TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1934.
REASONABLE
PRICE LEVEL
'FOR RUBBER
Consuming Interests Invited To Panel.
GREAT BRITAIN SATISFIED
London. To-day.
Various points regarding the Rubber Agreement were raised in the House of Commons at question time, yesterday.
The Secretary for the Colonies. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, said that consuming interests would be infited to nominate represen- tatives on a panel which would advise the International Com- mittee on regulations.
The Government had had a good deal of discussion with the United States Government long before the scheme was publish-{ ed. He was satisfied that the) scheme was adequately designed! to secure a reasonable price level.j
it was not aimed at main- Laining any pivotal price. He did not think it was advisable to introduce n clause to pro- vide reconsideration of the whole question if the price exceeded a certain limit.
It was impossible to say what would be a reasonable price in the absence of knowledge of world conditions and of the costs which were likely to rule.
MALAYA INTERESTS
No members of the Regulation Committee, he said. Mould be actually appointed by the British Government. The Government,
THE
'Twenty-Five Millions! So What?"
"It's a h of money, but I can't get excited about it." That was the remark of Richard Reynolds, tobacco holz, pictured at Baltimore, Md., with his wife on the occasion of his formal taking over the $25,000,000 inheritance left him by his tobacco magnate father.-
however, assumed that one of the GRIMSBY BILL members on the panel represent-
Ing the consuming interests will represent the interests of the British industry,
Mr. T. E. Groves, Labour Mem- ber for Stratford, West Ham, ask- ed whether the Malaya and Ceylon Governments would be requested to appoint some representatives of the consuming interests on the international Committee in order to ensure harmonious operation of the scheme for general interests.
TRAVELS 10,000
MILES TO H.K.
Lincolns Soldier's Surprise.
THE ROADWAY TO RECOVERY.
Depression Backbone Broken.
R. F. C. CHAIRMAN'S REPORT
SPECIAL TO CHINA MATE..
ceived May 8, 8.55 a.m.)
SOCCER PLAYER RETURNS IT TO ENGLAND
Washington, To-day. Becoming entangled in the post
The Chairman of the Recon- with
the Grimbay struction 1 copy of
Finance Corporation. Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister repli- ed in the negative, and said that Evening Telegraph, addressed to Mr. Jesse Jones yesterday told the Private J. Ramsden, of C. Com- "United Fress" that he believes the scheme was expressly provid-
18! Bo.. Lincolnshire that the backbone of the depres ed for representation
of the in-pany,
Regiment, Hankow Barracks, aefon has been broken. dustries concerned.--Reuter.
bill from Mr. W. West of Yara- "Conditions throughout borough Street, Grimsby, to Mr. country have improved substan- J. Cook, of the same town, tially, he declared. journeyed over 10,000 miles in- The R. F. C. is receiving U. S. stead of one mile.
INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT SIGNED
London, To-day.
LOCAL MEMORIAL TO MORRISON.
The First Protestant Missionary To China.
paper.
Private Ramsden played at full- back in the Lincolns Third Divi sion football team, which local record this season by cluding their fixtures with per cent, record.
the
$3,000,000 daily from borrowers al-
ADJOURNMENT OF HOUSE
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL...
CHINA MAIL.
To-day's Short Story.
PETYA GOES By Horton.
RED
PETYA
Giddy.
ETYA, in the cattle-track in the house at night. In some way she had disgraced his father, and for that he hated her..
The day before yesterday she died, and as the train did not stop the other people in the carriage had thrown her out into the snow. Now
was happy. There was no good reason for this, to be sure, except that it was his birthday, and Miss Anastasia Andreievna Khiestomsky had just smiled at him.
It was his custom to be happy on he was alone. He had the sack of his birthdays; he had been so on food that had been hers, but not the each of the preceding five; they blanket: they had thrown that after great her because of the typhus. It was stood out in his memory as occasions, something like. Easters, very cold, but he was quietly making but less impersonal. Those which a nest of straw for himself in the were anterior to the last five he dark corner of the truck, gathering could not remember, not distinctly, the straw from 'the floor when the When he thought of the birthdays others were not looking. stretching back into the time before He had hidden the sack of food his memory began he could even re-under the straw, being determined member his father, who had gone that no one else should share it.
But this resolution was wavering. away to fight the Germans at the beginning of the war, and had not nowy that Miss Anastasia Khlestom- come back, although whether he was sky had smiled at him. killed or not as one knew.
Huge and noisy his father had uniform been, magnificent in his with the rolled blanket crossing his' big chest, and the long rifle which seemed scarcely longer than a cane when he carried it, but which stood high above the boy Pelyn.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
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To-morrow's story will be "Sunset Woman." by C. Patrick Thompson.
