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Cinema news, with accounts of the current pictures at the differ- ent theatres will be found on
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The wireless programmes for to- day, broadcast. from ZBW (Hong Kong), KZRM (Manila and Daven- try) is published, on Page 4.
The diary of local events will be found on
Page 4.
Our financial notes in this issue include a comment on the Shang- hal Market and is given on
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The A..P, C. Mess, Swatow, was the scene of a jolly party last week when a "farewell party was given to" John." A full account of this.
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served in the way of a motor Arst appearance in the streets of prospects for the future, with
lorry with the result that it was
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the International Settlement fes-
texday.
Besides drawing immense crowds of curious" Chinese.
at every bus halt, they were packed during the entire day.
Reuter comments on the bright Great Britain's financial year be ing brought to a close so success- fully.
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knocked over sideways. The pas senger was picked up by some European motorists who conducted her back to the ship rather shaken
Despite the rain, there was quite but not seriously injured.
a large crowd at the Races yester”, Attached to the ship's crew is
The bodies of the machines, day which opened with Mr. Git- at 6 am to-morrow and will reach Mr. Hendrik Willem Van Loon, which
Harriman were locally
paying a hand- constructed, bert here at 5.40 p.m. via Wenchow." | Dutch-American artist and lectur-
have a seating capacity for 75 some dividend when he brought Foochow Amoy and Swatow. er, who has made many interest-passengers-Reuter.
Prima Donas, home "first in the The passenger plane will flying sketches during the voyage.
Initial race, of the day. An 80- South on Tuesdays and Fridays Miss Helen Hoffman, also an
|count of the racing, together with and return north on Thursdays artist, came ashore with hor
the winning numbers in the sweeps and Sundays." After taking off sketch-book and spent some time THE TONGSHAN |ill be found on Page 1 & 10.
city.
Personalities On Board
Mr. Daniel Bacon, well-known personality in Anierican shipping
SITUATION
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"From. the Gazette," our weekly feature giving extracts from the Government Gazette is published
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circles. is another of the Fran- Another Strike Causes
conla's passengers. Mr. Bacon is president of the West India Steam- ship Co. which, he said... had been bard hit owing to the trouble in Cuba. Most of the shipping trade
here at 6 am. the plane will sketching various scenes in the reach Shanghai at 5.40 p.m. via the usual coastal ports.
Air mails from Hongkong can be posted "there on the previous day That anything which contributes and forwarded to this city to catch nothing toward the good life the plane leaving on Thursdays should be restrained from growing and Sundays.
under the exeuse of rampant liberty and art is not, as is often narrow, uncultured suggested, a Puritan doctrine, scoffed at by the It is a emancipated and free. doctrine that was expounded in" specific terms by Plato, who is regarded by many as the greatest of Greek writers, a doctrine cate-
Mr. gorically reaffirmed by
G. Bernard Shaw, It is a doctrine which has received the assent of Spenser, Milton, Shelley, Ruskin Carlyle, and many other ornaments of English literature.
BAZAAR OPENS AGAIN The Native Goods Bazaar is open again under the auspices of the Municipal Bureau of Social Affairs. It will last three months, so that everyone in Canton will have a chance to visit it--and buy the in- expensive but attractive goods on
attractive display.
Over one hundred different kinds of goods are exhibited. Most of
manufactured were
at Shanghal and others were pro- duced locally. During lunch hour "That it has been sometimes per-
to-day, a good number of people versely applied is no argumentvlaited the bazaar, located at Shing against its essential truth, and
Wong Temple on Wan UI Road Cen- many feel that the efforts to dis-
tral. credit it which are the ultimate aim of attacks upon Puritan tradi- FUNDS FOR NE. VOLUNTEERS tion and Puritan characters form a challenge which should not be ignored.
