1933-12-14 — Page 15

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933.

P.&O.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian

Lines

SIR-BASIL

ZAHAROFF

THE CHINA

MAIL.

13

Spain's Fascist Leader.

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE

LINE:

NOT ILL

Unfounded Rumours Of "Armament King”

EUROPE'S RICHEST MAN

Arronville, Seine et Tise.

The only persons who appear

not to have heard

'rumours' con-- ill-health at- tributed to Sir Basil Zaharon, the nged financier who from an obscure youth became one of the

cerning the serious

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). wealthiest men in Europe, are the

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING. CARGO FOR

STRAITS. JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS. EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA. INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS. AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS. EUROPE. &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

AA

RANCHI

CARTHAGE +RANGALORE

From

Toe-Hong Kong

About

19:3

Jan

Destination.

کھو

hundred odd inhabitants of this little village, which adjoins thr vast park of his chateau. Ballin- court.

A Mominiolent cow which WAR quietly chewing its cud in the middle of the single steep, winding village

ita street characterised

posee and remoteness from the world.

The beautiful Countess de Bour- bon. Sir Basil's stepdaughter, was out riding with two friends over the countryside. She was in no wine perturbed for the health of the aged knight to whose millions and appeared he is the heiress,

happy and smiling.

A close friend of Sir Basil in an exclusive interview with Reuter said:

"Please give the lle to these re Sir Basil has suf jerat rumours,

fered somewhat badly from gout in resent years but as it happens wi the present time. this has entirely disappeared and he is as interested

Bag. Marsilles & London Bombna. Marselles & London Marseilles. Havre, London, Hamburg,

R'dam, Antwern & Hel. Bombay. Marseilles & London. & London. Banbay. Mararilles Jan

Marseilles, Haryre, London, Hamburg.

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bambay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburin life as ever, answering his cor

Rotterdam

Antwerp.

Prepondence himself, seeing his Bombay. Marseilles & London,

3rd Feb

41,000

18th Dec. new 30th Dec. 4000 6th Jan

NALDERA

CORFU 1*BHUTAN

16,008 15.000 27th

F3 ኮኔ

11th

RANPURA

FREHAN

RAWALPINDI

"SOUDAN

17,80

4Run

24th Feb

3rd Mar

COMORIN

15,000

CHITRAL

i,,

+BURDWAN

RANCHI CARTHAGE 1*SOMALI NALDERA CORFU

17.0000 10th Feb 4,000 17th Feb

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,riends and driving in the park.

Rotterdam Antwerp & Hull

Marseilles & 1911 Mar.

Marenilies & London. 24th Mar 4.000 31st Mo-

7th Apr. 17,000 16,800 21st Apr 15,000 28th Apr. 16,000 5th Ma- 15,000 19th Mar

London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Bull. Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London. Marsellies & London.

Bombay, Marolles & London Bbas Miles & London

• Cargo only. 1 Call Cablanca Froquent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyras and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamabip Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1933

PALMA

SHIRALA SANTHIA TAKADA

10,000 21st Dec. 8,000 8th Jan 8,000 20th Jan. 7,000 3rd Feb

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

DO

DO DO

* Calls Rangoon

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for

let and 2nd class passengers.

NANKIN NELLORE

TANDA NANKIN NELLORE TANDA

1983

7,000 80th Des.

7,000 3rd Feb. 7,000 3rd Mar

7,000 30th Mar, 7,000 4th May. 7,000 2nd June

Melbourne.

"He reads all the newspapers and is fully aware of the recent mare, which have caused him annoyance and his friends pain.

"He will probably return to Monte Carlo for the Winter.

Madrid. Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, eldest son of the late Dictator of the ex-Royalist Government, of Spain is shown (right) with his friend and aide. Ruiz de Alda (left), young de rivera Senor de Rivers is the later of the Farist movement In Spain and recently addressed amveling of war veterans at a Madrid Uhvatre where he was holed by the supporters of the cuuse who assembled there.

JAPANESE

TRADE WITH

BRITAIN

"Ill-Formed Opinions Of Competition."

FIGURES STILL BELOW 1931 LEVEL

Cape Town.

"1 have been struck by the fuct

IT SEEMED SO EASY

(Continued from Page 12.)

