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ADVERTISEMENTS
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It is hereby notified that the valuation lists for the Colony for the year 1936-1937 will be open to inspection at the Treasury for twenty-one days commencing on Tuesday, June 16th, 1936.
(54) EDWIN TAYLOR, Colonial Treasurer & Assessor
of Rates.
ON HIS MAJESTY
SERVICE
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Tenders are invited for the 'supply of Painters and Scrapers (and painting work), Caulkers (and caulking work).
Forms of tender can he obtain. ed, at the Office of the Chief Constructor, H. M. Dockyard, Hong Kong, and should be filled in and returned, as indicated in Tender Form not later than noon on Saturday, 20th June; 1936,
A. W. WATSON,
Chief Constructor,
MACAO JOCKEY
CLUB
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JUNE RACE MEETING SUNDAY, 14th June, 1936.
First Saddling Bell at 1,30 p.m. First Rate 2.00 p.m.
See Steamboat Co.'s Notice for Special sailings to Macap.
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formerly of British American Tobacco Co. (China) Ltd., deceased.
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Husa Kosa JUNE 13, 1935.
THE NEW SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES
The appointment of Mr. Thomas's successor is "announced, but that is all: Mr. Baldwin has clearly decided against any large reconstruction of the Government at this moment. Mr. Ormsby-Gore's appointment to the Colonial Office was almost in- evilable it had to be u Tory and a Tory drawn from within the 'present Government. Had MT. Baldwin admitted the qualifications of Torles outside the Government for the post there are one or two powerful ex-Ministers whose claims were strong. But Mr. Baldwin goes his way. ignoring them, although there are those on his own side who think that his Cabinet 'could be strengthened by the inclusion 01 some of these critical outsiders. who could be admitted to the Government without danger to the
ADVERTISEMENTS. "National" direction in policy, as
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SOUTH WEST AFRICA
Mandatory Government A Failure
Government supporters call it, or moderate Tory direction, as critics define it. In any event, Mr. Ormsby-Gore. hás earned his ap- pointment. A Tory by heredity, springing from a line of Welsh border squires and married to a Cecil, he has obvious claims to an office in any Tory Cabinet. But he has more than these traditional claims. He is a Gorge Curzon," but
with his interests in the colonies, as opposed to Curzon's interests in the East, and foreign affairs. He also has Curion's industry and Roman sense of duty to his caste and country-
NEW PROCEDURE UNANIMOUS VOTE FOR
IN INSURANCE
Close Season During Budget Time
COMMITTEE TO ADVISE
London, June 12. Towards the end of the Com- mona debate оп the Budget leakage, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamber- lain, announced that he had been In communication with the Com- mitee of Loyds, who could best regulate their affairs, so that legitimate interests were not in- terfered with while illegitimate interests were prevented.
He had been informed by them that they had considered the position of what were known as insurances of contingency and that they had appealed to all their underwriting agents not to accept risks of that kind without
risks
first sadafying themselves that the insured had legitimate Interest which was, to be covered by in- surance.
was
ALFRED LANDON.
1.
Republican Candidate For Presidency
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CHALLENGE TO ROOSEVELT
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Topeka, Kansas, June 12.
"I propose to wage one of the most aggressive campaigns in the Republican Party seen for yars." declared Governor AI- fred 31 Landon when informed of his nomination,
Governor Landon waited for the result while dining alone with his wife. The meal was disturbed by the cheers of the crowd who had been waiting for news of his triumph.-Reuter.
Cleveland, June 12. | Ust all products, not grown us Nine hundred and eighty four manufactured in the United States. votes were cast for Landen and In commercial quantities... nineteen for Senator Borah and then, on the motion from Wiscon- sin amounting to a demand for a second balkot. Lando nomina- tion WKS made unanimous by shouts of "axe."
themselves personally to support Vandenburg and Knox pledged
Landon.
WILD ENTHUSIASM
Scenca of the wildest en- thusiasm greeted the nomination and the convention, adjourned un- tit 4 am when the Vice-Presiden- tial nomination will be made, the choice for which lles between Vandenburg and Colonel. Frank Knox, though the former has de-
It
sometimes extremely difiqult to know whether there' was Interest or not and how much that interest was To provide for that the Committee were going to set up a permanent committee from whom the underwriting agents could at short notice obtain a ruling in cases where they hadclared, his unwillingness to stand.
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any doubt whether there was or was not Insurable interest in risk offered to them. That ha hoped would go a
to long way control these contingency risks. They had also considered particu- lar risks in the question in this case.
