ZBW. Wireless Programme
Echoes of 1830.
Page 8.
Cinema Diary
Page L.
Diary of Local Events
Page 5.
Page 6.
Tennis.
Around the Courts
Draw for the Colony Championship is given on Page 10. The Full Court sat for an ap- peal yesterday for $67,000. Pagę 6. The case of a Soldier who wng "Fed Up" is given on Page 8
A Triangular Shoot between Verity, Fulton and the Stonecutters Range Staff is reported on Page 10.
Since 9.30 o'clock yesterday. morning, a fire has been, raging in the Chan Hing "Godown at Wins lowe Street, Hunghom Puge 7.
That Wong Me Shun the South China Football player will appeal against his suspension was men-
ball Council yesterday. Page 10.
President Roosevelt's programme A SCHEME THAT tioned at the meeting of the Foot-
is as heavily shrouded as ever.
The closing of the duck shoot- ing season was responsible for "news moratorium" which was momentarily misconstrued.
the
FAILED
$
President Roosevelt later ex- Stavisky Activity in 78 SESSION OF
plained that his secretary, who communicates with the Press, de- leave for sired a week-end's shooting. W
The consensus of opinion is that a monetary decision must be im- mtrent in order to satisfy the requirements of the Treasury as explained in President Roosevelt's Budget speech.
New York, Jan. 15. The borrowing of U.8.$10,000,- The death occurred to-day of 000.000 before June 30 raises the Mr. Walter Hines, American ar- question of the capacity of the bitrator on river shipping ques- | major banks to safely carry more" tions under the League of Na- Government bonds than they tions at Merano Italy.—Reuter.
FRENCH TEXTILE |
INDUSTRY
Belgium
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally
LEAGUE COUNCIL.
Press" (Copyright.)] Opens Under M. Beck
Brussels, Jan. 15.
an
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dalty
Prèss" (Copyright.)}
Geneva, January 15. "The 78th session of the 'League' Counell opened here on Monday afternoon under the chairman-
ship of the Polish Foregn Minis- ter, M. Beck.
The Nationalist newspaper Nation Belge, publishes the sensa- tional report that the far-famed swindler Stavisky, had shortly be- fore his exposure, founded
autonomous company for financ- ing international undertakings.”
The purpose of this latest enter- already hold, which is approxi- | prise of Stavisky was allegedly to mately one-third of their de- dnance. Belgian frontier fortifica- posits.
tions to the extent of 500,000,000 francs for which the autonomotts Prior to the opening, the Coun-.
to company was
issued' cil held a private meeting at bonds.
which it was decided, on the pro- The paper claims that one of posal of the French delegate, M. Stavisky's confidential agents had Massigli, oficially to inform the actually get in touch with the German Government Belgian Government and discuss- question of the preparation of the the project which, however," referendüm on the Baar's stand- Roosevelt belleves that he is al-failed to find the Belgian authori- ing. be put on the Council's order
approval.--Transocean Kuo for the day.
BRITAIN'S FOINT OF VIEW/
Experts are of the opinion that the Federal Reserve gold will be impounded with or without Con
Strike Threatened ingress sanction, although" President
The North
[Special to the “Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright,)]'
Paris, January 14.
A new strike has threatened
the textile, industry in northern France where employers decided to cut the men's wages by ait per cent. and the women's by eight per cent. giving as their reason that only by these means can the French textile industry continue to compete with the British.
BELL-On Tuesday, January 9,
1934, at her home, Dixwell Ter-miles upon miles of a [A1XK
race, Annie Bell, aged 84 Wall of China." This was no years.
secret. Diagrams and flustrations BULANOVER.--On Monday, Jan-
uary 8, 1934, at the Shanghal, have appeared from time to time General Hospital, Anatoly in British
⚫ and Continental Bulanover, aged 4 months, in-
journals. The whole world has fant daughter of the late Mrs. E. M. Bulanover,
read with wonder, not unmixed 6, 1934, with awe, of these colossal forti- Shanghai, Mazel Leona Acations for the defence of Christle, aged 46 years. OTHMER. On January 7, 1934, France, towards the construction at Goettingen, Germany, Pro- of which more than a thousand fessor Dr. h.c. W. Othmer, aged millions peunds sterling has been any attempt be made to enforce will be a general strike should
spenta munificent and typical ther--Transocean Kuo Min. sacrifice to the God of War.
NOTE the management of the CHRISTIE,On January affairs of the Company is now under the control of Messrs. Woo Iu Ki, Lam Ngok Wah and Lam Pak Loen.
The Company will not recognise any contract unless countersigned by thre (above named persons.
YELLOW TAXICAB CO., LTD., by WOQ 10 KI AND LAM NGOK WA, Directora.
Hong Kong, 12th January, 1934.
52.
Editorial and Business Office: 17
Ice House Street, Tel: 30251 Night Editor (Wanchai. Office):
Tel. 24411.
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HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
RUGBY FOOTBALL:
THE COLONY
4.
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES XV
H
On
THURSDAY, 18ru JANUARY,
at the CLUB GROUND,
HAPPY VALLEY
Kick off, 4.15 P.M.
