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PLUMBING

IN ACCORDANCE

WITH MODERN ENGINEERING

PRINCIPLES

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“WARRENS”.

Existing Installations Maintained.

Modorato Charges.

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

Tel. 20269.

China Building.

Sir Samuel Wilson, Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, who leaves Hongkong to. 'day after a brief visit in which ha Fian discussed many problems with the Government.

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Am Street, Hongkong.

The

EDITION

Library, Supreme

Court

Hongkong Telegraph.

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No. 13782 =# #-#AZ+RÆF WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1932. BØÐA-+

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CHINA BALANCES HER BUDGET

NO MORE WAR DEBTS

LITTLE ENTENTE HOLD CONFERENCE

IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS

(Our Own Correspondent).

IRISH LOAN FROM AMERICA

DECISION TO RELAY

CONFIRMED

Dublin, Dec. 21..

Despite Year of Unusual Difficulty

STRINGENT ECONOMY

An official statement Confirms IMPROVEMENT IN

the reported intention of the Irish Free State Government to repay! the balance due to the United States in respect of the £1,500,000 floated in the United States in 1918 and 1920.-Reuter,

thy Tricgraph, Compright, * Telegraphie | INDEMANCIPIUNTIMONISTLANDMARAAGDENEITY=NCIAN, Mestupre Ordinance, 1995. Reeciord, December 21, 0.24 a.m.)

London, Dec. 21.

RIGHT HAND. Developments of considerable

PAYS LEFT

NEW BRITISH "LOAN" TO AUSTRIA

TO REPAY BANK OF ENGLAND

importance to political Europe

are announced as the outcome of a conference of the Little Entente Powers held at Belgrade.

CREDIT

Nanking, Dec. 1. Despite the world industrial de. pression, the slump in the value of silver, the anti-Red campaign and the invasion of China by

PROBLEMS OF Japan, the Chinese Government

AFRICA

had been able to balance its last Budget.

Without giving any precinu gures, Mr. T. V. Soong, the Nun- king Minister of Finance, 'made a

The conference, which has just ANGLO-FRENCH LIAISON, statement to this effect at to-day's

[terminated, dealt with an agenda covering all political issues domina- ting Europe to-day and it yielded complete Identity of views on the international issues.

the

ESTABLISHED

(Our Own Correspondent).

Telegraph Compright, Telegraphic,

meeting of the Third Plenary Session of the Kuomintang C. E. C.

The extraordinary

financial! dinculties at the opening of 1932

I had had Its inevitable effects upon; Itrade, he said, with a consequent

The main result, however is an agreement for closer co-operation between the members of the Little angra Chedingner, 1881. Received, Herenher Pante and a remarkable drop in

Entente.

PERMANENT SECRETARIAT.

.4.m.)

the quoted value of domestic bonda. London, Dec. 21. The problems of Africa furnish- fed the theme of an interesting

London, Dec, 20. The House of Commons to- night approved a resolution. au-

HAPPY POSITION. thorising the Treasury in pur- A Permanent Secretariat is to be speech by Mr. Stanley Baldwin at This situation rendered JEN suance of the Austrian Protocol, established and it has been ar the annual meeting of the Empire prospect of fresh loans out of the drawn up at Geneva on July 15th ranged that the leading Ministers Parliamentary Association held question, but by stringent last, to guarantee the payment Czecho-Slovakia

of Yugo-Slavin. Rumania and inst night.

есолому, the Mr. Baldwin said that liaison administration and taxes and the improvement of of the principal and interest or least three times every year to dis has been

ure to meet al

established OfL the conversion of domestic loans, the a loan of such amount as would cuss problems of mutual interest. Colonial side of the Association Government had balanced produce a sum not more than one

These countries have already between British people interested budget. million gold shillings.

jagreed upon the presentation of in African problems and French- The Chancellor of the Exche-united front at the resumption of men interested in the French quer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Disadmament Conference and colonial problem. Explained that the protocol provid-they also decided to pay no more ad, on the side of Austria, for in-war debts until Germany resumes ternal reforms, including the bal-reparations payments. ancing of the budget, and almed at

the abolition of exchange control

and the strengthening of the Na- JEWEL THEFT ON

tional Bank.

The Austrian Government un- dertook to meet, in future, all its foreign obligationa.

