TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1932.
THE CHINA
FATALITY ON FISHING The Danger Of Decline In BOMB DISCOVERED IN GERMAN PRINCE HAS
PARTY.
Death Of Mr. F. L. Marques.
ACCIDENT ON CASTLE
PEAK ROAD..
The death of Mr. P. L. Marques,
a well-known und” popular member
Population
The Birthrate Is Falling In All Leading Nations
of the Portuguese community took TWO REMEDIES FOR GROWING PERIL
place after a' fall on the rocky near
Kattpnjee's Bungalow on the Castle
Peak Road yesterday evening.
Death is thought to have resulted
from beart failure.
Mr. Marques had been fishing to- the gether with his brother at beach. in climbing on to the rocks un the shore, he slipped and fell a distance of about 5 feet.
When picked up he appeared to
"LORD LYTTON'S MISSION IS RIDICULOUS.”
SHUMCHUN.
Railway Foki Killed By Explosion.
FOUND IN LATRINE.”“
GIFT OF MUSIC.
Composer Of No Mean Abilities.
Berlin, July 5.
The ex-Kaiser's cousin, Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, is!
A bomb, discovered in the latrine maintaining the musical tradi- at Shumchun Railway Station, yes- tions of the Hohenzollern family, terday evening caused the death of which go back to the times when * Coki employed in the Station tes-Frederick the Great played the flute and found leisure between
room.
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The man, it is stated, went to the bis raids on neighbouring coun- latrine, and was about to leave when tries to write music too. The notice something which looked Prince Joachim's instrument is! "It would be possible for the territories or "bust" into a revolu-
like an ordinary tin. He picked it the 'cello and at a concert which State to guarantee employment at tion. Anyone who looks at Japan up and carried it away, and it went he gave here he showed that he he was still holding it ng ala imaginative composer of no mean ample wages to all who are born, in the map needs no further ex-off with a terrific explosion while is, as well as a good cellist, an
planation of her Manchurian he tinenscious, and was carried to But if it does this, it is bound in
policy, or her determination to
He was immediately sent to Kow-calibre.
A large number of people who his brother's cur, in which he was self-protection, and for the sake of amex slices of Russia and China loon Hospital on the train, but he cuiwered back to Kowloon.
every purpose for which governas opportunity offers. That is why succumbed to his injuries shortly used to be about the Court at- On arrival at the Kowloon Hos-ment exista, to provide that
Londed the concert, many of the after admissien...... no Lord Lytton's mission is so ridieu- pital the doctor pronminged life
person shall be born without its lous. Japan, like Luther, "can no tinct and stated that death had
other." "consent." intervened about one hour before.
1. Rismarckism, with the war in The accident, occurred between
demnity from France in 1871. pro- 730-and & p.m.
duced that Germany which in 1914 felt itself "hemmed in.”
This passage WRS written by Stuart Mil about the middle of the "The members of the fishing party at century, and as an answer to The elition to the deceased were Socialism it has never been answer.
The English, Scotch and Irish¦ Me turs, 16. Z. Barques, S. Rodrigues Fed. I quote it, however, for the pure branches of the British race have and A. Gill
"The deceased leaves a wife and pose of contrasting the placidity until the beginning of this century with which it was received by solved the over-population problem seven children, the eldest of whom
political thinkers with the fury by emigration. The most Intelll- is 13 years of age. With the excep tion at the eldest child the children excited at the beginning of the gent and energetic members of the century by the publication fifty race bave gone forth East and West Are all girls. Three girls attend the St. Mary's School, and the spathus's essay on population.
years earlier of the Rev. Mr. Mal-to cultivate and replenish the earth. They have made, the the Salle College.
Dominions of Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand; and they have planted and ruled Malaya, Singapore and Ceylon.
iveme
ment.
CHINA'S CUSTOMS DUTIES.
