THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 10, 1934.
BRITISH TRADE MISSION
PAYING VISIT TO MANCHURIA
PLAN PLEASES
PRESS
London, Aug. 9.
The possibility of closer relations between
trade
Britain and Manchukuo is envisaged in an announce- ment made this evening.
*of British The Federation Industries has decided to eend an Industrial Mission to Manchu- kuo in the immediate future, for the purpose of studying condi- ascertaining tions there and
whether British industry can co- operate with the local interests In Its development.
The Minion will also pay short visit of courtesy and good- will to Japan with the object of establishing friendly contact with representative organisations of Japanese industry and commerce.
A STRONG MISSION.
It is announced that the Mission will be composed of
of
Director Lord Barnby, a Loyds Bank and the Central Electricity Board,
Sir Charles Soligman, the well- known banker and member of the Advisory Committee of the Ex- ports Credits Department of the Board of Trade,
WHEN YOU'RE ASKED OUT YACHTING
You select streamlined
your most flannels
Your double
breasted jacket・
Only to find. your host ressed like thi that
You even get reckless & dig that yachting cap out from under The moth-balls –
MEAN THEFT.
HOW WOMAN WAS VICTIMISED
How
CORRESPONDENCE
British Filma.
man, To the Editor, nn unemployed Cheng Muk, obtained $50 from a weman, Cheung Ho, by stating that her husband was in trouble with
Hongkong Telegraph. 'Sir-At last we have reached the police at Singapore, and how the climax. People in this colony Mr. Guy Harold Locock, the he tried to obtain a further $20
means to give us British Industries Fair expert and
from her on the same pretence, have tried all was the story told Mr. Hamilton, British films, but if we refuse, a Director of the F. B, 1, and
Central Magistracy, this does anyone deem it a fair sug- Mr. Jullan Piggott, Tokyo-born at the manager of the British Steel Ex-morning, when Cheng Muk was
gestion to tax "alien" films? port Association, who is repre- charged.” .
Vertly I would agree that most! senting the British Iron and Steel
The defendant was charged with
$50 by having obtained Federation.-Reuter,
pretences from Cheung HD, at No. British films shown here are old,
TORIES APPLAUD PROPOSAL
Labour Journal Suspicious
Later,
The F.B.I. Mission to Manchukuo is welcomed by The Times as proof that the possiblity of finding new
markets In the Far East is not
being ignored by British manu-
facturers.
It may be taken for granted, the article proceeds, that the members of the Mission will take the op portunity to visit also some of the principal centres of Chinese trade and to establish friendly contacts with the leaders of Chinese business and finance.
POLITICS?—
The Mission is also welcomed by the Morning Post which anys that friendship with Japan can best be confirmed by mutual understanding and by seeking common solutions of common probleme.
Mission the In this spirit, promises to be a source of political as well as economie gain to both countries.
QUESTIONABLE TACTICS.
The Daily Herald, however, thinks that the success of the Mis sion will depend upon political con- cessions from Britain and says that under such circumstances, the Mis- sian appears to be a very question- able manoeuvre-Icer,
JAMAICA AND JAPANESE COMPETITION
Higher Tariffs On Many Manufactures
falsc
NATIONALISATION
OF SILVER
(Continued from Page 1 :
ing its right in an "eminent domain."
"I am very relieved that it is all over," he added,
RADIO BROADCAST
Pianoforte Recital From The Studio.
EUROPEAN PROGRAMME
From ZBW on 's wavelength of 355 metres.
17 p.m. Coinco Programme:
7-10.30 p.m. European Programme. 7 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quote- tions, London and New York, Block and Commodity Quotations.
7.08-7.30 p.m. Danco Music, Fox Trot Cinderella's Fella. Fox Trot-Count your Blessings. Fox Trot-At the End of the Day. Fox Trot-You or no One, Fox Trot-When I Hear Your
· Wallz-To-night.
Voice.
7.30-8 p.m. From the Studlo, Pianoforte Recital by Miss Beatrice
140.
Programme.
