OUR LONDON AIR-MAIL LETTER
The Prince's Nottingham Farm: An Outspoken judge Velsheda's Success at Cowes: Sir Philip
Sassoon and his constituents: The Duchess' Birthday: Royal Academy does Fairly well: The Queen and Paisley shawl.
(Special Air-Mall Service)
PRINCE'S PEDIGREE
STOCK.
London, Aug. 9 Following the announcement in the London "Dally Telegraph" ten days ago of the decision of the Prince of Wales to give up his farm in Nottinghamshire."I am now able to state that the sale has been fixed for September. 25.
There will be thirty-five head of stock to come under the ham- mer. Many are winners of high distinctions in the show ring dur- ing the past year or two.
The sires are a particularly should noticeable crowd. What
buyers especially is the nteract
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sor "Great Fürk, and partly at her
town house in Piccadilly. There were special presents from her two daughters, Princess Elizabeth and
Princess Margaret.
The Duchess motored from
Windsor to London with the Duke in time for lunch. It is possible that she may travel to Scotland to-night.
LATE HOURS AT THE
ACADEMY
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1933
WILL FRANCE GO S'HAI SWIMMERS RETURN OF MR.
OFF GOLD? COMING HERE T. V. SOONG
Slump In Dollar And Sterling
Paris, Aug. 28. The fall of sterling and the United States dollar is disquiet- ing financiers, but the consensus of opinion is that France will stick to the gold standard until she is pushed off.
ING TEAM TO MEET V.R.C.
FOREIGN Y.M.C.A. SEND. Assured
Welcome At Shanghai
Announcement By Local Club
|AT.
THE request of the Chinese
Shanghai, Aug. 28.
NEW MINISTER TO CHINA
Announcement In A Few Days
London, Aug, 28.
authorities here, the public. An announcement regarding bodies are very busy making pre- the
appointment of a parations for the welcome of Mr.
new
TAX ON SEA FOOD
Merchants Driven Out Of Business
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, Aug. 28. With the refusal of the Pr
Hong Kong is to have an in-. V. Soong, Nanking minister of Minister to China will be made terport swimming contest after finance, who will arrive here to- in a few days. No confirmation vincial Department of Finande all According to Mr. P. A. Dixon, morrow aboard the Dollar line is obtainable as regards the abolish the tax on preserved ser Hon. Secretary of the Victoria Re-steamer Fresident Jefferson from Spectator'a forecast owing to fool, merchants dealing in this creation Club, the Foreign YMCA. Seattle and Japan ports.
the Foreign Office rule of silence product have wired to their re Five hundred thousand hand until an official announcement presentatives in Shanghai, Han in Shanghal will be the guests of the V.R.C. during the first or se- bills were printed to welcome the has been made.--Renter. series of inter-club events will be of the leadets are to be distribut- cond week of October when a return of Mr. Scong, and as many held.
ed by airplanes another 500,000 are
With a gold reserve of 79.69 per cent., it is felt that France has nohing to fear from depre- ciating currencies, as the bulk of her trade is done with her own colonies. Her greatest danger lies in an unbalanced Budget and hat are members of the shangnai the success of Soong's effort in 5TH KUOMINTANG her deficit of 6,000,000,000 Amateur Swimming Association bringing about the League of Na- francs.
The Foreign YMCA, in Shang,being printed to-day. They praise
und the visit of the team to Hong tions
assistance to
technical
In view of the strong national
There are few signs of hoard-Kong is by courtesy of the Shang- China.
hai Swimming Association.
CONGRESS
Should Be Held At Canton
ing, outside the Bank of France, A. committee meeting was held opposition against the complete and business is satisfactory if not at the V.R.C. last night to discuss understanding between General the visit by the Shanghai swim-|Chiang Kai Shek, chairman of brisk.
To-day's talk between bankers mers and it was decided to hold the Nanking military commission, the local championships about and the Japanese general staff, as The Royal Academy exhibition and President Roosevelt is await a week or ten days before the conveyed to Mr. Soong aboard the closes on Monday, but not at sevened with interest.-Reuter. visit of the Northern swimmers President Jefferson, his landing at THE o'clock. On that night it will
The local championships have now Japan was kept very been definitely fixed for Septem-Central Press... contribute to the galety of London up to ten at night. This year the
fact that three of them were bred price of admission was reduced U.S. MOTOR-CAR
Clims-
at Grove Farm, while one of them was brought from Stoke land, the Prince's Duchy farm in Devonshire.
