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BANDITS' WEIRD DEMANDS.

PIANOS, AEROPLANE AND THERMOMETER.

Peking, June 12.

A letter has reached the outside world from the Rev. Bert Nelson which states that he is well des- pile his eight months' captivity, but that the bandits have decided to keep him a prisoner indefinitely Ho that he may act as their Eng lish teacher.

PRESIDENT BOAT'S NEW SERVIGE.

THE "JOHNSON" ARRIVES IN PORT,

Arriving from San Francisco by way of Honolulu, Japan, and Shang- hai, the Dollar liner .s. President Johnson, reached Hongkong, al dawn this morning, Capt. David C. Austin

commanding. That we known vessel received a hearty wel- come her first trip in the new Dollar Service from New York to Manila via the Orient.

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931..

DRINKING HABIT AT AMERICAN RAFFLES.

OXFORD.

"HIGHEST LEVEL IN THE WORLD."

Un

the

"ISIS" STATEMENT.

The following article drinking habits of undergraduates the Oxford undergraduates' journal, at Oxford appears in the

"It was G. K. Chesterton who anid, we think, that you should Among the passengers for long-drink because you are happy. It The Rev. Bort Nelson, who is an American missionary, was cup-turning to Hongkong after a short kong were Mr. Allan Cameron re-

was Omar Khayyam, we are sure. tured at Kwangshan, Honan, visit in Shanghal. Mr. Canigron drink because you are sad.

who intimated that you should October & last, but has been moved

was accompanied by his secretary about the country. a great deal

Mr. W. 1. Peters, Rince then.

Some time ago when negotin. tions were in progress

For Er. Nelson's release, the hundits made all manner of fantastic denmauls, In addition to money they ashra for gramophone records, football, sorts of other gasokoe and all supplies.

Now it is stated their further demands include 366,000 foot of telephone wire, pianon organe. printing presses, an aeroplane and the amometers,

There demands are leading to the belief that the bandits have no intention of freeing Mr. Nei- son, but aron making foolish des mands simply as an excuse to halt Jaira,

A

POPULATION OF SCOTLAND.

DECLINE REVEALED

BY CENSUS.

London, June 19,

A small decline in the papala- tion of Scotland during the last

10 years is revealed by the remus faken six weeks ago,

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where

GENIUS THAT WAS TURNED TO CRIME.

New York, May 12. America's cleverest "gentleman burgiar" Roy Herbert Slonne, was murdered to-day as he stepped out of the Mad Dot Boat Club, New York, a drinking resort, to meet" a rain of bullets from, a passing eur.

pilees, who feared, that he might He was killed by criminal accom-

betray them.

strange problem a psychology. Sloane, who was 30, presented a

His father was a clergyman and his mother, who stuck to her erring on to the end, a Doctor of religious fincher, "People in Oxford (and by that Philosophy. we menn undergraduates) drinkwriter on education and founder for neither of these reasons--they of the National Arts and Crafte drink out of habit, for the gentle Institute, Washington. men at residence at this University are rarely happy and are rarely

"It would be going too far to say that they are mainly drunk, because, for all we know, some of them are drank only very rarely and some (for all we know) are

On his way to Batavin, he will make an extensive investign- tion as to oil development possibili- ties for the Standard Oil Com- pany of California, is Mr. Norman Hardy. Mr. Burdy expects to sad.

pend about two years in Batavin. gathering data for his company.

Returning from the recently world-wide

of physis convention fans and surgeons, held in the United States, is Dr. Antel Trini- dad, head of the Anti-Tuberculosis | Lengum of the Philippines,

resident of Manila, is returning after a prolonged four of the world and a visit with her family in Los Angeles, California.

Mc. Jantes Herman, prominent

Chose Criminal Carrer. At school Sloane was hailed as n prodigy for whom his teachers prophesied a brilliant career, and at Columbia University and Carnegie Technical institute, where he completed his educntion, his mechanical attainments proved be of a high order, and he invent-

never drank at all, but the fneted an aeroplane stabiliser.

remains capart from Buenos Aires and the higher circles of Chicago) there is a more constant high level

of latoxication in Oxford than any- where else in the world.

Sudden Liberty.

the

to

With this splendid start in life, Skoane deliberately chose to Young become a criminal, and his educa- fion and heritage of culture enabled | him to play the part of a polished Rattles or Arsene Lapin.

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Graduating s a burglar "For Oxford in full of young men Pennsylvania, he was first arrest- who for the first time in theird in New York five years ago, Uves have been released from the when he was caught at the wheel suspicious tutelage of wary and of a stolen car and sent to Sing

and a Shug for ten years,

Mr. and Mrs. Caule Fay and their three sons arrived this morn- ing. Mr. Pay and his family make their bone in Sydney, Australia and are on a tour of the Orient.

