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The Queen Mary The eyes of the world will be Touring Club. turned upon that latest com-
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The ss. Sirdhana, which left! Singapore yesterday afternoon, is due to arrive here of the morring of Tuesday next.
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ITo The Editor "China Mail"] Sir,-In your report of the pro- ceedings of the Canton Insurance Office Meeting. 1 notice that the Chairman is reported to have
said:-
CONGRATULATIONS · TO CONSUL
Portuguese Unite In. ↑
Felicitations
ANNIVERSARY OF SENHOR LABORINHO'S ARRIVAL
"We are confrosted with acute!
A very pleasant ceremony took competition which, appears to stop at nothing in the scramble to obtain place yesterday at the Portuguese Consulate when a crowd of the business; the one idea appears to
secure Premiama Income quite re-leading Portuguese residents of gardless to the adequacy of the the Colony gathered to congratu- Alvaro Brilhante Bate Senhor rates to the liability undertaken do not wish to be more
Consul on Laborinho, the but could quote cases illustrating
specific
the
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The ms, Van Hentsz will leave Hong Kong at 4 pm on Thursday next for Singapore, Penang and Belawan Deli
section
The 2015- Tilnegara, from highway Batavia direct, is due here on the from Cologne to Dusseldorf by the morning of Tuesday next and will Propaganda, Dr.leave for Amoy and Shanghai at Minister of Goebbels, was the occasion for a 11 am on Thursday.
what I have just said and which fanniversary of his assumption of great rally of motor-vehicles from
go to such extremes as to border the post. The ss. Alipore, which is due the surrounding district, including
Senhor Laborinho has only been on the ludicrous.” 150 Dutch and 50 Belgian cars here on or about June T, is taking
It's a pity that Mr. Paterson here for one year, but has already whose owners had come to attend cargo for direct discharge at
in response to the Bushire, Bahrein, Khoramshahr did not specify the particular earned - for himself,
courtesy and kindliness, invitation of the German Autors and Basra in addition to usual cases to which he referred.
I believe that among the more place in the hearts of his com Hong Kong, Friday, May 1936 bile Club. Among the distinguish-ports of call.
recognised and "respectable" un-nationals, and the speeches of ed visitors were the Dutch Minis-
Among the passengers who ar derwriting concerns in the Colony congratulation expressed the ap-
of the ter of Transport. the President of
Portuguese the Dutch Automobile Club and rived in the Colony this morning there is an Association to which preciation
already the President the Belgian by the
Gneisenau from they all belong, under the rules of community for his
services. His health Shanghai was Mr. M. W. Lo, the which there is a tariff of rates great
been Thaving
enthusiastical- which they agree to abide by... and
I also believe that every British ly drunk by the assembly. Senhor bination of strength. grace and After a short inaugural address, well-known local solicitor beauty, the great liner Queen in which Dr. Goebbels said with tennis player, who, accompanied
that the fate of by his family, has just spent a Insurance Agency in the Colony Laborinho replied in a graceful
belongs to this Association. and speech of thanks. Mary, when she sets out next biting sarcasm
abides by the agreed Tariff. Among those present were: Dr. week, under the proud com-this gigantic project, had it been short holiday in Shanghai ·
The only inference is that the F. M. de G. Ozorio, president of mand of Sir Edgar Britten, on left to a Parliament. would be
Herr Hong Kong rainfall for the 24
to which Mr. the Club Lusitano. Mr. Frank ther maiden voyage to New York clear, and that this was
10 a.. to-day particular cases The total since Paterson referred to in the pre- Barnes, president of the Club de and, it is hoped, to recapture Hitler's own project, he recalled hours ending at the Blue Riband of the Atlantic, hat many had smiled dubiously was 0.36 inch..
18.33 Insurance Office's Meeting, refer meida, president of the Liga which has for some years been when Herr Hitler had dug the January 1. has been 18.66 inches, face to his speech at the Canton Recreio. Mr. Jannario A. de Al- te Branches or agencies of alien Portuguesa, Mr. Eneas d'Aquino, in the hands of other nations arst spadeful of earth at Frank-against an
of the Associacao Le. non-British Insurance con-jsecretary For many years the Mauretania
"Portuguesa de Socorros Mutuos, reigned undisputed queen of heap of earth had since been pro-
Among the passengers who ar-cerns.
I appreciate that Hong Kong is Mr. D. J. P. Lopes, treasurer of the great liners serving the ected by a wire fence, as other-
centre in-the Club Lasitano, Mr. Fernando North Atlantic passenger tradewise the workers would have tak-rived in Hong Kong this morning
were 33 Filippino tourists, wholmerely a distributing
is concerned Pereira. secretary of the journal until Germany wrested pride of;
are in for South China.
For this rea-1A Comunidade, Dr. R. A. de C. place from her with the Europa en handfuls as a sacred relic.
Travelling as the first to use it have been on a round-trip to Ja-sofar as commerce
3Ir. Julio Goncalves. and Bremen, only to be ousted! in her turn by Italy with the down the new read and reviewing pan and Peiping. They
proceeded to included in the party are Mr. Na-joining in in the Imperial prefer-teacher of the Escola Portugues, was mocted Messrs. R. C. Såles. 0. D. Bar- Rex, until France. with the parade of the following vehicles charge of Mr. F. de la Cruz and son when it came to a question of Basto.