MR. JUSTICE ROCHE
Mr. Justice Roche's qualities of plain-speaking and good sports- recom- manship should be high mendation to his hosts, the Cana- dian lawyers. during his coming overseas trip. -Anything savouring of a "hush- ing-up" polley is profoundly ab
Horrent to him.
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from a shilling and sixpence to a shilling between ve and seven, and the shilling will on Monday take the visitors up to ten o'clock. The Academy would, like to re- turn to the old shilling-all-day charge, but the increased expenses of the exhibition and the repairs and decorations of their galleries and schools have so far made that impossible.
In spite of the decline in popu- lar interest in paintings the ex- hibition this year has been fairly successful There were 27 more pictures sold and £530 more paid The number sold was 274, and the sum
for them than last year.
received for them 10,890. Unlike every other exhibition I can think of there is no commission charged
CODE
Ford Co. Not To
• Participate
Hyde Park, New York,
Aug. 26. The United States motor-car industry Code represents a com promise with Ford Motors, who are not participating. It provides $5 to 48 hour week and a minimum wage of 40 to 43 cents
ber 25-28 includve
A
secret.-
CONFERENCE AT NANKING
It is understood that the Foreign. Y.M.CA is coming down here with, representative contingent of swimmers; the team will consist practically of all the members re- presenting Shanghai at the forth- coming interport between Kode and Shanghai. It is expected that all the "crack" swimmers of
Nanking, Aug. 28. The Chinese press this morning Bhanghai will "be" sent down to Hong Kong to compete with the reports that an important confer The meeting of the VR.C.ence is being held in Nanking after and the Foreign YMCA will be Mr. T. V. Soong's return to China tantamount to an interport "be- The papers add that before com tween the two cities as Shanghaling to the capital, Mr. Soong will are sending the strongest pos- first visit General Chiang Kai-shek sibie team down, while the rat Kuling to report on the outcome represent the cream of the Colony's of his mission. Reuter. swimming talent.
V.R.Č.
The sprint events will include the 50 yards, the 100 yards, the 220,
At Liverpool Assizes. he strong ly protested against certain being wrapped up 1л. charges vague language Instead of the ilcity and a fear of being found which is usually overlooked by facts being plainly stated. Pub-by the Academy on sales, a fact! per hour. Price-fixing is "not- and the 440. There will be no half i
holds to be great deter-critics. of that institution.
out he rents.
"I
He might have retired from the Bench last October but, like sever- THE "OLD. SHAWL al other judges of similar service. has preferred to remain in harn-
ess.
BORROWED. FINERY
mentioned...
Manufacturers are permitted to hire. promote or pay-off their workers on merits, regardless of their affiliation with any organ-
A propos of Mr. A. C. R. Car-isation. This provision is ac ter's article on Queen Mary's fair as a collector, I was told the story of a taxidriver to whom it meant
a great deal
After a spell of illness he took an old shawl to an antique dealer, who promised to do his best to sell it.
I was amused to see an essentl
article of adornment ally male decking a lady's hat at luncheon. It was double-ended white
Sure enough the Queen telephon- evening dress tie, used as the rib-ed that she wished to see some bon for a dark blue hat. The
Chinese porcelain. The shawi was result was rather pleasing.
thrown over a case. NEW YACHT IFINS KING'S
CUP
rj
cepted by the employees' repre- sentatives on the understanding that it does not infringe the col lective bargaining clause, and with the reservation that its in clusion in any other Code be op- posed.
Fifteen million of the nation's 40,000,000 workers are how work-
mile race but possibly a medly - ADMINISTRATION lay race will be included. There will be the
Usual Water Polo OF KWANGTUNG match, and
races, whille diving, breast stroke and back stroke racing will form a feature
team
of the programme.
kow, Tientsin and elsewhere ad vising them not to ship these goods to Canton after September
1.
The new tax as assigned
which a firm of tax "farmers collects on behalf of the govern ment imposes a levy of 40 per cent. on all preserved sea food. This impost is deemed too heavy, as poor business has driven about fifty firms into involuntary liqui Canton, Aug. 28. dation resulting in the unemploye All-China National Salvament of over one thousand-per- tion Association "at "Shanghai sons. issued a circular telegram to the nation advocating that the Fifth Kuomintang National Congress sugar, should be held at Canton where a kindred edibles have signed revolutionary government should joint petition for the removal of be established to carry out the high this tax, pointing out that mer aims and ideals of the national
chants of preserved sea food have revolution.
perialists and
About twenty guilds dealing in fruits and preserved
The Chiang Kai Shek govern-to pay in addition several transis ment in Nanking is denouriced in dues.
