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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
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PROBATE JURISDICTION. IN THE GOODS OF THOMAS CHARLES CRANE, LITE OF MERETALE CROWkonoven, IN THE CITY OF SU812Y, ENGLAND, DECEASED.
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chief pre-occupation and p parade- ground mentality has predominat
ed. So perímonious and distrustful has been the atmosphere on in- numerable occasions that many shrewd observers are of opinion that it would be better to let the whole thing alone. Disarmament hy allotting so many ships of certain categories in each power has! not been successful, although the size and armaments of the different types of warships have been care- fully, laid down. Germany showed what could be done within the letter of the law by designing ships of suprente excellence and proper- tionate cost, and the other navios | have been quick to learn the lesson.
Those indomitable, optimists, the League of Nations Preparatory Commission to the General Arma- inent. Conference, undeterred by difficulties, have now adopted a sub-committee report embodying in scheme for limiting expenditure in armaments and at the name time securing an audit of money spent on fighting forces.
The difficulty of securing accept- ance of the scheme is not minimised. - The chief objection to it is that
priation accounts published and audited in each country,
The. budget, or Parliamentary votes, will, of course, retain all their importance for public opinion within cach country, and the Governments will in practice be obliged to explain publicly how the estimates contained in their budget are to be reconciled with the limitation of their actual payments which they have neetpt- | ed.
2-The Committee has suggest. ed that the Governments should undertake not to indulge in the purchase of armaments on credit
in such a way as to increase the
* News and Views *
The Optimist,
Dr. Arthur Compton of Chicago University, thinks that the sun will last another trillion years,
Strong, Bllent Men!
During the last session of the American Congress, it was announe.
worda could od that 40,500,000
spoken
Victorianism.
word
The Ex-Kaiser's Tin Boldiers,
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
Hong Kong Stock Market: Crou- cher & Co.'s daily report. Page 7. The death is announced of Mr. M. D. Currie, a former resident of Hong Kong..
· Page 7.
Fr. Byrne, S.J.. gave an interest- Our Emotional ing address on
The ex-Kaiser has presented his collection of tin soldiers to a Dutch, Masoum. Those exquisito models of the pre-war army of Germany, which once gave sud delight to the
Rotary Club yesterday. Page 7. All-Highest, have become a weai-Life," before members of the res and a plague to the lonely
To-day's wireless programme. kile of Doorn. That little extra-
Page 3. territorial plot of marsh with its birhop's palace now ranks with Sport.
Description of Shanghai Chare- Page 10. Lawn Bowls Notes: By "Green."
Page 10,
A note Queen Victoria and Ireland as the only country in the the Prince Consort. "Dancing world which has no tin soldiers.pions Race, was her favourito pastime, and The ex-Kaiser has grown tired of Jate hours her pleasure, he disliked the one and abhorred the other.
This damned morality will ruin everything Lord Mbourne once remarked." Mr. F B. Chancel lor's "Prince Consort"
Music in England!
He is now
the pageant of war. entirely absorbed by a new religion. Is is the subject of voluminous cor- respondence with his friends, and even. with his ex-enemics. And it that absorption he has put away childish things,
Alfonso's Tarane Room.
they armaments which otherwise have acquired within the limits of the Convention.
3. The draft Convention pro vides for an annual return of ex- penditure in a common form. Although these returns will not provide any basis of comparison of the strength of armaments be tween the different countries, it has always been recognised that a reasonable degres of uniformity was necessary for the general comprehension of the system of The publicity and limitation. Committee has drawn up this common form and has given de tailed instructions se to the items "Music does not get a chance in of expenditure which are to be England-Almost any Musician, given in each of the eight to ten-There were 4,000 competitors in heads.çontained in the form.. the East London Musical Ferti- Villagers of
"I have two pictures in my mind 4-It may be that not all Gov. vaat Stratford. ernments will be able to all in Coombe, Oxfordshire, bave "rough- of the great room which contains this form strictly in accordance musiked" u resident every night the pedimented throne flanked by with the instructions, and the for a week, banging trays with the gilded lions of Castille," writes Committee bus, therefore, propos sticks outside his house in accorda correspondent to n London pa- per. "The first was twenty years ed that each Government should ence with an old custom.
ago, when Don Alfonso was still a be allowed to fill in the form in London Street Victims.
young man.
