1934-01-09 — Page 9

TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1934.

BRITISH EXPORTS Japanese Statesman

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TO FRANCE

Damaging Effect Of

Quota Revision.

REPRESENTATIONS TO BE MADE BY BRITAIN

London, To-day.

The examination of the prob able effects on British Overseas trade of the recent alterations In the French Import quotas has now been completed.

It reveals that the arrange. ments made will involve an im- mediate reduction of 75 per cent. in the United Kingdom exports! to France of a wide range of goods which are already subject| to quota restrictions.

In addition, it will bring under similar restriction articles which at present are not subject to quotaa.

repre-

It is anticipated that sentations regarding the effect of the revised quotas will in the Immediate future be made to the Vrench Government by Lord Tyrell, the British Ambassador in Paris. British Service.

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M. DALIMIER OUT

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Dies.

Court Gombel Yamamoto, retir

ed Admiral of the Japanese navy and twice Premier of Japan who Count died recently in Tokyo.

Yamamoto was credited with be ing the real founder of the modern Japanese Navy of which he was bead until 1913, when he accepted he post of Premier and founded third a Cabinet succeeding the Katsura Ministry.

He was motionless and bleeding “DIPLOMACY

from the head.

He had two or three days growth

of beard, but was dressed imma- culately.

The bullet entered above the right temple and came out high up on the left temple.

All the doctors at Chamonix were on the spot, but the nearest sur- The yeau was 40 miles distant. doctors gave Stavisky two hours to live, Reuter.

INACTIVE MARKET IN NEW YORK.

Banking Interests Selling Silver.

NO SUBSTITUTE

FOR GENEVA"

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the

That was undoubtedly right order. When an agree- ment had been reached upon Disarmament they might sure- ly hope that the international atmosphere would so much have cleared as to enable the second task to be undertaken. if need be.

The League of Nations, he said, had auffered in the past year from, the notice of withdrawal of two of the great Powers which had Imanent seats on the Council,

per-

What, then, was to be future of that body? He believed it to be essential that 1934 should increase the membership of the League to

New York, To-day. Business was at a low ebb on the New York Stock Market yesterday, only 750,000 stores being traded The market ruled qu'et throughout gether with the maintenance of its

the day.

ADMIRAL DREYER

THE CHINA MAIL.

GOES SOUTH

Homeward-Bound Kent Cheered On Leaving.

VERITY BACK FROM PAGODA ANCHORAGE

To-day's Short Story.

POP BIGELOW'S BLESSING

By Norman Matson.

POP BIGELOW pointed his been a very goed, very imperative H. M. Aircraft Carrier Eagle, es-long nose at the harbour, reason for their flight. The story corted by the Destroyer Tenders eyes closed. He sniffed, waited a begins on the Saturday of the big Veteran and When, left for Singa- moment, finally spoke:

“O.K., Mama.“

ipore at 8 o'clock this morning.

H. M. S. Kent, flying the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Dreyer, K. C. B., C. B. E., and a paying-off pen- nant, left Hong Kong this morning for Singapore accompanied by the Cruiser Suffolk.'

storns,

Pop had been out of sorts because

She got out of the car backwards, submarine being tested out there a wide and pillowy woman in black beyond Long Point had run through silk. "Come along, darlings. Now his trap nets. Submarines are bad The twins, for nets; bad as whales. So when you're home again." Jenny and George, held to her skirts. Pop asked Mrs. Bigelow what there They looked a little as they were would be for supper his tone was that of a man who does not expect walking her into a hangar.

There was no one left in the car to be pleased by the answer. She savo Gran'ma and a thin boy read-gave him the answer in one word.

"Hellfire," said he. "I don't like in a book he propped against the steering-wheel.

beans, I've told you that time and again."

**Larry!"

"All right, I'm coming."

"It's Saturday," Mra. Bigelow

As the Kent left her anchorage she was cheered by the crews of the Cumberland and Berwick and

On his feet Larry proved even said. "Beans come on Saturday. Destroyera in the harbour.

The Kent will, on arrival at (taller than his father, and, like him, Like church on Sunday."

"I see no connection," Pop told to the Naval atoop-shouldered. Still reading, he Singapore, proceed

vague motion at helping ther. Base, where she will enter the Ad-made

"It's the way it should be, I miralty Floating Dock. On com- Gran'ma to the ground. She halt-

It's ordained. Anyway, pletion of her docking, the Admiraled on the path of gleaming white mean,

Pop aniffed again. Larry here likes beans," - will transfer his flag to the Suffolk shells, aniTed.