1. Preludo in O Sharp
..Bach.
Arensky.
2. Impromptu, Op. 26, No. 1.
3. Nocturne, Op. 32, No. 1.
4. Etude in
b,
Concerto in D. Minor.
. Chopin.
Arensky,
Mendelssohn.
Accompanied by Professor,
B. Makiczoft
8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report.
8.03-8.14 p.m.
A Song Recital by Danny Walone (Tenor).
1. Sweetheart Darlin'..
2 Love's Roses.
3. She is far from the Land. 4. The Dear Little 'Shamrock. 8,15-8,37 Dan,
Some circles on the Stock Ex- as an
Carnival of the Animals (Saint- change regard the move Indication that the Government Saens) played by Leopold Stokowski 1. Introduction and Royal March will try to reply to the growing and the Philadelphia Orchestra.. agilation for inflution by more!
of the Lion. vigorous pursuit of the silver pur- 2. Hens and Cocks. 3. Mules, 4. Tortoises. chase plus.
The Elephant, 6. Kangaroos. 7. Aquarium.
of
5.
1
8. Pornonagena with Long Eats. 9.
Cuckoo in the woods.
OVERTHROW OF GOLD BLOC.
Senator Thomas, of Oklahoma,
10. Birds. 12, Fossile. 13. The Swan. B Tai On Street, second floor, and but I ask the film-fans only to con-one of the leaders in the drive for
14. Planista. 16. Finale attempting to obtain $20 from sider for a moment, then compare the so-called rehabilitation
£.37-9 pm. Chamber Music. complainant on August 8 by false the British film "Stark Nature" silver, hailed the announcement
of nationalisation as "the over- Quartet No. 1. in D Major-Finals prefences.
Allegro (Dittersdorf). The latter is throw of the world-wide gold blog
Lener String Quartet. Inspector Logan said defendant and Trader Horn." worked on a ship on which com- (if I am not mistaken) much older and the beginning of a new world
(Tschaikowsky). Patheti, quire Celeste Octet. plainant's husband was
prosperity." plored. On August 2 he went to vastly superior entertainment!
aleem than the former, but look at the monetary system and a new era of Second Movement from "Symphonie
He declared that the decision Barcarolle-Transcription
(Tschaikowsky). One must bear in mind that, of the United States for the wider complainant and obtained $50 from
ns money would her. Aaying it was for her husband
tainment and such amusement cause other
nations to adopt a who had got into trouble with the after all, films are only for enter-use of silver police in Singapore. On August cannot be forced on the people; on similar policy.
he went again, and tried to obtain the contrary, the film show Te also pointed out that the Government, would still need to 520, but complainant's husband had attracts the nudience or its fans. returned and he was not successful. The public want their money'a
thousand million purchase Defendant admitted both | worth and not pay,
ounces to meet the ratio with gold through patriotism. Nevertheless, as set by Congress, and added charges.
Mr. Hamilton imposed a total of I am not prejudiced, and often that the nationalisation order wasp.m. Stock and Commodity Queta-
months hard labour, remark attend British films myself, but I tantamount to a declaration that tions it Was a very incan heartily desire that such a means there is not enough gold in the that
as taxing will not be employed in world to satisfy its demands for order to establish British Alaus in Hongkong.
FILM FAN.
theft.
MANILA STOCK_ EXCHANGE
PHILLIPINE GOLD
SHARE QUOTATIONS To-day's quotations as received. by Messrs. Swan, Culbertson and Fritz shortly after the close of the morning session of the Manila Stock Exchange are as follows:
Antamuk Goldfields
dgum Gold Mining
to suffer
MYSTERIOUS. PLAGUE.
money.
The world will return to silver, he sald-Reuter.
EIGHTY CENTS AN -OUNCE?
Nevada Operators' Hopes
SIX DEATHS IN JERSEY
FROM DYSENTERY.
Reno, Navada, Aug. 9. Jersey City, N.J., Aug, 9.
