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No. 27,733
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1946
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1931.
'GREY' TROOPS LEAVE SELECTIONS FOR THE COASTAL OFFICERS'
SHANSI.
RACES.
Stern Warning to Gen. Watch Out for Pointers
Liu Chuan-hou.
INVASION TO CEASE.
".
Shanghai, Thursday,
The Kuominchun under Gen-
For Derby Day.
FAST RACING EXPECTED.
[By "Wombat."
To-day the curtain will be
SALARIES.
Effect of Continued Fall
-In Dollar.
SOME CHANGES LIKELY.
COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS.
Party Struggles în London,
14 RED CANDIDATES.
Rugby, Yesterday.
the phlana are In progress.
TO-DAY'S
DoWaben
DOLLAR. The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 11d.
to winers Manager.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
GREAT TELEGRAPH
LINE CLOSES.
Tales of Exciting Adventure.
PERSIANS' REGRET.
Rugby, Yesterday.
A SECRET?
An Irish Motorist thinks that the Dunlop Rubber Company pos8658 4
valuable secret. Read tohat he says:~~
6
from practical experience
have been long sinco convinced that Dunlop covers and tubes are The best made for care, molor /cycles and cycles.
Tong experience."
say this from
"The Dunlop Company, I think, is like Guinness & Co. It has manufacturing secret,, undiscovered by its competitors."
The Dunlop Rubber Co., (China) Ltd. Pedder Bullding. Telephone 24554.
"HORSE SENSE” IN WORLD CRISIS.
Effect of Soviet's Five Year Plan.
GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
American
TRADE UNIONS AT
HOME.
Movement Worse Since 1871.
UNACCEPTABLE AMENDMENT.
S
A report from Peking says that nothing to complain of for the six months only, after which the nominated of whom twelve havò perial and International Communi.rs, who are alarmed by fac increas
In August last year the Chino
[By a Correspondent.)
London, Yesterday. | Mail · published certain exclusive n the first fow, days of March To-morrow the great telegraph
The General Council of the erais Sung Chih-yuan and Pang raised on what I predict will be basis for payment of salaries to held all over the country, and cam-cloges down. The line
information as to the changed County Council olactions will be line known as
That there is a great world-crisis the "Indo-Route" on is now being realised by prac written to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald Trades Unions Council have Ping-hsun and the "grey" troeps the best season's racing ever pre-icers and engineers on
ran 6,000 tically everybody, but low peopl under Sun Tien-ying, hitherto stationed in the southern part of sented to followers of the turf China Coast. It was then stated Thursday next elections will be many. Poland, Russia and Persia how it could be remedied. The fol- Liberal amendment will place the On miles from London through Ger realise what is the cause of it or stating that the effect of the Shansi, have decided to move out I have never seen such an array that both the China Navigation held to the London County Coun- to the head of the Persian Gulf towing carofully prepared statement Trade Union movement in a woraa of the Shansi territory to posi-of racing talent since I have made Company, Ltd., and the Indo-cil which governs the administra- and thence by submarine cable to of the case issued, recently by the position than at any time since tions which will be disclosed by half of the ponies competing act had agreed to a rate fixed at one area of 117 miles and budgets for
the Colony my home, and if only China Steamship Company, Ltd., tive County of London with an India.
1871. The Bill thus amended is General Chang Isuch-liang upon up to what they are deemed pos-half at 1/6 to the dollar, and one over
Vigilant Intelligence the return of his representative sible of accomplishing, I am sure half at the current rate.
On Sunday the land lines be-Federation, (111, West Washington "totally unacceptable to the Trade- £30,000,000 per annum.
come the possession of the coun- Street, Chicago, Illinois) will surely
Union movement."-Reuter. from Shansi to Mukden.
The Sixty one divisions will return 124 tries through which they pass and be of interest to thoughtful read that our race patrons will have arrangement was to continue for members. There have been 279 the sea cable to the British Im- the Kuominchun will evacuato #outhern Shanai within a fort- 1931 season of racing.
position was to be reconsidered, been returned unopposed. The can-cations Company.
ing signs of world-wide upheaval. The executive have strained unless earlier examination be- didates include 107 Labour, 106
The article le entitled: night for the Peking-Hankow
The line was opened 61 years line, to await further orders from every effort to make this five came necessary, by an apprecia- Municipal Reformers, 27 Liberal, age to ensure an alternative route
"What Price the Five Year Plan." days' meeting a success and tion of the dollar to 1/91. The and 14 Communists.-British Wire- to India in the event of interrup- and rends as follows: should, therefore, be rewarded by arrangement came into effect as less Service.
