STANDARDIZING PRICE OF SILVER,
SUGGESTION BY CANADA'S EX-PREMIER,
[THOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Torosro, April 30. International or, as a major al- sernative, Impermi notion for the restoration of the value of silver coinago to at least something like the old ratio to gold, was urged as à cardinal remedy for the world economic depression by Mr. Arthur' Meighen, the ex-Premier, address- ing the Canadian Press Association -to-day.
He pointed out that the great
fall in the past five years of silver,
DO-X FLIGHT.
JOURNEY RESUMED.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
NEW YORK, May 1. The giant German flying boat Do-X, which has been undergoing repairs at Las Palmas since Febru ary, resumes its flight to South America to-morrow,
LAR PALMAR, May 1. The. Dornier Do-X took off this morning for Rio de Oro, West
Africa
ENGLAND-AUSTRALIA FLIGHT.
which was the sole measure of value STACK EXPERIENCES ENGINE
and the medium of exchange for over half the world's population, had demoralised the exchange of commodities between gold and sil Ye currency nations.
He suggested that if the United States, Gormany, and other coun-
TROUBLE,
(THROUGH AZUTEN'S AGENCY.] ·
*
SINGAPORE, May 1. Stack set out at dawn in un usually favourable atmospheric con.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931.
FLOODS IN THE
NORTH.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE RENDERED HOMELESS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOY.]
FRACAS AT CAIRO RAILWAY STATION.
WAFDISTS DEFY GOVERNMENT.
(THROUGH REVIER'S AGENCY.]
CAIRO, May 1. Though four Wafdists and two
KIUKIANG, May 1 Nanchang and a number of dis- tricts along the Han river have been flooded following heavy rain-police are reported injured as the fall. Parts of the river embank result of an affray at the Railway ment collapsed, and houses and Station here to-day the affair had dwellings were carried away by the
& comedy ending. terrific inrush of water.
Thousands are homeless and the neighbouring hills are crowded with refugees.
HOME RACING.
FOUR COURSE WINS ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.
[THROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 1 The raco for the One Thousand Quineas resulted as follows:-
Four Course...... Lady Marjorie Lindos Ojos.... There were twenty runners. The winner won by a head, with a Waldints Five hundred
aidlength separating second and third. Liberals,, including ex-Premiors, ex-
The betting was:-100 to. Ministers, ex-Senators Deputica headed by Nahay Pasha against Four Course, 4 to 1 against and Mahmud Pasha, endeavour. Lady Marjoric, 10 to 1 against ed to entrain for Tante (a Wafd Lindos Ojos, WU PE! FU EN ROUTE TO stronghold) in defiance to Gov.
NANKING.
ernment prohibition and rushed Some got the guarded entrance. past the police who were arm ed with sticka, others dispersed on a charge by mounted police. The former refused, to leave the train which was thereupon run to Abbassia where the carriages con taining the most prominent Wald- ista and Liberals were uncoupled and run on to a siding, and after- wards taken to the desolate region of Mokatiam Hill, which is inne- cessible to motor traffic. The
[TURGUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY.},
HANKOW, May 1. General Wu Pei Fu is due bere en May 5 en ruite to Nanking.
SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL
COUNCIL.
and
ex-
ties declined to co-operate with the ditions but returned twenty-Eve British Empire, the latter should combine through the establishment minutes later owing to engine SECRETARY GOES ON LEAVE Waldists were compelled to walk of a British Commonwealth Bank trouble.
to purchase silver and standardise the price on the basis of approxi mately 20/1 silver to gold ratio. He also suggested that Canada might take the ad in extending ite largely silver coinago with one and two dollar pieces, replacing
FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES.
to some extent the present. note, TRADE MISSION TO CANADA. Shanghai in 1924 to join the legal
15300.
It was implied that the whole Aubject might be considered at the Jinperial Economic Conference.
LONDON'S SOCIAL SEASON.
BRILLIANT ROUND OF EVENTS EXPECTED.
inp
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
to
RUURY, April 30. Although the Grand Opera sea- son began on Monday night and throughout week has been attract
audiences fashionable Covent Gardon, the event which is generally rogarded as the opening of the London youtai season takes & private 1lace to-morrow, when view of the Royal Academy Sum- Iner Exhibition takes place at Bur- lington House,
Despite the industrial depres. sion, all indications point to brilliant round of social events dur. ing the Reason, of which the out- standing functiont in May are tho first two Courts to be held by Their Majesties at Buckingham Palaco on the 19th and 20th. Chelsen Flower Show and the Royal Mili- tary Tournament will, as usual, also be held during the coming month.
