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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1930.

ROUND - TABLE CONFERENCE.

DELEGATES BANQUET TO GOVERNMENT,

{URITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]

Rrady, „Dec.12.

The Sub-Committee appointed to deal with franchise questions held their first meeting this afternoon, the Attorney-General, Sir William Jowitt, presiding.

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Why Some Women Smoke,

Bhould finales smoke !?? was he sitbject of a lecturo at the London College of Physiology by Dr. Ernest Griffin. His points wore: Women usually smoke the coarsest-and-crudest cigarettes. "This is largely due to the fact that they have not such a refined sense of taste and smell as men. When a woman smokes the smokes Wamen are fast and furiously. prono to excess, and who they take up smoking they are at it The procedure adopted in connecnight and day. "One of the ren tion with other sub-committees was sons why womon smoke is that it followed and a list of the possible helps them to "cover" nervousness. hends of discussion was before the Some women smake because they. members.

like to copy men. There is a class Discussion, however, was of a of women who seem to look upon general character to-day, and it everything that, in man's preroga ranged over a wide field. It did tive as something god-like and to not touch upon the questions of be imitated.” the minorities' communal elector- ates, or on special interests, for the Chairman had pointed out that these subjects must be treated as within the special sphere of the minorities sub-committee,

Adult Suffrage In India. Views were expressed on

the |practicability of the introduction of adult suffrage into India in present circumstances. For example, the difficulties due to illiteracy, poverty and lack of communications, to gether with the practical difficulty of any increase in the number of separata constitutions from the point of view of the size of the Legislative Councils.

Some members urged the desir ability of increasing the representa, tion of rural areas, and mentioned the possibility of indirect elective systems for village comp:aunities,

American Richas.

The wealth of Mr. Harry Payno Whitney, who has just died, will bo found to be somewhere comfort. ably in the neighbourhood of that of Mr. Phipps, another American multi-millionaire, who died a few weeks ago. The fortune of his younger brother, the late Mr. Payne Whitney, who died in 1997, while playing lawn tennis at Cannes, ex- ceeded £20,000,000, and ho was con- sidered to be merely a "poor re- lation." Such are the riches of Mr. certain American families. Whitney's property in England, ad- mittedly only a small portion of his total wealth, was the subject of considerable dispute as regarde In- come Tax assessment in 1925, and Lord Hailsham (then Sir Douglas Hogg) obtained judgment for close flen-bite," of on £60,000. Just a course. But an indication.

The general discussion had not DOPE AGENTS LURED INTO concluded, when the meeting ended. It will continue on Monday. Conference to End about Middle of

January.

Hopes are now entertained that the Indian Round Table Conference may be able to conclude its work by the middle of next month.

The British Indian delegation, as a mark of their appreciation of the kindness and hospitality extruded to them, are arranging to entertain at dinner. the British Goverment and other political and social lead ers on January 13, which they hope will be the eve of their departure for India,

TRAP.

BIRTHDAY BANQUET

AS BAIT,

A

A birthday party in a New York restaurant was cleverly used re. tently by Government agents as a trap to catch the lazders of

the $200,000 narcotle ring, and

A swift ond festivities came to with the arrest of 17 guests, 12 others being seized iter at their bomus.

Mr. Arnold Lachaveur, a Gov- ernment agent, had been laying his plans for this party for seven Federal Problems,

months. By lavish expenditure he The federal structure sub-com- bad made himself the intimate mittee to-day entered upon a detail. friend of the principal members of ed consideration of the subjects and the ring and it was his suggestion functions not already classified as that they should all attend a birth- federal, and regarding which con day banquet he was giving to Mr. trol is exercised and may be retain-John Collins, the head of the ar

ed by the centre in the future.

ganisation.

Seventy persons accepted, includ

It was decided to appoint a ing wholesalers who supply the Butaller sub-committee to consider

the lists of subjects referred to and

bulk of the drugs to foreign com- munitics in New York,

to suggest their provisional division Mr. Lachaveur was chairman, into three categories, firstly, exclu- and was making a graceful specch sively central; secondly, exclusively thanking the guests for attending provincial; thirdly, subjects in when a band of police raided the which the centre and the provinces restaurant and arrested those whom are both interested, and which, the host singled out as leaders in therefore, might be subject to co-the illicit traffic. ordination.

́{THROUGH" REUTER'S AGENCY.) Progress Less Rapid,

LONDON, Dec. 20.

This ruse is said to have smashed New York's chief dope rings

IS MORSE CODE DEAD?

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NEW KIND OF MESSAGES WAITING FOR, DEMAND.

In the meantime, the Daily Herald takes stock of the Round Table Conference, on the eve of the Christmas Recess, and regrets that progress has been less rapid than was hoped after the inspiration of the first general debate. This it con- sidera is mainly due to the failure of Hindus and Moslems to reach an agreement, as an essential fore-esting address at a fanchgan of the runner to tackling the big central loyal Empire Society in London. questions.

The newspaper says that for the success of the Conference India must prove herself a nation, and not a jumble of warring creeds It hopes, the Recess will provide a fruitful time for thoughtful refec- tion among Hindus, Moslems and Sikhs.

MOTOR COACHING IN. LONDON. EXCLUDED FROM CENTRAL

AREA.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]·

RUGBY, Dec. 20.

Sir Bhail Blackett, chairman of Imperial and International Com- munications, Ltd., gave an inter-

Facsimile messages," he said,

" are now merely waiting for the growth of a sufficient commercial demand to take their place as an ordinary factor in business deal. ings. The use of Morse may, for al! we know, be already obsolescent. The present separation between electric telegraphy and electric tele- phony can hardly be more than a passing phase. The two are bound. in develop ou complementary linca. Big business houses may, for all I know, become ere long accustomicd to the use of telegraphtype': ma-

things in their offices on which they communicate direct with their ass ciated houses in other capitals, as they do to-day in using telephones

of the M. And there are friends of told him that they will not be satisfied till he has discovered how to pick up from the ether the Sermon on

Draft regulations have been pre pared by the Transport Minister by which motor coaches will be entirely excluded from a large area of the Mount." Central London,

No one could tell what new in

In an extended area stretching ventions might be made either na

the

tatale

bli firast takisting aunerine sentegy of cables

the river Thames they will be ex-over wireless might very en VET

cluded during certain hours,

The recent increase in the num ber of long-distance coaches which traverse Central London has con-

destroyed by some new invention

which, although less startling than

many which had been made in the last decade, would enable a chip et siderably aggravated the traffic a distance to listen in 'to messages

passing along a submarino cable.

congestion,

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