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MUNICIPAL, NOTIFICATION
No. 22/86.
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BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL DICKINSON SCHOLARSHIP
The Daily Press.
Boso Koyo, AFER, 30, 1935.
SEGREGATING THE
SEXES
OBITUARY
Lord Gladstone Of Hawarden
"London, Apr. 28.
The death of Lord Gladstone of Hawarden, Arst Baron. and third son of the famous states- man, Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, was announced ta-day. Renter.
WRITER FINDS CITY
DISAPPOINTING
"White Peril" Has Swamped Shanghai
NEWS SUMMARY
The report on "the water problem of Hong Kong," which was dealt with by the Commission appointed. by His Excellency the Governor to Inquire into the causes and effects of the trade depression of the Colony is given on
Pare 11.
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The trial of AE Ainsworth" for the manslaughter of a Chinese on February 1, commenced at the
His Honour the Chief Justice, Mr. A D. A. MacGregor. The case was adjourned until this morning.
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Shanghai, April 26. out of nothing. This doesn't mean | Criminal Bessions yesterday before» Miss Dorothy Black, novelist and ¦ that I approve of using people out abort-story writer, has come from right, or that I believe in making England to see China, and for three fun of those who've been my hosts days she has been searching for That's merely impolite reporting. China through the streets of Shang- and not the same thing at all. "I hai-in vain."
travel to get threads for my tapes- "Shanghai is a disappointment," try. A writer is only she said. "Shanghai is debauched-weaver." that's the only word for it. I was brought up to believe in the Yellow
sort of
"
A disturbance near the Star Ferry in Connaught Read on Saturday led to the appearance of three Eu- ropeans who were charged with dis- orderly conduct. One of them was fined 330 and the discharge of the other two. !!
· Page 6.
Born in 1852 and educated at Eton and King's College, London, ¡he ultimately became senior partner of Ogilvy, Gullanders and Co., London and Liverpool, and of
The annual general meeting of a Gillanders. Arbuthnot and Co.
the Hong Kong Philharmonic 80- Calcutta, in which he remained
clety was held yesterday when the According to a Reuter message for thirty years, and he was for
A Double Life
President, Professor W. Brown re- received on Sunday the "segregat- many years a Director of the P.
Miss Black has written for pub-ported that the past season had ing the sexes" movement which and O. Steam Navigation Com- Peril Some day, they told me, the leation since 1924. Her short been a successful one. Page 7. originated in Canton has spread pany. Els public service was re- world would be swamped with stories have appeared in many to Felping where the Mayor, Mr.warded with a title in 1932.
China, and I have always lived in magazines, chiefly, the "Baturday He entered the Yuan Lang, has been reported to
East India dread of that day. Well, I've seen Evening Post," and among her House of his uncle. have ordered the "cessation of all
Robertson Shanghai, and I have changed my novels her favourite is "Wise Folly."
and 01 co-education in the middle schools Gladstone, of Liverpool
mind. The Yellow Peril can't be But she leads a double life, writing as deadly as the White Peril. Noth- | many books under a man's name. in Petping." He has also instructed his grandfather, Sir John, in 1871: the Social Welfare Office of the He was in Calcutta, with intervalsing China might do to us can be
"It began with a bet," she said. Municipality to see that the land in England, from 1874-89, and half as bad as what we've done to "I was talking with a serious young
acted for some time lords "do not let rooms in the same
as private China! Everywhere I go, I see little man from Oxford, and he said bit- then at the height of his power. Gables. I have tried and tried to name could sell his own book. I Mr. Llang explains that the orders
One of his most outstanding
buy a Chinese lantern and all I didn't agree with him and I bet him are" issued in accordance with the
to his country Was New
Life Movement" and adds services
can find are the things we pay ten five pounds I could sell a book un- that it is contrary to good morals achieved while he was a member cents for in the Woolworth stores def another name. I wrote one, signed a man's name, sent it to of course that isn't the worst. We've another agent, and it was sold im- taught them to want shoddy things | mediately with a contract for two instead of their own beautiful In- more I collected my five pounds inventions.
