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PESISTANCE
roggerie 六拜禮 號八十月四英港香 SATURDAY. APRIL 18, 1931. 日一和月三
MOSLEY PARTY TO FOREIGN OFFICE The Nicaragua MILLIONAIRE
FIGHT LANCASHIRE SEAT.
FIVE BYE-ELECTIONS PENDING.
TORY RESIGNATION.
Loulot. Apr. 17.
The writ has been issued for te bye-elvetim at Ashton-under. Lyne, in Latin-hire, which will
KING INCOGNITO. have special interest as the Sew
Madrid, Apr. 17.
All is not well in Spain, though the Zamora Govern- ment is working feverishly to *traighten out the situation. The Government's anxiety to avoid embarrassment by a "Republic within a Republic” is implied by the hasty des- patch of two Ministers by air to Barcelona.
Their purpose is to persunde,
Party, organised by Sir Oswald Mosley, have announced their in tention of putting up a conatidate for the first time.
death
TACKLED ON SILVER PROBLEM.
CHINA ASSOCIATION
ACTIVITY.
REPRESENTATIONS FROM HONGKONG.
CHINA GOLD BASIS.
Outrages.
American Refuses Intervention.
CITIZENS RISK.
EL
RECLUSE'S
[SECRET WEDDING.
THE SKELETON IN THE WENDEL CUPBOARD.
1936 FER ANNIM SINGLE COVX 10 CENTE
FORT
DUNLOP
The Tino B
LOCAL BRANCH.
Paddar Bldg.
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts,
During the tin-time crush on the ferry, it's a case of elbowing
to the inevitable.
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With fewer marriages In Hong- kong, the outlook for, manufac- Lurers of toast-racks and pickle.
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NANKING MISSION BEQUEST forks is getting really serious.
POSSIBLY AFFECTED.
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way
to
"The Airman Scott. nearing the Washington. Apr. 17.
last lap of his flight, arrived at, Qu the ground that such
Hima yesterday on his way pulley would "lead to difficulties
Darwin to-day." says contem- #41icl commitments which
the United States Government does
RELATIVES ALIVE.porary. We understand, however, that he didn't arrive before he A growing disposition in in-not propose to undertake," the
started. of State, Mr. H. L. A startling chapter has been Auential quarters that a laissez Secretary
Home Note:--One
of The by-election has been made faire policy in respect of silver Stimson. through the American added to the weird story of the
Legation in Nicaragua has made Wendel family and of the making an inexpensive burglar necessary by the
of Mr is intolerable and that some ar-
Announcement startling
to "House of Mystery" on Fifth alarm is to train the vật to sleep Tahours, who tificial aid by international ac American citizens in the country Avenue when Miss Ella Wendel, under the mut, Albert Bellamy gained a majority of 3,407 at thy tion is needed, is referred to by to the effect that Government pro- the richest and loneliest woman General Election against Liberal Mr. O. M. Green in a commen-tection is withdrawn.
This pending legal action on and Conservative candidates, the
tary upon the annual report of The notification states that the in the world, last of five aged voting being 13.170, 9,763 (('on,
the China Association, which United States Government refuses Apinsters and thought to be the grayhound racing in Shangha!
looks like a real dog-fight. of the Wendals, died a and 6,693 (Lib)
silver question to undertake the general protec- last Another bye-election will follow deals with the
tion of American citizens. It.month ago.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has advises all Americans who feel the resignatiou, announced today. very fully...
She left an estate estimated to been flying again. His opponents, insecure under the protection of exceed £20.000.000 (G$100,000,000) | however, say he'll soon come down for reasons of health, or Captain Sidney Herbert, the Conservative
the Nicaraguan Government to in value, and she made a bequest to earth. withdraw from Nicaragua, or at of G$12,000,000 to the Methodist least to the coast towns, where Theological Seminary at Nanking, Heuith Noto-The best way to they could be protected or the largest sum ever left, to an là- [avoid a black eye is to keep your evacuated if necessary,
stitution in China, Those remaining in the interior
ᄆᄆ will do so at their own risk. They must expect United States forces to be sent inland to theaid them.
if they can, the Catalonians to Member for the Scarborough Hivi modify their alarming separatistsion of Yorkshire, S. Riding, stree determinations, which have 1922. He is son of the late Sir hitherto been evinced by the un-
Michael Herbert, one time British 转心 furling of their own flag and the Ambassador in Washington. "legalisation" of their own na tional anthem.
was private secretary In Mr. Stan- ley Baldwin from 1921 to 1927.
