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MAY 1..
Bellary
Sayere
13 anima
Banky
H.K. Banks
5o. (London)...
E14 Uhartered Banks...
Mercantile Bks.
$1,010
£320
Do. Pref. 3
Underwriters
1030
£13
Do.
214) £31
$81
Bank of East Asia....
2.31
380
N. 0. & S. Banka
$18
$1.80 Ch. Fin Corp. Ord. 9.
Am.0. Fin.Corp: 8. H
$4]
Inskraness
1215
Canton insurancee..
v.d
$916
J1
21
360/65
Unien Insurance $350
가
$400
China Firen
cd
1400
$200
H.K. Fires...\STM
$185
International Assco, S.
Shipping
..
$30
Douglases se
+381
14
Steamboat
$30
indos (pret)
Do (def.j
saft
Shells..................
Waterboata
Mining
68 ota
$34
Balatcos
21 cta.
su
Baguio Col
10 ch.
Do. Goldfield
Do Exploration
Bats.
Big Wedge ................................
7 cc
Gold Kier
3to.l
30 cts.
14.05
$35
195 ata
· 191
$33
ןכי
ظات 10
Amtamoka........... 87.
zi eta.
Benguet Consolidated] $.0
Gold Creek.
United Paracales... 2 otu.
Sulacot Mining......12 ct..
Mining...........
185 ots. One inf
30 ots
17/
#14
344
151
***
$5
16
$85
$84
39
VIL
20 cta.
***
14+
J110
Langsats (single) d.
Explorations.......
Singhai Loans 5. Rauba ................................. Venezuela Gold Flde. Docks, Wharres, „Godowns, #KE H.K.K. Wharton, (Cum. Rights)
Do. (Ex. Rights) Do.
(Rights)
Providents (old)...
Do.
H.K. & W.
S. China Motors A
Do.
"B"
Shanghai Dock S.
New Engineerings8.
$287 Hongkews. lands, Hotels, and
Buildings
$100
3201 $10
$1.85
H.K. Hotels
H.K Lands........ Du, 4% Debentures Shinghal isode...S.
Metropolit Lads..
$13 36 Tramway
$4
$30
$30
57).
14 cts.
Tota
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17,8
$11.50
$44
JA
14.20
324
196 10
95 ota
20 cis,
171
$110
14
34.LD
1351 $100
19
135
H..
$7
Chinn
$123
Do. Debenturea3.
Humphreys
New Asia Hota!
M
$75
Ana Healties "A"8.
310
Do.
590
Chinose EstatON.......
--
Cotton Mille
$8.30
Ewas .................
38.10.
10+
Star Cutulusfold)S.
$12
Du
06,8.
787 741
Lang Sungs....S.
$9.40
245
Wing On Textiles(S.) |
135
Public Utilities
313.
Pook Trams (old)....
$6
Do, (now)...
34
$80
Star Ferries
180
120
Yauma Ferries
318
China Lights
H.K. Electrica
$8.30 $80
$8.10
$231
Macau do.
319:15
...$19.20
391
(new)
*
Chins Buses....8.
474
114
10/3
Tractions
20/3
Da (pref)
Industriela
$84
Malabon Sugar...
$19
Caldbeck, (ord.)
S.
$13
Macgregors (praf.)8.
$1.80
Canton Icas
18.36
$60
$10.10
Sandakan Liglita"...
Telephones (old)
Do.
Comenta
Ropes aïur
MiscellaneouE
Dairy Farman... * ̧
Amusementa MAGNAROK
*****!
L
11.80
#67
$2
314
$14
$1.85
32
$8.40
Ch. Etainments...... $3.
$1.40
Constructions, (old)
31.40
(46 ots.)
ப8. [LOW)]35 cks
$3+
Lane Crawfords......
V
Mackintosha
18
Sinceres
$31
Watsons
JL,
Greyhounds
Nanyang Tobacco.....] #ki
70 cts. Wan, Pawella
$2
31,26 0. Enterprises....
