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三拜禮號二月正英港香 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
1935.
日光廿月一十
LED "PER. ANNUM
FIVE NEW PEERS CREATED
NEW YEAR HONOURS ANNOUNCEMENTS
RECOGNITION FOR MANY EMPIRE SERVANTS
London, Jan., 1.
The list of New Year Honours is headed by the names of five new Peers, whilst one new Privy Coun cillor has been appointed. There are also five, new Baronetcies, 27 new Knights in the Prime Minister's list and 29 other new Knighthoods.
The Knighthoods in the Premier's list are conferred for services in widely different fields, the recipients including three M.P.'s and others prominent in public affairs. Many appointments and promotions in various Orders of Chivalry are also announced.
Simultaneously with the issuing of the Honours List the Admiralty announces that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales has been promoted to be Admiral-in-Fleet; whilst the Prince's promotion in the Army to the rank of General and in the Air Force to that of Air Chief Marshal is also gazetted. Amongst the honours are the following:
BARONIES
Sir Henry Betterton, formerly Minister of Labour and new chair- man of the Unemployment Assis Lance Board.
Sir Thomas Fermor, Ilesketh, why has taken a prominent part in the political and public life of Northamptonshire,
-Colonel Sir Wyndham Portál) who was one of the four Commis- sloners who recently investigate id conditions in the depressed
Argus,
_PRIVY.COUNCILLOR
BARONETCIES
HONGKONG RESIDENTS HONOURED
LADY SOUTHORN'S DISTINCTION
NEV YEAR HONOURS-Hongkong residents, who 'figure in the Now Year Honours List. Left to right-Line Col. (Dr.) G. D. R. Black, O.B. E.; Lady Southorn, O.B.E.; Mr. J. L. McPherson,
Britain's
Finances
Reviewed
REVENUE DOWN SLIGHTLY
EXPENDITURE INCREASES
Lidon. pee. BL.
M.B.E./
SQUALLS CONTINUE IN SAAR
TROOPS NOT YET CALLED OUT
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MIDNIGHT
ALARMS Saarbrucken, Jan. 1.
The atmosphore of tension
Germany
Guarantor
Of Peace
HERR HITLER'S MESSAGE
AIM IS WELFARE OF MANKIND
Berlin, Jan, 1. Germany's will to pence is the key-note of speeches with which the nation's leaders heralded 1935.
Revenue return for the first! nine months of te Budget year has been increased by minor brawls and free fights during the were issued to-nigt.
past twenty-four hours in var Receipts are w maintained, fous parts of the Saar.
Reichspresident Hitler, apeaking at a Diplomatic Corps reception in and the total for pe period., in- cluding ordinary ad self-balanes The conflicts been between von Hindenburg's former palace in ing revenue, amours to £167.769,-supporters of 133 German Front the Wilhelmstrasse, declared: "May 612, as compared wh £168,196,783 and their opponents, combined with the New Year bring us nearer the date tag Socialists and Communists and some sublime aim of securing relationa at the correspond
Catholics.
between nations which, based upon year.
recognition of equality and honest
of
BRITAIN EXPECTS
NEW PROSPERITY
INDUSTRIALREVIVAL PROSPECTS
SILVER'S ADVANCE TO CONTINUE SLOWLY
London, Dec. 31.
The year 1935 will see-the maintenance and expan- sion of the present industrial activity in Britain, though.. the stagnation of World trade will prevent any violent, acceleration.
This is the view taken by leading industrialiste and brokers, who remark that the possibility of a General Election at the end of the year will also be a restraining factor.
With regard to commodities, the opinion® is ́ex** pressed that silver will continue to show a steady advance, with occasional recessions.
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Cotton and heavy industries are expected to benefit from reorganisation and other measures taken in 1934. ·
The prospects on America are fairly cheerful. The attitude of Wall Street has recently boon - couraging, and definite progFENS has been made by industry. More- over, the effects of dollar dövalua- tion and huge public works ex-
AMERICAN PUBLIC
CONFIDENT nonditure have not yet been fully
IN STEP WITH ROOSEVELT
TREND STILL
UPWARD
fell.
