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No. 27,338 HONG KONG,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1929.

"Hypnotism" And Score Books

NEW UNEMPLOYMENT TROUBLE BREWING IN

INSURANCE BILL

KWANGSI

SCHOOL-LEAVING AGE TO BE DECLARATION OF MARTIAL LAW

RAISED

MR. SNOWDEN'S DISAPPROVAL '

YESTERDAY

PAYMENTS FROM CANTON

Two reports to hand this morning point to trouble in the pro-Nationa! Government

Rugby. Testerday. The Government's new unem ployment, insurance bill, the text

comp of the Kwangsi- of which was issued "to-day. in Kwangtung allies facing the invading Ironsides under General Chang Fa- ercases the allowance to wives of kuci, whose threat against Canton is unemployed men from soven to still in the balance although he has nine shillings a week, and also been hovering on the northern fron- increases allowances to unemploy tiers for two months.

made their base of

ed young men and women under Martial low was declared at I am. 21. Whereas, at present, unem yesterday ia Wuchow, the Trealy ployment pay is made to boys and port in the extreme east of Kwangu, girls from the age of 16, the Bill on the West River, which the "loyal

ist" allies have proposes to make an allowance to boys and girls at the age of 15. operations against the Ironsides. This

usually indicates that there is appre This provision is to take effect hension on the part of the authorities. 80 800'a as the age of leaving "Al is quiet," it is aded, however, school la raised from 14 to 15. "and no disturbance is expected." to do in 1931.

Startling News

which the Government proposes

More startling is the intelligence Boya of 15 who are unemployed from the same source

that a repert will then receive an allowance of has reached Wuchow to the effect 6 shillings a week and girls will that Genern! Lui Woon-yim, Civil Gov- be granted 5 shillings. When the crner of Kwangxi and Vice-Commaan- der-in-Chief of the allies against the Bill comes into full operation the Ironsities, has been detained at Kwoi- total average on the Treasury for ping by his subordinates and that Gen- unemployment insurance will be eral Chan Chai-tong, the allies' Com- £24,500,000 on new proposals in mander-in-Chief, has sent

an expedi volving an increase of £12,500,000 tion to investigate, over the present expenditure. While the foregoing is unfavour- The Labour left wing are express- able to the administration in Canton, ing dissatisfaction with the Bill. two other reports give a feeling of

Recurity They wish to increase the allow.

General Chan Chai-tong (the Cont ance, notably, for man with

inander-in-Chief) has returned to Can- families. Acceptances of the full

ton by gunboat from Wuchow, al- scale which they propose would though retaining the field headquar- cost the Treasury an additional ters at Wuchow. His departure from £11,500,000. Mr. Philip Snowden. Wuchow can be construed as a feeling Chancellor of the Exchequer, has of increased confidence as to the out- resisted these demands on the come of the Ironsides last advance. ground that the money is not available-British Wireless Ser.

vice,

Opposition Likely

Furthermore half of one of the divi Alons under General Chan has return jed "from the front" to Wuchow, await ing (so it is stated) transport back to Canton.

Situation Not Dangerous

SHANGHAT

HAVING BEATEN MALAYA

AND

POT UP A 9000

ÅRST INNINGS

AGAINST HONG KONG

TEA

HONG KONG TWO CERTAINLY THE SETTLEP DOWN TENT THIS TIME

AND HIT UP RUNS SO

THE COMMITTEE HAD

TO PERSUADE

HONG KONG TO GO IN AND BAT A SECOND TIME~

4 IN CHATER ROAD

-THE SCORER HAD

FAST, THAT

TO HAVE HELP.

WHEN "THE FINAL

SCORES

HAD

THE

BEEN AUDITED.

LION ROCK WENT AND THE

RESULT MADE GOOSEY' ALL

"OVER.

