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WEATHER REPORT.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1931.

The electrical section of the in- Yesterday's weather report, fore-dustry has been the most pros east and remarks, ined by the perous. Electrical 'machinery ex- Royal Observatorý al 5.20 p.m., stated:-

parts have risen steadily in the last ten years, and they are now one and-a-half times the volume of 1013. British exports of these goods are now 28.6 per cent, of, the world's

The anti-cyclone is situated in the Pacide to the east of Japan; a weak anti-cyclonic area covers the Lower Yangtze Valley,

Local

Forecast:-Enst

moderate; fair.

DEATH.

winds,

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SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local.

Wock-end radio programme,

Page 4 Fine rescue work by the P. & O.

Enterprise.

England has her men of enter- At a meeting of the French prise. Only the other day the Old Femina Committee held in Paris,.. Rajputana, Bailey judge was told of a com. and 'presided over by Mme, Saint

Fany promoter (now sentenced) Reno-Tai. Handier, the Femian Vir Sport. who kept a hat-stand in his office, Heureuse Prize, 1030-1, was award- bearing & number of top-bats, to ed to Mr. Richard Hughes for his create an impression of prosperity.novel, "High Wind in Jamaica.” ·

The Arms and the Law,

A young constable stated at

morrow.

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ANGLO-CHINESE EXTRALITY.

|BRITISH MINISTER RECEIVES

11:

FINAL INSTRUCTIONS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

NANKING, April 21. The Nationalists' hope for a final settlement with the British Fanling starting times for to Government on the question of ex-

Page 10. trality abolition is centred in Today's League football matches conference this afternoon at four and prospects.

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o'clock between Dr. C. T. Wang, English F.A, Cup Final prospects the Foreign Minister, and Sir.. and League programme for to-day Miles, Lampson, the British Minie- appear on

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ter in Peiping. anal of the H.K.C.C. Tennis Nanking Foreign Ministry parti- C. A. L. Rumjahn entered the Three important officials of the Tournament yesterday when ho defeated B, A, Rumjahn. Take 10. cipated at the meeting.

Latest Cables.

A monarchist plot is reported to have been discovered at Valencia.

exports for this class of goods. In the locomotive section of the trade the position is even more encourage CANNIE-On April 17, at Shanghai,

JOHN DURRAM CARNIE, aged 53 Ling. In 1930 the volume of trade years. Chief Engineer, Indo- China 8.A. Co.

was higher than in any other rear

Walters Clothes Problem, since 1922 (when replacement of

Paris-A special committee of Editorial and Business Offices: 11 war depreciated rolling stock was at Marylebone Police Court that a wo the Touring Club de France is its height), and ten per cent, higher an approached him in Harrow-ch exercised over the question than in 1913.

rond, threw her arms around his whether waiters in French hotels As to profits in 1930 twenty, and said, "Will you look should wear evening dress or white after ine, constable" She was jackets. The solution of this ques general engineering firms, which fined 58. on a charge of being drunk tion is not so simple as it may ap. were typical of the whole industry, ad incapable.

pear, becnues those principally showed net profits of £1,289,000, or

concerned approach it, from differ- ent angles. It often happens, for 4.7 per cent, on issued capital after

At a meeting of the Japanese allowing for debentara interest and

instance, that the waiter in impec smarter than his customer. He to recognise the new Spanish Gov table evening clothes looks much Cabinet yesterday, it was decided depreciation. According to the

Page 0 has an air of dignity and correct-ernment, Economist, 62 representative en-

ness which at times awakens some-

The first volume of Judge Feet- the Foreign. gineering and allied firms, with a

hand's Report on Settlement at Shanghai has, been total share and loan capital of

Page 0. issued. | £184,000,000, showed net profits rising from £5,073,000 in 1927 to £7,211,000 in 1930, a return of capital of 5.2 per cent. In addition these same firms reduced their de benture debt by £12 millions.

The Daily Press.

Hong Kong, Aruit 25, 1931.

BRITISH ENGINEERING

PROGRESS.

Amoso the British industries which

were the first to feel the effect of

the post-war difficulties was, the engineering industry. Not all seo- tions were so affected, for the elec

trical branch of the industry bas

been very active for nome years past and has enjoyed relative prosperity, But the "heavy industries" havo hnd n trying time. Now, at the height of the economic blizzard caused by a world-wide slump in

trade, the interesting phenomenon,

Some interesting figures have re- eently been compiled showing that the output per worker in the British engineering industry has increased. For example, in the motor industry the output per man has advanced from 1.00 private cars in 1924 to 2.81 cars in 1927..