921, Cb.G. 541925.4 Bdz. 92%
pre u
**
prem
$6
H.K, Gort, 4% Loans
Do.
31%
Wallsce Harper
$108 H.K. Wing Us
035
FALLING OUT
Whe
Vibro Pileng
Feud With Goering
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1935.
SINGAPORE FLYING CLUB
Increase In Cross-Country Flights
Singapore. May 4
THE OILY
MAN
Caught By The
Hair
Singapore, May 4, Haroon bin All, a tall, strapping Malay from Sumatra, who was the Dutch island of Rhio. A num-sentenced to six months" rigorous The month of April, was a re- Ser of joy rides were taken up at imprisonment by Mr. N.
Grice corn month for the Royal Singa Rhip, but one machine had the yesterday, has been recognised by pore Flying Club, all previous re- misfortunate to strike a submer- the police as Singapore's much- cards of hours flown by Club sirged-pipe while taxi-ing on the talked about "olly man." craft being beaten by a substan- water. one compartment of the Haroon was caught after escap- tial margin. The total number of float being punctured. Temporing from a struggle with three man houts own during the month was ary repairs were effected on the 190 hours 40 minutes. The pre-spot and the machine was flown vious highest recorded figure was back to the Club." The members that of 173 hours in November participating in this light were 1930.
Messrs. Sinclair and H. L. Carter
A
one machine, and Messrs. Cowin and Scrase in the other,
Two fights by Club land planes were made to Kuala Lumper dur
in the early hours of Mar. 30 and since then burglaries of the type that the "olly man" "has credited with have ceased.
been
He was vonvicted on a charge of The month also saw the auc-in
found wandering in Teluk Kurau cessful introduction of the Club's
between sunset and sunrise, being latest and fastest aircraft-the
a reputed thief. Three previous "Miles Hawk" landplane and also
convictions, one for housebreaking, the carrying out of the longesting the "month, one a solo fight another for fraudulent possession cross country flight yet attempt- by Mr. W. Dobree, and the other or property and a third for wan- ed by Club machines...
on Apr. 30. when Major Rdering in the dark, were proved Nunn flew to Kuala Lumpur in a lub machine ploted by Mr. E, C. to attend a meeting of the Federal Council.
Much credit for the recent steady increase in the number of hours fown is due to the enthus-Whiteley, in order lasin and energy of Mr. E C. Whiteley, the Acting (Hor.) Chier Instructor, Mr. Whiteley has act- ed in the capacity of Chief In structor since January 1935, and In view of the fact that the du- tles of this post have been car- ried out entirely voluntarily and in addition to those of his nor mal full-time employment, he is to be congratulated on the results achieved.
NEW CHIEF INSTRUCTOR The Club's newly appointed Chief Instructor, Mr. J.Sales, is now on his way out. from Eng: land, and will probably assume his duties at the end of May.
One of the most notable events of the month was "a-cross country flight by two Moth land planes
NEW MILES · HAWK" PLANE Club's new Miles Hawk land plane On Friday evening April 26, the
was tested by the Chief Instruc- tor, Mr. Whiteley, at Seletar.. and this aircraft, which is of the low wing monoplane type, was shown to funt all the claims made for it by its makers. The machine is powered by a Cirrus Hermes Mark I engine of 115 hp and is a standard "Colonial" model.
Take off (two up) was accom- plished in 80 yards. and the ma chine landed at 40 m p.h. Top speed was 125 m.p.h.' and cruising speed 100 m.ph. The machine has a range of rearly 7 hours flying, is very comfortable and quiet in the air, and
carries
MACHINE CAPSIZED Towards the end of the month
to the hill station of Brastagi in high pay-load. It Is therefore Sumatra during the Easter week-ideally suited for fast cross-coun- end. The flight was made vis try dying. Kuala Lumpur whence, after re- fuelling, a non-stop fight" was made to Medan. The night was spent at Medan, and the machines, were flown up to Brastagi the next morning.
