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The famous public school play

YOUNG WOODLEY

By John Van Draten.

SO THIS IS LOVE

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Hong Kong. Tuesday, April 15, 1930.

Budget Bombshell.

.:

News in Brief.

The forthcoming wedding is an i nounced of Edgar, Ledger Williams, onginear, Empress Lodge, - Mody Road, Kowloon, to Norah Coasar, en route to the Colony by the 8.8. Antenor.

to-niorrow.

TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1930.

NAVAL CONFERENCE Draft of Treaty Ready to Be Signed..

"POOR LIFT BOY" Chinese Who Signed on Blank Paper.

LOAN TRANSACTION.

A Chinese was this morning sued by an Indian money-lender named

neas.

U.S. DELEGATES STAY ON.

Rugby, Yesterday.

At a plenary meeting of the Len-

Mr. S. V. Boxer has been appoint- ed to get as Registrar of the Uni-Mangal on promissory notą for ị đón Naval Conference to-day this versity during the absence on leave $50. The defendant claimed that Prime Minister, presiding, reports of Mr. W. B. Finnigan, who.is pro-

he was not the actual borrower and were presented and were approved In ceeding.où nine months' Home leave that he had merely signed as a wit-order to enable the work of draft- Although the note was for Ing the treaty to be proceeded with. $50; his fried, who borrowed the It was hoped that the 'treaty would be completed and presented for sign- afure at the plenary meeting on Thursday. This has been found Impossible, but it is intended to halda final plenary meeting for this purpose on Tuesday of this week.

Mr. M. J. van Schreven, Vice-money, had in fact received only $10. Consul of the Netherlands, hagen The paper on which they attested attached to the Netherlands Consu- their signatures was a blank one, late-General in Hong Kong from to- and he did not know what the In- day. Mr. II. Bos, 2nd class inter dan had filled in afterward.. preter attached to the Consulate, went on Hame leave on April 8. i

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Plaintiff said that he advanced the money to defendant. The actual sum borrowed was $35, and the rea- A Chinese was at the Kowloon | son why he did not ask defendant to Magistracy this morning, charged | sign for double the amount in ac- with assaulting two other men. It cordance with practice was because Was intimated that Mr. J. M. he knew the defendant to be an d'Alnude-Remedios-would-proac- honest man.. cute. Accused was remanded for a week ọn $25 bail,

Sergeant Farrell, of the Hunghom Police Station, yesterday executed a warrant under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance at the ground floor of 36. Pau Cheung Street and seized, a Quantity of fire works and manu- facturing apparatus. A Chinese who was found on the premises was

hrrested.

CORRESPONDENCE.

A BOXING DECISION,

by

Defendant said that he was a lift boy and that his monthly wages was $16. He had only a few ten cent bita in his pocket and he prayed his Lordship to allow him to pay off the debt in small instalments.

An order of $3 monthly was made,

BUDGET BOMBSHELL.

(Continued from Page 1.)

The experts, meanwhile, will sit twice daily, excluding holiday periods. The Prime Minister said In Parliament that he hoped that the first report would be reviewed to.. day.

It is stalon-that-the head of the American delegation Mr. H. L. Stim- son, asked the 'United States Lines to defer for 48-hours the departure of the liner Leviathan by which his delegation was to leave to-morrow.

Questioned In the Commons as to whether the negotiations, for the in terpretation of Article 16 of the Covenant were still proceeding, and whether he could make any state-.

ment the Premier said that it was in negotiation and to Increase scale from £250,0000 onwards to reach the rate of 50 per cont.-

Earlier Cables.

pledge to remove all existing fiscal British Wireless Service. duties, but the Government Intand- ed to do so before. this Parliament

London, Yesterday. ended four years hence (Loud Naval Conference lasted twenty-five.

The fifth plenary session of the laughter and cheers),

minutes. Mr. MacDonald, presiding, Faid its business was formally to pass reporta by the committee of experts and Arst committee. A number of these

J

Brewers Agree. [To the Editor, Chim Mail.)

Mr. Snowden said there would dyed Blue or Red according to the Sir, In the

be minor alterations in the stamp were agreed reports, but subject to the write-up favour worn by-the Chancellor "Bantam" on Saturday night's

duties coating £250,000, also the Italian delegation's general reservation and his henchmen on the Govern boxing, considerable stress is laid alterations in regard to licences on made at the opening of the conference, on the question of a foul or series motor cycles, commercial vehicles, The first committee's first report can- ment enches. Permanent ad: of fouls during the main event. and petrol electric vehicles costingtained many reservations, the most im visers of varying degrees in the Where "Bantam", has got his £20,000 this year. This left him to portant of which was by the Japanese,

and referred to transfers between des Treasury are merely figure heads ideas of boxing from is difficult find £31,714,000. › in relation

to understand, but he certainly to the bill of fare could do with a course of instruc-mediately by three shillings a barrel, the first committee on April 12 reach The beer duty would be raised im-troyers and light cruisera. Hereupon Mr. Stimson rose and announced that served up by the most democration on refereeing before starting Brewers had assured him that the ed en agreement on this point. tic of autocratie Chancellors. To to criticise. The body punching price and strength would not be

