To-day's wireless programme..
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The Liberian Government has ratified the Convention concerning ferced labour or compulsory labour concluded on June 28th, 1930, at the International Labour Confer- c. The Committee of the, Coun-
Mrs, Edwin Montagu is to follow appointed to examine the pro-
her late Sport. lema raised by the Liberian Goy- up the publication on ernment's risquest for assistance in husband's much-discussed criticism carrying out reforms suggested by
India with another ad- the International Commission or
nir- Enquiry into Slavery Conditions is venturous proceeding an holding its second meeting in Lon-plane flight through Russia. She Jon under the Chairmanship of has had a wide experience of flying, Lard Cocil, in the absence of Mr. and of buying and selling air Arthur Henderson, the British For- planes: About four years ago, for "eign Minister.
instango, she bought her Gipsy Both for £550 and sold it in November last for £405. Her most 19cent flight was a three weeks nori. { al tour of Spain, and she declared that the total cost of her transport, including luggage, did not exccéd
ment for a tour of close on 4000 milos.
Wimbledon and Women.
Mra. Helen Wills Moody will be spely missed from the 1031 Wim
Latest American baseball results.
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C. A. L. Rumjahn won the final. of the H.K.O.C. Tennis Tournament Singles.
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In sharing the points with the Hong Kong Football Club yester day, Kowloon "F.C secured the position of runners-up in the Senior League,
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the Spanish Ambassador, the bledon. But at last we shall have £31-quito un economical arrange: Latest Cables.
Marquis MERRY DEL VAL, discussed the virtues of the English language and made certain comparisons with his own. He began by naking which of the living European tongues can be considered the most closely adapted to the exigencies of modern times. This question he answered in words to the effect that he believed English to be that langunge.
CYNICS about China will remark how appropriate, and how typical it is, that on the very day that the draft is published of China's Pro visiona! Constitution, there should be a coup d'état in Canton. The civil hrad of the Kwangtung Government has left for Hong Kong, where, possibly, he will confer with a "Humanity" Anid he "has former antagonist, General Woxe SHIU HUNA, Nanking's nominee to the Chairmanship of the Kwangsi Provincial Government,
The change of government in Canton will not cause much aur prise. Two years ago, when CHIANG KAI SHEK sommarity imprisoned Li TSAI HSIN, who had gone to Nan- king to attend the Kuomintang Congress, Li's Kwangsi colleagues in control in Canton sent ultimatum to Nanking and a breach between the Nationalist Govern
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The death is announced of the
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His Majesty King George spent An hour out of doors yesterday.
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PR "open" contest: a singles titlo may actually he won by England. Not since 1998, when Mrs, Godfree won in Miss Wills's abseries, has
his honour bern ours. Miss Betty. Nuthall, bowildering in her incon- Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, sistoney, is capable at her best of who has been placed on the rotired cricketer, Mr. 8. M. J. Woods. winning the crown, Mrs. Holcroft-st at his own request, is still an Watson (if playing) and Miss active and comparatively Phyllis Mudford who had a fine young. It in said that
his Britannin days, season last year-are in the reckonin ing. So are three foreigners who scampered !!! the mainmast have fallen to the champion's racket and atood on his head on the
Mr. Scullin has informed Imperial in previous finals-Miss Elizabeth "truck?" Tho "truck" (for the Ryan, Miss Helen Jacobs and benefit of the uninitiated) is the Airways and the Dutch Air Mail Senorita de Alvarez.
ama circular piece of wood which Co, that Australia cannot subsidiso is at the summit of every mast, the Air Mail Services between Euch perilous fonts were not en- | Australia and Calcutta. Page 0. couraged, and a disciplinary men- sure followed this one. But it did noi interfere with the unbroken success of Sir Herbert's subsequent
The Man Was Signed.
career in the Sorvice.
solved the problem by the choice of the English tongue, the most widely apoken of European languages in honourable, but seldom remunera The role of scapegoat is often the world to-day.". The Ambas tive. Ono German blamed for the sader went on to say that, on the disasters of 1016 was Hermann
Müller, whose death was reported Endurance. whole, no preference could
last month at the comparatively happier..
early age of fifty-four. From the Many things can be learned from "The universality of English is day when he affixed his signature Commandor Worsley's book, "En not exclusively due to the extent to the Treaty of Versailles Müller durance," which was publishe of the British Empire, or to
was a man broken in spirit and in last month. One is that this daunt political or commercial influence. health. Even as Chancellor of the les snilor did much of his Antarc I attribute its orani-presence to Reich he was little more than a tie exploration in-a pair of dress When he set out with trousers, certain inherent qualities of its shadow Chancellor, a man for whom
Shackleton from Elephant Island ak'n, Devoid of grammatical all felt sympathy but few venera- complications to such a degree tion. This was unfortunate, for he to South Georgia to get help for THE FOURTH EXTRA RACE
that its simplicity in no small was a serious, intelligent and up their men across hundreds of MEETING will be heid
measure warrants the exaggerated right, man.. His misfortune whs miles of galeswept and fee-infested assertion that it has no grammar. that he was the personification of a Pelar seas, in Weather Pormitting) at HAPPY VALment and the Linng Kwang pro
a small boat-ho LEY on SATURDAY, 2ND MAY, vinces seemed imminent. Generals
And this very feature allows its national disaster. He was not ac wore, among other things, a pair 1931, Commencing at 2 P.M.
