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the 10th June,

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CORBETT.-On June 2, 1935, at

the Country Hospital, Shang- haf, to Mr. and Mrs, P. A. Car-

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bert (née Patricia Gilmour) Veteran Actor And

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SILBER-On June 2, 1935, at the

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ON MONDA OLOSED. PIPER On June 3, 1935, at the

THE HONG KOng Dispensary, DISPENSING DEPARTMENT,

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London. June 6. The death has occurred or Mr. George Grossmith, the veteran

author and theatrical manager, at the age of 61 years- Reuter.

Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Jane, wife of Kenneth Piper, actor,

" ร DEATHS TOFT-On May 29. 1935,

Shanghai, Captain Hans Taft,

GRENARD-VANDERSTEGEN On June 2, 1935, at the General Hospital, Shanghal, after

aged 63 years..

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long illness, Madame Marie

George Grossmith, who was the son of an equally, famous father of the same name, made his de- but at the Criterion Theatre in an operetta written by Sir W. S.

Gilbert and his father, entitled "Haste to the Wedding." He made

Grenard-Vanderstegen, in her his first hit in Morocco Bound" 58th year.

at the Shaftesbury Theatre, which he appeared ini

VON WEIMARN-On June 2, 1935, after

INVITATION TO BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT NEWS SUMMARY

PRINCESS

To Visit Germany

ab the Shanghai General Hos-"Go Bang," "The Galety Girl" and pital, Peter Petrovich von Wei- several other musical plage both marn, of Kobe, aged 56 years.

in England and America.

Не LEINUNG-On June 3, 1935, at the

was the first to introduce Paulun Hospital, Shanghai, Revue and also Cabaret entertain- Princess Juliana of Holland wil Gustav Leinung, aged 62 years.ment into England. and his name shortly arrive in Germany at the associated with many well- Invitation of the hereditary Prince The dearly deloved husband of Agan and father of Agnes and known productions, ranging from of Wied, according to the "Alge-

"The Shop GUL" Adolf Leinung.

Miss. meen Handelsblad." The object of "Our Gibbs" and "To-night's the Night the Princess' visit is said to be to NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN LAMBERT. On May 30, 1935, at

her residence No. 42, Gilstead to "Sally" "No, No "Nanette" and attend the christenme of Prince Wied's fifth son of whom she is Road. Singapore, Ruth Elleen "Princess Charming."

the godmother, which takes place Lambert, 64 years, the, dearly

on June 25.-Transocean Kão Min. beloved wife of Mr. W. Lam- bert,

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ARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be HELD at the HONGKONG HOTEL, Hong Kong on TUESDAY, the 11th June, 1935, at 11.30 .., for the purpose of receiving the Reports of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 30th April, 1995,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 1st day of June, to TUESDAY, the 11th "day of June, 1995, both days inclusive...

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capable European gentleman with capital $15,000 to take over and run for himself a coastal up-to-date, hotel, having two years standing and yielding a net profit of from $5,000/$6,000 annually. Good prospect for immediate expansion. Alternative terms may be considered, in which case applicant must furnish a minimam cash guarantee of $2,000 with the local Consul's recommenda- tion. Applicants to demamunicate through their respective Consulate, Kulangsu, Amoy, China.

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The Daily Press.

Hong Kong, JUNE 8, 1935,

PUBLIC FINANCE IN

BRITAIN

waiting

LORD LUGARD

EXPRESSED

Over Skeleton N.R.A. Programme

TWO HUNDRED EXECUTIVES

STAND FIRM

Washington, Jurie 6.

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Bitter disappointment is expressed at the skeleton N. B. A. scheme, the Executive Council of the Federation of Labour de- claring that its" adoption by Congress would "be a surrender to the opponents of National Recovery,"

Mr. William Green, the president of the American Federa- tion of Labour issued a statement asserting that since the Su- preme Court's decision at least a million wage-earners have bad their wages reduced and their hours lengthened... The council declared it will sponsor the new N. R. A. and also the copstitu- ' tional amendment.

Meanwhile two hundred executives of the American Iron and Steel Institute, virtually representing the entire steel Industry, have pledged themselves to maintain hours and wages under the N. R. A. Code, and also to preserve standards of fair competi-

This tlon and the protection of rights in collective bargaining. pledge affects 425,000 workers.

Two years' suspension of his. Certificate of Competency WELS meted out to P. Scully, first, mate of the 5... Chuên Chow, when he was brought before a Marine Court of Enquiry yesterday. Page T

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A claim of $294.20 was brought agalust, Mrs. W. E., Clark. by Mrs. Westcott trading as "Mayflower " Shop for various items unaccount- ed for by the former. Page 6.