Three other bye-elections are al- The St. reads pynding, including Rolfax Division through the death IN Stewart (Lab.)
The report says that:
On the subject of silver the Committee is in carrrapondence with the Foreign Officer at the time of writing.
It has received tabled re- presentations from Shanghai and Hongkong, and is endeavouring to ascertain what step, H., Govern ment has under consideration in re
gard to the matter."
n
They have also appointed a
After giving details "Minister Plenipotentiary to Madrid?
prices recorded and observing that The Catalonians have been unof Mr.
they threaten "un economic and President-Elect where a Conservative attack on aancial crisis which that country responsive to Zamora's denarches, which estrong Labour seat is being
(China) had no reason to expect. and which has seriously impede phasise their reluctance to sueri- trusted to ex-Bailie John Kennedy. fice the opportunity as they did on former member of the the evasion of the short-lived Re Corporation, and the Ogmore Divi- the sustained effort of the Nail- king Government to bettle its polí sion Glamorganshire. caused
of public of 1872, when they agreed
through the death of the Lordtical and economic troubles both The minintment to await
Privy Seat, Mr. Vernon Hartshorn,reign and internal," the report Assembly, which Constituent
-British Wireless. never met herause the Monarchy returned.
Financial Policy.
The Republican Government's financial policy has been put into a nutshell by Senor Pristo,
Lite
Financy Minister, follows; Call an operatjóns transact- ed by the Dictatorship respected.
Will b
(2) the Bank of Spain is cap porting the Republican policy.
means.
10
3) the Government in satished that the stability of the pesel can be maintained by ordinary
They do not intend squander millions ad pesetas in artificial bolstering of exchange,
141 Ten per real. of withdrawals from current accounts in the banks will be paid temporarily in silver in order to avert shortage of notes.
Glasgow
PIRATES ISSUE
THREATS.
WARNING TO TOW-BOAT COMPANY,
Canton. Apr. 17.
proceeds:
Pall Over Market.
"There, must also be a change in reunomic and financial condi- Linx in Illa jo en the burden Governmeal silver holdings
there. These today in as a pali
nat
seem
1.
Ele silver market and threaten to check any recovery in the price of the mrtal, as the res ult a" closer approximation
raf As a sequel in the bonih exin-1 bet wes n demand and supply which www which necurred on board the the output for 1920 of 214,000,000 Towboat Tak-kee when
nearing amoes does Chot chun last week-end, the comfiestliy, China, the only untry pradore of the tow-boat received again currency basis of silver, the brunt of threatining letter yesterday on artands to bear rival at Canton, which stated that "dumoine by other countries, and. in view of the importance of her the bomb incident should be re
world trade. final warning that un arded an
thu "water-money" already | demanded,
forth- was imediately coming, further reprisats 26
of a much more serious nature might be expected.
The owners of the Tak-ker tow- Company, in reporting the matter to Naval Headquarters, has petitioned for protection from the pirntes.Our Chep Correspondent.
possible
that houst
Minister's Hopes,
predicted Senor Prieto within a few days everything will he stabilised and everybody will imagine that the new regime has in existence for twenty been years.
from
It is announced today Paris and Madrid respectively that
France and Chile have reengnised the
Spanish Republican new Government. Renter
"Duke of Toledo."
Paris, Apr. 17.
The Duke of Miranda, who has Recompanied King Alfonso into
CHINA EDUCATION
PROPOSAL.
EXCHANGE OF PROFESSORS WANTED.
