Mrs. Asmer Sample MacPherson, pastor of the Angelus Templa and the world's foremost woman preacher, arrived in Hongkong on Friday. The above photo was taken ae she was greeted in Shanghai by Mr. M. Ö. Lawiny, head of the Shanghal mission.
Brig-General
Sir Arthur
(concerned in the reorganlantion. The troubles of the "Royal Mall Group" have been described as one of the greatest financial complica tions in the history of joint stock
THE HONGKONG
·UNEMPLOYED ·
INCREASE
BUT WITH GOOD CAUSE
London.
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH
1935
The January Agures of unemploy- ment, as in previous years, show n large increase over those recorded In December. The total number of registered unemployed on Janu- ary 28 was 2,326,379, or 239,558 more than were registered on December 17. Compared with a year ago bowever, the total was less by 63,095. The estimated number of Insured persons in em- ployment was 10,000,000, a decline. of 195,000 in comparison with the December figure, but 175,000 more than that at January 22, 1934.
To a substantial extent the In- creased volume of unemployment wns attributable to RCBSonal changes, but special causes opera- ting on the day the count was taken were severe weather conditions, which adversely affected the build- ing trade, and a large addition to the number of juveniles register- ing as applicants for work at the end of the school term. Last year the January Increase was 104,989; in 1933 it was 179,778; and in 1932 it was 218,490. It is usual for the February figures to show a sharp recovery.
All the administrative divisions showed an increase in unemploy- ment; and the largest increase was In the London area. There were increases too in all the industries included In the table of compara- tive figures issued by the Ministry of Labour. A jump of 89,560 in unemployment in the distributive trades may be considered na
mainly a seasonal variation, but the un- usual increase of 37,359 in the
Maxwell Dies company enterprise, and the task building trades is undoubtedly to
BANKER'S SPLENDID
WAR SERVICE
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ACTION
Brigadler-General
Sir Arthur
of reorganisation, which is now al nost complete, has been one of reat complexity. The assets of the companies have had to be "nursed" with great care, and in
frost and now in the last week of be attributed to the provalence of
the month. Compared with Janu- 1094. unemployment totals ary. were less by 36,532 in the coal min- ing industry, 30,404 less in general
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this respect General Maxwell ren- engineering, 17,103 lens in ship, I wiliam Maxwell Aitken, now the first Lord Beaverbrook. The
dered conspicuous service to, the
creditors.
DEFENCE OF GOLD He was president of the Institute Maxwell. a managing partner of of Bankers in 1931 and 1932. In Glyn, Milla and Co., died recently the former year he delivered an in- at his home in London in his alx-Leresting address in defence of the tieth year. He had been ill for gold standard and of the part play- ed by the banks in the financial several weeks.
crisis. Last year he became a The son of the late Mr. William member of the Committee of Lon-I
He was Maxwell, of Belfast, Arthur Mux-1don Clearing Bankers. well was born In 1875, and was one of the City Lieutenaney, was educated in Dublin. He entered president in 1923 of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, and honor-
the of
Thnto-
the Civil Servica in 1893, and was ary Treasurer
In the Post Offico till 1905, when American Institute of Great Bri-
he became secretary to Glyn, Mills tain and of the Prince of Wales and Co.
Scholarship Fund for Argentino students. In 1925 he was pre- At the outbreak of the Great silent of the Latin-American War he was a captain in the 8th Society.
(now 7th) Battalion. London Re- General Maxwell had a firm grip giment. T.F. (Post Offee Rifles), of financial and economic principles He went out with the battalion to in their practical application. He France in March, 1915, and 'assum was a strong individualist, and was ed command of the battalion in not afraid to say publicly that October. He was severely wounded personal efficiency in the control of ¡business was preferable to regula-
in the fighting on Vimy Ridge ation by statute, the end of May, 1916, when a por
Sir Arthur married Eva, daugh- tion of the ridge was lost by Sirter of Mr. R. W. Jones, of Belfast, Henry Wilson's IV Corps. For and had a son and a daughter. The this action he was awarded the engagement of his son to Miss D.S.O., as, though wounded by Beatrice Diane Chamberlain, only shrapnel, he personally organized daughter of Sir Austen and Lady two counter-attacks and refused to Chamberlain, was announced on leave his past ant ordered to do December 29 Inst.
No next day. He was able to re-
sume command of the 8th London in the following April, but in June he proceeded to command the 23rd Battalion, London Regiment, where he remained until in July, 1918, he was appointed to the command of the 174th Brigade, which he held until the close of hostilities. He was mentioned in dispatches five times, and received brevet promo- tion, the D.S.G., and on January, t. 1918, the bar to the D.8.0. In January, 1919, he was madon CM.G. In the course of the War ho hnd riven from captain to brigadfor-gonoral.
Ho commanded the 2nd London Brigade, T.A., from 1920 to 1924, and had been honorary colonel of the 7th Battalion (Post Office Rites), London Regiment from March, 1923. He maintained his keen interest in the Territorial Army, and was a member of the City of London Territorial Asso- ciation and chairman of its Finance Committee. He was made a G.B. (civil in 1925, and promoted to K.C.B. (civil) în 1931..
FINANCIALS PUZZLE.
After the War Sir Arthur Max- well was appointed general man- ager, and became in 1929 a manag- ing partner in Glyn, Mills and Co., and was also on the board of the Union Bank of Australia. In re cent years his name had been pro- minently before the public in con- nexion with the work he had done in bringing about a reorganization. of what la commonly known as the "Royal Mail Group" of shipping and allied companies. He was
· ́electód to a seat on the boards of the various companies for the pur-
pose of giving effect to his work as a representative of many Interests
building and ship-repairing, and 9,044 less in iron and steel manu-
facture.
CKSON
proprietor of the Landon Daily Express is soon here at Nice shortly before he sailed for the Argentine.
Hundreds of poverty-stricken coolles stond spellbound on the Shanghai Bund watching the load- ing of more than $1,000,000 worth of silver on to a Maritime Customs Cruiser. The specie was taken
to Hankow and from there will be carried by air to Chungking to be placed in the vaults of the newly-
opened branch of the Central Bank of China.
The courage of the man of the mercantile marine was once more displayed when the Dollar Steamship President Jackson want to the rescue of the sinking Hokuman Mavu.' Abova kra seeni-Top left. First Office Bedro, who manned one of the boats, Captain Michael Jansen, Master of the Jackson, and Third Officer Gadder who manned the ascond Ilfaboat. Uppar right: Soma of the tokane presented Captain Jensen as tribute to his bravery, Lower Left: An action picture taken as one of the lifebonis awong out on its davits to go to the rescuer and, lower right, a photo of the Bi-fated Hokuman Marit, taken “Just before she foundered.
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