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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore. cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 8.43 pm, sinted:..
A weak anti-cyclone is contral over Mancharin. Depressions are situated over the lower Yangtaze Valley and Tonging.
Local Forecast:-8. winds, mode rato; generally cloudy, some local.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1931,
mandaríns, and were something of mandarins themselves. It was mag. nificent, but not business on the more niggardly lines of to-day. For years British trade has been quietly undermined by netive and able rivals, with the qualities of humility, industry and frugality, Now at last the hongs are realising that they must learn the hard lesson of the methods of their rivals, for only those who do learn it will COWELL-NEWSON.On January 21,survive in modern China.
at Tientsin, EDMUND JOSEPH Ceart, only son of Mr. E. A.. COWELL And the late Mrs. COWELL, of Tientsin, to PHYLLIS IRENE, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. NEWSON,
Cshowers, de
MARRIAGE.
Tol. 24511.
London Office: 53, Fleet Street,
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It is to be hoped that the Gov- rnment of Hong Kong will not be the last to recognise the existence
* News and Views
Starved Into Submission.
Six of nine children of Mr. Henri,
In order to capture an armed Labeile, merchant, of Saint Jun- in a fire Montreal. Mr. Labelle.
a wooden hut in a forest, the police vier, Quebec, were burned to death murderer who had taken refuge in jumped from a window with a
ut Pechnowitz, Czecho-Slovakia, de- baby in her arms, and a 10-year cided not to sacrifice lite noodles old daughter throw another childly, but to surround the hub and starve the man into submission, out and then jumped to safety her- self.
After two days the murderer hoist ed a white flag and surrendered. Clothes and the Man.
£100,000 Olaimed from Hotel
500 Wives Seeking Divorce:
Death From Broken Heart,
Tho unusual vordiot of Death
Local.
from broken heart"a phrase SUMMARY OF NEWS. that is not officially recognised by the medical profession-was return ed at an inquest 'at Irlam, Lancs.; A Robert Reid (46), a barber. The coroner (Mr. Stuart Rodger). said that a doctor had certified that death was due to a broken heart Domestic trouble had evidently killed the father, and he would not like to stand in the shoes of the son responsible. A broken heart yesterday rescinded by the Bani
An interesting address on In- (writes Medical Correspondent) stary Board,
dustry and Labour Organisation merely a poetical expression, It
was delivered at the Rotary lucheon is true that there are diagnses which can cause actual rupture of
Page the heart-though very rarely-but yesterday, grief is certainly not one of them..
Garnera in Trouble.
HOW
Lord Eustace Percy, during the Now York and Berlin, states that Mr. James B. McLoughlin, of
war, much abocked na Edwardian of the shirt-sleeve "age. No suggeste intends to enter an action in tion is made that the Civil Servants the New York. Supreme Court on
Carnern is in trouble again this nor party in a neat refer blue suit. do not, as a whole, work hard and behalf of Baronças Gertrude Hon-hostess by appearing at her din from an hotel. He alleges that an
times, jooted by the New York State Editorial and Business Offices: 13 efficiently. But it would be inter- nius, of Berlin, claiming £100,000 He had been kept late at the office time with the rulers of boxing in
and coping with the, at Ice House Street. Tel. 30251.cating to know what a first rate employee of the hotel insulted the administering relied to Belgium his own country. Having been re- Night Editor (Wanchai Office): cptain of industry-a hard man, baroness Mr. McLoughlin states irritable Mr. Herbert Hoover. But Athletio Commission, he came to in spite of Lord Eustace's work for fulfil his engagements, but he fail but just-would make of this task that bo is going to marry the
baroness
humanity the Edwardian hostess ed to appear in an exhibition con- was nanoyed. Since then, except test in Florence, and the Italian. of governing Hong Kong and parti-
in the more exclusive restaurants Pugilistia, Fedoration have cularly of running the Government
the question of overting clothes has fined him 5,000 lire (255) and order. offices. The big commitments would
censed to play a decisive part ined him to pay 20,000 lire (£990) stand, but allowances and par
social relations. There has been damages to the organisers of the quisites, first class passages, and
much levelling up and lorelling show. Until the money is paid the giant boxer is under suspension in the wages bill for minor underlings,
all conutries afiliated to tho Inter- such as office coolies, and many
national Boxing Union, and if he other little amenities that make life pleasant would probably be
fight in any country outside the eliminated. Only a new mental outlook, and a tradition (by no means bad tradi-
noans bad trad
union, he will be fined 5,000 lire for
tion, though now outgrown) can effect the miracle of making the Hong Kong Government pay its way, without imposing heavy taxa- tion, during this period of world economic crisis. §.
some fillings and delightful The Daily Press.
sweetness, while mints,
creams, fruits, nuts and caramels are daintily assorted and elegantly packed..
