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The Albany, every old block of houses in the middle levels has been sold...

Puge & Warrants have been issued for the arrest of two local Chinese business men,

Page 6. Yesterday's activities on the share and exchange market are reviewed in our Money and "Mar- ket section.

Page 12 Round the Courts. a resume of the cases taken in the local Courts yesterday is given on Page 6 The current pictures at the local cinemas form the subject of com- ment in this issue.

Page 3 Echoes of 1861. extracts taken. from our files, are given on

Page e The Coroner's enquiry into the West Point gas explosion disaster was continued yesterday when. Mr. J. G. Charlton, assistant Govern- ment Marine Surveyor, threw fur- ther light on the possible cause of the accident.

TYNE COAL SHIPMENTS

London, June 19,

It was stated to-day that Tyne coal shipments have increased by nearly 750.000 tons over last year's total.-British Wireless...

decided on the proposal of the British Government, to establish a clearinghouse for Anglo-German trade in order to recover payments due on Germany's foreign debts.

President Roosevelt has ordered the State Department to inquire into the British proposal and the legal experts - have denriitely established that the United States Government has pawer "to take simallar action-Reuter. "

LOCAL AND GENERAL

One case of small-pox, two of our, are now held by the Taiyuan

rabies

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Canton, June 20. Schemes for rural improvement are reported to have been formed by General Chen Tsai Teng. Com- mander-in-Chief of the First Group Army, and Mr. Lin Yun Kai, Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government. Funds for Geneva, June 19. The session of the international this purpose are to be appropriat- enteric fever and one of Labour Congress ended on Tuesdayed both by the provincial treasury were reported for the 24 hours end-

and the 1st Group Army, afternoon in confusion. When the"

to revive the prosperity of ballot was taken on the most. imi-

Kwangtung. it is necessary 25 ·2 The many friends of the Hon. first step to ameliorate the condi- Mr. J. P. Braga will regret to hear tions of the farmers who consti- that he has been indisposed since tute over 80 per cent, of the total Sunday. Mr. Braga is suffering arst, step, investigation is. population in this province. As a from an atack of influenza.

made concerning the living condi- being

portant question under discussion, namely a forty-hour week, a criti- cal situation arose inasmuch ELS

ed on June 19.

only nine countries recorded their votes on the first clause, the rest abstaining. Poland, China, Den mark, Sweden and Norway votedtions and earnings of the peasants copy of the Chink Shipping Year We have received an advance

"Certain portions of the tax on Book, a new publication produced imported agricultural products will by

Ltd. Messrs Millington be used to assist farming. The should be of much use to all who monthly income from this tax is are interested in Shipping. about $1,800,000 per month and with the recent increase of another

land, Luxemburg against. for Article one, with England, Hol

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military authorities. It is also re- ported that Gen. Yen has recover-" ed from his indisposition.

tween the Collector of

A telephone conversation de- Karachi and a London Post Office WILS heard distinctly recently when the first test was made of the pro- posed wireless telephone service

remarkable, because the voice tra- between the two cities. This is

verses 2,000 miles of land fine, via.... Lahore, Agra, and Burat, before being sent out from the Kirkee wireless station.

A total of 31T48 coolles. 27,905 males and 3.243 females. arrived in Dairen from China during the month of May, while 12,538 coo- ea. 11,116 males and 1,420 females, left that port during the same. month, according to the local Mar- ine Bureau of the Kwangtung Government. Thus

18,412

with totals for May 1933, arrivals increased by 7,939 and departures

morc

The representatives of both wor- kers and employers also did not vote. Then it turned out that less It is a plty that the term

than the requisite two-thirds of applied that it has come to mean so that the Chairman declared it $2.000.000 per month. philanthropist has been so loosely the respresentatives were present 20 per cent, this tax will net about 16 Lyndhurst Terrace, attempted A woman, Fung Lin-po. of No,

simply one who has given large would be useless to proceed and

to end her life by jumping into the sums to this or that institution or promptly closed the meeting.

Among the schemes for the harbour from the Praya on Tues- 48 cause. For to such men as Mr.

benefit of farming are better fr-day. She was rescued by Sergeant Procter the term really applies. atives of the separate groups re-as- seeds, and

Some time later, the represent-rigation methods, improvement of Morris of the Police, and sent to

modern system of the Government Civil Hospital." He was the true philanthropist, ssembled informally when the Gov- farming. Irrigation is to be under- man who loved his fellow man

ernment delegates decided to make taken by a special bureau formed and spent much of his time and the members of other groups an each district or hsien, while International Amateur. Swimming arrived than departed. Compared

The meeting of the Hongkong proposal that the forty-hour week farming is to be undertaken by been held yesterday

the improvement of seeds and Association which was to have her notice-Transocean Kuo Min. discussion be postponed until furt-

the Bureau of Agriculture and Lane Crawford's Restaurant, was by 1,815. Forestry of the Department of unavoidably postponed to next Reconstruction,

Three aeroplanes, all light, bom- Another scheme is to prevent

bers, have been contributed to the epidemic disease to the farmers'

Mrs. M. K. Lo will be hostess, ! Japanese army in Formosa, and buffaloes. There are about 3,500,- on behalf of the Hongkong Rotary the ceremony. of commissioning 000 farming families in Kwang- Club, to 50 girls from the Indus- them has been fixed for June 21- tung, each family owing at least trial School at Fokfulam on Thurs- at Talhoku. General Iwane Mat- one buttalo. When these animals day, June 28, when an outing, has are

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HONG KONG, JUNE 21, 1834.

