PHILIPPINES GOVERNOR IN HONGKONG
Commonwealth Will Be
A Success
The Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, Hon. Frank Murphy, and Senate President Manuel Quezon, the foremost Filipino statesman, arrived in the Colony this morning on the steamer President Hoover.
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(Continued from Paga 6.)· cept on subjects after her own hoart, such as housing and agricul- ture, with which she has an in- Two of the Colony's most popular timate acquaintance. Her political artistes, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Bowes-future, like that of her brother, de Smith, gave a delightful concort pends In large measure on what yesterday when they presented a the years bring to David Lloyd plano and vocal⚫ recital at the George himsolt. And that is one Helena May Institute to a fairly of the most engaging personal War Loan 31952 large and most appreciative audi- problems in British politics.
anco.
Governor-General Murphy in en route to Washington, to deliver personally to President Roosevelt a report on Rocial, economic and political conditions in the Islands, night. He will also spend a very brief
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The following quotations on the been London Stock Exchange have received by Messrs. Swan, Culbertson and Frits in conjunction with Renter.
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Chinese Bonds 4% Bonds 1898 Dir. and Mrs. Bowes-Smith have
The MacDonalds' position (Eng. Ins.) £104% £104% been heard many times the
but those different. Miss Ishbel MacDonald, 144 Loan 1908. £ 9914 £ 0014 local platform before.
6% Reorg. Loan who attended the recital yesterday, the Prime Minister's daughter, Loan 1012... £ 89
1913 (Lan. Iss.) £ 08% will agree that seldom have they keeps carefully out of the political surpassed their performances lastresa, for her work as chatelaine. Bonds 1025-47 99
at Downing Street can scarcely be 5 S'hai-Nanking
fly. But his son, Mrs. Bowes-Smith opened the described as politics.
member for Bassetlaw, is following rendering of "Lullaby" belng per Donald is well spoken of as Parlin-
In his footsteps. Malcolm Mac-5 haps the outstanding item. Latter in the programme, she sung most mentary Secretary for the Domin ions. Unlike Ramsay MacDonald, charmingly three German songs,who once addressed envelopes at
ich niclit ein Kalm," "WAT "Shlagende Herzen," and "Cacille" to shillings a week, and was on Mr. Bowes-Smith's interpretation the point of becoming a bus con- of Chopin's Sonata in B Minor, ductor, the son had all the advan- which has been ranked at the head ours degree in history, Later on tages of Oxford. He took an hon- of all Chopin's compositions because he was chosen as one of a debating of its technical difficulty, was mas- President Quezon and the group terly, and he was given a wonderful team of three who circled the globe In 1924-5, viaiting and engaging of prominent officials and others reception at its conclusion.
Other
Relected teams in the United States, who comprise his party are to return items presented by Mr. Bowes Canada, Tawail. Fill. Australia to Manila on the aleamer President Smith were Polonaise in C. Minor, and New Zealand. le Grant, which is to sail from here Etude in E. Minot, Prelude in D. Honolulu as secretary to the Brit
Fiat, and Fantasie-Impromptu.
ish delegation to the conference of The Governor-General was met Mr. Frederick Mason, A.R.CO, the institute of Pacific Relations. on board the President Hoover by L.T.C.L. Rccompanied Mrs. Bowen-In his liking for seeing other lands the U, S. Conzul-General, Mr. Smith on the plane in his usual cạp-he resembles his father, who is Charles L Hoover, and by Captainable manner. Reginald Waiter, A.D.C. of Hin Excellency the Governor.
Senate President Quezon accent
Governor-General Murphy. panied as far as Hongkong in order that they might continuo discussions which had been begun previously in Manila, regarding the procedure to be followed in adopting the establishment of the Philippines Commonwealth.
late Saturday.
went to
one of the most travelled British statesmen, having visited, as he once said jestingly, almost every
and south poles and Tibet.
Interviewed by a correspondent POLICE TRAGEDY part of the globe except the north
of the United Press, the Governor. General sold his discussions with Sonate President Quezon had been confined to the manner of carrying out the procedure provided by the for the Tydings-MeDumo Law establishment
Common- wealth.
of the
COMMONWEALTH PROSPECTS
"Sound and adequate prepara- tion for the Commonwealth has been made," he said "Both
the Government and people of the Philippines are well prepared.
"The Commonwealth will be
success."
