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THE SIX China Mail
Powerful 70-horsepower Studebaker-bullt
engine
214-inch wheelbare-a BIG, roomy, com-
fortable enr
Duo-Servo 4-wheel brakes, with safety
hook-up
HONG KONG HOTEL
GARAGE
25, Queen's Road C. & at Stubba Road.
The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
No. 27,721
GROWING WEIGHT OF NEW POLICY OF BANK
DOLE BURDEN.
Proposal to Increase Borrowing Powers.
MR. SNOWDEN'S "COURAGE."
and
OF AUSTRALASIA.
All Dividends to Be Paid
at Local Rate.
CONDITIONS OF TRANSFER.
London, Yesterday.
TO-DAY'S
- The
dertising MSECRET?
BLISHED
1846
DOLLAR closing rate of the dollar o demand, to-day was lid.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
ANOTHER RIVER MISHAP.
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931.
AFFAIRS OF WHITE
"
STAR LINE.
Whole of Ordinary Share Capital Lost.
LIABILITIES LIMITED.
London, Yesterday.
London, Yesterday, While
The National Bank of Austra Conservatives
At the White Star meeting to lasia in London has been informed day, Sir William McLintock, whom Liberal pay a
tribute to Mr from headquarters in Melbourne the Trade Facilities Act advisory Snowden's "courage," the rani: that the Board of Directors has committee instructed to examine and file of Labour are apprehen- decided to pay all dividends on the position of the companies In sively speculating as to where the the Bank's shares in Australian the group, said that the White pounds. They will be made avail-Star Co.'s assets were estimated "sacrifices” will be imposed, re-able in Melbourne and be trans-t £8,394,000, and the liabilitles vealing a determination to referred overseas at the-request of at £4,442,000, which meant that: resist any attempt to shift the shareholders and their expense as the whole of the ordinary share cost of unemployment from the regards exchange.
capital was lost. exchequer elsewhere.
Advice has also been received in London that the Directors of The deficiency amounted to The growing weight of thate Bank of New South Wales £5,000,000. He said that voting burden is revealed by a Memor- have declared an interim quarter-trustees considered
that the andum of the Ministry of Labour,
dividend of nine shillings per White Star Co. paid an extra- announcing the proposal to in-share in Australian currency.vagant price when it took over troduce a Bill to increase the bor- Reuter. rowing powers of the Unemploy- ment Fund from £70,000,000 to £90,000,000.
The memorandum states that. since December 19, when the borrowing powers were increased to £70,000,000, the debt has risen from £59,000,000 to £66,000,000.
Meanwhile, the Board of Trade returns for January reveal the effects of the coal and cotton dis- pute, showing the following figures:-
£75,569,000
POPE BROADCASTS TO
THE WORLD.
First Speech on New Radio Installation.
INVENTOR THANKED.
the Royal Mail contract for thos purchase of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, with capi in for £7,000,000; also, that too large a proportion of capital had been raised by preference shares bearing fixed interest.
The book value of the R.M.S.P. fleet and investments largely ex- ceeded the present estimated) value.
Was
MISSION ON SILVER
EXPERTS COMING FROM HOME.
CAUSE OF SLUMP
FALL IN PRICE OF COMMODITIES.
Stranding of the Tin Yat.
NAVAL ASSISTANCE.
An Irish Motorlat thinks that the Dunlop Rubber Company possess a valuable secret. Read what he says:—
from practical experience'
1 have been long since convinced that Benlop covers and tubén are the best made for carS, motor cycles and cycles. I say this from long experience."
"The Dunlop Company. I think, Is
Le Guinness & Co. It has manufacturing secret, undiscovered by its competitors,"
The Dunlop Rubber Co., (China) Ltd. Pedder Building.
Telephone 24554.
:
INDIANS WHO FELL CANTON - KOWLOON RAILWAY CONTRACT.
IN THE WAR
Imposing Memorial in
Interview With Sir William Peel.
New Delhi.
UNKNOWN WARRIORS.
REVISION OBTAINED..
Yet another ship has stranded
New Delhi, Yesterday.
