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INQ Y+ZA+UF FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1933.

日二初月九

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GERMANY AND THE

LEAGUE

Rosignation Formally Forwarded

Berlin, Oct. 20:

The German Government has officially notified the Secretary-General of the League of Nations of Ger- many's withdrawal.

The resignation will not take effect for two years. but it is not Germany's present intention to partici. pate in its activities mean. time.-Reuter.

LORD BEATTY ON NAVAL NEEDS

BRITISH CRUISER SHORTAGE

URGES EARLY REMEDY

London, Oct. 19. Another warning regard- ing Britain's naval weakness was sounded to-day by an Admiral of high reputation,| none other than Admiral

Lord Beatty.

.

Lord Beatty was addressing t│ meeting of the Navy League and. he declared his earnest belief that the situation

was serious, that

REORGANISATION SCHEME

PLANS FOR IMPROVING SERVICES

GETTING DOWN TO PROBLEMS

A SCHOOL OF MANNERS for drivers and con- ductors, where in the evenings when off duty they may learn the rudiments of proper relations between bus employees and passengers, in addition to rules of the road and technical knowledge;

The establishment of filling stations along the routes to avoid the necessity for buses to turn into the depots;

Variations of some of the existing routes, particular- ly of those showing no sign of economic return;

Conversion of buses into Diesel-engined vehicles; Extension of the New Territories services, with a new fleet of buses.

These are among the more important incasures planned by the Kowloon Bus Company, under a re- organisation scheme designed to remedy existing faults and causes for complaint, and outlined in an interview by the Telegraph.

DIESEL-ENGINE EXPERIMENTS

The Scottish Company of the H.K.V.D.C. on their route march in Kowloon yesterday evening.

SIR ERIC DRUMMOND

BRITAIN'S NEW AMBASSADOR

HIGH TRIBUTES IN LONDON

London, Oct. 197, Sir Erle Drummond, the new British Ambassador to Rome, was to-day the guest of honour at a luncheon in London of the

which-Lord-Rennoli-who-was- himself for some years Am- bassador in Rome presided.

The creation of a School of Court proceedings being instituted Manners may sound odd, but it has on the ground that a strict con-British Italian League over Britain's weaknessos must be been recognized as a necessity by requirement of the official time- rectified at the naval conference the Bus Company. to be held in 1935.

at

Britain, he said; had res; stored her credit but "terrible risk."

She urgently needed at least seventy first-class cruisers and yet, at the best, she cannot have more than fifty by 1936.

Moreover, he said, the Navy's personnel had been dangerously reduced.

COMPARISONS.

After a full survey of local conditions since taking over the various routes on the mainland,

Įtable was not being adhered to.

.

A MISAPPREHENSION.

Warm tributes were paid to Sir

was

Erie's services when he Secretary General of the League

of Nations,

It was this point which Mr. Lam they are persuaded of this neces Ming-fan in the Telegraph inter- sity, and in their scheme of view, particularly desired to clear reorganization which is being speeded up at the moment because "Pas he connected it with a mis- pointed out! apprehension. He of complaints, they have included that all previous Companies had this. institution where, in addl- tion to what la considered becom- ing in a conductor and driver, their employees are also taught

(a.) the rules of the road and other traffic regulations and (b.) what to do in an emergency,

accident, or breakdown.

"NIGHT SCHOOL"

requirements; and

ARMISTICE DAY CELEBRATION

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To Follow Lines of Former Years

London, Oct. 196 The King has decided. that the celebration of Armistice Day, November 11th, which falls this year on a Saturday shall follow the lines adopted in pre- vious years. The Home Secretary, on behalf of the. Cabinet, is making the necessary arrangements. British Wireless,

ULM SETS A RECORD

will now serve the cause of Anglo- AFTER MIDNIGHT Italian relations,

The Prime Minister wrote: "From Intimate experience I can IN AUSTRALIA IN LESS made a practice of running extra say how deep was the, dobt of all

THAN A WEEK buses in addition to the regular those associated with the work of ive or ten minutes time table. League to his passionate and tire- But when his Company took over less energy. I am very glad to! gonoral control some of these think that his energy and wiedom extra buses, which are over and in point of fact no. more than above official requirements, being voluntary concessions to the public, were for good and suffi- jelent reasons withdrawn, with the features result that the noticeable gaps Britain, on the other hand, hud Mr. Lam Ming-fan, the Secretary created may have given a wrong Bus Company, claims impression where in reality the only 90,000 officers and men in of the the Royal Navy, representing a for the now School which has now regular schedule was being strict- decrease of 36 per cent. on the been functioning for some little ly adhered to. 1914 figures.

He showed that the United States personnel of 107,000 re- presented an increase of sixty- per cent, on the figures for 1914, while Japan's 88,000 in 1931 re- presented an increase of seventy- four per cent.

