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MARRIAGE
DULLEY-SANDER-On November 23, 1938, at the Peak Church, Hugh William Macpherson, son of the late Hubert and Mrs Dully of Kensington, London, to Therese, daughter of Mrs. Sander, of Bough Beech Kent. (Shanghai and Singapore papers please copy), a
): £118
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1936.
JAPAN'S MONEY
CHEST
Fighting Services Accept Cuts
FATHER AT 101
Daughter Of 2 And Son Of 5
In an old Norfolk cottage at Burnham Market, near Nelson's birth-place, Burnham Thorpe. I met recently one of the most wonderful “old men in Great, Brl- tal, writes a correspondent in the "News Chronicle."
Tokyo. Nov. 23. The Ministry of War has accept- ed a cut of 102 million yen and | the Navy Ministry one of 98 million in the draft estimate for 1937-38.
George Skeet was, 103 years old The Budget to be presented to
April. As we * talked, the Cabinet by the Ministry of last Finance on Friday will therefore two tiny children played about his London Office: 53. Fleet Street approximate 3,040 million yen-aknee--Doris, aged two, was born was 101, and Eric, considerable reduction over the when George
aged five, when he was 98. earlier forecast.
in 1833. before George, born
the Queen Victoria
father.
They throne, is their have a brother who is 69.
E.C, 4.
The Daily Press.
Hoya KONG, NOVEMBER 24, 1936.
JAPAN'S
As the revenue is estimated at only 2,200 million yen, however, there will still be a big deficit which will be met by a bond issue of 840 million yen.-- Brater.
came
HAPPY AND PROUD No father could be happier or orouder, and no children could love their father more.
George Skeet was married for $80,
GENERAL GOUGH the second time 3 years
VINDICATED
when his wife was 19. He.. nt course, was then 90, and the mar- riage has brought him, he told me, "the greatest delight in wife
FINANCE 18 Years After He Was and children that any aged man
the Enancial year ending 31st lu his last report on Japan tu March, 1937, has been declared the Department of
Overeeus
by the Directors of the Company Trade Sir G. B. Sausom found.
to criticise in good deal in Brisbane, payable on 12th..
lo December, 1936 to Shareholders Japanese financial policy. on the Registers at Brisbane and is report which was published Singapore on 11th December, on 4th inst., two years later, the same criticisms stand, for neither the economic situation nor the financial policies of the various Japanese Governments have an dergone any marked change.
1936.
4
NOTICE is also hereby given that the Singapore. Transter Registers will be closed from December, to Saturday, 5th Friday, 11th December, 1936 tboth days inclusive), for the
Dividend War preparation of rants.
+
By Order of the Board,
DERRICK & CO., Chartered Accountants,
Local Secretaries.
Hong Kong Bank Chambers, Singapore, 14th November, 1936. 4885
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
Expenditure is still rising with the steadily increasing demands of the army and navy, though since 1933 avil expenditure bas remained almost stationary and Sir G. B. Sansom considers it to be "low." To meet this expen diture the Governments have found it necessary to raise inter- nal loans, which, in the last six years have generally provided more than one-third of the, total
Levenue.
So far this policy has proved effective, but it is not one which can be continued indefinitely without danger of inflation.
That, at least, was the opinion Į PROBATE JURISDICTION, of Mr. Takahashi, the Minister of Finance, at the end of 1935, IN THE GOODS of Joseph when he decided that bond issues Welch, late of Whaphams must be reduced and that the Henfield in the County of only alterative (as he opposed Sussex, England, Retired an increase in taxation, which Merchant, deceased.
the report also considers to be of floubtful benefit) was for the NOTICE is hereby given that army and navy to reduce their the Court has by virtue of Section estimates. 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made an Order Umiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against "the above estate to the 12th day
of December, 1936.
All creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.
Dated the 16th day of Novem ber, 1936.
Mr. Takahashi, however, was assassinated, in February of this year and has been succeeded by Mr. Baba, who has a wholesome respect for the military.
