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equally disastrous fall in the value of silver, which, in itself, has been a most severe blow to Chinese foreign trade.
MONDAY, MAY 18, 1931.
Another address on aviation is to WHITSUNTIDE RACE
bo given at the weekly meeting of the Rotary Club to-morrow-this time by Wing Commander A. W. F. Glenny, M.C., D.C.S., R.A.F.
Sam Yee Chan (57), a widow residing at 96 Po Tak Street, was taken to the Government Civil Hos- pital during the week-end, auffering from the effects of oplum polson- have ing, which she is alleged to administered to herself, over, It la stated, gambling trouble.
MEETING.
List of Handicaps for First Day.
NINE RACES.
HARBOUR OFFICE RECORD.
www.
Mr. Soonderam's 38 Years of Service.
ON RETIREMENT.
The following is the list of handicaps for Saturday:-
Griffins Summer Handicaps. 1st Division:-Fortune Bay 158 has the distinction of
Mr. Soopin Soonderam, who is shortly to retire from Govern- Service, after 38 years' connec- tion with the Harbour Office staff, having
One month's Imprisonment was Imposed on Wal Cho, at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning, for the larceny of an electric light bulb, from the doorway of the Harbour Cyclamen Bay 161; Little served under six Harbour Mas- View Hotel, the property of Mra.Beaver 142; Fritillery 147 Min- ters. Mr. Soonderam, a member Gardiner, "These small larcenies doro 133: Gold Key 147; Leveret of the local Hindu community, is are getting to be a nuisance," said 143; Wonderful Stag 154; Holly an old Queen's College boy, and Lenf 144; Valorous 153; Nippy joined the Mercantile Marine Mr. Hamilton..
133 Britannic Hall 144.
Office at the age of 22. Suffering from injuries to the Griffins Summer Handicaps.
Until quite recently Mr. arms and hands, alleged to
2nd Division; Sanction 181 Sconderam enjoyed the best of been inflicted with a knife by a man.; Bay of Calamity 133; Paul health, but has been unwell since who is now in custody, Au Hoi-ching Pry 168, Jadestone 133; Silver shortly after the death of his (28) master of a cold drinks shop Key 140; Wise Stag 155: Thun-wife, who died following a long nt 165 Hollywood Road, and his derous Stag 148; Brunswick Hall illness. foki, Yip Wui-ying (24), were re-160; The Plover 150; Bronze moved to the Government Civil Eyes 150.
bave
Hospital yesterday. The affair took place at 65, Jervois Street.
Sub-Griffins Summer Handicaps.
DEARER CABARETS.
First Division:-Mascot 150 lb.; £100 SUPPER MAN STAYS LETTERS AND RADIO maker 150; Scrappit 133; Misamis Tunney 161; Sonny Bay 146; Pace-
AT HOME.
156; Groombridge 150: Twilight NIGHT LIFE BUSINESS BAD. Addresses Which Cannot{1: Tay 133; Azalea Leaf 148;
Good Day 150; The Quail 150; Fi A crisis in the life of London's Be Traced.
Fa 156: Redsking 150; Vamoose night restaurants and dance clubs 1145: Acacia Leaf 145.
has developed. Second Division:-Happy Day Night life business is "bad," and A General Post Office notifien. G1 : The Lombard 152; Bay of many famora supper resorts tion gives the following unclaim-Bellingham 145: The Turbot 133: threatened with serious difficulty. ed correspondence, etc., waiting White Stars 133; Agate 133; Creaming exorbitant fees. Rents have in- Arctic Eve 138; Silver Flare 133;
POST OFFICE LIST.
at the Post Office and also un-
June Handicaps.
161
are
Cabaret entertainers are demand-
years. Putrons are growing more and more blase, and at the some time have less money to spend.
The average customer of a
claimed radio telegrams at the/Cracker 161; Movanagher 133; Sans creased 50 per cent, in the last three Radio Telegraph Offee, Govern. Souci 133; Flornotta 133; Plough-
[man 133: Brown Eyes 149. ment Buliding-
Poste Restante Correspondence,
D. W. Anmie, Asiatic Motors Co... 1st Division:-Glencagles Otto. Buhring, G. E. Barnard, E. b.; Sitting Bull 154; Vasylock supper restaurant is now worth only Bolton, Bank of America National 140: Wisdom Stag 144; Boxing £1 3., according to an expert who Trust and Savings Association, Eve 144; Christmas Chimes 133; explained the situation to a Daily Dealing with the last civil war Mrs. A. Chambers, c/o C.Z. and S. Royal Flush 133.
Express representative. Office. Miss Dadigena, I. Fujida, T.| 2nd Division:-Fair Sport 133 On extension night, when the law Mr. Chang states that no fewer Griffiths, J. S. Gibson. Mr. Gold-b.; King's Counsel 133; Lobster permits a restaurant to sell drink than two millions and a half of finsch, J. Gelomb, R. Heinemann, B. Bay 145; Mike 161; Crown Prince until 2 a.m.-a once-weekly pri men were under arms, and the Hayes, T. E. Husein, A. F. Haines, 133; The Gomeril 133; Piccalili vilege-the value of the guest rises destruction, both of life and pro-Mrs. G. K. Hack, Im Pan-hai, A.140; New Year's Eve 133; Carto £2.
