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changes will be opened here by the WORLD SEA POWER, would be subject to the decisions of the disarmament conference of end of this year may be regarded!
1932, (Continued from Pago 1.) as yet another sign that this
Not Satisfactory. Colony is not so backward or ao treat "Category B Cruiser." with He emphasised that, while from unprogressive as the pessimists gun calibres not exceeding 6.1 the point of view of His Majesty's have alleged..
inches and Destroyer, as being Government, the figure of sub- in one category. In that cate-marines was the least satisfactory gory Franca, might have in part of the agreement it was a December, 1986, if she built to very considerable reduction upon original programme. her maximum, rather more than France's 190,000 tons of ships for replace-The United States and Japan gen- ment, whilst Italy would have erally concurred with the arrange- about 161,360 tons.
menta contemplated in the bases It was anticipated, however, of the agreement, and all mem- Mr. G. P. de Martin will distri- that the French Government bers of the British Common- bate the prizes in St. Joseph's Col-would in addition possess in 1936 wealth who were represented at lege at 5 p.m. on Monday, Marcha large over age tonnage in that the London Naval Conference had
category. The British made it expressed general approval. clear during the negotiations that Franco-Italian_Agreement.
The Franco-Italian naval the temporary retention of that
that before tonnage conferred on France no agreement shows claim to its ultimate replacement December 31, 1936, France and and the reservation included in Italy may respectively complete the White Paper adequately safe-two capital ships whose displace- The General Chamber of
The ex-ment shall not exceed 23,833 tons Com- guarded that position. merce advertise that a new class tension of life for destroyers had each, their gun calibre not to ex- ceed 12 inches. On their comple- for beginners in the study of col-also been provided for.
tion France will scrap one ship of loquial Cantonese will shortly be formed.
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A NEW ERA.
It is
yesterday
Submarine Category.
Turning to the submarine the Diderot class and Italy scrap category, he said that the figure approximately 16,820 tons of first The Naval Armament Supply for France in 1936 was not to ex-class average cruisers, making a Officer has notified the Harbour ceed 81,989 tons, whilst that of total of 33,640 tons.
The total of capital ship ton- Maater that a small quantity of Italy would not exceed 52,700 fireworks and small arm ammuni- tons.
the French and nage accorded France and Italy tion will be fired for proof purpose Italian Governments agreed not respectively under the Treaty is at the Stonecutters' Rifle Range to include any submarines in the raised from 175,000 to 181,000 1931 programme and not to lay tons. France and Italy may com- down any further submarine ton-plete respectively 34,000 tons in aircraft carriers before December nage before 1932.
to-morrow afternoon.
dition.
Both
of
Boarding the s.s. Scalashell, lying at Kowloon Docks, without permis- Mr. Alexander emphasised the 12, 1936.
No cruisers with guns over 6.1 sion, Wong Chun (56) stated to be point included in the bases a cobbler, came to grief when agreement that Britain consider-inch calibre will be constructed ventilator which was being awunged the figure for submarines sub.after the completion of the 1980 There will be no into position, struck him and broke mitted by France as being far too programme.
of sub- his. leg. He was removed to the high, especially in relation to the further construction Kowloon Hospital in a serious con- British destroyer figure of 150,000 marines except for the completion tons in the London Naval Treaty of the 1930 programme and the and it was, therefore, necessary replacement tonnage, becoming At the annual general meeting of to make a reservation that, in the over age after December 81, 1981. Subject to a general revision of the Sind Hindu Merchants' Asso-event of a satisfactory solution of
the naval question by the dis as this submarine figure the pro Another and equally important follows: President Mr.
ciation, the election resulted
V.blem not proving possible next armament conference in 1931, the step to be taken in the near Shewaram (of Pioneer Silk Store); year, the right of the British tonnage of French submarines future is the laying of a new Hon. Secretary-Mr. F. T. Mel- Commonwealth to increase must shall not exceed 81,989 until December 31, 1936. Members of trunk cable between Hong Kongwani (Pohoomull Brothers); Hon. be maintained.
Concluding, he said that the the British Empire maintained Treasurers-Messra. O. K. Gidumal and Canton for the purpose of and Watumal.
general concurrence remarking that this figure is too high in re bringing these cities into direct
the agreement had been intimat lation to their destroyer figure of telephonic communication.
Cheung Tai-tau, coxswain of the ed by the United States and 150,000 tons under the London interesting to learn that already ferry launch Man Shun, has report- Japan, and from all members of Treaty, but they agree not to re- ed to the Police that whilst on a the British Commonwealth repre- eort to article 21 of the Londos fifty miles of this trunk cable journey from Sham Shut-po to sented at the London Naval Con-Treaty pending the above men- have been laid from the Canton Hong Kong at about 8.30 p.m. ference general approval had been tioned revision.
was raised to received.
