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The Most Comprehensive Survey Yet Compiled of Reconstructional Progress in Modern China.
CHINA'S
NEW CURRENCY
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By T'ANG LEANG-LI
A survey of Chinese Currency and Banking System in Historical perspective and of the reactions of the World Slump upon Chinese Trade, Industry, and Finance, from the beginning of the depression to the Establishment of State -Control of Silver—with Statistical tables relating to movements of Gold, Silver and Prices in General.
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For England And Colonies
Peiping's Gesture To Opium Addicts
Peiping.
As a gesture of its determina-
RECORD LOW
DEATH RATE
Fewer Births But
England Healthier
Nanking. Dec. 18. With the lapse of the current year, Nanking ducks will soon tion, to Wipe out the opium-and-| The 1935 death rate for England grace the dining tables of British | drug evil, the Pelping Pacification and Wales was the lowest on res homes, for the famous product of Headquarters, has ordered, 2,000 cord. At 11.7 per thousand per- the capital will soon be exported coffins co be made beforehand, | sona lying. It was:0.1. below the on a large scale by the Nanking, which will be used for containing | rate for 1934 and 0.6 below that branch of the British Internation-
'corpses of opium and drug addicts for 1033. The figure was, however, al Export Company.
to be executed, when found; be«. | ofset by a decline in the birth ginning from next year.
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Thousands of ducks have been HE Undersigned have received killed during the past few days THE
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Since the reopening of the com- pany last January, which has been suspended for six years, the egs exports have remained inactive. According to a recent estimate, the present egg export amounts, tu | only less than 10 per cent of the total amount exported during former years. At present there are around 500 workers in the plant Be compared with several thousand, and at one time: 30 000, during prosperous days.- Central News.
ON
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COMMENCING AT 2.30 P.M.
A THEIR SALES ROOM VUDDELL STREET.
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FURNITURE
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Comprising:
Black Wood Ware, Office and Drawing Room Furniture, Bed Room and Dining Room Furniture. Oil Paintings, Pictures, Ornaments, Rugs, Carpets, Ice Chests, Brass & Aluminium Ware, Glass & Porcelain Ware, Cutlery, Wardrobe and Cabin Trunks, Electric Table Lamps, and Hoster, Gramophones and Records, Typewriters," Baby Pathe" Cinema Projector, Radio, etc, etc. 1
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Commencing at 10.30 A.M.
A stern warning was recently The first volume of the Regis- WEDNESDAY,
all òplum, and drug | trar-General's statistical review of addicts in a proclamation issued the year, lasued by the Stationery by the Headquarters that they | Omce, states that the number of abstain from their evil habit by live births recorded waa 598,756. the end of this year at the latest, This total gives a rate of 14.7 per and that those who are found still thousand persons living-0.1 below. Indulging in the habit of smoking the figure for 1934 and 0.3 above oplum or consuming narcotic drugs the figure for 1833, which was the An Interesting and Valuable next year will be arrested and lowest ever recorded, executed without mercy.
Already several hundreds of opium or drug addicts recently ar- rested are under trial by the au- thorities concerned. They will be punished to law-
entral News.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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Throughout the review runs the Collection of Early Prints of unmistakable indication that so far Canton, Masau and Hong Kong
as the incidence of disease is con- cerned. England and Wales are yearly becoming healthfer coun- tries.
A.
The Vollection comprises:
Engraving published from
Sketches by Captain E. Elliott R. N.
HEALTHIER BABIES Fifty-seven per 1,000 infants died, before their best birthday as B. Complete Set of Lithographa--
:
FOREIGNERS IN prevention of Gruelty to Animals cord of 1.2 per 1.000. The tuber-
CANTON
Four Hundred And
Ninety
According to a statistical report
The Committee and members of the Hong Kong Society for the
wish to express their thanks to all those who tri any way assisted in the selling of flags during their recent successful Flag Day.
PICKPOCKET CAUGHT AT: LAST
recently issued by the Bureau of Police, the number of foreign re-brotight before Mr. K. Keen at the
sidents in the city are as follows:
American 151; German 100; Bri- tish 103; Canadians 11: Russian 37; Japanese 40; French 12; Portu- guese 11; Indian 3: Dutch 7; Danes 2; Swiss 5; Swedes 1; Austrians 1; Norwegians 1: Czechoslovakian 1; and Rumania 4. The total number is 490.
