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Walnut finish garnish' panels, tastefully designed silvered hardware, dome lamps, and instruments gracefully arranged and grouped under glass, com bine to produce an effect of distinction and comfort.

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ESTABLISHED 1845.

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HONG

KONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1931.

COMMERCIAL DISCRIMINATION

Rugby, Yesterday. Discussion was continued, at the Indian Round Table Federal Structure Committee to-day, on the safeguards, which would be necessary, in connection with the scheme of federation, with res- ponsibility at the centre.

The

IN INDIA

|HOPE OF SETTLEMENT DISPELLED.

Japan Insists on Her Five Points.

The total amount received by ment,

Wireless Service.

It is unlikely that the Plenary "Just as we here throw every. thing open, right of entry, right Session will be held before Friday of tracing, and all other advan-of-next week at the earliest. tages, so we claim exactly the British Wireless Service.

THIS

MORNING'S

DARING PIRACY

NO EVACUATION.

NEWS TABLOIDS.

The Anti-Dumping Rill has phased its third reading. Oppo-

TO-DAY'S

DOLLAR.. — The

closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/8 18/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

John falles

A tyre of

uniqueTM construction -built for

those who prefer superlative quality

Fort DUNLOP

•The Tyre Incomparable

COMMERCIAL DISCRIMINATION

sition Labour amendments were GERMANY'S ECONOMIC heavily defeated,

An agreement is said to have! been reached between France and Germany in regard to the latter's financial and economie problems.

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POSITION:

Agreement Reached With France.

YOUNG PLAN.

IN FRANCE

SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL.

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TO GO TREASURE HUNTING,

Rugby, Yesterday.

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Rugby, Yesterday:

Attention was called, at ques

tion time in the House of Com thons, to the recent French de- cres imposing additional dis- criminating dutica on imports from various countries, includ- The famous racing motorist, Sirng Britain and her Dominions."

On behalf of the President of Malcolm Campbell, in company with four other well known mon, pro- the Board of Trade, who was Japan's note, in regard to a

poses to set off in January on an asked whether retaliatory thea- Commission of Enquiry and

expedition to the Cocoa Island, in ures were contemplated, it was Observation, is said to have dis

the Pacifle Ocean, In search of trea-stated that the whole question of pelled the slender hope there has

sure believed to have been hidden the appropriate action to be been of a settlement. Japan in-|

After conversation between M. there by a pirate over a century age. taken in the matter was engag stats on recognition of iter five Laval and the German Ambas--British Wireless Service. fundamental points, recognition

Paris, Yesterday.

of existing treaties, and direct sador this afternoon, it was said negotiation with China, &

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London, Yesterday. The House of Commons to-day passed by 829 votes to 44 the third reading of the Abnormal

ng the serious consideration of lis Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.

In reply to another question on chis subject, as to whether the French action was in conformity with the most favourable nation treaty with France, it was stated hat, although the United King- lom goods, have received most Cavourable nation treatment in France in the matter of duties nder the French law for some Comifty years, there was no treaty

in force under which either coun-. cry was bound to accord“ such reatment to the goods of the other-British Wireless Ser- vice.

IMPRESSIONS OF A LEISURED LIFE

BRITAIN'S WAR DEBTS.

PAYMENTS AND RECEIPTS.

Rugby, Yesterday. To-

the, Ex- Chancellor of day's session was devoted to fur-chequer announced to-day in the ther speeches on the question of House of Commons that the total commercial discrimination.

amount of payments to the Unit- Referring to the suggestion.ed States on account of the Bri-

Paris, Yesterday. advanced by Mr. Jayakaar, that. tish War Debt to date was £326,- where a small company was try- 200,000.

The slender hope of settle- by the ing to make its way against a

engendered powerful company, a special way this country on account of Allied Japanese suggestion for a com- would be found of dealing with war Debt was £71,275,000.-British mission of enquiry, has been dis-

that a Franco-German agree- BRITAIN'S ANTI-DUMPING BILL, the circumstances, Lord Read-

pelled by the note handed to M.

ment had finally been reached on Briand this afternoon by Mr. ing said, he hoped it would not

Japan declares that even be persisted in. What some In-

Yoshizawa, in which, it is under- dian politicians had in mind was that there might be a discrimin- same thing in India for the Bri- stood, Japan declares that she should the lives and property of the text of a letter which Ger- will not, evacuate Manchuria her nationals in Manchurja be many is to send to the Bank of ating administration or legisla- tish."

until a new treaty has been nego-assured, she will yet maintain International Settlements at Basel The discussion on cammercial tion penalising powerful British

tiated directly with China con- military occupation, because she asking for the convocation of concerns so that Indian concerns discrimination will be concluded firming the present treaties and is convinced that the Nanking the Young Plan Consultative Importations Bill.