century England wis card CHINA'S NEW
CONSTITUTION
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A sum of $6,500 was collected by the Association for the Support of the North-east Volunteers and whi be remitted shortly to the" those Chinese forces in Manchuria, This amount represents the dues pay- able in 1933,
This sum is not the total amount for last year, and further collec- tion is undertaken by the guilds on the various shops,
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contribution to the modern world. It is noticeable that the opponents of progressive social legislation particularly when this legislation is of a restrictive nature, frequent- ly describe it as buritanical, A prevalent type of unalert thought is thus prejudiced from the outset
+he term "puritanical" tends to convey something förbid- ding and unlovely-opposed to all (From Our Special Correspondent) tlon, has left here for Hong Kong
WE are Moving to Our Building against this kind of legislation,
No. 7, Ice House Street, as because from the 31st March, 1934.
C. A. L. RICKETT,
Secretary
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TAMASHITA KISEN KAISHA
DAIEEN KISEN KAISHA
AND.
NOTICE.
reasonable enjoyment and beauty. This substantially inaccurate con- ception of the Puritan outlook is steadily fostered by the present movement that seeks to belittle the character of typical Puritans like Cromwell, a proper idea of whom therefore becomes strictly relevant to current 'social problems. The immediately important aspect of the latest attacks upon Cromwell THE Hongkong, Office of The 18 the implication which several Tamashita Rison Esisha having able and responsible writers like been withdrawn und closed at the end Mr. A. P. Herbert, Sir John Squire of March, have at the same time and Mr. St. John Ervine frequent- appointed The Dairen Kisen Taishoy put forward, to the effect that (Hongkong office) their Sole Agents in all habits of thought which in any Hoogkong. On and after the 1st measure belong to the general April 103, all communications for The Puritan tradition of England and Yamashita Kisen Kaisha should be New England are Inimical to addressed to the Hongkong Uffice of culture and art, and are therefore, The Dairen Kisen Kaisha, at St. from the point of view of civiliza- George Building, 3rd Floor, or Dial tion, retrogressive, Telephone No. 20873, when the same
This is an unfortunate error, will be attended to promptly,
because it tends to set up an en- YAMASHITA KISEN KAISHA
· DAIREN KIBEN KAISHA.
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tirely false antithesis between
Officials Provided With Draft
Canton, April 2. High officials here were provided to-day with a draft copy of the new constitution prepared under the direction of Mr. Sun 'Fo, Pre-
sident of the Legislative Yuan, and a batch of legal experts head- ed by John C. H. Wu,
now
MR." LO WEN KAN
Canton, April 1. Mr. Lo Wen Kan, former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Judicial Administra-
en route to Nanking to resume his judicial duties. He stayed here for over three months in order to attend the marriage ceremonies of his daughter and son.
SHAO XI
Complications
Tientsin, April 2.
cotton
The final of the International hockey encounter between India and England was played on the Marina ground yesterday and re- sulted in a drawn game of two goals all, after a brilliant 70 minutes play.
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was suffering from the effects of The Tongshan situation has the slump, but thanks to Govern- | become complicated by a strike at men assistance the mail lines the Huansin Cotton Mill where.
a thousand Kailan and were not so badly of.
The Eagle Concert Party gave a Among others on board are Mr. | strikers surrounded the Luantung brilliant concert at the European Eugene O'Brien, well-known movie Administrator's office and pre-Y.M.C.A. last night before a well
Miss Maurini Watkins, sented, demands and did not dis- filled hall. actor,
"Page 12. Journalist and author, Mr. and perse before dusk. Mrs. Roscoe Mathews, organisers The cotton strikers have enroll- of the International Amity Society ed in a new labour body organis-Herald. International Charity Cup of Canada and the US.A., Millyed by Chao Tac Hung and others Metzenberge. portrait artist, Mrs. who are alleged to be friendly to James Oliver Curwood, wife of the the so-called Manchukuo.--Reuter.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL
Mr. M. M. Watson has been made 23 fountain Dens and twelve pen- a partner of Messrs. Johnson, i cils, to the total value of $53. · Stckes and Master, Solicitors. "
Mr. H. J. Artistrong and Mr. R. A. Wadeson have been admitted bartners in the legal firm of Dea-
cons.