COLONY'S HEALTH
During the week ending December 19 there were 14 cases of diphtheria and 9 of enteric notified to the Health authorities.
Seven died from diphtheria and 2 from enteric fever.
TWO WEDDINGS
Two weddings were solemnised
mainly folio, sise—published in 1842 from Sketches made in 1838 by Auguste Borget.
C. Miscellaneous Engravings of Scenes in China published in. 1848.
compared with 59 in 1994, 64 in 1933, and 128 in the first decade of the century.
Mortality from Infectious and parasitic diseases fell to a low re-
culcels death-rate, 718 per 1,000,000 D. Woodcuts of Hong Kong, (as was the lowest on record: Sa also
it appeared about the years. 1854-1857. was the pneumonia death-rate at 859 per 1,000,000-the previous low record being 696. recorded in 1930. The cancer rate, corrected for the
Tho: Set of Etchings of Old increasing age of the population. Hong Kong (Panoramic) by L decreased from 1,003 per 1,000,000 | Heath 1846. to 1,001 per 1,000,000,
Deaths in childbirth, suicides
And.....
and trame fatalities all declined. A Few Rare and Interesting Early 1,000 live and stil births were 161 One Bet of Byron's Works (17 Vols.) Kwang Sim, unemployed was in the first case the figures per Cricketing Prints.
from septic causes and 233 puer-
published in 1882. peral causes, compared with 1.85
Central Magistracy yesterday for the larceny of a fountain pen from Ho To Ting, on December 21.
Sergeant Orem, in giving the outline of the case, said that the complainant was looking at the Sun Company window when he suddenly lost his fountain pen. district watchman at the vicinity apprehended defendant and later the complainant identified the
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Continuing, he said, "Defendant is well-known to the Police and he has been arrested several times but was clever enough to get away, He works with several men doing
the same sought of work.”
Sentence of two months" im- prisonment was imposed on the defendant.
at the Registry Office yesterday OBTAINING MONEY BY morning. The contracting parties. were: Emil August Kaufmann,
missionary, of the Basel Mission,
Shamshulpo, and Hanna Wilhel- mina Schkolziger, nurse; Wilhelm Fhilipp Weickam, missionary, or
the Basel Mission, and Ruth Han-
hart, also of the Basel Mission, Mr. T. 3. Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Marriages oficiated at both .ceremonies.
Cruelty To Fowls
NEWCOMER FINED FOR BREACH
Chui Yau, a`37-year-old Takmer was fined $5 for crowding six chickens into a small basket on December 21 at the Cheung Chow Ferry.
Inspector Hourihan said that it was not very sérious as the chick ens were not hurt. He added that 1 was not two uncomfortable 15 weather was cold that day, and the chickens rather liked it.
Defendant stated that he had
Just come out from the New Terri- tories and that he did not know the regulations.
FALSE PRETENCES
and 2.46 in the previous year. In the second case, crude rates per 1,000,000 persons Ifving have fallen each year since 1932, the figure for 1935 being 129.
LON VIEW OF DAY OF SALE
DEATHS FROM HUNGER · The highest birth rate of the TERUS-AB CUSTOMARY: whole country was recorded by Durham, the figure being 17.8. The figure for Holland (Lincoln- shire) was 0.1 below this.
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Hunger and thirst accounted for fourteen deaths in the whole of the year; excessive cold for 25: excessive heat for 59. Thirty peo- PUBLIC AUCTION
ple lost their lives as the result of taking part in sport. Fourteen people were killed by lightning. There were 5,223 suicides and"105 murders. Twelve persons were executed. Sixty-nine men died as the result of "wounds of war."
The review estimated the popu- Tation of the two countries in the middle of last year at 40,845,000— and 21,145,000 females. The figures indicate n
Yu Lam, 29, unemployed, of 8219,500.000 males Welington Street, ground floor. appeared before Mr. W. Schofield
at the Central Magistracy yester- day on three charges. They were: obtaining goods valued at $13.53 from Kwong Sun, a shop at 68 ground Des Voeux Road, West, floor by false pretences on Decem-
THE
[HE Undersigned have received"
instractions
TO BELL ST
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF
total Increase of 698,000 atace the TUESDAY, DEO. 29, 1986-
census of 1931. In al the age
groupe above 20 women are in the majority,
R.M.A. DORADO
Commencing at 11.30`AM.
