Now we can
have a good fire,
Warren's have
Swept the Chimneys "'
ED, A FUBLISHED BY
Träuble
“Honskong Triceraphy”
for The Sualis China Mooring Pens, kadu
1 & 3, Wynchera Stavan, Phongkang.
The
Library, Supreme Co
Dollar on. Demand.—1/1.1/16d. Lighting-up Time.-5.43 p.m. High Water:--8.35 p.m. Low Water:-2.3 p.m.
Hongkong Telegraph.
SOUNDRY
# tu=+*#* FRIDAY. DECEMBER
GAOL ENQUIRY
DISCLOSURE.
SITTINGS BEFORE [P.W.D. LORRY OUT
THE STRIKE.
FOOD COMPLAINTS FOR MONTHS.
WORK IN PRISON STILL AT A STANDSTILL.
OF HAND.
DASHES INTO GROUP OF VEGETABLE STALLS:
REMARKABLE ESCAPES
Remarkable osenpert were wit nessed in Centre Street this morning when a heavy tragsport | lorey skidded and enreered flown
$50 PER ANNUM
19, 1930. B+EAT BOLE COFT 16 CENTS
DUNLOP
LOCAL BRANCH.
Padder Bldg.
VICTORY GOES TO NANKING'S AID TO DIVORCE DECISION] THEFT IN POLICE SHOALS AHEAD
THE LORDS..
CABINET ACCEPTS
AMENDMENT.
DYESTUFFS ACT'S LIFE
EXTENDED.
THE NEXT ISSUE.
Victory goes to the House of Lords in the conflict over the extension of the Dyestuffs Act,
RAILWAYS.
IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS REGARDING TARIFFS.
CUTS AUTHORISED.
Nanking, Dec. 18.
An important tariff concession has been made by the National Government as the result of a petition by the Ministry of Rail- ways, of which Mr. Sun Fa is the hoad.
The Ministry requested the Government to exempt all railway material ordered and purchased
REVERSED.
MRS. TOEG GRANTED A DECREE NISI.
HONGKONG JUDGE FAVOURS WIFE'S APPEAL
REMARKABLE CASE.
Shanghai, Dec. 19. In H.M. Full Court yesterday
.COURT.
REMARKABLE DARING OF OLD OFFENDER.
A DETECTIVE'S HAT.
A theft committed in full view of the large number of people sitting in the small court at the Central Magistracy this morning Just an Mr. Williams, the Magis- Įtrate, was rising from the Bench, was Inter related to his Worship when a street coolle was charged
CONVICT DEFIANCE. |:he hill for a distance of yards the Government, doubtless in- from abrond from tariff duty, and morning, Sir Peter Grain, Judge with the theft of a hat.
The general strike by con- victs at Victoria Gaol is con- tinuing. This is the fourth day since its commencement, and from different parts of the institution, the shouting and lamentations are still issuing, appearing by their monotony, and duration, to have entered definitely into the settled order-or dis- order-of things.
It carried away to fewer an sis laenced by the revolt of the
7
us FAQ JAPANESE PROTEST TO MOSCOW.
the
it up as the Court rome and had
FOR NEW FRENCH CABINET
COUP D'THEATRE BY CENTRISTS.
THREE RESIGNATIONS FROM GOVERNMENT.
SAVED BY LEFT.
Paris, Dec. 18. The
last-minute with- 'drawal of three members of the new Government and a majority of only seven on the first vote in the Chamber does not augur well for the new Steeg Cabinet.
A detective had left his hat ou the Government has decided to of H.B.M.'s Court, read his own vegetalle sindi, before eg hằng t ம்
Bicel the petition half-way. Judgment and that of Mr. Justice the railing in front of the public a halt at a spot almost cretly Left Wing, accepting the amend-halving the duly for existing rail-Wood, acting Chief Justice of benches while he attended to a [overlooking
ways during the next three years. Hongkong, reversing the judg-On his return he found it had dis- prisoner'a bail at the shroff's oflice. compound where ment on its return, under pro-
With regard to railways under construction work on the new Sai- test.
London. Dec. 18,
Lower Court vingpun Market is in progress.
