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An excellent photograph of the Flying School plane that was embedded on a paddy field in

Canton. It was one of the two engines taken out without permission "

-PASTEURIZATION: KOWLOON BUS COMPANY

OF MILK

Reference To The Colonial Office

The following letter, dated June

7. 1937, addressed to the Secretary

TO EXTEND ROUTES

New Territories Run: Better Vehicles For Service

Far Eastern Problem

Lord Lytton's Proposal

London, June 25,

Lord Lytton, who was chairman of the Lytton Commission, Inter- viewed by Renter on the Anglo- Japanese conversations said that the starting point for the solution of the difficulties of the Far East was the position of Manchukuo. Any suggestion that Great Britain tried to purchase Japanese friendship by recognising Manchukuo a Japan- ese protectorate must be repudiated as early and clearly as possible. If the Far East is to cease to be the danger zone settlement must be reached by an agreement ac- ceptable by all parties concerned,

The only visible solution was the establishment of Manchukuo as a really independent state, guar- anteed not by the presence of the Japanese army, but by the wishes of the inhabitants and an inter- national treaty to which all neigh- bours are pledged. This is an in-

of the Urban Council by the AGREEMENT WITH THE RAILWAY dispensable requisite for any dura

Colonial Secretary, has been for- warded us for publication:~~

Colonial Secretary's Office.

Hong Kong'

7th June, 1937,

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THIRTY-FIVE NEW VEHICLES WILL SHORTLY BE PLACED ON THE RUN IN KOWLOON, ACCORDING TO THE FLANS OF THE 'KOWLOON MOTOR BUS › COMPANY. EWENTY-TWO CHASSIS FROM THE BRITISH, BEDFORD " WORKS HAVE BEEN Sir-I am directed to acknow. | ORDERED, AND A NUMBER OF THESE, WITH... BODY-WORK- ledge the receipt of your letter | CONSTRUCTED LOCALLY ARE NOW BEING ASSEMBLED IN THE. No. 8.B.O.. 1. in 258-1935 dated WORKSHOP OF THE COMPANY AND ARE NEAR COMPLETION. May 13, 1937, forwarding an THEY WILL BE POWERED BY THE PERKINS DIESEL ENGINE amendment to the by-laws made ¦ AND EACH WILL SEAT TWENTY-TWO-PASSENGERS, - under the Public Health (Food).

Eleven further vehicles have been ordered · from the famous. Ordinance, 1935. designed to en- Dennis factory and according to present plans, each will have seat- force, after due notice, the pas-ing accommodation for forty providing sanction is given by the teurization of all milk sold in the Traffic authorities. They will be engined by the Gardener 5 LW en- Colony.

gine. All these new vehicles will be stream-lined, but the colour

2. In view of the fact that this matter is reported to be at pre- sent the subject of special investi-

scheme has not yet been decided upon. An experimental bus, now

on the No.-5 route serving the friner roads of Kowloon, is painted an attractive red and grey, whereas the rest of the fleet are red and

gation in the United Kingdom, cream.

Thus

and in view of the further fact

within the next jew that the Dairy Farm Company, months, half of the present fleet which is the main source of aup-will be replaced. The remainder ply in the Colony, a well-known will be altered and will present a to be selling no unpasteurized stream-lined appearance. i- milk, it has been decided by Gov. ernment that the Legislative Council should not be invited to signify, its approval of the by-law In question until reference has been made to the Colonial Office. 3. The result of such reference will in due course be reported to

the Urban Council

and if its

opinion is unchanged a simple at- teration of the date in the draft by-law 1A will be all that is necessary.

CUTTING DOWN ACCIDENTS Both the new Bedford and Dennis cars will be served by only one door, and not two as at present

in vogue.

rapidly and we feel we are pursuing "The Territories are developing

a correct policy to cater for the increased traffic," stated. Mr. Lam. AGREEMENT WITH BAILWAY The present routes from Sheung Shut to Fanling, and from Fanling to Shan Tau Kok, will also be affected by the new policy.

