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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MO

ANDARY

OBITUARY

(Continued from Puge 9:)

rades in englunaering and si antitiød' to their proper short of the moneys.ro- ceived for the work. Bir Alfred Yarrow's philanthropy is well-known "and: it ^genius goaronly novomary to re :-) word hiï many gifts to the nation, De

ginuing with the last. we have a gift if £10,000 to the British Associatkin, 10 and £30,000 and £100,000 to the Royal Boalety. "A gift of" £20,000 was made during the War, to be distributed· in ancients not exceeding £1,000 for, the capture or destruction of any onghy submarine or ship of war." As this fand was "not), all used up the balanco waJ devoted towards the Kora Marchant Beamon's Orphazago ai Bearwind. Bo also offered a reward of £20 up to total expenditure of £10,000 to anyone on board a morabant vessel who ärat sighted an anomy submarine.]

DR. MARION PHILLIPS

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LONDON, Jan. 4.

The death has occurred to day of Dr. Marion Phillips.

Dr. Marion Phillips took ill about the same time as Mr. William Graham, who died on January 8. She, at that time, "underwent a seri ons operation, and so, had been ill for over three weeks.

A member of the Labour Party, of which she was the chief woman Arganiser. Dr. Mariona Phillips was also returned to Parliament by Sunderland in 1929, She lost her seat in the House in the recent. General Election.].

MR. L. J. MAXSE

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TO NIGHT!

9.15 PM.

TO NIGHT!

HARMSTON'S CIRCUS

THE TARIFF BILL

CABINET RESPONSIBILITY

UNDERMINED?

Premier's Actions Criticised

Thoco REUTER'S AGENCY:}

LONDON, Jan. 21, Sharp divisions of opinion have

KOWLOON,

Press Comment.

[BRITISH WIRKĻEŠA BREVICE]

RUGBY, Jan. 23.

The Cabinet bas, announced that the expedient adopted should not be interpreted as implying disagrer. ment on imperial issues, 'upon which in fact, agreement is complete. The present expedient was therefore, adopted, since it was generally agreed that righteous adherence to procedent lost importance in the face of unprecedented problems.

OPPOSITE

ANOTHER FIVE-YEAR-

PLAN

THREE-FOLD INCREASE IN MACHINE CONSTRUCTION

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PENINSULA

PASSENGERS.

Arrivals.

HOTEL

In

BRITISH VESSELS

RE-ROUTED.

FALL IN STERLING RESPONSIBLE,

Mrs. Lo Poi Kong, Mr. C. Hughes, Master Lo Sau Ying, Mr. Chan Hung. Miss Eileen Ching. Mr. Fong Lai Ung, Miss Gier, Major and Mrs. The following passengers arrived A. K. B. Lyman, Mr. O. Kül here on Saturday by the R.M.S. Mr. S. M. Dean, Mr. Tai Tit SanUSE OF PANAMA CANAL Empress of Canada from the Mrs. Chang Yao Mow, Mr. Tong North-Mr. M. J. Quist, Mr. and (Tong) Wing, Mr. D. C. Yang, Mr. Mrs. F. Ayre, Mrs. W. E. Dill, Miss O. Nielsen, Mr. H. B.. Campbell,

HAS DECREASED." EB. Silverthorne, Mr. W. LMr. Liang Tazo Yu, Master S. b. Craig, Mr. R. E. Russell Mr. H. Yang, Mrs. Chan Lai, Master. Lai Smith, Mr. and Mrs. C. Walker, Tuck Yin, Mr. Juan Fong, Mr. and Moo Tong Hie, Mr. K. Ip, Mr. Mrs. Root, Mr. E. 9. Pisarski, Mrs. Moscow, Jan. 23 JN. G Ges, Mr P. O. Tang, Lt.

Gor Taon Gee, Mr. John Y. Lee, Plans for another Five-Year J. B. Glogg, Miss Ouyang, Mrs. T.

