THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1933.
CHINESE PATENT PREMIER TO
LAW
Not Yet Enacted At Nanking.
LATEST RULING BY MINISTRY OF LABOUR
Shanghai, To-day. Much Importance should be at- tached to the following ruling by the Ministry of Industry as report
China,"
to a query from the Chinese Cham-
for sale in China duplicates of foreign commodities-Reuter.
MIMIC WAR
TAKES PLACE
IN HONG KONG
(Continued From Page 1.)
The Blucland Lincolns were then held between two bodies of their
LEAVE FOR US.
ON APRIL 15
Mr. MacDonald To Visit President Roosevelt.
WORLD CONFERENCE MAY BE HELD IN WASHINGTON
London, To-day.
Mr. Rainsay MacDonald, the
It
SILVER STEADIER
IN NEW YORK
Little Danger Of New Banking Crisis.
RAILS DISTURB MARKET
}
New York, To-day. Business was brighter on the New York Stock Mar- ket yesterday, while in the silver market, foreign cables were steadfer., The day's
business shares.
was 1,140,000
THE CHINA MAI
To-Day's Short Story.
THE SHILLING
WAKING
By Gerald Bullett.
this particular winter's friendship with Milbury; and as morning, young Harrison, an ele-for Prynne, Milbury's frequent vi- gant but impecunious free-lance sitor a charming fellow, thought Journalist, lay for a moment Harrison, but why so early a riser, meditating on the disadvan- he added peevishly, why so active tages of occupying a second-floor and noisy at the unseemly hour of flat in a four-storey building. A nine?
800.
ed by the Kus. Min news agency Prime Minister, has accepted Presi- from Nanking:-
[dent Roosevelt's invitation to visit!
more than ordinary tumult had His meditations were cut short "No Chinese patent law has yet Washington for a discussion of war
Messrs. E. A. Pierce and Com-broken out in the room above by other sounds: the scarry of feet! been enacted and promulgated. Articles patented in foreign coun- debts and the economic situation of pany, through their local agents, him, rousing him from happy on the stairs, and a loud, urgent Something crushed, banging at the door of his own tries enjoy therefore no patent the world, and will leave for Messrs. Asia Lands, Ltd., state: dreams.
"The heaviness of rails has something fell, and a confusion flat. What on earth! The bang rights within the jurisdiction of America on April 15.
disturbed the whole market. We'of footsteps hurried to and fro, ing stopped for a moment, and after The Premier will be accompan-think the action of industrial "The bridegroom-elect does is a pause was resumed with new fury The ruling was made in response lied by his daughter. Miss Ishbel issues, considering the carrier morning exercises," remarked, Harn that pause Harrison heard som ber of Commerce in Shanghai whe- MacDonald, and the Treasury ex-weakness, is quite encouraging. rison to himself; for now, shaking one walking quickly across the Wheat ruled strong on commis-off the vagueness of icep, the re-floor of the room overhead: "Com- ther it was lawful to manufacture perts.-Reuter.
London, To-day. sion house buying and further membered that Milbury, the top ng! Coming!" called Harrison, door tenant,, had a guest. He had and leaping out of bed, thoroughly An early announcement that talk of inflation. during the Easter Parliament re- Cotton is hesitatingly higher good reason to remember this cir-wakened at last, he slipped bis feet cess the Prime Minister will in sympathy with wheat. In cunstance, for until an hour or two into bedroom slippers and ran to make a visit to America for a the silver, market, cables have past midnight he himself had been open the door, thinking the house
of the party, and the three friends mus be on fire. personal talk
President been steadier. with
Oh, Mr. Harrison, sir, Roosevelt on the World Economic The spread between May and the-Milbury, Prynne and himself-
It was Mr. Rodgers, the woman had found the talk so compelling.. Conference and other matters is more distant months 13 widening, and the whisky so congenial, that who came each morning_to_start anticipated by the newspapers. due to liquidation of long, positions they had allowed Erynne's last bury's day for him: cook his British Wireless Service. and to switching. We think there train to go without him, so that breakfast, clean his shoes, and is little danger of a repetition of the prynne finally had to be accommo- clean up after he had left for his
ns regards dated with FRANCE MAY PAY WAR DEBT early March situation
shakedown in Mil-office. bank stocks, though major bank bury's sitting-room. A decent fel INSTALMENT.
"What's wrong?" asked Harri legislation has not yet been whipped low, Prynne, Harrison reflected; a Washington.