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A tragic discovery was made at the Mongkok Police Station on Thursday night when Sergt. Ken- nedy, who was attached to the Station, was found dead in his room with a bullet wound in his head

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The latest changes and trans- fers in the Hong Kong Police Force become effective as from to-day. They are published on Page 7.

Mak Chiu, foki employed at a fruit stall in Queen's Road West was brought before Mr. W. Scho- feld yesterday, charged with:-na-" saulting L1 On Kit an unemployed fireman on May 23.

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Volunteer Orders for the week,

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A resolution extending the skele, Paclic Coast Petrol Refinery Issued by Lt. Col. E. B. L Dowbig- ton National Recovery Act organi- Agreement. aation until April, 1936, but repeal- ing all the presidential powers to prescribe, approve or enforce codes, was agreed upon, to-day by the House of Representatives and

On Colour Problem Senate and Administration leaders.

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Canton, June 7. The question whether waitresses can be employed more than twenty per cent of the entire

new educational course, the staff in a restaurant will be de- nrst non-residential for Women's cided by Mr. Lin Yick Chuna. Pro-Training in Imperial Citizenship. vincial Commissioner of Civil At-

started recently fairs, who just returned from, a teret House, Westminster. It is short holiday in his home town. His decision will be communicated to the Kuomintang South-west Executive Committee, which will adopt and espouse it.

Meanwhile the police are giving special protection to restaurants operated by women," as hooligans went into two such eating houses and assaulted the women staf. As a result of these disturbances. the women's restaurants are doing less businesa:

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LABOUR DISCUSSION

IN GENEVA

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily

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Earlier, study of the possibility of preserving labour standards through Inter-state compacts, bolstered by federal co-operation. was initiated by President Roose velt..

The agreement was cancelled be-- cause it was rendered wholly in- operative owing to the suspension of the oll code. following the Su preme Court's. N.R.A, decision- Reuter.

MODERATE RECESSION

Washington, June $. A survey of the Department of Commerce notes a moderate re- cession of bustness acalvity from the Spring peak, with indices of Congressional leaders declared the automobile and steel manu- organized by the Empire Citizen-that President Roosevelt may soon facturing Industries declining sea- ship Training Council. and its send a message to the House and sonally, while, cotton cloth produc- main purpose is to fit those women Senate advocating an increased in- tion continued to rear the low who contemplate residence oversea heritance tax with a view to rais-}·level reached at the end of April, either in administrative or domes-ing revenue and to replace the❘ and lumber production was re- tic spheres for the life, social and

NRA. as a means of distributing duced by labour troubles on the otherwise, with which they will be Income.

Pacific coast.- associated, particularly to African

Reuter. PETROL PRICES and other trophical dependencies.

New York, June 6. There is also a course for those

Retall petrol prices broke badly. who have the will, ability, and the Los Angeles area to-day, In- the means to render useful publicvolving all the major oit com- service but have, no idea of how panies in a series of reductions first to set about t

ranging from one-and-a-half, to two-and-a-half cents per gallon, of the

The formal opening was presid-

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QUASHED WINS THE OAKS

London, June 7.

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SPECIFIED STANDARDS..

Washington, June 6.

Ways and Means Committee by a vote of 19-5 ap proved the resolution to extend the skeletonised N.R.A.

Owing to the fact that some of the grounds were still in a sodden state, the league tennis programme was curtalled last evening, only three matches, being, played.

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BRITISH TRADE

Barometer Still Rising

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, May 18. Fresh evidence of the upward swing of British trade, and with it of increased employment, is given by the latest Board of Trade returns. Allowing for the Easter holidays, April's dally average of trade has made a perceptible ad- vance on the figures for: March, There were three proposals to

while compared with April last maintain the N.R.A.. principles in a codeless business world, namely: year our export figures are up by nearly £3,000,000 and our imports taxation, voluntary agreements

by over £3,500,000, The first four and inter-state, compacta.. These

months of this year have seen a emerged from a welter of sug-rise in our export and re-export gested remedies 28 subjects of official comment.

figures approaching £12,000,000 as.

The Executive Council of the compared with 1934, and our ad- verse visible trade balance has { American Federation of Labour has been reduced by £14,000,000. The The following was the result of assembled to study the inter-state increased prosperity of our trades the Oaks run to-day:-

When Mr. Neville Chamberlain Introduced his budget to the House The waltresses demand full of Commons he made manifest equality with men, declaring that the substantial improvement that they are entitled to such treated over by Bit Badli Blackett, who following the dissolution had taken place in British public ment under the laws of the Re-read a long letter of appreciation finance and in British träde. He public and the concepts of the from Lord Lugard, regretting in- was able to draw attention to the Kuomintang. fact that industrial production had Increased by about 12 per cent and exports to foreign countries by £30,000,000. He also stressed that the depressed steel industry had considerably increased Its output, and that the more prosperous new call of $1.00 per ahare haatrudes, such as that of automobile