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Is
The European situation is also encouraging, in view of beitir Franco-Italinn' and -Franco- German relations, but foreign ex-1. (change experts quint out that the maintenance of the prosent ox- change parities will prove Increas- ingly difficult, and although the politient situation in France in Totul ordinary all self-balane- Forty German Front men were co-operation, should guarantee the
jnow calm, the market does not ing expenditure amants to £578.-about to leave a small enfe at mid-welfare of mankind."
rule out the possibility of a re- THREE EMPIRE
172,160, as compart with £566,-uight when a volley of bullets from
Germany, who longed for peace
Washington. Jan. 1. petition of civil disturbances. wutsider smashed all the windows 1 253,178 at Decembe31, 1933.
the building and shattered jugs and and the opportunity for peaceful
America enters the New Year DECORATIONS.
STERLING UNEASY Ormary revenueur-the-period glasses
internal construction, would always be a guarantor of pence, he added. confidently with the great!
"The prospects for sterling have The Marquis of Linlithgow, ; The names of three well-known under review was £113312,612,
A waiter who was injured alleged the relations, among the majority of its citizens marching been rendered more complicated Lord Lieutenant of West Lothian, Hongkong residents
figure in representing a decree of £2.988.-
on Wall and Chairman of the Market Sup the New Year. Honours List. 171 as compared hardinary that a number of Communists depeoples he saw no problem which in step with President Roosevelt, the improvement
could not be amicably solved if it The New Deal has won fresh Street, which is attracting British ply Committee.
all being given decorations of the revenue at Decra 31, 1933, camped before the police arrived,
Self-balancing ite however, Despite these incidents, there is were dealt with in a friendly spirit. prestige in 1934, and the average funds, coupled with a healthier
outlook which Most Excellent Order of the showed an increase revenue
Office to reason to belleve that a serious he could not believe that godwill American is definitely better off Continental
checking sensonal appreciation of British Empire. They are: £1,750,000 from thePost
Lady Bella Southorn.-O.B.E. and of £871,000 fret the motor upheaval necessitating the interven-was lucking to-day in any responsi than before the New Deal.
ble persons abroad.
American industrialists are sterling.
Moreover, it is believed that the (Civil Division):
vehicle duties. A n decrease of tion of foreign troops is Imminent.
--Reuter.
The day's celebrations were critical of President Roosevelt's only £36174 is the disclosed.
officially opened by a march through economic programme, but industry resources of the Exchange Fund the main streets of General xenerally faces 1935 hopefully, be have been heavily drained by the Items of ordinary venue which
Goering's police band. Theronf-leving it will see further strides steady support, accorded to ater-. show principal Increles over laat
'Saarbruecken, Jan. 1. ter, flere Hitler received the towards national recovery.
ng, while in the event of a Gen- Mr. J. L. McPherson, M. A., year are Income Tal £8,701,000; } New Year's Eve celebrations supreme commanders of the Navy The close of the year saw in-eral Election there are bound to Sir Harold Mackintosh, pro-J. P.-M.B.E.
and Customs, £61,77,000.
De-were marked by further minor and the Army and the Papal creased activity in the basic In-be heavy withdrawals of capital; creasca are shown o67,615,000 in brawls between the German Front Nuncio, who, minent Yorkshire business man
15 doyen of the dustries, an upward movement in owing to and philanthropist, President of
Estate Duties and of6,890,020 in and its opposition, notably at Diplomatic Corps, presented him the leading business indices, and a Sociallat victory.
Puepplingon, where a man
On the other hand, should Con- miscellaneous receip
was with diplomatic felicitations, re-brisk retail trado,
took marking that world peace
It is fairly generally recognised (tinental On the ordinary expenditure severely injured. side, supply services which for Local police arrested some Com-first place among all the goode for that a much larger part of the sterling will show a sharp recovery. which the worki WIN longing Improvement is due to the invishFinally, the anomalous position of the current year amdat to £334 munists and Socialists who were
Government expenditure, and the sterling, which is under-valued in 860,319 as compared with £324.allegedly
severely man-handled Reader.
hope of substantial business francs and over-valued in dollars, 084,576 last year, shofthe b biggest by them after their arrest. Majori
revival this year still centres very is obviously untenable in the long Hennessy, Chief of Polices, order-
largely upon governmental activi-run, ties.