Mr. MacDonald then ran rapidly suggest that the Budget, and the put in by Rowles was as fine an affected. This would yield £2,750,- through five other reports, which the exhibition of solar plexus hitting 000. In the current financial year committee and plenary session parad whole bag of tricks miscalled the as has been seen in the City Hall he would propose legislation to pre- unanimously, but the first report was Treasury, should be definitely for many a long day. This form vent the avoidance of estate duty merely notert. divorced, from politics and Parties of hitting is sadly neglected' by by the formation of private comthe reports would enable them to pro

Mr. MacDonald said the adoption of and be entrusted solely to finan-contests staged in Hong Kong by single premium insurance; also which he now hoped would be ready for the majority of participants in panles, and the avoidance of surtaxceed with the drafting of the treaty, cial experts would doubtless be and as a rule is, lost sight, of by legislation in regard to the liability signature on April 22-Reute rank heresy. Even so, that is no most so called boxing fans who of non-residents trading in Eng- reason why the taxpayer should appear to delight in watching two land to Income Tax.

contestants knocking each other's be engulfed in the vortex for ever heads off. (This method of box- and a day on the uneconomical ing appeals to some fans but not and unbusinesslike plea of "olo to those who understand the fin-

er points of boxing.) custom," which is as annihilating

The writer was in as favour and as crushing in its effects in ble a position as could be desir- Fritain as in the Orient.

ed and distinetly saw the blows tainly were not fouls, that are in question.

Before the War the taxation per head in Great Britain work-

ት

Income Tax.

New Land Taxation,

SHORTHAND.

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1.

50 words a minute, Choy Yuen- sheuk.

.

standard rate of Income Tax

Mr. Snowden sald that the Local Students' Successes. would, be increased from four in Kowloon. shillings to four shillings and sixpence, with some protection for small

At the examination in Pitman's incomes, so three-shorthand held at the technical In- quarters of income tax pay stitute, Kowloon, on January 20, the * They edrers would not be affected. All following were successful: '

property in the country would be Speed.-9 worda a minute, Abdul The distress evinced by. Mariae reassessed for a ed out at £15 2a. 8d. per head-Smith was

property tax. | Khalid Ismail, Mak U-mui. the natural conse- The income tax increase would 80 words'a minute, Cheung Cho- an increase of no less than £11quence of solar plexus blows when produce £21,000,000 this year,yin, Kwok Yik-on, Bertha A. Rome 11s. 4d. since 1914!

that part of the anatomy is left The surtax rate would be frierens-dios, Taufik Ben All Now the

nguarded; the object of the solar ed, producing £7,500,000 this year. Chancellor intends to increase the plexus punch. A couple of blows The death duties

70 words a minute, Kam Year- on estates ex-watt, Mohammed Izhag Razach. duty on beer by three shillings a were struck after the gong but ceeding £2,000,000 would be, in- 60 words a minute, Emily.. Fox, Critics of finance may be barrel-and fondly believes the injustice to Rowles it should be creased from 40 to 50 per cent. Leung. Wah-ping. Ng Luk-ming, expected to wallow in the Budget brewers when they assert that the set up he most probably did noted. The death duties would yield Kam Yean-watt.

anid that owing to the hubbub Other rates also would be Increas- Carmen, N. da Silva, Herela Silva, figures as presented by the price to the consumer shall not be hear the gong. These blows, be- £3,000,000 this year. The total Labour Chancellor of the thereby affected-to raise the ing of the 'one-two variety, were estimated revenue was £789,000,- Exchequer until their own Income-tax (that most iniquitous practically on their way when the 000, and the estimated surplus

gong sounded and apparently did £2,236,000.

Theory (Stage II)-Abdul Khalid gourmandising nature proves and inquisitiorial of all forms of not trouble Smith.

Ismail, Awtar Singh Sekhon, their undoing. The plain man¡ taxation) from four shillings to

Samuel Bolshaw, Che Bun-wong, Ivy Further, to say that two-thirds of Mr. Snowden said that the mo-Chenalloy, Dost Mohamed Khan, has no great, respect for figures: four shillings and six peace; to the spectators were disappointed is ment had arrived when definite W. H. G. Hirst, Kam Wai-tam, Kwok columns and columns may be pro- increase the surtax; to raise infer that they were against the de- land values, but valuation was an

a bit ambiguous. If it is intended to action must be taken in regard to Yik-on, Kwong Tsang, Mohamed duced by Chaticellors and Chan- the death duties from

Hassain, Ernie Manuel Sahmet, 40 cision, this is not correct. cellors' critics, but they leave him to 50 per cent.; and to tax aliens barking dogs creating the greatest ginning would be made at the Gregorioi Silva, Ting King, Yuen Like indispensable preliminary. A be- Sheik Abdulla Ramjahn, Gustave confounded and confused. All trading in the United Kingdom. row, a few dissenters did "boo and earliest possible moment. Land Chin-fan, Yuen Sheuk-choy, Yung that concerns him in the net dif- With the exception of the last

hiss" but not for long."

