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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1933.

REBEL GOVERNMENT COMING LONDON

IN EARNEST

$4,000,000 Issue_Of Fiduciary Notes.

"PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY” TO BE ESTABLISHED

CONFERENCE

Union For Protecting Industrial Property.

33 NATIONS ENGAGED

Lonuou, To-day.

It was decided at the last Con- Foochow, To-day. The rebels regime is in earnest ference of the Union for the Pro-

in its effort to possess a full para-tection of Industrial Property, held phernalia for the equipment of its the Ilague in 1925, that the next

Conference should take place Chairman London in 1983.

"Central Government”.

THE CHINA MAIL,

CANTON DUTIES ON Today's Short Story.

HONG KONG GOODS THE

High Import Tariff To Be Retained.

ASSURANCES GIVEN TO TRADE DELEGATION

Canton, To-day.

CUP

By

Mark Channing.

a

CAPTAIN ETTORE SQUAR- Now few weeks before,

That the prospect of acceding med on the trestle table like the monstrous purposes a pretty six- to the demand of the Hong Kong muffled hoofbeats of a cantering teen-year-old convent girl. She Chinese manufacturers for

re-horse,

Crrrup-crvrag—crrrup....... {wàn Binacel's only daughter. in duction of customs rates on their His o! crony, Death, was too To-night, the old goldsmith weem- Mr. Hau Shih-ching,

This date, how goods imported into the interior is close to him.

ed to him to be more timid and con- of the Commission for Finance, ever, proved Impracticable, and it is

Soldier of Fortune and chief as temptible than usual. And to xaid in an interview with pressmen now decided that that the Conferremote, is evident in the Canton

Government's assurances that preparations were being made chce shall be convened for May day to the delegation, which was less," Duke of Commacio, Ettore twisted object was the father of yester-sassin to "Sigismonde the Merci think that this abject-looking, for the establishment of China", 1934.

veteran dealer in that gloriously young girli....... which was expected to

Favilations have accordingly been formed by over forty members re- Squarcia was a bo inau-

The brave looked at Bisacci as a gurated early next year.

conveyed by the Government in the presenting different local trade and death: he provided it instantly on

Govern and industrial guilds, that the Gov-demand by day or by night and snake looks at a rabbit. As a first step towards relieving United Kingdom. to the

"Well, have you brought it?" he the financial difficulties in Fukien, ments of 32 other countries which crament was resolved to give every under a doten different forms, all

to domes-of which were certain and demanded brutally. the Central Bank, he stated further, are members of the Industrial Pro Preferential treatment

But painful,

"I have brought it, Excellency!" of perty Union, to appoint delegates to lic manufactured articles against most spuld issue $4,000,000 worth

similar goods imported from out-to be faced, himself, with what be

The reply came in a -cracked fiduciary notes in order to release

side.

provided, so profitably for others quaver. Immobile, the goldsmith Copies of the proposals drawn up. the frozen debts of the bankrupt

Mr. Shih Yi-pang, Secretary of was another matter.

was staring wide eyed at this by the British Government, with the or financially paralysed banks.

amalstance

pedlar of death and dishonour, of the International the South-Western Political Coun-

Squarcia detested the thought of whose wares he longed to buy, butį at resolved to make arrangements Bureau of Union, which are to form cil, when receiving the petition of dying. It frightened him. He

could not "Peo-part of the programme for discus the delegation for non-accession to wanted to live to be an -old, old-

of the Hong Kong man. And since he had so far Every night, Bisacc! dreamed ple's Central University"-Centralson at the Conference, were trans, the demand News Agency.

mitted to the Administrations of the Chinese manufacturers for pro- never failed to get what he wanted that he had killed Squarcia. countries of the Union by the [ferential Customs treatment of he had an un shakable belief that Silently he took from under his!

their goods, told them that the he would die a centenarian. Until cloak a massive gold loving-cup and

The Commission for Culture has

for the establishment of a

FUKIEN REBEL GOVERNMENT

Provincial Officials Appointed.

MEASURES TO FOSTER COMMERCE

Foochow. Dec. 17.

Pukien is divided into four pro VIRCH. Provincial Governors and Lieutenant-Governors have been

this, Conference.

