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WEATHER REPORT,
fikely to be reinforced each year by another two to three millions. In race between irrigation and pre- Yesterday's weather report, freereat on it looks as if the latter east and remarks, issued by the would win quite comfortably. Nor, Royal Observatory at 5.30 p.m., | unfortunately, is there much coVO- stated -
ment of population from one part Depressions are situated over
of India to another, so ns-to-make this pressure more even. S. W. and to the S.E. of Naha.
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INDIA'S POPULATION
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Russia's Newsprint.
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local and Far East.
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"Old Man River."
orders. Page 6 Police Reservej "Old Man River" Having Bung A piece of Moscow propaganda, a few areas, for example, in the profusely illustrated and produced more than 8,000 times since his
King's College convert. Page 7. marth-east, where there is some
at great expense deals with the original performance in the New
Yunnaniu letter.
Page fertile land available, Lut the
Russian Press and with newsprint, York" production of Show Boat," Indian villager is not an ERRY
Red army in the Kachek district ... the paper used for the jirint Jules Bledsoe, the negro actor-
Page 7. person to transplant. He will going of newspapers, In 1013, it vocalist, sang it for the first time of Jahuan. away from his village to work för
Hong Kong Stork market: Cron a year or two in a factory or on states, the production of Russian in London at the Palladium last
newsprint was 30,000 tons. The month. He has a fine voice and all ther & Co.' daily report. Page 7 plantation, but he does not usual-production for 1030 totalled 98,000 his songs were received enthusins
A European lady surprised a ly care to settle permanently away | Cons-an amount which would not | tically.
bag-snatcher when she hit back from his home. When there is new supply the wants of the London
on Bowen Road.
Page 6. land 16 distributed the work Daily Express for one year. This
Two privates of the South Wales is usually done provincially, and rate of progress compares unfavour though India is always being ably with the development of the The Japanese Government has Borderers are charged with assault borted to consider herself a nation newsprint industry in
Canada, decided to extend the cut in salaries on two Chinese detectives Page 6. Decision was reserved the Full there is no idea of treating the where production capacity has into primary school teachers drawing
11 appeal. pressure on the land ns. n. national
over 100 yen monthly, to take Court yesterday in creased 20 times during the same
Page 9. against a jedgment given by Mr. Problem. The consequence is that period and now reaches the colossal effect from July 1. the Punjab, in which most of the figure of 3,600,000 tons.
Justice Lindsell in the Sunmary Captain Thomas Ash, who has Court,
Page 7. new irrigation work has been done,
been preparing for a trans-Pacific is now developing a standard of
Charity Concert at Lee Theatre. living considerably higher than in
flight in Harold Bromley's "City
Page 6. Today's wireless programme. many other parts of the peninsula
I turned on the light in a fearful of Tacoma," yesterday decided to Page 9. abandon the flight. Even there, however, one hears of
Pace 5. fright: little but agricultural depression.
Oddie and
It is possible that the census year of 1831 will mark the beginning of ari ceonoraic struggle between Enst | and West. between poor countries' with rapidly increasing populatione and rich countries with static populations. In a land which is so predominantly agricultural as India. It is almost impossible for the industrial workers to raise their wages and their standards much above those of the ordinary pea sant, and the latter will have to live on the produce of a steadily decreasing area of land. Other ex- periments are ixing tried her and there, while the spinning wheel pro- rides a possible but not very profit sant's spare time. There is noth- ing however, to suggest that for another generation or two agricul- tural India will not remain the great reserve for cheap industrial labour,
|able means of using up the pea-
Ixs has now a population of 351,000,000 representing an increasò of 32,000,000 in ten years, When the 1021 census figures were published, and showed only a small increase, they proved a convenient stick with which to beat the Government. The present figures do not give such an opportunity, and the politicians
The roy as he harnesse see beginning to realise that the
his mengre bullocks to his wooden new Federation will begin to rule plough, has no idea that he is a over a population larger than those challenge to the Westerner's stand- of Russia, the United States, andards of living, but he is. Japan combined.
