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六拜禮 號五月四英港香 SATURDAY,
APRIL 5, 1930.
日七初月三
$30 PER ANNUM
SINGLE DOPT 24 CENTE
HOTEL COMPANY'S HOPE ABANDONED CANNING CHINESE BANDIT OUTRAGE
BUSES.
CONCILIATORY POLICY TO TRAMWAYS.
PROPOSED PAVILION AT REPULSE BAY: CHEAP TRANSPORT.
IN LONDON. ·
A FIVE POWER PACT
VERY UNLIKELY.
AMERICANS TO LEAVE ON APRIL 22.
BUT TALKS CONTINUE.
London, Apr. 4.
FOODS.
NEW INDUSTRY FOR THE CROWN COLONIES.
¡
DESCRIBED.
MISSIONARY KILLED BY ACCIDENT.
Bulls
口口
DUNLOP...
British and Best
and Inners
From the Office Butts.
A piping panegyric:-H.E. the Speaking of Einstein's theory,
O.A.G."I can assure you that it would be interesting to know i
even the pipes of Pan could pro- Tom Wright? duce no sweeter music in Hong- kong's ears than the music of running water, in Mr. Henderson's
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ATTACKERS BELIEVED TO BE pipes:"
INEXPERIENCED.
MR. CULLEN'S STORY.
Tientsin, Apr, J.
FAR EAST EFFECT.
London, Apr. 4. Plans are on foot to form an Empire Canning Council to limulate the erection of local canning factories, particularly in India and the Crown Colonies. The Council consists of unoff- The recent optimism with cial representatives of India and
Mr. A. P. Cullen, secretary of regard to the Naval Conference all the Crown Colonies, but it is
the London Missionary-Society's was distinctly diminished to-understood that the Governments day when it was stated that are co-operating informally.
Anglo-Chinese College at Tien- while the prospects of a Three The object of the Council is totsin, arrived here this afternoon Power Pact are most favourable, assist the canning industry by with the body of Mr. Eric Sear the prospects of a Five Power giving advice and technical help. lett, treasurer of the College. Pact
certainly are
It will first survey the situation who was killed by bandits on Presiding at the annual meeting of Hongkong and bright.
and will then ascertain the nature Wednesday. The only hopeful sign at Shanghai Hotels Ltd, this morning, Mr. J. Scott Harston made
sent is that M. Briand Mr. of the help required. reference to the possibility of afliation of the transport ser-
Mr. Cullen, detailed the outrage It is anticpated that there willin an interview, when he said that vices of the Company and the Tramway Company. He said Henderson and Me. Ramsay Mac- the policy of the Board was one of conciliation to the Tramway Donald are lunching together to-be a large field in the Far East they arrived at Peitaiho Junction Co. since it was probable (provided some mutually beneficial day for the purpose of discussing where canned goods, mostly from about five o'clock on Wednesday
COMPANY'S STABILITY.
arrangement could be entered into), that affiliation of the sur- vices would be to the benefit of both companies and to the com- munity.
He assured shareholders, however, that the Board was no! prepared to hand over this portion of the Company's activities without adequate compensation.
It was further intimated that the Company's bus services had carried approximately five and a half million passengers during the year. Mr. Harston also stated that there was under consideration an argumented bus service to Repulse Bay beach during the coming summer and the establishment of a pavilion offering dressing room and refreshment facilities at rates with- in the scope of those of moderate means.
.
The Chairman also denit at length with the financial position of the Company and explained that as there was 10 large programme of extension in view, the Company should be able to effect further material reductions in its overdraft from time to time.
PENINSULA HOTEL BIG ASSET.
Chateman's Speech.
You
the French. formula,
not
too
pre-
A British official spokesman pointed out that this fact di posed of the Paris reports that Britain had rejected the formula. It is declared that the sex- sational stories in the Press as regards Signor Grandi's state- ment to Mr. Henderson have been greatly exaggerated-Reuter.
Americans Going Home.
London, Apr. 4.
It is understood in American Naval delegation circles that hope of reaching an agreement on a Five Power basis
virtually has been
The delegation
booked has passages for America for April 22.
abandoned.
It is thought that the outcome of the Conference will be an of fective Three Power agreement between Britain, America and Japan and an agement on minor Points between the Five Powers, |Britain. Anerina, daran, Fenris
and aty.--Route",
will also notice
in- 11:1 over the Buccan
figures for the
London Apr. 4. It is learned from an Italian de Address of the shareh ers, the previous finurial year in the itemsation soure that Signor Grandi, Chairman said: Gentientin Ther income "Rentals of Shops and his recent conversations, em- report of your Directors and state Offices." in which connexion The plushed that the chief questions for ment of counts for the financial maneles granted at the Peninsula the Conference are on Naval dis- your couled is. Dicember, 1929. Hotel can in the main responsible, armament and are not political. having been in your hands for thei prescribed period. I will, with your permission, follow the usual procedure, and take them as rend. The Auditors' Report Fellowes: "We have budited the dot
is
P
Bank Interest, Turning to the debit side of the and Loss Account, you will that considerable increase chove Acerunt and Balance Sheet) to wat over the previous year's with the banks and d cuments glite as in the main item under the
them as correct.
