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'HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1928.

THE MARKING OF PRODUCE.

RECENT ACT.

COMMITTEE TO SUPERVISE THE WORKING.

BRITISH AGRICULTURE.

London, Yesterday:

The Government has appoint-

The Chairman of the committee is Lord Darling, the well-known former judge and other members

ASSISTING SPAIN'S CURRENCY.

LARGE CREDITS.

FACILITIES FROM LONDON AND NEW YORK BANKS.

TO CHECK SPECULATION.

Madrid, Yesterday.

BATTLEFIELDS OF THE GREAT WAR.

11,000 PILGRIMS. · ·

PRINCE OF WALES TAKES AN ACTIVE PART.

INTERESTING CEREMONIES.

London, Yesterday. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.

The Ministry of Finance an-landed in France to-day to visit

association with

11,000

ed a committee to supervise the nounces that the leading bankers the battlefields of the Great War, carrying out of an act which has recently been passed by Parlia-of London and New York have in ment for the grading and mark-extended. very considerable Pilgrims, who had already ar- ing of agricultural produce. credits to the Bank of Spain with rived from England,

Arriving at Boulogne, he was in view to facilitating control of received at the quayside by Major

the currency.

Horten Mayor and a body of local -He was are Sir F. A. Jones, legal adviser An Exchange Syndicate' has British Legionmen. to the Ministry of Agriculture been formed in London, headed greeted with loud chearing, which and Sir William Peat, the emin- by the Midland Bank and includes

he smilingly acknowledged. ent chartered accountant.

After lunching simply at the The Committee will have power Barclays, Lloyds and the West-Station refreshment Buffet with to authorise the use of the mark minster Banks, while the New General Trotter, he proceeded by and to suspend or revoke the York group, organised by Mor-motor-car to Saint Omer, the right to use it in individual cases gans, comprises the leading British General headquarters,

and Bethune. if necessary. They will watch the United States' Banks.

general working of the scheme The Committee in Control of At Bethune His Royal High-| and advise the Government on the exchange, created by decree, ness was again welcomed with the any changes as experience may on June 25, solicited this assist-reatest enthusiasm not only by prove to be necessary.

ance with a view to checking in- the pilgrims but by the local A Trade Committee has been ternational speculation in the population. set up to deal with applications. peseta.--Reuter.

The national mark system is regarded as a great reform in

"

In the Market Square, Admiral

of the Fleet, Lord Jellicoe, as President of the British Legion, received the Prince on a dais,

the marketing of British-grown S.S. “KALYAN’S” S.O.S. which was bedecked with British

¡ produce.

ON FIRE OUTSIDE WOOSUNG.

PASSENGERS SAFE,

Shanghai, Yesterday.

and French flags, which had been erected in front of the famous belfry of Bethune.

As the Prince reached the square he was received with a fanfare of trumpets.

His Royal Highness thanked the Reception Committee of the

The mark which will identify produce as British and guarantee a specified standard will be a man of England with a circle enclosing the Union Jack,

It will be ap- plied at the outset to fruit, begin- ning with apples and pears from September 1. It will be extended The P. and O, a.a. "Kalyan" from Departments of Somme and Pas to, include a number or other in- Hong Kong caught fire outside Woo- de Calais for the arrangements dication of the identity of the sung last night in number three which they had made for the re- used so that complaints can be hold. In response to an S.0.S.. ception of the British pilgrims, followed up.

which was subsequently cancelled, The Prince then went on to fire floats and tugs proceeded to Lille where he will stay the night. the scene,

He proceeds to-morrow to Ypres The origin has not transpired, but to attend a great memorial ser the fire was got under control. vice at Menin Gate. British The thirty-one passengers are re-

Wireless Service. ported to be safe.

The scheme is a voluntary one, but if the goods should not con- [form with the standard specified the purchaser will be entitled to recover damages for breach of warranty or breach of contract. British Wireless Service.

Marking of Tea.

The Board of Trade has referred

Later.

The 8.8. "Kalyan" came alongside

NAVAL DISASTER.

to a Standing Committee the ap- the Hongkew wharf at 7.15 am COMMUNICATION WITH THE plication for an Order-in-Council to Reuter. require the marking and indication

of origin of imported tea.

