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The China Mail Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1931.
MANILA
Election Frenzy.
“JOSEPHINE. C" GOWNS
(Regd.)
Is the registered brand of our Firm and these Gowns are only obtainable in Hong Kong from MESSRS. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. We hereby give notice that anyone using any of our
"Josephine C," registered brands, i.e.,
Stuart," "Elizabeth Lavan" or "Anne Trevor" PROCEEDINGS WILL BE TAKEN WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE,
HENRY H. COHEN, LIMITED. Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinance of Hong Kong, 11, Yuen Ming Yuen Road, Shanghai.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Wednesday, 28th October, 1931 SPECIAL DINNER DANCE
AND.
CABARET ENTERTAINMENT
by
LES DEJEHANS
ET
WILLIAMS RIMELS
from the MOULIN ROUGE & CASINO DE PARIS.
Saturday, 31st October, 1931 (until 1. a.m.) CARNIVAL DINNER DANCE AND EXCEPTIONAL DIVERSION
by THESE
VERSATILE ARTISTES.
RESERVATIONS; Telephone 27775.
THE HONG KONG & BIJANGHAI HOTELS, LTD,
iate.
will do as it pleases until it in turn is called upon to give an count of its stewardship. weird game, indeed, is that politics!
2:
25.
One consoling thought
News in Brief.
Four months imprisonment was Imposed on Chan Sing Chun, for having possession of literature of an inciting nature, published by the Young Men's Association of United Patriots at Johnston Road.
Four Chinese were arrested yer- terday by Sab-Inspector Rozeskwy and P.S. Kennedy at 156 and 168)
The men were Johnaton Road, sald to be armed with daggers and T3RS. It is suspected that they werc
about to commit an armed robbery.
Personal Pars.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1931. DISASTROUS FIRE IN GOLD - SHIPMENTS
YAUMATI.
Caused by Lighting Joss Sticks.
DAMAGE NEARLY $50,000.
A dienstrous fire broke out in Yaumati yesterday evening at 5.30.1
FROM INDIA.
Indians Releasing Hoarded Stocks.
MAY HELP SILVER.
London, Yesterday. Commenting on shipments of
Four appliances attended under go to England from India, the.
that order from Officer A. I. Cash of Morning Post points out Mongkok Fire Station, later being they are not movements on Gov- assisted by a contingent of menjernment's account, but actual sales. by Indian owners of some from the Central Fire Station.
The houses involved were Noa. of their hoarded stocks. India, The forthcoming weddings are 58, 60 and 62 Woosung Street. The apparently, is using her gold to announced of Alfred Ashton Lewis, conflagration broke out in the rear buy silver, and, if the process engineer, 1, Yue Kwong Terrace,cubicle behind the stairs of the went rufficiently far, it might and Florence Mary Wiltshire, second floor of No. 60 and quickly help towards a readjustment of widow, of the same address; and of spread to the partition on the second the relative prices of the two The third floors metals and provide a natural re C.P.O. Clarence Chealyn Foreman, floor of No. 68. R.N., H.M.S. Berwick, and Anuíe of these two houses were soon in-medy for low price silver-Reu- Wong, 241, Nathan Road, Kowloon volved and by the time of the ter
RECALCITRANT SOLDIERS,
the South Wales Borderers were, this morning, charged thus:
558, and
REV. E. A. ARMSTRONG,
fire was Brigade's arrival the spreading in alarming proportions From the to adjoining buildings.
The Rev. E. A. Armstrong, B.A.," (Central Magistracy). verandahs' flames were spouting to Joseph Williams, William Weeks the roofs and a quantity of burning Assistant Chaplain at St. Andrew's and Harry Grant, three privates of Chinese medicine wood filled the Church, Kowloon, since October, street with smoke, making approach 1929, left the Colony on the N.Y.K. liner Chichibu Maru this morning. difficult.
Within half an hour of their ar- He is going Home via South (a) larceny of a bulb horn from
rival the Brigade had the outbreak America, and expects to be in Bel- Public Motor Car No. 558,
within six months. (b) wilfully and maliciously under control, but continued to play fast, Ireland, damaging Public Motor Car Noon the smouldering flames for a Many friends, including two Chin- ese troops of Boy Scouts, s further three hours.
to bid Mr. Investigation showed that the sembled at the wharf (c) assaulting the driver, Tsan
the second and third floors. of No. Armstrong "bon voyage." Hon-ming.
com- Until further notice, the Rev. The offences took place at Stubbs do and the staircase were
¡pletely gutted, while the correspond-N. V. Halward, M.C., M.A. (Dioce- Road.on the night of October 26.
The defendants plended "guilty."ing floor of No. 58 wore severely san Chaplain), by an agreement After the facts of the case had damaged. Adjoining verandahs were with the Church Council, will give been stated, the Magistrate asked if also scorched, and it is anticipated a measure of help. He is preach- toing in St. Andrew's Church on that the damage will amount the accused had anything to say.
Sunday evening, the preacher at Williams said "There is nothing $15,000.
