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No. 27,619 HONG KONG. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930.

INDIGNANT PROTEST BY NEW SECRETARY OF JACK DIAMOND NOW

LOCAL SHIPPERS.

HIGHER PORT

DUES.

MONEY GOING TO MEET GOVERNMENT'S CIVIL EXPENSES.

WE

FEEL · ANNOYED.”

STATE FOR AIR.

SINKING.

Post Given to Authority Identity of Assailants A

on the Law.

A SEPTUAGENARIAN.

London, Yesterday,

Indignant protests against the proposal of the Government to increase the light dues and the fees for the use of Government Reuter. buoys and to continue the scale for Sunday working cargo, (which now stops at ships of 2,000 tons only), were voiced by several pro- minent shipping firms in an interview with the China Mail to-day.

An official of the Harbour Office pointed out that Hong Kong was one of the cheapest harbours in the world, and that in Shanghai vessels had to pay far higher rates than they were ever likely to pay

here.

is

over

numerous

Mystery.

SPECULATIVE-THEORIES,

New York, Yesterday.

1

Ing outside the door.

TO-DAY'S

DOLLAR: The

closing rate of the dollar .on demand, to-day was 1/3 9/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month. BLOW TO EXPORTERS HARD

INCREASE OF GERMAN CUSTOMS DUTY.

DROP IN WHEAT PRICES.

Geneva, Yesterday,

Dainty Eyeglasses

N, LAZARUS Ophthalmic Optician

13, Queen's Road Central.

LABOUR FOR DELEGATES.

"Colossal" Task Faces

In connection with the Tariff Imperial Conference.

MORE ADJOURNMENTS.

PIRACY ORDINANCE SUMMONS.

Ship Leaves Without Police Certificate.

A LOT OF MISUNDERSTANDING.

under the

He said that Begulation No. 9 of 1928 required that the Quatu System.

certificate. of search be handed by the Palice to the master of the ship Rugby, Yesterday, The heads of the delegations to searched, but he understood, from information supplied to him, that m¶¶¶¶¶¶the Imperial Conference to-day con- the practice was for the certificate tinued an exchange of viewe to be handed to any European suggestions for improving inter-officer on the ship.

on

Truce a Convention signed in March, the German Government has notified the Secretariat of the League that the German.cus- toms duty on wheat will be in-

Captain Erwin of the Douglas 3.5. London, Yesterday, creased forthwith from 15 marks

The Imperial Conference to Halyang, appeared before the Hon. It is officially stated that Lord Jack Diamond is sinking. He to 18 to 50 marks per quintal. It

Gomdr. Hole, R.N., (retired), this a Bummons Amulrce of Strathbraan has been summoned Roman Catholic says that the increase is impera-

tive owing to the exceptional drop day had a more detailed discus-morning to answer

Immediate en- sion on one of the suggestions brought against him by Police In- appointed Secretary of State for priest from Acra, New York, in wheat prices.

inter-Imperial spector K. W. Andrew improving The priest was forcement is necessary in order to for Air

Suppression of Piracy Ordinance of in

to Lord where he lives. Buccession Thomson of Cardington, who was brought to the hospital and asher-prevent imports of wheat in anti-trade submitted yesterday, name-grg and Regulation No. 3 of Gov- ly, the applicability of the quota ernment Notification No. 134 of disastered into the sick room most secret-jcipation of the change-Reuter. killed in the R.101

ly, watching detectives withdraw- GERMAN STRIKE. system to the export and import March 16, 1928.

The chargo against. the Captain of Empire wheat. This was re-

was that he unlawfully carried pas. Another Report,

sengers in the s.a. Halyang to Saw- Rugby, Yesterday. Meanwhile the Police are no PROTEST AGAINST REDUCTION ferred to a special committee.

The conference adjourned to tow without the vessel having been His Majesty the King has ap-nearer discovering the identity of

OF WAGES.

October 16 when it will probably searched and without a certificate proved that Lord Amulree be the two men who shot Diamond or

discuss bulk purchase, which also of search signed by the Hon. I.G.P., 140,000 MEN AFFECTED. appointed Secretary of State for

may be referred to a committee. or by some authorised Officer, on Police Commissioner Mulrooney

An official observer points out September 18, Air to succeed Lord Thomson who the motive of the attack, but

Berlin, Yesterday. of

they opinion that

Mr. D. L. Strelleit appeared for Lord Amulree was formerly Sir were disgruntled members of

One hundred and forty thou-that the colossal work on the perished in the R.101 disaster. William Mackenzie and was creat-Diamond's own gang.

