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No. 24841

四拜禮·號九十月三英港香

THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1936.

BASINOLE COPY 16 CENTE

WHITEAWAY'S

$46.00 PER ANNUM

CIVIL

SERVICE

BURDEN

MILLIONS FOR LOCARNO POWERS' POLICY

SALARIES

ECONOMIES URGED ON GOVERNMENT

MR. M. K. LO WOULD CUT STERLING PAID STAFF

Staggering figures regarding the burden of Civil Servants' salaries were quoted in the Legislative Council this afternoon by the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, when he moved a resolution to the effect that the Colony could not afford to maintain so large and costly a Civil Service as now exists, and urging the Government to take immediate steps to effect all possible retrenchments.

Mr. Lo showed that the full bill for salaries amounts to over fourteen million dollars annually, leaving just over nine and a half millions to cover the whole cost of the civil administration, including social services and the thousand and one items of essential public expenditure. Regarding pensions, Mr. Lo said he shuddered to think what the figure would be in ten years' time, seeing that they already total nearly two million dollars a year. Suggestions put forward by Mr. Lo were that the

NEAR BELEAGUERED

MAKALE

Halian troops on the march to the fighting lines near the Ethiopian city of Makale, now "în Marshal Pietro Badoglio's hands, but reportedly closely surrounded by an army of fierce warriors. The communications between the city, now a veritable fortress, and the Italian main camps, are con- stantly threatened and the supply trains harrassed by marauding bands of Ethiopian tribesmen. The garrison of Makale is said to be suffering from all manner of privations and plance have been dropping supplies to them with parachute attachments,

Government should not engage any more sterling-paid FEARFUL FLOOD Roosevelt

servants without Council; no vacancy should be filled without similar consultation; that facilities be given to officers recently recruited, and not absolutely indispensable, to leave the service, without subjecting the Colony to any liability to pensions; and that a real effort be made to utilise local talent. In his view, the Civil Service was not only over-staffed but in many cases grossly over-paid. The Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, in |= seconding the 'motion, suggested a radical change whereby no sub. ordinate officer should in future be taken on the permanent staff, but should, Instead, he taken on agreements for terma of years which would be renewable at the option of the Government. Str Henry also criticised the Govern- ment for its inexplicable action in not fixing sterling exchange for- ward..

In proposing his motion, the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo said:-Your Excellency,

In rising to move the mution which] stands in my name, I crave that in- ! dulgence of this Council which I know will readily be accorded to a new nember, attempting his maklen speech, and this indulgence is all the niere necessary because I fear I will have to take up some twenty minutes of this Council's valuable

Explosion

On Board

Destroyer

ONE KILLED AND TEN INJURED

WOUNDED AT GIBRALTAR

London, Mar. 18. The Admiralty announces that time in while the destroyer, H.MS, Westcott, saying what I desire to say in support was carrying out exercises an of this motion. The view asserted by plosion occurred, resulting in the termin of my motion is that the death of one able-bodied seaman. Colony cannot afford to maintain the

ex-

the

existing Civil Service, and will. nt One warrant officer and nine ratings once proceed to set out shortly the were injured, but they are in no m grounds on which this view is based mediate danger.

It might have been thought at one

time that one of the alleged differ- The injured men were landed at ences between public and privata Gibraltar and taken to hospital Snance is that, whilst in private Renter's Bulletin Service.

Inance outlay must be gauged and

conditioned by Income,

in

publie

Anance the reverse is the case, in that

ADMIRALTY STATEMENT

London, Mar. 18.

TOLL IN U.S.

-

THIRTY-FOUR

NOW KNOWN DEAD

ENORMOUS AREA BURIED BY RISING RIVERS

New York, March 18. The flood disaster in Pennsylvania grows worse hourly.

The rapidly rising waters, which are already over 18 feet deep in Johnstown, scene of the flood terror in 1889 when 2,300 lives were lost, have invaded the much larger and more important city of Pittsburgh.

The famous downtown section, known as the "Golden Triangle" is deep in water and 700,000 persons are virtually isolated and without food and good water. The waters of the Alleghany River have risen to the unprecedented height of forty-four feet and fire has added to the confusion and danger. Fire-fighters have to battle the rising flood water as well as the flames in their efforts to save immensely valuable factories from destruction.

