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Hongkong Telegraph.
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X EXW SATURDAY, JANUARY. 10.
COAL TALKS LOCK-OUT THREAT | INDIANISATION OF
BREAKDOWN.
AGREEMENT HOPE DISAPPOINTED.
WAGES BUGBEAR.
GOVERNMENT AGAIN INTERVENES.
London, Jan. 9. The renewal of negotiations between the owners and miners
been
the
IN LANCASHIRE.
200,000 WORKERS MAY BE SHUT OUT NEXT WEEK.
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SEVEN DAYS' GRACE.
London, Jan. 9.
The Control Committee of the Cotton Spinners Manufacturers Association, meeting at Manches ter to-day, unanimously passed A resolution recommending the mem- hers of all local Associations close their mills on January 17 ne les the dispute with the wenvers is settled in the meantime,
If the threat is carried
to
bat it
involve a lock-out of over two
hundred thousand workers.
The disparte concerns the intre
duction of the "more toons per system in Lancashire mills. Already several Burnley
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BRITISH FORCES IN INDIA.
IMPORTANT ISSUE DISCUSSED.
MR. THOMAS.
PUBLIC MOTOR VEHICLES.
REVISED TAXATION BRINGS RELIEF,
NEW SCALE ISSUED.
What given effect to the
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WARNING AGAINST HASTE BY commendations made by the Thspec- for General of Police in July laat and what will afford soma measure of relief for publle hire motor vehicles and moter omnibuses has been granted by a Regulation made
1931.
1956 PER ANNUM
B-SINGLE COPE ID
MUKDEN LEADER'S
DIFFICULTIES.
FINANCIAL PROBLEM TO BE DISCUSSED.
MK. T. V. SOONG ARRIVES
TIENTSIN.
CKATO
Bulls
BUILT ALS FOR FORE
LOGAL BRANCH.
THE JOB
Poddar Bldg.
and Inners
From the Office Butts.
One of the ponies for the annual Race Meeting is named Champagne Kay. He ought to give a bright
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ATnd sparkling account of himself. "When will a ron] British heavy- weight arise?" asks n Home sport- ing writer. Probably after the time-keeper has counted ten.
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We presume that Bobby Jones" [einema pirtures will be described
as all-driving, all-approaching aud ali-putting.
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REVENUE SHORTAGE.
Shanghai,, Jan. 9. OFFICER PROBLEM.
Hopes are entertained that a b the Governor-in-Council on settlement will be reached solv London, Jan. 9. An indication of Indian satis-sday, and which is published in financial problems facing the faction with developments at the in the current Government Gazette Manchurian Government in con-paper heading.
Round Table Conferenc Was given to-day at Edinburgh by the RL. Hou, Y. S. Srinivasa Sastri, in acknowledging
the confer-
It is now laid down that the annual fee for public motor vehlexion with the orders for the ces other than motor mnilises abolition of likin and the dis- and charabanes shall be $5, to bandment of thoimands of Shan-
each next for a passenger la the
"Zambesi Bridge." says a new- This is possibly
an improvement on auction or contract.
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mills have closed down, owing in ment of the Freedom of Edin.ether with a father sum of $5 forisi and Kuominchun troops, The We can always use our worthless
concernst in the South Wales dispute, on which high hopes had
1 placed. proved failure.
conference at. Cardiff, arranged following Gov- ernment intervention, breaking down after some hours of discus- sion.
It was later lear that the parleys broke down because the minera declined to agree that the independent chairman of the new Conciliation Board should tecide the question of a wager reduction. The miners leaders hudster that the matter of wages WHA on which should be soffled between the parties.
Government Step in, Immediately it became known that the anticipations of a settle- the ment had braken down ou interpretation of the clause reint-
Nanking Finance Minister, Mr. T. V. Soong, arrived at Tientsin this morning to confer with Ishid General Chang Hsuch-liang.
Regarding motor ominkuses and charabanes which must be fitted with pneumatic tyres) it down that the annual fee shall he
the refusal of the operatives to burgh at Usher Court. The vehicle.
the system, which involves Nawab of Bhopal was similarly the discharge of a number of | honoured.
