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N Order that a Complete List may be maintained for Record Parpare it is requested that those Ladies and Gentlemen resident in. HONG KOND, other than those now serving in H MAJESTY'S FORCEs, who have and any Decoration coufeired upon them by HIS MAJESTI Tas Kino will inform the
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cost of tho erection of a new prison rom Mix, the noted" two gun" to Mr. Donald Carmichael Halde
Mrs. Victorin Mix, the wife of By her marriage on November 22
Record Rum Running doup.
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ary over S.W. Jawan, and has weak ened slightly. Fresh to moderate monsoon will prevail along the B.E. const. of China and over the. N.. China' Set.
Local Forecast:-E. winds, mode-quarters of Victoria Gaol must in- 'evitably lend to trouble. Prison
Liquor worth £200,000, bound for authorities always have a hard Now York, was discovered by const task, and it is not suggested that guards when they seized two barges off Maine coast. This haul was one the staff at Victoria Gaol do not of the largest in the records of carry out
their duties efficiently Prohibition enforcement. Nincteon and with consideration for their men were arrested. The source of countess, who is at. The ceremony charges. Incidents will occur, but the supply is puzzling revenue took place at the register office at day for stealing a piece of satin
Shoreham, Sussex. agents, for it has not been usual for rum smugglers to transport such quantities at once.
in better surroundings. A small Local, prison may be needed for petty ture industry, last week filed suit sister of Ear! De La Wars, changed A cook-boy who kept a printing offenders, but to keep long-sentence for divorce Mrs. Mix charges her her name for the eighth time. The
press in the basement of No. 7, husband with mental cruelty. other titles by which she has been Queen's Gardens, the residence of men and women in the narrow
known were the Hon. Iding Back-r, T. Dallin, was yesterday fined villo, Lady Idina Sackville, Lady Idina Wallace, Lady Idina Gorden, $500, or in default four months' Lady Idins Hay, Lady Kilmarnock, hard labour. The man admitted the Countess of Errell, and Idina that he had kept the printing press Countess of Erroll, and she now for the purpose of manufacturing, Pago 7. becomes Lady Idins Haldeman po piu tickets. This was the fourth marriage of the
BIRTH, STANTON.On December 18, at the Victoria Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. I STANTON, a con.
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hai, AMY, CATHERINE, the be loved wife of Hugh Pope.
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prosent conditions are hardly fair either to the prisoners or to the responsible officials.
WAR FILMS.
Bishop and a Curate.
Loss to Cambridge.
A woman shop-lifter was Aned
200 at Central, Magistraay yester
from the Wasgiamull Assomull Sill Store. :
Page 7. At the Chinese Chamber of Com It is believed that Lord Chal- mers, Master of Peterhouse, intends merce meeting yesterday it was in. **
diented that a number of small. Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birming to retire from the Mastership at ham, has refused to license the Rev. the end of next year. He will be exporters are neglecting to send in L. E. H. Pike to the assistant a loss to Cambridge, and parti- to the Statistien Department the suracy of St Gregory's, Smallcularly to Peterhouse, for which necessary expert doolaration.
"great deal since his Heath. There has been a long con- he has done troversy between Dr. Barnes and appointment in 1024. This was Anglo-Catholics of the diocese, the remarkable one, for he is the first Bishop refusing to instituto priests peer to be elected head of any col to vacant livings without certain lego at either Oxford or Cambridge, He has declined to Lord Chalmers, who does not look undertakinga permit the Rozorvation of the his. 72 years, has been Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, Sacrament.
Permanent Secretary to the Trea Bury and Governor of Coylon.
A Marriage Risk.
A married man and a married
woman
Noring is more significant of the changing outlook of the civilised world than the attitude towards war shown in the mass of novels, memoire, plays, and films which has been made public in recent years. To the author, and probably to the average man, before 1914 war was a remote thing of trumpets, scar- let, and triumph, with often a good | deal of bragging. Men went to ited 11 years ago at Southend, and high-heartedly amid shouting, and that the woman's husband had been missing for 10 years. The magia these who came back, if one may trato told the applicants that they believe the poots, talked only of its could take the risk of marriage, but glorica. The world verdiet was the if either the missing husband or the old tag "Dulce e decorum ext pro missing wife turned up the second
marriage would be invalid. WHEN a disturbance occurs in a patria mori." Since the holocaust gaol public interest is quickly of the Great War we have learnt Labour Appeals for Money. aroused. We all admit the neers to think more soberly. Realism, sity for prisons and feel more not idealism, is the note of our comfortable when a notorious char-century, and the writers, who mako acter, especially if we have had articulate the thought and feeling personal contact with him, is safely of the nations show us another side incarcerated for a long time to of the picture. In 1914 wo all come. And yet the thought of a shouted in praise of and eagerness
a righteous war. hord of human beings"enged like for
TROUBLE AT VICTORIA GAOL.
