The death occurred yesterday morning at the Kowloon Hospital of Mr. Edward Lawrence Stain- feld, clerk and usher of the Su-
Berlin, Jan. 31 preme Court. The late
Discussions over the Stainfield had
Transfer- been in indifferent health for problem between Reichsbank and some time, and was on Monday representatives of British
Naples, Jan. 31. admitted to the Kowloon Hospital. American interests were concluded
motor car containing an His condition' however did not on Wednesday. The parties agreed officer of the Japanese Calavary. of Col. Sakamotio of Tokio, and three depend other Japanese officers, who were on an improvement of interna-travelling to Naples, had the mis-is tional trade.
fortune to overturn. The cause of the accident still remains *n- known, and
the occupants were slightly wounded but the Duke of resenzano who was passing by In his car, assisted them and took them
to hospital Transocean Kuo Min.
Improve and he passed yesterday morning from pneumonia.
nway acute
that any German
from had
Mr. Steinfeld comes old local family, and
been for a long time in Government service. "In 1907 he joined the clerical star of the Post Office and in 1917 was transferred clerk and usher to the Supreme Court. He remained on the staf of the Court from that time, be- coming head bailift in 1927.-
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Mr. -Staindeld. Is survived by his widow and one daughter, to whom the deepest sympathy of the community is extended. The funeral takes place this afternoon.
final arrangement external debts
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A meeting of representatives of all short and long-term creditors will take place at Berlin beginning of April to discuss and stipulate Anal settlement for the payment a German debts.
GERMANS WHO ENGRATED
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Home Football News Page 10. The Cricket Match Botween the Oxford and Cambridge Societies
reported on Page 10. Local Hockey.. Cinema Diary
Page. 10.
Page 3. Diary of Local Events Page 3. Broadcasting Programme Page 4 A Review of British Railways
Page 13 Special Supplement of Women's Fashions
Page 2 and 3. Our Scottish Air Mail Letter
Pago 1,
ANTI-VACCINATION SOCIETIES,
All Dissolved In Germany
Reichsbank requested to con- tinue until end of June the special arrangements made previously with Dutch and Swiss Creditors giving at the same time the under- taking that the April negotiations will be conducted on the principles that no preference could be given to any creditor country. As an
Berlin, January. 31. equivalent the Golddiskontbank | The Prussian Minister Goering
first An Old China Hand will accept during the
$ has ordered the listing of all, per- months of 1934 all scrips issued to sons who emigrated with the countries with whom no special advent of the present government arrangement have been made pre- with a view to their repatriation. The death occurred yesterday vlously, at a discount of 85 per All those emigrants, desirous of morning at S. Francis Hotel of cunt. Instead of 50 per cent. as returning are requested to" state
Berlin, February 1. Captain A.B.W. Bramwell. a well-heretofore-Transocean Kua Min. their present whereabouts,
All anti-vaccination organisa known, igure on the China Coast.
the tians in Prussia, including medt- reasons for their sojourn outside cal associations which, are against the German frontiers, as well as vaccination, have been dissolved their former adherence to a polt-by General tical party. All statements to be Prussian Premiet.
Hermann Goering. handed in before February 15th, anti-vaccination activities. 1934.-Transocean Kuo Min.
are forbidden and exemption cer- tlicates will be granted only im extreme cases under doctor's orders-Rester.
Fifty-six years of age, the late Captain Arthur Bayley Worthing- ton Bramwell" was a native of Bath, Somersetshire. and served his early apprenticeship days un- der the Shaw. Savill & Albion Company. Amongst the Aeet of sailing vessels in which he served were the Westland, Mayfield, and Glenora. E
was to the last named, a barque after. securing his certificate, that he was ap- painted Third Officer.
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ANCIENT TOWN DISCOVERED
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NATIONAL UNITY.
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Berlin, January 31.