The announcement is a sequel to Enst the serious incidents in Nicaragua recently, in which
TELEPHONE SERVICE TO CANTON.
TWO DOLLARS FOR CALL OF THREE MINUTES.
suggestions to stabilise the thelrak nt a value in sterling cannot be, looked on as fantastic or
· reasonable.
Paris Mecling.
un-
Canton, Apr. 17.
The work of laying the long! distance telephone cable be tween Caatan und Hongkong in proceeding without a hitch. and there is every reason to expect that the first conversa- tion over the line will be possi. ble during the month of August.
It
is understood but charges, for a three-minute call will be H.K.$2.00 pr. alternatively, $2.60 Canton currency-Qur Own Correspondent,
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number of American civilians have lost their lives, and American Marines have been killed in action against
A meeting to discuss this ques-American Service. tion was held by the executive committee of the International | Chamber of Commerce in Paris, on February 20 of this year, when the Association was represented
Mr. S. F. Mayers. The follow- ing resolution was passed:
BIBESCO'S PLANE
Legal Plans Threatened.
mouth shut.
A New York The revelations just made, how-pastor has ever, are said to threaten all the engaged a jazz legal plans for disposing of the band to play in vast estate to charities and for church. obtaining probate of Miss Ella's Heaven's sake! will.
the last of the race, but it is now She died believing herself to bo
revealed
that John Gottleib Wendel, Junior, who died in 1914 "an octogenarlap and a bachelor" and who ruled his sisters with an Iron hand, persecuting them when they sought, to murry, himself con- tracted when young, a secret mar- ringe which resulted in the birth of a daughter.
For
☐ ☐ Even the best
of our motorists
are apt to take a turn for the
worse.
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Too much sen- bathing is sald to turn the hair red. This many explain the Descendants' Clnins.
number of sandy The descendants of thig daugh-coves about. ter are claiming a share in the huge fortune, which the Wendel family hns been accumulating steadily in 200 years of dealings in Now York house property.
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. . Anyhow, Alfonso admits that ho left Spain for the good of the country,
If you want to know the finest
WRY
To make a pound or two-- Sell Exchange.
Do not boller what the others
MAY, Sell Exchange.
Never mind about your piece-
Hoods,
steel or paints or
Nor
Your wire or glass or hard-
woods,
Canned fruits or bottled pens Why worry over cabling, To Lancashire or Brum,
For lower quotes, enabling, You to problems overcome? Why mass about with samples, When the prices change enchi
day?
Look around at the examples, Of the men who know the way, To keep their bank roll mount-
Ing. Selling money avery day: Give up costing and discount-
ing, Sell Exchange while yet ye may!
"When your wife starts to Talk dots she l when to atop?***
“I don't know pet: we've only been married nine years,” 0.0
Let's have a
brighter Hong- kong.
It only
needs somebody
Lo
way!
Lido
the
There's on a method of get- ting your own weigh-just hop on the scales.
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The man who, has his clothing stolen after disrobing on the
beach. hus not
much chance of redress!
"Influenza Foxtrot." te anid to Marriage is probably a lottery be the title of the latest dance because it takes a lottery adjust- tane. In this, however, the saxa- ment!
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In the matter of Kowloon's This skeleton in the cupboard of phone gives way to the aspirin. the decensed multi-millionaire has
"Sagenion" is of the opinion population, it appears to be a cose been brought to light in the fish that the dollar must-rise now-that of think of a number and then ing village of Wickford, Rhode Is Texaco have silver pumps.
That's double it: land. There, on bloak farm fae-the spirit! Ing the water, investigators have
discovered, living with her daugh- Anticipated
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Hongkong folk have known what advertisement: drench warfare is during the past-
ter Edna, aged 21, and her son "For Sale. Three-piece ricksha. few days. Teddy, aged 21, a granddaughter No Exchange!"
of John Gottlieb Wendel junior.
An Elopement.
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We hear of a lady who was' Aberdonians ought to be good struck by a new car and got her boxers. They're usually no tight- hubby to buy it.
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A Revenue Offeer knows a good: may thing when he seizes .
