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Carnation

Carnation

"From Contented Cow"

THERE'S CREAM

IN EVERY DROP..

Sole Agente: CONNELL BROS. CO., LTD. HONG KONG & S. CHINA,

The dollar, on demand, closed

to-day, at 1/7; 1-8.

Library, Supreme Court

China" Mail

Rt. 1845.

E-1 18th.

THE OLDEST · ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST

No. 28,849

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1934. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

MEN'S QUALITY,

PULLOVERS CARDIGANS & SLIPOVERS.

HUGE RANGES

TO CHOOSE FROM.

BERNARDS of HARWICH

Des Voeux Road, Hong Kong,

CITY OF CAMBRIDGE BATTERED ON ROCKS OFF PRATAS ISLAND

SPANISH RIOTS

23 KNOWN DEAD

AND 25 INJURED IN

THURSDAY'S CLASH PREMIER IS NOT DISMAYED

TROOPS AND PLANES SENT TO TOWN OF MIERES

Twenty-three

Madrid, To-day..

are known to be

dead and 25 injured in yesterday'

- PRIME MINISTER. DECLARED

TO BE MUCH BETTER

Holiday And Rest Greatly Benefits Eyesight

London, To-day, After a thorough examination yes- terday morning, lasting 14 hours, Doctors Lord Horder and Sir Ste- wart Duke Elder pronounced the Prime Minister's general health as extremely good, being much in- proved as the result of his holiday in Newfoundland.

The long rest has greatly bene fited his eyesight which was the chief cause of his holiday from Cabinet dutien-British Wireless Service,

fighting. It is believed that the KING HOLDS PRIVY

casualties will prove considerably!

heavier when the figures are ascer

tained from the mining districts of

COUNCIL

Asturias and Eibar, where heavy Most Representative In

fighting continues,

The Premier.

Senor Lerroux, is

not dismayed and declared at mid- night that the Government took an optimistic view and hoped that the situation would goon return to normal.

He added that he was quite pre-] pared to face disorders. Measures

Recent Years

FORMAL CONSENT TO PRINCE

GEORGE'S MARRIAGE

CARDINALS WIN

DETROIT FAIL

BEFORE PAUL DEAN

IN WORLD SERIES

ST. LOUIS ONE UP IN BASEBALL CLASSIC

COCHRANE'S TWO PITCHERS

New York, To-day. Frackie Frisch's St. Louis Car- dinals smashed their way to a se- cond victory in the third game of the World baseball Series at Sports- man Park, St. Louis, yesterday,| defeating the American League contenders, Detroit Tigers, by margin of 4 to 1. .

Paul "Daffy" Dean, brother of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, Was moundsman for the victorious Cardinals throughout the game.

Mickey Cochrane, $100,000 mana- London, To-day. Iger of the Tigers, selected Tommy His Majesty the King held a Bridges as his hurler in the open- had been taken for suffleinct guar. Privy Council al Buckingham ing stages of the clash, but when antee for the security of the regime. Palace yesterday at which His the rival hitters slugged ont two The rebels are still in possession Majesty gave his formal consent runs in the fifth innings Elon Hos- the marriage of his son, gått was substituted in despera- of the town of Mieres, in Asturias, to to which place troops have been.R.H. Prince George to Princess tian. He, however, failed to hold! the Cardihals who were invincible. despatched. Communications with Marina of Greece.

The Council was one of the most

HONOURS SHARED Madrid, however, have been cut,

St. Loula won the first game at and aeroplanes sent out to drop representative held in recent years. leaflets calling on the rebels to Two members of the Royal family, Navin Field, Detroit, by an 8 to & surrender-Reuter.

CHINESE RESCUE" AMERICAN

Pulled Out Of Harbour In Early Hours ·

An American seamau, C. Daulie-

son, of the American Mail steamer President Grant probably owes his life to several Chinese boatmen who rescued him from the harbour be tween the Star Ferry and Queen's Pier at 1.45 o'clock this morning.

The police report states that Danlieson was under the influence of drink when he was rescued. He was sent to the Government Civil Hospital, suffering from immersion

U.S. SILVER POLICY AND CHINA

Change In Purchasing

Plans Denied.

New York, Te-day. The Unit ed States Trenaury told a repre sentative of the United Press that there has been.no recent change in the United States' silver pur- chase policy in China, and denied that large purchases of Chinese- owned silver have been made, so far. United Press, per S E. Levy and Company.

