1929-12-30 — Page 2

Only $5.

We are now fixing Gas Fires at a new low Schedule

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rate of $5.00 only.

(in houses already connected to ourmains) Hire terms-$5.00 per annum. (also on sale, cash or iustalmentş)

THE HONGKONG"" TELEGRAPH.

INDIAN PROBLEM.

GANDHI'S DEMAND FOR INDEPENDENCE.

London, Dec. 28,

MONDAY, DECEMBER 30,

1929.

CANADIAN TRADE.

ARRIVAL OF NEW ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER.

Somme, evidence of recent dove- The adoption of Gandhi's reso-lopments in the expanaton of lution by the Indian National Con- Canadian export trade to Hong- the kong and South China is seen in greaa was "splashed" by

headlines.

morning papers under sombre

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the arrival, by the Empress of Canada on Sunday, of Mr. W. J. Riddiford, who will occupy the The Daily News points out that position of Assistant Canadian the Congress is not now fighting Trade Commissioner in Hongkong, the British Raj, "but facts of Mr. Riddiford has for the last history, geography and race-year occupied a similar position things for which no human being in the Shanghai office of the Com- is responsible and which may be mercial Intelligence Service of unfortunate, but which cannot be Canada, his transfer to Hongkong Ignored or changed by a resoluteing a result of the inability of tion as by a magic spell.”.

the local office to cope with rapid increases in the volume and variety of imports from. Canada.

The Daily Mirror says that "the nowa from India implies that our mastery is over. For the sake of ouracives and perhaps more for the sake of the millions of

Send your order to-day, natives, wo hope it is not true."

Use This Space

(cut ous and hand in or post to any of our address) Please Fix a Gas Fire on above Terms (Fixing charge $5.00 Hive $5.00 per annum)

Name

Address

THEHONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO.,LD.

West Point, Hongkong & Jordan Road Kowloon.

Central Showroom-Ice House Street.

Telephone Central '47. /

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DODWELL&CO., LTD.

Sale Agents for

BELL'S

Asbestos Marine Packings. Asbestos Products.

Asbestos Decolite Flooring. Asbestos Cement Sheating.

Rubber Flooring. Rigid Rubber Tiles.

Wm. M. B. BRIGGS & SON, LTD.

Bituminous Specialities.

W. B. DICKS.

Marine Qils.

THE PARAFFINE COMPANIES, LTD. Ru-ber-old Patont Roofing & S.P.C. Paints,

WOODITE CO., LTD.

Woodite Tubes.

Pump Rings, Sheets, Washers, Valves, etc.'

Mr. Paul Sykas, Canadian Trade Commissioner for Hongkong and South China, reports that, despite some depression in these markets The Morning Post says that at the present time, imports of Gandhi's resolution is open, Ingo Canadian goods have expanded lent treason, and a breach of the most satisfactorily sfuggish Indian penal code "and if the In- four market has been the only dian Government has any sense feature of local conditions which of pride and prestige it will put has given our exporters ahy the ringleaders on trial." serious concern on the other hand a considerable variety of Reuter.

commodities which have never before been imported from Canada are now becoming well establish- ed." Many of these are manufac tured goods, a tribute to Canada's manufacturing industry, which is, in many cases. able to compete successfully with similar Indus- tries in other countries, and also a striking evidence of the ability of Canadian exporters to overcome tariff obstacles in some marketa by loenting alternative outlets for exportable surplusos."

Sinn Fein Tactics.

London, Dec. 20. “The eve of 1900 in Judia is won derfully like the atmosphere in 1917 in Ireland" is the opinion expressed by Mr. J. L. Garvin in an article in the Observer. He declares that Sinn Fein has increasingly become the model of the Hindu extremists. The "playing of The Wearing of the Green' at Lahore was no freak. It was deliberately adopted as the Anthem of the Congress and im plies an attempt to imitate the Irish model right through and further if possible."

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Complete Severance Proposed. Lahore, Dec, 29.

