THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1933.
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COLONEL AND MRS. LINDBERGH FLY SOUTH ATLANTIC
“LUCKY LINDY” ACROSS
ANNE ACHIEVES A DISTINCTION
ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME
Port Natal, Dec. 6. Colonel and Mrs. Linbergh completed their South Atlan- tic flight in extraordinarily good time, assisted by a fol- lowing wind.
This is the first South Atlantic Right by the famous American flier, while Mrs. Lindbergh becomes the first woman to have crossed in on aeroplane.
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The fliera were given enthusiastic welcome by a huge crowd which included representa- tives of the Brazilian Government and the full force of the American residents In Port Natal,
Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, centre, who landed in South
America yesterday from Bathurst, Gambia,
almost "FREE SPEECH" AT AUSTRALIA'S VULNER-
Mrs. Lindborgh Was burled under the flowers presented by admirers of the fliers. She said she was very pleased to be the first woman to fly the South Atlantic. The flight was helped by the trade winds.
MACHINE BEHAVES WELL. Colonel Lindborgh expresaed himself as highly. gratified with
the performance of his machine
OXFORD
PROCTORS' BAN ON "NOTORIETY”
Oxford, Nov. 10.
There have been three develop-
and the success of the wirelessments of the "free speech" con- arrangements, by means of which troversy at Oxford.
ABLE COASTLINE
Seaplane Base At Darwin Mooted
CHURCH DISPUTE
ULTIMATUMS SENT TO BISHOP
GERMAN PROBLEM
Berlin, Dec. 4.
INCOME TAX LAW
BRINGING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS
COMMITTEE'S PROGRESS
SHIPPING WAR
BRITISH VESSELS NEED PROTECTION
London, Dec. 6. Coincident with the motion tabled in the House of Commons for discussion to-day, urging in-
£7,500 BANK ROBBERY
TWO SAFES CLEARED OF GOLD
Paris, Nov. 7.
Burglars last night broits open,
of the Rite Resúmur and the Ruo
The burglars first gained entran-
A simple code of income tax law mediate action by the Government two safes in a bank at the corner to replace the bewildering tangle to assist the shipping industry, Notre-Dame-des-Victoires and got In which taxpayers and tax In-Hon. Mr. Alexander Shaw's nd-geway with gold specie estimated tu Leaders of the German Evange spectors alike lose their way at dress to the annual meeting of be worth 600,000 france (£7,500 Heat Church yesterday met to present, is reaching an advanced the P. and O. stressed the grave at present raten). submit to Dr. Muller, the Reich stage of preparation at Somerset menace which subsidised foreign
The bank in question, the Comp Bishop, their proposals for House.
shipping presented to Great Bri-
toir-Lyon-Alemand, specialises In the composition of the now ecclesiastical ministry.
Lawyers, Treasury officials and fain.
the buying and selling of préelous Addressing the meeting, Dr. Inland Revente experts have been The American White-Jones Act rietals. past few days, he had received when Mr. Winston Churchill, na American Line in any shipping to offices on the first floor, which Muller pointed out that, during the engaged on the task since 1927. enabled the participation of any a flood of letters, somewhat in Chancellor of the Exchequer, et Conference in the world, under the nature of ultimatuma, which up a Comulttee on Income Tax threat of the United States' Go- had been empty for some time and verument otherwise excluding were to let. After cutting small he described not only as viola-Law Codification. tions of the constitution of the The object, in his own words, from all American ports the laes hole in the celling of the bank, and Church but also as degrading to was to draft 'n Bill to codily the participating in that Conference letting down an umbrella which,
service.
when opened, deadened the noise, hia office. They did not, he said, law relating to Income Tax, with
they made when widening the holo, serve the cause of harmony. the special alm of making the lav The speaker considereil it was they lowered themselves/into the lie naked the leaders present tons intelligible to the taxpayer as ridiculous that the American line bank by the aid of, a notched rope. submilt, their proposals but said the nature of the legislation per- which recently invoked this Act that no discussion of the names mils."
should at present bo attacking the
They broke into the safes, not British shipping trade put forward could be permitted
batweun in the usual way by drilling near The Committee encountered dif- since such a step would provoke
British · possessions in the Farthe keyhole, but from below. One bitterness and detract from the culties as soon as it began to East, particularly Hongkong, Sin-safe was left intact, being too tough respect due to these men.
study income-tax. Inw. The his tory of income tax proved to be gapore, Colombo, Penang and job even for these master burg-
Bombay, In many ways the history of the English people from Pitt's day to He did not favour a general The police believe that the burg- As a result, the following were ours, and almost equally com-policy of reservation of Empire lers belong to the "Marseilles declared members of the eccle-licated and confusing. ajustical ministry:--For tho Lutheran Churches, Dean Lauerer; for the Churches of the United Creed. Dr. Herman Wolfgang:
NEW MINISTRY.
in
CONFUSED CONDITION.
