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ROYAL GESTURE IN NATIONAL CRISIS
KING REDUCES HIS CIVIL LIST BY £50,000
PRINCE OF WALES £10,000
MEMBERS OF ROYAL FAMILY SET AN EXAMPLE
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Desiring to participate in the National economy measures which, as the Premier says, are necessary to avert a financial col Japse and return the Ship of State to an even keel, H.M. the King
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1931..
FLOOD- LIGHTING
LONDON CROWDS
AMAZED.
GREAT EFFECT
FUTURE FOR GAS
AND ELECTRICITY.
Rugby, Yesterday, The interest shown by the illumination of notable London general public in the flood-light buildings is unabated, and large crowds throng the streets in the lighted area each evening.
Foreign delegates to the Inter The Prince of Wales also signifles his intention of following his national Illumination Congress, in honour of which the display Royal Sire's example by contributing £10,000.
has been organised, have ex- pressed their admiration at the wrongful effects which have been achieved by the gas and elec
· intends to reduce his Civil List expenditure by £50,000,
All the other Members of the Royal Family are also anxious to aid by reducing their grants during the crisis,
The Premier, in an appeal to the Nation, on the eve of one of the most eventful and momentous assemblies of Parliament, calls for full confidence in the National Government,
PREMIER'S
APPEAL TO NATION
"
London, Yesterday are doubtlessly actuated by deep Desiring to participate in the convictions.
Determined Resistance. reduction of national expenditure, Simultaneously the delegates H.M. King George, has sent a to the Trade Union Congress message to the Prime Minister meeting in Bristol are expected stating that he intends to reduce to express determined resistance
to the National Government. the Civil List expenditure by £50,000 while lusts.
the emergency
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales also has informed the Premier that he intends to contribute £10,000 from his income for the same purpose.
:
Labour v. Capital.
The situation has been des cribed in conference circles as a "war between workers, and the financial interests."
Bankers Assailed.
A violent attack on bankers and unalterable opposition to the H.M. the King writing to Mr. policy of the National Govern. Ramsay MacDonald points out ment were the points of the pre- that it is not easy to reduce the sidential speech by the M.P., Mr. Civil List without sacrificing Hayday, in opening the Trade some State function or rendering Union Congress at Bristol. unemployed numbers of His which was attended by nearly 600 Majesty's servants, but after delegates.
a careful consideration he Dictator of Labour Party. has come to the conclu- It will be recalled that the sion that by the most rigid T.U.C.'s opposition to the pro- economy it is possible to reduce posed dole "cut" caused the "fall it by £60,000.
He adds that other Members of the Royal Family are all desirous to aid by reductions of their! grants during the crisis.
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of the Labour Government, and the T.U.C. is described as the dictator of the Labour Party.
Alternative Policy?
trility Industries which are jointly responsible for the ar rangements.
The whole cost is being borne hy these and allied industries, but, it is understood, that, the low figure at which the food- lighting installations have been supplied by Britsih firms, and
can be run, has surprised a num-
ber of business houses and it is probable that, in certain cases, ation will be kept for permanent an augmented system of illumin- display. It is also possible that some public buildings will be flood-lighted in future not re gularly but on many occasions. British Wireless Service,
and to banish from its mind any notion that the crisis which has confronted us was not real and dangerous, or
PROBLEM OF INDIA
STIRRING SPEECHES AT FIRST MEETING.
GREAT CHANCE
PREMIER AND THE
DELEGATES.
TO-DAY'S
DOLLAR. — The closing rate of the dollar on demand; to-day was 11%d.
DUNLOP Special
Extra Construction
For
Overseas
Motoring Conditions.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
FORT MOTOR CYCLE TYRES,
LOCAL BRANCH.
Feddar Bldg.
AMERICAN STRATEGY PREVAILS
KAYE DON LURED INTO A TRAP.
TURNS TURTLE.
Gar Wood Disqualified in "the Cause."
BRITAIN'S HOPES DASHED.
Detroit, Yesterday.
In the second heat in the Harms
win the Harmsworth Trophy.speedboat, he dropped- on his Reuter's American Service.
knees, kissed the tattered bit of bunting and made a solemn vow
The First Heat.
London, Aug. 13.
The Arst heat was won by Kaye to keep it forever.-Associated Don in Miss England II. when he Press. beat Commodore Gar Wood's Miss "Great Responsibility." America IX. by a mile in the thirty mile triangular course. His aver- Mr. Kaye Don left London yes- age- speed was 89.912 m.p.H, as terday for, Southampton on route compared with his rival's speed of for the United States, to take part 87.027.
