FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934.
AIR ATTACK 'ON LOCUSTS
Clouds Of Poison Dust.
NEW METHOD EVOLVED
London. To-day.
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A large-scale attack by, clouds of poison dust distributed from seroplane is to be made upon the, locust swarms which cause, annual- ly, £1.500.000 damage in and sub-tropical Africa.
tropical
This new method was evolved by Mr. H. H. King who, two years ago, when Government entomologist to Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, discovered by laboratory tests that adult locusts fell speedy victims to a spray of finely-ground sodium arsenite.
the idea He conceived swarms might be successfully coun-- tered by discharging a cloud of this poisonous dust from an aeroplane flying across the line of their fight.
Funds Provided
that
His suggestion was taken up by the Locust Control Committee of
the Economic Advismy Council. and funds vere provided by the Fund. Colonial Development Technical advice and assistance on the many problema involved were obtained from the Royal Air
Farn- al establishment, craft bernugh, the Imperial Institute of Entomology and Chemical Defence.j and the Research Department of the War Oflice, and all now requir ed is a practical full-scale trial.
This is to be undertaken by Mr. To-day. he sails King himself. for Northern Rhodesia, where and neroplane chartered from the im- perial' Airways and fitted with special apparatus, and signment of finely-powered sodium; arsenite, await his arrival.
ย con-
The latest picture of Prince Wilhelm, the German Crown Prince, in his Nazi uniform.- (S. & G.).
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
Line
The Opening Ceremony of the Locusts are abundant in this New Sikh Temple Hail, Happy! territory, and it is hoped that Mr. Valley, will be performed by
his lights King during
nex Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe C.M.G.. able to vollect will be menik.
to-morrow afternoon. sufficient data for the Locust Con-
10 trol Committee
judge efficacy and practicability sebeme.
the
The Ladies' Club, 1st Battalion, of his South Wales Horderers, will hold a If successful, details of Whist Drive and Tombola at Mar- the method will be made available ray Barracks on Saturday, April 14. in all territories where Locusts are commencing at $ p.m. sharp. a menace to agriculture.
The RS. Empress of Asin left During the last five years. the Yokohama yesterday evening, und is Committee of the Economic Addue at Hong Kong on the morsing
The vessel will leave! visory Council, financed partly by of April 12. the Empire War-Time Board, the Hong Kong for Manila at midnight) Brlish Colonies and Dependencies the same day.
Anglo-Egyptian affectel. and
Five Year's Survey
THE CHINA MAIL:
GOVERNOR LEAVES
To-day's Short Story,,
FOR HOLIDAY According To
Accompanied By Lady Peel To Japan.
ENTIRELY BRIVATE TRIP
His Excellency the Governor, Sir William Peel. K.CACO, C.BE.. ac- companied by Lady Peel, left for the north, at noon to-day aboard
Their Lights
\
By 0. Henry.
HOMEWHERE in the depths of on SOMEWHERE in the depths of jou a grand and revered avenue. quiet dregs are for ever being about something, and the prince shaken together, young Murray had been escorted to the door by the s.s. Empress of Japan en ár and the Captain had met and be-the butler, which, in said avenue, fentirely private holiday trip.
come friends. Both were at the la equivalent to the impact of the A weak Prince On arrival His Excellency was lowest ebb possible to their for avuncular shoe. met an Board by Captain, Douglas, tunes; both had fallen from at Hal, without inheritance or sword, in command of the Empress of Ja- least an intermediate Heaven of he drifted downward to meet his pan, and Mr. D. Drummond, Orien- respectability and importance, his humourless Falstaff, and to tal Manager of the Canadian Paci-and both were typical products pick the crusts of the streets with the Steamships Company.
of the monstrous and peculiar so-him
were,
Among those present at the cial curriculum of their over- One evening they sat on a bench Kowloon wharf to bid farewell to weening and bumptious civic in a little down-town park. The His Excellency and Lady Peel Alma Mater.
great bulk of the Captain, which and Lady Sir Thomas
The Captain was no longer a starvation seemed to increase— Southorn, Capt. R. F. Walter A. D. captain. One of those, sudden drawing irony instead of pity to C. The Hon. Mr. D. W. Traiman, moral cataclysms that some times his petitions for ald-was beaped and Mrs. Tratman. Sir William sweep the city had hurled him against the arm, of the bench in a Shenton, the Hon. Mr. C. G. Ala from a high and profitable posi- shapeless mass.
