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No. 27,384 HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY

CUTTING DOWN THE THE CURE FOUND FOR

UNEMPLOYMENT?

BRITISH NAVY

FIRST LORD ON THE MINIMUM MR. THOMAS'S SCHEME: A SOUND

NEEDS OF CRUISERS

ADEQUATE LIMITATION

London. Yesterday.

BASIS FOR INDUSTRY

SUPPORT OF THE CITY

London, Yesterday..

announcement

The attitude of the Admiralty An important at the forthcoming Naval Confer-concerning steps to cope with

Junemployment through

the

re-

ence way outlined by Mr. A. Vorganisation of industry and the Alexander, First Lord, in a speech re-equipment of factories was made at Sheffield in which he pointed by Mr. J. H. Thomas at Manchester out that the British policy of a Chamber of Commerce luncheon. he Lord Privy Seal aald he was in one-Power standard was simply Position officially to say "In con- expressed at the Washington Considering steps which might be taken ference in the matter of battle to produce a better employment ships as a parity with the great-position by improving the organisa- est other naval Power, but the 'tion and equipment of British in- matter of cruisers was not so dustries, I have found that a feeling simple. After the Washington exists that manufacturers will be Conference, the "Admiralty fixed | handicapped by the bringing about the number of cruisers at 70, bas- of the necessary re-organisation and

the needs

defence re-equipment, by the fact of the.. of throughout the world for vital long continued trade depression communications, We stood out, pushed to the limits of credit they therefore, at Geneva, but a new can reasonably expect to obtain from situation had arisen through the their bankers, or which their Kellogg Pact outlawing war

bankers can reasonably be expected by all the major naval Powers. With to provide." such powerful support for peace, we were justified in anticipating a period in which armed conflicts need not be expected.

ed

Minimum Needa

review the position.

London, Later.

J

World Competition

"As the result of consultations, I have had, I am now in a position to Atate that the City of London fa deeply interested in placing indus- try upon a broad and sound basis,

1930,

THE STAR GĀZĀRS "

LAST SATURDAY RIGHT SAW ONE OF THE BEST KOSE PUNCHING EVENINGS EVER PUNCHED IN

•HONG KONG JUST BEFORE THE BIG EVENT SAT HAY (POLICE) MET, (AND VERY OFTEN TOO!) STOKER,

IRWIN (HMS KENT) IN

•WHAT WAS TO HAVE BEEN A Six ROUND EVENT, BUT SOMEWHERE

IN

THE THIRD ROUND "THE SAT

LOST ALL INTEREST AND GAVE UP BEFORE HE HAD TIME TO

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.

Eusiness

The

closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/6 9/16,

PRICE $3.00 Per Month,

"GET HIS TRUNCHEON AND WHISTLE-SEAMAN CRICHTON 4:3-EWIN

"Tits

FIGHT

WENT To

FIFTEEN

ROUNDS,

ROUNDS ONE TO FIVE WERE

• SOMETHING LIKE THE

AND

NOWE OP

THE SPECTATORS (AN-)

SEEMED TO

KNOW WHO

WAS

WINNING

"(CORNWALL) AND

(KENT) PROVIDED THE BEST NOSE,

PUNCHING OF THE EVENING.

WHILST NEXT AVE WERE VERY SIMILAR ONLY

MORE SO, AND THE

LAST FIVE BEING OF THES

KIND WERE MUCH MORE

EASY TO FOLLOW.

BUT WHAT KE WANT I Krow of Course 15 WHAT EWIN SHO WHEN HE

"THOSE IN THE #5" SEATS SAID "AM" - THOSE IN THE $32 LTY WAS TOLD HE

WHO DID SEE THE DECEMBER WARMER

TIGER?

ANOTHER SCARE IN NEW TERRITORIES

SPORTSMEN ON ALERT

Mean Humidity Above

Average

HADN'T WON? STAN30

LOOKING FOR WORK

IN COLONY

SHANGHAI "PASSES ON ITS JOB"

--

Library, Supreme Court -

tired

PERHAPS ITS EYES!

Let us examine your eyes to see if they are the reason for that tired feeling.

LAZARUS

Hong Kong's Only European Opilcian. 13, Queen's Road, Central Telephone Mr. Cooper C. 2263 for appointment.

IS THAT SO?

Thoughts Terse, Perverse-

After the Bawl is over!

L.G.P.--Inspire General Peace!

-and Worse.

Frosty weather: "The Dollar Still Sliding."

The Weather Clerk has certainly

E.D.C.W. Entertains Doubts got the wind up. Concerning Witnesses!

P.P.J.W. Please Protect Juvenile Workers!

