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Library, Supreme Court

Badges & Manager,

THE

Slidebanes

"SIX"

Lovejoy hydraulle shock absorbers-now

type mounting

Double-drop frame-lower, stendler, and'

coutlier

Self-adjusting spring shackles--rattle-

proof

HONG KONG HOTEL

GARAGE

25, Queen's Road C. & at Stubbs Road,

The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

ECHO OF TRAGIC AIR

CRASH IN KENT.

"Buffeting" the Cause

of Disaster.

COMMITTEE'S REPORT.

The

China Mail

ESTABLISHED

1846

No. 27,704

SHIPPING BILL.

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931.

TAILOR CHARGED.

NEW RATE OF DISCHARGE FEES ALLEGED THEFT OF FUR AND

FOR SEAMEN.

ORDINANCE OF 1889,

The following draft Bill, intitul- d an Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance of London, Yesterday, 1889. is published In the current The report of the Accidents In-ssue of the Government Gazette. vestigation Sub-Committee of the and repeals the old table of en- Aeronautical Research Com-reamen:- mittee, after a full review of Fer for engagement or dis- varicus alternutive hypotheses, find it most probable that the primary cause of the Meopham | ir disaster on July 21 last year was a phenomenen called "buffet-] ing," species of irregular oscil- lation which is caused by break- age of the tail unit in the first instance. Reuter,

SILKS.

REMAND ORDERED.

The

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 11%.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

ANNOUNCEMENT

An entirely, new base has been lald · on the

MIDGET GOLF COURSE

in the Front Lounge of LANE, CRAWFORD'S RESTAURANT

Patrons are now assured of TRUE

PUTTING.

THE NEW DUNLOP GOLF BALL (WITH MAXMARKING)

is being used exclusively on this Course. The Dunlop Rubber Co., (China) Ltd. Pedder Building.

Phone 24554.

CANTON TRAINS IN STEAMER FIRED ON. VOLUNTEER CORPS CHINA TAKES

COLLISION,

| MISTAKE OVER SIGNAL THAT WAS UNINTELLIGIBLE,

Over Ten Passengers Injured at Sunkai.

CAPTAIN TO BLAME.

RAILS DAMAGED.

Canton, Yesterday.

Hamburg, Yesterday.

ORDERS FOR THE COMING*

WEEK.

COMPANY PARADES.

PARADES.

FILMS

SERIOUSLY.

Mythical Stories" to Be

Shunned.

"MORAL PRINCIPLE."

A Shantung tailor, in the employ

Orders by Lieut-Colonel L. G. of M. Leon arid Mme. D'Obry, of

The Maritime Court is investi. Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E., commanding Maison des Modes, 18 Queen's Road

gating the firing on the steamer Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Central, appeared at the Central

Baden on October 25. The evid Corps, are as under:-

Canton, Yesterday, Second Court this morning before The Canton-Shaochow passen-ence shows that the affair was due

Following the exhibition of Mr. E. II. Williams charged with ger and freight train and the to a chapter of misunderstand-

"All Quiet in the Western Front,"" the larceny, between January I and Shaochow-Canton freight trainings and that the fort is to blame

Corps Band,

the Southern Palace Theatre is 23. of several pieces of fur and came in collision at Sunkai sta- in the first instance for an un-

There will be a Band Practice entertaining the movie fans with silks, the property of his employers.tion on Thursday, January 22, at intelligible signal, which occasion-at Headquarters on Monday, Juna- Chinese sound picture, "Way-

1.30 p.m. resulting in the collapse ed a badly aimed warning shot. By 26.

side Flower," the first of its kind Detective-Sergeant Flattery, pro- Fee for engagement or dis

There will be a special parade being acreened in Canton. It is $1.00 sccuting, said that he would be ask one passenger car with over The captain of the vessel is also

ing for 48 hours remand in police

10 passengers wounded.

