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LONDON NOTES
By The Air Mail
LATE NIGHT
CABLES
The following cables were re- ceived on Saturday night through Reuter's Agency:- London Forecast of the American
Market
Unlike its much younger sister, the O.V.D.S., the A.D.C. has al- ways followed the Elizabethan tradition. No actresses ever tread open steady on a belief that there"
Summer Quarters..
(From A Correspondents
London; Jan. 16 Mamina The title of Pasha" (Ist Class) conferred upon. Sir John Oadman by the Emir Abdullah is now ob- solete in Turkey, the land of itsita etage origin. $1,020
It is retained, however, in some
Sir William Birdwood will, I £15 of what were once the Arab pro-
vinces of the old Ottoman Empire. Lepe, find Deal Castle, of which Pashas' sons are Bays. But the he has been made Captain, a more title is not hereditary. A Pasha's comfortable residence than did bis dignity, however, is further assur-redecessor, Lord Allenby, when he was Captain from 1995 to 1926. ed by his being addressed as Ex-
At a regimental dinner last year cellency.
Lord Allenby remarked breezily on its discomforts:
£31
B13
| 31,525
s d
lex div. £1308
12108
2311-
se (London) ... Chartered Banks ... Mercantile Bks. "A"
£13
Do.
Bank of East Asia...
$90
N. U. & S. Barks
Am. 0. Fin.Corp: D.
$1.80
Ch. Fin. Corp.yrd. S.
Do. Fruf.
Insurances
Canton SUICON,
980
3180
Underwriters
31.36
Union LauraLIGER ...
3491
$492
Cuina Fires..................... 5470
$490
H.K. Firess......
3820
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International Assos, 5:
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Shipping
Steamboat Stats
330
Indos (pref.)
33.4
Do. (def.)
01/3
Shelle
$120
Waterboats
Mining
82 ots
Bajatcos
$1.30
$39
$295
23 212ct
34.95
34. 5
$20.10
$4,92)
Douglases 1391
Aintatacks ............................
39 ata. Baguio Gobl
118
$14) Bengoet Consolidated
₤10 ot.
Do. Exploration"
Do. Goldield
10 ats. Big Wodge..........
38
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16 at
01
42 óta.
doid kavernamen Gold Creek........................... United Faracales ... Salacot Mining..... Ipo Mining......... Itogons
Kalans
Langkata (single) d.
.
$7. $30
$35
52/.
$12,
becaune
No Official Immunity Sir William Jowitt's revelation
Kent is sometimes described as Mr. Winston the Garden of England; but at that both he and Churchill, uiter they
Deal Castle there was nothing be- Cabinet Ministers, "found their in-
tween us and all the winds that come tax returna more closely scrublow, except Cologna Cathedral, tinises than ever before, does not and that was not every effective. surprise me.
The authorities refused to stop the draught or to instal central heating. so I packed up.
mmunity from official regula tious is not customarily extended to the great in this country.
For instance, all members of the Royal Family have to have pass ports, with the exception of the Dots, King and Queen.
41 cte $13 20 ats,
H
11 ets.
Issuing His Own Passport Lord Curzon, Foreign Secretary, issued a passport to himself. Mr. Harold Nicolson, who was then his Secretary, on their Private
Con- Lausanne journey to the ference took charge of the party's
33 ole. passports, desiring to solve a pro-
I imagine that Sir William Birdwood as Master of Peter- house, Cambridge, will mainly use Deal Castle during the Long Vaca
tion.
In any case he is not likely to be deterred by a..
little discomfort. When he became Master of Peter- house in 1813 ho used to indulge in a before-breakfast swim every morning.
He was then 87.
5
To School in England?
Cotton: Cotton is expected to
will be an increased demand in the United States, after the Gold Clause decision, without a price advance, since the disappearance of the premium on distant options has encouraged the exhaustion of stocks.
Wheat: Wheat is also expected to be steady.
Rubber: Rubber is anticipated to open lower in sympathy with Lon- don.
New York Cable Stock: Opening mixed and light. Cotton: Cotton market continues to be only a trading affair, March liquidation being
absorbed by pricefixing.
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Ordinance, Curzon distinct possibility that the Arch-graphic Massages Lord namely, whether
Hedwig, the Received, February 36, 480 p.m.) made out a passport for himself duchess Charlotte
child of the late Bx- It was there all right-We, seventh
Saarbruecken, Feb. 16. George Nathaniel," and then his Emperor Karl and the ex-Empress
The chief of the Saar police, name written again in the blank Zita, may come to England · in
ferm of Major Hennessy, whose office formally expires on the date of the Star'a "reincorporation to the Reich, is leaving the Saar ter-
18/9
315
Explorations...
