HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932.
TO GO
FUTURE OF AIRSHIPS?
COASTAL STEAMER
SUNK
ADDITIONS TO FREE LIST
BRITISH CAPITAL IN CHINA'S RLYS.
TAXES ON RICE
SHIPS COLLIDE IN N. 'SEA
MANILA HEMP NOW.
INCLUDED
HOW BOND HOLDERS. ARE FARING
JORITISH WIRELESS BERVICE Į
[THBOCOR REUTER'S AGENCY)
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DR. ECKENER
[TRANSOCEAN-KUOMIX.}
BERLIN, Dec. 16.
RUGDY, Dec. 21,
LONDON, Doc, "gl.
Nan exclusive interview with a
EIGHT lives were lost of the A: TREASURY Order adds to the "Transocean".representative Dr
Free List, as from December Buchtun const this morning Hugo Eckener, the famous master when two coastal steamers, the sath, imports of Manila temp; iron of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin," Gateshead and the 4.5. Miranda colimitation or artificial stones and bromide; bristles; non-precious, confirmed the report of his impend-ided outside Seaham Harbour.
beads.. ing departure for the Dutch East- Indies for studying the meterologic al conditions along the proposed route for a future dirigible service between the Netherlands and her colonies.
In future world traffic and com- munications," Dr. Eckener said, the dirigible is destined to play an even more outstanding role than hitherto imagined. Now that the
The collision occurred in "foggy weather and the side of the Gates head was smashed in by the bigger vessel.
She sank within a few minutes of the accident and her master and aaven members of the crow went down in her..
Five others were picked up by the Miranda after an immersion of
South American youte is well estab-satne minutes in the bitterly cold lished and since it has proved after North Sen. more than a year's scheduled flights
that Zeppelin travel is not only
safe but even an undertaking which
RUBBER SCIENTIFIC
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDY.]
LONDON, Dec. 21.
LOW British financial interests are Earing in connection with the Chinese railways was the theme House of Commons to-day- of a series of questions in the
The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Captain Anthony Eden, replying, said that the position of British bondholders as regards the Peiping-Mukden lines, was affected by the Manchukuo declava tion of independence.`
un-
· RESEARCH
MANUFACTURERS TO- CONTRIBUTE TO COST
After repeated representations to the Chinese Clovernment, he added, {THROUGH BEUTER'S—AGENOY.]— the latter had now, advanced con- crete proposals relating to the LONDON, Dec. 21, THE House of Commons has pas Chinese railways for money due at claims of British ex-employees of sed the first reading of a Bill the termination of their services. introduced by Mr. W.-M. Kirk
Interest Defauit, patrick (Con., Preston) providing
Representations have also been that rubber manufacturers in Bri-made to China in respect of their default in interest upon the Amor- amount of raw material handled, disation Loans of the Chinese Rail- to scientific research.
ways. The Chinese Government had responded to the extent that the Ministry of Railways was now devising a means of liquidating the debt, although they expressed
is both a tremendous aid to modern PROTEST BY A K.C. tain contribute, on a basis of the
commerce and a lucrative Business in itself, I am looking confidently forward to the opening of other lines and to thus further develop- ment of the airships which even- tually will span a great part of the world in regular scheduled flights."
Economic Advantages.
**The economic advantages of an air-route to the East-Indies, which may eventually be extended to other parts in South-eastern Asin, and even to the Far East; are clear.
SHARP REBUKE TO A
WITNESS
LIBEL ACTION BY LEVER
BROTHERS
Lever Brothers and the directors Dr. Eckener then emphasized the of the company, of Port Sunlight, largely tentative character of his were the plaintiffs in a libel, action forthcoming journey, declaring that which came before Mr. Justice Bran- there was a tremendous amount ofsen in the King's Bench Division. provisional work to be done before such a service to the Dutch East Indies can be initiated.