The principal outdoor events of the season, however, tako place in June, including, among many others, the Derby and Ascot Races, the Colour, the Trooping of the Military Tatton, the Interna tional Horse Show, the Wimbledon Inwn tennis championships, the Royal Air Force Pageant and. the test match between England and the New Zealand cricket team which
rived to-day.
BRITISH MINING INDUSTRY.
COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE POSITION.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE-]
RUGBY, April 30. The Prime Minister, accompani ed by the Lord Chancellor and other Miniators, soived a deputa tion from the Minors'. Federation and the miners' members of Parlia ment to-day.
A general exchange of views on the situation in the mining indus ty took place and it was agreed that a committee representative of the Government and the Executive of the Miners' Foderation should further examine the position in the immediate future.
It is understood that the discus sion extended to the minium wage proposals which the Federation has embodied in a Bill tor-establishing a guaranteed daily wago equal to prowar rates plus an inercase in. the cost of living and also a gua ranteed weekly wage. Those will niso be examined by a smaller com mittee which was appointed to-day.
ZANGEZUR QUAKES.
MORE-DAMAGE AND CASUALTIES.
[THROVON KENTER'S AGENCY.]
Мовсон, Арг-30
Earthquake shocks continue to be felt in Zangezur, in the district of
Azerbaijan.
The intent shocks have resulted in further fatalities and the des. truetion of dwellings.
ג'
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
RUGBY, April 30.
The Mission despatched by the Federation of British Industries to Canada, to study conditions with a view to stimulation of trade rein. tions, will be busily engaged in conference, in Montreal, where great interest and sympathy are. displayed.
The Mission, headed by Sir James. Lithgow, left to-day for Toronto. After inspecting indus trial plants in Hamilton and Nia- gara, it will visit Oltawa, where an interview with the Prime Minister, Mr. Bennet, will take place next, Thursday.
ARCTIC SEARCH FOR EXPLORER.
'PLANES TO BE USED IN
RESCUE WORK.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY]
REYKJAVIK, April 30.
A race has staried to rescue Mr.
(THROUGH, REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, May 1. Mr. J. R. Jones has been appoint- ed to succeed Mr. Edwards as Secretary of the Shanghai Muni cipal Council. Mr. Jones came to arm of Teesdale, Newman and Mac. Donald, and accepted the post of Assistant Secretary to the Council in 1928. He has been joint Deputy Secretary for more than two years.
Mr. Jones' appointment dates from today, but he is going Home, on long leave, and during his sight montlig absence his duties will be carried on by Mr. MoKet, Deputy Secretary, and Mr. I. W. S. Win ter, who was seconded from the office of the Municipal Advocate.
WHAT OF SHANG-
HAI'S FUTURE.
home.
All is quiet in Cairo but steel helmeted police are patrolling strategic points.
Ex-Premier Injured,
LATER. Ex-Premier Mahmud Pasha
in
among those injured at the station. He was knocked, down by a blow on his head.
Harem Women Arrested,
LATEIL A number of harem women who motor-cars in paraded Cairo in support of the Wafdists were put in custody for displaying banners inscribed Boycott the Elections."
When Nahus Pastin, who refused to leave the train, was told by, the police that the responsibility of the incident rested on him he replied: "The responsibility rests on the British alone."
COULD THE LEAGUE HELP? ||
By PALAEO...
Shanghai, that city of sinners, that model settlement, that sink of iniquity, that oasis in a desert of erruption and decay, is now known an the Last Ditch. It is feared that Bir Miles Lampson will give away everything Fetween the Lega. tion Quarter and Shameon, but will stand fast by the ex-mudflat. One thing is patent: we are wit nessing the end of the Treaty Port era, which will soon earn for itself a chapter in ancient history se- quent to that devoted to the era of the Canton factories burnt down
1850.
i
Is Shanghai to have some such independent status as Andorra and Monaco enjoy? Will she become a protected town like Danzig? Or, vorst of all, will our beloved settle- ment become a mere mandatory? We shall not know until the Fee- would, I suppose, be dismissed -as annchronous and medieval. The second would be the best if it is the desire of the parties to revive the civio zeal of tho, inhabitants: i would have the support of Sir Rutherford Aleoek were 'he alive.
Augustine Courtauld. At Reykja rik the Icelandic patrol boat Odinn, carrying a seaplane and six mem- bera of the Icelandie Rescue Ex- pedition, sailed this morning in an attempt to rescue Mr. Courtauld,
The Odinn should arrive at thetham eggg is laid. The first notion great ice barrier, 00 miles from Angmagsalik, on the morning of May 1, whence four members of the expedition propose to fly by seaplane to Taxiussak, where the British air route expedition in-
is to be found.
