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DESIGNS & ESTIMATES from

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Chisa Building,

CIVIL SERVANTS'

PETITION.

Hongkong Telegraph"

for The South China "Morning Post, Ltd,

1 & 3, Wyndham Street, Honghuag,

The

Dollar on Demand 28. Lighting-up Time: 4.43 High Water:-9.92 m.. Low Water:3.03 p.

Hongkong Telegraph.

Tal. C, 209.

FOUNDED 1881

NOJ 12,470.

三拜雞號九廿月八英港香 WEDNESDAY..

IS TEA TOO DEAR A SUFFRAGETTE

AT HOME?.

ADVERSE REPLY

GOVERNMENT.

BY

*30,000,000 POUNDS MORE IN STOCK.

COMMISSION WILL CONSIDER ALL SALARIES,

PAST CONCESSIONS.

REDUCTION URGED.

COMEDY.

PEACE PACT LUNCH INTERRUPTED.

WOMEN LOCKED UP FOR OVER THREE HOURS.

AUGUST 29, 1928. ЯħtЯt

NEW BUSES FOR KOWLOON.

BODIES BUILT BY MESSRS. W. S. BAILEY AND CO.

EXCELLENT. WORK, Three new buses built to the order of Messrs. Alex Ross and Co.,, Lid, by Messrs. Balley and Co., Ltd., for the Kal Tack Motor

KELLOGG TREATY RECEPTION.

GERMANY AND ITALY CYNICAL.

FRANCE & POLAND EXPRESS GRATIFICATION.

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London, Aug, 28. A suggestion that, in view of the stalement that there are thirty mil lion more pounds of tea in Britain Unn a year ago, tea prices are too high, was to-day denied by the

letos or the biggest BEER & SANDWICHES. Bus Co. have been officially inspect WILL AMERICA RATIFY

ing houses in London, who said that Whilst the Hongkong Govern-he did not know of any profiteering ment is willing in consider cases of in the tea trade. The profit on ten individual hardship, it is not pre- was smaller than on any other pared at the moment to undertake domestic article. He added that be. any general revision of the existing fore the markets broke in the early which subordinate officers. It is intended publie at a price below that however, that the salaries senle they could inty it. throughout the whole Government Mra, Drapper, the Lady a Treaty, establishing "equal rights service shall be considered by the Commission which is to be appoint.Mayor of Deptford,

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BIRTH RATE SHOWS COUNTY

INCREASE.

BEST BRITISH FIGURES FOR EIGHT: YEARS.

DEATHS ARE FEWER.

London, Aug. 28.

CRICKET RESULTS.

KENT BEATEN BY

WEST

INDIES.

LANCASHIRE DEFEATS WALES

For the first time since 1920, thọ | A. AT BLACKPOOL,

birth-rate for the second quarter'

of the year. showed an increase

over the corresponding period of SUTCLIFFE'S BIG SCORE the previous year.

The birth rate for 1927 was 16.0

fallura to stand up against the Lancashire bowling, and the defeat of Kent by the West Indes.

ed and tested; at Kowloon, and, Paris, Aug, 28.

London, Aug 28.

Rain Interfered with piny prac belag found highly satisfactory,

A mixed reception has been per thousand of the population,tically all over the country yester As was feared, trouble has bech have at once been put to work on created by suffragettes who arriv-the roads. Two similar buses given to the Kellogg Paet by the which was the lowest recorded day, the majority of the matches since civil registration began. being left in the drst innings also being completed by Continental press. ed here for thepurpose of geiting are

For the second quarter of this stage. Messrs. Bailey & Co., Ltd. The "Good need that ought to pro-your, the rate was 17.5. There There were no surprising per- scale of salaries to dollar-palduring they were selling ten to the the international delegates who chassis of these buses are of the duce good fruit" is the comment of was also a alight increase in the formances, unless it were Wales'

signed the Kellogg Pact to accept well known "Dennis" low spring

delivered to the Parisian newspaper Homme type, and were Balley's shipyard a month ago, Libre, while Le Matin points out who is for women all over the world."

