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Hong Kong. Tueday, May 12, 1931.

Canton's Fresh Trouble.

ed. Once again is the old adage,

TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1931.

CANTON'S BREAK. ITALIAN BAN ON UNEXPLAINED RAIL

CHIANG KAI-SHEK TO CRUSH REBELLION.

APPEAL FOR LOYALTY.

re-

FOREIGN WORDS.

ACCIDENTS.

Problem for Shop and The Leighton Buzzard

Hotel Keepers:

NEW POLICE MEASURES,

Derailment.

QUESTION UNANSWERED.

Nanking, Yesterday. Chiang Kai-shek. to-day, made a aperch denouncing General Chan Chai-tong for usurping the power

It i not impossible that the in Kwangtung and scizing more

Italian police measures have re-revent derailment of the Scottish |than $5,000,000, aṣ monthly

cently been directed against the express at Leighton Buzzard may venue when $1,500,000 was the re-

to the list of gulation allowance for his five use of familiar foreign expressions have to be added divisions. He added that if Chan by business firms in Italy. Some railway accidents of which the cause, in spite of the most exhaus. Chai-tong dared to rebel, the years ago

a decree ไฟผล passedtive expert inquiry, either remains Government was fully prepared to which, except in the Trentino, has obscure or is never conclusively deal with him.

says a London Sun- Generals Ho Ying-ching, Ho not been hitherto enforced, but is ascertained,

day paper. Within the puat Cheng-chun, Ho Chien and Lu Ti-new being rigorously applied in twenty-five years a number of ping havo telegraphed to Chan any districts. This decree for-serieus British railway accidents, Chai-tong urging him to remain

bids any notices in a

foreign all derailments, have come Into loyal, and declaring that if he

this category. rebels he will be crushed, as was language to be exposed in a public

According to the evidence given the last Canton rebellion-Reuter,place (including the interior of at the inquiry, the express passed

LORD ATHLONE.

COMPLETES TERM IN SOUTH AFRICA.

LONG TRIP HOME.

of

shops and hotels) unless theja signal at "danger" and was then Italian equivalent is placed above. derailed on crossing the junction between the fast and slow lines. Chemists selling foreign drugs This is an extremely possible ex- have been told that within eight planation of the ultimate cause of days every bottle of medicine.tlu disaster. but it leavesa unan- every box of tabloids, and

swered the question why the driv- er should tablet ef snap must have an Italian signats, assuming this to have been have disregarded his

label. Hotel-keepers have been the case.

every

Excessive Speed.

Rugby, Yesterday, ordered to have their letter-paper, The Earl of Athlone, with bill hends, and menus in Italian. Many of the worst railway ac- Princeas Alice, Countess

cidenta in England during the Athlone, and Lady Cambridge, “re-

untranslatable names, such as due to derailment caused by ex- turned to London during the week-

curves where tud from South Africa. on the Hotel York, Hotel Bristol, havo cossive speed on

ware in force. completion of Lord Athlone's term been told they must change them. apced restrictions as Governor-General of the Union If this is enforced generally, the stances, no definite explanation one of these in-

and some owners of hotels with past quarter of a century were

en

were

named. commemorated

But in every

on a

on

o South Africa.

Five months have been spent on much-traveled eighteenth-century has ever been forthcoming as to the homeward journey. Arriving Earl of Bristel, after whom mang why the speed restriction was ex- ceeded, since the most material at Pretoria, the Earl and his Continental hotels family travelled through Rhodesia, will no longer be

witnesses, in the shape of the driv- er and fireman, were killed solemnly assured, was actually the Belgian Congo, Egypt, Pales in Italy.

each occasion. In explanation of Business firms with engaging the very serious atten- the and Europe. paying a visit to

foreign

two of these accidents, the theory names ("stores," tion of the Chinese authorities. the Turkish President at Angora words in their

route. British Wireless Ser-tea-rooms," "supply"), even

was put forward that high speed it Now, with Canton's fresh break vice.

curve had prevented the duly registered by the Chamber of brakes from aeting properly, but from Nanking, everything is once {

Commerce, are not exempt. For more in the melting pot, and we

some years they have paid much the theory, which led to much ex- pert controversy, remains un- know not what a day may bring |

higher taxes on their signboards

proven.

Derailments,differ from colli- forth further to upset the trade FOREIGN WOMEN MISSIONARIES than are paid by firms with Italian

names; but now they must either siens in that while the human equilibrium between Hong Kong

remove these or add an equivalent element is equally liable to be the and the two Kwangs

Italian name. This is often very.

cause of either, mechanien! expensive and not always pras failure, or the breakage of parts, ticable. In a Riviera resort the such as a tyre, axle, or locomo- owner of a tea-room was requested tive coupling rod, may also be the will be the fervent hope of all Blarion and Grace Manly, who are to remove a small notice on u door cause of derailment.

