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Hong Kong, Friday, June 26, 1931.
Empire Trade,
So long as politicians have no thing better to do than ape at being clever in the eyes of their constituents, so long will they bore us to death over their pet panaceas for the improvement of Empire trade. In Britain the Tories are up against Free Trade.
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Chun Shun (50), of 75 Third Street, was taken to the Govern mont Olvil Hospital yesterday suffer- Ing from injuries to his head stated to have been inflicted during a fight in Connaught Road West. His alleged assailant has disappeared.
A
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1931,
SIR M. CAMPBELL.
The Blue Bird in Exhibition Drive.
London, May 25, The Whit Monday race meeting
DRIVING LICENCES.
Real Intention of
Disputed Clause.
Soveral motorlets have been fined and some have had their driving suspended for twelvo
Whilst working on board the s.s.at Brooklands was one of the most licences Tonshan Maru, yesterday, Lal, successful in the 24 years of the months because they had lapsed by Ngau (27) a coolie, accidentally fell existence of the track. More than a few days, it being held that Into a hoid and received multiple 40,000 people were present, and through being unlicensed they auto-
le was re-every road of approach was blocked matically became uninsured. injuries to his body.
This matter is now raised in an moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital, for an hour before the meeting and
Nine entirely new form in a letter which where his condition was pronounced for two hours afterwards.
eventa were run off, interest being is published
The by
Motor to be serious.
added by the appearance of Sir Mal- In this a correspondent сол-
A fine of $1,600 of seven months colm Campbell and Bluebird, tho tonds that Section 38 of the Act fall was imposed by Mr. Schofield on car in which he set up the world's can be construed as meaning that Another big failure to observe a condition that a Chinese who pleaded guilty to the record at, Daytona. unlawful possession of a quantity attraction was Sir Henry Birkin's the driver of an insured vehicle of illicit opium. R. O. Ward said attempt-in the Gold Star seven shall be a licensed driver does not that the drug was concealed in alaps (about 20 miles) handleap invalidate the policy so far, a third- bamboo pole, which the defendant on Kaye Don's lap record of 138 party claims in respect of death or carried under the pretext that hem.p.h. Earl Howe (Dolage) won bodily injury are concerned, was a 'coolie. Another opium offen- the race at an average speed of It is explained that the section is der, who was absent from Court, Howe gradually worked his way to words "after the happening of the 120.8 m.p.h. after a tight Anish. not quoted in full in the letter, the had his bail of $360 estreated.
the front to take the lead in the event giving rise to a claim" having "Under Suspicion" starring J. sixth lap and in spite of a terrific been omitted. On this important Harold Murray and Lois Moran, will finish by Cobb also driving a Delage, phrase The Motor turns to an ex- be screened at the Majestic Theatre went over the finishing line 150 planation of the section given by the to-day and to-morrow. The next yards ahead with H. W. Purdy late Solicitor-General when the Bill change will be "Follow Through." (Thomas special) another half mile was in Committee. He said:- with Charles Rogers and Nancy behind Cobb. Following the Gold Carroll. Among other coming at-Star race Sir Malcolm Campbell tractions are "Hard To Get," featur- made an exhibition drive round in ing Dorothy Mackall and Jack Bluebird: "He made two circuits Oakie: "This Thing Called Love," of the track at about 100 m.p.h.a with Edmund Lowe and Constance higher speed was out of the ques- Bennett; and "The Flying Fool, tion on the track. starring William Boyd and Maria Prevost
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OFFICERS' WAGES.
A Comparison with
Germany.
COACH SERVICES.
•
of
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"It operates, as the clause says, only with regard to things happening after the occurrence of the 'evenit which gives rise to the claim. Insurance, companies are apt to provide that if the insured person makes some kind of ad- mission or gives nome kind of information
It shall defeat the right of indemnity. This clause is intended to provide against a condition of that kind. The other point is this:Suppose the insurance company puts in a condition that if the driving licence is not in forcé at the time the policy shall be volded
I can only any this, that in thin Bill we do not, and I do not think sue can, provide against that"
THE OIL ENGINE.