There had been a photograph in the farmhouse of his father in uni- form, taken in Kazan before he had
He knew her name; she was the gone to the front. It had hung in the best room, near to the one of daughter of the big landowner out- side Kazan, Andreicy Ivanovitch the Tear, but not in such a good Khiestomaky. When the Soviets position.
farmer.
TAIKOO LOSING MR. MITCHELL,
32 Years.
Retirement After
TRICK TO OBTAIN CLOTH.
оп
Rata
Shoe Shop.
BRANCH
Chiropodist
Katherine Building 224A, Nathan Rd. Kowloon,
Repair Service.
Tel. 51341.
OPENING TO-DAY
For the convenience of our customers, we are, to-day, opening one. branch shop at the above address (Near the junction of Jordan Road and Nathan Road).
We cordially invite our customers to pay a visit to our new shop, as there is a big range of new shoes displayed in the windows at most reasonable prices. All our shoes are imported from Europe and bear the trade mark.
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INTRODUCTORY SALE Continuing Daily--This Week All kinds of MANILA HATS
- For Ladies and Gentlemen Latest Styles-from $3.76 up Manufacturers' Represent tive from Manila's Largest Eat Factory has a large assortment of the latest de- signa in Ladies' Hats, fut arrived from Manila-
on display at
ST. FRANCIS HOTEL, ROOM 302, Daily from 9.m. till 6 p.m.
Telephone 26634-Ask for Eoom 302.
PRICES THAT
Will Convince You Buy direct from the factory and save, the Middleman's profita. SAVE MONEY.
ANGLO-JAPANESE TRADE
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Petya remember his father with came Andrelev Ivanovitch had lost affection; he had been big and jolly his land, but when Kolchak came, and admirable, the people in the vil he had got it back again. Now he lage stili spoke of him as a good had lost it once more and with it bis money, his house, his horses, his gally Petya's stepmother had died only trolka that used to dash so the day before yesterday, in the through Petya's village, all posses cattle-truck, of typhus. But he had sions except the two suit-cases never cared for her nor her for him which he sat.
(Continued from Page 1) the Secretary for the Colonies, Sir and she had made him burn with Petya thought Andrejev Ivano-
LAPSE OF A YEAR
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, had been in shame when he heard the village vitch had shrunk: he used to look so
"The Government have consider-consultation with the Cplonial gossip about her. There had been fine and stately in his big fur shuba.. something about her of which the He still had the shuba, but inside ed the whole problem again, very Governments.
The Governments of the Colon- (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra-village had disapproved. He was it he looked shrivelled and mean. carefully, in the light of this reply," phic Mensages Ordinance, 1884. Renot quite clear about the nature of His moustache draggled where it Mr. Runciman said. "It is already lies and Protectorates for which it, but it had to do with the violent had jutted, his face was dirty and a year since the British Government such action would be appropriate all drew the attention of the Japanese would be asked to introduce import drunken soldiers who were so often unshaven, and he wept nearly
the time. So did his wife, but she Government to the serious position quotas which, except in the had never seemed so grand, just a arising from Japanese competition. of West Africa, would apply to "It is of the utmost importance all foreign imports of cotton' and plump, untidy, homely. looking per- son, quite like a peasant. Now she that every effort should be made to rayon goods.
With a view to reinstating Bri- Jonly looked more like a peasant than deal with a problem of this magni-
tude in the most appropriate way. tain in the position in those mar- before.
quite different. Unfortunately, there appeared to be kets which she held before the Anastasia WAB
nothing in the Japanese Govern-present abnormal period, It was She glowed like a Jewel in the muck-heap of humanity that swarm-ment's note of March 31 to suggest intended that the basis for ap- that an early agreement was to be portioning these quotas as between Mr. John Mitchell, of the staff of ed in the cattle-truck. It was true
foreign countries should be, as far {expected.
NO UNFRIENDLY SPIRIT as possible, an average of their The bill, which was for a supply though it is not pressing for re- the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, and Mrs that she was very dirty like every- An inter-Governmental agreement of sawdust.
Although, therefore, the Govern- importa in the years 1927 to 1981. eventually re-, Was
payments.-United Press, per 8. C. Mitchell, will leave for Home to-one else. She had been crying, and in to implement the rubber regulation turned to its correct address
It was further proposed that the Gold Bar Co.
morrow on retirement, by the Blue the tear channels had washed streaks meat still holds the view that the scheme has been signed at the Bri-Grimsby by Private Ramdsen, and
Funnel liner Hector, after 32 years down her face. Her lovely glisten problem which, faces us is one necessary legislation in Colonial ing black hair, so unlike Petya's which can only be settled satis-territories should be enacted with tish Foreign Office by France, Great the mystery of a missing letter
in the Colony.
