1930-01-07 — Page 1

FROM THE STUDIOS" OF

RAOUL BIGAZZI FLORENCE

PUBL

Traubli

for The Code I

ITALY

an unusually fine collection of

STATUETTES

IN RARE MARBLES & BRONZE

p

Now being exhibited by—

C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

China Building.

Tal. C.269

SEVERE SLUMP IN SILVER VALUE.

TAEL DOWN TO RECORD

LOW LEVEL.

HONGKONG DOLLAR DECLINES IN SYMPATHY.

SHANGHAI PANICKY.

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Shanghai, Jan. 7.

The Shanghai Exchange Market is growing increasingly panicky following another heavy drop in the value of the tael.

Labras

Le Court Dallaf on Demand?-176-13/16d. Lighting Times:-5.54 pm.

The

High

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED VOZI NO 13,385

CAL YAEXLF TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1930.

EDITOR, NOT AN

INJUNCTION, ·

AMUSING OBJECTION TO A

WRIT FOR LIBEL.

THE SHOWDOWN AGAIN

Shanghai, Jan. 7.

SWIMMING BATH FOR Y.M.C.A.

EXCELLENT SCHEME IN

CONTEMPLATION.

PROPOSED EXTENSION OF."

KOWLOON BUILDING.

A libel action which promises to furnish n cause celebre began in an' unusual and gomewhat amusing manner in the Supreme Court yes-LARGE SUM INVOLVED. terday when Mr. Bruce Lockhart, the publisher and editor of The

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FASTEST FIGHTER IN THE WORLD.

NEW PLANES INTRODUCED-

INTO RA.F

AND NOT MERE RACERS

London, Jan, 0. Now Service machines of a high flying speed have been introduced to-day into the Royal Air Force. They are a direct result of the Cxperience gained by British machines in the Schneider trophy competition, and It is Ucclared thint they justify the risks and the very large expenditure involved in those competitions.

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日八初月二十

SM PER AUKUM

BINGLE COPY 16 CENTS

LOCAL BRANCH: Padder. Building, -

0.6334.

KOWLOON RENTAL BOMBS & RIA STUBBS RD. MOTOR

DISPUTE.

EUROPEAN SUED BY LANDLADY.

CLAIM WHICH FAILED OWING TO LEGAL SHORTCOMING.

INTERESTING POINT.

IN WARFARE.

GENERAL SMUTS ON PERILS

• OF THE FUTURE:

NO HUMANITY IN WAR,

Boston, Jan. 6, General Smuts the South African statesman, in the course of a interview with Reuter's representative, aald he could not agree with the suggestion advance od by President Hoover, apropos the problem of the freedom of the seas, that strict neutrality should be granted to dood-carrying ships in the time of war.

President #Eoover advanced the

INCIDENT.

STRONG REMARKS" BY MAGISTRATE.

MR. SAMPLE'S SUGGESTION "UTTER NONSENSE"??

$25 FINE IMPOSED.

morning, Mr. Hamilton gave his At the Central Magistracy this decision in the case to which

A claim for $302, balance of rent due for No. 1. Hart Avenue, Kowloon, against Mr. J. T. Dob bio, of the China Mail, heard in the Summary Court this morning before the "Paesne Judge suggestion on the ground that summoned for negligent driv war should not be waged against women and children and urged that foodships should be given the

The engines used in the British machines which broke the world' speed record in the contest over the Solent last year, and the Justice Wood) failed by reason of were the plaintiff, Mrs. Marjety P. S. streamline designs

new to fulfil a legal requiremont,

that

The finest swimming bath in the Sharderen, appited for the with- Colony will result, if them

"approved by the Board of Direc- drawal of the welt for libel Issued tors of the Hongkong European against him by Mr. McBain, « Y.M.C.A., is passed at a general The defendant based his applica-meeting of members on January tion on the phraseology of the writ. 1 next. It concluded with the words: "the cedented low level of one shilting Showdown, of which ́ defendant is | Szcretary of the Y.M.C.A. (My adopted for those machines, have Lee, No. 49, Elgin Streat, failing | immunity afforded to hospital a blind corner at Stubbs Road.

Interviewed this morning, the editor and publisher and an in- J. H. Hunt) stated that until the junction."

measure is approved by members. it is still more or leas in the air. He pointed out, however, that the scheme has been thoroughly well Judge King declined the applica thought out and that it should not tion and characterised the objee-fall to pass the general meeting. tion as frivolous because it was merely a matter of punctuation.