Mr. C. G. Mackie was also a pesargis-eyed schnel-masters, senger by the sante boat.

CHINESE WIDOW'S

PLIGHT.

saillou liberty is invariably the f prison je slevoted his mechani- prelude to the agost, remarkablo¦cal talents in devising plans for folly. But apart from all this; cape, and out of a spoon he There is an extraordinary tradition fashioned a key to unlock cell of drink in this town this 'gate- doors, On more than one occasion way to heaven, this vity of the plot he had engineered to release Muses, this 'Merca of learning," prisomers. was discovered in the

nick of time, and for Ons he P tradition Is not conven-

given 11 seven-years additional fizmalized; the ways and means are

sentence. So great WW8 hiy Ingion.

There are those who drink

mechanical ingenuity that Dr. A Chips widow with five e-the who drink after a long and

on Saturday evenings; ther Breditary bars could not hold him. dren was the subject of

sardines CORTSA of physical dis-

TREATED LENIENTLY BY THE BENCH.

The provisional Peturns give the before Mr. Schofield at the Con- cipline (these are horrid); there Butler of inhabitants of Scotlandtral Magistrney today. 14 482.554, which is it decrease of 39062 compared with 1921.

The figures show tial the move tent from the rural districts to

the large towns is as marked feature of the life of Scotland as of England. The majority of the large burghs bave an increased sad population, that

Glasgow, which is the home of nearly sme fourth of the population of the whole country, having risen By 36,890 to 1,088,117,

The figures for the remainder of the United Kingdom are not yet www.ilable.

FIXED DATE FOR EASTER.

DIVERSE OPINIONS AMONG

EUROPEAN NATIONS,

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are those who do not drink mildly Mr. F. II. Luseby stated he was all day. There are as we have naked by Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, bserved Chairmalt of the Society for the:

those who do not drink Protection of Children, to appear and they have to bear with all the at all But these are a rare race,

with hawking within the linsits of curious sture of their more volatile for the women, who was charged quanimity at their command the the Saiylogpun Market, He realled that

May 15, the

*** | contemporaries,” woman was brought before the Court for begging, and she was then granted a sum of $3 or $5 from the Pour Box with which to bay a licence.

She became sick and was then and begging

Th Society For the Protection of Children then took up her case, providing her with miney and a

KOWLOON HIGHWAY

ROBBERY.

A.P.C. TYRIST RELIEVED

Chine

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Brilliance.nt Law. Stoune then took up the study of fresh law in stol, applied for a

til and argued his brilliantly before a jury that hel hilt in modify the extra seren erured an acquittal. Then he set

yuare" sentence for prison-breaking and dispayed real legal gentus in securing his freedom from season- et julges of the Court of Appeals. het December.

It was then announeed that he intended to take up law as a pro- fession and he entered a New York Attorney's office; but the lure of crime was on strong and he was recently arrested for an attempteri jewel robbery in Fifth Avenue.

OF MONEY.

He was on bail awaiting trial when the underworld put him " Leung Chuen, a typist of the the spot" to-day, and this former Asiatic Petroleum Company, living boy prodigy catne to the miserable at 163, Li Lung Stret, Shamshuing, end that overtakes every was the victims of a highway rub-leader sooner or later. bery last night when he was stop- At the lime of his death

gang

his

poly of stock with which to varry on the trade of a hawker. and had continued to Book after her and her children over siner,

Yesterday she was arrested and taken to the Central Police Stationed in Boundary Street and relier. mother was at home, two miles for hawking within market limits, ed of a sum of $38. He had cross-examiurd her and

| way, praying for his safety.

Tanmoy, June 10,

was sure the prosent him that stated that shortly before mid- police In a report to the police. being That there

* considerable effeur would arree diversity of opinion among Euro she did it In ignorance.

In any night he was walking in Boundary pean nations on the question or case, she had five children to keep, Street, going towards Laichikok fixing a regular date for Easter and he asked the Court out to Road, when a Chinese, approuch- revented by the Foreign revister a conviction as that would ing in the opposite direction, stop- Secretary, Mr. Arthar Henderson, against her licence. "It is #ped him and intimated that he "FLATTERING THE PEOPLE", when he gave the House of Coin- | very and case,” nuded Mr. Luisely. wanted to search him. Leung ob- muns to-day the result of its recent The woman was discharged.

jected but submitted when the communientions. with foreign

stranger.produced what appeared Powers on this subject.

to be a revolver.

Mr. Henderson stated that futte countries had given favourable replies, though they were all; subject to certain conditions.

