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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1932.

DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS HONG KONG STOCK JUDGE AND RACING PLAN TO MAKE THE

"HONG KONG"STOCK"-

EXCHANGE.

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Bailare

$1,230

8512

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"SHARE:BROKERS

ASSOCIATION.

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MONDAY, DEC. 12.

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Baler Bomin

Banks erin HK Baks

Do. (London) Chartered Banks Alercantile Bes. "A"

MARKET.

SATURDAY'S OFFICIAL

QUOTATIONS.

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A slightly better undertone was in evidence to-day but whilst the $1,835 volume of business was still on thu

skinpy side, there was a fair turn- £14- over on cash basis, sales being 4294 reported of Lands at $76, Unions -291a8590, Realtion at $7.50 and

$108) Hotels at 810.20, and all closing

$7 30.

steady.

Balea,

14

#1,

£117

£131

£231

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Bank of East Asia...

N. O. & S. Bayka

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1.8

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T.$.50

Do

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Insurances

Canton Lugars nose...

Cri

$2,80

Underwriters

$1,315

$2.95

$516

Union Insuranoom........

Humphreys $15.

702

China Firos enteross

$530

Realties 871.

$110 H.K. Fires...........

$875

Ewo Cottons Tls. 14.00;

4.75-International Asson,

$1,200

supping

Douglas vanus

$23)

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48/0

$20

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134

3.85

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Indos (pref)

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Sholls

Waterhoata

Mining

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420 Venezuela Gold Fide

24/0

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12 10 Exploration.........

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China Do

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T.30

T11.40

1,00

15

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1328

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$20

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Do. (new)...

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Union Insurances $520. Providents (Now) 81.00. Hotels (Old) $10.90. Hong Kong Lands 878.

China Lights (Old) -$14.

Cements (Combined) $10.70/10)

Buyers.

Canton Insurances $1,230,

Benguet Explorations 23 contx

45/-

I'nion Insurances $520.

80%.

Douglaaos $26.

48/

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Hotels (Old) $10.18.

RealtiosTM $75).

$4.10

25/.

Bwo Cottona Tis. 14,40.

T.4

Star Ferries 801.

T:21

China Lights (Old) $13,85.

Ti

Electrics $751.

*

$11.20

16,6

$145

$4.60

$1.60

$97

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MOTORIST-

JUDGE'S SEVERE COM- 'MENTS IN DIVORCE SUIT

SWINDLER-PAY

PROPOSED CHANGE IN

BRITISH LAW

INCREASED CRIME

IN ENGLAND.

MR. JUSTICE MOCARDIE'S STATEMENT DRINK ONLY A MINOR.

EXPLANATION

MR. CHURCHILL ON HIS MISTAKES

NO DESIRE TO RE-LIVE HIS LIFE

GALLIPOLI, AND ANTWERP AFTERTHOUGHTS

"London The Home““ 08% Al- The hearing was concluded ---last thorities are considering the advis- month of the petition of Mrs ability of amending the Forfeiture Mr. Justice. MeCardi, charging 250 Glamorgau Margaret May Miller (nee Shotter), | Act in order to check the grave in this grand jury of Regent's Park-road, W.. who crease which has taken place in Assizes, ht Swanson, said that the

Mr. Winston, Churchill, like Dr. . asked for the dissolution of her Leases of serious, fraud.”

real causes of the large amount of Johnson, has no desire to live his alleged adultery of her husband, marriage on the ground of the Should the suggested amendment crime in this country were to be life over again. "Happy, vivid, be made, criminals convicted found in the fundamental forces of and full of interest as it has been, human nature-greed, algor, joalI do not seek to tread again the. Captain Alastair George Lionel fraud would have to reimburse na Joseph Miller, racing motorist, far as possible the losses of theirusy, vanity, lust, and perhaps nog toilsome and dangerous path." with Miss Elma Slee, an actress, victims and also the costs of the line.

Thus he writes in his new book, Serious injury was being done by called "Thoughts and Adventures" of Sinclair-gardens. Kensington, prosecution.

the notion that crime was 80100 (Thornton Butterworth, 188.), who intervened in the suit.

collection form of disease." It was not. Com sparkling

of papers Mrs. Miller also petitioned for a

menting on the calendar he said he touching for the most part on the judicial separation, alleging cruel

was surprised at the fact that there lighter side of grave affairs. Not ty by her husband.

ware seven cases of offences com even the opportunity of an axis- mitted by motor drivers. In Great terice different in every way from Britain, in a year, 3,000 persons his own would lure him the were killed nad 100,000 injured journey, has heen enjoyable and through motor vehicles.

well worth making once."

Captain Miller" denied" all "the charges.

Miss Sire denied the charge of adultery.

The marriage took place in 1927, Mra. Miller than being 18 years of age. Thore were two children, bath girls.

