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THE SHANGHAI CRISIS.
The darkest clouds do not always bring rain and it may be that the second storm apparently gathering break. over Shanghai will not
OPENING ON SEPTEMBER 8TH, Even typhools have a habit of
changing courss and expending $10,000,000 themselves harmlessly. On the other 3,800,000 hand, there is no escaping the solidity of the background to the It is no Sino-Japanese conflict. passing cloud-effect of military
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and was continued until the objce- tive was obtained. In essentials the
resistance of the Nineteenth Army. The boycott was stimulated rather than broken, by this astonishing and unexpected check to Japaness military power. The Shanghai in- cident, however, did divert atten- tion from Manchuria, and there ara those who hold that such was
At
Three of Tham
Fish Protect Water Lilion.
IN TURBULENT SPAIN.
RIOTS FOLLOW REPRIEVF
· OF SANJURJO.
mattera containing such documents. Pedlar charged at Tottenham The tropical hothouses at the Mr. Sargent informs us that Mr. with being abusive when calling at Paris Botanical and Zoologica! Luard has joined the staff. Ho was a policeman's houre: If I had Gardens contain specimens of many educated at Tonbridge'and Lincoln Madrid, August 25.-Disorders. known I had called on a policeman plants found in the French colonies. College, Oxford, and has a good stirred the capital and other parts I should have behaved differently. Recently the world's largest flow-i
ar," the Victoria Regia-a species degree in Classics and English. Hoof Spain to-day following the ac Willesden wife: My husband is of water lily-bloomed in one of has been on the staff of Sherborne tion of the government in commut-
Last year thisi all right on Friday nights while the hothouses.
in water College, and should greatly streng.ing to life imprisonment the sen the money lasts, but he's. terrible plant, which is grown
heated to between 24 and 30 can-then the teaching of English in the tence of death imposed on Gen on Saturdays when it's all gone.
tigrade, was destroyed by algo school. In addition Mr. Thomas Jose Sanjurjo, leader of the recent
"I plead guilty, but I'm not as guilty as he says I am," said man at Tower Bridge court.
Sobriety.
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During the first year of its cam- paign against drunken driving, South Carolina revoked 1332 licen- The man so deprived," says Prohibitionist Newspaper, who apparently failed to see the point when first warned against driving his motorcar while intoxicated, no doubt now has had it driven hoino to him.
Mr. G. N. Foster and the Corin-
thians
one of the
Mr. G. N. Foster, the Oxford quadruple Blue and famous cricket brotherhood of Wor. cestershire Fostere, is to be the honorary secretary of the Corin- thian Football Club for the coming season, the jubilee season of the club.
It is hoped that under the new regime the old glories of the club will be revived.
this case fresh-water weed-whica
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Seville,
also thrives in water kept at this is shortly expected back from leave. abortive temperature. In order to prevent and Mr. Prow, an old boy of the such an accident again this year, school, returns to the staff with. little inch-long tropical fish which are great enters of algae were pu added qualifications and experience, into the water, which as a further after study in America. precaution was changed 'every day,
Another Record.
A motion picturo made in Canada has what is claimed to be a record for speed. A special film for the Imperial Conference at Ottawa was completed in Montreal recently, and in less than two hours was he ing shown to the delegates in the projection studio of the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau in Ottawa. Over the "record" however, America has that in hand! Next time the President speaks. the "talkie" taking him will sound like an echo and appear like a shadow,
The Diocesan Boys' School.
We have received from Mr. C. B. R. Sargent, the Headmaster of the In addition to the Sheriff Shield Diocesan Boys' School a new a match against the Arsenal at High-revised prospectus. There is a new bury on October 28 the Corinthians cover, a number of attractive photo. will celebrate their jubilee with a graphs and the usual information dinner.
about staff, syllabus, fecs and other
Local and
The Hong Kong dollar was yes terday quoted at 1s. 41d. This be ing id lower than the previous
day's rate,
One case of cholera and one of entorie were reported on Wednes-
day:
to the King.
No less than 23,27 inches of rain fell in Hong Kong last month; 3.81 inches were registered on the 4th, 0.04 on the 20th, 4.8 on the 27th and 5.43 on the 28th.