Canton, Yesterday. "Priver as the result of the un- An imposing archway 180 feet It will be remembered that Mr. favourable conditions which high and a carriage way 30 feet Hsieh Pao-chao, secretary of the usually obtain in the river at this wide is the main feature of the Ministry of Railways, and Mr. Liu time of the year when the water All-India War Memorial, opened Cho-kok, Director of the Canton- is low and grounding is not un-to-day by the Viceroy, who elo-Kowloon Railway, made a trip to The Colonial Secretary taken in negotiating the stream.
common in spite of precautions quently spoke of the services of Hong Kong during the last two writes:-
Over 70,000 Indians who fell in days, in order to interview H.E. The victim of the latest river the Great War.
Sir William Peel, the Governor of Information has now been mishap is the Chinese owned s.s. The memorial specially records Hong Kong, for the revision of received from the Secretary of Tin Yat, which runs regularly the names of nearly 14,000 the Canton-Kowloon Railway con State for the Colonies that a between Hong Kong and Canton, officers and men of the Indian | tract. Commission to enquire into making two trips a day. She Army who fell on the North- the currency problems of the arrived here from Canton yester West Frontier during the great accomplished their mission, re- Messrs. Hsieh and Liu, having Colony will arrive here about day afternoon and left again at 10 and third Afghan War of 1919, turned to Canton on February 10. the end of March. The follow. p.m. The grounding happened whose graves are unknown. The Interviewed, Mr. Hsieh intimated ing are the members of the early this morning.
arch is surmounted by a huge that the total length of the Can Commission:--
Distress Signals.
bowl, which will be filled with ton-Kowloon line is 111 miles, of News of the stranding of the burning oil on important occa which the Chinese Section Tin Yat was communicated to siens.-Reuter. Hong Kong by wireless by the
cuples 89 miles, while the dividend is only 65 per cent. For this rea Steamboat Company's 8.3. Lung-WHO STARTED THE son, he and Mr. Liu went to Hong
Mr. W. H. Clegg of the South
African Reserve Bank. Mr. P. H. Ezechiel, C.M.G., one of the Crown Agents for the Mr. G. L. M. Clauson, D.B.E.
(MU.) of the Colonial Office.
Colonies.
limited. STOP
shan, which was attracted to the Tin Yut by distress signats sent up by the stranded ship. It is understood that the Tin Yat is! not equipped with wireless.
The message from the Lung- shan states:-
"Standing by the steamer Tin Yat. She has sent up dis tress signals and appears to be оп Pratt Rocks at Bocca Tigris,"
WORLD WAR?
Reichstag Decides to Hold An Enquiry.
YOUNG PLAN REVISION.
ос
Kong on February 9 and met Sir William Peel on the following morning.
The Recommendations. The Chinese representatives put forward three recommenda tions, as below:-
1.- The Cunton-Kowloon con- tract which was signed in the Hsun Tung third year for a term The Reichstag, by 314 votes to of five years, having expired 15
Berlin, Yesterday.
If weather conditions on the 156, approved of a motion urging years ago, should be revised; river are favourable it is probable the Government to take up the 2-Hereafter the Canton-Kow- that the Lungshan will take off Young Plan revision with the loon Railway contract should be
[conver them to land.
PRESS the Tin Yat's passengers and
London, Yesterday. In the House of Commons to day a question was asked "Whe At a subsequent meeting ther the invitation by the British R.M.S.P. debenture holders, by a Government to the Governor of Vatican City, Yesterday. Heralded by a fanfare of trum-large majority, consented to a the Reserve Bank of South Imports
moratorium and the raising of Africa (Mr. W. H. Clegg), to pro- pets, the Pope broadcast to the £250,000 by new debentures. Exporta 37,563,000
world for the first time to-day R.M.S.P. stock Becovered to 7% The decreases are £14,060,000 Latin front the newly installed the
when he spoke for 12 minutes in on weighty counsel's opinion that and £894,000
liability respectively, a wireless station. compared with the December re-with the Apostolic Benediction,
He concluded Reuter. turns.
