TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1932.
TEXTILE MEN
VOTE TO KEEP
OLD CUSTOMS
Meet Objections Of Chinese Buyers.
AFTER LONG RESEARCH.
养
A largely attended meeting
of
textiles importers of the Colony held in the offices of the Hong Kong)
THE CHINA MAIL.
LINCOLNS ARRIVE IN EUROPEAN CAPITALS HARVEST FESTIVAL
HONG KONG
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not been here long enough to form red breeches, and they held the dis- an opinion of the place, but it seems tinction of being the only regiment to me to be very pleasant and deto wear coat of this colour, lightful, and more like Home than Shanghai."
First Active Service.
REMAIN SILENT.
(Continued from Fags 1.).
Chinese Criticism.
AT ST. ANDREW'S. Offerings To Be Given
To Institutions.
The annual Harvest Festival of, An editorial in the Hong Kong St Andrew's Church, Kowloon, Daily Presa (Chinese) saya: will be observed, on 'Sunday, Octo-
The Lytton Commission Report, ber 9, when the preacher at both published yesterday, contains 10 morning and evening services will Chapters, each of about 20,000 be the Rey. H. A. Wittenbach, "Act- | words in length. The "important ing Warden of the Church Mis- afonary Society. at the Union The Regiment saw their first ser- points are as follows:-
1. The Report suggests that Theological College,. Canton. vice in the Low Countries under Chinu should declare the forma- There will also be a service for Colonel's Long Service.
the campaigns tion of a special Government in children and young people at 3 General Chamber of Commerce last Et-Colonel E. J. de C. Boys, M.C., Marlborough in
Commanding the 1st. which commenced in 1704, and took night, approved a revised contract Officer between importers and Chinese Battalion, has been with the Regi-an active part in the buttles of the Three Eastern Provinces." dealers, following representations ment for 28 years, joining in 1908. Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and by the Chinese Pleys Goods Gaila Later the same year, he joined the Maiplaquet, which great names are that the contract. In force since 1922 1st, Battalion at Sekundrabad, in honourably commemorated on their and an arranged Conference.
chukuo.
p.m...
point of divergence between the the War broke out he left Mauritius allocation was abolished. Number-chukuo of all military forces, both ediblea will be sent to the Victoria
matter.
*
Aldershot.
Enjoys Sports,
"Congorilla"
CENTRAL THEAT
TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M. THE NEWEST UNITED ARTISTS" SUPER SPECIAL PRODUCTION.
AN AIR COMEDY EXTRAVAGANZA, STAGED BY THE LAVISH HAND OF HOWARD HUGHES. THAT ZOOMS RIGHT UP INTO THE CLOUDS OF ENTERTAINMENT TAKES YOU ON A CRUISE THROUGH MERRY A THRILL- GALES OF HILARIOUS LAUGHTER ! SHOW TO MAKE YOU GASP! A LAUGH SHOW TO MAKE YOU HOWL 1
She Made Aviators Keep
Their Feet on the Ground?
A siren who nearly wrecked the Allies and a sky devil up in the clouds in love I She made his head go round like a propeller! There's a parichete. full of laughs and howvis in this gay comedy of perfume, pyjamas and Paris 1
HOWARD
HUGHES
• PRESLATE
2-When the new Government, Offerings throughout the "day
Japan and Manchukuo should at-work in the Diocese.
formed, delegates from China, will go to help forward missionary The Church will be "decorated 3-The signing of a new Treaty with fruits, flowers, vegetables and India. After many years of foreign Regimental Colours.
Some time after this; numbers The Piece and Home service, Col. Boys was a}}- required amendment.
evening service these will be Goods Sub-Committee reported to pointed A.D.C. to Mauritius, short-were introduced to designate differ- and the re-organisation of Man greenery; At the conclusion of the
When fent regiments and the personal
4. The evacuation from Man- gathered together, and most of the the meeting that the most important ly before the Great War.
to join his Regiment, and saw ser-led according to their senority of Japanese and Chinese..
