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DREN'S CLASS for HIGELAND DANCING ** the Bazara Marina- Tips for One Hour Week, between 5.30 rx. and 6.3) YM.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14th,
HONG KONG ST. ANDREW'S
SOCIETY.
ANNUAL BALL:-
- WEDNESDAY, 30TH NOV., 1937,
Ar 9.30 ...
that
MEMBER and GUESTS are Bo
minded
PRACTICE DANCES for ST. ANDREW BALL will be bald at the CITY HALL, on -d Intructor has been pro- TUESDAY, 10TH INSTANT, and TUES. engaged.
DAY, MED INSTANT, from 6:50 to caunot yet be fixed, Same being 7 7.3. dependent on the Number of Pupils enralled.
British Farenta, desirous of entering their Children for thir Cisas are invited to send their Names to the Under mentioned as soon as possible.
HON. SECRETARY, THE BEEL CLUB, (c/o Mesars. PALYA & TURNYA).
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HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
DRAFT Pro and Entry
Forms for the EIGHTH EXTRÁ RAGE MEETING to be held on NATURDAY, 2oTH NOVEMBER, 1927
(Weather Permitting), may be obtained
It is requested by the Committee that No Children, be "brought on these Occasions and that Danding Shown be worn by all Dangers.
Members who have not yet bent in their Lists of Guests are requested kindly to do so as soon as possible,'
E. M. BRYDEN,
Joint Hon. Secretary, c'e Lowe, Banduan & Matthews. Hong Kong, 10th November, 1997.
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FANLING HUNT.
ENTRY FORMS for
DRAFT PROGRAMMES and
the
at the FACE COURṣa, Hong Kong CluB|| ADTUMN MEETING to be held on and Causeway Bay StableA,
Entries will CLOSE at 12 O'CLOCK) NOON on TUESDAY, 1‰¤ NOVEX
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HEB. 1997.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
ORIGINAL JURISDICTIO
ACTION NO. 581 or 1915.
BETWEEN
WING FAT HONG, Pl intifa
AND
KUNG CHUNG BANK
AND
LAU YIK CHEUK
the Managing Part ner thereof,
Defendants.
Med Instructions from the TR. E V. M. R. de SOUSA, has
REGISTRAR of the Supreme Court
TO SELL BY
·PUBLIC “AUCTION
4T THE
CHINA AUCTION BOOMS,
4, DUDDELL STRETT, VICTORIA, Home Kose,
ON
MONDAY, 21 NOVEMBER, 1927, ÁT 3 O'CLOCK' 'P.M.
IN ONE LOT
ALL TBR RIGHT TITLE AND' Interest OF THE SAID
---
OF AND IN
LAU TIK CHECK
EURAL BULLUING LOT No. 177. RURAL BUILDING LOT No. 177
consists of:-
All that Piece or Parcel of Ground situato as Keruzar Bar in the Colony Hong Kong and registered in the LAND OFFICE RURAL BUILDING
of
INTIMATIONS.
CHOCOLATES
De Luxe
Wonderful Variety
CANADIAN
HOME PARCEL MAIL.;
479 MORE PACKAGES.
1927
System" must be judged, not by the old time sweating and indu trial tyranny, but by the humane AN INCREASE ON LAST YEAR. and prosperous triumphs, in which owners and workers share alike, of
་། Henry Ford and Morris, of Sel- fridge and Leverhulme and hun dreds of other businesses where human welfare rightly comes first. Beside this big constitutional achievement the Locarno. Treaty,
the building of a million working class dwellings and the pacification of India are merely matters of de partmental administration.
As mentioned on Friday, the Xmas parcel mail for Great Britain closed at the General Post Office on Thursday.
Posting was very heavy, and the staff of the parcel department worked with a rush from the time the mail began to pour in, until it was finally taken by launch to the Macedonia. The mail is due to reach London on December 15th Captain E. I. M. Barrett, the
The parcel mail this year shows skipper of the Shanghai Interport
a. net increase of 47 parcels above team arrived by the P. & D. last year's figure, which was
record at that time.
Macedonia
One Chinese case of cerebro- spinal fever, was reported to the Authorities during the 43 hours
AMERICAN ended November 11th.
(FOSS)
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending October 22nd, amounted to 100,371 tous and the FRUIT IN LIQUER TRU VALUE les during the period to 82,306
SATURDAY, 3RD DECEMBER, 1927 (METUALFE) (Weather Permitting), may be obtained from Dr. F. PIEICE GROTE, The POLO ULEB, HONG KONG CLUB and CAN Way Bay STABLES,
Entries will CLOSE at NOON, SATURDAY, 19TH NOVEMBER, 1927.
