CHINA'S IMPORT
DUTIES.
COLLECTION ON GOLD- BASIS.
STUDENTS STRIKE
IN KOREA.
1,000 ARRESTED IN SEOUL.
IMPORTANT CHANGES.
"RED" INFLUENCE?
(THROUGH ARUTER'S 'AGENCY.]
NANKING, Jan. 15. Following a meeting this morning
the
(THROUGH ABCTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, Jan. 15.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1930..
Further student troubles, apper- outly due to political wire-pullers are reported in Press despatches from Korea. About 1,000 students have been arrested in Seoul, includ
Government instructed the Inspector-General of Customs to "collect import "duties on a gold basis from February 1. Commenting on the decision the Finance Ministering 250 girls. stated that the action was neces Though reports regarding the sary, otherwine China would be motive are conflicting, it seems that unable to satisfy her foreign loan the students at thirteen Korean obligations secured by the Customs. schools, including two missionary He pointed out that China pays institutions, with the purpose of £8,000,000 yearly which at present showing sympathy with students silver levels would mean this year arrested in other parts of Korea an excess in tacls of eo per cent. Inst year, suddenly struck work compared with 1923, and twenty during a.public examination, shout- por cent, as compared with lasting Mansei." They then rushed
year,
Value of New Walt,
The Finance Minister also said that, in converting specific rates to a gold basis, the average rate of exchange for the last three months
of 1929 would be used from Febru ary 1 to March 13. On and after
March 16 the approximate average rate of exchange for January 1923 would be used.
On and after February 1 the. Haikwan Tael would be discon tinued as the unit of calculation of duties on imports from abroad, Instead, the new gold "unit would be used. This unit would be equal to 60.1868 contigrams of pure gold,
out of the examination halls.
The situation is reported to be well in hand, but the authorities are quoted as expressing the belief that Communist agitators are in the background.
THE FUTURE OF BURMA.
FRIENDLY PARTING FROM
INDIA 1
(THROUGH BRUTER'S AGEVOT.).
RASOGON, Jan. 15. The separation between Burina and India is only a matter of time
BRITAIN'S ROAD JAPAN AND NAVAL
TRAFFIC.
A CODE OF CONDUCT NEEDED,
"
MR. MORRISON'S VIEWS.
[BRITISH WIKI 35 SERVICE]
RUGBY, Jan. 14. A Conference on street accidenta
TALKS.
DISAPPOINTED WITH PROGRESS.
J
THE RATIO QUESTION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCE.]
TOKYO, Jan. 14. While officials are reticent in ex...
UNREST SPREADS IN S. AFRICA.
DISGRUNTLED NATIVE LABOURERS.
ENGINE DERAILED,
(THROUGH BAUTER'S" AGENCY.}
JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 15. The native unrest in South Africa
LIBERAL REUNION
PROBLEMS.
PERSONAL FUNDS" NOT
DESIRABLE.
YOUNGER BLOOD NEEDED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, Jan. 14. That the Liberal reunion is still
CAPT. A. J. L. WHYTE TO BE MARRIED.
POPULAR · A.D.C. AND AN HEIRESS.
According to a Router cable re- ceived yesterday facin San Fran- cisco, Capt. A. J. L. Whyte, RE, is to be married to Miss Frances Vandyke Tyler, who is described as an heiress, of Santo Rosa.
Captain Whyte left the Colony in London, convened by Mr. Mor pressing an opinion on the British is causing considerable uneasiness Daconsummated was made evident
on leave on November 16, and if rison, Minister of Transport, be- Japancas conversations, there is throughout the country. The trou-in a speech by Lord Grey, who was
will probably not be long before. he die ble has now shifted to East London re-elected President of the Liberal returns with his bride, to whom gan to-day, Mr Morrison who little doubt that they are
native railway labourers Council, which was born of the Hong Kong will offer a warm wel- presided, said that it was inevit-appointed with the small progress where
have demanded an increase in dissatisfaction
Mr. Lloyd "able, with development of modern achieved.
come. A A.D.C. and latterly as the appointment of a George's supersession of Lord Secretary to His Excellency Sir From the wording of the British wages, or transport, that the risk of the public, including pedestrisas, invitation to the Conference the commission to enquire into their Asquith.
Cecil Clementi, KC.M.G., Captain Failing this they The dependence upon a per- Whyte has been a well-known and should be increased.
