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「 六拜 三月正英港香 SATURDAY,

JANUARY: 3, 1931.

日五十月一十

930 PER ANNUM

BEOLE COF94 10 CENTS

SOUTH AFRICA SET RECORD. BIG BLAZE IN NAM ANOTHER MURDER INDIAN MODERATE

DEANE DECLARES

AT 513 FOR 8.

TATE'S BRILLIANT

BOWLING.

ENGLAND MAKE A CAPITAL START IN REPLY~

CRIPPLED TEAM.

Capetown, Jan. 2. South Africa declared their innings closed at the tea in- terval, with the score stand- ing at 513 for 8 wickets, breaking two South African records. Their previous highest total against England was 434 for 8 wickets at Dur- ban in 1927-8. Their pre- vious highest Test score was 506 against Australia at Mel- bourne in 1919.

Another big stand, 148 for

PAK HONG.

REVOLUTION IN PANAMA.

PORCELAIN FIRM'S

PRESIDENT AROSEMA NOW A PRISONER.

LOSSES.

SERIOUS OUTBREAK IN THE

EARLY MORNING.

|ESCAPES BY THE ROOF.

MYSTERY.

BODY FOUND WITH STAB-

IN HEAD.

VICTIM UNKNOWN.

OUTLINES EXECUTIVE PLAN.

LIMITING POWERS OF VICEROY.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON MODERN LINES.

TO CAR

OWNERS

Use RUBBER matting for the

Floor and Runnlag Boards of your Car:

Washable,--

Durable,--

More economical than

Carpet or Linoleum), ---- ..

NEATER and OLEANER.

Quotations from:

· Telephone 94554.

Dunlop Rubber Co. (China) Ltd. Pedder Bldg.

Bulls and Inners

ᄆᄆ From the Office Butts.

To some people, when the Now Year camo in it looked like twins. O D

A Shanghai burglar recently stole a batch of thermometers. Soome an easy way of taking several degrʊca.

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Here's hoping, in view of the low dollars, that most wives have made several good dressolutions

Despite the hard times, we hear that most motor-car dealers have ☐ ☐ had a bumper year.

The Criminal Intelligence Department is confrontert with another mysterious murder by the discovery this morning in Cleverly SURPRISE ATTACK,

Street of the body of an unknown Chinese who had been done to The revolutionary fever which

death, apparently by a stab in the APPEAL FOR FAITH. for 1931. Bas upset half the governments of South America, annears to have

The Western District was the bead.

The police are at present spread to Central Amerfen, n

London, Jan. 2. scene of another destructive fire making a thorough investigation Reuter cable from Washington in the early hours of this morn-into the affair, but beyond the

Progress with a vitally impor- this morning announcing that the Minister for Panama in the Ameri-ing, an outbreak occurring at No. fact that the murdered man and a tant branch of work of the can capital is in receipt of advice: 208 Wing Lok Street West, one wound on the left side of his head, Indian Round Table Conference that the Government af Pamma of the most congested areas in thing definite, has as yet been was made to-day when the

Federal Structure ascertained.

Sub-Com- has been overthrown,

From a report issued frommittee discussed the question of Renter's New York correspon- the Chinese district, and general-

Headquarters this morning it ap- the constitution, character, dent states that news from Balboa ly known as Nam Pak Hong. discloses that rebel forces made a The premises were occupied as pears that the body of the man

powers and responsibility of the surprise attack on the Presidentie offices and alsow-rooms for well-who has not an yet been identified, Federal Executive. Palace in Panama City.

known porcelain firm, Messrs. Po was found lying in Cleverly Street Cheung Tal, the upper floors being a motor driver who was pass used as sleeping quarters for the staff.

They took President Arosema

prisoner.

Panama was formerly one of the

The fire broke out at approxi- nine Departments of Colombin, a revolt against that country taking mately 145 am. on the third floor place in November. 1903. The of the premises, and considerable the fourth wicket, between Tay-total area of the republic is only damage was done before the blaze lor and Catterall, was the feature 21,000 square miles, and the popuwan subdued. of the day's play. After the lation (excluding the Canal Zone) dimissal of Taylor, the England does not exceed 450,000. bowlers got on top, and wickets were falling rapidly when declaration was made.

