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-#1 BOAXANT MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1928.
HONOURS.
SIR ALFRED MOND RAISED TO THE PEERAGE.
FOUR HONGKONG LADIES AWARDED BRITISH EMPIRE ORDER.
DIPLOMATIC DECORATIONS.
The King's Birthday Honours List creates three new Peers, one Privy Councillor, live Baronets and 36 Knights. Several knighthoods have been conferred for conspicuous services in Rhodesia, Australia, and New Zealand, while there is also a numerous list of Indian honours.
Sir Alfred Mond, Sir George Rowland. Bindes and Sir George Remnant are raised to the Peerage.
No prominent honour has fallen to Hongkong, but Mr.
FOOCHOW SCHOOL BLAZE:
UNIVERSITY BLOCK DESTROYED.
FIFTH INCENDIARY ACT IN EIGHT MONTHS.
CALL FOR ACTION.
Foothow, June 1. For the fifth time in eight months, an expensive school build- Ing has been destroyed by fire in Foochow
were
SHANGHAI CLASH REPORTED.
COMMUNISTS DISPERSED BY POLICE.
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UNFORTUNATE CLASH TO-DAY'S KING'S BIRTHDAY
NEAR SWATOW.
A somewhat alarming Chinese VILLAGERS MISTAKE TROOPS telegram from Shanghai states
FOR BANDITS.
that a number of pamphlets, denouncing the Kuomintang cause
and advocating the Communist PROPERTY DESTROYED. movement, were seized by police in the International Settlement on Sunday,
41
H. K. Holmes, Crown Solicitor, has been awarded the C.B.E.,tory, a magnificent, brick building isa, who congregated' in Nanking for some years been in the power
Swatow, June 1, There has been an unfortunate When the police endeavoured to clash between Government troopṛ. arrest the distributors, some firing and the port of Chia-na, a place is said to have taken place, result-to the north-east near the Fukien On Monday evening, while the ing in a few pedestrians being border. It was reported that Faculty and students of the Fu-injured."
some. Hai-Luk Fung Communists kien Christian · University
Most of the pamphlet distri-had taken refuge there, and a de holding a meeting in the Chapel,butors were students,
tactment of the 6th Army was sent news was suddenly brought that
Another Chinoso telegram says to arrest them. fire bad broken out in the dormi-that about thirty Chinese Commun-
The region round Chia-na bas saly a few years old..
Road, started the trouble by dis- I transpired that one student
Communist slogans. who had stayed in the building in-tributing the leaflets and shouting of a bandit-cum-pirate chief, who Atead of going to the meeting was
has been given semi-official re- The disturbance continued for cognition from successive local surprised to hear a series of Ex- plosions like fire-crackers. gaite about an hour, when the Commun- near by. He looked out, but could ista were diapersed by the police.Governments. His band, however, It is noteworthy that yesterday la so oppressive that Chia-na or- see nothing so went outside, and was puzzled by a glow on the the Shanghai City Kuomintang ganised its own Defence Corps, ground until he looked up and flew its ing at half-mast to com- saw that the attic was burning.
memorate the Tsinanfu incident. and was Independent of him in
Government,
Mr. R. Sutherland and Dr. S. W. Tso, the O.B.E., while the M.B.E. has been conferred upon Captain Adey, Mrs. C. G. Alabaster, Mrs. II. R. Remington, Mrs. Russell Brown and Mrs.
E. D. C. Wolfe. Other honours are detailed below,
THREE BYE-ELECTIONS INVOLVED.
We are informed from Govern- feature of his Mayoralty were the ment House that H. M. the King official visits he paid to Paris, has been graciously pleased to Brussels and Rome. approve of the following honours:
C.B.E.—Mr.
Holmes,
Building Destroyed.
The alarm was immediately given, but the strong fumes of sul- Sir James F. Remnant, M.P. phur and potassium nitrate made formerly a leading barrister, he has it impossible to get into the attic, since 1897 been a prominent work-and the fire gradually crept down-
Harald Kemmar
O.B.E. (Civil Division).Mr. Board. Robert Sutherland, M.B.E., and Dr." Seen Wan-tro.
out
MISS BENNETT'S TRIUMPHS.
er on the Thames Conservancy wards until the whole building MEETS MISS WILLS IN FRENCH
was destroyed. about 8.30 p.m. and continued most
I broke
of the night.
These elevations involve by elections, at Carmarthen, Epsom M.B.E. (Civil Division)-Cap-und Holborn respectively. tain Adey, Mrs. W. M. Alabaster, Mrs. Remington, Mrs. Russell- Brown and Mrs. Wolfe.
G.C.M.G.
SINGLES.
THE MEN'S SINGLES.
Fortunately no-one was hurt, al- though one or two students had narrow escapes as they tried to Sir Charles Thomas Davis, who save their belongings. The ma- 1.5.0.—Mr. P. T. Lamble and has been Permanent Under-Seere-jority were able to save about
tary of State for Dominions half of their stuff, those who octish lady tennis player, who is al- M.B.E. (Military Division) he was Assistant Under-Secretary best off.