Colonof Edwd Ruggles-Briso, Conservative M.P. for the Maldon Division of Essex.
Mr. Richard Durning lot, the well-known shipowner, partner in Alfred Holt and Co, and former Gord Mayor of Liverpool
Licut.-Col. (Dr.)
G.D.R. Black, V.D. J.P.-O.B.E. Mili- tary Division; and
In addition, it is announced that H.E. the Viceroy of India the World's Sunday School As has conferred the title of Sardar sociation.
Colonel Frank. Simpson, for Sahib as a personal distinction political and public services in upon Mr. Bishen Singh, Master Durham and Northumberland. (retired) of the Hongkong
6ir Holburt Waring, President Education Department. of the Royal College of Surgeons.
KNIGHTHOODS
*Automobile Club.
Professor
Brown, Reglus .Professor
Physics, Cambridge University.
Mr
LADY SOUTHORN
Of the many works with which
identified, particular mention may
increase.
Lòndu. 1.
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COMMODITIES FUTURE
The honour conferred on Ludy Heavy additionplxpenditure ed six policemen suspended from Professor C. V. Boys, past Pre-Southern comes as a fitting re- not provided in the udget han duty as a result.
As regards commodities, the sident of the Physical Society of cognition of her innumerable still to be, accountedand uncer- It is denied, however, that the
litation programme." There are biggest problem is whether Amer- London and of the Rongten Society services in the social and charitainty in regard to me of the suspensions were due to the mis and Vice-President of the Royal table life of the Colony, and she items of revenue disturage op handling of prisoners and it is un-
Nothing is known in British signs that the recent rapproche-ica's "King Cotton" can be dur will be warmly congratulated by timism with regard the Budget officially reported that they were quarters regarding the Paris re-ment between the Government and throned by autalde growths, Wheat Walter Langdon
of a host of friends of all classes and for the year ending Mrch, 31, but ordered because of the officers port of an eleventh-hour hitch in business is, to be extended, if is uncertain, owing to the pos- sibility of a radical poateclection present indications an that there failure to maintain a neutral the Franco-Italian negotiations racos, with whom she is extremely will
Industrial leaders are trying to change in Canada's selling polley. smalli surplus attitude. Render D be
for multilateral agreement to determine how far they can go full effects of restriction begin to Rubber should bencit as the Mr. Walter Forrest, former popular.
| British Wireless and Riter.
GERMANY'S HOPES
secure peace in Central Europe. Coalition Liberal M.P. and mem-
along" with the Administration SOME DISAPPOIÏMENT
Any slight impediment la bo- While opinions differ greatly and be felt, especially since world ber of the West Riding. County her ladyship has been prominently
“Berlin, Jan. 1. lieved to be over minor points. unanimity on the programme seems automobile production is expected Council.
"Our warmest wish for 1935 is The possibility of Britain join-distant, there appears little doubt to increase, while copper in kely Major S.E. Harvey, Conservative be of three-the Girl Guide move- M.P. for Totnes.
ment, the Society for the Protec- Although there in map for the return of that Germaning a puct to secure Austrian in about the final outcome, as respon- to be the most active of the base Motel Shute, Conservative M.P. tion of Children, and the Women's pointment here in the ne mon territory which, through its vote, though Sir John Simon, the fasting recovery can be effected only
tegrity extremely: remotesible quarters well recognise that a metals, owing to the possibility
of restriction. of International Club. As Colony revenue figures whetcomparfig will proclaim on January 18. For the Exchange Division
In view of the American policy, Liverpool.
Commissioner of the Girl Guides, them to last year's, it generally to the whole world, its in-Foreign Secretary, is closely in by closer co-operation between the
And business and the efforts of the Chineso John Wallace, National Lady Southor has shown great believed that they are frly satis dissoluble community with the touch with both Paris and Rome, Administration
Herr and Britain will strongly support Reuter.
Government to arrest the outward Liberat M.I. for Dunfermline enthusiasm and organising ability, factory as it is point out that German Reich," declared
drain of the metal, there appears -INDUSTRIAL PROFITS Burghs.
whilst she has taken the keenest in the 1933 nine monthsdeflelt be. Hitler in a New Yeaf proclamation such proposal in principle."
