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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1931.

MR. SHIGEMITSU IN NANKING.

GRAF ZEPPELIN AT HANWORTH AERODROME.

NEW MINISTER TO CHINA.

TO-DAY'S CEREMONY.

Nanking, Sept. 15..

Introduced by Dr. C. T. Wang, the Foraign Minister, Mr. Mamoru Shiemitiu presented his creden tals to President Chiang Kai-shek this morning.

The Japanese Minister said:-) "I have the honour to present taj Your Excellency the letter by which is Majesty, the Emperor of Japan, has appointed me Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Government of the Chinese itepublic.

The friendly relations subsist- ing between China and Japan are not only of mutual benefit to our countries, but are also key to the peace in the Orlent and the cornerstone la world prosperity. Reing deeply convinced of this fact the Japanese Government has been earnestly endeavouring to promote the sympathy and under- standing existing between the two peoples and governments, so that the two nations may futal their mission to the world. As minister to Chin, I shall endeavour my tal to fulfil this object and sincerely hope that Your Excel

will exten! Jency's Government every possible assistance.

"May I on this occasion capUSA to Your Excellency my ardent wishes for your continued health and prosperity and the happiness. of the Chinese People."

Chlang's Reply.

President Chiang replied follows:-"It gives

Kreat pleasure to réegiye from your hands the letter by which is

A ZEPPELIN

The arrival at Hanworth Aerodrome of the Graf Zeppelin on her recent visit to England at the invita tion of the Master of Sampill. Fifty thousand people, some of whom can be seen in the dim distance, greeted her amid scenes of unprecented enthusiasm. The Zeppelin has since completed an ocean trip from Germany to Brazil and back.

THE YEAR WITHOUT

A SUMMER.

BRITAIN'S PLAGUE OF BAD WEATHER.

INCESSANT RAIN.

since

CORRESPONDENCE.

The University Sensation.

To the Editor, Hongkon}}

Telegraph.]

NEW SOURCES OF POWER.

GREAT SCOTTISH

SCHEME.

SHANNON ENTERPRISE

SURPASSED.

Sir.I am sorry lo inform Mr. Let that sensible undergraduates fare not prepared to subscribe to London. Aug. 1a.

his view of loyalty and education.; "For general 'disgusting-ness* 1

I conceive a good education to

A sum of £27,000,000 has been do not think the present summer he one which enables the student

Central Electricity b beaten

apent by the complete to seek the truth by himself, and Board nz the

national power weather records were started in not ve it through the medium scheme during the present 1890," Mr. E. L. Hawke, Metouro-

of his authorities. If a

4 alone. The South of · Scotland Jogical Superintendent of The system of education has proved Hampstead Observatory said to-capable of doing this, ir

The scheme, which is to be put into The immediate operation, will cost a Jelay.

student is never encouraged to

further £3,468,234, form his own opinion, it is, I FIFTY

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Majesty the Emperor of Japan; "It is the most sunless since 1888,fraid, a complete failure. Is appoints Your Excellency Envoy has had the havest maximum tema a pity, then, to see "educated" cerclectricity will be Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-perature since 1882, and is The ant potentiary to the Government of wottest since 1924. the Chin

Chinese Republic and wishes that the friendly relations subsisi. "With the exception of July 22, ing between China and Japan will it has rained within the London he farther consolidated. In view arra

every day since Your Excellency's

Swithin's Day. Bonk residence in China, I feel confident

"The frequency of the rainfall that Your Excellency will be able

s made it worse than the to promote the sympathy od

indicate: understanding existing between figures of total rainfall the two governments and peoplest the absence of sunshine

present scheme will take ve been the worst fenture. to our mutual benefit and both our coned summer as beginning on of what a great thinker of his race benefits will be felt within

Lastly, I wish to remind Mr. Len Javn

about five years to complete, but its countries. I gladly promise Your

three May 1, and during the whole of this has said:--"In 4 university the

At the end of that time co-operation Fe National attainment of your aim as well as consecutive days with 9 hours sun-charged with that enthusiasm for large areas where electricity is now

truth, that fanaticians of veracity, entirely unknown will have facilities in the per- shine each. necessary formance of the duties of your

"It is possible at the present rate much learning, a nobler gift than

which is a greater possession than stant supply.