41
the
The accident occurred in Chinese women being quaintly attired in territory. Mr E B. Trevor, traffic the fashions approved by the late manager of the Kowloon-Canton Kaiserin; their hair towering and Railway, told the China Mail this coiling about their heads and the railway au-kept in place with tortoiseshell morning that thorities are unable to account for combs! Bobbed hair they re gard as a democratic and rather vulgar innovation. In striking Contrast, however, was Princess
the affair.
POSSIBLE BOYCOTT OF SOVIET OIL.
Secrecy Preserved In Paris Meeting.
Strict privacy was maintained
Joachim Albrecht, who is one of the fashionably dressed women in the capital.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
A.O.F.C. Quotations.
New York, Yesterday.
Last To-day's. Changes Aver. Aver, ' |30 Industrials 54.25 64.94 68 up
21.34 .40 down 20 Rails.21.74 20 Utilities .29.70
22.81 02.up. Mesars. E. A. Pierce. & Co. re port:The market is somewhat reactiopary. Business done 2,100,000 shares
Last To-day's Price Price
Sidney Smith declared that the The deceased was 61 years of age, and for the past 24 years had been sight of a woman "expecting ex employed with the Eas.ern Exten-cited Mr. Malthus like a red rag sion Telegraph Co., Ltd, most of does a bull, while the majority of
But since the political power of regarding the morning's session his service, being in the operating his fellow citizens regarded
trades unions has joined hands of the International Oil Confer- Recently however be was meek parson with much the same with the theorists and academic ence, held in the same hotel room transferred to the accounts depart-horror that Americans look upon economists of the Socialist Party as was used for the Young Con- the murderers of Colonel Lind expansion by emigration has be- ference, (says a Paris message The funeral will pass the Menu bergh's baby.
come taboo. In the first place, the of June 80)...!
attended by ment to-day at 5.30 p.m.
To-day this heat is almost in Dominicas and the United States The meeting. conceivable, though it ought to be refuse to admit immigrants who jabout 40 delegates, included re- remembered that Malthus wrote in are obviously surplusage that is, presentatives of the Standard Oil days when Lord Chief Baron Pol- the unsuccessful and the idle mem-Company, the Royal Dutch-Shell Flock-had-24-children by three wives, bets of the Old Country. I believe group "und Roumanian delegates,
and when 12" was
the ordinary that the United States refuses to but the Russians refused to par- number of a prosperous country admit any emigrants of any kind ticipate in the conference, so the gentleman's family.. To-day, I whatever.
agenda was limited to an arrange. believe the average among manual In the second place, the Socialists, ment with Roumania and the dis- employees, the most prolific sec- by their doles, insurance and health cussion of a common attitude to tion of the community, is four, laws, make this overcrowded old wards Russia.
An earlier message stated that while in the upper and professional country so much more comfortable It has been learned that the new classes, the figure is two, or none. than any other that the idle and complete secrecy would surround The birth-rate is now falling in unsuccessful and unfortunate citi-the discussions as should any Customs dutles, which have been] imposed to cover the deficit in re-all the leading nations. The birth zens refuse to leave the warm rumours regarding the progress venue caused by the Manchurian rate in England and Wales for the precincts of the cheerful day for of the Conference leak out, mar- Customs seizure, await only the March quarter was only 15.3 per the hard work and cold adventuresket speculations in all shares
the seat of 1000 of the population; the lowest, of a strange country.
might result. final approval from
I am not blaming the recipients Thus the delegates were pledg. Du Pont de Nemours 29% Government at Doyang, to provide ever recorded for the period of the
year; in 1876 the rate was 36.3; of Socialist charity. The majority ed to shun newspapermen like General Electric the following increases:
of human beings` prefer, moderate, poison.
General Foods". S. Artificial silk, 15 Customs gold in 1931 it was 24.1..
As might be expected, the birth or even small, pay coupled with The British and American de- General Motors. rate in Westminster was 10.4, com-security and little or no work to regates have come to an agree-International Harvester 17 Silk articles, 25 per cent. ad-pared with 31.8 in Dagenham and hard work and adventure. It used ment with Roumania on the ques-International Tel. & Tel. 8%
Liggett & Myers "B" .52 20.5 in. Barking.