baster, K. C., and Mrs. Alabaster, tion, in the Police Department,
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Corrida." by Phillip Leaver.
the Hou. Mr. N. L. Smith, Secre- ripping off his badge and buttons tury for Chinese Affairs, the Hon. and washing into the hands of his Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C. M. G., Mrs. Jawyers the solid pieces of real Mackie, wife of the Hon. Mr. Cestate that his frugality had en- G. S. Mackie, and Mr. M. J. Quist, abled him to accumulate.. | Consul-General for Netherlands. The passing of the flood left him HE. and Lady Peel are returning low and dry. One month after his saloon-keeper from Japan on the Canadian Pacific dishabilitation a
His red face, spotted by tufts liner Empress of Canada, which plucked him by the neck from his
of vermilion. week-old whiskers tabby is due to arrive in Hong Kong on free-lunch counter as a
Tand topped by a sagging white April 27,
plucks a strange kitten from her During Sir William's absence, the nest, and cast him asphaltward. straw hat looked, in the gloom, like one of those structures that But Hon. Sir Thomas Southern will be This
low enough. Officer Administering the Govern after that he acquired a pair of you may observe in a dark Third- avenue window, challenging your Mr. D. W. cloth-top. butten Congress getters imagination to say whether it be Tratman will act as Colonial Secre- and wrote complaining letters to something recent in the way of
the newspapers. And then
Indies' hats or a strawberry short- Sir Thomas Southors was awern fought the attendant at the Muni-
cake. A tight-drawn belt-last re- in at 12.30 p.m. to-day.
Leipal Lodging House who tried to:
le of his official spruceness- give him a bath. When Murray made a deep furrow in his clr first saw him he was holding the
cumference. The Captain's shoes hand of an Italian woman who
were buttonless. In a smothered sold apples and garlic on Essex-ass he cursed bis star of ill-luck. streets and queting the words of a song-book ballad,
meni, while, the Hon.
HOLIDAY TRAFFIC CASES.
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Mr. Anslow Knocks Down Woman.
seems
he
Murray, at his side, was shrunk into his dingy and ragged suit of Murray's fall had been more
blue serge. His hat was pulled. Luciferian, if less spectacular. All
low; he sat quiet and a little in- the pretty, tiny little kick-shawsdistinct, like some ghost that had "of Gotham had once been his. The metaphone man roars out at you
been dispossessed.
"I'm hungry," growled the Cop-
For driving motor cycle No. 957 to observe the house of his uncle tain-"by the top sirloin of the
with inefficient brakes in Hon. messey Road on March 22, Mr. F.
ed in woman
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TRAFFIC RULE, VIOLATED
Bull of Bashan, I'm starving to death. Right now I could est Bowery restaurant clear through
a
J. Anslow, of the Government Civil Hospital was fined $10 by Mr. E.
A fine of $5 was imposed on Dr. to the stove-pipe in the alley. Can't you think of nothing. Mur- W. Hamilton at the Central Magis W. N, Ma, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton Tay? You sit there with your tracy this morning.
Defendent, it was stuted Ende af the Central Magistracy this
imitation of Reginald Vanderbilt down in Hennessemoraing for failing to keep to the shouldors scrunched up, giving an
"alt-hand side of the road when
• Road, and when the police esmalt turning corner from lennessy them airs doing you now? Think driving his coach-what good arej Pleading guilty to the felt, dad the machine, the lipakes were
Road into Fleming Road on and the four pairs of stockings at 294 Der found to be out of order.
March 21.· locusts. Voux Road, Lai Huen, a tailor, was j enormous jfined $15, in defarkt two weeks' imt
prisonment, by Mr. Q. A. A. Ma.
Sudan, has been making Hurvey of the breeding grounds
havits
migratory
tane
Swarms
areas.
of
ever
Hitherin, attarks have been con dicted on locusts in their larval or but these are in- hopper late.
where custs inhabit elective
MRS. REISS CAUTIONED
fadyen at the Central Magistraer! Summoned for causing obstruc- this morning.
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BOY KNOCKED DOWN:
some-
of some place, we can gel thing to chew."
