TARIFF ON IRON AND STEEL
TO BE CONTINUED FOR TWO YEARS
(Special Air-Mail Service),
London, Oct. 22-The 33.1/3 per cent tarif on iron and steel pro- ducts coming into Britains is to be continued for a period of two years: Thero is a possibility also that a still higher tariff may be imposed in the future, These ments were made on Oct, 21 by the Import Duties Adivsory Committee.j
announce-
GOVERNMENT'S WORK FOR A YEAR
REVIEWED BY PRIME MINISTER
(Spaolal Air-Mail Service)
London Oct; 18.-At a luncheon given in Honour of the Premier by the National Labour Committee on Oct. 17., Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in reviewing the National Govern ment's work for a
The national effort is as necessary to-day as it was twelve months ago, My influence is going to
year said.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1932.
TREBITSCH LINCOLN RUBBER FROM OIL
AT BERLIN
STILL POSING AS BUDDHIST MONK
Berlin. Berlin mystery,
:
has 1. ՈԸՄ
CHEAP SYNTHETIC PRODUCT
London:
Good reports on a new synthetic, rubber now being tested in Mexico are arriving in London.
The base of the new "rubber" is
WHEAT CROPS IN DOCTOR DIES AT A
MATERNITY CASE
BRITAIN
GOOD QUALITY AND 126,000 MORE TONS
London, Oct. 10--Figures issued by the Ministry of Agriculture during the week-end indicate that the whole, or nearly the whole of the benefit held nut to farmers in
It is the weird, dark-robed havnta, almost . Chinese who
ghost-like, the centre of Berlin, fleeing in panie into taxicabsorudo oil, and it seems to be in ad-the first order under the Wheat from imaginary pursuers, hiding vance of previous synthetic products in cafés, evading all questioners. The mysterious Chinese is Choo in so much as it is undergoing Kung, and Chao Kung is none practical tests, apparently with suc-
A London merchant, just returned from Mexico, told a "Daily Mail" raporter yesterday: "I have seen
NURSE'S TERRIBLE
ORDEAL
Claycross (Derbyshire).-A nurse who was faced by the most terrible
dilemma of her earcer showed groat copiness and courage.
Called to attend to a woman grievously ill, she suddenly found herself alone in a tiny bedroom with her unconscious patient, a newborn baby, and a dying doctor. The doctor, till then apparently in good health, had collapsed at a
Quota scheme, will be realised.
The yield of wheat in England and Wales is estimated at 1.088,000 the supply of. millable wheat of tons (21,760,0cont.), compared with 10,800,000cwt. anticipated in Juno, for the purpose of the scheme.
On the basis of calculation em- ployed by the Ministry, the present proximately 19,000,000ewt. of mill- alle wheat, and datailed crop re grain (and therefore the proportion ports show that the quality of the trict Burse at Cinycross, told a of millable whent) is at least up to average,
The tariff, which was first im be exerted for the maintenance of the Press Department in the Ger tyres made of the new material on estimated-yield would include ap- critical moment in a critical case. l
"
posed in April for three months, and then, in July, renwed for a further three mouths, would have rxpired next week. The Committer state that the continuance of the tariff is to be subject to a satis factory progress being made made in the preparation of a scheme of reorganisation and in putting the approved scheine into force." At the same time they fully accept the industry's assurances of its de: termination to carry through, this reorganisation.
Wo neve no all-party effort.". doubt," said Mr. MacDonald, "that when the year is called before the bar of history the verdict upon those responsible for political events in 1031-32 will be one of ↑ Well dong, thou good and faithful servants." Whatever unfairness may have been indicted, whatever hardship may have been inflicted, we have kept the economic foundations of country intact and sound. /
the
Every member of the Governmeia, with the exception of Mr. Runci
ather than Trebitech Lincoln, the Tan who from being a rabbi in a Hingarinn synagogue, a person of the Church of England, a member the House of Commons, a Ger- man spy during the war, chief of man Foreign Office during the short-lived monarchist Kapp coup of 1920, and would-be king-maker in Hungary during the Hungarian monarchist coup, has for the last two years heen a monk in a Badd hist monastery in Tibet..
Address to the Faithful.
Chao Kung is to address the Buddhist faithful at a meeting here
in Berlin.
The German police, too, are for watching Chao Kung, Trebitsch Lincoln has a habit of appearing in a country just on the eve of a revolution or some other violent upheaval,
No one knows where Chao Kung man (who is out of town) was preis living in Berlin. Despite his Buddhist priots's robes he succeeds
Concerning the possibility of a higher tariff, the Committes say at the conclusion of their report: "For the present no increase in the existing level of protection is sent. recommended, but the Advisory Committen aro convinced that the practical cessation of dumping of foreign iron and steel in essential.
