THURSDAY
JANUARY 16, 1936.
AND
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1970
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$1.00
$1.10
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$560
3670
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$450
$480;
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3265
3360
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34
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$30
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$1.05
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99 eta Baguio Gold
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WAR DANGER
IN EGYPT
Britain's Military Preparations
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright).j
Cairo, Jan 14 The foreign press reports speak- ing of an appeasment of the pot tical situation in Egypt is causing some astonishment Lere, "In view of the general uneasiness engen- dered by Britain's continual tary preparations,
CIVIL SERVANT POPULATION
The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo is to ask
LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE
Japan's Withdrawal Imminent
London, Jan. 15. Alter three postponements, the meeting will be held this after- noon of the first committee of the when London gaval conference Admiral Nagano will re-state the Japanese proposal for a common total riaval con- upper limit of struction.
Since it was last placed before the committee and dissentcd from by other delegations to the con- ference, the Japanese have been in communication with the Toyo Government, but the newspapers state that no radical amendments to the original proposal have re- sulted. In these circumstances it
a series of questions regarding the anticipated that at to-day's by be followed number of Europeans in Govern-meeting- Admiral Nagano's new.
statement will ment service, and the policy of the
reasoned statements from each or Government in regard to officers
the other delegations which will who have done ten years' service
indicate their ability to accept a having but not in the Colony
common upper limit, are age, reached pensionable
With the position thus clarified. nevertheless willing to retire.
it may not be considered necessary Mr. Lo's questions are in the fol-
to register a rejection of the pro- lowing terms:
1-(1) What was the total num-posal by a formal vote, but it is in view of the the other powers, ber of European Civil Servants em- assumed that played by Government at (a) and attitude of
of 1923, (b) end of 1931, (c) end Japan will withdraw from the of 1935 (2) What was the number conference, leaving only,
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of persona constituting the Euro-server to attend its further meet- mill-peart Senior Clerical and Accountings at which the question of ing Staff at the aforesaid periods? qualitative limitation will be dis- 2: What was the total amount of cussed among the four remaining exchange of salaries paid to the Public Works powers following examination of Department Staff, European and the proposals for
(b) information between them.-
British Wireless non-European, in (a) 1923. 1931. (c) 1935.
The British High Commissioner is stated to have declared recently in a private conversation that Bri- tain of course, is not destring war, but that in view of the incalculabi- lity of the Italian policy, she should
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384
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175
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$412
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313
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$26
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$28
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$13.00
$6
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Numerous signs point indeed to the serious view taken of the situa- tion in British circles. All women members in the British Colony have been requested to voluntarily attend first aid courses and pre parations moreover are being made in British circles to send all wo- men and children to Luxor in case of emergency, since Alexandria and Cairo, will likewise be subjected to air attacks in the event of a British-Italian war.
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Italian prospects for a decisive victory in Abyssinia are on the other hand considered to be none too bright. Informed Egyptian cir- cles from the very first have taken the view that the Italians would not succeed in achieving a clear cut victory and this view is now generally accepted.
Many political observers here, 314.15 are inclined to belleve that the military developments in Abyssinia may make Egypt safe from the danger of becoming the scene of another war.--' Transocean Kuq Min
STORMS IN SPAIN
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3. Since the date of the Report of the Retrenchment Commission (May 1931) (a) what additions, if any, (b) what reductions, if any, have been made in the European staff on the Civil List?
VIRTUALLY CERTAIN
London, Jan. 15- It is virtually certain that Japan will withdraw after to-day's meet- ing of the naval conference. The American delegate entering the conference this afternoon opined that this will be the last meeting on a Five-Power basis-- Reuter.
PRESS VIEWS
London, Jan. 15.
4-(8) In view of the imperative necessity for retrenchment, what is the policy of Government in re- gard to European officers who, having done 10 years of service in the Colony, but not having reach- ed pensionable age, are neverthe- less willing to retire? (b) If under existing regulations there is no The Japanese withdrawal from power to permit süch retirements. the Naval Cherence may be fol- Government consider the lowed by developments in will question of amending such regu-Pacific of a serious nature, accord- lations with the view to conferringing to the Daily Telegraph” nàval such power, in order to save the correspondent. heary expense of paying the re-
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BOMBING OF RED CROSS
UNIT BY ITALY
Sweden To Protest
ALBAN BERG
Alban Berg, composer of "Wor- įzeck" and other works, died in Vienna on Tuesday from blood poi- soning. He was born in "Vienza 50 years ago..