FIRST MARRIAGE IN 100 YEARS.

IN SPAIN.

The Governments of four other EXILED SPANISH JEWS WED countries. he said, have derided | that the matter valled for further! Investigation, while nine others! considered R rather a question for) the Church Lo decide.

In the remaining

cases

Madrid, June 10, Twi members of the ancient Spanish-Jewish aristocracy who The returned from exile to Madrid fol-

Before leaving, the robber took | 838, and a Chinese Athletic Associ

ation Sweep ticket from Leung's pockets. He was also struck in the left side by the robber.

PACIFIC FLIGHT.

A COMMUNIST POET IN TURKEY.

Stambul. May B. Nazim Hikmet, a poet, has been prosecuted by the Government for the publication th Communist poetry considered as flattering the sentiments of the people. In court be adnitied being a Communist, but pointert out that since it is the people that is sovereign in Turkey, and not a Sultan, there can be no charge against him for "flattering the people's sentiments." Neither, he contended, was it right to con demn him for referring to the suf- nation, as official

countries have there replied bowing the degree proclaiming, NEW PLANE SHIPPED TO MR. Cerings of the chamber of Com or their replies have been non- freedom of worship dader the new committal.

Republie were married this mora-

afr. Henderson intimated that ing.

This was the first public cule-

YOSHIHIARA.

Tokyo, June 11.

merce of Stambul gives figures of the cost of living of a single per- son, which the average man of the in view of these results no puration in Spain of a marriage which Pilot Seiji Yoshiwara, spon

The new Junkers monoplane in people is able to earn, pose would be served by taking the matter further at present:

between Jews since the order sored by the Tokyo "Hochi." willmanded the poet's nequittal, and The Attorney-General has de- expelling Jews from the country make his second attempt to Hy was passed in the reign of Isabella from Japan to the United States Court's judgment.

it is expected that this will be the 1. in 1-192.

by way of the Kurile and Aleutian The couple this morning were Islands to-day was shipped by forced to bring a Rabbi from train from Tokyo to Nemuro, Morocco to perform the ceremony. Hokkaido.

STEAMSHIP LINE'S DIFFICULTIES.

FRENCH COMPANY APPLIES FOR HELP.

Paris, June 11. The Budncial difficulties which have been recently encountered by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com- pany, including the trouble over

Its obligations to the British Gov- ernment in respect of monies 'ud- vanced, have found a counterpart

to

WATER LEVELS.

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

Two million Spanish Jews, most From Numuro the new plane will of whom are now in exile, have be transported by steamship Been offered freedom of worship Shinchi island in the Kurlles where h the Republic.

Mr. Yoshiwara's first plane was damaged when he was forced to The following_table, issued by make an emergency landing during the Kwangtung River Conservancy A heavy

Commission, shows in English foot fog

SUGAR MARKET:

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

here in the case of the important The following gable at the close- Compagnie Generale Transatlan- of the sugar market yesterday has tique.

been received by Mesara. Pen-

It is understood that the Com-treath and Co. pagnie Generale shows a deficit of £2,500,000 and that it has applied

for Government help.

The Government proposes to pay a subsidy of £200,000 to the Com- pany for four years and thercafter n suboldy of £100,000 for 12 years, It alan contemplates asking the Chamber of Deputies to allocato $272,000 out of the present budget for the Company's immediate re- quirements.

London Terminals. March 1932 6/84 down 11⁄2d. May 1982 6/10 down 40. August 1931 6/3 down id. December 1931 6/6%4 down

It is expected that at the end of the water levels on the West. River, June Mr. Yoshiwara will be able to North River, and East River on the resutne his interrupted goodwill dates named: flight to the United States.

POSEIDON SALVAGE

VESSEL UNDER TWELVE FEET OF MUD.

Chefoe, June 15,

Salvage operations on the sunken

June June

14 15 West River at Shiubing 22.1 21.8 North River at Talngyuen 0.4 North River at Sainshul 18.8 18.0 | East River at. Sheklung 10.1 0.0 The highest levels recorded are: Shiuhing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, 29.2 foot: Samshul,

27.3 feet; Sheklung, 11.5 feet.

The lowest levels on record are

minun 5 feet at Samshui and

d. submarine Poseidon have been minus 27. foot at Shoklung.

abandoned, on Admiralty instruc- tions, owing to tho,Poseidon boing

New York Terminala. March 1932 1.44 down 1 pt. May 1982 1.80 down 1 pt. July 1981 1.18 down 3 pts. September 1931 1.27 down 2 pts. December 1931 1.36 down 1 pt.

covefod with twelve feet of mud." Last week's return of notifiable All units have returned to har-diseases shows four fatal cases of bour from the acone of the dis-typhold and one fatal case of puor

sino.. 59 peral favor. There were i nator.-Rønter,

deaths front pulmonary tuberculosis.

