The funeral of the late Mr. 8. In 1966 because of the unque pre- | Haroon, took place at the Moham- ponderance of old people.
medan Cemetery yesterday when Mrs Melhuish, of Bolton, then a large number of friends,” includ- which .. was] ing representatives of the loes! moved & resolution, carried unanimously.. welcoming Press gathered to pay their last the Government's intention to hold respects
Page 7 an inquiry into the manufacture and sale of armaments, and urg-
"Mottisfont"
The regulations, it may be re- called, were approved in principle the Country Hospital, Shang- by the Central Political Council at/Purported to be a speech she had ing that the Commission appoint-the other day, through our col-
hal, 'Hiram Parkes Wilkinson, KC, MA, BOL. Oxon., at the age of 89.
MARTIN. On April 2, 1935, at the Country Hospital, Shanghat, Gordon, aged 3 months, dearly
beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. L J. Martin.
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
(Special Air Mail Service).
London, March 24. Mrs. Eva Hubback, president of the National Council of Women for Equal Citizenship, took a risk when she opened the council's annual meeting at the Millicent arcett, Hall. Instead of the usual
who complained Presidential address she gave what heard in a dream, made in 1966 ed should take evidence on oathumns, of the "bus counters" writes by the last president when the | and have access to all
relevant again, 'this' time drawing atten- council, having achieved all its
tion to the grave danger alms, came to an end.
exists, namely the uvercrowding of buses.
Several cases of persons having been bitten by dogs were reported to the Police in the course of yes- Page 6
documents.
recent.
TO END A SCANDAL'
"The Prime Minister's decision that we are to join in an armaments race and spend several million pounds on preparation for war" Mrs. Melhurish said, "müst make us show that public opiniog demands investigation into
the
terday.
that
Rev. Dean Swann and Mr. Fre-
a meeting last week and referred to the Legislative Yuan for de tailed examination. The main purpose of the issuance of the
The delegates, puzzled at first, bonds, as stated by the Govern ment, is to facilitate repayment by
were greatly interested in Mrs. Hubback's suggestion that by 1986 the Ministry of Finance of loans and advances from the Central the world might have disarmed Bank of China, to substantiate the nationally and established an in- capital of the Central Bank of ternational Air Force, and that, the Editorial and Business office: 11, China, the Bank of China, and the population in England and Wales
Bank of Communications, and to having been reduced by a third whole: question and" will not be derick Mason who are leaving for
and the population under Afteen satisfied with any mere relieve the depressed market "con-
surface
home shortly were the guests of ditions.
haived there would be ro' unem-nquiry. We demand an inquiry Tel. 24511.
According to the regulations, the ployment problem in this country.into the affairs of some of the honour at a tea party given by
the members of
Elt John's London Office: 53. Fleet Street, loan bonds are to be issued at full
and no poverty, since the system most powerful industrial organisa- EC. 4.
to face value on April 1. They will of family allowances would be es- tons of the world. We want to Cathedral yesterday. The oppor bear an interest rate of 6 per cent tablished. She thought that wo put an end to the scandal of pro- tunity was also taken
form them presentations in the per annum. and the payment of
men would have equal pay with | ft-making out of death.”
Pate 7 interest is to be made twice a year
men, but that the proportion of A resolution calling for the im. of drafta women 自己 the labour on March 31 And September 30-
market mediate publication of the report would be smaller, and that the respectively.
Committee of the Departmental number of unmarried wonten would also be small,
50 many men would no longer seek work in the Dominions, in India. or in the coalmines.
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, APRIL 5. 1935.
SOLDIERS' MASCOTS
Although everybody is looking forward to the Jubilee Celebrations, it would not be unnatural to sup-
pose that the trouble and work
The loan bonds are to be issued
for a period of ten years. During the first four years, the redemption of capital will be held by drawing on March 31 of each year, while during the latter six years, draw- ing for capital redemption will be made twice a year, on March 31, and September 30,
the newly increased Customs re- The loan is to be secured upon
venues from which the Customs
because
DIVORCE LAWS
#
make
A: B. Ainsworth who was charg- ed with manslaughter in connec- tion with the death of Na Ho Tai Who diled after having being.
motor ear knocked down by a drivers by Ainsworth on February I was committed to take his trial Page 6 at the next Sessions.
