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CLOUDS CLEARING IN PARIS. BIGGEST SHIP IN BRITAIN'S TRADE

Settlement

Now

Possible.

Japan Submits A Plan.

COUNCIL WELL

DISPOSED.

Paris, Nov. 20. The League Council has announe- ed that the proposal to send Commission 10 Munchuria will afford a suitable solution to the present crisin. The matter will be considered and decided upon nt, a public meeting to-morrow, at which both the Chinese and Japanese cases will be heard.

TAURAN

The intense anti-Japanese feeling among Chinese is not confined to China. Our picture shows a Chiness restaurant in Berlin where Japanosa customers were refused service. The notice exhibited is shown below enlarged. Copyright photos by Press Photo G.m.b.H.

Australian

Political

It is anderstood that there will Feud.

be no violent conflict of opinion,

that in fact, the Council han, in

principle, accepted the Japanese)

proposal. As the Chinese have put SIR PHILIP CAME

themselves in the Council's hands,

It implies that Chinese accopianer

of the proposal is a foregone con- clusion--Reuter,

London, Nov, 20.

AND MR. LANG.

Sydney, Nov. 20,

The longstanding feud between There is a general Impression here that an a result of the private Mr. Jack Lang, the New South meeting of the league council and Wales Premier, and the Governor the conversations which individual (Sir Phip Game) has ended sur membora have had in turn withprisingly. His Excellency having the Japanese and Chinese De-now approved the appointment of legale, the prospects of attaining 25 Labour nomineos to the Legisla a solution of the Manchurian protive Council, this giving it a La- blem have somewhat improved.

[hour majority of oven.

End to Hostilities.

It is understood

The feud between Mr. Lang and that various Sir Philip Game arose from a con-

proposals holding out some hopestitutional crisis in December last are under active consideration, the year, when the New Souht Wales

·daponer, werden hier nicht bedient

EMPIRE LANDMARK.

The Statute of Westminster.

THE WORLD.

No. 534 Likely to be Launched Soon.

CUNARD LINER.

London, Nov. 201,

The work of building the biggest ship in the world-the new Cunard liner at present nameless, and known as No. 584, la procceding rapidly in the Clydeside yards of Messrs. John Brown and Company. and we will probably be launched next Spring.

The huge vessel will be of 73,000 tons, with n length of 1,018 feet. Her promenade decks

will be twice as long as the front of Bucklnghurs Palace.

Manchester, Leeds. Sheffield and many other engineering centres are engaged on the machinery for the now liner.

Her immense size may be shown by the fact that her propellora are the biggest ever made. They will weigh 140 tons. Ten million rivets will go into her hull and her turbines turning, her jour pro- pellere will contain 267,000 blades worked by steam from twenty-five

oil-fed boilers.--British Wirelcas.

AIRMAN'S WIDOW

REMARRIES.

| MRS. KIDSTON WEDS SON OF LANDOWNER.

London, Nov. 13. Mrs. Glen Kidston, widow of the noted airman and racing motorist, who was killed while lying in mountainous region Im South Africa last May, was married in London to-day in Mr. E. C. R. Sheffield, second an of Sir Berkeley Shelldt, a woolthy landowner.

The bride, who is well-known in the hunting field, has a son four brond effect of which would be to Labour Party issued a "mandate" SECOND READING left t

years of age, to whom Commander bring hostilities to an immediate to abolish the Legislative Council.

fortune of nearly- and and provide an authoritative The Premier, Mr. Lang. was

£250,000 on condition that he learn London, Nov. 20. Investigation under the League then stated to have obtained an

ed French and German Huently. auspices, of

After a prolonged debate, in the the whole Sing undertaking from Sir Philip Game course of which many aspects of mander Kidston established a new Shortly before his death Com- Japanese situation.

to appoint sufficient new members Imperial Constitutional relations The council met nunin in private to the Council to facilitate the to-day and decided to hold a publie passage of the accessary legisla were discussed, the House of Com-record for a flight between England

and Capetown. mona, to-day meeting. British Wireless,

passed without di- This was only recently broken by vision, the second reading of the Mias Peggy Salamon and Mr. Gor When the Premier presented his Statute of Westminister" at of names, however, the Gover-designed to give

Billdon StoreReuter. legal expression to refused to approve them.-the decision of the last two Im- Reuter.

perial Conferences on an equality of status Within the British Com moewalth of Nations.

