WORLD BRIDGE OLYMPIC
The 1936 Game
Analysed
OBITUARY
Miss Elizabeth Olsen
The death occurred on Tuesday
Singapore for her Missionary ac- tivities, and had been looking after her sister in Singapore since April. Her sister, Miss Mary Olsen is also of the American Method
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ROYAL NAVY
Trials Of The Repulse
Asiatic Petroleum Co. (South
China), Ltd. in Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf
da Godown Co.Ltd S
$500
500 500 100
150
50
London, Jan. 115. "The "battle-cruiser Repulse was commissioned for trials on Thurs- day at Portsmouth- Captain J, H. Godfrey, late Deputy Director of Plans, has assumed the command. Since she was paid att into "dock- yard control on April 1, 1833 the Repulse has been reconstructed |||
Anonymous
Mr. Percy Cox, Assistant Orient al Manager of the Canadian Mr. Eu Tong Sen Facing Steamships and Railway: | Mr. Tang Shalu Kin and a popular figure in. Oriental shipping circles, left the Colony yesterday on his retirement, after a spell of over 40 years in the East. Mr. Cox is proceeding to England. leisurely via Honolulu. New Zealand and Canada.
morning at the Matilda Hospital of Miss Elizabeth Olsen, aged 64 years, who was an American Me- thodist Missionary. She was. & "At a first glance, the hands in well-known figure in Canton and the. 1938 World Bridge Olympic seem more interesting than those selected in 1935, a number of clams
Messrs. Furness (Far East). appearing in the bidding and play.
Ltd, Hand No. 7. analysed by Mr. D.
TIK. & Shanghai Taxicab A Sequeira, presents an enviable is Mission,
"Co. Lid.... ............. opportunity for the use of the ap- The deceased came to Penang
Fung Shan Hotel proach forcing system as put for-In 1907, after several years mis-
Nam Ping Hotel ward by Mr. Culbertson:-
slanary work in San Francisco,
Mr. Drummond presided over
Empress Hotel and later joined her sister, Miss pleasant gathering of the CPR Lo Kwok Hotel Mary Olsen, at the American Me-stam yesterday when formal good-Tal Tung Hotel thodist Mission.......... Singapore. She byes were said and Mr. Cox was carried on missionary work inder given a complete fishing outfit as pendently at Canton, where she
a parting gift Mr. Drummond Hotel Ceell undertook the care of orphan mentioned in his remarks that Mr. Nathan Hotel ....... children. She was a quiet work- Coc's services to the Company and Messrs. Kok Hol Tung er and, no one knew how much his helpful and kindly treatment Messrs. Kam Lung she "accomplished at Canton, as of the stam under him would re-Messrs. Tai Tong......... she was of an unassuming dis-main
a happy memory to them Mesars. Bun Ki Taen position and did not court publi-all, and in a wider circle the Far city. She was very much liked East would miss a refreshing per-
HAND NO. 7
NORTH
SAQ 8 8
HA K 4 D7 $
C-K 852
WEST
EAST
SJ 10 743 H-803 D-9 0 2
SOUTH
S-K9 5 2
H-7 5 2
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H-Q J 10 B DJ 10 8 4 C-1063
D-AK Q 5 CA Q
BỘTH SIDES VULNERABLE South Dealer..
SUGGESTED PAR-7 No trumps Dy North/South bid and made. Suggested bidding:—
South West North
1 D
Pass
2 8
3 S
Puss
4 B
4 NT
Pass
NT
Last
Pass Pass Pass
NT
%
14
If West opens the 4 of Spades, East shows out, and the Spades are continued by finesses from South's
by her fellow missionaries In Canton and Hong Kong. and great sympathy is felt for her sister, who is now in Hong Kong. and two other sisters and a bro- ther in San Francisco.
THE FUNERAL
The funeral took place yester- day at the Protestant cemetery, Happy Valley. the Rev. E C. K Tribbeck officiating at the Cla- pel of the Resurrection. The re- mains were then cremated at Soo- kunpo. The ashes of the deceas- ed with be sent to San Francis-
co.
Among those present were her later, Mary, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Relton, Mr. and Mrs. Larsons, Mr. M. A. Grant, Miss Myers and Mrs. Emaileak of
sonality.