and have been kept busy ever since, After 22 years service in the locat writing to keep up with my other Police Force Inspector McLellan is my days the memory of a man I self. The curious thing is, I write severing his connection when he saw yesterday in a beautiful blue | much better under the other name,,; leaves for Home on: Saturday "on robe, He had a nice round face and the critics have all halled me
retirement. as one of the most promising of the younger writers. Dorothy Black | is old news and she's taken a back
seat. Critics? No, I don't dislike THE
Auditors, and for the transaction Tientsin, has decided to éstancourtyard to men and women." secretary to his father, who was yellow Garbos and dusky Clarki terly no one without a well-known
NOTICE is also hereby given that the TRANSFER BOOKS of
the Company will be closed from Saturday, the 20th April, 1935 until Tuesday, the 30th April, 1935, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered,
By Order of the Board,
D. L. KING, Secretary. Hongkong. 18th April, 1935.
THE MACAO ELECTRIC
LIGHTING COMPANY,
LIMITED.
[3438
OTICE is hereby givan that
the Twenty-fourth Ordinary Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Mercantile Bank Building, Second floor, Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 2nd day of May, 1935, at 11.30 am.
The Register of Members will be closed from the 26th day of April to the 2nd day of May, 1935, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Secretaries,
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
HE British Municipal Council,
lish a scholarship in the Tientsin Grammar Seheel to be known as the Dickinson Scholarship" in memory of the late J. M. Dickinson, Esquire. The Council desires that friend and acquaintences wishing to con tribute to the scholarship fund should be given an opportunity to do
50.
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Those who desire to assist in the word of establishing the scholarship
may send their contributions marked "Dickinson Scholarship Fund" to the undersigned: names of cou- tributors will be published in due course, through the medium of the
preas.
By Order,
H. F. BARNES, SECRETARY & ENGINEER, BRITISH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, TIEKTSIN.
COUNCIL ROOM, TIENTSIN, April 18th, 1935.
· BIRTUS
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ARBEY-At Alexandrette, Syria, to Captain and Mrs. Arbey (née
son,
ان
for men and women to live in the of the Royal Commission on in--but here they cost a dollar. But same courtyards even if they oc-dian Finance and Currency. 1913 cupy different rooms. Coming at a time when it is generally accepted that China has at long last fallen in line with some of the codes and habits of the West, these "instruc- tions from the South, and then
food for
Fe was Lord Lieutenant Flintshire and President of the Territorial Army Association 1915, amongst other official posts. Lord Gladstone was Treasurer
of the National Library of Wales
Lord Hyde
the North of China, must provide and President of University Col-
# certain amount of lexe. North Wales thought for the foreigner. Quite apart from that, however, some of the vernacular papers are up in arms against Mr. Llang's proposals, and while we are in no way at- tempting to tell the Chinese people how their country should be Lord Hyde, elder son of the Earl managed, we feel that the Mayor's of Clarendon, Governor-General instructions, if carried out, will or Union of South Africa, received have an injurious rather than the a fatal wound near Kimberly on desired effect which we presume is Saturday when the straps of his to improve the morals of the field glasses caught, on the trigger
people.
In the East, more particularly in India and China, the masses are apt to be narrow-minded and it has taken no little time to even per- suade them to allow their women-
folk to attend. schools. "That- difi- Puthod), the gift of a son. SMITH.—On April 22, 1835 at Coun-China soon forgot that education cult task having been accomplished, try Hospital Shanghai, to Mr.
was "for men only" and for some- and Mrs. H. David Smith, a son. time now we have seen the fair Hong Kong, 15th April, 1985. [8497 | RAMSDALE.-On April 23, 1935, at daughters of Cathay take their the Country Hospital, Shang-Blaces along with the sterner sex hal, to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas i in almost every walk of Ure. Ramsdale, a
Gordon Thanks to the example set hy the William.
more well-to-do families, the poor classes, not without reluctance, began to grant their women-folk WILSON-WRIGHT. On April 23,certain privileges" and there is
1935,
H.B.M.
