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FREE WHEELING 7TH ADVANTAGE.

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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1931.

BRITISH FLEET TO JUGGLING WITH THE NAVAL AGREEMENT

AMERICAN ESCORT

COMING.

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

PRICE $3.00 Per Month..

• uriners "Manager.

TO CAR OWNERS

Use RUBBER Matting for the Floor and Running Boards of your Car;

Washable,- Durable,

More economical than

Carpet or Linoleum,-

NEATRI and CLEANER.

Quotations from:

Telephone 24554. Dunlop Rubber Co. (China), Ltd. Pedder Bldg.

CHECK IN DECLINE OF EFFECT OF REVOLT WILL CHICAGO BE

“INVADE” GERMANY.

INDIAN EXCHANGE.

NOT TO SUFFER.

Courtesy Visit to Kiel or Value of Rupee Not to

Wilhelmshaven.

Be Maintained at 1/6d?

Emphatic Speech by Lord of Admiralty.

MEETING IN LONDON.

June 5 to June 9.

"CHAOS LIKE CHINA'S."

New Delhi, Yesterday.

CLOSER RELATIONS.

To Take Back Wanted

Woman.

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.

Mrs. Jeng Shee, against whom the Crown is seeking extradition

PRICES.

ON PORTUGAL.

SWEPT CLEAN?

Downward Movement

Madeira Rising Not | Ambitious Task Set by

Nearing An End.

Echoed in the Capital.

New Mayor.

4

UPWARD TREND.

LISBON PATROLLED.

Rugby, Yesterday.

Lisbon, Yesterday.

GANGSTERS DOOMED.

who

London, Yesterday.

London, Yesterday.

New York Yesterday. After consultations between

The Federation of the Indian "I cannot and will not believe,

A further check to the rate of The Wednesday afternoon re-i The only gunplay following the Foreign Office, London, and Chambers of Commerce to-day after the agreement we reached for the alleged embezzlement of decline in wholesale prices as mea-volt in Madeira had no reaction "Tony" Cermak's victory was Brighton, Lossiemouth, the Black passed a resolution demanding in person in Rome and Paris, G.$25,000 from California, made sured at the Board of Trade is in Portugal, which is quiet, al-rocket shooting at the stars, Forest, and Bavaria, where Mr. the cessation of further Govern-secured only by the hearty co. yet another appearance before Mr. shown by the index number for though the streets of Lisbon are hence the London Editor

Police March. The index is returned at being actively patrolled and the telephoned to the Chicago Police Arthur Henderson, Mr. Ramsay ment efforts to maintain the value operation and goodwill of the Schofield in the Central MacDonald, Herr Bruening and of the rupee at eighteen pence. principal State officers whom we Court this morning.

63.7, a fall of only 8 per cent.Capital is seething with rumours. headquarters enquiring how much Dr. Curtius respectively are holi- Sir George Schuster, Finance met in both Capitals, that the Mr. F. H. Loseby was for the de-from February. This is the small- Two transports crowded with bloodshed there had been, was daying, the date for the visit of Member of the Government of agreement should now be allowed fence.

est monthly percentage decline re- troops, all armed with war mater- surprised to learn that there had Herr Bruening and Dr. Curtius to India, defending the Govern-in any way to suffer," declared Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P., repre- corded by the Board since the ial, and four seaplanes destined been none. Britain has been finally fixed for ment's policy, expresaed amaze- Mr. Alexander, the First Lord sonting the Crown, said that they downward movement began in Oc-for Madeira, are still under steam. ment at the change in Indian of the Admiralty, in a speech at were in possession of an official tober, 1929, and follows on the Nothing is known_as to when It is explained that the idea of commercial opinion, which now Hull. "We shall work to the ut-letter from the American Consul to previous amalleat fall recorded they are to start.-Reuter. this visit originated from the urged the Government to allow most to assist in consummating the effect that an agent is expected last month of .6 per cent.

to arrive in Hong Kong on May 2. has been a fall of 15 per cent,

British Residents Safe. conversations between Mr. Hen-the exchange to drift. Sir George the agreement."

since March last year. derson and the German Ambas-Schuster said that chaos like He said that the British Gov-

