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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1933

News in Brief

A purse" containing $10 and some private papers has been handed to the Water Police Station by u hawker who picked it up in Kim borley Road..

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The First Solemn Celebration of the Feast of The Blessed Virgin of Fatima will take place at St. Teresa's Church, Prince Edward Road on Sunday, May 14., A Solenin Novena preparatory to the Feast begins or Friday, May 6, at 8 p.m."

Following complaints by residents, Inspector Hynes raided the ground floor of No. 587, Nathan Road, on Sunday and arrested a woman named Cheung So for keeping disorderly house. When brought be fore Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy this "morning, she denied the charge, but after hear ing the ovidence the Magistrate convicted and imposed a foc of $50 or one month,

CANTON'S CITY OF THE DEAD

FAMINE IN NAM HONG

WORK FOR PEACE

Italian Representative IMPRESSIONS OF A KOWLOON

in America

VISITOR

A party from the St. Andrew's Washington, May 2-Problems to be taken up at the world Economic Church congregation spent Easter N.D., writing in the Conference will be discussed between in Canton. Guido Jung, Italy's spokesman, Andrew's Magazine gives the who arrived to-day, and President following very vivid description of Roosevelt.

Canton's City of the Dead.

Jung's arrival brought up again the deadlock in the Geneva disarma- ment conference and the possiblo methods of breaking it.

There is every indication that President Roosevelt is looking fa- vourably upon the programme of disarmament recently advanced at Geneva by Prime Minister Mac Donald of Great Britain.

Wo gut back again in our car and set out for the City of the Dead. Here I could have spent hours, but we hadn't the time to spare. I.ex- peet you know that the Chinese wor ship their ancestors, and so, when, a person dies, everything is done for their comfort by the living re- latives. The priests are consulted as to a propitious, date and place Ready to Consult,

for burying. The coffins are there- The plan has a proposal for con- fore, taken to a City of the Dead, sultation of the nations signatory where a rental is paid for a cubicle to the Kellogg Briand peace pact in which to place them. It is just whenever peace is threatened, and a city of small streets and court- it is believed in official circles here yards with these cubicles or rooms that the President will declare the on either side. The coffin, (or readiness of the United States tocoffins: in one room, I saw four) is Through the steering gear jam talk things over, as has been done sealed and placed on a kind of war pedeatn of cement, in front of ming. Licut. Col. Macpherson met recently, in the event of a

threat.

which hangs a curtain. In front with a mishap when out motoring

Ambassador La Boulaye, new en of the curtain is a table on which on the Taipo-Sheungshui highway voy to France, informed Under Se is placed incense burnera, a float- on Sunday. His car ran into a tele-cretary of State William Phillips ing light in oil, and food, drink gruph pole near the railway bridge to-day that France would agree to and other commodities which might at Taipo, and was slightly damaged. Roosevelt's proposed tariff truce be of use and comfort to the deceas The driver escaped injury.

preliminary to the London confered. A chair is placed at the table ence, provided it contains a clause for the dead person to sit and cat, Paper effigies permitting tariff changes in case of if he so desired.. depreciation of the pound or dollar stand at the side; these are hand- Such a clause would be needed to men and maidens waiting to serve, protect France as the leading coun- and hanging all round the cubicle try romaining on the gold stand are scrolls covered with characters ard.

eulogining the deceased. The mag ? Oppose Weakening.

dificence, care and state of preser- Indications of Roosevelt's atti-vation depend, of course, upon the tudo have been given in the last werth and number of descendants. few days at Genova by Norman That is why I could have spent so Davis, head of the American dote long there, for although each little gation as well as the conversations cubicle follows the same general hero with MacDonald and former iden, they are all different in detail. Premier Herriot “of France.

Can you imagine anything more Davis told the Geneva conterence gruèsome or half as enthralling? TWO BRILLIANT COUPLES TO Friday that the United States de As we picked our way through a legation would oppose any attempt village and over a web, smelly field to weaken the draft of the arms back to our ear, I had the feeling convention previously presented by that we had delved into something MacDonald, saying this was regard uncanny. ed as valuable contribution and a definite step toward limitation "of armaments.

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Pleading that he was driven to thelt because he was out of work, an unemployed Chinese asked for leniency at the Kowloon Magis tracy yesterday when convicted of the theft of $105. He was sentenced to three months' hard labour.

SATURDAY'S GALA AT **PENINSULA **

APPEAR

"

Don Jennings and Sally Evans, dancers extraordinary," who are to appear at the great night in the Rose Room on Saturday the 13th, are good looking youngsters who

A number of amendments already have made good in a big way in have been offered and to-day, dis- the United States. They are well-patches aaid, Garmany proposed known to patrons of theatres of the further that the plan be changed Orpheum and Keith circuits and to provide, a maximum calibre of of the Ziegfeld Follies, and also 105 millimetres for mobile guns and have danced at many of the famous abolish all tanks, night clubs San Francisco to New York."

No type of dancing is new to this team and it is expected that they will demonstrate to patrons of the Rose Room something new in the way of modera steps.

A decided asset of Miss Evans' is her pleasing singing voice. During their engagement she will be seen and heard in a number of sorg and dance solos in addition to teaming with Mr Jennings. The New York | Telegraph on March 13, 1992, refer- red to Don and Sally as two of the most talented youngsters of the stage, the same paper predicting great success for them.

