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money they propose to lend and the
already asking disclose her ideas on the subject. Now, as Sir ROBERT reminds us, China wants to go into the open market like any other borrower and get the best terms she can from anyone who is willing to lend. She does not want to be bound to borrow from this or that syndicate of any particular nationality, and she is suspicious of all syndicates which have the appearance. of being backed by Foreign Offices, suspecting that they will be used by the latter for political purposes; and, above all things, she dreads and
H.M=S. Fame has left, Fobshaw, for Berent local- rositants, elem Hongko
irago may also. || German. Mail yesterday. The full list be found, or page 10%
barexposted hera'shortly
The frat maG LIYE -
the Hongkong will be held
Gymkhana Olabs this, hat Happy Valley on April 19th,
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A Hongkong firm in building a lunch
Brigadier General F, C. He, CB, embarked on Mar 13. Amaye on 2nd in- stant, for passage to Fogland, on completion of inspection duties in this Command.
for the Lingkongyan Estate in Borneo) Air John L. Barrett, trosaurer of the which is to sun daily between Weston and Philppines, has resigned to accept a Labuanyar.
position with the International Harvester Company, and is now in South America,
The soldiery, in parte of Anhwef.are out of hand. They are deliberately stealing and kidnapping women, and mach excite ment consequently prevaža,
Leave of absence, in, ezbenman, “in the- United Kingdom, has been Lost & de from 29th March
Captain Ralit
The Directors of the Shangbai Water will contest. to the utmost of her | Works Co., Ldjutand to recommend, weakness, any attempt to Egyptianiss subject to audit, a final dividend of thirty commed of the Marada on the Chinese finance. That China's finan-billings per share, at the exchange of
3/71, for the past year.
cial regeneration, including currency reform, cannot be properly conducted without foreign financial help, the honest belief of most foreigners who have studied the question, but that 9.30 p.m.-Laglative Council Meeting any foreign adviser can be found with
MEMO FOR TO-MORROW.
General Memoranda.
FRIDAY, March 8:—
9.15 pm-Madane Laure" Miquel Alzieu's Recital at Theatre Royal. SATURDAY. March 9:---
Entries Close for H.R.C.C. Tennis and
Racquets Tournaments,
A prisoner in a Borneo district court, charged with perjury, was asked to plead whereupon ha lent over and whispered confidentially to the Magistrate, How many months do I get, air-1:"",
the requisite knowledge to render him
The C.. Band": "31... Co.'s steamer capable of taking Chinese finance Keong-ping was the frat vessel to reach bodily in hand does not at the moment Tientsin Bund this year. She arrived on seem possible. No foreigner could the 19th Fab at 7pm. The Woosong
was expected there on the 21st Feb. expect or would get the necessary authority to do so, unless China is not
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appoured three the men, “whiles “Me” R. A. Hurding defended another.” – Great interest is being manifested in the osàu bị
kinase, who täronged, the Court to over- - Kian
dowing.
El Worekta intimantent that how would. adjourn the case, and allow bail in a sum “of 2500 mal
“Hm your: Worship fized the bed-to" date of the death enquiry yat 1.
crship-Fels:. "Tissaday: the 19th shall not is the hour. until after the enquiry.
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Borneo run for some time, will transferred" to the N.D.L. Far Eastern service.
Dr. IL Stout, who rosided in, Nagasaki as misionary of the Dutch Reformed Church for 3 years, has died in America. He retired from, active work in 1906, but bad lately paid a visit to Japan."
Mr John Hendrick, Donker Curtins, cas of the oldest foreign residents of Japan, has died at Tokohama... The deceased, who was in his sixty-fourth year, was a KOD Of the firsk Netherlands Minister to Japan.
Baron. Takamaki, the noted Court post,
to attend t
Is your Worship, prepared asentative of the deceased.
Hie Warship At the destà enquiry 1 Mr.Potter-Yes..
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Me Potter--I mean attend to "cross examine witnesses.