Affairs, since 1925, prior to which cupied the lower floors being the Subedar Major (retired) Piran of Stale for the Colonies. De Dilta, D.C.M., Hongkong Singa- corated with the C.M.G. in 1915, pore Artillery,
be received the K.C.M.G. in 1923.
Mr. A. J. Reed.
Mr. Holmes has been in the Government servicè since 1919, when he was appointed Assistant
Order of Merit,
PARADE.
CEREMONY IMPRESSIVE
CENOTAPH.
AT THE
|3,000 TROOPS TAKE PART.
Although Hongkong's celebration of His Majesty the King's birthday was not on such an elaborate scale as last year, to-day's ceremonies lacked nothing in sincerity and impressive-
ness.
There was a simple ceremony at the Cenotaph followed by i march past of units representative of all the different branches of the Services in Hongkong, these being watched by huge crowds of spectators who took opportunity of every vantage point in the region of the Cenotaph.
Celebrations on the lines of those at. Happy Valley inst year were impossiblo owing to recent rain which has turned the Valley into something resembling a quagmire and owing to the unsettled weather generally.
In sharp contrast to last year when the King's Birthday Parade took place on one of the hottest days of the year, the weather this morning was dull and overcast,rain threatening at any moment. Rain started shortly after eight o'clock, but the weather kept fine during the observances at the Cenotaph.
The soldiers sent this time did COLONY CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY.
not communicate their errand beforehand, and spent the night
Next
Paris, June 3. Miss Elleen Bennett, the Bri-
ready a co-winner of the Mixed Doubles and Women's Doubles
The consequence was a fight in of the French Hardcourts Cham- pionships at Auticul, became a which the troops took the place, triple finalist to-day, by reaching and the ex-bandits looted the the final of the Women's Singles. dwellings.
Threat to Shoot, Soon after the fire started, vil- lagers from the neighbouring vil lage of Husi Gie came along arm-
Miss Bennett, in the semi-final It is said that two hundred were Sir George Abraham Grierson,ed with poles, bent on getting what eliminated the holder Mademol killed in the attack, there was Land Officer. For a time, he was K.C.LE, late of the Indian Civil they could from the debris, and selle Bouman (Holland) In much destruction of property, and acting Land Ofeer, and in 1922 Service, Sir George was appointed Crown Solicitor. India from 1873, mainly in con- diffieulty.
served in they were only driven off with straight sets, though, the second the bandits took captive over ten
was hotly contested. Miss Ben-prisoners, whom they subsequent which post he has since held nexion with education, later serve One student, the proud posses-net took the first at 6-2 comfort-ly put on board a launch, which Mr. Robert Sutherland is the inx with much distinction when sor of a revolver, helped their deably enough, and the second at lies on the Swalow Chi-na run, well-known member of the firm of asked to undertake a complete parture by threatening to shoot.. 8-G.
and is owned by the chief. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., Ltd., Enguistic survey of the Peninsula. and has been very prominently He is one of the greatest authori associated with movements for the ties on Inding fanguages and had entertaining of the Services in been decorated by many leading Hongkong. He is one of the lead learned Societies throughout the ing officials of the St. Andrew's world. Society, of which he is a Past President. He is an unofficial J.P.
G.C.B.
Meantime a telephone message Mias Helen Wills (U.S.A.) meets had been sent to Foochow asking Mias Bonnett in the final. Miss for protection and a indy of police Wills to-day defeated Miss Ilardié for marines was sent down without (Britain) casily 6-1, 6-1.
delay. (The University is situat-
The semi-finals of the Men's ed about five miles from Foochow,Singles, resulted in the defeat of half-way between the city and the Borotra und Hawkes, the final to Pagoda Anchorage, on the northmorrow being. ali French, of the Min River below the fum- In the first semi-final, II. Cachet
beat Borátra 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1.
In the second, R. Lacoste beat Hawkes (Australia) 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.- Reuter.
Women Refugees,
A Feu-de-Joie.
com-
over
in this ex-bandit village, a dis- Crowds begnu to collect before Signals, and Lance Sergeant E. C. tance of three miles from Chia-na: eight o'clock, and while there were Goodheart, R.A.
many hundreds of Chinese, the European community was also Dwellings Looted.
well represented.
: The decoration ceremony morning, the troops
The majority of the Colony's pleted, in Royal Salute of 21 guns emerged from the village, with a more prominent residents, to was fred on the Murray Parade | goodly" number of the villagers in gether with Naval and Army Ground by the 1st. Mountain the Hongkong and their train." The Chia-na people, officers, assembled in front of the Battery of
Cenotaph shortly before the Singapore Brigade R.A. After the seeing the party advancing, mis- arrival of II.E. the Officer seventh, fourteenth and twenty took it for a bandit raid and pre- Administering the Government, first rounds the Guard of Honour pared to resist.
The verandahs of the Hongkong of the Scots Guards, still drawn Club, the Law Courts and other up on the Praya facing the buildings were well filled with Cenotaph fired a feu do Joie, the spectators, while the crowd round band of the King's Own Scottish the square itself numbered several Borderers, drawn up outside the thousands.