In a speech broadcasted all-over. Germany, the Home Minister Frick indicated the task of building up a new strong national state as 24 historical necessity for replacing the old system of Federal States, A SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT
thus giving a visible form to an old existing desire of all Germans for complete national [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Reviewing the
unity. German history Press" (Copyright.)1
Naples, Jan. 31," During" some excavation work in the region of Cape Spartivento in Sardinia, there has been found, what is believed to be à Roman town, Bitia. Particulars have been At the age of 21. Captain Bram-found of a sanctuary similar to the well came out to China to join one already found in the town of the Indo-China Steam Naviga- Nova, and also statues of the god tion Company of which Messrs. Bes-Transocean Kuo Min. Jardine, Matheson Co., Ltd., are" the Agents. He was Second Officer on the Loongsang (which was later wrecked in ex-
Hongkong Harbour in the typhoon of 1925). was transferred to the Amara, and upon
old J.S. promotion to First Officer, served successively the old Kumsang and the Kwongsang. the Tingsang, when he left here. He was master of
in November, 1913, to join the The keystone of the "Memoran-Tientsin Taku Bar Tug and Light-
er Company, Limited, dum, however, lies in the realiza-position he then took up, he had tion that parity in arms must be charge of all the tugs and light-
ers belonging to his Company.
STAINFIELD-On Thuraday 1st wide
February, at the Kowloon Hos
from the last
There
pital after a short illness, Ed-perience gained ward Lawrence Stainfield. aged discussions shows to be out of the 44 уедия, Funeral cortege will question for the present, pass the Monument at 5 p.m. to ny. (Sydney and Melbourne papers please copy),
Editorial and Business Office: 1
Ice House Street. Tel. 30261
Tel. 94511.
must be a mutual give and take
if success is to spring froin the Conference.
the Company to issue a duplicate Night Editor (Wanchai Office) an accepted precept if the Con- London Office: 83, Fleet Street, ference is not to turn out so much
Share Certificate in respect of Certi- Acate No 16159 for 10 shares Nos. 17640/76412 registered in the name of IP BEING FONG, the original of which has been declared lost.
Notice is hereby 'given that if within 14 days hereof no claim or representa tion is made to the . the original certificate for the said shares eball he deemed CANCELLED nad of NO EFFECT and that the Co. will then proceed to
deal with anch application.
GIBE, LIVING TON & CO., LTD. Agents.
Hong Kong, 26th January, 193+ (2209
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HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 2, 1934.
THE BRITISH MEMO. RANDUM
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wasted endeavour. Equality in armaments is a question that ap- piles; in particular to Germany's Case and It will be recalled that it was on this shoal that the previous Conference was wrecked. A policy that could subscribe to a marked inferiority in arms of a major nation is anachronistle by twenty years and it is. B more hopeful augury for the success which all must hope iles ahead, that this has at last been realized. Not only is this altered view to be discerned in British opinion but it is also noticeable in French opinion, which is more, significant.
Germany's voluntary renuncia-
Coming right on the heels of Herr Hitler's reasonable" speech TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN reported in our columns yesterday that the ORDINARY YEAR through Reuter, and "Transocean GENERAL MEETING of HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LIMIT-Kuo Min, the British Memorandum tion of weapons of aggression ED will be held at the offices of sounds a more hopeful note for Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 18th day of February, 1934, at 12 o'clock Noon, to transact the ordinary businese of the Company.
the
settlement
comes us a welcome surprise and
of the vexed should go a long way towards en- questions of parity in arms and listing the cooperation of France, an eventual lowering in the scale with whom security plays such a
armaments of ¡¡
for
individual prominent part in the dictation of AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER OF stages. The text of the Memoran- her foreign policy. Of still more MEMBERS of the Company will be dum is in the same tradition of Importance is the, suggestion of. CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 2nd to
British foreign polley which has the German Chancellor that non- FRIDAY, the 16th February, 1834, both days inclusive.
inspired successive Cabinets, irres-aggression. pacts of ten years By Order of the Board,
pective of party considerations, duration be entered into for the W. F. SIMMONS, ever since the war (if we agree reinforcing of existing agreements. to exclude the unfortunate blun, The only fly in the balm of pacts Hongkong, 25th January, 1934,
dering at Versailles).
is the ease with which they can
Secretary,
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the
Paris, January 31. The giant hydroplane "Southern Cross"
landed smoothly on"the African coast at Saint Louis in atlantic return fight from Natal Senegal after a successful Trans,
to Brazil. The flight lasted twenty
hours thirty six minutes.- Transocean Kuo Min.
one
GERMAN-POLISH. TRADE
Retired Last Year About a year ago. the deceased velling up" and down retired, and had been since tra
the China Coast and making -occasional visit to Hongkong. He was under- (Special to the "Hong Kong Daily stood to be in very comfortable
Press (Copyright.)] circumstances, and possessed of a genial disposition, made a host of friends, by whom he was vers well liked.
