Colony. Later, it will intro-resources were undiminished, its

gigantic duce the necessary legislation.

equipment and parallelled organisation for pro- duction and distribution were, in many ways, even stronger than in 1928-Reuter's American Service.

Details Not Decided.

It is presumed that a sliding scale similar to that which operates in England will be ap- piled locally.

INCIDENT AT PARIS, STATION,

un-

We

were informed, however, that although the percentages and method of application have not yet | been worked out, it is anticipated that the new tax will come into

HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION operation on January 1st, 1931,

AGAINST M. BRIAND. The Government estimates venue of $300,000 from this source.

Paris. Oct. 2. The sliding scale of the Enter The Camdlets du Rio (a Royalist tainment Tux operating in Engorganisation) staged a hostile de- land at the present is as follows: monatration against M. Briand, the

The Home Charges,

a re-

Foreign Minister, on his arrival at. the Gard du Lyon from Geneva to

When the payment for admis-day. sinn does not exceed 6d. no duty

One of the members of this or is charged. The senle then works Įganisation, ‘a man named Bourin, on the following basis:

who was wounded in the Great War, rushed up as M. Briand stepped, on the platform from the train, and accused him of provoking war with: Germany.

Up to 70.

,,8d...

» 3s, 3d.

.. 28. Od.

.. 3s, öd.

. Id.

.1%d. .20.

's, Id.

.3d.

4 d.

.Gd.

5s. Od.

.9d.

12

78. 6d.

18. ud.

10. Gd.

.Is. 6d.

.. 158. Od.

28. hd.

For every. 5s. or part of 6s, over, 1s, the tax is Gd.

;

Certain exemptions are allowed. such as schools, educational in- stitutions. etc.. whilst special

M. Bourin was tody.

taken into cus-

CENTRAL CHINA

TRUCE.

FENG WANTS TO BE BOUGHT OFF.

ASKS $3,000,000 TO COVER “DISBANDMENT.”

HOPES OF PEACE.

COLONIAL OFFICE

APPOINTMENT.

SIR JOSEPH BYRNE NEW GOVERNOR OF KENYA.

IN LADYSMITH SIEGE.

DUNLOP

FORT

Motor Tyres

FORT

STAA aro $30 PER ANNUM

LOCAL BRANCH.

SINGLE CUPY 10 CHATS

Pedder Bldg.

LABOUR M.P. ONE. D. SASSOON AND CRYING NEED FOR

RUBBER.

INDUSTRY-SHOULD BE SELF-RELIANT.

NO WHINING FOR GOVERN-: MENT ASSISTANCE.

AN ECONOMIC WAR.

Singapore, Sept. 27.

COMPANY.

IMPORTANT CHANGES NOW EFFECTIVE.

BIG NEW COMPANY.

AMBULANCES.

SERIOUS SITUATION

RECENTLY.

ST. JOHN BRIGADE: TAKING MATTER IN HAND.

MOTOR-CÅR FOR $2.

London, Oct. 2.

Important changes in the busi- Brig.-General Sir Joseph Byrne,

ness of Messrs. D. D. Sassoon K.C.M.G. the Governor of Sierra

and Co., Ltd., 'merchant bankers Leane, has been appointed to suer

with headquarters in Bombay and ceed Sir Edward Grigg, K.C.M.G.,

a branch in Hongkong, have come into effect as from October 1st. K.C.V.O. as Governor "and Com-: Shanghai, Oct. 2. -

mander-in-Chief Kenya Colony.

These involve the closing of High hopes are being enter- It is learned the Sir Joseph Byrne

The Hon. R. D. Denman, M.Pter and Hongkong, but the Com-2 is

the branches in London, Manches- tained in political circles of an will assume his new appointment (Lub.) for Central Leeds, who is pany will carry

A new $3,000 motor-car for the highly attractive. amicable understanding between early in 1931--Renter,

on a business visit to Malaya, through its offices in India

on husiness chance offered in a prize draw- the Nationalist and Kuominchun Sir Edward, Grigg has been in

anding competition inaugurated for the purpose of supplementing in Central China, with the au- he was M.P. for Oldham and Sec- Club. He dealt with the crisis trading interests Commanders working for a truce Kenya since 1925, prior to which was the speaker at yesterday's Shanghai.

meeting of the Singapore Rotary.

