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COUNCIL
JAPAN AND
CHINCHOW.
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1931.
BURMA ROUND. TABLE.
Conference Starts on Constitution Making.
NEWS TABLOIDS.
The problem of Extrality was referred to in the House of Commons, yesterday. Mr. Wardlaw Milne drew attention to the dissatisfaction“ prevalent among Britons in China in tho At the Committee meeting of matter, and wanted to know' it
SHAN STATES ENTITY.
Rugby, Yesterday,
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TO-DAY'S
DOLLAR
The
closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/5 9/16,
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
BERT HINKLER IN ENGLAND.
Premier's Telegram of Congratulation.
ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME.
Rugby. Yesterday. Bert Hinkler, who, on October
• Manager.
NOTICE
We have removed to
"SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST” Bldg.
No. 3, Wyndham Street,
3rd Floor. 'Phone 24554.
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DUNLOP RUBBER CO., (CHINA) LTD.
EXTRA- LITY
DRAFT TREATY
COMPLETE.
ALLEGED ARMED ROBBERY.
How a Pork Dealer Was Assaulted
AND ROBBED OF $145.
How Chan Ping Chung, a pork dealer of the Central Market, was
Island, Wanchai district, has re- CHINA ACCUSED the Burma Round Table Confer- Government had, in any way, 27 made a great solo fight of NOT YET SIGNED ambes 1, and robbert of 3145 in
ported to the Police that yes. terday morning, whilst unload- ing coal, a derrick rope broke, " and a sling of coal fell, hurling four men overboard into a light- er below. Wong Sin-tani, (52), was fatally injured, and died on the way to hospital; and Wổng Sui, was detained in hospital, whilst the other two, who were only slightly injured. proceeded to their own homes.
Could Enemy Have Been Stopped?
OF NOT KEEPING
BARGAIN.
Paris, Yesterday, Mr. Yoshizawa called on Briand this afternoon and had
settlement of the dispute.
ence to-day, the Sawbwa of Hs-been committed to a policy. paw, on behalf of the Shan
States, advocated their mainten-
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TO BE DISCUSSED BY PARLIAMENT.
London, Yesterday.
December
money, was described by fospector K. W. Andrew in the Central Police Court this morning, when, before Mr. Williams, Chan Yu Wing, was charged, along with four others not in custody, with armed robbery.
Accused pleaded not guilty. Inspector Andrew said that at B
A whistle.
1,850 miles across the South lantic in a British Standard Puss Moth machine of only 120 horse ance as a separate entity and, Sir John Simon, replying, said power, this afternoon reached after discussion, it was decided that no agreement had yet been Hanworth Aerodrome at the end to postpone a decision and pro-initialled. A draft treaty had of his flight from New York by ceed, for the present, on the as-been drawn up and was under way of the West Indies, South sumption that the Shan States consideration. Before ratification, America and West Africa. » did not want. representatives in if the draft Treaty is approved, He had a great reception from Mthe new Legislature.
Parliament would be glyen oppora large crowd, which included In the House of Commons Sir o'clock on the night in question, The Committee considered the tunity of discussion.
the Under-Secretary for Air, Sir John Simon announced that no complainant was on his way to the half an hour's conversation. It
Philip Sassoon, who welcomed agreement concerning Extrality Ko Shing Theatre. question of a second chamber, in is believed Mr. Yoshizawa pre-favour of which opinion was un-
In Po Yan
sented a formal proposal as reanimous.
him officially on behalf of Gov- had been initialled by Sir Miles Street, near the junction of New A majority was Mr. Yoshizawa has submitted jernment; Sir Arthur Brown, who Lampson, though a draft treaty Street, he was set upon by five men, THE INVASION OF gards a neutral zone at Chin- against equal power with the to the League Council that with Sir John Alcock, was the had been completed which both and dragged into a lane immediate- chow which may assist toward a lower chamber in financial mat- Japan, by withdrawing her troops first to fly the Atlantic; Flight Governments were consideringly opposite. Ilo was thrown to BELGIUM.
ters, but agreed that the upper from Chinchow, has fulfilled her Lieutenant Stainforth, holder of If the draft treaty is signed, Sir the ground,
His throat grasped Mr. Yoshizawa explained to chamber should be able to check share of the bargain, but alleges the world speed record; Miss John said, Parliament would be and his girdle cut away. Four of M. Briand that Japan had ful-rash legislation.
that China has not kept her part Peggy Salaman who, with Mr. given an opportunity of discus- the gang disappeared but com- filled her share of the Chinese To-marrow the Committee will of the bargain. He also pressed Gordon Smith, recently beat the sion before ratification.