And all wild beasts rouses a natural qenso nations sincerely thought the war of pity. If men have to be shut was righteous, for to defend up, at least it should be done national honour was a sacred duty. Inumanely Prisons are not plen- But soon we thought more deeply sure resorts, but the modern and and our thoughts are now being common-sense view in that the con: made clear to us.by writers of all vict should have strict and just the countries involved in that long
"Journey's End" show discipline, hard but not oppressive carnage. work, a healthy life, and a suffed us the beñuty of young courage, ciency of plain food. These things to ardours and its encrifice, but it at least improve his physique and showed as too the slow monotony sometimes build hini up into a of torture, breaking, and destroy- ing the flower of a nation's man decent citizen.
In Hong Kong it cannot be said hood-and for what 1 REMARQUE' in that Victoria Gool in the Colony's "All Quiet on the Western most successful institution, and the Front" tells of the same tragedy disturbancea have again on an opio senle, but with detail brought its real or: alleged defects of squalor and misery that is be to general notice. Trouble in yond the limitations of the stage. prison is due to two causes, either | The cinema gives this too with an undue harshness of the conditions effect that is even more appalling, or the presence of particularly dif- for not only the imagination but ficult and turbulent inmates. It our very eyes and care are assailed cannot be forgotten that Victoria by the sights and din that the men Gaol houses at present a number who fought endureil for so long. of Communists, and the views ex- PAUL BAUMER is a symbol of the
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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LIMITED
'(IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION),
NOTICE 18 DEREBY GIVEN that Au EXTRAORDINARY of. the GENERAL MEETING UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LIMITED ('n Voluntary Liquidation), will be bold at the Offices of ASUSE, DODWELL, & COMPANY, LIMITED at QUREN'S BUILDING, Victoris, in the Colony of Hong Kong on TUESDAY, the 2320 DAY of DECEMBER, 1930, at 11.45 O'CLOCK in the Foaznoor nt which Meating the Liquidators will lay before the beting an account of their acts and deslinga and of the conduct of the Winding Up during the Year following the confirma tion of the Resolution for the Winding Up of the Company, akadem Dated this 15th day of December, 1930.
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PLETE REPORT
German
Pago. The case in which L Tean Pui, a Police interpreter, is charged with accopting a bribe of 850 from a hawker was continued at the Central Magistracy yesterday,
Pogo 7.
situation at the Victoria Gaol, There has been no change in the where the prisoners still refuse to carry out their tasks. Pago 7.
H.M.S. Sandwich, which pro seeded to Heihow on receipt of an appeal from British and American missionaries arrived on Monday and reported that there was no immedi ate danger to British subjects,
Page 7. To-day's Wirelons Programme.
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asked tho Marylebone The Mauretania's Captain.
It was an. S.0.S. picked up in magistrate if they could mary oach; other. It was explained that the mid-Atlantic that sent the Maure man's wife mysteriously disappear, tanin racing at 23 knots to the aid of a sinking steamer, the Ovidia. of the Maure Captain McNeil, tanian made this statement on ar rival in Now York in referring to his rescue of 28 of the crew of the Swedish steamer Ovidia, which sprank a leak and was in a sink- ing condition 1,000 miles off Boston. Sport. The crew reached New York on the Mauretania. Mayor Walker, of New York, sent an invitation to Captain MeNeil and the crew of the Mauretanis to call at the City Hall and receive the congratulations of the city of New York.
Once again the Labour Party is appealing for a special fund to fight, the next General Election, and a circular refere to the "splen- did response" which was made to splendid, but it was not quite so the last appeal. Perhaps it was splendid as was hoped It was called the Bid for Power Fund, and MacDonald when Mr. Ramsay launched it he asked for £100,000, It only brought in, however,
matter of £49,000.
Europe's Cobbler King.
Sinclair Lewis's Joke.
Mr. Lewis, the author of Babbit, Elmer Gantry and other gentle ap- preciations of his nativo land has a nice sense of humour and he en
Rosuite in Adamson Cup qualify. ing round and match play stages.
Page 10. Miniature Golf is to be introduced
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within the next few days by Messrs..
Lane Crawford, Ltd.
