THE
HONGKONG
MONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PRAK HOTEL Telographic" Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG,
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL
Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL SHANGHAL."
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Dos Wagons Lita, Poking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1928.
WEST RIVER TRADE INDIAN PROBLEM
ENQUIRY.
GOVERNMENT APPOINTS A
COMMISSION.
TERMS OF REFERENCE.
It is announced in the Govern- ment Garette issued to day that II. E. the Officer Administering the Government in Council has ap-: pointed a Commission of Enquiry to consider:
DISCUSSED.
EVIDENCE AT SIMON
CONFERENCE. '.
"INDIANISATION” MAY MEAN INEFFICIENCY.
SHARE TRANSFER DUTIES.
NEW BILL TO PREVENT EVASION.
DATE MUST BE GIVEN.
The Gazelle contains the draft of an Ordinance to amend the law relating to Stamp Duty.
(a) The status of River Trado / QUESTIONS ANSWERED. that transfers of shares contain
certineates as Master or Mate lagued by the Hongkong Govern- ment.
Poona, Oct. 16. Some interesting evidence on (b) The agreements made be- the "Indianisation" of Govern- tween owners and master and mas-mont services was given here to. Roomster and crew and the notice to be day before the Simon Joint Free
Chief Secretary, given to torminate those agros- Conference by Mr. Turner, the ments.
Moat Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, alas Telephone.
TEA DANCES:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 6 to 7 p.m. Hotel launch meets all stormers.
(88 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be bad at the Office of the
above Hotel),
Tel. Add:-"Victoria." Telephone C. 878
HOTELS OF
1. II. WITCHELL,
Manager.
DISTINCTION
METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA
PALACE
Tel Kowloon No. 3,
HOTEL
Tel Address: "Palaco." UNDER ENTIRELY EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT.
A first-class Residential and Tenrist Hotel with all the conveniences
of a Home,
Bar and three Billiard Tables; two in Now Billiard Saloon. Moderate Termst families specially catered for.
For terms apply to:-
Hotel newly renovated,
Mr. J. H. Oxberry,
Proprietresa.
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON.
SPECIAL SUMMER RATES.
Daily from $5.00 Monthly from $125.00
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of
Phone Nos.
K. 008 & K. 800.
MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.
Cables "KOWLOTEL"
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
1
Hongkong.
Oables :--
"EUROPE
Singapor
HOTEL
SINGAPORE
Grill
LTD.
THE EUROPE HOTEL
Arthur E. Odell, Managing- Director.
Courtesy, Comfort, Service and Luxuries of Modern Hotel Construction
THE HOTEL RIVIERA,
MACAU.
Cable Address:-"RIVIERA, MACAU."
PHOTOGRAPHIC CHRISTMAS
CARDS.
OF HONGKONG AND CHINA.
Just the thing to send home.
MEE CHEUNG
Btudio, Iop House St. Branoh 7, Beaconsfield Árondé,
Printed and Published far the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEREY FRANKLIN, 'at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
(c) The system of engagement and discharge and payment of wages of native seamen,
The object of this Bill is to prevent the evasion of Estate and Stamp Duties by providing
the true date of execution by, the transferor, and that registration of transfers shall be effected promptly.
Provision is made for the pay- ment of late registration duty.
Provision is also made for the payment of a nominal duty of Swo dollars only in the caso of Replying to Sir. John Simón, Mr. Turner explained that the Im. transfers to or by authorised La perial Services, like the I.C.S. and bankers, where the transfer the I.P.3., included both Euro- executed by way of security for penna and Indians, while the Pro- loan, and in the case of trans- vincial Services had been through-fers to authorised dealers, (e) The carriage of large num-out entirely Indian. bers of free passengers as com- mission agents.
(d) The method of measurement of River Steamers for passenger certificates.
(f) The system of embarkation of passengers and loading
сатда.
of
After questions by Lord Burn- ham, Mr. Turner anid he foresaw
that 15 years hence, when the last of the British officials left the transferred services. they would The employment of unbe completely dominated by In- certificated pilots.
dian officials, all belonging to the provincial service.
