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Mrs. L. Adamek, a physician of Shanghai, arrived in port on the President Taft yesterday, on Ivacation-tour.
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1932′′
SMALL COIN
Mr. Albert Kent, travelling re- Official History. presentative of Scarlett &. Co., Ltd.... A letter sent by direction of the Melbourne, arrived here yesterday King to Mr. Churchill is one of the on business on the President Taft. notable disclosures in the seventh
volume published - of “British Do- | Mr. Emanuel Gran, a partner of cuments on the Origins of, the the firm of Davies and Brooks, War," which deat, Particularly Shanghai architects, came to Hong with the crisis of 1911, when the Kong on the President Taft yeater- Kaiser sent the Fanther to Agadir. day on a business trip.
The letter, writen by Lord Stamfordham, the King's Secretary,
Buckingham Palace,
Oct. 25, 1011.
Mr. N. S. Beale, managing directs as follows:- tur of the General Electric. Com- pany of China Ltd., arrived in the Colony on a business trip on. the President Taft yesterday.
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francs on the table and won, imme- diately withdrawing from the game.
When Mrs. Burns tried to enter the Palace de la Mediterrance a few days later, she had great dif- ficulty in securing admission, as she seemed to be so shabbily dress- ed, although she had plenty ́or money. She knew little about baccarat, but her knowledge of American poker stood her in good stead.
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In Hot Water Now!..
Naked and shivering, a convict who escaped from the village prison in. Miranda Do Doure was re- captured in Spain. The man had broken loose while the warder wan
river, undressing as he ran. With his clothes on his head, he plunged into the water and swam to the Spanish bank. The warder who set out to search for him next day found him in the first village he visited-naked, because his clothes had been carried away by the current.
Pig Starts A Fire.
Dear Churchill,- Mr. E. D. McKay, President of The King wishes me to let you the Pacific Pearl and Ivory Co. of know that yesterday he heard from (Seattle, Wash; arrived here yester- a relation in Germany who had re-
day on the President Taft en route contly been in Berlin to the follow-on his rounds. He fled towards the to Canton, on a business call. ing effect: Al "ten 1 BEN
"Admiral Tirpitz sald, at the Mr. Sylvester Simpson, buyer for time when the Morocco crisis had the firm of Jules Schwab and Co., reached its acute stage, that Ger- New York, disembarked from the many would have gone to war with President Taft on her arrival in England, but her fleet was not Hong Kong, yesterday.
ready yet, and would not be until 1915, when the (Kiel) Canal would The Brazilian Vice-Consul at be finished, so that all the largest Shanghai, Mr. N. 1. de. Oliveira, ships could pass through, and by has arrived here to assume tempor- that time they would have enough ary office as Vice-Consul for Brazil Dreadnoughts. launched to deal iu Hong Kong.
with any Power.
"The mines from Heligoland to Among passengers who left Hong the mainland would not be ready Keng by..the s.5. Kamo Maru to-day until 1914. If war broke out," was Mr. G. P. Myles-Thompsou, of the admiral said, "the German fleet Rabaul, New Guinea, who is pro- would be smashed for no reason ceeding to Manila.
at all" (ie., with no advantage to Germany)..
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If he did not hear these views expressed by Admiral Tirpitz him self, he heard them second hand.
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A man who was sitting up watch- ing a sow at Dalmolly, near Newry, County Down, left her for a few minutes and in his absence she up- set a paraffin lamp. Pigstyes and stables were destroyed in the re- sulting fire and a pony, donkey, two goats, and a litter of young piga lost their lives, the only animal to escapa being the sow which caused the firs...
You Never Can Tell.
You never can tell what is going· to happen next. Here is a list of strange accidents which befell people. They all happened within the last twelve months:
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kicked the shears. The shears pierced a vein in the farmer's arm, He died of haemorrhage. An old Edinburgh man pulled out one of his own teeth with his fingers. He (died of shock.....