If, when a satisfactory scheme is ready, the extension of the period of protection has not had that effect, they will proceed to recour mead such further protective mea- sure as many be necesary.'
POST OFFICE REFORMS
FAR-REACHING RECOMMENDATIONS
(Special Air-Mall Servicel
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
MUST CUT WORK OR"
EXPENSES
(Special Air-Mail Service) ·
Good Quality Orops.
motorcars in Mexico. On one car there were one back and one front wheel each with an experiment tyre, the other wheels being fittee with tyres of well-known make. The tread on the experimental tyres was
The large enstern counties', crop chowing little sign of wear when on is described as of good quality and ditionis. Reporta from other dis- the standard tyres the tread was harvested as a rule under good con tricts are also favourable with the nearly worn off.
"Men have been wearing ong rub-exception that in the East Midlands bor heel of the natural substance and south-west, part of the grain and the other of the synthetic pro. was harvested or carried in damp duct, and the lettering ou synthetic was clear when it was already obliterated on the natural" It is said that the new material
conditions.
The nurse, Mrs. Herrett, the dis-
pressman of her ordeal.
Dr. N. K. Sparrow, a well-known medical man, had exiled her to at- tend Mr. Turner, the wife of i motor engineer at Old Tupton.
"The case," said Mra. Horrett, Dr. was well advanced when Sparrow remarked to me, 'Nurse, I will have a rest. I feel rather queer.'
Heart Attack. ́`·
His surgery, the nearest place for help, was a mile and a half away,
Apart from these special con:-
"He sat down on the bedside, menta, however, it is stated that in but a moment later he collapsed. I many cases the later harvesting saw at once that he had been seiz- operations were interrupted by freed with a heart attack." quent rains, while some cases of Mrs. Herrott at that moment was,
sprouting were reported The total estimated yield is it an extraordinary plight. She in giving his pursuers the ship.is much cheaper to produce than Only the photographers have suc natural rubber-oven at its present 198,000 tons above last year's pro had both the tiny infant and the ceeded in catching him on their prices and that there are by-production, the yield per acre being mother on her hands, while the platen.
ducts, the sale of which will reduce Newt, compared with 16cwt last dying doctor lay in a corner.
year and a ten-years average of 17. the cost of the rubber below the The most favourable yields per nere aro forecast for the north reach of competition from the nin
(16.6ewt) and south-west 17.4ewt.) tural product.
that for East Anglia being 17.1cwt Barley rud oats, which come under the general 10 per cent. nd valorem duty, in each case show estimated vickia of 15jewt-jewt. greater than those realised last sen- Fon the estimate in the case of oats being rather more than jest. above the ten-years" avarage.
CAPT. M. R. J. MAXWELL-
SCOTT, R.N.
INTERESTING APPOINTMENT TO SINGAPORE.
Captain M. RJ. Maxwell-Scott, R.N., D.S.O., who has been ap
B pointed to Rucceed Captain Brock Brikett, D.S.O., as Captain- in-Charge at Singapore, had bad a good deal of experience on the China. Station, when he was sery- ing in command of the gunbont Snipe when the late War began.
Samples of the new rubber, it ja expected, will be seen in London early next month:
WOMEN'S ADMISSION
TO FREEMASONRY
A LEAD FROM FRANCE
London, Oct, 18.-The Aga Khan
Big Potato Orop Increase. caused a sensation by his speech
As a result, however, of decreased made almost at the close of the
nereage, which it is hoped will be Thirteenth Assembly of the League
remedied in future years as a result of Nations. He declared: "There
of the duty, the total estimated yield of cats of 1,022,000 tons shows is no uscaping the conclusion that
He served in 1927-28 in command
Women's share in the history of a decrease of 27,000 tons; and the there are only two practicable al of the Eighth Destroyer Flotille, London, Oct. 31.-It is unsounced tornatives to meet the present fin. which came from Rosyth at the Freemasonry was outlined by Miss estimated yield of barley of 740,000 Potatoes, which as "now pota- that in the main the far-reaching ancial situation of the League time of the dispatch of the Shang Bothwell Cosse in an address given tons, a decrease of 27,000 tona.
