BEDFORD
MADE IN ÈNGLANZ
THE HONG KONG HOTEL
GARAGE. :
The Bong Kong & Shanghai
Hotels, Ltd.
The British
TRUCK
fneneparakad. in Hong Kong.
bbs Boad. Happy Valley.
Economical 27-hp 6-cylinder engine --reducing vibra- tion, reducing engine-wear, redue- ing time-off-the- road, reducing ex- penses.
ITALIAN AIR
PITTMAN'S OPTIMISM
AGREEMENT
ON SILVER
PREDICTED
Shipping Subsidies Disapproved.
CONFERENCE MAY EXTEND.
TIN AGREEMENT
London, To-day,
No agreement has yet been reach-
The dollar, on demand, closed
to-day at 1/4-3-4.
FINAL EDITION.
China Mail
Eat.. 1845.
THE OLDEST - ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST
No. 28,467
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JULY 1933.
Ext. 1841.
BERNARDS OF HARWICH
GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS
PIONEERS OF Quality Goods at Reasonable prices.
CHATER ROAD, HONG KONG.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
ARMADA AT LABRADOR AFTER
Senator Pittman.
ed by the eight countries discussing LINDBERGHS AT
the sales of silver, but according to Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the Silver Sub-Committee such an agreement is near.-Renter.
The Sub-Committee of the Econo- mic Commission of the World Economic Conference, dealing with the co-ordination of production and MRS. working, yesterday considered the question of tin.
It had before it the United Kingdom proposal to consider the general question of regulation of tin production with particular reference to the continuation and possible extension of the existing agreement among the five coun- tries represented on the Inter-. national Tin Committee. The
ST JOHN'S
Ready For Flight To Greenland. LINDBERGH TAKES TURN AT THE CONTROLS
St. John's, Newfoundland,
To-day.
Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh have ** arrived bere from New York, where they took off on July 9 on a flight to Green-
land by easy slages.. Reu-
ter.
The object of the fight is to agreement will come to an end in survey for the Pan-American 1934, unless renewed.
Airways the best route across It was decided to establish the North Atlantic for a passen- sub-committee on tin including ger and, mail seaplane service. the countries subscribing to the They will search for suitable agreement, and other producing landing grounds and may con countries as well as the thretinue their fight to Iceland and. consuming countries - Germany Denmark Italy and the United States.
The Sub-Commission at its next meeting, will examine cocoa,¦ coffee,, tra-and dairy produce, a
well as sugar, if possible.
The Economic Commis- sion is to hold a plenary meeting this morning to dis- cuss the French proposal on public works and the two proposals of the Soviet dele- gation for a pact of economic non-aggression as well as well as the question of ex- tending the import possibili-
fles of various countries.
The President of the Conference.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, has re-
ceived
ATLANTIC FLIGHT
16 PLANES
REPORTED BY
FIERCE BLAZE SWEEPS LONDON |
CHEMICAL WORKS
65 Fire Engines In Grimm Three-Hour Fight
London, To-day. Sixty-five fire engines worked
3.10 PM. (ES.T.) for more than three hours yester
Flying Boats Arrive In Twos And Threes.
BRILLIANT ACHIEVEMENT UNDER GEN. BALBO
Shediac, New Bruns-
wick, To-day. Arriving in twos and threes, 16 of the 24 seaplanes com- prising the Italian air Armada under the leadership of General Balbo, ^Ita- lian Air Minister, reached Cartwright, Labrador, yesterday afternoon, from Reykjavik, Iceland.
The first plane was sighted at 1.50 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) and was fol- lowed at intervals of 10 and 40 minutes by the others. At 3.10 p.m. 16 planes had made safe landings.
day afternoon, before extinguish- ing a fire at the chemical works of Messrs. Forbes, Abbott and Lennard, at Bow, London.
Flames, nearly 100 feet high at one time, swept over the River Lee and Berent's Canal-British Wireless Service.
