Wireless programme on Page 1. Naval appointments and promo- tians received by special air mail appear on Page &
Home Featball appears on Page
Berlin, Nov. 29. Germany has put the fight against habitual criminials "on a 10.
Sancian Pilgrimage, further de- modern basis in the new law pro- mulgated to-day. Under its pro-tails of which, appears co Pago T. of 80- Echoes of 1850 appear on Page vision dangerous enemies clety with long criminal records 6.
At Kowloon Magistracy yester- two distinct trials, will undergo the actual criminal proceedings day, a Seppy faced the charge of being preceded by a hearing be-sealing "a watch from a shop in "He Was fore a special "security court in 25, Shanghai Street.
experts will found guilty and convicted, but in testify to the mental and physical view of his clean record for the conditions of the defendant and last three years, he was given the Page 6. recommend social, as opposed to option of a fine.
The need for more trees along criminal, action to be taken.
Beven possibilities await the Prince Edward Road forms the habitual criminals who undergo subject of an article by nur Kow-
well as loon correspondent to-day. this new physical as
Pare 19. mental investigation, which cases of inherited defects will also include exhaustive blood tests:
which
medical
At a meeting of the Football As- sociations Council yesterday, the selection committee for the inter-
(1) commitment to a sanatorium or asylum, (2) commitment to in- port match with Shanghai was ap-
of pointed. Details on Page 10. stitutes for rehabilitation
The return of cases for Novem alcoholics or reformatories, (3)
John Ambulance.. commitment to a work-house, (4) her of the St. ordinary imprisonment, (5) ster-New Territory Benevolent Branch
of the criminal will be found on Page 7 lization in case being a dangerous breaker "of moral laws, (6) disbarment from the practice of his profession, (7) banishment from the country.
The law specifies special war. rant for hearing the malefactors before the "security court" and re- quires all defendants to have both legal and medical representations.
-Transocean,'
Steel FINANCIAL SAYINGS OF
THE WEEK
must improved 1 point to 35, Ger-
man Mineral oil rose 2.5 points to
108. Siemens and Halske jumped 2.
Lpoints to 142.5.
Call money stood at from 4 3/8 to 5 1/2 per cent.-Transocean.
Sir Cecil Hurst, Great Britain, has been elected' President and vice- Doctor Gustavo Guerrero President of the Fermanent Court RESTRICTION OF RUBBER
of International Justice
at the Hague. They hold office for three years from January 1st, 1934, to December 31st, 1936.
Bir Cecil Hurst was "formerly legal adviser to the Foreign Office" and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In 1929 he was elected Judge of the Perman- ent Court of International Justice to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lord Finlay.-British Wireless.
LONDON STOCK MARKET-
London, December 4. Sterling on New York 5.17, on Paris, 844.
.
Gold 124/8d, a premum of 344. The Stock Market conditions remain quiet.:
War Loan 3% 100:1/16. German Bonds dull. loans unaltered.
French
4
GROWING
Special Air-Mail Service
London, November 15. It is quite certain that if the American experiments fall we shall
SIR S. HOARE HONOURED
"Progenitor Of A Reunited India"
Special Air-Mail Service
London, November 15. Bir Hari Singh Gour, who has been for some years leader of the principal Opposition. Party in the Legislative Assembly, gave a dinner to fellow delegates and members
receive a great deal of the back of the Joint Select Committee at
wash on this side of the Atlantic. -Mr. Runciman.
Currency has been described as To Be Discussed By Supremeter to regard it as the very axle. a lubricant of industry, but I pre-
Council.
Batavia, Dec. 4.
An extraordinary meeting of the Netherlands East Indies Supreme Council will discuss rubber re- striction when it meets on Dec. 7, but no communication will be supplied-Reuter.
REGENT'S DAUGHTER.
First Javanese Woman Barrister
邝
Medan, Nov. 8. The first Javanese woman to qualify as a barrister has arrived back in Batavia from Holand. She is Raden Adjeng Maria Ultah Kamirs Mohamed Achmad. She is also inclined to be Weak-British | the first Javanese woman to go
through Wireless.
a university career in Holland.
Raden Adjeng is a daughter of the Regens of Kimingan. -
Trans-Atlanties steady.
