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SIR JOHN SIMON'S SPEECH

IMPRESSES JAPANESE NAVY OFFICE

ROOCH REFIER'S AGENCY]

TOKYO, NOV. 13,

PENDING official confirmation of Sir John Simon's speech on disarmament offieints are guarded in their comment, but the general impression is favourable, especially at the Navy Office where a spokes man declared that the Simon pro- posal for smaller gas and capital ships would harmonise with the Japanese who also advocate the abolition of tlic air-craft carrier, though they are unable to agree to the abolition of the submarine.

STATUS OF WOMEN

IN INDIA

PROGRESS IN MODERN -- INDIA, RECOMMENDED

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SIR A. PAGE'S DAUGHTER

FLYING TO THE CAPE

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1932.--

CABLE

air

NEW BISHOP OF VICTORIA

CONSECRATION IN ST.. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL

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AND AIR-MAIL

AIR-MAIL NEWS

AMY'S WONDERFUL FLIGHT

BEATS HUSBAND'S RECORD BY 10 HOURS

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THROUGH REUTER'B' AGENCY.1

Care Town, Not. 16.

AMY MOLLISON has arrived here. She bent her husband's record by tea and a half hours.

BROADCAST DURING

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LONDON, Oct. 29. Losnoy, Oct. 97. Miss Joan Page, daughter of Sir

The Rev. Ronald Owen Hall, for Arthar Page, Lord Chief Justice" of Burma is starting on a flight five years vicar of St. Luke's New to the Cape, accompanied by the castle-on-Tyne, was consecrated as ski-ing woman oxport, Miss Durel le Sale Harker. They plan to fly Bishop in Victoria, Hong Kong, in by stages, stopping at Paris, Mar St. Paul's Cathedral on Oct. 35.

The Archbishop of Caterbury per- FALL TO EARTH geilles, Tunis, Cario and thereafter by the Imperial Airways routs formed the ceremony and the pres Miss Page who obtained an pilot's certifiente in India recently,senting Bishops were the Bishops| DROPPING AT 200 MILES

PER HOUR was the first Englishwoman to do of Newcastle and Wakeleld. Holy' 10. She is also employed as a pro- | Communion had previously been -

(Special Air-Mail Service). Fessional pilot by an aircraft firm -almost a unique position for a celebrated at All Hallows', Lom- woman. They are flying in an open bard Street, by Canon Tissington

Tatlow, Moth two-seater plane and will take turns at the controls. Al though an ordinary "A" pilot's. Licence is held by hundreds of wo- men, Miss Page holds a commer cinl or "B" "Licence and shares this special distinction only with Mr. Mollison (Miss Amy Johnson), Miss Pauline Gower, Miss Muntz, Miss Airken, Miss Winifred Spoon- er and Mrs. Victor Bruce, -

CHINESE PAINTING

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LONDON. Gel. 24.

LONDON, Oct. 90.

A MANCHUKUO COUNSELLOR "

MANCHURIA NEVER BELONGED TO CHINA!

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CIVIL WAR IN SZECHUEN

CONTINUES DESPITE NAN- KING REMONSTRATIONS

{THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.}

NANKING, Nov. 18,

from DESPITE remonstrations

Nanking, the war in Szechuan |

LONDON. Oct. 26. In the Gazette de Lausanne'" dated Oct. 25. there appears a leader on the Manchurian question, signed by M. Maurice Muret, has been going on. uninterruptedly guileless Vaulois Royalist who for almost two monks.,

Latest despatches from the pro- takes M. Maurras and Leon

Daudet seriously. Ho commences

by anying that the Lytton Report vince report Lin Hsiang's capture runs with the Chinese haro and of Trechung, on, the Trokiang hunts with the Japanese hounds to

way or the other.

such an extent that it is impossible River, mid-way between Chengtung for the Council of the League of and Luchu. Liu Won Huei is hold. Nations to decide the matter one in the latter city which is report- ed to be in danger, while Chengtu is in the throes of guerilla war- fare between Liu Wen Huci's and Tien Sung Yoo's troops.