RADIO BROADCAST

LECTURE TO BE GIVEN

FROM STUDIO,

The radio programme to be broad- cast by Z. B. W.'on a wavelength of 356 métron to-day is:

8.00-8.00p.m. European pro- gramme of Victor records suppiled by Messrs. Tsang Fook Plano Co.

6-6.16 p.m. Children's programme, Dance of the Toy Regiment. Songs For Children-The Fiddle Song Victor Salon Orchestra, 10840,

--Dancing Song-The Beo.The ClockWho Has Seen The Wind- My Old Dan-Honk Ilonk-Cradlo Song Soldier Boys-Wing Foo--- The Zoo. The Frog and the Mouse-The Tallor and the Mouse The Frog He Would A wooing Go-Bow-Wow-Wow- Song of the Cricket-Good-Morning -A True Story-My Pony.

Allee Green (Soprano). 198H0. 6,16-6.45 p.m.-Instrumenta). Plano Solo-Humoreske (Dvorak), Piano Solo-Poliak Danco (Scharwenka).

Hank Barth. 20203. Violin Solo-Souvenir Portique

(Zdenko Fibich), Violin Bolo-To a Wild Rose (Mac

Dowell).

Michel Gusikoff. 19892. Plano Salo-Rustle of Spring

(Sinding). Piano Solo-Narcissus (Nevín),

Hans Barth, 20121. Violin and Cymbal Duel-The Old

Gypsy (Kondor Erno).

Violin and Gymbal Duet-The Broken

Violin (Danko Pisa).

Bela Schaffer-Feri Sarkozi. 20549. 7,00 p.m. Stock Quotations. 6.45-7.15 p.nt. Hawaiian Music,

Beautiful Hawall,

Frank Forera-Anthony Franchini. Hawalan Twilight.

Hawaiian Trio. 151-Hawaiian March,

1868.

Wnilaan Waltz-(Draway Waters).

Frank Ferera-John Panlahi. 20028, Along Miami Shore.

Honolulu Sweetheart of Mine.

Hilo Hawnilan, Orchestra. 21558. Old Black Jor. The Rosary.

Sam-Ku-West with Steel Guitar. 21647. 7.15-8.00p.m. (Approx.). From The Studio,

Dnetor Magnus Hirschfeld will Broadcast a Lecture on “Sexology-A New and Important Science."

8.00 p.m. Imeni time; weather re- port.

8.03-11.30 p.m. Ko Shing theatre

10.30 p.m. Rugby mil-day press

relay.

News,

11.30 pm. Close down.

KIRL REVISITED.

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cessitate special precautions in the Grand Fleet.

The flags over the sterns of Ger- man men-of-war now differ only from those of merchant ships by the large black iron cross in the middle.

Personal feelings between the officers of these two fleets will no doubt he just as cordial us they

were on the previous occasion, for noue then knew the bitter hatred of war although the German toast "Der Tag!" was echoed in the Bri- tish Fleet.

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There will be no Kaiser to receive full honours on the Dorsetshire quarterdeck; fly from her masthead the Union fing of a Bri- tish Admiral-of-the-Fleet_ranking second only to the Royal Standard. Naval War.

The visit is unofficial;" accord- ingly entertainments will be res-. tricted to modest dimensions, and not like those given on behalf of the respective Governments.

If the President comes on board flying his flag. It will be the black German Eagle on a yellow ground with a red border, which has Laken the place of the Kaiser's standard.

What will be the emotions of Heor Admirai Astley-Rushton when he shakes the hand-of the German senior naval officer?

It will be fifteen years since he strove as a Commander to create order out of havoc wrought in his light cruiser by German gun-fre in that brief but terrific night ac tion following Jutland.

He was then commander of the Southampton, one of those, very ships which two years previously had been invited by the Kaiser after Kiel Regatta the German Cowes Week-to return by the Kiel canal, then not big enough for battleships. Only a few days before, the Kaiser had formally opened it

ened it by cutting with the sten uf yachi the ribbon stretched nérons' it.

But naval war is different from that on land: its nature and the grent distance at which it is waged makes it less provocative of personal animosities. Pocket Battleships,

The vast majority of the fleet know nothing of the days of war.

by except hearsay Dinners, lun cheons, dances, tennis-whatever form recreations and entertain. ments may take will be ulis- turbed by the tension of inevit able war which

both animated fleets in those former days.

Study, comparison, and techni cal discussion of new designs of ships will absorb the interest of kean naval fleers on each side, and without offence.

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