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No. 27,810

TO-DAY'S

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closing rate of the dollar demand, to-day was Ild.

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PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1931.

NIGHT CLUB QUEEN LOCAL CAR DRIVER GERMANS' VISIT TO DESTINY OF

INDIGNANT.

At First Not Allowed to Land in France.

BREECHES AND DIAMONDS.

KIDNAPPED ?

7

Thought to Have Been Taken Over Border.

NO CLUES FOUND.

Paris, Yesterday. -A case of suspected kidnapping The entourage of Texas has been brought to the notice of Guinan, New York's Night Club the Police by the discovery yes "Queen," believe that her tiff tordny of a public motor car(No. with the French authorities has 218) which was abandoned on ended satisfactorily. Her dance the Lo Wo Military Road near Ho instructor, interviewed, said that Sheung Chung yesterday even- Texas will probably leave for¦ing.

BRITAIN.

Arrangement Made for Civil Reception.

TO MEET THE KING.

INDIA

UNPLEASANT WORK

TO BE DONE.

BRITAIN'S PART

THE NEED OF CANDOUR.

London, Yesterday,

PICTURESQUE CEREMONY.

The Royal Maundy Money.

to the

ANCIENT CUSTOM.

TO CAR OWNERS

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

Washable,- Durable,-

More economical than

Carpet or Linoleum,—

NEATER and CLEANER,

Quotations from:

Telephone 24654. Dunlop Rubber Ca. (China), Ltd. Pedder Bldg.

WESTERN CANNIBALS NO FAITH IN LAYING

OF THE ICE AGE. '

Men Who Feasted on

Human Brains.

THEORIES OF ANCESTRY.

UP TONNAGE.

Dutch Company's View. of Scheme..

KEEP DOWN LOSSES.

Tho "Olice for the Royal

Tens of thousands of years ago, The report of the Oostzee Maundy," a charity which goes back-before the last fes Age-canal- Steam Navigation Co., Amster reign of Edward Ell, was bals roamed about Westera Europe, dam, states comparatively satis curried out at noon in mail week at feasting at timce on human brains factory results have been obtain- Westminster Abbey. There was a amid the blossoms of dog roses I ed by the company financially Jarge congregation, which included Thousands of years later there through the arrangement of im- Princess Marie Louise.

were living in caves in Palestine can- Fortant contracts for the car. In accordance with ancient cus-nibals who also fancied human ringe of timber during last year's tom, there is distributed each year brains for dinner, and. picked the season. After the end of that marrow out of broken human season the question of laying up tonnage has been considered, and it has been decided to keep the

| Maundy money to old, poor, and in- firm men and women, as many of either sex.ns there are years in the

bones.

and the white, Piltdown Man may be the ancestor

Rugby, Yesterday. The arrangements for the visit to Britain of the German Chan- cellor, Dr. Bruening and the Ger. man Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Curtius, have now been up- proved, They will arrive off Ryde in the liner Hamburg on~ Paris on Saturday. It is not ex- According to a report, it ap- June 6 and will be conveyed by pected that there would be fur-hours that the car, the driver of H.M.S. Winchester to Southamp ther difficulties from the immi- whom was Wong Cheung (27), ton where there will be a civil gration authorities, although was hired by three Chinese reception. They will later be the there were still certain formali- males, dressed in European style guests at a dinner at the Foreign The decision to postpone the King's age. There are two dis The Wornan of London. City lived vessels in commission as long as ties to be completed.

clothing, at about 3.30 o'clock yes- Office given by the Prime Minis meeting of the Federal Structure tributions, one of £1 15s, to each fl when the last glacial age was set- freights are such that the logged Texas herself, interviewed terday afternoon. The car was ter on behalf of the Government. Committee of the Indian Round Maundy, and £1 108., an allowance years ago, and she may have been up.

in gold, representing part of the ting in-perhaps 40,000 ́or more do not exceed the cost of laying carlier, was very indignant at chartered at Shantung Street During their sojourn they will the hitch and declared: "There is the three men indicating to the stay at the Carlton Hotel, which Table Conference was commend-in lieu of provisions, formerly the descendant of Piltdown Man. no reason why 1 should not be driver that they wished to pro-they are due to leave on Satur- ed by Sir John Simon in a speech "given in kind;"

This policy will not have any allowed to land. I am an Ameri- ceed to Taipo.

day morning for Chequers, where at the Bombay dinner in London "containing as many ponce as the of Modern Man-one of the "miss-stimulating influence

on the can citizen and there is no sean- Nothing further has been seen they will be the guests of the

King is years of age, and given in ing links.”

freight market, but in the opinion dal around me. My passport is of the driver, whom the Police Prime Minister until after lan- this evening, when he said that Silver Pennies, Twopences, Threa

of the directors any improvement endorsed by Presidents Wilson helieve to have been kidnapped cheon on Sunday.

