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FEBRUARY 21, 1934. 日八月正

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BLIZZARD SWEEPS NEW YORK: SEVENTEEN DEAD

FRENCH MONETARY POLICY

ADHERENCE TO OLD PRINCIPLES

PRICE CONTROL

Paris, Feb. 21.

It was intimated in the Chamber of Deputies last night that the French Goy- ernment has no intention of following the British and American policies of in- fluencing commodity prices by currency control.

The Government's policy neeks In adjustment of the level of internal and external prices but without currency, manipulation.

The method was enunciated by the Finance Minister, M. Germain Martin, in the course of a speech in which he declared that internal account of prices were high on agricultural protection and the re- sults of the war.

LEAST PAINFUL.

pursue

The Government would the least painful method of reator- ing the country's maximum activity, simple and was convinced that devaluation would not bring about an adjustment of prices.

tes

The Central Park in New York inches deep in snow.

ROYAL ROMANCE,

ANOTHER SWEDISH

PRINCE..

RENOUNCES RIGHTS

LONDON WEDDING.

Stockholm, Feb. 20.

avniciosciate mas passed Another Royal romance a Bill raising the Customs duty on

from 3.54 franes to 7.76 has come along to distress francs a kilogram, with the object the Swedish Royal House, of protecting the French Colonies,

with the announcement of especialy Indo-China, Reuter,

the engagement of Prince Sigvard to Miss Erika

MR. EDEN'S TALK WITH HERR HITLER

Patzck, the daughter of a

Berlin merchant

Disarmament Discussed the engagement has

in Berlin

Prince Sigvard is the second son of the Swedish Crown Prince and been an- nounced in defiance of the wishes of King Gustav and of the Crown Prince.

The young Prince is following the example of his cousin, Prince of Prince Lennart, eldest son William, the accond son of King

Prince Lennart Gustav,

·re-

London. Feb. 20. After Mr. Anthony Eden's visit to the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, to-day a communique was issued stating that the discussions, which were conducted in a friendly CASTAICPROFILE NEKENKA ZELAZNICE spirit, were principally concorned with the solution of the disarma- ment question and had us their point of departure the German suggestions put forward during the diplomatic, negotiations of last month and the recently published Memorandum of the British Gov- ernment-British Wirelcao.

BRITISH FINANCE

FIGURES

SLIGHT REVENUE

DECLINE

London, Feb. 20. The latest Treasury returns show that ordinary revenue for the current year up to 17th February amounted to £609,701,- 084. At the corresponding date of last year, the amount stood at 4012;224,045..

NORWEGIAN SHIP

SAFE

Off Goodwins After

Sixty Hours

London: Feb. 20. After being sixty hours aground on the Goodwin Sands off Deal, the Norwe- gian motorship Vestrard was refloated this afternoon.

For three hours, a fleet of fourteen steam tugs pulled steadily on the vessel before she was towed clear. She ran on the Goodwins in a thick fog-British Wire- less.

nounced his rights of succession Orindary expenditure to date and titles to marry Miss Karin for the current year totalled Nissvandt, daughter of a Stock

compared withholm business man. £608,302,793, as £652,767,268 as the corresponding

King Guatay has announced that date last year.-British Wireless."

if Princo Sigvard marries with out his consent, ho will forfeit his royal rights.

NEW CUNARDER

MONEY VOTE IN COMMONS

London, Feb. 20. The Prime Minister stated in the Commons that as the Govern- ment considered the matter urgent, a Bill to facilitate the construction of the now Cunarder would be in- troduced at the earliest possible moment, and the necessary money resolution would be put down for Thursday-British Wireless,

The Prince has replied by in- dicating_that he proposes to marry Miss Patzek In London shortly--Reutor.

ROYALTY AT FAIL.

London, Feb, 20. H.M. the Queen, accompanied by of York the Duke and Duchess and the Duke of Gloucester, apent three hours at Olympla, London, to-day Inspecting with evident interest the stalls and exhibits of the British Industries Fair British Wireless..

Rail and Road Traffic Disrupted BLACK SHIRTS IN

MEMORIAL HOME COMPANY CONTROL

BLAZE

FIREMEN HELPLESS IN FREEZING WEATHER

FOOT OF SNOW IN NEW YORK

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1893.

NEW YORK, FEB. 20.

: WRETCHED CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN PRO- DUCED THROUGHOUT THE NORTH-EASTERN

BATTLE

Shanghai Electric Undertaking

London, Feb. 20.