Into shape.
upstairs. "Oh. please to come decent, dependable fellow, humor- "In the meantime we think it is WILS learned the adminis
ous in a quiet way, and just now opponents, and the war was declar tration has found reason to be better to wall and see what the almost pathetically pleased with
TO-MORROW'S STORY. ed finished. All troops then relieve that France intends to pay her Government will do towards re himself because he was ou the defaulted war debt payment of adjusting the banking situation" point of murrying Clare Henshaw. The invading force was at all $19,261,482, which was due last De-
To-morrow's story will be Industrial and utility averages Both Prynne and Milbury had been times under observation by the de-
"The Temple of Memory,”. cember,
jadvanced 1.42 and .20 to 57.51 and contemporaries of Harrison's: at fending force, and for the purpose)
by Owen Oliver. pay-19.53 respectively, while rail and Cambridge five years before. of the exercise, their landing, which
of was performed under fire from the ments due at the time, France be-bond averages declined 91 and 23 Prynne, having a little money
most important. Six to 23.64 and 73.55 respectively-his own, bought a country cottage Isn't it awful, sir?" machine guns of the defenders, wae ing the
"What's wrong, woman? nations, headed by Britain, puldReuter.
and painted in water-colour; Mil- allowed.
their obligations.
bury, a more forceful character, be a fool," took to commerce, and was destin- "The place is full of gas. payment so that she may receive DOLLAR UNCHANGED ed, his friends prophesied, to go him lying dead, sir.
far; and Harrison, being possessed ing to be sick in a minute. jof a lively curiosity and a disin know I am." She caught hold of clination to settle down, was doing Harrison's arm and pulled him into The former Republican adminis-Į
lodd Jobs of journalism, until some-the, passage. "Come up and see tration indicated it would give Arsti
back thing more amusing should turn for yourself. 1 duran't go consideration to those whose debts
The Roosevelt ad The local dollar remains unchang-up to claim him. At Cambridge he alone." The boom of the four-point-nine were paid up.
had seen little of Prynne and less Harrison leaped up the stairs, howitzers at Happy Valley, op-ministration has indicated it is stilled at 1/3%.
Silver prices, both spot and for-of Milbury; and is nearer ac with Mrs. Rodgers scrambling up posite the Monument, could holopen minded on whether to discuss heard some miles away. The bat debt revision with countries in de-ward, gained 1/16, being quoted this quaintance with both men was due behind him. "Have you turned it
morning at 17 5/16 and 173%
re-to the chance that had, made him, off," he called, "and opened the}; tery had an observing officer, sta-fault or not.
It was also learned that diploįspectively.
inadvertently but by no means unwindows?" But without waiting to tioned on the hillside off Stubb's
neighbour.hear her answer he dashed into who mats who are planning the world The pound value improved slight-willingly. Milbury's Rond, at Magazine Gap,
contem-ly this morning, cross rates being Since coming to this dat, six months Milbury's flat. The reek of gas) signalled targets and ranges to the economic conference are
-G$3.42% and £- Blank cartridges were plating transferring the scene from quoted at gunners.
G$3.42% for the London on New fired by the four guns at intervals. London to Washington.
June 1 has been mentioned as a York, and New York on London, tentative date.
turned to barracks,
Aeroplane Bombing. Aeroplanes were again in the
sky at dawn this morning, and car
The
ried out bombing exercises, bombs were only imaginery ones, were dropped by the aero. planes as they swooped low over the troops engaged.
and
The garrisons of the local forts were on the alert all night. Search- lights swept to and fro continuous- ly in search of the hostile fleet.
Submarines and destroyers pa trolled the waters around Hong Kong, and after picking up the two invading ships, they steamed along
Several nations defaulted
France evidently is considering
treatment equally with other coun- tries which paid their obligations.
News In Brief.
Chan Lock, a Chinese shift coulie
in their wake with all lights dous-was seriously' injured as a result of
Fractional Rise In Silver Prices.
Don't
And
And I'm go-
met him; and there also met him, before he had gone a couple of steps along the top landing, the
"Milbury! Thank. Good you're safel"
rates, respectively, as compared with CHINESE SOLDIERS distraught figure of Milbury.
-G$8.42 und £G$3.41% yester- day.
BETRAYED BY LOUD NECK TIE.
ed. Immediately the landing place a fall from a plank in the engine Chicago Bandit's Fatal was known, the information was room of the Raby Castle, while she was lying at the Hong Kong and wirelessed to Col. Nosworthy.
The manoeuvres were witnessed Kowloon Wharf.
Mr. Tse Yee, of Pottinger Street,
Weakness.
Chicago.
IN COURT
Possession Of Raw Opium.
8 ACCUSED FINED $100
Ten Chinese recruits of the Se- cond Independance. Division, who were about to proceed to Swatow
Milbury came staggering, to-1 wards him. He clutched for sup port at his friend's outstretched hands. "Prynne," he gasped. "Poor Prynne."
"You mean he's dead?"
"I'm afraid 80. Mr. Rodgers found him. Did she tell you?"
"Come along," said Harrison sharply., "We must get him out of by the Commander-in-Chief, Ad- miral Dreyer, and the G.O.C., Major-
A penchant for flaming neck ties yesterday morning, were arrested there and do what we can." -
"We've done that," answered Mil- General Borrett. Many staff officers was admitted to the Government led to the undoing of Rudolph on the Douglas Street Wharf, Con-
"We carried him? naught Road, and detained in the bury wearily. were present at one or other of the Civil Hospital late last night suffer-Wadsley,
own room. He was In "battles," and the two senior umpires ing from injuries to the head as a A man reported to the police Central Station, where charges of into my were Col. Boys, commanding the result of walking into a public motor that he was robbed of £5 by a possession of raw opium were pre- there, in the sitting room, you know, sleeping on the settee bed. bandit who "wore the loudest ferred against them. Lincolns, and Col. Marsden, com-car in Pokfulam Road.
necktie you ever saw."
