1935-03-01 — Page 17

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH

Tin Control

Committee

Defended

MINERS OPENING PIT OF DEATH

DELEGATES VOTE

WITH JUDGMENT DANGEROUS LABOUR

GOING AGAINST MANDATE

London, Feb. 28.

The question of the Inter- national Tin Committee was again to the fore at question- time in the House of Commons to-day.

Sir Phillip Cunliffe-Lister, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, enumerated the British colonial de- legates to the Committee. Ho ar- plained that their appointments emanated from their respective Governments,

Mr. J. C. Wilmot, Labour, asked why the delegates who were sup- posed to represent the British Em- pire producers had voted in favour of a buffer stock pool, and against the mandate of those whom they were supposed to represent,

Sir Philip replied that these por- sons were appointed by the Colonial Governments to act in an ofBeinl capacity and to exercise their best Judgment. They therefore ought to exercise their best judgment and voto is their knowledge, reason and conviction dictated.-Reuter.

PRODUCTION OF SILVER

SLIGHTLY, AHEAD

OF JANUARY

(Special to "Telegraph")

!

New York, Feb. 28.

AT WREXHAM

PUBLIC REQUESTED TO KEEP CLEAR

(By Talegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1804. Received, March 1, 9 a.m.)

London, Feb. 28.

The biggest recovery operations ever attempted in the history of coal mining have been begun at Gresford Colliery, Wrexham, scene of the disaster in which two hundred and sixty-five miners were killed last Septem- ber when fire and explosions trapped them under ground.

The present operation aims at keeping the mine free from air so as to avoid risk of ignition of the still hot fuel, or the spreading of any fires which may still be burning.

Teams of specially selected men

beer trained for have

this hazardous work.

Secretary The Parliamentary for Milnes, Mr. Ernest Brown, M.C., to-day told the House of Commons that the seal at one of the shafts had been removed alredy by a team working from inside an air lock and wearing a self- contained breathing apparatus with supply of oxygen.

The teams do ouly two-hour shifts, he explained.

A rescue team may possibly

make a first descent into the shaft where the explosions occurred some time next week.

PUBLIC WARNED

Quotas Or Tariffs?

BRITISH POLICY QUESTIONED

SYSTEM SUITS BRITAIN.

PRESERVATION. OF DEMOCRACY

LEARNING TO GOVERN

London, Feb, 28. The French Premier, M. Flandin, presided at the lecture which Sir John Simon delivered in Paris to-night on the British Parliamentary sytem.

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4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7 p... Stock Quotatione, ` | 7.63-7.15 p.m. In a Fairy Ronim Sulte (Albert Ketelboy).

Albert Ketelbey's Concert Orch. 7.16.7.30 p.m. A First of a series of talks on "How to listen to Music" by a local Amateur.

Sir John expressed the view that every Constitution tended to incorporate national qualities and defects. It might be that the

constitutional

avstem English ilustrated cortain British charac- teristles want of logic, a certain contempt for formality great Vocal "One Night rospect for the lessons of the past, a deep sense of realities, and, above all, modération which results in no-one claiming the literal fulfilment of all his rights beyond the limits imposed by good. sense.

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Love Piano Duets The Way to

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Parade- Piano

Ducts-Footlight Selection

John Carroll Gibbons and

Green..

of Love" 8 p.m. Time and Weather Report. 8.03-9.30 p.m. Programma of New. Victofocos-Presto Passionato (Schumann) (adimir Horowitz,

Memories.

.22)

Catos

W.

of

Bongs-Open to me the Repentance (Wedel) Strictly speaking, there was no Songs-Now let us depart (Strokin) British Constitution, but only

Feodor Chaliapin (Bass). uncodified results of long experi-Orchestral-Liebestraum (Liszt) once of Parliamentary govern Orchestral-Sleeping Beauty-Waltz

(Techaikovsky) ment. This allowed certain liber.

Marek Weber and his Orchestra. ties to be taken with 1 in a new Vocal Gem The Three Musketeers situation, the danger of abuse be- Ing checked by the inherent res-Fox-Trot Then I'll be tired of you pect for tradition,

Fox-Trot-Have a little dream on mo Fats Waller and his Rhythm..

