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Tel. 27806. No. 28,014 HONG KONG, TUESDAY,
HE MANCHURIAN OBLEM RESTATED
IR. YEN STATES THE CASE FOR CHINA
R. SATO REPLIES FOR JAPAN
ALLEGATIONS AND COUNTER- LLEGATIONS MADE BY DISPUTANTS.
Geneva, Yesterday.
JAPANESE PROMISE BROKEN.
DEATH OF
SIR ALFRED YARROW.
Eminent Engineer and Shipbuilder.
FAMOUS PIONEER.
Rugby, Yesterday.
TO-DAY'S
DOLLAR - - The
closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/4 13/16.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month. JANUARY 26, 1932.
PRISON INQUIRY
THE DARTMOOR OUTBREAK
COPING WITH EPIDEMICS.
Hospital Facilities. in Kowloon.
QUERIES FOR COUNCIL.
At the meeting of the Legiala-
The death occurred to-day of Sir HOME SECRETARY tive Council on Thursday the Hon.
Alfred Yarrow, the eminent Marine
Engineer and Shipbuilder, aged
ninety.
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SCHOOL PRIZES
GOVERNMENT VERNACULAR MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau Presides.
The Hon. Mr. T. N. Chầu, M.A., J.P., distributed the prizes at Mr. J. P. Braga, pursuant to notice, will ask the following the annual Speech Day of the Government Vernacular Middle questions:-
School, Saiyingpun, which was held in the School Hall this morning, in the presence of a large gathering of students and their parents and friends, who included Mr. A. E, Wood, and Mr. Y. P. Law, In- spector of Vernacular Schools.
3.
Addressing the gathering in Chinese, the Hon. Mr. Chau con- gratulated the school on its fine work for the past year, and the prize winners, and sympathised with those who had not secured any award, but urged them to do their best during the current year.
Master's Report.
our! Aure
various ways, to
1. Will the Director of Medi- cal and Sanitary Services kindly inform the Council whether he is Within a few months of his death
Rugby, Yesterday. he made a European air tour. He
The Home Secretary has ap- satisfied with the adequacy and was a pioneer in the construction of high-speed vessels, and was the pointed Mr. Herbert Du. Parcy, efficiency of the existing arrange- King's Counsellor and Recorder ments for water-borne conveyance first man inland to build and of Bristol, to hold an immediate of infective patients of communte drive a motor-car-which was inquiry into the whole of the cir-able diseases from the mainland The gravest atmosphere pervaded the public
2. If the reply to the first ques- at Dartmoor Convict
loss by the passing away of Dr. ng of the Council this evening, when Mr. Yen steam-driven--and the first man in cumstances connected with the to the Island?
Prison. He will be assisted by tion is in-
(a) the affirmative,
John Fenton in August, who had for the English e and declared that an event, which, to an Europe to employ a typewriter. disorder
Mr. Alexander Paterson, one qfi
will he explain the failure to
been responsible the
The secure transportation in
Mr. K. H. Li, the head master, work of our
upper classes, inary observer, may have appeared as a local Servics.
All is now quiet at Dartmoor.
specific case of a patient for
loss of his service is cordially re- dent, occurring in a region far from the great Chinese were exasperated and the Prison's Commissioners.
whom application for convey said:
On behalf of the school I have gretted by this school, and I can as- ance was made shortly after 8 Mr. Yen concluded by appeal- Except for minor effects of rough
of extending ropean and American centres, had grown, with- angry beyond expression.
his family of our deepest ber of the police was hurt, and
p.m. on Saturday, December 26, the pleasure
sympathy. In September his work four months, to a problem fraught with grave
recognition of Chinese rights.
and the special launch was not hearty welcome to the Hon. Mr. T. He is suffering from
available until 9.10 a.m. on the N. Chau who has so kindly come was taken up by Mr. Mak Kai Hung, way transferred here ager to the peace of the world. For everybody ing to the Council for adequate handling, no prison official mem-
here to give away the prizes this B.A. who
Thus being Mr. Yen declared that China injured.
following day? ows that what happened in Manchuria on Other Articles of the Covenant. only one convict was seriously
morning. Mr. Chau is no stranger from King's College. (b) the negative,
Since its establish understaffed during the year we had ptember 18 was but an initial step in a deliber-appreciated the desirability of concussion caused by falling off a
A Beleaguered Fortress.
