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號五十月四英港香 WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 15, 1931.
日八廿月二
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SINGLE LUFT 10 OEMTA
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FORT MOTOR CYCLE TYRES
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REPULSE BAY KING ALFONSO ABDICATES.
MAY HAVE
NEW FACILITIES.
SCHEME TO ADAPT SPANISH REPUBLIC
BUNGALOWS.
FRESH WATER PLUNGES:
OPEN-AIR GAMES.
REALTY CO. HOPES.
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That the Hongkong Realty Trust Co., Ltd., has under consideration a scheme for providing, on modern lines, dressing and refreshment accommodation for bathers at Repulse Bay, with fresh water plunges and other kindred open-air amenities, was announced by Mr. J. Scott Harston when presiding this morning at the annual general meet- ing of the Company.
It was explained that the existence in the title deeds of the Company's rural property at Repulse Bay of convenants of
a somewhat onerous nature had made the profitable letting of the bungalows a matter of dif- feulty, but that an effort was being made to obtain a modifica- tion of the terms of the Crown lease for the purposes mentioned above.
Mention was made of the invest- wat branch of the Company's busines, the. Chaleman stating that concentration thereon gives Kreater scope for the making of increased profits than would be the case if the Company's nelivi- ties were confined to the mer letting of Exchange Ruikling and the Repulse Bay property.
Chairman's Spreek,
The chairman, having
read the
auditors report, addressed share-
holders as follows:The profit for
the year under review, including
PROCLAIMED.
MADRID GOES WILD WITH EXCITEMENT.
LAST OF BOURBON MONARCHS SURRENDERS CROWN.
LEAVING THE COUNTRY.
ALFONSO XIII, last of the Bourbon kings, yielded
to the inevitable yesterday afternoon, formally renouncing his Crown. A Republic has now been pro-) claimed in Spain with Senor Alcala Zamora as Prime Minister, and probable President, and Senor Lerroux as Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Dramatic scenes were witnessed in the historic' capital of Spain, the centre of the practically bloodless revolution. The populace went temporarily wild with enthusiasm for the new regime, racing about the streets crying the news of the downfall of the monarchy. The ex-King and the Royal Family have left Madrid for a secret destination, believed to be Paris, accompanied by a few loyal friends.
PROVISIONAL ZAMORA CABINET.
London. Apr. M. According to press telegrams the sum of $6,127.65 brought for from various sources which are ward from the previous year, and published with
flare headlines,
Government has been formed with Senor Alcala Zamorn ast
after setting aside 522,00184 for hat for which no official confirma- depreciation, amounts to $122.267.in has yet reached London. Kiny 95. Deducting therefrom the in-Alfense &11 abdicated this after- terim dividend (paid on 4th Septon and is leaving Spain. tember, 1930, and absorbing $60,- It is stated that a Provisional 000) a sum of $62,267.95 remains. which your Directors recommend be apportioned as follows:-To pay
Prime Minister, and has pro a Final Dividend of 20 cents per
claimed Spanish Republic. share. $40,000: to transfer General Reserve, $10,000; to carry Excitement is growing in Mad- forward to New Account. $12,267.rid and Barcelona where organs 95; and I trust that this recommen-of the Provisional Itepublican Gov. dation will meet with approval of ernment have been set up follow shareholders.
ing the remarkable success of the
tn
his
I do not think that there is Republicans at the polls in the much calling for comment in the municipal elections.
One report states that the Royal accounts, for most of the headings
of the under which the figures are display Family, with exception
morning el render them self-explanatory. King. left Madrid this You will observe, however, on for Valencia. One story is that making comparison with last year's King Alfonso transferred figures, that the Central property, powers to Admiral Aznar, his Exchange Building, has (as the re- Premier. who immediately sought suit of the sale of that propertyCount. Romanones. He then went effected in conformity with the to Sener Zamora, transferring the ananimous decision of shareholders powers of Government to him. made at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company held on Wednesday, the 2nd July, 1930) disappeared from the balance sheet
King's Safety Guaranteed. Zamora gave an assurance that and that in replacement thereof the personal safety of the King
be safe there appears the item
and his family would
Mortgage on Exchange Buiuarded.
por-
which was given to secure ณ tlon of the purchase consideration in respect of the said sale in com- pliance with the terms of the Sale Agreement, while in respect of the cash payment effected by the pur- chasers you have investments presenting at cost the sum $1,274,197.30, with a credit balance at the Bank in lieu of the mortgage Indebtedness to that Corporation which appeared in last year'e balance sheet.
