1931-12-16 — Page 13

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1931.

PILSENER LAGER A POUND OF ARMY UNEMPLOYMENT IN

BEER.

"Blue Girl" Brand. The most suitable Boor

for the troplos.

SUGAR.

COOLIES FINED FOR THEFT.

The

FRANCE.

winter session in n somewhat chastened mind

'URGENT RELIEF MEASURES IN PARLIAMENT.

A charge of stealing a pound of

París, Nov. 12. | sugar belonging to the Royal Army

Parlament met to-day for its Service Corps was brought against

due to the ng- we carrying coolies before Mr. Grantham at the Central Police gravated crials of unemployment,

There are supposed now to be be Court this mo

morning. defendante admitted having tween 250,000 and 200,000 totally taken the sugar, but remarked that unemployed, though in the absence they had no intentions of stealing of statistics It is impossible to know it. They had purchased some bread

for certain. aul wanted the sugar for the bread. The partially unemployed mast

Ris WorshipIsn'!

be far more.

In any case the altun stealing?

tion is

is becoming really serious, and most hardly in Paris, Sergeant Buysting said the depressea fondants Bad been employed by the whore there are a disproportionate R.A.S.C to carry rations to the number of large works, and con- sequently unemployment fa keenly AL Talak 8.30 thin morning they were carrying sugar fot

Geniployment formed the pen- with Private Clifford in charge, when the latter enw the first defencipal subject under discussion at the dant holding a pices of paper and Counch of Ministers, hold the second defen:lunt scoopbg

| barracks,

surar into it.

that

His wonship fined euch defen

dant $4 or seven days' hard labour

CHIANG'S MESSAGE TO NATION,

this

morning, and M. Laval stated int the Chamber that the Government would give it precedence over other subjects, including foreign policy.

The Prime Minister considers it urgent to through Parliament further relies

measures, the first of which will be a new form of State relief for men who have been out of employment for over 180 days, the present limit for the receipt of re- thef.

•Contianed from Page 1)

IL is niso expected that severer measures will be taken to ment has been subjected to severe comb out foreign workmen, of Criticians, 1 have submitted my re-whom there are supposed to be one and a half million in gnation to the Central Govern-arly

France.

inent.

my

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DISARMAMENT. The Rev. Dr. Hubert L. Simp-

my share of the nation's work as member of the Kuomintang Party and will not hesitate to sun. in 4 lunch-hour address on surrender myself to the supreme "Disarmament: Is it Possible?" racrifice for the salvation. of at St. Edmund's, Lombard-street, Chinn, which was the instruction and that disarmament was possible and the spirit of our Founder."only when there was a decent_be- | Rensha,

ginning of obedience to the Will of God. It was not possible by the will of man.

WEATHER REPORT.

Pence was the gift of God and not the wangle of men. Men would persist in believing that they could

Disarmament

Art

The Royal Observatory reports sind to war among them-

was utterly

that a strong anticyclone is een-impossible-the futile, dream of an tral to the north of the Lower idle sentimentalist-untess certain Yangtze Valley. Pressure gra- conditions were fulfilled. dients are iteep over South China and the North China Sea,

He could actually realise the League of Nations becoming n menace to the world by Iulling it Enquiries by the police have e-into a false sense of security. All sulted in the identification of a young the talking and so-called lengting Chinese who was found wandering in of nations was quite useless until Nathan Road on Monday, and was the nations got right with God, taken to the Government Civil Hos- pital, suffering, it was believed, from โยชน of memory Yesterday, the yanth's mother called at the hospital, when I was revenied that he had heen missed from his home at 28, Amoy Street.

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A further 48 hours' remand Was granted by Bir. Granthan nt the Central Police Court this morning in the case in which Chief Detective Inspector A. N. Reynolds is applylag for an order for the repatriation to who is wanted thern on Canada of Birs. Cheung Suey-ngon, charge of Mr. theft of $800. This morning, Horace Lo represented the fugitive.

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

Parla.... The following is the list of local Geneva share quotations issued to-day Berlin

Oslo... Helsingfora

Banks.

