THE "WELSH WIZARD"
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he had always regarded as one of the greatest personalities of our time Mr. David Lloyd George. Ast Mr. Jones, who had been his sec retary. was here, he feit he could not resist the temptation of ask-- worda 01 ing him to say a few
he that great man and of how
volumes
prepared all those big
about the War.
After thanking the previous
HONG RONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1935.
WINDOW DISPLAY SENNET FRERES
COMPETITION
Ballot Opened At Sincere's
The window display competition organised by the Sincere Co., Ltd., which has created much interest in this kind of commercial art during the last fortnight, has now come to a close and on Monday, the 20th instant, the public ballot,
"ROBBERY
NOTES FROM KANHSIEN
Loot Total $200,000 Road Construction
Shanghai, May 17.
With the completion of the in- ventory of articles stolen by for- eign robbers at Messrs. Bennet Freres jewellery shop. 78 Nanking Road, on Wednesday, it was an- nounced yesterday that the value of the loot was $200,000, or $50,000 more than the original estimate.
Kanhafen, May 3.
Road communications in Kiangal have been transformed during the last two years. For thousands of years the twelve inch road has carried all the necessary trafne.
roads envelops almost the whole Now a network af useable motor
province. Early in 1933 motor
east to Yusban, west to Yuanchow, south east to Fuchow, and south to Talho. By December, 1934 thou- made by the Central Government sands of miles of roads had been troops, particularly as they push-
speaker for his illuminating ad 1926. in number, was opened and The stolen Jewellery was fully inroads were made from Nanchang
dress. Mr. Jones said that to deal comprehensively with Mr. Lloyd volumes would George and his
де
take a very big chapter, He would therefore take, as Ar instance. of how Mr. Lloyd George prepar- ed his work in the U-Boat Cam- paign. Mr. Loyd George. sald, usually got up at seven o'clock in the morning and after telling one of the secretaries as to what kind of work he would do in the course of the day, went. out for a walk. When he return- ed he would have all the me- morandum placed before him on what he was going to wolte,
of
Mr. Jones then went on to say that Mr. Lloyd George had a
London special office in
where there was a magatacent collec- tion.
documents concerning every phase of the War since he became Prime Minister. He (Mr. Jones was amazed on looking "through some of these documents as he realised from them how the fate of the world balanced at that time.
former
PERSONALITY AND STATISTICS After securing all the data he warted from these documents. Mr. Lloyd George would send one of his secretaries to see some im- portant navy and shipping people to get their views. The Prime Minister, he said, took a great interest in the personality of the man of whom he was writ- ing. If one "wrote a memorandum for Mr. Lloyd George without mentioning personality Ir would be no good to him. He always wanted to, have the intimate He laid tre- touches of the man. 'mendous stress upon the charac- ter of a man of whom he was writing. If he (Mr. Jones) came back from Russia Mr. Lloyd George's first question would be "What is Mr. Stalin's character?"
checked at Sincere's Roof Garden. The results are announced as below:
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Order of popular choice:1st.
Window No. 10 by BAT. Co. (640 votes); 2nd. No. 6 by Sincere Co. (Perfumery Mirs.) Ltd. (344 votes); 3rd. No. 5 by Ka Lun Knitting Co. (188 votesi; 4th. No. by S. H. Langston (107 votes); 5th. No. 2 by. Atwater Kent Mig Co.:
6th. No. 9 by Tabaquelra Filipina: 7th. No. 1 by Tsun Tan suk Mills; 8th. No. 3 by John D. Hutchison & Co.: 9th. No. 16 by Tootal: 10th. No. 11 by Hong Kong Brewers & Distillers: 11th. No, by Wahl Company: and 12th, No. 7 by Shung Ngal Knitting Factory.
Mr. Leung Yue, of No. 42 Con naught Road. Central is maker of the best forecast of the competi- tion and wins the Arst prize value $200.00. The second prize 'valued 975 goes to Mr. Chu Tsak of No. 29 Stanley Street while the third prize valved 925 will be divided by the four "tie-winners, Messrs. Lam Yeung Ma Man Kwong Luna Tall of No. 2 Square Street and Tsak of No. 29 Stanley Street. There are five tie-winners each of
5ch 4th.
and 6th prizes.
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sured against burglary and robbery, it was stated by Mr. M. Heimen- dinger, manager and a partner in the firm. The articles included
diamond rings, diamond brooches, bracelets, expensive watches, and a large number of unmounted semi- precious stones.