Japanese appear to have received grievances.
sonal fund, Lord Grey declared, They might hope, however, that
an impression that the prelimin-threaten to strike.
as fatal to say party. Even Livery popular figure.
He was Another disquieting factor, pos-beral headquarters felt the posi- esteemed by all with whom he children who were growing up inary conversations had the purpose
tion was unsatisfactory. There the midst of fast moving motor
came in contact, for his courtesy traffe would be able to adapt them selves to the new conditions better than the old generation had been able to.
..
"
of enabling the participants to sibly connected with natives, is a series of recent attempts at cabot ago on the railways. The latest occurred last night, when the en- gine of the Durban-Johannesburg train was derailed between Drum- mood and Inchanga.
reach tentative agreements prior to the holding of the conference; wherefore, disappointment is now felt that the conversations have re- sulted in little more than an ex- change of views..
Vernacular comments make this
He recommended to the carefulį and sympathetic "study of the con- ference a road traffic bill. which he hoped would be passed in the pre-plain, and indications ars not lack- ing that this reflects the official sentesession of Parliament.
view, too, though the officials are. endeavouring to minimise their dia- appointment, intimating their be lief that Mr. Wakatsuki has at least succeeded in impressing Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, ti it Japan's claim for a 10 per cent ratio is not unjustified..
It was hoped, he said, to make the law very much more up to date, and he believed the bill would do much to enable the Ministry of Transport to take further steps to prevent the spread of accidents in Great Britain as a whole. He at- tached very great importance to a provision in the bill enabling the Ministry to publish a code of road conduct.
He said: "We do not need a dog.
3}
Meantime certain bationalistic clements are making strenuous en- deavours to rouse the Japanese nation to the necessity of making
A reassuring fact is that there has so far been no sign of unrest spreading to the nativo territories.
STORIES OF THE PRINCE.
A KITCHENER LETTER,
Some interesting stories of the Prince of Wales are told in "The Biography of H.R.I. the Prince of Wales," by W. and L. Townsend recently published by Messra. Mar- riott-
A Letter From Kitchener.
at
fund, but even then the question and charm of manner, and his of leadership would remain and, if many friends will be interested to at the next general election there hear of his approaching marriage was no change the Liberal Council and anxious to wish both Captain must fight with its own organisa Whyte and his fiancée all happinces tion and its own fund.
Lord Grey added that their lea-and prosperity. der must be a Member of the House of Commons. Younger men must be thought of, but he urged those who were thinking of turning to wards the Labour party not hurry to take a definite decision.
to
Miss Tyler is not a stranger to Hong Kong, "She was chief brides- maid to Miss Elizabeth Dunbar, whose wedding to Mr. M. D. Gur- ney Hoare was celebrated in the Catholic Cathedral on February 12,
LESS RUM IN THE NAVY. last year. The romance, of which news was dashed over the wires
RATIONS COMMUTED FOR yesterday, may perhaps have begun
MONEY.
æt
the Hoare-Dunbar wedding which we described at the time as one of the most charming affairs of the season. Miss Tyler, looked particularly attractive in her bridesmaid's gown of peach colour- ed silk net, and the recollection of the very happy atmosphero of the
make her even the more willing to come to the Colony as a bride.
and would therefore be equivalent declared the Governor, Sir Charles matic code but a substantially Japan's demanda 70 per cent, and to forty gold-dollar cents or 19.7265 Innes, speaking at a. Trades Asso. authoritative code, worked out by urging that a resolution in this ning of the war when he desired to Deptford was the cellar where the Hong Kong wedding will we hope,
pecce, ar 8025 gold Yen.,
From February 1 to March 15 inclusive, specific duties on imports from abroad, now expressed in Haikwan Taels, would be converted into the new unit, on the basis of
rechnical officers of the Ministry ciation dinner. Outlining the Gov ernment's views on separation, he after consultation with all the re- eaid, the closer India approximated Presentative organisations concern- to self-government the less justid. so that the public generally fication there would be for includ shall kno how to conduct them- ing Burma in India merely for the elves on the King's 'Highway,”
one Haikwan Tael to equal 1.30 of reason of administrative bonveni
the new unit, and beginning March | encc. 10 on the basis of one Haikwan
Burma could not be properly in
Fael to equal 1.75 of the new unit.. cluded in self-governing India except with its own express con- sext.
As heretofore, dollare, taèls, and other currencies would be received in payment of duties. The rates at which such currencies would be accepted would be announced from time to time. At least three days notice would be given in the event of any change of rates.
