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C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
YOUNDED 1843
NO. 21.416
二拜禮 號一月九英港香
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1931
FIRST TALKS
$30 PER ANNUM MINGLE ODET 34 UENTA
LOCAL BRANCH.
· Paddar Bida.
AND PICTURES OVER CANTON TRUNK LINE. SALARY CUT FOR
the Governor A reproduction of the actual picture of H. E. transmitted over the Canton trunk line this morning by telephdio process.
LEADING STOKER KILLED IN ENGINE ROOM
MISHAP ABOARD SCARAB.
NAVAL CIRCLES REFUSE DETAILS: COURT OF INQUIRY.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
Shanghai, Sept. 1 An air of mystery surrounds the circumstances of a tragic mishap in the engine room of the British gunboat, H. M. S.! Scarab, while the vessel was lying off the Bund at Nanking a day or two ago.
THE INAUGURATION CEREMONY.
SIR WILLIAM PEEL SPEAKS TO KWANGTUNG GOVERNOR.
CANTON'S GREETINGS.
THE NEW TELEPHONE trunk line between Hongkong and Canton was formally inaugurated this morning, when greetings were exchanged between His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong and H.E. the Chairman of the Provincial Government of Kwang- tung, Mr. Lin Yun-koy. A feature of the ceremony was an exchange of photographs, transmitted by the special telephoto process over the trunk line.
The first conversation, apart from Company tests, was as follows:
H. E. Sir Wm. Peel.
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am very glad to have this opportunity of speaking direct to you on the occasion of the in- auguration of the long. distance telephone from Hongkong to Canton. On behalf of those pre- sent here, who include members of Council and the Directors of the Telephone Company, i send hearty greetings to you all. I am sure that you will join me in congratulating the Directors
having carried out this work so expeditiously, and having provided yet one more bond of union be- tween this Colony and Canton.
on
on
→ We all wish the under- taking every success.
H. E. Mr. Lin Yun-koy.
It gives me great plea- sure to speak with you through direct means of communication which it now made possible by the inauguration of the long distance telephone. This new service not only marks long stride in the inprovement. of commercial facilities, but above all wil serve happily to strengthen the tle of friendship between Canton and Hongkong. Indeed it is most befit- ting for both of us to extend our best wishes for the success and pros- perity of this new under- taking. May I also take this opportunity on be- half of those present here to send you and other friends in Hong- kong our sincere greet- inga?
The service is now available to the public, and it is disclosed by the Telephone Company that over five! hundred subscribers have already registered their names as intending users of the system.
TELEPHOTO SYSTEM DESCRIBED.
M.P.S. AND CABINETEERS.
ECONOMY PLAN REPORTS.
THE PREMIER'S AMBITION.
of
London, Aug..31.
Reductions in the salaries
Cabinet Ministers,
M.P.5,
Civil Servants,
Judges and Teachers
are believed to be included
in the economy proposals which the new Government will, it is believed, submit to the House of Commons on Tuesday of next week, though there was a sugges- tion to-night that Parliament may not be called until September 15.
If the date is postponed as hinted, it will be for the purpose of enabling the Cabinet to ex- amine in more detail, the reports of the sub-committees.
Cabinet Meets,
The National Cabinet assembled to-day promptly at four o'clock, the Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald'
Mr. Lin Yun-koy, chairman of the Kwangling/Provincial Gov-having arrived in the morning by ernment. This pleture was transmitted by telephoto prozess this
HOME SOCCER.
morning.
Purchase of
WEST HAM BEAT Kellet
CHELSEA.
Another Big Win By Wednesday.
ARGYLE AVENGED.
Island.
AND THE NAVAL ARSENAL
on
he
aeroplape from Lossiemouth, where has been, hard at work on various matters connected with the task of the new Government.
The meeting of the Cabinet was delayed briefly by a theatrical cere mony, the members posing for "talkies."
The members have all been care full studying the material prepared by the sub-committees, whose re- ports are understood to be com- plote.
A Final Study. The task to-day therefore was to of the undertake the final study comprehensive scheme to be sub- mitted to the specint session of Parliament.
In order to secure posses- sion of the Naval Arsenal
So far the only item of the pro Yard and Kellet Island, the
posals which has been disclosed and London, Aug. 31.
