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CASABIANCA
The boy stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but he had fled, The boat had reached the China Seas,
The sun was overhead. The bo'nun cried, "How can you stand
A sun so strong it cooks? The boy, replied with haughty miec, "Me ind, I'm wearing Crooks''
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MUCH SPECULATION ABOUT THE BUDGET
COMBINED BOWLS TEAM
FOR AUSTRALIA? :'
Interport Captain's Suggestion
At a meeting of the committee of the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Associo- tion W. J.. Monk, was unanimous- ly elected President of the Associa- tlon and P. W. Ephgrave, honorary Secretary for 1937.
Eight teams are entered for the League first division and alx in the second, as against nine in the first and six in the second last season. It is understood that owing to a shortage of players the Country Club are unable to enter a team this year!
DECISION ON RE-PLAYS
The new system of scoring for the league, which was discussed at the recent annual meeting of lawn bowlers, has been adopted. The new system will give the usual two points for a win and one for a draw and in addition one point for each winning rink.
In order to hold 2$ many matches as possible in the second division of the league, It was de- cided that any match interfered with by bad weather, will bë re- AUSTRALIAN TOUR SUGGESTED | played on a date to be arranged A. Hyde-Lay, Kowloon C.C., who by the Association. The commit- captained the Hong Kong Interport | tee suggest that where official team here against “Shanghaj last season, has made a suggestion that the local, players try and combine with Hong Kong, to send a team lo Australia 'next year. It is under- stood that Australia are sending a team to the East this year.
MR. TIMOTHY MURPHY
CHIEF JUSTICE'S TRIBUTE
There was a pleasant interlude before the commencement of the Criminal Sessions yesterday after- noon when the Chief Justice, air Atholl MacGregor, paid.. warm tri- bute to Mr. Timothy Murphy, Assistant Director of Criminal In- telligence (Crime), of the Hong Kung Police Force, who is leaving on retirement next month.
His Lordship said: "Mr. Murphy. It is perhaps strange. that I, a newcomer to this Colony should be recalling to you your very long and honourable career as a member of the Police Force, but so long as I am Chief Justice here I deem it is my privilege to represent. from the Bench what are the feelings not only of myself but my brother judges since my short stay here but all my predecessors on the occasion of what is probably your last ap pearance here.
You have, I see, no less than 34 years service with the Police Force and I understand that you have unique and very proud record in beirie associated with the Criminal Investigation Department for no fewer than 29 of these years. I do not think I can put what is in my mind more aptly than to say that ever since I first had the privilege of meeting you I felt that like my- self you have chosen a career after your real wishes and that you have enjoyed your work.
I can assure you that from the
dates on the Axture list are vacant, that arrangements be made be- tween the clubs for friendly games.
This year Shanghai will visit Hong Kong for the interport matches and Hankow will send a team to Shanghai...
FREE SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS
Mr. Lau King Tsing's Suggestion
At a meeting of the Committee of the Tung Yee Tong Educational institution, which was held" at the Board Room of the Tung Koon Chamber of Commerce on Sunday fternoon, Mr. Lau King-tring, former Chairman of the Institution, suggested that two free shcools for girls should be established for the poor.
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During the meeting, the new Chairman Mr. Chan Lan-long greatly complimented the good, work done by Mr. Lay, during his term of office.
Mr. Lau King-tsing founded the Hong Kong Ant!" Heroin Society last month, this being the first of 1ts kind for the proper cure of heroin addicts in the Colony.
ANZAC DAY
London, Apr. 19.. Anzac Day will be celebrated on April 25 in London by a special service at St. Paul's Cathedral. The lessons will be read by the High Commissioners of Australia and New Zealand, after which the two contlägents will march to the Censtoph.-
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point of view of this Court we feel | Force here, every health, happiness your loss tremendously and wish and contentment in your very well that you shall have as a culmina-earned retirement. · tion of a very long and gallant and Mr. Murphy: I am very grateful honourable career in the Police to you, my Lord...-
More Navy Contracts
The award of naval contracta exceeding £10,500,000 in value has been announced by the Admiralty. The orders include a 23,000-ton aircraft-carrier, Ave 5,300-ton cruisers, a patrol vessel and two sets of machinery for cruisera, to be built in the Royal dockyards. ... Allocation of the contracts and their estimated value is as follows:.. Aircraft Carrier: Harland & Wola,
Belfast. £3,000,000
One Cruiser (Dido Class) each to: A Stephen & Bons Ltd., Govan
£1,300,000
Scotts Shipbuilding & Eng. Co.
Greenock, £1,300,000 Fairfield. Shipbuilding & Eng.