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MARRIAGE.
PADGETT-MAY-On November 12th, at St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong, by the Rev. H. CorLEY MOYLE, M.A., Violet Winifred, younger daughter of Mr. and Mr. G. T. MAY, Hong Kong, to GEORGE THOMAS, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. PABORIT, Upper Belvedere, Kent. [523
Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House * Štreet.
London Office: 21, Bride Lane,
Fleet Street, E.Č. &
GIFT
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An excellent programme has been LA MERITA compiled for the vocal-piano re vital to be given at the City Hall (St. Andrew's Hall) this evening. AS YOU LIKE IT at 5.30 by Mrs. P. Younghusband
• IDEAL
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Hore Koxa, NOVEMBER 14TH, 1927
THE BRITISH GOVERN-
-MENT'S RECORD,
THERE are very solid grounds for Mr. CHURCHILL's recent claim that
HONG KONG.
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the Trade Unions, who had become as matinous as the feudal barons of medieval England, and the rest of the record of the British Govern-the nation was inevitable. ment showed solid and satisfactory. The Miners' Federation, despite achievement. When the Conservative the findings of the impartial Samuel
and Mr. Harry Ore.
The cutting of the new road which has been driven through the westé land behind King's Terrace, connecting Nathan Road and Cox's Road, Kowloon, has been practical I completed and is available for pedestrian traffic.
Mr H Brooks, Superintendent: of the Hong Kong Fire Brigade, has returned to the Colony from nine months Home leave and has re-assumed his duties. He and Mrs. Brooks came back on the
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The figures for the two years re
United Kingdom, Other Europesa
ports
Total
1920 1937.
3,437 3,735
213 444
3,700 4,179
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The mail last year was dispatch ed in 973 bags, and this year is 300 bags.
ARMISTICE DAY.
M
THE PRINCE OF WALES ADDRESS.
THE CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
Losnoy, Nov. 11th. An audience of 10,000, including many ex-Servicemen, was present at the Remembrance Festival in
The observance of a two minutes" silence at the British burial gro in Mons cemetery was an impres sive ceremony."
8,000. At Phanfix Park. Armistice Day in Dublin was ob | served on "a larger scale than in previous years and the ceremony in Phoenix Park was attended by 8,000 persons.
Ganada Remembers US. Soldiers.
At Washington, the Armistice, Day celebrations included the un- veiling in Arlington Cemetery of a great cross erected by the Govern ment of Canada in honour of citizens of the United States who gave their lives in the Great War. served in the Canadian army and
the Albert Hall. The enthusiastic The inscription on wreaths sent community sang songs popular in by the Governor-General of Canada, wartime.
Lord Willingdon, refers to the The programme was broadcast memorial as a tribute to those all over the Empire, and to who helped us in our hour of America.
need."
The Prince of Wales, addressing "old comrades and friends," said that Armistice Day, once a day of rejoicing, was now a day of remen brance: "If we are to save our selves and those coming after us from even a more frightful renewal of the sufferings of the Great War we must, by every action. everyday conversation, even by our very thoughts, peace."
Beek
to
and
endure
Subsequently the torchlight pro cession laid wreaths on the Ceno taph
Prince of Wales "Mobbed," Although the Xmas parcel mail
LONDON, Nov. 12th. has officially gone, doubtless there
The Prince of Wales, accom. will be heavy posting again at the headed the torchlight procession of panied by Mr. Winston Churchill, end of the week for the Su ex-Service men from the Albert Maru. This vessel takes the Heine Hall to the Cenotaph at midnight. Xmas and New Year letters. The bled at Whitehall and mobbed the Thirty thousand people assez- letters are due in London on Decem-Prince, cheering madly and waving
ber 20th and parcela a week later.
ACCIDENT TO MR. T. F.
CLAXTON.
STRUCK BY FALLING IRON BAR IN H.K.C.C. PAVILION.
FORTUNATE ESCAPE FROM
SERIOUS INJURY.
Mr. T. F. Claxton, the Director of the Royal Observatory, Kowloon, suct with a serious accident in the pavilion of the Hong Kong Cricket Club on Saturday afternoon.
IN FRANCE.
PARIS, Nov. 11th. Armistice Day was celebrated in a chilling drizzle.
