The Report of the H.K. Society. for the Protection of Children, on their last six months' work appears on Page. It is a most interesting Page 7. human document.
About one hundred guests and down to the dinner given by the South China Athletic Association at South China Restaurant last night. in celebration of the winning of the sunior division of the Hong Kong Football League (The Daily Preis.
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lina over-ruled that the Morn! Wel-Cup) and the Senior Shield.. fare Association may confine its chaste glances to the viewing of that the great British public-old Greek goddesses it likes, but Latest Cables. and young may look at "Genesis."
The Chancellor's Ordeal,
The House of Commons is still "the best club in the World." Mr. Snowden, who has never asked for quarter or given it, was obviously touched by the spontaneous sym pathy which radiated from a parts of the House when he made his Budget speech. He was almèst nervous during the opening pas Rages of his speech, and kept on turnin govor the pages of his manuscript as it appalled at the number which still remained. As he trew to the end, however, the lust.) of battle returned to him; his jokes cracked as drily as electric sparks:
Latest British Golf Championship results.
Page. 10 The by-election at Ogmore was won by the Labour member.
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The League of Nations' Council, in private session, bas decided thai Geneva in to be the seat of next year's great Disarmament Confer
спес.
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The Hercules, the newly-purchas- ed Imperial Airway's De Havilland air liner, carrying the England. Australia mail arrived at Kupang.
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The Queen of the Netherlands has accepted the invitation of the French Government to visit the Colonial Exhibition in Paria.
and it was with obvious relish that
Page 9. slowly, and with all the arts of i magician, he came to disclose his
Von Bulow's Memoirs have been secret. The Chancellor was obvious. ly in pain as he resumed his seat,published with the following in italics:Note that the statements Japanese Ambassador and Moda, Mr. MacDonald put both orms me Matsudaira were At Homo at round him to guide him to his objected to by Lord Lonsdale are the Japanese Embassy on April 18 place, and when Mr. Neville Cham. entirely without foundation.
Pagc 9. when a programme of songs was hertain, in his reply, made a sym- given by Mlle, Yoshiko Miyakawa, pathetic reference to Mr.
The Committee of the Amsterdam who recently made her debut in den's illness, it was the Prime Diamond Exchange has adopted the "Madame Butterfly" at the Opera Minister who scribbled a noto of proposal of the International Com Comedie, Paris. The Japanese thanks and threw it Летово the mitice for the diamond 'trade and. Prima Donna was accompanied at table. the piano by Mlle. Yoshiko Miya- kana, who was born in California,
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Mr. HENDERSON is maneuvring to and has therefore absorbed Occid-London Enterprise.
to accept the lowest or any tender and Aerated Water Manufacturers. | been madã a crisis would have been broaden the issue into a considera-ental practice in music. She sang.
reserves to itself the option of accepting
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By Order of the Board of Directors, HERBERT R. STURT, Beerotary,
Hong Kong, 11th May, 1931,
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
THE
NOTICE..
UP HALF YEARLY GEN- ERAL MEETING of VOTING MEMBERS will be held at the CLUB HOUSE, HAPPY VALLEY, ON. WEDNESDAY, 27ɛm MAY, 1981,
5.15 P.M.
All members are cordially invited to attend and participate in any discussion which may ensue.
THE MEETING (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VAL LEY or SATURDAY 25 and MONDAY, 25TH MAY, 1831, Common, cing at 80 P.M on Both Daya,
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY The Firet Bell will be Rung at 2 P.M.
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By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Bscretary;
"THAT Article 6 of the Articlos **of Association of the Club bo "altered by deleting therefrom the "words "Ordinary Members may "be unlimited in number" and "gabsitituting therefor the worÜN "The number of Ordinary "Members aball be one thousand. "two hundred or such, greater "number as the Voting Members "sliAll from time to time
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preipitated of the kind that continn of the whole European ceono- attired in native costume, songs of
tinually brought the World to the brink of war daring the decade before the inevitable" happened in August, 1014.
Debussy, Gounoil, and others in a light, expressive and nitogether winning tashion.
