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STERLING REVIVES
WELL ABOVE GOLD EXPORT POINT.
ON WALL STREET
BEST TRIBUTE TO SNOWDEN'S SPEECH.
New York, Yesterday." The best tribute to sterling following Mr. Philip Snowden's Budget, was paid by Wall Street by the implicit assumption that
there would be no further need to concern themselves about it.
Sterling opened 532 higher.
China
No. 27,900
DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.
Delay & Postponement
Repudiated.
IDLE TALK.
Geneva, Yesterday. At emphatic denial that France had any idea of delaying or postponing the Disarmament Conference was made by M.
Brind in his annual speech to the League Assembly.
He said France would strenu- ously oppose any such attempt because she would feel the Lenguc had failed if the conference did not meet or bear fruit.
Equally
emphatically." .M. Rriund asserted that, it was diabolical invention to suggest
The
Library, Supreme Court
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1931,
TO-DAY'S
The
DOLLAR. clósing rate of the dollar' on demand, to-day was 11%d.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY RACE
TO-DAY'S RACE WILL GIVE BRITAIN
THE TROPHY FOR ALL TIME
STARTLING PROGRESS IN SPEED
LIST OF FATALITIES SUPPORT FRENCH AND ITALIAN WITHDRAWALS
Great Britain will make the Schneider Trophy her own property to-day, providing no unfere- Italy and France, who were expected to offer a serious challenge for seen circumstances arise. supremacy, have disappointingly abandoned their efforts and cancelled their entry, thus forfeiting Trophy remains Britain's property for all time.
and closed still stronger at 4.86.7 that Britain had ever sought to the £1,500 entrance fee. All that the British airmen have to do is to complete the course and the
well above the gold export point
-Reuter.
FINAL ARRANGEMENTS.
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Moderately Suitable Weather
Conditions.
سمعنا
Bugby. Yesterday.
conditions
Unless Weather enforce a postponteinent, Flight Lieutenant Bothman will fake off to-morrow at 12.30 pm in SGB' Vickers Supermarine Rails Royce Seaplane in an attempt to bent the record set up by the
the British victor in
1920 Schneider Race, or 328 miles per hour and thus gain the tro- phy for 'Great Britain which will then have won the race'. three times in succession.
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If this Officer fails to treate new record for the course, course, Flying Officer Snaith will repeat the attempt in the C6A machine used in 1929, and a further attack on the record will be made by Flight Lieuten- ant Long in a second new S6B. If, however, Boothman suc- ceeds, and. provided the weather is favourable, it has been decided
Flight that Lieutenant
-will Stainforth make an attempt on the world's three kilometre record during the afternoon and, in that case, the Royal Aero Club has an- nounced. no other demonstra- tion of high-speed flying will- take place.
A special weather report, issued this afternoon, forecasts moderately suitable conditions.
Final practice lights were carried out by the British Team at Calshot to-day, and the machines are now ready for the race.
All expected, arrangements ⚫are complete for dealing with. the immense crowd of specta- tors expected, among
which will be members of the team nominated by the French.
Great regret is felt at Cal- shot at the absence
of the Italian team due to the death of Liectenant Bellini.
Lord Amulree, Air Minister, has sent a telegram to Gentral Balbo, Italian Air Minister, expressing on behalf of the Air Counell and Royal Air Force,, "Deep sympathy in the loss of gallant pilot, Bellini." -British Wireless Service.
BELIZE SWAMPED.
Hurricane and Tidal Wave.
400 DEAD.
Miami, Florida, Yesterday. The latest news from Belize; } British. Honduras, which has been devastated by a violent hur ricane and tidal wave, gives the deathroll, ascertainable ep for, as 400.—Reuter's American Service,
keep Germany and France apart. and profit from the division. On
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As far as we know the following British pilots of the Royal Air Force High Speed Flight the contrary, the British had done their utmost to foster a good Team have been provisionally detailed to fly in the contest to-day-Flight-Lt. J. N. Boothman in understanding between them.-S6B Vickers Supermarine Rolls Royce Seaplane. Flying Officer L. S. Snaith in S6A, which flew in
the 1929 contest, and Flight-Lt. P. W. Lang in another S6B machine, Reuter.
AN EXCITING AIR
RACE.
One Contestant Forced
Down.
FRANCE TO JAPAN.
Le Bourget, Yesterday.
Flight-Lt. G. H. Stainforth has been selected to attempt the world's speed record in the S61 seaplane.
Stainforth is 32 years of age, the best possible right-hand man for Squadron Leader Orlebar, and an old Dulwich boy. Lang, who is the same age as Stainforth, is a pilot who flies "with his head" and is one of the most brilliant members of the teum. He is an old. Lancing boy. Booth- man for solely flying skill lus proliably on equal and strange to relate he has never been in-, jured in a crash, Snaith, who is only 29, has risen from the ranks and possesses a very praise- worthy record.
The British defence of the Schneider Trophy was only made possible by Lady Houston's gift of $100,000 following the Government's refusal to make a grant for the expenditure required.
