1934-02-05 — Page 7

Fred Perry Does It Again

BEATS CRAWFORD

IN TEST

Adelaide, Fab. & In the Fourth Anglo-Australian Lawn Tennis Test, Australia defeated England by firo matches to three.

A feature of the Test was the brillant play of Fred Perry, who defented Jack Crawford in stralzh: -bots by scores of 6-4; 6-2,-Router.

PERRY'S OUTBURST.

STRIFE IN CUBA

FRESH POLITICAL' THREAT: NOW LIKELY

Havana, Feb. 4, President Mendieta has announce ed the lesuo of a decree, returning the Cuban Electric Company's properties to its American owners. A warning has been issued to the striking workers that a con. tinuation of their strike might bring intervention-United Press,

Soldiers Vigilant,

Havana, Fob. 4. The action of President Mendleta in returning the Cuban Electric Company, to its American owners has precipitated a fresh political upheaval, following the threat of employees to strike.

BRITISH NAVAL SCHEME

FALKLAND ISLANDS KEY TO FAR EAST

London, Feb. 4.

BANK FAILURES.

LOCAL CONCERNS DEALT WITH: "IN 'BANKRUPTCY

Mr. Pun Hlu-cho, chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital, and a patron of the Po Leung Kok, underwent ..., bis

RADIO BROADCAST

JAZZ PIANO SOLOS FROM THE STUDIO

From ZBW on a wavelength of 355 metres;

public examination at the Bankruptcy TO-DAY'S BROADCAST. Mr. Frank Reynolds, writing in Court on Saturday in respect of the the Illustrated London News, failure of-the Cheong Loong Bank. states that the recent "secret" Mr. B. C. II, Lim, barrister, watch- naval conierence at Singapore deed the proceedings on Mr. Pun's be

for the creditors and trustees, rided that a big base should be half, and Mr. F. II. Ltachy appeared established in the Falkland Islands, sceno of the famous sea battle in Examined by Mr, W. J. Lockhart- the Great War when a British Smith, Ofcial Recalvor. Pun said he foot crushed a German squadron was 62 years of age and lived at 4, Seymour Terraco, also running an fresh from victory in the Facile.

The strategic value of the Falk-establishment at 420, Hannessoy Road, Io and his wife and the bank land islands, in the south Atlantic separately owned considerable house was given emphasis by that battle. property which was fully mortgaged But fr. Reynolds states that the and of little valua even if prosent decision was reached by mortgages were cleared, continued fo WAB a director of the naval authorities at Singapore witness in view of the possibility or the savoral companies until he had fallen into his present financial dificulties, closing of the Papama Canal to

and was connected with the Tung British shipping.

Wah and the Fo Leung Kok.

Sydney, Feb. 2. Playing in a match here, Fred

Ghould the strike eventuate, it is Parry was ironically applauded by the spectators for an error on his ow feared that fresh uprisings, led by

British exasperated Part. The

workers and students, may occur.. and player turned to the umpire

Colonel Batista is maintaining called out "Is this cricket or a tennis the police and soldiers in readiness The Falklands would then com- ruatch?"

Later Perry expressel regret for for all eventualities, and as a pre-mand the passage round Capa having said there words. He cautionary measure, three students Horn. From them Great Britain the safety of her plained." "I was a bundle of nerves. & have been arrested on charges of could assure definitely did not mean anything being connected with recent bomb shipping and her gigantic interests

In the Far East. and I ATA sure that the tennis Ing outrages.-United Press. spectators will forgive me. I do not want to leave with people believing that I am. a bad sportsman.”~~ Special.

WEEK-END HOCKEY

(Continued from Page 0.) Schoolgirls in the second round of the Competition at King's Park, the Central British Association Ladies played a much improved game to win by five clear goals.

E. Woolley scored three goals, and H. Smith netted two. The score at half-time was three-nil.

H.K. LADIES Lose.

In a friendly hockey encounter at Happy Valley II.M.S. Cumberland de feated the Hongkong Ladies' second eloven by two goals to nil.

Midshipman Read heored both goals

for the Cumberland.

DRAWN GAME.

H.M.S. Cumberland shared four goals with the Incognitos in a friend- ly hockey encounter at Happy Valley on Saturday.

Lt Pares netted twice for the Cumberland ahd do SOUR and E. C. A. de Silva neored for the Incognitos,

M. CHIAPPE AS A SACRIFICE

(Continued from Pope 1) Government, which facen Parlia

ment to-morrow.

Nobody is antisfied and probably M. Daladier is the most dix- illusioned of all as, instead of obtaining young, new-blood Government, he finds himself fettered by Party intrigues and jealousies and a close prisoner of

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eaucus influence---

SOVIET WARNING

READY TO RESIST ANY OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE

Moscow, Feb.

