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FREE WHEELING STH ADVANTAGE.

Shifting from Second to Top or vice versa, without using the clutch, and the relief of the accelerator foot while

free wheeling, are important contri- ̧ butions to relaxed motoring.

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(Incorporated in Hong Kong.)

No. 27,821

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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931.

TO-DAY'S

DOLLAR. — The

closing rate of the dollar.. on demand, to-day was 11d.

Business Manager,

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

DUNLOP

Reinforced Motor Cycla Tyres

Local Branch. Pedder Bldg. Tel. 24554.

TRAGEDY ON CASE OF HONG KONG'S CHINESE MINISTER DISASTER TO LABOUR TO BE LEFT WHAT THE DOLE HAS CANTON AND

EMPRESS

FILIPINO AMOK IN. COLONY.

·FULL DETAILS

SILENCE DURING 'THE STABBING.

* CIVIL SERVANTS.

Lord Passfield and the Currency Problem.

COMMISSION'S REPORT.

London, Yesterday. Lord Passfield, Minister for the Colonies, presiding over largely attended dinner in the Corona Club to-night. said he hoped that the single phrase of the Colonial Service would be accepted throughout the Empire and that the Service would be as attractive as the Indian Civil Service had been. He feared now that the latter had passed its

zenith.

RESIGNS.

Dr C. C. Wu Affected by Events in South? FORMER MAYOR OF CANTON.

Washington, Yesterday, The Chinese Minister to the

POSEIDON

NO REPLY TO

TAPPING.

IN THE LURCH?

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COST BRITAIN.

Liberals Disagree Över | Treasury Advances to

Land Tax Proposals.

Date Total £85,620,000.

FALL OF THE GOVERNMENT?

United States, Dr. Chino Chawu, OFFICIAL REPORT The situation that will arise

bas tendered his resignation. "for political . rensons." — Reuter's American Service,

[Dr. C. C. Wu, if son of the late Mr. Wu Ting-fang, was born in Tsinhui, Kwangtung, in 1886, With the arrival in port this

and gained his LL.B. degree at morning of the g.. Empress of

London University in 1911. Inter being admitted to the Bar at Canada, further details are to hand of the gruesome ingelly As regards Hong Kong, he Lincoln's Inn In 1913 he be that took place on board x 9.30 commented on the complication came a Member of Parliament, a.m, on the morning of June 6, of trade depression by the cure and in 1915 a Counsellor in the while the ship was making the ency problem, and added that journey from Honolulu to Yoko-the report hama.

A Filipino steerage pas senger named Graciano Bilas, went amok, killing two members of the crew and injuring, 20, In- cluding two Europeans.

Normal at First. Occupants of the same cabin

of the Ezechiel- Clauson Commission in that con- nection was receiving very-care- ful consideration.

reduced also.-Reuter..

He regretted the necessity of reducing the temporary high cost of living allowances 171 the Malayan Civil Service and point- as Bilas said that he embarked out that the Civil Service in at Honolulu, and at that time he Britain had been substantially. seemed perfectly normal, but as the journey progressed he seem- ed to get unsettled. At menis, he would go to the dining roomt and eat without sitting down. sometimes only partaking of a few mouthfuls before going out aguin.

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berths.

'On gaining the alley way on the port, side he continued along the passage in the direction of the forward puit. As he walked along he stabled at anyone whom

OPIUM IN SARDINES.

"INNOCENT FISHERMEN" - AT MARSEILLES.

A new method of opium smug eling has been Marseilles.

discovered. ati

Dr. C. C. WU.

FOREIGN NAVAL

SYMPATHY.

Rugby, Yesterday. An Admiralty communique issued this afternoon states that "Information has now been re- ceived from the Commander-in- Chief of the China Station that

there is no foundation for the re port that any of the crew of the submarine Poseidon, which sank "in "collision on, Tuesday, are still alive. The Hermes reports that there has been no reply to ex- ternal tapping on the hull of the submarine."

Among many telegrams of sympathy received at the Ad- miralty are messages on behalf of the Navies of France, Greece, Japan, Yugo-Slavia, Spain, Sweden and the United States.- British Wireless: Service.

