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Society dictates to the church what it may or may not say. One religion is dying. That is not a Christian religión. It hardly exists, DIESPECKER-On April 7, 1937. perhaps it never did exist, because how could we men fulfil what God has fulfiled.
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at Dr. Antono's Maternity Hospital, Shanghal, to Tse- Fong, wife of L C. Dicspecker, a daughter.
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Taking a bird's eye view of the week, perhaps the most, outstand- Ing event was the appearance of two charming new dancers at the Gloucester. Modle and Lemaux
What is dying is the religion have already been seen in Bong couple of films (by which is occupied in thinking and Kong Ina
actions. name "Dancing Lady" and' Trans- writing and taking That religion has been far too atlantic Merry-go-Round") 50
goes without saying that they are most accomplished performers.
common.
We shall, I believe, in the course of the next generation see the re- awakening and renewal of love. following Christ, obedient to God. and ready to do His will.
Our bellef in things about Christ cannot change Christ. If Christ is the son of God It does matter much whether we are able to say right
It
Their Cuban Rhumba is one of the prettiest dantes seen here for a long time (ir that is the name of the spinning-top dance they Kave as a 'finale!),
One of the loveliest dresses seen, among the large audience assem- bled to watch them was worn by Mrs. Brockant, and was of oyster-
IPES. things about Elm but what mat.
ters is whether we shall obey Him. gray satin, with green purple and
gray chiffon twisted to form Jesus told us to obey God because the heart of religion lles in obe-shoulder strap, which finished in
sash-ends falling to the feet.
HONG KONG, MAY 3, 1837.
PRACTICAL FAMINE
KELIEF
dience.
There is danger that those of us who try to obey God may ap pear the other way round. Our lives are like dirty windows which would not let God's light come in.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS the China Luternational Famine, ness, of the church to alter society
H.K. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
The Annual General Meeting will be held at the CATHEDRAL, HALL on Monday, May 10th at 5.30 p.m..
By Order of the Committee,
H. J. BEST,
Hon. Secretary."'
5235
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of Henry Milner, late of Beau Rivage, Greve d'Azette, St. Clement in Jersey, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the time for crèditors and others to send in their claims against the above estatę, to the 28th day of May, 1937.
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required" to send their claims to the under. signed on or before that date.
Dated the 1st day of May, 1937.
JOHNSON, STOKES &
MASTER, Solicitors for the Executors, The Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building,
Hong Kong.
5236
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB
It is a strange thing that after The Szechuen committee of three centuries it was not the busi- but to change individuals who in turn should be left to change so- clety. We are faced to-day with national movements determined to change society without any re ligious outlook.
Relief Commission is taking a practical line in applying relief activities to works of public im, portance, according to a report which we have received and which will be epitomised in our China Review feature to-morrow.
Work is to start immediately on the construction of the first
The Bishop concluded by telling
A very pretty "Deb" is little Miss Bonker who looked very young and
sweet in apricot chiffon. Miss Summers also looked
en-
chanting in apple-green gauze. and Miss Miriam Hopkins looked well in a charming backless dress of dark blue.
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Miss C. Bonnell was delightful something white and dlmy. (Wedding bells will very soon be heard). Another who looked like a "honey" in cool snow-white was that persuasive dancer Miss Edith Hersey. She and her twin-brother have been delighting all Gloucester patrons with their dancing for the last month, and will be much missed when they depart for
the congregation that our beloved King will solemnly re-dedicate himself in the Coronation Service on May 12, and asked them to fol-Manila, low his example and use the op-
A pretty bloom of garden'as seen on a Kowloon verandah.
strokes! But in the end H.D. in
ilke cool and business
tennis shorts had the better of Sirdar who was "Just about done in,"
Conventional white flannel trou- sers are very smart for garden- party wear, but when it comes to a five-set match in the tropics the shorts have it! It was good to see
a tiny touch of black). Mrs. Har-
r'man looked very pretty in a charming white dress patterned in lac and mauve with small fluted frills of ecru lace, and Mrs. Dono
had an unusual dress of crushed-violet.
van
Mrs. Wood was there in light green. her husband had another success
сп "Macs Adventure," which always respond nobly when he is "up."