Vietor Light Opera Company,

All he claimed for the British | Fox-Trota-Annina system was that it suited the Fox-Trate-My heart is yours

Eddy Duchin and his Orchestra. British people and was the result of long experience of British con- Fox-Trois-Two Cigarettes in the ditions. It was like an old gar Fox-Trota-I'm in love

Dark London, Feb. 28, Asked whether the Governmentment which had come to fit the intended to abandon the present gure of its owner, but could not Fox-Trets-You're not the only myster system of quotas and restrictions be copied and worn with equal upon imported foodstuffs, la favour convenience by everybody. of tariffs on agricultural produce. with preference to the Dominions, Mr. Baldwin said the Government

not

The Secretary for Mines appeal-had often stated its view that The Bureau of Statistics to-day] published that the world's ailvered to newspapers and the public quantitative regulation was production for the month of not to assemble at the colllery, as necessarily in all cases the most of a most appropriate method of assisting the January 1936, amounted to 15,-the operations were

home agricultural industry, 767,000 ounces.

difficult character,

These figures compare withi The rescue team which will 16,420,000 for December 1934, and descend the shaft shortly will 18,319,000 for November 1934.

make an effort to locate the bodies of the men who died in the dis- aster in September. Those which have not been consumed in the fire of may be burled under tone debris but at least it will be possible to tell how the minors diod.

The United States silver produc- tion for January amounted to 2,722,000 ounces, compared with 2,917,000 for December and 1,976,- 000 for November 1934.

Mexico produced-6,000,000 ounces in January, compared with 6,614,- 000 in December and 6,241,000 in November 1934,

TRAPPED

Canada's production for January

When the explosion occurred. was 1,531,000 ounces, compared followed immediately by fire, there with 1,187,000 for December and

were 400 men in the pit. Rescue 1,517,000 for November 1934. parties gallantly attempted to United Presa,

reach the men who were, trapped

AMNESTY IN THE SAAR

FORMER GOVERNOR

KNIGHTED

(Special to "Telegraph")

rity Telegrah, Copyright. Telegraphic Messee Ordinance, 1891. Received, larch

Berlin, Feb. 28.

4, a.m.)

On the occasion of Emancipation Day, to-morrow, Herr Hitler has decreed a widespread aruncaty in the Saar, Certain

of categorica

first

For example, the method adopted with regard to fruit and horticul tural products had from the outset been that of import duties.

The Government would prefer, in the case of meat, to follow broadly the precedent of the Wheat Act and proceed on the lines Indicated by the Minister of Agriculture, but It was not possible to lay down a general rule, as the circumstances in each ense were different.-- British Wireless.

MURDER FEARED

below ground, but nothing could WOMAN'S BODY FOUND bo done because of the intense

ON HILLSIDE heat.

Sir John pointed out that Bri- tain and France were two great European countries which at a time of change had preserved democratle and parliamentary systems.-British Wireless,

S'HAI MARKET

REPORT

HANKOW CONFERENCE .CAUSES FEARS

(Special to "Telegraph”)

Shanghai, 'Mar, 1. The Foreign Exchange Market here la very firm at 10 am. Sterl ing rates especially are rising due to the drop in the London-New York cross rate.

The strength of the market leads many observers to believe that the Hankow conference- is not a mono-. lates to Government finance.

The market is stondy at 11.15

a.m.

Crowds stood silent and stricken A murder suspected to have beentary one, but that it primarily re- at the pit-hend during the night perpetrated sometime towards the of September 22, while miners end of January, has been revenlod stumbled out of the cage which by the discovery of the remains of had brought them to the surface an elderly woman on the hillside

There below the Shek-O Road. after terrible ordeals.