These are a few of the "plums" in freights depends more direct- the outlook was very distressing. pences, and Fourpences, being the and Harding. As to Britain, if I, and taken across the border to he

from the alluring dish served up ly on the position of the com- On Monday at noon their Ex- choose to go to Britain, I will. finally disposed of in Chinese cellencies will be received by His unpleasant work had to be done,

A very great deal of hard and balance of the Maundy."

by Sir Arthur Keith, the world's modity markets than was carried out

on the But I do not choose."

territory. News of the mysteri- Majesty, following which they

picturesque detail. The pen.most famous anatomist and inter-volume of tonnage laid up. By ous affair is very scanty, and the will be the guests at the Angio-involving the coming to grips sieners who were present to receive preter of fossil bones, in a wonder their policy the directors hope to Pollce in the New Territories German Society's luncheon.

ful volume, "New Discoveries Re-keep losses incurred until the with highly controversial matters the gifts-60 in number-were are making enquiries, with the

lating to the Antiquity of Man." opening of the year's season An afternoon reception at the on which we were bound to state ranged along the choir aisle, men on hope of locuting the driver.

Peking Man (Sinanthropus), who within reasonable limits. Nego- institute of International Affairs and a dinner in the evening fol. our own view with clearness and one side and women on the other was dug up only a couple of years tiations for freight contracts,

Into the choir from the nave came THRILL FOR PILOTS. lowed by a reception at the Ger- candour, which is the only way by the procession, headed by the Mace scientists find it difficult to fix his the largest portion of the com

ago, lived so long ago that the which will give employment to man Embassy will compete their which we would really get the re-and by the Cross of Westminster, age with exactness. It is thought pany's fleet during the Summer public engagements,

spect of our Indian fellow sub-Following the Lord High Almoner that he lived at least 250,000. years and Autumn, are now being held, They will leave after luncheon

(the Dean of Wells), the Dean of jects, on Tuesday for Southampton,

jago. He had a very small brain. but this year freight rates ob- Westminster, and the Receiver- If the brain of the Peking type tainable under these contracts Our duty was not to retract General came an escort of Yeomen of man developed into the large will be substantially lower than where the Winchester will be in

of the Guard in their resplendent brained types who lived in Europe last year. scarlet and white uniforms, with in prehistoric times, then Sir Ar-

In conclusion, the report com- nowy ruffs, and carrying gleaming thur Keith thinks that the process halberds. A sergeant-major ceded the Yeoman who carried the & million years. The cannibals of belonging to a nation which has pre- would have been rapid if it took plains, of the fact that vessels dish containing the alma. After Europe were found at Ehringadori, not completed trade agreements the Dean, the Lord High Almoner, in the heart of Germany,

with Soviet Rusala are charged the sub-almoner, canons, and miner Weimar, where Goethe, the

poet port dues in Russian ports which canons had 'passed to the sacrarium,

and philosopher, lived. It is are six times as high as those the Yeomen lined

the choir aisle, six years since the traces of them incurred by other ships. motionless, two of them facing the were dug out of a layer of rock in

As soon as Texas, who was wearing white riding breeches and well plastered with diamonds, was allowed to land she hurried to her hotel and went to sleep,— Router.

Coming to China?

Havre, Latur. Texas Guinan, interviewed here, said that if Paris would not

receive her she would leave France and tour Europe and visit other Capitals, including Shang- hai.

TO FLY OVER LONDON FOR

FIRST TIME SINCE-WAR.

INSPECTION OF AERODROME

Rugby, Yesterday. Arrangements have been made She added that she had not by the Imperial Airways for 200 come to France to earn money. war time fighting pilots and who have not "If I had wanted that I should aerial-observers have remained in America, where flown since the war to inspect. I can earn over $2,000 a week, Croydon Aerodrome on Sunday. but I want to show the world my after which they will fly over London in a number of big Arm' troupe."-Reuter.

strong-Siddeley air liners used on the Cross-Channel air services.- British Wireless Service.

Earlier Cable.