since when the entire construction, Member of the Food

Inhabitants of Rambouillet form-upholstering, electric lighting, that it is the first Peace Treaty el to deal with the general ques-Council is of the opinion, howed a guard of honour for the Peace painting, polishing and lettering, concluded in the world's history without war Immediately preced- This is the main feature of theever, that ten prices should be re-

a chateau as the guests at a lun-

ing it. 'Government's reply to the petition duced, otherwise she proposes to Pact delegates on their arrival at ebe, have been completed.

their honour by made by subordinate officers which raise the question at the Council,

which was previously of the opinioncheon given in we published in full yesterday.

that the profit made by retall tea President Doumergue. Attention is drawn in the reply distributing companies might well anges in 1924 to subordinate officers form the subject of an enquiry. with ten years' service and up-

No Reduction, wards, and also to the leasing of flats at rentals equivalent to six per -cent, of their salaries.

Alon.

to

the grant

of

rent

Allow-

The harmony of the proceedings was marred by a demonstration of suffragettes commissioned by the Committee of International Action lead-and the National Women's Party of the United States (of which Viscountess Rhondda and Miss Doris Stevens are the respective organisers) to present the petition asking the plenipotentiarles to support a pact granting equal rights for men and women.

Officials of three of the Ing retail tea firms in London stated The Government is also satisfied, to-day that there was no intention from enquiries made, that the con of making any reduction in the ditions of dervice compare favour-price of tea.-Reuter. ably with those obtaining else. where la the Colony. Moreover, It is stated that dollar exchange fac tors do not operate to the same extent in the case of subordinate offeera as in that of the sterling- paid civil servants.

Text of Relply.

The Government reply, which is dated today, is in the form of a letter from the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax (Colonial Secretary) to those who forwarded the petition on behalf of the dollar-paid servants, It is in the following terms:

PRE-WAR VIENNA.

SPLENDID FILM AT THE ·

QUEEN'S.

Entrance Barred.

Finding the entrance barred, the delegation asked the gendarmes to hand President Doumergue address.

an

Vienna, capital of the. Austrian

Four women who were particu- Empire in the days before the Great War, with its brilliant larly insistent endeavoured to gathering of officers and artalo- force their way into the chateau. crats, is presented in a glittering They were politely escorted kaleidescope of colour and life at the Mayoralty building, where

to

the Queen's in a film in which they were detained for three and Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry a half hours until President are being co-starred under the Doumergue's guests had departed. title of "Love Me and the World. Is Mine."

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your petition of the 7th August, 1928, and to inform you that the question of the re-

It is the story of an orphaned vision of salaries of Subordinate Officers has already,received the child, who goes into the great up in the careful consideration of this Gov-capital, and is taken

swirl of gay life that was charac- ernment.

2. Since the general revision teristically the Viennese back- of salaries in 1920 and 1921, the ground in the days before the war. increased cost of living of locallyShe is swept into a backwash from domiciled officers has been re- which she is eventually rescued cognised by the grant "of rent through romance with a brilliant After Austrian officer, allowances in 1924 to officers on young

misunderstandings, the the permanent staff-with ten years many continuous service and upwards. couple are reunited and he leaves These allowances range from $8 for the war after the marriage.

Mary Philbin does some notable

month for salaries of $460 a year

$3,000 a year and over.

Salaries Adequate,

cast

The picture is being screened for the last time to-day.

There was no durance vile, how ever, for the women were supplied with lunch in the shape of sand- wiches, mineral water and beer.

Miss Doris Stevens, interviewed Vis- Reuter, stated that

not ac- Jeountess Rhondda did

the delegation to company Rambouillet..

by

The bodies of these buses are of strong design and excellent finish and provide seating accom- modation in upholstered Rexine covered spring seats forward for eight first-class passengers, and polished hardwood seats aft for

Note Tore Up.

She added that the police tore up the note which the deputation fisked them to convey to President Houmergue, and that a second

concierge.

begged note

The

women's

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SUNCULARACJMEMBER MEANINGARMENT AUTEM NEPOTREBN

SHANGHAI YOUTH GETS FIVE YEARS.

Extensive Pilfering From Doctors": Offices.

A SMILING CONFESSION.

Shanghai, Aug. 29.

sunve

A Chinese named Roginald Wong, alias Percy Hsu, a and well groomed youth, was to-day sentenced to five years imprisonment for a. Aeries of thefts in doctors' waiting rooms and also for sundry larcentes.

