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"SYNCHRO-MESH" GEAR CHANGE SIMPLICITY. "SILENT SECOND" REFINEMENT.
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE. (HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTEL, LTD.)
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1932.
"WHEN BRITAIN ELEVEN TRAFFIC War Area
·OWES SHE PAYS."
Puritan in Keeping
Her Word.
CHORUS OF PRAISE.
CONVICTIONS.
P
Rents
INDIAN MAY LOSE Renounced.
LICENCE.
with no fewer than 10 previous
convictions against him for traffic offences, an Indian motor-driver, Anub Singh, was charged before
SHANGHAI LAND CO.'S DECISION.
Shanghat, Apr. 1. Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Ma- gistracy this morning with driving Ал exceedingly generous a motor-car whilst in an intoxi-gesture by the Shanghai Land London, Mar. 31.
cated condition along Nathan Roud Investment Company was dis- The Treasury announces that
on March 29.
closed to-day by notices distri gold-dollar bills maturing in
Defendant pleaded guilty and (buted in certain districts of the New York on March 29 to tho was fined $5. His Worship fur-Settlement. value of G$30,000,000 have been ther recommended his licence to The notices reveal that the Com- repaid, as has likewise the crédit to permanently cancelled.
pany propose to grant exemption of Frs.900,000,000 given by the
the payment of rent for Traffic Inspector Mason, who from
Chinese French banks.
prosecuted, stated that in 1928, de- February and March to fendant met with a serious deci-tenants of premises north of the Soochow Creek and other districts dent on the Castle Peak Rond. He affected by the recent conflict in fell naleep whilst carrying Euro- the Settlement aren, pean passengers, and drove his ear against a tree.
The Treasury retains the right to re-borrow for twelve months, part of the arrangement when the credits were granted in August and September last
"An Honoured Firm."
The chorus of praise which has xreeted Britain's financial integrity in having already repaid the bulk of the credits borrowed from France and the United States in August and September last, most of them before they fell due, con- tinues.
In an article appearing in Paris
entitled Midi,
**When Britain Owen She Pays," M. Lejeune, the well-known writer on financial sub jects, declares that if signatures were respected elsewhere as they are in London, the world crisis would be a thing of the past.
NAVAL OFFICERS ROBBED.
THIEF GETS FOUR MONTHS.
The Investment Company have also suffered considerable losacs, but they wish to show goodwill and sympathy to their tenants who had bald up all their rents prior to February,
Strike Terminates, -
Another sign of the desire of residents of Shanghai for normal conditions is the resumption of all Chinese business to-day after strike of two months.
Satisfactory progress is being) made by the authorities in the task of cleaning up Chapel and to Im- prve sanitary and living conditions in all the war areas,
A Chinese said by the police to be without employment, was sent prison for four months at the Central Magistracy this morning for the theft of a gold watch and The work is belag speeded up in leather wallet from Lt. Cdr. Add-order that it shall be completed Ington, of H. M.S. Tamar, and of a before the warm weather sets in. Lt. Pay--Reuter. gold finger ring fmm
"If there is a flight of capital to day from certain countries which are consequently unable to keep their engagements, it is often bester Vallance, of the same ship. cause these countries have them-i selves depreciated their signature and frightened away capital by their complete disdain of the most saered contracts," he adda,
"Virtue of Gold."
It was atated that after being arrested by the pollee, who found the articles on him, accused gave the later every assistance in tracing the owners,
BALKAN FINANCE
CRISIS.
LEAGUE COMING TO RESCUE.
"Great Britain, on the contrary,
On a summons for dangerous driv thinks that her signature is worth
Ins remained in, the Chinese driver of a public ear something. She
was fined $25 by Mr. Schofield in the Puritan when it is a question of Central Police Court this morning. keeping her werd. If the paund It was stated that defendant swerved did not fall as much as might have whilst driving in Henessy Road in been expected when the gold stand- order to frighten a pedestrian after Hungary, Greece, and Bulgaria, a
bad crossedl the abandoned, it was because several
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the name of Britain on a banknote thoroughfare. respresents that of
an honoured
firm, which has something of the
very virtue of gold.
London, Mar. $1.
the Owing to the gravity of
Bituation in Austria, financial
meeting of the Lengue of Nations Council has been summoned for April 12th.
This action is taken following the report of the Financial Com-
"But Britain's signature sym- would seem to be the evasion omittee of the League which recently bolises centuries of financial recti- their just obligations?" asks M. met in Paris. Geneva messages tude. Virtue, it is said, 'is its Stephanne Lauzanne, in the course state that the report advances pro- own reward, and Britain is to-day of an article which he contributes strengthening the future of her to the Matin. currency."
posals for ameliorating the situs-
tlon which demand the prompt at- tention of the League Council. Britisk Wireless.
"One would love to see the re- markable example just set by Great First of Great People.
Britain followed by the whole "How is it possible that England, world," adds M. Lauzanne, "and who in almost dramatic circum- one would also like to see Great
The Royal Observatory reports stances has just shown that the Britain herself say to the whole that the anti-cyclone is central to
has! firal care of a great people should world 'Go and do likewise,' and then the cast of Shanghai and
considerably. Local be to pay what they owe, can yet both confidence and morality would weakened display so much indulgence to once again prosper in the world." forecast:-N.E. winds, moderato;
fine generally. wards people whose primary care Reuter and Ex.
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