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support of the rural landlords, saved agricultural land becauIÓ they were able to have a snap Yesterday's weather raport, fore- division while their opponents were cast and remarks, issued by the

nway, perhaps having ten, or Royal Observatory at 5,63 nm,making a presentation 1 to ong af stated:

A feeble anti-cyclone is central over N Japan. The depressions to the west of Shanghai and the NW. of Hanoi appear to be nearly stationary.na

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Both Ways,

You can't go down that strest. It's one-way traffic along there.

Well, I'm not going two ways, am

their number who had become the father of twins. Suppose a com pany were run on those lines! It would be filing its petition in a week. When one party is supreme | IT." in the House of Commons a respon

Local Forecost: Southerly winds, sible Minister, with the resources Ingenious Mr. Goggins, moderate; showery at proving later.

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BONG KONG, JUNE 10, 1931.

THE LAND TAX GAME.

f

The Magnet

Now that Mr. Charles Chaplin' has fallen in love with Juan lea stars from Hollywood will be going Pins, quite a number of famous

there during June and July. No cars are allowed near the pine grovos, and this adds to the quietude. The Casino belongs to Mr. Frank Jay Gould, who is a close friend of Mr. Chaplin. Miss Lilian Gish, Mr. and Mrs. Buster Keaton, Miss Constane. Talmadge and Miss Peggy Joyce are a few of the filar store, who will be staying at Juan les Pins,

The Sense of Adventure,

de

of his department behind him, can According to the Bulletin of the present properly worked out Fellowship of Freedom and Reform, scheme and drive it through the a Trade Union official called Mr. legislature accepting only well-ren Goggins objects to unemployed soned amendments But under the women cotton operatives taking group system," there must be work in Army canteens for a most perpetual conciliation, compromise ingenious reason."It would be and cant. British politicians have, detrimental, he is reported to have we believe, an integrity and an aid, "to their future occupation ability above all other elected poll as cotton, operatives to engage in ticians; but while the great Parlia work where their hands would be mentary traditions of the past come roughened. But oven the must be maintained, the methods of dole " authorities found Mr. applying them are in need of Goggins plen too much to swallow

strain was infinitely more severe "If canteen" work," observes the and protracted, the sense of adven Bulletin, which Mr. Goggins classed with domestic work, indeed ruins hands.what about the hands of the married women who in Lancashire have long been famous for carrying on the double job of mill-worker and house-wife !!

drastic alteration.

HOLLYWOOD VERSUS

HARBIN.

H. G. Wells to the Reene.

An American Press Magnate,

Sir Edward Grigg, Governor of Kenys Colony in an address to the Public Schools Careers Association, expressed the view that the strain of the war had destroyed our sensa of adventure. But why should this have been the effect in England only In Germany, where the

ture is more vivid to-day than it was before the war. In France and Italy the younger men are display. ing an initiative and independence which were unknow before. Sir Edward is by no means a stay-at- home" himself and it in strange that a man of travel and adventuro showed express these platitudes.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local and Far East.

Page.0. Page 0. Page...

The Poseidon Fund. Girl Guides function. Gaol unrest rumours.. Hong Kong Stock Market: Crou- cher & Co.'s daily report. Page 7.

Dr. C. C. Wu, late Chinese Minis ter to the United States, is on his Pago 9. way back to Canton

reting out Chiang Kai shek's Canton detectives are busy fer-

ngents.

Page B. A new local company has besa formed with well-known business men as directors.

Page 6.

The inquiry into the recent fre in Staunton Street commenced yes. Page 7 terday,

Private Paddam, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was convicted at the Criminal Sessions yesterday and sentenced to a term of nine months hard labour

Page 7. Round the local cinemas. Page 5. Round the shops. By "Eve."

Pase 2. Today's wireless programme.

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Sport.

Tennis topics: by

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Latest Cables.

There were no deaths in Wednes

flict in the M'Tamo location, near Krantzkop as a sequel to a cold. blooded attack on the H'Longw tribe by the Amabovus, Page 9.

