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ILVER PROBLEM

CONFERENCE

VA'S FINANCE MINISTER

INTERESTED.

FUROVOK REUTER'S AGENCY]

NANKING, Feb. 23,"

T. V. Soong expressed great sat when interviewed regard be resolution of the Exentive Bittee of the International ber of Commerce calling upon Sers to urge their Governments se the silver problem into

INDIA'S GREATEST PROBLEM.

HONG KONG DALY

FRANCO BRITISH NAVAL QUESTION.

BOYCOTT OF FOREIGN CLOTH

FRANCE'S SMALLER MARGIN OVER ITALY:

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THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.1€

AHMEDABAD, Feb. 23. The boycott of foreign cloth is the greatest problem before India, according to the latest pronounce ment by Gandhi, writing in the Aavjeda, his vernacular weekly.

Gondal appeals to the mill-owners to tako foreign cloth from the over chants and give them cloth woven by their mills in exchange *** He suggests that the mill-owners might dispose of foreign cloth in foreign countries, burn it or keep it until Swaraj is attained, when www.they can ask the new Government

to compensate them for any loss.

consideration, Soong stated that if an Inter- Bel Conference on silver should ll the National Government be ready, to pato and co-operato in any realistic bres leading to stabilieation of alue of silver.

USIVE EUGENE CHEN.

(Wah Taz Fat Pao.)

SHANGRAI, Feb. £33 ce his return from. Nanking, Sugene Chen's movements are

kept sceret,

learned that, accompanied wife, Mr. Chen left here lost - by train for nu funknown

ation,

-GOVERNOR-GENERAL" KOREA ACQUITTED,

NOT PARTICIPATE IN ICE TRANSACTIONS."

MHOCOU BEUTRE'S AGENCY.]

BOMBAY WAR COUNCIL ARRESTED. SALUTING THE NATIONAL FLAG.

TTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,];

BOMBAY, Feb. 29.

The police to-day arrested 400 Congress Volunteers, who formed up on the Maidan, in the centre of the city, to salute the National

THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.

LONDON, Feb. 2

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rip, at which [TO THE KP OF THE HONG KONG

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"MILY PRESS."} in the Police tatarday even-

Mr Henderson and Air, Alexan der and the Foreign Office repre sentatives, Mr. Craigie, Mr. WalDWI ford and Mr. Selby, left for Parit In this morning to confer with the illug French Cabinet on the naval quet, live,, tion

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SAR,hall be grateful if you the Hon. Mwill allow ine a little space in your This is regarded as indicating uscit G., Inspector, columns te bring to the notice of that a Franco-British arrangement, the President of the authorities the flagrant pro whereby France will agree to intr smaller margin of superiority oversat down to fitecting du the part of Chinese Italy, is practically certain to be that MT. C. D. compradoris since the introduction concluded..

folle H. Sonperset of the rw liquor and tobacco, Labe

see King, D.I.G.P., |_duties?

THE MYSTERY OF LIKIN:

BEWILDERMENT IN-NORTH

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CHINAS

NEW TAXES REPLACE OLD FORMS.

Poiking. The dictum that the are o facts in China was seldom Eruer of anything than it is of the present situation in, this part of Those arrested include the mem-the country with regard to the hers of the so-called Bombay. Warabolition of likin. Among foreign Council,

SKI-ERS BURIED NEAR

INNSBRUECK.

RESQUERS ABANDON SEARCH FOR THREE.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

VIENNA, Feb. 22. Five ski-era were buried by nn Avalanche Bear Innsbrueck,

One crawled out and another was dug out by rescuers, but his legs

TOKYO, Feb 23. were fractured.

The search for the three others Yamanashi, former mor-General of Koren, whom was abandoned after six rescuers

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Sarai

Prostirators on November" 21 recommended for a sentence months hard labour in con- n with his alleged participa- in the Fun Rice Exchange il; baa len sequitted, hav fen found "Not Guilty by okyo District Court,

Will be recalled that General hashi's indictment followed xposure of a serice of scan- jn high places during the a Administration, these being ed. shortly after the forma

of the present Haaguchi

et in July, 1020.;

ANGTUNG'S LOW

TREASURY

MMISSIONER STRIKES PESSIMISTIC NOTE:

themselves were buried..

