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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1930.

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

The following typhoon warnings have been received by the Americaa Consulate General from the Manila Observatory,

Manila, 19, 3.43 p.m.-Typhoon in about 142deg. Long, Ni, and Sdeg. Lat. N., direction unknown.

Manila, 20, 6 a.m.-Typhoon in about 141deg. Long. E.. and adeg. Lat. N., moving W.N.W.

Manila, 20, 7.4 p. Cyclone or typhoon near or over Tap, direc-

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MARRIAGE. STANCE DICKMANN.-On May 17, at Shanghai, HELMANN STANGE to HELENE. DICKMANN. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. DICKMANN, Hilversum, Holland.

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An observer writes that "There can be no private right to do a public wrong." By the same token can there be any public right to- do a public wrong?

Dr. Raymond Unwin, addressing. the London Society at the Royal Society of Arts, said. "If London were spread out on the basis of ten houses per acre and four per- sons per dwelling the London re gion could absorb the rest of the population of England and Wales and yet have some spate space, for op that basis the London region. would hold 16,000,000 people. It is not the laud we use but the space we spoil by sprawling about which causes the trouble. There is ample space to continue growing. for hundreds of yeare. "What we need is to group the industries in self- contained unita, arranged for con venience and efficiency, and each New York Stock Exchange exceed unit provided with a well-equipped ed 1,100,000,000 while total securi- residential town having its centres ties listed had an aggregate market of retail business, education, re value of more than 8100,000,000,000, creation and social intercourse, its of which share issues comprised playing fields, and fill that goes to

themake a good life." roughly $64,000,000,000. Ás market value on January 1, 1925,

in something

excess of was 980,000,000,000, there has been an increase in five. $40,000,000,000..

The increasing interest that the American people is feeling in securities is evidenced by the fact that at the beginning of this year

Here, probably, lies the main ex- planation of the painful and alarming" figures quoted by the banker, and-if such is the ense

The news appearing elsewhere of the cause is no less painful and

Roger Vincent, who has already the suicide of a Japanese naval pedalled his way across the Eug alarming than the effect. It is officer by slashing his abdomen with fish Channel, hopes to ride a bicycle a sword affords ghastly proof of across the Atlantic this summer. common knowledge that bands of the bitter opposition to the recently He rides a bydrocycle, which is an brigands-sometimes described as signed, Naval Treaty which exists ordinary bicycle mounted on pon in service circles in Japan. The toons and fitted with a waterwheel armies and sometimes not so de- position was explained in an operated by the pedals. He can editorial article yesterday, to which make up to ten miles an hour, and signated, though no less depre- there is nothing to add. Cemman- the frail craft is nerez in danger der Kusuraki was a member of the of capsizing for the pontoons are datory-have been for years roam Naval General Staff, which strong-Alltd with cork and weigh enough ing up and down the country.ly resents what is regarded as the to keep the bike, upright:

interference of the Government in Peaceful and hard-working farmers matters of national defence. The and peasants have been cruelly Emperor is the supreme bead of the Army and Navy, and the General robbed by these marauders, and Staffs of the services consider that Any action by the Government on have been deprived of their crops, military and naval affairs is an the number of shares listed on the live stock, and other property. In impertinent if not actually dis- loyal-interference in matters with such circumstances it is not to be which it has no concata beyond voting the necessary funds asked BACHMAN-On May 16, at Shanghai, wondered at that there has been a for. The political reaction to Com-

FERDINAND GEORGE CARD BACK- MAN, aged 34.

shrinkage in the production of rice Kander Kusakari's suicide may be very serious. Acts of self-destruc GARLAND. On May 3, ad Hweisten,

tion for political of patriotic Kansu, SUSIE J. GARLAND, of the and wheat, and that the sbortage motives have a great effect on

Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the China Inland Mission, from has been made good by increased public opinion in Japan, and with

years of famous Indian poet and mystic, typhus fever, aged 80 years. ...