The committee will consider whe- HUGE FLYING BOAT.

ther tea should be marked on:

for sale

sale, on exposure importation-Reuter.

or on

U.S. PRESIDENCY.

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S

PREDICTION.

THE "ROMAR" COMPLETES SUCCESSFUL TRIALS.

SOUTH ATLANTIC SERVICE.

Berlin, Yesterday.

SUBMERGED. SUBMARINE.

.CREW ASPHYXIATED.

Rome, Yesterday. The submarine F14 has been located. The destroyer: "Aquila” la anchored near the spot and de- spite the unfavourable weather has succeeded in installing a tube to supply air to the submarine and faston a steel cable to the bull. A successful trial flight has been Communication is still maintained held in Travemuende Harbour of with the crew of the submarine the world's biggest flying boat, whose afterpart le damaged. "Romar," which weighs fifteen tons. The machine rose in fifteen seconds

Aйl Dead. and manoeuvred in the air for a quarter of an hour.

"HOOVER A CERTAINTY."

Superior, Wisconsin, Yesterday. Temporarily abandoning his tra- ditional avoidance of prophecy, President Coolidge has told a friend Two similar machines are being that he considered it almost certain constructed at the Rohrbach works that Hoover would be elected Pre- and will be utilised as passenger sident in November. He added that planes on a proposed south Atlantic he intended personally actively to service-Reuter. participate in the campaign on

Hoover's behalf.

The President spent the day por-

ing over the preliminary budget ILLINOIS DISASTER.

estimate for

B

· 1930 when $3,700,000,000 budget is forecast, including $669,000,000 for national defence compared with $620,000,000 | for the current year-Reuter's American Service,

COLLISION CAUSED BY PIPE FALLING FROM TRAIN.

New York, Yesterday. The double derailment at Cairo; (Illinois) was caused by an Iron COURTNEY'S 'PLANE. pipe twenty feet in length and two feet in diameter, which apparently fell on the track from ́à gooda train. It was first hit by the North-

PICKED-UP BY ITALIAN STEAMER.

CREW REACH DESTINATION:

New York, Yesterday.

[ bound train, and hurled on to the) Southboundtrack at the exact! moment that the 'Chicago---New Orleans express was approaching Capt. Courtney's abandoned fly-Reuter's American Service. ing boat has been picked up by the Italian steamer "Valprat!" en route to Nova Scotia from 'Algeria.

In New York.

Later: Capt. Courtney and his three com- panions have arrived in the 6.8. "Minnewaska."-Router" American Service.

INDIA LOAN.

22 CHORES OF RUPEES

APPLIED FOR

PARIS "REDS.”.

EIGHT OF THE ARRESTED. CHARGED.

Paris, Yesterday Only eight of the men arrested In connection with the Communist plot have been charged, including the Deputy-Mayor of Ivry, who was arrested for inciting rioters Reuter.

TO-DAYS DOLLAR.

Rome, Yesterday. As the result of frantic and un- remitting toll salvagers have rais ed submarine F.14 after 36 hours' 81 is dead, having been asphyxiated. submersion but the entire crew of

Reater.

[A telegram from Rome of yester day's date stated that in the course of exercises, seven miles west of Brioni Island, the Italian submarine F14 came to the surface under the bows of the Italian destroyer, "Missori."

It was impossible to avert a col- lision and the submarine sank im- mediately...

The wrecked craft is lying in twenty fathoms of water and the weather at present does not favour rescuers of the crew.]

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*AN ACCIDENT.”

BOWL THROWN AT YOUTH'S HEAD.

COURT SEQUEL.

A quarrel over a money debt re- sulted in a Chinese appearing be- fore Mr. W. Schofield, at the, Kow- loon Magistracy, this morning, In answer to a charge of assaulting a youth with an earthenware bowl at Hunghom Police Station

Sub-Inspector James said the bowl was thrown and inflicted two severe cuts, necessitating com- plaint's removal to hospital.

Defendant said that it was quite an accident that the wound was infileted. He admitted quarrelling with the complainant,

Bombay, Yesterday. Subscriptions to the Government

The magistrate ordered both of India loan, which opened yea

parties to sign a bord in 350 to terday will close on the 18th-inst

keep the peace for a year. In ad- Applications have amounted to approximately 22 crores of rupees.

The closing rate of the dollar ondition the defendant was fined #16

And also

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