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CABLES.

EARLIER CABLES:

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US, FARMAMENTS. NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL

WASHINGTON, - May, lat. The Senate has, approved without lissenting vote and with little discussion the Naval Appropriation Bill providitis a tatal expenditure of $275,000,000, an In the course of the Midget debate in increase of $700,000 over the shm ap- The the House of Commons. Mr. Therwas proved by, the Reprisentatives,

BUDGET AFTERMATH QUESTIONS OF EMPIRE.

Lustes, April 19th.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 2ND, 1924

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FAR EASTERN CABLE OUR LONDON LETTER.

NEWS.

[ROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND CHINESE EGŐS

F

bould the British egg have to travel. round with a passport! It was only

KING SOLOMON'S MINES.

GIBRALTAR

fair that we should defend our eggs, and FOUND IN SPAIN NEAR ROCK OF poultry on this side of the water. Sunie Members wanted to know why if Chinese SECOND READING CARBLED FOR MKH-ggy were to be marked to disclose their

CHANDISE MARKS BILL..

origin the same step should not be en- forced in the case of Brussels sprouts And thers Trade Marks in China-Much Needed and Jerusalem artichokes:

was, of course, the classic instance of the Publicity, The Government and

sai sagen. Who was to tell how and where Singapore Base.”

A sausage originated! The whole tenour of the debate was reminiscent of Daunt Leo in the palliy days and the old, un di fashioned music-halls.

in

A SUJECT OF RIDICULE.

COSTOT

The site of King' Solonion's mine, it is now known, is tot in Africa, he had bee long supposed, but in Southern Spain, NEW CHINESE WAR LORD?

ar Gibraltar, in the valley of thơ

This romantic stream. Guadalquiver River, in still RUMOURS FROM «PEKING,

rich

al in deposits precious metals Archeologists while digging in the anci

called by the Romans Tra PERING, May 1st

Popular Seince, a [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] It is unofficially reported that the

Phoenician necropolis (city of this dead"). Certain inscriptions.

thum coming LONDON, March 13th.

to light, identify the place as the same bo spiritedly, refuted the idea that the CSeite, like the Representatives, voted Government contemplates recalling" Tsai

It is fairly obvious that the principal described in the Bible under the name of servatives are the only party jealous of a rider regarding the calling of a Caeng Hsun, whose opium' monapoly has Hanks IN CHINA,

letter published in the Time of air of Members was to laugh the Mer Tarshish and hences a great flood of naval and aerial armaments, conference,reated trouble in Kiangst, and appoint-Mare 11th on the subject of trade-marks is the Bill out wilt, a aberative light has been sheiluper the the position of the Empire.

is China, and signed by a number of clams joke. But the effort did not whole Old Testament acert of the dread-

mongrels power and opulence. He stated that out of thirty-two re-but the question of the number of Chang Shu Yuan tuli of Kiangsi.

It is further reported that Tsai Cheng leading British firms in that country, is succeed. It was in vain that the House

Two

fragmentary fnscriptions, one un solution of the jerial Conference,

#timely contribution to the discussion was reminded that we want to sell the the naval personnel is to be added two are at present being considered, twa

The sun to be appointed Minister of of one of the most important questions Chinese fanchester goods, for instance, pottery and the other on a broken pied of stone, were the chief trophies of the to the topies to he liscussed.

claiming attention by business and that we ought not to object to pay excavations. They indiente that the colony have Been definitely spposed by the

people. La an article which I sent you ment in the shape of millions of e85 of Tarshish was engaged in exporting per vider proposed that the invitation he War. La Chin becoming film of

pus weeks ago I referred to the fact the well-established law of the exchange Government, and twenty-eight are being!

not only extended to the participants

Egypt. [Tsai Cheng Hsun is a native of Tirthat the problem of trade-marks was of commodities and imports beitig set cous metal beship, into both Jaden And put into operation.

