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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. (Incorporated in Hong Kong.)

CABLE COMPANIES THE

LOSSES.

No. 27,862

ISHED

1848

HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1931.

The

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR, closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 11d.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

SECOND OPERATION ON MR. EUROPEAN CHARGED SHOCK FOR LONDON

TEST

Committee to Enquire Into the Position,

ENGLAND'S GOOD

POSITION.

IMPERIAL COMMUNICATION.

London, Yesterday.

Reuter is authorised to state TWO CENTURIES

and

SECOND WICKET

PARTNERSHIP.

LLOYD GEORGE.

Liberal Leader Still in

Good Condition.

PREMIER'S SYMPATHY.

Rugby, Yesterday.

WITH THEFT.

Sequel to Alleged Swindle,

JEWELLER'S LOSS.

The case against Vasili Palecek, The operation' on Mr. Lloyd who was yesterday charged at the George was performed this morn-Kowloon Magistracy in connection ing to remove the causes of the with the Jewel swindle from the haematuria from which he is Wai Kee jeweller'e shop, was fur- suffering.

ther remanded until August 5, on His condition has been the sub-his second appearance this morn- ject of many enquiries during the ing. day including one from the King, and was the Prime Minister's Bret question on alighting at Hendon Aerdorome from Berlin.

Earlier News.

London, Yesterday.

IN DIRE STRAITS.

Destitute British and

Dutch Subjects.

Two vagrants, Edward Ellis, a British subject, and Yohanas, a native of the Dutch East Indies,

that the Imperial Communien- tions advisory committee (on which are represented the Gov- ernments of the United King- dom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish, Free State and India), in con- sultation with the Court of the

London, Yesterday. Imperial. and International Com-1

The weather was fine to-day munications Limited, haa ap when 15,000 spectators witness pointed a committee to inquire ed D. R. Jardine win the toss for

A statement issued to-night says into the position of the Imperial England. The wickel was on the that so far Mr. Lloyd George's and International CommunicaFoft side but this did not deter condition continues to be satisfac- tions Limited and all matters re-the Surrey player in the least and tory-British Wireless Service. dated thereto, and bearing there he sent out Sutcliffe and Bake- on, including the causes

well to open the England innings, consequences of the great dis-

The pair batted well and the Mr. Lloyd George was success-were brought before Mr. Williams crepancy between the standard century looked like appearing for fully operated on early this morn- in the Central Police Court this revenue and the present earnings, the first-wicket partnership when ing in his London home at Ken- morning, and to suggest measures, which will remedy the present situa-caused Bakewell's downfall as

Sergeant Mottram said that a regrettable misunderstanding sington.

The doctors present Included Ellis missed his ship, the Orduna, tion.

The Committee will be compos-34-1 40. Joined by K. S. son of Penn, and three others.

the result of a run out decision. the King's physician, Lord Daw- ed of the following: Mr. Wilfrid Greene, KC, (Chairman), Lord to bat well and the luncheon in- were present in an

Duleepsinhji, Sutcliffe continued All members of the family Ashfield and Messrs. Lawrence, terval found the pair still to-room.

adjoining During, and Holt-Reuter.

Dame Margaret having gether with 113 Tuna on the hurried back from North Wales, board, Sutcliffe being 52 and An official balletin says: "The cause of the haematuria has [“Dulcep”. 20. · · The estimated traffic receipts of the Imperial and International

Rain fell during the interval been completely removed,

and Communications, Ltd., for June, delayed until 3.25 p.m. A crowd tient's condition so far is satis and the resumption of play was considering its severity the pa- 1991, amounted to £374,302 as compared with 2413,471 in June of 20,000 saw Sutcliffe and factory."-Reuter.

Duleepsinhji add 84 runs hefore

Figures for June.

inst year.

The aggregate receipts for the period of January to June, 1931, were £2,383,949 as compared with £2,807,723 during the same period

of 1930.

the players again adjourned, this BRITISH BARONET ON time for the tea interval. Sut- cliffe was then 79 and Duleep- sinhj} 77.

