LOCAL AND GENERAL
Only one case of diphtheria was reported for the 24 hours ended on October 7.
The
She won the tenth, but at the eleventh she took three putts from daunted. Nothing 'nowhere," however, she drove her ball so far
YMCA Service Dance, down the middle of the twelfth postponed on October 1; owing to 1337 yards) that she was left with the typhoon, will be held in the of the European only a short pitch and run to the West Lounge
YMCA on Monday, October 15. green'.
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She did not play it very well,
Hospital Sunday will be observed North Chektang and connecting
but from about 20 yards she put with the Shanghai-Nanking Rail-the ball stone dead. At the thir- at St. Andrew's Church on October way and Shanghal, Hangchow and teenth, which Joan Montford 14 when the preacher at matins Ningpo Railway. The project was looked
like winning all the way will be Dr. H. D. Mathews who the Church approved by the Ministry of Rall after hitting two
good shots la is a member of ways in co-operation with the
the greet, Nancy saved herself Council. Kiangsu, and Chekiang Provincial with a putt of at least five yards. Governments and it is sought that the work will Be started at early date.
an
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The Sincere Co., Ltd., announce She lost the 14th, but at the next (444 yards), after being 50 that in celebration of the Chinese. In addition to the existing bus yards behind from the tee, she National day, all their stores will traffic, the
10, business resuming on the next Soochow - Kashing hit a huge shot "straight on to be closed on Wednesday, October branch Railway will facilitate the green and very nearly got a
day. communication between these im- three. As it was she won the hole
in four. portant centrés.- China United Press.
NOT GOOD ENOUGH Then the strain began to tell and at the short .bole over the lake both of them missed the green and then both fluffed their approach.
Nevertheless, they halved the hole in four, and that left Nancy dormy two. Joan Montford got a five at the seventeenth (412 yards), which, goodness knows, is good enough for most people.
Competitors in the Handy Hunt- ers event in connection with the Machine Gun Troop Gymkhana on gaturday are
asked to note the heats will be decided at the Palo Ground it 4.30 p.m. to-day.
in connection with the Robert Morrison Centenary Celebrations, a very atractive souvenir, the form of a handbook, has been is- sued by the Committee in charge. sale at the Bible, These are on Book and Tract Depot at 50 cents
CHINESE MISSION IN MOSCOW
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily" Press (Copyright).]
Moscow, Oct. 8. The Chinese "military mission now in the course of a tour of many countries to study military
But it was not nearly good and transport questions arrived enough for Nancy, who, with the per copy. here on Sunday for the purpose utmost confidence and precision. of investigating these problems inhaled a four-yard putt for a four. the Soviet Union. The mission has already visited Italy, Germany and
Montford's last Czechoslovakia and will continue their journey to. France, Eng-final. She will be..19 next year land and the United States when and over the age limit.. She has they have ended, their visit here. already distinguished herself in "at North senior competitions Transocean Kun Min
Foreland.
NANKING DEATH RATE
Figures For August
Over the Age
It was Joan
THE TYPHOON
The Hong Kong. Observatory
The typhoon is situated about reported at 5.25 pm, yesterday: 250 miles 8.8.W. of Hong Kong, and is stationary, or moving slow-.“ The most pronounced instancey westward; it is decreasing in
intensity. of precocity in the history of golf in this country belongs to John Bali, who, when only fifteen. finished sixth in the "Open Cham- pionship at Prestwick in 1878.
The United States
Seante munitions Investigation which upened recently supplied further evidence of the international and interlocking relationships between armament makers. For sometime past Americans have taken it for granted that intrigues of munitions makers are to a very great extent confined
countries to European but it did not require very long to produce evidence that such is not the case. On the opening day of the Nye investigation it was re- vealed that a close working agree- ment exists between the Electric Boat Company of Connecticut and Vickers, Ltd., for which Sir Baril Zaharoff has been described as salesman par excellence. As it is rair to assume that the Senate committee is only just beginning their labours, this enquiry may be expected to lead to something further and much more. interest- fig. It is worthy of note that already testimony has been obtain-
Nanking, (By Mail): A total of
Even the great "Bobby" Jones ed that stock in the American
1,310 deathay including 8 deaths at did not win a title until he was Company was held by Sir Basli
When the Commercial Press birth was registered in Nanking
was the though not in his own name. It
after six months, the for the month of August, showing seventeen, and that
Southern States Championship of was further revealed that some
rebuilding of the Library was de-a decrease of 168 cases when com
America. dded as a public controlled pared with the figures for July, communication between the two
Miss Enid Wilson, who won the companies were made in code; that Vickers made it a point to conceal
at this stage is the fact that al-institution and special funds will according to statistics compiled by
released through though Great Britain and the be laid aside from the Commercial the Vital Statistics Bureau and girls title in 1925, and several the Nanking British championships later, won certain дож
information about its
Press first year's profits amount Municipal Government. Excluding the Derbyshire women's cham- activities 'from the British Govern-
United States favoured the aboli-
the 8 natural deaths, the actual pionship when only afteen. ment, and the American kub.
