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HONG KONG, JUNE 5, 1937,
THE CHARM OF
INITIALS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1937.
AMATEUR PHOTO
SNITE
DISPLAY
ODYSSEY
An Excellent Show
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KING'S ESTATES MALAYAN REVIEW
Prosperity Reported
Rubber Control
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Round a long table in a Buck- Ingham gate, S.W... office one anite, the patient has so far in-afternoon last month, 'sat King graphic exhibition of the Chinese between 125 to 150 thousand gold cers of his Duchy of Cornwall
So successful was the photo-volved his father" in expenditure | George VI and half-a-dozen of Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, states the "Malaya Tri- Y.M.C.A. and Penguin Photo Clubs dollars.
of Shanghai' last month, that a Mr. Shite, ar.. Ls an Irish-born further display has been arranged American. He is Fresident of the Chicago Loan Company and owner of several department stores.
at 144, Des Voeux Road..
It was opened yesterday and will
continue into next week. This
Miss Caroline Anspacher of the time there are many coloured photos on view, and the artist Mr. aboard the President Coolidge to San Francisco Chronicle will be Fisze Young may be seen on the cover the trip for the Associated vernadah outside in process of
Press-Reuter. tinting them. He uses both oil, and 1.7 water colours, but the latter in the most effective."
& powerful head of a 'lon (tinted in water-colours) was so effective It was hard to believe it was a photograph. A crouching tiger too
was most life-like.
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MORE "IRON LUNGS"
Shanghai. June 4, When the President Coolidge ar- rives to-morrow evening, she will bring two more "iron lungs", one of which is for Mr. Bulte's trans- Pacific trip and the other as a re- serve. The respirator Mr. Bnite is now using will be given to the Pet- aping Union Medical College.
BOWL OF RICE Perhaps the cleverest was symbolical picture of a bowl of rice, with the shadows of eager clutch- ing hands all round it. A clever plenie study caught the eye, of a pretty girl. seen through the spokes of a bicycle wheel..
On the verandah are some lovely, photos by Shanghal amateurs. The White Peacock by Wu Zlang Mang will be admired, and a study of floating water lies by Chu Chung Lin, and a lovely moonlight study by Fisze Young.
Local amateurs should try to see this exhibition, as there is much to be learned on the artistic side. and in the technique of pictorial arrangement.
AMERICAN JEW BEHEADED
Alleged Plot Against Chancellor Hitler
Berlin. June 4. An American Jew by the name of Hirsch was beheaded to-day after he was sentenced to death by the High Court for treason, against the State.
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ports, discussed business problems. One by one they made their re-
For this meeting His Majesty had motored specially from Wind-, sor Castle to hear the news that his estates were prospering from the Earl of Radnor (Lord Warden of the Stannaries), Bir Edward Peacock (Receiver-General), Ear! Fortescue, Admiral Sir · Lionel Halsey, Sir Walter Monckton (At- torney-General) and the Duchy's Secretary and Record Keeper." R
live W. Burn,
When early Dukes of Cornwall ran short of funds it 'was ng un-" common thing for them to pledge the Duchy's mineral rights, and under the control of money-lenders and opulent industrialists fell seve- Mr.. Saite. Br.. received a tele-ral of its richest in mines. Much gram stating that arrangements surface land is still on lease, but for a special train to carry the the rights to mines and minerals patient and party from San Fran-are the King's. cisco to Chicago have been com-. pleted. The train will go to the dock at San Francisco so that the patient may be transferred with the least trouble, "
Mr. Salte, Jr., will enter Billing Hospital. Chicago, where some of the foremost authorities on para- lytic diseases will study his case.--- Reuter.
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(Continued from Page 1.) tions which are lucidly set forth and logically sequenced.
Emily Hahn's review of Geoffrey Gorer's book on Ball is delicious pot. pourri of gentle humour and rough
common sense. It is indicated that she might be devastating if she felt that way about any book
Because he had an idea that his
possessions should be handled on
modern business-like lines, the
Duke of Windsor, planned big
changės, belleved the estates could be developed.
Evidence of the strong support given by all sections of the rub- ber industry to the control scheme was forthcoming at a meeting 'of- Chinese members of the Johore "Planters"" Association held at the
bune.” A resolution was passed unanimously calling for the con- tinuation of restriction, when the present scheme 'expires at the end of 1938.
Although the present scheme has more than eighteen months to run, it is none too early for members of the industry to make known their determination that control shall continue. There are agencies working actively for its abandonment, and we may ex- Activity on the Malayar side is needed if the industry is to be pre- pect that this propaganda will be intensified as time goes on.
served and, there is to be no relapse into the chaotic conditions or the pre-restrictiori era.