There was a striking scene at the Arc de Triomphe, President Doumergue attending aurrounded by French and Allied military and naval representatives, and the huge crowd baring their heads as the two minutes silence was observed, after which the tomb of the Un knowa Warrior was heaped with Wreaths.
IN BELGIUM.
BRUSSELE, Nov. 11th. snow, Armistice Day was marked Despite the cold and a fall of. by touching ceremonies all over Belgium.
Queen, and members of the Govern
Their Majesties the King and ment, placed wreaths on the torb
bats and flags. The Prince was of the Unknown Warrior" at cleven extricated by mounted and foot in the morning, after which there Police, the crowd singing "For was a minute's silence. He's a Jolly. Good Fellow,
For the first time for some years Armistice night passed off in Dublin in comparative calm. Hundreds of Police in the central thoroughfares quickly suppressed any attempted disorder.
THE "SPIRIT
REMEMBRANCE.'
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE. ]
.
RUGBY, Nov. 12th. In all parts of the Empire the spirit of remembrance ruled at yes terday's Armistice Day celebrations The order of the service observed
brance.
HISTORIC COMPIEGNE
· FUNCTION," SA COMPITONE, Nov. 11th... the railway coach in which the In a clearing in Compiegne forest,
Armistice was signed was cere moniously established on the very spot where it stood on the memor.. able occasion nine years ago. Mar- abal Foch and Admiral Sir George Hope were present.
On the conclusion of the core- mony, Colonel Mott, the United States military attache, presented Marshal Foch with the gold medal worn by the presidents of the American Legion. The Marshal
During the past few weeks, whilst the second storey, of the pavilion at the Cenotaph was adopted was deeply touched, and expressed On behalf of Dr. Barnardo's has been in course of construction almost everywhere as the central his thanks in moving terms.
pieces of montar and rubbish have feature of the anniversary and in Homes, a concert is to be given at been constantly falling and in the evening the vast majority of AMERICA'S CELEBRATIONS. St. Andrew's Cindre Hall, Kow-consequence, the front row of seat people participated either in per- loon, next Saturday evening, at has rarely been occupied. Onson or by means of wireless broad- nine o'clock, by the St. Andrew's Saturday afternoon, however, Mr. casta in the festivals of remen-
PRESIDENT. COOLIDGE. AT
Troop of Boy Scouts and others. the rails of the verandah were Claxton was sitting there and whilst
ARLINGTON. Two great gatherings of this kind The entire proceeds are to be given being fitted, a bar of iron about in London were broadcast to mil-
[REUTER'S "AMERICAN- SERVICE} to the charity.
six feet in length slipped between Lions,. the scaffolding and fell cross-wise Que designed for listeners in
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18th. Armistice Day was celebrated would almost certainly have been some of his own works, and during the decoration and unveiling of on to his head. Fortunately, he Great Britain was |_was_wearing a hat or otherwise he
which Sir Edgar Elgar conducted throughout the United States with killed. As it was he sustained a Balfour spoke Pericles funeral counse
the usual two minutes' silence and a break in the programme, Lord
President Coolidge, ac- very nasty scalp wound.
Dr. Smalley and Dr. Aubrey. oration."
companied by members of the who were also watching the match at the time, attended to the wound Albert Hall, which was broadcast to cemetery and laid a wreath on the Over 10,000 people attended Cabinet and senior naval and mili- another great gathering at the tary officers, motored to Arlington
concert at A
LOT No. 177, Together with the Party were returned to power the Commission, refused to accept meeting of the Hong Kong Lodge The speaker at the weekly public Premises thereon compLLING: big problem was the challenge to either a reduction of pay or a of the Theosophical Society yester Storied EUROPEAN HOUSE. containing 4 Reception Constitutional Government by the, Booms on Ground Floor, Bedrooms
return to the eight hours day. They day at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant and 3 Bathrooms, Hot and Cold Water Trades Union. This was made all
demanded further subsidies. The was Mr. H. E. Lanepart, whose and
Usual Offices Garage, Serrants the more serious by the fact that Trade Unions Council supported address was on." The Guardians of Quarters, Watchman's House and Tennis Court
The Property contains a Total Arca of
them, and, following an attempt to Humanity." The soloist was Mies and in a short while Mr. Claxton the Empire and was picked up in grave of the Unknown Soldier, also 91815 Square Feet or thereabouts and is held under Conditions of Sale Ne.