The proceeds of the amount of the loan to be guaranteed by the British Government was to be used to repay the temporary advance made by the Bank of England ist your-British Wireless.

ANGLO-PERSIAN DISPUTE

PERSIA MAKES PLEA OF INNOCENCE

London, Dec. 20.

SHAMEEN

MYSTERIOUS THIEF

AT WORK

Shameen, Dec. 20.

A mysterious thief seems to be at work on Shameen. Two thefts have been reported to the Muni. eipal Police.

A few days ago three watches and a small amount of money was

Is

The result of this happy posi- tlon, he added, was that the credit Je predicted that Africa would of the Chinese Government had provide some of the most tremend much Improved at home and abroad. Domestic Bonds were ous problems of the next genera- tion and consequently, it was very now, on an average, forty per cent. important that the countrica who higher than early in the year and were responsible for the guardian- there had also been an appreciable ship, both of native rights and rise in Chinese securities on the western civilisation through large foreign markets.---Reuter. arens, should have a common pur- pose and understanding.

FOUR YEARS FOR EMBEZZLEMENT

FORMER CLERK OF THOS. COOK AND SON

BODY FOUND ON FORESHORE

POLICE SUSPECT FOUL} PLAY

The decomposed body of a Chi-: nese, approximately 40 years of

:

An Impression of the task facing the new Everant Expedition may be gathered from this striking picture showing one of the Himalayan peaks. The embodiment of inaccessibility is an apt

description.

ATTACK ON EVEREST

CAMBRIDGE ROWING BLUE JOINS

PARTY COMPLETE

DISARMAMENT

All that is known about tyre making is embodied in

DUNLOP

TYRES

GERMANY TO-DAY.

SEVERITY RELAXED

NEW HINDENBURG DECREE

POLITICAL COURTS ABOLISHED

Berlin, Dec. 20.

General von Schleicher's promise to mitigate the severity of the regime established by his bre- decessor, Cantain von Papen,

is now being carried out.

A new deeree issued over the signature of President Haden- burg to-day provides for the aboli tion of the special courts establish- ed by the von Papen Government for dealing with political offenders and abolishes the decrees compel Hng all newspapers to print ofli- cial statements.

The deeree maintains the law for the protection of the Republic, pro-, viding special penalties for at- tempts upon the head of the State. for insults to the flag or to the Army and Navy.

It is significant that the clause Irohibiting the ex-Kaiser's return to Germany has been dropped.-- Reuter.

BIG CHINESE BANQUET

TO SIR SAMUEL AND LADY WILSON

Sir Samuel Wilson and Lady Wilson were the guests of honour nt a brilliant Chinese dinner party kiven by the four Chinese members of the Hongkong Executive and Legislative Councils last night at the Chinese Merchants Club. Among those present were Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern and Mrs. the Southorn,

the Hon. Mr. E. R. and Mrs. T. H. King, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Tratman and many other prominent officials and their wives.

THE NAVAL PROBLEM

NAVAL Halifax and Mrs. Hailifax, Mr.

LITTLE PROGRESS APPARENT

London. Dec, 20. Little progress appears to have been made towards an agreement for naval disarmament.

Questioned in the House of Com-

The hosts were Sir Shou-son Chow, and Lady Chow, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Kotewall, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Teo, the Hon.. Mr. T. N. Chau and honoured guests were introduced the by Sir Shonson Chow to the lead- ing Chinese present, who included the representatives on the Sanitary Board, the Po Leung Kuk, Chinese General Chumbor of Commerce and Directors of the Tung Wah Hos- pital. Sir Shou-son Chow pro-

| Industries Ltd., and more recently, guilty at the Criminal Sessions Shun District, yesterday afternoon-come a member of the Mountmons regarding this matter, Caposed the toast of His Majesty the

H. C Lee).

Mr. H.

man,

KENYA'S NEW GOLDFIELD

NATIVE INTERESTS

London, Dec. 20. Lo Kau, formerly in the service age, was discovered on the fore- stolen from the imperial Chemical of Thes. Cook and Son, pleaded here at Nim Wan, in the Ping has accepted an invitation to be- Mr. A. A. Brocklebank, who

Mrs. Southam, of the Asiatic before the

Palane Judge (Mr. The circumstances and the condi- Petroleum Co., was robbed of the Justice Wood) this morning, to a tion of the corpse give rise to sus- Everest Expedition, is the well- whole tray from her jewel box, charge of stealing, while in the picions of murder having been known Cambridge rowing Blue.

tals_Eden, Under-Secretary for King, and Sir Samuel Wilson also This contained all her jewellery, and employ of the firm named and of committed.

