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News in Brief.

FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1931.

No matter what rate the Hong The British Army la still appro Kong Dollar will be, Canton sub-ximately 10,000 below establish?

Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Dyer return-coln will follow to rise or fall at the ment; recruits are sufficient only to ed by the Empress of Russia to-ame ratio as it always door (with counterbalance the outflow.

reference to question 5).

The task of finding drafts neces For the above reasons, trade will sary to maintain overseas garrisone

day.

At the next meeting of the not be diverted to Canton at all. has been accomplished with great Rotary Club Lieut.-Commander If Hong Kong gees gold and China imeulty

011 silver basis, the The discipline of the Army con Dymott, R.N., will give an address remains

merchants in Canton still have to tinues to be maintained at a high on "Meteorology."

pay the same amount of allver to standard.

There was a substantial reduction

II.E. Sir William Peel has very settle their gold debts with the ex- graciously agreed to lay the founda-porters of Great Britain or U.S.A. in the number of trials by court- or martial, and in the number of men The only under sentence of imprisonment and difference is that in Shanghal they detention during the past year. can gamble in sterling and U.S. Clothing grant has been reduced

tion stone of the new West Wing of whether through Shanghai the YMCA. at Kowloon on Thurs-through Hong Kong. day at 5.30 p.m.

The Air Bill. The main increases in the Al estimates are: pay £170,000: tech- £76,000; that Hong nical and warlike stores

a coolie, had gold exchange and in Hong Kong from £1 s. 6d. to 183. 3d. per man Chan Nam (26) his left hand crushed whilst at work they can look for a favourable rate owing to fall in contract price. in the Lowloon Docks yesterday, to convert their S.C.$ into Hang and was removed to the Kwong Wah Kong $ only: the latter they will

be more willing to do. Hospital for treatment.

It is often argued Whilst engaged in Ashing with Kong is too near China to act in-and works, bulldings and lands, dynamite in Mul Wan, Chinese dependently on currency questions, £70,000.

I cannot help reminding The chief saving is £30,000 under Territory, Lo Yung-wan (39) had but

are such experts of the hond of civil aviation. A sum of his right hand blown off, and was those who conveyed to the Government Civil geographical questions that Dairen £19,000 is saved at the Air Mini-

is actually attached to China and is try. Hospital for treatment.

only a seaport with no productions In his memorandum dealing with the hinter the estimates, Lord Amulree, Minis- Ho Pak-pal, a widow, living st at all except those of 16 Tai Woo Street, has reported to land and yet Dairen as a seaport is ter for Air, states that the increase to the she more prospereus to-day when her in the pay is directly due the Police that on April 28

her

is Japanese growth of the force, and would be entrusted

amah with

the legal tender currency The amah is gold yen than when she was on a greater but for the savings achieved custody of $340.

silver basis. Mind J'ou, Man-in other directions. alleged to have absconded.

churia fe not yet on gold basis, but Dairen is.

Jumping from a lorry which was still in motion in Hennessey Road yesterday, Cheung Chu (20) A coolte, received injuries to his headi and legs.

He was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.

-

Arrested in Shamshuipo whilst trying to sell five water taps which he had stolen from dwelling houses

Yours, etc.

Hong Kong, April 30.

X. Y. Z.

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP.

[To the Editor of "China Mall."]

He explains that increase in the gross

total of estimated ex- penditure of £273,400 is accounted for by the increase in appropria- tions-in-aid which include provision of the necessavý funds for the British entry in the Schneider Trophy contest.

Other points he emphasises are: In spite of tite Increase In the

Sir, The article on the tennis strength of the Royal Air Force

issue of your since 1925, the gross total for 1931 ́ ́ ́ at Nos, 771, 775 and 777, Nathan final in yesterday's

than Road, a Chinese coolie named Chan paper, under the imposing caption remains substantially lower

should beat the figure for 1925. Chun was convicted of larceny at of "Why Fincher

thie Rumjahn in the final

to-day," ap- This has been nchieved through the Kowloon Police Court

followed the the smaller sum taken for airships, morning and sent to jail for three pears to one who has

current tournament with the the further fall in prices, and re- months.

closest interest, to be more than Aduction in rates of remuneration little blased..

related to the cost of living.

was

I cannot understand why your In the main it has only been pos

Beesible as a result of the exercise of

not

or mood. The pleasant cold wea- ther merely undergoes a slight

sudden and

metamorphosis;}

A returned banishee, who drizzle and fog conspire to make banished for 20 years, was found in the island as closely as possible Kowloon yesterday, and had added scribe should be so keen to resemble the interior of a steam to his offence by stealing a roll of Fincher lift the championship. Can the most rigid economy, and the

