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WEATHER REPORT. standard of life and the growth of towns which had to be fed from the England was sparsely country. populated and the ground was used wastefully. A wider and more in- tensive system of tillage, new crops, and an improvement of live stock
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, sued by the Royal Observatory at 550 p.m., elated,
The anti-cyclone over S.E. Menge ili hus increased in intensity and the monsoon will freshen along the Local Forecast: N.E. winds, fresh; fino to cloudy.
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IN Accordance with Ordinance No. & with a fragrant bouquet,coast and over the China Sea were the great changes. But in has taken up his duties,
of 1912, the EXCHANGE BANKS
will be OLO9ED for the TRANSAC:
TION of PUBLIC BUSINESS on
THURSDAY, 1ST of JANUARY, 1931 a genial flavour
(NEW YEAR'S DAY},
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The NEW SCALE OF FARES
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Mr. Renzo Sawada. has been | Bir Harry Lauder Reappears.
Sir Harry Lauder, who is busy Japanca Embassy in London, and making a new film, appeared at the appointed First Secretary to the
Finsbury Park Empire last month,
Full port of the New Territories and sang a number of old favourites Agricultural Show. Page V.
Funeral of Bergs. J. J. Post. to an enthusiastic and obviously Sir Harry is as
Pago Scottish crowd. pawky as ever, and such familiar,
A-European trafio inspector-was- numbers as Sho's My Daisy" and one of their the load" have lost none of their appeal.
Returns of signalling practice for the quarter ended June 30, 1930, show that the cruiser Berwick, in China, headed the table of war. alps with 112 successful exercises; the Vindictive was around with 02 Out of 17 merchant companies with 20 or more exercisce, first place was taken by the P. & O. Ca, with 127 successful tests. British Tankers had 119, Ellerman Lines 90, and t British India Co. 88.
The Tokyo Embassy.
N.D.L, Plans.
A member of the board of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, Hore Boem- there, stated unofficially at a poli- tical meeting in Berlin that the directors were discussing a scheme far the breaking-up of old tonnage to the extent of 600,000 tone, and
shot in a Wandai dat... Page 1.
Inspector E. Savage, a popular member of the Sanitary Depart- art, passed away on Saturday..
Page 5. Shipping Intelligence. Page 16. Today's wireless programme.
Page 3.
Full details of week-end sports
With regard to a Tokyo report new construction amounting to| Sport. that Sir Francis Oswald Lindley, 300,000 tons yearly to be spread the British Ambassador to Portu- over five years. The Norddeutscher gal, is to be appointed Ambassador Lloyd, he states, has earned Rm.will be found on pages 4, 10 and 11. to Japan, the Foreign Office tabes 200,000,000 in 1930, compared with J. D. Thomson wing Kowloom that the prosent Ambassador, Sir Rm 200,000,000 in the previous year. Golf Club Championship. Page 11 John Tilley, is in England on four.
Home Football results and league Good Business1
tables, decided whether he will return to
Pago 2. months leave. It had not been
The sucoces which has been so
South Africa snatched a thrilling his post or not, and the announce. ment of Sir Francis Lindley's appromptly accorded virtually to pointment was therefore said to be every new capital issue in London victory from the team of English Sir Francis during the past few weeks is very cricketer now visiting South Africa. very premature.!!
Page 0- Landley was at Tokyo a Second striking, says a Home paper. The Secretary to the British Embassy subscription of 20,000,000 for the Central Electricity Board within fifteen minutes in the latest exam- ple. City people are decidedly moro hopeful about trade recovery than they dared to be only two or three months ago. They have more faith in the undertone of the grent com- arodity markets, and are impressed by the efforts the beads of great businesses to get down their coats.
in 1005.
Man or Ape.
Latest Cables.
The death has occurred of Lord Melchett.
Page 9..