so much hostility already aroused

who arrived recently in Marsóilics · Hot-On May 14, at Shanghai, imports of cereals. In addition to against the Government on

on a visit to Europe, was interview- RASHES LITTLE CARLSEN HOST, robberies by wandering bands of Naval Treaty issue, it would not During athletic contests in Poland ed by the correspondent of the aged 38 years,

be surprising if the Kusakari in recently two distressing incidents Excelsior. He said: "I wish to Household AMMONIA. Sims. On May 15, at Stroud, brigands and "armies" of various cident leads to the Premier's re-occurred. While an amateur foot raise my brothers above sadness. I

Gloucestershire, England, Mrs.kinds the unhappy Chinese farmer

signation.

ball match was proceeding at Czen-have come to study the West on stochowa a storm "broke out, and their soil. It is for you who rule M. A. SIMS, mother of W. A. SIMS, of H.B.M. Supreme has had to battle against drought The French Minister of Justice lighting killed one of the players to learn that true wellbeing lics Court, Shanghai. (By cable.)

Mr. Raoul Peret, has named as his and injured 12 other person. At in love, not riches." Asked what and pests, while the impost of confidential secretary, in charge of an athletic meeting near Lodz he thought of Mr. Gandhi, Sir the important secret documents of lance thrown by one of the comRabindranath declared: "He is. innumerable taxes upon goods in the French Courts his own daugh- petitors hit a youngster of six great, but he is as the same time transit from one province to an- ter, Mile. Odete Peret. This is the years of age who crossed the ath-both a leader and a slave."!

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HONG KONG, MAY 21, 1930.

CHINA'S, “WHITE PERIL.'

the Bank of China takes a very grove view of the agricultural situation, and no doubt the Food Commission which has been estab

ment.

The

Travelling with an Australian passport, Mrs. Ethel Parker (54), giving & South Kensington hotel address, was, at Westminster Police Court fined £30 for attempted evasion of Customs duty at Victoria Station. Mrs Parker, a first-class passenger by & Continental boat

While practising at the rets at Sudbury Hall, Suffolk, the resi- dence of Mr. B. H. Lyon, the Gloucestershire

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When Mrs. Annie Elliot plead- Court to having gone through ed guilty in the Glasgow Sheriff form of marriage while her hus hand was still alive, it was stated that the couple lived in the same Club captain, Charlie Parker, the house in Bridgeton for over six Gloucestershire slow bowler, was years, and during that period he struck by a ball on the left leg. addressed her only to ahuse her. was X-rayed at the Gloucester In- firmary where it was found that the er solicitor stated that she com- mitted bigamy through despera-

lished at Nanking will give most train, was stated by Mr. Ladhams, bone was injured and that theretion. Sheriff Mercer, who remark

serious consideration to the disas trous state of affairs which has been revealed,

INDIAN

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"ATROCITIES."

was a suspicion of a fracture. !

moned at Wealdstone recently for Geo. Lewis of Maidavale, was sum- dangerous, driving of a motor-car. The prosecution was the sequel to

I

ed that the woman must have had au intolerable existence, - said that

so far as his experience went In the case was absolutely exceptional the circumstances he thought he was justified in diamissing". Mrs. Elliot with an admonition.

prosecuting for the Customs, to have described herself as a visitor from Australia, staying over here twelve months, who had brought with her various silk articles hought in Australia. A prevention officer, challenged soms of the gar- ments, and Mrs. Parker then made accident at Sudbury-bill, Har- row, when the defendant's. car Some remarkable figures were quoted

declaration to the mounted the pavement and scatter: and signed effect abe had before stated. Sooned a party of schoolgirls. Eight of A St. Louis man who was quar- by the general manager of the Bank

after she asked that the paper the children were injured. Lewis tered in a small French village might be destroyed, expressed re- of China at the recent annual meet Two weeks ago Reuter cabled some gret, and agreed that her dresses the car for the Brst time when the up an intimate friendship with told the Bench that be was driving during the war, where he struck were purchased on the Continent.accident happened. He was order- ing of that institution. Readers most sensational stories about atro-

one of its citizens, has received. The penalty was paid. will remember that the speaker cities alleged to have beez com-

ed to pay a fine of £15 and £3 3s. word that his friend thus acquir- costs, and his licence was suspendeded has bequeathed him an old brick called attention to the painful mitted at Sholapur by rioters.

for three years."

house valued at $27,000. Kindness does not always pay in such large and alarming" fact that China last They were said to have been scired

Alderman Sir Harold Downer, faancial returns, but it always year imported rice and wheat to with demoniacal fury," and seized

who presided for the first time at pays. the enormous value of 200 million a head constable and burned him

don last month, in disposing of a the Guildhall Justice Room in Lon.

