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in the Colony of Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the Tenth day of August, 1932, at Three o'clock in the
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"That the Artioles of Association of the Company be altered in manner following"
(a) By to deletion
the whole of
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Wars seems to have shown eager news for the fray. The brunt of the Shanghai fighting was borne by the Nineteenth Army, with perhaps a couple of Divisions from CHIANO | KAI SHEK'S Army. Whether thera were large bodies of Chinese troops in the vicinity of Shanghai at the time of the crisis, or whether each war-lord was carefully keeping in some safe refuge the forces upon which his own power depends, only the 'Chinese leaders themselves know.
Whatever has gone on behind closed doors the national policy. has been a wise one. A final breach with Japan has been avoided, a real fighting success was achieved at Shanghai, the Japanese forces in
* News and Views *
H.M. the King and the Fleet.
"Once a sailor always a sailor." The adago is true of the King as of any of his so-faring subjects, and it was. fully exemplified re-, cently when his Majesty visited the Homs Fleet at Weymouth.
Had not the untimely death of his brother, the Duke of Clarence, in 1892, brought him into the direct line of succession to the throne he would almost certainly have cone tinued his career as a naval officer. ;
Officers who served with the-
Grand Fleet during the Wär have many tales of the surprising know- lodge the King displayed during his frequent visits to their ships.
Prince and a Speed-Boat.
spent over an hour speed-boating The Prince of Wales recently
on the private lake at Virginia Water, Windsor Great Park, to which he motored from his coun- try residence, Fort Belvedere.
As it was, he took his full share A large number of holiday makers; of the hardships and vicissitudes of watched the Prince, who was at the
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1878, when he ethered Britannia as skill in handling different boats. a cadot,
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FRIDAY, the Twenty-sixth day of August, 1991, for the purpose of rocci Limited, ving a Report of the proceedings at the above mentioned Meeting and of confirming if thought fit, the foregoing resolution as a Special Resolution,
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of July, 1932.
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DEATH.
A.P.B. as it spreada depression among the losers. Unless CHANG HEUER LIANG had a real chance to defeat the
Ross-On August 1, at Shanghai, KATHERINE Ross, beloved mother of Grace, Edward and Arthur
Ross, aged 39 yours,
Japanese troops that occupied Mukden last September, he did well to extricate his army, keep it intact, and withdraw to a point that he could hope to hold. It is the Japanese view that CHANG HEVER LIANG has been the soul of the guerilla resistance in Man- WATT BUCK.-The engagement is
announced of Mrs. JOYCE HAR.churia, and that his troops have RISON BUCK, of Goldthwaite, been the backbone of the "irre Texas, U.S.A., and JOHN DESgular" bands who have presented BOROUGH WATT, of the Public Worka Department, Shanghai grave military problem to the in- Municipal Council.
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To the outside view, in fact, Chinese statecraft and strategy have been conducted with remark- able sagacity. During the whole | period Mr. WANG CHING WE has
His Majesty has held several in
and is the only reigning monarch qualified to take command of a warship.
His first experience of the sort was his command of the diminutive torpedo-boat 79, which in the naval manoeuvres of 1380 he handled with conspicuous ability, bringing help,
on one occasion, to a merchantman in distress.
The King has retained the keenest interest in the service. He keeps developments and can speak with thoroughly abreast of technical authority, in the professional sense of the term, on all matters connect ed with the Navy, whether materiel or personnel.
That forenoon, the actual day of
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Scott will be given by the Very Rov. Professor W. P. Paterson
will attend the opening perform In the evening, Prince George
ance of a Scott pageant by school children to be held in the Wover- Joy Market.
Local and General
been at the head of the Government, terday quoted at 1s. 3d, on, de- The Hong Kong dollar was yes-
mand,
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Tree vaccination against cholera has been organised in Swatow.
A thief 'entered Captain Bragg's bedroom at 14, Chetham Road, on Sunday morning and atole a metal watch.
hit that does not say that his was the brain piloting the ship of BLETC. Mr. WANG CHnd Wer bas
always been an idealist, an tremist perhaps, without great |
One case of cholera and two of experience in netual administra-enteric were reported over the tion. It may be that he, like the week-end, late M. CLEMENCEAU, or Mr. Lrovn GROLGE (with whom he has certain points in common) possesses natural genius for war, and has been contending with formalists. petty intriguers and leaders who put their own interests before the national cause. Equally it may be Mr. WANG CHING WE's spectacular that Mr. WANG CHING WEr was the resignation may be expected to be followed by a period of negotia-figure-head, who has tried without success, to assert himself, and pit his own opinion against men who know better.
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tion, and then an announcement of Mr. WANG's reluctant return to office. The invident would be the
Mr. Fletcher, living at the Kinga: clere Hotel, has reported to the police the theft of a gold watch and a gold ring from his 100m.
Caused by the recent heavy rains, a collapse occurred at 73, Main Street, one of a block of very old houses in Kowloon City on Sunday afternoon. The premises were com- pletely gutted. The accupants had evacuated.