Under Dutch Auspices. His journey is arranged under the suspices of the Dutch Syndicate for Airship Service to the East
Mr. Kirkpatrick explained that the Bill, slightly modified, would meet the objections raised when similar measures passed their se cond readings in 1928 and 1931.
DISARMAMENT --
CONVERSATIONS.
MR. HENDERSON TO ATTEND
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RUGBY, Dec. 21.
William M. Kneale and Mr. George House of Commons, Captain Damages were claimed from Mr. ANSWERING question in the Harvey Bagnall, whose address was Eden, Under-Secretary for Foreign given na New Oxford-street, Lon- Affaire, stated that the President don.
of the Disarmament Conference, Mr. Arthur Henderson, had been
The hearing was adjourned, Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., open.
invited to attend any further meet- ect of disarmament, and ́had ne copted.
Indies, from which company a pro-ing Lover Brothers' case, said thereing of the Five Powers on the sub- minent member will be 'accompany was a plea of justification in the ing the commander.
Dr. Eckener will leave on Dec. 30 aboard the Dutch liner "Bado. eran" for Egypt, from › where, after a stay of about a week. The will continue his trip to Batavia,
COURT MOVES TO SANDRINGHAM
ROYAL FAMILY'S CHRISTMAS
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Robur, Dec. 21. TO-MORROW the King and Queen will travel by Royal train to Sandringham where the Court will
remain about six weeks.
The Prince of Wales and other members of the Royal Family, who Are spending Christmas with the King and Queen, are not expected “ny Sandringham Gill Saturday,
ONE WAY TO CELEBRATE A BIRTHDAY
defence.
"I think, however," he said, that the jury will probably come to the coiclusion that it is one of the most serious libel actions that the courts ever had to try.”
In substance, said Sir Patrick, it was alleged that for years the plain- tiff company and its directors had been a colossal fraud.
Previous Prosecution.
Sir Patrick said that some years ago the company prosecuted Mr. Kneale for libel, and he was con- victed at the Central Criminal Court and sent to prison for nine months.
It was thought that that would be the end of the matter, but Mr. Kneale revived his old campaign.
The company intended to ask for an injunction ́against. Mr. Kneale, and if they obtained it no share holder would ever be troubled with him again.
Sir Patrick, dealing with the history of Lever Brothers, Ltd., said that the company was now more prosperous than it had ever been,
"This man Kacale is a very dam- man," Patrick added. gerous
There is a large bundle of letters
U.S. REPRESENTATIVES PASS BEER MEASURE
BUT NOT LIKELY TO
PASS SENATE
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the view that a settlement must await a definite scheme, of colleer tive treatment.
Tientsin-Pakow Railway.
As regards the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, Captain Eden' understood that arrangements had been made to pay monthly deposits into a
which special account
WES. to accumulate a fund to meet the arream on the loan services
an
Finally, he gave the questioners
IMPORTANT DECISION
BY C.E.C.
(THROUGH (REUTER'S AGENOT.)
Naxxing, Dec.. 22..
LENA GOLDFIELDS DISPUTE
DECISION SOON EXPECTED
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Ruday, Dec. 91.
AN IMPORTANT decision, plack-REPLYING to House of Com- mous question regarding the tory to Canton particularly, has been taken at the third plen. Lena Goldfelda: award, Captain avy session of the Central Execu Eden said the Foreign Secretary tive Committee, Kuomintang..
had the matter under considera- tion, but had been prevented by his The delegates adopted a proposal recent illness from dealing with it to cancel the inter-provincial em
as he intended. argo upon rice and wheat and to
He hoped that when the House abolish the inter-provincial taxes
met again, Sir John Simon would upon these commodities.
There has been considerable op-as had been taken in the meantime, be able the antiquace, such action position to these taxes in quarters, hence the move is likely to prove extremely popular.
some
The session is holding its final meeting this morning to be follow- ed by a special closing ceremony.
ORDER FOR BRITISH ROLLING-STOCK
FROM TIENTSIN-PUKOW
RAILWAY
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Ruony, Dec. 21.