Signor Grandi has now been away from Rome for eleven weeks and there is an accurimolation of work awaiting him thers. The indians, however, have no intention of precipitating matters and have mad no travelling arrangements.
A question regarding the Franco-
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ILUSAND CIVAKKAMSVERTENCIANDOSCO
FLOWER-SELLERS AGAIN MOVING.
New Pitch Not Good For Business.
D'AIGULAR ST. SITE.
To flower-sellors whe wa recently moved a Lan Street from the Pout 87 Wyndham Street, where they had plied their business for over 50 years, are again to shift their pitch.
Business at On Lan Street has been very bad, and we learn that new site bas been decided on, as a further experiment, this being at the junction of D'Aguilar and Wellington Street.
The spot which the flower vendors will occupy has for some time been utilised by a number of fruit and vegeta- ble stalls, but these are being shifted further up the street. The change-over will made to-morrow night.
KRONDANIMARCU
America. are suited for European population.
Council
be
the
One of the proposals of
is to apply canning machinery to the foods of other
the Head Ofier and she Acronats | Beading "Bank Interest " During Italian side of the Conference elicit. and Bidaner Sheet of the Shaten the construction of the Peninsula ed the reply "It is no longer a quas- Brand: remiered by Messrs, Thon Hotel the interest aceruing en the Kon & Co., as Accountants to themes expended in respect thereofon al Italy's claim for parity but Company in Shan, hi, certified by was debited to Capital Account, but France's claim for superiority."
--Better. We have obtained on the bringing into operation of
Meelings Continue.
peoples and thereby tap the large all the informating and explan that establishment. this capitalisa-
market among the Chinese dis- tions we have required. In our tin of interest necessarily erased,
· London, Apr 4 opini such Balance Sheet is pre- and consequently revenue. for the
The delegates to the Naval Contributed in the Pacific. perky de wn up so as to exhibit a period under review has burne the ference and their expert advisers A questionairre has already True and correct view of the state full charge in respect of all the again spent several hours to-day been sent out to all parts of the of the Company's affairs accord-interest paid by the Company in in the search for a formula setting world and the further operations ing to the best of car information relation to its overdraft facilities out the agreed interpretation of of the Council will be guided by and the explanation given to us with its bankers,
certain articles of the League the answers which are received to and as shown by Bw books of the The various other items
con Covenant. Although their efforts this-Reuter. Company--Percy Smith, Seth &stituting the debit side of Profit have not yet been successful, the Fleming, Incorpor ted Accountants, and Loss account do not appear to Auditors, fongkong, 20th March, call for further explanation on my part: I deem it necessary, however, to draw your attention to the two
1930.**
"Maintenance
ask has not been abandoned and hopes are still entertained that a formula may be found which will
so increase France's
sense
of
Mr. Mie-
You will observe from a per items to be read in conjunction security as to enable her to make usal of the credit side of the with one another) Profit and Loss Acroant for the and Repairs Account" amounting an appreciable reduction in her year 1929 that the balance of the to $141,386.29 and "Depreciation"
naval tonnage requirements with- Working Account amounted to $1 amounting to $320,788.59, making out explicitly or implicity exten- 358,900.16 as against $1,113,867.15 a total of $462.174.88 chargeable ding, the obligations to which for the preceding year-being on against "Working" in respect of Britain is committed under the increase of $245,102,01, which Maintenance
Repair and
and League Convenant and the Locarno think may under the circumstances Depreciation of your Company's Treaty, be regarded as satisfactory properties and equipment. In this The Prime Minister, especially as this result has been connexion I may add that not only Donald, and the Foreign Secretary, ý obtained in spite of the adverse have your Company's properties, Mr. Henderson, accompanied by
summer season experienced at our, together with their contents and Sir Robert Vansiltart and others Hongkong establishments. due equipment, been well maintained, met the French Foreign Minister, principally to the unfortunate but in addition the depreciation M. Briand, at luncheon and had a water shortage in the Colony provided for in respect of these discussion on the subject which during the summer of 1929, which assets is such as to more than lasted till after four o'clock. led to conditions detrimental to fulfil the adequacy demanded by the successful hotel operation, particu- nature thereof. larly in relation to transient patronage. -
Sources of Revenue.