found to be blameworthy for over. for marching practice on Wednes- the second successful product of charge of every other sea-

the United Photo-Play Service, a It has been a regular run that looking the notices on his sailing ay, January 26. custody because there was another the upward and downward trains permit. The opinion is express-

Dress: Uniform, black boots, new movie company, with three man who was greatly suspected In

tunic, are to meet dally at 1.80 p.m. at ed that he should have stopped trousers,

belts, studios two in Shanghai and connection with a large piece of fur, the Sunkai statioon. Unexpected-immediately he saw an unintelli- pouches and forage capa. Fall in one in Hong Kong, organised by who is

до 5.90 ly, on Thursday upon arrival, the gible signal from the fort.-ot Headquarters of defendant's arrest Det.-engine-driver of the Canton up-Reuter. facts Sergeant Flattery said that the de- fendant was a tailor employed by

charge of a mate, pursuer, engineer, surgeon, carpenter, steward or wireless telegraph Lperator

nan

$ 0.75 Engagement and Discharge of Seamen on Board Ship. Fee, where not more than 40 seamen are engaged or ds. charge, for each seaman $9.75 Minimum fee in such case ... $15.00 Fee, where more than 40 und

4

not more than 100 seamen are engaged or discharged, for each visit

$30.00

Pe, where more than 100 and not more than 150 seamen are engaged or discharged. for each visit

F

$37.50

at large. Glying the

M. Leon D'Obry, who had a large shop in Queen's Road Central.. Delendant had a friend who was also employed as tailor in the same shop.

Strongly Suspected. Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, a large piece of fur, valued at $200, was missing, and it was also found that defendant's fellow worker had absconded.

[A terrible air accident occur. red on July 21, at Meopham, near Gravesend, to a Junker machine engaged on an air taxi service be- tween Le Touquet and Croydon, as the result of which the pilot and his assistant and their four: passengers, all well-known mem- bers of Society, lost their lives. where more than 150 sea. The passengers were the Marquis Ben are engaged or dis. of Dufferin, Sir Edward Ward,

Su7.50 charged, for the first 150 Baronet, Viscountess Edman and for every addition 50 or less. $ 7.50 Mrs. Yoeffler. The pilot was Where seamen are re-engaged Colonel Henderson, with Mr. on board the ship at the time of Shearing, assistant pilot, both ex-discharge the fee payable shall be Defendant, however, came ta Air-Officers. According to eye-the discharge fee plus half the en- work, and was strongly suspected. witnesses there appeared to be anjs&gument fee, In all the above The prosecuting officer was taken explosion in mid air as the ma-cases the actual travelling ex-by defendant to the latter's house, chine was passing over Meopham, I enses of the Officers of the Mer-where, on opening a box, several near Gravesend. The engine was rantile Marias Office, between that pieces of silks and furs (which M. found in the garden of a house in Office and the ship; shall be charg-D.Obry identified as the shop's pro- the village and one wing two miles ed in addition. distant. The Junker machine be-

longed to Colonel Henderson, who was using it on behalf of the Walcot Air Lines, which operated an air taxi service from Croydon. It had earlier in the day crossed to Le Touquet and brought one party to Croydon and had then! set off again to fetch Lord Dufferin and his friends. The

crash occurred on the return jour-

Overtime Fees Where Seamen Are on Sundays or other General

Engaged or Discharged.

or Public holidays:- Before 6p.m. and iffter

8 p.m.

at other tinies On Saturdays:-

...$20 per hour

perty) were found, This formed the subject of the charge brought against defendant.

A remand of 48 hours granted.

was

$10 per hour FLIGHT TO CANTON.

From 8 a.m. to 0 a.m. $5 per hour Fromm. to 8 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 8 ..

.$10 per hour Before 6 a.m. and after

8 p.nr.

.$20 per hour

ney. Flying conditions had been on other Days: extremely difficult throughout the day.]

PLOT IN HOLY CITY,

COMMUNIST TRY TO CAUSE

DISTURBANCES.

POLICE PRECAUTIONS.

Jerusalem, Yesterday.

