JAPANESE ADMIRAL IN CANTON
Sight-Seeing Trip Enjoyed
OFFICIAL RECEPTIONS
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Canton, To-day.
After a four-day visit to Can- ton, Rear Admiral Shosuke Shi- momura, Commandant of the Fifth Japanese Cruiser Squadron, left here this morning aboard the gun-i boat Saga for Hong Kong and will board the flagship Tatsurs for other ports along the China Coast.
to an interview last: evening, Admiral Shimomura stated that he visited Canton for the firsti time and that his trip was primar-i ily for sight-seeing. The naval otbeer said he was much impress ed with the natural beauty und construction progress of Canton.
During his sojourn in this city the Japanese admiral called on Mayor Liu Chi-wen, General Chen Chi-tang, Mr. Lin Yun-kai, Chair- man of the Kwang-tung Provinciali
Rear-Admiral Government, and
Klang Yen-chung. Commandant of the Whampoa Cruiser Squadron. During his official calls on Chinese
sides.
Kawai Consul-General Tatsuo gave a reception yesterday after- noon at the Japanese consulate in!
Chalby 4-year-old Jackie Gib bons (above) is back at his Lexington, Ky., home after being missing four days. He was found at Chattanooga, Tenn., with a girl hitch-hiker who claims he follow- ed her. She is being held as a kidnapper,
COLONY DANCE
CONTEST
H.K. Hotel Will Hold Championship
HEATS COMMENCE ON JANUARY 7
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1934
CANTON - SHANGHAI
AIR ROUTE
Passenger Service
Inauguration,
NORTHERN JOURNALISTS TO MAKE NEW YEAR FLIGHT
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Canton, to-day.
To-day's Short Story.
"Cos I Treat Him Proper"
By Hedley Barker
THEN the ridge of thatch on, dog to give his master a last dying
W Farner Renwick's barn had look of love.
cut the sun in halves old Varley Yes. Buster looked an unlikely said: "Well, Buster," and the custo er, judged even by the most
Old. Varley generous standards. You would! The China National Aviation Cor-pair went indoors. poration will inaugurate the Canton- was well-stricken in 'years a never have dreamed, to look at him, matter of eighty-six or 80 ----- that he was the finest gun-dog this! Shanghai passenger service on Tues- and the bleak Autumn breezes side of the county border. Yet
He had a mouth: day by inviting Chinese and foreign were apt to search out his secret such was the case. newspapermen in Shanghai for a places and chill the marrow, in soft as velvet, and a
his bones. So when the sun was than Sunday. And that wasn't his trip to Canton and the coast ports full down by Farmer Renwick's sole accomplishment. He was an Foreign papers in roof he and his, dog went in from animal of parts; and if you bade him take the biscuit which you laid Shanghai which will be represented the cottage step.
Buster wasn't much to look at.en his nose when you had counted
on the way.
пове surer
in this acrial trip are the China He was by mongrel out of twenty, he would take it on Press, North-China Daily News, the ¡mongrel. There Was a touch Shanghai Times and the Shanghai of terrier in his tail, a touch of Evening Post and Mercury.
Chinese papers represented are the China Times, the Shan Pao, Sin The Wen Pan and several others. journalists will be accompanied by an official of the China National Aviation Corporation.
Једе
COLONY TO HONOUR DR. HU SHIH
retriever in has head, and more than suspicion of dachshund in his over- short legs. He had cow-hocks and a butterfly nose.
Allows Car To Hit Fire Station
COOLIE'S LEG AMPUTATED
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TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Lady Harpton's Garden Party," by Mrs. Violet Camp- beil.
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Looked at from any angie he was comic parody of what any self- respecting dog should be. But if you caught that glance from his The newspapermen will
eyes which was reserved for a select! Shanghai early on Tuesday morning few-for those whom Buster re-stroke. But this parlour trick was aboard the Douglas Dolphin montcognised as princes where old Var-done with a large condescension, an plane and will reach Foochow ley was king you felt that his air of la boredom. Best of all he noon, remaining there overnight shortcomings were fully redeemed. liked to be out with a gun, and no After "doing" Foochow, the Jour For Buster's brown eyes were living dog ever had a keener sense nalists will board the plane next day jewels, more than human, old Var-correct procedure: of the treatment The Management of the Hong for Canton and are due to reach 'ley. said. And, indeed, it was so. officials here, Admiral Shiraomura Kong Hotel takes great pleasure here in the afternoon.
For humans, frail creatures of proper for birds. His hold on was accompanied by Commander in announcing that during the
Local newspapermen are making vanity, shall never know that affer Pheasants was a caress; it would
not have burst a bubble... H. Harada, commanding officer of first week of the New Year they preparations to welcome their col-tion which lives in the friend of They have not the staying,
Dusk fell, and old Varley lit ai the gunboat Saga, and four naval will be holding the 1935 Hong leagues from Shanghai. There will man.
