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Will our numerous customers please note that on and after MONDAY, July 27th, our principal Hong Kong Depot will be at 60, Queen's Road Central, Tel. No. 21279 (50 is. west of Queen's Theatre), for the collection of Laundry, Drycleaning or Dyeing Orders; also a Special Valeteria Service will be installed. Suits, Gowns, elc, can be Steam Pressed on the premises within 20 minutes, while your servant waits.
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SOLA PITH TOPEES.
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The master of a trading Junk, was this morning charged before the Hon. Comdr. G. F..Hole, R.N.! retired), In the Marino Court, with leaving the harbour without a clearance on Saturday. In plead- Ing "guilty," the accused sail that he arrived in harbour off Kennedy Town, at noon and there!
MONDAY, JULY 275 1931.
DISASTROUS FIRE.
POLICE RESERVE.
Orders for the Current
Weeke
INSPECTION WORK.
Orders by the Hon. ME E. D. C. was no time to clear his veasel, it Wolfe, C.M.G Inspector-Genera being a half holiday. The Magie- of Police, are as under- |trate imposed a fine of $50.
General,
Revolver Practice-The regular
| night last night, an unknown Chin-Chinese Company, Hong Kong Poor
Over 30 Killed in Hospital Blaze.
INMATES ABED.
Pittsburgh, Saturday. Twenty-two persons are dead Sin Yue-wal, assistant manager weekly revolver practice will take and 20 missing and over 100 are of the Tung Shan Hotel, 58 place at the Bowen Road Revolver in hospital as a result of a fire Connaught Road West, has reported Range on Wednesday at 6 p.m. It which destroyed the home for to the Felice that, at about mid-will be open to all members of the aged of the Little Sisters of the The fire started in the use man entered and ordered a mení| Police Reserve.
men's infirmary and puns and which was served. He paid for Training Course-Part II. brothers rushed into the blazing. this with an American $10 bank! The weedy classes for Police building to rescue the rates, note, for which he received change Reservists at the Chinese Com- for: $41.70, in local currency. The pany's Headquarters, 17, Queen's meal had cost 60 cents. After the Road Central will be held as usual customer had left, the manage to-morrow at 6.80 p.m. All members ment discovered that the bank note of the Chinese Company and of the was forged.
Flying Squad who have not passed Part II of Training Course should attend.
Chinese Company,
many of whom jumped from the
windows to save themselves,
Inmates Trapped.
The full death roll is now 30. The heavy loss of life was due to the fact that most of the in- mates were abed. The Police, Dr. John Anderson, M.D.
with the utmost difficulty, con- M.R.C.P., D.T.M., of Wallasey,
trolled a crowd of 15,000 which Cheshire, and care of The Lester Strength. The following mem rapidly collected, Impeding the Trust, Shanghai, China, of the bers have been struck off the firefighters.-Reuter's American. Henry Lester Institute of Medical strength of the Chinese Company, Service. Research, who died on March 28; Hong Kong Police Reserve, as from aged 52, left estate of the value of July 25:- £7,501. He left $250 to the Uni Constables R39 C. R. C. Ham, versity of Hong Kong "for the R45 W. G. Ham, R59 Young catablishment of a prize in the form Kwan-ul, and RG1 of a gold medal to be given annual-
wing. y to the medical student who, at- Revolver Practice. - Revolver tains the highest aggregate of practice will be carried out on the marke-in-all the professional ex- Bowen-Road---Revolver Range on aminations."
BRITONS KILLED.
Luk Kwai Blazing 'Plane Crashes
to Earth.
MID-AIR CONFLAGRATION.
Wednesday. All members of the Chinese Company who have not passed Part II of Training Course this year should attend without
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Indian Company... Leave-Constable R229 Jiwan Singh has been granted six months leave of absence from the Colony as from July 23,
Flying Squad,
Bucharest, Saturday. Four Britons were among the seven occupants of an aeroplane on the Constantinople-Bucharest service which caught fire in the air over Karnabate and crashed in flames. All the occupants were killed and burned unrecog- nisably. The blazing 'plane started a fierce forest fire. Reuter.