The conclusion is forced on one

is to be witnessed that it is juel from the perusal of these figures

those industries which suffered

earliest in the post-war depression that are now in a more favourable position. The reason for this seem-

thai when the prevailing depression in due course passes away the

British engineering firms will be as

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King Edward's Beer.

A man who had two battles of the beer specially brewed for King Edward at Barton-on-Trent in 1002 says he has heard that an American paid £23 for one bottle in Londen a short while ago.

It is a rich, full-bodied beer, and in tasto is not unlike a dark brown

hurry.

Canon's War-Time Vigil.

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It is understood that the final British Goverment instructioas on extrality negotiations were receiv ed by Sir Miles Lampson this morn- Page 9-ing, but details of the British de- cision and the result of to-day's

by the Foreign Ministry. oonferenco are being kept a secret.

The Southern Sun, with the a mail from Australia to England, left Sydney for Brisbane yesterday. Page 9.

The Spanish Government has fix- ed the elections to & Constituent Assembly for June 21 or 25, and that the qualifying age for voters bo 23.

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thing like an inferiority complex among those whom he serves. Often after a waiter has left him a guest has been observed to look at him- self in a mirror and adjust his white tie. Sometimes, also, weal thy visitors to European hotels have been hailed by other guesta with brusque orders for coffee or whisky and soda. Owing to such A consignment of gold amounting incidents, it is suggested that waito £1,000,000 passed through Riga One who, almost every day of the tere should wear a distinctiva uni

from Moscow for Berlin yesterday.

Page 9. sur, stood at the top of the Road form such as a white, scarlet, or of Remembrance at Folkestone,us jacket. They however, have raised objections to any such waving farewell to soldiers going scheme of dress reform. overseas, bas died at Little Bever ey, Canterbury. He was Canon F. Tindall, Vicar of Ashford, Keat, for over 26 years, and Vicar of Folkestone from 1914 to He watched hundreds of thousands of troops march Harbour to embark, waved his hand to each party as it passed 'm, and called: "Good boys; good buys: God; bites you," He af einted at the funeral of the 60 Folkestone in 1917, and performed victims of the German air raid on

good service during the arrival at Falkestone of Belgian and French refugees.

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THE conception of Dominion straus, ly cut down, and rast economies which has come to play so large a rffected. The result of all this part in Imperial relations since the painful but necessary activity is war, has had a further happy and that now these industries, are in unexpected consequence. By a pro- cess of elimination it has elicited

Women Convicts Outery.

Dr. Wang indicates that a second conference with Sir Miles Lampson has been scheduled for next week.

LADY MISSIONARIES RELEASED:

HUGE RANSOM DEMANDED FOR SWEDISH CAPTIVE.

[THROUGH BRUTER'S AUKNUT.]

HANKOW, April 24 The Misses Nordlund and Nelson' have been released, according to a telegram, which does not mention

A meeting of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce held Mr. Anderson. 1926.

Through the streets of North London passed two motor-conches.

to Folkestone The blinde were drawn. Warders in London yesterday resolved upon s beside the drivers. Inside the asking Government to use its in- conches were 20

women convicts fluence to secure an international who through the night had been conference to stabilise silver prices. ariving from Walton Gaol, Liver- pool, to Holloway Prison, where it was late when the women start they are to take up new quarters.

Government

The bandits who have been hold- ing Miss Nelson and Mise Nordlund (since liberated) and Mr. Anderson, who were captured at Kingchow, are evidently of the most modern-

ranson they are demanding gramo- phone records, tennis, racquets and balls, basketballs, chess-boards, wrist watches, fountain pens nud footballs, as well as gasolene and ammunition, before they will ra Icase their captive.

The captors were demanding $190,000, but presumably released

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the women as being a hindrance.

It is reported that Ho Lung is The three French officers who being pressed by having photographed soldiers drill- were arrested at Koenigsberg for troops.

Bandits of the Modern Type. their 200-miles journey from ing have been allowed to leave Liverpool. They were under guard Germany, the Foreign Office of the

Later of a strong force of wardresses. On latter not taking the matter scri- the way the women ate food that ously

Pago 9. had been prepared at Walton Pri- son-for, no stops were allowed on The bandits who captured three the journey. Some of the women missionaries at Kingchow are de An old gentleman of Bulgaria had not acon the outer world for mauding gramophone records, ten- (who would have made a fine lime-yars, and in the early morning nis racquets and balls, basketballs,pe, for in addition to a money rick) stated publicly that a witch light, as the coaches neared Lunchessboards, wrist watches, lous long ago foretold his death on a don, they peeped from behind the tain pens, and footballs as well as particular day in March, 1913. On drawn. blinds. There was a clang gasolene and ammunition before the day in question he sat down in as the gates of Holloway closed they will release their captive, the front of 10 relatives-and died. We behind the coaches. The women Iwo Indies having already been need not pity the Bulgarians. In vere in prison again.

released.

