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213
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23
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31
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3380
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330
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112
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$17,
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12 as
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94 ota
30. eta
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11/- $104
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524
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80
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58
$34
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$100
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$20
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$98
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$35
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391
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18,
OBJECTION TO
GAOL SENTENCE
Com STATES NO
PROVISION UNDER · THE REGULATIONS
Traffic Offenders In US. Court
Shanghai, Dec. 14. "Friday the Thirteenth" proved an unlucky day for defendants in the U, S. Corsular Court yester- day, when a number of American residents were aned amounts 'vary- ing from V.9.52 to UB.$10 by Mr. W. T. Collins, acting Commissioner. for viciations of the Trabic Regu- iations. One defendant was given an additional sentence, which was suspended, of ten days, despite za objection from counsel that gol sentences were not permitted un- der the regulations.
NEW YORK STOCK AND COMMODITY QUOTATIONS
New York-London
Cotton, May
Rubber, December
(Through Reuter's Agency)'
Chicago Wheat, May Corn, May
Anaconda Copper
EL Bond and Share.................. General Motors.... Int, Tel, and Tel. Montgomery Ward
N.Y, Central U.S. Steel
E
1935.
S. E. Levy & Co..
7. TOM HUURE STREET INVESTMENT BANKRAJ † MROKNAS
NEW TORK CUTTON, EXOSANOR
COMMODITY EXCHANGE, ING, N«Y.
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE K
CANADIAN COMMODITT EXCHARGE, INC.
Lasi
December 17 Close Open 10.30 10.45
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KIMBERS:
423 4921
10.01
13.32
11.03 11.04 13.30 13.30
971
98
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Bel
STOCKS
201 261 261
261
147 151
13
15
54
541
54+
12+ 121
124 121
381 381 38
581
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261
261
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442
442
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New York Stock Exchange Quotations appear on Faga 13.**
U.S. DISMAY
“An Embarrassing
Position
Mr. C. C. Vines was. Aned U.S.32 for ranking "during prohibited hours, as was Mr. C. H.. Raven, Jr For the police, it was stated that Mr. Raven was convicted of a similar offence on December 6. As he was a first offender, a charge of ranking during prohibited hours
New York, Nov. 26. - brought against Mr. H. Arriold Considerable dismay is apparent was dismissed with & caution, in American Press comments this while Mr. H. M. Stuckgold was evening at the дета that the Bed U.S.$2.
League nas postponed considera- tion of the ban on oll ahipments to Italy.
NO ANIMUS
Mr. N. Lurton, appearing for Mr. Bertram Deutsch, entered a plea of gulity to a charge brought against his client of having failed t stop and report an accident, Mr. Lurton submitted, however, that there were extenuating circuns- tances. Although ignorance of the
were
law was no
excuse, there crimes which were merely of a technical nature, and in which there was no animus on the part
of the perpetrator.
At the time of the alleged act. It was 11 o'clock on a rainy night. Mr. Deutsch came down Bubbling Well Road--he was not driving fast, owing to the weather condi- tions and near Yates Road he scraped a rickshaw which contain- ed a Chinese lady and which, ac- cording to the police evidence, was overturned. Mr. Deutsch, however, saw no accident, and thinking that be had merely scraped the vehicle,
drove on.
There is a strong feeling thar taken action to discourage oil ex- the United States, having already
Porta to belligerents, is now placed in an embarrassing position.
The Italian Ambassador at Washington, Signor Augusto Rosso, Is understood to have protested at the American policy of doing everything possible to
prevent trade in war materials when he
called on the Secretary of State. Mr. Cordell Hull, last Friday.
To-night the evening papers announce in headlines running across the entire front pages,
Ban.' "Nations Quit Us On Of
League Backs Down On Ol
Ban."
The opinion is freely expressed that the United States has been left in an unexpectedly isolated position. Reports from Washing ton suggest that oficials received the news "with undisguised sur prise."
ליינו
DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH
G.C.V.O. Conferred By The King
London, Nov. 97. The King, at Buckingham Pa- lace yesterday, received in audience the Duke of Buccleuch, brother of the Duchess of Gloucester, who delivered up the insignia of the Order of the Thistle worn by his late father.
