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R.
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IT
IN HEREBY NOTIFIED that Commencing on WEDNESDAY. 13TH INSTANT, A CONSTANT SUP- PLY will be giren DAILY in ALL DISTRICTS (including the PEAK) From 6AM-6 P.M. The Principal Mains will be OLOSED NIGHTLY From 6 P.M.-6 A.M.
HAROLD T. GREASY,
Water Authority, PUBLIC Wonka Dept..
Hong Kong, Sth Nor., 1922. [813
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New
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Creation
in
TER
HE EIGHTH EXTRA BACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 16tu NOVEMBER, 1920, Commencing st
The First Bell will be Bung at 1.30 .M. The Charge for Admission to the Public Enclosure will be $1.00 for all Formona including Ladies.
Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform Half
bernare advised that they mast show their Badges to obtain Admission to the Members Enclosara..
Each Member has the right to in troduce 2 Non-members to the Members' Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be from Messrs. Lixatead & Davis,
ab Each Up to FRIDAY, 15TH
NOVEMBER, 1929,
The Charge for Admission for Ladies to the Members' Enclosure will be $2.00 Each Member can obtain, upon Ap plication to the SECRETARY, Badges for Admission of 2 Ladies Free of Charge.
Bookmakers, Tie Tac Alen, etc.. will not be permitted to operate, with- in the Precincts of the HONG KONG "JockzT OLUB daring Race Meeting.
NO CHILDREN ALLOWED IN EITHER ENCLOSURE ON ANY PRETEXT.
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5 of 1912, the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIO BUSI
MONDAY. NESS on
117H NOVEMBER (ARMISTICE DAY). Hong Kong. 6th Nov.. 1929. [8694
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. THE HALF YEARLY GENERAL
MEETING of VOTING MEM. BERS will be held in the JOCKEY CLUB ROOM, Hрно KONG CLUB ANNEX, on MONDAY, 18 NOVEM BER, 1999, at 5.15 PM.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
8577 Hong Kong. lat Nov., 1929
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A "YOUNG CHINA
WEDDING.
[FROM A CHINESE CORRESPONDENT]
A very simple but impres- sive wedding was celebrated be- tweee Mr, Chas Ching Kuo, Mihay of Tai Sha University, Shanghai, and Miss Yu Teh Chuen, B., of the same University, at the On Lok Restaurant yesterday after.. nodi, Me, Chang ten Chow, head- master of the Sih Nan College, Borham Rd., officiated and most of the guests were Chinese members of the teaching profession.
The wedding was shorn of Chi neso ancient custom but nothing of Western ceremonial was introduced. the ceremony mainly consisting of an exchange of marriage certifi cates between the brido and the
mans. They arrived early, and at The H. Mr. E. R. Halifax, stated:-
5.13 .m. the Armistice was signed. C. M.G., C.B.E, has renamed duty The anticyclone remains central More telegrams shot back and forth as Secretary for Chinese Affairs; According to the Shunpao, ka to the north, of Shantung and fresh along the front, and the anti- The Hon. Mr. E. D. Wolfe, C.M.G., agreement has been entered into to strong monsoon will prevail cipated order to suspend bostilities as Captain Superintendent of Police between the Chiaotong and the along the cost and over the China was flashed along the lines. It and Chief Officer, Fire Brigade and National Aviation Corporation for Sea.
does not take a vivid imagination Dr. G. W. Pope as Medical Officer the carrying of mait by 'planes of to picture the state of the troops, of Health, winds,
the corporation between Shanghai both those going to the front and
id other place. This will be those being relieved, when the ox- We regret to record the death, (brought into effect as soon me it is pected “cease fire" order actually which took place at the Peak Hos signed. arrived, and the last malvo roared pital on Saturday, of Mrs. Stuart- through the valleys of "death.Smith, following an operation, The formal opening of the Sino- STUART-SMITH At the Peak Hos-racing for the War Ministry, where mother of Mr. W. Stuart-Smith, Shanghai took place in the Hau was already in a motor The deceased lady, who was the Japanese Fine Arts Exhibition in pital, on November 2, EVELYN he deposited the Act of Armistice manager of J. R. Michael & Co., Garden in Cornaught Road in the STUARTSUITH," aged få years.
