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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1932.
ever, the nature of the tax is only THE KING'S BIRTHDAY WANTS ENGAGEMENT
incidental to the important fact that
the tax was imposed, and Britishers will feel a deep measure of satis faction that their example has done something to inspire the Americans to action which will beneft both the United States and the world.
News in Brief.
the
CELEBRATIONS
Arrangements at the Cenotaph To-morrow.
MARCH PAST OF TROOPS
RING BACK
Jilted Scotsman Sues Fiancée.
M
"DROP IT IN THETHAMES”
London, May 4.
The celebration of H.M, the King's birthday, to-morrow, will
A Scottish commercial traveller The Cottage Hospital for Women take the usual form, and the priu- and Children which has been or cipal event will, be the march past who had been disappointed in love. ganised under the auspices of the of local troops and volunteers, H. E. aued his former dancce, before Mr. local St. John Ambulance Brigade
Officer Administering the Justice Horridge in the King'e at Kam Tin, New Territories, will be Government taking the salute at the Bench Division to-day, for the re- formally opened
Cenotaph. His Excellency will ar-turn of presents, including the Wednesday, on June 8, at 5.15 p.m.
rive at 10 a.m, for this ceremony. Owing to un-
engagement ring. At 11 a.m. H.E, will hold a re foreseen circumstances, the Hon.
He was Mr. Henry George Wat- Director of Medical and Sanitary ception for the local Consular Body son, of St. Mary's Road, Downfield,
defendant at Government House, and the offi- Dundee, and the Services, Dr. A. B. Wellington, who cial luncheon party will be held at Miss F. M. Treberne, of Northbrook was to have performed the ceremony the Hong Kong Club at noon. will be unable to attend, and the
Road, Bowes Park, who maintained His Excellency will give a recep-that Mr. Watson was not entitled to Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton will de- tion at Government House at night, the articles, because he had told her putise for him.
any account.
Wag
commencing at 9.30, and a gather not to send them back to him on ing of about 2,500 is expected. Di the 'occasion of the
The Guard of Honour. King's Birthday Celebrations at
Mr. Watson had written to Miss For the Cenotaph Government House, the Manage the morning there will be a Guard symbols of my trust and truest love, ceremony in Treherne, "'As regards these ment of the Hongkong & Shanghal of Honour composed of three off-which you refer to and ask for dis- Hotels, Ltd., beg to inform their cers and 50 man patrons that there will be no Din Cornwall and a similar 'detachment them. Don't, for God's sake, send from H.M.S.posal instructions, please destroy ner Dance at the Peninsula Hotel from the 2nd Battalion, The Argyll them back to me. on Friday, 3rd June. At the Hong and Sutherland Highlanders. Kong Hotel Grill, however, a Spe-
"Ask the Salvation Army to col- cial Dinner will be served from Major-General J. W. Sandilands, ring, hide it away, put it in the fire, Upon arrival H.E. will be met by llect the gramophone. As for the 7.90 p.m. and during the dinner G.O.C., Commodore A.H. Walker, or, the first time you are on the. Selected Music will be rendered by and the Senior Officer of the Alr river, drop it in the Thames. The the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra un Force. The Guard of Honour wil sight of it would distract me." der the direction of Mr. J. Futera." give the Royal salute, after which H.E. the Offeer Administering the
Rejected Sultor. Government will inspect the Guard Watson, explained that that was the Mr. J. J. Llewellyn, for Mr..
of Honour.
-Advts.
"EASTING DOWN."
Interesting. Tale of China.
21-Gun Salute.
letter of a disappointed and rejected.
of mind. Miss Treherne did not:
Mr. Justice Horridge said he did
meant that the articles were then.
After the inspection, a Royal Suitor, written in a distracted frame Salute of 21 guns will be fired by carry out the instructions, though Indian battery stationed on the she Murray Parade Ground and between which was included in the presents,. had given the gramophone,. 'Easting Down' by Gregory each seven rounds a feu de jote will BIRTH,
business and trade have been halv- Stapleton is a novel of overwhelm-be fired by the 3rd Battalion, 9th to a hospital.
ing interest to all who travel to Jat Regiment, who will be drawn ed in many instances and Wall and from the Enat as well as to up on Connaught Road, facing the not think the phrases in the letter MARTIN At the Victoria Hos Street is almost idle in comparison those whose home is in the Middle Cenotaph.
