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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936.

GROUNDED SHIP DISTRIBUTION OF

NOT DAMAGED

Vessel Refloated

Manila, April 9.

The Nell Maersk, Danish vessel

|

CAPITAL

Subject Well Discussed

London, Mar, 30.

The

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BRITAIN'S NEW AIR FLEET

Fastest Single Engined Bomber

A substantial order for a new type of bomber for che Briush Royal Air Force is at present being executed, and delivery of the ma- chines will begin in the summer,

en-

which ran aground on the Palauig A valuable paper on 'The dis- "reef, near the coast of Zambales | tribution o`natorial, cap.ial," by yesterday, arrived in Manila at Professor Daniels and Mr. Campion o'clock last night, no worse for her was read to the Manchester Statis- Captain E. Bruhn, Ucal Society. The authors set uut experience.

The new aircraft, designed and skipper of the vessel declared last to inquire. how far the number of

but by the Fairey Aviation Co. night that she ran aground yes-

persons possessing capital has in-

Lid, is known as the "Battle" and terday morning at 3.36. She was creased during recent years and will be the fastest single-engined refloated under her own power whether the distribution of capital bomber in the R.A.F. It is fitted about 8 o'clock yesterday morning. bas" altered substantially since the

with a 12-cylinder V-shaped liquid- concerned It was further indicated that the war. The inquiry was

cooled Rolls-Royce. "Merlin” vessel was under the command of solely with personas capital.

gine, developing a very high horse- the second officer at the time of authors' estimates were based

power. The exact horse-power the accident. The captain had mainly on the figures of estate du- must, not be revealed, but it may left the bridge at midnight.

tles as published by the Commis- sioners of Irland Revenue, For Passengers who arrived on the Nell Maersk last night, stated that estates under £100 in value. which 336

no great shock was felt when the are not covered by the revenue re- $51

vessel ran aground. Locksley File, turns, their estimates $30

of Dallas, Texas, who is touring 120 23/9

the Orient said that "the vessel 120 just sort of eased up just like it ran into something Uke a mud- He further indicated that bank." there was no panic on board and that officers and men of the vessel behaved splendidly.

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Stephen Miller of New York and Johri R. Weaver of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, who are also touring the Far East indicated that they 16 et aid not feel the shock. They also praised the presence of mind of the officers and men of the vessel during the accident.

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jast Captain Bruhn declared night that he was certain that the vessel was not damaged as a re- Bult DI her. grounding. Divers, however, will this morning In- vestigate the bottom of the vessel fust in case the ship has some ininor dent below.

The captain also indicated that the vessel will leave Manila on schedule on Friday.

were based

on the published lands of friend y societies. building societies, and the like, and are clearly more open to a margin of error. They reach the conclusion that the total estates of £100 or less have increased in value from £400,000,000 to £700.-

·000,000 in 1911-13 to £500,000,000

1924-30. Es £1003

have : rom

about

1. £900.000.000, in tates of £100 to

in value increased

624,000,000 to £1.471.000 000. in the same period. But equally the other extreme of the at Income scale estates of over £100.- Goo have reached in 1924-30 a tota value of £3.266,000,000 as compar- ed with 1,378.000.000 in 1911-13.

DOUBLED SINCE THE WAR

Thus it can be seen that although the national personal capital has increased-actualy it has about doubled since the war-its distribu tion among the various income- earning classes of

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be stated that the engine possesses greater power than any at present in use in the service. No speed figures can be given, but it is un derstood that slightly over minutes after leaving the Fairey aerodrome

at Hayes, Middlesex. over the the "Battle" could be South Coast of England.

The new machine is officially described as an ultra high-speed Two-seater medium bomber; it is a Low, wing monoplane with retrac table undercarriage and tall- wheel, all-metal, with the excep- tion of the rudder, ailerons and the elevators, which are fabric-cover- ed. It embodies the very latest developments of stressed skin con- struction. The

02 fuselage is "Monocoque" construction and is riveted in a manner similar to that of the modern liner. The cockpit, whier is occupied by the pilot and observer, is enclosed by a glass covering, giving the occupants an all-round view.

the population NAVY ESTIMATES

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has altered only slightly. Indeed. the authors state that whereas f Other passengers on the Nell

1911-13 85 to 90 per cent. of the Maersk tast night were Misses C

national capital was owned by Hammer and H. S. Link of New

per cent. of the popu allan

over York The ladies are en route to

twenty-five years old. 10-day 81 Fabrica, Negros Occidental for a

the owned by per cent, is still short visit to friends there. Mario Gilardi, an

same percentage of the population. Italian, came from

They conclude that, although the Hong Kong. Mr. Gliardi is on a business trip to Manila. Re scale of wealth has grown since the stay here about three months. He is in the advertising bustaess. Jones Chushman is an engineer who is also on a visit to Manila.