The Company's remaining the funds of the St. John Am- have been bulance Brigade and announced tomatic resignation of Marshal his carly days, he was a journalist, in the rubber industry in the transferred to an associated com- this morning, Feng Yu-hsiang.

joining the editorial staff of The manner of. an accomplished pany, Arnhold and Co., Ltd. Marshal Feng is reported to Times soon after leaving college, public speaker and brought to have agreed to hand over the con-resigning in 1913 to join the bear on the subject an exten. ness hitherto carried on in Lon-extend its motor ambulance ser- The banking and financial busily, is to enable the Brigade to The object of the proposal, main- trol of the Kuominchun. Divisions Grenadier Guards. He relinquish-give knowledge and a much-need-don, Manchester and Hongkong vice, a service of which the Colony to his chier lieutenant. General

is being continued at the sanie

is greatly in need and which has addresses. by the E. D.

Sassoon recently been strongly advocated Banking Co., a private limited in the Press. liability company, incorporated in Hongkong, with a capital of £1,000,000.

mit the Kuominchun to continue

retary to the Rhodes Trustees. In

Lu Chung-lin, on the condition thated his commission in 1921 with the the Nanking Government will per-| rank of Licat. Colonel.

Brig. Gen. Sir Joseph Byrne en-

si and part of Honan Provinces. its administration in Kansu, Shen-tered the army in 1893, served in the South African War, including the Siege of Ladysmith, later ser-

Demand for $3,000,000.

de

The Christian" General mands simultaneously from the Nanking Government $3,000,000 as a Disbandment Fund before his resignation and permission to re- organise the various Kuominchun armies into ten Divisions.

It will be recalled that Marshal Feng made a similar demand from the Nanking Government some time last year but the promised Disbandment Fund

was never forthcoming and Marshal Feng, tired of waiting, began his rebel- lion against the Central Govern- ment.

Manchurian Ambition.

With the Manchurian desire for the occupation of Chihli and Shan- tung Province becoming more evi- dent, reports from Mukden state that General Chang Hsueh,-liang has given orders for the Third Manchurian Army consisting of

Kirin Divisions many

of about 30,000 men, to proceed to Shanhai- kwan and the Tongshan mining

DOCRINE JUICE MUTEKSİZMANCHUNKALKMANNIC

LENOX SIMPSON MAKING

GOOD FIGHT.

Still Slight Chance of His Recovery.

· PARALYSIS, INEVITABLE.

Ticatsin, Oct. 2. Enquiries made at the hospital to-night disclose that Mr. Lenox Simpson, who was shot by Chinese gunmen, is displaying considerable sistance, despite his serious condition.

.re-

Should he pass a good night, his chances of recovery will be somewhat improved. though it is feared that, in any event, permanent paralysis unavoidable.- Reuter.

ed amount of common sense.

Mr. Denman is a director of several companies including four rubber companies having a total acreage of 13,600 and the restric tionists among his hearers must have wilted' before the logic of his remarks. He sald, in part:

Governor's Announcement..

"When I landed from the ship, I discovered that the Governor had

It is intended that the neyly. registered Company, shall con- solidate and develop the existing banking business.