If my surmise is compatible with efficiency. property of Lam Cheung-ping. K.C.C. man? Overland China Mail. laundry, and there is no comfort cloth from 481, Shanghai Street, the It be possible that "Base-Line" is a pruning of all services to the limit

it certainly WDS

The net estimate of civil aviation on correct. Imprisonment So that for us poor, Three months' struggling, nostalgiac falk in both charges was Imposed, the "cricket" to give such beautifully is £470,000. The Government at worded moral aupport to one player tach great importance to the exten- terms to run concurrently. this far-flung corner of the Bri-

and totally ignore the equally rosy sion of the Indian service to Aus- tish Empire, the First of May Two Chinese, Yip Hang-hin and prospects of the Indian contestant, tralia, and are ready to contribute nteans little more than memories Tse Choi, pleaded guilty" at the immediately before the commence- to its cost. of plum blossom, newts in the Kowloon Police Court this morning ment of the duel for supremacy.

to breaking and entering a house. pond, frogs in the rushes, and at.32, Cheng On Street, the increased agitation among the aidence of Chan Sam-koo. Hyde Park orators,

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Hong Kong, Friday, May 1, 1931.

Payments to light aeroplane cluba I certainly hope Rumjahn had and National Flying Services, Ltd., re not read the article before going on is estimated at £20,000. The the court, as it might so easily have £50,000 has been provided for air-

LO

been

first defendant, who was a returned played the deuce with his game to ships, to enable the airship works banishee, was sent to jail for nine se critics lauding his opponent in to be maintained for a short period It is difficult to give one ex-months and the second defendant the manner "Base-Line" has done.pending the Government's decision I (1) Fincher has more power on the future polley of airship planation of the veneration of for six months,

behind his service, (2) his steadi- development. the First of May, because thei

19 more reliable, (8) his' In the meantime, a reduced staff On arrival of the s.s. Cheun Chow ness

if is being maintained at Cardington, reasons are so numerous. Even from Macao yesterday afternoon. atàmina for a five-set match,

enduring, (4) where, besides the normal work, the the origin of the name is dis- Capt. Jones reported to the Police neccessary, is more puted; the derivation from Maia, that while the vessel was an hour's in court-craft he holds an advant-reconditioning of lorries, making of the mother of Mercury, to whom journey from Macao, a Chinese wo- age, (5) his newly acquired cross-drogue targets, and tests of experl- the Romans were accustomed to man, aged about 18 years, jumped court drive has more direction and mental kite balloons have

overboard. The ship was stopped power than that of his Indian undertaken as emergency measures,

Referring

policy, Lord sacrifice on the first day of the and the boats lowered, but after a challenger and, in short, if Fincher month, is usually accepted. The long search no trace of the woman has all the qualifications to over-Amulree says: "Having regard to Britain atil whelm Rumjahn, why in the world the fact that Great had been found. ancient Romans used on May

was he (Fincher) so completely ranks fifth in the world's air powers Certainly he was in per- in terms of first-line strength, the Day to go in procession to the Chan Hon-cheung, a Chinese em-eclipsed? grotto of Egeria.. From the ployed by Yip Wah, a shopkeeper of fect health and was not suffering Government have approved a fur- twenty-eighth of April to the Kowloon City, was charged at the from an attack of "nerves."

Kowloon Police Court this morning. May Day will be associated in second of May was kept the fes-with the larceny of 25 rolle the minds of most natives of the tival in honour of Flora, goddess silk, the property of his British Isles with two events; of flowers. Most of us remember His sentence was made lighter on account of the clean breast he made! one, an entirely pleasurable, re- the old country song, "Flora's of the matter and the assistance he miniscence of the charm of our

Holiday."

By the Romans the rendered to the Police in helping to countryside; the other, the sinis-month was regarded as unlucky redeem the cloth from the pawn-ARMY TO COST LESS: ter revolutionary movement for marriages, owing to the cele- two months. which has wormed its way into bration on the ninthi, eleventh, the hearts of healthy, nations and thirteenth of the Lemuria, and now celebrates May the First the festival of the unhappy dead. as its "Red Day."

This superstition has survived

MAY DAY.

. It is the advent of this month

of

to

the present day, although one could hardly conceive of a better month for a wedding.

of

master.

broker. He was sent to jail for;

CORRESPONDENCE.

CURRENCY PROBLEM.

Shanghai taels?

ther modest instalment of the Home Yours, etc.,

Defence scheme, which will proceed in the coming year in accordance TENNIS FAN with programme.

Hong Kong, May 1.

AIR TO COST MORE.

The Airship Works at Cardington.

SOLDIERING SIDELIGHTS:

of

"It is their earnest hope that the. forthcoming Disarmament Confer- ence will bring about a general reduction in air armaments (the

rapid development of which the world over they view with profound" the present disquiet), and remove serious disparity between the Royal Air Force and foreign air services.”

US. MOTOR-BOAT CHALLENGE.

