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NOTICE
WATER SUPPLY.
METERED SERVICES AND ODD STREET FOUNTAINS.
XCEPT on Kowloon Peninsula and between Arsonal Btreet and Bhaukivan (where the bours of supply from 6 am. to 9 8.m. and 4 p.m. to the 8 p.m. will remain the same for present pending the completion of the new group street fountains in these areas) a three hours supply from the mains will be given each day, commen oing on Friday afternoon, the 27th May, between the hours of
7 a.m. to 8.30 a.m. and
4.30 pm to 8 pm..
In the following areas
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(a) Ares between Robinson Road
and Caine Road,
(b) Macdonnell Road,
(0) Mountain View and adjacent
High points,
The hours of supply will ba-
5.30 am. to? am, and
3 p.m. to 4.30 pm.
NEW GROUP. STREET FOUNTAINS.
Racupt on Kowloon Peninsula and, between Arsenal Street and Shauki. wan, an 11 hours street fountain papplyi will be given from the new gron› street fountains daily from 70, to 6 p.m., commencing at 3.30 p.m. 01 Friday, 27th May.
HAROLD T. CREASY,
Water Authority,
PUBLIC WORK DEPARTMENT,
Hong Kong, 26th May, 1932.
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The
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HONG KONG, MAY 27, 1932
ACASA SINVIGI
اد
MR. BE VALERA has staged
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1932.
cipitated trouble because he likes NEWS AND VIEWS OATH OF the limelight, and has the mentality of a Hollywooil favourite."
Tale of the Day,
DEEPENING OF
ALLEGIANCE BILL
You naughty boy; I'll send you COLD RECEPTION BY IRISH to bed without any supper."-
"But mother, what about the medicine I have to take after meals p
bok team which is to make a tour
tain.
SENATE
THROUGH REUTER': AQENCY.]
ST. LAWRENCE
CANADA HOLDS UP NEGOTIATIONS
TAKOOGH REUIER'S', AGENCY.')
DUBLIN, May 25.
OTTAWA, ny 26. Not a single, soat in the Free Mr. R. B. Bennett, the Prime State Senate was vacant when Mr. Minister of Canada, has announc de Valera submitted his Bill to thood in Parliament that the negotia Senators
In his opening speech, the Retions with the United States for ing of the St. Lawrence waterway publican loader, sensing tas bortranty providing for the deepen- ility, appealed for consideration have not yet been brought to a of the messure on its merits..
conclusicai. A 1. In conection with the announce- Main "Point.
ment, the Ottawa newspapers "de" Only the alternative of war, hectars that Canada is holding up said, induced the people of Ire the progress of the trenty negotia land to accept the 1921 Treaty and tim panding the result of the Canadian protesta against the the Oath of Allegiance,
The main point before the Sena proposed imposition by the Unit tors was whether it was possible ed States of practically prohibitive to remove the Oath without interatrifle against Canadian expertis and canned he contended that the matter was goods. fering with the Treaty of 1931 and of copper, lumber outside the Trenty. The question it is assorted that the Canadian was whether the Free State was a Government is using the St. Law- rence project n's a lover to secure favourable trade consideration from the United States, which is thought. to be particularly powerful in view of Washington's desire to conclude the treaty prior to the Presidential election.
He declared that the abolition of the Oath did not involve a de- liberate act of severance of the Free State from the British Com monwealth.
Knowing perfectly well that Great Britain would na faras possible tread him is a spoilt child and give him what he wanted, how evor bad his manners might be he announced simultaneously the anilateral: repudiation of the Land Annuities. Again if Mr. on VALKEA
Springboks Argenline Tour. bad sought some form of mora torium or settlement of this oxMr. Paul Roos, who captained ternal dobb to Great Britain on the the Auth African Rugby football ground that Irish agriculture was team which toured England and suffering from the world depres the Continent in 1906-7 has been sion, something would have been appointed manager" of the Spring done despite England's economie. troubles. The Irish claim is nominal of the Argentine during July, Roos ly full equality with Great Britain, will be remembered in England as but actually a high handed demanding player and a splendid rap- to do exnetly as she pleases with
I understand that the South treaty agreements is being pressed by this political busybody.