Silk Will Be Well Protected.
U
Nanking, Yesterday
units per picul.
Indigo, two units.
valorem,
Raw silk, 30 per cent.
Dyes,"10 per cent.
Medicines, five cent.
Toys, 17.5 per cent.
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Wines, 30 per cent.*** Commodities. not listed in Customs schedule, 2.5 per
Router.
Air Reduction......... 40 Allied Chemical & Dye 58% American Can
39 American Telegraph &
Telephone
.999% American Tobacco "B" 66%
Auburn Borden Company
Canadian Pacific Consolidated Gas of
New York
Drugs, "Inc.
Eastman Kodak
not to be so as I have said, the Lion of limiting output, checking Low's Inc.
In German towns the rate is British used to be the coloniets of dumping and price-cutting, cloquent of the poverty. In Berlin the world. But Mr. Lloyd George.
it is 8.8 per 1000; in Dresden 8.9, with his ninepence for "four-
PROTEST.
in Hamburg 11.1. The Church of pence" has changed the British SOUTH CHINA LODGE FORMAL Rome has thrown all the weight character, and the trades unionist the of her authority and organisation officials have seized their chance. cent.against birth-control, so that it inOf course, the unemployed rail is not surprising that the birth-rate hig, and will be bigger. "The trade in Madrid for the last quarter le unionists don't mind that much; it (as high as 31 per 1000. Since 1928, relieves the drain on trades union
Spain, Portugal, and Ireland have funds.
TUNG WAH HOSPITAL BUILDING SCHEME.
Meeting At Noon "To-morrow.
A meeting to discuss the erection
of residential houses on the site of
the old Po-Leung Kuk will be held
at noon to-morrow, by the Board of the Tuig Wah Hospital.
It has been proposed that eight houses be erected, the rental of which, will help towards the redue- tion of the annual $100,000 deficit
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persons aut entitled to vote under Rule 5 of the H.K.F.A. having voted ja greater increase in population Natural Checks to Population, contrary to that ruk..
than in the opening years of the ・ In the olden time population was The election of the officers and [century; while in England, Ger-skept down by wars, famine,council members by irregular voting many, and Sweden the increase has pestilence, earthquakes and starva. is void and we firmly demand an- 'been only a quarter that of 25 tion. Of these natural checks, other meeting to re-elect new offl-
years ago..
carthquakes in the volcanic zone uers and council members in ac Whether or not the absolute de-and sta vation in barbarous coun-cordance with the provisions of the cline of population in this country tries like China and Russia alone Association Rules,
the results may be serious.
A COMEDY DRAMA THAT WAS THE RAGE
OF LONDON NOW BROUGHT TO THE WORLD THROUGH THE MULTI-LINGUAL TALKING SCREEN," A SOPHISTICATED THRILLER THAT 19 AS WITTY AS IS EXCITING AND AS · CHARMINGLY ROMANTIC AS IT IS SUSPENSEFUL
DENNIS NEILSON TERRY
BETTY STOCKFELD
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THE LATEST CHINESE MOVIETONE TALKING SUPER DRAMA YANG NOI MUI & SUN KING LAM
IN
"THE LAST LOVE"
PRICES FOR ALL SHOWS DRESS. CIRCLE $1.10, BACK STALL
UPPER CIRCLE — 35 cts.; FRONT STALL
(including tax),
-NEXT CHANGE
55 Cts.
35 Cts.
LOVE, DECEIT, SORROW, INDISCRETION, ROMANCE, EXCITEMENT, LONG CHANCES, GREAT ENTERTAIN- MENT
MAE CLARKE & RICHARDO CORTEZ
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RECKLESS LIVING
SHOWING SOON R
LOVE & ROMANCE AMID A THOUSAND DANGERS.
MEN & NATURE IN TERRIFIC COMBAT.
