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JUST RECEIVED

TWO NEW RECORDS

by

GRACIE FIELDS

That's how I feel about you Thoughts of you

B-3176

B-3202

Oh Maggie, what have you been up to ? I've got a man

Also a number of other interesting

"H.M.V." Records by

Walter Glyane

Peter Dawson

Wish Wynne

Paul Robeson

Reginald Foort

Arthur Meale

etc, etc, etc.

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Birth of a

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KAIPING COAL

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THE CHINA MAIL.

OPIUM TRAFFIC IN ROYAL WEDDING IN PICTURE TELEGRAMS

THE EAST

GREAT BRITAIN "NOT THE -CHIEF CULPRIT”.

CHINA'S EXPORT SURPLUS

International control of opium

ROME

TO GERMANY

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1930,

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

Opening Daily Official Quotations 9th January, 1930.

GORGEOUS ARRAY OF DRESSES

NEW SERVICE INAUGURATED IN

STOCK

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Rome, Yesterday,

BRITAIN

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Rugby, Yesterday,

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The marriage of Crown Prince Humbert and Princess Maris Jose was graphy between, Britain and Gerhartered Bank o roleminised this morning.

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and dangerous drugs was discussed at. & conference arranged by the Women's International League at.

Loud cheers heralded the arrival of many was opened yesterday with the London School of Economics. the notable personalities. Among the the exchange of photographs and Bank of Asia

Dr. Hilda Clark, chairman of the [continuous procession of care bringing

between the friendly greetings

the Ger- Anti-Opium Committee of the Bri-royal and other distinguished guests, Postmaster-General and tish section of the league, said the whom the resplendent masters of the man. Minister of Posts and Tele-Canton In....396 subject had been taken up in many ceremonies conducted to their respec-graphs.

Union u. 370 A picture and handwriting were countries and committees, had been tive places in the Pauline Chapel, or formed to see what could be done to those wearing the Collar of Annun- tral Telegraph Office. The trans-Chins Fire Tos, 390

the adjoining hall of Cuirassiers, were excellently reproduced at the Cen. China Underwriters.. combat the growing evil of illcit ziata, the foremost of them being mission took 20 minutes, and from K. Fice los....$215 traffic in manufactured drugs. Con-Mussolini, followed by the diplomatic

3 o'clock, when the service was ferences had been arranged in corps and the Cabinet Ministers. The different countries, and aftor the Pauline Chapel was decorated with opened to the public, the instru-,

Shipping subject had been studied an inter-flowers and priceless damasks, and in- ments were kept busy.

The Post Onco la loking to the Douglases............. national conference would be held at numerable lights, a fitting setting to

the glittering officers' uniforms, and newspapers to provide most of the H. K. Steamboats Geneva.

Mr. L. A. Lyall, resident of the the gorgeoun array of woman's dresses, business in this now field at first, ) Indo-China (Pref.) ...$ Fermanent Central Oplum Board of with their long trains and brilliant but it is stated it may be used for

Jewels.

transmitting cheques and legal Shell Transports d the League of Nations, In dealing

The climax was most impressive and documents with signatures in fac- with conditions in the Far East, was approached as the Royal proces simile, and almost any drawing, Union Waterboats ... 28 said the amount of oplum grown in sion appeared slowly and advanced to

photograph, printing, or writing China was not only sufficient for all the alter. local needs, but provided a largo The whole assembly was hushed, and which is urgently required.---British

Wireless Service. Burplus for smuggling to the various bowed low. countries in the Far East where Pomp and Brilliance

Five Kings and five Queena, to- opium smoking prevailed. Chinese public opinion was fully alive to the gether with 60 Royal princes and evil and there was a determination princesses figured in an unforgettable ancient glories of the Eternal City. Un- that the vice should be put down. scene of pomp and brilliance reviving Sooner or later they would succeed. paralleled splendour such as this has There was little that England could not been seen since the marriage of do in the matter of oplum. No Edward VII. opium produced in the British Princess Marie Jose, on her father's Empire was exported legally to arm, dressed in a white velvet gown, China, and the quantity of British-with an eight-yard magnificent train, grown opium that was smuggled bordered with ermine, and lined with day at Heston Air Park of the latest H. K. & K. Wharva..$144.

which horizontal motors H. K. & W. Docks...$ Into China was quite negligible. white silver moire, followed by the type of Senor de la Clerva's auto-giro

Crown Prince, with his mother, the machine in But with regard to other narcotic bridegroom a handsome figure in the above the fuselage provide a lift, in-China Providena 5.40 5.85 druga-morphia, heroin, and cocaine uniform of an infantry colonel, ad-end of the fixed wings of the conven- Hongkews...........................$ -the situation was entirely differ-vanced to the high altar, which was tonal aeroplanes.