OBLO, April 30.
The nirman, Ahrenberg is still held up at Bergon by bad weather. Interested British eireles have asked the Norwegian airman, Cap. tain Riser Larsen, if he is willing to participate in the search. Lar sen is considering the mattor.
Nahas is suffering from a slight kend wound,
JAPANESE ROYALTY IN OTTAWA.
CORDIAL WELCOME GIVEN TO
گم
PRINCE AND PRINCESS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
OTTAWA, April 30. Prince and Princess Takamatsu were cordially welcomed here ou arrival from Quebec, being official ly greeted by the Secretary of State, Mr. Cahan, representing the Dominion Government, and the Mayor, Mr. Houde.
The royal visitors are the guests
the Dominion of
Government. Prince Takamatsu is keenly appre- ciative of the welcome given hin by French Canadians during his Canadian tour.
have saved Five Towns. There would have been an historic fitness in so doing. Five Towns were open to trade under the first trenty ut Nanking in 1842, and five more were added in the second treaty in 1858. Some such slogan na "Back to '68" might have saved the situa
KING CAROL INTERVENES
IN POLITICS.
ANGRY SCENES IN SENATE.
(THROUGH REVIER'S ADENOY.]
BUCHAREST, April 30. Cries of "Long Live Spain," and counter-eries of "Long Live the King," were heard inst night in the streets of Bucharest, where King Carol's intervention in poli- tical affairs has created acute poli- tical tension,
There were angry scenes in the Senate when the new Government's programanto was read, proposing, inter alia, to restore to the Royal Prerogative many powers which have fallen into disuse.
Uproar, followed the reading of the Royal Decree uissolving Par- Einment and fixing June 1, and June 4 for the alections, which, it is anticipated, will be fiercely con- tested.
"LABOUR DAY" IN SPAIN..
ROYAL PARKS TO BE OPENED TO PUBLIC..
1
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
MADEIRA REVOLT. ASHTON-UNDER-
LYNE BY-ELECTION.
MORE TROOPS LANDED.
(THROUGH REUTEr's agency.]
LISSON, May 1. The second landing of troops at"| Madeira, it is officially announced, 'has been "cffected with complete success" with the object of supe porting yesterday's advance land. ing: party.
Pico Cruz Bombarded.
LATER.
The cruiser Vasco da Gama bom-
barded Pico Cruz, Madeira, but the rebels' artillery did not reply,
The troops who landed have cap tured two boats and some wär material.
The destroyer Gundiana is leav- ing for Madeira from Lisbon to- day, while the steamer Almirante Schulz is also leaving with supplies and munitions for the expedition- Ary force.
Earlier News.
SIR OSWALD MOSLEY HOOTED.
(TUKODON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, April 30. "The by-election at Ashton-under Lyno, caused by the death of the Labour Member, Mr. Bellamy, has
resulted as follows:---
Lieut. Col.
(Con.)
Broadbent
12,420 Mr. Gordon (Labour)... 11,005 Mr. Allon. Young (Mon-
ley Party)
Conservativo Majority
4,472
1,415
Fourth Conservative. Gain.
Ashton is the fourth seat which the Conservatives have gained from Labour since the General Election, the others being Sunderland, Ship- ley, and West Fulham, Labour has Hained two seats, namely, Preston and the Scotland Division of Liver- paol.
LISBON, April 30. Fighting is still hanging fire in Madeira because the insurgents are
Amazing scenes followed tho de-. lying low, judging by a telegram from Captain Correira, the Minis- claration of the poll. A huge ter of Marino and Commander-in-crowd outsides the Town Hall, hold- Chief of the Expeditionary Force, addressed
the Government.
ing the Mosley Panty responsible Captain Correira reports: "The for the defeat of the Labour candi-' operations have begun with com-date, adopted a threatening atti
The detachments ¦ tudo. “· ploto success.
landed have not encountered any
The Now Party supportors wero resistance and did not require naval co-operation. The forens oc- surrounded and Aste shaken in)
cupied all strategic positions oc- cording to plan.
SIR CHARLES ELIOT'S
FUNERAL.
their faces amid cries of "traitor," "dirty dog," and "you let the Tories in."