1

Endeavour to Recover

Detroit Trophy.

back the De-

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To the Editor of "China Mail”). which will turn the thoughts of many to the burgeoning beauties

Sir-The opponents of stabilisa- Estimates for the Army for the Kentish orchards in blossom In mediaeval and Tudor Eng-tion fear that trade will be diverted year 1981, show a decrease

to Canton and Shanghai Particular- £570,000. The Army wants £39,- and the two-fold note of the land, May Day was a great publicly the former, if Hong Kong goes $30,000 this year, compared with

America is sending over to Bri- cuckoo, heard, we are told, in the holiday All classes, of the gold before China does. I would like 40,500,000 last year,

Estimates for the Air show an tain another. of her speed-boat suburbs of London, which are people, young and old alike, were to ask them the following questions

up with the dawn, and went which I hope they as expects may increase of 2250,000. The total is champions, Mr. Aaron de Ray, for full of phantom" voices long be

be kind enough to enlighten me. £18,100,000, compared with £17, an attempt to win fore the birds" are there. No- "a-Maying" in the woods. 1. Is there any parity between 850,000 last year.

troit News Trophy, which will be ́thing, not even the flowers or Branches of trees and flowers... Canton sub-coln dollar and The Army Estimates, as were the raced for in June on the Solent. Naval Estimates, are the lowest Mr. Herbert Scott-Paine won the the Buds on the branches or the were borne back in triumph to Hong Kong dollar?

2. us there any parity between since 1922.

trophy in America last year. changed wind, speaks clearly of the towns and villages, "the cen

Canton sub-coin dollar and In the Army the principal items Miss Betty Carstairs, the girl' earth awakened at the end of tre of the procession being occu-

on which there will be saving are who backed Sir Malcolma Campbell' the long Winter's sleep as the pled by those who shouldered 3.. Is there any parity between supplies, road transport, and rein his land-speed record attempt, Canton sub-coln dollar and mounts 2455,000: miscellaneous is bullding a special craft in her cuckoo's cry. The strict rule is the maypole, glorious with rib-

effective sterling

service

£352,000; pay own boat-yard at Cowes for this that claims to have heard the bons and wreaths. It is funny 4. Is there any parity between 5157,000; and clothing £122,000, race. firat cuckoo should be made only to think that the maypole was Canton sub-coin dollar and U.S.

gold dollar, etc?... by those who live within sound forbidden by Act of Parliament of the bells of Heathfield Church, in 1644, and that they were eye- in Sussex. For there, on April sores to the Puritans, who re- 18, the old lady opens her basket,ferred to them na "stinckying and lets the bird out. The un-Idols," about which the people disputed fact that the bird has did "lcape and daurice, as the been rather late with its call in heathen" did." Possibly there recent years may be attributed was something degenerate and to its astonishment on seeing atavistic in these dances around the new sort of buildings they the phallic symbol, going back put up nowadays. But in Hong into the early, mists of time, but Kong May Day Can mean no, it seems a pity that so much of So far as I know Canton currency certain consequential reductions in has been provided for the delecta- thir

French cruiser Montealm which is bura store of plea the simplicity and galbly and has no direct value in foreign-trade, payments in respect of the cost of tion of the officers and crew of the

and Hong Kong dollar, has always living, and PAY

now in port and will be expected.to sures wirich memory tay hold. loyalty of the British people of teen, the medium used; therefore!

remain for several days. Ths, Gov Most of our trees are deciduous those times should have dis Canton cannot trade with anywhere

In view of the progressive reducernment and the Naval authorities without the sexistance of Hong and there are no cuckoos to appeared. In its place we have Koby unless the Chidera: provide tion of effective charges by nearly have co-operated in an endeavour to us at the rise of sune May Day the meaning of which another currency recognised by £5,000,000 since 1925, administre make their stay a thoroughly enjoy There is no subtle and unnoticed is full of menace for the safety other countries for Canton to use tive savings become increasingly able one, and our French visitors

should find no lack of diversion, change of temperature, verdure, and unity of the Empire. Ha foreign trade:

Fawak

Increases are estimated in half For the Detroit News trophy pay, pensions and superannuation there are, besides Mr. Scott- 5. What is the rate of Canton £357,000; warlike atores £293,000; Paine's and Miss Carstair's en- Army and Reserve tries, two other British craft be Currency when sterling rate in Territorial

ing builtze Hong Kong is 2/-; 1/8; 1/16; forces 268,000....

In a memorandum accompanying 1/8:21/^and /11 and when Shanghai taels rate is 80; 79; the estimates Mr. Tom. Shaw; 78; 27: 2nd-267) Minister for War, states that in What currency the exporters in meeting the expenditure on replacc- US or Great Britain base on ments due to the exhaustion of war when they trade with, Canton stocks and in making provision for

6.

T.

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China Mail" of May 1, 1921.)

Is it not true that Canton Im-services in connection with stores porters have to use Hong and buildings, which had to be post. To-day's dollar is worth 2/6. Kong, Currency to trade with pored or retarded last year the dark other countries?

been helped by the fall in prices and A big round of entertainments

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