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FOUNDED (Bas 四拜禮 號七月九英港香 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1933.BATЯŁ

No. 14095

WATER SUPPLY REDUCED TO SIX

Viscount Grey of Falloden.

L. G. AND KITCHENER

··LIBERAL LEADER'S

"WAR MEMORIES”

CRITICISMS IN NEW BOOK

DEATH OF LORD GREY

NOTED STATESMAN PASSED AWAY

IN EARLY. HOURS OF THIS MORNING

(Our Own Correspondent).

London, Sept. 7. Viscount Grey of Fallo- den,

Britain's of one greatest elder statesmen, *passed away this morning five minutes after six o'clock.

He was seventy-one years of age and had been seriously ill for a little over a week. For a while there was hope of his recovery. but he suffered a relapse on Mon- day and never again regained con- | sciousness.

Liberal

He was lender of the Party in the flouse of Lords until August, 1924, and he published his! memoirs in the following year. He was elected Chancellor of Ox- tord University in 1928.

SPEEDY RISE TO FAME. London, Sept. 7. Lord Grey entered Parliament Exceedingly scathing criticismus Liberal member for Berwick- on-Tweed in 1885 and continued of the late Lord Kitchener and other outstanding figures of the war years are uttered by Mr. 'Lloyd George in the first volume of his "War Memories," published

to-day.

to represent this constituency un- til July, 1916. Early in his care- til July, 1916. Lady in his eve remember so signal a capacity fur parliamentary life, and so small disposition for it." alluding to Lord Grey's fondness for tennis and angling.

HOURS DAILY

FATE OF NANCHANG| CAPTIVES

Release Expected To Come To-day Newchwang. Sept. 7. Negotiations for the re- lease of the British officers who were kidnapped at the end of March from the 5.5. Nanchang, are reported to have terminated successful- ly, at long last.

The

negotiations have the been conducted by Japanese gendarme, chief. Captain Obata, who states his belief that the release of the captives may be ex- pected to take place this morning-Reuter.

SUPER MILKMEN

BRITISH FARMERS' IN

FAVOUR

ON ISLAND ONLY

KOWLOON TO GET TEN FOR THE PRESENT

FURTHER CUTS POSSIBLE

Continued absence of rain -only 2.03 inches have fallen since 10 a.m. on July 31-has made essential fur- ther restrictions in the hours of water supply on the island as from Saturday,

At present, a ten hours' supply is being maintained. On Saturday this will be reduced to six hours' daily and if the drought continues, the Colony must be prepared for Leven more drastic rationing.

Kowloon's supply will not be affected for the present, but residents must be prepared for further restrictions suon if the

situation does not improve.

PEAK VARIATION.

An official notification issued to- day shows that a distinction is

SINGLE COPY I CENTI $30.00 PER ANNUM

JUST ARRIVED

NEW STOCKS

of

FLAPJACK POWDER COMPACTS

'Large Size $2.75 each.

CASTLE PEAK SCHEME

H.M.S. Danas, which has been ordered to the Bahamas,

H.M.S. DANAE ORDERED TO

VISCOUNT GREY WEAKER

Unconscious For Fifty Hours

London, Sept. 6: A bulletin issued from Falloden states that Viscount. Grey is now much weaker, He has been un- conscious now for over fifty hours.-British Wireless.

NASSAU

GRAVE DISORDER RUMOURED

OUTCOME OF THE HURRICANE

Barbados, Sept. 6.

· H.M.S. Danac, of the West Indies cruiser squadron, has been

DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

CAFETERIA IN NEW HANDS

SECOND REPULSE

BAY

Castle Peak may become an- other Repulse Bay in the facili« ties provided, if the proposals of Mr. R. G. Jones, a newcomer to the Colony, come to fruition.

Negotiations are now in pros grees for the taking over by Mr. Jones of the Cafeteria and its development into a more preten- tlous hostelry than it can now elnim to be, with all the amenities of a modern hotel, though on 記 snull scale at the beginning

Extensions are likely to come Inter, together with gchomes for development of the sen-front along modern lines..

For years, residents have looked ordered to proceed immediately up:n Repulse Bay very much a

the only pebble, so to speak, on the to Nassau in the Bahamas, where beach, overlooking that ол the

BIG HEATH it is rumoured that troubles have mainland nt Castle Fenk there is n

FIRES

of to the Peak and those.

being made concerning the hours TROOPS IN GAS MASKS

OVERWHELMING.