185 under which a Crown Leaze for the Term of 75 Years from 3rd OCTOBER, 1921, is to be granted.
The Crown Reat payable in respect of the Froperty is $102 per sonum,
Partienists and Conditions of Sale
may be had from:
Masa DEACONS,
Vendor's Solicitors,
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1, Des Vœux Road CENTRAL,
"OR THOM
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Ter. C. 4630 P
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a frankly revolutionary and Moscow inspired group of politicians, of whom Mr. A. J. Coox and J. H.
muzzle the press a General Strike was called. The Government was
M. Russell.
WHEATLEY were the most prominent, prepared; essential services were and kivives, entered No. 72, Main Seven men, armed with revolvers
unions to break Britain's existing of labour" quickly began to dis- pand, after intimidating the oc had set themselves to use the trade maintained; the boasted "solidarity Street, Aberdeen, late last evening,
political and social system. There integrate, for the workers them-cupante, stole money and jewellery, were three main lines of attack. selves saw that they were being the value of which was not known The first was to obtain by means duped by revolutionaries.
night details being were locking. -WA
last.
Above
was able to leave the ground. As
H.R.H.'s Speech,
on the late Fresident Wilson's tomb at the National Cathedral,
Mayor Walker of New York ad.
a precautionary measure he spent many foreign countries. the night in the Kowloon Hospital, and the effect of the shock, he is moving speech, in which he remark at the Monument of the Eternal but except for a severe headache The Prince of Wales made 2 dressed a large patriotic gathering" now, it is understood, little the ed upon one change that had occur. Light: worse for the mishap.
red since the first memorable Armis- tice Day was celebrated with an- restrained rejoicing. "Armistice
POPPY DAY" FUND. :
LOCAL RESPONSE TO EARL HAIG'S APPEAL:
OVER $13,000 ́ ALREADY RECEIVED.
As stated the Colony's response to the appeal of Earl Haig was a good one. Complete returns have
Central fund. have already been paid into the not yet been made but over $13,000
At prescat the larger sums are:: Street Salce, Hong Kong $4,500 Street Sales, Kowloon... 1,700 U.S.R.C. Fete
1,200 Civil Service 0.0.
" 210 Hong Kong Club Auction 1,530 Kowloon O.C.. Auction 1,100, Charity Football Match... 1200 The details of the K.C.C. Auction
Auction of Posters $301.75 Auction of Silk Poppies presented by British Legion...
Bay still holds for us as deep & CAFE REGENT.
meaning as ever. But I think you will agree that with the passage of of the Trade Union Council, with all, the nation roused itself to end
THE FORMAL OPENING. time the expression of that mean- ing has changed. It was once a day its powers to call individual strikes, this tyranny. The General Strike Among passengers leaving for
The future success of that bright membrance." In a later passage, of rejoicing, it is now a day of re- and a general strike, a dominating having failed the stubborn but Home on the P. & O. ss. Macedonia and up-to-date little rendezvous in the Prince said: "Each one of us power over the government. This stupid loyalty of the miners was on Saturday were:Mr. and Mrs. Pedder Street, known as the Café cherishes a dear memory, which be was to be used mainly to obtain on exploited in a further attempt, that J. C. Anderson, Mrs. R. and Regent, which was recently opened longs to him or her alone.
But behalf of Labour, conditions, rates nearly succeeded, to involve Eng Mr. R. K. Hepburn, the Rev. R. present there on Saturday night memories which are with one an- Miss J. Barclay, Dr. T. Hariuchi, ed, judging by the large number collections there arise also great to the public, appears to be 'assur- beyond these precious personal re of pay and subsidies on such sand in general financial ruin. L. Lankester, Mr. D. E. G. Nichol when a special menu was served on other. If we are to save ourselves scale that the "bankruptcy of Sooner than resort to coercion and on, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Paterson the occasion of the Café's formal and those who come after us from
opening. would result. capitalism
a renewal in even a more frightful This probable bloodshed the Government and family; Capt. K. M. Power, Every table was taken, and danc- form of all that we suffered in the was tried on a small scale by local waged a war of attrition and the Mr. F. C. Robinson, Mr. F. Wing went on continuously between Great War we must in our every authorities at Poplar and lac coal dispute, which was the last Shaitain (of the FCA), Mr. W. courses and after dinner action, in our everyday conversa
The music is excellent, and the tion, even in our thoughts, seek where, but has now been entirely card of the revolutionaries, dragged Ward, and M. N. L Stadth orchestra play the most recent peace. suppressed. The second aim was on till the men surrendered, and (President of the Sanitary Board), dance numbers.