The Now Party candidate had to be amuggled out from the sidu ca- trance of the Town Hall with a strong police guard, and later Sir JAPAN'S REVERENT TRIBUTE. Oswald Mosley and his supporters
Perhaps no form of burial would have appealed more to the wishes of the lato Sir Charles Eliot than' the simple and respectful ceremoni al with which his body was com- mitted to the deep from the liner Hakone Maru on March 17. The former British Ambassador to Japan died on the voyago, home- ward, and there being no Chris- tian priest on board, it was decid- It is somi-officially announced thated the vessel being Japanese, to nil workers except those engaged observe the funeral rites of the ir tho electricity and water sup- Buddhist faith, accorded to riies are expected to take a boli Japaneso pasienge's. day.
MADRID, April 30. Spain's "Labour Day" to-morrow promises to be a record rest day.
No transport services will run
Bites of the Buddhist Faith.
in Madrid and most of the pro- The Singapore, correspondent of vincial towns. No newspapers are
The Times thus describes the core boing published, and no bars, re-mony:- Laurants, cafos or banks are open- ing.
The morning will he devoted to official civic demonstrations, while in the afternoon the Royal parks and gardens will be opened to the public,
FRANCO-ITALIAN NAVAL AGREEMENT.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICZ)
A platform was erected on the lower deck, and an artificial wreath from the captain, officers, and crow of the Hakone . placed upon
i
were escorted by the Police to their Hotel through hooting, and jeering thousands.
Labour Deserters, ..
The Labour candidate, Mr. Gor- don, in an interview, said that a small group of desertors have hand- ed over the seat to the Conserva..
must tives, but something also have gone wrong with the works for us to drop 2,000 vetes."
"Wo
Sir Oswald said that he was delighted with the result. shall continue fighting all along the line.".
No Early General Election, [DRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE}
RUGEY, April 30,
HIS LIFE FOR LEPERS.
A RICH MAN WHO TURNED MONK.
Sir Herbert Samuel, addressing the National Liberal Olab on the Budget, which he described as Budget of axpedients, isk, that unless the Government failed to On a table were two bowls, carry out the urgent économics ons containing burning incense and required or to adopt the recom the other incente powder. The mendations of the Royal Commis only words spoken during the Bion on the abuses of Unemploy ment Insurance system, he saw no ceremony were an invitation in
early to anticipate an Japanese from the purser to ovory reason person who had one into contact General Election:
ith Sir Charles Eliot to pay res pect to the dead. The first to be invited was Sir Charles's personal. servant, a Japanow, who carried a small bowl of ancred water which Ho le placed beside the incense. was followed by the captain, "and then came each officer and member of the crew who had had direct dealings with Sir Charles, down to the cabin stoward and the table steward. Each walked up to the anal table, bowed, took three pin ches of the incenze powder from the unlit bowl and sprinkled them that already burnning. He then counter-stepped back, remuined for a mo-
ment with hands together, bowed This Trappist, whose life was de- rgain and roturnod his place. voted to outcasts whom the rest of When the last man had paid his the world shunned, was once Ira tribute, the bier was slowly raised Dutton, a successful business man, and the body slid into the sea. gifted social figure and noted as the best-dressed man in Washington in the 'seventies.
Rugsy, May 1. The British Government has re- ceived intimation from the Italian Government that its reply to the French Naval proposals will be kn
the
same lines as the British counter-proposals which wero com municated to Paris last Saturday.
Similar preliminary intimation ernment to the French Foreign
Minister.
The British
proposals represented & compro mise between the original agree ment of March 1 and the latest French proposals.
The difference of view concerned replacement of
large number. of ships.
dicates that a good landing place Eut it is doubtless their intention tion. Moreover, it has been urged has been made by the Italian Gov- that the step now to be taken shall that if the liberties At present en be no more than a temporary make-joyed by our fellow subjects were shift leading to complete Chinese secured in Shanghai, Tientsin, Hankow and Canton, with (say) dominion, and it locks to me as though all the mud north as woll Nowchang, to make up five, extra- south of the Yang-king-pang will territoriality throughout the rest and itself mandated territory.
of the country might well go bang.. Sir Miles would have done better Six months age a solution on those for his country and for the other lines seemed possible, but one by Powers if he had found himself able one, or perhaps at one fell swoon, to dig in at a polot where he could the outports have gone overboard. while "busy, detestable Shanghai," a Mr. Toynbee calls, it; trembling (Continued at foot of next column.)
ly awaita Judge, Foetham's ming up.
Ahrenberg Takes On.
OSLO, May 1. Ahrenberg took off early this morning from Bergen.
EXPLOSION AT NAVAL ARSENAL.