RISE IN RUBBER IS FORESEEN

Restriction Sequel

Gyde Barrow

Gerald

Chapman

BANS [Robe)

COP

"Kika": Roberts

Diamond

John Dillinger

Desperadoes are fascinating to most women because they have he "enreman" appeal, declares Dr. Louis E. Bisch, famous new York psychologist, explaining why so many women were identified with the career of John Difinger. Other outlaws have had the same appeal to women, he points lout. Scores of love letters were sent to Gerald Chapman in the death house, Pretty Marion "H}}"

·Roberts, Follies, girl, whom millionaires courted, preferred "Legs" Diamond, New York, gangster." Officers prepared the ambush 'fer Clyde Barrow while he waited for his current girl friend to have her hit waved.

H.R.H, the Prince of Wales and margin but Lynwood "Schoolboy" CANTON TO CHECK HRH the Duke, of Connaught, Howe pitched the Motor City team were present, and the Council was to level terms in the second meet- THE SMUGGLING OF the first state function in which the ing by a 3 to 2 tally. Yesterday's!

Prime Minister, Mr. Ramway Mac- game was the first of three World WOLFRAM TO COLONY

Donald, had participated since his Series games to be played on the a health tour in St. Louis diamond. return from

The scores were; (Continued on Pane 2)

St. Louis

Canada.

RUBBER PRICE PROBLEM

Dutch Expert Sees Danger In Rise

The Hague, To-day. The Director of the Dutch Government Economic Department holds the opinion that the present price of estate rubber is is satisfactory.

Detrofe

R. H. E.

9 1 18.

(Continued on Page 9) MISS TRAUNG MEETS HOLDER IN FINAL

Miss Van Wie Beats

Mrs. Vare

U.S. WOMEN'S GOLF

Philadelphia, To-day.

Private Exploiters Active

21 JAPAN MAKES FURCHASES ON

CHEAP CANTON MARKET.

--

From Our Own Correspondent!.

Canton, To-day.

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TWO MAMMOTH RESERVOIRS EUROPEAN FIRMS

IN THAMES VALLEY TE

ARE THREATENED

$4,083,000 Scheme Adapted By Metropolitan Water Board

London, To-day.

A scheme for the provision of two new reservoirs in the Thames. Valley, each capable of holding 4,000,000,000,000 gallons of water, tan estimated total cost of £4,083,000 was yesterday unani- mously adopted at a meeting of the Metropolitan Water Board.

Steps to obtain Parliamentary sanction for the scheme will be un-

"British: Wireless Service,

TYPHOON NEAR

H.M.S. SUFFOLK

DISPATCHED

TO THE SCENE

TAIKOO TUG RUSHED TO ASSISTANCE

STARBOARD SIDE NOW BEING DASHED AGAINST REEF

BOTTOM PLATES

LEAKING

The City of Cambridge, the 7,000 tons cargo. steamer of the Bank Line, went ashore on Pratas Reef, 180 n miles from Hong Kong at 5.30 a.m. this morning, and is stated to be in a precari- ous position owing to the proximity of the ty phoon

Wireless information was mme- diately despatched to Hong Kong and H.MS. Suffolk, the County Class cruiser which arrived from the North yeste morning to render

the scene

-left this

salvage tugboat

DESPERATE SO.5. CALL

BY CANTON TAX The vessel in her message to

Ignore Suggestion Of Boycott

CLAIMED UNOFFICIAL".

(From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton, To-day. Circular letters addressed by the

Hong Kong, asked "!

for the imme- diate asalatance of a salvage jug an she was hard and fast on the rocks and her starboard side bumping the reef. Her bottom plates are stated to be leaking,

The vessel is ashore to the south- east of Pratas Island, about 24 miles south-east of the lighthouse.

The rough weather outside Hong Kong harbour is given an the cause for the grounding.

With wolfram'being sold here as dertaken in the coming session Canton Chamber of Commutated. The City of Cambridge left-

a government monopoly, the Pro vincial Department of Reconstruc tion is making every effort to check smuggling of this mineral by private exploiters from their mines to oulport (buyers: -

Most of the mineral resources are wolfram,

CARY GRANT NOT

POISONED

Another "Household

Quarrel"

Ninepence a b. at which he opines the British rubber indus- Virginia Von Wie, the holder, and in Kwangtung

Hollywood, To-day, try is aiming, will not only stima. Dorothy Trang will contest the which can be obtained by man- Such deposita are

It has now been discovered late production in areas where Final Round of the American Na-al-labour. restriction is not, enforced, but tional Women's Golf Championship found in abundance in northern, that Cary Grant is not suffer will lead to an increased output over the White Marsh Valley Coun-eastern, and western regions of ing from pulzoning.

this province.

Grant's wife, Virt of reclaimed and synthetic rub try Club course to-day. ber.-Router.

LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY

Miss Cherrill S

Cher As wolfram is useful in connee-rill, rushed to his apartment, Miss Van Wie beat Mrs. Collett Vate, former eastern champion now tion with the manufacture of arma- but when she found that Grant was not polsoned she returned attempting a comeback after two ments, this ore is in geed demand

to her mother, years absence, by 3 and 2 in the by buying agents in Hong Kong on Semi-Final yesterday, while Miss behalf of arsenal works in Ger Traung beat Mra. Hill by the same many, Czechoslovakia,

Great Britain, and the United States. Even Japan finds that it is cheaper to buy wolfram from Can- ton than elsewhere.

Silver Prices Improve marginReuter.

The local dollar is steady, opening on demand at 1/7%. Both spot and forward silver prices advanced %, closing prices

"LOPSIDED GUILD OF SOCIALISM”

yeaterday being 22% and 22%, Donald Richberg Attacks

respectively.

The London on New York cross rate, which „closed_at"£-U.S.$4.-| New York, To-day. 92% on Thursday, closed at £

compared with

$4.92%8 the Firestone Tyre Rubber Com- pany, called on Mr. Phillips, the U.S.$4.92% on Thursday,

Price-Fixing Control

SMEGIAL TO CHINA MAIL.

France,

(Continued on Paga. 9.)

CHINESE RAILWAY MAGNATE AT HOME

to her

mother's residence after the previous household quarrel.”

Reuter.

NEW MARKET FOR BRITAIN ?

Japanese-Dutch Textile Parleys Fail

manding foreign firms to pay the business tax on October 15 on the Manila on Wednesday at noon, with pain of an economic boycott were a cargo of about 1,000 tons of received only by those commercial general cargo for Hong Kong,

Weather, conditions at the time

Improving,

houses in the Chinese city and not of grounding were bad, but Inter those in Shameen, it was learned reports show that the conditions are to-day.

The letters recalled that the Built in 1921 at Workman, Olark... managers, or managing directors, and. Company's shipyards, Belfast, of foreign firms in the city were the City of Cambridge has a gross. requested to attend a meeting at tonnage of 7,000 tons.

the Chamber's headquarters on Her dimensions are: length, 454 August 2 where they were to be feet; width 59.2 feet and depth; 84 informed why they should pay feet. She is operated by the Eller- the business tax. Very few for man and Bucknall S.8. Co., Ltd., and eign merchants went to the meet on the London, Havre, New York,

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Pacific Coast and Far Eastern ser-- vice. The local agents are the

(Continued on page 9.)

TYPHOON MOVES SLOWLY

MACAO BOAT THREE Bank Line (China) Ltd.

HOURS LATE Encounters Heavy Seas On Return Journey

DELAYED SAILING, TIME""

Delayed at Macao for over two The Hague, To-day hours, and losing another hour of (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegre- Studying Management

M Spanjaard, official represents her return journey to the Colony According to Washington ad-U.S.34.92% while the New York phe Messages: Ordinance, 1896 Re

Of English Railways tive of the Japanese-Dutch negotia owing to heavy seas and a strong vices, Mr. Harvey Firestone of on London rate closed at US ceived October 6, 710 am)

tions at Batavia, has returned here, headwind, the Macno night bost, Washington, To-day,

and declares that there is little as Snl An; this · morning" arrived Londos, To-day: The National Association of]

hedule Manufacturers are issuing a re- Mr. Huang Pe-tsisu, managing hope of a Japanese-Dutch agres here three hours behind

tward-run: the For ferendum to thousands of indus-director of the Nanking Shanghal ment.

He adds that it may be neces

theate trialists to ascertain their Bangchow Railways told Reuter

the comfort of stand when the new National yesterday, on his arrival in London to curtail Japanese tat

Ived at MacsO Recovery Administration legislation from America, that he was on what to the Dutch East Indles

mal be was partly spleasure and partly a of British and German Is sent to Congress/

trip He said he was

{to-see"?

Assistant Secretary of State and predicted that as a result of res- trictions on rubber production, prices would show a substantial rise-United Press, per S. E. Leavy and Company.

AMERICAN TACHT WINS

Oyeter Bay To-day

Bolkat, the American again defeated Kylathe challenger, by. 15 secondai second com eted race for the

wankaka Cup/Reuter

SCHOOL GUTTED. BY FIRE

AT

BEST POINT

A Chinese school situated on the!

third floor of No. 76 Des Voeuxr. Donald Richberg, in a spee Road Weat. was completely gutted

Code price-fixing product by fire which broke out

that it was at about 11:15 The extent of damage has not certained as

and

US LABOUR DEPT. INDEX

of signs

The typhoon, which has kept Na.. I signal hoisted in Hong Kong since Thursday night, is now situat ed about 200 miles S.S.E. of the Colony, and is stationary or moving alowly westwards.

WEATHER FORECAST

The weather forecast, issued by Observatory this morn- diets - north-east-

agale, cloudy with some

SUBMARINE SINKS JUNK

While crossing the harbour in the

6.30. a.m. yester

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Pilided

Fand