Fies you; FOLLOW a shadow, it still
Seem
to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, the denies
you
Let her alone, she will court
you,
Say, are not women truly,
then,
Styled but the shadows of
us meu t
At moru and even, shades are
longest
At noon they are short or
none :
So men at weakest, they are
strongest,
But grant us perfect, they're
not known! Say, are not women truly,"
then,
Styled but the shadows of
us men?
BEN JONSON
General
monarchist revolt at.
In Madrid troops dispersed sey-- eral groups and extra patrols of police and civil guards were posted as rumours were heard of au.. other monarchist plot against the second republic,
At Bilbao Communists staged an outbreak protesting against the government's leniency and one- Communist Was reported killed. Beveral wounded. Civil and guards were requested from nearby. Gallarza to control the situation.
Late tonight Minister of Justice. Albornez decreed that Sanjurjo, · commander in chief of Spain's armies until he led the abortive coup, should begin serving bis term without delay. He will be confined at El Dueso penitentiary, situated in an obscure spot in the province of 'Santander.
Protest Clemency.
The prison now houses ordinary criminals but these will be trane. ferred elsewhere and El Dueso con- verted into a military establish- ment.
The announcement that clemency had been extended to Sanjurjo by vote of the cabinet was made to th
A coolie was stopped at Shun- The executive committee of the National Assembly by Premier Ma- shuipe on Wednesday carrying two Shanghai Special District Kuomin-nuel Azana and numerous fist fights. sacks found to contain a quantity
conservative and radical elements iose to the surface,
of chlorate of potash. He was tang and the Bureau of Social followed, as antagonism between charged before Mr. Fraser at the Affairs have issued a joint notice Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with to the hunger strikers of the San being in possession of this chemical
Radical socialists announced they would hold a meeting. immediately to take action against the cabinet decision.
without a label in English and Chi-Yue Towel Factory. Yinghsiang- nese. He pleaded ignorance, say king, intimating that the City Prince George had been appointing ho was asked to carry it to the Government will arbitrate in their ed a personal Naval Aide-de-Camp Yaumati Ferry Wharf. At the dispute, and ordered them to cease Kowloon Magistrhey yesterday, the
Troops surrounding the military polico applied for a remand, in-their hunger strike immediately. timating that a summons would be The workers who have been detain prison in which Sanjurjo was held taken out against the owners of aed in the Shanghai Labour Hos. after the conclusion of his trial at warehouse by whom defendant was employed. The case was according pitat and the Shanghai Hospital, the Palace of Justice dispersed sev- ly remanded until to-morrow morn-
wern reported to have taken food eral groups demonstrating against ing.
since Friday Jast. The City Gov. the clemency decision. There were Mrs. Sweet, wife of Mr. J. B. erament has formally informed the demonstrations also in other parts of the city, notably in the Puerto Sweet, of the Shanghai Marine San Yue Factory and the 7th Dis-del Sol, the principal square, Motor Works, Pootung, bad an ac-trict Cotton Weaving Trade Labour cident which might have had serious Union to detail representatives to consequences, when an advertising sign blew down just as she was This occurred at 11.45 passing.
The local offices of Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son have received cabled the effect that the advics to Siberian railway route vid Harbin is now again in operation.
attend the arbitration moeting.
From the files.
The total output of the Kailan the week ending August 20, amount.m. on Bubbling Well Road, near Mining Administration's mines for ed to 78,764 metric tons, and the Ferry Road, the signboard being sales during the period to 52,921 one advertising the Shanghai Even- ing Post and Mercury. Inspector Shellswell, in charge of Bubbling metric tons.
Well Police Station, was travelling by in the station car along Bub- bling Well Road when the accident, occurred and heard the crash as Looking Back 25 Years, the sign collapsed and Mrs. Sweet's her to her home at 31, Nanyang scream. At her own request he took
After being in the Colony for ten years, Chinese, who was totally blind and had been begging for a living during that time, was sent back to Macao by order of Mr. Wynne Jones at Central Court yes terday.
Road.
steamer
Pera
Members of the cabinet asid a proposal to disebarge all officers of the army to effect a complete re- organization was taken up at the Scasion at which the commutation of Sanjurjo's sentence was agreed
on.