The latter were safely dug out.

LANDSLIDE IN ITALY. WOMAN AND FIVE CHILDREN BURIED.

TURODON KEUTER'S AGENCY.]

NAPLES, Feb. 22.

A woman and five children were buried in a landslide in Posilippo, but were safely dug out, although one child died Eater.

SNOW AVALANCHE IN SPAIN.

SIX PERSONS KILLED,

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

MADRID, Feb. 22. Six persons have been killed in a snow avalanche in Huelda.

CYCLONE STRIKES SICILY. ISOLATED FROM ITALY FOR TWO DAYS.

(Wah Ter Yat Pao)

CANTON, Feb. 23.

[TRROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}. jessimistic note was struck by Ki Mo, the Canton Financial

PALERMO, Feb£2. fasioner,

regarding the Sicily has been almost isolated gtung fuancial position in a homoly for the of the most on in trom Italy for the past two days delivered at the weekly violent eyelones ever experienced. rial service held in Kwang- Torrential rains and strong gales have devastated fields and orcharda, Provincial: Government House:

frece boing uprooted and the rail Corning.

ways and telegraph services being interrupted,

Ki Mo said that no financial inco would be obtained to up the big deficit new sus by the

Kwangtung funncial The deficiency caused by 38. Central Government com nts was estimated at about 000 A month whils that

ng the Provincial Government,

tments, was about $830,000

This was the financial

a in Kwongtung, and the

ung Government must re-

Cate its financial

ording to Fan

method opra to

is drastic ratrench

y expenses.The

dial, taxes to replats

not improve tho

estimated receipta nom

burcca would be

parison with the bi

id that General

bad promisso 000 a month from t ilitary estimates, Marth, The

Boweve

maintena

Jos of troop

the anti-Red

The people of Palermo, which pace has suffered most, are using boats owing to the flooding of all the rivers in the Catania Plain having burst their banks

pant

Barlingham, The ordinary house-holder has Y. Bend, W. been badly, enough hit by the fall Casti Mr. A. J. C in exchange, of which Chinese re Jabortor. P. Grant, tailers have taken full advantage, lauri qaetr Murphy, and if the man who likes his quiet allá

ce Force, and pög and spoke, must' be, penalised TI sorti

to maksup the budget deficit, it that is proposed the in “up to “ the powers that be to int of the evening,

see that the how duties are applied chaferised on behalf. qued. R. Haldex." in an equitable manner. The regret for he This certainly not been done hissent, and wishup to low as I have learned to inkl. Blesser, but my cost, lez, almost to a man, the Par old esteemed Chinese e mpradores (in Kowloon

present in the hourne, who ding bid light

very brightly lata were cir

being appond-

congratulat

ers, including the legation experta whose businem it is to know all about such matters, there appears I lice to be nobody at the moment who can tell you whether likin has in fact bien abolished or no Merchants admit complete bean derment; the Chinese tax-coffee tors themselves are non-committal on the point

on the happy Mr. Kent in been his hou preped during agection with the

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na now known

A month ago the situation walia, Club, that 39 out of the 44 tax offices controlled by the Hopei Provincial Finance Burain had been officialng the history

abolished but that several of reation Club them had reopened under not

"and" names, auch, as the dried Fruits but in that Tax Bureau, the Egg and Fur Das able to nu Tax Bureatt and so forth. At some id Happy Valley niants likin stations were still

and the functioning as such, the provin placed in 1905 cial authorities explaining that a new one erect wn destroyed these were to be closed down sikis 1309. In soon as the new taxtion machinery

having been cans into operation. It was hatto time, the collection of likin bad been ported that merchauls, to whom farmed out refused to abandone without adequate comperation privilege for which they had paid out, good money in advance as an investment. Out of the 41- tikin stations along the Poiking-Suiyan railway, according to a survey published by the Kuo Wen, news agency, on January 15 13 had been completely abolished, 10 we je cirry, ing on as meal and 12 were col-Ing lecting likin in some modified

form.

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EUROPEAN YOUTH ORDERED

THE CANE.

