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SIX China Mail
Studebaker championship perform-
ance is thrifty performance; conclu- sively demonstrated when The Pre- sident Eight and The Studebaker Six Won first and second places, respec- tively, in the recent Gilmore-Wright- wood contest for the National American Automobile Association economy title.
- HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
(Incorporated in Hong Kong.)
ESTABLISHED 1845.
No. 28,003
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1932.
DESCENDANT OF KING
SOLOMON IN LONDON
COURTESY VISIT.
HAS TEA WITH
PRINCE OF WALES.
(Reuter's Special Service.)
London, Yesterday.
A PARIS DEMONSTRATION.
Communists Arrested By Police.
DOLE DEMAND. ·
Paris, Yesterday.
ANGLO - FRENCH DISCUSSIONS.
Suggestion to Assist Germany,
MORATORIUM.
Paris, Yesterday.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR --- The singing' rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/5 5/16.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month....
M. LAVAL U.S. LEFT IN THE
RESIGNS
DISUNITY ON THE
MOMENTOUS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
Paris, Yesterday.
LURCH.
Intervention in Far East Dispute.
DUTCH REPLY.
The Hague, Yesterday.
JUST ARRIVED |
DUNLOP 1932 TENNIS BALLS
(PRESSURE PACKED)
NOW OHTAINABLE FROM ALL STORI
LANCASHIRE'S COTTON TRADE WITH FAR EAST
K. C. CROSS-EXAMINES PILOT.
In response to the American In the Kiangsu-Toyooka
invocation of the Nine-Power
Treaty the Dutch Government.
has instructed its Minister at Washington to inform the U.S. Government that Holland shares
Maru Case.
ADMIRALTY COURT.
the China
NOTE OF WARNING.
FILLIP ONLY TEMPORANE,
"Whatever may eventually be our gains out of the present situation in Manchuria the Lan- cashire cotton-trade・・ shouldn't be misled. Into false feelers of
London, Yesterday,
A two years' moratorium of the Young Plan conditional an- nuitics; the creation of German Wearing a Trilby and dressed
railway debentures, bearing an in a smart black coat, from under
annual interest of 660 mil- which showed a white skirt and;
lion marks, part of which must tight-fitting white trousers,
be offered to the United States the sixteen-year-old Prince
On resumption of the action, in-security. The recent increases in part compensation, if the Asfacuwosam of Abyssinia, dir-;
Over three thousand Com- United States relieved the Allies M. Laval announced this even- the United States' confidence involving over $80,000, brought by in our Chinese trade have re- sulted from causes entirely out- ect descendant of King Solomon
Navigation Company, among the ing that he was going to the Ely-regard to the mission to Man-against the Nippon Yusen Kalabaside the Industry's control.” munists were arrested to-day in of their debts are and Queen Sheba, arrived at Victoria Station amid impressive various parts of the city, follow- suggestions which are now being see to hand th the collective re- churia and is convinced of the and vice versa, arising out of the report of the China and Fer This declaration is made in ing a demonstration demanding considered -by Anglo-French signations of Government. scenes to-day.
desirability of an early and colliston in Hong Kong harbour in the dole for the unemployed. treasury experts, according to M. Laval has offered the port-friendly settlement, but does not fog on March 28 last between the East section of the Manchester The Prince's sister, an exotic The demonstration was timed to Le Temps-Reuter.
folio of Foreign Affairs to M. think it advisable to make re- China Navigation 8.8. Klangen and Chamber of Commerce When figure swathed in a lion's skin, coincide with the opening of Par
Edouard Herriot, President of presentations to
drawing attention to the im- and the suite dressed in semi-liament. but it was frustrated Chamber removing the demon- the Radical Party.
Japan as suggested by the Unit- the Admiralty Court this morning with China so largely due to the provement of the cotton-trade Western, semi-Oriental costumes, by the police, who thronged the strators by lorry without dis-
M. Herriot has not yet accepted States, especially as the mat- before the Chief Justice (Sir carrying ceremonial staves of Place de La Concorde and the order.-Reuter.
hed the office. He is referring the ter is before the League of Joseph Kemp, K.C.) with the Hon. boycott of Japanese goods. Ivory, made a striking scene un-
matter to his Party.
Nations-Reuter.
Commdr. Hole (Harbour Master) be a mistake to over-emphasise The report adds, that it would der the glare of cinema lumps, with Sir John Simon and the
JUNK
Boat and Cargo Taken Away.
Duke of Gloucester in the mid-
dle of the group.
The Abyssinian Royal Party the is returning the visit of Duke of Gloucester, who repre- sented H.M. the King at King Rastafari's coronation last year.
The Prince and his sister had tea with the Prince of Wales this! evening. and to-morrow are visiting the King and Queen at Sandringham.
I.G.P. AND PUBLIC PROTECTION.
Pathe, Orient Ltd. Fined.
"MUST BE NO LAXITY."
