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Before
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$7,495
EL.K. BACKE
$1,000
Do. (London)...
£13
Chartered Banke ...!
£96
2$9
Mercantile Eks. "A"
Bo.
#h
N. G. & S. Barks
+41
Bank of East Asia. $79
Am. O. Fin.Corp: 8.
Ch. Fin Corp. Ord, B.
Do. Prel
Insuranend
Canton Insurances...
3370
$2.10
Underwriters *** $1
#570
Union Insurances .......
8570
480
Chins Fires) $478
1760
H.K. Fires VALERISTY
$955
nternational Anson, B..
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Shipping
#36
Douglases
$35
Steamboats
13
$30
Indos (prel)
330
$20
Do. (det)
320
£2/6
Shelle.....
H2,6
་་་
The
Waterboats
$1.35 $1345
1.38
81.30
$1.35
វេ
15.
$1
Benguet Consolidated
-816)
11 ap
Da. Goldfold.....
13 at
Big Wedge ....................
(12 str.
7 ct
Gold Biver....
101 cis.
01 cts!
1991
$100
$1.55
fatetik
Amtamoks..................... Balatcos...SEPATUNAYA
22 eta. Baguio Gold........
Do Exploration 1ets.
Paracales
ลด
ats.
Ipo Mining......
12/-
$12.
Langkats (single) 8.
#32
30 ots Gold Creek.......
18cts Salacos Mining....151.
36hots Itogons
16 ats
Kailans........
Explorations......di Shanghai Loans 3, Rauba...~**** Venezuela Gold Flr Docks, WharvOK, Godowns, sta..." H.K. & K. Wharver.
$10.20
Do. (old) $100 Do. (new)
Providents (old) ...!
Do.
H.K. & W. Docks
$1.55
$3
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1936.
ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE
TO CONGRESS
British Press Comment
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himself to an extreme sanctions policy, the knew what the United States were going to do. If Congress endorses the President's policy the British Government will now know.
The "Morning Post" gays: In the revised neutrality legislation which President Roosevelt recommends it
AERODROMES IN INDIA
CIVIL AVIATION SHOWS
PROGRESS
Better Facilities For Traffic
S. E. Levy & Co.
167, ICE HOUSE STREKT INVESTMENT BANKERS & BRONZES
VEN TORK COTTÓN EXCHANGE.
COMMODITY STÖHANGE, INO, NOT. CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE
- CANADIAN COMMODITY EXCHANGE, ING..
DOREMSPONDENTS FOR
WHITE, WELD » có.. xxW YORK
London: Jan. 8. President Roosevelt's message to Congress has received the widest publicity in the British Press and almost all the newspapers to-day
The last twelve months have contain leading articles comment
seen marked progress in the deve- ing upon the speech which is
"What is even more to the pointlopment of civil aviation in India. described as a most outspoken ut- is that the League will also know on the trans-India route along terance on international affairs If any proposal should be made to which Air France, Imperial Air- which has been heard for years extend the present sanctions ways, and KLM operate, trac
connection from the head of a Government in
with the Italo-increasing rapidly and in other The "Times”
says: "Roosevelt Abyssianian war. Genèva" will be parts of India extensions to the has expounded with timely and gratided by this aspect of the internal air routes are necessitat- commendable vigour two ways development on the other side of ing an increase in the facilities open to the nations in this era of the atlantic.”
avaliable for accommodation both furthering national demands. One
for the aircraft and for the pas is the old way by the law of the
In the Auril sengers and malls. sword. Britain and the prepon
issue of "Shell Aviation News" deracing mass of nations adamant against it. It runs coun-is laid down that the export of there appeared an article outlin- ter to every hope, moral and articles and materials to "bellling the future polscy of the Direc- gerents must be confined to their torate of Civil Aviation and the material, of civilization:
following information has recent- normal peace time dimensions.
Strice Italy in 1933 took only fively come to hand and should be per cent, and in 1934 only 8 per read in conlupetion with the cre- cent, of her all from America, this vious article.
