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CONGRESS ADMIRES

MURDERERS.

But Does Not Approve

of Violence!

ORGY OF RIOTING.

Karachi, Yesterday.

No. 27,757

NEW LAUNCH.

CHRISTENING CEREMONY AT TAIKOO.

BUILT FOR TEXAS CO.

The launching of the M.V. La Estrella Texaco took place at Tai- koo Dockyard yesterday.

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TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. — The closing rate of the "dollar on demand, to-day was 1/- d

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1931.

FORT DUNLOP

Local Branch. Pedder Bldg. Tel. 24554.

SPAIN IN A STATE OF POSTAGE RATES UP DEATH OF ARNOLD VOLUNTEER CORPS.

FERMENT.

Foreign Loan Excites Public Opinion. DICTATORSHIP FEARS.

Madrid, Yeterday.

AGAIN.

Letters to Britain and Foreign Lands.

POSTCARDS DEARER.

Postage on letters and post- Signs of a political ferment, cards are to be further raised on which have hardly been stilled for April 1! the past few months, are again The new rates per ounce will arising

The streets of Madrid be:- are once again heavily patrolled by Police, and rumours of another military dictatorship are rife.

The immediate cause of ex- inches. Built to Lloyd's highest citement is the credit of £12,000,- She 000, which the Minister of Finance

This vessel, which has been The All-India Congress Com-built to the order of the Texas mittee endorsed the resolution passed by the Working Commit-Co. and intended for the Con- tee, expressing admiration of the pany's Philippine faland trade, is spirit of Bhagat Singh and his 150 feet over-all, with a beam of comrades, but dissociating the 28 feet and, depth of 14 feet 6 Congress from political violence.

for further consideration.

ed.

A resolution endorsing the class full scantling vessel. Delhi pact, reaffirming the goal has two complete decks, short negotiated with American and of independence, was postponed forecastle, open bridge amidship foreign bankers in connection and poop deck aft. The crew are with the Government's scheme to Mr. Vallabhai Patel, President-berthed forward, Captain and stabilise the peseta. elect of Congress, who presided, office staff amidships, with offi-

The Republican lenders Sanchez, said that the Delhi truce was cers and engineers uft. Two and Bergamin are believed to be merely temporary. The fight was masts with derricks, two cargo the Government in that connec launching a fiery attack against only suspended, and not abandon-hatches, each hatch having an electric winch. The windlass is

tion. Simultaneously, the elderly Gandhi, in a speech on the also electric. Hand steering gear

General Burgucte, President of tragic events in Cawnpore and is installed on navigating bridge. the recent court martial of the Mirzapur, exhorted the Commit-A wireless house has been fitted Republican leaders, has issued.a tee to take immediate steps to up aft. Electric light has been long and cryptic statement declar- eradicate the causes of such evils, installed throughout the vessel.ing that Spain is determined not to tolerate another dictatorship.. The propelling machinery con- sists of one set of "Atlas Polar" The statement has caused wide- Full Diesel Direct Reversible spread speculation as to what is Marine Engine, 2-cycle, 6 cylin-

behind it.-Reuter. ders, developing 800 B.H.F. at 300 r.p.m. which will give the vessel conse- speed of 8 knots loaded.

Cholera Threat.

Cawnpore, Yesterday. After an orgy of communal rioting the public confidence is gradually returning in quence of the military patrolling of the streets. A few houses have been looted and set on fire, and there have been stray as saults. Meanwhile, the disturbed areas

threatened with cholera, owing to the difficulty of properly scavenging the atreets. -Reuter.

Are

Early News.

Karachi, Yesterday.

The naming ceremony was per- formed by Mrs. P. F. Le Fevre, wife of the General Manager of the Texas Co.

ESTATE DUTY.

REGULATION AS TO SHARES

IN COMPANIES.

MUSIC DRAWN FROM

THE ETHER.

Amazing Invention of M. Martenot..

STAR THEATRE DISPLAY.