The Smuggler's Eye.
mic situation, and the agrarian crisis which is following in the wake of the industrial depression. He has been signally successful so It was on March 1st this year far, and it seems as if the nations that the proposed union was an of Europe will be forced to recog nounced from Berlin, a rider being nias the economic unity of the Con- added that Germany and Austria tinent, and call some kind of truce wero willing to negotiate similar to the tariff war which is causing treaties with other European states. neute auffering when the present A week later the Austrian Foreign production of food and manafne Minister stated that his country tured goods should ensure a suf-diamond smuggler, However, des
Snow-
A large commissionaire stands outside London picture theatre, looking as if he had won the w by himself. A passer-by halts, in hesitation, and makes a pleading gesture to the commisionairs. And the man who won the war bends his grant length into a sweeping how. "Mais oui, m'steu'," he says with an inviting shrug. The com missionaire straightens up agam into a stolid Englishman, and the visitor approaches the hox-office Vous desirez, m'sieu' ?" inquires "Un the lady of the box-office, fauteuil au milieu ! Curtainement The gardener of my aunt (or who ever the foreign looking visitor may be) glides towards the nymphs of the torch. "Par ici, m'giou," they tell him, with a smile that a
The frequent journeys made by Frau Marga, an elegantly dressed Berlin lady, to Holland, aroused officials at Emmerich, an the Ger man frontier and they had her watched. It was discovered that on each occasion Frau Marga, be. fare returning to Berlin, spent one day at Cologne. Here she met a man who was suspected of being a pite their vigilance, the Emmerich customs officials were unable to and any dutiable article in her erossed the possession when she
man would follow to the ends of frontier. Then one day an official tho earth, And the tourist from noticed that one of Frau Marga's Paris finds himself safely in his oyos had a peculiar glint in it. He sent in n London cinema, Says the Kazed into that Foreign Minister, to other Powers THE FUTURE OF BRITISH Krabi like its fellow, but it was The theatre is showing a French
It was re-manager it is merely enterprise.
eliminated.
was discussing similar treaties with ficiency for all, it international Hungary and Yugo-Slavis, while suspicious and rivalries could be Germany was in touch with Rou- mania. He repeated the invitation given by Dr. CURTIOR, the German
BROADCASTING,
to discuss a similar arrangement,
a glass eye nevertheless. And in-film, which many French people and emphatically declared that,
Bide it were diamonds worth at come to see. So the large commis. *No ideal is further from us than
beast £10,000. The tears which sionaire, the lady of the box office disturbance of the peace of Europe." MANY people believe that wireless flowed from Frau Marga's genuine and the nymphs of the torch are French teacher. The proposal was well received in Broadcasting in England has reach-eye did not save her from being drilled every day by a
conducted to a prison cell. the British Press and Parliament. ed a stage of perfection beyond Sir DONALD MACLEAN, on behalf of which progress must inevitably be the Liberty, party, welcomed the slow. The facta, however, do not suggested union as possible first altogether confirm such observa- step towards ending the tariff war. tions There are many indications Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN whs by no that in the near future great-
unsympathetic with the developments may be expected not principle involved, but felt that merely in the machinery of bread- Germany and Austrin had not been casting, but also in the programmes, diplomatically tactful, and should The system of relaying is still cap- have taken other nations into their confidence earlier.
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industry to put an end, on May 21, to the restriction of production in the diamond industry, owing to the refusal of South Africn producers to join in the restriction scheme.
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Liftman Baronet.
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Lady Wolseley, wife of Sir Ro ginald Beatty Wolseley, a baronet who inherited his title last year and is working as a liftman in Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.A., enid in a statement to the British press: "That Si: Reginald has decided to sock a divorce in the
American
courts on the ground of desertion has come as a surprise to me. To fulfil his mother's dying wish travelled from England to America to sen him last April. I was there for nearly three weeks, at the end of which time we were married. It was with Sir Reginald's full approval that I returned to Eng- home. After land to prepare a him. Then he altered. his briginal making arrangements I cabled to intention to come to England, and I offered to return to America and As regards live with him there. the title, I wrote many months ago offering to relinquish it, as it means nothing to me."
★ Local Notes and Events ★
The Colony had a clean bill of health for Tuesday,
able of vast improvement and, Brought before Mr. Hamilton when technical perfection has been yesterday on the charge of stow
When a Chinese was charged at Central Magistracy yesterday with the unlawful possession of 75 tools of contraband opium, it was stated that the drug was neatly hidden in
Looking Back ☆ Years.