It is really absurd, de-alive.

number of summonses against mo "Five more policemen are dollars.

torists and others for minor traffic clared this Chinese banker, that an missing, and it is believed that they

offences, said that, a serious matter The Royal Canadian Mounted | with which magistrates had to deal agricultural country such as China were first blinded and their bodies Police, known throughout the world was the obstructing car. Motorists should have to import large quan- then thrown down a well." To-day for getting their men, will assist could not expect to be allowed to

in the effort to stop rumrunning garage their cars in the Cityby, sometimes going, thirty, and tities of foodstuffs from other coun- we are informed by Reuter that an across the Canadian border. The streets. The unattended car was tries, and be complained that the oficial report issued in Bombay, by come famous for

"Royal Mounties may now be not only a temptation to thieves, Chinese Government had failed to the Government says it is not true cases.

getting their but was frequently a great nuisance

and sometimes a source of danger. recognize the seriousness of the situation. A vernacular paper, dis- that policemen were tied together cussing this question recently, re- and burned alive, or that one had marked that the Chinese for cen-his eyes gouged out, or that two

were thrown down a well." "Certain

turies have been accustomed to use ailver for currency, and, zice for food-both articles being white.officers, are still unaccounted for, China wants the price of silver to but it is hoped that all the miss be kept up and that of rice to being policemen will be found." kept, down, but the bontrary has

It appears probable that de happened in both cases, hence the Chinese

meninen] fury" was not confined be said to be threaten. may ed by a white peril."

to the angry millworkers at Sholo It is difficult to obtain reliable pur, but also seized some of these figures relating to Chinese affairs, responsible for collecting and dis other than those included in the tributing news of the riots The reports of the Maritime Customs situation in India is serious enough In 1928 the import of rice was given without resorting to the circulation as 181 million picula; the following of unfounded. atrocity" stories. year the figure went up to 21 Reuter said it is believed-by millions, and in 1928 came down whom was not stated that fire to 12 millions; last year-accord policemen were blinded and thrown ing to the Chinese banker quoted down a well, but the burning alive

The stomach of a pig, dried and pulvarized; has been found to be

for per an effective treatmera nicious bernia, The French Academy of Medicine has studied to be as good as the feeding of raw the new care which it pronounces liver to anemic persons, and much more agreeable to take..

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George Feel, the last surviving grandson of John Feel, has died at Keswick in his eighty-ninth year. He was the younger son of the eldest son of John Peel. As a boy he was taken hunting by his fam cus grandfather on his pony Dob-

forty miles a day bunting. He often recalled with pride his grand- father's hunting prowess and his wonderful control of the hounds.

Local Notes and Events

Mr. A. L, Montes, golf champion of the Philippine Talaids, was a passenger passing through on the President Taft. He is returning to his home, Manile, P.I.

Among the passengers arriving by the N.D.L. 8.3. Aller were Mr. G. A Pentreath, Mr. Robert Arndt, Mr. Show Kwan Hoi and Dr. and Mrs. L. A Ling and three children.

Mining Administration's mines for The total output of the Kailan

the week ending May 3 mounted to 101,204 tons, and the sales during the period to 121,053 tons,

The Central Theatre, Queen's

An adjourned ordinary general meeting of the China Const Officers Road Central, which will open Guild will be held at the Guild. Office. 67, Des Voeux Road Central, very soon, will have for its first (David House) to-day at five p.m.

picture, reproduced on Western Electric sound equipment, Para-

Magistrate for hawking without an musical romance. The Love Par Appearing before the Kowloon mount's all talking, singing, and appropriate licence, s Chinese Women who carried a baby in her ade, featuring Maurice Chevalier arms was cautioned that if she re- and beautiful Jeanette MacDonald. peated the offence, she would be It was shown in Shanghai for 22 given a term at the gaol.

