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TO-DAY
(September 26),
25th day of Jemadi-al-awal. King of Denmark born, 1870. Lammert's Auction, 4, Carnavon Buildings, Kowloon, 10.30 am.
Hong Kong Fencing Club incet-
SOIVET OIL FOR JAPAN.
BUSINESSMEN ON VISIT TO MOSCOW.
CONTRACT FOR FUEL FOR NAVY.
Berlin, Sept. 19.-A group of pro 0.15 10.16 12.00) 1.18 235 4.02 4,41 0,35 7,40 |ing. 5.15 p.m.
4,495,43 7.4S 0.24 10.25 12.08 1.20 ...
Badminton Club Meet at Sailors minent Japanese business we are |5.02) 6,55) 800 |~\.
5.15 0.08 8.73 and Soldiers' Home..
Moscow, for the 5.194.128-11 6.396.22 8.27
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Fanling.....
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so Blinutės,"
Taiping: High Treason." Oriental: All Quiet on 7.64_|_Jestern Front."..
Garden: The Show Boat."
the
MALAY REGIMENT TO BE FORMED.
TRIAL COMPANY FROM JAN. 1, 1932,
Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 13,--At the Federal Council meeting here this morning, Mr. Andrew Caldecott acting Chief Secretary, announced. that the Colonial Office and the War Office had approved in prin ciple the formation of a Malay Regiment.
The words. in principle" were important, Mr. Caldecott said, be- concrete approval
cause before could be given to the substitution of a Malay Regiment for Indian troops which these States had con-
The main chjective of the pro- posed agreement with the Soviet oil | tracted to maintain under" tho authorities is said to be the estab-Treaty of Fedoration, it would lishment of an understanding, which have to be proved that a Malay Regiment would be of equal mili. will make the Japanese navy en-
of United tory value, tirely independent States oil supplies.
Apparently every effort has been.; made. Jo keep sicret the visit of the
Japanese to bloscow, für Informe tion regarding the trip leaked out only to-day, although the Japanese
Tea Dance at King's Restaurant;" Dinner Danes at Foninsula and I have now been on the way for some |Hong Kong Hotels.
Sunrise: 6.13 a.m.; Sunset: 0.16'
1.1.
weeks.
Disclosure of the Japanese plans has created a sensation, here, for- Tides:-High at 4.58 and 20.48; eign military attaches attached to Low at 13.00.
Principal Malls Outward:-U.S.A., Canada, America and Europe via San Fran eisco: President Coolidge, 10.30
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TUESDAY.
(September ).
Those of us who know the Ma lay as a policeman and à vòluu- tehr," Mr. Caldecott. continued,
ve no misgivings as to the out- coming of that test, but in order that it may be applied as early as possible it has been decided to in- augurate an experimental company of the Regiment as from Jan. 1 of next year.
Special expenditure this year has already been provisionally ap- embassies and legations at Berlin proved, and will amount to ap considering Its implications of the proximately $75,000. The annual | highest importance from a military cost of the company is estimated and naval standpoint, as well as at $100,000. It may, at first sight commercially.
appear anomalous that at a time
A certain foreign government, it when the finances of the Federa
is learned, has instructed its re-tion demand all-round retrench- presostatives at Moscow to keep the meat, we should be embarking on closest watch upon developments,
It has been an open secret, that Birthday of Confucius (Sheng- the growth of tension between Ja (un-chieb).
20th-day of Jumadi-al-awal, Lananert's Auction at 152, Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, 10.30 am,
Lammert's Auction, p.m. Rotary Club Titin. Fellowship Meeting at Sailor
& Sailors' Huaic, 8 p.m.
King's
Queen's:
Theatres
Devil's Lottery."
tiplantors 12
the
Navy."
Central: Around the World 'in 80 Minutes."*
Star White Shadows." Oriental:All Quiet on the Western Front."