WAS matted factorily by co-operation in some the least possible delay and that it Britain, India, Holland and Siam-was thus solved.
Mr. Mitchell has been connected corn-coloured thatch,
But she form between Japan and ourselves, should be so framed that the ac- Reuter.
The halfpenny stamp was un-
with the Talkoo Sugar Refinery under the little fur cap. used, which suggest that the letter (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telepri- since 1902. He took a keen interest was beautiful, ah, how beautiful, the British Government cannot tual "Regulation would be recken- 28 beginning retrospec- became entangled with the news-phic Messages Ordinance, 1884, Re in the Taikoo Club, while Mrs. Mit- how perfect she was, thought Petya, allow a situation to develop in ed
from May pro- tively ceived May 8, 11.18 a.m.)
chell played a very prominent part so different from the enuffing, whin which the negotiations are Washington, To-day. in the Colony's educational and re-ing "bourgouys" and the dully-tracted indefinitely without any that no attempt at forsstalling staring cold-like peasants who were immediate prospect of success, ing would be allowed to frustrate Representative Byrns has pre-ligious institutions.
the other occupants of the truck. set a dicted that the House of Repre-
and during this time the Japanese, the policy and the intentions of a She was a jewel, a flower, pure quite naturally from their point measures under contemplation." con- sentatives will be ready to ad-
and proud. And she had smiled at of view, are continuously expand- PARLEYS NOT CLOBED a 100 journ at the end of next week.
him.
ing their exports in our marketa: In the most important of the West -United Press, per S. C. Gold Bar Co.
Petya sat in the corner In his to the detriment of Lancashire African Colonies there were treaty straw fortress, happy on his eleventh while our hands are tied.
obligations which precluded differen- Culprit Makes Amends. birthday, thinking about Anastasia. "Accordingly, the Governmenttiation in favour of British goods,
And the train rolled on.
have come to the conclusion that Mr. Runciman continued. Pleading guilty to a charge of The train rolled on and on towards they would not be justified any for this reason that a obtaining four rolls of clothes by Siberia. Kokhak's armies rolled longer in postponing, in hepe of notice was given to release the West By Telegraph, Comright, Telegra false pretences from the Fal Kce back, eastward, back to Siberia an agreement, such action as is African Colonies from their obliga- Anglo-Japanese phio Messages Ordinance, 1894, B. Shop, of No. 10, Possession Street, whence they had come victoriously open to them with a view to safe-{tions under the
treaty, and action there would be ceived May 8, 8.55 am.)
yesterday, Chan Kwong, unemploy-in the spring. The advance on Mos-guarding British trade.
"I therefore informed the Ja-limited to Japanese goods, Washington. To-day. ed, was bound over by Mr. Q. A. A. cow, flowing swiftly and it seemed
Mr. Runciman added that while The American State Depart- MacFadyen at the Central Police invincibly in the spring, slowed in pancse Ambassador, last Thurs ment, it is revealed, has warn-Court this morning, in the sum of the summer, halted, healtated and day, that in the circumstances the he had not deal in this statement ed Germany that the United 850 to be of good behaviour for six then in the autumn turned into the British Government were obliged with the position of any "gooda
ended to resume great retreat which never
their liberty to take other than cotton and rayon tex- Ho Man-fal, the alleged assailant States will continue to demand montba. the purpose of discussions regarding of Mrs. J. C. Polson, was committed equal treatment for American Detective-Sergeant Goodwin said until Siberia had been crossed, andị such action as they deemed neces-tiles, the Government were aware to stand his trial at the next holders of German bonds. that the accused had already paid the last survivors poured down into sary to safeguard our commercial that Japanese competition was not Imited to those goods and they The conference will open with a Criminal Sessions by Mr. Hamilton. United Press, per S. C. Gold Bar compensation, which was 888.10, the frozen wastes of Manchuria..
In that retreat, one of the most "I assured, bim, and I am con-were considering in the case prayer and a business session, when at the Central Magistracy yesterday Co. trustees and officers will be nominat-afternoon.
terrible in the history of the world, fident that the House will join each of the other industries In- hundreds of thousands of men, with me in this, that such steps as volved, what tariff action in Co- women and children perished from it was proposed to take would beflonial market was called for.