Brocklebank three times stroked

Foreign Affairs, referred to the spoke. although Mrs. Southam states Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son The discovery was made by the Light Blues to victory in the

¡resolution of the Disarmament that the actual value was not (Bankers) Ltd., as a clerk, ʼn sum Sergeant Handridge at 3 o'clock Boat Race. In reply to a telegram from the tremendous. It is a loss that can approximating $13,000. He wasyenterday afternoon. The wrists

Conference last July, which invit- President of the Lengue Council, never be replaced, owing to the

represented

The other new ed the Powers parties to the Wash- by

Gwere bound tightly behind the

member of the requesting that no step should be associations connected with the Macnamara (instructed by Mr back with sea grass, and the body taken which might affect the jewels.

ington and London Naval Treaties Expedition, Mr. L. was clothed in a white cotton atatus quo and thus aggravate the So far the Police have not been

to confer, and stated that conver The particulars of the offence singlot and four blue cotton

R. Wagor, ia also a dispute with Britain regarding able to trace the thief, though it are that accused, on or about July jackets, with a purse attached to.

Cambridge

sations had accordingly been tak- the Anglo-Perafan Oil Concession, is reported that a strange Chinese 2nd., 1932, while in the employ of the leather belt. Between the lin-

He was a member ing place and offorts had recently the Poraian Government gives an was seen in the flat of Mr. and Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son. Ing of one of the jackets were

of the British boen made by the British 'and assurance that it will "continue to Mtra. Harrison, also of the Asiatic Ltd, stole £127. 12. 0, sterling, found $3 in Chinese twenty-cent

Arctic Air Route American delegations to discover a

solution of Expedition, abstain from any net calculated to Petroleum Co.

the This man, when United States G$871. Shanghai pieces. aggravate or extend the alleged dia-questioned by the houseboy asked $125, Singapore $40, Saigon

31, led by the late difficulties. him where to find the British Con-piastrea 591, pesos 18, rupees 630 washed ashore by the tide. pute".

The body had apparently been

Mr. Watkins.

He added that the conversations The Perisan Government also ex-sulate.

guilders 125, franes 900.

The personnel would continue but there was no and It is believed the same man was Hongkong $6,293.42.

of the prosses the belief that the cnneel-

Everest question at present of holding o Jation of the Company's concession seen by the servant of Mr. and

The case was opened by Mr.

Expedition is thus meeting of these Powers, is not calculated to provoke a con- Mrs. Southam, who reported that a¦3. A. Fraser, assistant Attorney

completed and the He also stated that no decision flict between the two Governments Chinese of similar description in General, for the Crown, who stateil

party is leaving England early in had yot boen taken as to the hold- secing that it has from the out-quired for Air. Harrison that defendant was enagnged at

the New Year to make an attack on ing of another meeting of the five Kenya goldfield' provided ample set expressed a desire to arrive at Our Own Correspondent,

the world's highest peak.

Powers who recently conferred at safeguards for the interests of the The Expedition has been formed Gonova on the work of the Dla-native population of the area.TMTMTM

Conference.-British British Wireless, by a joint committee of the Royal armament Geographical Society and the Wireless. Alpine Club. Its loader is Mr. Hugh Ruttredge, late of the Indian {Civil Service, and it includes Mr. F.

an equitable agreement with the

Company British Wireless.

ANOTHER RECORD

FOR M.G.·

1,700 MILES IN 24

HOURS

London, Dec. 20.

JAPAN VERSUS LANCASHIRE

..11

Mr. Rutledge.

BRIGHTER HOPES FOR RUBBER

GOODRICH COMPANY

PROFITS

London, Dec. 21.

1930.