Earlier News, after which he proceeded to the Pontifical Science Academy, where At a meeting of debenture hold- the Marquis Marconi, after elec. era of the Royal Mall Steam tion with the Pope's assent, was Packet Co. and preference share- thanked by His Holiness for holders of the White Star Line, establishing the station-Reuter. in London, the White Star share holders overwhelmingly passed a resolution in favour of
9 vix months' moratorium in respect of dividends on £5,000,000 worth of BUYERS FLOCKING FROM ALL per cent. cumulative prefer-
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
National Development.
Later.
The House of Commons adopt ed without division the Liberal motion to minimise unemploy ment by an extensive policy of useful and essential schemes of National development.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald ac- cepted the resolution in the spirit in which it was sponsored by Sir Herbert Samuel which, he said, brought it into closest harmony with "What Mr. Snowden said yesterday."
The Premier declared that the greatest wisdom at present was
to develop the National resources
and find capital for that purpose. -Reuter.
More Wisdom Needed.
Rugby, Yesterday.
In the House of Commons to night Sir Herbert Samuel, for the Liberals, introduced a motion call.
years.
INDUSTRIES FAIR,
INCREASE OF 30 PER CENT.
ence shares in the White Star which
are guaranteed by the R.M.S.P. C., in order to enable the latter to submit
a complete scheme of reorganisation.-Reuter. [An unprecedented slump in Royal which has grown into by far the Mail stock was reported at the begin largest trade exhibition in the ning of this month.] world, and which is held in two
The British
Rugby, Yesterday.
Industries Fair,
sections, one in London, the other TRAFFIC BREACHES,
in Birmingham, begins on Monday
and remains open until February THREE EUROPEANS AT THE
Buyers have come to the event
27.
in larger numbers than even before from all parts of the world. This year the Fair will be more repre- sentative of British industry than any of its predecessors.
MAGISTRACY.
UNATTENDED CAR.
A batch of traffic summonses
motor car unal
Washington, Yesterday.
An assurance that the elim- ination of night work for women and children in United States cotton mills bas now become practically certain was given to President Hoover by Mr. George Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Instituto of New York, who declared that 70 per cent. of employers had agreed to such an elimination, beginning on March 1 provided that a further five per cent of employers do likewise. Mr. Sloan added that conditions in the cotton industry are much improved. Sales of yarn cloth.. for the first six weeks of 1991 exceeded production by 20 per cent.-Reuter's American Sor-
vice.
ceed to Shanghai to report on the silver slump had been accepted." Dr. Drummond Shiels said that he presumed the question related to the proposal now under con- sideration for sending a mission
Dr.
It
creditor Powers as soon as possi- made only for the joint transport
ble and rejected by. 814 votes to of goods;" 58 a Communist motion to cease
3-The surplus receipts should
H.MS. Seamew Despatched.
was ascertained from the all Reparation payments. The be divided according to the mile- Naval authorities here that H.M.S. Reichstag approved a resolution age of the line. Seamew was despatched from demanding an enquiry into the The British authorities offered Hong Kong immediately news of Causes of the World. War by an the stranding was received, with impartial commission-Reuter. instruction to stand by the Tin
Yat,
..
PRINCES IN PERU.
DINNER GIVEN AT THE BRITISH
LEGATION:
TO FLY TO AREQUITA.
Rugby, Yesterday.
no objection to the first two re- commendations but made two de- manda in regard to the third, namely:
The extent of damage suffered
1-In spite of the short dis by the Tin Yat as the result of
British Government had spent a tance of the British section, the the grounding has so far not been ascertained locally. It is, of
large sum on the opening and tha course, probable that, like other
construction of tunnels. Should vessels which have grounded bé-
the receipts be divided according fore her, she has not sustained
to the proportional length of the any serious damage. Provided
line, the British Government that her position on the rocks is
The Prince of Wales and Prince would suffer loss, The Chineso good and she is not holed, no Gerege, who reached Lima, Peru, Government's attention is there- doubt an attempt will be made to yesterday, and were received by the fore drawn to this point of ade- get her off at the first favourable President, Don Sanchez Carro, quate compensation; opportunity after the arrival of completed the formal programme of 2 The tracks and ralls on the the Seamew to take charge of their visit to-night, when a dinner Chinese section should be pro- operations.
was given at the British Legation perly repaired.
