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In the 1931 Gilmore-Wrightwood economy
Tum, anpervised and checked by the American
Automobile Association, Studebaker Free Wheel-
ing ears won first and second place. A Stude
baker President Eight established a record_of 46,71 ton miles per gallon, or 17.5 actual miles per U.B. gallon to win the event. A Free Wheel ing Studebaker Six falshed second with 44.94 ton miles per gallon, or 23.5 speedometer miles. This test which was run over 200-mile course from sea level to more than 6,000 feet altitude was limited to women drivers. It brought the Studebaker in competition with all classes of cars. HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. (Incorporated in Hong Kong.)
No. 27,997
THE REPARATIONS
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CONFERENCE
FRANCE SAID TO WANT A
POSTPONEMENT-]
THE SECRETARYSHIP
Paris, Yesterday.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. --- The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/5 5/16. .--
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1932.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
"RED" PUTSCH PETERS OUT.
PEAK
FILM
FIRE
All Quiet in Ruhr
"District.
MANT ARRESTS.
Cologne, Yesterday.
Almost
The attempted Communist
putsch has petered out.
PATHE ORIENTE PROSECUTED,
everywhere there is quiet. The SEVEN COUNTS
failure is a Trade Unions' vic-
tory, as the main body of organ-
France, it is understood, desires a postpone-ised workmen has supported its
ment of the Lausanne Reparations Conference, leaders.
Many of those who parti possibly until February 25, but is provisionally will-cipated in the attempt have lost ing to agree to extend the German moratorium their jobs. Hundreds have been until July 1, 1934, provided Germany continues pay- ment of unconditional annuities.
arrested-Reuter.
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WAS IT A PUBLIC
ENTERTAINMENT 7
AGITATORS GET SHORT SHRIFT.
Pelted With Flour and Ochre.
BY LONDON 'DOCKERS.
(Reuter's Special Service.)
London, Yesterday. Three men, believed to be Communists, who tried to per- suade a crowd of dockers to strike in sympathy with the Thames lightermen, were booed and hissed to-day.
When the agitators persisted in an attempt to hold a meeting,
and ochre from their pockets
As a sequel to the fire which the dockers drew bags of flour broke out at a kiddies' party given and pelted the speakers who had A Reuter's cable, despatched at the residence of Mr. G. A to be rescued by the Police: from Cologne on Sunday and Langston, No. 287, The Peak, on France's Reason Pressure of Business.
published in the Chino Mail on December 23, Mr. Landolt, manager
BRIDAL COUPLE This is the tenor of an important statement Monday afternoon, stated that of Messrs. Pathe Orient Ltd., 61,
Communists staged a New Year made by the French Finance Minister, M. Flandin, putash, in the Ruhr district, in an Des Voeux Road, was summonsed to the German Ambassador, Herr von Hoesch, effort to persuade workers to before Mr. Schofield, at the Central pleading pressure of Parliamentary business as a down tools, as a protest against Magistracy this morning on seven a ten per cent, cut in wages. counts of failing to comply with the reason for postponement of the Conference. While, Attempts were made to inter- Fire Brigade's regulations comect as regards unconditional annuities, M. Flandin, it fere with utility services, such ed with the storing, distribution, and is understood, pointed out that Germany would be and in some places even bombs control of cinematograph and cellu able to recover the sums thus paid through loans on the security of her State Railways.-Reuter. Sir Maurice Hankey as Secretary-General.
Rugby, Yesterday.
as tramways and telephones;
DROWNED. Tragedy at a Wedding Party.
NEAR VILNA.
(REUTER'S SPECIAL SERVICE)
Warsaw, Yesterday..
were exploded, fortunately loid films. harmlessly.
Mr. J. C. FitzHenry appeared Vigorous Police measures, for the prosecution, and Mr. combined with lack of enthusiasm H. L. Dennys for the defence.
A tragic conclusion to a happy on the part of the workers for a Englishman's Home His Castle wedding party, which organised a
In dealing with the first five summonses, which pertained to sleigh race across a frozen lake, the incident which occurred at near Vilus, occurred, when the ice the residence of Mr. Langston, broke, and two sleighs, carrying Mr. Dennys said that Mr. Langs- seven passengers, were flung into ton gave a small entertainment the icy water.
revolution, frustrated the efforts
It is anticipated that Colonel Sir Maurice Hankey, the Bri-of the Communists. tish Cabinet's Secretary, will act as Secretary-General at the Lausanne Reparations Conference, A earlier International Conferences of a similar kind in London, at the Hague and elsewhere.
post he occupied at ATLANTIC FLEET'S have formally welcomed his SPRING EXERCISES.