The cause of the fire was the the morning service being the like enjoying yourself," and,
a girl. Vicar. Weeks admitted that he "ked lighting of joss sticks by
When she saw the blaze she ran plenty of excitement."
The second floor of No. 60
The men, it was said, had very jaway.
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a
ac-bad records, and first defendant had is a dwelling house occupied by LI DEATHS AND TRAGEDIES AT SEA.
served 84 days imprisonment for Chau, a married woman, and the
third floor by Lo Fung, also larceny in 1930.
On the first charge; first defen-married woman. dant was sent to jail for six weeks,
A
of
:
CABLE RECEIPTS.
Traffic
Receipts.
1930
Aggregate Receipts January Septembor,-1981-3,506,265
19304,080,171.
ALL QUIET IN CYPRUS.
SZE YAP S.S. CO.
Leave to Appeal to Privy Council.
Captain A. Hall, of, the 8.8. Hal- vard, reports that a Chinese deck passenger jumped overboard and was drowned during the voyage from Tourane, whilst a female pas- aenger died on board from natural causes.
Captain J. J. Blankart, of the B... Tjisadane, from Muntoh, reports that a quartermaster of the ship "In connection with further litigawas missed during the voyage, and tion in the Appeal Court relative to two Chinese deck passengers died.
a
LONG-DISTANCE NON-STOP FLIGHT.
Rugby, Yesterday. The Royal Air Foreo Fairey long-distance. Monoplane,
THE FASTEST TRAIN.
Beats Its Own
the
is and the other two defendants for all one month.
On the second charge they were With a traditional air of de-paramount; however, over
others. The British electorate, ordered to pay $25 each compensa- tachment from Home politics we in this Colony will probably not after their passions have been tion or go to jail for a further 14 On the third count $20 compensa be able to weigh judiciously the cooled, will be fair minded en-days.
tion or another 14 days.
dispute with regard to the vital Assues before the elector-ough to give the new Govern
internal affairs of the Sze Yup S.S. All Parties have had re-mout '--even a National Govern
Co., Ltd., their Lordships yesterday! sort to window dressing. An Ad-menta sporting chance to!
The following has been received dismissed the motion of the respon
by Mr. miral has seized on the emotions nike good. The acid test will be of the people by a belated refer reflected in the state of the Na-
tional Exchequer, in the Board of from the London Head Office of The dents-defendants, made
Eastern Extension Australasia and F. C. Jenkin, K.C., to have the pro-" ence to the men who died for Trade returns, and in the degree China Telegraph Company, Limit ceedings stayed on the ground that
the appeal had been instituted with Napier Britain in France, calling on of taxation of the people. That cd:- “Diana
Imperial and International Com-jout authority to use the Company's which left Cranwell carly this morn
on a non-stop flight of them to continue the work by test for Governments within re-
name and gave, leave to Mr. H. G. ing munications, Limited. cent decades have stood success- Estimated vating for the Nationalist Gov-
Sheldon, for the appellants-plaintiffs nearly 3,000 miles to Abu Sueir, to apply for leave to appeal to the Egypt, was reported over the Straits ernment, forgetful of the fact
of Bonifacio at 6 this evening fly- fully. Will the new National September, 1931-~£410,216.
Privy Council. Receipts. September, that there are thousands of war
Government fare any better?
Mr. Sheldon addressed the Courting blind in thick clouds-British £424,138. hernes and their dependants
to in support of the petition, during Wireless Service.
He claimed that who have been neglected by suc-
and the afternoon.
he had the right of appeal. in that cessive Governments since the
£22,000 must be deducted from the appellants were the trustees of At any rate, plat- Armistice.
Yesterday's lowest open air tem-i
Record. form oratory seems to be suf-perature was 64. The humidity was the message receipts for September, the capital of the Company, which 1931, in making a comparison with amounted to $400,000. The section hcient to put an audience of old 40 at 10 am. and 52 at 4 p.m.
September, 1930, owing to changed under which he made the petition required that the civil right should
When The G.W.R. express, be to be value of $5,000, women into hysterics, make them
Captain A. J. N. Woods, of the conditions of sharing traffic.
the Court also construed that acc- "Cheltenham Flyer," which on sob and sing "Land of Hope and
8.5. Venezia, was to-day fined $50 or
tion, ho would ask it to remember Monday (September 14) broke for tho Glory" kiss the tiramatić Ad-three weeks' hard labour in default
the inherent right of citizens to ap- the world's record Rugby, Yesterday.
fastest start to stop run, on miral, and carry him out of the for passing inshore of the buoy off
A telegram from the Governor of peal to the Privy Council. hall. in triumph! Little wonder Queen Victoria Street, on October
The Chief Justice reminded coun-1 September 15 beat; its own.re Cyprus reports that the situation that the Admiral, who once
now open in judement merely on the Inherent Swindon and Paddington--77% The body of Ng Pui, 23, a shop is distinctly easier in the towns, sel that they could not base their cord by making the run between miles in 58 minutes, an aver shrieked to "kick politics in the pants," was successful at the foki employed at No. 95, Queen's and that shops are
Mr. F. C. Jenkin opposed the age speed of 79.23 miles an will open to-day. roll and defeated Mr. Arthur Road West, was found hanging Nicosia..It is expected the schools right.