*

The hearing of the petitions had occupied several days, and there were a large number of witnesses.

Mias Slec, gave evidence. During the proceedings it ap peared that Captain Miller had Government Louus 21 per cent. failed to comply with an order for security for costs, and his Lord ship ruled that he could take no further part in the action.Accord- ingly his counsel withdrew.

Dairy Farms 828).

premium

Bollera.

Roaltica $7,00,---

Agriculturáls $10.

Constructions (Old) 301. Walince Huurpers 810,

EXCHANGE

CLOSING QUOTATIONS ·

Dember 12, 190). ON LONDON:-

Telegraphic Transfer... 131 Bank Bills, on demand 1/34 Bank Bills, 4 months'

aight

1/3 Credits,

Bight....

1/44

4 months'

14,75 ON NEW YORK:-

1341

Bank Bills, on demand 211 Credits, co days' night.. 22 ON 'PARIS-

Bank Bills, on demand;43 Credits, 4 months' sight 585 ON INDIA

Telegraphie Transfer...

Petitions Succeed,

Giving judgment, Mr. Justice Bateson stated that in his judg. ment both petitions must succeed. Mrs. Miller was one of four sis- ters, all of them young, and, if he might say so, attractive.

"On the evidenco before me," continued his Lordship, "Captain Miller is now 30. He is a most undesirable person so far as I can gather, an unsavoury post of young women, After the marringo he was constantly associating with young girls. He neglected and ill-treated his wife until things got so had that she finally left him in April,

1031..

In June, 1931, by pretence of

Every year vast sums of money amounting to many hundreds of thousands of pounds-pass from the pockets of honest people into those of criminals.

Long firm frauds, fraudulent company promoting, and employ ment with investment, fraud con- atitute the major part of this par- ticular class of crime.

+

Luxury Life After Prison, Swindlers amass a considerable fortune on which to live in ease and luxury after a short term of imprisonment, while thair ruined victims have no redress whatever.

"Our highways at the present timo aru scenes of incessaut multi- lation and trequent death," he add ed. It would be interesting to in quire whether this vast increase of injuries was due either to greater recklessness on the part of drivers of vehicles or

to a more marked want of care on the part of pede-" strians.

to ta

If it were made possible," said a famous criminal lawyer, "to Drink and Gambling. deny to the fraudulent the fruits. It is wise both for you and my-. of their frauds, there would be no self," continued his lordship, more temptation for these criminals] consider for a moment the causes to prey upon the public than for of crime. I have looked into the a burglar to break into an empty matter very seriously for many years past, and I no satisfied, more and more, that poverty is only a minor cause of serious crime in this country, and that drink and gambl ing are only minor causes.

house.

It would be a simple matter to amend the Forfeiture Act of 1870. That Act applies only to felony, and fraud is a misdemeanour-a merely academic distinction.

"The Act could be amended by providing for the appointment of a receiver in the estate of every person convicted of fraud. He would be empowered to open up all transactions from the time the fraud was started, and seize All assets obtained by reason of the fraud.

"The proceeds resulting from the estate would pay back, in part, at any rate, the money lost by the innocent victimas, and the enormous burden of legal charges resting upon the State would be materially

lightened.

The country would thus be rid of an ever-growing peril, a clase of crime which is easy to commit difficult to detect, and costly to prosecute."

some business inatter, he got her to go for a drive with him. Then he carried her off against her will-he a big, strong man-and treated her abominably, so much so, that the next morning the sisters came and got her off, but not before two of them had been subjected to hin violence, with the result that there DUKE OF NORFOLK'S were police court proceedings."

Cotton Mille

Ewos

T731

Shai Coltons.....

1.73

T.11

Zoong Sings........

T.11

$130

Wing On Textiles(S.)

$148

Pubilo Ulilas

Bank, on demand

ON SHANGHAI ;--

320

On Demand

78

$109

$15)

-ON Kong:-

A

$73

Star Ferrics

On demand

101

1311

Taunati Ferries(old)

ON MANILA:-

$331

Do.

(now)

On demand

$14

China Lights (old)...!

$13.83 Ox SINGAPORE:

1380

Do (new)...

$13

-On demami

561

H.K. Electrica

1751

ON BATAVIA

!" I feel very sorry," his lordship concluded, "both for Mrs. Miller and for Miss Blee, because I think,

$29

Macao do.

On demand

63

$12

ON SATOON;-

330

Polephoned (old).......

828

On demand

51

$25!

Lo (auw)..

3251

ON BANOKOK

7.10

China Bususn

2#

12/

Do. (pret.)....

On demand............. 141 SOVEREIGNS, Bank Buying

Rata

181

Industriais

ter

$95

BAR SILVER, per oz

$5.0

Sandakan Lights...

Tractions

Malabon Sugars ....

Ti Caldbook, ((ord.)"

T10 Macgrogers prof.)

