SATURDAY, MARCH 27,
BLACK SHIRTS.
او
MUSSOLINI BLOWS THEIR TRUMPET,
ITALY LOVED OR FEAREDI
(Reuter's Service.)
Rame,, March 26,
On the occasion of the seventh saniversary of Fascism Signor Mussolini sent a message to the Italian Fascists, sashx. intet ulia:
"At home the content of the people is thronging ever more round the Government, which Eas solved formidable problems, whilst oppositions of all sorts
BENITO MISSDIANÍ
Lave been dispersed, Abroad. Mady is loved or feared and re- pected everywhere in spite of the Bpotent mångmures of political forers whichaye dutininely Crur ed
Bull Fascism's heaviest insk We has yet to be confronted muat now under the invincible symbol of the Pasces prepare un eekingly material for the moral power of the Tulian people. "Black Shifts, by all means and against every obstacle, we shall realise our ideal"
GERMAN BANK.
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REDUCTION EN. DISCOUNT RATE
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UNDER WHICH
OLD DISPUTE BETWEEN CHILE AND PERU..'
AMERICAN MEDIATION,
(Reuter's American Service.)
Washington, March, 26.
STEEL TRUST."
THE CHINA MAII.........
TO COMMERCE OPERATIONSɑ POTASH SON APRILIA AN
LONG TERM LOANS.
(Router's Service.)
1.
'BELGIANS: HOSTILE TOL PENSIONS.
EMPLOYER & EMPLOYEE,
Never has a law been greeted with so much hostility in Belgium as that which came into force on January 1, and which deals with pensions for om-
Shadows Before.
COMING, RYÈNTS ADVERTISEN.
IN THE MAIL
Entertainments.
March 27-Queen') Monna Vanna"
Tenure
March 27-World Theatre:
The Marriage Cycle.""
March 27-Star Theatre: "The
Hunted Woman
PATTY 1
Berlin, March 26 Mr. F. Kellogg Secretary of The Rhenish-Westphalian Steel State, has announced "that the Trust. which will be known as
March 28-Star Theatre: No, Governments of Peru and Chile the Vereingte Stahlwerke, is now, ployees.
No. Nanette, 9 p.m. sharp. have sccepted the good offices of practically a fait accompli It In its broed outlifes It stipul April 10-Carnival at Repulse the United States for the settlement of the long-standing Taena-Arica begins active operations on April fates that about a quarter of A Bay Hotel
million people shall pay into a
** 'Sporta......... controversy,
March 27-Hongkong University The Chileans, under the Treaty The purpose of the Trust is pension fund held by the State of Ancon on March 8 1884 occu-tated to be to reduce general ex-5 per cenf. of their salary, or if Athletic Sports meeting on Univer pied the provinces of Tiena and Penditure by the concentration of earning less than 6,000 francs asity Ground, Fekfalum, 2.80 p.m.
March 31-At Stephenla College Arica Since 1880. A popular voto Production so that various, works year. 8 per cent to which the should in 1894 have decided to will only produce material for employer shall add a father 6 annual athletic sports at Hongkong Happy which country they belong, but which they are best suited. It is per cert, bringing the minimum Football Club Ground
Valley. owing to the figure of the negotia hoped that the reduced cost. of total up to 8 or 10 per cent..
April 3-"Extra" race meeting tions for arriving at a modus vive production will bring down. The maximum annual amount
of the Hongkong Jockey Club. 230 endi, a decision was deferred. In prices and increase trade.
of salary on which these per- December 1921, the Chilean Govern- The headquarters of the Trustcentages are to be paid is 15,000
April 0-Fanling Hunt Steeple- Kinght invited the Government, of will be Duesseldorf for steel and francs increased by 500 francs chase meeting at Kwanti raco
Peru to concur in the holding of a Essen for coal
year for each child under 36 sup course. near Furling (New Terr plebiscite. Peru, however. Aug- The capital of the, Trust Has ported by the employee. The tories. vesped a settlement by arbitration been fixed it. 800,000,000 marks. pension becomes due at the age of fand in January 3922 America, in- It is hoped to obtain the neces-65, but may be claimed when the vited Peruslan and Chilean dele-eary working cupitul by means of employee reaches 55, when the gates to Washington to discuss the long term loans. controversy. In Murch. 1022, both partien consented to this proposal and on December 29, 1924, is wan agreed that Chile' should restore the two provinces to Perui in return for compensation of ten millen do Mars. A hitch subsequently oc- Heurred, aut General Pershing was supposed to be acting as a kind of mediator until his healthy recently broke down and he was wrestled to Washington?