The "Larry's a Socialist," Pop sald,

on January 31. She will then pro- They nodded at each other. ceed to Penang to await the arri- apple trees, densely green, nodded, "an addlebrained Socialist, which crooked means he don't really like anything. val of the Cruiser Cornwall, which and the Bigelow house, a has been re-commissioned for ser-house, made of two cottages, with on principle."

dormers, a turret and other com- rice on the China Station.

ports.

1. On the arrival of the latter the plications, smiled with all the rall

Kent will proceed to England via ings on its front porch.

Smoke now rose from the crooked H. M. S. Verity arrived from Pa-himney. Supper would goda Anchorage last night, having ready.

been reiloved by the Whitehall.

5000 be

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Man Without A Job,"* by J. Hastings Turner.

"For Thy blessings I think Thee," The Submarine Tender Bruce, allently said Pop, opening the gate accompanied by the Submarines into the side yard, walking on un-

Larry looked up from his book: Olympus, Perseus, Parthian, Osiris, der the apple trees to the open field! Phoenix and Oswald, left port this which ended with a ten-foot drop"We're lucky," he said in a mourn morning on exercises and are ex-down to the sandy shore of the ful voice. "Twenty million people! harbour, now as smooth as a bubble, are starving to death in this so- pected back at the week-end.

reflecting the glistening window of called enlightened country." the sky. He was very glad to be! Mr. Bigelow finished setting the home again, very glad.

table. "Supper's ready," she an- The whole Bigelow family were nounced. "Quit 'picking on each home bodies and would never have other and come est.” gone gallivanting off to stay at

no such "Twenty million are Auntic's all this time had there not thing," Pop gaid. "And if they' are, why are they? There's more mackerel in these waters right now than they could eat in a month of feasting, for, gosh ankes. Not ta İmention bean folks are always throwing at you, irregardless of your personal tastes."

CHINESE CONJURER SUMMONED

Performances Given On Crown Land.

DISPUTED PERMIT: CASE ADJOURNED

J

PICKPOCKET ROBS YOUTH.

Confederate Escapes With Money.

THREE MONTHS' GAOL FOR OLD OFFENDER

"Eat," Mra, Bigelow told him: sharply. "To hear you talk you might think you hadn't been born and brung up here."

Described as a magician, Tong ¡full authority. It had abundantly King Fee, appeared before Mr. at the Central Police! justified itself in the hequered Hamilton The silver market opened enay an

Court this morning charged with the accumulation of scattered week. Post-war years.

The whole influence and authority, carrying on a theatrical perform- end selling ordora. Banking in

together with all the enthusiasm and apce on the foreshore at Shaukiwan tereats are reported to be selling.

Rail and bond averages advanced energy, of the British Government Weat and erecting a tent on Crown sentenced to three months' hard up; he put it in its ring, then he 15 and 07 to 40.12 and 84.81 res must be devoted to the maintenance land without a permit. pectively, while industrials and utt.of this Institution, which was

Pop pulled his napkin out of his. Cheng Tong, unemployed, was collar. He folded it, he rolled it labour by Mr. Balfour at the Cen-exploded, "I say I don't like the The defendant pleaded guilty tral Police Court this morning for beans. ・・・

The glasses jumped off: Gran'ma's Any and said that he had obtained per-stealing $2.10 from the breast poc strongest bulwork of peace. - ties were down 21 and 0% to 90.73 amendment of the League must be mission from the Police.

vet of Ng Chiu, a youth, who was one, and the twins grabbed hold of and 22.42 respectively. The com-

determination Inspector Logan said that he told walking in the street with his each other.

" and just because Wrong- modity index was down 04 to 49.26, entered into with a

and the defendant that the Police had rother. to leave the League stronger

It was stated by Inspector Bren- beaded females all my life have ---Rooter.

belter adapted to its task-British no objection to his theatrical busi

ness provided that he complied an that the accused, after staa- tried to stuff me with beans do you Wireless Service.

with the regulations of the Secre-ng the money, which was wrapped suppose that makes me like them tariat for Chinese Affairs, which he in paper, passed it to another un- better?"

Mrs. Bigelow made a pantomime had failed to do.

known man just before, being-ar-

of protecting her cars. "I got The officer added that the defen-ested by a district watchman. dant had a large tent alongside a Defendant, who admitted a pre-three kids already without counting London, To-day.

