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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,' APRIL " 30, “1936.
MAIL NEWS FROM HOME A CHINESE VIEW OWNER OF MUR-
London.-April 9.
For the second time this week MPs have had to vote JA 2 measure with regard to which they have been bombarded with letters from const.tuents, writes a correspondent,
Curzon, Lord Howe's son and her, In South Battersea
Both these diy sions are now by MR.. members, represented though neither is an easy seat to hold.
Lord Dufferin has long been re-
The first was on Wednesday.cognised as an able young Conser-
when the Government suffered a defeat at the hands of Miss Ellen Wilkinson with the aid of a few Conservative, alles who, as
had revealed yesterday, severely lobbied" by CIF vants.
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bean Ser-
Many Conservative members re- sented the barrage of letters from pro-football pool constituents to which they had beer subjected. In all these postal campaigns there is a similarity which shows the hand of organisation.
At the same time no Conserva- Liberals or tive, and very few
Socialists, supported the bi
As a result no fewer than 287 M.P.s went into the Lobby against the bill, while only 24 voted for it.
A.P.H. HITS BACK
On occasions sparks flew. Mr. Rhys Davies's attacks on Mr. &. P
to Herbert as a man unworthy represent a university brought a vehement reply from the victim.
Mr. Herbert, retorted that his all for election, address revealed which he stood. that Oxford had elected him on that address, and If he wanted any advice from Mr.
ask him. Rhys Davies he would for it
Shadows of domestic difference appeared, when, after Mr. Lans- bury had condemned the sin of
his
Mr. son-in-law, gambling.
remarked that some Thurdle, people seemed to suffer from sense of moral superiority.
Criticism from
such
a
B
source,
vative He is Parliamentary pri- vate secretary to Lord Halifax In 3 ar the House of Lords, and
for the active platform speaker party.
Lord Duncannon, the 23-year-old
elder son of Lord Bessborough, is He s to fight East Lewisham. considered to have a good chance in what is now a of success Socialist seat.
STANDING IN FULHAM
OF LOUIS XIV.
Famille-Verte Figures
(BY A. C. R. CARTER)
It is generally admitted that one of the greatest periods of Chinese ceramics was that cover- ed by the long reign of the Em- peror Kang "Hsl, which lasted from 1662 to 1723, As Louis XIV
yaigned in France from 1843 to 1715; these two famous rulers were contemporaries during 53 years.
A quaint link between the pair will be seen at Christies on May 7. Apparently some bright spirit Court conceived at the French
the idea of sending an order to
DER PISTOL TRACED
Chinese Press Explains Arrest Of
WEAPON
Three
IDENTIFIED BY PAWNBROKER
press
at
the
Chinese time related certain alleged facts
A KICKLESS RIFLE
Accuracy Improved By 50 Per Cent.
London, April 14.
The United States Ordnance De partment have been investigating for soms time the effect of kick on the accuracy of rifle fire, and have produced figures showing that the size of a circle embracing all the shots delivered by the equivalent of a platoon was reduced by 30 per cent, when kick was eliminated from the rifle.
accuracy,
Mr. Ralph China for two enamelled figures which would explain the arrests of the British Service rifle is a parti-
In West Fulham, Etherton, who only just failed to Everton at the be returned at General Election. is standing with another young Conservative, Mr. active Junior G. W. Atlin-an Imperial Leaguer,
in
With Miss Regina Evans East Fulham is standing Mr John Hare. He does not share the So- cialist views of his brother, Lord Listowel,
Miss Evans taking the place of Dame Beatrix Lyall the retiring member.
of fighting a The expenses
about £400. L.C.C. election are As all divisions return two mem- bers, the cost to individual candi- dates is half that amount
SIR WILLIAM JOWITT ABROAD
Like Herr Hitler, Sir William Jowit is apt to suffer from throat strain This has more than once in the past seriously affected his health. In the General Election last November he had a temporary breakdown.
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severely tried Mr, Lansbury's paci- į He has lately again been in his fist principles
dpetor's hands. This is the reason, I believe, why he anticipated the Easter holidays by a fortnight.
Sir William is now recuperating abroad,
As the Courts rise for 10 days next week he will be able to secure a substant al rest before next term begins.
THE LL.P. TOP HAT Earlier in the week Mr. Mc- Govern caused a stir in the House He by appearing in a top hat. afterwards explained he did i for a bet
The incident has had a sequel. Sir Henry Fildes, the member for Dumfries. has sent Mr. McGovern a top hat as a present.
Mr. McGovern yesterday called his colleagues together to discuss what the LLP. group should do about this
capitalist
emblem.
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On the motion of Mr. Maxton it was agreed that the ILP. should retain the hat, but that its use should be purely gymbolical.
F
Il will be kept for the one Par- lamentary contingency in which a top hat is necessary-putting point of order during a division.
ABLEST CIVIL SERVANT
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Sir Maurice Hankey must used to tributes such as that paid called by Mr. Baldwin, who has
him "one of the ablest C.vil Ser- vants any Government ever had." Six weeks ago Sir Austen Cham- berlain said of him:
In the evolution of the Com- mittee of Imperial Defence no single individual had contribut ed over so long a time or in such large measure to all that the Committee had achieved as Sir Maurice Hankey.