Many authoritias are of the
undoubtedly exercise a vitally im-
The Commercial Motor states that numbers of operators of motor coaches have been in grave doubt and, in some cases, greatly incon- venienced by their erroneous belief that the services which they are contemplated by those who look
entitled to run, pending considera-. tion of their applications by the to a closer economic union of the
Area Traffic Commissioners,, must Empire as one of the means of
be only those in force during last One of the paragraphs in the Re- Winter. This is certainly not the reviving prosperity in Britain.part of the Hamburg America Line case. When, for example, Mr. Baldwin just published is of great interest
Reference to. Article 6 of the referred to Canada, with its to officers in the British Merchant Public Service. Vehicles (Transitory Navy. It reads as follows: The Provisions) (No. 2) Order, 1931, great resources of water power, German shipping business has to how that any extended seasonal opinion that the engine utilising as a natural home for factories, rely entirely upon its own resources service-can be run this year, pend-light or heavy oil as its fuel will.. he must have raised in the minds whilst nearly all other foreigning the decision of the Traffic Com- portant influence upon the develop- of some of his hearers the ques-countries afford all sorts of assist-missioners on an application for a ment and future of the commercial tion of the extent to which an in-ance to their mercantile fleets....rond service licence, provided that Taking into comparison foreign the service corresponds with the one
vehicle. dustrialised Canada would, ab-shipping companies, German ship run at the same time last year. The Commercial Motor, that Britain It is, therefore, essential, saya sorb British manufactures,ping is, in a measure, handicapped The concluding words of the first should keep In the forefront of That, again, is only part of the by the taxes, social charges sad the paragraph the above-named general question of the admis-scale of wages it has to pay to its Article read: "With such seasonal this, as in the case of other phases employees." For several years variations in the service as were in
of commercial-vehicle motoring. sion of British manufactures now, the scale of wages paid in Ger- operation during the corresponding made, but, in our opinion, it would Important advances are being to Dominions eagerly anxious to man ships has in many directions ported of the year 1980,"
be to the general good of the indus- develop their own industries been higher than that paid in It is satisfactory to be able to try if the knowledge obtained by under the cover of tariffs. Such minimum rate of pay for master, portant matter to all those in each pooled. The reading of papers be For example, there is a give definite assurances on this ir individual investigators could be questions as these require a great viz., £30 a month. According to the and bus circles. The maintenance fore institutions and the discussions deal of thinking out.
Maritime Board Sculo, musters of the status quo is certainly not consequent upon them are steps in One thing obvious is that we are not included. One London met by holding proprietors down to the right direction, bút shall not effect any important few years ago, as low as £21 seeing, that there is neither ab- of ideas and conclusions would paying, their restricted Winter services, fuller measure of interavailability. economic union of the Empire month to one of its masters. His normality nor expansion in their enable designers to avoid inital merely on a baals of sentiment; chief officer, on a seniority grade, running as they are clearly pornfulties There will, inevitably, be a con- was receiving £20 a month. The mitted to do-services equivalent 'to'
Nearly all, design is a matter of siderable amount of hard bar rates for chief and second officer those provided at the corresponding building up upon foundations laid
are higher in Germian ships than in dates of 1930. gaining between Britain and the British ships..
by others, and if the chief factors. The pay for petty
can be ascertained there is still Dominions, and that bargaining officers and seamen ratings on
nothing to restrict Individuality. A will not be carried on without re paper looks poor in comparison to
great deal of time could have been. that paid to equivalent British other countries. The national higher on account of the applica- The suggestion made in a recent adopted. ____ ference to British marketing in ratings, but in practice it is much
eaved in the perfecting of the petrol engine if such a procedure had been crisis at Home demands serious tion of the eight-hour day and pay-number of the Journal of Com- and scientific thought if Britons ment for overtime. The eight-hour merce, that the grounding of the
day applies to the deck department Berengaria might have been pre- POLICE CHASE THE POLICE Í are to see the way out.
as well as the engine-room. Bear vented if there had been a direction ing in mind the facilities afforded finding station on the Nab Tower; After a
News in Brief.