From 8 am, to 9 a.m.,

MR. BROPHY COMPELLED TO

LAND AT CHUCHOW.

RESUMING TO-DAY,

Shanghai, Yesterday.

"PANDORA" COLLISION.

Lieat.-Commander Besant Found Guilty.

Gibraltar, Yesterday. The Court-Martial has found Lieut. Commander A. L. Besant, Command- ing the submarine Pandora, guilty of having negligently hazarded his ship.

He will

be sentenced and severely reprimanded.Reuter-

[It will be recalled that the submarine Pandora col- lided with the Proteus whilst entering the Straits: of Gibraltar on December 16. The flotilla was on its way to Hong Kong to replace the "L" class submarines.]

OPIUM TRAFFIC.

MANUFACTURE OF DRUGS

BE LIMITED.

LEGITIMATE NEEDS.

Jekarp.

Cross

m. some of the leading merchants

with good experience in movie an.... terprise.

Social Life.

Battery. There will be a parade on Thursday, January 29 at 5.30 p.m. at Hendquarters. Every member TO is expected to attend in order to

receive camp pay.

Engineer Company.

p.m.

on

On Monday, January 26, Minia- lore Range shoot at 5.30 p.m.

Corps Signals, Geneva, Yesterday.

Parades will be held at Corps The Opium Traffic Advisory Ifeadquarters at 6.30 Committee of the League has Tuesday, January 27 and Friday, adopted the report sent to the January 30. Council, as well as the draft con- vention limiting the manufacture of narcotics to the world's legi- timate requirements for scientific purposes, and regulating its dis- tribution.-Reuter.

CATTLE DISEASE.'

SUCCESS OF VACCINE TESTS FOR MILK.

Machine Gun Troop. Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, January 29 for Machine Gun Instruction.

horrow.

According to Mr. Lo Ming-yau, the founder of the company and also manager of several cinema theatres in North China, the ob- ject for the establishment of the new company is to set up a revolu.... tion in China's moviedom.

Instead of entertaining movie fans with pictures based on mythical stories of no real value, the company will utilise all its pictures as a medium to depict the social life of China to-day, to exhibit her real art, and to interpret the moral prin- ciple which is peculiar to her elvilisation.

First Picture. It will be recalled that the United Photo-Play Service had its

Armoured Car Company. Car Section.-Field Day, to- Farade at Star Ferry, Kowloon, at 8,80 a.m, sharp.

Dress: Tanie, breeches, puttles, first silent picture "Reminiscences helts, waterbottles, haversacks, of Peking" screened in Pearl The beret caps, overcoats and revolvers Theatre some months ago. which can be drawn from Corps "Wayside Flower" now shown in Store.

the Southern Palace Theatre is an all-music movietone production.. Canton News Agency.

LATE BARONESS.

SUICIDE BY VERONAL

· POISONING. `

No Parade on Monday. Motor Cycle Section. A talk on "Map Reading and Field Mess- An announcement of great im-ares will be given by The Adjut ward train could not stop the portance to agriculture concerning ant at 6.45 p.m, in Lecture Room speedy movement of the locomo- the successful immunisation of Monday next. tive in time.

Machine Gun Company, cattle against tuberculosis after When the accident occurred,

Parades. The Company will the Sunkal station master lost no extended experiments with the parade in mufti at 5.30 p.m. at Owing to fog Mr. G. W. Brophy time in wiring to the Wangsha Spahlinger vaccine in Switzerland Headquarters on Tuesday, Janu and from 6 p.m. to

was compelled to land at Chu-station, calling for doctors for the and on a farm in Norfolk was made ury 27 with rifle, belt and side-of the late Baroness de Pidoll, held 8 p.m. Before 6 a.m. and after

************* $10 per hour chow, Chekiang, 226 miles south relief of the wounded passengers at a meeting at the Ritz Hotel, at nrm for squad drill with arms. at the Belgian Consulate General, a 8 p.m.$20 per hour of Shanghai. He is resuming his and requesting the despatch of which the Aga Khan presided.