Government is to ask the
discussed is the suggested reduction Twenty-five matches played in
Legislative Council
by ten por cent. of the unemploy- the English League to-day pro-
Thursday to approve of the ment benefits, apart from the al- duced few startling results,
payment to the Admiralty of. lowances for children, but when the though Plymouth retrieved
a sum of two million dollars. official announcement of the com- their home defeat on Saturday
Authority will be sought by a pleted plan is made, it is confident by winning at Chesterfield. Leading Stoker Hooper was killed, it is known,
resolution, to be moved by the y anticipated that it will be found TTM the First Division, the Colonial Secretary, in the follow-to provide for an equitable distri- but the naval authorities in Shanghai have refused to
bution of aacrifices in accordance disclose any information regarding the accident,
By a carefully arranged system simple ending to an epochai for Wednesday won handsomely, and ing terms:
Blackpool and payment from the funds of the policy. It is known, however, that a Gannet (Com. A. B. Fanshawe) and of wiring, every person in the ward step in Hongkong's history, now head the division with a goal That this Council approves the with the Government's declared
Mr. J. P. Sherry, (manager) then average of 10-2.
To-day's meeting lasted for three Naval Court of Inquiry is be) H. M. S. Cockchafer (Commdr, D.spacious office was enabled to sit
to the mesanges explained to Bia Excellency the West Hun: also completed. the Colony of a sum of $2,000,000 to
demon- ing held in Nanking to-day, deal Young-Jamiesont have been order and "listen-in"
double. and their translation as they automatie telephone, and ing particularly with the cireumed to attend the court.
Leeds United seem determined the Lords Commissioners of the and three-quarter hours, and the ar- Admiralty in return for the sur-rival and departure of the Minis travelled between the two Goverstrated on an apparatus especially to win their way back into the render to the Hongkong Govern- ters was watched by large crowds. stances in which Lending Stoker
Canton. erected in a corner of the wors in Hongkong and
premier division.. They followed ment of the Naval Arsenal Yard
Good Progress, Hooper met his death;
Later A curious fent of the case is There was no delay and no con- what actually happened when
convincing win at Port Vale, anit sum being regulated ДВ The examination of the econo- commanding H.M.S. Sandwich, left hat engineering expert attached to English and Cantonese, came dis. He similarly demonstrated and ex- Bradford and Bury won their follows:
Commander 1.. U. Bayley, sfeer that famnunder Heath, a Shang-Fusion, and or cry for both in number was dinlied on a telephone up their victory at Swansen by aand Kellet Island, payment of the
mies aide of the Government's Shanghai for Nanking aboard the the Resident Naval Office, left for tinctly over the wire.
plained the telephoto and teleprin-
second match. night train yesterday, to preside at Nanking yesterday to inspect the
tor apparatus.
In 1931-$500,000 of which problem was nearly completed at In the Third Division, Crystal $236,259 chargeable to Praya this evening's meeting of the Ca- His Excelleney ant at the big the Court which is being held on
#l Seated with His Excellency board H.ALS. Sandwich.
binet, it is believed. engine room of H. M. S. Scarab. It is believed that he will give evi, tabla at the eastern end of the the table were Mr. J. H. Taggart Palace emulated the performance East Reclamation Funds.
No declalon has yet been taken,” In 1982. $1,000,000. room, and used an ordinary hand Hon. Mr. W. T. Sothorn, Hon. of Wednesday in scoring ten Hon. Mr. Koala in their first two matches,
put it is believed that the economies receiver-and-transmitter instru- Mr. R. H. Kotewall,
Coventry, In 1933.-$500,000,"
include reduced salaries for Cabinet ment connected with the Hongkong E R. Hallifax, Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Southend
The eventual resumption of the Ministers, members of the House. exchange. The other "listening-Wolfe, Hon. C. G. S. Mackie, Hon. Brighton drow at Cardiff. Gates- in instruments were attached to Mr. H. T. Creasy. Hon. Mr. C. G. head credited themselves with their Naval Arsenal Yard is part and of Commons, civil servants, judges this wire, 10 hand-sets for these Alabaster, H. E. Major General second win, and Lincoln rande parcel of the Prays East Reclam- und tenchers.
ation Scheme, the intention be seated at the table, and 22 for Sandilands and flon. Sir Shou-son their goal average 8-0.
The full results are appended: ing to extend the new 100-foot side is less advanced but will be re- those on cheirs.
Curious Feature.
The commandera or H. M. S.[dence at the Inquiry.
The Loss of the Kwongsang.
Dramatic Story of Disaster by Chinese
Survivors: Days Adrift.
runk
The First Call.
Chow.
Chairman's Welcome.
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First Division.
Lalcester
Blackburn Blackpool Huddersfield
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2 Middlesbrough 4 Grimsby T.
