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The highest oficer present af the trial was Marshal Blucher; Commander-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Red Army and a politi- cally dark horse with a big re putation.
Since he came apparently
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25th June, 1937.
MARRIAGE
CORNES ADDIS,-On June
12,
mand, it seems that he may
be counted on as Stalin's man in any future crisis.
Up to the present relations between "Voroshiloff and Stalin. have been excellent, but the possibility of a split between the two men cannot be excluded.. M. Stalin is clearly in an abnor-
1937, at Frant Church, by the Rev. Roy Ridley, John Frede- rick Cornes, elder son of Mr. Julian Cornes, I.C.S. (retired). J.P. and Mrs. Julian Cornes, of Layston House, Buntingford, Herts, to Rachael Forrester. mal position: unless he curbs youngest daughter of Sic Char- his fantastic suspicions it seems les Addis K.C.M.G., and Lady | probable either-that they must Addis, Woodside, Frant, Sussex,
sooner Or luter fasten upon Voroshiloff or else that the latter. will ensure that Stalin's bod Editorial and Business Office:dreams play no further havod
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HONG KONG, JUNE 30, 1837.
BLOOD BATH
it
the
con-
with the destinies of Russia. In either eventuality the Mar- shal's immense personal popu- larity-second only to, and less artificial than, Stalin's-with all classes of the population will be un important factor.
&
Picture above gives a general view from the sea of the new Aerodrome at Singapore which was opened recently by Sir Shenton Thomas,: Governor of the Straits Settlements. The circular landing ground has a diameter of 1,000 yards.
MR. H. GREEN GROTESQUE HONG KONG TO
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member of its Committee was paid by Dr. G. A. C. Herklots, who ex- pressed gratitude, on behalf of the
Society, for all that Mr. Green had done for them during his term of office as an impartial and im- movable judge at each Annual
Flower Show:
Mr. Green was also the recipient of a handsomely agroved silver cigar box, on the lid o: which artistically embossed
twu were
dragons, while on one side was inscribed the following: - “To Harold Green, Esq, from the Hong Kong Horticultural Society in ap preclation of his long and valued association as member of its Com- mittee 1913-1937."
Of the eight men shot as Ger- man spies almost all were well known for their untipathy to Germany. Their trial was formality, interesting only in that it appears to have been carried out with unusual haste. The eight generals were dealt with under the most drastic emergency provisions of the Soviet judicial
Amongst those present were code. It is ua though the Ru-Messrs. J. T. Bagram (Hon. Sec- sian Rictator, having comes retary), V. H. C. Jarrett, M. W. LO, most dictators do-to start at J. P, Robinson, J. F. Grose, G. G. N. shadows, had put the shadows in Tinson, A. Tse, Dr. G. A. G. Eers
lots, Lt-Col... B. L. Dowbiggin, Miss Dowbiggin, Miss K. Grose, Mrs. Green and little Mias Eva Green.
the dock.
of
DR. HERKLOTS' SPEECH Addressing the gathering Dr. Herklots said:-
Mr. Green, in his official poal- ton as Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Depart-
WOULD YOU LIKE
ICELAND FOR
A HOLIDAY?
In moving the vote of thanks to Professor Brown, at the Rotary Club yesterday, after the Pro- fessor's talk on "Iceland," Mr. C.
·Champkin said:—
my
LONDON IN
THREE DAYS?
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Total, only 4500 miles. These are, of course, geographical miles, not English land miles.
It may be of interest, to point" out that the distance from Hong Kong to London, by the direct The adventurous disposition of route, is only 5200 geographical friend Professor Brown can miles (or barely 6000 - English always be trusted to lead him into miles). The route followed by atrange paths and situations dif- Imperial Airways keeps south of ficult for the average-minded man the Himalayas, and traverses to follow. To go to Iceland is in populous regions largely within the itself peculiar. To go there for a British Empire; the distance is holiday almost borders on the only some 10 per cent. less than by via grotesque. (Laughter), I have, of the ordinary steamer route course. myself travelled under con- Singapore and Suez, ditions of abominable, discomfort The direct route, or Great Circle to places I never wished to visit- Track, would. run North of the but not because I wanted a holl- Himalayas, cut N. W. across China, and then lie mainly within Rus- day!