Exploring Possibilities. Following conversations between the President of the League Coun ell, M. Briand, General Dawes and the Japanese representative, Mr. Yoshizawa, in Paris in exploration of a workable solution of the Manchurian problem, the Council again sat in private this afternoon for over two hours.

tion.

nor

BRITISH DUTIES IMPOSED.

London, Nov. 20.

The Japanese and Chinese mem- bers were not present.

50 PER CENT, ON LONG It i understood that

Mr. Yoshizawa has informed M. Briand

LIST OF ARTICLES. of his agreement in principle to a Commission of Inquiry being sent to Manchuria and that the Coun- cil discussed the position, aim and prerogatives of the Commission in relation to the withdrawal of Japanese troops.

No final decision was taken, t af the public session tu-morrow

The President of the Board of Trade has lost no time in applying the powers granted him under the Anti-Dumping Bill.

The first order was issued last

afternoon, the Japanese delegates night, under whch a fifty per cent. will have a chance of making aduty will come into force on No- statement.-British Wireless,

SOVIET PLOT DENIED. Sensational Reports of Alding Chinese,

Moscow, Nov. 14. Sharp and indignant denials of Mukden reports that Chinese red partisans and Korean Communists are daily neriving in Manchuria from the Soviet Unton were issued

vember 26.

Not Permanent Policy.

Prelude to Co-Operation. The Dominions Minister, Mr. J. H. Thomas in moving the

· second reading, said the BD not only gave effect to a long established practice but by removing all possible grounds of political controversy, he hoped it would be a prelude to increased economic co-oper tion between all parts of the Empire. It was to be regard ed, not as an end, but rather

a beginning of

n system of equal freedom and

respon- sibility among all members of the Commonwealth, in muttal efforts for a common good and the peace, security and well being of the world.

The duty is imposed upon a long Sir Stafford Cripps supported the list of specified articles, including Bill on behalf of the Labour Party, certain types of domestic pottery. Mr. Winston Churchill who ex- glassware, metal furniture, cutlery, pressed "not opposition but words certain types of tools, radio sets of caution and restraint" was an-j and component parts.-Reuter, swered by Mr. 1. S. M. Amery who said the Empire could not be held vn a basis of kgislative supremacy In the course of the debate in but only of free co-operation. There

House the

of Lords, Lord was nothing in the Bill to prevent

mutual by the Soviet Government hure ernment, said the meusuro

Hailsham, speaking for the Gov

aid in trade and defence did and in polley and research. It waa The Soviet Government has not represent their permanent the opening of

chapter on which officially authorised the press to policy, It

a temporary they should enter with courage and comment on the Mukden reports as moneure of six months duration | vision. ·

to deal with the pressing emer

A Landmark. followe:

day,

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IN HONGKONG.

BIG ADVANCE IN OCTOBER.

EN PER ANNUM

BIBULE DOSŤ 10 CENTS

LOCAL BRANCH,"

BUNLOP

Poder Bldg.

Bulls and Inners

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A silent and touching tribute:-

Now is about the time for the

During Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's wild and woolly vesta.

speech at the Queen's Theatre

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recently, in which ho stoutly de- fended the Civil Service cuts, a local Government servant was scen Tram orator, who asserted the We do not agree with the Peak from lighting his other day that "Hongkong would Corona-Corona!

never be up-to-date until it had a tunnel under the harbour!

SEVERE SETBACK to refrain

FOR JAPAN.

Great Britain's trade with Hongkong has increased notably, particularly in the textile market, as a result of the developments in Man- churia, the improvement be- ing almost entirely at the oxpense of Japan.

According to the returns com- piled by the Statistical Branch of the Imports and Exports Depart ment, imports of merchandise into Hongkong during the month of October amounted to a declared value of $64.6 millions, represent- ing Increases of $1.1 millions as compare with the previous month. and $11.4 millions as compared with October of last year.

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Oh, bring back my Bonnie to ing when a turkey doesn't care The season to rapidly approach

me.

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prevailing colour for feminine attire indicates some they're well off.

Some people never know when women will at last be able to boast Kowloon man who owns a motor-

We know a of being well red! car, yet walks in his sleep.

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Say's FLI English Provincial newspaper advertisement-"Our American; he only drank dry This re-opens the old controversy New simile: "He was a good anusages speak for themselves." Champagne."

