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WEATHER REPORT. Yesterday's weather report, fore cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 550 pm stated :-

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The typhoon appears to be a most stationary to the west of Foochaw.

Local Forecast:-W. winds;

Dr. Kotowall's Reservations.

One member of the Currency Committee, the Hon, Dr. R. H. KOTEWALL, signed the report with

* News and Views *

and failing to realise its duty to the community. Suggestions were made that a mass meeting be called at which "the poor suffering pablic" could express its indignatwo reservations-in regard to the tion at the Government's callous first of which he says he is suge

The new Press law in Kowno The annual report of the Royal indifference, and to urge that steps parted by two other members. Dr. Scholarship Fund, the chair-enacts that all editors must deposit be taken for the immediate stabili- KOTRWALL wants an Advisory Board man of which is Admiral H. W. a large sum of money as security. sation of the currency. All this appointed to assist the note-issuing Grant, shows that during the past against possible fines inflicted on fresh; squally; cloudy generally show of public interest and fiercely banks with advice in any financial year the fund has maintained 57 them by the Courts Both editors. scholarships of the aggregate value as well as publishers are liable to indignant interest, at that--and yet crisis. He also wants expert advice of £1,505, 63 of which were held at heavy penalties if they print in- news. A journalist onca when the opportunity is afforded to be obtained forthwith as to recognised and approved schools, accurate. TYPHOON WARNING.

to state the case for

and the remaining four, being sentenced for a breach of the Press 2 "fixed whether the Colony could "now, or

senior scholarships, at the UniverLaw may lie debarred from further The following typhoon warning | dollar," "not one advocate of the

at some future date, safely adopt sity of Oxford, Guy's Hospital, exercise of his profession. has been received by the American plan comes forward!

the gold standard even if China Faraday House Electrical En Consulate-General from the Manila

Dr.gineering College, and Lough- does not take similar netion. Observatory:-

The Argentine has followed Great Borough College, The Royal Naval Britain in placing restriction on thinks the question Scholarship Fund, in the report. United States apples, and has an- KOTEWALL

rain.

Munila. July 23, 5 p.m.-Typhoon. in about 1der." Loaz. E. and.

deg. Lat. E., moving W,

BIRTHS.

KULETAD-On July 22 at Shanghai,

A Tactical Error.

True, a very unfortunate impres- sion was created by a carelessly worded statement issued from the Colonial Secretary's "Offee last April Having explained how the Currency Committer proposed to

should be submitted to experts whose disinterestedness and lack of bias cannot he questioned." Does this mean that Dr. KOTEWALL doubts the existence of these qualities in

member In his suggestion about the appointment of an Advisory

say

"In providing scholarships

to Mr. and Mrs. A. KELSTAD, conduct its inquiry, this official the Committee of which he was further probable reduction of the, an" embargo on Arguntine chilled

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MOALEM-On July 24, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to

Mr. and Mrs. R. J. MOALEM, D

son.

ANNOUNCEMENT. ·

The marriage arranged between Dr. EDWARD LAW and Miss PHYLLIS VIOLA HO will take place at the Enion Church, Kennedy Road, on Wednesday, August 6, at 3 p.m. No invitations are being issued but all friends are wel come at the Church and the

reception to be held at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden after the ceremony.

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statement went on to say that at their preliminary meeting the mem,

bera were

unanimously agreed in the opin- ion that no reason had hitherto appeared to show that the use by Hong Kong of a currency based on any other metallig standard of value than that' prevailing in the neighbouring country of China would be any- thing but detrimental to the in- terests of the Colony.

for the sons of naval and marine nounced that it will no longer ac officers who are in need of such help,cept American inspectors' certif the fund is doing a very important entes. Next to Britain the Arget- United American apples. The work, and one which is becoming tine is the biggest importer of more urgent and will require more gerous support when, with the States has for many years imposed fleet and personnel, many officers and frozen best on the grounds that may be out of active employment it would spread foot and mouth and, in their reduced circumstances, disease among Amerionn cattle, · Board he also refers to experts find the education of their sons &

As a concert hall the Eolian Hall, "some of whom at least would burden too heavy to bear without be disinterested and independent some assistance such as that render. London, finished its career last

a pur-" ed by this fund. Welcome assist-month, "uniess, of course, parties." Why.this repeated cm- aner has been received from the chaser comes forward who combines phasis upon the disinterestedness Admiralty, King George's Fund for the artistic spirit with commercin? and unbiassed views of bodies and Sailors, from certain of the City enterprise. This fine room will be companies, and other sources. The great loss to musical Loudon, experts which it is proposed should Committee is anxious to obtain which has not many good halls to It was put up he appointed? Is it intended to further assistance, and appeals to house, its artists. convey the inference that the Cur-val, and marine officers in general, for auction yesterday, but although whether on the active or on the £144,000 was bid, the reserve was rency Committee has not taken a retired lists, to become subscribers" not reached, and the property" was

withdrawn.. disinterested view of the situation, nor given an unbiassed opinion as to the cause and cure of our finan-

As we pointed out at the time, it was most improper that such a statement should be made public before a single witness had beca HUBER-On July 21, at Zurich, examined. The time for the Comcial troubles Who is more quali

DEATH'S.

mittee

to express its views- unanimous or otherwise-was after its inquiries were concluded, not before they had begun. We also expressed the view that advocates

fed to pass an expert opinion than the man who has been actually engaged in business for years? As

The big German battle-cruiser Hindenburg which was scuttled by her crew at Scapa Flow after the Armistice and was recently salvaged after three years of hard work, grounded near Hoy Island when in charge of a number of tugboats.