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Pacific Gas & Electric .24 Pennsylvania Railway 13% Radio Corporation. 5% Sears Rochuck.18% Standard Oil Company
of New Jersey 80% 30% Sorany-Vacuum Corp... 9 10% Union Carbide & Carbon 20% 20% Union Pacific.47%, 7:45,
·Hited Aircraft & Trang, 11 · · 12% United States Steel .28.14 120 34 Westinghouse & M
denute's ex dividend,
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Reuter.
EXCHANGES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
1/3%
1/3%
4 months'
Parts
exc
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ELEANOR BOARDMAN
MONTE, BLUE TOY BAVID ́KEWELL
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MARTELL'S BRANDIES
V.S. O. P.
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COGNAC AND
CORDON BLEU.
Nom.
On London arrives within the next six or seven remain. By irrigation and sanitary. Rule 5(a) says "Each Affiliated
Bank, wiré years, it is certain that for a long laws the British Government has Club or League shall be entitled to time there must be expected an in-pat an end to famines in India, send 2 Representatives" no other Bank, on demand creasingly high proportion of elder while medical science and surgery persons are, mentioned under this Bank, 4 months' sight 1/81⁄2 ly men and women. "Too old at have made pestilence impossible in rale as being entitled to be present. forty may have to be changed civilised countries.. Whatever The language in Rule 5(c) is un- into "too young at thirty." As we suffering and poverty exist are due mistakabla, It says "At all meet- have chosen to throw the balance to the maldistribution of food and ings of the Association, fe. Annual On demand of power into the hands of women, money and population.
Credits, 4 months" General and Extraordinary 10
sight But what of the future? Two accredited representatives. shall On Berlin But for France and Germany, remedics for what le a growing form a quorum. This clearly makes
On demand of the Tung Wah Hospital. Per which depend for their power on danger suggest themselves to me, a General Meeting a Meeting of Re- On New Yarkonte V mission to carry through the pro- large armies, the consequences of a the one political-economic, the presentatives.
On demand
222 dect has just been received from the fall in birth-rate are very disturb- other morale
We have also to point out that in Credits, 60 days' sight 23% First, European nations should the list of Representatives supplied On Bombay--- follow up the lead of Lausanne by to us, the name of one of them, Wire In the United States there has forming themselves into an said to be representing the Club de On demand been a steady fall during the last economic bloc or combination to Recreio, had to be left out because On Calcuttama ten years from 24.8 per 1000 in boycott Soviet Russia. All he had not signed the attendance Wire 1921 to 18.9 in 1930
economists and statesmen agree sheet. How did the Association On demand
Government.
RIVER SHIP HITS ROCK.
Ing.
Steady" Fall. In U.S.A.
While on a trip to Canton during the week-end, the river steamer Malthus overstated his case that to raise the wholesale prices know that he was representing the On Singapore- Sal On, belonging to the Tung On ludicrously. He went so far as to of primary commodities is the one Club de Recreio if they did not On domand Steamship Company, fouled a rock propose the abolition of the poor thing needful to restore the world's know his name? We had been off On nes the Bocca Tigris Fort, Canton rate, and terrified and muddled his prosperity. The immediate and cially Informed by the Club On demand
Damage was vary slight, and the readers and himself with his certain way to do that is for all de Recreio that their only repre- vessel reached Cantonesfely. ratios.
Europe to boycott Soviet Russia, santative at the Annual General On dem On arrival in Hong Kong she
The pressure of population upon who is openly trying to keep all Meeting was Mr. F. E Barnes, who entered Taikoo Docks for examina- the means of subsistence, which prices down by dumping slave signed attendance shest and that On dema
was forgotten in the overflowing grown products
it was possible that his sign
tion.
GRAVE'S VICTIMATEL
Basca, Hungary, The local grave-digger was kill
tantly when the wai Trave to which he was just giving, the anishing touches ved in after
days of Victoris, has to-day be- The moral remedy is, of course, mig? come one of the great dangers of birth control, or, in othe
the age. Japan, England and Ger- Malthus impi
many are overpopulated?
Very
"dangerously!
to her victoriou
pointed out "th
because they are
been read as H Go re furth
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