1935-10-31 — Page 9

VIGOROUS SPEECH BY SIR S. HOARE

ON GOVT POLICY.

No Sidetracking Of League

INCORRECT IDEAS ABOUT "DISREPUTABLE DEAL”:

London. To-day.

In the course of an election speech in his constituency yes- terday the Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare. speaking of

The job of arbitrating all dif-

bour has been given to Joseph Warren Madden (above), a Pitts- burgh layer the new head of America's National Labour Rela- tions Board, established under the Wagare Labour Dispute Act.

the international situation, references between employers and ferred to what he called a "di verting but very transparent game, which consisted of make; in-i ing mystèries and spreading nuendoes. Those whispers and innuendoes, of which the latest examples concerned his forth- to Geneva, were coming visit

THE CHIMA MAIL “TRIESDAY,

NEW DECREES

APPROVED

IN FRANCE

302 SIGNED BY PRESIDENT

MOSTLY OF TECHNICALS CHARACTER

“CHIRA

When the Cabinet, under the

chairmanship.

Lebrun. met yesterda

found that the 212 emergency

B

Short Sto

RIVETS

Gloas

Mars stood on a tall, fair: gianty of * platform of planks seven shining blue eyes; and his

ty feet above street level and was good-tempered. Jim Engan tossed red-hot rivets to his pal was a muscular,"sallow-faced Jim Bogan on a lower platform youth, a year or two older than | across a:

out of the was hea

decrees approved on Tuesday glow, and with

Big Alec, with dusty red “hafr pair and a smile that was ready Liveta enough but, perhaps, too mechani- where a cal to be pleasing. Jim and Big white Alec changed over jobs every day, the the one who was itching in the had been supplemented, the tongs shot them acc

into morning," catching in the after- scure now amounting to 302, the sand backet that Jim heldnoon.

After the steelwork waSUP which were laid before the Pre-half a dozen, one after the other.

As Jim caught them a man who thirty" feet. Jim began to be a bit sident for signature Thought most of these are of a technical stood beside him, operating a uneasy when it was his tam to stood away character, providing for admin-mechanical riveter, nipped them catch. Big Alec istrative reforms, others are

out of the bucket and drove them, above him. swinging the tongs. more general in nature. direct still glowing into the girder and the rivets would swoop acTORE junction around which the lower like flaming birds, and hias into For instance, the. 10 per cent.

platform was built. Frrrrumph the damp sand in the bucket. The reduction of rents decreed by the Trumpa prrrumph! was the song of the riveting gets right Laval Government some months purring, roaring song of the through to the bones of a man aro is now applied to the colonies mechanical riveter: and it went and makes them quiver, and i

on ceaselessly as the steel skele, bezing to tell on him if he isn't One new decree provides

ton of the vast new office block in the pink of condition. - sharper penalties for insults of-xrew higher and higher. fered to the heads of foreign and the riveters crept up with the The platforms with the forges. States. Another makes the penalties for espionage mach more severe and also for

electioneering pure and simple GORDON WESTCOTT afecting the public.

The opponents of the Govern-i ment were trying to make ig- norant people believe that there was some disreputable intrigue behind this visit, and that it implied some sinister change of policy.

PASSES

Fatally Injured At Polo

FILM STAR WHO ANNOYED A GANGSTER

The death

jas well

for

No rivet ever overshot the mark.

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Willoughby. "The Flaw," by Cecilia

HOME

FACTORY

Sir Samuel Hoare said: "I am going to Geneva to be there while

steelwork day by day, and nearly very important discussions are

every shift brought the fitters taking place on the application of i.

