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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1930.
FIREMEN HURT.
IMPROVES.
AT AN. END.
UNUSUAL ACCIDENT AT DRILL.
Civil Disobedience a Big Mistake.
All Demands Met in Full.
MAN STRUCK BY LANDER.
MOSLEMS LIE LOW
RED PROPAGANDA ?
Two firemen were injured, one of them seriously, as n result of an London, Yesterday.
The un on the National
and unusual accident during fire drill. The Government of India's Commercial Savings Bank, in Des at the Central Fire Station this review of the situation last week Vieux. Central, which commenced morning. was read by Mr. Wedgwood Benn
in the House of Commons which last week, and assumed rather The men
some reason an
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. The he closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/3.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
это
Dainty Epcotasses
N. LAZARUS Ophthalmic Optician '13' Queen's Road Central
TRADE WITH TUNG WAH SUICIDE. MEN OF THE LAST DANGERS OF NAVAL
CHINA
MEASURES FOR A REVIVAL.
PATIENT WHO SUFFERED FROM CONSUMPTION.
VERDICT AT INQUEST.
ECONOMIC POLICY returned by a Coroner's jury who
ICE AGE.
COMPETITION.
Sir A. Keith on Finds in Senate Urged to Ratify
Moravia.
the London Treaty.
WHITE MAN'S PIONEERS.
just such an emergency--which is day, replying to Mr. Harry Day around the neck. It started three the number of times Northern and
the mortuary a bruise was found wide difference of opinion as
and
ear. The woman was
AVOIDING ILL - WILL.
Washington, Yesterday The proceedings of a special
A verdiet of suicide was to-day {"
ent with Mr. A. W. G. II. Lecturing at the Royal College Grantham to inquire into the of Surgeons in mall week, Profes- circumstances surrounding the COMMERCIAL STAFF death of a Chinese woman named sor Sir Arthur Keith described the meeting of the Senate to discuss
STRENGTHENED. were going through
Ng Sze-mui (58), a patient of the pioneers who took possession of the London Naval Treaty opened says that the internal situation on serious proportions on Saturday, the usual moring routine, when for
Tung Wah Hospital, who on the Europe on behalf of the white race, with a message from President the North West Frontier Province as was exclusively reported in the
afternoon of Juna 23 was found continues rapidly to improve.
extension ladder, i Chim Mail of that date, is now with a fireman on it, fell.
hanging dead in a lavatory.
He said they began to arrive at Hoover urging ratification, and Far-reaching significance is at-happily at an end,
A jump
Lon-lon, Yesterday. Medical evidence was given that a certain phase of the last period stating that the only alternative, tached to the deputation, repre
ing sheet was being held ready for
In the House of Commons to-when the body was examined at of glaciation. There was still a to that was competition in naval senting many different classes, to Bank oficials, Interviewed this the Chief Commissioner of morning, stated that all demands
to building with suspicion, hate, and Peshawar to submit constructive had been met, and that the bank
in accordince with everyday practice
in regard to the measures being inches below the right ear, trans- Central Europe became entombed ill-will, leading ultimately to dis suggestions as to the development was in a position to pay all fur-
-and the man
adopted for the purpose of assist. versed across the throat, and end- beneath an ice-sheet during the aster.-Reuter's American Ser- was caught, of local self-government.
ing British firmas fully to partici-ed up two inches below the left Pleistocene period, but nearly all vice. The Chief Commissioner gave
ther calls.
suffered only minor injuries. This was reflected by
pate in a revival of trade with culosis patient at the hospital, was divisible into three phases-- a tubér- were agreed that the last Ice Age an encouraging reply and fore-the
In falling, however, the ladder China, Mr. G. M. Gillett said that Death was due to hanging.
Cruiser Replacement. scene inside the premises, shadowed that early measures where the crowds of Friday and truck one of those below, inflicting besides the economic mission
an opening phase marked by great.
Rugby, Yesterday. would be taker to enhance the Saturday had entirely disappeared, injuries to the hend.