Paris, Yesterday. "Texas" Guinan, New York's night club Queen, accompanied by a bevy of show girls aboard the liner Paris from New York, was not allowed to land in France, where she came to show Parisians how to "make whoopee."

Special port police pointed out that she did not possess a regular

labour contract.

She had previously been rebuff-

mouth, where oficials informed

tain.-Reuter.

"UNDER DURESS."

CHIANG REPLIES TO MR. SUN FOO.

ROYAL EQUESTRIAN

KING TAKES EXERCISE IN ROTTEN ROW.

attendance to carry them to the liner Europa, by which they will return to Germany, British Wireless Service.

2

M

NEW RECORD

KARACHI TO LYMPNE BY

PLANE.

SECOND HAND MACHINE

Rugby, Yesterday,

any promise or hope whereby Britain was bound, but to make clear that we believe that we had a duty to the Indian people, to

RAIN LATER !

The weather forecast issued by the Royal Observatory this morning, states :—

South. variable winds, moderate; clear at first, some rain later.

or

The ceremony

with

near

great dish containing the red and a quarry. They were fossiliaed

fragments.

white purses.

The tradition which connects Maundy with dies mandati, the day on which Christ washed the dis-

Five Wounds.

Royal Dutch Company, The annual report of this Am- Leterdam-company, which is en- gaged in the liner trade to the The skull, mys Sir Arthur, shows West Indies and South America, ciples feet, was symbolised by the "clear evidence of five wounds, all while also maintaining

a net- towels which the Lord High Almon-of which had been inflicted when work of regular services from er and his assistant wore about the bone was fresh, whether be-Holland to Baltic and Mediter- their shoulders. After the reading fore, at, or just after death cannot ranean ports, states the world Pilot Officer Grierson is an ofl-assist the maintenance of law choir sang Wesley's anthem, "Wash was caused with a blust instru- surplus of tonnage have created of the first Lesson, and while the now be determined." One wound trade depression and the acute

A new record for a flight from India to England in a light aero- plane has been made by Pilot Of

John Grierson, who reached Lympne Aerodrome last night in four and a half days after leav- ing Karachi, 5,000 miles diatunt.

cer

cer in a bombing squadron station-|

Communal Questions.

found themselves in a critical

RECOGNISED BY FEW.

Rugby, Yesterday,

ed in India, and he has flown to and order and the re-establish-me thoroughly from my wicked-ment and was enough to cause im- conditions in the freight mar- H.M. the King was out riding England using his own Gypsy ment of good Government.

ness," the Lord. High Almoner and mediate insensibility. The others kets during the past year by ml when the liner called at Plain Rotten Row before breakfast Math' machine, which he purchas. There was no reason for de- the Sub-Almoner passed along the were such as might have been pro which many shipowners have her that she was barred from Bri-to-day. Before his serious ill-ed second-hand some time ago.. spair.

With courage, candour,nes of pensioners, and handed duced with, a sharp flint. ness the King rode regularly in Although the fight was made in patience, real friendliness and them amall envelopca containing the Sir Arthur says that he is in-condition. The offer of outward the Row during the Summer but such splendid time, Grierson did insight we might yet, achieve money which is now paid in redemp-clined to agree that the skull "had cargo to the West Indies and to this was the first time he has not set out to make a new record. the destiny for India which tion of the clothing formerly given. been cast away by a party which South America diminished to an ridden in public since his illness Although there was a number of determined to get back home in ter.

When his leave became due he India so urgently needed. Reu- Then came the second Lesson and had feasted on the brain contained unknown extent, as a result of the second distribution, which was within the skull-for," he adds, which the company's ships had people watching the riders, few the fastest possible way.

Apart

made while the choir sang Tallis's "there is recognised His Majesty.-British from a telegram.he sent from Per-

a growing volume of to sail with insufficient cargo. "If ye love Me, keep My command-evidence which convicts early man Nitrate shipments from Chile, Wireless Service.

sia, nothing had been heard

Rugby, Yesterday.

ments." From the almediah, the of a fondness for animale' brains, which form the base of home- him until he telephoned his or

purses with their long strings were and perhaps also for human ward cargo for the Pacific ser- rival at Lympne.

