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FIRM CELEBRATES CENTENARY
Union Insurance Society of Canton COMPANY'S ROMANTIC RISE
To-day provides the centenary celebration of one of the oldest companies formed in China by foreigners, the Union
Insurance
Society of Canton. Lid A recep tion will be held in the Company's offices between 12.15 p.m. and "1 p in the Union Building.
In 1855 the Society was formed. one year after the monopoly of the East India Company in Canton was terminated. It was composed of a merchants, who group of British
insurance. realised that without business in foreign countries would been never. "Bourist Trade had handicapped by the fact that, mer- chants never dared bring out more than small shipments at a time,.
Dean Chester D. Snell Univer
sity of Wisconsin Extension Divi- sion head, preferred to resign his position rather than tell his story to the legislative investigating committee before whom he was accused of countenancing "free love discussion among faculty members under his supervision.
and to face this difficulty the me¶¶¶____¶¶m chants founded the Society under the guidance of the old Arm of Dent and Co.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Crown, the Ent
In 1841, when Hong Kong was ceded to the British Union was transferred to that city! and its headquarters have remained there ever since. Grouth, however, was amazingly rapid even for those "boom" times. When Dent and Co. came to grief in the financial up-
unshaken. A British Committee of
Volunteering In Hong Kong
THE CHUNA "MALL, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1935
PRISON TRAINING IN
MANUAL WORK Comprehensive Plan For Kwangtung
Canton, to-day.
To-day's Short Story.
MUSIC ON THE HILL
SYL
By "Saki
her:
YLVIA Seltoun ate her break-, "but if he once gues he'll" - stay:] In pursuance of the resolution of
fast in the morning-room at {Yesaney throws almost as much a the Provincial Assembly, the Pro-Yessner with a pleasant sense spell over him as Town does. One vincial Department of Civil Affairs of ultimate victory, such as a can understand what holds him to and the Provincial Court yesterday fervent Ironside might have per-Town, but Yessney- and the
bad shrugged jointly issued an order to various mitted himself on the morrow dowager
shoulders. county governments and branch of Worcester fight
She was scarcely pugnacious by
There \Was 3. sombre almost courts to the effect that working
temperament, bat belonged to that savage wildness about Yessney that! departments should be created
more successful class of fighters was certainly not likely to appeal prisons for training" prisoners manual work.
who are pagacions by circum- stance. Fate had willed that her Maintenance funds will be raised life should be occupied with a series by the county governments and the of small struggles, usually with the branch courts: besides their officials, odds slightly
against her, and
in
who have to render free services in usually she had just managed to teaching, technical men will be ap come through winning- pointed to instruct prisoners in
And now she felt that she had various kinds of work; and 30 per brought her hardest and certainly cent of net profits from sales of
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The House In The Wood," by John Hastings Turner.
her most important struggle to a goods made by prisoners will be successful issue. To have married to town-bred tastes, and Sylvia, not- given to the makers and 70 per cent Mortimer Seltoum, "Dead Mortimer" withstanding her name, was accus- kept by the departments and given as his more intimate enemies call- tomed to nothing much more sylvan them when their terms of imp-ed him, in the teeth of the cold than "leafy Kensington Shelook- sonment expire-Central Press
hostility of his family, and in spite ed on the country as something ex- of his unaffected indifference to cellent and wholesome in its way, women, was indeed an achievement which was apt to become trouble- that had needed some determination some if you encouraged -it over! and adroitness to carry through much
PRINCE OF WALES AT BIRMINGHAM
Keenly Interested In B.I.F. Display
them
yesterday she had brought her vic- Distrust of town-life had been tory to i concluding stage by new thing with her, born of her To the Editor, “Chinë Mail.”
wrenching her husband away from marriage with Mortimer, and she. Town and its group of satellite had watched with satisfaction the! Sir,-In this matter of Chinese heaval of 1864, the Union remained coolies carrying machine, and/or
watering-place and "settling him gradual fading of what she called! down," in the vocabulary of her "the Jermyn-street-look" in his London, to-day. kind, in this remote wood-girt eyes as the woods. and heather of) Management was appointed, and Mr. Lewis guns about for tired volun teers, I congratulate you on a point
HRH the Prince of Wales travel-maner farm which was his country Yesaney had closed in on C. D. Williams was named as Secre
Ted by air to Castle Bromwich aero-house.
|yesternight. Her will-power and tary. His successors to the post of well taken.
So long as the local volunteer drome yesterday afternoon to visit "You will never get Mortimer to strategy had prevailed; Mortimer Robert Watmore. Mr. Nathaniel J. force permits such practices to ob the British Industries Fair at Birgo, his mother had said tarpingly, would stay.
Outside the morning-room win- Ede, Mr. Douglas Jones, Mr. W. Jain, so long will it lay itself open mingham
to harm by that most potent of
dows was a triangular slope of turf, Saunders, Mr. C. Montague Ede.
disintegrating influences: "ridicule.
which the indulgent night call a lawn, and beyond its low hedge of neglected fuchsia bashes a steeper! slope of heather and bracken drop-i ped down into caverions combes
general manager have been Mr.
