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DA WALXFF THURSDAY', APRIL

2. 1931.

日五十月二

36 PER ANNUL

SINGLE COFT 18 CENTA

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MUNICIPAL An Irish Sweep H.M.S. GLORIOUS IN COLLISION. To Cairo in Day AN EXTRADITION

Sensation.

BUDGET

FOR SHANGHAI.

INCREASED RATES FORECAST.

COST OF POLICING SETTLEMENT.

LOAN

PROBABLE.

(Our Own Correspondent).

Dispute Over First

Prize Ticket.

AN INJUNCTION.

London, Apr. 1. Something of a sensation has been caused by the development of a dispute regirding the ownership of the ticket for first prize in the Irish Hospitals Sweep

on the Grand National, which nets the uwner over £340,000.

Mr. Justice Meredith, sitting in Shungiai, Apr. 2.

the Dublin High Court to-day, That the Shanghai Municipal granted an application for an in- restraining the Irish junction Council is looking round for new Hospital Trust from paying the sources of revenue, that an in-prize-money in the Sweep to crease in rates will probably be Emilie Seala, the Italian owner of the a coffee-shop at Battersex, who is necessary next year, that proceeds of the sale of the the halder of the Grakle ticket. Electricity Department are

may nearing exhaustion, and that the interviewed after he had received rout of policing the Settlement the news of the draw, Scala aald that all his forty, relatives held a continues to increase,

are dis

share in the ticket. closed in certain preliminary

NEARLY FRENCH LINER be recalled that when

SUNK IN FOG.

The application in Court to-day details of the Municipal Budget | was made by two Italians, who which leaked out to-day.

claimed that the winning ticket

due

The full statement of anticipat-belonged to a pool. The money ed revenue and expenditure for the year 1931-32 is expected to be issued for publlention shortly.

Police Costs.

One of the principal features of the Budget shows that the Palice Department the staff of which "xceed 5,000 in number, including aver 500 foreigners, absorbs a the uk higher percentage Municipal income than any other of the various departments,

in

fart the percentage of the! total devoted to the Police Depart- ineal in 1920 was se inss than 36 Jent.

Phenomenal Itives

Expenditure by the Council ha increased from Tls.2,580,000 12

on the ticket amounts to 364,514, though Scala is reported to have sold half the ticket to a apeculator for £3,000-Reuter.

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SINO-JAPANESE INCIDENT.

PROTEST OVER WOUNDING OF CHINESE.

Hankow, Apr. 1. A regrettable Incident Involving Japanese soldiers and a Chinese re- aident necurred here yesterday, when, in the course of military prae- tice, the Japanese soldiers wound- ed a Chinese.

The Chinese was shot by a stray bullet, and as his

IA condition

in engaging serious the, incident

1926 to approximately 17,000.- the attention of Chinese publie 309, representing almost a triplica- | bndles. tion of outgologs in a period of five years.

The Municipal Government will make an offelal enquiry into

it has cause of the incident

the to-murrow, protest

In view of the position. heen Auppested that further preparatory to launching avenues be explored for the pur-with the Japanese Government. pose of increasing revenue, for It will also be recalled that on Sun- instance, the imposition, of a day while a party of Japanese sol luxury or an entertainment tax diers were engaged in practice in such as recently came into opera- the rallway zone in Mukden they of Chinese tion in Hongkong at the beginning clashed with a party

police who fired 80 shots on the of the year.

Japanese. Chinese messages from Mukden state that the incident has not been settled and officials of both sides are still investigating the causes of the incident.

Tax Evoelen.

on

It in also stated that difficulty is now being experienced in the collection of taxation from the

of property

extin- Owners Settlement roads.

The existing commitments, of the Council, and the projects con- | templated during the current year, will necessitate a total capitul expenditure of over ten millions taela during 1932.

At the end of 1931, there will remain approximately thirty-four million trels from the Tis,81,000,- 000, the proceeds of the sale of the Electricity Department to a cam

pany.

Loan Commitments.

Over twenty-two millions of the sum remaining from this source

FRANCE BUDGETS FOR A DEFICIT.

PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS FOR EASTER.

TRANSFER OF IMPERILLED PASSENGERS.

SEVERAL CREW KILLED.