The Governments concerned appointment which, it is expect ed, the Conference will confirm at its first sitting,
Sir Maurice is, at present, in Switzerland, in contact with the Swiss Government regarding preparations for the Conference. -British Wireless Service.
PROMINENT LABOUR] EMANCIPATION
MEMBERS ILL,
Woman Organiser in Critical Condition.
MR. WM. GRAHAM.
(Reuter's Special Service.)
monia.
London, Yesterday.
OF
IRAK
Mandates Commission's
Report.
SAFEGUARDS.
Rugby, Yesterday.
Curtailed for Economy Reasons.
LEAVES HOME TO-DAY.
Rugby, Yesterday. Ships of the Atlantic Fleet are to-day and to-morrow leaving their home ports of Portemouth, Chatham and Devonport to concentrate for the Spring Exercises.
to a few friends at No. 257. The Villagers rescued five but the
Peak. He went to Mesars. Pathe
Orient, and hired a cinemato bridal couple were drowned. graph machine, and also asked for an operator to be sent. This was done.
"An Englishman's home is his castle," said Mr. Dennys.. "It was not a place of public enter- tainment, and I, therefore, sub.
DIPHTHERIA,
"Nothing to Report."
at
mit that the summonses must As was the case yesterday, Dr. fail. My client cannot be held G. W. Pope, M.O.E., stated responsible."
noon today: "There is nothing to report."
Public Entertainment. Mr. FitzHenry quoting from
was
Between noon and 5 p.m. yester-
ARMED ROBBERY CASE.
JUST ARRIVED!
DUNLOP 1932 TENNIS BALLS
{PRESSURE" PACKED)
NOW OBTAINABLE FROM ALL STORES.
NEW DESTROYER FLOTILLA
FOUR SHIPS ARRIVE FROM HOME
A LARGER TYPE ·
RELIEVED SHIPS TO STEAM HOMEWARD ON JANUARY 22.
Four ships of the new 8th Destroyer Flotilla arrived in harbour from Home yesterday to take up duty on the China Station. They are H.M. ships Wild Swan, Wishart, Whitehall and Verity, and are now alongside the West Wall of the Naval Dock yard.
The leader of the new 8th Destroyer Flotilla is H.M.S. Keppel, and she is due here from Singapore on Friday. Besides the Keppel, three other destroyers are due to arrive to make up the flotilla. These ships are the Wren, Whitshed, and Veteran, which have just left Home waters.
The majority of the ships forming the new 8th Destroyer Flotilla are not strangers to Hong Kong, having been on this Station, as the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, during the trouble of 1927. Since Soaving here they have served with the Mediterranean Fleet.
THE LEADER.
Of the ships forming the new 8th Destroyer Flotilla, H.M.S. Keppel, the leader, is larger and newer than the others. She was launched in 1920 and completed in 1925. She has a tonnage of 1,480. The other ships are of the same class with a tonnage of 1,120, and were launched in 1918 and completed in 1919. The four,
which have already arrived, left Home on November 6, so that they
were practically two months on the voyage out, which was made casy stages, de Patago
These ships will relieve the destroyers at present" "serving on the China Station, comprising 'H.M. ships Sterling, Seraph. Seraphis, Sirdar, Somme, Stormcloud, Sepoy, and Thraciam, which are due to sail for Home on January 22, 2015
The relief ships are slightly larger than those at present here, and newer; the latter being launched in 1916 and pleted in 1917.
NEW YEAR'S EVE FRACAS.
Razor Slashing Incident.
SAILOR SENTENCED.
(Kowloon Police Court.)
CONGRESS LEADERS ROUNDED UP.
Ex-President of Assembly Arrested
POLICE ACTIVITY.