Rugby, Yesterday. sudor in London last March, when that in China would ensue from ernment desired to consummate

The figures suggest that the

The British cruiser London downward movement of wholesale reached Madeira to-day, having it was informally suggested that any attempt to juggle with the the agreement by a legal treaty,

The latest figures abow that as the British Prime Minister had oxchange, and urged the meeting thereby securing, firstly, the re- had frequent conversations with not to ask the Government to moval of a real handicap to a

feature of the world economic terests of British residents dur-191,900, which is unprecented in the statesmen of other countries, wreck the future of India by ask-free, full and frank discussion of

crisis, may be nearing an end and ing the present disturbances in Chicago's history. a meeting between Mr. Mac-ing them to do something they disarmament at the world dia-

that the upward trend to which the Island. The London found economists look for reviving en-conditions quiet and no anxiety armament Donald and Herr Bruening, who knew to be wrong.-Reuter. had never previously met, would}

terprise and stimulating industry, need be felt for the safety of the may be within aight-British British

British community. Wireless Service.

Wireless' Service.

be acceptable as affording an op- SIAMESE ROYALTY IN

portunity of discussing questions

of mutual interest.

The German Ministers would arrive in London on June b, and

JAPAN.

conference and Geneva, and, secondly, the com- parative lack of Franco-Italian understanding would be sub- stituted by closer and more cor- dial relationships.--Reuter.

spend Saturday and Sunday at Received by Emperor at IMPROVEMENT IN THE

Chequers. There would be a ban- quent at the German Embassy on Monday to the British Govern- ment and the Corps Diplomatique would return to Berlin on June 9, The proposal of the British Government to send the British Fleet as a courtesy visit to Ger man porte has been heartily wel comed by the German Govern- ment and the Naval authorities. No date has yet been fixed for the visit, which will be the first since the War, but it is expected that the Fleet will visit Kiel or Wilhelmshaven.

Berlin, Yesterday. It is stated that Herr Bruening and Dr. Curtius do not favour holding a conference with Mr.

the Palace.

ADDRESS IN ENGLISH.

Tokyo, Yesterday. The King and Queen of Siam

were received in audience this morning by the Emperor and Em- prese

at the Imperial Palacé. After the formal ceremony and an exchange of gifts cordial greetings were offered in English through an interpreter.

This afternoon Their Majesties will attend a flower festival to be given in celebration of Buddha's

birthday.

Old and New.

Henderson in London at the end modern, of May. They prefer May 8, be-

ween this afternoon, when the cause they desire a heart to heart King of Siam, the only reigning talk before, rather than after, Buddhist monarch, accompanied the League Reuter.

KING'S HEALTH.

Recovery in a Few Days Expected.

SLOW PROGRESS.

It was

There

Another Landon paper sent a special correspondent to Chicago to telegraph the full tell of ex- pected fatalities in electoral street battles, but there was

none.

STOP PRESS Prices, which has been a marked been sent to safeguard the in- Cermak's margin of victory was

Boston, Yesterday.

The profits of the Ford Motor Company for 1930 total $44,460,000, compared with $81,797,000, for 1929. -Reuter's American Service.

The documents relating to the case had been passed from Wash-: ington to the State authorities in

California.

His Worship observed that he had better remand the woman f another week.-.

Cermak, in a speech, said that Chicago would hot be disappoint- ed in hia administration, adding: "This begins a new day for Chicago. Gangsters, muddled finances, and City Hall hippo-

ourselves the task of preparing the City for the successful cen- tennial exhibition of 1988."

LADY MISSIONARY'S MAGISTRATE DIES OF droming will cease. We shall set

DEATH.

Authority on the Loi Tribes.

37 YEARS IN CHINA.

Mr. Loseby remarked that the Treaty was made with the Federal Miss Katherine L. Schaeffer, who Government in Washington. He died in the Matilda Hospital yes- Rugby, Yesterday. stated at Windsor did not know they could delegate terday, was born in Paris, Kenosha Castle to-day that there withority to a State was

County, Wisconsin, on March 1, slight

1867. in the rather curious procedure

She received her education Mr. Murphy said that it in th public schools, a State nor King's condition. Although His Majesty remained in his room he natural that the papers, affidavite mal school, and the University of was not confined to bed.

escort and identifier should come to Wisconsin, and taught Heveral

years in her native State. gether to Hong Kong,

Windsor.

improvement

was

Mr. Loseby indicated that had the American authorities sent

an

WOUNDS.