Co., Govan, £1,300,000 Cammell Laird & Co., Birken-
CLOSE GUARD OVER LEAKAGE
GUARD OVER LEAKAGE CONTEMPT OF COURT
CLOSE
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN REVENUE EXPECTED
London, April 19.
A special meeting of the Cabinet will be held to-night at which the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, will explain his Budget proposals to his colleagues. The Budget will be presented to the Commons to-morrow afternoon,
"This will be Mr. Chamberlain's sixth Budget statement, but it is expected he will have re- linquished office before the Finance Act of the year, that will be introduced to implement his pro. posals being placed on the Statute Book.
M. Joseph Caillaux, the famous French politician, is now the President of the Senate's Financial Committee.
CORONATION
PROCESSION
Officials Satisfied With Rehearsal
The
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the
London, April 19. rehearsal of Coronation procession which took place early yesterday morning and passed off strictly according to p'an was staged to test the smoothness with which the main part of the procession could e5- semble at Westminster Abbey after the Coronation ceremony and be joined in Waterloo Place by troops there waiting.
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Many speculations are made In the press as to the contents of the Budget, but precautions to prevent premature disclosure are strictly drawn and no reliance can bo placed on these forecasts. The pub- lication of the estimates shows. however. that provision must be made for expenditure of £408,000,000 for civil departments, $14,000,000 for revenue depart- ments, excluding the Post Office, which is a self-balancing service, and £197,000,000 for defence ser- vice. In addition to £80,000,000 to be met out of loan.
A further sum of £235,000,000 will be required to meet debt charges If the amount paid under this head in the past year remains unchanged.
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This represents a total of just
£855,000,000 which under
257,000,000 over last year's Budget total,
It is assumed that owing to continued? improvement in trade, Mr. Chamberlain will be able to count on a substantial increase in yleld of revenue from most of the existing forms of taxation.-.. British Wireless.
MASSED BAND CONCERT
At The Queen's Theatre
Mr. Neville Chamberlain is pre- senting his last Budget as he is mentioned as the successor to the Premiership.
LOCAL DOCTOR
MARRIED
Pretty Manila Ceremony
HOPE-GILL-MEADOWS
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In the presence of a large
CHARGES AGAINST SECTION OF CHINESE PRESS
The editors and publishers of three Chinese newspapers will appear before the Full Court on Thursday at 10 am. as the resuit of motions made by the Attorney General (Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C.) before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon," as a sequel to cere tain publications concerning the case in which Chui Yak Fal. draughtsman of the P.W.D., has been committed for trial on a charge of the murder of a woman. The case has come to be known as the “Charcoal Murder Casé.”
The Attorney General, was in- structed by the Crown Solicitor - (Mr. J. A. Fraser).
an order to direct that the editors and publishers of certain "news- papers should be called upon to answer to the Full Court for their contempt in 'having published mat- ter concerning a pending murder case, calculated to prejudice the trial. Counsel referred to a case in 1919 (14 H. K. Law Reports, page 58) In which a person was com mitted for trial not for murder but for a lesser offence. The com-
The newspapers concerned are the Hong Kong Ching Po, of which the editor is Yeung Lau, and the -publisher Wong Fat Chit; the Shek Shin Po (Rocky Mountain Press), of which the editor is Ling Ching Kok, and the publisher, Tang Kwan Ngal; and the Han Wa Po, of which the editors are Ling Fung and Tseng Tat Fong and the publisher Yeungmentary published suggested that Bai Cheung.
the accused should never have been tried. He was, in fact, never tried yet the Court held that there was contempt.
CONTEMPT OF COURT The Attorney General said that the motions were made asking for
TWO BANKERS KIDNAPPED
Caught On Motor Journey
Shanghai, Ápr. 19.
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ALLEGED RUDE TREATMENT
Sino-Japanese Incident
Pelping April 19. Amicable settlement of the situation arising from the alleged.
Mr. Hsu Fa-chua, sub-manager of the Nanking branch of the Kin- chang Banking Corporation, and Zee Pao-yuen, manager of the rude treatment of Japanese travel. Tientsin branch of the Bank offers at Nankow by Chinese officials Communications, were kidnapped Teh-chun, Mayor of Pelping to General Chin is reported to-day.
by bandits while motoring from Nanking to Hankow yesterday.
Beyond the news that the two bank officials had been captured no further details have been received so far.
gathering of friends at the Arch- bishop's Palace on the evening of April 14. Miss Beatrice Meadows. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J., G. The Cheeru Club must have Meadows, became the bride of Dr. benefitted very considerably by the Donald Hope-CHll, son of" Surgeon concert given at the Queen's Thea-Captain Herbert Hope-GIII, RN. The Cheklang provincial governor tre last night under the distin (ret'd.)
and Mrs. Hope-GUI of has ordered a relentless search in Every operation was carefully guished patronage of HE. The Kingswar, Devon, states the 1 the direction of the mountain river timed and the officials primarily Officer Administering the Govern- "Manila Bulletin.”