Augusto Victal. C. A. da Normandie, surpassed them all. Dr. Goebbels then
ether British Roza, Henrique de Barros, Fre Now the Queen Mary comes to: Dusseldorf, where he gave a lun-talis Enriquez, Municipal Presi-ence scheme which
cheun to 2,000 workers employed dent of Sariya, Tayobas, P. L, ac-some time back and which has been retto, great challenge the
French
in the construction of the road-companied by his wife. Mr. Man-jadopted by every
uel Lim, Dean of the College of possession, all Hong Keny couldjderico Barros and Mrs. M. A. de
an extra Tax on: Soames. ship.
Law. Alteneo de Manilay and Mrs.co was to put Had it not been for the de-Trans-Ocean Service.
of Lim, and Mr. M. Rodrigues, foreign built motor-cars on their pression which
Governor of Toyabes Province, primary annual licence when such Summoned at the instance
Inspector Andrews, Finn Rodseth, The party has transferred to the! Every other national imposes driver of car No. 4215, was fined Empress of Canada, which leaves a special tax on (to them) foreign 1975 by Mr. W. Schofield at the for Manila to-day at 6 p.m.
cused the libandonment of the work upon
furt. The Minister said that this inches.
01 average
the Queen Mary for two years. STORM-WRACKED ccompanied by his wife, cars were used in the Colopy.
and the protracted negotiations with the Government before: the granting of a loan madej resumption. possible. she would!
afloat have been probably before her greatest rival: as it has turned out the Normandie has, for a while at any rate.
the captured
coveted Blue Riband. Next week will tell us whether she or the Queen Mary will be the eventual holder. There is little to choose between
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YOUNG FASCISTS SHOT
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underwriting concerns The Central Magistracy this morning United States. Siam and practi-for driving his car without que cally every other nation, call for care and caution on Repulse Bay a heavy cash deposit or an extra Road on May 10 at 4.45 pm --
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COMPANIES.
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H.M. Submarine Regent is due annual taxation
not of their nationality other British concems in Hong to-writers arrive from the North ito
Kong. imorrow for a reft H.M.S. Dia-operating in their territory.
Insofar as Underwriting is con- If we are specially taxed by the mond and Daring will sail for!
cerned, there is no question of Governments of other countries Wei-hai-wei this afternooD.
Hong Kong being merely a dis-for the business which we do in tributing centre. Hong Kong is their territories, is there any rea- quite well equipped to take care son why Hong Kong should not the actual size of the two ships: tince to be reported for various!.
of all the underwriting which tax the foreign companies but the Queen Mary possesses parts of the country. In Zamora en-young Fascists were shot dead
be offering with her owncroaching on our territories for the most powerful marine xines ever built, developing while passing through a badly-lit Maybe it's right that doctors have may
the world's worst handwriting. But Companies, and if any assistance business?
SHAREHOLDER. HONG KONG horse-power. No street. 200,000
has been official declaration
Grave disturbances occurred at I've never yet seen made as to the speed attained Santona, where one school-teacher that I couldn't make out. on her trials off the Isle of was seriously wounded by shots Arran, but unofficial observers from a crowd of demonstrators. A declared that it was comfort- shooting affray between hostile, ably above 32 knots.
political fractions in Alanin near The Blue Riband, like the Malaga resulted in several victor's simple crown of laurel sons being wounded.
of Games at the Olympic
In a suburb of Malaga a store- ancient Greece, carries with itkeeper was fatally injured by an re-unknown assailant who had way-' immediate monetary ward. But the builders of the laid him. The railway workers in
on strike afterl ships that compete for the Barcelona went coveted trophy are not spend-the railway administration reject- ing millions--as they must to-led
demands for higher day for the sake of mere wages-Trans-Ocean Service. prestige; it is a matter of sound business as well.
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“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
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IR.A. ARRESTS IN DUBLIN Fifty People Held In Custody
A trip by the "Atlantic Ferry" is not, as a rule, a pleasure trip. and the majority of those who take it do so for business reasons only. There is nothing to be from coast to coast, nothing to break the monotony of grey, heaving waters, often lashed to fury by the wild gales that are common to this part of the world, and most passengers wish to get it over as soon asey and Attorney Labane, were ar- here yesterday morning. possible. As a natural conse-rested
do Altogether 50 Irish Republicans) quence the ships that can
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Dublin, To-day. Two more leaders of the Irish Republican Army, Maurice Troom-
the journey in the shortest are now being held in custody, but time, with the maximum of no charges have been preferred) comfort for passengers, are the against them. It is, however, un- best patronised, and the com-jderstood that they will be tried by Trans-Ocean pany running the finest ships la military court. --- will show the best results inService. earnings. Despite the enor- mous first cost of these ships they may even prove an abso- lute economy in the long run. When the sister-ship to the
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The Chartered Bank of India, Queen Mary, the keel of which Australia and China to-day re- is to be laid down this year, is ceived the following telegram put into commission, it will be from their London Officer possible to provide a weekly "Shell Transport and Trading service between Southampton Co. Ltd declared dividend at the and New York, in both direc tions, with two ships instead of rate of 2s. 6d. per share free of income tax payable 7th July.) the three at present necessary. Bearer coupon to be presented No.
The B.B.C. have arranged to 63."
send out continuous broadcasts from the ship the whole way across the Atlantic.
These as those in the Homeland, to
will be relayed from England to the story of the voyage.and, it' all parts of the Empire, includ-is hoped, to the story of a new ing our own Colony, where triumph and new. laurels for Britons will listen as eagerly British shipbuilding.
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