Indian Official Shot in Midnapore.

MISCREANT ESCAPES.

Midnapore, Bengal,

Yesterday.

Mr. James Peddle, the District Magistrate here has succumbed to the five bullet wounds fired by an unknown assailant, who. es- caped.Reuter.

Bullets and Bombs,

Chicago, Yesterday. Bullets and bombs (aimed for once harmlessly at the stars) crackled far into the night in | celebration of Mayor Thompson's eclipse by Anton Cermak. The latest

votes figures, 667,529 against 475,613, represent a re cord Mayoral majority in Chicago's history.

Thompson, on the verge of exhaustion, accepted the result

Reforms Likely.

The King's Physician, Lord

[An earlier message stated: sportingly, and telegraphed con- Dawson, again drove to Windsor

In 1894 she was accepted by the Mr. James Peddie, the District gratulations to his ex-miner op. Castle to-day and saw the King,

Board of Foreign Missione of the Magistrate of Midnapore, has ponent; and told an interviewer A curious blend of ancient and together with, Sir Milsom Rees. cscort in the first place his client Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. been rushed to hospital in a criti- that "In spite of the result I shall

of East and West, Waslaryngologist, and Dr. Dartyn of would have been there by now,"

and came to the Island of Hainan, cal condition, suffering from five continue to uphold the teachings He again raised the question of where she spent many happy, bullet wounds, received in a mur- of George Washington."

that the fruitful years of service. She was derous attack by an unknown as To-day's slight improvement is bail, and submitted

favourable sign Secretary of State for Foreign an exceedingly good student of the sailant. The miscreant escaped. regarded as Council meets.-by the Queen, attended the flower following on the slow but satis- Affairs had been informed that his Chinese language, and excelled in Mr. Peddie was visiting an educa-|

festival in Hibiya Park,

the pioneer work among those who had tional exhibition at a local school Their Majesties were received factory progress recorded yester- Worship had allowed ball to

no never heard the Gospel. In Hainan when the outrage occurred.] Rugby. Yesterday.

by the Mayor of Tokyo, who de- day, but if this improvement con- fugitive, and there had been

her name is inseparably linked The visit which the German ivered an address of welcome in tinues, as anticipated, it will still comments on it since.

"I think it is a miscarriage of with those of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. the Foreign English:

require two or three days before then their Majesties

the Rev. F. P. Minister, Dr. Bruening and Dr. burned Incense before a figure of a restoration to normal health Justice that, my client should be Jeremiassen, Curtius, will pay to London, has Buddha, while an aeroplane circled can be expected. British Wire-kept in prison under these circum-Gilman, and others who itiner OUR YOUNG ACTORS

Another Report.

Chancellor and

been fixed for June 5 to June 9. over the immense throngs present, less Service. Although the invitation extended dressed in all kinds of attire from

morning clothes to

Earlier NewB.

London, Yesterday.

An official atatement says there has been a slight improvement in

to them was accepted some little formal while ago, the question of the kimonos. date was at the time left open, The Emperor of Japan is giv. owing to the difficulty of finding ing a banquet to their Majesties the King's condition,

a period which did not conflict this evening, after which Baron

with the existing engagements of Shidehara will entertain them in a visitors or of the British Foreign theatre party-Router. Secretary and the Prime Minia-

ter. This difficulty was overcome to-day when it found that June 5

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Sailing for Canada.

Later.

H. M. the King is still in his room, but is not staying in bed. He is benefitting from the improv.

ed weather and bursts of sunshine. Tokyo, Yesterday, The King and Queen of Siam it is emphasised, howover, that the bronchial condition will inevitably

the earliest mutually con- left Tokyo at 9.86 a.m. to-day for take some time to clear up, and if venient date. British Wireless Kamakura, where they will visit Service.

the famous Daibutsu, thereafter the improvement be continued it proceeding by motor to Yoko will be still at least two or three Empress of Japan, which is sail-pletely recovered.-Reuter

stances," declared Mr. Loseby. ated throughout the south-

His Worship: I refuse to takejern interior of the Teland. ST. ANDREW'S CLUB PRESENTS the risk of decreasing the ball fix She had great interest in the aboriginal Loi tribes and wrote a

TWO PLAYS, cd in the sum of $75,000.

