HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, ⠀ APRIL 17, 1937.
EGYPT'S MOVE LABOUR UNREST IN WITHDRAWAL OF
FOR FREEDOM
Transitional Period Discussed
SHARP DIVISION
OF OPINION
Montreux, Apr. 36. The transitional period occupied the attention of the conference most of yesterday, but no agree- ment was reached by the delegates who were sharply divided, though more evenly than at Drst expect- ed. The discussion was again ad- journed for further study when the conference met to-day.
Britain, Portugal, United States and the Trish Free State support Egypt's desire for a twelve-year transitional period. Sweden and Denmark are also believed to be favourable. Italy, Greece and Bel. glum support the French eighteen- year proposal. France and Italy are referring to their Governments for further Instructions. Until the transitional period is agreed upon, progress in several other important questions is blocked.
The general commission discuss. ed the jurisdiction of national courts and appointed a sub-com- mittee to examine the question and made a further adjournment until Monday- Reuter.
HAINAN ISLAND
VISIT
Trade Investigation Party
London, Apr. 16. The Hainan Island Trade and Industries Investigation Party composed of representatives at merchants and bankers of Canton. Shanghai and Hong Kong, which has been organized for some months past, arranged to assemble together in Hong Kong in read- ness to proceed to Hainan Island on the 15th instant, but owing to delay in reporting themselves in Hong Kong, the departure has been unavoidably delayed.
THE WORLD
American Shipping And
Motor Disputes
Clydeside Strike: Kent Bus Service Held Up
World labour unrest is featured in cables from New York. London and Glasgow. The threat of American seamen and wireless operators to tie up shipping has been dispelled by a settlement at a conference attended by a representative of the National Labour Board. Meanwhile a strike is in full swing on the Clyde where the workers on the sister ship to the Queen Mary walked out, followed by similar seuión by employees of other yards.
The long drawn out motor dispute in America, which has spread to Canada, contlaues, though the situation holds out possi bilities of an early settlement.
Two thousand bas conductors and drivers are on strike in Kent, their main grievance being the poor living conditions. The em- ployers refuse to negotiate until the men return to work, but the Istter make a condition that those who did not join in the walk-out should be dismissed first!
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New York, Apr. 16. The strike of seamen and wire- less operators was settled to-day after a confererice attended by a representative of the National Labour Board.----- Reuter,
MOTOR DISPUTE
New York, Apr. 16. The American branch of General Motors has assured the United Automobile workers that no care will be exported to Canada during the strike of General Motors in Canada.
The Union on the other hand has stated that negotiations in the Canadian strike will be placed in the hands of the local branch of the Union. thus disposing of the threat of a sympathetic strike in American factories, Reuter,
CLYDESIDE UNREST
Glasgow, Apr. 16.
The one-day strike of the ship-" building and engineering workers at Clydeside did not start this morning, but as 11 a.m. the men
Besides it has been found neces: WAZIRISTAN UNREST sary to arrange with the Canton authorities to provide a gunboat to take the party to Hainan Island.
New Delhi, April 18. In view of the latest despatches from Waziristan, resolute military action by the British is likely in the near future.
It is reported that the Canton party consists of about eighteen members, and it has now been, ar ranged that as soon as a gunboat is provided by the Government,
The Governor of the North-west the members will assemble in Can-Frontier province paid a week-end ton. and leave for Hainan Island visit to the affected area where on the 22nd instant.
he learned that the troublesome Chinese Evening Press.
and turbulent Fakir Ipl, whose fanatical attitude 15 responsible for the recent outbreaks, had re-
BRITISH SOLDIER CHARGED
Sequel To Car Smash
St
L. H. Smith, of the Royal Corps of Signals, Whitfield Barracks, appeared before Mr. K M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magis tracy yesterday charged with driving a car, owned by Mr. B. Himsworth, without permission of the owner; driving under the m- fluence of drink; driving in a manner dangerous to the public; and falling to report the accident to the nearest police station.
Smith pleaded guilty to the second and third charges.
jected the conciliatory advice of a conference of 50 influential local tribes...
He also remainda adamant and hostile to the British in the face of appeals made in the name of Islam and the Koran by his own relatives, accompanied by a num- ber of sorrowing" old women from the Khalsora Valley, seene of re- cent sharp fighting.
Meanwhile, strict measures are being. enforced oti the frontier to prevent provisions reaching the Fakir's fighting men.--- Heuter.
