CRAVEN
These are the days
to be careful
of your throat
I always am
smoke Craven A”
They
never
Vary!
IN EASY-ACCESS' INNER FOIL PACKETS, ALSO.
IN "TRU-YAC”*50* TINS.
When we seal the TR.VAC sintight TIN the FACTORY. FRESHNESS OF CILAVEN "Aar
Is securely Imprisoned uncil the ecal is 'broken by' "“pulling' thr rubber tabno cer larand edges.
Remember
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1936.
CRAVEN
VIRGINIA IGARETTES.
CRAVENA
ARE MADE SPECIALLY TO PREVENT SORE THROATS MADE IN LONDON, ENGLAND, BY CARRERAS LTD
CUSTOMS REVENUE
COLLECTION
Total Income Down By Twenty Millions
Nanking, Dec. 31, The Ministry of Finance autho- rizes publication of the following statement concerning the Customs Revenue Collection for the year 1935:
On Export
Duty .......
1,093,742.87
1934
TRU VAC
CIGARETIRE
CATE
LOAN FOR HUAI RIVER CONSERVANCY
Shanghai, Jazı. 6.- Arrangements have been"-com- pletea betwecri the Kiangsu, G- vernment and the local Chinese banks for mortgage of $3,500,000 worth of food relief bonds and $3,000,000 worth of Kiangsu recon- struction bonds for a loan of $1,100,000 for the Hyal River con Ervanes
t
Of the total amount of the loan. $110,000 each, will be borne by the Central Bank, the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications. and $550,000 each, by the Klanggu $ 16,988.189.81 Provincial Bank and Kiangsu Far- $. 4,302,032,54mer's Bank
Import Duty ...C.G.U. 132,673.387.48 Export Duty .... $24.700.809.52 Interport Duty and Interport Burtax
demnity account during the pre- vious year.
"The Customs Revenue for 1935, composed of Import and Export Duties, Interport Duty and Inter-Tonnage Dues port Surtax, Tonnage Dies, 'Flood, | Flood Relief Rellet Burtar and Revenue Surtax, Surfax: amounted to $315,519,712.03, 28, On Import. compared with $334,545,408.55 for Duty........C.G.. 6,620.498.53 1934.
On Export
The service (amortization and Duty
1,235,780.74 Revenue Burtax:
Luterest of the American Wheat and Flour Loan of 1931 and Cotton On Import
and Wheat Loan of 1933 has been Duty.C.G.. 6,608.151.53 met in full from the collection of On Export Duty .....
The contributions made by each category of duty towards this total, as well as the corresponding igures for 1934, are showin. below:
Import Duty
Export Opts
Interport Duty
and Interport Burtex Tonnage: Duça... Flood Reller
Burtax:
On Import
1235
.C.G.U. 137.553,303.43
11
20,731,524.44
Flood, Relic, surtax, at a total cost
$ 1,235.402.44 or $12,074,905,13.
INTERNAL LOANS
In accordance with the terms of the
Mandate of February 24, 1933, relative to in- temal loans, the sum of $8,500,000 has been paid monthly, to the ac-
Of the total Import Duty collec- tion of CG.U. 137,553.303.43, 6796 was collected tu actual gold vnit
Government's $ 13,207,545.14 drafts or notes. The balance was $ 4,320,600.82 collected in local currency accord- ing to exchange rates guling on the date of payment of duty.
The total collections made at each C.G.U. 6,872,319.30 of the principal revenue producing ports during the year 1935, also the 1,094,008,01 amount of the increase or decrease $
which these totals represent as On Import
compared with the collection for Duty ......C.G.V. 8,880,571.41 | 1934, are as follows?
Port
Collection 1935
Duty
On Ro
Duty
Revenue surtax:
Chinwangtao
Tientaln
1,428,311.69
41,064,033.25
Increase Decrease Over 1934:
Chefoo: including Lung-
kow and Weinwel) 5,407,420.37
2 22,313,25454 2164,570.29 22,398,228.46 -8,030,878,12 149,127,439.27
Tsingtao.
Hankow.
Shanghai
Amoy
Swatow
Kowloon Canton
*
FOREIGN LOANS
831,152.39 74,677.03
6,791.39
26,236,024.86
6.005.010.53 498,454.08
4,780,905.79
7,346,730.82
1,032,800,34 --116,111.68,
9,616,502,60 1,603.400.18
TO-DAY'S RADIO GUARDING KENT
PROGRAMMES
Broadcast by Z.B.W
On 355 Metres
12.39 to 2,15 pm-European pro-
ETENIME
12.30 p.m.-Recorded music.
1 am-Local time and weather
report
1.15 pm-Hong Kong Hotel Or
chestra.