Other Messages,

London, Yesterday. The Admiralty has received messages of sympathy in connec- tion with the submarine disaster on behalf of the French. Greek. Japanese, Yugo-Slav, Spanish, Swedish and United States Navies, also from the Canadian Minister of Defence, the Siamese Minister of Marine and Messrs. |Vickers Armstrong..

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LABOUR SATISFIED.

The

Rugby, Yesterday: Parliamentary

CUSTOMS

RECOVERY OF THE SURPLUS.

Labour SNUB TO NANKING

IN DANGER.

Rugby, Yesterday.

next week in the House of Com- Party held a special meeting to- mons, when the Liberal amani- day to consider the first report ment to the Land Tax is discuss- of the Royal Commission on un- ed was described by Mr. Lloyd employment benefit. The Prime FOREIGN LOANS NOT George in a speech in Edinburgh Minister and Mr. Arthur Hender fo-day in support of the Liberal Bon both made statements. Party, and contemplates an in- Several questions were answered portant change in the character and the meeting expressed con- of the proposed new land tax, fidence, in the way the Govern which is based on the principle ment were dealing with the

matter. of general aite value duty.

Liberals propose that the tax

on un should fall exclusively developed land by conceding to

FINE TO SHOWERY.

The Royal Observatory's weather report to-day states:

The typhoon is contral about 150 miles N.E. of Naga- saki, moving N.E.

A somewhat deep depres "sion lies over the Gulf of

Pechili,

Forecast: E. or variable winds, moderate; fine to show- ery..

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Rainfall,

Rainfall for 24 hourk end- ed at 10 am. to-day, 0.59 inch. Total since January, 1–28,29 inches against an average of 29.43 inches-deficit 1.14 inch,

Temperature,

The temperature at certain specified centres this morning nt clock was

Hong Kong

REEPRES

-76

Macao

77

Pratas Island

77

Manila Foochow Chefoo Shanghai

79

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Carton, Yesterday.

The Ministry of Finance is authorised by the National Gov-

In Parliament this afternoon crnment to take immediate steps the Premier answered in the for the recovery of Customis negative a question as to whether surplus yielded in Kwangtung it was proposed to call the three- and Kwangsi, according to a Party conference for a further Government cornmunique released consideration of the whole ques- yesterday for publication by the tion of unemployment insurance Ministry of Foreign Affairs. now that the interim report has

The official text is as fol- been published.,

lows:-

S.M.R. PRESIDENT.

The Customs revenue collected The Minister of Labour, Miss in the provinces of Kwangtung Bondfield, answering a question, and Kwangsi (known as the said that the amount of Treasury Liangkwang) yield a consider- advances to the unemployment able-surplus or balance after de- insurance... fund to date was duction of the cost of administra- £36,620,000, leaving unexhausted Lion and the service of foreign the balance of borrowing powers loang and Indemnities exclusive- of £4,380,000. That was likely ly charged on the Customs. to be exhausted carly in As the continued payment of July and further provision this Customs surplus to Chiang would be necessary before that Kai-shek's tax-gatherer would en- . time.-British Wireless Service, tirely subserve not riational interests but the personal in- terests of Chiang Kai-shek and his family, the National Gown- ment now established at Canton insist on the syment of the sur- plus to their Minister of Finance. With this end in view, the Minister of Finance bas authoris ed negotiations with the Cus- toms authorities an terms calcu- lated to secure a reasonably settlement of the question while After various contradictory re-safeguarding the efficiency and ports it now appears established integrity of the Customer Ad- that Mr. Seng Oku, President of ministration as a national fiscal the S.M.R, who has been a long institution. time, tendered his resignation late last night.

RESIGNATION AFTER LONG

ILLNESS.

Tokyo, To-day.

