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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1934.

BRITAIN ANNOUNCES TRADE ACTION

PARADOX OF

JOBLESS

TWO MILLIONS OUT:

·JOBS UNFILLED · ·

SKILLED LABOUR

PROBLEM

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thy Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphic kan

Ordinamer.

1194 Received

16404

3, 143 0.M.j

London, May 7.

Hay

M. Troyanovaky, the Soviet Am- basador to the United States.

Great Britain's unemploy-UNES ed have been further de- creased.

Figures, issued by the Min- istry of Labour, show that there were 2,148,195 without work in Britain in the month of April, This was n

decrease of 53,382 compared with the previous month.

Yet, with over 2,000,000 un- employed, Britain is beginning to experience a shortage of skilled Inbour in many stable. Industries.

It is, at present, confined mainly to areas around Leeds and York- shire, together with certain sections of the engineering and furniture trades. But there are signs that as trade conditions improve it is likely to become Increasingly felt in industries all over the country.

EMPLOYERS WORRIED, In Leeds and West Ridlag district of Yorkshire, and in ligh Wycombe, the centres, respectively, of the woollen

and furniture

SOVIET PROTEST TO AMERICA

Objects to Ruling As Defaulter

11'

AGAINST JAPAN

Quotas Effective Immediately

Textile

NORMAL YEARS AS BASIS

LEAVING COLONY TALKING TO BUS

FOR GOOD

DRIVER

UNUSUAL TRAFFIC

SUMMONS

BRITAIN AND FRANCE

MORE GUARANTEES' IMPOSSIBLE

London, May 7. That Great Britain will declino MR. AND MRS. JOHN

to be drawn into further

com- mitments regarding European MITCHELL

Becurity when the Disarmament Conferenco reassambles In Genova Hongkong will be losing two

An unusual summons was taken to-day by persons in close

on May 29, was positively assorted woll-known

most and

highly-out against a car driver. Lui Lam, with the Cabinet:

touch resident

to-morrow, before Mr. Hamilton at the Cen- The Ministerial Committee which when Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell tral Magistracy this morning, as he been handling Disarmament leave the Colony by the Bluca result of a complaint made by subjects since France rejected the Funnel liner Hector. They are Mr. H. W. Walker.

"WHERE SUCH ACTION IS respected

APPROPRIATE”

COLONIAL MARKET

MEASURES

BRITAIN HAS TAKEN STEPS TO

going Home for good, and will

and recreative interests,

Mr. Hamilton

STRICT JAPANESE COMPETITION IN TEX- rosson of the sincerity shown in Walker for having brought the ity of French defences

thunked Mr. has now advised that the superior-

former British schieme, has evolved carry with them the best wishes Defendant was summoned for a new plan entailing further of a large circle of friends for a talking to the driver of bus No. guarantees by Britain. Jong and happy retirement. 611, from Leighton H Rond to,

The Prime Minister, Mr. Mag- Mr. Mitchell joined the staff of the bottom of Garden Road. these guarantees but the majority Demid, is favourably disposed to the Taikoo Sugar Refinery in fine of $10 was imposed.

of the Cabinet members emphatsze 1902, and has been in ita servico ever since. He has taken the was also summoned for driving nation nor the Dominions would The driver of the bus, Lai Sul, that neither Parliament nor the keenest interest in Taikoo Club, without due care and caution, and tolerate any such atop RE- especially. In promoting its social was fined $10.

Moreover, the French Government and by

against Alis work he has won friends on all case to the notice of the police. TILES IN THE COLONIAL MARKETS.

Germany can be maintained so long hands.

as France retains her freedom re- QUOTA SYSTEM IS TO BE INTRODUCED IN

Mrs. Mitchell also has been pro-)

OTHER CASES.

garding armaments she requires. THE COLONIES, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, minently Identified with sosial

work t Talkoo.

Lam Kam-hang, driver of larry She feels safe, in these conditions, FOR ALL FOREIGN COUNTRIES, BASED Quarry Bay School came into be month's imprisonment, on a auming in war.

