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Comfort, typical of Studebakor's, traditional coachcraft plus auch ultra-modern · fentures 麻醬

bearing spring shackles,

Thrift, officially proven under

supervision of the American Auto-

mobile Association.

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

LOCAL SHARE

. MARKET.

Opening Steady This Morning.

states:-

SOME ADVANCES.

The morning session opened

quietly steady, with an advance in prices in one or two instances,

Sales.

Unions, $430. Electrics, $78.

New Engineerings, Tls. 69. Hotels (old), $15.30. Lane. Crawfords (old), $6.65. Constructions (new), $1.85.

Buyers.

Library, Supreme Court,

ChinaTM Mail

No. 27,973

'PLANTING THE SILVER TREE.'

Allegation Against Fortune Teller.

MARRIED WOMAN'S STORY,

ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1931.

A LIBEL ON GERMANY.

NEWS TABLOIDS.

A rumour that Germany wil shortly abandon the gold stand- ard is denied.

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TO-DAY'S

The

DOLLAR closing rate of the dollar on démand, to-day was 1/4 7/8.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

FIRST RUSSIAN SUPER-PLANE.

Commercial Aviation Department.

AMERICAN MOTORS.

Moscow, Nov. 29.

NOTICE

We have removed to

-*** SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST” Bldg.

No. 3, Wyndham Street,

'Phone 24554.

3rd Floor.

DUNLOP RUBBER CO., (CHINA) LTD.

CAMPAIGN OF PLUNDER?

Excitement in Capital

of Hungary.

POLICE DISBELIEVED.

Budapest, Nov. 29.

OFFICIAL BAN ON SPITTING.

New By-Laws for Eating Houses.

UNIFORM NOTICES..

"That the Board approves

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the introduction forthwith of

the following by-laws prohibit- ing spitting in eating houses,** (i) No person shall spit in any enting house except into spittoons provided for the purpose.

Outburst by Minister of Defence.

CURBING MEASURES.

The French desire to negotiate] The official summary issued

The alleged credulity of a

Berlin, Nov. 29. for an adjustment of tariff dif-

At the meeting of the Sani- by the, Stock Exchange to-day Chinese woman was told at the Departing from the tradition ficulties is understood to have re- Carrying 40 passengers, in addi- The Hungarian capital was tary Board to-morrow, the Pro- Kowloon Magistracy this morn-that Cabinet members should ceived a rebuff, the British Note tion to a crew of five, the first thrown into a paníe this morning sident, pursuant to notice, will ing when a Chinese, Choi Ping- not, outside of Parliament, em- leaving little hope at present for Soviet Russian super-plane, design-when it became known that during move?

ed and constructed by M. A. Tupe- the night a series of Police raide kwong, was charged with steal-bark upon any controversy, the a favourable solution.

lov, made its final test flight to-day had taken place all over the city, ing $150 from Chau Wah-yan, a Minister of Defence, General

An Italian, Court has sentenced and was taken over by the Com-resulting in a bag of over hundred) married woman, on December 2, Groeher, who combines with his by means of a trick called "plant-office the duties of the Home several Venetian revolutionists mercial Aviation Department. arrests. Rumours that a Commun- ing the silver tree."

Minister, to-day intervened into long prison terms.

The machine attained an average ist plot had been folled spread like The accused is a fortune teller the furious controversy which is

speed of 155 miles h.p. and has a wildfire, to be followed by other and the complainant had been stil raging, around the prison The simultaneous resignations cruising radius of over ten hours, rumours that the authorities had visiting him for a week. He gave sentence meted out by the Su-of Dr. Sze and Mr. Wellington Representatives of the American unearthed a plot for the restoration to burn one and mix the ashes Radier! Weekly, because he had ed. her sundry charms and told her preme Court to the Editor of a Koo have since been reconsider Curtis Wright Motor Works, which of the Hapsburg monarchy and that supplied the ten motors, were pre-the Pretender, Archduke Otto, had with water, and also to wear an-published an article, criticising

sent at the trial flights.

already crossed the frontier into other. Later, it is alleged, he the Army Estimates, and in- The International Chamber of The plane will be used on the Hungary. suggested that she should give sinuating secret German arma-Commerce, Spokane, has drawn Moscow-Berlin run next year and Tls. him $150, with which amountments.

up an agreement with India for is expected to carry hundreds of he would plant the silver tree for In an article in the Deutsche an increase in the price of tourists into Soviet Russia.-Trans-issued a statement, asserting that her, telling her that if she came Allgemeine Zeitung, headed "A silver. back two days later she would Libel on the Nation," General lind $4,000 or $5,000 in the pot Grocker declared that while hel A Dutch air mall 'plane' has A WOULD-BE 'SUICIDE. beneath the treat

had no intention of stifling legi-crashed in Bangkok, resulting in "She came back and it was timale criticism, he strongly ob-five fatalities.