Bureau on April 28, 1932.

of them

It is understood that the Bureau Provincial Government of Kwang-to-night. Secret we had just set it on the trestle table. Its get- will shortly circulate a further docu-tung was prepared to summon the reached him that Pope Clement VI ting had cost seven men their lives, ment containing supplementary pre-delegates of various local trade had concluded a truce with Spain. pomale submitted for discussion by and industrial guilds and other If that were true, and it came to certain other countries.British miliar organisations to a con- the eare of the Spanish desperadoes Wireless Service.

ference at which views could be who were to help him seize the exchanged as to the best methods power, after he had murdered Duke

MR. D. W. MUNTON PROMOTED

Manager Of China Light| And Power Co.

appointed by the People's Revolu- MR. STRAFFORDS AS LONDON

Lonary Government.

The following are the new heads

of the four Provincial Administra-

ADVISER

tions: Min Hai Province, Governor Director of the China Light and It is notified to-day that the Ho Kang-kan, Lieut-Governor Yuun Power Company have appointed Shuh-ching: Yon Chien Province, Mr. D. W. Munton, deputy mana- Governor Sah Cheng-ping, Lieut.ger of the Company, as manager.

as from January 1

Mr. C. Strafford, the

present

of protecting domestic industries Sigismondo-as he intended to against the competition of foreign they would probably betray him to manufacturers. Central News the very man whoss assassination' Agency.

he was planning.

GENERAL O'DUFFY IN DUBLIN.

Transferred Under Heavy Guard

Dublin, To-day. General O'Duffy, leader of

the Irish Free State National Guard, who was arrested at Westport,

Governor Kuo Kuan-chich; Hsing Chuen Province, Governor Tai Chi, Lieut.-Governar Chen Kung-ps; and Lang Ting Province, Governor Hau manager, who is at present Home County Mayo, on Sunday last, for on leave, will relinquish the post of wearing the blue shirt uniform of

Was taken manager at the end of the year, and the organisation, will not return to the Colony. Mr.J Dublin, yesterday afternoon.

He was removed under a heavy,

Yan-chao, Lieut-Governor Ming-hung.

HAU

Adnical Suh Cheng-ping. Mr. HoStrafford, however, retains hie con- Kungan and Mr. Rsu Yau-chno are natives of Fukien. . All nection with the Company and will scort of police and soldiers.

the

right oficials will assume their res

pe tive posts sometime this week.

Civil Service Uniform.

act in an advisory capacity from London.

Mr. Strafford joined the China Light and Power Co. In 1921 as as-

to

The drumming quickoned into à mad gallop,

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Proof of the Pudding," by O. Henry.

The bravo's dark face lit up- A lazy billowing of the arras and slight shifting of the shadows

like an executioner's block touched cast by the lamp hanging from the fleetingly by a ray of sunshine. groined roof announced the coming Somewhere in its glittering beauty This was a Borgis loving-cup!]

jof a visitor....

That old rat, Bisacci, the gold-lurked death! Jamith, doubtless...... Or a mes- senger..... Squarcia was careful to make it impossible for business rivals to visit him unannounced.

It was Bisaccl.

HONG KONG BANK

OFFICER PASSES.

No charge has yet been preferred Sudden Death Of Mr.

against him, but it is understood that he will be tried by a military) tribunal with powers to inflict un

ging and death.-Reuter,

The huge brown hands that had encircled so many patrician necks, until his

were writhing victims purple and dead, were now still, resting palms upwards, the mur derous Angers curved inwards, avidly. But Squarela did not touch the cup. He did not know its secret-yet.

in this sinister subteranean cham-

Beginning from January 1, 1934sistant manager, and was appointed restricted penalties, including fog of Mr. J. J. dos Romedíos, at his arms were up-raised, so that thefr |

manager in 1929.

al civil servants shall wear blue uniform made of Chinese material end cut in gemi-military style. The

Mr. Munton, who joined the Com outfit includes overconts and caps

pany in 1926, beenme deputy mana- which of uniform, style and the long Kung Club, the Kowloon ger in 1920. He is a member of material.

Cricket Club, the Kowloon Bowling Hang

are

One of the objects of this regur Club and the Royal lation is promote the consumpKong Golf Club-

lot of native clothing materials. Trade Improvements.

SIR HENRY DICKENS

Slight Improvement

Reported.

