INTERCHANGE OF REGARDS
Mr. Laval's Tribute To Sir John Simon
ANGLO-FRENCH ACCORD
London, To-day. The following message has been received by Sir John Simon from M. Laval, the new French Minis-
ter for Foreign Affairs:
"I was not antil after your de-i parture from Paris that I was en- trusted with the direction of the foreign policy of France, and I regret keenly that I was unable to meet you during the few hours that you spent here. I would have been glad to tell you personally how happy I feel at being called upon to collaborate with you in the interests of the, maintenance of peace. I have no doubt that our common efforts will be 116- Aured of success if in the accom plishment of my task I can hope to enjoy the same personal cob- falence with which you honoured my eminent and lamented prede. cessor."
SIR JOHN SIMON REPLIES Sir John Simon has sent the following reply. "I thank your Ex-
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President Roosevelt is all smiles as he responds to the greet-
ing of some of the children who welcomed him upon his arrival at his Hyde Park, N. Y home. The President used his home as s "Hummer White House" for a 30-day stay,
cellency most heartily for Your LIONS AND TIGER IN Engineering and Building
friendly message which warmly reciprocate. The tragic death of M. Barthou has removed a statesman with those work for international peace 1 was happy to be associated, but I rejelee to think that I shall find in Your Excellency another col-} laborator, already personally known to me from our previous work to- gether, with whom I trust to be na- aociated in dealing with the grave problems of time in the spirit which |
SAME CAGE
First Introduction In Hong Kong
ISAKO'S CIRCUS CHANGE OF PROGRAMME
The fat introduction in the
will make for world peace and will Colony of our lions and a tiger in
Inst
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1937
NEW ROBOT MINER ARRIVES
Machine To Cut And Load Coal
TESTS IN ENGLAND
Wigan.
A mechanical coalcutter and
STATELY HOMES
OF OLD ENGLAND
FACE EXTINCTION
Lord Lothian Pleads For Preservation
FEARS FURNISHINGS WILL GO
BOOSTING BRITISH
INDUSTRIES
Engineering Sales' Organisation
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PERMANENT EXHIBITION
The object of British Industries |House, which has recently been London opened at Marble Arch, London, A demand that the "stately homes is to provide a permanent exhibi-
so to
of England" should be preserved tion of British goods and for the nation was made by Lord improve the selling power of Bri- Lothian at the annual meeting of tish' industries.
the National Trust for places of By having the displays of man- historic interest or natural beauty. Jufacturers of the same class of Lord Lothian pointed out that products set out in close juxta- taxation and death duties had position it will enable the over- placed most of England's historic scas buyer, who is unwilling or houses under sentence of death. too busy to visit a dozen of fifty "I do not think it is an exaggera-showrooms, to inspect a represen |tion to say that within a generation tătive range of the articles in hardly any of the large historic which he is interested with the houses of Britain, save perhaps a least possible trouble. faw in the neighbourhood of Lon- Moreover, by providing club don, will be lived in by the families premises, it will enable negotia- who created them," he said.
tions to be conducted under the
If the old order passed away, most pleasant conditions," while asked Lord Lothian, was it not pos-its position is such as to render it sible to preserve for the joy and accessible from all parts of Lon-1 edification of posterity the peculiar don. beauties it created?
Two Courses Open
A list has been prepared, con-
As regards the British manu- tinued Lord Lothian, of 639 houses, facturer two courses are open; each more than a hundred years either he can rent a showcase for, old, of definite historical and ar-the display of his goods and by chitectural merit, suitably main-jao doing obtain such facilities as tained and furnished as dwelling-heating, telephones, the use of a houses.
private interviewing room and Fifty-seven, hiving at least 20 the services of competent floor bedrooms and a considerable park, managers and interpreters or, for might be described as "big" houses, saking individual effort, he can such as Knole House, Hatfield combine with those who offer House, Haddon Hall, Castle Ho- similar products to his own in ward and Blenheim.
the exhibition of the products of Must Act Now
his particular branch of industry, Lord Lothian suggested that the and, of course, at the same time
maintain in their full effort the the same net provided the high-loader, which, in the opinion of Treasury might be persuaded to take advantage of the ancillary friendly relations between our two light of night's complete experts. may revolutionise the treat these houses on the same services we have just mentioned.
по change of programme by Isako's coalmining industry, has been basis as their contents are
This second course has been Grand. Russian Circus,
countries."
