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An account of the Brokers Foot

ball Match

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A fire occurred in Kennedy Town yesterday morning

BYRD'S

ADMIRAL

EXPEDITION

ister Frick and passed in all three 44 Members In Grave

Peril

readings by a single vote, unani mously members indicating assent by standing. According to the 'pro- It was an errand of mercy visions of independent representa- which so nearly cost Dr. Robertson tion all German states are abolish-

Bay of Whales, He has served as his life. He was taking his house ed, the entire sovereignty rights of

Antarctic, January 31. Counsellor at Rome, Tokyo, Berne, boy's stx year old son to be vac-separate provinces being transfer- Cairo, Stockholme

"Forty-four members of 'Admiral and Peking einated when the bandits block-red to the Reich's Government. Byrd's expedition are in peril of and has been Consul-General aaded his sedan's passage with a Separate State legislatures are their lives and are grimly striving Munich and at Tangiers,

wheel-barrow, clubbed and threw dissolved and all the remaining to save the food supplies which out his chauffeur and sped off. machinery of the government is di- are threatened by the collapsing

When interviewed Dr. Robert-rectly subordinated to the central ice, N son a stout muscular six-footer, Berlin administration. This has

A wide crevasse has opened be- described how he fought furiously been accomplished by entrustingtween the unloading depot to overpower his assailants. He the Home Minister with direct con- the camp, a mile and a half away. showed his coat which the first trol over the State Governors or The dissolution of the ice cover- bullet cleared not touching him so-called Statthalter's appointed ing the bay, on which the camp One desperado was just rearing last year by Adolf Hitler himself. is situated, is rapidly increasing, when the doctor defected his gun The Home Minister is empowered extremely leopardising the safety with the result that the man shot then put into operation by a single

to draft the new constitution and of the men.-Reuter. his own hand and cried with pain, proclamation. This law for Reichs thereupon his comrade put an i

|APPEAL TO THE

LEAGUE

No Resistance By. Great Britain

01

London, January 30, automatic to doctor Robertson's reconstruction" went into effect on Questioned in the House

head and pulled the trigger. The Tuesday afternoon at the moment Commons. to-night regarding the doctor heard a click but happily or the acceptance by the Reichs- political situation in Austria the the gun ha Jammed, angrily the tag-Transocean Kuo Min. Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Anthony man wrenched his watch from its Eden, said the Austrian Minister chain and took wallet from his convince themselves

recently informed the Foreign despatch case. All this occurred that the Secretary of the representations while the car was going at full: debts were neither just nor pay-made by the Austrian Government speed along the bumpy road. able. There has been too much at Berlin in which the possibili-obstruction, however, caused the emphasis on the impossibility of ty was mentioned of an eventual car to slow down and Dr. Robert- took this opportunity and

Som

An

making transfers and too little at: /appeal by Austria to the League yanked out the house boy's terri-

tention to possibilities. Again, it was for caster to say that they would cancel their own claims 4.9 States would in turn remit their debts than it was to remember that the United States had no

London Office: 53, Fleet Street. creditors if the United

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The Daily Press.

of Nationa

"So far as he knew, no reply had yet been made by the German Government to these representa- tions and no further statement could therefore be made at pre- sent.

Further questioned as to the rumour that the British Govern- creditors ment had discouraged the Aus- from whom it could ask release-trian Government from bringing except its own taxpayers.

the matter before League Coun ell, Mr. Eden said: "I have heard There was little intelligent effort that rumour and am glad to take on either side to reach an ad-This opportunity of stating that justment. Endeavours that should-British Wireless.

there is no truth in it whatever." have revolved round diplomatic Are the war debts dead? Judg- negotiation exploded dangerously

HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 1. 1934. “

ARE WAR, DEBTS DEAD?

not intended

ments, or lack of payments, have for home consumption, were tar received, it would seem so. Of more effective

hardening

ת.

ing by the attention, or lack of in public debate. And the argu- Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in attention. the December 15 payments, even when the Company will be held at the Company's Town 06ce, Lower Albert Road, on Tuesday 20th February, 1934, at 11 A.M. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts, declaring & Dividend and re-electing Directors and Auditors.

to 20th February, 1934, both days inclu-

sive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

J. D. THOMSON,.

Secretary, Hong Kong, 30th January, 1934,

PUBLIC AUCTION,

(2194

$152,952,637 due to the United opinion at home than in winning States $8,898,123, or about 5 cents concessions abroad. Neither alde сл the dollar.. was collected. seemed willing to explore ways -France, Poland. Estonia and Bel-for overcoming

transfer

debts.

to

In

the

IRW

SILK INDUSTRY IN KWANGTUNG

Campaign For Its Revival

→

cam-

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Canton, January 1. Preparations for another paign to boost the silk industry are being made with the expec- tation that better results will be achieved than by previous move- ments.