with CLEMENCEAU, saying to that was very well known in the Colony, present of a large gathering, which grizzled and still unsatisfied old and her death will be much regret included General Chang Chun. veteran Monsieur le President, ted. The funeral took place yester. Mayor of Great Shanghai, and Mr. my work is finished; your work day at the Jewish cemetary:
M. Shigemitsu, H. L... M. Consul- bridegroom and 瀛 number of General. begins!" In precisely the same
speechen. None of the relations of terms the men who lined the In honour of the Indian troops
the principals were present and the trenches, who patrolled the seas, į who folk in the great war, Mr. V. Beginning last week, the Shang-wedding was arranged to express could say to these for whom they Rupchand, of the Pioneer Silk hai-Hanghow-Ninge Railway col the spirit of individualism and had been fighting:-"Our work is Store, will lay a wreath at the lected a communications surtax of
young China." The silk 10 per cent. from pasengers This finished, your work begins!"-the Cenotaph this morning. work of helping those rendered by store will also allocate a percentage surtax will be collected for a year, the war unable to look after them- of the day's takings to Barl Haig's permission having been received selves. That work is being done Fund, and it is hoped that this ex from the Ministry of Railwaye by among others--the
British cellent example will be, followed by The money will be used for famine Legion, whose urgent appeal for other business houses, even though relief purpose. help can be generously answered by they may not be open to-day. buying poppies.
The Shanghai Gendarmerie Com- To-day almost the whole civilised A telegram has been received by missioner and the Nanking Garri world for two brief minutes will the Shanghai Chinese Shipowners son Commissioner are co-operating abandon its work and its play, Association from the Communict in preserving peace along the standing still in solemn rememtiores Department of the Head Shanghai-Nanking Railway, and in brance of that tremendous moment quarters of the Comthander-in-Chief | addition to the armoured cars al- eleven years ago when the great saying that, with the exception of ready patrolling the line, two guns were silenced and a demented three vessch belonging to the China others have been ordered from the REMEMBER.
world slowly began to come to its Merchants 9, N. Co., two of the Woosung locomotive factory. senses. Nearly four years previous San Pet Co., and one cach belong- ly there had been a truce-an uning to the Ningwhao and Ho Foong
The Comm
of Public TO-DAY is the eleventh anniversary official one-along the Western companies, all vessels which were Utilities for Greater Shanghai has
the issued. of the conclusion of the greatest front. On Christmas Eve, and on reccarty commandeered for
nn order to landlords Christmas Day, in 1914, British and transportation of troops will be re- throughout the Municipality to in- attempt ever made by humanity at German soldiers clambered out of used this weck.
stall electric lights in all alleyways erif-annihilation. For more than the mud and misery in which they
in order to facilitate police in the four years
According to a statement sub-performance of their duties and to of a dozca na-were slowly freezing, and helped tionalities waged war upon each bury each other's dead-the shat-mitted by Mr. Yu Ka Mu, a govern de away with the possibility of free
tered bodica abandoned in No ment investigator, to the Shang caused by gas and kerosene lamps. other, and the record is written in Man's Land. This donc, the bai District Magistrate this year's the blood of the slain and the tears friendly "enemies exchanged cotton crop in Shanghai is only pathetic little gifts of cigarettes whilst rice harvests are even worse. about 30 per cent. of the normal, of the bereaved. Hundreds
and chocolate, and then slowly Apropos of the latter, the Kiangs buck's have appeared in different separated, each to their
Provincial Government has ordered languages describing aspects of the trenches, in readiness to renew the various district magistrates of
glories" or the horrors of that slaughter"in accordance with preˇ | Kiangsu to raise funds for the pur of a political nature that were not
arranged plan.*"*
chase of rice which must be sold
The Daily Press.
Hoxo Kovo, NOVEMBER 11, 1929.
WHAT-AND WHOM-TO"
Ben
of
truce
fearful struggle-but the one atark
Only, once was such fact still stands out that millions observed at Christmas; fraternisat reasonable prices to alleviate the
tion of that character was sternly sufferings of the poor. of men were killed, and many more frowned upon at both Headquar millions cruelly maimed-hundreds ters, and steps taken to prevent its Commission for the Reorganization As the result of mediation by the
to pay.
