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The Ben Line 8.s. Benwyvis, from Home and Straits ports, is dus here on July 4th.

MURDER OF KWANGSI GOVERNOR.

The Very Idea!

FURTHER ARRESTS MADE IN The young recruit in the fre

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ments. Inasmuch as leading indus tries have been consulted, we may take it för granted that business

BRITISH INDUSTRY IS SO ACCUS- men will figure in the Mission, and TOMED TO HAVING FUNERAL SERMONS we are hoping that there will be at PREACHED OVER IT THAT IT WOULD FEEL QUITE UNCOMFORTABLE · NOW least one economist of repute

IF ANYBODY TOLD IT THAT IT HAD |amongst the missioners. Indeed, ANY CHANCE OF RECOVERY FROM ITS

Canton, June 30.

“Climb - up that “ladder to the the opportunity seems to present It- PRESENT AILMENTS -Hartley It was revealed during the

Withers

course of the trial here, before eighth floor, crawl along the cor- self for representations to the

the Military Tribunal at the Hood-nice to the fourth window, drop Home Government with that end in

quarters of the 8th Route Army, down three floors, then swing view. This might even do away

of Fung Ming-shing, the body yourself along to the second win- gard of General Liu Woon-yim, dow, break the glass, and go in and with the necessity of seeking ex-

the late Governor of Kwangsi, who see if there's anyone about. Well, pert advice from Home on the cur

An amended notification: states is standing his trial for assassina- what are you waiting for!"*

***“For pen and ink, sir," said the rency problem. It will be recalled that the P. and O. ss. Kalyan, tion of his master, that quite a

"I want to hand in my that the Currency Committee, al-from Singapore, is due here at 2 number of supposed accomplices new man.

of the accused man have been ar-resignation.” though reporting against immediate pm. to-morrow.

rested during the last few days.

"That's for a drink and I hope stabilisation of the dollar, suggest The forthcoming wedding is an These men will be brought up be It will be a teetotal one," remarked ed that all available data on the nounced of Mr. Luiz Francisco fore the Military Tribunal during vicar to his caddie after the

games subject should be referred to expert Leon, No. 16, Robinson Road, the next few days and accused of

Hongkong, to Miss Enid van complicity in the, dastardly mut-Thank you, sir,” replied the opinion so that a feasible scheme Langenberg, residing at the same der of the Governor of Kwangsi caddle, but it It's all the same So far no trace has been found to you, sir, I should like to point might be worked out in detail address,

of the man, who, according to the out that, while it's true I am A whereby, in the event of China

accused, offered him the bribe of caddie, I am not, thank heaven, suddenly adopting a gold basis, the

$10,000 to commit the murder, or a tea caddie."M transfer of the Colony's currency

threatened him with death in the

There are some people who have from a silver to a gold basis might

event of his refusing to kill oral Lui Woon-yim.

a knack of expressing facts in a be effected smoothly and with as

Moanwhile General Liu Woon-way that gives a quaint signifi-: little trouble and expense as possi

yim's remains have been sent to cance to what others regard is, Arrested for ringing his bicycle Kwangel för burial at his native ordinary. ble. If such expert opinion were

In the course of a conversa- bell to the annoyance of the public, place. The Kwangtung Provin- available in the personnel of the a Chinese lad was fined $5 by Mr.cial Government has made a grant tion in a factory yard it was men-. Mission which is coming, East, it Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Maof 35,000 towards the funeral ex- tioned that a man who was passing could be consulted on the spot and gistracy this morning. The defen- penses, whilst the Kwangsi Pro- had, at one time, beer in a mental

home, dant nodded his head when asked by vincial Government has made a

"But he looks quite sane to me," the whole issue, in all its ramificathe Magistrate whether he had grant of $20,000. Other grants said one. tions, be studied in conjunction merely sounded his bell for the fun are being made to the family of

"Sane? Oh, yes, he's Банс erough. And he's the only chap In the district that's got a paper to say he is sane." minister, whi

A green tarpaulin was stolen this morning from the store room of the s.s. Seistan, whilst she was anchored at buoy No. 36. The tarpaulin was stated to be 17 feet by 15 feet and worth $50.

of it.

Having spent one night in the cells, a Chinese who was arrested streets was cautioned on his ap for gambling in Hongkong in the pearance before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this

The defendant morning. stated to have been playing a card game know as "fishing."

with local business men. This strikes us as an excellent alter- native to remitting the problem to the Home Government, which, in the long run, would, in any event, BROSTEDT-SHEEL-On June

30th, by Mr. Sydney Ashley, have to consult experts before OB.E., Superintendent Re-reaching a decision; gistrar of the District of St.

On géneral grounds, the wisdom Giles, London, Augustus- Brostedt, Asiatic Traffic of sending a Mission to the Far Manager of the Canadian East is unquestioned. We have re National Railways, Hongkong collections of the Mission headed to Jessie Marie Sheel, of Sunderland, England, and by Lord d'Abernon which Bone little time ago visited South Ameri- ca and was able to devise plans of the utmost value for the expansion of British trade in that part of the Government Plantation.

Hongkong.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1930.