Most remarkable of all the note- mission. Your Excellenes will of progress that even the record of the power of increasing know-worthy features of the South of good enough to convey to His 1988 may be elipsed. So far.

Scotland scheme is the Galloway Water scheme, which will be the COMMON SENSE. largest hydro-electric undertaking Another 83%1⁄2 hours bservatory

Great We have received a further in

Britain. The total to equal the 1888 letter on this subject, but as the capacity of the four generating pocord for the four months May-writer impugns the veracity of astations involved will be 102,000 August. The first fortnight of previous correspondent, it cannot kilowatts, representing 104,000 August has had less sunshine than] is published.—Ï¿d. II.K.T.] ·

Thas the day is brought one step

universal in Great Britain. people who never dare to make an

The new area to be supplied cun- intellectual journey without using the clutches of their authorities?sts of 4,308 square miles. It is the ninth of the ten schemes design- Loyalty to a country u 2012

ed under the Electricity Supply institution is undoubtedly, impor-Act of 1926, and it is now only a Lant. Bat while we are able to see matter of time until the North of the faults of others, loyalty should Scotland, the last aren remaining i

over blind us to misinkes of our

side the scope of present ac- own. Loyalty and partiality man tivity, is also brought within the fonlistmess, not wisdom.

sphere of the national supply.

velilley the grament in the period there have never been three very air we breathe ought to be years.

of the

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Majesty, the Emperor of Japan August has produced nuly 5722ledge."--Yours, "etc.,

my Ardent wishes for His hours nwunshine at Kew Majesty's continued health. also hope that Your Excellency's sojourn in this country will grove .most. agreeable."--Sino News

Agency.

CIVIL SERVANTS · PROTEST.

"MANY WITH LESS THAN £3 A WEEK.”

The following 'resolution was prased unanimously at a mass meeting of certain grades of the Civil Service at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Aug. 14:

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| the first fortuight of April, or of Jany succeeding month this year.

"In rainfall we are alrendy 1.6 inch over the normal total for the (four summer months--and there is

still a fortnight to run.

Lowest Since 1882.

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SUGAR MARKET.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

en-

RADIO BROADCAST

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Today's radio programme to ba broadcast by Z. B. W. on a wave- length of 355 metres:

0.00-8.00p.m.

Europonn Pro- gramme of Victor and IL N. V. Re- cords kindly supplied by Mears. 8. Moutrio and Ca

0.00-8.30 p.m. Orchestrat.

An American in Paris (George

Gershwin).

Victor Symphony Orchestra with George Gershwin. 35063-36961, Ballot Egyptien Buite (Luigini),

Now Light Symphony Orchestra. C1255-C1254. 7.00 pm. Stock Quotations. Wall Notice, otc.

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6.36-7.20 p.m. Variety. Song Always in All Ways, Song-Beyond the Bino Horizon.

Jeannette MacDonald (Soprano),

Organ Solo-Jeannine I Dream of

Line Time Organ Solo-King For a Day,

Jesse Crawford. 21081. Song-When Twilight Comes, I'm

Thinking of You.

Song-Calling Me Back to You.

John McCormack (Tenor). 1197. Hawalian Orchestra-Maria, Mari. Hawaiian Orchestra-Girl of My

Dreams,

Walter Kolomoku Honoluluans. 21263. Humorous Song-Like the Big Pots Do, Humorous Song- think of What You

Usod to think of Me.

Gracle Fields. B2023. Organ Solo-Sylvan Scenes.