"You forget, my dear Captain," kaid Murray, without moving. "that our last attempt at dining! An accident in which a boy was was at my suggestion." knocked down in Wanchai Road on "You bet it was." groaned the Chargret! with the possession of leaving private car: No. 3471. out March 14 had its sequal at the Cen-Contain. "You bet your life ft Kreat im-two forged $13 bankules. portance attaches to this wholly Yu, an add jobs coulie, was fined $40 melly and Co., from 10.35 am. Lilla Magistracy this morning when was. Have you got any more like sound method of combating them in default three months imprison- 10.58 a.ni. on March 24, Mrs. E. G. Mr. Y. P. Ma was summoned before that to make hey?"
ment by Mr. Q A. A. Macfadyen at Reiss was cautioned by Mr. E. W. Mr. E. W. Hamilton for driving pri-
bush country.
Thus,
-British Wireless Servlee.
RE-DRAFT OF STOCK EXCHANGE BILL
Probable Omission of Fixed Marginal Needs
(Continued froin Page 1)
New York, To-day. All fixed marginal requirements will probably be eliminated from the re-draft of the Stock Exchange
·Regulation Bill which the House of Representatives Sub-Committee is now considering.
The entire margin question muy be left in the hands of the Federal Reserve Board.
The Administration is hopeful that the Bill will be submitted to the House within a week.-Neuter.
MARITIME CONFERENCE FORESHADOWED..
(Continued from Page 1). abolition or limitation of subsidien und the restoration of equilibrium in the shipping trade by adjusting supply measures that may be sub- mitted to the conference: which would help to combat the depres slon, and having for its ultimate aim; the restoration of this important in- ternational Industry to ite former 'conditions of sound economic pop- petition. British Wireless Service.
Although there are several thousand inhabitants in the com muns of Herbermont, in the Bel- @gian Ardennes, no weddings were
celebrated there last year.
tion in Queen's Road Central, by
[side the premises of Messrs. Kaya-: Wong
The Central Maxistancy this morn. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy vate car, No. 737, without an appro-Murray.
ing.
this morning.
MR. WRIGHT CAUTIONED
priate driving license.
A fine of $10 was imposed.
LICENSE JEOPARDISED
Wan
AT
SUNDAY KING'S
LIKE A FLASH OF SUNLIGHT
Sise bursts into sleepy *Carolina ......, upsetting. “traditionis ae-injecting
life where there" WRA larides...love where there were fear and hate
TURC
THE
GAYNOR
Lionel BARRYMOR
CAROLINA
* BOBERT YOUNG-RICHILI
HENRIETTA' CROSMAN
HOLD PRE-EMINENT LEADERSHIP BY THEIR SUPERLATIVE
QUALITY.
STATE EXPRESS
CIGARETTES
555
333
ARDATH TOBACCO CO., LTD., LONDON.
"I admit was falled. sighed
"I
sure Malone would be good for one more free. lunch after the way he talked baseball with me the last time I apent a nickel in his establish- Cheang Yu-ming reported to the Police last night that while he was
ment." For causing obstraction by leav along driving his car. No. 167,
Pleading guilty to a summons of "I had this hand," said the Cap. Queen's Road Wext, he accidently ing his car, No. 761, standing in
Causeway tain, extending the unfortunate knocked down
Road, Kwok woman, named, Pedder Street for 55 minutes Mra, dangerous driving in
Kam-theung, member "I had this hand on the PRETTY WEDDING AT SEA CAPTAIN NOT RE-INSTATED Road M. H. Wright of Messrs. Butterfield Day
contioned driver of lorry, No. 1692, was fined drumstick of Wour Ying, of 236 Queen's West. She was removed to the and Swire and Co., was Government Civil Hospital where when summoned before Mr. E. w. 816 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the sardine
"I was within two inches of the her endition was reported not to Hamilton at the Central Magistracy Central Magistracy this morning waiters grabbed us."
Mr. Hamilton added a warning that?
"Stuffed if Kwok offened again his license olives," said. Murray. would be cancelled.
The Morious.
this morning.
Old and Tried Men of France
The recent French crisis found, two) and battlefelds side by side in an Altam turliulent republls. Gaston Doumerg nhal Hubert Lyauty, 80-year-old-
ef, political stress,
Lore order to the shown here with Muri national Hero,
DANGEROUS DRIVING
a turkey and twe sandwiches when
them
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UNION CHURCH.
