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BERLIN BANK HOLDS
UP REMITTANCE FOR BRITAIN.
German Government Asked for Explanation.
BUDAPEST OBLIGATIONS.
the
Rugby, Yesterday. Asked by a member why German Government had permitted the detention by the Dresdner Bank, Berlin, of the remittance by the City
TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1932.
GERMANY'S GRAND OLD MAN
FIELD-MARSHAL VON HINDENBURG'S COLOURFUL CAREER,
President Once More?
Field-Marshal Von Hindenburg's, him a brilliant statesman; "he has
of Budapest in transit to England determination to stand again for shown no power of oratory. Yet for the service of Budapest's obliga-|
his popularity is greater than it was
tions to British. subjects, the the Presidency of the German Re even during the war, when milliond Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, public, in spite of his eighty-five of loyal Germans paid their money stated that the British Ambassador years, recalls his kaleidoscopic to hammer Iron into his wooden in Berlin was inquiring urgently
into the circumstances and had career which remains a source of been requested to take any action inspiration for the youth of Ger-
likely to secure the early release of many.
those funds. Unfortunately It
was not possible to say more until a
full report on the situation was Wireleas Ser-
| available.--British
vice.
COMPANY DIVIDEND
Hong Kong Engineering| & Construction Co.
The Directors of the Hong Kong: Engineering and Construction Com- pany, Limited, report that after charging $10,483 depreciation and allowing for Directors' and auditors' fees, the net profit of the Company for the year ended December 31, 1981, was
.$ 99,858.58
to which has to be added 'balance brought" "for-
ward from last count
AC-
28,791.55
$128,650.13!
sale Importers, it should be a Leaving available at Mr. W. F. Fincher and family, matter of na difficulty to procure
balance of Profit and and the relatives of the late Mrs.
Loss Account Fincher, tender their heartfelt and publish in the Press from which the Directors propose to deal thanks to their many friends for time to time comprehensive lists with as follows:- the kind letters of condolence re- of British foodstuffs suitable for Paying dividends of 40
ceived in their recent bereave- ment, for the beautiful floral tributes, and for their attendance
at the funeral.
an entire day's meals for small or large families, hotels, restaur- ants, and Clubs. Our local Mrs, Beetons might also prepare and publish all-British bills of fare
..$.38,880,00{
cents per share on the "Old shares, ab- Borbing and 14 cents per share.
on the "New shares, absorbing
The China Mail, for breakfast, tiffin, and dinner,
with suggestions for afternoon Carrying Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 15, 1932. tea and, perhaps, supper. Simb
Empire Meals.
Ever a strong advocate of British trade, although to
lar bills of fare might be invited from hotel and restaurant chefs
and from ladles and others out- side the membership of the local Committee:
emi-
forward
'next account
4,121.05
statue.
Even his enemies realise who could All his place. that Germany possesses no leader
Out of the shadow of the two war legends, Britain's and Ger- many's, emerges A singularly human figure to solve this riddle of power,
Crank or Genius?
The old Boer warrior, with rifle and Bible, is perhaps the nearest in other nations to the Hindenburg type. A militarist of simple faith in God, Fatherland and Emperor, the old Field-Marshal has served his narrow idenis wth an honesty which compels admiration even from his enemies.
As a 'courtier Hindenburg fell under a cloud, because he gave his frank opinion of the Kaiser's cavalry atrategy in manoeuvres,
"It was very pretty, your Majes ty," was his reply to the Kaiser's request for a compliment. "But if this had been a real war, we would have gone in behind your men, and those who were not slaughtered would have been driven Into the Baltic if they could run so far.".
At the time he was head of the Fourth Army Corps, a soldier of the type dismissed by conventional oficial minds in normal times as a . crank, and in times of stress re- voaled as a genius. He had fought In the war between Prussia and Denmark, and in the Franco-Prue- sian war.
Great Plan.
Once the leader of warring Ger-
For years he had bored the War many, he is now President of his Department with plans for defend- ing the Masurian Lakes. His idea $42,951.05 country's Republic. It is said that was that the enemy should be many are the essays written in Ger-driven Into the marshes to drown, man schools about the elderly soldier and he could not sit in a cafe withe out using his beer for a practical who revealed rock-like resistance illustration of his favourite. strate
.$ 86,699.08
$128,650.13
News in Brief.
at 4 p.m.
when the old Germany was sagging away, and who reappeared at call of duty to be the foremost man in the new Germany.....
Military Tradition. Hindenburg became a soldier as a matter of course, for his home,
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gy,
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When he heard that the Reichstag was considering a scheme for drain ing the marabes, he descended like a whirlwind on Deputies and party leaders. When all else falled he took his plea to the Kaiser, and there he prevalled.
saved and "Old Hindenburg" went on with his studies. At manoeuvres every year he punctiliously drove the "enemy" into the awamps. He was known irreverently, as "General Mud.
When the War came, Hindenburg was in retirement and almost for gotten; his offer of service was overlooked.