As the "Hon. Mr. Check Huan 'Cheong, the chairman, sald at the meeting referred to: "Think what the disastrous effect would be if the output is not regulated. We should again see rubber sold at under $10 a pleut. It is necessary at least to preserve the ma- chinery which has been so painstakingly" built up, so that in time of need we can use it again.”
Back To The Land
By the gift of a further $2,000,000 to the Bliver Jubilee Fund for the relief of distress in Singapore, the Straits Settlements Gov- ernment Has raised the money available to nearly $3,500,000. This will provide an income of about $6,500 a month, and will be no more than is necessary to provide a bare minimum of relief. There are about 2,000 people, representing nearly 550 families, receiving assis- tance, and it is stated that there are 6,000 to 8,000 who are receiving no allowance at all. Even if nothing more is done than to pre- vide the means for "necessitõus people to exist, all the money in band and any more which may be subscribed is needed for this one purpose. The suggestion has been made that in order to place re- щоте extensively. | llef measures on a permanent basis something should be done” to- made to yield á bigger annual in- put needy people to work on the land so that they may be usefully come.
employed and be able to contribute to some extent to their own sup- port. Relief schemes the world over visualise something of the kind. It is pitiable to contemplate the spectacle of needy people living in idleness with only enough to keep body and soul together and nothing to do but brood over their misfortunes. Grim stories have been told in Britain of the men on the dole. In particular, the youths who have grown up to an inheritance of dole conditions and have never known what it is to be employed. Such tragedies are to be avoided wherever possible, and the problem of providing useful work for the unemployed of Singapore has been given anxious considera - tion.
Of the Duchy's industries one of the most valuable is the Helford Oysterage, until 1922 administered by the Duke's officials. That year the then Prince of Wales leased it to MacFisheries, which now under- takes to supply the Deby tree of charge with 200
the best of ters each week during the season. Every Thursday they are delivered. To King George VI belang all
Royal ash caught off the Duchy coast, but because they are mostly porpoise, whales, and others of it- she reviewed.
tle market value, have to be Editorials are always construc-burled. tively critical and the first one in At last week's conference. Audi- this issue concerning the desirabl-tor Sir Lionel Halsey produced a uty of all leaders pulling together antisfactory set of accounts. re- for the well-being of China is most ported that this year's revenues timely, and, coming from whence should yield at least £164,000. it does, most significant.
If you want to learn much in a entitled "Hands" translated by It was rumoured that he was comparatively small space (nine Richard L Jen. A Memoir Of A connected with a plot against pages), read Mr. Lowe Chuan-Ten Days' Massacre In Yangchow" it has frequently been remark-Chancellor Hitler, Two bombs, hua's fine article on "The Recon, is an achievement, in restraint ed how often the name, rather were found in his possession. structive Movement in China," and and subtlety by Wang Hsin-chu. than the child, is father to the
for instruction plus amusement The translation by Lucien Mao is Mr. Yao Hsin-ning's article "When in the grand manner compatible Bing-Song Giris Were Muses" is to with the depth of the theme. be enthusiastically recommended." The six plates which amplify this article are a.s picturesque and graceful as its theme and langu-
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We all know Cuthberts sud Algernons, Sonius lnd Deirdres, who seem to have acquired their characters, ready made, at the font. There are of course excep tions; but it commonly occurs that Algernon's eyeglass und Sonia's fatalistic earrings strike us as having been inevitable from the moment, not of birth, but of baptin.
This curious byplay of predes fination sometimes occurs in the case of initials,
Only very few and very famous people are known by their initials. F. E. was; A. P. H. and LI.: G. But in such cases there is
The American Consul made un- successful reporta on Hirsch's behalf. Neuter's Bulletin Service...
Air Battle Thrills
5000 Scots
Five thousand people at Prest- wick, Ayrshire, were thrilled by diving, bombing, and front-gun attack on tanks, which were a spectacular feature of an air dis- play arranged by Squadron-Leader D. F. M'Intyre, of Everest night fame, who is the officer command" ing the Civil Training School at Prestwick, write a Home corres- pondent.
About› 40° machines took part from R.A.F. squadrons--one each and Turnhouse
from Catterick
age.
This publication with persona lity is very well worth the Dollar it costs, because apart from those splendid articles to which refer- ence has been made, there is Stark realism, as a vehicle to
a veritable cascade of satire from convey psychology to the pinnacle the pen of Osbert, Sitwell when he of conviction: La the difficult as his views, in an article which medium deftly employed by Hsiao is the soul of wit, on "What It Hung in his brilliant short story' Feels Like To Be An Author."
