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HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 17, 1932
RUMOURS OF MORE WAR
Among all the changes, eliminations and re-alignments of the Chinese political game the one immutable Inetor remains the alliance between CHIANG ΚΑΙ SHEZ and CHANG
Not Satialed.
"Do you ever sweep under the carpet, Mary?" -
Yes Ma'am, everything."
Try Again!
"Do you plead guilty or not guilty they asked a man charged at Tottonham Police Court.
"Well," he replied, "I have been her four times before, and each
Cheerful Mr. Thomas.
The Queen's Old Gloves,
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PROPOSAL FOR DUMMY BATTLE- SHIPS
GUNS THAT WOULD NOT FIRE
Ships of the British Navy at seni. with guns that could not fire.
This amazing proposal was inado by the Treasury on the grounds of
"was to apply were, economy-and the ships to which
from A friend who returord
The prudent lady nover throws Canada in the Empress of Britain out gloves which have gone beyond with the British delegates from their normal use. They are called Ottawa sends some notes about into quisition for household prominent personalities Of Mr. duties, for gardening, and for Thomas he writes: "J.II. is the motor driving. The Queen, who is social success of the ship. Plays an inveterate collector' of antiques, deck tennis better than anyone | always carries with her a pair of economy
They say he has old gloves when she is olge on board. made" enough at bridge since he shopping expedition-the bitter to
war debt in oxistence. Promenado the necessarily dusty stock of those deck littered with dropped nitches; antique dealers whose show-cooms bless him!"
sho visits periodically in London and elsewhere.
on
the Nelson and Rodney, both of 33.000 tons, the greatest battleships afloat.
time I have pleaded not guilty, and sailed for Ottawa to cancel every facilitate her rummaging among sioners of his Majesty's Treasury
each time I have been fined. plead guilty this time."
He was fined again!
So I'll
1,000ft. Fall.
Exactly how the Lords Commis- endeavoured to make dummies of British warships is revealed in the minutes of evidence taken before a Select Committee of Public Ac counts which are now on sale in. Blue Book form at the Stationery Office. The disclosures refer to s period in 1930, when the Socialist. A Californian naturalist has dis
Lord Ernte, who was 81 last overnment was in power.
What happened then was a dif- covered that sunshine is donth to rattlesnakes. He has killed several
month, has numerous claitus to disference of opinion between the Ad "simply be forcing them to remain carrying in its pouch, says a corrés, tinction. But perhaps the lenst miralty and the Treasury over ex
penditure on director equipment. „ stretched out in the sunshine. It
for firing, a part of the armament of the vessels in question.
First Catch Your Hare.
**
may not be generally known that if á man simply holds an elephant's hrad under water for a few hours the beast is bound it die.
The Ideal Car.
The man who invites people to buy a car at £7,000 in these hard timas provides a new definition of an optimist. The ear is described as the dream of all owner-drivers, Dream it may well remain, for the ordinary owner-driver could neither buy the ear; pay the tax on its 78 horse power, nor drive it with safety to himself or the public.
Maxton in Olk.
Sir John Lavery is hoping to paint a picture of Mr. Maxton in the near future. Sir John has always been attracted by pictures que personalities, and Jimmy" in particular appeals to him. The artist
is having to be content watching Mr. Maxton as he speaks on the platform; left-wing politics allow no time for sittings, it
The King's Cobler.
by His Fu Cao and LI TSAI HEIN. Of these only. HAN Fu CHU is directly formidable. The Shantung Governor is a former subordinate of FENG FU HSIANG and'a bold still exists between the two. But both FENG and YES were really A good story-without guarantee wiped off the map by their, defeat of authenticity is worth quoting in 1930, and Chinese War Lords for its Scottish flavour. Its author gays that the King likes his hunt. once eliminated seldom come ing abven "gnay," and often wears hack. FENG himself, achieved, after them at Balmoral to the patching his return from Moscow, the icem-stage. He has them made in the Highlands, and when he needs a ingly impossible, but for for two
new pair mounts his pony, rides years now he and YEN have held into Ballater, and orders them from onto the edge of the circle, much an old Scot, who says: Weel, I'll do ma best for your Majesty, a Wc Par Fu did after his defent but I'm making no promises, by CHIANG KAI-SHEK in 1098, and mind.'"' SUN CHUAN FANG after the loss of Shanghai to the Nationalists, SUN seemed to have an amazing power. of re-appearing at the head of "a large army," but the said army was always beaten, and Sus has
HSUER LIANO, The coalition has for years been out of the picture
An opossum has leaped from an aeroplane 1,000 fart up without hurting itself or the young it was
pondent from Masterton, New Zea land.