The accused was recent- ly apprehended at Tsingtao, following Information sup- plied by Mr. Fred Ellas, a Prisoner Shanghai broker. assisted the police in recover- ing the stolen goods from pawnshops, and smilingly admitted his guilt before a crowded

Own Court.-Our Correspondent.

twelve

4.

li

first quarter.

The Registrar-Goneral, however, points out that these figures do not definitely indicate an alteration in the downward tendency of the be due to the unusually large num birth-rate, as the increase might

ber of marriages in 1927.

It is noteworthy that the Polish Marriages in the first quarter of newspapers, according to Reuter's this year showed a decline com- the corresponding correspondent at Warsaw, arepared with especially gratified because they quarter of last year.

The death-rate for the first half claim that the Pact now signed is similar to the proposal which was of this year shows a decline, submitted by the Pollah delega- being 12.0 per thousand of the tion to Geneva last year, and that population, compared with 14.2 in in signing it Germany forswears the first half of last year.-British for over any idea of forcibly re-Wireless. arranging her eastern frontier.

"Cloak of Fine Words."

PEAK NUISANCE RESULTS IN FINE.

On the contrary, the Italian and MOSQUITO BREEDING. German press are cynical and nar- castic. The Rome, Tribuna ex- presses the opinion that the Pack "will not for long lumine the pages of history" but that the res-

Messrs. Lam Dore, contractors, ponsibility for this, however, will not be Italy's but the major signa- were fined $50 by Mr. R. E. Lind. tories who have "propared" by tho sell, this morning, for maintaining ceremony in Paris a welter of a bamboo scaffolding in which trouble and bitter suspicion under were exposed cavities capable of

consolidato

a cloak of fine words. The Peace containing water. Pact will further.

Sanitary Inspector A, G. Martin, America's aloofness from the prosecuting, informed his Worship League of Nations.

"Nearly Like Hollywood."

that the contractor has crected n scaffolding on the site of Sir Robert Ho Tung's new house near "War Banished for Half-an-Mount Kellet. The houso was not Hour" and "Nearly Like Holly- yet finished and the scaffolding wood" are examples of the ironi-was still necesary, but the bam cal headings in the German Na-boos constituting the uprights in ilonalist press. Their comments the structure were so cut that they are couched in a similar tope of could hold water in the event of mistrust and sarcasm, and parti-heavy rain falling, and mosquitoes cular emphasis is laid upon the could breed there.

RESULTS AT A GLANCE. Yorkshire won on first innings v.

Sussex,

Notta won on first innings v.

Derbyshire. Lancashire defeated Wales by 80

rung.

Essex won on first innings

against Lofcoster. Warwick won on first innings v.

Worcester.

Surrey won on first innings V.

Middlesex.

Gloucester won on first innings

v. Somerset.

West Indies defeated Kent" by

210.

HONOURS LISTS."

The principal individuni per-- formances, wore as follows:-

Baiting.

Sutcliff (York)

228

Duleep Singhi (Sussex)

160

Dawson (Lancs.)

120*

O'Connor (Essex)

128

114

Browne (Woat Indies)

103

Fiddian Green (Warwick) DS

02

Hobba (Surrey)

75

Hallows (Lanes.)

Wyatt (Warwick)

* Not Out..

*Bowling.

for 104 Freeman (Rent) Parker (Gloucester)., 7 for 47. Hopwood (Lancs.) ... for 20 Larwood (Notts)... 5 for 20

SUTCLIFFE'S BIG SCORE.

Sussex Forced to Follow on Again,

fact that there is no sign of gen- The Inspector said the defen- Playing away at Eastbourne, eral disarmament after the cera- dants had been warned on several Yorkshire easily gained first In- of British occasions to see to the matter, butnings points against Sussex, many in Paris, nor and French troops evacuating Ger- they hnd ignored these warninge, though the home team put up a man territory.

No less than seven samples of fine second innings score, thanks

ed 150 before being diamissed. inrvac had been taken from the mainly to Duleep Singh who scor site.

The Left journals, on the con- trary, stress the moral importance, and significanes of the signing as greatly increasing the chance of continuing pence-Reuter.

