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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1936.
SPEEDING EMPIRE AIRMAIL
MANY HOURS cut FROM SCHEDULES
COVER WIDE AREA
(Special To "Talograph")
• London, Mar, 2. Extensivo speeding up of Empire air mails and alterations in the days of departure of mall planes from Croydon are announced by Imperial Airways.
The effect of the changes will be to reduce considerably the time for the exchange of air correspondence.
From March 18 to the Near East, India and Malaya, planes will leave on Wednesdays, instead of Tuesdays. The Saturday service, which continues to Australia, will be unchanged.
South-bound services via Egypt and Central Africa to Captetown will be transferred Wednesdays and and Fridays as
from
Sundays to S
"March 20. Incoming services will be unaltered, except that west-bound malls starting at Malaya will reach London on Thursdays, instead of Fridays.
SAVING TIME
Under the new schedules, the time from London to Salisbury, South Rhodesia, and back will be afteen days, Instead of eighteen. The round trip from London to Johannesburg and Capetown will be unchanged, but three days will be saved on the trip cach way. One day esch will be lop ped off on the present London Karachi and London Lo Straits schedule.
to
The Calcutta route will be unalter- ed, but in exceptional cases for the London to Delhi' route the round trip will take sixteen · days, instead of thirteen-Renter Special,
CENSURE MOVE DEFEATED
NEW INDUSTRIES FOR DEPRESSED AREAS
London, Mar. 2.
In the House of Commons, a Labour motion of cenaure, moved by Dr. Hugh Dalton, expressing disappoint- ment at the Government's handling of the problem of the distrossed drens, was defeated by 357-votes to 175.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Pro- sident of the Council, intimated that the Government proposed to place im- portant orders for plant with now in- dustries within the depressed areas in the course of the development and execution of its re-armament schemes -Rexter.
POPE HONOURS CHINESE
ORDER FOR SHANGHAI BUSINESS MAN
New Zealand's Example
NEW AGREEMENT WITH WORKERS
Wellington, Mar. 2. An agrooment between the Ministry. of Public Works and the workers has been signed, whoroby it is agrood that employees should have a forty hour week, instead of forty-seven, and that workers on holiday should be on full pay.
Wages will be the same for married and single IREN and no dir- ference will be made between Maoris and Europeans.
The Ministry states the agreement in a new thing and it is hoped it will be an example to the world. It does not mean that less work will be done during the shorter working hours agreed upon. but that more men will be employed-enter Bulletin Service.
Conservatives" Chairman
RAILWAY WORKERS CRUSHED
TERRIBLE MISHAP IN CANADA
TENDER ROLLS
OVER GANG.
Vancouver, Mar. 2. Thirteen persons have been killed and sovon are noriously injured as a result of the worst accident on the Canadian Pacific Railway in thirty years.
A locomotive was derailed thirty miles out of the divisional, point of Revelstoke, owing a anowslide. As a repair gang was attempting to re- plado the docomotive and tender on the ralis, the tender rolled and crush- od the mon against the engine- Rentor.
SEVENTEEN DEAD
Downlo, B.C., Mar. 2. Seventeen workmen are now dead following a frightful accident on the Canadian Pacific Railway mountain
London, March 3. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, has announced the appoint-line near here. ment of Captain Douglas Hincking, Conservative Party Organisation. M.P. to the chairmanship of the Baron Stonehaver's resignation from this post was announced early to-night.
In a letter to Mr. Baldwin, Baron Stonehaven states the responsibilities of the past make it increasingly diffeult for him to devote to it the time it demands.—Reuter.
REASSURING ITALY?
VON STARHEMBERG GOING TO ROME
Vienna, Mar. 2. Prince You Starhemberg, Vice- Chancellor and leader of the Heim- webr, is going to Rome on Wodnos- day in order to meet Singer Musso- lin
The object of his visit, presumably, is to reassure Mussolini regarding his talics in Paris on the Hapsburg and Danubian questions. Beuter's Bulletin Service,
AMERICAN LINER HELD UP
CREW WANTS MORE
WAGES
San Pedro, Mar. 2. Officers and men the entire crew,{
A locomotive tender waa being hauled up a steep grade when tho coupling broke, and the tender crash- ed over sideways, fulling upon soven- teen men who were clearing debris in B narrow cut-United Press:
DEATH ROLL GROWS
How
Winnipeg. March_2. The death roll in the C. P. R. accident near Revelstoke, has Krown to Afteen, Ineluding four Jap- aneso workmen. Seven are injured and one is missing-Reuter.
PRISONER DIES IN GAOL
NATURAL CAUSES
Sitting
VERDICT
23.44 Coroner, Mr. S. F. Balfour, at the Contra!
Magistracy this morning, conducted an inquest
into the death of a male prisoner, Pun Hon, aged 69 years, who died in Victoria Gaol at 11.52 p.m. yesteriny, The following Jury was empanelled Meases. Ling Shuping (foreman), Lo Kwan-wal and Kocha Ram.
