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No. 27,860

"PRINCE OF BEGGARS” | PASSES.

CONGESTION OF BUSINESS.

Prolonged Session of Parliament.

Great Work for London Hospital.

The

LORD KNUTSFORD.

of

London, Yesterday. death ia announced Viscount Knutsford, at the age of 78 years. Reuter.

1

ELECTION BILLS FATE.

Rugby, Yesterday. The prolonged sassion of Par- liament, which began last Octo- ber, will adjourn for the Sum- mer Recess on Friday.

Mail

ISHED

1846

HONG KONG, TUESDAY,

JULY

28

1931.

AMY JOHNSON SEEKS KYLSANT ON

FRESH HONOURS.

B

Sets Off on Lone Flight to Japan.

SECOND ATTEMPT..

London, Yesterday. Miss Amy Johnson, flying a Puas Moth, left Stag Lane Aero- drome to-day on a flight to Tokyo. In 1922 Mr. Neville Langton

No Precautions Taken. published "The Frince of Beggars"

Little controversial business is

London, Later. which threw a flood of light on the being taken this week, Parlia After a few hours' sleep at methods of high hospital finance" mentary time being mainly occu-Lympné, Amy Johnson departed adopted by Viscount Knutsford, as pled, in concluding the remain- for Berlin en route to Tokyo at „chairman_of_the_London_Hospital, ing stages of measures which are 1:30 am, wearing no hat or-hel-- with such splendid results. Those to receive the Royal Assent in met, and taking the minimum of methods may not always have been the House of Lords before Par-luggage, in a standard Puss Moth scrupulously conventional, but that liament rises.

machine, without even an extra they were effective leaves no man- Owing to congestion of business' petrol tank as a reserve. She ner of doubt, as a perusal of "The it has been found impossible to hopes to reach Tokyo on August Prince of Beggars" will demonst- wind up the business of the 2 and stay a week and then fly rate. The author tells the story session as originally contemplat bark homewards.

the naked savages," Mr. Neville

TRIAL

SIX HOURS IN WITNESS BOX.

CHARGES DENIED

DREW ON SECRET RESERVES.

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. The closing rate of the dollar "on demand, to-day was 111⁄2d.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

SCHNEIDER TROPHY CONTEST.

First Flight of New Seaplane.

DELAYED BY MISHAP.

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 24554.

Dunlop Rabber Co. (China); Ltd. Pedder Bldg.

DANGEROUS CAR DRIVER.

European Lady and Man Injured.

SEQUEL TO COLLISION.

A recent motor accident, In!

ASSAULT ON TRAM CONDUCTOR.

Two Buttons Pulled Off Man's Coat.

TOO MANY CASES,

A fine of $80 with the alternative

Rugby, Yesterday. The new Supermarine Rolls which Mr. and Mrs. John B. of three weeks jail was imposed Royce S6 seaplane, one of two Wilson wore involved, had its by Mr. Williams this morning on a machines built for competing in sequel in the Central Magistracy Hakka man whom he convicted on this year's Schneider Trophy this morning, when Kam Hon charge of assault on a Chinese con- contest, will make her first Alght ching, the driver of a private motor ductor of the Hong Kong Tramway this week if the weather is suitable. car, was summoned before Mr. W. Company.

triala.

and

"GIVE HIM MORE STROKES."

London, Yesterday. Lord Kylaant altogether spent six hours in the witness rather earlier but for a

The flight would have been made Schofield on three counts, namely, It was stated that defendant box at the Old Balley, during mishap which befell the scaplane (6) driving in a manner which was Market, and stood at the bottom of elight (a) failing to carry proper lights.boarded_the_tram at the Western four of which to-day he was when, under closely examined by the At Orlebar, it was undergoing water failing to report an accident., De When asked to move away and eit Squadron Leader dangerous to the public, and (c) the stairs leading to the top deck. torney-General.

The witness strenuously de- path.