MELLON SMILES."
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S IDEA
SCOUTED.."
(Reuter's American Service.)
Washington March 26
The Secretary of the Treasury. 3. Mellon, smiled when inter- visted on Mr. Churchill's speech Jenbled on March 24 in which he threw out the suggestion that the United States could wipe out Europe's war debt to America. He proceeded to show such a pro- posal was impracticable because if the United States cancelled Britain's debt in return for mokeys owed her by other ations, the United States might.;
OIL INTERESTS.
PROTECTIVE MEASURE IN
AUSTRALIA.
(Reuter's Service.)
payment will be smaller.
A
May 1-Extra" race meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Club.
June "Extra" race meeting of
the Hongkong Jockey Ehrb. Provision is also made for a October 2—"Extra" race meeting proportion of the "funds now be- of the hungkong Jockey Club. ling subscribed to be set aside fol November 6-"Extra" race the payment of pensions to em-meeting of the Hongkong Jockey, ployees about to reach the age ( Club..
fmilt.
Auctions.
ab
Bros.. Murch 29-Lammert. The law has pleased neither
Sales Room, office furniture, employed nor employer, and violent protests are being raisert and miscellaneous goods, 1 a.m.
"Keegan's" three-letter code books all over the country, one of the principal objections being that the situation of employers and to critical to allow off such pay workers alike is, at the moment..
Lammert Bros. household furni
March 29-At No.. 4.. Glenealy, by ture. 290 p.m...
Medrs, Sui Heong: Yuen's Godown, Murch-Lammert Bros, at
motomen machinery.. 13 am.
Melbourne, March 25. The House of Representatives has passed a Bill increasing thements being made. Angry Mongkok Kowloon motor vessell capital of the Colonial Of Refinery mands are heard for the suspen-articles and at Cheungsha Wen by £100,000.
sion of the law, or its revision
In several big undertakings in Charleroi the employers. in agreement with their personnel, have decided not to carry out the provisions of the law, at least for the present.
Mr. S... M. Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia
INTEREST ON ADVANCES. expect to be relieved of obligations to its bondholders to an equal
Mr. Bruce defined the purpose degree, and they presumably of the measure as to prevent out- Evoid have to be paid by the side oil interests from dominating
debtor hautona.
the Australian market:
(Reuber's, Servica. }).
Berlin, March 2 The Reichsbank has reducedi the discount rate from eight to seven per cent and the rate of interest for advances from nine to eight per cent.
MONKS MUST. GO.
LATEST DECREE ISSUED IN MOSCOW.
112.
'YOWS OUT OF DATE!
(Reuter's Service.)
Riga, March 26. It is reported from Moscow that the so-called Holy Synod has decided on the total abolition of monasticism throughout Russia, and that monks must renounce their vows as not conforming with the spirit of the times.
FALL OF FRANC.
A NEW LOW RECORD IN
LONDON....
Reuter's Service,)
Mr. Andrew Mellon;
Treasury officials state thas they are not concerned with the fact that America's debtors choose to pay her by means of repara- tions and collections from Ger- many.
Mr. Smooth, of the Debt Com- mision, addressing the Senate, opened the campaign against the opponents of the Italian Debt set- tlement, and begged them not to treat it as a "football of partisan French francs in London touch-politics" or let their judgment be ed a new, low record, closing at warped against Fascist senti 141.30 selling, believed to be ments.
London: March 24,
emanating chiefly from Paris...
JAPANESE DEFENCE.
Tokyo, March 22. This morning the sub-committee
of the Upper House unanimously' passed the estimates of the War
and Navy Departments and decided
DUTCH INDIES.
K
NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL 'APPOINTED.
(Reuter'a Service.)
ל
RUBBER PRICES.
LATEST QUOTATION FROM SINGAPORE..
מי
"MARKET VERY ACTIVE?”
(By Courtesy of 'Méaste.. Carroll Bros.).
Muret, 30-Valuable collection, of postage stamps at Bammerts' sales room, 3.15 p.m. 1
March 29-Annual meeting of
Company Meetings.
the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock, Company, Ltd, at 24 Queen's Build:"
If demonstrations of protest fail to have the desired effect itings, noon. is proposed (saya a mail week report) to present a monster petition to the King.