VOTE

London, Sept. 6. By an overwhelming majority, He was appointed under-secre- 150,000 farmers of England and The book has been. eagerly tary for Foreign Affairs (1802-5) Wales have declared themselves awaited. It was always expected with Lord Rosebery as his chici, in favour of the Government's vigorous and he speedily acquired a milk marketing scheme, under that it would contain

putation for 2 comprehensive commentaries upon. Mr. Lloyd grasp of problems, tact, diploma- which the sale and the collection of milk is to be controlled by a George's contemporaries in the tie skill, and sound judgment.

In 1807 he was Chairman of a Board. early days of the War and

Commission appointed to report first volume is not disappointing on economic conditions

the

and the

In the Peak District, the follow- lug hours will apply:

6 n.m. to 9 a.m.

5 p.m. ta 8 p.m.

In other districts, the hours of supply will be from

6 am. to 9 a.m.

FIGHT FLAMES

BRITAIN'S HEAT WAVE SEQUEL

London, Sept. 6. Troops stripped to the waist, and wearing steel helmets and gas masks, were again engaged to-day in

4.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

FAIR WEATHER The result of the poll of the The Royal Observatory reports The volume-details-events until prospects-of-the West. Indics.propsed formation of the National that-tho-anticyclone-ha-nove-fighting great heath. fires i

ELEVEN YEARS AS FOREIGN and Regional Milk Pools was an inpidly eastward and pressure is along the borders of Hamp-

nounced to-day by the National now highest over Central Japan; shire and Surrey...

1916.

WAR OFFICE COMPLAINTI

Mr. Lloyd George pungently at tacks many generals and alleges that the War Office was a "per- -petnni source

SECRETARY,

he 1905 to 1916

farmers taken last week on the

Farmers Union, as follows:

Ta favour, 06.42 per cent. Against, 3.5B per cent.

it is relatively low over the China Sen, the Philippines and the Pacife to the eastward,

winds,

From

was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and it was during his

A depression la altuated to the lentre of office that the Triple

On the basis of the figures de-north-east Hokkaido. Entente was developed. In 1906,

Loen forecast:--East of obstruction" conversations were begun

with elared by the Registers of pro- when he set out to organise the France as to

whlett, ducers, the number of cows, on ninderate; fair, would be necessary in case of August 19th last was 1,556,858. Ministry of Munitions.

Registered producers who voted Germany's violation of Belginn neutrality. In 1907 his concluded in favour of the scheme posscan the Anglo-Russian agreement, 96.61 per cent. of the convs which settled outstanding Asintle those who voted against own 3.39 rivalries,

He relates that after the Battle of Neuve Chappell, one of the most sanguinary of the early days of the war, Sir John French's ur- ammunition gent plea for more was met by the complaint that toe artillery had used thirteen rounds. per un daily.!

Ofice.

measures

per cent.

The Government will now

und

Con-

tion during the Morocco crisis sider the applications of those who

Lord Grey added to his reputa-}

in 1909 and by inducing the responded to the call for Ad- belligerents in the Balkan Warministrative Officers.

to sign the Treaty of London on May 30, 1913.

PEACE ADVOCATE.

are

CATHEDRAL FUND

LATEST LIST OF KITCHENER'S PRESTIGE.

The manager, woose salary is to

CONTRIBUTIONS range from £6,000 to £7,500, must Referring to the decline in Lord

be between the ages of 40 and 65. Kitebaner's prestige, Mr. Lloyd

This super milkman must have Contributions are coming in George reveals that the Field- If in earnest efforts to pre wide experience of organisation steadily for the St. John's Marshal never knew that the serve pouce after the Austrian

well and administration. the Austrian ultimanium to Serbia Germans and

Cathedral Restoration Fund, well had crossed the Danube until known, and the speech which he TWICE PREMIER'S SALARY. over a thousand dollars having

defining twenty hours after the news of delivered on August 1 the advance had reached the War Britain's attitude was described At the maximum salary he will been subscribed since, the appeal

Ins "masterly.” Impaired vision be paid nearly twice the amount was launched. When Carson heard of this ai necessitated a brief retirement received by the Prime Minister.

