THREE PRINCIPLES
Despite an eloquent plea for He then outlined the three prin- leniency by his counsel, Lam Iu, ciple upon which he intends to alias Lant Tit Sang, 31, was sen- the Courich: 1. District re- tenced to five years, hard-labour ran forms and appointments must be, by Mr. Justice Lindsell at the based upon the will of the people; Criminal Sessions yesterday" when 2. Officiala must share in the ad- he pleaded guilty to a tharge of verily as well as in the happiness being in possession of 11 moulds of the people, and honesty must be for counter-feiting Hong Kong emphasised in the administration dollars, ten-cent and five-cent of the financial affairs; 3, Friend-pieces, of No. 69 Fuk Wah Street, ly relations will be promoted with third floor,
** Page 7. neighbouring countries, in accord- ance with the mandate from the Built at a cost of $200,000, the General Sung referred to the gunboat, Hot Chow, was launched special situation existing in the from the slipway at the Hong Kong Peiping area since the Tangku China Dock Co. Ltd., yesterday. Armistice agreement, and em-the ceremony being performed by phasised the need for keeping upon Miss Fox Chi Man, daughter of Mr. also dwelt upon the need for re-ness official of Canton, who was friendly terms with Japan. He Fox Chi Ting, a prominent busi- viewing the traditional virtues of also present, China, exterminating Communists
Government.
and
developing and 'spreading Oriental culture."
SUPPORT PROMISED Ling Ting-yu responded, con- gratulating General Sung, and as- suring him of the support of all. members. Chow Chlen-sen express- ed the hope that the Council would be able to revive prosperity in the TIENTSIN STUDENTS.
Pelping-Tientsin aress:
There were a number of specially Tientsin, Dec. 18.
invited guests at the ceremony, Hundreds of students demons- which took place in the old For trated this morning in the Chin-eign Office building, which was de- ese city and paraded the streets until noon when they held a mass
corated with Kuomintang flags.
meeting near the Mayor's office gun Yat-sen to lock down upon But there was no portrait of Dr. and sent a deputation there with the gathering.
there is already & plethora of
charitable. institutions--some of A serious reverse suffered by the which are really deserving and Italian army is admitted by the scine less so. And there are many official war bulietin, No. 73, issued | arguments against the scheme on Tuesday which states that the Union Newr For a young lad to be earning an Italian forces. after a stubborn re- average monthly income of $10 to sistance, were compelled to re- $12 15, and should be considered, treat twenty kilometres from Mal-, very good. The money they earn tipchet, a ford' on the River Ta- goes far to augment the income of kaze, about 65 kilometres south their parents, and if there, were west of Aksum, and take up a compulsory education enforced in position on Dembeguins Pase. The Hong Kong, these boys would be attacking Abyssinian troops cross- deprived of this easy means "of ed the River lower down, and ex- Hivelihood, and the burden will be ecuted a flanking movement in the so much more heavier for their district of Shire, where fighting is parents to bear. For this both the still continuing, tanks and aero- boys and their parents should be planes taking an active part. The thankful.
Italian losses during the first en- A very well got up Christmas | o. cerebro-spinal fever. For the 24 Secondly, and to refer to the re-counter is given as four officers, supplement was issued yesterday hours ended on Tuesday there were ports of the Society for the Protec and nine soldiers of the home by our contemporary, The Chins tion of Children, we find that there troops killed, three officers wound-Mail" The front cover la in red, are many families in this Colony ed, while several dozen native blue and white showing Sants whose incomes are much less than soldiers were killed, and wounded.
Claus in the making of the tradi- what these boys earn by a few.
tional Christmas pudding. There
a petition explaining their attitude-A business meeting followed the and demanding the release of the ceremonials, at which it was de- arrested Pelping comrades, apology cided that the Council would meet for maltreatment and compensa weekly, on Friday. A standing tion for the injured.
committee, consisting of Wang YI- Pelping, Dec. 18.