N. Engineerings Tk. Since 1920, when Clerva's machine ent. None of these were produced surmounted with a tall erucifix, flank

was first tested, it has undergone im-Shanghai Docks ...Tis. In Chinn; they were all Importeded by lighted tapera. from Europe and Japan. Here, The Venerable Cardinal Pietro Main portant developments, an advantage Upon the cul-having in the meantime been taken of again, Britain was not the chief celebrated the mass.

mination of the ceremony Cardinal British technical skill in design and culprit.

Yesterday, he demon-Ewo Corte... Tis. -101 Maff addressed the usual question to construction.

strated that his machine could now take s'hai Cotton (old)... as the bride and bridegroom.

Britain's. Drug Factories Very few British drugs found their way into the illicit traffic. Britain was only so far to blame, that her factories helped to swell the large quantity of narcotics pro duced throughout the world. As long as that surplus continued to exist It would And its way into the hands of smugglers. The only way to stop the illicit traffic was to limit) the manufacture of drugs to the amount heeded for legitimate pur- poses.

AUTO-GIRO 'PLANE Details of Interesting Demonstration

Rugby, Yesterday, Demonstrations were given yestor

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Crown Prince Humbert, before re-off in less space than a light aeroplane plying, turned to his parents for for- and land almost vertically on a space mal consent, but Princess Marie Jose smaller than a lawn tennis court. promptly responded "B" in ringing gefton Brancker, witnessed the de The Director of Civil Aviation, Sir tones.

specially composed manstration and later made a fight in anthem by Cardinal Perosi "Oremus the machine, which he himself con- H.K. & S. Hotels... 123 Fro Principe Mostrum," and Cardinal trolled-British Wireless Service. Mafi pronounced the formula of in- dissolubility,

The choir sang

The Prince and Princess exchanged wedding rings, while, the chapel was filled with the notes of a hymn of re- joicing denoting the completion of the

first Italian Royal marriage celebrated according to the new rules laid down in the Lateran Treaty, making a roll-

Earlier News

IDLE LIST

Large Increase After Christmas Season

H. K. Lands .....................$ 185.

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Mr. Charles Robertson, describing

Fablic Utilities/ the situation in Egypt, said the drug evil there was causing the most

H. K. Tramwayan.....$ Peak Trams (old) ..... acute alarm. A change for the gious ceremony legally valid.

Rugby, Yesterday,

(C) worse had come over the drug

Following the Christmas season, a Star Ferries Rome, Tuesday.

large fashion in Egypt. Cocaine had

The capital had a sleepless night

increase of unemployment is been largely displaced by heroin, preparing for the morning's ceremony.

fnotified by the Ministry of Labour. China Ught... which

On December 30, the total number of H. K; Electrics was more easily smuggled The population has been, immensely

unemployed was 1,510,200. This was into the country and more easily swollen by the influx from the 206,648 more than on December 16. A

Macao obtainable retail. But the resulting vinees and abroad, and revelled amid similar increase was shown last year, Sandakan Lighti .....$ physical wreckage was more appall-blazing Illuminations till the early when the total on December 31 was H.K. Telephones ing. Very faw of the victim peoples hours.

They scrambled to Andvantage 240,576 more than that for December China Bises ....Th. 16 knew anything of drugs until they were taught to use them. The de points to see the guests arrive at the 17.

Quirinal Palace countyard, and, the It is pointed out that, owing to the S'poreTractions(Ord./ grand staircase, which has been trans-arissal of workers engaged for formed into a bower of the most ex-Christmas trade and to extended short quisite and rare flowers-Reuter

mand was created so that the chain of suppliers, right back to the fac tory, might reap their gains.

SOVIET PRISONERS FREED

Professor P. J. Noel Baker, M.P., who described what happened at the 1929 Assembly of the League of Nations in regard to the subject,

Nanking, Yesterday. sald oplum formed a difficult prò-

Chang Haush-liang reports that blem to deal with from the point of vlaw of administration; but the 1,410 Soviet prisoners held in Sungpel Internment camp were re- 'drug traffic' was incomparably more diffikult. The profits of the traffic leased on December 31, 98 in the were stupendous. It was the easiest Railway Garrison Headquarters, of all possible commodities for and 86 in the Special District llelt traffic for smuggling out of Court, set free also on the same one country into another, and for day--Canton News: Agency, distribution without capture by the

polke. It was well known that the

methods of the smugglers had been over the selling of all products of developed to a point of perfection, the manufacture and the price at It was also known that the smuggl which they were sold. But it is ing and distribution ware carried on 1 very diübtful whether world opinion by a great international gang, who is yet ready for að drastic a step ei had atupendous capital behind them. this,"

(Pref.ji/-

Industriais. time working, there is normally a large increase of unemployment immediately China Sugan.... after Christmas.

Malabon Sugar Taş

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The total number of unemployed at the end of 1928 was 10,530 less than Cald: Mag- Ord. Th that at the end of 1928-British Wire-

Canton Locs as less Service.

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