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in John Brown's yard where the sister ship to the Queen Mary is being bulit walked out
The employees of other yards similarly stopped work and the etrike.seemed to be in full swing at noon. Reuter`s Bulletin 'Service. «
KENT BUS STRIKE-
London, Apr. 18.
VOLUNTEERS
Lord Plymouth's Appeal
London, April 15.
Following an appeal by Lord Plymouth for a spirit of goodwill at the meeting of the Non-Inter- vention Sub-Committee In
the Foreign Office, the Italian re- presentative, (states a communi- que), said in response to the ap peal that he was prepared to re- sume the discussion on the sub- feet of withdrawal of volunteers from Spain, proved a similar res- ponse was made by the other re- presentatives.
In the same spirit, the Soviet representative said he did not in- sist upon asking the sub-commit- tee to proceed with the discussion of the Note in which he had em- bodied the proposals he made at the Plenary Session of the com- mittee on March 24, for investign- tion of the allegations regarding the landing of Italians in Spain.
After the sub-committee had agreed to appoint a technical ad- visory committee:
to prepare 7 scheme for the withdrawal of volunteers, the Italian representa~| tive intimated that he proposed immediately to submit proposals to prohibit the entry into Spain of all non-Spaniards wnose activities were calculated to prolong or em- bitter the conflet Reuter.
There is a complete deadlock in CRAVEN STAKES
the strike of 2,000 bus conductors and drivers in Kent. The em- ployers have refused to negotiate until the strikers resume work, but the strikers demand the dismissal of the men who had not walked out before they return to their task.
The Government has granted a number of emergency licences. but the bus companies are not running their vehicles for fear of disturbances.
RESULT
Snowfall Wins By
One
Length
London. Apr. 16. The Craven Stakes run to-day resulted in a win for Snowfall, The strikers have apologised to 'who beat Sun Bather by" one the public for the inconvenience length. Streamstown was third caused stating that they are strik- some ten lengths behind. ing as it is the last protest against Twenty ran in the race. the poor living conditions-
The betting was 13 to 8 Snow- Reuter's Bulletin Service.
fall, 100 to 30 Bun Bather. 9 to 1 Streamstown
-Reuter
JAPANESE AIRMEN IN BRUSSELS
To Fly On To Berlin"
London, Apr. 16. The two Japanese alrmen who made a record flight to England from Jupan on the monoplane "Divine Wind" arrived in Brussels this morning and will be received by King Leopold, after which they will fly on to Berlin.
The aviators were presented with
Toc H And The
JOHNNIE WALKER
WHISHY
"STİLL SUPREME IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE"
SOLE AGENTS :
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
"IF THE PRINCE
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Iron Guards Threaten
Trouble
Bucharest, April 15.
The banishment of Prince Nicho- las by the King' threatens a ser- lous clash between the Iron Guard and the Government: All com- manders of the Iron Guard attend- ed a special Council af which the leader. Codreanu, read Prince Nicholas's letter to the Crown Council explaining why he pre- ferred banishment to renunciation of the morgantic marriage with Madame Saveanu,
In an emotional setting, Cod reanu exclaimed that if the Prince were forced to leave the country the Iron Guard will show its strength: ..
A deputation went to see: Prince Nicholas who is making "prepara-
Special Areasons to depart but the Prince re-
Help And Friendship
The seventeenth annual report on the activitles of Toc H testifies to a striking growth of interest
fused to give an audience and counselled the Iron Guard not to choose this moment to cause trou- ble Reuter.
SILVER MAZER
in and contact with the people | RARE SCOTTISH silver brooches at a banquet lasting. In the Special Areas.
During the year night by the Japanese Society in states) a considerable number of (the report London.-
units of Toe H in the more for- Reuter.
tunate areas of the country, have been stirred to attempt something in this direction. Sometimes the start has been the simple
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DUTCH ROYAL COUPLE TO VISIT GERMANY
Amsterdam, April 15.
many.
Transacean News Service.
SIR JULIEN CAHN'S XI
IN SINGAPORE.
Treasure For Sale Next Monik
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;
&
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS LIMITED,
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.
Tondo Fire Renders 12,000
People Homeless
front from Calle Moriones to Calle Herbosa.