Az GODOWN No 12, Tax HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF &. GODOWN Co., L., KOWLOON,
ber 4: obtaining $13.50 frum When the R. M. A. Dorado:ar"]," Trang Chi, 2 salesman on Decem-rived yesterday morning she A LARGE QUANTITY OF ber 12 and, by the same method, | brought back to the Colony Mr. N. | MISCELLANEOUS the sum of $18 from Lam Cheung, J. Perrin, who returned from home
a salesman, of 141 Wing Lok leave.. Street, ground floor, on December
14
.
Sub-inspector Johnson said that the first and second offences were contracted by telephone, but the third accused went there per- sonally,
Defendant obtained the total sum of $45.
Defendant: I may be able to get the money if I got a job!* Els Worship: What about the money you obtained from these people? I sent them to the vil lage and some I spent for myself.
His Worship: I shall have to remanded this for two days but if you cannot get the money then. I shall have to remand it for a week
He was later welcomed at the luncheon of the Rotary Club at the Hong Kong Hotel by Mr. W. M. Thomas Tam.
The Dorado carried 322.858 kilos of mail and 3.240 kilos of freight.
SCOTS CAN FLY THE LION RAMPANT
As Mark Of Loyalty
The right of Scottish subjects to By the L'on Rampant flag was raised in the House of Commons recently, and in reply, Mr. Berym geour Wedderburn (Under-Secre tary of State for Scotland) said:
"There is no objection to the The case was accordingly re-display of the Lion Rampant flag SURVIVOR OF RORKE'Smanded in order to give the de- by His Majesty's subjects as a mark
DRIFT DEAD
fendant time to get the money...
of loyalty to the Sovereign
One of the last environs of the herole garrison of Rorks's Drift,
Mr. Thomas Moffatt, died at R
corn (Cheshire), recently, aged 80. In January, 1879, a British force, under Lord Chelmsford Invaded Zululand. The centre column, composed of 1,600 whites and 2,500 natives, advanced from Rorke's Drift and encamped near Isandihl- wana where it was surprised by a
ANOTHER SNATCHER
"At one time objection was taken, on heraldle grounds, to the display of these flags. It became apparent, however, that the Lon Rampant fag made a strong appeal to Bcottish sentiment, and tr September, 1934, a Royal War: rant was issued to the Lyon King- of-Arms directing that henceforth no official, cognisance should be taken of the display of this flag Tanng Lol, 70, snatched a purse sa a mark of loyalty to his Ma-
APPREHENDED
Imprisonment And Thrashing
Mongkok Marter on: December 21
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Singlets Lighters, Mext Juice, Window Glan, Lithographie Machine,
Marble Table Tops, Perfumery, Nail Polishing Sets, Glassware, Chlorate of Potash, Candy, Cotton Trimmings, Piece: Goods, Diesel Oil, Gasoline Engine, Worated Yarn, Labricating Oil, Insulated Wire, Blow Lamps, Wolfram Ore, Tee Iron, Dog Spikes, Eails and Baples Liquor, etc., etc.
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Royal Warrant directs that there
means exactly whit it says. The
Zulu force 10,000 strong and prae- from Hung Shing Ving at the Jesty's loyal subject IT SAYS tically wiped out,
But two companies of the 24th Defendant was caught by a passer-・・・ Mr. Mathers-Does that mean is no objection to the display of Regiment (South Wales Borderers), by after complainant had shouted | that all objections to the flying this flag as a mark of of loyalty to numbering about 80 men had been He was sentenced to serve 4] of this flag at any time in Scot- the Sovereign, I do not think left behind at korke's Drift. These months in prison and 4 strokes of || fand have been removed, and what that the hon. member can export withstood an all-night slege by the cane when he appeared, he is meant by the condition, as a me to enter into a discussion. 200 4,000 - Zulus, who withdrew at fore. Mr. E. Himsworth at the mark of loyalty to the Sovereign? any other purpose to whichi 15 may dawn ·leaving 360 dead,
Kowloon Magistracy yesterday"
terburn-1 thing - ft., conceivable be put,
Mr.