16
Shanghai Loans
.
19/ 515
16
$7.50
Kauba........................
$7.70
15
Venezuels Gold Fida. | 32.75
Docks, WharYES,
$118
H.K. & K. Wharros.
3111
Providente (old) ... $1.30
#30 cta
Do. (new) ... 10 cts,
$114
H.K. & W. bocka
$11
S. China Motors A
Do.
"B"
$6.80
Godowns, ets.
$120 Shanghai Docks S.
$209
60
3101 322
New Engineeringsö,
Hongtewa§.
Lands, Hotels, and
Buildings
H.K. Hotele - $4.83
H.K Lands.........8. Do. 4% Debentures
Shanghai Lands...S.
$19.2 Metropolitan Lands.. $5.10
H.K. Realties......... $4.65
30.80 China Do S. 1123 Do. Deboutares5.
110
Humphreys $.60 New Asia Hotel
Asia Realtion "A"S. -"B" 8. Do.
Chinese Estates......
Cotton Mill
S' Cottons(old)S.
Tramways**********] $20,20)
PIPERELT
$115 36
345
1
$100
317
193
Ewos
S.
174
$40 89.30
Do. *
(new)S
Zoong dings..
200
Wing On Textiles(3.)
38.10 $74 $44) $9.40 $51
Public Utilities
684
Posk Trame (old) ... 18
$6
Do.
(new)...
$94
Star Ferries
$94) Jox div.
$32
Yaumati Ferries
$211
$10.10
10.10/13
Do.
(new)...
$704
HE Electrica
$701.
$25
Macao do.
12
$20
28 7
$101
(now)
$10.30
S.
18%
1
China Lights (old).......| #10.10| $10,16]
Sandakan Lights ....... Telephones (old)
Do.
$12.40 China Buses
7/3 Tractions..................
Do. (praf.).......
" Industrials
sg! Malabon Segars s...
$31 Caldbeck, (onds. $194 Macgregor (pret.)8.
Canton Ice Cements
13.8) Hopes
*********$2.05 $2.07 $2.04
$21 $2.05
Miscellaneous
3334
Dairy Factor
Der A Wiuga.q|
$185
Amusements .............
$7+
Uk. Etainment...... $8.15
$1.70
TH
49 ota.
'38
Constructions, (old) $34
Do.
(now) 50 cts.
Lane Crawfords......
Mackintoshe *********
Nanyang Tobacco... $4.70
70 Gia: Wm, Pavells...
144
...
12.90
$31
$231
33
80":
Sinceresisinya :eb
Watsons
$4.30
32
M. Greyhounds.
$1.35
S. U. Enterprises
$1.3
United Thestras ....... 8.
89",
Ch.G.671925G.Bda.
11.8. Govt. 4% Loans 81%
prera
prem
3%
Do.84%
Wallace Harper
$105
K. Wing On
5104
B'ha D
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Vibro Pileng
CHINESE FILMS FOR MOSCOW
At International Exhibition
Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
"Press" (Copyright)♫ MP
95
International Motion Picture E- hibition there as China's, dele- gates.
Six of the best. Chinese moving pictures including "The Fisher- man's Song." "Two Sisters" and "The Highway will be taken to Moscow for screening.
to
The three delegates came Nanking yesterday, specially to receive instructions from the Central Publicity Committee in connection with their fortheom-
space.
Mr. Nicolson was amused at this evidence of what he calls "official Narcissism."
Tea-Time Propaganda Sir Hilton Young's conversion of the tearoom of the House of Commons into an exhibition of plans and photographs of modern, Hats, in connection with the Hous- ing Bill, is not an innovation Such opportunities for
pro paganda, however, have seldom heen taken advantage of by Minis-
the near future.
It is intended that she should spend a term at a school in Sussex. The Archduchess, who will be 14
on March 1, speaks excellent, Eng-ritory to-day. In a communique. lish, ia musical, and appears to given to the Press prior to his have inherited her mother's good departure, Hennessy directs" an looks.
attack on his former colleague,
If the project, matures she will be the first member of the Hapsburg Imperial family to visit this country since" pre-war days.
The Archduke Otto hoped to go up to Oxford, but his presence in this country was frowned on in certain official quarters Instead The exhibition, which will be onto went to Louvain, which is quite view on the reassembly of Parlia- close to his home at Steenockerzeel." Bent, will have its programme changed after a week.
ters.
con
Members who wish for a larger display will find it in the ference-room of the Ministry of Health.