45 PEOPLE KILLED :-73 INJURED,
[REUTER'S AMERICAN FERVICE]
RIO DE JANEIRo, April 30. Twenty-one workmen were killed and or injured owing to an explo- sion the Naval Arsenal hero to-day.
at
Probable Cause.
LATER. It is now stated that 45 men. were killed and 73 injured through the explosion at the Naval Arsenal at Nictherov, the capital of the State of Rio de Janeiro: A Jurge mashing shop was completely de- stroyed and other buildings were very badly damaged.
The accident is believed to have been due to the explosion of a tor pedo containing 300 pounds of high
explosives.
BLITO.
The wait will not be a long one, DAVIS CUP TENNIS. for the report is expected in a
KIRBY BEATS BASS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
DUSSELDORF, May 1.
In the Davis Cup competition Kirby (South Africa) heat Bass (Germany) 18, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3.
PRINCE PLAYS GOLF.
JOINS IN GAME WITH ARGEN. TINE PROFESSIONALS.
[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.
Roary, April 30. HRH the Prince of Wales, who reached home yesterday after his South American tour, to-day play ed golf at Sunningdale couro in Burray with Argentine profession. als who travelled to Europe in the liner Arlanza.
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF SIR JAMES MELVILLE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Loxbox, May 1 The death is announced of fir James Melville.
[The lato Sir James was born in 1863. He was called to the Bar,
In life the lato Sir Charles Eliot bad an intenso interest in the Buddhist religion, and with this impressive little Buddhist cero- mony was he buried at sen by a people whom be know and loved.
EXCHANGE RATES.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
RUGBY, April 00.
124.44 166 3/10°
few weeks, and. t is no more than idle fancy to attempt any anticipa- tion. But as a pastime it is an attractive one. Hy fear that the outcome will be a mandate is based on China's Into appeal to the Lea- gue of Nations for advice as to ker economics and constitution. If you are seen entering a butcher's shop it is a reasonable assumption Middle Templo, in 1000 Was ap Amsterdam... 18.003 that you want some meat. After pointed Solicitor-General in 1920, all, a mandate would save every and elected as Labour Member of one's sugeptibilities The only
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question would be who is to bold Parliament for Gateshead in 1920. the baby who is to be the mande One of the ablest members of the tory! Not England while there Bar, Sir James' decease is are Fronchmen hout, and not to British public life. When the France while an Englishman re- War camo he threw up a lucrativo a junior, and the mains alive. Not Japan, with her practice as hands full in Manchuria, nor wounds which he received in action America, who has refused far easier undermined his health. He only Laska Perhaps alceser Power. spoke once in Parliament, but on such as Holland or Sweden, would that occasion he gave the greatest "be acceptéblo,
promise of a successful political I pronound the novel suggestion career, and it was recognised that that China herself should acoept Sir William Jowitt and Sir James the League's mandate and run the ferille were asiablo a pair of lax. Settlement with the Lengue's come officers as any Government has missioners and a League judiciary. possessed. Lady Melville was also But this opens up a very wide ques4 keen politician, and curiously tion, China Express and Tele enough, received her training as graph.
secretary to Mr.--Bonar Law.}
34.00
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New York-After 45 years tend- ing the lepers of Molokai Island, Hawaii, the famous monk Brother Joseph, who
succeeded Father Damien na administrator of the colony, died in Honolulu, aged 87, having worked almost until the Inst
Born in Vermont, he served as a captain in the American Civil War, And afterwards went into business Then, suddenly, ho turned his back on his old life and entered a Trap- pist monastery in Kentucky nearly 50 years ago.
Hearing of Father Damien's work among the lepers, be offered himself as assistant.
It is generally supposed that the horrors he witnessed in the Civil War eventually turned Brothor Joseph's thoughts from this world! of pleasure to the holy life,
"I did not begin to live till F came to this loper colony," he anGÓ ввід.
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Genova
Milan
02.081
Borlin
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Stockholm Copenhagen Oslo
16.141
In all those years ho left his lo pere but once. That was last sum mer, when he was induced to visit Honolulu for oyo treatment.
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18.16
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34,501
Prague
Helsingfors
1041 1031
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JAPANESE ENVOY AT: THE VATICAN,
Romo, April 22-Prior to their return to Tokyo-Mr.-R.Yoshitawa, Japanese Charge d'Affaires in: Roms, his wife and children to-day paid homage to His Holiness, Pope Pius XI at the Vatican
Mr. Yoshizawa, his wife, and children are Roman Catholics.
While in Rome they received their. frat: communion at the hands of the Pope.
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