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MARRIAGE.
BLIGH SOENEN-On May 26,
1926, ut the
Registrar's Office, Singapore. Leslie Richard, to Julienne Soenen of Lille, France.
-Hongkong, Thursday, June 3, 1926.
BIRTHDAY PARADES,
Birthday parades, such as that held this morning at Happy Valley in honour of His Majesty King George, serve a more useful purpose, than merely showing the flag and giving His Excellency the Governor an opportunity" of re-
over.
able tokens of all that is best in | modern civilisation and of all that is meant by the little word "free- dom." Search the world over, in the past and in the present, And there shall not be found a people on whom the Ruler can rely with so immense trust and confidence. That affection for the Throne has not sprung up in a day: it is the proud heritage of every Briton--- handed on from generation to gen- eration, with the rich lustre added to it by Victoria the Good, with the spirit of poncord imparted to it by Edward the Peacemaker, and with the ward of personal devo- tion waved over it by His Majesty King George.
dicates no shirking of duties, and no lack of interest in all that per- taina. to the welfare of his sub- -jects. Hongkong, no less than other parts of a far thung Empire, voices its own loyalty and affec- tion in utterance of the simple but sincere line of prayer-
God save the King!
WAR DEBTS.
AMERICA AND THE FRENCH SETTLEMENT. -
(Router's American Service.)
Washington, June 2. The House of Representatives has approved of the French debt
settlement.
Goes to the Senate.
Washington, Later..
for the past few days,
"
The resolution now goes to the Senate where it is expected further opposition will be encountered.
SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS.
SHOULD OPEN DURING HOLIDAYS.
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1926.
AN INTERESTING DINNER.
MARSHAL LU ENTERTAINS
400 GUESTS.
Shanghai May 27-One of the most interesting dinners over given. in Shanghat took place when Mar- shal Lu Yung-hainng, formor tupan of Cheklang, and Shanghai, gave private banquet to nearly a hundred
of his friends.
S.P.C.A. WORK.
DETAILED REPORT FOR MONTH OF MAY,
INSPECTORS' DUTIES,
Below is given a combined re port of the work of the Inspectors" of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for the past month. One Inspectör" hag been on duty at the Dogs' Homé Among the guests wore four daily from 9 am. til 1 p.m. and generals many present and formar from 2.80 p.m. till 4.30 p.m., with government officials. including the exception of Sundays and pub- ministers and an ex-premier of lic holidays. China, leading bankers and com-
Transport. mercial magnatos of Shanghai, the Poultry, crates -- only foreign guests invited being Poultry, on trucks and lor-. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Hardoon. Mr.
ries, loads Arthur Sopher, and Mr. Theodore Poultry, in junks and ferries, Sopher, and Mr. Sydney Tomholt,
crates
politics and military affairs, though him back in power again. many of hle friends desire to see
971
140
58
428
892
56
138
62
Importé.
1,807
.8,479
.1,912
414
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North to-day after a week's visit to Pige,
Marshal Lu, who leaves for the Pigs, in junks and ferries
on trucks and in Shanghal, became famous as an baskets.. administrator of the Shanghai. Pigs, by rail. Sungklang area and later when he f Poultry, by rail, crates The House of Representatives | leo took over Chekiang provinci Cattle, in junks and ferries... 834 vote on the French debt settlement he instituted many reforms which Cattle, ashore question was been debated sharply tirement in the north and out of Dogs, by rail was 236 for and 111 against. There still being carried out by the Cattle, at Talps market people.. He is now living in re Dogs, at Taipo market The Democrats declared that the
Cat, by rail settlement was too lenient and un-
Pony, in junk Cages of birds tair to the American taxpayers.
The dinner being most informat Terrapins, baskets The debate however, was not there were no speeches. Later the confined to party lines, Democrat Marshal and Generals Ho, Chan Poultry, crates Crisp (Georgia) joining the Re-Kung and Wang sat for their Pigs .. publicans in defending the settle-photograph in the winter garden.
Cattle ment.