The discussion will be resumed at St. James's Palace to-morrow morning.
POLICE FIRE ON INDIAN MOB.
EUROPEAN AMONG TWENTY CASUALTIES.
RIOT AT A STATION.
Bombay, Apr. 4. Thirty persons were injured and
had to be sent to hospital when the police were forced to fire an crowd of disorderly railway strikers outside the Victoria ter- minus of the Great Indian Penin- sula Railway.
The injured people include a European police Sergeant and a European man and a woman.
Two thousand strikers succeed-
evening and were proceeding on donkeys towards the beach.
It was
still broad-daylight at 5.30 when they were roughly eight li from the Junction and were con fronted by three Chinese in civi-
You may rave about Handel, Beethoven' or Bach; Of Verdi or Wagner or Brahms; But they can't hold a candle, To lighten the dark,
When compared with our new
music's charms.
You may even applaud the "Songs Without Words" Of that genius of tune Mendelssohn.
But now you'll agree, That even the birds, Are outclassed by the great Hen-der-ssohn!
Harrassed Hongkongites will be interested to learn that poverty isn't a crime although the penalty is hard labour.
口
There was evidence of a good head of Shing Mun water at last Monday's ceremony, but nothing of course in the neighbourhood of $3 per.
DO
A tragedy is what the Editor calls it when he
lian clothes who suddenly produc-receives a good ed pistols and covered e for eigners.
Heard a Shot.
bull which, how-
cver, is unit
for publication. ☐ ☐ The leader held up Mr. Cullen, Some people who was riding ahead, while the keep such, open remaining two attended to Mr.minds that good, Scarlett. The bandits then de- rdvices-gods
manded the foreigner's money and right throug
valuables and le Mr. Cullen. them. was complying he heard a shot be- hind him.
Looking back he saw Mr. Scar lett fall from his donkey. The murdereas then rushed up, urging their leader to be quick, and after searching the foreigner's suitcas the three men hastily decamped.
Mr. Callen rushed to the spot where Mr. Scarlett was lying and found that life was almost tinct.
口口
Modern girls
may eventually make good mothers, but at present they seem to make poor fathers.
口
Is our standard of living too
high?
That's a question we all have
to face.
If so, then we really must try To slack off a bit in our pace.
As the dollar goes lower and
lower,
We must cut out this wining-
and dining.
Though it may mean that life'll
be slower
And set all our gay dog. re-
pining.
It's best to do this by pome
system:
One "spot" less unch point
silver shrinks.
In time, you will find you've hot
missed 'em-
Those
lovely, long thirat- quenching drinks.
So when there's no more taik of,
slumps,
Though your salry no bigger
may be,
You'll find your relief from the
dumps
By knowing you're rated T.TI
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Street Vendor: Blimey! 'Ow did ver come to over stretch it like that?
Accordion Player: Why, I was tellin's a fishin' story and
I forgot all about my bloomin' accordion. 口口
Many a poet is alive to-day because he posted bis effort instead of bringing it.
□口
We know of ne Kowloor.
flapper who s so fond of her boy friend that' she lives solely un his account.
A local doctor says too much ridge ndices Insomnia
suggest nap As,
a substitute
Lots of folk now live · t Kowloon, This
is in order that Hongkong may be made safe for the tourists.
Q: 0
Talking of extravagant living in Hongkong, we heard it said the other day that motor-cars are ruining our young folk. That's
O
It may be true, as the experts nothing to what our young folk are say, that there's too much silver doing to the motor-cars. coming into Hongkong, but the trouble is that very few people seem able to get hold of enough
Died Soon Afterwards,
The bullet had entered two inches above the heart and Mr. Scarlet died five minutes' later. Mr. Cullen hastily summoned assistance from the nearest vil of it. lage and a litter was procured and the body taken to Peltaiho Police station.
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There was An old man of
Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a
bucket
His daughter, named Nan Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket-Nan-
tucket.
China's latest loan is the third to be secured on the Cigarette Tax. It's becoming a regular fag to keep pace with this business,
Hongkong has a fountain quite
rare,
No other with it can compare: About once in ten years, Midst popular cheers,
It spurts water high up in the
air!
The military authorities pro- mises to give every assistance but do not
appear very hopeful of finding the miscreants.
Mr. Cullen expressed the opinion that the bandits were in- experienced and shot the mis- sionary, possibly by accident, ag the miscreants appeared consider you only require to give him a pocket's Record." We gather that ably flustered during the whole of drink twice.
he is now facing the music. the proceeding.
Planned Attack..