Hee with almost unsurpassable corded the support which he de- ef trousers belonging to an old The First Bell will be Rung at 1.30 CHEN MING SHU and CHEN THI
Toxo, who
also attending
And year by year this dress suit, The hardships suffered concision, whence comes an closerved. P.M.
quence replete with picturesque: gentle, clover statesman pined away in this expedition of 1014-10 morit the Kuomintang Congress, rushed
TICS8. Its vocabulary is vast bearing in his eyes that look of the book's title. Seldom has such South, and, after effecting a coun-
and its pronunciation easy to agonised victimisation which had a tale of horror, misery, and imitate. ter-coup at Canton, drove out all
descended on them that summier agony been told. Yet the chief an- afternoon in the Galérie des Glnces, xiety among the party seems to It is interesting in view of this Fow of those who witnessed that have been to get back to Europe No One without a Badge will be of LI THAI HSIN's colleagues and admitted to the Members Encioenre, declared for Nanking. General high tribute, to see that an at- historic ceremoney will forget the in time to take part in the war.
Non-Membere to
the German dele- And they did. Even then the the Members Enclosure and Olub Rooms CHES Misa, Sav, as civil head of tempt has been made to reduce appearanco
gates. With eyes fixed upon the craving for dangerous adventure at $5.0
$5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 the Provincial Government, and the language seientifically to
painted ceiling they advanced, was not satisfied, for there follow. including Tax) General CHES for Ladies (both the SECRE
minimum vocabulary of about 800 escorted by officers of the victorous od another voyage southward in are obtainable
armies, through an excited audience the little "Quest." The story of aber, Commander-in-Chief then defended words which, in combination, are TARY Introduction by a Member,
npak sach Mumber to be responsible for Canton against two formidable capable of expressing almost any of their enemies, Women stand the death of Shackleton is told in upon the famous footstools of Ver: simple sailor's language, and is all Payment of All Chile, &e.
attacks by the Kwangsi, and idea. These 600 words are called sailles, And when the Germans had the more effective on that account. Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure. wil
will not be on sale at the Kwangsi-"Ironside" factions, and" Basic English," and it is claimed signed they were escorted from the Lord Jellicoe, in his foreword to Race Course.
room. Miller was once asked what the book, mentions Shackleton's "I was afraid," he said, nation have only such failings ná the SECRETARY, Badges (Limited the task of restoring peace in the necessary for their use, can
The balance between the learnt in a very short time. The of fainting. When I returned to Shackleton's side by silo with the to One for the Free Admission to the South. Membere Enclosure of Wires, Lady
bathed in perspiration, and my hand shall not do badly. Shackleton is Relatives and Friends. Names must be two colleagues was, however, upset experiment is an attempt to make my bedroom I found that I was splendid qualities he possessed, we sisted when applying.
when two of General CHEN MING out of ordinary English a scientific trembled so that I was unable to dead, but tho. Shackleton spirit
goes on." On No Prstart will Children be She's crack divisions weat North world-wide language of unique hold a pen for hours." permitted in either Enclosure during
simplicity. the Meeting.
to take an honourable part in the defeat of the Krominchun! Since then these troops have been engaged upon the serious and puzzling war- fare against the Reds of Kinngai.
to
Badges Limitling
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Members can obtain, upon Application they subsequently collaborated in that they, with all the grammar had been in his mind during those faults, but adds that "If we as a
PUBLIO ENCLOSURE. The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00 including Tax, for all Persons, Including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
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No European would venture upon an opinion on the rights and
Community Councils.
be moments.
One of the complaints against If in the country in England used to be that it was too dull. Work- in country districts drifted into.
the towns not only to secure higher.
When Judge Sir Peter Grain, K.C., ordered pleadings in H.B.M. Supreme Court, Shanghai, in an action brought by the, Greyhound Racing Association against Briga dier General MacNaghten and Mr. R. M. J. Martin, neither officials of the O.R.A, nor defendants were present.
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The Five-year Plan..
A really admirable book has hron. published on the Soviet Five-Year Flan. It is the work of Mr. H. R. Knickerbocker, who has for many years resided in Russia as American correspondent. He has Linvolted through the longth as well as the vast breadth of that coun-
an
try, Mr. Knickerbocker's figures and conclusions may or may not be accurate. His assumptions may tao based on false premises, and bie very cautious conclusions may for this reason he unsound. But one
thing is certain-namely, that this is a book written without prejudice end without passion, and one ins pired only by a clearheaded desire to reach the truth. The whole at- mosphere, the ardoure and endur. ances of the Soviet campaign, its fauntical revivalism, are portrayed with most convincing clarity. It may or may not be the case that "Gigant", is a failure, whereas success; but the esseo- tial point is the spirit of almost hysterical solf-torture in which the Five-Year Plan is being executed. No one can understand Russia to day except on the assumption that | the whole business is a Jehad or
Holy War..