THEIR MAJESTIES AT
SANDRINGHAM -
В
are
London, December 4.1 Their Majesties the King and week at Queen are spending Sandringham, -where they being joined by the Duke and Duchess of York and the Duke of Gloucester. Her Majesty has now completely recovered from her re- cent cold-British Wireless.
the Peak to take up residence in INDO-JAPANESE
Kowloon, just to prove to Kow- loon residents that their
corner is not entirely forgotten so far as the officials are concern-
NEGOTIATIONS
ed. Or, if not one of the Secre-Government of India
Takes Firm Stand
tarles, then why not a residence
In the old days when Kowloon was undeveloped and when prac- foreign tically the whole of the population of Kowloon was “quar-' tered" in the vicinity of Taif- Sha Tsui, it was appropriate for the Kowloon Magistrate, thus [enough but now that Kowloon has insuring that a Benior Offcial is
advanced so considerably it is on the spot in any, eventuality. about time a change was made. The site on the hill is very fine with its outlook over the Harbour and it does seem a pity that no more appropriate use is being made of it
FJJ
We hear of Kowloon and its rapid development almost daily. More and more dwelling houses..
on
appears
are being put up, and everywhere the mainland. development. RAFT Programmes and Entry Dorm for the Fifteenth
to be the password. Extra Booo Meeting to be held on There are a multitude of shops SATURDAY, 16 DECEMBER, 1933 (whather permitting), may be obtained and restaurants and even the of theatres are increasing
It would be hard to find a more appropriate site for the "Oficial Bungalow than that on which now stands the Water Police Station and the Police Stallon could be moved either to the pre- sent Kowloon Magistracy, or, as an alternative, perhaps a small
occupied by the Railway might be section of the vast territory now
handed over
"We are quite aware that sugges- tions come very easily to the arm- the Secretary's Office, Gloucester number of t Building, the Club House, Happy
chair critic and that it is entirely Valley, the Hong Kong Club the steadily. What is most important. another matter to put them into Sports Club, and the Stables, Shan | however, is the spread of business effect. But we trust, when the Kwong Road.
A NEW ALLOY.
Perfected in Japan'
It is not the banks which are,
small
businesses-lf strangling
they are being squeezed out of existence it is by their larger and more powerful rivals-Mr. F. L. Biand (president, Institute Bankers),
Grosvenor House, Park Lane, on Wednesday to meet the Secretary... of State for India and Lady Maud Hoare.
Sir Hari Singh Gour said that upon which the wheels of indus-
Sir Samuel Hoare had cast a spell try turn.—Mr. H. C. Allen (chair-upon all the delegates from India. man, B.A. Great Southern Rail- and his name would go down la history as the progenitor of a re- way).
united India; he was bringing British India and the India of the States together after generations. of separation. Under his profong- ed examination by the Joint Select Committee he had maintained a composure and self-mastery which had been linked with resourceful- ness and a readiness to give and take even upon matters upon which one might have thought he would be adamant, They greatly admir- ed the spirit of all-round fair play which he had shown,
of
It is pruning rather than elabo- ration that the Companies Act needs.-Mr. Herbert W. Jordan.
Successful industry, and the em- ployment which it, gives, both de- pend, not upon Governments, but -upon the continual exercise of the business gentus of employers.--Mr. P. D. Leake,
We, who have so much at stake there, believe that as soon as com- modity prices reach a more normal level, Argentina will be one of the first countries to show a substan- tial recovery.—Mr. Follett Holt
Questions of peace and war can- not be settled until there has been a settlement of the economic and financial warfare which goes one day by day between nations.—Mr. Lansbury.
India is being reduced to bank- ruptcy by the stubborn prejudice which still persists in attempting to link her good sliver rupee to the now uncertain paper pound of Great Britain.-Sir Montagu Webb. I have no personal hesitation in saying that I shall not regard the DI British Government as in default.
-President Roosevelt.