At present a "missing link"

ble settlement of the Far Eastern problem.- Router. "

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One of the two Flying School planes that were detained by the Kwangtung authorities. They have since been returned to the School.

"LET US TRY

TO KEEP

A COOL HEAD"

Premier On International Situation

London, Jane 25.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, speaking on the international situation at Commons, said it was a perpetual danger on the Deace of Europe, because if some country representing one of ***· the two ideas involved in the Spanish struggle decided to inter- vene at a certain point," some other country taking the opposite view might find it Impossible to refrain from participating in the conflict dig

The British policy had been directed at ong sim-the main- tenance of the peace of Europe by confining the war to Spain -

A Resident's Protestceeding despite the agreement, yet there cannot be any danger of

Although intervention was pro-and German ships meant that

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it was also true that hitherto they further incidents of this kind. To The Editor, The Hong Kong had succeeded in achieving the The best they could do was firstly Daily Press.

object bebind their policy. Al- to fill the gap in the patrol and Dear Sir, I was interested in a though various countries might be to restart the endeavour to obtain letter to your paper a few days on the side of one or the other, the withdrawal of foreign volun- ago protesting against the contin- yet no conditry really wanted a teers- uation of water restrictions. To-European war. "Let us try to keep Reuter, day. I read that we have had. 3

a cool head and neither say or do

the hills to observe the condition" inches of rain in the past two days. anything to precipitate the disas

Yesterday evening I rode over ter," he said.

As regards the Leipzig incident, of the reservoirs on the Island and in the circumstances the German I found that Wong:Nel-cheong and i claim they could not allow their Upper Tytam Reservoirs are full-ships to be exposed to risks and previous observations have shown this Pokfulam and the Upper Aberdeen thought the experiences which the was reasonable. When he

Germans had and the natural No doubt the Water Authority is indignation which the Deutschland

Reservoirs to be full.

NEW SINCERE'S * APPOINTMENT

The Sincere Company announce that their board of directors have appointed Mr. Choy Hing, chair- man of the board, concurrently as managing director of the Cam pany in the place of Mr. Ján Con

managing director recently on ac- count of health.

CHAN SZE

MURDER SEQUEL

Chinese Manager In Court

LI Fur-chong, chief manager of Sincere's Perfumery Manufactory, appeared on remand before Mr. K.. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Ma-. gistracy yesterday on a charge of being an accessory before the fact in connection with the murder of Mr. David Chan Sze, former managing director of the Sincere Company Ltd.

Li was charged with procuring way-kor Bome-plat and commanding a man named Ko Gothazy tot carry-

it the murder between April 13

and May 13,

Mr. Leo D'Almada, Bnr. appeared for the defence, and said that he understood that the prosecution wanted a week's formal remand and added that he had no objection to this application.

Detective Inspector Carey, for the police, then asked his Worship to remand accused" in police custody.

A short time after they had left the Court, Inspector Carey

and Mr. D'Almada returned when the latter applied for permission for accused to be seen by his family. This was granted.

"This we believe will greatly exists between Fanling and Tan waiting until Tytam Reservoir is incident aroused, he thought, the Sang who resigned as acting Wong, who are also charged with

help to minimise accidents occur- ring from people allghting whilst the vehicle is in motion," said Mr. Lam, manager of the Bus Company yesterday to a "Hong Kong Dally Press Tepresentative. The con- ductor will have more control over the passengers since he had only one, door to look after.".

A new departure will also be the greater seating capacity for first class passengers,

4. I am to make it clear that action on these lines, in accor- dance with the provisions of sec- tion 7 et Ordinance 13 of 1935, a not intended to signify any ab- "We have decided on this change ridgement of the statutory powers because we realise that the month- of the Urban Council in this tiny ticket holders and there are portant matter; but that excep- many of them--have often in the tional circumstances seem in this past been forced to sit in the case to justify the retarding ac-second class." tion which that section contem- plates.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant, (ED.) A. G. CLARKE P. Colonial Secretary, The Secretary,

Urban Council Hong Kong.