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Switzerland, Rosa, beloved wife of Mr. E. HUBER, late of Shang- hai. BOTELHO. On July 21, at the Pau lun Hospital S.hanghai, RICAR- DO ANTONIO BOTELHO, aged two years, eight months. The dear iy beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. of a gold standard were not likely scheme be worked out in detailed quarry near Workington last since boyhood Van and Schenck

J. V. BOTELHO.

TUTTELMAN. On July 22, at Shang- hai, ESTHER TUTTELMAN, nged

86, mother of Mrs. O. JENSSEN.

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a matter of fact, the Committee itself recommends that a practical

ready for such time as it may be necessary for the Colony's currency

to be transferred from a silver to

Fifty spectators witnessed a cock fight-a banned sport-in a disus month, when two cocks, armed with stre! spurs, were set against each other for a £5 purse. Bookmakers"

• The "David and Jonathan " partnership of the American vaude- ville has been broken by the death at Detroit of Joseph Schenck, of highest-paid team on the variety the Van and Schenck Singers, the stage. Schenck, aged 39, died in. the arms of his partner. August Vac. from whom he had been inseparable visited London in 1928, singing at Palladium for 30 consecutive theek, and also at the Kit Cat Club. As youths they obtained jobs ön were present and bets were made. The fight was the outcome of the Brooklyn tramway service, one challenge thrown out in a public as a moter-man and the other as a dances in their spare moments ou house by a breeder, and the challen- conductor, practising songs and ger's bird won after fifty minutes'

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to come forward very readily with arguments in support of their views, knowing that they would have to

a gold basis. In our opinion, the face a Committee which had con- fessed to being solidly hostile to report of the Currency Committee is as fair as it is" informative in the adoption of a gold standard.

summing-up the peculiar conditions But at that time there was no allegedly widespread public indigna-existing in this Colony, and those tion nor demands for mass meet responsible for conducting the in-head from his opponent's steel of £30,000 a year. ings of protest, and if public" quiry and preparing the report opinion was, in fact, so genuinely deserve the sincere thanks of the and intensely aroused as was re-

community for the time givin and S preserted, surely there could have treable taken in trying to find a been found at least one stalwart solution to a problem which-in the advocate ready to face a Committee circumstances now existing-secras in bold, defiance of its acknowledged unsolvable. hostility to his cause. However, the fact is that not one such witness applied for a hearing-and it is a fact we deplore. Had the argu ments in favour of a "fixed dollar "

Vienna in connection with been submitted, we should now have various frauds alleged to have been'

committed in Austria, He has been.)

One of the first inquiries made by had a considered opinion by theplaced under arrest. Before the immediate stabilisation of the dollar Currency Committee of the real arrest he was staying with his wife from Sutton Place, the beautiful the Prince of Wales when he arrived and two children and servants in sixteenth-century bome near. Wokat Middlesbrough last month con- and ading hotel in Salzburg, Heing of the Duke and Duchess ofcerned the number of unemployed lived in a princely way, and was Sutherland when fire broke out in the town. When told that the in the habit of hiring special trains there recently. Shouts of

HONG KONG, JULY 30, 1930:

THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE.

THERE is one point upon which advocates and opponents of the

will agree--that the Hong Kong Government can be congratulated

Mr. John W.de: Kay, whose nationality has not yet been deter, mined, has surrendered to the police

in

spurs. A policeman was on point Joshua Bundy, of Holborn, Lon- duty a mile away, but scouts were carefully posted, and the whole dou, who had received an Army knocked down by a motor-tricycle proceeding passed off without inter-pension for fifty-three years, "was on the Embankment and died in a Highgate hospital. It was stated The electric light failed during at the inquest at Islington that Westaninster Bundy had served in the Royal West festival service in Abbey recently, and for nearly an Kent Regiment. The widow said hour the Abbey special choir car-that her husband had a pension ried on by the light of candles since he was twenty-three, but she which were burriedly procured. did not know why. He was seventy- For a quarter of an hour after the six. Death was stated to be due to no light old standing heart trouble and net light failed there was except a faint gleam of daylight to the accident, and the jury re- turned a verdict of "Death from through the windows.

natural causes."