Stockholm, Jan, 14, The Fore.gn Office has announ-
The news of Alban Berg's pre- ced that the Swedish Minister in
mature death will have been re- Rome has presented a Note to the ceived with regret in English musi- talian Government categoricalycal circles. He was one of the re- protesting against the direct act presentative musicians of his of aggression to which the Swed-generation-an artist of narrow range but exquisite sensibility and the most rained technique. Of all Schönberg's pupils he was the one The Note rejects the Italian ex- pects that an investigation regard- compe-planation of the bombing and ex-who most made his mark,
ing responsibility for the incident will be immediately opened, and the act of aggression suitably dealt with..
He writes that should America turn passage for such officers and dec.de to carry out her plan of families who have only a further creating nava. bases. Great short period to serve in order to tain might be compelled to recon- sider her position in the Far East. qualify for pension
He gives as example the situa- tion at Hong Kong. The defences of that port have not been touch- ed for sixteen years and are now out of date.
This correspondent further avers would not Washington, Jan. 14. that Japan's action Following the testimony of Mr. start a naval buliding race between under- Henry Morgenthau, the Secretary Britain and the United States who of the Treasury, that the Govern-have already come to an
fleets, which ment would have raised a minimum standing.concerning the relative
the next strengths of their o $11,000,000,000 in
the rules out the possibility of (Special to the "Hong Kong Daily seventeen-and-half months,
Press (Copyright).]
Senate Finance Committee approv-tive building between them. However, Japan's defiant Benator Harrison's bonus" bil F
ture has rendered inevitable the A tragic sequel of the terrific | 15-12.
Benator Couzens, voting against completion of an immense Ameri- storms which swept the north- west coast of Spain last week, oc- the measure, said that Mr. Mor can buliding programme, which by curred near La Corona where six genthau also xald that the $11,-1942, in the ordinary" course cf persons were buried by a land 000,000,000-minimum was needed events, would give the United for the remainder of this and the States the world's greatest-naval $91.30 allde caused by the cliffs being un-
dermined by the heary seas. Only next year's commitments. one of the six was rescued alive included estimates of $2,000,000,000 Reuter. although suffering from injuries for relief, which which may prove fatal. The other taken into account in
Roosevelt's budget. five when found, were dead-
Senator Couzens said Mr. Mor- Transocean Kue Min.
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London, Jan. 14, More large consumers of -coa have agreed to an increase in price, but only on condition that all the increases be given to the miners as wages.
$58
NARROW ESCAPE FOR YOUNG AIRMAN
Madrid, Jan, 14.
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These forces—
wax
not President
genthan estimated that this ex- penditure would bring the publle debt of the country to $35,500 000, MILITARY EXPENDITURE000, by the end of the next fiscal
IN RUSSIA
Moscow, Jan. 14.
year.
Reuter.
SHIPPING MOVEMENTS The Government's proposal to almost double military expenditure 1 1936, compared with 1935, was
The P. O. steam ship "Behar 17.troduced by M. Gr.gor! Grinko, left Shanghai for this port on the Finance Commissar, when "pre- 14th instant at 4 p.m., and is due senting the Budget proposa's at a here to-morrow at about 6 am." session of the Central Executive Committee.
INFORMAL MEETING
gb...
London, Jan. 14 informal meeting between
from
ish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia was sublected by Italian aeroplaner.
The Swedish Government reser- ves the right to make demands for
Reuter. compensation ---
SOVIET UNREST
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Press"
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Moscow, Jan. 14. One more symptom of the seeth~
In point of fact not one of the master's works has ever wan quite such wide acceptance as, for a time, did the pupil's opera "Waza zeek." Berg,was not quite so ener getic an experimenter as Schön-" berg, He concentrated on one of his master's styles and developed It with a delicate ingenuity.
