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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1934.
LINK WITH NURSE CAVELL
MARRIAGES UNTIL 6 P.M. NOW
TO EUROPE
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BY VALUE OF SILVER WOMAN WINS A
FINE RACE
Death Of Mr. Brand Putting The New Act An Attractive Offer
Whitlock
(Special Air-mall Service) -
London, May 30.
The death bus obcurred at Cannes of Mr. Brand Whitlock, who sa United States Minister in Brussels from. 1914 to 1917, made every effort to save Nurse Cavell during and after her trial by the Germans. He died on Wednesday night in a nursing home at the age of 65.
Into Force
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London, May 30. Registrars 缱 marriages and ministers of religion in England and Wales are now legally obliged to be available to officiate at wedd- ings until 6 pm, instead of only until 3 p.m. as in the past.
Instructions regarding this bave Just been issued to civil marriage officials by the Registrar-General.
The
now
Hils last appeal for Miss Cavell was made to the German Military
marriage hours have Governor of Bruseci valy a few heen brought into affect under the hours before her extention at two Marriage (Extension of Hours) Act o'clock on the morning of October which obtained the Royal Assent. 12, 1915. 1 am too ill," be wrote,inst Friday. "to present my petition to you in person, but I appeal to your generosity of heart to support it. and to save this unhappy woman from death. Take pity on her."
A few bours earlier he had written to Baron von der Lancken,
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An arrangement has recently been made between the Java- China-Japan Line and the· Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM.) by which passengers may travel to Java by steamer and from Java to Europe by airplane on through tickets at reduced fares.
travelling public, who wish to see This will enable those of the
Ball and Java on their way
to
Europe to do so at their leisure and yet arrive at their destination within the time which they would need in case they travelled by a fast direct steamer.
If a direct connection, should be preferred, the direct route to Bata-
Creating A Stable Exchange
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London, May '26. " In a letter to the "Times" Mz: E. F. Mackay states:-
Sir-in Sir Heart Deterling's courteous rejoinder to my latter emphasizes the importance of rail way charges being kept low in urder to increase tradio, and pay interest on European capital involved.
to
Air Speed-Man Among Her Rivals
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London, May 30. Mrs. K. Petre (Bugatti won splendid race at Brooklands this alternoon, a ruce in which abe de fented two other women and nine Une of the men she beat was Fit-Lient, O. S. Stamland, a mem
men.
As to the former, first considera-tor of the Schneider Trophy team tion must be given to securing the of air speed men in 1923. The race trade.
was the second one..
beans, seeds, and groundants can
Such bulk trades as soys not compote in the world's markets if the price of silver is high, and if you have not the cargo to carry
other words, by raising the value of silver you kill the gouss that lays
the golden egg, and again China must export if she is to pay for her imports,
The Act does not apply to Soot-via should be taken, there to trans-you cannot secure the freight. In land.
The reason for that is that Scot and aiready has these facilities.
fer to the airplane? leaving on the day after arrival at Batavia in which case the journey Hongkong- London takes 15 days.
In case the route via Bali is
the German Director of Political sharp discussion, and even through taken and a week spent in visit Affairs in Belgium: Her career, the partition the voice of Villalobar, ing this island as well as Jaya. devoted as it has been to humanity,It is idiotle, this thing you are the trip Hongkong-London would is such as to inspire the utmost going to do; you will have another take 22 days. In quoting through Bity and procure the utmost mercy, Louvain. "..
Į farës, 2, substantial reduction was But their efforts were useless, made on the regular fares of both and the task of mercy was made the J.C.J.L. and the KLM and, lying on the part of the German who wish to ay across Java, the as difficult as posible by downright for the benefit of those tourists,
Mr. Whit- military authorities.
The Spaniard's Help
As He himself was laid up by sickness, he asked tho Spanish Minister, the Marquis de Villale bar, to interview the German auth-lock's Legation was actually told Sourabaya-Batavia service of the orities for him. The marquis went that no penalty had been decided Royal Netherlands Indian Airways straight to the theatre, where the on 24 hours after the death sentence was taken up in the through ar-
had been passe Baron von der Lancken Was pocupying a box, and literally dragged him into
an adjoining
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"Their voices were heard," Mr. Brand Whitlock wrote later, Kin
Mr. Whitlock 'remained in Brus- sels until the entry of the United States into the war in 1817. He returned in 1919 with the rank of Ambassador and remained there until February, 1922.
