NEW ADVERTISEMENTS-
THE
NOTICE.
THE ANNUAL "AT HOME”· of the CHINESE RECREATION CLUB will be held on SATURDAY, 32ND NOVEMBER, 1990 at 2.34 P.M. All Friends are warmly invited - to Attard.
The FINAL of the MIXED DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP of the Colony and the CHAMPIONS tersena the REST in the 8. and O. DIVISION
of the Hong Kong Tennis Leador will
be played, Laut SHOESON CHOW
will distribute the Prizez
THE
BODY
SOUL
AND SPIRIT
OF AN
A TEA DANCE will be held in the EXCELLENT
CLUB HOUSE,
E. A. S. M. A. CLUB.
Nor
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the CLUB PREMISES situated at No. 17, QUEEN'S 'BOLD CENTRAL, will be OLOSED as From --NOVEMBER 30тm, 1930,
By Ordor
of the Committen of the
EX-ACTIVE SERVICE MEN'S A880CIATION.
Hong Kong, 20th Nov., 100.
£10149
• M. C. 1.
(PRISON BRANCH),
STOP WATCH COMPETITION.
THE WATOR Stopped at 12 Minutes
Seconds Past 12. Ticket 776
Was Not Sold. The Winning Ticket is
COCKTAIL
BURNETT'S
CELEBRATED
LONDON
DRY GIN
therefore 777. This was sold to Ma, J. Behold it here! This little
ROBERTS, to whom a Voucher on MESSES. LANE, CRAWFORD for $10 will be issued on Presentation of the Tisket to the MESS PRESIDENT, PRISON DEPARTMENT,
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Flask
Contains
Quintessence,
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,
the wonderful
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1930.
In the fifteen administrative areas which comprise. British India a variety of constitutions prevail. In the eleven provinces each under n
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the at 5. p., Royal Observatory stited;-
The al-exclone remains central rnor, nuthority is divided, be over the glaze Valley. The tween the Governor-in-Council and northern depression moving east ward into the Sea of Japan. The southern depression is now central to the W.N.W, of Guam,
Local Forecast: NE. winds, fresh; fine.
TYPHOON WARNING, The following typhoon warning has been received by the American Consulate-General from the Manils
Observatory:
Manila, November 20, 8.16 am Cyclone or typhoon W. of Chan, moving N.W. or W.N.W.
★ News and Views ★
Chicago chorus girls are reported
as
Sir Charles Higham, speaking an elected Legislative Council. "Rethey bave been ordered to wear of Commerce in London at a lun: to have come out on strike because the gist of the American Chamber served" subjects are for the Gover-corects. It accms unreasonable.cheon, in the Hotel Victoria, said nor-in-Council and "transferred" No one ought to object to wearing he believed in the "Buy British"
corsets in Chicago-preferably of bullet-proof steel.
appeal. The British motor-car in- dustry bad proved it. Their three years advertising campaign in the newspapers had also played a big part in their success.
A motorist who lost his right arm five years ago-John Charles Me Cullagh, of Rye, Sussex-was sỰC-
That a London jury should in cessful at Croydon in obtaining damages for a motor collision from 1930 not know the jury box from Samuel Goodshild, of Melfort-rand, the dock norms incredible, but in Thornton Health. He alleged that essence one jury showed such ignor the accident was due to Mr. Good-ance at the recent London Sessions. child's negligence, and he On the return from considering awarded the amount claimed (10) by the Clerk: What is your rordiet the usual question was put verdict1"
The foreman replied: “We plead not guilty, my lord.”
Wüs
The National Union of Railway- nien, through its organ the Rail- way Revier, expresse indignation against the dismissals of men from certain railway hotel staffs. "Men with many years' sorvise--entirely satisfactory so far as can be ascer
other nationality. tained-are being put off and their posta are being filled by me of
An ex-convict named David Per- rett, who met a doctor's cook in Hyde Park, made love to her, and subsequently stole Jewellery from her employer's house, was sentone- ed, at Marylebone, to three months",
He was alleged to hard labour. have written impudent letters to the doctor (Dr. Goodwin, of Clifton Hill, St. John's Wood), telling him he ought to feel lucky that the whole of his house had not been stolen. Poisoned Sweets.
subjects for ministers riveted to the Legislative Council and responsible to that body. The Governor is vented, however, with wide powers both of veto and of declaring men. sures to be necessary, for carrying on government, and to have the force of the law under his scal.