Ma Sik, the women's husband, falls of snow and a southward In the 'House of Commons to- general efficiency of the administhe whole atmosphere being one of injuries were much the more sermanent commercial staff in China She had been ill for four or fively dry, when Central Europe took to the Prime Minister. He said This man's mentioned on June 20, the per-Tang Wah Hospital on June 4. phase, very cold, but comparative the Naval Treaty were addressed said that his wife was taken to the spread of the ice-sheet; a middle day various questions regarding tration on the North West Fron- tier Province.
"Business as Usual," with daily fous of the two.
was being strengthened. Hartals occurred in various business being conducted in an
Officers and men at the Station
years, suffering from a bad cough, on the aspect of the steppes of towns following the sentence on entirely normal manner.
Economic Policy.. at once rendered first aid to the
and she was unable to breathe Siberia; and a final phase of great that at the time when the pre- Motilal Nehru, but they were:
The various Parties in the smoothly. She was miserable as snowfall and severe cold. After liminary negotiations.took place frequently incomplete and no-
During the "run" the offices were pair, after which the one strack House of Commons will shortly where produced clashes between open until six each evening, but by the ladder was taken to the Gov-come to grips on the issue of a hospital on June 20. She did not F.R.S., he said it was at or near with the United States, the ques- the authorities and the public. this does not fully represent the ernment Civil Hospital.
closer Imperial economic policy say anything to him, and appear the beginning of the middle or cold tion of cruiser replacement was There is a growing conviction that arduous work imposed upon
on the motion of censure lodgeded to be in her usual mood. to-day by Mr. Stanley Baldwin
and dry phase of the last Ice Age considered by the Admiralty and By the Coroner: She had never that the white race of mankind the figure of 91,000 tons was put vocating the safeguarding of the or remarked that life was not Europe.
take possession of forward for new tommage to be completed by the end of 1936. us This figure was employed in the for their object the removal of the earlier difficulties in regard to cruiser limitation.
the
last time he saw his wife was in formulated by Dr. G. C. Simpson, the result of her illness. The outlining a theory of this divialon in August and September last
the civil disobedience movement staff, who were busy up to ten and! EX-PREMIER DEAD. and Mr. Neville Chamberlain, ad-talked about taking her own life, began to
cannot succeed. Simultaneously.
there is an increase of construc-eleven o'clock preparing to meet
Our evidence now assured
tive effort towards a constitution-demands of panic-stricken deposi. Į PASSING OF. SEPTUAGENARIAN Home market, expanding the ex-worth living. They had always that until the coming of the white ensuing conversations, which had
It
appears, incidentally.
al solution of political problems, tora. Mohammedans notably are devoi-rint the general cry was "We are ing much thought and attention very worried about the Industrial to the presentation of the case at the London Conference.-Reuter
and Commercial Bank closing up. An Adjournment,
Please return us oor money," Simla, Yesterday.
Confidence Increased.
MINISTER.
NEW ZEALAND'S LOSS.
Wellington, NZ, Yesterday. The death has occurred of the Right. Hon. Sir Joseph George The bank is to be congratulated Ward. P.C., K.C.M.G., until recent- ed indefinitely in consequence of on weathering an awkward experi-ly Prime Minister of New Zealand nobody being able authoritatively ence, but officials
The Committee of the Alli Parties' Conference has adjourn
are of opinion since 1928-Reuter...
(Sir Joseph Ward, who received
to represent the Hindu viewpoint that the incident will increase, in regard to the federal form of rather than diminish, the Chinese his Baronetcy in 1911, was born in Constitution.
In Bombay the Moslem leader, publie's cbafidence in their institu- 1856 and has a son, Cyril Rupert Jinnah, undertook a similar re- tion. They are of opinion, also, Joseph George, who succeeds him sponsibility on behalf of his that apart from co-religionists.-Reuter.
the unfounded in the title. Sir Joseph has been alarm of depositors, the run was Minister of Railways, Health arid brought about in some degree by Finance, Postmaster General, "Red" propaganda.
Minister of Defence, Minister of Lands, Land and Income Tax, and Electoral Department, New Zen- land.
The new Baronet la 46.3
Simon Report.
Rugby, Yesterday. Mr. Wedgwood Benn informed the House of Commons that up. to the present about 30,000 copies of the first part and about 26,000 copics of the second part of the Simon Report had been sold in Great Britain.