Mr. Sastri sald he was divulging operatives, while granting slight wage increases to those kept In no premature confidence when bo employment. Bruter.
ld that they yesterday heard the | $5, together with a further sum of Prior to the arrival of the Nan- chairman (Lord Sankey) of one of $10 for each sent for a passenger the most important Conference in the vehicle. sub-committees say that at the next plenary session, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald would make ment which would go far to antisfy the aspirations and desires of the Indian people, (Loud cheers).
It has heen erntended that the weavors have put themselves in the wrong by refusing to negotiate, the Obererer remarking that the men are not fighting the employers. they are lighting the times.
The Ministry of Labour has been fallacing the developments closely and early Government intervention is anticipated, British Wireless.
OPIUM SUPPRESSION
· CONFERENCE,
Happy Consummation.
state-
One of the brightest chapters in the history of Great Britain was being written to-day at St. James's Palace, he declared, a story in which would be recorded for the benefit of succeeding generations. a story of how a long struggle with no more than a few
ing to independent arbitration. ADVISORY COMMITTEE AGAIN came to a happy consummation
the Government again intervened, and the miners and owners accept- ed an invitation from the Presi- tent of the Board of Trade, Mr. William Graham, to meet him and Mr. Shinwell, the Mines Sceretary, in London on Monday.
in the circumstances it appears to be obvious that the stoppage in the South Wales coalfields will con- tinue for at least a week longer.
Lodges to Decide,
Even if terms are agreed upon at the meeting with the Govern meat in London on Monday, they must be approved by delegates from the South Wales Lodges before work can be restored.---Reuter and British Wireless, i
Ruhr Settlement,
Berlin, Jan. 9. President Hindenburg has ex ervised his special constitutional authority and has vested the Gov- ernment Arbitrnior in the Ruhr coalfields' dispute with greater pow.
ers.
It is expected that the dispute will conclude to-morrow by a six per cent, reduction in wages, which re- presenta a compromise from the employers and the mingrs' view- points-Reuter,
NEW GOVERNOR OF TANGANYIKA.
SIN STEWART SYMES GETS
APPOINTMENT.
London, Jan. 9. Lient. Col. Sir George Stewart Symes, who has been Resident and Commander-in-Chief at Aden since 1928, has been appointed Governor of Tanganyika.-Renter.
[Sir Stewart Symes entered the Army 1900, and has seen service
In in South Africa, the Aden Hin'er- Jand, the Nile Expedition of 1008, and the Great War. He why Gov- ernor of the Northern District of Palestine from 1920 to 1025, Chief Secretary to the Government of Palestine from 1925 to 1928, and accredited representative to the Permanent Mandates Commission at Geneva in 1926 and 1928.]
The local weather forecast till Boon to-morrow Is:-N, E, winds, strong fine.
Mr. Robert Neighbour, the noted violinist, is to broadcast from the Hongkong Studio at 8.30 o'clock to-night.
IN SESSION.
sunmeats and a few lathi bir-
Formerly, public hire cars paid a tax of $72 (if the vehicle was not ve 30 art,) and a tax of $120 fi the vehicle was over 30 cwt.), and there was no sent tax. So it will
ZATEKAUSHOLENARASZTIKETOURNER
DOLLAR SLIGHTLY IMPROVES.
The dollar opened at 11%d. this morning. this being the same as yesterday's closing zute, after three changes in
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Chief interest at the Round Geneva. Jan. 9.
the course of the day. Conference to-day centred Table The Leute of Nations Advisory Committee on the traffic in opjumn the meeting of the Defence Sub-
Al 10.30 am.. however, a Committee which discussed the pro. fourteenth session. opened its
slight improvement was re with Senhor Vasconcelles, of Por-blems of the Indianisation of the
corded, the rate advancing to Army in India, tugal, in the chair.
1144.
Mr. Thomas's Figures,
ANTISIERACIERZANENTEPOMINATIONENÉSIENEANATKIM
be seen that a dat 85 tax plus Sõ for each seat will materially re- tuce the amount to be paid."