plainant managed to maintain a proposal by withdrawing her consider the method of election for direct negotiations, on the London Cape record in a Bri- Mr. Wardlaw Milne asked if hold on the accused. Ho shout- troops from Chinchew, whereas to the second chamber, also the spot,
and tish machine of the same type the British Government, in any ed for help, also blew the Chinese troops were still qualifications of voters and can-Japanese authorities for the deas that used by Bert Hinkler; way, had committed itself. He This attracted the attention of a
District Watchman, who came be brought to bear on the Chin- vice.
leading British airmen and British interests in China owing! ese to avoid a clash and advocat- Could the invasion of Belgium ed direct negotiations between ALLEGED MISAPPROPRIATION OF
to the way in which these mat ceeded to Central Police Station. and France have been prevented, the
The girdle was found near the place The first to greet Hinkler wasters had been left. A cook, in the employ of a and Гарллезе and the Germana #lopped on the authorities on the spot for de- REGISTERED COVER.
Chinese firm, is alleged to have his wife.
Sir John Simon replied that he where complainant was robbed, but frontier, but for the mistakes of marcation of the neutral zone.
jobtained delivery from the Post He received a telegram of con-was fully aware of the great im-the purse had gone. the Fre.ch Staff and the squabbles The League Council met the
At the close of his testimony, The theft of $2,000 in bank Office of a registered cover congratulation from the Prime Min-portance of this matter.Renter.
complainant, replying to the pro- of the Belgians?
lian Chinese and Japanese delegations notes from the Kwong. He intport taining foreign currency to the ister, who said the flight would plied by the highest Belgian av last evening, and, it is under- & Export firm, 82, Jervois Street. value of $2,000, and to have since rank as one of the most remark-
secuting officer, said he was in the habit of carrying plenty of money able achievements in the history of aviation and as a magnificent Flight-Lieutenant R. Bentley, the about on his person. He did not demonstration of the sterling first man to fly a light aeroplane know nor had he seen any of the Two Chinese motor-car drivers qualities of British aircraft, en- from Britain to Cape Town, recent robbers before. Although he held of the Meuse with ed that a registered cover, which were cautioned, to-day, for un-gines. British Wireless Service, y, gave a lantern lecture to the on to the accused, he could not see
Ger contained Netherland bank notes, necessarily sounding their horns. Was it, later, only the resounding check to the wise caution of King Albert which man invasion! Perhaps even that to the total value of $2,000 in local One horn fiend is said to have prevented the Allies putting their one division might have succeeded currency, had been sent from sounded his horn no less than 14 heads into a gigantic German trap, if plentifully provided with Holland. He alleged that the cook times.
nd from bringing, on a disaster in machine-guns, There were only received the notification of arrival which the Channel ports, might have 102 for the whole army! been lost?
KING ALBERT'S WISE POLICY.
By Capt. B. H. Llidell Bart.}
on
there. .He urged that pressure didutes. — British Wireless Ser-marcation of a neutral zone. Miss Winifred Spooner, and other referred to dissatisfaction among the scene, and the party, then pró-
Chinese
thority, what a price the world has stood, the Chinchow question was has been reported paid, and is still paying.
Further, was the saving grace of
the Marne due to King Albert, fur
discussed.--Reuter.
away in Flanders, rather than to line
Joffre?
public service by translating it, for
it is a warning that all should take to heart.
It may be argued that such
It is astonishing to hear that
Joffre gave the King no information;
absconded.
to the Police
by the master, Lau Chik-sin, who states that, yesterday, he discover-
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AIR-MINDEDNESS.
Bristol Air Group of Boy Scouts, him clearly, because the light in the
The Air Group, whose work fol. lane was not very good...“. lows along the educational Ines
covered by the Badge System lald BURMA REBELLION SITUATION.
down by Lord Baden-Powell when he originated the Boy Scout Move- ment, consists of Scout workers,
IMPROVES.
Rugby, Yesterday.
FRANCE'S SUPREMACY.
The Bishop, of Ripon (Dr. Bur
from the General Post Office, secured the firm's chop, and ob- Joffre's Faulty Dispositions.
He then applied niemoller, yesterday resulted in These tremendous questions are! When the Germans were in Llege tained the cover,
Rover Scouts and Boy Scouts hold- At question time in the House suggested by a record of King, the bright sparks of the General for a week's leave and has not been the death of a Chinese, serious injuries to another, and light in-
ing the First Class Badge. Tho of Commons, Sir Samuel Hoare, Albert's part in the war which has Staff burned to advance
to the seen since.
juries to two others. A derrick Colonial Defence Contribution.
