Before Mr. E. Himsworth, at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday Chung Wah, a 34-year-old watch- maker from Singapore admitted the theft of property valued at $35 from a shop at 1088 Cantón Road and the illegal pawning of a wall clock.
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The Fourth Annual Meeting of the China Emporium, Ltd., was held at the Company's premises, Nos. 62A-68, Queen's Road Central, yesterday afternoon, when the Chairman, the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow was in the chair. Page 7.
NAVY GOODWILL MISSION
Five British Ships To Visit Japan
Shanghai. Apr. 18. Five ships of the British Chinn
The crew of 22, all Danes, one of whom swam ashore with a Station wil visit Japanese waters message when the
struck during April and May on goodwil are at their own wish standing by missions, making calls at Kobe,
had com- Kagoshima. Beppu, Fukuoka
and Captain Erikson who
Formosa The ships will be the manded the burque for
aircraft carrier Hermes, the dès- troyers, Duncan, Delight ́and Du- chess and the 9.000-ton cruiser Dorsetshire.
years.
British Wireless.
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GERMAN NATIONAL
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On May 1, the German com- This friendly attitude towards munity of Hong Kong will celebrate Britain has been reaffirmed in the German National Holiday. more recent times by His Majesty's The Consul-General, Herr H. | action during the student disorders which swept the country and his efforts for a peaceful settlement of differences at a conference.
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After a visit of two weeks in Kobe, the Hermes and Duchess will stop at Kogoshima en route back to Chinese waters, while the Dun. can and Delight wil return by way of Beppu and Fukuoka, All will arrive in Kobe on AprF 28.
Gipperich, is holding a reception The Dorsetshire is expected to in the German Club at 11am, to visit Formosa on April 30 and will which all friends in the inter- sail again on May 4- national community of the Colony Union News. are heartily welcomed.
In the afternoon there will be a Children's Feast at the Germani Tennis Club, King's Park, and in the evening a dinner and dance" at the German Club,
NAKAYAMA MURDER
ARRESTS
Shanghai, Apr. 28.
The case against the three. Can- ton Chinese, arrested in connec-
No definite charges have yet been framed against the three ac- cused.
having become" ineffective were doubt a few clergymen rotuse to groundless.
retire when they have become un-
Suffering from injuries which she | Monday. Beven Though as yet this Measure has fit for work, yet the number is only reached its early stages in the small. Often. too, their problema. is received when knocked down by thrown into the water and were cases, 2 deaths; Enteric Fever 3.tion with the murder of the Ja- [4382 Assembly, it has encountered a complicated by finance. If they private car No. 3595, Chi Lin was rescued by a steam launch, Hop cases, 2 deaths, 1 imported: Measles panese marine, Corporal" Naka- case: yama, some months ago, was ad- good deal of opposition. At least, are sixty-four or more to-day they admitted to the Government Civil Sang which was nearby at the time. 1.2 deaths; Chicken-Por, 1 however, the general idea it em- are outside the operation of the Hospital yesterday. The accident Yeung Lin-fai, 30, married woman, Cerebro-Spinal Fever. 4 cases, 5 journed for a fortnight to-day at bodies is vastly preferable to that new clergy pensions scheme--and | occurred in Hennessy Road.
mistress of boat No, 1669W and Lo¦ deaths; Tuberculosis Not notidable the request of the prosecution. of prescribing a fixed age-limit on even that scheme only provides, on
Fo were admitted to the Govern- 52 death. Ng Yuen was admitted to the ment, Civil Hospital but their pro- Irrespective both of his own con-pension of £200 after forty years' Kowloon Hospital yesterday with gress is said to be satisfactory. dition and of the kind of work he service. To-day the older clergy- injuries which he received as a re- is doing, must automatically be re- man, on quitting a benefice worth sult of a combined attack made tired. Obviously some men are 360 a year, is given a miserable upon him by eight other men in younger, at sixty-five than others pension of 160-and of that Portland Street. al forty-five. Obviously, too, the amount 200 has to be paid by his age, at which a man becomes un- unfortunate successor. Indeed to A report was made to the Police The return showing the number Lady Alastair Innes-Ker left equal to the charge of some huge provide the hard-worked parochial yesterday by Leung Kam-chnen of cases of Notifiable Diseases England last week for Marseilles, Industrial parish is not necessarily clergy with something to retire master of cargo boat No. 1669W which have been notined as having where she will join the liner Ran the age when he can no longer upon is the first step necessary in taht his boat collided with another occurred in the Colony of Hong mura on April 17 for Hong Kong minister effectively to a couple of framing-any scheme for their com cargo boat No. 1754V in the south-Kong during the week ended. April She expects to be away until hundred people in a village. No pulsory retirement.
ern fairway at about 1.30 pm, oni 25 are as follows:-Diphtheria 3 August
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.
A Dinner Dance will be held at Repulse Bay Hotel to-day at 8.30 p.m.
Miss Picton-Turbervill leaves London on April 18 by the P. & O. The shooting of the Japanese express to Join the Ranpura formarine, which caused so much ten-- Hong Kong, and will be absent for slon in Shanghai, was looked upon four or five months..
ag an unsolved mystery for some time after the event. The arrest of the men now in custody was carried out with great socrecy and proceedings against them were only disclosed yesterday. The exact na- ture of these is still obscure. – Reuter.
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