The sequel to the arrest took Mrs. Rodgers found him." There's manding the Royal Engineers. Col. Cousens, Ast. Adj, and Qr. Mr. Gen. Owing to the Cathay Lodge In-A few hours later a policeman place this morning at the Central nothing we can do now,"
"Have you rung up the doctor? in charge of Administration, was stallation Banquet being held in saw Wadsley sauntering along a Magistracy, before Mr, W., Scho-
the Gloucester Restaurant on Fri-street.
feld, when eight of the accused Here, man, you're looking pretty) present at Wongnelchung Gap.
The Commanding Officer of the day, April 7, the management of
"There couldn't be another neck-pleaded guilty to possession, and green. You'd better sit down. Nas- Lincoln's landing party was Major the Gloucester Building announce, tie in the whole city like that one, were fined $100 or in default sixty shock for you." Harrison, with
weeks' hard labour...
ah Impatience that seemed at var that the usual Dinner Dance
said he to himself. Thoyts, and the officera commanding
So he took Mr. Wadsley-and Two of the accused, Lok Wai-fance with his sympathetic words, the necktie to headquarters where man and Sun Chung Nam pleaded pushed the afflicted man into the Chan Wing, a 14-year-old Chinose the plaintiff identified him as the not guilty, his Honour adjourning kitchen- scullery, the only room left to them that boasted a chair, boy of No. 228 Queen's Road East, man who had robbed him-Reuter, the case to this afternoon. was yesterday, admitted to the Gov
Evidence was called, in which Now, pull yourself together, MI- was stated that the defendants bury. Have you rung up the doc
the Berwick and Medway were Cap-unavoidably cancelled. tain Sedgewick and Captain Mar- rack, respectively.
SECOND FATALITY ON ISLAND RD., Cyclist Collides With
Lorry.
unknown
from the effects of an ernment Civil Hospital, suffering drug. believed to be administered by a foki who has since absconded with $1,700,
A PORTABLE MINT INVENTED.
Ingenious Counterfeiters Tried In Camera.
Kassel.
Shing Kun-shuf; a Chinese male of 15 Connaught Road West, was The second successive fatal : ac-sent to the Government Civil Hos- eldent as the result of a bicycle pital yesterday evening, suffering Two fnen who have been sen-1 colliding with a lorry, took place from injuries received as a result of tenced here for counterfeiting laat night in Island Road near the being knocked down at the Dairy had perfected such an ingenious 10th Railway Bridge, when Wong Farm, by a motor car driven by an apparatus for the exercise of Chuen of 166 Hennessey Boad was unknown Chinese, -Beriously injured when his bicycle.
their trade that part of the pro- ceedings were conducted in secret "owing to the danger of making the method available to other
were in fact taking the oplum out tor!".
21 CHILDREN IN 22 YEARS.
Farm Run Entirely
By Family,
of the Colony to Swatow, and be- Harrison himself was in a state ing service men, would most pro- of high tension. Everything was excessively vivid to him. This bably not return to the Colony,
The opium was found concealed commonplace domestic Interior was Jin blankets which were strapped as bright and strange in his con- round the shoulders of the men.? eclcusness as a scene of nightmare. His mind seemed empty of thought, dominated by horror; but nothing escaped his notice, and the oddest details fastened themselves with pacullar emphasis on his attention, Milbury's unshaven face, with Ita look of settled gloomi Milbury's pyjamas, their green stripe, their texture, and a brown stain on the tassol of the cord that belted the trousers; the cream" distempered the head, He was taken to the day evening, suffering from injuries Their whole apparatus, raw Government Civil Hospital, but to the head sustained by being materials, moulds, high tempera Marija Kupek, who lives near walls of the room; the plate-rs succumbed to his jujuries at 7.30 knocked down by a private motor ture smelting equipment, work Ruma, has given birth to her 21st the sink, where last night's pleat night.
fear, driven by Insp. G. IL Miles of ing tools and everything needed child on the 22nd anniversary of cups and whisky-glasses 25the ministrations of Mrs. the Sanitary Department, at Canton in a'smart-looking suitcase, her marriage. SERVANT STEALS MAH-JONG Road.
They admitted that they had Fifteen of her children-10 a table covered in white
boys and 5 gi
still alive cloth, and the dresser," towns
Despite th Aize of their
ooks depending tro ose things caIES: family, Marija and he aved enous nts their l
ran head onto motor lorry 679. A Chinese female, Yun Ho of Wong sustained a fractured thigh Prince Edward Road, was admitted
and covers bruises, and: Injuries to to the Kwong Wan Hospital yester false coiners."
SETARALAY
Sentence A Chinese servant, Wong Keu, 20, {labour was imp was sentenced to 6
hard Jones at the. by Mr
this morning, on W morning, for theft of a mah-Jong set male fold, who was
from his
trict watchman in s district watch Voux Road
asterday Petrying to left hand pocket of a passe
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