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The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 50 degrees. The humidity was 55 at 10 a.m. aud 50 at 4 p.).
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931.
“COSMOP" ABROAD. AMERICA INDIGNANT
AT BANDITS' ACT. V
Motoring Writer's
Tour.
Lam Kam (1) an earth coolic,
Every year the number of motor- was killed by fallong rocks whilst atists who work at a quarry in Taipo Road foreign motor tour increases.
venture abroad On a Mr. yesterday.
Harold Pemberton, Daily Express Motoring correspondent writes from Le Havre.
Harbour Advisory Committee.
For the benefit of the new and
Public Upset by Murder of Missionaries.
DEMAND TO NANKING.
Washington, Yesterday. in America over the fate of the Tremendous indignation is felt MY. T. N. Chư has been ap: pointed by the Chinese Chamber of
white. missionaries, Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Commerce to represent it on the growing army of motoring explorers has instructed the United States The State Department the Daily Express has sent me out Minister in Nanking to insist that to seek new highways in many murderers are being ninde innds, to describe notoring con- brought to justice. — Reuter's be immediately by the Chinese Chamber of Com-ditions in divers countries, and to American Service. merce with regard to a welcome for H.M. the King of Sina, who provide a faithful narrative of the
inys, and sorrows, if there be any. SHOT THROUGH A will be passing through shortly.
that may be encountered upon the
Arrangements
One month's imprisonment was
'way.
We have another function to per-.
passed on Yip Ming in the Kowloon form. Police Court this morning for steal-
The British
ing a pair of trousers, the property of Ng Mul, and amah, of No. 11 fered to some Cameron Road.
At the monthly meeting of the Chinese General Chamber of Com-
motor-car has suf- extent in foreign markets through persistent pro- paganda to the effect that It is not fit for world conditions.
TORPEDO TUBE. ›
How A Gallant Officer Died.
Two of the latest built sub- People have been led to believe marines. the Perseus and the that our cars are built for the Poseidon. have arrived in Singa- merce, yesterday, it was decided not Portsmouth road and not for frigid pore and are anchored off the Oil to send a representative to tho
Alpine passes, that they are all Wharf, Keppel. Their destination International Chambers of Com- merte Conference in Washington in useless in the burning heat of the
right for a run to Brighton, but is the China Station.
desert. Well, we shall see!
May.
In the Kowloon Police Court this morning Chan Sheung and Wong Kam, charged with stealing and recaiving 10 cement sacks from. the Tung Nam firm of contractors, pleaded guilty and wore each sent to prison for three weeks.
Travelling "Incog."
They are very similar in type to those of the O class which pass- ed through Singapore a few months aro. though they have sghtly Let me introduce you to Cosmop, wider, cabins and companionways. our car. It has, during the next The vialt of these submarines three weeks or so, to uphold the calls to mind an incident that oc- honour of the British motor indus-curred during the War and has try among a lot of alien motor-ears. had a repercussion by the screen- Cosmop is short for Cosmopolitan.ing of 3 talking picture This is not its real name. It is which dealt with a similar inci- Pleading guilty to the theft of a travelling incognito, for it is not dent. it concerned the shooting quantity of brass fittings, valued at yet on the market. But can say of an officer through a torpedo $5, the property of Chan Chol-lee of that Cosmop is the type of enr that tube, after a submarine had been No. 15. Portland Street, Chung many British manufacturers are rammed. Ming, an unemployed Chinese, was now concentrating on with a view The submarine was rammed by corresponding decline in the ex-la the Kowloon Police Court this to capturing markets abroad. a merchant ship in the Medway ports to Hong Kong over
the morning sentenced to one month's
It has a six-cylinder engine and fat night. It sank Immediately and imprisonment.
sufficient horse-power to suit the the first officer volunteered to be same period, from £6,293,446 in
tastes of those who say that our shot through the tubes. He crawl- 1928 to £5,633,160 in 1929, this There was no quorum at the gen-cars are not big enough to compote ed into the tube and the aperture may have been due in a measure eral meeting of the Hong Kong with rivals outside Great Britain, was closed behind him and the to the general trade depression Development Building and Savings it will cost far less than most of compressed air turned on.