Company's Investments.
re-
of
Madrid, Apr. 14. King Alfonso bas abdicat- ed. He received the Cabinet at five o'clock and formally renounced the Crown.
has
favour of his son, the Prince of the Asturias, In reply to his Ter. the Republican lenders insisted upon an unconditional renunciation of power.
The political excitement which has turned the capital upside cul- down figuratively All day, minated in the news of the after- noon that the King had abriented and would be leaving the capital
in the evening for the Portuguese frontier,
Wild Excitement. The capital is simply wild with Omeera are driving excitement. through the streets waving large motor. Republican flags, while cars carrying red flags are rushing through the streets proclaiming the birth of the Repablic.
Admiral Aznar has handed over the reins of Government to the Republican lender, Senor Zamora who was recently sentenced to for signing the imprisonment famous December manifesto. which commenced the collapse of
the Throne.
has
Catulonia Acts First.
Catalonia must, for the present be regarded as an autonomous re- public, a message from Barcelona stating that Colonel Macin been proclaimed President of the Catalan Republic. Colonel Macin haa appealed for order and quiet collaboration in order to enable him to regain the liberty of Catatonin.
Madrid, Later.
Goy" The Provistonal Zamoru No official announcement
ernment has taken all measures been male, but there is not the
truth of to ensure order and to guarantor slightest doubt of the the report. The capital is full of the personal safety of the King. conflicting rumours, but it is gen- It is learned that Senor Lerroux assumed that tho a will become his Foreign Minister. crally nouncement has been postponed until to-morrow in order to give the ex-King an opportunity of getting quietly away to Portugal.
Later. King Alfonso has left Madrid for Cartagena. He was companied by the Prince of the
де.
"Go Slow."
Zamora has announced that the first principle of his programme was "Go Slow," to prevent dia- order and bloodshed.
The new Republican Cabinet was formed for all prac-
which
comprises:
King Alfonso XIII, who has renounced the ancient throne of Spain, dating back to the time of the son of Aragon and Castile in 1749, is shown right, in civilian clothes, top, reviewing hi troops three months ago, and circled, caught at a happier moment with his eldest son, the Prince
of the Asturias, who is note 23 years of' epe.
SAFE CONDUCT GRANTED.
PULLMAN INSTEAD OF SCAFFOLD.
MAJORITY WILL.
Madrid, Apr. 15.
The question which King Alfonso XIII asked only a fornight ago, namely, "If the Republicans are in the major- ity and can make their will prevail, why don't they do so and cease criminal agita- tion?" has received a con- stitutional answer, and the King has bowed thereto.
Alfonso departed from Madrid under a Republican safe conduct. He has earned uni versal commendation by avoid- ing bloodshed and, for the first time in a life filled with hair- breadth escapes from assassins,
MANY ATTEMPTS AT ASSASSINATION.
EX-KING'S "TROPHIES" AT
THE PALACE...
It is a forbidding museum, the room where King Alfonso XII of Spain kept the grim relics which reminded him that a Monarch's life is not always a happy one.
There is feeding battle made for the special purpose of poison- a babe of ing him when he was
A fragment of a eight months, homb thrown at him on his wad
A splintered panel of ding day. royal landau, wrecked by anar Handkerchief chists' dynamite. shrouded revolvers wrested from would-be assassins' hands. Wick-
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CHINA'S PLANS FOR THE GOLD STANDARD.
NANKING REPORTS STEADY PROGRESS.