OVER 400 M.P.H. EXPECTED
Le Brix and Daret, the French aviators who are contestants in the race for the long distance record, hopped off for Tokyo at ten
The announcement of the with- minutes past six this morning.
They were followed seven mir-drawals of the French and Italian teams came as a great disappoint utes later by Codos and Robidu who are also trying to create a record. The race is likely to be A most most exciting one.
Engine Trouble Develops. It is semi-officially learned from Dusseldorf, that the Question Mark has landed owing to engine trouble.
-Reuter.
WELCOME FOR
GANDHI.
Indian Students in France.
MARSEILLES RECEPTION.
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The Euvre declared that no, which will be ready in 1931, new motors were available for the they were in 1923." French team and further stated
British Satisfaction. ment to the British aces at Cal-
In aeronautical circles satisfac shot as the race then offered no
that France had only one machination is expressed at the ability of real interest. The reasons for and one motor with which to con- the British aircraft industry, in withdrawal advanced by the two test the race, but that, on the spite of the lateness of the Br nations was that bad weather was other hand, she had no pilot quali-tish decision, to participate in the hindering all trial flights, they had been dogged by bad luck; and they had experienced both losses
of life and of nircraft. The Frenck newspaper, L'Auto, went as far as to predict the 1931 Kace to be the last of the series. That newspaper contends that the 'world's greatest spied contest has proved too costly, both in human lives and from a financial point of view.
Brinton's Death,
DUNLOP Special
Extra
Construction
For
Overseas
Motoring Conditions.
FORT MOTOR CYCLE TYRES.
LOCAL BRANCH.“
HANDED OVER
MANILA.
Pedder Bldg,
ΤΟ
ECONOMY BILL
Insane Filipinos to Leave To-day.
HIGH SEAS TRAGEDIES.
The China Mail learns that the two Filipinos, Graciano Bilas, and Martin Gonsales Corren; both of
DEBATE AGAIN ON MONDAY.
R.100 TO GO
EXPLAINED.
whom have been detained in the ORDERS-IN-COUNCIL Mental Hospital since Bilas was found "Insane," and Correa "Guilty of murder, but insane," by juries at the Assizes, are to be taken to Manila to-day, aboard the President Taft..
Sub-Inspector M. Murphy will travel in charge of the two men, who it is understood are wanted by the authorities in Manila.
London, Yesterday. The debate on the Economy Bill has been adjourned to Sep- tember 14 (Monday),
Bill.
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never:
In the House of Commons, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald moved the As both men are American second reading of the Economy citizens, and their crimes were have proposed the procedure of
He said, he would committed on the high seas, they Orders-in-Council if speed had are to be handed over.
not been most imperative to deal Correa, it will be recalled, stood with the situation. his trial in May for the murder, of John Harrison aboard the Em-ton press of Russia, on February 24. There was considerable doubt as to his sanity. He was found guilty, but insane.
Bilas was found not in fit con- dition to stand trial at the July!
Assizes, and a jury empanelled to judge upon his mental capacity found him insanc. after a brief hearing. He was responsible for the killing of two people aboard the Empress of Canada.
RAISING LOCAL REVENUE.
Bad News for Water Meter Users.
INCREASES IN RENT
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airship station, and mooring He also said, that the Carding- masts in various parts of the Empire, would be placed on care maintenance basis, and the sole British airship R.100, would be disposed of-Reuter. CHINESE WALLPAPER
DESIGNS.
Wallpaper had been used, in the homes of China, especially Northern China, since the beginning of the Seventeenth Century. In that cen- Lury all the decorative arts ad- vanced greatly.in China. The new Tartar dynasty of Tsing had come into power and while the rulers of this house did little for the rapidly A regulation made by the Gov-deteriorating fine arts of the coun- ernor-in-Councill
increases thetry they did take an encouraging rent for the use of water meters. Interest in the lesser arts.
The old and the new scules are cially Kang H'si, second' Emperor' Espe- published below:-...
of the house (1661-1722), fostered Óla New the decorative arts, giving tremen- Yearly Yearly dous orders to the great porcelain works and taking a keen interest in
race and to produce two new "wonder-planes," as the high speed pilots have christened them, the reports on the performance of (which have, no doubt, convinced the Italians and the French that
4" meter it would be useless to enter the
-3" machines at present available for
2" their teams.
sea-
One of the new British Vickers 116" Super-marine Rolls-Royce planes (S-CB) has already, In the course of training flights, reached
a speed of 405 miles an hour,
It is believed
at Calshot that
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new glazes and new designs. Wall- paper was one of the decorative arts that rode into favour on the wave of the Imperial interest.
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These papers were painted; not,
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of course, by the great painters, but
by the artist craftsmen of which there was a very large number, in
aero-engino experts in every coun- MARRIAGE LAWS IN China at the time....
try will be astonished ; when the statistics of the performance of the new Rolls-Royce racing motors Atted to these planes, can be pub.
lished.:
The engines fittted to the 1920 S-6A planes developed 1,900 horse power
SPAIN.
Sweeping Changes in New Constitution.