pital on June 1, 1932, to Mr. und Mrs. T. A. Martin, a son, with activity of former years. Even on the China Coast and in ships on played by the Band of the
Kingdom. The plot, is laid chiefly The National Anthem will be given to Miss Treherne absolutely. Hollywood is seriously affected, and the Orient trade. The hero,
After a short consultation, Miss
there are few places which reflect officer in the Chinese Customs derers at the conclusion of
an Battalion, The South Wales Bor-Treherne agreed to hand back the ring, valued at £35, and à cut even a shadow of the usual Ameri- mankes his first voyage out of salute, when cheers will be given crystal necklace, valued at £4 48. can prosperity. The Government's Shanghai in an old sailing barque. for the King by the assembled did not ask for his cos
He returns in a tea-clipper racing troops. home.
The China Mail.
America Acts.
1st
the
Hong Kong, Thursday, June 2, 1932. finances are in a sad state and the
Following this there will be the = } prospect of a two billion dollar de-
The whole story is full of living march past of naval and military ficit this year made some stern and episodes, but the central tragedy and volunteer units, who will then immediate action imperative. Of and the most exciting Incident proceed on a route march along the In the midst of one of the most course, the nation is sound, and amongst many occurs on board a waterfront going westward and re
liner homeward bound.
Commander Stapleton knew well serlous economic depressions the provided sane and caraful adminis-
tration is exercised through the the China of other daya as a period is comforting regardless of the crisis the future is assured.
world has known any cheering news
The
turning to town via Queen's Road. Troops on Parade. The Royal Navy will be reprezent
of his early life was spent there ed by one company of seamen from when his Uncle, Sir Alexander H.M.S. Cornwall,
company
оде
Bource, and the cable this morning/resources of the country are enorMatheson Bart, had interests con- from the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, i announcing that the United States mous, the gold reserves will pronected with the China Coastal trade. the 4th, Submarine Flotilla and
Budget to be normal is only a matter of time if/joined the Royal Navy but the East Marines will be represented by two
Government has taken steps that will enable the balanced is particularly welcome. Great Britain's magnificent example;
tect the currency, and a return to Afterwarda Commander Stapleton H.M.S. Sandwich. The Royal claimed him again and he held the platoons from H.M.S. Cornwall and appointment of Captain-Superin-one platoon from H.S. Tamar.. tendent of the Imperial Lighthouse Officers and crew from H.M.S. Or-
the present difficultles are faced. President Hoover has earned the
to the world in restoring stability' acelamation of the world for his de- Service in Ceylon. He is now pheus, Whitshed, Wild Swan and security to the national finances termination to bring the Senate to Captain of the Port at Holyhead.
In few months after a very grave
crisis has not been followed with!
any great enthusiasm in other coun-|
take action, although the reaction in Mr. his own country is doubtful. Hoover's action is all the more com-
tries, and "the dawn of the new era mendable in view of the fact that of prosperity" appears as far dis- he is risking the possible displea- tant as ever.
sure of the majority of the voters In some European
when the Presidential elections are countries bankruptcy is Bo im-
only a few months off. minent, and poverty and distress The sales tax, the
Hoover
THE GOLDFISH.
And the Cause and Treatment of Obesity.
and
of which President secured through setting the precedent of making
Verity will also participate
In those circumstances M Watson
The claim was accordingly settled on those terms.
NO MORE LONG LONE FLIGHTS
Miss Amy Johnson Decries "Stunts.”
SENSATIONALISM
never
Southampton, May 3. Miss Amy Johnson, the only. and woman to fly solo from England to finished with long Australia, has The Military forces will be re-lohe flights. presented by 144 members of the She conveyed this decision to a British Heavy Battery Royal Ar- Press representatives, when she ar- tillery, 15 ranks. of the R.E.'s, 25 rived at Southampton to-day from the lat Batt South Royal Signallers, 400 members of South Africa in the Union Castle Wales Bor-liner Winchester Castle. Miss derers and 100 Second Batt. Johnson has been on a health trip San Quentin, California. Argyll and Sutherland Highland-to South Africa, and looked very Goldfish used in experiments at ers. Other units participating in well. the California State Prison here the march will include the Second, Asked if she had any aying plans passage may shed new light on the cause Fourth and Fifth Heavy Batteries, for the future, she said, “No; the so real that little can be accomplish-
treatment of obesity. The Royal Army Service Corps, Hong report that I have a flight across ed, but in other countries more for-
effect of diet on the weight of Kong Male Corps, 3rd Batt. 9th, the Atlantic in mind is entirely tunately placed it has been evidentį
these ornamental animals was in-Jat Regiment, and the Royal Afr without foundation. I shall Avestigated by Dr. Leo L. Stanley Force.