The question arises as to how far the Indian States will be pre- pared to recognise a federal as
There is to be a sequel to recent sembly including representatives of A woman M.P. was saying recent. BIRTH.
cases of poisoning in the Potterics. other States,of the British pro-ly that the girls of to-day are much CUTHBERT,-On November 16, t
due to the eating of sweets which It is proposed to erect a memorial Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Vinces and of the British raj, in more attractive than the girls of
alleged to have contained in Walthamstow Town Hall, or in arsenic. At a meeting of the Stoke- J. MURRAY CUTHBERT, 2
her youth, when any woman who son, place of the present authority of the set up to be serious and cultured some other public building in the n-Trent City Council, the Heality. GRAEME MURRAY.
Viceroy and the British Parliament was inevitably dowdy. The girl of district, to Lieutenant Colonel V. Committee reported having con 1020, armed as every paint for the C. Richmond, the 37-year-old desidered the report of the Town acting through, the Secretary of competitive struggle, has particu- signor of the 101, who lost his Clerk, Mr. E. B. Sharpley, on the ELIAS-CRAWFORD,—ON November State for India. ́.
larly sharpened the weapons of life in the recent disaster. Al matter, and the Council approved 15, nt. Shanghai, EDWARD ROBERT DAOLISH ELIAS, the
dress and appearance. She is all though born at Dalston, Linutenant a recommendation that legal pro- the better at her jch for having Colonel Richmond spent his boyhood in Walthamstow, and was an en gineer before he joined the R.N.A.S.
MARRIAGES.
dune 10..
A Fatshan Tragedy.
The Maharajahs of Bikaner and Suffolk Regt., to HAZEL NORA, Alwar, both declared, in speeches of elder daughter of Mr. and Mra wise and generous vision, that the D. W. S. CRAWFORD, of Bb, Indian States are willing to enter Avenue Foch, Shanghai. ForяYTH-BOYD,-On November 15, an All-India Federation. The A singularly cruel art ind a
at Shanghai, JAMES SHAW Maharajah of Rowa, speaking for FORSYTH, to Ebira leta, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. the more Conservative olemont, was Bord, 7, Kinnear Road, Shang- by no means unsympathetic, but uttered a warning that they did not deaire Federation if it meant a Editorial and Business Offices: 11 gradual disappearance of all that
hai.
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ENTRY FORMS for the TWELFTH пла THIRTEENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING to be held on SATURDAY, éıx and 13TH DECEMBER, 1930, respectively, may be obtained at the RACE COURSE, LONG KONG CLUB, and Gaderway Bay Stables. Entries will CLOSE at 12 o'clock NOON on the following dates :-
MONDAY, MONDAY,
1ST DECEMBEz, 1930, 8TH DECEMBER, 1930.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KONG...
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Acros No. 26 or 1830,
BETWEEN
CHEONG ON TAI FIRM,
Plaintiffe
AND
Bán tải
-Longfellow,
SOLE AGENTS:
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WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS
NOTICE.
YICK TAI COMPANY SHING A SALE OF WORK will be hell in Ail of M.C.L. and LOO L KEE and CHAN KUNG WAI, CHARITIES on BATURDAY, DEC. MARAGING PARTNEK THEJNIE, 9TH, by STC DENTS of the C.M.B. Defendants ASSOCIATED BCHOOLS (97. STEPHEN'S GIRLS' College & FamLxA) NOTICE IS BEBER ach Boi, from 11.x, to 4 PAL
【OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in the COLLEGE HALL, LITTLTON
[1015 mont Returnable on FRIDAY, the 7TH - Day of NOVEMBER, 1930, against all
the Property Movable and Immovable FANLING HUNT & RACE CLUB,
of the above-named Defendants was ined on the 23rd Day of. Dom. 1080, in this
pursuant to provisions of Chapter XVII of the Hong Song Code of Civil Procedure.
