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LABOUR PARTY'S CABINET
NOW ANNOUNCED
ONLY FEW CHANGES FROM 1924 ADMINISTRATION
MISS BONDFIELD'S POST
London, Yesterday. of the new Labour Government is issued for publica. tion in Saturday's papers..and is as follows:-
The list
The
Business Manager
China Mail
No. 27,200
BOMBS DROPPED
WHAT RUSSIAN AEROPLANES ARE DOING
KABUL AND THE SOVIET
Peshawar, Yesterday.
HONG KONG
STABLISHED
1346_
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1929.
CARGO WORKING ON A
SUNDAY
LAW AMENDED
LIABILITY OF MASTERS AND OWNERS
UNUSED PERMITS
A traveller from Kabul states that Kabul newspapers confirm the
that report
Russian aeroplanes dropped bombs on Badakshan and
In the "Government Gazette" is other places on the Afghan Turkes-published the draft of a Bill intituled an Ordinance to amend tan frontier.
Anti-Russian feeling is said to the law relating to the restriction be high, and the relations between the Russian Legation at Kabul and of the loading, working and dia
charging of cargo on Sunday," the Afghan-Government-are-strain:
Prime Minister,Right Hon.James Rumvay MacDonald.
Chancellor of Exchequer, Righted-fouter.
Hon. Philip Snowden."
Lord Chancellor. Sankey
Secretary of State for War Hon. Tom Shaw.
Secretary of State for Air,
Thomson
1.
Objects and---Reasons
SICK" GENERAL
DIFFERENCES WITH CHAN MING-SHU
FINANCE CONTROL
SHOWERY !
To-day' report from the Royal Observatory states:
Pressure is highest in the Pacific to the East of Japanı and the Bonin, and relatively low over China generally. A depression is situated ever Tonkin,
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IS THAT SO ?
CONFERENCE ENDED Thoughts Terse, Perverse—and Worse
HOW THE NEW BANK WILL FUNCTION
REPORT TO BE PUBLISHED
lays
Note on the Rainfall-A drop a day keeps the drought away!
"Sweated" labour is rífe in Hong Kong.
Paris, Yesterday, The Reparations experts report has been signed and the Conference is ended.
The little "Cherub" may work The report, which will be the oracle in the way of supplying
On Sunday, published
a little more liquid. that the International down Bank share capital which will be G.$100,000,000, a quarter of which duration of the Labour Govern- will be paid up immediately, shall be of a non political character and be controlled by the Central Banks
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Nine montha is forecast as the
ment.
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Many a doubting Thomas will query Mr. Thomas's ability to
The Week's Great Thought: "Do a "worm" a good turn, and it will sare turn round on you."
Today's Reminder: "It only costs 10 cents a day for a bath(e) at Tai Wan!
The typhoon has played us "dirty". this week.
Chunks of Ginger from the "Daily Press" are being rehashed for the Straits "Thunderer."
the Among
(
cities that
are
Some Hong Kong business men simply swear by the telephone.
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the Experts' Committee. The Governors of those banks solve the unemployment problem shooting up is Shanghai. will be ex-officio directors with the at Home. right to appoint further directors.
The choice of thirst Germany may postpone transfera
revivers of conditional annuities
appears to going to be between oil period not exceeding two years tankers and beer tankards.
Eve whereupon a non-political Advisory |
Не Committee will come into being to
who can make his teeth consider the situation.-Reuter.
water will indeed be blessed by the Water Authority,
over
FORCED LABOUR
( 1 ) Some returned banishees know all about the "finger prints"
on the lands of "Tine."
. The lawn bowler's whine after 2 double defeat: Abolish the League and play for "spunes,"
Some offices in town have now two telephones installed one automatic and the other rheumatic!
Canton, Yesterday, The disagreement between Gen- eral Chan Taal-tong, Troops Dis- bandment Commissioner, in Canton, and General Chan Ming-shu, Chair- man of the Provincial Government of Kwangtung, has not been settled, and General Chan Tsai-tong is still "sick" over the present station in the South.
General Chan Ming-shu is work |ing for division of power between The First Schedule of the
the military and the civil aubori- Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance, tiges but.
same time, the at Secretary of State for Foreign
-1891, Ordinance No. 1 of 1891, con has insisted that one of his sub- Affairs, Right Hon. Arthur Henderson.
Lord Privy Real, Right Hon. J. H. Privy Councillor in 1915. He was tains the form of permit which ordinates, Brigadier Teol Ting-kai, Thobias.
President of Board of Education must be used under the Ordinance.be promoted a Major General and Secretary af State for Dominion
of the seven countries represented Cofonics, Right Hon. in 1915, Paymaster General and That form recites the previous pay-given command of a division. This Afairs
and
would strengthen the Sidney Webb.