A
The Commission. With the advice and consent of the Executive Council the follow- ing have been appointed to forni the Commission:
Commander Joseph Bernard Ne: will, D.S.O., R.N., (Retired),
Lieut.-Commander Lewis Johy Pitcairn Jones, DS.C., R.N.,
Lieut-Commander Thomas Turn. ball Laurenson, D.S.C., R.N.R., Mr. Arthur Jones Evans, Mr. Thomas Grahan Weall, and, Mr. Tsun-nin Chau. Commander Newill, D.S.0., R.N.. (Retired) will be the Chairman of the Commissionera.
DUTCH WIRELESS TELEPHONES.
NEW SERVICES FOR NEXT YEAR.
Amsterdam, Nov. 9.
A big development in wireless telephonie communication next year is foreshadowed in an announcement made here to-day.
A wireless telephonic service be- tween Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The lague and the Dutch East Indies will be opened to the public on January 7th, at the rate of 30 Borine for an ordinary conversation of three minutes, 60 florins for an
120 urgent call, and'
florins for immediate communication.— Neuter.
GERMAN INDUSTRIAL
CRISIS.
Too Early Yet,
U.S. AMBASSADOR DEFEATED.
TO RESUME POST IN LONDON.
Washington, Nov. 9. Mr. A. B. Houghton, who recent-
Mr. Shah Nawaz Miran askedly resigned the Ambassadorship to Mr. Turner whether Indianisation London for the purpose of parli- of the services had affected the cipating the American elections, has been defeated in New York State elections for the Senate.
standard of administration.
Mr. Turner said it was too early to pass judgment.
It is announced that he will be Mr. Mirah: Do you make dif- resuming the Ambassadorship.- ference between direct recruit-Kenter's American Service. ment and graduat promotion from the lower grade to the higher ser- vlce?
Mr. Turner: From the point of view of efficiency a promoted man is better ns he knows his job, but for a higher standard of honesty direct recruitment is bet- ter.
AMERICAN NAPTHA
EXPLOSION.
DEATH-ROLL NOW TOTALS EIGHTEEN.
New York, Nov. 9.
A message from Lynn, Massachu- rette, states that the death-roll in the naptha explosion which took place it a shoe factory now num-
Dr. Gour:-1s it not a fact that the various eantmunities possess varying aptitude for work; for in- stance Muslims have an aptitude for the police and Madrasis for finance? Therefore the communal culty of administration. ratios in services adds to the difibers 18,
4
Mr. Turner: That is 30,
Emciency Endangered,
Dr. Gourt-And endangers effi- eiency all round.
Mr. Turner:Yes.
Therefore you are a free trader In the matter of the services and would recruit the best?-Yes, from the point of view of effici
ency.
Much damage was done to build-i inge in the imediate vicinity of the factory. Reuter's American Sar
vice.
A VALUABLE SPRING REDISCOVERED.
ji
WATERS PRESCRIBED FOR GEORGE III.
British medical men will now have something of interest to offer to their foreign balneological col-
Sir Zulaikarali Khan naked whe ther on the occasion of communal disturbance one community blam- ed the officers of another com-leagues when they visit England. munity.
They will not only be able to show that the country posseseda ite well- developed spas but will also be able to draw their visitors attention to n rediscovered natural spring in the heart of Lincolnshire that is rich in calcium.
Mr. Turner replied that this was so, as in Gohra the Hindus had asked for the removal of Mus-
·NEITHER BIDE WILLING TO lím police officials but there was
GIVE IN.
no similar complaint by Muslims against Hindu officials.
Berlin, Nov. 3.