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EDINBURGH, February. IL
11 30 .m.-Hongkong Rope Manufac-only Egyptianised, but Indianised. ager of the fandia Times has been who was born in 1836, and General Hongkong Rugby Club and a team from verdity were unfortunate in having to
Co.'s
19.10 p.m.-Hongkong and Kowloon
Wharf & Godown Co. Moeting.
9 p.m.-Masquerade Ball at German
Clab.
SUNDAY, March 10 --
Ba.m.-Excursion to Macao.
MONDAY, March 11-
B. M. Webster, formar business man- sentenced in imprisons for one year,
Viscounts. Nishi, bura in 1846, and who eight months and 21 days for misappro-commanded the Second Division in the priating P5,000 belonging to the Manila Manchurian campaign, have jus died in
Cou
Intereat in the Rugby world was cont His Worship-1 shall follow the usual in two games in Edinburgh... course of the Court.
hart, the unbesten Edinburgh Unicity The hearing was then formally adjourned met the Wabenins 5 The first meeting of until the 13th inst. at 10 a.m.
| the two Clubi this sucson resulted in a dre
with, no scoring, and was remarkable for. determined marking and tackling thin return match was characterised rather by force of play than the number of individual The Ragby football match between the and passing movements. The Uni- H. M. o mana yesery atterson (which take the fold without four of their bater ended in a win for the former by 12 pte. tonell, An 8. B. B. Campbell, the
nationalista ---Mackenzie, -Taylor," 8 pta.) was marred by a rather maricus being around at Twickenham. Thly pub socident. During the progress
magnificent fight, however, and play, Leading Seaman Edward Abrahams was very even though the Watasniana 'garw was rushing for the ball when he was the impression of being slightly knocked down. It was soon apparent that dangerous side. For their abili he had had a very violent fall, for he lay up this closo fight, the University huddled up on the ground in an unconvsicus indebted chiefly to their forwards. condition. The surgeon from H. M.S. Minolar happened to be on the Bold; 303 he was soon at the player's side dressing foton 1; | bis injuries, which, it is fented, amount to a What is known as a "straw", vata has slight fracture of the skull Subsequently thringh the police refusing to allow the just been taken by the leading newspapers the injured man was removed to the Naval local Chinese to have a band at the head of of the U., and it discloses the fact that Hospital in an ambulance vehicle. a procession which they had organised to Mr Roosevelt has a majority of the celebrate the birth of the Chinese republic. estimated electoral vote over President Talb Thera is the usual talk of starting for the forthcoming nomination
Times.
Noon-Levitt Chines V. M. C. A. Still the dificulty must be got over Students Hostel Foundation Stone by somehow or other..." Sir ROBERT H.E. the Governor.
BREDON has no startling solution to propose, but he writes: "What China does want, and what it is to her own Further cases of dumping of bodies interest that she should have, is an are reported. Two were found insting in 2.30 p.m.--Opening of Hongkong ni adequate system of national banking, the harbour on Tuesday, death being up a proper system of accounting and aparently due to amall pox, while in another case from the eastern district death appeared proper system of financial control, as to be due to natural causes. well as a proper system of audit These obtained, and accounts publish- ed under the supervision of foreign smployees selected by herself, the actual details can be carried on by Chinese hands, of which there are an
versity by H.E. the Governor. University Bazaar commences. WEDNESDAY, March 13:-
Noon-Hongkong Fire Insurance Co.'s
Meeting
FRIDAY, March 13-
9.pan. Macbeth by the Lang-Hollo
way Co. at the Theatre Royal 9.13 p.E. The Governor & Lady
Lagard's Farewell At Home" Government House.
SATURDAY, March 16 :--
Lady Lagard for England.
SUNDAY, March 17:-
St. Patrick's Day.
S.C.R.A. Rifle Meeting: First Day.
The China Mait
LOANS TO "CHINA.