Page 0. 1695 a man burnt his wife to death switch in Tipperary. He was sentenced to penal servitude. The

Commodore Kingsford-Smith has last witches were convicted in the English courts in 1712 and 1717, arrived at Koepang to pick up the The statutes against witchcraft were City of Cairo's air mail from Eng- Page 0. repented in 1730. Twenty years land. Inter John Wesley wrote: "The The re-opening of the Soviet counts of witches and apparitions foreshadowed by the return of the as old wives fables. I am sorry building to the local trading repre- for it. Giving up witchcraft sentatives of Moscow by the Ger 19 in effect giving up the Bible."man Consular officials, Page 9,

It is reported from New York that the len that stocks of gold and capital must be regarded as a common pool to be drawn upon for the needs of the whole world is, according to the New York Times, one of the points Mr. Montague England, has been advocating dur- ing his recent visit to the United States.

Pago D. (Continued on previous column.)

A Peiping telogram of April 16 stated that Red bandits at King- chow, in Hupch, on the 17th inst., captured an American citizen, Miss Esther Nordlund, and two Swedish subjects, Mr. Oscar Anderson and to the Swedish Mission

are reminded a helier position to cope with pre- ! the conception of a Colonial Empire English... have given up all as Consulate-General at Shanghai in Norman, Governor of the Bank of Miss Augusta Nelson, alt belonging

"HAREHOLDERS

that the 25TH APRIL, 1931, it

the Last Day upon which Bigued Forms sent difficulties than are other indistinct from the Dominions. This of Acceptance or Renunciation of tho Offer of New Shares made ts Share-dustries,

division was formally acknowledged holders on 29th Dzcxxsen Last must

by the appointment of two dis Teach the Company's Bankers in Hong Kong (THE HONGKONG AND NDANGBA BARKING CORPORATION) accompanied by a Remittance.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers,

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Modern Construction with Garage,

"CAMBAY BUILDINGS" Tlate with Modern Conveniences,

An indication of how the industry in faring is given by the revent advance, in the value of stocks and shares of British engineering com- panics. One of the largest of these concerne is Messrs. Vickers, Ltd.

fourth year in succession a dividend

of 8 per cent. The company some few years ago had to make im

As its chairman remarked a year ago, this" would enable it to pass.

Local Notes and Events

pear in classical Chinese plays.

It is said that the rumours of

revolutionary movement

in

CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA NOTES.

ACCEPTED ONLY AT A DISCOUNT;

[FROM OUR * WN CODRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, April 24.

The money changers and bankers

in Canton Bre_again_refusing to accept Central Bank of Chine notes at full value.

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A enble from Nelson, British anti-foreign movement was expect. Columbia, tells of the troubles of ed in China. This led to a scaro, the local police with the "Sons of and the telegraphing of the news Freedom, a religious sort which to the Foreign Ministers at Peking. believes in discarding clothing. From the Foreign Ministers the

The police came upon a group of news quickly spread to the Palace, refractory "Sons of Freedom" in whereupon striet instructions were the roadway, and these refused to The Senior Ranks Recreation issued to the metropolitan police disperse. So the police secured Club gave a very enjoyable dance to carefully patrol and guard the

some powder of the kind used by when a large number of friends April 25, 100s. at the R.E. Theatre last evening city-Hong Kong Daily Press, schoolboys, which produces a viol

ent ilch. The itching powder was Micky's Melody Makers was Looking Back 80 Years, attended. The popularity of

applied by the police to the "Sons, of Freedom." who retired at ones. and dressed. number of encores demanded. Thin band of young musicians are in keen demand at local dances and they will be playing to-night at the Indian Recreation Club, Bookun

tinct Secretaries of State for the Dominions and for the Colonica, respectively; it is underlined by the first appearance in England of s new monthly periodical, the Crown Colonist, which is to devote itself exclusively to the affairs of British

One Chinese case of typhoid was Mr. H. R. Pinna of the Far East Looking Back 25 Years, CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTRÉME. (This company has paid for the possessions or protectorates. not in parted for the 24 hours ended Aviation Company arrived in the!

cluded in the Dominions" fold. The Thursday.

