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WEATHER REPORT.

The Manchestar or Birmingham industrialist bas merely (1) to find Yesterday's weather report, fore-out what his Manchurian and "east and remarks, issued by the Mongolian prospects want, (3) make Royal Observatory at 3.30 p.m., it, (3) haut his product 12,000

stated:-

The Northern depression is cen- tral to the west of Tokyo. The Tongking depression is central

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miles by ses and land, (4) induce The short but expressive word an allegedly hostile prospective pur- damn" may not be worth honey chaser to shake hands and be to the countless thousands who use to friends, (3) successfully meet the it each day in giving vent to their the north of Pakhoi.

keen competition of other nations feelings, but when George Bernard Local Forecast:-S.W. or vari-whose labour is infinitely cheaper Shaw uses it, it is worth at least able winds; moderate; generally and where employers are not so £30-be thinks. Shaw recently re- overcast; occasional rain."

heavily taxed, and (8) the unem-ceived a letter from a woman asking ployment problem in Britain is for a free copy of his book "An solved. It is nstounding that. first Intelligent Woman's Guide to LLOYD GEORGE, then Mr. BALDWIN.

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HONG KONG, JUNE 0, 1930.

HOW CHINA MIGHT HELP BRITAIN.

WHILE the rival political parties in the House of Commons are bicker-

ing at each other about the cause and cure of unemployment, a writer in the "Empire Review explains

the effect China might have in

helping to solve the unemployment question in Britain." The present

situation, says the writer in ques- tion, is Auch na to demand that every thinking man search his brains for a solution. Manufactur-

ers elamour for more markets, and more markets means less unemploy ed" this seems to be a self-evident

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The Association of Dutch Rubber Growers in Batavia recently report- ed that 11f Dutch,-313 British, 30 Continental, and 38 Dutch East Indian rubber companies would Best," participate in the rubber restric- West, Home's

tien scheme which beging this evidently expresses the view of Mr month in the Dutch East Indies and Coolidge, for after visiting Florida elsewhere. For scientific purposes, and California, he has finally pur-continuation of tapping will be chased a new home in his old home allowed over

hectares, including the east coast of town.

Sumatra.

aa Brea of 290

Roumanian political and socjal

As many cats as foxes dis every circles were recently thrown into a

year to give their coats for the fever of excitement by reports of adornment of women, according to. quarrel in the Royal Family statistics compiled at the Intena- of opinion between Queen Mario last month. Rabbits are the most.. The cause appears to be a difference

tional Fur. Fair held in Leipzig and Prince Nicholaa concerning the important furbearing animals, as Prince Carol to return home. This quired annually to be transformed advisability of allowing, ex-Crown

over 200,000,000 rabbit skits are re- quarrel came to 's head on May 10,

inta ermine, chinchilla, seal coney, when special Te Deum services were held in Bucharest Cathedral. Cod-modest names. Real chinchilla is foxaline, and, furs bearing more trary to custom, Queen Marie's hame was omitted from the prayer

now so rare that only 500 real skins. which invoked divine protection for were on the market last year. Cat sking are much in demand; more the Royal Family. Queen Marie, than 1.750,000 are used by furriers: enraged at this slight, immediately annually. left the city and refused to attend

military parade.

Socialism" for a society she had just formed. "Damn it, No1" the letter, "A woman's society that Shaw wrote across the bottom of

cannot afford 15 shillings for a copy of my book has no right to exist." He returned the letter and a fort | ANOTHER VIEW OF INDIA. night later received a short note from the woman, saying she had taken the letter to a bookseller who, in return for it, had given her & copy of Shaw's took. At the bot- tom of this letter, the famous author wrote: What fools women are If you had taken it to the right place you would have got 250 for it. William Maxwell, a publisher of Edinburgh, who said he was approving the lunching with Shaw when he re-miracles performed by Canadian ceived the letter, said the author and American martyrs, the Pope hoped the woman tried to raise the made a speech in which he deplored £30 on the second autograph. the fact that immorality in art is becoming increasingly manifest. He cited the case of the present art been boycotted by the Patriarch of exhibition at Venice, which has Venice. His Holliness also lament ed the fact that the education pro vided by the schools does not always conform to the Christian idea of

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We hear so much howadays disruptive forces in India, of "tyranny" and persecution," of the alleged exploitation of helpless poverty-stricken millions, that it is a pleasant relief to take note of activities in another direction. For example, one of the greatest irri- gation schemes ever attempted is now progressing on the sun-scorched deserts of the Sind, where at an expense of about 13 million sterling British engineers, are building a series of canals and a barrage across the River Indus, by which it is hoped eventually to turn 40,000,000 acres of desert into fields of waving

grain.

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During the reading of decrees certification of

education.

the hospital of Klausenburg, in A strange case is being studied in Rumania. One of the patients, twenty-nine years old, Susan Fekete, has reached the height of nearly seven feet, and is still growing. The doctors believe that an opera tion will have to be performed, as her unnatural growth may result in

Miss Colleen Moore, the cinema death. She was brought to hospital

At actress, was" recently granted au suffering from appendicitia. birth she was of abnormal size, and interlocutory decree of divores from She has ber husband, Mr. J. L. McCormick, she developed rapidly.