Consulate-no doubt that this has had but one General. before Mr. A. D. Black efect-that of setting a higher. burn and at the Union Church, standard of morals for all concern- Shanghai on April 18, 1935, by ed. Now, just as it appears, that the Reverend John Darroch, the corner has been turned, comes assisted by the Reverend H. G. this announcement of Mayor Liang
THE
CLUB.
EXTRA FIFTH RACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SA URDAY, 4th MAT, 1988, commencing at 2.00
p.
The First Bell will be Rung at 1.30 p.m.
.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 29th April, 1935..
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MARRIAGE
at
of his rise.
London, April 29.
Lord Hyde who was 28, was god- son of His Majesty the King and a young man of brilliant promise British Wireless.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie
"I shall cherish to the end of
above it, and over all he was wear- ing a doggy cap pulled down to one side, a la Douglas Fairbankaf” Changes the Background Miss Black arrived in the "as. Naldera. She is travelling for re- creation; she makes a trip every year and she is very fond of the East, having lived eight years in Burma. This is her first trip to China, and she was most favour- she admits that travelling helps ably impressed with Hong Kong.
her in her work,
B
"It changes the background,” she said. "I make my stories from what I see, but everything is go changed by the time it ap
It is unrecogniz- pears that able. Someone might make remark, for example, and from that remark I make an entire story. I belleve nothing gets over without a spice of truth in it. Of course one must be creative, but there must be some foundation to build Lundon, April 29.- Sir Alexander Mackenzie, distin-on. You can't spin like a spider, guished British yesterday at the age
composer, died
ritish Wireles
of 87-
Mr. Alfred Dupont
Jacksonville, Apr. 29.
The death is announced of Mr.
C. Hallock, Mabel Alice. daugh-and in the interests of the country Alfred Dupont, head of the we hope that it will not be brought famous armament firm in Amer- to effect. It may be that Mr. Liang | ica- • was prompted to action by one of Reuter. two cases of "bad behaviour" in schools where co-education is car- fled out or in places where men and
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. Wright, to Stewart Robert, son of Captain Albert O. Wilson, secretary of HB.M. Consulate, Harbin, and Mrs. Wilson of West Lothian. Scotland.
ENGAGEMENT
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG THE engagement is announced be-
NOTICE.
SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
EXAMINATION-JUNE 123.
THE fallowing scholarships, fur- THE
ther particulars of which may be obtained from the Registrar, will be awarded on the results of the School Certificate Examination :---
(1) Three King Edward VII Scbolarships of the Value of 240 per annum, open to British subjects only. One Belilios Medical Scholar- ship"A" tenable in the Faculty of Medicine of the value of $40 for the first year and $70 for the second year of tenure.
(6) One Hong Kong Government "J'aucational Bebolarship, open for BY candidates from
Hong Kong Schools.
(4) Open Hong Kong Government Educational Scholarship, open for GIRL candidates' from Hong Kong Schools.
(5) A limited number of Hong
Kong Government Student ships in training, open for candidates from Hong Kong Schools.
women mix freely. If that should ARMAMENTS FOR
be the case the Mayor would do tween A. C. Meredith, of theirregularities" occur even in the well to bear in mind that there Hong Kong and Shanghai
best conducted countries and no Banking Corporation, youngest
amount of supervision will be able son
of the late Mr. John
Meredith and of Mr. Meredith, of Windsor, and Elizabeth Joan, "daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nor-
man Lloyd, of Sanderstead. DEATHS
stamp out the evil. On the might drive the youth of the coun- other hand too rigorous control try into "open rebellion," or what would be even much worse, it might have the result of the younger ALLEN--On April 8, 1935, at Wood-generation growing up with an
chester, Gloucestershire, Edith entirely mistaken outlook on life. widow of Clement F. R. Allen, HBM. Chinese Consular Ber vice, and daughter of the late Reverend Robert Wedgwood, aged 81 years. RANDLE-On April 9, 1935, at 30,
Woolstone Road, Forest af, Elen, widow of Horace Randle, M.D., formerly of China and
Acton.