A cleavage having occurred between Canton and Nanking it

BANDITS BUSY.

ROBBED.

Shanghat, Yesterday. While going to Chenglu Chungking on Wednesday,

from Misses

attached to the Methodist Mission

were

In view of

merchants in this Colony

at Chengtu, were robbed by bandit, inscribed "bridge-room," and the the material damage resulting Chinese and non-Chinese that of medical supplies and surgical proprietor of another establish from a serious accident, expert

at G$10,000, it will be of very short duration, instruments valued

which they

carrying to The various upheavals during the

Chengtu. past six years have played havoc

Their personal property was also with Hong Kong's trade, and stolen, but the women, who were

from to Chengtu Canton has suffered loss returning

no

holiday in the United States, were grievously than this Colony. It

unharmed.-Reuter. is decidedly against the commer- cial interests of both centres that MR. A. B. LOWSON. the fresh rupture should be pro-

longed. All that we here can RESIGNS FROM HONG KONG &

hope for is that the fresh clash of tongues does not lead to a clash of arms. The latter even-

News in Brief.

The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 76 degrees. The was 95 at 10 a.m. and

SHANGHAI BANK.

the

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translation

ment was ordered to remove

examination is not always able to costly electric advertisement mark-

Answer the question whether a ed "Dancing."

particular fracture may have been The word "cocktail" presents the cause or a result, and al- difficulties, for the dictionary though the considered opinion (bicchierino, or "a contained in the reports of the little glass") hardly suggests the Inspecting Officers of the Ministry saveur of the Transatlantic word. of Transport invariably command Most bar-tenders have resignedly respect, it is permissible to differ removed it, but one invites his cus- from their conclusions. tomers to come and drink a coda daj gallo (a tail of a cock). How long

the words "tennis" and "golf" will PREMIER HITS OUT. be left undisturbed depends pro- bably on the zeal of individual pre-{ THE MOSLEY GROUP fects or their functionaries.

CRITICISED.

The Italians, (remarks The

Shanghai, Yesterday. Mr. A. B. Lowson, the local tuality would undoubtedly put manager of the Hong ng & Times) as hospitale to English|

London. April 18. back the clock of progress in Shanghai Banking

American Corporation, and

words Fix the There was a piquant situation Romans in Plautus's time were to at West Bromwich yesterday even- South China for months and has resigned owing to ill-health. Whatever may be the reasons months if not, indeed, for years morrow on board the s.s. Hakusan come hostile to them,

He is leaving for England to Greek words, have auddenly being when Mr. MacDonald, fresh and, In a from his victory in the House of for the recrudescence of trouble and years!

Mura. His successor is the Vice-mere practical spirit than Juvenal, Commons, invaded the Mosley between Canton and the Nanking

Manager, Mr. A. S. Henchman. who merely denounced the omnia stronghold of Birmingham and ad- Government it is quite impos-

Reuler.

Graece of his

dressed own' days, are re-

a larga meeting at the solved to be rid of them,

Town Hall of West Bromwich, the sible for us in this Colony to

MIGRATION TO CANADA. So far the reform appears to audience including many constitu- take sides in a matter affecting

affect mainly those Italiana whose ents of the four local M.P.'s, who China's internal politics there!

business brings them in contact lave joined Sir Oswald Mosley's No Prospect of Resumption must be very deep regret that humidity

with foreign visitors, and to make new party and who have been This Year.

the path of visitors less easy. But called on to resign their seats for there are ominous signs of the 30 at 4 p.m.

it is possible for the better breed which the Labour Party hay dogs of war again being unleash-

A verdict of "Accidental Death" ban on British adult immigrants it. Not every travelling Briton

There is no prospect that the of tourists to be in sympathy with selected new candidates.

Mr. MacDonald referring to the was returned yesterday at the imposed last year by the Canadian justified in the case of China: Kowloon Magistracy by a jury, who Government will be lifted this wishes to be pursued by common Mosley group, said that the Labour and eften grotesquely misused Party did not want Members of "Oft expectation fails where most inquired into the circumstances year, and consequently only a few words of his own language; and; Parliament twiddling their thumbs it promiseth.” Just when it ap-surrounding the death of a Chinese, boys will find their way to

who was knocked down by a motor Dominion during 1931."

if he reads Italian, or for that mat- outside the House of Commons peared as if the Nanking Govern- cycle driven by Private I. Hender: This statement was made by he is not necessarily pleased with of the Labour Party was in bal-.

ter French or German, newspapers, when a division in which the fate ment was at last safely in the son, of the Argyll and Sutherland Commissioner W. J. B. Turner, the English invaders which he sees ance was in progress. He added: saddle and off in a canter to win Highlanders, in Nathan Road, near Director of Migration of the thero. To his thinking a Romance "They jeer. nt UR for being

Fife Street, on April 14. the Trial Stakes and then the

Salvation Army, to A Morning language seems obviously less com- gradualists. I have no apulogy to Post representative. Mr. Turner petent to acclimatize blunt Anglo- make, because I am not jerry- Champlons a dark hors sudden- Heung Fat, a Chinese youth, was has just returned from ty shoots out from the proverbial charged at the Kowtoon Police months' tour of Canada, during tize Italian or French. Similarly

at Saxon than English is to acclima- builder." (Cheers.)

