· BIG MINING PLAN FOR FUKIEN
$10,000,000 SCHEME BY STRAITS CHINESE
Singapore, Dec. 27. Arrangements are being made by a number of Overseas Chinese here to raise the sum of $10,000, 000 for the purpose of developing the mining districts between Chiangchiu anil Lungnan in the
CHRISTMAS DAY AT WUCHOW
SPECIAL SERVICE IN ̧
HOSPITAL
Wuchow, Dec. 25. Christmas Day was appropriate y celebrated by the foreign com- munity of Washow. In the morn.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
ANNXIOUS TIMES FOR GERMANY
DRITISH COUNSELLOR'S "
REPORT
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SU PING-WEN
WAITING REPATRIATION
IN RUSSIA
Pelping, Dec. 27. A telegraphic mesange has been received from General Su Ping wen's secretary stating that Gon eral Su returned to Tomak from Leningrad on December 22 and Is of his 3,000 officers and mon Intern- new arranging for the repatriation
ed there, via Outer Mongolin,
General Su estimates that at
Mr. J. W. F. Thelwall, Com motetal Counsellor to the British Embassy at Berlin, in a report on cconomic conditions in Germany, ing at 10 o'clock held in the chapel on the top Roor Overseas Trado, staten that the a service was issued by the Department of of the Stout Memorial Hospital. coming months will again be More than 80 foreigners and Eng-time of great difcalty and lish-speaking Chinese attended, the anxiety, however high one may south-western part of Fukien pro-service, which was addressed by rate, the powers of endurance of lenat $600,000 will be required for Kev. W.H. Oldfield, of the Chris-the German people, and in the purpose, as each man needs
and Missionary
Alliance spite of
a certain immunity to $200.-Reuter. Mission Wuchow, who chose as his the effects of shock which the text Luko 2, and spoke on the subments of the past year have con-
cct, "No Room in the Inn." H.H. ferred upon them. Snuggs, B.S., and Roy. Ray, both of the American Southern Baptist Mission also took part in the
vince.
The ambitious plan which Istion boing pushed through with great enthusiasm, is the result of the belief existing among the Overacas Chineas merchants that peace and political stability will be brought to Fuklen as a result of the suc cessful anti-bandit and anti-Com-- mualet campaign conducted by the Tamous Cantonese Nineteenth Route Army.
servico.
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2
Moth attended the service in
The officers and crew of H.M.S. body and contributed to the pro- gramma by singing Christmas anthem, "O Come let us adore Him." At the conclusion of the service a special offering was re- Girls at Shiuhing West River.
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PROGRAMME OF RECORDED MUSIC
11-11.30 am. Stock & Exchange Quotations, Weather Report, etc.
5-8 p.m. European programme. 5-5.18 pira, Band Music,
In Lilac Time (Engelmann)........Vic- tor Band 35782, *--
The Thistle (Myddleton, Winterbottom)....Reg. Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards 0102.
A large number of Chinese mer. chants in Malaya have promised to subscribe to a big portion of the proposed capital. Support from celved for the Orphange for Blind first, that as she is a large debtor There are extracts from their com- Malcolm McEachern (Bass) 0292.
other directions has been also en- sured and it is expected that the shares are likely to be over-sub
scribed.
Special services were also held in the Chinese churches of the [city.—Our Own Correspondent..
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EUROPEAN'S CLAIM FAILS
The districts lying between Chiangchiu and Lungnan have rich mineral deposits such as coal, copper, Iron. The districts have not been developed partly owing to continued political disturbances resulting in general unsettled con- ditions in the province and partly due to tho. fact that most of the Fuklen people are either farmers or Overnens merchants or workers A claim for damages for wrong-| and in the past years very litlle fut dismissal and $236.10 in res- attention has been paid to In-pect of arrears of wages and com- dustial development.
mission due was made by Mr. Harry Arthur Love, an advertising The редсе
order established in the province by the salesman, of in., Hankow Road, against the United Publiefty and Nineteenth Route Army Is en Advertising Co., Ltd.,, of Asiatic couraging investments and making Building, (fourth door), at the possible the carrying out of Supreme Court this morning be. achemes for economic reconstruc-fore the Puisse Judge (Mr. Justice tion of the province.-Reuter. Wood).
and
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CHINA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
LARGE PAPER MILL PROPOSED
Nanking, Dec. 26. A forward step designed to revolutionize the Chinese indus- trial producing country has been taken by the Chinese Government nt Nunking.
new
The Ministry of Industries is now turning its attention to live enterprises, namely,
the construction of a huge paper mill and the improvement of the por celian industry.
The Pulane Judge held that plaintif could not succeed on the
writ, owing to a change in the status of the Company. Plaintiff was accordingly non-suited, with costs, but given herty to bring a fresh action.
arr. Crooke)
Song--Arcady (3fonckton)..
arr.