Less than a month ago Lord Swinton said of him, "There is no second Hankey."
Str Maurice also drew tributes from his successive chiefs, Mr. Asquith and Mr: Lloyd George, to each of whom he gave devoted service.
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"ORGANISER OF VICTORY" Sr. Henry Wilson coupled him" with Lord Ypres and Lord Halg as an "organiser of victory"
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Mr. Winston Churchill has writ- ten of him:
This officer of Marines, while stil a young captain, had be-
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come in 1912 the Secretary of the Committee of Imperial De- fence.....
He had kept and arranged the records of all the great business
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OBSTINATE PEERS
It seems to be a general assump- tlon that the House of Cominons will soon put right the points in the Unemployment Insurance which the (Agriculture) Buil on Government were defeated in the Lords on Thursday.
at
in familie verte to represent Louds XIV and his favourite Madame de Maintenon.
According to Voltaire this lady used to declare that the fate of kings was to be bored so death Yet when these Chinese present- ments of the monarch and herself
to
Shanghai, Apr, 25. The official silence regarding the
The United States rifle is parti- || new developments in the. Naka-cularly severe on the shoulder f the firer, and it is possible that yama murder investigation con- tinded yesterday, but the local similar trials in this country would same result in much less improvement in With all is drawbacks
cularly Sweet weapon baith handle and to fire.
States Ordnance The United Hideo Nakayama, a Japanese Department started their inver- marine, was shot dead in Darroch tigations from the supposition that Roid last November and within a the great accuracy obtained with few hours of the murder the pistol the in. rifle was not wholly the in the case was found in an alley-result of excellence of manufacture aud the very stiff barrel which can off Darroch Road. way leading
the three Chinese now being held
as suspects,
arrived they must have been able Yesterday morning the "Sin Wane employed. After some prelimin
to have a hearty laugh
Louis was shown as a smirking. dwarfish. yellow-w.gged figure in a pale green under garment with a dark green overcoat and rouge- black with clumsy de-fer sash boots bordered with green. favourite-also a dumpy figure had a similar smirk. a stin black corset and a yellow and rouge-
The
de-fer skirt, from which, however, her dainty feet stole put like Suckling's "little mice."
in the 18th century Usually Chmese porcelain sent to Europe were dinner services with family coat-of-arms, or Vases suitable for mounting by French skilled As for these grmolu artificers. quaint Agures, it is discernible that it was Chinese examples of this kind which greatly influenced the early Staffordshire potters such as Ralph Wood.
2 NEW LINERS FOR P. & 0.
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Contract Awarded" "To Barrow
London, Apr. 11. Experience would suggest that the Lords are kely to prove One of the biggest shipbuilding obstinate. Once having come to a contracts placed since the war was decision. the Upper House is not awarded yesterday by the P. and O. Company to Vickers-Armstrongs, of readily disposed to go back on it.
Twice the National Government Barrow-in-Furness. It is for two 24.000 tons has had to admit defeat the sister liners of about hands of the Peers. In 1932 Mr
each, of a design resembling that Oliver Stanley and the Commons of the Strathmore, which the same last fought hard when the Peers Arm built for the F. and O. amended the Children's Act to a year.. clude birching as a punishment, The Feers were adamant and got their way.
Mr.
Again, in 1934 they beat Hore-Belisha by refusing to allow the speed limit to be suspended at night.
On both occasions the Govern- ment were faced at the end of the Session with the choice of giving way to the Peers or losing the bill altogether.
INSURANCE OF NEW LINER
£2,500,000 Already Covered
London, Apr. 17. Although a beginning was made
only on Tuesday afternoon with the placing of the service plaks on the Cunard White Star Hoer Queen Mary,, by yesterday evening
£2,000,000 had actually been writ- ten in the London market alone.
"Both ships will be built at Bar- row. It is considered possible that they will be employed, on the Far Eastern run, where, at present, the North German Lloyd line is operat- ing the express liners Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Potsdam. These are larger and faster than any British ship on that route.
Nearly 11,500 hands are now em- ployed in the Vickers-Armstrong's
at
ary tests they started on the le Pao one of the largest Chinese velopment of a kicklew rifle in dailles in Shanghai, published an which the backward thrust, which article saying that the ownership nurmally expends itself
on the of the weapon had been deter- shoulder, was removed by tapping mined and that the owner is the off some of the gas immediately in in front of the chamber and employ Chinese who was arrested Tsingtao and returned to Shang-ing it to give forward motion to a piston which balanced the. hai last week.
backward thrust. In some of the experimental models of this c the movement of the piston was used to give automatic action. In the original models the piston was nothing more than a kick- absorber.