in the conference of 1921, but to such esin. He was Minister of War in 10 bring considered here by . Committee eff against exports. The fact is that

of the Federation of British Industries, many ex-Service meu bave started Mortuary uras, sarcophagi and other other pations as the Presidine might and later commanded the Kiangsi troop in conjunction with Chantlers of Compoultry farming, and there is

Chang Shu Yuan comes from Shantung. deen advisable. There is accordingly, received his early military training merge, the Chica Association, and other desire to asist them, the restriction of relies definitely place the date of the in people with interests in the Far East, the free import of eggs and other proriptions at 1000 B.C., the period when Solomon ruled. .65 Jerusalvar. Israel being un doubt in regard to the concurrence of in Japan. He participated in the Ass But it was impressed upon me that only duce from abroad being given as then at the crest of its worldly night. “A-

a very general allusion to the matter was means towards this enil. This argumrut number of gold and silver objects plate stripped of all ranks and decorations, desirable because negotiations were pre-carried weight and, apart from that, hurdlets and head ornaments were in the Congress to any Armaments Confer and Clihli political struggers and was ence the President umy ultimately call, A Presidential Mandate of 1952 pardoned celing between the British and Chinese there was a desire to placate the cluded in the find.

Governments. The Board of Trade" had Farners' Union. [him. I EARLIER CABLES. -

HOME TRAIN DISASTER. SIGNALMAN'S MISTAKE.

Losos, April 30th A sigralmáy giving, evideage at the enquiry into the Wembley train arident of April 28th, admitted that he forget- Fully passed the electric train on to the INCREASED ARMAMENTS URGED,

line on which the express was standing.

The fifth death as a result of the enlli-

sion, ocentred in hospital to-day.

A

-WASHINGTON, April 30th.

Chahar

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Now

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natural

WEALTH FROM TARSHIA.

The first Book of Kings tells how Solo the whole question well in hand, it was! In the result the Bill got a second mon's navy, unler Hiram. King of Tyre reading, though it is evident that came ones every three years from, Tarshish. The Etter in the Thers will have the Ministers are themselves divides in" bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes excellent effect of clearing the air opinion about the measure. Generally and peacock

A POSSIBLE OUTLET. JAPANESE AND INDOCHINA.

I alen informs the British public, and speaking, it is looked upon as a back- Jeremiah, the prophet, describes how LONDON, May 1st.

all others concerned wherever they may dear more towards Protection, and all silver sprend into plates" was suit to A naval plding programine to com-

Referring to the growing Franer be, that the proposed new law governing the fine talk about safeguarding the Saknon from Tarshish, and adds: Tar- plete aircraft carriers destroyers, and

the registration of traste-marks is not housewife when she goes to market ishish was the merchant by news of the AUSTRALIAN NAVÝ, submarine tenders and construct light fapanese entrate the diplomatic cor acceptable. There is nothing better than mere erewash The Conservatives voted multitude of all kinds of riches with sil venisers, modera sulanarines and other respondent of the Daily Telegraph men hablicity for a dispute of this descrip lidly for the Bill, and were reinforceel ver, iron, in and lead they traded in thy

tion. This, at all events, is the opinion y Liberals and fabour men. This it goes fuiry. LOOKING FORWARD,

units, is urged by Commanda-in-Chief|tions a report that the Governor-General of business interests in the city who into the Committee of the House of Com- Metaocesa. April goth.

muns, though how it will emerge from tioned. It seems to be one of the in that ardeal is a matter of curious in It is announced that the Government's Coontz in a statement given prominence of Indo-China on his coming visit to Japan cordially awelemme the letter above-men-

by the newspapers alleging inability of intends to negotiate an agreement for xca.ces where to borrow a well-worn terest nid much sperulation. naval programme for the next nine

large-scale ndmission of Japanese political catchword, Open Diplomacy

is the best palies. * years includes the construction of four the American fleet to mincesere faster Fight cratisers and some long-range crais-than ten knots, due to the slowness of emigrants to Indo-Ching. He adds that SINGAPORE AGUN ing saamarines, costing about a quarter the auxiliary ships and failure of the there is little doubt that France's main submarines to function in the work of purpose is to ensure against a possible of a million sterling each.

the fleet also severely criticising the Russo German alliance by means of the shortage of minesweepers and incom- Franco-Japanese defensive "pact. pleteness of anti-aircraft batteries on the older ships.