The tax farmers' have paidų no uncertain terms for betraying the country to the Japanese Im- be established to carry out the high
to the Provincial Department of Finance 8383,000 as the franchise- militarists. The National Salvation Association right to collect this impost from enumerates the following state the preserved sea food merchante offenses committed -by | Nanking · government: "(1) Fal- lure to recover lost territory, (8) Suffer the enemy to come south GENERAL SUN TO
the
of the Great Wall, (3) concluding SM armistice, with the enemy jealous of the laurels won by the anti-Japanese forces. (4) Please
the Japanese av entering into an
entente, (5) embezzlement 01.
funds remitted for national salva-
tion, (8) securing the American wheat and cotton loan, (7) ousting, Feng Yu Hsiang from his anti-
In the 50 yards race, the VRc.Now Placed On Sound Japanese campaign, (8) forming
will probably be represented by Lawrence and Gittins with E.B. da Roza a very likely starter. In the
Footing
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100 yards also Lawrence and Gittins will probably, do duty for Hong Kong. In the longer races (From Our Special Correspondenti Lionel Roza-Pereira will be the local mainstay, while Hector Re-
to
the bear medios will have
Canton, Aug. 28."· Administration of the interior brunt of the breast stroke event. In the back stroke the VRC in of Kwangtung is placed on a tries are now
self-governed, good man in G. J. Smith. under Federal supervision."...
a Chinese Fascist party, (9) accept- ing the service, of Li Chi Chuż,
As
RETIRE
Does Not Desire Government Post
Feking, Aug. 28 Sun Liang-chen, an ally of Gen
Chahar adventure, arrived this morning and is staying here for few days before proceeding Tientsin, where he will retire.
(10) organize bandits into peaceeral Feng Yu-hsiang in his recent preserving.corps and (11) encour- age the enemy, to occupy Dolonor Therefore the Nanking govern ment has lost its legality and esteem as a Chinese government further step, the telegram urged the Southwest leaders to call the Fifth Congress in Canton and to form a revolutionary go resistance for the recovery of lost territories. Central Fress.
Interviewed, General Sun said he had joined General Feng in order to "do his bit as & citizen China," but he now wanted to r tire into private life. He did not ment; he added.
"Where did you get that olding under a Code and 18 indus- addition to Pereira, have a very sound footing following effective ernment. in order to give effective desire any post from the Govern
that
Paisley shawl?" her Majesty ex-
Arrangements are now well in reform by the Provincial Depart- claimed, as soon as she entered the
The National Recovery Ad-hand and the V.R.C. on hearing rent of Interior, stated Mr. Lin room. "I have one exactly ke
that the Foreign Y.M.C.A. have Yih Chung, head of that Depart estimates L. Stephenson's Vel it." And on hearing the story she 'ministration Mr. W.
accepted their invitation, held a sheds, the new all-steel cutter, won quickly had the other at a hand- 2,000,000 voluntary re-employ- committee meeting last night, and ment, at the weekly memorial the King's Cup, the most import- some price.
ment agreements have been confirmed various details of the service this morning. ant race. of the year at cowes to-
competition. Fuller signed. Reuter.
particulars day.
will be announced in due course.
Te
A very gracious letter of reply Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith's Sham- to that taxi-driver's laborious note rock V. was second, and the King's of gratitude is the chief art trea- Britannia with his Majesty aboard. Sure in a very unpretentious Lon-
don home.
was third.
The King presented the cup to Mr. Stephenson
the race BODIES IN THE BANK when was finished. His Majesty sum-
Stephenson moned the Royal Yacht
Mr.
to
·
The pleasant and stately old Victoria courtyard in the middle of the and Albert, arid there made Bank of England, with its spread- the presentation. Very
soon ing tree and little fountain, dis afterwards the King visited Mr. appeared some months ago, and and Mrs. Stephenson on board the the workmen during their excava- Velsheda. He was much interested tions for the rebuilding have come
in the, new type of racing cutter, on many bodies there, for it was and went all over every part of the churchyard of St. Christopher- which was closed for the yacht, expressing admiration le-Stock,
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THE VOLUNTEER FORCES
New Commander Appointed
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Canton; Aug." 28.