FOR THE TERRITORIES “ According to present plans, the twenty-two Bedfords will be placed. on the New Territories run; · The present service from Kowloon" to Sheung Shui operates on a twenty- four minute schedule, and with the reorganised run, it is confidently expected to cut the time schedule ! by half, thus making a 12-minute

service possible.

»t the Arctic trade route. See artiěla on

which the Company intenda to rectify.

However, nothing concrete has been formulated regarding this section as a provisional agreement has been entered into between the Bus Company and the Kowloon Railway authorities regarding the route between Taipo and Fanling.

"The raliway people, I think are proposing to run a light train ser- vice between these two points," Mr. Lam said. "We are in entire agree- ment with the scheme, and if it materialises we will not run a bus service in competition."

BIG INCREASE REPORTED

Exchange

Equalisation Fund

full and overflowing, and water running to waste before we are granted further facilities-Yours etc.

H. B. L. DOWBIGGIN. Hong Kong, June 24.

German Government's withdraw ing of ships and treating the Letp- dg incident as closed had shown commendable restrain which they all should recognise. The result Lof the disappearance of the Tatian

READY TO RESUME

NEGOTIATIONS

Mr. Kawagoe Interviewed On Departure For Shanghai

Tokyo, Jane. 25.

Mr. Shizora Kawagoe, Japanese Ambassador to China, who sailed from Yokohama for Shanghai to-day, said to newspapermen that he was' ready to resume negotiations with, China for the 'readjustment of Sino-Japanese relations if it was desired" by Chin. He did not think all the pending questions could be solved in a short space of time, but he will be satisfied if ground could be prepared for improving relations.

London, June 25. The Chancellor of the Eiche quer, Sir John Simon announced In Commons that there had been ́an increase, in the Exchange Equalization Fund of £200,000,000. He explained that in addition to dishṇarding of gold the anancialTM disturbance abroad caused the Regarding Sino-Japanese econo- general tendency of capital funds mic co-operation in North China. to move to London. The increase he declared they will continue the was for the essential purpose of practice of negotiating with the meintaining the financial policy local Chinese administration on and objectives of the Tripartite | local Issues,” The Japanese wil Monetary Agreement. --Reuter, refer to Nanking, only those issues

which were most com inter-governmental

He said that now that Japan recognised Chinx, in a new 1ght it was China's turn to grasp the true aspect of Japan and a true understanding of Japan consisted acknowledging Japan's right of existence and development, especially full recognition of the inevitable relations between Manchukuo and North Chios.

KLOCAL ISSUES

R.M.A. DELPHINUS

impossibility of cance Sino-Japanese trace Tang

RMA Delphinus left Eat Tak for Penang yesterday at 11:45 am. She carried no passengers but my there were 2.480 kilos of freight on board as well as 165.946 kins of (mall)

and the concluded Be

THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON LONDON: 1. 11/164. TT. ON NEW WORK: "30-3/8,

London Silver Market

(From Our Own Correspondent)

London," June 19373) London silver prices to-day were General down: 1/15 as follower

the

tan and General Ho Yin-24

June 24 Jun 19-7819-13/16

19-15/16 29-7/8/

Mr. Choy Hing was, one of the promoters of Bincere Company and has for over 20 years in 'the' Past continuously been chairman of the board of directora of the Company. He is very popular among the Chinese business circle and his business acumen and ex- perience highly qualify him for the new appointment."

INDEPENDENCE OF PHILIPPINES

It was learned that the two other suspects, Ko Wah-tak and Laung

the alleged murder, will appear on remand on Tuesday, when they will probably be remanded for fur ther investigations.

The third person. Au Hing, wha was arrested in the New Territories on Thursday morning. will face the capital charge to-day,

NEWS INDEX

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The Joint Philippine American Leading Article Committee now studying problems Local Diary

of Philippine Independence will Mail Notices hold public hearings In San Fran- Radio Programmes cisco in July 21-23 before sailing shipping In the President Hoover en route Sport to Manila.

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