"The funerals of the late Bap on the admission of women to the per Vallance of the Royal En- diplomatic and consular services gineers, and Mrs. Kathleen Fair- was moved by Mrs. Oliver" Stra- burn, wife of Mr. T. C. Fairburn, chey, who had much to do with took place at the Colonial cem
Page 7 the supply of evidence to that tery yesterday. committee. Mrs. Strachey said that the report of the committee, The reform of the divorce laws which was appointed in January, the would have made it possible for 1934, and took evidence in marriages to be dissolved for sev-rext three months, had been pre- eral reasons. The standard of sented to the Cabinet but had not married life raised, and husbands
would therefore, be yet been published, though it is
and wives to be published.
The council carried a resolution would be careul to treat each other table drawn up for the redemption | courteously. People would realise urging the Government to pass of interest and capital and depo- that the teaching at birth-control legislation giving married women sits, to the National Loan Sinking clinics had been too successful, the same position in regard to Funds Administrative Committee, and the decline in the number of nationality as mer...
the Central through
Bank of children would lead to the ex- Miss Alison Nellans pointed out China.
The bonds, according to couragement of desirable parents that, because of our bad nation- the regulations, win Be issued in to have larger familles. The ality laws, a regular trade is car- denominations of $100, $1,000 and school-leaving age would have ried out in this country in marry- $5,000.--
been raised to Afteen, with part-Ing foreigr women to Engilsh time continuation schools for all husbands, who thereby give their young people under eighteen A English nationality, and who nev new problem might, however, exist er see them again.
Inspector-General is to be ordered
involved in the preparations must appropriate, according to the sometimes cause a certain amount of anxiety. The Welch Regiment, for instance, are not a little worrled over the Royal Review. It may be taken for granted that the appear ance of the troops will be smart. Their marching, for one thing, does them credit; their buttons scin- tillate and their ceremonial drill is sheer prestidigitation, but, here one must pause to ask, what about the goat? So far as the men are concerned, they can answer for themselves without the slightest doubt, but who will take on the responsibility of going bail for the mascot? The Regiment, as is well-
China United Press (by Mail).
SARAZEN AND WOOD
known, has had long experience of Tie For First Place
the species, but goats are what may be termed individualista, each requiring treatment on his merits (ar would demerits be a more suitable word?). It has been said that Taffy the Sixth has a long record of demerits, starting off by behaving insubordinately when brought from Windsor Great Park to enrol.
Moscow, April 7. Because not a single line was published in their newspaper about Mr. Eden's visit to Moscow or his negotiations with the Russian Gov- ernment, the entire editorial staff of a Soviet Communist paper to Kuibycheff, formerly Samars, have been dismissed and replaced by other editors at the instigation of a Communist "party commission the Goat Major Then when a He attempted to wind When called to account for the record was being made of the silence on this subject, the chle massed bands at the Aldershot editor declared that be consider-Tattoo, who was it that spoilt ed the matter not sufficiently in-everything by bleating. into the A. 3. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. | teresting to Soviet Russian readers.microphone?
Transocean Kuo Min.
Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 19th March, 1935.
NOT
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTIETH Annual Ordinary General Meeting of the Company (since its registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong on Tuesday, the 16th April, 1938, at 11.80 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st October,"1934.
The Begister of Shares of the Company will be closed from Thurs- day, the 11th day of April to Wednesday, the 17th day of April, 1985, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managera. Hong Kong, 3rd April, 1905.
W
BASLE ELECTION
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
Press" (Copyright).]
Basle, April 7,
A majority for the Socialist
Augusta. April 7. golfer and Gene Sarazen tied for Craig Wood, the New Jersey
first place in the Georgia Master's in which Bobby Jones now takes tournament to-day, the only one part.
Bobby Jones the greatest golf 25th with a score 297, his rounds wizard of all time finished equal being 14, 72, 73, 78.
