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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS SOCIETY,
UBLIC MEETING AT ST. JOHN'S
CATHEDRAL HALL
'On FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, At 6,30 P.M.
MR: BASCOM JOHNSON (Chairman of the Commission of.. Inquiry Into Trafis in Womer. la. the East)
Will Speak on
THE SOCIAL WORK OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
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SOCIETY OF YORKSHIREMEN
IN HONG KONG.
WING to the Death of
the
PRINCESS ROYAL and the. Conesquent Court Mourning, our President, B WILLIAM PEEL X.O M.G., 5.D.E., will be Unable to attend the CABARET-DINNER-DANCE on The Committee JANUARY 23RD.
have therefore decided to POSTPONE the Function to a Later Data. All Members and Grosts will be Notified ns New Armngements" aro
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AYOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FORTY-THIRD ORDINARY GENERAL MEET ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be hold, at the Officos of Masana, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., on TUESDAY, 10TH FEBRUARY, 1991, at 12.30P.M., far the purposo of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts for the year ending 81st December, 1930.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from: FRIDAY, 28RD JANUARY, TUESDAY, 10TH
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WEATHER REPORT.
gullible when appeals are made by socialist agitators to their cupidity. Yesterday's weather report, fore- The men of the South know far cart and remarks, issued by the better which side their bread is Royal Observatory at 5,51 PM | buttered and prefer co-operation stated:
The anti-cyclone central over the with their own employers to the lower Yangtze Valley baa weaken-class war" and all the rest of The monsoon will moderate the poisonous policy advocated by along the S.E. conet of China but men of the type of Mr. A. J. Cook remain strong to fresh over the China Sea.
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No Foal No Feo.
There is an interesting announce- ment in the Intest number of the British Racing Calendar. Owing to the slump in the bloodstock market, ówners booking naminations to cer-
THE RED CROSS SOCIETY. tain stations will be returned half the fee should the ninre prove not in foal.
THE British Red Cross Society; which recently celebrated its Din- mond Jubilee, had its beginnings in August, 1870, when a strong desire
in Great was expresBOC] Britain to help the wound of both belligerents in the Franco-Prussian
War Colonel Lloyd Lindsay, late Lord WANTAGE, took up the matter, and an organisation known as The National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War," snon commonly referred to as the "Red Cross Society" was formed. It had branches throughout the country, and in about a month fund of £200,000 had been collected and 20 doctors sent to the Prussian BRITISH TRADE UNIONS. Army and 20 to the French. By the end of the war the personnel had risen to 200.
HONO KONO, JANUARY 15, 103).
BRITISH trade unions have served
When the Franco-Prussian wer
medical atores.
Germany and Film Propagands.
In Manchester!
"Some people think it is alwayB raining in Manchester. It is not. The rain takes longer to come down" that is all."-Mr. Rhys Davids, M.P.
The Man and His Voice.
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Local.
Shipping Intelligence. Wireless programme. Result of St. John
draw for prizen,
Page 13. Page 2.
Ambulance
Page 5.
A series of police raids on local "Reds" took place on Tuesday,
· Page 5. 'Arrangements are being made for a new motor-car park at Morrison Hill for rnee-goers. Page 4. Several European dog-owners were fined yesterday for breaches of the muzzling order.
Page 6. The death has occurred at home
f
There is a theory that men of great physical as well as mental vitality have undeveloped voice. The German film censors have nismarck, we know, had a still, been getting into trouble all round. small vaies like the voice of an They have pronounced against Re-asthmatic curate. Tennyson boom of Mr. H. A. Jones, formerly man- marque's "All Quiet," and have op-ed, it is true, but Byron drawled ager in Hong Kong of Mears, Mou- Pago 4. proved the Stahlhelm film, which la affectedly," Dizzy" minced, and trie & Co. admittedly, militaristic in character. Shelley squeaked. Wellington had and one seriously injured in what Yesterday two men were killed And now they have given, their child-like softness of voice. Napo-is believed to be a case of murder Pago 6. official bleasing to a Soviet-propa-Icon in moments of excitement spoke and suicide.
anda film called "The Blau Bx-with' a strong "Italian accent. We H.E. the Governor as Chief Secut press," which is not only anti-know also that "at moments" hin presided at the annual meeting of British in character, but which casts voirs could be soft as a woman's. the Hong Kong Boy Scouts' Asso- Page 4. ridicule upon the authorities of the But did he shout like Mussolini, or
Dr. Foo Ping Sheung occupied the Chinese National Government:
chair at a meeting of graduates of the Hong Kong University last even- ing, which was for the purpose of forming an association of graduates of Hong Kong University. Pago 6.