Economics is a great subject and, tion to the Eastern Telegraph of the meeting.
Company's cables, but bear wire-incidentally, it is one of the inexact and in 1928 evolved their gigantic less has made its continued use sciences used as a vehicle for die programme for developing indus- semination of propaganda. By the try, mining and agriculture in äve uses of impressive array of figures. years. They called. it the "Five economists can prove almost any Year Plan." At the consummation
General Chang Isuch-liang.
Shansi Defence.
The Shansi Troops who are ex./bumper attendances on every day from July 1, last year. pected to be completely re- organised at the end of this month will be assigned to a new defensive area, after the with- drawal of the Kuominchun and grey troops from Shansi.
Beginning from March, the military expenses of the eight Shansi re-organised divisions will be paid by the Vice-Generalis dimo's Headquarters, while those of the garrisoning troops and the railway patrol troops are under discussion by Shansi leading
generals.
en-
Acting under instructions, the Shansi generals are busily gaged in winding up the affairs of the Garrison Headquarters, the Military Food and the Rail- way Transportation Departments, which were inaugurated during war time.
Shansi Invaded.
The China Mail now learns that Races to Watch.
early in December both com- panies were approached for a re- Many of the regular racegoers newal of the agreement for a will be in attendance this after- further period of six months from noon to try to get a little informa-January 1, 1931, upon the same
shed
a little light
The Indo-
tion about the Derby possibles terms. The China Navigation and I have no doubt that some-Company agreed, stipulating that thing will transpire which should the question should be again gone
on this in- into on June 30 next. triguing problem. The two races China Steamship Company agreed to watch, of course, will be the to a continuation until March 31 Maiden Stakes and the Hopeful next, when they desired the posi- Stakes. Here most of the griffins tion to be examined once again, will be out to do battle and have a rest over Monday for their en- gagement in the big event on the third day.
New Starting Gate.
I should strongly advise backers to keep their eyes on the ponies they fancy and watch their be- haviour at the new starting gate, as a lot depends on the manner in Nanking, Thursday. which ponies get away from the The Central Government faued barrier. The Subscription Griffins a stern order on February 25 to will probably be the greatest General Liu Chunn-hou, instruct-offenders, and as most of these ing him immediately to with- ponies have very little pace to draw his troops now invading speak of it will be fatal to their Shansi and warning him to cease chance of winning if they lose all forms of military movements out at the start. in future.
A Flat Rate?
Information" now reaching this paper is to the effect that the Indo-China Steamship Co. have signified their intention of changing the basis of salaries payment as from April 1, in view, no doubt, of the con- tinued low rate of exchange, Lae payment will be made, it is said, on a flat basis of 1/6 to the dollar.
RACING SENSATION.
Cagayan's Nominations
Cancelled.
From an advertisement In- serted by the Hong Kong Jockey Club appearing in this issue, it will be observed that all nominations for the pony Cagayan at the an- nual Race Meeting have been cancelled. It will be recalled that this outcome was predicted as almost cer- tain in an exclsive article appearing in the China Mail yesterday.
MERCHAN
ORDINANCE.
The following notice is issued by As regards payment by other Capt. Geoffrey Freyberg, Master
unnecessary,
Devation to Duty,
The history of the maintenance of the line through Perain by the Indo-European Telegraph Depart- ment of the Indian Government is full of tales of exclting adventura and fine examples of devotion to duty by officers of the Department And by Persian linesmen.
had less
Bense"
industry, throw the workers out of jobs, and keep them out, and before long they become poten- tial adherents to Communiam. The Five Year Plant. Having figured this out, Bolshe vist master minds went to work
thing to the average individual. of this plan, they conceived a pro- In an analysis of the altuation duction so great as to paralyse the confronting a depressed world, export trade of capitalist countries. substantial per entage of that good They then held out the bait of huge old dependable quality, "horse profits and contracts to foreign con sense" ią needed. If we tractors, engineers, manufacturers
"horse , more
and and financiers who eagerly.awallow. economics, there ·would ed it, hook, line and inker. In During the War the whole tele-
be a
more better and
com- 1928, the Five Year Plan started. graphic communications of the prehensive understanding of capital. After two years of operation, it has Mesopotamia Field Force, both with iam's problem which is no sinecure been as successful as seriously to India and Britain, passed over the by any means, at this time. Not impair the export trade of principat Donartment's cable in the Persian claiming to be super-imbued with capitalist countries. Most of the Gulf, and an enormous traffic was free from taint of advanced econo-viets is produced by conscript and horse sense, and at the same time, export production of the So- dealt with without, breakdown or mics, we will endeavour to paint a convict labour. Their products can undue delay.