The body was re- from a beam.
The run on Monday was AC- The Bishop of Kyrenia was ar-motion on the grounds that the hour. Henderson. What Burnley said
moved to the mortuary. Suicide is
rested yesterday morning, and a only claim made by his friend's yesterday the rest of the country suspected.
lawyer and two. Communists have clients was the claim to sit in the complished in 59 minutes, at Roard room of the Company and to an average speed of 77.89 m.p.h. But is it al-
It was wholly has, said also.
An interesting talk on his native also been arrested.
The total casualties to civiliana direct its affairs. together satisfying to the mil-State of Oregon, U.S.A., was given lions of Britons overseas who by Mr. R.A. Pfaff, of the University reported to date are two killed, two immaterial as to what the capital have neither vote nor say in' of Oregon debating team, in the lied of wounds, and 31 wounded. of the Company was, or what the
-British Wireless Service.
And even if he had established the. It is just as Important to have the composition of the British Kowloon Union Church Hall last The number of police injured is 35, financial position of the company
evening, under the auspices of the
right of his clients to alt as background as to have backbone. Parliament? No Party has ever Young People's Society. The talk
Directors, which he denied, Mr. succeeded to power on the wave was illustrated with a number of
Sheldon had not produced evidence of temporary emotion and kent coloured: Tantern alides showing
Rugby, Yesterday. of any value amounting to $5,000. timber, wheat, fruit, and other pro- its election promises. Liheral, ducts of Oregon. Altogether a vivid The reduction recorded in recent If he had produced evidence to Conservative, and Labour have impression was given to the au- weeks in the numbers of unemploy-show of the right, which he ateo. all had their landslides, but is dience of the attractive features ofed continues and the Ministry of denied, he had yet to establish what the country, is the Empire, one the State. A collection was taken Labour announces to-night that was that right. whit better for all the hot air for the funds of the Young People's there are 28.860 Iess unemployed
on the registers of employment ex- and ordered that the costa regard 2/9 1/8. generated during an electoral
changes at October 19 was 2,787,-Ing the two motions before the
Because they have a special campaign? "A curse on poli
~ Mr. R. A. Plaf, of the University 000. An encouraging factor about Court be borne by the respective
responsibility for people held by ties" has been the exclamation of
of Oregon debating team was the the decrease la.that it occurs at a parties.
This was agreed to by both Mr. them in durance, the authorities usually have an inquest when a numerous leading men of the speaker at the weekly tiffin of the time when figures usually riso
prisoner dies to show that all country for decades, but their Rotary Club yesterday. Mr. Pfaff's owing to seasonal interruption in Jenkin and Mr. Sheldon.
was fair. Messrs. L. S.. Rapley, voice is heard not. And even subject was "America in the New various trades. British Wireless
Ago," and in the course of his talk Service..
1. F. de Sonza and L. G. dos Remedios helped Coroner, Orme like Admiral Campbell he referred to the present as the ! plunge into the maelstrom of machinery age, 'and-doalt with its
The driver of mator lorry No. to elicit the facts of Kwong Tal's Kwong Tai was a thief 2891, reparted to the Poffco that death." politics and sway the voters by effect on the world conditions. He INTERNATIONAL REPARATIONS
yesterday in Shanghai Street heloing six months..
Dr. Valentine testified in pandering to sloppy sentiment also presented a picture, of Ameri cans and urged, that any tourists
knocked down n Chinese boy, who
The Frightfully technical words like. instead of sound common sense. people met bo'judged by counter-
It fe learned from an authorita had dashed across the road. No sooner will the new Parlia parts from their own country. The
All necessity of co-operation, fellow- tive source that the German Goy boy, Ho Ngau Chi, of No. 500, cholaenia, cholangitis and chole- iment be elected than
ship, and mutual understanding of ernment is seriously considering the Shanghal Street, was removed to ystills that Kwong had a liver will
He la reacle, and the fury decided that one another's problems in world calling of an International Repara-the Kowloon Hospital, suffering ikea bath sponge dipped in
it was no wonder that he died. Cab-affairs, particularly in the Pacific tions Conferenes at an early date, from severe head injurica.
not expected to recover. inet with a working majority Basin, was also emphasised.
men
the election hysteria
be forgotten. The
~
Society:
FEWER BRITONS' IDLE.
"
wa, during any particular time.
Court After consideration the than In the previous week. The total dismissed that motion of petition,
A
Reuter.
CONFERENCE?:
Berlin, Yesterday.
BOY KNOCKED DOWN BY LORRY.
To-day's Thought.
Ten Years Ago.
(From, the "Chloa Mall" of October 28, 1921)
To-day's
dollar is.
worth
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