Mr. Ying Shen Wug Mr. 9. P. Mok; Plan, to operate at the close of Ouyang, Master Ouyang, Miss Mr. and Mrs, V. K. Kok, Mr. Chan Due to the decline in the value The Times points out: that con the present Five-Year Plan, were G. Stranock, Mr. U Dayang, Tit Ming, Mrs. Yee, Master Tee of the pound sterling, co-incident ditions are not normal, and the officially announced today in the Mr. M. W. Stranock, Major-General Kwok Lee, Mrs. Lau Sai Hi, Misster with the abandonment by England country at the Election decreed a form of a resolution for adoption W Sandilands, Mr. and Mrs. Lo Chung departure from precodent because

Weat, Mr. Chen majority of British freighters, of it. If dissentient members had by the Communist Party Conference Joseph, Master and Miss W Ming, g Ying. Mrs. Wheng Ta of the gold currency standard, the Joseph Mins G. Moor, Mr. and Ling, Master Fong Lai Guey, Miss which formerly used the Panama. resigned, or their colleagues insist meeting shortly, quickly arisen in political creed upon their resignation every

The now plan, assuming complete Mrs. H. Sander, Master M. T. Lee, Horendeen, Mr. M. Lyman, Mrs. Canal in plying to and from Au over the Cabinet's solution of the morning, when collaboration of success of the present phu, calls for Misses R. and F. C. Lee, Mr. and S. E. Wong, Mr. and Mrs. Tseng tralasian ports and Europe, now a threefold increase of machine Mrs. S. G. Loo, Miss Lo, Mr. D. Cho Ying. Mr. had Mrs. T hava been re-routed through the ariff crisis.

parties at home in all maltors of Many Conservatives outside Giov-foreign and imperial policy is construction: increase of electria C. Miller, Mr. B. C. Lu, Mrs. "H. Leung, Infant Cheng, Mrs.Yee Straits of Magolian or

power from seventeen to a hundred Geckehin, Mr. G. Y. Li, Mr. C. Shec. coming to be reengniauil, more and ernment are convinced that. the more, as a salient and stendying billion kilowatt hours annually: Y. Lin, Mr. H. 8. Chuck, Mias S. ir a tortured world, there and a threefold increase in the pro S. Wong, Mr. F Ho, Mr. H. Cho, doctrine of Cabinet responsibility | fnet

Mr. P. Ting, Mr. S. Chong, Mr. been gravely andermined, would have been a return to party durtion of coal and oil.

The chemical industry is ordered H. O. W. Poderson, Mr. and Mrs.. politics, such as the "public would whilst Liberals are of opinion that have been slow to forgive. A grave to catch up with the progress made Judah, Miss V M. Judah,

The BL and Apcar Line a. by other Soviet industrica, and Mr. M Michel, Mrs. N. G. Wood Sirdhana left Bingapore for this the solution is the best way out of emergency demands the trial of ox-transport must be overhauled and Mr. W. B. Rice, Mr. B. Y. Tang, port on the afternoon of the 31st a very difficult situation.

periments of all kindé,... reconstructed, including "railway. Mr. and Mrs. Lo Yin Nin, Missist, and in due here on the after

The Daily Telegraph considers air, rond and water servicca.

Tainng and infant Mr. H. Boon of the 27th inst Although the originator of this

the Cabinet's action as an omer-

The transport programme calls Cousen, Mr. B. Fung, Mr. and Mrs. striking departure from constituency plan for unity, which puts for fiftans thousand miles of how T W. Li, Mr. 5. P. Wu Mr. C tional theory of Cabinet Govern national interest before precedent railway; and the food industry M. Tani, Mr. D. Chen, Mr. Y. ment has set been revealed, the and gives it warm approval. must be able to meet in triple the Chen, Mr. T. T. Chen, Mr. T. Feng, Mr. J. Loo, Mr. and Mrs. Ho Web name of Sir John Simon is suggest.

present demands made upon it.

JAV PORTS. Grain production is to be increas- Sang, Mr. C. 8. Huang, Mr. P. L. ed as the author.

fed to one hundred and thirty mil-Lee, Baroness von Vietinghoff, Col.

The following health bulletin of F. E. Cowan, Mr. Q. Baer, Mr.eastern ports, for the week-ended lion metric tons by 1937.

and Mrs. F. M. Kelly, Mrs. Robert January 16, has been issued Kelly, Mr. M. K. Jureldini, Mr.

St Plague, a and Mrs. P. A. Meyer, Mr. P. C. Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Mears, Miss P. Mears, Mrs. J. E. Black,

has

It is thought unlikely that Lord Snowden and his co-dissentients, Sir Herbert. Samuel Sir Donald MacLean and Sir Archibald Sin clair will carry their opposition outside the House of Commons by speeches in the country.

