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The China Mail Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 17, 1931.
"Hands Off.”
No man outside the counsels
News in Brief.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1931.
gramme of ships in harbour ach being carried out as usual, also
The latest open air fempérature routine shore duties such as the yesterday was 81 degrees. The collection of nails and stored Ne humidity was 75 at 10 a.m. and 78tiertymen (ratings who are grant- at 4 p.m.
ed shore leave), however, are allow ed to leave the ships.
niessage.
The number of ships involved i ixteen, including the god, the
CORRESPONDENCE.
SEIZURE OF RIFLÈS.
Tökyo, anl. vicinity were rocked
To the Editor" of "China Matk"] by severe sarthquake at 3:46
Sin your latest issue Inst night.Hitherts no image lagship, and the monster battle-paragraph appears, dealing with has been worted, says a Reuter chips Nelson and Rodney,
threa rittes which were discovered At Chatham-
at our North Point Installation. Conditions at the Chatham depot The report says that they were dis- "Menton_of the railway speed are normal. The sailos are allow covered by the Police in the quar record at Home on Monday, men-ed the usual leave, and there is no ters vacated by a European ex-em- tioned in a cablegram on page 12.sign of dissatisfaction or trouble.loyed whe had sailed for Home. reminds us that to-day is the The newspapers with detalls from In actual fact they were found by anniversary of the opening of the Invergordon ure being read most our Installation Manager and the London and Birmingham Railway eagerly, and, the news is evidently ex-employee has not sailed for Ju, 1838.
causing considerable surprise in Home although he has left the naval circles,
Colony. These are comparatively The 1st Kowloon (St. Andrew's) |
Al Portsmouth."
unimportant, points, but the Group of By Scouts are giving an Everything is normal at Ports sunt contains another erroneous "At Home" and display of Scout-mouth also, leave being granted as statement which we suggest you craft in the St. Andrew's Church ustal, but there is considerable dis may wish to correct. grounds on Saturday at 2.30 p.m., to satisfaction among the lower ratment is that the head storekeeper. mark their eleventh anniversary ing.
concerned had been dismissed: in the great Brotherhood, All par-j Principal Grievance.
actual fact he resigned from our ents and friends are welcojne,
AL Invergordon the greatest service. We do," not know. from. grievance is in connection with the what source you obtained your in-
ac-
The state-
It is of interest to note that the cut in separation allowances. It is formation as to the reason for the pllent version of the talkie Body alleged that the result is that an man's leaving our service, but as and Soul" starring Charles Farrell Able Seaman's "wife will get 13 far as we can trace it was not and Elisa Landi to be shown in instead of 26 shillings a week. furnished by any miember of our the King's Theatre from Saturday The Evening Newa says that pro-staff. was shown in the Queen's Theatre tests against the cuts were made at
or April 14, 1025. The starring players were Stuart. Holmes. and Alice Lake.
Personal Párs.
Ballors' meetings at "Invergordon, and the ratings refused duty yes- terday after the usual morning task of clenging ship. Instead of obeying the signal to weigh anchor, they gave three chicers for the King and sat astride the anchor cables. Mr. Matsudaira has been order. This happened on ed to return to Japan from Lon- The men then settled down to enter- all the ships. don prior to heading the Japanese tainments. delegation to the Disarmament
This conduct was repeated to Conference. He is expected to day.
Meanwhile the stokers ceas- leave for Japan shortly, via Siberia, ed raising steam, and all work has says a Reater message from Tokyo been suspended pending the Ad- miralty decision, which was expect, ed inter, in the day.
:
occur-
110
'Your, etc..
D. G. BRUCE,
For The Asiatic Petrolatum
Co., (S.C.) Ltd. Hong Kong, September. 17. [The statement, POW corrected.
was made in the Central Magis tracy, during the hearing in the application for the con- fiscation of the rides.-Ed," CM.]
PLEASE DON'T SPIT.
Weather permitting. Col. and
(To the Editor of "China Mail." strength, perfously near the Mrs. Lindbergh, will hop off from
Situation Not Serious.