On the offence being explained to the defendants' representative, the latter pleaded guilty and was fined $50.

third-class passengers. to $25 a month for salaries of acting in this picture, while Nor- attempt was made through the The insides of the buses are neatly ntan Kelry wears his gorgeous President Doumergue to permit covered with Rexine, the floors of In addition some 42 flats were uniform well and fits ideally into the guests to come out for ten the first-class compartment with rented by Government and are the part of the romantle lover.miantes to hear the linoleum and floors of the third-class compartment sparred. The win longed to Government servants of They are supported "by

dows are of the Strachan and the Asintle staff at rentais equiva- which includes such well-known request.

Miss Stevens expressed the Brown patent adjustable eliding

Will America Natify? lent to 6 per cent. of the officers' names as George. Siegmann and

opinion that anyone was entitled

Washington, Aug. 28.. salaries.

Belty Campson.

to petition the President of any type and the electric lighting, by

Although Mr. Kellogg in Paris Republic, and she emphasised that Messrs. Wm. C. Jack and Co., Ltd., this was all the women wished to of neat and effective design.

a trial of the buses last declined to forecast the Senate's at week there were present for theitude towards the Peace Pact it is Kal Tack Co., Messrs. Ho Sul generally expected here that the woon, (Manager), Lam Moo-sing, Senate will ratify with a safe (Secretary), and Wong Fong-lal majority if no political storm BEING TRANSFERRED FROM (Chief Engineer), Sub Inspector of of officers of special ability may feminist committed in Paris at the Mason, for the Police Department, over when the Pact comes before the and Messrs. C. F. Mendham and Senate which will remove it from Brake and lighting tests and

3. Towards the end of 1927, the

Hongkong General Chamber of

eon-

do,

"Unfair Advantage." Commerce and the Chinese Cham-receive promotion who are ber of Commerce were consulted sidered suitable for the respon-

According to the New York and careful enquiries were in-sibilities attaching to the higher stituted for the purpose of compar-pusta. But it must be remember-Herald's Paris edition Mre. Kellogg Buy the rates of pay and conditions ed that the accelerated promotion stigmatises the presence of this

of officers

of

servico

At

breaks.

The Presidentini election will be

FORD FACTORY FOR ENGLAND.

IRELAND.

London, Aug. 28.

It was announced at the Cork

the Clerical Service with those at times, involve the passing over time of the signing of the pact as obtaining in local commercial for promotion of officers with long "nopportune and out of place, A.. A. Dand for the builders; the realm of partisan politics. The Rotary Club that the Henry Ford the ....I know my husband agrees general inspection were carried fact that the fact imposes no obliga- Company is transferring the bulk

houses, both Chinese and and faithful service and European, and of deciding whether task of selection therefore is the Government rates were ade-difficult one. quate. As a result of these enquiries, the Government is

Exchange Factor.

The feature of the match was the big score made by Sutcliffe, In

Yorkshire's first innings, who hit up 228 in brilliant display. Yorkshire declared their Innings closed at 429 for four wickets, and forced Sussex to follow on, by dis- Full missing the side for 181. Hime had been played when Sussex concluded their second Innings for 490. The scores were:

Yorkshire, 129 for 4 wickets. Sussex, 131 and 190.7% BOWLERS BEAT BATSMEN.

Low Scoring in Notis v. Derby Match,

tions on the United States, other

characterised by low a with me that these women have out by Inspector Mason and the than the renunciation of war, is of its newly-erected machinery Playing at Nottingham, in #

taken an unfair advantage of the buses then run at 30 mph. when likely to induce the Senate to ratify. there to Manchester, because the match situation?" On the contrary is both brakes were applied, pulling The interesting question is whether Company has been unable to ar- acoring, Notts gained first innings Stevens, in an Interview, declares the busen up within their own the opponents of the naval building rango a satisfactory solution of points against Derbyshire. The programme will use the l'act to the import duty difficulty, which bowling of both sides completely that Mr. Kellogg promised to re- lengths ceive the Committee-Reuter.

Lator further trials were made reinforce their arguments, and there has precluded the Ford car com- mastered the batting, and rain

play. In the presence of Mr. D. Burling is evidence that some members of peting in the British market-also interfered somewhat with ham, (D.S.P.), and Inspector Ma- the administration are finding it Reuter, son, Mr. T. Hayward (for Alex difficult to reconcile the Pact with Ross & Co., Ltd.), and Mr. Dand, for their request for more ships.— the builders. The buses were tried Router's American Service: up the Talpo road and proved excel- lent climbers, quite free from vibration and most comfortable; brake tests as before were made coming down hill and the buses duty approved by Mr. Burlingham, as highly satisfactory and a great. credit to all concerned.