verbal picture of the situation as it be distributed on world marketa at
The Department's officers are leaving the station in Persin with regrets, which are shared by Per- sians with whom they have estab lished relations of trust and friendship. British Wireless Ser
vicc.
is impinged upon our cerebellum. prices which cannot be competed
Lenin's Sealed Train.
with. They undersell the world. The hce and cry of the Soviet off- In 1917, the German Imperialist clale' is for are completion of the Government, harried and facing Five Year Plan in four years. At dienster, sent Lenin and his cohorts the rate they are going, it is con- in a sealed train, with tons of pro-ceivable that this could be done. paganda literature, across Germany
DISCUSSIONS and Into Russin, thus foisting upon yell; after two years of the Five IN ROME.
steamship companies, it is under- Attendant, S.S., and Mr. J. I. Miller, NAVAL stood that an agreement was Ag. Registrar-General of Statistics, reached some time ago with S.S. and F.M.S., and the previous Messrs. Wo Fat Sing for a bonus notice dated November 1930 is can- Patrons will find many improve-of 15 per cent. to be paid to all celled. In order to stage a come-back, ments to the course, which is their European staff as from Wu Pei-fu, the former warlord of looking better than ever and with December 1, 1980.
The following sections of Ordin the Yangtaze Valley, has ordered beautiful flowers in full bloom to payment was made in view of the are reprinted for the Information of The extra ance No. 125 (Merchant Shipping) the Szechuen forces under Liu relieve the newly painted rails depressed local exchange. Chuan-hou to invade Shansi, and and name boards I am sure pa-
is ready to lead the rebels to Si-trons. will appreciate the efforts
kong, should the invasion fail.
Joins the Rebels, Among the Generals in Sze- chuen province, only Liu Chuan- hou, an old follower of Wu Pei-fu, has been influenced to join in the rebellion, other Generals having declared their loyalty to the Cen- tral Government.
made by the Stewards to cater
for their enjoyment..
Nine Races To-day. There will be nine races on the| programme to-day, and, as many of them will show the form of ponies to keep in mind for the other four days of the meeting, The above order issued by the I should advise backers to make Central Government to Liu a note of all these ponies who Chuan-hou is regarded as final, finish in the first half dozen for and should Liu disobey it, he will every event. be dealt with by the Government forces accordingly.--Canton News Agency.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
DIVIDENDS OF TWO CHINESE CONCERNS..
The following dra taken from the Government Gazette:--
No. 13 of 1925.
Notices of Intended Dividend Re Fung Shu-kal. of No. Ba, Des Voeux Road Central, Gferk.
A third dividend is intended to bo declared in the matter of Fang Shu-kal, the above-named debtor adjudicated bankrupt on "Novem- ber 14, 1825,
Creditors who have not proved their debts by March 27, 1981, will
yen
be excluded.
. No. 7 of 1930.
Re The Kwong Fook Wo Hop Kee firm, of No. 18, Jubilee Street, (ground floor), rice merchant.
A first and final dividend is in- tended to be declared in the mat- ter. of The Kwong Fook Wo. Hop Kee firm, the above-named debtor firm adjudicated bankrupt on July 17, 1930.
Creditors who have not proyed their debts by. March 27, 1931, will be excluded.
No. 23 of 1928,
Re Hau Pak-yan, alias Au. Hau of the Dragon Motor Car Com- pany, Limited, Happy Valley, fit- terve
A third dividend of $10 per cent. has been declared in the above- matter?
Within one week, four steamers laden with 218,000 bushels of potatoes have sailed from Prince Edward - Island for Cübá, followed: by three more with 159,500 bushels.
Selections for To-day.
let Race:
Mr. Wong's Mount, Ploughman. Brown Eyes.
2nd Race:-
Nationalist II. Majestic Hall Royal Flush.
3rd Race:-
Valorous. Tiana. Champagne Bay.
4th Race:-
Tunney.