Innumerabie precedenta
were found to have accumulated;
Geger; and for the Reich Church, English, Scottish, and Irish Courts
Director Otto Weber.
Jara,
trade for British ships nor did he gang." as all the latest safe-break- think subsidies were a permanent. ing tools were left behind wrapped ly effective means of curing the up in their visiting card--a Mar evils of the day, but where auch seilles newspaper. competition existed he suggested The bank's Riviera branch was
Reuter.
that between
NO CURRENCY PROBLEMS
that Empire governments concern- burgled some time ago, and the At a meeting of several hundred the same words reuppeared in dif. Bed, including Great Britain, should police believe that that affair was CO-OPERATION WITH delegates of the German Evange- ferent connexions with different in Connell dhe trade order the work of the same gang.
SINGAPORE
lical Missions Federation yester meanings; statutes abounded. In-them should not be carried in tax had suffered from a vessels of the particular powera day, a motion was unanimously come the long carried to form a permanent Geralmost unparalleled wealth of from which danger proceeded.--. An aerial patrol of coastline of North Australia isman Evangelical Missions Diet to legislation, having received not likely to follow the establishment further the common work and to merely Acts all to itself, but the of constal fortification at Darwin. comply with the new developments amendments and novelties added Such a patrol would, in addition within the German Evangelical to it in Budget after Budget in the
dofence duties, curry
Seven In the second place, the October to
reliefChurches.
missionary Finance Acts, Club, the University Communist parties in the event of trouble bodies working in the Near East Lord Macmillan, who became. of the amalgamated under the name of Chairman of the Committee when organization, was suspended by among the aborigines the Proctors, In the third place Northern Territory, states Austral the "Christian Orient Work."-sittings were restined after the fact that the Oxford Union News.
Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
period of suspension, stated to a Morning Post representative:
he kept in constant communication with stations
tho
In the first place, the Vice on
South
Chancellor und Proctors issued a America side of the ocean,
The Lindberghs are staying at statement to Undergraduate clubs the British Consulate. They re-to "remove current misconceptions fused to participate in the celebra-of their action," in view of recent tions arranged, preferring to rest after the strain of tho fight.- Rekter.
events,
HONGKONG'S NEW Society, whose members are of all
CABARET
REPLY TO "OLD
DEPRESSION”.
political persuasions, intends to discuss the matter, is an indication that the controversy is not merely a sectional affair,
DARING ROBBERY
STORE
Shanghal, Dec. 6.
"
If Australia were attacked nienk this vulnerable consi, machines at Darwin could, it is considered, co- operate with Royal Air Force In private business, to which the squadrons at Singapore In MAN but be admitted, Mr. teeling the final stage of the Eng-BANDITS RAID ON SHANGHAI every week. We have had to sift
mail. Sen- John Crippa, of Balliol, a son of land-Australla Sir Stafford Cripts, K.C., will probe useful to send to the assistance planes or flying bonts would also resolution protesting! 1080 against the principle laid down by of any mail planes encountering the University authorities dieal dificulty on the sea crossing be-tory of Shanghai a daring armed robbery was carried out in the be opened to the public to-morrow lowing public criticism of Univer- tween Koepang and Darwin.
Central district at 5 o'clock to-day, evening, when the New Majestic sity institutions, and regarding it
when the big Wing On departmen- Cabaret, offspring of the present popu- as a breach of the
tal store was robbed of more than lar dancing academy in Des Voeux right of free speech,
30,000. Road, comes into existence.
Hongkong's latest cabaret, which embodies many new features in archi- tectural design and adornments, in to
undergraduate's
The Proctors' statement, which
FOUR MILLION
STEPS
GENEVA'S SOCIALIST EXPERIMENT
Ancient Tradition Broken
NEW GUINEA'S ENVIABLE POSITION
New Guinea is the one dolect- able spot in the world where there are no currency problems accord- ing to a district officer's report which has just been received by the Australian Minister for Territories, states Austral Newa
For the first time in the his- on the one hand and of statutes section, took the oath at St. $250,000.
CLARIFYING TASK.