The extraction of "music from rat heard from the Russian Pro- the other," about which the world

fessor Theremin, has been improv- ed in the hands of M. Maurice Mar-

tenot, a French musician, who yer-

terday performed on the air, so to. speak, in the Star Theatre.. has tamed the "how" which is a listeners, and by, methods of his own turna it to musical use. Vaual-

Like Mr. Theremin, M. Martanot

The Working Committee of the Congress has passed a resolutions

The attention of limited com- confirming the Irwin-Gandhi pact and re-affirming that its goal is Tales, and directors, managers independence, a demand for the and officers of such companies is complete control of the army, for- drawn in the Government eign affairs, finance and the fiscal Gazette to the requirements of policy, and appointing Gandhi sub-section (1) of section 24 of head of the Congress delegation the Estate Duty Ordinance, 1915, he

Was as enacted by the Estate Duty

to the Round Table Conference.

Other resolutions urged the re- lease of all political prisoners and conceded Burma's right to self- determination.---Reuter.

Bill Rejected.

Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

nuisance well-known to wireless

in

could produce staccato notes. The tune, and be

The said sub-section (1) is used the 'cello or violin, but he could general quality of the tone suggest- follows,-

(1).If the registered owner of a brass instrument.

also give a very passablo imitation of any share on a share register which is by law required to be

The executant,

BENNETT.

Rise from Lawyer's Office to Editor's Stool.

PROLIFIC AUTHOR.

ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK.

MUSKETRY PRACTICE.

Ordera by Lieut.-Coloffel L. G. Bird, D.9.0., O.B.E., commanding: Volunteer Defence Corps, state!

PARADES.

will

CAFE PROPRIETOR WINS £354,544.

Italian Sells Half Share of Ticket for £8,000

AMERICAN'S LUCK.

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London, Teaterday. Signor Emilio Scala, an Italian cafe proprietor in Battersea, drew the National winner in the Dublin sweepstake and wins £854,544.

Mr. Clayton Woods, of Buffalo,

London, Yesterday. The death occurred to-day of the well-known British novelist and playwright, Mr. Enoch

Corps Band, Arnold Bennett, in his sixty-third The Band less recruits year. Mr. Bennett, who has been parade at the Music Room, City suffering from typhoid, recently Hall, on Monday at 5.30 p.m. United States, won the second underwent an operation for blood sharp for Band Practice. transfusion, and was reported to

prize, £177,272, and Mr. George All recruita should attend the Dyamond of Capetown, the third, have made a slight improvement. special recruits class arranged for £118,,181, Signor Scala sold a half -Reuter.

every Monday at Headquarters at share for £3,000-Reuter. [Mr. Bennett was born in 5.80 p.m. North Staffordshire on May 27, All the Band are asked to at

The Result. 1867, and was educated in New- tend the Band meeting immediate- castle Middle School.

London, Yesterday. His firstly following the Band practice on The result of the Grand post was as a clerk in a solicitor's Monday in the City Hall.

National steeplechase, office, but he abandoned the law The Band will parade at Head-Aintree, Liverpool, over a distance at

Local British Dominions 12 Vin Suez and Pacific. British Dominions 20 Via Siberia. Foreign Countries 20 Macao and China Postcards. Local British Empire Macao and China Foreign Countries

Cents.

3.

4

8

Printed Papers. Two ounces

Commercial Papers. Ten ounces

4

the Editorship in December, 1896, with the Pipes and Drums in pro-

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In 1900 he resigned and devoted paration for the G.0.0'a inspec himself exclusively to literature.]tion.

Samples,

Four ounces

8

Small Packets

50

Eight ounces

SOME RAIN!

The weather report issued by the Royal Observatory at 10.52 a.m. to-day states:-

The anti-cylone central near Shongbai is spreading east- ward,

Fresh monsoon. prevails along the B.E' coast of China and over the North China Sea. Forecast N., E winds, fresh; generally overcast; some

rain.

DEMPSEY WINS ON CONTRACT CASE.

Action for £100,000- Damages Fails.

LEGAL VICTORY.

New York, Yesterday.

CHARLIE HONOURED

The Judge to-day dismissed an action by the Chicago Coliseum Company against Jack Dempsey Technical Skill.'

for £100,000 damages for breach kept within kept within the before his apparatus, releasing the Tarry Wills before he lost his Monsieur Martenot simply stood of contract for failing to meet New Delhi, Yesterday.