He occupied a bunk, that was farthest from the door, No..A.33. and on the morning of the tra-

The smugglers are ostensibly gedy there were several people fishermen engaged in catching sleeping in the cabin, which ac- sardines, and they operate in commodated 85 passengers. A conjuntion with other, smug Filipino passenger and his wife ders stationed on board ships were sleeping near the door, but coming from the East. The lat Bilas made no attempt to stub ter take the drug, which thent.

been embarked at some Chinese The First Vietim,

Her Cables. port, and pack it in large tin A Japanese passenger, who dums which are buoyed and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and

Walhal-wei, Yesterday. whe writing a letter in the cabin, dropped over the side several the Cabinet. In 1919 he was ap-

It is difficult to obtain nuthen- was the first victim, receiving a miles from the coast.

Poseidon, wound in the arm. From there

pointed as delegate to the Paristic information of the The burys, which might to Peace Conference, und, on his re-as the survivors are still aboard Bilas made his way toward the taken for lobster pots, arouse no turn to China in the following the Medway, which is standing by door, stabbing, indiscriminately, suspicion. As soon as the ship year, Was appointed the occupants of the bottom has passed, a boat puts out from Minister and later Minister foring in about 110 feet of water, 20 Vice-the wreck. The submarine is ly-

and hauls up the sunken drum. the shore, steers for the buoy, Foreign Affairs to the Governmiles from the harbour. There is The opium or cocaine is then occupied until 1924. In 1925, dur-18 ratings. Divers have been tap- ment of Canton, a post which he apparently no hope of saving the concealed in some barrels of sating the strike, he was Mayor of ping the hull

of the submerged dines, while the boat returns to Canton and in 1927 was appoint-vessel, but have had no response Marseilles. The precious cargo ed Minister of Foreign Affairs to lately. is landed and transferred to certhe Nanking Nationalist Govern-

The U.S. salvage ship Pigeon A strange fenture of the whole tain bars on the quaya which do ment. In 1929, being succeeded from Tsingtao is expected to ar fair is that the man did not ake any disturbance, but con-

by Dr. C. T. Wang, he was ap-rive this afternoon to assist in the tinued his wa 'in ailence. He If the Customs authorities or pointed Chinese Minister to the efforts to raise the Poseidon. The police manifest curiosity, the United States and concurrently Commander-in-Chief. Sir Howard traversed more than 100 yards smugglers point to the sardines senior delegate to the League of Kelly, who is aboard H.M.S of alley way, and finally came to as evidence of a hard day's fish Nations Assembly. He has been Suffolk, is expected on Saturday. the steerage airing space,

As a combination of Liberals ing.

The funeral of A. B. Lovock and and Conservatives would out- A member of the Kuomintang Recently, however, this ex Central Three men were making their planation was not accepted, and since 1926 and is the author of afternoon at 2 o'clock,

Executive Committee Stoker Winter took place this number the Government support

A station sergeant and three ers in the House of Commons, constables were injured when a way up the companion way from search was made in the bont, re "Nationalist a lower deck, when Bilas arrived sulting in

The funeral was attended by the the possibility of "à Liberal- Poseidon survivors as on the scene. He made a lunge several hundreds of pounds' worth

the discovery of gramme."]

well as Labour compromise is discussed police car in which they were numerous officers and men of the in the Press. at the foremost of the trio, and of opium and cocaine.

chasing suspected shop raiders The in-

British warships, the British Con- inflicted a terrible wound. The

Mr. Lloyd George this after overturned at Ilford. other two men bolted. Bashe quiry which followed showed

COLONIAL, a party of Chinese marines, noon said that Liberals must ad- Shortly after 2

and a detachment from the Italian here to the decision they had watchn an employed at a garage that sardine fishing has regular-. a mask for smug-

cruiser Sebastiano-Caboto.

Wei-hai-wei, Yesterday.

he came across.

A Terrible Wound.

a traffic in drugs.

scended this companionway, and, ly served as

on reaching the lower deck, atab- bed several more people. He' once more ascended to "B" deck,

gling.

by the way he had come, and PALESTINE POLICY.

climbed down a steel ladder down

a hole known as the tunnel es-

cape, which. Jeads to the engine] room. It was in this passage that the man was finally trapped,

DR. SHIELS TO DISCUSS -MANDATE IN GENEVA,

Rugby. Yesterday.

being caught by the Master at Dr. Drummond Shiels, Under Arms and the Chief Officer.