Demonstrations were contiued in tang. Liu Cheh and Chin Teh General Bung Chek-guan, as the afternoon which, however, did chen, was appointed to carry on head of the NOW Council, has ↑ not lead to any incidents. issued a manifesto to the students | Reuter
the routine business of the Council. The members then adjourned for a banquet- Beuter,
hours' work. It sympathy is want- ed, we fear ours will be on the side of those families who have to exist on less than $4 a month. Then there is another question to be faced. We fear that the organisers have been too optimistic in com ink to the conclusion that under proper control and management, the nuisance they create can be stopped and the servies they ren- der to the public can be made use of more than it is now."
The enemy losses are a yet un-
LOCAL AND GENERAL
one case of diphtheria, seven of enteric fever and one case of cerebro-spinal fever
ascertained, but they are thought are appropriate articles in the while the upper reaches of the to be considerable,
Transocean Kuo Min.
DEFENCE!
Parliament "opens and we shall soon know how much money we shall have to spend on defence. “
The United States expeef to allot £200,000,000 to lethal weapons, etc. Japan has decided that £76,000,000 will keep her more or less inviolate,
..
We do not know how, much Russia is spending to keep the
supplement.
We have received an attractive and useful "diary from Messrs. Blemen's China. Company.
י;
HUPEH APPOINTMENT
Nanking, Dec. 18.
Canton Government's new 'small
ASSISTANCE TO HOSPITALS
Page 7.
London, Dec. 18 For the fourth year in successiori, the King Edward's Hospital Fund. of which the Prince of Wales is - President, is maintaining its or dinary distribution to hospital in the London ares of £300,000. is turther celebrating the King's Silver Jubilee by making a special distribution of £120,000 and in addition is devoting £5,000 to pen- -síom grants.--- British - Wireless,
NEGUS TO LEAVE FOR NORTH
It
Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
Press" (Copyright).
Addis Ababa, Dec 17, The Emperor of Abyssintą, after having rejected the Franco-British Proposals for the settlement of the conflict, is now preparing to depart northward since, in his opinion, all prospects for an early' peace have become very distant., It is amicially anounced that No operations are reported from Yung-tal, General Chiang Kai- either front. The equipment of shek's chief secretary, has been ap the Army is rapidly becoming bet- painted the chairman of the Hupeh ter through the daily arrival of Government, and that Cheng Carge supplies of "arms and am-. Chien, former commander of the munition Red Crpsa detachmenta sixth Army, has been named chief and field hospitals are also being dispatched as quickly as possible" to both fronta-- -Transocean huo Him
Heavy snow has fallen in Kansu.
Yellow River are frozen and ship of staff ping has been suspended. Similar-Beuter ly, the Peiho, between Tangku,and Tientsin. is frozen over, and vessels. are docking at the former port..
mintang, urging the protection of Mr. P. F. Le Fevre of the Texas Mr. Su Lee Chang, described as legitimate expression and of the Company 'left the Colony yesterday a former secretary of the Chinese freedom of newspapermen, and the for New York by the Bs, President Legation, appealed ar London restoration of reporting facilities Lincoln. Other local residents Bessions against convictions at Continuing the petition deplores embarking on the same steamer Marlborough Street on summonses the attack on Mr. Wang Ching Wel, were Miss Betty Pestonji, Mr. and | alleging that he used Insulting be- stating that the attempt on his lifa Mrs. J. R. Appleton.
haviour and that he had assaulted has caused government officialą a policeman. His appeal against and the police to treat journalists the first conviction was allowed with diarespect. Open public ridi
to With regard.
the con- cule. has also been widely experie viction for assault the case was enced. dismissed under the Probation Act
For the convenience of their patrons, the China Emporium will remain open til 9. p.m. on Thurs- day and Friday, December 19 and 20 and tur 9.30 pm, on Saturday, December 21. On Sunday, Decem- ber 22. The store will be open from 9 am. til 9.30 pm."
