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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY,

LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT FOR BRITISH FAR EAST TRADE

New U.S. Trade Pact With Cuba

Washington, Nov. 30,

The State Department an- nounces la early intention to negollato a supplementary trade azrcement with Cuba.

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Sugar, tobacco, palators and ram will be the main commo- dities affected,

that It is emphaalsed general revision of the currcut trade agreement is not contem- plated. The negotiallons will be directed simply to make additions and modifientious to the existing agreement Reuter.

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Why Germany Manages To Avoid Sirikes

Herr Hess On Strength

Of The Army

BUT MIDLAND BANK

SEES HOPE IN ANGLO-U.S. PACT

LONDON, Nov. 30.

WITH REGARD to British export trade to the Far East, there is little ground for encouragement, states the Midland Bank Monthly Review, which adds:

"Because five of six factors which of adopting an active policy for the have been holding down the trend development of the export trade. of business in Great Britan have Mr. II. W. Kerr (Cons.) supporting became favourable, or are becoming declared that britain could not less unfavourable, there is a prima cept Jupan's refusal to allow her to the trade with China. The Lancashire ¡facle case for supposing that

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year ago cotton trade was in a terrible plight, recession which began a has run its course. The gradual re- Lancashire had a formidable oppo-

United Siates must nent in Japan, but Lancash.re must- covery in the

and use exert a powerful influence on the tighten its useles

source to mezt that ennditions in Great Britain, not only available

because they Lend to enlarge the competition.-Reuter. external demand for British goods and raw materials from a wide eir- cle of countries, which in turn buy Irom Great Britain, but also because of the infectious character of a more optimistic feeling on the part of the

nvestor and entreprentur.

uf and

"The

Trade Anglo-American

calculated to cun- agreement is tribute towards the expansion

wide trade ove

over Herr Rudolf Hess, Biller deputyun extensive range of commodi- speaking at a workers' demonstration

The fall in the general level

Komotau, Sudetenland, Nov. 30.

Brza,

at the Mannesmann steel and tube of primary commodity prices upp works, made reference to the events

when he declared:

car-

ed to have been checked, in France, wh

wheat and colien still suffer, due to "No strikes ocette because they are injurious to in the excasss in supplits. The recent

trial production."

Germany

ot

adjournment of the dollar-steri.ng race has probably removed a greater Herr Hess added that the workers part, if not perhaps the whule, had to thank the German army for former over-valuation of sterling,

echsequence their freedom. They felt safe be- and the major

is to cause they had a strong army, aero-place Britain in a better position to planes and anti-aircraft forers. Great compete in world markets-Reuter. na was the cust, the workers were ready to bear the sacrifices entailed by further re-armament which had

been forced on them by others-- Reuter.

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JAPAN'S OPPOSITION

TO LANCASHIRE

London, Nov. 30.

The conditions of the cutton trade

as affected by Japan and India were put to the forefront of the arguments of speakers in the Ilouse of Com- mous to-day, when Mr. 1. Sutelite (Cons.) drew attention to the need

COLONIES CLAIM MAY BE A BLUFF

London, Nov. 30.

The possibility of Germany bluffing ver colonies was mentioned by Lord Halley In an address to the English- Speaking Union to-day, when he said I had been afirmed that German olonial propaganda was designed to ercale an artificial asset which Herr filler would offer to abandon in re-

NON-STOP FLIGHT ACROSS

· AMERICA

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New York, Nov. 30. The first non-stop trans-con-

tnental flight in an 800 pound one-seater plane was completed, to-day by Johnny Jones, former vaudeville dancer, who landed at Roosevelt Field, New York, after a flight from Los Angeles, lasting 30 hours, 40 minutes.

He carried 146 gallons of fuel, sufficient for a 36-hours flight.

When he left Los Angeles he every said he hoped to complete the flight in 28 hours-Reuter.

DECEMBER

The TORTURES

that lie in wait for STOMACH SUFFERERS

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P.O. Box 755, Hong Kong. karpu.