Diamond and Berlin members of the Metal economic side of the conference is the defence and entered a ples of His is 70 did not expect them to shoot him. Workers' Union are striking on likely to involve weeks of discus "guilty," but asked permission to On the other hand, the shipping companies maintain that it led Baron last year. unfair to burden their heavy expenditure further by doubling the years old, and was called to the They came to discuss business, October 15 as a protest against sion without actual decisions by place certain circumstances before

Bar in 1886, taking silk in 1914 but the argument became heated the reduction of wages and the re- the heads of the delegations. the Court.

cent. arbitration award. The Reuter, fees and then using the money, not on improvements to the har- From 1919 to 1926 he was Presi and the shooting followed.

"Rum Baron" Missing. strike may aggravate the political has presided bour, but on matters entirely unconcerned with shipping. They [dent of the Industrial Court. He

The Police are hunting for situation.-Reuter. maintain that the higher rates in Shanghai are due to the cost of Courts of inquiry and has acted Charles Entratta, an ex-convict, the conservancy of the river, whereas in Hong Kong the only cost to as arbitrator and conciliator in who last year was acquitted with for the Diamond of complicity in a double Board of Trade and the Ministry murder in a New York night club. the Government is the practically negligible one of the upkeep of the industrial differences

of Labour.--British Wireless Ser-

The Police are also 'investigat- buoya.

vice.

ing the mysterious disappearance [Lord Amulree, formerly Sir of Leonard Steinberg, the reputed It is William Warrender MacKenzie, Brooklyn "Rum Baron." K.C., was elevated to the Barony known that Diamond was anxious in 1929. Seventy years of age, to "cut in on the liquor racket'' in be was educated at Edinburgh Brooklyn, and it is thought that "Hong Kong Harbour is one of stood to be in connection with the University and London Univer- he may have had Steinberg "taken the cheapest in the world," de-upkeep of the lighthouses in the

sity, and was called to the Bar, for a ride" and been shot him- He has self by Steinberg's friends in re- clared an official of the Harbour Colony's navigational area. Office to a China Mail representa- 1919 the Government increased Lincoln's Inn, in 1886.

on vice. tive. The port dues, he explained, the fee, to. two cents per ton, intacted as Chairman of numerous venge. Reuter's American Ser-

Government Commissions,

Amazing Interest. were absurdly low. Vessels sche-order to meet the cost of the con- such questions as Shops Hours

New York, Later. daled under the "A" class paid struction and upkeep of the Acts, Board of Trade Acts, Wages

He thought

Amazing interest is being taken only $8 per day for buoy fees: typhoon shelters.

industrial

is an on the Jack Diamond case all over unrest, and "B" class vessels paid $6, and "C" that the proposal to increase the Boards, trades and disputes, and

even the great Metro- class vessels $4. The total amount light fees to four cents per ton

authority on local government America, of revenue received by the Gov-was nothing but an injustice.

matters and licensing laws. Lord politan dailles devoting columns No Cost to Colony, erament in respect

Sun points The

out that "The shipping traffic of the Amulree was one of the Editors it.

of Lord Halsbury's Laws of Eng- charges for 1928

Colony costs the Government land. He is not known previously Diamond escaped five times from imounted to $88,017.71.

from the Apart Under the new scale proposed nothing

to have had any interest in, con- charges of murder, six times from cost of upkeep of by the Government these rates slight

nection with, or special know- robbery and assault, thrice from stated our will be doubled

grand larceny, and twice. from The present the buoys".

ledge of aviation.]

felonious assault. rate for light dues is two cents informant. "It seems quite un- per net registered ton,-which is reasonable to us that the Govern- levied on a vessel entering and ment should burden us in order to RUBBER INDUSTRY. that Diamond, and Entratta shot. leaving the Harbour. It is pro-raise its funris."

He added that the people who posed to raise this to four cents. Thus, a ship whose gross tonnage would be hardest hit by the in- was 16,000, and net tonnage creases were the coastal shipping 9,000, would have to pay a total companies, whose vessels were continually entering and leaving sum of $720,

the harbour. Since the dues were

COASTAL COMPANIES HARD HIT.

of buoy

and 1929

Higher in Shanghai.

"Grossly Unfair,"

In

ASSIST GROWERS DURING THE CRISIS.

R.G.A, SUGGESTION.

The Evening Journal alleges

dead two man in a night club. Two vital witnesses of the crime were murdered and another ter- silence-Reuter's rorised lato American Service........

INDIAN IN TROUBLE.

ALLEGED FUGITIVE FROM CANTON.

ONE YEAR HERE.

An Indian named Ratanchand Jeramdas Keswani was brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning under the Fugitive De-

fendants Act.