"the captives are believed to have concerned, who were in frequentment, H. E. The Commander-in-
takeri. The wedding was of wide in- consultation throughout, expressed
Chief China Station and E. The
terest in Hong Kong as
well as Reuter: themselves well satisfied with the General Officer Commanding.
-Manila, the groom being a well- arrangements.
A large and appreciative au- known physician. of the former Although
their support to a elty, and the bride having resided the procession left dience gave
cause which was worthy of the Westminster as early as 6.30 on
there for some time. Father A. ̧N. splendid programnic arranged. The the first Sunday morning of sum-
Hannon officiated at the ceremony. platform presented a brilliant ap- mer time, the neighbourhood was
(Continued on Page 7) closely thronged with sightseers pearance when the massed Bands and all along the route, with the
were assembled in their white uni- forms and there were no less than sixty performers.
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THE DOLLAR
T. ON LONDON: 1s. 2-21/320 T.T. ON NEW YORK: 20-1/4...
London Silver Market
(From Our Own, Correspondent)
London, April 19, London silver prides to-day were unchanged for "Épot", and 1/16 up for Forward," as follow:
April 17 April 19. 20-11/1620-11/16 20-11/18-20-3/4
Spot Forward
NEWS INDEX
head, £1,300,000 Hawthorn Leslie & Co., Hebburn- Amusements
-on-Tyne, £1,300,000
Cables Patrol Vessel: J. I Thornycroft & Correspondence Court Casts......
Co., Southampton, £360,000 || One Bet of Cruiser Machinery, Finance
The Pipers of the Inniskilling Fusiliers (playing with the massed Banda) were very stirring, and the Dancers of that same Regiment gave' a display which delighted the audience.
A elever Xylophone duet aptly named "The Two Impa" was very. good Indeed, and the Saxephone Solo by Edam. T. Gibson, and ac- (Continued on Back Page).
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KAWAGOE'S CALL IN NANKING
Nanking, Apr. 19. Mr. Kawagoe called on Mr. Wang Chung-hul this afternoon to dis- cuss Bino-Japanese relations.
Previously, Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, Ambassador to Japan had, called on the Foreign Minister. — Neuter.
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Radio Programmes Shipping
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happy anapshot at the Race Course.
each to: Hawthorn Leslie & Leading Article Co., Hebburn-on-Tyne, £350,000 |Local DİREK Scotta Shipbuilding & Eng. Co.-Mall Notices
Greenock, -£350,000
Total value 210,560,009 @port
FAMINE RELIEF
FUNDS
whom a protest was addressed by Mr. Denjiro Kato, first secretary of the Japanese Embassy, called "on Mr. Kato on Friday afternoon and informed him that the Japanese requests had been ac- cepted.
Although the substance of the Chinese communication was not
surmised divulged, it is
that General Chini assured the Japanese that the responsible officials have already been properly disposed of and that Instructions have been Issued to prevent undue pressure the on Japanese travellers in future. He further sought Mr. Kato's understanding on inviting
attend Japanese officials to
the examination of Japanese suspect-
ed of carrying contraband. The" Japanese officia's agreed to this,
Shanghai, Apr. 18. General Cha Ching-hai, chair- man of the National Famine Relief Commission, proceeded to Chung- king by air to-day with over $1,400,000 raised by mortgaging of The Japanese Embassy pro- bonds on loans for relief of famine tested originally at the examina- striken Szechven where it to tion of Japanese officials and re- estimated thirty million people are Eldents by inspectors of the 20th on the verge of starvation.
Army at Nankow. The punish- After completing his missionment of the officials responsible, General Chu will go on to Kansu to investigate the famine there-
Reuter
an official apology and a guaran- tee for the future were demanded.
-Union News. Nepa
Development Of
Hainan Island
The Hainan, trade and Industry | manufacturing, timber and affore- investigating party consisting of stration, cattle breeding, fishing. members of the banking, commer-communication, economic condi cial and industrial bodies of tions, livelihood of the natives, Bhanghai, Canton and Hong Kong,
trade' and commerce etc. will assemble in Hong Kong to-day. and depart for Hainan Island on board a Chinese Government gun- an important locality, it is of vital. boat on Thursday, the 22nd instant. importance that it should be pro-
As Hainan Island is situated in
The party will remain at Hainan | perly developed, in order to safe- Island for about fifteen days and guard and strengthen the defences devote their time investigating of Bouth China planting, agriculture, mining, salt Chinese Evening Preis.