"Should a onusage tell?"

grow

Exports were declared to a value

The worst of of $49.6 millions, an increase of $4.5 millions as compared with these people September, and An increase of who $2.9 millions us compared with nothing but October 1930.

lettuce la that The October figures recorded they mistake definite advance by the United their friends Kingdom in the import trade, while for rabbits. Japan sustained a net-back; the British share of the total increan- ing from 11% to 11.9% while the Japanese share fell from 13.6% to 7.3% 28 compared with October

1930.

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A gardoner is like Pepys who makes his beds

About them.

dom increased from $5.9 millions

Imports from the United King and then lien to $7.7 millions, while the Japanese figure fell from $7.2 millions to $1.7 millions.

Total imports of Piece Goods in- creased from $11.8 millions to 14.8 millions, the British „pharo : appreciating from 32.7 millions (23.1% of the total) to $4.7 milliona (31.4%), while the Japanese share fell from $3.1 millions (28.8%) to $1.8 millions (12%).

Imports.

Dctober 1931.

Merchandise

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By the same token, is it meet

if sausage roli?

Wife fat piano): That tune haunts me.

Hubby: It should-you have just murdered.

The Chinese cats which are Baid to have kinks in their

tails may pos- sibly attribute it to the Manx factor.

Thore ja no truth in the ramour that the Hollywood Retress suffer- ing from loan of memory, is still Iving with her first husband..

What about those billiard-table McWhirter says that a cricketer makers turning out some nursary who talks about a wet wicket hon cannons for Christmas?

never seen a bowling green!

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With the spread of these long

A local advertisement addressed

"Whom It may corncaru" skirts, the family skeleton is slow-

footing a bill!

appropriately enough raferred to ly disappearing.

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The industry will only reach

Thus a contemporary:-"The saturation point when there are cry was raised in the back of the more motorcars than back tuba in Cathedral's knave." Naive. but a community.

distinctly unsportsmanlike!

Treasure

Total

$64,504,000

$ 6,760,384

$70,364,474

October 1930.

(853,108,170)

to

( 766,410)

($53,033,380)

Exports.

THREE MILES BY PARACHUTE.

Total

Merchandise

$40,513,518 (540,504,831) Treasure

$ 4,519,251

$50,032,760

($9,188,711)

($55,783,542)

.

Monthly Fluctuationa

LONG JOURNEY AFTER

CRASH.

London, Nov. 13.

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A fortune awaits the man who

A recent advertisement draws invents rubber heels, for granita

Evening Bays." Rim!

attention to "Afternoon and Punching hammers.

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We should say that the local

gardening enthusiast who never

There is no truth in the rumour tiras referring to the strawberries Since October of last year imports that Hongkong's cricket selector he has grown on the Peak, should

The pilat of a Royal Air Force of merchandise have fluctuated from are now known, as the Dejection be an authority on a raspberry.

plan was carried three and a half miles over London to-day by para- chute while his machine crashed into the garden of a house in East London.

People who noticed the maching fall saw the pilot leap, drop and then get carried by the wind out of night over the tree-tops,

The machine was wrecked and the pilot alightly injured.--Reuter.

- CANADIAN PREMIER

IN LONDON.

When

the

in that month

the lowest dollar value (63.2 millions) Committog!

the highest (71.8 | March, 1931, while ex- ports fluctuated from $37.7 millions

millions)

in February, 1971 to $54.4 millione in

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We think it may be taken for

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There is no truth in the rumour

March, 1931. The figures are given granted that any girl knows a that a local angler who ignored below with the sterling equivalents, trombone player the minute he his botter half's advice, didn't catch anything until he got home.

at

average rates of exchange, in kisses her." brackets:

Imports Exporta October $53,188 170 $40,504,831

(£3,433,778) ( 3,009,249) November $36,110,372 $42,069,093

(£ 3,510,157) ($ 2,094,163) December $59,110 180 $48,609,920

12 3,380,520) (£ 2,779,"1

$59,669,025 $47,073.829 ( 2,931913). (£ 2.381 212) $65,502,410 $37,721,867 ( 2,582,483) (£ 1,788,742) $71,773,140 $54,434,250 ...(£ 3,632,584) (£ 2,079.185)

January

February

March

April

May

WELCOME BY MANY REPRESENTATIVES.

London, Nov. 20. Minister, Mr. Bennet arrived at Juno

Canadian Prime

Waterloo Station this evening on his holiday tour to Europe, he July was met by representatives of the Prime Minister Mr. Ramsay Mac August Donald, who is spending the week

"The reports that Chinese and geney of forestalling. He stated The Solicitor General, Sir Tho-end at Chequers, the Dominions Korean Communists are being sent that before the term of the Billmas Inskip, describing into Manchuria from the Soviet the Government would bring for- Bill as a landmark in the constitu- London-British Wireless.

the Office, and Canadian residents in Union constitute a provocatory lie ward constructive proposals for tion history of the British Em- totally unfounded in fact,"

Agriculture and.