Relieved Of Fifth Army Command
LLOYD GEORGE'S LETTER
WES
Uke me has ever had."
Mrs. Skeet, who is now 32, shares his joy in their two children, and said, with a smile: '
"I am glad I married George: «I have been able to look after him. We are very happy, and he is the best husband a woman could have."
George is a native of the village in which he lives.
General Sir Hubert Gough, the Fifth Army commander whe
When he was earning 75, 6d. a relieved of his command and re-week he first married. That was called to England by the Govern- in 1838-78 years ago. He and the ment after the great retreat of first Mrs. Skeet had a family of March, 1918, was publicly vindicat-two-William, now 69 years old. ed on November 2-18 years after and Edward, now 60. His wife died. wards. states the "Evening News."63 years after their marriage.
The vindication came from Mr.
Lloyd George, who, as war-time Prime Minister, was responsible for General Gough's recall,
It was contained in this letter. sent to Sir Hubert, which was made public to-dry:
My dear General Gough,
I have waliten my first draft of the 21st of March battle, and the events preceding it. I promised to let you have a look at it before it was published.... I should like to see you some time immediately after you have perused it.
"THEY KEEP ME ALIVE" These young people keep me alive." declared George, as he sat in als chair. He gently prevented little Doris, who was climbing on his knee. from burning herself as he lighted his pipe.
"I've got some years to go get." he said.
"George has never had a day's illness since we were married," said
"He goes out
every
FINE EXHIBITION OF
GUNNERY
Naval Manoeuvres
Invergordon
At
SPEED TARGETS HIT AND
BADLY HOLED
Off the Caithness coast recently I witnessed at close range à shoot which testled to the gunnery prowess of the Home Fleet. Two coastal motor boats used as high speed targets were hit so often and so badly holed that they were towed back to Inver→ gordon in a sinking condition, states a Correspondent on board the HM.S. Express.
Most of the damage was done by the shells of multiple pom- deal poms-guns designed to with attacking aircraft-and their effect at a range of some 1000 yards was devastating. Few people outside the Navy have seen these guns in action. Only within the st few days have the restrictions been retaxed to permit of accredited civilians even seeing them, and I must be one of the first newspaper repré- sentatives to have a close-up view of the damage they can do.
The experience has "been well the early departure worth while from HM.S. Courageous which the trip to sea necessitated.
While it was still dark a speed boat transferred me from the air- craft carrier, at anchor in the Cromarty Firth, to HMS. Express, one of five ships of the Firth Des- troyer Fintilla with the Fleet. She Is one of the latest destroyers, and came home from the Medi- terranean in July.
פ י
47
ROTHERMERE AGAIN!
Britain Called A Busybody
PRESS PEER BLAMES FOREIGN POLICY
OU
No episode in any part of the world takes place without Foreign Omce rushing forward to take a hand," said Lord Rother- mere, the British press magnate speaking during his few hours stay in "Colombo recently in con- demnation of the present British he polley which described. 13 "fretful" and ""fusay," representative of the Times."
states a "Colombo
age when, just abreast of Tarbat
"The activities of this depart- Ness, the wire" parted and the two
ment are more than remarkable. coastal motor boats went adrift.
It is always ready to interfere with What actually happened was this
advice, often resented by the most -the Airst target was so badly
heavily-armed
the peoples of holed by gunfire that it gradually
world," went on Lord Rothermere. filled and put such a severe strain
-To-day, although our trade-in. on the towing wire that it snap-
China has shrunk to inappreciable ped close to the stern of the des-proportions, It is the British For- troyed. Round about went the. Ex- press, almost in her own length. and in comparatively short time the second target, less ser iously damaged than the other, was got alongside.
This was a task requiring sound it was "accom- seamanship, and
manner which would plished in have rejoiced the heart of any old blue-water.mariner.
