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aricket resulta Week-end league tennis results.
-- "Page 107 Saturday's results in the Lawr Page, 10. Bowls League appear on
a keyboard which no musician could Latest Cables. master, was tried out by B.B.C.
The English Test team to meet engineers last month. It is intend- ed for acoustical tests to be made New Zealand at Lord's, beginning Page II. on June 27. "Five dollars and costs," said in the studios at Broadcasting
Doctor Burcsch, the Governor of Judge Frederick Fischer, without House, and was built by Mr. Henry lower Austria, has formed n Cubi Page 9 a post of dignity comparable, on looking up, when a woman motorist Willis, who designed the great organ net.
Chiang Kai Sbek left for Kiu- our small scale, with the historic was brought before him charged at Liverpool Cathedral. It produces offices of Lord Privy Seal and with failing to stop. The woman the purest fundamental forms of klang by gunboat early yesterday
morning,
Page : Lord President of the Council in was his wife.
Bound over a given range of fre- quencies, but anyone who wanted to President Hoover has announced an offer to the world of one year's play a tune on it would be disapsuspension of all Government debts. Page 9. pointed, for it merely makes an errie | p
Another gliding record was estab moaning sound. To test a studio lished by the Austrian airman the organ is played in various parts Robert Kronfield, by crossing the of the room, and measurements of English Channel both ways in one round intensity are made to see day, thus winning the £1,000 prize undesirable offered by the Daily Mall, Page S whether there
The Standard Oil Company of echoes or a "booming noise."
New York, and the Vacuum Oil any particular note.
Company, are defendants'in suits ju the Supreme Court. in New York demanding $103,000,000 in connec ton with the alleged purchase of 33,000,000 barrels of oil from the Sovicts in the past. eix years.
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a Home, Cabinet. Those posts are filled by elder statesmen, wise in Wat" University. council, but not desirous of attend-
Nearly 400 students at Princetown ing to a mass of administrative University, N.J., reported that they detail. The suggested office, would drank. Only 74 were teetotalers. have provided
a fitting crown to Asked how many times they had a career of useful and honourable been turned down" by girls, 307 replied "Never," and three said
Lost count."
service in more strenuous tasks.
THERE are occasions when many of us wish that Kowloon had its own
power to go But, unfortunately, as in the case municipality, with" abead with public works that its of the bathing pools, the price is inhabitants want. and are willing exorbitant and Kowloon will have to pay for within reason. We to rub along as at present, taking have no doubt that the Kowloon consolation, in the fact that it really. Residents' Association voiced the is a very fine town, thanks to at opinion of a large number of sub small group of able and far sighted stantial citizens of all communities engineers of the Public Works De when it requested the Government partment, to provide swimming podis, as a proper substitute for the bathing beaches that have been abolished this year.
Everyone knows, how-
A, TEST FOR RULERS.
snake in Plano Shop,
An Einstein Story.
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At Oxford the other day Pro fessor Einstein was invited to din-
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During the absence of Chiang Kai Shek tho' Senior Presidents of the various Yuan will preside at the meetings of the National Gov- tive Yuan affairs will be in charge of T. V. Soong, who concurrently will be Vice-President of the Execu tive Yuan,
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ever, that no bathing pools will A CONFERENCE on Mental Health Probably arrived in a box of fr lawn. The ladies present ask-ernment Council, while the Execu-
NOTICE THERE, by virtue of
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN For reliable information about be the same.
Bastion 58 of the Probates Ordinance
1897 (No. 2 of 1897), made an Order
the Time for sending in Claims
Bra Day or JULY, 1931.
Creditore and Claimants are hereby required to send, their Claims to the Undersigned by the above Dats..
the whole of the Far East
use the
Congratulations.
At Simis.
I hear from private sources that Lord and Lady Willingdon have made an excellent start at Simla and that both British officials and Indian politicians are greatly im
After an intensive search for two days, a snake which had got into the premises of pianoforte dealers in Manchester, was caught. In ad dition to attempts to entice it outer by the head of a famous col- with bowls of milk and leaves of lege. He went. It was a warm night and they had their coffee on lettuce, Eastern "music. was softly played on one of the instruments without success. The snake haded the Professor whether he was convinced that his theory of rela. tivity was really true, "Yes," be provided. The matter may was recently held in London. In
answered, the Professor, "I believe or may not be moved in the the course of an address, in which
it to be true. But it will only be Legislative Council by one of he pointed out the fundamental Our evening contemporary, the proved for certain in the year 1981, the Unofficial Members who live importance of mental hygiene in Hong Kong Telegraph, produced when I am dead." "And what," in Kowloon, but the result will dealing with any problem of human on Saturday a most interesting they asked him, "will happen The Government relationships, Lieut. Colonel LoD and attractive supplement in then " The Professor was silent spokesman will reply briefly and said that nations must provide honour of the fiftieth anniversary for some minutes. "Well," he said, firmly that owing to the present machinery for the removal of all of the paper's foundation. The "I shall tell you." financial stringency the under monarchs, rulers, and governors Telegraph, like the Daily Pressj They waited in excited suspense, pressed by the new Viceroy's saga- liigainst the abore Enfate to the DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE taking is absolutely impossible who are mentally and morally un- passed through some stormy days "In the year 1931, began the Pro
There are many public works which fitted for their high duties and must have a prior claim, notably great responsibilities. No one an improvement of our prisons wants to be ruled by the mentally the development of Air
Pert diseased, but how is it possible to facilitics and the completion of know when rulers, aro in this sad sundry roads that will lead to the condition 1 What symptoms betray opening up of new districts, and the them If general inability to world. building of houses, needed for the govern is a symptom of mental un- rapidly growing population. Taxa-fitness, then history would seem to tion has already been increased suggest that government has un- despite the protests of the interests fortunately tended mostly to fall affected, and it is obviously detri-into the hands of those who lack mental to commerce and industry mental health. A man may submit that further, imposts be levied.