Home and Orphanage, while the 5.-International co-operation to flowers and grapes will be dis- Guild and the Committee of the vice at Ypres, and along, that front. formation, the Lincolnshire became
This was again assist in the development of the tributed to local hospitals. Chamber concerned buying for After the War the Regiment was the 10th Foot. "arrival" or for "shipment." The drafted to Ireland, where they were changed in 1782, and territorial interior of China,
Dignity Shaken. stationed for six years, serving titles were added to the number, the
callen The Replying, the writer asks why meeting voted to retain the old 898-throughout the political troubles in Regiment being then
Belfast. 10th, or the North Lincoln Regi- should a special Government be'de- tem of sales almost unchanged. Tipperary. Eniskillen, and
The Chairman of the Chamber While there the Regiment suffered ment of Foot. This title is still clared in the Three Eastern Pro-
on the Regimental Colours vinees, since China has territorial The stark ferocity of the African
in Many of presented to the 1st Battalion rights there? (Mr. J. A. 'Plummer) presided and heavy casualties, one officer being borne
He, states that it jungle is vividly shown in "Con- was supported by the Vice-Chair- killed and one wounded. man (Hr. T."H. B. Shaw) and the the men were also killed and wound-1863, which are still carried by the will affect the dignity of China's gorilla," Fox's sensational Mr. and Chairman of the Piece Goods Sub-rd. They left Ireland in 1925 for Regiment. A further change was administration, and that China has Mrs. Martin Johnson's production, mide in 1881. when each regiment her own ideas of the political con- positively the one and only talking Committee (Mr. P. S. Cassidy).
was given a territorial designation struction of the country. What is picture entirely made in the African The Chairman said:-
corresponding to the particular the use of an Advisory Board? jungle.
"Congorilla" is true to life. It is "You will remember that at that A keen sportsman. Col. Boys is heality with which it was connect Has China ne Sovereignty? he de-
manda.
proof that truth is stranger than nireting you upproved the appoint-particularly fond of tennis, but ad-ed, and then the Regiment became.
The Martin Johnsons The writer adds that Manchukuo fiction. ment of a small committee "to con-mitted to a China Mail representa the Lincolnshire Regiment. elder, and if found advisable to re- tive this morning that he was get-Previous Service in in the Far East. was formed by Japan, and is now travelled a long way to get the pic- vise, the Chamber's Standard Formting, "past sports," He has parti) This is not the first time the to be formed by the League of ture and reappeared in civilisation of Fancy Piece Goods Contract, with ipated in most of the sporting Reriment has served in the Far Nations, and can be said to be after two years in the jungle, with a view, if possible, to making it
activities carried on by the Regi- East. In 1868 it was transferred, under international control. The the most authentic picture of its that kind ever filmed. It is obvious, as standard for all Textiles."
ment but has not played a great deal from the Cape of Good Hope to Lytton Report recognizes "Such Committee was duly ap of golf.
He states, however, that Japan to act in the capacity of Manchuli belongs to China, and soon as the first flicker is seen on pointed and for the past four the intends taking it up while in Loration Guard in Yokohama, and therefore Japanese soldiers should the screen that one is in for a good the picture, is months has laboured unceasingly to Hong Kong. While in Shanghailit remained there until 1871. Leav! withdraw from there immediately. thing. Nothing in
the battalion was Surely
China is permitted to staged or acted. The animals are Araw up a contract which would be he played in the Army Tennis ing Yokohama
not
The circus brutes." divided, headquarters and the right station troops in her own territory, wild, acceptable to all parties, and I can League.
pgymies are untrained savages, and assure you that It has been no easy Col. Boys' home county is Kent,wing consisting of four companies, he declares.
In short, he states, the principles there is no make-believe or romance and his family has resided in East and the Band and Drummers com- Without going into details of the Kent for several generations. ing to Hong Kong, while the remain of the report are favourable to of the silly sort, in "Congorilla." long discussions which have taken, At the outbreak of the Great War, der went to Singapore... Ou Novem-Japan, and if the Chinese Govern-Thrilling as it is, it is entirely place. I may tell you that the main the 1st. Battalion embarked for ber 26, 1873, the headquarters and ment do not lodge a protest" with natural, and a true reflection of life,
rest in the League of Nations, then the in the bush. Issue throughout has been the ques- France from Portsmouth with the right wing rejoined the
Three Eastern Provinces are loat Throughout the screening one tion of buying and selling "for pth Brigade of the 3rd Division-and Singapore."
The pesent Colonel of the Regi- to China. He concludes that he hears the car-splitting scream of arrival," as against buying and sell under the command of Capt. R. W. The Chinese Cave-Orme.
distinguished itselfment is Major-General C. R. Simp has nothing to say if China accepts the gorilla, the terrifying roar of 2012 ing "for shipment." Piece Goods Guild claimed very in those first days of fighting as it son. C.B., who himself joined the the proposals of the Lytton Com-the lion, the mighty trumpeting of
2 Sub-mission.
many other wild Regiment in 1874
the elephant and strongly that they should buy for did in later years.