hai Defence Force,
ath luncheon moeting of the Man-toes," enjoy special protection from Captain Maxwell Scott was 49 en recommendations of the Bridgeman either reduction in salaries so is Committee on Post Omes reforma
He was first elusion of women from the full i are to be carried out. The leading to secure really substantial econo- Octob.r 22, and his been in the chester Soroptomist Club. The ex duties, show an estimated increase
Navy since 1808. licutenant of the
tons, against 2,454,000 tons in 1931). mine-layer benefits of Freemaecary, said the of more than 2 per cent, (3,128,000 Iphigenia in 1811-13. When the speaker, is not always in force.
torily Peas and beans, which are gunboat Snips was paid off from On the contrary, in the earliest and are expected to keep satisfac- And her crew dispersed to other warsion of secret societies. Later, men appointments her captain became arose and wrested the mystery from excentive officer of the Angora, one them. tion Company's ships, which was of the British India Stam Naviga convert.d for minelaying and her he was awarded the D.8.0. served in the North Scal. While in and in Juno, 1019, was promotel During the last to commander, three months of hostilities he was commander of the named merchant cruiser Kinfauns Castla
The Post Office results will be: will remain under Parliamentary control. A board of control with the Postmastor-General as chairman, and a full-time gauural manager
is to be set up. The staffs in the any curtailment of the League's no-hor patrol duties after war begen times only women were in posses similarly protected, are estimated
A curtailment of the ac- mies, or tivities of the League."
He deprecated the necessity for tivities, but especially he deplored provinces ara to be reorganised. More authority will be conferred the failure to secure a reduction of on provincial officials. The Post salaries, which would have saved Office will probably contribute a fixed sum to the Exchequer each them from that necessity. He con- year. The must of Assistang Post- cluded: "I cannot contemplate, master-General, vacant since the Samuel Ministers retired, is to be filled and Sir Ernest Bennett has been appointed to the post.
"
'THE DREAM OF.
GERONTIUS"
BANNED BY DEAN OF PETERBOROUGH
mando
(Special Air-Mall Service)
without anxiety, the effect upos opinion in India of the knowledge that alone of public administrations the League Secretariat should re- main almost unaffected by the uni- versal stringency."
A RIVAL TO· ·* MONKEY GLANDS"
(Special Air-Mall Service)
London, Oct. 20-On view at the London Medical Exhibition this new preparation with London, Oct. 10-The Denu of week is a Peterborough Cathedral (Dr. J. G. properties which are claimed to Simpson, formerly Canon of St. rival and exceed those of what are known. да monkey Paul's) has forbidden the perfor. popularly
of Elgar's Dream of lande." It is the product of au Geronius" in Foterborough Cathe Italian physician after 20 years' ex- dral as he considers the oratorio perimet, it contains gold, palla unsuitable for an Anglican Cathedium, platinum, iodine and brain dral, and it has, therefore, been extracts, and is commended to the abandoned.
profession as a sort of elixir of life, It is claimed that it will arrest Benile decay and add 10 years to a normal life.
EVAN
JAPANESE CLOTH
SOLD AS MACCLESFIELD
PRODUCTION
(Special Air-Mail Service)
London, Oct. 17-At a meeting of the Macclesfield Silk Trade Em-
YOUR SAFEGUARD players Association, complaint was
EVANS Antlapde Throat Pastilen. They keep cold at bay and giva relict in cases of
·Coughe, Catarh, Bron chitis, etc.
After a period with the Aus tralian Fleet, both in the cruiser Melbourne and at the Navy Office, ho returned to comminand destroy ers in reserve, and in 1023-5 was Senior Officer, West River, China, on board the Tarantula, after which was promoted. His last appoint ment was is Captain Suterinten dent of Contract-built Ships, with headquarters at Newcastle,
THE MADE-UP WOMAN
DISGUSTING, REPELLENT,
REVOLTING.
Mlle. Chanel, the famous Paris dress designer, in very angry with har sex.
Women in Old-time Guilds.
to yield about the average supply.
As regards livestock, it is stated that grasa continued to be plentiful during the month.
WOMEN AND THE MODERN BOY
VALUE OF FEMININE INFLUENCE
It was sometimes suggested that women thould not be admitted to Freemasonry because it was a sur- vival of the guilds of the Middle Ages, but there were records of 500 guilds into only five of which were not admitted, and women those were obscure guilds and not Masonic one. In 1401 the Guild of St. Catherine, admitted brothers and sisters. The Corpus Christi Guild, York, also admitted man
"It would be better if public and women. By the eighteenth cen school boys had more feminine so- tury the guilds had been slowly city. Feminine society is not al dying out, transforming themselves into benefit societies and trade ways considered good for growing unions. In Masonry itself a great boys, But I consider it definitely chango was coming. Up to the year dangerous for school boys to be 1722 there was no regulation that deprived of it." women should not be admitt.d. but in 1723 a clauss was invented say- ing that women should not be ad admitted to Masonry. Later, how ever, women were invited to become Froomaeons.