Warsaw, January 31. . The provisional German-Polish Febuary 1 Febuary 15. Negotiations still go- trade agreement due to expire on has been extended to
are expected in Warsaw to reach a satisfactory conclusion by February 15. Transocean
It is understood that the late Capt. Bramwell had a business in terest in the Ice House Streeting on
Snack Rooms.....
he met a number of friends last Kuo Min.
'Apparently in the best of health. night, and appeared at breakfast this morning as usual. On re- found dead by a "boy" sometime tirement to his госп he $15 afterwards, the circumstances in- dicating that he passed away peacefully while resting in a chair.
Mr. John Strachan
Port of Spain, Jan. 31. Mr. John Strachan, recently ap- pointed Director of Transport for Trinidad, died here to-day-Reu- Ker.
WIVES NOT WANTED
While not necessarily refuting be broken. We may sound en And No Broadcasting
Either!
Sydney. Feb. 1. The Australian Board of Control has decided to submit their new anti-bodyline rule to the Imperial Conference for adoption, 2
NEW BISHOP OF BERLIN"
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Prime
Berlin, January 31. The newly appointed
catholic Bishop of Berlin, Dr. Bares, was sworn in before the Prussian Minister Goering in his capacity as representative of the The formula of oath being in conformity with the promise of fidelity as stipulated in the Concordat between the Reich and the Vatican Trans- ocean Kuo Min.
Reichs-Statthalter.
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minister Frick closed with 2n appeal to the nation for the same Taithful support of the Leader and the Government in future as dur- ing the past year Transocean Kuo Min.
A TRAGIC MESSAGE
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Moscow February, 1:
Apparently the last wireless
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BERLIN SHARE MARKET
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Press" (Copyright,)}
Berlin, Jan. 31. .... The Share Market prices tinued rising and investors' con- con- Adence being strengthened by the ing orders from the public were Chancellor's Tuesday speech. Buy-
more numerous than for a long time past. A firmer tone from New York reinforced the tendency in Berlin. Turnover of Fixed In- terest securities market was small, the trend being not quite uniform. Call Money 41 to 57-Transocean Kuo Min.
REICHSMARK QUOTA-
TIONS
message from the ill-fated Rus- [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally
"sian 'Stratosphere baloon was pick-
ed up by a radio-fan in the neighbourhood of Coty Gumel about 1 pm on January 30. The message, which was mutilated badly, reads as follows.
Press (Copyright.)] ́
Berlin, January 31. Relchamark quotations (without guarantee).
New York Paris
"The stratosphere balloon is speaking to inform you that the balloon has got into a zone of snowstorms
Amsterdam and is covered with ice. We are in a hopeless position,
Faris Sterling...... Dollar two of my comrades are in a very bad way!"
tion.
Semi-official quarters state that the report still requires, confirina- A committee of inquiry has left for the village of Potiensky where the debris and corpses were found.
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A RETURN VISIT
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It is presumed the balloon was carried away by air currents at a
Vienna, February great height into an atmospheri-
The Hungarian Government has cally unfavourable zone.
The Government has decided that the will proceed
been notified that Doctor Dollfuss to Budapest next bodies of the three unfortunate week to
return the visit which armen shall be buried beneath the Hungarian premier, Goemboes the walls of the Kremlin, which paid to Vienna last July.Trans- is considered the greatest distinc- Ocean Kuo Min. tion which can be accorded to Russian nationals heroes.--Trans- Ocean Kuo Min.