WORLD'S LARGEST IRRIGATION
SYSTEM
MOMENTOUS DAY IN THE HISTORY OF INDIA.
LLOYD BARRAGE OPENED.
Bombay, Yesterday,
The world's largest irrigation system will be opened to-day by the Viceroy. The scheme which was first commenced in 1923 has cost £15,000,000 and includes over 6,000 miles of canals, several of which are larger than the Suez Canal-Reuter.
open
The news of Government's re- signation follows the announce- ment, that the Radical and So-
H. & S. BANKING CORPORATION.
The directors announce, subject to audit, that the dividend for the half-year ending December 31 will be £3 per share at 1/5. It is proposed to write off $500,000 from Bank Pre- niises account, and to carry
forward to the next year about $3,420,000.
China and the N.Y.K. 1.8. Toyooka Mary in
PIRACY
OFF LUNG KU TAN.
a
as Assessor, Mr. Li Wai, who pilot the influence of depreciation of
ed the 8.8. Toyooka Maru, was fur-sterling and the appreciation of ther cross-examined by Mr. Jenkin, silver, Reuter.
K.C.
Witness remembered a question put to him yesterday which
was
that if his report was correct, that|
AGED CHINESE
is, at the times be gave from 7.48 BURNED TO DEATH.
a.m. onwards, then the ship had travelled at an average speed of four. and a half knots between 7.43 and 7.50 that morning.
Speed Unknown.
Wong Man-choi, master of
of an old man named Loo Chung- A tragic fire, involving the death Junk, reports to the Police that he
cheun (70), bccurred at Sheung called from Yaumati on the even-
Shui Wai Village in the Sheung Shui District yesterday evening. ing of January 10, carrying a Mr. Jenkin pointed out that wit-The local police were attracted to cargo of sugar, kerosene and pig zess could not give an explanation the scene by blasts on a whistle, skins, valued at $600, When off yesterday, could be give one this and on arrival were informed by Lung Ku Tan, Ping Shan District, morning? The pilot replied that the villagers that the old man was
he could only tell the speed by what sleeping in the rear of an unnum Rugby, Yesterday. One of the most notabe achieve cialists had refused to endorse be dropped anchor. At about mid- the Captain had told him, and that bored matshed when the fire broke came was that at full speed she did eleven out. Owing to the fierceness of A memorable event in the his-ments of the British in India. M. Herriot's acceptance of the night, an unknown boat tory of India will take place to- and one of ten overlooked, Foreign Affairs portfolio.
Witness explained that the blaze, and the fact that a por alongside. Wong Man-choi; his knots. morrow when the Viceroy, Lord is the conversion by irrigation of The Cabinet handed in _its_re- Willingdon, will
go faster than the telegraph show unable to get him out. The vic the waste lands into fruitful and signation to M. Doumer Lewife, daughter and foki, who were the nineer might make the engine tion of the roof fell in..they were sleeping on deck, were awakened ed, but on the other hand, the en-tim's charred remains were re world's largest irrigation system, productive farmlands. The pre- night. the Lloyd Barrage, at Sukkur sent scheme has occupied eight|
M. Doumer has accepted the by five men who came aboard, four gineer might make the engine travel covered later, Cabinet's resignation. Adjourned from last week, the and a network of seven huge years.
of whom were armed with revol- at a little slower than half,speed. case in which Mr. J. Landolt, canals whereby the parched and,
Private Channels,
All the Cabinet Ministers have vers and one with a dagger. The
Mr. Jenkin, K.C.-May I take it the bearings in the report he had manager of Messrs. Pathe Orient backward area, which is as large The Lloyd Barrage is about a placed their portfolios at the robbers transferred them to the from your answers you have sixen obtained from the third officer on Limited, 61 Des Voeux Road Central, as England, will be turned into mile long and has sixty-six disposal of M. Laval in order to
you had no idea of the ship's speed the ship, whose duty it was to re seven counts land where the agriculturalist arches each sixty feet wide. The give the Premier a free hand to smaller boat and landed them on either over the water or
over the cord auch things,Witness, did not of failing to comply with Fire will be certain to reap where he waters of the Indus, flowing from negotiate with the party leaders, Tong Fui Island, and then salled ground?I cannot say definitely on take the times, at the time when Brigade nyulations connected with has sown.
the Himalayas into the Arabian with a view to the formation of away with the junk in the direc-account of the fog.
he was on the bridge, but apart Vital Need.
Sea will thus be harnessed to a Government of national union, tion of Lin Tin Island, Chinese
In answer to farther questions by from that the rest of the report was the distribution, storing and con- trol of cinematograph and celluloid The whole province of Sind is irrigate the rich soil. of the thin- which it is unanimously decided Territory. The marooned crew got Counsel, witness put forward the his own
practically rainless so that the ly populated province by 7,000 would be desirable on the eve of off later on another boat.
explanation that the ties of one of supply of water from the River miles of canals, some of them the international conference, if Indus, which flows through its wider than the Suez Canal, with it could be formed. The Inspector-General of Police length, is absolutely vital to most private and Mr. J. C. Fitzhenry, Station of its three and a half million in- 35,000 miles. Technical Engineer, were for the habitants. prosecution, whilst Mr. H. E. Dennys was for the defence.