The nationalisation of silver will not have any immediate Six persons are dend from a
outbreak serious
of bacillary effect upon the Nevada silver dysentry, which has suddenly and mining industry in the opinion of operators here, as the nationalis- Aaked Hid Sales Volume mysteriously appeared here. Price Pries In Pesos
price has been axed at a ation Up to the present, 160 cases 0.47 0.46 0.47 4000 0.30 0.06
59.00 2003 have been reported to the health point lower than that established for newly-mined silver under the 0.10 on authorities. 2.00 1.90
proclamation of December last. 4.00 3.80 0.13 0.1%
Price In Pros
Heaguet Consolidated 31.00 31.00 31.00 8003
0.17
Gold ver Ipo Gold Mines
en Mining Co.
Falco Mining Co.
Burse Consolidated
United Parrale
0.42 0,21
0.10 0.17
3. C. & F. Cold share Index 68.5.
atemily. plume Price 03.000.
Special precautions are being 0.13 2000 taken to combat the epidemie, and nurses are engaged in a' door-to-
of Market door campaign warning-
Renter Special.
0.41 8000 0.18 1000
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN SURELY THAT PREACHING winch COMES FROM THE SOUL WORKS MOST ON THE SOUL-Fuller.
BRIEF
One case each of diphtheria and reported to the local typhoid were health authorities on Wednesday,
ob-
American silver producers tain 84.5 cents an ounce for their newly-mined metal.
Lener String Quarlet Venetian Barcarolle Serenade (arr. Willoughby).
J. H. Squire Colesto Octet. 9.9.45 p.m. From the Studio. A 20th Recital of Gramophone Re- enris by Mr. C. B. R. Sargent,
9.45 D..
Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1
0.50-10.23_p.m. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor
(Beethoven, Op, 07).
The Royal Albert Hall Orchestra conducted by Sir Landon Ronald. 1st Movement-Allegro con brio. 2nd Movement-Andante con moto. 3rd-Movement Allegro -(Scherzo). 4th Movement-Allegro (Finale). 10.23-19.30 -
Two Harrison.
'Cello Solos by Beatrice 1. Elegie (Delius), 2. Caprice (Dolius), 10.30 p.m..
Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Mid- Day Press News, Further London Commodity Quotations, Stock and followed by New York Opening Quota. tions.
10.40 p.m. Closs' down,
FRANK WOOLLEY GETS A CHEQUE
HUNDRED CENTURIES There are no stocks of allver!
FOR KENT bullion held in Nevada at the, pre- Bent time as far as known,
London, Aug. 9. Frank Woolley, Kent and Eur- EXECUTIVE RECOGNITION.
land cricketer, was to-day pre- The Secretary of the Nevada sented by the Kent Club with Mine Operators Association, in an 100 to commemorate the 100 Interview. with Reuter, said that centuries he has made for that the President's proclamation gave county-British Wirelcas. Lady Peel will make the draw for silver the executive recognition From to-day till the Zird, instant the Wing On Co., Ltd., is holding a the Australian Subscription Grifins for which the silver mines have
at the Jockey Club on Monday evening-been fighting. great summer sale. A big summer
Ng Loi-yuen, who is charged with Nevada operators are hoping for the murder of Michael Pine, Was sale is also announced from to-day A Bill is being introduced in thell the matant, by the Sun Co., His Excellency the Governor and the stabilisation of the price of
Lady Peol, accompanied by their sons the nietal at a price of eighteYesterday committed for trial to the
Criminal Sessions. Logislative Council here during Ltd.
are spending the week-end at thoir the Autumn Session, increasing the tariff duda on certain foreign Chan Lee and Chan Yau, unemployed new bungalow at Fanling. They will cents an ounces or more, which they declare to be necessary for were sentenced to twelve months' hard return on Monday.
the profitable eparation of large manufacturos.
by Mr. Hamilton, They
labour each
A Ladies Whist Drive in aid of low-grade properties, the exploit the Central Magistracy this cement.
morning, for returning from banish the Police Branch of the M. C. Lation of which le now dormant, mont. The first defendant was a will be held at the Police Recreation and to warrant the inception of Singapore banisher.