himself to a medical examination, All this is very good argument, and his physical condition may Two cases of diphtheria were re but the fact remains that a self- roughly be classified, but it is imported. during Friday.. governing town of Kowloon's size, possible to classify his mental con- if it wanted bathing pools, would dition, except in the use of de foot a loan and get on with the finite imbeciles. If all, those who work, Kowloon, with its quarter exercise authority in the world were Chapman, V.D., of Weat Dulwich, of a million inhabitants, as we examined, it is doubtful if moro S... late of the Civil Service of have already pointed out in this than one or two of them would be Hong Kong, left £1,639 (net ¿per- column, must be the largest town found to be imbeciles. These would sonalty £437). in the world without any semblance be clear cases for diemissal. The
Dated thin 15th day of June, 1931.
E. P. H. LANG,
Official Administrator.
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city and geniality, wries Mr. J. A. its In our own files fifty years ago there are most Emus: fessor, "I shall be proved other Spender, in the. News Chronicle. ing references to the then Governor right or wrong. "If I am right The community trouble is still, for which it would be lese majeste, the Germans will say I was a Gerthe moment, the black spot in India, roprint in these days. May wa add the congratulations and good wishes man and the French will say I was but it is not altogether a bad thing of a colleague to those received by Jew. "If I am wrong the Ger- that circumstances" should be com the Telemaal parts of the mans will say I was a Jew, and the belling all the Indian parties to
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Local Notes and Events
The late Lieut-Colonel Arthur
The names of Dr. Kwan Pah Chien
It is notified that the name of the On Fat Steamboat Company, Ltd., has been struck off the Register,
repairs will be undertaken there, but eventually a dockyard on a large scale will be developed. Ex- tensions of the Company'e property are also in progress at Kobe, in con-
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Robertson, of sequence of the increasing size of the D. F. Bobertson Travel Bureau, the vessels constructed in the dock- Los Angeles, are due to arrive in yard there.-Hong Kong Daily Hong Kong on July 18 on them.v. Press, June 22, 1908...... Aanma Maru with a party of sixty Looking Back 50 Years, Californians. The party will visit an Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, after
In some particulars the Siamese
government. According to the letter tally and morally unfitted for their and Dr. Tan Tiong Lam have been visiting Hong Kong they will pro- are far ahead of the Chinese. They of the lhw Kowloon is part high duties" but would even added to the list or medical prac- ceed to Manila, and on their return have adopted, several Western in-
of the Colony of Hong Kong,
is
the London Conference on Mental city state which has a full and Health be able to separate the fittitioners. Both are Bachelors of to Hong Kong they will go to Can-ventions and improvements, and adequate system of government from the unfit Mental health is,
Medicine and Surgery of the Hong ton, Macao, arriving in Los Angeles have at least the vencer of Occi- dental polish if they are not im- on their return, August 13. Tho weakness of the position
no doubt, an excellent and neces Kong University.
pregnated with the spirit of Western that no official member of the Legis Bary attribute in a ruler. The
civilisation. The monarch is also lative Council knows anything trouble is that there are no tests,
A raitan basket with a quantity
accessible both to his subjects and about Kowloon. One or two heads There was a Parliamentary candi- of female clothing inside and a Looking Back 25 Years.
to foreigners; no veil of mystery of departmenta conscientiously date once who had been in a lunatic jersey with the word" Morrison Alphabetical lists of Cable make visits of inspection, but not asylum and who used to urge his acrom the front was found at the enterprise of our neighbours and vulgar gaze.
There seems to be no end to the or, sanctity hides him from the He is a personal a single one of them lives there, or certificate of sanity, given him on Railway Station yesterday and is
allies. Mr. Matsugata, the Presentity, known and seep of all men. has more than an academic interest his discharge, se a reason for elect now at the Water Police Station dent of the Kawasaki Dockyard Co., His power over his subjects is great in it. No blame is intended. Our ing him. Clearly he had a proper awaiting a claimant. Civil Servants are busy people in respect for mental health. But his
is said to have stated to an inter- and can be arbitrarily wielded, but viewer that the Company desires is not often despotically used, and these days. Apart from the I.G.P case was peculiar. We can scarcely and the Director of Public Works
expect all Parliamentary candidates An armed robbery was reported to obtain shipbuilding orders from when any acts of oppression are com mitted they are usually done, by (who both cross the water fairly to equip themselves with similar to the Police from 39, Third Street, China, Siam, and all the other often) what is there to take a busy to with to the Paino festerday, when thre Quintal conneries. With this view DAD to Kowloon What criticism easy to come by Candidates who robbers, armed with revolvers, stolo it is purchasing about ten thousand form of the Son of Heaven; and the thero
cro would be if a Senior Official. have been in asylums are in the 8254 worth of clothing and jewel tsubo of land at Shanghai and Poo outer barbarians are rigidly exclud- were found wandering about the happy position of being able to lery. The men gained, admittance bang for the purposes of shipbuilded from obtruding their savage and place during one hourr
offer documentary svidenss of their to the promises by-pretending to be ing and ropaiting, with especial repulsive persons upon the presence, of the occupants of the Dragon The mistake was made by our mental health the mental health of prospective tenants of a cubicle that relation to the shipping at Shanghai Throne. Hong Kong Daily Pres
and on the Yi tare: At first only | Juno 28, 1881, forebears, probably about the time others we cannot but take on trust. was vacant
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