The above conversation was The captain of the Tin Yat, Mr. to Don Cerro. The Princes are re- Going, a well known in the mining in Lima till Sunday and not formal, continued Mr. Hsich, Colony.
then will By to Arequita instead of and the result of the informal re-embarking on the Oropesa as negotiation will be submitted to was their original Intention.the Ministry of Railways for British Wireless Service.
consideration before a formal con- ference. is held. Canton News Agency.
The ship is owned by the Tung On S.S. Co.
MUI-TSAI LAW.
COUNTRY FINED.
to Hong Kong to enquire into the CHINESE WOMAN FROM THE question of the currency. able to state what the composition Shiels said at present he was un of such Mission would be.
General Causes,
NOMINAL PENALTY.
THEFT BY EMPLOYEE
STEALS SEWING MACHINE AND PAWNS IT.
ing on the Government to formu. In London lighter or smaller was dealt with by Mr. W. Schofield late an extensive policy for utilis manufactures will occupy 300,000 at the Central Magistracy this Ing the labour of the workless in square feet at Olympia, while the schemes of national develop cotton textile section, which will be
morning. ments such as had been advocat open at the White City until Febru Mrs. Taylor, residing in the ed by the Liberal Party for several ary 28, will occupy 90,000 square Peninsula Hotel, pleaded guilty to
He emphasised that they feet and the Exhibition of British having left har were not asking for mere reliefArtificial silk goods at the Royal tended in Queen's Road Central]
Inspector Clarke charged Char A Chinese woman works, but for useful and essen Albert Hall, which will be open up
wie this Chi in the Kowloon Court this Earl Castle Stewart suggested morning summoned before tiel works needed for the in- to February 21, will occupy 20,000 at 2.25 p.m. on February 7,
Mr. morning with the larceny of a cow- and that Mr. Philip, Snowden should Walter Schofield in the Centraling machine, also with converting provement of national equipment. square feet. The Birmingham was fined $5.
approach the Governments con- Police Court for having brought a to his own use a piece of silk, a Section for heavy industries will The Prime Minister, Mr occupy. 200,000 square feet, and
A fine of $10 was imposed on striction of the sales of silver.
cerned with a view to securing re-mui tea into the Colony on Janu-satin jacket, and a length of fur Ramsay MacDonald, accepted the there will be more manufacturers Mr. R. L. Marshall, who admittel
ry 15. She pleaded guilty. given him by customers of the tai- Mr. Snowden replied that while motion for the Government. He represented than at any previous having driven his motor cycle the sales of demonettad silver S.C.A., sald that the 8.CA. were at which he was employed as an Mr. Q. A. A. MacFadyen, of the lers' shop at 121, Parkes Street, | said that there was no country occasion.. which could do with greater wis-
along Kennedy Road without a the latter, the fall was mainly due norant of the law, and they were
contributed to the fall in price of satisfied that the woman was godd job man." dom at this moment than to de- Birmingham shows a 30 per cent Sergeant Guild stated that defen commodities measured in gold, They brought the case to Court in admitted stealing it. The other The combined area of London and written permit from the LG.F. to the general fall in the price of only asking for a nominal penalty. the sewing machine for $30, and He was arrested after pawning velop its resources because econo-increase on last year. Manu- mic conditions were changing and facturers are devoting special at Bant drove for about 400 yards. also to the political conditions in gase anyone also would fall into thefts were also traced to him. Britain had to meet in the mar-tention to new products which, in Lieutenant F. R. Malu, of H.M.E. diminution in, production of the that the woman, when told by her months' on the red charge, and
China, and to the absence of any the kets of the world extraordinarily many sections, are exceptionally Oswald, was summoned for having
same error, He explained He was sent to jail for two Increased competition. The spe Interesting.-British Wireless Ser driven his mater cycle in Wynd While the Governments con-egistered; went to No. 2 Polcle one month on the third account, cial advantages which this coun vice,
mines, m
son that the mut tant had to be month on the second charge, and try had enjoyed in the past had
ham Street without a written percerned would doubtless he prepar Station, but the registration the third term to run concurrent mit from the I.G.P. at 4.45 pmed to consider any practicni pro Jeriod was over
Sho bad been ly with the second. un January 28, Fleading guilty, possis for taking stocks of sedun- quite forest, all through.com for Case "Not Pressed. quite a lot of traffic at the time saw no justification for expecting Magistrate, Mr. MacFadyen sald Tak, a street cabbler, appeared be Mr. Main said that there was dant allver off their hands, he Replying to a question by the Wong "Ngal (woman) and Chèng longer to the lower standards of life among the workers of most
in Queen's Road Central, and he them to maintain useless stocks that the woman had no means of fore Mr. Butters at the Kowloon foreign countries. Subject to audit, the Dairy Farm 310 was imposed.
