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THAT SILVER LOAN CABLE.

OFFICIAL NANKING

DENIAL.

JUDGE LINEBARGER NOT AUTHORISED.

MACAO WEEK BY WEEK.

BETTER STEAMER SERVICE LIKELY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

LIBERIA SLAVERY

TRAGEDIES.

FOREIGN EXPERTS TO AID GOVERNMENT.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931

FILM DEVELOPMENT | EXTRALITY TALKS.

DISCOVERY.

ENLARGEMENTS TO FORTY- EIGHT TIMES ORIGINAL

RESUMED."'

SIR MILES LAMPSON NOW IN NANKING.

BRITISH POLICY.

Sir Milen

Macao, Mar. 1. The Procession of the Cross which should have taken placq oy LEAGUE NOMINEES. Sunday last, but was postponed owing to bad weather, took place

London, Mar. 3. to-day, with great pomp and hole-

The special committee appointed nnity. This most important of re-by the Council of the League of ligions observances at Macaa at Nations to enquire into slavery in tracted, as usual, large crowds of Liberia with a view to remedy, has HU HAN-MIN'S VIEWS, the Faithful nu participaters in the been meeting at the British Foreign larged beyond the usual ratio of visit to the at of the National

From the Cathedral Oflee since February 27, under the of Se, the procession wendet ita

chairmanship of Viscount Cecl «fi way slowly through the streets Chelwood. the representation of Christ, in life size, weighed under the cross, be-

Nanking, Feb, 23. With reference to the reports recently circulated by press

of

procession.

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•

References to

Government the discussions on the question of extraterritoriality wili be pursued.

New York, Jan. 27. A process of film development | which may revolutionise certain aspects of photography is nounced by Dr. Miller Hutchison.

London, Mar. 3. the inventor and former chief

Lampson, British engineer to Edison. The need of storage space for photograph ex- Minister at Poking. arrived at periments led him to seek a man- ner whereby pictures might be en-Nanking on Sunday and during his

four to one.

He found that the grain on an crdinary film prevented greater The discussions were concluded enlargement, but by a simple he eliminated ing horne along to the church of St.-day, the Committee deciding to chemical process

invite M. Brunot IL prominent the grain without damaging the Preliminary conversations with agencies alleging that Mr. Hu Augustine on a hilly eminence in French official who has considerable negatives. He has now perfected

the Chinese Minister for Foreign Han-min. President

thee centre of the town,

administrative experience on the a film which may be magnified Legislative Yuan, had sent a

Ivory Coast, to undertake a special forty-eight times the size of the Affairs have already begun, and it the early commission as a General Administry original negative even when pan-is hoped that a settlemont of the cable to Mr. Paul Linebarger.

chromatic film is used. authorising him to open negotianes have brought forth a craker from the Dutch East Indies, is talk-films since the present limit

mencement of greyhound racing at tien expert in Elberla.

Heer Lightari, a prominent ban- The discovery is important in whole question may result. *tions with the United States of rumours regarding the possibi

The present British policy in Government for a lot to China ty of a better steamer service be to be invited to visit Liberiu as a of photographs of sound vibra China in based on the Memorandum of a thousand million ounces of/tween Hongkong and Macno, and it Finance Expert, while a Health Extions (four thousand each foot) is of December, 1928. This Memo-i by the raised to more than twelve thou- randum recognised that with the is also so reported that certain ert is to be desituated Han-min, inter-Man interests are also keen on Health organisation of the League sand by Mr. Hutchison's process, tallation of political conditions silver, Mr. Hu

making the reproduction of high viewed yesterday, declared that contributing to subsidize a better of Nations.

extraterritoriality could Siner The Venezia has Those appointed will make up a

soprano notes possible. the reports

absolutely service. Wern

Dr. Hutchisia “explained that wholly maintained. been maintaining a regular service, petal mission to draw up a con-

the grain which causes the trou- the older whips have suffered a fall-crete plan of assistant

will ble comes from silver nitrate and President Hu pointed out thating off in their passenger traffic. Liberian Government. Ther

the films, the negotiation and contracting of There is some talk about arrang-leave for Liberia as soon as pos-ather sensiti-ers on foreign loan wis n matter hælang-in for a modified schedule to on-aible to study the situation on the which when over-magsified dis-when at its conclusion it appeared |

to the jurisdiction of theable the slower vessels to regain at and to be in close touch with tort the details of the pleure.

