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ment and a world Peace that shall never dawn in our day and genera- tion. It is all very well to be in the limelight, to entertain foreign delegates, to get photographs and top lines in the daily papers but serious statesmen think not about such baubles. Publicity has no appeal for them...

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1930,

A Chinese was this morning BRITAIN'S PROMISE LOCAL JOCKEY AS

charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell,

at the Central Magistracy, with a certain offence against a married woman, and with harbouring her. On the application of Mr. Frank | X d'Almada, the hearing of the case was Axed for Friday afternoon. Accused was allowed ball in the sum of $500.

TO WORKERS.

GOVERNMENT TO RATIFY EIGHT. HOURS' TREATY.

WORLD CONFERENCE.

COMPLAINANT.

CHINESE FITTER WHO STOLE HIS CAR LICENCE.

"PICKED IT UP."

Paris, Yesterday. Mr. F. M. L. Soares, a gentleman April 26 has been fixed as the That the British Government will rider, was the complainant at the Feast of the Blessed Don Bosco, proceed with the utmost speed with Kowloon Magistracy this morning but as this date is Saturday in the steps necessary to ratify to in a case in which Wong Tuk (42) Albis, the Salesian Institute will ratify the Washington Eight Hours' atter, was charged before Mr. hold the ceremony on May 4. Convention, was promised by Miss T. S. Whyfe-Smith with the theft There will be Community Mass, Margaret Bondfield at this morn- of a driver's licence, within the with Fervorino, at 7,30 a.ming's session of the governing body past ten days, the property of the Solemn High Mass at 9.30 a.m. and of the International Labour Office, complainant. The defendant was al- Vespers, Procession, and a sermon

ternatively charged with receiving. by the Rev. Father Granelli follow-

In answer to the charge, the de- ed by Benediction of the Most

fendant said that he picked up the Blessed Sacrament. at 4 p.m.

licence outside the Peninsula Hotel, and kept it.

STABBING

AFFRAY.

Three Chinese Appear in Court.

Yesterday afternoon Mr. T. S.

sitting here. She said that the passage of the Government's Bill would depend on the limitations im- nosed on the Labour Government's position in the House of Commons, but the measuro .wuuld be among the first of the important bills to which the Government was pledg-

cd.

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No Right To It, His Worship said that he would take that as a plea of guilty to stealing, na picking up anything was the same as a theft. He had no right to it, and defendant should have handed it back to the Police.

Detective Sergeant Naughton

was

Miss Bondfield dwelt on the in- creasing, need of an International agreement as regards workers and hoped that the British Govern- ment's action would stimulate and stated that the defendant accelerate the establishment of in-searched-in-the-street-yesterday morning by a detective and the licence was found in his pocket, wrapped up with two other motor- ing appliances.

| Whyte-Smith--took evidence -in ---a

case in which three Chinese ap-ternational regulations-Reuter. peared on serious charges arising out of an armed robbery which was

committed at Ngan Chin Wai, HELENA MAY. Kowloon City. on April 12. The victims of the robbery were a Chl- Attempt at an Intelligent

Report.

MR. ORE'S PUPILS.

nese and his wife, and in a struggle with the intruders, the man was stabbed in the shoulder. The rob- bers decamped after about two or three minutes, taking with them a basket containing money and other No greater tribute could have property. They were chased but been payed to the tutorial skill of | were lost sight of in a, padí field. Mr. Harry Ore than the finished Eventually first accused was style in which some of his pupils arrested by a watchman of the performed pianoforte pieces at the Takuling Rifle Range. He had in Helena May Institute last even-

his possession the basket stolening. The Chinese pupila gave

Reading defendant's .record he had four previous convictions.. sheet, his Worship pointed out that

including 14 days for unlawful possession, and one month and six weeks respectively for larceny,

Sentence of six months' hard labour was passed.

JAPANESE PRINCE. Arriving in Colony on Friday.

ON WAY TO EUROPE.

from the house. Second accused quite lively and inspiring Inter- was arrested by the Police on In-rretations of Chopin, Beethoven, formation given by No. 1, and third and Liszt, but Miss Gladys Heard's accused on information given by the was easily the best performance. male victim of the robbery who told Mr. Sergei Stupin, who played the Police that he knew the man Popper's "Hungarian Rhapsody" Their Iniperial Highness the who had stabbed him and gave his exquisitely on the 'ecilo, stands in Prince and Princess Takamatsu a class apart. Mr. Ore himself will arrive here, on their way to played two short pieces by Europe, by the a.s. Kashima Maru Schumann with his customary on Friday.

name as Hong Hung.

The case was adjourned.

GUN CASE.

(Contiuned from Page-1.)