KNOWN -

SUNSHINE IN OCTOBER

RAINFALL LESS THAN FIVE INCHES

TELL-TALE FIGURES

Last month was exceptionally dry, according to the weather returns issued

London, Yesterday. The publication of the provisions Were the situation dangerous in the to-day. The average cloudiness for of the Government's Unemployment north of Kwangsi and Kwangtung, it October 18 51 and last month's return Insurance Bill, which the House of was hardly conceivable that Commons will discuss next week, Commander-in-Chief and his troops were registered against an average of the was 35. Over 288 hours of sunshine opens up the prospect of the Gov. would be homeward bound if the Iren: 217.4, there being only ons day (the ernment being faced with the sides had not been checked, What 23rd) on which, officially, there was opposition, not only of Conserva really happened, probably, is that the none. Average rainfall for the month tives and Liberals, but of the Loft resistance of the Kwangsi units hale 4.995 inches and the quantities last

been stiffened by generous payments month were:- Wing of the Labour Party, whose from Canton. demand of one pound weekly for an unemployed man, ten shillings about General Lui Woon-yim's deten for his wife, and five shillings for tion is only given as news which has each child is nöf fulfilled in the emanated Rill. The carrying, out of such pro- confirmation. posals would entail a total Exche-

quer contribution of £96,000,000.

of

mates for 1929-80.

"Transitional"

It has to be noted that the report

from Wuchow and lacka

The Kuominchun

Nanking, Yesterday.

No. of

levels, Hong Kong Matilda Hospital, Mount

Kellett, the Peak

0.14

2 0.11

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR, — The closing rate of the dollar on. demand, to-day was 1/8 9/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

~DR_O'HARA'S BOWLING

SEEMED TO HAVE HAD THEM HYPNOTISED.

AND NICE NEW BALLS.

OUT OF THE

BOX, BECAME

WORN AND J OLD.

AFTER ABOUT TEN MINUTES

A CABLE TELLING SHANGHAI THE NEWS CAUSED A WATERSPORT'

LEADERS OF INDUSTRY

TO CONFER

U.S. PRESIDENT'S PLAN FOR HELPING THE COUNTRY

DEEDS PREFERABLE TO WORDS

Washington, Yesterday. President Hoover has announced that leaders of industry, labour and agriculture will be summoned to a conference at White House next week to draw up broad plans for business progress, the stimulation of experts and business expansion,

and to correlate these in auch a

Royal Observatory, Kowloon 4

Days Inch way that agriculture as well as in- Botanical Gardens, upper

dustry and labour will benefit. The president.in making the announce ment, expressed the opinion that in

of 0.11 times

economic disturbance action was more effective then the 018 repeated issuing of statements ex confidence. Reuter's pressing 0.00 American Service.

0.00

2

Royal Naval Hospital,

Wanchai

R.H.K. Golf Club, Fanting,

New Territory

2

0

+

As it is, the Bill will involve a total A telegram from Chiang Kai- charge to the Exchequer this year shek's headquarters at Hauchang

£24,500,000, compared

that Sun Ling-chen is with states £12,000,000 provided in the Esti- withdrawing from Leyang and its Folice Station, Taipo, New

[vicinity, and will participate in the! Territory Jeampaign against Sung Chih-yuan, The mean temperature for October Most of the increase goes to the acting Commander-in-Chief of was 76.6 against a normal of 76.2 de extend the "transitional period" the Kuominchun. Chiang Kai-shek grees. The lowest record (at the Ob- for payment of benefit to persons Liang-chen commander of the 6th highest being 88.1 on the 16th. There has provisionally appointed Sun servatory) was 69.5 on the 23rd; the not possessing a thirty contribu- :

Route Army-Reuter. tions qualification. This is design- ed to obviate depriving 120,000 per Bons of benefit in 1930.

Besides Increasing the benefite to wives of unemployed men, and young persons the Bill repeals the "not genuinely Beeking work" condition, and substitutes a require. ment of proof that suitable work is available before the claimant is dis- qualified. The Bill also provides for a lowering of the insurance age to fifteen, when the school-leaving age is raised to that number of years in April, 1981.

