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CHINESE ARCHITECTURE. NEWS FROM INDIA.
300-YEAR-OLD PLANS FOR
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ping has purchased a large celice. that AN EXTRAORDINARYtion of models and plass of former GENERAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the CHINA PR Imperial buildings and parks in the VIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE ancient capital from a family which COMPANY. LIMITED.
will be held has had the exclusive privilege of on WEDNESDAY, THE 10TH DAY OF Making such pains for 300 years.
Board JULY, 1930, in the Company's Room, ALEXANDRA BUILDING, HONG. The models include those of the Kors, at 12 O'CLOCK NOON, for the old Summer Palace, destroyed by purpose of considering and, if thought it passing the following Resolations—the Franco-British expedition in 1.-That the Capital of the CHINA ISG0, the Three Seas palaces, in the
PROVIDENT
& MORTGAGE heart of Peiping, and the Imperial LOA COMPANY, LIMITED, be increased from $3,000,000 to $4,500,000 by the tombs. creation of 300,000 Shares of $3.00 ench and that the 300,000 Shares of
$5.00 each shail each rank for dividend and in all other respecta pari pasu with the existing Shares
of the Company. 9-That is the event of the above
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Besolation being passed, 294,789 Shares shall be issued and offered in the first instance by the Directors at par to existing Shareholder on the Register of the 16th day of Jar Company as at 1930, rateably Jals the properation of ONE Share for evers TWO Shares held such Shareholders, and in the event of any
of the reid 294,789 Shares not being taken up by the holders within the time stipulated by
the Directors, the Board shall be empowered to allot them or dispose of them as they in their discretion deom expedient in the interest of the Company.
ALSO HEREBY NOTICE IS GIVEN that the TRANSFER ROOKS of the Company will be CLOSED From MONDAY, THE 7TH DAY OF JULY, 1930, to WEDNESDAY, THE 18TH DAY or JULY, 1930, Both Days inclusive.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of June, 1830.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
D. L. KING."
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THE QUESTION OF CENSORSHIP.
LORD BURNHAM'S REPLY TO AMERICAN COMPLAINT.
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U.S. BASEBALL RESULTS.
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New York, July 9. The following are the results of the, baseball matches played to-day in the National and American Leagues:
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Brooklyn Philadelphia St. Louis
The censorship of American Press mesanges from India was remarked upon by Mr. R. Paine Scripps, president of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, and one of the three senior Fellows of the Walter Hines completed their
of Great Page, endowment, who have just Britain. His reference to the sub- ject was made at a farewell lun- chron given to him and the two Their authenticity is guaranteed other Fellows, Mr. Clark Howell by the Lei family from whom they and Mr. Stuart H. Perry, by the Chicage were purchased. This family, ex-English-Speaking Union perts in Chinese architecture, have Criterion Restaurant. Lord Bum-
ham presided. controlled the actual designing and model-making of Imperial palaces and tombs for five centuries.
The work was kept secret, and was passed on from father to son, so that it never went outside the family-even after dynasties fell.
The models, now on exhibition at
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The Chairinan, proposing the DEAD GIRL DANCER. health of the guests, said the Eng- lish-speaking Union had done no little service in cementing the friendship of the two countries in whose hands lay the destinies. of the world.
Mr. Howell, replying first, said his only regret was that the union did not send as many English pro- the library, are comparable tople to America as the United States architect's drawings, having been sent to England. If Americans
submitted to emperors for approval before construction began. They include plans of any buildings which have long ago perished, con- firming descriptions of seme build- ings made by Jesuit priests.
knew the English as well as ho knew them there would never be any cause for misunderstanding be tween Great Britain and the United
States.
DRUG ORGY ENDS IN
TRAGEDY...".
TWO MEN DIE TO ESCAPE
ARREST.
The mysterious death of a young Brussels dancer, Madeleice Carri aux, a beautiful girl of 25 years of age, will, it is believed, reveal the activities of a big gang of interua tional drug smugglers.
1930.
EASTERN NEWS IN BRIEF.
PARS FROM EVERYWHERE.
It is understood that the Educa tion Department in Tokyo has adopted a policy to suspend the appointment of students to be sent abroad to study by the Department for two years commencing from the present season.