The habit of spending a holidaysian territory. The total distance by firing off at a tangent from would be little more than half the normal and finishing up at that of the usual journey rouna some fantastic place where one by sea. A Great Circle Course is cannot even get a bath without no easier to follow with precision breaking the ice is. I think, a in the air than on the open sea, habit little short of deplorable and would of course in practice be (laughter),
replaced by a succession of short loxodromes. Deviations would also be necessary to evade major pliy- sical obstacles (such as the Eastern Mountains of Tibet), and to take in important towna A modified course, involving no serious addi- tion to the mileage, might run as Hong Kong, Canton, follows: Hangchow. Kwelchow Slan, Lan- chow. Su-Chau, Barkul, Semipala- tlusk. Omsk, Sverdlovsk. Gorki, Hamburg. Amsterdam, London. The physi-
Professor Brown will never lure me to any of these peculiar, places that he visits. To those of us who, like myself, are frequently told that we can go to hell-laughter) it can at best be only a 'melan choly satisfaction to know that we to Iceland with equal facility and at considerably less expense (laughter).
can go
son suggesting that Boswell should visit the Great Wall of China
One is reminded of Doctor John-
Moscow Konigsberz,
The latest development would need more than Stay Luptimism to
it suppose climax--of M. Stalin's terrorist proscriptions is the trial and execution, in secret, of eight high officers in the Red Army, in- Stalin is a Georgiaa, all the cluding the Vice-Commissar for nation over which he rules is at Defence. They were charged heart "nearer to Asia than to with high treason and with Europe. The whole "aspect espionage on behalf of Gerniany: bis regine hus of late become and it is officially announced that increasingly Oriental. The olose all pleaded guilty to these crimes.ly guarded Kremlin is to-day the POWER OF ATTORNEY
Yesterday's heroes
ol aD absolute despot. are being seat execrated as monsters of tur-Over it brood violence, fear, In Accordance with Govern. Notice is hereby given that on pitude; a nebulous and (hatred." and suspicion, interre: ment Ordinance, the EX account of transfer to other daties demnatory epitaph was issued lated and expressed in much the be the Power of Attorney issued to over the signature of Maralal same way, landamentally, as CLOSED for the-transaction of Mr. Jesse Caleb Williams as Voroslaloff; and telegrams of in- they were at the medieval court Public Business on THURSDAY, Assistant General Manager for vective, as is customary on these of a Tartar Khan. No one can "The 1st July, 1937.
(The First The Texas Company (China), occasion, poured into Moscow. fail to note the change which has Week-Day in July).
Limited at Hong Kong has been in the eyes of the world M. come
over Russia in the last Hong Kong, 28th June, 1937. cancelled and recalled.
Stalin has become slightly more three years. The same prodi. fabulous and Russia slightly less gious efforts are being made to formidable.
fulfil the sane aspiring pro grammes. But these great im personal struggles are in the background now. The Five-yeur Plan, and all the ideals that it embraced, have slipped off the
Even at the speeds already maintained by good commercial front page, giving place to what? To something intensely
There is one other thing I must
On behalf of those of us, if any, planes and with flying limited to mention and that is whenever Mr. but abstrusely personal, to the Green agreed to do anything on
who have highly resolved to spend hours of daylight, the direct Hong symptoms of conflict generated behalf of the Society, whether he
our next holidays in Iceland Kong-London journey might well primarily by the fears and ambi- fully approved of it or not. be
thank Professor
be made in three days, as com Brown very heartily for his informing and Pared with the ten days at pre- tions of one-man, to Juggernaut always did it thoroughly efficiently intriguing address (Applause).
sent required-And--courageous. flers, with a special load of fuel, keying for position within the and punctually. Buch action he the hall-mark of a good Govern-
might make the trip in one hope, circle of a clique."-
ment servant and though such is
of, say, thirty hours. The outlook expected of a Government official
for the early future is decidedly interesting. in respect to Government service yet it is not always found in res-
NOTICE
5893
For the Benefit of Importers
THE TEXAS COMPANY (CHINA), LTD.,
By
P. F. LE FEVRE,
Managing Director.
and Exporters, from 5th July Hong Kong, June 28th, 1937.