RETRENCHMENT. Truth About Alleged Official Denial,

In view of the "emphatic denials" which are alleged to have been made officially in connection with the China Mail's exclusive disclosure of

ment to dismiss junior Civil Servants, the China Mall has instituted inquiries, and finds that the Governor's Memorandum was not issued to the Retrenchment Com- mission.

the intention of the Govern-

It is a fact, however, (and one that has not been denied officially) that a Memoran- dum, ordering reduction, "even at the cost of e- ciency," was issued to the heads of the various Govern-- ment Departments. It is also significant that no off- cial denial is forthcoming in. regarded to our statement that the junior members," of the Civil Service would be the first to be affected. So much for a “canard!”

ART TREASURES.

CONTRIBUTION FROM SHAH OF PERSIA.

COSTLY COLLECTION.

Imperial trade. They referred cer tain matters to the Committee which met this afternoon and discussed in

Sailing Deferred.

The Halyang, he explained, was

a general way various technical originally due to sail on September aspects of the quota system with re:16, but when it was found that the loading of certain cargo could not ference to the importation of wheat, be completed that day it was decided Broadly stated the idea of a quota to sail at 3 p.m. the following day, is to allot to different sources from This necessitated the ship leaving which any commodity is produced the wharf to make room for the the proportion which is to be re-incoming vessel and she went to the ceived. The Committee which con- Yaumati anchorage. A notification aidered this matter consisted partly of Ministers and partly of officials.

Mr. W. Graham, President of the Board of Trade, presided to-day, and among others attending were the, British and Australian Ministers for Agriculture.

"

was sent to the Inspector on Duty at Central Police Station informing of the change. of salling time and notifying that the ship would sail from the Yaumati anchorage.

An hour before the sailing time

The quota proposal was tabled on the 17th, the Police boarded the Later the Captain made a search. for discussion, though not neces-vessel at the Yaumati anchorage and Barily recommended by the United received notice from the Company Kingdom delegation. The Com- that the sailing time had again to mittee considered it worth detailed be altered, and she would not leave and technical examination by experts until 11 am. on the 18th, and Mr. who were asked to report upon the Murphy of the Company would say proposal.

that a similar notice had been sent Lord Sankey's Committee, which to the Police. It might be that the is considering certain aspects of notice did not make it quite clear inter-Imperial relations, to-day com-that the vessel would not go back to pleted its examination of questions the wharf but would proceed from of the form of Commercial Treaties, the anchorage. Anyway, the Police after,which reference was made to did not go on board and the vessel other questions, including the system cailed at 11 a.m. on the 18th. Later of communication and consultation. It was found that a search certificate. in relation to foreign affairs, had not been left on board by the channels of communication with Police. foreign countries, and the phrase- ology of official documents--Brl- tish Wireless Service.

KOWLOON WHARVES THEFT

Blame On Both Sides.

Mr. Strellett suggested that there was blame on both sides, and as this was the first case under the Regula- tion, he would ask the Magistrate to say that a caution would meet the

London, Yesterday. In Shanghai, the official stated, levied (for lights) on the net the charges for "A" class vessels tonnage, and not on the gross ton- The Rubber Growers' Associa were 75 Shanghai, taels for the nage, a vessel of, say, 9,000 tons tion has circularised its membera first three days and 25 taels for might have to pay more in pro- suggesting that a percentage of every successive day: 51 and 17 portion than a vessel of 16,000 their output be given free to the taels for "B" class vessels, and 83 tons, and no allowances of any Rubber Roadwayà Company and a and 11 taels for "C" class vessels. kind were made by the Govern- further part at a fixed price for

He said that the whole of the ment in respect of this difference. five years.

"It looks very much as if the

A coolie, employed by the Kow-case. cost of the upkeep of the buoys,

Presiding at the annual meeting

Inspector Andrew said that usual. Rugby, Yesterday.

loon Wharf and Godowns, was to- chains, and cables, was paid by Government needed money and the Government, and that the did not care whether the means of Harrisons & Crosfield, Mr. Erie

Art treasures, valued at two day charged before Mr. Butters ly Douglas abips left on Tuesdays millions sterling, were brought to with the larceny of three sheets of and Fridays. September 16 was shipping companies made no it took to obtain it were equitable Miller suggested that the Govern ment's rubber-producing countries

The alleged fugitive was arrest the Royal Academy to-day from brass, from No. 17 Godown, and he Tuesday and the Police on that day. direct contribution whatsoever to or not," he said in conclusion.

might financially assist the grow

received notice that the, ship would that expense. The cost, however, "We Feel Annoyed.”.../. ers ed yesterday at the offices of pleaded guilty.