Dated the 18th day of Nov., 1930. ME. J. M. D'ALMADA BEMEDIOS.
Solicitors for the Plaintiffs.
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for STEEPLECHASE MEETING at EWAN TI DECEMBER Nor; JANUARY 1810; FEBRUARY 15гm.
The Dates for the March and April
Mootings will be announced Later,
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very tragie sequence at Fatahan. Several village boys caught a rat, and decided that it would be great fun to burn it. They bound it with some form of string, soaked it with kerosene and Bot it on fire. The terrifed animal broke its bonds, and rushing away set are to a matched. A woman and two children who were arleep inside were burnt to death.
Ware Pirates1
in 1015.
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endings should be taken against a firm of sweet manufacturers and the firm alleged to have supplied the arsenic. An application by retail- ers for payment for the battles of sweets destroyed by the Corporation Health Department was not enter tained.
Great Western Railway.
The Grout Western Railway have been the first among British railway companies to recognise that in this year of grace 1930 the non-smoking. nembers of the community con stitute's diminishing minority. In future you will be allowed to smoke in any carriage not expressly labell- ednon amoking." This sensibin
Mr. Justice. Swift and a good word for criminals at the annual meeting of the London Police Court Mission, I have been an associate of criminals. all my life," he said. I have defended them, prosecuted them, and for years tried them, so the States had stood for in the past.
that they have been all concerned We do not believe that this will
in helping me to earn my livelihood, "So I know
a good deal about happen. The genius of the British
them, and I know there is a great race, in the matter of self-governing
deal of good in the very worst of A notice posted yesterday at the them." One a prisoner has com Dominions, has been able to pra-arbour Ofice states that: "In-pleted his or her sentence, he added, reform should have been adopted mote individuality, and to organise formation has been received that a it was the duty of the State to earlier. In crowded trains of daily. form of devolution which gang of pirates have left Bias Bay afford an opportunity for him or breaders five men yearning for their after-breakfast pipe have been BTS strengthens the centralising bond. for Shanghai." It would be in her to redeem the past.
forced to sit in agonised suspense It is this problem which British done to disseminate this news and A Task for Wigan's Mayor.
teresting to know what has been
merely because they have been herd- statesmanship, in co-operation with to put water police and merchant
ed into au unlabelled carriage, patriotic Indians, seeks to solve in service officers on their guard. In W. Glover), who was asked by a passenger, mind if we light our The Mayor of Wigan (Alderman"Do you," they will ask the sixth most piracies the ship's officers have Dutch girl if he could find her a pipes "This," he will answer, that great sub-continent, with its been taken by surprise, which husband, has received a number of is not a smoking carriage." hundred factors making, some for curious if information of this kind replies, all which are to be forward the G.W.B. at any rate it will be disruption, and others for unity.
is sent them. It is more than caned to Holland. The letters come the anti-tobacconists who will be be expected of human nature for from places all over the country: herded together in a special.com hard worked officers always to go including Manchester, Rochdale.partment.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 21, 1830.
INDIA AND FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT. '
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INDIA'S Round Table Conference is | making good progress, and the dia-
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ORDEAL OF THE MISSIONARIES.
Acconnine to the latest reports
:
armed, but a few precautions when and Leeds. There is, however, none
11 gany is known to be on the move from Wigan. The writers. include A Paasing Ship. (Sonnet),
might save many of these wer tragedies. Meanwhile, it is satis fncory to note that the Canton Government bas sont another guu boat to Bins Bay.