The pilot saw the head of an animal appear above the front cork pit and two bright eyes fastened upon him. The animal began to approach the pilot along the top of the fuselage, but he waved his arm vigorously to prevent it enter ing his own cockpit.
Becoming frightened, the opossum made a frantic lamp for the lower wing of the aeroplane rush of air swept it into space.
But the
A farmer watching an aeroplane saw something falling from it. Thinking it was a scarf, he went to where it fell to pick it up. But
Prince Consort.
known of his achievements was hit ting the Prince Consort. Repairs
"The Treasury took the view," ware in progress on the church of the village where he spent his boy. said for Sir Owyn A. B. Murray, one day he saw the Permanent Secretary to the Ad- hood, and architect, whom he disliked, stand.miralty, in his evidence before the ing with another gentleman on the scaffold. With a new catapult he had he took aim at the seat of the architect's trousers, but struck the other goutleman in the same
on! It was the Prince Consort
re
This misguided marksmanship earn. ed thrashing and early bed for the young catapultist
The Shak's Gesture.
s ha approached the scarf" The failure of a bogus Sultan to sprang into action and disappearget into Olympia last month is od up a trec-it was the opossum.
Sky Pilot" at 63.
lect committer, that as nobody war for over so many years, it did expected there was going to be a not matter whether the guns in the ships were able to be fired or not.
The Admiralty were unable to taka that view. They felt, and al-
waye have felt, that there are some things which a ship must have and be able to use when she goes to 603,
"A new ship' must have her guna; she must have her ammuni tion; she must have her torpedoes: That is a doctrine which I am sure the Admiralty will mover depart. from.
probably the death-rattle of prae- tical joking in England. Since They feel that if they once
Mr. Horace Cole "retired" the
fleet at sea:"
For Fire Against Aircraft. "Whether the Treasury phrasedī its letter in this case very happily
an not quite sure," stated MY. R. A. Grieve, an assistant secretary to the Treasury, when asked his explanation by Mr. Morgan Jones, the chairman of the committes.
practice has languished, and this gave way to this heresy that it attempt to revive it was a feeble did not matter whether the guns. could fire or not-we should very The Sky pilot of the Mid- imitation of more elaborate feats. lands," who has accomplished mor" The most simple and effective soon have nothing but a dummy than 100 solo flights, told & re practical joke was pertpetrated by porter how he has come to indulge the mayor of a Northern town on in more flying than any clergyman! the old Shah of Persia during that in England. He in the Rev. John autocrat's visit to England," says Pydoke, the 3-year-old rector of an English paper. While driving the village of Pleasley, a tow miles with the mayor the Shah noticed a small boy in the crowd who saluted from Nottingham, and he has fying wife as well: The rector and him by extending his ten fingers his wife celebrated their silver wed from his nose. The Shah was told ding by passing the pilot test at by the flustrated mayor that such was the most friendly and effer Tollerton a little over a year ago. "I took to flying," he said, "betionate form of grocting used by enuso, I thought it would be great the English. The incident was for- fun-and I have found it just that. gutton until the Shah's train was Golf is a little too strenuoud for drawing out of the station, when mo at my age. I had a 10 handicap he suddenly leaned out of the win- a few years ago, but an old man dow, and with a flourish repeated like me is not much good at golf, the small boy's gesture to the as Hunting does not appeal to me. I sembled mayor and corporation." do not fancy myself in the saddle The story is also told of Li Hung nt 63. But firing-I find I am just Chang and other calebrities noted
for extreme dignity of hearing. young enough for that,"
Local and General
One case of diphtheria wan xe.
beon severely tested, and for and almost forgotten. Fa isported on Tueday. montlis after the loss of Mukdensometimes credited with having and the retreat of the Fenglien gathered a strong army round him- Army within the Great Wall, self, secretly, but for over two Shanghai for Hong Kong on the patriatic China execrated the
name of the Young Marshal, de munding his dismissal and punish- CHANG SUPH LIANG made ment.
pretence of bowing to the storm and sent in his resignation, with the correct admission of his de ficancies and saying that he hoped to better himself by a long period of foreign travel and study. No one took this seriously, and time passed but the Young Marshal did not go. Now, as might be expect ed, the storm has blown itself out
The P. & O. sa Corfu left 10th estant at 3.30 p.m., and is years he has ceased to be an imdue here on to-morrow morning.
portant factor.