In the international speed boat
It looks as if America. may win contest at Detroit. He is to pilot the Trophy this year, though no Lord Wakefield's Miss England II. information as to the extent of the against Gar Wood in the race for damage done to Miss England II. the British international 'trophy, Rugby, Yesterday..
is at hand. The Trophy is award-the most coveted honour in motor- When the Federal Structure Conference, which adjourned last worth Trophy Races, Britain re-
ed to the country which wins two boat sport. Committee of the Round Table
out of the three races.
"We all realise our great res. January, resumed its sittings at ceived a nasty check when Kaye
Britain's Optimism.
ponsibility. he said before leav Rugby, Yesterday, Ing. "America, has held the trophy St. James's Palace this afternoon, Don turned turtle in Miss England Kaye Don's victory last night aince 1920, and six attempts-four the Prime Minister was present II. The occupants were, however, on the Detroit River in the first by Britain and two by France to extend, as Chairman of the rescued-Reuters American Serrace for the British International to regain it have been unsuccess- Conference, a welcome to the device.
Motor Boat Trophy has aroused ful. Gar Wood has come very legates from India. Lord San- To the horror of thousands of keen Interest in the second race, bear my own speed, and this year key again presided, and the other spectators Miss England II, when when it is hoped that Lord Wake-the race British delegates present were taking a bend half a mile from the field's Miss England II. will suc- close.
will certainly be very
escape.
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start, skidded, turned turtle and ceed again and thus win back for "I do not know whether I shall sank. Kaye Don and the two Britain the Trophy which has beenį be able to beat my own record, but mechanics were flung out into the held by America since 1920. Yes the engines of, Miss England II. clouds of spray to be picked up terday. Don's boat which is equip have been overhauled. uninjured after a miraculous ped with two glant Rolls-Royce "The runs at Lake Garda were engines covered the triangular In the nature of an experiment. The only injury they sustained course of 30 miles at an average Garda is an excellent testing was to their feelings and to this speed of just under 90 miles per ground, and we were able to try was added the disappointment of hour and finished a mile ahead of various types of propeller. being informed that they had been Gar, Wood's Miss America IX.- disqualified for crossing the start-British Wireless Service. ing line five seconds too soor, and that the successful ruse by Gar Wood would in any case have de- prived them of the Trophy.
Dinner Thrill, Gardone, Riviera, Italy,'
August 9.
"The propeller Ras to do 12,000 revolutions per minute. The two 2,000 horse-power acro engines are of the Schneider trophy type. The propeller decided upon is 16. Kaye Don and the mechanics, in.. and was machined at the Gar Wood, piloting Miss Ameri- who aided him in conditioning Rolls-Royce works from eighty-ton ca IX., lured Kaye Don over the Miss England II. for his recent re-tensile steel. It took 350 hours to line too soon and both were dia- cord run here, came in for amako, qualified. Gar Wood's brother, second thrill when they dined with "The steering has been redesign- Sir Samuel Hoare, now Secre- George, piloting Miss America Gabriele d'Annunzio at his local ed, and is now reversible." tary for India, Lord Reading, VIII, hanging behind, had mere villa.
The Lord Lothian and Mr. Wedgwood-ly to complete the course and run
boat carries 150, gallons of petrol, When they presented the poet and there is elaborate machinery Benn, who was Secretary for In- over to-morrow's third heat to with the burgee of the English for starting the engines." dia, when the Conference nd- journed and who now, together
St. James's Palace.
one
COOLIE'S FLYING DIVE.
Attached to Cabinet
Gramophone!
to
,
FAIR TO SHOWERY.
The Royal Observatory's re- port issued at 10.18 o'clock this morning says:
The typhoon is more than 800 miles E.S.E. of Naki, Alling up or moving N.E, "
Pressure is low from Cochin China to the Lower Yangtsze Valley.
with Mr. Lees-Smith represented delegates representing the differ- Company, 24, Des Voeux Road, evidence, said that the gramophone the Labour Party.
ent sections of the Indian com- Central, and a contract made to weighed 150 lbs. It was pitched that we could have met it with
Settlement Can Be Settled. munity, who replied to the ex- take it to the destination for $2.50, over the side boards of the truck, measures less vigorous than In greeting the Committee, pressions of welcome.