THE air is full of rumours these days of the loans which China is seeking from the outer world. All the big
Noon-Departure of Sir Frederick and abundance, with sufficient capacity to do the work. The establishment of a control to some anch extent may be very reasonably made a condition to any loans on a large scale, and China would show no more than common sense in adopting it." Bat while it HONOKONO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1932. is easy to argue thus most people nowadays are fully aware that China dreads the very first suspicion of placing herself entirely at the mercy of foreign money-lenders Great, as are the benefits which she has derived from the example of integrity and according to latest reliable authority Customus she does not look upon that Japan, despite her own well-known
Bervice with our eyes, and this fact impecuniosity, has claimed, for
must be borne in mind by all who political reasons, the right to share in
discuss the problem of foreign loans. any international loan that may be raised. And that right has been admit The New Chinn will be very sensitive ted, though there was one dissentient upon the point because it has not yet when the matter was voted upon by digested, much less begun to assimil- the Cabinet in Nanking. China will ate, the ideas on political economy want a good deal of money if she is which its students have brought home to start the various schemes propound-from Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, ed by the reformers with any reason- London, Heidelburg, Paris or Tokyo. able prospect of enceess Sir ROBERT
Seine trouble has been caused in Kobe
boycott.
Japan.
Many in the Far East will hear with regret that Captain Worcester Agent for the P and Q. Company at Malta, died suddenly on February 9th. He was far many years one of the most popular com- manadors in the service.
Yan Shih-kai, though, pressed by the delegates to come down to Nanking at Tang Ong-chong, financial registrarance and assume the Fresidency, is reputed of the Hangyang Arsenal, has been strasted on a charge preferred by General Li Fran-bang, of embezzling large sums of money. He has been enlarged on ban of 182,000 tels. Several millions are said to be involved.
to have said that he could not lace Peking ander three months The mating will still farther delay him, we imagine.
of the up
ITEMS AT THE COURTS:
-Thuty-four Chinese were to-day charged with running snopiam divan at 46, Lower Lascar Roy. The first two defend ante, being the keepers, ware fined $200 sach, or three mouths imprisonment. while the others were multed in fines of
32 each, wojs
Prior to Viscount Haldano's departure On a charge of violating the conditions from Berlin the Kaiser sent him a bronze of his adjunct licence, which "required bust of himself. The gift, it is stated, is in meals to be supplied with drinks, B. An saquiry into the death of dub,recognition of Viscount Haldane's great Uyotsuki, licences of the Tokyo Hotel, Lieut Cathcart-Burchier, Late of H.-S. interest in endeavouring to secure a my appeared before Mr. E, A, Irving a the Merlin, was hell by Mr E. A. Irving yes terday afternoon, and after the besring of prochement between Great Britain and Magistracy yesterday. La-poctor Watt evidence verdict was returned to the
effect that death was dus ₺ a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
An inquiry ordered by the French
Germany.
Watsoniana were superior, behindy, owed their win to the brilliance of 1 who cleverly engineered two of the worke For the day, he quite outplayed Augus, but then Angus was injured during the
game, and had to play softly. Pearson had not much rope in the second half. Onlar 1.did little glan then look after him, and did it mort effectively. Indeed, the marking by Osler and Hoggs of the opp sing centres was one of the features. After Pearson, Timina was the best of the Wat sonian threequarters. Campbell and Bogle did many clever things; but even behind winning forwards they were quite playad by they and Bosele was marvellously accurate and effective.
A Facharu Place, there was another fine entest, in which the Edinborgh Ach domical gained a dramatis victory over Hawick. The Academicals, are a variable ide, but for the struggle their forwards
prosecuted and My W. B. Bind defended were in fores. They carried the spinaj. The evidence for the prosecution was that and wheeled in grand style, hey out three men were seen sitting at a table played Hawick in the first half by scrum work though on crossing over the Bor drinking beer without taking a meal. Onderers looked like wiring out their defeat. the table were plates containing small | The Academicals were saved from this
Ladies Department, nations have been approached and honesty set by the Imperial Maritime Admiralty has revealed the fact that allongkong Civil Service, elder son of pieces of cold tongue, but these were not possibility by a mishap to Ogil
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touched, neither was any mention made of the powder, including the stocks Boad, Houndiscombe, Plymouth, and Miss by Me Charles Henry Dodd, one of the Mr Edmund Bowyer Jacks, of S. Laurence meal by the waiter. This was borne out factured in 1all, is open to auspicion, the Edith Elliott Kirkpatrick Picard, second three men seen drinking, who said he was old stocks having boen mixed with the daughter of the late Mr. P. Kirkpatrick not asked to take any food. The hearing aw. A daily inspection aboard every Picard, M.D.,. of St. John's Wood warship has been urtered. 1
The father of Mr Stewart, who
was adjourned until Thursday,
GARRISON.
