The Archive · 1934

Road Motorists

In view of the fact that several motor car accidents involving the deaths of Pedestrians have curred the vicinity of Chin Shan Tsu! Station on the Shang hhal-Hangchow Road, British 5

One dad, one wounded and eight others arrested was the result of taid by the Chinese Water Police in Conjunction with: the French Potice Gn'ruceday (Nov. 20) night, all the fxeitement" being overs within a frinute or two\and none of the potice party, being. injured Sceking''a party of alleged Kids nappers, believed to be living. at 14 Bourgosne alleyway, Avenue &u Rol Abert, detectives of the First District Water Police went to. French Police Headquarters on. Tuesday night' for" amsstance. "A raiding party was quickly organized, and the Eombined forces" proceeded to. the House indicated ud in steel walstcosts, detectives awietty approached. the house. They Sretully entered the ground. oer foam, and here arrested, ay suspects, tie woman and two men they found there, "Then the detectives went, the state Out of Window Gathering themselves together, tne detectives rushed through a door on the frst floor landing, into a room where four men and' three women were lying on beds, smoking Two of those in the room made a rush to escape. One jumped out of a window, a man by the name of Ab Se. He broke his neck when he {ell Dr, H. Chatley, in his. presidential address to members of the local association of the Institution of Civil Engineers, held at the Shanghai Waterworks on Friday, took as his subject "The relation' between en= Bincering and the depression, Dr. Chatley said that engineers could no. tonger remain indifferent to the great economic problems of the day, After mentioning briefly' the widely varying alleged causes of the depression he put forward the view none of them were fundament except the exhaustion of con=

Economic arguments were in gen eral futile and) the only sound method of {avestigation was the study of Tong trends, This reveals that, during prosperity expansion of goods and debt occurs according to Compound interest rules which can~ not possibly be maintained but are nevertheless generally assumed to be normal. Owing to technical science there isa potential abundance for mited populations but, to obtain it is all essential to maintain the buying power of the masses.

After a short reference to the British, American, Mahan and Russian attempts to deal with the problem, several paper schemes (Fechnocracy, Douglas system, ete.) were discussed, Ten suggestions were ces "aulad at tommy." "eng Seas me the. stourd in, tee elegy, and alias

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