D T.H.K.-Too Honestly Keen!

( D.B. Disperses Beggars!

T.M. Tames Many!

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W.K-Wheelmen's Knell!

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"Football Trial."-To the play- ers or the spectators?

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The sad tale of the effect of the taol has not yet. reached the tail.

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When they met Barrow last Saturday Port Vale were nearly in the cart.

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A currency expert could not be If there is a glut of silver 'tis expected to put more silver dollars not in our pockets!

in our pockets.

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There are upper storeya and supper stories in Hong Kong.

Our office boy declares he saw leo yesterday on a bar counter!

Gwen

We don't want Samoa riots to worry the New Zealand Govern-i ment.

The recent fancy dress football match at the K.F.C. was a great "draw."

D

Oplum discussions may ason be- come a drug in the Legislative

Council.

Newspaper

D

heading: "Who

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Queen's Road Central is to have a skyscraper. Not the kind so familiar at Kai Tak!

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It has been so cold that the peo- ple from the North of the Tweed feel quite at home.

In spite of his name Sir A. K. Waistel wastes nothing in the local Naval Command.

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Saya a scribe-"The cinema la every man's theatre."-If they happen to be shareholders.

Proverba, it is pointed out, are not always true-The exception proving the rule is proverbial in fact.

In a proposed new cinema we read, there are to be lifts to the

out of it.

The

"o a

with

bother

Carnera, evidently, is, that he considers boxing to be something akin to fighting.

Except for the four days preceed- Ing Christmas (during which Hong

DESTITUTE BRITONS

Kong had the first cold snap of the Two British subjects named season, the only one prior to that Taylor and Northey were produced Wants Old Colns"-Don't all dress circle.A change from ifta which has existed most this before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, to-day, speak at once.

da vagrants with no visible means week). December hos honlap aubsistence. for any, cold days. In fact, last Sergeant Whant stated that both month was warmer all round than men had come to Hong Kong from the average December, as the fol- Shanghai. In the cae of Northey he

was assisted by the "EasmJA" at Deport the illusionists and stop lowing will show:-

Shanghai for a week, after which the further vanishing of the far they could not do any more for him from almighty dollar, and he came to Hong Kong. Here he was also looked after for o'few: Clowns are at a premium in the days by the local Association and Colony-There was only one at was then advised to give himself up the K.C.C. on New Year's Day. to the Police.

The attitude

of the Board of and is ready to support any plans Admiralty, therefore, was propar- that In its opinion may lead to this' ed to agree to 50 cruisers as the end. minimum needs of the Empire

"Those in the City who have been until the next date for a confer-studying this matter are convinced ence, and the revision which was that a number of our important expected to be near 1936, hoping industries must fundamentally be that a further agreement in 1930 re-organised and modernised in would confirm and extend the pre-order to be able to produce at sent agreement. But, if unhappi- prices which will enable them to ly the International horizon of the compete with world industry. future became less clouded in, the Schemes that, in the opinion of Board of Admiralty may have to those advising the City, conform Another inhabitant of the New with this requirement will receive Territories claims to have seen the Mr. Alexander concluded by the very sympathetic consideration tiger. Whether it is supposed to be saying that the proposed reduction and co-operation of the City in the one observed by a woman kiil- would depend on agreement at the working out plans and finding the Ing a cow in the Talpo vicinity is not known. This time "Stripes" forthcoming conference on an age- necessary finance." quate limitation by other Powers.

Individual Concerns

I said to have ventured much "In the case of individual under nearer the urban districts. Japanese Interests

takings, the City will be similarly

The place is given as Taing I, a ready to help, provided the scheme small island in the north-west of A Foreign Office communique under discussion fits in as part of Hong Kong harbour, opposite Tsun .says that in

conversation at 10, the general plans for industry in Wan (which is on the road to Castle Downing

between the question

as a whole, and gives a Peak) and off the larger and per- Prime Minister and the Japanese reasonable promise that changes will haps, better known island of Chung delegation progress was made in enable the undertaking to become an

64.7 Rue. the discussion of various questions effective unit in combination and co-

Minimum

60.9

68.7 Except for a fisherman here and of special interest to Japan and operation with other similar under-there in a hut overhanging from the ed on the 23rd when the tempera- The lowest minimum was record- Great Britain which would come takings."

cliffs, Chung Hue is unpopulated. ture went down to 44.4 degrees. before the Naval Conference.-

Deliberate Offer

It is all hilly and three peaks stand The highest maximum, 78.1, occurr- Reuter.

