THE
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY
INC.
Incorporated with Linsited "Llability in CRAC
REICHSMARK TRAVELLERS
CHEQUES
ON SALE AT
ADVANTAGEOUS RATES
Office:
No. 4, Des Voeux Roud
Central.
ADVERTISEMENTS
MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.
The Aprit Race Meeting will
be held at Areia Preta, Macao,
on Sunday, 18th April, 1937, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung
at 1.30 p.m.
By order,
S. W. CHENG,
Secretary.
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A. S. WATSON & CO.. LIMITED:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY. SECOND Annual Ordinary Gen. eral Meeting of the Company tsince its registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel. Hong Kong, on Tuesday, the 20th April, 1937, at 11.38 A.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st October, 1936.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Thursday, the 15th day of April
to Wednesday, the 21st day of April, 1937, both days inclusive, daring which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS
& SON,. .* General Managers. Hong Kong, 6th April, 1937. ~
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MOOY LAN FONG'S INCOME TAX
Shanghai, Apr. 15. It being found difficult to tax his income, owing to his being always on the move, and further owing to the uncertainty of his salary. Mooy
female noted actor and personator, has proposed to the authorities that tax be levied on bis half-yearly income in
audit.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1937.
Mr. A. BREARLEY
and
Miss JOAN BREARLEY.
P.P.C. 48. Changto,
S.P.C. FLAG DAY
• (Continued from Pajs I)
visits by persons to Branches was 30,355 and every sick child brought to a Branch is assured of early treatment.
13,000 MORE MEN medical advice and
FOR NAVY
Bringing Strength Up To 125,000
In well-informed quarters it is predicted that the personnel of the British Navy will be increased by 13.000 to 125.000 in the com- paratively near future, writes Home correspondent.
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This total will not incldue several
Many of them are sufferthg from infectious or contagious disease. disease which but for the vigilance of the Soclety might well aprend | and infect children of other races. By dealing with disease among the poorer Chinese as we do we en- sure so far as we can, that foreign children remain free of many dis- tressing contagious diseases which are unfortunately common in the Colony.
POVERTY PROBLEM
Our greatest problem is poverty. The average income per head of the cases" dealt with has steadily
thousand officers and men serving declined year after year, until in
in the Dominions naval" establish- ments.
It is considered probable that provision will be made for a fur ther increase in the establishment by a supplementary estimate later in the year.
Despite an addition of nearly 11,000 to the personnel under the the which raises 1937 Estimate, total for the financial year to 112, 000 officers and men, there is good reason to belleve that this num- ber will not" be. sufficient to man the new Fleet which will be ready for service in three years.
ex-
All the training depote are full, and their capalty is being tended as rapidly as possible to absorb the recruits still coming forward in large numbers.
From three to five years train- ing is needed to produce an ex- London Omce: 53. Fleet Street perlenced rating, and longer than
E.C. 4..
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG. APRIL 17, 1937.
ALTERING THE
CALENDAR
that to make him eligible for a position of responsibility. It is nessäry. therefore. that if the new Fleet is to have a thoroughly trained personnel many more boys and special service seamen should be entered now.
Accommodation Problem
I understand that the 1937 In- crement would have been con- siderably more than 11,000, but for the impossibility of providing proper accommodation and train- ing facilities for a larger num- ber. The fitting out of the home at Rosyth ex-liner Majestic 25 £ floating for boys and artificers shows how serious the shortage of accomodation has be- come.
son.
Vice-Adml. Sir R. G.H, Hender- Third Sea Lord. has stated
will absorb
As the
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Most of us take the calendar which marks our days and rea- sons so much for granted that any suggestion to change it seems to threaten the whole framework! in which we arrange our lives. We are, of course, aware that our present system of marking time has some awkward features. It
hood that a friend whose birthday was one of the mysteries of child-
fell on February 29th could cele- rate it only every four years: Christmas came on a different In view of the international day each year and there was outlook the former alternative is always the question of whether the more likely to be adopted.
Easter was going to be late enough (and warm enough) for a country "holiday.
that the 129 new ships now on order for the Navy 34,000 officers and men. last of thees vessels will be
either the creased without delay or older ships commission by 1940 personel must be largely 1д-
must be scrapped to release men for the new ones.
each quarter has 31 days and the.
1936 it reached the distressingly low figures of $1.73.