The Ninth Company,
The Worshipful, Company of Sat. Inters stands ninth in the order of
panies of London. There was a precedente among the City Com
cursions in London have been not able for their loyalty, good rense, some twenty-four European mission- and acceptance of realities. India arics of all denominations and is stating what she wants, and the nationalities are now in the hands
reasonable and of brigands and Communiste, demanda seem Possible of attainment in dug course. Hunan alone eighteen out of thirty On all sides the federal form of three members of the Augustinian
Mission government is preferred to a
are missing and very unitary system. This is in accord serious reports are being received with the considered opinion of the from other parts of China, SIMON Commission, and is the only
The objects of this determined manner in which concerted nation assault on up-country missions are by the States and the provinces of two-fold. It is hoped by this means British India can be made possible to embroil the Nationalist Govern- By federation is meant the setting ment with foreign Powers, and, up of a central senate or assembly secondly, there is the simple motive to which each state and province of loot and ransom. There is no ends its representatives. The way likelihood of the first object succeed. in which such representatives would ing. The Powers know very well he chosen must be loft a matter for that the Chinese Government is not each state and province to decide. hostile to missions, and that every There can be no question of divid. thing possible will be done to secure ing India up into vast constituen the release of the captives and the eies for electing candidates to the punishment of the offenders. Con- central legislative authority. "The ditions in China are fully under- ono word frauchise," said the stood, and while the Powers will Maharajah of Alwar, "alone look for active measures by the originated communal friction and Chinese authoritics, it is realised ercated complexities in the future that brigandage on the present scale relations of democratic India with will take months to suppress.
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letters is from a woman who wishes to bo put in touch with any mitable | men whom the Dutch girl may re ¦ject.
The English Theatre Revives,
i
It was, but Oh! With what do
licious thrille
My heart its functions pantingly
fulfis.
did but intercept one melting
glance
From sea-blue eyes, and then, her
elegance
Was gone; but still, her flagrant.
presence fill
This sacred place with scent of
daffoldils, haunting melodies of old
romanco,
now, through age-long life, to
my despite.
The English theatre is coming Patent Roll of Richard II, dated to life ngain, for the simple reason 1384. In the Middle Ages the trade that the English playwright has with which the Company was com rediscovered himself. During the nected was a most necessary one for years that followed the war the And providing the inhabitants of Gon-slick American play swept the tea- don with fresh food. To-day the cup English drama from the scrac. Salters Company has more to do Now things are changing. We have And, with industrial chemistry. The Somerset Maugham, with his grim dinner the Salters' Company gaya genius, Noel Coward, with his irre in bonour of Prince George and thesistible sense of impolite comedy, Overseas representatives last month i Shaw still storming the clouds. The subtle charm of her,her in- provided. model example of Rudolf Besier, who threatens te 01 ancient City function It, become the English. Euripides, St. was not too large a company, The John Ervin, the perfect feminist, hall, with its striking Sienna and other new men looming up. It So marble columns, had the right note is not difficult to predict that in a of apneiousness. The tables were short time London will resume its wide spaced. It was ensy to pick dominating role in the world of out the distinguished guests. the theatre.
pany,
40 cents.
Never shall I from memory dis
miss
finito
Soft radiance-my short-lived,
sudden bliss: fly, My Soul! Upon her lips:
nlight,
And press agad, renunciative
kisa.
· JOHN WILLWYN.
Local Notes and Events
removed to the Government' Civil. Hospital.
T
Mr. W. H. Bell, manager of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd., accom- the Colony on Wednesday by R.M.S. panied by Mrs. Bell, returned to Empresa of Japan..
Looking Back 25-Years,
While entering the harbour yes- A Chinese, alleged to have com- terday morning, the U.S. gunboat mitted a farceny on the third floor Mindanao fired a salue in honour of 86, Ku Shing Street, was climb For reasons that need not be dis-of Admiral Waitell. As the flag-ing over to the adjoining house Britain's relations with the cussed many Europeans in China ship of the Admiral, the H.M.S. when he missed his footing and feil. Indian States have been of the do not view the activities of the Kent was in dock, the reply salute into the streat. He received injuries happiest. These rulers; many of Missions with very much favour. was fired by H.M.8. Medway. to his head, legs and arms and was
The Criminal Sessions were for- most ancient and distinguished But no one can fail to admire the
An alleged armed robbery has
mally opened by His Honour the lineage, have governed their pro-courage and devation of those who
Chief Justica on Saturday, and vinces extraordinarily well, they undertake this work. We believe been reported to the police by Ho
Remarking that it was impossible adjourned until today, when jurors have accepted the light guidance of that for China herself the destrut- Su Kwai, of the Lin Ching Com-
pare expected to attend.; The indict the successive Viceroys and the rosition of mission stations with their stated that he was held up by two another at a distance of about 400 Ling, uttering a forged bank note: of China Building, who to the recognise one Chinese from ments filed are as follows:-Cheung dont commissioners, and they have, many schools and hospitals is a men, one arried with a knife, while yards, Comdr. J. B. Newill, D.S.O., Lo. Kam Min, murder; Lo Fat Hing shove all, acquiesced in Britain's tragedy. China is faced with he was walking along Tung Fung,
Accessory after the fact: Wong Tai position of keeper of the peace in big problems of disease and, in and they took away his jacket B.N., discharged a Chinese who was and Wong Ban Kam, hary
charged with 'dumping rubbish into Wong San Kam, two charges of India. The British Government has the reinster districts, there is
the harbour. Bergeant Kennedy, in robbery with violence. from time to tirao negotiated almost complete illiteracy among The case in which two Russian evidence, stated that he saw tho de Daily Press, November done.