Tho Services beat the Club "A". XV. in a friendly rugger match by 12 points to 3 at Happy Valley,
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joys telling the following tale: Latest Cables.
was crossing to England. One fine
The first trans-Atlantic formation: summer afternoon I leant over the fight, in which 12 Italian seaplanes” rail which looks down upon the are engaged, left Lake Orbetello- Post-war Europe Kas had its lower deck. A lady in a deckchair yesterday on the first stage vid multi-millionaires, its Stinnos, its was roading a book which, even at Bolama, Portuguese Guines.
The lists for the Australia Castigliones, but their fortunes have that distance, I recognised as my dwindled There is, however, one own. This, I exclaimed to my Conversion Loan amounting_to great Continental millionaire, whose companion, is fame. Hero am I, £28,000,000 closed yesterday. The fortune has been built up since the Sinclair Lewis, and there below me loan was fully subscribed, war and is steadily increasing until is an unknown, though elderly,
General Berenger, Prime Minis to-day it is, perhaps, the largest in lady, obtaining obvious pleasure Central Europe. His name is from the perusal of my works. tor of Spain, is confined to his bed Thomma Bat'a, and he started life Scarcely had I uttered these words suffering from a throat affection.
as the son of a when the lady took the book and and fever. 54 years ago Moravian village shoemaker. At flung it furiously into the Atlantic!" the age of 18 he took over his father's bench. To-day he is the shoe king, not only of Europe, but of the whole world. His tiny village of Zlin has become flourishing Czech Northampton, of
A Government annodnecment in |
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, in which he himself is mayor. employs 30,000 workmen, and his the House of Representatives at new programa will bring his pro Canberra, Australin, of an export the course of a speech at the duction up to 200,000 pairs of shoes duty of one halfpenny per pound Guildhall, London, said:" Here a day, or, approximately, 80,000,000 on sheepskins in the wool created in this Guildhall, where my father pairs of shoes per annum. Last pandemonium, and the members of genpration ago besought England year, for instance he sent 53 million the Opposition alleged that the to wake up. I append to the leaders. pairs of shoce to the States, nearly Labourites had been bribed. Say- of British trade to wake up thor- three million to Germany, and, ap rral of the members indulged in oughly, to consider fully and not (Continued on previous column.) by their colleagues. roximately, one million to Eng-silcuffs, and had to be separated, decisively."
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A denso fog plunged. Central London in darkness for an hour yesterday forenson.
A new Trade Treaty between Canada and Australia has been arranged, as the result of a confer ence between the Trade Ministers. of the countries concerned.
An insurrection has broken out- at Guatemala.
*Local Notes and Events ★
For failing to take out a clearance
The following forthcoming wed- At the Marine Court yesterday ding is announced: Captain Frank an elderly boatman was facil 825 Southwell Weir, R.A.O.C., Hong by Commander G. F. Hole, N., Kong, to Miss Robarta Bracton Harbour Master, for anchoring his bridge Paterson, of Chicago, U.S.A. beat at Shaukiwan instead of the
· Dangerous Goods Anchorage when Two Portuguese lads, T. H. duarrying four gallons of kerosene, Silva and Daniel da Silva were Defendant pleaded guilty but atat sunmined before Mr. Butters at the ed that the oil was for his own use.
Maria 6 d'Acevedo for alleg Kowloon Magistracy yesterday by
SERVICE TO READERS.
KONG DAILY KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through to be tried for the serious wound- wonder and self-devotion of youth, their London Office, at 53, FLEEing of a warder certainly suggest wore squandered in destroying Braat, E.C. 4, are prepared to give a general prevalence of advanced other millions whose courage and Subscribers and Visitors advice regarding accommodation available political leanings. The concerted devotion were no less, few of whom motoring facilities, suitable shop shouting of the prisoners on Tues- know clearly what they were to do One death from diphtheria was ping centres, etc,
day night also shows how unrest or why they did it. "Who wanted reported for the 24 hours ended
soldier Tuesday. has spread. There are always well- this war? behaved and ill-behaved prisoners pertinently asks; and there is no
The Hong Kong dollar touched Often the worst characters can answer. Death is stronger than a new low record yesterday when more easily adapt themselves to the sweetness of dying for the it opened at 1/1id prison, but this does not alter the fatherland," cries PAUL to the pro-
A fancy dress party will be held fact that prison discipline has to fessor who urges year by year his at the Peninsula Hotel at 4 p.m. be upheld with drastic severity pupils to plunge into that storm to-day by the pupils of the Centraled assault and disorderly conduct. Looking Back 25 Years. On the other hand, there is some of stool. Death, hungor, pain, British School. **
The case was remanded for a week. Two bluejackets from the 'U.S. doubt as to how far local prison fear, brutality, these are the facts
man-of-war Wisconsin were charged The management of Repulse Bay at Central Police Court yesterday regulations and administration are of war. From then may rise a permit from the harbour, vessel Hotel wishes to inform patrons with having assaulted & marine COMPREHENSIVE AND COM. on the best lines. The main com-courage,..a loyalty, a comradeship the coxswain of the motor-vessel that table bookings for Christmas from H.M.S. Hogue.. Apparently plaint of the prisoners was insuffi- beyond human conception, but this Tang Kwong was ined 890 by Com Carnival on December 24 and Newa disturbance had taken place in ciency of food, and it seems unrea cannot justify the millions denmander Hole, RN, at the Marine Year's Eve Carnival Decciule 31 the New Traveller's Hotel on the
Court yesterday.
have been fully booked. No fur 12th instant, in the course of which sonable not to give the prisoners and maimed, nor the expense of
The General Procurator of the ther reservations will be received ja marine was hit on the bead with as much rice as they want. wealth and power on pure destruc- Mission. Etrangèrce was summoned for the above functions.
a chair and was removed in ap The outbreak raises the whole tion. War filas may be criticised at the Central Magistracy yesterday
unconscious condition to the Gov An inquiry was held at Central ernment Civil Hospital. Several question of Victoria Giol. It is a na intolerable in their realiam, but by the Sanitary Department for groat pity that the projected build they cannot exaggerate the brutal failing to abate a certain suisance Magistracy yesterday into the death witnesses failed to state very clear. at the rear of 310, Hennessy Road. of Lam Fan, alias Lam Kin, ne who had struck the blow, but bis ing of a big prison at Ngau Shi ity of war. War may make some The case was adjourned for a week. convict at Victoria Gad! who died. Worship (3r. I. A. Hazeland), who on Tuesday. After medical evi had Consul Bragg and an officer Wat was abandoned. Out there en gods, but it turns many of
Sentence of six weeks' imprison-dence, which showed that the pri- from the Hogue with him, consider. the convicts would have been clear them, fighters and non-fighters, ment was passed by Mr. Butters at soner had been suffering from aed the second defendant had com of the disturbing noises of the either into beasts or into broken the Kowloon lagistracy yesterday malady which brought about a witted the assault under provoca- city, they would have been in things. And for this reason alone on a Chinese who was charged with swelling of the abdominal cavity tion and fined him 85. The other healthy surroundings and they war must not be. Man is inade for the larceny of 350 packages of ciga was taken, a verdict of death man was discharged-Hong Kong would have been put on outdoor life, and his mind, his body, his nettes and some clothing to the through natural causes" was re- Daily Press, December 16, 1903.
value of 842.50 from No. 222, Returned by the jury."
Looking Back 50 Yearz,⠀⠀ work, as at Lai Chi Kok. It is resources must be given to life. If clamation Street.
The Hakodate Shimbun sty, that most unsatisfactory to have a huge this one fact is brought home to
A Chinese woman working in a the Chinese detective, Tse On, in Russian soldiers stationed at Sng gnol in the heart of Victoria. The crowded audiences of all racca at
new block of housee near King's a restaurant, at Yaumati about ahalien kopt the inhabitants in good the I place is by no means cheape proof, thoatres and cinema halls, the war College was killed yesterday when week ago, two Chineso detective order, but they have been recalled. andro203 gets out deal the Millence, dissetmestersten marxetici Future CINDA THE
The for funky woulfoldingin decord my asserted. Chipcre in the Central to the mainland owing him is very nearly impossible. The There is need for this propaganda. was skylarking with other workers, man, it was stated, took the police consequence is that a number of workshops are evidently, crowded That acute olservor, Mr. H. G. when, it was alleged, one of them to Sai Yeung Chol Street where a convicts have broken out from the and not too healthy, and Dr. WELLS, warns us that modern youth fushed her off. The fall was not raid was carried out at two bouses, penal establish its and the re bat she fell on her bead and died other men, and also the seizure of of terror.-Hong Kong Daily Press, CANNON, a former medical officer, is again being fascinated by the from a particularly great height, which resulted in the arrest of Iwn mainder of the people are in a state
December 16, 1680," "almost instantly,
a quantity of seditious' literature. made unsparing condamnation of idea of war.
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