In an English city an area which houses 500 persons to the acre is rightly called a black slum. In Victoria there are no less than 200 acres with a population of at least 1,000 Souls to the acre. There in dark airless overcrowded tene- ments live the families with whom the Boclety deals.
IGNORANCE
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If Gossip We Must
(BY PRUDENCE)
Hong Kong was filled with the bustle of departure yesterday. Not only did the "Dorsetshire" depart with all sorts of charming people on board, there was the added re- gret of bidding farewell to our very popular "Governor' and Lady | Caldecott, and the final ceremony
at Queen's Pier.
Hong Kong is a decorative spot, and lends itself to functions of this sort. Queen's Pier was beauti- fully decorated with "streams of
coloured flags, and a young forest of feathery palms, while in the bright.. sunshine outside the glint
of bayonets, the fash of gold braid
and the coloured turbans of Indian Police contrasting with white und- forms, made brilliant and co- lourful spectacle.
Senlor officers of the Army, Navy, and Air Force and senior members of the Government and Heads, of Departments were there with their wives. One of the first I noticed was Mrs. Sedgwick in. a most grace....! fuj dress of, dark flowered chiffon with a dark hat which had a large flat rose on the crown.
Almost inseparable from poverty She joined Mrs. Bartholomew. is the third great enemy, ignorance. and Mrs. N. L. Smith (who had a In the class of people with which very becoming dress of black pat- the Society deals expectant mo- terned with shadow-white and a thers know nothing of the mea-black picture hat). Mrs. Welling- ton was there in a charming dress sures they should take to ensure
a scarf of dull- health and contentment for the of fawn with coming children.
orange, and Mrs. Douglas Valentine in the sweetest costume of pale gray and a small velvet cap.
This is where the Society can and does help to the utmost o1
its limited Anancial ability. At the soup kitchen in Kowloon poor mothers get a sufficiency of nourishing soup to enable them to give their bables the milk on which they will thrive. But we cannot yet afford to establish and main- tain more than the one
soup
kitchen. Last year 1,648 children were regularly supplid with milk and 157 gallons of cod liver oil were used by the Society.......
I was very much impressed with the new Civil Service uniform which I saw for, the first time and which is awfully smart, and very cool-looking too,
LOVELY DRESSES Mrs. Tso arrived early with Miss Tso, both very graceful in quiet dresses of gleaming silk. "Mr. and Mrs. Eu Tong Sen arrived soon after, and Mrs. Eu Tong Sen was very trim in an English costume of srey and palest green.
many
MRS. N. L. SMITH, FIRST LADY OF HONG KONG
friends. She looked so salute, HM8. Dainty and H.M.S. charming in a coat and skirt of Diana escorted the Hner as far shaded brown silk and a brown as Waglan, and the ritannia fol- "kepi" with a tiny bunch of co- lowed her as far as Lyemoon with loured flowers on it. His Ex-a few
on board special friends cellency went the rounds inspect waving a last good-bye to those ing the Guard Of Honour for the two charming and popular people last time, and spoke a few words Bir Andrew and Lady Caldecott, to several la the ranks as he past- who will be remembered here for a ed along. I do like his habit of very long time. We should dearly love to start
wearing a gray top hat and frock a school for ante natal care and
coat for it makes me think of instruction, but alas the lack of
cool and fresh in white and brown,home-alde festivities. Ascot and funds makes this only a dream of
and Mrs. Andrew Shields in navy | such") while the bagpipes played the future. Soon, I hope, by ele-blue with the smartest of short that lilting melody "The Road To mentary instruction and nouristi-
ing diet during pregnancy expec- tant mothers will be equipped to bring into the world healthy bables with a fighting chance in the bat- tle of life.-
Welfare
At the Government Centre free medical care and at- tendance are avaliable, but they do not provide the food which in -so many cases is the real cause of the sickness or debility, the food without which medical treatment can be no more than a palliative. That is one of the many useful functions of the Boclety. It main- tains four full time Inspectors, Chinese ladies who devote their lives to the care of their poor and unfortunate fellow country men,
SOCIETY'S REQUIREMENTS
Another I noticed was Mrs. Wynne-Jones looking delightfully
capes lined with a bright colour.
Mrs. T. H. King was daintily taflor- ed in navy blue and Mrs. Alabas- ter wore a rather darker "shade. Mrs. Keith Valentine wore a slim coat of light gray, Mrs. Seth-Smith had a charming neutral abade and Lady MacGregor a lovely lupin- blue.