THE FRENCH liner Florida is being towed to Malaga in a sinking condition, following a serious collision off Gibraltar last evening with the British aircraft- carrier Glorious (shown above). The grave danger to the Florida was obvious at once and the five hundred passengers aboard were hastily transferred to the warship, which afterwards took the Florida in tow.

Several members of the crew of the liner were kill od by the smash, while seventeen aeroplanes from the Glorious were stranded in the air, so to speak, until permission was obtained for their landing in Spanish territory.

A STERN-FIRST TOW.

NORWEGIAN SHIP

AGROUND.

DAMAGED AND LEAKING IN

FORWARD HOLD.

FOG IN HAINAN STRAIT.

Bound from Hongay to Shang- hal, the Norweiginn steamer Ton- Jer met with a thick for in Hai-

ann Straits and grounded yester day evening at Ching Mac Point, approximately ten miles west of Holhow.

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A cable was received here early this morning, informing Mess78. Karsten, Larssen & Co., the local agents for the owners, the mishap, and stating that a Japan ese salvage tug is now standing by the Tonjer, which has been Idamaged in the forward hold, (which is leaking.

The Japanese tag was close at hand at the time of the mishap attending the Shinsei Maru No. 6,

which had grounded in that.vicinity about-a fortnight before.....

The Tonjer is under charter to the Kailan Mining Administration, anl is owned by H. M. Wrangell &

and Night.

Millionaire Flier's

Dashing Fffort.

RECORD BROKEN.

London, Apr. 1.

SCANDAL.

U.S. GOVERNMENT CRITICISED.

"ABOMINABLE TREATMENT” OF HONGKONG.

SOLICITOR'S PROTEST.

"I think this Court has been

Commander Glen Kidston, the millionaire sportsman, who left England yesterday on a record-treated with contempt, and the breaking flight to South Africa, Hongkong Government has been treated in a most abominable is already in Cairo!

His first bop took him to fashion by the United States Naples, after a brief rest he flew Government," declared Mr. F. H. to Malta. arriving there this Loseby at the Central Ma- morning, and then hopped off for gistracy this morning In com- Cairo, arriving there this evening menting on the delay in extradi- · having broken all records for the tion formalities which have journey.

His

Commander Kidston is accom-caused his client, Mrs. Jeng Shee, panted on his flight by Lieut. to be held in custody for several Cathcart Jones and a wirelcan Weeks post. operator named Johnson. next atop is Nairobi, then Broken Hill and then Capetown, which he la likely to reach in well under the six days he has not him- self if he maintains his present rate of progresa.

It is the promoter's desire to demonstrate that the air mail service between England and South Africa can be speeded up immensely.

Mr. Anderson Scott, who left England to-day on a solo flight to Australia and hopes to boat Kingsford Smith's remarkable ten- days' record, is using a 120 h.p.

Mrs. Jeng Shee, the wife of an emigrant to the United States, is accused of having embezzled $25,000 (Gold) while in California. Through her solicitor, she had intimated at previous appearances bofore the Court her readiness to walve the formality of extradition proceedings and return to Calf- Cornia of her own accord.

St Waiting.

The situation with regard to the

application from the United States

had remained unchanged, Mr. T. Murphy, A. S. P., informed the

Gipsy Moth fitted with extra Magistrate this morning.

innks. He was previously in the Royal Air Force, and is taking the from the United States

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following route, Sofia, Aleppo, the local Consulate-General, and Bashire, Karachi, Rangoon, Singa- he applied for a further formal pore, Bima and Port Darwin, remand, while hoping to hear from the requisitioning Government British Wirelcan.

TIN RESTRICTION PROPOSALS.

SIAM AND BURMA INVITED TO PARTICIPATE.

The Colonial Office that the, international

BOON.

The Magistrate (Mr. Schofield) said he hoped that further nows would arrive before the end of the month. He again granted another formal remand, until the 9th, ball, for the defendant being as before. field Over a Month.

Mr. Losoby has made" 'many London, Apr. 1. spirited protests ngainst the casun! announces attitude adopted by the American committee Government in regard to the cass. to regulate the production and'ex-| Mrs. Jang Joe has now been ̈In port of tin, which held its first meet the custody of the Hongkong ing in London yesterday, is asking Police since February, and it has

Co. She is a steel scrow steamer the Governments of Blam and Bur- been alleged by Mr. Loseby that

THEFT FROM AN EMPRESS BOAT.