Even if battleships were to be obliterated from the, Navy list, to-morrow the need for the Singa- pore Base for cruisers, destroyers,

What is a "Missile". Dealing with the word "missile" and other craft would 'still exist.

in the Ordinance, Mr. Rendall'sub- For these the Base could naturally mitted that it can have only one be easily adapted-more easily, in meaning, and that is the same as

"shot" fact, than for a depot for airships

or "bullet." The cork used in the gun in Court could and seaplanes. The latter could be fired only a few yards at the be a natural complement of any most, and then it required eon' development, but certainly not a siderable skill to shoot it in a substitute. It is all very well to harm, and therefore could not be given direction. It could do no

state that those Dominions which included in the meaning of the

quiet confidence.

We are unable to give a longer criticism, since our representative was permitted to enter the hall only on the condition that he gave "an intelligent report." Apart unable to "report" music. fron the intelligence test, he is

NUMBER, PLEASE !

More About Our Telephones.

Ltd., 36-38, Southampton Street, contributed-to-the cost of the-Ordinance--although it was telephones amount to,

SINGAPORE BASE.

before Hong only a

fixed...

At the

The Prince and Princess will be guesta of honour at the luncheon given by local Japanese Consul and Mrs. Yoshida. The Officer Ad- ministering the Government and Mrs. Suuthorn will give a dinner in their Imperial Highness's honour at Government House.

Prince's Career. His Imperial Highness Prince Nobuhite, the third son of the late Emperor Taisho, was born on Janu- ary 3, 1905; assumed the family name of Takamatsu in July, 1913.

In 1911 the Prince entered the Primary Department of the Peers' School, and after finishing the third year course of the Secondary De- partment of the school at the end of March, 1920, entered the Naval

"Every subscriber his own opera- tor" That is really what automatic busiest time of the day bome 90 Academy in May of the same year. Hong Kong Telephone Co.'s Ex-July, 1924, His Imperial Highness telephone girls are operating in the Graduating from the academy in changes at Central, Kowloon, and became a midshipman and

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Base shall be consulted weapon that was capable of pro jecting a missile. The direction any decision is reached.

of the missile fired from this gun -Kong is not a Dominion, depended upon how the cork was Hong Kong. Wednesday, April 30, 1930. tiny Colony, but even Hong Kong

The Licence, Question.

Peak, manipulating the various keya ordered to serve on board H.M.S. would never have contri-

Speaking on the point of get-

and cords neccssary to establish Asama and afterward on board the buted £200,000 had it been ting licences for these guns, br. connection between the calling and Nagato, possible to. foresee the Rendali; said that supposing that the called subscribers. It takes On December 1, 1925, he was com- wrecking polley of the Labour defendant had been to the Licens-the Company three months' inten-missioned

Sub-Lieutenant, 2nd Government.

Ing Office he would have taken the sive training to get each operator Class in the Imperial Japanese The Base is as Chinese clerk's statement that a

able to manipulate reasonably well, Navy and was decorated with the No surprise need be created at essential to the safety of Hong licence was not necessary as sald that she is a good operator. mum, being transferred to H.M.S. and a year passes before it can be Grand Cordon of the Chrysanthe- the report in a London paper that Kong, and of ita trade routes as to thoritative. "In my саве, of

those of New Zealand and Aus-head, and I have no licence."

course, I went to the fountain-

After May 3, however, during each Fuso on the same day the follow- the Government will soon con-

of the busy hours of the day aping year to the Furutaka. sider the future of the Singapore tralia, or even India. Anything Mr. Rendali added that it was made, and made by many people courses of the Torpedo School and proximately 12,000 calls will be On completing 'the ordinary Base. We are informed that in that lessens the natural precau- ridiculous to suggest that a view of the agreement at the tions in time of peace for war or

licence was necessary for such a

who have never operated a telephone the Naval Gunnery School, the in their lives, except to turn themum, being transferred to H.I.M.S.; Naval Conference not to replace for an international crisis not of boys' toys. He pointed out the handle and call the girl.

gun, which was the most popular

Hiei in 1927. In the same year he the battleship tonnage until 1936. tantamount to war must be de trouble that parents would get The correct oporation of the promoted to the rank of Sub- Government circles are inclined to precated in the strongest language into if they wished to give a pop automatic telephone is the duty of Lieutenant, let Class, and started on the view that Singapore as a possible. Give Singapore a depot gun as a birthday present to their the subscriber, and therefore it is a visit to Australian ports on board The the Yakumo of the Training Squar battleship base is no longer neces- for airships and seaplanes by all to apply for a licence, then pro- Telephone Co. lesue simple instruc-dron.

children. They would first have imperative that he learn sary. Consequently a plan will means. The expenditure shall duce the licence when buying the tions in their Directory telling sub- After the voyage, the Prince was be considered for adapting the never be grudged in any scheme gun, and the children would have scribera how the telephone should be attached to H.M.S. Haruna- in work already done to a depot for of Imperial communications. We to carry their licences every time used, but all the printing in the February, 1929, and In September of

they went out with the guns.

world is not so efficacious as making the same year was ordered to be on airships and seaplanes in a scheme must have the air sense as well as He asked the Magistrate to say

a couple of trial calls on a demon- the Naval General Staff, and la of inter-Imperial communications. a naval sense but the latter that pop-guns did not came under stration model.

atill in the office.