Four Club members took part Mr, Hughes-Hallett and Mr. Cooke in one machine, and Mr. Olds and Mr. Phillips in the other. The visitors spent two days at Brasta gi, and returned by the same route on Easter Monday. total of over 32 hours flying was put in during this week-end.
ACCIDENT AT REIO Also during the Easter. "week- end an interesting fight was made by two Club seaplanes, to
against him.
The hero in the story Ls Nadaraja, a
20-year-old Straits- born Indian, who attempted to Arrest Haroon..
about midnight on Mar. 30 he was Nadaraja gave evidence that
returning home when he heard a dog barking in the compound of his house in Lorong L. Teluk Kurau Flashing his electric torch he saw a Malay, running away. He gave chase and caught up with the man who was Haroon, in the
next lang.
Wholly Naked Haroon was wholy naked and witness held him by the hair. There was a struggle, but the Malay became submissive as wit- ness gave him a sound slap.`
Two Javanese passer-by came to his assistance and when they tried wo grao haroon's arms they found them covered with oil, so they tied nis wrist with a beat.
'inen they jed him back to Nada- raja's house, but there he sudden- wrested himself free and there
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a number of formation flying practices were carried out by Club was a scurie, Nadaraja struck HEADHUNTERS' COUNTRY aircraft, in preparation for thehim over the head with his torch fly-past on Jubilee day. It 13 and the man tell, but he suddenly hoped to turn out a fight of 5e and produced an fron rod machines for this event.
During the month Mr.. Murphy and Mr. Trevor Carter both went "solo" on seaplanes and Mr. Sex- sions completed all tests for his "A" licence.
which his captors had not seen before and which it is thought he picked up from the ground.
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London, April 18. The boundary between Burma and the Chinese province of Yun- They were intimidated and ran
Gan was frst fixed by a conven away. Nadaraja made a report to
tion signed by the British and Chi- the police, but when they returned nese Governments in 1894 This (From Our Special Correspondent) One accident occurred to a sea- to the scene the prowler had dis convention was subsequently modi-
Canton, May 10. plane on the water, the machine appeared. Haroon had been carded by a later agreement known
"General" Chu Chuck Man. being, capsized. The pilot, who rying his clothes in his hands, as the Convention of 1897. Under gentleman adventurer and revolu was unhurt except for a "duck- Nadaraja declared and policemen the terms of the last. Convention a tionary leader, was killed at Shek ing." flew again in another air-searching the grounds found a Joint commission was appointed to Kea near Macao, because he form craft immediately afterwards. sun helmet, a pair of shoes, a pair modify the frontier as fixed by thetical purposes. He was the com- demarcate, and it necessary, to ed an unauthorized army for po-. and a cigarette case, Convention. In 1904 the commis-mander-in-chief of the Federated
TALKING CLOCKS SHIPPING MOVEMENTS
".
Time for Telephone Subscribers
The Ben Line 3.5. "Benarty" from Leith. Middlesbro', Antwerp London and Straits is expected to arrive here on 17th May, 1935.
..
The steam ship "Som" left Singapore for this Port on the 10th instant at 4 p.m., and is due here on the 14th instant at about 4 p.m.
Post Office engineers who have designed a "talking clock" which can give the exact time to one- tenth of a second are unable to create the perfect telephone voice, a voice which will charm the ears of subscribers who request the
The R.M.S. "Empress of Japan" correct time. It is intended as aarom Mania) is due here at 7.00 experiment to establish "talkinga.m. on the 15th May Wednesday), clocks" at telephone" exchanges in
and wül berth at Kowloon Wharf. Loudon, Manchester, and Bristol this year. When a subscriber asks for the time he will be connected to the clock, which is an arrange ment of sound film records, and will hear the time in hours, minutes, and seconds.
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The R.M.S. "Empress of Japan" will leave here for Victoria and Vancouver, B.C., via Shanghal, Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu at 3.00 p.m. on, the 17th May (Friday).
