“BIG BEN"
SURROUNDED BY STEEL TUBES
AFTER 30 YEARS
London.
Scaffolding composed of steel tubes will seen shroud the famous Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament, in which Big Ben is housed. It is at least 30 years since the tower was completely surrounded by scaffolding in this way.
An Immense timount of the steal scaffolding will be needed, for the Clock Tower is 329 feet in height, and the total cost of the repaira now to be carried out is estimated at £70,000. It is expected that a beginning will be made during the summer recurs of Parliament,,
It was in 1928 that Lord Peel of that time First Commissioner of Works, Issued a memorandum on "The defective condition of the stonework of the House of Parlia ment," and the cost of the scheme of restoration was then estimated nt £1,000,000.
Since then, however, it has been found possible to reduce this estimate somewhat, and in May of this year Mr. Ormaby-Gore, the present First Commissioner of Works, announced in the flouse of Commons that the cost was then estimated at £750,000.-
Alrendy at least a hundred men have been working on the House of Parliament for four years, and it will probably be about ten years more before the taak is completed,
-Reuter.
REORGANISATION OF COALFIELDS
Latest Movement By Soviets
Moscow, May 22,
BOY OF 16 SENT
TO PRISON
FATHER'S REFUSAL TO BE SURETY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FEWER MEN & WOMEN IN PRISON
NATION GROWS MORE SOBER
As his father declined to stand. Buroty for him while on probation, a boy, 16 years old, Herbert Stubbs, of Etchingham, was sent to prison is superior in education
The prison population of to-day at Hurst Green, Sussex, for damn prison population at the beginning to the ing four stained glass windows at of the century, says the annual re Etchingham Parish Church.
The vicar, the Rev. C. Snell, anid port on the prisoners of England the windows were the original 600- and Wales. year-old glans which could never
On this subject Dr. Norwood
be replaced. There were also heads East, the Medical Commissioner, knocked off angel figures inside says: the church.
Stubba was stated to have done the damago with a catapult,
are
"Many prisoners to-day above the average in intelligence, and many others of average Intelli- gence are capable and alert, re- sourceful and aggressive men of Vain appeals were made to him | determined character, from the Bench to alter his nt-
The magistrales were about to bind the boy over when the father declined to be surety.
titude, and finally the Chairman "They tend to raise the general said they deeply regretted it, but mental level in prisons, but create the law allowed them no alternative special administrative problema." than to send the boy to prison for two months.
"You know the stigma will be with him for the rest of his life" said the Chairman.
The Father: I can't help that. father, Herbert Stubbs,
When seen by a reporter, the labourer, was very distressed and first into tears. He said:
farmi
"I did not want my hoy to go to prison; I did not know what they been in one before. mennt at the court. I had never
"I could not find any work for him, and he was always up to mischief as soon as my back was turned
MORE LAW-ABIDING NATION.
TUESDAY. MAY 30, 1933.
A NEW INDUSTRY FOR HONGKONG.
SCHEME TO ESTABLISH SOYA FACTORY
"
A large and up-to-date plant for it the concentration of the soya bean industry of the Colony and for the production of its oil and other established by a group of Chinese bye-products,
is shortly to be
businessmen.
The group of businessmen who are about to incorporate themselves into the China Soya Company, is headed by Mr. Tseng Tip, of No. 18, Kennedy Road. They have just ncquired a large site 30,000 square fect in arcu, at Laichikok, on which the new factory. will be erected. The total cost is estimated to exceed $100,000.
Mr. Tseng Tip, when interviewed said that although the secret of the soya bean was discovered by thousands of years wore the
for
Men received in prison on convle tion in 1931 numbered 32.471, and (China many women 4,964-1,061 fewer
men jago, and the Chinese and 512 women than in 1930.
methoda greatest consumers, exception of 1929, the lowest since the Chinese themselves
The total for men was, with the the exploitation of the product by 1924, and for women substantially the lowest since 1924.
Sentences for indictable offences (that is, serious offences) 100 nzen received into prisen. counted for only 26 out of every
were on
the most primitive lines, and it wan left to foreign country to carry on where they had left off.
Much of the famous soya bean sauce formerly consumed has been Before the war the unnaal con-produced by a large number of victions of women for drunkenness "He was constantly sing
whose method of a numbered over 35,000, and there small concerns catapult, and I told him it would were about 15,000 Imprisonments of extraction by the old process was get him into trouble sooner or women for drunkenness each year. far from later. It is simply
being perfect. Local mischief: I don't think he had the lengt iden
In 1931 the convictions had de-manufacturers said Mr. Tseng Tip.. he was doing anything wrong."
creased to 7.131 and the imprison- could, with advantage to them THE RECTOR'S VIEW.
ments to 2,366.
selves, have copied much of the The rector, the Rev. Charles Snell, described it as an extremely suggestion
Dr. Norwood East, discussing the Japanese method of production.
that paychotherapy sad case.
might cure many offenders. anys: The Japanese, he said had been "I am taking steps when the buy comes out," he said, "to get him
"It is a travesty to suggest that quick to realise the many proper- under influence and discipline. I crime is a disease. But it is clearlytics of the bean in addition to ita wish to put him in the way of mak- the result sometimes of a neurotice nutritive value. A large and in- ing good. I am afraid nothing can disorder."
be done until he has completed his sentence."
creasing export of soya sonce was being carried on with European countries, where its value
buy would not have prosecuted had LLOYD GEORGE AND lubricant had been discovered.