Labour Adviser to the Government of the permit fee. No power naturally
to alter Lord President of the Council, Lord ment in 1916, went on a Govern- exists in the Ordinance Parmour.
ment mission to Russia in the this form, so that it can be altered Justice Lerd
following year and was a member only by a new Ordinance. Payment Secretary of State for Home &fairs, of the War Cabinet without port of the fee in advance is inconvenient Right Hon. J. R. Clynes.
folio. He has been President of because it frequently happens that a Secretary of State for India, Cap- the Labour and Socialist Interna- permit which has been taken out is tain Wedgwood Benn.
not used. In such a case the holder Right tional since 1926.
Mr. Thomas was Colonial Scere of the permit is put to the trouble Lordiary in the frat Labour Govern- of applying for a refund of the fee, ment. He has been Labour Mem- and the Harbour Department and Minister of Health. A. Greenwood.
of Parliament for Derby Treasury are put to the trouble of Minister of Labour. Miss Bondfield. Der
It was there- Minister of Agriculture and Fish-since 1910 and for many years making the refund. eries, Right Hon. Noel Buxton.
has been General Secretary of the fore proposed to pass an amending President of the Board of Education, National Union of Railwaymen. Ordinance so as to allow for the Right Hon. Sir C. P. Trevelyan.
Board of Trade, He was made a Privy Councillor subsequent payment of the permit President of the Right Hon. W. Graham.
in 1917. It is understood that he fee. First Lord of the Admiralty, A. V. will now devote himself mainly to
A Penalty Provided
Geneva Yesterday. Alexander.
the unemployment problem with 2. Under the present Ordinance hands of General Chan Ming-shu The International Labour Con-- Mr. Lansbury and Sir O. Mosley, a practice has grown up of return immensely, but to this Gueral ference
A Japanese camera man spoiled | on strike-So, for that matter is Committee отд Forced First Commissioner of Works, George as his principal Heuteriants. ing an unused permit to the Har Chan. Tsai-tong will not age, it Labour rejected, by 16 votes to 13 through his strong aroma of garlie
a good picture t'other afternoor: the Clerk of the Weather! Lansbury.
Mr. Sidney Webb was made abour Office with an endorsement to is reported. All the above appointments carryPrivy Councillor in 1924 and has the effect that the permit has not
the proposal to ask the Govern- with them seals in the Cabinet.
In the meantime, General Chanment's members of the league, whe-interfering with the atmospherics! member of Parliament been used. This is for the purpose Ming-shu's appointees Other Posts
have securther they would apply to forced since 1922. Recently he notified his of daiming a refund of the fee. ed the control of the financial ad- labour the conditions laid down in! Not a single case of notifiable an-intention of retiring froma Parlie- There is, however, no penalty under ministration and are, therfore, the Washington Eight Hours Con-disease was reported yesterday.-
mentary life. He is an authority the Ordinance for a fala or incor- able to control many things in Can-yention.-Reuter.
The M. O. I. has presented himself Chancellor of the Duchy of an economics and bus written rect endorsement of this kind. It, ton.
with a pair of white gloves. Lancashire, Sir Oswald Mosley...
voluminously upon them in colla-was therefore proposed to inelude in General Chaa Tani-tong is taking W Attorney-General,
Jowitt, boration
wife, Mrs. the amending Ordinance the provi- a few days off duty in a sanatorium. Beatrice Webb.
sion of a penalty for this purpose.
Red Plotters? Solicitor General, J. B. Melville.
Lord Parmoor was Lord Presi- S1 It was subsequently. found Secret service get of the Canton dent of the Council in the first that other rendments of the Or- regime have reported that sum Minister of Pensions, Right Labour Government and represent dinance were also desirable, on the ber of leaders opposed to Chiang
ed Great Britain at League meet- following points: Hon. F. S. Roberts.
Kai-shek have been conferring in Minister of Transport, Herbertngs. He was a prominent King's
(a) Section 4 of Ordinance No. 1 of Hong Kong and Macao with agents Morrison.
was specially up-
1891, deals with the hours during of General Feng Yu-hsiang, and of of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary pointed Judicial member
which applications for Sunday pur-Mr. Wang Ching-wel, an alleged for Scotland, Tom Johnson.
Privy Council in 1914, in which
Red chief, for the purpose of per- (Continued on Page 5) Postmaster-General, H. B. Lees year he was created a Peer. He
fecting an organization to over- frat entered Parliament as a Con-
throw the present militarists Paymaster General, Lord Arnold servative in 1895 and has been
strongholda in Nanking and Custon. (without pay).
lender of the Labour Party in the House of Lords.
Secretary of State for Scotland, Right Hon. W. Adamson.