CHINESE GETS PRISON SENTENCE.

ma and certain other countries,

approve of the principle of the sug- gostion and an elaboration of the

scheme.- international research Retter.

COTTON MILL LABOUR UNREST.

Bail which was fixed originally $100,000 was at length re- dured to. $76,000.

Without Precedent.

Mr. Schofield admitted recently that the case de entirely without procedent. The “fugitivo" has offered to go back of her own frie will, but the offer has been dell- berately turned down by the American authorities.

a squabble as to who shall pay the of 3,268 tons gross and 1,948 the tin production of which is im- the delay has been entirely due to tor nett, and was built in 1920 by portant, to adhere to the scheme fare to America. Smith's Dock Co. Ltd. She calls The participating Governments Gibraltar, Apr. 1. Fisher being responsible for the fairly often at Hongkong. She have been requested to intimate H.M.S. Glorinus, the giant design of the ship, which is said to is 334.2 feet long, her beam is as soon as possible whether they at British aircraft-carrier, came be capable of 85 knots in service.18 feet and her depth 22.7 feat. into collision with and severely The vessel is of such an abnormal damaged the French nine-thou that she and her sister-abip the Courageous were dubbed the sand-ton liner "Florida" off "Outrageous Class" by the Navy. The coat of maintenance was 80 Gibraltar to-day.

The Florida was in a sinking high that their lives were threaten- condition after the smash and it ed soon after the war. It мля, Loth was decided at once to transfer however, decided to convert all the passengers; numbating the Glorious and the Courageous some five hundred to the Glorious. into aircraft-carriers. -All the passengers were safely iransferred, and the warship is:

ON STRIKE. now towing the Florida to port.

Tsingtao, Apr. 1. Several of the crew of the

The announcement of a strike Florida have been left aboard

The battleship, H.M.S. Nelson pany, Yung On was sentenced to

by Chinese and Japanese labourers dead.

collided with the Cardiff stearner, alx months' hard labour by Mr. working in Tive Japanese cotton Cruisers and destroyers ares. West Wales in a fog on Sun. Hamilton, at Kowloon this morn-mills here this morning caused some surprise in commercial cir- The Government is therefore standing by the Glorious and the day off Cape Vilano, Spain, the Ing. budgetting for a deficit of appro- Florida ready for emergency. Nelson suffering slight damage. The defendant was seen carry- cles. ximately Frs.2,500,000.

H.M.S. Walrus und H.M.S. Whit- the scale and leaving the wharf As a precaution against riots by ley were both damaged at Gibral- by the No. 1 "boy", who stopped the discontented element among

him and had him arrested by a the strikers, the factory watchman, who had seen the scale have sought the service of naval being passed to the defendant forces to aland by at the factories. The labourers are demanding bet- through a port hole.

London, April 1. The Budget for 1931-32 has been definitely adopted, providing for an expenditure totalling Frs.50,- 643,085,395, and estimated revenue of_Fra.50,640,509.852.

- The scesion was afterwards closed for the Easter Recess and

will be required to meet the re- will re-open on May 6,--Hovas,

quirements of loan redemptions.

It will, therefore, perhaps be necessary, says an official Report,

to rafue a loan during 1988-34, and it will possibly be necessary to increase the rate by two per cent. in 1932.

The effect of such an increase would be to revert taxation to the figure obtaining prior to July, 1980, when it was reduced on the sale of the electricity undertaking.

ATTACK ON WATER SPEED RECORD.

KAYE' DON TO TRY TO-DAY AT BUENOS AIRES.

Buenos Airoa, Apr. 1.

PREMIER FLIES TO SCOTLAND,

GOES NORTH FOR EASTER

HOLIDAYS.

London, Apr. 1. The Premier, Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, to-day flew from London to Leesiemouth, North Scotland, where he is spending the Easter, in an Air Force machine piloted by Flight Lieutenant Heslop British Wireless.

LADY MISSIONARY'S FORTUNE.

The repairs to the racing motor- MISS LILIAS GRAHAM LEAVES

bont, Mins England II have hten -completed. on,

OVER £100,000,

London, Apríl 1. Despite the swollen state of the

- Miss Lillas Catherine Graham, Parana River, Kaye Don has an formarly of the English Presby nounced that he intends to make for lesion at Chingchow, whe A speed test of the boat at lght died in England recents, left:

Tow morning tate valsed 01

Struck in Fog.

