WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1934.
DICTATORSHIP NOT
FOR BRITAIN
Mr. Baldwin Broadcasts.
His Views.
CIVIL WAR THREAT
2
London, To-day. In broadcast address to schools this afternoon, Mr. Stan- ley Baldwin expressed the strong belief that dictatorships, whether from the Right or Left, would not flourish in British soil where democratic institutions were in- digenous.
He admitted that a Dictator might do much when in power, but one thing he could not do was to create another Dictator. When he went chaos often resulted.
He appreciated that the young were always in a hurry, and possibly those two alien growths, Communiam
and Fascism might appeal to some! of them.
"Heart-Breaker
Mia Virginis Kilbourne, pretty co-ed. who for the sec. ond time has been elected by her fellow students as the "biggest heart-breaker" at the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. She was recent ly given a screen test by a major Hollywood film com. pany.
a free country in COMPLETE ECONOMY
PLAN WANTED.
BRITAIN'S SOUND
FINANCES
THE CHINA MAIL
Revenue Surplus Now £13,000,000.
LOWER EXPENDITURE
London. To-day
To-day's" Short Story
THE SEA RAIDERS
By H. G Wells.
RUGS
CARPETS
the INTIL
extraordinary It would seem, indeed, that these The latest Treasury returns
affair at Sidmouth, the large and agile creatures, living in show that the ordinary revenue for peculiar species Haploteuthis ferez the middle depths of the sea, must, the current financial year, up to was known to science only gen-to a large extent, for ever remain March 3, amounted to £655,015..erically, on the strength of a unknown to us, since under water 624. At the corresponding date of half-digested tentacle obtained they are too nimble for nets, and last year, the amount stood £860,- near the Azores, and a decaying it is only by such rare unlocked. 089,369.
body pecked by birds and nibbled for accidents that specimens can Ordinary expenditure to data for by fish, found early in 1896 by be obtainer. In the case of Hap- the current year, totalled song. Mr. Jennings, near Land's End. toteuthis ferox, for instance, we In no department of zoological are still altogether ignorant of its 236,079, as compared with £673,- 017.021 at the corresponding date science, indeed, are we quite so habitat, as ignorant as we are of much. in the dark AS with the breeding-ground of the herring From the figures it will be seen regard to the deep-sea cephalopods, or the sea-ways of the salmon. that the surplus of revenue
A mero
accident, for in- And zoologists are altogether at a expenditure had last week 'Incréas- stance, it
that WES
1ed to loss to account for its audden ap
of last year.
over
ed to about £18,000,000, a figure the Prince of Monaco's dis-pearance on our coast. Possibly which is likely to be substantially covery of nearly a dozen new forms it was the stress of a hunger exceeded by the end of this month, in the summer of 1895, a discovery migration that drove it hither ont when the financial year terminates. in which the before-mentioned ten- of the deep. But it will be, per Of the £18,800,000 in land re- tacle was included. It chanced haps, better to avoid. necessarily venue collected during the week, that a cachalot was killed off inconclusive discussion, and to £14,000,000 came from income tax, Terceira by some sperm whalers, proceed at once with our narrative. 2500,000. from surias, and £1, and in its last struggles charged Agriculture Secretary00,000 from estate duty.-British almost to the Prince's yacht, miss-
Civil War Would Result. Britain waA which either creed might be sup ported in safety, but he believed that if the British people, in great | numbers. became adherents of Warning By American either Communism or Fasciam,
there could only be one end of it- elvil war.
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAZ
Wireless Service.
CONSERVATIVES Ru Telegraph. Copyright, Telegr
Adjuring youth to take its share in the responsibilities of public life, die Amannen Ordinance. 1995. Pe Mr. Baldwin said: “If you do so,ļerived March 1, 4.20 pan.) use your common sense, avoid logic,
New York, To-day,
SUFFER LOSS.