LADY CALDECOTT ARRIVES Lady Caldecott arrived a few
minutes before her husband, and took the oppertunity of having a few last words with some of het
DUCHESS LOSES
TIARA
The Isles."
ROUSING CHEER There was a rousing cheer as they boarded the Britannia and sped across the harbour to em-
bark on
THE DORSETSHIRE Among those who departed, by the Troopship this noon were Cap- tain L. J. Walch R.AS.C. (the well- known cricketer, and until recent- ly the Hon Sec. of the United Services Recreation Club). Lieut. C. C. Garthwaite, R.A, the well- known sportsman who has play- ed both cricket and hockey for Hong Kong. Lieut. and Mrs. C. Ravenhill, both popular members of the US.R.C. the former being responsible for organizing the delightful American tennis tourna- ments held there through the win- ter season. and Mrs. Sharp, wife of Major I. C. SharpR. W.
the Empress of Japan, which lay alongside the whari (looking like a floating hotel as she towered above everything in the vicinity). As she moved slowly away between the junks and other small craft they looked He child- ren's toys beside her. Three planes flew overhead and dipped a last Fusiliers.
DOCTOR'S COLD AIR TREATMENT FOR PNEUMONIA
"British Medical Journal."
The Duchess of Versailles has Later we discovered that statis-other two 30 days each. Everyts, merely to continue the work the Queen's Theatre, the Glouces
The Society's minimum require-lost her tiara, somewhere between ticians had even more serious month has 26 week days.
now being done, amount to $25,000 ter, and the home of that awett objections to calendar which lu arder to make the calendar
a year. The income of the Society singer Anne Winter. divided the year into months perpetual (that is to say, to make from fixed sources, including the whose different lengths varied in the form of every year identical Government grant-the only in- come on which we could confident- no fixed way and which made of while at the same time retainingly count, were it not for the help to dazzle her faithless lover Bonnt -"During recent years it has been that interruption of the flow of Easter such an
extremely astronomical accuracy, the 365th "movable" feast. Many sugges day of the year, called Year- tions for a revision of the End Day," is made, an inter- Gregorian Calendar have been calary day, placed made within the past few years. | December 30th and January 1st, It has proved difficult to den! and considered to be an with the problem of how to fix Saturday. In leap years, the Easter since this touches Churen 366th day, called "Leap-Year
f!
A novel method of treating it has not been possible to young pneumonia patients, by attribute to the cold air any ill exposing their faces continuously effect whatsover.
The Patient's Attitude to cold air, is described in the
"One of the most Interesting the Dr. H. L. Wallace, of the Royal features is the attitude of It is most important tiara. since she needs it in the last act, Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Chil-child towards this made of treat- ment; since it is frequently observd when she appears in all her glory dren, writes: the French Artist, who has for the practice in one of the wards cold air by closure of the window tends to make the child fretrul saken her in his search for fame of the hospital to submit every and fortune, thinking that she is case of pneumonia on admission" and restless, and that when the to an intensive open-air regime. window is reopened he will al- only a poor little Street Binger.
"This is carried, out irrespective most immediately subside into a Worst of all it is a borrowed one,
of the season of the year or of peaceful sleep. weather conditions, with the one This impression is very striking. for it was kindly lent to her by another member of the cast.
exception of fog, each child being and has been freqeuntly noted. Imagine bow distressed the Du- placed on the windward side of the 'and it is a signficant fact that The Society since its inception chess feels! So if anyone finds this ward beside a widely opened win- sedative drugs are but rarely re- has rigidly set Its face against charming hair ornament of spark-dow so that the cold air from with- quired to induce sleep or to allay anything that savours of pauperi-ling Parisian diamente, will they out plays directly on the child's restlessness. sation. There are no doles to the please send it to the Queen's Thea face.
tre so that she can wear it for the lazy and workshy.
last performance of Street Singer on Baturday night.
of the charitable--is $8,500 a year so that we have to look for nearly $20,000 a year from voluntary con- tributions, and if they fall the between
ciety will be forced to give up its work. Do not be afraid that a large proportion of your donation will be spent on unproductive overhead expenses.
