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No. 24498. XEOTEXAS BAEET HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937. G# BEAÆ¢¶ØRTEX Price
DERBY PRIZE SWEEP
TICKET
WHERE IS IT?
A CLUE: A SEARCH: A DENIAL
"Elementary, my dear Watson!," Sherlock Holmes might say
if he had been engaged to clear up the mysters regarding the Looalaleuths have been identity of the Derby Sweep winner. unable to locate the lacky holder of the ticket on Happy Eve which romped in winner in the Hong Kong Derby at the Happy Valley on Monday, as tipped by "The Daily Press."
Local racing fans have been horruited at the suggestion that the winning teket has teen lost by the man who bought it. I no one coming forward to claim the prize money? Imagine $68.000 going to waste for want of a calmant!
Local newspapermen have been striving to trace the route Ticket 136871 took after it left the offices of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, but each time. just as #tap. pears that a solution is in sight they and themselves "ap against" something new.
RUMOURS PERSIST
The latest rumour to storm gossip circles persist in that the staff of a local banking institution
are
keeping quiet about their
ENGLISHWOMEN INJURED
ticket
ownership of the winning until the storm has blown over.
"Merely elementary!" the world's most famous detective might again say
he had followed up this "grape-vine" whisper.
Emulating the fashion of Sher- lock Holmes, the writer unearthed the information that the local staff of Mestra. E. D. Sassoon Banking Co., Ltd, are the lucky holders of Ticket No. 135871. The rumours further stated that this band of office-workers had purchased two books of Derby Sweep tickets und that the winning ticket was con- ta'ned in one of them. But bere again efforts to confirm this have met with a stout denial.
"Who is the winner, after all?
BRITAIN'S REARMAMENT PLAN
DEFENDED
VISCOUNT HALIFAX REFERS TO
LEAGUE SANCTIONS
Defensive Forces Must Be Strong Enough To Enforce Respect For Pacts
LONDON, FEBRUARY 25. VISCOUNT HALIFAX, LORD PRIVY SEAL AT SOUTHAMPTON LAST NIGHT, DEFENDED BRITAIN'S REARMAMENT, PROGRAMME.
Referring to the League of Nations, he said there was a strong body of opinion for abolition of sanctions. But there was a strong option also that the League of Nations from which sanctions had been withdrawn would be loo light a thing to perform the duties that mankind expected of it.
"In the view of the Government, the Peace Front might be im- mensely strengthened by a system of regional pacts whereby certain areas of the world sharing com- mon interests in those areas would be prepared to unite themselves by
than s pact to do more
the Covenant imposes, namely, to say in advance that if peace were dis- turbed in those areas they would be prepared to fight to preserve it. "If a series of strong points could be established on the Peace Front it would have the effect of the Afth and final Test against | making it quite plam to potential Australia which begins to-morrow aggressors that if they disurbed
FIFTH TEST
England'a
Melbourne. Feb. 25.
representatives. for
Attack By Japanese will be selected from Allen, Wyatt, peace they would be able to count
Roughs
Shanghal Feb. 25.
Two Englishwomen, Miss Minnie Karoldy and Miss Rose Saville, and two Japanese girls were rendered inconscious, while three English- women and eleven Japanese girls were injured to a lesser extent by a. Japanese brothel-keeper and three roughs who forced their way into the English-Japan Rescue Mission at Higashimozunura. Osaka
Prefecture, last evening.
The Intruders, who behaved, in this manner because of the con-- is tinued refusal of the Mission to surrender two Japanese prostitutes who had escaped from a brothel in Kyoto, where armed with slicks and baseball bats. They smashed the windows and broke the furni-
ture.
Two of the miscreants were or- rested on the spot.--
Reuter
Robins, Barnett Lepland,Ham In advance on the opposition of mond, Voce.Verity, Worthington.other people bound by pact to pre- Farnes. Ames and Hardata. -- | serve peace, 'and would enable the Reuter
League to intervene at an earlier
Annual Flag
Day Appeal
[To the Editor, "The Hong Kong Dally Press"]
Sir.--May I ask that through the help of the. "Hong Kong Dally Press," you would please make this appeal for me--
On Saturday next, the 27th, the Ministering League is holding a Flag Day and I do beg most alncerely that everyone will be generous to this old and most deserving charity which assists, for the most part, the less well known charities, both Chinese and non- Chinese.