The death roll is mounting hour by hour, and thousands of terror-stricken people of the metropolitan area of Pitts-

burgh have been rendered homeless.

after the expenditures are fixed it is The Admiralty issued the following Fire have also broken out in factor- the duty of the Legislature to provide statement this evening on the ex-ies. of Etna and Lawrenceville follow- the revenues. But this alleged plosion in a British destroyer In the ing explosions caused by the flooding difference is generally regarded as Mediterranean: The Admiralty roof boiler rooms and furnacee.

The illusory and unsound because the gret to announce while His Majesty's oil tanks of the Waverly Oil Works State, like the individual, must in the ship Westcott was carrying out exer- at Lawrenceville, which have been long run cut its coat according to its cisca an explosion occurred which ro-afire, exploded with a deafening roar cloth, and persistent violation of this sulted in the death of one able bodied to-day and blazing oil is spreading on principle must eventually entail the seaman. Ono warrant officer and the flood, causing the fear of

still same consequences, alike for State nine ratings were injured, but are in more frightful destruction and loss and Individual. I unhesitatingly ac- no immediate danger."-British Wire of life-Reutor. cept the validity of this principle. Ross.

POSITION STATED

What, then, la 'the present financial

Worst In Century

STEAM PIPE BURST

New York, Mar. 18. Gibraltar, Mar. 10.

The food disaster is the worst of its kind in the United States in the H.M.Spast century. Thousands of square

position of the Colony? The Hon. The British destroyer,

Mr. N. L. Smith, ae Acting Colonial Westcott, has arrived with one sea-miles in the Eastern statos are sub- Secretary, in the course of his ex-man dead and nine injured as a ro merged and the damago zuna tremely able and lucid Budget speech sult of an accident at sea..

on the 12th September, 1935, after

stating that it was anticipated that

into

At least thirty-four are dead,

countless milions of dollars.-

It is understood that a steam pipe twelve of them in Pennsylvania

the estimated revenue for 1936 would burst-United Press

be about a million and a half behind

the 1936 revised figures, summed up

SHANGHAI MARKET IS PLACID

UNMOVED BY CRISIS IN EUROPE

Appeal To Industry MOVE TO ABSORB

UNEMPLOYED

RELIEF FUNDS

REQUIRED

Washington, Mar. 18. President Roosevelt hus naked Con- press to appropriate $1,500,000,000 for relief work for the financial year beginning July 1.

The President stated that the trend of re-employment is upward, but the present rate of progress in inadequate. Therefore, he appealed to private business to extend its operations in order to absorb an increasing. tium ber of unemployed.

over a thousand million dollars wil be spent from the Treasury in the next financial provious appropriations, while the year as a result of million dollars for various public Budget contains over six hundred work--Reuter Special.

In addition to the sum mentioned,

NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL

SIR' D. SOMERVELL APPOINTED

London, Mar. 18.

FULL AGREEMENT IN SIGHT

THREE POINTS OF PROCEDURE

ربي

COUNCIL WILL VOTE ON TREATY BREACH

London, Mar. 19.

The conference of Locarno Treaty Powers, which commenced at the Foreign Office at 10 o'clock last night, ended at 2 a.m. to-day.

A communique states the delegates exa- mined the draft of a general agreement to govern the treatment of the Rhineland re- occupation problem and the German violation of the Locarno pact. Certain items of the pro- posed agreement obtained approval, with re- serves, since they require further examination, but notable progress was made.

The Locarno powers will meet again to-day to arrange details of their agreement, but nothing definite can be done be- fore the meeting of the British Cabinet and no decision on the draft agreement can be taken without the approval of the French Government. However, there was a very definite re- laxation of tension. this morning,

-It is learned that there are three points to the draft agree- -ment-which-have-been-approved. First, It is agreed that on appeal will be made to The Hague Court for a decision with the compatability of the Franco-Soviet Pact with the Locarno Treaty, Secondly, there will be a demilitarised zone, policed on the German side of the frontler by an international force. Thirdly, there will be collaboration on the part of the British and French General Staffs-Reuter.

MANNING FRENCH FRONTIER

MAURIN REQUIRES MORE MEN

CONFERENCE IN LONDON

(Special to "Telegraph")

Paris, Mar, 18. The French War Minister, General

Sir Donald Somervell, O.D.E., K,C., Louis Maurin, has urged the Army has been appointed Attorney General Commission to call a fresh class to in succession to Sir Thomas Inskip, the colours on the ground that the who has been appointed Defence Co. French troops on the German frontier ordination Minister.

aro. insufflelentiy numerous.--United

Eden Takes Lead

London, March 19. Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, has urged the League of Nation Council to declare. Germany a treaty violator and to notify the Locarno Treaty signatories to that effect..