He said, hen Monday, and the Committee fundamental points enumerated Government is powerlessen Committee on Germany's capacity Half a dozen Opposition Labour might flourish. would oppose it root and branch, will then take up the question of in the recent note to M. Briand. sure order in the occupied terri-to pay. It is understood that the amendments were defeated with and added:-

financial administration.

The Japanese note adds that tory,

letter will be sent to Basel to- enormous majorities in the even should security of property

Morrow and published later inmittee stage.-Reuter. Authoritative French opinion Berlin.

Renewed Assurances. and lives of Japanese nationals in

According to the Temps, tho Manchuria seem to be assured, ta' said to be reflected in the sug-

Rugby, Yesterday. Japan will yet maintain military gestion made by the Temps letter declares that "the German

The Bill to check abnormal occupation, because she feels Debat that the despatch of a Government, in all good faith, that the Nanking Government is Commission of Enquiry and Ob- has come to the conclusion that importations will, to-morrow, go

exchange mere tool of the Kuomintang, servation to Manchuria, coupled Germany's

position to the House of Lords to pass which is an essentially anti-with guarantees of Japan's and economic situation might through all stages in that Cham- Japanese organisation, and treaty rights, is a solution to the seriously be menaced by a parver and to receive the Royal As nowerless to ensure order in the problem.

tial or total transfer of the decent.

To-night's debates were based If we are to know anything of occupied territory:

ferrable portion of the Young Mr. Lloyd George and family Plan Anduity Reuter.

u Labour amements for modi-a locality we must have entree French Opinion.

fying the scope of the measure, to the homes of the people. This The despatch of a League have left England to spend a

artcularly by excluding from was freels accorded the art stud.... S.S. HANGYANG HELD UP Commission of Enquiry and Ob-holiday in Ceylon. I under

servation to Manchuria, coupled stood he intends, while on holl-1QUEEN VICTORIA GIVES THANKS,poration articles wholly orents in many places, conspicuous mainly manufactured which y in Frederick. To actually AND LOOTED

with guarantees of Japan's day, to write a book of War

It was with a sense of deep may be used as raw materials in have access to the private homes, treaty rights, is advocated by Le

which in the South is almost Temps and Journal des Debats as

reverence and affection that, the other industries. Tei Tel. Har has fallen to the Empire awaited the year of her Mr. Hore Belisha, Parliamen- Impossible for tourists and sight- a solution to the Manchurian

was a privilege · we tre problem. This, probably, reflects Japanese, and General Ma's forces Jubilee in 1887, when the whole tary Secretary to the Board of cers, authoritative French opinion. are in retreat. Marshal Chiang of her subjects, with delegates trade, said such matters would nendously appreciated. The

Private Meeting To-day.

Kai-shek is said to be hurrying from the far-flung lands. would be borne in mind by the President own is full of historic associa

give thanks to God for the fifty of the Board of Trade in the ions and these are materialised. The private meeting of the 10 Manchurin

has been

years of her glorious reign, and xxercise of his powers. The Bill Council to-morrow

Mr. Eugene Chen repudiates as she would once more inspire the was designed to assist and not ld chairs and tables, material postponed till 4 o'clock in the afternoon, thus there is no ques- utterly false and fantastic the nation with that thrill of roman mpede industry. For that rea- or wonderful still-life studies in nego tie loyalty which had been herson, Government had selected, Wedgwood china, queer brass. tion of a public session to suggestion that he has

tiated an agreement with Japan when half a century ago the slimut of all classes in the import candlesticks, copper pots and engravings, with Lo make Manchuria

ist, that class which did not time-stained a neutral girl received its homage. zone under Japanese protection,

I had come up from school for deal with raw materials. The perhaps a Paisley or an Indian At the same time, he launches a this day, and drove to the Abbey rinciples that would guide them shawl as a background. Even Mr. Colville, Secretary of Over-hitter attack against Marshal

in the administration of the the patch-quilts were worthy of seas Trade, announced in the Chiang Kai-shek whom he des- with my father. He had forgot measure had been indicated by study, being unusual in colour,

a "Feat menace to ten to give his coachman the car Mr. Runciman, who had assured design and needlework. House of Commons to-day, that cribes

riage-pass, which would admit hem that the powers would not licences for the export of war China."

