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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934.

MEMORANDUM

Begs Lethal Respite

STRESSES

SECURITY

(Continued from Pour 11.

NEW SCHEME FOR

GENEVA.

Detailed Report Of Memorandum.

DRAFT CONVENTION MODIFIED

London, Te-day.

Was

The memorandum in which the attitude of the British Govern ment In the present Disarma-

IN defined, ment situation published last night in the form of It represents & a white Paper. further positive contribution prumoling reconciliation of views and indicates the lines of compro- mise which His Majesty's Govern ment believe should be generally. ucceptable.

The memorandum alates that

is recognised that the resumption

of negotiations at Geneva without

lead to farther disappointment and thal as agreement is most likely to

Walter R. Reppin Condemned to be the first to die in Colorado's new lethal gas chamber, Walter R. Reppin, 18, who slew taxl driver, seeks respite from execution, claiming state is using him ai

Hexperiment."*

GERMANY'S DEBT OBLIGATIONS.

Most Of Interest To Be Paid.

be reached on a broad basis which BRITISH AND U.S. AGREEMENT combines the regulation of arma-

ments with

political field.

in the assurances

WITH REICHSBANK.

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Berlin, To-day. Discussion since Last March, The British and American credi- however, has shown that the Bri-tors of Germany have reached tish draft convention, the under-provisional understanding with lying conceptions of which are the the Reichsbank. plain standpoint of the British

For the six months ending June Government, requires adjustment 30 the Swiss and Dutch will con- in order to attain an agreemont. tinue to receive full interest but Therefore, the Government the other nations will receive would still work for an agreement compensating advantages, for in- even though having regard to the stance their script issued during principle of equality of rights, the the current six months will be to involve purchased by the Gold. Discount agreement is found alongside of Disarmament in some Bank at 67 per cent, which means

of some meASUTŲ quarters,

re that the bondholder gets ap- armament in others.

proximately 76.9 per cent. interest. continues:-Reuter. The memorandum "His Majesty's Government have.

more than oner. publicly stated ANTI-VACCINATION

that an International

An

Agreement.

ORGANISATIONS.

Dissolved In Germany.

THE CHINA MAIL.

DEATH OF OFFICIAL OF SUPREME COURT

Mr. E. L. Stainfield, Clerk And Usher,

FUNERAL TO-MORROW

The death occurred at the Eow loon Hospital at 11.30 this morning of Mr. Edward Laurence Stainfeld, Clerk and Usher of the Supreme Court, from pneumonia.

The late Mr, Stainfield, who was about 45 years of age, was born in Australia and came to Hong Kong as a young boy. He returned from Jong leave in Australia about eight months ago.

Mr. Stainfield joined the Govern- ment service in 1907 as a clerk in the Post Office and was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1917.

To-day's Short Story.

PETERS AS A

PERSONAL

MAGNET

By 0.

Henry

of of

TEFF PETERS has been en-town. Life began to look rosy TEFF

gaged in as many schemes again after I got in my hotel room for making money as there are with the water running from the recipes for cooking rice in Char-tap, and the Resurrection. Bitters leston, S.C.

lining up on the table by the dagen. 'Best of all I like to hear him tell "Fake? No, sir. There was two of his earlier days when he sold lini-dollars' worth of fluid extract street cinchona and a dime's worth on ments and cough cures

mouth, aniline in that half-gross of bitters. corners, living hand to heart to heart, with the people, I've gone through towns years throwing heads or tails with for afterwards and had folk ask for 'em

Again. tune for his last coin.

“I hired a wagon that night and "I struck Fisher Hill, Arkansaw," said he, “in a buckskin sult, mocca- commenced selling the bittera

Flaher Hill was a sins, long hair and a thirty-carat Main Street. diamond ring that I got from low, malarial town; and a compound; actor in Texarkans. I don't know hypothetical pneumocardiac anti- what he ever did with the pocket-scorbutic tonic was just what I día.

BE

He leaves a wife, a daughter and knife I swapped him for it.

"I was Dr. Waugh-hoo, the cele a brother, Mr. H. L. Stainfeld, ofbrated Indian medicine man I the Hong Kong and Kowloon Go-carried only one best bet just then, down Company.

Deceased was a member of Kowloon Cricket Club and the Kow- loon Bowling Green Club.

and that was Resurrection Bitters. the It was made of Hie giving plants and herbs accidentally discovered by Ta-qua-la, the beautiful wife of the at chief of the Choctaw Nation, while passing gathering truck to garnish a platter of bolled dog for the annual corn

The funeral will take place Happy Valley to-morrow, the Monument at 5 p.m.

MIDNIGHT MOTOR ACCIDENT

Castle Peak Road Mishap.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF MILITARY OFFICER

While driving car No. 2067, on his way to Castle Penk, about mid- night on Tuesday, Lieutenant T. R. Shields, R. A., falled to negotiato

properly the bend before entering the straight part of the road be- fore Tsun Wan.

dance.