Fire starting in the kitchen of a Tondo dwelling leaped out of control in one or the "city's most
Worst-Fire Since 1911 Fanned by a sporadic, twisting crowded districts and destroyed 16 square block or homes, shops,
wind, the fire leaped from house schools and public buildings, states
to house, sometimes skipping @ whole block and then returning to the "Manila Bulletin." Property blast the hopes of residents who damage was roughly estimated at prayed their homes and belongingə P2,000,000.
might be spared.
more
BRITISH DAVIS CUP TEAM
It was the most devastating and One person is known to be dead. and 14 were injured, some serious spectacular fire in this district Police are still checking miss-since 1911. Huge clouds of amoke, ing persons, many of them chil-shot with fame, billowed into the dren, and the death toll may grow. sky and cast a pall over the north section of Manila. Thousands were A preliminary police estimate drawn to the scene. The fire burn- placed the number of houses de-
ed for three and a half hours. stroyed at 1,000, with 15,000 home- less, leaving the city with one of marooned
The fate of a group of "children ex- All the gossip about famous ma-
the worst relief problems in years. Tondo Elementary school, which on the playgrounds of change of correspondence on Toc zers will be revived at Sotheby's on Its hands. Other estimates, H matters, growing as confidence when another remarkable Scottish
Was burned, remains unknown, Princess Jullana and Prince develops into a friendly intimacy standing mazer is offered to pub-homeless at 12,000.
conservative, -placed the They were known to have been Bernhard will travel to Germany that has enabled personal pro- le competition, states the "Dally
surrounded by fire on all sides. on Saturday to visit the Prince's blems to be talked about awkward- Telegraph."
A blackened forest of smoulder-It is believed they were led to mother, who is lying ill at Recken-ness, and help to be offered with- When lovers of old silver talking timbers and twisted debris safety. Police are still investigat- walde Castle in Eastern Ger- out the taint of patronage. Some about the wonders which they covering approximately a square ing the report that three persons
times the first effort has been to have seen in the auction
mile in area spreads along the bay were drowned in the bay. room, meet material needs. Two dis-stress is laid on the MacGregor tricta, for example, prepared and clan's heirloom mazer of the 15th dispatched to a Special Area some century, with its Celtic bone lid, two tons of jam. The task of for which Mr. Lionel Crichton, distribution gave to the Toc H❘ the well-known collector,~ paid | F unity in the. Special Areas that £10,000 10 years ago.
This pre- sense of. encouragement that | cedent probably caused the owner comes with usefulness; it led to of the standing mazer, Edinburgh, correspondence, practical at first, 1576, to consider that the last bid Traffic-Sergt. J. Scrim, of the Sir Julien Cahn's, team started solely for his bowling secured one but rapidly becoming friendly and for it. $6,000, was not sufficient Traffic Department, said that the their second game in Malaya, | wicket in each of the visitors' in- intimate. The same is true of at Botheby's in 1830. defendant Was brought to him against Selangor at Kuale. Lum-- nings for 35 and 7 runs respective- other examples, and personal visits As usual, the bowl of the ancient after the police had received in-pur. The side. fielded by the State 17. Although not so successful. to the Special Areas and invita- drinking vessel that is now to be. formation of the wrecking of, Mr. contained several changes from Whitaker had the satisfaction of tions to pay a return visit have offered for sale is of speckled Himiaworth's car.
the team which was beaten by clean bowling C.. S. Dempster, the resulted. The consequence has maple-wood, the word mazer being The case was remanded to 10 Penang at Easter, those dropped "greatest batsman New Zealand | been not only a growth of friend- derived from the old High German a.m. to-day m
from the side being Perimpanaya- has ever produced" for 19.. Demp-ship between individuals but a "mass," meaning a spot. The wide It will be recalled that in the gam, Loh Ah Lum, Dloysius and ster scored a century, in one of the widening of understanding and a silver-gilt band around the top early hours of last Saturday Dickson, whose places are filled by tourists' games in Ceylon, and was deeping of conscience which and the silver-gilt stem of taper- morning a motor car was found B. Mayo, D. M. Vanderholt, A. I not out 50 in his second knock cannot be without its effect oned cylindrical form catise this ves- lying in "a badly damaged condi- | Henry and A., J. Hunter.
against Malaya in Singapore. pubile opinion. Toc H in the sel (7 in high and, 7 diam.) to be!