Ile means, presumably, that it would have been easier for the Conn cil to make a decision had the of Mr. John Tranum, a Dane and

Lytton Commission, instead the world's most daring parachu-making an impartial and objective tist, who has made over 200 jumps, attempt to ascertain the facts of now intends to create w-now re-

Father of the Bishop Preaches. In the Cathedral, the Rev. C, G. cord by jumping from an aeroplane six miles up over Salisbury Plain. Halk of Newcastle, father of the It is his intention to carry a small Bishop-designate, preached, transmitting set with a microphone The other assisting clergy at the strapped to his chest so that he enu tell the world what it feela consecration ceremony were

like to fall earthwards at 200 miles Bishop of London, the Bishop of per hour. Mr. Tranum's parachute Peterborough, the Bishop of Wake-descent will be made from an all- with a Pegasus engine developing 800 h.p.

the

General Teng Si Hao. is reported

city.

It is

the case, simply presented a par- to have intervened and ja threaten- tisan report He finishes by saying action against the party which ing that certain elements" in Northern China ask for nothing launches further attacks. better than to be united morn or hoped that this intervention will lexa closely with Manchuria under shoatly restore pense in the capital Japanese control. By a curious coincidence an American, who do. scribes himself as Counsellor" to the Foreign Minister of Manchu- in Geneva on the some day. He is ME George Bronson Rea and in tha course

сол of versations he imparted nearly all the information which appeared in

CHINA MERCHANTS' S.N. CO. SHARES

TO BE REDEEMED BY GOVERNMENT

* ĮTARUUGH REOTER'S AGENLY.]

SHANGHAI, Nov. 16. SHARES of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co. will redeemed by the Government, through the Central Bank of China, during the period between Dee. "T 1003 to Feb. 28, 100, nt fifty taels per share. The redemption is not

pulsory as those willing to hold shares will be allowed to do go.

COTTON PIRACY IN THE EAST

WORSE THAN JAPANESE DUMPING

field, the Bishop in Persin, the British Vickers Vespa 'plane, fitted kuo, gave a tea-party to the Press MOTOR CAR PARKS | piracy, which is regarded as worse

Bishop of Croydon, the Bishop of Willesden, Bishop Wild, Bishop Landor, Bishop Duppuy, the Dean of St. Paul's, the Archdeacon of Mazley and Canon Quick, Rev. Dr. T. C. Chao, Rev. A. D. Stewart and others.

At the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Canon Alexander, Canol In Hong Kong||*. Maurice Muret's leader and he

LONDON, Oct. 25.. The distinguished Indian auther and barrister, Miss Cornelia Sorab-1 ji lectured before the Royal Em-1 pire Society on Oct. 24, on the position of women in Tudin. Lady Maud Warronder was in the chair. University of London, on Oct. 24. Mrs. Soralji classified the women Professor. Kuminol, director of the of to-day as comprising the strict State Museum of Oriental Are and ly orthodox, who tended to lag be Antiquity at Berlin, delivered the hind in the movements associated first of three public lectures to be! with modera progress, those mov- given at the Institute. He dealt ing towards enlightenment, and the with the history of Chinese paint- These three ing, tracing it back to the earliest fully emancipated. classes had their own difficulties in times and bringing it down to the the rapidly changing India of to Ming Dynasty. Professor Kummel day. The great struggle of the fu- drow attention to the delicate and ture would be between the women abstract matare of Chinese painting of the old orthodoxy and those who and its place in the history of art, had become emancipated. The ac which be illustrated by numerous tivities of the Indian National Con-lantern-slides, taken from Chinese, gress, though they might be labelled Japanese, European and American

social service i or moral wel- collections. fare" were, in fact, grounded in politics. In assessing the hold of Congress on the women's movement the real guide was not so much the superfically numbers of women

affected as the extent to which wo men were in fact securing repre sentation as expressed by their truot understanding of the inenming of the votes which they gave. The real