A Bull's Eye
Helmburger, the director
0: the Interior, whom be charges of complicity in" the abortive putsch on the part of a small section of the Saar police. Hennessy is not mincing matters and frankly states 'that Heim- burger had close relations with the beaten Saar separatists with whom be (Reimburger) frequently' met. Incidentally, the Archduchess This resulted in clashes between Charlotte Hedwig's list of Chris him and Helmburger and although tian names (eleven in number), is Charlotte Hedwig Frances Joseph Maria Antoinette Roberta Pis
21 Christian Names
he (Hennessy) furnished the Su- preme Plebiscite Court with
were
There will be shown plans and Anne Ignatia Marc d'Aviano. proof of Heimburger's complicity, models of working-class fats,
But they pale into insignificance the proceedings instituted which will enable them to study beside those of her brothers and suspended at the behest of high- the type of housing development sisters the Archduke Otto (17), the placed quarters. which under the bill will play Arch-duchess Adelaide (21), the Hennessy says he was leaving large part in the attack on over Archduke Felix (17), the Archduke the Saar because his position had crowding:
Robert and the Archduke Rudolf, become untenable. He wanted to (16), and the Archduke Karl leave some time ago but because Ludwig (14).
he had been informed of certain I do not find in the entertaining Even her youngest sister, the efforts to get rid of him" he had pages of Bishop Knox's reminis conces, published this morning, bas 12 zames, and the list no other choice but to remain test any mention of a sensation includes with the words, "et omnes which he figured while a don. at sancti" ("and all saints"), which gives her zn overwhelming majority over her brothers and
Oxford...
The late Sir Walter Congreve, Y.C,. of the Rifle, Brigade, when an undergraduate, saw the future Bishop, then Junior Proctor, in the quad. On a sudden impulse he took up an airgun, fired at Mr.
Archduchess Elizabeth Charlotte,
sisters,
"Twixt Cup and Lip
someone should indulge in criti- cism on his attitude.
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G.O.M. OF BRITISH SHIPBUILDING
Remarkable Career Of Sir George Hunter
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Some of Sir George Hunter's greatest work was in connection with
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Jan. 28: For more than 60 years Bir George B. Hunter, DSc., born in Sunderland in 1845, has been a notable figure in. British shipbuild ing. and as such he has been one of the most versatile personalities
ever known.
the industry has Some of the outstanding features in the career of this grand old.
Hennessy concluded by saying that before leaving the Saar he man are related in "The Man Who felt it incumbent on him to make Built the Mauretania, Wilfrid it known that the task of a neutral, Rutherford (Hillside Press, Lon It has taken nine years, I see, police officer was greatly facilitat don is 6d net). for the New York Metropolitan ed by the overwhelming discipline Museum to reap the benefit of the and fine love of
order which
the construction of the Mauretania, hence the title of this book; but, characteristic of a man of true talent, Sir George is the first, to admit that he was but one
of the 8000 men responsible for this great Atlantic steamer.
Sir George Hunter's own views on the matter are contained in the following letter received by the Editor of "The Glasgow Herald:—
Knox from his window, and scored vast bequest made to it in 1925 by the people had proved and whom cess of a man like Sir George Hun- book The Man Who Built the
a bull, on his mortar-board
Mr. Knox was furious, and the
Mr. Frank A. Munsey, the news he had the honour to serve at the paper proprietor,
offender was sent down He ro-
that time the provisional turned no more until long after-
value of the estate was between wards-ho-was-elected-an-bonorary fellow of his college. This was
£6,000,000 and £10,000,000. Of that surely an unparalleled distinction only a little over £200,000 was left for
an erstwhile delinquent of private "beneficiaries. The re- sidue was intended for the deep dye..
Metropolitan Museum.
!!
The fall in American securities
The King and, the A. D.. C. The King's interest in the Cam-is "strikingly shown in the dis- Bridge A.D.C.-ahown by his mes parity between the former estimate ange of goodwill on the opening of and the sum now actually received its new theatre is inherited from by the museum-in the neighbour-
hood of £2,000,000, his father.
When King Edward went to Cambridge the club founded by Sir Francis Burnand was seven years old and in little favour with I the dons.
The Prince, however, took aush pleasure in its programmes then confined to farces and extravagan zas-that the AD.O. emerged into fuller, if not complete, academie recognition
After going down the Prince be eame its honorary president, and presided over its silver jubilee din ner at Cambridge in 1880.
INCREASE IN REVENUE
The Sincerest "Form
Mr. Munsey was always anxious to learn the latest methods of journalistio technique. Once while in London he had an appointment with Lord Northcliffe.
He duly called, and found him in bed surrounded by secretaries, to whom he was dictating.
The American magnate was 90 impressed by the spectacle that immediately on his return to his hotel he undressed, went to bed,. and summoned his own astonished secretariat to work
time of its greatest affliction, Transocean Kun Min.