After the tea interval hoth £21,500 must be deducted from players completed their centuries| the message receipts for June, and it was not until 262 runs 1981, in making a comparison were on the board that the New with 1930, owing to the chang-Zealanders met with their second et conditions of sharing traffic.

CHINESE

CUSTOMS

REVENUE.

his hands.

FRAUD CHARGE.

Sir Arthur Wheeler Appears in Court.

་་ -་

£23,000 INVOLVED,

London, Yesterday.

success. Duleepsinhji when 109 cocked up a ball from Wilcott to Welr at cover point and that fieldsman made no mistake with While the Kylsant case is near- The young Indian ing a close, another case in which had played a faultless innings well-known figure is involved, which included thirteen boundary has opened at Leicester Police hits, and he had aided Sutcliffe to Court. This is Sir Arthur Nanking & the Cantonad 178 runs in 130 minutes for Wheeler, Bt., formerly head of

"Rebels."

BANKERS WARNED.

Shanghai, Yesterday.

Reuter.

the second wicket.

one of the largest firms of out- side brokers in Britain who, to- As is nearly always the case gether with his partner, George when a big partnership is broken Victor Smith, appeared on 26. up, Sutcliffe left nine runs later summonses alleging that they as the result of a clever piece of fraudulently converted £23,000. work by James behind the sticks. The Finance Minister, Mr. He played a chanceless innings T. V. Soong, issued the follow-which lasted 240 minutes and in- ing statement this afternoon: cluded ten boundaries.

"As the obligations charged on the Customs revenue, namely third century hoisted and were Hammond and Ames saw the foreign loans and indemnities, together at the close of play national loans and appropriation Hammond being not out 35 and of unsecured domestic and for- Ames 9.-Reuter. eign indebtedness, are secured on

the revenue as a whole and not

on any specific part thereof, and

Scores:-

as the so-called five per centum England-First Innings. revenue is totally inadequate to Sutcliffe st. James, b Vivian 117 meet these obligations, and as Bakewell run out

ATLANTIC FLIERS

REACH WALES. Airmen's Battle Against

40 7:

Blinding Fog.

FORCED LANDING.

London, Yesterday.

To-day is the anniver- sary of the accession of King Victor. Emmanuel III. of Italy in 1900,

COUNTY COUNCIL.

No Grant to Aid New Bridge Construction,

OFFER NOT RENEWED:

Rugby, Yesterday. Charing Cross, for the construc- Regarding the new bridge at tion of which the London County Council decided last week to pro mote a Parliamentary Bill, the Minister of Transport, Mr. Mor- rison, has informed the Council that the Government, having re- viewed the position in the light of all the circumstances, includ- ing the present serious economic situation, had decided that it was not possible to renew the pre- vious offer of a 75 per cent, grant from the ward the cost of the bridge-

road fund British Wireless Service.

FORT DUNLOP

Local Branch, Pedder Bldg. Tel. 24554.

THORBURN OUTRAGE

A BAD RECORD

CHIANG KAI-SHEK

UNAVAILABLE.

SIX BRITONS DIE IN CAPTIVITY.

Rugby, Yesterday.

NEW YORKERS

UPSET.

The

al Telephone System.

INCREASING PANIC,

The dial system of telephoning- has thrown New York into a gradual and increasing panic. There is no doubt of that, in spite." of the accurate and helpful figures of the telephone company. states a N.A.N.A. message to the Singapore Free Press.