London. Today the dissemination of false reports rivets fresh gaps to bridge with (who tossed and caught the hot sanctions. Secondly, I wanted-to

has occurred of likely to undermine the dis- their skill. It never failed them take the opportunity that is al the film star Gordon Westcott cipline of the army. ways offered by these important from injuries received while

The Minister of Labour sub- meetings of the League to have a playing polo. — Reuter.

to streak downwards on a deadly Jim felt fit enough—but he was talk with M. Laval, the French Because he put too much realism mitted a decree under which com- path through the maze of girders worried as he kept his eyes on Prime Minister, and some of the into his acting, Gordon Westcott,mercial, travellers and street and scaffolding Big Alec and the end of Alec's tongs, waiting other prominent Ministers of the as a leading man on Broadway hawkers not of French nationality Jim were craftsmen, not of the for that streak of fire, and jerk- York are required to have lived fivefold creative kind who made wood ing the bucket forward to meet it. rears in France or the Erench co- and stone come alive, but machine and back agam quickly, just a few lonies before they can obtain

craftsmen, who worked with every inches either way to break the licence to pursue their calling.

thought and word and action pal-ljar of receiving the rivet And The Ministerial Council passed pitating to the shuddering notes Alec always smiled; faintly, but! all the decrees, which President of the riveting Prrrrwaph-unfailingly, and then another Lebrun thereupon signed-Trans-prizrumph?

bright bird would take fight, and Ocean Service.

member States."

once

was threatened

by New What could be more natural or gangsters. simple? As to the alleged change His career nearly came 10 an of policy, let them get that out of abrupt end when he impersonated their heads

and for all a gangster in a play called "Room There had been, and would be, no 349." The character was that of change of a policy which had al-a prominent New York racketeer - ways been perfectly simple, name and Westcott portrayed it so con- ly loyalty to the League and vincingly that the gang leader readiness to help with any honour-noticed him to leave the town able settlement of the dispute that within three days or be "put on was acceptable to the three parties the spot." Using discretion, concerned, the League, Italy and Westcott took a holiday. Ethiopia. That was the policy

VARIED TRAINING.

ESPIONAGE PENALTY

Paris. To-day.

1

A varied bag of 302 new de crees and laws was approved by a Council of Ministers, the meeting lasting half an hour. The sub-

that he would support at Gebaya, Born at St. George, Utah, be jects covered included the posi- MALICIOUS SUSPICION spent his boyhood on his parent's tion of women diplomats, the sup- Referring to the "exchanges | ranch, and later became part own-pressing of insults against the. which have taken place with ajer of their 5,500 acre Fool Creek heads of foreign Governments, an. view to finding a basis of settle Ranch, in Southern Utah. He at-increased penalty for espionage, ment, Sir Samuel Hoare said that tended the Utah Agricultural Col-and the regulating of the sale of an attempt was being made to give lege, studied for the Ministry at gas-masks to civilians.Renter. the impression that "we are trying the University of Utah and also; - to sidetrack the League and do took a course of journalism- at disreputable deal with Italy be-Columbia University.

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ANGLO-FRENCH

DISCUSSIONS

ARE CONTINUED

Big Alec was twenty-three; a Jim would catch it accurately.

ACTION AGAINST REPUBLICANS

ECHO OF GREEK REVOLT

When they changed over, he was relieved: and as he swung" the tongs he noticed that

AND

BU

FOR ALL PURPOSES.

HOUSE

TUGS &

LOCOS

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

Head Office-TIENTSIN.

Agents:--DODWELL & CO., LTD, Hong Kong.

noticed that Alec LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

catching the rivets down below,

no longer smiled. He fancied be Mr. G. C. Pelham, H. M. Trade, Gun practice with live ammani- 》was tense, and anxious.

Commissioner in Hong Kong and tion will be carried out front. Now if Jim Rogan had been a Commercial Secretary for South Stonecutters Island on Tuesday different sort of man doing China, who is travelling to Eng- next (between the hours of 8.30 softer sort of job, he might have land on. talked about nerves and being sails at noon next Saturday, will Thursday next (between the hours the as. Cathay, which am and 11.80 a.m.), and again ou run down; but men who serve embark on the launch Teencheong of 6 pm and 9 p.m.) - CHINA" MAIL" SPECIAL

steel have no nerves, though, at Queen's Pier at 10.30 am on Athens, To-day. General Kondylis told pressmen nesses.

being men, they have other weak that day.