Kong Dance Championship. be receptions and sight seeing trips faithful heart; the strong and ten tallow candle. His face was puck- They are taking the opportunity conducted under the auspices of the der attachment which enables the ered into a hundred wrinkles, of holding the Championship now. Newspapermen's Guild. It is re-
strained to an unnatural caricature owing to the fact that the popular ported that the Shanghai journalists
with the weight of thought. Ille dancers Andrew and Ursula arg will also be entertained by the SLEEPY DRIVER years pressed heavily upon him. honour of the visiting naval of with them for a few weeks. J. A Municipal authorities.
Bowed,, and shaking with continuous ficer. Among those who attended Andrew and Ursulu Preston, to give
small trembling movements, he the reception were Mayor L Chi- their real names, are fully qualified
atared into space, his. toothless officer said he was much Impress teachers of the Imperial Society of
gums working as he mouthed sound- ching, committee member of1&&&&
Teachers of Dancing, London, and
less words. wen, Lleut-Gen. Tao Yih-chlen, who have the honnur of being the first
All day long he had been con- represented Gen. Chen Chi-tang, Mr. English couple to demonstrate and
sidering Joe Bulkley's offer. Joe, Chin Tseng-ching, committee mem-
Summoned for driving without slapping his leg with his riding- ber of the Kwangtung Provincial, teach in the Far East.
The heats will be held each after-
due care and caution, Yip Ming, crop, had said: "That dog of yourn's Government, Mr. L. K. Little,
noon during the Tea Dances from!
driver of public car No. 166, was pining, gaffer, pining for a run over Commissioner of Customs, Mr.
Two
this morning fined $20 by Mr. W. the land. He aren't what folks!
Sir Kingsley Wood, presiding at Herbert Phillips, British Consul-January 7 to January 13.
jeouples will be chosen from each
Schofield at the Central Magis-'uld call a retriever, not by a street. General, and many others.
heat to compete in the Finals. Qoc
But, he's a sport'n dog all right, accompanied by the Duchess of the opening ceremony, said that the tracy.
York, recently opened the recon- will be chosen by popular vote and
Traffic Inspector Alexander and he's pining for the crack of a
new building was the greatest let- structed letter-sorting office Etter sorting office in-the-country-- the other by judges' decision. The
said that on the morning of De-gun. Want to sell him?” Finals will be decided by judges'
cember 9, Mr. R. Nazarin, of Old Varley knew it would have Mount Pleasant, E.C.1. The Duke the greatest, indeed, he was told, in decision only.
A reception in honour of Dr.
Messrs. Harry, Wicking and to come to this; had known it for of York also set in motion the post the world. There entered it every Before and during the week of Hu Shih, Dean of the College of
a day. His own shooting age stamp cancelling machines and week 17,500,000 letters and packets. tho championship Andrew and Liberal Arts at the National Uni-Company, Limited, was a pas-many
senger in the defendant's car. days were over. Ever since they brought into use part of the now Nearly 2,000 motor-vans left Mount One ease of small-pox, which Ursula will demonstrate the basic versity, Peiping, will be given by The defendant, who was appar- had found him lying on the wolds, automatic sorting and distributing Pleasant daily. The Post Office
mechanism. ently sleepy' at the time, proceed the victim of a stroke he hadn't
railway below the building carried The new building covers approxi-nearly 30,000 bags of mail a day proved fatal, six cases of diphtheria steps of the Quick Fox Trot and with one death, three cases of en-Waltz to help the competitors to Students' Union, when he arrives cd up Victoria Strect from the been able to handle a gun. Come
in the Colony, on or about mately two and a half acres. The and thus alleviated to some degree Fire Station. Mr. Nazarin re-since Buster had, handled his last new sorting office is extensively the traffic problem of the London two cases of meningitis, which also judges and also to show that in- uary 4
Dr. Huis one of China's best ceived nose and forehead injuries. bird. And the dog loved the game. mechanized. There are tables fitted streets. No malls were as yet land- proved fatal. were reported in the tricate steps are not necessary.
The contest will be judged on scholars, and is well acquainted
Moreover, old Varley was finding it with two-way conveyors, and 15 ed at Mount Picasant by air. But Colony for the week ended Satur-
English
with the languages. of the West. Ballroom
Fines totalling $55 were im-hard to make ends meet. Buster high-speed motor-driven stamping who in this autumn of British He was one of the leaders respon-
machines e.ch capable of stamping aerial achievement would be bold day. During the same period 51 standardised
Dancing and the main points on deaths from tuberculosis. were. re-
which the judges will base their aible for the revolution in Chinesa posed on Chan Wing-fat, driver wasn't getting his proper food.