MINT ALMOST READY.
Nanking, Apr. 14.
The preparations of the Nationalist Government for the introduction of a gold standard in China are proceeding steadily, though it is impossible to sug- gest when such a course will be possible.
The Finance Ministry, it is learned, has completely worked out its scheme for the unification of the country's currency, and when the monetary standards of the Provinces have been brought into line with Nanding's plans, the introduction of a gold standard will be an easy matter.
The new Government Mint at Shanghai is ready to begin, opera, tions as soon na orders come from Nanking. All coins in the coun- try will gradually be replaced by those from the Shanghai Mint, which is expected to be working 4 few at full pressure within months,
The Finance Ministry is prepar- ing, it le said, to introduce a gold standard regionally, and is now considoring in which part of the country, the first experiment should be made.
A KING WITHOUT | FATAL MOTOR BUS
ACCIDENT. ILLUSIONS.
THE ROYAL CAREER OF.
ALFONSO XIII.
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YOUNG CHINESE DIES FROM INJURIES.
Hos-
Whilst driving a motor bus along Lalchikok Rond, Shomahui- po, yesterday evening, Un Mui, a Bus UNEASY, THRONE. driver of the China Motor
|Company, knocked, down a young It is somewhat remarkable that Chinese who suffered severe in- an adverse election reault should fries, from which he died after: cause Alfonso lo abdicate, for he admission to the Kowloo11
pital, lins been suppressing rebellions,
The driver states in a report to threatened rebellions, and dodging assassins all the 44 years of his the police that he was driving bus life, and he has done it with No. 668 along Laichikok Road at gaiety atmust, courage certainly, 7.30 p.m. yesterday and on passing. and always with a smile on his Yuen Chau. Street, a young Chinese
Cheung Wai-chuch, aged 18 years, lips.
ed looking daggers. Rebela' rifles, His attitude has largely been a cook residing at the Sze Hop All tell the story of the many the result of the fact that he was Cheong matshed. Yuen Chau Street, attempts that have been made on never permitted any illusions, suddenly ran across the road.
lle was knocked down before the life of this debonair and now His mother made him realise from
bus driver could uvöld In keeping the first that his inheritance was the deposed monarch. these exhibits, Alfonso must have no easy one-an unsettled, rather him and was taken in the Kow inherited a sense of the grim from rebellious country, and his own loon Hospital, where he died at
forefathers who also bodily constitution in which there 10.20 p.m. his royal Ilked
surround themselves might be planted the seeds of with reminders of death and the tuberculosis that carried off his grave in the gloomy walls of the father, Alfonso XII, to an untime Escorial.
ly grave at the age of 28.
Born a King.
lo
Ex-King a Fatalist.
If King Alfonso were not
He was literally born a king on fatalist and at the same time a May 17, 1886, the post-humous very courageous man, he long age son of Afonso XII's young widow would have made a hermit of him--the former Maris Christin, closely in his daughter of the Archduke Charles self, guarded
and Ferdinand of Austria. palaces by picked troops lynx-eyed sleuths.
ile has been the mark of dozens of cranks, fanatics and murderous Spain. rovolutionists-and always escopes. They have not weaken- ed his courage. They have not impaired his smiling tranquillity. Wedding Day Bomb.
The widowed Austrian princess ruled wisely over her adopted She heeded the political kas counsels of the great men of the land. She brought about a period of comparative qulet.
Mother-like, her whole object was to preserve the throne and the kingdom for her child
A Typical Prince. Alfonso
Krew
It was amid a baptism of blood and death that the young Alfonso and
bride,
a
un typical hia fair English Princess Ens of Battenberg, began Spanish prines. He had the pro- their joint lives as rulers of Spain. minent, protruding lip as a legacy The royal wedding was in Mad- from that long line of Spanish rid on May 31, 1906. A story of kings who inherited this facial
SOUTHAMPTON PORT SCHEME.
TO COST QUARTER OF A. MILLION.