Play was resumed in weather, and the wicket playing easy.

The President, Senor Don The Florencio Harmodio Arosema assumed office in October. 1928, warm for a period of four years. His was brother in the country's Minister

for Foreign Affairs.

Hong

Sheets of Flame, Residents of Nam Pak

of were awakened by a chorus police whistles emanating from the building, and the crowd which hurried into the street witnessed sheets of flame lasuing from the top storey, the fire having obtained a good hold before it was dis- covered.

Im-

A later message states that the Tate's Fine Effort,

rebels bave proclaimed Harmadio Tate bawled wonderfully well at Arins as President of the Republic,

The Fire Brigade were He clean bowled Nupen have demanded Senhor Arosema's the start. before any addition had been made resignation and have arrested Exmediately communicated with and to the overnight total of 280 for President Chfari.

four appliances from Central and a fire-Boat were soon brought into 1, and 19 runs later, he scattered

command of service, under the Mitchell's wicket.

Superintendent Brooks.

WAY

At least ten were killed and 20 Mitchell had wounded in the attack on the Fa- batted attractively, though exer-lace, including an American news-

who considerable restraint. He paper correspondent. cialng co was at the wickets for 339 minutes, mortalis injured. obtained 123 runs out of 299, nud He had added hit nine foura, only four runs when bowled by Tata this morning.

A MASARAN TO

DOLLAR AGAIN DOWN.

England's success was, however,

The dollar again declined this short-lived. Taylor and Catterall soon assumed the nscendancy, morning, the opening quotation be- This represents a Taylor hitting at everything and ing 18. 024d, scoring at a very fast pace. At drop of th since yesterday. the lunch Interval, 73 runs had heen added to the overnight total, and Taylor lind obtained 46 of

them.

Catterall and Taylor Go.

Congested Aren.

near the

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AMY JOHNSON REACHES COLOGNE.

Flies Through Snow for Two And Half Hours

WEATHER PROBLEMS.

Berlin, Jan. 2. Miss Amy Johnson, who resumed her fight at noon, taking off from Liege in the hupe of reaching Berlin,land- ed at Cologne at 2.34 p.m.

Her flight from Liege was carried out through a steady fall of snow. She plans to continue her fight to Berlin to-morrow, weather permitt- ing-Reuter.

RANCHGELAm

The fire was located junction of Wing Lok Street and Des Voeux Road West, and the congested nature of the buildings ing shortly after 6 o'clock this in this street, which is very nar-morning. The police were prompt- row, rendered the task of control-y notified and the body was ling the flerce fames mo, than removed to the Publie Mortuary. ordinarily difficult.

The man is said to be about 40 Several hoses.

directed years of age. from buildings opposite that which was burning, the fire brigade

were

Hongkong dogs don't greatly appreciate their new leash on life. 口口 China, by increasing the duty on matches, seems to be going the wrong way towards diapolling the gloom which hangs over the coun-

The whole of the afternoon try.

seasion was occupied with a speech

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The soap duties are also being increased, but it's hoped the revenue from this source won't be a wash-out.

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by one of the leading representa- of moderate opinion in British Indin.

Addressing himself to the con- stitution as it at present existed, he objected to the possession by the Viceroy of certnin powers one of the most respecting which he was really difficult animale subject to the Secretary of State to draw," says for India, and which the Viceroy an artist. We've had to exercise. sometimes in a found that out way contrary to his own views and many times at those of the Executive Council.

Happy Valley. He objected to the powers of certificating, which prevented the Several local Legislature from rising to its full residents intend height, and he contrasted the keeping diaries position in this respect with that this year- prevailing in the self-governing because nobody

Dominions.

Viceroy's Responsibility.