BRITISH FILM.
BRILLIANT RECEPTION. IN THE USA.
"Nell Gwynn," the a British in nude by Mr. Herbert Wilcox with Miss Dorothy Gish the name part, has met with brilliant reception in the United States, and has definitely secured a contract or distribution in the United States and Canada from Fames "Playera Corporation.
The film was shown to the public by including it unannounced in or dinary kinema programmes In three "different towns and each case it was extremely well; re- fceived"
It is a proof of the capacity of the producers of Brital to make pictures as good as any others that "Nell Gwynn," produced at a cost of £40,000 from a specially written story by Miss. Marjorie Bowen Hastor Rubber Estates Ltd.,should have met with Sadh signal 22% per cent. Anel
Singapore, March 27, -The rubber market is very active. The following dividends have been declared:
Hamilton (FMS) Rubber Co., Ltd, 10 per cent. Anal
Quotations follow (all sales to Hongkong),
April 22-Forty-aighth · meeting. of shareholders of China Suray Ka fing Co..in the office of Messrs.. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., at noon..
Miscellaneous.
March 27--South end of Pedter Street closed to vehicular traffic until further notice from the C.S.P
March 29-Annual meeting of the Hongkong S.P.CA, in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine; Matheson &Co, Ltd., 5.30/ pim-
March 30 Display of singing, dancing and recitation by pupils of Peak School at the Peak Club,
m
EVENING DRESS.
KEEP IT CLEAN IN MURDER TRIAL.
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A certain Marc Antonio, when standing his trial at the Assize Court at Palermo for two particu larly revolting murders, appeared in full evening clothes with a silk hat.
Undismayed by the laughter which greeted his appearance, ha waved his yellow wash-leather gloves to attract the jailer's notice and directed him to spread sheets of paper over the
It 9 just to the wonderful seat in the dock, lest his clothes. places of the world that trippers should be soiled.
do go, and it never seems to me "On a previous occasion, when that the places lose any of their Antonio appeared in court in wonder in consequence.Mr. clothes more befitting his humble.
jailer with a chair.
Allenbys
$3.50
Amalganated Malays Ayer Fanas
4.80 24/20
Connemaras
2.70
Jerams
2:00
John Drinkwater.
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14:39.
Jimahs Pajums
MAN'S DELUSION.
RELIEVED. POOR, BUT LEFT £250,000.
The inquest on Mr. Evan Jones, ex-High Sheriff of Carmarthen- shire, prominent in the coal and steel industries' and a reputed millionaire, who was found on December 18 hanging from a tree in wood on his estate at Trim- waran. was concluded at Llanelly. in mall week
Dr. Samuel Williams expressed
The Hague, March 26the opinion that Mr. Jones had lost
to commit the Naval Budget to a Jonkheer de Graaff, ex-Minster his mental balance.
full session of the. Upper House in Tokio, has been appointed:
East Indies.
Mr. Saunders, the family soli-
with the sugeba that the Gov- Governor-General of the Dutch eltor, said that Mr. Jones recently ernment should ablish a commia sion for the investigation of the country's fuel policy considering it'] ► essential from the standpoints of Industry and national defence that, Japan should be self-supporting with regard to fuel.
SIR J. JAMIESON,
sold an estate for £150,000, and after the deal said: "I am a poor, man. I hope my creditors will get 20 in the '4" Mr. Saunders had! since found that this was a de- fusion. Mr. Jones was wealthy and.
It has been stated that Sirad left £250,000; It was evident.
to
that he suffered from delusions,
The sub-committee also Intends James Jamieson, the British Con- to recommend that the Govern ment should carry out its auxiliary sul-General at Canton, is about ship programme with a view to proceed Home, maintaining present strength, as It The trip is said to be one of considers the country's financial business and pleasure. Sir James condition, warrants this expendi-may devote some of his time to ture-Reuter,
the Foreign Office.
A verdict to the effect thut Mr. Jones took his own life was re-. turned.
It was proposed last December, During Sir James's absence the
The Governor has appointed the that the Naval Replacement pre duties of Consul-General at District Land Ofice at Ting Shan, gramme should be postponed pend-Canton will be carried out by Mr to be a place where a magistrata ing an uncovement in the economie Brenan now in the Conny sit to hear and try complaints. situation in Japan.15
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