Five summonses in regard to the] control of films were dismissed by his Worship, who said that in his opinion, the display given at 287
was summoned on
films, was concluded before Mr. W. Schofield in the Central Magistracy this morning.
The Peak, (where an outbreak of Are occurred during a Kiddies' party on December 23 last), was not a public entertainment, but a private one.
At the conclusion, of Fitzhenry's evidence Mr. Dennys submitted, he hed
to сале no
Hin anawer. Worship held otherwise, and sald the storage room as it stood did not seem to come up to the require- ment of the regulations.
The I.G.P. (Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe) maintained that the public must be protected, and that there must be no laxity in the running of
a very dangerous business.
channels measuring
(Continued on Page 12.)
RIVER STEAMERS IN COLLISION
KINSHAN AND SHUN WAN DAMAGED.
PASSENGERS SAFE.
While the arrival of the s.8. Kinshan, from Canton this morning comes the news of a collision. A “China Mail” reporter interviewed Captain Matthews, master of the 8.8. Kinshan, one of the vessels involved, but the Captain declined to give any information at this stage, preferring to wait until an official report had been taken. Apart from His Worship convicted and impos- the fact that he admitted the collision had taken furnish a statement in regard to replace, no other facts were obtained from this source. moval of premises $25; and, for t illegal storage of flims-$200. * It appears that the Kinshan the starboard side of the Kin- left Hong Kong for her night shan just below and a little aft run to Canton on January 11; at of the first-class salcon. Apart 11 p.m. At about 2.10 a.m. the from the buckling of these parti- next morning, when the vessel cular plates and the displacer was about a mile part the fish of an iron stanchion, the stakes near Ma Tan, the collision sustained no material occurred. The other boat invely and our representative
ed fines as follows. For falling to
HIGHWAY ROBBERY,
A highway robbery was enacted on the Railway track between Yau mati and Taipo, in the early hours
of this morning. Tim Kwai (85); ed was the sa. Shun Wane formed that she will Ball
of, að?
the dire
Abode, was walking in
Wooden Chinese ship ///not: large as the Kinshán, and
for carrying cargo and
tweenTM Canton
It should be observed that this is not the same as a resignation. Before the Cabinet action, M. Laval had interviewed successive- ly M. Briand and M. Doumer. M. Laval said that he and M. Briand were in perfect agree ment on every question.--Reuter.
FINE.
The Royal Observatory's re- issued this morning
port states:
TENSE
SITUATION IN HAWAII
AMERICANS CHARGED WITH MURDER OF A NATIVE.
A FULL ENQUIRY.
A serious situation is reported to have been precipitated in Hawaii, where, it is alleged, certain. Americans took the law into their own hands and murdered a native, who was believed to have been concerned in indecent assault on an American woman. This man, with four others, had been charged with the offence, but were Forecast:-NE wings, acquitted by a jury. It is believed the jury was "packed,” and
so, it is held, justice was not done!
The anticyclone is central to the North of Hankow and nearly stationary,
frosh; fize.
Rainfall Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 am to-day nit. Total since January 1-all against an average of 0,88 inch-defleft 0.88 Inch.
Temperature
The temperature at certain specified centres this morniDE
at 8 o'clock was
Hour Kour Масло Pratas Jaland
Fooch
28982825
بایی
Mistake on Chart.
Counsel then showed witness R chart on which the Japenese Cap- tain had plotted out his course. Witness said that the Captain had Finade a mistake, because the ship
passed much closer to buoy A52) than was shown, in fact, they par ed it about a hundred feet to North. The reason for changin their course that morning was cause they wanted to get to foreign man-of-war owing to the fog, but he had already consulted the Captain on that pol
Witness added, that minute after the course" had
down changed the fog came them, but before they had changed, their course, witness thought be could get across before the fog
about
enveloped them, but the strong wit that prevailed caused the fog to be brought down quickly,
JNA Little Visibility,
Replying to further witness agreed that the
Washington, Yesterday. 1ber son-in-law, Lieut. Massic, President Hoover to-day discuss- the U. S. Navy, and another man ed with the Cabinet the Hawalan have been charged. situation, and subsequently Mr. Rape Charge. Mitchell, the Attorney-General, sald Unless the trial is vemoved to that he would proceed immediately. San Francisco, Mrs. Fortescue and not cross the fairwa
bath of an inc to carry out the Senate's request for Lieut. Massie will be tried in the
ari investigation on the facts of the same room where few weeks sings that case. He added, the actual fact ago, five
was, there had been
Cases of assault with violet
ven mardered
the
which four victims were Américan charge
Secretary of
which the visi