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JANUARY
1935
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A COLUMBIA CONCERT From ZDW on a wavelength of 355 meren (845 kllocycles):
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.03 7.28 p.m. 'Light Opera. Selection-The Damask to
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Vocal Gems-The Duchess of Dantzig
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Selection-The Maid of the Mountains,
(eraser-Simson)
7.28-7.40 p.m. Hawallan Muric. My South Sea Sweetheart Blue Sparks
Underneath the Blue Hawaiian Skies Sweet Hawailan Dream Girl
7.40-9 p.m. A Columbia Concert. Orchestra-Concerto for Orchestra in
D (With Organ) (Handel)
Hamilton Harty conducting the
London Symphony Orchestra. (Harold Dawber at the Organ). Orchestral-Le Prophete Coronation
March (Meyerbeer)
Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra conducted by Sir Dan Godfrey. Violin Solos-Grinzing (Benutzky) Violin Solos Remembrance (Mol)
Albert Sandler. Orchestra-Nicolette (Van Phillips)
Van Phillips All Star Orchestra. Quartet Salut D'Amour (Elgar, arr. Phillips) Van Phillips Quartel. Planoforte Solos-Etude in A Minor (Winter Wind), (Chopin, Op. 25, No. 11). Songs-In Praise of Ale Cedric
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General consists of Isaac Foot, the father,
(England) member for Bodmin, and Dingle Boots B-sh The tragic death of a Chinese Mackintosh Foot, the son, member pl. Chem. Ind. constable, P. C. Ngan Yan, sup: for Dundee. Both are stern, un-Impl. Chem. posedly by suicide, was reported bending Liberais. Isaac Foot's Def, 10/- sh... to Police Headquarters to-day. father was a product of villageImpl. Tobacco past had been attached to the Bay his religious career had more than Internat. Nickel
P. C. Ngan Yan for some time Methodism, who in the course of Woolworths
110/9 View Police Station. Returning 25 circult appointments and never no par val.... $23% from duty at midnight, he again once disappointed a congregation. Canadian Celancee 02/6 01/1 | went out, and, some hours after Isane Fool, who besides being a Turner & Newall awards, his body, with a shot wound member of Parliament is a solici-United Steel
Miscellaneous through the head, was found on tor by profession, is also given to President Quezon was noop the hillaido above the new road be- religious work. As a local, prea-Angio-Dutch
through the cupied receiving callers and reply. ing cut
district. cher he once had the honour of Burma. Corpn. Ks. ing to wireless mesangen from is service revolver was picked addressing a Whitmonday crowd of Austin Motors ord,
Cornishmen in the famoda Gwen- Manila that he could not be reach-up from beside the body, ed for a statement before his The constable was only 29 years Pit, where John Wesley In Chartd. 16/- sh.
пар the of age, and no reason in known laaid to have preached to a congre-
(Bearer)... party, and alas that of.
Kalumpong higation of 32,000. His chief, hia- Guia Governor General, left the ship why he should have taken
Rubber for the city, where they plan to
torical and political hero is Oliver
Watney, Combe & Cromwell, notwithstanding that the spend the day shopping.
Reid Def ord.. Great Protector was once a brewer,
Randfontein "Other times, other manners,"
Baya Estater Isanc Foot to-day. "I prefer to Sub-Nigel preach the gospel of temperance." Pekin Synd. 27-
ord shiva He resolutely maintains his stand.
The younger Foot is like his Rubber Trusts .. S'hai Elec. Chnstr. father, Cornish to the core, except Van Ryn Deep by political adoption. Sitting, a8 Electric Musical he does, for Dundee, and remeni Industries bering that his mother was 1 daughter of Dr. Angus Mackintoshi Anglo-Persian Oil of Blair Atholl, he took the name Burma Oil...... of Mackintosh. when he disguised Southern Railway
(Deferred) himself to go into a Dundee work-Rolls Royce si house to study poor-law conditions.
Both the Governor-General and President Quezon are to be guests of honour at a dinner to be given ta-night by Mr. Y. T. Del of the. China and South Sea Bank, Lid.
Murphy's Governor General party includes his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs William Teahan; Mr. Norman Hill, his secretary; Mr. Edward G. Kemp, legal adviser of the Govern- ment-General; Major Abraham Garfinkle, his A.D.C. and Miss Eleanor M. Bumgardner, his private secretary.
STEEL MILL FOR CANTON
BRITISH BACKING FOR ENTERPRISE
Canton, Jan, 24.
It is authoritatively arned that further advance is expected in preparations for the establish ment of a modern iron and still works in a suburb of Canton with the arrival of Mr. K., Lund, who represents a certain British con- and who will negotiate cern, with the Canton Government in Mr. carrying out this project. Lund is now In Hongkong, and will proceed to Canton at the end of the week.
life,
BRITISH BIRTH
RATE
„FIRST INCREASE FOR SEVERAL YEARS
London, Jan. 23.
A slight increase in the birth rate for England and Wales, the first to occur for several years, is shown in the returns for 1934 issued to-day.
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In the Oxford Union, of which Shell Trans and he is a past president, Dingle once Trad. (Bearer) Thess show that, per 1,000 of erosied swords with Lord Birken-Spring-Mines population, births were 14.8, deaths head, and emerged unsenthed. He Crown Minos 10/- 11.8, and infant mortality 69. The shares his father's admiration for birth-rate an increase of Cromwell, and next to that vallant Chosen Corpn. .. 0.4 above the 1933 figures, which hero he places Lloyd George, "n were low record. The death- giant among pygmies." A Liberal rate is 0.6 below that for 1933 and without a tog, the political future only 0.4 above that for 1930. of Dingle Mackintosh Foot, like which is lowest recorded. The that of Megan and Gwilym Lloyd infant mortality rate la five per George, depends largely on that of thousand below that for 1933 and David Lloyd George. But at Went- is also the lowest recorded, the minster, it is generally acknow- previous lowest being that for ledged that Dingle can scarcely fail 1980, namely sixty-British Wire- to be heard of "some more." 1сия.