The pistol, a 32-calibre automa- tic of Italian manufacture, trap-
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ped its owner, according to the Chinese paper. Some time ago a Chinese informed the Settlement police that he recalled a
Pistol
The movement of the rifle at the similar to the one used, which he
moment of firing bas a very grent had seen in the possession of
Cantonese nicknamed "Slau effect on accuracy because, though the time between the pressing of Kuangtung" (Little Kuangtung”),
the trigger and the emergence of Sliau Kuangtung once had pawned the bullet from the muzzle is very the weapon with another Can- short. it is quite long enough for tonese, named Tseng Yuan, and movement, which may start with the latter was consequently pick the pressing of the trigger, to de ed up by the Palice for question-flect the ballet very considerably
from the point of aim. half this period is taken up by the forward movement of the striker and the United States ordnance experte have been experimenting for years with methods for cutting down the time of striker travel. Rifles with what is known as "Hi reactions are very popular muj the United States.
ing.
"PISTOL IDENTIFIED
At one of the police stations, the Sia War Pao" further relates, Tseng Yuan was confronted with a number of different pistols and asked to pick out the one which had formerly been in his possession Tseng Yuan without hesitation elected the weapon with which Nakayama had been murdered.
The next problem was to find Siau Kuangtung. After weeks. of investigation it was learned that he had gone to Tsingtao, where he was subsequently arrested to be extradited to Shanghai.
Before Stau Kuangtung's return, the Police arrested two other Bus- Both are Chi- pedis in Shanghai, nese and in the room of one was found a foreign book the centre part of which had been cut so as to allow a pistol to be concealed-- a favourite device of arms rüngers. The pistol with which Nakayama Was shot atted perfectly into this book, according to the Chinese re-
port. Therefore the occupant of the room was arrested, as was an other man closely connected with him.
The case of the three suspects. which opened in the First Special District Court early this week, will continue on Monday morning.
The reasons for the deep secrecy with which all the officials con-
establishment
Barrow-the greatest number since 1933. Apart from the two new 24,000-ton liners, work is proceeding on the follow-cerned are surrounding the case ing:
Orient liner Orcades, 24.000 tons;
New Zealand liner Awaten, 15, 000 tons;
Two passenger steamers for the Isle of Man service:
A motor passenger ship for the L.MS. Railway; '
Destroyers Afridi and Cossack and the submarines Triton and Rorqual for the Admiralty;
A training craiser for the Ar- gentine Government;
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Two submarines for the Eston- ian Government, and
The machinery for two large British cruisers, building at Wal- ker-on-Tyne.
have not been explained. When the Japanese marine was murdered, the Japanese news agencies started to issue columns of matter on the case, but now the Japanese press is silent. The Chinese authorities
likewise have refused to comment. -(N.C.D.N.)
AUSTRIAN BAN ON BOY SCOUTS
Hong Kong Dally Press" Specia:)
Vienna, Apr. 28.
which had come first before the The total amount so far placed is building of three destroyers for the Federation of Youth, have been
War Committee of the Cabinet, and later before the War Cabinet during the War and the Armis- tice.
£2,500,000; and in responsible quarters confidence is expressed that in all £3,000,000 will be cover- ed in the insurance markets, This amount is far in excess of any sum hitherto effected on a ship in service.
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In addition, negotiations for the the Argentine are in an advanced stage.
The Austrian Boy Scouts, one of the Organisations belonging to dissolved, because its Managing Committee refused to consent that the Youth Federation. becomes an integral part of the Fatherland He knew everything; he could
front. The dissolution order ata- put his hand on anything; he
usual sea risks, any claims for tea that the reason why such dras- knew everybody; he said noth-
damage would, be spread over a tic measures were taken, was thas ing: he gained the confidence "of
The premium accepted is larger sum, and so would represent the refusal proved that the Aus- Vall
equivalent to a net rate of 259. a smaller proportion of the amount trian Boy Scouts were a camón- the .. Perhaps
secret of Str.
£100 for a period of 12 insured than if part only of the aged political organisation, carry- bas Maurice Hankey's success been, that his dome-like head is. months. The readiness of British value were covered against these ing on activities prohibited by its
insurance companies and syndi hazards. A higher rate, of pre- status.
The Scout's Managing Committee cates generally to write on such mlum would be needed to cover terms larger lines than they usually these risks if part only of the appealed against this decision to accept on 'great vessels indicates value of the ship were insured in the Federal High Court. It is al- their beller in the good qualities this way, and the remainder were leged that legal, propagandist 1 hear that the Municipal Re- of the new ship. A contributory covered against the risk of total activities by the Scouts are defin- form party has secured a number consideration is that no insuran- loss only. Another point affecting itely proved. At all events 10 mid- of active young Conservative polices are being effected on disburse the rate of premium is that the die grade schoolboys and Ave mid- ticians as candidates for the ments, 1e, on the risk of total insurers are to be liable only for dle grade schoolboys have been loss only. Consequently, as the claims in excess of £1,000 in re arrested on the "charge of illegal. L.C.C. elections next March
Lord Dufferin is likely to stand whole value of the ship is brought spect of any one accident during a political activities.—
Transocean News Service, in North Kensington, and Lord into the policies covering all the round voyage.
in the late Lord Fisher's words, "bulging with brains.”
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