CHINA COMPLAINS
The Conduct Of Japan
Nai Chow Hotel New Asia Hotel
Mesars: Kwong Tai Lol Mesars, Tai Sang Chan
Messrs, Ngan Lung Messrs. Wong Hairi
Messrs. Tai On Chan A..... Mesars, Nan Kläg Messrs. Tai Loi Chan Messrs. Tin Wah Messrs. Tung Yuen Star Taxicab Co. ................... Messrs. Tung Nam Messrs. Kwok Man 1 Messrs. Sun Wah Messrs. Tut Nam Messrs. Tung Fong Messrs. Sun Kwok Man Messrs. Tai Ming,
Messrs. Sun To Shan......... Messrs. Man Kwok ...... Messrs. Nam Wah- Messrs. Sung Man Ming Messrs. Lau On Chan
London, Jan. 10.1 The call of the Chinese Ambas for at the Foreign Office was an event of no small consequence, The purpose of Mr. Quo Tai-chi's visit was to complain of the con- duct of Japan, and it is said that similar approaches have been made to the other signatories of the Mission, Mr. and Mrs. E L. Broad-plaint of the Nanking Govern
Nine Power Treaty. The com Previously acknowledged
ment is that the Japanese åre dus and Miss B. Moritz.
working to separate the five Pro vinces of Northern China from the rest of the Republic, and are engineering the so-called
the
Peniel
.
Wreaths were sent by her sister, hand. Once the Spades have been Mary, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Phillips, cleared, the whole play resolves into a triple squeeze of East's Mr. and Mrs. E. L Broaddus, Mr. hand. If West made any other and Mrs. M. A. Grant, the Peniel opening the crux of the whole Missionaries and Sophie Moritz
situation lies in placing the Spades
holding with West, for if the
nomous
auto-
movement to that end. The Japanese profess to be indig nant at this misleading propa- anda "suggesting that they have
og and modernized at an estimated cost of £1,377,000, and when ready.
20
20 for sea is expected to proceed to the Mediterranean in accordance with
20
10
.10
the arrangement announced by the First Lord in March last.
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10
5
After the Repulse it in the turn
of her sistership the Reniown to Pundergo reconstruction. But at present the Renown is with the Fleet In the Eastern Mediter- 5 ranean.
A sum of £127,700 for starting the alterations in her was included
1935 in the
Navy Estimates, but it is uncertain when
5
5 the work will be begun.
2
2
OFFICERS TO SPECIALIZE
The following omcers have been 2 selected to undergo the next long a torpedo course at the RN, Collego, 2 | Greenwich; and in the Vernon 2 Torpedo School, Portsmouth, be- 2ginning on April 30-Lleutenants 25. Hopkinson, D. V. Garde, J. G. B. | 3 Cunningham, P. P. M. Green, D. G. 3F. Bird, G. P. Kilroy, T. J, G) 1 Marchant, G. V. Corbett, and J. R. 1Carr.
1
The following have been selected to undergo the next long naviga- tion course at HM Navigation School, Portsmouth:-Lieutenants 1 M. W. G. Webster, H. N. C WIN- 1 mott E. F. 8. Back, J. B, Laing, I, 1L T. Hogg, G. V. Parmiter, J, B, E. 1 Wainwright, W. Whitworth, W. Moresby, J. A Harper, T. O C. Hayes, and J. J. B. Yorke.
Total
$13,025
$14.921
S.J.A.A. & BRIGADE The Director of Ambulance has the Honour to acknowledge with grateful appreciation and thanks the following Donations:-
Contract- Tould be bup Bab, the NANKING-CANTON ulterior motives in North China' From B. S. Dr. H. 1 Bung.
fulfilment.
Н
impossible of
Bids of 5 No-Trumps and 6, Spades were made by several play- ers. One pair alone bid ↑ No- Trumps, played by North, against an opening Heart lead, but he fall- ed contract by one trick owing to the handling of the Spade suit.
Chinese Chamber Of Commerce
MONTHLY MEETING
RELATIONS
Proposals For Compromise
cr the other hand there is both evidence and likelihood to support the stories of pressure brought .pon the Governors and people of the Provinces in question, The armies which have established a Japanese Protectorate in Man- chiria and Jehol are said to hn massed on the North side of the Great Wall ready to enforce Japanese policy on the other side if need be. Then we have stories
Minister of Finance of China, per Dr. A. Woo (Chinese National Cur- rency)
Mah Jonng Drive gross re-
ceipts ....