It is understood that the Tariff Bill, which will be introduced as as possible aftor the re- 5000 assembly of Parliament, will in- Ruaxy, Jan. 23. clude iron and steel, while there The death occurred to-day ofwill be preference for Empire Mr. L. J. Maxse, the prominent publicist, who was for forty years Editor of the National» Review. He was within two years of his sevoutinth birthday.

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STRUGGLE FOR UNIFICATION

GENERAL PEP'S SCHEME FOR SOUTH CHINA ARMIES

(Wah Tu Tai Pao)

General Pei Chung Hsi, "the Kwangai lender, who arrived in this Colony last Friday, has called on

The taxes

are expected to be

| The Morning Post and Daily Na, while believing in the im- portance of national unity in the face of world problemay doubts the soundness and access. pedient.

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of the ex-

The Daily Express attacks it and thinks the four ministers should have resigned,

The Manchester Guardian and Daily Herald bitterly attack the compromise, while the Daily Mail regard it as a sensible decision which practical men will wholly

approve.

goods,

Lord Hailahain, who, it is under permanent and not merely of an stood, played a notable part in yesterday's Cabinet meeting, speak emergency nature,

of individual ing. last night, expressed the be The prospect

lief that so far from weakening so Minister speaking and voting

position, nothing will ngainst the Government on the all-pur important tariff issued is provokatrengthen the weight of our in- fluence abroad than the knowledge ing much ironical commeat, but

differences, the Government's decision enables that even theen fiscal

which aro matters of common

it to proceed at full steam shead notoristy, are not of avail to shake with a broad fiscal programme.

The Opposition is making the the aclidity of the British Cabinet most of the Cabinet's unique de in the time of the country's dan parture from practice.

"An Impossible Position."

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Lord Passfield declares: "It is the Mr. Hu Haq Min at the lattes an impossible position. In residence at Stanley overal times light of anything that has happen- to consult him on a number of imed befors I do not see how it can! portant problems mainly concern.possibly work."

ing the rehabilitation of South Mr. George Lansbury, leader of China, which is now virtually in the Opposition, stated: "This is dependens of Nanking,

the most amazing statement that General Fei is said to have sug has ever been issued by British gested that under the Nanking Ministers." He added that British unification régime the existing men and women would marvel at armies in the Lhing Kwang" pro. the impudence of men taking such a vinees should be reorganised and step in the name of national unity. the superfluous troops be, disband Be was amazed at Mr. Ramasy and Lord Snowden ed, in accordance with the Central MacDonald Government's military scheme. lending themselves to such trickery.. General Pei goes on to suggest Same of the ablest men in the Gov. that the "Liang Kwang" prorament disagreed with the major- vinces should be created a military ity decision and consequently, it disbandment and reorganisation was an abuse of constitutional area with a committee to take practice for such a Government to charge of the work of military re. retain office. organisation.

General Pei is expected to return to Kwanga in a few days to attend rehabilitation problems in Kwangsi province

Sir Richard Cripps, late Sclici- "It affects one tor-General says: of the cardinal principles of the Constitution-Cabinet bility."

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around Capt Hora, according to informa sion disclosed in Shanghai by Mr. Charles T. MacDonnell, a tobacco oxporter of Havana, "who "arrived" as a passenger on the Dollar Liner President Jefferson

This move on the part of tão Bri-

ish shipping interests has cost the Canal already over 0.84,000,000 in tolis, Mr. MacDonnell stated, while business"in general through- out the Canal Zone had been affect. ed "adversely, in a similar ratio. The main reason for the change in routes of course, in the fact that the operating com. panies And it mere econo- mical to dispatch their oraft around' South America than through the Canal, despite the difference fol 9,000 miles additional storming, ne added, the extra rum and the bad weather usually encountered boing compensated for by the saving of tolls, which are estimated on a gold dellar basis.

Stores Rise in Price.

General business in tas, Zone has suffered inasmuch as these vessels previously purchased fuel oil, coal and all different kinds of atores at at Zone porta while in transit, Mr. MacDonnell continued, the prices in these commodities, too, being figured in gold dollars while the ships freights and other income are received in sterling With the drop in value of the pound, naturally the tolls and refitting charges mud- terially increased, narrowing fur- ther the slim margin of profit on which most British lines operate and tap to-day," he said; and thus forcing the change in routes, even though the saving might not appear to le a considerable figure.