Messrs. Thomas Cook's 14 years ago as a bank messenger and he held that employment for eight years. Six years ago he was pro- moted to be in charge of the cash In the tourist department. On the 23rd. June this year he Was again promoted and was given At the annual meeting of the S. Smyth, who led the expedition While in charge of the tourist Walrond Sinclair, the chairman, Kamot, the highest peak so far charge of the banking.cash as well. [Goodrich Rubber Company, Sir which successfully scaled Mount

caah he received a salary of $80 Indicated that the Directors were climbed by man,--British Wireless. which continued when he was considering an extension of the f London, Dec. 21. promoted. Had he proved satie-business, either by building upon In a leading article on the cotton factory ho would have received a land adjacent to the Company's export trade and the invasion of higher salary. It was his duty to main factories or by equity of con-

INVASION OF COTTON MARKETS

CLOUDY WEATHER.

The anticyclone is centred to the

outstanding

DOLLAR TWICE DECLINES

LOCAL MARKET

EASY

SAFEGUARDED

London, Dec. 20.

House of Commons, the Colonial In answer to a question in the Secretary, Sir Philip Cunliffe List- or, gave an assurance that the bill Introduced into the Legislative Counell of Kenya regarding minor- at rights in the newly-discovered

BRITISH STOCKS

STRONGER

STERLING'S UPWARD

TREND.

London, Dec. 20, Following the rise in the sterling

The Hongkong dollar opened at dollar rate, the strength of Bri-

A now motoring record for 241 Empire and other overseas mur receive the cash at the end of the trol of some concern of suitable North of the Lower Yangiao n. 8d. this morning, a drop oftish funds was again the principal hours in the 750. c.c. class was set kets by Japan, the Financial Times day after it had been examined productive capacity already in ex-Valley, and the depression is situa-1/8th on yesterday's rate, but later feature of to-day's Stock Exchange.

-Router.

ted to the north-cust of Kokkaido.

the day-

up by a British car on the Mon-Maya that the Ottawa Agreements and place it in the safe. Tho till istence. tlhery track in Pàrls to-day,

represent the limit to which the was divided into compartments industry can look for relief in the and it was easy, by merely glane-pany exceeds that of last year by Fresh monsoon will prevail along to la. 3.1/8d. The market locally gains of from a quarter to one and The profit shown by the Com-Both are moving north-eastward. in the forenoon it declined again At the close there were genóra! Mesara. Eyston, Denley and fecal sphere. Wisdom, taking three-hour turns

ing at it, to toll roughly how over twenty per cont. and a divi- the coast and over the Northern is inclined to be easy. It adds that the settlement of much money it contained.

a half points, with War Loan dond of five per cont. was declared. China Sen. Local forecast:-N.E. Amprien and India sold, and China ment of 15/16 on

Silver dropped in London 1/16th.8% % at 98%, showing an improve- winds, fresh; cloudy.

bought. There WAR small bu- British Wireless. The weddings will shortly take Terrace, Causeway Bay,

siness. After the official fixing, and Miss the market ruled idlo. lace between Mr. George William Alice Chui, 9 Ying Wah Terrace; and

A warrant has been insuod for the Bank, and Miss Constance Marie Navigation Co., and Bliss Vora Elo- changed at 25. Futures are Swart True, Hongkong and Shanghai Mr. David Boyle, engineer, China

In New York, silver is used as manager of the Po Hing Cheong arrest of Lam Kong, who was employ- Halsall, 368, The Peak: Mr. Jamas anor Roberts, en route to the Colony down. The cross-rate has im- of fraudulent misappropriation of a firm of Connaught Road, on a charge Evam, engineer, of 78, Loen Keen por . Comarin.

proved to 3.88.1/8d,

́sum of $20,200, on December 10 last.

at the wheel of a littlo seven h..he more-looms-per-wenver Isauc is M.G. car of standard pattern, ho.most effective way of choupen:

PRACTICALLY EMPTY. . covered, between yesterday after ng production upon n sento suf On the 80th Juno a considerable noon and this afternoon. 2.727 tefout to give Lancashire a chance amount of money was contained kilometres approximately 1.704 of meeting Japanese and other in the cash box, but when it was miles. The previous record stood oreign competitors, who have auch examined on July 4th, practically 2,684 kilometres, approximately in enormous present advantage in the whole amount was missing. 1,554 miles.-British Wirejoss. labour and other costs.-Reuter,

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