For the first time in the history of the aliver market, the tael yesterday declined to the unpre- and elevenpence three-farthings, which represents a fall of nearly twopence in a week.

Banking and financial circles predict a further depression in silver values,

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Econemic Reaction-

On

the

Mr. Bruce Lockhart contended that he was not an injunction but an editor.

"

Two-Storey Extension

It is also feared that

He gave an order for-plendinga. The plan also includes addi- disnstroys slump will result in a devastating reaction

The It will be recalled that Mr. Bruce tional dining accommodation and months will be more or less an extension economic structure of China,

Lockhart was fined some The dopression is attributed to back for comments made in the of the present dining roums in the a dual factor, the political situa-andern in reference to cer-shape of a two-storeyed structure, tion in China, and the large tain proceedings in the Provisional the ground floor of which will be the Court.Our Own Correspondent... utilised as a swimming bath, and accumulations of silver in vaults at Shangliai.

Ching, penra to have dropped entirely out of the market as purchaser of silver for monetary purposes, and has played a large part is the remarkable slump.

A Year's Slump.

The tael has dropped nearly did, in value to the past year, while allver avas quoted at 26.5/10th on

AMERICAN MOTOR EXHIBITION.

EIGHT-CYLINDER THE CAR

FOR 1930..

Jajiufii 41h, 1929, and 215/16th NEW CHASŜIS MODELS.

on December 30th. 1929.

The table below give the exchange rates for telegraphic transfer for the whole of 1929 at inter vále of approximately fortnight:--

New York, Jan. 7..

the upper door as a dining room and social hall, Plans have, it is will be submitted to the meeting understood, been prepared and

With regard to the bath itself, there is little doubt that it will be one of the finest in the East, and certainly the best in Hongkong.

Estimated Cost.

Exactly what cost will be involved, yet known, but it is, believed to by the proposed extension i not

be in the vicinity of $50,000.

While the structural details are Many thousands duily are attend-not at this stage available, it is aing the annual National Automobile Lélieved that the bath will be Show which is being held in the modelled on similar lines to that Grand Central Palace.

The show Indientes that 1920 will be a year of eight-cylinder cara and increased prices,

Over nature of new elussir ma- dels are exhibited, half of which are eight-cylinder types.

to

of the Y.M.C.A. in Shanghai. Ample dressing accommodation will be available, while provision will be made for an adjacent gymnasium.

Venue for Carnivals. Seating necommodation

will

been incorporated in the fighting machines with noteworthy Success...

His Lorship delivered an inte- In 1925, America gained the resting judgment in favour of the world's

record for Sarvica defendant, in the course of which machines at what was then re-he remarked that his sympathy wn, almost wholly with plaintiff, who might have fulfilled the re- quired condition had she been legally advised.

NEW TYPE OF SUICIDE

·CLUB PLANNED.

Navel Association For Shanghai,

TO HELP THE NEEDY.

Shanghai, Jan. 7.

A most remarkable" project' is contemplated by Mr. Wang Tsoo-chiu, the owner of the Great World, Amusement Re- sort in Shanghal. * {"

Mr. Wang is "ied to be "3 sponsoring an Association, the qualification for which will be that the prospg,tive menibers have at some time or other in their lives attempted suleide.

The project of the institu tion is to provide financial and medical aid to unfortunates. -Our Own Correspoüdent,

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Plaintiff stated that she was the owner of the house and entorid into a tenancy agreement with Mr. Dobbia for a period of not less than one year which commenced on May 1, 1928, the rental being $125 per month. Mr. Dobbie moved] out at the end of September, 1928, and from that date until April 30,

1929, when the agreement expired,

he had paid no rent.

Plaintiff referred to correspon- dence which is dealt with in the judgment, and went on to say that the house was occupted by other tenants In Detober, November-and December, but was vacant during January and February, 1929. She claimed $125 rent for January and

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Mr. E.-F. R. Sample, the architect,

ing

The charge against '"'defendant was that he overtook and passed a car driven by Br. W. C. Clark at

The alleged incident occurred an the evening of December 11.