FRANCO-JAPANESE COMMERCE.

Panus. April 90th. Visent Ishii was recently discussing with . Piurare the conclusion of a Fennes Japanese coinmercial treaty. The Japanese Ambyeandor's proposals on the matter are being" ensidered by the ap-

propriate departments, -

THE WORLD'S SPORT.

HOME FOOTBALL.

3 LONDON, May 1st. Two First Division matches were de- ided to-day, Chelsea delenting Manches ter City by a goals to ene and Astor Villa ben füddersfichi 3-1..

DAVIS CUP.

BRITAIN BELOHEM.

Britain and Belgium are th mect in the first murd of the Davis Cup at Torquay

on the 10th instant. Britain will be re-

ANOTHER NAVAL RACE!

Lesbos, April 30th..

a

RUBBER PRODUCTION.

MINIMUM EXPORT MIXED.

Losmos. April :th.

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H

H. G. Well in The Outline of

of His- toy tries to prove that the Biblical ne counts of Salomon's importance are little more than poetic fables. He refers to the King reign that of brief little, Hebrew Kingdom," and compares the rola RECKLESS MOTOR DRIVERS.

Everything points to the prolability of tons of Salomen with other monarchs of **the relations of the Central gerit increase in the number of the time te There is a great deal of confused moterists on the roads in this country Africas chief of to-day with a rich and Many of them will, of Polsceries just made in Spain.now

Eungeut trading concerula Base, but nobedy whose opinion thinking and writing about the Singapore

Purse, be inexperienced drivers. This Th worth having is in a position to say what has raised the question how to make them to prove that Salmo ships, or will be the ultimate result. I have read sale for everyone, including those of his allies and tributaries, cursel been at some pains to try to disenver moterists themselves. Last year there whole Mediterranean Sea, bringing him the facts. It would that the was an alarmning, crop of accidents outrasures from distant points, during his Government are definitely onpied tu accourt of reckless or faulty motor drive rule in about 1000 B.C. the scheme.

Seriptural records say that his palaen not because there in

ing, and the time has arrived when seine certain amount of expert opinion essure of precgation is absolutely and temple were overlaid with gold, elabor [ately, decorated with statues of humari, against it. bat because in present circ necessary. stances they believe the

country cannot

The trouble is that so many people lious, osun and cherubim. It is officially announced that the afford it. On a very conservative stare buying motorcars who have hað nú In the House of Conimojis, Mr. John' Harris drew attention to the American percentage of the standard production probably a good deal more than this sum had the chance to agire à proper ronil Bill authorising construction of eight of rubber exportable on the minimum dats This is the central fact: but there if sense for skilful driving. In addition,

other points of importance.

It will be recalled fat before the have the small minority who are reck- new cruisers (each of ten thousand tons from Ceylon, the Straits, and the Malay

Labour Party had any hopes of coming motonets, and need to be suppress-

ed. Police traps go some way to regulate A barrister, writing in the Daily Mad He suggested that the Government sanald States from the quarter beginning May into power so scon as has happened they the career of the road hog, but i lys

When Lord Darling in the Hours of Party, strenuously apposed the approach the United States with regard 1st h fixed at 10.

creation of a base at Singapore. This spite of such vigilance many undesirables

manage to get through the police net. La declared that the law hard recognised. to the possibility of another naval con- ALCOHOL DRUG TRAFFIC IN was quite in line with their vowed The best suggestion so far is that instead betting as a vice, he was speaking with pacifist professions in matters of inter feruice with the object of preventing

national policy, And apart from that, of keeping a bright look out for drivers has care for sccuracy thin he would have Singapore said not provide work for whose only crime is a turn for speed indulged in had his statement been from

over the miles-an-hour margin, tha the Hunch new race in the construction of cruisers.