Gustruction, it has been decided ment of
appeared. In the meantime The House of Lords, without that these will not pay duty upon (given by Assistant Judge G. W. spectator had seen defendant pick The gradient of Centre Street.
a division, decided to Risist upon materials ordered from, abrond | King) and granting a decrec nisi is very steep and this morning R
to Mrs. Cecile Laval Arnoux immediately informed the Court
The Chamber met to-day to wwe rendered press by the rain their amendment the Expiring Is that when the heavy two-and-a-Laws Continuare Bill, providing
Reynolds Torg. The Lower pnstable, who stopped defendant Court had refused to exercise The defendant was then trying to and M. Steeg's first meeting with as he was about to love the room. hear the Ministerial Declaration half ton Dennis, loaded with haild for the continued operation of the fing deficis, conated to skid and Dyestuffs Act for another year.
discretion in petitioner's conceal the hat under his jacket.
Parliament was signalised by n - o uncontrolled down the slope
Cavour for the dissolution of her' "The defendant dented
thecoup d'theatre. marriage to David Lionel Toeg. charge of theft and said that his
Excited groups of Depittles were -Our Own Correspondent, daughter had picked up the hut.discussing the prospects of a Gov- At the hearing of the appeal. She chased him and asked if the ernment majority when it was an- Mr. M. Bender Harris represented hat was his but he took it away ounced that M. Thoumyre, the Mint. the petitioner-appellant; and Mr. from her and was about to return ster of Pensions, M. Coty, Under
it to its place when he was arrest Secretary for the Interior, and M. A. M. Preston appeared for
He did not attempt to conceal Cantry, Under-Secretary of Agri- the respondent-respondent.
convicted ernment.
| disaster was expeted.
The Bill, which was returned to the Lords by the Commons fol- Jowing a vote of 214 to 238 in favour of rejecting the ann-
Strong disciplinary measures The lorry, No, 1831, is na ned lag have undoubtedly been taken the Pallic Work- Department.mont, new returns to the Commons, against the marc recalcitrantand at the line about 9 am, was spirits, but these appear to have going along High Street, on had no effect on the remainder
to way
Government
Civil
Government filves Why,
is learned that the Govern-
some 300 long-term prisoners, spital. At the top of Centre ment has decided to accept, ander who having so much to gain and Street, it skidded over the greasy protest, the Lords amendment roudway, slowed round and began.
Committee of Enquiry.
to the
the
Dyestulls Act. ensuring
life further
The House of Commons, when
was submitted issue
this
so little to lose at this stage, to go backwards down the danger are finding worth their CR- jous ́sløpe. On either side were deavours to keep the spirit of vegetable stalls, the scupants of unruliness prevalent.
which, warned in time of
the evening, agreed to the amendment approach of the reblete, quickly without a division, got out of the way.
The Government was forced to As stated previously, although
The lorry zig-zagged, stili going compromise of the issue a temporary measure dependent hackwards, in skidiling down the further rejection of the Lorda'
other conditions which. It slope, and in the course of ita nmendment would have jeopardised | stated, will have to be investigated erratic progress. it completely other Aleasures included in the before it is considered advisable wrecked the stalls on either side, schedule of the Contirasace Bill. to place it on a permanent footing and carried their contents out into including two highly important certain dietary increases were the roadway.
Bills. the Rent Restriction Art made just before the present out-.
A distance of 150 yards had and the Miners Minimum Wage break.
been thus traversed, with the Act. for the first driver frantically endeavouring to that prior to the regain control, when the lorry strike, a Committer was appoint-enme to a sharp bult against a sirle, ed by Government to enquire into channel in the lower inter-section conditions in the Gaol.
of Centre Street within a few feet onse at Comniors today, when of hoarding overlooking a site of the Government introduced a B the new Saiyingpun Market,
to amend the law relating to the Trade Disputes Act and to Trades Unions.
It is disclosed time, to-day,
What were its terms of J*** ference, were not disclosed by Government officiul interviewed today, but the subject dealt with is known to have been prison diet.]
Prison Regulations.
Before this. Tour cooltes who were in the forry had jumped from their seats, They excaped with only slight bruises. The driver
►
Trade Disputes Act.