130 p.m-Reuter Press Bulletins
Rugby Press, News, etc.
2.15 p.m.--Close down."
4 to 7 pm-Chinese programma. 8 to 6.15 pm-Childrens Studio
Concert.
7 to 11 p.m.-European programme 7. to 7.30 pm-
Military Band Musie
Ruy Blas Overture (Mendelssohn) Tancredi Overture (Rosink). Mirella Overture (Gounod). Marching with Sousa. Songs of Wales.
7.30 to 8 pm.
From the Studfo A Violin and Pianoforte Recital by Jose "Radesky and Mona Macleatie
PROGRAMME
1. High Jinks Waltzes.(Frimi.) 2. Becond Selection "Lilac Time"
-Schubert
3. Violin Solos:-
Vale Triste.----Sibellus.
Rigoletto. Singelee.
4. La Paloma.~Tradier,
TRADITIONS
THE DUKE'S APPEAL TO
COUNTY SOCIETY
A Cordial Reception Accorded
The Duke of Kent received a cordial reception when he was the guest of the Association at Men of Kent and Kentish Men at their
thirty-eighth anniversary dinner held at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London. The Pre- sident (Lord Cornwallis) `WEE
and guests were, present. the chair. Nearly 700 members
Σ
Lord Cornwallis, proposing the | health of the Duke of Kent their patron. said that every one in Kent was overjoyed when the King conferred the title of Duke, o: Kent on him. They tendered their congratulations to him on the birth of his son and they wished health and happiness to thr. "Trince, of Kent"
Mother's Fifteen Years Of Adventure
Looked For Thrills And Found Them In The Desert
London, Dec 18.
"Is this a private ight or can anybody join in?”
This is not the creed of an ad- venturous young man but of a mo- ther of two children, sculptress, traveller, and author-Clare Shert- dan, home in England again for the first time in fifteen years.
For fifteen years the adventure side of this remarkable woman's personality has held sway and led her into many this and often danger. Now she is trying to sub- due, it, and doing her best to set tle down to a life of peace and quiet in St John's Wood, London.
"'You can go,' she said, "but I will stop hera“
"She did, and was in the house alone. The Arabs in the rounding country took it upon themselves to look arter her unill she was married, when she was about eighteen.
"I have, I think, come nearer to death in Paris and Dublin, than in such outlandish places at Bis- kra or the jungle in Mexico, where
pitched my camp for some time. "Riots in the Place de la Con- corde were one of the biggest- thrills I have ever experienced was living in Paris and knew pret- Here in her studio, surrounded
ty well how events were shaping." by busts of Lenin, Mussolini. and The day before the riots I heard any others, she recounted to-they-were-being-staged-and-wired "Thomson's Weekly News repre- to my brother in England. Some-" sentative some of the adventures thing is going to happen,' I sald she has been through,
In the telegram and within a few hours he was with me.
"After journeying across Euron to the Bosphorus, then making a trip to Mexico and many other places, I finally settled in the de- sert at Biskra," she said.
IN PARIS RIOTS.
"We were with the mob whlie the police were firing. In the mid-
The Duke of Kent "in reply, thanked the association on be half of the Duchess and himself for their congratulations on the birth of their son, who he was gure, when a little cider. would "There, the Arabs, while terrify-die of it a Frenchman came up. be pleased to meet any "fair maiding to look at, are really quite to my brother and said, "This is of Kent." (Laughter.) He was friendly and pleasant for the main no place for your woman glad to know that that association part. On one or two occasions. however when I got off the beaten track a bit, I learned that they could put the wind up anyboda. very quickly.
8 pm-Local time and weather re- had not only Keat in its name but
port,
Kent in its heart. 8.03 to 8.15 p.m.-
"Lord Cornwallis referred." he continued, "to my being given
$
A Relay from Daventry
A Talk by the Chief Engineer of the title of Duke of Kent, but he the British Broadcasting Corpus it in a rather one-sided way. poration.
saying that it gave great pleasure to the county. He entirely forgot From the Studio
what a pleasure it is to me thus to Selections by "The Waikiki Trio." become associated with Kent.
8.15 to 8.35 p.01.-**
PROGRAMME
1. My Isle on Hilo Bay.
2. Fort Street Rag.
3. Beautiful Kahana
4. Molokai.
5. Wallina Waltz 8.35 to 9 p.m.-"Symphonie Espag-
nole for Violin and Orchestra (Lalo. Op 211) played by Bronislaw Huberman and the Vienna Philharmonic Orches
"
"Among the many activities to which I have ready referred there is one about which I should like to say a few words, and that is the Benevolent Fund, by means of which you are able to help many deserving old people in the country, I think the existence of such a fund is ample proot of the taft that your association has the welfare of Kent and all its in- habitants really at heart.