M.

4.

the

The Panama Canal, he writes, would be closed in the event of war between Japan and' America.

Mr. Reynolds added that the admirals at the Singapore confer ence urged heavy fortification of the Falkland Islands Umted Press,

AMERICAN FLEET. K. E. Voroshilov, Minister for War, addressing the Admiral J. M. Reeves To Communist Party to-day, tacitly

Take Over Command. warned Japan and Germany that

Washington, Feb. 3. the Soviet Union was ready to

It is announced that resist any invasion with a powerful

Admiral army that was even more highlyJ. M. Reeves has been appointed American. Commander-in-Chief of the United mechanized than the British or French forces.

States Fleet in succession to Ad- He annonunced that strongly mirat D. F. Sellers, who becomes fortified zones extended, from Lake Superintendent of the Naval Ladeya to the Black Sea, and "the Academy at Annapolis in succes most threatened areas in the Farsion to Rear-Admiral T. C. Hart. East and Eastern Siberin."

great "These forta will prove obstacles to any adventurers who desire to attack the Soviet," he said "and our military preparation will prove an eyesore to the Japanese.

"It would be much more pleasant for our enemies if our Manchurian frontiers were

as defenceless China's were in 1931, but we do not intend to give them this pleasure.

usual courtesy despite our United Preas.

NEXT ELECTIONS

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WILL BE HELD AFTER THE

1936 BUDGET

London, Feb. 3. According to the London News. Chronicle the British Cabinet has reached a decision to continue the National Government until the 1936 Budget, the decision being reached this week.

after

three

con-

Partners Cannot Help.

the

The Choeng Loong Bank was stari ed ten years ago with a capital of $300,000 of which ho contributed $124,000.

6-8 p.m. European programme.. 5-7 p.t. A relay of the Hongkong, Hotel Dance Orchestra from the Hong- kong Hotel Roof Garden,

7p.m. Closing Local Block Quota- tions, etc.

7.8-7.30 p.m. Musical Comedy. Vocal Gems-The Desert Song

(Romberg).

Light Opera Company, Vocal Gems-The Blue Mazurka

Opora Company. Selection The Student Prince

(Romberg).

Savoy Orpheans. Vecal Gens-fold my Hand

(Carter and Gay), Vocal Gems-Bow Belia (Carter,

Sievier, Sullivan and Hamilton).

Columbia Light Opera Company. .Busincas was carried on in a fair

Gold Diggers of 2003. way until the strike of 1925. The Selection The

The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra. Bank recovered from this setback but,

7.30-7.50 p.m. From the Stadlo. with others, was hard hit by the de- pression of the last year and get into Jazz Piano Solos by Fomping Vila.

Other banks in which

7.50-8 p.m. diméultics,

Selections from Techai- II. Squire witness was interested were aimilarly kowski played by the J. embarrassed owing mainly to the Celeste Octet. fall in the value of property and sharos and bad debts.

teen Merlitons; None but the

Heart; Piano Concerto: 1812 Overture; Second Movement from "Symphonie Pathetique."

Local Time and Weather 8 p.m. Report

8-3-10.30 p.m. Chinese programme. 10.30 p.m. Rugby Bild-day Press Nown.

10.35 p.m. Close Dow!.

Then came a sudden run on the native Hongkong and Canton banks Bimultaneously and after mortgaging all they had and paying creditors a million dollars, all eight banks in which he was concerned had to cless would down. In his opinion they

All relays of Hongkong Hotel have tilded over their difficulties had

Orchestras are by courtesy of the the depositors taken a more renxon-

Management and during the intervals able attitude.

will bo

broad- recorded music There were a' large, number of | cast from the Studio. partners in the bank, concluded wit- new They were all at Canten and had not given him any assistance with the winding up, and he did not think they were in a position to do They had been men of comparative Sweeping changes in the Naval prosperity but they now had no pro- high commands involving 26 Ad-perty at all as far as he knew in mirals and five Captains will be Hengkeng or Canton. come effective after the review of the fleet by President Roosevelt at New York, on May 31-Reuter.

The latter will take command of the cruiser division which will be formed from the new cruisers shortly to be commissioned,

LESSON SERMON.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONGKONG "Love" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon which was read in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, yesterday.

"Keep The Golden Text was:

God, yourselves in the love looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life" (Jude 1:21).

of

Among the citations which com- prised the Lesson-Sermon was the

the Bible: "In

this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God

The newspaper adduces main reasons for the decision. following from Firstly, to forestall Conservative criticism of the Premier Ramsay MacDonald; secondly, to The political combinations and assure that a united front will be permutations of the present presented to the electors in Chamber are exhausted.

nexion with the legislation on the The possibility of M. Daladier's India question and Disarmament:

thirdly, -failure to secure a vote of con- and

to stabilise the Adence to-morrow

the domestic policy.-Router. raises queation what next the Socialists Neo-socialista and the Right arrayed against him will do,

It will be a miracle if he obtains a vote of confidence.-- Reuter,

"PROMOTION" REFUSED.