tion of the submarine at the ing to $45,000.
number of deaths for the month marine builders likewise concealed
various arins conferences, the two China United Press.
was 1,302, averaging 42 daily, Important data from the United companies in question have, to all
which was 6 less than in July, the States Government.
intents and purposes, dominated
atafiatics show." It is significant that both cam- the submarine building of the panies looked upon the 1932 Geneva world. It has long been recognized Disarmament Conference and all that munitions makers have been similar, conferences as threata to tree lancers, with little or no their business; they even went so rational loyalties or humanitarian that they find it to their advantage to forment miamderstanding.
It will be a matter of interest to the world at large to see what the hearings of the Nye Committee will disclose, but it might be said with out any fear of contradiction that they have forfelted, by their past record, any right to unrestricted action, and the time has come that pertaps through the League of pected. "Beuter, Nations, be imposed.
NOTICE'. OTICE is hereby given that No
Mr. K. LUERING having re- signed as Manager of the Company, on the 80TH SEPTEMBER, 1924, bis Authority to sign or act on behalf of the Company is determined.
F. FELD. & CO., LTD. Hong Kong. Ist October, 1988.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
DRAFT Programmes at far as to call Genera "a trouble- interests, and it ought to be plain
and Entry Extra Race Meeting, to be held on some organisation," and it is re- SATURDAY, the 278 OCTOBER, ported that the Companies sought 1934 (weather permitting), may be with apparent success, to have obtained at the Secretary's Office, their governments bring pressure Gloucester Building The Club House,
on other
governments, notably Happy Valley the Hong Kong Clab the Sports Club and the Stables, Spain, to help them sell munitions, Representing the American com- Bhan Kwong Road.
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON pany as a salesman, the success on THURSDAY, the 117 OCTOBER, enjoyed by Bir Basil may be gauged when it is stated that he received $766,099 in commissions between the years 1919 and 1930. Another point worth mentioning
· 1934.
29001
By Order.
0. B. BROWN,
Beorstary.
some proper
reopened
DR. LO WEN KAN'S.........
SUCCESSOR
Of this total, it is stated, 204 were of infants under one year old and 232 of infants over one year.
CHINESE STUDENTS
LOCAL GOLF
Captain's Cup at Fanling on October 8 and 7:---
D. 8. Edward 79-7-72 qualifies, Other scores: Capt. D. B Michell 83-10-73, P. Morrison 88-14-74 D. J. Gilmore 83-8-75, 1. H. Geare
There were 32 antrien. 84-975.
HAINAN ISLAND CONDITIONS
Pacification Commissioner,
HOW
Canton. October 6-Interviewed yesterday, a high officer of the Hainan District Pacification Com- Nanking, mission who just arrived here. told of age, comprising respectively Chinese students studying abroad the local pressmen that as there 22.51 and 17.8 percent of the total. on provincial scholarships are not are no bandits in that island. The number of deaths from allowed hereafter to receive sub- dysentery and intestine inflamasidies from the Boxer Indemnity Brig. Gen. Chen Har-kwang, the tion tops the list with 336, being Befund Commissions or other gov. 25 percent, and showing 116 casesorament sources according to a devotes his attention to recon
the "round-island road and that more than the figure for July ruling announced by the Ministry struction. According to the officer, Tespiratory organs number 188 To deal with those found violatore leading to the territories of Those who died of diseases of the of Education
Of the 34 deaths from bodily their provincial scholarship funds already. As service has been ranking second, being 14.5 percent ing the regulation, it is explained, Li tribe have been completed. wounde 19 were of those executed would immediately be withdrawn opened to business on these roads by the Metropolitan Police Hosd Once the forfeiture is effected, it
Shanghai, Oct. 3. No decision has been reached as to the identity of the man who will succeed Dr, Lo Wen Kan, who recently resigned from the post of Minister of Justice when the work of his office was taken over by the Judicial Yuan
Mr. Chu Cheng, President of the Judical Yuan, on his arrival here yesterday, stated that the matter was being considered and that in quarters The Agures for deaths is stated, their original privileges and some other lines which link Aston, early announcement might be ex-from other causes were appro cannot be restored even if they up various counties, communica fivalent to those for promise to stop receiving subsidies tion in Hainan has been much
facliitated. July
from other source.