Mr. W. A. Cornell has retired from the firm of Messrs. Palmer and Turner-architects, and com- menced his own practice.
Wales yesterday won the Sunday
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AC-AC" "GUNS FOR CHANGI
New Troops Arrive
By P. & O.
The Street Sleepers Society brought their term of voluntary winter service to a close on Satur- day night after the usual crowd of the military garrison at Singapore Rumours current last week that cold and homeless Chinese had would shortly be strengthened were been washed and housed for the confirmed when the 13,000-ton P. night.
and O. liner Balranald, ordinarily on the England to Australía run of St Paul's via Colombo, made a surprise call
Mrs. Stewart Hostel, has reported to the police
at Singapore last Friday to disem that at 10.15 am. on Saturday bark seven military officers and
A. literary competition is being some person entered a room on the staged by the St. Andrew's Club first floor by means of a door during the coming month the sub- which was left open and stole ject. being Dickens' Pickwick Pa- clothing and jewellery to the value
of $121.
pers.
Among visitors at present in the Colony is Rear-Admiral H Feakes, C.B.E., Royal Australian Navy (retired) who is staying at the Peninsula Hotel together with
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approximately 300 men.
The vessel left Liverpool.
February 24 and as far as can be ascertained this is the first time Minister Lo resigned the port
she has been used as a troopship; follo of foreign affairs owing to his
The Law and Commerce Society Mrs. A. V. Harvey, who return moreover the fact appears to have disagreement with Mr. Wang
of the University of Hongkong willed to the Colony on Saturday, has been kept a strict secret... Ching Wei; President of the Execu- hold their annual dinner at Lane, reported to the police the loss of It is stated officially that no
towards Crawford's restaurant next Satur- The draft copies were sent down tive Yuan, on policy
a string of 160 pearls with diamand | 'armaments for Malaya were carri- Japan, Prior to his coming today.
clasp somewhere between the ed by the Balranald. through" Mr. Wu Shang Ying, a
Conte Rosso, from which she dis- member of the Legistative Yuan Canton, Minister Lo took a fiying
Apart from a few details for the embarked on its arrival in port, Royal Engineers, Wiltshire Regi- who while passing through Hung-trip to Sinklang to investigate the
Blake Pier and her residence atment Royal Army Service. Corps kong showed the draft constitution conditions there and the dispute to Mr. Hu Han Min, Mr. Wu said among the provincial militarists.
522, The Peak, Magazine Gap... and Royal Army Ordnance Corps, that Mr Hu Kan Min 18 sym
TANG
the men landed were all anti- In connection with two daring aircraft gunners. pathetic with the contents of the
robberies which were committed There is only one Anti-Aircraft document.
Mr. Tang Shao Yi, magistrate Mra. Feakes,
On money changers shops in According to this Nanking off of Chungshan District and mem--
Battery at Singapore "at the mo cal, Mr. Sun Fo is still staying ber of the South-west Political
B is notified for general infor- Yaumati on March 11 and 18, six ment, the 7th. This is stationed between Shanghai and Nanking Council, will arrive here to-morrow mation that the China Congrega- Chinese were arrested on Sunday. and has no intention of coming from Chungshan to preside over tional Church situated at No. 5,1 Two revolvers an automatic pls at Blakang Math The new men are to bring this battery up to full South yet. His adherents General the Council's meeting on next
Ladder Street, has been licensed by tol and eight rounds of am- Chang Wei Chang, General Chen Tuesday. He is urged to return to His Excellency the Governor to be munition were found on the men strength and to form the 11th Battery, making up the 3rd Anti- Hing Ying and Admiral Chen Canton in view of Nanking's in- a place for the celebration of mar- at the time of their arrest
Aircraft Brigade, Chak are still living in Shanghal sistent demands to establish a
riages without substantial posts, Mr. Wu branch Military Affairs Commission
The offices of
offices of the Supreme The seven new officers are at- ao denied that there is any at here. Mr. Tang is requested to
Bankruptcy notifications state Court will be open daily from 10 tached to the 11th AA. Battery. tempt in Nanking to oust "Mr, come to Canton to express his of $9 per cent, has been declared
that a fourth and final dividend and." to 1 p.m. during the Easter They are Major R. C. M. Wrakes
vacation, except on public and and Lients. Murphy, Hutt, Chest Wang Hing Wel as President of views on the matter. the Executive Yuan...