Local Notes and Events ★
Mr. J. F. Reece, a former solici.. The extraditia proceedings horns; and we can pecept this view against Mrs. Jeng thee, who is as applying largely to the pust wanted in California on n'charge history of Hong Kong Hong Kong of embezzlement, have been Axed Daily Press, MB 1, 1900. by Mr. Schofold for tearing on Tuesday aftern, the following Looking Back 60 Years, afternoon also, being reserved for The Eastern Extension Austrn the case, Chief Detective Reynolds asia and China Telegraph Com-stated that although there had been us that it official news about the escort which is being out, he gathered from the papers that there was will be accepted for Europe at one- at Inspector on board the Presid- third of the ordinary rate subject ent Harrison which is dus bere to to a minimum charge for 25 words morrow. including the words in the address.
will not be permitted to operate with wrongs of a Chinese political in the Precincts of the Hone Kone quarrel. Reports from Chinese JOURLY OLUB during the Race Meeting.
Tiffin will be obtainable in the Restaurources of tension between the two Canton leaders have been current rant in the Pablis Enclosure.
for months, and have been ingrcas ingly persistent during the last two weeks Now that things have come to a head events have taken a very interesting turn for, according to Chinese reports, General CHEX THAI TONG has effected a settlement with the Kwangsi- Ironside" faction at Nanning. Up to now: General CHEN credit foncier D'EXTREME TA1 Toxo has been credited with a no-compromise polley, and the intention of forcing unconditional surrender upon the Kwengsi party-fifty and Kent nearly thirty. There Hankow Road. The difrudont ad- j'dications that disease is regarded 1870 and part of last year in Eng-
Abolando. Castaneda, a Filipino
wages, but also to escape from the tor of Hong Kong, practising as general monotony and tedium of country life. A great change haswans and Reece, diod at Westgate come about in England in recenton-Sea on April 20. years Modern influences have puuetrated to the villages. Rural
It was with profound regret that community councils have been form ed all over the country. Village
the Colony learned on Saturday halls have been built for social
morning of the death of Mr. T. G. purposes, craftemen's societies have Fany, Limited. inform
instead, which took place at a hoon organised, and all the various from to-day Daily Letter Telegrams
late hour on Friday evening, and bodies are now organised in a les-
the Masonic fraternity were espe Fue called the Rural Community
Bay, affected by the death of their District Grand Master. Mr., Lin Council, which is interested in and representative of all the activities
stead was a comparatively young of the countryside. There are now
man being only forty-five years, of twenty-two counties with rural
age, but he was an old resident of Looking Back 25 Years. and of these fifteen have been estab. student, was charged before Mr. community councils in existence;
the Colony, having arrived here in The modern eity of the sociologist 1858. For the last year or two ha lished for some time and each has W. Hamilton posterday with is that crime is a disasse: in the had been somewhat laid asido by associated with it three or four assaulting a rickshay coolio in Colony of Hong Kong there are in failing health and spent the year village councils. Derbyshire has
Joitted having struck the coolia on as a crime. It should be difficult land, but fearing the rigour of a It must be remembered, however, ure craftsmen's societies in nine or the jaw and was accordingly orier for anyone to read Mr. Lau Cha winter in the old country he ra that General CHEN TRAI TONG, ten countios, with a membership of
ed to pay him 35 compensation. Pak's letter to the Sanitary Board turned to Hong Kong last autumn, Blx-roomed & Five-roomed Apartments though a Canton man, was original work have been organized in many Baron-hundred. Exhibitions of
without feeling that it has at least not much benefited by the change, The lease in connection with some justification. The conven- He had been successfully connected dy-in-cioncr-goneb-with-Li Test-centres, and in thirteen counties- the sto for the premises of the tional view of the administration with several mercantile Arma 25...
those exhibitions have have resulted HEIN than with CHES MING Shu,
Hong Kong Broware and Distil- of Hong Kong as concerned with manager and partner, but in 1874, in considerable orders for goods bạn and was given a more important ing placed. This side of the workers, Ltd., which is on the Castle sanitary matters, has been that the established one in his own name, post than CHEN MING Suv after has also developed a healthy form Peak Road, has en signed, and authorities have hitherto been too He was a man of high business-at- it is understood that building regardful of native prejudices; tainments and was considered the La return to Canton following "County feeling.' the great. Communist upheaval of time schools of local drama and operations will commence shortly. that the trouble had augmented by most efficient accountant the literature are growing, as well as lu the meantime ordere have been reason of a traditional official aver Colony-Hong Kong Daily Press,
sion to taking the bull by the | May, 2, 1881," aced for the machinery.. 1827. Now OHEN Thai Tono ap-schools of music.
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