Mag not Line troops headed for home, alter real from Guty on the French-German border, when the dangerous days of the Czecho-Slovakian crisis were over. They are passing the German gate at Metz, France. They were part of the French army of infonry, artillery and tank corps detach- ments and were reviewed by General Gamelin.

How Hongkong Nearly Lost

At Verde

Was Freighter

Crash in

Island

ȚITH A GAPING HOLE extending back 20 feet from her bow, her plating

WITH

badly wrenched, and hx cargo scaked in oil and sea water, the 5,863-ton British turn for a free hand in Eastern freighter Greystoke Castle which is well-known in Horgkong recently floundered in-

Europe.

It would be dangerous to direct

to port at Manila at the end of a tow supplied by a tug and two launches. Thirty-six hours previously she had crashed into Verde Island, off Mindoro, and had come near to being lost,

British policy on that theory, added! Lord Halley. The return of colonies to Germany would lead to a real Bening her ill-fated voyage ut mart threw the ship out of control, the ship if it needed uralstance, donger in bringing Lack to Africa Hongkong, the stromer

was over- and the vessel began to drift, as no and upon receiving an affirmative answer, the lug began the operation anchors were dropped. with imperialistic ideas of power

taken by heavy rains after she t

of transferring the tugs to the stern xpansion.

The ship begun to make water with of the freighter and chipping tow Mall and off the coast of Mindoro,

dest crash, and in a few minutes lines on the bow of the vessel. the forward holds were flooded. The mann ver look at pheout fro These were clos.a miticaly so hours and when the work was com the vessel.

that the food did not spread to thepleted, the church bar

thip, However, hat both the Trabajador and the However, the ship crashed into r parts of the

freighter were in Batangas bay. The

There was also the serious possa heavy for enveloped her. Captain bility that the return of the colonies G. C. Edward lowired the speed of might lead to the break-up of the British Empire.

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The only two reasons which might the land. Omers on the bridge 625 bates of hemp loaded at Manila,

ty their return would be the then ordered full speed astern, to pull with a water and oil which madging about three miles per hour, ac-

the only cargo on bolid, wire soaked ertainty that it would avoid war, the ship off the rocks. The engines for which our resources at the tire responded and the stem of the chip, resped from some of the tank. would not permit us, and that their in turn crushed into rocks loented f return would make radical changes Virde Island. The force of this securing peaceful relations insteond impact damaged the two pro- Europe,Renter

pellers and the rudder. This second

TO-DAY'S RADIO

THROWN OUT OF BED

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currents were sw.ft, the drift aver-

cording to olliers of the Trabaja- dor. The officers believe that, these unusually strong currens were re- sponsible for the accident, as they rous: have thrown the freighter off ils course Friday night.

According to Dorotco Padilla, cus- tons inspector Woo was on 00:3 the ship was travelling at a sprea of 13 knots when the accident hap- | FINAL REPAIRS IN HONGKONG ipened. The crash threw him out of bid where he was rendbig a maga- zine..

ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) W. P. Davey, slept throughout it at.

Radio Programme Broadcast by Brahms Symphony No. Z.B.W, on a Frequency of 845 k,c's

and on Short Wave from 6-11 pm.

-on 9.52 m.c's. per second.

G Studio-Children's Hour.

7 Closing Local Stock Quotations.

A

7.03 Beethoven-Quartet In

Major, Op. 18, No. 5.

In F Major CHILDREN'S HOUR 8.03 Studio-Z.D.W. Orchestra.

The Greystoke Custle is expected to remain in Manila harbour until at 1st December 5, when it is sched- uled to leave for Olongapo for fur- her survey and temporary repairs. Final repair work is to be under- taken later on in Hongkong.