BOMBAY, May: Int

nemployed in this country. Now, ho police sild concentrate on the reckless The truth is that the law has never made Mr. MacDonald in reply referred ta the statement made by President Coolixion The Excise Committee "appointed by "ver, the Labour Party hold the reins motorist, who is a public nuisance and afup its mind about, beiting, and herein it. of power with full responsibility for the

tween the man for..woman) - who drives!ul public opinion wagers were simply on April 22nd that it appeared imprac. the Bombay Government has recommend immediate destinies of the British Em danger. There is a vast difference bis au acenrate mirror of the general courtes pire, and they are in somewhat of a

A car fast but with skill, and the in "At common law ticable at present to attempt any lured the gradual extinction of the alcoños difficulty, is it to be expected that they ridual who drives a car in a reckless regardesh

will at the first time of asking eat their

ther limitation of armaments. He was dra glad to find Mr. Coolidge agreed with

prescaird by calbert. Godfree, Kingscote the attitude the Labour Government had and Woosum; and Belgium by Washer, Fatways taken up that before discussing Delavelere, Wason and another..

the limitation of armanients we must Grat | remove some of the difficulties in the political situation of Europe.

HOME RACING.

THE CITY AND SUBURBAN

Lases, April 30th.

The result of the City and Suburban

AVILA ****

T'hula (100/0)

Verdict (5/1)

Grerk Bachelor (81)

3

Ten ran. Won by three lengths: two lengths between second and third..

LATEST CABLES.

PORTUGUESE FLIGHT.

Lenox, May 1st. The Portuguese airmen have arrived tit Bashire.

MALARIA IN ODESSA.

Moscow, May 1st. Malaria is ruging in many districts of the Odesan Iovince.

BAKU CRUDE OIL

Moscow, May 1st

Two million tons of crude oil were pro- lucel in Baku during the past six

zmonths.

EARLIER CABLES.

GAS.

NO EXPORT FROM THE UNITED

STATES.

trafic.

INDIA.

:

i

chopresy of THE DAILY BULLETIN. BRITAIN AND THE CONSORTIUM

A PEKING REPORT DENIED BY

BRITISH LEGATION.

PEKING, April Both.

nate the cost would be £10,000,000, and

RS

circumstances, they are doing what any

experience of driving, and have nevéri

manner.

BETTING AND THE LAW. CONFUSION AND INCONSISTENCY.

As contracts between the parties betting, and any mony won or lost, was own words! It is hot in hinn nature It is computed that one-person in every treeenble be aetion ofore the curta

The only exemptions were cases where the to expect mything of the kind. In the forty of the population of Great Britanult of a bet could by decided only by political organisation wald do if promotorists are being extended something perly led-they are playing for time, and the opportunity of getting out of a tight will have to be done in the interests of all users of the King's highway to maks place."

the roads reasonably Safe-H.B.

THE WAY OUT

now has enr, and as the ranks of tha

BATTLE HONOURS.

presentation of indecent evidvice a

where the action was calculated injure third

the law.

persons or to produce a breach of The Gaming Act of 1945 rendered all contracts in flur forin of bets or wagers wid and unenforceable in the curt The statement is oficially made thu

It did not, however, declare that to bet The British Legation emphatically week that ro atzouncement will be rabi

It

enacted that a man lished until the Desginions have been

was not pay who

his gambling debts denies the report in the local Press to consulted. This is, of course, absolutely

"The delst The lists of Battle Honours to be borne the effect, that, it a nieeting of the correct as a matter of policy and proce

was merely a debt of honour" dare. The opinions of the misious hate, on the colours of line regiments are now will not be sued for the money. The