Mr. MacDonald compared the nowhere and everybody has to go Court this morning with obtaining which he had interviews with the modern German appears to be Mosleyites to football players who

a bottle of tomato sauce by false|Premier, Mr. Bennett, with back to the starting post. It is

the needlessly Latin when there are refused to play the game accord- pretences from Yu Chuk, the amah Minister of Immigration and all very tragic and lamentable! of No. 25, Carnarvon Road on May Colonisation, and several Provin- readiness; the influx there recalls asked where would West Brom- perfectly good Teutonic wards In ing to the captain's orders and During the protracted contro-9. and with obtaining a 1 lb. tin of cial Prime Ministers. "I discussed what happened to seventeenth- wich be if they played like that

policy versy on the slump in exchange tea from Chan Hing, the omah of future

with them (he century English. But science in the Cup final. the stated), and found that they have travel, and sport work hard for in- in Hong Kong it has been reiter-No. 5. Cambay buildings by

A voice replied, "Three goals same methods. He was sent to jail no scheme in contemplation. They ternationalism, and it is ated almost to the point of weari- for one month on the first charge are, in fact, too busy dealing with that the two latter should draw

natural down." years has been the recurrence of and was ordered to receive 12 the present problem of unemploy-largely on English. Can Italy suc- ness that one powerful factor inj strakes of the cane for the second ment in the country," he said. ceed in keeping "cocktail"

Mr. Turner added that he de- when spaghetti is at home in all the situation during the past few

voted all his time to trying to in-

countries? civil

Not long ago the We have war in China.

A cable from the United Press terest the Canadian public in the French Academy put "gentleman" I been told so often by our com-and Associated Press to America development of a policy to be put into its official dictionary, and it Trader Into operation three or four years has also accepted "bookmaker,"

To-day's dollar is worth 2/6 1/8, mercial and currency counsellors from Shanghai states:

Horn. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's hence. "I have pointed out that itoy scout," "bridge," challenge," that, given a reasonable period miracle film of 1981, has just com- is quite a feasible proposition to and interview. It is not a ques- ment on a Star Ferry boat crossing There was considerable excite- of peace and quiet in China -pleted its premiere in Shanghai, transplant two millions of our tion whether Britons who like the harbour to Kowloon at about particularly in the two Kwangs having had a first run of 21 days, people under a great colonisation French to he French approve or 1.80 p.m. to-day, when a European --and a more favourable atmos- breaking all records for China. scheme to be carried cut in one of not, but of the status of the word named I. W. Hartman, whose ad-

Previous record was established by the Western Provi 18 during a phere will be created in respect All Quiet on the Western Front." period of about fiv

in the land of its adoption. dress was given to the Police as No. Jears. Money

If Britons wish Italy of some form of stability of ex-M-G-M are releasing their super-which is now spent on the dole

to 36, Nathan Road, jumped overboard be the Italy of their change helpful to the trade befim in Hong Kong through the should be diverted to that end."

more in mid-stream, The boat was im- romantic dreams they will mediately stopped and a life buoy tween Hong Kong and China. Hong Kong Amusementa and it

probably applaud the action of the was thrown in and with the assist- will be shown sträultaneously in Up to a fortnight ago all that ap-threa theatres here--Queen's, Star. Leung Lam, a returned banishee, Fascist police, do without their ance of a couple of scamon, the peared to be necessary to bring; and World. This is the first time who wea

recognisable sent away, for 10 years own

and mon was brought back on board. about the restoration of trade on that a fim will be running in three in January, 1929, and who was familiar patent medicines, and He was later removed to the Gov- the pre-1925 lines was the com-theatres at the same time in the found in Dundas Street yesterday, plunge with a far finer sense of ad-ernment Civil Hospital where he is. Colony. Three separate prints will was this morning sentenced to one venture than at present into a now recovering from the effecte. pinte elimination of bandits and be used. Opening date will be year's hard labour at the Kowloon aninsula raddamed from all traces The cause of the man's act is at

of northern commonplace. pirates, a problem that, we were May 28 or May 30.

Magistracy.

offence.

hotels

Ten Years Ago.

out

(From the "Chiss Moff" of aly 12, 1921.]

present unknown.”

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