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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1931.

KING EDWARD'S HOSPITAL

ANONYMOUS GIFT OF

£20,000.

[SHYTISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

"THURSDAY CLUB' FOR CANTON,

TO PROMOTE INTERNA

·TIONAL FRIENDSHIP:

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

CANTON, June 30 Ruany, June 10.

A Thursday Olub," resembling That & trust fund of £20,000 bad been given to the King Edward's the Rotary Club of Hong Kong in Hospital Band by an anonymous object and nature, is being formed donor, whose gifts now amount to in Canton for the purpose of pro- £54,000, was mentioned by H.R.H.moting international friendship and the Prince of Walos at a meeting of the general council of the hos-understanding in Canton. pital. fund.

The Prince of Wales also read message from H.M. the King, who is patron of the fund, expressing his pleasure that the fund was able in 1930 to provide an increased dis tribution of £200,000 out of current income of the year.

SHIRBUILDING SLUMP IN JAPAN.

3,000 EMPLOYEES DISCHARGED.

(TRNOVON REUTEL'S AGENCY.)

KOBE, June 10. The 'Kawasaki Dockyard Co. is discharging three thousand out of its 8.400 employees, owing to the absence of orders and financial adjustments.

GERMAN. MINISTERS LEAVE ENGLAND,

CHARMING HOSPITALITY,"

[URITISH WINELESS SERVICE]

Rugay, June 9. Before he embarked at Southamp-

ton on his return to Germany, Dr. Bruening to-day sent a telegram to the Premier, Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, thanking him for the most charming hospitality extended to Dr. Curtius and myself" and expressing gratitude for the warm reception accorded them by the British Government and people. Dr. Curtius also telegraphed similar message to the Foreign

Secretary.

Appropriate replies were sent by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Henderson.

KING CONGRATULATES

SCOTT.

All English-speaking persons, ir respective of nationality, are re quested to join the Club, which meets every Thursday during the luncheon hour, Aial in some subject of interest will he given by a member of the Club imediately after luncheon.

The promotors of the proposed

UNDERSTAND.

FOREIGN

POWERS ENDLESS YOUTH OR

ANNIHILATION.

TWO POSSIBILITIES OF

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A POLICY OF PLUNDER.

NANKING NOT TO ISSUE A STATEMENT ON REVOLT.

STATUS OF FRENCH MIXED COURT.

Nanking, June 8-In an inter- view this morning given to Press representatives the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. C. T. Wang, officially denied reports that the National Government would shortly issue a statement addressed to the Foreign Powers in regard to the Canton situation.

Dr. Wang said such a statement was quite unnecessary, adding that the Foreign Governments clearly understood present political con- ditione in China and had the dullest confidence in the ability of the National Government to suppress

the Canton rebellion.

club include Mr. C. C. Chu, scere tary of the Canton Y.M.C.A., Mr. G. W. Greene, an American, and Mr. M. A. Mackintosh, n Britisher.Lampson, British

LOCAL PAPERS BANNED

SCIENCE.

SHORT-LENGTH-RAYS' WHICH KILL

Mankind able to rejuvenate the body perpetually, and mankind an were two possibilities of ssicnco nihilating itself with a "denth ray suggested by Mr. Honry T. F. Rhodes in a lecture last month

Speaking at the annual general of the British Asspeintion of meeting of the Manchester acction Chemists in Manchester, he made the following statements:

LORD STONEHAVEN ON SOCIALIST ATTITUDE.

"Lord Stonehaven, Chairman of the Conservative Party, speaking at the annual conference of the Women's Conservative Associations in the Queen's Hall, London, said that he had always admired the in the name of the Labour Party.

"It is an astonishing piece of genuity of the Socialists in assuming

impudenco on their part," he con- tinued, to tell working men and to their intercets is that which do women that the policy best suited liberately deprives the labourer of the fruits of his labour. The So- cialist policy is all right for a com- manity of millionairenin ba

"Such an authority as the pro- fessor of physical chemistry in the University of Toronto has lately The Socialists look on this.coun reasserted the belief that pience try not as a birthright and some will solve the mystery of the arti-thing sacred held in trust, but as ficial production of protoplasm something to plunder and that they Such a discovery would mean the are doing." realisation of another kind of im mortality, the ability perpetually to rejuvenate the bolly and arrest Лосау.