·

was slightly less humidity, than usual. The lowest reading of the barometer at mean sea level was 29.816 inches

MUTINY OF BRITISH at 3 pm. on the 10th. The maximuin

SOLDIERS

FINE YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE FOR DISOBEDIENCE

QUESTIONS IN COMMONS

London, Yesterday.

The bare fact that three sol- dlers of the Argyll Sutherland It is noteworthy that the insur- Highlanders, stationed at the West ance fund is at present £38,850,000 Indies, were recently court mar- in debt. It is understood the tailed and found guilty of mutiny

Government proposes to deal separ-

was firat publicly disclosed during

gust velocity as recorded by the Dines- Baxendell anemograph was 87 miles per hour at 8.20 a.m. on the 14th.

BETTER CONDITIONS

FOR EMPLOYEES

BILL TO MAKE EIGHT DAYS' HOLIDAY COMPULSORY

TORY OPPOSITION

Rugby, Yesterday. The House of Commons to-day

ately with the question of unem-19question time in the House of Com" | discussed a BIH Introduced by 'Earl

ployables, with a view to relieving | the Insurance Fund of such a burden Router.

U.S. STOCK MARKET Strong Upward Move- ment Set In

New York, Yesterday,

The Etock Exchange sessions are re- stricted from 10 am to 1 p.m. during the ensuing week, and will again close

MOAS.

FRESH - FINE

At 10.50 a.m. to-day the Royal Observatory reported:-

"The anti-cyclone remains to the N. of the Lower Yangisze Valley.

Moderate monsoon will pre- vail along the China Coast and fresh monsoon

over the N. China Sea."

Forecast until noon to-mar- row:-N. E. winds, fresh; fine.,

SHOT PREMIER

British Government : Sends Its Regret

À message from Kingston, Jamal-Winterton; the Private Labour mem

Rugby, Yesterday. ca, now states that the men were ber, making it compulsory for

The acting High Commissioner charged with mutiny, refusing to employers to give employees eight for Iraq has been instructed to con- sisting arrest at Newcastle, near annually. The Bill was oppused by half of the British Government the obey their officers' orders, and re days consecutive holiday with payvey to the Iraq Government on be Kingston, in mid June. The court Conservatives on the ground that it expression of sincere regret with martial ant for 18 days, and each interfered with the long established which they have learned of the un- accused was sentenced to five years' customs of employers and employees timely death of air Abdul Muhsin, penal servitude. They were sept to settlo conditions In their own the Iraq Premier, who was found to England a month ago Reuter districts.

shot dead. The British Govern Mr. Lawson, Parliamentary Secrement convey their sympathy with

·JOY `RIDING

tary to the Ministry of Labour, said the Iraq Government in the loss of that the Government accepted the one who had rendered such signal principle of the Bill, but were cons service to the kingdom and whose olaus that this matter could not be loss will be so keenly felt through- dealt with in such simple terms as out the whole of Iraq-British the Bill used. In view of the heavy Wireless Bervice. programnie ... of the Government,

on Saturday, to enable brokers to over- Bill To Introduce Severe

take. arrentz. The same will apply to

the curb market,

To-day's stock

toponed market opened

strong, and the upward movement

Bentaria American Service.

Penalties

Rugby, Yesterday:

WHIST THE COMMITTEE BOUGHT 4 LOT MORE SCORING BOOKS FOR WHEN

THEY PLAYMALAYA

STAN Hill

1919

FINANCES OF THE COLONY

OFFICIAL FIGURES FOR

JULY

NET BALANCE LOWER

For the first time in several months, the balance in hand of the finances of

headache

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PERHAPS ITS EYES!

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IS THAT SO?

|Thoughts Terse, Perverse

"Ironsides Still Advancing"-On all sides, iron and steal.

"Savage Fighting in the North.” Who is this Mr. Savage?

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These birds of proy-the bandits -delight to capture birds of pray.

"Interesting" is now running "pretty" very hard in describing weddings.

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Germany has over 2,000 million- nires, all of whom, of course, are "marked" men.