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Shanghai tanda para 11

The following passengers left for Immigration officers have order: Manila per R.M.S. Emp. of Canada ed the deportation of Mr. Oliford on Saturday-Miss E. N. Botelho, Troke, a young Englishman, who Mr. and Mrs. L. Blok, Mr. Hamil has been living for some months/ton Cers, Mr. R Ches, Miss L Baltimore, where he claimed to be Chos, Mr. Chu Kwok Lum, Mr. gathering materials for a book or Chang Shiu Hong, Mr. Chit Keng, America.

Mr. Chuck Sik Kam, Mr. Chang Through his lawyer, Mr. Troka Yak Kwan, Mr. Chan Sai Fun, Mr. intends to fight for readmission to Chang On, Prof, and M.M. Dseme, the country, assorting, that he was Mr. J. R. Eyre, Mr. F. Feliciano, forced to leave because he was be Mrs. H. Gano, Mr. V. E lieved to hold unpopular political Gittins, Mr. O. Holden, Mr. Ho Yun Kwong, Mr. Hi Liang, Mr. According to Mr. Trake's friends Han Yung Kiang, Mr. Han Gian-an, opinions he was arrested by immigration of Mr. E. E. Johnson, Mr. Angel Lim, cers at Baltimore & fortnight age, Mr, Lau Kit Sang, Mr. Lee Wai and detained one night in the Cus- Tong, Mr. Lau Han, Mr. Lee Kwok toms house, being released in £100 Wai, Mr. Leung Tin Chan, Mr. (bail,

Of course certain British pas Lenng Wing Chiu, Mr. Mak So, Asked why he was arrested, he Miss J. McBride, Mr. H. T. Man minent business men including lines, to which the saving in time senger vessels and exprese freight told he had not given gay, Mr. E. G. Monasterio, Mr. F.well-known banker were, varrested; answer to the Labour Department's Niepel, Mr. and Mrs. E. Nicolas, here to-day on the charge of have an important factor, still use inquiry about the length of his Mr. E. D. Oliviera, Mrs. J. Ning engaged in the illicit traffic of the Panama Canal, Mr. MacDon

Shofner, Mr. Suen Kam Shun, Mr.

arms and ammunitions to Sevist neil, related, but oven those craft. Negotiations were begun to per- So Ho Tay, Mr. Shit Ping Shun, Russia. A Pole named Kossarenko ow bunker at Kingston, or other mit Mr. Troke to extend his stay. Mr. Shik Liang Guei, Mr. Tong who acted as agent of the ring, has West Indian ports where the pound but according to his lawyers, theseKwan, Mrs. Tang Shat, Miss Anita also been taken into custody.

sterling is current, instead of tak were suddenly broken off when Mr. Vaon, Mr. Wong Ki Cheung, Miss

No details have so far been ing on their coal in the Zone, Be- Troke "made #

public protest Wong Mee Shun, Mr. Yung Pun divulged of the affair which caused fore leaving England British ves- against negro lynching in Mary-Hon, Mr. Yip Yam Sum, Mr. Yanga sensation herd. It is understood, sels of all classes on the Austra however, that the arrested me aboard suficient stores to last the lasia, run. ncw andeavour to, lay The following passengers left by have also delivered arms and amentii trip, when practical, thus

Was

stay.

land.

The inunigration officials Bin Yik. ara insisting that he should leave by the earliest boat.

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Forward

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B. X. President Jefferson:Mr. G

ILLICIT ARMS DEALS WITH SOVIET.

Prague, Jan 13.-Several

Keller, Mr. J. M. Hyles, Mr. and

munitions to China and that some Way into Russian ports

affecting general business condi

SA | sbatament.

Mrs. Liang Yick Fu, Mr. Hy of these consignments found their | tions" abroad, according to his

پر نیند

Destination. Manila........... Mr. MacDonnell recently passed-

Stokely, Mrs D. C. Yuang Mr. Lee Sai Ping, Mrs. Lai Chui Ping, Mr. H. Ahwoe, Mr. Fung Hang, of nequiring first hand information Mr. Charles King, Mr. Gor Tson His destination is Manila where he Gee, Mrs. Young, Mr. Cheung will investigate certain phases of through the Canal. Zone en route? Shing, Mr. and Mrs. Y. O. Lee, Mr.tobacos culture, inasmuch as he to San Francisco, where he board- TS. Chen, Mr. Chung Tge Kit, interested in a number of Cubaned the President Jefferson, and Mr. Mai Ring Fong, Master Yee plantations entirely, devoted to rain consequently, had an opportunity Kwok Koung, Mr. Chir Fung Si, ing the weed.!!

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