A party of Chiness loafers enter. ed a book store at 9, Shantung panes of glass valued at $100. Road, Shanghai, and smashed two According to reports, the store was alleged to have been selling books favourabla to Nanking and it is said the glass smashing was in re taliation by members of political party.
•
ever
Mr. Chang Lan Chow, who gave me the principal address remarked that the inarriage between Mr. Chan Ching Koo and Miss Yu Teh Chuen showed that the archaic Chinese provincialiam no longer persisted. The bride was a na tive of Szechuen province and. the bridegroom, a native of Kwang- tung. According to the ancient. Chinese family idea, marriage was amatter purely concerned with the continuation of the male line. How- being modernized and the wave of
China
WLS now gradually reform in social life, spreading throughout the whole nation. Con- sequently Chinese young men and young women were very determined to rid themselves of the shackles of ancient custom and ideas, They nob had realized that they were only members of a family or a tribe but also merobers of the nation and of human society as a whole, Mr. Chan and Miss Y held this idea very strongly and were expressing its spirit in their marriage cere mony.
PREMIER'S TRIBUTE TO HIS DAUGHTER.
"GETTING AT AMERICA'S MIND."
(THROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Nov. 8. "I could have done the work I
of thousands being condemned to a repetition. Yet it is in the same of Commercial Organizations, the in Shanghai is interested in obtain
The American Consulate General. living death by injuries to body spirit that Armistice Day is becom Mayor of Greater Shanghai basing & Co., Ltd.
information regarding the ing generally observed-not as agreed to the collection of 80 per whereabouts of Mr. Irvng Williams or faculties beyond the skill of day of eclebrating victory, nor cent, of the ante-mortem and post and his wife, Ethyl Carter Wil- did, and I could not have carried aurgery er science to remedy or marking humiliation and defeat;
not as a day for making a brilliant mortem examination fees from but liams, and C. C. Christopherson through the duties placed upon me; repair.
military display, but rather as the and the latter have been ordered to topherson. Any particulars regard- chers during the next six months and his wife, Marine C. Caris- The British Empire's casualties cccasion for demonstrating grateful
I could not have got hold of the during the war numbered 1,080,919 recollection of all who fell and Originally, it will he recalled, the above noned persons will he appre- resume business without delaying the present whereabouts of the
American mind, had it not been for her," charity toward those surviving but Greater Shanghai Health Bureau cinted.
was the Prime Minister's and let it not be forgotten to needing, help, and of earnest hopes demanded 81 per head for eattle
striking tribute to his daughter day, here in the great British port for the early coming of a day when and 10 cents per head for sheep and
Ishiel, when they were welcomed of Hong Kong, that this Sgure in humanity will be wise enough to gonts, which the butchers refused cording to the vernacular papers that when he told the Americans
General Chang Heuch Liang, ae-v
home by the National Labour Club, Mr. McDonald, in a speech, said eludes 15,883 members of the Mer-realise the madness of its former.
methods of settling differences be
has tographed to the Waichinops that Britons had inherited a senti chant Navy who lost their lives tween nations. The author of
vigorously denying the Soviet mental leaning with regard to the A large number of farmers from allegations that White Russians are owing to enemy
action during has reminded us what that method visited the two days' exhibition of ties in the presat Sino-Soviet disgarding the effect, but he received All Quiet on the Western Front the neighbouring villages of Peping being used by the Chinese authori. the effect, but he received those four years and more of
was and may be yet again. madness. And let it be remember-
the, agricultural products and do pute.
Jetters next day expressing thanks. General Chang says that ed, too, that over 50,000 officers and who, after reading the lurid pas and pigs of the Yenching Unimar Ands it of no advantage to use
Can there be one man or woman mestic animalis auch as cows, sheep, these are absolutely intrue as he Explaining the point he said "That means that the American people are with sil Modern Conveniences, Drying men of the merchant service were enges in that book and in the sity agricultural department lact White Russian
many others of its kind-does not week. The exhibition was opened
understanding #15,** The... great Booms and Out-bosses, Two Inft. engaged in actual naval work of feel that Armistice Day should be very morning with a few speeches
world movement towards Diarma- Lan exceedingly important and danmads an occasion of international by the chairman of the department nearly 100 men and women have Since the beginning of the year
ment had begun well. significance in The total loss in of the peace movement?
the development the chancellor and by one of the sailed from Great Britain to take gerous nature.