Intelligent people in a hurry look over ancient telephone books dial this way and that, become fr Questioned in the House of ritated, and alam down the receiv Commons regarding the disjer. But tests have shown that if appearance of Mr. John Thor the literate people of a metropolis' burn, who has been missing can be taught to follow instruc- from Shanghai -since June 3, tions, the telephone people will to-Dr. Dalton, Under-Secretary have little trouble, because the al- for Foreign Affairs, said: "Sir leged literates and foreigners Miles Lampson, British Minis- manipulate the dial telephones ter, left Peking yesterday with success. morning by aeroplane for Nan- An Italian who cannot speak king, with the object of de- English is directed to call up livering the message of the Beekman 3-4213. He understands British Government personally from his written instructions that No report can be expected for and then start out on the digits. to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, he is to twirl the letters B and E. that the Marshal is at present the result that he gets his cousin, some days in view of the fact This he does conscientiously, with conducting military operations and not a clothing store or a hos- in the Province of Klangsi." pital.

20 Years Wasted.

London, To-day. Over twenty years' discussions, preparations, plans; schemes, and models, which were just nearing fruition to reconstruct the Char- ing Cross bridge and beautify and improve a large section of West-Central London, have sud- denly been killed by the decision of the Governmet that it is now! unable to grant £12,000,000 to- ward the cost as previously con- templated. Reuter,

ECONOMIC STATE OF

EUROPE.

Chancellor Declines

Make a Statement.

SNUB FOR BALDWIN.

Rugby, Yesterday.

to

In the House of Commons to day, Dr. Hugh Dalton stated that

it was the aim of the British

14

Miles Lampson has been instruct brought a loss of many dollars be In the message which Sir The stories that the diala have ed to convey, the Chinese Gov-cause of the inability of the people ernment are urged with all ex- to use them, are incorrect. Tho

pedition to find means of per- net income on New York, perhaps, suading the military authorities may have been less, because of the in-whose hands Mr. Thorburn is cost of installation of one dial.ex- believed to be, of the urgent neces change after another, but the Government to carry out the been greater than ever in the past sity of enabling the Chinese gross, from actual phone calls, has ordinary obligations of a civilised twelve months, and particularly in State...

[the foreign districts, where people

In reply to other questions Dr. are now using the telephone more Dalton stated that aix British and more, subjects, have died in captivity in The New York problem, regard- China in the past three years.-ed by everyone as the crucial test British Wireless Service.

of the dial, has increased interest throughout the country, the com- pany asserts. In this city there

Government to take the widest VIRTUES OF APPLE are 1,800,000 telephones, about a

possible measures of Internation- all co-operation in the solution of the fiancial and economic dife ficulties of Europe.

Replying to Mr. Baldwin, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snowden, said that he did not think that he could usefully make any statement on the inter- national financial situation.

SKINS.

Food Investigation Report

VITAMIN IN PEEL.

Much of the "goodness" of an

tenth of those in the country, nine- tenths of the total in the British Tales, and nearly twice the number in the French Republic, Forty per cent. of them are in the dial sys tem, and more than half of the city's calls are in the Borough of Manhattan, which is fairly well served with dials, having fifty per cent installation thus far.

Telephone engineers say that

Mr. Snowden stated that he anticipated that the report of the apple. Is destroyed by peeling, it is the extension of the dial system in at Manila, and had atowed away Economic Committee appointed stated in the report for 1980 of the large centres is the answer to the to Hong Kong on the President in March to review the National British Food Investigation Board Problem of persistent growth, both Taft. He had not been discover-expenditure, would be in the of the Department of Industrial and in the number of telephones and ed here, but, being without any hands of Members before the Scientific Research.

the mcreasing volume of local wire means, he gave himself up on House rises for the Recess on

traffic. Friday British Wireless Sersections of the Board's task, in its first dial station, the number of

One of the most important Tuesday as a destitute.

Since the opening of New York's investigation of problems, connected telephones in the city, and the food, deals with the multitude of The average daily total made last with the transport and storage of calls made, have been doubled. problems connected with apples. In year was well over 8,000,000, or the current report it is stated that approximately 85 calls per second, ed in the tissue of the apple, but Vitamin C is not equally distribut 5,881 per minute, and 840,800 an

It was stated that Yohanas vice. came from Java neveral weeks ago, and had the intention of go- ing to Amoy to learn to drive a motor car. He was found wan- dering in the streets.

