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Hongkong Daily Press
Registered as a Newspaper at the General Post Omes in the United Kingdom.
ESTABLISHED 1857
brary, Supreme Court
No. 24609.
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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1937.
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H.K. EUGENICS LEAGUE
PUNGENT CRITICISM AND
CONSTRUCTIVE PRAISE
Commenting on a vital aspect of social service, The Andrian, which is the official organ of St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, makes these remarks in Its News and Views:-
"Most of our social and chari- table organisations are merely acting as the "ambulance at the bottom." Many of us would like to know what is the influence that is preventing the Government ft- self from taking the lead in the
"The pitiful case of abortion re-bulance at the bottom." Family cently reported in the newspapers imitation is the "fence at the top here and the heavy sentence meted of the cliff." out to the culprit of six months hard labour, should bring to the notice of the public. again the whole mutter of family limitation in Hong Kong and the need for the work being done by the Eugenics League. To many of us who every dealing with distress largely at- tributable to the poverty of the large family, the ideals and work of the Eugenics League are seen to be more and more important.
day of our lives are
"It is not too much to say that the League is the most intelligent piece of social service in the Co- tony. There is an old saying that, "It is better to put a fence at the top of the cliff than ari am-
CANTON
"
SWELTERS!
Canton, July 5.
Mie sweltering heat which brought considerable discomfort to Canton over the week-end and plenty of business to the cold drink parlours, bathing clubs and boat people gave way to-day to cool breeze from the South. The cooler weather is due to the typhoon which threatened Strike Canton yesterday but chang- ed' its courze later.
to
matter.
"Why is it that facilities are not given for the poorest Chinese parents to be suppiled with the means of family limitation? Why should this mightily important thing be left to a private organisa- tion? Anyhow, this month, for the first time, we publish the ad- vertisement of the Eugenics League,"
STUDENTS
IN CHORUS
OF PROTEST
DURING FILM
: CONGRESS-
Paris, July 5. A chorus of protest was raised by students when. "The University Bureau of Scientific Film" staged
The highest temperature was 03 .degrees Fahrenheit. but to-day the mercury dropped to 82 degrees. an "International gala of docu-
The Arst heat wave of the season❘mentary is over.
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The wind last evening put the Tungshan waterworks out of com mission with the result that the
suburb was without water supply this morning. The city repair de- partment of the waterworks was the unable to state the cause of break-down, as no report was re-
cinema Alms"
on the
occasion of the Film Congress now meeting in Paris, in the course of which an Italian film, was shown depleting, the part" played by the Italian Air Force in the Abyssinian campaign.
The film was intended to show ceived from the Tungshan water; how an army on march can be works, whose telephone was also supplied with the necessary" pro- out of order,
vision by airplanes.
Tungshan. rest
ts had to use
"Well water in the meantiny-but---In-view of the hostile demon-
the supply was
afternoon..
Union News."
in resumed
thestrations, the hall had to be clear-
ed by the police.-
Trunsocean News Service,,
Kwangtung'sO.A.G.
COLOURFUL CAREER OUTLINED
Major-General duyang Xuỷ, the Secretary-General of the Kwang- tung Provincial Government is now the Officer Administering the Pro vincial Government while Governor Wu Te-chen is on leave,
Oll well Are-An aerial view ofà fire at a newly-drilled of well in East Texa's. The well
had reached a depth of nearly 7,000 feet when the autbreak occurred. The total loss was estimate - ed at £50,000.
NEW AIR
WORLD-FAMED
VICE-MARSHAL THEOSOPHIST TO
Among the recent half-yearly promotions in the RA.F. the fol- lowing is notined:
Air Commodore A W. Tedder | M OBE to be Air Vice-Marshal and Air Officer Commanding The RAF and stationed at Singapore.
NEAR COLLAPSE
for 3
The beam of the roof of the verandah of No. 488. Reclamation Street showed signs of collapsing yesterday at about 1'p.m. It is learned that the "rusty fron beam got brittle on account of it. not having been painted over considerable time.
A member of the staff of the Public Works Department was sent over to the house in question to supervise repairs. No persons were injured.
MAILS CENSORED
Nanking, July 4.
All vehicle carrying goods and malls from 'Kansu Province and Chinese Turkestan are being strict- ly searched and examined by, the local authorities"
Nothing is allowed to pass; unless Its covered and protected by a pass from the military "authorities of these regions.