Colony dies, auch share shall for vibrations with his left hand, while title to Tunney.---Reuter's Ameri- The Legislative Assembly, by the purposes of this Ordinance be with his right he carried the high-can Service, a vote of 60 to 55, has rejected deemed to be part of the estate frequency waves through a gamut the Finance Bill, which the Gov-of the deceased, unless the legal of seven octaves. ernor General in a message to the personal representative of the de- who showed great technical skill, President recommended should be ceased proves to be satisfaction produced a diversity of timbres passed.

of the Commissioner that such which seemed to indicate indefinite The members objected to the estate of the deceased at his quality of the sound sometimes sug- share did not form part of the possibilities In this field. The increased income tax and super death. tax, and in spite of the finance members' offer to reduce the amount to be collected by a crore, the Assembly threw out the Bill.. To-morrow is the last day for sending the Bill to the Council of FR.C.S., Professor of Surgery to the Star Theatre this evening, State.-Reuter.

CONSERVING OUR SAND.

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NEW APPOINTMENTS.

Dr. Renelm Hutchison Digby,

the University of Hong Kong, to

gests the human voice as well as the violin, and, as modulated by the inventor-artist, produced an effect of enchantment.

There will be a performance in

be Surgeon to the Government RETIREMENT OF DR.

Civil Hospital, with effect from April 1.

G. E. BROOKE.

Valuable Work in Singapore.

CREATED A CHEVALIER OF

LEGION OF HONOUR.

DECORATED IN PARIS.

Paris, Yesterday. Charlie Chaplin was decorated with the insignia of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour to-day by M. Philippe Berthelot, at the Qual d'Orsay, Reuter.

TOUR OF RUSSIA.

FLIGHT BY BRITISH SOCIETY. WOMAN.

in 1893 to become assistant-editior quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Wednes- of about 4 miles,

of the "Woman," succeeding to day for combined march practice lows:-

DISPUTE OVER SUEZ

CANAL RATES.

Company Refuses to Reduce Them.

SNUB TO BRITAIN.

Paris, Yesterday. The Suez Cand! Company, in a statement in reply to complaints about the height of its dues, gays that it is not prepared, anyhow at present, further to reduce its dues, and points out, inter alia, that the dues were reduced last September.

Battery.

Parade on Tuesday in Miniature Range at 5.30 p.m.; Aiming prac. tice at 5 pm,

Grakle

Xun

was as fol-

.....(Lyall) 1

Gregalach ..... (Moloney) 2: Annandale ...(T. Morgan) 8

Forty-three ran.

Won by a length and a half; ten lengths separating.the second at Head-and third.

Parnde at 5.80 p.m. |quarters oo' Thursday. ~ Practice parade for G.O.C.'s inspection. everybody is expected to attend.

Engineer Company. Monday-Miniature Range shoot at Headquarters at 5.80 p.m.

Friday and Saturday.Corps Rifle Meeting.

Corps Signals. Parades will be held at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Machine Gun Troop. Parade at Causeway Bay Stables on Tuesday and Thursday at 5.80

p.m.

A further reduction would pre- judice the interests of the Com- mercial shipping generally. pany and scarcely benefit com-at

pany expresses the opinion that It is understood that the Com- the British Government might assist Eritish shipping using the canal out of its dividends from the Company-Router.

LONDON'S FIRST

THINKIE.”

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Strange Innovation in London Theatre.

Time: 9 mins. 82-4/5 secs. The betting was:

100 to 6 agat. Grakie.

26 to 1 ogst. Gregalach.

100 to I agat. Annandale. The time made is a record, the previous best being that of As- cetics Silver, nine minutes 84-2/5

seconds in 1906.

Tientsin Winners.

Tientalo, Yesterday.

The holders of the ticket which drew Sir Lindsay in the Irish Armoured Car Company. aweep have sold" a half share of Car Section. Parade on Monday their interest to a London syn- Headquarters at 5.15 pm, fordicate for 4,500, upon the under driving instruction riderstanding that they will re Monday at Headquarters at 5.15 the horse be placed second, or Motor Cycle Section-Parade on celve an extra £4,000 should p.m. for driving instruction ride.

£3,000 should it be placed. third, Machine Gun Company. Should the horse win or be ni Parades on Tuesday at 5.30 at placed,. tha vendors receive Headquarters in Mufti. Machine £7,500 only.--Reuter, Gan Training under Platoon ar The ticket is held by Mrs. rangements.