Millionaires who spend £100 on a perty, was much greater than in
Ibrahim, Jack Krafick, Kwong nival Eve 145; Peppercorn 133; Tung Music Co.. J. Kingstone, Lien City Hall 151.
gay supper are rare. Extravagant the conflicts of previous years. Goan-lian, Lancaster and Co., P. U.] 3rd Division:-Happy Day 137 young men who lavish their money In addition to the wastage in Libao, A. S. MePhison, Miss D. Vb.; Noukhail 137; Orlando 162; on champagne partisa men and materials, the war Marchbanks, Jay W. Myers, N. Tango 140: The Pheasant 160; extinct. proved a severe strain on Govern- Nobron, Mrs. Piersy, M. De Simone, Mongolian Stag 140; Pagoda 137; J. H. Stevens, Charles Smith, Mrs. Maint Elburz 147; Chivalrous 143; ment financial resources and, at J. Davie Smith, c/o Lady Thomson, Cream Cracker 137: One Third the same time, provided an op- W. W. Stark, G. T. Swissheim, R. 165; Christmas Belle 162; Armony portunity for the renewal of ban-Slaugther, Wm. Wood, E. M. Wood. 153. ditry and Communistic depreda-
Miss M. Austero, L. L. Lawler, G. tions in various parts of the R. Sladek, T. Stecker. country outside the actual sphere
Registered Articles.
Unpaid Correspondence. Misa Helen Santee.
Unclaimed Radio Telegrams, 2628 1987 0973.0362 5714, from
8111, from Taihoku.
of military operations. In these circumstances it is not surprising that agricultural production and Cunton. the marketing of commercial commodities have been seriously restricted, so that the opportun-Saigon. ity for export trade has been greatly diminished.
"What China needs most is a'
China's Grave Obstacles period of settled political, condi-
are almost
Here
Take, for instance, the budget of one famous Piccadilly resort. are the liabilities:-
Rent: £11,000 per year. Rates and taxes: £3,500 per year. Licence and monopoly value: £2,500 per year.
Cabaret: £000 a week.
All this is paid for before the business of catering begins!
Staff wages are 2300 a week, and The cost of a dance band is at least £600 every week.
understanda
Victoria Park Handicaps. Moon Star 140 lb.; Fritz 164; Jullett 140; Floretta 140; Old Acquaintance 146: The Bustard 140; Cyrano 134; Thunderdrop 156: St. Moritz 164; Caulfield 134. Bank Holiday Handicaps. Sanction 155 h.; Fair Sport 145: The Daily Express Morning Star 145; Fritillery 106; that the latest scheme of the Lon- Lobster Bay 165; Orlando 145; don restaurateurs to attract c18- Paul Pry 155; Jadestone 137; tomers in the employment of Tung Leveret 160; Twilight 137; Silver "super" to make the establishment
Flare 187; Winsome Stag 150; look "gay."
Yue Kee, from Fort Bayard. Pressel Hong Kong Hotel, from
Wui Foong Bank, from
Song-
Ed Worley, from Porthos.
Acacia Leaf 137; Azalea Leaf 137; The depressing atmosphere of the Cheun Sen-hin, from Makasser. Britannic Hall 160; Brunswick empty restaurant la removed, and 5012 0180 4266 6670 0059 0577 | Hall 140; Crown Prince 145; The the attraction of smartly-gowned 0001 6714 0491 5378, from Canton. Gomeril 140; Picealli 160; Rooslan women and well-dressed men is sub-
7756, from Fonchow..
158; Christmas Chimes 155: Royal stituted.. Liberbank, from San Francisco. Flush 155; Marquis Hall 150..
RICHMOND MURDER.
Woman's Bedy Under Umbrella.
A man
giving the name
of
98-YEAR-OLD CORPORAL.
When He Had To Eat Leather,
William Gordon Baldwin, and des- Corporal Henry Jessel, one of cribing himself as a barman, aged the few surviving veterans who
All the "supers" receive is a meal
in return for their services.
POLISH CORRIDOR.
Germany To Propose Its Return?
tions so that confidence may be restored and trade and produc- The rapidity with which the
tion may revive." Unfortunate- international politics of China
ly that is what the various poli- change in a remarkably short
tical and military leaders, seem time is demonstrated by a special article by Mr. Chang Kia-ngau, utterly unable to appreciate. No General Manager of the Bank of sooner are the dregs of one civil war dissipated than swords are China, in the Banking Supple- ment of the Financial Times, burnished up again and prepara- dated March 30. Then the hori- tions made for another plunge at zon for the Nanking Government each other's throats. As we in- 26, appeared at the County Petty fought in the Crimean War, has published a story from a corres- at the age of pondent in Koyno, in which he de- presented no troublous clouds: dicated in an article last week, Sessions at Kingston on a charge died in Shoreditch guaran-
of having murdered Sarah Anne 98.
clared that he learned from L outsiders cannot take sides in po portents of imminent party
Не Isaacson; aged 47.