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Woman's Remarkable Feat,
Misc V. Anderton, the Scottish long-distance woman champion, has the double journey from Dunoon to the Cloch Lighthouse and back, in the Forth of Clyde. a swim which has never been ac
swum
While driving his car in Queen's Road Central and proceeding in a westerly direction, Mr. A. R. Cox, of 3, Causeway Bay Hull, knocked complished bafore. The distance is down a Chinese woman who had about fivo miles, and Miss Ander- run out from under & verandahson's time was thrs 50min. The mishap occurred near the junc
tion of Pottinger Street. The The sea was in a turbulent mood when the swimmer set out from
A report was made to the policewoman was slightly injured, but she at Canton that a tiger, weighing refused to go to Hospital." about two hundred catties, was killed in Poklo district, Kwang- | tung- It is stated that several people have been killed and eaten by this animali
White kite-flying on the roof of a house in Cheung Sha Wan Road on Sunday afternoon, a Chinese Loy, 10, overbalanced and fell to the road, sustaining internal in have juries. He was removed to the
Kowloon Hospital.
restrictions Quarantine been imposed by the Government of Formosa against arrivals from
Charged on two counts of theft Hong Kong on account of cholera.
of clothing from houses in Kimber. According to a Canton paper a snake mensuring about nine feetley Road, a man named Yin Sang was sentenced to a month on the long, blue-yellow coloured, first charge and 14 days on the Kankong district.
Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.
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Danuon, and when she reached mid- chantel waves broke right over her. a Kai Tack Company bus came to a stop, astride struck rails Despite the adverse condition, sho at the junction of Tam Kung Rond completed the first part of her swim and Prince Edward Road, to drop in the 13 min, Imin inside the wo- isome passengers on Bunday after-
noon, an earth-ladem truck suddenly men's record for the single journey. - appeared and crashed broadside Conditions on the returan journey. into the bus. No-one was injured, were ever worse, there being a but the bus suffered some damage. which was made good, it is under strong south-westerly wind, stood, by; the contractor concerned.
Mr. Chan Lim Pak, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital, is the leading figure hehind the move of that body to erect, at a cost of $20,000,
Vital Statistics (·
In its recently published "En- cyclopaedia of Hygiene, Pathology and Social Welfare," the Interns a pavilion at the Chinese Cemetery tional Labour Office at Geneva pavilion would be to allow those
stress of Chinese politics, no public themselves to the loss of Manchuria caught by a number of villagers in second before Mr. Fraser at the at East Point. The purpose of the points out that "data are lacking
Fired by jealousy when he saw stranger talking to his wife, a man in Bryna (Poland) seized an axe and killed her. He felled his young
The cynical view is that the outward expression of the internal Chinese war-lords, having resigned
announcement ever being made of
attending ceremonies to rest or in regard to the special risks run are settling down to play once the changes and re-adjustments be
Colonel L. M. Cosgrave, who was
gather there. Application will in breeding alligators," more the old chess-board struggle
saccessfully operated on at the
shortly be made to the Government The risks are precisely those in- hind the socacs. No one imagines for place and power, the main Country Hospital in Shanghai, is
for the grunting of a building site.
curred in breeding international that the formation of the present coalition government at Nanking hagroupings being CHIANG KAI SHEK making good progress and hopes to
They depend on how. and CHANG Husen Liano on the leave the hospital soon.
A Chinese, described as a ship's bureaux. Ron with une blow and severely in- cook, was charged before Mr. wide the subject opens its mouth." seen the end of the perpetual hos- one side, the Kuominchun on the
Injured through an attempt to jured his five-year-old daughter, Wynne-Jones at the Central Polico tility between the left and the right other, various free lances, like BAN wings of the Kuomintang. Fu Chu, holding the balance in the alight from a moving bus in Nathan When the police arrived to arrest Court yesterday with the posses personnel of the Cabinet has alter, orth, and Canton a distant factor, Road, a. 14-year-old Chinese boy him he was calmly eating his even- sion of 835 rounds of rifle ammu Foreign Views of Barey Trial.
sometimes friendly, sometimes hos was admitted to the Kowloon Hosing meal. NEWS OF THE FAR EAST cd since à Government of all eer- tile to Nanking. In face of the pital on Sunday, in a serious condi
tions made its headquarters at Japanese menace from without, and tion.
the growth of Communism in the Loyang and declared that the heart of China, such trifling with Chinese people would resist the the situation would be. national Japanese to the end. FENO Yu, treachery on a scale only commen-
surate with its folly. HBIANG BOOD withdrow; La TSAL HOIX, CHEN MINO Siu and now
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nition and gunpowder, contained in 1,288 packets. On the Court The average American citizen, The four police guards at Che being informed that the police were contrasting British judicial met quera, the Premier's home, have, it not pressing the casty defendant
hods as demonstrated by the Barney The Sincere Co., Ltd., announce has been announced by the Chief was sentenced to two months' im- that commencing to-day their busi-Constable Buckinghamshire, prisonment. The ammunition and case with American procedure, re-. ness hours will be altered to start been replaced by four watchmen. gunpowder were ordered to be con- marks upon the speed with which from 8.30 a.m. till 8.30 p.m. instead This was an economy move on the fiscated. of from 8 am to 8 pm daily dur' part of the Office of Works, which f ing week days,
had paid £1,000 a year for the main- tenance of the police guards,
collision of two junks occurred in- the vicinity of Shun Tak district: yesterday morning. It was report ed that no lives were lost and little damage was sustained.