9 to 9.15pm-A Relay of the
Lord Cornwallis pledged your Daventry, News Bulletin (Copy-help just now in any job that I rigns by Reuters."
9.15 to 9.30 p.m
Four Songs from "First. a Girl”
wanted done in the county. There 1-qne thing which you alone can help. and that is to continue.
"I was going from Blakra to Algiers in the car, myself driving and my daughter with me. There was just the two of us. Now, I can drive the car all right so long as the engine is mod erder but when anything goes wrong" I am stumped. 1 cannot, do anything until it is put right for me.
STRANDED IN THE DESERT. "We had gone along very com- fortably, and speedily for several hours when the car libbed. After sundry strange noises from the works and a final puff of complete exhaustion she pulled up dead. There we were, sand, and. Afiles
and miles of it.
when we stopped but in a short "There was noboby to be seen
time Arabs seemed to appear from nowhere---
*She is my slater," he replied." "Well you "should Dot have brought her here, said the Frenchman..
**T didn't bring her,' my bro- ther replied, 'she brought me."
"Anyway - things were getting yery hut and the Frenchman di- rected me to a hotel where he said I would be safe. Having seen the best of the fun, I went."
When not seeking thrills in un- gagal ways and places, Clare She- ridan has" devoted; her time to sculpture, and this work even has gaven her experiences which ,to say the least, have been exciting.
"While I was doing Mussolini's bus," she said, "I asked him the things he cared for in this life.
"With his arm upraised he, bore
down upon me, and stopping dead in front of me, shouted, "Power." He-ls a-wonderful actor.
"Gandhi told me he knew no......... thing of art and did not care any- thing-about-his-portrait-A-T want to do is my work," he said.
1. Everthing's in Rhythm wien į as a society. to aim, at being a There was a terrible lot of jabbez- | All the time I was doing his bust
sung by Jessie Matthew
my. heart.
2. The Little, Sükworm,
3. Say the Word and it's yours,
z I can Wiggle my ears. 9.30 to 10 p.m.-
From the Studio
"Rebels in China" by Professor
C. A. Middleton-Smith. 10 pm-Big Ben. 10 to 10.13 p.m.-
Nat Conella and his Georgiana
Pidgin English Hala
7. Oh! Peter You're so nice. 3. Truckin
4. The Ghost of Dinan.
10.13 to 10.30 pm. Excerpts from
"Please Teacher
10.30 to 11 pm Dance music. 11 p.m.-Close down.
BERLIN PROGRAMME
"They were all strangers to me.
power for the welfare of
youring going on. I had endeavoured he was spinning, county, to
guard its traditions to get some of them to ride off and "Lenin, Trotsky, Mustapha Ke- preserve its beauty, help forward fetch help but we could not come mal, I have done them all, and its industries, and watch over the to an agreement over terms. As many more beside. welfare of its inhabitants."
far as I could make out they want- ed enough money to set them all up in comfort for life.
Dig
Dead At Everest Food Dump
"I have never been to China. I have always wanted to go. As.. present I am happy in my new "Affairs were reaching ugly pro- | surroundings, but when the old portions and I wna beginning to urge comes I don't know that I feel some alarm for my daughter should be able to resist it." and myseli.
"I then saw in the distance a cloud of dust. I thought for the
HOW THE LONE CLIMBER moment it was just a demo WHAT THE G.P.Q.
WAS FOUND
Details of the finding on Mount Everest of the body of Maurice Wilson, the lone climber, were. given in a lecture by Mr. Eric É. Shipton, leader of the reconnais
land recently.
9 pm-Call DJA, DJN Announce-sance party that returned to Eng-
ment (Germ., Engl.), German Folk song. Programme Forecast (Gera
Eng.).
9.15 pm-Woman's Hour:
A Talk with a National-Socialis
Household Aid Worker,
9.30 p.m.-Let's sing a Folk Saps
together!
9.45 p.m.-News in English on DJA and in Dutch on DIN.
10 pm "Ritter Pasman
An Operetta by Johann Straub Conductor: Fritz Wicke. **« Direction: Ernst Wilhelmy. 11.15 pm-News in German on
DIJA, and DIN." 11,30 pm-Today in Germany
Sound Pictures, 11.83 p.m.-"The Poet speaks.“
Jakob Schartner,
count of the National Loans Sin- king Fund Administrative Com misalon to cover amortization and interest charges of the internal | consolidated debt secured on the 12 midnight A Turnout in Thres- Customs Revenue. In addition,
Quarter Time ma funds for the service (interest and 12.15 am-News in English on amortization) of the 2nd year DJA and in Dutch on DIN. *(1933) and 23rd year (1934) Cus-12.30 R-Close, DJA, DJN | toms. Treasury. Nota Harues and of f (Germ. Engl.).
the 23rd year (1934) Customs Re- |-- venue Loan and With year (1935) Currency Loan have been provided from Customs Revenue, at a total cost of $34,127,500.