Next, a Branch of the CHAR- TERED BANK OF INDIA. AUSTRALIA & CHINA will be Opened at No. 71, MOSLEY STREET, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.
5394
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of Sec. tion 58 of the Probate Ordinance 1897 made an order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 20th day of July, 1937,
NOTICE
5387
Neither, however, bus become easier to understand. One or two suggestive points do emerge from last week's slaughter of the higher command. Two names were significantly absent from "'communiques" reporting the summary proceedings in court.› One was that of M. Trotsky, who appears only fleetingly in' yesterday's, "post-mortem" in- dictment.
As a bugbear the exile in Mexico has failed to give satisfaction...
ment, has been for many years our authority on horticultural problems. He has been very hu- man in his relations with us. When we turned to him for advice ne gave it readily. When at Com- tions were suggested to him, in his mittee meetings startling innova- comments the inherent cautious conservatism of the government For" he said, "by so doing your cal difficulties (mountain, desert, official was tempered with the children will have a lustre reflected and steppe) between Kweichow and Semipalatinsk, cannot be call- kindly consideration of an expert upon them. They will always be enced gardener.
regarded as the children' of a man. ed trivial, but with the continued? who has been the Great Wall of increase in the size, speed, and Chine."
reliability of aeroplanes, they will So, Mr. Chairman, if any lustre rapidly become less formidable. is reflected upon us as Rotarians The establishment of such an air- which God forbid let it be be- route will depend primarily on canse we know a man who has Chinese and Russian enterprise in been to Iceland and has painted providing the necessary airports.
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We, as a Society, are also in- debted to him for little things efficiently performed, about which most members of the Society know little. For example that excellent display of gardening tools and equipment staged at the 1936 Ane nual show was very largely due to him.
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pect to non-Government concerns. Mr. Green, on behalf of the Hong
for us in such lovely colours its most unlovely realities.
VICAR AT DUKE'S WEDDING Resigns Living
I am, etc..į (94) WALTER BROWN
Prof. of Mathematics.
HK, University.
Hong Kong, June 29. 1937:
The Rev. R. Anderson, Jardine, vicar of St. Paul's, Darlington, who roused controversy in Church of England quarters by conducting a the Duke of Windsor to Mra: Wallls the trustees of this church and to
Warfield, has resigned his living the Bishop of this diocese resign- He told his congregation on June ing from the living of this churchi 13 that he had sent in his resigna of St. Paul This has nothing to tion to the Bishop of Durham and do with the events that have taken to the trustees of the church, and place lately, Nobody knew of my added: "This has nothing to do decision. not even my own wife, with the events that have taken but I have already resigned the
Living" The announcement came as, a great surprise Not even Mrs Jar dine knew of hus résignation...
HONG KONG TELEPHONE
The Soviet Union will prob- IN THE SUPREME
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The attribution to the Fourth ably survive this untimely lapse COURT OF HONG KONG
into the Middle Ages. But trou- International and to its leader of Notice Of Interim Dividend.