His Worship, in giving his decl-

one of fact. Mr. Clark, the driver of the complainant's car-if I may so term it gave his evidence in a very clear fashion. It is sum- med up in Exhibit "A." (one of the case)... sketches produced, in the Future ware, declared the He was entirely unshaken by

The General, will be unspeakably bar-cross-examination.

three barous. They won't be the old- other witnesses gave their evi fashioned chivalrous wars, but denco quite clearly and corro- wars of bombs and bacteria. borated him. Mr. Franks, in his -Reuter's American Service. Independent sketch (produced” un Exhibit 3), was singularly convine.. Ing.

ships.

General Smuts disagrees be cause, he says, it merely consists of another palliative. against bar-tion, said: This case is purely barfam in war.

We want to have done with war. This idea of making war humane has been tried over and over again and it has always broken down in the stress of actual confilet.

VICTORIA FLYING DISASTER.

LORD STALBRIDGE'S ONLY SON KILLED.

Expert's Evidence.

It has been given by an "expert" (his Worship referred to Mr. Lauritsen) that people in the back of a car are handicapped. The expert is, a gentleman who habit unlly drives, à ́car-bia connexión will selling or repairing cara duca not count und, I doubt if he is

February, and $60 in Tapect of ENGLAND FLIGHT PLAN more export than 1 who never

March and April during which two months tenuats paid only $100 |

mooth, plus $2 for advertising the house.

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drive but habitually sit in the back. seal of other car. Had it been a question of a few yards, I might have gone into this more deeply, but the defondant's evidence rules, the thin out The witnesses in back seat corroborate Mr. Clark entirely.

London, Jan, 0.

Hon.. Captain' the

Hugh Grosvenor, Aide-de-camp to Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, Not Cancelled.

the Governor of South Australia, hus Replying to Mr. Dobble, plain been killed in a seaplane accident til aid she did not agree that the in Australia. He was the only The defendant's ovidence-after

agreement AMATERI NE DINILAILATION BREZ Lenancy

should be son and heir of Lord Stalbridge, the cross-examination by hie soll- With two companions, Flight-eftor-amazed me. It does not in cancelled, and she did not ask Mr.

Lleutenant Briggs and Leading a way correspond to the facts sarded, as the phenomenal speed[Dobbie, to leave, of one hundred and seventy-seven Replying to his Worship, plain-Aircraftaman Ewen, he was pre-given by the prosecution and, f tiff said that if subsequent tenants paring for a flight from Austrália hope, referred to a separate inci- miles per hour.

deat. The new models are generally also be prepared for a large num

For some time past, the British had paid $150 rent, she would have to England.

The seaplane crashed from a more powerful with greater deber of persons, so as to make pro- Royal Air Force has had in service given back the extra $25 to Mr. height of 100 feet into the aen at

Crux of Situation. celeration and hill-climbing ability vision for swimming carnivals a large number of Bristol Bulldog Dobbie. They are also designed with a view and other aquatle functions,

machines, which have a spoed in His Lorship: You did not tell Port Philip Bay, in Victoria. The

wreckage was subsequently locat-the Austin Seven was the crux of It at once became apparent that providing greater comfort. The social hall above will be excess of this. The Bristol Bull-him so, you know. Brakes are more reliable,

Plaintiff When they asked me ed in thirty feet of water but none the situation. The evidence of. more entered through the main vesti dog machines, marcover, are not stylish body lines have been intro-hule of the present building, and mere racers but carry the full the rent of the house I always told of the bodies has yet been re-the prosecution varies on the pas duced and the bodies are more will be quite separate from the equipment of a fighting plane. them $125.

Captain Grosvenor, who was sing between "at once, and 100 luxuriously furnished.

The machines now being put

"Mr. Clark admitted to: Giving evidence, Mr. Dobble Dr. Julius Klein, the Assistant usual social functions of the into service, mark further stated that he received a letter only 25 years of age, was a brillards."

He rode 200 yards under pressure. Mr. Lo Secretary of Commerce, is a state-YAL.C.A., while a handsome stage advance and are claimed to be from plaintiff dated August 28, ant amateur jockey. ment, points out that the British will be provided for amateur drn-easily superior in performance to 1928, in which she said that she much in steeplechases before he laboured this point. But Mr. "Bergellen"—from a half to one Dominions offer excellent markets matics, etc..

any machine reduced abroad. would hold him responsible for all left England for Australia, and Sample placed the passing below losses and cost of advertisements. twice competed in the Grand mile distant. He denied the pos for American motor vehicles.-

It can be safely assumed that British Wireless.

National. Renter's American Service..