Mr. G. B. S. Thomson, accountant The writer then went on to say: of the Hong Kong & Kowloon. That is the reason why Germany Wharf and. Godown Co., together gave in; so far as I can see we Most Protectionists will admit with Mra. Thomson left here by the shall be fighting in 1915.” . that universal Free Trade is almost R.M.S. Empress of Russia. Hong Kong, Saturday, April-25, 1932. ideal, and even Americans
Mr. C. D. Penney, Far EastFern beginning to realise the many dis- representative, for H. R. MacMillan
Yours very, truly, advantages attached to a policy of Export Co., Ltd., Vancouver, B.C.
STAMFORDHAM, Protection.
was a passenger on the President
Astonishing statements of Minis-
A Berlin That England should adopt Pro-Taft which berthed at the Kowloon ters showing how serious the posi Even the most fervid advocates of
thief broke into a tion was regarded at the time of butcher's shop. In escaping through Protection will be satisfied, for the tection at a time when Empire Free Wharf, yesterday.
Trade was being urgently advocat-
the Agadir crisis are also quoted. a skylight a string of sausages moinent at least, with the announce ed is extremely fortunate as she is resident of Seattle, Washington, told Mr. Churchill: "I have just and hanged him. A woman. chased. Mrs. Bertha Burdick, a prominent Sir Edward: Grey is said to have caught on a nail, encircled his neck ment yesterday of the new scale of now in a position where she can who was joined by her daughter-in-received a communication from the a mouse in New Hampshire, U.S.A., tariffs recommended to become grant privileges to the Dominions law, Mrs. Don Burdick, in Shang- German Ambassador.so stiff that with such violence that she dropped effective on Monday in Britain. without any great sacrifice or in hai, was a passenger on the Pre- the fleet might be attacked at any
convenience. Now that the different sident Taft yesterday.
dead. The mouse escaped. A far- There will be considerable surprise nations of the Empire. have 80
moment," while Mr. Lloyd George | mer in Kansas was shearing a mule. at the severity of some of the much mutual gain to derive from s
writes: "War is by no means In-A bee stung the mule. The mule The forthcoming marriage is an- evitable, but it is becoming an in- duties, and Free Traders are sure a form of Empire Free Trade, even nounced of John Charles Stoppa, creasing probability.". to enter strong protest. When a restricted form, it is almost cer- Sub-Officer, Fire Brigade, living at
tain that a successful agreement 161, Wongneichong Road, and Chan Serpent of Darkness. Britain, on March 1, at long laat will be reached at the Imperial Van-ching, of 10, St. Francis Yard,A whole district was plunged into gave up the position of being the Conference to be held in Ottawa' in
ground floor.
darkness when a snake found its only nation observing Free Trade it July. Imperial harmony has been was recognised that the 10 per cent. mostly in Ireland and South Africa, ia punounced of Rear-Admiral Mark South India.
threatened by many recent events,
way into the rotary converter of an The retirement, as from Sunday, electric lighting station at Nettur, duties then imposed were pro and it is evident that sentiment L. Bristol of the U.S. Navy, who ed instantly. The station was out The snake was kill- visional only and would be increased alone will not keep the Empire to was recently in command of the of working order for four days, he imagined was a friendly hand to when research had been undertaken gether. Economic unity is essential American Asiatic Fleet, and at one as burnt-out coils necessitated help him across. It was another into trade matters, But that many friendly British Commonwealth, and Turkey...
far maintenance of a close and time was High Commissioner to much dismantling, and the re-blind man, who also thought he had of the tariffs would be as high as the outlook for the Empire would be
winding of complicated electrical found a helper. Both were killed. apparatus kate
A man in Essex sat on a small elec- 25 and 30 per cent. was not anti-gloomy in the event of a fallure at
Mr.. Percy Younghusband, who
tric light bulb. The force of the and
makes that possibility of failure ton for the past two years and a
explosion killed him. In California
the Government announcement yea-, less probable.
Mra. Sarah Jenning Burns, half, is proceeding on Home leave. wealthy.oildeld owner of Kansas terday created some surprise, and Apart from the Imperial aspect, He sails from Hong Kong on Mon- City, left Nice recently for London British industry will gain much day by the s.s. Calchas to join his after winning £28,000 at the Palace in many cases, perturbation. The
from the imposition of tariffs on wire and child in England, cable stated that the new scale of foreign goods. The depression and
de la Mediterranee, playing bac carat. Mrs. Burns, after having duties were recommended by the the heavy slump in England's manu-.