At the Secretary for India's request various Parliamentary questions regarding the composi- tion and terms of reference of the round table conference on Indian affairs were postponed until Wednesday.
and
Civil Disobedience.
ing with the civil disobedience movement.
Simultaneously;
the Com-
The general view is that the sua pension, of the operations of the Industrial and Commercial Bank was brought about by speculation in Shanghai, but the National Com-` mercial and Savings Bank, a purely commercial bank controlled by Chinese men of high repute, does not transact this kind of business. ·
increasing concern regarding the consequences of its continuance.
in
WORLD'S WORKERS.
·
TWENTY-SIX DELEGATES AT TRADES UNION CONGRESS,
PROGRESS MADE.
Stockholm, Yesterday. Five hundred delegates from 26 countries, including Japan, were
STILL SHOWERY.
To-day's report from the Royal Observatory states:
A shallow depression covers China.
Conditions 2
are disturbed over the "Gulf of Tongking. A trough of low pressure ex- tenda from Luzon to, N. An- nam.
Forecast:-E. winds, fresh; variable, showery.
The following telegram was received from the Manila Observatory at the American Consulate-General Hong Kong
to-day:
Typhoon in about 126 degrees·· Long. E, and 18 degrees Lat. N., moving N.W.
Cyclone or typhoon W. of northern Luzon more than 100 miles distant. Direction un- known.
Rainfall
Rainfall to 10 a.m. to-day 0.38 inch. Rainfall since Janu- ary 1, 84.95 inches against an average of 42:19.
Temperature and Humidity
The temperature and humidi- ty at certain specified centres this morning at 8 o'clock were:-
Temp. Humid.
DIVIDING POWERS? ASTUTE MOVE BY NANKING Manila
MINISTER.
Foochow Amoy Swatow Chefoo
Hồng Kong
Масао
32.
86
B1
90
Pratas Island
32
96
77
94
81.
91
80
96
.96
76
95
Shanghai
79
87
Nanking, Yesterday.
got on well together,
CIVIL WAR.
20 CHINESE STEAMERS COMMA DEERED.
conversa-
The
ploneers-the Cromagnons and Predmostains-Europe had been in the sole possession of men totally unlike any race now living-men
These preliminary of the Neanderthal type. The in- tions were for the purpose only creasing severity of climatic con- of clearing the ground prior to ditions in the opening phase of the Ice Age, might have pushed Nean- the London Conference. derthal man towards extinction but fixed during the conference when, figure of 91,000 tons was finally the climatic change could not be It is reported that the Govern held accountable for his complete States and Japan, it was found after negotiations with the United ment have commandeered twenty Spain, Southern France, and Italy
disappearance, for many lived in that it mot the British re- Chinese steamers to transport beyond the
placement requirements within Arctic conditions. the terms of the treaty.. troops from Hankow to Pukow. Reuter.
TO TRANSPORT TROOPS.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
stood,
When we looked at the forerunners of our kind the disappearancs of The Prime Minister added that Neanderthal man could be under the forthcoming Imperial Confer- Peking, Yesterday.
From discoveries in the ference might well afford the op- There has been no news of fight caves of Central and Southern portunity for discussing the Naval ing for several days. Han Fu-chu France we knew of the tall, big-building programme in the light ie concentrating his forces at
headed, strong Cromagnon people. of the London Naval treaty. The Even in definite question of discussing They were cavemen. Taingchowfu while reinforcements France, however, they camped in the limitations of tonnage which from Nanking are believed to have the open.
the treaty imposed could be raised. reached Yenchow. The vernacular
Recently Moravia had begun to by any Dominion that so desired. rival France in contributions to British Wireless Service. papers anticipate severe fighting knowledge of the early white or there in the next four or five days. Caucasian settlers. In the middle -Reuter.
or cold and dry-phase of the
MR. L. L. SILVA.
Ice Age large parts of Moravia chiefly in size of jaw and the became gradually covered by loses, robust development of face and a fine earth, which drifted over the thigh bone. Dr. Absolon believed of the mammoth the Predmoatians must have come DEATH OF EX-EMPLOYEE OF hunters, burying their hearths, re-from Asia; their culture appeared to have been derived from there.