Defendant was accordingly renumber of articles about them and manded.

their languages and customs. For many years she was a regular cor respondent for the North China Herald.

CASE DISMISSED.

ALLEGED POSSESSION OF FALSE

LIQUOR LABELS.

Thompson's ejection by the Bohemian immigrant Cermak, who made a fortune through spe culation, has followed a cam- paign unparalleled in invective.

"Big Bill's" repertoire included, "Jew baiter, Hun, catspaw of International financiere," to which Cermak replied in the compre- hensive phrase "blubbering hip- popotamus, defending gangsters, crooked contractors and blood- sucking jobbers."

FARCE AND COMEDY.

Two plays, "The Grand Cham's Cermak'a reply to Thompson's Diamond," a farce by Allan Monk-congratulation was a demand that

"No Servants," the latter hand over the adminis years were a challenge to her faith, comedy by The trying times of the past few house, and

Gertrudo Jennings, tration immediately, to enable an and she was always eager, after any were presented by members of St. early start on spring cleaning in enforced evacuation, to return to Andrew's Dramatic Club in the the city. the mission compound at Kachek, St. Andrew's Church Hall Inst Hainan, her home since Boxer year. night, to a crowded house. At the Central Magistracy yester-Returning from furlough early in

Mesars. Rupert Baldwin, A.T.C.L., opened hearing in the case in which the disease for which she underwent Sweet contributed

NO EVIDENCE.

Of only five wards standing by Thompson, one was the Negro quarter and another the under- world section called the "bloody

IN BANDITS HANDS | hama. They will embark on the days before his Majesty will be com.day afternoon, Mr. W. Schofield 1981 she was again stricken with J. W. Baldwin, R. Dormer and S. A twentieth," Reuter's American

MISSIONARIES BEING WELL

TREATED.

Peking, Yesterday.

and

A letter from the American mis-- slonaries, Messrs. Nelson Tvedt, who were captured last October by bandits, states that they are still well. Seventy Chl- ese prisoners are also being held for ransom by the brigands. The

ing for Vancouver in the after- noon.-Reuter.

LINER GROUNDED.

BERENGARIA HELD UP ON A SAND BANK.

NO DAMAGE DONE.

Rugby, Yesterday.

Americans have received medl. The Canard liner Berengaria,

a

BRITISH WARSHIP FIRED ON.

Mutiny of Chinese Garrison.

FIRING ON YANGTSZE:

Peking: Yesterday.

to a musical

Comical Play,

lower middle-class

It was alleged against Ho. Shun-a severe aurgical operation in 1929, programme. Mr. Sweet was warm- Service. hing, licensee of the Nam Hing and she spent her last weeks in the ly applauded for a monologue on STARVING AMERICA. Loong wine shop, 97, Queen's Road Matilda Hospital in Hong Kong. Tai Wan bathing beach. Central, that he had made struc- She leaves to mourn her going tural alterations to his bonded ware- two slaters, a olster-in-law, and a,

- OVER TWO MILLION FED BY house, and possession of 143 false number of nieces and nephews, all

The first play was extremely liquor labels. Mr. H. A. Taylor, in Wisconsin, and a host of friends, comical, and showed how the quiet

THE RED CROSS. Assistant Superintendent of Im both foreign and Chinese. The living of a ports and Exports, conducted the American Presbyterian Mission Inj

SITUATION IMPROVED. case for the prosecution, whilst Mr. Hainan will greatly miss her, parti-family is suddenly broken one evening by a priceless. diamond F. C. Jenkin (Instructed by Messrs.cularly in the work among the non-

Washington, Yesterday. The Red Crosa is still feeding d'Almada and Mason) was for the Christian women and the transient crashing through a window. J. W. Baldwin was excellent as Mr. defence,

callers at the mission compound, to Perkins, whilst Rita Cole as Mrs. 1,000,000 persons in the drought : Bearing Resumed.

whom she presented the

Gospel Perkins, and Aletha Hirst as Polly stricken area. According to the faithfully and well-Contributed.