Accordingly all lettere from Chinese Turkestan have been held up by the Government censors." Chinese Evening Press.
EARHART'S
CALL HEARD
Washington, July 5. The Coast Guard cutter "Itasca" Major-General Auyang Kul, who which ta' near Howland Island re- is also a member of the Provincial porta hearing at 11.16 British
had Executive Councti, has
a Standard Time signals giving, Mias colourful inilitary and official Amelia Earhart's call career. Graduating from Pasting Reuter.. Military Academy, that famous military school that has produced many of China's leading military figures, Major-General Auyang in- médiately entered the army and soon took active command of the. 17th Division of the Nationalist Army, being later transferred to the Charmel District as Garrison Commander and then as Com- mander of the Bocca Tigria Fort.
LECTURE HERE
MR. C. JINARAJADASA
A man who has spent his whate le touring less he and writing books is here in abg Kong. At- tempting to mature reader ideas wherever He has travelled he is a keen propogator of Theosophy and is one or the strongest pillars of the Theosophical Society to-day.
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Mr. C.. Jinarajadasa
He is C. Jinarajadasa, MA (Cantab) born in Ceylon in 1875. Going to England at an early date he finished an education there at Cambridge. After that came ser- eral years in Italy where he per- tected his speaking in Italian, French and Spanish (all of which languages he uses to lecture). Parallel to this was a grooming in Theosophy to which he had be- come greatly attached and which he proceeded to propogate with energy once his studies in Italy. were finished.
He is, of course, well known in India to the general populace, as (Continued on Back Page).
Ridding H. K.
Of Robbers
It was as Director of the Kwang- tung Provincial Bureau of Public. It la reported that the leading be the root cause of the prevalence Safety that be earned a reputation Chinese of the Colony under the of thieves and vagabonda in the an a police administrator, and set | leadership of the Hon, Mr. M. K. | Colony.
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SHIPBUILDING BOOM AT
HOME AND ABROAD
America's £32,000,000
Mercantile Programme
|LINER ORDERS FOR BRITISH YARDS
Whether it will be maintained by the natural expansion of world trade or by subsidies, the prevailing boom in shipbuilding at home and abroad has come to stay for a considerable time. In the past month a large number of ships were launched on the Clyde, at Barrow, on the Mersey, the Tyne," the Wear, the Tees, the Forth, and the Thames, and in practically every case there is another ship to be lald" down on the 'berth vacated by the launch.':
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Orders for two 22,000-ton passenger liners for the Canadian Australasian Line will likely be placed this year, and a hint was siren that these contracts will probably go to Messrs Vickers- Armstrongs at Barrow-in-Furness, where two 24,000-ton P. and 6. liners the Stratheden and the: Strathallan are under con- struction
At the launch of the Stratheden last week the Hon. Alex-/ ander Shaw, chairman of the P. and O., Steam Navigation Com-"/ pany, said there was at least a good chance - that--the berth vacated by the Stratheden and that shortly to be vacated by "the" Strathallan would soon be filled by two new ships to keep the British flag firing. He had in mind the two ships for the Cana-
IN KOWLOON dian Australasian Line.
INCIDENT IN
CANTON" ROAD
Orders From Abroad Engineering Company, The other vessel, a ahip of 20,000 tons dead- Two shipbuilding.contracts from weight, is to be built by Messrs Roumania have just been placed, william Doxford and Sons, Sunder- with North-East Coast ship- land, and the machinery will be builders, and they have been given supplied from the Bunderland works of Mesars Richardsons, Westgarth and Co
Leung; Wai Man, aged 28, sea- | out by Ing. A. Vlasov, of Bucharest, man, of No. 7, Canton Road, second through the agency of Messta floor. was shot in Canton Road Rethymnis and Kulukundis, Lon- last night about 9.30 pm. The don, .. victim was removed to the Kow One of the vessel cargo loon Hospital where he was de-steamer of 900 tons deadweight, is tained suffering from a bullet to be built by Messrs Bartram and wound
Bons, Sunderland, with machinery by the North-Eastern Marine
It is learned from a reliable source that while purchasing fruits from the Chun Kee Fruit Store, at No. 74. Canton Road, ground floor, }
an unknown man Ared two shots DEMAND MADE
one of which hit Leung Wai Man
in the right side of the neck.
'It is believed that there was a grudge between them concerning alleged oplum smuggling.