Up to now the figures have not been classified except according to areas. They show that the 1021 results were abnormal, probably be cause they were taken immediately after the appalling influenza epide
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Funiculi, funicula!
found on my bed a tarantula!
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Senators Tasker
Joseph Robinson along with Con gressmen Gibson and Dowell at rived at Shanghai yesterday from Manila by the U.S. transport Hen- Page a
And tucked in all round meticu-derson.
Hourly,
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A second Dorby sexation was So how she had got there I couldn't provided this morning when Walter
well see.
Griggs, the trainer, Announced the She gazed at me out of her bondykeratching of Carmelus who jarred himself when galloped over a mile and a hall on Saturday and now Page 4 has gone lame.
eyes,
With no sign of fear and loss of
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thera
Directed where parts of my body
were bare,
I said, "Do you know that this Appeals to my tenderest feelings
If
rather lato call.
like gall:
lone bed,
I must have a female to share a She must neither be black, green
nor yellow or red. So out you go now, Miss, and sea
if a wash Will improve your complexion-," the pillow went Squash!
JOHN WILLWYN,
Chang Hauch Liang entered the Peiping Union Medical College yer terday. It is reported he is suffer- His bodyguards ing from fever, have removed to barracks outside the Peiping Union Medical College,
Sport.
U.S. baseball results. Page 10. The water polo season started last night at the V.R.C. Page 10.
Latest Cables.
Catholic institutions are gradually reopening, as the police have with- drawn from their premises. Page B. The all-over for the Derby at the "Victorin Club showg Cameronian is still favourite.
Page 8 draw,
that
Page 9. J. Videro, Nathan Road, Kow- a prize in the loon, has drawn
Page 9. second stage of the Irish Sween Terrible tales of anti-Indian te The lives of 500 patients were gravely imperilled when fire brokerorism in Burma are told by re- out early yesterday morning at the fugees pouring in to Calcutta from Kanazawa Hospital, Tokyo, part of Burma. which was destroyed before the flames were controlled. Nurses and other willing helpers with courage ous disregard to danger carried the patients to safety.
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Page 0. Scenes not generally associated with the British Open Goll Cham pionship featured the start of the Page 10, qualifying rounds.
(Continued on previona enluma.)
★ Local Notes and Events
During the storm on Sunday, the
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The coxswain of a steam launch
At the Crown Lands Office yes. terday, inland lot No. 3187 was was fined 15 by the Marine
put up for public nuction and was Magistrate yesterday, when he was bought by Messrs Loke Yung charged with having no red light Cheong and Choi Wei Hung for 8130,000. It has an area of 74,000 on the port side of his vease! whilst square feet with an annual rental under way in the harbour. He of $450. The upset price was pleaded that the strong wind which | 8112,350. Now Kowloon Inland Lot light out." was blowing at the time put his | 1504 was also offered for sale (upset price $9,735) and was bought by Messra Loke Yung Cheong, Laik 820,000. The area is 12,980 square Tat Sna and Tong Po Kau for feet and the annual rantai 8148.