this to be paid by the theatre man- which were eight inches high. those we shall ask Parliament Lord Sankey said that the comThe Constitution India Wints ager. Before starting, the truck Coolie Went With It. ta sanction. We had to face it ing weeks would
afförd oppor-
Sir Muhammad Shafi, one of driver was expressly warned Tang Yue, the coolie was then and all its potential conse tunity of reaching an under these speakers, expressed the proceed carefully.
called. He described the journey, quences. We had to act with standing. "Such an opportunity common desire that they should
Over the Side!
and how when approaching the decision and speed, and the may never come again in our life succeed in framing for India a The Chung Lok Theatre mana-corner in question the gramophone great thing we have already time. Do not let us miss it. Un-constitution in which all sec-ger sat in front with the truck was pitched over the side board. secured is that instead of the iformity may not be possible tions, irrespective of colour, caste driver and one of plaintiffs' coolies Mr. Armstrong: And you with Hanse of Commons meeting to or may not even be desirable, but and creed, will find a legitimate was at the back, holding the it? Yes. deal with the financial collapse let us strive for humanity. I be place. He added, "Should that machine by the handles. As the You still had hold of it? Yes. it is meeting to deal with pro-lieve that with patience and consummation be reached not lorry came to the turning to the
Witness added that the lorry tilt- posals to avert that grim pos goodwill we can and shall reach only will, the happiness and con- right in the road near the Honged, owing to its excessive speed. sibility and to bring the coun- a settlement,
tentment of three hun- Kong Electric Company, it was ob The machine went out and neither try back on to an even keel." "There is world opinion with dred and ifty
millionsviously going too fast. It lurched,
(Continued on Page 12.) After denouncing the alleged
which we shall rightly have to of Hig Majesty's Indian or tiled, and the coolie and the The King's Civil List amounts intimidatory influence of inter-
T. U. C. Meeting.
reckon if we fail. All schools of subjects be thereby secured, but gramophone were in consequence to £470,000 annually. He also re- national financiers! Mr. Hayday Five hundred and eighty-sever thought are represented round India will be a source of strength pitched Into the road. The seives £60,000 as income from referred cryptically to an alter-delegates attended the Gurd Trade this table. with one exception, to that great Commonwealth of machine was very badly damaged, 'the Duchy of Lancaster.
native policy which the Labour Union Congress, which opened at That exception will cease to exist which she aspires to be a com-although the coolle escaped seri- week this day
when The Prince of Wales is making Party were framing, "a policy for Bristol To-day,
we ponent part."British Wireless ous injury. The truck was later a personal gift as his £70.000 in- which we will be called on to make Wanted To Help But →
shall welcome Mahatma Gandhi. Service.
taken back to the garage. come is derived solely from the many sacrifices of money," but
is Mr. Citrine, General Secretary, He not the only Duchy of Cornwall..
ho did not disclose the nature of made a statement regarding the who has found it difficult to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in this policy-Reuter.
financial crisis and the interviews attend the Federal Structure replying, says that all sections of
which the General Council of the Committee, but it is idle to put An Inspiring Gesture. the nation. will be heartened by
Congress had with representatives your hand to the plough and then London, To-day. the Royal example.
The to look back." To sacrifice voluntarily over of the late Labour Cabinet. Give Us Your Confidence! ten per cent, of his income that Council, he said, had wanted to as- Lord Sankey also said that "I appeal to the Nation to give was fixed in 1910 when monetary at the Government, but they felt during the last few weeks the us its confidence and to banish values were much higher than Government's policy was economi- situation had been carefully sur- from its mind all notions that to-day is regarded as most sub-cally disastrous and impossible for veyed and problems prepared for the crisis was not, real and dan- stantial.
the consideration of the Comt-
WHO WAS TO BLAME? This is the aspect them to subscribe to. gerous." says that Mr. Ramsay taken of the King's gift. Stream-
next Congress passed' a motion un- mittee which
Monday MacDonald in a message to the er headings unanimously blazon-animously approving of the action should be ready to settle downside of a speeding lorry, into the for damages incurred.
A coolie's flying dive over Nation on the eve of a meeting of ed it and extol it as an "Inspiring of the General Council as reported down to the details of its task.