DRIVING OTHER PEOPLE'S CARS,

Erie Fleming, aged 15: yours, figured as defendant at the Kow-; loon" "Magistracy "yesterday" when he was charged with having, on February 10, driven privata car No. 700 without an appropriate driver's licence and without the primission of the owner, Dr. J. Meliney.

Fleming was also charged with having ridden motor cycle 1048 diong Laichikok Rend on Febru ary 12 without the permission of the owner and without the neces sary driver's license,

:

"Op defendant plending guilty to both charges, Sub-Inspector Ma son, who prosecuted, asked that, a serious view be taken of the case.]

Sub-Inspector

Nicol of the

Traffic "dopartment, Kowloon, said that in 1027 three cars were taken by the defendant. He had admitted driving, the first two and was ar at lesal) increased, their prices therested when driving the third. The 'very day tut the now duties came into force! In one case, I know of fust car was a two-seater O'dimo- Europe in wine-merchant bile and the second 'a five-seater. followed the same example.

On December last year, he took another car, but the owner did not, wish to prosecute.

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I have it on the best of authority that the Chinese compradore shop in most cases take in large, and regular stucks of liquor from the wholesale houses with the result that there is absolutely no reason why these sets of gross profiteering should be allowed zu eine

Mr. Butters:-Defendant "scerns to be a car, maniac:

Bub-Inspector Niool-It looks like it. Defendant was whipped remontier that during and after the War the Home Government by his father on one occasion for made certain regulation aguinat having stolen a Studebaker car.

Mr. Butters':The defendant profiteers and I consider that the meditation ul take innst understand that it is not fair

steps protect the already

to the owners of the cara if he bad-hit Jong Kong wage earner.

With regard to the wisdom of the goes and drives them without get. Governacht's policy in increasing the liquor and tobacco duties by

suclr an extent, I doubt very much. if the cerz imposta will bring in the revenue expected. The buying power of the ordinary salaried worker must have a breaking point and that, thinh, in the majority of cases, ans been reached The

Government has probably killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.

this drink that cheers and the weed

Ling their permission, and it is

also not fair on his parents. Twelve strokes on the first count and cautioned on the second.

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STUOKER. Hong Kong, February 21, 1931,

LONDON ON THE LONG WAVE.

On January 21 it was annouiced. To in sport and [20 THIR KRIZON OF THE

viant. Joining Thlein 1809, h

diktant Superin- rank he wasap

He had alo Offer and in tai neted as a Ces she did not teten came to

DAILY PRESS."}

HONG KONG

m-rhaps the folloing will interest some local listenew-in who are not alle naually 'to alt up Into the amall hours of the morning to get programmes from the short: way station at Chelmsford.

i the local press that the now Consolidated Tax on cotton yarn, matches, flour, cement, tobacco and cigarettes would be collected as from January 25 and that the Special Consumption Tax would be-impored when the necessary re- gulations had been promulgated

On Sunday morning last at by Nanking. It was stated that. They, were

about five o'clock the London Re- although the revenue from these late Mr. Kuntional Station (350 metres) was new taxes was regarded as belong King's Police tuned in a simple, locally-made ing to the Central Government antiit the owed a net (t, and 2 L.F.) belonging agreement had been reached by offde. He had sot

to Mr. HP. Lenver, of the Peak. which it would be used temporaris in younger men for two hours or so, fair volume in the loadspeaker was obtained, ly for the upkeep of the Hopeinen and active

o keen and the quay of reception being ex- troops. Lester, it was announced that collection of the Consolidated Starting at

cellent it the entire absence of (nader he hadi -

A concert Was Tax would be postponed until

heard, followed by the Regional tions governing the payment of installs and News, and subsequestly a program- Foliruary 1: A new set of regula ering one of atmospher fes. fines by merchants seeking to

now in Mele of Dawe Music from the May- ud Mr. Gerfair Hotel Reception faded cun- evade taxation, was mued and

aquarter past new tax officials were appointed

Ty still mourned,siderably about

Ber en delock, but was held until Pins were made for stationing, on bea collectors and inspectors at eighth long life and early sight, when more interfer cotion: mills in Tientsin, Åve Bendita ence demered. match factories and a cement ejusical honours works, in addition to the Tientsinusty cheers for and Chingwangtao Customs Houses Led by the Hon. Newly manufactured goods were The

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Junk of Superin- |

but there are possibly set-owners Such reeption may be unusual,

in the Cony who are kren enough en getting London to try to pull

it in on the long wave when the

to be subject to the Consolidated is then made on Tax aftor February 1 and goods talice Recreation-bort-wava station is not available already in stock were to be solders Rnd anand when there is no work to go within 10 days, failing which they tray for Me to after Leakfast. wise would have to pay the in

Meny houses have collapsed, four people have bron killed, and num. emul livestoor has been lost.

