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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1930.

WEATHER REPORT,

All Governments since the re- volution in 1612 have failed to "deal" properly with the agrarian prob

Yesterday's weather report, fore- rast and remarks, issued by thelem, in the opinion of Chinese Tho "Governments Royal Observatory at 3.30 p.m., intellectuals. stated :-

The typhoon is situated about 350 miles S. of Hong Kong, moving W.N.W.

Local Forecast:-N.E. winds;

Whisky!!fresh; cloudy; rain later.

Dewar's

* News and Views

Van Lear Black's world-wander-

There is a possibility that the dispute betwen Professor J. · B.". Haldane, the famous Cambridge biologist, and Lord Birkenhead over the latter's alleged plagiarism

The may be taken to the Courts, have been more interesed in national

Mrs. Ada Yers Colley, an. Eng Fred-end Review announces" that, government than in local govern.

"the controversy is by no means ments, whereas the intellectuals ing tri-motored airplane, the Marylishwoman, was fined 100 francs in

Free State, brought the her absence by the Nice Court, and over." Professor Haldane is con-" feel the problem can only be attack-land

home last ordered to "pay £ damages forsidering whether he will instituto ed through local governments The Baltimore publisher intellectuals point out that Asien month after the latest of his flights having, in December, insulted Mr.legal proceedings against Lord (county) governments have always which "bave taken him over three Charles Belcher, British Vice Birkenhead or content himself with been the basis of rule in China. continents. Mr. Black arrived at Consul at Mentone, in the street further reference to the matter in print. The dispute arose following. The following typhoon warnings Where local officials are honest and Logan Field from Washington, the by slapping his face.

the publication of Lord Birkes- have been received by the American efficient, there is good government, final hop on his cross-country flight

In an effort to calculate how soon head's book, The World in 2030." Consulate-General from the Manila and where they are bad, govern from San Francisco. He was greet-

article headed, "Lord inent is bad, regardless of the ed by Governor Ritchie and Mayor the last Turkish polygamous family Observatory:

Birkenhead Improves His Mind," Manila, June 30, 9.43 a.m.-make-up of the Central Govern-Broening in an informal reception may be expected to die cut, the

Professor Haldane suggested he Cyclone or typhoon W, of Balintang ment. Two hairy stand side by at the field where more than 1,000 Turkish authorities are shortly to

copied material from his (Professor Chanel, moving W.N.W.

side, and in one there is banditry,persons had gathered. They then take a census throughout the coun-

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

From THIS DAVE under the White Label" Manila, June 30, 5.30

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Typhoon in about 118der. Long. E famine, and general disorder, while escorted him to the memorial plaza try. Many families are still prac Haldane's) own, book, "Possible

in the other there is peace, pro-where a formal welcome was extend- sperity, and order. This is due cd, and a telegram of congratula- entirely to local officials, Any pro- tions from Rear-Admiral Richard

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A throne chair has been construct ed in the new Mercedes automobile recently presented to the Pope by the automobile company. The in-

tising polygamy within the law, inasmuch as they are the overflow from the polygamy régime which was abolished a few years ago. It is be- lieved that the polygamists have been diminishing at a great rate during the past few years, and special statistics will be drawn UP regarding them in the forthcoming the Turkish general count of

tracts from both books side by side." Lord Birkenhead replied with an article which ended, "Let him im..

his manners."

prove

An old tower near Smyrna col- lapsed, recently, killing 13 or more of the automobile ispopulation.

women, and causing serious injury elaborately upholstered and has gold trappings. It is equipped with Captain Ruditchevitch, a former to eight others. A number of wo- a 40-horsepower engine, and was diplomatic courier for the late men bad been working in the opium year in construction. The Pope ex-King Nicholes of Montenegro, has pressed his thanks to the company brought a lawsuit for the confirma- fields They were resting in the and on its presentation toured the tion of a pre-nuptial agreement shade, to escape the noonday heat, Vatican gardens.

made with his wife in Camden, New under the walls of the old tower. Jersey. Mrs. Raditchevitch was the

"Victoria Vat” THE MAN WITH THE HOE. labourat up in Paris in 1933, aperited halt

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New Share Certificates of a diferent Colour.