AGA KHAN'S SON IN MOTOR SMASH

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LONDON, Oct. 24.

the Prince Aly Khan,

Ag nenace of premature and artificial Khan's son and heir had a remark- political development was demina- lion not by the Brahmins but by able escape on Oct. 22 when the "out of easte" men-those English car in which he was travelling col- edented people who were less inded with a lorry on the London- sympathy with and, as a whole, had Nowmarket road, crashed through a hedge and overturned in a field less knowledge of the masses of or thodox and illiterate Indians than ten feet below. The Prince, who was returning from a shooting British administrators. Miss Bor- abji agreed that there should be party, was badly cut about the no reversal of the engine of modern head, but his condition is now stat progress in modern India but ited to be entisfactory.

was necessary to go forward cau-! tiously in the interest alike of the emancipated and of the masses. The old ideals must be revived and strengthened to sorve present needs, Wrong values and indiscriminate. admiration of femala prowess were doing real harm to the emancipat-

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS

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LONDON, Oct. 24.. Lieut.-Comdr. R. M. Alleyne to

V.D.A.'s Welcome.

In the afternoon, the Victoria Diocesan Association held a meet ing of welcome to the new Bishop at Stationers Hall, and Bishop.i Dupuy, Intely Bishop in Victoria, presided.

The new Bishop said that the Diocese was eruclly understaffed and he was anxious to take into it half a dozen young men who would be able to stand beside the Chinese and help them in the next 20 YCLES. He had the men; they were prepared to go out, but the missionary societies were short of money.

DEAN. AMONG THE ECONOMISTS

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LONDON, Oct, 25. Dear Inge, Sir Josiah Stomp, Professor Julian Huxley, Mr. J. Maynard Keynes, Sir Humphrey Rolleston, Sir William Beveridge, Capt. G. H. Piti-Rivers and other equally famous men have banded themselves together to conduct scien- tific investigations into problems of population, which, with the growth of the yellow and black peoples of the earth, may become of vital con- corn presently,

Capt. Pitt-Rivers who was A.D.C. is from 1982-1924, has spent many years in research in the subject.

To-Day

CLOUDY

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER REPORT, FORECAST AND REMARKS, ISSUED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AT 0.15 P.M., STATED:~~

A MODERATE ANTI-CYCLONE RE- MAINS, CENTRAL OVER EAST CHINA. FRESH MONSOON. WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE SOUTH-BART, Coast of CHINA AND OVER THE NORTHERN CHINA SEA

LOCAL FORECAST:-N.E. WINDE. FRESH CLOUDY.

BRITAIN TO INDIA' IN A DAY

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FASTER PLANES FOR AIR MINISTRY

said also that it was a mistake to suppose that Manchuria had ever! belonged China. In reality China belonged to Manchuria. The Man-j chester Guardian's correspondent in

IN KOWLOON

OFFICIAL LIST NOW ISSUED.

The Traffic Office in Kowloon has

writing the above stated that the issued an official list of places hardened international newspaper where motor vehicles may be left man lacks the innocence of Lousan-

The

Official Standa.

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LONDON, Oct. 27, Copies of Japanese labels for aro almont cotton goods, which exact replicas of labels used by Manchester Arms for decades past, are to be seen in Manchester and we understand this form of trade

than the Japancso dumping methods, has been going on in Japan for some time. It means, of course, that goods made in Japan, of an inferior quality, are offered in the markets da Lancashire-made goods. These labels are called "tickets" in the trade; they are.. in bright colours and are a well- known in the bazaars of the East as they are in the warehouses of Manchester: The imitations might deceive anyone who did not detect in tiny type the words" Printed in Japan

The following official parking A DELIGHTFUL TEA

stands have sign posts:-

Middle Road (between Hankow Iload and Nathan Road, South sido).