Mrs. D. M. Woo (Donation ror food and clothing for New Territory. Clinics)..... Society for the Protection of Children (For the Con-
Chau)
(From Our Special Correspondent) that the Japanese Army Comman- valescent Home at Cheung
Canton, Feb. 4. ders are noting without the au- Negotiations for a
Nanking-thority of the Japanese War Office."Wandering Sco" per South Canton rapprochement, which had and that the Military Party are
China Morning Post greatly been accelerated by the acting contrary to the wishes of recent return home from Europe the Civil Government. We think Mr. Kwok Shun per Dr. Ll
Shu Fan o Mr. Hu Han-min, leader of the it more respectful to Japan to as South-west political faction, have united in her purpose and follow- hume that the is substantially at last entered upon its final stage ing out the policy of her Govern- following the acceptance in prin-ment, and that her policy is to ciple by the National Government extend her, sphere of influence The monthly committee meeting for the compromise proposals sub-ever those great Provinces of the of the Chinese General Chamber mitted by the South-west Political North which contain the sturdiest of, Commerce, was held at the Council, it was reliably learnert and manliest people of all China. Chamber's Beadquarters yesterday here to-day.
HELD
1
$500.00
195.00
100.00
VISIT TO SIAM
The flotilla leader Duncan, Capt.. R. 8 Berison, and the deştroyer Daring, Commander G. Barnard, afe due to leave Singapore on Monday for a visit to Bangkok from January 16 to 22. They will afterwards return to Hong Kong, arriving on
The January 27. Diamond, Lieutenant-Comdr. N. L. Ivane, another unit of the. Bih Flotilla, will leave Bingapore on January 25 for Hong Kong, arriv- ing on January 31,
COMMAND OF THE SCOTSMAN
Lieut.-Comdr. A. E. Buchanan. of the Royal Australian Navy, who has hitherto been staff officer the Anti-Sub- 25.00 | (operations) at
marine School, Portland will as- sume command on Monday of the destroyer Scotsman, one of the emergency destroyers at Devon- port, Lieut.-Comdr. Buchanan 100.00 graduated at the Staff College in.
1934. He werit to sea as midship- 50.00 inan, R.A.N., in January, 1921. There have been several examples since the War of ships of the Im- perial Nayy being commanded by. Australian officers serving on the interchange plan
THE FATHER OF TRENT
*BRIDGE
V
After a successful school career
HOWARD-CROCKETT PRIZE at Charterhouse, where he played "An Eardley Howard-Crockett with Mr. C: Aubrey Smith, the ac-Prize has been awarded to Cadet tor, he went up to Cambridge in 1882.
J. R. Carden, who passed out of H.MS. Frobisher in December last. He was four years in the Cam- This "prize is awarded to navat bridge eleven, and for a decade or cadets each year for qualities of so held the record for the number | leadership and good example. It
He was also an expert on er e-
TWO GREAT QUESTIONS afternoon, when owing to the in- In appreciation of the favour- Looking at the question broadly, disposition of the Chairman, Mr. able reply from the Nanking we see two great encroaching move. Wong Kwong Tin, the Vice-Chair-Government which was received months upon China by Soviet "man. Mr. Li Sing. Kui took the by the South-western authotties Russia in the North-West, and by
chair. He was supported by Mr. last Thursday, Mr. Bu Han min is Japan in the North-East. Theor runs made in the University commemorates Lieutenant Eardley Au Chak Sum, Hon. Treasurer and expected to proceed to Nanking U.S.S.R. have established them match. He went in first for Notts, Howard-Crockett. R.N., killed in (Mr. Chan Ping Au, Hon, Becretary. shortly accept.ng the chairman-selves in Outer Mongolia to the
was a close friend of W. O. Grace, South Africa in 1929, and his uttar exclusion of the Chiness, in Other members present were ship of the Central Executive Com- manifest violation of the Sino- and played for Lord Hawke's team father, Major W8 Eardley Messrs. Lui Yam Shuen, Mok Kon mittee "of, the Kuzmintang.
Howard, 29th Punjabis, who died to Russian Agreement of May 31, South Africa. Sang, Chan Kam Por. Chan Shuen which he was appointed by the 1934, and the Japanese are follow.
in Thdia in 1910, Po, Goek Chin, Tang Chi Cheong, recent meeting of the Party.