"That is an authorised statement, almost in a line the centre, enched on the 15th. made with the authority and know-of about 1,000 feet high. A. num- Mean humidity for last month Mr. Alexander, said that Britain deliberately to the business com-

ledge of the City. It was made ber of old graves face the mainland. was 78 per cent. against a normal. would like to see capital ships less munity as a whole. What, after all, between Chung Hue and Teun Wan, per cent. against a normal of 54. Tsing I, on the other hand, lying of 67. Mean cloudiness was 68 expensive to hulld and maintain does it mean? It is for the first has a village, with a shop or two Only 143 hours of sunshine were than the battleships, involved in time, on behalf of the City, an open and a number of farmers the tonnage laid down at Wash invitation to business and fodustry is also a brick factory on the com- 174.6; none was recorded on six There recorded, as against an average of ington.. The extent to which a to come forward with real schemes paratively small piece of flat land days, three of which were the 29th, substantial reduction of destroy of organisation."-Reuter. ers was achievable depended upon

stretching down towards the narrow 30th and 21st. straft. the measure of success regarding

In no place was more than an the reduction of submarines.

inch of rainfall registered.

The was difficult to persuade other

normal for the month is 1.018 Powera to consent to

inches. Returna follow:---

Street

Submarine Reduction

F It

COLD SNAP

the com- Reported Deaths From

plete abolition of the submarine. but it ought to be possible to have some measure of reduction.—Reu- ter.

Favourable Reaction

Washington, Yesterday.

Exposure

"

A Pig Carried Or

It was on Taing J, which has no is to speak of, that "the tiger"

was seen to kill and make off with a pig belonging to one of the farm-.

ers.

Although the rain, it is predicted, This seems improbable-Chung will stop, indicating fine weather, Hue less no because of the better the cold snap continues. The fore-cover it would give to a tiger. But, cast for the 24 hours ending at noon as far sa is known, there is no to-morrow is:-

domestic pig on Chung Hus..... Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's de- "North winds, strong: overcast at At any rate a number of Chinese claration before leaving Losale- first, then clearing."

sportsmen, having heard the report, mouth on Wednesday has caused The foregoing applies to Hong are making preliminary Investiga. a very favourable reaction in off- Hong, the adjacent coast and For- tions with a view to going out on a cial quarters here. Whitehouse moss Channel.At 11.10 am. to- tiger shooting expedition.. circles stated that the American day the Royal Observatory.re- The last tiger shot in the New "delegation will be prepared to ported:"Another anti-cyclone has Territories was in 1915. "meet such proposals at least half formed over China. Strong mon- way, while the tentative British soon along the S.E. coast of China and American preliminary agree-and over the N. China Sen "g ment apparently contemplates Last night seemed to be colder fixing the maximum American than yesterday. At any rate the cruiser tonnage at B15,000. It is thermometer has shown a blight believed that the administration drop Official figures follow*---- hopes to negotiate a treaty bring

ing the maximum below 800,500 We

SHIP HELD UP

Sequel to Collision in

West River

Minimum Occurred at

7 am No settlement has yet been 45.85

8. a.m

reached regarding the British ¿48.6

steam launch Tung On, owned by 46.77 87m. Mr. Hung Hing-tat of Hong Kong, destroyers and submarines may are belleved to have auccumbed to ton milltary authorities at Wuchow women in the Colony which was detained by the Can-

tons, which would be reached f

the fifteen cruiser building pro-

lieved that a substantial cut of

gramme is completed. It is bà

also prove 8gr ble to the Unit the cold. A coolle, of

ed Staterer American

at

Reuter's years of age, who is ons

KOWLOON BURGLARY

Boad

in West Point

of street Cleepers w

ed to have perished from

The other death occ Streat in the Ko

50 after a collision in which a Chin army | 988-commandeered launch was

dead sunk at Shiphing, e

Intil" az amicable. Betttlement een attempted, no steps will and be taken to arrange for the clear-

ance of the vessel (from-Wuchow,

Royal Naval communique states.

[The Wachow, authoriti

Mean for Normal Last Month December

Maximum ..... Mean

$8.9

€7.7

62.0

No. of

Days Inch

42.

Royal Olmervatory, Kowloon 8 Botanical Gardens, Hong

Kong Matilda Hospital, Mount

Kellott

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A.

22

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said that he had worked on

In regard to Taylor, the Sergeant A resident wants the trams to ship of the Pure Cane and Molasses Jewish Cemetery."-Too deep for abe extended to the "bottom of the

Co., and missed his vessel in Hong us! for a while at the Sailors' Home and Kong, He had been looked after,

10

A European motorist. has had

work on ships to get out of Hong tions then was also advised to go to the a fine Sample of what follows Police. Both men were willing to breaches of the motoring regula

Kong.