If the worst comes to the worst.
dollars (or miniature golf bunkers. DO We hear of an Aberdonian who bought a bicycle and then asked for the free wheell
DO Woman's conversation usually concerns why, when and wear.
DO The Peak is financial said to be get-
king Finance Minister, the Man churian Government had tele- graphed to Nanking expressing die. appointment regarding conditions in the North, where ting more than likin abolition would cause a de- eit of over $1,000,000 a month.
Nanking replied that the deftell should be covered by receipts from the Shansi and Sulyuan Provincial
revenues.
Tientsin Conference.
a fair share of og for the time of the year. certainly This
suoma 11 thick.
bit
The past holi-
General Chang proposes to sum- mon a financial conference in which day season has ո էլ Reveral all the Financial Commissioners and
the door.
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[The lay of n Shok- minstrel, with apologies.]
I mind the time, my old Shek-O; The dollar was of worth; They were the days of long ago, I bought a plece of carth. And there I built a bungalow, And each day in a car,
I motored to my office from-- My paradlee afur,
I motored to my office from---
A paradise sfor.
Hey! Ha!
Many a year ago,
I always had a dollar that Was worth two bob or so, But, now each diny
It fades away
And makes new records low, Tan, twenty, thirty, forty Fifty cents or so,
Yes, now each day it fades away, And robs me of my dough— Ten, twenty, thirty, forty. Fifty cents or no,
A former Hongkong doctor can't resist the lure of the great.whito silence. Must be à change after the black outlook here.
DD
"My brother is very intel- ligent. He has married a teacher."
"My brother is more intel- ligent. He isn't married at
all!"
0.
We read of a young, lad who can only read print when it's upside down. He ought to he thoroughly at home on tram-
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cars.
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Those people
who maintained
that the world "was ftat
may
not have besh 80 much in error after all. Who knows but what there was
a depression in those times, too?
of Peking. Tientsin, Fongtien, local sportsmen Kirin, Heilungklang, Jehol, Shanshooting wild will take part. boar in the New ai and Sulyuan The Northerners will discuss with Territory. This the Nanking Finance Minister the should come In disposition of revenues in North handy later on China.
keeping the Some of the native customs wolf away from house in Chihli Province have been closed in view of the visit The Committee decided to take
☐ C D of the Nanking representative. as a basis for discussions the Draft
reader contends that the Y's men nowadays mind their P's Mr. J. H. Thomas, the chairman, Convention submitted by Sir Mal-
Shantung Mishap.
average Boccer game is unsport and Q's. colm Delevingne Britain), em-
who emphasised that, the British
00 Government was in earnest regard bodying the plan for the limiting the Indianisation of the army
which several
Following a recent incident in Ing. Admittedly it isn't cricket.
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Some people who think they have Shantung Pro-
No: "Enquirer:" | tion of manufacture
"making a cool head, in reality have cold which was and the establishment of a Military
vincial Government officials were drafted by the Advisory Committee College on the lines of Sandhurst in
whoopee" doesn't mean manufac feet, last year and modified by the Can-india, pointed out that if all the of $120 (nut excedinte det, fed-burning of so-called drugs- which turing a new kind of drink.
In the case of motor heses, fees killed and injured at the public
. . ferentes in London in November
The quickest way to find out who recruitment British
officers $240 (exceeding 40 ext.) have rurally exploded, the Nanking to be gunpowder and which last.
Based on the day that output from formerly been pald, plus a seating
According to a fashion writer, a your close friends aro is: Try to woman needs at least three pairs borrow money. It is understr. 1. however, that the Indian Sandhurst started, and tax of $10 per Bent.
this morning of corseta, each of different type, so that a Government the question of extending the pro-if its output was calculated to meet nominal fee of $5 for all buses, nounced the dismissal of the to carry her through a strenuous pased draft convention to drugs the normal wastage, it would be plus the $10 per seat tax, gives of the Tsinantu Mayor and all the day. Especially if she goes on feels, but insurance companies won't A man may be only as old as the not covered by the Geneva Opium about thirty-five years before the considerable relief to the Con-officials attached to the Municipal the bust!
base their rates on that argument. last British Ofeer. was eliminatedpanies, who have found that the Government,
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increased cost of petrol (due to the All Tax Bureaux and other De
Another infamous If, in accordance with the views drop in exchange and the petrol partments under the Municipal Make mine a very short one."