Bpying and Peeping.,
It was during this century that women hiding in aluks to listen to the secrets of Freemasonry. There the ridiculous stories arose about
"Make-up has reached stage
were, however, nctsworthy, instances when women are defacing them selves rather than adding to their of women who had spied upon the ritual. An American girl "spy" appearnco with its aid," she told a
hid in a pulpit and learned the Presa representative.
secrets and was afterwards admit The movement ted to the order. fagged in the nineteenth century mainly because women were of no importance economically. It was Georges Martin, & French fariniste who opened the doors of Free- masonry for women in that century Even to-dny, bowover, wormon, though authentic, Freemasons, were not admitted to the Grand Lodge of the order.
What more disgusting and re- pellent object could bo imagined than the woman who has got her self up in imitation of a Holly wood slar in the belief that it is the last word in "chic??
Her hair has been tortured into the sembiance of a hank, of tow, clashing vilely with her complexion, Her eyelids are circled with seat, or weighted down with false eye lashes of borsehair. Her eyebrows are non-existent, or drawn on the High Morality Essential, skin with charcoal in some ridicul
Referring to the conditions, of ous and unnatural line.
Her hands are revolting. With entry Miss Bothwell Gosen said their onsmelled scarlet nails-tliey that character counted for more are like the talons of a vulture than wealth or social position. No atheist was eligible the beliefs and dripping with blood `----
dock inca of Freemasonry being founded on a firm belief in the
This was one of the many ing statemonts made by Canon H. A. P. Sawyer, who recently re tired after being Headmaster of Shrewsbury School for 18 years.
con-
I had asked him what he sidered the most pressing require- ment of the present-day boy, writer Leonora Gregory in the News Chronicle."
"How can it be, beneficial," he said, "for a boy to be taken out of the refining influences of his home and the company of his mo ther and sisters at the most im pressiofiable period of his lifet
"That I consider the most out standing problem of present-day public schools."
Home Solutions, w “And how do you think it cam brezfedied!" I asked
Well," he said. "the problem.
has boon recognised for many years and efforts have been made to over- house masters to invite boys into come it by encouraging married their homes.
Angthar solution is co-education "Yet another solution is tho day school systera. It is, perhaps, the ideal education; but it postu...... lates ideal conditions which yon cannot always get...
made that some manufacturing firms in Macclesfold and makers up in London were offering for sale through the London and pro- vincial wholesale houses, large quantities of ladies printed crope ilk handkerchiefs made from im natural good points, or rody do hood of mar-A-high inoral stand. The public school boy of the Ward was essential. The speaker future will probably make his own' potted Japanose clothe and that facts,
being labelled and This is a practical No thought that this qualification was bed and wait upon himself at
Boys," said Canon Sawyer, Lille, Channel approver of a dis
"will beacht by big changes-in- crest invisible touch of eyeblack,
education that are almost bound to range, or powder to enhance Fatherhood of God and the brother-come within the next fifteen years.
EVANS-a. Macelor field, produc Jonger must woman-howpver red maré imgjortant for women table
ANTISEPTIL THRGAY
Pastilles
1) From.
Made in ingiand 10 Turn of the Livaryi
tion. It was decided that this was wealthy widget an entirely misleading description, her dress several and not only deception on the sadd
public, but manifestly unfair to the Wo concentrate on neat Macclesfield manufacturers and practical styles which thair weayerE.
propriate r
thats for men, for while it would not Discussing port Canon Sawyer hurt then Freamsborg 4g9ne said "There is no longer mahere and there to come to er of boys being allowed grief-morally it might spell disaster too much attention to sport. for any member of n women's lodge balance between lessons and games
fall abort in this respect it carefully presery
"I did what I could for thei doctor," said Mrs. Herrett, and I had to keep attending to the mo ther as wall. The baby, I found, was dead."
The nurse called for assistance downstairs and gave quiet instruc tions for other medical aid to b sought.
She attended to the mother, whose condition was urgent, and before long three doctors arrived and took charge of the ense
They found that Dr. Sparrow fer must have died within A minutes of collapsing.
The mother, thanks to the nurse's ! presence of mind, is pulling round, gho has not been told of Dr. Spar- row's death, as the shock would be
too great.
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