VARSITY
CRICKET GAME
LEFT DRAWN
Rain Saves Oxford
From Defeat.
ALLEN'S BROTHER SCORES 53
London, To-day.
Rain caused the 95th an- nnal 'Varsity cricket match, to be left drawn at Lord's yesterday.
Cambridge, with only a day to force a victory secured a lead of only 45 runs and a draw was in- Jevitable,
At the close of play Oxford were only 34 runs ahead with 4 wickets in hand.“ K Karmies secaring a fore
1,500-MILE HOP
A London, Midland and Scottish mail express- crashed into a goods train near Crich Junction, Derbyshire, on Julie 17, result- ing in an engine driver being killed and five other persons injured. Two engines overturned and seven coaches were derailed. Fifty passengers in the express train had a miraculous escape."
The overturned engines. (8. & G.);
FATAL BUS
ACCIDENT AT
WEST POINT
Chinese Girl Killed; Another Injured.
BUS, OUT OF CONTROL,
MOUNTS FOOTPATH
A double accident occurred yer
B. Allen, a brother of G. 0. Allen, the English Test: all. terday on the Pokfulam Road, West (rounder, compiled a patient 63 Point, when two Chinese girls were
towards the Light Blue's total
of 209 and was thus top-scorer in crushed against a shop-front by a a match in which 452 runs were motor-bus which got out of control scored for the loss of 26 wickets.and mounted the foot-path. One
H. G. Owen Smith, the South African Test player and last year's of the girls died soon after arriving the Cambridge wickets for 93 runs, deputy captain at, Oxford, took half at the hospital.
The driver of the bus Ng Kam
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE TO
END IN INDIA
Congress Party Anxious To Placate Government
Poona To-day, The Civil Disobedience cam paign will probably be withdrawn to-day. The majority of speaker at yesterday's Congress Party menting advocated the abandon
campaign rather than -suspension in order to reap the full honest of the Governmest's patio da
<
The Government is expected. to release several political' pri- soners with the withdrawal of the campaign—Rester,
HOSPITAL FOR FREEMASONS
King Opens Building At Hammersmith.
PETERSEN WINS
DOYLE FOULS
BRITISH BOXING
CHAMPION
Hurricane Hitting At White City.
MEN FIGHT "LIKE": "PRIMITIVE-
SAVAGES
Lendon, To-day. Jack Petersen retained his British Heavyweight Boxing Championship last night at the White City when “ Jack Doyle, the ex-Irish guardsman, {was disqualified for fool blows after a round and a half of þuri- cane hitting by both men.
A crowd of 64,000, not quite up to the expectations of Mr. Jeff Dickson, the promoter, saw Doyle warned twice before he was finally disqualified
Petersen weighed in at 13 st 6 lbs. and Doyle at 15 st. 3 lbs a difference of 25-lbs.
The bout was one of crashing rights and lefta.; Midway through the first round Doyle Was Warned for holding. Peter- sen: boxed/cooly, but Doyla was wild in his swings, being warned
Zorabiting below the bell The second round provided'? an erhlirating, display, of powerful hitting... Ball men
·were "madman-like, inghing out" with lefts and rights. like primitive savages,
The round, however, did not last long as Doyle caught his Welsh opponent two palpably low blows and was disqualified by the referee.
It is yet early” to prophesy that Petersen in going to beat the
turn at piloting and navigating
Mrs. Lindbergh is taking here visibility and weather are stated to be satisfactory for man- HELD UP BY FOG oeuvring the planes. No details of his slows causing the batsmen to Chuen, reported that he was driv
the actual flight are yet available. indulge in over-cautiousness. Details Of Flight From Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, who
This was the 90th game of the ing down Pokfulum Road at about New York. have arrived at St. John's. New series of matches dating back to 1.55 p.m. yesterday when the bus ARCHBISHOP CONDUCTS SERVICE world, but he is well on the way
skidded and mounted the foot-:
to establishing a fight to fight for the-title. In a year the should foundland, hope to fly to Cart-1827. The Light Blues have won
path. 44 as against Oxford's 37. Last North Haven, Maine, July 10. wright to greet General Balbo,
Two Chinese girl, Hui Yuk Chan, The King accompanied by the weigh more than 18st, and, Buck year the game was drawn, Oxford aged 17, and Hui Wan Lan, aged Queen and attended by Sir John Gil- is his care of himself, by then he Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.