"I do not think that I have ever set my hand to so large an object before. We have had over 100 meetings, and wo are meeting
Genova, Dec. 5. The new Geneva State Council in the vast collection of decisions at which the Socialist Party obtained Rahaul, the currency, which fe In the district of Kokopo, Inw on the subject of Income tax the majority of seats in the recent shell money amounts to nearly on the other, with their applica-Peter's Cathedral yesterday morn-ful only for inter-antive com This currency, is use tions to Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as to England and
morce, and-is of no use for trade Walca."
Breaking the ancient tradition with white people. There is the majority of the Council decided certain mysticism attached to this that the magistrates will not currency, many of the shelle hay- march in procession from the Ing been handed down from one "We have had to try to discover Townhall to the Cathedral, that generation to another for cen- The magnificent hall, which ita teak was read at a meeting of the Uni-
The shop was crowded with Christmas bargain-hunters and an from all this how the law really the officers would not attend the turios past. In one house £300 floor, artistically designed walls and
employee was engaged in collect-stands, and then to state it clearly, ceremony in corpore and that the worth of auch abells were seen. celling, and its rich adornments in Versity Labour Club, explained furniture
ing money from each floor. Sud-since our object is not to change, officials will not be sworn in on the Just as the white woman goe and other appointments, that they have not forbidden un- has cost $30,000 to creato, is the bold dergraduates to discuss_topics_of
shopping with her purse of money, answer to "Old Depression" who has, general University interest, that GIRL'S 1,200-MILE WALK denly, on the stairway between the but only to clarify. We are bible.
fifth and sixth floors, he was ac-making great progress."
the natives go on their shopping through his agents "Bad Business" the original prohibition arose from
In the course of the ceremony, expedition with a string of shells. "Midnight and tho
Curfew,"
Miss Esther James, a New Zea-costed, by three men, at least one
Considerable portions of the M. Nicole, President of the State a breach of agreement, conceal-
draft Bill, which will ultimately Council and chief of the Geneva been threatening the night life pur-ment of information and risk of land girl, has just completed njof whom was armed
While one of the men threy Aults of Hongkong,
be put before Parliament as a Socialist Party, delivered a speech
£200,000 FRAUD In many ways the New Majestic rohibition of a public meeting Brisbane in 77 days. She stopped sepper into his face, another Jam code of Income Tax law, are al- stressing that the "Geneva Social-
disorder, and that the subsequent 1,200 mile walk from Melbourne to Cabaret, which is under the direction
ALLEGED ists, assume the responsibility for of Mr. Charles Gray and his col- was due to excessive publicity, at a number of places on the way med a. gun into his chest, and the ready provisionally complete. leagues, is unique.
which created an atmosphere unto lecture and admire the scenery.third seized the money bag.
The robbers fled at once and the Before the Bill becomes law, the state affairs, for the first time Night and day for over two months favourable to reasoned discussion
With her, states Austral News, employee shouted the alarm. however, influential bodies, and in Swiss history" and that "Geneva workmen have been labouring to aller and conducive to disorder.
One of the three bandits, who organisations of those who would is the first Swiss canton where entirely the design of the hall. The The statement adds that, while she carried a pedometer which
was arrested on the be affected by it, will be asked for this experiment is made."-Havas. pillars which formerly obstructed have private discussions are subject to shows that she took four million was armed, been removed, and a wide space, err- 150 restriction, undergraduates steps, and as Miss James's shoes ground floor but the other two their criticism, tirely free from interference has been have a special responsibility in weigh one pound, her legs there were successful in escaping with
A defective Income Tax code SINO-AUSTRALIAN The might cause This area is about eight inches public criticism of domestle affairs fore lifted the equivalent of 1,780 the bag containing over $6,000.
There was no shooting,
a still more contly tous. Several years ago she walk- lower than the sitting out space all and institutions.
"While the authorities are an-ed 1,000 miles through New Zea- armed robber surrendered when harvest of litigation than at pre-
confronted by police.-Router. sent. xlous to interfere as little as pos- land in 128 days, alble in the activities of responsi ble and well-conducted societies,"
constructed as the dance floor.
around, and is constructed on popular
English and American cabaret lines. It is the first floor of its type in local dancing neademies.
The lighting effects and interior it, is added, "they will not hesitate designs are extremely artistic. De- to lake firm action against nocic- hind the band, the wall, built in the tea or persons who abuse their pri. form of an unfolded fun, is made of vlleges by irresponsible conduct celotex and when Illuminated by multi and the necking of notoriety. enloured lights is most pleasing.
