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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936.
LORD SEMPILL'S
VENTURE
Australia Flight Interrupted
BACK AT HANWORTH
Vienna, July 10.
Lord Sempli has abandoned his attempt on the record for the flight to Australia, it is understood, owing to a defect in connection with the wings of his machine, and has de- elded to return to London im- mediately.
It was found that the fabric of the wings had cracked, making a"
The long-distance, flight unsafe.. damage has been temporarily re- patred and Lord Sempill is flying back to England to-night- Reuter
DELEGATE TO
LEAGUE
Madariaga Notifies Resignation
THE RIGHT SPIRIT
MORE NEEDED
(Specmi Air Mail Service), London, June 22.
It seemed rather charming to read in the accounts OF the launching of the cruiser Glasgow on Saturday that "the vessel be- gan to move down the slipway, so slowly that Mrs. Baldwin stepped forward and pushed the sharp prow of the sessel with ali her strength. Her act was cheered by a large crowd," Whether it did much to expedite the progress of 1 vessel of some 9,000 tons is per- haps a little doubtful, but at any rate it "showed willing" and sug- gests that Mrs. Baldwin is not one of those honorlac launchers who are content with a little de- corative battle-smashing; in mo ments of emergency she can be a pusher as well as a smasher.
some people might be tempted to embroider the cheme a little further. There are those who maintain thai pushing is exactly where Mrs. Baldwin's distinguish-
A British Wireless message stated that Lord Sempill left Han worth aerodrome at four o'clock in the afternoon with three com- panions in an attempt to fly to Melbourne in a schedule of less "Hoor Eong Dally Press" Specialed spouse 191's to do himself
1:
Justice, that in matters of policy he is an excellent adopter of an attitude of repose. Mrs. Baldwin, dissatised with the vessel that
than 70 flying hours. Lord Sempill
Madrid, July 11. was flying a "Cranson" monospar The Spanish delegate to the "Croydon" 175 cta.
10-seater monoplane. League Nacions. Senor de which is Britain's fastest air Uner Madariaga, announced his resigna- and has a cruising speed of 190tion yesterday. The resignation did not seem to be moving in the
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NEW ATTEMPT
Vienna, July 11, Lord Semp!ll took off at 2.30 a.m.
statement Issued
by Senor de Madariaga, is due to the severe attacks made by the popular press organs on himself.
The press asserted that Senor
for London. He told Reuter that a Madariaga had prepara
right direction,
strem ously tried
to push it there; but how often does Mr. Baldwin leave people with an impression that he 18 de- Uvering an almighty shove to the ship of State? Some people might say that there is a moral and an
he would have the damage repair- nemorandum containing propo-example for him in the behaviour
ed in London and would then Im-sals for the reform of the League mediately make a new attempt.
Nations. while Senor de
..conversation
document in question is merely the protocol of a "that had taken place between the
delegates
several neutra.
He found that the fabric of his Madariaga maintains chat the wings had cracked, making a long distance flight unsafe. The damage was temporarily repaired to enable him to fly back to England.— Benter
по
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PETROL SUPPLY DEFECT
London, July 11. Lord Sempill has arrived back at Hanworth from Vienna. Interview- 'ed by Reuter. he stated there was failure of any part of the structure of the machine dis- covered when he reached Vienna ahead of schedule. The cause of the defect in the machine was the auxiliary petrol supply not working $30 properly and the defect could not be remedied without returning to the
par
$4.10
18.85
aerodrome.--.
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
of his wife on Saturday, Or they' might suggest that now that Mrs. Baldwin has demonstrated her
capacity for personally propelling
cruisers in the way they should gu she should return home and have a shot at pushing Prime Ministers Powers, and with the drafting of in the same direction. which he had been charged.
When the Foreign Minister. Senor Barcia, declared, on the
publication of the note, that he CHAIRMAN ON OIL
had not been informed of the con- tenta of the document, which merely reflected Senor de Mada- riaga's private opinion and, by no represented the official Spanish "viewpoint, this brought forth
de
means
Senor a reply from
Madariaga that he had assumed responsibility for the note merely in order to give the Spanish Government greater freedom of action.
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SINGAPORE RAW RUBBER
Latest Singapore Price
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Saturday, July 11. Messrs. H. B. Joseph & Co., re- ceived the following quotations in Straits Currency for Raw Rubber from Singapore to-day:-
Spot
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CLEARANCES
12TH JULY, 1936. Koramiko Jor Legaspa Beistan for Swatow. Nahning for Canton Hong Kheng, for Swatow Canton, Maru for Swatow Durban Maru for Saigon King Yuan for Swatow Tango Maru for Singapore Huashan Maru for. Canton
11TH JULY, 1936. Hilda for Shanghai :) Michael Joffre for Shanghai Leverkusen for Manila a Hal Li-tor Swatow President Coolidge for Shanghal Lyeemoon for Salgon Corlu for Bingapore Vua Yang for HorEBy General Pershing for Manila
14
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The statement issued by Senor de Madariaga announcing his re- signation concludes by expressing "unshakeable confidence in the League of Nations, which alone can save the world from an un precedented catastrophe."-- Transocean News Service.
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PROSPECTS
(Special Air Mail Service).
London, June 24" Lord Bearsted's comprehensive survey of the position of the Gl industry at yesterday's meeting of the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company will be studied with care' by a wider circle than the share. holders in the company itself. Cu the all-important question of the crude oil situation in the United States Lord Bearsted took a hope. ful view, but also drew attention to two flaws in the picture. One was the rapid development of the Rodessa feld, and the other the lack of proper regulation in Cali- fornia, in the absence of which un- certainty must continue to exist.
