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ARMISTICE DAY
Brahms' "Requiem” To Be Presented
BY HONG KONG SINGERS
The Hong Kong Singers have: already established a tradition of performing on November 11, each year a work in keeping with the spirit of Armistice Day. This
year Brahms' "Requiem" has again been chosen and will be
St. sung in
Andrew's Church. Kowloon, to-morrow evening at 9.15 p.m
There are undoubtedly a num-) ber of works other than Brahms' suitable for this occasion, but no apology is made for repeating the "Requiem" this year. since it will not only be the first performance of the Singers under the baton of their new Conductor. Mr. Lindsay Lafford, but of the soloists, Miss Eva Turner. soprano. will be making her debut in the Colony. The baritone solos will be taken by the Rev. H. W. Baines, and at the organ will be Mr. Rupert Baldwin, neither of whom need any introduction to musical Hong .Kong."
As is customary at all perfor
the pro- mances of the Singers. ceeds will be devoted to charity, and this year it has been decided to take up a collection in aid of the Ministering Childrens' League and the St. Andrew's Benevolent Society,
It is confidently believed that: the combination of such deserving- causes, the spirit of Armistice Day and the fact that this is the first performance of the Singers in Kowloon, will lead to a record congregation: in St Andrew's Church.
UNREGISTERED “MUI-TSAI”
Married Woman Fined $200
Sia Pui-hing, a married woman, was this morning fned $200 by
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NOVEMBER 14–1937.
Recent arrivals in the U.S. Army's chemical training school at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, Above, the billowy ribbon of cloud being are here shown walking through a thick atmosphere. unwound by the seroplane is a demonstration of the proper technique of laying a smoke screen.
SOVIET STATE IN SPAIN?
Proposition Severely Criticised
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PERRY TAKES THE PLUNGE
(Continued from Page 1)
Invitations have been issued by
the Consul General for Italy for FURTHER DECLINE
nexti.
the celebration of HM King Vic- tor Emmzinuel's birthday Thursday morning by a reception,
to be held in the Roof Garden of
IN BRITAIN
DISCLOSED
London, To-day.
and Snally as an unbearable bar- den to political and military si tuation in Western Europe"
Trans-Ocean Service.
Fred Perry's backers are good the Hong Kong Hotel from 11.30 Further substantial increases NEW PRESIDENT IN American sportsmen headed by the am to 12.30 p.m
and
former U.S. Davis Cup players Francis T. Hunter, Howard Vosbell-Reuter.
won
the Wimbledon
in the number of persons in em- (ployment and a decrease in the
FINLAND
Opened
→ CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Helsingfors, To-day- Although the Finnish Presi-
cad.
The public is reminded of the number of unemployed are re- third Annual General Meeting of corded in the latest Ministry of Lively Press Campaign
At October 26 In an interview yesterday. "Big the Street Sleepers Shelter So Labour figures.
St John's the number of insured persons Bill" Tilden said he was certain ciety, to be held at Perry had turned professional and Cathedral Hall on Thursday next in employment in Britain, exclu- added that if he had Great Britain at 5.30 p.m. All interested in this sive of agricultural workers, would not retain the Davis Cup, work are cordially invited to be was approximately 11,103,000. his choice being either America present The Executive Committee This was 21,000 more than the
will be "At Home" to volunteer revised figure for September 21 dential election will not be held be or Germany.
and 599,000 more than that for fore next year a lively press cam- PERRY'S RECORD
helpers at 4.30 p.m.