TRAVELLING CONCESSIONS ing a parallel movement in Jehol ket grounds and was the presiding Chow Sing Chi, Wong Mew Lum, The compromise proposals ad- There is move and counter-move genius of Trent Bridge. Mr. Wright The rallway compantes concern- Lau King Ching, Yung Koon Man, ranced by the Cantonese to the sad the real struggle may rather himself hal been, its trustee for ed have now agreed to extend the Lan Yuk Wan. Lam Kow Mow, Nanking Government are under-be between the two invaders than years. Mok Lin, Chiu Chiu Fan, Chin stood to have included the follow between the invaders and the in- Chan Yue, Kwok Yau Ting, Kwaning points: Wan Pak, Ko Chung Nam, Cheung First, that the Kuomintang Lan Chow, Dr. Li Ping Sum and Party should consolidate the sprit many representatives of the war under which the Party was origin ous businesssssociations and ally organized. gulids,
ENQUIRIES
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Secondly, that administrative
} scope of the travelling concessions for reserve personnel" antsourced
STORE: DEPARTMENT CHANGES
vaded. We are reminded of the somewhat similar situation in west of the Caspian Sea; but last year to include the personnel Southern India in the Eighteenth either the ardours, sufferings, and of all Naval Rei ve Forces while Century when France and England losses of those terrible campaigns, under training, or serving in the fought over the outlying provinces or the abrogating philosophy of Royal Navy. The companies have of the decadent Mogul Empire Buddhism, or some other intellee also agreed that the concessions In those days there was no Nine tual current gradually impregnat may temporarily be made avail- rights of the Kuomintang Party Power Treaty and no Langue of ed the Chinese with the doctrines able to the wives and families of be clarified.
Nations to which India could ap the soldier and that military ing service, as distinct from train- of pacifism. They came to despise all Naval Reserve personnel dur- Third, that the National Govern After the accounts had been
peal, nor would it have made passed in the usual manner, the ment should establish rigid and much difference if there had been. science in which they had once ing in the Royal Nav Becretary told the meeting that uncompromising policies against Empire in those times passed from ocen supreme. They came to one hand to another with the think, in fact, exactly as if the during the last month, the Cham-Japan ber had received many letters from
Fourth that the National Gov-power to maintain it, & procees League of Nations Union had been The following appointments as the different firms and manufac ernment be reorganized so as to which nowadays there is a conley among them with its dis. Inspector of Storehousemen are
certed attempt to restrain. Here integrating propaganda, and so it notified in Fleet Orders turers in England, Penang and effect a truly towerful Central we need hardly remind the reader comes about that a nation of 420 Mr. C. H Hart: Gibraltar Dock- Shanghat applying for recommen-
hat the Chinese Republic invoked million people is utterly unable yard; Mr. J. Noonan, Sheerness dations for reliable local Chinese Fifth, that principles for non- the League of Nations in the case to defend itself against a neigh Dockyard. Mr. B. Barrett RN. agents and representatives for interference between the Nauking of Manchukuo, se she is now in our of 84 million people. Treg Yard, Trincomalee, Mr. HTML
and the Canton regimes be evoking the Treaty Towers in the fundamental fact is that China w Allen, Hong Kong Dockyard
hes and engagements side the Geary, Bermuda Dockyard; Mr. F. their products. He added that re-. plies to the above mentioned re-
tablished, and,
cuse of Hopeh and the rest. In the having neglected her own defences, Mr. J. N Burrows (acting) sixth, a united military defence former odse the invocation was ask the rest of the world to destrainstown. Dockyard, and Mr. J. quests had already been sent.
te secured in the face of Foreign dismal failure which Augurs
for the present appeal The lend her. Being unequal to the invasions.
governing factors, to be frank ask herself, she proposes to rely Cutler (acting), Port Said tam-
porarily.12 collective casecurity, WA about it, are the Army - and the upon
HESE MOVEMENTS OF SHIPS Navy of Japan. Thanks to our which she finds herse
greatly regret the
® Daring and Duncan arrived Sin- modern policy of disarmament 24 at nearly
gapore (Jan. 91
CONTRIBUTIONS
With regard to the letter sent to: the Chamber by the Macso Chin-
administration..
ese General / Chamber of Com-members of the Chamber, and that *merce requesting the Chamber to contributions be voluntary.
raise the necessary funds for the At the conclusion of the meet re-building of the Hall of the ing, the Secretary annotinced that Confucian Society, it was decided during the last few weeks, several by: the Executive Committee that new members from the different the Chamber should contribute arms and manufacturers had ap sum of $100 to that society, while piled to the Chamber for member. other subscription hits should be shịp. The applications were pass- distributed among the committer: ed.
tand our embroilmant in the Mediterranean) we are helpless to humane, if nothing can be done, interfere. And it is both-wise, and not to make the pretence of doing. anything
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