African solectors are deliberately refraining, as far as possible from It is easy to see that responsible selecting men who took part in the Irish opinion is far more angry last tour here. They aim at giving with Mr. DE VALERA than anyone the valuable experience a tourovereign demain or not. in England. At the very moment affords to as many of their leading: when Ireland wishes to inercaco.
players as they can. her trade with Great Britain, almost her only customer-Mr. Da VALERA stirs up old resentments. What becomes of the appeal for Empire Unity If Ireland serka complete severance from England then the import duties on the goods of foreign powers will be imposed. But Mr. DE VALERA declares that ho wants friendship' with Britain, that complete sovgrance is not his nim, and that he is most duxious to participate in the Ottawa Confera ence. Foor Mr. DE VALERA, he must be keep in his place as a world figure; be must also be the national bero, and a martyr as well! In the sphere of practical politics he has to hold the support of peasants ruised on hatred of England, but at the same time he has to take-
It was in the pre-war days and care not to go too far and lose the Right Hon. Walter Runciman, that close-fisted peasantry their. P. was not hunting,
One of the trials of a Master's English market! What delicasylife is putting a curb on enthusiasts and finesse he needs and bow who cannot recognise ground under
sood, blandering are his methods! No
And on that particular day the doubt British statesmen will Master was sorely tried. His sten- humour him all they can, and it torian voice sould be heard
"Will the President of the Board
seadu
The team sail from Cape Town on June 9, and will leave the Argentine on Aug. 3
Off With the Dance.
After, banning beauty cumpeti tions as immoral, the hand of Mus solini has now come down heavily ondance marathons.
The American promoter who in troduced the ridiculous spectacle to oynical and bored audience in troupe of tireless Foxtrotters to Paris last year, and then took bia Italy, has now been summarily de ported from that entry after spending two days inaudo a Fasciat gaole
The Agriculturist
1
The whole purpose of the Bill was to prevent the Treaty from being a fundamental domestic law and to put it in its proper place. as an international instrument.
LEE HIGGINSON TRUST CO.
OPERATIONS DISCON
TINUED
(Reuter' Special. Service.).
BOSTON, May
Sevare Rebuke.
all supporters of the Irish Free *Senator James Douglas said that Stato are against the Oath of Allegiance and had the Govern ment introduced in both Houses a resolution calling for the aboli tion of the Oath, the Dail and the Mr. de Valera cold then have Senate would have passed it, and, regotiated with Great Britain with The Lee Higginson Trust Com the full authority of Parliament.pany is discontinuing operatione, That, he said, would have been but all depositors will be fully wise and dignified, but Mr. de paid. The trust company is in- Valora's method was calcuated to dependant of Lee Higginson & Co., cause misunderstanding and bad which acted as agents for Kreuger feeling between the Free State and and which are still continuing as Great Britain.
investment bankers..
Mr. de Valera, declared Mг.. Douglas had failed to grasp the fundamental basis of the British Commonwealth of Nations, mem- ship of which was the safeguard of the Irish Free State's political freedom.
Political Piracy.
solemn farte, in the Irish Benate will not take long for his own sup of Agriculture please come of those with Mr. de Valera from Lincoln,
OFFICIAL REPORT ON UNEMPLOYMENT.
The then President of the Board was Mr. Runciman.
End of the Garmaņis.
Unfortunately the performance was pernicious as well as ridiculous be. Porters to get tired of him. cause anything that tends to de stroy public, confidence, by suggest- ing acute-political differences must add to the gezeral uncertainty and A quantity of Miscellaneous Stores. For form of Tender and further insecurity which are big factors in particulars, apply at the office of the world depression. Mr. DE
The year 1931 was, as regards trad- Superintendent of Accounts & Stores, VALERA is doing all he can to set a ing generally, admittedly one of the
[2224 perfectly friendly "England and worst in history for many coun-accustomed to the squat affairs of
Ireland at each other's throats. If tries. Few parle of the world re recriminations and economic remained unaffected by the depres prisals break out it will be entirely sion. There are many reasons why due to his mischief-making.
Great Britain should feel that it
Public Works Department.
A. S. WATSON & COMPANY, LIMITED.
ALL Shareholders are reminded CENERAL MEETING called for ¿be
THE HONG. KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
The Carmania ls to go at last. She started on her final voyage- to the ship-breakers last month
With her very talltio, growing looks odd to a generation
the new motor-liners; but her lines are lovely, and there was a time known as "the pretty sisters." when she and the Caronia were
To Melt the Icebergs?
