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NINETY - FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1935
KWANGTUNG TO
START GLASS
MANUFACTURE HK. FIRM TO SUPPLY
MACHINERY
WOLFRAM MONOPOLY WIEL PROVIDE FUNDS."
From Our Own" Correspondent?
Canton, To-day-
VETERANS BONUS
PRESIDENTIAL
VETO WARNING
DISREGARDED
Immediate Payment Voted By Senate
A foreign firm in Hong Kong has POSSIBILITY OF NEW
contracted to supply $1,000,000 worth of machtarry to the Exploita- tion Department of the First Group Amy for the establishment of a glass factory at the foot of White Cloud Mountain, payment to be made by instalmenta.
-The First Group Army has taken lover the control and sale of tuag
sten or wolfram, the proceeds of which will be used to pay for the machinery of the glass factory. The sale of tungsten is a Government monopoly and yields large returns every month.
It is stipulated in the contract i
KING GEORGE V and QUEEN MARY that the machinery shall be deliver
To-
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led at-Canton. some time in the Autumn and that the factory shall turn out glassware one month after completion. About 300 workers will be employed.
The Exploitation Department of the First Group Army is now operating a sugar mill in Waichow and will start more factories later L
JAMBORALLY TO-DAY
(Continued from Page 9)
CURRENCY ISSUE-
Washington, To-day. Disregarding the warnings of Presidential veto the Senate yesterday aligned itself with the- House of Representatives by voting for an immediate cash payment of the bonus for wax veterans, substitating the Vin- son Bill (by which the Trea- suzy is to decide the means of payment) by a compromise proposed by Senator Harrison, offering to exchange bonus certificates for 3 per cent.” bonds.
The vote for the Vinson Bill was carried by 54 votes to 30: The Senate must now choose between the Vinson and Pat- man Bills, the latter of which provides for the payment of the banns by the issuing of new currency-Reuter
(Continued From Page 1)
GERMANY'S AIR DEVELOPMENT
British Statement Expected Soon
London, To-day-
The Prime Minister, replying to a Paniamentary question yester
day, said that the Government was
very anxious to put the House and the country in possession of all the
available information with regare
to Germany's air development. This could not, however, be conveniently done in the form of a White Paper. As full a statement as possible would be made early in the forth coming, debate British Wireless
Service
SHANGHAI "GOES BRITISH”
ON JUBILEE DAY
*
(Continued From Page' 1).
CHILDREN'S FÈTE
In the afternoo an unceasing stream of trafic unloaded thousands of youngsters of all nationalities at Kiaochow Road Park for a children's fete
When night fell, Shanghai be frame a city of enchantment. Many British buildings were ablaze with illuminations; searchlights from the warships in harbour stabbed the skies as they traced their cone- shaped patterns; while the big Chinese department stores on Nan king Road, with their myriad lights, heightened the illusion of fairyland.
·RACE COURSE CROWDEDI
Wolf Cubs and Brownies. His Ex-US, ENTRY INTO WORLD COURT cellency taking the salute. After!
Later in the evening, long before the National Anthem and the Dip-
the appointed hour of the military ping of the Colours, Lady Peel will present the Guide Colony Standard taken by the United States in case and naval display at the Race! to Lady Southor, Colony Commis of the violation of the peace shall Course, which brought the official ¡sioner, and Thanks Badges will be rest on the Government of the celebrations of the day to a close, the historic ground became the presented to His Excellency and United States.
Senator Pope in his speech said venae for the biggest multitude ever. Lady Peel whereupon the Wolf Cabs and Brownies will give the that mere negative action would assembled together in the history never suffice. "The world will not of Shanghai. Thousands of Chin- The rest of the Jamborally will bring peace and lay it in our laps," ese were among the spectators, who be taken up with displays of bridge-the continued. "We must conquer it included people of every nationality Units of the Shanghai Volunteer building and a foral pageant. Dis-by constructive effort. Prevention plays of Scout and Guide Handi-is far more important than trying Corps, seamen and marines from crafts will be on exhibition, and to stay out of a war after it has British warships in barbour, troops of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers the public attending the function started.*
The Bill may not be debated and mounted Sikhs attached to the is urged to inspect these. The Grand Finale will take place at openly in the present Congress, as Shanghai Municipal Police took 545 pm, with the playing of the Senator Pope has not requested impart in the display. National Anthem.
mediate action; but its controver
Grand HowL
By kind permission of Lt. Col. Estal-nature will ensure
discussion
J. de C. Boys, MC, and the Of-throughout the country-Beater.
ficers, the band of the 1st Battalion
the Lincolnshire Regiment will be
in attendance, under the baton of
Bandmaster R. W. Griffett, ARC.M.
HITLER'S STATEMENT. EAGERLY AWAITED
(Continued from Page 11
Two Processions To-day It mattered little whence the
posals came provided they were The Chinese Procession will make concrete, practical, and fair.
its third journey through the city With regard to the Navy, we were
PAGEANT OF COLOURS
The programupe included pageant depicting the handing down of the Colour through the ages, and a torchlight tattoo. Salutes were taken by Admiral Sir Frederic Dreyer, Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, who was attended by the leading military, naval and civil
officials.
Meanwhile thousands of cars
THEATRE to-day, having left: Belcher Street proposing to negotiate, but we travelled through, the city carrying
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