Society Ltd., scheduled for 2.30 the foreign cars it is going to mix Unfortunately there Was not and the unsettled conditions in p.m. yesterday. The contributories with during its period of probation. suficient compressed air left and China. There was also a slight were to have heard the report of the I must also introduce you to the the officer was drowned by the in- drop in the value of imports from liquidators, but the meeting had to personnel of the expedition, because rush of water at the other end. China in 1929, when they were
be adjourned until Thursday next.
when touring the choice of com- Everyone in the submarine perish- panions is important.
ed and the body of the officer was valued at £1,143.646, compared An unknown Chinese aged about
First, then, the owner. It is found later in-the torpedo tube. with £1,258,596 for the previous 30 years, dressed in black cotton carly yet to say how things will This has become a popular loths, shoes and socks, and having pan out. We have so far reached theme of novelists and writers of the appearance of a workman, the port of Le Havre. The car is thrillers, but few people under- jumped overboard from the third being disembarked, and the Ownerstand the actual theory by which class portion of the Yaunuti Ferry, is sipping a coffee and cognac. It is worked. The chances of es-
Man Tack at 12.30 this morning watching the other members of the cape are limited to a man's capa Lifehouys were thrown overboard party carrying out their respective city to hold his breath in the in-
The body has not tasks.
terval while the aperture at the Judging from our drive down to sea end is opened and the com. Southampton one of the Owner's pressed air is turned on. Immedi
year.
The foreign commerce of Siam is very ancient.
Her commerce with India, China and probably Japan dates from the beginning with no result. of the Christian era or earlier, yet been found. while that with Europe began in the sixteenth century. Her ex-
A programme for the most part jobs is to drive when the roads are ately the compressed air is turn- in lighter vein was presented at good, when it is not raining, and ed on the man is shot clean port trade has made rapid strides the Helena May Institute yester-before that nasty period between through the tube and up to the in recent years. Prior to the day evening. The Collegian Glee sunset and complete darkness. The surface. When the charge of alr Great War the trade with her Singers were responsible for the rest of the party drive at times ex-is turned off, the aperture at the immediate neighbours was com
first half of the programme, and clusive of the above.
sen end is closed and so the tube were well received. Local artistes The Owner is also O.C. documents. Is emptied of water. paratively insignificant, and the appeared in the second half, Mr. R. This is an important function. total value of her imports and ex- Dudley and Madame Huke being He curries an imposing bundle of STEAMER WRECKED. ports in 1911 was approximately particularly successful.
papers which give Cosmop the only about £400,000; whilst the|
magle right of way through the TOTAL LOSS OF CHANGKIANG Considerable discussion took Customs barriers of the many coun- Mr. and Mrs. Ho Kwong have foreign trade for 1928-29 showed place at the Chinese Chamber of tries we are going to visit. But
REPORTED. pleasure in announcing that the
a total value of imports of Commerce concerning the decision foreign travel by car is now 50 marriage of their eldest daughter,
and Mary, to Mr. Sal-wa Liang, B.A. £17,253,682
of
of the Sanitary Board in regard to highly organised that all the owner exports
the treatment of small-pox.. Mr. has to do is not to lose them. Oxon.. will take place on Mon- £22,952,259. Her seaborne com-T. N. Chau, a member of the The Royal Automobile Club acte day, March 30, when a reception will be held at the Roof Garden of merce is in a very flourishing con- Sanitary Board, stated the as nurse to car owners arriving at
ANNOUNCEMENT.
the Hong Kong Hotel at four o'clock dition, and
had been
that
thoroughly threshed out by the Board, and its decision WOR final. however, could have Chinese treat
A patient,
in 1928-29 1,075 matter the same afternoon. All friends vessels of 1,151,880 tons and 1,079 are cordially invited to the recep of 1,158,309 tons cleared the port tion. No cards will be issued.
of Bangkok
Hong Kong. Friday, March 20, 1931.
ROYAL VISIT.
the port.
That is why the Owner is sitting R.A.C. nurse has taken his papers sipping his coffee and cognat. The
He will appear later with the The Little Sisters of the Poor decuments duly signed, and all the
ment if he desired.
NIGHT CLUB BUSINESS.
Gangster Wars Killing It lo New York.
London, Feb. 14.
away,
stitutes an attache case.
FATE OF CREW UNKNOWN.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
A wireless report to Shanghai says that the steamer Chang- been wrecked and is a total loss. kiang (from Knuthamsun) has
were picked up.
Fifty out of 300 passengers
The fate of the crew is un- known.
The French warship Marne is
hours
"Horhan" is not known, but it probably means Bonham. Island off the Fukien coast.