21, 1003. treaties with the Indian Blates the poorer classes. Every school lads were charged with stowing fendant dumping the rubbish into defining powers and status, and the looted and every hospital closed is way on board the Empress of the harbour, but when cross-examin-Locking Back 50 Years,
Japan from Shanghai was concludeded by Mr. T G. Bennett, 'who ap- From the number of houses that honouring of these treaties has to a loss to the country, Dr. H. D. C. at the Kowloon Magistracy yester. peared for the defence, admitted come to grief in the course of t be given first consideration in any RICE told a Hong Kong sudience day when they were fined $50 or that he could not swear that he year in Hong Kong from simple change in the present system of something of the work of the month's-imprisonment each. It definitely aw the defendant doing collapse without any reasonable
was stated that the police could not | it,
cause, we are inclined to the belief. governing India.
mission hospital at Nanning during find anyone who would undertake
that the tequirements of the Build- Though India is a continent with the recent siego of that city. It to look after the inds.
According to a Police report á ing Ordinance have either been differences of race, custom and won the only place where the
motor-car belonging to Captain' | neglected or else that its provisions geographical conditions as great as wounded were attended and it took Chintsa Recreation Clas will be pletely destroyed by fire in Lock Wednesday night one of the go The annual “At. Home" of the Ramzey, of H.M.S. Kent, was com- are inadequate for the purpose. On those of Europe, it has a tradition in casualties from both armies, held on Saturday, November 22 at hart Road on Wednesday. It was downs in Hing Loong Lane, near of unity which has gathered force Every effort was minds by the com- 230 p.m. when the final of the stated that the car, which was MacDonald's Slip, stored with under the contralised rule of the batsata, who were; not "Reds" or Mixed Doubles Championship of driven by Lending Seaman H W. flour and rico came down, with King-Emperor through the Viceroy: brigands, to save the hospital, but the Colony will be played. The Lloyd, in avoiding a number of crash, bursing the contents in the There are railways, waterways and the building was in the line of fire, Chinese Roucation Club who are women coolies near Bowrington débris of the building. Fortunats- cables that pass from British India and war epares little. The plac champions of the B. and C. Divi- Canal, struck a kerbatone and turn: 1 ly there was he ons inside or near into Indian States and again into has been evacuated and Dr. Ricz sion of the Hong Kong Tennis ed over on its side. No sooner had i the place at the time of the occae- Dritisteterritore Thompset back in Hong Kong. The presents Jongue, il mer arasat the Beat the driver managed to extricato Frence. This in the third: sodown. mujer, onvergitha shola lani. Qupe, kelhock to the missionary marriment after, which, dhe trist, vilala dina Musle
tions of health know, no frontièrs. 18, however, only temporary, and tributed by Imdy dietsen Chow. A being “aintone, com] "“dentroyed","mònts 15, the bio line of Bimsily There are in fact problems which when peace is restored it will go ten danes will be hold in the Club before the arrival of the Fire built structures-Hong Kong Daily
forward with all its old vigour.
Brigada.
Press November 21, 1880."
India has to face as a unit
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