The simple expedient of itnt- executive department of the torportion of the Just business. Sta- the Liberian Government,

They will examine the administening the grain after the picture erument and was one which theisties show that there is a slight

number of trafive, public health and financial taken the basis of the new National Government alone had increase in the total

und in done chemically passagers, but the increased num- assistance necessary to give effect process the right to authorize.

ber, evidently. Is not sufficient to to the social reforms waggested by | before the sensitisers justify the maintenance of four rethe Commission. They wil al solid by the hypo-bath." Kular vessels.

consider the expenditure involved by their proposals and make a survey of the resources available:

crroneous,

inse

No Righ to Negotiate,

ht Let "I myself have instruet any person whatsoever to negotiate for foreign loans." waitl President Hu.

While, judging from the world reonomic depression as well as the special needs of China such as and de- promation at industries velopment of the North West he believed that itere existed a need for foreign expital, and in view of the reasonableness of the terms of the proposed Americau man, he was personally in favour of it, he hnd. nevertheles9, neither the right nar the wish to handle such financial matter. President Hu concluded. Kuo Min.

Mr. Kung Interviewed,

the

After a long rossation of extenfor carrying them out. skan operations, work is to recom- The Liturint Government an to complete the Marno- undertaken to afforil the experts Shekki Highway in its northern every facilite and assistance. section, near Shekki. It is believed rater and British Wireless." that work will advance quickly and that it will soon he possible to make i

to Shrkki, the trig from Macso withnet halting, in an hour and

For Home months past all half. work on the road was stopped, and the obstacle to be overcome was the bridging of a stream at a place callest Tai Wan, some twelve iniles south of Shekki. There was some

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"ALADDIN'S CAVE"

ADVENTURE.

POLICE ON CAMELS,

Johannesburg. Jan. 20.

permission

from the

are made

SO GLAD TO MEET YOUR LATE WIFE.

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Jove each

new

Continued from Page 6.)

including uven periences alfairs. Their manner other has a touch of camaraderie and the old intimacy. They talk easily and happily to

the gether. They even kiss with casual modern freedom of friends.

Old fashioned people are stunned, and cynles shrug their shoulders; it in it sign of the times, and they accept it as such, while the neo- Georgians think nothing of it What does it all*mean?

Is it a

or

| dißiculty abour rights of competing The reputed Aladdin's Cave, the roads, but a working arrangement Boor of which is richly stadded has been concluded satisfactory to with diamonds, lying along the dry the rival interests, and it will notbed of the Tsontab tiver deep in A lengthy interview was genated long before construction work the heart of the Namib desert intruce or stupid sensationalism? Are

South West Africa, has again led on Friday night by Mr. H. H. Kung, will be recommenced in earnest,

they generous and forgiving, 10 Mr.

to trouble.

merely shallow and absurd? Minister of Industries, Paul Linebarger, fr, son of the The Portuguese authorities have | A party of five Windhoek mun

To my mind there is a train of Legal Advisor of the National Gov-invited tenders for the purchase of obtained

apparently fantastic travesty of the ernment, Mr. Paul Linebarger, who the Patria which has been with authorities to sock the cave, which cause and effect discernible in this i originated nemtiations for a silver drawn from survier Particularsies within the prohibited State which bound them together. loan by the United States to Chinn. of the vessel have been publishindiataond area, on the condition that Light friendships arise from easy them divares just as logically as casy Mr. Lincharger came specially and bids should be addressed to the policeman accompanled

Committee charged with reciving During the first search their provi-divorce has resulted in casual mar- spirit from Peking up the Instruction

slom ran out, and they returned to

riage, from which the old of his father to ascertain the views bids, not later than Mar. 31

Windhoek, after which they were which said down that this was not a informed that the afficial permit relationship to be entered into rashly, lightly or in advisedly, seema to have entirely departed.

on the leaders of the Government. His visit was made all the more interesting berauise la being LIPSTICK IN ANCIENT

It made at a time when the Silver

ROME. Lomo Bill, proposed by Senator Pittman of Nevada, has ind passed

Was

withdrawn.

Nevrimless, they shipped out of

the town at night-time in a hurry. A woman can have three or even On hearing of this the authori; Į tair Ensbands, yet in the old sense

Re Senate Foreign Relations to CHEST OF COSMETICS FOUND is wat in pursuit a police patrol she is guarried at all. Natural-

mitter.