make another long solo flight. My that the citizens are not prepared personal appeal to the Senate, has and Gordon L. Tescher of the pri- The Hong Kong Volunteer interests are now concerned with. to emulate the British taxpayer, always been unpopular in the States son's medical department and re-Defence Corps, including the two the development of commercial. whose capacity seems unlimited. mainly through misunderstanding. ported to the current issue of En-new units, the Anzac Corps and the aviation.
docrinology, a scientific journal Anti-Aireraft section, will parade Until a universal recognition that Recent propaganda, instigated by devoted to studies of the glands of at full strength and will be fol- "I have lost patlance with stunt.
Up to Designers, sacrifice is needed there is small William Randolph Hearst and two internal secretion.
lowed by members of the Mer-flights, which have no other object. prospect of an early end to the de-
These investigatora studied four chant Navy, St. John Ambulance, than sensationalism, or three Senators, has done much
The flight: pression.. For some time, Ameri- to clear misapprehensions and now fed. beef muscle and the other two Association.
gold fish. Two of the fish were Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Guards that does not aim to make a definite cans some of whom have not even publie opinion is much more favour-were fed an equal amount by weight
contribution to the development of At the Cenotaph, the G.O.C. Bri-laviation has no interest for me. I yet. recovered from the shock that able to the sales tax, which works of ground-up glandular substance tish Troops will be accompanied by shall never do anything of a spec accompanied the collapse, of the
from the reproductive glands of a the G.5.0., A.A. and Q.M.G. 1/ctacular nature again, unless, of [BO effectively and smoothly in hectic boom conditions of 1929, did
ram. The ones getting the beef Canada. The tax, which passes the muscle gained more weight than Admn, and his A.D.C. The Com course, by a fluke, not quite appreciate the situation extra duty directly to the consumer, the ones getting the glandular sub-modore will be attended by his "The human element in aviation has proved Itself. It is now up to not until the past and does not affect the article at its stance..
The Naval, Military and other the designers of machines. What is From previous experiments the source, is popular with the majority investigators knew that the glandu-unite will march past His Excel-wanted is a hundred percent. with full force, a force which of producers and retailers. Those lar substance increased the activity ency and staff in colume of route, efficiency, machine capable of day who advocate the tax claim that it is of the fish. They assumed that the The route will be vis Jackson and night flying, and one which lost nothing of its severity through M
two diets, beef muscle and glandu
Road, Des Vœux Hoed, and Queen enables the pilot to find his way to its belatedness, that the people the form of taxation which causes lar. substance, were equally dVictoria Street to the junction of his destination no matter what have been awakened to the Actua-the least harmful effect to industry equate as food. Consequently they litles. As it is many outsiders stil! So far it has been regarded as a concluded that the glandular sub-naught Road.
stance increased the energy inter labour under the misapprehension temporary measure to be imposed change, in the fish bodies as well that America is still prosperous, only in times of emergency, but as the activity and thus kept down and that the depression if it exists Canada has operated the sales tax the weight of the fish. They
.
MILD AS
MAY
COOL AS WINTER
and it was few months when the economic blizzard has swept the States
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there at all it does so with slight for so long that Canadians regard it pointed out in their report tual this may hava, a bearing on the, effect. Conditions in the United as almost in the same category so cause and treatment of obesity,, States are comparable now to those income-taxtga
turn-over of Personal Pars.
in practically any country. And in The enormoús Bome sections, the agricultural American business will make areas in the South and in the Mid sales-tax a very pro
Vesty particularly,
for the Gow considerable income exists - Unemployed num? has been estimated
the best part of 10,000,000; derived in this manner would millionairos have become paupers, self cover the Budget defcit.
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Montreal, May 8. Rosario · Allard is a man without Albany, NY, May 4 Benny Gordon, a condemned mur,& country. Neither the United derer is growing philosophical over States nor Canada will claim him as
citizen.born on hin, Mr. Allard was born on the “Derby Line. The United States- Canadian boundary went through the middle of the hot the United States as auth
For the sixth time few days of goin
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not so fast is might be desired
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who inaceused.
He was born.