*LOCAL AND GENERAL
PROMOTIONS Sub-Lts-D. G. D. Hallwright. A. L. 9. Hogy, G. J. Cardew, R. C. Barton, and G. Starkey, to rank of Lt. (seny, June 18).
Wt. Tel-F. W. Barford, F. G. Bunker, and R. Batchwill, to rank of Cd. Tel (seny, July 7).
Sub-LA-R. D. Whiteway-Wirin- son, to rank of Lt (seny. April 16).
Wt. Elect-A. R. Boorman, C. J.
The body of the eighteen year old engine room wiper, Louis James. Zutte, on the President Jackson, who died of sunstroke last. Batur. day, July 18, while bathing st Tal- wan Beach, Kowloon, has been cm- baimed in preparation for the re- mains to be shipped on its last voy- age back to Beattle, Washington, on July 31, on board the American
Hill, J. C. Warren, J. W. Cooper, Mall liner, 8.5. President McKinley. W. Hough, E I. Hawkins, and T. H. Hall, to rank of Cd. Elect. (seny. June 29).
Wt Mech-W, L Phipp, to rank of Cd. Mech. (seny. July 1).
Cd. Engr.-G. F. Pengelly. to rank of L. (E) (seny. June 25).
Wt. Engr.-C. E Wison, to rank ot Cd. Engr. (seny. July 1),
RETIREMENTS
Lt.-E. H. Clarke, placed on the Retd. List (July 113.
Lts. (E).-P. L Nicol and J. D. Nicholas, placed on the Retd. List (June 18 and 19 respectively).
Cdr.-R. G. H.Linzee, placed on the Retd. List at own request (July 1).
AUSTRIA GRANTS
AMNESTY
Vienna. July 23.
A
:
An unexpectedly lenient am nesty decree was announced by the Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schusch- nigg to-day.
their sentences
Berlin, July 22, .Colonel Lindbergh arrived here Japanese aggression has ac-
on a special airplane from Cologne
Under it 10,000 Nazis, Com- celerated Moscow's development on Wednesday. Commandant Co-
Opening the second of the three munists and Socialists will be re- of her own For Eastern regions lonel Kastner, on behalf of the days debate on the unemploy leased or have und her active expansion irito Relchs Government, was there to
ment assistance. regulations in the greatly reduced. Henceforth only Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang, receive the guest. Lindbergh will House of Commons, Mr. Neil Mac- 224 political prisoners will remain be Goering's guest in Germany for Lean, Labour, said that the unem-in prison throughout all Austria. The engagement is announced be-minated before the revolution and factories. Including the Jun-
where Russian influence predo- one week, and many aerodromes ployed were expected to
become-Reuter," tween Frederick May Stuart. More than at any previous time, youngest on of the late Mr. Russia to-day may be described as M. Tegner, of Japan, and Mrs. Tegner, of 15, a major Far Eastern power. This Hyde Park Terrace, London, in the deeper meaning of the new and Marie Elizabeth, youngest relationship with Mongolis..
Yokohama,
daughter of the late Mr. Charles Tait and Mrs, Talt, of Mel- bourne, Australia. The mar-
riage will take place quietly at the end of August in London.
· MARRIAGE.
NAVAL MANOEUVRES OFF FORMOSA
Japan Invites Chinese
Officials
enthusiastic because two hundred
kers Works in Dessau and the thousand among them were likely Heinkel Works in Warnemuende will be visited, as well as the aero- dromes at Tempelhof and Doe- beritz-/ransocean Hows Servion.
TWO MINISTERS ON SICK LIST
SPANISH PLANE MYSTERY
Landing In France
The Hongkong Stock Exchange have received a cable from Messrs. Derrick & Co. Local Secretaries in Singapore of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co. Ltd. announcing the output for the four weeks end- Ing 18th. July 1936 to be 2093
ounces,
One case each of Small-Pox and " Enteric Fever were reported to the Health Authorities for the 24 hours ended on Wednesday.
Sumtering from the effects of immersion when he jumped into the harbour at Gloucester Road, Chán Yuen was admitted to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital on Wednesday.
Cheung Kan, aged 31 years, re- siding at 5 New Market Street, was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital on Wednesday suffering from lysol pe'soning.
PALESTINE COMMISSION
Still Waiting For Situation To Improve
London, July 22.
The Colonial Secretary stated in a Commons answer that he hoped to announce the personnel of the Palestine Commission and the terms of reference next Wednesday. The Commission, obviously "could" not go to Palestine where the past- tion, he said, was still serious untal suficient order was "restored to en- able it to make investigation. Re- plying to another question, Mr." Ormsby Gore referred to the sug- gestion that there should be a tem- Paris, July 22,
porary suspension of immigration The mission of the two Spanish while the Commission carries out airplanes which landed at Le Bour- its inquiry, and said he was not at get on Tuesday, is still wrapped in present in a position to make any mystery. However, it is thought statement as to the Intentions of that they have come to supervise the Government beyond saying. the construction of some planes their decision trould be taken in ordered from France some time due course on the merits of the ago. It is assumed that these case and would not be inuenced planes, particularly the bombers, by "violence or attempts at in-
to receive an increase of an aver- weekly. Amid age of sixpence laughter he referred to the pay-" ments as Woolworth increase from the Woolworth Government.
The Secretary for Scotland. Bir Godrey Collins sald the Govern ment confidently looked to the un- biassed pubile opinion, sympatheti-Hong Kong: Dally Press Specta cally moved towards the needs of the unemployed to approve the regulations intended to give even handed justice to all applicants.į Great Britain was treating her `un- employed better than any other nation in the world, z
London, July 22. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Lord Hallsham were both absent | TISDALI OGILVIE.-On July 3,
from to-day's Cabinet meeting, the 1936, at Epsom, Surrey, Gerald
lafter suffering from a chill and Ernest Harding' Tisdall, MB..
being confined to his bed. Doctors B.Chir. Cantab.), "eldest son of
have advised a complete rest from Beresford D. Tisdall, Commis-
Foochow, July 23. state duty. sioner of Customs, China (re- The Japanese fiset panoeuvres It is understood the Cabinet tired) and Mrs. Tisdall, to will take place off Formosa on meeting discussed the Locarno ed the regulations, although he re- Marjorie Evelyn, eldest daugh- Saturday. Local Chinese omcials Powers conference, which starts garded them as improvement on ter of the late Mr. Charles E. are invited to attend the exercises, Ogilvie and Mrs. Ogilvie,
Central News,
to-morrow. Reuter
J
Mr. Dingle Foot, Liberal, criticis
the 1934 draft
Belting Wireles
are needed urgently in Spain.- Transorean News Service
timidation
British" "Wiretean.