Later, the donkey boys were interrogated by the Police and confessed seeing
口 白
To know a Scotsman intimately
ᄆᄆ
Newspaper
☐ ☐
heading:"Pick-
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We can't yet call that motorist As a result of public utterances. O. K. Don!
regarding the high standard of 0.0
living, we understand that some of· There was an argument in Court our taipans are thinking of giving the bandits this week as to whether a typhoon up Wednesday golf. ☐ ☐ loitering near the junction when was an act of Good. The last one the foreigners arrived. They we experienced was an unholy believed that the bandits made a detour to intercept the mis- sionaries on the road.
terror.
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China has just given Britain the The affair has created intense biggest order for postage stamps interest in Tientsin where Mr. which she has never received. Scarlet was a respected
This should help us to stick
member
of the missionary body. Wide- together. spread sympathy will be felt for his bereaved wife and children- Reuter.
AUSTRALIAN GOLD SHIPMENTS.
REMAINING SUPPLIES TO BE CONSERVED.
Local newspaper heading:- "Reform of the Playing Fields Committee." As you were re-form too deep.
By
News item:At last Thursday'a meeting of the Sawdust Club (Sons of Scotia Chapter) a debate took place on the relative merita of white and khaki spats. fourteen votes to nine it was de- cided to favour the retention of the latter, principally on Melbourne, Apr. 4.
ground that they were less liable announcement that the to disclose the effects of gunshot Commonwealth Bank has arranged wounds on the ankle. to ship overseas a further £8,000,
The
the
900 in gold, making £24,500,000 The man who named his rum shipped since July 1 Inst year. schooner Ada M. probably desired
Now that summer la coming, the Colony won't lack open spaces- in women's dresses.
៨ ជា
A contemporary refers to a "mammoth mass meeting." This reminds us that the wee little whisky-water we had last night: was somewhat on the small side.
The driver of the taxi which fell into the harbour this week had the freight of his life.
A Chinese woman was this week robbed of $11,000 worth of rings. Evidently the Golden Fleece.
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In the matter of British avia- tion, some people are unfortunate in airing their knowledge.
These people who preach economy are apparently our against the higher system.
ΠΡ
America has gone further than
now discovered another
has
Majestic Hotel Sale.
Japanese Reply. Coming to the assets side of the Meanwhile the principal Naval balance sheet, you will see that experts of the United States, Bri- The additional revenue respon- under the respective headings cain, and Japan spent a great parted in forcing an entrance into the gible for the increase of the Work-Land and Buildings," and "Furni- of the day examining the reserva. station and then demanded to be ing Account balance has been de- ture and Fixtures, etc.," there is a lions attached rived from the Peninsula Hotel, our material decrease compared with Government's reply to the
to the Japanes: taken to Byculla. Shanghai establishments and from the previous year, which is ac-
com- The railway officials refused to the augmented bus services brought counted for by the disposal of the promise tonnage proposals addres grant the demand and the mob, by has been followed by a statement that 'she should remain finding new Polar territory. Sha into full operation by our Garage Majestic Hotel Shanghai, and its sed to Tokyo. Good progress was this time incensed, made a noisy by Sir Robert Gibson, Chairman anonymous. Department during the period contents.
demonstration, tearing down pos-of the Commonwealth Bank.
30 under review.
The increase in the item "Stocks The submarine experts met this ters and harassing passengers and Sir Robert says that the farther Latest: China financial bulletin: You will observe that the work-and Stores" is mainly accounted afternoon on the subject of the passers-by.
depletion of Australia's gold-Yen-shows a forward tendency, ing profit for the year has been for by the Garage Department hav-proposals for the humanising of The police were summoned and stocks after the shipments just with a consequent depression In augmented by the sum of $380,- ing perforce to carry heavier stocks Submarine warfare and limiting when they arrived they were pulted announced is inadvisable, tite-re-opposite. lines. 165.23 in respect of the profit on of equipment and spare parts in the size of submarines. It is ex-by the mob with stones. Finally, maining supplies being necessary the sale of the property occupied connexion with its augmented au- pected that a report of these ex- the police were forced to fire and by the Majestic Hotel, Shanghai, atomotive transport vehicles. The perts. will be forthcoming in the the mob then retreated. subject to which I propose to make only other item on the assets side course of the next few days. The police are still guarding the further reference later,
(Continued on Page 10,). British Wireless.
railway station-Reuter
made.
planet..
Our Erudite Novelists:-"I tell you, a lot of us breathed more casily when we heard he was kill- ed in a brawl at Kowloon, that
to protect the note issue of the Reading of these recent chases Portuguese gambling place over country which must face the posi- by United States coastguarda, the the river from Hongkong."From tion to produce more and spend question arises, should n rum- "Murder Island," by Wyndham less overseas.—Reuter.
Marlon What about it, KR.A)
runner run?