Dr. G. Ingram Show, prison medical officer, stated that he first saw the prisoner on
July 23 last year. He was then marked "half labour," ie. unfit for any work at all. His con- dition was fair and he was suffering from
He had a long myocarditis. series in and out of hospital and on February 5 this year he was again admitted to hospital, his condition having become very bad. The cause of death, in Dr. Shaw's opinion, was (1) cute myocarditis (2) chronic: tuberculosis.
except the cantala-have struck and refused to take the Panama-Pacifie liner California from dock until grant-Paice testified that prisoner was Acting Ansistant Chief Wander A. ed higher wages, thus tleing up 441 sentenced to nine months' imprison-
passengers,
The strike does not affect localment on July 22, last year, for n shipping. since all the strikers are He did no labour.
breach of the Deportation Ordinance.
members of East Coast Union- United Press...
BETTER WEATHER?
The anticyclone has extended east- ward and southeastward and now tho Benins. Pressure is highest to! covers China, Japan, the Loochoos and the northwest of Shantung. and relatively low over Indo-China. Local forecast:-N.E. winds, fresti;}
some drizzle or cloudy,
mist,
Vatican City, March 2.- Mr. Le Pa Hong, a Shanghai business man, has been appointed Papal Chamberlain of the Cape and Sword by His Holiness the Pope.
He is the first Oriental nominated for a post in the Papal Court-improving.
Reuter.
AMNESTY FOR SYRIA
LEADERS GOING TO PARIS PARLEY
Damascus, far. 2. Following the recent unrest, it is reported that an agreement has been reached between the French High Commissioner and the Syrian Nation alists, providing for an amnesty of political offenders.
A deputation of Nationalist loaders will go to Parla to negotiate a treaty on the lines of the Anglo-Iraq Treaty. -Router's Bulletin Service.
INDEPENDENCE
REGAINED
CATALONIA ESCAPES RIGHTIST RULE
Madrid, Mar. 2. Catalonia has regained its in- dependence after eighteen months under the rule of a Government `of the Right Party.
The President and Ministors of Catalonia havo boon released from prison 'under the amnesty decreo and they rocalvod a tumultuous welcome on arrival, at Barcelona.-Router's Bulletin Service.
EMBASSY REMOVAL
London, Mar. 2.
In the House of Commons, reply. ing to Mr. A. E. Chorlton (Con.); Lord Cranborne said the question of the removal of the British Embassy from Pelping, is under consideration,
LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED
-Washington, March 2 Mr. Henry Morgenthau, the Sec- rotary, of the Treasury, to-day on- nounced that the cash loan of $1,250, 000,000 had been heavily over-sub- scribed-Reuter.
U.S. MARINE CHIEF
Washington, Mar. 2.
A verdict of death from natural "CQUSES" WAS ̈returned.
RAW RUBBER
LATEST SINGAPORE
PRICES
Mossie. Benjamin und Potts received the following Straits cur- rency quotations (buyers) from Singapore to-day for raw rubber: Spot
2014 cta. unchanged Apl/June 20 cts, down 1⁄4 cent July/Sept: 284 cts. down cent Oct/Decr: -20% cts, down cent
Market Dull.
EXPEDITION RECALLED
Calcutta, Mar, 2.
The death has occurred of Dr. Herman Erben, of San Francisco, who in 1924 led a 20,000-mile motor ex- President Roosevelt has nominated | podition across Asia.—United Press. Colonel John Beaumont an Brigadier
Marines.---United General of the
Preto.
Appearing on remand before. Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Mngis- tracy this morning, on two charges Suffolk Road, Kowloon Tong, appear ducks,
Miss Sybil Dalziel, of No. 10 of theft of seven chickens and two
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KIND LADY
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Aline MacMahon Basil Rathbone
Mary Cachalo Frank Albesisan Dudley Diguna
STAR
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World Rangemed Taner, in his First British Taškie
"BLOSSOM TIME"
Directed by PAUL L STEIN..
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the property of Mr. To-morrow :- ed before Me, Macfadyen at the Kow-MacRobert, from No. 8 Shouson Hill, lood Magistracy this morning to and three iron steps from a manhole answer summoneca for keeping a on the hillside at Wong Chuk Hang, dog without a licence, the property. of the P.W.D., Chan
black mowing it abroad in Water- Kwan, 'alide. Tau Pei-fak, unemploy
and with
loo Road on February 12 without aed, was sentenced to six weeks', hard muzzle or lead. Defendant produced labour on each chargo, the sentences a licence for the dog which was dated to bo consecutive. Defendant this February 1, and the first summons morning admitted a previous con- was accordingly withdrawn. She ad-viction for which he had been bound mitted the second summons and a fine over in 326. The bond had, however, of $25 was imposed.
expired.
TWENTY TRIAL FLIGHTS OVER ATLANTIC OCEAN
(SPECIAL" TO "TELEGRAPH")
Copenhagen, Mar. 2.. Twenty trial trans-Atlantic flights will be made in 1996 between New York and Copenhagen-ten each way-according to a decision reached by a conference of representatives of Pan-American Airways and the Director of the Greenland Department.
The route will probably be vin
and an announcement on the subject Groenial, Iceland, the Faroe Islands
would baŋ made as soon as possible,
Rektor.
and the Bhatlar Jalands.
All the planes will carry mails, but. no paponguers, during the trial period.
The fights will commence in the spring-Reuter Special.
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