KWANGTUNG'S MARITIME |
DEFENCES
Canton, April 8. Owing to the importance of defence measures for the protec- tion of the southern maritime it is reported that General Chan districts of Kwangtung Province,
Chi Tang has decided to despatch
south on a tour of Inspection. Admiral Cheung Chi Ying to the
11
DISMISSAL OF TICKET:-
INSPECTORS
-
BISHOP UNDER ARREST
For Not Taking Orders
forbidden to enter the meeting.
Berlin, April 7. Bishop Marahrens, leader of the Canton, April 6.
opposition Confessional Church, It is reported that Superinten was arrested at Darmstadt this dents Li Sin Lun and lå Luk Chitu | morning, when about to conduct a of the Yueh Han, Kwang Shiu, prayer meeting for pastors. Kwang Sam and Canton-Kowloon The arrested Bishop is now-de-
with the services of Ticket Inspection camp, for refusing to obey the Railways have decided to dispense tained at the Dachau concentra-
tors, beginning from "the 1st of orders of the Nazi Bishop Dietrich. this month, owing to the irregu- A fellow-ecclesiastic of the Con- larities and unnecessary inter-fessional Church was also arrested, It is reported that. Admiral ference with passengers luggage but was later released after being Cheung sa native of the south etc.
districts, he has been selected as and being familiar with the coast The duties of the Ticket Inspec- tors were only to examine passen- the most suitable man for such angers' tickets' and, not to "behave importance mission.
like Customs searchers, but they Admiral Cheung and other are alleged to have misbehaved oficials of the mission will leave themselves. Wood's figures were 69, 72, 68, here early this month and Admiral ⠀⠀. It has now been decided to dis- 73, while Sarazen went, round in Cheung has also been granted 14 miss all the Ticket Inspectors and 68, 71, 73 and 70.
days leave to visit his ancestral | entrust the duties of ticket in- Sarazen did an inward 33 in-graves in the Yam District, cluding
specting to the railway guards, a two at the fifteenth which is a par 5 hole.
During his absence, Vice-Admiral which will mean a saving of over In ac Li Hing Man will act for him at one thousand dollars in wages per complishing this Barazén holed a
the Navy Department spoon shot for "the best shot of Nam Wah Yat Fo.
month Nam Wah Fat Po. my life" "as the golfer afterwards described it.
..
-Craig Wood and Sarazen both did the four rounds with an ag When they paradegregate of 282 at Aldershot this year, the Regi- ment cannot very well confine the goat to barracks for the King would certainly ask what they had done with his gift. The result is therefore, that unless the special course that he is being put through purges him of his originals in (which all goats contain at a high pressure tu the square fach), the Regiment may find themselves in mid-Review on the horns of their dilemma.
Government was the outcome of the election held on Sunday in the canton of the city of Basle, At the first part this municipal It is the independent conduct of the goat which recommends hith to election held a forthright ago, two Bocialists and one of the the Army in which all must pro- bourgeois candidates were elected ceed with strict obedience and re- while on Sunday
two Socialists gularity. The Royal Welch Fusiliers and two bourgeois headed the pou (who might like to act as con.. Fo that now the Canton governsultants in the case of Taffy) have ment consiste of four Socialists marched with a goat in the van
immemorable. and three bourgeois as against two Socialists and five Bourgeois heretofore.-
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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION. CO., LTD.
FRENCH AIR SERVICE
TO S: AMERICA
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.)]
time from
The
Warwickshires give their Crest verisimiutude with a black buck while the Irish Guards, till recent- ly, had as their mascot a wolfhound which tried to desert to
-WE
Lawson Little, famous American champion inlahed sixth in the) 288 composed of 74, 72, 70, 72, tournament with an aggregate of
Craig Wood and Sarazen will play off their tle to-morrOW— Reuter.
SIX CHILDREN KILLED
cther Regiment. No doubt there Bombay Explosion
must be many other mascots, but Is the practice of keeping a four- tooted ally so common as of old?