Premier's Assurance.
road, whilst hanging' on to a 150- He adds, that the Gesture" whose moral is inter-by the Citrine and adjourned for a House of Commons will not be pret as placing the solution of the day
The Prime Minister assured lb. cabinet gramophone, was des- dealing with the condition of the cresent crisis as above party noli-
'Political interest now centres on the delegates that, in spite of eribed by the chief sufferer in the
Summary Court this morning. We are not querying the damages, financial collapse, but with pro- fics. It is recalled that the King. the re-assembly of Parliament to recent political events in London, the action was one in which the but we deny negligence. posala to avert that grim possi- himself a victim of the high cost morrow,
A. message from the there was, so far as India was Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd.,
Mr. Armstrong: I don't know if bility and to bring back the coun- of living, soon after the war prun- King will be read in both Houses, concerned, no change in the public ed: the Luen Yick Motor Com my friend is denying that the try to an even keel,
ed every redundant expenditure The debate will take place on the aims or private friendships. He Most Critical Week. and met the remainder of the de Frime Minister's motion to set up hoped that the Committee's de pany of 85, Praya East, for 100, gramophone was pitched into the an electric road, which would lay them open To-day opens the most critical ficit by realising £100,000 of the a Committee of watches and means, liberations would be resumed in damages caused to week In British political history capital of the Duchy of Lancas. but it is not yet certain whether the same spirit as that, which gramophone belonging to pair to a charge of negligence. since the war. The alignment of ter, and declined Government's the Opposition, led by Mr Hender marked the earliest ones. He was tiffs, by the negligent driving of Mr. Dennys: It: was not pitched parties when the House of Com-suggestion to increase his. Civil son, will divide in the House of desperately determined that the defendant's truck No. 2740, on July off. I fell off.
His Lordship". (Mr. 16. last. Packer D
Justice mong reassembles on Tuesday is List Reuter...
Commons. If they do the Gov. same good relations then asta-
Plaintiffs were represented by
R. E Lindsell); Do you expected to give the National
emment majority is expected to be lished should be continued.
Messrs. Deacons and defendants dispute that defendants were Government a majority of be
about sixty, but it may be more on
British Delegates' Attitude
by Messrs. Hastings, Dennys and acting as common carriers, Mr. tween 50 and 60, while the off- The Prime Ministor, Mr. Ram- Account of Labour abstentions.A
Unchanged.
·Bowely."
Dennys? Yes. It was a special cial Labour opposition led by Mr. say MacDonald, to-night fasued a The Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Samuel Hoare, Lord Read Mr. Armstrong, opening for contract made at the time.
You allege that it was partly the Henderson is determined to put message to the Nation,
Mr. Philip Snowden, will intro- ing and Mr. Wedgwood-Benn also plaintiffs, said that the grimo- up a most strenuous fight.
He says. "To-morrow Par duce an emergency Budget on emphasised that the recent poll-phone was being, transported to plaintiffs coolie's fault that the No Recriminations Hamant will meet and Govern Thursday: page to tical changes had not changed the one of the company's theatres caso, fell out Wholly bis fault ment will sak from it, and, is short Cabinet meeting to night attitude of British delegates to aboard defendants truck. The The gramophone was stored and certain to obtain, a vote of con-reviewed Government's complete the Indian problem, pode theatre was the Chung Lok, at packed by plaintiffs own people,
Parliament.
According to a message from
Mr. Henderson to the Daily
Herald there will be no recrimina tions against old colleagues who
Had to Face I
Ruzby, Yesterday.
Mr. Armstrong said that the points arising from the facts were that defendant was acting, as a common carrier, and was hence responsible for 'damages, ex- eept those caused by Act of God: or King's enemies. Falling that assumption, he was acting as an Fordinary carrier, and .counsel. thought he would be able to prove that on the facts the defendants' servant was guilty of negligence. the which made his employers liable
Damaged Admitted.
Mr. Dennys
(for defendants):
fidence. I appeal to the Nation scheme and dealt with the proce. These assurances, were Shaukiwan. The machine was put who took charge of it all the way. ~ also to give us its confidence, dure. British Wireless Service. welcomed by all of the several aboard at the Theatre Equipment! Mr. Armstrong, before calling
Forecast:-S. W. or variable
fair
'to winds, moderate; showery.
Typhoon Warning. The following telegram was this forenoon received from the Manila Observatory by the American Consulate-General:
Manila 8th 9.46 am. Cyclone or Typhoon on the S. of Naha filing up.
Rainfall Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 a.m. to-day, 0.03 inch. Total since January 1-6817 Inches against an average of 68.48 inches deficit 2.81 inches.
Temperature,
The temperature at certain : specified centres this morning:
at 6 o'clock w23:—
Hong Kong
Macao
Pratas Island
Manila Foochow
Amoy
Chefoo Shanghai
79,