The ceiling is gold and silver in Such abuse not only tends to en- colour, Illuminated by hidden lights danger the privileges of others, and chaudellers. The walls
but bringa discredit on the Univer beautifully decorated with teak panela sity as a whole."
are
and gold and silver ornamentations.
One of the most attractive features
of this new cabaret is the Introduc-¡
-1
tlun of a soda fountain, which will be BIG AIR RACE
under the direction of an expert from America.
NEW SCHEME.
A new scheme is also being brought by the management.
into
effect
TROPHY
Entrance to the cabaret will be the £650 CUP TO BE SHOWN
usual dallar, but this ticket can either
ba exchanged for refreshments or for three dance tickets.
IN LONDON
Six hundred pounds worth of The musical side has not been neglected Mr. Charles Gray has 18 carat Australian gold has gone brought together eight of Manila's to the fashioning of the cup worth leading dance band players, and they £650 to be presented to the win- promise to bo one of the best com- nor of the £16,000 air race from binations in the Colony. Four of London to Melbourne in...con- them are established masters of theif nection with the Contonary colo- instruments, and enjoyed the reputa brations, next year. The tion in Manila of being the finest which, with the prize money, has disponsers of rhythm in the Phillp-been given by Sir MacPherson pines capital.
The Now Majestic is situated one Robertson, the Australian million- floor above the present Majestic aire confectionery manufacturer, 'Cabaret in Des Yeoux Road Central has just been finished, states
TRIAL HONEYMOON.
ACTRESS TAKES HUSBAND "ON APPROVAL"
Los Angeles, Dec. 8.
Austral Nows.
cup
It la the largest gold cup ever made in Australia. It stands 22 inches high and is in the form of a two-handlod vase of strictly classical design. On either alde are two solld gold spheros ro A trial honeymoon of three presenting the two hemispheros wooks under chaperonage having surmounted by 'planes. proved a success, Fift d'Orsay, Arrangementa, are being made screen actri18, has decided to for its display in London, Paris, marry Maurice Hillman, wealthy Berlin, Vienna, New York and
· Chicago manufacturer-Reuter, San Francisco,
The marriage took place at the German Cha ch. Shanghai Inez week, of Mr. Willem Jonganael,' managing director of Messrs. Philips China Co, & aurhal, to Miss Maidie Brandt, daughter of Mrs. W. Brandt, a well-known Shanghai residant.
TRADE
MELBOURNE CENTEN- 'ARY CELEBRATION
ENGLISHMEN. WANTED IN PARIS
Four Englishmen are said to bo wanted in connexion with an inter- national freud involving $200,000, One of the four is alleged to have |made a last-minuto, départure by aeroplane for London before the French police could question him.
Five me living in luxury fats in the West End of Paris have been arrested. Four of them are
French and the Afth a German.
At a meeting of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce held yester day afternoon, Mr. Wong Kwong According to the Public Prosecu- tin, the Chairman, referred to cor- tor's office canvassore from lean companies called upon Franch and respondence received from the Belgian manufacturers in need of local office of the Advertising and ready money and proposed the flotation of a British company. Publicity 'Bureau in which it was
They declared that more than suggested that the members of $10,000,000 would be subscribed the Chamber should be sounded as by British investors.
to their attitude should an invita- The manufacturers prut up.
tion be received to send a delega-money to complete the formation.
of the tion to attend the Melbourne options pending its flotation. They company and purchasod contenary celebration.
afterwards discovered that British After a brief speech by Mr. J. M.law forbids the export of capital Wong stressing the need for such in the manner suggested.
a Chinese trado visit to Australia,
the Chairman said it should en-
bance future trade developments.
At the same time, well-organized WATCH-FACED EGG
that
of HEN'S CURIOUS FREAK
trade mission could remove much misunderstanding abroad
land China is not merely a labourers, but that it possesses also keen business men with capital and good organization.
A curious egg was laid recently by a hen owned by a poultrys farmer at Coopardo in Queens... A sub-committee consisting of land. On its shell is marked Messrs. J. M. Wong, Li Yow-tong perfect replica of the face of n Chung Wel-lum, Lui Yam-shuen watch..
and Lau Ngok-fen was elected to The Roman numerals, saya consider the suggestion of getting Austral News, are complete, and Chinese merchante Interested and even the minute divisions Bro forming a delegation to attend the perfectly plain. The numerals colobration..
and divisions are raised above the
A further general committee surface of the shell and there is meeting will consider the report a deep impression above the of this sub-committee before tak-numeral XII, evidently correspond. ing any action,.
ing to the winder of the watch.
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