Passing Of Hon. Mary Ada Pickford,
jed it, rolled under, and died within twenty yards of his rudder. And in its agouy it threw up a number |of large objects, which the Prince, dimly perceiving they were strange and Important, was, by a happy expedient, able to secure
before
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Dope," by Colin Davy.
love your fellowmen, have profound In a speech here, yesterday, the faith in your own people, grow the United States Secretary of Agricul
they sank. He set his screws in, hide of a rhinoceros, and you will ture, Mr. Henry C. Wallace, warned
(motion, and kept them circling-in
The first human being to set eyes find all the adventure you want, for that uncontrolled inflation, producing
the vortices thus created until a upon a living, Haploteuthis-the London. To-day. It is indeed endless.”—British Wire-astounding results, would be the
boat could be lowered. And these first human being to survive, that The death occurred yesterday leas Service.
alternative of international planned of the Hon. Mary Ada Pickford, specimens were whole cephalopods is, for there can be little doubt
cephalopode, now C.B.E, the Conservative Mem-and fragments of
that the wave of bathing
H.M.S. ROBIN LAUNCHED
«Continued from Page 1.
Mr. Greig went on to say that
economy,
He hated at the peril "after our her of Parliament for North some of gigantic proportions, and fatalities and boating accidents present illusions have been swept Hammersmith, since 1931, almost all of them unknown to that travelled along the coast ́ of
away," unless they developed an in- Reuter. ternational economic plan more cam- The Hon. Mary Pickford was ther plete than the present temporary youngest daughter of Lord Stern- Governmental expedients.-Uniteddale, Master of the Rolls. Educated Press, per S.C. Gold Bar Co.
R was generally known HMS TIGER MOTH PLANES
Robin was built by Messrs. Yarrow and Company and brought to Hong Kong in parts and assembled at) the Taikoo Dogks, · The Admiralty overacers would later inspect the vessel, and he hoped that they would tell him that it had been done properly.
He said that this veasel repre- wanted the fifth gunboat which the - Tuikou Docks bad erected for the Admiralty, and hoped that it was not to be the far.
·
FOR R.A.F.
Air Ministry Place Substantial Order.
WORLD-WIDE POPULARITY
London, To-day.
The British Air Ministry has placed a substantial order for De Havilland "Tiger MothTM light biplanes which will form the equipment of certain Royal Air Force units.
at Wycombe Abbey School and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, she
assisted in the preparation of the
science!
Personal Pars.
·
Cornwall and Davon in early May was due to this cause was -A
retired ten-dealer of the name of Flson, who was stopping at a Sfd- mouth boarding-house. It was “in the afternoon, and he was walking Mr. Llu Kel-min, Mayor of Can-along the cliff path between Sid- official Naval History of the War, ton, arrived in Hong Kong by train mouth and Ladram Bay. The
this direction aro ate last evening on a private visit. cliffs in Later, she was a member of the
high, but down the red face of Malcolm Committee of Education in
them in one place a kind of ladder velation to industry, and was techni-
Father D. J. Finn, SJ, will act staircase has been made.
He was
from 1917 to 1921.
very
cal adviser to the Government dele- as Superior of the Jesuits in Hong near this when his attention Was rates at the International Labour Kong, during the temporary attracted by what at first he Conferences, at Geneva, in 1927 and absence of Father G. Byrne, who thought to be a cluster of birds 1928. In 1929, she was the Conser. is still laid up. vative candidate for the Farnworth division of Lancashire.
SINO-JAPANESE PARLEYS
Exaggerated.
Mr. Greig pres nted Mrs. Elliott with a brooch as a souvenir of the Ceremony, and toasted the health of Mr. Elliott and the Captain in
These machines resemble in size Rapprochement Reports adding his beat wishes in conner and general appearance the well- tion with HMS. Robin.
known "Moth" touring planes which Mrs. Elliott thanked Mr. Greig are flown by amateur pilots all over very much for the honour of the world, but they are designed for christening H.M.S. Robin and the carriage of the comprehensive. wished the vessel every success. military load and the performanc She also congratulated everybody of every manoeuvre in the repertory on the work they had done.
of the service pilot.