"IMPOSSIBLE CONDITIONS" Technically, he should have stop- Fed and reported the matter to the police, continued Mr. Larten, but trivial accidents of this nature happened several times a day in Shanghai, and conditions would be impossible if a motorist had to stop every time he touched a rick- shaw. Mr. Lurton wished to Im- 114.40 press on the Court that his client's
164
driving on was not a "deliberate attempt to evade the dusy in FRE #88 pressed on him by the law."
Giving judgment, Mr. Collins said that if the Court had belleved His Majesty conferred a knight that Mr. Deutsch deliberately drove hood upon the duke, and invested on when he knew he had been him with the Insignia of a Knight involved in an accident, the ex Grand Cross of the Royal Vic-
the treme penalty would have been in-torian Order NOS
cred: He would be given the The Duke's investiture a benefit of the doubt, however, and G.C.V.O has interesting preced- would be fined U.S.$10. A gaol ente following previous Royal mar sentence of 10 days would be sus-riages. The late Earl of Hare condition that Mr. wood was made a G.C.V.O. in 1929 pended Deutsch did not appear before the following the marriage of his son (then Viscount Lascelles) to the Court on a similar charge ogain.
There is no provision for any Strathmore was invested as G.C Princess Royal. The Earl of saof semence under the regula
V.O, after the wedding of his | tions in question." objected Mr.
daughter to the Duke of York in Lurton
the following year.
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EXPULSIONS FROM
BELGIUM
MILITARY MAGAZINE
Berlin, Dec. 16.
The firss number has just been published of the new military magazine called "Militzerwissen- abaftliche Rundschau" ("The Re- view of Military Science") which will be issued every second month by the War Ministry.
EX-KAISER'S GRANDSON AT BUCKINGĦAM PALACE
*
"YOU CAN APPEAL," "That is the Court's sentence, replied Mr. Collins. "If you object to it, you can make an appeal.”
"Very well,” replied Mr. Lurton Mr. C. J.. Lemcke was charged," firstly, with ranking' during pro- hibited hours, and secondly, with
London, Nov. 27. Prince Frederick of Prussia was sounding his horn on Brechnen Road unnecessarily. He pleaded the guest of the King and Queen at guilty to the first and was fined luncheon at Buckingham Palace US$2. With regard to the second to-day. charge, he submitted he had not blown his horn unnecessarily,
Sergeant Norman Douglas said that he was on trafic control duty
Prince Frederick is the 23-year- old grandson of the ex-Kaiser. He came to this country to bring a wreath from the Kaiser to the fun-
at about noon at the intersection eral of the late Lord Jellicoe yes-
of Szechnen and Nanking Roads on terday. November 22. The accused drove his car along Szechuen Road, sub- sequently turning into Nanking
Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Read. Although he was driving
Press" (Copyright).{
Brussels, Dec. 16. Your natives of the former Ger- man- territory of Eupen-Ma'medy, The magazine will be edited by who by the verdict of the Llege a department of seven of the appellate court last October were Army General Staff, and replaces aprived of their Belgian citizen the pre-war quarterly issued by ship on charges of subversive the former "general staff, under ivities, were rotified on Mon- the title "Truppenfuehrung und day that they must leave, Bel- Heereskunde", "Troop. leaderah pan ter tory within 48 hours. and Army Science.")
slowly, and there, was no obstruc- tim in front of him. Mr. Lemcke blew his horn about twenty times in a distance of 25 yards, "Ee seemed to be playing a tune wit ness concluded.
"If the police kept pedestrians'
LEADER'S ADVICE TO
CAIRO STUDENTS
(Special to the "Hong Kong Datis
Prese" (Copyright.))"