The reason a Scotaman eat lots expressed, it was not desired that tax of 15 cents per gallon) has Government will be controlled. British officer recruitment should
profits directly by the Nanking Govern- cease inmediately, then the period seriously affected their would be thirty-five years after the twithstanding revised fares in ment. last tritish officer was recruited.
Not Necessary.
is by no means ex-
Convention cinded.--- Reuter,
SPANISH AIR FORCE ABOLISHED.
SEQUEL TO LAST MONTH'S
INSURRECTION.
Kowloon.
AIR MAIL.
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saying:--
It is interesting to note that an Ohio woman, 75, named Full love, recently married a 25-year-old bus driver.
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Russia and Japan. The Vice-Minister for Foreign But, he said, complete indianisa- THE CANTON-WUCHOW leaving Napking shertly for Man results, many sit but few hatch.
Affairs, Mr. Wang Chin-ching, 1s Judging from local exam.
churia to discuss the C.E.R. issue with General Chang Haueh-lang and other Manchurian officials,
Mr. Wang, interviewed, saldi that be was hopeful of $1 amdeable settlement of the "CER.
tion of the Army was not a_pre- Madrid, Jan. 9. liminary, necessary to the full at- Following the recent insurrec-talument of responsible Govern- tian of the Spanish Air Force.ment. headed by Major Franco, the Thus, all the Dominions still de- Atlantic fier, the, Air Force pended on the British Navy for Cadres have been dissolved.
The officers will be readmitted after their applications have been examined.
protection.
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A LINK WITH HONGKONG ARRANGED.
We are asked by the Postal Com-dispute. missioner at Canton to state that,
the Manchurian the acting under instructions from the regarding future polley towards,
Directors General of Posts, an air Russia, mall service. between Canton and Wuchow and vice versa has been authorised.
Those who were soldiers, with war experience, would realise that an entirely new creation of The existing admiulatration DF Officer Class was not simply the abolished Air Force will be- question of caleuintion alone. come a section of the War Minis- The question of defence was too vital to take chaneca, and that try-Reuter
with Indians aspect must weigh more when they became reapon. sible for their country.
PRINCESS ROYAL'S
FUNERAL.
KING AND QUEEN RETURN· TO LONDON.
London, Jan. 9. The King and Queen, com- Panied by the Duke and Duchess of York and the Duke of Gloucester, returned to-day to Buckingham Pa lice for the funeral of the Princess Royal at Windsor to-morrow,
The afternoon party at the Pa- of the Round lace for the delegates Table Conference was one of the functions which was cancelled on account of Court mourning but the King and Queen will receive the Indian delegates on Monday morn Ing, before Their Majesties return to Sandringham-British Wireless.
The first air mall flight will be
inaugurated on Friday, 16th Janu-
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The dollar on Wednesday at last fell to a "bob." Here's hoping
will continue to bob up again!
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of porridge la because of the wild oats he sowed in his youth..
A wink insta one-sixth of a loc ond. But the result may last a lifetime.
A writer says he has finished a poem on the Great Wall of China. It is doubtful if many people will go so far to read it.
,ធ ដ There has been an epidemic of husband-poisoning in Poland. We
There appears to be no likin' in always thought something would
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His mission was to confer with tax decree.
some parts of China for the new taken the place of midget,golf.