An unusual accident befel an 8- year-old school boy at Kuala Lumpur last week, when, as the result of being hit on the forehead by so cricket ball he died two hours after being admitted to hospital. The boy, Charn Singh, was a pupil of the Methodist Boys' School.
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The total shipments of para rubber from Singapore, Penang, Malacca and Port Swettenham dur- ing the month of June amounted to This shows a notable 36,857 tops, reduction of 12,382 tons compared with May, and apparently reflects the effect of the stoppage of tapping during that month. The shipments in May were 49,039 tons, this ob- viously including a large amount, of stocks already in hand. In April" the shipments amounted to 44,736
tona.
Following, the return to Copen- hagen of the Danish Royalties who visited the Far East on board the Fiçnia, the King of Denmark has He told them that Malle, Carri-been pleased to confer the decora aux had died at his house 24 hours tion of Knight of the Order of earlier, and requested that the Danebrog on Mr. H. Christiansen, body should be removed to her Consul-General for Denmark in Siam; Mr. H. Mikkelsen, Consul' home.
The police went to the advocate's for Denmark in Singapore; Mr.. house, and found in one of the bed-Nielsen, Consul for Denmark in rooms the body of the young woman Ceylon; Captain Væring, who was undressed..
in command of the Fionia; and Mr. Emil Jorgensen, of the East Asiatic
Mr. Perry emphasized the essen. tial one-ness of the two peoples. The girl was found dead at the Mr. T. L. Yaan, director of the The points of dissimilarity were in-home of a well-known advocate,
who informed the police." Library, has acquired many such cidental and superficial, while the important additions recently, in-
points of similarity were funda imental and essential. There warn elding thousands of old Chinese still little myths concerning both
are becoming more books which
peoples More serious were the rare every year. The funds are shibboleths and slogans which peo- supplied partly by the China foundation, from mosex returned ple repeated and believed in- by the United States Government balance of power, naval parity, the from Baxer indemnity funds.
Monro doctrine, the freedom of the scas. These had become mere phrases, but people were ready to fight for them. The only thing that could separate the two..coun- tries was misunderstanding or lack of understanding. He hoped that such gorts as the union was mak- Ling might be continued and in-
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la the house was another girl, German, Hildegarde Hardwie, who was in a state of stupor.
Mille. Carriaux's body was medi- cally examined, and it is believed that the dancer died during a drug orgy by taking a strong dose of cocaine.
The advocate, who belongs to a wealthy family, and the German girl have both been detained,
The "man declares that he fre- to drugs,
He furnished the police with the Dames and addresses of the persons from whom he was in the habit of buying his supplies.
It is probable that the police will be able to lay their hands on several much-wanted drug smug
Foted Painter.
It is suggested that there was a drug party at the advocate's house, at which he and the two girls and a young and noted painter. were present.
The affair has created a great sensation in the artistic world in Brussels, where all the "persons involved are well known.
It is believed that the drug smugglers whoin the police are now tracking down are engaged in the lucrative business of bringing drugs from Germany, via Switzerland, and disposing them in Paris and Brussels.
Two of the smugglers, the police believe, have just escaped arrest by suicide.
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With a view to introduce Man churia and to develop the Japanese as well as Chinese industry, the South Manchuria Railway Company is planning to hold a grand Man- churian and Mongolian Exposition at an estimated cost of $6,000,000, and investigations are now being made for the purpose. The pro- posed plan of the exposition.is on a big scale and it is reported that the buildings will be erected at four places, Dairen, Mukden, Chang- chun, and Antung, displaying all the products in Manchuria and Mongolia, without any exception. The authorities of the company be- lieve that the exposition will he opened in 1032 at the latest,
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A "Young China Touring Party," composed of 20 Cantonese boys and girls, has been organised in Shanghai with the object of walking from China to Turkey. The party will travel up the Yangtze River to the interior town of Sikong, thence to Sinkiang, Afghanistan and finally Turkey. On the return trip, the group will walk across India, Burma," French to Canton. lado-China and then The leaders of the project claim to have obtained pancial backing from influential Canton merchants. The idea of the four, they said, is të prove that Young China can equal the great walking tour of Marco Palo. They expected to spend three years trying it.
A shopkeeper and two accolt. IMPERIAL TOMBS LOOTED.
arranged
drug regülar plices
which even young parties, to people, of not more than 12 years of age, were taken.