Lo WEN KAN, the Foreign Minister, REIN LORING WILL NOTA Canton paper states that a bave also left Marshal CHIANG
SELL HIS 'PLANE. KAI SEK is ominously quiet, Ho YING CHEN, his faithful, henchman, remains at the War Office and Mr. TV. SopNo, his brother-in-law, is within call, though the actual whereabouts of the Finance Minis-
ter dire uncertain.
DECISION.
channel,
trials are conducted in England.
He contrasts the directness of Night bathing, which had in- oreased in popularity at Bridling evidence in England compared with ton, Yorkshire, was almost stopped Proceeding westwards along
last month as a result of shoals of the extraneous matter permitted in Queen's Road West on Sunday fish which come close inshore and U.C. Courts; the wide discretion afternoon, a Hong Kong Hotel bus frighten the bathers in the dark, given to the judge in his address Some bathers have suddenly found narrowly escaped serious mishap when, turning the corner near Fat themselves in the midst of shoals to the jury, and, above all, the ab of fish, and have left the water sence in Britain of "trial by newa-
paperz." Canton, papers state that a wara Hing Street, it swerved sharply to hurriedly. One bather said ho ing has been issued by the Wuchow the loft to avoid an approaching found fish swimming all around authorities that Mo Jonge will not public car. In doing so, it collided him, brushing against his legs and French Opinioz.
ricksha near the aide Iloilo, July 31-Fernando Rein be allowed in the city. It is also with a
French people have taken' an ex- The right mudguard of body. "It was most unpleasant," Loring, Spanish aviator, to-day de stated that heavy penalties will be the ickaht was damaged by the he added, and I left the water
traordinary interest in the trial-of- The ostensible Cause of the finitely announced that he would imposed on offenders:
not sell his monoplane. Ho said he
rear left mudguard of the bus. The immediately,"
Mrs. Barney. trouble is that Mr. WANG CHING would take it back with him to A despatch-from-Canton-states ricksha puller was injured,
Sir Patrick Hastings, the "Pett We considers that the resistance Spain for exhibition in the Loring that cholera has been broken out
Journal" declares, did not have re in Chung Shan district, and many Commencing & campaign against
course to the kind of oratory that to 'Japanese éggression has been Aeroplane Factory.
The aviator expacts to hop off deaths are being reported every beggars in Kowloon, the police Chu, alias Cheng Pak Kui, alias Latin people love and avoided the half-hearted, and the reproaches for Manila to-morrow, weather per day. Precautionary measures have made two arroste on Sunday. Pong Cheng Wing Fan, to his widow sentiental appeal. His epeech was lovelled against CHANG Hacen mitting. He has been completely been taken by the district, authoKwai was fined 18 or three days, Cheng Chan Shi. The estate has Cold, reasoned, logical, leaving without bord labour, for receiving been valued for probate purposes out of account, the psychology of LANG for the loss of Mukden and cured of stomach trouble and slight rities.
ptomaine poisoning,
| 12 cents_from_passers-by on Nathan at 8121,000 and will be divided the principal personages, emphasis Chinchow have broken out with Since his arrival in Iloilo about When charged at the Central Road. Lau Kok was sent to his among the deceased's three wivering the reality of the fact and only redoubled vigour. To the onlooker a week ago, Rein has been. feted in Magistracy yesterday with stealing home in Lou Kong. Both offenders and five song, Henry Marsden putting a relative
valua on the The number of Arnould, whose Hong Kong estate moral "Inatore."! - it would appear that the leading my ways. Yesterday he had a 27.imon bars from a house under were old men.
joy ride in an autobus of the Iloilo construction in Conduit Blood, an beggars in the Colony has increased has been valued at $11,800, Be Commenting upon the time dur.. Chinese war-lords have all been Transportation Co.
unemployed Chinese pleaded guilty, enormously within the last month,"quests include £100 to Dr. Bering which the jury deliberated, the extremely careful of their troops. Prior to his departure for Iloilo, but qualified his plea by stating the police assort. It is possibly nardo's Homes, 2150 and annuity "Paris Midi" remarks that this de- Not one of the Generals who has he had made arrangements to asil that he took only six hars. He was resultant from conditions in the in- of £175 to his wife, £100 each to lay is no cause for surprise "in a on the Norddeutscher Lloyd steam-sentenced to one month's hard terior, the heavy rains, and damage! his sister-in-law, housekeeper, and country in which penal justice is figured prominently in the Civil er Trier for Barcelona.
labour.
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