Comments (cumb.)...

33

Canton less

SICI

10.00

Du.

(old)...

Do.

$4

(now)...

$12

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910

MiscellaneouS

Uh: Agricultures

Dairy Farrus) $28.30

Der A Wings........

Amazements.......

113.40 Ch. E'tainments...... $13

ફાર્મ

***

30 $2 *$12.

317

Constructions, (old)|

36 20

31.40.

Do, (new) $1.30

Lane Crawfords.....

$5.35

Mackintoshe

Nanyang Tobacco...|

Warsons (old)

$6,500

21

$16, Sinesten

$129.

32U401 190, (DBW) .................

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ADMIRAL'S DAUGHTER MARRIES SCOT

-DASH-TO-GRETNA-RECALLED

LAND

The real causes are still to be. found in the old and fundamental forces of human nature. The amount of aerious crime in this country is much greater to-day than at any time in the past 60 years. While we are steadily closing our prisona, the amount of serious crime is steadily increasing. Over 20 prison have closed in the past 2 years, and yet the volume of crime is en larging every week.

Not Always Mental Disease. realition know that crime is not Those who are familiar with

necessarily associated with mental-

disease. Emotional tendencies which are being shown in some quarters to-day are doing serious injury. tirely overlooked in misplaced sym The sufferings of victima are en-

pathy for the criminal

"I cannot help feeling that the question arises whether the proba tion system is not now, on balance,

doing more harm than good.

Reflecting on his mistakes and errors, Mr. Churchill declares that it now seems clear to him that

"When Lood Kitchener wont back upon his undertaking to Bend the 29th Division to rein- force the army gathering in Egypt for the Dardanelles SK- pedition, and delayed it for nearly three weeks, I should have been prudent then to have broken off the naval attack... I did not do it, and from that moment I became acomuntable for an operation the vital control of which had passed to other hands. The fortunes of the great enterprise which I had set on foot were henceforward to be decided by other people. But T was to bear the whole burden in the event of miscarriage.”

An Echo of Antwerp, One of his apophthegms is that "those who are charged with the direction of ampremo affairs "must sit on the mountain-tops of, con- trol; they must never descend into the valleys of direct physical and personal action." That, it seems, Churchill's is the lesson Mr. Antwerp exploits have taught him..

"I ought never to have gone to Antworp" he writes. I 'ought to have remained in Lon- don and endeavoured to force the Cabinet and Lord Kitchener to take more offective action than they did.”

Lloyd

Mr. Churchill's opinion of Mr.

George's wizardry

his best he illuminating-at could almost talk a bird out of a tree."

Extraordinary as have been Mr. Lloyd George's successes in molic, it is in conclaves of eight

nine or four or five, or in per

The time is coming when this country must face this grave in- crease of crime, and ask itself what are the remedies we can apply tal discussion man to man that his persuasive arte reach "their fullest excellence, I have seen largement."

him turn a Cabinet, reimd in less than ten minutos, and yet when the process was complete, no one |could remember any particular argument to which to ntfríbut" their change of view.!!

both have been victims of Captain AGREEMENT REACHED AT Prevent a further increase and en- Millor, whom I have already descri- bad."

Mrs. Miller would be granted a decrce nisi with costs against Cap- tain Miller and given the custody of both children, she undertaking not to disturb the elder child so Hong as it was in the care of Cap.

tain Miller's mother.

FLYING OFFICER AND HIS

BRIDE

LITTLEHAMPTON

FAMOUS GREEN DISPUTE

Littlehampton.-The Duke of Nor- folk did not object, as was expected at the public inquiry held here, to the compulsory Requisition by the local council of property belonging

to him on the foreshore.

The clerk to the council, Mr. L. B. Beresford, announced that op position had been withdrawn almost at the last moment, and an agree ment had been reached with the dake.

Ms. Beresford said that the green

DIVORCE TALK AFTER SIX and foreshore which the council re-

WEEKS

quired covered an area of more than 137 acres, most of which, including the beach, green, and bandstand, were required as pleasure grounda. little more than two acres remain- ing were wanted for a parking

One of the first November brides was Miss Elizabeth (Bliss) Wemyss, only daughter of Vice-Admiral and Mrs. Elphinstone Wemyss, of the White House, Ifield, Crawley, Bus- sex, who was married at Holy Trinity, Kensington Gore, London, to Mr. William Davidson, only son

A scene between a young couple of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keighley who had been married only six น Davidson, of Stevenston, Ayrshire weeks was described at Epping, place. $150 and Glen Royde, Brondesbury.

when Lionel H. Anness, a Flying 3121

More Pleasure Grounds. Admiral Wemyss gave away nis Officer in the R.A.F., formerly 812) 13.20 daughter. She was attired in a

The council now possessed only acres of pleasure simply cut gown of golden-yellow stationed at North Weald Aero- about eleven panne velvet, the skirt extended to drome, was summoned for assault-ground, and it was necessary to form a train. Her lace veil was

ing his wife:"

Anness is 27 years of age and his have more land for that purpose." -worn with a wreath of orange blos

The council had been lessces of Bom, and she carried a sheaf of wife 23, and it was stated that at the green for the past thirty-three.

the time of the alleged ault years, at a nominal rent of £1 they were living at High-street, year. Until 194 they had leased Epping-

the foreshore for 2. ed. a year, the Mr. O'Brien (for the wife) said duke being responsible for mainte- that the couple were married after ance of the son wall.