You've got to pay very many crowns per foot for Crown land nowadays.

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There is no doubt about it--the girls of to-day have "outstripped" the young men.

In Kwangtung old customs must cense but the Maritimes Custome must remain.

Any moneylender will tell you that the youth of the Colony are a very promising lot.

4,

A wrist watch was stolen from a house in Minden Avenue during the weekThe wrist, fortunately, seema

to have been left behind.

· and Worse *

How about a radio set for the House of Detention?

¤ med □ Interportitis may still

bo ex- pected to figure on the health re- turna.-Lawn tennis next!

All Volunteers have to wear a greatcoat. How сад 2 amall Volunteer wear a great coat?

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A man has been convicted in Scotland of double bigamy, and yet some people say our spirit of ad- venture is dead.

be worn on real flowers

Glt flowers are to evening dresses.-As fade on flirts is this an endeavour to protect the guilty?

The poorest gellers are said to be usually the best dressed.—It is when they ad-dress the ball they give themselves away.

"Weapon training" results ap- pear in the latest Volunteer orders." No mention of the Jews harp or the tin whistle.

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Married women beat spinsters in a tug-of-war-Husbands are Dot the only people married women have a pull over evidently.

"Yes, she's a

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real film

star.

It is suggested that some of theShe's appeared seven times in the city streets should be closed to pictures-four at her own wedding, traffic to permit of children utilia and three in other dramas.”. ing them as playgrounds.

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Many a man would like to be a "talkie". to prove an "Alibi" when "working late"; during the Interport cricket fortnight.

So come o Reckless motor drivers are said to

be mostly nervous derelicts-We always thought they had a nerve to go as they do in Kowloon.

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A Chinese tailor's assistant was. observed the other day embracing a dressmaker's "dummy."-Re- the Hong Kong Government has fallen hearsing for the "talkies" below the ten million dollar mark. There has been another Wall The latest figures, issued are those for July this year. Revenue was $1,878, Street collapse. Perhaps they had 764 (against 12,180,449-in the same better call it "Fence Street' in month of 1928) and expenditure future as being more collapsible. $1,980,151 (against $1,608,704). The

The cricketure from the South balance in hand on July 31, 1929, "Blankets are valuable" is a

now believe that the Malayan however, was $9,866,218.59.

newspaper heading. Some chilly tiger is not so much to be dread- Returns for the first seven months of mortals allege they are indis- ed as the Hong Kong tiger. this year are consistent with those of pensable these alleged cold nights.

00 1828, the totals being:-

An aged tortoise is kept as a $13,878,827 in 1929; sad $13,500,867 plicated," reads a fashion note. ahan-Bere

"The new evening dress is compet by a rich merchant of Fat- we fire the office Expendituro (January to July): The prices, however, will still be tortoises" long before they are $11,498,742 this year; and $11,476,073 boldly expressed in a round figure. aged. In 1928.

On the receipts side, increases are Judging by the number of stumps shown under Light Dues, Fees of drawn on the H.K.C.C. ground dur- Court, etc., the Railway, Rent of Goving the past fortnight the dental ernment property, interest, miscel-profession must be a paying one. laneous receipts and land sales; de- creases only, under Licences and In- ternal Revenue, Post Office.

Revenue {January to

last year.

July):

It is stated that an American is

Among the larger heads on the out-Bulag for a divorce because his goings side, increases are shown under wife talks too little. It is wonder- Junior Clerical Service, Harbour De-ful what the craze for novelty will partment, Medical Department, Sani-accomplish. tary Department, Education Depart- mont,

Public Works Department, Having been placed on the retired Public Works Recurrent, Miscellaneous list a former Secretary to the Com Servicos, Public Debt and. Pensions; modere here, Paymaster C. E. Batt decreases under Imports and Exporta may probably spend his Summers Office, Police Force, Public Works Ex-acting traordinary, the Railway, Military matches. Contribution.