in the case of Jose Augusto Lopes, general holidays, when the offices nutt, Bighan Collingwood and The draft constitution, it is
clerk; and a first dividend of $30 will be entirely closed. The Bas Ryan per cent. In the case of Mario ter: vacation begins on the 30th The 11th A.A. Battery will be Rocha, clerk.)
day of March, and terminates on stationed at Changi. dent who is given wide executive power and administrative duties,
the 5th day of April (both days
According to the January Army According to those in close touch It is reported that Mr. Sun Fo
is tired of making laws in Nanking quantity of clothing and jewellery
According to a Police report, a¦ Inclusive)....
List, the Royal Artillery is repre- (weather permitting); may be obtained neither more nor less than the with Mr. Hu Han Mka, General and is looking for a suitable ap-valued at. 8121 was stolen between The' destroyers. Witch, Veteransented at Singapore by the 7th
Chiang Kai Shek will be the first "Building; The Club House, Happy by the greatest artists. It is the president under the new constitu: the Legislative Yuan, he has pro- on the first floor of the French leader Bruce and the sloops B11th and 22nd Heavy Batteries and pointment here. As Frealdent of March 31 and April 1 from a zoom Whitshed and Wren, the Lotilla Heavy Brigade, consisting of the Valley the Hong Kong Club, the view that art is an important tion, Sports Club; and the Stables. Shan aspect of existence,, but that the In the course of the Republic, mulgated many laws including the Hospital. The stoles articles were, gewater, Sandwich and Folkestone the 7th AA. Battery. There is also Kwong Road,
three constitutions were proclaim-latest draft constitution
the property of Mrs. Stewart flew their paying on pennant the Hong Kong-Singapore Heavy yesterday morning prior to recom- Battery on the establishment. The Sometime Saturday and 8 am, on Sunday, to the troopship Someractshire Heavy Brigade and an Anti-Air- some person cut the glass of a and will be replaced by rellets window of 218, Queen's Road brought out from Home on the Central and extracted a telescope, Troopship.
morality and culture, and, enables, many abuses to flourish under a sham plea of liberty. It lles be hind such things as the ruling not THE HONG KONG JOCKEY long age of a New York official that salacious theatrical perform- CLUB.
ances would be permitted "if they Forms for the Third they had only a pront motive. Extra Race Meeting, to be held on The Cromwellian, the Puritan, the SATURDAY, the 14tE APRIL, 1924 Protestant view of art is, in fact:
DRAFT Programmes and Entry were to promote art, but not if understood, provides for a preal-
at the Secretary's Office, Gloucester view entertained in all the ages
SUN FO MAY ALSO
COME
Entries close at 19 o'clock. OON the contribution that it makes toed and Jater sent to the junk If Mr. Wang Ching. Wei resigns the alpen netween 9. p.m.: on mission. The crews will transfer } RA will now be composed of al
on THURSDAY, TH APRIL, 1984.
By Order.
C. B., BROWN,
$418]
Secretary.
final criterion of its excellence, ta
life as a whole. The life of the poet, says Milton, should be in Itself a poem, and art is beautiful exactly, in so far as it makes for beautiful living.
heap owing to the desire of the Ching Wel, President of the Execu military chiefs to rule, without the tive Yuan, Mr. Sun may be ap constitution which was not well pointed his successor. If there is balanced among the executive, no such opening, Mr. Sun prefers Judicial, and legislative powers to return, here.
craft Brigade.
R.A. headquarters are at Fort.” Canning.