Rapid Growth
As the Prince went from
thei
Mr. Paul Lauder, and, since last force, which is to be a serious aerodrome to the Fair he year, Mr. A. W. Hughes.
factor can do that with impunity. warmly greeted by the crowds who
It is the lack of dignity which lined the road
The Prince spent several hours Early documents show that the these things proclaim that makes initial paid up capital was $50,000 a genuine sore point with actual inspecting the impressive display of divided into 100 shares of $500 and potential volunteers.
ROOSEVELT DECLINES TO COMMENT
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Britain's heavier industries, after while simultaneously, the Presi- overgrown with oak and yew. In each. This was increased as the The dignity of the force is one which he few back to London.dent escaped the severest setback its wild open savagery there seem- to his recovery programme. The ed a stealthy linking of the joy of business developed until in 1868 the of its most valuable assets. It British Wireless Service
vote came after most impassioned life with the terror of unseen capital was $1,250,000, divided into should not be jeopardised by what
efforts by the inflationists to save things. Sylvia smiled complacent- 250 shares of $5,000 each with you truly term the musical comedy
ly as she gazed with a School-of- $1,000 per share paid up. Every element.
WILD INFLATION WARNING Art appreciation at the landscape, Mr. E. W. Kemmerer, the widely-and then of a sudden abe almost recognised monetary expert, testi-shuddered.
third year the profits were divided,
until the British Committee was formed.
LITORUS.
Suggested Ditty
Branches were first established in London. Shanghai, Singapore,
[To the Editor. “China Mai”. Yokohama, and Melbourne. At the of
Sir, the twentieth
-After coolies commencement
in machine-guns (or is it Lewis century offices were opened.
an amalgamation
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CAMPBELL BLACK'S
PLANS
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His machine will be a new atd improved Comet now uzder mann-
the Bill
fed before a Senate banking and **It is very wild," she said to: currency sub-committee on May 14, Mortimer, who had joined het; that the Patman Bonus Bill would "ane could almost think that in) result in a fight from the dollar such a place the worship of Pan had and possibly in wild inflation.
never quite died out." He said he could hardly think of
"The worship of Pan never has died out,” said Mortimer. "Other newer gods have drawn aside his
Manila and Calcutta, and in 1906 guns?), why not following the facture. It is designed to cruise words to describe" the full extent
with the China best, traditions of Act II chorus 10,000 feet above sea level at a of the possible calamity. Traders Insurance Company. Ltd, of manicurists and masseuses, doing speed of at least 220 miles per hour The controversial measure, spon-votaries from time to time, but be was effected. Further branches their stuff to the refrain:
Its maximum attainable level sored by Congressman Wright Pat-is the Nature-God to whom all must Oh, it's girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, were established at Tokyo, Hankox,
speed will be about 4 miles per man of Texas, provides for cash come back at last. He has been Sydney, Adel-Yes it's girls, girls, girls, girls, gir minute and its range on one fuel payment of some US$2,000,000,000 called the Father of all the Gods, Tientsin, Bozbay. aide, Auckland, Wellington, Soura-Jor some such ditty?
Perhaps
excellent Sunday toad in still air will be 2,000 tolin obligatione to veterans. which but most of his children have been Bris- Vancouver, baya. Toronto.
Herald cartoonist will oblige by 3,000 miles.
under existing laws are pot
due stillborn." bane, Perth, Christchurch. Buenos
Details of Campbell Black's until 1945. delineating the choreography.
Sylvia was religious in an honest, Aires, Johannesburg, New York,
fights are not yet finally decided.; LITTLE WILLIE.
Its inflation aspects have been vaguely devotional kind of way, and and California.
But it is known that he is parti-heatedly discussed for weeks.
did not like to hear ber cularly interested in the route
beliefs
spoken of ** aftergrowths, but it was at least something new and hopeful to hear Dead Mortimer speak with such energy and conviction on any subject.
In 1915 an amalgamation was made with the China Fire Insurance Company Ltd in 1919 with the North China Insurance Co., Ltd., and in 1924 with the Yangiste Insurance Association, Ltd.
First In Aviation
An interesting fact in the com- pany's history is that they have the
AIDS TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS
Robot Timetables Invented
Two robot time-tables made
linking Latin America with Europe
and Africa.-British Wireless Ser- ¡vice.
QUEEN VISITS MEMORIAL
EXHIBITION
mere
London, To-day. Her Majesty. the Queen yesterday paid an in
**You don't really believe in formal visit to the Memorial Ex- hibition now being held in Lon-Fan?" she asked incredulously.
"I've been a fool in most things," dọn of the works of the late Mr.