Two barges crossed her fendant pleaded guilty to all the down he refused to do so, The pilot cleverly avoided charges. nied the charges, but agreed one, but the wing grazed in passing

caught hold of the conductor's coat, Traffic Inspector C. F. Alexander pulling two buttons off. that in certain circumstances the second and, he extended the continuous Woolston Aviation Works, It was July 15, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson en-Tramways, in reply to the Magis on returning to stated that at about 1.30 am on Mr. Manton, an Inspector of the of an Irishman who, in a violented by the end of July, and the She prepared for the

utilisation of large drawings deemed necessary to fit a new wing.gaged two public rikishas at Naval trate, said that incidents of a simi tirade against landlorda, declared work will be continued on a num-flight most thoroughly real-

from secret reserves without

Second Machine Ready. that, "if these men were landed on her of Bills, on which a consider-ising that it was far: any indication that they

Terrace and proceeded toward lar nature were reported very often. an unfnhabited island. they would able amount of time has been more difficult than her trip to would eventually become mis-atruction at Woolston. Is

The second machine under con- Wanchal. Mra. Wilson rode in the

not be there half

almost first rikisha and Mr. Wilson in the leading-Reuter. an hour before spent, when the session is resum-] Australia. She has studied Rus

ready, and both will be in the hands rear their hands would be in pockets of cd on October 20.

sian and Japanese to help her en

A message of July 24 stated: of a high speed flight at Calshot building, a car, driven by defen

one. Near the Ordnance. Challenge to Lords.

-Lord Kylsant entered the wit-within | route.-Reuter. Langton is careful to explain that The Chancellor of the Exche-1

week. The pilots dant, collided with Mr. Wilson's [Miss Amy Johnson, theness box at the Old Bailey to-day meanwhile are undergoing inten- rikisha. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson he is not an Irishman, and Lord quer, who, in the absence of the heroine of the epic sole flight to to give evidence on his own be sive training with other craft. were hurled to the road, and both Knutsford is not a landlord; but he Prime Minister, Is leader, Australia, set out on a flight to half in the case against him and-British Wireless Service. candidly admits that "the descrip- in the House of

were injured. Defendant did not tion fits."

atop to render any assistance, but And it does, for if mons, indicated to-day the

drove on- representation princely begging in a great cause

A passing Chinese gave Applied

Mt. Wilson the number of defen- was ever reduced to an

Later Sergeant Harris, science, Lord Knutsford was the prince of begging scientista.

who was on duty in. Lower Albert Road notice that a light was miss Two Chinese boys, stated to be ing from defendant's, car and that brothers, pleaded guilty before Mr. another had been broken and Williams this morning to the theft- twlated Defendant then admitted of a quantity of iron castings from that that he had been in an acci- the Kwong-Fook Cheung Shipyard. dent earlier.

The Magistrate ordered the eldest Inspector Alexander added that lad to receive eight strokes of the Mr. Wilson injured his chest and cane. damaged his clothing, whilst Mrs. There was a commotion in Court Wilson suffered from shock. One when the mother rose and talking of the ríkishas was damaged to the at the top of her voice, asked his extent of $14...

Com-Japan in May, but encountered Mr. Moriand. ・・・

that such bad weather conditions on In reply to his Counsel, Sir

of the reaching Moscow that she was John Simon, he told the Court.

STANDARD.

Election Bill, which has been re-compelled to postpone the ven- of the patriotic services he ren THREAT TO GOLD dant's car. turned to the House of Commons ture.] after having been amended by His first public efforts were on the House of Lords, was one of behalf of Poplar Hospital, when, the measures that would be con- In 1891. then known as

tested immediately when the Holland, he was responsible for the House ressembled after the Re- re-organisation of the institution. tess,

Sydney

The most important.of

BERLIN'S OVATION FOR PREMIER."

of Peace."

:

It was while he was re-establishing the Lords' amendments is that 'Hail MacDonald, Friend "Poplar" that, on his way to the affecting the proposal to intro- hospital one day, he noticed two duce the system of alternative vote at Parliamentary elections. Americans, in front of him on a 'bus, studying a guide to the Tower. On the amended Bill it would He invited them to visit Poplar apply only to large towns.-Bri Hospital, and they accepted. When tish Wireless Service.

the tour was over, the chairman

pointed to a money-box, and the

vleitors each

put in.

a sovereign. Looking hard at him, with a knowing smile, one of the visitors remarked: "Sure, you've got in you the instincts of a-swindler." while his companion added: "You'd do well out West if you weren't shot the first week." Lord Knutsford is enid still to regard that diagnosis; of his "instincts" as the Anest -compliment-ever paid him.

A Modern "London."

But once he had put it on its feet, the Poplar Hospital was too small a thing to satisfy his un- bounded energies, and we next find

Up

REBELLION IN BURMA.

Situation Shows Signs

of Improvement.

A PEACE MISSION.

Rugby, Yesterday.

LLOYD GEORGE

London, Yesterday. Mr. David Lloyd George, the Liberal leader, is in bed with haematuria Reuter,

[Haematuria means passage

of blood with the arine].