We waited with our a slightly different method (ne
backs to the long line of windows, cording as its accounting proce dure may require), provided that
and from some distant wing of the it explains this method to the
palace came the sudden roll of Conference and undertakes to
drums. A hush fell on the com adhere to the same method during
pany and one could hear the brisk feet of the King appro..ching rapid- the period of the Convention.
5.-The Committee's proposals
y across the parquet. He almost provide that all armament ex-
ran up the steps, seated himself upon the Throne, and thereafter penditure is to be included from
gazed vacantly into s; nee while his whatever source the funds are
subjects filed past to du obeisance, obtained-rig, from the budgets
Last August I saw it again. The of the forces, from the civil
King was absent at 3.ntander and budgets, from the funds of loenl
the throne room was in the hands authorities, or from chtirely dif-
of the charwomen. Against one of ferent sources.
the lions of Castile was propped vacuum cleaner of the most American aspect."
to
According official figures, deaths from street accidents in the bietropolitan, Police area during 1830 totalled 1308-an increase of the previous year and the highest since statistics have been recorded. In England and Wales the total deaths caused by vehiclez schicks) (including horse-drawn totalled 0522, an increase of 532.
The Film World,
The use of the film as an educn- tional and cultural instrument is strongly emphasised in a Report 8. Generally speaking, when issued in England by a Commis any marginal cases arise involv slon on Educational and Cultural ing either difficulties of definition films. It is regarded as of tho or doubts as to whether they greatest importance that a perman really affect the strength of arma-
ent central organisation to co- ments, the Committee has pro ordinae the work of the various posed that doubtful items of ex-
societies and film companies in penditure of this kind, if exclud-terested should be established as ed from the returns of expendi ture, should be made the. subject of publicity,
7.The Committee has also made proposals regarding the stops to be taken if a marked variation in the purchasing power of currencies gives rise to the need for adjusting the limits of expenditure. The Committee has also proposed that the limits of expenditure should in fact apply, nob to the expenditure of each year, but to the averago expendi- ture of each successive four years, the expenditure of any one year being allowed to exceed the limit to an extent to be fixed by agree
ment.
These two provisions should make it easier for the states to accept limits which will represent their normal, agreed require- ments, instead of asking for limits which will represent their maximum expenditure.
it might be effective. It covers, on THE ARTS THEATRE CLUB.
must remember, not merely materiel
of war, but also that most vital
aspect of arinaments, the training
"Democracy.]"
On the eve of
There is one interesting sidelight on King Alfonso's abdication His effort to retain his throne took the soon as possible. Th Commission form of in attack on republics not has theroft re arrived at the con-
because of their dangerous demo- clusion that whatever organisation cratic tendencies, hat because of is formed must be adequately fin- their absolutism. anced; that it must be in close the fateful municipal elections the touch with film firms-with whom most popular Monarchist news. it will collaborate, without being paper of Madrid published.n. page in their hands that it must be of photographs under the heading able to undertake for the Govern of "How the majority of Republics are governed" Nine Republican ment any ecrtification of films as educational, which the Government Presidents, whose powers are more may sponsor, whether national or absolute than those of any monarch, international, and its Imprimatur were shown in the full glory of their military uniform. The only must be based on
Republican dictator who was not, in the literal senso of the word, a marshal or a general was Stalin. Tho Puck who pulle the strings of politics has played the world a He has destroyed scurvey trick. monarchies only to make the new republics the last refuge of absolu. tism.
an expert re- view of the films presented to it. What is needed, the Report states, is a positive force xerted over the whole field of cinematography, which will ioster and develop all that is most valuable therein, from the point of view: tf science, of education, of commer, of recrea- tion, and artistic enjoyment,”
Latest Cables.
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"In the struggle ahead you can Thus the always count on me." business men at Manchester. Prince of Wales' when addressing
Page .. The Provisional Constitution was adopted yesterday by the People's Convention amid considerable en- thusiasm and shouting of patriotio Page 9. slogans.