Perkins, acquitted themselves well. Chairman's report to President W. Tillery as the detective Albert Hoover, the maximum number - Watkins and Reginald Woolley as fed at the peak of the distress. the Man in Black rendered fine was 2,250,000. The situation is support.

now improving and the Red Cross hopes to end the relief in June.- Reuter's American Service.

A reccrudescence of the firing on which yesterday grounded on cines sent to them.

At the resumed hearing this Negotiations are now proceed-mud bank rear the Isle of Wight ships on the Yangtsze is reported.

The Yangtze Rapids Co.'s sa morning, after Mr. Taylor, Mr. ing da to the methods whereby while going dead slow in, a dense

PETROL IMPORTS:

CUT OF 33 PER CENT, TO BE

LEVIED IN US:1

na scheduled-British Wireless Servicc

GRAVE INDUSTRIAL

SITUATION.

43,000 Men Locked Out in Norway.

DANISH TROUBLE......

Copenhagen, Yesterday..

Touch of Humour,."-

There was a fine touch of romance and humour in the second play. DODGING TEA TAX. Victoria, Lady Streetly (capably enacted by Maud White) was de- · · HEAVY DELIVERIES MADE TO serted by her servants, and was left with the unexpected problem of hav-

cash for their ransom can be defog was berthed at Southampton ng has been heavily fired on from B. L Alves (Secretary of the Hong livered, but the bandits are still to-day, After a careful examina-both banke sixty miles above Kong Printing Prese) and Mr. demanding $20,000 for the release tion it was found that no damage Ichang, and was struck several Fajardo (engraver) had given avl- of the foreigners:--Reuter.

was caused, both inside and out, times. A-Chinese member of the dence, the Magistrate held that the first charge had not been prov- of the great vessel and she will crew was seriously wounded. Ball for New York on Saturday

H.M.S. Gnat has also been fired ed. There was no evidence of structural alteration since the pre- It is reported that the garrison misss wäre taken over, as a go- at Patung have mutinied, and it is down. He dismissed the charge. FRANCHISE URGED. believed they were responsible for Referring to the charge of pos the firing. Government troops session of false labels his Worship, from: Ichang have been sent to sup.-held that evidence as to the custody pross the mutiny ----Reuter.

of the engraved stone would not be The threatened lock out of ing to cook a meal for the very material, Considering, the ab 50,000 men has been postponed to Hon. Francis Mayfield of the For- which would sence of labels. Furthermore, Mr. April 20. Negotiations for a sign Office (admirably enacted by Reginald Woolley) who is to leave Taylor could not prove labels Issued settlement are continuing.

England for West Africa the follow- In order to be on the safe side Institu by the Import and Export Depart Lock Out Begins

batea mant further back than 1929, and The postponed lock out con- ing day. Elleen, Bliss as Mrs, and guard against the possibility therefore the charge wald. Also be cerns 50,000 Danish workmen. Sparrow (cook) Phyllis Woolley as of Mr. Snowden restoring the Are long than dismissed and the defendant de. On the contrary Norwegian Harris (parlourmald) y Dorothy tea duty in the coming Budget.

The charged His Worship

Washington Yesterday, ! An immediate cut of 88 per cent orts of refined patrol--and,

cent in crude oil,

Der 80, in forecast

intil the

on petroleum

produel

VOTES FOR WOMEN IN BERMUDA7

EMPIRE EXAMPLES.

the local franchise,

bring it into clos

**would comment on

Kefallure to

AAA BRITISH FIRMS.

MOVE AGAINST BUDGET.

London, Yesterday.

are not fortunate, so Baldwin. sa? Maud (kitchemffaid)mery heavy deliveries of tea have Oslo reporta that a lock out of and Amelia Lendolt as Agnes (ecul been made to big tea firms in Bri- men began to-night lerymaid) supported the cast splen- fain for some days, according to

Faldry!

I the Evening News-Reuter,