who lives at S. Wo Fung Street, A Chinese named Lee Wan (2),
third floor of the Meichow Hotel was found dead in a room on the on Sunday, from the effects of n dose of poison known as Phano
self-administered. dorini which is believed to have been
to her usual increase of about their welcome. England, more boathouse in the Naval Dockyard per ecrit. yearly, and there is no than any country made the fame was struck by lightning and con- of Miss. SUZANNE LENGLEY, For reason to imagine that anything years she was Wimbledon's greatest siderable damage was done to the but another epidemic will check this draw, and the little contretemps roof. A hole about two feet square, stendy advance towards a popula were faithfully reported, and ex- was made in the tiling while the
plained in the tion which may equal Chinn's SUZANNE'S temperament became part
Press, until beams directly beneath were broken. 450,000,000. Better organisation and of the show. Whatever she did was Stephen Kiss, n. Hungarian, was more transport facilities have robb-excused; there was something about charged before Mr. Hamilton yes- Mrs. WILLIS-terday with stowing away on the her that we all liked. ed famines of their old terror. MODY, Mr. BOBBY JONES, Miss Ms. Trier from Shanghai to this Street and Murray Road; CHATRI NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN They may still canse poverty and CISTE AURSEN are just as popular port. He pleaded guilty and was
that the ANNUAL ORDINARY ROAD, East of Queer's Statur: GENERAL MEETING of SHARE loss of cattle, but no serious loss in England as in their own coun-sentenced to que month's hard
tries. Last summer England's labour. WARDLEY STREET, North of Queen's HOLDERS will be held at the HONG of human life. On the other hand, heroes were Dox BRADMAR who KONG HOTEL, Foug Kong, ou there is no tendency to restrict the made double and triple centuries Statue and in JACKSON ROAD,
A fine 810 was imposed on a 5.--No Vehicles Traffic will be MONDAY, the 100 receiving site of families, except in a few against our best howlers, and GRIM hawker at the Marine Court yester.
purpose
of receiving CONNAUGHT permitted in
ROAD
the Report of
sport of the Directors together unimportant sections, and this is NETT who skittled our most famous day when he was brought before bnismen. The late Madame PAY- Comdr, J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N..
A former odd-job workman of the CENTEAZ between Fedder Street and with a Statement of Accounts for the
more than counterbalanced by such LOVA nude London her adopted on the charge of hawking on board
Catholic Seminary at Aberdeen was Murray Road between the above Year ended 30th Apri, 1990,
the spread of home, Mr. PAUL ROBESON, the negro the 8.8. Yuan Sang without a
brought before Mr. Schofield yester The TRANSFER BOOKS of the other factors as Hours.
Company will be CLOSED from
theatrical world by his magnificent actor and singer, conquered the licence.
day on the charge of having in his E. D. C. WOLFE.
MONDAY, Bru Day of Jux, to
Pedro Bphoy, Filipino, was possession n dagger, and also on Inspector General of Police.
MONDAY, 16TH Day of JUNE, 1931,
portrayal of Othello and even Hong Kong, 2nd June, 1931. 1803 Both Days inclusive.
more by the pathos of his negro charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton three separate counts of theft from with having harboured a matrai workmen in the Seminary. The de JOAN D. AUMPHREYS & SON,
spirituels. He it statemen generals, aviators or learned' pro- at 11. Granville Blond and 11, Chifendant pleaded guilty to the first General Managera.
fessors, who land on our shores, Woo doad, without the consent of charge and also admitted having the lawful guardian. Sub-Inspec-stolen a pair of spectacles. He was Hong Kong, 2nd June, 1931. (796
England can always turn out a crowd, a Lard Mavor, and a public tor Murphy of the S.C.A. Appeared sentenced to a month's hard Infortary. He thought Mr. Lammert ten banquet. When the inte ex-President for the prosecution and applied for on the first charge and was enution
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
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BANK' HOLIDAYS.
medical knowledge and the greater we of district dispensaries Apart from some catastrophe, such as a civil war, there is no reason to be lieve that the rate of increase will not be acelerated rather than diminished during the next
years.
or
a week's formal remand which was granted..
ROOSEVELT CA over and told us This new Indian population is how to run the Empire we knew produced mostly in the villages and that he was a genuine friend, that he talked sense, and was one of the
Just before the 8.8. Trier sailed town, and the most able and nitractive personali- for Singapore on Sunday, fifteen THE SEVENTH EXTRA RACE Ordinance.
[N Accordance with Government
Chinese were found in the hold Thi EXCHANGE census proves that the increase is ties in the world.
Now and then, however, England without tiekels and they were at Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VAL. BANKS will be CGOBBD for the hot being absorbed by the cities or tiba In the manner of a certain I cordingly arrested and
MEETING will be held
1991, Commencing at 2 P.M.
The First Bell will be Bung at 1.30 P.M.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badgi prominently displayed.
No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members Enclosare.