Bangkok, whose annual trade in 1911 was valued at £13,000,000, celebrated the feast of St. Joseph, Owner will have to do is to tuck proceeding to the scene.-Reuter. easily overtops all the rest of the Patron Saint of their Order, in the them away in his pocket until we
[An earlier message stated:- country, the other ports together Home for the Aged Poor, Kowloon meet the next R.A.C. nurse at our Anxiety is felt here for the safety City, yesterday." The celebrations next port, which is Bordeaux. of the French freighter Chang- accounting to a total of Imports The announcement that His and exports of little over a fourth sentative gathering
were attended by a large and repre- hope thero is another cafe there,
kiang, which is now 48 of Roman for his sake. Majesty King Prajadhipek of
of that sum. On both the east Catholics, headed by His Lordship Now we come to O.C. baggage from which a broken off wireless overdue from Hong Kong and Siam is to visit Hong Kong to and west coasts of Siam the im-Bishop H. Valtorta, D.D., who gave and official map reader to the ex- message was received on Monday. ivard the end of this month and
port and export trade is increas-made possible by a Chinese Catholic started that the luggage should be Kong on the 13th inst., and on the Benediction. A special dinner pedition. It was agreed when we The Changkiang left Hong later will proceed to Shanghai ing rapidly and is, of course, very benefactor was served to the in-limited to one suit case and one the 16th inst. the local wireless should be a matter of lively in- largely with the Straits Settle-mates, who ́number over 100.
attache case per person. The Owner station intercepted a message terest to Chinese merchants and ments, which, in 1928-29, was
has curious Ideas of what con- from her which read "Echoue the provincial authorities, for valued at £3,570,297 and
O.C. baggage asked him when aning off.
horhan," the message then break- the trade between the two coun- £11.968,158, respectively. The
attache case ceases to be one and tries, although fairly extensive, is principal exports are rice, tin,
becomes a trunk. He is at present open to development, particularly and teak, whilst the minoral re-
busy roping the Owner's attache case on to the luggage grid. in regard to the export of cotton. sources of Siam are extensive and
The Changklang is heavily Spare Driver.
laden with cargo and carried he- It is not to be imagined, of course, varied, including besides tin,
The other member of the parts tween 20 and 30 passengers and a that the visit of His Majesty is tungsten, wolfram, coal and iron,
is responsible for chronicling events crew of 70.] primarily in the interests of zinc, manganese, 'antimony and The overlords of American as they occur in a fair and accurate" trade, but the fact that the quicksilver. Tin mining on a con-rangdom are alarmed at the manner, is also spare driver and official interpreter, a task of some Chamber of Commerce in Bang-siderable scalo is pursued on the slump in night club business.
Al Capone summoned his difficulty and importance, as we are kok has written to the Hong island of Paket (or Junk Ceylon) vassals and enemies to a confer going to pass through about ten Kong Chinese General Chamber and also in the northern portion ence in New York and delivered a different countries.
The baggage is now stowed away. of Commerce, as well as to Nan- of the province of Puket on the 2 homily urging them to behave king and Shanghai official bodies, mainland, and the e ore is found in like gentlemen and discontinue The Owner has got his bundle of Some fifteen odd in order that preparation may be ever-increasing
shootings and killings in nigh papers back. quantities in clubs and other public places.. porters have asked us if the car still in progress. Last Saturday made to receive the Royal visitors, other parts of the Siamese portion Capone has realised that the has been unloaded in a satisfactory the employers are reported to have implies that the visit, if not ac- of the Malay Peninsula, where battles between rival gunmen in manner. The interpreter has ex held a meeting is the Koon Nam tually in the nature of a "mis-wolfran; now being extracted speakeasies are likely to injure pressed his satisfaction in the ap Restaurant to form a new Society
the night club business and drive propriate number of francs.
as a protection against the workers sion," may have a valuable reat- in considerable quantities. The away rich patrons, He there- The sun is shining, the road Is demanding an 8-hour day and the tion on the mutual trading rela-total output of lig 1927-28 was fore-sent out his sons-for-a-call- sood, so the Owner is taking the employers prepared to grant that tionships.
10,44 tons.
together of the heada of gangland Wheel, and Cosmop's bonnet is set demand. At a meeting of the King Yuen Printers' Guild held yester- In this connection it is inter- It is to be hoped that the forth and told them "some of us are not towards the south.
exactly friendly, but we have got
day to discuss the strike I was un- esting to note that in 1927-28 the coming visit of His Majesty will to do something to end the busi- English-born boxers have little animously agreed by those pre- chance of securing a veredict in, Bent that the Guild with a mam- exports from Siam to China were result in binding closer the ties ness slump." valued at $783,889, whilst in the between Sidm and the United-The leaders expressed the U.S.A, unless they knock their op bership of over a thousand, should opinion that Capone was a wise ponents to Inseraibility. English-form a company of newspaper following year they declined to Kingdom, with a simultaneous guy" and agreed that gang wars men are called "Limoys," an equi printers and publishers, with shares £488,740, the reasons for this not improvement in the trading rela-should be ended until the next valent to a lime juice or a lemon. of $1 each to employ all members
time. being clear. But as there was a tions of the two countries.
James Butler.
thrown out of work by the strike.
Ten Years Ago.
(From the "China M~il" or
March 20, 1921.)..
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