MAINTENANCE COSTS.

fact that Britain's naval main-

£48,000,000 manually, 85 con-

These are the main

time.

Three evenings a week, condue-

BUS TROUBLES.

The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, proposing Sir Eric's health, said that as Secretary-General.at Gunova he had quietly helped to romove more misunderstandings and found a way round more awk- ward corners than people realise.

AMBASSADOR'S TASK.

LANDING

MANILA THREATS

LEGISLATORS ARMED

INDEPENDENCE ACT WARNING

Manila, Oct. 17. The Philippinca Legislature will

MR. HEARD IN BAD SMASH

LUCKY ESCAPE IN HAPPY VALLEY

CAR COMPLETELY WRECKED

Mr. A. J. P. Heard, the well- known jockey, had a remarkably narrow escape from serious in- jury when his V8, Ford saloon car came into violent collision |with a lorry at the junction of Shan Kwong and Village Roads. about 9 o'clock this morning.

As a result of the collision, Mr. Heard suffered several nasty In-. juries to his face, and "received treatmoht in hospital. The driver of the lorry, Li Chu, received a cut on his left knee, und algo had the muscle of 'his arm twisted,

The collision occurred just at the [font of the hill lending up to the

Jockey Club stablos. Mr. Heard. {wnaldriving his car up to the atables along Shan Kwong Road and met the lorry at right angles. The-lorry was proceeding along Village Road from East to West

GOOD SPEED.

It seems certain that both vehlétes must, have been drivonent La good speed. The lorry after i string to car aquarely on its laft front wheel carried it bodily to the Tur side pavement at the foot of the hill before coming to a stand- still...

The right front wheel of the be bristling with pistols, and the lorry, finished under the left front honourable gentlemen of the legis- wheel, of the car, lifting it, up to lative chambers will be armed a position of about 45 degrees, from now on as the result of a The left front running board threatening letter that those who cab, and engine of the ear voted for the defeat of the Hawes were completely smashed in Cutting law will be murdered in

It was only the safety glass of cold blood.

the car which saved Mr. Hoard

Senate President Quezon and Speaker Paredes both received from receiving more serious In- threats yesterday that they would fudles.

be killed.

The letters were taken seriously. by some representatives who re- ceived them and they intend to

arm themselves to meet the would- he Assassins.

ROAD STREWN. WITH

WRECKAGE. ··

There was a long and distinct skid mark made by the small car Speaker Paredes declares he is on

the road. Apparently Mr. going to go alona. After he was Heard must have seen the lorry elected speaker he has always been

accompanied by bodyguards, but at a almost the last minute and he sold that to show that the applied his brakes violently cape- persons, who make the threats are)

welcomed, he prefers to give theming it to skid to the point where the opportunity by going around the lorry struck. unaccompanied.

MARKED MEN.

The lorry is owned by the Yucat Hing Restaurant, and contained n load of crockery and food, which Lately members of the majority was strewn in wild disorder on have on the lapels of their conts the road, a good part of the Quezon. In addition to that they whole of the area immediately the picture of Senate President crockery being splintered. The have placed a larger button next round the smash was strewn with to Quezon's picture on the lapel wreckage, including bits of the

dangerous hy some of the legisla on which is printed the word smaller car, which was completely "Anti." This is pronounced as wrecked,

London, Oct. 19. A new record for the England-Australia flight has been established, the journey He referred to Sir Eric's dis- having been completed in tinguished predecessors in the less than a week for the first tors and drivers off-duty, are as- lie suggested this misapprehen- Rome Embassy and added: "The time. He also drew attention to the the workshops at Kowloon, where, complaints, but that was not say of the highest importance for their set out, from London the evening sembled in a building attached to ion as possibly behind most of the work which our Ambassadors do

in every great capital abroad isi

Mr. Charles T. P. Ulm, who tenance expenditure totalled only by means of lectures and demons- ing he was not fully cognisant of

trations by competent ofcials, they other and, bona-fidé factors having duty is make plain the under of October 12, landed at Wynd- tore since it will make them easy

lying purpose which traated with the United States' are taught the essentials of their interfered with the desired smooth British policy, namely, to respect ham, Australia, at 12.15 am, on the majority do not intend to dis-Mr. Heard proceeded to the No. 2, annual expenditure of £75,000,000, work, and of conduct befitting the functioning, of the lines-causes the rights of all others just as wo October 20, that is 8.45 p.m. card their insignia, Instead they Police Station, and from there As regards cruisers, he did not efficient worker, the exemplary em- to be largely traceable to the poor are determined to maintain our Greenwich Mean Time on Oeto- profor to carry platols and shoot went to hospital to have his. in- cavil at the American demand for ployee, and the courteous official toc condition of the vehicles. leaving own in a spirit of equal Justico ber 19..

from our buses and

Company by the conditions of relations but friendly feelings bo in 5 days, 17 hours and 46 minutes, of the law.

