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THE HONGKONG

POVERTY ON THE CLYDE

ROTARY CLUB

ADDRESS

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936.

THE HONG SIANG

RECONDITIONED VESSEL LEAVES TO-DAY, Successfully going through hor trials yesterday the reconditioned A hearty welcome was extended to Hong Slang is to sail at noon to-day. officers of the German cruiser Karl-The ship was formerly the Dimboola, aruhe who wore the guests of the owned by the Melbourne Steamship Hongkong Rotary Club at their week-Company and operated on the Austra- ly tin yesterday.

lian coastal trade.

Professor Forster, President of the Club, said that the representative kong on November 14 last your and The Hong Siang arrived in Hong officers of the cruiser who were their went immediately to the Taikos Dock guests were Commander Wasemann, yard for reconditioning. She had Mr. Forstinmann and Mr. Markan. como from Singapore in ballast where Capt. Siemens unfortunately was her now owners, the Ho Hong Steam prevented by a prior engagement ship Company, had taken her over from attending.

from the Australian Tho

sure that the Ro- agents here are the Is Thorg Com

owners, Her peakor felt fary Club was behind him, in ox-pany, Ltd. pressing a inost cordial welcome to

CHARHAR AND HOPEI

DOIHARA AND SUNG NEGOTIATING

Polping, Feb. 11.

Major-General K. Dolhara will re- It is semi-oficially announced that main hero for about one month.. During which time he will try to settle the Ilopei and Charhar poll- ties. He called at the Hopel-Char- tical issues with the Chinese author- har Political Council yesterday morn ing. The Japanese lendor deliberat- ed over an hour with the officials at the Foreign Affairs Department of the Council,

Nanking's Sumpleton

their visitors. He would ask them During the three months the steamor

Nanking, Feb. 11. to convey. theso

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has telo- these on board ship. (Applause). Dock Company shy has almost been Chairman of the Hopel-Charhar Poll- greetings to has been in the haris of the Talkos graphed to General Sung Choh-yuan, It WAS appropriate

that this rebuilt and at her trials she proved tical Council, ordering him to report visit should occur at this time most sailsfactory, attaining well over because he had a letter from Dr. 14 knots. She will maintain, together tin

on his recent negotiations at Tien- C. T. Wang drawing attention to the with the Hong Kheng and the Hong Dollara. fact that Rotary was founded thirty Feng, a fortnightly service between sears ago and that their

Major-General

Chis month should be directed townmoy Swatow, Hongkong, Singapore, in receipt of reports that General

Panang, Fort Swettenham and tan-

International fortun nal friendship, They were goon.

Club in finding it,

The latest addition to the Ho Hong unnecessary to speak about inter- national friendship, but, instead, to meet is well up to Board

of Trado apply it. Apart from the inter- done under the advice of Messra. requirements. Her rebuilding has been national character of their weekly Ritchie and Bisset, well-known Singa meetings they frequently entertained guests of many nationalities,

pero engineering firm. and

The accom- this was emphasised by the presence been made thoroughly up to date and modation throughout the ship has of their Gorman friends.

nothing has been left. undone to on- German Replies

sure the safety and the comfort of the passengers. Both cold storage and installed for the carriage of perish refrigerating chambers have been able cargo and foodstuffs for the

voyage,

Rotarian A. H. Veltman acted Interproter for Commander Wase mann, who thanked the Rotary Club for their welcome and said he hadj encountered similar clubs in mady places

and in Germany, He ap have been taken and all the necessary Full precautions against piracy preciated that Rotary did a lot to griller have been fitted to make the bring people together in order to ex-vessel quite safe from attack. change views on

on different matters.

In Germany they had sought to pro- mote co-operation and friendship with other countries and they were glad to soo clubs with similar alma and to wish them, as they did the Hongkong Rotary Club, prosperity in

the future.

Distinguished Captain.

and

with

Konji The Central Authorities hero are Sung has yielded to Genera! Dolhara and agreed to terms, detrimental to the interest of Hopel and Charhar. Many Japanese will shortly arrive ers of the Hopel-Charhar Political here from Tokyo to serve as advis Council-Union News.

Leader's Suicide.

Nunking, Fob. 10. Memorial services for Mr. Tao Hing-fa, a member of the Kuomin tang Central Supervisory Committee, were held hero yesterday. In eulogizing

the dead Kuomintang leader, Mr Chang Chi, another member of the same committee, view of life and committed suicido statod that Mr. Two took a critical beenuse of the despondent national

outlook.

The body of Tro was found at Honen Wu Fu on the outskirts of the capital on the morning of Febru

Ariyoshi Leaves

A shelter deck steamor, the Hongary 8-Union News. Slang is at 4,000 tone gross 2217 tons neit Her length is 800. feet, breadth 50 feet and depth 20 foot to the upper deck. Her loaded deadweight capacity of the vessel is draft is 23 feet thros inches. The 4,640 tons while her space capacity is

Quoeneath the Bows of the 6,819 tons of 4 cable feet.

holding three passengers; 14 second There are 20 first class cabins, each class cabins each taking four passon- of taking two passengers; 12 third gere: two eccond class cabins capable class cabins for six passengers each, and deck space for about 1,200 pas

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STARE Shanghai, Feb. 10.

bassador to China, and his wife ar

Mr. Akira Ariyoshi, former Am- rived at Kobe yesterday en route to Tokyo. He told Japanese nowA- paper man that direct Sino-Japanese War, Navy, Flaanco and Foreign negotiations will begin after the Affairs Ministries have decided upon their policy.