Other ministerial posta nounced are:-
K.C.
K.C.
Smith.
Scottish Legal Appointments
been. a
with his
Council and
The Scottish legal apponitments Lord Shankey has been a Lord are still under consideration. It Justice of Appeal since last year, is also announced that the reason having been a Judge of King's На why the name of Sir Henry Bench Division since 1914. Sleaser, he was Solicitor-Geeral was Chairman of the Coal Indus-
lastLabour Government try Commission in 1919. in the
Mr. Clynes was Lord Privy Seal does not appear in the list, is that other services have been assign and Deputy Leader of the House ed to him which will be made of Commons in the first Labour He first entered known later, while it is pointed Government.
out that the Right Hon. Vernon Parliament in 1906, During the Hartsborn, who was Postmaster-war he was first Parliamentary General in the previous Labour Secretary for the Ministry of Administration, is temporarily en-Food and afterwards Food Con- gaged on the indian Statutory trailer. He was made a Privy Commission.
Councillor in 1918.
Unpaid Post
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A Brilliant Career Capt. Wedgwood. Benn had Lord Arnold, the unpaid Pay- master General in the new Govern-brilliant career as an airman dur- ment, has accepted the positioning the war, receiving the Distin- with nomínal duties in order to guished Service Order and Distin- be free for work in the House of guished Flying Cross as well as Lords and in other ways. Sir o. medal, (Italian war eras and other East and Mediterranean). Mosley and Mr. G. Lansbury, it Near
the Commona 38 4 is announced, will also have ather He entered duties imposed upon them in con- Liberal in 1906 and held several
of nection with schemes for national posts, including Junior Lord reconstruction, which are being the Treasury prepared,
The Ministers
Although several ministers have changed to other departments 13
in the pre-war Liberal Administration. He join- ed the Labour Party in 1927.
Mr. "Tom" Shaw was Labour Minister in the first Labour Gov- ernment and has been a member
out of 19 members of the new of the Commons since 1918 and a Cabinet were members of the 1924 Privy Councillor since 1924. He Labour Cabinet.
In his earlier Administration, was for some time Joint-Secretary Mr. MacDonald had combined the of the Labour and Socialist Inter-
national, duties of Foreign Secretary, now
Lord Thomson returns to the undertaken by Mr. Henderson, with those of Prime Minister and post he held in the first Labour
Administration. He was First Lord of Treasury.
ğular army officer, serving in the First Woman in Cabinet South African and the Great With the appointment of Miss Wars. He was attached to the Margaret Bondfield, as Minister Supreme War Counell in 1918, re- of Labour, a woman attains tiring. with the Honorary rank of Cabinet rank for the first time
The Personnel
re-
Brigadier-General in the following year--British Wireless Service. The following are a few details Mr. Greenwood has been a Mem→ regarding the new ministers- ber of Parliament since 1922. He
Mr. Snowden was Chancellor is Secretary of the Labour Party! of the Exchequer in the first Research and Information Depart- Labour Government. He first en-ment and is interested particularly tered Parliament in 1906. He en-In health and other social questions. tered the civil service as a youth Mr. Buxton entered Par- afterwards taking up journalism. Hament in 1910 as a Liberal, He has written and lectured exten joining
Labour Party sively OD social and financial in 1922 and was Minister of questions. He was made a Privy Agriculture in the first Labour Councillor in 1924.
Government. He is a member of a Mr. Henderson was Home Secre well-known family of East Anglian tary in the first Labour Govern- landowners.
ment. He first entered Parlia- ment in 1903, and was made a
the
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PRAYERS FOR RAIN
There will be a special sup- plication service at the Roman Catholic Cathedral to-morrow
afternoon at 4 o'clock owing to the water abortage.
All are invited to attend.
The service will begin with the Recitation of the Rosary, to be followed by the Litany of the Saints, a Pro- cession of Penance by the cler- Ky, and prayers appropriate for the invocation of rain.
Forecast:-South-West wind, moderate; cloudy, showery.
Yu Tsok-pak, of Kwangsi, fail- ing to receive an appointment to office in Kwangsi from the Chlang Kai-shek faction in Nanking has expressed a desire to withdraw his support from Marshal Chiang, and for this reason he is now becoming
Canton. unpopular in
Ms, Yu was to have been made Geral Officer Commanding the Troops in Kwangsi, but Marshal Chiang'i pro- mise to him WAS not kept, Nan Chung Kuo News Servia.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR
The closing rate of the dolar un demand, to-day was 1/10 7/18.
WASHINGTON CONVENTION
CONDITIONS
REJECTED PROPOSAL
BABE RUTH
S. C. M. P." head lines-"Trip- lets--Two white and the other Why lack water when
you can black”—Another advert for B-and always shed tears-even plus the W-whiskey?
aid of an onion or two.