London Saps
Scotland's Vitality
and two from Abbotsinch-co- Scotland operating with the local armen. balloon
SOLUTIONS OFFERED
London is sapping the vitality of It is swelling like a
There were five possible ways of It is getting the lion's tackling the depressed areas by The diving-bombing was carried share of the new factories. It reviving existing industries, by establishing new industries. by out by three Hawker Hinds from a certain to go on growing untiland settlement, by deporting the
diving-bombing it burstal Abbotsinch, and
population, and by improving and front-gun attack on tanks by
amenities.
One of Scotland's leading econo-
Youngstown, June 3. Starvation threatens the em- ployees of the Republic Steel Cor- are. poration who still remain at their something arbitrary and acci- posts in two of the company's tac- dental, some lack of connexion tortes near here, the Warren and between the initials and their Niles plants. Both are in Ohio.
Unless they decide to surrender owner; it is when the paines of and join the strike, the surround-institutions are thus abbreviated ing pleket force will starve them that their study becomes in teresting, L.M.S., for instance, The picket line are impassable, is an admirable name for a rail three Hawker Demons, of No. 41 mists-Dr. Jarzes Bowie, Principal the only method of delivering food
Fighter Squadron, RAF., Catte- of the School of Economics, Chun- the loyal workers has been by way; the train pulls in on the Tick.
dee-voiced that biting criticar means of aeroplanes. But to-day first two letters and lets out
Combined aerobatics, squadron about London in a talk to Glasgow low-lying clouds and rain prevent-steam with a complacent hiss. formation air, drill, and streamer Publicity Clüb, when be charged ed aeroplane deliveries.
the Government with showing a flight L.N.E.R. gallops to the right cutting in
short-sighted policy in allowing so Moreover snipera' 'bullets, which rhythin; but G.W.R. is hopeless spectacular features, have already caused one plane to and does not sound like a railway
much industry to concentrate 200-m.p.b. Plane
around one centre, states the "Bul- making the company disinclined to continue this method at all. T.S.F. (if you pronounce Much Interest was taken in -a | letin" (Glasgow),
Fit as the French do) is a felici- demonstration flight by an Anson
The improverishment of Scot- The food supply at the Warren tously onomatopoeic label for machine from Abbotsinch. This land and the prosperity of London is one of the biggest general re-and the South-East are largely the factory is sufficient for three or what the English, inaccurate as connatsance aircraft in the Air result of Government policy said four days, but at Niles supplies are
well as
illogical, prefer to call the Force. It carries a crew of Aye Mr. Bowle. That being so, Scot reported to be runing low- "Beuter.
wireless. The B.B.C., on the and fles about 200 miles an hour. land has a claim for damages, for other hand, has an unsuitably The Marquis of,
rquis of Clydesdale practically every other regioni has frivolous ring, and is further leader of the Everest Expedition. benefited from State intervention. liable to be confused with that was present during the afternoon.
give a stimulus to recruiting, The display, it is thought, will
crast, are
of delivery.
PLANT CLOSES DOWN'
New York, June 3.
A Dow, Jones report to-day states that 5,000 employees of the Good-pugilistic oligarchy, the B.B.B.C year Tyre Company were idle to-
D.OR.A. was definitely in- day when strikers closed down one plant end part of another of the "pired, and remains "a classic. company's three divisions at Akron. The GPU (Gay Pay Oo to 170,000,000 potential victims) However, within a few hours the sounds subtly sinister, and more- situation was normal again, full-over provides an excellent alter- time production being resumed.
Ohio.
were other
About 100 men are still required at Prestwick to train at week ends or summer evenings for the RAF. Volunteer Reserve.
BALANCE UPSETS!
has upset the balance of location "It is the Government itself that
by showering blessings on some in- dustries and areas in the shape of quotas, tariffa, and subsidies, while condemning others to severe and prolonged depression,” he said. "
We need deliberate action to redress the balance-a real
programme of redemption for
Scotland.
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Ninepence Or Tenpence
"As long as I am here the Malayan Government will do every- thing in its power to assist the International Rubber Restriction Committee to maintain the price at a reasonable level, which I con- ceive to be about Bd. or 10d a b."
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"I would not be an alarmist but I believe it to be a fact that thousands of tons of synthetic rubber are being made to-day.”
These important statements were made by Sir Shenton Thomas. High Commissioner, in opening the new premises of the Rubber Re- search Institute in Kuala Lumpur. The old premises were partly destroyed by fire some months ago.
Mr. HJ. Page, the Director of the Institute, briefly sketched the history of the Institute. He referred to the loss sustained by the Institute in the recent fire at the old premises at Damansara Road.
His Excellency in the course of his speech, said:----
I deplore, as anyone really interested in the industry must deplore, speculative booms such as we have just witnessed. They retard research; they check the expansion of markets, and they are. a direct incentive to competition.