THE Home political crisis has Ir would seem that Hollywood passed. The Liberal and Labour finds the Russians a hard nut to landers put their heads together crack. The US Department of To-day there is no subject which Mr. Baldwin on Empire Unity.” and decided that as the great prin- Commerce has issued some notes to exercises the mind of man more t

At last month's Primrose League ciples of electoral reform and land the film trade in which it is in-than the question of gold, As

world economic depression in demonstration in the Albert Hall, taxation were at stake, each aide dicated that the Russian inhabitants creases, the public conscience is Mr. Baldwin said-There is no rea- must give way a little in this un-of Harbin have looked with little slowly awakening to the fact that son why there should be less unity happy dispute about the land taxes favour on pictures of Russian beat the root of all our troubles in the United States of America. day's earthquake in Japan but

gold and the currency problem may in the British Empire than there is in question. The great thing is life produced in the United States." It is a difficult question, but it will For the railroads we have the great several people were slightly injured. Page 9. that the land taxes will not come because they are not true to be the subject of Mr. H. G. Wells' waterways across the ocean, and into operation for a long time to life." They do not like "the happy next book. In it he will discuss it should be as easy, for goods and Will July 16 be the occasion of interesting Royal announce- map's wealth. I hope that he will for men to move backwards and an come. Under the SNOWDEN pro- endings of the typical American deal faithfully with the bankers, forwards and in and out among the ment was the query of the News- posals an immense bureaucracy will films but prefer dramas taken from If Mr. Wells, who has simplified scas of the world, from one home Chronicle yesterday morning.

Page 9. be set to work, like busy bees, life with deep and realistic plota" history and science, can reduce this to another home, whether it lio cast

problem to a simple equation, he or west, or north or south, as it Serious alarm is felt at the valuing the land. The essential is It would seem that "No Happy will reap the reward both of genius is to-day to go from London to possibility of an inter-tribal con

Glasgow. To that ideal we must to get that bureaucracy snugly Endings for Harbineers will have and of topicality.

set our points, and for that ideal we and permanently installed. Both to be the slogan" for Hollywood

must work. I think the country is Liberals and Labour have a shrewd if it wishes to capture that parti

fast making up its mind that that suspicion that if these pretty pro cular market-but what a breach

Like Nelson, Napoleon and other is the direction in which it will

travel.:

Yakedako, an active volenno in the Japanese Alps, west; Matsu-- posals were put to the verdict of with the Hollywood tradition such great men, nakapaper magnates

moto, auddenly burst into violent the great British democracy, they an effort would involve! And what scam to be made up in small

packets. There is Mr. Roy Ho Indignity of Toil. would be summarily rejected. The awkward people th

those

Russiansward, a dapper little man with

It is hard to believe that the eruption, at 11.30 am, yesterday, great thing, therefore, is to put off must be if they are asked to choose carefully, brushed hair, a small Minister of Health has really issued scattering quantities of ashes ever

the countryside,

Page 0 general election as long as pos- between comedy, and corpses, ay moustache, and a fastidious tasto an order forbidding casuals" to

in clothes. He wears a monocic, do stone-breaking as the work is Senator Tasker Oddie, who has sible, and then the Government will parently they plump every time for which he never used, and has a

"undignified. But this order has been studying the silver, problem be able to get the land values safely the corpse. The acid of Tchekov signet ring on each hand. His been solemnly discussed by the in Shanghai in conjunction with PublicAssistance Senator Key Pitman, commenting settled in and to hand them over to has eaten into the most distant weight is about ten stone and his Westmorland

height at under five feet soven. At Committee. who have decided to on the British silver policy states: the Conservatives, and say, "Get outpost of good Russians; the first sight, not an impressive figure. Press the Minister to reconsider his Great Britain would relieve her on with it. Here is the machinery wretches have no sense of romance. Yet to-day he contro.s 24 news decision. Many are the talks I tax payers of a large portion of for collecting money in a manner They do not seem to be at all im papers in the United States. have had with men breaking stones their burdens in connection with pressed by a Russian expressed in Twenty-three of these are evening at the roadside, writes correspon- the dole if she abandoned her silver that abominate The Liberals

you

papers, including the "New York dent to a Home paper, and I have selling policy. Page 9 have made a great show of having terms of high boots and falling Telegram, which he describes as never noticed that they, or anyone