Lytton Report
El Capitan March (Sousa)).......Ar- A condensed summary of the He explains that during the Japanese views on the Report of thur Pryor's Band 35805, 5.18-8.2 p.m. A Concert. Song-The Erl King (Schabort). year preceding last September the the Lytton Commission of Enquiry
Bong-The Enchantress (Charley whole of German economy had to Manchuria, sent out by the been dominated by and Bubor League of Nations, has been &atton)....Muriel Brunakili (Con-
hated to us ain-the protec-published by The Herald Press traito) 0088.
Piano Solo-Prelude in B Tokyo, entitled "Lytton Report and
Flat tion of the Mark Exchange.
The reasons why Germany took Japanese Reaction." The publica (Rachmaninoff),
Piano Solo Pallchinollo (Rach. upon herself the liard and painful tion takes the form of a booklet, and
Song-Song of the Volga Bontmen task of fighting for the main contains the views of the news maninoff)....Loff Foulshno 9368. tenance of a gold currency were, papers, the political parties, and (Buck, Kohamaha & Galborg
the prominent public personages.
Sang-The Mighty Deep (Jude)............ in gold currency internally and
Octo-Perpetuum' Mobile (Weber, externally, a devaluation of the ment, made on October 3 and 4: Mark would make her burden in and as the foreword to the booklet arr. Crooke).
pointa out, the feature of the Octet Valso Caprico (Robinstein, this respect unbearable; and views expressed is the unanimity secondly, that the German petion of 'all' shades of opinion, and all Octet 9287J. H. Squiro Celesto types of political associations. This unanimity is to the effect that the report of the League Commission has failed to appreciate that Japan was provoked into acting as she did in Manchuria, and that the formation of the Manchukuo Rovernment was a really spontane BAILIFFS BEATEN BY OUR expression of the desires of
the inhabitants of the country.
The booklet is prepared by the Japanese Journalists Club, Tokyo, LIVELY EVICTION SCENES ON and shows a painstaking effort to
L.C.C. ESTATE
give the outside world a proper
Band-The Two Impa-Xylophone grasp of the Japancao public's
the Quartet....The Empire "Novelty whole hearted support for polley of its Government towards Quartet MRGGL
Humorous-Non-Stop Varloty .... China and Manchuria.
The Variety Stars MR002.
Song-Funny Raco-Tell the Doe. ....Leslie Henson & Male Quartette
han, after the experience of infla- tion, become extremely suspicious of any currency, poliny, except strict adherence to gold, however well such an alternative might ap: pear to be devised and controlled
UNEMPLOYED
There were lively scenes
at
In Ever Young
Song-The Pipes of Pan (Monck- ton)...Winnie Melville (Soprano) 13286.
6,2.6.30 p.m. L'Arlesienne-Excerpts (Bizot).... Leopold Stokowski & the Philadel phia Orchestra M-62.
7 p.m. (Closing Local Stock Que- tations, Selected London & New York Stock Quotations, etc.).
6.30-8 p.m. Variety.
Becontree, Essex, when unempley. members of the Dagenham Tenants' Defence League resisted the efforts of bailiffs to eject woman and her young family from SOUTH AFRICAN CRISIS. 9502 an L.C.C. house.
Members of the League had
picketed the house of the tenant, Mrs. Harris, of Long-bridge-road, nud had pitched garden.
a tent in the
About 11.30 a.m. four bailiffs
SOVEREIGNS TO BE
WITHDRAWN
Pretoria, Dec. 27. The Cabinet, while proclaiming and two L. C. C. offeinla arrived. ita adherence to the gold standard, Several of the men scrambled | proposes to take power under the through a back window into the Emergency Act, to withdraw
COTTON & WHEAT house and resisted all attempts at sovereigns from circulation to pre- entry. Doors were wrenched vent export and hoarding-Reuter. from thols, hinges and floor-boarde [pulled up to barricade the doors.
LATEST NEW YORK.
QUOTATIONS
Messra. Swan, Culbertson and Fritz have received the following quota- tions on the New York cotton and wheat exchanges for December 24:
Cotton
Opening Closing farge Range 5.76-5.70 6.77-6.77 5.89-6.88
January March
It is to be noted that the imports | May of paper to China amount to July almost $28,000,000 annually and October are constantly on the increase. December
Spot Thousands of newspapers are dependent on foreign paper, most of
which comes from Japan. There-December foro a modern paper-mill is badly May needed in China and the propects July
for bringing one into existence
aro extremely bright.
The
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Chicago Winnipeg
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When the bailiffs tried to brank down the back door with pickaxes, the men throw alones. All the windows were broken.