A committee of share- holders of the Shanghai Electric Construction Com- pany, claiming to represent fifty-one thousand shares, have circularised the share- holders requesting proxies to oppose the resolution for the transfer of the direction of the Company to Shang- hal-Reuter,

'BOLTON'S RISE

STATES BY THE SWIFT DESCENT OF ARCTIC | GREAT VICTORY AT WEATHER, ACCOMPANIED BY A FIERCE BLIZ- ZARD WHICH HAS CRIPPLED 'COMMUNICA- TIONS OVER AN IMMENSE AREA.

Eight inches of snow in New York City caused the werst traffic snarl for years, motor-cars being brought to a standstill and abandoned in scores, while railway services were completely disrupted. At least half a million people, season-ticket holders, were unable to get to their offices to-day.

OLDHAM

CHALLENGING FOR PROMOTION

ENGLAND

PROVOCATION TO DISORDER

PROHIBITION LIKELY

London, Feb. 20. The Mosley Black Shirt cam- paiga in England is causing in- creasing concern to the authori- ties, not because of the headway it is making but because of the hostility aroused in many places.

Aaked in the House of Commone; whether he proposed to prohibit

the wearing of uniforms by Sir-Oswald Mosley and two of his political parties, the Home Secret- lieutenants. There is a growing ary, Sir John Gilmour, said that movement for the prohibition of the representations on the subject had wearing of uniforms by political

reached him

parties In England,

from many quar- ters.

Ho was most : concerned with the provocative offect of such uniforma in the streets and public places, and distur- bances, which

the police attri- Sir J. Gilmour, buted to the wearing of political uniforms, had increased from oleven in the first' London, Feb. 20, half of 1933 to twenty-two in the Bolton Wanderers are in bril. last six months.

The liant form just now. Following

At least seventeen persons are dead as rect re-up their remarkable. 3-0 Cup vic sult of the bitterly cold weather, while Army aumentory at Liverpool, on Saturday, défented _Oldhani attempting to carry the mails, found themselves they to-day

Athletic by three goals to one at: Oldham, in a Second Division league match.

A romarkable scene after « fire in the United States during Arctic

and coated the burning building in lelolea.

weather conditions. The water froze almost as soon as it left the hasss

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battling with perilous snowstorms both in the east and west.

One machine crashed at Greenville, South Carolina, but the pilot escaped without injuries and the mail was saved.

Great interest was taken in the performances of the Army fliers on the air mail carrying exploits.

FORCED TO GROUND. ·

veterans, in a fire which broke out.

The success puts them in u strong challenging position for promotion, the leading positions In the table being:

Grimsby Brentford Bolton

Port vale

DLF.A. Pts.

20 20 1. 8 70 41 41 20 15 6 04 47 36 20 10 2 11 67 44 34 28 14 0 80 83 33

Blackpool... 20 12 0 8 40 39 33

Preston

28 18.00 51 38 32

question Was

whole engaging his serious consideration.

British Wireless.

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ATTEMPT ON MA CHAN-SHAN

SUSPECTS HANDED

·OVER TO CHINESE

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Tientsin, Feb. 21. Except for the gunman who was

BELGIUM MOURNS

LATE KING

THOUSANDS FILE PAST COFFIN

IMPRESSIVE SCENES

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Brussels, Feb. 20. Belgians of all ages to-day and to-morrow are paying their last respects to the late King Albert, who is lying in state at the Royal Palace at Laeken.

Thousands of men, women and

In the Third Division (North), wounded when resisting arrest by York City took part in a high-the police, the would-be assassins scoring game at Rochdale which of General Ma Chai-shan, after children are standing in a queue added to the home side's discom- brief trial, have been transferred at least a mile long, waiting to fiture at the foot of the table, to the control of Chinese authorities, file slowly past the open coffin. Rochdale scored three goals, but by the authorities of the British

Some of the mourners from · it was far from sufficient for Concession. It is generally be.

aix in outlying districts started hours victory, their own defence being lieved that the gang,

number, belongs to the organian-before dawn to-day to go to the penetrated on six occasions...

tion which has been responsible capital, where rich and poor alike It was Rochdale's seventh de for reactionary activities against and joining in a last act of devo feat of the season.-Reuter.

patriotic Chinese.-Central News. tion to their beloved Sovereign..