Manchukno Disregarded, native noises of the jungle. There arrival," and that all rinks prior to 'Reminiscent of their landing at Lieutenant. The Second Battalion
Tokyo, Yesterday: are the close-ups of the giant gorilla: arrival of goods in the Colony Gallipoli during the Great War, the of the Regiment is now stationed at
According to the Japanese locked in mortal combat, baring his should be for account of the Im-, 1st Batt. of the Lincolnshire Regi-Dover. England, and the two terri- *porters. On the other hand, Im-ment, one of the oldest regiments torial battalions, 4th and 5th, have press; Mr. Fao Kuan-cheng, Man-man-crushing teeth and beating his porters were found to be equally ad-in the British Army: made a silent their headquarters at Lincoln and chukuo's envoy plenipotentiary hairy chest in stark ferocity as he to Tokyo, declared that the Lyt-charges the camera. In contrast to amant that, in accordance with the entry. into the Colony yesterday Grimsby respectively.
The Regiment has now completed ton report does not deserve the the large apes are some interesting general practice, they would only evening. No bands and gay flags sell "for shipment," as has been the marked their coming, and many who three of its 21 years oversea ser slightest attention, because it en-shots of the world's smallest, race
been apent at custom for so many years.. This waited to see them march to the vice, two having
of the Manchurians, who are tares of their weird songs and gentlemen, is really the point which barracks, waited in vain. The 750 Gibralta before coming to China, tirely disregards the popular will of people, the Itura pygmies, pic- you are here. to-day to decide, and officers and men were conveyed by They arrived in Shanghai from The responsible for the birth of Man- dances, queer music and tribal rites chukuo. He said the report did and their peculiar hunting expedi- might add that your decision in this launches direct to Shamshuipo from Rock on November 17, 1931.
During the Great War the num-not solve the problem, but com-tious, armed only with their tiny matter would appear to be one of the H.M.S. Suffolk, which arrived
bowe and arrows. There great importance to the trade in the the battalion on board from Shang- ber of battalions of the Lincolnshire alicated the situation.
Regiment was increased to 19, and Mr. Pao concluded by stating numerous other spell-binding scenes, hal at 2.30 p.m. yesterday.
saw servhe in France, that Manchukuo was attaching far too numerous to mention, and a "The Committee have unanimous. The battalion, which left" Shang-they ly decided to recommend that the hai at 8.30 am. on Saturday, enjoy. Callipoli and Egy
no importance to the report, as touch of humour from the baby trade should continue to sell. "for ed a perfect trip down, and spoke Regiment's Officers."
she was firmly determined to gorillas, and natives dancing to shipment." But the contract has highly of the hospitality of the The Officer's now serving with the push on towards the ideals Broadway music. been tightened up very much in this Royal Navy. When they left the battalion in China are: Lieutenant which established Manchukuo. "Congorilla" brings wildest Africa as it really la. It is a film you connection, and we have, I think. Northern Port they were accorded Colonel E. J. de C. Boys, M.C.,-Reuter
Awaits Action.
should see and one that you will successfully combated the main an enthusiastic send-off, the Band of Commanding; Major J. A. A. Griffin, Chinese objections."
the 4th U.S. American Marine Corpa D.s.o. Second-in-Command, Lieuten-
New York, Yesterday. long remember. Washington correspondents Coming abortly to the King's playing them out, while guards of ant F, W. Young, Adjutant, Lieut-| honour were formed by members of enant G. H. King, Quartermaster, say that although the State De-Theatre. the Shanghai Volunteer Defence Maior E. H. Impey, M. C. Major partment had not commented, it Corps, Russian Section, and of the St. G. Thoyts, M. C. Captain was clearly inclined to throw R. W. Cave-Orme, Captain L C. the influence of the U.S. Gov- Crick, M. C. Captain C. Pennack, ernment behind the Lytton pro- Six New Officers. officers and about 100 Captain H. M. Boxer, M.C., Cap-posals for a peaceful settlement men, forming the rear party of the tain T. H. R. Riggs, D.C.M., M.M. of the Manchurian controversy.
future.
PASSENGERS
DEPARTURES.
The following passengers sailed
by the a.s. "Nankin" on Dctober 1,
for Australia, via Manila:-
French troops.
Two
AS
Mr. B. B. Laycock, Mr. Sebastian Regiment will be coming on to the Captain C. T. Ingle. Captain LG. The report is accepted by Wash- P. Curran, ington officials as a fair and just Ugarte, Mr. T. A. Ovchinnikoff, Mr. Colony later, and six new officers Dickinson, Lieutenante
BRIBERY CHARGE NOT PROVED.