This is the first parade for the verdict of suicide by veronal polson- maintenance of communications, which is dealt with in a report, is jus possible are expected to attend

The rails at the spot were vouched for by a responsible body

and from 5 p.m. to

6 p.m...$5 per hour

From 6 a.m. to 8 m.,

portion of an hour shall count as Reuter.

ne hour.

An Amendment.

[An earlier message stated: Mr.

Shanghai, Yesterday.

At the inquest over the remalna

On all the above occasions any flight on Saturday morning.-ja special train to Sunkai for the The success of the treatment, G.O.C.'s inspection, and as manying was returned.Reuted,

[Baroness Paulette de Pidoll, the Command.-Second Lieut. J. F.wife of Baron Charles de Pidoll,- G. W. Brophy, Mazoger and Pilot lightly damaged and the traffic of people, including the Aga Khan, Wright having returned to the died at the Country Hospital, Table in the Schedule to the of the L. E. Gale Aviation Com. 1s expected to resume on January the Marquess of Crewe, Lady Colony resumes command of No. 8 Shanghai, on the morning of the

Bertha Dawkins, Sir Arthur Stan- Platoon.

22nd inst., after having been re- Musketry-A Company Rifle moved from Nagaanki Maru, on, ley, Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Dr. Drummond Shiels, Under Secretary Meeting will be held at Peak which ship she was taken ill. She' for the Colonies, Major-General lange on Sunday, February 15 at had been on a visit to Japan. The

A Communist plot to create Merchant Shipping Ordinance, pany, took off at 8.15 on January 22 disturbancea during the funeral 1899, is amended:

in a Waco 'plane, aiming at a non- procession of Mohammad Ali was] discovered last night, when over: 30 persons were arrested, includ- ing both Jews and Arabs.

The ceremonies to-day passed quietly, thanks to the Police pre- cautions.

The Funeral.

() by the deletion of the word stop flight to Canton, en route to

"crews" in the first line of

Manila. paragraph 1 thereof and by the

Mr. Brophy's attempt is in the substitution therefor of the word nature of a "scamen."

trial fight, with the (1) by the deletion of the words "or object of later establishing 悲 steward" in the fourth lino of Shanghai Manila air mail and pas- paragraph 1 and in the fourth senger service.] line of paragraph 2 thereof and by the substitution therefor in enth case of the words "steward or wireless telegraph operator." by the deletion of the words "all others, except apprentices" In the last line

of paragraph 2 thereof and by the substitution therefor in each case of the words "from wages of all other seamer."

Muhamed Ali's funeral procen. sion, headed by Shaukat All, the() Mufti of Jerusalem, was followed by thousands of mourners,

The pinewood coffin, shaped like was draped with

a Moslem tomb,

a piece of the Holy Carpet and

carried in a motor-tar the grave,

ARMS LIMITATION.

24.-Canton News Agency,

WAGE BASIS.

FEDERAL AWARDS TO STIMULATE TRADE.

Sydney, Yesterday.

Scottish Company. Parades on Thursday, January 29, for Machine Gun Instruction. No. 7 Platoon at Headquarters

+

Baron de Pidoll is a well known. Luxemburg steel merchant, who has been in China some time re- presenting the Luxemburg cartel.

APPOINTMENTS.

NOTIFICATIONS IN THE GOVT. GAZETTE.

Steel

Sir Frederick Maurice, Chairman 0.20 a.m. of the British Legion Tuberculosié Colony at Preston Hall, Maidstone, and Sir Bruce Porter.

The experimente began with the Economista and business men vaccine, it is stated, as far back as at 3.30 p.m. under Captain H. R. are of opinion that the ten per cent. 1916 in Switzerland, when cows, Forsyth,

baing reduction in Federal awards will after

vacinated, were No. 8 Platoon at Kowloon Dock stimulate trade, lower the cost of inoculated with virulent strains of under Lieut. A. Duncan, M.B.E living, CONFERENCE TO BE HELD

and Increase employment living bacill. Autopsies made on; Portuguese Company, within a month.

these animals between 1918-28 re- Field Day. The attention of all IN 1932.