The London publishers of Von Buelaw's Memoirs nanounce that they are recalling all, copies of the book with the object of making such alterations as way he neces sary to meet with Lord Lonsdale's Page 9. views.
The inai trai system in Hong Kong was strongly attacked by Sir John Simon in the House of Com mons on Monday, May 11, while a sturdy defense of the Hong Kong Government against a charge of lack of enthusiasm in dealing with the system was inade, with equal spirit by Dr. Drummond Shiels.
Page 9.
There is now trouble in the pro- vinces in Spain and an attempt was made to burn the Palace of the Archbishop of Saragossa. Several buildings in Malaga were burned down, including the residence of the Jesuits, and the offices of the newspaper Alicante were stormed,
Page 9.. The Jesuit convent at Seville has been burned down.
Don Juan in America.
Among the many virtues pussess ed by the Americans is a capacity for being amused at themselves. admit that this quality is not as yet very widespread or very con- hident. But naike the French and, unlike the Germans (who in other respects the Americans so closely resemble) the United States citizen can sometimes laugh quite loudly at himself. I am aged to this tribute by reading the advanen Yes views which have appeared in the
"Juan in America." They re American press an Mr Linklater's cognize the wit and beauty of the book, and they also cognize that, even if a trife malicious, Mr. Linklater is in no gets malignaut.
Local Notes and Events ★
Mr. Stokkink has been appointed
The 8.R.
Looking Back 5 Years.
President Cloveland
Expectant Magistrate Cheong, el which struck a rock off Waglan on Monday morning is now in Taikoo present doing duty as deputy at the Chief Police Station. Canton, iq Dock where she is being thoroughly an equestrian. His pony is a good examined. The nature of the daru- [ one, his saddle best English make, The forthcoming marriage is an age is not consider very serious and as he ambles through the narrow streets the office every
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of personnel. Limitation of ships Less than five years ago a group merely results in increased spend of enthusiasts of the British theatre Manager of the Hong Kong branch the Nederlandsche Handel ing pan training, and neither the formed the London Arts Theatre of financial burden nor the danger of Club. It was, in the first place,
Maatschappij, N.V. armed conflict is appreciably re-
a social club for playwrights. duced.
actors, erities and others interested According to a League of Nations in the theatre, music and dancing. circular grave doubts have hern But the founders had in mind the
this principle of private production of good plays pounced of Mr. John Moss, Sub though it is presumed she will, not dny, his sword dangling against expressed on
a wide limitation of expenditure. It is which might not have
Premises were said that nothing is easier than popular appeal.
Inspector of Police, Hong Kong, to be able to sail for quite a few days. Lily Beatrice Moodie, whose local address is 8, Yuk Yuen Fong.
The annual Steak and Kidney
the ribs of his Rosinante, he cuts a fine figure, and knows it. His There was nothing of public in groom is a character, too, in his way. He is a welcome and familiar terest at the fortnightly meeting figure at the fan-tan table, not- of the Sanitary Board which was withstanding that he has bad
The fan-tos held yesterday, the matters for dis. cussion being of a general routine nature. Those present were:-Mr. G. R. Sayer (Chairman), Hon. Mr.
long run of luck. people He low and say nothing," and the other day, the luck turand. They cleaned him out. He pawned his master'e fine English saddle, and sold the pony for $30 to a Bannerman, and disappeared. The Bannerman ambled through the narrow streets, cutting as fine a figure as the legitimate owner, until arrested. Now they are hunting for the gambling groom.-Hong Kung Daily Press, May 1, 1900. Looking Back 60 Years,
to camouflage armament expendi- found in a building which also had ture by hiding such expenditure in a small theatre attached to it and, unfamiliar parts of the budget, by in a short time, the venture was making use of local or other extra well established. It became, a to budgetary funds, or by applying speake a theatrical laboratory where Supper, held by the H.K.V.D.C. to armament purposes funds which experiments and trials have been lave teen voted for other purpose made with many plays, some of them will take place on Friday when Very considerable differences exist in masterpieces, which might not in prizes for the Rifle Meeting will be Parliamentary and accounting pro financial sense have justified pro- presented. cedure regarding the budget in the duction: Actors, actresses, scenic
It is learned in Mukden that H. T. Creasy, Director of Public various countries, and in the extent artists and producers lend their of the publicity which this proce services for little or no remunera dure attracte and of the nudit tion in order to test out on the stage Madame Chang Hauch Liong is Works, Messrs. M. K. Lo, T. N. planning to start her world tour Chau, Wong Kwong Tin, F. C. Hall, which is applied to it. It might, old and new works, therefore, be thought that the Now the Arts Theatre Club oc- either next June or July. Madame Dra. Wellington, Koch and Basto limitation of expenditure would be cupies a definite and important Chang is expected to spend about and Mr. J. H. Gelling (Secretary), fully effective for some countries, position in the English theatrien!