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TO-MORROW'S STORY

Tomorrow's story will be **The Child Spy." by Alphonse Daudet.

on

gnosed the crowd as needing. The bitters started off like swest-breads- "Business hadn't been good at the on-toast at a vegetarian dinner. I last town, so I only had five dollars, had sold two dozen at fifty cents I went to the Fisher Hill druggist a piece when I felt somebody pull my and he credited me for half a gross cost tail. I knew what that meant; of eight-ounce bottles and corks. 150 I climbed down and sneaked a had the labels and ingredients infive-dollar bill into the hand of a my valise, left over from the last man with a German silver star on

his lapel.

"'Constable,' says I, it's a fine night."'

KWAN SHAU GIRLS' SCHOOL CONCERT.

"Have you got a city licence,' he aska, 'to sell this illegitimate e1- senco of spooju that you flatter by

"I have not,' says I.

'I didn't know you had a city. If I can find |it to-morrow I'll take one out if it's

necessary."

Enjoyable Programme the name of medicine?"

Last Evening.

PROMOTION CERTIFICATES

PRESENTED

·

The annual concert of the Kwan)

"I'll have to close you up till you do," says the constable.

."I quit selling and went back to

NOTHING LIKE IT EVER BEFORE !-

NOTHING LIKE IT EVER AGAIN !!

AT

POWELL'S SALE

NOW ON

Owing to the mildness of the present winter large stocks are still on hand, and as we are removing into new premises, we are de termined to clear all Winter and Surplus Stocks before removal. Note these huge discounts.

· 33.1/3%

Reduction Off Regular Prices. OVERCOATS

TRAVELLING RUGS DRESSING & BATH GOWNS

SUIT and ATTACHE CASES BOOTS and SHOES SHIRTS & PYJAMAS

HALF PRICE PULLOVERS & SWEATERS SOCKS & GOLF HOSE

TIES SCARVES GLOVES

HATS

COLLARS ›

25% Discount Off All Other Regular Stocks.

WM. POWELL, LTD.

SPECIALISTS IN GENTLEMEN'S WEAR.

DANGER work?

aro.

"Oh, you won't stand no show

based on the admitted principle of equality of rights in the regime of security, necessarily involves

The offside wheels of the car Shau Girls' School was held in the the hotel. I was talking to the land- ran off the right of the road, ba-auditorium of the Chinese YMCA, lord about it. that within stages provided for by auch

situation agreement, a

ing in one place two feet below the Bridge Street, last evening, when a Berlin, To-day. must be reached in which, arms of!

All anti-vaccination organisations rond level. The car ran along for most enjoyable programme of songs, In Fisher Hill," says he. 'Dr. Hos- feet' with its offside music, plays and daskes, by the kins, the only doctor here, ... is a the kind permitted to one State can-

in Prussia, including medical asso-a hundred not continue to be denied to-ciations which are against vaccina-wheels off the road and snapped smaller children was provided.

tion, have been dissolved by General off a small tree which was in its Pie- path. Hermann Goering, Prussian mier.

other.

The Government are convinced that the best prospect for the future peace of the world would be afford- ed by an agreement which recog nises and provides for thie parity of treatment, while it abolishes or reduces, to the lowest possible level,: all arms of specially offensive char-

a

All anti-vaccination activities are

brother-in-law of the Mayor, and they won't allow no fake doctor to practise in town.

#'I don't practise medicine,' says L. 'I've got a State podlar's licence, and I take out a city one wherever

Two short Chinese plays, by the Yu Kwong Recreation Club added It then regained the road, sklá-enteriaiament to the evening. Ided broadside for some 40 feet, Promotion certificates were dia- forbidden and exemption certificates went backwards over the other tributed by Mr. Ho Kwong J.P., to

side of the road and came to rest the students at the Interval. will be granted only in extreme

wedged between a low bank OF

The following pupils received cer- "I went to the Mayor's office the cases under doctor's orders.-Reu-

earth and a tree.

tificates:-Sixth year, Misses Yung next morning and they told me he With the exception of a burst Miu-chun, Yuen Pik-ha, Ching*Yim- hadn't showed up' yet." They didn't tyre and the loss of a rear mud-ho, Chan Yee-ching; other years, know when he'd be down. So. Doc

Ler.

acter, and provides, by the most ap LEAVE TO PRESUME

DEATH GRANTED

propriate means avaliable, for greater sense of security.

"So far as Europe is concerned, | the reconciliation of the points of view of France and Germany is an essential condition of general agree- ment. If a way is not found to ac- commodate their respective pointe of of views, this greater sense security will not be promoted, and without it, substantial Disarmament

in Impossible.

Peninsula Hotel Cook Disappears.