Mr. Ariyoshi was relieved of his Japanese circles kore believe that post because he did, not take a sufficiently strong line towards Nan- War Office and the Kwantung Com king in the opinion of the Japanese mand.-Union Neroa,

In calling on the Rev, K. Mac kenzie Dow to addreas the Club on the subject

the President said that Mr. Dow came from Clydeside and would give

them some aspects of his work there prior coming out East. He hoped that Mr. Dow would join the

Rotary

Club and thus follow the steps of his predecessor, the Rex E. G. Powell, who had done so much work for Rotary in this Colony.

The speaker said he kne

knew nothing of the technical side of the Queen In charge of the Hong Slang when Mary, but he would

speak of the she salls to-day will be Captain J. H. manner in which the giant liner do Gregory who has been in the service minated the countryaldo not only of the Ho Hong Steamship Company physically but figuratively in the since 1928 and has proved himself

Inner Mongolia lives of those who dwelt in her extremely popular with the mons

Nanking, Feb. 11. shadow. Leaving politics and statis Chinese passengers who travel by this tonomy, movement in Inner Mon

Apparently to counteract the nu- and the recovery of industry line. out of his mind, he asked them to

golin, headed by Princo Teh, who think for a moment of the poverty Gregory has seen service with a mum been seeking the co-operation of

During his 24 years at sea Captain seems to control mont of the ban

gers in Charhar Province and unemployment which were

and has

with this line that he carried the nounced the organization of a self- BO well, known in the Glasgow district bernt companies, but mainly with the those in Sulyuan Province, the Nan-

B.I.S.N.: Company, and it was while king Government depended on the shipbuilding trade Crown Prince of Roumania, now King government committee for the Sul- on Saturday an- thers and when there was a slump Carol, to Japan from Calcutta. Dur In that it was felt in all homes miles Ing the voyage Captain Gregory was ship of Prince 8ha..

yuan banners under the chairman- around.

decorated with the Chevaller of the The committee has 21 members, Glasgow Blander

Order of the Crown of Romania. He all of whom were formally appoint. Ho would like

sire holds the General Service and the ed to contradict

on Saturday. Merchant Service Medals. His most governing it provide that it shall be The regulations slanderous statement which it was recent experience was when-Sir directly under the Executive Yuan common to hear when one mentioned Charles Kingsford-Smith was lost in at Nanking. In all matters pertain that one Wos from Glasgow. The the Bay of Bengal. Captain Gregory. usual reply was: "Glasgow! That's was among those who helped insuring to the banners exclusively, the where all the Communism is!" That scorch for the lost aviator.

committee is to have a free hand, but in matters relating to Sulyann The Hong Siang was built in 1912 Province it is to consult with the

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NAAR Y ASTOR #ELARDO CORTEZ DUDLEY DIGGES

the

was a slander which arose from thai at the Newcastle, works of Mesars, provincial authorities.

sensational manner in which Press reported some of the incidents Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richard- which occurred there, leaving every-son, Ltd., her tonnage body to bellove that they were typical being 3,686 gross and 2,112 nett.

when built of the whole city,

The speaker continued: "I should

like to say: Why should Communism DEFENCE MINISTRY not be typical of Glasgow? I should

people

not be antagonistic to Glasgow who were Communists.

man

Try

It

PRIVATE BILL BEFORE PARLIAMENT

to put yourself in their places. Sup- poso you had no work to do while you saw your children going without clothes or food, would you not feel that some change was necessary?

London, Feb. 11. is said that a drowning

The private member's bill for the clutch at a straw; the position of will come for a second reading in the

will

creation of a Ministry of Defence some of these people is that they feel House of Commons on Friday, that

Any change will bring them some improvement.

The Bill proposes that the Ministry should consist of a Principal Secret There

were cases he had met with ary of State, who should bo President

A Pelping roport says that, Nan- king's stop acems to mean that it has abandoned its efforts to reach a friendly agrooment with Prince Toh, who has been gaining in Indu ence of late, and will give nasist- ance to Inner Mongolian forces op- posed to his leadership. Prince Sha: was won over through General Fu Tao-yi, chairman of the Sulyuan Provincial Government.

Japanese officials at Pelping are maid to be watching developments. Union News.