Mile, Helene Plet, a typist, is elements who were about to em- not there," concluded Subjected to the libelling of the

bark upon a campaign of plunder only 21 years old, but she had come] Inspector Murphy, who outlin-Reich's armed forces by the The Bengal Congress Confer to the conclusion that life held.no on a scale hitherto not dreamt of

ence demands a boycott of Bri-more for her. She made up her in Hungary. "Strange," said Mr. J. A. "The Reichswehr, for whose tish goods, banks, Insurance, and mind to buy a revolver and become This statement, however, failed Fraser, the Magistrate,

unremitting loyalty to the re steamship companies and other the heroine of one of those trage to allay public excitement, and The bearing of the case was publican constitution I am per-undertakings. $2 fixed for December 14, bail be-sonally responsible, must be pro-

ing allowed in the sum of $500-tected from slanderous attacks| $300 in cash and the remainder against which it has no means of in security.

defending itself," the Minister declared.

Shanghai Explorations, 2.10.

Providents (old), $5.20. Providents (new), $2.40.

HK, Lande, $8014.

Humphreys (old), $18, Ewos, Tl. 16.

Peak Trams (old), $14

Ching Lights; $27.65.

Telephones (part paid), $26.

Cements (combined), $19.

Watsons, $16.70.

Amusements, $194.

ILK. Government Loan,

per cent. prémium.

Wharves, $151.

Hotels (old), $15.40.

Hotel (new), $14.80.

H.K, Realties, $12.15.

Trams, $21

Star Ferries, $95. H.K. Electrics, $78. Canton Ices, $5.60. Dairy Farms, $29. Sinceres, $15. Entertainments (old), $181⁄2. Entertainments (new), $16.

Sellers.

Bank of East Asia, $130. Raubs, $43. Venezuelan Goldfields, $2. Dairy Farms, $29, S. C. Enterpriser, $10.

$51,000 LEFT.

Shops and Land of a Chinese.

lined the enme as above.

POLICE RESERVE.

Orders for the Current

Week.

SHARPSHOOTERS' DINNER.

Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe. C.M.G., Inspector-General of Police, are us under:~

Winter Uniform will be taken into general wear, us from Decorn- ber 1.

Chinese Company. Training Course-Part 11-Con-

Press.

At the same time he forecast! new legislative measures to curb "wild criticism," expressing the hope that they would be gener- ally endorsed by the public. Transocean Kuomin

OIL PRODUCTION,

World's Estimate for

This Year.

SOVIET INCREASE.

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ANTI- BRITISH BOYCOTT?

Demand of Bengal Conference.

RESUME CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.

Ocean Kuo Min.

dies that are all too common in

Later in the day the Pelico chief

the arrests had had nu political The arrested mon significance. and women, he said, had no poll- tical affiliations, but were lawless

there remains the suspicion that France. When the girl purchased the Police are holding something the revolver the saleswoman was back, and the fear that the city struck by her distracted air. For and the country are on the eve o Mlle. Plot, asked what kind of grave events. Transocean Kuomin weapon she wanted, replied that it did not moller in the least-"If it works; and be good enough to see that it is loaded."

CLUTCHING HAND.

(ii) The licensee shall cause to be continuously displayed, in a conspicuous position on every floor of his licensed premises, whilst such pre- 'mises are open to the public, a NOTICE of a size and form approved by the Board, and in a language. prescribed by the Board, re- quiring his customers not. to spit on the floor: pro- vided that the Board may, in its discretion, exempt in writing any premises from the above requirement.

(iii) The licensee shall cause uny phlegm, spittle or saliva found on the floor, of his premises to be prompt- ly swept up and removed; and in the event of his pro- viding one or more spit- toons, shall cause sufficient quantity of a disinfectant fluid to be kept, continuous- ly in quch spittoons while in use; and shall thorough-- -ly cleanse them daily at the

close of business. Correspondence relative to an Considerable excitement prevailed application for an eating house

Birch for a Chinese Youth.

Thus armed, the desperate typist set out for that favourite spot of disillusioned mortals-the Bois do Boulogne. In a quiet glade abe fired six times into her mouth, and collapsed inanimate on the ground. Calcutta, Yesterday. Shortly afterwords one of the The Bengal Congress Confer-keepers of the Bois found her ence is unanimously demanding body, and I was borne off to hos-in Des Voeux Road Central at about licence at a tea shed opposite

pital.