GENERAL Wang Teh Lin assum-
SILVER MARKET
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Londen, August. 28. Following are the Silver Quota- tions on the London market to- day:
-
Aug. 28. Aug. 26. Spot 17 13/16 17 15/16 Forward..."1715/16 18 1/16 The London on New York cross ed the post of commander-in-rate to-day was: £1-$4.542. of her fine seaworthy construction, burials 150 years ago. Some Gor
Queen Mary's Cup was won by don rioters are said to have been chief of the volunteer forces after Col. John Gretton's Cariad. Lady amongst the last people buried in the weekly memorial service this The bodies are morning, and General Kung Hin Edith, owned by Major B. M: the churchyard. Piercy, was second, and Mr. Wal- being taken to the City Corpora- Yung was also aworn in as second tion cemetery at Ilford. In most in command of the same armies. ter Runciman's Altair was third.
The Queen twice visited the Isale cases there is no means of identi-The appointment was made by the South-west Political Council which of Wight during the day, making
Yesterday a large lead coffin is said to have promised the two a motoring tour on each occasion
generals funds to carry
on the During the afternoon" her Majesty weighing nearly three hundred drove to St. Lawrence and had tea weight was discovered at the bot-anti-Japanese campaign in Man- with Mr. Alfred Noyes, the poet, tom of a foundation wall förty churia and Jehol
feet below the ground. The body and Mrs. Noyes.
21 YEARS HYTHE'S M.P.
The freedom of Folkestone was yesterday conferred on Sir Philip
consecutive years.
fication.
..
Instead of wearing gold braided
inside is thought to have been that uniform, the two generals wore and of a man over seven feet in height. light summer. long gowns The nameplate indicates that the might have been taken as ordin-
RECAPTURE OF DOLONOR
"Fang To Launch Attack
Canton, Aug. 28.
dead man was a clerk aged thirty-ary northern gentlemen or mer-GENERAL Fang Chen We. acting
one who died about 1750. People chants."
of London to tourists, is, being
Raising their hands
commander-in-chief
the
re
To bring about an efficient administration, Mr. Lin said that his Department requires all coun-. try magistrates not to have fre- quent and prolonged leave of absence but to take periodical inspection of the counties so 08 to find out the grievances and wishes of the people.
ཝཾ་
THESE CORAL ISLANDS
Demand That France "Lay Off'
Canton, Aug. 28. THE Swatow city government sent identic telegrams to the Nun- king central. Kuomintang" and the Kuomintang South-west Executive Committee.. urging the immediate
Coral recovery of the
Islands
Meanwhile telegrams from Kalgari indicate that both Generals' 'Fade Chen-wa and Chi Hung-chang have failed to come to terms with Gam erai Sung Cheb-yuan, and are join, ing hands with Lin Kwei-tang
A Chinese telegram from Kaligan states that a subordinata of Chang Hat-peng his occupied Kuyan
caused Chi Hungchang which troops to fall back in Paochang while from the other side Gener Sung Cheb-yuan has sent troops to Found up both Fang Chen-ww and Chi Hung-chang. Thus, betwear the Chinese and Manchukuo Fines they may be dispersed and dis armed-Reuter........
FUKIEN
County magistrates are re quired to make a budget and keep a good account of all ex- penses and revenues," Mr. Lin which for years have been regard- COMMUNISTS IN said. "The amount to be spented as Chinese territory. must be approved by the county It no effort is made to reassert congress which has power to Chinese sovereignty over the is- supervise the local government. lands, the telegram said, China would lose not only maritime Doable taxation is abolished, rights but would encourage other and excessive levies are can- ambitious powers to seize
Hainan Island.
The telegram insists that the Nanking authorities should de- mand France and Japan to lay off" the Coral Islands. They are deemed near enough to Hainan an Island, and in the hands of enemy they would threaten the existence of this major Chinese
celled."!
· !
the
Americans Advised To Leave Area
Peking, Aug 283 -The United States authorities, view of the Communist entry anty North-West Fukien, have advised all American subjects in the affect ed area around Yenping to with draw to the coast. As a resu thereof, most of the American sionaries in that region arrived On the occasion of the anni-Foochow on Sunday by boat daw versary of the Birthday of Her the Min River.