Group, which studies aeroplanes and Secretary of State for India, stat- been written by Lt.-General Galt, Meuse. The King wisely overruled
In view of Unofficial opposition all aspects of aviation, and nowed that the general improvement rope broke and a sling of coal in his military adviser, and now Chief them, realising that the troops were
falfing hurled the 4 men over-in the Straits Settlements Legisla-numbers sixty members, owes its in the situation in Burma con- of Staff of the Belgian Army. too ill-trained as yet for any offes-
board and into a lighter along Governor has decided to refer the Managing Editor of The Evening vice.
on this subject, the origin to Mr. Robert T. Lewis, tinued.--British Wireless Ser- General Swinton has rendered a sive maneuvre.
measure to the Secretary of State World, who, with Mr. John Bennett Rugby, Yesterday, Commander Kingsford Smith, |
for the Colonfes. Opposition has of that paper. as Secretary of the How a pork dealer of the Cen-i as to the Allied plan, but merely a carrying the Christmas
been raised to change of procedure Group, Mr. J. L. Milligan, the Bris- lot of absurd information as to the from Australia to England, reach-party of footpads, a week ago, tion from annual revenue, it was H. A. Box, Bristol County Scout roughs), preaching at Leicester,
tral Market was set upon by a whereby, for a percentage deduc-tol County Commissioner, and Mr. book is necessarily a partisan a weakness of the Germans.
ed Calcutta to-day. He expects assaulted and robbed of $145 was count. I can only say that its main At last, when faced with the apto arrive in London on December related in the Central Police proposed to pay a fixed annual con- Secretary, takes a keen interest in said that if in 1928 we had stood
tribution of £5,000,000, points fit in with all that I have dis-prouch of averhelming numbers, the 13-British Wireless Service.
Court this morning, when of the
the Group's affairs.
up more boldly “ta our ex-ally over covered by independent research. King heard that there was no pos
alleged gang was charged with
The subjects dealt with have her iniquitous polley in the Ruhr" Moreover, this Belgian account has sibility of early support. He fell
varied from the theory of flight to we should not now be in a position Britain and France and Tariffs. Antwerp just in
THEIR MAJESTIES RETURN TO armed robbery. time.
LONDON.
The visit of the French Trade the mapping of compass courses of virtual vassalage to her. There he had a flanking position!
Their Majesties the King and Delegation to London has been fa- from a description of an imaginary That authority over, the nations from which he could threaten the'
Rugby. Yesterday. Queen have returned to Bucking- definitely postponed, as immediate aeroplane flight to a study of the which we used to regard as being The King and Queen returnedam Palace, and the Court will friendly conversations on tariffs i bodles of Scouts flow a model ma-Europe was concerned, to that controls. In addition, organised indisputable had passed, so far as into France. ed and inefficient army the Belgian out that this tragic result was pure to
Gen. Galet poin's)
remain in London for a fort-out of the question just now. Buckingham Palace to-day,
chine in the Curtis wind tunnel, lent Power which, in recent years, had .was on the eve of the war, and howly due to Joffre's infatuation for the and the Court will remain inight. The Royal family will|
The French Finance Minister re- greatly this state of affairs was due offensive and consequent faulty dis London for a fortnight.
spend Christmas at Sandring-futes the suggestion that the re-officials of the Bristol Aeroplane seemed to be the least likely to use to the Group by Shell-Mex Limited, shown the narrowest vision and not merely to the proverbially culp
hara. tribution. He had ample force The Queen has recovered
cent French decree discriminates
Company, Limited, West Country its able politicians, but to the ignori ance and effeteness of the General he had merely sought to stop the from her recent chill.
Germane.
The Royal family will spend
Group talks covering a wide range: on his recent achievement, the does not in fact stand scrutiny. "The Generalissimo had a long Christmas at Sandrigham.
Prime Minister said, in a tele.
of aviation subjects; period in which to take up in}
The result of the scheme has been! gram, that his flight would rank Bert Hinkler. adequate strength. the splendid
as one of the most remarkable! The Australian airman arrived in the increased air-mindedness of the line of resistance Antwerp-aenaces were due to King Albert's achievements in the history of England, yesterday. He was ac- Scouts in a city where the making: Namur..... If he had only de-initiative-for Joffre seems to have aviation and as a magnificent decorded an enthusiastic official and of aeroplanes is a primary industry spatched by rail a total of six forgoten all about the Belgians in monstration of the sterling unofficial welcome, and lauded on and where many of them are likely corps..... taken from those at his absorption with his own battle qualities of British aircraft en his recent great sole "hop" from to find careers in the aeroplane in- the tail-end of the columns march-feld.
gines.