CLOSE SEASON
Accepting the Anding of the tribunal that there was disclosure of information as to the contents of the Budget and that was made' use of for "improper purpose, he had asked the Committee of Lloyds o consider whether it would not be possible without in- jury to legitimate interests make a sort of close season just before the Budget statement was made and to undertake that no Budget risks should be accepted during that close season which he suggested might extend from the end of the financial year until the da.e when the Chancellor made his Budget statement. い
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As to imports competing with American products. the "platform recommends protection to defend the farmer and wage-eamer from destructive competition emanating from subsidies by foreign Govern-
with a ments. The adjustment of tariffs view to promoting inter- national trade, the stabilisation of currencies and the attainment of a proper basis between agriculture and industry are also sought.- Reuter,"
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
Cleveland, June 11.
The Republican Party platform has been adopted by the national convention here and embodies Senator William Berah's proposals.
The
its following are
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1. Return of relief expenditure to state control;
"Off the rocks with Landon and Knox" the latest campaign slogan on the lips of those attend-planks:- Ing the convertion.-- Reater.
1.
HOOVER APPROVES
New York, June 12. Mr. Herbert Hoover has approv ed of the Republican, platform as a "fighting. definite and progres- sive statement which the country
needs."— Peuter.
BORAH'S ATTITUDE
Cleveland, June 11. While the nomination of Cover- Jor Landon of Kansas for the Re- publican presidential candidacy is predicted on all sides, Senator Win- am Borah's attitude continues enigmatic,
Though pleased with the indica- tions that his efforts to moder- nise" the party are succeeding. he still declines to commit himself. He has scarcely left his hotel since he arrived here for the national Republican convention, forcing the The Committee expressed readi-
Landon followers to seek him out ness to do their umost to adopt and offer him inducements to pre- that suggestion and he thought vent him withdrawing from the the House might take it that party and deserting, with his sup- would be carried out and that it
porters, to the Democrat. would be impossible that what had happened on this occasion would ever occur again.- British Wireless
LONDON NAVAL
PARLEY®
What is there of the colonies, indeed, that Mr. Ormsby-Gore does not know? He was in Palestine during the war as political officer on Allenby's staff, and the know- ledge he thus acquired of Palestine and Arabia gave him a place in the British Delegation to Faris for the peace negotiations. After the war The toured the West Indies with his friend Lord Halifax. He, was Un- der Secretary for the Colonies for the fret of his two terms in that cffice during the Imperial Con- ference of 1923, and when Labour came into power in that year Mr. MacDonald sent him as chairman 01 a Committee of Inquiry" to East Africa His report on the East African colonies is still the best Government The present form of government
document on that by mandate in South West Africa is subject. He has also written a re- a fallure and should be abolished. port on the West African colonies. There is no legal obstacle to the which he visited privately and out. Government treating the territory | of his great interest in our colonial as s province of the Union of possessions; he has even gone South Africa. These are the un-
farther afield to study colonial
London, June 11. animous conclusions of the Com-administration, in remoter depen- The Anglo-German naval talks mission
dencies like Malaya. There is no nave been resumed at the Foreign of two judges and one economiat appointed by the South doubt about his equipment nor about the keenness of his personal interest in the colonial problems of the day-as, for instance, at pre- sent Palestine. In one quarter the appointment may not-on other than personal grounds-be popular. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will not
Capetown, June 12..
African Government.
The members differed as regards the desirability of incorporation of
South West Africa in the Union.
The Chairman, Judge van Zyl states that the German section block under foreign guidance. has organised themselves as a solid
Reuter
CONFERENCE AT BUCHAREST
Dr. Benes Back Home
"Hong Kong Daily Press" Special
Prague, June 12. President Benes and 'those ac- companying him reached here from Bucharest- On leaving the Lista)
NOTICE is hereby given that Rumanian territory
was
Office.
Question Of Excess -
Tonnage
Progress is understood to be far advanced and provided no Bur- prizes are sprung by Russia, no great difficulties lie ahead. "
The United States memorandum replying to the British request to be allowed to retain 40,000 tons of over-age destroyers, was handed to the Foreign Ofice to-day.
like the replacement of Mr. Thomas by a Tory. But the value of the minority groups to the Tories has become, as it was bound to do, a According to Washington Te mere question of votes-and | ports, the United States Govern- National Labour has no votes in the country.