"The Bandolero," one of the numbers offered at the Canidrame in Shanghai where Don and Sally

have been termed "the darlings of the Canidrome," was described by the Northern Press as having ‘sur- passed all expectations.

It has now been possible to retain Marty Sands and Mildred Dawn for this outstanding function and it is anticipated that both these talented pairs will join for some

ENTERPRISING CHEFOO

MODERN ROADS (AND GOVERNMENT

In the course of an article on Explaining the proposal, Count Chefoo appearing in the Magazine Rudolf Nadolny, the Berlin dele of a recent Sunday issue the blunt gation spekesman, globt, the, Associ-, remark was made that Chefoo was ated Press If the amendment is re-a dirty city. This naturally an- jected Germany should be entitled noyed the good people of Chefoo in principle to possess all land, who take some pride in the fact naval and air armaments which that that holiday resort endeavours other countries' assert are necessary to maintain a reasonably high stan- to their national defense.

dard of cleanliness. The suggestion The original British proposal pro. is made that the writer was relying vides for tanks of limited size and a distant acquaintance with also for anos equality for GerChefoo and had failed to take into many.

account some of the enterprising Argentina Also Joins Conference. activities of the Chefoo administra- Washington, Guido Jung, fiuancetion in recent months. It is always Minister of Italy, arrived in Wa-desirable that virtue should receive shington to-day for series of

recognition and although the ad- economic conferences with Presi-ministration which was replaced as dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and ad- ministration officials..

Roosevelt received him and pre

On

the result of the brief military ac- tion last autumn had its defects,

pared to go into the possibilities of neglect of the amenities of Chefoo was not one of them. To quote from improving Italo-American trade. the Chefoo Daily News, it may be

The President and Secretary of

remarked that practically all roads Stata Cordell. Hull previously con

in every part of the city in Chefoo versed with Delegate Lebreton of have been payed with concrete un- Argentina and Argentina Ambassador the administration of General dor Felipe Espil...

Liu Chien-nion. This good work is Lebreton said that Argentina was being continued. In short, Chefoo willing to enter into a trade agrees anxious to make itself as attrac other countries similar to the an gloArgentine agreement.

numbers, so forming a quartettement with the United States and tive as possible, not merely for the

which will be the final touch to an excellent programme, and then again, the fact that the Rose Room Band is the first to have come into

possession of a new lot of music direct from the States; should be the magnet in drawing crowds of Hong Kong elite.

KOWLOON GOLF

DRAW FOR HANDICAP

COMPETITION,,

A High Handicap. Competition has been arranged by the Kowloon Golf Club for Sunday, 14th inst. and the draw has resulted as fol- lows:-

9.00 m. L. J. Cave (17) and W. j.

Fulker (18).

W. L. Ramsay (14) and A A Andrews (18)

J. F. Freemax (16) nad

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Kowloon Bus Fares not | Ar. Lam, however, stated that

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Commenting on the persistent rumours which have been in circu- lation in regard to the question of bus fares on the mainland, Mr. Lam Ming Fan, secretas of the Kow loon Motor Bus Company (1933), It, unphatically denied that it was the intention of his company

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due to the extended facilities, the monthly, tickets will be issued at $10 instead of 80. These will be 9.40 available for only the ordinary and cross-acction routes grouped at the ferry terminus and will not be good for the buses running to the New Territories

I will be interesting to note that one condition of the franchise call e for settled fares during the first period of three years after which the position may be reviewed..

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A. 6. King (17) and B. McCaw (18). John Pooler (13) and T. Seddon (13).. J. J. King (16) and J. G. Charlton (15).

E W. Gardiner (15) and HF. Stoneham. WF. Kerr (13) and. A Hat (13), JW Martin (18) and S. MoNida(19)

To Revive Trade. They explored the possibilities of reviving the almost vanished Unit od States-Argentino trade through mutual concessions.

Meanwhile French Ambassador Andre Lefebre de Laboulaye noti fied the state department that France was prepared to accept the tariff trace, which President Roose- velt proposed, to be effective until the conclusion of the world econo- mic conference.; {

The French, however, would make the reservation of the right to change schedules to compensate for any wids fluctuations in foreign ราค dxchange. If the dollar or pound should drop rapidly, France would be able to raise tariffs to protect bar domestic market.

Thus in effect the reservation

would tend to maintain the status quo, which was the purpose of the Roosevelt proposal

| Laboulaye, however, expressed hope that international exchange would soon be stabilized to obviate the necessity of such a provision.

He advised the state department that formal acceptance of Roose velte proposal will be sent to Sir John Simon in London, British foreign secretary who is acting, as host to the world economic confer

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SFrance Prepares to Leavy Surtax. Paris, May 3.-The French minis try of Finance prepared to-day im- pose a surtax of fifteen per cent on American goods when the dollar approaches twenty France.

C. R. Rosen (14) and W. Stoker (15)

A similar surtax, imposed in ad- dition to normal duties, applies naw to British and Japanese goods be

be contemplating asking parline cause of the depreciation of the mentary authority, to increase the pound sterling and the yen in terms

The franc at yesterday's close was less than 22 to the dollar, the high est it has been in months.

of francs since England and Japan. left the gold standard.

Premier Daladier was reported to (Continued an Dreviant colum

practical object of encouraging visitors, but actually with the desire to maintain suitably high standards of municipal government.

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a anci The inhabitants are in plight and all reserves of food are gradually being exhausted,

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According to the Canton news papers the District of Nam Hoag is suffering from severe famine trict for immediate distribution,

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