The Directors of the new Com- pany are Sir Victor Sassgon,

made an announcement of pro-Captain R. E. Sassoon, Mr. H. H. found importance, and one which H. Priestley, Mr. F. A. Martin

and Mr. K. Ho. I think will give satisfaction to the great mass of those connected with the rubber industry. Personally, I am in complete and cordial agreement with the policy set out in that pronouncement. Of course, the opinion of every- body in the industry may not be on those lines, but probably eighty- or ninety per cent. are in agret- ment,'

"It gave me great pleasure to find that the work here was not

having Government support. My own training in business and finance was strictly, Victorian and I think that in those days we had certain sentiments which have come to be too little regarded in these modern times. Industries in

BIG SUM READY FOR POSSIBLE WAR.

ASSISTANCE TO STATES ATTACKED.

Ten prizes are being offered, the total value being $5,200 dis- tributed as follows:

First Prize: Motor car, valued Int $3,000.

Second Prize: Articles to the value of $1,000.

Third Prize: To the value of

$500.

Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth. Prizes: To the value of $100.

Sole Ambulance Borrowed. The District Superintendent points out in a communication this mording that the St. John Ambul- ance Brigade possesses one Motor Ambulance which has been re cently loared to the Government while one of its ambulances is out of commission.

Geneva, Oct. 2. The minimum sum guaranteed The following are particulars of by the signatories to the Aggres-service of the St. John Ambulance sion Convention signed to-day is Brigade Motor ambulance while 50,000,000 gold franes, while the in the charge of the Fire Brigade minimum contributions of the first as a Government Ambulance:- twenty-eight signatories reach from 2.7.30 to 23.8.30 nearly 53,000,000 francs.-Reuter. Number of patients, carried--

The Convention provides for 156. those days were taught to be self-financial assistance to any State

Number of cases attended 156. In less than two months the

reliant and would have been

districts, in addition to the First UNBOROČAMARANEUROPATICIANULZareeshamed to go to Government and which is u 'victim of aggression.

and Second Manchurian Armies

A number of other Camelots vince. later created a disturbance in the Quai De La Rapee.--Reuter.

FUTURE OF PRINCE.

GEORGE.

exemption is granted for charit- GOVERNOR-GENERAL REPORT able entertainments,

UNAUTHORISED.

tax.

Possible Scope.

(to

which admission

London, Oct. 3.

which have arrived in Chihli Proving as A.A.G. at the War Office. He was Inspector-General of the The mabilisation of the Third Royal Irish Constabulary from 1916 Manchurian Army is an indication to 1920, was called to the Bar at of the Manchurian determination Lincoln's Inn in 1921, appointed to establish a military zone in Chihli Governor of the Seychelles in 1922, with the intention of remaining and Governor in Sierra Leone in there for some time. The Third Manchurian Army will be station- ed in districts between Shanhai- areas for the time being, and at a kwan and the Tongshan mining

moment's notice can proceed to Peking and · Tientsin or to the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.

1927.

AUSTRIAN ELECTION DAY FIXED.

FASCIST PARTY ISSUES MANIFESTO,

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ask to be got out of difficulties of their own creation. I was glad to see that you out here had that same self-reliance and determina- tion and were not whining for Government assistance.

Stabilisation Impossible. "Having stated that I am com- pletely in agreement with the policy enunciated. I now want to

A total of 29 states have signed above work was done by one am the Convention, including Britain,bulance alone.

Incidentally, the Brigade Am- France, Australia, the Nether lands and Persia. Germany, Italy, balance is still doing duty at the Canada, South Africa and New Fire Brigade station. Zealand have hitherto not signed. -Renter.

BRITISH WAR BOND REDEMPTION.

subject it to one criticism. The hopes and aims that are stated in the closing paragraph of the docu- ment are hopes and aims which I NEW regret that I cannot myself share. It is stated that 'what is needed is that rubber prices should be stabilised by the action of economic laws."

never

Can

now

TO BE MADE.

Crying Need.

It is due to the crying needs of the public made known through. the medium of the Press, that the S. J. A. B. has taken the matter in hand and is endeavouring to the utmost to supplement its existing Ambulance service and to provide

TREASURY ISSUE ALSO the Colony with an efficient motor ambulance service, ready for any emergency which might crise,

For this purpose funds are need-

London, Oct. 2.