RIVER DANUBE ACCIDENT
Passenger Steamer Wrecked
ment is of the opinion that 1 Great Britain wants to retain this tonnage the method of invoking
Thus the man who would have liked to have the nomination him- self, and finds it denied to him, has stepped into the position of a king-maker.
His only comment on the draft of the party platform. evolved after long hours of exhausting work, was?" "The candidate is the platform, He was not enthusias- contains tic, though the draft many concessions to the Senator from Utah.
It is notable that the draft plat- form omits direct mention of the gold standard and over-rides Gov- ernor Landon's desire for a plank providing for constitutional am- endments, permitting
wage states.
minimum individual
2. Repeal of the Federal Social Security Act, for which State Social Security Acts would be sub- stituted;.
3. Balanced Budget, obtained by curtailing expenditure rather than through new taxes;
4. Stamping out monopoly: 5. Extension of the civil service system;
6. A farm programme based on "economy of plenty rather than scarcity" with benefit payments to farmers;
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7. Repeal of the New Deal's Re- ciprocal Trade Agreement Act of 1934 and restoration of the prin- ciple of flexible tariff:
B. Protection of the right of Labour to organise and bargain collectively?
9. Sound currency to be pre- served so that, at all costs, there should be no further devaluation of the dollar;
10. Use of every effort to collect the War Debts.
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WIGHTMAN CUP
British Woman's Long
Fought Duel
JACOBS BEATEN
Wimbledon, June 12.
The Wightman Cup tennis: tournament which will last two- days opened to-day in showery weather before a crowd of 3.000.
Miss Kathleen Stammers Bri- tain) beat
Jaccos. Miss Helen (America) 12-10, 6-1.
Miss Jacobs led 3-0 and 4-2. but Miss Stammers made the position 5-4 in her favour and two set points were missed which prolong- ed the set to twenty two games.
Miss Dorothy Round (Britain)'
bent Miss Fabyan (America! 6-3. 8..4.- Beuter.
HOME "CRICKET RESULTS
London, June 12, The following are the results of cricket matches concluded to-day: Sussex beat Somerset by 258 runs at Hove. Sussex 166 and 292 for 9 declared. Somerset 134 (J. Cornford 6 for 42) and 76 (J. Corn- ford 5 for 38},
Leicestershire took first innings points from Worcestershire at Leicester. Worcester 101 (H. Smith 5 for 381 and 265 for 8.
Leicester 153. (Perks 5 for 64). There was no play to-day owing
to rain.
Durham beat All-India by five wickets at Sunderland, All India 174 and 203 for 3 declared (Wazir Al 139 not out). Durham 176
Bannerjee 5 for 54) and 203 for 5 Randle 85. Bannerjee 5 for 65).
"Oxford drew with Minor Coun- tes at Oxford Minor Counties. 251 and 294. Oxford 223 and 23 for 0.
Essex beat Cambridge by 5 wickets. Cambridge 207 and 220 Tindall 86). Essex 175 and 256 for 5 (Pearce 110 not out).
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Yorkshire beat Middlesex on
first innings. Yorks 242 (Sims 6 for 98) and 185. Middlesex 182 and 77 for
Hampshire beat Lancashire on Hants 293 (Boyes. first innings. 101 no out) and 200. Lancs 262 (Watson 115, Herman 7 for 71) and 66 for 2. -Reuter.
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BADOGLIO TO STAY. IN ITALY
(Hong Kong Daily Press" Special>
Rome, June 11. Marshal Badoglio has resigned FOREIGN AFFAIRS
from his post as Viceroy of Abys- Under the heading of foreign simia, which
was then conferred affairs, the Republican party would upon Marshal Graziani In the pledge Itself that America should course of a long conversation with never become a member of the Signor Mussolini regarding the sit- League of Nations, nor the Worlduation in East Africa, Badoglio re- Court; nor shall America take on quested permission to give up the any entangling alliances.
post as Viceroy, "in order to be Rather" would the Republican able to resume work as Chief of party promote the great cause of the General Staff” international arbitration, through
In recognition of his distin- the establishment of free, inde-guished services, the King-Em-"
tribunals which pendent
shall pozor Victor Emmanuel created determine the disputes according Marshal Badoglio Duke of Addis to laws of equity and justice. Ababa, who will now remain in Italy in order to supervise the reorganisation of the army which has become necessary by the East African Campaig From usually
well
informed quarters it is learned that at the recent reception by Signor Mus- feel called upon to propose a consolini of the Divisional Comman- ders and 300 air force officers, the Duce spoke very vigorously left no doubt in his hearers' minds as to the gravity of the general situation, which might necessitate all men capable of bearing arms to be called up under the col- ours.--
The co-operation of other nations in the limitation of armaments and the control of arms traffle would be sought
A telegram from Governor Alfred Landon, read at the convention, states that if nominated he would
legislation by
The platform demands' Govern- ment assistance in disposing of stitutional amendment empower- with Ing the states to pass minimum surpluses in foreign trade, bargaining for "foreign markets wage and maximum working hour and strenuously opposes reciprocal legislation. Не regarded sound currency as "a currency expressed treaties.