October 21, 1935. At October 25 paign is already in progress Mr. K. Keen at the Central Ma Twenty-seven years of age, Fred
Man Sokong, aged 20, a female, the numbers of unemployed per-tween the organs of the various Perry has Kistracy when she pleaded guilty
Men's Singles Championship three was admitted to the Government sons on the registers of the un-parties. The papers of the Pro- unrezistered employing
years in succession, equalling Wil-Civil Hospital yesterday suffering employment exchanges in Great Bressive Party support the mai-tsai, Chau Hei, aged 14.
effects of immersion Britain totalled 1,611,810. This didature of M. Stahlberg, who was Inspector Fraser said that the liam T. Tilden's record of three from the
He first came i
when she jumped off the ss. Tai was 12,529 less than the figure defeated during the last
and dential elections by the present girl was seen at midnight on Sa-wins since the war. turday by a constable crying, and into prominence. in 1928, when heee at 10 p.m. She was rescued for the previous month
304,580 less than the year be President, M when questioned said that she had represented Britain against Aus-ya sampan near by.
fore-British Wireless Service Unionist Party on the other hand advocates the re-election of M been scolded by her mistress for tralia at Bournemouth, and later
Svinhavund while the Socialist not doing some work. She stated reached the last 16 at Wimbledon (beating Baron de Morpugo in the
papers propose the Socialist, M. she was a mai-tsai and on ea-
Tanner, for the Presidency. The quiries it was found that she had Third Round)." He then won the
jonly party which so far has failed been presented to the defendant's Singles Championship of Argen-
to reveal its choice is the Agrarian mother in Canton for $130 and tina when with a visiting British
the Party representing team
Small brought to Hong Kong. The girl
farmers. -Trans-Ocean Service.
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Objection To Soviet
Propaganda
£30 MENACES CHARGE
Hammersmith Woman And Mr. “A” London, To-day. question-time in the Mrs. Rosina Sharp, aged 25, a of Overstone-road, Commons yesterday the laundress,
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obedient: and reting to heri In 1932 he reached the Final" of Government intended to take a referred to as Mr. “A”.
mother the sum of $280 will be refunded.
ALLEGED FRAUD ON WIDOWS
Presi-
Svinhuvund. The
INVASION OF SUIYUAN
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does the asual household work; In 1931 he made his Davis Cup hut receives no wages. She has debut, representing Gt. Britain in been visited by her mother twice seven rounds, beating S. B. Wood! She receives sufficient food, which and subsequently Jean Borotra in she takes with the family and Paris. In the same year he visit-House of
of the Foreign Secre Hammersmith, was committed for though dirty when found, she ed America and reached the semi-attention
final of the U. S. Championship, tary was drawn to the transmitrial at West London Police has ample clothing
English by the Soviet Court last month charged with de The sungtip has a clause which beating seven of the "First 10" ions in
Uzion by a Conservative Mem-i
ATTACKS REPULSED states that should the girl be displayers in America.
themanding £30 by menaces from a
the Peiping: Apparently with BEATEN BY FRENCHMEN ber, who asked what steps
object of testing the strength of She pleaded not guilty and re-the defences the Mongols made the Men's Doubles with G. Psince the Soviet transmitter de-
several attacks on the Chinese Hughes, but lost to J. Brugnon voted 15 hours daily to anti-Bri-served her defence. and J. Borotra. He secured his tich propaganda.
Mr. "A" said he was superinten-lines from the direction of Failing- first hard courts success in that Lord Cranbourne, answering dent of a London institution. Mrs.miao yesterday, according to Chin- season winning the Singles and for Mr. Anthony Eden, stated that Sharp had been engaged by himese reports, and were easily
pulsed. It is reliably estimated Doubles Championships at Bourne-the English broadcasts by the as a laundress, mouth. He again played for Bri-Soviet Union were concerned al- Asked if he had always acted that the Manchukuo-Mongol forces tain in the Davis Cup, beating most entirely with every-day life pruently, Mr. "A" said that he threatening Saiyuan total 20,000. They are assisted by tanks and Jack Crawford. He toured Sin the Soviet Union, and that was afraid not. Africa with a British team in 1932 therefore no action on part of the. Detective-Sergeant Welsby, who armoured-cars. and in the following year was a British Government was called said he was hidden under a dívan . It is reported locally that the member for the victorious British for.-Trans-Ocean Service.
de- in a room at Mr. "A's" house, gave invasion of Suiyuan may be Beckenham (Kent).