The 24 flying boats took off from winning in 1931 and Cambridge in 12, were knocked down receiving mour, the Home Secretary, drove should be at his zenith. If dur Lindbergh, en route on an airplane Reykjavik at 6 am. yesterday, 1930. flight to Greenland and Iceland, thousands gathering to
serious injuries. Both were sent from Buckingham Palace this after-ing the next twelve months he has give the on their 1,500
at 5.20 p.m. the same day. to hospital but Hui Yuk Chan died noon to open the new Freemasons no more trouble with his hands. Hospital at Hammersmith, The it will require an extraordinary
flew here to-day from Rockland Bay airmen a send-off
to visit their son Jon before con-mile hop across the North Atlantic. tinning to Halifax, N.S.
Jon was with Mrs. Lindbergh's |
'Jon was with Mra. Lindbergh's
巍 series of resolutions family at their summer home here. ALL PLANES ARRIVE SAFELY
adopted last month by the Baltic and The Lindberghs "apent last night
International Maritime countries, at Rockland Bay, where they were
representing 21 maritime countries,, forced down by fog en route
urging the abolition of exchange Halifax from New York. restrictions, the lowering of exces
sive tariff barriers and the removal.
of quotas.
The view is expressed also, that
New York, July 9,
Lo
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.
| Lindbergh, en route northward on
a flight to Greenland and Iceland
the regulation of production by to survey a trans-Atlantic com-
artificial restriction is undesirable.
Another resolution" urges
shipping and ship-building is harmful to international trade and that it is of vital, im-. portance to the world that these practices should be stopped or materially diminished.
mercial aerial foute for the Pan-
short flight from New York.
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DOLLAR RECOVERS TO 1/44
Cartwright, Labrador, later.
All the flying boals of the Italian Air Armada have arrived bere safely after a successful and comparatively uneventful fight. -Reuter
Leaving Italy on June 2 the
Scores as cabled by Reuter: Oxford 164 (D. F. Walker 46, Jehangir Khan 4 for 64). -
London, To-day.
It was was stated that the two King's uncle, the Duke of Con- fighter to keep him from getting 79 for 6 (K. Farnts 4 for 27),girls were apparently caught be naught, and Master of Order re to the top. Cambridge 209 (B. Allen 63, H. G. tween the front of the bus and the celved Their Majesties on their ar
Owen Smith 5 for 93).
shop-front outside where they were rival. standing.
:
GERMANY'S DEBT
PROBLEMS.
Creditors Agree To Concessions.
London, To-day........
SOVIET RAID ON STEAMER.
The hospital was first projected twenty years ago, but the comple tion was delayed by the war,
After a brief. service conducted. by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the King, in opening, the hospital re
Manchukuo Threat of said:
Retaliation.
Harbin, To-day.
familles,
"This fine building, which is so ad- mirably situated and is planned so At the request of the German
as to give patients the benefits of the sunshine"and the fresh airs, is that the policy of subsidies to and Bay, Maine, to-night after a Amsterdam, where one of the in London on July 10 and 11 be- kuo steamer Tungsang by Soviet and cannot fail to bring comfort and
American Airways, landed at Rock- Armada flew over Germany to Reichsbank, meetings took place
The searching of the Manchu- worthy realisation of your hopes, planes capsized with the loss of tween representatives of the Ger- frontier-guarda in Manchukuo help to Freemasons and their one life.