The RMS. "Empress of Russia left Yokohama on May 11, is due {'at Vancouver on May 20, leaves Vancouver on June 1, and is due at Hong Kong on June 10.
of garters which he fight.
45
had dropped in his
alon reached agreement over the National Salvation Army, which greater portion of the frontier, but has been active in the Sze Yap Identification Parade Two days later, at 5 a.m., de-falled to agree over a section about (Kongmoon) district for some teclaves saw Haroon, dressed in country inhabited or infested by
200 miles in length near or in the time. smart clothes riding in a ricksha the Wa people, a savage tribe who sufficient evidence to convict Chu. An official claims that there is in Outram Road.They arrested him collect human heads. and found $40 in his possession.
Later, Nadaraja and the twi identication parada at the sta Javanese "picked him out of an
tion,
The Scolt Line
He was arrested by troops in Shek Kee, but Chu attempted to escape The British Government inform- by scaling a walk A sentry on ed the Chinese Government that duty shot and killed Chu before on the unfixed section of the he could escape. It is -charged' Hardou denying
the charge, frontier they would provisionally that Chu had allled himself with cross examined
at observe a line called the Scott Une, bandits with the object of creat- the witness langth, but the magistrate found after Sir George Scott, one of the ing trouble to the authorities. that the identification parades original commissioners This line conducted by Inspector Such had includes most of the Wa country. been satisfactory and recorded a conviction,
ч
KING MAKER
say that Mr. Roosevelt might never It would be no exaggeration to have become President without Mr. Louis Howe, reports bf whose serious illness at Washington have distressed friends in England.
Small, nassuming and sun.
- Discovery of the "general's "ac-
tivities was made here when a The westernmost line claimed duz- local tailor shop was manufactur- ing the negotiations of. 1894-97 |is||ing 10,000 badges for the Federat- known as the Liuchen line, and ined National Balvation Army, Then terects the Wa country in a man- the military authorities in Shek ner that is most Inconvenient to Kee also made investigation. Chu the would-be administratör. in- then wrote to the police here ad- proachable during the rainy sea- but denied that it was for an eldentally the Was are unap-mitting the formation of his army son, which lasts from May to Octo- legitimate purpose
ber.
Situation Unchanged
Canton Leper Hospital" Mayor Liu Chi Wen is searching.. Until 1933 the situation remain for a site near the city limits for
Experiments have shown that a woman's voice is the most suitable for the purpose, and the Post Office proposes to hold a competi-
tidly dressed that he night be ed unchanged, but in 1933-34 a the establishment of a leper hos- tion throughout England to find
mistaken for one of the White party of British geologists, protect pital Accompanied by Dr. Teng 55 cte. the ideal voice to reply to the telephone subscriber's request for
House gardeners. Mr. Howe hased by Burman police, investigated Tsens Tak Municipal Commission- $1.35
the time. The success of the ex
been the President's most intimate some old nines to the Wa couner of Public Health, Mayor Liu periment will determine the use of
adviser, and has lived with the y. They did not cross the visited an island near Nam Bhek talking clocks" in Scotland,
Lluchen line, but after their visit Tau and other nearby places. A Roosevelts as one of the family. Wales, and Northern Ireland, and voices suitable for these countries selected for the second stage. At
Their collaboration began when Chinese irregular troops or bandits leper hospital near Canton 19 -a distinction that does not al- deemed necessary by the muni- will be selected after the experience this point the telephone operators
Mr. Howe was working as a news- paper correspondent at Albany. Aa ways imply difference-crossed cipal authorities in view of the gained in England.