Colony recently on a abort visit, n title is not a precise one; for

Mei Lang Fan, the noted Chinese and is staying with relatives at Peking originated through the idle the colonies comprise about forty actor, is at present staying at the Kowloon. Mr. Pinon is Seretary yards of a Chinaman in the United several communities under thirty Hotel Ceril prior to going to Cau

This Chinaman informed Six-roomed & Five-roomed Apartments case cuts in its capital, but now distinct forms of government. It is ton, at which place he has beeu Mr. Vaughan Fowler, official States.

it enjoys a strong financial position.only in very recent years that they gaged for a short season to ap. representative of the Far East his American dupes that a great spoken to none of their neighbours.

Aviation Company, and is station have coms to realise the existence

ed at Mukden where the company Private J. Hinbury, R.E., was of anything but a sentimental unity

The new journal bitten by his pet monkey while re negotiating with the govern- between them. through even a prolonged period of sets out to emphasise the reality Playing with it on Thursday. He ment for the purchase of sera

was given precautionary treatment planes. bad trade with comparative equani-of this connection, and to illas at the Military Hospital while the mity." This is true of other Girma trate and encouraged the possibilities animal was removed to the Kennedy

Town depot for observation. of trade between the colonies and in the industry-hence the restrain- Great Britain, and each other. It Despite the fact that a continual ed optimism reflected by the en-will deliberately cachew politics. J. Lavin who fell overboard from search was kept up for Mr. George

In spite of all the difficulties of with her smaller dependencien heve Wednesday, night, no signs and

Chinese inhabitants of Hong Kong Yesterday & deputation of the always in the past been singularly been seen of the missing officer and last year the total exports of free from the influence of party it is now feared that he must be

called at Government House, and

The Trade Delenco given up as lost. British-made machinery averaged politics. As the Manchester Guard-

presented a congratulatory address (Against Soviet Economie War) has Hennessy. The deputation was in- to His Excellency Sir John Pope addressed a letter to municipal 40,000 tons a month. It was greater fan puts it: "Ono does not need to

A notice to mariners posted in

council throughout the country the Harbour Office is to the effect

troduced by Mr. Fung Ming Shan, Clairman of the Boviots for the fit to one to pre them to refuse to buy timber then in 1922, 1927, 1994, 1996be an Imperialist in the narrower that a reclamation involving the

The funeral of the late Mrs. M. Protection of Women and Children, duced under the present inhunian The values wero £1,100,000 a month, sense of the word to recognise the construction of a sea wall will be

immense wealth fatent in the hete shortly commenced off Taiwan. It A. Leo, who passed away at the who stated that the directors of the conditions. Russian timber, it is would seem, therefore, that despite French Hospital on Wednesday Tung Wah Hospital, the committee stated, ja being exported at an un- or 40 per cent, above the figures for rogenous areas which have fallen, the fact that there had been, so afternoon, took place at Happy of the Man-me Temple and Pro-economie price in order to obtain 1013, a year of special prosperity at one time or another, under the many protests, the Government will Valley yesterday when a large num-visional Committee of the Socisty credits for the purchase of machin- It is not alter ita decision regarding theter of friends gathered to pay their for the Protection of Women and ery, the avowed object being to to the industry, As wholesale com control of Great Britain.

last resperia. The docensed was the Children, who formed this deputa- build up" an industrial system mother of Captain William Leotion, came on this day, the fourth which shall destroy our own." The modity prices are now below pre rather a matter for pride that we public bathing beach at that site.

in helping the peoples of There was a large number of (a master mariner on the China anniversary of His Excellency the intention is to attack the standard war 'lovel, "this is a considerable these colonies to develop their recond-hand goods dealers of the Coast), Meera Frank, Tinker" Governor's arrival in this Colony of life of British workers, and 11- ready the competition of Russian advance. Agricultural machinery sources, help them also to escape Upper Level Police Station. Hos and Robbie Lee as well as other to congratulate him on behalf of

the whole. Chiness community on imber, by reducing our purchases has been the hardest bit of the the mistakes which have madenital Road, and the Central Police smaller children who are still in

Sutton compound yesterday when a school. The deccsced-was-for-sanny the marked-muesens visible-to-the-from Sweden, har mujured on TOE machinery section, and it experi-in developing ours The Crown large quantity of confiscated and years-a-resident of Kowloon and increased prosperity of the Colony, export trade to that country. Tho fertile field to condemned goods were sold by during her stay in the Colony had which had attended his administra- load which the London County Colonist has a need a decline last year of 10 per plough, and, prudently steered, auction. Among these was a Studenado a large number of friends tion of the Government during the Council has given in this matter baker car which was formerly used amongst whom she will be greatly last four years-Hong Kong Daily should, it is urged, be followed hy

all other local authorities. missed. cent on the 1020 figure.

should reap a satisfying harvest."

Pres, April 26, 1681. by the Police Superintendenta

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