Before the No. 650, was Aned $25, or one plight aceras to forbid her indulg- especially na Gemany's economic UPON THE AVERAGE IMPORTS FOR THE she ran for many years a most mons

useful educational establishment colliding

for failing to stop after

31. Barthou, the French Foreign with there, this being Inter transferred Hennessy Rond on April 21, and Warsaw, discovered a satisfactory

રા ricksha in YEARS 1927-31.

Minister, on his recent visit building which

formerlying to report the accident. Blackhead's soapworks. The

Poland's unity with France, her old Defendant collided with the industries against Japanese com- now been asked to complete its re-Government eventually took over ricksha which was being driven?

jolly. petition in the Home and Colonial port on these duties as quickly as this little venture, which was the from east to west along Hennessy Ministers argue, there is no justi- In theso circumstances, British markets were announced in the possible.

In the case of the colonial mar Bay School. For many years also. time.

forerunner of the present Quatry Road. He was overtaking at the fication for increasing British com- The Ambassador declares

Commons by the President of the

Mr. Walter kete, the Secretary for the Colonies Mrs, Mitchell arranged kinderspiela Board of Trade,

mitments in Europe.Our Own that he outlined to Mr.

The Po-wab, driver of lorry No. Correspondent. had been

in consultation with at Taikoo, training the children 509, was fined $15, or two weeks! Runcimún. Moore, the Assistant Secret-

Colonial

Governments, and the with marked success, many of imprisonment, for overtaking and Mr. Runciman recalled that the Governments of Colonies and Pro-whom received their first instruc-rassing a moving tramear. ary of State, the Soviet's

for which such action tion in dramatic, art from her. argument against

textile representatives of the two tectorates being

countries had failed to reach an would be appropriate would be

Traffic Inspector Nicol sald dehere from Shanghai at 7 d.m.

The Empress of Russia is duo characterised as a defaulter,

It is worthy of note also that fendant attempted to pass the Thursday, and will agreement and that the whole post-naked to introduce import quotas but he cannot publish the

which, except in the case of West Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, together tramcar on the off side near the quarantine anchorage on arrival." official Soviet viewpoint.-

tion had been under review

Africa, would apply to all foreign with Mrs. Mitchell's brother, Mr. Yacht Club, and collided with it, tween two Governments, Router.

cotton and rayon

R. Dickson, were responsible for doing damage the extent of imports of

the introduction of inter-denomi$50. The money for the damage national services at Taikoo. These was paid, were held every Sunday evening at the Taikoo Club, being well attend-

Washington, May 7. The Soviet Ambassador has protested to the State Department

Mr. against Cummings ruling that the Soviet Union, is in default on war debt payments.

making trades, the shortage is an Immediate problem. It is serious-intza mainst

ly exercising the minds of many employers who are Anding it hard

to find

labour.

in Bcces, three branches

of industry are already affected. They are heavy iron moulding, tool making, in connection with the automobile industry, and cor- tain kinds of production work in which skilled women workers are

CHINESE FIRMS

.

AT LAW

SUCCEED

employed. In the last instance Yuen San, trading as the Yuen

children's light clothing. labour is almost entirely female,

MAIN FACTORS.

to

The measures to be taken to pro- ¡bilk duties by the Import Duties to Talkoo Bock property, in the $10 on a second aummons of fail-faccumulation of evidence proving

tect the British cotton and rayon Advisory

be

On 161 March, he handed the Japanese Ambassador a memoraR-KODUN dum enquiring whether his Coy- ernment had any proposals to make for dealing with the problem.

consider

which had Committee

IMMEDIATE OPERATION."

pre-

in favour

to

W2s

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THE SINCERE CO.,

ANNOUNCING

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A NEW SENSATIONAL OFFER

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The claim of Inder Singh, ⋅ night- watchman, of Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw and Co., for $205 from Foja It was further proposed that led and greatly appreciated. Kur-had charge of the Sunday School cluded before. Mr. Justice Jacks, at Singh, registered money-lender, con- the necessary legislation in the ther Indication of the interest at Taikoo, which now forms part the Supreme Court this morning, when On 31st March, he received a re- colonial territories should

be which Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell took of the Union Church activities. ply in which the Japanese Govern-enacted with the least possible in the religious life of the Colony