At Drigh Road, the airport of means that if the Bill is passed
and the first point in there will be for all practical par- Karachi poses an embargo on export of India to be reached on the route American all to Italy. President from Europe to the Bast, an all- has thus thoroughly steel hangar with two spars 199 Roosevelt
feet wide is to be built, and pre- clarified the oll issue as far as
iminary work on the rearrange- Europe is concerned.
ment of the existing facilities is due to begin within the next six
We do not, of course, imagine Alleged to have been loitering in months At Hyderabad a beacon Ice House
Street between the that our ubiquitous womenfolk will achieve the static quality of a
"Yet equally Britain is ready to work and treat with any country Its political constitution which will choose the other way and bring its; aspirations, needs and grievances to a test of negotiation and dis- cussion.
sees the choice as clearly as President Roosevelt and is more determined in its prefer- ence than at any time since the wir."
It
The "Daily Telegraph" says that adopted President Roosevelt's new neutrality doctrine will mark
The League countries, if they so decide, can now make the oll 'em- bargo from 80 to 90 per cent.
ITALIAN CASUALTIES IN THE WAR
Rome, Jan. 6. It la officially stated that the Italian battle losses from the out- break of the "war. up to December 31, 18935, total 380 Lilled and 14 missing, while 250 workmen have died of disease and from accid-
ents-
Reuter,
HONOURABLE FASHION
London, Dec. 19.
Tho" Chinese" Exhibition is SI- ready having an effect on wo-
men's fashion.
We are promised the "celestias," touch in frocks and hats for next spring. So we may expect some- thing really feminine in colours
and draperies.
Fashion designers have been. quick to realise the possibilities for modern adaptation of the ideas of, the old Oriental artists.
a profound change in the perman- | effective, which would be amply has been installed on the sero-hours of from sunset and a Chinese print, Such would hardly
sufficient to bring a modern war, drome and is now in operation.and having in his possession tools suit this age of mobility.
ent polley of the United States.
"Mr. Stanley Baldwin once de- clared he would never commit
VALIDITY OF
1100
199
10 ot.
19
671
180
S. China Motors A Shangnai Dock S.
U.S. LAWS
$60
14
New Engineerings,
34
$2371
Hongkows
...... 8.
Three Cases Of
15,20
Importance
$37
398
$100
Lands, Hotels, and
Bulidinga
"H.K. Hotain
H.K Lands.........8. Do. 4% Debentures Shanghai Landa...9.
$6,30
$36
$20
$10
Metropolitan Lande..
$5.35
H.E. Realties.****
14
Chian Do....S.
136
Do. Debenturea3.
$10.40
New Asia Hotel
Asia Realtige "AS.
Do. "B" S.
$84
Chiness Estates......
"}}
Humphrey .............. 110ž
Cotton Mille
Ewas
S'ha Cottons(old)S.
Star Ferries $90
Yaumati Ferries$181
China Lighte (old)...
Do. (new)... $7.10 H.K. Electrica *****
191
$75
#42
$11.
nachine to a standstill. British Wiralzst.
CURRENCY PLAN IN CHINA
It is, however proposed to con- suitable for house-breaking, name- tinue to Illuminate the aero-
It is perhaps in those momentous ly a spanner and a pair of pliers, detalls that we shall enjoy a drome when necessary by fares. -Kappeared before Mr. Macsartorial change, the cut of a gown. No further alterations have been
fadyen at the Central Magistracy
carried out at Jodhpur since the vesterday morning, and on admitt. the shape of a hat, the swing of
hangar
new control tower and were completed. It is now doubt
ful whether the aerodrome"at "Ali- Bore on the outskirts of Calcutta will replace Dum Dum as the chief
airport, for the cost of making
ing his intention of committing a
burglary was bound over for $25 on each charge.
Two district watchmen on duty Ice House Streat at about 89.30
a cloak the movement of a ten,
Thus there is nothing new, in
dress, under the sun, but little did
the anonymous artist building his dreams in remate China a thou- sand years ago think that he
year of grace.
Major Modification Allpere suitable for use by the in- on December 23 noticed the de- would influence madame in this
Report
ternational airlines is likely to be prohibitive. but it is possible that the Government may erect a han gar there for the use of Indian National Airways to relleve, the congestion at the main airport.