Admission (members included)
Covered Stand
Uncovered Stande `.. (including Tax)
81.00 50
Service men in uniform-half price.
Payment may be unde, at the gate, tickets for Covered Stand obtained
Trom
8. H. GARROD,
Canadian Pacific B.8. Co.
G. C. MOUTRIE.. ·
Hongkong & Shanghai Bank
or
at the CLUREOUSE,
HAPPY VALLEY.
NO SEATS RESERVED.
W. PRYDE,
Hon. Secretary.
HONGKONG FOOTBALL
CLUB.
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E.CL
In the columns of yesterday's
The workers rejected the new announced there proposals and
Daily Prees we published wireless CATALONIA
news of far-reaching import. Ap- Fleet Street,parently this so-called' invincible
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, JANUARY 18, 1934.
DUES, WAR PAY?
wall of France is beginning to crumble, not before the onslaught of hostile armies but under the tire- less hammering of widespread cor. ruption. The message said:-" The impenetrable wall of cement and steel girding France's North East border-line began to crack” under its own weight. largely on account of the unshakeable advance of dis- honest contractors, according to sensational reports in the news- paperle Matin" here to-day. The concrete wall of the famous "Pullboxes" supposed to be built for eternity are showing wide lesions. The walls, which were specified to be 40 inches in breadth, were actually erected with a span of barely 24 inches. Further in- quiry is supposed to have proved
By August of 1934 twenty years will have elapsed since the out- break of the world war. A good deal has passed under the bridge since then and many lessons have been taught to those who cared to learn. The supreme lesson which we should have learnt is that War does not pay. The mechanism of that many of the defence towers
ELECTIONS
'
Left Wing Gain Victory
Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
·Press" (Copyright.)]
Barcelone, January 14.
A notable victory was achieved by the Left Wing Parties in the municipal elections in Catalonia which took place on 'Sunday.
According to the results known so far, the Left Wing block ob- tained 148,000 votes, the Catalan 18,000, in the city of Barcelonia Itself Transocean Kuo Min.
!
THE EX KAISER
ready so empowered.
Secondly, that the dollar will be devalued possibly to 50 cents, though it is "doubted whether Great Britain with whom an agreement is regarded as essen- tial wil, agree to a settled re- lationhstp between sterling the dollar.at that rate...
and
Thirdly, that the Government. will seek Congress sariction to impound Federal Reserve stock.
Fourthly," that an exchange equalisation fund will be created, after which Président Roosevelt will seek stabilisation of world currencies.--Reuter.
ties'
Min,
have
VAN DER LUBBE BURIED
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright,}}||||||||||
Leipal, Jan. 15.
that
the-
The question of filling the va- cancies on the various committees caused by Germany's withdrawal was postponed till the May ́ ́ ses- sion.
Among other items on the Council's programme are the var- The Reichstag Incendiary, Van lous complaints by the German der Lubbe, was quietly buried in minority in Folish Upper Silesia Monday in the presence of his Paraguay and Bolivia. The Coun- a Leipzig cemetery at 8.30 am, on and the Chaco dispute between
step-brother, the authorities hav-cl then adjourned until Wednes- Ing at the family's request re- day morning-Transocean" Kuc frained from handing over the Min. corpse to the Anatomical Institute for the purpose of an autopsy. Transocean Kuo Min.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
At to-day's meeting of the H.K. The Countess of Carlisle, who Rotary Club Rotarian A. Swann was seriously injured in a recent will speak on "Rotary and War.aeroplane accident, arrived in the Colony from Manila by v the s.s. Mr. Kurt Schaefer, Mariager of President Wilson yesterday. She Kunst & Albers Co. of Shanghai, is on the way, to Shanghal is in Hong Kong on business.
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One case each of meningitis and septicemia were reported in the Colony for the 24 hours ended January 14.
Mr. Alfred Leoni, Consul för the Argentine Republic has returned to Hong Kong after a brief visit on business to Manila
It is announced in Paris, says Havas, that M. Gilbert, Secretary Interpreter, Third Class, has been assigned to the French Consulate
Foochow
Mr. Walter Marshall; Asst. Gen. Manager of the Socony Vacuum Oll Co. of Hong Kong, has return- ed to his home after a pleasure trip to Mahila.
London, January 15... Princess arthur of Connaught has made good progress since her recent abdominal oneration but will remain in the nursing home for another fortnight. There will be subsequent period of convale- scence-British Wireless.
Pope Pius XI.on Monday receiv- ed Mgr. Zanin, the new Apostolic Delegate to China. Father Edmond Walsh, well-known American priest who helped to organise the fam-
the War,
ine relief in Russia and in Near East after the Great was also received by His Holiness.
All the silk filatures in the Settlement. Shanghai, remain closed at present in consequence of trade depression. There are 5,050
concerns affected. Of the flatures in Chinese controlled territory, which employ 27,897 hands, eight are operating with a complement
FIRST ARRIVALS..
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright.)]