MORE TROUBLE ON THE C.E.R.
REPORTED STRIKE OF CHINESE.
(Wah Tat Tai Pao.)
The Governor stated" Burmese. were unanimously in favour of the ultimate separation and hoped it would be a friendly parting and would leave.no bitterness behind.
RUBBER RESTRICTION.
BRITISH AND DUTCH CO-OPERATION.
[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 15. Dutch rubber producers have decided to attempt to reach a 10
"
PLAN TO ABOLISH SUBMARINES.
ITALY'S SUPPORT.
CHANGE OF FRONT EXPLAINED.
The Fascist Press is at pains to explain Italy's change of front on the submarine question, since_now it in generally known that Italy may adhere to the British-Ameri can thesis for their abolition after seven years of Fascist propaganda in favour of this type of arma- ment. A serious attempt is made in the Italian Press to meet the accusation that the practical fail- ure of Franco-Italian conversations on nava disarmament has led to Italian support of the proposal to abolish submarines.
of
The Giornale d'Italia publishes a leading article by a distinguish
which SHANGHAI, Jan. 15.
ed Italian naval officer" maintains that the Italian idea The Chinese staff of the Chinese to 20 per cent. restriction on pro-about submarines hitherto has been Eastern Railway has gone on strike duction by European and native based on the defence of small na committee formed tions against great, but to-day the as a protest against the dismissal producers. À
growth
Italy's mercantile of many of their compatriote from with the cooperation of British marine, her improved agricultural the railway service by the new producers is sailing for Java to and commercial position, and her propose a limitation of tapping the holding of a different thesis. internal order and peace warrant Soviet managing director of the Railway.
and a deposit of 20 florins per ton They have sent a delegate to ace by European, and two cents per the authorities of the railway, re-kilogram by native producers, questing the reinstatement of the which will be forfeited in case of discharged employees, but their the non-fulfilment of obligations. request was refused.
COMMUNISM IN INDIA.
MOSCOW PLANNING
REVOLUTION.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MELUT, Jan. 15.
Seventeen "proved facts" were enumerated by the Magistrate to day when reading in extenso the committal crder in the conspiracy
WEST POINT ACADEMY
PROBLEM.
NEGRO HONOURABLY DISCHARGED.
Alonzo
In other words, Italy is no longer of the weaker nations among Europe. But also the submarine as a weapon has been weakened cwing to deep-sea bombs and the use of aeroplanes in their detection, &c. Thus if Italy to-day decides to renounce submarines it only means the armna of warfare which, she once wanted to deal with will, instead, be obtained by better ad- apted means."
The article concludes with a re- view of the greater danger for Italy in the use of submarines by an enemy than by herself (due (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
largely to the lack of protected sub- marine bases on the Adriatic coast, NEW YORK, Jan. 15. West Point Military Academy Finally, it is acknowledged that has solved the colour problem by "Italy, in alliance with a big Po wer [England], which is aware of the use of mathematics
the menace of auhmarines, would Parhi, of Chicago, the sole negro cadet, has been honourably disgin by supporting their universal
abolition.' charged" for failing to pass A One of the notable facts, he said, special examination in matheran- was that the Communist Interna- ties. Although oficials have re tionale determined to cause a repeatedly denied unfairness, it is no secret that the discharge has volution in India and entered into a conspiracy to form Workers' and solved a difficult situation. Feasants Parties, to incalcate solidarity, foment strikes and lead up to a General Strike, followed by a revolution in conformity there- with.
DISC.
WAILING WALL ENIGMA. LEAGUE COMMISSION TO BE APPOINTED.
"A BENEFACTOR TO HUMANITY."
GENERAL SMUTS ON PRES. WILSON.
connection be put through the Diet 8 soon as it convenes on January
21.