A VERY interesting, and possibly very significant, item of news reaches us from our Shanghai cor respondent, Details will be found Among the cable news, but briefly it appears that a definite Com munist rising has taken place on the Yangtze above Hankow. The leaders of this movement are quoted as talking of working up a revolu tion in six months which will ex- tend throughout the East from China to India. That boast need not be regarded too seriously, Dor need too much attention be paid FRANCE'S "KIEL

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Reports from all parts of China to-day indicate that farmers are universally dissatisfed. Many re- fuse to pay rents ar taxes, and terior often hold the land in spite of official attempts to evict them. IPAS. They throw out appointed officials, and organize their own government. Unless a Central Government arises with enough power to renovate local governments. Chinese intel.

Twenty-five men employed in the former Misa Winifred Hill Smith, when it collapsed, burying them in lectuals in Peping feel that farmers engine-room of the Durham Castle daughter of the late American the ruins. The noise of the falling were sentenced to one menth's im-millionaire, Mr. Oberlin Smith. masonry attracted people from the will universally take matters into prisonment without bard labour at The agreement, which was drawn neighbouring fields and villages. into small self-governing units, in month. They were accused of com- the husband was to receive one-half These had great difficulty in ex- of her inherited estate, which was er was reputed in the neighbour-· pede the progress of the voyage, i which case the long hoped for unibining together at Capetown to im-of his wife's income and one-half tricating the women. The old tow- fication of China will be further The magistrate said the men were $1,000,000. For the defence, it is bood to be haunted by evil spirits off than ever. What the Nanking so disloyal as to desert the ship

occult powers to fores his wife pression of swe caused by the acci- authorities think of this situation for the time being and refuse to contended Capt. Radicchevitch used and this has heightened the im is not known. Never do we read go to sea. Mr. Peregrine, barris

dent on the superstitious villagers of any reference by a member of ter, for the owners of the ship, said to sign the agreement. the Government to the farmer. that on April 23 she was lying at Bankers and business-men are kept Capetown. She had 339 passengers Most of the foreigners visiting

When a petition to wind up in very close contact with offcial and carried mails and cargo. She Prussia are Hollanders, according dom, but the man with the hoe was due to sail at 8 p.m., and to a bulletin issued by the Prussian Rodney Investment Syndicate, Ltd., seems to be consistently ignored. at 5.20 three firemen were drunk Statistical Office, but next in line was before Mr. Justice Eve in the

come tourists and business travel- True, he has but little money, but, or semi-drunk ashere: When orders

United States. Chancery Division, Mr. "Braund in a demoeratie community that is were given, to sail 2 men walked lers from no reason why his wants should not down the only remaining gangway Visitors from the Netherlands make said that arrangements had been be considered.

in the presence of a great crowd up 21.3 per cent. of the total; those made to pay the petitioning credi- and in sight of a competing vessel,from the United States 18.5 per tor and he asked the Judge to make a big German liner.

cent, from Great Britain and Ireno order. Mr. Justice Eve: This land 10 per cent, from Austria 6.4 is a company promoted apparently per cent, from Denmark 5.5 per to carry on a business such as is „A""crazy quilt" automobile re- cent. French travellers comprise carried on by Messrs. Rothschild, to the alleged wanton murders and THE bitter rivalry between Francecently won first place in a race at only 3.2 per cent. of the total, and and it has a total capital of four

The Temesvar, near Bucharest. similar outrages. What is really and Italy; raised to a high pitch car, driven. by Prince Nicholas, wag this has drawn caustic comment shillings. I am sorry I cannot important is the news that agita at the recent London Naval Can- especially constructed and contain from a certain section of the Ger. wind up the company. However, it man Press which asserts that most has paid the petitioners. There will tors are actively at work among ference, may basten the construc- ed a Steyer model frame; Sunbeam of the tourists in France are Gerbe no order on the petition, which

wheels; Packard motor; Ford

mans. The average foreigner stays ought to be preserved." the farming classes. And there is tion of the famous Canal of Two

Seus, giving France a private brakes, while the steering wheel had good reason to believe that not waterway from the Atlantic to the the improvements of the Cadillac only three days in Berlin, but in the rest of Prussia he tarries as very much terrorizing" will be Mediterranean. Since the Confer- and the Fiat.

long as six days. crease in the demand for the con-

This is a true story of a typist canal linking required to rally recruits round ence there has been a noticeable in-