In
It is thought in certain quar- ters that, the tragic death of Lt G. L. Brinton, R.N. during the re-
Their patterns were of three Marseilles, Yesterday. cent British high speed flight over
kinds; landscape, bird and flower, Hundreds waited on the dock-the Salent has unnerved the air
and scenes of domestic life. side while the liner Rajputana. authorities of the two countries
each of these they were following. taking Gandhi to England, dock- and has caused them to abandon
on established tradition in Chinese cd. There was a burst of excited all efforts to gain a Trophy satur-
painting. In their landscape de- exclamations when they saw theated with the blood of brave men.
signs they were the inheritors of a The Italian machine, the Macchi Mahatma standing on the boat
long and honoured convention. The deck, wearing only a loincloth seaplane, which was to have been would have been capable
word for landscape in Chinese and a shawl of his own make, in entered
It had a
meana mountain-and-water, literal spite of the wet and chilly wea of touching 400 mph.
Madrid, August 13. ther,
novel power plant, and was high-
It had two en-¡
Sweeping changes of the marriagey, and the painters for hundreds Cheers arose from Indian study stream-lined.
laws of Spain are foreshadowed of years respected this literal Assisting Pilota. ents, which Gandhi returned by ginės of 1,500 h.p, each placed for-
Experimenta have been made
Constitution which meaning, combining high peaks ward and rotating in opposite clasping his hands together over.
with searchlight
is now in process of being drafted. with flowing streams and waterfalls directions on the same shaft. The fied for the exacting test, "That," means, of assisting pilota in the beams 48 0 his head. Reuter.
Strict secrecy is being observed in their scenes. In the Sung period propellers were capable of more exclaims the paper, is where we race.
by the Parliamentary Drafting
| (960-1280) landscape painting had than 2,400 revolutions a minute. stand after months of trial. Yet the
Commission. It is, however, re these paintings were very abstract, reached its greatest height. But France, on the other hand, could English can, show to the journal is the intention
If the tests prove successful it find no pilot to carry out the trials ists their new biplanes machines searchlight on each of the pylona.
ported by El Sol that: to employ a of the Bernard-Hispano machine which it is said can altain a speed"
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SINO - MEXICAN
DISPUTE.
U.S. Declines to Intervene.
Washington. Yesterday,
Flying Officer L. S. Snaith, the smallest member of the team. His flying of the S-6 has been superb throughout all trials,
at Berre, which were found neces of nearly 400 miles an hour, and Eary on account of the curtailment
of each wing by one metre. The Nieuport Hispano. 1929 model, which was undergoing trials at Hourtin under, M. Sadi le Cointe was unable to be got ready · in The United States, declines to from these two machines no other, time for to-day's race. Apart
intervene In the China-Mexico dispute. So the State Depart-French entry was mentioned. ment has informed the Chinese Legation_here.-Reuter's Ameri- *** The final announcement of the can Service.
It is only honest to say you pre- for Edgar Wallace to Shakespeare provided you have given Shakes- peare a chance. Sir Daniel Hall. -
There is no parent who has not been puzzled to distraction in the effort to deal rightly by his own child-Dr. Noel H. M. Burke,
"Italian Surprise.
withdrawal of Italy from the 1981 Race came as a great surprise, as in 1929 similar rumours were abroad, and yet she entered her team of aces. Early rumours this year were discounted by the leak- age of the news that Italy's pre- parations had advanced, so Tar that even the loss of a leading member of her team and of one of her new seaplanes could not have had a decisive effect.
Gosport
Ryde
***Aircraft Course
continuously, throughout DIVORCE BY MUTUAL CONSENT. the race, though throttled below maximum power. This year the power of the unit has been con- siderably increased.
A map showing the new triangular course over which the world's greatest speed race will be fown to-day,"
under the new
Divorce by mutual consent, by made always with the view to an the substantial, demand of the idealistic and emotional Interpreta- husband or by the simple requestion rather than as the literal re- of the wife, is one of the many presentation of any specific place radical features embodied in the or as a decorative design. During: draft Constitution.
the Ming period landscape painting: Illegitimate children are to have had become more and mire.decora- the same rights and privileges as tive. Into the black and white ink. those born in wedlock. It is be politings of Sung there crept more lleved that this is the first time and more malachite green and that such a provision has been strong red, until at the end of the embodied in a Constitution.
dynasty the decorative conception The civil law will require the in predominated.
The wallpaper vestigation of "their" "paternity by paintera took these decoritive land. the State.
scapes and adapted them to their Private property is recognisedown uses, plling conventionalized for the present, but gradual social peak on peak in strong pure greens lastion is forecast. Parliament is broken by dashes of black ink in- to be given the power to expropriato dicating tree, and quieter luminous without Indemnificatión "If social stretches of water. Somsilmes, too, interest demanda such action." they introduced gay little gold and A hint that the Chamber of red pavilions and tiny figures of Deputien alone will make the future richly robed Mandarins and their. laws for the Spanish Republic con- ladies. The results were altogether cludes the forecast of the Constitu- og tion.
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