The remains were only a pitiful few of the night

were in a badly condition but it is shift who returned to their homes decomposed

Trading, however, is very dull, and traders are still nervous on account of the Hankow conference. Some reliable observers have

on the morning of September 23. stated that the body was that of a expressed the opinion that the con- It was necessary to seal the pit woman aged about 50 years and ference may be the fore-runner of to subdue the fire. Now, at risk it is believed to be that of Chan some monetary action which may of their lives, miners are going Sam, a cake hawker, of 31 Main possibly be China's ultimate de- to reopen a mine which in the tomb Street, Shaukiwan, who was report-parture from the silver standard.

of their comrades.-Reuter Special.jed missing on January 29,

DAY BY DAY

NEWS IN BRIEF

EVERY MAN HAS JUST AS MUCH offenders will bo freed. · There VANITY AB HE WANTS UNDERSTAND are safeguards, however, to pro- ING.Pope. vent the release of political out- Inws,

*Ampeaupaj u sokaging 100 de o par a puu kodus ja es orVÀ DÙO

H.M.S. Adventure sails for Bhang- H.M.S. hal this afternoon, and

II.M.S. Calcutta, with naval detalls London, His on board, left Sheerness yesterday Cornwall leaves for Iloilo, P.I., to- Meanwhile, in

Plymouth on morrow. Majesty the King has created the for Portsmouth and former head of the League Govern- passage for China. ing Commission in the Saar, Mr. Knox, a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George-United Press..

KUNG'S PURPOSE IN HANKOW

The next meeting of the Hongkong Pang Kup, passenger of the steamer Branch of the English Association Hong Peng, was removed to the Kow-will be held on Tuesday, March 8, at loon Hospital yesterday suffering 5.30 p.m. in the Helena May Institute, from sovere head injuries, from which when Mrs. Christopher Chancellor of he subsequently died. It Is alleged Shanghai will address the Association that the injuries were inflicted by a on "Some Later Elizabethan Drama man, Lian-lung, who is now in Lists." custody. It is beloved that the in- Juries were caused with a piece of wood.

The market continued strong at the close of the morning session, dospite the fact that there was somo demand for sterling-United Press,

Mackintosh's Ltd., the well-known which

Jerry Johnson and his Orchestra.

in the Slow Fox-Trota-Mandy

Fata Waller and his Rhythm. Fox-Trots A Needle in a Haystack" Fox-Trots-Learning

Eddy Duchin and his Orchestra. Fox-Trots--Nidnight the Stars and

you Fox-Trota-An hour ago this Minute Ray Noble and his Orchestra. Instrumental-As I Strolled along the

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Instrumental-I've found

Grass Skirt

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Sol K. Bright and his Holly-

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Jolly Coburn 'and his Orchestra. 9.30 p.m. Router Press Bulletins, Landon 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity Quotations.

9.35-11 p.m. Classical Programme. Planoforte-Sunata in G (Mozart)

Irene Schurer. Symphony No. 7 In A Major, Op. 92

Beethoven)

Philadelphia Symphoniy Orchestra,

10.30 p.m. Press Bulletins, Stock Quotations. Songs-Im Frohling (In Spring)

(Schubert)

(a) Tho Poet;

(b) The Rose Garland (Schubert). Elena Gerhardt (Mezzo-Soprano), Planoforte Solo-Grillen (Schumann) Song - The

Benno Molselvitch, Two Grenadiers (Schumann)

Theodore Challopino (Bass). Orchestral Polonaise No. 2 (Liszt,

arr. Muller)

11 p.m. Close Down.

CHINESE ADVISER

TO TOKYO

MR. LI CHEK-YI ON VISIT TO JAPAN

Tokyo, Mar. 1. Mr. Li Chek-yi, adviser to the

SEEK TO REDEEM Chinese Foreign Office, who arrived

COTTON MILL

BANKERS PROPOSE JOINT ACTION

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at Nagasaki from Shanghai on Wednesday, is expected to visit here shortly. His mission somewhat similar to that of Dr. Wang Chung-hul; that is, to ex- change vlowa with the Japanese leaders in an unofficial capacity. Dr. Wang will likely wait for an Shanghai, Mar. 1. opportunity to meet him here be- The Bank of China and the fore sailing for the United States Hongkong and Shanghal Banking on March 6. Mr. Li will stay in

have Corporation

commenced Japan for a considerable time- negotiations, through their respec Central News. tive nolicitors, with A vin to Miss Jane Gillespie, of 817 the Peak, amicably settling the No. 7 Sung has reported to the police that at 7.15