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There was a time some years' ago When dollars were of worth, But since that time they have

become

A butt for doleful mirth, When they were somewhere in

their prime,

Two shillings was the mark;'. Now

not

worth much more thań

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The outlook is quite dark. A different name we must pro-

pound To indicate our sorrow,

For "Dollar" moant ten to the

pound,

The same to-day, to-morrow. Let's call it something to reveal Our horror at its falling,

A name that truly would appeal' In terms of scorn appalling. For instance, why not call it

"Mud,"

Ae that is always hated? Though oven that comes with

the flood

And can't be under-rated. We cannot dub it "Mark"

"Yen,"

Nor oven just "Plastre;" So why not for a cog-no-men Declare it a "Finstre?"

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Wific: I've bought you o beautiful surprise for the new year it has just arrived,

Husband: I'm curious to

see it.

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A local angler hooked a set of artificial tooth inst week-end. Needless to say, ho

got them

from the mouth

of a river.

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The beat way

to have a quist` Jittle tinn te not to order any acup.

O.C

It is hoped that the gentle-

inan

who per

siste in fum!- gating the Peak tram with digar smoke, will turn over a new and fragrant

else wants them.

The man who At present, he declared, neither stole 400 sticks the Governor-General nor

the of dynamite a Executive Council was answerable fow days ago to the Législature, Their, respon-was

possibly sibility was to the Crown and to Parliament, through the Socretary

bent on seoing that the New of State.

Wifie: Wait a minute and Year If the Legislatura knew that it

came in

I'll put it on was responsible and that its vote with a bang. might throw out the Government,

២.៣ We notice that in the "For Sale" Sie Harry

Lauder and it would act with more moderation

aro Bow Paderewski' are now about all in dealing with the problems of columns, advertisers

the farewell-tour con- Government and the administra- quoting sterling prices. Their square in He would like the Governor motto evidently is "Let's Scorn test. General to continue to be appoint-

Dollars "

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A lighter type of frying pan has According to a home hint, old been invented by a man.

tion.

disposed of any hope Deane may concentrating on an effort to pro- A SEVERE BLOW TOed by the Crown as at present, and have bad of getting two or three lealing batsmen out in the periodent the flames

would like to make it impossible U.S. PRESTIGE,

from sprending

between ten and the drawing of from the top storey to the first and second floors, and to adjacent and goods

The partnership was not broken stumps. for more than an hour longer,! Wyatt and Hammond went out to premises. Furniture when Tate broke through Cat-open the innings, the Gloucester

terall's guard and claimed his player batting with a runner, third successive victim, Catterall Both players shaped confidently, had secred 56 in a stylish innings. Wyatt giving a much improved dis Cameron joined Taylor and the play. Generally speaking he is a vigorously solid batsmen, noted more for his hitting out became the third player to achieve defence than his attack, but he a three figure innings. A1 117, scored more rapidly than Hammond, however, "he Failed to get hold of Fifty went up without a sign of Leyland properly and presented South African success and when 75 catch to J. C. White. He had runs had been obtained it looked scored his 117 out of 174, and had likely that Hammond and Wyatt hit Afteen fours.

would play out time. In the next The score-board at this stage over, however, Wyntt was beaten showed 473 runs for & wickets. and bowled by McMillan. He had scored 40 runs, an exceedingly use- ful contribution.

Three Quick Dismissals.

Leyland joined Hammond and the England's bowlers again, got on

sent back pair were still in association when

·Balaskas wILA without scoring at 479, Deane was stumps were drawn with the total dismissed after obtaining seven at 98. Hammond had male 43 and runs, at 502, and Cameron who Leyland 12.

top

had been batting cautiously, fell The detailed scores, as cabled by n victim to White at 506,

Deane left McMillan and Vin- cent in until the tea interval, when

he announced the declaration.

England's attack put

up

Reuter, follow!

S. AFRICA IST INNINGS. Mitchell, b Tato

123

Siedle, e Chapman, b White

Tate

341

12

117

56

showing, with the exceptional, e White, & Leyland poor of Tate and Leyland. Vocel

Tate... and Peobles, who did con- Catterall, siderable damage in the First Cameron, Peebles, b White

Balaskas, e Turnbull, b Leyland

Test.

mot with no success. Deane, b Leyland Voce bowled well at intervals Melillan not out but Bis final analysis showed Vincent not out no wickets for 95 runs. Peeblea also had 96 runs hit from him. In 28 overh

Bowling Figures.