Bombay,
For reasons of economy the cruise the regulations submitted that a day only two new cases of diphtheria has been curtailed, and ships will cinematograph show
a were reported. One was European return to England in mid March, a public entertainment, being car- and the other Chinese. fortnight earlier than usual. The ried out as it was, by a company The latest return of notifiable Exercises will be carried out while for a fee. He further submitted diseases for the week ended January The League of Nations' Secre- the Fleet is proceeding south to that there were members of the 2, showed 72 cases of diphtheria,
wards Gibraltar, and, in few days, general public present. **
two resulting in death. The ex-Cabinet Minister, Mr tariat published to-day the report a detachment, consisting of the
Replying to this argüment Mr. William Graham, who has been ill with pneumonia, has now, it of the Permanent Commission on Hood, Repulse, Dorsetshire, Norfolk, Dennys said, that then any
On a charge of inflicting grievous is stated, developed double pneu- Mandates concerning the British Exeter, and York, under Rear man, owning a Baby Pathe, and
The on William Davidson, rounding up of proposal to proceed with the Eman-Admiral Tomkinson, will leave the who shows films in his home,
At the Assizes this morning, Li bodily harm main fleet on visit to British must hold the necessary licence. Fat, the second accused in the Kaks seaman, with a razor on the 5.6. leaders started in the cipation of Irak.
less Service. West Indian ports-British Wire- Members of General
Public Present;
Hang Village (Kowloon City) arm Pentyne on January 1, Willam
of this morning, the po The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, ed robbery case, gave evidence from Wishart, also a seaman on the same
He described his vessel, was sentenced to one swiftly from place LG.P., who watched the proceed the witness box.
arrests under the ings, said there were definitely arrest by the Police, and stated that month's hard labour this morning.
In passing sentence, his Worship members of the general public he was searched at the station. He present. The audience was not denied having taken part in the wald: I am afraid I must convlet The earliest comprised only of members of robbery. He agreed that when he you of wounding. That is to say, cluded Mr. V. J. Mr. Langaton's family. There was charged be stated: were 27 children, 6 adults, and a not much to say, I was implicated son, you did not consider, in your of the Indian Legislati
DM own mind, what you were going to Reuter number of amaha. There were by my friends."?
Asked by Mr. Hin-thing Lo exact- do, yet deliberately you went away also two wiremen from the Hong Kong Electric Co., watching they what he meant by the second and got a rasor with intent to in-
sentance, the accused said that he flict the infuries that you did. ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE. entertainment
meant that the friends of his Evidence has been given of your good character and your efficiency
London, esterday friends, had falsely accused him.
ne a seaman, and that you had no eh talente trouble with the other men on the The Burma Round Table Con ship. It is a serious offence, but ference, which is
Dr. Marion Phillips, ex-Mem- ber of the House of Commons for After reviewing the action of the Sunderland, and chief woman ör- ganiser in the Labour Party, is British Government and the guaran- critically ill, following an opera tees given by that Government to tion.
ussure the entry of Irak into the League, the report sets out in de- tail the conditions, which appear to the Commission, essential for the termination of the Mandate by Great Britain.
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
Another Quiet Day Reported.
RATES AS BEFORE.
The official summary issued by
the Stock Exchange to-day states:
The session this morning opened quietly steady with rates generally unaltered.
Sales.
Banks, $1,475.
Realtys, $12,15,
HK Lands, 882742. Buyers.
Wharves, 81589 Hotels (old); 104:
80%
The most important of these conditions is that for the protection
ventions.
ALLEGED FRAUD.
140 Dozens of Jerseys Taken on Credit.
7. MEN CHARGED.
(Central Magistracy.):
"I have you had no grudge against David-
I am giving you as light a sentence
Film Store Unlicensed? of minorities and nationals, as well. One week's formal" remand was
In connection with the two as "for guarantee of privileges to granted in the case against seven foreigners' liberty of conscience and Chinese, Leung Hin, Ho Kwok, remaining summonses, one of intenance of International Cen Tang Shing-wal, Lam Shiu, Chu which was for failing to furnish Wai-keung and Cheung On, who the Hon. LG.P, in writing of the were charged, this morning, with name,, address, and nature of the Finally, the report states that a conspiracy to defraud.
business carried on at No. 61, possibly by the Fire Brigade, as I can Des Voeux Road, and the other The regulations have been in Treaty of Alliance between Great It is alleged that the defendants for storing 296 reels of dime in force since 1928 The room was FRUIT Britain and Irak does not injure have been obtaining goods on credit places other than those set out in marked Films No Smoking, the independence of Irak.
later disposing of them elsewhere the schedule of the Alm ordin and was protected in every way. Ho Chun, The Commission's report is likely and having no intention of paying ance, Mr. Dennys said that Mr. FitzHenry said that the at No. 36,
for them.
Messrs. Pathe had been storing room was not fit for the purpose to be approved by the League. The fifth defendant in alleged to alms in that same room since for which it was used, and call Council - on January
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