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It appears that during his col-fisted! insurgeants. Reuter's
☐ ☐ lege days the future recluse met a beautiful girl named Hanna Holt, Paradoxical though it of New Hampshire. In July 1865, seem, the girl who flares up easily make IL good after his graduation, he sloped with doesn't usually his sweetheart to East Greenwich, match. New York, where, on the 10th of the month, they were married by a justice of the peace named Ste wart. A daughter, Bertha, was barn to the couple on September 7. 1850,
DESTROYED,
PETROL EXPLOSION AFTER CRASH.
Allahabad, Apr. 17.
Brighter clothes for men aro forecnat. What's most needed. however, is brighter men
for clothes.
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0.0 The Minister of Labour in the new Spanish Government rejoices in the Christian name of Largo. Evidently there is no Spanish who gives in when he knows he's P.W.D.
Having considered the effect of the fall in the price of silver on the economic situation of China and the consequent reduction of
Shortly afterwards the elder
до Chinese purchasing power at a
Wendel learned of his son's secret We hope that the Government time when too many other factors
It is learned that the disaster to marriage. Furiously, he confront-won't turn a cold douche on the are exerting an unfavourable in Prince George Bibesco's plane oc-ed his heir with the alternative of Realty Company's fresh water Paris, Apr. 17. · fluence on international trade, the curred as a result of engine trouble. "abandon your wife or lose your plunge scheme, The Chinese Government
John Junior acceded
ព ព bas executive committee strongly re- The Hane made a forced landing patrimony, exile, in a statement to the Press sent a letter to the League
to his father's command and, in of commends to all the governments
A Hongkong man who has just this afternoon, said that King Nations suggesting that Alföñso, who
arrange which hold stocks of silver, or and ran into a ditch. had adopted his
The petrol tank exploded and the due course, he succeeded to the for-returned from Amerien says the within the territories of which menta should be made for the ex- Incognito of the Duke of Toledo, change of scientists and professors silver is produced, or which enn
machine burst into flames, and tune of some £10,000,000, which, effects of Prohibition are terrible. wished to face himself. His between the Universities.
was soon blazing furiously. though divided equally between his Staggering, in fact. influence the price of silver
Во plans for the future, were
The injured airmen who were six sisters and himself, was so tied The letter says Professors in through their monetary policies, to all unconscious when rescued from up as to leave control of it in his The low dollar has made it certain. He did unt know whether English Literature. Geography and enter into immediate conversa-
impossible for some folk to take he would reside in England or in Geoglogy would be especially wel- tions with a view to adopting, inthe wreck, have been conveyed to hands.
Embittered. he carried out his Home leave this year. hospital at Benares. Only Prince
Many como nf the Central University in consultation with the Government Bibesco has so far recovered con- father's instructions in letter and others are just naturally gloomy.
of China, the concorted or indivi-
口口 spirit, persteuting his sister Re- Gibraltar, Apr. 17.
The letter has been referred to dun? measures which cau be taken
The maching was burned out. Amid cries of "Long Live the the International Institute of Into moderate fluctuations and to
Reuter. tellectual Co-operation, the Execu- maintain silver in future on as King" from a crowd of Monarchisttive Committee of which has de-stable a level as may be possible."" sympathizers, Alfonso's third son, the Infante Juan, left for Naples cided to express a most favourable to-day aboard the Italian liner.pinion with regard to the proposal. Roma.-Reuter.
the South of France,
Infante Juan,
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Barcelona, Apr. 17. Labour and Republicngs are at loggerheads over the choice of n new Civil Governor.
The National Confederation of Labour opposes the Government's nomince. Noisy mobs thronged the streets to-day, and released all prisoners. Busincos is completely at a standstill.-Reuter,
SIR THOS. LIPTON'S GENEROSITY.
£10,000 FOR POOR OF GLASGOW,
London, Apr 17.
Sir Thomsa Lipton has given an- other £10,000, to the poor of Glas- row in memory of his mother
Nanking.
-Reuter.