Madras-Calcutta "Eoute
Shanghai. Circles close to the Ministry of Finance profess ignorance of the
On report that major modificat.ons of programme Nanking's currency
Washington, Jan, S. The United States Supreme Court, when 12 reassembles to- morrow, may announce its deci sion on three cases. of vitai im- portance to the Government's pro-are contemplated, though it is ad-
mitted that the Chinese Govern
la ment closely watching the effects of the recent change in the American silver buying polley, in which connection Dr. H. H. Kung,
gramme,
First, the Hoosac Mills case, in which the Government has ap- pealed against the decision of a rwer court that the Government
is not entitled to regulate agr cul- Mr. T. V. Boong and Sir Frederick tural production, and that process-Leith-Ross have been holding con- ferences.repeatedly during the last
few weeks..
ing taxes are unconstitutional. will claim the attention of the
Although the excitable local Judges.
Then, there is the case of a market is alive with rumours, the only definite factors of the situa
m Hers number of Louisiana rice 310.35 who are seeking a permanent in- junction restraining the Govern- $70
ment from collecting a processing
8411
По
(now).
$12
Zoong Sings...... S.
$20
Winx On Textiles(8.) $16
444
Publis Utilimu
214.60
Tramways senas
$14.66
$5
Poak Trama (old)... $6,30 Do. (new)... 12.85
TH
કમ
$10.20
$10.20
$7.45
$20
Macao do.
13.10
Sandakan Lighte
Lax.
$26.85
LDA
Telephones (old)
$281
$10.05
Do
*(new)
$10
$11
Chins Buses......8.
17/
Tractions.
18/0
261-
Do. (prof.)
Industriala
$8.40
*$7.84 $4.85
$21
$3.10
Malabon Sugars
$19 Caldbeck, Yord.) 8.
$16 $1.45
13.40
32
30 eta
$61
$5
Macgregor (prof.)8.
Canton Ice
Comments
·
*****$7.60
Bope....onstanci| $4.80
"Miscellansons
Dairy
Mire Farms............
Amusements ......
Ch. Etainment...... 13.20 Constructions, (old) $1.40
Lane
Do.
_{new}}40 cts.!
Crawfords... Mackintosha........
Nanyang Tobacco...
Fincarek
Watsona.....#9121 |
W Powells
441
th
70 ot.
$2 $1.35
M. Greyhounds.......
C. Enterprises
91.
prom. 5%
nar.
256
Ch.G.8% 1925G.9 Bd. 91X
HL.K. Gort, 4% Loans
Do
312
Wallace Harper H.K. Wing On B'bal
Do.
Vibro Pileng
201
$3.40
$4,40
NEW YORK STOCK AND
COMMODITY QUOTATIONS
(Through Reuter's. Agency)·
Cotton, May
Rubber, December......
Chicago Wheat, May........ Corn, May
Anaconda Copper
El Bond and Share
General Motora
Montgomery Ward
NY. Central:
US. Steel
Last
***
$1.
January 6 Close Open 10:30 10.45
11.10
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617
STOCKS
291
101
56
381
201
481
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11.04-11.05-
13.884 13.84
1037
020
234.
· 161151
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381 381.
New York Stock Exchange Quotations appear on Page 15
tions are:-
1. China is continuing to make
Ame direct silver shipments to rica, which are estimated already amount to nearly $80,000,000 slace December 21; and
to
on
fendant walking up and down the street in a leisurely way. When he had done this for some time. the watchmen went up to him and made a search. Defendant stated that he was looking for £ man called Ah Foo, working for Dad- well and C., Police coquiries the next day revealed that there was no such man..
"
•
We look forward to "La Mode Chinoise" with no little pleasure.
spent the last few months--in- Munich, Germany but were due to arrive in New York on December 21 to remain for the rest of the year.