Molyneux.
Miller,
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Over 700 employees of the Hong Kong Canton and Macao Steam-
olives. I haven't tasted one. In al
A pretty wedding took place yerboat Co. Ltd. are effected by the terday afternoon at the Union ultimatum laid down by the Chi-, year."
Union, Canton William nese Beamen's What'll we do?" grumbled the Church, Kowloon, of Mr. Captain. "We can't, starve,”
Watkin Molyneux, younger son of Branch, that if the Company does Summoned for driving lorry, No.
"Can't we?" said Murray quiet- Margaret and the late Mr. W. W. not re-instate Captain E. W. Mat. 1867 in a dangerous manner in Highly. "I'm glad to hear that. I was Molyneux; of Higher Bebington, hews as Master of the steamer Street, Li Kal, was fined $10 by Mr. afraid wa.could."
Cheshire, and Miss Christina Wini- E. W. Hamilton at the Central
"You wait here," said the Cap-fred Miller, youngest daughter of would be dislocated. It "Magistracy this morning,
tain, rising heavily and pufaly to the late Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mil-ported in February that Capt. Matthews had joined the Canton his feet, "I'm going to try to make ler, of Port Chalmers,
·
PUBLIC DRIVER FINED
J
Kinaban the steamer services
¡Union.
Was re-
one more turn. You stay here till The bride was given away by Mr. Branch of the Chinese Seamen's I come back, Murray. I won't be. W. Ingram. The bridesmaid was The 48 hours "grace" allowed Summoned for driving taxi, No. over half an hour. If I turn the Miss Ruth Ingram, while Mrs. A. W. for the re-instatement have piss-
1754, in a dangerous manner in Con-trick F'll come back flush."
naught Road, Chauk Chu-yin was Ho raade some elephantine at fined $10 by Mr., E. W, Hamilton attempts at smartening his appear He gave bis fiery mous the Central Magletracy this morn-ance, ing.
tache a heavenward twist;, ho dragged into sight a pair of black edged cuffs, deepened the crease in his middle by tightening his Dangerous driving of Public car belt another hole, and set off.
TAXI-DRIVER FINED
Ingram performed the duties of Matron of Honour: Mr. Renry Hed without incident, however.
The Unton's ultimatum 'wna rê- Fanthem was the best man, while ceived by the Company on Tuen- Mrs. Frank Short was the organist.
day, and demanded a. satisfactory 'settlement case within 48 hours. The letter stated that Immediate
PRISONER DIES, AT
VICTORIA GAOL.
No. 319 in Queen's Road West, re-aunty as a zoo rhinoceros, across Natural Causes Verdict aulted in a fine of $15 being imposed the south end of the park:
on Yeung Po, taxi driver, by Mr. E.
When he was out of sight Mur
W. Hamilton at the Central Magin-ray also left the park, hurrying
tracy this morning.
swiftly eastward. He stopped at * building whose steps were flank-
Carlisle Licensing Sessionsled by two green lights,"
Returned.
TUBERCULOSIS VICTIM,
steps would be taken if the Company failed to comply with the Union's requests.
[of Messri. A. J. Palmer (foreman), {Kwuk Yu-shu:and Pah Sha-feng..
Chief Warder G. Buchanan said that the prisoner, who was serving
A verdict of death from naturala term of 12 months hard labour
It was reported that prosecutions "A police captain named Maron-causes was returned by the jury at under the Breach of Deportation for drunkenness last year totalled joy," he said to the desk sergeant, the Inquest, held at the Central Po-Ordinance, was admitted to the Pri 71, an increase of 18 on 1932 was dismissed from the force lice, Court this morning Into the son Hospital on February 1, and year's hgures. Fifty-nine of after being tried under charges circumstances surrounding the death died yesterday at 10.55 p.m.,
hipae
se charged were convicted. The three years ago, I believe sen- of Chan Pul, a prisoner in Victoria Dr. T. Grimaths, Medical Officer of the Gaol, said that the deceased elty has now 61 licensed pabilo tence was suspended Is this man Gaol, who died last evening.
Mf. Q. A. A/ MacFadyen sat as was suffering from tuberculosis houses, compared with 95 in 1916, wanted how by the police?” AN
Coroner, while the jury comprised) from which he died when there were 958 convictions. Continued on Page 21):
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