what special recommendations to this school. con- Sensational rumours of
if any, he proposes to make for ment in 1926, he has been a mem to resort to combination of classes ely planned and ruthlessly executed programme working for a solution under Ar- roof.--British Wireless Service.
measure. friends planning
this able ceeding to an exhaustion of all
supplementing the present in-her of the Pan-Hok-Tun for the for certain subjects-an undesir、
for purpose
but unavoidable of supporting
able anjustified aggression by one nation against the ticle XI, but the necessity for pro-
now I am arrangements About 200,000 rights and remedies available victs
adequate
of this prompt and efficient transporta-institution by giving us scholar- However,
assure well-wishers ritorial integrity of another.
the dramatie despatch to Dartmoor
tion of infective patients from ships and aids in uare miles of Chinese territory, with a popula- under other Articles of the Co-tack on Dartmoor Prison from out-
and was our "Hok Tung" from school that we are free from such pressing.
inst night of a hundred soldiers of
Kowloon to Hong Kong?
This is, therefore, unfortunate circumstances in 1932 "Absurdity." on of twenty millions, had been seized by Japan venant was becoming daily more side are said to be responsible for
Does the Director of Medi-1928 to 1929.
Apart from the above it is deep- military force. These facts, he said, are undis-
Mr. Sato regretted that the the Worcestershire Regiment, which
cal and Sanitary Services consider just the fitting occasion on which the present hospital accommoda-we may thank him for his ungrudgly regretted that in April and May ted. From the outset China had the choice be-
now The prison
concerning the manner on the eve of the Dis-"precautionary measure."
He Conference.
school. This im- een preparing her own defence and placing faith question had been raised in this has been officially described treaties and the League. China, not being a armament
stressed the "absurdity" of Mr.beleaguered fortress. All strategic tion in Kowloon adequate, in pointing and untiring support and also damaging rumours were spread by
fixed also of doctors and nursing staff, school for his recent appointment future of this
proper information proved a dis- loaded Yen's suggestion, that Japan had approaches are guarded by soldiers of buildings and equipment and congratulate him on behalf of this vernacular pspers
rifles and
on the Legislative Council ilitary power, appealed to the League.
effectively occupied 200,000 with
From January of the year under couraging factor to both the staff square miles of Manchuria with bayonets; and a machinegan squad to cope with any sudden and wide- is posted on the main road with spread outbreak of a communicable mere 25,000 men,
been is taking place in the Colony at dle School and Higher Primary the loss of 56 students chiefly from Mr. Sato added that Manchuria orders that none be allowed to pass disease in epidemic form such as review the school fee for the Mid- and students, and may account for
have their papers
Divisions.has been raised from $2 the upper classes. the present time?
But it is gra+¦ Matriculation Examination.
students in was still Manchuria. The Chin- until
4. Does the Government con-to $4 per mensem. examined.
In November six ese population was still there,
Although all is quiet inside the
of the University, likewise Chinese authorities in
was only the prison, it is believed the friends of sider that the provision for hostifying to observe that our entrance
endeavouring to or-pital accommodation in Kowloon examination was attended by 242 Class Midide IV sat for the special
with the develop candidates as against 241 in 1980, matriculation
turned out successful many towns. It
to 1930 our per- This indicates that the number of only of the peninsula Chinese administration that had convicts are
ganise a mass escape and to that has kept pace
varied suffered a set-back.
centage of success had is also suspected that amazing growth of its population? candidates has not been affected by From 1927 It He explained the position at end have approached the prison in ment
between 80 per cent. and 40 per cent. Chinchow, und, gave reasons for cars.
freed convicts carried messages to
Most Eventful Year.
Hence we may realize the unhappy the Japanese advance.
The maximum enrolment of the effects of the circumstances men- Mr. Sato regretted that the the outsideworld.--Reuter.
year was 262, the average attend-tioned above. first proposal of Mr. Wellington
GREEK PREMIER IN LONDON. the
against 253 and ance 228.62, as Koo, namely to withdraw Chinese troops inside the Great
Rugby, Yesterday state whether Government has any 222.82 respectively in 1930. 1931 sat for their Final Examination and
Of the Wall had fallen through. Japan-
understood that the intention, and when, of submitting was the most eventful year in the 4 passed, another 2 being referred
The death in certain subjects.