Parisian Police Prefect Will

Not Go To Morocco..

Paris, Feb. .

whole of the French police th force, an aftermath of the fraudu-

BETTER OUTLOOK

INDEPENDENCE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

yesterday.

sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him....And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God la love; and he that dwelleth in lovn dweileth in God, and God in him" (1 John 4: 9, 16).

80.

The hearing was adjourned until the next Bankruptcy Court, the ad- journment also including witness' examination in respect of the Shun Loong Bank

BANK HEADS ABSCOND).

Court Discretion Favours Creditor Bankèrs.

Aper

TAT FAT LIABILITIES. The discretion of the Chief Justice, Mr. J. R. Wold, was exercised at the request of Mr. Horace Lo appearing for petitioning creditors in the ad- journed hearing petition of the Tat Fat Bank at the Bankruptcy Court on Saturday.

Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith did not

order, which was accordingly made." oppose an application for a receiving other creditors, who were all very Mr. Lo said that his clients and bankers-of-this-Colony, experienced b had gone carefully through the books of the debtor firm and as far as they could judge, the Tat Fat had assets iius by promissory notes amounting to $102,000. The book debts $218,000

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LOCAL WEDDING.

MISS KATHLEEN NIBLOCK AND D. MORTLOCK

The marriage was solemnised on Saturday afternoon at St. John's Cathedral of Miss Kathleen Niblock, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Niblock of Upper Bassett, near Southampton, Hants, and late of Keppel Harbour, Singa pore, and Mr. D. W. Mortlock, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. T. Mortlock of Tonbridge, Kont.

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. C. L. Isard of Ton- bridge, Kent.

were and the liabilities

$130,000. In their opinion the total amount of collectable Deacts wero $100,000.

hnd

The bride was attired in a cream pan-velvet ankle length gown set off with cloak of similar material. She also wore a hand-made lace with crown of orange yell blossoms. Sho carried a bouquet of white arum lilles.

Mr. W. P. Douglas, of Singapore,

Misses Davidson and Miss Brown gave the bride away, and the

attired in mauve organdie ankle acted as bridesmaids. They were length gowns with mauve velvet contees to tone. Their bouquets consisted of Parma violets.

Mr. T. H. A. McCarthy acted as best man. M. Grayburn was later held at St. A reception tendered by Mr. V.

John's Place.

HUGE PROFIT

DOLLAR DEVALUATION SAVES MILLIONS

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The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, "Scien- The debtor firm, continued Mr. Lo, ee and Health with Key to the closed business in the manner set out Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy: In the affirmations before the court. "That God is a corporeal being, They had carried on as usual unt!!

received nobody can truly affirm......Nor one day when they

very money from materially but spiritually we know considerable sums of

various firms in the Colony. They Him as divine Mind, дя Life, Washington, Feb. 1.

censed to

people in function and the Truth and Love. The Jewish charge absconded.

Warranta The Hon. Mr. Mantel Quezon. tribal Jehovah was A man-pro- been issued for their arrest. President of the Philippines Jected God, llable to wrath, repen- Assuming that $100,000 was collect- A Treasury statement shows Senate and Senator Dern con- tence and human changeableness. able for the acquitable thing to do has been made as a result of Tat Fat Bank, he would that a profit of U.S.$2,086,000,000 Following the reorganisation of ferred with President Roosevelt The Christian Science God Is submit

A statement was issued after universal, eternal, divine Love, was to collect that amount and dis- devaluation of the dollar and the receiving order was made the debtors stocks in the Federal Reserve Jent bond issuo scandal, a fresh the interview concluded, Indicat. which changeth not and causeth tributo It among the creditors. If a consequent revaluation of gold

evil, disease, nor death"

of the Tat Fat would go scol-free songation has been caused in ing that a compromise will be

(p. 140).

and leave the creditors with no redreas Banks. The profit. is in "new Paria by the refusal of the Pre sought, contemplating the amend-

style" dollars. fect of the Paris Police, M.ment of the Hawes-Cutting Bill in Chlappe, to accept "promotion" ta order to eliminate the features ob-

jectionable to the Philippines AUSTRALIA AND EAST. a Morocan post.

Shortly after the scandals and people.-United Press.

DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO the death of Stavisky, the Paris

LEAVE IN MARCH Profecture of Police, of which M. Chlappo was hond, ceased bocome a separate entity, control of the Prefecture being vested in the hands of the Surete Generale. M. Chiappe declines to be made a scapegoat and proceed to Morocco because his departure under present circumstances would be interpreted adversely,

to

RAILWAY DISASTER.