EAST AFRICA.'

satisfied that, taking into account 5. The scheme of exchange the various factors of pension allowances, for officers on sterling rights, medical attendance, housing rates of pay is a temporary and rent allowance, leave, etc., expedient, pending the appoint- the conditions of Government serment of a Salaries Commission ROYAL TOUR OF EAST vice compare favourably with and is particularly to meet the those obtaining elsewhere in the extra cost of living of officers in Colony: and the large number of the Colony resulting from the applications of high standard for fall in the exchange value of the Up: dollar since the fixing of the, Government posts strongly ports the view that the ecales of sterling salaries. This factor of salary are, genorally speaking, exchange is one which does not adequate.

operato to the same extent against ocal Subordinate officers paid on a dollar basis,

Promotion Question.

4. It is stated in paragraph 7

of the petition that advancement.

Is slow and that promotion gen-

No Revision Yet.

"

6. It is intended, however, that

erally in governed by length of the Commission, whose appoint-

DEPARTURE FROM LONDON SHORTLY.

:

London, Aug. 28: II.R.II. the Prince of Wales, wiro will be accompanied by his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, will leave London for his tour of East Africa on 'September 6th. It understood that no definite

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FAIR WEATHER,

J

WORLD'S FLYWEIGHT

TITLE.

BEING DECIDED IN LONDON TO-DAY.

London, Aug, 28.

LESS UNEMPLOYED.

FIRST. DECLINE FOR SOME WEEKS.

The only outstanding perform- ance was the taking of five wickets- The for 20 runs by Larwood. scores were:

Notts, 192. Derbyshire, 129. Netts, 154 for 6 wickets. LANCS. BEAT WALES. Hopwood Takes Six Wickets for 20 Runs. Although Lancashire only won On August 20th, the total num-by 80 runs against Wales, playing at

London, Aug. 28. For the first time, for some weeks, the unemployment returns show a decline.

י,

One of the few London world's ber of unemployed was 1,308,200. Blackpool, they competely domina

ted the match, as is evidenced by

the fact that the Lancashire cap-

service rather than by merit. Thement has been recommended to itinerary will be followed. rate of promotion has recently the Secretary of State, shall have Thoir Royal Highnesses will go

After the The Royal observatory report to-title matches is being decided in This was 5,969 less than the week

tain declared his aide's second in- bean increased by the adoption of the opportunity of considering out by way of Egypt.

nings closed when only 97 had been a programme which provides for salaries scales throughout the journey through Dast Africa, they day states that the anticyclone the open air at Clapton Stadium before, but 263,845 more than the

scored for three wickets, leaving European. Byweight champion,

Wales to get 212 to win. It was a an annually increasing number service. Pending the appointment will proceed through Northern remains central to the N.E. of to-morrow, when the British and year before:-British Wireless. Shanghai, Aug. 28.

safe declaration judging by the first of posts in the higher grades of and report of such Commission, Rhodosia and thence southward to Japan and a depression is still

"Newsboy" Brown, in a 15-round service. In selecting offers for the Government though at all times Capetown, from which port they shown over the Gulf of Tongking. Johnny Hill, meets the American,

The typhoon, which is now sovere,

The former Nationalist Foreign innings, for Wales had only knock- promotion to higher posts the at willing to consider any individual will sail for Home. tempt le made to give due weight case where hardship may be deemed It is anticipated that the Royal is about 50 miles S.E. of Oshima, bout.

This match will be preceded by Mintater, General Hwang Fu, ar-ed up 86, Hopwood boing deadly moving northward. The forecast both to length of service and to to exist, is not prepared to under- travellers will be back in London mo noon to-morrow is:-N.E. or a 15-round contest between Toddy rived here to-day. It is stated that with the ball and taking six wickets special ability, and so far as take any general revision of the early next January-British

variable winds, moderate to light: Baldock and Johnny Brown, at be intends to return to politics, for the cheap cost of 20 runs.

but not with the Foreign Offico.

(Continued on Page 8) Wireless.

Bat. 01b.-Router. possible only those officers will existing scales.

fine.