De ce a
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Slogan this week: Clock Tower
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"A Journalist's Claim" screams headline-Not for a "scoop"
surely?
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"Wanted by Japanese, a position in a hotel; an all round man will- Sir ing to do anything."—A The Army Officer who, when he Cumference especially wiling to New York, Yesterday.
saw a civilian on the stairs of the supervise other folks circumfer-
heart and will be out of baseball studious superior
Officers' Mess at Murray Barracks, ences. Babe Ruth has strained his queried, "And who's this," in his manner, has for a month and possibly for the been sent a copy of "Manners remainder of the season-Reuter's Makyth ye Manne."
American Service.
OPENING OF WELLS
At a meeting of the Sanitary Board to be held on Tuesday, at 4.15 p.m., Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, pursuant to notice, will move :--
When It Last Rained!
That, in order to reduce the demand on reservoir water, this Board recommends that the Government should in- struct "the Building Authority as a temporary measure to approve of every application for the sinking and re-opening of wells, except in cases where existing structures may be en- dangered, the water derived from such sources to be utilis ed for washing and cleaning, reserving reservoir water for the purpose of drinking and for the preparation of food."
Hong Kong Guide to Tourist:This is one of our ddest inhabitants. They may he can still remember when rain last fell on the Island”
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The Hon. Dr. Kotewall inter- viewed the Governor recently with a view to lessening the hardshipa of the
in Chinese community
It is notified that the next obtaining water. In fact it was. Mother's Gossip Society meeting, mainly that the water shortage will take place at the Dairy Farm, should not be Tso hard for the | Kowloon, at 9,30 a.m. sharp, to Lo and Creasy working class
discuss the Water Problem.' The Chinese! Mayoress of Nullah Point will pre- side!
E p E
Heard white crossing the harbour. Mrs, X: "I never had any water at
all to-day!
Mrs. Y: "That's nothing, I haven't
had a bath for a week!"
--- -Pity the unfortunate resident of the Hong Kong Club. It has been officially intimated to him that he can have only one
bath per day, while non-residents are to have no baths at all—at least, not in the Club while the drought continues.
That is so!
A local scribe has had an imagin- ation Field Day-esserts that he Local
news: "Some person
saw all the "battle" off Sharmeen entered the Colonial Treasury dur- of a between the Chinese gunboats and | ing the week-end by means the aeroplanes. Sir Boyle Roche's duplicate key. A pair of gold- bird can now wing it!
rimmed spectacles, worth $22, was taken from a drawer."-Perhaps
Our Wyndham Street morning the man was short-sighted and contemporary offers to its readers pinched the 'specs the better to the conundrum: "What would be see where the cash and cheque the most effective, cheap and con- books were kept! venient method of distributing water from ship to consumer?" Take the blighter on board and give him a drink, of course!
Patted Proverb:
The proposes.
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Par. from the "S.C.M. Post" on local Herigtonians dinner:-"In the courses of the evening a cable was despatched to the President of the Man supposes Heriot Club"Why not state the number of courses as a matter of course?
“A really nice girl does not race
about," a mother was heard telling
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This
· · week's Boxing
News: part of
her little daughter in the Botanical | Discretion is the better Gardens the other afternoon.- | valour-so take the count of nine. More chmate, Jess, speed 7
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Some men have an unusual bent Silk stockings are frand be for making money, but it docan't cause so much of them are exposed.] follow that they are all crooked,
What makes men ruin themselves for women ?-Women.
Some of the "Junior Assistants" in local hongs have discovered to their cost that standing the modern girl a tiffin is as expensive hobby. -A case of Romeowes what Juliet.
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Breathes there a man with soul so
dead
Who never to himself hath said, As he stubbed his toe against the
bed:
4 Axl xxl -x! -?x?
When a woman in Hong Kong refers to her late husbånd it What we never see at the pic-¡ doesn't follow that she's a widow. tures: The hero getting knocked Her husband is probably a regular
attendant at the Ladge.
| bow-legged.
A professor says that blind- Advice to girls: Never let a fool folded people invariably travel in kiss you, and never let a kiss-fool circles. A good many people we you. "know don't need to be blindfolded.
Some human brains are wonder- ful organa. In the case of a fellow we see every day, the brain starts working the minute he gets up in the morning, and does not stop until he gets to the office. A
A profesor has discovered, that plants have feelings We have observed that some: léttuces have good bearts.
...
Some people think sympathy so precious that they reserve it all for themselves, yet they wonder why they don't get any when they get into trouble. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
playing Bridge memory makes for success"-But a good. deal depends on a good deal.
Clever men usually go bald early. They come out on top.