We did little painting on these material to the Chinese and.

him within the cordon of police he abused, as he was fully alive trips to Frederick but gathered have

and troops through which, com-to the delicacy of British Indus- what was of great value - im- ing from Lambeth, he had to THE CANADIAN PREMIER.

pass, and a polite but quite firmy and commerce, and the nar pressions, Impressions of a lel- Tow margins on which prosperi-surely, calm life, of delicate, pa-, inspector refused to let his car ty was maintained. British tient faces, of pleasant voices, riage proceed; nobody without a Wireless Service:...

rentle manners and mellow, Rugby, Yesterday.

allowed to

honorable backgrounds. Every carriage-pass was The Prime Minister, of Canada,

penetrate. On which, with an ase "friendly warning" to the will reach London' to-morrow, and

In "Studio, Properties," bits of had been injured.

form, texture and colour reminis At the resumption of the Tsang cent of the olden time... Apparently no one was taken by the pirates as hostage, as no Soviet. The report states that will be met by the Secretary for and said, "They can't begin till

the Soviet Government considers the Dominion Affairs and repre- I get there," so all was well. thing to that effect was mentioned in the wireless message.

the conversations between Msentatives of the Prime Minister

Georgetown afforded us our The Abbey was already filling Foo Villa murder trial this morning, Litvinoff and the Japanese Min, and others.

up, and soon the tiers of seats ovidence of arrest of the various nearest, most picturesque and least expensive sketching ground. ister have sufficiently proved the Mr. R. B. Bennett is passing that rose high in the transepta prisoners was given,

P. C. Wheeler said that from out-The Pennsylvania Avenue street Soviet Government's neutrality. through London on his way to the were crammed to the top. Then

Reuter.

South of France, where, for the from outside' came the sound of side the villa he heard a cry of car took one for five cents to benefit of his health, he will spend the saluting guns and a murmur "Arrest and entered the house, scenes that rival the palisades On of the Hudson, the heights of a part of the Winter.-British that rose to a roar, as the Queen making his way to the roof.

Izdder against Edinburgh or Genos, the castle- drew pear with the princes on approaching a Wireless Service.

horseback for her retinue. The slanting roof he saw Sergeant But rowned hills of the Rhine. Of whole Abbey rose, and up the cher there, Witness mounted, the course you do not belleve this-- nave came the kings and the ladder and arrested the first acut it is true. Old bridges

And made Lim g' vhat is more paintable than an ld bridge7 A mighty river in

NO CASUALTIES:: NO HOSTAGES

PIRATES LAND AT NAMOA ISLAND

AND RELEASE THE SHIP.

After being inactive since the beginning of this year, pirates have again carried out a coup on an ocean-going vessel The latest victim being the ss. Hangyang, of the China Navigation Co., Ltd., of which Messrs. Butterfield and Swire are the managers.

Information about the piracy reached Hong Kong this morning when the Hangyang wirelessed after she had been released by the pirates.

morrow.

War Material for Disputants.

London, Yesterday.

The pirates carried out their coup at 5 o'clock this morning. Japanese Governments They took the ship to Namoa Island, where they landed. Imme-been issued in the last six!

months. diately upon being released, the Hangyang proceeded to Amoy.

No information was given as to the loot. taken ashore at Namou

Japan and the Soviet.

It is reported from Moscow

that the Soviet Government has

Memoirs.

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Island by the pirates, but the message stated that no one on board decided not to reply to the Japan who is on a private visit to Europe: engaging smile, he leaned out, / TSANG FOO VILLA MURDER CASE/Corner of old Frederick was rich

H.M.S. STERLING

INVESTIGATING

و در

as traffic is concerned, filled with

As soon as the message was According to the Police, the received here, H.M.S. Sterling Hangyang does not carry anti- was sent out to investigate at piracy guards because she is al- Namoa Island. This island is lowed to carry only a limited situated about 30 miles to the number of passengers, being es- they transferred their loot to the

island. north of Magu, the entrance to sentially a cargo boat. Swatow Harbour.