Letters Unanswered.

He look up flying after he sibility of another Austin Soven.

In reply to me, he recognised. arrived in Australia in 1928, Mr. Debbie also admitted receiv-bought & D. II. Moth plane, and the incongruity of his story with ing two other similar letters and last summer few round Australla, the prosecution story and delibera said, that he did not reply to anya distance of 8,000 miles. in 31tely suggested that these four wit of them. He further said that days. His attempt to fly to Eng-nesses had conspired to ive false evidence because he had annoyed plaintiff urged him to leave at the land was to have been made in Mr. Clark previously by pasaink, end of September and, in fact, about ten days' time and he hoped. she had a new tenant then. She to lower Captain Kingsford assumed full responsibility for Smith's record of thirteen days for

batif:

This will be used for the

1920

Jan. 4

2/74

Jan. 17

2/7

Fub. I

Feb. 15

276% 2/62

Mar. 1

2/02

Mar. 16

2/074

Mar. 28

2/6.1/16

Apr. 5

276

Apr. 19:

2/6

Apr: 26

May 3

May 18

May 31

2/54 2/5/ -2/54

2/4

June 14

June 28

2/44 2/4

July 5

2/4"

July, 19

2/44

Aug. 2

2/4

Aug. 16

2/4

Aug.":10

2/4

Sept. B

2/3

Sept. 27

2/3%

Oct. 11

2/22

Oct. 25

2/24

RECENT AEROPLANE

the motion, will reesive the sup port of members, and that it will not be long before the bath is a fait ancompli.

Nov. 1

2/21/2

COLLISION.

Nov, 15

2/2

Nov. 29

2/21/2

Dec. 13

2/22

Dep. 27

2/12

Jan. 6, 1980

1/114

FILM DIRECTOR'S BODY RECOVERED,

BITTER PROHIBITION CONTROVERSY.

Our Own Correspondent...

Hongkong Dollars,

.

The rate of the dollar on demand

in Hongkong this morning opened

YOUTH ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

A PLUCKY RESCUE BY FERRY SEAMAN.

covered.

Santa Monica, Jan. 6. LIVELY CONGRESS ASSEMBLY Chiu Cheung-chew, aged 19, tonding new tenants and agreed the journey--British Wireless,

Naval divers have recovered the bodies of Mr. Kenneth Hawkes, the well-known film director, and Lase Thomas Harris, studio property

new.

An attempt by a Chinese named

that he could leave. commit suicide by throwing him.

Mrs, Dobbie said she believed IN PROSPECT.

self from a steam launch into the that plaintiff had a tenant at the harbour yesterday, was frustrated and of September, 1928, and seemed Washington, Jan. 6.'

by the plucky action of Leung Tant-anxious they should go a day Faced with an uncompleted tariff at 1/6.13/16ths, as compared with man, who were amongst those who bill, bitter controversy over the ya, a seaman on board the ferry earlier, in order to let the

launch Man Shun, who dived into tenant in.. a rate of 1/73/16the yesterday, lost their lives when two planes operation of the Prohibition Laws, the water and elected a rescue, representing a drop of 3/8ths of collided three miles from land' and and a host of other questions that Chiu was taken to the Government

Sympathy With Plaintiff. a penny in twenty-four hours. plunged into the sea three days may necessitate their continuing Civil Hospital in an exhausted

The future rate will depend ago.

work until well into the summer, condition and detained for treat- Giving judgment, his Lordship upon the price of allver and wil! It will be recalled that the ma- Congress re-assembled to-day after ment.

said that his sympathy in the probably depreciate. It will chines were engaged in the produc- the Recess,

The lad lived at Yaumati and matter was almost wholly with change in sympathy with the taol.] lion ‘of a film entitled "Such Men The Appropriations Committtee made the attempt on his life whilst the plaintiff who was the owner.

of the House of Representatives ap crossing the harbour to Hongkong 'more rapid slump than Shanghai. were lost. Three bodies were re- proved the Estimates of the War covered almost immediately.-Reu- Department for the coming year. tera American Servico,

They total G$435,000,000, an in- crease of G$442,000 as compared with the current financial year, which closes on June. 30th.-Ron ters American Service.

Hongkong has experienced a Are Dangerous.” In all, ten lyca

["4d, In Three Months.