Ayalea Leaf. Duke of Brittany.
5th Race:
Woodland Stag Kilrea. Wattle.
6th Race:
Diana Bay. Sitting Bull.
Gay
7th per
“Apollo.. Hetman. Gleneagles.
8th Race:-
Spey Fortune Bay. King's Justice.
9th Race
Bridge Hall. Tango Tonbridge.
NEW COMMANDER-
IN-CHIEF.
· Official Landing This Morning.
CALL ON THE GOVERNOR.
1
Vice-Admiral Sir W. A. H. Kelly, K.C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O., the new Commander-in-Chief, China, hoisted his flag in H.M.S. Suffolk early this morning. He also paid a visit to H.M.S. Kent, which has been the flagship of Admiral Sir A. K. Waistell, K.C.B., where he was introduced to the officers.
The official landing was schedul- ed for 11 am, when the Com- mander-in-Chief landed at Queen's Pier, and later paid an official call on His Excellency the Governor at Government House.
the mercantile and shipping com- munities:
"396. The Master of every vessel anchoring in any of the port of the Colony of the Straits Settlements
No Information of Progress Made.
j
U.S.
AND JAPAN TO APPROVE.
a war-torn and bleeding world, demoralised, a world-wide depres Communism the greatest. mon- sion created with millions of un- strosity of government ever de- employed, what does the future hold veloped.
for the capitalistic countries, with Since that time, German and the Soviet Government planning American techniciars and capital huge Incrensen in gray, mineral have alded and made possible the and manufacturing production for perpetuation of the Communist 1981 and 1932 ? syetem, by the financing and super-
Estimate For 1931, vision of the development of the According to a recent lasue..of Rugby, Yesterday. richest natural resources lying | Pravda, official organ of the Soviet Discussions between represen-within the boundaries of any nation Government, the prospective pro- or going alongside any wharf in any tatives of the British Government of the world.
duction, of major products for 1931 port, shall-fa) forthwith report and the Italian Foreign Secretary
is estimated as follows: or cause to be reported the arrival and Minister for Morino and other
Coal-83,500.000 tons. of his vessel at the Port Office; (b) officials were continued in Roms
01-25,500,000 tons. deposit or cause ta le deposited this afternoon on the subject of
Machine production 2,400,000,- there() his clearance from his Naval limitation.
900 roubles worth, last port; (ii) a copy of the mani-
Agricultural Machinery-750,000,
000 roubles worth. Electrotechnical production - 1,000,000,000 roubles worth. Cement-35,000,000 barrels. Pig Iron-8.000,000 tons, Steel-8,800,000 tone. Grain-850,000,000 acres. This does not include
-WEATHER FOR RACES.
The Royal Observatory's weather report at 10.40 to-day states:
A strong anti-cyclone has formed over S.E. Mongolia.
A fresh monsoon covers the South coast of China.
Forecast: N.E. winds, fresh; generally overcast.
Too many things enter into this development to analyse them all, but out of the struc. ture erected by these means, No information is available as to
there stands out one thing— the progress of the conversationé,
Soviet Russia is a Frankenstein which are based on the results of
growing daily greater in pro- the Franco-British conversations
portione, to destroy the world, conducted in Paris. If accord is)
which has aided in its erection. reached it must necessarily await | World Revolutionary Programme. the acquiescence of the Govern-| ments of the United States and The Soviet leaders in 1928 con- Japan which, with that of Britain, ceived a-gigantic plan for the de were signatories of the Naval vélopment of industry, agriculture agreement of 1980-British Wire- less Service..
FIJI HURRICANE.
34 INCHES OF RAIN IN A WEEK.
lumber,
"All In The Kremlin's Hand." Walter Duranty, in an article Moscow Bolder in Foreign.Polley," published in the New York Times. of January 4, 1981, concludes with the statement:
furs and a multitude of other pro- and mining, as a part of their world ducts which will undergo a propor- revolutionary programme.
In the tionate development.. advanced capitalistic countries, particularly America, agents of the Communist Internations! had sign ally failed a winning American labour, as mass, to its revolutionary standards. Realising full well the feat of cargo to be discharged or. Vice Admiral Kelly, after the transhipped in the port; and (341)
| truth of Lenix's statement that one call, returned to the flagship, and a list of passengers on board; and
Communist State could not exist in shortly afterwards H.E. the Gov- (c) in the case of British vessels gram to the Secretary of State for leaders knew that in order to be The Governor of Fiji, in a tolea world of capitalism, Bolshevist ernor arrived at Queen's Pier, to and vessels belonging to a nation the Colonies, reports that a hurri- successful in their revolutionary return the official call.
not having a Consular Officer at the cane struck Vitllevu at the week programme: throughout the world port, shall produce to the Port end with extremely heavy rain, the masses of workers must be won Omeer the certificate of registry Record floods occurred in several and shall deposit with him the districts. ship's articles.