а
Seamen Jumped on to the deck of the target, loosened shackles and released connecting wires, which joined the two coastal motor boats. The less seriously damaged target was once again taken in tow, and a tug. which had been standing by for just such an emergency, proceeded to salvage the other, now scarcely showing above the water. Invergordon
6-INCH GUNS Within a few minutes of slip- ping her buoy off pier, H.M.S. Express had taken in | Low
motor-boats, two coastal now reserved for target purposes. Once outside the orth the wire cable paid out until the targets were 800 yards astern and almost hidden by spray as the towmg destroyer increased speed
to 26 kote.
Nearly eight miles away, just discernible on the horizon, were children, you can and healthy and the battleships Nelson and Rud- their 6in. kun crews They have neverncy with
coastal motor-boat targets:||
The morning dawned grey and cold, with poor visibility and a low ceiling for the seaplanes from
It
Mrs. Skeet. day. As for the see how pretty strong they are. I need hardly say that the facts had a doctor." which have come to my knowledge
The children are as bonny a since the ·War have completely couple, as you could wish to see. changed my
You sponsibility for that defeat. were completely let down, and no General could have won that battle under the conditions in which you were placed,
Ever sincerely,
י,
mind es
to the TP-
Eric, who has blue eyes and flaxen curls, is a strikingly beauti- And ful boy with sturdy limbs. goldenhaired Doris resembles him. They ran about the cottage threw laughing and shouting: themselves on their father's knees and tormented him in the endear- ing way children have.
D. Lined George. HONOURED General Cough was
He decided not to make any comments on his "vindication." man of 40 and great-aunt to a
man.
time
.!
George loves their boisterous- A happyness, and "played with them.
Two-year-old Dorts is aunt to a
but he deeply appreciates the girl of 22, and to others of her "generosity" of Mr. Lloyd George father's great-grandchildren. in making it clear beyond doubt The old man eats heartily, hears that his eclipse was an injustice distinctly, and does not wear due to wrong information at the glasses, He goes to church twice every Sunday, Last Sunday, for It has been a week of high the second time in his life, he drama for General Gough. He was went for a motor car ride. dinner honoured guest at a given by Mr. Lloyd George's pub- iishers, Ivor Nicholson and Watson,
an
.
Mr. Baba proposes both to crease taxation and to continue the policy of loans, and that, in
and Watson, Ltd., to celebrate the tact, is what is likely to happen. completion of LG's war memoirs. Japan's industrial prosperity General Gough sat among the provides a certain guarantee men who were of the war-time against danger, but it is some cabinet, the men who had ended JOHNSON, STOKES & what startling to read the opinion his military career at a time when
MASTER, Solicitors for the Executors,
Bank Buliding, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.
he was one of the best known
George is the oldest railway pen- sioner in the country.
GEN. CHIANG AT LOYANG
In Touch With Suiyuan Authorities
HMS. Furious, the second aircraft
carrier
attached
to the Home
Ita
wrecked condition must have appealed to the gunners of the battleships and the cruisers who caused the damage,
SAILS RIDDLED
eign Office that is most actively Ame- at work in that country. rican interests are far greater than ours but Washington, be yond keeping an observant eye. does nothing.
11
the the
WHAT JAPAN WILL NOT "
FORGIVE "Japan will never forgive Three of Lytton Mission. most prominent, public, men Japan assured me that the effect of this mission upon the relations of Britain and Japan was cats- trophic and permanent.
Ts it not high time," he obser ved, "that Britain took some step to make known to the world that she was no longer a busybody!” -
"The continuance of the Dis-
2 armament Commission years after it was obvious disarmament was not possible has made foreign po- wers believe that Britain will not Aght
circumstances. under any Although stout statements are made by Sir Samuel Hoare and other prominent Cabinet Minis- ter I have not yet come across anyone with any mowledge who belleves Britain is seriously arm- tng on a scale necessary to meet the perils of the next five years.
Each target carried a certain amount of rigging and canvas for steadying purposes, and the sails were riddled with holes. Even the mast of the targets salvaged by the tug had been shot away, and the wreckage was trailing, in the sea. It was all recovered, together with the 800 yards of towing wire belonging to the ex-months press.