MANCHU GUARDS OVER- POWERED.
Distrustful of Information.
Mr. Scripps said everybody he had met in England wanted to know what America thought of thequently had recourse
chiefly cocaine. situation in India. He believed that only a few of their people were thinking of India at all. They had hard times and unemployment as well as the beginning of the base- ball season, and those things oc- cupied the thinking time of the average American. But those peglers. ple who were thinking about India and wanted to know more about it were handicapped because they were distrustful of their informa- tion. They had heard about the eficial in India called the Censor, and the natural reaction was to assume, when they read "that two people had been killed, that pro- bably 20 were killed and that the hospitals were full. He believed that Engishmen. were as much my- stifled as to the true situation as were. Acnericana. He had been told that it was the local Press that was being censored. Yet on May 16 the London office of the United Press of Amerien received the inquiry from its Labore cor- respondent: "Are you receiving my daily dispatches! The message that went back was: "Last message
It was discovered that regular received May 12. During May re- drug orgies were held in rooms be- ceived five messages from you.hind a shop not far from the scene Two weeks ago the director of the of the dancer's tragic death. London bureau of the United Press America, Mr. Webb Miller, of started by air for Karachi and Calentta, his purpose being to as sure their clients in the United States, South America, and on the Continent that their "nows of In- dian developmens abould be ac curate. A few days ago he found himself at Bilimora, where he wit- nessed considerable violence of an unpleasant eort at the Dharsana salt works. On the 21st be sent three messages forming one story. The first message of 82 words came through intact and was relayed to Lord Burnham, answering this other countries, concluding with the speech, said that though it was one word more to indicate it was of the rights of man to smoke incomplete. The next message to cigarettes, it did not follow that he arrive was marked "third" anal might smoke them im a powder was quite unintelligible, because the magazine. As to accurate informa middle part of the story was mise-
tion about Indis, it had been an ing. The third message was also nounced that Sir John Simon was marked 2 words," but it ended to give two wireless talks on the in the middle of a sentence at the report of the Commission which the 30th word All told 139 words bad would be available also to been received; that morning Mr.
United States. It was true that Miller had wired that he sent 400, the censorship existed in India. And it had been learned that the The lives of men and women of The first raid on Imperial tombs Bombay Government had regretted our own race and of other races
occurred at the Eastern Tombs in the cancellation of certain parts of were dependent to some extent on
June, 1928, about the time the the message. Inquiries had natur. preventing a fow of untrue state Nationalists entered. Peiping. The elly come in front all parts as to meats calculated to incite unthink-tombs of the Emperor Chien Lung what the London office meant bying people in that vast sub-contin- and the Empress-Dowager Tou Hsi sending out that incoherent story, eat He was not doubting the ver- were entered, and all their trea- and the answer was that it was due acity or questioning the expediency sures taken away. Tsu Hai's tomb to the censorship. The natural of the messages sent to the United alone was estimated to contain
jades, emeralds, Assumption was that things were Press nor was he an advocate for
lacquers and much worse than Mr. Willer had the Government of India, but there
bronzes valued at a million dollars. could not be one rule for news- been permitted to report them.
This robbery was attributed to If the Press as to play an im- papers published in India, whe-
An independent army which later portant part in bringing the people ther Indian-owned or British-owi of America and Great Britain toed, and another for newspapers joined the Nationalists. A court- gether, any form of censorship was outside. Great Britain had always martial investigated the watter in an obstacle to honest journalism, and stood for equal justice, and nothing Peiping, but could not find concla sive evidence, and no "higher. was one of the things that stood was more resented by Indians than
aps" were convicted.. in the way of the part the Press the suspicion of inequality in that ought to play in making the respect. He did not want it to he thoughts of one people clear to the thought that there had been any other....
discrimination in Indis against (Continued of foot of next column.) American newspapers.
When the police got wind of the affair the three men disappeared. One, threw himself into the river at Antwerp, and was drowned, while another poisoned himself by gas in his room in Brussels,
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The latest desecration has occur- red at Fangshanhsien, south-west TJISONDARI.. S'HAI, & AMOY 20th July 22nd July, MANTLA, MILAR of Peiping. Several tombs were. entered, and treasures valued at TJIMANOEK $500,000 have been taken. The Manchu guards, which have been kept at the tombs since the fall of the dynasty, were over-powered.
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