Many prominant Chinese last Sheep and goats night stated that seldom has such Terrapins, basket a representativa gathering been Cages of birds seen at any dinner held in Shang- Frogs, baskets hai. Besides his old civil and mili Crickets, baskets tory heads of staffs, the Marshal entertained Mr. Hou Yuan, Com- missioner of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Poultry, crates Yao Wang-foo, former superinten. Cattle dent of Customs at Shanghai. Mr. Sheep and goats Chang Yung-yi ex-Commissioner of Dogs Finance, Mr. Tao Mei-su. former The Education Committee, having Kung Pan-dao, of Nanking; Mr. Lu
Commissioner of Salte Lt.-General Markets As we in this outpost of Empire considered as to the opening of celebrate His Majesty's birthday, school playgrounds
Tsu-ting, former Chief of Police, during the
Shanghai; Mr. Wong Yu-ming. we can rejoice that we live, and summer holidays, recommended
chief of staff to General Ho; Mr. move, and have our being in a hat, until further order, the play Wang Yang-chi, former tupan of grounds of not more than eighty Ningpo; Mr. Hau Ching-yen, Minia- reign so beneficent. Ruled we are, apecially selected elementary but it is as the loving rule of a schools in London be opened duringer of Communications who was doting parent. And although the annual leave of schoolkeepers.ecently Premier: Mr. Fu Slao-en. thousands of ocean separate us, school playgrounds
The more extended availability of managing director China Naviga
during the tion Co., Mr. Fong Chau-pao, vice- our affection and loyalty, far from holidays' was pressed on the Coun- president, Chinese, General Chata being dimmed by distance, find cil in 1924 by twenty-four borough ber of Commerce, Mr. T. Y. Yue, ever new outlets of practical ex-councils and was again before the Mr. S. K. Chen, former Commis. Council in 1926 on the motion of stoner of Foreign Affairs, Shang pression.
hai; Mr. N. F Nieh, Mr. F. Mr. H.A. Baker, when it was re-
Wong, former ferred to the Education Committee and the Parks and Open Spaces Foreign affairs, Cheklang, Mr. D. S Committee for consideration and Boo, Mr. Wong Sung-san and Mr. report. The Education Committee. C. P. Ying, managing director. in recommending the Council as Chinese Government Railways, as If there is a certain amount of above, reported it had examined well as a number of other prominent
officials and business men: the figures showing the use...made ceremony in the observance of the of the playgrounds during the sum
Shanghai. King's birthday it is but to re-mer holidays of 1924-25. The nuni mind us of the majesty that ber of children who used the small, and in view of this the Com-
GENTLEMEN THE KING!
hedges in the office of kingship,
playgrounds specially opened was
of
but
Commissioner of
of
Visits.
Exports.
27
264
$10
2
65
54
62
13
Landing place at Kennedy
Town Poultry Depots Cattle depots Dogs' Home Birdshops Railway stations
Miscellaneous.
Ignorant cruelty cases cor
rected
15
10
24
Markets watched, times Ferries watched, times Dogs in home during month 152 Dogs claimed during month Dogs sold during month . Dogs died during month... Dogs destroyed during
month
28
20
3
64
"I will never assume the family title-Mr. Oswald Mosley, M., P.
A CHILD'S BEST
BOOKS.
though ignoring Peter Pan, does .not belleve in children growing up. Long before boys and girls are 16 our slow and backward country they have their adventures among masterpieces. A child of 16 who
had attempted nothing more diffi cult than this American list would seem to be in want of mental exer- cise. But we have no alternative
The ritual of the observance does mittee was not prepared to advise viewing the Forces and taking simplicity and grandeur of the Committee added "We have further ad to the temptation to compose a not, however, cloak the inherent any increase in the number of
playgrounds to be opened. The Many worthy men have succumb the salute as the King's represen- tative. They give visible evid-kingly office. "Kings are given consideration to such shell list of the world's best books. ence of the might of the British like stars-they rise, they set, lary questions as the provision of There was the late Lord Avebury, Empire and of the deep affection they haye the worship of the sports equipment for the use
who chose a hundred so various children in the playgrounds, the and loyalty for the Crown that world." But if they have not the nature and adequacy of the super-that we wondered vainly on what pervades His Majesty's subjects worship of their people set and vision exercised over the play principle he put one in or left one wherever situated the wide world securely fixed in affection, and de-grounds, and the possibility of or-out. There was the late Lord:
They give to the thousands. "votion, they are as of nothing | Banlsing an increased number of Acton, who selected books which at to offer. I we should be told.