The Soviet Government charne- | Britiah Wireless,

terizes the Mukden reprta 19

attempts by adventurers to distract the world's opinion from their own activities."

Industry-pire said it was not a treaty draft

DONCASTER MINE DISASTER.

ELEVEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION..

but the product of mature 'con- sideration by representatives of all members of the Commonwealth. British Wireless.

HIGH TREASON.

The reports which incensed the Монсон Government allegedly originated with representative) Japangoo military authorities in Mukdon. They stated that 300 Chinese and Korean Communists and red partisans from Blagoves- shensk and 200 other Communists from the upper. Amur district were marching southward.

The reports also alleged that and ferly injured in an explosion seta fost in Spain.

Madrid, Nov. 20. The

Cortes has found. King Alfonso guilty of high trenson and sentenced him to perpetual banish- mont.

He is now an outlaw and Hablo seized by any-Spanlard if he His property will be confiscated Reuter

London, Nov. 21. Elovon miners hvo been killed to

GERMANY WANTS

ENQUIRY.

.

Perhaps the next Interport wil! see loss nibbling and more hitting, Lettuce pray so!

The Chinese are also advancing five points in the Manchuria issue. | No doubt the Longue finds it a

thorny problem.

--804,701,589 $40,030,734 It is interesting to notice that

(2 3,167,682) (£ 2.258,588) the local aquarium haa, side by $42,049,034 side, one sucker fish and two (£2,799,919) (8 2,054,706) | sharks.

$58,117,240,

$57,870,770

$48,855,817

(C 2,749,804) (8 2,101,425) $58,012,011 $41608,449

(6 2,000,845) (8 2,080,172) $80,878,222 $44,059,882

( 2,917,081) (E 2111203) Beptembeb 308,450,477

$44,980-877

October

($ 3,222,098) (8 2284,1856) $60,604,090 $49,518,628 ( 3,061,497) (š 2,091,442) Mean rate of exchange for October 1931 H.K. 1=1£ 23⁄4d. **

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Values by Countries. Bome of the values of imports and exports of merchandise by countries are given below, the 1980 figures in brackets.

Imports

YOUNG COMMITTEE TO REVIEW FINANCE. ·

U. K. Basel, Nov. 20. The Rank of International Settle. Canada ments has received a copy of the Gorman memorandum applying for Indis the conveestion, without delay" of a special advisory committee China N. under the Young Plan, to enquire

China"§. and financial position.--Rexter, star

munition was being delivered to which occurred at Bentley Colliery, and he la deprived of all rights into Germany's

(Continued on Page 2.). Dear Doncaster-Reuter A

economic

7.707.882 (5,860,038)

403,484 (231,747) 2,121,008

Exporta

After he had been knocked out in a contest held in London. recently, a boxer anng a verse of a popular song. His opponent should have hit him harder.

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A certain soap claims to "enhance the beauty of the face"- unless one happens to tread or it!

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Perhaps some of these criticised broadcasts are too broad?

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Do your Christmas shopping

From the economic front:- carly. This will give you more What about the girl who refused time to play with Johnnie's model to make-up when she went to a engine. masked ballr

She was only a plano-tuner's

One gathers that local markets daughter, but she was upright are quiet. So much so that you with well-turned legs! can almost hour the dollar drop. 00 Hongkong may possess with kinks, but not only cats!

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A local angler who was thought cata to be birdanesting, was merely stalking that fish which is sup- posed to climb trees!

Report has it that an eager young man at a recent local party Tho Rotary Club has referred 642,874

took a seat at "musical chairs" to the Chamber of Commerce, (380,182) simultaneously with a young lady: enquiries nu to a market for milk 140,849 It is not recorded whether he won here, and requesting Information (226,634) | by, a lap,

on the origin of "kinky-tailed

Although the Intter frequently observed in close must proximity to the formar, the wonder what kind of dance the Rotarians were probably justified, Seann Truibhas in. We under- in requesting the O. of C. to supply stand that it is the real thing. the key to the posar, ANNU

550.857 (1,094,085) --(079,100) 9,448815 7,282,494 (1,124,050) (0.887,622) 6,959,760 *10,084,838 (Continued on Page 9.).

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