Among passengers who left the won a considerable sum of money,. Advisory Committee, but adoption facturing centres has made some Colony yesterday by the R.M.S. Em- startled the playere by proposing form of protection necessary. The press of Russia were Mr. J. Hen-to bet a million franca, and the Is practically certain.
difficulties aceruing from the high nesay Seth, principal of Messrs. croupier who was conducting the The Free Trade question is one tariffs of other nations were accen- Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming, ac- game accepted it. A of the most controversial problems tuated by the intense competition countants, and Mrs. Seth, Mrs. H. from European countries which C. Treherne, wife of Comdr.
Mrs. Burns placed the million
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cipated by the general public, Ottawa. Britain's present policy has been Official Measurer in Can-Woman's £23,000 Trump Card.
And some more: A blind man was waiting on the kerb to crosa the road in London. He felt what
a man of fifty-four decided to smoke
a cigarette for the first time. It made him dizzy, he fell, and fatally injured his skull. A lucky horse- shoe fell down and killed a man in New Rochelle, New York. And- in California a householder was mowing his lawn. The blade of the machine picked up an unexploded cartridge, which shot him directly in the centre of the forehead. He recovered!
of the nation, and there are many possessed the advantages of cheaper Treherne of H.MS. Medway, and sound arguments for and against production. The revival of indus- Mr. J. V. Crowe, manager for China PREMIER'S ASSASSIN | November 14, 1980, has been sen However, the merits and demerits try, partial but from a port of Ford totors who is accompani* SENTENCED. of Protection did not concern the followed the imposition of imported by Mrs. Crowe.
duties; gave evidence of this conten Government as vitally as they would tion. The increased duties that will
Protection
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in normal times, as Britain adopted come into operation on Monday sailed from Hong Kong by the Mr. and Mrs. Z: Smith Reynolds
Tokyo, Yesterday. Sagoya, the youth who shot more as an offensive should extend this revival, and Lan RM8. Empress of Ruaria yester the Premier, Mr. Hamaguchi, on weapon than as a national policy to will benefit from the protection well-known Reynolds family of cashire and Yorkshire particularly day. They are members of the be continued definitely. It was for afforded by the tariff of 20 per cent winston Salim, North Carolina,, this reason that such determined on foreign manufactured imports makers of Camel cigarettes. Mr. Free Traders as Lord Snowden and The 88 1-3 per cent. duty on Reynolds had been engaged on a Sir Herbert Samuel consented to measure, but the similar duty on vate amphibian plans. Owing to luxuries is more of an economy flight of the Far East in his pri- remain in a Cabinet which was semi-finish steel should prove most engine trouble and a damaged Protectionist in policy. The high beneficial to the steel industry, wing pontoon, he has now aban- tariff barriers erected by other na-Naturally, the list of exemptions is doned the fight and is returning fa löng one, and it is not surpris with his wife to America on the tions, particularly the United States, Ing to note that raw goods and Empress liner shut out British goods, while in wheat escape the duties. return England was used as the As mentioned before, Britain's world's dumping ground. Those present policy is dictated largely by The death occurred in London on who supported the National Clover-the extraordinary situation existing April 12, following an operation, of ment's policy merely because they at the moment, and the tariffs will Mr. Herbert Campbell. Galland, recognised the necessity for adme be used largely as a bargaining manager of the International Bank- form of retaliation number con- weapon. After the Imperial Con- ing Corporation from 1909 until his siderable total, and include many ference, many countries will be retirement from China in 1922, Mr. Free Tradera, Consequently it is anxious to atar
negotia-Gulland, who was about 70 years extrémely doubtful Whether Great tions with Britain for some recipro- old, came to Shanghat, in 1807 88 Britain will remaid Protectio
|any long period, and it is more like
fy, that the
used-to-bargi
that Britain world to
tenced to death, while the rexc- tionary abettors of Matsuki and Iwata have been sentenced to im- prisonment with hard labour for thirteen years and four months, respectively. Reuter
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