Mrs. Seth was watching fo dress of fresh coral pink and most pleasing dress (rather like a
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Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Fifth Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, 15th and Monday, 17th May, 1937 (weather permitting) may be obsection of the projected Chung-portunity to re-dedicate them- tained at the Secretary's Office, king-Chengtu Railway line and selves to the service of God and Walker one of those attractively sailor-suit) was worn with charm- Exchange Building: the Club special efforts are being made to their fellow men. House, Happy Valley; the Hong expedite work on the remaining Kong Club; the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on Thursday, 6th May,
1937.
By Order,
C, B. BROWN,
Secretary.
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IMPERIAL
PREFERENCE
NEGOTIATIONS
Chamber
Ambulance Flag Day Results
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Bite sections so that famine refugees may be used on produc- ive labour in the greatest possible degree. The Provincial Govern- ment is co-operating admirably by putting funds at the disposal of the Famine Relief Coniniittee for the provision of food, medical care and accommodation for the A.
White, G. White, Westlake, A. Raymond, and refugees put on to the work. Richardson,
Gubbay. Labour camps will be supervised by the
mission hospitals in Chungking. .
Dr. L. S. Shin' organised the Wanchal area and enlisted the support of the girls schools in
Mrs. Stuart-Smith had a lovely gown of pale apricot and Mrs.
flowered, satins, in delicious shades of silvery brown. Mrs. Ramsey had a smart little dress of peach- coloured satin and a daimantee hair-band, and Miss Elleen "Bliss -had a dainty frock of ruby taffeta.
TENNIS
From the feminine point of view the final of the open singles re- solved itself into the triumph of shorts over tennis-trousers! H.D. and Sirdar Rumjahn fought a thrilling battle in which no shot was too remote or too dimcult to
retrieved be
and the railles ran up to eighteen and twenty
be that locality, namely:-Put Kwan, IMPROVEMENT OF |
of their
This development should keenly watched as it marks a Tsun Tak, Lai Chak, Chee Hang, definite step forward in famine Sung Tak and Ching Fung. relief policy and may well afford The following schools with, the & useful precedent for the future.permission
respective It embodies principles which Headmistress also lent their ald:- Bellios Girls, Mul Fong, To Shuk, have been successfully applied in
Man Tsun, Yat Chung Ming other countries and it is obviously Sheung, Yeung Chung, Shun Shau. superior to methods of relief Kwan Shau, Mut Fun. Man Wah,
Of Commerce
Annual Report which merely endeavour to give St. Stephen and St. Paul's.
RECIPROCITY BY HONG KONG
́HOSPITALS' ́AID
KWANGTUNG
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"The development of industry is essential to economic development. The provincial government has al- ready embarked upon various in- the sufferers temporary means of
dustrial enterprises, but more fac- sustenance without affording them
The staff of the Hong Kong tories of all descriptions are need- ren! assistance to recover their Sanitorium and Hospital looked
ed, and 50 we must encourage economic independence. This after the Happy Valley and Wong does not mean that direct relief Nel Chung areas, while members capitalists to make investments
of the Tung Wah Eastern and and welcome
ald.
back our Overseas
The annual report of the Hong is necessarily either avoidable or Kwong Wah Hospitals lent their brethren. However, the extension Kong General Chamber of Com-
of means of communications is an merce for 1936, contains details of harmful. The point is that it the discussions which have been loes not go beyond the immediate The record boxes were:-Misa Lo essential pre-requisite to economic proceeding with the Government object of averting starvation. $140.42, Miss Chan To Ying 597.15, development through the facilita- regarding the terms of renewal of The provision of work is far more Miss Isabel Woo $78.26, Kowloon tion of commerce and the en- the Ottawa agreements as between,
en- Nursing Div. $52.68, Kowloon Nurhancement of unification." The Hong Kong and the rest of the Em- heneficial as it definitely
courages the famine-stricken la- sing Div. $48.59. Mrs. Barry $44.82.
