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Hongkong Daily Press.
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MR. LLOYD GEORGE TO VISIT RUSSIA.
TOUR ARRANGED FOR NEXT SPRING.
FALLING-OFF IN DEMAND FOR NEW SHIPS.
[TROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ]
LONDON, October 1st.
TIGER TRAPPED.
CAUGHT ALIVE BY FARMER AT:
SHATIN
TRAPPED IN SNARE FOR DEER.
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THE WEEK'S DIARY.
To-day.
Queen's Theatre" Partners Again.” World Theatre The Mark of Zorra?! Star Theatre The Rat." Repulse Bay Hotel-Carnival Night. Mails:-Inward. From Europe (Aar mala); Manila (President “Fefferum). Outward: America (President Jeffer
Reports have often been made of tigers having been.acen in the New Territories but these have mostly been received. sceptically. But yesterday a reliable re- port was forthcoming from the police ip regard to the capture of a tiger weighing about half a hundredweight at Shatin,
Quite by chance a police officer saw aber): Europe rid America and Europe ton); Bangkok, Europe vit Suez (hy 1 hear that it is zow practically cor tain that Mr. Lloyd George will pay tiger being carried in a cage to the rud Siberia (Preandent Jefferson); Sai-
gon: Swatow; Fort Bayard. a visit to Russia in the Spring of next Shatin railway station, had from en. About twelve months ago he re- quiries which he made he learns that a ceived an invitation to make a tour in farmer residing at Cheung Lok Mui vil. that country and see for himself the lage in the Shatia district laid a trap to benefits that Soviet rule had conferred-catch deer on the Cheung Tara Hill some that, in fact, "everything in the garden 400 yards from the village. This was on
year.
p.m.
Interport Tennis Dange at C.R.C., 5.45
Eliot Hall, University" At Home," 4.30 p.m.
Scottish Coy. Annual Dinner aad Smok.
8 p.m.
HARVEY'S
ROYAL TAWNY
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A FINE SOFT MELLOW FLAVOUR.
is lovely," as the song says. He was the morning of the path inst On his ing Concert (H.V.D.C. Headquarters), CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
not able to accept then, and although return, later in the day, he found the he was in a mood to go earlier in the trup missing. He followed the track and present year the General Strike and the in a pit some four feet deep, he found coal stoppage, with the political con- the tiger with the trap attached to one sequences that these involved, "prevented of its legs. Thin
With the assistance of other pillagers, the man secured the animal and put it in the ease in which it was afterwards seen by the police officer. Had not the latter
Next Spring his plan is to take with him a small party of intimate friends. It is said that an assurance has been given that facilities will be given to the party to investigate the conditions in Russia, both socially and industrially. Emphasis met the party at Taipo Road, when they is laid on the point that Mr. Lloyd were taking the animal to the local rail- George is not going as the representa way station, the fact of another tiger tive of any political group or party bere, It will be of great interest to have his having been caught in the New Terri impressions in due course.
tories might not have been made known, for no report of the incident was made at the Shatin Police Station.
The Dickens Golden Wedding. Sir Henry F. Dickens, K.C. Common Serjeant of the City of London, and
Lady Dickens celebrated their golden wedding this week. It was in many ways a notable event; and the happy coupla received congratulatory telegrams and letters from all parts of the world. Sir Tim
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
ON YANGTSZE.
Heary, who is the sixth son of the INTERNATIONAL PATROL FLEET famous novelist, has himself attained honcurable distinction in', the
pro- fession of the law in which his father always took such an interest and used to such good purpose in many of his stories.
There was a reception at which a march specially composed by Charles Gounod was played, and the 300 guests included & children and 18 grandchild
reti.
It is, I believe, something of 4 record for a golden wedding that 3 of the bridesmaids were present after all
these years.
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PROPOSAL REVIVED.
The following appointment was made by the Admiralty on September 22nd:— Comdr. Gunner; F. C. Broomfield (T), to Despatch, to take passage in Durban (October 15th).
The following appointments were made by the Admiralty September 25th:- Lieut.-Comdr. J. H. Macnair to Titania, The Shipping Industry.
for L.27, in command (September 18th); The coal stoppage has absorbed public Lieuts. J. B. S. Brown, to Titania, for attention to such a degree that one is, as First Lieut., and R. W. Stirling apt to lose sight of other great indus Hamilton, to Titania, for Lar (Septem-
ber 16th). tries which are in evil plight. The moat The following appointments were made distressed among these is shipbuilding. The question is now under discussion in by the Admiralty on September 27th: the Press as Lord Inchcape, head of Instr. Licuts-S. B. Taylor, B.A., to the P. & Company, has been express: Despatch; and J. C. N. Taylor, to Carys ing his views on the folly of State-owned following appointments were made
for passenge home (undated), shipping. In America and Australia by the Admiralty on September 29th:- as already widely reported, shipping Lieut.: H. B. F. Moorhead, to Hermes, supported by a Covernment subsidy has resulted in heavy losscs. This is a very and for observer duties, appointment to powerful argument in favour of private Eagle, on recommg., cancelled (Septem enterprise. Lord Inchcape makes the ber 18th); W. G. Agnew, to Durban (op arrival a home waters), and on recoming. point clear, and there will be few to Wt. Engr, A. Sumner, to Titania, for dissent; but his satisfaction that there S/M 27 (September 18th); Schoolmas- will be no more guarantees here under ter P. A. Hunter, to Cantor, for passage the Trade Facilities Act for the building home (undated). of ships is bot shared by shipbuilders. Just before the war the percentage of un- employed in shipbuilding varied from 3 per cent. to 4 per cent. It is now the mcst distressed of all the great indus tries.