DE
Alarm is spreading through the naval victualling yard at Deptford, Even officials at the Admiralty are discussing the matter in tores of "When I was at sea, my boy." There was once a time when per- The Prince's reply (at the begin-haps the most important of the
many and variegated stores to France) to Lord casks of pure Jamaica rum were go out
kept. Kitchener on the question of going
No sailor would sail without it. to the front was brief and com
No battle was ever fought without four the rum 'rations, and until a year If these elements achieve their prehensive:""Have, I not
brothers?" If I were certain 80 great empty rum barrels, re- enda, the Government will be great-
lics from the days of Nelson and ly embarrassed as the Opposition you would be shot," replied Kit Trafalgar, reposed in the vaults of Parties are likely to make politichener "I do not know if I should Malta. Naval rum was something cal capital out of the matter at bo right to restrain you. What I rather stronger than the rum which it sold in the taverns of London the anticipated General Election it cannot permit is the chance which 10-day. the Government attempts to turn exists, until we have a settled line, down the resolution, which it is of the enemy securing you as a bound to do, as it cannot afford to prisoner. You have a lot to learn tie the delegates' hunda in this about soldiering yet." When you have learnt a bit more, perhaps, then you may go to France."
manner.
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British M.P.s' Proposal.
LONDON, Jan. 15.
1!
An interesting development in connection with naval disarmament occurred to-day when' seventy seven Members of Parliament, all Labour with the exception of one Liberal, signed a statement urg ing the Government to make the abolition of warships over 10,000 tous one of the principal aims of the forthcoming Naval Conference. The signatories suggest that even if a minority of the Powers do not agree to the proposal, and unanim ity therefore be impossible, the Government should announce that Britain will not henceforth lay down any warship of over 10,000
torja.
Conference By Radio,
Roby, Jan. 15. Naval Conference, which begins in The fret plenary session of the the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords next Tuesday moming, is ex- pected to last two hours: Speeches will be simultaneously broadcast from British stations, and will be transmitted also on British Broad- casticg Company's short wave, Em- pire Station 5SW, to enable them to be relayed in the Dominions and elsewhere.
The Use of Aeroplanes. Lord Thomson, Secretary of State for Air, referring last night to the coming Naval Conference, said that it had been stated that in his pre- sent position ns Air Minister be was liable to think that any saving in regard to warships should be devoted to expenditure on yet more torrile weapons of destruction.
"Dynamite Wales."!
The old custom of the daily "tot" is dying fast. "The men are not what they used to be," said Com- mander Wilkinson, the popular De head of the Admiralty Press fer to commute the tot, to which partment "Nowadays sailors pre- they are entitled, for a sum of 3d. daily, and the importance of the rum cellars at Deptford is dimini-
NO NEW YEAR!
EFFORTS TO STOP CANTON CELEBRATIONS.
At the 13th meeting of the Can- ton Customs Reforms Society many proposals were submitted for the elimination of superstitions and the suppression of the observation of the old new year.
The following resolutions were out, viz.:- duly adopted and are to be carried
-
1. To petition the Municipality
A tot on board ship represents to issue an order to all business half a gill, which is an eighth of houses, and factories in Canton to a pint, and though the numbers of cancel the New Year Vacation those who commute are daily in-granted to their staffs and em- creasing, the rum ritual, which ployees in the previous Lunar New survives from earlier days, is still
Years. carried out with full solemnity. 2. To apply to the Bureau of Each day the amount of. rum Public Safety to forbid the burning needed is carefully measured, of fire-crackers during the first drawa, and placed in an historic three days of the first moon of the barrel, which bears the inscription: Lunar year and the sale of New or rather toast: The King, God Year posters by stalls in the bless Him." Rum ratione are streets. "piped" at 12.30 p.m. and the cooks attend with the necessary juga and flat-shaped scoops with which they ladle out the prescribed ration for their table.
When be got to General "Head- quarters in France, the Prince, whoshing every year." earned the nickname "Dynamite Wales" because he was liable to go off at any moment, was missing one afternoon. After little casual searching uneasiness turned to dis- may, for the Prince was found to have borrowed a motor-cycle from a dianatch rider and to have ridden off in the direction of the front line. At oner staff officers set off in powerful cars to overtake the truant. Night had fallen when one of the staff officers, seeing a light beside the road, stopped to ask if the Prince had been seen to pass that way. Imagine the astonish. ment of the staff officer when he discovered the Prince, covered from
playing cards with a head to foot in" mud, sitting, and party of French troops by the light of a Near-by the motor-cycle was hopelessly wrecked. The Prince had struck a shell hole and gone
candle.
over the top...
Drinks for Fishes. No nilor may hoard his share against a rainy day or a future festivity, and it is strictly against
orders to drink any one else's half- gill. The rule is that anything left
3. To request the local Press, through the Bureau of Social Re forms and the Propaganda Section of the Provincial Party Headquar ters, to publish no New Year cards and greeting messages for their said departments to iseve notifica- customers had to request the two tions prohibiting the sale and print ing of new year greeting cards by the local printing houses and book- etores.
over must be collected and thrown
4. To petition the Bureau of overboard. It could not be put Public Safety to issue order pro- back in the cask because of the hibiting the general street bazar dilution.
from being held at the end of the Lunar year.