H. Vincent Collier. Organ Solo-Now I'm In Love.

Reginald Foort. B3301. 7.20-8.00 p.m. Quintette in F Minor

(Brahma Op. 34).

Played by Harold Bauer and the Flouanley Quartet (Piano, 2 Violins, Viola and 'Cello), M-10. 1st Movement-Allegro non troppo. End Movement-Andante, un poco Adagio.

3rd Movement-Scherzo (Allegro). 4th Movement-Finale.

8.00 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report

8.03-11.30 p.m.Ko Shing Theatre Rolay.

10.30 p.m. (Approx:). Rugby Mid- day Press News.

11.30 p.m. Close Down,

SENATOR SHOT IN A FLAT.

YOUNG WOMAN CALLS A DOCTOR

New York, Aug. 14. Mr. Roy T. Yates, aged 36, the youngest member of the New Jersey State Senate, is lying near death a hospital in New York with a bullet wound in the abdomen inflicted while he was visiting the flat of Ruth Yane, a pretty blonde young woman, in West Eighty-

ninth-street,

The ense did not reach the at- tention of the police until several hours after the girl had hysterically telephoned the hospital aking that a surgeon and ambulance be sent immediately as a man had been

horse power. It will be larger by about 27,000 kilowatts than the famous Shannon scheme. It will therefore, be by far

slot. the largest enterprise of its kind in the British Isles.

Linking Up Supplies, An example of the scope of the new undertaking in provided by the The highest temperature

The following cable at the close county of Dumfries. In that aren corded at Kew-on August 4-was of the sugar market yesterday has at present only two towns are pro- 77, a figure which has several times been received by Messrs. Pen-vided with electric light--Dumfries been beaten in April. The Green-treath and Co. wich maximum is the lowest since 1882, and even the wet summer of 1927 produced a maximum of 84.0. "We have missed both the tem- "This mass meeting of Civil Ser-pernture maximam of the middle vants receiving less than 70s, per af July (shown in the Greenwich week registers its protest against averages for 90 years), and The the wholly inadequate recommen-secondary maximum due on August dations of the Royal Commission 12-13. which, incidentally, fulls{ in regard to pay, and pledges within the second Buchan self to suppori, its representatives period. In their efforts to abolish under.

payment in the Civil Service."

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"As regards the remaining 10. days covered by the St. Swithin Ex-

Reference was made to consi-legend, there is still hope. derable sections in the Civil Ser-amined statistically, the legend has vice who reenive even less than

often proved false than true;

London Terminals. March 1932 5/10% down 1⁄4d. May 1932 G/- down 4. August 1932 6/21⁄2 no change., December 1931 5/7 down

RACKETEERS! REVENGE,

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and Sanquhar. The latter is

sup- plied from the local coul mine.

When the scheme is put into operation the Dumfries County Council will draw its supplies from the

area near Gretna, which trendy provided for, and every dwelling in the county will have its supply. Other counties where a similar state of affairs exists will be similarly equipped, and towns of

and it is

New York Terminals. March 1932 135 down 3 pts. May 1932 1.41 down 1 pt. July 1992 1.46 down 2 pts. September 1932 1.51 down 1 pt.the size even of Wigtown will be

the first time. for suppiled December 1931 131 down 3 pts.)

About 1,200 men will be en-

grid- on the

alono, impossible to calculate the numbers who will find employment in the workshops and other departments.

Much of the water power derived from the South of Scotland area will be diverted to provide supplies for the north-east of England. It is pointed out that this will be a further indication of the advan New York, Aug. 14. tages of the grid system, whereby Racketeering outrages of such an all the national power is pools and anstrous summer of 1888, the attention thin usual are reported needed. in 1903 and 1910, and, after the unusual nature as to attract more distributed in the areas where it is September rainfall was one quar- from three different points to-day. Hter-below-normal, while the sun-

In Chiengo terrorists

£3 a week, und the whole pro- but it is a sad fact that it rained on posals of the Royal Commission St. Swithin's Day last year, and with regard to pay were severely criticised at making, no attempt that there was rain within the Lon- to deal with the long outstanding don area on every one of the aue- problem of under-payment in the Civil Servico.

ceeding forty days.