DEAN INGE LASHES
THE SCIENTISTS
THEIR INTOLERABLE PESSIMISM **
DISEASEO UGLINESS OF MODERN ÄRT
The "intolerable and incredible pessimism "'of modern science and, the ugliness of modern art, were condemned by Dean Inge when he delivered the Warburton lectura in AN ORDER for sight Pacific type Lincoln's Inn Chapel.
locomotives and tenders has His subject was "The World of been received by the North British
Values." Locomotive Company of Glasgow from the Tientsin-Hukow Railway.
Assurance that the British Minister, Bir Miles Lampson, would continue to make the necesFOR WELFARE OF sary representations to China.
SILVER MARKET
LONDON PRICES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
LONDON, Dec. 20. CLOSING SILVER FRICES IN LONDON TO-DAY WERE:—
Dec. 29. 18.9/10. 16.5/ad.
FORWARD
WASHINGTON, Dec. 91. THE House of Representatives SPOT
voted for beer by 230 to 105. it is believed it will be vetoed by If the measure passes the Senate, President Hoover, in which case it is unlikely that it will secure the necessary two-thirds majority in Congress to over-ride the President.
Even if the Bill were passed, it would not mean that beer would be sold in all the states, as many have
prohibition laws still unrepealed. DEVELOPMENT OF
SHANGHAI
MR. PERCY, FOWLER ON. CITY'S PROGRESS
NEED TO KEEP PERSONAL TOUCH WITH CHINA
.
STARRING IN RESPUTIN."
Shanghai. Exactly thirty years Ethel Barrymore celebrated her on which you will form your opin- since he first joined the staff of ion. They go back years over the Mesars. Brunner Mond and Com birthday in what even to the screens life of the late Lord Leverhulme. pany, Ltd., Mr. Percy Fowler, now is a novel manner--by working on some of her most important drama It would require two or three chief foreign commercial adviser in tic scenes all day long, at the Metro-pantechnicons to bring all the docu- London to Imperial Chemical in- Goldwyn-Mayer studios.
ments. to court, bat Mr. Kneale dustries, Ltd. and a Director of Lionel, John and Miss Barrymore shall have them if he requires them, many associated and subsidiary are being co-starred in "Raanutin." te we have gone to the greatest companies is agnia officiating at the chief Chias depot of that world- When August fifteenth arrived, it pains for him." was the day designated for the "big Bir Patrick, dealing with the se-wide industrial organisation, in set" in which she worked almost cond defendant, Mr. Bagnall, said Szechuan Road, Shanghai, continually,
that he was formerly in the em- ployment of the company, and was
COLONIES AND BRITAIN'S · PREFERENCES
good servant, but there came. time when Lord Leverhulme consi- dered it undesirable that he should remain in the company, and he had to go.
Defence Btruck Out,
0
Mr. Fowler, who has already re- newed association with large Bumber of Shanghai friends since he arrived in the city came to Shanghai in 1902. He returned to England for a period in 1922, and
NO-DIRECT AIR-MAIL FOR HONG KONG
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RUGBY, Dec. 21.
AT question time in the House of
CHINA
PRAYERS OFFERED BY
PANCHEN LAMA.
NAN ING, Dec. 17... Prayers for the welfare and pros perity of China were offered by the Panchen Lama yesterday at the
Mausoleum Park
HOME FOOTBALL
SCOTTISH CUP DRAWE
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LONDON, Dee. Al
THE draw for the First Round Proper of the Scottish Cup Competition was made to-day, and resultad as follows:
Stenhousemuir é. -Morton. King's Park c. St. Mirren. Aberdeen #. Penicuick Ath. St. Bernard's v. Partick.....