What killed of all nationalities WAS REMARQUE saw behind the German gramme included criticism, lectures, nection, with the Wesleyan Mission-
guests. In the afternoon the pro- up work ar mimionatics in con- Looking Back 25 Years. about ten millions; the wounded lims others saw in the opposite tricks and music.
territory occupied by the Allied awarded for the best exhibition of of the Missionary Committee the is, and must continue for some Prizes were ary Society. At the recent meeting tion of currency reform in China, Concerning the important ques- numbered more than double that forces. After four years of such domestic animals and farm pro total income received for the cur time to be, doubtful whether the figure the heartbreaks are as far horrors, the common-sense of ducts.
Specimens of good seeds beyond calculation as the tears and humanity will say "never again," were distributed free to farmers for the general work, and £31,021 national coinage on a gold basis rent year was reported as £93,062 scheme for the establishment of a eurses of the non-combatant men, common-sense is needed some de
something more than mere for trying out.
for the women'e department.. women and children whose suffer-finite and organised movement by
will be adopted by the Imperial According to the Chinese Prostime the veteran Viceroy Chang Government of Peking.... Mean- ings were the more pitiful because and between the nations, to make Siberian Mill Arrives.
quite certain that
The Post Office inform us that the Chinotungpu has forbidden the Chih Tung has followed up his of their being so utterly helpless will prevail when next there comes the first mail vid Siberia, smee the Kiangsu Commissioner of Recons- It is within the means of every serious international disagree-service was interrupted, arrived trustion to collect the river conser reader of these lines to do some-ment. The evil spirit of militarism here yesterday. It contined papers any tax from native shipowners is not yet exorcised, but the world and letters from London of October ed demanded this lory with a view The Commissioner, it will be, recall- thing to-day-however little it may seem to relieve the sad distress towards guaranteed peace happily transit.
Yet while this movement 17 and had been days in
Twenty mail bags were to deepening Kiangsu's waterways which unfortunately" still exists gains steadily in strength, we have received from London.
but the merchants refused to pay among so many ex-service men and
it and threatened to strike if any attempt were made to enforce it. their dependants. The claims of hellish ordeal they went through,
made two arrests in connection with Greater Shanghai police have the robbery of 88,000 from the Yung
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fellows who, as a result of the Canton Radio Offico. still with us thousands of poor
"Poppy Day" have been already are incapable of independently written in plain Chinese or plain The acceptance of radio letters earning a livelihood. We have with English only was officially
TURA
criticisms of Sir Robert Hart's now subject of the reform of the cur well-known recommendations on the
rency by sending in a strongly worded memorial to the Throne against Professor Jenk's financial proposals for a gold standard" for China, in which he declares that such a step would, intend of Promoting commercial prosperity, cano finadejal disaste: to the coun- there statements we are not told, LES". What grounds he gives for
holders whose Registered Addretsin ont of Hongay Coal, as she now lies, with eloquently pressed upon the.com-us. too, thousands of women and nouneed last week by the Canton Chan Match. Factory in Pootuss but probably the chief among them
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or to
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munity; we have now simply to
and
"The armistice actually began to take shape on November 7, when a deputation of German officers in motor-ears crossed the lines Baid they wanted to speak with Marshal Foer about peace. Tele- grams began to issue from Fock'a headquarters-which then happen.