HOUR

Peking Road (outside Star BAND OF H.M.S. SUFFOLK Theatre between Ashley Road and Hankow Road, south side).

Austin Road (outside Kowloon Bowling Green Club, north side).

Saigon Street (between Chi Wo Street and Nathan Road, Bouth

AT EXCHANGE RESTAURANT

ne and that as far as he could unattended in the mainland. gather nobody had used any of Mr. Rea's information, but that as far as the Manchester Guardian was concerned, he supplied the omission. MACHINERY FOR JAPAN (Special Air-Mail Service)

LONDON, Oct. 30. largest multiple-spindle, plane-milling machine in the world has just been built by Messrs. Kendall and Gent (1920), Ltd of Manchester, for the Japanese Navy The machine weighs 40 tons and side). it has taken, 150 men six months to construct. Although it is 60 feet long, 24 feet high and 20 feet wide, it is capable of the most delicate Austin Avenue (between Chatham work and can be adjusted to with- Road and Kimberley Road, east

We are lucky hero in Hong Kong in much less than a hair's breadth. side).

in having the chance, at fairly re The car park in Pakhoi Street isgular intervals, of hearing service a new one and is made in prepare bands. They all reach a high. tion for the opening of the Alhambra standard of performance but with- Theatre.

out any wish to make comparisons wo must asimit that for choice of pro- gramme, volume, and smoothness of executiva wo feel that the palm should go to the Suffolk string band.

CHINESE TIFFINS

AND DINNERS

TO BE SERVED IN H.K.

·HOTEL ROOF GARDEN

Pakhoi Street (between Chi Wo Street and Nathan. Boad, south side).

Other Parks,

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LONDON, Oct. 27. Britain is to have faster aircraft for civil aviation transport. While Britain leads the world with swift military aircraft capable of top speads of more than 200 m.p.h., she has lacked high-speed civil aero- planes. The Air Ministry have now placed & contract with Messrs. Boulton and Paul of Norwich for a mail-carrier. It is now almost

of nearly 200 miles per hour. One

Battery Street (between Pukhoi of the principal problems of high in the recently renovated Roof Street and Kansu Street, West flying speed

landing Garden of the Hotel Hotel which side). speeds, it being essential that an aircraft should land at not much

Other car parks include:-- Salisbury Road (opposite Kowloon Fire Brigade).

Mody Hoad between Nailon Boud Aceeding to requests by many and Cornwall Avenue, north side). esteemed Chinese patrons it has Gascogne Road (Lotween Jordan been decided by the management Rond and Chatham Road, south of the Hong Kong and Shanghai side). Hotels, Ltd., 40 inaugurate as from

Parkes Street (between Saigon

The first of a series of orchestral concerts by the famous string band of H.M.S. Suffolk was given yester day in the newly decorated Ex- chango Restaurant, und was a real

Success.

It cannot be easy to guage the acoustic properties of a room like Exchange Restaurant. If rehearsals at hours when there were low cus have been held there it has been tomera and the "ten symphony" of whs not in evidence. Yet both volume and tone of the Suffolk band seemrit to be exactly right, both in the dining room and the lounge.

ed class. The Indian woman had Comis (Oct. 21); Lieut-Comdr. R. to the Governor-General of Austra- completed and will have a near the 1st December next a regular Street and Ningpo, Street; cast | cups and saucers,, plates and knives

lost her old measuring rod-she must be helped by lovers of peace and true progress to find a new 049.

'BUS DRIVEN ON COKE.

OVEN GAS

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Frederick to Tern, in command, (Oct. 20.); Lieut. W. F. N. Gre gury-Smith to Cricket (Oct. 26.).