Should the system in operation It is authoritatively stated that

War Exprenses. in England be adopted for Hong. though plans for Prince George to kong, cinemas, public amateur en-accompany the Prince of Wales to

According to Peking cables, offi tertainments, theatres, football the British Trade Exhibition incial circles estimate that the Shan-

The Treasury announces the ed. This is the first occasion on Vienna, Oct. 2. matches

You have redemption at par on January 15 which the Brigade has appealed Buenos Aires next spring have been si Government revenues during the It was officially announced to medical men in this Club and they next of four per cent. war loan for public support and it le charges are made), and all des discussed, nothing has yet been de- past five months leave a surplus of day that the Austrian general will tell you that a little period 1929/42 amounting to £77,000,000. earnestly hoped that the same will criptions of public entertainments,

finitely decided.

$12,000,000, despite the unprece elections will take place on Novem meal, and experience shows that issue by tender of an unlimited Good of Humanity and the Relief

of rest is always good after a Also announced is the proposed

be forthcoming. other than those securing special|

The statement that the tour dented debacles suffered by the ber 9.

The Brigade motto is "For the exemption, will have to bear themight be a preliminary to Prince Shansi troops along the Tientsin The Heimwehr (the Fascist or there is nothing so profoundly amount of four per cent. Treasury of Suffering," and this alone. George's appointment to Gov-Pukow Railway where the military ganisation) has issued a manifesto sedative as a flow of economic Bonde, redeemable in the three It is also assumed, that the or--Reuter,

ernor-Generalship is unauthorised. operations cost Marshal Yen. Hsi-emphasising the Party's deter argument.

should enlist sympathy. years 1934/36 at a minimum price anisers of public entertainments,

shan a sum of over $30,000,000. mination not to allow a "Red" Prices never have been firmly of a hundred and a half-Reuter, the managements of local theatres,

majority to snatch the helm. of stabilised and

be etc.. will .be held

state from its grasp.

stabilised. In so far as prices have sible for obtaining the

The manifesto declares that the been stabilised, it has always been tax from the public. It is

Today marked the change-over Heimwehr must participate in the by deliberate and conscious activity anticipated that the official acknow-

to the new regime here when Man-electoral struggle independently of of the human mind, controlling ledgment for the payment of the

churian officials formally took over other political parties and must and practically directing economic tax will take the form of excise

the various Government offices. build a new state on the ruins of laws." stampe, affixed to admission tickets,

Chang Chi-fang assumed the the present Parliament. Reuter. the price of which would be cor-

post of acting Mayor, Chang Hsueh- respondingly raised.

|ming took: command of the vari As to how far the Home system

New York, Oct. 2. ous Police Bureaux, while the Thirteen people, all French, Customs, Finance, Salt and Tele- will be adhered to by the local Gov-were trapped in the collapse of a graph Administrations also changed

respon-

erriment, no definite information is

as yet available, but we

FIVE KILLED IN US. HOUSE COLLAPSE.

THIRTEEN FRENCH PEOPLE BURIED IN RUINS.

are in-

four-storey tenement house Greenwich Village to-day.

formed that immediate considera-

posals.

at hands.

Tientsin's New Regime.

Tientsin, Oct. 2.

No formal ceremonies marked Rescue-workers recovered the the occasion, the change being a tion is being given to the pro-bodies of five persons who were complished quietly and without in-

killed, while five others have been cident.-Reuter. extricted injured. The other three are still

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CONVINCING WIN BY NOTTS COUNTY.

SPLENDID FORM WELL MAINTAINED.

Reuter's American Service,

iasing.-

ST. LOUIS DEFEATED A SECOND TIME.

THE R101'S TRIAL FLIGHT.

THE NEW SECTION PROVES) SATISFACTORY.

“EGYPT” SALVAGE

FIND:

DIPLOMÁTIC BAG SENT TO FOREIGN OFFICE.

