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AĦL MATAN SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1930, HIMA=† suola Corx = CEKIS
LONDON CHILDREN DR. C.T. WANG MEETS SHANGHAI SHARE THE PRINCE SAILS GENERAL SMUTS IN
KILLED.
ANOTHER DISTRESSING
TRAGEDY.
PETROL DRUM EXPLODES IN
· RAILWAY YARD.
PAISLEY FUNERALS.
London, Jun. 3.
PRESSMEN.
SAYS THE GOVERNMENT HAS WEATHERED STORMS.
FOREIGN OPINION.
Shanghai, Jan. 4. Dr. C. T. Winz, the Foreign Minister, gave a luncheon to foreign and Chinese Pressmen at the Mejestle Hotel yesterday.
In the course of a New Year message, Dr. Wang stressed the
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MONTREAL.
COLLAPSE.
FOR AFRICA.
CORDIAL SEND-OFF IN LONDON
ADJUSTMENT SEEMS SUCCESSFUL.
AND SOUTHAMPTON.
REMARKABLE SPEECH ON BRITISH EMPIRE,
ACTION TAKEN AGAINST FOUR BROKERS.
COMMISSION TO SIT.
Shanghai, Jun. 3. It cannot be said that the
HALF A GALE BLOWING
UNIQUE INSTITUTION OF INESTIMABLE VALUE.»
BUNTON
DUNLOP CARRIES THE TRAFFIC:
hey're Briti h
·LOCAL BRANGHT
Padder Buliding.
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts.
"Investor:"We understand. We understand that the US S. that there may be a mild boom.Naval exercises are in future to in Shanghai shares in jew season. be, known as man-Hoovers!
When people are making money Local newspaper heading they call them "stocks and "Mustapha Kemal Like Amanul- shares.". When they lose shocks lah!" We trust so!" and shares 1"
London, Jan. 3. The Prince of Wales had an ex- ceedingly cordial send-off when he left to-day for East Africa, via Cape Town, to resume the big game hunting expedition which was in- terrupted by the King's illness last PLEA FOR SOLIDARITY. and-seven-penny dollar, la just
year.
has
His departare was marked by no formality whatever," but when he left St. James's Palace, and again cheered him.
His brothers, the Duke of Gloucester and Prince George, and Princess Louise, were among the
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about the last straw of poverty- stricken helplessness!
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The curious thing about ... the
average woman is the knock she yet when driving a car cannot a discern the difference between red and green.
Oh! these New Your resolutions, With their promised evolutions. Make a fellow feel as wenk: as"
wenk can be,"
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For he knows he cannot trust
'em, d And that very soon he'll bust
emi If not on the square" ut least".
upon the apree!"
sympathy of the Powers, and fed à long way. Never before party at the station to bid him fare luncheon given by the Canadian. An Aberdonian living in Canton man
The Stock Exchange to-day
well.
A divorced American woman had her former husband as best at her second wedding. is delighted to learn that, as from Surely, however, it would have January 1st, therein to be free been more appropriate if he had,
given her away. speech in China.
□□ People who assert that Hong- Talking of statistical depart- kong stands solid on a silver basis ments, what about someone trying- wouldn't know the difference to figure out how many pounds of -
the and quick- lard between. Gibraltar
average Hongkong realdent consumes in a year?-
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London, Jan. 3. Three London children are point that the Central Government
A brilliant eulogy of the British Empire and of its aims dead and three of their play-was in a stronger position than mates are in hospital in a ever before, having weathered December Settlement. "of the at Waterloo Station, large crown and possibilities in the world has of matching shades of colour gravely critical condition as the storms with which it had re- Shanghai Stock Exchange
of to-day WES delivered by result of a distressing accidentcently been faced.
yet been completed, though the
General Smuts, the famous In North London, for which the · Dr. Wang further aid he ap
And adjustment process has proceed.
South African statesman, at a children appear to have been preciated the goodwill responsible.
Club at Montreal. hoped for the restoration of foil has such a difficult period been
By his own wish, the *. Prineg They were all playing round covereignty to China. He appeal-experienced in Shanghai and travelled from Waterloo to South One of the most remarkable a full petroleum barrel in thee to the nation to rally round the members and Committee have ampton as an ordinary passenger, speeches ever made on the subject Narth of London when i Government,
had many anxious conferences,
At Southampton, His Royal High-In the famous Club, it was the wuddenly exploded, killing one
Mr. O. M. Green, editor of the one of them lasting until fourness was greeted by the Mayer, who more remarkable coming from
wished him a 'happy journey and
man, who, as he himself pointed North China Daily News, in, reply- o'clock in the morning.
out, spent some of the best years of them instantly and seriouslying on behalf of the foreign Press
good sport.