"

The Conference unanimously agreed to a rosolution declaring that the present policy of the Con- servative Party, especially that "Should civilisation ever insane part of it concerning Empire trade, ly embark upon another war, it Safeguarding, and the Emergency will be fought exclusively with Tariff, should be much more forc Sir scientific weapons. The death-ray ibly and frequently set before the may be among them. The axis man in the street. so that in- toace of rays of very short wave terest may be awakened and mis length which are capable of causrepresentation defeated."

Another resolution agreed to wel- ing immediate death is known. That methods can be devised of comed Mr. Baldwin's pledge of concentrating them to a sufficient rigid and drastic national economy. extent to make them the most tor- riblo of all weapons in war is bo-

The Foreign Minister then re- marked that reports of Sir Miles Minister to China, having left the capital for Peking were also incorrect. Miles, he said, is in Nanking.

Dr. Wang aanounced that the FROM CANTON,

Foreign Office received a cable yes- terday from the Chinese Minister in London, Dr. Alfred Sze, which (From Our Own Correspondent.)

stated that more than £3,500,000 of CANTON, June 10.

the Sino-British Boxer Indemnity As a result of their hostile atti fund had already been turned over

to the Chinese Purchasing Commisyond doubt." tudo, towards the present Canton sion in London. This money, he régime, both the Shili Po and the added, will be used for the pur- Tanglong Fat Po, two Chincanchase of railway material for the dailies published in Hong Kong, various railways in China, have been banned from Canton.

CONFERENCE

SILVER

ON

Court to be Beorganized. Dr. Wang further announced that an agreement had been reach ed with the French authorities for the roorganization of the French Mixed Court in Shanghai and that it was expected the reorganisation would be completed in July.

Dr. Wang informed Press repre- Bentatives that the Ministry of SENATOR PITTMAN SAYS IT Justice was making preparations

IS IMPERATIVE.

CHARGES AGAINST BRITAIN,

Senator Key Pittman, United States delegate to Chins for the Purpose of studying the silver question, last week declared that President Hoover's recent absadon

ment of plans for an immediate international silvor' conference does. nct indicate that conference hopes have fallen through.

"The President does not say that he, personally, in cpposed to the

for the establishment of ten special courts and detention houses so that the enforcement of the regulations promulgated by the National Gov- ernment in regard to its jurisdie tion over foreigners in China could be enforced on the day announced, January 1 next.

In conclusion, Dr. Wang said the most important work of the For- eign Office this year would be the retrocession to China of all foreign

concessions..

BRITISH FARMERS CROSS-

· EXAMINED.

AIRMAN PRAISED ON RECORD conference," Senator Pittman said, 3 QUESTIONS ON NEW

FLIGHT.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

Ruqar, June 9. H.M. the King has sent, through the Secretary for Air, a congratu- W. A. Scott on breaking the record latory message to Flight-Liout, C. by his fight from Australia to England.

His Majesty sent a similar mes sage to Scolt. when he reached Australia in record flying time.

DOMESTIC SERVICE

BILL?

TO IMPROVE STATUS OF OCCUPATION."

"The president only indicates that other nations essential to the suc cess of such a conference have re- iused to join in the near future. But the baticns will confer," the senator omphasized. "The danger of further declines in the value of

silver in exchange for gold, which is making credit transaction in possible, and other causes that our

QUESTIONNAIRE,

London, June, 4.-A formidable questionnaire requiring answers to no fewer than 63 questions is d feature of the farm census which is being taken throughout Grent Britain to day. T. ese questions include:

"What was your total production of milk, butter and cheese, and how much thereof did you sell !”.

"What was the total number of deaths of livestock on your tarm during the past year

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"How many eggs did your tur keya lay" you #

How many pluma rees have

What was the total number of

.

Other points in the speech were: "Recent work has actually result ed in the growth of bone and tis sue artificially in test tubes, Pro- bably the day is not far distant when the man who has lost an arm or a leg will be able, by the help of modern biological methods, literally to grow a new one.