Club, Happy Valley on Tuesday, development work-Reuter. August 14 Play will start at 3.30
Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. 9.
Include hardware and
The solo object of the measure is to minimise Japanese com petition with. British imports.-- Rentor.
KING'S YACHT
WINS
CAPTURES BIG RACE AT COWES
London, Aug. 9.
The King's Yacht Britannia" won the chief race at Cowes to- day,
at
'STOCK EXCHANGE REACTION
of trading, the tickers lagging, as much us five points behind thres minutes, with prices gaining lod by Silver and other stocks which Inflation will benefit. Union Pacific has declared a dividend of $1.60 per share on Common stock. Bonds were lower due to the Inflationary sentiment. The Dollar broke sharply due to sell ing by European operators on and Inflation interpretation. The con New York, Aug. 9.tinued heat in the Mid-West holp Read The Wall Street Journal myned Grain prices to reach now
"I wanted ter money," was the ex-p.m. Admission, including ten, $1. planation Kong Pit-ngan gave Mr.
The forthcoming weddings are an- | facfadyen in the Central Police Court
admitted nounced of. Mr. Cuthbert Morson this morning when ha stealing three dishes from an eating Gowland, of the Prison Department, house in Aberdeen Street. Defendant and Miss Ethel Margaret. Eliorby, of was arrested in pawnshop. The Durham, en route to Hongkong by magistrato bound the man over in the P. & D. Rawalpindi; and of Pto. a bond of $25 for a period of six Frederick George Lloyd, of the South months
Wales Borderora, and Mian Annie Loo,:
Order Interpreted Inflationary
.LONDON
..
RISE.
a nurse, of 187 Wongnalchong that curb stocka, Grains and Com-high levels.Stean, Culbertson and A indica, fur cont, a gentleman's
other modities Hoared up due to the Fri Explaining that there were overcoat, a fountain pen and three powder boxes, formed the subject of drain pipe covora, missing from the Inflationary interpretation of the
London, Aug. D. charge unlawful possession sanin area Detective Sergeant Good nationalisation of silver, which
of a Against Tam Shun, 27, unemployed, win, In the Central Fallco Court this caught Wall Street by surprise The advance in the London
reafter, the
President's bearish price was chiefly due to American before Mr. Macfadyen in the Central morning, applied for 24 hours' Police Court this morning. The man mand when Ip Ful, aged to years, speech.
buying. China banks, wore rollers. Sho Daishod about; threo
Tho Traders found it necessary for but uapplies were scarce. was arrested by n Chinese constable pleaded guilty beforo Mr. 9. A. A. mlautes after Volaheda Over 6
at the Tung On Wharf and could Macfadyen to stealing a 'drain pipe. 43-raile course, and having not give a satisfactory explanation. covers from outside No. 87 Queen's some time, to decide how to in-market was stondy, although tho allowance Of 4 minutes, 12 Det-Sergt. W. Gowans appiled for a Hund West, Mr. C, Coombe overseer terpret the announcement, many price was fixed long baford now, seconds, saved her time for the remand
to-morrow. The of the Public Works Department, regarding the move as a sop to of the nationalisation in Amerles came through Sioan, Culbertson first prize by about 72 seconds charge may be amended as we have appeared as the complainant. It was silver Interests rather than as an
Velshoda was second and Aatra now got a complainant in the case," stated that the defendant was treat inflationary move. A rush of and Fritz
he-nald Defendant was.. remanded od in Wing Wo Street entrying the buying developed in the final hour w third fals, Wireless,
in polico custody.
cover wrapped up in cloth,
unt
JUST RECEIVED
Further Large Consignments
LADIES' LIGHT Weight knitweaR,- TWEED SKIRTS, TWO PIECE SUITS, JUMPERS, CARDIGANS, ALSO TWO PIECE SUITS IN SMART CREPES BY LEADING HOUSES.
ALL AT SPECIAL PRICES.
Wash Leather & Organdie Gloves. Yardley's Beautiful Productions.
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