Bordeaux, on the Atlantic, with told by a company director at Norbonne, on the Mediterranean. Marylebone, County Court: A prison. what it would strengthen France's day and asked if he could see his o'clock, and get good food. I will free to the blind. The total in- or six months, or whatever it is." 1000 is 160,679, or about 10,000 n position in the Mediterranean, and agreement. The typist knew him take my punishment-three years crease for the first four months of hence make easier the protection of and let him see it. He tore it up her important colonies in North and burned it" Judge Snagge: These were the comments a 19-years. week. Reckoning only four lis Your typist can show your con- old musician, when the Ealing teners to every wireless get this Afrita. In time of trouble in the

committed him for means that well over half a million Mediterranean France could rush Edential company documents to magistrates

The.. ber Atlantic fleet right through this anyone who calls "The director: trial. He was charged with break-people have been added to the

be, but if ing into the Greenford branch of P.B.C's audience this year. canal without having to pass the I know.it ought not narrow straits of Gibraltar, which anyone comes in and asks in a Lloyds Bank. At a previous hear month of April added 25,156 licences entails a detour around Portugal pleasant sort of way to see his con- ing he was said to have remarked to the total, an increase of 1,581

last year. and Spain. France's naval forti-tract the typist-a pleasant sort of when arrested, "I had to sleep as compared with the same period- fications at Marseilles, Perpignan, girl-sees no harm in doing so." Toulon, and Corsica would protect the Mediterranean mouth of the

"CANAL.

British wireless licence figures at the end of April show that "the steady advance in earlier months is well maintained. At the end of It will do me good to go to

"I shall not, he able to April 3,100,720 licences were in ex-

at the Annual General Meeting the Hammer and Sickle" banner.struction of such Net Amount Payable £11. 12. 6. FOR one given to Shareholders of the Company. held on 7th MAY, Payment will be made in Local 1990, the Directors have decided to In fact, it has beer, expected that Currency at the Demand Buying Rate CANCEL all the Existing Share an agrarian rising would, occur One of the chief arguments used is man called at the office the other smoke. I shall go to bed at eightistence, in addition to 16,595 issued

Certificates and to HEPLACE them by before long, and the Communists at Shasi appear simply to have taken All Bhareholders are therefore re-udvantage of suitable conditions to quested to send their Share Certificates organise a demonstration. to the Registered Office of the Company BUILDINGS, ALEXANDBA at VICTORIA, in the Colony of Hero KONG, forthwith so that the New Share Certificates may be prepared and issued to them in lieu of the Certificates now. held by them which will be Cancelled. By Order of the Board. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,.

General Marsgers. Hong Kong, 20th June, 1920.

P. C. YOUNG,

General Manager

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Hong Kong, 26th June, 1930. (9585.

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The

canal'

The project for such a canal is not new, for a tiny canal capable of passing boats up to 100 tons has existed since. 1681, the Erst import ant inland canal ever built in It was "called the Lan- Europe.

somewhere."

Local Notes and Events ★

rumblings revolutionary 201ong the farmers, which have been increasing for the past two years, are agitating Chinese intellectuals in Peping far more than the course of politics and, civil wars. An agrarian revolution, they point oit, would be more far-reaching in its effects than a mere political revolution, and affect 80 per cent. or more of the population, who CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME earn their living from the land,

The Chinese philosopher, Dr. Huguedoc Canal, and was designed in

1606 and executed under the ener Sht, and the group of thinkers getic orders of LovIX XIV. The of which he is the head, are devot present tiny canal is 148 miles long. ing much of their attention to this and at Nuurouse its bed is 600 Sunday night, suddenly, jumped women were at the Kowloon Magis

feet above sea-level. There are 119 problem, which they consider the locks, and although only six feet overboard and were drowned. No tracy yesterday fined $2 each. Mr. most serious in China to-day. They of water flow through the canal, trace of them could be found, al-J. J. Hirst of the Forestry Depart Finder rewarded on returning-D. Six-roomed & Five-zoomel]Apartments, feel that if any Government" can engineers declare the route feasible though every efort was made to do ment prosecuted.

control the larger portion of for ocean-going vessels. China, they must act decisively first of all to placate the farmers, or an uprising equal in intensity to any which bas ever occurred in this land of uprising is inevit

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able,

In many parts of China during the past few months farmers have

Havre, Hamburg, Antwerp, and

Two young Chinese women, while travelling on the Yaumati Ferry on

30,

For causing a nuisance, namely,

For cutting brush wood, grass Looking Back 25 Years, and pine in a plantation, three

His Worship

said: We don't want to have our bills without any trees on them.".