Geneva, June 6. been made upon all members holding manufacture was still rapidly im-

Spurred on by the moving_ap- shares upon which $4.00 per share proving their position, while on the

side the revenue had peal made on Wednesday by the only has been already paid, and that finance the same will be payable to the responded to better conditions: delegation of Youthful Unemploy Baukera of the Company, Hong

This last advantage would have. ed, the Labour Conference began Keng & Shanghai Banking Corpora- heen, offset by increased expendia general discussion of the situa- tion, at Queen's Bond Central, Hong ture were it not that the chr gestion of unemployed Juvenile Kong on or before the 6th September, on national debt had been reduced workers on Thursday.

by cheap money and debt con- version. In the event, revenue so far exceeded expenditure that it was possible to apply £20.000,000 to debt redemption.

1935.

Dated 31st May, 1935, By Order of the Board of Directors, HERBERT: R. STUET,

Managing Director.

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ability to perform the ceremony, in which he hoped those facilities. for learning how best women could. use their opportunity would be made widely known in the depen- dencies oversea. It was not enough to be willing to subscribe money or to patronize institutioris for native welfare. What was needed was personal and friendly contact, moré especially with the home life of the educated class, which was growing rapidly iq numbers and Our national colour influence. prejudice, which was so markedly absent in the Latin races, made any attempt to mix on, terms of The International Labour Office | social equality even with educated has submitted to the conference Africant distasteful to many peò- some proposals for relieving the ple, and was often discounten-. situation, the recommendation in anced by European society. Yet cluding the extension of the school he felt unless. we as a nation could leaving age, vocational training get rid of the colour feeling, we But the taxation bome by, the and advice, social service for the seriously Jeopardized our position British people to produce this re- Juvenile Jobless and the establish as a Colonial power. sult has been extremely heavy ment of voluntary labour camps,

African students, "male and And it is right to indicate a fact

Despite the modert scope of female, received so cold a reception to which the Chancellor did not these proposals, several delegates here that they preferred to go to allude that the result cannot be including the British Government France, the United States of Ame- wholly or mainly attributed to representative, advised against rica, and, he believed, increasingly elasticity of revenue arising from their acceptance and suggest to Moscow. Those who faced the greater prosperity. Apart from ed that the conference once ; atmosphere of a half-hearted and the above-mentioned advantage of more get in touch with the patronizing reception here return- cheap money, there bas been various Governments before taking, ed, as a Governor of the revenue resulting from Indirect any action in this matter.--- taxation--from the new tariffs. Transocear Kuo Mes

Mr. Chamberlain might have men-

tioned that if he was able to take sixpence off the Income tax a year ago, and restore half the economy income tax calculated to beneft cuts on salaries, he had taken some 2,250,000 persons whose in- money in other forms from pockets comes lle between £200 and £600. of consumers by new taxes on im a year. He was also able to reduce ported goods.

taxes on theatre seats.

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labour compliance plan. under shown last month was which conformation, with specified uniform, but 17 out of the 20 labour standards, would

be re- categories of manufacturing · in- quired in manufacturing goods dustry could claim a significant entering into inter-state COM- merce.

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Quashed (Jelliss) Ankaret (Fox) .............. Mesa (Johnstone) Seventeen Quashed winning by, a short head trom the Derby jockey's charge, while the third horse was a length

run in the race,

behind.

The betting was 33/1 Quashed, 100/6 Ankaret, 5/4 Mesa-

advance upon their export posl tions last year, the most striking Favouring the Thomas Oli Con-results coming from fron and steel, trel Bill, Mr. Harold Ickes, Secre- vehicles, machinery," electrical tary for the Interior, said the goods, and textiles other than measure was now undergoing re- | wool. vision in the light of the N.R.A decision. Beuter.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Only one case of rables was re- ported to the Medical Authorities for the 24 hours ended on June 6.

The forthcoming wedding is an Gold nounced of Mr. Hsu Kou Chen, Coast stated some time ago, bitter merchant, of 67, Bute Street; 1st ly antagonistic and anti-Govern-floor, Kowloon, and Miss Mary ment, They acquired

in-Martin, of the same address. feriority complex which militated against leadership of their own race or conndence and friendship with Europeans.