The marshes were
No stone to ensure the utmost sail for Manila on Friday.
The Empress of Asia will now
20 certain degree sceptical co-operation from all grades of of the
the British population should be
Two cases of small-pex and one Nendeck, was steeped in military average British
neglected a point, of course, were notified yesterday.
of diphtheria-all in Kowloon-and family tradition. consumer's insistence on obtain that it is superfluous to
He was brought up in that at ing British products, it may be phasise even at this compara-
mosphere, but his parents took good For overtaking another lorry on care to develop his love of nature supposed that we will give our tively early date. The main bend on the Pokfulam Road near and a desire for religion through blessing to the movement for thing is propaganda, more proof a motor lorry, who was
the University, the Chinese driver out his childhood.
Bum He lives quietly in the Falace in "Empire Meals on Empire Day."
paganda, and still more propa-moned for dangerous driving before the Wilhelmstrasse, bought by the ganda. In this direction the Bri- Mr. Schofield this morning, was Republic Government from the ex- The Women's Committee of the tiah Press may be relied upon to
fined $20.
Kalaer soon after, the war,
"Then suddenly," he himself has Fellowship of the British Empire do their bit," even although the
On his desk, framed in plain said,. "There came a telegram Ins Yesterday the lowest air tem- wood, is the printed motto, "Work forming me that the Emperor com- has circulated lengthy pamph-advertising side may imagine, perature up to 4 pm, was 47 de- and Pray, words which give a clue ariesioned me to command the East lets, explanatory of the move even for a single day, all kinds ees, believed to be the lowest in to his character and the way he has en Army. I really only had time ment,
to the heads of all the of dreadful things in respect of figure was 45.4. The humidity
March since 1921, when the carried out his life's tasks.
to buy some woollen underclothing Crown Colonies, and it is under-non-British advertised products yesterday was 78 at 10 am. and 78 The vetaran Field Marshal is to
Colossal Figure.
and brush up my old uniform." stood that, in Hong Kong, Lady Still, those responsible for the
All the world knows how he fol many minds the supreme paradox of lowed his old plan, and drove the Peel,, wife of His Excellency the import and retail of the latter Charged before Mr. Schofield this responsible for a brilliant triumph lin.
modern Germany, For, after being Russians into marshes to save Ber Governor, is taking steps to form will not likely grudge one day in morning, with the theft of a gold in the first six months of the War, putable German triumph in the It was the one great indis a local Committee.
A the whole year on
on which Britons ring, valued at $150, the property besides advising the Kaiser to abfrat six months of War, an There is ample time within in a British Colony may gather Road, a Chinese servant girl, plead-goat in place of his monarch, when The German public adored him
age of her mistress at 117 Hennessy dicate; he offered himself as scape-
Vexation the two months and nine days round the family table or meet in ed guilty and was bound over. It the tide turned against his country for it and the colossal wooden between now and May 24 in their favourite hotel or restaur-was stated she pawned the ring for He subsequently followed this statue into which they paid to drive which to organise plans on a cat and partake of only British $80 of the proceeds to a man to ing the call to the Presidency, in patriotic funds. To Von Hinden 480 at Aberdeen Street, and gave concession to patriotiam by accept nails brought huge contributions to scale sufficient to ensure com meals.
take to her parents in the country. spite of his feeling that it was a burg this popularity brought, among plete success. Of locally grown Meanwhile, if a suggestion be She herself had raised $20 towards "come down" from the profession of other more pleasing tokens, an vegetables there ought to be no not considered remiss, an en-
the redemption of the article. lack, although the Chinese co
cook deavour should be made to follow or amah entrusted with the the precedent of Poppy Day, by marketing for Empire Day's ensuring that each recognised meals will, as in the case of centre or area of the Colony everything else, take what is from the Peak to the New Ter offered ➡➡ anything that affords ritories be represented on the the opportunity for the inevit Committee to be formed, with able "squeeze or perquisites. power For one day, it might be as well, dese
the principle of eating Bri
tish is to be rigidly pur
eliminate local market
favour of imported
THE
opf what may be district assistants of
Other ideas may
saders and;
soldiering His seming conver- Immense number of letters suggests, alon, on examination is found to be ing romedies for gallstones, a com of a piece with his whole career of plaint which was rumoured to vex devotion to dutyun dahi daya? The personality of Von Hinden-Those gallstones," he lamented burg, gruff, old-fashioned militarist, bitterly, "are the plague of my has imposed Itself on the post war existence. And I've never suffered world like a colossal figure of Old from them in all my days... [Germany and
With his leonine head and his A mere war legend, as Luden oaklike figure, the President of Ger- dorff terms. It, could scarcely have many is largely a figurehead, but At the V.R.C. last night Lee Wing survived the test of his political surely one of the most remna played Wm. Smith in the Billiard office. Nobody has ever imagined figurehends in modern pol
Ten Years Ago
Ifrom the "China", "Mall”
March 15, 1822.1.2
To-day's dollar is worth 2/55/16
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