That there will be a Common- fully developed land" exempted fakes of paper snow; on the con- his shop window. Recently he else, have been conscious of any from the tax. The original amend trary, "accuracy in facts, customs, bought the three.Worlds" and "indignity" in the occupation. On wealth defeit at the end of next amalgamated them with the the contrary the work seems to in year of £34,000,000 for the past two ment tabled by Mr. LLOYD GEORGE'S dresses, etc., is required," accord-Telegram."

Mr. Howard has duce a common-sense philosophy of years was forecasted by the Pre- party would, in fact, limit the ing to the report from the Depart-risen to his present eminence on life among those who follow it mier of Australia, Mr. Scullin, in land tax to undeveloped land on ment of Commerce, But this is tirely by his own efforts. His fa- which would do credit to followers the House of Representatives when ther was a railwayman who was of more" dignified" "calling moving the second reading of the not commerce at all; it is positive out in the strike of '93, Iis uncle even, for example, to a Minister of Internal Debt Conversion Agree cussedness displayed in an obvious was a Presbyterian minister. y studied contempt for the con ventions that have made Hollywood what it is. If Hellywood's Russia is not good enough for Harbin, it is Harbin that 'should mend its ways ye and not Hollywood. It is a ver

Health.

ment Bill,

Page 0.

Local Notes and Events

The Colony had a clean bill of

to create embarrassment for the Government but because we demand many other parts of the world; is health for Wednesday.

fair treatment for owners of lend

ing of the measure.

For having returned from banish ment before the expiry of his term of ten years which he received in 1030, Choi Yuk was sentenced to twelve months hard labour by Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magis tracy yesterday..!

As a result of the Government's down the nose, upper lip, chin, and decision not to erect bathing: abeds neek On one side of this imaginary this summer, Messrs. E. S. Tord line, the skin is quite dry, while the and Choi Sze Kee have applied for other is covered with boads of per- permission to build sheds at North spiration. This peculiarity "has Point and Repulse Bay. These have continued over two summers and been granted and the sheds, which does not appeal to worry the man are being put up to cater for the at all. Is it unusual, and what is public, will be completed before the the explanation - Hong Kong Daily end of the month. The admission Press, June 19, 1906. fee to these sheds, however, bas

Looking Back 50 Years. not yet been announced,

The tell of the recent fire dis- Charged before the Marine aster at 36, Staunton Street, has

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Some information is, still to be

the ground that otherwise the scheme would, "violate the tradi tional Liberal objections to double taxation, as developed land is already subject to income tax" The venerable inheritor of Mr. GLADSTONE'S penes declared in a characteristic outburst that Liberals must adhere to that decision, “notion of Russia which has been hand- ed out with apparent, succeed" to

the whole thing to be sacrificed just because real Russians do not care for it? The process is evidently one During the Committed stage of that should be resisted. If the rot the Bill the Conservatives carried spreads the mere English may begin an important amendment exempt to turn up their noses at American ing agricultural land from the tax. versions of ducal mansons and Though this was a Government de high life in the English shirce, feat the Prime Minister was not They may have a keener appetite wholly unsympathetic, and the pro for romance," but if they begin been increased by the death in Magistrate yesterday with convey gained from the tables of Census posal id, evidently, to be taken into to demand that it shall be a hospital. yesterday of a young ing women for the purposes of pro- returns which we have not yet ex- woman, Li Shui Mun (19) who was stitution, the mistress of a passenger amined. Table LX is a “detailed consideration in a general re-draftciated with a certain amount of seriously injured when she jumped boat was fined 350 by Coindr, J. B. return of the number and descrip From beginning to end the ralien there will be, hard times in into the street from the verandah Nowill, D.8.O., R.N. It was stated tion of vessels anchored and plying

of the blazing building, ·

the woman was charged within the harbour and bays of Hong the same offence only two days ago Kong, and their population, studio.

