TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1932.
ANGLO-PERSIAN DISPUTE AIRED
BEFORE LEAGUE
RAINFALL NO AND TO.
RESERVOIR.
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The Hong Kong Jockey Club, whose course has to be watered: daily in order to get the ground into good condition for the annual meeting at the end of next month, will effect a considerable anving
Correspondence.
"SQUEEZE".
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To-Day's Short Story.
THE LAIRD'S LUCKY NUMBER
By J. J. Bell.
Co one could not but regard the The dining-room had the atmosphere
once a month. The
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Britain Issues A Grave Warning. PERSIA'S STAND VIEWED. through the rainfall, while other sioned by the recently published re- ONSIDERING his ancestry, able-room in Cockernony House.
grounds. including the golf port of the S. P. C, made upon Geneva, To-day. courses, the Hong Kong Football Hong Kong poverty, I did not notice, Laird of Cockermony as a freak of a vault; the drawing-room was
Dressing Gowns and the Military among the factora mentioned as bea sport, in the non-sporting positively mouldy; mice dwelt in the
Travelling Rugs · miss-shoot of the piano. The housekeeper was sup The Council of the League of Na-Club ground
sports field at Sookunpoo, which ing responsible for the shocking sense a
Sweaters All his forbears posed to air and fire the rooms re- tions adjourned its consideration of are dependant on hand watering state of affairs disclosed therein family tree.
Comfy Pyjamas long since given up)
Socks (Silk or Wool) the Anglo-Persian oilfield dispute during the dry months of the year, two, which, in my opinion, are of had been fighting men, more or gularly; but the Laird, from lack of
the very greatest importance-I re-less, sober or in their cups; their courage, had
Scarves (White or from its next meeting, on January will benefit as well.
fer to the practice of contract sub-womenfolk thrifty, patient house-inspecting the rooms, because Mrs. Road Blocked.
Coloured) 6, to January 23.
wives, devoid of ideas save those Crow seemed to resent his inspec The constant rain yesterday, letting and of "squeeze."
tion.
Handkerchiefs, dozen 5.00 Persia is endeavouring to justify caused a fall of a large quantity of
The squeeze and cumshaw evils, domestic.
He was now attacking-the right|| Neckwear,
2.75 At forty-two the Laird was 'a
Gloves the abrogation of the treaty. Great ruck on Belchers Street, in the West practised by contractors so gener-
more prosperous times, recluse, a book-worm, a bachelor, and werd-the third and concluding Britain has forbidden her so to do. Point district and to-day the road pusty in
London, To-day. is blocked. The fall occurred near but now more cautiously restricted, a poltroon, with never an intimate course, a blancmange. Ten years housekeeper a king for The dispute between the British the junction of Beach Street, just in their application to the really acquaintance, much less a boon he had carelessly mentioned to his
past the Fire Station building influential, must very seriously re-companion. Perhaps he might have new and Persian Governments regarding Traffic in
consequence, has been duce wages, particularly in the case imbibed at least a flavouring of the blancmange and tapioca; since when the Anglo-Persian Oil Concession, diverted to Holland Street and Sand of those contractors whose speciali-ancestral, spirit had his father aur-he had received them night about.
It was not an attractive table.) referred to the League of Nations Street, until the rock is cleared is the supply of "contract la-vived that steeplechase of forty
bour" only.
years ago. As for his mother, kind-Early in her period of service Mrs. by the British Government under from Belchers Street.
Squeeze and cumshaw money ob- ly enough in her rare moments of Crow had fallen into the habits of A small washout occurred on the Article XV of the Covenant, came hillside of Tal Feo Street, in the tained from contractors, I hold to leisure, she had spent her existence setting down all the courses at once before the League· Council at Shaukiwan' district, where
very real sense, "blood and herself in "keeping a nice and of changing the cloth not a hutbe, in a Geneva yesterday.
house" and saving pennies. To all oftener than collapsed. Its sole occupant, a man money"-flesh and blood money. Britain had proposed submitting named Yeung Tong Hing, 60, sus-the sub-sub-sub-sub-letting that brought up, intellectually, by a poor and as time went on his disapproval Similarly, sub-letting, especially intents and purposes, the Laird was Laird had disapproved, but silently, the dispute, which arises out of the tained slight injuries, but he re-inkes place in Hong Kong, must, to schoolmaster who had seldom cross-became moribund. Porsian Government's action infused hospital treatment. announcing the cancellation of the
a great extent, deprive the wage led the bounds of his own county.