Suggested Remedies,
International Patroi."
Particulars are given, in Fleet Ordera of the courses for the rank of lieutenant for 40 offers who are due for promotion to acting sub-lieutenant next January. Those who are successful in the seaman- ihip examination will be promoted to acting sub-lieutenant with seniority of Of course, the cause of the trouble is January 1st, 1927. Seven of the officera post-war conditions. As a result of the are now in the Hawkins, China fagship. provisions of the Peace Treaty there has These are to take paazage to England by been a falling off in the demand for new trooping thip, if possible, even although, ships, and complaints have been made by so doing, they may be unable to take that shipowners are slow in scrapping a full fortnight's leave after arrival their older vessels. Mr. John Hill, before joining Greenwich. General Secretary of the Boilermakers Society, has proposed that we should. adopt the Spanish method of a heavy A proposal made some time ago for tax on ships over a certain age; but I organising an international patrol fleet learn it is unlikely that the Government on the Yangtze is being revived. The will resort to any method of that kind, sphere of this fleet's activity would be either to help shipbuilding or to swell the area covering Shanghai, Hankow,
and Ichang The suggestion was made The modest assistance which has been originally by the British Minister at given to shipbuilders under the Trade Peking in 1921. I the scheme were Facilities Act was, in the opinion of adopted, it would probably mean that a Japanese or a British admiral would be many, fully justified by exceptional cirin supreme command of all the gun- our skilled workers together as much as boats on the Yangtze, irrespective of possible: Under the conditions of un nationality. employment in the shipbuilding areas
the revenue.
cumstances. It was necessary to keep
they were tending to drift overseas or
into other occupations at home. The pre-empty; but for years' past there have blem is, from every standpoint, very been queues of people eager to get into difficult
"Dick"
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Fanling Hunt Steeplechase Meeting at Ewanti (train at 207 p.m.).
Scottish Coy. Annual Sports at Happy Valley, 2 p..
Yacht Club Second Championship Race. Tennis Interport at Chinese Recreation Club, 3.30 p.m.
Cricket and Football (details else- where
V.R.C., 3 p.m.
Boy Scouts' Annual Swimming Sports,
Sunday,
Tennis Interport, C.R.C., 3.30 p.m. Tennis Interport Banquet, C.R. C
Opening At Home," K.B.S.F.PA. King's Park.
Cricket:-Volunteers v. Mr. A, A. Rim- jahn's XI., Pokfulam.
Mails-Inwards, from Straits; out- wards, Shanghai.
Monday.
Entries closed for Championship Jasper Clark Cap and Governor's Shield (RH.K.G.C.).
Australia and Mails:- Inwarda: Manila (Panda); Straits (Mirzapore); Outwards Shanghai and Japan, and Europe vid Siberia. (Kashima Maru); Amoy
Tuesday.
Fifth Ordinary Annual Meeting, Hong- kong & Canton Ice Manufacturing, Co., at Loon.
Entries for "Trevessa" Trophy close. Mails:-Outwards: Shanghai, Japan, Canada and U.S.A. and Europe vi America; Swatow, Amor and Foochow and Formosa. Europe vid Marscilles; Swatow, Amoy
Wednesday.
"Trevessa" Trophy Race.
Mail: - Inwards : From U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai (Empress af Russia and President Grant). Out- wards: Hoihow, Haiphong, Manila and Shanghai.
Thursday.
Legislative Council Meeting (Budget Debate), 2.30 p.m.
Mails:-Outwards: Swatow; Batavia; Sandakan; Amoy; Manila (President Grant).
Friday.
Annual Licensing Sessions (Council) Chamber) noon.
Meeting of Creditors, Oriental Com- mercial Bank, Ltd., 2.30 p.m.
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Fourth Ordinary Yearly Meeting, San- dakan Light & Power Co. (1929), Ltd., 11.30 am.
Third Annual Meeting Grand Hotel. des Wagon Lits, Ltd. (Exchange. Build-
the services when he was the preacher.ing, 2nd Floor), noon. The remarkable thing is that he is not Much regret is felt at the resignation eloquent he is a plain, homely man--- of one of the most popular clergymen in and he does not resort to sensational or Agents for W. W. GREENER, L., London, the Rev. IR L. Sheppard, unusual methods which have been known from St Martin-in-the Fields, owing to to arouse the emotional enthusiasm of ill-health. Et, Martin's is the church religious folk
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Taikoo Club At Home, a p.m. Boxing Tourusment, City Hall, 9.15
Mails:Outward: Hoihow, Haiphong
which standa high up above the roaring The secret of his power is sympathy. tide of traffic on the east side of Trafal- There seemed to be magic in any contact gar Square, Before he became incum. with this personality, a magnetism, that and Shanghai, Japan, U.S.A, Europe bent twelve years ago the church was was irresistible. He is known every-vil America, and Europe vid Siberia
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