days and broke all box office re- cords in New York, tickets were

According to an advertisement sold for $11 for the opening night. appearing elsewhere in this issue, “The Love Parade" is a tuneful the public are notified that in con- extravagance concerning the in... nection with the exportation of timacies and intrigues about the gold bars and importation of silver throne of a mythical kingdom, or coins the ruling also applies tol rather queendom, with Jeanette silver coins already shipped to MacDonald playing the queen and China

Maurice Chevalier starred as her military attaché, who is recalled The returns of the Medical Officer been involved in numerous scandal. from a foreign capital for, having of Health for the week ending May ous affairs with the lovely ladies of Among the passengers on the 17, show that there was again the diplomatic circle, The Love President, Taft is Mr. Max Murray heavy rate of mortality amongst the Parade" has ten original songs, who is connected with the Daily Chinese from tuberculosis, the numwonderful settings and lavish cos Nere of London. He has been ber being 69. There were also two tumes making a pleasure tour through deaths from typhoid, three from Japan and will probably stay here small-pox, one from influenza and for a while.

Beven from malaria.

Mr. Wen. Anderson, the loent secretary of the Trinity College of Music, London, has just received a the total import was 10 million of a head constable was stated aaationa commencing on Monday, June cable to arrange the local examina- picula. No occasion for alarm here definite fact, and not as a belief, and continuing until Friday,

seeing that last year's importa or even a suspicion. It is good to June 6. tion of rice was about half the observe that the Bombay Govern amount imported in 1927. If the mont has officially denied these hanker's figures for last year's im- alleged atrocities, and it is most are accurate, there has been regrettable that such falsehoods an enormous expansion in the should have been broadcast to the figures for wheat and four brought world, into China. In round figures it

the totals in piculs are as follows s

ports are

Everyone knows that angry mobs are apt to commit acts of violence, SEE WHEAT, YLOVE.

and the wildest stories quickly 1028 903,000 6,000,000 1999 8,663,000 17,835,000 get into circulation, especially in These totals indicate an extra Eastern countries. It is the duty ordinary increase in imports of of those responsible for collecting wheat and four, and it would be and distributing news to take the interesting, to Kw the Tenson B

therefor," The manager of the publicity to false reports, and no China Bank gave a hint as to one doubt this denial by the Bombay reason why more foodstuffs are Government will make all Press being imported-bandits proy upon correspondents in India more care The Publishers & Printers (Kelly & Waith Ltd.) hope to have the the innocent people who till the ful in their selection of news for work on the market on the lat June 1980

The abscription liat definitely closes on the 81st inst.

circulation to the world

For the theft of a plank of wood, the property of the Wing Sing building contractors, & Chinese who was sentenced to gaol for a term of six months in March last, was given another four months by Mr. Whyto-Smith yesterday,

Looking Back 25 Years,

Mr. Cecil Clementi, Assistant Rarely has a more distinguished Registrar General, has been ap cart than that appearing in George pointed Policy Magistrate and Fitzmaurice's The Locked Door Assistant Lead Officer in the New at the Queen's Theatre to-day, been Territories Hong Kong Daily gathered into a single scene. In the 'ress, May 22, 1905. *** vivid sequences of this all-dialogue Male neoEME United. Artiste picture, Rod La Looking Back 50 Years. Extradition-proceedings were Roque, Barbara Stanwyck, William Yesterday morning about three

sedilhaud und Batts. Bradzan annesz. 1 o'clock the western land.

E. Lindsell at the Central as do Mack Swain, Zasu Pitts, Eastern market fell in with a crash, Magistracy, against a Chinese who Mary Mestager, Harry Stubbs, owing to ravages in the woodwork is wanted by the Central authorities Clarence Burton and Edward by white ante. Fortunately the so- for alleged robbery and murder in Dillon. Of this cast four were cident occurred early, otherwise Chinese territory. The murder of brought directly from Broadway somes live must have been lost. two men and the theft of two Mestaver, Stubbs, Miss Stanwyck, As it was, three men were slightly buffalots are involved in the case and William Boyd The two last injured Hong Kong Daily Prens "Aweek's remand was granted... named are popular stage atëra:" May 21, 188