WAIVING CLAIM .m. yesterday while zho was walking Sing Mill case, which has aroused industrial

TO GAMES her from be- REPORTING GENERAL was fined $26, with the alternative of hind snatched her handbag and ran circles. As a result of yester Lou Zl-fu mped 10, unemployed, mare approachhia Road a Chinese Considerable consternation in both three weeks hard labour, when ha

bag contained ladies' day's discussion the banks' respec- ITALY WON'T PRESS ESTIMATES ·

appeared before Mr. A. W. G. H. away. The

tive views have been somewhat

FOR 1940 OLYMPIAD Grantham at the Kowloon Magistracy requisites and a $10 note..

reconciled, it is reported. Hankow, Feb. 28.

this morning, and pleaded guilty to

Rome, Feb. 28, Meanwhile, the Central Bank of In an interview with pressmen receiving four rattan chairs on his arrival hero, Dr. H. H. had been stolen from a bathing shed men's wear specialists, are now giving Ching, the Bank of Communica- The Foreign Office has reiterated

Laichikok. Detective-Sergeant! their patrons the advantage of prices Kung, Finance Minister, declared at

Poyntz, prosecuting; stated the based on present-day cosla. Every. tions and the Bank of China have that Italy has withdrawn her that the main purpose of his pre- Pets were the property of the mill thing has been re-marked in accord-resolved to jointly raise $2,250.000 claim for the allotment of the 1940 sent visit was to submit a report

The defendant ance with the present rate of ex- to be used to restore the owner, Olympic Games to Rome, of the general estimates of the tory authorilles.

were Sing Company or some other Chi- at Oslo has not yet received any Contral Government for the current was seen coming off a sampan with change irrespective of the rate ship of No. 7 Mill to the Sung Apparently the Italian delegate instructions, for he has not with tho chairs, which were valued at $8. prevailing when the goods

actually ordered.

Dese firm.Central News,! year to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek

drawn the claim at the meeting of. and also to exchange views with

Tong Lung, a stonebreaker om- The first dance of the Hongkong

the Olympic Games Committeo him on the National Economie | ployed at the site of the now Hong: Police Single Sergeants' Mone held at

meeting here. Council's activities.

kong and Shanghal Bank, pleaded the Headquarters Gymnasium Inst

It was announced from Romo In regard to the financial condi- guilty before Mr. Wynne-Jonos in the night proved -un' unqualified; success.

yesterday that Italy would support tion of Szechuan Province, he sald Central Police Court this morning to Splendid arrangements were made

The anticyclone over China has Japan's claim to the games. that arrangements had been reach, the theft of a quantity of copper and music was supplied by the: Royal ed for readjustment.

tubing. Mr. Whittaker, of Messrs. Marines dance band of H.M.8. Corn-Increased moderately in intensity Reuter." During the pregress of the anti- Logan and Amps, stated that the wall. The hall was tastefully do and moved castward. Presauro la

PRINCE HOME AGAIN Red campaign the Central Govern- tubing had been deliberately cut from corated with bunting, flags and now highest near Nanking. A ment had promised to help the the air conditioning tubes, which would coloured lights, adding much gately to shallow depression is moving east-

London, Fol. 28. Szechuen Provincial Government The copper welding was also very also served. Among those present ward nerons north Japan; pressure with a sum of $2,400.000, to be valuable. The intrinsic value of the were Mr. D. Barlingham, Denuty. In is relatively low over Indo-China. The Prince of Wales reached forecast: East winds, London to-night on return from paid in thros Instalments, to stolen tubing was $6. The Magistrate sector General of Police, Mr. C. G. Local

Chief Inspector J. moderate to fresh; cloudy, some his Continental holiday-British improve the currency system of the passed sentence of six weeks' "hard Pardue and

drizzle or light rain.

Wirclear." Murphy. labour province. Contral News.

cost hundreds of dollars to replace, the aurroundings. Refreshments werd

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