· Airdrieonians us. Allons Hibernians Forfar Ath, Clyde. Fraserburgh." Stranraer . Bo'ness. -- Queen of South . Third Lanark, Edinburgh City'e Ayr Unter St. Johnstone 1. East Fife: Falkirk Amateurs a.“Queen's P....... Fast Stirling 5. Montriec, ST Cowdenbeath + Dundee. Dunfermline r. Celtic. Raith Rovers v. Falkirk. Armadale v. Dundee United. Lochgelly. Kilinarnock, Albion Rovers r. Inverness This Glasgow. Rangers:r, Afbreath, Hearts v. Solway Star. Dumbarton ». Beith,
Hamilton 'e Motherwell. Teith Ath. Brechin City: Matches are to be played January $1.
Bves in Third Round,
It will be observed that there are twenty-four matabes. In the Second Round, to be played on February
twenty-four teams will go into the hat, and in the Third Round, to be played on February 18, twelve which will receive byes. tears will go, into the hat, four of
THE HUSBANDS WHO PAY
Denn Inge, give us what aims at "The natural sciences," said
being a coherent closed system, an account of the universe as it iILIABLE AT LAW FOR THEIR do not think their system is really
WIVES MISDEEDS watertight, but it' aims' at being complete.
This system, as explained by At Liverpool Assizes a fourteen- the popular works of great matheyear-old schoolboy was recently maticians such as Jeans and Ed, awarded £1,271 damages, with. dington, bide us contemplate costa, against a husband and wife distant date when the whole uni- jointly, following a motor accident. verse will have run down. like a It was the wife's car, and the unw clock, after which nothing can bap-fortunate husband was; not con« cerned in or even present at the time of the accident, segm "Space and time will both be This is a sharp reminder to hus empty a pieture wich is not only bands of an anachronism that still radically pessimistic but which lingers in spite of female emanei
pen any more,
leaves out all the things that we
The Tibetan dignitary was visit-really believe in and care for love pation and sex equality. A hug ed by President Lin Sen yesterday. and goodness and beauty, all the band is still liable in law for his wife's torts. Tort means a wrong the higher In the afternoon, he attended the imponderables, all 3rd plenary session of the Central values. Such a view of reality may Executive Committee as an obser- not be exactly inconceivable, but
it is intolerable and incredible. ver.-Kuo Mir.
PROPOSED AGRICULTURÁL
BANK
NAXKING, Dec. 17. The Agricultural Finance Com- mittes of the Ministry of Industry at a meeting yesterday decided to organize a preparatory office for the projected Central Agricultural
not serious enough to constitute crime-such as slander, libel, or,
as in the above case, negligence causing injury to another,/
It seems hard on a husband that he should be deemed accountable if his wife slanders or libele some ons. But so it is.
A Test of Religion. On the other hand, when I steep myself in all the great idealiet thinkers. I am entirely convinced that the eternal spiritual wld own motor-cars. But the law re
Many wives own and run their the only real world. This vimon iemains that if in consequence of bay: more than satisfying.
| negligence she thereby does damage But then I remember that I to persons or property her husband. have my duties as a citizen, is liable to be sued jointly with father, a clergyman here and now her, and he will have to pay.. in London in the twentieth century,
Old Legal Theory. What is the relation between these It is small consolation for the un- two worlds in both of which I have fortunate husband to be told that to live
the origin of this has an interesting history.
Commons to-day, the Under- Secretary for Air, Sir Philip Sassoon, stated that it was im possible to give a definite forecast regarding the proposed British- Australia air-mail service, but it Bank. was believed that it would be in! It was also decided to establish operation within a few months of granaries in all rice-producing cen: The fashionable philosophical creed ***Ie anything valuable in itself? the taking of a decision.
fors. A sub-committee of hy was says No. We are told that also
regulations ute uncbanging values governing these granaries-Kuo illusion. Many, however, are get-
An intérim offer by the Royal Dutch Indian Airways to provide a service pending the establishment of the British-Australian Airmail was under the consideration of the Government in consultation with the Australian Government.
TO POPULARISE "AIR-TOURING
BRITISH FIRMS ENTERPRISE
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, Deo 91.
appointed to draft
Min.