WOMAN VICTIMISED.

boycott of British goods,

8 p.m. on Saturday, when a Chinese Kowloon Inland Lot. No 1287, A puzzled doctor looked in vain woman had her handbag snatched Shanghai Street, will also be Banka, insurance and steamship companies and other undertak for the bullet wounds, and restored away by a youth, who had approach-considered.

while a polke officer had discover: shake off his victim, but the woman ings, and foreign cloth, declar- the young woman to consciousness ed from behind. The youth ran up without much difficulty. Mean-Pottinger Street in an effort to

GERMANY AND

GOLD.

Berlin, Nov. 29. stable 136 Ho Iu Nam has been The world's total oil productioning that the time has come to re- passed out as efficient in Part II of for the current year was estimat- sume civil disobedience.-Reu- Training Course (Knowledge of ed ai 1,379 million barrels by Pro- ter. Police Duties and Regulations.) fessor Garfias in the Wirts- Training Course-Part 11-AIL chaftswit, leading economic recruits will attend at the Chinese journal. Last year the total out- Company's Headquarters; to-morrow

put was 1,418 million barrels, Estate in Hong Kong valued at ut 6.30 p.m. for instruction..

against 1,484 millions in 1929. Inspection Parade.-A ranks of Of this year's total, 856,000,000 $51,000 was left by Li Woon-nam who died at the age of 50 years, at the Chinese Company will parade at barrels were, contributed by the his home in Tung Wah Street, Sai Central Police Station on-Thursday. United States, against 898,000,000 Ling Sze, Tol Shan diatrict, Kwang- December 10 for a general inspecin 1950, and 1,107,000,000 in 1929. tion of Equipment etc. by the Com- The Soviet Union, on the other tang, on April 19, 1925,

pany Commander. Fall in at 5.30 hand, increased its production Letters of administration. of the p.m. sharp under · P./Sgt. R. J. from 136,000,000 barrels in 1930 local estate, with will annexed, Hunt, Dress-Blte uniform, cap to 368,000,000 in 1991. The third have been granted by the Supreme with white cover; belt (without oil-producing country, Roumania, Court to Li The Shi, his lawful frog) truncheon, whistle, armlet also shows slight increase, from widow and relict, who is the sole and badge, "Pocket Polleeman" and 42,000,000 to 48,000,000.-Trans- many will shortly abandon the executrix named in the will. She note-pook, to be carried. Those ocean Kuomin

Is also of Sui Ling Sze, Toi Shan, not in possession of uniform will at- and in temporarily staying at 71, tend in mufti. No member may Shantung Road, Mongkoktsui.

be absent from this parade without

leuve from the Company Com-

In his will testator directed that mander.

LATIN REVIVAL.

all his property, including the shop will make it a point of being pre-

The Equipment Officer A Warsaw Professor's premises known as 73. Bonham

Strand West, Hong Kong, shop pre-

sent. Recruits will attend.

N.C.OB. Class-All N. C. Os. will mises in Tung Wah Street, Sai Ling attend

Company's the Chinese Sze, Toi Shau, and cultivated lands. at Chung Long Tung, Tol 3han, be Headquarters on Friday at 4 p.m.

handed over entirely to his wife to administer and control and to en- joy all the privileges thereof. It

for instruction under Mr. Paterson, P.P.T.S.

Enthusiasm.

WORLD CAMPAIGN,

Warsaw, Nov. 29.

ALS

Indian Company.

An attempt to revive Latin Training Course-Part II.-All an international language in all is also stipulated in the will that in members who have not passed Part cultural spheres, including poll future the wife "shall be at liberty II of Training Course should attend tics, is being made by Professor to deal with the properties herself at the Chinese Company's Head- Zielinsky, of the University of and no person shall be allowed to quarters, 17, Queen's Road Central, interfere with her."

on Thuraday, at 5.30 p.m. Flying Squad.

A Clerk's $4,500.

Lee Wah-yin, a clerk formerly ini

Warsaw

Professor Zielinsky has formed an Association for the promotion Race Duty Members who are of his aims and, it is stated, has

Persistent Rumour Again Denied.

EMERGENCY DECREE.

Berlin, Yesterday.

A persistent rumour that Ger-

gold standard is emphatically de- nied again in official quarters.

An emergency decree will be issued probably on Tuesday to reduce the cost of living and, thereafter, salaries and wages.