South China most of the tillago is already amazingly intensive. There are few big spaces to us brought under the tractor plough or made into lush pasture by liming, manuring and enclosing. Rice can to best grown in small terraced patches as at present; there is very little room for pastures, and stock are a side line. Rice and vegetables are the staple food, and overy fertile patch is cultivated with meticulous care. The Chinesa are learning the use of artificial fertilisers, but that caps an in tensifying of the present system rather than any great departure from it. In the North, untably in Manchuria, there are big tracks suitable for the growing of wheat for and soya beans and also grazing. These conditions favour change and expansion. But here in the South the problem is that of getting more out of what appears to be an already over-tilled garden. These are the difficulties faced
A plaster cast of the skull of the by the Botanical and Forestry De Feiping man has been received by partment experts and by such the Department of Geology of the British Aluscum. It is of especial redoubtable pioneers as Sir ROBERT interest, boit as the first akull of Ho Tuxg and Lady Ho Tune.primitive man, found in China, and
A widely circulated rumour that They are feeling out in all direc
on attempt had been made on the tions for possible improvements which will be economically possible
The Heart of Africa Mission life of the Emperor of Japan has for the peasantry. The soil has been
headquarters in London has re-boca authoritatively denied. Page 0.. eived letters from Ibambi, Bel- Sir Miles Lampson,, British Minis analysed and the simple discovery
gian Congo, concerning the ill-ter to China, has left Peiping ot that more lime is needed may make
health of "Mr. O. T. Studd, the an extended tour in the South road difference. Cotton and pine
famous cricketer missionary, who after a visit to Hong Kong. Page & was 70 on December 2. Mr, Studd Show is never likely to be a fashion appla can be grown, and, there is 'China Gunboats.
"The Work of Our China Gun-is one of a famous cricketing ablo and popular event of our always the problem of improving boats" was the title of a lecture family. He went to China as one social season. Youth and beauty is Chinese silk. The retired "King" given at the United Service In- of the "Cambridge devon mis apt to prefer its own pursuits to of Honam, General Li FUR LAM, institution, Whitehall, S.W., on Desionaries in 1885, and spent ten cember 3. by Vice-Admiral H. J. years in the China mission field. gazing at rows of fee, ginger roots another active experimenter, esp Tweedic, C.B., who as Senior Naval Later he spent eight years in India, and little boxes of rice and seeds. cially in fruit growing. All this (fficer in the Yangtaze in 1927-29 and at the age of 63 went on a Even the fruits, the poultry and work is of a fundamental nature had under his command the 12 ur pioneering expedition to the Ituri
more gunboats which are maintain- Forest region of Africa. the cattle might be deemed a little and its results may have a bearing ed on that river for the protection visited England in 1916. Blow. The Chairman of the Show on the lives of millions of hard- of British interests. The chair was Committee said that they were con-working peasants. The introduc taken by Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, now Commander-in-Chief sidering the provision of some of tion of a new catch-crop or a new at the Nore, whose appreciation of vions that the event must develop raising the Chinese peasants out af. mander-in-Chief in China, and urgent representations to the home on technical rather than popular their present condition of living Government, led to the despatch of very near the level of kare subsist an adequate force, which prevented by any means unsatisfactory. The ence, with practically no reserves the treaty porte being over-rum. · · for times of famine and distress, Show has grown in size and the The agricultural show is an import P, and D. Colours. Committee will do well if they make ant link between the experimenter The new P. & O turbo-electric
prove the live stock sections
The Government's agricultural
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because of its intermediate poal tion between the Java man and the. Piltdown man. Sir John Bland Button, the eminent surgeon, who is now in Shanghai, has expressed the opinion that this skull is not human, but belongs to the gorilla family, On
Cricketer and Missionary.
Ho last
Fay Compton as Principal Boy.
It is officially reported that the activities of the rebels in Burma. have been confined to the Tharra waddy district.
Page 9.
The police at Bombay launched several lathi charges on a crowd which had assembled on the Maidan "national" flag. Seventy-five were for the ceremony of saluting the Page 1: injured.
Marshal Joffre has undergone an operation, his right leg baving been amputated. He spent a quiet night on Saturday, and he shows slight. improvement. The utmost reserve e maintained as regards the out-
LAMANDA Page 9 look.
TAN. WATSON. & CO., the fun of the fair, but it is ob manure may solve the problem of the situation when he was Com: Part of principal boy in the panto. With the object of preventing
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the dumping of certain classes. of foreign goods into Chins, the Legislative Council has referred to the Government a proposal that a special tax be collected on goods shipped to China to be sold, at un reasonably low prices. Page 9.