'row of flower-boats on the fore-vious conviction, complained that you," she said calmly when he gavo boen ber a chance. "Now you behave) The Foreign Secretary, Sir John

and ent supper." Simon, conferred with Prime Minig, shore and used several large patrol the other man should have

lamps which were very dangerous arrested too, ter, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, yester- day on the results of his visits to and might cause a fire. Paris and Rome.

U.S. GIRL

CHANGING

INTO MAN

Doctors Striving To Combat Nature.

EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CASE

Oakland, California.

SIR JOHN SIMON CONFERS WITH PREMIER

The Magistrate adjourned the

It was hoped that Sir John Simon case for 48 hours and granted bail would be able to meet the President in $30 to the defendant, intimating of the Disarmament Conference, Mr. that he must meanwhile leave thelly

Aa amazing change in char-Arthur Henderson, to consult with it and tidy up the place. acteristics, from feminine to mascu- him about the date for the resumed line, ta taking place in a 23-year-old meeting of the Bureau of the Con- girl here. She is under the care,ference and other matters, but as of doctors who are working hard to Mr. Henderson is indisposed the combat the, extraordinary freak of

meeting is necessarily postponed. nature.

According to present plans Bir

A moustache and heard are grow-John Bimon will attend the meeting ing on her face, ber figure is losing of the Council of the League of its rounded contours, her hands are, Nations which opens next Monday becoming masculine and her voice to developing a rougher, deeper pitch. at Geneva. He will leave London on Dr. Theodore Schwartz, Assistant Saturday or Sunday.-British Wire-

less Service,

Director of the Highland Hospital,

asalated by other doctors, has al- ready removed the thyroid gland'as the first step to what it is hoped

Personal Pars.

·

will be a cure. Dr. Schwartz, ac- Mr. N. Tei, a well-known local cording to the New York American, merchant, returned to the Colony stated that her case is only one of by s.s, President Wilson yesterday. many odd glandular cases which

have been treated by members of The Countess of Carlisle is his staff.,

among the passengers on the ..

The endocrine gland system in a President Wilson which arrived mystery of the human body, he yesterday. The Countess is en Bald. It is like a chain, each gland route to Manila, on a visit to being a link. and each dependent friends.

upon the other. posit

"In the case of this woman," be Mr. K. Rounds, sub-accountant of added, "we are dealing with a the National City Bank of New damaged link, The Unk is the York Hong Kong, returned to the thyroid gland in the neck, and its Colony yesterday by the President fallure to function properly caused Wilson, accompanied by... Mra, a disfunction of the adrenal gland, Rounds; *-**-**-**

located just above the kaneys.

"We have removed the thyroid, Dr. Echwarts empl This may stop the mystifying girl is becom

changes which have been taking is only the

place in her body, and "which" in-

cluded even the facial characteris-

"It should 2 pot be understood,

WEATHER REPORT

Fop got up, knocking his chair over, "I am going to settle, this here bean business,” he told them

Fair, with moderate north-easter-all, "settle it right here and now," winds, is the forecast issued to-and out he went into the kitchen. iday by the Royal Observatory,

They heard him moving about;| heard him open the back door, go out, come in after a minute or two. When be returned to the dining room he did not alt down again. He Just stood there twisting his hands together and staring at „Mrs. Bigelow.

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"Well?” she asked. “What now? It's me."

"Do you know what I just did? "Something foolish. I'll wager.” "No such a thing." He spread bis mouth in a rather ghastly grin. "You'll know next time you, go looking around for beans,I threw them away. I threw them all

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And so he had, a suck full, and he would not listen to his wife's remarks on such sinful, waste, bat] clamp, clump, clamp-mounted the steep stairs slowly. After, that there was allahon, the family going on with their supper, the twins [staring into their platos, Larry reading his book. You could hear the long swish of the tide under the piles of the back por h, and from down near the whart the tick At a meeting of the Chapter tock of somebody's cars. Buddenly General of the Venerable Order It was colder, fo

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Gran'ma looked out of the wins Mr. Chau: Man-chee was” dow at the dark harbour,, her thin the list of Donats of the old hands curved to keep out the ly This has been approved.

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CHOPPER ASSAULT

ATWANCHAL

Assailant Fined $25.

Imposing a fine of $25, in default one month's hard labour on Barn Les carpenter, at the Central Police Court this morning for as saulting Tang Wan with a chop- per at Wanchai, Mr. Hamilton said that he was tired of hearing casas Rizi- | or assault, with choppera. Some

one might be killed," he

Grand

Miht is stated to have start-

the

mplainant

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