A fine of $2,500, or, in default,

six months imprisonment was the sentence passed by Mr. R. E. Lind

Such a vanel would kill the military advantages of Gibraltar, and make the French absolutely independent between the Mediterranean and the of any country for free intercourse Atlantic. It would be the shortest allowing an excessive quantity of route from London se od smoke to be emitted from the funnel Bordeaux to the Indies and the of his launch, the master of the Man Orient,

"Frenchmen feel they have a com- Hing at was fined $5 or five day mercial enterprise which will not taken matters in their own hands them millions in profile, and at by the Hon. Comdr. G. E. Hole They have established their own the same time improve their mili-yesterday. armies, and set up their own local tary communications between the two seas. Other nations, naturally,

At the Marine Court yesterday, governments. They have resisted are not so enthusiastic about the bandits and soldiers alike, often construction of this canal because He Un, the coxswain of the steam The entire launch Kwong Chee, pleaded guilty successfully. A number of battles of the latter reason.

route would be on French soil, and

to a charge of lying alongside the have been fought between indepen-France would be master of the dent armies supported by farmers canal and in time of war the only Eastern Street Wharf without a and so enlled Government troops of beneficiary. A strong campaign is permit from the owners, and was was before the Marine Magistrate

going on to induce the Premier and one faction or another. These in his Finance Commission to include fined $5 or five days' imprisonment on the charge of mooring to the dependent armies sare invariably a preliminary appropriation for in default. labelled "Communists," although this canal and the famous five and

a half milliard frane national- New Kowloon Inland Lot No. the label a misnomer, in many development project, which is about instances. The Communist move to come before the Legislative dur. 1395, situated at Om Yau Street, ment has gained considered grounding its present session. Following was sold at the Crown Land Office

inflammatory cach

by specch in some of the Southern provinces, MussoLINE this pressure is increas yesterday to Mr. Ip Teun of 110, but independent agricultural goved. If construction is started on Nan Cheung Street, at the upset ernments have appeared in the this Canal of the Two Bean within price of 85,519., The land has an the next few years, it will boo

ares of about 4,416 sq feet and its North as well, without any Com- direct result of sword-rattling on:

the Mediterranean.,

annual rental is $30. munist connections or principles."

Carl Heuser, of No. 3 Mosque Terrace, was charged with nasa uit Police Court yesterday by his Defendant had taken before Mr G. N. Orme at the houseboy.

out & Cross-summons 'against the boy for disobeying the lawful com- munds of his master. Carl Heuser stated that he went out on t'bath- ing-picnic, and when he returned home found there was no towel in the room. On, calling the boy "to get one, he appeared to be very angry at being awakened, and be gan to throw things about the room. Defendant then slapped his face. The boy's story was that he went out for a walk, but feeling unwell.

returned home and went to bed.

soil yesterday on a Chinese, who Hie master dined elsewhere that 12.30 am. When his master called attempted to smuggle 24 taels of night, and returned home about opium ashore. The constable, who him, he got up and took in his arrested this man found the opium basket. His master accused him of tied to the man's legs by means of he could explain that he was un- being lazy, and struck him before well. His Worship cautioned and rubber bands.

discharged the defendant, also the master, considering there had been soms provocation, but advised him employees in future-Hong Kong' to be careful in dealing with his Daily Press, July 1, 1005. Looking Back 50 Years,

The Boxswain of the Hung Shuni

Eastern Street Wharf without a permit yesterday. Sergeant Rid- d for permis doll, however, applied sion to withdraw the summons, say ing that since the day of the offence, he had found that the launch was actually engaged by the Ferry Company although a foli on the wharf told him a different tale previously."

Waean commend Inspector Lindany upon his recent success. we are astonished that the two over the gambling fraternity, but oldest established gambling-hpuses. in the Colony should escapes visit from the police. These places are no great distance from some already. covered by the police-Hong Kong broken up, and may be easily dis Daily Press, July 1, 1880,