Another highly controversial insan
was entere upon in th
This is a measure to whigh a considerable section of Liberals,
are believed to be opposed,
ab was unhurt, while the lorry who hold the balance of voting As may be
was not damaged. generally known
power in the House of Commons. under the Regulations relating to The only casualty was an akd] as well as all the Conservatives, Prisons, two visiting Justices of woman, the occupant of one of the the Peace. (one ofein) ant one stalls, who unable to get away non-official), are allowed, in com-in time received slight injurles
ny if possible, to visit the pri-when she was carried down son at least once a fortnight, slope with her stall. und on other days when their
presence may be required.
the
und
BYRD'S COMPANIIONS
They inspect the pron prisoners, hear any report on any abuses within the prison, enter- ing in the Visiting Justices' Book
IN ANTARCTIC.
any statement in respect of such AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP TO complaints, with suggestions or remarks by notice of the Gov- ernor as to the state and dis-
eipline of the prison.
These visiting Justices also in- spect the diet of the prisoners.
J.P.'s Statement.
In accordance with these
BE CONFERRED.
New York, Dec. 18, Senator Swanson of Virginia has introduced a Bill to Congress providing for the conferment of American citizenship on five Bri- tish, five Norwegians, one Dune. Re-Tone Swede and one Dutchman, who
The second reading i the Bill is to be taken on January 22nd, when the real battle will take place.
Electoral Reform.
"AN UNJUSTIFIABLE AND UNFRIENDLY ACT."
KOREA BANK-CLOSURE.
Tokyo, Dec. 19. The Foreign Office has cab- ded instructions to the Japan- ese Ambassador in Moscow to inform the Soviet Govern-
the that
Japanese ment thvernment considers the cla- of the Vladivostock branch of the Bank of Korea to be an "unjustifiable and un- friendly art".
sure
The Ambassador is to re- quest the Sovist Government withdraw the elusure order and to enter into conversi tions for the purpose of rench- ing an amically settlement of the whole question.
2
The Suviet Embassy, statement says the closure of the bank is due to the fact that the Brink's existence is epp- trare to the Soviet's economie and Bonetat policy.
The Embassy emphasises that it was "the sole bour- vepis Bank in Russiu," and permission for it to operate was never given by the Soviet Government, but only by the local authorities. The Em- haway adds that the Bank has heen a constant source of trouble. Rouder.
its
the
Hongkong Marriage. Outlining the case for the peti tioner-appellant, Mr. Harris sald that the parties were married on June 1, 1923, in tho Registrar's Offee at Hongkong, the petitioner- appellant being
American
не
ed.
it nor did he himself pick it up,culture, had resigned from the Gor-
The defendant was
aud, on a previous conviction for larceny and two under the oplum ordinance being produced, he was given two months' hard labour.
citizen, born at Missouri, and the THE PRINCE VERY respondent-respondant a
MUCH BETTER.
British
Protected person upparently of no nationality. The peculiar altue- tion in regard to the respondent- respondent's nationality artne through his having been born at Shanghai, of Irak parentage, fact which prevented him, from obtaining the full benefits of Irak citizenship.
Protected Person.
"
STAYING INDOORS FOR. TIME BEING.
London. Dec, 18. The Prince of Wales, whose en- gagements have recently been ex- confined ceptionally numerous, is
Last Minute Party Whip.
These gentlemen are three of six members of the Cantre Party, upon whom the new Prime Ministar
was counting to give the Cabinet the appearance of "concentrations
Evidently, in tendering their ro- signations after consenting to join the Government, they were obey- ing last minute Parly Whip.
This withdrawal of Centrist sup- port may prove a knock-out blow.
Ministerial Declaration.
Later, The Ministerial Declaration was istened to his room with a slight chill.
to with silence, except the Left He has cancelled his shooting at when
cheered re-
His present status was that of a Windsor to-day, his attendance at ferences to a continuance of M. ritizen of a British Protectorate-Latin American banquet at the Briand's foreign policy,
in other words, a British protect Savoy to-night, and his hunting The Declaration stated that the el person. Due to the fact that with the Quorn hounds to-morrow Government aimed ul external he could not confer full British this first outing with the hounds peace and dwelt upon the necessity nationality on the petitioner since before the King's illness in of terminating the recent political sppellant she had remained an 1928). American citizen. They separat
The Indiaposition is not regarded ed in 1926. and in 1927 the as serious.---Reuter.