MAN SEEN TO JUMP FROM PRESIDENT LINER

An order for leave to swear death, "On the other hand, if an agree. In an application before the Acting

nant Shields was unhurt.

they demand it."

guard, the car seems to have ex-Wong Shok-yee, Tang Chi-ying, Waugh-hoo hunches down again in caped serious damage. Leuten-Wong Lai-fong, Chan Yee-hing, hotel chair and lights ■ jimpson-

Chan Wing-ho, Chan Miu-ying and weed regalia, and waits, Lai Wai-king.

"By and by a young man in blue neck-tle slips Into the chair

BUS AND TRAM-CAR | FIREMAN ATTEMPTS next to me and naks the time.

COLLISION.

Bus Damaged.

Wong Hung, driver of motor!

SUICIDE.

Jumps Into Harbour, But Is Rescued.

"Half-past ten,' says I, 'and you are Andy Tucker. I've seen you work. Wasn't it you that put up the Great Cupid Combination park- age on the Southern State? Let's see, It was a Chilian diamond en- gagement ring, a wedding-ring,... a potato masher, a bottle of soothing attainable fails Wood, for Letters of Administra the Police that, at about 3.30 p.m. Fire Brigade Station, Liu Lum, syrup and Dorothy Vernon-all for short of highest hopes, the gain of/tion to the estate of Charles Josepho had stopped his bus at the re- attempted to commit suicide yes-fifty cents. agreement would be immeasurable, Hotel, cook, whose death is alleged (gular stopping-place near the Craf-terday, by jumping into the har-Andy was pleased to hear that

ment is reached, and if an agree-Chief Justice, the Hon. Mr. J. Bus No. 678, yesterday reported to A fireman from the Central

ment at present

reaching and observing auch

All

Moureaux, late of

the Peninsula

...

gengower Club, to allow two pas- bour from Murray Pier.

I remembered him. He was a good or about

Bengers to alight. when tram-car Rescued in--an- and the fact that it had been reach- to have taken place on

unconscious street man; and he was more than ed and observed would form a firm March 26, 1930, was this morning No. 25, which was travelling in the condition by an Indian constable that be respected his profession, foundation on which a further agree-made by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, in-

more comprehensive structed by Mr. M. H. Turner, the same direction, collided with his who climbed into a sampan ang and be was satisfed with 800 per

pulled him out of the water, he ment of a character might be based in the duly appointed attorney of Francola Joseph Louis Moureaux, the lawful future."

Civil Hospital. brother of the deceased.

-

The way in which His Majesty's

On the morning of March 24. Mr. figures should be completed In four

Moureaux jumped out of his win- years.

Military training, outside the dow on the mezzanine floor of the army, of men of military age, Peninsula Hotal, dressed in dark should be prohibited, and prohibi-coloured trousers. A man similar- tion checked by permanent and au-ly dressed was later in the morning tomatic supervision.

alleged to have been seen in a room In regard to land war material, used by Col. J. H. Thom, D.§.O., and under the draft convention, the res- his wife, on the top floor of Marble] trictions on Germany in the matter Hall, Kowloon, and at about 7.55) of anti-aircraft guns would disap-a.m. on the following day a man, pear, but it is suggested that the whose clothes corresponded with maximum calibre of gune in per- those worn by Mr. Moureaux, jump- maneat frontier and fortress defen- ed overboard from the ss. President sive systems should be fixed by an Taft in the neighbourhood of Wage International agreement-British lan Lighthouse, - Wireless Service,

In spite of a search no signs of the man were found. The captain

OIL DUTY INCREASED of the vessel was unable to account

IN CHINA,

**To Operate On Tins And

Bulk From To-day.

Nanking, To-day!

for his presence on board and ↑ it

was later presumed that the man was a stowaway" ***

Leaves to wear death was grant

ed by His Lordship.

10 American gallons shipped in tan-

Increased gasoline and kerosene For Kerosene and other lilovať,

duties become effective in China to- ing ofis

day. It is announced that the new

duties for mollpe are as follows drum

Customs old: unit 2.1 on such

drum of 10 American, gallona, re

Two Customa gold units for every

gold unit

America

vehicle."

The rear lomp and rear part of was take to the Government cent proft. He had plenty of of the bus were damaged."

....

Held in "Machado" Murder Plot

fers to go into the flagitimate drug and garden: wood business; but he |was never to be tempted off of the

atraight path.

(*"I' wanted" a partner; so' "Andy and me agreed to go out together. I told him about the situation in Fisher Hill and how finances Was low on account. of the local mixture of politics and Jalap, |--- Andy had Just got in on the train that, morn- Ing. He was pretty low himself, and was going to canvass the town for a few dollars to build a DOW battleship by popular subscription | at Eureka Springs," So we went out

and sat on the porch, and

"The next morning, at eleven o'clock, when I was sitting, there alons, an Uncle Tom'shulties into the hotel and asked for the [to]

come and son Judge Banks, who, it some, was the major and

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