DUTCH AND RUBBER

SITUATION.

MINISTER OF COLONIES TO TAKE ACTION.

The speaker then went on to elaborate

that the argument economic laws were not to be eat under meekly for, left to them- selves, they would not stabilise

The Hague, Oct. 2. The Minister of the Colonies prices. "What is meant" he said

is that you

are to allow the to-day received the Committee of action of supply and demand free the Dutch Rubber Growers' ARSO- play and to let pricea be a govern-

ciation. ing factor so, as to adjust supply to demand." .

The Minister intends to co- operate with the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies for the purpose of improving the situation. Reuter.

·NO SURVIVORS, OF. MINE MISHAP.

"ENTIRE SHIFT KILLED IN EXPLOSION.

London, Oct. 2.

Price as a Governor. As a result of the salvage operations of the P. and O. team- "We can use price as a governor. ship. Egypt after collision with If the price is sufficiently low it a French steamer in the Bay, of will slow down the machine of Biscay in 1922, the Foreign Office production; if it is sufficiently high has received the contents of the it will speed up the machine. diplomatic bag found in the That is a simple economic fact. Captain's safe, which was brought That is my view of prices.. As to the surface recently and con-everybody knows, prices changed voyed to Bristol... The documents, as required to correct the mal- London, Oct. 2.

which have lain at a depth of four adjustment of supply to demand. The Air Miniatry has, issued hundred feet for eight years, are It frequently happens, say, that communique regarding last night's coated with rust and are still supply is 5 per cent. in excess of

London, Oct. 2. trial flight of the airship R101, sodden from the damp air in the what is needed. In that case, four clear goals in the Third baseball championship

In the second game of the world which states:The behaviour of safe, but many of them are still prices might come tumbling down, explosion which occurred last There were no survivors of the series the airship, including the new legible and the seals are intact perhaps by 25 per cent. So far night at midnight at Grove The match was played at defeated the St. Louis Cardinals and the addition of a new section and other communications to supply and demand went up and shire.

to-day, Philadelphia Athletica outer cover, was quite satisfactory, They included official despatch from being stabilised by the price. Colliery, near Walsall, Stafford Nottingham, and gives the County by six runs to one, following up has in no way affected the control British diplomatic representatives down wildly I do not say that Fourteen miners lost their lives, a three points lead over their their 5-2 victory yesterday or stability of the ship."-British at many posts abroad: British would be the immediate effect for these representing the entire shift nearest rivals-Reuter.

Reuter's American Service.

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Continued on Page 7.Just, on duty ---British Wireless

London, Oct. 2, "Notts County, who are making a strong bid to recover their post- tion in the Second Division of the. League, defeated Norwich City by

· Divisjon (South), Par

PHILADELPHIA'S START IN WORLD SERIES.

Philadelphia, Oet. 2..

Wireless.

Tickets for the prize drawing are $2.00 each, and may be obtain ed from Brigade Members, ·Fin- ance Committee, the Hon. Trea surer or the Corps Secretary.

© JAPAN'S MINISTER

OF NAVY.

ADMIRAL TÄKARABE GIVES UP POST.

Tokyo, Oct. 2, Admiral Takarabe, who was one of the members of the Japanese delegation, to the London Naval Conference, has visited Mr. Hamaguchi, the Premier, and is understood to have tendered his resignation as Navy Minister. The Premier has not yet indicated whether he will accept the resignation.

Admiral Takarabe's resignation is the outgrowth of the long con- troversy over the London Treaty. He had previously: Indicated his desire to retire from office as soon as the ratification of the Treaty was completed.

ANDER Later.

Admiral Takarabe has resigned, It is officially announced that and Admiral Baron Kiyokazu Abɔ has been named as his successor. the Japanese delegation to Lon- don, and is a member of the Admiral Abo was naval adviser to

Supreme War Connell-Reuter te