The vagueness and clusiveness of Berg's music might never haYS WON much of a hearing outside a small aesthetic circle if it had not been for his good fortune in alighting upon the effective subject, afforded
him by "Wozzeck.”:
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DREAMLIKE AND FATHETIU Buchner's remarkable play of
(Copyright) the British and American delega Specal to the “Hơng Hồng Dallr tions to the Naval Conference took place at the Foreign Office this morning to discuss the question of procedure at the next First Coming unrest beneath the calm sur- mittee of the Conference now fix-face in Soviet Russia, was afforded that name, though 100 years old ed for to-morrow afternoon. by reports of another political | might have been written by a con- murder which according to "In temporary. Its quality was both "Later the British Delegation was in touch with the other delegat vestia" took place in Minsk, where dreamlike and pathetic, and the lons. Meetings of the First Com- the chairman of the Collective unfortunate hero-a weakling op mittee have been suspended since Organization Kriwien, was shot pressed by a brutal military ma
been arrested on a charge of being post-war generation.
The opera had an extraordinary negotiations arising
Implicated in the murder
vogue in Germany before the com- the middle of last week owing dead Five former "Kulaks" have chine-appealed strongly to the to the desire of the Japanese Transocean Xuo Min
ing of the Hitler régime, but in into discus- to bring back
1933 Berg's name was relegated to obscurity, for both his choice of The R.M.S. "Empress of Canada?sion the proposal for a common upper limit which was considered
Official figures just issued by the decadent subjects and the back- Out of a total Budget of 87,600,- arrived at Shanghai on the 14th during the earlier meetings and 000,000 reubles no less than 14,800,- January (Tuesday) at 4 p.m. and failed, to find favour among the Air Ministry show that more than poneless, dissolving style of his 360 bombers and fighters of the music were considered unworthy of "Newspapers anticipate that with R.A.F, few half a million miles the spirit of the new times. Vooru Rigmor Mussolini's youngest air-000,000 roubles will be devoted to left Shanghal yesterday at noon other delegations ***
military expenditure. The
She is due at Hong Kong to
daring the summer air excercises. ers and the owners, however, is man son, Vittorio Mussolini, had a mented appropriations will be ap-morrow at 3am and leaves Hong to-morrow's meeting the position in 3,839 hours without socide The B.B.C. has done much to miraculous escape from death dur-plied to an increase in the number Kong for Manils on the same day which has been somewhat obscure Sir Robert Brooke Popham Air make Berg's name, familiar in Tang
for several days will be clarified, Officer Commanding, was able to land. Wozzeck has been broe
known whether raport "no casualties after three cast and also extract from a later ing a bombing attack on the Abys-of effectives, the improvement of at 6 pan
though not technical equipment, the modern- eng
days and nights of intensive mook opers "Lulu," never, yet
bo 21:00 tative work of Be which has
come wellkrown, is his for string quartet, warfare between air squadrons who in its entirety. Another represe
Ition in through the annual mal exchanges between the war-year in which the EAF have mone
Machiings of fought at heights up b
ous delegations were conducted
without
Best Aghters feet This is the fixt
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British Wireleų. diality
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The situation between the min-
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Shipbuilding workers demanding an increase in
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now wages
<Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Promo"? (Copyright).x
Asmara, Jan. 14.
tical education of the Red Army.
The BL steam ship Talma" Japanese participations in the Will leave for Singapore. Port future work of the Conference will wettenham, Penang, Rangoon and be modified in character or not or Calcutta on or about to-morrow even interrupted To-day's infor-
of 3d. per hour. The shipbuilders sinian positions at Amba Aradan ishing of barracks, and the polle B.I steam shi state that although the position Vittorio's plane was hit by an at present more favourable than anti-aircraft shell, which explod M. Grinko explained that the for some time, they are unable to say that this will be permanent, ed inside the cabin putting the Government's financial policy was and have asked the workers to machine war out of action, damag-directed to the strengthening and wah till Lloyds returns for the ing the equipment of the cabin stabilising of the rouble. He asa- year which will be pubilahed-be- while the young pilot himself was led rumours in circulation abroad fore March1 before discussing unhurt and no essential part of regarding proposed devaluation or
"Bouter. the question of increased wagen- the plane controls were destroyed, the issuing of new currency — _
Transocean Fun Alin. Heuter & Bulletin Bervice,
(Friday) at 130 pm
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