Watsonins, 9; Edin. University, Bo Edinburgh Academicxia, 21; Hawick, 11. *Glas. Univ., 8.; Clydesdale, & id
West of Scotland; 90 ; Edin. Wanderers, Academicals, 20: Greenock Wan-
derers, 9.
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At the Magistracy yesterday afternoonrocently sentenced to your MOBILIZATION OF HONGKONG PARENT; R.ELSE.PL Mr EA. Irving held an enquiry into the imprisonm-at-in, a fortress for explonage circumstances attending the death of an in Germany, has written a letter to The unknown Chintas woman who was knocked Times in which he deals with the case. Mr The Hongkong Garrison is now under shortly attem adqission to hospital. A commend the justice in soundness of the as a wait in the Defence scheme, will take League, Scotland, 9: Glenal Rowe by trames on the 23 ult. and died Stewart, set, states that while he cannot mobilization order, and the Volunteer Corpe verdict of deaths from misadventure was decision, ha is profoundly convinced that part. The following Corps Orders by Edeut. returned, and no one was held to blame.
the motives of the Judges before whom his son when tried were unamilable. Be deprecates the tendency which is being evinced to foment anti-German spimosity over the trial,
The Leading Light mys that Mesars, Chingtoe and Co., of Obeloon, bare par chased the Japanese steamer Kiskihin Maru A case arising out of family troubles ins of 970 ton at the price of Y. 82,000 fos Chic bomo na concluded today before sorrics in the gulf of Padilli. The Justice Gompertz in the summary purchase price of the steamer Hamshau Courr. It was a claims by a Chinese woman formerly the Norwegian steamer Nortons, sand Yai Man Fan, alas Chul Tui Shi, | which has [pon purchased by Masya. the wife of Chat Siu Cho, for $390, being Iwaki and Co. of Chefco, is stated to thre, month's maintenance due to and have been. T. 70,000, agreed to be paid to her by the de fendant. Since the first portion of the Case was heard the defendant had made in Japan of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, negot In order to preserve the former. written promise which His Lordship have been completed whereby the said would take a very bold man to residents have purchased the hoop indefinitely. It was as follows which De San lived while "L, Chui Sun Cho, the maker of this note yokohama The hours
authority, puts down the amount af 830,000,000 tack, or £100,000,000 sterling, which will be required in the ast two years. That is a very large sam and we are not surprised that the late acting Inspector-General of the Imperial Chinese Customs is not sanguine of Europe and America patting their bands, quite so deeply into their pockets with Chinn at her present stage of development. But China must have nogey must obtain it from outsiders, for if the Revolution lias accomplished nothing else it has clearly demon- strated what many observant foreig ers had long ago declared to be the fami case, that she has no surplus capital available for
exploitation development, then how
Comedy Cohe afford to borrow at the
and the if repentance, now know that it is improve will
per to strike and sold the legal wife as
are usually done. Heresher I dare nob trumps up expusen at will to strike and scold her frequently neither dare day part of the monthly sum of
moment? Sir ROBERT BREDON
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Colonel A. Chapman, Y.D., Commandant, are therefore, been ned-The Hong kong Corps will take part in the Practice Mobilization of the Garrison from the 7th to 9th March. The Corps will parade 821: A regrettable disturbance, occurred. Headquarters at 2.30, pink
väitä the nonfola: between, Bangent a the 7th March, Den Onler, helmet; khaki dril great cost, in, web-carries,
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