Morris (half), Mrs. Kaufman (two On Tuesday No. 3 Platoon will Afths) and Mr. Lazarenko (one proceed to Kennedy Road Range tenth). for Musketry under Lieut. J. F.

Wright and Sergt. Major Slattery. Counsel: Now, sir..you have Musketry. All those fring in stated under your oath that this the Corps Rifle Meeting will be man had the appearance of a gentle given an opportunity for practice man Will you be good enough to on the Peak Range at 9 am to tell the jury how a gentleman looks London, Feb. 6. · morrow. Range Officer:: Licut in your estimation. What has been described as E. G. Stewart. There will be no London's first "thinkie" was pro- further Company Rifle Club.com-looker-like-e"

Witness: Well, era gentleman sonted at the Lyric Theatre, Lon-petitions for this training season. Counsel: Not so many of your | don, when Eugene O'Neill's

Scottish Company. Strange Interlude was produced. Parades on Thursday at 5.80 on an oath,

ers, air; and remember you are Now tell me, can you In addition to the usual dialogue p.m. the characters reveal to the audi-.

sce.anybody in this court who looks No. 7 Platoon at Headquarters like a gentleman?

Witness: I-can if you'll stand out of the way!

ence what they are thinking, and under Captain H. R. Forsyth. while they are divulging their No. & Platoon at Kowloon Dock secret thoughts the other charac-under Lieut. G. Duncan, M.B.E. staring blankly into space until be worn. ters on the stage are immobilised. Arms drill, belts and frogs will the dialogue is resumed.

No. 1094 Sergt. A. A. Urquhart, G.O.C. Inspection-All ranks No. 2 Platoos, granted 7 months' This device, which critics think are asked to note the change of leave from March 20 to October presents little advantage over the date to this parade and to make 20. old-fashioned aside, necessarily every effort to attend practice No. 789 Pto. W. F. Eerr, No. 4 holds up the action of the play. parades before April 9.7 -Platoon, granted, 12 months' leave which is so long drawn out that There will be a combined prac from March 20, 1981, to March 20, It takes up four and a half hours. tice for the Pipes and Drums and 1982.

In order to avoid detaining the the Band at 5.80 pan. at Headquar- audience until the early hours of ters on Wednesday,

No. 1502 L/Cpl. A. E. Arnhold, Machine Gun Troop, granted 12 months leave from March 22, 1981, to March 22, 1992, ̈ ̈ ̈

Command.

the morning the management of Portuguese-Company.. the Lyria introduced the innova The attention of all ranks Is tion of starting the play at six in called to paragraph 2 of Corps the evening and continuing untilence to the practice parade for the Second Lieutenant M. I. de Ville. 11.30 p.m. with a dinner Interval Orders of this work with refer will assume command of the Bat- audience with the problem of the Company on Friday, this day being March 81. From 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

G.O.C.'B-inspection.

tery vice Lieutenant L. F. Nichol- These arrangements present the There will be no parade for the son (on leave), with effect from most suitable form of dress; no a public holiday.

(Sgd.) W. H. G. COATER,

Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. Struck Off The Strength. Promotion.

Dr. William Innes Gerrard, O.B.E., M.D., M.RO.P., D.P.H., It is notified in the Government Professor of Medicine to the Uni- Gazette for the information of veraity of Hong Kong, to be Phy architects, building contractors, sician to the Government Civil

LIGHT PLANE FLIGHT. owners of house-property and Hospital, with effect from April 1. LOTTERY IN SARAWAK. building land, and others concern- Dr. Richard Edward Tottenham, ed, that observation of the Crown M.D. FR.C.P.I., F.C.O.G., D.P.E.,

London, Yesterday. Leaving behind him a record of foreshores in the Colony tends to Professor of Obstetrice to the extremely valuable service in the Montagu has left London on an The Honourable Mrs. Edwin the conclusion that the sandy University of Hong Kong. to be cause of public health in Malaya aerial tour of Soviet Russia and beaches from which sand has Obstetric Physician to the Govern- und Sarawak Dr. Glibert E. Persia in been been removed under Government Civil Hospital, with effect Brooke, who has been Chief Health Accompanied by the amateur pilot, Gypsy Moth 'plane, ment permits do not recuperate to from April 1.