EASILY PLEASED Stocks of motor fuel in the United
HUMOUR IN COMMONS
London, July 11. The sudden relapse of the franc in terms of sterling, after a period of comparative firmness. is at pre- sent puzzling the foreign exchange interests. Some are inclined to attribute the reaction to a feeling of extreme nervousness regarding
(Special Air Mail Service)
the outcome of the Finance Minis-
London, June 25, ter's "Baby Bond": venture, point-
The House of Commons 15 big out that M. Vincent Auriol queer place, and it has some queer virtually admitted that the failure and sometimes rather intensitive
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States. He pointed out, were "un- comfortably high," but fortunately consumption was still on the up- grade.
Shareholders in the Mexican and Canadian Eagle Companies will welcome Lord Bearsted's references to the recent improvement in re- lations with the authorities in Mexico and to the "enormous possi~ bilities," On the question of in- terim dividend policy, he stated that the drectors would be guided
of the issue would entail drastic ideas of humour. It has been measures, even possibly devalua-reported that during Tuesday's de-solely by considerations of econo-
tion.
bate many of its members were
ог
mic security, and that the de- claration non-declaration of such a dividend should not be taken as any indication of the
On the contrary, others are of vastly and openly, amused when Sir the opinion that the present is too John Simon's voice gave way in the early, to judge how the lasue is course of what must have been a faring, and are more inclined to speech of considerable length. But attribute the easiness of the frane that was not the only merry jest state of the group's profts.
to technical causes in connection with the two-day holiday occasion- ed by the July 14 celebrations.- fleuter
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
THE SCOTTISH MINT
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 20. Included in an important collec
tion of Newton papers and manus cripts which will be auctioned at Sotheby's next month there is a section of particular Scottish in- terest dealing with the establish- ment of a mint in Scotland after the Union and the recoinage of Scottish money. A 3-page auto- graph by Sir Isaac Newton as Mas ter of the Mint gives "an account of the Scotch money," and there is a mass of correspondence re-
that moved the faithful Commons to uncontrollable laughter: in one comment on the proceedings" we read:
The biggest laugh-in) yesterday's debate, in fact the biggest laugh the House has had for weeks, was drawn by Sir Archibald Bincial. His humour was unconscious.
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GLORY'S PLATFORM
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 24," What was yesterday a kindly 1921 Amateur Golf Championship gesture by Mr. Allan Graham, the
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 20. Bad is the fate of the proconsul In the course of a solemn open
Colonial Governor-who returns to -the Viceroy, the Arabassador, the ng to his speech be denounced Binalist, may by the end of the this country after representing John Bimon, and pictured the dis-
week prove to have been a most King in a distant land." appointment his speech would be
round their Aresides.”
Packed into an overcrowded and stuffy Chamber on an afternoon when the temperature was high in the seventies, M.P's roared with laughter.
HAWTHORNDER PRIZE
WINNER
(Special Air Mail Service)
thornden Prize,
London, June 24. The winner of this year's Haw-
afternoon, is Mr. Evelyn Waugh presented this
with his biography of Edmund Campion
to wireless listeners "gathered patriotic deed. Mr. Graham
lent an old putter lo
Retirement reduces him to the Gene for this week's Open Champion- Sarazen, the American challenger
level of the ordinary eltisen
Though the prize is intenued for The other day Lord. Willingdon a work of imagination and usual- ship at Hoylake, and the player's went to Victoria to welconie a ly goes to novels, it has been won Putting was largely the making of friend who was arriving from In- before by a blography-Lord David his fine score of Th. If Sarazen
dia. As the train drew near, the Cecil's Life of Cowper, "The continues to use the borrowed ex-Viceroy moved forward to the stricken. Dear," Had the mirthful members and putter with the same effect for bistform. A brawny arm barred } the, writer of that paragraph never the rest of the week and wins the his passage.
Mr. Waugh has written a num- "Hi there," said a ber of witty novels and travel heard of "Breside" as a synonym Championship it will not only be gruff, official voice. "you can't so books, but this is only his second. for "hearth and home"? If Bir Archibald Sinclair was so incor- but also of the player himself.
in the best traditions of fiction on the platform without a ticket. rigibly comic in referring to. Are The Champion of 1932 has always and put his penny in the slot.
The ex-Viceroy had to go back sides in June, what about Macau been regarded
a.s lay? When Macaulay wrote in his formidable of the overseas chal- lating to the operations of the Ea-istory" "They would fight man tengers, and he is the more to be inburgh Mint, including an auto fully for their shops and firesides," respected now that he has had graph copy of a letter from New did be mean that, of course, they another day in which to and his ton recommending the appoint would never dream of fighting in land legs following the postpone ment of Dr. Gregory, Professor of June, when there might be no firement of play on Monday, Astronomy at Oxford, "to oversee for anyone to sit by? In that case, the first operations for recoining why were Naseby and Waterloo the Scotch money at Edinburgh." both fought in June, or Blenheim During his period at the Mint New- ton received comprehensive reports on the development of Bir John Erskine's silver, mines at AlVE.
the moet
and Minden in August? When, the | those dres must be stoked up all troops during the Great War sant the way from May to September? about keeplug "the home fires Otherwise there was no point in burning, did they mean that prolonging the contest.
NEW FAME FOR “QUINS"
(Special Ale Mail Bervice)
attempt at biography His Drst published work was a Life of Ros- setti. He is now writing a book on the Abyssinian War, and is re- | turning to Abyssinia next month to get material for an epilogue, an the Italian occupation of the conn
try.
Along
Encyclopaedia Britannica. London, June 19.
with kings and queens and other The Dionne quintuplets have famous people the quintuplets are achieved additional fame by being now written up, pictured, and in- the first living children ever to be dexed in the new printing of the mentioned in the 168-year-old 14th edition of the work.