And as, day by day, the

Lady: Southern opened a ba that he personally keenly regretted steel bones- of the new building

zaar organised by the women's the necessity of proceeding against ascended, so did Jim's weaknesses was held at the Cheero Club on ciety for the Protection

A very successful whist drive Anxiliary of the Hong Kong So- the two Republican leaders Papin-begin to sap his courage. drea and Papanastasion, but the

Tuesday night. The prizewinners Children in the Helena May In- Government saw no other course from Alec's tongs seemed daily to Mrs. Kidgell, 2nd Miss Payne,

The swooping rivets that flew were as follows: Ladies, 1st stitute yesterday afternoon. Not the Government but the Regrow a little larger. Sometimes sealed number Mrs. Hopkins, publicans had raised the dispute they appeared almost too big for Gentlemen, 1st Mr. A. Lobb, 2nd. Tilse Steamer Kamomaru from Unclaimed telegrams for L about the form of regime. The the buckets. They crashed into Mr. Beasley, sealed number Mr. Brisbane and Yih Tsui Wai, 39 Venizelos revolt was crashed and it, and kicked it back against him, Pepper. Republicanism was broken.

as though they wished to drive

Waterloo Road, Kiuling from “We are unshakeably deter-him over the edge of the plat- The Confederation Life Asso- Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., London P. O. are lying at the mined to show the people," said form. As they few towards him ciation is opening a branch of Lia General Kondylis, "that we are he longed to close his eyes. His fice in Hong Kong this week, hav-

of

hind its back. I have already But when he was 20 Westcott said that there is no foundation wrote a play that was staged by whatever for this malicious. sus- the Wilkes Stock Company in Salt picion.

Lake City. His interest in the "There is nothing to conceal theatre took him to Los Angeles, about what has been happening where he was placed under con-

(Continued from Page 11 It is common property that several tract. After two years there and Governments have recently been on tour, Westcott was given the concerted application of certain considering the possibilities of a lead in "Evidence," a play which economic measures against Italy peaceful settlement, and that the toured the country and took him to recommended at the previous ses British and French Governments New York For the next five sion to League members engag-i in particular have been exchang-years he took prominent ; stage, ed in the fulfilment of their obli-worthy of the restricted con- eyelids were puckered in, resiste ing leased space in the Bank of The Royal Artillery Headquar- ·· ing views as to what might form parts on Broadway and in Eng-gations under Artícle XVI of the fidence of the nation; and that weling that dangerous temptation to East Asia building. Mr. H. Wters Warrant Officers and Ser-

each

are determined to maintain order blink. But he forced himself to Merrick has been appointed local geants Mess are holding a whist Covenant the basis of the future negotia- land

It was while he was appearing

and will discharge our duty, no track the flight of every rivet, manager. tion In order that we should

According to a Geneva message full derstand

other's in the Broadway play "The Devil last night 41 nations have nott-matter how sharp the measures however hot and menacing they

drive, and Tombola A and "B" Block, Queen's Road, com views the head of the Abyssinian Passes," that Faramount scouts fied the League that they have we must adopt towards this end looked as Alec tossed them down

The RMS Empress of Asia left mencing at 8.30 p.m. on Friday, to him, always with that slight Yokohama this morning for Hong November L department at the Foreign Office first noticed him and sent him to put into effect an arms embargo may be."-Trans-Ocean Service. has been in Faris discussing a Hollywood for a test He was against Italy. Thirty-seven have

smile on his face...

Kong, via Shanghai, and is expect number of complicated details given a contract and appeared in applied the measures: recom-

Seventy feet above the crowdeded to arrive here at 7 am next The Child and the Man" is the street Jim for the first time be- Thursday. She will leave the title of the lecture to be given at with officials of the French Fer-a number of films, one of his first mended for the withholding of being "The Devil and The Deep." loans and credits, and the same eign Office.

gan to think of what was going same evening for Manila. Westcott was 6 ft.

on below. In the spells between tall and number have announced.... their

catching he would sometimes

ONLY ONE SETTLEMENT

"For the ame being we are en-dark. His hobby was farming. readiness to apply the proposals gaged in this exchange of views. | In 1982 he rescued a child from Nothing has yet emerged, and if drowning in Hollywood-Renter anything definite does emerge wel

for the prohibition of imports coming from Italy, and of the ex- port to Italy of key products.

shall, of course, take the earliest 3 FERRY BOATS Fally, 19 States have accepted

report to the

a settle

opportunity to League. If eventually ment is proved possible, that set- Hement would, as I have:--stated- over and over-again, be within the framework of the League, and would have to be satisfactory, to the League Italy and Abyssinia. That is the whole story”-British Wireless Service.