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
ECONOMY.
REDUCTION of public expenditure, ia not easy. Even in the most pros- perous years every considerable item
CHOCOLATES." of Government epending has to be
SOLE AGENTS --
A. S. WATSON & CO., done even when the Government is
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA,
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
NOTICE WELFTH OBDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS at. the Registered will be held Office of the Company, No. 10, Dys VOLUI ROAD CENTRAL, at 3.00 PL SATURDAY, the 9lar FEBRUARY, 1931, for the purpose of receiving Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the Year ending 31st DECEMBER, 1930.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be OLOSED from SATURDAY, 14TH FEBRUARY, to SATURDAY, 21ST FEBRUARY, 1931 (Both Days inclusive), dering which Period No Transfer of Bhares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager.
Hong Kong, 4th Fab., 1931.
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UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, NOTICE.
PAYPALETS containing the Ques-
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tion Papers for the Matriculation and Local Examinations held in NOVEMBRE, 1930, are For Sale at the Office of the REGISTRAR Price-$1 esch.
W. B. FINNIGAN,,
Registrar 20th January, 1981.
HONG KONG FOOTBALL
**· ASSOCIATION, INTERPORT PROGRAMME. WEDNESDAY, February 18
HONG KONG «. SHANGHAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2IT-
SHANGHAI. CHINESE MONDAY, FaBRUARY 23RD--!
SHANGHAI
UNITED SERVICES..
All Matches will be played on the HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB
GROUND Starting at 3.30 P.M. Sharp
Booking for the Interport ONLY will be at MESIR MOUTHIE'S, L., Association on TEDITUALY
INDUSTRIALISM IN ASIA.
down.
With Poker and Tongs.
Women are the petitionere in the majority of the undefended divorce suite for hearing in the Law Courts during the Hilary term which be gan on January 8, there being 405 petitions by wives and 180 by hus banda. Eight suite for restitution of conjugal rights are all brought by wives. In the defended causes seck divorce decroos The King's 100 wives and 105 husbands will Proctor intervenes in thirteen eneca doerces
Publicity! why canse show nizi should not be made absolute. Communist Propaganda.
to
each contest.
A cripple told a story of his Leeds, when Frederick Daniels, Deroo struggle with an intruder, at alias John Ray (72), was committed for trial charged with hurglary. John Francis Burke, the cripple,
Unscrupulous methods employel said that hearing a noise he went downstairs armed with a fire by New York book dealers to t A Soviet newsagency states that: shovel, when Daniels hid behind stain publicity for books on the most curtain. "I thrust the shovel for- grounds of their being salacions the world's largest and powerful radio broadcasting sta- ward like a bayonet, prodded him were unearthed by the Appelte tion having an energy of 500 kilo twice and then hit him on the Court, which is taking evidence i
at head, continued Burke, "After its investigations of irregularities watt is being constructed Roginsk man Moscow. The new he had tried to wrap me up in a in the lower courts of New York WB would draw the attention of
transmitter will be able to broad. curtain I struck him with a poker." City. Mr. Esar Levine, & Now our renders to the grave indict east over both long and short waves Burke added that Daniels fell un. Yark book dealer said that mem- exceptional conscious, and he tied him up with bors of book distributing associa tions in New York regularly con tract with court officials to arrange ment of labour conditions in the and will have on
the arrest of various book dealers Far. Enat, mado yesterday by Mr. radius. It will thus prove an ex- a scarf and some string. JAMES BELL, M.P., bofore the Hongcellent vehicle for Communist pro-
on charges of selling obscene books. Kong Rotary Club. Mr. BELL ropagands which for instance will
The arrests are made purely to ob: presents a Lancashire constituency: thereby be carried as far as into
tain publicity and atimulate the in the Labour interest, and has to the very heart of Africa.
market for books in which there is his credit a distinguished record
little public interest nad which of service to the Trade Union move Electrifying Britain,
otherwie cannot be sold, ment. What he said is not a matter.