On the other hand, if a man, having British, American, French and Japanese in furt. been sought in the last few days being published as they receive the ap Ministers on the 22nd inst, Sir J. W. R.hut some delay is inevitable before to pruval of the War Offer. Ladividual meat money by reason of a bet, made a fresh

information is available for the Cabinet who gave their lives in the war es compromise to the winner to pay the money

memorated in the communiting which went return for some new consideration, the WASHIxoras. April 29th. The military committee of the House Macleay, having received instructions and thereafter for the world at larg

I think that this fairly sums up the them forth. That local corporate memory was, and is, a contract which the law will of Representatives tus reported on the from his home Government that the position at the time of writing. but is deeply cherished by all who are the enforce against him. Cases have occurred Bill providing for the Government's ne

extracting his

his money from recal quisition of all the helium gas-bearing policy of the Consortium was in contra gather that in well-informed quarters it essential spirit of citizenship. But the in- in which the winner of a bet has succeedest

Is considered that, although the scheme dividual was received and fused to an in fields in the United States...

vention of the policy of the Labour for a naval base at Singapore is not deadather community, whose inspirations and citrant loser by something very like black The measure is sponsored by the Secre

brought a legal actions in a political sense here, it may be re-thods transformed him from a civilian mail, though he could turies for War and the Navy and Depart Government, explained to his colleagues

garded as indefinitely postponed. It is into a soldier, and from which all his a penny if he had brous, have recovered Belting is not regarded as morally ment for the Interior.

that the British Banking Group would a very, awkward proposition for a Labour acquired military value were inseparable, on the original bet.

Government new to office and quite in- It was a battalions and regiments that

internten lived and learned, strove and enleu wrong. The Acts of Parliament on the have to modify their palley."

experienced in handling big national questions Lord Beatty and his lated, trusted and feared. No kind of subject seem on the whole merely to eca colleagues at the Admiralty consider association 50 completely alcorbs the sider that it is not right that people should

moment into money-making. that the proposed base in the Far East human self into a higher unity of thought waste the time of the courts in turning

opsectial to our Imperial interess, and action; pone creates a new identity

It also provides for research and ex- perimental work with the gas, and pro- hibits its export.

A U.S. STATE GOVERNOR. TEN YEARS IN PRISON..

INDIANAPOLIS. April 30th.-

Mr. McCray, ex-Governor of Indiana, has been sentenced to ten years in. At lanta prison and fined ten thousand dollars, for using the wails in a frauda lent scheme, by which by false pretences, in connection with the operation of cattle ranches. He was also accused of forgery of uotes..

LATEST CABLES. REUTER'S AMERICAY SERVICE SEVERE TORNADOES IN U.S MANY DEATHS IN SOUTH-EASTERN US, REPARATION EXPERTS

STATES.

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 30th. Tornadoes swept the south-eastern States and forty-seven deaths occured

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LATEST CABLES.

WASHINGTON April 30th.. President Coolidge has received Gen- eral Dawes and other Americas members of the experts committees, who have thus concluded their reparation services.

in various uities and riverside mills. In is understood they have received the

Anderson, South Carolina, a mill and fifty

wellings were blown down,

May 1st Further, accounts of the tornadoes that swept the south-eastern States show that fifty, were killed and many missing and injured. In South Carolina alone 19 were killed; in Alabama and Georgin three were killed and 40 injured;"

In North Carolina the path of the storms is estimated to be 2,000 miles Jong Sixtech were killed at Morrill Hill, South Carolina, where two toran does converged. Ficklia, in Georgia, is virtually destroyed. Damage is estim ated at $10,000,000.

President's congratulations.

FEDERAL BANK'S MOVE. New Yoan, April 30th. The Federal Reserve Bank has lowered its re-discount rate from four and a half to four per cent.

U.S. MINING DISASTER.

BODIES RÉCOVERED,

WHEELINO (USA), April 30th Hitherto seventy-nine bodies of the entombed miners have been recovered.

MURDERS AT SHANGHAI

FIVE IN A WEEK:

SHANGHAI, April 30th Two more cases of murder of Chinese by revolver shots are reported, waking five within a week. " LUNGHAI RAILWAY EXTENSION.