Could Be Eiseil.

AT FRANKFONT.

Berlin, Jan, 20.

mounted on camels. After days of truding through the water-less they struck the Trail of the That the belles of solety in Im-aiders, and animed them amid Asked what he thought of

The five men were arrested, con- passage of the Bill be the Comperial Rome were no less sparing the sand dunes.

the

tine term.

mittee, Mir, Kung agreed that it with the lipstick than those of to- vietel, and sent to prison for vary-

by the fulmina- was a step towards the right direc-day is known, to tion. for China was just about to estims of the moralists and antirists ter into a period of intensive Indu-of the nice, but now, for the first strialization and a large quantity fine, the direct ocular proof has

come to light as a result of excava

of silver could be used with good Lions in the Roman settlements on advantage, especially when one con sidered that the rate of interest the site of the Frankfort suburb of was low and that the term of the Heddernheim and Prasheim. loan was 60 years.

Domestie Circulation "Only,"

it is now proved that, however much fashions may have changed in The past 1,700 Fears, the stituents and apparatus of cusme-

Co-

However, the Minister of In-Lies have remained nimost the same. dustries favoured the circulation

The excavations yielded a finely-

оп

ELECTORAL REFORM

MEASURE.

THE "URLOTINE" TO BE

APPLIED..

London. Mar.

A time-table for discussion of

Mr.

Baldwin

or

Lan

ner

ly their irresponsible, unions have in profound sense of loss

severed and a friendship as mean- ignagey or regret when they are intless as was the marriage follow the parting easily enough.

These people neither love bate,They do not feel the agony

loneliness. the [of

Scourge memory. The torture of recollected iny or sorrow, They are just marionettes going through the ges- tures which simulate reality. Bringing artificial flowers to an temply grave.

Fif

MILLIONAIRE DIES OF

STARVATION.

of the silver bullion thus obtained carved metal chest filled with the Electoral Reforms Bill, which'

FORTUNE IN TINS. only within the borders of

the various tallet requirements. In embodies the principle of the Al-

Paris. Jan. 30. country for purposes of buying cluding an elegant slate, used spernative Vote in Parliamentary

elections. Was proposed in the raw materials, paying for inbourparently as a kind of palette

Europe's most remarkable mil and uncing China's disbandment which to grind and mix face paints, onse of Commons this evening i lionaire has died of starvation. He plan to turn the soldiery into use-nail scissors, and other articles to by the Prime Minister,

resisted on

the was M. Creste, an old bachelor who ful and

labour, as constructive

be found on any modern lady's

ground that the this would increase the outputs in

prapuse time-owned a big estate and large audi- dressing table the national factories, utilize Idle Two small brown and white table involved limiting disension tional property at Bormes, in the Department in Southern hands and elevate the livelihood sticks, which the chest also con- by the closure notion, only Var

Hm-France. of the general populace, so earntained, were discovered, after being called the "Guillotine."

He had never had a banking ac- estly being sought by the National subjected to chemical analysis, to that this should not be resorted

mensure affecting Parlin-count; he had never signed or nc- be lipstick containing almost the to in

cepted a cheque; he would not touch mentary representation. As a measure to strengthen the same ingredients as those used to

The Prime Minister's motion was paper money; he had never bought earried.-British Wircicar:

stocks and shares. position of the silver loan, Dr. Kung further suggested that a gold credit loan he also granted to China, with which she could make her parchases of machinery and raw materials abroad.

Government.

day,

CORRESPONDENCE.

A Correction.

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

RUBBER RESTRICTION

PROBLEMS.

For many years he lived on a daily meal of a few potatoes, beans and figs, but lately his fare had been even more Spartan.·

His estate was large and woll cultivated. M. Create did all the work on it himself, for no labourers where COLONIAL OFFICE DECLINES would stay in "the house

there is nothing to cat," as bis ACTION.

farmhouse was called locally.

An Expensive Fire.