The Prince sanillingly thanked his life in opposing the British injuring six others.
men, suggested that China was.
Randal Two of them were so dreadfully perhaps, moving ton fast, though expelled two brokers, Mr. Douglas him and then, followed by his flag.
General Smuts is engaged on a he admitted that progress had been Fleming and Mr. Leslie Lewis querries, Iturried to the gangway
It is a bit too Boon hospital nude, despite some disappoini-both of whom were unable to meet of the liner. Kenilworth Castle three weeks Lour of Canada and
he will cold for bathing also He was
received aboard by the the United States and Captain who conducted him to his lecture extensively on the League parties espect sitting room on the promenade of Nations and the British Empireally when these deck. f
Unique Characteristic. Addressing the niembers of the Canadian Club yesterday, he said he felt that it was the most unique characteristic of the British become engaged Empire that It had always given on New Year'a scope and offered bigger oppor- Day. After they tunities to small peoples us noring out the old, empire of the past had ever done, they hold out
The British Empire, General the ring. Smuts went on,* and deliberately set itself to encourage a variety of types and institutions, and to pro dues a great interwoven pattern in which scope was left for every kind of diversfly..........
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ments.
enlogised Marshal
injmed that they died after admission Three others 1 in a Krave zondition and are unconscious.
Mr. Green The remaining child alone Chiang Kai-shek's' decision to per-
freedom: to the Pres escaped really seriousdnjury. He is conecious and relatessa story.
One Qwn Correspondent. which leaves little room for doubt na to the cause of the tragedy.
The little boy says that they were all playing with barrels in The railway goods yards nt Holloway and they lighted a fire under the petrol drum. Following upon the terrible disaster
New ht Paisley on Year's Eve this second trugle occurrence has caused a severe ahock.
Paisley's Griet.
The busy town of Paisley with its cotton mills and other In dustries were hushed tony s. following memorial service in Palaley Abbey, hearses and funeral corleges filed through the streets for five hours, bearing the remains of fifty victims of the cinema die ater to Hawkhend Cemetery for interment.
There were two long rows of little graves.
The bodies of twenty-six of the victime, who were Roman Catholies, had rested in churches throughout the night, sad-faced parents hovering in the vicinity,
Poignant Scenes.
Moal" poignant Frenes wer observed ut the graveyard which was crowded with sorrowing rein. tives, and the heart-rending task of burial was necontuated by the
mit
ANTI-FASCIST PLOTS IN FRANCE.
WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY BY
THE POLICE, "
their commitments. 20 issued orders of suspension the case of two others, Mr. Jack Behar. and Mr. Charles White.
Thirty days grace has been given in each case for them to meet their obligationis,
Drafting New Itules.
It is understood that plans have been drawn up for the re-drafting of the rules of the Exchange, and|20 a Commission, including repre sentatives of the leading Banke will meet shortly to consider the whole aspect of brokerage trans- view to revising actions with a methods.
BIG BLAZE OCCURS IN WASHINGTON.
In Archives Itoom of House of Roadprentatives.
VISIBLE A MILE AWAY.
Washington, Jan. 3.
out. in: tie Archives Room of the House of Representatives this "evon- Ing. The flames and smoke. were visible a mile away.
Paris, Jans 3. -Wide prend police activity has followed the arrest of the three Italian anti-Fascist intellectuals re- ferred in yesterday, - These are
Fire broke In connexion with the December Sardelli, an ex-Deputy; Tarchiani, former editor of the Corriere delish, "the Committee has shown
in raspect leniency
of those Lasera, and Clanca, a prominent brokers who have been able to: journalist.
prove that they are genuine The arrests were made following victims of defaulting clients." the discovery of a huge quantity of high explosives at their home, and | Brokers Speculating. it is believed that the discovery will lead to the disclosure of a vast anti- The Committee has, however, Police, armed with search war-found to have been speculating on their own initiative, thus causing rants, were despatched to all pointa where anti-Fascism is suspecte,the dislocation of the Settlement. specially to Marseilles and Beanu- con, and the whole Italian frontler The greatest discretion is, how ever, being muintafried.-Reuter,
Farcist plot.
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CANTON STEAMERS
DELAYED.
il
expelled all those who
were
On the Market these days, there. is a better feeling, and it is pretty 110W that the investing elenr section of Shanghai's population had not suffered such heavy losses na were originally anticipated,
were
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A general fire alarm was sounded, and, in response thereto, fra -engines ruced down Pennaylvania, Avenge to rope with the blaze.