FERDINAND OF BULGARIA TO RETURN
ENVOY NEGOTIATING
IN SOFIA.
are an
ting weary of this disintegrating scepticism and relativism which wem to endanger the meaning of life.
"If a man wants to know what his mal religion is ho should nak himself this question: What are the things which I would die rather than do l'
•
With many men the list would consist mainly of things dishonour able rather than sinful; cruelty and basa ingratitude would appear on almost every list. But whatever the unpardonable sin for us is even if it is merely to act like a cad-if there are any things which we would die rather than do, we have acknowledged goodness as an absolute value.
Vienna, Nov. 7-Ex-King Fer; dinand of Bulgaria, whose sop Boris now occupies his throne, is to return to Bulgaria, according to a report published in the Sofia newspaper
"Duma," a
鹚 The former ruler-known
FR
-Bolshevik Horrors,”
The principle, is the survival of
and wife are one.
the old legal theory that "husband
Centuries ago when the ruls took its rise, there was justifica tion for it. For one thing, the wife's property belonged to the husband, so that it was no hard- ship that he should pay for her wrongdoings
Moreover, in those days law and public opinion tolerated a degres of physical control by the husband over his wife that would not be possible now. The theory wie "if you can't keep your wile in order you must pay for her misdeeds." AN
So far was this fiction pressed that a husband was held to marry, his wife's wronga
If the wife before marriage had *** committed a tort rendering her liable to damages, the husband, on aarriage, became liable, whee ther he knew of the incident, or
But he was never liable in res-
After a hard day's work John disclosed the secret. It was Ethel's birthday. She didn't mention it because she was afraid the produc- tion office might want to let her
THE first of a fleet of Dragon" off early or something of the kind.
six years later was transferred to cabin aeroplanes, with which "Which," remarked
the London headquarters of the an Essex firm of motor coach pro- Lionel, He brought an action against company, where he has since re-prietors proposes to organise in- "shows, Ethel's so new to pictures Lever Brothers claiming money mainad. that she doesn't know production-which he said was due to him while
land air routes and popularise air "Foxy Ferdinand in the war offices!"
Leaving London in September for touring in Britain, was delivered years is now almost crippled by in their employment, and which he his trip to the Far East, Mr. yesterday, and the naming ceremony Row, and he is never seen without scious appreciation of natural pest of a property, which Be The new picture is a vivid drama said had been promised him. Mr. Fowler broke his journey in Japan, was performed by Mr Mollison.
There is probably as much con- gout. His walk is painful and of Russia in which Miss Barrymore Justice McCardie, who tried the ac where he was particularly impress plays the Czarina, Lionel the "Mad tion, said the claim
The machine is equipped with his favourite silver-topped walking beauty to-day as at any earlier the value of any property which be was illed by the general air of in- two Gipsy Major engines of the stick.
period, and certainly more appro-roueived in right of his wife Monk and John, Prince Paul." founded, fraudulent,
ciation of the beauty of the human That particularly, anomaly, was, Ralph Morgen, Tad Alexander, honest.
and dis dustriousness which prevailed. In type used by Mra. Mollison on her Ferdinand's chamberlain and con- form than in the early middle-ages; abolished by the Married Women Disna Wynyard, C. Henry Gordon,
an interview with a North China recens flights to the Cape and back, fidant, M. Ganschaff, who arranged though inlustrialism with its un Property Act of 1802 But the Act Louise Cosser Hale and many
Daily News representativa he.
re- The Dragon's maximum speed is the monarch's flight in 1918 and others of note are in an elaborate
marked that in Japan everybody 128 miles per hour and the dispos followed him into exile, has a natural conditions produces ugly did not abolish his responsibility fo her post-nuptial torts, and in res seered to work, and to work hard. able load is 1,860 pounds.
types of humanity rived in Soda, states ! Duma, to Beast.
In the present case Mr. Bagnall's Mr. Fowler said he had been
At present there is not much post of these he remains liable to- position was entirely different from greatly struck by the number of
make arrangements for his royal creative art of the highest quality day, whether he is in possession." master's return.
in literature, poating, or sculpt any fund of his wife's or not that of Mr. Kneale. He had put developments which had taken Chino changes which the ordinary King Boris has consolidated his ture. The almost instinctive graciable when Separated. in a defence which had bean struck place in Shanghai since he was last man in England cannot visualiso, position by his marriage to an ostess of the old architectures has Even if husband and! out. What was being asked for now here. In no part of the world had even if he has had direct contact Italian princess, and to danger is given place to an unsightlinese tally living apart practically concerned only Mr. he encountered anything to equal with this country. I am convinced apprehended by the ex monarch's never before seen in the dwellings under a deed of sepa [ORITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] Kneale.
the city's continued progress.
that without being actually on the wish to return, yo
of civilised men,baseb
still liable; but not Bir Patrick was procending toIt is phenomenal to watch this spot no business map can com Bulgaria, like Rumania, still has The recovery from the age of his been dissolved RUGBY, Dec. 21,
deal in detail with Mr. Kneale's city going ahead as it is, with mill-prehend the enormous developments a soft, spot in her heart for exiled bad taste is in progress, but it is of judicial reparat THE President of the Board of attitude when Mr. Kneale, who wasions of pounds being spent on which have taken place here Any mabere of the reigning house, and painful and somewhat artificial nounced The husbands Trade was asked in the House sitting at the solicitors' table, rose building improvements, when one one who goes home to England would like to see Terdinand back Our civilisation seems no longer to may still be table of Cominone whether in view of and said that one of the judges who beare in mind the very different had stays there for two or three in Sofia as a loyal friendrai exprem-itself naturally in beauti torte committed in the the opinions expressed by various sat in the Court of Criminal Ap-conditions which prevail in other years, thinking he can maintain In appearance the ex-king retaing "tul forms anal
tween decree nisi Chambers of Commerce, he would peal which dismissed his appeal countries," Mr. Fowler remarked contact with this country, makes his dignity and distinction. HeAs for the deliberate ugliness aclule, now enter upon a policy designed against his conviction at the Cen. When I came to Brunner Mond the greatest mistake of his life has the beak-like formidable nose of much modernist sculpture and I high for the abrogation of existing tral Criminal Court was a share in Shanghai, as the most junior The man who wishes to keep his and clear blue eyes of the Coburgs, painting, I can only regard it as a this point Phot treaties and to enable all Colonica holder of Lever Brothers,
member of the company, the whole knowledge up to date and maintain and an Edward VII, beard, disease and hope that the vil line with mod to give affective preference to Great BritaÐMUNDAN SONS
Six Patrick (heatedly) do pro ed from one room in Kiuciang trade connot afford to leave the A-locent, and has a Mephisto-aims, we are told, at expressive whose
of the firm's business was trapped an understanding of the China' He speaks deliberately and with fashion will soon pas away. It then meantira
mordant humbur Recently he pas standards of beauty
a sed through Vienna to visit the Unfortunately what it expresses the Bulgarian painter Karl Prior in is barbarous and repulsive, The order to see some lovely landscapes whole movement taba of the Bulgaria, he hopes
to be 12 sea in realib.
The Secretary of the Depurtmartgainst a blackmailing Rond, about the size of one of the country for long periods phelfen partiality for tire and ness disregarding all accepted of Overains Trade, Major Colville, making a statement like that It pricate offices in the present In From the experience gained dur- replied that it was proposed to is an absolute putrage and he ought perial Chemical Industries building, the greater part of thirty years consult organisations representing to be ashamed of it..
ing here, purgte spent in China, Mr. Fowler, be- trade- generally so soon na the Mr.-Kueale sat down and Sir Direct Contact Recessary, lieves that the less the British mer relevantincia_could be put before. Patrick continued his opening and I noticed on my arrival in shant in this country has to do -theme
speech after making his protest, (Continued, at foot of next. Oolumn), witli politics, the batter,
tha
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