But to at least one passenger of the ship, all the events of the nign went unnoticed. Miss Ruth Davey, 14-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Owned by the Loncashire Shipping Company, Ltd., with J. Chambers and woke up to and the ship being and Company, as managers, the towed back to Manila, Mr. and Mrs. Greystoke Castle is a new motorship built in 1928 by Cammell Laird and 31 Joe; What Shall We Do With The Davey, of College City, Pennsylvania

Drunken Salloe (arr. Terry): Fire only a sligt jar when the ship Company, Ltd., at Birkenhead. She Down Below; Hullabaloo Balay hit the island.

s a twin-screw vessel classified na (Harris)....John Goss (Boriland) All passengers agreed that there 100 A-1 by Lloyd's. She has two and the Cathedral Male Voice Quartet w no manic following the accident. steel decks. Her dimensions

are: with Plano.

The ship sent out distress signal length, 428 feet; beam, 56.1 feet; and 9.15 London Relay--World Affairu' A Talk by A. P. Newton. D. Litt. The Luzon Stevedoring Company Line out of New York to Manila via

When we picked up in Manila, depth, 28.0 feel.

This ship is operated by the Barber 0.39 London BelayThe News.

to th 9.50 D'indy Salle For Flute, Vio act its launch Simmie to Welser); tin, Vioja, Violoncello and Ifarp,,

rescue of the disabled ship, at the From Man in the goes to Hongkong the Hampton Roads and Los Angeles. *** *me ardering the salvage tug Op. 91.

Quintetta Instrumental De Paris. Trabajador, en route to Manila from and returns again. Then aho sail

out of Manlle under the Lodwell- Bongs by Alexander Kipnis Rio Guinobatan, and the tug Monte at Nasugbu, to rush to the assistanc

Castle Line to New York and Castle. In the

Atlantic ports via Java ports, Singa- "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" of the Greystoke

pore and Cape of Good Hop?. Wo: Medley Of Old Time Songs: 8.30 Landon Relay-At The Black (Wagner); The Feast of John, Mid-' meantime, the British vessel

the Batanga. English: 2. Scottish....Sydney Gus- Dog."

ummer Day: "Der Rosenkavalier" drifting fast toward tard pinying on the Organ of the Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar- (R. Strauss); Herr Kavailer (Letter cona

The tug Trabajador, towing tw Gaument Palace Cinema, Chester; parlour. Presented by S. E. Rey-Scene and Waltz)... with E. Ruziczka

Transatlantic Rhythm" Medley....nolds and Pascoe Thornton,

(M:zzo-Soprano) and Berlin State Lighters to Manila, did not pick up Reginald Foort at the Organ of the 9 Bea Shanlies,

Optra Orchestra cond. by Erich dutatress a gnals Feday night of Sally

Borwn; Hanging Johnny; Orthmann.

ita wireless operator was naleep. Paramount Theatre, London.

10.22 Whisky Johnny (arr. Terry); Storm

sighted Brahms-Symphony No. 3 When alio

the Greys.OKL

Beirut, Nov. 30, 1. "The Caliph of Bagdad”-Over-Along; Roll The Wood-File Down in F Major, Op. 95.

| Castle at about 4 a.m. Saturday, whe The French military court has be- ture (Bolldien).

(arr. Taylor Harris); Nous irons A Willem Mengelberg and His Con- noted that the freighter had two red gun the trial of 80 costs of alleged

certgebouw Orchestra,

lights on the forward mait, showing *murdling of arms Info Palestino,- 11 Close Down.

that it was out of control. She ask-cuter.

2. "Dolores" -Volso (Waldteufel); Played by the Lener String Quartet. 3. Murmuring Breeze (Jensen); 4. 7.28 Two Songs by Peter Dawson Serenato Esponela (Jan (Bass-Baritone).

interval Clair De Lune (Paul Ver laine and Gabriel Faure....Mme. J. Bather! (Mezzo-Soprano) accom- panying Herself at the Piano; 5. Zehn Minuton Schlager (Ilona Schneider).

The Lute Player (Allitsen); The Floral Dance (Moss)....with Orches-

tra.

7.36 Cinems Organ.

7.50 Studlo~~Z.B.W. Orchestra.

ments.

TIME, Weather' and Announce-Valparaiso (van Parys); Sclucomunal Sta Lampa (ort. Favara); Haul Away

19.10 (Bass).

SMUGGLING OF ARMS INTO PALESTINE

1988.

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