Golf Club at Kowloon City were he did not recognise her. The the census was taken 110 trading broken into by thieves abortly be woman then said that her mother boats, 2,158 sampana and pullaway Ujunks, 655 cargo boste, 77p: dabing- fore midnight on Wednesday The in-law was the offender on that oc boats, 27 steam launches, 10 yachts, haul comprised golf balls, bottles casion,

and 180 boats of various other de of liquor, and a quantity of great measure of land taxation, The story of n' young Londoner cigarettes, to the total value of The Committes of St. Andrew's scriptions, in all 4,220 vessels, con- Church, Kowloon, have in mind the taining 19,674 men, 6,401 women 'and':8,014. ebildren, in tall. 28,080. involving directly or indirectly, who won a bride with the aid of $110.

arranging of a Scottish Fair to take persons: Of this number, there were every interest in England is before an aeroplane in told by the Journal A fight between two young Chi place sometime in October next, at Victoria 2,420, veaseln, or a little Parliament. It may be the wisest in connection with a caso that nese in Square, Street on Wednes. It has not been definitely fixed as

portion of the population: 025 couras imaginable to tax the has been entered before the day resulted in one of the lads to where the fate will be held, but over half the total, with a like pro- land, but the question has never Paris Civil Tribunal. A young being wounded in the side with sin all probability the church grounds vessels were at Shaukiwan, 458 at pocket knife. The boy's condition, will be decided upon. The usual Aberdeen, 118 at Stanley and 004 been gone into Impartially and man, relates the paper, het however, is not serious. He is der attractions of home-side, fair, at Kowloon. As these people are thoroughly: The propost) is a good French girl last year, at Brighton, acribed by the police as being Chang stalls, booths, etc., are being ar-

boats, it may be of some interest to cry; it will hit the op: The two fell in love, but the girl's Pak, aged 10, and residing at the ranged, and it is hoped also that hora, live, and die in their small ponents of Labour, but as tunelo objected to the match Gas Works in Jordan Road, Kow musicales, concerts, and dancing state the proportion of men, women displays will be part of the enter and children. Even including the hand loonbank

tainment offered to patrons.

acacing vessels the women and. $12 effect upon the delicate mechanism placed her in the care of a num

Friends of the late Mra. Cecilo | 450 #E

children considerably outnumber the of our economie systemu no one in in the Touraine district. The Lon Toeg will learn with regret, of

men: To tho trading, junks thera the Government, knows or cares, doner persuaded an-airman friend her, slomise at the Kowloon Hos: | Looking Back 25 Years: -

were on the average about 13 men and I Toman and children to the The Liberal party includes many to convey him to the place where pital on Wednesday following an

Cartattack of influènra of but a few. There is a man in. Hong Kong cargo basts, 4 mon and 4 women and, wealthy urban magacts and since the gir, was staying. She joined days duration. The deceased Indy who should afford a little interest children; in the fishing bonis -4.4. Mr, Lord GROBOB holds the them, and, after an elopement by was well-known in connection with to the doctors; of the Colony. It men and 5 women and children: and balance of power this fully denir the couple were married. The the Jade Tree Shop, of which bank has been noticed that he perspires to the sampans and pullam hosts Margate (nesty the was a director. The on only one sids of the face, the 1:6 men and 37 women; and child veloped land" is to be exempt. girl's uncle has now begin an BG funeral took place yesterday at right. The line is drawn straight ran-Hong Kong n Daily {Pren, The Conservatives, who have the tion to annul the marriage,

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