The four other 'super milknien from active duties in June 1915.

Accountant (35 to 45), salary £2,500 to £3,000;

Registrar and Statistician (35 to 45), salary £1,000 to £1,250;

Secretary (35 to 48), salary £2,000 to £2,500;

Marketing Officer (40 to salary £2,500 to £3,000.

a Cabinet meating he passed Mr. and, on Anquith's resignation in are to be: Lloyd George a note saying: "KDecéniber 1916, Lord Grey retired doesn't read telegrams and we do from the Foreign Office.

not see them. It is intolerable.--- Router.

THE SITUATION. AT FOOCHOW

CHINESE TROOPS

ARRIVE

It was learned this

morning that the Fukien situation is still

FAMOUS PAMPHLET.

He became an ardent advocate of the League of Nations, and fesuod a famous pamphlet in 1918. During 1919, when his eyesight trouble had become aggravated, he appeared only occasionally on the public platform.

55).

In October of the same year he ALLEGED ATTACK ON

went to United States on a special mission.

In 1912 he received the signal honour of being created KG., and

NAZI BY REDS

The total cost of urgent, repairs will, to the Cathedral structure however, be at least $5,000, possibly more.

Donations should be sent to the South China Morning Post, Ltd. pr to Mr. A.: Brearloy, of the | Chartered Bank.

A mistake was inadvertently made in the list of contributions publishod yesterday. The donor of the cheque' for $100 was Mr. F. G. Sale, not Mr. Gale.

The latest Hat follows:- Miss M. Drury

$50

26

10

J. Darrow

C. V. Middleton .

Mrs. D. M. Woo

ho was created Viscount in July. Men in Detention Madera. I. Blair

1910.

DEPARTURE

To-

to Suffer

www.

Berlin, Sept. 6. Eighty Communists, confined in H.M.S.. Cornwall leaves the China a concentration camp at Wittmoor, Station for England "for

in solitary confinement for threo near Hamburg, have been placed. days, as retaliation for an attack on a Nazi storm trooper by alleged Communists.ONE &

Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Wool Miss J, W; Bucknell J. N Previously deknowledge

Was

cane.

broken out following the hurri-Becond region capable of the fullost development as a pleasure resort, within easy access by both motor and launch, and ideally altuated at

half-way point for people mak

Seven were killed there and in nearby Islands. Damage was ex-

tensive including the wrecking of

five schoonera.

One man was killed and more than 60 hurt in addition in the city as the gule, reaching 100 miles an hour, attacked buildings, signs and trees, and flooded many

streets.

It is believed that looters have been found pillaging damaged premises and have come into col- Halon with the authorities.

Reuter,

PRESIDENT -LINER- COLLIDES

TANKER SUNK OFF CAROLINA

The countryside for nearly eight miles had been burning in a great fire which broke out and spread rapidly last night, but although its progress

stopped by the efforts of the troops, police and volunteer elvilians, smouldering patches again broke out into flame SHIP in several places to-day, notably along the Ringwood-Wimborne

Rund.

Fire Brigades engaged on the

.

SOON A MASS OF FLAMES

Now York, Sept. 2. Thirty-six men were saved last outbreak are using thousand feet night when the constwise tanker

the tour of the mainland.

The natural facilitica offered by the locality are such no to fire the imagination, and Mr. Jones who coines with a mind frosh, ceptive to new impressions and ideas, has been quick to see the possibilitice,

re

Mr. Jones' went out to Castle' Peak, saw and acted, and he has now 0 definite schema offer.

CAFETERIA DEVELOPMENT.

'to

He will develop the Castle Penk bathing beach, as the basis of the project, and, to that end, will soon. make a start if negotiations with the-Cafeterín-on-which-ho-is-en-- gaged turn out favourable.

The Cafeteria is a two-storey building belonging, it is under- stood, to a retired Cantonese Gen- eral; who has left his family - in charge,

It carries on a catering business, in the ground floor, while the up-

family as dwelling quarters.

per storey is being used by the

The Building la ideally situated but its full potentialitics have. never been made use of.

HIGHEST TESTIMONIALS.

Mr. Jones was in the catering

of hose but the scarcity of water Coldwater burst into flames and partment of the C.P.R. for a grenú which contributed to the fire also adds to the difficulties of the frank after colliding with the many years, and at one time was

fighters,

Troops aro patrolling all the areas where further outbrouks are likely and will remain on duty throughout the night.