Judgment and costs were given fur, to delay and that it should be so is to be found in the fact that both Mitchell on their voyage Home is tended that the money was not due as munt expressed willingness CLAIM WHICH DID NOTİ

Accompanying Mr. and Mrs, defendant. Foja Singh, who was re-

presented by Mr. M. A, da Silva, con- any further proposale

framed that the actual regulation were keen and active members of their daughter Mrs. Jumen, hvidow money lent but under an illegal bishi, which the British Government of imports would be reckoned as the Hongkong might make but making no pro- beginning retrospectively from Mrs. Mitchell also for many years the Dollar Steamship Line.

Union Church, of the Inte Mr. C. P. James, ofir. Horace Lo had represented posals of their own.

to-day 7th May, so that no attempt

| plaintiff up to the last hearing. married women who have left their Sun Kee Firm, of 4, Wa In Fong The "Government have considerat forestalling would be allowed employment are being asked to inke up their old positions. Street, sued Chau Sik-kwan, traded the whole problem again very to frustrate the policy and inten-

In Nottingham, there is a lack High Street, for $376.80 for work it is already a year since the Brit-templation.

ing as Chau Wo Lee Firm, of 75, carefully in the light of this reply. tions of the measures under con- of skilled machinists for the done and material supplied before Ish Government drew the attention wert African colonies there were In the most important of the manufacture of Women's and Mr. Justice Jacks at the Supreme of the Japanese Government to the treaty obligations which

This Court this morning.

serious position arising from Jap cluded differentiation Mr. C. Y. Kwan appeared for

anese competition.

of British goods. defendant, plaintiff appearing in

- JAPAN'S ATTITUDE,

It was for this reason that a In a number of other towns are person and with no witnesses.

Plaintiff gave evidence that he

year ago notice was given firms endeavouring to trace men und

"It is of the utmost importance release the West African colonies women who have fallen out of en-was-instructed by defendant to do ployment during the past three certain work which he did but for that every effort should be made from their obligations under the to deal with a problem of this Anglo-Japanese Treaty and action years and may have left the dis-which he had not been paid.

appro thore would be limited to Japancre trict and found work elsewhere. Cross-examined, he agreed that magnitude in the most

goods." Two main factors are held large-defendant was then an official ofpriate way. ly to be responsible for this situs-that the instructions were given in to be nothing in the Japanese

the Kny Construction Company, "Unfortunately, there appeared OTHER COMMODITIES. tion.

Mr. Runelman added that while Firstly, the disappearance of a that firm's office and in the pre- Government's Note of 31st March considerable number of specialised sence of several other officiala. He to suggest that an early agree- he had not dealt in his statement further agreed that he at first ment Was to be expected. Al-with the position of any goods employees during the depression who took the first offer of employ-looked to

Pragnell for though, therefore, the Government other than cotton and -rayon mont which came along: and, Payment and instructed a solicitor still holds the view that the pre- textiles, the Government accondly, the failure of many firms to write Mr. Pragnell accordingly. blem which faces us is one which aware that Japanese competition to maintain a nucleus of appren- Then he agreed with other sub can only be settled satisfactorily was not limited to those goods ticed labour in industries for contractors to leave the collection by co-operation in some form and were considering, in the case which between three years and of monics from Pragnell to Chau. between Japan and ourselves, the of each of the other industries in- When Chau could not get the British Government cannot allow yolved, what tariff action in the five years' training is necessary.

This latter factor, it is believed, |100

mancy, he sued him. He knew situation to develop in which colonial markets was called for. will be more widely felt in years to that Chan had taken.a summons for the negotiations are

protracted As regards the Home market without It in particularly evident In $1,000 out against Praguel), but indefinitely

im-the matter would be dealt with by the cotton industry of Lancashire, did not know that nothing had been mediate prospect of access and the ordinary procedure of the where it is admitted that if and Paid in respect of the judgment. during this time the Japanese, Imports Duties Act

come.