Over the signatures of M. they been my own windows", he Molotov and M. Stalin, a decision added. "If they had been I would of the Council of People Com-rather have taken the law into my missaries and the Central Com- Town hands. These valuable win- mittee of the Communist Party ladows have been there for about 600 published to-day providing for years. Unfortunately they are the reorganization of the management beat windows that are damaged and of mines and trusts in the Don they can never be of Basin and alterations in the wages of the workers and engineering and technical staffe there,
value again."
Wher
the same
LEADERSHIP
"HAD JOLLY WELL ENOUGH OF IT”
Strong appeala to Mr. Lloyd it was pointed out that it George to "lead the Liberal Party was stated in court that the boy had back to the right course" was made also damaged some angel figures in The decision calls for a simpli- the church the rector remarked at the Welsh Liberal Convention fication of the system of manage-["Oh, thut is a mistake.”
at Llandrindod Wells, mont, furnishes an exact definition
of the duties of departmental heada, simplifies the present pro- cedure of fixing production scales, defines exactly progressive and premium payments for labour, and increases wages in a number of categories, including the engineer- Ing technical staffs.-Tass.
HIKE ON BIKES"
7,000 AUSTRALIANS TAKE PART
Sydney, N.S.W.
Stretched over a distance of two to three miles, the 7,000 cyclists who participates in a "mystery hike on bikes", took half an hour to pass a given spot.
The hike was conducted by the South Australian Cycle Retailers Association. Led by a silver band on a motor truck, the "hikers" paddled their way to Hazelwood Park, Burside.
So largo was the procession of oyclists that all other traffle was held up.
Among the wide assortment of bicycles were the tandem and the "penny farthing",
NO POLITICS IN POST OFFICE
LONGER-HOURS-FOR-
WOMEN PROTEST
Mr. Tseng claimed that the soya bean was gaining 'new favour in the oyes of European industrialists, | who had found it n valuabio ally in the preservation of canned foods as well as a new and tasty element in the making of table sauce.
With the establishment of this now industry Mr. Taeng Tip and his business colleagues, envisage will the time when the company have supplied not only all requim ments of the Colony and near cens tres like Canton and Macao, but will have large surplus for export trade with Singapore, the Philip- pines, Australii, and California where large colonies of Chinese are settled.
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Wolf Schneiderhan. 50335-D. Violin Solo Serenade (D'Ambrosio).
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Court Symphony Orchestra. DX24.
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arr. Winterbottom).
Reg. Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards DX335. Dance of the Tumblers (Rimsky-
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Layton and Johnstone. DB1026. Orchestral Words and Music--The
Younger Generation.
In his reply Mr. Lloyd George said he spoke as "one who has had jelly well enough of leadership."
Referring to flattering remarka by a previous speaker, Mr. Lloyd George said: "When he has had as much flattery and condemna- tion as I have had for the last 50 The initial output will be limited years. he will be perfectly indifto two inillion cutties of the sauce ferent to both. I cannot recall fivo |every year. For this large produc- minutes sleep I have lost through tion, scientific process equipment An overwhelming majority nt either."
and machinery will be required. A the Conference of the Post Office He described the resolutions for feature of the new scientific pro- Controlling Officers Association, this month's Liberal conference at cess is that in place of the old Aupported the General Council's Scarborough as "tepid, turgid and method of allowing the beans to rule that the Association should arid.”
dry in the sun before extraction, conduct its affairs on a non-political | "There is no recovery there," he the beans, will be fermented in basis.
added. "you cannot revive a droop large covered tanks or vata, and The Liverpool branch desired ing party with a mass of husks then led through a number of other the amendment that the method boiled in lukewarm water per-processes until finally emerging as should also be the pooling of the functorily stirred. It makes bad the refined product.
Wandor Carroll Gibbons and the ideas and experience of membera porridge and is not much 'uso as a Excluding Manchuria, vast
Savoy Orpheans, CB547. with a view to the advancement of poultice. You must have some-areas in North China are planted Humorous Monologue--Nonchalant the public.service.
Nonsense. thing with real life and real pur-with soya bean, and it is from pose in it."
these fields that the new Company What was the good of talking of intends to secure its raw material. national development, re-housing or afforestation and then saying you! must not spend money?
Mr. W. H. Derbyshire (North- Eastern) naked: How byus the As- Hociation to carry on if they did not go to Parliament?