When Bulkley put his question 700 letters a minute. The mechan enough to rule out the air as a pos- ported.
decision will be on:---Time, Rhythm, literature, which has resulted in it of lorry No. 2419, when he ap-
peared on three summonses, for old Varley winced. With Buster ism for sorting newspapers and sible mean of access to the building The annual dinner of the Chinese Movement, Deportment, and Rissing simplified and made easier to driving with inefficient brakes, a gone Varley would have nobody, packets includes boxes which,, work-in the future? Some 5,000 men master. The majority of Chinese load not properly secured, and nothing except the rubber bone the ing automatically under synchroniz were employed on matla work at publications at present utilise this driving without due care and dog had played with as a pup. ed electrical control, discharge their Mount Pleasant. simplified method of writing. [caution.
Teara brimmed on his eyelids, roll- contents on to conveyors which The Duke of York, in declaring Dr. Chiang Mung Ling, ex-Min- Sub-Inspector Saunder said led quickly down the seams of his carry the packets on to a system of the building, open, said the postal ister of Education of China, now that on December 12, defendant's withered cheeks. Old men cry distributing bands running into the service traced its lineage back for residing at the Great Eastern Hotel car was loaded with armatures. easily, and all the esaler when secondary sorting areas.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
Catholic Young Men's Society was and Fall.
The following are the rules and held at the club rooms, Caine Road. last night. The chairman, Mr. regulations of the contest:-
1. The championship will be Robert Choa, extended a warm wel- come to Bishop Valtorta and other judged on two dances:-The Quick
Fox Trot and the Waltz.
guests.
2. Open to all amateurs.
Reception Arranged By Students' Union
MAN WHO REVOLUTIONISED
CHINESE LITERATURE
Euro-American the
Returned
Three Summonses
#
London,
The Duke of York, who was
Greatest In The World
some 450 years. In 1482 King
in Manila, has written to the Hon. When rounding the bend at the breavement in at hand. For Buster The Duke and Duchess of York Edward IV... appointed relays of 3. Two couples will be chosen Sin, accepting the invitation to be of the motors, which weighed would be Buster dead.
Secretary of the Union, Mr. P. H. Soldiers' Club, Queen's Road, one gone from his place by the hearth received by Sir Kingsley Wood, the horsemen to carry the Royal dis- Four cases of diphtheria, one
A knife Postmaster-General, who presented patches and so enabled letters to present at the reception. He is at over 300 pounds, fell from the turned in his heart.
them a number of the case of enteric fever, and one case from cach heat to compete in the
company travel 200 miles within two days. One by popular vote and present attending a conference in car-Several of the coolies sitting
present. The Duke inspected a The King letters then had a mono- of meningitis were reported in the Finals. Colony during the three days ended one by judges" decision.
Manila, but will leave for Hong on the lorry also fell off. One of "Want to sell him?" persisted guard of honour consisting of de-poly of the mails, To-day his 4. No couple passed through to Kong by the as. President Jackson them was so badly injured that Bullday. "I'll give you a ten-pound tachments of the 7th Battalion. The Majesty's correspondence formed a Wednesday
Final can re-enter any other heat
he was forced to have his leg note." on January 1. A fine of $10 was imposed on or change their partners.
He is expected to arrive in Hong amputated. Kong on January 4 and on January 7 the University of Hong Kong will confer an honorary degree on him and he will deliver a lecture there.
Lau Chi-chung, driver of private
car No. 1197, who was summoned before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the:
Kowloon Magistracy this morning JAPANESE CRUISER
for driving his car in a dangerous the Tal Po Rond on
manner on December 16.
LEAVES COLONY ·
New Destroyers Due For being found with 698 heroin
Here On Thursday pills in his possession at No. 47, Woosung Streat, second floor, Yau
The Japanese Scout-Cruiser Tat-, Yuk, a 86-year-old unemployed,
jauta, which arrived in the Colony! was sentenced to five months' im-eight days ago from Formosa, prisonment, with the alternative] teaves Hong Kong to-day for the
North.
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in
Later Dr. Hu will visit Canton, Wuchow. and other cities Kwangal.
UNLAWFUL ARMS
$1,000 Fines For Two Unemployed
BARBARIANS TRIUMPH
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J
London Regiment Post Office very modest part of the mail of "Sometimes," quavered old Var-Rifles) and the St. John Ambulance 150,000,000 letters which the Post Office .handled each week The ley, "we 'as to do what we don't Association (Post Office Centre). want. It's maybe as you say, that
opening of this reconstructed build-. he's pining fer the feel of feathers
ing marked yet one further step in in his mouth. A young dog he is,
the development, of our mall ser vices. It was appropriate that it and full o' spirit, and I'm an old
should be opened in a year in which man"
the 150th anniversary of the estab- lishment of the mail coach service
But he was afraid of Bulkley,
ISLAND SOCEER TEAM FOR NEW YEAR DAY GAME
have been
Cardiff, who on Boxing Day over-afraid for his dog. He asked time The following whelmed the London Irish, yester to think it over, and Bulkley prom-selected to represent the Island by John Palmer had been celebrat- day accounted for the Watsonians ised to call the next day. He was in the forthcoming match, Island ed.