New York Bankers Perturbed.

Elation in America.

New York, To-day.

$50.

J

Mother's Plea for a Good Caning.

EIGHT QUITE ENOUGH I

BOGEY OF BIMETALLISM.

London, To-day. The cessation of the flow of gold FIRST VISIT SINCE 1878.

from London to Paris yesterday is dered in coping with the ship-the heading British and French Court Schlaware damages up to would be enough for

ascribed to co-operation between

Worship to "give him inore strokes,”? Mr. Schofield remarked that his His Worship told her that eight Berlin, Yesterday. ping problem after the War, and bankers-Reuter. Vast crowds and shouts of declared that the equalisation of "Hail MacDonald, Friend of dividends was a recognised prac

His Worship decided to dismiss Mr. Wilson: I shall not be con- the younger boy with a caution, but Peace," greeted the British tice in well-managed shipping Prime Minister at the railway concerns.

Wall Street is elated at the ces-tent with fifty dollars damages. again the mother stood up, and ask- This involved setting sation of gold exports from Britain

His Worship said that he would ed Mr. Williama to give him a can- station here. His photograph aside reserves.

not award any in that case, but ing too. has been given prominence in all

to France for banking circles have

The Magistrate ordered the newspapers. He is the First reserves was part of the prudent accumulation of gold stocks in

The creation of internal secret recently been regarding the vast suggested that Mr. Wilson could him to receive six strokes of the

claim damages In another Court." British Premier to visit Berlin management of all great busi Paris and New York with incress- Alexander): Failing to carry two

His since the 1878 Congress of Berlin.ness of this sort, but it was not ing apprehension, some of them horizontal lights seems to be the AID FOR CANTON.

Worship (to Inspector: He and Mr. Arthur Henderson in the interests of shareholders fearing a threat to the gold stand-direct cause of the accident." are dining to-night with Minis- publicly to announce the amount ard as a vehicle of international ters and leading bankers and in- thereof,

trade and apprehend an unsettling

Inspector Alexander remarked dustrialists, and is seeing Pre-Witness then denied ever hav- agitation in favour of bimetallant that there was no other traffle at Desire Seven Japanese sident von Hindenburg to-mor- ing knowingly made false etateReuter's American Service.

ments in connection with Significant Statement: R.M.S.P. affairs. He had never VEHEMENT BRITISH

speculated in shipping, shares in his life.)

row.

Berlin, To-day. him on the greater task of shaping The Secretary for India, Mr. A significant statement. re- the financial destinies of a better Wedgwood Benn, replying to ques garding War debts and repara- and more modern "London." tions in the House of Commons, tions was made by Mr. Rameny to that moment it was out of-date, said that, excluding incidente os MacDonald at a banquet given Ineffective. inadequate, a great, curring in direct connection with by Dr. Bruening, in honour of starved. helpless giant with a kind the rebellion in Burma, aix

dis-the British Cabinet Ministers. heart and no power, with two mil-turbances, involving, loss of life and The Chancellor, in toasting llen neonle standing to win or lose damage to property had occurred their health, referred to Ger

survived or a British India during June and many's efforts to master In. 1897. the affairs of July. Nineteen fatal casualties crisis and thankfully recognised

as "The Landor" Derished.

the great hospital had reached a were reported. stage. which made the most

•

The situation In Burma on the sanguine despair. It was then whole shows signs of improve that Lord Knutsford, fust appointment. Dacoities have decreased in ed "chairman assured the committee Thayetmyo. District.. The sur- that he "would do his very best for renders in Prome District now

British co-operation. ⠀

the

SOVIET DEBTS TO BRITAIN.

Result of Negotiations Unsatisfactory.

CONCRETE OFFER URGED,

Rugby, Yesterday.

DEMAND.

Drastic Reduction of

Armaments.

A LABOUR BOMBSHELL.