Marriage Beat for à Gul.
Speaking at the prize. distribution of Storrington School for Girls, Westcliff, the headmistress, Miss E. Farrington Walker, declared: "Marriage and a home are the very
did he adopt the deep 'cello bass of Briand? When we get away from the great the average sergeant major has physical strength, voice and mental vitality!
The sum of $75,000,000 has been
best things that a girl can have, but annctioned for a port development it is wrong to force a girl into mar-scheme in which piers 1,000 feet riage for economic reasons. Every long will be built on the Hudson girl should have her own chance of River. earning a living if she wants to. The conditions of life have altered and competition is so keen that every girl must be trained."
Why the Bailiff Left.
Page 7. Conversation by means of the wireless telephone service of the Dutch East Indies and Now York
was successfully accomplished last
night.
their members badly during the ended a part of the surplus funds of the Red Cross Society, as it was post-war period Before then it now definitely named, was used for must be admitted that the older the training of women nurses at the type of union leaders did great Royal Victoria Hospital in Netley, the beginning of the present things for the British labouring Queen Alexandra's Imperial Mili- -population, securing through collectory Service, Subsequently help Live bargaining better conditions was given by the British Red Cross Society in the Turco-Servian war and wages, which industry was then of 1878-77, the Zull war well able to afford. In addition the Transvaal war of 1881, the there was a vast edifice of assurance Egyptian Expedition of 1882, the Sudan campaigns of 1884-5 and 1898, business, securing millions of men and the Greco-Turkish war of 1897. and their families against suffering In the South African war the in times of illness, bereavement and Central Committee provided and ran two hospital trains and a unemployment. The funds were hospital ship, opened a number of well invested, carefully managed big hospitals, and arranged for the
A message from Havana states A temporary assistant bailift, and
taking part in the evictions being that 075,000 arrobas of sugar were and an asset to the working classes supply of doctors, nurses, and, indeed, to the whole nation.
During the Great War the Society carried out by Edmonton, N., Coun- destroyed by fire which broke out But the trade unions have squander- did an enormons amount of work. cil, help to remove the furniture in the plantations in the Oriente Page 7. ed their prestige and their financial Soon after the war began a joint from one house, but did not return Province, Cuba,
The local Congress posted male committee of the Red Cross Society to work. When asked why, he said: "When I saw a little Christmas reserves by participating in party and the Order of St. John of politics. These great organisations! Jerusalem, was officially recognised tree in the roof, with penny toys and female pickets outside the have been captured by socialist by the War Office, and a total sum lying near it, I felt choked. I house of Shan Mukhan Chetty to on, and had to go prevort his attending the re-opet of £21,885.035 was raised to carry couldn't go políticians and shamelessly exploit on the Society's work. The total home." The evicted family, including of the Legislative Assembly at Page 7. frustrated. ed to advanoc impossible theories of staff at home and abroad numbered ing seven children, are in the work-New Delhi yesterday, but were The German Finance Minister, state ownership, syndicalism and 9,234 in October, 1918. The number house..
of doctors engaged was 400, of whom
addressing the Budget Committee, pointed out that since January 1 Millions of money have been wast- 6,156 trained nurses. In addition
The Westminster City Council the financial situation had become Joint Committee controlled have refused to accept a recom ed on this madness, and the dour120,000 members of the Voluntary mendation by their works committee/ appraented, and it consequence bis men of the north of England have Aid Department, of whom 90,000 that the three flower sellers shall revised estimate of the decline in
revenue was now £35,000,000. always been ready for a fight were women. As the war developed no longer be allowed to sell in
Page 7. there was a steady flow of voluntary Piccadilly-circus. There WAS with their employers. But in the labour from all elnases to meet the strong expression of opinion that
The Loan Council of Australia South of England, where many continuous call for more assistance, the flower, sellers shall be allowed resolved to recommend that Mr. Councillor Scullin be invited to call an early prosperous industries have sprung Between October, 1914, and June, to retain their stands. up in recent years, the working 1020, the Society had more than F. R. Ridley said it was understood conference of the State Premiers
2,000 ambulances in the fields of class will have nothing to do with warfare, and these ambulances the new band of political trade carried over 10,000,000 sick and wounded. The total fleet of cars for unionism. A North Country newaal purposes numbered 3.000. paper, strongly sympathetic to trade-unionism, remarks in a some-
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Sport.