SHAN:BAI, May 1st.

The Lunghai Railway announces the cpening of the new section between Chengchów, a distance of 202 kilometres.

AT SHANGHAI: BILLIARDS

STEVENSON'S EXHIBITIONS.

SHANGHAI, April 30th.

Bus betting in certain places may render

it is obvious that any Government and penonality at once so mystic 43 the fransgresor a criminal before the fas

And

lottery which is really an organ- must hesitate before turning down surb real. It was battalionship that, set the impressive weight of authority. Public standards of duty define the goal of sed gamble is declared by an Act se alk opinion represented by what one hears effort, held forth the graal of honour -1698 to

punishable Ou the whole, the law relating to hr in London among people acquainted with and furnished the power to victory. That promoters are puno istros, suits world affairs is for fallasing the lead of the battalion should justify itself (and

is mor complicated and confused The Admiralty all the time. The sugges through the battalion the regiment) was

our jurisprudence. tion that the Singapore Base would be the wipe aspiration for which all he then any other option in any sense u menace to Japan is re- was cousted, well lost. It is the achieve Mr. Justin MeCardie quite rightly mal ments of battalions that are in the truest of is recently Fur veral centuries Chin garded as mere tosh and silliness,

sense the history of the war, and no words course of Itgislation has been remarkable will be more pregnant to our generation The confusion and inconsistency of thes Belting CHINESE 2008.

We had a re-hash of all the old gibes than the names of those fields of honour, prent day is equally striking.

certain specific methods or places and japes about Chinese eggs in the endurance, and suffering that have written in course of the Second reading debate on themselves upon countless hearts and lives, criminally punishable, yet, speaking, broad the Merchandise Marks Bill in the House The Jusic is the heritage of the race, 15, betting in itself in perfectly legal.

The whom legislation and law on bet of Commons. Rear-Admiral Sir Gay often most precious when it is saddest.

extent a Gaunt was the mover. At first blush the battk-naues of the Great War seldom ting and gaming, is to a large it may seem strange that this gallant have a crackling resonance: their blended gumis în policy and obscure in its work- ex-Nieval officer should be concerned to memories of pain and valour, of all that defend the barndoor her, but he happens is entailed in the sublimities of courage to sit for an agricultural constituency and constancy, ar too solemusing, for At the Town Hall, Stevenson scored in Yorkshire. He certainly excelled him arregauer Le Cateand Ypres,

self as a champion of the British Thienmi and Suvin such are the 800 against Porter's 719, the latter re

Chinese or any other species of foreign words of power that will contine to probe In an interview with Mr. Wickham ceiving 350.

egg, contending that the latter ought to all that is inmost of British triotism Stead, reported in the Reife of Redir Stevenson made a break of 125, and be marked with the country of origin and rekindle what is most pure and selfs Lord Haldane says: The story that

so that the guileless. British housewife in human feeling. Their glory is in what once declared Germany to be my Porter 60.

when she goes a shopping can know what was givin and not in what was got, and spiritual home is a legend. Some in that glory imprinted on the colours time before the war, when I was talking May 1st she is paying for

The story was told tgain of the e88 of his regiment every man who played his at the Humphrey Wards about Lotze to from China which was opened and a own part, will feel himself to have a true Professor, Oncken, cf, Heidelberg, I said lizard emerged. This story fist saw the share, Such things are for remembrace To Letze I owe much of my spiritu light when the Bill was before the House and not for oblivion For it is as true education. Writing afterward, Onckem last year and was eclipsed owing to the for us a fon the audience of Pericles that made out that I had said that Germany, 163 adjournment for the vacation, It was only by being bold and knowing their was my spiritual home- somewh

suggested that British eggs should be duty" can maskind attain to the mastery different matter. But these things wi marked, "Why," asked Bir Guy Gaunt, of info The Observer.

happen

At the Town Ball, Stevenson' was in grent form, Johnson only scoring 100 while the professional scored 800,

Stevenson's best breaks were 102, and 138.

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