Smoke clouds from the heath. lands can be seen for many miles British Wireless.

YELLOW RIVER FLOODS

China-bound

Dollar

steamship!

liner President Wilson, about 200 Secretary of the Kobe Club. miles off the North Carolina const.

The bows of the President Wil son were damaged and, the ship proceeded to Norfolk, Virginia, to-night for repairs.

He has come to Hongkong with the highest testimonials, both as to integrity of character and as to experience in the line in which he is particularly interested.

With an initial outlay for neod- Captain Makopence Ridley, the President Wilson's skipper, sent ed improvements; backed by his an account of the disaster to the long experience, he believes ho can Associated Press .by wireless make a decided success of Castle while on the way.

Ponk beach, as a pleasure and re- "Last night about 11 o'clock 80 creational resort.

tho milos south of Cape Hatterns in n The precise details of sudden cloudburst of rain the scheme have not been finally work- Presdient Wilson collided with ed out, the project still being in tho: Coldwater," Captain Ridley the embryo stage, but it is interest ing to note that Mr. Jones's appli

$10,000,000 LOAN FOR |said.

RELIEF

*

"The Coldwater's cargo deck cation for a liquor licence to be- and holds immediately took fire Ing considered at the Licensing Shanghai, Sept. 7.

and soon the ship was a mass of Sessions arranged for to-morrow. flames, sinking within an hour. It transpires that the Nanking. All on board were saved, Financial Ministry 1ms renched "The steamers Gulf Breeze, tentative arrangements with eight Christy Rayne and J. G. Donnell. leading Chinese banks, including stood by until assured all, wero the Bank of China, the Bank of being saved and no help was re-

Yen Communication and

Yel quired. The President Wilson's Bank, for a loan of $10,000,000 to bows were damaged and the ship

be entirely devoted to emergency is proceeding to Norfolk safely. 50

relief in the flooded areas along expecting to arrive this evening, 25 the Yellow River. This loan is to The Coldwater was a vessel of 50 be secured on customs surplus and 3,131 net tons, 290 feet long, built repaid in a period of twelve months, In 1920 and operated by the South

Central News Agency.

Atlantic steamship company. Her home port was, Savannah, Ga.

10

10

1,280

$1,510.

considered to be serious in official H.M.S. CORNWALL'S circles, and although yory little reliable information has been forthcoming from the area it was stated to-day that six Chinese kunbonta moved to Foochow in the commission and reflt to-morrow last days..

two are being rushed to Foo-morning at 8 am, and the ships' chow in gunboats, one roport stat companies of all warships, at pro sont in port will assemble on the Ing that several hundreds were North Arm of the Naval Dockyard landed yesterday. No further de to wish her bon voyage with three and the mon will have to sleep Ambassador Potemkin of Russia talls have been received locally as to the movements of the Comtat per busy during the ceremony on plank beds without blankets-to-day sleed a Russo-Italinn non

munists or the XIXth Route Army flying her paying-cit pennant;

Benfor

Hot meals will not be supplied

RUSSO-11ALIAN PEACE PACT

Rome, Sept. 2.. Premfor Banito Mussolini... and

Szel aggression agreement.

PREMIER ARRIVES AT BALMORAL

London, Sept. d. "The Prime Minister, arrived at Balmoral Castle by road this afternoon and will stay for overal days with the King and Queen British Wireless

U.S.S. MINNEAPOLIS TAKES WATER

AMERICAN GOLD REGULATIONS

CONTROL OF SALES ANNOUNCED

Washington, Sept. 6, Regulationslasued by tho Treasury for the sale of newly mined gold by the Fedoral Reserves: Banks acting as agents for the producers, lay down that consign- | monts, shall not be less than two

ouncos of fine gold and that no. consignment shall contain tess than two hundred parts of gold indi Philadelphia, Sept. 6.

a thousand by assay The $11,000,000 cruiser Minnea, Gold may be sold to the arts polls, the thirteenth of the industries and profcesions at the eighteen 10,000-ton cruisers allow world market prices and if unsold ed in ler: the London Treaty, was in this inniuer may be offered to launched hore to-day--Router on foreign.parch for