An India Office communique handed to the pensioners, and a brains."

vice, were of a comparatively Yesterday he flew to Britain states that "His Majesty's Gov- wandsman took from them their The Ehringsdorf skull, the satisfactory volume, but the from Sofia, 1.100 miles distant, in ernment and the Government of certificates to show that they had brains of which had been picked, future of the market remains un- one hop-British Wireless Service. India have been discussing the been present to receive the King's was found with a thin layer of certain. In July last 16 vessela

date for the resumption of the Maundy.

ashes, charcoal, broken and burnt of the company's fliest were lying Indian Round Table Conference, TROUBLESOME KISS. The choice lay between summon- then sung, followed by prayers and ribais sat round a fire before the reduced to seven on account of Handel's "Zadok, the priest," was bones. Thus the European can- idle, but later this number was ing the Federal Structure Com- the singing of "All people that on last Ice Age.

Beasonable requirements. mittee to this country at the end carth do dwell." The Benediction What was life like then in many instamees freight rates fell of June, which would have in-was said by the Dean of Westmins-Europe from 80,000 to 140,000 to pre-War level, against which volved meeting in August, or ter, and the service closed with the years ago? The river valley above wages remained unaltered, and postponing the resumption until National Anthem.

Goothe's Weimar was dotted with working expenses have only very

GUILES OF THE REDS.

Shanghai, Yesterday.

A message from Nanking states that Chiang Kai-shek has wired to Sun Fo replying to the telegram from Sun Fo, Wang Ching-wei and Tang Shao-yi urg- ing him to resign.

INFECTED ANIMALS, COMPENSATION FOR KILLING

ADJUSTED.

A Bill intituled an Ordinance to amend further the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, is published by the Govern ment Gazette.

CHARGED WITH BEING A STOWAWAY.

of

His Majesty's

Government

In

Marshal Chiang expresses sur prise at their demand, declaring that he has done his. beat for the

The objecte and reasons A remand of 48 hours was given revolution and to follow the in-state:-

in respect of the case against September. In the latter case the One of the pensioners present was springs from which streams flow-slightly been reduced. structions of the late Dr. Sun Until 1929, section 64 of the Stephen Kiss, a Hungarian, who interval would be employed in a man aged 90, who came fromed into, pools amid mush' and In view of this state of affairs Yat-sen. He goes on to say that Public Health and Buildings was charged at the Kowloon Magis- pressing on with certain neces- Brighton to attend the service. In meadow. On the higher ground it is satisfactory to note that the if they think he has failed they Ordinance, 1903, provided for the tracy. this morning with stowing sary work both in London and in the afternoon there was an Informal between rivuleta grow willow, loss incurred is not much great- should take party measures payment of compensation, not away to Hong Kong on the 6.3. India.

ceremony of distribution at St. alder, birth, hazel, walnut, crab-er than shown in the accounts, against him, and if the party de-exceeding $400 for each animal, Trier from Shanghai. cides against him he would not for the slaughter of infected

James's Palace of Maundy gifts, apple, and dog-rose. Then leaves Passenger traffic has suffered lege Detective Sergeant Pearson "sald) dare to stay another moment

cattle. "Cattle" is defined under the defendant was an old offender, ere prepared to adopt the first mostly to relatives of pensioners fell into the streams and pools, severely than the cargo trade, that though a decline has to be record- Marshal Chiang asserts that the Ordinance, and means "bulls, having been on a similar charger course if all sections found it to who through illness or infirmity were filmed over with line

could not be present at the Abbey. be practicable. Enquiries have, Sun Fo has fallen a

was in the water, sank, and wersjed. The outlook generally is not victim to cows, oxen, heifers, calves and Kowloon about a month ago, when however, shown that this alterna the "guiles of the reactionaries buffaloes."

covered up-and were dug out as hopeful, and the policy of many The amending Or- he came from Shanghai on 8tive was seriously inconvenient

fossils. RECORD FLIGHT, and Communists who are intend dinance, No. 21 of 1903, based Coblenz.

nations to subsidise national ing to wreck the national peace to soma extent on the Disease of

to several members of the com-

shipping interferes with a return. Hunter's Paradise. and unity

lo sound conditions. mittee, both at Home and in In- BRITAIN TO AUSTRALIA IN country." Animals Act, 1894, provided for Chiang recalls that Sun Fo is a maximum compensation of $40

dia. The later date is therefore

NINE DAYS.