+

Landon, Mar. 3,

M. Create was not a miser; in-

Complementary Loung The proceeds of the second loan,

the according to

auggestion, should be loft on deposit with some American banking group and would be drawn only to finance Sir.-Regarding the report in In the House of Commons 'at China's industrial machinery and inst night's edition of your paper question-time today, Dr Drum-deed, he was always generous. He supplies. This would stimulate concerning a Kowloon Police mond' Shiels, the Under-Secretary fixed his house rente at a low figure employment in America and help Court case of theft of reller sketes, of State for the Colonies, Anid it and would never raise them, but to solve the unemployment issue the report was, headed "Y.M.C.A. was not the intention of Lord Pass-Insisted that rents should be paid

Boy Charged." This is not correct. field at present to appoint a com- in coin at sunrise on quarter day.

Recently his brother left

him The boy concerned Is the son of milter to examine the rubber altun- The two loans are complement-

one of the workmen employed by tion in the Straits Settlements and £1,800 in various investments and ary to each other, according to the contractor

it was afterwards discovered that engaged on the Ceylon.

Naither did the Secretary the Minister, and, when granted, construction of the new Y.M.C.A.

of the old man, who did not under- will contribute greatly to the extension. He has nothing what-State for the Colonies propose to stand what the documents olimination of the world business over to do with the Y.M.CA. Initiate a review of the circums- about, had used the bearer certifi depression which is now prevalent. would be grateful if you would tances under which the Stevenson cates to light a fire.

there.

Mr. Lingbarzer is highly antis find with the encouragment he has beon receiving in this and other interviews and is forwarding the

ocal suggestions to his father.

wero

M. Cresto was found dead in his house and in the cellar wereo dls- covered two largo tins full of gold, The opening rate of the dollar this silver, copper and nickel colne-his morning was 10%.

kindly give publlelty to this Scheme was removed.-Router. correction and so clear the name

J. H. Hunt, Secretary, Y.M.C.A.

of our staff.-Yours, etc.

fortune.

ตอน be

The negotiations in 1939 were interrupted owing to internal tros- les culminating in civil war, but

that the Nanking Government was firmly established, the time appear- ed ripe for their resumption.

Accordingly, in September last, Sir Miles Lampsun presented a draft agreement, to which the Chinese Government replied in December with a counter-draft.

been These dormments have

Bludled carefully

and havo

prepared

present

the

WAY negotiations,

for

the which

have been bogan on the assumption that the Chinese Government now controls the internal situation.- -British Wireless.

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S

QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day:

Banks.

Hongkong Bank, $2175 b. Chartered Bank £10%

Mercantile A. and B., £231⁄21⁄2 a. East Asia $116 h.

Insurances.

Canton Ins. $1300 m. Union Ins., "$64214 n.

North China Ins., Tls. 150 b.

China Underwriters, $3.60 b. Yangtare, Ins., 350 n.

China Fires, $535 h.

H. K. Fire Ins., $1305.n.

Shipping.

Douglases, $27 a.

I. K. Steamboats, $20.75 s. Indo-Chinas, (1er

$30 n. Union Waterboats, $37 n.

Mining.

Benguets. 310 n

Kailans, 367 n.

S'hai Explorations, Tis. 21⁄2 1. Raubs 40% n

Blocks, ete.

Kowloon Wharves. $178 s. Whampoa Docks, $30%, b. South China Motora $10 n. China Providents, $5.35 b. (old). Tongkews, Tis. 274 b. New Engineers, Tls, 5%. b. Shanghai Docks, Tis. 110 h.

Cottons.

Ewo Cotton, Tls. 16.95 n. S'hal Cotton Tls, 103 (old) n.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotels, $12.70 b.

II. K. Land, $8434 b. S'hal Land Tls. 420 h. Humpreys, $16.85 n. Reallics, 39.50 h.

Public Utilities, Tramways, $17.60-b.

Peak Trams, (old) $13.95 b. Star Ferries, $88 b.

China Lights, (old) $25 b.

II. K. Electrics, $80 b. Telephones, $42 U.

China Busca, Tls. 19 n. Singapore Tractions, G/G x.

Industrials.

China Sugars, 80 ets, n. Malabons $36b. Canton Ices.. $3.40 s. Cements (Comb.) $10.65 b. Ropes, $14.20 b. Venz: Goldfields $3.60 b..

Stores, etc.

Dairy Farms, $26.10 a. Watson, $13.40 n.

Der A. Wings, $1 n.

Lane Crawfords, $3.00 b. Mackintosh, $20 n. Sincores, $134 n.

Miscellaneous. Amusements, $261⁄2 n. Constructions, $5.45 sn. B'que Ind. G. Bonds, $08 % 88. H.K.G. Loan 7% Prom.

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