Customs are rewriting the import Yegulations in such fashion that the burden of proof will be shifted upon Importers s0 that the importers faust prove that imported products {were not made by convict labour, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah joined with other Senators in Predicting that it will be impossible to maintain the one per cext. income tax rate next year, even if large amounts of foreign debt payments are diverted to the purpose of helping to balance the budget, Col Patrick J, Hurley, U. S, Seeretary of War, ordered 13 organizations of ordnance, engineering, field artillery and cavalry branches reduced to inactive status, and made drastic reductions in other branches of service in order to permit the Air Corps to increase its personnel by 1248 men.
The "Daily Mail" contends that' the present practice of dumping by the "Soviet is being used as al means of propaganda for the purpose of ruining British industry, making the workers more diseantented and consequently further opening the way for communism. opera for millions of radio Ustenors as well as the general public in London and the provinces the object of a plan arranged between the Covent Garden Opera Syndicate and the British Broad-asting Corporation. More than two hundred performances will be given yearly and of these at least 60 will broadcast. An annual income of £30,000 has been guaranteed from various sources.
The U. 8. Navy Department's 1931 programme requires G.$100,000,000 for new construction and G.$40,000, 000 for modernizing three battle ships, The programme includes one aircraft carrier, one 10,000-ton cruiser with 6 inch guns, a destroyer flotilla, and three or four submarines cee President Hoover has indicated that the Treasury might have to face a slight deficit at the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 1981, but edged that it would in no way) injure stability of the Govern: ment, which had developed a surplus for years The plain clothes men guarding the Soviet delegation to the preparatory disarmament commission were doubled following the receipt of an anonymous letter by Soviet Foreig Commissary Litvinof alleg-Ing that a plot was being on foot to assassinate the leaders of the de-
The Governor of the Dutch East Indies declared that both Dutch and French colonial. administrations must be on their guard against the subversive tendencies which are being fed by Communist propaganda "and unless we succeed in erecting 'a dam against the Communist tide all our colonial work which is essentially a work of civilization -will be for naught."
The Preliminary Opium Conference at Whitehall reached a provisional agreement regarding the manufacturing quotas of coe fame to be allotted to the various manufacturing countries. Turkey and Japan both reserved their decisions, The Premier emphasised that the Government intended to carry out its mandatory obligations to both sections of the population in Palestine. see The U. S. Customs is considering a plan for making officers on the principal passenger ships plying to the Orient "dollar a year men," fully sworn as customs officers and empowered to search staterooms of passengers for smuggled narcotics The French airmen Goulette and Laloustte arrived at Saigon from Paris in the record time of 124 hours (five days and four hours), during which they had only nine hours' sleep.
A. conference of the heads of some According to reports from Doorn (Holland), where the _ex-Kaiser. Witholm lives in exile, during the last week or so the former German monarch has been taking a sort of university course in sociology. Five eminent German professors were recently invited to Doorn who ivered a series of lectures on "The Origins "of European Civilization from the Stone Age in Western Asia." cee Official quarters confirm the signing of a Canadian-Norwegian treaty ander which Norway renounces her sovereignty over the Sverdrup Islands to the West of Greenland Which were discovered and charted by. the second From expedition of the great European stores, covering nine nations, was held at Harrods last month for the discussion of statistical problems arising out of the present world conditions and general pooling of information. 'The conference represented a total' trade of £50,000 sterling.
Kuewine, provincial capital of Kueichow Province, will no lon be known by this' name, but will henceforth be called Kueichu. An order to this effect has been issued by the Executive Yuan to the Ministry of Interior in compliance with a recent petition from the Kueichow Provi
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