¡Davis Cup team which beat Aus!
evidence about overhearing a con- layed, pending the outcome of the William Frederick Boare, aged tralia, America and France in suc 2, a cerk, of Ramsgate-road, cession. After beating Cochet on Round at Wimbledon and againversation between Mrs. Sharp and Nanking negotiations, as the fu- ture of Suiyuan is involved in Margate, was committed for trial the first day Perry won the decid-represented Britain in the Chal-Mr. “A”
Japan's proposals with regard to at Penge last month on charges of ing match against Merlin in the lenge Round of the Davis Cup.]
North China The Manchukuo obtaining and attempting to ob-Challenge Bound."
beating Allison ister" avenged this
Three cases of diphtheria were and Mongol leaders from Chahar tain money by false pretences. He WON the United States defeat by beating him in the Semi-|
Bourne, it was said, got £7 from Singles title in 1933, beating, J. Final of the U. S. Championship reported to the local Health an-will, it is reported, visit Tientsin Mrs. Harriet Burgess, a widow, of Crawford at Forest Hills, and the A fall during this match demand thorities during the 48 hours with Japanese militarists in that Ravenscroft-road, Beckenham, for British Hard Court title, beating ed a rest for Perry during the ended on Monday. "stamp duties" after telling her W. Austin, the French Doubles next six months. that he represented solicitors who Championship with G. P. Hughes, This year Perry retained his
Money Obtained By False Pretences?
were dealing with a legacy of and later won the Australian Sin-Bournemouth Hard Courts Singles) Notes From
P. Hughes) at Melbourne.
1934 CAMPAIGN
connection Beuter.
Cheung Chau
$17,000 and a villa in Switzerland gles and Doubles titles (with G.title, which he has now won five left to her.
times in a row, defeating H WE
Cheung Chau, To-day-Various A thief, or a few of them, have He told a similar story to 'an-
Austin, and, with Miss Bound, also
been manifested been busy and several unoccupied other widow, Mrs. Bertha Hope, ofIn 1934 he was the first English-won the Mixed Doubles title. He activities have
The foundations houses have been broken into.” As Royston-road. Penge, and asked man since 1909 to win the Wimble was, however, defeated in the Final on the Island her for £38, but the deciled, don title, and again helped Britain of the French Championship by of the new house, No. 2A, are result of this a special patrol of Money Under Policies to retain the Davis Cup against Barcu von Cramm, after winning well advanced and work on the Indian constables is now or duty. The Ber. A G. and Mrs. Ind He was also said to have obtain America, beating S. B: Wood and the Belgint title, and then best an servants quarters has already be ed £5 from a widow in Upper Hol-F. I Shields, He retained his injured von Cramm to win the sun, while three, and possibly quist are expected to-morrow by loway and £5 from a farm bailiff American title by defeating Wilmer, Wimbledon title-in straight seta four, houses on the west side are the ss. Pres. Lincoln and another at Barnet by telling them that Allison, and was runner-up in theme in won the United States being linked up with the village house-owner, the Rev. AF. Des the baft; and Mrs. Desterhaft are under Australian Singles Championship, Singles title for the third time for electric curent. Work money was due to them
due to arrive by the same endowment policies which had not to Jack Crawford, though, he won as a result was the first Eng-foreign style house, on the SNCY" been claimed by relatives
the Doubles in partnership
to win the trophy out No. 1, is progressing rapidly
A baptima service was cond
bianklin will shortly be Hughes
to visit her son in New Perry has played for Britain in ed on Sunday in the new
and she will be away for 28 Davis Cup singles matches and Mission: Canech,
Bmonths, Birs. R. Af Jettray returned to the Indend short stay at House
In the presence of the farm bailiff he wrote out a cheque for Last year he retained his WE £8,000, but took it with him." bledon title and became the Boume admitted other offences Englishman to win the Fres Finchley, Lewisham Penge, title, defeating Baron von Gra in Oxford, Herts, Bucks and the holder, in the Final He Kent
jwon the Mixed Doubles with galing
only four-to de Stefazi were admitted as full me aly). D. Preu (Germany), the mission. The Baz 1x (US) and H. Cochet was in charge and s′′
service followed the bapić
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