Caro, Dec. 16. Nasha Pasha, Beader of the Nationalist Ward party, issued a
NEW BANK PLANNED
Development Of Rural Finances
Special to the "Hong Kong
WEITE, WELD à Co., NEW YORK
Produce The Pede- strian Inconvenienced
Would not be far more satis- factory for the police to produce u court the pedestrian alleged to have been inconvenienced? AB- sume that there are two plain- DLDclothes men, one at and the other
Press" (Copyright).j
Shanghai, Dec 6.
just beyond a crossing. Constable Xat the crossing-sees driver A The seriousness of China's rural fall to give way to pedestrian B. problem has led the Government Constable X thereupon signals to to do its best to cope with the alt- Constable Y-beyond the crossing wanting who cynically, ask how ed Constable Z-down the road- uation though critica are not to have A stopped, and uniform much good has been done to the does the stopping Constable I farmers. In recent years, floods, | having ` given the signal, taps drougats, insect pesta... and other pedestrian B on the shoulder, asks natural calamities have worked him if he has been inconvenienc- havoc with the expected returns of ed, takes his name and address the farmers' labour, and caused and produces him at the hearing of famine in the land. However, the case.
any rate, ensure that
ed no efforts in the matter of reputation in that procedure, and it the Central Government has spar- There would not be much com-
lief, so that the suffering due to would, at famine and foods has been much there actually as a pedestrian alleviated.
present when the alleged offence Look place!
Think it over, you heads of the police.
THE FARMERS' PLIGHT JI The result of these natural cala- `mities, however, has been that the more well-to-do people have left the villages and brought their money with them to the bigger cities where they might dwell' in greater safety. This, drain of money from the villages has turn led..to ustrious rates of inter-
STUBBORN FIGHT BY ETHIOPIANS
Addis Ababa, Dec. 16. A heavy bombing attack by Itailan plane upon the Ethiopian lines in several sectors is apparent- ly the prelude to a renewed offen- alve in the Ogader territory.
est being charged the farmers who have to borrow. In some cases the rate is as high as 30 to 40 per cent. between sowing time and harvest. If the farmers have to borrow' grain Italian and Somali troops, sup- to live, then the interest may be ported by tanks and armoured from 50 per cent up, and in rare cars, attacked the Ethiopian Kines cases even 100 per cent. All this | forty miles south-east of Sxs- makes it necessary for the farmers banch:
OBITUARIES
MR. A. N. SKELTON
Under-Secretary For Scotland
London, Nov 23 A political career of great pro- imise has been cut short by the death of Mr..: A. N. Skelton. His
I
short term in Ministerial office as Under-Secretary of State for Scot- land, while it brought him little fame outside the House, was lay- ing the groundwork of a consider- ble reputation inside St. Step- ben's....
Although 55 years of age when be died, 'and an advocate by train- ing and profession, he was noted in the House and dut at it for his vivacity and activity. His swift, anrushing speeches were always full of tresh Ideas "Skelton
argues with the dash of a Rugby forward,” said another M.P ence His courage, sincerity and, inde pendence, topy endeared him to his fellow-members during the 13 gears he was in the House,
The son of the. Iste'Bir John |päkelton, K.C.B., Archibald Noel Skelton was born in linburgn and educated" at Glenaimond and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the Scottish Bar in 1906 During the war he served in the Scottish Home in Gallipoli, Pales- tine, Egypt, Macedonis and France, retiring with the rank of captain
After unsuccessfully contesting East Perth at the 1920 election, he was chosen for that constituency In 1923 and re-elected. two year Neither side gained any appre- | later. In 1931 he was returried are harvested, which means low clable advantage in the fighting unopposed for the Scottish Uni- prices for the grains which they which ensued.
to sell their crops as soon as they
may have to buy at higher prices It is claimed that on this occa- | a few months later either on cre- sion the Ethiopian army put up a dit or with money
borrowed at stiff fight, which is a change from naurious rates.
the tactics of retreating actions previously adopted.
A BANK PROPOSED
Several hundred Somalis are re- To sclve this question, Messrs.ported to have deserted to the Chiao Fu-San and Ma Sheng-Ho, Ethiopian side,- accretary of the Central Govern Reuter. ment Min; and departmental head
of the Ministry of Finance respec- tively, have been placed in charge of preparations for the establish- ment of a bank for the develop- men; of rural finances known as the "Halen & Eslang Bank of China.”
The establishment of the "Esten & Helang Bank" was decided upon by the Ministry of Finance as ne- ccssary step supplementary to the new monetary decree for the na- #onalization of diver, in order to bring about the financial stability and economic revival of the whole country.
The purpose of the projected bank will be to encourage the flow of money between the city and the country districts, to render financial aid to growing rural in- dustries, and to promote the co- operative movement. .