From the point of view of eff- The iron and steel dispute still ciency you would make a distine continues, and there is no indication between Mohamedans and tion of either side capitulating. Hindus?--It depends on the work. Sixty blast furnaces in the For the police I prefer the Mo Rhineland and Westphalia have hamedan and for secretariat work been damped down, resulting In
a Brahmin. half a million workers being un-
Sir Zulfikarali: Is the European employed:
The Supreme Industrial Court more efficient than the Indian?
Sir J. Simon:That.le always a Is holding a meeting on Monday
to discuss the situation with cm-very difficult question to answer
In general terms (laughter). ployers and workera.- -ķeuter.
Europeans' Advantage.
FRENCH POLITICAL
AFFAIRS.
M. POINCARE WILL HEAD THE CABINET.
another Cabinet.-Reuter.
Mr. Turner:A European haa the advantage of having no local connexion or influence.
Numerous cures have already! been reported from treatment by the waters of this spring, millions of gallons of which are running to waste day and night in a lonely and undeveloped part of Lincolnshire's Icast Inhabited country. The five miles from Stamford, and has spring is at Braceborough, some
Its waters were once prescribed for been known for about a century. King George III, but have never been developed so that they can be used on a large scale.
Research Work.
Nor has, the secret of the cura- tive properties of the spring been known until recently, when the Sir Zulfikaradi:-From that theory of the new calcium defensive point of view you think Indiantsa- therapy was propounded to medical tion of the services suffers on associations by research workers. account of the consideration of Two of these experts had been in- efficiency?
vestigating the waters and testing them for some time, while numer- ous cases had been carefully treated with the calcium water and watched daily for results. These results wore found to be encouraging
The keenest interest is being shown in medical circles in the water, for it has now been proved that the calcium contents are the main determining factor that has caused so much success in treat- To Meet Demand.
ment. A medical man, who has Dr. Suhrawardy asked whether spent many years in his research the principle of Indianisation of into the new theory of calcium de the Services had been accepted by ficiency as a disease factor, has been the Government in the interests of borough water. It was his paper,
experimenting with Bucharest, Nov. v. efficiency or due to political pres- read before the Royal Society of After consulting with other sure. Icadera, M. Titulesco, has declined to form a Cabinet, as he was in vited to do by the Regency Coun Dr. Suhrawardy:-Then it is not
Paris, Nov. 9. M. Poincare, whose Ministry so Mr. Turner: I will not be so dramatically came to an end Tues-strong as that. day, has now consented to form Sir Authur Froond:-While I do not question the policy, the fact Later. remains that the provincialised M. Poincare has been summoned services in the transferred depart to the Elysee and has agreed to ments would mean that you cannot newly-discovered properties of the consult party leaders with a view keep quite as high a standard of
the speedy dormation of Badministration as before? Cabinet,-Reuter,
to
RUMANIAN POLITICS.
M. MANIU TO FORM NEW CABINET.
Mr. Turner: That is so.
•
the Brace.
Medicine recently, that first attract- Mr. Turner: This was to meet ed public attention to the new the most natural demand.
therapy of calclum deficiency.
ell, and has recommended that M. an unnatural demand for the the recruitment to the provincial Maniu, the leader of the National minority to ask for a share in the services to a Central Public Ser Peasants Party, should be entrust-loot? ed with the task.
Later.. M. Maniu has consented to form
|a Cabinet-Reuter.
vice Commission, Mr. Turner:-It is not Colonel Lane-Fox asked whether considering the time wasted in the Major Attlee suggested that Government considered the sug-Assembly regarding command ro gestion of setting up a Public presentation in the services the Bervice Commission.
Mr. Turner replied that they worry by handing the matter over Ministers would be saved the H.M.S. Berwick has left Tsingtao had, but no definite conclusion to a Public Service Commission. for Fusan and H.M.S.. Suffolk has was reached yet because of the left Weihriwei for Nagasaki. The difficulty of finding enough work Mr. Turner: Yes, it might. transport Dorsetshire is dus here for
a provincial commission. Turner for his, courtesy, and Sir John Simon thanked Mr. on Monday morning on the home' There was a proposal to hand over ward voyage.
patience.
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