Hongkang Bank, $1500 xa. Chartered Bank, £11% . Mercantile A. and B., £19 r.. East Asia, 128 n.

·Invutances.

Canton Ins., 1,450 n. Uulon Ins., $430-11.

China Underwriters, $4.90 b. Chinn Pires, $650 n.

H. K. Fire Ins., $1,450 n.

Shipping.

Douglases, $23 sa.

H. K. Steamboats, $24 n. Indo-Chinas (Pref.) $25 n. Union Waterboats, 327 s.

Mining.

Benguet, $10 n. Kailana, 30/- n.

S'hai Explorations, Tls. 2.70 m. Rouba, $42 b.

Docks, etc.

Kowloon Wharves. $164 n. Whoanpun Docks, $20 n. South China Motora $10 n. Providents fold) $5.15 b. Jongkews, Tis. 226 n. New Englacers. Tla. 6 n. Shanghai Docks, Tis. 05 m.

Cottons.

Ewn cotton Th. 15% 1. S'hai Cotton Th. 82 Zoon Singa Tis. 12 n.

Landa, Hotels, etc. H.K. S. Hotel (old) $14.96 b. H.K. S. Hotel (new) $14,60 so. H.K. Lands, $80 b.

S'hal Land, Tls. 324 . Humphreys' $16 b. Realfies. $11% b.

Public Utilities. Trainways, $21 b.

Peak Trams, (old), $15.25 b.

Amsterdam Stockholm

Vienns

Madrid

EXCHANGE RATES.

Previous Day. Yesterday.

.87% .17%

87% 17.11/10

.14.7/10

14.0/16

18

184

220

245

Athens

270

255

Buenos Aires.

.41%

40%

Shanghai

1/11%

New York

.8.43%

3.44%

.8.17/32

8%

17.15/16

18

20

29

Bucharest

Hongkong Brussels

40% .6722

.1/5.G/10 .24.13/16

40%

G86

1/5.0/10

24%

.67%

07%

Copenhagen.

.18%

18

Prague

.110

116

Lisbon..

100%

100%

Blo.

Bombay

Yokohama

Montevideo

Montreal.

.4% .1/6% .2/4 .31

.4.25

4%%%

1/6.0/04

2/64

M126

4.201

10% 20%

British Wireless.

n.

Milan

Silver (apot)....10.13/14 (forward) 20

Star Ferries, 306 Chinu Light, $27.60 x I. K. Electrica. $78 b. Macao Electrice, $28 n. Telephones, $43 n. China Busen, Tla, 17,90 n. Singapore Tractions, 4/- a.

Industrials.

China Sugars 50 cts. n. Malabons $99 n. Canton Ice, $6 b. Cement fcom.) 819 sa. Ropes, $16.

Stores, etc.

Dairy Farms, $28 b. Watron, $16.40 n.

Dor A. Wings, $1 a. Lane Crawford, $0.50 b. Mackintosh, $19. Sinceres, $16% n. Powells, $3.60 n.

Miscellaneous.

Amusements, $20 b.

Constructions, (old) $5.80 80.

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GANDHI'S OBJECT

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TO CONTINUE HIS WORK OF DESTRUCTION,

Rome, Dec. 15.

which will be, ns heretofore, with. out violence"Reuter's Special Service.

Another Outrage.

Patna, Dec. 15. The second outrage In India within twenty-four hours occurred [to-Jay, when a bomb was thrown

"India, with her vast masses, at the bungalow of Mr. A. B. can create a new civilleation, but Toplis, the District Magistrate of this work of construction is for Bhagalpur. Nobody was injured. the future. To-day the whole Ing Another live bomb was discover-

dian antion is called to a work of to the vicinity.—Reuter, destruction — boycotting," sald (A message published yester. Mr. Gandhi in an interview by the day reported the murder of the Giornale D'Italia. He continued: District Mnglatrate of Tippers,

"return to india to continue who was shot dead by two Bengali.. the struggle against England, women.]

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