NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE OXFORD AND CAM. BRIDGE SOCIETY.
Annual 'Varsity Match will The played on Wednesday, Nov. ember 23n! on the Hong Kong Cricket Club ground, by kind permission of the Committea. Tiffin 1245 pm. sharp- game begins 1.45 p.
The Society will be at home there to members and their friends at 4 p.m. in the Tont, where toa will be served.
FIR
NOTICE.
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MIRST Church of Christ, Beientist announces that the Free Public lecture on Christian Science by Mr. William Wallace Port, 0. 8. B. of New York has b. en postponed until Thursday evening, December 21st.
NOTICE.
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THE Management of the Peninsula Hotel notifies that owing to the Sixth Floor of the hotel being reser ved for the occasion of the St. An drow's Society's Hall on November 26th, the usual dinner dance will not take place that
For the accommodation of those.
the Ball there will be a Attending the Special Dinner Servies in the First Floor Lounge at 7:30 p.m. prompt, and it is desirable that tables shu'd be reserved in advance.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
FIFTEENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING.
Dorm The Fifteenth Extra RAFT Programines and Fatry Race Meeing to be held on SATUR. DAY, 3rd December, 1932 (weather permitting), may be obtained at thin Eecretary Office, the Club House Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Clo, the Sports Club, ard the Stabloy Village Boad.
Entries close at 12 o'block NOO on THURSDAY, 24TH NOVEMBE 1939.
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By Order,
8. A. SLEAP,
Acting Becretary.
THE
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS
& SHIPBUILDERS OF
HỒNG KÔNG
A Paper entitled "ARCHITECTURE"
will be read in the Institution.
by
MR. W. H. OWEN, A.R.L.B.A.
WEDNESDAY, November 23rd, at 5.45 P.M. Members and their Friends are
invited to be present?
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DANCE FOR SERVICE MEN
SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION AT EUROPEAN Y‚M.C.A.
At the Earopean Y.M.C.A. last night a very successful Services' Dance was held in the West lounge when a large gathering of dancers | enjoyed the special music rendered by Mr. G. W. E. True and his Cheerio orchestra. These dances, which are run for the special bene fit of service men in Hong Kong are proving more popular on each ceeasion, and it'must be gratifying to the committee to know that, their efforts are appreciated.
Dancing continued until abous midnight.
EMPIRE EXHIBITION
TO BE HELD IN LONDON
་.
Education!
News and Views
Luton's latest elementary school) has been numbered thirteen by the Board of Education and granted recognition from April the First!
Policeman Preferred,
Thus a woman at Willesden po. lice court:
The Nation's Questi
A debtor said at Whitechapel county court that his travelling ex- penses were very high.
And Judge Cluer benevolently re plied, "You will travel as far as Brixton this time, but we will pay your expenses and keep you there."
Never Again?
Holidays often end with people offering conventional invitations to cach other to call at their homen should chance over bring them in that direction. But a 'Olnago lady who extended this usual cour- tesy to a Londoner in an Isle of Man hotel was rather astonished when, two days after her return home, she received a letter accept-
"My husband has not kept me Lord Plumer's Last Wish.
A last wish of Lord Plumer wat] ing the invitation, and saying that revealed at Aldershot by General the writer would be following im for 30 years, so will you please! send n policeman to warn him "
Charles Harington. It was "We will send a court mission.
mediately for a fortnight's holi- that Tor H should take its place in day. And it was too late to can- ary," replied the magistrate.
"' I Said the woman: would rather have a policeman.".
£100,000 Brain.
A man whose brain was insured for £100,000 we months ago is re- covering from a dangerous throat operation.
Sir
1
the Army. The Army, said Sir
cel the invitation
Charles, was frightened of Tos H,
and the impression had got abroad
He is Mr. A. W. Macnamara, managing director of Telsen Elec trie Ltd., the Birmingham wireless firm. Iis company are paying £2,500 annually against the risk of losing him,
Brazen Souvenir Hunters,
A great Imperial Marketing and Advertising Exhibition is to be held in London next year, it was an nounced at the seventh amual general meeting of the Council of the Advertising Association.
Sir William Crawford, who hna heen closely associated with the Empire Marketing Board, said that
Discussing the question of the the Exhibition would be held at lengths to which souvenir hunters Olympin in July, and that the sup will go in order to awell their col- port of the Preas of the whole Elections, the Sultan of Johore tells pire was already assured,
of some extraordinary instances which occurred at his place in Malaya.
3.