“THE HALF-HOLIDAY MAN"

Great men back through the ages

have left the impress of their deeds

upon the calendar. We connect a

energy in promoting the welfare

of those with whom he came in contact. And in so doing he proved to a sometimes doubting audience that his own gain lay in the broader seeing of the other fellow's viewpoint and problems.

GERMAN CHIEFS CONFER

Cabinet Crisis Averted

Berlin, June 19.

It is learned that the threatened

heart to

BRITISH NAVY VISIT

To German Port

¡Special to the flong. Kong. Dally Press? (Copyrightā)

Ktel, June 19. The first official visit of the Bri tish Navy to a German port since the World War, began on Tuesday when the second British destroyer

notilla, ave ships strong, steamed

into Swinemuende harbour amidst

Wednesday at 6 p.m.

evening at

the been arranged to Repulse Bay. big Several matsheds have been placed at the disposal of the Club for the occasion,

stricken with disease, farmers are,sure to suder losses. Hence veterinary methods have to be used to cure these animals.

HEAVY RAINS IN BRITAIN

Welcome Relief

at

in

Gen. Chiang Fo-chen. personal representative of Gen. Chiang Kai- shek, is planning to take up per- manent residence in Canton in or- der to keep in close touch with the trend of events in the south-west, according to a message from Can- ton.

sui, commander of the Formosan Garrison, will attend the ceremony. on behalf of the Minister of War. General Benjuro Hayashi. One of the planes has been contributed by students and teachers of schools throughout Formosa, and the other two by twelve sugar refining com- island. The War Danles in the office has formally announced ac-

ceptance of the gifts.

The Japanese army authorities. Gen. Chiang is now looking are optimistic over

the prospect for a residence somewhere near of reducing the expenditure for Gen. Chen Chi-tang's headquar- the maintenance of Japanese army"

in Manchukuo to a reasonable and permanent lever by 1936. The expenditure for the maintenance of the Japanese army in Manchu-ji

ters.

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HE HONG

DAILY PRESS, LTD, and the HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through

their London Office, at 53, FLEET STREET, E.C. 4, Tel. month with a Roman Emperor. We crisis in the Hitler Cabinet, caused celebrate national holidays that by the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. 3137 are prepared to give are inextricably bound up with the Goebbels, suppressing the publica the welcome strains of the orches

acts and conquests of national, tion, of a speech Subscribers and Visitors

of the Vice- tra of the German marine and heroes. But no man has been Chancellor, Captain von Papen. artillery stationed there. Large advice regarding accommoda- responsible for a greater number has been averted in a

crowds of people gathered to greet of holidays than was William į talk between Chancellor Hitler the British Lotills commander,

London, June 20, For on

every tion available, motoring faci Cooper Procter.

and Captain von Papen.

Captain Whetham and the crews

The drought has broken Nanking, June. 12-Work on the Saturday afternoon when factories The meeting is said to have been of the five destroyers,

Eritain.

construction of the roadbeds 'on lities, suitable shopping close

and the office bulidings dramatic, but it was finally agreed

There were heavy downpours in the Klangsu section of the pro- kuo in the last fiscal year was ap- empty their throngs into

the that Captain von Papen's speech, June 27 during which time a var

The visitors will remain here till the north and also the south coast. jected Nanking-Shantung Railway proximately 148,000,000, and the centres, etc.

streets those who know the history which was delivered before a select fed programme of social and athle-ed only slight showers, though of the Kiangsu Provincial Depart-timate that it will be reduced by London had hitherto experienc- will be started shortly. By order authorities at the War Office es- of the shrinking work week will circle of individuals, was unsuitedtic events will be arranged for leaden remember the former head of the for publication in the soap firm of Procter & Gambie.

skies accompanied the ment of Reconstruction, an engi- about Y.12,000,000 for the present entertainment Transocean drop in temperature of twenty neering Corps, headed by Mr. Yu fiscal year. When all communica- When as a young man Mr. Procter entered

This, apparently, is a victory for

degrees, the business that his Dr Goebbels-Reuter.

Hsien. left Chinktang, provincial tion; transportation and other There is promise of further relief capital of Kiangsu, yesterday to equipments are constructed to fact- entered in overalls and worked hia grandfather had established he

he was missing for four days, left reservoirs.

to parched gardens and emptying begin surveys.-Kuo Min.

litate the mobility of the" force, way to the directors room. Other MR. KURAMOTO DEPARTS family, aboard the Shanghai Maru, for Japan this morning with his

and, the necessity of expeditions Prolongation of the drought is The rumour of Gen. Yep Hal-against brigands becomes less with men have done the same thing.

causing grave concern in France shan's death which caused a run the rapid decrease in their num- and perhaps learned the secrets of

under an escort of four persons. where agriculture is seriously on the Shanst Provincial Govern- ber, the maintenance of Japanese their business as thoroughly as did

Shanghai, June 20. Mr. Kuramoto boarded the ves-affected. Numerous forest fires are ment Bank has died down, "ac- Willam Procter. But few have Mr. Kuramoto the Japanese sex at 7 a.m. and shut himself in reported.

ermy there is not expected to be The thermometer, in cording to the latest report from se serious a financial burden to learned so well the viewpoint of Vice-Consul at Nanking, who his cabin, refusing to see the press. Paris has broken all June records. Talyuan. Six persons, suspected the Japanese Government as is the workers.

caused a sensation last week when-Reuter.

of being responsible for the rum widely believed.

If, when at home, they will call or telephone to the above

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