NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONG KONG, JOCKEY CLUB.
ANNUAL RACE-MEETING 1931.
28
FEBRUARY,
2ND, 3D, 4TH & 7r¤ MARCH, 1031.
ON SATURDAY, 28TH FEB., the
First Race will be run at 1.80 P.M., and oo all Other Days at 11.80 A.M. On the First Day the First Bell will be Rung at 1 P.M. and on, the Other Four Days at 11 A.M.
MEMBERS' BADGES AND
ENCLOSURE. "; Members are reminded that they and their Ladion must wear their Badges 'prominently displayed.
No one without a Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosure.
Badges admitting non-members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $30 per day, including Tax, or $40, including Tax, for the Mooting (Ladies $5 and $20, respectively), aro obtainable through the Secretary apori introduction by a Member, such Member to be responsible for all chits, etc.
Badgos admitting to Members* Euclosure will NOT be On Sale at the Race Course.
Da No Protext will Children ba permitted in either Enclosure during ibo First Four Days of the Moating.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is 34 por day, including Tax, for all Persons, includ ing Ladies, and is payable at the Gato.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted to the Public Enclosure at $1 Per Day, including Tax,
Bookmakers, Tio Tao Men, etc., will not be permitted to operate within the Precincts of the HONG Kora JooKEY CLUB during the Race Meeting.
SERVANTS' PASSES Passes for Servants will be issued on application to Messrs. LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Alexandra Buildin.s.
Employers are requested to dis- tribute them with discrimination and to endorse their Names on-the Passes.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1931.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Chaervatory at 5.35 stated
The anticyclone centred over S.E. Mongolia has strengthened slightly. There is a Vahaped de pression to the cast of the Loo choose
Local Forecast:--N to N.E. winds, fresh; overeast; drizzle and
mist.
BIRTHS.
It was then decided to design, an entirely new engine, as experience forewith the original engine had shown that conversion would never give the best results. A great deal of reacarcit work
was done, test runs on trini engines were made, and results analysed and compared. Comparison was made between actual road performance of the oil engine and of the petrol engine doing similar work in similar chassis. The saving of fuel was clearly shown by these tests. In one caso the oil engine fitted to a Moons. On January 31, ang lorry gave an average consumption, over many months service, of 0,7 milce a gallon, as against five for the petrol engine under similar con
The new engines are now running WAKELAM-A Shanghai, on Jan
uary 31, to Mr. and Mrs. H.in three omnibuses, hilo one hun WAKELAM, D con."
dred engines are under construe tion, and as Way life only in minor respects from early ones they may be regarded as being already of a tried and satisfactory type. The engines now being built
hai, to MARGARET, wife of BON, REVERE J. MOORE, a DOUGLAS TENNANT;SI
BHINN. On February 5, at Shang hai, to Capt. and Mrs. W. L. BHINN, BOD.
DEATHS.
DINIZ. On February 4, at Shang- hai, MARIA DINIZ, widow of ANTONIO JOSS. DINIZ, aged 85
ditions..
News and Views *
Casinos for Germany.
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
Rotary Club tilßn.
Hong Kong Land Investment Agency Co., Ltd. meeting. Page 6.
Ming Picture of Home Life.
Berlin is said to be at present the “The talkies have Americanised my wife" enid n husband at South-gayest city in Europe it certainly end Police Court. She calls me geta to bed the latest though there big boy," he added, and when is something a little grim and re-
The concluding stage in the Sze I ask her to do anything she says, lentless in its organised jolification. * O.K,, chief.” I suppose if they Germany now proposes to go one Tap Steamship action was reached: had a Zulu talkie she would want step further and to introduce Casino yesterday when Counsel for the two to wear a string of bends."
gambling on a hitherto unprece-sides addressed his Lordship on the.. dented stalo at ita principal apas. evidence.
Pago, U This is partly intended as a fresh
Sport.
Football
Shield
draw.
Pago 11:
3, at will be used in AE.C. goods chassis Gladys Cooper acted as a Russian enable the Immigration Bureau to letter from Sir F. Wall regarding
Death of Well-known Dramatist,
Michael Morton, the noted British spurce of revenue, and if foreignThis tourist season opens this week dramatist, has died at Walton visitors are attracted (as doubtless when the R.M. 8. Empress of Aue- Page 10, Heath Mr. Morton, wrote plays they will be) the Germans will tralia and as, Belgenland are due for woll over thirty years and had themselves swarm to these Casinos to arrivo. nearly forty produced in that time. Germans are good gamblers, though
The eas in which a Chinese Most of his work was adaptation, not an wildly courageous as the pre- and ho often had a collaborator. Revolution Russians, and since the revenue officer is charged with ob- His first success was Resurros-war the French Casino towns,taining money by means of menaces tion, an adaptation of Tolstoy's particularly in the south, have been was continued before, Mr. R. E. novel which ran at His Majesty's full of them. Teutonic methodical Lindsell yesterday. Fage 11.