Amongst its obligationa the f League has pledged itself to keep two cots in the Home at Ottershaw --and a cot in the Nethersole Hos- pital her, And last year fonds were allocated to:-
Nethersole Hospital M.C.L. Cot. Hong Kong Benevolent Boclety. Hong Kong Society for the Pro-
tection of Children
Blind Home, Pokfulam Victoria Home and Orphanage. Sailors' and Soldiers Home. C.M.S. School Fund,
Garrison Ladies' Help Society.
Kowloon City Alms Houses. Salvation Army Home, Kowloon
City.
LORD HALIFAX
stage when the act of aggression had been committed.
If huma
General Manager
DON'T BE DAZED AT
THE RACES
Binoculars by Busch and : Lemaire at special prices at Lazarus Opticians. You can buy a pair of these and still have enough to retain a fin- ancial interest in the races.
See N. LAZARUS, Opticians, 5, Pedder Stroes
Single Copy, 10 cts. Per Month. $3.
LEPER COLONISATION
Mr. G. Barclay Tells Of Work
Mr. Gurnley Barclay, Far Eastern Secretary of the Church Mission Society, was the principal speaker at the meeting of the Victoria Diocesan Misionary Association, which was held in the Book Depot yesterday evening,, the Rev. J. R. Hus, of the "St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, presiding.
After being Introduced by the chairman,' Me Barclay dealt with the various phases of missionary work he had witnessed during his tour of China. He stated that it was not the first time that he had visited Hong Kong and pointed out that his first glimpse of the Colony took place some 18 years ago,
On that occasion, having arrived here on a Suriday, he attended a service heid in one of the Chinese churches where, for the first time, he heard the lesson being read in Chinese,
The speaker spoke mainly about the work of leper colonisation, be- ing performed in Pakhot There he visited schools, hospitals - and churches and was deeply impress- ed by the enthusiasm with which
missionary work was being carried out.
MOTOR SMASH
IN KOWLOON
||
Bus Passengers Injured
OSCUT-
A very serious accident red about 7 o'clock yesterday evening when a No. 9 bus, on ita way to Yuen Loong and with à considerable load of passengers, smashed against a tree in the
I would regard it as frankly dishonest of this country to sign |pacts or undertake obligations
DR. RUSSELL'S WORK arising out of them unless we knew Mr. Barclay recalled the visit he we were in a position to be ablepaid to a Dr. Russell, warden of a to carry them out if need arose. leper settlement in the district. We shall not be in position to do
This doctor had taken on the task so until we have re-equipped, our of providing, within his limited defensive forces."-
means, better living conditions for British Wireless.
the lepers there. His work is be-icialty of the 17th mille post which ing performed under extreme dif- is almost three miles from Castle neulties, handicapped by the lack of support and from the frequent presence of Bandits who did not. hesitate to salze any of the lepers whom they came across....
The speaker said that he had been deeply touched, by the
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CHRISTIANITY
AND WAR
SEE LEADING ARTICLE ON PAGE I
Look Upon This Picture- And Upon This
ANZAC DAY
Short Church Service Arranged
The annual supper dance of the Australian and New Zealand Asso- ciation will be held at the Fenin- sula Hotel on Friday, April 2 This function will take the form Chinese Y.W.C.A. Baby Clinic. of a masked plain and fancy dress Saint John's Ambulance.
dance, and tickets, at $3 each, may Emblems will be on sale from 8 be obtained through members of a.m. till noon. Sellers have been asked to refrain from going into any offices.
Despite the many calls for charity, I would ask for generous support to this Flag Day.
Thanking you for your courtesy in publishing this letter,
I am,
"
Yours faithfully,
MARY KING.
President. 157, The Peak
Hong Kong, February 25.