America.
Woe for the Whales.
L.N.EE, Has to Economise,
Dortain sections of both salaried
The resolution giving permission for the treatment of smallpox at the home of the infected person wits
Pago C
7.
Members of the Stock Exchange were at home to a large number of clients and friends yesterday when the institution celebrated ita for-
Page 11. tieth anniversary.
An action in which the Sre Yap Steamship Company is wocking an injunction against certain parties. been commenced in the Supreme in control of the firm's affairs has
Court.
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A Chinese was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with having taken part in an armed robbery at 620, Bonham Road, on January 14,
•
Pago, 11.
When two Indians were charged yesterday for wounding four other
the men might die of his wounds. Indians in the recent Wanchai
Page 11 fracas, it was stated that one of
To-day's Wirelos programme,
Page 10. the S.J., Father Byrne, speaker last night at a meeting of
Shipping intelligence, Pago 15% the English Association. Page 10.
Sport.
In the Internort football trial
Page 10, yesterday, the Probables beat the Navy by three goals
Latest Cables.
to
onc.
The Shanghai-Peiping air mail line is to be inaugurated at the end of the month.
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As the result of an earthquake the town of Napier, Now Zealand, was almost domolithed. Twenty ona lives were lost.
Pago 0. Assembly The National
of Angora has ratified the death sen- tenees passed on 29 reactionaries, which wore duly carried out Pago. 0. Bomo quarters in Nanking fear that a full resumption of diploma-"· the relations with the Soviet will lead to Communist activities in
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The Iraq Pipeline Convention between the High Commissioner of Palestine and the Iraq Petroleum Pago...
70 years.
set out either in the yearly or supplementary estimates, and is subject to examination and query by the Legislative Council. At an carlier stago it has to be passed by
The present whaling season in the department concerned and by
the Antarotie is expected to be a the Colonial Treasury. There are
record one. Indications are that last year's figures may be doubled always things that humane and far
With the Electricity Commis This is partly because the Nor sighted persons would like to see
of pestio of common humanity sion's scheme for the Bouth of Sect-wegian whalling companies, having most active and ambitious in its question of
and the purpose of the Electricity sold in advance at the excellent. though that aspect cannot, be pat
The chairman of the London and activities. Our neighbour, Canton, aside, but of a menace to the whole Act of 1926 to supply current to price of £25 per ton their entire
North Eastern Railway, Mr. Wil has a home for beggars, and pub standard of life in Europe and the whole of the United Kingdom production of whale oil for the Mr. BELL and his col draws near to completion. Mr. T. season, are now striving to kill as
pay's magazine. "During ho One more schemo time available. So that the quan- lications in that city do not hesitate eues of the British Economic P. Wilmshurst, one of the Commis many whales as possible in the liam Whitelaw, says in the com
sioners, stated: to point out the lack of any form Mission to the Far East have had is needed, for the North of Scottity may not be limited by the right months from the end of March
revealed to them a condition of of institution on the lines of a affairs in Chinese and Japanese land, and then the whole of Eng. capacity of the floating factories, until the end of November the
land, Scotland and Wales will be tankers, which in the present state
on our line and exclusive of ses workhouse in Hong Kong. Most of mille and factories recalling the provided for and the scheme under of the froight market cannot and number of passengers originating us would welcome some kind of worst age of industrial sweating in the 1920 Act will be well on the profitable employment in the petron ticket holders, ha, docreased by provision for street sleepers; the England Women and children, as
well as men, are being made to any to completion Elecific car-leum-carrying trade, have been nearly 8,500,000, and our freight Health Department would like work hours that must be detri rent at 1d mer unit or loss. That chartered, to take to Europe the traffic has fallen off by over more money with which to combat mental to health and destructiys of is the ideal of the London and surplus whale oil obtained. Un 10,000,000 tons. The withdra China,