Today's wireless' programme: for 111 nights. Colonel. Now thoroughness is apparent in a Ger- come." which he adapted from man at the tables; but he rarely licks pluck, and if he loses his Thackeray's novel, was not so
total, but in the following year temper he keeps quiet about it. Marie Lohr scored her first comedy success in My Wife, which Morton ailapted from the French
Tantalising Tommy was perhaps his best-known play, although
Jewess in The Yellow Ticket,' which are to be tried out by select the idea of which Morton took from ed commercial vehicle users. This Frank Harris' short story of the policy will ensure success before same name. This ran for 234 nights the company launches out into large at the Playhouse. In 1020 Michael Morton has two bad failures, "Be schemes of production; and it is cause of Irene, which he wrote necessary because no motor inven-with-Peter Traill, and which ran tion can be said to be thoroughly for only a few nights at the Little taken Theatre, and Beauty," Editorial and Business Offices: 11.eatisfactory and efficient, however from the French, which failed at the
Ice House Street. Tol. 30251.
much testing may have been done Strand, with Charles Laughton as Night Editor (Wanchai Office); at the factory, until the public have an ugly man."Beauty" was Mor.
ton's last, production, London Ofice: 03, Fleet Street, tried it in a practical manner for
years. WHITTON.-On February
Shanghai, CHARLES DEMPSTER WHITTON, beloved husband of JENNY WHITTON, aged 43 years.. XAVIER-On January 30, at Shang hai, MATHILDE SEQUEIRA, the beloved wife of Mr. POLYCARPO (CAPO) XAVIER, in her 37th year,
Tel. 24511.
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Servants aro not permitted in the A. S. WATSON & Co.,
Members' Enclosure except for passing through on their duties, bat must remain in their Employers" standa.
Any Persons found loitering with Servants' Passes in their possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the Enclosure.
By Order,
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THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.
HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 11, 1831.
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Bilver!
We have received au interesting pamphlet on Silver and the Dollar, By James Dalziel. It gives the PEACE AT LAST?
facts and figures about silver pro- Eduction and, use, which most of us ACCORDING to General CHEN TEA want to know at this time in TONG, Kwangtung's Commander-in-order to get some idene of the fundamentals of this monotary prob Chief, the war in Kwangsi has row lem. While it is written, for our come to a close, General WONG old frien' the Man in the Street," SHID HUNG hins, accomplished at it should help experts as well as Nanking all that was hoped, and novices. The author comes to tho conclusion that silver, owing to HEAVY OIL FOR MOTORS. himedlf to take over the military its extreme fluctuation in terms of affairs af Kwangsi, his native pro gold is no longer a safe basis for a currency, or even for a means of Duntxo the past three years do vince. There is silence about his baster, in a world that thinks in signers of commercial motor vehicles colleagues, Li TSUNG JEN and Per terms of gold only." Then Mr. in various countries have devoted CHENG HAI, and until those two Dalziel quotes from the Financial
News as follows:-"! At the present, serious attention to the question of turbulent spirits are safely out of time it would be impossible for producing a heavy-oil engine. of China there is always the possibility China to demonatize silver without comparatively high speed. Much roof, further resistance in the West Bullering enormous losses in conso quence. The orderly qui search work has been done, and now
dation of Chiness silver atock would some definitely and hopeful conclu-
take at least ten years." The pam sions have been reached. It is too
phlet has been very attractively early as yet to claim that the prob
Printed and produced by the News paper Enterprise, Ltd. lem has been entirely solved, but at the same time grent progress
River province to the Nanking Government.
General WONG SHIU HUNG was for several years a most successful administrator. The role of provin einl governor suited him, and his to reconstruct
Competition Pago 10. President Hoover has asked Con gress to appropriate $500,000 to H.R.F.A Council discussed
nicelerate the doportation of recent suspensiona Pago 10.
alions.
Pago 0.
In the first division of the Scot Shipments of wool valued at £100,000 and 155,000 carcases of tish League, Motherwell defeated. Pago 10. at from the New Zealand Aberdeen by five goals to ni. oirthquake area aro now being Page 0. prepared.
In a reply to Gandhi in con. cction with his suggestion of an official inquiry into certain police. eccosses, the Viceroy has replied stating that an inquiry is not de- sirable at present. Page 0.
Mr. Eugene Chen is now await ing appointment as Chairman of a Government Committee which in- tanda to launch an intensive cam- paign for the rendition of the China Foreign Settlementa in