FATAL ACCIDENTS.
MOTOR CAR RUNS INTO A WOMAN.
Rugby, Yesterday,
to their cause.
Millions of dollars spent, in The loss of life is reported to "401-(1) No port clearance exceed 100, meinly Indians, but in agitation and propaganda were un- shall be granted to any ship whose cluding five Europeang.
avalling. With characteristic Orlen- owner, agent or master has not com- There was extensive damage to these Bolshevist leaders decided to tal shrewdness, and psychology, piled with Ordinance No. 88 property and crops. (Imports and Exports), or any Nadarivatu reports 34 inches of blow, They knew that so long as go to the source and strike a death Two fatal accidents were re other Ordinance relating to the im-rain in seven days. Relief work ported to the Police from Wan-port or export of goods from any is in progress-British Wireless highest standard of living in the horse sense
the American worker enjoyed the chai yesterday, the victims in port or place in the Colony."
FALL FROM A VERANDAH.
"In addition to its vast weight of population and territory, the Soviet has found a new weapon that has already given a resound. ing scare to the capitalist world and may play 'havoc during the coming years-namely, potentia? export of vital raw materiala. These include food, oll; coal, tim- ber and iron-all held in one' hand, the Kremlin's hand, and capable of being delivered any. where at any time for political reasons, irrespective of cost,” Soviets Win-We Lose. This analysis is 95 per cent. and 5 per cent world, awned his own home, radio, economics. To us it is perfectly automobile, and in general, was clear that, if the Soviets are suc- prosperous, there
**WAA littlo cessful in their proposed plans for chance Prof Bolshevising bim. 1931, capitalistic countries cannot Rugby, Testerday.
What would be the natural conclu- hope to return to normal or even The King has approved the apsion in such a case? Take away ar normal conditions in 1991, and a woman; named Leung Yee (64), general of the United States public pointment of Sir Josiah Crosby, the jobs, so that all these things the situation will become even more. who received a fracture of the health service, to-day ordered the British Consul-General in Batavia, would be lost, and the workers and aggravated as the conclusion of the left leg. The accident occurred release of twelve cured patients to be Envoy-Extraordinary and their families gradually descend to Five Year Plan approaches. Com- at 6 p.m. and the woman died in from the Federal Loprosarium, at Minister- Plenipotentiary to destitute condition. How could petition with the conscript, convict, the Government Civil Hospital at Carville, Alabama. Ka Panama, British
both cases being females.
Yu Kai, a licensed motor driver, stated that whilst driving a pri- vate car along Kennedy Street, the vehicle accidentally ran into
CURE OF LEPROSY,
Washington, DC., Feb. 11.. Dr. Hugh Cumming, surgeon
Service.
MINISTER TO PANAMA..
Wireless Berthis be accomplished? The great labour system of Soviet Rusela,
JAIL FOR AL CAPONE.
Chicago, Yesterday,
11 o'clock lagt night.
Never befors in the history of the | vice- Engaged in handing clothes out treatment of lepers In the United
mass production systems that have would mean starvation wages in to dry, a Chinese girl, 12 years of States have du many been released
been developed in the United States America. This would precipitate age, fell from the first floor veran- at one time Dr. Cumming declared
and other leading export countries, Communism na successfully as un dah of 12, Electric Street, at that the release of the cured lopers
are as delicate as any intricate employment. Either way, the do about 9 a.m. She was severely in- from Carville is an Indication of the
piece of mechanism, Export a Viots win and we lose. Will foreign Al Capone has been convicted necessary to keep the wheels of in- financiers and industrialists stil jured, and was rushed to the Goy great progresy being made in the of contempt of Court and sontene dustry turning and workers om feel justified in their acceptance of ernment Civil Hospital, where she treatment of the dread maladyed to, six months imprisonnient played
AJ Soviet contracts. If this comes to passed away at noon.
United Press,
Reuter's American Service.
Cut off this export, shut down passt.