Priceless tapestries, old masters. and jewels, were hastily removed

Fire "number was very large and still

1873, claimed to be one of the Duke and Duchess assisted in the new Constantine Technical College,.

Romney's famous the gift of the late Mr. R. A. Con-

eyes."

Local Notes and Events ★

The entries for the Amateur Foot- ball League for the forthcoming season close on August 1, and entries for the Challenge Shield Competi- tion closs on October 1.

value of those seemingly simple schemes of stabilisation which were upon so promptly publishing the.

set out in this and other papers report of the Currency Committee.

and hestowing enormous tips. Mr. shortly after 1 a.m. caused guests rising he said:"It is horrible by men who really believed they de Kay, who is understood to have and servants to dash from their and very discouraging for the coun- It is only a fortnight since the had hit upon an easy way out of been born at Barnsley (Yorks) in rooms in their night attire. The try". Later, in declaring open the findings were prevented to His the very serious difficulty in which $1. per vol.: Excellener, so no time has been this Colony finds itself.

richest stock market operators in salvage work. America. He said that he had re-portrait of Elizabeth, Duchess of stantine, a member of a local lost in disclosing to the community

ceived a large sum in Mexican Sutherland, which was the centre family, the Prince referred to Mid the views of those who were ap- Desirable but Impracticable.”„

bonds from the former President of a sensation last year when it was desbrough's rise from a tiny hamlet pointed to investigate this most vital

The report of the Currency Com- Huertas of Mexico for the sale of supposed to have been sold to a and said: That spirit will carry and complicated question. A month mittee con5rms the view, which slaughter-bouses. He also cinimed wealthy American for £40.000 was you through the present period of that he had bought oil fields in hastily removed to safety. The fire uncertainty and the cloud of almost earlier an interim report was pub has been repeatedly eet out in these Mesopotamia from the heirs of men were able to confine the out world-wide depression to which it lished which clearly indicated the columns-that a stabilised dollar Sultan Abdul Hamid, from which break to the maids' sewing room would be idle optimism to shut our

in which it was discovered. lines upon which the conclusions of would be a very good thing to have, he expected a profit of £2,000,000,, the Currency Committee would be but as things are it is something based, so there is no cause for com- beyond our reach. Any attempt to plaint that the public has not been fixed an arbitrary value for the kept well-informed regarding the dollar at 28., as advocated by some, progress and result of the inquiry.

or at 18. d., as" advocated by It is not always that such prompti- others, would involve a heavy loss. tude is shown in thus disposing which would have to be made good finally of matters of public interest, by somebody. That point has been and the community should be grate-repeatedly emphasised in this paper, ful to those responsible for seeing as has the other equally, import ant factor of Hong Kong's close that the Currency Committee's re- port was given such early publicity, economic relations with China

Mr. Athelson, chief engineer of Surprising Bilence.

making it impolitic for this Colony The Committee recognise that" a to take independent action. We the Blue Funnel steamer Glaucus, stabilised dollar would be a most are faced with choice of evils, died of heart failure while ashore excellent thing--but bow, and and needs must choose the lesser in Kobe on July, 18. He collapsed when? In this connection a very the consequences of fluctuating in the street, and was dead before surprising fact is brought out. The silver, rather than the loss of medical attention could be obtain- Committee, by newspaper advertise-business which, it is believed, would

ed. ment, invited members of the public result from the prematuré adoption to submit views and suggestions on of a currency established on a gold the currency problein, but there was

basis. All this has been argued & most meagre response, and "the over and over again in the local opportunity thus offered was not Press during the past few months, availed of at all by advocates of and we suspect that those who are a stabilised currency. Now, this in favour of stabilisation will be is extraordinary-not one man came of the same opinion still, in spite forward to put the cags for stabilis of all the explanatory argument

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Mr. D. F. Davis, Jr., son of the Looking Back 25 Years.

There is talk of a new hotel being Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, arrived in Hong Kong on built on the Peak, and I have Monday by the sa. President. Mc-heard "The Homestead" mention- Kinley en route to Manila.

ed as the probably site. There is no doubt room for another hotel Mr. Woodard, U.S. Trade Com at the Peak, but whether one having missioner for Hong Kong, arrived 100 rooms would be likely to fill up here by the President Van Buren immediately it is opence I have from Shanghai, and may be com- some doubt. I do not know whe municated with through the Amerither the project in question is for

can Consulate-General.

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a hotel of 100 rooms, but I have beard it suggested that a hotel of this size would secure enough patronage to make it pay-Hong Kong Daily Press, July 31, 1905. Locking Back 50 Years.

We have received a letter signed "Old Timer" which will be given publication. If the writer will be

In the Supreme Court yesterday, on counsel suggesting an adjourn. good enough to comply with the rule that all correspondence mustment for luncheon, the Chief be accompanied by the name and Justice, whose wonderful power of address of the writer-not for pub, fasting is well-known, proposed to lication, but for editorial informa continue the sitting without any break Tho. Attorney-General, how- ever, argued that adjourned for

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