Miss Moore.. seven brothers and sisters, all of the film producer.

stated that her husband was al- normal size.

ways in an ugly mood when her A protest against American Uni-friends called, and never apolo-

gised. versity degrees for ministers was made at the General Assembly of

While four other passengers, in the Presbyterian Church of Eng land, in London. The Rev. J. J. cluding two women, looked on in Tex Anding, the pilot, Munro, of Newcastle, declared uni terror, versities in the Southern States fought a drunken passenger who specialised in the degree of Doctor tried to seize the controls of an of Philosophy. One man, when aeroplane flying at a height of 3,000 thesis on the drunken man unconscious. The man that he had written considering together. with the net-work of the cold storage of chicken meat. At regained consciousness as the ma- one university you can get a degree chine landed at the Holmes Airport. Jumping to the ground, he began China as a market let us glance minor canals that will carry water for everything, from elementary throwing stones at the pilot. Off-

to the remoter sections of the desert millinery to celestial mechanics,

Mr. Munto continued. We do cials came to the pilot's assistance

aerodrome.

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It is expected, following negotin- tions between the Marconi "Com- pany, the Gramophone Company and the Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., that an agreement will be reached regarding the con- ditions under which royalties are to be charged on wireless sets sold to the public. The object of the proposed agreement in to enable bodying any of the patents owned manufacturers to make sets em by the three companies, and it is stated that such an arrange-- ment would be beneficial both to Isteners and manufacturers

The alternate extremes of pessi- mism, and optimism over the out- come of the London naval confer- eace remind one of the man who wished to sell his car. He had hopes of receiving 8400 for it: he did not actually expect to get more than 100; but he finally received $200. Not so much as he hoped, but more than be expected.

It is expected that the great

barrage a

mile across the Indus will be completed in 1932, but it will be several years before the four great canals from the left bank fact. Let us then turn to Chip of the Indus, and the three from asked how he got his degree, replied feet. Anding: finally knocked the waiter are concerned. The Prince

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Hungary's reputation for gallan try and good manners has suffered owing to an affair in which Prince Michael Odescalchi, one of the richest aristocrats, and a head

refused to pay for his dinner at the Paris Grill, explaining that he had no money with him. The debt was paid by the head walter," who was eventually forced to bring an action to recover the sum after

for a moment et, political con- | vastnesses. Although the soil of the not want our ministers to become and escorted the man from the more polite efforts had failed. The

ditions, a glance which takes the Sind deserts is known to be exa lot of Wild West showmen."

author almost half his article to express in writing.

This survey satisfactorily com- pleted, the reader is informed that "studying China markete and im- proved selling organization are the only means we have whereby we

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to

the

One can sympathize with that member of the Byrd party who, after almost two years on the ice, desires nothing so much as to get into a linen suit and a panama bat, At the same time, a little ice now and then will go well with the con- ditions that make such an ensamble

case went against the waiter, how- ever, as restaurant proprietors and their servants are not allowed to sue for debts incurred by guests.

A judgment which is likely to draw a protest from feminists in Egypt was delivered recently at the Abdin Sharia Court, Cairo. Egyptian woman had brought

An

suit against her husband, claiming an allowance for the education "of her daughter. The claim was re- jected, the Judge maintaining that, as there

was' no pro- vision in the canonical law of Islam for the education of girls, girls should not be educated.

gross.

tremely fertile, lack of sufficient rainfall has hitherto made it im- Fleet Engineer William Gless possible to grow crops on the great pole. retired, who has died at Waterlooville, near Portsmouth, in aren that will be touched by the his 95th year, is believed to have prescut project. When the whole been the oldest officer of the British area has been reclaimed, populated Navy. He entered Woolwich Dock and tapped by railroads, one more yard for training 84 years ago, in

1848, and went through the Crimean desirable. step will have been made toward War and the Abyssinian campaign, ridding India of the danger of accompanying Lord Napier

Formation of a syndicate of can help ourselves." That sounds famine, which in by-gene years haa Magdala. He was a shipmate of international producera which, will the late Lord Fisher in control 92 per cent. of the world's fairly simple, but it appears that; from time to time held large Warrior.

output of nitrogen from limestone was recently announced in Berlin. PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, improved selling means "learn sections of India in its grip, and which even now is a spectre not

The Mayor of Southampton Negotiations which had been in pro.. ing the language, studying the

(Councillor Hector Young) bas regress among American, English, infrequently raised among

Bomeceived a request from Cardiff German, French, Italian, and Bel- A request that his infant children at Mr. J. L. QUIE has bee:s JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN wants of the Chinese, and making portions of India's 318,000,000 in man to find him a second wife gian interests, it was made known,

"shall not be instructed in, or have

confirmed Secretary of the Company.

friends with

The man wrote:-"I had the hon-resulted in the establishment of any connection with, the tenets, are habitants.

our of marrying a Southampton a syndicate which will function doctrinca, beliefs, or practises of JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, by no means disposed for friend In addition to this tremendous lady for my first wife. She was for eight years. The American any sect or party practising or

General Managera,

project; another reclamation scheme one of the finest wives and mothere Cyanamid Co. of New York repre- upholding spiritualism, in any 1 4th June, 1980.