MACAO INCIDENT

BRITISH CUSTOMS OFFICER WOUNDED

Macao, Feb. 11. Robert Boyle, a British employon Chinese Customs, ontored

at home where the people went to of the Defence Council and a Secret- bed early. becntise

they could not ary of State and an Under-Secretary: afford light, others where a family for each of the three Service depart lived in a single room er in tenement ments-Admiralty War Office and Air of the houses where the sanitary arrange Ministry, for purposes connected with Bacao Government Hospital suffering ments

wora lamentably inadequate. the development and Maintenance of from gunshot wounds received this Ho sometimes felt bitterly about the three Fighting Services in an morning aboard the Customs Jaunch those who pointed the anger of scorn up-to-date and efficient condition. at an unemployed man because he The Minister of Defenco would, be by smugglers near Malauchau Station, Kwanchun, and inflicted, it is belford spent twopence or threepence on the responsible to the Government for cloan to Vacao, pictures

or occasionally get drunk. proper consideration of all strategical It was not always drunkenness that and tactical questions bearing on the led to poverty but often poverty lod defence of the realm and for proper to drunkenneas. No wonder the iron equipment of all arms of the three entered into a man's soul, and there Fighting Defence Bervices, was Communism, rioting and crime.

Speaker Thanked

Among other provisions, the bill empowers the Government to appoint such representatives of Dominions as their Primo-Minister.

No trace of the offenders has been

found.

time, only one guard belag awake, The Chinese crow were aaloop at the and he was wounded.

Ono meinber of the crew has not been accounted for and is missing.

An operation was performed on danger. Our Own Correspondent."

Smuggling In Canton

The speaker gavo soveral"instances alt upon, the Council. elect to Boyle, who is stated to bo in no

within his own experience showing

the anomalous and miserable condeussion of the objects of the bill it It is expected that after a full dis tions frequently met with, one of will be withdrawn before a division, them being the case of a man who throw up à job worth 40%, a' wook bo on Becond reading is cause he could support his family The Cabinet ito

At

meeting better on the allowances dus to him attitude which it will assume towards to-morrow will probably decide the when out of work. He illustrated the measure. It is understood that system.

the Government, while they spre There was not much that

that Rotary could do for those poople, he concludable, are convinced that the creation tion than exist at present are desir ed, but at least they could sympathy for them and in future tema British Wireless.

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SIR F. LEITH ROSSing to banking circles, Bir Frederick

LEAVING FOR HONGKONG WITHIN A FEW DAYS

further the injustice of the ingrow that closer co-operation and co-ordina-) Inspootor: Liang: Han-tso- of the to Hongkong "within a few days."?

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Rotarian W. C. Clark sald Mr. Dow

London, Feb. 11 had spoken of things within his own knowledge. With regard

It is rumoured that Sir Samuel tin Hoare will rejoin the Cabinet employment many of them said in Miniator without portfolio of a co- come-tax was high because of the ordinate Defence Ministry-Beuter's unemployment Insurance but fow Bulletin,

know, that the fund paid for self

and supported Test government

organisation, including oncinis whood of Russia, perhaps, bat

familles such as the speaker describe speaker for his address,

Canton, Feb. 11. A well organised amuggling den was discovered bare last night in a

Provincial Smuggling Prevention De a party of armed guards from the bouse, No. 20 Hwak Kang Street, by

partment; accompanied by police.

The search party was directed by and only one man was arrested. Be Smuggling Provantion Department, sides the arrasta large quantity of goods was taken by the police...

Among them were 09 pieces of silks, 100 cases of rubber, goods and ten parcels of printed cloth

Several reports of the activities of smugglers in the city have reach of the Authorities

Concerns

does not expect to spend much time in Canton, as a preliminary survey was made by his assistant, Mr.-N. Young. While here. Mr. Young discussed financial and bloma with officials of the Provincial monetary pro- A telephonic Inquiry from "Sir tung Provincial Rank," the Centen

Shanghal, Feb, 11 Department Finance, the Bang Frederick Leith Ross's office to-day Municipal Bank, and British elicited the reply that he was going here. these the ofles was unable to supplysation decree in Canton in different

What Specifis detalls were requested, but exporte is that the liver national,

Interests fore

foreign monotazi

Reuter.

from that of the National Govern ment, because In Canton the tw Preparing & Welcome government banks pay 4 premiums of Women Canton, Feb. 11. 20 per cent. when they buy allver Financial circles here are making coins from the public.. In. preparations to accord Sir Frederick and Nanking, paper money is valued a cordial welcome.It is understood the same as the silver dollar,

Shanghai that he will make a study of the Nanking Government hade banknote situation here an affecting tons over a year before going off the

After completing his investigations followed almier line et sto British and, other foreign,

standard Canton he will return to Bhanghai Accord the Ministry of FinanceSpo

ment has been instructed by Be

The Provincial Smuggling Depart Tong-po, Head at the same Departs ment, to pay special attention to the movement of the smugglers. More the commuggling, preventive, guenda havo | i

!

salaries would support several muniam of men. He thanked the been despatched to Canton-Kowloon Printed and Published for the Proprietors by had stations and the wharves at the FRANKLIN, 25-1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the

waterfront-in-orde to check tho smugglers-Wan Kim Yat 20, Hongkong.

ed. Commaniam was what they should evidently come straight

all getund for not the Communism hoart

preparad