solving of the currency problem H.K. San!toriam and Hospital Outlining the Imperial Prefer-bourer and it protects the com-gister $43.75, Kowloon Nursing Div.
will also assist in economie re- ence negotiations, the report shows munity against the evil effects of $40.14. King's College Nursing Div.
covery," said Governor Wu, that it was in July last that the the dead-weight of unproductive $39.18. Chamber conveyed to Government its views on the subject of Imper-expenditure.
pire..
"THE CANTON INSURANCE | fal Préférence between Hong Kong
OFFICE, LTD.
NOTICE ΤΟ
SHAREHOLDERS.
and the Empire generally.
The Chamber dealt first with the question as it concerned the non- self-governing Colonies and the Mandated Territories:
The Chamber's letter stated that Hong Kong's interest was that this The Fifty-Sixth Ordinary position should be maintained, and General Meeting of Shareholders in a few cases extended to meet will be held at the Offices of the special local needs; and that the undersigned on Tuesday, the conditions of Preference should not be made more onerous than 18th May, 1937, at Noon, for they were at present. the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of Accounts" for the year ended the 31st December, 1936.
COLONIAL MARKETS
The Chamber further stated that the Colonial markets were of grow- ing importance to Hong Kong'e
FAR EAST HEALTH
Mr. Kwok Hin Wang was per- sonally responsible for the collec- tion of $255. Mr. Lau King Tsing with his car assisted 'his niece In "collecting the sum of $97.15.
ing effect by a "fair-unknown."
Madame Lebocq de Feularde a newcomer to the Colony looked extremely smart in blue with 4 becoming hut to particularly match. Her husband is in the French Consulate.
up on the
Mr. Justice Lindsell umpite's chair once again. He is definitely one of the best umpires in the Colony and speaks clearly so that one can always hear the score.
Mrs. N. L. Smith and Miss Judith Smith were with some friends and watched the match with much
U.S. BASEBALL RESULTS
After one of those freak. interest. spin-shots (which Sirdar returned be almost somersaulting at her feet) I noticed that Mrs. N. L Smith shared a sympathetic smile with him. Another match worth watching wäs the Handicap Doubles between Richardson and Wood, and A. C. I. Bowker and K. Valentine.
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There again, some truly splendid rallies were witnessed, and the play was fast. Richardson volley- ed well and Wood got in a lot of His clever spin shots, but in the end Bowker and Valentine triumphed. The former was excel- lent
while. the back line. on Valentine's volleying from mid- court was unbeatable.
THE RACES
It was hot at Happy Valley on Saturday. Dividends were very.. hot" too. but dresses trancingly cool and everyone look- ed delightful. «
were
en-
Betty Fair looked cool in all- white and Kay Simmons had the sweetest dress of mingled light brown and pale fawn. Mr. V. R. Gordon wore white patterned in China-blue, and Mrs. Archbutt had such a pretty" dress of white with yellow and orange pattern...gn, it....
HE the Officer Administering the Government had a large party in his box and Mrs. Smith had a charming costume of pastel-pink.