In September, the dollar was quoted at 1/11.3/16ths., a drop of 4,8/8ths having occurred in a perlød of little over three months. Meanwhile, a serious situation has arisen in Mexco as a result of the slump in prices of faar silver

BOOTLEGGING EVILS IN WASHINGTON.

at New York and in other world NO WORSE THAN ANYWHERE

markets. The President of the National Mining Chamber has predicted that 7,000 miners will bo unemployed In three months if the quotation does not improve..

ELSE, SAYS JURY...:

THE COTTON MARKET AT LIVERPOOL.

-TIGHTENING UP RULES OF

"ASSOCIATION..

London, Jan."^6.

BIG BRITISH STEEL COMBINE.

TWO IMPORTANT CONCERNS IN RATIONALISATION,

~ London, Jan. 6.

HAGEN TURNS UP LATE AGAIN.

LONG BEACH COMMITTEE :

SCRATCH HIS NAME.

Long Beach, Jan, 'B.. The names of Walter Hagen and of the house and entered into a Leo Biegel were to-day scratched contract with Mr, Dobble, which from the qualifying, round of the contract Mr. Dobbie found himself local open golf championship for unable to carry out. The plaintiff being late for the "tee off." had: held Mr. Dobble to his con- Their excuse was that they had tract and had sued upon it The been delayed at a local film studio first question to be decided was where they were working on a whether the contract was rescind-golfing comedy-Reuter's Ameri eu by mutual consent or not. Mr. can Service, Dobble claimed that it was 80 rescinded at the end of September, 1928, but, having regard to the

DIFFICULTIES.

facts, his torship, Lound that ERRING HUSBANDS IN A further step in the rationali- plaintiff never intended to give up sation of the heavy industries of her rights under the contract of Great Britain fa indicated by the tenancy.

!

Utter Nonsense,

This is utter. nonsense but affords a curious afde-Night on the mentally of the defendant.

I must therefore accept entirely the evidence of the prosecution, | and I and that Mr: Sample passed, Mr. Clark's car on a blind corner and, further, that in so doing he swung the tail of his car danger ously near the front of Mr. Clark's car: This, I find, amounts to negligent driving would go further and say dangerous driving. I have two, remarks further to make. Mr. Sample has told us that he left Dr. Heanley's house at 7.25 p.m. and in about half an hour, not more, was near Gough il corner. He came through the control area in Bonham and.Caine Road and after, through Queen's Road East. I find myself agreeing with a.modified form of. Mr. Clark's, remark about his luck.

Mr. Sample in this case either:Js not telling the truth, or he drives In such a prepcoupled way that hei Is unaware of what cars he I trust I may believe the cer

announcement made to-day that a Continuing, his Lordship said company is to be formed to take that plaintiff had left with him all WIVES PERMITTED TO HOLD alternative, I hope he will ovr) and operate the coke ovens, the correspondence and docu- blast furnaces, steel works and ments, so that he had been able

Washington, Jan; 6.4/ After an extraordinary three months! seaslon with the spécial

more careful in Sfutu Enquiry Into the Alleged bootley-

BANK DEPOSITS

$25 ging evils of Washington, a Fede- -On failing to appear before Mr. ral Grand Jury has reported that. The Liverpool Cotton Association | heavy rollfuøy mills of Messrs. to look over them - at his leisure,

Washington, Jan sak Whyte Smith at the Kowloon the United States capitalTM is not have directed that new rules shall Guest, Keen and Nettlefold's and and understand them. The first

The Supreme Court to-day gave. Magistracy this morning to answer the vice-ridden inwless community he drafted to provide that on cot Messrs. Baldwin's Limited, two of document was a letter dated decision sustaining the consciial- a charge of boarding the Yaumat! It has been pictured.

ity of the law recently puES efon sold on spot ferma, payment the largest steel manufacturlay August 28, 1928, in which she

Fork State entitling de

· Ferry Man Cheung by sampan, #・・ They, found, that conditions in shall be made either in bankara' ac- concerns in the British Isles, said that cabe held Mr. Dobbie

attach the hus young" Chinese, described as an the Capital are not worse than ceptances or bankere conarmed. Ths combined paid up capital responsible for all loss, and

tam Roule office boy, had his ball of $5 anywhere else.--Router's American credit, or by cash-in exchange for the two firms is in the neighbour-, advertisement WerpenseddoME

sated,

Edeliveries ordered

Freehudhood of £15,000,000%2F

Service

¿Continued

Fined