а obtained
petitioner-appellant divorce in the Second Judicial time being on the advice of Sir He is remaining indoors for the
agitation.
The economic crisis must be handled, all the more in view of the increase in the cost of living.
The Government would assist in
Court of the State of Nevada in Stanley Hewett, his physician, the concerted economy experiments and for the County of Washoe, though it was officially stated atmade at Geneva and the first duty which did not affect the position York Ilouse this evening that the in the economic domain would be of the respondent-respondent in Prince is very much better @F27JCZAJ British law.
Reuter and British Wirelcan,
In
The Government. hopes Lo until they becom revenue-earning Misconduct Admitted. obtain some mensure of Liberal when the duty will become pay.
1929, ДК stated in her support on the Trades Disputes able and will be collected by
original petition, the petitioner- Amendment Act in return for instalments. concessions regarding the electors] The railway materials exempted appellant committed misconduct in
from duty Include reform, bill.
sleepers, Harbin, the position then being American A private meeting of
whereas she, an the rails, locomotives, waggons, and that Parliamentary Libour Party material for the construction of feitizen, considered herself free in held to-day and
the gathering bridges. Reuter, endorsed the Cabinet's decision to iselude the Alternative Vote in the Electoral Reform Bill.
No Lib-Lab. Pact.
WILM
gulations, Justices of the Peace accompanied the Byrd Expedition present at the meeting and it is
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald have been regularly visiting Vieto the Antarctic.
reported that he stressed that there toria Gaol, and one of them, in an
The Norwegians include Bernt was no pact with the Liberals, interview with a Telegraph
re-
presentative gave an account of Batchen, the young airman who but that it Wan advisable
the prison.
10
VIOLENT ERUPTION
OF VOLCANO,
FIFTEEN KILLED IN JAVA UPHEAVAL.
of
Batavia, Dec. 18. hits experiences when he visited as a Transatlantic flight with placate them as an election was been reported in consequence
Hitherto Afteen deaths have Rear-Admiral Bryd and who piloted at present undesirable.
The Labour Peers and the violent eruption of the volcano "Two months ago," he said, "d's plane on the South Polar was in the Gaol as an Unofficial-Reuter's American Service. National Executive of the Party Merapi, in the centre of Java.
villageR have been Many of the Peace inspecting Justice
and it is understood that the text) evacuated.-Reuter. conditions there, when about a
of the draft Bill was approved by 133 votes to 20.
hundred prisoners, who had reU.S. BANKRUPTS' HUGE quested to interview me, and were
accordingly permitted to do so,
came up, one at a time: and all
of them complained against the
they were being fed, declaring
LIABILITIES.
were all present at the meeting,
Mr. Lloyd George has also dented pact between the Liberal. and Labour Parties. flo sys
monotony of the diet upon which RESULT OF THE WALL STREET that the Government needs Liberni
that they had been having the
same sort of vegetables, day after day, for three months."
CRASH.
and goodwill and help and that electoral reform must be curried through. The Government should An investigation just made with be defented only on an' lase
Washington, Dec. 18,
CONGRESS. SPLITS DIFFERENCE.
DISPUTE OVER GRANT TO DROUGHT AREA.
Washington Dec. 18.
in
accordance with the laws of her country, she was still married to the respondent-respondent British law.
in
RETAIL PRICES IN BRITAIN.
DECREASE OF OVER FIFTY PER CENT.
London, Dec. 18, According to the Ministry of The Assistant Judge, on learn-Labour, the average level of retail ing of this admitted misconduct, prices in. Great Britain this month ant after taking into considera- 55 per cent, lower than a year
also admitted misconduct axo-British Wireless.
tion
04
the part of the respondent- respondent, hat refused to exer- eise his discretion under Sec- tion 178 of the Supreme Court Ad- judication Act (1925). That refusal meant that the petitioner-appellant wax free but the respondent-res- pondent could never be free.
Extraordinary Case.
FARM RELIEF IN AMERICA.
ADDITIONAL G$150,000,000
PROPOSED.
Washington, Dec. 18.
balanced, not by fresh taxation, but by strict economy.