The flight was thus completed vengeance because of the defent juries dressed, saying he would

make a roport later. fifty when she needed saventy was trame.

This gesture on the part of the their franchise, wore compelled, tween Britain and all the world-beating by eleven hours. the a grave and deplorable blunder.-

Company seems an adequate reply more or less, to take over from British Wireless.

The driver of the lorry was at Reuter.

to some of the complaints of bus-the provious Companies.

cord set up only eight days ago

the station, and; Interviewed by n users; and if the unique schome-

| by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. The letter of threat written in representative of the Telegraph, "Beware you said that he had practically poncil read thus: Kingsford Smith's record still executioners of Indepondence. We stopped his lorry at the function

the

AN AMERICAN WARNING

TO BRITISH NAVY LEAGUE

Washington, Oct. 19.

It must surely be without Ita-like. anywhere in the world-does not attain the full success desired for It, Mr. Lam can nasumo nothing more than that conductors aro psychologically hard to train and the publle hard to antiefy.

PUBLIC CRITICISM.

Most of these vehicles had been in service for a number of years and when turned over to them, were in a state that would have made their further employ- ment on the road without exten- eive repairs, a hazardous and perilous undertaking...

ENGINE REPLACEMENTS.

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inspires

NAZI BAN ON BOOKS

NEW REGULATIONS ISSUED

to spot. However, the members of

it out with whoever wishes to take

THE LETTER,

GOES TO HOSPITAL- Immediately after the collision

holds for the solo fight, however, care not if we are imprisoned as when it was atruck by the car.

as Mr. Ulm has three companions long as we can kill all the traitors The story, however, is untenable

to the country," on his trip, Messrs. Allen and Bolow the text is the picture of two volucies after the smash.

in view of the positions of the [Taylor ne co-pilote and Mr. Ed-| A pistol-drawn. In poncil with the

wards as navigator.

hammer cocked The letters writ ten in red paper were postmarked DEFEATS ILL-LUCK. Manila, on October 15, at 11 p.m.. They wore contained in white on- Ulm would have done even bet-velopes with the addresses type- tor time but for the fact that ho written and carrying four centavo experienced bad weather cond!- postage stamps: tions at several places, and stuck

SOVIET BOMBING STORY

|DENIED BY THE TASS

AGENCY:

The pubile criticisms of the The American Navy League has Kowloon Bus Company, bringing It was found the engines need- cd extonalve replacements in prepared a letter for delivery to into question the efficient control

Berlin, Oct. 19. British Navy League and management of the various pante; which meant that spare warning that "continued British routes and the number of vehicles parts liad to be sont for all the Books on Paciflam, Darwinism

way from the manufacturers at antagonism towards the United required for a regular and reliable Home, this in turn protracting the land Freudieantem are banned from in the mud at Sourabaya when

Notice has been given of the forth Statos naval building polley would servico, are similar to those block the absolutely essential co- answered by Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan buses an originally required could regulations which were issued to

delay before the whole number of all German bookstalls under now endeavouring to take off on the

last lap of the flight, were coming marriage of Mr. Janics Alexander Greor, vice-President of the operation of the two nations."on behalf of the franchise-holding be put into servico,

The machine employed by Ulm Drug Co., Manila, to Miss Dorothy Router,

Company on the Island.

He was in a position to promise day....

Was An Avro Ten high-wing Francos Harris. ས་ཆུ་བ།།

On the mainland, a special caso that with the arrival of these Books in a foreign language or monoplane, with three powerful|||||||| The wedding is announced to take appears to have been made out of spare parts at about the end of translated from foreign languages, ongince. He is an Australian and place shortly of Mr. John Ward Green, an alleged Inadequacy of service the present month, tho necessary must not be circulated by landing acted sa co-pilot for Kingsford,the wedding between Pte. James chun and flown over Chanthe are engineer of Meters, Jardine Matheson, 69 Kowloon Tong and Homuntin, Purning to the two routes joint- Norule-German sentiments in form including the one across tile Legiment and Miles Lucy Lobag of absolutely untrue, according to

Messrs. Prince Edward Road, Kowloon.

77, Jaffe Street, will not take place the Tass Agency-Reuter,

for the residential districte repairs would be spanded up.

which it is recalled led to récent

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Moscow, Oct. 19. Reports published in Chinese nowspapers alleging that Soviet announced this morning, that aeroplanes had bombarded Chan Ibraries unless contain on many notable flight, of

and contentRouter.

Pacific British Wireless,