The final outcome depends on
to be justification for the view. Mr. Charles Brossey, Chief Engi-terest in the S.P.C., of which she came a substantial lance on to the Nazi Party, in which he
New York, Dec. 31. neer of the Roads Department of was quite recently made a Vice- Budget Day.
claims that Germany, la. Infinitely the conversations which M. Laval,
According to the business survey that allver will continue its steady... the Ministry of Transport.
President. It was due, as Mr.
stronger than she was twelve the French Foreign Minister, is by the Federal Reserve Board, in advance, with occasional reces- This year's wide ad margin months ago.
Holy to have with Sir John Simon dustrial profits for the first *nine-
|siopl-Reuter, Mr. Edwin Deller, Principal of M.K,Lo stated at the Society's an
in London Varly next wook. the London University.
months of 1934 showed an increase nual mekting, to her ladyship's is due largely to the gansion of
Paris opinion does not regard of 70 per cent, over the correspond- and hope, than at any time since creative genius and organising supplementary expendret in fine of unworthy elements last summer M. Laval's proposed visit to Rome ng period of the previous year.
the boom years of 1928-29, Ability that the Women's Auxiliary distressed areas wher the Un- it was more than ever the actual
as so imminent as is reported, and The increase le due chiefly to
The number of Gotham'a, rovel of that body was created. Lady employment Assistane Board is political will of the nation.,
although the ultimate success of increased earnings in the first six lets on Broadway at midnight 'was* Southorn was instrumental, with functioning.
"Foes and fantasyemakers who
(estimated at 1,000,000. There was Mr. Wilfred King, Chairman of the assistance of many willing hol the Exchange Telegraph Company pers. In forming the Women's In-nvailable on Budget depends Party and the German people in
Whether a surplus again imagine they can split the Nazi ho negotiations is expected, they months of the year.
are not thought likely to måtørlal- The profits of utility and rail- an unprecedented demonstration faith in the Mr. John Orr Director of the ternational Club, of which she is entirely on the boyum of income two and of throw the regime they punter after the Saar plebiscite road companies are below those of of merriment
Special.. hate by a mod of written lies and
1933.
New York future, declare the The Board estimates that cash Times. Whowetttrition Research in President, and which it is hoped tax returns.
Animal
will considerably expandólts?ät-
insinuations, will de refuted by the Professor Edward Poulton, Hon-tivities in the present or
returns to farmers in the first ten CONSULATE ABOLISHED The Tinica polnuts of that ong same hard reality in twelve
Champagne libwod frobly in otary Life President of the Royal Lady Southern wal Wormerly lesson has been learn from the monthis time as in the year just
months of 1934, amounted to $5 other, large American cities: atomelogical Society of London, Chairman of the lielona. May. In revenue figures; the realty of a wish our people nothing
045,000,000, compared with $4,099,- 1. Mennwille, aboard the American Hays the proclamation.
Nanking. Dec. 31. Mr. John Sutherland, Member ['stituto and the Ministering the Government keepin, a strict.
The hinese Foreign Office has 000,000 in the evious year passenger steamer Victoria, sanère of the Forestry Commission, Children's League, for both of control of expenditure as or better than life in honour order the abolition of the Chin Rebor
on British Columbia coast one Dr. Francia Tovey, Professor of which she did tremendous amount wiso nitopes of a fiber romls and peace. Then, with God's help, oge Consulate at Havana and that
NEW YORK FESTIVE KO Hits way to Alaska, 173 passen at Music at Edinburgh University of work,
sion of taxes will disdear and a our work, will succeed in secking its-functiona be, transforrod, to
New York, Jan. 1. npa the abip a crow kelebrated New d tireless social worker, her budget deficit will gain up for the nation its daily bread as the Chinese Legation at Cúba.-- Among the Dominion Kaight-
York, celɗbrated - Now New Year - dancin pytog (Continued on Page 4.) Reuter
well-Reuter;:
Central News.
Fears Eve with greate enthusiasm | mtele-Reuter.
Mr. Cyril Fox, Director of the
National Museum of Wales.
Mr. Holman Gregory. Recorder
of the City of London.
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