In the English Football League, third division, Southport bent Hali- Page 3. fax, 8-8.
Racing notes and training times Pago 8. In the exhibition match at Fan- appear on ling between the two American golf professionais, Cruickshank beat Page 8. Mehlhorn, 75-77,
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The fate of the aeroplane "Trade Wind" remains a mystery, Page 7. A bomb was hurled at the house of a Deputy Collector at Cawnpore. Page 7. It is reported that north-east-
Page 7. Argentina has been visited by un A passenger train on the Eastern earthquake. Bengal Railway was derailed be
Page 7. tween Rangpur and Shampur.
China expects favourable replies from the Powers concerned regard ing, the question of extra-terri Page 7. toriality.
A Sikh who murdered the wife of a Captain in the Indian Army Service Corps at Lahore has made a callous confession to the police.
Page 7. Offers of sugar to British India at prices below the limit of the Java Trust have been made by Russian producers and transactionis Page 7. have resulted.
(Continued on previous column.)
Local Notes and Events *
When the war ended it was felt that such a vast and efficient or ganisation must not be allowed to disappear, and it was decided, to Trade unions cannot cacapo turn to peacetime uses those great from the general criticism now services which had been so beneficial developing on many sides that in time of war. In 1910 a supple- British industry is suffering mentary Royal Charter was granted badly for its lack of resilience to the Society, authorising it to and adaptability. Although as a continue its work in improving the country we have lagged behind health of the people, in preventing others in the rapidity with which disease, and in the mitigation of the new pust-war industries have suffering throughout the been taken up, the trade unions' The history of the past ten years response to industrial change has is the history of the transition from hoan even slower than that of war to prace conditions. As soldier The Society of Yorkshiremen
It is capital.
rather extra- patients were discharged the majo dinner which was to have been held ordinary that only now, after rity of the auxiliary hospitals were seven or eight years of steady closed, but a number still remains on January 23, has been postponed drift from the depressed Northern as convalescent hones or special to March 20. industries to new trades, largely hospitala sottled in the South or in country
ambulances were districts, is the Trade Union Con- adapted for the purpose of home
War
motor
world.
Two cases of diphtheria were re ported for the 24 hours ended January 13.
,
The Hon. Foo Ping Sheung, LL.D., will distribute the prizes at St. Stephen's College at Stanley on Saturday afternoon.
Following police instructions that persons firing crackers without per- mits must be summoned, a number of persons appeared at the Central
A slight improvement was report-Magistracy yesterday for adopting grean reviewing its failure to win service FLS A better menna of ed yesterday in the condition of Mr. over this new population, in transport of the sick and wounded, J. J. Hirst, who is lying seriously which, as the Congress frankly and the scheme has been very
i
Looking Back 25 Years.
The new extension to the build-· ing of the Italian Convent. thanks the generosity of the Hong Kong public, irrespective of creeds, is at Inst completed, and the new accom. modation already made use of by the inmates. We publish here a list of those who subscribed towards the cost of the Annexe, beginning wills His Excellency the Governor (850) grouping the rest in what seems the most convenient form. this method of heralding the New M.-J. D. Btephena has the hand- some donation of 85,000 opposite Year. Mr. M. R. V. Ribeiro, of his name in the record kept at the admita, "there is little or no enoceasful. During the past ten ill with diphtheria in the Kowloon Leo Yuen Street, had to pay a fine Convent, Madame Musso and Mr. of, 810, nnd a similar fine had to Ho Tung each contributed 2500; trade union organisation." "It has years 733,488 patients have been Hospital.
Mossrs. Nicholas Post and Jose been alleged that the new trades] carried, and there are how over 350
be paid by a number of Chinese Lee, each 8200; Mr. Li A Pak 8115; tend to run away from the centres ambulances either Afiliated or be
Mr, F. X. 'Almada e Castro, of union influence, but that is longing to the service. The equip The forthcoming marriage is an offenders.
