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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER

22, 1930.

ARMED ROBBERY AT EMPIRE PREMIERS

CHEUNG CHAU.

MASKED MAN TAKES PART IN

THEFT OF $2,700.

VERY QUICK WORK.

Armed robbers who entered al salt fish dealer's shop at 191, Sam

Daily at 2.15, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. Hing Street, Cheung Chau Island,

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escaped with the large sum of $2,700 which they took from 1 safe.

AT MOTOR SHOW.

CONFERENCE STILL IN COMMITTEE.

ECONOMIC REPORT LIKELY ON FRIDAY.

JUDICIAL APPEALS.

BRITISH TRADE MISSION.

ARRIVES HERE ON ITS WAY TO JAPAN.

CHINA VISIT --LATER,

The Economic Mission to the Far East, headed by Sir Ernest Thomp- son, chairman of the Executive of! the Joint Committee of Cotton Trade organisations, arrived in Hongkong this morning aboard the P. and O. s.s. Macedonia.

The Mission is to inquire into the present condition of British trade with Japan and China and to find steps to improve that trade.

Japan will be visited first. The Kobe,

The robbery occurred at 3.30

London, Oct. 21 this morning, when the merchant, The Imperial Conference pro who had retired for the night in ceedings were again devoted to his office on the ground floor, with-committee work to-day. in reach of a safe containing a The Committee an, economic large sum which he had not had co-operation, of which Mr. W. the opportunity to bank, was rous-Graham, the President of the Mission first proceeds to ed by a man standing over him Board of Trade is Chairman; and where. it is due to arrive on Oct. with a revolver. At the same which has before it the many 30. It is intended that it should time. a second intruder. his face schemes designed to stimulate remain in Japan for about masked proceeded to carry out a inter-Imperial Trade, turned from weeks, and travel thence to China search. Finding the key of the the question of utilising a quota by, the Rawalpindi, arriving safe, he handed it to a third man system for the United Kingdom Shanghai on Nov. 29.

The members of the Mission and who opened the sale with it, and wheat imports, and discussed the extracted a wad of notes amount-possibility of applying such sys-of the special Cotton Sub-Mission ing in value to $2,700.

tems as the quota, bulk purchase, attached to it are as follows:-

Mission, Sir Ernest Thompson

come.

four

at

Cotton Sub-Mission.-Sir Ernest Thompson (Chairman), Mr. James Bell, Mr. F. W. Birchenough, Mr. E. Duxbury, Mr. J. L. Edmondson, Mr. George Green. Mr. Arthur Reisi, Mr. Joseph Wild, and Mr.

The whole business was carried and import boards, to other com- out without so much as a word ut-modities including butter, canned (chairman), Sir Thomas Allen, Mr. James Bell, Mr. William A., tered by any of the men, who later fruit and fish.

Lieut-Col. Reginald departed as silently as they had The Committee met both in the Crowther,

morning and the afternoon and Morcom, Mr. Louis Beale. Mr. T.

Barnes (assistant) Despite the mask he wore, the hope by frequent meetings to ba St. Quintin Hill (secretary), and merchant says he could identify able by Friday to consider in Mr. F. A. the second intruder as Lam Hing, rough outline their report to the secretary).

unemployed shrimp catcher Beads of the delegations.

Tariff Issue. who recently, cane. to him with a request that he be allowed to sleep This Committee, while taking ir a shed belonging to the mer-into consideration during the dis chant. The request was refused. cussions the possibility of tariff

No force appears to have been changes, is now charged to report. A. Guttary (secretary). used by the robbers to effect entry specifically on the subject of the In an interview before leaving into the shop. The back door was tarif proposals

forward England. Sir Ernest Thompson found to be unlocked. A foki, carlier in the Conference by said: Everyone who knows any. named Li Cheng-chai, whose duty lamong others. the Canadian thing about our trade with the Far it was to see that both front and Premier. back doors were locked before re- Those proposals are still under East is aware that the position is

far from satisfactory. tiring, sle with the fishmonger examination in the United King-not what it ought to be that it is on the premises.