NEW WORLD SPEEDBOAT. RECORD

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LONDON, Oct. 27. To-day Count. Rossi capturned the world record in autical miles LONDON, Oct. 95.

for speedboats, on Lake Garda, On Oct. 24. thorough working Turin, of the 1,500 cc. claas. His covered at 48.005 tent was made of the driving of first lap was

GOVERNMENT'S WAY TO PROSPERITY

PREMIER EXPLAINS

POLICY

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LONDON, Oct. 28. When Mr. J. Maxion asked in the House of Commons on Oct. 25.

an omnibus on coke oven gas from nautical miles an hour, and his' high pressure cylinders instead of second at 16.09. His average was petrol and the experiment was stat 47.69 nautical m.p.h. The record od to be highly successful. A series hold previously by America was of six cylinders had boen Atted be 41.7 n.mp. The nortical mile or what new-legislation-the-Govern neath the chassis, and it was esti- knot in speed measurement is ment intended to introduce to pro- mated that the gas from these nemmed at 0,050 ft., but is strictly vide for expanding production and would drive the vehicle 70 miles at the length of a minute of the a cost of 38, ed. The driver stated Meridian, and differs according to that the 'bus ran with remarkable lasitude. smoothness and that there were no *Fumes.

STAMPS WORTH £100,000

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BRITAIN'S 7 LARGEST· LINERS ON SHOW

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concerna

daily service of Chinese tiffins and side). dinners, a la carte and table d'hate,

more than 60 m.ph. and this has For this ventare expert Chinese side).

Another point: How clearly does

has proved to be so popular of late Man Ming Lane (between, Nathan amongst the Chinese clientele

Road and Portland Street, south the average person who takes tea in a restaurant wish to hear the music? Probably a fairly large now been made possible by the de-cooks from first rate local restau

Kwong Wah Road (opposite

percentage of them likqsoothing sign of the new mail carrier. As an ranta have been engaged so that wong Wah Hospital), aircraft flying at 200 miles per patrons can be assured of an ex-

Shek Kip Mi, Strect (between Lainoises off," and do not wish to be hour could fly from India to Lon-cellent standard of cooking.

The chikok Road and Tai Nam Street, made to feel "philistines" if they get on with the busincas in hand- don in a day,a quickening of Em-service is to be of regular Oriental | south sido). pire air mail deliveries may be style and will conform to strict

Kai Yan Road between Sam Tak tea and onjoy the music withoa

Noisy jazz looked for in 1823. The air four hygienic principles, whilst

all Road and Yee Tak Boad, south really listening to it.

and high brow" musie both insist ney from Karachi to London is

manner of liquid refreshments will side).

on an attention that we are not all about 5,000 miles and a machine be available including Chinese wines Liborty Aevenue. leaving Karachi at dawn could of highest grade. The Chines

Constantinople by -- $ p.m., which would only o 2 pm by Western time could arrive at Croydon by 10 p.m: (British summer time). This would be 3-am, next morning (Karachi time). This would mean that In- dian mails could be delivered in London on the morning after post ing in India, just as if they had been posted in a London suburb.

mach

FASTER AIR FIGHTING

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and

to check the continuous fall in ex- ports from this country, the Prime Minister said the policy of the Gov. erament had been, and would con tinue to be, to provide in every way in their power the conditions re- quisito for a national revival of trade and industry by Balancing the Budget; Converting the Na