Non-Membere to
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NESS on WEDNESDAY, the 3RD
(THE BIRTHDAY or Jun MAJEBTT THE KING).
|. Hong Ko=g29th May, 1831,
NOTICE.
loans and Club Roas the Mamborn' at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3,00
Ladies (Both including T2) (8 NEBE MARITIME CUS T 18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that are obtainable through the SECRE TARY upon Introduction by a Member, TOMS IMPORT DEPOSIT RECEIPT Member to be responsibia for NO. 41, and as SHAUCHUNG. wuch
on MAY, 1981, for the Sum of $18.00 ant of All Obits, &o.
Morabers has been LOST. Enclosure will not be on sale at the Bace Course.
Looking Back 25 Years.
The Annual meeting of the V.R.C. was held at the Gymnasium, Kow. loon, last evening. Mr. G. A. Caldwell presided, and there were also present. Messrs T. G. Gray, E. M. Hazeland, R. W. Pearson, J. H. R. Hance (Committee), F. F. Lammert. (Hon. Secretary), Mr. S. A. Seth (Hon. Treasurer), "and. a large number of members.
Mr. Bains proposed the re-election of Mr. Frank Lammert as secre
1900.
re-
The
had carried ont his duties during the past season ereditably to him. self and honourably to the club. A murder, on the Dutch steamer
Mr. Quinness seconded the motion, Tjikarang while the vessel was
which was carried unanimously. some 60 miles from Hong Kong on May 5, had ita sequel at Central Mr. Hazeland proposed the Magistracy yesterday when a Chi-election of Mr. S. A. Seth as hon.. nese apeared on the capital charge. treasurer. Mr. Jordon seconded,
and the motion was carried. committee elected was na follows: Mcars, W, Armstrong, T. C. Gray, H19 y. India include every town as in the ground, and not all the the charge of attempting to slow the Netherlands East Indies were away. They pleaded guilty and requisitioning for the man's return
R. W. Pearson, E. M. Hazeland, large as Reading and every im-shoutings and whackings in the
world will make us move. There were each fined 850 or one month'sto Batavia, to stand his trial
W. Lagan. J. II. R. Haner, there. The suspect stated that he [788 portant industrial centre, except are celebrities whom we will not liard labour in default.
Malvar, W. H. Crake, and T. E. was ready to ·waive ' extradition
Pearce, while the balloting com- Tate's steelworks, at Jamshedpur endure. First of these is TROTSKY.
Mr. A. Gerner, a well-known proceedings and return to Batavin
mittes was Messrs. J. W. Dains, C.- and a few mining areas. The total The left wing of the Labour party
cau bluster about injustice and furniture dealer, and proprietor of under escort by the first steamer,
E. A Hance. L. E. Lammert, IL population of these cities is under unfair distinctions as much as it "La Economia" Furniture Store, and the charge against him was
Henderson, E. Humphrova. H. A Lammert, H. A. Seth, J. J. Watson. 10,000,000, and has increased very likes, but the Prime Minister knows The Furniture Palace and Rizal accordingly withdrawn..
Furniture Store, of Manila, arrived that if TaoTEKY landed it would little more than the 10 per cent. lose him at least two million votes.
in the Colony with his family on When Jan Wagter, a Dutchman, A. P. Noble, and F. W. White-
pouinsula. which in the average throughout the The country was equally firm about Friday. He liquidated his firms in was charged before Mr. E. H. Hong Kong Daily Press, June is
It is clear that the Jack DIAMOND. We would not Manila owing to his wife's health. Williams yesterday with being a cities do not take 'one-hundredth of have him. Nor are these rebellions and is shortly opening & furniture vagrant, and was ordered to be sent Looking Back 60 Years,
only against members of the sterner store at No. 23, Nathan Road, to the House of Detention, he
Kowloon, by the name of the Palace said:" All right, if I get sick the extra population in the villages sex. The lovely AIMEE MCPHERSON
Furniture Store
will go back to the hospital. You and small towns. Similarly the was not legally banned, but the
will have to keep me there if you polide mockery of the popular Press. estra forty or fifty thousand men and the determined chilliness of Chan Lung, described as an un- go on like this. There's nobody to who are taken into industrial life the public drove her all the way employed woolie, was admitted to get me out of here, because I can't Bach year represent a fairly rapid to Shanghai. Now it is TEXAS hospital yesterday suffering from get job and the Dutch Consul QUINAN, New York's night club injuries to his legs, one of which threw me out of the Institute." industrial expansion but are an un-Queen," and her bevy of beauties was fractured. It was stated the The man had previously remarked important fraction of the surplus in who have been rejected. No reason man was trying to leap from the that the diet of dry bread and the agricultural districts..