Vienna, To-day: A vehement British demand Mr. MacDonald, in reply, de-

for the drastic reduction of arma- clared that sooner or later the

maments, and the abolition of basic reason of the present crisis

warships over 10,000 tons and must be boldly faced and a solu-

all submarines and aircraft car tion sought with common sense

riers was the feature of the ses the interests of the hospital" He amount to 1832 and there have also and goodwill He added: "We Questioned in the House of Com-sion of the Congress of the must forget the past and turn to mone as to the result of the repre- Labour Socialist International, a policy of goodwill and co- sentations to the Soviet Ambas over which a German, Herr Wels, operation to suppresa suspicion sador regarding the present post- and a Frenchman, M. Bracke, and alarm which otherwise is tion of the Anglo-Soviet Debts are jointly presiding to symbolise Committee, Mr. Dalton said that the Franco-German working class Foreign Secretary last week had solidarity,

Hopes for Success.

did and resulte as we see them been 40 in Tharrawaddy." to-day, bear elocuent proof of his great work. The book contains Some of the leading Pongylu of many stories of good humour and, Rangoon have gone out on a peace bound to lead to war-Reuter. ready wit, and stamps Lord Knute-mission to Tharrawaddy and Inseln ford as a master in the art of Districts, and it is hoped that their personal and opportune appeal. efforts will result in a large tim-

Responses were not always in the ber of surrenders under the terms form of subscriptions, one of the amnesty in the near future. sympathiser with the good cause, The rising in the Shan Staten ap who did not send a donation, writ pears to have been suppressed. ing s

The communal situation has im

attacks on

I myself is very unwell at this proved, and hardly time suffering from nervousness, Indians have been reported through being run over, by a moter tish Wireless Service.

by a whealthy Parson, but sorry to

say he was no Gentleman.

The narrative is silent as to the dentity of the "whealthy. Parson."

During one of his many public appeals for funds for The Lon-

Krutaf

chec

dono

crown

irman's

Assurance of added |space fat Oshawa-Harbour

following

ngineer Wils

the time, and that defendant's re cord was clear.

In view of your clear record and The Magistrate (to defendant):

cane.

Advisers..

TICKLISH PROBLEM.

lin view of the fact that damages

Tokyo, Yesterday. are going to be claimed in some

The military authorities are re- other Court. I am not pasaing a ported to have received an appli very heavy 'sentence on you.".. cation from Canton for-the-des- Defendant was fined as follows: patch of seven officers under feld (4) 83, (b)$80, (c) $20 making rank as military advisers, also sev a. total of $53,

ACCOUNTANT IN GRAVE CHARGE.

Alleged Embezzlement of $346.

-ACCUSED REMANDED,

FIGHTING IN THE these, Lord Goschen and one of the as a protest against the inade- pawnbrokers' shop, Chan Leung two conversations with the Soviet Mr. Kirkwood was responsible Ambassador. At the second of for the above-mentioned outburst An accountant of the Sui Sing NORTH

Mukden Forces, Launch an Offensive.

MANY CASUALTIES.

Soviet experts, were present.

quacy of the reduction pro pleaded guilty" at the Kowloon The Foreign Secretary repre-gramme prepared jointly by the Police Court to-day to embezzling sented to the Ambassador that the second International and Trade $340.00 on various dates between result of the negotiations was Union international for submis- January 2 and July 26, most unsatisfactory, and urged the sion to the Disarmament Con- necessity of a concrete offer on the ference Router. part of the Soviet Government.

M. Sokolnokoff undertook port th

conversat

his

Government and, asked for further

mesange instr

Secretar hoped from Berlin to

tion with Lary

ireless

CUSTOMS LOSS,

It was alleged that the master of the pawn shop discovered the loss of jewellery and clothing

:Defendant was suspected and admitted that he had pocketed the money for the articles when they

Shanghai, Yesterday... were redeemed.

has occurred of Mr A remand of 48 hours was allow Commife, the Financial Secreed in order to give defendant of

Chinese Maritime Cus chance to refund some of money.??

utput: of gold, silver;

Fand,

£8

eral skilled arsenal workers, well as supplies of arms and 'am- mauŝtion, tak

It is understood that the mill- tary authorities are likely to de- cline, owing to the complications that would be caused with Nanking, which is the only Government offi- cially recognised.

Meantime, Mr. Eugene Chen, who is at present at Hakone, s expected to return to Tokyo this evening and to visit Baron Shide- hara and others shortly, though it' Is emphasised that the Government. is only prepared to treat, him as un unofficial visitor.-Reuter.

FAIR TO SHOWERY.

The Royal Observatory, weather report to-day states: Afeeble anti-cyclone is cen tral to the S.W. of the Boning. Pressure gradients appear to be shallow over China............

Local forecast Southerly or variable winds, moderate to light; fair to showery,

Rainfall:

Rainful for 24 hours end- ed at 10 am, to-day, 0.11 Inch. Tota || sineo: January; 1–45.50 inches against an average of

• 60.20+ Inches densit”- 4.64: inches

TAXI DRIVER FINED,

certain

this morning.