The marriage took place on April but illusory for others. Finally, a world. It is not only the first Club one year in Europe and America,
8, at Home, of Marjorie, daughter there are various causes which make of its kind, but the courageous
of the Rev. Lancelot Smith, of Found sleeping in one of the Highfield, Aldershot, and widow of expenditure fluctuate, from time to policy of the managemont has re time, such as variation of prices, sulted in the public success of a Government vaccination sheds in the late Mr. G. S. 6. Gordon, to (ays the Shanghai Courier) that it is feared that every Government number of interesting and hitherto Western Street, a Chineno Was Lieut. Comdr. Noel H. Beaver, the mandarin Lung Pao Whin, who would demand an outside limit unknown plays by young drama brought before Mr. W. Schofield It.N., son of late Brigadier-General was sent by Li Hung Chang to the which would, therefore, make the tists. The Club has also been reyesterday on a charge of trespass. and Mrs. F. Beaver, the Ford, whole scheme inoperative. The sponsible for the appearance in Committes of Experts has closely Enginnd of the work of a number He was fined 65. studied the difficulties, and its hope of distinguished continental play-
Greywell, Hants. Both the con- tracting parties were very well. known in Shanghai society circles from 1025 to 1929,
J
We learn from a reliable source
province of Hupeh to purchase the poles, for the purposed telegraph line from Tientsin to Shanghai, It is reported that Dr. Wang
has returned to Bhanghai having is that the eyetem which it pro-wrights which might not otherwise
successfully achieved in a remark President of the
able short time his mission to that poses will not only meet all the bo performed in England. To Chung Hui, difficulties, but will also provide celebrate the quincentenary of Joan Judicial Yuan, Nanking, is soon to
Busincas of only formal a naturg distant province. Mr. Lung Pao for watching the possible defects of Arc. this year, there will be pro- leave for Europe to resume huis, office of the system in case they should duced a play by the English author as a member of the. Permanent was before the Council of the Hong Wha has bought 30,000 poles for the rench serious proportions.
EDWARD GARNETT dealing with the Court of International Justice at. Kong F.A. at the monthly meet line, one-third of which will be
ing held yesterday. The annual sent by sea from Shanghai to Tien... The main lines of the Com-trial of the Maid. This work has The Hague.
general meeting of the Asso- tain, while the rest will be distribut mitteo's proposals may be so many characters and scenes that,
The Colony bad a clean bill of ciation was fixed for Friday, July ed along the lige by way of the marized as follo
because of the expense involved, it 1.The limitation will bear, lins not been considered practical health for Monday For the week 10 in the Asciation room, list Canal rif Chinking. The foreign-
tions to of wat had an opportunity not on Parliamentary votes (the for the ordinary commercial theatre. ended. May D. there were 3 cases showing suggested allocations significance of which is very The production, will be seen with ( denths) of diphtheria, I death various charities of the Sunday see tho poles, agree that they are different necording to the equn great interest by the critics for, from smallpox, 1 death from enteric Herald Cup receipts was referred excellent specimens of telegraph try), but on the payments actual in the opinion of some, it will bear fover, 1 case. (Imported) of relapsing to a sub-committee for further con- poles and have been very cheaply
Press, May 13, 1891.. ly made during each financial comparison with Slaw's masterpiece fever and el deaths from pulmonary sideration and final allotment with purchased. Hong Kong Daily
tuberculosis.
out reference to the Council. as shown in the appro- dealing with the same subject."
year,
-Wing