Midnight Scenes. With such a cheerful venue in stendily to weaken and discredit the throughout England there was a As will be seen from our adver- the centre of Hong Kong, quick and anidnight at the Cenotaph, which
Remarkable scenes occurred at are s Government to such an extent that marked return to economic realities.tising columns an attempt is being willing service, bright lights, etc.,
made to establish & children's class where one can obtain light refresh was banked: high with towers. election could be forced at the The strikes have been followed by for Highland dancing at the ments, tea or a full dinner, and Twenty thousand ex-Service men phsychological moment, and backed the Trades Dispute Act, a measure Helena May Institute. A qualified under the able management of Mr. sion from the Albert Hall and on took part in a torchlight proces- instructor has been provisionally S. E. Green, there is no reason why by the methods common to ex tearing aside the net which Socialist engaged but it is impossible to fix the success which has, attended the arrival in Whitehall, the Prince, tremism all the world over, the politicians have woven round the fees until it is known how many Café so far should not continue accompanied by Mr. Winston Chur- pupils are likely to attend. British Socialists hoped to obtain a clear Trade Union The Unions are left parents desirous of entering their on Saturday.
All thoroughly enjoyed themselves chill and the Earl of Cavan joined in the demonstration and partici There were no majority in Parliament. West-intact but their members can no children for the class are invited speeches, every apara minute being pated in the concluding service. minister was, however, to be, kept longer be coerced into supporting Secretary of The Reel Club, c/o
The Prince of Wales was not ex- to send their names to the Hon. taken up with dancing.
Tea dances and dinner dances pected and, when recognised after- subservient to the Trades Union any one particular brand of poli- Messrs. Palmer & Turner as soou are held daily at the Café and are by a cheering crowd, whom he wards, he was closely surrounded Council.
as possible. tical doctrines. The result of this
proving very attractive,
greeted cordially. The third great weapon of the great struggle is that the trade Revolutionaries was the general unions, acting through the Trades CHILD WITH TWO HEADS.
WEATHER REPORT.
A curious development was the not include the proceeds of the strike by which they hoped to Unions Council, are no longer in
appearance of a band of black-Ho Mun Tin district sales, which seize the whole machinery of gov position to dictate to the Cabinet
shirted mon carrying a banner were carried out by the Misses The weather report, issued from inscribed "Irish Fascisti and Mercedes da Roza, C. da Roza, G. crament and the control of in- and, in fact, to
Barros, E. Barros. 3. Figueirido, the Observatory at 6.02 p.m. yester waving Union Jacks. govern England.
Maria da Roza, and A. da Roza::. day, stated- Justry. The Cabinet and the British This is the big achievement of the
The Old Contemptibles "At A Chinesa woman, at the Tung A depression
The Civil Service C.O. collection remains to the Saw Mons.. people knew quite well what was BALDWIN Government. It has preto a female child with two heads. continues to weaken and move sentatives of the first British units Mrs. R. I. Wood, the Miases K. Web Hospital on Friday, gave birth north of Japan. The anti-cyclone In welcoming to Mons the repre- Maughan, and ladies assisting were
was organised by Mrs. B. E projected. A series of semi-revola-served liberty and it has brought The child was still-born, but the eastward. tionary strikes in the mines and on the Trades Unions themselves back heads were complete in every detail. Moderate monsoon will prevail that fought in the war, the burgo Grimes, K. Clarke, M. Clarke, A. master said: “ I greet you, ' Old Mekay and Miss Murphy, Other Local forecast :----N, E. winds Contemptibles. I welcome you to assistants were Masters D. McKay moderate fine.
our town.??
and Sea Scout B. Wood.
the railways bad already been to sanity so that they are beginning beaten, but a-grand trin between to realise that the Capitalist
BIRTH AT TUNG WAH HOSPITAL
were attached by two necks over the China Sen. to the body.!
The mother is doing well.
"Irish Fascisti.
Whiskey Raffle ... Re-sale of bottles Sale of Auctioneer's Hat Sale of Clerk's Hat Haffle for 1 Ha
139.00
200.00
79.00
5:00
3.00
80.00
Auction of 2 Buttons,
Queen's Royal Regt.... 34.25
The Kowloon, street sales were
Total
$1,095.00
trifle lower than last year's figure, but the $1,700 already paid in does