Britain.
tramp concern was
MORE DIRECTION FINDING STATIONS.
an even
motor-car had been
to seamen for travel and also the is supported in a letter from Cap-chased aerces West Surrey had cost of living in Germany, not to tain W. N. J. Clarke, "boat steerer broken through a police cordon and speak of the lower taxation, the
In Canada the slogan is Prefer- Miss M. Gubbay, of Shanghai. German sailor bas some financial and storekeeper' of the Southamp was pursued by the mobile police, it
ence.. In Australia nothing is arrived by the Empress of Russia heard of but Protection. We are on a short holiday here.
can
as far off Empire economic at The lowest open air temperature dard of hygiene and accommothe weight of his opinich to that ax:] given five minutes start before the
all ever we were all because the yesterday was 81 degrees. politicians are permitted to wield humidity was 82 at 10 am, and 96 the big stick. In a speech in mail | atˆ4: p.m.
ton Master Mariners' Club, Master was forced to stop by threats to British. advantage over the
mariners using Southampton con-throw iron bars and handcuffs Another handicap, if It be so called, upon
the Germansidered it absolutely necessary, he through the windscren.
writes, that the Nab Tower should The driver then revealed himself sipowner is that of the higher stane so fitted. Captain. Clarke adds as a police constable! The car was
tion. There is one remarkable test the annual meeting of the Liverpool set in motion, but only the chief dation Imposed by German legisla pressed by Mr. Oscar Prentice at police machinery of the county was which can be applied in proof of Underwriters' Association regard constable, Major J. Nicholson, and week Mr. Baldwin re-emphasised Mr. T. Graham, Auditor of the the above. German saltors will not ing the provision of more wireless the driver were in the secret, the the gravity of the crisis through Kafian Mining Administration, re now sall in British ships in any direction finding stations. It is object being to test the officioner which the nation is pass-turned to Hong Kong from Shang-thing like to the same extent which chastening reflection that Great of the Surrey police.
The whole world, he hal by the C.P. liner Empress of they did in the earlier part of this
Britain-should lag so far behind Russia,akout hit und in de contury-Nautical Magazinë,
other countries in the provisions of | said, is wondering what Bri-
The real strength of British navigational alda round our coasts journalism lles in the vast amount With the march of progress, what of competent anonymous work. used to be regarded as "alde to Mr. Johm Buchan, M.P.
ing.
navigation, and it is high time
A newspaper office with its print that the authorities awoke to that fog machines at work suggests to fact and Installed W/Tdirection me a combination of a first-class finding stations or beacons on battleship and a first-class general number of the salient points round election. Mr. Churchill the shores of the United Kingdom, pintatay khon and particularly at the entrance of the larger liner, porte.
tain is going to do, and nobody The Empress of Russia brought|te| abroad...believes that Britain 791 tons of local cargo and 1,105- shall indefinitely adhere to her tone through cargo. She brought JUDGE FLINGS DOWN PAPERS. navigation" have become "means of Free Trade policy; They are pre-mail bags
87 local nail bags and 865 through
pared, on the contrary, for a
High Court Actions For Small great change of policy. Unfor Miss P. Medinal was fined $5 in the Central Police Court this morn
Amounts. tunately, these Home politiciansing by Mr. Schofield when she plead- themselves are still very hazy od guilty to having left her motor about what is going to happen car unattended in Queen - Rond When Judge Crawford was told at except on points of detall. Central on June 15 at 1:45 pm Watford County Court that a mar
Maried man with five children had Those who accept, willingly or keged to have been self ad been sued in the High Court for unwillingly, the fact that Britain ministated, Chu Mui; (21), a female 26, he flung the papers on his desk must begin to safeguard her living at the Fut Chan Boarding and said, “Bringing Buch cases in
House at 129 Connaught Road the High Court meand delay and sequel to the visit of one of home industries can see clearly, Central, was taken to the Govern, additional costs, and neither plain the Round Table Conference de
the advantage to this or mout Cell Reavital suffering from tiff nor defendant derives any bone-15gates, to a well-known Coventry industry, and the prob- the effects of opium poisoning. Lit. Madras firm of automobil
motor works is reported by revival of pro
FODMAPLE know, who do derive benefit,
Kung but cular trades
course I must not say who ope the chamber of com. merce will take this matter up and otherwise nothing will be
enour
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"China.-Mall" June 20, 1921.1
To-day's dollar is worth 2/78.
On Inquiry, to-day at the offices of
the firm it was ascertained that there had been no fresh development In connection with the strike of fitterstrømployed in the lasulation, department pt the Hong Kong Electric Company
The men ceased work nan of the trouble
the dis
the
been!