The Chamber by 291 votes to 284 rejected a revolution of non- confidence in the Steeg Govern- ment.
Saved by Saciniists.
The Socialists, whose spokesman declared that his Party were un- willing to let the Right have power In the present critical sluge of in- ternational affairs, saved the Gov- erament from the attack of the Right and Centre, who showed de termined hostility Tardieu's leadership.
under
M.
A hundred Socialists supported M. Theodore Steeg, while twelve Communists voted against the Gov jerament.
Fighting Government,
The three members of the Gov- ernment who resigned, addressed a letter to the Prime Minister ox- plaining that they did so becausė it appeared certain that the Govern- ment would have. to depend upon
"With due respect," Mr. Harris continued, "I do not think that his The House of Representatives Socialist Aupport. Lordship the Assistant
has passed the Rill providing for Judge realized he was dealing with a esse000,000 for the Farm Board. The the grant of an additional G$150,- more extraordinary, probably, in Bnow
goes to the Senate.- character, than any other divorce
Cane ever heard by this court. The Reuter's American Service. | American decree of divorce which was not recognized by court
thie
The Senate red tly voted He stated that he heard no com-the authorination of President Hoo-vital to the nation. An election favour of a grant of $60,000,000, and which I put in us evidence it plaints then, coneorning the size ver, shows that the Habilities of might mean a Conservative victory
Bankrapts in the United States and Protection for generation.mitted to-day split the dance the respondent-respondent was a A joint, Congressional Com-accordance with Section 7 of the Evidence Act (1861) showed that last year totalled nearly a thousand-Kruter and British Wireless. million dollara gold--Reuter's Mr. Li Yick-mul, Chairman of American Service.
of nicala.
Hundreds of Complaints.
the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, stated that he had also been visiting the Gaol
In
his
OBITUARY,
Biggest Challenge Yel.
and recommended G$45,000,000.-the Reuter's American Service.
London, Dec. 19.
HOME FOOTBALL.
WINS FOR BOURNEMOUTH AND NEWPORT.
party to the preceedings in Nevada in that he signified his intention of raialog no objection thereto. Yet
i · London, Dec. 18, The formal Introduction yester- tic striken, removes Trade Union according to the Assistant Judge's
In the Third Division (South) decision the petitioner-appellant day of the Trades Disputes and funds from the danger of attach-only was affected by those procced-to-day, Bournemouth, playing at capacity of a non-official Justice of
Trade Union Bill constitutes thement, and restores the former Pi the Pence, and that, invariably on
biggest challenge which the Gov-power of the Trade Unions to iminga and can marry again to-mor home, defeated Brentford by two these visits, ho had heard similar
ernment has yet made to the Oppose a political lovy on members, row if she so wishes whereas the ro. goals to one. Newport County WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN complaints from hundreds
position.
subject to prisoners. He said he had noted
JOCKEY'S DEATH.
The provisions have not yet been able to the objector's right to spondent-repondent is bound to her defeated Norwich City at Newport
for the rest of her natural life. It by three clear goals, Reuter. these complaints in the book.
divulged oficially but according to The Bill is also said to restore ja a terrible and extraordinary Another Justice of the Peace,
New York, Dec. 18 the Daily Herald, the Bill wipes the right of Public Servanta situation which only the exercise of seen today, sald ho land not visit. The death has occurred of the out the Act passed by the Baldwin Unions to affiliate with the Trade discretion by this court can miti. The dollar again declined this ed the Gnol for a year, but as far well-known jockey, Clarence Kum- Government after the national Union' Congrees, and the Labour gate.
(Continued on Page 14.). mor.--Reuter's American Service, strike of 1926, legalises sympathos, Farty,--Reuter,
of
(Combinusd
on Page
They added that they had agreed- not, a fighting government, to join a conciliation government,
- The French papers are generally". pessimistic about the prospects of In survival of the Steeg Government for any length of time,--Reuter and Havas,
NEW BILL RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.
IS IT AN ANTI-DUMPING -
MEASURET
London, Dec. 18, Dr. Addison, the Minister...." of Agriculture, Introduced a Bill into the House of Commons-to-day ann abling schemes to be made for the regulating and... markstin der morning, the quotation being laagricultural
products, wrang F11/168.
Wireless.