News and Views.
ed to be in a sleeping-car on n
One Chinese case of diphtheria siding in the Forest of Compeigne. was reported on Friday. The outposts were warned to watch for a white flagged delegation the His Excellency the Governor has next day, which was to call on appointed Mr. Chan Wai Lam to Focur. According to the late Marbe Public Vaccinator. shal's story, the Germans arrived
Looking Back 30 Years,
remind our renders that the day all these that we are asked to buy East Building, Canton. The NLT payment of the factory workers.
is the novelty of the project, and is here--the eleventh anniversary poppies to-day, and we should pay radiograms should be of special use The accused, a former employee of pissibly the fear that the gold of one of the greatest events in for them as generously as men gave for social and business correspon the company and a former mente Empire. It is to be hoped, how history,
would be quickly drawn out of the their very lives in the cause they dance. It is a delayed service" held so sacred.
of the ferchant Volunteer Corps, and the cbarges are about one third are said to have admitted com-
ever, that the Imperial Government of the ordinary rates. The office plicity so they are being detained He is evidently both timid and pra will not listen to Chang Chih Tung. renders prompt and efficient er pending investigations
judiced. Why should China any vice, and messages to Hong Kong and Shanghai are put through in
more than Japan ba depleted of her Old crooks and young innocente gold because she chooses to place her from ten to twenty minutes.
succeeded each other in the dock at currency on a gold basis? So far Marlborough erect Police Court from disaster following the finan Old Cristoms Must Come.
writes "R. E. Corder," in the Daily cial change in the land of the" The Department of Civil Affairs Mail, when we had a very busy Riding Sun, the reverse has been mays the Chaton. News Agency, has morning. The polite native of Japan the case.-long King Daily Press, issued notices to the magistrates of becamed through large, round November 11, 1904. the different districts ordering the spectacles, bowed to the gaoler and cessation of old custome, which are to the Bench, and said Pardon considered injurious to the people.Were you drunk?" asked the
A wild boar was caught yesterday. promptly, bearing credentials from ·Business at to-morrow's meeting Particular attention is called to clerk. "Pardon, yes, sure, replied
morning, swimming from the main Prince MAX of BADEN. It was at of the Sanitary Board includes con- Wang Kuang village where it is the Japanese, bowing with all the and in the direction of Stout this meeting that Fon made sideration of a letter from the the custom for unmarried men to grace of the Orient. As he left the cutter's Ieland. Mr. J. H. Smith. known the Allied terms, and gave Government relative to the appoint seize by force any widows for wives dock he bowed to the gaoler, who of Mesra, Blackhead & Co., and Germany seventy-two hours to think mert of the Hon. Director of and when the relatives of the widows dropped à curtesy.
Mr. Koch wore in a steam-launch, The German delegation, Medical and Sanitary Services to remonstrate, the pousssors, have
and observing the animal in the CANNOT AFFORD THEM?
however, wanted immediate peace a member of the board in place only to offer suitable compensation.
water they stean.ed after it and suc- "Our armies are
Attention is also called to a place of the Medical Officer of Health. in a des
creded in passing a repe round-its EMBERS of the Committee at EnzBEHOER, who headed the dele- perate situation," declared Herr
called Nam Tou Shing where heavy boat-hooks, they managed to pass a body, by which it was hauled on The Gazelle notifies that the fol prices are paid for a wife; and mooze over its fore-legs and secure board. It was much exhausted and CITY HALL, EVERY MONDAY and
It was taken over to Kowloon, remained quite quiet for some time, THURSDAY at 10.30 to receive stop now, this minute." Foca re- The Hong Kong Excavation, Pile the third month of every year a where it was shot by Mr. Smith. rat by and by, feeling refreshest GIFTS of BLANKETS, Part-worn plied that the Allied Armies could Driving and Construction Co., great deal of money is spent by The animal measured ft. lin. from from its rest, it became rather Olothing, etc.
not be stopped so abruptly, but Ltd., 8004,000.25 for the construc- countrymen on encrifices to the enout to tip of tail, the tail being lively and the occupants of the that the Germans had the terms, tion of Aberdeen, Upper Dam; Mr, idols, Such practices are to be stop 8in. long. It weighed 188 be. and Launch thought it prudent to retire and if they were acceptable, they Ng Wab, 850,209.50 for the conped by the magistrates, she must had small tusks, being apparently to the top of the house. From this could so inform the Allies within struction of a service reservoir at report on the result of this social about three years old.-Hong Kong point of vandage, with the aid of the stipulated three days
North Point,
campaign.
Daily Press, November 11, 1879. (Continued on preceding column).
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