Meanwhile, the Australian Work-vealed no trace of tuberculosis. ranke is called to to para: 7. of ers' Union, the most powerful in Since then the vaccine has been Corps Orders No. 51/80 dated

His Excellency the Governor CHOICE. OF PRESIDENT. the Commonwealth, is treating simplified so as to make it inex- 19.12.80.

has been pleased to appoint Mr. The Company Commander is ex Leslie Ross to be Second Lieuten This Ordinance shall not come

the suggestion of a general strike pensive to produce and easy to ad- which was fashioned in a chamber into operation unless and until the

Geneva, Yesterday. contemptuously,

minister, and further experiments pecting the whole Company to turnant in the Hong Kong Volunteer north of the Wertern Wall Mosque. Governor notifies by Proclamation

The League Council in a pri-

It is reported from Canberra have been made at Geneva under out for this practical and interest Defence Corps, with effect from that it is His Majesty's, pleasure vate session to-day decided that that the Federal basic wage has ideal laboratory conditions

oning scheme.

January 13, 1981. Parades. No. 9, 10, 11, and 12 not to disallow the same and there the world disarmament confer been reduced by three shillings at healthy calves from cows proved to

His Excellency the Governor Platoons will parade at Headquar-has, been pleased to appoint Mr. Funeral orations were deliver-after it shall come into operation ence, which will discuss the draft Sydney, four shillings at Brisbane, be free from tuberculosis,

Milk and Meat Free. ·

ters for training under Platoon ar Joseph Patrick Fehily to act as pon such day as the Governor convention drawn up by the pre-five shillings at Hobart, and ave shall notify by the same or any paratory disarmament committee, shillings and sixpence at Adelaide The Aga Khan, in announcing rangements.

Health Officer of Port and Inspec No. 12A Platoon will parade at tor of Emigrants during the ab should be held in Geneva on and Melbourne-Router..

the success of the demonstration, February 2, 1932, provided

stated that the vaccine was par-the Miniature Range for Musketry, sence on leave of Dr. Bagenal Tactical Exercise. fectly safe, and in all circum- the League Council were satisfled

Harvey Mallon, with effect from that the proper arrangements

A criticism of the Corps Tactical January 20, 1981. stances innocuous, as it was pro- could be made for the delegates

duced from dead germs. It solved Exercise will be given by a" Staff and newspaper correspondents.

the problem, he declared, of ensu-Officer, China Command, in the The choice of a president has been left to be decided at the May. sit- ting of the League Council. Reuter.

In an area to which a door had been specially built.

ed by visitors from Cairo, Amman

and Tunis-Reuter.

GANDHI TO BE FREE

PLEA TO VICEROY TO LIBERATE LEADERS.

HOPE OF AMNESTY.

other Proclamation.

· WIDOW ROBBED.

PLAN TO PROPITIATE THE

GODS,

The second hearing of the case against Yeung Chi-chu and Li New Delhi, Yesterday. Fung-leung took place in the Kow- Mahatma Gandi will probably loon Magistracy yesterday afber be released during the week-end, noon, when the case was again meeting of Moslem members of adjourned till February 9, the the Assembly have stated that two men, are charged with having they are appealing to the obtained $3,500 from a widow Viceroy, Lord Irwin, for an am" named Choi Ngan by a trick on nesty of political prisoners to en- September 1928.3. able" Gandhi, "Nehru, and other The money was alleged to have Congress leaders to participate in bean handed over to the two men lu working out the new constitution, order that they might propitiate the

Reuter

Premier Praised.

PURE ACCIDENT.

WORKMAN DISCHARGED OF

• MANSLAUGHTER.

FRESH AND FAIR.

is transferred to Battalion Head-

To-day's weather report from Ing that the milk and mest supply Drill Hall at 6 pm. on Tuesday, quarters with effect from 16.1.81

the Royal Observatory states: The Japanese depression has passed into the Pacific.