"After a wet summer, it is usual for. Sepetmber to be relatively

dry mouth. This was the enne both

ARMED GANGS DESTROY PROPERTY.

mimuat

"Outside Work Necessary," Mr. C..W. Gibson declared that many of the lower-paid Civil Ser ranta have to obtain additional outside work in order to keep their shine figure was quite reasonable, simultaneously-raided noven branch ruse this morning.

to find their families-from-starvation.-

There is a very big drop in the Mr. W. J. Brown: M.P., said that rainfall for England as a whois shops of the. Checker Cleaning and tyres slashed beyond repair,

Company, inter idated In ench instance some members the whole busin of the Civil Ser after the end of August. By Sop- und

managers and employees with pis. of the gang fured away the watch vice bonus was hopelessly unti-tember 1 the average rainfall quated, being based on the cost of very nearly down to the spring tola, and poured acid over all the men while others stashed all the pushing in the establishments, tyres, several hundreds of cars be- living for a working class family minimum-und no one knows why.

ing damaged. 27 years ago,

"It is also consoling that the Sep- At oneli shop two men cowed the In Brooklyn the failure of Green |tember rainfall has decreased by 20 employees with pistols while the Cottage Inn, a small speakeasy, to The stationary elements in the por cent. within the last century, ethers fang the neid over the cloth. buy its liquors from the proper average man's expenditure, such while there is

also a strong Ing. making sure that were gang, brought not only complete na house purchase payments, in tendency for more hot daya. In damaged. Representatives of the wrecking of the establishment, surance, education, etc., were in four out of the last five years the company declare that the outrage which is a one-storey bungalow, but no way taken into account in the September maximium temperature was due to their withdrawal from the murder of three men, who werd Cost of Living Index.

has been over 80 degrees. The ex- the racketeering labour union. stabbed with loo-picks and beaten

{with clubs, There was no consolation for ception was 1927. This improve-

In the Queen's section of Now The raiders, using axes, smashed' the Civil Service in consolidating ment is the one definite climatic

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a wholly inadequate bonus with chango which is revealed by the York City motorists who patronise the wireless set,, the piano and the statistica of the last hundred the open-air parking places instead smaller Zurniture- and left the years."

of the more costly enclosed garages, victims under a pile of wreckage,

an atrocious basic salary.

The surgeon said he reached the Bat to find the girl, clad in a silken kimono, pacing up and down the floor of the living room, while on the floor of the bed-room lay a man bleeding considerably from wound in the abdomen. Because of the seriousness of the wound the surgeon rushed the victim to hos- pital, not attempting a lengthy questioning of the girl, who seemed dazed.

Girl's Story.

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The police, when finally called, likewise found the girl hysteria. She stated: "All I re- member is that someone caught me by the throat as I slept, and I had to gasp for breath. I do not remember hearing a shot. I did not have a pistol, and did not seo one.**

She denied ownership of the pistol found in the courtyard under the window. Five exploded shena of of the pistol were found in the flat, but no trace of other bullets save the

one that struck the senator.

Asked how long she had known Mr. Yates, the girl replied, "Long enough, but under subsequent questioning she said they had been friends for two years. Sho seem. ed amazed to lepra he was a pro- ninent banker, lawyer, and mem- bor of the New Jersey Senate. She d she had told him she wile A Buld student of journallare, and he had "aald he was a writer on sporta:

She professed to be unaware that he was President of the Investing Corporation of America, Vice-Pre- aldent of the Lincoln Trust Co. of Paterson, where he lived with hin wife and three children, now on holiday at the seaside. The giri is being detained for further

ques- tioning, while detectives await an opportunity to question Yates, wha expected to recover, following nin operation to remove the bullet.

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