£9501

abip." The first and second are

to be constructed in the Sutlej any man could wish to have. "She aents American interests in the form whatsoever, appears in the died 18 months ago, and I wish to combine. The annual production will of Dr. Frederick Hall. Dr. quita reasonable propositions which valley will irrigate more than find another lady from her town of the group will be about 250,000 Hall, who lived at Louth, left £6,821 must apply to traders wishing to 5,000,000 acres. There is also a to take her place..

tons of nitrogen.. do business with any foreign cour-dam and canal, being made in the Madras Presidency, which it is try, but the third-making friends

estimated will mean a yield of an with people who are alleged to be additional 150,000 tons of rica definitely hostile-sounds & formid annually to the food supply of the able obstacle to any plan for assist Cauvery Delta. In further pur- ing the unfortunate British work suance of the Government's deter in One case of typhoid and one of man Beeking employment...

Nomination to add to the agricultural small-pox, both Chinese, were re reason is given for this alleged yield of India, Government engin ported on Wednesday, indisposition on the part of the eers during the last two years have Chinese to be friendly; it is simply drilled more than 5,000 wells from

The damage to Flycatcher No.4 stated as a fact. How the unhappy which water is drawn for irrigat has been repaired and the machine British manufacturer, cager to ing purposes Simultaneously the landed on H.M.S. Hermes Toned with 83,000.. sccure a new market, is to overcome

British Government is conducting | Wednesday afternoon. the hostility of his prospective extensive experiments to determine

Arriving here from Japan and customers without knowing what the best methods of increasing the For failing to renew his licence, Andoy, Capt. P. W. Rowe, master their grievances are, we cannot erop yield in arcas already under the master of a cargo boat was fined of the 8.8. Talamba, reported en- imagine.

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Local Notes and Events ★

According to a police report, Bj A unique entertainment, styled warrant has been issued for the the Lilliputien Revue, will be pre- sented by the members of the arrest of a Chinese described as a Juvenile Society, in aid of the joki of the Yu Cheung. Chinese funds of the Society of St. Vincent

Paul,' at Bank, of co Des Voeux Road Cen- de

the Club do Recreio at 0.15 p.m. to-day. A tral, who is alleged to have abscond matines performance will be given at 5 pm on Monday, June 9. Prices of admission are 82 and 81. Children will be admitted at half price to the matinee. Tickets are obtainable at the Club gate.

C. S. Emmanuel, a 'gailor on board the D. E. La Vigilante, re- parts to the police that he lost a camera on Wednesday fast. It was stated that he was in a motor-boat

Looking Back 25 Years,

H.M. Consul-General at Canton (31 James Scott) states in his report for 1904 that tea has ceased to hold a place in. Chaton trade- some 25,000 piculs of all sorts cover the export. Much that has gone to Australia and United Kingdom has been of low quality, and in some instances admission was refused by the Custom-house authorities in London. The tea season of 1804. has closed with heavy losses both to native and foreign merchants, and all accounts" agree in pronouncing 45,000 eight months the Canton tes trade dead."

Hong Kong Dailf Frein June 6,

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has a special position in this Land centuries on the same Tand. Under The Acting Manager of the and returning to his ship that the of Promise," but she is committed the impetus of this instruction many Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschap. article became mislaid. to the policy of the ecoming

"open door," villages, which until recently have pij is it receipt of a telegram from and even though that door in been following the same methods his Bataria office advising that this actual fact may be only slightly and amg the same-

Bank has declared a divide |·ajar, wo dught to be able to since the days of Alexander the

per cent. for the year 1928. pach more goods through it." In Great are to-day applying some of Mongolia, too, there are untapped the most modern discoveries of markets waiting for the British science to the task of raising crops. manufacturer, who is willing to This is a feature of British adminis. make goods to suit his customerstration in India which somehow It all sounds delightfully simple, fails to get much

The loss of a brooch, valued at 820, has been reported to the police by Mrs. De Courcey. The brooch was last when the owner: wRETC turning to her residence from For insula Hotel on Wednesday night,

E. Lindsell on a Chinese- who was caught with 70 taels of prepared opium in his charge. The man landed from the steamer Chuenehau carrying a basket of " joss" sticks. At the bottom of the braket, revenue

officers found the opium.

Looking Back 50 Years,

The Heads of Departments have been notised that during the num mer months the same rule will apply this year as last of allowing Government officers-Hong Kong one day's holiday per week to Daily Press, June 7, 1880.