Although the bathing season is at yet at its height, numerous Jaunches are to be seen leaving the city cach afternoon for the stretch of water which the occupants fancy The British Government was de-achieved in this phase of brond- ing away from Shanghai on the s.8. a rattan basket which had a false for disporting themselves, but in a week or two this distinctive feature cidedly cautious in its attitude. nsting, a wider varicly in proHangsang, two Russians were sen-bottom. The man when arrested of Hong Kong's social life will be- as pronounced не usual. Like Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN the gramines, may be expected. In the tented to two months imprison said he was bound for Samoa. He come Foreign Oftec saw rocks ahead. new headquarters of the British ment each. It was stated that they was fined 80,000 or one year's hard Great as the facilities are here for enjoying themselves in the water, Particularly the principles of the Broadcasting Corporation, now, "în were discovered hiding in a lifeboat, labour.
it has to be borne in mind that Protocal of October 4, 1929, were course of construction in London,
there is a fairly large section who do not or cannot avail themselves The Chinese boy who was re- involved. Under the agreement every modern device will be utilised
Pleading guilty to the charge of
for these opportunities. Now, it has been suggested that some man of Austrių treceived a rehabilitation to make broadcasts almost beyond theft of certain articles of jewellery manded by Mr. Schofield on Tues- toan from Britain, Czecho-Slovakia, technical criticism.
to the value of $110, a Chinese girl day made another appearance at enterprise might find a profitable France and Italy, through the Some idea of what may be ex
was sentenced to six weeks' im- Central Magistracy yesterday when speculation is erecting and equip
paratively near the city to be con- medium of the League of Nations. pected in the future may be in-prisonment by Mr. Hamilton yes- his mother told the Court that she ping public baths at a spot con.. A man named Lo Kam knew of a "shop" which might put venient yet sufficiently distant to recent experiments terday. the loan, was that Austria's in- made by the International Telo was also charged but he said that the 250 surety for him. It will be an attractive bathing part.
ho remembered that the boy was Hong Kong Daily Press, May 21, dependence should be maintained. phone and Telegraph laboratories he only redeemed the articles from charged with the larceny of a jersey, 1000. That country's gravitation towards of England. A new type of tele the unwashop; he did not know on his first appearance before the Looking Back 10 Years,
He was dis. Magistrate. Mr. Schofield said that Germany has been a diplomat's phone receiver, using a
"Micro.they were stolen.
he would give the Ind another-24 nightmare over since the Treaty of Ray" has been invented; and the charged but on his admitting that hours to get the money, failings usual manner. The colours of tho Vérailles and this was one of the results are most interesting. A he still had 814, part of the pro-which he would he sent to jail for steps taken to forestall that even-stener sitting in a motorcoach in ceeds of the theft, he was ordered two months.
the County of Kent was able to to forfeit this sum. "Opposition to the Union has come speak to Capo Gris Nez, using
One of the conditions attached to ferred from
AND NOTICE is ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that a further EXTRAOR DINARY GENERAL MEETING of the VOTING MEMBERS of the Club will be held at the same placetuality. on WEDNESDAY.- the SEVEN-- TEENTH DAY OF JUNE, 1931, at a quarter past Five O'CLOCK in the AFTERNOON, for purpose of receiving. Report of the proceedings at the aboro, mentioned meeting and of confirming if thought it as a Special Resolution the above mentioned Resolution.
By Order of the Blewards, C. B. BROWN,
Becretary. Hong Kong, 14th May, 1901,
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on
Her Majesy's birthday will be celebrated in Hong Kong in the
27th Inniskillings will be trooped
by Colonel Geddes in the presence of His Excellency the Governor at The owners of the Wing Sing seven o'clock am on Tuesday on jewellery store were the victims of the Parade Grund, and a few-de- Senator Key Pittman and Mrs. what was described as a from Franer, whos politicians and ricetrical power four hundred times Piteman aniled from Scattle
"novel joie will then be fired. At 9.. ruse" on Tuesday when they were there will be a Te Deum at the Publicists see in it an attempt to less than what is required to light board the American Mail Line robbed of 2070 worth of jewellery Roman Catholic Cathedral, Well- revive the pre-War policy of aan ordinary electric bulb.. The
It was stated that they received aington Street, which ceremony. is #teamer President felferson on May telephone mesange noking them to usually attended by His Excellency Mittel-Europe alliance. France, wave-length for this experiment was though self-contained and advan eight inches; tho aerial was lease and are due to ativo in Hong and a selection of gems to a room the Governor and Lady Hennessy Kong on June 5. Senator Pittman in the Empress Hotel. This was together with most of the Foreign tageously placed, lives in constant than an inch long; and only one in United States Senator from the done but when the shop nasistant Consule Invitations for a full fear of hostile coalitions. The valve was used for all purposes. State of Nevada, the largest silvor arrived he was confronted by a man dress official dinner at Government. estrangement from Tinly, and an expert declares that this experi-producing state in the United with a revolver who shut him (the House, have been issued and also States, and is coming to China to assistant) in a bathroom, took the for a reception and dance after- certain coolness in her relations ment establishes a record both for make a personal investigation of valuables, and made good his wards-long Kang Daily Press,
the silver situation in this country.
May 21, 1881 with Great Britain and the United efficiency and economy.
elcapo.