It is not anticipated that the Socialists will declare war against the Government in this connec- tion-Reuter.

ed that the revolver had been load-pluckily gave chase, calling out and small change besides some ed with blank cartridges. The loudly the while "Stop thief!" articles. woman who sold It, anticipating Many joined in the chase. The

The Sentence. trouble, had taken care to render youth turning into Queen's Road The youth, named Chan Wh (16) it harmless. As for Mile. Plet, she Central, ran into the arms of a appeared before Mr. E..II. Willams had presumed, after Bring the sixth Chinese constable, who had been this morning, and pleaded, guilty shot, that she must be dead.

IMPROVING LATER..

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

The typhoon appears to be about 500 miles East of Padaran, moving W.S.W. Its position is uncertain, however.

The anticyclone has passed into the Pacife.

Forecaal:-N.E. winds, mo derate; overcast, with drizzle at first, improving later.

From American Consulate- General:-

PRISON CELL AS A Typhoon in about 114 deg.

STUDY.

Convict Aspiring for

B.A. Degree..

A convict in the goal at Kingston

In the employment of the China detailed for special duty at the sent an appeal to classical teach (Ontario) aspires to become Export-Import and Bank Co., Osaka, Races will parade at Central Police ers throughout the world to sup-Bachelor of Arts,

Japan, left: estate in the Colony Station on Saturday at 1.45 p.m. valued at $4,500,

sharp.

He died intestate on January 20, 1981, at :: 14 of 71,

3-chome, Sharpshooters Company,

Company Drill The Nakayamoto-derl, Kobe, and letters

port bis campaign.

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For the first time in the history In this appeal, Professor Zielin- sky insists that Latin is much more of. Queen's University, Kingston, an Bufted for International communi- application has been received from monthly cations than sach artificial, langu- take an extramural arts course.

Jan inmate of the penitentiary to of administration of the local estate Company Drill will be carried out ages as Esperanto-Transocean have been granted by the Supreme on Kennedy Road on Friday at 6.15 Kucmin.. Court, to his widow, Lo Mon Au-pin, p.m. Members will fall, in at that . Uni. who is temporarily, staying at the hour outalde Queen's Pier. Kung Woo boarding houre, 88, Des form-Blue quiform, cap with white Vœux Road West.

cover, belt, holster, revolver and the Company wishing to join the The deceased, who was 64 years truncheon. All members must at Defendu Class are requested to work in the penitentiary is being

send their names in to the 0.-1/c. of age at the time of his death, had tond.

Defendu Class-All members of Company as soon as possible, no concubine. 22 J

The convict, a young man serving a long term, has, 'the pést fivo years, taken all the Ontario depart- mental examinations" - up to upper school work. The success of school

pat forward to the authorities as

a reason for a fall time school there.

Manila, to-day, 10.55 a.m.-

Long. E, 12 deg. Lat. N., mov- ing W.

Rainfall

Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10a.m. to-day 0.02 inch.. Total since January 1, 76.85 Inches against an average of 82.20 liches deficit inches.

et o'clock was:-

6,35

Temperatura

The temperature at certain specified contres this morning:

Hong Kong

60

Macao

74

68

85

Prates Island Foochow Amoy.. Chefoo Shanghal Manila

attracted to Pottinger Street junc- to the charge. Sub-Inspector Bar- tion by the commotion caused by nett prosecuted. The...complain- the chase. The bag was found in ant was Lam Yuen-chan, a spinster, the boy's possession. He had been living at 16 Fuk Wing Street. taken by surprise and selzod before. His Worship said he would not he could discard it. The young believe that the accused was afx- rascal was taken to the Central teen', years, old, and hold that he Police Station, where the woman was at least 17 or 18. He ordered inspected the contents of her bag him to receive 12 strokes of the and announced that they were in-cane and be sent back to his coun tact. It contained $112 in notes try.

WARMTH WITHOUT WASTE

Meals cannot be enjoyed in a cold and cheerless dining room. Yet it would be inconvenient and wasteful to have a solid

fuel Are burning all day. In the interests of comfort and economy you should- have a: modern gas fire which will give you cheerful, radiant warmth the moment it is needed.

GAS FIRES FIXED

FIVE DOLLARS

FOR

On Hire (at $10 a year) Hire-purchase or Sale.

THE HONG KONG & CHINA GÁS COMPANY, LTD. Works;: West Point, Hong Kong & Jordan Bd. Kowloon, Cactual Showroom --- Ica Epuss Street (Hong/Htay Kowloon Showroom

-246, Nathan Road (Corner of Jordan Road),

Office-West Point