· O Government
A Portsmouth man complained "Dollar Again Down"
has that his wife had thrown all the become monotonous. The wretch- kitchen utensila at him and blacked Commenting on the Nankinged thing appears to be taking a both his eyes. In some homes that demand for the revision of the series of counts.
would have started in quarrel. Sino-Japanese commercial and Trenty, Navigation
the Minister said that a teply from Vice-
Reading of "bowling figures" it A Kowloon resident suggests that The question to be examined ary, and arrangements have been Japan had been received in which is presumed the reference in to what chiefly distinguishes the
rotundity
younger generation from the older n. safe and wise made for Wuchow-Hongkong malls their willingness to open negotia- Japanese Government indicated Was what WAK
is that they don't pull down the for to reach Canton in time to catch tions with
We heard of a peculiar trans- Blinds. rate of substituting Indian
the Nanking Foreign fiction the other day. The owner British officers in the indian Army, the afternoon boats leaving for Minister some time in February driver of a "Lizzie" needed some and whether it was desirable to Hangkong.
Ostentation nowadays in Hong at Nanking.
"th" so he solder. eliminate the British plicer at the The air mail postage is 15 cents
kong in using a silver dollar as 'n carliest period, assuming thore for 20 grammes in addition to the
paperweight. a common object'lņ view. | usual
It' no uso worrying over "The domestic postage. The The Colony had a clean bill of Follies of 1930, but let's hope we A namely, the protection and defence Canton Aviation Bureau afe mak-health for the 24 hours ended don't indulge in Hay In 1931, of India.
ing preparations for opening up midnight on Thursday. other air lines in the provinces of
According to a contemporary. Kwangtung and Kwangsi in the
It used to take some time for a: Tondera are being invited for an American has raised the ques- man to drink himself to death near future.
the construction of a Intrino at tion of "distress and unemploy now he can do Te with one drink. Esscc Crestont, Kowloon Tảng, ment in the poorer agricultural If he to America.'
guck
People who love their nervo are
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Government View, The Government had no objec-| tion to a declaration favouring Indianimation and carrying with
it a definite recommendation for EARL OF CLARENDON. the establishment of a Military College in India; but such an establishment need not involve the discontinuance of the existing LEAVES TO TAKE UP SOUTH
AFRICAN APPOINTMENT. Imited number of practice of a Indian students attending Sand- hurst College in England, which had obvious nulvantages.
Delegates Opinions.
Mrs. Clark, of White Cottage, The street commencing nt Talpo, has reported to the police the Paking Road, 130 feet west of
Sir Tof Sapru urged the speeding loss of a quantity of jewellery to Nathan Road and runnlag in n the value of $550 which was stolen northerly direction parallel to up of Indianisation.
Sir Phiróze Setha pointed out from her bed-room sometime be Nathan Road, terminating at tho tween 3 pm. on January 3 and 9.80 north side of K.I.L. 400 has been Indian military ability was not con. "path" on the 7thi
hamed-Lock Road;"
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London, Jan. 9.
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Hongkong complaint:—Ru-
mourtiam.
districts in the Senate." This is We are asked to state that the probably all bull! recorde being used in to-night's
០ ០ broadenst programine are being + A cinema star has been arrested the ones who can least afford it. supplied by the Teang Fook Pland in possession of druge.
Co. and those on Sunday by the | Andorson Music Company.
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The
motorists The only time some keroine!
stop, look and Haten Is when some- A house on the Peak is wanted thing goes wrong with the car. "for nine moths." Perhaps The Eari of Clarendon departed Little Miss B. Shoesmith, aged they're fly-by-nights.
The only time same men show for South Africa to-day to tako upaix, of 8 Block, Kennedy Road, wan
will-power is when it comes to be the Governor-Generaley, in suc- taken to the Government Civil
"Shanghai objects to China's now queathing their estate. cassion to the Earl of Athlone.
Hospital yesterday suffering to in taxes because they put up the cassion to ako Earl of Athlon-ro-juries to her right arm and leg. price of suitings, and overcoats. To-day's worst par
pani Russi contly Chairman of the British caused by being bitten by a brown La leading citizens should be con- should be able to get credit amoON “
mongrel dog belonging to Mrs. tent to be dressed in a little brief, other nations, because she missi Broadcasting Corporation-Rest: Wiltshire of 1, Yus Kong Terrace Authorit