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gistrate eatd. that he did not see pointed a new standing Law Com- why Shanghai should "pass its Job mittee. Why not buy a few more Speaking about Northey, the Ma- The Legislative Council has ap-

on to us." It was just as dificult chairs? to get employment here as in Shanghai.

Speech at St. George's Ball: Sergeant Whant eaid that appar "We want more of the spirit of ently, the idea of sending Northey St. George," We certainly do in on to Hong Kong was to get him a this weather. step nearer to Australió.

Mr. Hamilton then remarked on Apropos the small-pox scare no Taylor's lack of warm clothing and one can blame the St. John. Am- inquired from the Sergeant if any bulan Corps for being so fond

thing could be done for him.

The Sergeant said that he under-

of pin ficking

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Royal H.K. Golf Club, RN. Hospital, Wanchal

Fanling

stood that Taylor had some clothing The Knight of Grace of St. Police Station, Taipo 6

at the Satlers Home. That would John Order can still do his work 63 be fetched and if it were found that during the day with the same good meter at mean sea level was ther on appeal on his behalf could

The lowest reading of the baro-It was not suitable to the cold wea-grace as before, 2.887 inches at 3 pm on the be made to the Benevolent Society.

His Worshly committed both men, to the House of Detention.

PIRACY SUSPECTS

15th.

The maximum gust velocity, as recorded by the Dines-Baxendelt anemograph, was 86 miles per hour at 12.59. p.m. on the lat and 647 a.m, on the 18th.

Suffering In Peking

Bhanghat, Yesterday. The severity as cold weather in: Peking during the recent days has caused the deaths of numerous persons and animals. The mercury has fallen to 14 degrees, and the Yellow River is frozen Canton News Agency

Even the Scottish kiddies at the K.G.C. children's sports gare zares hearty cheers to Lady Clementi for distributing the prizes..

A cinema here with accommo

Another Formal Appear-dation for 12,000 people will sure ly be some cinema-unless it 15 meant they'll gain in relays,

ance in Court

were taken into custody following the the European YMCA will have The two Chinese suspects who Those in the swim assert that attempted piracy on board the to wait till the financial tide turns Douglas as. Halching, made an- before they get a awimming bath other appearance before Mr. EW

Hamilton, this morning in connec. So we are not to have a Naval tion with the charge against them Volunteer Reserve Why mot of murder, with others, of Eran divert the proposed Government Kingsley Woodward, third officer of grant to the Sailors & Soldiers the vessel.S

Home and the Seamen's Institute? ARRUELA R. Andrewed, Assistant -

MISSIONARY RELEASED

Rankowesterday: The Rey H. AK Sand, of Misslon, who was its or communists

The

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temperature, the dollar, and the water supply are all dwindling. Good job the Peak doesn't follow suit.

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The split in the Labour Party at Home is, described as "Labour's Civil War," but the Government won't think It even civil.

Overheard in a Kowloon street: "You've no idea what a man'll do when he's courting a giri, night, I found him cleaning his teeth."

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Last

From a report of the Agricul- tural Show: "A band Is an es sential part of an English flower show." Usually a Band of Hope of prizes.

□ mm Li "lost his head." That's all O.K. Stribling complained that Carnera

with us, bat wasn't Stribling try... ing to knock it off his shoulders all the time?

· - ·

"slimming" and dieting. is said to The craze among women" for

be seriously affecting the potato consumption-Eve still apparently prefers to fall for an apple.

At the Agricultural Show B number of exhibitors 'stbod and onions."They had seen the "anxious guard over their cabbages scribes from "the City" before.

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A suspected man was arrested... through his photo, being wireleased across the Atlantic.--Ha can

scarcely be blamed for not liking the arresting qualities of the like.

11066,

at billiarde recentlyAmbitious Lindrum made a break of 3,262 amateurs who endeavour to take their cue from him will find they this Colony. have a dificult record to break in.

Asserts a local scribe: "Charles Morgan, the dramatic critic of the London Times, told me he was Sad to read in a local sheet that Aunt Strangely enough

absolutely bored by "Charley's ating the total number of unemployed Rey, Charles

the Spurgeon and

Crown Bollitor, applied for another week's formal remand that the Crowd would be have a date fixed for hearing

asa kiter next Saturday,

inted

ady to at Home at the end of 1929 was Dan Leno told us exactly the of the $10,680 less than that at the endgame.

NORS DISMISSED

of 1928, But that dollar might come in handy!

Some luable statistica: 877

Beota giti

Ito an Amari

If you see an extra smart Chin- student ese, driving amator lorry

thecan Colony he

those 6,038 supersti

Generals

possession of. And we our this banf that

Tésre would