was given and, we are sure, no verandah of the first floor of 134, cheese which he received at the Johnstone Road, to the street when House of Detention, did not agree The prospects are not very chcer protest was made. The ladies were
not allowed to land. France has he was sech trying to gain admis- with him. ful. India has a limited area of followed our example, after asian to the flat with the intention, the it is believed, of committing a land fit for cultivation, about momentary hesitation, and 300,000,000 nerei. Much of this is whole party has to trek back to burglary.
New York. It is an odd little
When a Chinese was brought very poor, and the only practical insident, for while London has only
another THE PUBLIC ARE NOTIFIED "eans of adding to this area is by a sub rosa night life, Paris enforces befare Mr. Schofield on the charge
no such restrictions and a natural of common assault, on Boldiers and Sailors in Uniform are
That LATE OARS are avaliable irrigation. This has already been curiosity is raised about the reasons Chinese, it was stated that the man admitted Half Price Tac Men, immediately on demand Every Night pushed about as far as is econo-behind it all. These are stern and resented being questioned about a
Bookmakers, Tio. will not be permitted to operate with between the Hours of 19.16 A.M. and
pathetically grateful when a little permission and struck the other on in the Procinols of the Hora Koso 8.00 AM. unless a Notice to the mically sound, and other schemes serious days, so serious that we are shirt, which he borrowed without Jocker Ozva during the Race Meeting. contrary is advertised during the evo beca started. The total effect mystery of this kind, about a mat- the head with a battle. When the
Istin will be obtainable in the Restau. Preceding Day
will be to, add another 59,000,000 ter of not the slightest importance, offender saw that the man was laid acreo the Public Eaaloanre.
in tour-twenty to thirty-distracts our attention from matters out he sent for an ambulance and упата In the meantime the such as silver depreciation, the gave himself up to the police. He By Onler,
200,000,000 Indians who live directly consequences of which are deeply was ordered to pay a nominal fine of 810 and also 85 to the injured from agriculture, and are already affecting the lives of each one of
man as compensation. pressing so hardly on the land, are us
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A Miner" from Fouchow, unde date of May 18, to the Shang- hat Mercury, says: Reading in your issue of the 3rd inst., the Foo chow correspondent's letter, I was much pleased to to that someone thought it worth their while to bring the information therein con- tained under the notice of the public. Iron enough here to build railways round the entire world, with coal close at hand to world them; timber unlimited, for the Two motor fatalities were report, entting down; and sufEcient gold ed over the week-end. The first if the ground is one tithe as rich concerned a Chinese youth named as it appears to be, to pay for.al! Lan Hop (23) of 40, Shantung the labour, not taking into con- Bideration the value of all the other. lorry, It was stated that the minerals which are known to exist, Street who was knocked down by a victiin tried to dash across the road notably copper: together with a in front of the vehicle and was magnificent water COTE taken to the Kwong Wah. Hospital tresource down to the port. It knocked down as a result. He was could be used for floating these
could be made navigable,, for where ho passed away later. In the should be mentioned that this river second accident, an old woman waK knocked down by a private car in steamers drawing, five or six feet Queen's Road East on Sunday of water, for upwards of two hun- She was removed to the Government dred miles, with the most ordinary. Civil Hospital where she succumbed engineering skill.-Hong Kong to her injuries yesterday.
Daily Preis, June 1, 1881.
which