Taiping: "High Treason," Garden: "The Show Boat."
our
this additional expenditura The reasons for this are threefoki,
"Firstly, we have no guarantee pan and the United States during of the permanence of the arrange- the events in Manchuria and meat whereby India lends is the Shanghai has increased the Japan-means of complying with ese Navy's urgent desim to emanci-Treaty obligations.
"Secondly, this arrangement is pate itself from reliance upon the oil resources of America and to a very costly une, It costs us substitute Soviet Russia as its pur- roughly £100,000 a year whereas a veyor of fuel oil to the Nipponese Malay Regiment would cost only fleet-but that direct negotiations 36 to 40 per cent. of that amount, already had been opened had not and the money would not, as it been suspected.
does now, leave Malay,
The delicate Situation recently. existing between Japan and Soviet Russin, which hitherto prevented such a bargain, now rased con. siderably, making possible the con clusion of a Russo-Japanese oil
Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and agreement, Peninsula Hotels, and King's Res- faurant.
Tidea-High at 6.24 and 20.45; Low at 13.40.
Principal Halls, Outward-Europe via Siberia, Andre Lebon, p.m. Saigon-Mar- seillen Air Mail Service on Athos 11. at 1 p.m.
Europe via Mar- aeilles, Athos II nt 2.30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
(September 23).
NAVAL OFFICER INVOLVED.
INQUIRY INTO TRAGEDY. AT CYPRUS.
London, Sept. 17-A stir has bean created in¡ naval circles, by a
27th day of Jimadial-awal. --
report issued to-day by the Ad- with the Annual Meeting of Shareholders miralty in connection
of I.K. Amasements, Ltd., at death of an inhabitant of Lims Qucek's Theatr), noon.
Auction: China Auction Rooms, sol, Cyprus, Bllegedly as the re sult of a blow, from a British of Sale of Stamps, Lammert's cer during the visit of a section of
3 plm...
Auction Rooms: 5.16 p.m; kg
Wing On Co's 25th Anniversary Celebrations.
Principal-Malls
the Mediterranean Fleet.
The report states that the coro- Meeting of Ewang Tung Biblener at Limasel has been investigat Union): 8,30′′ p.OR
ing the death of the man, who is alleged to have succumbed after te having received a blow from Com mander Button of H.M.S. Re source.
King's
Queen's:
Novy."
Devil's Lottery." Splinters in
Central Night Work."
Star:
"White Shadows in the South Seas."...
“Lastly, there is the political consideration that the opportunity of fitting and training themselves for the defence of their country could not be any longer withheld from the Malay race without caus ing grave, disappointment to the Rulers and their 'subjects.
"I feel tire the Council will welcome the Secretary of State's approval in principle of the form ation of this Regiment," added Mr. Caldecott, "and will wish the experimental.company shout, to be inaugurated all success."
SOVIET ENVOY IN LONDON.
RUMOURS OF RECALL
Paris, Sept. 17.--The recall of the Soviet Ambassador to London, Grigory Sokolnikoff, in order to take in hand a reform of the 8- viet currency was reported immis. neat, in to-day's Petit Parisici on the basis of, the paper claims; qu« thoritative information from ils Moscow correspondent,
It will be recalled that: M. So kolnikoff, who was appointed to Loudon in December 1929, played an important part in the rehabili tation of the gold basis of the Chervonnetz currency, e
Bince this time foreign pay: Commander Sutton has hitherto, Oriental: All Quiet on the not given evidence, as his ship is currencies or, in case of need, in ments, have been made in foreign Western Front
statikerfall at å lesegudria. Hu ir now "gold"Ebe Chervonnsly-therefore aboard H.M.8 Coventry, where he Tea Dance et King's Restaurant; in available to give evidened in any Dinner Dances at Hong Kong subsequent proceedings. Hotel and King's Restaurant. |*-Tidies Hight at 7.96 and 20,56;
Low at 1:00 and 14.15, 4
Taiping: "High Treason."
was merely an internal qurrency but has of late depreciated so in pidly that its abolition and re
placement by a new currency, hna become advisable in order to put Press" messages-describe the dead an end to the rise of the cost of man as an hotel proprietor,
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