COAL MINE OWNERS READY TO PAY MORE
No
London, Dec. 17. agreement was reached at To this we have only to point out
"ast gevening's meeting, lasting that the Police Club for Street Boys is not meeting with any sig-
nearly five hours, between repre- sentatives of the coalowners and nal success in putting the boys
the Miners' Federation on the under control and management. Sometime ago, the publisher of a
wages dianute. local periodical engaged five boys peace,
The owners regretted that their The National Bar Association of request to be allowed to increase from the Police Club for Walls and A large percentage of German
A runaway cow held up the Grear China with its head office in prices under existing contracts had Strays. He dressed them up in and French revenue is going into
Western Railway for several hours Shanghal has despatched a tele so far not been met with such a rifce khaki uniforms, and bought the melting pot of Mars. Precau-
recently. She escaped when enter-gram to Gen. Bung Chen Yuan, the favourable response as they had for them each a pair of rubber tionary measures, of course.
ing the Reading abattoirs, broke military leader of the north, ask- hoped, and whey intimated that in shoes. They were told to get out │A pretty picture of interninfionni The Annual Speech Day of Wah through a wire fence on the G.WRg him to give special pardon to, into the streets to cell magazines insanity, a veritable bedlam of Yan College will be held on Saturmain line and headed west, follow and release the Pelping students most, they could undertake was
the present circumstances the in They were given their respective high-speed re-armament. Every day, December 21, at the Queen's ed by an increasing crowd of rail-who were arrested several days ago that wages would be increased in NOTICE is hereby given that on locations, and the boys left the nation squandering millions of Theatre at 10.30 am. Mr G. R. way, mayor Test the following a demonstration against
FRIDAY, 20/12/85, the supply office beaming with smiles and money on war machines because It Bayer. Director of Education, will chase was reinforced by the station the autonomy movement.
every district on January 1 the of electricity will be interrupted at assured the publisher that they is afraid of war.
amount of the increase and other- pat, distribute the prizes.
master, who, however, had to turn 9 a m. and again at 4 p.m. for would do their best. Two hours Is it possible that somebody and b
·tall and climb a signal post when
details to be left to the districts to period of approximately one hour later, the said publisher took a really said that the last war was in each case is the area bounded stroll to check up his boys, and
the cow charged him. The cow A, general decrease in freight determines one to end war and that during
then slowly and deliberately tire revenues on the Nanking-Shang- The Federation's representatives by the sen, Jordan Road, Canton he found them all in the side lane the decade 1925-35 there has been
up the newer beds which were his hat and Shanghai-Bunchow-Ning- | expressed satisfaction at the por- Road & line continuing Navy Street behind Whiteaway's, gambling with
oride. Bix miles from her start po Railways was reported for the Lion, and at their fequest the own and running from Canton Road to
Ing point she was lassoed by police month of November. The receipts ers undertook to ask the districts Nathan Road, Nathan Road (includ-other street arabs, bars
iomicers and shot
on the Nanking-Shanghai line to intimate ng esty sa possible com
were $1,172,180.48 and on the what offer they were prepared to Shanghai Hangchow Ningpo | line 'make,
It is understood 3300,317.89, or 5.42 per cent, and 11.73 per cent lower respectively meeting will be held, at the cate compared to the revenue of the nas not yet been ha same month last year.
such a joke is the Disarmament
Conference?-
ing East side from No. 218 to No We, however, agree that these 228), Ningpo Street, Battery Street Doys are doing a great service, but and Saigon Street.
not to the community. They are When supply is restored at ap duing it for themselves and for the of Chinese newspapers to show it? proximately 10 a.. the frequency newspapers who employ them. If It is a recognised fact in business will be 60 cycles.
their services call for recognition, that a "star" salesman should be [4059 will it not be up to the publishers paid according to his worth.
A Carol Concert under the aus- pices of the Hong Kong University Christian Association is being held in the Great Hall of the University on Sunday, December 22, at 9 p.m.
Notiable diseases reported to the local Health Authorities during
At a meeting held fast Thurn the week-ended on December 14 day, the Nanking Journalists In were ten cases of diphtheria withsutute passed & resolution, which two deaths, two cases of enteric is to be forwarded to the National fever with one death and one died Govemment and the Central Kun
further