Tokyo, To-day. The Chinese Legation declarES that yesterday's message re: garding the exchange of views between Japanese business men and Chinese Legation officials, is an overstatement.
struggling over a fragment of food that caught the sunlight, and] The wedding will take place to-glistened pinkish-white. The tide morrow at St. John's Cathedral at was right out, and this object was 3 p.m., of Lt. J. C. Richardson of not only far below him, but remote the 1st Bn. South Wales Borderers, across a broad waste of rock reefs and Miss R. L. May, of Itchin Ab-covered with dark seaweed and in- bas, Hants.
terspersed with silvery shining tidal fools. And he was, moreover,
By the departare of Miss Mar-dazzled by the brightness of the gery Rice for Home, the St. An-further water. drew's Church Young People's So- ciety are losing a faithful helper.
In a minute, regarding this
A small presentation was made to again, he perceived that his judge- her before her departure, when ment was in fault, for over this Mrs. Rogers voiced the thanks of struggle circled a number of birds, Jackdaws and gulls for the most the members. SUBMARINE ON SLIPS
Well-Known Machines.
part, the latter gleaming blindingly Commodore Elliott said that for Power is supplied by a single 180
when the sunlight smute their The Legation members increly! Mr. E. C. Thomas has been elect-wings, and they seemed minute in the past many years the Admiralty horsepower "Gipsy Major" aircooled and the Taikoo Docks had worked engine, and full provision is made exchanged social courtesies with Mr. ed Hon. Secretary, and Mr. P. J. comparison with it. And his cu Kenji Kodama, President of the A. Hamilton Hon. Treasurer, of riosity was, perhaps, aroused all in perfect harmony. This war for flying by instruments alone one of the many shine that had without the help of outward vision. Yokohama Specie Bank, and Mr. the St. Andrew's Church Council, the more strongly because of hi
to fill the vacancies caused by the Arst insufficient explanations. Miyajima. been brought out to Hong Kong The "Tiger Moth" and "Moth" In any event, any negotiations for impending departures from the As he had nothing better to do and erected by the Docks, and as a training aeroplanos are well-known matter of fact, at present a sub-to pilots of fourteen foreign coun-closer: economic co-operation must Colony of Mr. F. W. Dann and Mr.
he carried on at Nanking.-Leutar. J. W. Baldwin, respectively. tries outside of Great Britain.
marine now on the slipu.
He paid special tribute to Mr. They are Brazil, Chile, Denmark.
Greig for the very good work he Norway, Sweden, Spain, Portugal LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
had done for the Navy during his Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Per- many years out here, and proposed [sia, China, Japan and Austria.--- a toast to the health of the firm, British Wireless Service. coupled with that of Messrs. Yar-İ row and Company.
FOR WEST RIVER NEXT MONTH SUGAR CONFERENCE
HM, S. Robin is the very lat- est type of river gunboat, having an exceptionally low draft.
She was brought out in parts to Hong Kong, on November 10, by the sa. Hector and assembled at· the Docks under the supervision of Mr W. R. Latham and Comdr. Lang, the latter being in charge of} her 'engines.
IN LONDON.
Ten Governments Meet At Second Sitting.
PROBLEM OF PRODUCTION
London, To-day.
Mok Tat-chi, a Chinese, died at the Tung Wah Hospital from the effect of oplum polsoning, said to have been self-administered.
The remains were taken to the uūr: tuary.
The ss. Comorin left Shanghal 8 p.m. yesterday and is due Hong Kong at 7 a.m. on Friday,
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CHINESE GIRL KIDNAPPED.
Eludes Captors By Leap From Window.
NEW YORK OUTRAGE
New York.
A Chinese girl, Miss Betty Chum, escaped from two men who had, „kidnap ped her, by leaping from a second story window in Brooklyn, thereby breaking a leg.
INDIA'S EARLIEST. PRINTED BOOK. Portuguese Medical Work Sold.
AUCTIONED FOR £340.
One of the earliest books print-
London.
ed in India has been auctioned at Southebys for £340.