Determination of Sex,

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"Biologists working in Vienna on certain beatles have, by trans- posing the heads" of male and female succeeded in changing their sex. The female took on the colour ing of the, male, and all the other male characteristics, while the male took on those of the female. Such work indicates that the last word has not been said on this subject.'

have "Carbohydrates

been

Already

A

Birth Control, ・・

Unanimous approval was given to A resolution viowing "with alarm the increasing menace to home grown foodstuffs from the dumping of cheap foreign productions," and welcoming "the statement of the Leader of the Conservative Party that when returned to power ho will legislate for fair conditions for the British fariner and market gar- dener with a view to accuring more reasonable prices and negured markets."

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The Conference considered a re- solution welcoming the withdrawal the right of of the former Labour Minister of Health's " denial of medical officers at rate-aided wel- fare centres to give birth control information to married women who required it for medical reasons,

Mrs. Sydney Frankenburg, certified midwife, declared that it was sheer cruelty to, withhold such knowledge from a woman who might die if she had a child.

synthesised from carbon dioxide and water both of which are present in the air, so that it secins possible that starch, sugar, and even cellulose may ultimately that is to say food and raiment, be produced from the atmosphere, since celinose is the basis of artif-During the discussion a woman in cial silk,"

the gallery shouted: "I-move we proceed to the next business.

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PROF. PICCARD'S

RETURN.

OVATION AT BRUSSELS

AND ZURICH.

BAROMETERS FAILED TO

FUNCTION,

Brussels, June 4-Profest Picard, who recently ascended to a height of ten miles in a balloon with an hermetically scaled, gon- dola, had a superb ovation on his arrival" here to-day-to thanks to the Association for Scientific Research, which defrayed the cost of his expedition,

return

The mattor led to some opposi.

was dropped. tion, and in the end the resolution

This was put to the meeting, and the voting slowed: 846 in favour of leaving the subject and 749 in favour, of continuing the discussion,

A resolution urging the legislation of sweepstakes and lotteries was agreed to.

Lady Iveagh, M.P., presided over the Conference, which was attended by 2,000 delegates.

MAN WHO CAME TO VIEW THE HOUSE.

STOLEN JEWELS CHARGE.

When William Henry Allen (30); a shoemaker, of the Broadway, Hendon, was remanded at Feltham Police Court, charged with the The crowds in the streets, were theft of jewellery and money from houses at Staines, Uxbridge and so denas that Professor Piccard Purley, it was alleged. that he ob had difficulty in reaching the head-tained admission to houses that got quarters of the Association, where were for sale, by producing a per- and Crown Prince Lecpold, the Minis mit to view. While examining the

ter of Transport and Isading scientists of Belgium congratulated upper rooms, it was stated; ho sent the occupier for, a tape measure, him on his achievement Professur and then helped himself to jewellery Piccard's engineer al compaion, from the bedrooms. Dr. Kipfer, shared in his triumph.

committee has decided are respon- sible for world depression, must be solved by the various nations con- cerned. These issues must be faced discussed, and acted upon, or our present depression may not impoultry killed or sold alive for prove, but may develop inte, a phy food

How many eggs did you sical rather than a mental and an

from bens, ducks, gecsc economic contest."

The Senator, who returned from-turkeys."

Other questions deal with crops, Nanking on Thursday, said that any demand for a gold or silver bulls, strawberries, casual workers loan made by China would receiv- and the number of workers regular- ed serious, and probably favourly employed on the farms. The in- The House of Commons to-dayable, consideration of the United formation on the questionnaires will granted a private member leave to States, China, the Senator said, be correlated by the Ministry of Introduo Domestic Service Bill, has made no request for the much Agriculture in the expectation it will admit of a thorough examina with the object of setting up a

tion of the general position of the Commission of five members, of Charges Against Britain. different branches of agriculture whom the Chairman and two The Senator charged Great Bri.

[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]

RUGBY, June '8.

others would be women, to review comprehensively the conditions of employment, of Domestic Servants and to improve the status of the occupation.