The search for the three foreign ers who committed the crime, in broad daylight while crowds were passing outside, continued yester. day, but up to a late hour no ar- rests had been
made although
many persons had been questioned. All means of egress from Shang- hal were being closely guarded and a strict watch was being kept on the movements of possible sus- pects. Pawnshops and other places where jewellery might be disposed of, were under keen surveillance.
TALL BLONDE
ed the armies of Chu and Mao and other Red leaders back into the mountainous provincial bor- ders. Six thousand army cars transported military personnel and materials thereon. Now that the crack troops have
копе to Szechuan and Kwelchow in the wake of the Reds the cars have mostly gone too, but the 40 or so divisions in Klangsi are hastening to completion the plans of Gen. Chiang for road communications.
BRIDGES AND ROCKS
For instance: Four divisions of troops constructed the 240-11 road from Ningsu to Yütu in about two weeks, and 3 or 4 weeks for the construction of roads to Klangkeo,
east of Kanhsten, from Eisingkwth and Yutu. Bridges And rocks are the two main obstacles. Temporary bridges are built of wood, or the stone bridges utilized, and the sun blackened
the
The most distinctive robber in appearance was the leader, who was described as tall, blonde and well-dressed and who spoke Eng-60 lish with an American accent. All three men were between the ages of 30 and 35 all were armed with short pistols. No ahots were fired during the robbery. seven tie-winners of 7th prizely after noon, the leader posing as
The men entered the shop short-faces of the Northern stonemasons smile cheerfully from over their five tie-winners of str. prize, six tle-winners of 9th prize and ten
a customer. They bound Mr. A. E,
iron drills on the rocky ridges. A Meyer, tle-winners
assistant manager, and little east of Klangkeo......on of Lath prize. all,
three Chinese clerks to chairs with Yütu read, three pneumatic drills wire and then looted the safe which are cutting blasting holes on a Mr. Meyer had opened to show the long stretch of rocky hillside at leader a tray of watches. They the Narrows. Generally the work escaped through the rear of the
is well done. with stone packed shop into Ezra Road and thence, central strip, ditches, etc. probably by automobile, to some unknown hiding-place. Three minutes after their departure one of the Chinese clerks, having wriggled loose of his trammels..un- tled Mr. Meyer, who immediately despatched an alarm to Central Police Station,
Chinese.
Witnesses to the above include Mr..F..S, Ip of The World News Service, Mr. Hon Man Kon of Central News Agency. Mr. Cheung Yam Tau of Sun Ah News Agency and Mr. Tong Pik Chuen of Hong Kong News Service,
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'LITVINOFF'S TRIBUTE TO 'PILSUDSKI
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dails Press" (Copyright).]
In short, the wanted everything about personality. Another thing which was of great importance to him was that statistics must be carefully -studied German documents. French documents and American memoirs, in order to get the points of view of these countries on the U-Boat cam-sembly of the League of Nations paign.
Geneva, May, 20. President Litvinoff pronounced un eulogy of the deceased Marshal Pilsudski when opening the extra- ordinary session of the Plenary as-
tional reputation and, hence the entire League is sharing Poland's sorrow at the loss. After the de- legates present had voiced "their sympathy with Poland, as well a their sense, of the loss sustaineři by the League.through Pilsudsk!'s death, the Polish delegate, Komar- nicki. expressed on behalf of the Pollsh Government, his thanks for these tributes to deceased and the meeting was adjourned in token of mourning.-- Transocean Ano Min.
which has been convoked in order Continuing. Mr. Jones said that to deal with the "Chaco conflet. on his return from the morning
Poland said Litvinci, lost in walk, Mr. Lloyd George would Pilsudski not only a national hero glance through the memorandum j but also a statesman of interna placed before him very rapidly. Later in the day. however, he would devote himself wholehear- tedly to the subjecti drderlining certain crucial points and adding something here and there. One of the chief characteristics of his was that he always went to the polit He seemed to like stubby pencils and wrote in fantastic scrawls which gave his typist a terrible time. He usually
wrote about 4000 words a day.
ADMIRALS AND GENERALS The speaker then went on to say that what Mr. Lloyd, George enjoyed most was the question of character studies. He revelled in the characteristles of Balfour and Smuts. the latter of whom he ad- infred tremendously. He also en- joyed in making slashing attacks оп admirals and generals.
(Laughter).
He also had tremendous moods. One day he would scatter all the papers
different directions
on
without writing a word. At ant other me he might be working for week
one subject. He concentrated on one subject at a time, for instance, if he were working on the U-Boat campaign he would not listen to foreign re- lations or vice-versa. He was a man of moods-some moods of
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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).]