TRAINS MEET HEAD ON: BOMB LADEN CAR

Hsinking, Feb. 4. A passenger and freight train collided head on near Tunghua to The Prefect is the idol of the day, it is learned. Seven Japan. Parisian public, with whom he can soldiers were killed and many has achieved the reputation of injured. being the Napoleon of the Paris

Polico and the terror of evil-doers. The colllalon was followed by Hie rofusal to disappear will terrific explosions, as one of the

London, Feb. 3. A Melbourne despatch states that the Attorney-Goneral and Minister of External Affairs and Industry for Australia, the Hon. Mr. J. C. Latham, expects to start his projected diplomatic mission to Japan in March, and will also vfait China, Hongkong, and the Dutch East Indies.

The mission will be primarily one of diplomatie goodwill. Trade relations will be a secondary con-

sideration.

It is understood that the

whatever.

Mr. Lockhart-Smith sald his figures did not tally exactly with these of Mr. Lo'a but he had no objection to the receiving order.

OTHER CASES.

Receiving And Adjudication

Orders Made.

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Thus, the statement shows, there is a sudden surplus of U.S. $974,000,000 compared with deficit of U.S. $1,923,000,000 on. January 31.

Gold stocks on February 1 were valued at $7,018,000,000 na rom- pared with a value of $4,035,000,- 000 on January 31.

As the $2,000,000,000 stabilisa- tion fund was to be created out of gold profit, the statement indicates that the fund has not yet been created or is being kept as a part of the gold stocks shown in the on Treasury books-Router.

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CREDITOR FOR $10,000.

AL the Bankruptcy Court Saturday the following cases dealt with among others, by Chief Justice, Mr. J. 1, Wood.

A receiving order was mado in ra- Bri-pect of the Cheung Tal Pawnshop. Mr. J. T. Prior represented the peti- toning creditor, lo Fok-wan, who gave evidence that debtors owed him $10,000 or not order was made in re- spect of Mak Yuk-tong allas Mak Ting-chiu, alias Mak Chiu-lap-tong, alias Chiu-lap-tong.

seriously increase the embarrass- cars was laden with bomba. Ietish Government has approved his ment of the Daladier Government, was on the freight train that the mission,--Router.

Rentor.

soldiers wore riding, presumably

Rs guards of the munitions.→

The final of the United Services United Press. Recreation

Club lodies' squash

rockets tournament will be played at the U.S.R.C. courts to-morrow, Tuen

SURPRISE AT SEVERITY

A receiving

NEW AIR LINE

- GERMANY INAUGURATES

EAST SERVICE

Berlin, Feb. 4. A now fast fortnightly air mail service from Germany to Brazil and Tokyo, Feb. 4. A receiving order was also made in Argentina was inaugurated yester- day, at 5 p.m. The Anallats are Mrs. pince shortly of Mr. Arturo Pala

The wedding is announced to take Home surprise has been occn-respect of Shumson Chan, Mr. F. H. day when Germany's fastest com- Kayll and Mrs. Addia,

anmercial acroplane loft Stuttgart. mideal, engineer, C.M. Customs, living aloned by the neverity of the aon-Leesby appearing for debtor in at C.P.S. "Likin," and Miss Annita tences meted out by the District unopposed petition.

The machine in carrying 400 lbs. A young Chinese a charge of snatching from Mrs. Stafford Smith in Nathan nounced of Mr. John McKinlay, first

a bandbag The forthcoming wedding is also an In the May, 1932 outrages,

Bathurst. From and Road, Kowloon. The man was selz- jeer, . Kwalyance, cio the China given military and naval officers with Paranjothi Ranjeevi, trading as Bathurst sonplanes will convey the Compared with the short terms respect of the Sun Foo Wo Hing he conveyed by other planes to Las

Kee firm and another In connexion Palmas - od. It is reported, by Major Baignoll, Navigation Co., and Miss Kathleen who participated in the outrages, the Pioneer Commercial Company, wait cross the Southern Atlan of the South Wales Borderers, the Marlory McFarlane, of West Kirby, the sentences are extraordinarily the Paris Silk Storo, and the Colomba vin the German floating island. bag, containing a sum of $17, be|England, coming to this Colony on the ing recovered.

Jewellery Store. sovere.United Preas.

An adjudication order made in in custody on Luongo, of 200 Jordan Road, Kowloon. Court upon civilian participants respect of the Tak Hing-hongs also of air mail to Seville, where it wit

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Constance BENNETT

strikes the tender human emo tions....; in the dramatic hear cry of a million mothers (21

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