OF
WAR RISK
the defections of Belgium and Portugal, which until a few were ago
satellites of Britain, we can observe some of On arrival at Invergordon the the fruits of our crazy sanctionist Belgium towards Italy. destroyer "olled ship" ready tor policy exercises next week when she pro and Portugal will not be the only ceeds again to sex.
defections. Holland and the Scandinavian countries may rol- low suit.
Fleet, which was in the Dornoch
The Fleet La remaining in har- Firth. Before Nelson and Rodney opened fire the sky brightened, hour over the week-end, and, ac- and the Sutherland and Caith-cording to programme. will be at Rosyth about October 13. when ness coast lines were clearly out-
Sir Samuel Hoare, the "First Lord Ilned
of the Admiralty is making an inspection of the case.
NELSON AND RODNEY The after-gun platform proved anitable vantage an admirably point
the
from which" to view
shooting of the Battle Squadron. CHINA FAMINE
No sooner was a deg run to the yardarm of the destroyers as a sig- mal that everything was ready for action than there was a concen- tration of attention on the Ne son. Everyone was watching for the dashes of the 6in. guns, „ and then unconsciously turning their gaze to the targets and marking the shell splashes.
Records were taken on the des- troyer, and there was a continual calling of so many degree over or short of the targets as the two gun salvoes landed
RELIEF
Drive For Financing New Programme
"Our Foreign Ministers require a ne mind and heart. If they continue anything resembling" our present foreign policy war for us will be unavoidable."
ANTI-SMUGGLING BUREAU
Peiping, Nov. 23. The anti-smuggling bureau, which was moved from Nanking to Ten- tain in accordance with a decision reached between the Ministry of Finance and the Customs authori- ties is functioning in Tientsin.
According to Mr. Li Tung-hun, Heralding its entry into a stage deputy inspector of the bureau, the removed from the of development and readjustment office
Nanking
was
serious
required by the present trend f! capital because of the events in the country, the China smuggling situation in the North. International Famine Reiter Com-To establish the bureau in Tientsin After the Nelson came the Rod- mission is embarking upon a new would enable it to co-operate more ney, firing the same weight of
programme for financing which a fully with the railway authorities. projectile, and the shooting was
nation-wide drive for $300,000 will Mr. L stated that branches have such that the ship which the
be started on Nov. 16, the 15th an- been established in Pelping, Tang- targets representer would have niversary of the founding of the taun, Shihchischwang, Binhsiang. been at the bottom within & quar-Commission." ter of an hour.
of the report that "the ordinary Army commanders in France. public has derived little if any And he heard Mr. Lloyd George
Pelping, Nov. 23. According to reliable informa- The Hong Kong & Shanghai Pecuniary benefit from this pros- pay the warmest possible tribute.
perity.
to him, Both Mr. Winston Church- tion, General Chiang Kai-shek. On the whole, the picture ill and Bir Austen Chamberlain who is still at Loyang, is directing showed their appreciation of this personally the strengthening of painted by the report suggests tribute and Bir Austen, in fact, defences in Sulyuan, Ninghsia and that Japan, while continuing to thanked LD" for it. enjoy a "boom," is in no position
and detailed instructions on the Oring with Nelson and Rodney deliberation is in general a three-amugging bureau will confine ita
to undertake any adventures on a grand scale which might upset the precarious apple-cart of her finances.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
4823
Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Twelfth Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, 5th December, 1936 (weather permitting) may be ob tained at the Secretary's Office, Exchange Building: the Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road, **Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on Thursday, 26th Nov. ember, 1936,
By Order,
S. A. SLEAP,
Actg. Secretary,
CANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Canton, Nov. 23. It is reported that the member ship of the Canton Chamber of Commerce consists of over sixty firms and shope, but has not been properly organized.
A short time ago the Chamber's constitution was investigated by the Provincial Tang Pu by request, but the result has not yet been disclosed.