It will be recalled that on Christmas Day a serious fire, broke out at the White House, completely destroying the -Presidential Executive Offices, and causing damage estimated ut G.560.000.—Renter's Ameri-. ern Service,
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Many people "
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Tight
shoes for women are said to be u178- fashionable the winter, but no doubt some other form of discomfort will take their place.
- No Better System.
Since, for the smaller peoples, there could be no better or more beneficent system, he held that they should be foremost in pre- for serving it, as a guarantee their liberties and privileges, such air careers, as they could secure by no other Fagency.".
"What! You have nothing. to wear. Why, I brought you. a new dreak for Christmas.
"But you can't expect me to gu out wearing a last year's dress!"
The way to make good re solutions last is to let the rest of the family make theirs first.
One of our loent fishermion was unlucky last week. was fishing with bated breath..
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The New
Year celebra- tions remind us that in. the
Battle between The bottle and the corkscrew, the former. usually gets it in the neck.
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Looping the loop stunts lots of An Iowa woman had three hus- She bunds within' 10. months. must be getting ready to move to Hollywood, ·
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A thought for the New Year:
money inst. you must He claimed that the Empire had To make served as a working model for minke it first. the League of Nations and he
The women who marries a man expressed his belief that the existence of the Empire was the to mend his ways usually ends up best augury for the permanent mending his clothes. success of the League of Nations, which was achieving invaluable results.
ធ ជ MacWhirter says that lots" of people who have never used a Lypewriter know all about the Louch ayatem.
The liner sailed at four o'clock, It is evident, in fact, that the
Closer Co-operation, process of "fixing things up" crowds on the quayside chearing began before "Settlemant Day, warmly and singing. "Auld Lang,
Continuing, General Smuts suid
A campaign for the expression Difficulties
anticipated Syne" and "God Save the King," that the last ten years had been simply because the November Half a gale was blowing and rain opent in elaborating the status of of individualiam in men's clothing We're in the way that was desirable, Wireless. Canton, Jan. 3. though an endeavour seems to
fael that two of the grave-digger# | ONE VESSEL, GOES AGROUND❘ settlement did not go through just was falling heavily-British the Dominions and securing for has started in London.
had lost children in the disaster.
Charles Dorward, the mannger
of the Glen Cinema, who was arrested yesterday, was formally charged in the Police Court to- day and remanded in Police custody. The proceedings were private.-Reuter,
Mysterious Children's Disease.
Berlin, Jan. 3.
Owing to the fog in the river,] have" been made to persuade the
them constitutional equality with seen the same sort of thing in. the Mother Country, and the help operation at Fanling.. and good will of the British states
all the Hongkong steamers came in qubtle that everything had passed EMPIRE AGRICULTURE men of all parties, had always been very late this morning. Most of off satisfactory. them were close on five hours late,]
arriving between 10 and 11 o'clock Newspaper Criticism.
Inslend of at 6.30 as usual.
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PROBLEMS.
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IMPERIAL CO-OPERATION URGED BY COMMITTEE,
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Modern women's dress may, have : fewer hooks, but it attracts more available.
But this achievement, he added, eyes. was only half the battle.
We regret to announce that a The North China Daily Neron, in
He urged that the next ten years local resident during the New The sh. Tín Yat ran aground just a recent lender on the subject,
might be given over with the same year holiday fell down not-with- below Whampoa on a mud island, said that the only thing that the
zeal to the achievement of closerstanding. London, Jan, 3. Fifty-two children have died and, as far as is known, she is Exchange went through in Novem- within a very short period the still fast ashore. The place where ber was a very bad time, and in section of the Conference of Em- policy.
The Report of the Agricultural co-operation and real solidiarity in result of a mysterious infantile she went aground is known to be December, as anticipated, Settle
pire Meteorologists has been diacuse which has been sweeping infested with pirates, but for ment Day was even less enjoyable. issued, embodying certain resolu- the camp at Hammerstein where tunately a Chinese gunboat passed.
Regarding the amalgamation of tions laying down the lines of re four thousand Mennonite refugees a few minutes after she was on the two exchanges, to which the search recommended for the
the mud and stood by for some crash is attributed in some circles, Enipire.
are in quarantine after being re- patriated from Russia..
Inestimable Value, He made this plea as a man who had given some of the best years of his life in fighting to escape
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A DOLLAR DITTY. Sing a song of fourpence gone,, And pockets full of chits: Four and twenty perce there
were,
The pie has gone to "bita! Yet some there are who ate the
pís
And also got the plum; But think of all the multitude Who found they had been done. So here's a song of: fourpence®
gone,
A dollar fallen low,
With loss of trade and bank-
ruptcy
And more pence yet to go: So if you're feeling dollar-Dus There's nothing to be done, a A year has passed unhonoured And another come unsung!