SINISTER NATIVE

RISING

As

.umpire

in

cricket

However much we admire the de- sire for education we cannot but feel that the steam lorry that crash. ed into a certain Academy at Home In mail week was a trifle over- anxious.

We wonder if the convivial motorist who thought that one of the automatic traffic signals at the foot of Garden Road was a petrol filling station; is still waiting there

Come U

RESIDENTS UNEASY AT RED AGENTS INTRIGUES

FURTHER POLICE RAIDS

Durban, Yesterday. Yesterday's police raid, esten-to fill up. albly to deal with poll tax de- faulters, was repeated to-day in the heart of the town. There is being told by "Uncle" the latest

A youngster of about 12 was

due to reports of a sinister native yarns when "Auntie" chipped in considerable public uneasiness, and the oldest thing in pirate organisation working behind the only to be met with the smart scenes. Large numbers of natives juvenile retort: "This is not a still refuse to pay the poll tax story for women to hear." pleading "conscientious objection," and have accepted the alternative of imprisonment --Reuter.

FIRE SEQUEL

Silk Dealer's Loss From Safe

A youth from Shanghai bombard ed the museum in the City Hall during the week thirsting to know all about the half-fish ́and half man they had on viewFancy the fame of our fossils being known so for away as Shanghai!

gained in momentum::. There was some The text is published of a Govern-there could be no guarantee of time

An Aberdeen youth of 17 got profit taking later, but it closed Arm-mont Bill to prevent unauthorised per- being given for further stages of It was stated at a meeting of the Mr. Ho Chak-po, manager of the married the other day, and at the sors from foy riding. The Bill pro the theasure if it were passed by Dorking Urban District Council Kwong Sang di store, 78, Jervels wedding supper his mother was mides for maximum penalties of three the House. The second reading that the gift of the Glory Woods to Street, reported to the Palice that overheard to remark: Hoo time NAVAL CONFERENCE months, or a fine of £60 en summa was adopted without division. Bri. the town by the Duke of Newcast during the fire which broke out at 6 files! Fancy Jock marrit an ine

had been completed. The and

conviction, and of twelve-months"- imprisonment, or a fine of 2100, in the tiah Wireless Barvice, pre

SOVIET ATTACK

Invitation Accepted By of conviction on an indictment.

British Wireless Service

United States

amson Thursday, he took from the no" "feenished paying the Instal Make: 38,400 In bank notes, leaving baments on his scooter yet! the hind 11,000 in anbeldiary coins, Jawel

ith bar and several "land notes When Our senior-morning contempor

law in compány☺with

Shocking affair at the Malaya- Shanghai cricket match: "O'Hara pushed Jansen through the gully."

What a ferocious cricket!

A woman

13 cm -

game

Is

of seventy has been refused a motor licence. Perhaps she felt that as she had seen the motor grow from infancy she knew all about it.

A Scottish wrestling association is about to be formed.--If one *were formed in Hong Kong it would consist chiefly of those who lunch in town.

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Now that the "talkies" are being introduced into Hong Kong 'pro- ducers in future will have to make certain of getting the cork-drawing effect absolutely right.

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"Chatty Tuesday weekly sewing meetings," we are assured, "are mothers' different from stuffy meetings."The study mothers presumably meet after tiffin.

An English novelist declares that

Irishmen It is only fair to point Scotamen are superior humorists to

Aberdeen in Ireland. out, of course, that, there is no

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The winter of 1988-1884 will be the severest for 60 years, we are told-Readers would be well ad- vised not to book their Home passages so far abead."

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A woman passenger, we read, pulled the communication cord in an express train because she want ed" a cup of tea,----And, of course, it being a railway train, she gol into hot water.

Heading, in local paper:

"Husband Accused of Wound- ing HER." She seems to be a submarine or an aeroplane

Billarda note: "The retura porting the concert.

match...(Engineers' Institution and John's Cathedral, Half, make sure Club Lualtano) will be played on newcomer to the Friday when the Engineers will itly reported probably turn the tables on the

and the visitors Who plays on bil

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