It was not mere affort to secure fame and fortune for the Advertising Association, by whom it would be organised, but a seri Gus endeavour to implement the recent decisions of the Ottawa
a matter of concern to the whole Conference. Lengue, and the League shall take | It was a chief function of adver. any action that may be deemed wisetising-men to give a lead to the and effectual to safeguard the country at a time of difficulty, and pares of nationa The famous to lend their assistance to the Article 10 states: Should any Mem- Eupire in its urgenti need.
Lord Loverhulme, who presided, ber of the League resort to war
・・・ it shall ipso facto be deem in moving the adoption of the re- ed to have committed an act of port, referred to the tonic which war against all other members of the Advertising Convention of 1935 had given to Liverpool, and om- the Longue, which barely undertake to subject it to the severance of all hasised the value of the construc. trade or finansial relations..
tive work for advertisers which the
The Members of the League agree,
Association was doing. further, that they will mutually support one another in the finan-seconding, said that he had not the On the eve of the mating of thecial and economie measures which lightest doubt that the organising and trusiness ability at the dispos League of Nations Council to dis- cuss the LYTTON Report on Man-
al of the association would amply churin, General ÁRAK, War Minis
suffice to carry the Exhibition to ter in Admiral SAITO's Cabinet, ban
complete success, expounded the Japanese policy with a clearms that admits of no
misunderstanding:
JAPAN AND THE LEAGUE
"The Manchurian problem is now settled as far na Japan and Manchukuo are concerned, and
Japan is determined to pursue ite settled policy whatever happens. Reuter describes the statement as informal, but the pronouncementa
THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD such a time of a careful and responsible minister like General ARAKI must be taken as authorita tive. Earlier in the interview the foreign minister said:
MINING CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED IN QUEENSLAND),
NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF THIRD INTERIM DIVIDEND.
the
1932.
We have not sent,d.legates to Geneva to argue but to lead the Lengu to a true understanding of the complications of the situa- tion in the Far East.
are taken under this article...
Any Member of the League which has violated any covenent of the League may be declared, no longer a Member of the League by 'a' voto of the Council."
Mr. C. A. McCurdy, K.G.,
Major the Hon. J. J. Astor, M.P.; was unanimously elected president of the association for the ensuing year.
There, the autographs of the Duke of Connaught, Prince Henry of Prussia, and other distinguish- od figures had been cut out of the visitors' book by visitors who were signing their own names.
tliat officers and inen could not be Gallery Beats Best..
It was decided to form a branch in the Aldembat Command.
Plucky Pigeonя.
Chinesa
equals. That was ridiculous. The Have you ever suffered from a | Army was only standing aloof bo-headache after a visit to a picture cause it did not understand. They gallery! The cause of this condi- were proud to play with the soldier tion was dealt with by Lieut. in his games, and there was no rea Colonel R. H. Elliot in an address son, why the same spirit should not
at the Institute of Hygiena in exist in Tec H complying with London.
picture "The origin of the Lord Plumer's last wish.
gallory beadacho, I think, dates back millions of years to the țime of the development of the opposing thumb on which the evolution of | the brain of the higher mammala It is reported that a
has so much depended," he said. newspaper has been using carrier)
Since for countless generations pigeons in place of the telegraph the higher animals had had to look service for the conveyance of news down at their hands as a result of from Nanking to Shanghai and has the development of the power of found them extremely efficient. The ' holding things between finger and birds are imported from England, thumb the depressor muscles of the which conducts quite an extensive
eyes had become much more strong trade in the training and exporta" than the elevators. : tion of these pigeons.
"When we go to a picture gal- Many stories are told of their lery, looking above the horizontal remarkable feats of endurance and
valuable service during the Great plane all the time, or when we sit War. Mr. Edwin T. Woodhall in in the stalls of a theatro and look a book called "Spies of the Great up at the stage, we are defying a
some remarkable
law that is millions of years old. War," rolatea stories about the winged messen-
To do so is worsò than, dangerous. gera.
The best seats in a theatre or
Even spoons and saucers. forming part of the famous Ellenborough: gold plate, which is, also on view, hava from time to time found their way into the pockets of roving cola trawler that had been attacked cinema should be on the first gal-
lectors.
assistant.
A bird flow fifty miles in as many minutes to bring assistance to
by a submarine.
lery and not on the ground floor."
Local and General
An unknown Chinese who was
A former Belanger estate mon- The Hon. Treasurer of St. John ager is now a London taxi-driver: Ambulance Brigade begs to a found lying variously injured in a His wife is working as a teashop knowledge with grateful thanks ravine 30 feet below the Pokfulam the sum of $300 subscribed by the Road, near the Chinese Christian Kai Fong Benevolent Bost Guild Censtery, was removed to the Gov Cheung Chiù towards the workernment Civil Hospital on Sunday, done by the Brigade on the Island. where he died shortly after admis
Three cases of diphtheria, one of enteric, and one of meningitis (im ported) were notified during Batur day and Sunday.