There is no truth in the rumour
For every ball that's held on that Circumference de: Tong, the
New Year's Eve, & number of popular Kowloon mare, is to run heads are held the next morning in the next Race Meeting,
口口 A purist
complains that
ruining the English language.
Ring out the old year, and ring
in the new!
Ring your silver dollars, it
you've nothing else to do
This week's health return showa there has been a very heavy mor Shop Early! Only 355 days to tality among farmyard produce, There has also been an unusually Christinas,
large number of cases of bottles There were reports of a slight lum. Consumption has been very earthquake in Kowloon on the last prevalent, with consequent day of the Old Year, but enquiries reduction of spirits. showed that it was only the family moving out of a top fat
time. Later a large Chinese gun the journal says that it is possible The Chairman, Sir Napier Show, from the British flay, and he habitual use of the telephone la There are forty other cases of boat arrived on the scene and is to elleve that eventually this in a givering letter, draws attention spoke as no lover of Imperialism People are becoming too phoney the disease in the camp and since now standing by. It is hoped that will be for the good of everyone, to the importance and gathering as a doctrine. the infection is a mystory it is the Tin Yat will float off at high especially when the more consor hopes of Imperial co-operation, He feared there will be other deathside-Our Own Correspondent,"
But he felt the British Empire for words. The disease is invariably a sequel
vative elements obtain that posi- hopes that the recommendations will was an institution of a unique on of influence which they enable co-operation to be secured type and of inestimable value and 10 an attack of mansion. The symptoms are high fever and in-
ought to secure,
and that it will be further develop that its citizens would show little ed with increasingly fruitful re-evidence of political sagacity and dammation of the cornea of the
Damage Done."--
sults throughout the Empire-foresight if they did not hand it Feye and the check-Reuter,
on undiminished in vigour to their Renter
children, so that it might play an, øyen mare beneficent part in the world's affairs than it had already done—–British Wireless,
COLONY'S FINANCES.
CREDIT BALANCE SLIGHTLY LOWER.
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"PROBLEM OF PORT
LABOUR.
WEST RIVER LAUNCH COLLISION,
COXSWAIN. AND PILOT DETAINED.
It is added, however, that the policy of uh Exchange which does not place a curb on dealings of BRITISH COMMITTE MAKING the kind with which the Decem
ENQUIRIES..
ber. Settlement is stated, to be re-f plete, is one which does the London, Jan. 3. foreign community. In China no The Colony's financial returns At the request of the Minister small amount of harm. The gam show that on September 30th the of Labour Committee under the bling institutions in Shanghai, -credit balance was $10,408,065, chairmanship of Sir Donald which were closed recently, were News has been received in the against $10,615,619, at the end of Maclean is engaged in enquiries says the NLD Nets, run Colony to the effect that the ooK August 22nd of in connexion with problem of port better lines than many of the
awain and pilot of the Hongkong transactions involved in the pre-launch Tung On are still being de The revenue for the month was
These enquiries have as their sent alleged settlement Our tained by the authorities at Wu- $1,352,387, compared with $1,607,- 671 for Beptember, 1928, whilst the object the co-ordination and exten- Own Correspondent expenditure totalled $1,559,941, sion of registration schemes and against $1,615,453 in the previous other measures for decasualisin
labour,
The Rora
year greepy port labour.. FINE WEATHER
For the first nine months of the The Committee has already year, the income was $18,996,284, Issued two interim reports and has against $17,040,475 in 1928 whilst also communicated with various
he respective expenditure figures ports, urging the adoption of cerOTER BASE
are:$14,679 852 and $14,038 212tain measures --British Wireless
SIMON COMMISSION REPORT.
EXPECTED TO BE ISSUED
COIN MARCH,~
The fren
chow. "The Customs office there has received orders not to clear the launch until a settlement of the case | Stat has been reached.
It will be recalle On recéndy collid Chinese daunch
"London":"
mission
Indian
Some people are just beginning
to realise that last month was New Definition-An agnostic in £ S. December
a man who asserts that he knowe 400 nothing, but who loses his temperit la not to be wondered at that if you agree with him, the local angler who boasts pr having caught a 91b. 100% carp
Kowloon motorists looking for from Tytam, tells the story parking spot may be interested a catch, in his volee!
to hear that there are only 20,000 cars in the whole of China
It was perhaps somewhat appro Jata that a New Years Ev
forecast should
A scientist asse
ty was known" cónturies
"he's", discovero