human happiness. Young children,Homo Countica Electricity Autho-doubtedly the whaling companies of passenger train servicos, the Hotel luncheon to representatives forward contract at £25, sinoo the disease; a new prison in the place conditions are of a nature that of local authorities in the Thames price of whale oil, which in 1928g of the age of retirement for af Victoria Gaol is another urgent would not be tolerated by a govern Valley and Mid-Surrey areas. Mr. stood at £30, has now sunk to £16 and wages grades have been forced Company extends over a period of necessity; the airport developments ment that was discharging its duty W. F. Marchant, chairman of the mer ton. In view of the intensive upon us by this collapse of trade,
to its subjects. Japan has, officially, at Kai Tak are a commitment of abolished night work for women and Electricity Authority, said they slaughter of whales now taking unparalleled both in its extent primary importance to the future children; Nanking has promulgated proposed to bring about uniformity place, it may be decided to send end the speed with which it rusand of the Colony, If Hong Kong a model factory code! And yet no of voltage so that electrical sp.no whaling expeditions to the An- upon us about the end of March. ons would dispute Mr. BELL's pliances would be usable in any taretic in 1031-32. This would be "I think the sson for is just raieses the present opportunity of facts. His colleagues would have part of the arena Applianoce the first close season the whales the lesson, which the whole country
create our cficiency." revival of prices. becoming an airport, the Colony made it clear had they disagreed, would be supplied and fittings in have had for many years, and has got to learn, and that is that
inent plan, or en hire may suffer the fate of other once and had there been in their opinion cluding wiring, on the easy instal would, it is expected, result in awe must reduce our costs and in-
any exaggeration,. prosperous centres of trade. There The industrial depression of to- are half-finished undertakings which day is traced to many causes. Mr. it is no economy to abandon. Hong BELL suggests that one of them, and one that will be of increasing and Kong must move with the times,
perhaps devastating effect, is this While it is difficult for the lay exploitation of an ample supply man to suggest économies that will of cheap labour in the Far East:
We do not, however, believe that make big inroads into our possible the low standard of the East will.
The Belilios Old Girls' Associa. If it does Treasury dofcit of five million prevail, in the end, over the higher
standard of the West.. dollars on the present year's work- there will be an end of civilisation, ton is holding an "At Home" in ing, there is a general suspicion for the markets for which these the Balilios School Hall on Sunday that the Government is run lavish factories are creating will be de- stroyed, and our economic fabric ly; that if the affairs of the Colony will disintegrate and fall into chaos.
One chen (non-Chinese) of typhoid were turned over to the proverbial The Governments of Far Eastern Aberdonian, watching every cent nations probably realise, if their was reported for the 24 hours ende industrial magnates do not, that the with eagle eye, quite large sums exploiting of labour leads to Bol. Fruary 2. For the week ended would be saved out of small econo- shevism by way of general discon January 31, there were 3 casca (1 mies each of which in itself "hardly tent, lowered physical stamina, and that insidious process, ca canny, seems worth while." The English which cats out the whole structure are not an economical nation. We of capitalised industry.
Honesty is the best policy. The believe in big window display, and detest minor thrift. It in British wool trade in England has bad a happier history than the cotton
it 4 p.m.
Local Notes and Events *
Lady Poel has kindly conecated to give away the cups and corti- at St. Stephen's Girls' ficates College, at 3 p.m., to-morrow...
We are informed by the Univer- sity authorities that Yau Ke Yim, who appeared at the matriculation examination last November from death) of diphtheria, 4 cases (1Queen's College passed the examine thath) of enteric fever, 1 ouse of tion with honours. puerperal fever and 41 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis,
St. Paul's Collego, are holding their annual prizes distribution at 7.30 pm on Saturday when the Bishop of Victoria will preside.
Looking Back 25 Years.
have
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pn
to
the
A Presidential,docres limiting the production of sugar in Cuba: was enforced on the 2nd inst, The
ed at one-third,
Page 0. reduction for the year has been fix
The Japanese having defaulted.. in the payment of royalties, the Soviet Government have threatened to cancel the fishing concessions in Siberian waters.
Pago 9.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's stock, which recently ahrunk to £8, cannot now be given away on the London Stock Ex- chango owing to a doubt regard- ing the holders' liability, being un- limited.