KING CAROL ACTIVE.
FINDS "NEW WIRE” AS PREMIER.
Open Mind.
At the annual meeting of the Chino Association, Mr. F. Ander- son (formerly of Shanghai), said he had a feeling that the sequence of events was bringing the sliver question more and more Into the
sciousness.
SCHNEIDER TROPHY
ENGINES.
ROLLS ROYCE COMPANY TO BUILD.
London, Apr. 17.
becen when, disobeying him, she If Rotary extends its civic sor- married Professor Swope, and sendvice activities to revolving the ing another sister, Georgiana, to a financial problems of the Colony Hanatorium when she claimed the in the minds of its members, the ahe result might be a better annual right to live her life as
turnover. pleased.
Unknown Daughter's Marriage.
A contemporary made the King It is now revealed that the ro- of Spain arrive at Gibraltar. eluse's daughter, Bortha, married However, hè appears to gib at Edward Davis, an ordinary AER-mall places like that.
region of prnetical porin-ing of Messrs. Rolls Royce that was born to them in March 1885.
He attributed this
the
A man picked up on a club door- loved to have got as far as, "It's stop and sent to hospital, is be
not the heat, but the hu..."
Nature note:-Prickly pears
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A novellat declares that a man
right is very weak-minded. org possibly married.
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Why don't you join the Volun“,
fsera
To do your little bit,
And wear that tio that's all myę
eye
And makes you look like it?!! The Sergeant Major's ready too To swear (you In at once And in a month you'll pass his
glance
Unless you are a dunce. Then moet the other follows in Your chosen company,
If you will stand them drinks?
my lad,
They'll stand you too, and sen That when you go to camp and
· look
For space within a tent,
That only half the usual jagar Will on yourself be vent. And If you really prove:
keen
So as to earn promotion, You'll wonder why they all do
join, And pass along the, notionfa
0.0 "Life is chiefly spade wo And we fork out. →→
It was stated at the annual meet-man, in 1881, and that a daughter
This
granddaughter of eccentric millionaire was married at Boston in 1902 to Charles E. L Trophy Hayward, and it is she who is now living with her offspring on the
A film critic said he nearly) lonely farms in Rhode Island.
According to a story told at Wick- are coming into flower, and the asleep during a talkie « rece
Better luck next(tima; ford, the affair has a curious inter- prickly hent may ehortly be ex national flavour in that the wife pacted to develop. A good crop "Black
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cipal factors (1) the debacle in the Company will again build the ilver which took place last year; engines for machines competing
about the same time, the con- for the Schneider Bucharest, Apr. 17.
and gestion of gold in America
British Wireless. In a determination to secure a France; (3) the inability of
many broad-based Natiouni Government, countries to maintain their ex- King Carol has played a moat ac- changes on a parity with gold; (4) tive part in the formation of the the continual strain in India in now Cabinet and has brought home maintaining the ryped on a gold
"live wire" in the person' of M. basis.. Titulescu, Minister in
theen factors had created London, who All these
general disposition-to discuss cur
has formed a Ministry.
FLUSHING HARBOUR. QUEEN OF HOLLAND AT INAUGURATION,
Amsterdam, Apr. 17.
AN
of John Gottileb Wendel jun. had of water hyacinths is to be looked
an aunt who married General for, as well as water blistere and the unlo
Robert Blake, an officer in the Bri-water on the braid Sunflower them? tish Army, early last century.ro not much in evidence - yet.
M. Ghika, formar, Minister of rency question, with a more open Rome, in the Foreign Minister. mind than for long time And The Queen, accompanied by Blake, it is said, dieg without mak- neither is the sun. The sundow The former Premier M. Manlu, there was to getting away from cer Princess Juliana and Prince ing will, leaving a fortune of appropriately: a flourishing and
that morning dew is to be piena ver, the leader of the
Partyi taid brosdesapare that allver, Henry, inaugurated the new har 43,000,000 16 10 stated
whares 90117/ruu bourat Flashing to-day Rekter,S:(Continued on Page 24-).
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