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What believe both
So many cars were entered for the meeting that there was not room for all of them in the aual stalls, and a dozen of them had to overflow into a far corner of the paddock.
There was a big crowd of specta- tors, tool in the public enclosure.
Sir Malcolm Campbell was limp: ing to-day, and his right ankle was exporters badly swollen, the result of slipping
cause....
Among a large "number of drivers, making their first appearance ; af Brocklands was Mr. H. F. Denka,, the footballer and cricketer.
It Seemed A "Cert "* Another newcomer was Mr. N. S.
and importers in China urgently in his garage at home." want is a stable exchange value of silver. Under existing conditions, if an exporter buys produce for shipment Auctuations in the prios of silver, under the influsare of American speculation, may
Similarly, bankers who have to buy favourite for the first race or him to face a loss before he can even sell his bill, to his bankers Embiricos. He was made an odds-
merchants" bills in the ordinary paper the handicapper certainly course of business may be unable secried to have treated his Bugatti to cover without loss, again owing with generosity. to the saTHE cause. It converts
gamble." mercantile business into a pure
A DE LUXE MODEL which would be appointed 1 by
By the end of the first lap Mr. Embiricos had come right to the front and looked like winning the easiest victory in the history of Brooklands,
The proposal mentioned by Lord Desborough in your issue of today appears to m To be thoroughly Half a lap later he slowed right sound. If countries having large down and stopped, so letting Mr." gold reserves would retain 20 or D. A. Aldington's Frazer Nash win 30 per cent. of their holdings in a good race at 93.68 m.p.h., getting silver, that would absorb the aur home a little in front of Mr. F. plus stock, demand for the metal Allen's M.G., with Mr. W. E. being otherwise I believe about Humphrey's Alvis third. equal to supply. The Camenission
Finish In A Bunch Geneva, which nas grappled with Then we came to Mrs. Petre's. more difficult problems) to deal with these holdings could raise or Jameson Special, which bas a four- Str. Malcolm Campbell's new New Rickshaw For depress the price of the metal by
increasing or decreasing, their hold cylinder super-charged two-stroke ings, and if they turned the opera of the famous old 11-litre Delages,"
engine, housed in the chassis of one tions of the speculators into a smart foss a few times, these gentlemen not start.
was not ready, "wo Sir Malcolm did might possibly seek room for their gambling propensities in directiona
Shanghai
other
race,
Mr. T. A. Mathieson's Bugatti was driven by Fight-Lieutenant
Shanghai, June 7. 11. the present experience of the
I do not quite follow Sir Henri's C. S. Staniland, as Mathieson is Shangha! Municipal Council are contention that land speculators in till convalescing after appendicitis. falalled, the International Settle-Shanghai create a major influence with the exception of Mrs. K Staniland overhauled everything ment will soon see a public rick-. in the Chinese bankers' objection: shaw which will, as it were, take to silver inflation. I cannot Visua
Petre's which won a magnificent your breath away.
lize a land speculator exercising ruce by two lengths Staniland Instead of the dirty, dilapidat-eny influence over a Chinese ban was second and Mr. E. K. Rayson's ed. uncomfortable contraption ker, where the latter's own interests Riley third.
The first six curs finished close which, alas. is all too common op are concerned. In any event, the
value of land in Shanghai at together, and the winner's speed although Sir Henri state that the present is considerably depressed, was 100.04 mph.
In the first mountain race Mr. lower the price of silvor the higher 4. J. Cormack's Alta, starting from the price of land.
scratch, came right through the held and won an excellent race at 00.02 miles per hour from Dr. R. A. Beaver's Vauxhall, with Mr. C. T. Baker-Carr's Bentley third.
the streets of Shanghal to-day. It is proposed to introduce a swanky, springy, eminently sanitary vehi- cle which could not help getting both the applause and the patron- It is unfortunately too true that age of the community at large. China has been a large importer of Of course, plans are only tenta- rice, wheat, and flour since the tive at present, but nevertheless Revolution, and Sir.Henri's interest- quite definite ideas have been de-ing figures prove that productivity veloped by the Rickshaw Contro: has steadily decreased, which is Board whose members hope to entirely due to constant internal carry them out in practice in all essentials.