ble is possible in Russia. The powers which they never possess Red Army has hitherto been the Kong Horticultural Society, I wish PROBATE JURISDICTION
ed, and of activities which they docile but powerful servant of a to thank you for your services to NOTICE IS HEREBY could never have carried on, was IN THE ESTATE of GIVEN that SEE INTERIM an effective though far-fetched country interested in peace at the Society and to wish that you
almost
any price. Should its may, be spared with your wife to JOHN GENTLES SMITH, DIVIDEND of FOUR per cent method of liquidating the Zino Jenders be driven to desperate children a long and peaceful re-religious service at the wedding of announce that I have written to
enjoy in the company of your late of the Straits Settle (4%) for the six months ending viel-Kameneff and Hadek-Pyata measures to preserve their stadd trement in that gardeners para- ments, Singapore, deceased. 30th June, 1937, amounting to koff groups; but it enhanced,
FORTY cents per share on the particularly among Communisting within the framework of the dise which you have chosen, Kew Fully Paid up Shares and TEN sympathizers abroad who mis-State, or should it become master (Applause).
in its turn, Europe and Asia Could Dowbiggin to make the presenta- Dr. Herklots then asked Miss cents per share on the Partly trusted the un-Marxian ten-
not be unaffected.
tion, in appreciation of which Mr. Paid up Shares of the Company dencies in M. Stalin's regime, will be paid on MONDAY, the the prestige of an obscure sect of
Green replied in a short speech 12th July, 1937, on which date outlaws, besides straining the
expressing his admiration of all Dividend Warrants may be ob. credulity of the world-wide public
emphasising the excellent work tained on application at the for whom Vyishinsky has periodi
performed by Mr. J. T. Bagram as Registered Office of the Company, cally to act as compere.". the neck of every responsible ser- Hon. Secretary, and wishing the
Society every success. (Applause). Exchange Building, 4th floor. Another notable absentee from
MR. GREEN'S CAREER The TRANSFER BOOKS of the benches of the Military
Mr. born on June 28, 1837. the Company will be CLOSED Praesidium was Marshal Voroshi- from SATURDAY, the 3rd July off, whose Chief of Staff, General to SATURDAY, the 10th July, Yegoroff, was likewise not in 1937, both days Inclusive. attendance and who is thought
CABIN THEFT to be under a cloud. Speculation needs premises less slender than According to a police repork. these to work on, but it is reasome person entered a cabin sonable to suppose that the Commissar for War does not acquiesce with enthusiasm in the 6846 | butchery of his ablest generals. of H‚K $1.175.86)
All creditors and others are accordingly. hereby required to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date:
Dated the 22nd day of June, 1937
WILKINSON AND GRIST, Solicitors for the Executrix, No. 2 Queen's Road C Central,
d) Hong Kong
5881
By Order of the Board of
Directors WL MCKENZIE,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 7th June, 1937.
Id.
Such contingencies may yet be remote but they cannot be ex eluded so long as the sword of Damocles remains suspended over
vant of the Russia Government, ready to fall at the bidding of Shorbid caprice.
board the ss. Van Heutse, lying money in Stugapore, Swatow and at the Kowloon Wharf, and stole
Amoy currency to the total value
that the Society had done for him place lately."
ANNOUNCEMENT DURING
SERMON
Mr. Jardine, interviewed later. said that he had nothing to add
to the announcement. He been vicar of St. Paul's since November, 1927. It is a working- class parish and the congregation The announcement was made during his sermon, I have an is one of the biggest in the town.
Mr. J. L Pattinson, vicar's war= He was appointed Assistant announcement to make which is Superintendent of Botanical and particularly for the members of den, said he knew that Mr. Jar
dine's opinion was that ten years Forestry Department on February this congregation and this church 10, 1911 and arrived in Hong Kong said Mr Jardine,
'was enough for any parish to have one vicar. He recalled that at the to take up his post on March 16,
last annual parochial church conn- On April 9, 1012 he was ap-
cil meeting the vicar said he might pointed Acting Superintendent and from March 16, 1917, to Jana
take another living or even resign.
Military Serviceabl ary 23, 1920, he was seconded for
On Inquiry at Auckland Castle it was stated that the Bishop of On April 6, 1920, he was appoint
Durbam had no comment to make ed Superintendent and went on
#wish
Home leave on February 24, 1934.
Returning from Home leave on November 29, 1934, he résumed his Auties is -Superintendent which port he has since held, add on the matterr
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