CANTON NEWS ITEMS
In a foreword to this volume Lord Kirkley states that the suc ter, in spite of early struggles and the vicissitudes through which the shipbuilding Industry has passed in the course of the past 50 years. shout have a heartening in uence upon all who are about to embark on an industrial career.
Crowded Career
With reference to the greatly exaggerated but clevery written Mauretania, those who know me will know that I have no part or responsibility in its publication. The Mauretania, is one of the most successful ships that has ever been built and I am glad to be one of the 8000 men who but her. But If any man more than others is to This book is at once a story of receive credit for that success It is an exceedingly active career and of the late Mr. Andrew Laing, C.RE. the part it has played in develop- of the Wallsend Slipway and Ex ing the shipbuilding and marine gineering Company, the builders of engineering industries of the her propelling machinery North-East Coast. It is the career. But in spite of that "The Man ed by the Inspector General of not only of a shipbuilder, Sir Who Bulit the Mauretania" does George has always been a man of show, without exaggeration, that it wide interests, and the volume has is men of the type of Sir George also something to say of his work Hunter who have made the British in New York City. Shipments of as a social reformer a philan- shipbuilding industry the greatest this monthly to China by whatever thropist, and an economist, way will be confiscated by the cus toms authorities
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, Feb...15. The Canton Customs is instruct
Customs m Nanking to ban the monthly known as "China To-day which is published by Communists
“China To-day" gives a descrip usual and caused much suffering tion of the reported success of the to the people in those northern re- Communist movement in China in-gions. The weather has become cluding the military "victories" moderate and fine since Wednes over the government troops. The day...! policies of the Nanking Govern- ment are criticized. The object of the magazine is to arouse English- speaking people in the cause of Communiam in China. Several books written by British and Ame- rican writers extolling the same cause are also prohibited by the Customs from coming into Canton of the Pelping or anywhere in China N
$2,128,000 including 8929,000 for passenger fare, $1,115,000 for freight and $82,000 from mis- cellaneous charges, according to the Report submitted to the Ministry of Railways,
Railways Receiptsy for last month
Improved
Snow In Northern Kwangtung
in the world;
MAX BAER WINS ON POINTS
San Francisco, Feb; 16. Shek Fel Observatory.
Max -Baer, world - heavyweight The new Municipal Observatory, boxing champion, easily outpoint- at Shek Pel on the eastern outed Stanley Poreda, of New Jersey, skirts of Canton has been just to-day, in a four-round charity completed and will begin function bout in which the champion stak- ing on March 15 after an opening ed his title, a ceremony to be performed by Baer interspersed clowning with Mayor Liu Chi Wen The cost of serious fighting and badly punish- constructing the observatory led Poreda about $50,000, the building being Reuter
four stories high.
At present Canton: receives wea
ther reports from the Royal Ob-fitical, Council who is laid up in his servatory In Hong Kong, Such re-home in Plum Blossom Village. Tungshan is much better to-day ports may not have a direct bear,
The can receive callers Includ February 6 to ing on Canton owing to the difter He is medicany advised
vere white ence of geographical posit
eral inches local observatory will iss
paper men he ve phoor high Eight poor ple, several warnings: during cows and pigs were frozen to months for the benefit of I déath;
and the boat popule
Hales-Fu Chen-Reco My Hsiao Fu Chen
was also encouraging totalling Snow fell on February 10 in more than $1,188,000 Compared towns in Northern Kwangtung with the correspondent month of and mercury was registered below the previous year, the figures 30 degrees Fahrenheit. The cold ing visit to Soviet Russia They [Special to the "Hong Kong Daily show an increase of over $360,000, weather set in from
nsported 10. The mour The amount of cereal later entertained by Bár! Why Nanking Feb 9. were
Press" (Copyright).] on the western section of the line with snow biling
Nanking, Feb. 9. Miss Butterfly Wu,, the noted Shao Yuan-chung, chairman of movie actress, Mr. Chow Chien- the Committee. Mr. Lo Chia-lun
While business in general is de yan, Business Manager of the president of the Central Univer- Star Motion Picture Co. and Mr. sity and Dr. T. T. LI, Director of pressed, the Tiensin-Fukow Rall Tao Poh-sun, of the United China the Intelligence and Publicity way did a thriving business last Motion Picture Co., will leave Bureau of the Waichiaopu- shortly for Mrscow to attend the Uhina United Pren (by Mail)
month The earnings of the ine in January totalled over
between Factom Land provincial capital of Bulyuan creased to 48,000 tons in against 50,000 tons on the en line in December last China United Preas (by Maul)
Tuen, Finng Anck, Lok The bitter cold was some
spokesman of the Bo
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