The reported adhesion of Lt TRAI
ton. The alliance of the Kwang tung and Kwangei leaders is to the South of China what the CHANG
A pan wornan was fiued 820 the Central by Mr. Schofield · at
At the meeting of the Y's Men's Chat to be held at Lane, Craw ford's Restaurant. to-day, Dr. E. L. Allen will sprak on "Idols of the Cave."
Mr. W. R. Farmer, popular pro- | prietor of the Victoria Hotel, Sha meen, returned from a nine months furlough. His many friends, both Chinese and foreign, who very happy to see him, offered his can- gratulations on his safe return to Canton, looking thoroughly re- freshed.
From the files.
was that be bounded a car and ten-
Mr. Grieve, in another part of his explanation, declared: I cor tainly do not wish to advance the matter béresy that it does not whether a ship goes to hes with its range-finding instruments in order or not, because I do not hold that heresy, nor does the Treasury
A full account of the quarrel over expenditure was given by Birt Orwyn Murray, $m
Tho Admiralty: intention was to use certain guns in new shipa for high-angle fire against aircraft as well as for low-angle purposes, but in order to make the guns perve both purposes it was necessary to design a new and very elaborate type of director fire equipment. Experimental work was begun with the object of designing instru ments for the dual purpose which would be one hundred per cent, ac- curate
"After working on these instru- ments," said Sir Oswyn Murray, "altering them and re-designing them for three years, we found that we got less than perfection.
and
Looking Back 25 Years,
"In the meantime the ships were walting to have something put into The captain of the a. Paul Beau them, because their guns were use appeared before Mr. F. A. Haze-less unless they had some sort of It is expected that the Emperor and at the Police Court yesterday equipment put in. Therefore it to the Anti-CsNG coalition Police Court for failing to provide of Japan will dispatch an sido charged with refusing to pay his was thought indispensable to put is interesting only in how far it natting to pig crates.
de-camp to Manchuria either in the tram fare. The defendant's story in the equipment with the amount Baggests that other members of the
Owing to the Gloucester Restaur-latter part of this month or early
of accuracy and the amount of Kwangsi Clique are involved, and ant being reserved for a wedding next month with a message of symdered a twenty-cent piece in pay efficiency, that we had been able to whether they carry with them reception to-day, the usual tea perving there Presets to the au mont of his fare receiving & spuri- reach, rather than send these, our
there. As the campaign ous ton-cont piece change. Later he General CHEN TRAI TONG, of Can-dance will be cancelled.
are going on in an extensive area, boarded another car at Observation Hewest ships, to sea with the know-
were simply dummy guns the Imperial messenger will take Place and when the conduction calledge that certain of their guns about two months to complete his lod for the fare he tendered this could not be fired." mission..
ten cente, The conductor refused Then it was that the Treasury to take it, and the captain had no took exception to the expenditure Sentence of six months hard other money in his possession. He on partly perfected equipment, and labour was passed by Mr. Wynne was, however, well known to the made the suggestion that "it did
a Chinese bag snatcher tram conductors as he travelied on Gun practice for the weeks end-Jones op
not matter whether the guna in the ing November 19 and 23 will be who was arrested following on the teams about four times a day. carried out as under: 18th, Stone incident in Queen's Road Central, Mr. Course, the traffic superin-ships could be fired or not.”
wad 31st Stoneun which he snatched a bag from tendent, informed his Worship that cutters, at 7 påm
her over, The man was chased and great many of these oneer Mun Priss to Kau I Chau.
arrested by two men boys, one em- His Worship fold the defendant Police that ho must always pay in future, ployed at Station and one at the Yaumati and discharged him with a caution Police Station. Both these boys-Hong-Kong Daily Press, Novam- were congratulated by Mr. Wynna, ber 17, 1907, IRAN, Jones upon their effort.