The anti-cyclone is central to the North of the Lower Yangtze Valley.

Strong monsoon

prevails" along the S.E. coast of China and a fresh monsoon along the North China Sea...

Forecast N. E. winde;: strong: fresh; fair. E

Remanded from last week, So Yu, a scaffolder who is charged with the manslaughter of Chan Fr-ling, carpenter, made another appear- gods and thus bring about the cure de before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at of the complainant's son, who had the Central Magistracy this ANOTHER MURDER ? been suffering from some disease morning The Police ap

New Delhi, Later for a consideratie time. plied for a withdrawal by the BABY GIRL FOUND WITH STRING Moslem members of the Assets It was only on the return of the Crown, saying that deceased may ROUND ITS NECK.

chave issued a statement ex- complainant's nephew from Van-have died accidentally during a pressing gratitude at Mr. Maccouver. In December last that the scuffle.

A Be The body of a newly born Donald's speech and appealing to loss of the money was discovered. The Magistrate (to defendant) - female child, found on the staircase the Viceroy to pardon all politi When questioned by the nephew,The prosecution are satisfied that of SAP Queen's Road West, was re- cal prisoners and this create a first defendant said that he had the death y Chad Fu Ling was a moved to the Public Mortuary yes rood Atmosphere for further co shared the money with second de pure Accident, and done of your ferday morning. It had a piece of operatioonReuter

fendant

concern You are discharged. tring tied round the neck.

of the world could now be made next, 27th Instant.

This will be followed by a dis free from tuberculosis.・・

Tuberculosis of the bones, joints, cussion on any points which arise. and glands in children, he con As many Officers and N.C.O's as tinued, were due to tuberculosis in possible, any other interested, are milk, and many authorities believ-requested. to attend. ed that an important percentage of Tactical Exercise. Corps Field Day

adult pulmonary tuberculosis cases

Struck off the Strength. Leaving the Colony No. 1564 Gnr. J. Lamond, Battery, as from February 16, 1937.

Strength.

on Corps Strength: 1668 Pte. R. C. The following have been taken Arrangements have been made Butler, 15.1.81; 1669 Pte. C. Cham

could be ascribed to the same for rail accommodation on the 9.05 pelovier, 20.1.81; 1870 Pte. H. F catise of infection contracted in a.m. train on Sunday, 26th Instant Greon, 20.1.81; 1671 Pte. R. S childhood. If the world's milk sup from Kowloon to Fauling and for

Meadows, 20.1.81... ply could be kept free from tuber- the return journey by the 2.46 train culosis the incidence of the disease from Fanling on the same day. would be considerably reduced.

Dress:-Ax for camp. Promotions and Appointments

Leave

No. 1420 L/Sgt. G. E. R. Devitt, No. 1 Platoon, from 8.1.81 to 21.1.81

No. 1518 Pte. . E. Henry, No. 4 Platoon Car Company, Car Section, from 5.2.81. to 7.2.32

NOTICE.. Sergeants Mens Committee.

He admitted being a great ad- mirer of Mr. Spahlinger, and said Hit Excellency, the Governor, has that, if he could only get the time been pleased to appoint Mr. Leslie some day we should get the won Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and means to carry on his work, Ross to be Lieutenant in the Hong derful results that this vaccine with effect from the January 18, |made possible.

A meeting of the above commif Siry Frederick Maurice, stated No. 1441 Pte. B. L. Stock, No. 1 than the announcement was of the Platoon is promoted to Lance Cortos will be held at Headquarters on

most importance, and added that peral with effect from to-day

Wednesday, January 28, 1981 he and his Committee had every

six o'clock p Wonder Transfer, confidence in the conclusions that had been reached..

No. 80.8.0.M8. Green, H. No.

1 Platoon, Machine Gun Company

(9rd) W. H. G. GOATER,

Captain, Adjutant, H.KVDİGİ