1930 one ese troops had been withdrawn
Prime Minister, M. plans to the Finance Committee of
history of this school. but when they Greek from the zone,
most, turned out' successful. The five suc- of one were constantly and persistent Venizelos, who has arrived in the Council for a further exten-of Mr. Fung Ping-shan in August students referred ly attacked by irregulars, regu- London on a private visit, will sion of the Kowloon Hospital, in
to discuss the
addition to the Maternity Wing, staunch and sincere supporters.cessful candidates are to be awarded lars, police, volunteers and ban- use the occasion
in order to meet the requirements As he was a true friend of the staff teacher certificates this morning.
The school was visited on Sep- was left financial situation in Greece.
and students, his loss has He recently visited Rome and of an emergency arising out of an
tember 28 by the Director of Educa- dits, no other course open to the Japanese Comman-
Paris.-British Wireless Service. outbreak of disease in
most painfully felt. der.
We have also been unfortunate tion in the company of Mr. A. 0. Mr. Loh Hei-tong,: Brawn; medically inspected by Dr. on April 21 and October in Minett with the staff, an advanced teacher, retired
of the F.M.S. in the (In- In a report to the Police, Leung January, and his post had to remain 21; and visited on October 16 by
was not in the company of Mr. Y. P. Law Chai-kwai, master of a cargo boat, vacant throughout the year when Mr. Grace
Sphere of Sports# of 500 piculs capacity, states that the Government
from position to make a new appoint-spector of Vernacular schoola). yesterday, whilst sailing
Mr. Wong Pun Yuek, after
In the sphere of sports traditional maintained. Shaukiwan to Ping Chau, Cheung ment. Chau district, with a cargo of coal, five and half years of successful
Mr. Yen added, that the council had patiently and earnestly oted six weeks and twenty meetings to a conscientious effort to just the dispute, and two resolutions had been unanimously adopt- both based upon the solemn Japanese promise to withdraw her ops as rapidly as possible. This promise had been broken.
Continuing, Mr. Yen said, that instead of progressive withdrawal, te had been progressive advance since the Council adjourned six cks ago.
Aggression had been relentlessly pursued, until, in the
rds of the American Secretary of State, the last remaining ad- nistrative authority of the Chinese Government in Southern Man- ria had been destroyed, and Chinchow, with territories to the
th, including Shankaikwan, now followed by Mukden, Shangchun, ung, Kirin, Tsitsihar and other cities.
Japan was now invading the province of Jehol, endangering centres of North and Central, and even South China.
The
Every
est threats are the occupaion of Foochow and Shanghai. pe and expectation that the situation would not be aggravated d been defeated by the consistent development of forceful sertion and aggressive Japanese policy to force China to submit Japanese annexation or practical annexation of Manchuria; com- ling the central and local Chinese authorities to suppress all mani- stations of national feeling provoked by Japanese attacks and intro- rable violence against China.
Aggressive Provocation. The occupation of Chinchow was logical and inevitable, and the outcome of aggressive pro- Chang by General vocation
The Hsuch-liang particularly. Japanese troops had been wel- comed by the population of Chin- the police chow, and, although
disarmed, momentarily He observed boycott of Japan.
Mr. Yen added, that no Gov- their arms had now been restor
Mr. Yen, also said, that since defence, then security of Japan- had be ese lives and property, and now etember. conditions one daily worse, and proceeded it was bandits. All these were What Japan quibbles. argue that the Council's reso- mere
tions had been defied wants is to arrest the Chinese
Japan.
hat the Commission of Inquiry
were
ould not reach Manchuris until ernment can force its people to ed and they were again respon- buy what they do not want. It sible for public order. Japanese
pril, at the earliest.
My Government cannot but is a remarkable fact that so few sentries had been posted only at
es, with the keenest disappoint-incidents had occurred.
ent, both the delay at starting
nd the declared intention not to
receed by the quickest route to
The
(Continued m Page 12.)
he invaded and devastated ter- CADETSHIPS AND FUTURE
ilors." he concluded.