י ין
Under the provisions of Land VIA the Municipal Regulations Council is required to appoint a the Madras-Calcutta route
Land Commissioner each year. "At the Council meeting on December an aerodrome is proposed at Dor-
23, Mr. H, Berents, who has been nakonda, and at Madras Itself a piece of land 1.000 yards square Sentence of six months hard the Connell's appointee for the the Foamallee high road. Iabour was passed on Lam Kee, past six years, was re-appointed as seven miles from the centre of the (29), unemployed, by Mr. Macfada Land Commissioner for the city, has been purchased. This is yen at the Central Magistracy past six years, was re-appointed as ad- Land Commissioner, for the a very much more convenient sit- yesterday morning when he uation than that of the existing mitted guilty to the charge of be- Municipal year 1938-7. aerodrome at Meenambakam. The ing in possession of a forged $10
Mr. Egbert M Hayes, formerly proposals to substitute the existing of the Chartered Bank of India, neodrome at Hakimpet by the
Australia and China. Defendant with the P.U.M.C., is now studying new aerodrome at Begumpet near admitted knowing that the note at Columbia University and Union. Secunderabad are being pressed was a forgery and said that it had Theological Seminary. Mrs, Hayes forward and it is believed that been given to him by his uncle and their two daughters have work will begin very shortly. The to pay a debt. Trivandrum aerodrome should be ready or use during the next lew
Sentence of six months hard weeks: At Coimbatore the DUNS.... cipality has voted the necessary labour and 15 strokes of the birch,
In one night thirteen Manchu Finally, the Court will rule on
funds for the purchase of $1 acres and, if found unfit, an additional the validity of the Bankhead Act, 2. The Chinese Government is
of land and the negotiations for two months' hard labour, was im- drug addicts were found frozen to posed by Mr: W. Schofield, at the death in the streets of Harbin. regulating the production of cot-vigorously making efforts to carry its acquisition are now in progress.
yesterday The temperature fell to 45 degrees Magistracy into effect the nationalisation or- ton, which has been challenged.
In the North-West automatic Central Well-informed egal opinion an- der of November 3,
beacons are to be installed at Faraorning, on Lan Wai-chuen, aged below zero. Every night two or Licipates that the processing taxes The American banks in Shang didan and Sukkur and the Dir- 35 years, unemployed, who pleaded three of these unfortunate people will be declared unconstitutional, | hai have accepted the offer to
ectorate of Civil Aviation has ta- guilty to a charge of theft of a meet a silent death in Harbin's which will strike a severe blow at exchange their silver holdings for
ken over the landing ground at leather handbag, containing $54.16 most severe winter since 1907. Fresident Roosevelt's New Deal notes at par, plus a premium of
Jacobabad, where work has been in money and toilet articles, from Railway lines in North Manchuria Administration and may necesal-5 per cent. for two years on two-carried out to improve the ap Fung Yim-yung, married woman. are cracking on account of the tate the imposition of new taxes, thirds of the amount surrendered.
proaches by the removal of trees at Pokfulum Road, near High severe frost. thus upsetting the Government's The British and other banks have
and telegraph wires. Hece work Street,
said the Mr. Eric Linklater, whose first will also be started shortly on ex-" Inspector Hour han promise that no new taxation was not yet decided their attitude to-
wards the offer. contemplated
tensions to the landing area and complainant was standing at the volume of short stories, "God Likes OFFICIAL DENIAL
to the diagonal asphalt-surfaced Junction of High Street and Pok- Them Plain," is just published, is The overhrow of the Agricui-
bus now on his way to China, reports It is hoped that the futum Road waiting för a Administration tural Adjustment
The report that Manking con- runaway. by an adverse decision would be templates a major change in the aerodrome will be at for use in when the defendant came up from the "Evening Standard of Lon- a bombshell for Congress. while currency programme of that Dr. all weathers before the monsoon behind and snatched the bag. The dan. Don Juan in America, it the defeat of the Bankhead Act Kung. Mr. Soong and Sir Frederick breaks next year. No beacon will defendant then ran down Fokfu will be remembered, ends with the would render the cotton control Leith-Rose had conferences in be provided at this point as it is im Road to Third Street, follow heroine leaving for the Far East.
assumed that pilots can locate ed by the complainant. In Third programme more difficult and up- that connection during the week-
Jacobabad by the lights of the Street; the defendant threw the set the cotton market very ser'ons-end, are authoritatively denied, "
It is stated that there have na town, but filumination for night bag away, and was arrested by 1y Reuter.
turally been exchanges of views landings will be provided by Bares district, watchman. All the pro- in the past few weeks concerning when necessary.
perty was recovered. The general financial situation, but all rumours which attach un- due significance thereto should be completely discounted/ Heuter.