Miss Fay Compton is neting the mimeDick Whittington" at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, for Christmas. Mr. Julian Wylis said
I was at a loss how to complete the casting of the Dick Whittington pantomime, which is one of my chief Christmas shows. With tropi- dation I approached Miss Compton,
A letter has been sent by the and she consented. She has never Chinese Ratepayers' Association of Miss Compton created the part of demanding that immediate steps be Mary Rose in Sir James Barrie's taken to justify an expenditure of play.
and Dividend Warrants on Registered UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.} a big effort to maintain and im and the practical man. Each needs livers will look well in white paint, been on the pantomime stage. Shanghai to the Municipal Council
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easy.
LORD MELCHETT,
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the other, and, together, they may red boot-topping, and buff stacke accomplish great things..
The company has changed colour
tho star more than once in its long history, THE HONG KONG SA FALL of the UNIVERSITY-at-5,15 policy in the Now Territories is
In its early days the ships had Becrets," and also played Ophelia Taela 5,000,000 on a police force BANKING CORPORATION,
white funnels and black tops, their to John Barrymore's Hamlet at the. that does not even ensure the safety THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, P.AL. on WEDNESDAY, the 14ra two-fold. In the first place it seeks
* Page 9. JANUARY, 1831. The purpose of the to make the Colony self-supporting
black hulls had a good deal of gilt Haymarket Theatre. Miss Compton of life within the Settlement, decoration, and their upperworks ennnot fail to be a charming Dick Meeting, over which the HON. FOO PING SHEUNG bas consented to in fresh food, and therefore en- THE late Lord MELCHETT was one of were painted white. Then the fun- Whittington, but the nowe is an The National Government of preside, is to consider the FORMATION
the familiar stone what it was. For the principal boy mulgating an Act providing for an of HONG KONG UNIVERSITY Courages the farmers to grow more the best known figures in British nels became black, and many years other sign that pantimime is not China on January 1, 1831, is pro GRADUATES ASSOCIATION. The fruit and vegetables and less rice. public life. Before the war, ae Sir afterwards
She slapped purple cepting those principal participants VICE-CHANCELLOR will be "AT Secondly, the object is to make ALFEED MOND, he was an ardent colour was adopted for their up of our young days was necessarily amnesty to political offenders ex-
Liberal politician, with a particular perworks to give less glare in the dashing." HOME in the GREAT FALL From the New Territories an experi- interest in Wales, His partnership trapies. White hulls ment expense, silk thighs in rollicking humour, in the coup of 1822 and the prin 4.15 to 5.15 P.M.
mental ground, and the model with the late Sir JOHN BRUNNER but there is no doubt that white and swaggered under monstrous cipal leaders in the rebellion this and his association with the Mond makes for good appearance and the hats. It is not possible to imagine year. The Communists will also be for an agricultural revolution in Nickel Company and many other experience of the Canadian Pacific the Mary Rose of doing these things pardoned providing they express "The Rowdy-Dowdy their loyalty to the Kuomintang and South China Tha task is not commercial enterprises brought him and the North German Lloyd shower singing.
Pantomime is not what it was. Chinese agriculture is a immense wealth, and the way in that white is popular for a passen Boys" in the ancient manner. No to the National Government.
which everything he touched turned ger-carrier. development from antiquity. It is to gold showed him to be one of complicated and, within the limits the clearest-headed industrialista in of soil, native crops and primitive the Empire and, indeed, in the world. Of German-Jewish extrac implemente it is perfect. The system tion Sir ALFRED, as he then was, be has supported this ancient nation came during the war the subject for thousands of years and tradi. of very bitter hostility from certain quarters, and there is no denying tionalism has sunk deep into the that his foreign, extraction stood in minds of the Chinese peasantry. the way of his political advante Very wisely they will not willingly ment,
Personally he was one of the most abandon or modify what has stood popular of men in the House of the test of time. Under British Commons, because he could join in rule, which secares to each man the a laugh against himself, and, many a time, oven a bitter jeer was fruila of his work, the farmera have parried with an easy geniality that dons well. They arq quite satisfied took away the sting. Lord MEL CHETT WAS joy to the cartoonist, and not at all eager to embark on
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Local Notes and Events
Sir Andrew Balfour, director, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, will next year visit the Colonies and Dominions to study medical and hygienic con- ditiona
Mr. W.