When it was stated by the The Hangyang is under the|-- Inquiries made at the offices Company that the ship carried command of Captain C. Harris from Bias Bay, for a long time the queens and the princes and prin- cused of Mesars. Butterfield and Swire no passengers on this trip, they Walker, and her Officers are, Mr hotbed of the outlaws, which cosses, and went to their seats down the ladder at the foot o elicited, the information, that at probably meant

E. H. Hankin, Chief Officer; Mr.. first-class pas-

And after the jewels the man into custody. sinking of the China Merchants throne. the time of the piracy the Hang- sengers. It is apparent that she S. L. Garrett, Second Officer, Mr. they evacuated soon after the on, this side and on that of the which stood the Sergeant, who took its adolescence, uscles as far An Indian constable said he saw small rocky islands and great yang was bound from Shanghai must have carried some Chinese A. M. Macgregor, Chief Engin, Irene at the entrance to the and the robes and the uniforms to Hong Kong via Amoy. She deck passengers, and the pirates eer; Mr. M. Scott, Second En-bay by H.M, submarine L4. At had flashed by, there moved up the second accused on the roof hold-gray boulders, on which every left Shanghai at daylight on must have travelled as such, as gineer and Mr. C. H. Jones, Honghai Bay, the pirates took one solitary little figure in a ing a bamboo pole and bitting at wild flower delights to grow Tuesday, and, according to sche- otherwise it would bo dificult to Third Engineer. Her Chinese ashore three first-class passen black satin dress with a white the body of a Japanese woman lying around which endlessly, untir- dule, should arrive here at noon understand how they got on crew numbers roughly 60 men,

witness No. 2 dropped the pole, petual song, to-morrow. She has, of course, board. One could not dream of The ship: which was built in gers and one member of the com- front and a white bonnet with a fust in front of him. When he saw ngly, the water eddies with per--

How right she had been to Witness arrested him and took him as hostages, and they also took a been delayed as the result of the suspecting that they masquerad 1901 by Messrs. Scott & Co., pradore's staff whom they held band of black velvet. hold-up, and is now not expected as members of the Chinese Greenock, and was registered in large quantity of loot. The s.8. come like that, and not listen to downstairs to a room on the ground nt days more lovely motifs for ed to arrive here until Sunday crew, and, of course, it is out of London, is a steel screw steamer Hain Ming was on a voyage from those who would have her in floor which the Police used as the study of nature than in the On returning to the Shenandoah Valley and about afternoon, at the earliest.. the question to think that the of 1,956 (1,207 net) tonnage, and Shanghai to Foochow at the time robes of State. She was Queen guard room.

pirates came alongside in a junk has the following dimensions: of this hold-up, and, as usual, the of England and Empress of India, roof, No. 1 was handed over to wit- Charlottesville, Virginia, and lu Length, 275.5; breadth, 88.2; pirates were on board masquerad- and she was mother and mother-ness and he took him also to the Greenbrier County, West Vir The Hangyang, our reporter und held up a ship!

depth 21.5. was informed, carried no anti-

ing as passengers).

in-law and grandmother of that guard room. He did not see Nos ginia. In all of these localities Piracy piracy guards, and had no pas Taken By Surprise. Pl Recalled Others prate activities this regal company. And there she 8 and 4 arrested, but when he got was able to live at small expense sengers on board. No informa. Apparently, in low of the The last piracy on an ocean- year were the boting of the was, a little old lady coming to back to the guard room with No. 1 for long times or short, because good friends took care of me. tion is available here as to the early hour at which the coup going vessel occurred on January ships Roseville and Limchow church to thank God for the long he saw them there.

Another LP.C. deposed to seeing That wonderful, nyatem of nature of the cargo she carried, was made, the pirates took con- 10 of this year, the 83. Hsin after they had gone aground on years in which she had ruled her

The scene of the piracy is trol of the ship and wireless Ming, of the China Merchants the Coast. In the case of the people. She listened once more No. 8 near one of the bodies, when "Southern hospitality" had its about 180 miles north of Hong within a few minutes, taking all Steam Navigation Co., being the Limehow, which grounded at to her husband's "Te Deum," he arrested him. He also saw Ser amusing side, but was in the main Kong, and 120 miles south of on board by surprise. The at- victim. Tha piratas then carried Poshim Pagoda, on April 20, the and the hand that held her book geant Doig arrest the small boy noble institution by which those who had more shared with Amoy for which port the Hang-tack was made only a little way out their coup in the evening, pirates set fire to the ship after trembled, for she remembered | (No. B).

There only remained evidence of those who had Icas Marletta. yang was bound, and H.M.S. off Namos Island, but the pir and took the ship to Honghai looting her, and H.M.S. Starling how he had played it to her on Sterling should reach Namoa ates must have had control of Bay, which is one bay removed had to be sent to the scene to the organ he had built at Wind arrest of No. 4 when the Court ad- Minnigerode Andrews, In "Mem

journed for the tiffin interval oirs of a Poor Relation." faland this evening.

the ship for some time, while (Continued or Next Column) render basistance.

No Guarda.

Nowhere did I find in my staid-