In terms of gold and convertible into gold," he said.-Beuter
With regard to tarifs, the Re- publicans recommend for the free
GERMANY'S PROGRESS
the escalator clause, under the "Hong Kong Daily Press" Special
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CAR PLUNGES INTO RHONE RIVER
Rescue Efforts Fruitless
8c-
London Treaty should be adopted, rather than the direct and simpler
Rostock, June 11.
method of negotiation.
The Reichs Finance Minister,
"Hong Kong Daly Press" Special; Count
Schwerin VOL Krosigk; Britain has not disclosed the speaking here on Thursday night
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Paris, Jung 11. terms of the United States' reply on Germany's Finance and Econo- Another tragic motoring tr her request.---
mic Policy declared that in the
cident Reuter
occurred midst of political and economic unrest that now fills the world, near Grenoble, when a car con- Germany presents a picture of 'taining four persons, three of peaceful work and sound recon- whom Were Women. made ВА struction. In the upward' deve-
RED INVASION OF KANSU
Britishers Warned.
on
Thursday
kpment that was set in 1933, there effort to pass a car in front at a has so far been not a single halt." part of the road skirting a steep Overcentralisation must be decline. The back car skidded and Lavolded, the State does not wish
all claims against the estate of telegram of thanks was sent Hong Kong Daily Press" Special) the abovenamed deceased, who to the hosts, Dr. Benes telegraph
Vienna, June 13. died in Hong Kong on the 22nd ing to King Carol that he
to welcoming day of May, 1936, should be sent looking forward
The entire steamship traffic on the Rumanian Monarch in the River Danube has been tem-}| immediately to the undersigned.
Czechoslovakis in the autumn... porarily interrupted here by the Dated the 11th day of June,
. Much comment has been made passenger steamer plying on the
to dispense with the creative force rushed at full speed over the ravine 1936,
on the fact that before leaving river being wrecked when it struck
of private initiative,
and plunged headlong 25 feet into GEO, K. HALL BRUTTON & Bucharest, Dr. Benes accompani- a provisional pillar of a bridge
Shanghai, June 12
Against the slogan "Our fate the River Rhone, which is at that 20.,
ed King Carol to the dedication of noW under repairs. Seven per-
The British consular authorities depends on the economic sound-point specially deep and turbulent. a Danube steamer, whereas Prince sons who Solicitors for the Executrix
board the have warned British missionaries ness" the Minister put the words The car at once disappeared from Regent Paul of Yugoslavia left for wrecked steamer are still missing in Kansu to prepare to evacuate as of Fedry the Great of the State the surface and has not been seen Bank of East Asia Building, Belgrade immediately after the and it is feared that they have a result of the big Red invasion of depends upon the Great Men born since, all efforts made by rescue
Phen frowned- Hong Kong, close of the conference.--
the province from North: Shenai-et-the right time- 4497 Transocian News Service.
Transocean - Neson Service...
Reuter.
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Transocean News Service.
parties having proved fruitless- Transocean News Service,
Tranencean News Service.
and
LOCAL AND GENERAL
There will be no dinner dance at Repulse Bay to-day, but the usual tea dance will be held to- morrow at 5 p.m.
The RM.A.Dorado" left here yesterday at 11 am. for Penang carrying 0.800 kilos, of freight and 53.421 kilos. of mail There was no passenger carried.
One case each of Diphtheria, Enteric Fever and Cerebro-Spinal Fever were reported to the Health Authorities for the 24 hours ended on Thursday.
The Health Bulletin of Eastern
Ports for week ending June 8 are as follows:-Plague: Buez 1 case. Bassein 1: Cholera: Bassein B cases, Calcutta 191, Moulmein 1. Bangkok 5; Small-Fox; Bombay 22 cases, Calcutta 70, Karachi 2, Moulmein 6, Rangoon 5, Chittagong 12, 'Hong Kong 2, Shanghai 1.