AIR MAIL
Delivery This Afternoon
We are Informed by Imperial Airways (Far East) Ltd. that R.M.A. Delphinus arrived at. Tourane yesterday afternoon at 4 pmaand-will-arrive at Kal-Tak- about 11.30 am., to-day, and has on board one passenger,
The mails should be delivered early this afternoon.
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The same Roumanian owner has also purchased a 9100-ton cargo steamer which is on the stocks at the yard of Sir James Laing and
Sona, Sünderland ·
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WESTERN MARKET
MURDER
4.
OF LEADERS vicinity of the Western Market,
MADAME SUN AND COMPANIONS IN SOOCHOW
Madame
A murder was committed in the
southern block, shortly before: 11 am yesterday, the victim being a man, named "Ah Tim, who wan stabbed through the heart with a penknife.
The alleged assassin, pamed Yu a Chinese Wing, was caught by detective in Morrison Street. It is
Shanghai, July: 5. Sun Yat-sen, and alleged that rear the spot where twelve other prominent residents; Yu Wing was seized a bloodstained, including Madame Liso Chung-kal; penknife, whose blades were un widow of the Kuomintang leader chaped, was found who was assassinated in Canton
Police are investigating the crime.
in 1925, and Miss "Cheng Po-erb, movie actress, who had to leave Pelping last year at the request of the Japanese authorities after panions are trying to provoke their starring in an anti-Japanese stage own arrests which have been play, are at present in Boochow de-abortively demanded on a petition manding the release of ten leaders to the Government and advertise- "of the National Salvation Associa-ments in the foreign press which The President of the Philippinetion who are on trial on a charge declare that if patriotism La
of subversive activities..
crime they too should be arrested a Islands, Manuel L. Quezon, arrived
Madame Sun. and bef com- ...Better. at Cherbourg aboard the ss. Bremen. He will visit Paris and will proceed from there to Berlin-
Reuter's Bulletin Service,
Paris, July 3.
THE DOLLAR
TT. ON LONDON: 1-214 TT. ON NEW YORK: 20-3/8.
London Silver Market
(From Our Own Correspondent) London, July 5,
• London silver prices to-day were unchanged as follow:---
Spot Forward
July 3 July 5 19-7/8 19-78 ...: 19-15/1619-15 18
NEWS INDEX:
record as President of the Lo, Chinese representative on the Only by the strict and unmer- Amusements Kwangtung Police Academy, | Legislative Council, and Mr. Li | citul suppression of gambling and Cables
In recognition of his ability and | Sing-kmi, Chairman of the Chinese oplum and heroin smoking will it Finance, services he was appointed Director Chamber of Commerce are or be possible to permanently clear Lending of the Kwangting Peace Preserva- ganising a movement for support the Colony of its plague of thieves Local Diary tion Corps During the past few ing the Hong Kong Govern- and unemployed vagabonds, as Mall Notices
Auyang abbed as ment in the suppression of gamble they must thieve in order to find Radio Program Benior Councillor of the Mitary ing and the demoralizing habit of the money to buy opium and Shipping
mission at Nanking be- oglum and heroin smoking, since heroin pills
these two evils are considered to ↑ Chineis Evening Frea un? his present "post:
The Fervices
Naval Court Martial
IMPRISONMENT AND DISMISSAL FOR
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STRIKING PETTY OFFICER
Henry Mercer, Able Beaman, was convicted to four months' Imprisonment with dismissal, from His Majesty's Service to the British Navy yesterday when he appeared on trial by Court Mar tial on board EMS, Tamar, before a Naval Court consisting of Capt. A. E. M. B. Cunningham Graham (President) of HMS. Tarantula, assisted by Capt. H. H. M. Rushbrooke: Comdr. H, A. B. Edwards; Cemalt. C. Wauchope: Copiar, R. G. B. Hayter (Mean? bers of the Court), and Pay-Master Comdr. H. G. Oswin (Deputy Judge Advocate), of HMS: Tamer.
The prosecution, was conducted by Capt. 1. G. L. Dundas, of H.M.S. Folkestone, whilst Capt. 8. A. Jolliffe appeared for the de-
fence
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The witnesses for the prosecution were Lei
Cree, R.N: Master-at-Arms, 8. V. Childk
WILASE
"The charge against Merier, was, that he had struck
Ablitt whilst on duty aboard HM.5. Tõlkestone.
Viercer admitted the charge.
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