GUN-RUNNING IN EAST!!

THE

AFRICA

ERATIONS AGAINST

SMUGGLERA

Feb g-smuggung Africa anto

The location on the condenser port Realled dials in most exnetly_a_for_the__ reception of Bombay Yours faith.

In a press interview at Tintain toast, 3r. fully. un-January 10, the Finance Mind history of his. for Afr... Soong, diserangerat away from Zhe new Consumption Tax, Mid

on goods at the origin, and produe

D. TRAFORD. Diocesan Boys School Hong Kong Feb. 9, 1031.

DIRECTOR.

LEFT HONG KONG YESTERDAY.

On being elected a director of the Standard Oil Company of Now York, Mr. P. W. Parker, of the local branch of the Company, together, with Mrs. Parker, sailed firm the Colony yesterday on the! Presient Grant en route to New York, where Mr. Parker will take op his official duties.

The whole of the staff of the. local branch of the Standard Oil'

The

Company entertained Mr. Parker. at a tiffin, lest Baturday at the South China Restaurant tiffin was presided over by Mr. H. L. Schultz, who succeeds Mr. Parker is the position of Coueral Manager South China Department,

Mr. Parker has nearly twenty years association with the South China department of the Company, having joined in Jhue, 1019, o was made Assistant General Mans oger in Hong Kong 1924, and be came General Manager in 1927.

CROWN LAND SALES:

GOOD PRICES FOR KOWLOON: LOTS

Three lots of Crown land situat- ed at Kowloon, ware sold at this Crown Land Office yesterday in the presence of a large number of prospective buyers.

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Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2441, situated at Thi Nan Street, was sold to Mr. Li Wan Tong of 234, Ince Edward Road, for 818,500. The upest price was $13,330. The Iand has an area of about, 5,332 eq." feet and its annual resbal in 800,

Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2442 was sold to Mr. Fung Yuk Tong of 179, Keelung Street, for $19,000. after some spirited bidding.

been quoted as stating: "Altheagh parents bath his desire to thers are nineteen different kinds

During his flovies under this tax only as he travetlod For four of these will be colketed

was in Hony also the 'resident for the splendid In sich proving These levices

his return to words on perning his service. Only

anxints to get The Hob. E. D. C. Wolfe thon Enlaces

hits of the bad toasted "Dar visitors": tion,

Hong Kong thion Mr. Solderect Fitzroy, in replying ・ther?

at the people at thanked the Police Club on behalf i was realised of the visitors for the pportunity ..come out, and of saying good-bye and au revoir all always tried to Mr. Kut, for all who had had ich sometimes he any dealings with him would re Buch

meaptee Fin, and all who had be presented known him,, would miss him. He Borawn bowls and wished My and Mrs. Kent long life1469, situated at Wong Chuk

nditions of bich and happym:að. „

Street, attracted considerable. at The Club Com: Dario dinner music was mro-tention. Bidding started kraness could vided by direless, and songs were $17,395 and was eventually raised Salty Hirokial shrine the coming by him in 974 900 jul was knockad Obey smile when Jakes, Bandmaster, and Sorgt. Jen- be two Cuprins of the South Wales Borderers, koanness. He and later in the evening the com-

to the gifts, and pany was entertained by Mr. Dud-

of next column:) Hy Barthit,

The upset price was 813,330, The land is situated at Tai Nan Street and has an annual rental of 808.·

New Kowloon Iiland. Lot No.

nt

down to Mr. Chiu Siu Wan of 81, Des Voeux Road Central The

loud bas 'anares of about 11;550- sq. feet and its anpual.rental is 8212.

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