An ugly incident occurred #T Shumchun Radway Station on Thursday afternoon when a Cus- toms officer's attempt to search a member of the station staff was resented by the latter's colleagues. Page 6
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AIR-MINDED BRITISH
Hard To Believe
(Special Air Mail Service)
As a social phenomenon there
London, Oct. 28.
has been nothing like the start of the Melbourne Air Race since the Giggleswick eclipse of 1927. It proved that the British public are
air-minded."
It is true that the race had been given loads of publicity. But it was hot of a sort calculated to
make people assemble at the start The newspapers treated it ·89. 2 great, but remote, event. No special map of the road to Mil- denhall was even published.
Traffic Block Yet at the smallest and greyeat hours of the morning, thousands
It was fitting that the only un-
of people spontaneously got into their cars and made off to the re- dergraduate member of the Uni-
mote Suffolk village; 80 miles from versity present should have been London, to see 20 airplanes take a member of Gonville and Calus off and fly into the sunrise. College-Mr. J. M. G. Bell, who, as Chancellor's page wore his under- graduate gown over his Court dress
Pertaps they expected more than they got. Certainly there was a
VISION, FAITH, ENTERPRISE”. In a strong and. resonant voice, which was perfectly audible in in every part of the room, the King replied, saying:
"I am glad to be with you on this memorable occasion, and to express my appreciation of all of black velvet-for it is due to sense of anticlimax after the last that has been done to provide the exertions at 8ir Hugh Kerr this wonderful. home for the 11- Anderson, Master of Gonville and brary of Cambridge University. Calus College, that the library was
"The vision, faith, and enter- brought into existence. prise of those who conceived this
Sir Hugh did not live to see the great idea have been abundantly completion of his work, but one Justified. In the long history of of the noblest rooms in the library your University there have been has his name cut in stone over the many notable gifts, but
the entrance.
`LOCAL AND GENERAL
machine had left the ground.
There was something fantastic about the mere presence of this unsolicited Derby Day crowd, all many others surprised to see so there.
Stack the Serene. Neville Stack's early forced landing is bad luck. However, few pilots show more equanimity in adversity than Stack.
At one time he was engaged by Bata, the Czechoslovakian ́ shoe magnate, to fy him round North Africa and the East.
Now Bata was, or tried to be, a
Mr. Maurice Davis of Metro- The first of the practice dances worked for him.
real paternal tyrant to all · who. Goldwyn-Mayer of China, left for in connection with Bt. Andrew's Shanghai also. He expects to be Ball will be held at the Peninsula but do exactly as I say,"
It was a case of "good wages,
away for about a week.
Hotel on Tuesday, from 5.50-to. 7 'p.m. Ten, will be served in the
Mr. Caleb Cheong, and Mr. and Roof Garden from 5 p.m. New York. Nov. 15.
Mrs. H. A, Somers were passengers on s.8. Taiping sailing for Austra- Ila yesterday.
Miss Josephine Roche has been. appointed Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury. She had long been indulgently' aware had supposed to be secret, to ber's political diary which is asla a noted figure in the Far West that the greatest of our politicians prove his case against these ser-ed to contain highly valuable in- and once was candidate for the considered himself also to be the vants, dead and alive.
formation concerning the Austrian.
Colorado Governorshup- greatest of our Generals. We bave It appears to us that a very political history of the past twenty
Reuter. been told that this talent was dangerous precedent is being set years, is not yet cleared up, but already budding during the South when a Minister of the Crown official circles are inclined to be African War, but in those days should thus be able to use State lleve that the missing diary is this genlus could And no outlet. documents for the denigration of stowed away in one of the boxes But the Great War found him in State servants.
which, after 'Schober's death, were
a position to exércise these un- Mr. Lloyd George's "amateur officially sealed and deposited in suspected gifts. He was Prime strategy took no account either of the Federal archives. There is, "Minister," and he used the great interior lines or of geographical however, no way of ascertaining this authority of that once to inter- obstacles and involved the with-at present since curiously enough fere with the conduct of the Army drawal bt Armies in France to no one has as yet been found who and Navy. His "War Memoira" place them in the Balkans. We is authorised to have the boxes proves this, clearly. Behind the need say no more to show the "opened. backs of competent military and badness of such misplaced genius. Transocean Kuo Min. :
NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHEMISTRY
Stockholm Nov. 15, Professor Harold Clayton Urey. of Columbia Univerzity, has been awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize fo: Chemistry. Router
* Among the passengers who' ar- rived by the P, and Q. Itner Ran- pura on Thursday, was Captain Cyril G. B. Coltart, the new com re-mander of HMS. Medway and the
4th Submarine Flotilla.
Two cases of Diphtheria, "and three of Enteric Fever were ported to the Health Authorities for 24 hours ended November 15:
Bata Baffed Bata tried this on with Stack early in the trip. He said they must start at such-and-such, an hour.
Stack said it was dangerous, and refused.
Bata threatened to sack him. Stack said, "Well, what about it?".
and won.
Then he rubbed in his victory by getting Bata up at an early
mber 1: Lord and Lady Douglas Hamil-hour in the morning to fit in with
Mr. B. D. F. Belth of Messrs. tor, Mr. and Mrs. Li Chor Chhis (Stack's) ideas of the right Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltd, and Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Mossop time to start s a long uight. Shanghal, was a passenger on the were among the passengers sali- Bata was killed in 1932 in an RM8. Empress of Japan which ing on the R.M.8. Empress of airplane crash.- left yesterday."
Sir Thomas and Lady Southorn returned to Hong Kong on the F. and O. ss. Chitral yesterday. They have been spending a short holl day in North China.
Japan yesterday.
Mrs. G. 0. Moxon returned to the Colony after an absence of thir prior to her departure for Home teen years. Gid residents will in 1921. She is spending the win- recall that Mrs. Mozi was a refer in Hong Kong and is staying
dent here for twenty-five years at the Peninsula Hotel