ECONOMIC MISSION

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Fines of $10 were imposed on each of two men who were charged before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with having in their possession pine trees at the Junction of Sha- tin Gap and the Sal Kung Road, it being reasonably suspected that the branches had been stolen from the

A charge of stealing a silk cur bring a fresh and disinterestedtain from a boiler makers guild outlook to all aspects of the ques- was brought against the accoun- tion and to make most valuable tant before. Mr. Whyte Smith at practical suggestions for the devening. It was stated that the

the Kowloon Magistracy this mor lopment of commercial relations manager did not want to press the between Britain and the South charge and his Worship. accor- dingly bound the defendant over same for his future "good behaviour.

Liu Gen The

the late General-Our Own Cor. respondent,

CANTON'S LATEST BUREAU.

NEW COMMISSIONER TAKES UP DUTIES.

Cantón, July Li General Tang Yin-wah, who has for some time been Commissioner of Reconstruction to the Kwang- tung Provincial Government, and who has been responsible for....a great many improvements, espe- cially road building, to-day as sumed his new post as Director of the Bureau of Agriculture. General Tang is also retaining his old post.

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watchman saw the first defen-under the immediate supervision dant pick the complainant's pocket of: Mr. Hon. Kou, and the latter and hand the money to the second, under the supervision of Mr. La On being convicted by Mr. Ze-chua-Our Own Correspond Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning of ob strucling Police Constable Drury TONGKA WAN PORT. in the execution of his duty by tripping him when trying to effect an arrest, a non-licensed hawker was fined $25. The defendant was caught by the constable for hawking without a licence, but he slipped out of his coat. When re- arrested he tripped the officer. On was fined an extra $4. the hawking count the defendant

"EXCHANGE RATES,

OPENING CEREMONY TO BE HELD SHORTLY.

Canton, June 30, The opening ceremony of the free port of the Chung Shan Model District, the port of Tongka Wan,

A minister, while visiting the members of his congregation, ask- ed a woman, who had four Bona, what she was going to make the eldest. M

"I'm going to make Willie a minister" replied the woman. proudly.

"And what are you going to make John?” EN

make him a doctor." "And James 7” e

"Im going to make James a school teacher," said the mother. Then, turning to her youngest son, who was sitting on the fender, she said, "And what will I make you, Donald?"

Mak' me a dumplin', mither!" was Donald's reply:

"

"I didn't mean to go in, but I waid Johnnie was tempted. so badly, mother,"

"That is all very woll; but how aid you come to have your bathing

post of special Administrative offi cor for Kwangsi. In view of the fact that this campaign has now been, brought to a conclusion and,' furthermore, that General Chan. Chai-tong is away in Hunan direct-- ing operations on behalf of the Nationalist Government againslithe remnants of the Kwangai rebels and General Chang Fat-kwel's Iron- sides, it is felt that the important position of Special Administrator to Kwangsi should be in the hands of an able man who can actually be on the spot to carry on the enorm ous amount of work which remains

is to be performed on 20th July, to be undertaken. Our Own Cor Work has not yet been barur, but respondent. at a meeting of the Council held in Canton yesterday it was agreed that the necessary funda be ap-

propriated from the Provincial

WHO WAS T

Captain Bobadil

General Tang is a very hard worker in the interests of the people of Kwangtung and it is Johnnie had been forbidden to generally felt that under his able swim in the pond owing to the of Agriculture will be a great been in the water and his mother direction, the newly-formed: Bureau danger. One day he came home with unmistakable signs of having Chian scolded him severaly His Excellency General Chan Ming-shu, Civil American Continent. The

Kwangtung, administered the opportunities will present them.

onth of office to General Tang on Two lads who appeared before his assuming his new post at the Further evidence of the import selves to the Mission which is com- Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow Government Headquarters here suit with you?" ance which the British Governmenting East, whilst so far as Hong loon Magistracy this morning in this morning.

"Well, mother, I took my bath- attaches to the development and ex-kong is concerned it should be able connexion with the theft from a

The Bureau of Agriculture willing suit with me, thinking I might pedestrian of twenty conts, were be made up of two sections, that be tempted." found in the announcement just it affects Britain trade in this part cane. It was stated that a district Afforestation. The former will be made that an Economic Mission is of the world. shortly to be sent to the Far East. The causes underlying this resolve

The Channel Tunnel. have not been disclosed at the mo

The Government had another ment, but it would be safe to narrow escape in the House of Com hazard at least two. First and mons on Monday when only another foremost is the recognition of the eight vates were necessary to show fact that no appreciable change in that the House is not in agreement the unemployment problem can be with the Government's decision on effected except by an industrial re-the Channel Tunnel. The con-

troversy

on this subject, seems vival, which, in turn, must depend on a greater volume of overseas never ending but it is now reason trade. Secondly, the falling off of made on the project while Labour ably certain that no start will be

Lancashire trade in Far Eastern remains, in office. The vote means. markets demands a study of condi- an end to the scheme, for the time tions on the spot, in order that the being, at any rate, as a licence from underlying causes may be correctly the Government will now be re- gauged. This is particularly neces- quired before private enterprise sary in view of the efforts which can start on the task. The Govern- Paris

ment bas set its face against the New York are being made by way of amalga-tunnel so deliberately that it is most

Brussels Geneva mations to win back some of Bri-unlikely that any such licence will Amsterdam tain's losses.