$110; Madame Montefiore; Sir Paul hardly a sufficient explanation; ment included a mobile X-ray ser-nounced of Mr. Luiz Augusto
Owing to increased vehicular Chater, Messrs. A. G. Remano, one must assume that even at vice designed to provide physicians Ribeiro Remedios, residing at 31, traffic in Queen's Road West, the Francisco Gomes, T. N. Mody, V. their own immediate job of get-with facilities for conducting radio-
Deacon, A. Paimer, A. Rumjahın, ting hold of every class of worker graphic examinations of patienta Granville, Rand, Kowloon, to Mis annual fate held at Chinese New E. Kadoorie, Sin Tak Fan, and the unions have merely failed to confined to bed. Another valuable | Mercodes Augusta. Viem Ribeiro, of Year in Jervois Street and the two anonymous friends, each $100. follow, and keep pace with the service organised by the Red Cross 3, Carnarvon Villaa, Kowloon.
vicinity for a number of years wil!, Hong Kong Daily Press, January movements of labour. The fault Society in conjunction with the
14, 1000. lies largely no doubt in. defects hospitals in that providing for
this year be held on the Praya East- of structure and of tradition blood transfusion. In London alone
A spectacular blaze was witness Reclamation in a lot bounded by Looking Back 50 Years. which have made the unions often 1,350 calls for blood. donors were
Lieutenant J. J. Parden, 27th Itegiment, took his departure for unresponsive to or incapabls of received and met by the Red Crossed on Tuesday night when the south. Hennessey and Johnston Roads, meeting new noeda Ono canService.
Here in Hong Kong we all know west corner of Taimoshan was well The decision has been reached in Southampton by the P. & 0. str. sympathise with the union leaders, who may have a hard fight before the valuable work done by the local alight and burning fiercely. At consideration of public anfety since Mirzapore, leaving this afternoon. them to maintain the wages status St. John's Ambulance Brigade. At midnight the blaze seemed to have the Central Theatre with its attend. quo, but they might well consider every big football match, race increased and threw a vivid reflec-ant crowds is in close proximity to whether great benefit to their meeting, members will not be achieved by crowds assemble a contingent is in tion into the sky. Yesterday morn the old venue. opening their minda more widely satendance to help when mishaps ing a large black patch could be
Gocur. It is the real spirit of ser-
ather funetion where
On arrival there he will proceed to Portsmouth to join, the depot with the linked battalion, the 108th Madras Infantry. Mr. Purdon since
to
The League of Nations Society in
his stay amongst us has figured some extent in the sporting to new ideas.
Hong Kong in taking advantage of line. His first event of any notoric The fact of the matter is that the vice and unselfishness that induces seen showing the extent of the fire. young men and women to devote a
the visit of the Commission of Enty was the shooting, along with Capt. Michaelson, of an enormous modern trada union leaders, many large part of their leisure to the
A warrant for the arrset of Chauquiry into the Traffic in Women and boar when on an excursion to the of whom are frankly Bolshevist in training and the duties undertaken their viowe, deserve no sympathy by the members of the Society. The Kam, a woman, was issued by Mr. Children in the Enst, to invite its north of Shanghai. The head of $12
now forms an ornamental sporting whatever,. Their folly has been a big greatest local service is, perhaps, B. E. Lindsell at the Central Magis Chairman, Mr. Bascom Johnson, to the animal has been preserved and
the vaccination campaign among the
address a public necting of the trophy in the Regimental Mess. He "Tactor The With Nelar Theofchied Comment and adatrags xesterday. She was to appear addreana trade orega-fivals and even let year oro 50,000 vaccinations in connection with 5 summons Society to-morrow Th
had been carried out, a, wonderfatTM in this time of crisis strikes are record.
on"The Social Work of the League year; he has also taken a con If small-pox cannot be which accused her of having had a St. Lou's Cathedral Hall | sports which were humorous lagt still being supported in the coal stamped out in a huge and shifting in her control, between June 1, 1930, of Nations. Members of the So-spicuous part in two regattas and and cotten industries. The people Chinese population, the St. John's and January 2, 1931, an unregistered cicty are asked to bring at least one in many ericket matches in which nity for increasing the membership degree of merit-ling Kong Daily of the North of England and South Ambulance has taken a leading mus teas at 255, Queen's Road friend and so make this an opportu- he has acquitted himself with some
part in the campaign against that
Central.
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Press, January 14, 1881. Wales are still extraordinarily terrible scourge."
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