It was claimed that the mensure would be in the intereste of the servants and their mistresses, and that the Commission could draw up a charter making general, such standard of work and, wages as existed among good employers.

OBITUARY,

discussed loan.

tain with attempting to bring

Three occupiers, who between

them had lost over £100 in jewellery and money, told similar stories of the man's alleged method..

Dot. Lawrence, of Chiswick, said that, on the way to the police station Allen bolted, but was caught after a chase of half a mile.

Reception at Zurich, Zurich, June 4.Although Pro- fessor Piccard arrived here yeater day evening, it was in the amal hours of this morning ere the eva. tione and congratulations had censed and he was able to talk. He claimed that the fight had de Dot-Bergt. Wright, Staines, said when he told Allen that he would Tomaining in the stratosphers for be put up for identification ho re many hours more than had been plied, "I don't want an identifies thought likely, Quite frankly, betion. I admit it. I sold the stuff confessed that the two baroneters to a receiver for £25," had prosumably failed to registor beyond a certain height altitude officially reached by him CAPTAIN ASH TO RETURN was only between 13,000, and 14,000

about a conference for internation- RACE AGAINST TIME AND monstrated the feasibility of man

CUSTOMS.

LATTER'S REGULATIONS

BROKEN.

that the

al debt settlement rather than to discuss the currency isaus. "One cannot blame the United States for refusing to enter such, a enfer ence, the Senator said." There is no reason why we should lay the problem of thros, nations before forty or Afty uninterested nations.

¦. Dublin, June 4.—All Customs re-metres. A The British have suffered more. from the depressed price of silver gulations were broken at Dunlaog Both he and Kiptor, however, in China than any other people haire (Kingstown) early to-day, had ascertained from other instru But the British government in auf when, at the last minute, an Italian ments that they actually reached fering from a mal-distribution of secret Maserati racing-car arrived 16,000 metros and he considered it gold, inngrauch an they are finding in a steamer from Italy to compete antirely immaterial, what the offi it difficult to meet the demands of in the International Grand Prix dial record was since. his sole in the United States for debts motor race. A few hours later, amounting to five times as much as Campari, driving with great skill, was within two seconds of break the gold they have, I AM

"No one can blame the British ing the lap record established last government for attempting to have year by a German, Rudolph Carbo both debt and, currency subjects cipla... settled at the same time. But on Campari'e time was & min. 150 the other hand, the United States sec., or, an average speed of 20.2 The death has occurred of Mr. can not be expected to combine the mies an hour. The next best time William Frederick Denning, noted two questions. Forty or more was made by Ear! Howe, who accountant and amateur astrono-governments are interested in the averaged 80.7 miles an hour drive, mer. He was the discoverer of five uncertainty affecting the purchasing a German Mercedes, Bir Mal comets. He also wrote extensive ing price of silver, while only colm Campbell, driving a Riley, books on his observations and was thres are interested in the distri averaged 78.9 miles an hour, but granted Civil List pensions early bution of gold or the payment of in the present century

war debts,” said Senator, Pittman,

DEATH OF MR, WM; F. DENNING:

(THROUGH REUTER'S. AORNOY,]

LONDON, Jade 10.

another, Riley, driven by McLach lan, averaged 7.1 miles an hour.

1.

HOME.

AIRMAN REFUSES OFFER OF· ANOTHER MACHINE.

torest was scientific bservation and

Tokyo, June 5-Captain Thomas not record-breaking. He added that he believed that the way was Ash, the American aviator who re- now open for future traffic in the cently failed to start ou a non-stop. stratosphere, with specially built fight across the Pacific, flew from Babishiro to Tachikawa Aerodrome, Boroplanes using supor motora. K Me on the outskirts of Tokyo, yesterday Vienna, June d-The villagers afternoon, Captain Ash has declin- of Corgurel, where Professor ed an offer from a certain aircraft Piccard's balcon landed after manufacturing company in the visiting the stratosphere, have ap- United States to send him a plane. plied by the Austrian Government within four weeks to make another for permission to rename the attempt of the trans-Pacific flight. Burgl Glacier to "Piocon Glacier The America Birman is expected, in commemoration of the Professor's to return home in the middle part

of this month, landing there,

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