RADIUM THIEVES

ARRESTED,

("Hong Kong. Daily Press" Special)

Karsbad, Apr. 15. Thefts of Radium and Uranium 310.60 compounds aggregating to several million Czechish Crowns in value, tave been going on in Joachims- thal for over eight years. past. without the autorit.es ever hav- ing been able to discover the iden- Aty of the thieves. At last the mineowners and the police have determined to concentrate all ineir resources on discovering the cul- prit. The police this week coughs a man red handed selling Radium Chloride, and following up the clue at last found out the real delinquents. The 32 year-old- Julius Budda, employee in the mine administration and three others were arrested on the charge of stealing, and selling radium. Four milligrams

worth of Radium, 6,000 Crowns were found in their possession,--

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SEATED FOR ROYAL

-TOAST

Naval Custom Ratified

London, Mar. 28.

TWO NEW P. AND 0. LINERS ORDERED

London, April 15.

Messrs. Vickers, Armstrong, sn-. nounce that they have received a

An ancient Naval custom is off-contract for the construction of clally recognised-it is believed for two liners, each of 24,000 tons, for the first time-in Fleet Orders, the P. & O. Co-

issued last night.

The Orders state that the bealth of the King should be honoured Beated in all navai masses, whether on board ship or on shore, on all Occasions: excepų.

When the National Anthem is played; the toast should then be drank standing.

When toasts to foreign heads of. Btates are included; they and that of "The King" should be

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war and inequality of capital dis- tribution has been slightly reduced. there have been no marked chan-

ges, and there is no evidence that the Inequality will grow ess mark- e in the future. The conclusions will come as a surprise both to those who imagine that wealth was becoming much more widely dif- fused and to the cruder Marxists who believed that it was becoming more concentrated.

ALOISI'S TALK AT CENEVA

("Hong Kong Daily Press" Special:

Geneva, Apr. 15. Immediately after his arrival on Wednesday, Baron Alols, the Ita- a one hour's lian "envoy." had conversation with M. Madariaga, President of the Committee Thirteen. The conversation however only concerned with procedure, and had no positive

sults-

ransocean News Service.

STAFF TALK STARTED

London, March 30. The Navy Estimates do not in- dune any charge for the new ex

Yet even s pasion programine., they show m increase of nearly £10,000,000 over. Jast year, One reason offered is that new construc- tion is proceeding more rapidly thun was expected." Contract work will absorb an" extra £3,700,000, Buvni Kimamenta £2,300,000.

En extra

EXPERIMENTS' COSTS Experiments with gins are to cust seven times as much this year as last; does this suggest there may be some truth in the report. that the new capital ships are to be fitted with 14in. guns of a design

which will make them superior to existing guns of a larger calibre? About $1,000,000 more is to be apont on re-equipping and maintaining the existing Fleet Air Arm, ex- clusive of the cost of providing air- craft for new ships,

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SINGAPORE RAW RUBBER

Latest Singapore Prices

CABLES "SWENONIS"

MAN OF FIGURES

It is fairly well-known that the equipment of the Air Arm has been partly inadequate and partly out But whose fault is that of date but the Admiralty's? We are, told that "twenty-nine capital chips and with аге now fitted cruisers catapults "and thirty-seven air. craft are "embarked on the vessels so fitted," which averages one air- uraft per ship. Some foreign Accts

Messrs. H. B. Juseph & Co., re-ing his Budget statement for April was show much higher figures, Its own the efforts to make good the deficiency celved

21 Members of the House are try- the following quotations re-in a tacit admission that the navy's in Straite Currency for Singapore ing in vain to get under his guard.

carlier lack of interest in aircraft

Raw Rubber. carried by ordinary naval units wassa mistake.

of

more

ACTUAL. DEVELOPMENT The actual development in the catapult plane and the chance of future development in the direct- landing autogiro make it all the London, Apr. 15.

incomprehensible why the Conversations between represen-Government is proposing, under tatives of the military, naval and the expansion achenie, to build still air staffs of Belgium, France and another aircraft-carrier in addition to the Ark Royal, now under cona- Britain were begun in London to-

truction at Birkenhead. What is day.-

the point of spending any more loux Kong Daly Press" Speula)) British Wireless

money or these unwieldy and ex- pensive craft which much informed Rome, Apr 15,

opinion agrees could be put out of The tourist tramc declined dur-

London, April 16.

effective action in war by one or ing 1935 by 31766 persons as far as

The conversations between the two small-calibre shells or small conducted parties are concerned, General Staffs of Britain, France bombs! but rose by 9500 individual, Le. unaccompanied single travellers. This notice is published in the day are being continued "to-day. Italian press under the ironical headline: "A sanctions?"— Transocean News Service.

consequence of

SHIPBUILDING BOOM

:

and Belgium which began yester-

British Wireless.