# Mr.

any

the

were

when that trade should revive to

Mr. Kwan submitted that on quite naturally from their point The Minister concluded by plaintiff's own evidence there was of view, are continuously expand-stating that

Government any great extent there will be a dearth of skilled workers in many no case to answer, and his Lord-ing their exports in our markets would, at any time, give careful sections.

ship gave judgment on the claim to the detriment of Lancashire, consideration to any proposals the al costs for defendant.

while our hands are tied.

Japanese Government might make towards a solution by mutual agreement of this dificult

JUVENILES FIND JOBS. Meanwhile, juvenile employment

Iras increased tremendously, RUBBER SHORTAGE? striking illustration, it is claimed,

of the turn of the industrial tide,

in

AMERICA SEEKS TO ALTER AGREEMENT

NO. POSTPONEMENT.

pro-

"Accordingly, the Government blem. Such a solution ought to be have come to the conclusion that Possible where two Governments they would not be justified any anxious to agree-British Wire- were, as ho was sure they were, longer in postponing, In the hope of

Icon. an agreement, such action as is

take

RUPTURE TO BE

IMPLIED

Britain Still Hopes For Agreemont

At the end of January, 1932, there

were 9,770 unemployed juveniles, the highest recorded for

open to them with a view to safe NO six years. In January, 1933, the

London, May 7. Konrding British trade. figure was still 9,558. Now it has According to the Financial News "I therefore informed the Jap- Inilen to below 1,500, the lowest correspondent in New York, the anese Ambassador Inst Thursday ever recorded.

State Department is showing con- that, in the circumstances, the This

due to a slackening siderable anxiety respecting the British Government were obliged off the exodus from schools be-siderable cost pectins le tu resumo their borty to cause of the low birth-rate during attempting to secure Amertenn re- such action as they deemed neces the war. Only 40,000 come from presentation on the International sary to safeguard our commercial London elementary schools in 1932, Committee.

interests. compared with a normal average

It is said that the American I assured him, and I am con- that the British Ambassador in London and the dent the House will join me in anxious to emphasise that Mr. American Minister at the Hague this, that such steps as it was Runciman's statement does not are conferring with the British proposed to take would be taken in imply anything like a rupture be and Dutch Governments.

uo unfriendly spirit."

tween Japan and Britain. On the

of 60,000. It is expected to rise to 65,000 this year-United Prean.

MOST INDUSTRIES

LEND AID.

(Special to "Telegraph")

1.4 a.m.

London, May 7. Reuter learns on high authority. Government is

remain on the

bo

It is officially recognised In As regards the Anglo-Japanese contrary, the greatest efforts will New York that there is need for Trade Treaty, Mr. Runciman said bo made to control and avoidance of over. he was satisfied that the Govern-friendliest terms. Dy Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphie Mrs. production, but it is feared the ment could without denouncing it,

It in still felt that an Anglo- engra Ordinance, $101. Received Naj plan will work out along mon- take proper and sufficient measures Japanese agreement

may London, May 7. opolistic lines. It ja felt that in- to protect British commercial inpossible. Most of the principal British adequate assurance is given terests. He, therefore, saw no rea- It is pointed out that in order, Industries had further improved against futuro shortages and the son to terminate the treaty which to counter-balance British action, the numbers in employment at the consequent sharp advance of had regulated commercial relations Japan is free to adopt similar between the two countries for over stops, but the most-favoured- was 53.382 below the March figures. The Financial Times correspon-twenty years, "This was achieved notwithstand dent in Amsterdam says it is

end of April when unemployment prices.

g the sudden spurt in the num- learned oflelally that the United

SILK DUTIES.

nation clause of the Anglo-Ja- panose Trade Treaty precludes anti-British discrimination.

ber of children leaving school States is urging the extension of As far as the United Kingdom Tho quotas will not apply to during the month, owing to the the agreement with the object of market was concerned, the Govern- East Africa owing to the spoela! exceptionally heavy birth-rate in the fixing a maximum price for the ment felt they could no longer position arising from the Congo first quarter of 1920.-Reuter, protection of consumers-Reuter, continue to suspend the review of Basin Treatles-Reuter.

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