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211.

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Wallace Harper

$10

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It will be recalled that in the spring of last year Miss Wemyss was engaged to Mr. Charles Pechey, son of Mr. A. T. Pechey, the au- thor A-wedding-licence was up-

a very brief courtship. On August They now paid £200 a year for plied for by Mr. Charles Pachey,16, after a discussion about divorce the foreshore, and held a lease

he pointed a revolver at his wife, which will expire in 1834, who found that his father had entered a caveat against the marri knocked her over

punched her in the neck, and Negotiations for the purebase of the property by the council had' age as he was under age.

Mra Anness, cross-examined, been started in 1929. · denied that she asked her husband

A few days later the couple made a dash to Gretna Green, where they plighted their troth over the anvil. On their return to London they (7,16 mm, & J 7.00 1.00. ¿

were met by Admiral Wemyss, who 15.00 pm

17.00 pm took his daughter home. It was announced later that the Gretna Green "marriago” was invalid.

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1.00 p.m.

6.00 pim -600 p.m.

1.10 p. Bındayı 8.15. only 5.00 pm.

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"COMPLETE

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ISTATA

In March of this year they agai

to provide the evidence for a di offered terms to the duke for thi aitors said the husband usually refused to well. The only course. vorce. She told him that the soli- green and foreshore, but the duke provided the evidence.

then left was to force the acquisi his wife asked him to provide

Flying Officer Anness said that tion of land under the Act.

vide evi

Mr. Beresford said that the agree dence for divorce, and that dis- ment now reached with the duke tressed him. He denied that he contains stipulations that would pointed a pistol at her or that he probably detract from the value of struck ber. He wanted her to re- the property. turn to him.

Mr. O'Brien-Don't you know that your wife will never, under any circumstances, return to you

Flying Officer Anness-A woman's mind is changeable at times.

He was fined £1.

SHIPPING MOVEMENTS,

£1,782 Yearly Loss,

THE P.O. THINKING-IN-

MILLIONS

GIGANTIC TRAFFIC

During the year ended March 30, increased in all directions. Accord 1012, the activities of the Best Office ing to figures made public yesterday the Post Office handled during the year mentioned:-.

Mr. F. Wyndham Hirst, repre- senting the Duke of Norfolk and the Public Trustee, objected to this. statement. It was, he-mid, entirely a matter of the duke attempting to nreserve covenants, with tenants and leaseholders' when, solling the pro- perty.

Mr. Reynolds, the accountant, giving figures concerning the pro nerty which is now to be acquired by the council, said that over an The P&O Co.'s ss Ranchi-left-average of three years the council Singapore for Misty port on the 10th-had lost £1182 a year instant at noon, with the outward Captain Jury, chairman of the English Mails, and is due bere on council, and that the council tied. the 14th instant at about 8.a.m.

no wish to rob the duke of his rights. The B.I.&Apoar Line sz. Talms of heritage, but they were acting left Bingapore for this port on the for the benefit of the town-and-had Bib instant pm and is the herethe whole-hearted support of the on the lath-instant; 8:1

town in their" action;"

6,540,000,000 letters.. 158,000,000 parcels:

2,658,000.C.O.D. parcels. 57,551,000 registered letters and parcels.

37,231,000 inland telegrame 10,808,000 foreign telegrams, 1,305,000,000 local telegrams calls 121,482,000 trunk telephone calls 1,227,000 international calls. 14,419,000 money orders. 200,338,000-postal orders,

Book 20,152,000 Savings

posite. (Continued on next column)

SHIPBUILDERS,

SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS,

FORGE MASTERS,

de

OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS,

MECHANICAL AND

· ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERS.

11,031,000 withdrawala. 180,531,000 pensions raid, s

4,820,000 wireless licenses. At the end of December, 1933, £280,450,000%WLs due to dexattord in the Post Office Savings Bank, and the value of Savings Certificates held was £378,873,000,

Now certificates worth £85,823,000 were issued during the year, and the total value of the Post Office transactions with the public reached the colossal figure of £818,700,000.

An official said:"0.0.D, parcola are over 200,000 more than last year, while local telephone "calls" are up | by 50,000,000 (we handle 5,000,00μ every day); international calls by 250,000; and 500,000,"

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