Constable Establishes Perfect Alibi.
are
Police Constable Chu Ping-yee, approach to a solution & Mrs. W. P. Lind & infant, Mr. & will be joining the Regiment from A. U. Mackenzie, J. E. T. Pim, appraisal of the situation and a Mrs. A. G. Miller & Son, Dr. Haw- Home later in the year. These six E. D. S. Powell, J. G. M. B. Gough, realistic thorna Darby Mr. D. P. Coles, Mr. are Second Lieutenants who have J. H Hocquard, 2/Lieutenants of admittedly enormous difficulties. charged on remand before Mr. & Mrs. A. W. Hogan, Miss Edna E just completed their training at the S. P. B. Bransbury, D. P. St. C. It is reliably understood that the EL Wynne-Jones at the Central Ray, Mr. Albin Tscharky, MP. G. Royal Military College at Sandhurst, Roissier, A. Wall Seaforth. Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Froggett, Eighteen of the Battalion's officers
Mr. See To Chin, Miss Mee Hoo, are at present in the Colony. The Mr. & Mrs. Ah Hing & infant, Mrs. rear-party will follow on the trans-
THE BLIND,
An Appeal Made For Assistance.
US Government is not moving in Magistracy yesterday afternoon, was discharged because he had a the matter at present, its position, being that an investigation was perfect alibl. The Constable had made by an agency representing been accused of demanding 85.
Mr. F. C. E. Rendall, for the de- large number of other nations, and the only proper course for the fence, proved that the accused was United States is to await the on an entirely different beat the
Yee Sing Young, Master Aid Kong, port a.. Neuralia, leaving the North ANNUAL PICNIC FOR Mr. See To Teck, Mr. & Mrs, O. P. on November 14 Blanden, Mr. & Mrs. See To Fong In sporting circles the Battalion Mrs. Lo Lem Tim. Shun, Mr. Bruno is well-known, and were within an Chan Yew Fong, Mr. Ab Young, ace of winning the Shanghai Foot- Master Sul Kong, Master Mi Koon, ball League last season. When at Mr. H. M. Pinguet, Mrs. Lee Quan the top, the outbreak of trouble Chew, Mr. Alfred Chew Lee, Master stopped all games and robbed them Desmond Mun Way, Rev. & Mrs. Lof the honours which they were al N. Watkins & infant, Mr. E. Tho-most certain to win. They run notoria Diocesan, Missionary Associa- co-operation of all Powers in help- mas, Mrs. D. Luker, Mrs. M. Rugger fifteen, but many of the tion has, in the past five years, or ing China to escape the evils of fallen within the last month, Harwood, Miss N, Murray, Mrs. J. officers are keen, enthusiasts and ganised, with the assistance of civil war and establish Its own September 16, 17 and 18 were the
falling on September 17 and 67 Heatley Miss A. Harvey, Mrs. N: have expressed their intention of generous friends, a summer picnic atable Government Reuter heaviest days of rain,
for the girls of the Blind Home, A Mere Suggestion.66 of an Inch falling on the 16th Russell, Mrs. H. H. Halls, Mr. & participation in the game here.
Criticising the Lytton Report, Mrs. J. C. West, Miss M. Woods, The Battalion have attained fame Pokfulam. The picnic has taken Mrs. M. L. Wright, Miss G. Gissing, in Bayonet Fencing, and three the nature of a motor ride to Shek-Dr. C. C. Wu said that the and 18th respectively. Misa B. L. Murray, Miss K, Heat- tiries figured in the foal of the when the girls, generally about memoranda is merely a suggestion ley, Mr. & Mrs. R. N. Kirk Mr. H. Inter-Service Championship at Olym W. Halle, Mr. Lowe Wal Gong, Mr. da, before leaving Home for for J.C. M. Granham, Mr. H. L. Rough- eign service. ton, Mrs. B. Cooke, Mr. & Mrs. H.E. Batchelor, Miss R. C. O. Batchelor,
League action at the night he was alleged to have de-
manded money. This was proved The New York Times charac terises the report as comprehen- by departmental records. pre sive, penetrating and impartial. It
says it reveals a strong desire for RAINFALL FOR PAST MONTH. The St. Peter's Group of the Vic- Sino-Japanese conciliation and the
A total of 4.42 inches of rain has
Mr. & Mrs. T. T. McKinley, Miss M.
L Mackenzie, Mr. Kimpton, Mr.
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ADDED ATTRACTION
FOLLIES of the DAY"
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WE ARE GLAD TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL COMMENCE SHOWING THE BEST SUPER AND SPECIAL RADIO, UNIVERSAL AND BRITISH DOMINION PICTURES OF~1932- 38 FROM THE BEGINNING OF NEXT MONTH.
JEFFREYS
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or may not adopt, 10 in umber, are given tea and which the League of Nations may and ave in which
useful gift. same plan this year, the picnic to here to day. take place on Saturday afternoon,
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SHERIGT OPEWERY
It has been decided to follow the messages from Nan
The Lincolnshire Regiment is one Octobe
the oldest in the Britis
been raised the Earl of
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For
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The Beer of Quality