Health Returns
Had Hamlet been at the races this week he would doubtless have found much scope for sollloquising, so our photographer was not en- thely "out of character" when he displayed these two pictures as pointing a contrast, If not a moral. The one on the left shows the dis. position, physically speaking, of the crowd whilst a race was in progress, whilst the one on the right shows how they thronged the lawn when the excitement was over. The con- trast in physical disposition is striking, but, we venture to specu- late, nothing comparable with the contrast in the mental one.
Mrs. J. H. Taggart and Mr. “Tur" the Association." Table plans are Wilson at the Race Course. open and are in the hands of Mr. Dimond of the Peninsula Hotel. with whom direct bookings can be made.
It is stated that Anzac Day will be commemorated by A short Church service before the annual laying of a wreath at the Ceno- taph. Further particulars will be clrculated to members when com- plete plans are ready.
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| Amusements
Cables
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The Health Returns for the 24 Finance, hours ended on Wednesday show Local Diary. that there was only one case. of Mail Notices...... notifiable disease, namely enteric Radio Programmes fever, for that period.
Shipping
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London Silver Market
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Peak.
There were seventeen injured and two of whom were suffering from very serious injuries. They were Immediately admitted to the Kow- loon Hospital for medical treat-
ment.
It was alleged that the accident was caused by some mechanical defect in the steering wheel.
OBITUARY
Mrs. Marie Houghton
The death took place at the French Hospital yesterday, after a very brief illness, of Mrs. Marie Houghton, wife of Mr. M. F Houghton, chief engineer of the aa. Tin Yat. The deceased lady succumbed to an attack of double pneumonia, and was only admit- ted to the Hospital on Wednesday. The funeral will take place at the Roman Catholic Cemetery. Happy Valley, this evening, the cortege passing the Monument at 5.15 p.m.
Co-Operative
Societies
In China
Nanking, Féb. 18.-The import† 26,000 such societies with over, a
General Wel Yu-san, member or ance of co-operative enterprises was the Military Council, is now ton
discussed by President Lin Ben in ¡cluding van Intensive study of his address at the weekly memorial British, military establishments. service at National Government
The War Ofee arranged a very House yesterday.
full
million members.
Dwelling on its importance, Pre- sident Lin said that the co-opera- tive movement is serving to unite and organize the rural population and thereby augmenting their strength
programme illustrating ail
Before 1927, little progress was phases of military activity, includ-made in the co-operative movement La co-operative societies are ing visits to the School of Artillery in China, President Lin Sen said, voluntarily organized by the peo near Balisbury, the Military En-Following the establishment of the pie, the movement is an excellent gineering Schoo! and Military Col-National Government at Nanking. means of training the masses in lege of Selence at Woolwich, Staff however, the Central authorities. the power of self-government. College at Camberley, Army Phy-regarded the promotion" of co- sical Training School and Royal operative enterprises as one of its Military College at Bindhurst," s main tasks.
General Wel Yu-san also saw
Whereas in 1933 there were only evolutions of the Field Brigade;
2,700 co-operative societies with a Royal Artillery, Tank Battalion, total membership of 5,400 through RAS.C. Unita, and A'r Force, and out the country, in 1835 there were Army Co-operation Squadron, which exhibited the method of emergency transport of troops as
Moreover, as the aim of co-opera tive societies is not primarily pro at-seeking but to serve their 'mam- bers, they are likely to raise the moral level of the rural communi- thes
Consequently, the” phenomenon of individual economic aggrandize. ment will gradually disappear in Few society, and economic equality will
be realized
recently done from Egypt during efforts to show him everything, the Palestine riots. He was par. He says that he' obtained much ticularly interested in the systems information which would be most followed in the various training valuable to China, schools and enquired very closely General Wel leaves on Saturday on all detalls He was very for Belgium and thereafter Ger- pleased with his reception and many
20-1/16 greatly appreciates the War Omee Reuter,
In conclusion, President Lin ex- pressed the hope that the people throughout the country will give their unanimous support to the Government in the promotion of the movement- | Kuo Mini