did not see the sign. A fine of of silver in the interest of new knowing that she was not allow Magistracy this morning, charged * production, and there was no reared to bring mui tsais fato Hong with stealing and receiving 09 The protection of the British co and Cold Storage Company. The Chinese driver of a San! son why the British Government, Kong. Her country was Son Wul. pairs of canvas shoe tops, the pro- workman came more and more limited, report that the balance tary Department lorry was sim which was not primarily concern. His Worship imposed a fine of perty of the Tai Hang Rubber Fac into International negotiation at Profit & Loss Account for the moned for negligent driving, and ed, should put forward such a tory at 118, Ki Lung Street between Geneva was becoming increasing ear ended December 31, 1030, is he pleaded guilty. Trame Sor suggestion.
been lost as a result of the War DAIRY FARM REPORT and the political arid economic settlement of the war, and it was
Impossible for it to be indifferent $353,776.76 AVAILABLE FOR
APPROPRIATIONS.
ly the place where the nations 5329,722.32, witch with $24,054.41 geant B. G. Laker said that he. In any case, any restriction in had to negotiate to enable them brought forward from the pre vas driving a lorry along Lack sales would only been ten
life
w maintain their standards of vious year makes a total ofFart Road when defendant, sad palliative, and permanent
8868,777678 vallable for appro denly shot across the road from provement was unli priations. Where Eleming Street, at a speed of 20 such wider measure
The Directors will, at the ap-miles an Hour petendan-gavo
Gold Obl
nald reviewed the
development schemes already In
proaching meeting of sharehol
ded with an
121, tecommend, tie, followin
he Govern
no warning his appr geant Baker added that
both!
that
A
against the woman, because the that a foreman of the factory no
Mr. MacFadyen added that there | January, 8 and February 12. were no allegations of crualty | Dotective Bergeant Goodwin said
muf tsal was quite happy with ticed the shoe tops on second de- Jer, but the S.C.A. would detido fendant's ctall in Tal Nam the child's future custody, Strest, and recognised them as the property of his master. The matter was reported and the goods seized? MONTE The first defendant was employed of the payment of gold by the factory but did her work
ted that, in spite home. Each dayusha was aliote
caulting from 90 páira of shoe tops to:
here has Some days the foki development in the situa- was careless and
warrants the "drouts, thushikam
Beutery
LIGHT RAIN.
To-day's weather repert from the Royal Observatory states: The anti-cyclone is central near Tokyo.
A "V" shaped depression has formed to the east of the Loo- choos.
Moderate monsoon prevails along the 8.E coast of China and over the N. China Sea...
Forecast:--N.E. winds; mo-. derate; overenst; some light rain and fog.
Rainfall. Rainfall to 10 a.m. to-day Fainfall since January
1, 0.43 inch against an aver nge of 2.19 inches-defielt 1.78 ·
Temperature,
Inch.
The temperature at certain specified centres this morning
at 6 o'clock was:-
Hong Kong
·61
Macao
Pratas Island Mamla Foochow
[74]
Amoy
Swatow Chefoo Shanghal
ized. On one occasion surplus paira and after hom returned, them to the where she was stolded by fokl, and did not get any thoney.
the master of the factory did not rass the, case so His Worshin dildə the two defendants.