Iwaki, Japan, November 20. Tokyo. After twenty-two years efforts Professor Takeo Kitazawa of Waseda University has success fully completed the combining steel and copper in & larger ratio than hithertol The
process
|
Before leaving India he (the speaker) had said that the White Paper was rightly named because there was so little in It; but now be called it the Brown -Paper be-
was the pro- · cause he found it duct of close and careful study. The amount of thought which had been put into the White Paper could only be judged by those who examined It point by point and paid due regard to the dependence of its various parts" upon each other,
Sir Samuel Hoare expressed his "gratification that a leader of the Opposition in the Legislative AS- should be entertaining sembly that eveninig one who ought to re- present, in the Opposition view, almost all the iniquities in the Opposition view, almost all the iniquities in the Indian Adminis tration.If the precedent were followed they might next week and
ing Mr. MacDonald? (Laugh-
ter and cheers.) As one who had been in Opposition during by far the greater part of the quarter of a century he had been in Parliament he appreciated the compliment pald him by one of the principal Oppo- sition figures of the great sister assembly at Delhi and Simla,
attempts to create a steel-copper Unless the indiscriminate deve- Mr. Lansbury similarly entertain- alloy, with more than three per lopment of machinery is checked cent, steel have practically been the revolution of the future will be abandoned throughout the world directed not against governments, as impossible. The new alloy will but against the tyranny of the And extendive use in the metal-machine-Bir Giles Gilbert Scott. Jurgical industry and ordinance It is no use shutting our eyes to
that the alloy is almost twice as stances which made the capitalist strong as gun-metal, while the system successful in the last cen- cost will be one-third-Rengo tury are no longer the same to Imperial Service.
day. Mr. Oliver Stanley.
manufacture. Experiments show the fact that some of the circum-
LOCAL AND GENERAL
New Delhi, December 4, The Indo-Japanese negotiations have reached their final stage. The Indian delegation gave a detailed reply to the Japanese. It is understood the India Government made slight concessions but took a Arm attitude, declaring that f Japan" did "hot accept the terms
Two cases of enteric were re the negotiations would conclude ported during the 4 hours ended without results. The Japanese December 3. intimated the necessary to con- sult Tokyo, but the India Govern- ment la preparing for eventuali ties if the Japanese Government is unable to accept the final terms.
Reuter!
COLD WEATHER IN ENGLAND
London, December 4.
The .. "Andre, Lebon" will sail. for Marseilles via ports of call on Tuesday the oth instant at noon instead of 4 p.m. as advertised.
He was sure that they in India and we here should show to the world in these days of changing conditions our adherence to the view that representative, Pariia- mentary institutions were much better than those quick remedies' of dictatorship which were being adopted in other directions. The existence of a strong Opposition was a vital feature of Parliamen tary government. He believed it was always a mistake for an Op- position to abdicate and embark on a programme of non-cooperation. The Opposition should remain in The girls' of the Bolilios Public Parliament and make their criti-
clams felt there a far more effec School are presenting play a December 18, entitled The Journey tive way of, promoting their alms of the Westerg Paradies." which than to make dramatic gestures of is taken from episodes from a abdication, Chinese legend
A meeting of the Legislative Council (Finance Committes) will be held on Thursday, December 7, nt 2.30 p.m.
After stealing 17 gramophone records from his father's house.
With respect to his examination about six months ago, Ng Ping
by the Joint Select Committee, he kwan, 20 failed to return. He was The wedding was solemnised on could say that he had done his arrested during the week-end and Saturday afternoon at the Kowloon best to put his views before his was charged before Mr. Balfour Union Church, with the Rev. Dr. Indian friends. For his part he at the Central Police Court yea E. E Allen officiating, of William knew their minds much better terday Detective-sergeant Me Humble, son of Mr and Mrs. John than when they first came over to every assistance he could in Bootland, and, Nors daughter of each other much better than be covering the records. Defendant's the late Mr. R Mackintosh, and tore they met and had become father, Ng Chak Ping, compradore Mrs Mackintosh of Clan-y-mor, very good friends with each other, was present in Court A fine of Durtown, Scotland The brideg- The Aga Khan proposed the 875 or six weeks' geol in default, room an electrical enginest of health of Sir Hari Singh Gour and was imposed.
the Shing Mun Water Schemes Miss Gour
Entries close at 18 o'clock NOON Kowloon, for not only are there authorities next cast contem- England has experienced a cold Robbie said defendant rendered Wilson, of Hill View, Vonnybridge, this country. They understood
on THUESDAY, 7TH DECEMBER, motor garages, wharves and go
1933.
By Order.
1024]
B. BROWN,
Secretary,
downs and some of the biggest factories in the Colony, but the mainland also boasts the biggest hotel in the Colony and also a
plative glances in the direction of Kowloon, they will notice how choice is that hill, and that one
ponakangitiative ER of their number will take a pro- prietory interest in it
week-end with aniow in many places, notably Wales and Devon, Present conditong an expected to continue with Increased sever ity for some days British Wire
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