"Pockel Battleship." terminal and that the work of lay-yesterday, an alarm
Berlin, Yesterday. the effect. that a Chinese ing the balance is being rapidly passenger had jumped into the tioned whether Britiain was not The Budget Committee of the pushed forward. It is anticipated} harbour. A stop was made, but paying too much to get the agree- Reichstag has adopted the Naval
ment and mentioned that in re-Budget for 1931, including a firat · that the necessary engineering a search proved fruitless.
gard to submarines France had instalment toward the construc- work in connection with this There was an appreciative though 61,900 tons and Italy 62,700 tons tion of a second "pocket battle- trunk line will be completed by small audience at the matinee per- as against the total for the whole ship."... August, when facilities for mak- formance of the A.D.C. production, ing thirty, simultaneous calls will "Art and Mrs. Bottle," yesterday. The performance added further ex-laurels to a clever cast, and if the has been theme of the play may by some be considered to be a little sordid, most up-
there is ample compensation to be both trans-
derived from the witty lines. and speed
be available. As pected, the service designed
the to-date lines for
On
mission efficiency
we
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woman Mr. Amery (Conservative; ques-
British Empire of 52,700 tons.
The Minister of Defence said that he was determined to carry
The Naval Estimates. Speaking on the Naval esti-out the naval construction pro- mates themselves, which total
gramme.-Reuter, £51,605,000, Mr. Alexander said that the programme of construc- tion included the commencement of two cruisers of the Leander
UNFILIAL SON.
STEALS FATHER'S SEWING MACHINE.
SELLS IT FOR $280.
In the Kowloon Court Li Cheung
of operation and-having regard A former Hong Kong resident, Class, one cruiser of about 5,000 Mr. Arthur Akehurst, who has tons, one Leader and eight des- to the large community of inter-lived in Shanghai for the past 18 troyers, four sloops, and three est existing between Hong Kong years, has returned, having been not be placed until the first quar- submarines, but the orders would Hong Kong, Thursday, March 12, 1931. and Cantonit should be safe to transferred from the head office of ter of 1932. The programme was (32), was this morning sent to jall
assume that the traffic handled Messrs. Millington, Limited, where;
he has been Chief Copy Writer. He merely the normal instalment of for one month for stealing a knit- over this trunk line will exceed will be Assistant Manager of the Treaty and he hoped that pro- Ping-cheung, from the Kai Sheung
building under the London Naval
ting machine, the property of L the most sanguine expectations. Hong Kong Branch and Superin-
Knitting Factory in Keelung No better tribute to the enter-tendent of the Copy Department gress in the agreed reductions at the World Disarmament Confer- The prophecy made by Mr. prise and initiative of the Tele here. Mrs, Akehurst, M.B.E., has Government to postpone, vary, or compainant, pleaded guilty, but
which the firm is now establishing
Street on February 6, ence next year would enable the
The accused, who la the son of the Scott Harston at yesterday's phone Company could be paid, also come to Hong Kong.
cancel the different items.-Bri- meeting of the Hong Kong perhaps, than by saying that in
mado & statement explaining the tish Wireless Service.
surrounding circumstances Yesterday Chan Lau (26), a wo- Telephone Company that in two effecting this link with Canton,
London, Yesterday.
affair. He said that he years time a subscriber in Hong they are not only writing a vital Civil Hospital
man, was taken to the Government
In introducing the Naval suffering from
Estimates in the House of structed by his father to clean the Kong will be able to put a call page of history for this portion wounds to her head, alleged to have
Commons to-day Mr. A. v. machine and, on opening it, found Ho.then through to another subscriber in of the Empire, but are opening been caused when a man assaulted
Alexander, First Lord of the that it was out of order. Britain, is not the utterance of an up untold possibilities for Brisequently, the assaliant was
her at 136, Queen's Road., Sub-
took the machine to the Tung San Admiralty, stated that the new engineering shop accompanied by Imaginist, but the shrewd and tish trade. According to the rested, but also conveyed to hos-
programme of construction for
one of his father's accountants. 1931 provided for the construc. This shop was unable to repair the palpable forecast of a local busi-Chairman of the Company, the pital, suffering from a bullet wound
tion of several new ships, in- machine so he took it elsewhere. ness man whose judgment may be laying of this trunk cable, which in the left shoulder, which he stated
cluding two leader class cruis- On his way back to the factory he he received during a raid by robbers trusted. At first sight it may is the first project of that nature on his village in November last.
