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AMERICANS PLAN 1935 VISIT

SMALL ARMY OF INVESTIGATORS

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New York, Dec, 20. The National Foreign Trade Council, co-operating with the American-Chinese Trade Council in Shanghai, has announced that

Shipping

ADMINISTRATION OF SUBSIDY

ADVISORY

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London, Dec, 20,

The Advisory Committee of the tion of the Government grant of Board of Trade for the administra- £2,000,000 a year to British tramp. Vernon Thomson, Chairman, six shipping, will consist of Sir representatives of tramp shipping, two representatives of cargo liners and one independent representa-

It is organising an American tive of the public interest. traders and a corps of secretaries who will compile data for an exby, Mr. Walter Runciman, Prest

This announcement was made haustive report.

dent of the Board of Trade, in. The object of the mission is to the House of increase Sino-American

Commons to-day, trade during the consideration in Com- which, many economists believe.mittee stage is inevitably to become one of the Assistance Bill.

of the Shipping] greatest features of world com-

merce.

The mission will remain in China for three months, Mr. E. P. Thomas, President of the Foreign Trade Council, atates, He is at present arranging the aries for the trip.

prelimin-

A Labour amendment, providing of members uninterested in ship-i that the Committee should consist ping, was defeated by 120 to 43.—~| Reuter.

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later.-United Press.

RUSSIAN REBELS

EXPOSED

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Many of them have been executed during the last few days.---United Press,

very many

YOUNG REFORMER Zinaviest has for years been associated with extreme views. At the age of 18, he join ed an illegal Stelnitat grate in Russle and conducted propaganda the workers. When threatened with arrest, he escaped abroad and studied at Berne University.

Yap Steamship Co., the Chuen On Steamship Co., and the Sai Hing Steamship Co.

of

"It should be mentioned in con-) nection with the employment off 'undesirable' men that sonic their ships carry several hundreds of passengers," added Mr. Kirby. METHODS EXPOSED

Mr. Kirby further states that since theGulld wrote to the com panies this month, the officers of two ships concerned have been approached by their respective owners offering them a small in- crease, but still below arbitration scale, asking them to sign on the ships articles that they are, in re- ceipt of the wbitration wage.

Masters and Chief Engineers of Later, he became a close fel some ships have, Mr. Kirby fur- Tower of Lenin, and after the out-ther stated, been paid as low break of the Great War he and wage as $170 per month. Leniy were arrested by the Austro-Hungarian authorities, but they were later released and went to Switzerland.

Following the overthrow of Taardom, both returned to Russia and became the chief instigatora of the Bolshevik Revolution. When the Third Internationale wda founded in 1919, Zinovieff elected its President.

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A point stressed by Mr. Kirby is that one or two of the bigger Chinese companies have boon-play. ing the game all through by paying the arbitration wage scule. There were no complaints against these companies; but the Galld was de- termined to bring the other Chi- nese companies to book

ARBITRATION SCALE

The scale of wages laid down for "outside" ships under the arbitration award in the 1919 dispute was as follows:

Gross tonnage up to 250.- Master. $306; Chlef Engineer,

UPSET LABOUR Zinoviel became untorious in 1924, when the British Foreign Office. just before the General Election, published the so-called

Zinovici lettor" addressed to $300, English Communists in which 261 to 500 tona.-Mnster, $330: directions Were givin, for the Chief Engineer, $310; Chief Bolshevising of the British Army. Officer and Second Engineer, $280, The letter appeared in the press 501 to 750 tons.-Master, $3561 before the Labour Premier, Mr. Chier Engineer, $330: Chief Ramsay MacDonald, had seen it. Officer and Second Engineer, and the effect on Labour's pron. $290. pects at the poll was disastrous.

The Russian-Government denied The authenticity of the letter, but the British Conservative Party. after an enquiry, pronounced it authentic. During the Schreck espionage trial in Berlin in 1928. the pacifist, Mertens, asserted that the letter had been contveted by Schreck and the former Polish Press Attache, Paciorkowski.

FAST FLIGHT INTO AFRICA

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751 to 1,000 tons.Master, $405; Chief Engineer. $356; Chief Officer and Second Engineer, $100.,

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1.501 to 2,000 tons.-Master. $505; Chief Engineer, $440; Chief Officer and Second Engineer, $320

Over 2,000 tons.-Master, $670: Chief Engineer, $500; Chief Oficer and Second Engineer, $330.

Second Omeer and Third Engineer all tonnages-$245.

Third Officer and Fourth Engineer all tonages.-$235.

Food Allowance.-Sea Going. $40; River $25..

CONVALESCENT

London, Dec, 20, The De Havilland Comet plane

Fenghua, Dec, 21, in which Kenneth Waller, the Mel- Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, who is bourne air race competitor, with convalescent here after receiving the Belgian Captain Franchomme, treatment for his tooth infec- jeft Brussels to-day on a flight to tion, shows improvement.--Central | Leopoldville, in the Conga, toNews. demonstrate the possibility of a

fast air mail perivce along this s route, landed at Oran this after- noon, having completed the 1,000 miles stage in t hours, 50 minutes, at a speed of 210 miles an hour. In view of the weather conditions. it was expected that, the fight. would take at least seven hours..

The airinan will to-morrow proceed to to Nuamey, in French West Africa, 1,500 miles distant.

The Comet is the type of machine in which Scott and Black won the Melbourne race.-British Wireless,

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Appearing on remand before Mr. aboard the steam launch Gannet. On Notice is given that an extraordin Hamilton at the Kowloon Police Court being sentenced, accused asked his ary general meeting of the Muslims

(Special to "Telegraph") this morning, Leung Cheung, un-Worship if he could be granted a of the Sunni Section (other than those employed, 'WAS sentenced six hawker's licence when he is discharged of the Islamic Union), to elect months hard labour, with two years from prison, and his Worship ropiled Trustes, has been called for Sunday,

London, Dec, 20. police surveillance at the expiration that the matter would be seen to by Dec. 23, at 11 am at the Meaque, Riddell has been provisionally The estate of the late Lord of his prison term, for stealing $1.81 the police. "I will do what I can for Shelley Street. All subscribers are valued for probate at £2,000,000.- from Pang Cho, an apprentice stoker | you," romarked Mr. Hamilton. requested to attend.

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