On the 22nd instant, a meeting was held by over sixty members of the Chamber for the purpose of, runsidering
scheme of re-
organization. 4832 | Chinese Evening Preu.
A MISTAKE
The tribute was received with great applause and, among the small company present; was taken to indicate clearly the vindication of General Gough,
||
Until recently Sir Hubert had only met Mr. Lloyd George on rare occasions since the war,
But when Mr. Lloyd George came to that part of his memoirs covering the March 21 battle and went deeply into the available evidence, including GeneratGough's own statements, he decided to tell the General frankly that he had made a mistake. They met and discussed the matter at lengthi
General Gough to-day has many sympathisers who point out that what is now admitted to have been a blunder almost certainly deprived him of much higher bon- ours and other reward. GAG” THEY WERE
Contempora PROMOTED
Fils contemporaries, Byng (com- manding the 3rd Army), Plumer (2nd), Horne (1st), and Rawlinson
:
Kokonor. Both encouragement
matter are said to be sent dally by him to General Fu T80-y, chairman of the Sulyan Provin- cial Government, and the leaders of the provinces.—- Union News.
ARMED ROBBERS
Another armed robbery was per- petrated yesterday at the small village of Kip Sal Mei, near Sham shutpo, when six men, with daggers and choppers as weapons. entered a hut there and made off with only a small amount of clothing.
(4th), were elevated to the peerage and given a Government grant of £30,000 for their services,
A number of other higher.com- mands received honours, grants and promotion,
Hals, as Commander-in-Chier, received an Earldom and a grant of £100,000.
There was a brief interval be fore: the H.M.S. Express once again Increased speed, and the cruiser steamng in line-aheal formation
Hankow, Chengchow. Hauchang, Teh-chow. Tainan, Yenchow, Eau- chow. Pengpu and Pakow and have already started to function.
Mr. LA declared that the anti-
activities mainly along the rail- ways and all: preventive measures on the sea coast will still be in the hands of the Customs authorities. Union New
THREE PHASED PLAN The new programme mapped out by the Commission after careful
rural engineering, phased one: at 16. knots, opened fire at short co-operative experimentation, de- velopment of relief techniqua and range in quick succession.
The ships made two runs, fr-personnel.
While already much has been ing their secondary armament, including multiple pom-poms and done in these fields by the Com- multiple heavy machine guns. mission during the past few years, There was all the din inevitable Its 15th anniversary will mark this them. Feeder roads, lateral canals, during a bombardment, with the change-gradually bringing the reservoirs, and the like will be small shells cutting the water pioneering efforts at reconstruc-built so that the large arteries of round the target at such a rapid tion to a close and redirecting its communications and conservancy rate that it was almost impossible service to help the farmers to en-schemes now being built or.com- joy the new facilities being made pleted can be of real practical to follow the splache"
available said to rationalize the benent to agriculture age-old rellet methods.
One could only marvel at the deadliness of modern artillery, and visualise the effect of Buch a withering Are son attacking aircraft
Not too much can be said about that, but the shooting has to be seen to be relieved.
EURAL ENGINEERING With regard to rural engineer-
4. LAND RECLAMATION Meanwhile, experiments in colo“. alzation and land reclamation will
ing it is planned that the Commis also be conducted as a measure ston will pay particular attention to develop the thinkly-populated to the carrying out of small locul parts of the country lower engineering projects, as the major As to the development of relief MORE EXCITEMENT
projects are being undertaken by technique and personnel it is the The day's excitement did not the Government. The Commission plan of the Commission to develop and when the Nelson, Rodney, will especially help the farmers to and standardize scientific methods and Orion went off on other bos-enjoy the facilities offered by the for distributing Teller and to train A recently developed public works, its personnel so that relier when for Invergordon, still particularly highways and irriga- necessary can be applied quickly with the targets in tow, MS tion canals, by enabling them to and economically Express was making a fast pass- make the fullest prseries) the ni Jentral News Agency:
'ness.
Headed