H. & S. BANK.
open campa
fuse-heaps, utensils,
weapons, ornaments, and works of art, It was likely we would also trace The death occurred at 3 o'clock which were preserved buried under the Cromagnons to Asia, but there yesterday afternoon of Mr. Lucas many feet of loess. Dr. D. K. were many who believed that the Leonardo Silva at his residence at ment Museum at Brunn (Brao), Africa. as their homeland.
Absolon, curator of the Govern-Weight of evidence favoured North The
7, Morrison Gap, at the age of had recently explored by trial Cromagnon people became modified 54 years.
shafts such an ancient camp near in Europe, but their cradle of Sinco Mr. Silva joined the service of Wisternitz (Vestontce) and found evolution lay elsewhere.
that it exended over hundreds of these settlers brought the Aurig the Hong Kong and Shanghai acres, Brunn itself was built over nacían culture to Europe there had Banking Corporation in 1917, but such a station.
been many invasions, but it was
was compelled to retire last year owing to protracted illness.
The most famous of the open quite possible that Cromagnon and stations in Moravia lay at Prod- Predmost blood might still flow in moat. Its extent was only now the veins of men and women He was married twice, there being revealed in trenches cut in Europe.
in When we followed, by being a son and a daughter (re- the loess by a brickmaking com- means of dated burials, the history cently married) by his first mar-
pany.
In the loess at Predmost of Europeans through the third riage and eight children by his the late Professor Maska discover- phase of the last Ice Age, we found second. Much sympathy will be ed a tomb of the mammath hunters food for reflection. In the rigours extended to his widow and chil-in which lay the remains of 20 in- of the last phase fllness disap dren in their bereavement.
the
The weekly appreciation of the There is an increase in the con- situation compiled by the Govern-structive effort toward the con-present at the opening of the ment of India and circulated to stitutional solution of political fifth International Trades Union Members of Parliament describes problems, and Mohammedans in as the chief event of the week in particular are devoting much at- Congress, at which the French- India the declaration of the all- tention to the representation of an, M. Jouhaux, reviewed the important object attained since) India Congress Working Com-their case at the London Confere mittee to the unlawful associa-ence. While the situation has still
Amsterdam Congress.- Reuter. tion under the criminal law many unstable elements, these amendment act. The Committed are not so numerous
or so pro- consista at full strength of about nounced as a few weeks ago.- 15 persons who for a consider-British Wireless Service. able period have been playing a Use of Armoured Cars. prominent part in organising
Simla, Yesterday. directing the civil die-
The official Committee of Enquiry obedience movement. Not only into the rioting at Peshawar has had they urged the public to defy upheld the action of the civil and the law and refuse the payment of military authorities
The Foreign Minister declared taxes, but they had circulated with the disturbances.
this morning that the former prac dealing
tice of the senior foreign diplomat the incitement to the troops and
The Gov- police to fail in their duty in deal-ernment of India has accepted the sponking on behalf of the entire
'Committee's findings.
Diplomatic Corps will not be coun-port market by reciprocal trade The Committee consisted of Sir tenanced by China in future.
The funeral will pass the Monu-dren. It was only now that an- stout and big-hoaded. They lived dividuals men, women, and chilpeared; but the people remained He stated that the Diplomatic agreements with the Empire overment at 6 p.m. to-day. Shah. Muhammad Sulaiman, the
thropologists had had an oppor-under such conditions as mittee's President, Pandit Nehru, Pankridge, the Assistant High and representatives accredited to British manufactures and agricul- A paragraph in this morning's mammoth
High Court Judge, and
Corps possessed an admitted value seas, and the imposition of duties
·Mr.
at social functions, not otherwise, obtain equivalent advantages for on foreign foodstuffs devised to
tunity of determining the racial modern Eskimo lived in and their and the Secretary were arrested Court Judge.
POISONOUS MUSHROOMS 7 characters of the people buried in jaws and certain other parts 01. and sentenced to six months'
that tomb. The braina of the the skull took on an Eskimo form simple imprisonment each.
The events referred to occurred treatment as Chinese representa where.***.