Geneva, January 14. Among the first arrivals for the seventy-eighth League council mee- ting which is to be Inaugursted on Monday were the Polish Foreign Minister, M. Beck who will preside at the session, the Italian delegate, Count Aloisi; who is the Council's "Rapporteur" for the Saaï question —which will form the main topic of discussion-and the French de-
·legate, M. Massigli, The British Lord Privy "Beal, Mr. Anthony Eden, and the Czech Foreign Minis- ter, M. Benes, are expected · to reach here on Monday while Bir John Simon and Mr. Paul Boncour will probably not arrive before the middle or end of the week to take. a hand in the proceedings.---Trans- Ocean Kuo Min.
ALL REPORTS ADOPTED,
-London, January 15. Following an expression of regret by Monsieur Massigli of France. that the German delegates would not be present at the Council of the League when an examination of the conditions under which the Saar plebiscite is to be held next year, it was agreed that a Minister
should be sent to Berlin. All re- ports referred were adopted without. discussion this morning-British Wireless Service.
the world has grown so delicate were wholly constructed before the nith birthday, is suffering from through Hong Kong yesterday en operatives in the employ of ten of the private meeting of council
and complex that a dislocation in one part seriously affects every section. Victor is hardly better off than vanquished and certainly not as well off as the pre-war period.
Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
Press" (Copyright.)} / -
Amsterdam, January 14. The ex-Kaiser, who on the 27th inst will celebrate his, seventy-i
The Countess of Carlisle passed
blue-prints appeared in Paris an attack of rheumation
and route to her residence in Shang- Three military specialists have. must remain indoors, according hal after a brief pleasure trip to already been
despatched from to reports from Doorn-Trans- Manila.
ocean. Kuo Mini Paris to determine the full extent of the structural flaws.",
For British people the news has uncovered in the wake of the In spite of this truth whieh been an unpleasant. remainder of Stavisky swindle may be to the most of us have realized, it is de- the ceaseless. unrest which is good. Profiteers of a certain type plorable that governments stul seething in Europe and instigates have always been war-mongers, prefer to sacrifice sums of money the construction of such monu- but there is a large section of the on armaments and general pre- ments to Moloch. The welfare French public who genuinely desire paration for confict which are out and development of our far flung peace and we sincerely hope their EMBERS are reminded that of all proportion to the power of Empire depends on peace and the position may now be strengthened. Not the smoke from the muzzles in connection with the Rugby the people to defray, by taxation. friendly intercourse of nations, and
The Colony Australian If only a minor part of these British statesmen of all parties of guns but from the chimneys of versities XV, & Dinner will be wasteful disbursements were divert have made this their main plat peaceful homea should be the alm ld at the Gloucester Building on fursday, 18th January, at .00 P..ed into channels of rapprochment, form; it has always been the most of mankind. Now that the wall of Dinner tickets if only an lots of the energy can important business of Parliament concrete and steel is weakening Tonformal
dinding pertifs) $0.00, may be sumed were spent in the propa aince the days when the famous let it crumble away altogether
567 at the Clubhouse..
cat gation of friendly relationship be- phrase a "War to end War" was Lasting progress in the wo tween nations, a lasting peace coined
only come about", through might have been secured for man- Perhaps the corruption in French|rocity and construction, not el [2172) End.
profiteering circles which is now destruction.
PEYDE
Hon: Secretary,
0%
Mr. Wong Sik Chung, Compra- I of 3,830. dore of the Hong Kong & Kow- loon Wharf, and Godown Co., has returned to Hong Kong after a trip to Manila.
London, January 15. Trustees of British Museum de- Broadcasting stations of Europe cided on Saturday to release to began to change over to the new students as soon as they can be wavelengths allotted to them by found a collection of 136 letters Those interested in the suggested the Lucerne Plan shortly after written by Charles Dickens to hla formation of a Cornish Society in eleven o'clock, last night. It will wife, Catherine. They were, de- Hongkong are reminded of the not be possible to judge how far posited some time ago by the
of interference has Author's daughter with a provi meeting which is to take place at elimination the South China Morning Post, been effected by the new scheme son that they should be reserved until after sunset this evening from readers until her own desth British Wifeless.
and that of her brother the late Bir Henry Dickens-British Wire- less
Board Room at 6:45. p.m. to-day.
The engagement is announced between Lieutenant Derrick Ronald Ferguson, Royal Navy, of Bisdon, At the annual general meeting, Cheltenhamnz and Betsy Annia, only of the Europe-American Return- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A.|ed Students Union held on the 11th
Eustace, formerly of Hongkong..
London Hauary 15, The Greek Foreign="Lain Monsieur Maximos, who has Con a visit for England left/Long
·Berlin," Jan 14 instant, the ousers elected for the All postage stamps bearing the ensuing year were as follows likeness of the first President of President. Mr. Hin-shing Lo: Hon, the German Republic. Herr Fried Beretary Mr. Peter, Sin Homerick>15< are among those whose
reasurer, Mr. Wong-Mar-Ewing, validity ommitter: Messta,” M. K. Lo, K.: L-fccording Chat, Andrew Cheung and 15. the s
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