The gunbont Suga of the Im. perial Japanese Navy entered the Found in clothing sent to Bene
port at 2 p.m. yesterday and fired velent Society plain gold cuff links, two 17-gun salutes to the flags of owner can have same on applica-Admiral Sir Howard Kelly and tion at the City on Monday Admiral Taylor of the U.S.8. and Thursday morning between Houston, H.M.S. Devonshire and
10.30 and 11.30.
Those are the obligations of the League. They appear on the sur- face clear enough, but how do they apply to the present situation? chukuo, and oven leas for the dis- Japan was tacitly appointed after possessed dictator CHANG Heuen the Great War "the policeman of LIANG. The Nanking Government, the Far East." China declares of course, claims sovereignty over its opponents that the policeman bas turnid Manchuria, but thief, and Japan contends that she naturally ask whether that govern- is merely frustrating a deep, and ment's writ is good in that terri deliberate design to deprive her of tory and if, in fact, it has ever property and rights lawfully ob- had a vestige of control over the | ago. tained, secured by treaty and Three Provincos? essential for her existence as a nation. The dispute is of the kind that is impossible for a third party to settla The claims are irrecon. ciloable. Interpretation of the
power
to
General Oong Chau Huan, com- manding general of the famous! 19th Route Arms, which defended Shanghai against Japanese troops, saw Manila from the air aboard à Philippine Aerial Taxi plane a few
A Chinese cook-boy who was en-¦ ployed in a house in the Au Tau District committed suicides by jump- ing into a pond. His body has not yet been recovered. He whe aus pected of the theft of a quantity of cloth valued at $180.
the Houston returned the sakites.
The house-flag of the J.O.J.L. and the fags of all ships of that half mast yesterday, on receipt. of
line in the harbour were flown at
the news of the death in Amster dam of Mynheer G. Otten, ́a former general manager of the company.
sion. How the man came to fall down the ravine is not known.
A purse, containing among other things, some foreign notes to tho dollars has been handed to the approximate value of twenty-fivo manager of the Sincere Company, Lad, by one of their employees who discovered the purse late Saturday evening The purso will be return od to the owner on application at the Manager's office, Ginoore's, pro- sided a correct declaration of com-
tents is given.
The next meeting of the Hong Kong Branch of the English Asso- December 6, at 5.30 p.m. in the ciation will be held on Tuesday,
Helena May Institute, when the The 'hard fact is that the Man-
Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen will talk on churian problem does not admit of
Bombardment practice will be Goethe as a World-Figure. Seata. Na Third Interim Dividend TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
solution by the League of Nations
carried out at Sharp Peak on Wed will be arranged round tables in In the first place the strategic
nesday, November 23, with. Thus the lecture hall, to facilitate thie of Six Pence per share (now Five
All through the weary months of
difficulties precuda forcible action
day, November 24, as spare day, serving of tea, which can he had Shilling Shares) on account of the
in the event of weather conditions at fifty cents a head. Those who financial year ending 31st March, 1933 negotiation, one thing has been evidenso Irada, as the Lyrros Com against Japan, and both economic
being unfavourable for the practice, wish tew should inform the Matron has been declared by the Directors of
Patrols will be at Nam Trim of the Helena May Institute at least Company in Brisbane, payable to fixed, the absolute accuracy of mission found, to compromise and political difficulties are in
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Senior, Village and on the south end Grass twelve hours beforehand, Bhareholders on the Registers ht Japaness pronoune:mitts of policy, which neither party will accept superable. There is no Government will join her son, Governor-General | Island and clear-range-ahin will Brisbane and Singapore on Thursday: Nothing so far has deflected Japan Japan denies the existenes of in the world that could win Theodore Roosevelt, in Manila, on be stationed to keep traffic clear of 18th December,
Among passengers arriving yes- The Governor Sharp Peak Range. Notice is also hereby given that from her course. The Larnest plea war. She is merely helping national support for an ecnomic January 2, 1933.
terday by the President McKinley boycott, far less a war against General has been advised by cable
were Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Elliot, the Singapore Transfer fiegisters will
maintain Japan over the question of Man- that his mother is sailing from to Thursday, 16th December, 1939 attack on Shanghai was rejected internal order and to organise its churia. The LyrTo Report Jug Seattle on December 10. be closed from Friday, 0th December from Geneva to delay the great friendly
A. piece of Orown land, known as Mr. Elliott is credit manager of the Kowloon Inland Lot No. 3056, and Texse Company and is on a com- (both days inclusive), for the prepara-with stormy indifference. When the government! Who is to define gested a wise compromise that met tion of Dividend Warrants.