Scothill, M., Pro-Looking Back 25 Years, fossor of Chiness at Oxford, lectur od in the Examination Schools on December J bb the subject, "Personality in Buddhis
To en exhibition of ancient dres- Mr. William Turner (Reutor'sses and costumes opened at Norte
A report of a quadrille party old by the Taikoo Club on Satur doght reaches us rather late but there was an interesting event in connection therewith which deserves to be put to record. On behalf of the staff of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, Mrs D. Thomp
on handed a wedding present to Miss A. Grothe who was spoken.
experiments that need outlay and and he was not spared. He was a General Afannger for the Far East) i hampton on December 1 the Queen of as "The first dady to be married
cannot promise sure returns.
curious figure, admired and yet
capable of arousing, despite this and ira. Turner, who have been rent a Chinese Imperial dress with charm of personality, very bitter staying in the Peninsula Hotel for exquisite embroidery of the Boven enmity. It may have been that the past three weeks, leave forteenth Century." this hostility drove him to accept
from Quarry Bay, one of their bringing up. The party was quite a success, and visitors from town returned in a special tram: Hong Kong Daily Press, Dec. 27, Miss Emily Gomersal, one of the||| 1003.king. captives of Chinese briganda, be Looking Back 50 Yaare.
nurse
The Botanical and Forestry De parkmont have given a demonstra tion of what can be done. That, a peorage from Mr BALDWIN, Shanghai by the, a.s. Comorin of however, baly states the problem, shortly after joining the Conserva- Saturday, January 3.
tive Party, and to retire virtually for what is possible for & Covera from political life. As chairman of ment Department, which does not the immense amalgamation known
The Eastern Extension Australongs to Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire have to make its profits, cannot be as The Imperial Chemistries, Limit- contemplated by the vital ed, he found his place, and his asia ond China Telegraph Com and was trained as
death will be a grave loss to that pany, Limited, inform senders of at Bethnal Green Hospital and at farmer. It may be said that the great enterprise
In Who's Who appears a formid.telegrams that, owing to one faulty Clapham Maternity Hospital. Sha Chinese farmer ought to improve
able list of the companies on whose cable betwon Hong Kong and has been a missionary in China his poultry, for example. But the directorates be served, and boyond Shanghai, telegrams to and from for, four years, and was one of the will command a share of attention, thing requires money, and know this he found time to stock his home Shanghai and beyond may be sub staff at the mission hospital at ledge, and labour. He gets at pre-, farms with some of the best blood-
stock in Enigand and to gain perject to slight delay. sonal knowledge of the land which his chemicals served.
sent a good return from the birde on a free run, and it is useless to say that opesial breeds kept in proper runs and fed on carefully prepared rations will produce
worth the labour and the outing: The poneant thinks not ↑.
In aightenth century England a rapid agricultural revolution v possible owing to an increased
was
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Though a member of the Chris
in Church he was an ardent Zionist and some of his happiest days were spent in Palestine. He make with mine frankyms of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer of China, distributors of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures, announce the open or. Kang Offre in the Industrial & Commercial Bank
the call of the ancient home of race, and he typified, in many ways, the Jew whose eyes were turned Building, Queen's Road Central, perpetually to Palestine, but who Mr. B. A. Proulx, formerly with cannot bring himself to forsake the fair heritage found in the land of the Dollar Steamship Lines, has
Ibon appointed Manager. his adoption.
Two officials have left. Foochow for Canton with the view of pur- rhasing about $200,000 worth of war materials for the use of the. Fokkien garrison. Amongst adorn innovations the antiquated weapons
as bawa, arrows, shields, eto, figzire. in the fist, sad are doubtless con- sidered as indiependable adjuncte Lanchow.
to the armaments of our worthy braves The native opinion in When the cruiser Vindictive pro-Foochow inolizes to the belief that veeds to China early in 1831 on a the Russo Chineso difficulty is sure.
the diplomatic farce is being only trooping voyage she will take out to end in actual rupture, and that relief crew for the surveying ship confirmed by each Power to gain Herald, which was last recom- time in order to strengthen their infioned at Long Kong the retro however, though general, curso ary 11, 1020. New half-crews for in any way seem to affect mercan the gunboats on the station will tile operations, and nothing short also be sent out, and a submarine
of actual war will touch the trading draft, including some ratings for interests of Foochon-long Kung the depot-ship Medway.
Daily Press, Doc. 27, 1880.