Led son from the front seat open- ed the door and jumped out. Dr. Robertson received several power- ful blows, but beyond a pain in his Jaw he is unhurt.

Dr. Robertson served in the R.A.MC from 1914-1921; he was wounded in the Great War, was

Awarded the Military Cross and Science Department of the Dr. was head of "the Pathological Henry Lester Institute-Reuter,

A-WARNING TO INDIA

Sugar Tariffs Must Be Made Lower

London, January 30.

The possibility that Holland wili Open Door, policy in the Dutch be compelled to reconsider hei East Indies was envisaged by the

Minister, Mynheer

Dutch

Yan

Is

and

safety of the men was conveyed The first appréhension for the

in a wireless message from Ad- miral Byrd, received in New York, on Sunday. The message stated that the men were

marooned in camp as a consequence of the dis-" integration of an ice-shelf cover- ing the bay. The temperature was then only a little below freez-" ing point.

The flagship of the expedition was drafting and unable to berth..

BRITISH EXCHANGE

FUND,

£350,000, 000 Still" Intact

悲

London, January 31, Swinderen, at a meeting in Lon-mons to the exchange equalisation Referring in the House of Com- don to-day.

Holland's shier grievance

fund, the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain pur. pose was "to correct temporary fluctuations in the exchange value of sterling.

CRAKLE TO RACE at the high tarit imposed by again emphasised that its

NO MORE

the Indian Government agains sugar imports, and the Minister hinted at a possible change of policy when moving & vote of Thanks to Heer de Wilde, the Chier of the Juridical Section of the read

Found Suffering from Dutch Colonial Office, who

Heart Trouble

London, January 30.

It had not been used to create an artificial value for sterling for the purpose of returning to the

2 paper on Dutch policy in the gold standard, or for any other East Indies.

purpose, and as there was a good The Dutch Minister sald

deal of misunderstanding on this the Indian tarifi

matter, he added that it would walls against be, in his opinion, ineffective if

that

anyone

fi

so used.

sugar were so high that It is announced that Crakle, the who tried to jump them was the winner of the Grand National jumping to death.

Replying to a question, he said in 1931, is to be scratched from He dwelt on

that the £350,000,000 was still in the prejudicial the fund.-British Wirelesa. all engagements, including the effect of the Indian Government's 1934 Grand National, owing to policy on the Netherlands Indles. heart trouble.

sugar industry, and appealed for The Veterinary Surgeon says recognition of the mutual bene- that if Grakle runs he is very like-fts of trade between India ly to drop dead.--Reuter.

the Dutch colony-Reuter.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

and

One case of typhoid has been re-of ported in the Colony for the 24 Gents 82.00; Ladies, $1; including Cheero Band. Admission: hours ended January 30.

light refreshments,

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BRITISH TRADE IMPROVES

Slow But Sure Progress

in

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 9th February8lum omitted to send a sou, Great hurdle. Debtors ignored the pos- Britain and several others reduced

sibilities of paying in even the modest token payments | materials. from undeveloped re- of June 15. "And there is every glons over a long period or by indication that this kind of buying up. American securities "revision" will proceed rapidly to-held by their own nationals. And ward complete extinction of the Americans continued to go on the The campaign is "directed by assumption that they had a mort Mr. Lam Wan Koy, Acting "Com- missioner of Reconstruction, and Any purpose to make adjust-gage on so much gold which they assisted by the chief of the Bilk ments seems to be extinct already. I could foreclose at any time, and Improvement Bureau, the head of A year ago, France talked about took no account of the fact that the Bureau of Testing Raw Silk, "suspension" of payments, and in by raising a tariff barrier against the Kwanglung Silk Improvement. Institute, professors of the Sun June London was planning nego- the debtors' goods they were Yat Sen University and the Chung tlations with Washington. Since virtually refusing "payment.

Hot Agricultural School

London, January 31. then France has ceased

The result can be satisfactory

The government authorities re-

The view was expressed by the- cognize that silk is the main in- There will be no dinner dance PAR

DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS euphemize default and Britain has to neither debtor nor creditors.