Botany In Malaya
The report of Mr. R. E. Holttum, the Director of Gardens, B. 5. for the year 1936 indicates the valuable work in the interests of the flora of Malaya which the Department accomplishes. It is recorded that in both Singapore and Penang the Municipal Commissioners pay a hundred dollars a month to the department for advice regard- ing the planting and maintenence of roadside trees. Omcers carry our expeditions to various places with the result, that considerable new knowledge is obtained. The Director visited Cameron Highlands collecting specimens. A second course in Systematic Botany was held on Saturday mornings at the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, and these classes, it is hoped, have made a real start in the teaching of botany in Malaya.. A book by Mr. E. J. H. Corner, the Assistant Director, on the common trees of the country should do much to assist this study.
Naturalisation $100
A perusal of the Fees Ordinance of the Straits Bettlements dis- clases some interesting figurës relating to the cost of naturalisation in Malaya for which fees, amounting to $100, must have been paid by the time naturalisation is granted. S
For every petition for naturalisation lodged it is necessary for the applicant to pay $10. Among those exempted from the pay- ment of such charges, however, are women who were Britin subjects before their marriage to an alien, if their marriage has been dis solved, or if their husbands have died. However, a payment of $2 15: required by such women for grant of a certificate of naturalization. No charge will be made, either for an application for a certificate of naturalisation, or the granting of such certificate, however, where the applicant is one to whom a certificate of local naturalisation has: been granted under the Naturalization Ordinance. The sum of $90- is payable in all other cases upon the granting of the petition. The sum of 3 is demanded for the registration of a declaration of allen- age or of retention acquisition or resumption of British nationality.
The present official policy was to let industry go where it lateth, and then, at great trouble and ex pense, to uproot and expat riate selected men and send them in pursuit of it, m
The swarming of the population to the London area, said Dr. Bowie, was a menace both to London it- self and to the depressed areas from Gift To Ruffles Museum which they were largely draw One of the most valuable and interesting gifts to Raffles Museum The movement was still proceeding has been made by Date Roland Braddell. It comprises 15 beauti- glomeration of 8 million people Crown Colony in its very early days, 1844 to 1847. The former date at un accelerated rate. This agfal colour prints of Singapore, Malacca and Penang, showing the already constituted a grave national is of especial interest as it depicts the town of Singapore as Date problem.
To the insoluble frame problems of London must be added the val nerability in time of war
From the Scottish point of view we must reckon that not least of the menaces, la the continual robbing of the popu `lation," added Dr, Bowie,
As long as Scotland was pro- ducing a population surplus to her needs she could afford to send her
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Braddell's grandfather knew it when he arrived. The pictures are by two French artists, M. Lauvergne and M, Fisquet, and as works of art, they are exquisite. They have hitherto been unknown and un- published, and are to extremely pleasing colours and very well drawn. The main interest of the pictures, apart from their artistic excellence, is that they give a clear insight into the appearance of the early Bettlements and the social life of its inhabitants, and they throw light on hitherto unknown details of local history. The gems of the collection Pre a picture of Singapore and two of Malacca.
Cost Of Travelling
excess south. But it is one thing That the globe-trotter's lot is not a happy one is shown by to redistribute an expanding po- examination of the charges for pasaporta, renewals of passports, visas, pulation and quite another to re- certificates of identity and Identity and travelling documente distribute a stationary or shrink-- A British passport will cost the traveller $3, its renewal ing population Scotland's popu- and its endorsement $1, A British Emergency certificate is 23. lation is already shrinking. The If yo desire, to go to Palestine it will be necessa (to obtain, time is ripe for looking into this Palestinian passport This will cost you $3, and Der year for
It was a comparatively minor native for the trisyllabic ending LP.T.B. has the hurried, bumpy dispute which caused the workers, of Who's Afraid of the Big cadence that we should expect. In the morning, to sit down and Bad Wolf?" a refrain which is
But what of our latest attack Though he admitted conditions in refuse to carry on. It is believed said by travellers to be very of initialitis? What of N.D.C.? Scotland to-day were undoubtedly work was recommenced at the re-popular in Russia this year. This, it is
is generally admitted, petter. Dr: Bowie said that they quest of union leaders, pending ne- The less intimidating. G.P.O. ie has little to recommend it beyond still had 15 per cent, of their in-matter and taking the appropriate newal, with another $1 for its endorsement. A certificate of identity gotiations over the difficulties in
sured workers unemployed, and action, for the truth is that the is so a Nansen Cerkifuate of Identity $5; an identity and travelling ae brisks, cheerful, and efficient the fact that you can make it there was plenty of room yet for state is grossly neglecting the document and it endorsed for authorisation to return to the as a postman's knock; and the stand for Neville Doesn't Care. Improvement.
capital equipment of Scotland". Straite Settlements, $4.25.
the factors Heute