Dr. Arnold Fanck, the Germad explorer and film producer, who was associated with G. W. Pabst in the direction of "The White Hell, of Pitz Palu," is taking & company into the Polar Regions for the making of a picture called (provisionally) Iceberg.
Senator Milroy, who escaped Gacd, described the Bill as an act of political pirney.
The Sonate afterwards adjourn ed the discussion of the Bill until June 1.
CANADA AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
The Government states that it is' prepared to take action to prevent any, collapse, pending the expected economic recovery.
SIR MILES COES ON HOLIDAY
OTTAWA, May 22 It was her scrap with the Cap The Government is not proceed- Let us examine the issue. The had, weathered the storm as well Trafalgar off Trinidad on Soptering with the proposed legislation that the EXTRAORDINARY Irish Parliament, or Dail, wishes as any other and, in some ways, Captain Noel Grant, B.N., that action in any possible. financial ber 14, 1914, when commanded by empowering the Government to take purpose of confirming as a pecial to abandon the oath of Allegianca better than the majority of indus- give the Carmenin her niche in crisis during the Summer Recess
Alarmist rumturs have been cir- Resolution the Resolution altering the embodied in the Treaty of 1921 trial nations. This is shown in the history. She was badly riddled, Company's Articles of Association which was passed on the 19th May, which the Irish Free Stato con official Annual Report of the and both ships were on fire when culating in London regarding the she gave chase, eventually sinking stability of several large Canadian 1039 is to be held at the Hongkong cluded with Great Britain for the Ministry of Labour, which makes her opponent after two hours ourporations, but these are officiat
ly discounted. Hotel at 11.30 o'clock in the Forenoon fatura Government of Ireland, no attempt to conceal the fall facts. fighting. The Admiralty sent on SATURDAY, the 28th MAY, 1982 The outh has to be taken by every of unemployment and its incidence. special "Well done", message. and are requested to attend.
JOHN. D. HUMPHREYS & SON, member of the Dail, and candidates, A frank admission is made that
General Managers,
before their nominations can be during 1931. unemployment in Bri- [231A
accepted are required to make a tain was more severe than in any Eworn declaration of readiness to previous period. Yet the outstand take the Oath, which is in the ing fact remains that in September, with the abandonment of the Gold following form :---
Standard, unemployment was ar de solemnly swear true faith and allegiance to the rested. Furthermore, during the Copstitution of the Irish Free remainder of the year the position State as by law established, and improved so steadily that great the biggest motion picture expedi This, it is claimed, will involve that I will be faithful to HM. { King GEORGE V., his beirs and hopes wera expressed that the tion over sent out of Hollywood." successors by law, in virtue of the corner had been turned. In that The party will embark on a common citizenship of Ireland period over 200,000 unemployed specially constructed vessel at with Great Britain and her ad-", herence to membership of the men and women found work. Group of Nations forming tha The chief depression was in the British Commonwealth of Na-L tions
"heavy industries, coal, and ship The plain man will say that if building. On the other hand, many Irish people can find nothing of the lighter industries, the dis better than this to quarrel about tributors, the printing and publish they have lost their old inventive ing trades, for example, were re- ness Surely they could have dug latively prosperous Porhaps the VD something that might ranke a most striking feature of the year few foreigners believe than Ireland was the improvement in the cotton still had grievous wrongs to right|| textile industry in the last three Moreover, if Irish politicians were maths, when the percentage of un-
THE HALF YEARLY GENERAL
MEETING of Voling Members will be held at the Club House, Happy Valley, on Monday, 30th May, 1832, at 5.30 p.m.
ALL Members are cordially
invited
to attend and participate in any dia-
cussion which may ensue
By Order of the Stewards, S. A. SLEAP,
Acting Secretary. [2198
Hong Kong, 16th May, 1972
PRAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
N
TOTION IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the ANNUAL OR DINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held
at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hongkong, so sensitive, so high-minded and employed dropped by nearly twenty
on Saturday the 4th June, 1932 at scrupulous that they could not go per cent. The incidence of unem-
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Sir.
THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.]