The remaining planes man public debtors and the For-waters on July 8, when ten Rus- continued the journey to London-eign Bank Creditors' Committee. sian emigres were taken prison- I now declare it open, and pray derry, Ireland, where, after a brief
The latter agreed, owing to the er and the vessel's cargo confis-that with God's blessing within its delay owing to an accident to present foreign exchange situation cated, resulted in a statement to walls there may be found relief from General Balbo's plane and bad of Germany, to recommend con- the press to-day by Shih Lui-pen, auffering and restoration to health.”. weather, they left on July 5, arcessions involving the reduction of a representative of the Foreign-British Wireless Bervice. riving at Reykjavik the same day. interest rates and the postponing Ministry, who asserted that ir- Reports of heavy seas off of capital, repayments in foreign respective of what mes BRITAIN'S FOREIGN Labrador and fog and gales along exchange until the expiration of sures might be necessary, Man- the route again delayed departure, the German public debtors credit chukuo would secure the release TRADE DECLINES. The local dollar has recovered to From Cartwright, the Armade agreement of 1933-British Wire of the captured
this morning, after closing
will fly via Montreal to Chicago, lesa Service, d yesterday at 1/4
Silver prices showed a sharp ad- Each of the Italian ships has a TIN AGREEMENT vance yesterday, the spot price clos crew of four and all the filers have ing at 18.7/18 against 17.15/16 ou been in rigorous training for the Tuesday, while forward silver also last several weeks. The original plan was for one plane to go only
This especially applies, to shipping subsidies, as a condition is develop ing. whereby shipping, that should by nature be the most international of all trades, is developing into s Government section, depending on Government aid for its existence.1/4 British Wireless Service.
INDISPENSABLE
British Minister Urges Extension.
Silver Prices Register Sharp Advance.
advanced to 18.9/16,
Reuter
Russians.
Shanghai Nudists Threaten⠀⠀⠀⠀
June Re-Exports Show A Sharp Rise.
City's Peace, Chamber Averse
Shanghai
The London on New York cross to Iceland or take the place of any rate, quoted on Tuesday at ship forced out, as
-G$4.74%, closed yesterday at From Londonderry the
The ambition of the Czecho- the Shanghai Municipal Council £-G$4.67%; while the New York on Itinerary is by way of Rek- slovakian chairman of the Nud- and the French Municipal Coun London rate closed yestreday at javik, Iceland; Cartwright, ist Association in Hong Kong to cil to be on the qui vive against A plea to sin producing countries £-G$4751⁄2 as against ZG$4.68 on Labrador; and Montreal, Quepush the audist movement to this such hack-to-nature movements
to the Inter Tuesday/
the world fair at Chi
been which, it is pointed out, hard- cago-being the terminus, The
ese less as they may sound will have Slang-far-reaching evil, consequences
-not-yet
national into touch
London, To-day
erance |✨. The rainfall in Hong Kong for the [last 24 hours ending at 10 kom.:to-day] wks 20.39 4inchel;</bringing the total since: January 25 top 80.240 inches against an average of 42.75 inches.
Philip
67),
erly route
ontinued on Pat
cosmopolitan city has frowned upon ở by the Chamber of Commercé in
The chamber in oficia “muniquos „ urged-
Lond
A feature of the British for June is the sharp rise in ́ro- Total imports amounted to 268- #representing decrease
and tot
on the morality and mentality of Agu om--Chinese youths, wit
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Petersen has already done that which no British heavy- weight has either attempted or accomplished. Aga
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US. REVENITE COLLECTIONS:
$58,000,000 Increase.
Washington. Internal revenue collec- tions for the fiscal year closing June 30 ambunted to $1,616,223,409, an in- creme of approximately $58,000,000 above the pre- vious year Approximately $30,000,000 re- presented tax Von 8.2 per cent. beer ste
Beer was legalizel April 7, little less than for one quarter. hence. Beer returns represented a
EUROPEAN BOY BITTEN
Attacked By Dor In Kowloon,