3 Oldham
2. Stoke City
2. Swansca 1 Plymouth 0 Bradford C.
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4 Preston N.E. Division (South),,
1 Queen's P. R.
His Excelloney arrived promptly. Extending a welcome to His Excel- at 11.30 am. and was greeted by lency, the Hon. Mr. C. Gordon Mac
Wednesday the Hon Mr. G. Gordon Mackie, kie, said:
"On behalf of the Hongkong West Ham U ཐ Chelsea. Shanghai, Aug. 27. In their opinion not a single per- Chairman of the Company. Sir;
Telephone Company, I have to.
Second Division. How, the ill-fated 1.-C.S.json, other than their three selves Wii iam took his seat at the table,
Barnsley Kwongsang foundered, al- managed to escape, the fury of the Jited the receiver to his ear, and thank your Excellency for consent
Ing to Inaugurate the trunk tele. Bradford most without warning, under
typhoon, the mon declared, rela- dialled "O" on the instrument, phone service between Hongkong Bury. the feet of her officers and
ting how they saw minn after man,
operator. "The tries and Canton, and would like to add | Chesterfield crew after she crashed over both foreigner and Chinese, disap-toulat's voice came over the wire. that the Board of Directors deeply Millwall
sunken ridge of rocks dur-
pear beneath the waves after the "Picase connect me with Mr. appreciate the honour which your Port Vale ship sank.
confora on Tottenham ing the height of the ty.
Lin Yun-koy, Governor presence The two men, who arrived bore Xunko:riptial air Wil-Pro Com here to-day phoon, which racked and
from Foochow aboard the Wanh-am.
trunk service to Canton is Bristol R shattered the doomed vessel
aiany, were Wong Foh Sing, deck- A few staccato sounds from the connected by direct underground Cardiff for eight hours before the
hand, and Soo Kwel Yuen firemen's transmitter. Sllence for a few cable from this building to the Clapton 0. end, was graphically related cook. A third Chinesa survivor,
Central Exchange in Canton-a Coventry in Shanghai yesterday by Treman, was left bohing at Food and then came a reply.
"I am very glad to have this op-distance of some 110 miles. To Luten two of the three survivors.
elow owing to injuries which he pertunity," Sir William began, and make speech possible on this Norwich Still shaken by their battle sustained in the wreck..
at the conclusion of his message he dista
distance. specially constructed with the elements which con-
banded the instrument over to cable, which required to be care-Halifax tinued for two and a half days!
Sir Shou-son Chow who interpreted fully balanced and loaded through- Lincoln longer as they drifted, clinging
it in rapid Cantonese. Mr. Lin out its entire length, has been Rotherham
Stockport Yun-key's reply in Cantonese then installed,
Tranmere came and was followed by an Eng
and it in worthy of nota that it in Walsall lish translation.
the first installation of its kind in China, slikough 1 believe it is but Clyde
(Continued on Page 4)
Everything Bwept Overboard
The exact point at which the to wreckage, in the still raging Kwongsang foundered could not seas, the men sounded the death-be determined by the men ne they knell to any hopes that some of are unacquainted with navigation But the foreign officrs also might and the coast in general. have escaped the cataclysm.
(Continued on Page 4).
Valedictories followed and Sir William replaced the transmitter, a
Third
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Dundee Un.: Router."
road through so as to link up with Queen's Road East. It was indicated in the final report, on 2 the Praya East scheme that the 1 arsenal would, after the Govarn- * 1 ment had secured possession of the present yard, be removed to Stonecutters.Island.
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For Yacht Club? Kollet Island, which is used as
a magazine, was originally in possession of the War Department, but in 1910 its occupaton and con-
Consideration of the financial sumed to-morrow.
Reater learns that while the Cabinet aims at produc- ing a programme assured of a majority of support and speedy passage in the House of Commons, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is courting an - ultimate personal trizzaph by
incuding proposals
which
Mr. Henderson's group supe ported as Labour Ministers. In conformity with the usual trol were transforred to the Budgetary procedure, the new pro- Admiralty.
It was intimated posals are not likely to be divulged about two years ago that when the before the meeting of Parliament. Government had resumed posses-
alon of the island it would probably
be utilised as headquarters for the
1 Royal Hongkong Yacht Club."
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SCHNEIDER RACE PRACTICE
London, Aug. 31.
Minor Posts.
The mass-dofection of the bour Party in expected to neces-- sitate the allotting of minor Minis- terial posts to Liberals and Conser vatives.
Mr. Craigle Althchison, the Lord Advocate for Scotland, has agreed After four blank days, due to to retain office. The Conservative bad weather, the Schneider Trophy Chief Whip Commander Byres team was able to resume practice to Monsell will take over the whipe day, although conditions were by office. Reuter, and British “Fire, no moana ideal,-British Wireless. Lent."