Other Victims. Constantinople, Saturday. There were two Britons,
The final instructional patrol of the month of the Hong Kong Section will take place on Friday, and all members should take part in this patrol.. Fall in at Central Messrs. Williams and Crouch, Police Station at 5.16 pm sharp, from Smyrna, among the seven Dress-Khaki. uniform and cap plane bound for Bucharest that occupants of the French aero- with khaki cover..
Sharpshooters' Company. Revolver Practice. -- Squads
Constable R402 B. S.; M. Veleki, R409 A. H. Harteam,
R426 A. Winch, R480 J. C. L. Wong, R482 W. E. Dorabjee,
R4S6 R. A. Starling and R498 N. Stradmoor.
crashed in flames near Kudud- jevo, Bulgaria.
Other passengers were M, Rep- pen, Norwegian Consul-General, Constantinople, and an American
unkown. Reuter.
MOSLEY DESERTED.
Party Suffering from Defections.
Straight Talking in The latest suggestion is to
Home Paper. place a veto on the parking-of
DISGRACE TO CHINA. private cars in Pedder Street, but: the public taxis may remain with
London, Yesterday. a slight modification in the park-
An article by Mr. O. M. Green, ing arrangement.
On the other in the Sunday Times to-day, re- hand,, nothing is being done to captitulating the incriminating in- remove the daily and nightly cidents in connection with the die- nuisance to pedestrians caused appearance of Mr. Thorburn from
Shanghai concludes:
and 4 will fire, their Classification by the public cara in
"Nobody asks for a return. of Tests on Kennedy Road Range on Chater Road near its junction the days when Rutherford Alcock Wednesday at 5.15 p.m. The fol- with Ice House Street.: The could threaten to hold up all Shang-lowing members should attend: lady and youth whose names are
hala trade until justice had been; drivers of these public cars seem inflicted on the assailants of the to be a law unto
themselves, missionaries, but at least we careering all over the place, should make it plain to Nanking, swerving and zigagging. în Cha- that no change in the British sta ter Road and the adjacent streets tus in China can even be discuss- ed while a disgrace like this in their quest for fares. Follow disappearance of Thorburn is poa- ing the recent prosecution by a alble. Police official the hope was in-
It is authoritatively learned that spired that this menace to pedes-the British Government is making trians would cease, but it is as strong representations to the Chin acute to-day as ever.. If it is ese Government regarding the de- found really essential to ease tention of Mr. Thorburn. the congestion in Pedder Street, has reason to believe that he was arrested by the authorities and why not take away the parking handed over to the military follow- Bong Kong, Monday, July 27, 1931. place for public cars in Chatering a fraces between him and gen
Road and give it to private cars darmes and since detained. which would not constitute 'a dis-
The British Government is de- tinct nuisance at all hours of the manding that he be handed over With the rapid growth of day and night A telephone trial as he should have been in the motor cars it is inevitable that message can bring a public hire first place-Reuter. the traffic authorities should find car from any garage, but the the problem of parking places owner of a private car has to
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London, Yesterday.
It
(Sgd.) D. L. KING, D.S.P. (R.). Hong Kong, July 27.
DRAIN OF GOLD:
Mysterious Flow from Great Britain.
FINANCIERS PERPLEXED.
M.P.'S RESIGN..
London Saturday. The new political party form- ed a few months ago by Sir Oswald Mosley when the seceded from the Labour Party, is suffer- uig from losses and defections. ¡~
Following the resignation this week of Mr. John Strachey and London, Saturday." Mr. Allan Young, two out of its City correspondents are per-six Parliamentary representa- plexed as to the reasons for the tives (including Sir Oswald and heavy drain of gold bullion from Lady' Cynthia), comes the news the Bank of England to France, that C. E. M. Joad has retired amounting to £29,000,000 in a for the same reason as they fortnight and showing no sign of viz-"because of what appears ceasing
to be the Party's growing Fascist Earller News,
In view of the soundness of tendencies." Joad was one of London, Saturday. the British financial situation, it their first adhérents and respon-,
Government is French political considerations of the Party's propagandist making strong representations are responsible for the flux, literature.--Reuter.