NEW AIRPORTS IN

FUKIEN

at the Soldiers' Memorial Home at JAPANESE COMPLAINT Brookville, Pennsylvania.

The outbreak soon had the build- ing completely in lfs grip, trapping] many of the inmates.

The firemen were unable to cope with the flames for some considerable time owing to the

fact that the hydrants were

frozen.

One machine managed to battle

When water was obtainable its way through extremely foul weather from Cleveland to Newark, froze on the building. but dozens of other machines, both army and commercial, which ven- conditions, were forced to go to tured attempts to defy the weather

Įground.

All along the Atlantic seaboard, planes were forced down.

In the South and Middle West, better success marked the army

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THE CONSULAR SERVICE

LATEST BRITISH

CHANGES

London, Feb. 20. . The following Consul-General appointments were announced to- day:

The body will be taken on Thursday from the Palace to the Cathedral Church of St. Gudule) where Mass will be sung, after which the procession will be re- formed and the cortege will re- ceed to Laeken for the burial- Reuter's Special Service...

MOVING TRIBUTES IN PARLIAMENT

Prime Minister's

Oration

...

Nanking, Feb. 21.

Mr. Goodwin from Rio to Zurich, Report from Tokyo suggests that the Japanese Government in- Mr. Lowdon from Cologne to Rio, tends to remind the Chinese Mr. Bell from Basle to Cologne, Government of Japan's anxiety over Sir Harold Satow from Beirut to

London, Feb. 20. the alleged international afgni-Tunie, Mr. Lomas from Tunis to

Eloquent and moving tributes to Itficance of the two big aerodromes Salonika, and Mr. Havard, who has the late King Albert were delivered recently built in Amoy and Foo-heen Oriental Secretary at Toboran in both Houses of Parliament: to- and recently at the Department of

day. Overeens Trade,, London, to Beirut.

-British Wireless.

chow.

THRILLING RESCUES.

Mr. Wang Ching-wel declared in witnessed, but ten of the inmates representative that the two agro- Thrilling rescue scones were an interview with a Central News

lost their lives.

dromes referred to were merely the All day long driving snowstorms old ones, enlarged somewhat in were experienced over a large order to meet the needs of military aron, making it extremely difficult operations against the "Reds" and for railway travellers to get to civil aviation.

Tho report that the cost of build-

town.

as

The blizzard,' preventing hun-ing the aerodromes in Fukien was nir mall carriers and some of dreds of clarka and operators from mot from the US. Cotton and them established new records. reaching Wall Street, caused a Whant Loan was branded.

delay in the opening of the Now absolutely groundless Contral The blizzard raging in New York York Cotton and Stock Exchanges News, State has carpeted the entire coun-until 11 am, ・・ try with inches of snow, com- pletely disorganising the carriago of food supplies etcetera—United Pross.

MEMORIAL HOME FIRE,

New York, Feb, 20.

·RAILWAY BONDS

NEW FLOTATION AUTHORISED

and

In the Commons, the floor galleries wore crowded when at the end of question time the Prime Minister rose to move that King George be asked to convey an ex- Be of the deep regret with

the House had learned the news of King Albert's death and to pray him to express the profound Aympathy felt with the Queen of Belgians, the Royal family and the Government and people of Belglum.

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The Prime Minister aald the late King held a unique place among Nanking, Feb, 21.

the rulers of Europe. He recalled The Nanking Executive Yuan how at the outbreak of the war in TRANSPORT DISORDER.

The Hongkong University Graduates Association will hold its annual has approved a proposal by Mr 1914, this quiet and unostentatious Traffic in the city was diagoneral meeting on Friday at 6 pm Koo Meng-yu, Minister of Rall- man was unshakeable In his devo organised by snow a foot dost in at Lane Crawford's Restaurant, Ex-ways, for the flotation of a firat tion to national liberty and his

sories of railway loan bonds to the loyalty to obligations spiestip the suburbs and six inches deep change Building. Tes will be served

amount of $12,000,000, to be He was the embodiment of his In the centre of the city at 480 p

All transportation sarvices E

devoted to the construction of a people and one of the most power

The Arctic weather accounted throughout New Jersey, MA The P. and O. linor Rawalpindi is number of new lines and the im- ful personal factors in the conduct for merous doctor wag enchusetts and Polinivan were des here from Shanghal at 8 am, on prevement of the existing lines of the VANESA Fiby month passed

Central News ***** ton widows or daughters of War in complete disorderst

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