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AN ENTREPOT

Britain is not merely a manu; facturing country. It is an en- trepot and a shipping centre upon which the mutual trade of other nations has effects second only to the trade which these countries do For individually with Britain.

this reason the falling off of our re-export trade thay be regretted,

The sum of $111 for the Shek-elight as is its proportion to the improved figures of British exports, lung Leper Fund was realised at a bridge, whist and mak-jong after which much more than redress its adverse effect upon our shipping. noon held at St. Patrick's Hall on

Our Empire customers at least Wednesday, The prize-winners

continue to show the most gatis- were.-Mah-jong, Mrs. Ho, Mrs.

factory signs of sharing our Brasier-Creagh, and Mrs. Ramsay economic recuperation. Our ex- contract bridge. Mrs. Ho Ki and

́ports of machinery to Australia Mrs. Ho Leung: auction bridge, and New Zealand during the first Mrs. Hast and Mrs. Deb; whist,

four months of this year, showed Mrs. Fogwill and Mrs. Berreux. The an advance of 40 per cent, on last next function for a similar cause year. Our exports of machinery will be a whist drive, also at St. to Bouth Africa meanwälte leapt Patrick's Hall, on Monday, June 10. forward by nearly 70 per cent., and to Northern Rhodesia they were almost tripled. A curious feature is the sudden spurt in the demand for British bicycles.

QUADRUPLED IMPORTS of Education, situated at 6 Jing The Irish Free State in April Pan Fang. Boon Lai Road, Nantao, more than quadrupled its imports has been formally inaugurated. of these machines, while India's This nursery was opened on needs Jumped from 4,800 odd 10 January 1 this year and accom-over 8,000. This is not the kind, modates about thirty infants at of trade cycle with which econo- present.

Under the auspices of the Pro- gramme Sub-committee, the Wah Yan Past Students Association will hold the 2nd of a series of COLOUR FEELING

bathing picnics to Big Wave Bay Ladies who went to the tropical this afternoon. As the launch will

The Infant Nursery for Labour- For this reason the British pub-

But when all is said and done Colonies would for the most part leave Queen's Pier at 2.15 pm.ers Children, sponsored by the lle might have looked for some fur the British people remata the most live in the larger urban centres. sharp, members and their friends Shanghai City Government Child ther compensatory remissions in severely taxed in the world. They where the subordinate African are kindly requested to be punctual. Welfare Committee of the Bureau this year's budget. Bomething are therefore naturally asking Government staff and many well- they did get: and the fact that it what are the hopes of further re to-do Africans redded with their was not more was due to certain ductions next year? The yield of wives. It was no easy thing to get ominous increases in expenditure revenue is likely to be considerably rid of this national colour-feeling sald numbers of young women.

opportunity,... -namely, £10,500,000 for Army, larger this year than last, and and to run counter to s sentiment with Navy and Air Force. The estimat there are grounds for hoping that which, even if unexpressed, was leaving school or university, had ed surplas for the coming year, the cost of unemployment will be generally unmistakably latent, But no idea of how to set about achieve when all of this had been allowed less; and there are those who urge he believed that in the highest in-ng their desire to render useful for, and when £4,000,000 surplus that the constructive works which terest of our Colonial Empire it voluntary community service, and from road taxation had been ap- ought to be undertaken for the was necessary to do so, and no one this would put them on the right propriated, amounted to: $11,000,- advantage of the unemployed could give so effective a lead in path. 000-the sum available for relief of should be financed by low-interest this matter as the ladies in a The advisory council includes taxation....

bearing loans. But, over all, loams Colony, With a view to assisting Biz Basi Blackett, Dame Rachel and magazines that have register pression. About 150 hands are It was not large enough to allow the possibility of still further in- in this endeavour he would like to Crowdy, Dr. Cyril Norwood, Ladyed with the government of China. effected. for relief to all classes of tax creases in the cost of defence. see more women doctors, and more Wilson, and Lady Dayson, and the payers, and it was generally agreed. If the movement in Europe is women employed by Government course embraces history and geo- The SM Council has decided to The new organization, entitled that, the Chancellor did the right toward peace and disarmament in the Education Department, traphy of the Empire, sociology, throw open the new Central Police the Chinese Motor: Engineers Asso thing in coming to the help of Britain like all other countries, will

Lady Dayson, speaking from a tropical hygiene and nutrition, Station to the public for inspection clation, inaugurated with an office those who have been most severely immediately experience beneficial wide experience, expressed appre first aid and me nursing, social on Sunday, June 9, from 2 p.m. to in the Alumni Association of

deme household 5. p.m. hit since 1931. He therefore re economic results. But if alarms, ciation of what such a course biology and

mal, medical stored the remainder of the cuts threats and fears continue, then would be able to do in the com- management, in salaries which had been made the taxpayer too, will certainly be munities overses, and Lady Em and practical MONOKONG DAILY PRE88, in that year, and arranged an called on to go on shouldering his mott praised the proposed training Initiation, and

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According to the latest returns Issued by the Ministry of the In- terior, there are 4,736 newspapers

mista are accustomed to deal We may hope that it exhibits rather the favourable wheel of fortune.

Ecole Franco-Chinoise 355 Boule-- vard de Montigny, is to edit and

The Tien Tsang paper mill 313 publish a book giving term

Pen Ho Dong Road Frotung, has English and Chinese of the various closed down owing to business de-parts of a moter car.