"Mr. Budby," said he, locking the ther straight in the eyes, "1 am not disposing of an option on my brewery site for one hundred pounds."

Before anybody had time to reply be was gone.

"Where was the Blaw?" naked

"It is said that we have hurried-out much that has been said on the Budby, in desperation. "The most ly called two specialists from Lon-subject of Japanese competition has perfect job! ever planned. Hau don. he only amusing thing about been somewhat il-formed and hus his eyeglass pinched from him, had or iga red pertinent]him just about lo sign, and then...” that is that if Sir Banil had been overlooked

He sul in the chair Sir Peter had ill, that is the last thing we should facts which are readily available to

sufficiently interested tavecupled, but all the old adventur have dune, for he prefers French anyone

make himself acquainted with theļaus bonhomie bad vanished. | doctors."

mutter" declared Mr. N. Emslie, the, "It beats me," said King-Lawson, The thick hedges which bound

British Trade Commissioner, speak"And the writing is so small, too" ine estate were being neatly triming at a meeting of the Cape Town He nodded towards the fateful med by gardeners. who sang At

Chamber of Commerce.. their work and would have no truck with strangers save to assure them that "Monsier is all right.”

ita

Hidden from Publicity The chateau is practically self wuflcient, obtaining most of supplies from its home farm.

The lodge keeper is under strict instructions to refuse admittance to all unauthorised persons.

document which stlli layi'an thủ He said that 'at present Japan wuble. was the only country in the Enst Budby took up his newly-filleo from which competition was being glass of Sauterne, gazed at t seriously felt, although, with the apathetically and sighed. Sudden growth of industrial developmenty a terrific blasphemy burst from in the Eastern countries, competi-im. tion from other sources us, for

"What's up. Budby?" asked example, China, might also become

other. serious and any such competition

"By G, look here," said Budby, was likely to be of a similar charne pointing to the glass he held. The

the

wine in the barrel-shaped crystal

He refers to the house by tela ter. phone when they call.

Re quoted statistics to show that A man of great experience, he from 1925 to 1929 inclusive the im formed a lens and magnified mani- fold the writing in the document. was not at all taken in by a party ports from Japan formed only a of French journalists who arrived small part of the Union's total im Just now the words "an option"

bed.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, at midnight and pretended they ports, rising from 184 to 1.77 per stood out boldly like a headline.

Budby remembered how Sir had a message to deliver from the cent. In succeading years when the Minister of the Interior.

value of the imports from all other Peter had kept turning his glass "Let the Minister of the interior/countries was falling, Japan in about over the paper.

"To think," said he, with eyes come himself or write a letter", he creased her trade, but in 1932 the Manila, Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydney & replied phlegmatically and went to imports from Japan fell consider bulging with horror, “that I provid-

jably, and provisional returns for the ed him with a ready glass!" Sir Basil, who is now 88 years of first six months of 1933 showed that they age and was two or three years though they had risen again ago reputed to be orth £20,000,000 were still below the 1931 level.

During those six months the pro- between M. Briand and Mr. Lloyd portion of the whole Import trade George and later between M. Cle-jof the Union supplied by the United menceau and Mr. Lloyd George Kingdom had risen to 51 per cent. during the war. The Knighthood This was the first time since 1926

Regular monthly mailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan was often confdential intermediary' and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney 10 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following ---

The Union 8.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New Zealand, Vancouver. San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & 0. Branch Service of steamery to London via Suez.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

NALDERA SHIRALA

*DEUTAN CORFU SANTHIA

NELLORE

DEHAR

RANPURA

TAKADA

BOUDAN

1933.

18.000 16th Dec. 8,000 15th Dec.

a.m.

4,500 28th Dec. 15,000 20th Dec. 8,000 29th Dec,

7,000

YL

6,500 7th Jan. 17,000 12th Jan.

Shanghai Moji, Kobe, & Yokohama. Amoy S'ha Moji Kobe & Osaka.

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama Amoy. Shai, Moji, Kobe & Ozuka.

Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, 7,000 12th Jan. Amay, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

0,800 24th Jan

20th Jan.

RAWALPINDI 17.000 20 Feb.