Here are some of the" features of the new de-luxe rickshaw, the 1934 Shanghai super-special, as it might be reverently called:-
Round back, instead of the ugly square stern now presented by public rickshaws.
warfare."
Sir Malcolm Campbell Second
The second mountain race 'pro- duced a glorious battle between Sir Malcolmi Campbell in his Sunbearn and Mr. Raymond Mays' Riley, less than half its size..
Dr. Rajchmann's report, referred to in your issue of the 11th ustant, point the way to such possible Both started from scratch. and agricultural and other reconstruc- May squeezed in front
and kept Lion as will enable China to preduce there for three laps, when Camp ample foodstuffs for the needs of bell got in front. They finished in her own people. Let us hope she that order, second and third, how- will be able to accept the proposed ever, neither being able to catch help and put it into practical effect; Mr. W.E. Harker's Harker Special, and that this valuable report, like the winner, who had 31 minutes' and easily recognizable; above all so many others, will not be stuffed start from them both.. easily distinguishable from the
In a pigeonhole. I am, &c.,
sober black of the private rick-
EDWARD F. MACKAY, shaws. Finished In “Duco,"
Avalon, Tadworth, Surrey.
Colour:-fire-engine red: smart
Stuffed Leatherette
Interior: leatherette, stuffed with sterilized hair other suitable material.
Cushlon, either of pneumatic rubber or of material like the up- holstery. Three inches thick!
Hood: black canvas, with four ribs instead of the present in- adequate three.
Apron: af similar material and of ample dimensions.
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Shafts: to be quipped with "foot" rests in front. While there will be two rests in the rear,. in- stead of the present, one.
FAR EAST PROBLEM
League Societies" Resolution
(Special Air Mail Service)
Hls winning speed was 67.5 per 67.5 miles an hour. The Harker Special has two supercharged Austin Seven engines coupled together.
BIG MONEY IN FOOTBALL
E.A.S. £149,535 Assets
(Special Air Mail Service);
London, May 30, The balance-sheet of the Foot ball Association, issued yesterday, London, May 30.
makes remarkable reading. Apa magh Neither the Japanese nor the
The Association's assets amount ..Wheels: spokes and rims to be Chinese delegates to the Interna to, £149,535, of which £101,864 1s chromium plated; mudguards: of tional Federation of the League of Inglit-edged securities. The metal, and “Ducoed" in black. Al-Nations Societies' Congress at headquarters of the Association, so, dress guards, for the benefit of Folkestone spoke when the plenary 22, Lancaster-gate. W., are valued the Ladles
session discussed the situation in at £14,698, and the sum of £14,562, the Far Enak. 12 Springs of the comfortable "0"
is on loan to clubs for the acquisi- type-easy riding assured.
Both of them, however, applauded tion of Ireehold grounds. the passing of a resolution express Brakes: it is tentatively suggesting the hope that an early oppor- ing was £15,863, of which 25,070 The profit on Iast season's work- ed to have a brake for the use tunity would be found of establish represents interest from invest- of the puller bu: If this feature ing in Manchuria & permanent basisments. The surplus funds have prove too expensive it will not be of peace...“
thus been raised from £133,67% to I insisted upon.
Taken all in all, the proposed new public rickshaw is little differ- ent from the better type of pri- vate rickshaw and would be a dis tinct asset to the Shanghai traffé pleture which now teems with wheezy and ungainly publié rick- shaws, generally Insanitary and uncomfortable.-N.-C.D.N.
The Earl of Lytton, who was £149,535 during the year head of a recent Commission to the The FA. share of the Cup Final Far East, said that sooner or later profits was £5,081 from the the League would have to go back Amateur Cup Final they received would be made if the League foiled the international match account to this question. Every allowance2822 to achieve complete success, but
the one thing that could never be shows a profit of £18,324, of which forgiven, and which the League 13,384 was derived from the could never, survive, would be if it England versus Scotlandt match at did not try,"
Wembley last month,