BRITISH SYMPATHY
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
Sentence of four months'
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1934
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The British Abṇassadör in Paris Armed only with a whip, Mr. secret tests in the Wigan coal-pictures of "national, scientific, his-medical and surgical instruments Sir George Clerk yesterday called Damb G. Dhotre gave a very colour-[field.
toric or artistic interest" are ex-Jand equipment, who have rented on 31. Lavu). The Ambassador re-ful display, concluding the act by
8,000 sq. ft. on the third The new machine not only cuts empt from death duties unless sold. over qursted him in convey messages of chasing the roaring lions around the coal, but loads it for convey-
"While such measures will help floor of the building, where some sympathy from the Prime Minis the large cage to give the impres-ance to the haulage, and enables especially in the case of smaller 150 firms are displaying their ter, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and sion they were out of control. six men to carry out the work houses, there is bound to be a goods in the way mentioned. the Foreign Secretary, Sir John The Litrenfoo Brothers gave
In addition, on the ground floor Siguin, to Madame Pointure on the fine performance of skill and dex-ced colliers.
formerly done by 100 experien-steady procession of these historic
dwelling-places coming on the mar- there is a completely equipped death of her husband, which occur-terity on unsupported ladders, and
ket in the near future," Lord ward, operating theatre and sub- red yesterday morning. British the Palm Brothers, with their feats| A 'collier can shovel from 8 to Lothian declared:
sidiary accommodation, the whole Wireless Service.
at the top of a 35-feet pole (with-15 tons a day, but the cutter- "Unless we face this situation providing the hospital buyer with out a net), drew rounds of applause, loader can load two tons a min-now, within a very few years big an easy means of seeing what is The Rudenko Troupe again gave a
ute. Tests carried out before houses at least will be stripped of being produced in the way of thrilling, display, a serial gymnas prominent mining experts leave their contents, roofs will be taken operating tables, forceps, steri- tics, and a fine evening's entertain- no doubt, it is claimed, of its ef-off to escape rates, gardens will lisers and electrical apparatus. ment was brought to a close by the ficiency, and the effect of its in- run to weeds and parks will become
Sheffield Exhibit, " Cuban troduction will be that colliers as the prey of a speculative builder dare-devil riding of the
we know them to-day will be re-who sees site value in the proximity to do something of the same kind Attempts are now being made hard Russian Cossack troupe.
placed by semi-skilled engineers. of a historic ruin. ·
for the engineering industry. A For some time a muchine has "What matters is that these, ex group of exhibita connected with actually cut coal at the face, and cept perhaps the most monumental, the Sheffield trades has already the introduction of belt convey should be lived in by people who been organised and a
number of ors marked a further step in the care for them and are prepared to leading firms in the heavler mechanisation of coal-getting. make them not merely private branches of the industry have Now the process of loading the homes but places of hospitality for taken space. But it is felt that loose coal can also be carried out those engaged in politics, litera-some rather more co-operative af- mechanically. Fines totalling $671, in default
ture; the arts, or some aspect of fort would be advisable and Mr. six months' hard labour, were im Furthermore, the latter bureau re- The new machine travels along local or international life. |G. F. Dowding, A.M.I.Mech.E., has posed on Tae On, of No. 19 Bond gisters all newspapers, magazines the face, cutting the coal which "I believe that if a body like the been appointed to Street, accond floor, by Mr. E. W. bookstores, news stands and even is blown down by explosives. The National Trust were willing to matter. Great interest has been Hamilton at the Central Magis news boys. The step is to prevent machine then returns, loading equip itself to become a landlord shown in the scheme, but that tracy this morning, for being in them from publishing or selling the loose coal as it comes, thus on an ampler scale it would gradu- there is still some reluctance to possession of heroin pills, raw periodicals that are contrary to replacing the miner's shovel as ally draw within its orbit quite a take the necessary steps to secure Pig's Chitlings and prepared opium, and for the interests of the South-west, or
well
his pick. It can be work- large number of historic furnished space. keeping an opium divan
ed by electricity or compressed houses." disagreeable to the orthodex poli-
air. cies here.
labour was imposed on Liu Lai- ching, A woman, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magie-
tracy this morning, for the theft CANTON READY FOR FREEDOM
of two silver dollars from a rice shop in Queen's Road Central yes- terday.
OF EXPRESSION
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PERIODICAL REGISTRATION
newspapers
Mr. J. R. Bergne-Coupland will Several Chinese give an address on "Training Grapublished in Hong Kong are ban- duate Apprentice Engineers inned in Canton by the South-west English Works" at a General Meet-Bureau. Over 20 newspapers and ing of the Engineering Society on magazines published in Shanghai Friday. at 830 p.m. in Room "K" and elsewhere are also banned. at the University.