He had been in good health sure source that the German Gov- this latest inflammatory out-manded." strife; no hint of another up-burst in China, and even moral
until recently, when he fell and erument intended to raise the The woman's body was found on fractured a leg.
question of its eastern frontiers again
suasion may be of no avail in in-the grass in Richmond Park about Corporal Jessel was believed to before the meeting of the Dis- undo all the work of the pacifists ducing the leaders in China to half a mile from the Kingston be the only Jew who fought on armament Conference next Spring.
British address vos the and unifiers of China. To-day "make up and be friends" for the given on the charge-sheet as "Crimean campaign, and he attend- pount will be that Poland should during the lie said that the German pro-
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heaval that might once
In his article, which naturally
now loses some of its interest owing to the changed conditions.
News in Brief.
The
Gute. Baldwin's
was re-
A recent issue of the Paris-Midi
The
sida only six weeks later the
akke of the country as a whole-Soldiers Home at Buckingham ed every year the annual Jewish give back to Germany the territory country is threatened with the
military service in London. not for a few months only but for Gate, S.W."
of the Corridor นก to the River roar of guns in civil warfare, and
at least a decade, by which time Kirchner atated that the
Divisional Detective - Inspector One of his treasured possessions Netz, Including the valley of that Marshal. Chiang Kai-shek may the utter folly of internal strife woman
dead was a pipe given to him by King river. Germany on her sida was lying on her back. Edward. (then Prince of Wales) } would undortake to respect. the personally lead an expedition to
may have gunk deeply and per- head towards the fence, on ground on the occasion of Queen Victoria rights of Poles in this territory, endeavour to subjagate those op-manently into their hearts,
rising towards the fence, The Jubilee. He smoked the pipe on and would guarantee by inter- posed to him in the two Kwangs.
body was fully clothed and was festive occasións up to the time national treaty free access for Po- covered, with the exception of the of his death.
Innd to the sea at Dantzig. feet and head, with a newspaper.
One of the 300,
territory would be demilitarised. Over the head was an open um-) During the Crimean War he Germany would reimburse Poland The departure of the se. Talping the ribs of the frame partially Corps
brella resting on Its handle, and served in the Land Transport all that has been spent on the con- Mr. Chang Kla-ngau states that for Australia is now scheduled for covering the face.
(now the Army Service|struction of the port of Gdynia, there appears to be an impression | Friday, «
Corps), which went out 2,000 and would use her good offices There was a mark around the strong and returned numbering with Lithuania to secure that outside China that the present
neck. The woman was wearing a only 300.
Meme) should become The lowest open air temperature diamond ring and a diamond and
a Polish- unsatisfactory condition of yesterday was 75 degrees.
He was present throughout the Lithuanian port. China is almost entirely due to humidity was 78 at 6 a.m. and 88
pearl ring.
slege of Sebastapul. Often he£}£}£}£}£}£ political causes and the implica-at 4 p.m.
Detective Inspector Kirchner told how he and his fellow Bol jadded that after the charge had dièrs had to appease their hunger, Ten Years Ago. tion is that, if these causes were
One case of typhoid fever and disagree with
been read to Baldwin he said? " with boiled roots, grass, and even removed, all would be well. He one of cerebro-spinal meningiti thought."
malica · 'afore- old bopt leather. admits, however, that on account both Chinese were reported dur
At the age of 94 he appeared The chairman of the Magla at the Shoreditch Empire and of political disturbances, China's ing the week-end,
trates stated that a defence aidether music halls in a song scena To-day's dollar is worth 2/5%. trade has not had a chance to de-
certificate would be granted. After admitting the theft of ten
produced by George Leyton, the velop; that military adventure, drain pipes,
comedian.
On Sunday night a fracture was when arrested and interrupted communications, and questioned at: Shamshuipo Police elon announces another new Indus
discovered in one of the pillars aup A letter from R. W. E. Burnaby, porting the verandah of Hotel Man- excessive taxation, have proved à Station early this morning, Kwok try for the city, Brown. & Bigelow Maritime Provinces Trade Com- sions.
verandah of Wah, an unemployed grievous burden which has at strongly denied the offence before facturing plant in Toronto, to manu John Board of Trade reports that Messrs. Falconers and the P.M. S.S. Chinese, Ltd., who are establishing a manumissioner of Toronto, to the Saint The pillar affected is between times threatened to bring trade the Magistrate at the Kowicon facture art calendars, greeting and the Canadian Packing Company Co., opposite the Post Office. almost to a standstill, although, Police Court. After hearing the playing cards and Advertising made a test of barrels made of night and during yesterday, ganya of course, these domestic evidence of the Police and the specialties. The company will Canadian birch, for the backing of of workmen were engaged in hindrances to trade have coin, Mr. Hamilton impos.id commence manufacturing opera- beef and pork, and found them 100 shoring work, and the support to the sentence of three months' imprison-tions at once, at 858 Adelaide Street per cent satisfactory-in fact verandah previously rendered by cided in point of time with an meat.
superior to the imported barrela, the pillar is made good.
The Toronto Industrial Commis-
West
[From the "China Mat” of
May 18, 1921.)
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