in eimilar manner, winning by 25 a big, coarse man. Old Varley re-v. Mainland, to be played on Tues- Great improvements had been points to nil, while Bath lost their membered to have seen him break-day, commencing at 8.30 pm. made of recent years in every one of the services which the Post Office home fixture to Neath by 18 points ing in a horse, and it hadn't been on the Club ground.
controlled, These Improvements to 8.
a pretty sight. He was afraid. of a fine of $690, by Mr. E W.
Bedford secured a sweeping vic-When Bulkley came on the following Durban (R.A.); Lau Mau (South had been due, in no small degree, to Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis- H.M.S. Sandwich, sloop, left
tory over Penarth by 19 points to 5, day" he said:"
China), 8. Strange H.K. Clab) Capt, the energy with which Sir Kingsley tracy this morning.
Hong Kong yesterday for Shang- Charged with having a small reland Swansea recorded their second "If I let you have Buster, you'll Leung In Chan (South China), Pardos Wood and his predecessors in office
(RA), Elma (St. Joseph's): Tso Kwai volver in his possession without a successive win on successive days treat him kind? I shouldn't be Shing (South China), Ward (St had directed the great group of Appearing on remand,
The Eighth Destroyer flotilla, sense, Ying Sze, a 19-year-old un-by beating the London Welsh com- easy, if I thought
Joseph's), He Ka Keang (Chinese Ath businesses, for which they were Cheung, a banishee, was sentenced
led by Flotilla Leader Duncan and employed was fined $1,000, in de-fortably by 22 points to 6.
"When I gets hold of a good dog, leti), Tay Kwei Liang (South China), responsible to Parliament. But the I treat him proper," said Bulldey. Lee Shek-yau (South China).. to nine months' hard labour by commanded by Captain A. R. Han- fault five months imprisonment,
progress and efficiency of the Post Mr. E. L. Wynne-Jones at the Cennick, R. N., is expected, to arrive in by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the
"Take him,” whispered the old
Office was, above all, due to the tral Magistracy this morning, for the Colony on or about January 8 Kowloon Magistracy this morning. returning to the Colony from ben-from Singapore, via Manila. ishinent..
hai.
The versatility of a 72-year-old HE WORE HAT IN COURT woman hawker, was favourably
Chan Tai-oln, a 22-year-old un-} employed was charged with hav ing the revolver in his control and
Reserves. Leonard (St. Joseph'e),
the performance of their vital [duties.com
TRADE ROUTES IN man. When he turned to go in mare (RA), Lai Kwok Wal B capacity and fidelity which the doors after watching Buster down China), Edmunds (RA), La! Shui great staff of nearly 230,000 men CHINA
the road he fumbled for the latch Wing (Squth China) and Fung Ying women boys and girls, brought to like a blind man.
Yo (Chinese Athletic). was also fined $1,000, in default | (Continued From Page 1)
A week had elapsed when old) five months' imprisonment.
An earlier cable stated that in Varley dreaming on his doorstep, commented upon by Mr. E. I. For wearing a hat at the Cen Detective Sergeant Franklin, of pursuance of a programme for felt a cold muzzle thrust into bis Wynne-Jones at the Central Matral Magistracy during court pro- the Yaumat! Police Station, stated placing the League of Nations' hand. It was Buster; Buster with gistracy this morning, when he ceedings this morning, Lo Yes, a that the first defendant was ar technical experts at the disposal his sonsy brown eyes-gazing, sentenced Ng Choi, unemployed, spectator, was fined $1 by Mr. E. rested in Chee Woo Street at 2 of China for reconstruction work, ing; with his tall wagging nineteen for stealing seven packets of c I Wynne-Jones. When asked why p.m. on Christmas day with the M. Avenol is sending M. Hass, the to the dozen. The old man got hurdreas of every correspondent must operated the high-speed stamping garettes from the woman, who ef he wore a hat, the defendant said; gun in his possession, and later French director of the Transit riedly to his fest, pointed shakily be attached to his or her letter be-machines and took part in sorting Lected his arrest in Gough Street "I did not realize that I had a hat the second defendant was arrested Section of the League-Secretariat, down the road with his stick. fore the letter is considered for pa- packets by means of the new yesterday.
on information, receivedk
to China for two months,
(Continued on Page 11)
CORRESPONDENCE
The Duke of York then operated from the platform switches which out the new machinery in motion. The Duke and Duchess of York
Fair PlayThe name and ad- made a tour of the building. They
blication. Ed.
mechanical devices,