London, Apr. 145 Within a few weeks, operations are to begin to give the doop,water channel at Southampton a uniform width of 1,000 feet. At present, the channel is 35 feet deep at low, water and narrows to 600 feet from Fawley Beacon to the docks.
The new scheme will cost no less than £240,000. It is part of a plan for preparing the port to receive even bivver liners,
Work will also begin shortly on. the new deck to house the new 73,000-ton Cunard liner now under construction,
This dock will be 1,200 feet
long and 186 feet wide, a depth
LORD. IRWIN BEGINE JOURNEY HOME.
SEEING GANDHI BEFORE
DEPARTURE."
.
New Delhi, Apr 1€
· Lord and Lady Irwin weregri
the eventful day is related by peculiarity from faraway Austrian of 45 foot-British Wirdeas, Edgar
gar Wallace, the famous writer princes who married Into the of detective novels and plays, who Spanish royal family.
The child could go into the "covered" the wedding in his early famous Prado Gallery in Madrid, daya as a working reporter:
My idea was to get out in the and in the Velasquez room could ase the paintings of his distin stracts and get the human story guished ancestors, made conturies of how the crowds welcomed the age. And they might have been of himself--the same youthful king and his English bride. I worked my way into the paintings
marked denise crowd in the Calle Mayor. long, oval face, the same dark
oyes, the same strongly The people seemed enthusiastic chin the same. Hapsburg lip. enough.
Hla wise mother decided that "Suddenly I saw what I thought not only was the boy's mind to be a magnificent sond-off when t he called The Risks of the Pro- carriago in which the bridal pair should be toughened and hardened to England.
Gandhi is peeing, there fesston."
was riding. It was indeed a 'bou- to fight any possibility of inherit
In his study hours. Viceroy at Bombay on Thur The oldest monarchy in Europe quet of flowers, but inside it was od disease. has thus disappeared, practically a deadly bomb. It exploded with he not only learned the history of Reuter, without bloodshed, in conformity terrific violence. Many people his country, but German, French
Tith the method forecast by the wore killed and injured, Frag- and English.
Libertad yesterday, ments dew in every direction. newspaper take your seats. The train
Queen Ena of Spain a grand.
•daughter of Queen Victoria.
Asturias (the Crown Prince) tical pumposes some months Ag has not sought to despise what was a bouquet thrown at the state well furnished, but that his body laft for Bombay to-day, enfro
In connexion with the Invest- ments, you will notice that in spite of the fact that, owing to unfore Been circumstances, it was not con- sidered prudent to embark upon the investment of the funds which ac- crued from the sale of Exchange Building until the latter quar- ter of the
under year
reviow, capital accretion on the investments hold at the 81st December, 1980, has taken place to the extent of $100,000 in round figures, which, in the circumstances, think may be regarded as satisfactory.
While on this subject, I would remark that it appears to your will embark at dawn, for an un- Board that in concentrating upon known" destination.
Admiral Rivera, the Duke of Miranda, and a few faithful members of the historic Civic Guard.
The other members of the Royal Family are leaving Madrid to- morrow morning.
It is understood that the 'King
the branch of its business which The King's departure this even-
It is now undertaking that is to ing was totally unobservad
Premier: Senor Zamora.
Larroux. Foreign Affairs: War Minister: Azana. Marine: Casares Quiraga. Finance: Indalecio Prieto, Interior: Miguel Maura. Public Works:: Albornoz Labour: Largo Caballeró,
which claimed!" "een. There was a cloud of smoke, There
were shrleka of
Economy: Martinez Barricos. adding. Today, we are more dying, the wounded and
Public Instruction: Fernando
civilisedan formerly we ask de los Rios Their Majitties to take a sleeping. Catalonia has decided not to
K(Continued on: Pagari
Gay that of investmentthe Commend that he originally remain autonomous Colora Rabwe hold
Fearless Hider."
He liked English. He admired The AZ England's people. His Austrian that Then the air cleared and one mother, encouraged him via this the saw the young dog, pale but brave. Iling. She taught him that the
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