YANGTZE COLLISION
SEQUEL
Shanghai, Aprü 29. Three officers of the steam launch Lian have been arrested in consequence of the sinking of the vessel on the Yangtze in December (6) Two Montargis French Prizem after collision with the sa. Wan
of the valus of $50 each.
halang with loss of over 200 lives. Candidates for the School Certi- The men will be charged in the ficate Examination who have not yet | Hankow District Court with ne- entered for scholarships, are request gligence.m ed to do so in writing, addressing their applications to the undersigned
W. B. FINNIGAN,
Registrar. 25th April, 1935.
At the time the Lian was under charter by the Ministry of War and was transporting military re- crufts
[347] Reuter
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CHINA'S TRADE WITH
INDO-CHINA
completed ar-
RUMANIA
New Contracts
them. Critics are like dangerous women-you take everything they say with a pinch of salt, and no- body pays any attention to them
any more."
Miss Black is an attractive young woman with dark eyes. She has
for publication, "I wrote my first lways written, though not always
A reception was held at the Japanese Consul's residence yes- tarday when a large and distingu- ished gathering was present, to drink to the health of Their Majes- ties King George V, and the Em- peror of Japan respectively.
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ANTI-OPIUM · DRIVE
Chang Chi Inter- viewed
[Special to the. “Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).]
Pelping. Apг. IV.
novel at the age of seven," she said. | “It was most impropert I write. because I like it, not because I have any message to humanity. There are enough people with messages.
Mr. Chang Chl, member of the I'm a Jester jingling my bells. The
Central Supervisory Committee only philosophy I preach is this: and Chairman of the Preparu~ there are two important motivatory Committee for the establish tions in life, and only two. Let ment of the Auxiliary National them call it what they kere Capital (Sian), arrived here yes- ligion, romance, what ever name terday from Slam. they, have but the only things that count in this world are rank and finance."
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Three cases of diphtheris, one of enteric fever and two of cerebro- | spinal fever were reported for the 48 hours ended on April 28.
A Thanksgiving Service in con- Dection with the Silver Jubilee of H.M. The King will be held at the Mohammedan Mosque, 30, Shelley Street on Friday, May 3 at 1. p.m.
¿
The opening of the Violet Peel Health Centre, Johnston Road, Wanchal, by Lady Peel will be held on Monday, May 13 at 5 p.m.
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A. Dinner Dance will be held at Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow night and patrons are asked to note that. the last bus leaves Repulse Bay at
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Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright.)]
Bucharest, Apr. 28. An extensive new Rumanianı armaments programme has been
The new British Municipal Coun cil of Tientsin has elected Mr. El CT Peters and Mr. J. S. Chwang un- animously to be Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively of the Council.
General Ho Chien, Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government,
'In the course of an interview, he stated that the oplum sup- pression work in : Shensi province is being pushed forward in three. stages and is expected to be coni- pleted in six years. The land. hitherto devoted to the cultiva- tion of the oplum poppy is being used for the planting of Cotto The total production of cotton in at approximately $30 millions. the province last year was valued'
The farmers are anticipating a bumper wheat crop this year, he continued. Weather. has been favourable to the crops since the advent of spring.
in
MORE HIGHWAYS With regard to highway con-
of. in
has decided to donate his favourite struction, Mr. Chang said that portrait of Confucius to the Yushi-over 3,000 2 (1,000 miles) been built Me Sanctuary in Tokyo, on the oc- highways have
The projected high- casion of the first meeting of Con- Shensi. fucian scholars which will be held way between Blan and Lanchow, there between April 28 and May 1. propincial capitals of Shensi and Entrusted with this present, Mr. Kansu will be open to traffic on Shigehiko Seki, a Japanese resident May 1. Construction
work
In
in Changaha and one of the gen- the Bian-Hanching Highwa eral's intimate friends, left there southern Shensi, is also raking
yang Mara for Shanghai en route on Tuesday night in the is. Lao-headway.