Mr. Lin stated a census is being taken in each county in cluding removals and deaths. Land owners. are obliged to have their property registered with the land bureau and surveyed by government surveyors, he con- possession-Central Press. inued, and in order to command of the confidence of the people land Sassoon, Under-Secretary for Air, the offices overlooking the ex- taking the oath, Generals Wang people's anti-Japanese forces in registration does not entail any
telegraphed to the fee.. cavations saw to-day an eriormous and Kung solemnly declared their Charhar, in recognition of his "coming of black coffin shell in which the lead determination to drive out the South-west Political Council After stressing that the coun- antes do Thursday August 31, the many Conningtu, prater age" as Member of Parliament coffin was encased before being invaders from Manchuria and porting a counter-attack is!
on maining at preferring for the Hythe division. The divi- taken to the cemetery for reinter- Jehol and to recover these four now under way for the recovery ties are peaceful as a result of Consul-General will be at home to stay at their post for the pre sion includes Folkestone, and Sirment. The old tree in the garden provinces.
of Dolonor, which was twice aban- the re-organisation of the county at his residence No. 648 the Feak- sent, Philip has been its member for 21 court, which was one of the sights Naval Appointments
doned to the Japanese by the guards, Mr. Lin added that his (Mount Cameron Road, Wanchi Tenping, which is not too strong Nanking forces. Next came 'Rear-Admiral Chiang As soon as we have retaken! Department has to look after the Gap) between 11.00 am and 12.30 held, has now been reinforced Leas CHR Hall, but there was a knick-knacks for the bank officials, aye other naval officers who swore way for the recovery of Jehol, We Chinese from overseas who are
The ceremony took place at the made into boxes and frames and isi Yuan (Keung Sai Yuen) and Dolonor, my troops will bend their welfare of thousands of returned ID.m. The Consul-General asken 1,000 men of the famous XIXER
to say that ladies will be welArmy, to stem the departure from the usual custom
come.
vanoe-Reuter iri as commanding officers of the are rapidly gaining ground follow without work in consequence of of presenting the freedom scroll
three cruisera Hai Chi Shen, and ing hard on the heels of the world wide depression. in a silver casket. The scrou was
When- Shao Ho which are, now anchored enemy. However, winter begins to handed to Sir Philip by the Mayor In a solid silver inkstand, at the
of Whampao. Dressed in white make its influence left here and ever possible, these returned re
back of which was a recess to re-
summer uniform, canvas shoes and my troops still wear summer unteidents were shipped back to their armed with swords, the six naval form. We hope to have your con- native homes at the expense of ceive the "parchment..
officers took their cath of office. tinued support and assure you the Interior Department, which General Chen Teal Tong, com- that our resistance will be carried also tries to find employment for mander-in-chief of the Kwangtung on to the end."Central Press. land, sea and air forces, supervised
them in Canton or in the country, 'Lt. Cmdr. Jones, who is the son the proceedings and delivered an
Commissioner Lin asserted of Major-Gen. Lewis Jones, re-instructive. address to the six cently returned to England after naval officers, urging them to command of the Hal Chi Captain that the overseas Chinese from two years Eastern service. He is exert their best for the coastal de Kwan Chi Chow in command of Mexico were not unemployed but THE DUCHESS OF YORK 33 associated with the wireless arm of fence of the country,
the Hat Shen; Captain Yang Shao were ousted or bullied by the the Navy Lady Muriel Beckwith The six officers of the Whampoa Lu in command of the Shao Ho: Mexicans, so they come back to The Duchess of York spent her has been staying at the London squadron are: Rear Admiral Captain Hu Shin Chun, chief of
Kwangfung and are likewise 33rd birthday to-day partly at her home of her aunt, Lady Caroline Chiang Bi Yuan, commandant staff; and Commander Chang Chinken care of by his Department. country home, Royal Lodge, Wind-, Gordon Lennox.
Captain Tim Hung Hsiang in Yu, senior training officer.
..
Sir Philip referred to the associa- tion of his family with the con- stituency, extending over 37 years. His father, Sir Edward Bassoon, had represented the constituency for 16 years.
LADY MURIEL BECKWITH
the Duke of Richmond and Gor- Lady Muriel Beckwith, sister of don and of the Duchess of Nor thumberland, is to be married very quietly.to-day at Prince's-row Re- gister Office to Lt. Cmdr. L. Derek Jones, RN..
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