Ultimately the bailiffs retired. The men remained in possession of the house throughout the night and food was fastened to string which they let down from the | upstairs windows.
DANCER RELEASED,
AUSTRIA. PLEASED WITH ITALY
London, Dec. 27.
Country' Excited.
Capetown, Dec. 27. It is doubtful whether the Gov- ernment's gold decision will calm the reaction of primary producers against palliatives which have not fulalled the promise for tiding over the stringency of the times.
Orchestral-A Royal Wedding in Ruritania....International Novelty Orch: MR665.
Band-Ain't Ya Coming Out To night... Billy Cotton & His Band Mй080.
Comedy Sketch-Tha Schoolmaster and the Boy.... Cicely Courtmeidge &Jack Hulbert 0693,
Song-Guilty
Ruth Etting (Comedienne) MR458.
Band-I Do Like to See a Game of .... Sydney Kyte & His Piccadilly_Hotel Band MR677.
Football
Song The Driver of the 8.15 .... Malcolm McEachern (Dana) DB132. Vocal Gems-Blasom Time.... Victor Light Opera Campany 35722.
Band Glad Chatter Xylophono Quartet....The Empire Novelty
and MROGA,
Comedy Sketch--Funny Race-A Few Drinks..... Leslie Henson & Bydney Howard 9502.
The country found itself fac-
Band-The Old Man of the Moun- Ing two dominant issues, the gold tain... Billy Cotton & His Band standard and racialism. Upon MRGEO.
Song--A Faded Summer Love .... the question of racialism Mr. Hort-Ruth Etting (Comedienne),
MR458. zog recently indicated his in-
Band-Drink Up...Sydney Kyte tention of using raciallamas & His Piccadilly Hotel Band MR077. counterblast to economics, while Song Aylesbury Ducks Mal- Identifying himself with the Na-colm McEachern (Bass) DB132.
Vocal Goms-The Yankee Princess tionalists but not deviating in his support of the gold standard on Victor Light Opera Company the grounds that its abandonment 36722.
The Austrian Minister to would depreciate gold to its pure 8 p.m. Local Timo & Weather Re- Italy has assured Signor Mus- commodity value and benefit the port. solini that the release of Greta mines at the expense of the reat Blaha will have An excellent of the community.
Ministry of Industries, na the HOLIDAY RUGGER effect on the relation between Tho country, however,
initial part of the scheme, has ordered experts to proceed to South Cheklang to conduct
of the BATH'S NARROW WIN thorough investigation production and other raw materials
OVER PENARTH necessary to the manufacture of papor.
3 Penarth
20 O.M.T.
20 Nuneaton
21 Old Bluca.
10 Barbarians 23 London Irish 27 Moneley
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10.30
Music
8.3-11.30 p.m. A relay from the Ko Shing Theatre.
Austria and Italy,
p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press wearled of racial politics to the News Greta was rushed to the frontier advantage of the South African secretly, in order not to create re was strengthened by Mr. Tielman in a special railway compartment party under General Smuts, which
11.30 p.m. Close Down. All records in the above European sentment among the relatives of Roos and other dissenting Na-
are kindly supplied by pragramniÓN other prisoners Our Own Correntionalists who vigourously de Mesara. Teang Fook Piano Co., S. pondcut.
manded the devaluation of cur- Moutrie & Co. & Anderson roney to end tho uncertainty which | Co. was damaging overseas trade and The Studio programme between to enable lower grade deposits, 5.30 & 7.16 p.m. may, on any day, be now unworkable to be worked at replaced by a relay from England, if
good. profit owing to the higher cur- reception of the latter happens to be rency value of the product. They are supported by the farmers and exporters who describe as a fal- Incy, maintaining the gold stan dard by a system of export sub- sidies. Reuter.
hos been
Inspector Williara Shannon, of the Criminal Intelligence Department at
Headquarters, Police 22 promated to the rank of Acting Chief Dotcellve Inspector, in succession to Mr. A. N. Reynolds, who is retiring and sailing for England on January 1.
London, Dec. 27. To-day's Rugby matches resulted The Ministry is reported to be
as follows: working in collaboration with cor-
Bath taiu newspaper magnates.
Bristol Another group of exporta are Coventry proceeding to Klangai to inves- Gloucester tigate conditions of the porcelain Leicester industry and especially to study Neath
Northampton the causes of the decline of the industry in recent-years with the object of introducing reform and restoring the former position the Kiangai porcelain, which used to bo famous the world Reuter.
of
over.—
MRS. ROOSEVELT
IN COLONY
HERE TO MEET HER
-Reuter.
DAY BY DAY: NEWS IN BRIEF
The P. and O. liner Kaisar-I-Hind, j from Shanghal, is due hera at 7 a.m. on Friday.