MANCHURIAN PORTS
Mr. Shipton told the Royal Geo- graphical Society that Wilson's body was found a few hundred yards from the site of Camp 3. *
tribesmen turning up to join in the spoils which imagined would soon be shared out. But it was coming much too fast to be cu meis, and within a few more min- utes I knew it to be a cat
"The nice looking fellows. stand- ing round about began to slide oË pretty quickly. "and" when the car drew up to us we were alone:
It was an American tourist out for a joy ride in the desert, He was amazed when he saw two males alone as we were.
"I'll say you've got some nerve,"
DOES
Some Impressive Figures
business which nog passes through Recently published figures go to show the truly colossal volume of
the British Post Office. For the
instance, the total value of. Pose Únice transactions with the public was about £860,000,000, an increase of some £3,000,000, previous year.
over the
"It was evident," said Mr. Ship-he said, "riding around by your-year ended March 31st, 1935, for from exhaustion and not from "Oh, I'm used to it," I told him, ton, "that he had died in his sleep. selves this way."
as he had found a "though a few minutes before starvation, dump of food which had been left did not feel that I was going in 1933, and which was still well through anything I could ever get stocked."
used to...
"It was evident that he had been lying in a tent, when he died, but from his body by the spring sales." the tent had been blown away
approaches to the mountain re vealed no possible line of attack," said Mr. Shipton.
“An exploration of the western
"The American let me borrow his chaufeur, and in a few min utes the car was fixed up."
FLIGHT FROM ARABS for a ride with a native driving "On another occasion I was out
the car, and we pulled up at an Arab encampment.
Letters, postcards etc, reached the enormous total of 6,900,000, items, while parcela accounted for figure of 150,000,000 or so. To
with deal expeditiously
Buch staggering amounts, mechanical
an existence machines of almost methode of handling are being in- creasingly employed, and there are uncanny intelligence capable of sorting Intters at a truly prodigious twenty-six peaks, all of altitudes They seemed a perfectly, friend-ass while Noctually eliminating between 20,000 and 23,000 feet, ly. lot to me, and there was no the errors which are inseparabic were scaled by the expedition, sign of danger As far as I could from manual methods. Twenty-four of them hitherto had see. I was sitting at the wheel LETTERS AND PARCELS been anclimbed,
watching the natives when sud. In dealing with letters and par denly the chauffeur who had got cals the very latest methods of tran our came running up to the car sport are employed, whatever they and jumped in
spell time saving and increased Accelerate, he said. As hard efficiency, Electric trucks, for example, are extensively used at “I did without a moment's he- terminal railway stations for mari altation, and as soon as we had rying the mails to and from trains started off the Arabs gave chase, and offices and vans. This develop
"When we had gone some way ment is not confined to Great Bri-. With the car going full out my tain for Greenbat electric trucks through 8.13. p.m-Max Lazo and his Ha-chauteur told me that he had have recently been supplied to the Canadian Postal Department from Culbert wallans, bare min
Loverheard some of the natives the Albion Works in Leeds.
RADIO MANILA
6 pin-Sunset Dance Programme
by the Lyric Orchestra. 6.30
anish Informational
It should be noted that sub- sequent to the seizure in mid-1932 6.40 0.m
of the Customs establishments at
the Manchurian porta, nd quota has: 6.35 been made available to the Govera ment from that region, or fro
ity. abligs ustoms Re
Lpan has been met in full from the Datren, towards the payment of the The Service (1) of the Anglo- Customs Resgnus during the year, various loan and ind German Loan of 1898, (2) of the of a total cost of $64,4,0,988.21, ax Biona ́secured on the
· Boxer Indemnity obligations, and compared with 75414,347,81 ex-¡ venue. (3) of the 1913. Reorganization i pended on foreign" loan ard in-- huo din,
"Aires Filipinos with Jnan Ellos, Jr. and his String En- Bemble.
7.45 pm-Elizaldey Cia pro-
·gramme."
8 pm"Apo on the Air" sponsor
ed by the Cebu Fortland Cement Company,
as you can.
AN
7.30 p.m.-Banque Presentation.⠀⠀⠀ planning to make things a bit un- adol, lesturing 645 am-stock quotations and comfortable for me
local Market Reports
when I decided to come back to Tirso Cruz and his Manila London, taking a long time Hotel Orch
****via the South of France and
the idea of betuling dow
and
presents 11 pm-8lg
Improved trade conditions have affected the growth of telephone business in Britain, and to this there are nearly
idles of with the vast majo
hic's is run und