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after work is over. We hope to see
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"The aim in each case, is to ensure that the maximum of cold air blows directly on to the child. Warm Clothing "An essential precaution is of course, that the patient should be
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"Another important feature is the effect of the open air on the
- Irrelevant.
traditionem every country. Day," is intercalated between Some quite concrete suggestions June 30th and July 1st have, however, been made to another extra Saturday. These Lan-fang. the deal with the present discre- intercalary or stabilising days
Li- pancies between lengths of would probably be observed as A generous benefactor has given
child's appetite; it is exceptional to experience any difficulty in persuading the patient to take months.
international holidays. January the Society a house at West Point
this nourishment, if treated in The latest attempt has been 1st (New Year's Day) would for use as a creche where working mothers can leave their babies in
manter.. Apart from smali doses cordance with a report subhade by the Chilian Govern- always fall on Sunday.
the mornings, to lead a healthy mitted by his private business meat, which laid a model calen- The Chilian Government write ite with no food, fresh air and A DARING IMPOSTOR warmly clad so as to prevent chill of brandy, stimulants are hardly ing, the face being the only part ever required except in the most office, and subject to Government dur before the Council of the of their proposed calendar: "The sunlight and tender care, until
of the body exposed to the air. desperate cases, and the adminis Bhanghai, April 16:
All cases of pneumonia are thustration of oxygen, either with of The amount to be taxed will be League in January of this year, revised calendar is balanced in their mothers call for them again
A few days ago an unemployed treated, both day and night, until without carbon dioxide. has been his income as an actor, less all proposing that this be substituted structure, perpetual in form, and this Creche open during May. This youth called on Mr. Tie Hung the temperature falls and remains almost entirely abandoned as theatrical and travelling expenses, for the Gregorian Calendar which harmonious in arrangement. It great work will be undertaken by kuin at the Mayor's Office, and at the normal level.
conforms to the solar year of the Canadian Sisters under the handed him Generalissimo Chiang
"Thus cold air appears to bring "This somewhat rigorous method Tihanere Evening Prese
on which was In the model which the Chilian 365.2422 days and to the natural direction of the Society, and the Kai-shek's card
of treatment has now been thor comfort to the patient, aids his Government suggests should be seasons." In addition to its ad- same benefactor has promised a written a request to find him oughly tested in approximately 300 appetite, and helps to render un- consecutive cases of pneumonia, necessary other forms of teatment adopted, the lengths of the vantages as regards economy and monthly contribution of $100 to suitable post.
When questioned by Mr. Yue aud the Impression formied, not which may prove exhausting to a It is in the name of little child-Hung-kuin, who had bis suspicions only by the physicians attached young child suffering from
acute illness."! the year may be divided into comparisons, co-ordinates
the youth was a daring impostor. sing staff, is that exposure to a equal halves and quarters. Every different time periods, and stabi. that I confidently appeal to aroused, it was discovered that to the ward but also by the nur you to help us to the utmost of quarter is equal and every year lises religious and secular holi- your ability, by giving generously and that Generalissimo Chiang moving current of cold air in this identical: the calendar thus be days. Unlike other proposals for for our flags to-morrow and, if you Kal-shek's card was a falsifica manner is the means of saving lives in children of all ages suffer-, can, by sending a donation to our comes "perpetual." Each quar calendar revision, it provides an
The daring youth was immedi-ing from acute primary pneumonia: Treasurer, Mr. D: Black, c/o Percy ter contains exactly 8 months, adjustment in which the trapsi- Smith, Beth and Fleming, Bank of ately handed over to the Police "The treatment of pneumonia in Canton Buildings. Believe me, you Department to be properly dealt the manner described appears to be free from all danger to the patient will never regret generelty in such with
concerned in this series of cases
etc.--
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We now use,
HONG KONG BASEBALLmonths are rearranged so that efficiency, it facilitates statistical wards the upkeep of the creche.
LEAGUE
The Hong Kong Baseball, Lég- gue are holding a meeting at the Hotel Cecil on Monday at 6.15 p.m. when activities for the coming sea son will be discussed.
The baseball season will be run between April and August' and matches will be played at Caro-
line. Hl
the
18 weeks, and 91 days: each tion from the old to the new begins on a Sunday and ends on order can be effected without a. Saturday. The first month in disturbance."<
a deserving cause.
tion
Chinese Beening Prezi.
PREMIER'S VISIT TO WINDSOR CASTLE
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London, April 15-Mr. Stanley Baldwin was granted an audience with His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle to-night- Reuter