As regards the Home, market, the starvation, exposure and typhus, taken in no unfriendly spirit." very few from the Red bayonets. As regards the Anglo-Japanese matter would be dealt with by the Blowly the trains crept across thej Treaty, Mr. Runciman said that he ordinary procedure of the Imports truck was satisfied that the Government Duties Act. The Minister concluded London, To-day. Referring specially to New Zealand, vast Siberian plain, every the Rev. and Mrs. Fisk, from Bor-Mr. W. Shannon, Chlef Detective
The said that the number of people crammed with the refugees from the could, without denouncing it, take by stating that the Government neo, and Miss Annette Holsted, from Inspector, after which Mr. De Ville, During the House of Commons there had urged upon theif Govern-Bolshevist Terror. Beside the track proper and sufficient measures to would, at any time, give careful con- commercial in kideration to any proposals the the Philippines will appear in native of the P.W.D., produced plans of debate on Dominions Affairs last ment that if all tariffs against Bri-long black trails stretched across protect British
Japanese Government might make costume and address the 'gathering Stanley Terrace.
night the Dominions Secretary, Mr.tish goods were reinoved Britain the white snowfelds, miles and miles terests.
foot. NO CESSATION OF TREATY. {towards a solution by mutual agree- ----other missionaries who may have Fung Iu-tong, the Central Police J. H. Thomas cited figures to show would take everything New Zealand of horsemen, carts, men on
The New Zealand When the starved horses fell they He therefore saw no reason to ment of a dificult problem. native costumes are requested to be station interpreter, produced defen- that, despite the economic depres-cared to send.
Such a solution ought to be pos- present.
dant's statement, in which he said, sion of the last few years, every do- communication with regard to this were eaten before they grew cold.terminate the treaty which had re- For further information kindly "I have nothing to say, it was not minion effected by the Ottawa agree was not taken by the British Gove The soldiers who had taken the gulated the commercial relationssible where two Governments were, write to Mrs. R. A. Jaffray, 16 Taipoj who did it.”
ment had increased its trade with ernment as an offer because it was held in the height of summer strug-between the two countries for over Road, Shum Shuf Po.
Britain, and that Britain had in-perfectly obvious that no New Zea-gled through the snow with their 20 years. CHINESE LEAVES $21,000
As far as the United Kingdom creased its trade with them, land Government, could entertain frost-bitten feet bound in straw and
The fact that, "While world trade such a position.
Backing; under their tattered, shirts market was concerned, the Govern ment folt that they could no long- Letters of administration to had gone down, the trade within the Mr. Thomas pointed out that 25 they stuffed moss and straw. H. M. S. CARADOC LEAVES the $21,000 estate of the late Empire had improved was sufficient per cent, of New Zealand's revenus They marched on, long after, their or continue to suspend a review of
Wong Hin-on, who died at Sha justification for Ottawa. Was from tariffs, and said that it feet had become shapeless lumps the silk duties by the Import Da- The "Morning Post", declares HL M. & Caradoc left at 8.50 Tau Kok Market, Po On Dia Mr. Thomas sald that he had was impossible to reconcile the poet without feeling, and when they drop-ties Advisory Committee which that the quotas will effectively a.m. to-day for Salgon, where she is trict, Kwangtung Province, on received abundant evidence of aption whereby one Dominion would ped they frose where they fel, and had now been asked to complete exetall Japan's expansion, which due on Friday. She will Inter pro- October 21, 1982, have been preciation by the Dominions of the be given particular preference their comrades stripped them of its report on these duties as quick to atill growing apace, but no char
ly as possible, c
solation can be sought In the Co- coed to Singapore from whence she granted to, Wong Kit-tong, stud-way Britain was conducting her against another in the same commo- their clothes,
(Continued, “on Page" toʻ
In the case of Colonial markets, loufal Empire alone.. will mall for Home to pay-off. Jent.
side of the Ottawa, agrements. Idity-Britishi Wireless Service,
MEETING ON FRIDAY
Mr. Robert Morrison, the first Protestant Missionary to China, left; New York on May 12, 170 years ago. August 1 marks the Centenary of his death and it is therefore fitting that some memorial should be erect- ed to the memory of this hero of pioneer missions.
A conference will be held in
"Montevedere", No. 16 Taipo Road,
on Friday, May 11, at 10.30 a.m: for
this memorial.
CHOPPER ATTACK
TRIAL.
Alleged Assailant For Sessions.
DENIAL IN STATEMENT
ed. It is requested that representa- Defendant was charged
with
U. S. HOLDERS OF GERMAN BONDS
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL.
Ito the complainants.
tive delegates from the Protestant causing grievous bodily injury to British Empire Trade
Churches, missionary societies and Mrs. Polson by wounding her with
institutions be present.
On Sunday next, at 8 o'clock, there Bay, on August 2 last year.
a chopper at Stanley Terrace, Quarry
1
will be a missionary meeting when]
Evidence yesterday was given by
Justifies Ottawa Agreement
interests.
It was
· year ago.
of
he was sure they were, anxious
to agree-British Wireless Service.
· BRITISH: PRESS, OPINION"
(Continued from Page 1).