Officer, Sarawak, for the past Mr. Rupert Belville Beuter. any appreciable extent, and that! Mr. Thomas Megarry to be a three years, has retired, says the M. Rupert Belville-Reuter.

unanimity has yet been reached Musketry-No 12A Platoon and sand in the Colony must be more Magistrate with effect from March Sarawak Gazetta. His retirement

but it was noticed that somó Casuals will proceed to Stonecut women in the audience took adsters Range to-morrow. Detalls as more carefully conserved: Fur-28 and District Officer in the took effect on February 15, more, extensive requirements for Northern District of the New Ter-

PERU CANNOT PAY.vantage of the hour's break to issued last week. water and other public works, ritories, with effect from March career in the Eost have been spent UNABLE TO MEET INTEREST lude" deals with the emotional Hfe No. 2/81 dated January 9, para-

Although the later years of his

change from afternoon dress into Hife League and Revolver Match. both at the present time and in 28

With reference to Corps Orders evening gowns. "Strange Inter- in Sarawak whither he went in the years to come, must be pro- Mr. George Alexander Walker 1928 upon his retirement from the

His: Excellency the Governor has CHARGES ON DEBTS. of American women, and is beau- graphs 4 and 5, will any Members made the following promotions in. vided for ad foreseen, to act as Manager of the Railway Malayan medical service, in urder

tifully acted.

who wish to compete plssse for the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence It is not at present proposed to during the absence on leave of Mr. to reorganise the health services

New York, Yesterday: There have been three other ward their names at once to the Corps, in the following order of withdraw or refuse permits to Robert Baker, with effect from in Sarawak, Malaya, and in parti The Peruvian Minister of Fin-fresh productions this week. Adjutant take sand in proper cases, but all March 28 MART

seniority, with the dates cular Singapore, has benefitted ance has informed Messrs. JW. Rocklity, at the Duke of York's, ispad Marksman, applications for permits will re-

Committee to advise the Gov-principally as a result of the Seligman and the National City a story of the court of Saxony in quire careful considerationernor regarding applications under energies and capabilities which Bank of New York (the Peruvian the seventeenth century, and ac Engineer Company, has qualified No. 1034 L/Cpl. H. L. Lockhart, the Companies Ordinance. 1911 Dr. Brooke brought to bear In the Government's fiscal agents) that quiros added, interent because it as marksman and is entitled to (as amended by the Companies Or exercise of his duties. After serv- Peru will be unable to pay the full has been revealed that the author, wear the badge for one year. MARINE ENGINEERS. inance, 1930), for authority to ing for a time as surgeon of the interest charges on her foreign George Pready, is actually Miss

Transfer. Beras Auditors in respect of Com Clan Line and Furness 8.8. Co debt Reuters American Ser Majorie Bowen Rules as to the conduct of exam-panies, other than China Com- and as Medical Officer and later vioe.

No 1449 Tpr. J. H. B. Lee, Inations Instituted for persons who panies, regletered under the prin- District Commissioner at Caicos

George N. Grudden's Ninety- Machine Gun Troop, is transferred rish to procure colonial certificates cipal Ordinance, which keep their Islands, Dr. Brooke came to Binga-

nine Miles from Colombo, producto Armoured Car Company, Car ed at the Everyman, deals with Section, as from March 27, 1981. the lascounte fn Ein

the Colonial Fore as Port Health Omeer. In

the demoralisation of planter Struck Off the Strength, irman)

through heat and loneliness on Having completed 8 years' ser not unusual Unes, and the vice: No 1254 Pts. L. J. Cave, question

abe Armoured Car Company, Car Back past Hon, ea from February 11, 1981.

O. 1908 and during the ne

erand played an outstanding

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Bottomley to be Lleutenant, Second Lieutenant John Hubert February 15; 1911,

Second Lieutenant Hubert Glad- stone Williams to be Lieutenant, February 15, 1981, b

Second Lieutenant Leslie Frara Nicholson to be Lieutenant Febru ary 15, 1981ABOUT Second Lieutenant Even Goong Stewart to be Lieutenant 16, 11

Second Idente Richards to the Lieut

leave Wright?