We have to ascertain where, we dom departments of state which. have not yet completed their task. are going wrong, in what respects The Committee on arbitration we are failing to meet the require- and disarmament completed to-day their discussion of the ments of these large markers, why the we have lost the predominant posi- proposed amendments

tion that we once held, and what: League Covenant and reached.

THE CONSERVATIVE SPLIT VOTE.

CANDIDATES FOR SOUTH PADDINGTON.

Live).

put

to

the

His

en-

a general agreement of the prin- steps we can take to get back some of the trade which we have! ciple of the amendment and

lost texts under discussion.

We feel, and I speak for every Appeals to Privy Council. member of the Mission, a sense of

real responsibility. Relations very The London, Oct. 21.

Inter-Imperial

Lord Majesty's Government has Nominations for South Padding-Committee, over which the

im- ton are as follow:

Chancellor, Lord Sankey, presides, trusted us with a great und

great Sir Herbert Liddiard (Conserva- discussed again the proposals relat portant task. We have a

ing to the Colonial Laws Validity field to cover but we have the good- Act in the report on the operation will of all who have the interests of British trade at heart, and we of Dominion Legislation.

There was also an exchange of shall spare no effort to get at the views regarding appeals to the Judi-real causes of our present dif- cial Committee of the Privy Council. culties.

It is our earnest hope that, when The last-named has refused to The position on this matter so far withdraw her candidature, although as the United Kingdom Government we return, we shall not only be able Lord Rothermere has urged the is concerned still accords precisely to furnish British industry with Conservatives to support Admiral with that at the last Imperial Con- information of real value as to the Taylor. Reuter.

ferences when, as stated in the potentialities and requirements of

Miss Dorothy Evans (Labour). Vice-Admiral Taylor (Empire Crusade).

Mrs. Stewart Richardson (United Empire Party).

stated:

A London message of October 16 summary of those proceedings, it these markets, but also be able was "no part of the policy of is to make certain recommendations Great with a view to overcoming some of It is noteworthy that besides Sir Majesty's Government in lierbert Liddiard, the official Con-Britain that questions affecting the difficulties which are hindering servative, prospective candidates judicial appeals should be determin- our trade at the present time. already in the field at South Pad-fed otherwise than in accordance dington are Miss Dorothy Evans with the wishes of the part of the (Labour) and Mrs. Stewart Empire primarily affected." Richardson, of the United Empire The matter is being discussed Party (Lord Rothermere's organi-with a view to future practice and sation).

to find whether, in the opinion of Regarding Lord Beaverbrook's the delegates, the existing principle assertion that Sir Herbert Lid- should be retained, modified or diard's selection was the result of abolished.

a food tax pledge, it may be noted

that Sir Herbert has been three

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NEW VESSEL TO HONGKONG.

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BLUE STAR FREIGHTER ARRIVES.

A vessel new to the port figured

times Mayor of Paddington and The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay in this morning's Harbour Office for eighteen years Chairman of Macdonald visited the Motor Show Reports, the Ionic Star, which ar- the South Paddington Conservative at Olympia to-day, in company with rived yesterday morning. She left Association.

the four Dominion Premiers, Mr. Newport for the Far East on Au- The bye-election at South Pad-Scullin (Australia,) General Hert-gust 22, sailing from Singapore for dington is caused by the death of zog (South Africa,) Mr. Forbes Hongkong on October 15.

Under the command of Capt. Commodore H. D. King, the Con- (New Zealand) and Sir Richard

S. N. Capon, the Ionic Star carries servative member, who recently Squires (Newfoundland). lost his life in the yachting disas- They examined many models a crew of 62 British officera and. ter off the Cornish coast, when the carefully and discussed the pro-men. She brought 700 tons of lo- "Islander" foundered in a storm. blems of the industry with Sirical cargo.

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The seat has hitherto been regard-William Morris, Sir Herbert Austin ed as a stronghold of Conservatism. and other leading manufacturers. steamer of 5,594 tons gross. She was built in 1917 by Russel & Co. At the last General Election, Com- Each expressed himself most

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