SCOTS SAYINGS OF THE WEEK

London, March 28. London. April 15.

We in Scotland may pride our Lloyd's quarterly return show serves that the courts are open to that on March 31 there were un-everyone however

poor-Lord der construction in Great Britain Jamieson. and Ireland 220 merchant vessels

DEPARTURE

PASSENGERS

Spot

May/June

July/Sept.

Thursday, Apr, 16.

Buyer's

281 up. 27 Un.

271 Un.

211 Un.

Oct./Dec. Market-Firmer.

London, April 1. Mr. "Chamberlain is immersed in national finance just now prepar-

They make suggestions and drop hints in questions to him, but all he will say is, "The hon. member must not expect me to anticipate my Budget statement."

SMALL COMFORT

All that the House is sure of, from knowledge and experience of him, is that, his Budget will be Thursday, Apr, 16.

plain and business like and pres- Messrs. H. B. Joseph & Co. re- ceived the following quotations sented without any effort to win

from Ln Strafts Currency

Singapopularity. He will probably pro- pose alight increases in certain pure for Raw Rubber-

forms of taxation, and doubtless effect such small adjustments in others as will stimulate trade and industry. But he won't sacrifice any, large source of revenue,

Buyers

Spot

25 cts up cent May/June 274 cts, unchanged July/Sept. Mi cts, unchanged Oct./Dec. 273 cts. unchanged Market-Very Steady.

PHILIPPINE GOLD MINING

SHARES

Thursday, Apr. 18.

LINK WITH FOUNDER

OF LORD'S

London, March 28. Misa Florence Lord, great-grand- Messra. Benjamin and Petty re-daughter of the founder of Lord's

the following quotations cricket ground, has died in a nurs-- their Mantia Agents this ing home at Worthing. She was

ceived

from

morning

Beng. Consola. Antamoks

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1.50.

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United Paraca.es Ban Mauriclos 1. X. L/4.

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Masbates Demonstrations

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3.S. TJINEGARA The list of passengers departed for Amoy and Shanghal by the 8.3.

Tinegara" on Apri: 18-

Mr. M. J. Heller, Mrs. A. Kloppenburg, Miss Kloppenburg, Mr. E de Chaffoy, Mr. H. F Ku pers, Mr. H. G. Bley, Mr. Jose The Queen Mary is at once a Guevarra, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Zur drank standing whether Nation-of 842,361 tons gross-99,215 tons demonstration of Scottish skill and Mahen, Mr. and Mrs. J. Martin,

more than "at end of December al Anthems are played or not, The custom of drinking the loyal and 286,548 tons more than year craftsmanship and an inspiration Mrs. W. Crawford, Mr. Charles R. toust seated la said to have ori-ago. This is highest quarterly to all Scotland Sir Godfrey, Col ginated in the days of the wooden total ince December 1930 andins, Secretary of State.

tonnage It is a splendid idea to cultivate warships, where accommodation exceeds the aggregate was limited, and there was insum under construction in six leading demand in Scotland for Boot

tash merchandise, countries abroad

-Stewart.

cleat headroom for a man to stand between decks.

British Wireluu.

Provost

Rose, Dr. and Mrs. A E van Hutten, Mrs. McKerracher and daughter, Mrs. A F. Horden Márs. Wilson, Miss K. B. Kwok, Mr. and Mr. R. Dezentje and children Mr. Ang Em Cho Mẹ

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Hu Mo Yuen, Mr. Ma 8th Koo, Mr. and Mrs. J. Th. van den Berg,

two Col. and Mrs. A. R. W. de Gey Miss G. H. 8. Goodfellow, Lieut.-

van Pitts.

Thomas Lord was born at Thirsk in 1755, came to London as a young man and became associated with the London Club, which was the forerunner of the M.C.C.

In 1780 the club moved to White Condutt Fields and was known as White Condult Club. Other moves followed, until Lord finally found a site in the then rural district of St. John's Wood, and in 1814 the present "Lords'." was opened.

In 1931 Miss Florence Lord pre- sented to the M.C.C, a portrait by Morland of her great-grandfather.

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