TRANS-ATLANTIC FARES
EXPERIMENT FAILS
ITRXUDUR. REUTER'S AGENCY.};
MONTREAL, May 28. The experiment adopted at the end of March of cutting trans- Atlantic fares by 20 per cent, proved unprofitable as far as 'the cheaper classes are concerned.
Representativen ät a conferenca af trans-Atlantic steamship com- panies have therefore decided to increas third-olass fares. by 10 per cent, and tourist class 3 per cent. F. Westward third class, however, is
left practically quiclianged.
ADVICE GIVEN TO JUDGES
SEQUEL TO SCRUTTON MACCARDIE DISPUTE
[THROUGH HAUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 26. Principal law officers of the Crown were in the Appeal Court today when the Master of the Rolls, Lord"Hanworth, President of the Court, referred to the Scrut- ton-MacCardie dispute following n conference of some Judges.
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LONDON, Mag 20. His Lordship, addressing the The Great Northern Stakes: 70- Attorney-General And Solicitor sulted as follows: General, said he desired to re- affirm that it was the duty of Judges to conform to the old PEIFING, May.. 20. tradition of supplying copies of Miles Lampson British their notes to the Court of Appeal Minister, is leaving for Home this so as the appeal might justly and length, eight lengths between
auficiently be heard. He was con--second and third.. It will proceed to the southwest Mr. E. M. B. Ingram, Counsel fident he only had to draw atten Betting - Stone coast of Greenland, make its head lor of the Legation, has taken over tion to this practice to ensure its Armagnac, 7/1; Lanson, 190/0, quarters at Godthash, and work the duties of Charge d'Affaires, maintenance. its way inland to take advantage while Mr. Holman is proceeding The Attorney-General replied
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Local Notes and Events *
The Hoog Kong dollar remained unchanged yesterday at 18 27/8d
ید
won by three
To, 10/11
YORKSHIRE TOWN ABANDONED
FLOOD HAVOC AT BENTLEY
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.
Ruday, May 25 The Health Minister. Sir Hilton
"A grass-cutter in the cemetery On the ground that the meeting Social during the day and a beggar at had the appearance of a
gathering with, musis and was de Two cases of onteric foyer, ono 11.80 am for the purpose of receive on subscribing to such an bath, ployment is uneven, Walea being of mallpox and one diphtheria night was the description avoid of ritual, Inspector Shaftain Young, stated in the House of ing the Report of the Directors
were reported on Wednesday. plied to a mendicant brought be asked for the case to be withdraw Commons to-day that owing to the together with a Statement of Approaches might at least have the most severely affected area, as sounts for the year saded 80th April, made to the British Cabinet to as it is responsible for coal-producing forthcoming mar fors Mr. Schofield at the Central when 21 men were charged before foods at Bentley Yorkshire, about
The if a friendly agreement as to moch tion and for much heavy industry riages are announced: Dr Murdo Police Court yesterday. He was Mr Schofield at the Central 2,500 persons are evacuating their scation, or suspension, or some
Police Ceart ve
yesterday with being homes to-day thing satisfactory to bender con London Ares, densely populated Hong Kong to Miss Victoria alay stated to be a perfect nuisance members of a Triad Society and Many would go to their friends
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east Katherine Alexandra Larsen, who to motorists viziting: Aberdeen who participating in a ritual meeting and adequate arrangements. Jeze solences, would not be arranged, and extremely important, is least is travelling to the Colony by the
been made for the acommodation Garfield 3 were continuously approachód. for Mr. Teo D'Almada, Bar; for the the others Unfortunately Mr. DE VALERA was affected there being an averages, Promidont
die Warship reglebared defence, asked that the defendants Various land drainage autho at Liberty Avenue, Homuntin,
that delon be discharged without a staid on are considering comedial en he knew how. It is discult to than 12.9 per cent of unemployment to Mi Carolina Autha da Cruz caution and drin
their pharacter, which was done to prevent similar foods in of 1 Middle Road, Kowloon avoid the suspicion that he pre- amongst insured persons.
The Transfer Books of the Com. pany will be closed from Monday 80th day of May to Saturday, the suh day of June, 1982, both days
includve.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers:
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and its immediate allies. But the Nicolson, of Alexandra Building,
as provocative and ne unreasonable throughout the year of not more Beinaldo Carlos Daneber, men
be sent back to the country.