hour struck the guns opened fire war? If the coltrated aphorismall claims as far as was humanly For dumping the body of a two-situated at the junction of Tam bined business and pleasure trip to Kong Road and Bung Wong Toi-Hong Kong: Miss Aununciata Gar- possible. Nanking'a grudging no By Order of the Board,
and the aeroplanes roared over of Clauservity be taken then, sure, ceptance of the Report, as a basis year-old child at Shaukiwan, near Road was sold by public auction rotta, a well-known artist of the the Public Dispensary, a Chinese at the Crown Land Office yesterday. Eastern part of the United States Chapei. Th. hope that the conly, Japan is pursuing her policy of discussion, has been repudiated dock hund was fined 825 by Mr. to Mr. Woug Bat Tien, c/o Moraes, en route for home after a prolonged cessions suggested in favour of by other mast" But no doubt vary Chinees leader natin Schofield yesterday. The alterra Hasting and Gonella, at the upset stay in the Orient; Mr. Lazarus
CRIANO KAI SHer'à' Government, Japan by the LTTON Commission General ARAKI does not accept as smd Japan's rejection is unequitive to the fime was one month's price of $5,115. The land has an Joseph, advance manager of the area of about 6,890 saliare foot, and Italian Grand Opera Company: now respons authoritative the unoffcial conclu- vocal. Neither party is easy to
its annual rental is $78.
playing throughout the Far East: would meet with some
Mr. W. Marshall, asiirtant general [8703 from Tokyo has boon unrealised,sions of a long deceased German please. How can they be when the
conflict goes down to funda We are informed that the free
manager of the Socony Veousbu There is no suggestion of accepting general.
mentals? Is it likely that the public lecture of Christian Science !
Following the murder of naam- Company, returning to Hong Kong League. will be able to carry the by Mr. William Wallace Porter, cussion. The Manchurian problem churiana themselves are the people is for the principals to make the ndvertised to take
It might to argued that the Man-matte further. The only solution C-B.B. of New York, which span woman and her daughter on after a brief trip to Manila Mr. ite night of November 3 when two AM Scott; Mr. W. B. Grant, place on has been settled as far as Japan to decide whether they should re-bes League will be able to do no ably postponed und Thursday them and threw their bodies into home for leave Mr. and Mrs. Tom men hired, the boat belonging to manager of the Union Oil Com best arrangement which they can; November 24 has been unaward the victims, and presumably robbed many of the Philippines en route for the rest of the world has beta tol? main within the Chinese Republicmore than the foreign consulate evening, December 21.
DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants, Local Secretaries.
HONGKONO BANK CHAMBERS,
SINGAPORE, 12th November, 1932
the Report even as a basis of dis
THE DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL,
P. O. Box 33. Tatarsons 577, 7.
HEADMASTER-- C.`B. RL. SARGENT, M.-A. (CANTAB),
THE Now School Year start
and Manchukuo nye concerned, and-
to mind its own business,
or set up as an independent State, But there is no public opinion in
hard labour,
the Harbour, the police and offering. Cochrane, Far Eastern representa and diplomatic body was able to
reward of $500 for information, tive of the Paramount Pictures achieve when the Shanghai incident. was brought to a conclusion. It is Leung Ying, master of a cargo leading to the nicet and convic Corn, returning to Shanghai: Dr. The question remains as to what Manchuria. The population con- tragedy that Japan rejects the boat was ined $15 at the Marine tion of hay person or persons con- R. W Hart, chief surgeon of the the League of Nations will do.sists of pasants and artisans to Error Report, for even if the Court yesterday for leaving port nested with the crime An offer U.S. Public Health Service who is article 13ton the dries of
Manchulruce feement should be without dearance on November of 1950 is being made for infor- stopping over it Hong Kong, and firiúly established, it will be only 2 Fuk Ngan, master of a cargo mation concerning the murder of an birrand Mys. J. Pe Referans for threat of war, whether immediately closed book The LITTON Commis a matter of time before it is at boat was nis fined $10 for failing Chinese on the billnde at Shatin, one of their periodical wrists to effecting any of the Members of the sion found no enthusiasm for Man-enmity with the power that brought to carry a bright light at the fore whose body was discovered in a America. Mr. and Mrs. Heilbronz are constant Dollar Line travellers. |
(Continued on négi Columa.): it into being. *[2785 League or not, is hardly declared
Monday, 28th. New boys tonis
will be held on Friday, November 25th,
at 0.00 a.m. Prospectus, entry for
and all particulara may be obtained!
from the Headmaster.
mast head of his boat.
grave on Beptember 7. lat.: