The appointments of Mr. R. E. Lindsell to be acting-puieno judge, and Mr. A. E. Wood to ba Secretary for Chinese affairs are among those andonneed in the Government The Prince of Wales will meet Gmélte.
· Page 3. many friends when he visits Glas-
At cricket K.C.C. defeated the gow and Clydeside at the end of
his month. Even in these reputed I.R.C. on Saturday, which leaves. storm centres of unrest and unem- the University champions of the
innumerable 1st Division of the League. ployment he has
Page 10. ardent admirers, who have been greatly impressed by his sympathe- The Results of the Kwanti race tic appreciation of the trials and
meeting appear on Page 7 and of miseries of the workless. four and a half years ago the Prin-held in the Southern capital-on During his visit to the same area the Canton meeting the first to be ce met with general avidence of Page 7. his popularity. The same friendly feeling will again greet him as he tours the various centres where the unemployed are being assisted to tide over their bad time.
Royal Scot's American Tour.
In
the
two charityfootball matches played yesterday the Com- bined Services beat South China Athletic by three goals to nil, while the Chinese Athletic juniors lost to the Borderers Resorves by three goals to four. Full report and other week-end results on Page 10. These has been an interesting ex.
The University Athletic meeting tension of the plans for the forth- coming exhibition of the Royal was held on Saturday. Morrison One of the effects of the banking Scot train at the Chicago World's Hall won the Inter Hostel Challenge crisis in America has been that the Fair, which opens on June 1. Ar- Cup, and K. J. Choa was Victor Transatlantic telephone and the rangements have been made for the Ladorum, winning three events and long-distance telephones to all the famous express to make extensive being second in a fourth.. Page 6. big capitals were bourses are tours of the North American con- The wedding was celebrated on situated have been humming with tinent, prior to the display on Saturday at the Union Church tracks adjourning the fair, and Kennedy Road, between Miss Euns inquiries regarding the situation.
There are four "channels" of again at the close of the exhibi-Beatrice Blackburn, daughter of L. communication across the Atlantic, tion. Using the U.S.. and Cana J. Blackburn, Esq., and Dr. J. A. and usually only two are in servicidian railroad systems, the train R. Selby, youngest son of Dr. and will visit many of the principal Mrs. W. MaoD. Selby, of, Port cities and towns in the two coun- tries, opportunities being afforded to the citizens in these places to in spect her. In the meantime the engine chosen for the trip, Royal Scot No. 6,100, which is the pre cursor of 70 locomotives of the A batch of Home news, by Air type, is nearing her overhaul at Mail, appears on Page 2. Crawe, while the eight new coaches The rush on the Transatlantic to comprise the train, including 'phone was without parallel-not; first and third class sleeping cars,
Results of football matches excepting the days of Britain's kitchen, and lounge cars, are near "crisis" in 1931-since the Hoover ly ready at the Derby works of played at Home on Saturday are Moratorium announcement.
the L.M.S. Company.
Page 0. To their match against New Zea Jand England declared at 580 for eight wicketk. * Page Lo
Tenders for the new British Con- version Laan are considered autis- factory.
Page 9. An optimistic view of the outlook was taken by Mr. N. Chamberlain, on Friday, when he appealed for confidence in the National Govern- Page 0.
New York business houses open at nine or ten, and, as there is live hours' difference is the times, the rush hour for calls does not, dove top in London until after lun-
cheon.
Local and General
Now the Southern Railway has made another important change; it has electrified the stretch of line between London, Brighton and Worthing, and provided hatter travelling facilities than could have been dreamed of some years ago. As is commonly known, the South ern Railway is an amalgamation of a group of lines which served the south of England in pre-war`days. One of these lines decided to con-
It is high time that we started vert its suburban system to elec-a new war-not now against Ger- tricity in 1913, and in 1916 the work minns and Turks, but against worked a director of the Chartered Bank Was completed. By 1920 the num-lessness, poverty, overcrowding, of India, Australia and China. ber of passengers carried on this and squalor-Mr. Lloyd George. Sir William Shenton will broad-
section of the line increased from
24 million annually to 52 million. After the amalgamation the policy of electrification was more general- ly adopted, and since 1923 the work has progressed at a rapid rate. Now the Southern Electric is the greatest electrical system in the world, comprising nearly one thou sand miles of track.
The nation is rapidly being con- verted into a community of listeners and loskers-on-Mr. R. C. Sherriff.
We have reached a point where
Four enses of small-pox, one of diphtheria and one of enteric were reported on Friday,
Lord Inchcape has been appoint-
cast aur address on the Hong Kong Empire Products Fair this evening evening at 1.25 p.m.
It is brought to the notice of members and their friends, that the Cheera Bund will play during tea at the Helena May Institute on Thursday afternoon, March 30. The concert programme will commence at 6.45 p.m. Members are asked to reserve tables for tea in advance.
William, Scotland, Dr. Selby who is well-known locally as an Inter port Rugby Player, is on the staff of the Government Civil Hospital.
on.
went.
General.
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Far East,
There was an important political It is stated that a regular service conference at Nanking yesterday.
Page 1. of vessels between Soviet Far Eas tern ports and China and Japan. The Public Works Department is has been established. Five steamers inviting tender for widening will make round trips on these we can look back and see, that the Robinson Road between Peak Road routes three times a month. They are the Lozovsky, the Volkhovstroy, the Krassny Oktiabr, the Dvina and Socialist movement in Western and Gleneally (including bridge).
In Canton on the application of the Konda. the Reconstruction Bureau land re- Europe has failed.-Mr. J. Middle-
If a man accuses me or the B.B.C.quired for the building of roads has been exempted from payment of
ton Murry.
caprice, like the fabled giants-19 One of the difficulties connected of deliberate bias, I will not listen taxes,
with electrification-due to technical to him.-Sir John Reith.
What we unemployed could do problems-was the need to have a large number of sub-stations, each with is a little less of education with a complement of staff, to and a little more of entertainment. transform and convert the electricOne of the Unemployed. current.
The Southern Railway
In view of the long list of ap- plications for space in the British Empire Fair, to be held from May 24 to May 27 at the Peninsula Hotel Mr. N. GBeale, Managing and in a structure to be erected Director of the General Electric nearby, the Organising Committee Company of China, Ltd., arrived in has fixed April 16 as the last date Hong Kong on Saturday by the s.a. for receiving local applications for President Taft on a business trip. accommodation.
Information has been received
The Singapore branch of the
from the files.
LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
In current qualities of sugar there have been ng transactions quotations 81.75 per picul. Pan- gasinan has come forward in quant
ity and has been taken at 88.80 a 83.90. Tal and Zebu, 82:7576m. $2.00. The demand for Rice does
Bad beds do more than anything from H.M. Consul-Genaral, Shang Chartered Bank of India, Austra. not appear extensive, although overcame this by having one central else to is still station to control all the work of les Higham the sub-stations. In the whole of
the eighteen sub-stations between
doing more and more of the heavy and unpleasant work demanded by civilised life. Civilisation to-day is largely gunged by the extent to which electricity is applied to the life of the community. The process is well advanced in Switzerland, Canada, Scandanavia and certain parts of the United States. Eng land, always a slow starter, is quietly making up for lost time, and characteristically, it is in the Coulsdon and Worthing there is not be may be judged by, the fact that one section of the line which ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING.~.
London area, and in the matter of a single attendant, the work of the on
elaborate machinery of these sta started to run-under electrical con PART
DART of first floor facing Harbour London transport, that the most
about 6,000 sq. ft available remarkable results are to be found. tiona being controlled from the ditions last July, the number of about middle April. Also one large.
Of the teeming millions who work Control Station at Three-Bridges, passengers last October showed an room second floor.
in London a considerable number This central control is a master- increase of twenty-five per cent. live in the suburbs and beyond. piece of ingenuity and the very over the figures for October, 1931.
The increase in trafic is already They must be transported daily to latost word in electrical practice; and from their homes, and to meet and Three-Bridges is the first sta regarded, as justifying the venture, those needs there are 'buses, trams, tion in the world to which a system which has cost about £3,000,000, and suburban railways-including of remote control has been applied from the financial point of view.
From a national and social point of the marvellously efficient system on so large a scale,
The number of trains along the view it has had other great advan known as The Underground." But besides the millions of subur electrified route has been tremend. tages. It has provided work for Direcao do Club Lusitano tem
is a considerable stop express from London to the railway, but in industries con Mombros da Colonia: Portu-
stream of passengers who travel Brighton every hour between nine cerned with the manufacture of gueza para a Bocepono e Dança, i seguir, na sala "Lair daily to and from the remoter dis in the morning and midnight. With plant and parts. To mention one de. Camoes no dia 10 d'Abril tricts. A large number of pro many semi-fast and ordinary slow item alone, ninety miles of trough- na 21.30 horas em hoara de Sua fassioned and business mon whose trains between, with extra training had to be provided. This con- Exe O Governador de May work is in London live at Brighton, for the rush hours the service sisted of boards and bittens which,
from Brighton to London is just as placed the to tou, would note des de Miranda e sua Exma Worthing, or one of the minor res Reposa
sorts on the South Coast, had the good. This increase of trains raised tended four hundred miles, and is Southern Railway has always problems of track accommodation took a considerable number of men served them well in the matter of and signalling, all of which have nearly twelve monther to maks. An-. traina Then there are a number of been, brilliantly overcome. Further other point of interest is that, by maler towns between London and new rolling stock of a particularly taking electrical power from the the co
which have developed luxurious kind has been built to "National Grid" the Bouthern rapidly of late years, owing to meet the increased traffic. What Bailway Company helping on the remarkable improvement in rail var that increased traffic will ultimately general, work of electrifying the facilities.
Continued at foot of nezt Columin) South of England
CLUB LUSITANO,
banites who-
has been declared by Weihaiwei an infected-port-on-account of email pox as from March 12.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Cantlay have returned to Kobe; Mr. Cantlay will take over charge of the Chartered Bank from Mr. H. L. Mullins, who, with Mrs. Mullins, is shortly leaving for England.
Looking Back 15 Years.
gasinan and Ylocos are quoted from their head office in London 326 silver per cavan.. The Beaver a telegram reading as follows-with-13,000-piculs Siam cargo, has "At the annual meeting of share arrived, but the quality being ob- holders, directors will recommend &jected to, no fair offer has been final dividend at the rate of 14 per made. Freights to England were cent per annum subject to income quoted. £2.17.6 for sugar tax. £183,883 168, 4d. carried for £6.15 for hemp, but there was no ward.”,
available tonnage in port and be ship loading for Europe or Ameri- Mr. Henry B. Day is to act as ca. Exchange 4/1 at 6 months Vice-Consul for the United States According to a police report last in Hong Kong. During the leave of sight, on Hong Kong 16 per cent. premium, and on Amoy 20 per cent. night, a Eurasian named A. E. absence of Mr. J. T. Bagram, at 30 days sight Hong Kong Lewis was admitted to the Kowloon Honorary Consul-General for Siam Daily Press, March 27, 1858. Hospital on Saturday suffering from in Hong Kong, Mr. J. H. Seth will a fractured jaw, caused, it is, stat be in charge of the Siamese Con- ed, by being knocked down by a sulate General Mr. F. A. Xavier motor car in Statue Square. will be in charge of the Nicaraguan Consulate during the absence of Mr.. A quantity of razor blades, mouth T. E. Lacayo, organs, nail clippers and collar studs were stolen over the week-end Mr. Wynne Jones at the Central from: Messrs. Shirley and Company Magistracy on Saturday imposed of the stolen articles is placed at on Liu Chi, office. coolic who plead $18.50. The police have made an ed guilty to the theft of a silver wrist watch from Madam Chiffon's, of the Gloucester Building Bub Inspector Fender, said the accused had been in the employment of) Madam Chiffon for the past five Birmingham-Coal gas as fuel months
for road transport is not only ched t Mr. Frank Beckingham, Manager miles an hour, it is revealed here of the Western Asprance Company after trial experiments carried out of Tondon, arrived from Shanghai in a van, which covered 2,000 miles. by the President Taft.. Mr. B. H, Griffiths, General Manager for the The change-over from gasoline to Fox Film Corporation also arrived. coal gas, according to the official Mr. J. W. Fisber who has been on report, increased the maximum a business trip to the North also speed of the van by: 10 miles an arrived by the President Taft. Mr. hour. The experiments were direct of the research department of the Gas Tisher is the President of the ed by Dr. M. Walter, head of American Eastern Aviation Hong Kong.
Committee of Birmingham, Sa
A farewell reception is to be ten- dered to Mr. James Orange, M.I.C.E, prior to his leaving for England on Friday, by a number. of Chinese gentlemen representing commercial community of the Co lony-Hong Kong Daily Press, March 27, 1908,
honra de convidar os Exmo this way, catered for in ously increased. There is a non-large numbers of men, not only on of Kayamálly Building. The value a sentence of six weeks hard labour the Chinese, property owners and
A fra de que esta manifestacao a Bia Exa O Sr Governador
sda, Erma Esposa seja revs tida de maior, brilho possível, a espera a comparen- Dirvono per comes du Communidade Portugues
BILVA,
Hong Kong 28 de Março de 1933,
arrest.
Mr. W. Schmaltz, Vico-Consul at the German Conmilate General in Kobe, left by the Taiyo Mara on the 15th, for Hong Kong en route German Consul temporarily. Mrs... Schmalts will proceed homewards by the Saarland on the 94th inst
Fifty per cent of all passengers carried by the K.L.M. Amsterdamn- Batavia air-mail service either be
in their journeys or end them in Bangkok More passengers are booked in Bangkok for the Air Orient than at any other station be tween Marseilles and Saigon,