Brazil to Africa across the South dustry. Atlantic. ing up, he would, on the 18th,
an
astonishing frankness
which back on
helps to carry conviction.
Spell of French Theory,
We are shown what an ill-organis German mosser, who now swept on
Staff. And the Staff College chiefs, like our own Sir Henry Wilson, had fallen under the spell of the French theory of the headlong offensive.
King Albert atood out against the tide. As he was King as well as Commander-in-Chief he was. more fortunate than Gen. Michel in
survived France, and
to restrain} the heady impulses of his officers. Obsessed by theory, they made a paper plan to concentrate the army ventrally for offensive action, strip-!
frontier. ping the
King Albert
Row that an active defensive was more practically suitable. Thanks
to him Liege was properly garri- soned, and in time,
There is an Interesting revelation that the Dutch took the initiative
measures of
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Congratulating Bert Hinkler against Britain, but the refutation civil pilots and others have given the pacifc ways.
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So also he was tardy in recognis- have had at his disposal....ing the danger to Antwerp sub- The Burma Round Table Con-:
·HORN FRIENDS CAUTIONED. body of nine corps (in-sequently. The British were ference has settled 'down to the cluding the Belgians, Bup-little better, thanks to Mr. Churchill work of framing a Constitution. Chinchow.
In the Central Magistracy this ported
both flanks by But the Belgians, too long isolated, The Shan States wish to Acording to a Japancae military morning, Mr. A..W. G. H. Grant-
· fortreaacs, with two British corps were now becoming morally exhaust-maintained as a separate entity, authority, the situation around ham cautioned two Chinese driv- in reserve. .. Such a distribu-ed, and we are frankly told that and discussion of this point has Chinchew is increasingly serious.jefs, who admitted sounding their tion... would have absolutely a panic among
Marshal Chang Hauch-llang's horns unnecessarily. In one case stopped the German assault.
It caused
soldiers, disguised as bandits, in-it was stated that defendant sound- was not carried out: it was not Antwerp before it was necessary. Kingsford Smith arrived Infest the districts near Mukden and ed his horn no less than 14 times, even dreamed of.”
In all these troubles the King was Calcutta yesterday. He hopes to are threatening the S. M. R. It is whilst following Traffic-Sergeant in proposing mutual
With bitter truth. Gen. Galet a rock. He was also a realist, as reach London on Sunday with held that peace can only be accured B. G. Baker in Hollywood Road re- defence against a German invasion, complains that, because of a military he again showed when opposing the Australian Christmas mails. by the complate exclusion of the cently. but cooled off as soon as they learnt theory, Belgium's guarantor "failed Foch's proposal to quit the
young. Marshal. and join in a dream offensive inlund, The British Air Council has that their own territory would be in their duty." respected;
Menace to German Flank. Otherwise the Allied forces would sent a message of sympathy to| A worse shock was in store for
Yet it was King Albert who sav-have walked into a trip, while the the Dutch Government in con-Export of Arms.
By his corties from Germans walked along a clear path nection with the Dutch air mall Answering King Albert when he found that, ed them. owing to the footling methods of Antwerp he not only detained to Calals. Salute to King Albert, disaster at Bangkok, the General Staff, nothing was large German force from the crucial one of the few sane men in a world ready for the concentration of the battlefield of the Morne but, ae of military illusions
| The general improvement in ing licences for the export of arma yet." That Is the British spirit. **Albert, King of the Belgians, the situation (recent Burmese re- the Foreign Office was actuated by The nation that puts old beats on army. Gen: Galet gaya frankly German records show, created such that, instead of ore division, all six nervousness as to clinch the German in the Great War By Lt. Gen. bellos) in Burma continues, the consideration whether such its young men and keeps young could... easily
have been in decision to retreat. These flanking Galet Translated by Major-Gen. says the Secretary of State for action was likely to affect friendly heads on its old men is the nation
relations with foreign Powers. that will win.. position along the barrier- (Continued at foot of next Column) Sir Ernest Swinton. (Putnam, 25.) India.
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The Royal Observatory's rä- port this morning states:-
The typhoon appears to be 400 miles stationary about East of Cape St. Jomes.
An anticyclone is general to the North of Vladivostock.
Forecast: -N. E. winds, moderate; generally overcast light rain.
Rainfall Rainfall for 24 hours end. ed at 10 a.m. to-day 0.18 inch. Total, since January 1, 76.02 inches against an average or 6.21 82.24 inches defeit inches,
. Temperature. The temperature at certain specifled centres this morning
ut 6 o'clock was:-
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