S. Jagger, the distinguished said Mortimer quietly, "but I'm not British Wire-such a fool as not to believe in Pan when I'm down here. And if you're wise you won't disbelieve in hima too boastfully while you're in his country.
less Service.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
.It was not till a week later, when
tions of the woodland walks round
A.O.B.C. NOT OPEN TO-DAY
distinction of being the first com-jtheir first appearance at Victoria Shanghai, today.--The American pany in the world to issue an avia-Railway Station, London, recently. Oriental Banking Corporation is not tion policy. This Was In 1919. At Horsham, where the Southern opening today. Depositors are British sculptor. This particular branch of the Railway has had one installed for fully covered-Reuter. "business later became too large to the past year, the machine has-aid- handle, so they carried on-aviationjed hundreds of travellers and de- insurance jointly with the White lighted thousands of children. Cross Aviation Insurance Associa- The Mechanical Informator has tion fof Lloyd's Underwriters) ja type-writer keyboard, numbered | under the name
of the British from one to 41, and the traveller Aviation Insurance Group from presses the key corresponding with Her Majesty Queen Mary cele- It is stated in the Government Yessney, that she ventured January 1, 1924, until 1930, when an index of possible destinations.brates her 68th birthday on Sun-Gazette that the name of the Laen tour of inspection of the farm. it was formed into a private com-A yellow, pink, "green" or orange day. A Royal Salute by the-Navy Wah Co., Ltd., has been struck off buildings. A farm yard suggested în her, mind a scene, of cheerful pany, the British Aviation Insur-card then appears, bearing the will be fired in honour of the oc-the register.
bustle, with churns and flails and, ance Group. Ltd, in which company times of ali trains for the week-casion on Monday.
Two ex-students of a Canton smiling dairymaids, and teams of the society is a shareholder and has day and Sunday up and down lines! a seat on the board,
Mr. E. C. Cox, trafic manager of Mr. H. Hatch, of No. 10 Canse-school who started a fight, in which horses drinking knee-deep în duck- During war times, the company the Southern Railway, said that way Hill, has reported to, the po-several of their friends joined, at crowded ponda.
Tak - Bund on Wednesday As she wandered among the organised and ran a war savings Informators would be installed lice that between 8 am on Sun-Kai deposit in Hong Kong.
later at Waterloo Station, and also day and 8 am
Wednesday, night, were yesterday bound over in gaunt grey buildings of Yessney at London Bridge.
some one 'stole from his house twoja sum of $50, to keep the peace for manor faim her first impression pieces of jewellery valued at $43. one year, by Mr. Wynne-Jones at was one of crushing stillness and
the, Kowloon Magistracy.
desolation, as though she had hap BRITISH RA.F. INCREASES
The Government Gazette › nati-
pened on same lone deserted home- IN PERSONNEL
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A
ACTRESS WHO WAS ASKED TO
LEAVE TOWN
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A big crowd saw the show with
the original cast, and it was 20
to
fies that at the expiration of three The University Union will hold a stead long given over to owls and months from the date thereof the launch picnic to White Sand Beach cobwebs then came a sense of name of The Mayen Co., Ltd, will on Sunday, June 2 The launch furitive watchful hostility. the be-struck off the register and the will leave Blake Pier at 2 pan, and same shadow of unseen things that overnight success hat only for tion. It does not reflect a policy of company dissolved, unless cause is Jardine Wharf at 2:15 pm. The seemed to lurk in the wooded one night. The county authorities competition with other countries, shown to the contrary.
charge will be 50 cents per bead, combes and coppices. closed the show and ejected the nor a rare in armamenta. We wel-
refreshments. Pavlusive, Tickets From behind heavy doors and players.
come Herr. Elitler's offer of limita- A quiet wedding took place at fare now obtainable at the Univer shuttered windows came the rest- This clever artiste can act sing tion, but at the same time we are three o'clock yesterday afternoon sity Union Office-
less stamp of houf or rasp of chain) and play very prettily on the stage carrying out our declared policy not when Miss P. V. Brown became
halter, and at times a muiled bellow She will stage a comeback here, to accept inferiority to our neigh-the bride of Mr. A. L. Slack, of Yesterday morning, at the Re from some stalled beast. From a minus the daring scene, and more boars in the air. The task of ex- Shanghai. The Rev. HW Bainesgistrars Office, Supreme Court, distant corner a shaggy dog watch- mindful of the prejudices of the pansion is a tremendous under- officiated at the ceremony. Mr. T. Mrs Justus Peuple and Miss Dadi ed her with intent, unfriendly eyes: local censors.
taking, and we need the full support G. S. Alexander, of Mackinnon Tasto, daughter of Mr. Heinrich as she drew near it slipped quietly and goodwill of the country” Mackenzie and Co., gave the bride Tasto, were married, Mr. T Sinto its kennel, and slipped London, to-day-His Majesty the Until new service nerodromes are away, while Mrs. Alexander was Whyte Smith officiating. The bride again as noiselessly when she King has approved the extension of the established, civil serodromes will be Matron of Honour. The sluties of recently arrived in Hong Kong passed by. A few hean, que term of office of the Earl of Clarendon used for the training of plots and best man were undertaken by Mr from Manila, whilst Mr. Berple for food under a rick, stole swa as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. British Wireles se mechanics.British Wireless Ser. Black also of Mackinnon Mac-Jaived
Wednesday from under a rate at her kenzie and Co.
Manilas
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