POLICE RESERVIST SHOT IN THIGH.

the Canton "rebels" are now arbi-K S. Duleepsinhji, e Weir, The American flyers, Pangst of Detentioned to the Accident During Practi

Total (for 8 wkts.)

trarily appropriating for their. b. Allcott own use the whole additional Hammond, not out duties. collected In the Liang-Ames, not out kwang ports which are necessary Extras for the full service of the above obligations, it follows that the Canton 'rebels, in propoeing the issue of premium bonds secured on the additional duties are not only infringing the integrity of the Customs service, but are also usurping the recognised rights

Fall of the wickets:

109 born and Herndon, landed at House

35 Moyle Grove, Pembrokeshire,

2 Wales, at 7 p.m. to-day.

2 Flying Blindly.

The flyers were forced down 812 owing to thick fog through which they flew practically blindly across the whole Atlan

1 for 84; 2 for 262; 9 for 271: tic-Reuter.

of bondholders in the above COASTGUARD FORCE

mentioned foreign and national obligations,

In view of these facts, the Finance Minister notifies, bank- era and merchants, and all whom it concerns that any issue of bonds, whether premium bonds. or ordinary loan, bonds, put out by the Canton rebels and secured on the Customs rovenue, are null and vold, and will not be recognised in any way by the Government as having any claim on the national funds. Reuter

BACK FROM BERLINA

eting

Premier Was

TO BE INCREASED.

Formation of a Life Saving Corps.

PUBLIC ELIGIBLE.

| GERMAN FINANCIAL

CATASTROPHE,

1931 Revenue 314,000,000 Marks Below 1930.

SMINISTER'S GLOOM,

Berlin, Yesterday The revenue for the first quar ter of 1931 18 814,000,000 mar below that of the cor period

1980

DE

FINE

MEANTIME.

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

A typhoon or depression is. central about 300 miles E. of Manila, moving W.N.W.SAAN

A feeble depression is central, to the South of Hanoi

Forecast:-Ewinds, moder

ate: fine.

"Typhoon" Warning, re

American Consulate- General received the following typhoon warning from the Manila Observatory at 11.50 "num" to-day. RAJA

5 Typhoon in about 126 de grees Long and 17 degrees.

No moving, N If the typh

the Fall

patrike Gap

throu

at the Range.

TAKEN TO HOSPITAL.

that it is at least six times as con- centrated in the peel as in the re gion of the core,

It is gratifying to note that, of all the types of apple examined by

Mr. A. H. Harteam, & Police Re- the Board, the English Bramley's serviat, was accidentally shot in Seedling has the highest Vitamin, C

hour.

CRACKSMAN'S

ARSENAL

the thigh yesterday afternoon when content, while, at the same time, it Expert's Book on “How

to. Open Safes."

Timothy Kelly, aged 45, a sea-

the Sharpshooters Company, under loses only a small proportion dur- the Commissioner, Mr. B. R. Dovey, ing storage. Since, however, the were at practice at the Kennedy Bramley's Seedling is cooking Road Revolver Range. He was re-apple, and cooking apples are, as a man, who was described by the moved to the Government Civil rule, peeled as the first stage in police as an expert safe breaker, Hospital;

their preparation for the table, we sentenced at the Old Balley The weapon was held by Mr. would seem that much of their recently to five years penal ser Norman Stradmoor, also a member vitamin value is destroyed at the vitude for having under his control for the unit. He and Mr. Dovey outset, maa

went to the Central Police Station The Board's report is interesting gelignite, 20 fuses, 11 detonators, abag containing, 15 sticks of and, reported the accident

In showing the vast amount of work an automatic pistol, 20 rounds of done in examining food supplies ammunition, skeleton keys, an elec from all parts of the

trict torch, and an American book entitled, "How to Open Safes, an

Inspector Gooch stated that Kelly number of convictions in Britain before 1928. Since he had been convicted in PAfri for safe breaking, and returned Britain port safe

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

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may been published on

evening dress to be

in the Government;

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