and it appears that the former CHIANG coalition is to the North. dictator of Manchuria is to be The great question is whether this formally placed in charge of affairs
in the North, which he has actually mora prosages a further, break bocutters, at 10.4. din Kap Sing a Chinese woman, after pushing of late the Company was getting a
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controlled since the rout of the tween Canton and Nanking, and whether such a break is likely to Kuominchun forces in 1030,
A banishen, who had seven pre vious convictions on his record. involve hostilities or merely further stage in the split up of was brought before Mr Butters af
the Kowloon Magistracy an the Chinese Republic. CHIANG KAIcharge of refurming: from banish
ment. He was committed to the Buxx's reported intention, per-December Crimial Sessions. sonally to conduct the anti-Red campaign in Kiangsi is significant, and may be taken as a hint to the
South.
the Central
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SONS' SPIRITS SPIED ON HUSBAND
COUPLE SEPARATE" AFTER FORTY YEARS;
CHAXO's asset in a large and well (2772 equipped army, and, as long is this remains faithful and unbeaten there is no reason why its com-
Miss Gertraud Walter, of Berlin. mander, and owner, should not
was married to Mr. Georg Eyding, There are, we believe, among
Teignmouth (8. Devon)-A wo maintain his position in Chinese
The M.O.H. réport for last week Jikowise of Berlin, who is connect Chinese officials some, who advente affairs. The Japanese declare that
states that there were 6 anses (3 ed with the Daiteu Seiko K.K, the unrestrained cultivation of the man spiritualist separated CHANG HEUER LIANG is the main
death) coterie: case, typhoid: 1 The wedding took place at the, see its growth altogether prohibit court here, after 40 years of marri deaths) of diphtheria; 1 oase (1 Tokyo, on Sunday, the eth instant, poppy, and others who would fain from her husband at the police spring of the resistance to Man-
case of meningitis. Deaths, from German Consulate, Yokohama, the "d. Several high mandarins have cd life, because, she said,. chukue, and that both, Volunteers.
consumption.totalled $7. On Tues- marriage ceremony being perform at various times memoralised the spirit messages from her two sons. and bandits ars equipped and It is an odd time to talk of civil day one case of enteric and one of ed, by Mr. Rudolf Buttmann, Ger Throne to put a stop to the pro who were killed in the war, told. her they had seen her husband man Comul, who is an uncle of duction of opium in China, and the
"carrying-on" with another wo officered by the Young Marshal, who war, with the country-still-distress-puurparel fewer were reported
the young britle. The newly wed request has called forth more than still hopes to regain his patrimony.ed by floods and famines; with
Ten months hard labour and couple at spending their horry-one Imperial Decree on the subject,
The wife applied for a separa- . If that is the case sufficient reason
twenty strokes of the birch was the moon in the Kwangsi district and which decrers have invariably is provided_for_the_partial sub large arons held by bandits and sentencs passed by Mr Buttere at after their return will make their proved impotent and useless aetion on the grounds of desertion,
deterrents. The poppy has TOYOT and the order was granted. been so widely grown in the Celes: The man alleged that his wife sidcups of national indignation Communiste, while up in the North Kowloom Magistracy on a home at Omori.
snatcher who was charged with
tial Empire as it is at present, had not spoken to him unless. Mo against "the traitor of Mukden.” the adversary from overseas pushes stealing a handbag from a girl of in Nathan Itoad on the right of
Thero aro as a correspondent of could not avoid it, and that for Meanwhile another storm appears on endily towards his objective Novoser 14 was allege that it or be produced to sell of our Shanghai-morning-contemporyours they had their ment to be browing against QING KAL
fie defoliant weiked the girl by the cheaper rate than foreign drug,ary points out, many reasons, con- parate roomi throat while she was walking with and therefore helps to render China-duving to this rear, the first He was prepared to submit to the her sister, and that he used such independent of outside supplies. case and what better reason could order, he said, and came to court violence the marks were left on Hong Kong Daily Press, November a Chinese have 1-it paya. Secondly only to prevent any misunderstand the girl's throat.
(Pontinued on Previous Column 1, ing as to why he left his wife.
BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1977
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