It is an old medical work by than amuse himself he decided to
the Portuguese physician Garcia make this object, whatever it was, the goal of his afternoon walk in- Maximum sentences of 25 to end of the 15th century and lived seda Orta, who was born at the stead of Ladram Bay, conceiving it 50 years imprisonment, have might perhaps be a great fish of now been imposed on her captors in the East for more than 80 some sort, stranded by some chance by Judge Joseph E. Corrigan of years to study Oriental medi- at and flapping about in its distress. the General Sessions court. The cines.
in And so he hurried down the long, men sentenced were Michael
steep ladder, stopping at intervali Galottan, aged 25, and Leo Mes His book is dated 1568. : of 80ft. or so to take breath and sína, aged 24, both of Brooklyn. The printing press is believed: Leung Chun-tal, a Chinese, of 49 scan the mysterious movement, Gong Goo, a Chinese, who was to have been brought to India by Eligin Street, was taken to the Gov-At the foot of the cliff he was, of alleged to have acted as go-be-the Jesuits before 1560. It is ernment Civil Hospital last night, course, nearer his object that he teen in an attempt to collect known that there was a printing suffering from the effects of opium had been;, but, on the other hand, the ransom from Miss Chum's press at Goa at this date, but no poisoning, said to have been self- it now came up against the in- family, was also convicted of lid printed books from it have sur- administered,
candescent aky, beneath the san, so napping. He will be sentenced vived —Reuter. 28 to seom dark and indistinct later-Reuter, Pleading not guilty to a charge Whatever was pinkish of it, wu of assaulting Kau Ya-fong, a dis- now hidden by a skerry of weedy trict watchman, in Melan Street. boulders. But he perceived that if Tsang Tai-san, a broker, was dis-was made up of seven rounded
PORK SELLER IN TROUBLE.
Tam Lum, of 82 Jordan Road, was taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday, suffering from the effects of immersion, when he attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the harbour from a passenger boat near The London conference on the the Yaumati Ferry. It is expected that the vessst Production and the marketing of||| will be commissioned for service sugar, summoned by the Bureau The Chief Petty Officers and charged by Mr. 8. Balfour at the bodies, distinct or connected, and on the West River patrol early in of the World Economic Confer-Petty Officers of HMS, Cumber Central Magistracy this morning: that the birde kept up a constant April
ence, beld its second sitting yes-land are holding a dance at Lane, 199
croaking and screaming, but seem terday, when statements were Crawford's restaurant on Friday, Sentence of three months harded afraid to approach it too close DESCRIPTION OF VESSEL
made by the Earl of Plymouth, commencing at 9 pm and con- labour was Imposed on Tang Yan, (y, kont Designed by Sir A. W. Johns, E. Parliamentary Under-Secretary tinuing until 1 am, The Cheard an unemployed youth, by Mr. E. W Mr, Fison, torn by curiosity, be unemployed C. B, C. B. E, and built by Moss for the Colonies, who was on Band will play.
Hamilton at the Central Magisti Yarrow and Company, Ltd., at Scot Monday elected Chairman, and A
gan picking bin way ross the guilty this morning. The charge was for wave-worn rocks and, finding. The possession stoun, her dimensions are: length by the United States delegate. T The Department for Overseas stealing a radiator cap from car. wat seawbed that covered the 150 feet, 0%, fest drought", and The latter based his statement on Chinese Affairs has issued a'detail- 2882, belonging to Mr.
thickly rendered them extre breath 26.8 feet. She displaces the message of President Roosevelted report showing the number of compradore
228 tons and her twin 800 home to Congress on February 8, and on Chinese emigrants to other, coun- Ltd. power coxinos siye her a speed of the Bill introduced into the Senate, iries during 1985 as 18,000.
12% knots. She carries 40 tons of
oll fuel,
AN BE A
mamant includes one 8.7
and a 6 pounder, in machine guns.
four days later, the number of those who have
Lord Plymouth stated that the forced by various circumstances British Government adhered to the return to Ching as 278,000, proposals made at the time of the
World Economie. Conference, except this preliminary, conference for, some small adjustment of export United Kingdom, figures applying to non-self-Gover United States
Denaid is in com with 14 Boothby as second
Bke carries a complementing Colonies.
of the
Possession Of Iron Bar Costs Him $50,
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WOMAN ARTIST PILOTS YACHT.
rites Books
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