Tate returned by far the best figures. Ile bowled 48 overs, con- ceded only 70 runs, and took three of the most valuable wickets. Ley- land took for 91, and White 2 for 101.

Loc

stored on the second floor, low- NAVY HUSH-HUSH ON DEATH

the ever, were destroyed when third floor collapsed at the height of the fire.

OF MARINES.

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from Hankow,

for the Commander-in-Chief to be Kramaphone records can be con- he's married.

The verted into teapot stands. a member of the Executive.

He would not hesitate to replace trouble is that they aren'ti the present Executive Council by a Ministry chosen from members or groups of members of the Legiola- ture representing the majority and working under the leadership of a Prime Minister.

Fwo engines from Wanchai and

NICARAGUA AFFAIR. West Point sub-stations were then summoned, as a precaution against

Transition Period. a danger of the fire's sprend.

Washington, Jan. 2. Control was gained after the The deaths of eight American Obviously a period of transition place had been burning for about Marines in Nicaragua (reported would be necessary, during which an hour and other houses were unresterday) his led Senator King time certain subjects should be affected, although some of them Democrat, Utah) to assert that reserved, for example the arm must have suffered water damage. the United States has been in the and foreign policy. He recognised

Inmates Escape,

habit of interfering too much in there was a need for caution and foreign lands."

these subjecta or any matter des All the inmates escaped without Senator King announced that he cribed as a Crown subject should hurt, despite the fact that many would move a resolution on Mon- be administered by a Minister ap of them were asleep at the time day, demanding "the absolute pointed by the Ministry should be when the alarm was given. Many withdrawal both in a political and selected from the elected members escaped by way of the roof to ad- in a military sense of the United of the Legislature. jacent buildings.

States from Nicaragua."

He suggested that subjects sul- Despite the fact that the affray table for administration by Mini- in Nicaragua is considered to bestera responsible to the Legislature a severe blow to United States' might include the portfolios of rostige in Centrni America, only Commerce, and those of the Legal the barest details of the encounter Home Affairs, Industry and Labour, have been allowed to leak out, Member and of the Member for

Education and Lands.

While it is stated that the fire broke out on the third floor, which was occupied by employees of the Chinese firm, Woo Chan, the cause is unknown.

The Porcelain firm on the ground The Navy Department has, ap- floor suffered much damage con-parently, Instituted a sort of un- sequent on the destruction

oficial censorship: Reuter's Ameri-

20 goods stored on the first and can Service.

0 second floors. insurance had been effected, but, it is said, not to

Extras

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Total (for 8 wkts, déc.) 513

4.

Fall of wiekstus÷l for 260: 2 for 280: 3 for 209; 4 for 447: 5 for 479; 6 for 470; 7 for 502; 8 for 505..

Hammond suffering from a septic Tato

bowled only ten overs and re-Hammond placed Duckworth at the wicket. You Duckworth is suffering from a torn Peebles

White ligament in the hand and is unable tayland to play. It is also announced that YKLE Sandhamn has been X-rayed, the ex- amination reveniing a fractured ankle-bone, He will not be avail- able during the rest of the tour. England's Sound Start.

In spite of the chapter of mis- haps and the formidable score put Africa, England soon

Bowling Analysis, ---

0. M. B. 43 13 79

W.

3

10 2 27

0

0

33 11- 9G

28 2 95

49 15 101

30 6 91

ENGLAND.--18T INNINGS.

Wyatt, b McMillan Hammond, not out Leyland not out Extras

«Totul (for 1 wkt.)

the extent of the damage.

RUHR COALMINERS ON STRIKE.

S...

MEN FROM TWENTY MINES WALK OUT.

No Race Restriction,

He asked that the Governor-Gen- eral's choice of Minister for Crown subjects should be without restric tion as to. raco, and thought the Army portfolio might well go to'an Indian.

meat

We understand that the saying you cannot judge a book by its cover" originated when a newly- married wife perused her hus- band's pase-book.