TANDA

2.00€ 7,00 15,000 9th Feb 0.000 22nd Feb. 15,000 23rd Feb. 0th Mar. 17,000

6,800 21st Mar. 16,000 23rd Mar. 7,000 6th Apl.

· 16,000 6th Apl. ** Cargo only.

COMORIN *BURDWAN CHITRAL RANCHI *SOMALI CARTHAGE NELLORE NALDERA

& Yokoham B...

Kobe & Yo

Yokohama.. nghal, Kobe & Yokoha Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe & Shanghal, Kobe Yokohama. Bhanghai, Kobe & You

Yokohama. Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai Moj Kobe, & Yokohama.. Shanghai Moll, Kobe, & Yokohama.

Shanghai, Kobe & Yahar

All dates, are approximate and subject to alteration without noffos, All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Punks Louvre System. Steamers on London and Australian Lipes are fitted with Zaundries, Parcels measuring not more than 5 cu. ft. will is received at the Con pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous-to, palling

For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

7. a O Ballding - Connaught R4, C. Hong Kong, L

“Agents"

CAN ADOLF HITLER BE TRUSTED?

(Continued from Page 8.)

of the Grand Cross of the Bath that a figure of over 50 per cent, had It would not surprise me if it was bestowed by the King on the been recorded. He had given that were so. The British attach much recommedation of Mr. Lloyd statistical analysis, he said, to show importance to political consistener: George "for services rendered". that the advance made by Japanese other. nations do not,

His apartment in Paris was the trade had up to the present boen Hitler has won the support of acene of many quiet gatherings of comparatively small as measured in the mass of the German people by famous personages. The King and values, and that the trade she had freeing them from two things: 4 gained had been almost "wholly national Inferiority complex and Queen have taken tea with him on ained from other foreign supply the danger of Bolshevism, which al- ocasion in Paris. Queen Marle 01 Rumania has often called on him. countries, and not from the United ways meant much more, to Germans

Kingdom.

than it ever han to us. Lloyd George, Poincaré, the Jate

Menace Not Serious

Peace For The Present Lard Curzon and other statesmen

So long as the range of goods on have lunched or dined at his

It is indeed possible that the offer from Eastern countries was Nazi regime may not prove per sidence.-Router.

narrow, as it had been until com-manent in:lla present form. ~Many paratively recently, Britain's low people in Germany believe that was limited and a wide field remain-Hitler will eventually find it in the od in which they could carry on best interests of his own adminis-

re-

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But as far as the intentions of United Kingdom's trade, he added, the ""Führer" (lender) himself to the question of competition from wards the rest of Europe are con- Bant countries would not be earned I am of the opinion that We come serious" unless and until the can trust him to be 'a guardian of Conflicting production dates have range of competition widened so international peace. it to the postponed the American film debut greatly that a large part of Bri- moral, not the military, rearma-fellow-com of Nigel Bruce, prominent English lain's trade became impossible or ment of Germany upon which he is four years and which may well

Lake longer, motor, who arrived in Hollywood re-junprofitable. It had to be admitted engaged.

Hollywood, California

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cently under contract to Fox Films that the trade returna indicated Ifja present aim is to build up. But when it is completed (some- Mr. Bruse was scheduled to ap that the range of competition was the great nation which has no one might sk), and many Anda pear with Miss Illian Harvey In in fact widening, but it was not the strangely come under his authority herself july on hér, fast onde mors, "I Am Surape, but the company right way, not the Britjih way, to into a strong, unfled whole; free ronscious of har aion arenath, will wanted him for “Coming Out Party” throw up their hands in despa

State : boundaries not the danger of:: European war which started a work or wilater, concluded the British Trade Come and hay, hitherto created divided irevive? - He will therefore take the latter part missionen.

and apporti with Francof. Dae and the position": prae ||Gene Baymond' In the "Coming Out obtain informatio

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SATURDAY NIGHT. NUDISM

Joliet, Illinois)

Hearing rumours that

shrubbery In Will County, the Sheriff Lalds

within Iti, racially | To that the only agrver la that

"There will be mo nudists in this: zendous, socially disciplined, no one can read the future, and pa

olidated. That fi 'a that auftolent to the day sethe all county, says residents taking their

Saturday night baths." he has asked his thereof.

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