They might have been able to ugree if the Council had spoken of non-party, but non-political could only mean one thing, and reading
the minds
"WE DEMAND OF HIM".
They must be prepared to invest
Experts who have made a special study of the latest process of manufacture will be employed.
Other products to be included in the activities of the now plant will of the outer London the national resources which were be preserved gluger fruits, and group it meant non-Labour politica.lying idle. The country would
vegetables, as well as that uniquely WOMEN TELEPHONISTS. respond to a boid appeal. The Conference
Chinese preparation, bean curd. also passed Professor Levi, of Aberystwyth, unanimously resolution proposed said: "We nuk Mr. Lloyd George. A little boy four years of age, | by Mr. W. J. Campbell, declaring as the only stalwart Liberal left in W covered the whole of the journey, that the present proposals for the Wales--we demand of him-to lead which was about fifteen miles, on extension of women's hours in the us back to the right course and his diminutive bicycle, and the telephone service after 8 p.m. would he has saved the country from the oldest cyclist was aged 80.--Reu-not lead to an increase in efficiency, enemy abroad to save it now from
and that it was a retrograde stop the enemy at home.
.Paris. involving a worsening of the con- "Are we going to fight the next Geneva ditions of women supervisors. Gonoral Election", asked Professor Berlin..
Mr. Campbell said the response Lovi, with nothing before us but Helaingfors to the circular asking for volun- the miserable policy of Simonium Osie....
Athong
ter.
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WORLD ECONOMIC
CONFERENCE
SOVIET DELEGATES
APPOINTED
Moscow, May 22. The delegation of the USSR. to the World Economie Conference scheduled to open in London on June 12 has been appointed by the Council of Peoples Commissaries. M. Maxim Eltvinov, commissar for foreign affairs, has been named
teors, had been 17 in favour out and Samuelism 7"*
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Savoy Hotel Orphoans CB600. Plano SoloLet's Pub Out The
Lights.
Carroll Gibbons. DB1013. Orchestral Mother of Pearl-Ev'ry.
Woman Thinks She Wants to
Nauton Wayne. DB804. Vacul Gems-Holen.
Columbin Light Opera Co. DX331. Medley of Waltzes by Irving Berlin.
Dobroy Somera Band DX220. Orchestral-Words and Music The
Party's Over Now.
Vocal Duet Please,
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Orchestral Words and Music-Mad Layton and Johnstone. DB1020. About The Boy,
Savoy Hotel Orpheans. C3500. Piano Solo-I Guess I'll Have To
Change My Plan
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Think of You.
Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans GB547. 10.20-10.30 p.m.
Stegfried Grand Fantasy (Wagner),. Band of the Garde Republican. 5080/1.
10.30 p.m. Rugby Press News.
10.83 p.m. Close Down.
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of 6,000. The proposals; he said,) A resolution moved by Councillor Milan...
J. Morris Jones of Denbigh, call- Buenos Aires. Mr. E. C. Gates (Manchester) ing on the Liberal Party to range Shanghai. moved a resolution, which was itself in opposition to the Govern- New York. carried unanimously, urging that ment both in and out of Parlia Amsterdam......8.37 tho business of the Post Office ment and to adopt a more Radical Vienna should be extended, particularly in policy, was carried unanimously. Prague facilities. the direction of greater banking Another resolution urged Liberala Madrid..
to work for the repeal of tariffs.
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DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
NOTHING HUMBLES AND BREAKS Ng Po, aged 57, was knocked down Lisbon.. chairman of the delegation, with THE HEART OF A SINNER LIKE by a tram in Johnson Street last night Bombay", M. Mezhlauk, assistant chairman | MERCY AND LOVE-Thomas Brooks. and sustained injuries which neces- Yokohama of the State Planning Commission,
sitated his removal to the Government Montevideo Civil Hospital.
ns
Montreal Belgrado..
Vice-chairman. The other A dog owned by Mr. J. C. Ferguson, members of the Soviet delegation of Stafford Road, Kowloon Tong.. 7 are M. Malsky, Soviet Ambassador fant, and bit him on the face. The Chan Choy, aged 10, severely injured Silver (forward).18.9/14
attacked Ronald Wong, a Chinesa in Falling from a scaffold yesterday, Silver (Spot)..........181⁄4 to London, and M. Ozoraky, vicc-boy was taken to the Kowloon his head and loft arm, for which he War Loan...08 commissar of foreign trade.-
Hospital, and the dog sent to received medical attention" at " the Tass...
Kwong, Wah Hospital.
Mataukok.
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New York, May 28. Mr. T. V. Soong, China's Fin- - 22.7/10 ance Minister and chief delegate to the World Economic Confer ence, which opens in London on Juno 12, is leaving for London to-morrow on the stoamer Europa.
4.6014
260 Mr. Soong stated that he in- 18.15/10 tends to return to China before 19the Economic Conference closes. 98%bat up to now no date for his. British Wireless! || return has been fixed-Reuter.
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