ers, one 5,000 tons cruiser, one met & foki who told him that his leader and eight destroyers, father was looking for the machine, seem like one of Mr. H. G. Wells's to be undertaken in China, will The injury had rendered his left
four sloops, three submarines, and that the Police had been notl apochryphas that we in this
and one shallow-draught gunned. He then took the machine to Colony should be able to lift the Prove the forerunner of a net-arm useless.
work of communications which receiver and whisper words of
will eventually link up all the affection or finance to a friend or
important cities in China. In a broker (not always the same
the circumstances, it will be thing) in London or Manchester readily realised that with the or Aberdeen. Yet, we are told, it will soon be an accomplished fact opening up of telephonic com- munication with Canton, this
and in time, no doubt, will be so Colony will be entering upon an common an occurrence that we shall cease to wonder at it. Fate
ful decisions in the realm of love
or the stock market will be effect-
era of untold possibilities, and
MEXICO REVOLT.
DEFEAT OF US. -NATIONAL demet (GUARDS;
FIERCE BATTLES.
New York, Yesterday.
DISHONEST EMPLOYEE,
ar:
:
the was in-
boat.
his own house. The next day at 4 He pointed out that the pro- he took it out again and sold it gramme is simply the normal an- to another man for $280. * nual
replacement programme Later a foki told him that in within the limits of the London quiries were being made in his Naval Treaty. He hoped that direction and he bolted to Yaumati, further progress in the agreed re-where he was arrested. duction would be made at the
It was alleged that the owner of forthcoming... disarmament con- the machine did not render the ference at Geneva and, if so, that Police any assistance in the affair the Government would be able to
On behalf of the complainant, Reduction by France. Mr. E. S. C. Brooks applied for Mr. Alexander, referring to the the return of the machine, which Franco-Italian agreement, em- was granted. phasised the return for France's consent to the limitation of guns
Ten Years Ago...
the facilities which all be avail-says that General: Sandino, the inferent items on the programme was not until later that it was dis
A message from Mexico City cancel, postpone or vary the dif.and that he stated that the accused.
wai a foki employed by him. It able, both commercially and surgent leader in Nicaragua, claims which, if fully completed, would covered that accused was complain- otherwise, when that era arrives to have defeated the United States cost £500,000 less than the 1930 ant's son.. ed by means of long distance
will confer a very great boon National Guards in five recent bat, programme.
tles, kining 150 of them and cap radio telephony and we in this dis- tant “granite cone" (as Dr. E. P. upon the local community. For turing munitions.-Reuter's Ameri Minett termed it at a lecture the planning and commencement can Service.
of this great task the thanks of given before the Rotary Club on
the communities of Hong Kong Tuesday) will become part of that
on capital ships to 12 inches, and and Canton are due to the Chief increasing vast, and
electric
A fine of $5 or eight days im said that the British Government Engineer of the Company (Mr. prisgnment was imposed on Kod would give the French Govern- nervous system, which already T. Y. Deane) and to the muni-Kwan Japg at the Kowloon Magis ment a written assurance that links every part of the Empire in cipal authorities of Canton, for tracy this morning, for converting they themselves, favoured a re- sound and voice.
their unstinted ', co-operation, to his own use 69 belonging to Chun duction of capital ship-guns to a The possibilities of telephonic
Kang Sang, a tailor of 20, Nathan maximum calibre of 12 inches and without which it would have been Road, Kowloon. About the end of a substantial reduction of the communication on such an epic scale are unlimited and in time exceedingly difficult to effect this January accused was alleged to have existing maximum displacement The first annual general meeting
delivered a coat to Mias E. Lopez of 85,000 tons or
of the Chinese Young Women's may have determinative effects important project.
at No. 4: Ashley Road receiving 30 Mr. Alexander mentioned that Christian Association was held at on local markets: if you are able The Company are further to be in payment. He kept the 59 in Italy saamarine tonnage did not 69, Calue Road yesterday, Mrs. Ma to converse with your brokers or commended on their enterprise in spite of complainant's request to exceed 52,700 tons, including Ying-pul, with Miss Neille Eliot, Bover 5,000 tons for average ships General Secretary and Miss T. H agents in Britain by telephone considering the possibility of ex- hand it over,PLY
Accused stated this morning that which were irreplaceable. Franco Shin, Chinese, Secretary presiding.. direct you are saying both time tending the telephone service to the agreed to halve, the money as and Italy had agreed not to lay The formal opening of the new the New Territories, and the this amount was owing to him for down any further submarine tonhostel, which is now ready for and money and the advantages to
Inage before 1986 when they occupation, takes place to-day.. your business aro tremendous statement that automatic ex- wages.
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