"Property Seized,
the real aim of Japan. The facts hardly support such a view, and it will always be interesting to speculate as to what would have happened had Japan been able to occupy without scrious resistance much as she wished of Greater Shanghai and the environs. the moment the significant thing to. recall in that Japan stated quite frankly what she intended to do, and achieved it in direct defiance of the League of Nations, and after six weeks of bitter fighting.
Driven by cruel economic forces
The death sentence was imposed Japan is using in pursuit of the
ou Sanjurjo by a mixed civil and military tribunal after a trial of The P. prestige, political ambition, in-solution of her problem her great
& 0.
His friend General. grounded yesterday afternoon twenty hours. trigao or racial antipathy. Japan aseet, military strength. She is
about one o'clock on a mudbank Horranez, and his aide, Lieut. Cof. is in dire economist straits, and wielding the big stick against
We understand that H.H. the
The second fire to occur within off Kowloon Point. She had just Infante, were sentenced to impri- widespread distress and unemploy. China, secking markets and ean-
sonment of from twelve te twenty ment, cannot fail to affect her poli: cessions vital to her position as a Sultan of Johore will sail for
Europe on the Indrapoara, leaving eleven days at the San Yue Towel rived from Singapore and was Singapore on September 9. His Factory in Chapei, Shanghai, just proceeding to the wharf to dis- curred. The falling tide militated
The former commanding gene tical and social stability. The anti- great power. If China were not Japanese boycott is causing loss cak, politically and militarily. Highness' visit will be a very brief ofl, Ward Road, Look Place last charge cargo when the mishap se years.
against the efforts to release the and inconvenience to Chinn, but in the policy would be impossible, oric, as he is due back on November Monday morning just after 11
but being badly damaged ship but after waiting a few houra Tal's son, Captain Justo Sanjurjo tana, who left for Europe on July and a corner of the factory slightly she was able to more off, for was given his freedom but a die- Japan the consequences are proving Japan would be forced to seek 14, accompanied by H.H, the Sul o'clock,
other remedies. But China's ap- 13 and is at present staying at damaged beford firemen from Yang wunately without having received patch from Barcelona said a judgo Far graver. It is therefore against
taropoo Station brought, the fames
there had ordered his property under control. The first fire, in any damage. the anti-Japanese Boycott Societies parent helplessness presents a temp- Deauville.
A marriage has been arranged, the early morning of August 17, a
We understand that the statue valued at 1,000,000 pesetas seized. that Japan is concentrating. Shotation that Japan has been unable
to resist, and probably will not and will shortly take place, between big corrugated iron shed and two
Scenes of excitement occurred fools that if these organisations resist in
the immediate future. Mr. M. Clifford Frend, Govern large matehoda being destroyed, of the Princess of Wales, which
Monopolies Department, firemen being on the job four hours. Mr. H. N. Mody has generously during as well as after the trial, are, destroyed the boycott will soon,
Japan is seeking the obvious solument come to an end. The truth or tion, and the solution in accord- Singapore, elder son of the Rey E. This is the factory whose workers undertaken to present to Hong demonstrations for and against the G. and Mrs. Clifford Frend, Shot- are on strike and who have been Kong, is now well in baad. The monarchist leader being restrained error of that reasoning remains to be tested, but it is significant that with her military traditions. termill Vicarage, Haslemere, and defying the attempts of the man sculptor, Mr. George F. Wade, has with difficulty by police and civil That she will score a tactical Dorothy, eldest daughter of Mr. sgement to dislodge them, and it been promptly favoured with the guards Entrances to the Palace the boycott operates strongly in
on fire by Japanese, au incident Princess of Wales, and it is prob-principal streets throughout, the Singapore. succes, should drastic measures bod boru, F. Blackwood Bowell, was also this factory which was set necessary sittings by H.R.. the of Justice were barred and the taken for a second time against
which preceded the Chapei hos ably that the status will be com city were patrolled, especially near
pleted and sent out not very rauchthe scene of the trial. Shanghai, is hardly to be doubted, London last month at the age
Mr. B. J. Wilden-Hart, who died tilities.