London, To-day.

Fourteen inches high and soms feight in diameter, a superb exam- ple of the goldsmith's art, it shone

ber with a glory all its own. On J. J. dos Remedios.

Its sloping baze five naked nymphs lay In lascivious proneness, every The death occurred this morning curve of them lifelike. Their slim revideuce at 29 Granville Road delicately chiselled little hands- jón which oven the finger-nafla The late Mr. Remedios, who was could be seen, so perfect was: 52 years of age, had been in the the artist's work-rested against a Aurvice of the Hong Kong and thick, twisted vinc-stem whose leafy Shanghai Bank for some thirty branches, radiating out-wards, years, and was attending to his supported the big half-oval of the duties as usual yesterday. He pass-actual cup.

Kowloon.

jed away suddenly during last night. Its crowning beauty lay in the Trade representatives from vari-

of his negotiations with Hong Kong A bulletin issued yesterday after-

Deceased leaves a widow and six exquisite workmanship of the re- Chinese merchants regarding the noon stated a very slightly improve- ous provinces were here last week

children.

pousse-work figures decorating the at the invitation of the

proposed $15,000,000 loan, Mr. Chowment had been noticed in the con-

The funeral will take place to-inside of the goblet. They repre- People's Revolutionary Government and were ments had been reached in the pro- former Common Serjeant of

Luwuld that no definite arrange-dition of Sir Henry Dickens, the morrow, passing the Monument, sented Bacchus and a band of entertained at receptions given by rent stage of negotiations and there- City of London and only surviving

the Happy Valley, at 5.30 p.m.

auper erotic Bacchantes. The Borgia) the Government. its Ministries and fore he could not make any state-san of the great novelist, who was

sensuality pervaded even the Bor Dumont gla gold. The outside hollows Concrete proposals were agreed ment on this matter. Central News recently knocked down by a motor d'Urville arrived in Hong Kong this formed by the repousse-work had

Councils.

to between the trade

A penev.

delegations

and membera of the Economic Council with regard to the improve- ment of trade and cancellation of oppressive taxes.

Overseas Sympathy, Telegrams from overseas Chinese congratulating the People's Revolu tlanery Government on its esta- blishment were received here to- day. The general tone of the tele- grama urges the Government here tr mobilise immediately its forces to put down Chiang Kai-shek and te rellers the people of their miseries the oversona Chinese pledging the Government their whole-heart sup- port

Among the senders of these con-| gratulatory messages, are the South China Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Association, Reformed Progress Bociety of Malaya, Binga-] pore Chinese Revolutionary Associa tion, Overseas Chinese Association of Hong Kong, etc.

CANTON DELEGATE

LEAVES.

Result Of Colony Visit Not Revealed.

Canton, To-day,

Mr. Chow, La, a leading member of the Canton Administration, turned from Hong Kong this morn ing on board the aa. Lungshan, It

is expected that he will submit to

the South-Western Political Coun- ell the results of his conversation with Mr. Hug Han-min at Hong Kong regarding the general politi cal situation.!

When questioned;

The French Sloop

nunla --British Wireless Service. morning.

As Cuban Rebel Fort Fell to Federals

been cunningly covered by Atting over them the separately-wrought | backs of the little people; so that the god and his giddy train seem ed to be dancing into the cup through its aides. To be about half-way through them, in fact.

The handles of the cup were formed by two pendant bunches of grapes-each globe of the fruit a

cabuchon sapphira set in gold

"Per Bacoo!" exclaimed Squarcia,

drawing in his breath hissingly.

He was awód,

:

Bisacci' twisted- back, bent, lower.

"A man's lifetime want to th making, Excellency! A hundred lives have gone out from Its drink- ing.....Yesterday, that which you know of was put into it....Never will you look upon one more beau- |tiful-or, more valuable!” Ha' for gered his white baard, nervously.

Hantily, Squarcia drew in the horns of his enthusiasm. He was a reluctant payer, dantų

“Siri It is a fair piece of work." His fingers, began to drum again. "Explain, the "aseret on it. I have little time to give you.”:

For him, this doddering old shan was about as important as an art under the sole of his raised book

Something of the deadlinees hid- den In the cap seemed to creep, in- to Biskeel's radrinned. stretched out

"It must be

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