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Secretary for the Colonies, Isavon to-morrow for Geneva to attend

FRENCH

China's

Pro-

EXHIBITION.

Our Foreign Minister

to Attend.

OFFICIAL REPRESENTATION.

a representative to

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owners the right to deduct from It la generally believed that the same land as Income-tax. the land tax the amount paid on Baron Takio Izawa, formerly Gov- ernor-General of Formosa, will The newspapers state that the succeed him-Reuter.. Government will resist the amendment, which the Chief Liberal Whip declares will be OVERTURNED AT 60 M.P.H. pressed. The amendment is pro- mised the full support of the Con- survatives.

Fair Treatment.

Police Car Unlucky in Dash After Suspects.

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Safeguards Provided,

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After an unusual exercise of patience and forbearance, the Minister of Finance finds that the Customs authorities act ing.doubtlessly under the orders- of the rebel authorities' at Nan- king are unwilling to give effect to an order fasued by him to the Commissioner of Customs at.Canton, instructing the latter. to remit to the Ministry of Fin- ance the surplus or balance of the. Customs revenues of the Liangkwang after providing for (a) the administrative expenses of the Customs Houses in the two provinces and (b) the Liang- kwang share of the service of the foreign loans and Indemni- ties charged on the Customs.

To Take Over Customs.. The foregoing terms being taken unanimously. He added in Ilford Lane, Ilford, heard the the final word of the Minister of that they were taking this atti-smashing of glass and saw four Finance in the matter and com- It is now certain that the tide not to create embarrassment men with a van taking goods pliance with the same having eighteen entombed men in the aub- for the Government, but because from the shop window of Mfr. been refused by the Customs marine Poseidon are not’aliva. *

they demanded fair treatment Hurding, an outfitter, a short dis- authorities, the National Gov- Chefoo. Yesterday. for owners of land. — British tance away.

ernment have authorised the A Pressman returning from Wireless Service.

Minister of Finance to Tavlor promptly telephoned to proceed immediately to the the Ilford police station and the assertion of his authority and.

Wel-hai-wef reports that the

Naval authorities are abandoning

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hope of saving any of the eighteen HOURS OF WORK IN station, motor-car containing a power in and over Customs Ad-

entombed men in the Poseidon.

It is proposed to use compress-

Rugby, Yesterday, The Government, has accepted Two Shots Fired. A member of the crew who the forthcoming session of the Per- the invitation of Marshal Lyautey, ed air to raise the Poseldon, but took part in the capture said manent Mandates Commission, as President of the French Colonial it la understood that at least a that when the man was cornered accredited representative of the International Exhibition, conveyed week must elapse before this can

be accomplished. he was called upon to throw United Kingdom Government for to them by the French Govern

Shanghai, Yesterday, down the knife, he replied "What the examination of the annual re-ment, to send

The North China Daily News of for?"? It was not until two shots port on Palestine-British Wire-visit the Exhibition, and have re- Shanghal has opened a fund for

quested the Foreign Secretary, Mr. had been fired that he did so.

less Service..

Arthur Honderson, to attend the the benefit of dependants and re- The two men who were killed'

Exhibition on their behalf during latives of the Poseidon victims. were both Chinese members of

the British week which Ti being ar- the crew Chan Ching, second-

ranged in the month of July.÷Bri- class deck steward and Chan

tish Wireless Service. Yiu; the No. 1 joiner. The stew-i ward was found in a dying con- dition in the paasage, stabbed in the neck. No one saw him ut- tacked: Chan Yiu was stabbed through the heart.

Names of Injured.

• The names of the injured

people are

European Crew:-

William Caldwell,

Steward..

Stores

Charles F. Campbell Sanl

Stary Engineer."

Ablatie Crew

R. Ranzaki,

M. Isogoro,

Cheung Kul Wong Hung

Wong Wing.

Ting Wong,

Ad Thi.

Tang Shing.

Chan Tan-hing. Trang Kwal. Chung Du. Tranz Bo. Lum Sut-sal. Ho Fat. Asiatic Passengers:- Nisimoto Sekitaro. Kishibe Yogoro.

LOTTERY LAWS.