Berlin, May 20. The late Colonel Lawrence of Arabia is the abject of long articles by the entire German Press which" all stressed the de- ceased's outstanding abilities al- though some criticise his activi- ties during the Great War.
burglars in 1927, when, about The same shop was visited by
$20,000, worth of Jewellery was taken.
THE LEAGUE COUNCIL
Session Opens
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press (Copyright).)
Geneva, May 23." The League Assembly, after a short interval in honour of the late Marshal Pilsudski, proceeded to elect its President, its choice falling on the Portuguese dele. gate, Vasconcelos who was elected by 38 out of 47 votes, After Litvinof had congratulated the assembly on this result, Vascon- cellos took the chair and opened the meeting on the draft resolu- tion drawn up last week by the pointed to deal with the Chaco League's special ecmmittee ap-
conflict.
The draft refers to the efforts being made in Buenos Alres by representatives DI the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uraguay to bring about the cessation of hostilitles, pro- poses that the League of Nations express its sympathy with the
efforts made by the six Powers in question and awalt the result of these efforts.
The Berliner Tageblatt describes him as an "adventurer and poll- tical agent, politician and leader of rough riders, military and technical organiser, poet, orienta- sald that the negotiators had The Argentine delegate, Cantile, list and scholar who made ex- originally hoped to achieve cellent translations of Greek result by the middle of May but
the
rapid work and some of doing classics man of action who was unfortunately only slow progress
nothing at all (Applause).
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DUKE HONOURED BY EDINBURGH
London, May 20.
The Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived at Edinburgh to-day for a fortnight's residence at the Palace of Holyrood.
The Freedom of the City Was conferred on the Duke to-day, and to-morrow he will take up his ap pointment as Lord High Com missioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland- British Wirelen,
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BAD BRIDGES
The use of old bridges, with no care during use. Is liable to result in tragedy. A bus overloaded with over 30 people, plus luggage, fell through a wooden bridge on the Lungnan-Anyülan 'road” seven ce-
thoughtless use cupants being killed. Similar of excellent machines results in jammed steer- Ing-gear, wheels falling off, "over- turnings into 'pools, splayfooted front wheel axles, and so on.
REDS NOT WANTED
The best news however, is that the countryfolk in the ex-Com- munist areas are able to plant now their best "acreage for 7 or 8 years. Their crops have been confiscated to feed the Red armies,. so they planted less. Their men were either murdered, driven out. or conscriptert so the workers were less. Much time was spent on constant cut post duty by ̈uble- the bodied men and women so work and repairs accomplished' was less. The few trees were ruthlessly cut down, the sand in the rivers silted up and Nowad over the valley fields, so the available land was less. Had the Communists remained another year, half the total fekis would have been ruined, many beyond reclamation. The number of men in at least ten hsien that we know of has been reduced by from 1/3 to 1/2. The women are in obvious predominance every- where, and few are the homes that do not mourn the loss of ab least one man. With the advent of peace the fields are retilled and")
the eye and heart. The people do this year's planting is a 10 to
not want Communismi: but there Is a definite opening for the
Gospel message.
IMPROVED METHODS Good work is being done by the Provincial Agricultural Rehabilita- tion Board, whereby small loans are made to farmers for purchase of seed, etc.,up to $15, to be repaid after the harvest. A nominal interest is charged Pro- vision is made for later instruction In improved methods of agricúl- ture. The administration of these funds is in the hands of repre- The League Council whose 86thntative groups of bonafide local session, as previously reported, residents. opened on Monday forenoon with
also addicted to contemplation and has hitherto been made who gave hils contemporaries many hard nuts to crack."- Fransocean Kuo Mini
FINE BRITISH RECORD
London, May 20,
There were fewer strikes and lock-outs last year than in any year since records were, irst taken half a century ago,
There were 471 disputes. Jast year, involving 134,100 workers, and 960,000 working days were lost. More than half the workers concerned were in the mining in- dustry.
British Wireless.
Transocean Eno Min.
PUBLIC SITTING
Geneva, May 20.
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Hospitals for the poor are set a short meeting behind closed up in each halen city partly by doors, subsequently held a public Provinzial funds, largely and sitting which was chiefly devoted finally by the hsien concerned. to discussion of the questions on League Administration.
The Abyssinian problem was left abeyance for the time being pending Lord Privy Seal Eden's endeavours at mediation
before the latter half of the week. Litvinoff who presided at the aes- sion, announced that the date of It is generally anticipated that the next meeting would be made the Council will not reach the im known later portant stage of the discussions - Transocean, Kuo Min.
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