FOUNDER

TRAGEDY ON MU RIVER

recommendations regarding “-mn- tual assistance.

ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES

POLICE OFFICIAL

IN TROUBLE

Charges Of Bribery Proved

the Manuk Lodge of the Theoso glance down at the procession of Grainger, for the confiscation of 6 o'clock Mr. John Russell, the phical Society, Hong Kong Club The application of Sergeant Anner, Chater Road, to-night at silver bus tops that crawled, like 630 catties of sugar and 2,500 cost-Presidential Agent for China, an endless belt of dish covers, buttons, found on the Lang Shan will be the speaker.

· CHINA, MAIL" SPECIAL_ along the Strand.

Paris, To-day.

ate Canton Wharf on October The planks of the platform 26, unmanifested and unclaimed. Sentence of one month's hard The former Police Inspector trembled, the prezumph of the granted by Mr. Q. A. A labour was passed upon Lam Bonny, who gained much notoriety riveting drowned out the noise of acfadyen at the Central Police Nga-tat, aged 17, a street coolie, Sir Samuel Hoare and M. La-in connection with the Stavisky the traffic. A thin blue haze of val are expected in Geneva to scandal and the mysterious death fuel fumes spiralled up from the

Court this morning.

by Mr. Macfadyen at the Central morrow, and it is generally anti- of Judge Prince, and who only last street. Then he would hear Big CORRESPONDENCE for the theft of a piece of gold, Magistracy yesterday afternoon cipated that a statement will be week was sentenced to six months. Alee's whistle, shrill and distinct, made at some stage of the meet imprisonment for “divulging pro-amid the clattering din of the Wuchow, To-day. Owing to the rapid flow of the ings on the subject of the recent fessional secrets, agam faced the riveting, and he would take up Ma River camed by the incessant diplomatic exchanges which have court on Tuesday on charges of his bucket again.

been taking place with the object bribery. downpour of heavy Autumn rains, of discovering a possible basis of This time he was found guilty ing to worry about with z pal

They were pals, of course, noth three ferry boats plying between SHARP SPURT IN PREMIUM ON the two banks near the mouth of of the Covenant and acceptable turer and gambler pay his tailor's Alec's. No getting over that

settlement within the framework of having let a Lithuanian adven-but then there was that smile of H. K. DOLLARS

the river foundered as a result of to the two parties to the dispute. bill, amounting to 4,000 francs, smile that seemed to hint at becoming entangled with the rig- ging of a large freight river junk unlikely, in light of the progress succeeded in preve

In London It is regarded as after M. Bonny had An elderly woman belonging to so far achieved, that there will tion of the crew of one of the ferry boats!

¡be ax was rescued, but the others, of which the number is not known,

(Continued from Page 1)

the ruling of the Provincial Government.

Why there is such a keen de- mand at the moment for Hong Kong notes is not clearly known. though it is said that Hong Kong dollars are needed to pay for the deliveries of Japanese goods which are coming in in

quantity Paymen foreign goods are

the currency

of the politica

ve not been traced. Neutrál Nevi

DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEES

DEMONSTRATE

to report beyond against

ndeavours which M Bomm

(and

reless Ser

APPROVED

Young Girls Seek Correspondents

[To The Editor. “China Malag under 20, who would welcome cor Sir-We are European sister

essfully secret enjoyment as though the respondence with any of exeen-big fair man was luxuriating la a European or Chinese read issued sense of power. And Alec had either sex desiring to extend the

power all right with those fangs knowledge of this to three and those red-hot shots he aimed Empire.

to

both

of the

SALES

valued at $35, the property of the Wing Sing Loong goldsmith firm, No. 63, Bonham Strand East, on Tuesday morning.

Society

thorn,

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