ם!

I made a resolution,

Not a hundred hours ago; That there'd be a revolution, From the pace I used to go. My life should be not near as

swift,

Of spirit I'd consume less; I'd give down-trodden souls a

Who said to his mother, "Well-

now,

What's the name of this awcot Little dinner I eat!" And the dinner made answer:

"Bow-wow."

A recont South American re- volution collapsed in three hours without a shot being fired. Both sides have been relegated to the bottom of the League table.

This Week's Thought:--You may be a big man in your own In manner I'd assume less.

way. But so that you don't get No more I'd raise discordant in the way of others.

notes,

When other mortals peeved me; No more I'd now my wildish

oata,

I'd know that all believed me. The trouble I had given should

cense,

No more would I be flighty, I'd be a model to the police, So good, they'd want to knight

m10.

But all my plans have gone

astray,

My heart with grief la swollen; I cannot go my promised way- Last night my car was stolen!

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The members of a golf club entertained the caddles to a dinner. In return the lads have promised to laugh behind their 口口

Now somebody has invented s combination of the bagpipes and the saxophone, we know why Mussolini keeps talking about pro- parations for a still more dreadful war.

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Only 355 daya to Christmas!

□□ The Week's Currency Report

We heard of a Ponk resident who was so utterly exhausted Thanks to the man who swallowed

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Exchange Greetings:-May you find ample interest during 1931.

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We understand that the dog

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Motor Noto:A loose tyre is not

MARSHAL JOFFRE IN STATE OF COMA.

Ho Bald It should not be dif- after successive nights of revelry, a ton cent piece with his Christ- ficult to fashion a clause in the con- that he was too weak to pull his mas pudding, silver still keeps

down. DOCTORS UNCERTAIN WHEN

Fusion, acknowledging in the partner'a.cracker "

D terme India's Hability to END WILL COME.

at debts and interest.

nearly as dangerous as a tight Paris, Jan. 2.

driver. Every decent-minded Indian was

口 Marshal Joffre had by this prepared to stand by any ilability

A novelist says that most girls' afternoon been in a state of coma in allowances of services protected

named "Charcoal," recently lost, lives would make good novels. DI- in for twenty-eight hours.

Concluding, he appealed to Bri- only neaded cokosing!

vided into Chap One, Chap Two, Government had done whitep taln

"Exeltement In Chess Match," etc. for liberty than any Govern- more for A bulletin issued at 7.15 in mont in the world, to restore In: Baya newspaper heading. Maybe The modern woman's" „avening the morning stated that the night die faith, notably that of thong one of the players slept out of his dress, it is stated, has no hooks, This follows the announcenfent passed without incident, and who, in many cases, were in gaol turn. on December 30th that the negd: Marshal Joffre's condition - because of acts done arising, out of tiations between the owners and mains atationary. miners had broken down, when it

Essen, Jan. 2... The miners in twenty mines in the Ruhr coalfields have struck

against the wage reduction pro-

0 Tosals put forward by the owners

The doctors nro.still, uncertain when the end will come.

lack of faith.

was also stated that the owners Doctor Boulin, leaving the c

at 8.15, stated that Election to Legislature. nursing home 4 threatened to post notices of die Toffre was still unconscious. He ** missal over the whole coalfield, on hack bear "given a poweotul ins

During the morning session of 1 January 16th,

foetion which, unless complica the sub-committee the subject of Government intervention has lend angued, might enable him direct or indirect election was die been expected, but no action has to live through the day or even cussed there was a general

(Continued on Pass 18.). yet been taken:—Reuter;" wwns through to-night-Restes

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But there are plonty of syon on it. ... French wine fs, we raad, to be sant to Canada in exchange for More Opticians for Schools, It will make Americans To look after the pipils? wheat mad to realise that they had a surplus of the grain last year. A scientist declares

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A centenarian does physical drill human body. Thi every morning. It's never too inte plainshyamdankor