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TOLL OF THE ROAD denit with question of the Brunaéis.
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The Bill to make provision for Athens. According to the original plan, the enterpris will be financed the substitution of an Urban Milan with capital of $30,000,000 and Counell for the Sanitary Board, Buenos Aires. part of it is to be subscribed, in and the repeal of the Public Shanghai. and Health and Buildings Ordinances, New York. the form of material
Amsterdam machinery, by British intercats passed its first reading at yester
Vienna. day's meeting of the Legislative Prague.. Central News.
Bucharest In the course of his observations Madrid. on the Bill the Attorney General | Hongkong. electorate and the eligibility of Stockholm. journalista and masters of sten-Copenhagen
Lisbon mere and local pilot to register Bombay votes in connection with the elec Yokohama. tion of members to the Urban Rio Counell.
Montevideo The Director of Medical and Belgrado Sanitary Services, In his recent Montreal report on the recorganisation of Silver (Spot).
Silver (forward), 24% the services under bla jurisdiction War Loan...100 The number of injuries recorded in the Colony, recommended that the the Public Health and Buildings throughout the country is lowest since thene weekly returns Ordinance (No. 1 of 1903) should number of were first published last March, be hroken up into a while number of killed was Ordinances cach dealing with its the set d lowest. Incidentally, particular branch of the Public no-one as killed during the week Health Complex, and at yesterday's on any of the London pedestrian meeting six of these Bills passed
through thair first stages. crossings...'
London, Jan. 24. Accident statistics for the past week show an encouraging Im provement.
The actual figures for the coun try ware 116 killed and 8,222 In
The Hongkong Telegraph has re- Jured, appalling totala, but better caived $6 from Mr. and Mrs. John than those of the previous week, Fleming for the Hongkong Bonevolent namely, 188 killed and 3,285 Society, in memory of the late Mr.
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Charles Kullman (Tenor). Vocal--Scenes from "My Old Dutch" Betty Balfour as "Lil," Michael Hogan as "Bert" and Company. Song-Rollin' Home (BilĮ
Turner Layton (Tenor). Duct-Moun Glow (from "Blackbirds of 1934")
Vocal
Layton and Johnstone, Humorous The Counell Schoola are
good enough for ma Humerous When I get my Rag out.
Norman Long.
Piano Solos-Streamline-The First
Waltz. Piano Solos-Streamline--Selection.
Vivian Ellis. Organ Solo-Love in Bloom
She Loves Me Not").
Sidney Torch.
9.9.45 p.m. From the Studio.
A 31st Recital of Gramophone Re cords by The Rev. C. B. R. Sargent.
9.45 pm. Reuter Press Bulletina, London 1 p.m. Stuck and Commodity Quotations.
9.00-10.15 p.m. Band Music. Softly Awakes my Heart ("Samson
und Delilah") (Saint-Saenn).
The Black Domino-Overture
(Arr. Winterbottom).
Slavonic Rhapsody
(arr. Winterbottom),
Kirkby Malzeard Sword Dance-
Folk Dance (arr. G. Sharpe). The Flamborough Sword Dance Folk Dance (arr. C. Sharpe).
10.15-10.35 p.m. (Approx:). A Relay from the Hongkong Ilotel Roof Gar den of the Burns' Dinner Speech "The Immortal Memory" by His Honour, Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor, Chief Justice.
10.35 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins. Rugby Mid-day Preas News, Further London Stock and Commodity Quo- tations.
10.40-11 p.m. Dance Aluric. 11 p.m. Close Down.
ZEESEN PROGRAMMES
This Evening's Broadcasts From The German Short-Wavers
Special programmes for Yar Emira Kaleners, will be broadest from Zows B foltown:
BOUT ABJA ZONE
Bouth Aula Zone, bromicant from D3B, (19.74 metres) and DIN (314) ovetres).
4.4 p.m. DI, DIN Announcement (Germ.. Ea) German Pulk Song) Peni gramme Forrest (German, Eng
5 p.m.
Military Maule,
1.20 p.m. News In English, 5.4. Variety Programme.
"All Change ban!”
4.35 pm—News in Germak.
1 p.m. Concert of Light Marie,
1 p.. Nawa in English,
1.11 p.m. Close down DJB, DJN (Darsa..
Engl.)
EAST ASIA ZONE
East Asia Zone broadcast through DIA on $1.85 metres, and DJH (81.45 metres).
.. DJ D3N Announcement (Carm.,
Enal) German Falk Song, Pro Kremy, Forecast (Derm., Engl) 1.15 p.m. Woman's Hour. Fall pum, Nawa in English on DJA and
In Dutch a DJN, P.M. Orchestral Cancert, Worka
10
by
Edmund wow Berck Earbert Tranter, Juwezh Haydn and Franz Litet. Condustest by E mund von Borek,
II. Topica) · Talk,
11.6 p.m. News in German on DJA RÉ
DIN. 11.30 pm. The Homeland Ravelled in Bong.
(Continued on Page 5.)
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May July
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