TO-MORROW'S STORY. Anglo-Persian Oil Company's con- at all until the Persian Govern carner, of his proper share of the
At thirty the Laird had found cession, to the International Court ment created the present situation money apportioned to the job in himself alone, helpless alike in
To-morrow's short story of Arbitration at Hague, but as the by the illegal step of cancelling the hand.
worldly and domestic matters. For
will be "The Phantom Bus," Persian Government disputed the leoncession.
'It seems to me that energy tunately, and thanks to the maternol
by W. Elwyn Backus. .competence of that tribunal to deal Obviously, negotiations, could not pended in an effort towards the abc-parsimony, he could afford to pay a with the case, the British Govern-be fruitfully pursued while thelition of evils such as those here lawyer to attend to his business; would be thus much affairs, an odd-job man, and a claimed to mentioned
But this evening it had stirred, brought it before the League treat the concession as having been more commendably and usefully woman to well, you shall see. awakened, revived. Why, who shall On the evening of his forty-say? It might have been the din- The British memorandum pre-net. The British Government were ing of hapless, helpless, homeless second birthday unaware, one im-ner itself; for the soup was singed,
terminated by their own unilateral employed than in; say, the harass- sented on the dispute, traces the most anxious that the dispute should hawkers, and suchlike trivialities agines, of the anniversary-the the potatoes were aluah, the chop history of the concersion which does not discurs their hitherto, friendly that sccupy so much of the valuable Laird dined, as usual, in the dingy was cremated, and the blush, sugar- of our busy public parlour, which was the only habit-tesa Blancmange would have stopped not expire until 1961, and which relations with the Persian Govern-time of some contains no provision for unilateralment and would do everything in servants.. Cancellation, The Persian Govern-their power to co-operate with the ment up to end of last year had re-Council in obtaining an amicable ceived over £11,000,000 in royalty, fund equitable settlement. They The situation carlier this year urged upon the Council, the neces- was that a preliminary agreement sity of. taking appropriate steps to for modifying the existing basis on tend to the maintenance of status which the royalty, was calculated, and to prevent the interests of the had been renched between the company from being prejudiced Persian Government and the Com-pending the proceedings before the pany and had been approved by the Council.
ment, to prevent a waste of time, Persian Government
Council.
Persian Council of Ministers, and Sir William Malkin, in present-
a formal agreement to give it effect ing the British case to the Council.
Ex-
ENGINEERING CO.'S DIVIDEND.
Annual Meeting In London To-day.
CANTON EXHIBITION
INVITATIONS.
a bullet. Yet these drawbacks were [no novelties. Again, it may have been the book lying to the left of his plate, wherein he chanced an à' reference to certain delights of that]
Hong Kong. Urged To good old gourmet, Lucullus. But
Send Displays.
probably it was merely a long- suppressed instinet inherited from Three members of the organising his mother, who had ever combined committee of the Canton Exhibi-a certain niceness with her frug-| tion, arrived in Hong Kong on- Sun-ality,
Enough that the Laird was angry The annual general meeting of day to arrange with local firma to of the Chinese exhibit their goods.
-angrier than for many a day. Ltd. Mr. Mou Kung-hui, one of the re. With his spoon he gave the uncon had already been negotiated and said that his Government felt, that the shareholders initialled by representatives of the it contained elements which requir-Engineering & Mining Co., parties and had been for some ed the Council's attention in a mat-will be held in London to-day, when presentatives, speaking at a recepquerable blancmange a vicious Feud, months under the consideration of ter
Persian the distos' report and statment of tion held at the Nam Tong Restau-and pushed away the plate. He of urgency. .The the Persian Government.
Government were entitled to a rea-jaccounts for the year ended June rant, said that the exhibition would looked around him; and suddenly the open on February 15, at Yuet Shau squalor of the apartment became Although apparently dissatisfiel sonable period for the presentation 30, 1982, will be submitted.
The net result of the year's tran-Shan, Canton. Manufactured gooda vividly evident the dust on the with the proposed agréenient, no al- of their case, but he hoped that the ternative proposals to the Company matter would be ready for consid-saction shows a balance to the credit of all descriptions would be exhibit-sideboard and muntelpiece, the rag- account of ed, in addition to literature and ged holes in the carpet, the cobwebs had actually been made by Persian eration at the Council meeting to of profit and loss
agricultural produce..
in the corners, the grime on the Government.
£119,836. be held on January 23,
Messrs. Sincere's, Wing On, and pictures, one of them.badly askew, The Directors have recommended the Sun Company have offered to and a dozen other eyesores.
would. have!
$98,000, leaving a
of balance £21,886 to be carried forward.
..