The complete severance of British connexion and the establishment of A parallel Government was one of the proposals made at a lively meet ing of the Congress committee yes terday, int Pandit Malaviya pleaded Con. for the participation of the

London gress and party in the Conference. Beuter.

Attack on British Empire.

Lahore, Dec. 29.

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No small credit for the locat situation is given by Mr. Sykes Lo the local business community: of The cordial co-operation. Hongkong business houses has been of inestimable value to me, both during the establishment of this office and since that time. I feel that there in a genuine. nj preciation of Canada's important one of the trading position as nations of the world (she stands 5th in total trade) and a willing- ness to see a wider distribution of her products in these marketa." "

LOCAL WEDDING.

PRETTY CEREMÓNY AT

-HOP YAT CHURCH.

The Hop Yak Church was the scene of a very pretty wedding on Saturday afternoon when Misa Wong Man-ying, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wong Kwok-shuen, was married to Dr. Au King, son of Dr. and Mrs. SC. Au. The Rev. C. L Cheung officiated.

Jawahar Lal Nehru, the pre- sident of the All-India Congress, this morning, amid scenes' of great excitement hauled up the national flag. A crowd of thirty thousand. including women, broke through the cordons of volunteers with cheers; and ctles of "Long live the revolution" greeted a speech by Jawahar Lal declaring that the flag

was the symbol of India's unity. Once unfurled, it must not be lowered while a single person

The bride, who looked very remained alive in India.

"We want reality of power, not charming in her dress of white merely the livery of office," de satin, was given away by her clared Jawahar Lal Nehru in his father and carried a bouquet of presidential address on the open-white roses and maiden hair fern. ing of the Congress. He advocated Miss Wong Man-hing acted the immediate realisation of the bridesmaid, her dress being of lace. She letter and spirit of the resolution violet satin allver passed by the Congress executive carried a bouquet of pink roses committee defining Swaraj, and and fern. declared that when India's economic Dr. Lai Kwong-yuk discharged nid social problems had been solved, the duties of best man, while Mr. communal differences would dia- Ko Yan-cheong was at the organ. appear. He described Dominion A reception was later hold at status as "the shadow of authority the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden for a handful of Indians and mere where a large number of friends repression and exploitation of the gathered to wish the happy couple masses."

health and happiness.

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Jawabar Lal dramatically ask-

our comrades lie in prison and there is

no guarantee that real freedom will come to us?" He said, "Despite the golden harvest and heavy dividenda, mud huts, hovels and the makedness of the prople testify to, the glory of the British Empire in India." The Congress must demand for Inbour better life and opportunities, and control of industry on a co-operative basic.

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DROUGHT BROKEN..

HEAVY RAINS FALL ALL OVER AUSTRALIA.

HOW TO COMPEL ATTENTION IS THE PROBLEM OF

MODERN BUSINESS

IF YOU HAVE VISITED

SHANGHAI, LONDON, PARIS or NEW YORK

RECENTLY, YOUR ATTENTION MUST HAVE BEEN INSTANTLY ATTRACTED TO THOSE PROGRESSIVE ESTABLISHMENTS.

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The seven years drought GIBRALTAR TUNNEL.nois, the author of the scheme for

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EUROPE...

Melbourne, Dec. 28.

throughout Central Australia has been broken by immensely benefic- ial rains which have fallen all Strongly supporting the boycott over Australia. *****

The heaviest downfalls occur- of the Councils, Jawahar Lal.de. clared that the boycott would re-red in Victoria, South Australia lease the energy nécessary for a and New South Wales. Much general strike, non-payment of damage has been done to the Laxes, and the boycott of British railways as a result of the down-pecting Europe and Africa" will 176| goods and foreign cloth.-Reuter. pour. Reuter.

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Okay, We'd Say

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Gibraltar, has arrived at Tarita from Madrid with a party of en gineers. He has announced that The Spanish Government has ap proved a fresh grant to defray the cost of taking soundings and sink ing shafts,

The tunnelling is to start at Alcazar-Seguir, Morocco Reuser.

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