China were entitled to the same ture in Empire markets else Police reports states that at 8.50 measured on our modern standard forehead, chin, and face could be líunters, even when Under this mask, however, in nose, Hartals in various towns followed, at the end of April...
tives in the foreign capitals.--Reu- but many of them were incom- Sir Sulaiman holds that the Reuter..
p.m. yesterday a telephone message for Europeans, were, large and seen the essential marks of the The date for the debate. has was received plete, and there had been no events prior to the second firing did
at the Shaukiwan richly convoluted. These Pred- Caucasian. clashes with the authorities,
not yet been fixed.
Police Station from the Govern mostians were not justify the firing to the extent FATAL FALL FROM VERANDAH. Export Credits,
not tall like the Later, when modern climatic Position in Bombay. resorted to. Mr. Pankridge holds
ment Civil Hospital reporting the Cromignons of Southern France, conditions were dawning, which on Popular demonstrations had that it was justified. The Gov
In the House of Commons to Ip Yee-mui (68). According to the Cromagnous they were big-headed, Swedish geologiata we might sup-.. death of a Chinese woman named but short and stout, and like the the reliable data provided by been moset marked in Bombay ernment has accepted the latter the second floor of 462 Queen's extension of the export credits hut on the hillside at Shaukiwan build. The physical differences 12,000 years ago, the physique of Two Chinese children living on day Mr. Sorensen suggested the message, the woman, who lived in a strong-jawed, and of muscular pose to have happened 10,000 or City, where conditions continue view, but gives an assurance that Road West met with a serious ac echeme to cover the export of tex- West, was admitted to the hospital which distinguished the Pred Europeans became more reduced. to be unsatisfactory
points raised by Sir Sulaiman wilcident yesterday afternoon whilst tile and soft goods to Ceylon and at 10 p.m., on July 5 and died at mostians from the Cromagnons There were no tall people then In spite of the activities of be carefully considered. Congress the situation shows dis- Sir Sulaiman belleves that some verandah of the house. Unobserv Mr. Gillett replied that the de- suspected to be due to eating poi-tinguished the tall Gallowegian come uncommon. The people be
they were playing on the back the Far East.
12,45 p.m. yesterday. Death is were of a local nature, such as dis big-heads and strong jaws had be tinct signs of improvement in persons were run over by aned by their elders, they climbed on claion to exalude textiles in cer-sonous mushrooms.
Scots from the shorter people of came small in body, with slender several directions, armoured car before the despatch to the verandah railing to play tain of the Eastern and Far East In passing on the report to Head- Kent.
The position on frontler is rider was attacked, and is of horre, and, overbalancing, both fell ern markets concerned was made quarters, the Officer in charge of rapidly returning to normalen opinion that otherwise the altua lato the yard below at the request of Manchester and Shaukiwan Police Station stated parts of Gujerat there are indication would not have assumed such One of the youngsters, a boy of Bradford Chambers of Commerce, that last night's telephone message tions that the movement is losing a serious aspect. Mr. Fankridge six years of age, named Au Sung and after consulting with the was the first intimation they had the nearest of kin to the Cromag great pioneers which seamed to some of its vigour and most of did not feel justled in coming to met with instant death by fracture Eastera banks. the provinces report a slackening this conclusion on the evidence. Ing is skuil, in the
of the affair as previously they none and Predmostlane it was not him not unlikely or were new in sultThe other girl named Lau the absence of any informa had not received information that in Africa, Australia, or in, farther vaders, we could not yet say. It Tal-tal (6), is now in the Governtion that the views of these bodies anyone in the district had been Aala that we found them. In all was just when glacial conditions
Civil Hospital in critical had changed, he did not propose taken seriously is ndition, suffering from interne) to modify the existing arrange The matter la boing further in pesna or proto Europeans. They times that our knowledge of our their characters they were Euro were giving way to more temperato ments-Reuter,
vestigated. It is learned.""
Hiffered from modern Europeana ancestors was most deficient.
of effort.
The conviction
The Gov
Effects of Cold on the Race. peans which saw the dawn of our ancient as well as modern for the degenerate descendants of the When we looked round the world presert climatic conditions were
bones, But whether these Euro-
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