The Mui Teal Ordinance is to come; into effect in the Straits Settlements) on January Int.
Through being knocked down by a public cor, No. 610, in Western Street, Mak Cheong, 30, suffered head in- jurlee yesterday, resulting in his re- moval to hospital.
FREIGHTER SINKS
GSD,
EMPIRE PROGRAMME. To-day's broadenst from Daventry transmitting on a wave- length of 26.28 metres (11,866 kc.), The programo will be relayed by ZBW If conditions are satisfactory,
6.30 p.m. Timo Signal from Big Ben. Gramophone records of Mendels sohn music.
6.10 p.m. Science in the Making. Talk by Mr. Gerald Heard.
0.36 pm. Gramophone records of Dance Music.
LATEST INFORMATION OF HSIN FUH TAI
7.15 p.m. News Bulletin.. Shanghal, Dec. 27.
KZRM PROGRAMME. The Hongkong University Medical The Chinese cargo steamer, Society will give a farewell party to Hain Fuh Tai (3,000 tons), which
To-day's broadcast from the Man!!a Dr. S. T. Hauf, assistant to the
Pro-
5:00 pm-Tea Dance Programme Passengera who
fonsor of Surgery, to-morrow at 5 pm, was ground on the rocks, 20ation: arrived from in the Union Assembly Room,
miles from Ningpo yesterday in a New La Loma Cabaret Orchestra, Manila by the Empress of Aain to
heavy fog. Bank within a short 0:10 p.m.-Spanlar Informational Arrivals from Manila this morn-day included the Hon. Mr. C. G.
time, according to a report recolý- Period. ing by the Canadian Pacific liner Alabaster, Mr. W. Brackonbridge, Mr. Empress of Asta included Mrs. L. J. Davies, and Mrs. E Lewis.
hore this morning! Theodore Roosevelt, the wife of the Governor-General of the Philip pines Islands.
MOTHER-IN-LAW
Dr. J. II. MeElney of 80, Nathan Road has made a report to the pollee
Thore were no passeureka Ou
to the effect that his ear Ne, 1880, board. The crow la bellered to be Mr. J. E. Hansen, who for 30 years Ferry, Connaught Road was stolen booster have not yet come to hand.--
which was parked near the Stor safe, although details of the li was Harbour Engineer of Taikoo Dockyard, was a passenger by the tween the hours of 9 p.m. on the 24th | Reutor,
and G am on the 26th innt, whiero Taiping, to South Australia, his daughter resides. He intends in her
future to make his home in Australia.
BOMB PLANTED`IN CAIRO GARDEN
Seen aboard the linor early this morning, Mrs. Roosevelt told a Telegraph representative that nho was In Hongkong to meet mother-in-law, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., who would arrive
Cheung Wal-on, allas Cheung Yai ATTEMPT ON A KING. chee, aline Cheung Yip-kes, late of hore to-morrow aboard the liner President Madison. They will then In view of his impending retirement the Ben Thoi Loong firm, of 41, proceed to Manila. Mrs. Theodoro from the Hongkong Police Force aftor Connaught Road Central, who died on Roosevelt, Sr., is the widow of the 23 years' meritorious service Chief March 23rd. this year, left local estate Detective Inspector A. N. Reynolds valued at $11,600. Probate to the will late President of the United will be the guest of honour at a fare has been granted to Yu Man-cho, a well dinner to be given in the Police restaurant keepor, and Cheung Loung During her short stay in Hong-Recreation Club to-night at 8.80 p.m. all, alles Leung Shi, widow, to whom kong, Mrs. Roosevelt, Jr., will be Mr. Reynolds leaves for Home on deceased entrusted his ostate for them the guest of Mr. Douglas Jenkins, Saturday on board the P. & D. e.s, to administer prior to the marriage of
hia aon, Hon Ming. the American Consul General.
Statca,
Kaiser-I-Hind.
London, Dec. 27. A. bomb was discovered. In the
garden of the Engineering School
0:30 p.m.-English Informational Poriod..
Dialect Pro- 7:00
p.m.-Studio gruine Hongo-Sociedad Hongo.
7:15 pm-8panish Presentation. 7:45 p.m.-Musleal Souvenirs→→ Guest Artist.
8:00 pm-Studio Requests 8:15 pm-Burgos Students' Radio Club Roy Rowe Mie" Master. 8:46 pn-Stock Quotations.
Studio Muble. 9:00 pm Dance Music- Bay View Hotel Orchestra..
10:30 p.m.-Close Down.
Nanking. Dec. 27. The Executive Yuan this morn- nt Cairo Just prior to the visit of ing decided to appoint Mr. W. W. King Fund-Our Own Corresponen as Ambassador to Moscow.
Sent.
Reuter.
1932.
WM. POWELL, LTD.
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