Sir.-If the sanitary authorities safety line and this factor must Osaka tolta (Thursday) for
An officer arriving from Inver
do not commence, an intensive be considered in any scheme for overnight, before flying direct
Fukuoka, where they will stay gordon, interviewed by Beuter, campaign against this dreadful
to anid: ..
spitting habit, on. which you retrenchment threatening the Nanking, says a Reuter message. "The situation is not serious, forcibly and ably commented yes- Police Department.
but is unprecendented as
terday, they deserve to be drum. Considerations' not altogether one of the founders of the Sunday
Mr. George Herbert Kingswell. ing in the British Nayy. The ed out of office. By their inae- dissimilar must be brought to Times (Johannesburg), died at his for any other Services or the "Hong Kong, China." Of the thou proposed cats are heavier than scribe to the common-postal error. tlon-they appear almost to sub- of high officialdom knoweth yet bear on the Sanitary Depart home. Milford House, Cape Town, the nature or the extent or the ment-and, indeed, the whole on June 22. He was 63 years of Civil Service, amounting in many
sands of Chinese here, how many age and halled from New Zealand. cases to 25 per cent, while effect of the work of the Re-medical and sanitary services. Mr. Kingswell had edited journals her class has been asked to ac
are Hong Kong-born? How many trenchment Committee. For a The finest gem, in the Empire's in the mining districts of Austra.pt cuts of more than 15 per cent. the oath to the British Crown and.....
have taken, or are willing to take. time Damu Rumour was dis-
All the men are making their overseas Possessions is not worth lin, started a small daily in Shang-
Constitution? protest in a good-humoured way must legislate for hai, tried his luck in Fleet Street, which is typical of the Navy. Such Colony. It is their bounden duty The authorities i playing a wonderful amount of
being claimed as an asset-if it been a is either a white or a yellow, a Russo-Japanese War, and the only way the men can express tect, by all means possible, coax-
war correspondent in the action, though unprecedented, is brown or black, man's-grave Shortly after the Boer War he acers and men the feeling is very Let this be done!
to leave no stone unturned to pro- over a large part of the world. their feelings. Between the The spectres of tuberculosis and rived at Cape Town and acquired good. and meanwhile disipline is
ing and, coerelve, the health of alt." malaria still stalk through weekly satirical paper known as
Yours, etc..
LUNG POWER Hong Kong, September 17...
erice, and she has observed a discreet silencé ever since. The
•
First Lord's Statement."
Funeral of a Young Portuguese."
of-
Mr. J. Noronha whose death
occurred at the Government. Civil Hospital following an accidental
Co.
the whole.
SPAIN NOW WORKERS' REPUBLIC”
Constitution Altered
-To-day's Thought:
vitality, focusing her lorgnette mist on this Department, and then Luat Department; singling out so many, here and so many there for the application of the the Colony, with appalling statis. the Owl. Subsequently he went to being maintained."-Reuter. dreaded axe. In time Dame tics of mortality not appreciably formed
Johannesburg and 21 years aga Mr. L. J. NORONHA. Rumour became jaded and bored
the syndicate which diminishing. Smallpox epidemics launched the Sunday Times. for lack of an appreciative audi- have been too frequent in the
BRITSH NAVY. very recent past. Other virulent diseases, such as cholera and forthcoming introduction of the pingue, may easily be introduced
(Continued from Page 1) Budget, together with the
surreptitiously and assume and other members of the Board. Estimates for 1932, may be anti-epidemic form before the health Admiral Colvin explained the fall from the verandah of his flat cipated with considerable specu- authorities have time to cope a statement may be issued later.
precise position at Invergordon, and in Wanchai Road, was buried at the lation as to how far the policy of with them. Already cach Sani-
Roman Catholic cemetery, Happy retrenchment is intended to be
Valley, yesterday afternoon. tary Inspector has the oversight | In the House of Commons this pursued. The opportunity should of a population equal to that of stated that the Atlantic fleet ships Happy Valley, officiated at the The Rev. Fr. D. Page, Rector
BARE MAJORITY. evening, Sir Austen Chamberlain of the St. Margaret Mary Church, be an ideal one for the Covern the whole of a smaller town at had been ordered to proceed to graveside, and there was
Madrid, Yesterday ment spokesman to make an
a large Spain has been declared as a Home; but here he has to contheir home ports forthwith, where attendance of friends. The chief Workers' Republic" by an amend-. official statement not alone in
the Commanders-in-Chief' and the mourner was the deceased's bro- ment of the first Article of Con- the general public interest but
tend with the ignorance, indiffer
Admiralty will investigate the ther. Mr. Ed. Noronha.
stitution which was passed by the ence, and callousness of for the enlightenment of the
an classes of cases alleged involving, Oriental race, who cannot and hardship. The Government has rowing wife and children; mother; bare majority of 18.--Reuter.