to the International Court for
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It is to be hoped, however, that, own car. in any scheme for improvement, It seems time that the con- to the Chinese Government re- The Daily Telegraph's diplo the convenience of private motor venience of private car owners garding the detention of Mrmatic correspondent alleges that Thorburn. It has reason to be there is close connection be
GRAF ZEPPELIN. car owners will not be entirely were studied a little more than lieve that he was arrested by the tween the withdrawals and Mir. sacrificed to the advantage of seems to be the case at present authorities and handed over to Arthur Henderson's visit to Paris Giant Airship Leaves
It is admitted that the traffic the military following a fracag last week, and asserts that dure for Leningrad. public hire cars.
Before the present experimen- authorities have a difficult probetween him and gendarmes and ing complicated discussions Mr.
since detained.
Henderson used words, which are
Berlin. Saturday. tal system at the Kowloon blem to solve, but any fresh
The British Government is de-interpreted in Paris to mean that egheme should not be one en-manding that he be handed over a moratorium in Germany would Leningrad at. 4.40 a.m. to-day- The Graf Zeppelin left for "circus" became operative it was
tirely favouring public hire to the International Court for be followed by a moratorium in Reuter. stated quite frankly by a certain
trial as he should have been in Britain, and such alarm was
Leningrad, Yesterday. high official that cars, public or
the first place--Reuter,
created in French political and
The Graf Zeppelin left for the private, in charge of chauffeurs,
financial circles that gold ship- Arctic at 11.10 am. local time.- ments set in immediately. Reuter. should be permitted to park at
SILVER STANDARD, Parle, Saturday the Ferry but that private cars without chauffeurs-that is own-
Decision of the Mexican Government.
vehicles.
News in Brief.
The fifth ordinary general meet er driven could quite well being of the Mid-Level Recidents
Association is advertised to be parked some distance away. One held on August 4 in the Board room would have expected this de-of Messrs. Showan, Tomes & Con claration of attitude to be quite
The lowest open
ature
New York, Yesterday." Silver is henceforth to be the
consultation with the U.S. Treasury Department..
the reverse that it would be Chan Yau, who was banished for sole legal tender in Mexico, and all quite easy for any person want 10 years in Febuary this year, was gold coins are to be withdrawn from sent to jail for nine months at the circulation, according to a decision ing, a public hire car or taxi to Kowloon Police Court this morn reported from Mexico City which telephone to a garage and that ing, for disobeying the banishment has reached the Mexican tankera
order koble owner drivers, who spend all day on the Hong Kong side, would be encouraged to leave their cars within easy distance of the particularly, in sralny. known now...one taxi's few yards
car
$from
mertla
The
The Bank of Mexico will become federal reserve institution, under 471 the direction, of ex-President the hours Calles, and will cease to be a com-
W260.11
was found hang- From:
Itive concern-Reuters Amer
canService.
10,000 HOMELESS.
Hour
Houses
Collaps
rday
Seven aeroplanes yesterday conveyed ten tons of gold from London, thus creating a record for one day's consignment.
Silver to Hong Kong?
London Saturday.
[An earlier message stated: The Graf Zeppelin started on its scientific meteorological flight to the Arctic, from Friedrichshafen, af 9.45 am. It will land at Berlin this evening, and continue
Some special selling of silver the flight to Leningrad at dawn is proceedings in London and to-morrow, thence going the there are strong rumours that the Arctic via Archangel the Indian Government is sell
Originally, the Graf Zeppelin
ing here, but confirmation is was to have flown to the North Pole, in conjunction with Jacking. It is reported that the Indian Government has the submarine Nautilus, which sold 10,000,000 ounces direct has been delayed by damage suf- fered in crossing the Atlantic.]; to Hong Kong Heuter,
ECONOMY NEEDED. Treasury Deficit Makes Hoover Cautious:
CUT TO MINIMUM.
Washington, Faced by defeit Preside heads
Ten Years Ago,
From the Chins Mall" of a
July 27, 1921.1
Today's dollar is worth 2/94.
Local baseball fans are enthu Blastic over seeing the teams of the University of California and Unl versity of Washington in action in Hong Kong within the next few
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