later than that of Her Majesty the The first announcement of the If we call to mind the circum but the upshot of an indeterminable of 50, was Professor of English and
The Most Worshipful Grand Queen, from the same studio, cabinet's action, which closely fol will be held at the SANITARY stances of the first attack on Shans struggle between China And Japan History at the Imperial Japanese Master of Freemasons in the Philip Hong Kong Daily Press, Beptember lowed the sentencing of the prison- er by the court, was made by Pre- BOARD ROOM, Post Offes Building
mier Azana at the conclusion of (by kind permission), on TUESDAY, bai last February 20th, there is
1016. He was afterwards employ-will head a delegation of about
the session of the ministers, He' the 6th day of SEPTEMBER, 1932 little to suggest that greater must remain a far more uncertain University, Nagoya, from 1909 to pine Islands, Mr. Antonio Gonzalez, 1, 1907.
edon military intelligence in twenty-firo Macons of his jurisdic Looking back 50 years.
was surrounded by a great crowd moderation is to be expected to
Russia, Germany, Japan, and Potion to visit Amity Lodge, No. 100,-
The rumour that John Russell which tremendously applauded the W. O. HUNG, day. Then Afr. IXUKAE was Prime
land. Latterly he had been lectur. P.LO, in Shangbai next month. ing on historical and social prob- This Lodge, of which Mr. H. C. Young was to be socially ostracis announcement. Hon. Secretary... Minister. Now there is a National
Mei, is the worshipful master, wased on his arrival in China, (says Government headed by an Admiral,
Paris dress designers wage a
formed two years ago by a group the la) and that Consul-General And backed by a wave of intense mighty battle, with the waistline Commander R. O. FitzRoy has of prominent Chinese and foreign Donny was intriguing with that been appointed to the cruiser Masons with a membership now of intent to prejudice his successor patriotic feeling among the common trenches moving up and down the Dragon, at present in Canadian over sixty and is the first lodge of as our American representative, informed of the decision, and people. The procedure last Feb front. Patou decrees the 1932 33 whters, which is under orders to the Philippine Jurisdiction outside now turns out to be unfounded, afterward President Alcala Zamors ruary will be remembered. An waistline to hug the hips; three return home to recommission at those Islands. Mr. William Yinson and to have originated in the signed the decree changing to life Chatham, Commander FitzRoy wae Lee. ous of the founders and hcting brain of one Millar, who sustain-imprisonment the extreme penalty ultimatuin was
was givon that
all other great designers ix it two in promoted in December, 1928, after schior warden of the Lodge, who ed a loss of not more than $10,000 imposed by the court in carrying Chinese troops retreat to a distance ches below the bust. The long- two years in the Royal Yacht Vicis now in Manila, will accompany in China by the seizure of a vessel out the provisions of the military of twenty miles from Shanghai, waisters show skirta which the toria and Albert, and he command the delegation, which leaves that belonging to him and who has code referring to treason."
Sanjurjo, Gen. Herrancz and within a certain time The Chinese short-waisters shriek are too longed the aloop Crocus in the Persian city by the President Lincoln on been trying to get $300,000 din
leggod to be allowed. The war Gulf in 1020-30, Later he was.com Beptember 10 and will pass through ages ever since. It does not mat- his aide were convicted of con New boys should attend on BEP. troops did not retrent, the sorories-bring the powers-of-arbitra inander-of-the-Frobisher Reserve, the Colony on the 19th, Arrange ter what the feelings against Mr.spiring to place Don Juan Carlos, TEMBER 10, at 9.00 am.
mised attack was delivered punction, pushing in. Each side may Fleet fagship, and last winter he ments are being made for degree Young may bis on his arrival If the young third con-of-former- Prospectus, entry forms and all tually to the minute, despite tho have to yield something toward the took out to China a destroyer diy work and other functions at the is able to live down any precon King Alfonso, on the throne in true waistline and thus outraged sion in HMS, Witch, returning British Masonic Hall in Shanghai ceived dislike in any community the brief revolt which led to the particulars may be obtained from the protests of the Council of the nature may even come back into in command of the Serapis sud of during the visit which will be about within three months-Hong Kong occupation of Seville for less than 24 hours and Bloodshed in Madrid Headmaster.
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