7 Tokyo,
Mr. Chang also said that the highway leading from Slan to the tomb of Huang-Ti. the first Chin-
The German Consul will hold a
The Szechuan Provincial Governi ese Emperor (2697-2597 BC) reception at the German Club, 2.ment, says a Chinese message from in Chungpu, over 400 north
Road, Connaught
on German Chungking, is expected to be re- of Sian, has been completed. National Day, May 1, from 11.30 to moved from Chungking to Chengta Plans are also being made to re-
12,30 o'clock.
pair the temple of the Emperor, which has fallen into decay.
approved by the national defence council which met here with King Carol presiding and with the en-
Hangchow claims to have the tire Cabinet and several high of-
To the neighbourhood of the His Excellency the Chinese Minia- first twin-eggs, the product of a Acers of the army as well as the former premiers, Professor Mir-ter will preside at a meeting of the very large hen owned by a rice tomb or Huang Ti there are min- Shanghal, Apr. 29. onescu, General Valtoyano and Royal Society of Arts on Thursday, dealer. According to Chinese press eral deposits, he said. With mom- greatly facilitated Chinese businessmen visiting Dr. Anghelescu attending.
May 16, at 2 pm, when a paper reports, the eggs are of normal unications Indo-China have
on "The Evolution of the indus-size but are linked by a semi-trang by the new highway, the explol- The new defence programme of trial System in the Far East pre-parent tube through which can be tation of the mines in that ares rangements with the authorities which details are not divulged is to pared by Professor Aldred F. Baker, observed a flow of fuld from one will be greatly encouraged. for signing a temporary agree-
be carried out within the period M.Sc. FT.L. of the Chiao-Tung egg to the other. The owner China United Press (by mail). ment regulating tariffs on import-
of several years and a definite University, Shanghai, and formerly proudly describes his odd possession ed Chinese goods according to scheme for financing it is already Professor of Textile Industries at as a "dumbbell egg." despatch to the "Bhun Pao" drawn up envisaging an internal Meanwhile they
the University of Leeds, will be *re continuing armaments loan and new taxes.
Passengers read, in the absence of the author. negotiations aiming át a commer-
Immediately after the meeting by Professor A. T. King, of Leeds cial treaty between the two coun- tries- Heuter.
AMERICAN ECONOMIC
MISSION
Shanghal, Apr. 29. - Part of the American Economic Mission, including the leader, Mr. J. Cameron Forbes, left for Can- ton by air this morning. The re- mainder will leave tomorrow --- Reuter
ters on them reveal them to belong travelling: on the to the Sung Dynasty, Shanghai-Wanking and Shanghail
"Anhwel has started something.
Anwe soon be able to send telegrams from. According to a report from Wahu, their coaches and to converse over the authorities have selected 66 long-distance telephones at the notable personalities who lived in larger stations. It is expected that the province from Chin, to Ching this service will be possible some- times. These notable people are to timé next month.
be commemorated in a special Hai of Fame. Among their number are generals' politicians" philosophers, physicians and diplomata."
Talurescu signed a new contract deal with the development of tex- with the armaments firm, Skoda, tile industries in the Far East, will and which calls for deliveries of be illustrated by Jantern slides, the total amount of aj milliard leucinematograph Alms, and speci- while additional orders are to be mens of fabrics. placed with Vickers and the Rou- manian Reschitza works:
A ban has been placed on the The transfer negotiations which importation of toy guns and pistols Work on the construction of the have been conducted in this con- into China The Chinese authori canal leading from the Hual River nection with Czechoslakia have the allege that bandits have been to the sea is bringing to light an- been brought to a successful con- | making use of air rifles imported | cient treasures. Recently, it is now „The ministry of Indestry has de- chusion, according to an announce from the United States and for this reported, workmen came to caches cided to establish a model sitk ment by the Finance Minister, reason die rifies longer than 31near Erakenbo and Watunti in tory at Wu Zing Men. Hange
inches will not be permitted entry which they found numerous wine to set an example for the Impro into this country from América. Jugs and wine-cups The characment of the Industry
Tonescu Transocean Kuo Min