# It looks as if automatic telephones It is added that the Dominions cannot be Jettisoned at the mere the definition of the Ordinance.

His Imperial Highness married. | bidding of politicians' in Britain.

Police Objections.

have come to Hong Kong to stay, Princess Kikuko on February4 which contributed to the outlay on.

Mr. Murphy sald that the just the same as they have all over 1980. the Base will be consulted before

The sooner this is brought home Police view was that shooting the world; therefore it is not much to the Labour Government the galleries were undesirable, and use sighing for the time when the a decision is reached.

better. "Let the Wreckers keep could acquire a lot of practice in blame.

that the people attending them operator was there to take the their hands off the Singapore the use of arms, and in view of excepting in very rare casca, wil The only person to blame, Base and stick to parish pump the fact that arms similar to the be yourself, If your call goes wrong. politics!

one produced in Court had been Make An effort therefore use for intimidation, it was pos-visit the demonstration_model_in sible that the suggestion. might the Telephone Co.'s offices at Ex- accur to some of the people using chang Building, fourth floor, and these galleries. Therefore he most of your problems will be asked the Magistrate to rule that solved.

News in Brief

it came under the Ordinance.

Ten Years Ago

[From the "China Mail"

April 30, 1920.).

To-day's dollar is worth 4/- 84d.

The Gazette to-day gives the newly revised traffic regulations. We observe

The Labour Government ap parently envisages a period when all battleships will be obsolete- that year by year this battleship and that shall be scrapped and never replaced, not even in 1936. Otherwise, how can it reconcile its opinion that Singapore is no longer necessary as a battleship

The Magistrate said that be did on behalf of his four clients to that a driver may pass a tram-car, on base? In view of its past record The Chind Mail is asked to state not know what was the real ob- technical offences, and they were either side provided that the road is in relation to the Singapore Base that owing to the death of the jection to shooting, galleries, and also fined $1 each.

clear ahead. We think they should proprietor in India, the Kashmir he would not like to think that Mr. Murphy asked for an order have added the words: "And provided any action taken now by the Silk Store and Bombay Silk Store they were undesirable merely be for the defendants to cease carry the car is not visibly stopping of p- Labour Government cannot come are closed to-day.

cause they might suggest ideas, ing on the gallery, Nat

preaching # recognised stopping as a surprise. It is quite capable

However, he must find that pop-

Mr. Rendall: I presume if they place." guns did technically come under even of scrapping all the work The Wali Hing Cheing, wine and the definition in the Arma and hitherto done on the Base and spirit skop, of Eastern Street, West Ammunition Ordinance. There writing off the entire cast of that Point, were yesterday summoned before he convicted defendent, and work, Its folly is only exceeded fore. Mr. A. W G. H. Grantham, imposed a nominal fine of $1.

at the Chitral Magistracy, Mr. Rendall: I want to apply by its ignorance of our nuval

for attempting to defraud the for a summons against Bincefe's Lin the Orient. It is atterly Government by tempering with for selling a pop-gun without a incapable taking a long view, duty-paid labels affixed to dars of licence,

tuation. All that it wine from Aberdes). The licenses. of the

hors-Found Gullty, de of the shop and a foki were both The Magistrate said he could do cares about is the wooing of convicted and fined $1,000 and $5000 notor miandmed popularity respectively. A second foki was

ew of the Magistrate's and on the sweet name of disarma-discharged "

Rendall pleaded Krullty”,

The China Mail bas warned the Gov- get licences they will carry on.ernment and motorists before of this Mr. Murphy: No licences will vary necessary precaution, usual in be issued..

well organised cities, and when Mr. Grantham: In that case motor car does get somebody stepping there is no need for an order. off a tram, we shall remind them again.

The confacation of the gun is

Regulation 30, says a driver shall not Court was ordered by the Magia carry a corpse in a public vehicle? Is trate automatically.S

this a hint that drivers need not stop The sixth defendant, Ip Chiuto pick up the corpses they manufan-

turet was then charged with running. We hope, however, that it is under- gallery at 122, Des Voeux Road, stool that in the event of a rikislik fero Central, where sixteen pop-guns dying while riding, the onus will be on were found. He pleaded guilty" the polles to prove, If they prosecute.

nd, was also fined $1.

the puller that he knew of t