LONDON, Oct. 28. tional Debt to a lower rate of in- terest as opportunity offered; Faci Engine development, which in all LONDON, Oct. 28. litating the supply of cheap and successful types increases the power For the first time in their history, abundant mobey; By stimulating without addition to the weight, Britain's seven largest liners, the trade within the Empire; and will shortly again take effect in the Majestic. Berengaria Olympic, Negotiating with foreign countries case of our fastest fighters and air Aquitania, Empress of Britain, for the removal or reduction of ex bombers, which use water-cooled on LONDON, Oct. 27. Homeric and Mauretania, aggregat-isting barriers to internationa? gines. It is early to state the mea The first portion of the Manus ing 308,326 tone are in port to trade. No country could hope to sure of the next step, but in gen to-day escape altogether from the effects; eral terms, it will mean an increase abamp-collection was sold at Plumrother at Southampton ridge's, London, on October 30This bas never happened before of such a stále of depression as now from about 500 hp to 600 Hp Several stamps brought in sums of and had it not been for the en-existed throughout the world, he France and the U.S.A. are trying over £100 each and within two forced lay-up of the Olympic for said, but on those points mention-hard to reduce the lead Gt, Bri hours a total of £1,700 had been engine trouble it would not haveed in the question-production and tain has won in aircraft perfor recorded. The collection was form decurred now. At the end of two exporte-we had remained relative manca, but as our latest aircraft ed by the late Mr. Henry Manus hours the Aquitania sailed, ly unscathed since last December, and engines are still capable of a of Amsterdam and has been valued thus spoiling a picture which may while great declines were occurring good deal of further development,

never be seen again.

in USA., France and Germany. they will not find this easy. at over £100,000.

Waterloo Road (from Argyle Street to Prince Edward Blood).

Haiphong Road (at junction with Superintendent of the Hong Kong Canton Road, north side). Hotel, Mr.

Tai, thoroughly qualified and fully conversant with every phase. of catering and man- agement of essentials in this regard, will be in control of the new re

staurant

A.Delightful Rendezvous. The Hong Kong Hotel Roof Gar den, now decorated in part Chincso style, in admirably adaptable to the purpose, maintaining, as it does, the enjoyable reputation of being one of the most delightful rendez- vous in the Colony. An innovation for Hong Kong will be that a dance orchestra will be in attendance nightly during Chinese dinner; music will be provided by "The Revellers" "band.

This now departure will fill a long felt want not only on the part of the Hong Kong Chinese younger set, but by foreign tourists and re- sidents who are often heard to ex press the wish for such a restaurant combining Eastern atmosphere and customs with modern western facilities.

MR. DRINKWATER ON THE

THEATRE

WHY THE CINEMA SCORES

willing to give at the end of a tiring day, but tho programme chosen by the Suffolk Band whe admirable in every way.

These concerts are being repeated on Tuesday and Friday next week, and will no doubt be well attended.

* Programme,- The programme was as follows! 1.-Standard Overturo by Suppe:

"Light Cavalry.".

g-Excerpts from the Musicak Comedy Viktoria and Her Hassar"-Abraham.

3.- Descriptive of Strings and

Woodwind The Fairies Wed Mr. John Drinkwater, the play;|

ding"-La Jong, 2 sal wright, speaking at a meeting of the. Gallery First Nighters' Club, Fantasia on Airs from Sulk- vans Fairy Opera "Iolanthe,?". said that Pinero and Henry Arthur

Waltz J. Strauss Jones had done moet to bring back 5.-The Beautiful Danube" intelligence to the theatre, and their example had been followed by 6.-Incidental Munic to Noel Os

wards" Chwalcado." Shaw, Galsworthy and many mo

dezvous." dern' playwrights, so that we could-Intermezzo by Aletter" Ren-

Persian Market" by Ketellby. without blushing to our foreign 8-A Descriptive Scene In & friends.

Referring to the compétition of 9. Eeveric for Strings and Wood- "It is absurd to expect people to dleton. the cinemas, Mr. Drinkwater said, itide Extentide!!. by: Mui-

once

more mention our theatre

Comedy The White Here

The now arrangements as outlined pay 128 d. to sit in a most un-10-Excerpta from the Musical will in no manner interfere with the comfortable theatro seat when for tes dances now held daily at 6 pim:: 3, 6d. they can sit in a picture

would be happy to alt in,' these will continue to function as house in a seat which the King

*Inn by Stolz. Conductor

master, R.M.B;

W. Lang, Band