who have successfully passed the More than 15,000 Post Office first stage will be judged by a
Boon as Mr. Roosevelt entered the the Scott line, and after some fact that this disease is curable in telephonists will be eligible for committee comprising two members New York State legislature Mr. skirmishes were repelled by the its preliminary stages,
Burma police. the competition, which, in view of of the public, representing both Howe recognised him as the coming
or retired. His The Provincial Department of the fact that telephonists are sexes. Again, in order that only man in American politics: When Majesty's Government protested Civil Affairs is contemplating to The feud between Gen. Goering already selected for the high the voice shall influence the deci- Mr. Roosevelt became President last summer against this violation open a leper hospital in Kooming, and Herr Himmler is of long quality of their speech, will be exsion of the judges, the tests will Wilson's Assistant Secretary to the of the frontier, and suggested Holhow and Swatow. A plan for standing. It seemed to have been coptionally keen.
take place over telephone lines, Navy, be took Mr. Howe with him that a joint commission under a the establishment of these hos- healed
and the three "best voices" · will THE JUDGING
to Washington., 57
neutral chairman should finally pitals has been mapped out. Himmler to his nex office of Chief seven successful competitors con of the competition. The centres. be selected in each telephone dis Goering himself introduced Herr Frizes will be offered to the first trict for entry into the third stage struck down by paralysis, Mr. Rowe Government have agreed, and it is After conferring with General
Anti-Red Plan In 1921, when the President was delimit the frontier The Chinese of the Interior, and Dr. Mueller, of the German Secret Police. sisting of 10 guineas for the "ideal for this tee will be Loods. Man never left his side and spent all his hoped that the commission will be Lung Yun, Chairman of the Yun- the Primate, to the growing list of Yet before long the General was voice, 5 guiness for second place, chester, Birmingham, Bristol, and
time ensuring that the invalid did able to start work this autumn, nan Provincial Government, Gen- leading Nazis with whom he ta nn reported to be protesting against und five prizes of guiness each London. The test at this stage will not lose touch with current affairs. Ils object will be to determine the eral Hsieh Yoh, commanding om- bad terms.
being shadowed by Herr Himmler's to the runners up The judging consist of both speech over a tele
exact course of the boundary fixed cer of Nanking troops in Kwel of the voices will proceed by phone line and appearance before
His Greatest Adventure In 1897, and to recommend to the chow, left Yunnanfu on May 8 for Frequent attempts have been men.. made to Iron out these differences,
Recently Gen. Goering found it elimination in four stages, and, as the judging committee, which will
Mr. Howe was largely responsible Covernments concerned such modi- Ma Lung. A concrete plan has necessary to issue a pointed public the "talking clocks" will work include two members of the public. for starting the Preadent's vast ficatioms or the existing line as been formed with regard to future but with only temporary success.
reminder that he alone had the be conducted over the telephone. in London, and the voices will be future: electors all over the United territories or villages.
from sound records, the tests will The final test will be carried out personal correspondence with may prevent the division of tribal Last month Gen. von Blomberg right of making appointments to In the first stage of the competi- recorded on a sound Bloo similar States. gave a "beer evening.” Herr
the Prussian Secret Police. Himmler was his guest of honour.
tion, the claimants will be judged to that to be used on the "talking a martyr to ill-health himself, Herr Himmler, who is head of by. & committed consisting of tele-clocks." To ensure that these Now the
two are at variance the Secret: Police throughout the phone supervisors and telephons voices are not rejected through he realised the gallant fight Mr. again over the arrest of the rest of Germany, has a certain operators selected by the staff sny technical fault in the record tremendous physical odds.
Roosevelt was making against greatest adventure of which I could pastors, against which the Defence physical resemblance to Felix themselves, particularly severog, the finalists will appear before Minister was one of the Arst to Dzerzhinsky, creator of the Bol test. The best voice from each the committee and will take part Not long ago he confessed to a that man in the White
hundred competitors will be in a viva voce test.
Herr Himmler's action in order ing the wholesale arrest of pastors has added Dr. Frick, the Minister
protest:
year ago, when Gen.
ahevik Cheki //
friend:
decided that the
think would be to help to put
plan of suppressing the Com- munists. All the Reds are now driven out of Yunnan thanks to the efforts of the Hanking troops and provincial forces
The Reds are now in Southern Szechuen, but government forces are movinge down, to intercept the Communist banditä..
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