The coastal shipping companies trn who definitely discontinued Meagra, Keswant & Co., China, the docks at Rotherhithe, eight

Detective-Sergeant Humphreys sall. the following day at 8p.m. wes not very considerable.

feel distinctly aggravated by the on their properties during the Building, on a warrant issued by steel doors, under an armed police said that accused was engaged in from the Yaumati anchorages Sub- crisis on a "care, and maintenance the British Consulate at Shameen. escort. They comprised the con- unloading cargo from a German Inspector P. Murphy went on board. An official of one of the leading Government's proposal.

Mr. P. M. Hodgson, who appear tribution of the Shah of Persia to steamer. He was sentenced to six and passed the ship. Then the shipping concerns in the Colony An official of an important cons-basis."-Reuter

Police received another notice from ed for the defence, informed his the Persian art exhibition which weeks' hard labour. declared that the proposed. in-tal company said to our represen-

Worship that it would be sufficient is being held in London in Jan- In connection with the ease, a the Company saying that the teasel creases were grossly unfair. tative that the new rates would

to take evidence of arrest only uary, Pud

Chinese woman appeared on a would not sail until 11 am, on the "Ever since the beginning of not affect ocean liners so much the Colony," he said, "Hong Kong as they would the coastal ships, hape," he laughed, to pay Cadets as the defendant fugitive would The treasures were brought to charge of unlawful receiving. Sho Tuesday and would "leave our

have to be sent back to Canton London in the steamer Baharis was discharged with a caution. has been looked upon as a free since their freight was in gold or salaries"

to stand his trial because the altan, the crew being unaware until Mr. Hallifax's Speech, port. The only duties have been sterling, whilst that of the conatal

there was upon tobacco, spirits, and opium, companies was in Mexican dollars. In his speech in the Legisla-leged offence was committed there their arrival that etc., and such products as are con- "It simply means doubling our tive Council on October 2, Mr. & Year 880 aboard anything more precious sumed by the inhabitants. There expenses, he remarked. The Hallifax stated

Det. Sergt. Goodwin gave av than & cargo of dates. In Persia dence of arrest. He said that in the treasures were conveyed to have been no charges or duty on coastal companies contributed the "it is proposed to increase the company with Mr. J. Read, con- the coast by air in order to avoid shipping, and this proposed in- lion's share to the revenue of the light dues and the fees for the stable attached to H.B.M. Consul- the possibility of bandit raida.— crease will only serve to add fresh Colony since their boats were use of Government buoys, to conate at Shameen, he went to Kos British Wireless Service. burdens to the shipping industry, continually coming in and out of tinue the scale for Sunday work want & Co, and arrested the fugl- which, has been badly hit by the the Harbour

ang cargo (which now stops at five. general trade depression. He referred to the recent Bud- ships of 2,000 tons only), and to

Our informant pointed out that get speech in which the Colonial bring the method of signing this Mr. Read also said that he knew some years ago the majority of Secretary had stated that the crews on and off into consonance the fugitive by sight, having seen

him in Canton before, the buoys were maintained or coastal shipping companies had with that in force in other parts vately by the various shipping increased their tariffs in order to of the Empire and legislation to companies, and that it was only make up for the loss la exchange this end will be proposed before within comparativ cent

By the end of this year. The total

increased retur

cted to our

period that they had come under

the control and ownership of the

Governi

major

N.Z. POLITICS.

DEFEAT OF GOVERNMENT IN COMMITTEE.

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tive to Canton, pad

the warrant the

Wellington, YesterdaySa

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belonging to D. Desfo

in March, 1920, y

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DIPLOMATIC CORPS,

DUTC

DEADA

To-day

formerly

FINE WEATHER.

The Royal Observatory's weather report to-day states: The anti-cyclone has weak- ened and is now central over Korea.

Pressure is relatively low in. the extreme south

Forecast N.E. winds, mo- +derate; ne

Berets Rainfall. /

Hainfall to 10a.m. to-day all. Rainfall since January 1, 94.76 inches against an aver age of 79.05 inches.

Temperature.

The temperature et certain specified centres, this morning at 6 o'clock was:—

Hong Kong.

and

whart."

Badly Composed Chit

The Inspector produced the chit from the Company and, after read- ing it, Comdr. Hole said that he understood how the misunderstand- ing had occurred as the chit could be read either way, He thought it was badly composed. ANN

Processing Inspector Andree Bald that at Bain. on the 18th ho wont to the wharf, and found tha Halyang not there. Later, from the station he saw a black funnel at the wharf and again went down and found that the ship alongside was the Chongtu. The ship, he held, had not been passed because the Ume of sailing had been changed A second time and a fresh search was necessary.PAREN

The Magistrate decided that the. Captain should have asked if the Certificate was out board before Ball- Ing. He pointed out that the Issuing of these cert!

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