Bombay April :8. The opinion has been expressed
Five little boys, one amall giri. THE Fifty-fourth Ordinary
that it is an amiable and ancient THE
two women and four men were Paris, April 7 General Meeting of the Com-
custom which the modern me killed, and six others were serious pany will be held at the Offices of Almost simultaneously with the chanised Army is tending to forget. ly injured, in a terrifle explosion the General Managers, Mouara. Jar. start of the Graf Zeppelin from Although pets are not officially in a factory on the outskirts of dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder Friedrichshafen on her first South regarded as on the strength of Bombay yesterday, where fireworks Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, America voyage in the 1935 sea-s regiment, the habit of cherishing were being made for the King's 18th April, 1986, at Noon, for the son, the first triple-engined air them is az age-old one which may Jubilee celebrations purpose of receiving the Report of plane of the French-South Ame- be said to have Royal Assent. The
The victims were fung body the Directors, passing the Accounts, rican post service took off at Le King's gift to the Welch Regiment for a considerable distance and and electing Directors, and Auditors. Bourget. On this line only French is proof of this, as well as Queen limbs were found as far as
The Transfer Books of the Com-machines will be used. The entire Victoria's interest in the Berkshire hundred yards from the scene, of
the blask pany will be Closed from the 10th post from European countries de dog. Much, of course, depends, on April to the 1st May inclusive, stined for South America are be the indulgence of the Commanding Reuter
lng conveyed by airways whereby Officer and Insoft'r as the Navy is By order of the Board,
a great time-saving is expected as | concerned even a bear has not been. South Atlantic from now onwards thought too eccentric. The oddest form of an unclaimed boy, in New will be crossed by alf instead of us mascot, however, was perhaps the Forest and "adopted" him. The heretofore by fast steamers. one of the Brigade of Guards who boy was subsequently sent to school
found s Babe in the Wood, in the at the Gordon Boy, Home,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.
General Managers. Hong Kong. Srd April, 1988.
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Transocean Xuo Min. 15.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
One case of diphtheria, one of Office yesterday to the only bidder, enteric fever and four of cerebro- Mrs. V. Reynolds, c/o Mr. Loke Ying- spinal fever were reported for the Cheung, of Bank of Canton Build- 24 hours ended on April 7. N
The HMS. Empress of Asia arrived at Shanghai on Sunday, left the same evening for Nagasaki where she is due to-day and will sall the same evening for: Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Victoria and
A plano recital will be given by Madam Madaigh, Masson at the Helena May Institute on Thursday April 11, at 9.15 pm
الي
A tea party was given at the
Opposition churches to-day de- monstrated their sympathy with arrested pastors by "silencing the church bells and leaving their altars without candies. Reuter,
STUDENTS IN FRANCE
Foreigners Lodge A Protest
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Fresas (Copyright).]
Paris, April 75 "Impelled by the hostile demon-
ing, at the upset price of $540.strations organised by the students The annual rental for the lot is of the medical faculty," writes Lak Victoire. "a large number of $82
foreign university students have H.M.S. Berwick left yesterday for made a public declaration that they will leave France forthwith Amoy.
unless the discrimination against them is not stopped by the auth- orities. In the name of a group of students from United Sta
and South America, a protest Canada, Mexico, Roumania, Poland
issued in which is contained the following passage: We believed that we shall be allowed to nigh our studies peaceably and return The Hong Kong dollar opened to our own countries thereafter to
HMS. Medway and submarines arrived back from Manila yester day morning.
S. Calcutta, with rellers for the Yangtze, arrived in Hong Kong yesterday morning, she will pro ceed to Woosung on Saturday,
Gloucester Restaurant yesterday by unchanged at two shillings yester- help to maintain the good reputa the School of Accountancy on the day morning, but in the afternoon tion of French culture The pre- occasion of the School's drst an- rose 1/8th. The business rates sent position has, however, become niversary and the presentation of were about 25. 0.3/8d; and 25, 0.7/16 Intolerable the Gold Medal, awarded by the d the market belas steady, French Government to
We appeal to the
International Institute of Accoun- tants to Mr. Thomas K. Young.
* An examination for Associates of the "With an jaren of 18,000 sq feet is being held and situated near Tal Lam Chung, and
Town Wan Inland Lot No. 22 was sold by pub- Berauistion, at the Crown Land
a piece of land known
orced to