Rhinoceros, elephant, and horse To provide for statutory de- the son of the Party leader and in the case of a pig and $400 in

unavoidable, but the constitu-

ware early forms of animal life preciation on the book value of His Excellency the Governor) tional advance is a matter of so

there, and after them came the the fleet a sum of one million that he declared he was going to the case of any other animal. It has appointed Mr. Robert Andrew much moment to India that the

HOMEWARD BOUND. Canton in order to bring about a is considered that the latter Dermod Forrest to be Deputy resumption of the Round Table

bison, aurochs, red deer, Irish deer, gla. has been withdrawn from peaceful settlement of the situa-figure should only be applied, as Estate Duty Commissioner, with Conference cannot be postponed

Rugby, Yesterday.

and elk. It was, says Sir Arthur, the miscellaneous reserve fund, [which thereafter shows a balance tion; "I imagine, therefore, your it was prior to 1923, in the case effect from May 27

Charles W. A. Scott, who in

"a hunter's paradise.”~ telegram was sent under duress." of cattle and that the figure then His Excellency the Governor ber. His Majesty's Government ing to Australia from Britain in 9 dug out of the ground on which the will be paid.

beyond the beginning of Septem April established a rucord in fly. Marahal Chiang urges Sun Fo to settled as, the maximum in the has appointed, provisionally have therefore decided to invite days 4 hours, reached Rano to-day new Lloyd's stands in Leadenhall The profit on trading accounts- be mindful of Sun Yat-sen's in-case of a pig should apply to and subject to His Majesty's the Federal Structure Committee on the homeward, journey-British Street. Her skull was found in a shown in the profit and loss ac-

of the

structions to do his utmost to other animals.

bring about a peaceful settlement, and ends by saying: "Do not be led astray and make yourself the laughing stock of your enemies to the sorrow of your friends,”——— Reuter

NEW AMBASSADOR.

Rugby Yesterday, Senor Don Ramon Perez de Ayala, the new Spanish-Ambas

BELATED FIGURES.

The following appears in the current issue of the Government

Gazette

|Balance of Assets und Liabilitier, on Decam- ber 81, 1880. Revenue from January

sador, presented his credentials Expenditors from Janu

to HM the King at Buckingham Palace: this morning. -- British Wireless Service.

1 to 81, 1981

12 81, 1931

Balance

59,261,679.74

APPOINTMENTS.

pleasure, the Hon. Mr. R. H. to ressemble in London not later Wireless Service. Kotewall, CMG, LL.D., to be than September 5 for the resump-

temporarily an Unofficial Mem- tion of work at the earliest prac FALSE IMPRESSION. ber of the Executive Council in ticable date thereafter. the place of the Hon. Sir Shou- I a communal settlement has

son chew, Kt., who is temporar- been reached in India by that DID NOT KNOW HE WAS COMING ly absent from the Colony, with time the work of the Federal v TO COLONY, effect from May 27..

Structure Committee will be

The woman of London City was of nine million gla. No dividend

and

thin layer of brown clay just above count is 8,870,675 gls, against the thick layer of "London" clay, 6,880,764 gls. for 1929, and the Thames level. It was more than ance carried over, profit on the about twenty feet above total gross profit, including bal-

thirty feet below street level. sale of vessels, etc., and the

was found in amount withdrawn When the skull

from re- 1825with remalus of rhinoceros, serves, is 4,384,688 gls., against red deer and the skull of an ox-6,535,976 gls. for 1929. After

His Excellency the Governor greatly facilitated. If not it will "I thought the boat was going to it was assigned to Aurignacian providing for depreciation and in- has appointed Dr. James Stable be a matter for consideration Bombay but instead she came to times, at the end of the last ice terest

and adding 245,086 Dykes to be a Member of the whether the Minorities Com Hong Kong," said Jan Hohammed age.

1989 | (61,991) gla. to various small 8,061,955.24 Dental Board for a further period mittee should resume its work in the Kowicon Police Ogurt this Sir Arthur Keith concludes that funda, a balance of 2,801 gla. is of three years, with effect from about the same time. The ques, thorning, when he was charged it is much older, and represents carried forward. From 1929 ac- $12,423,684.98 | May 26th yetion of adding representatives to with stowing away from Singapore neither modern man nor Neander count 628,000 gls, were added to

2,040,688.24 His Excellency the Governor the Federal Structure is under as the 5. Beslomond,

that man but a third type the miscellaneous reserves, and has appointed Mr. John Stuart to active consideration. British He was remanded until Tuesday Putdown man of Sussex, or one 1,264,421 gla. net profit was avail- €10,885,001.74 I be a Justice of the Peace. * Wireless Service,

"near akin to that type,

able for division.

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