USE OF GAS BOMBS REPORTED
EGYPTIAN RED CROSS PROTEST
At Lahore it is intended to "con- struct a hangar with a span of 100 feet and at this aerodrome In- dian National Airways will pro- after which aircraft will disem- bably also construct their own bark passengers and malls on the hangar. The mobile floodlighting Qutab Road side of the aerodrome.
It will be diicult for Mr. Linklater to avoid a sequel. The East is not new to him. He spent some years the start of the ""Times of India," in Bombay.
In connection with the FBL Scheme of Apprenticeships, eight Chinese students have sailed for England to take up positions in engineering works. Those who
Deasiye, Jan. 5.
apparatus and beacon at Uterial A new hanger in to be, bullt ad sailed in the s.4. Ranchi on Decem- Many gas Dombs, are reported to
bave been anperseded by a station joining the administrative blocker 10 were Ban Sing-dee for the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., been dropped by Italian havu
ary automatic beacon and dares | At Gaya some difficulty has been to Manchester, Cheng, L. Z. for
in making both planes yesterday around Ambaa-
are now available for night land- encountered
Messra Braithwaite & Co. (Engi- lag, south of Makale, in an aero
inge. In addition to the night fly- arms of the landing area service neers) Ltd, West Bromwich & plane attack in which four Ethio-
Cairo, Jan. 5.
ing facilites referred to above, the able during the monsoons, and it Newport, Hsu Yn for Messrs, Head, plan soldiers were killed..
News of the bombing of the provision of automatic beacons for is possible that the site may be Wrightson & Co. Ltd., Thornby Presumably the Italians are at Egyptian Red Cross, mission at the trans-India route at Dharo abandoned in favour of another on-Tees: Tien Cheh for Messrs. tempting to break up the concen- Daggabbur has caused consider Naro between Hyderbad and Uter eleven miles distant. At Tatana Bells & Morcom, Ltd., Ladywood, tration of Ethiopian troops which.able indignation here and a pro-lal and at Merta Road between gar work on the new aerodrome Birmingham. The one who sailed been in the az. Naiders on December 24 Las been made in this area with test has been sent to the League Jodhpur, and Delhi, is being com- almost completed. It has a view to threatening Makale. of Nations by Prince Omar Tous sidered and illuminated wind trees carried out by Mesars, Tatas who was Chiang Chis-ren for the Hundreds of bombs are also re- soum and the Coptic Patriarch and obstruction and perimeter own the ground and who hope Standard Telephone & Cables, Ltd. ported to have been dropped near pointing out that four days pre-shte will probably be provided at that the aerodrome may become a London, while those who sailed in Debra Tabor, about thirty miles vious to the attack on the unit Hyderabad, Jacobabad, Lahore regular point of call on the Bom the s. Prometheus on December east of Lake Tsana, on which at Dazgahour gas bombs were and Uterial. At Delhi two, me-bay-Calcutta service. Up to the 29 were Chang Kuang-chou for Rheet of water Great Britain's dropped on an aminlance talied runways have recently been present no decision has been made David Brown & Bona; Hudders- troops keep guard. No damage 1 Anti-Italian demonstrations by completed, and work has started as to whether stils service will field, HH Chen for Mesars. Mavor reported from this raid in the Egyptian students are reported on the new administrative build operate on the direct route via & Coulson, Ltd, Glasgow, and Koo
logs which are expected to be fin- Nagpur or the indirect route via Shu Koh. for the Express LATE CA Forth
from Fayum province.--
ished by the end of January, 1938, Cawnpore.
Ltd, Northampton. Beuter
keuter.