Mrs. A. V. Greaves had her luck nice, right in. (and looked very too, in a white coat and skirt with
LEPER EXECUTION
"DENIED
Canton, May. 2. Execution of 100 lepers at Ta Fu Lin on the foot of White Cloud
SATURDAY'S RESULTS Mountain as reported in foreign pa-
.New York, May 1. The following were the results of to-day's baseball matches:--
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may "Cultural reconstruction mean development of scientiac knowledge and the establishment of more technical schools, but we must not forget that the number of people in the province, who are
The health bulletin of Eastern
denied means of obtaining even an THANKS EXPRESSED
education, Bre Thanks are due to the Hong elementary ports for the week ending April 24, states:-Plague: Bassein 5, cases. Kong Tramway Co. China Motor numerous that we must establish Cholera; Bassein 48 cases, Calcutta | Bus Co., Kowloon Motor Bus Co...more schools to teach the simple 17. Rangoon 1. Chittagong 6, Yaumati Ferry Co., Star Ferry Co.. characters, and more short-term
various firms, Stores and Manila 1, Bangkok 351. Small-pox: and
primary schools," commented Gov- Bombay 43 cases. Calcutta 8 Restaurants for the display of Karachi 4. Madras 12, Moulmein 1
postera, the presses both English ernor Wa Negapatam 1. Chittagong 1. Akya and Chinese for publicity, and the 1, Hong Kong 3, Shanghai 19, Moji ZBW., for a broadcast.
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Governor Wa concluded that in order to carry out rural recon- Especial thanks are due to Mr. Ip stuction, the fundamental problem Kwai Chung who was early afleld must be tackled first, and this is visiting the different atations and the adjustment of the land ques- manufacturing Industries and ex- of the Empire as a focal point of who later provided the physical tion. "To increase agricultural port trade and asked that every British trade with China and needs of the little sellers by pro- The Share Register and Trans- effort be made at the next revision neighbouring countries. "The Co-viding ice cream, aerated water production, we must carry out a a general and lunches at the Hotel Cecil. comprehensive irrigation project," fer Books will be closed from the of the Ottawa, Agreements to pre-lony cannot impose
Corpe Superintendent Chak Tahe said. "Other rural problems in- 4th to the 18th May, 1937, both serve the status quo, subject to a tarif," stated the Chamber, "and
few suggested alterations.
therefore can only offer Empire days inclusive,
Regarding the question of recl- preferences on Empire liquors and Kwong, Corps Officer Szeto Chungclude the establishment of more Lady Ambulance Officer Chan Yuet co-operatives, the currency pro- at present, and on JARDINE, MATHESON & proelty by Hong Kong for conces-tobaccos, 25
sions asked from the rest of the motor vehicles by means of the Hing.. Divisional Officers Tse Long blem in the villages, advancement
Chlu and Yau Pak Yung were of
of rural education based on actual CO., LTD..
British Empire, the Chamber re- special registration levy. General Agents.
ferred to the report of the Hong Chamber is of the opinion that great assistance in compiling the needs, development of rural lead-
recorda.
'ership and the improvement of the Kong Economic Mission; '1935, these should be continued, and the
600 sellers were methods of, agricultural produe- As many BS which reference is made to the preference on Empire liquors in-.
tion." abroad some as early as 5.30. a.m. 5222 services of Hong Kong to the rest cressed and extended if possible."
Hong Kong, 27th April, 1937.
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pers in Shanghai and elsewhere was denied to-day by Brig.-General Li Chieh-chi, Chief of Police here.
"We only segregate them," he said. "When we get hold of the lepers, we turn them over to the Municipal Bureau of Public Health. In turn the lepers are sent to the leper hospital in Shęk Lung.or Tai Kam."
The sensational story about the execution of lepers in Canton was circulated on March 29 by a verna- cular paper in Hong Kong, whence the story was relayed to Shang-
hal-nion News.
Coronation Visitors
London, May 1. Canada's official delegation to the Cormation arrived at Sou- thampton on the RMS. Empress of Australia, headed by Mr. Mac- kenzie King, the Premier, includ- ing Ave other members of the Cabinet, and other distingulsed- people. They were officially wel- comed by the Mayor. Hester.
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ROYAL OBSERVATORY HONG FONG
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yesterday 88 F. Minimum
last night 76 F Rainfall for 24hrs."ending (
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