Special Areas has also assisting very ornamental, in the proper distribution of the help organized by the stars and boards of several of the large oll companies,
There are now 428 branches and Tyne Geir Tyne Litti Tyne Hon- 633 groups of Toe Hat home and our Tyne Muckil Tyne Hart Tyne 110 branches and 278 groups over- | Al,"
Ancient Motto Moreover, there is an Scottish motto engraved the base.
Lose Wealth, lose little,
ancient around
ON THE CHEAP
The Coronation of King George London, Apr. 16. VI is likely to prove the most cost Five tennis players have beeny on record. The cheapest, at asked to go into training for the least in modern times, seems to selection of members for the Bri- have been that of William IV, who, tish team in the Davis Cup. Indeed, would have had it cheaper The players are H. W. (Bunny) | still, for in private he declared he Austin, C. E. Hart, J. P. Hughes, did not see the necessity for any P. Tucker and F. H. Wilde. coronation at all. Parliament, Reuter's Bulletin Service,
while insisting on the ceremony, voted only £50,000. for the cost, and MR. JOHN MURRAY
the actual expenditure from the public purse fall £7,000 short of PASSES
that figure.
London, April 15 Mr. John Murray, British Minis- ter to Mexico since January 1935, "who was absent in Europe on sick leave, died to-day in Berlin following an operation- British Wireless.
Contemporary wits made great play with "the half-coronation". as it was called, and one cartoon showed the Dukes of Cumberland and Busser driving to the Abbey in a cab, preceding the King and Queen in a hackney coach, with the Lord Chancellor on the box
tion on the side of Chatham The tourists will have four The Belangor side, on paper at Road, just beyond the Hunghotn strenuous days, for they go straight | all events, is stronger than that Bridge. The 'ear belonged to Mr, on to Ipoh after the Selangor which dia duty for the State at Z Himsworth, acting Senior How-match to engage Perak, at Ipoh. Easter, the inclusion of Mayo, Van- loon Magistrate.
Perak's team for this game hasderholt, Hunter and Henry defin The accident was believed to be been selected as follows: G. M.itely strengthening the batting and
lys. The experts deduce from this carrying the Great Seal Behind the work of joy-riders. The car Brand (capt.), M.. Y. Bahaudin, J. | bowling strength of the side.
may be an early mark of Aberdeen came was seen to proceed along Cha-P. Crysostom, R. C. Erhke, T. M. Mayo has been one of the State's
an omnibus full of the taken from the ancient borough | Flizelarences (William's children tham Road towards Hunghom Hart, W. O. Jonklaas, N. Mounera stock. bowlers for several seasons, sea. The comparable figure, for which, being interpreted, means: seal, which represents three lilies by Mrs. Jordan), and a few peers when it crashed into a trea, singhe, A. W. Moreira, G. F. G. while Hunter, who was selected to last year are 425 rbanches and 820
in a pot. The owner of the relic marching on foot, including Lord Rivaz, C. A. Speldewinde and R. N. play for Malaya for his fast bowl- į groups at home and 106 branches,
destres to have his name unreveal Grey, with the Sword of State, and Whitaker
ing, and terrific hitting abilities, and 284 groups oversea. In some
lead None of the Selangor players but could not leave his post owing areas there has been
Lord Durham with a big umbrella. a definite The engraved cost-of-arms on Besides those mentioned above, took part in the match against to the strike situation at that policy of discouraging the con- the mazer a tree surmounted of many historic mazers have appears old almshouse where it was kept Bir Julien's team in Singapore, but time, are in excellent form just tinuance of groups, which do not a feasy are those of Watson, ed at auction. Lord Halifax Bold went to America at £2.900. This Hart and Whitaker of Perak will be now, and Henry and Vanderholt give promise of becoming strong branch of which family was estab- the forgotten Temple Newsam ves- I'mazer to be sold will be accom- playing against the visitors for the are dour batsmen, who can also units, but fresh, growth during the lished at Crosiatt. As for the mark, sel in 1985, and u 1928 the Baffron panied by many other remarkable. second time, Hart scoring 45 and trouble with effect when called year amounts to 81 new groups at there is no clear data mark The Walden example, out of which silver vessels, including a later mid-s
and Whitaker who was included | upon.
rimis punched with the deur-de- Pepys, drank when he visited the zer sent from Midlothian,
QUEEN MARY AT LUNCHEON
PALTE..............
London, April 16Queen Mary attended a private luncheon party given by the Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin at No. 10 Downing Street to-day-21 British Wirele, de
home and 38 overzea.
Lose Honour, lose much, Lose Heart, lose all