A Reasoned Reply. METHOD OF SELECTION
Yen's
Mr. Sato delivered a long and] easoned reply to Mr. peech, and detailed the position| Manchuria and Shanghai, and emphasised that the occupation Chinchow was only provision- He declared that Japan ould hold up the policy of "open door," had
no territorial ambi- ors, and was determined to pake Manchuria
u place which hinese and Japanese and other ationals could develop in peace!
nd security.
London, Yesterday.
Henceforth the method of appointment of Cadetships for Malaya and Hong Kong will be assimilated in the method applying to the Colonial Service generally; hence competitive examinations will be abolished, and candidates will be lected on the advice of the Colonial Service Board-Renter.
tion of candidates by men fami- Rugby, Yesterday. This decision marks a stage liar with the special needs of the
Service.
No decision has been reached towards the unified Colonial Ser-
Changing Ground. Mr. Yen briefly replied, and vice envisaged by the Warren- as to the future method of re- argued that the Japanese were Fisher Committee's report of two cruitment for the Ceylon Civil and final abandon- Service for which recruitment of constantly changing their grounds years ago,
-
British Wireless
for justification of their occupa- ment, where it still exists, of the European officers is, at present, den. First it was because of the system of competitive examina-suspended. attack on the railway, then self- tion in favour of personal selec-Service.
It is
FINE TO CLOUDY.
The Royal Observatory's re- issued this morning port states:
The anti-cyclone has disgi- is forming Another pated. over Western China.
Forecast N. E. winds, moderate; fine to cloudy.
Rainfall
Rainfall for 24 hours ead.
nil. ed at 10 a.m. to-day Total since January 1-dil-
of an average against 1.02 inches--deficit 1.02 inen.
Temperature.
The temperature at certain specified centres this morauing
at 6 o'clock was:-
Hong Kong
63
Macao
63
Pratas Island
68
Manila
67
Foochow
58
59
Amoy Chefoo
35
Shanghai
43
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Yet you
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sommarised for veniently you,
and the
5. What immediate steps are contemplated to remedy the exist-raising our tuition fee. ing insufficiency of hospital ac-: commodation for the urgent needs of Kowloon residents?
6. Will the Colonial Secretary
a viruleat
form?
BOAT STRIKES ROCK AND SINKS.
near
robbed Us
of
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been
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In December 15 Normal students
from
2
his vessel suddenly struck a rock services at this school, resigned in interest has been well
The boat May, and no successor was avail-In spite of several senior players for the its destinatlon,
compete sank in a short time, but all the able until September when we had leaving school, our Senior Team did inter-school Volley Ball honours and members of the crew, totalling the opportunity of welcoming Mr. not hesitate to
turned out 3rd in the list.
inter-class of our As Death of Dr. Fenton.
a result seven, were rescued by boats ply-Cheung Kok-chor to join our staff.
The ing in the neighbourhood.
The school alsc sustained a great
Ping Pong competition among our- total loss is estimated at over $600.
selves, Class Middle 1, represented by Wai Chi-yan and Chan Wing-kon, came out to be the lucky winner of the prize.
BRITAIN'S NEW FISCAL POLICY IN MAKING
(REUTER'S SPECIAL SERVICE.)
London, Yesterday.
Having steered through the fogs of Cabinet disagreement, the Government in getting busy with drafting the first measure of the new fiscal programme.
By the kind. permission of the head master of King's College, we had a loan of its swimming pool for testing the capacity of our boys Owing to the lack in swimming.
of facilities we could give only little. training in this useful exercise, but
it is gratifying to find that among our boys many are promising swim-
mera.
We had 21
to Shatin
pienic
vember 16, the party consisting of According to the evening newspapers, this will impose a flat
10 members of rate of ten per cent. on all imports of manufactured and semi- through the Kowloon Pass on No-
the staff. manufactured goods, and establish a small tariff commission, consist-176 students and
Health Good. ing of experienced industrialists and businessmen.
In spite of the unfavourable sur-
The Evening News states that there is no Dominions' preference in the initial ten per cent. tariff. It is to be added when a generalroundings of the school, I am glad tariff system is framed, after close consideration is given to possible to say that the health of students trading arrangements with other countries.
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