First Aid in the Line. Once when he had penetrated into
"I have often seen the scuppers the line within thirty yards of the enemy the Prince stood chatting flowing with his Majesty's best with a soldier when' a bullet from a rum,' remarked "Commander. Wil- German sniper's rifle struck the kinson in a tone of wintful regret. man, and he fell to the ground shot "I only hope the fishes appreciate
At oneo the it." through the chest. Prince knelt and administered first- aid until a stretcher came to carry beermoney in lieu, to the domestic The custom of giving beer, or the wounded man to a dressing staffs of large houses is rapidly dying out. It now appears that the rum ration in the Navy may soon follow suit.
atation.
PUBLICITY COURAGE,
MAN STARVES TO ADVER- TISE-AND BECOMES
WEALTHY.
Telegrams in Brief.
A Grand Jury at the Old Bailey has returned a true, bill against Hatry and his three associates. The trial will probably be held on January 20..
That had never been his angle. He believed that by the substitu tion of the aeroplane for more archaic weapons of defence soon- cmies 'could be effected. But know. ing the terrible power of that wea pon, and how it could be directed ngainst large and helpless popula-licity manager of J. Lyons and tions he prayed God they would Co., Ltd., spoke of courage in ading with popular figures in ancient vertising in a speech to the Public history. The whole design is exceed- .never have to call upon the service
ity Club of Leicester recently, ingly attractive. over which he presided.
The calendar issued by the
At least 82,000,000 has been ex- British-American Tobacco Company pended by the American sugar in- is a most artistic production. It terests a "graft" through Lob- consists of four beautifully colour byists, according to a report of the ed reproductions of Chinese pictures Senate Lobby Investigating Com- Mr. W. Buchanan-Tavlor, pub-done in the modern style, but desi- mittee.
The death has occurred, at the age of 63, of Mr.. George Gardner Symons, the well-known American Artist. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, and was awarded the Carnegie Prize for a National Academy de- sign in 1910. His principal works include "The Opalescent River.”
"I know of a case,” he said, "in which an advertiser, now a mil- The Maritime Court at Hamburg lionaire. was so determined about on December & beard a case arising TARIFF TRUCE MEETING. advertising that he cut down his from the collision on August 3 in
household expenses, denied his wife the Whangnoo estuary, China, he and family every kind of luxury.tween the British cruiser Cornwall lived in a smaller house than his and the Hamburg-Amerika steamer social station demanded, and liter- Scheer. Both the State Commis- ally starved himself, so that hesioner and the Court express regret The French revenue returns of could put the additional amount that no written statement regarding last December totalled 2,042,000,000 thus saved into advertising.
the collision, in which both vessela franca, - showing + surplus of "Now every member of his fami- were damaged, was available from 448,000,000 compared with the budget the British side. The Court found forecasts, and 277,000,000 compared that the cause of the collision could with 1028 The surplus for the not be established, but that it was whole of 1999 reached 8,605,000,000 praved that the fommander of the grinet the diungga German eteamer was not to blame.
4,210,000,000 compared with 1928.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN. SERVICE] The Communist Party of India
20 NATIONS TO ATTEND. and the Workers' and Peasants'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Parties in Bombay, Bengal, Pun-
After laying a wreath on Presi (THROUGH NEWTER'S, ÁOKNOY.} jab and the United Provinces had
[THOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] dent Wilson's tomb, "in memory of been formed, financially aided and
the greatest citizen of America, and
GENEVA, Jan. 14. directed from Moscow, whilst se
GENEVA, Jan. 14.
a great benefactor to humanity," The League Council has adopted veral persons like Allison, Pratt The League Council has adopt General Smuts, who arrived here a report approving the conveningly in wealthy, and Bradley had been sent out for ed Mr. Arthur Henderson's pro- to-day from Canada, drove to of a tariff truco conference on "I know of many other cases of the express purpose of organising posal for the appointment of three White House and chatted for half February 17. So far, 28 uations advertising courage, and also I Alimentarang fantalingene valentemenchon fritons geehaded) takes serezila undantalicom
tion.
the Wailing Wall enigma.
old friends.
tend..