Secretary of the Department of dustry of Kwangtung and that un- in the Roof Garden Chinese Res-the University Christian Associa-night, that the slow but steady The Annual social gathering of Overseas Trade, Col. Colville, last of the Sale by Public Auction

without result. negotiated

Opportunities for to be held on MONDAY, the 5TA

adjustments less this, trade is tevived, the re-taurant on February 2, 1934. Day of FEBRUARY, 1934, at 3 p.m., at America there seems to have been which at one time would have turn of prosperity will be delayed.

tion yesterday the pavilion on the recovery shown by the British the Offices of the Pablic Works Depart a default of opinion, indeed, of made both sides appear generous The pour demand for silk from

The Hon. Mr. A, E, Wood will University ground drew a large iron and steel industry during the abroad has brought about finan- distribute the prizes at the annual pleasant time was spent by all in than a sudden spurt, Both pig-

number of graduates and a very last year was ment, by Order of H Excellency

have been last. Terday the United cial stringency in commercial cir-speech day at Queen's College on tennis and other games arranged iron and steel

more encouraging THE GOVERNOR, of One Løt of CROWN

public interest. Perhaps when ...LAND At Mount Cameron in Congress meets there may be some States have acquired the reputa- cles.

Friday, February 9; at 11 am.

Improvement for the occasion, the Colony of Bong Kong, for attempt to revive the old make tion of a hard creditor, while from

Lasting three days, the cam

production for the whole year ap- "-term of 75 years, with the option of

proached 50 per cent. paign will be launched on February The Annual Oxford and Cam- -renewal at a Crown Roat to be fond by them-pay chorus. But on the the western side of the Atlantic 14 which is Chinese New Year bridge Cricket match in Hongkong.

On Monday next at 9 pm Dr..

The recent revival in shipbuild the Barreror of His Mar Tu Ko, whole the United States is drift many a former ally looks like a Day. There will be propaganda is being held this afternoon at the Reichelt will give the last lecture ing is especially marked, on the for one further terms of 75 years,

ing into "cancellation" with hard-lippery debtor.

squads lecturing to people in the H.K.CO. Members and their of his series on Buddhism. Instead Clyde and the consequent demand for raw materials for hulls and ly a ripple of protest.

the friends are invited to tea on the of the subject originally announced, In the circumstances it may be principal streets, articles in

vernacular Press, and illustrated ground

he will continue with that of the machinery were signifcant. Cancellation may not seem the well not to play up the defaults posters, and slogans pasted

third lecture, "Buddhist and Chris- Bo also was the well sustained correct word, because the remis-partial or entire-of December

The annual speech day of St. tian Viewpoints ou Some Funda progress in the motor trade. He street corners. The picture thea Paul's College will take place on mental Religious Ideas," and will thought Industry's confidence in sion appears involuntary.

Yet it 15, but defaults they remain tres and the radio broadcasting Friday, February 8, at 9 p.m. at deal, among other topics, with the its own future was shown by its is in large measure the result of About.

station will be utilized to further the College when Bir Henry Pal- ideas of Creation and Nirvana. only compensation

the cause

plans for extensions in plans and of silk improvement lock, will distribute the certificates American policy. The attempt to offered by the whole war debt movement.

improvement in practice. At 7.30 p.m. there will be a concert,

New material produced last year- collect in full,, was neither wise debacle is the possibility that it

Owing to adverse weather condi- such as heat resisting steels and nor just, and for some years has will have taught everyone con of warfare--and certainly has not Hongkong Women's International the air yesterday morning (January treatment Indicated that Britain tions it was found impossible to new methods of furnace control, The business meeting of the drop Safety First pamphlets from as well as new methods of heat been palpably impossible. Yet it fcerned how not to treat such made easier other matters in Club will be held on Tuesday, Fe- 31st).. became a political creed in the matters. The hardened opinions which international cooperation is bruary 6, at the Club Rooms, Chung

was still in the forefront in the Weather, permitting, pamphlets matter of steel technique. United States. It refused to re- caused by the insistence of the essential, as disarmament. and the Tin Building, 1st floor at 5.15 p.m.will be dropped by aeroplane (by though some difference of view. cognize either the economic dim- United States upon debt payments settling of questions like the Sanrior to the meeting tea will be Courtesy of the Far East Aviation was shown on the point by mem culties of transfer or the unger-in full and the intransigeance of Basin and Danzig. If the nations served.

Co., Ltd.) from the air between 7.15 bers of the industry Col Colville suaded public opinion of the certain debtor nations must be could learn from it that states

a.m. and 8.15 am, on Friday, Fe. expressed A dance will be held in aid of bruary 2nd and again between 7.15 seem best that the Government the view it - would considered as a trump card in the manship must take the place of Lane Crawford's Restaurant, Ex- February 3rd. Drivers of motorganisation plans at this stage be- the M.OL (Police Branch) at am and 8.15 am on Saturday, should not participate in reor On the other side the debtors hand of Mars-though that delty drifting, the price would not be change Building, on to-morrow 2, vehicles are requested to drive with yond the tariff help already given. have been much too ready to would be amazed at our methods too high.

at pm. Dance music by kiadneen extreme caution, at these times.

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