Milan be given. The tunnel was 10-

Berlin It is to be presumed that thejected first on the grounds of its

Stockholm Mission will include Hongkong in great cost and secondly on account Oslo its Itinerary, inasmuch as this mittee of Imperial Defence which

of the opposition raised by the Com- Copenhagen Colony is the centre of British still talks of stragetical disadvan Helsing! trade at least so far as the South Lages. The money for the tunnel Madrid China markets are concerned. At could have been found with little or ↑ Lisbon Athens no time would a Mission be no difficulty, and the impression is

Bucharest more, cordially welcomed here gained that the second reason given Bombay than at the present.

is the one which decided the Gov- Shanghai

Hongkong ernment. Condemnation of the trade is very much in the scheme on the grounds of geology Silver (spot)

Yokohama doldrums. For this reason, we might have been conclusive. A veto Silver hope that both the local Government based on grounds of military danger and the Chamber of Commerce, to can be checked by standards of com say nothing of the local branch of mon knowledge and reason. In any

The advantages of the tunnel al- the China Association, if it still would be an imponderable. The old at a time when any public work summation of perila the tunnel

waya have bec obvious more so exists, will strongly represent to basis of discussion has now entire which promises even limited em the authorities at Home the advisa-tirely disappeared. An enemy of ployment is a direct contribution to bility of the Mission making a pro-Britain would not invade it by the gravest of Britain's national longed stay in Hongkong. The burrowing, but by flying With the problems. A Commission has re- relation of our currency problem to whole atmosphere at his disposal ported in favour of the Tunnel, the

Canton, July 12 British trade in South China needs the fragile "bottle neck which of the House of Commons, by a very Officer for Kwangal in succession he would not waste a thought upon Labour Cabinet has disagreed and Mr Ngan Tak-cheong has been no stressing, and we can hardly fered no more than a million to one marrow majority is also voiced its to General Chan Chal-tong, Com- appointed as special Administrative conceive of an Economic Mission chance. So it seems that the older disapproval Here the matter ends mander-in-chief of all the Armies coming East without feeling called type of militarista, who have per at the moment but it is not too in Kwangtung, Kwangai, Fukien upon to study this aspect of the suaded themselves that in some my much to hope that a day will coms problem. It is gratifying in this sterious way the tunnel would make when politicians are inftage with connexion to note that the personnel the invasion of England easier, an executive abity and a greater of the Mission is not to be confined have again won the day and La readiness to dare, combined with an to members of Government depart

bour has meekly bowed to them,ma

immense foresight.

:

when

4.

Vienna

„ondon, July 1. --Treasury.

123.68 The Chinese Telegraph Ad- 4.86 1/32 ministation are establishing an

84.816 office at Tongka Wan immediately 25.075 and a building is being erected at .12.08% once to house the various Ad-

92.77 ministrations and Government de .20.385 18.095 Partments.mp

The opening of the port, which .18:16 will mark the commencement of 18.16 34.525 work on the various buildings, 163% wharves, roads etc., will be at L1/16 tended by many prominent people 48.35 intimately connected with the 198.25 affairs of Kwangtung. Mr. Tang 876 Shao-xi, His Excellency General 818 Chan Ming-shu, Civil-Governor of /5.13/10 Kwangtung, Mr. Fan Kec-mo, 1/32 Commissioner of Finance, General

** Tâng, Yin-wah, Commissioner "of 2/0/7/16

Reconstruction, Mr. Lam Wen-kol 16.11/16

10.9/18 Mayor of Canton, and many other Wireless..

pro.dinent personages are expected to make the trip to the Model Dis. trict to take part in the cere montes.Our Own Correspondent.

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KWANGSI AFFAIRS.

SUCCESSOR TO GENERAL CHAN CHAI-TONG

and Hunan.

During the recent campaign against the Kwangai rebels, Gen- directing the military operationa cral Chan Chai tong, who was against the rebels, assumed this

"A man of big words and little heart, was Captom Bodadil. He was an amazing and amusing mixture of affec tion and naivete, bluster add ignorance.O

Fancying himself greatly with the foils, he thought out at ingenious scheme for the settle rent of international quarrels With nineteen other skilled fencers he was prepared to engage in combat with men. bers of hostile forces, twenty- at a time, and thus dispose of in an incredibly short period you The captain's oaths were, BS high-flown ne his ideas with by the body of Caesar, or by the foot of Pharaoh””” he would qualify hikestentions, save when the cocasion was ex- ceptionally" "solemn, in which, case he would;› swear: by Tesser thing than "By my valour

Bobadil appears in Ben Jonson's comedy Everym in his Humour. The original. of the character was Bobadilla

Epanish officer who served in the Netherlands under the Duke of Alva, and carried the news of Alva's victories to Philip II. There was another Bobadil is who became the first govÓF of Cuba, a haughty andy over bearing, but pitifully-emmall sent Columbus back minded and jealous many

in chains on ea charge.

Spain trumped-up