Wreaths pero..sent by the sor- Chamber; by 170 votos to 152. A various Departments whose per-will not be taught the ethics of authorised the Admiralty to propose brother and sister-in-law; sister sonnel may he involved.}
alleviatory measures. hygiene and sanitation in a day,, The announcement was greeted Gibb, Livingston & Co., Ltd.." and and brother-in-law, other. relatives, Outside official circles, it is a week, or a month. Hence is it with prolonged Labour cheera and the staff of the Hong Kong Electric generally agreed that the med vital to the welfare of the whole Ministerialist taunts. aling hands must be kept off Colony that the meddling hands Sir Austen was
At the conclusion of the reply,
I believe that the broadcasting the Police and Sanitary Depart- must be kept off the Medical and volley of questions, into which MY. subjected to a
of news will simply serve to in- crease the demand for newspapers. as affecting protection Sanitary Services by those ulti-Ramany, MacDonald was drawn. and health. The efficiency of the mately responsible for the ap to accept & suggestion that the men
You may broadcast an event Sir Austen Chamberlain declined
much as you care, but there will Police Force has for long been proval of any scheme of re- were
always remain that indefinable the pride of its own personnei trenchment.
not enabled to represent
human desire to see it in print. their own cases adequately, He The and the admiration of thic
remains of Miss Bruna to see it amplified, explained, illus At any time. Canton may be in thought Parliamentary authorisa d'Almada e Castro, who was drown-trated. People like to bear what entire community. Circum- the throes of another upheaval, to any adjustments which might be Bay,
tion was fnnecessary with regarded whilst swimming al Island is going on in the world, but they stances, tragic and otherwise, causing a wholesale exodus to desirable.
Shek-0, on Tuesday after-want to believe it, too, and no have from time to time exposed Hong Kong. Then will the work
noon, were buried at the amount of ethereal asseveration From the First Lord, Mr. Alexan Roman Catholic cemetery. Happy will prevent them from tooking certain weaknesses, which the of the Police Department and the Donald if the revision would now Rev. Bishop II. Valtorta oficiating. in legible type. -R. D. Blumenfeld, der an enquiry by Mr. Mac Valley, last evening, the Rt. into a newspaper to see it set-out public have looked to the higher Sanitary Department be doubled, happen over all cute, evoked the authorities to adjust. The re- if hot trebled, with the same reply that the general rule applied X. d'Almada e Castro, sen. (father),
The chief mourners were Mr. F.Chairman, Dally Express. sponsibilities of the Force are numerical strength as in normal block cuts by all departments and Mr. F. X. d'Almada o Castro, tremendous more tremendous times.
had been that the burden of ad- This is but another Justing such savings was a matter
dun. (brother) than anyone not behind the powerful argument against: the for the department's own Internal Leo. d'Almada e Castro, sen., M. Other relatives present were Mr. séenos can imagine-but these application of the retrenchment arrangement.
Leo d'Aimada o Castro, Juni, Mr.
the "Chinn M«!” nf cannot be discharged to the axe to either of these two De
Adjournment of House Refused.
Cd'Almada e Castro, Mr. J. T.
September 17, 1921.1 The Speaker refused an applica-'Almada e Castro, Mr. R. d'Almada uttermost degree if thepartments. To ignore it might tion for leave to adjourn the House Castro, and Mr. J. M. d'Almada
To-day's dollan is worth 2/8" Inspector-General is to be starved be most disastrous to this to discuss the abandonment of the Remedios. of the requisite number of Bri- Colony!
fest exercises, and further. Labour Among the many friends of the prettily decorated for the occa The Roman Catholic Cathedral, attempts to keep the discussion family who attended to pay their son, was the scene of an inter tons in both the senior and the":
going failed.. lower ranks, all of whom must
last tributes were several memberseating wedding this morning when Normal Routine. ...
of the legal profession. Reports from Invergordon stata
the Rev. Fr. Blanchi married: Mr. Floral tributes were ant by A. A. d'Azevedo of No. 12, Belllios A lot of Crown land in Tai Kok that all the ships are lying at their arrowing Parents," "Sorrowing Terrace, Robinson Road, to Mian
Peace Avenue, Homuntin
menta
be encouraged and stimulated, in
DARRA"NEWS" IN ADVIS.
e
MISS B. D'ALMADA Funeral at Roman Catholic Cemetery.
Ten
ears Ago.
as
their work. Sickness and Home Tsul is to be auctioned at the customary anchorages and moorings Brother Sonnie," staff of Messrs. Lucilla Maria da Luz, of No! 2, leave at times make the margin P.W.D. on Monday next Details In Cromarty Firth. Drills and d'Almada and Mason, and many of safety, as regards statutory | on page 8.
duties comprising the daily pro- others.
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