OPPOSITION FROM SOCIALISTS
Paris, February 1. The Socialists have decided to oppose the new Government, ac cording to an official Party state- ment, This means that if the Government wins the first vote of confidence it will be by the nar- rowest margin. -
Berlin, Jan. 31.
The Socialists also declare that The Reichspresident issued a they do not admit the President decree re-introducing the confer of the Republic can impose on Par- ring of titles to merited officials llament a single alternative for and persons of "tree professions," the government of the National bestowals taking place in the name Union or the dissolution of the of the Reichspresident on pro- Chamber-Reuter, The delegates will also apply to posal of the home-minister and
1936-7. the M.C.C. for a tour in Australfat on a limited scale only. Trans-
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British aims for drastic disarm- but there are so many precedents ament, one day, it has been rightly we can cite to bear this out, considered that a certain read- However, pacta have their uses if Justment, based on the experience only
in the outrage to public gained at the last conference at opinion that infringement en- Geneva, would not only make the genders, which in the long run NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN going easier, but also by viewing does count for something.
that the FORTY-SIXTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING the situation from another ungle Buch, specific questions as the of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company would allow a fresh approach to limiting of tanka to 16 tons and will be held at the Offices of Messrs the important matters under con- land mobile guns to 115 min Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on WEDNESDAY, 21st February, 1934 alderation without forcing the metres, the cancellation of the at NOON for the purpose of receiving, delegates at the outset to en- prohibition of anti-aircraft guns the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the counter those
which and the right of all nations to year ended 31st December, 1833.
caused the breakdown of the last possess military aircraft, while The REGISTER of SHARES of the discussions. An important point they will come up for discussion Company will be CLOSED from which the document stresses is are subservient to the main points light of her present amenableness. MONDAY; 6th February, to WEDNIBDAY, 21st February, both the supreme necessity for all con- at lasue and are not likely to be in regard
obstacles
days molaire, during which period ncerned to be prepared to com-serious obstacles. transfer of shares can be registered.
promise rather than
By Order of the Board of Directors.
L. S. GREENHILL,
Secretary:
g. 27th January, 1934.
Wives will not be allowed to ac- company the Australians to Eng- land and writing for the Press and broadcasting are banned-Reuter.
Conference to de
the forthcoming
While
war clouds
Of course. Germany's return to certainly loom in the Far East, if doggedly insist on the adoption of their own the League is essential before any-is one consolation that the ritions Ideals. In this matter of com-thing really concrete can be of Europe at last seem to be promise Great Britain herself has achieved, but this we may take striving towards a settlement of [2213 shown the way in the modifica as a foregone conclusion in the their acute problems.
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE REICH
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SIR JOHN'S GOOD WISHES
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INSULL'S OFFER
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Istanbul February 1 Mr. Insull who is at present, a fugitive from American justice is said to have offered the Turkish Government the sum of 15.000,000 Turkish pounds, about £23,000, sterling, for financing a Turkish five-year plan, if he will be per mited to establish permanent re- sidence in Turkey, according to re- ports published in the local press-Transocean Kuo Min.
TARIFF WAR IMMINENT”
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London, February 1, Paris, February' i.. A Franco-British tariff: war is A congratulatory message couch- considered imminent in wer- ed in most cordial terms has been informed sircles who doubt whe addressed by the British Foreign ther France will accept Great Secretary Minister Daladier, whom' Britain's alternative demands that'' Sir John greets · 18. "a colla quotas enforced on January: 14 borator. in our joint task"
last against British imports be Sir John Simon adds he is wel-restored to their original figures. ⠀ Berlin, Jan. 31 coming the opportunity to co- In the event of France refusing t The new law for Reconstruction operate with Daladier in the in- the British Government will pro of the Reich passed during the terest of both countries as well as bably retaliate with duties on a Reichstag session of Tuesday has world peace.
number of French imports, AG been proclaimed by the Reich M Daladier has replied thank French Note on the subject is ex spresident on Wednesday-Transing Sir John in equally cordial pected to be handed in here very océan Kuo, Min,
terms Transocean Kur Min.shorts? Fansocean Kuo Min
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