M. Paul Boncour, French delegate, Baid no full accord had yet been reached in the Council.

The secretariat has boon notified that members of the Counell intend to vote on the Franco-Belgian resolu tion condemning Germany'e unilateral denunciation of the Locarno Pact, in the presence of the German delegates. Nevertheless, the German Ambassa dor, Horr von Hoesch, declares Ger- many intends to attend the Counci sesalon no matter what the agenda may call forth,

A British spokesman has announced, that the British proposal for mutual demilitarlaod zones on the Franco German frontler has been withdrawn. -United Press.

Ministers Busy

London, Mar. 19: After the meeting of the Locarno Pawers, Mr. Eden, Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax remained for an hour. at the Foreign Ofce examining the various taxis for an agreement, the MILITARY CONFERENCÈ

main points of which it is hoped may London, Mar. 18. be embodied in one draft, so that full General Schweissgut, of the French accord may be reached today. General Staff, has arrived in London It is suggested the Longue Council to discuss with the British military proceedings may be interrupted so authorities questions with regard to allow the Locarno Powers to meet at provisional arrangements on the from one o'clock, after which M. Plarre tier.

Flankdin, the French Foreign Minister,

The new Attorney General has been ProBR." Solicitor General since 1933. He was educated at Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford, and is Д

Fellow

of All Souls College. He served throughout the European War Router.

but as far as bullion-brokers were STRENGTH OF corned, there was not the slightest

aign of any momentous decisions There is a divergence of views be- will fly to Paris. It is hoped a finai SILVER

pending. The introduction of man-wear London and Paris, due to the grement may be reached this morn- aged currency and the absence of British wish that a demilitarisation ng so that it may be submitted to

the

British and French. Cabinets to be making arrangement apply to both sides of Reuter poculation appear Shanghai, Mar. 16. Shanghal almost impervious to outelde the frontior, while the French insist which is the worst' hit stále.

The publication, Financa & Com Influences, unless they are directly it should only apply to the Rhineland Three quarters of the great Bothlo- mereo in Its review of the exchang connected with money, values, a and zono demilitarised by Treaty,—— hom Steel works is under water.

markot for the wook onded March 14 "The footure of the past week, has Router Special inter alia, states: " Ohio River Rises

boon the fairly general tendency to "The alarining European news has soll sterling and buy American dol London, Mar. 18.- At Wheeling, Virginia, 80,000 failed to disturb the placidity of the fars. Stiver during the period under Excellent progress has been made persons are homeless as a result of local exchange market. Such a scare review has shown remarkable strength. the dollar rate taken at 1/8, which with the drafting of the agreements the sudden rising of the Ohio River a year ago would have been the pro- With the exception of one day, there Mise May Robertson McCreath was ferences of the Loome signatories seems a prudent figuro, there will reached in the Naval Conference, which reached the highest flood level lude to very wide fluctuations, but has been a slight but steady upward married at the Registry to Mr. Cyril will be decisivo. still be a dodicit, after allowing, for covering the definitions and qualitative in history. the surplus balancom as menticard, Imitation. Hopes are entertained that

last work its influence on the market trend in London, which is all to of about $880,000 The exact figure the texts may be finally approved early, Pennsylvania is leaking badly and is

The Quashoning

China's alvantago as far as the (Continued on Pago 7.).

the position as follows:-"As a ro- NAVAL PARLEY PROGRESS

suls of all these oconomiles the gap

between revenue and expenditure has

been considerably reduced but with

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Forcing Decision

London, March 18. While the divergenco of: British and French views on the Rhineland Shortly after her arrival in the crisis still poreista, it is stated in Colony this morning by the Naldera, French circles that to-night's con-

In was "negligiblemarked· silvance intion of confidence is concoques Abbott, Deputy Registrar of Marri-way, has been given by M. Plorre

"There was a

the quotations of some commodition, Reuter,

Chadderton, of Shanghal. Mr. M. J. No indication of a decision elthor ago, officiated and the witnesses were Flanklin, the French Foreign Minis Air. Stanley Duff and Birs, D, M, Duff, Continued on Pages):

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