values must be dealt with separ

Wan-li, Wing Sing-cheung. ference that a new Budget will named penalty on alien traders, a good fighter and, profiting by his would provide the basis of taxa- Marine Smith appears to be quite ately in a Valuation Bill, which

A SAFE RIFLED. exercise on his weekly wage.the proposals cannot but be re-experienes on Saturday night, should tion and rates, The Government Already practically blown off his garded as the offspring of Party which should prove a good drawing for the community ashare In the Hon-man,

vadeavour to fix up a return match intended to use valuation to secure In a report to the Police, Tang fect by the Budget blows during and politics rather than of ex-

accountant of the and since the War, he may feel pediency and reason.

conatantly growing value of land. Kwong Man Hing wine shop, 89, Onerous Last, but not least, Mr. Murdoch is in the absence of any unforeseen Wuhu Street, stated that whilst that there is no use trying to taxation can never be synony-one of the fairest and ablest boxing calamity, no new taxation should he was asleep during the night. eke out a miserable existence in mous with national prosperity. referees in the Colony.

be required in 1931.

some one took the safe key from "the dear Home land." What Sops to certain classes, pour.

He claimed that he had placed his jacket pocket, and, opening the extra taxation are even higher wages-if he is middle-class, or rich, must fail to

on the shoulders safe, stole $180. of those best able to bear it. He fortunate enough to secure them relieve the birden on the country

had imposed no direct taxes on "INDECENT LITERATURE. a goodly proportion of "the as a whole. In the vicious name

industry and had not taken any- thing from the poorest: rise" lù to go to feed a Chan- of politics the United Kingdom ap. cellor's voracious appetite for re- pears to be sinking deeper ane 'YOUNG WOODLEY" venue?. Now, with taxation to be deeper into a financial abyss. The found to make up an estimated deficiency of £42,264,000, the plain wage earner may well imagine that the last typhoon signal has boomed forth and that the de- bacle is imminent.

card.

Yours, etc..,

J. 6. S.

Hong Kong April 15.

Salisbury Co.

The House agreed to the Bud get resolutions and adjourned the

debate.

What Churchill Thinks.

Charged before Mr. T. S. Whyte- Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy. this morning with being in the possession of obscene pictures and Zooks, a Chinese was, remanded Mr. Winston Churchill, the Chan- for a week on bail of $100. Det.- cellor of the Exchequer in the last Insp. M. J. Murphy prosecuted. Government, said that they must have time to consider the full im- plications and character of Mr. Snowden's grave and formidable proposals.

Ten Years Ago

(From the "China_Mall"-

April. 15, 1920.)

To-day's dollar is worth -4/

day of rescue-so promising (ac-To Be Produced by the cording to the politicians) when merry bella hailed the Armistice appears further off than ever.

TREAT FOR TO-MORROW. The mills of Chancellors grind

"Young Woodley the famous play with a celerity and a torturing J.Van Druten, which played to It is the fortune of tax that threaten to complete the London will be produced by the Salising Mr. Snowden, said that his towded houses at the Savoy Theatre Mr. Lloyd George in congratulat payers that Budgets are the play misery and the despair of the un-ury Players at the "Star Theatre on speech had had the same shatter 736. things of the politicians. Conser happy yet all necessary taxpayered by the Prefect in a public School on some members of the opposition Vednesday, The "Situation" is creating detonation as a six luch shall vative, Labour, and Libera Chan- Mere verbal praise or dispraise, falling in love with his House master's cellors give rein in turn to their for ever based on the respective taken by Mfr. John Mille, who gave auch Mr. Snowden stated that he pro-granting the 40 per cent. Increase. The Chinese shipyards and re- wife. The part of Young Woodley is

Tax on Foreigners. whims and fancies in the realm of hues of Party favours, cannot a brilliant performance as Raleigh in posed to amend the law so as to asked for.

pairing shopa are reported as high finance. The ingredients of assist one iota in the squaring "Journey's End."

Bricklayers and car their Budget are really decided on of the family budget, the figures sent the great musical-comedy "hit" of whereuador a foreign principal The butchers

enable reciprocal arrangements to ponters have given notice that On Thursday the Company will pre- be made with foreign countries they will want a 20 per cent, rise. General Election days how they of which are over more alarming the Gafety Theatro "So This Is Love," would be able to income tax only discontented, and, agitating.

are mentioned as. are mixed and cooked into an and formidable to the individualne created, the original parts in respect of his profits on the sale Rumours of sabotage on the petising or revolting fare fe de than the millions glibly inter- The Company will sail for Shanghai England in cases where the agent reached us, apparently based on Lupino parts of lila goods through an agency in Peak Tramway machinery have termined by the total amount of woven into a Budget produced by on Saturday for a few weeks to: sold from stock or exercised his suspicion only, and on the queer votes cast for this or that political a politically-trained Chancellor of Blanic Hale's great revue, on their re power of concluding contracts on behaviour of the engines yester

and will produce "Mr. Cinders." The whole Treasury is, the Exchequer.

behalf of the principal-Reuter day.

Party

turn to the Colony.