LENA GOLDFIELDS
versities, his fellow-members being Col. Buchun · (now Lord Tweed- smair) and Mr. D. M. Cowan, a National Liberal. He was appoint- ed Under-Secretary for Scotland when the National Government was formed.
MR. PAUL SCHMIDT
Shanghai, Dec. 14: The death occurred in Shanghai on Thursday, at the age of 65, of
Amended Scheme Approved Mr. Paul Schmidt, proprietor of
Mesars, Schmidt & Co." A funeral service will be held next Thursday. London, Nov. 26. At
h the Chapel of the International An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Lena Funeral Directors, 207 Hirochow Goldfields yesterday, the amended Road, at 5 p.m. It is specially re- scheme governing the method of quested that no flowers be sent, but distributing compensation to be re- donations may be made ip the seived from the Soviet Government Deutsche Hilfe As a token DA was approved The chairman, Mr. mourning," the local office of Herbert Guedalls, stated that all Messia. Schmidt & Co. was closed the Soviet Government's obliga-
yesterday. tions due under the agreement, har
Born in Germany, Mr. Schmidt been handed over to the company, which had now received £225,000 in started business in medical and scientific supplies Tokyo 38 all
Under the agreement the Soviet years ago. The Shanghai once is Government was to pay £92,500 a branch of the Tokyo company each half-year until and including and was opened in 1977. Besides November 1 1944. After that ther the local branch, there are seven. According to plans revealed by
was payable half-yearly over ten other branches throughout "China years a sum of £55,000, so that and Manchuria and one in Singa- well-informed local financial cir-
two-thirds of the total amount war pore cies, the "Esten & Hsiang Bank receivable over the first ten years of China" will be capitalized at and one third of the total amour le cal branch of his company twice Mr. Schmidt used to visit the a total of $8,000,000 to be appro-over the last ten yeaza.... priated at once by the Central The meeting also approved the year for Inspection purposes and Government. The offices of the action of the board in voting £20,- three weeks ago be paid his second preparatory committee headed by 000 to Major F, W. W, Gwynne, visit this year to Shanghai After Messrs. Chiao and Ma will be low and £5,250 bo Mr. Herbert Guedal: his arrival, he felt unwell and en- cated in Shanghai as will be the two directors-as special re-tered the Country Hospital, whers future headquarters of the future services in connection with procur died of heart failure in a locat muneration" for their exceptional | he remained for two weeks. He bank, wille branches will be sub-ring and completing the compan- hotel on Thursday, scquently established in various sation agreement with the Soviet hs'en throughout the country-
on the pavements there would be proclamation to all students ap-China United Prem (by mail).
a great deal less tooting," said Mr. pealing to them to cease the dis Lemcke. He denied playing, or turbances, after Nessim Pasha re- trying to play, a tune on his horn. ¡quested him to use all his in-
The expulsión was ordered by He was in the automobile business fluence to prevent a repetition of soldiers from the attacks of the While the latter publication the royal decree on December 14 and used his car a great deal, and the street rioting. Nessim Pasha, students. was chiefly concerned with the and issued under the law of Feb- he submitted that if he blew his in his turn had been approach Army, the new review will be de ruary 1897, which provides for horn, there must have been a good ed by the British High Commis- voted to matters of all interest the expulsion of all persons found reason for it. He could riot, how stoner, Bir Miles Lampeon, with a and all branches of the defence guilty of a breach of public peace ever. remember the incident. demand that the Eygptian Gov-
and order
He was fined U8.32 and caution-ernment take necessary steps for Xorce
Tranegaran Kuo Min
protecting Europeans and British Transocean Kuo Min,
You have done your duty" leader's pro- tates the ward clamation to the students, "now stay quiet and leave politics to your adults
Fennsocen Kuo-Min
Government.
“SINO-BRITISEL TRADE "ASSOCIATION:
Shanghai, Dec. 11. Plans are being made by leaders or local Chinese and British com mercial circles for the organization of a Sino-British Trade Associa Hon The proposed association, it
Mr. Bohmidt was a bachelor and all hia relatives are in Germany.
is understood, will be organized on similar lines as the Sino-American Trade Association, 24 din
Several conferences have been held by the sponsors of the asso clation for the discusion of or- ganization plans, and the personnel of the board of directors shortly will be decided upon
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.