LONDON STREETS
AND HOUSES
Novel Exhibition By Architects
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RECONSTRUCTION OF ducted, there is the added advan-
CHELSEA BRIDGE
£311,000 Tender Accepted
tage that the equipment will be shown in close relationship to the products of other trades and that buyers in these fields of com. merce may be easily led to tako an interest in something outside though related - to
their own activities.
After the abolition of these two cen- sorship organs, a new examining com- Convicted on the charge of the mitice will be.net by the same Government offices to see to it that no attempted theft of a fountain pen, periodicals will publish reactionary sult of a remarkable effort at An exhibition which is the re-
The tender of £311,000 from the property of Mr. W. E. Kirby, and seditious literature. Secretary of the Chine Coast Of While the scope of
self-help within the architectural Mesars. Holloway Brother (Lon- the new profession was opened by Lord don), Limited, of Westminster, ficers' Guild, of No. 67 Kimberly Government organ is not yet an-Snell, chairman of the LC.C., at for the reconstruction and widen- Road, Lo Tann, a 24-year-old coo-nounced, freedom of the lie, was this morning sentenced to means that newspapers can publish No. 7. Bedford-square, Blooms ing of Chelsea Bridge, "Modern
Transport" announces, is to bef one month's hard labour by Mr. any news on social affairs, fillal Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Central piety, international relations, rel
Its largest feature is an enor-recommended for acceptance at Magistracy.
searches in the Chinese classics,mous map of London "up to date" the next meeting of the London New Scheme Planned
and the counties into which it County Council.
This tender, it is added, was Summoned for passing a moving
sex problems etc.
press
bury.
BUILDING HOUSES FOR MASSES
For, Nanking
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It is likely the prohibition or obtrudes, covering walls, ceilings the lowest-of those submitted in
Curtle Fish car around the bend, near the Ho Hong Kong and Shanghai publica- and even windows of rooms. This
Nanking. Dace Jaly by about a dozen of the Tung Engineering Workshop, Pok-tions and newspapers will remain is designed to form a basis for
Under the leading bridge building and pu-
sponsorship of Eels, Conger fulam Road, Ng Shee-hee,
a car unaffected by the abolition of the planning schemes, driver, of No. 39 Robinson. Road, two censorship bureaus.
Many of these figure upon it;,
blic works contracting firms Madame Wang Ching-wei, nee
Frogs In November the Council de Mias Chen Pihun, wife of the Carospa was fined $10 by Mr. E. W. Hamil-
others are separately illustrated.
cided, on the understanding that President of the Executive Gadegon bon at the Central Magistracy this
Another aspect of the work is morning.
Road Fund grant of 60 per Yuan. 24 mow of land outside Herrings seen in scale drawings of some cent. would be forthcoming, to the Chinchuan Gate, have been Halibut principal London streets.
undertake the reconstruction of marked out by the Nanking
Mackerel A long strip of the Mall's ar Chelsen Bridge to take four lines Municipal Government for the Hullet chitectural features has been spe-of vehicular traffic.
construction of dwelling houses Oysters cially drawn for the Queen, who
for the common masses.
Pearch has permitted it to be placed on
The housing plan, it is stated. Pike exhibition.
will be entrusted to the Com-Pomfret, White
Plaice
DRUG TRAFFIC "QUEEN" EXECUTED
Mr. George Costello, representa. tive of the Canadian Pacific Steam- ship lines, was among the paasen- gers for Hong Kong on the Presi It is reported that the Queen of dent Wilson, which arrived from the Women Drug Traffickers in Shanghal yesterday.
Nantungchow has been executed with two other women smugglers of
For importing nine silver in- opium. gots into the Colony withou manl- festalion on board the 8.8. Stan
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Piccadilly is shown as far as was the happy idea of the Royal mission for the Improvement of Pomfret, Black Hyde Park-corner, together with Institute of British Architects Thatched Cottages The Com- Prawns much of Whitehall, the Victoria and the London Society to and all mission will undertake to make Bosch Embankment, and places, equally this paid work to help tide over the draft and supervise the erec Shark distinguished and familiar, each a diftcin't thine etion of the houses. The Munici-Tark ley, Lee Ming, coxswain, was in- Dr. L Shu-fan, the well-known long strip forming a record of Not only do these drawings and pal Government, meanwhile, will| Shrlimps ed $50 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at local doctor and member of the the houses standing to-day maps form a novel exhibition of look after the installation of the Stripma the Central Magistracy this Sanitary Board, returned to the -None have been more hardly hit great interest, but they must plumbing system the construc- Tirtlen morning. The silver ingots were Colony by the President Wilson by the adverse conditions of re- prove of permanent value
astion of roads and other facilities Small Fresh water confiscated.
yesterday.
cent years than_architects." It Greater London develops.
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