MINISTER'S ASSUMPTION OF PUBLIC OPINION.

Reuter.

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THE MINES.

Commission Reaches Full Agreement..

REMOVING DIFFICULTIES.

Rugby, Yesterday.

At Geneva to-day the Com-| mission on Labour in Coal Mines FOOTBALLER'S £6 10s. A WEEK, arrived at a complete agreement

on conditions for lignité mincs.

The German Government made concessions.. which will make it possible to arrive at a general convention.

And Draws The Dole As Well.

sergeant and three constables war ministration and, to take the. soon tearing down Ilford Lane. necessary administrative and lis The thieves saw the car coming ciplinary measures to enforce and backed their car into a side payment to the Ministry of Fin- ance of the Customs, surplus in the Liangkwang, ...

road.

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·Overturned at Corner

As they anticipated, the police motor-car overshot the mark and

pulling.up.

These measures, says the Can- ton Gazette, have now been taken in the case of the Customs Sor

went on some distance before vice at Canton which has been formally brought under the The thieves drew out into effective control of the Miniatry Ilford Lane and turned towards of Finance and continues to func- Iford Broadway,

tion in a normal way,

The police car turned round and To Supervise Receipts... gave chase at 60 m.p.h. and were Following the settlement of soon close behind the fugitives. the Customs surplus to be remit- At the junction of Ilford Lane ted directly to the Ministry of and Hampton Road the leading Finance in Canton, the Ministry Tales of the dojo-told in mall

car swerved to the right causing has decided to send special off- week by Mr. J. F. G. Price, of the The British Mines Minister, the police car to swerve as well: cers to the various Customs Ministry of Labour, to the Royal Mr. T. Shinwell, is reported to Owing to the speed at which it throughout the Llangkwang pro- Commission on Unemployment In- have taken a leading part in re- was being driven the vehicle vinces so as to supervise the re- moving the difficulties which overturned. It struck the wall ceints of revenues, according to A footballer who earned £8 10s might have led, as last year, to of a shop and all the policemen & vernacular soured - In the House of Commons to-day for two, days football received four the throwing over of the Inter were thrown out, The weapon with which the the Home Secretary, Mr. J. P. daya' unemployment Insurance beno-national Agreement on the hours attack was made was an ordinary Clynes, atated that the Government ft me well... pocket knife, having two blades had given carefal, consideration to

of miners.-British Wireless Ser-

Nakamura Namle Sawal Mitau.

Wataru Sonomórds. Kono Salzo

· UNWILLING TO MOVE, -

Rugby, Yesterday.

¡surance: →

Policemen's Infuries. | NAAFI. STORE THEFT. : P.C. Palmer was slightly in Mr. T. 1. Grover, Manager of the jured on one leg, and P.C. Austin Naval,. Army and Air Force In- received slight injuries to the stitute's store at Stonecuttara neck.Station-Sergt. Dado wan Island, has reported to the Police

In at least, six cases at Ruddera- vice. and a tin opener. This would en- the suggestions that an inquiry Beld' men arranged to take ́employ- able the murderer to make his should be held into the lottery and ment as sandwichmen in rotation on way almost unnoticed as the sweepstake laws, but it was not one day a week in order to secure knife was small enough to be satisfied on present Information suficient contributions to qualify sion from the umpire which is likely also only slightly injured. P.C. that between 8 and 10 o'clock last concealed in the hand, that the balance of opinion in Far for unemployment benefit to be helpful. It indicates that it Beckworth, who was injured on night some person forced open a It was stated this, morning llament or the country was In "Have you solved the problem of to quite Ifkely that this kind of the left side and shoulder, has window of the Institute's kiosk on that the man has not had a lucid favour of a revision of the extat-the professional footballer yet?" intermittent worker will not be able been placed on the slek list, ......... tha se basch...... - and...... stole minerals, moment since the day be his run-ing lawa-British Wireless Ber-asked a member of the commission, to draw beneft in futurs to the ex The thieves car raced on and chocolates and cigarettes to the Ining amok.

Mr. Frice: We have got a decl; tent, he has in the past...

lisappeared.

{total value of $8484,