Later.

It is learned that the collision between H.M.S. Glorious and the 5.8. Florida occurred during a lenso fog at approximately six o'clock thin evening.

The Glorious struck the Florida' heavily on the port sido near the fore part; holing her badly,

The five hundred- passengers of the Florida are now aboard the Glorious, which is towing thei Florida stern first to Malaga.

Aeroplanes Homeless. Seventeen aeroplanes from H.M.S. Glorious were in the air at the time of the collision, and were unable to return to the ship in con- sequence of the mishap, which prevented the vessel from proceed Ing at a speed necessary for a safe landing.

The soventeen airmen have, how- ever, arrived safely at Malaga aero- drome, where the Spanish authorl- ties gave permission for them to land.

"Outrageous Class."

Fourth Recent Mishap.

Mr. Loseby has intimated his

of State for the Colonies in con- nexion with the matter.

Convicted on a charge of theft JAPANESE AND CHINESE GO Intention of cabling the Secretary of a Chinese scale from the Em- The collision of the Glorious is press of Asia, the property of tho the fourth British warship collision Canadian Pacific Steamship Com- within about a month.

BRITISH STEAMER HITS REEF.

MALABAR'S MISHAP OFF AUSTRALIAN COAST.

Sydney, Apr. The 4,500-ton London steamer Malabar, from Mol- bourne to Singapore, struck a roof during a fog this morning near Port Jackson.

Twenty-seven and the crow managed to rench the shore, and it is ex- pected that the Malabar will founder and become a total loas.-Router.

passengers

rumunntationen Mustastic MT AINEINE ARTEL INTERNOON

The defendant said that he waster treatment. only acting in the capacity of a coolfe, and was carrying the scale for a passenger. He admitted hav- ing five previous convictions.

Chan Pak-to, aliae Chan Taz-lai, who died at No. 6, Cheung On Street, Kowloon Bay Roclamation, on Octo bar 11, 1980, left Hongkong estate which has been valued at $120,500. Probate of the will has bood granted to his son, Chan Leung-sze, living at the Cheung On Street address. Tosta For makes bequeats of property, and directs that in the event of it be Ing sold it shall be divided into four equal pharos for family distribution.

man

Hearing cries of Save life!" one of the crew of the se. Fatshan, lying at Canton Wharf last night, rushed to tar during flost exercises in March, the side and discovered a and H.M.S. Shamrock and the struggling in the water. He threw a Tourmaline collided in picking up lifebuoy at the man whos failed to | grasp ft and disappeared. - In a report moorings at Gibraltar,

Fored by the polke it was

owners

COLONIAL OFFICE CHANGES.

RETIREMENT OF SIR JOHN RISLEY.

CROWN COLONY FEDERATION.

COMMISSION MAY BE

APPOINTED.

London, Apr, 1.

In a despatch to the Governors of Trinidad, Windward Islands, and Leeward Islands, Lord Pass feld, Secretary for the Colonies, states that he has been carefully considering the question of some form of closer union between those lelands and the many issues which such an administrative change would involve.

He proposes that a Commission, probably consisting of two or three London, Apr. 1.

persons with very broad terms of Following the retirement from reference, should proceed as SOOD, the pubile servico of Sir John Risas possible to the Colonies con- ley, Mr. H. G. Bush has been ap carned to conduct a comprehensive pointed Legal Adviser to the enquiry into the whole quastion. Dominions and Colonial Offices and

Bofore coming to any decision da Mr. H. Duncan Assistant Legal to the appointrbent of the Commin... Adviser to both departmenta-alon, Lord Passfold has anked the British' Wirclens. -

Governors whether they concur, în princip to the proposal," "and- submit their views at an ear |date.

WEATHER REPORT.

The Royal Observatory reports that the antleyalons has weakened The Glorious is of approximately H.M.S. Dorostshire one of the merche mating sman, had the ap. and is now central Take Shanghai 20,000 tons. She was built during new. 10,000-ton crafters now brance of coding had Cpl Frash to moderate monsoon ripul The War Be Cruiser as part of the days and collided with ind

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