Vacation play centres., of Orientals within our gates an worth. It is in the hearts of the we do not feel we can make any only a chosen few had heard of and that it is easy to criticise but dif impressive spectacle of the fine people of Britain that the King proposals on these matters at the a chosen fewer read. But now a cult to construct, we readily-agree. material at the Colony's command indeed reigns by right of a con- present time." No one acquainted Government has taken a hand in It is not merely difficult, but im- ready, aye ready, to afford effec-quest simple, and unaffected, to elementary schools in London Federal Bureau of Education (it is books for children, or for anybody; "with the "playgrounds" attached the game. The United States possible. There are no forty best tive security and protection in achieved with no apparent effort will be surprised to learn there was quits certain that Stevenson, would there are no forty books which "all times of crisis. They serve as a but with that spirit that under no rush of children to them dur- have remarked, "Golly, what a children should read," and the ex- reminder to British subjects stands, appreciates and enters into most part they are small, drah, which "all children should read lists are merely deluding the cre- ing the holiday period. For the title!") has chosen forty books cellent people who publish such. themselves, exfled so far from the lives of subjects with a per-1l-shaped, asphalted enclosures; before they are 16 years of age." dulous as to the nature of litera- Home, of that indissoluble link fect understanding of their own with no provision of any kind of Washington has spoken; and ture, of culture, of education. between the Throne and the people peculiar difficulties and desiresports equipment. The children, parents and children can only re- that is based on mutual confidence During the past sixteen years
even in crowded areas, can find ply in the Oriental manner, To more to amuse them in the streets. hear fa to obey The list, in fact! [and goodwill.
King George V. has de-Wa are not at all surprised they (even to a Bureau of Education let'
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In no other country in the world voted himself wholeheartedly were not used largely-even were us be just), is not bad. It includes
His
"sports equipment" provided the a lot of good books, and the num- is it possible to secure such fer- a sovereign to the wei- problem of adequate supervision ber of those which are of no im- vent demonstrations of fealty on fure of his subjects and it is would present difficulties. The 'portance" is not more than 25 per the occasion of a ruler's birthday a well-known fact that "playgrounde" are usually so ill- cent. Most of the things which you i anniversary. And nowhere else Majesty's illness last year was shaped that it is impossible for one look for first are put down, Grimm. person to supervise what is going and Andersen, "Alice" and can even foreigners, without part-brought about through overwork.
on at any one time in any one "Robinson Crusoe,” “The Arabian ing with a vestige of their own His Majesty last year celebrated playground-there are too many Nights" and Æsop, "Little Women" t
"Hackleberry Finn," And individual nationality, share so his Accession by opening the small spaces "round the corner." and
What is needed la more playground "Treasure Island, and the wholeheartedly in such natal Empire Exhibition at Wembley,
space, but, unfortunately, it is in Jungle Book But they have Celebrations. It was recently re thus demonstrating once again those areas removed from open not heard of Peter Pan in the marked at a gathering at Home the interest evinced by him and spaces where the acquisition of Federal Bureau of Education, they that the only axe the Navy League his Royal Consort, in all efforte land for the purpose is most need do not think it right to encourage has to grind is "love of King and
made to bring the Mother Cound that it is most difficult to children to read about the de- secure, The provision of adequate plorable behaviour of Mr. Pickwick try and the Dominions into the playing grounds for children living or anything else written by that love, of, country. That can be
closest relationship, in which task in congested areas is part of a big corrupter of youth, Charles Dickens
was adopted.
applied with equal force to all His they are ably seconded by the problem, and must be dealt with in (observes a London paper). In the Majesty's subjects. So long as Prince of Wales who, as the big way. The recommendation matter of poetry they do not care that remains our watchword we "Ambassador of the Empire" has need never have the slightest fear made such a favourable impres of outside influences that would sion upon subjects who have given seek to disintegrate the Empire fresh proof of their allegiance to I should like to see everybody and corrupt our patriotism. Still the British Crown Coming more die worth £70,000.— Sir less is there any hope for a Re nearer home we have in our Marriott, M.P.
:who la
to go farther than the "Child's Garden of Verses. The great books of travel are conspicuous by their absence. The only part of history introduced to the youthful minds segments concerning Abraham Lincoln and Joan of Arc, who make their appearance in two biographies of which we are con-
With the one possible exception of "Ivanhoe," there seems to be no
public or a Dictatorship to be set midst our sailor princexists know when and how to be selfish. tent to confess our ignorance.
cementing the feeling that
One of the arts of life is to
Mr. Kenneth Bell.27
up within the British Empire.
The British Crown and the between the reigning house and Union Juck are symbols of every, the people of a great Empire. thing that contributes to the Kings have no repose, the poet contentment and prosperity of Shelley tells us, Very true is this the people. They are imperish. of our own King, so far as it in- Chesterton.
·LADY PATRICIA, BLACKWOOD
The engagement of Lady Patricia Blackwood, daughter of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ays to Henry Russell, for years, a leading figure in the music world of Europe, has been announced from Monte Carlo, where
I believe a new and enormous book of all the forty which was the couple met. He 60 and the is number of people now have no designed for general, as distinct opinions at all Mr. G K from chlidiah, reading. The Federal Bureau of Education