The Company been perfectly prepared to One ease of diphtheria was consider any such proposals on re-notified to the Health authorities ceiving them, and if no agreement during the week-end. had been possible, any claims by the Government against the Company) should have been submitted
That there was negligence but tol arbitration in accordance with the that it did not amount to gross A reward of $100 has been offer-curios which
negligence, was the decision of aed by the police for information show. The Persian Government, how-jury empanelled to inquire into leading to the arrest and conviction} instead of taking such the circumstances attending the of Leung Man-king, alias Leung course sent a communication to the death of a woman named Man You- King-kee, the No. 2 "boy" formerly Company announcing their decision an, who was killed on December 3 employed by Mr. W. G. Goggin of to cancel the concession. The Corn-in the course of blasting operations 195, The Peak, wanted in connec-t pany replied, disputing the legality at Taikokteni,
tion with a, jewel theft.
terms of the 'concession.
ever,
of such an 'unilateral action. On be-' ing informed of the situation, the
British Government took up the case
in exercise of their right to protect n British national when injured by acts contrary to international law committed by another state.
After giving the text of the notes. exchanged, the memorandum says the British Government was com pelled to take a serious view .of the situation created by the Per aian Government's actions, which could only be regarded as an un- ilateral act of confiscation, con- trary to International law and con- stitution, in this case an interna- tional wrong done to the United Kingdom in the person of a Bri- tish. company.
Moreover if this action were
4.
CONGRESS URGED TO CONSIDER PARLEY,
a final dividend of 5 per cent, free act as receiving depots for those Setting his lips, he arose and ad- of Income Tax, which will absorb firms wishing their goods to be dia. vanced to the ancient bell-rope of played, while Mr. Lai Kung-chee faded crimson and moulting tassel. of the Kung Sheung Yat Po, will But his courage had not yet reached take delivery of any fine arts and the pulling point. With a groan hel
exhibitors wish to snatched up his book and threw him
self heavily into his easy-chair. Dust arose around him. In 'exas- peration he kicked out with his right foot; the old carpet slipper, loose by reason of the burst at the heel; flew off; and he beheld that which ought not to have been visible United States' demands; did not ex at such an hour-his great toe. But ceed one quarter of the amounts, neither was the sight thereof a Imposed to support military esta novelty. Nevertheless, it brought blishments. The cancellation of him to action. He reached out and debts would only free larger sums gave the rope a gentle tug. for further military preparations;
The Colony Billiards Championship
Holder Receives Bye Into Second Round
TO COMMENCE ON FRIDAY
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Must Honour Request.
Down in the kitchen, a disorderly. dilapidated but ngreenbly fuggy place, Mrd. Crow sat drinking her
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to be followed by an attempt OSMUND, the Colony Billiards Champion, was the only seeded Economic Conference would be an aged man in ragged tweeds camel 1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy
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The United States has made dou- third cup of tea and buttering her XMAS & NEW YEAR HAMPERS. ble the total sacrifice of any other fourth slice of hot toast. At the nation in bringing about the past single ting of the bell she started, year's moratorium, he said. stared, and remarking to herself "This act of goodwill must not that a mouse had done it, returned now be made an excuse or oppor to her pleasing occupation. At funity to demand further a sacrififty-nine Mrs. Crow was of far from fide, but we must honour the re- prepossessing appearance; but let us quest for a discussion by the nabe kind and say merely that she was tions who sought to maintain their flat-chested, duck-footed, fah-faced Jobligations to us.”: down and froway
The successful outcome of an While yet the ball feebly waggled,
greatly furthered if the debt pro in from the seallery, where he had blem were explored in advance, been chopping wood, and gazed up even though the final agreement at it, gaping in astonishment." might well be contingent upon n sa- "Mrs. Crow," he said, turning at tisfactory solution of economic and last; "are ya no goin' to answer it?" armament questions, the President "It was a moose," she replied, and concluded. GRE
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Whoreupon the bell rang briskly With a grunt of annoyance Mrs.
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observed the olde her war debt payment to bell was rung Great Britain, if the suspension man, returning, with shaking head, granted following the Hoover to his chopping, Moratorium was made on the as Upstairs the Laird eyed ruefully sumption of a continued morator the bell rope lying in a heap on the fum by the United States.floor, and wished he hadn't pulled The Government, said Mr. It - But the wrath; still glowed!
Suddenly, as at a blast, the door Thomas, was most grateful to the New Zealand Gover
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Thomas, announced, amid cheers,
draw, all matches commencing at the St. Patrick's Club at 8.80 p.m. the offer of the New Zealand Gov-Crow hastened to finish her meal.
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that the Persian Government had refused to accept responsibility for any such loss for damage, although the terms of the concession bound the Persian Government to take necessary, meaqures for the profec-2 tion of property and employees.
The British Government, it con- tinued were most anxious that the difficulties between the Persian Gov- erament and the Company should be Bettled by an amicable and fair agreement.
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