Hongkong Club, playing the No- tional Anthen, Military Pageant.
During the firing of the salute Meanwhile the following de- three aeroplanes from Kaitack tachments with their commanding aerodrome flew over in fight officers had arrived and taken up formation, swooping low positions round the Cenotaph. Queen's Pier and the assembled Royal Artillery (Col. W.. F. Chris- troops, and then soaring skyward Lan, D.S.O.); Royal Engineers again with engines roaring.. Battalion Scot's Guards (Major
The March Fast. E. C. T. Warner, D.S.O., M.G.); Queen's Royal Regiment (Lieut. H.E. the G.O.C. left his position A number of women have come Col. J. D. Boyd, D.S.0.); King's in front of the Cenotaph and as refugees into Swatow,
Own Scottish Borderers (Lieut. addressing the troops from the The soldiers were returning on Col. L. J. Comyn, C.M.G., D.9.0.); Praya, called for three cheers for Volunteer Defence the King, these being rousingly the day following the attack, but Hongkong by that the real state of things Corps (Lieut. Col. L. G. Bird, glvon.
The Guard of Honour then Dr. Seen Wan-Lao (better known Admiral Sir Henry Oliver, who
was apparent, and they were re-D.S.O.); 3/15th Panjabis (Lieut. as Dr. T. W. Tso) is a member of has just retired from the Adous Kushan Monastery),
quested to remain to prevent fur- Col. H. T. C. Ivens); Hongkong moved off and the march past the Sanitary Board and of the miralty. He entered the Royal Residents in the foreign settle-
ther looting. It seems doubtful Malo Corps (Capt. J. E. Drysdale, headed by a detachment of the Board of Education, as well as of Navy as far back at 1878, and ment of Nantai were able to see
whether there were Communists M.C., R.A.S.C.); and the Naval Royal Navy began, the Officer the Court of the University, and is during the War served as Chief the whole thing from the upper
in the place, though as some re-contingent under the command of Administering the Government, also a Justice of the Peace.
fugees from Hal-Lok Fung had Paymaster Command Hamilton, of standing in front of the Cenotaph of the Admiralty War Staff. Dis storeys of their houses, and soun
fied there, others may have follow- H.M.S. Wild Swan.
and taking the salute,. Mr. P. T. Lamble retired from most recent appointment prior to identified the dooned building.
ed them.
The march past was both im- the Government in December last his retirement being Commander- But they were powerless to help
II.E. the Ofcer Administering pressive and inspiring. The after 26 years' service. He was in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet. He or even to express thoir, sym-
the Government arrived promptly carlier part of the ceremony had Superintendent of Staff and Works holds many decorations, British pathy until the next day.
More Communist Trouble.
at nine o'clock, accompanied by taken less than a quarter of an in the Sanitary Department.
and foreign.
News is to hand of a recurrence Captain Whyte and Capt. H. B. L. hour, the march past beginning at General Sir John Philip Du
'Wos Insured.
of Communist trouble in the west Dowbiggin.
about 9.15. This was headed by Mr. Amaro John Reed is accoun- tant in the senior clerical and Cane, who has been Governor and The cost of the bullding when
The Hon. Mr. Southorn was re- H.E. the G.O.C. and staff officers of the Hai-Lok Fung districts. Malta erécted was $60,000 and it was in- accounting staff of the General Commander-in-Chief
Details are lacking, but it is said ceived by a Guard of Honour, pro- mounted on chargers, about 400 Post Office. He was appointed since 1927. He joined the Royal sured for about that sum. But
that some hundreds of scattered vided by the 2nd Battalion the men of the Royal Navy following. clerk in 1888 and has been necoun- Artillery in
The loss of a 1884, served in even if the Insurance money is
sum of $40.-Communist troops have emerged Scots Guards, drawn up on the Then came about 150 men of Royal' South Africa and tant since 1899.
in thepaid, it will not be sufficient to re 000
and from their hiding places in the Prayn facing the Cenotaph. H.E. Artillery and a detachment of In- by the Hongkong European War with great dis-build on the old lines, owing to Shanghai Banking Corporation hills as the Government forces was greeted by a Royal Salute and dian troops about 175 strong. The Three New Peers. ' tinction, was Major-General at the rise in cost of material and la-in Janinry, 1924 (referred have gone to settled quarters, and then inspected the Guard of march past provided a colourful
General Headquarters in 1915, and bour in recent years..
to olsowhore in The following have been elevated held many other high appoint-
this Issue) have beon joined by over a thou- Honour accompanied by H.E. "the spectacle, the tartans of the Scot- G.O.C., the Officer Commanding tish troops contrasting sharply with to the Peerage:
This adds greatly to the finan. had a sequel at the Magistracy this sand peasants. The Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred M afterwards
ments, serving for three years cial dimeulties of the University, morning when Fung Chung-lim, The joint force is harrying the the Scots Guards, and his A.D.C. the white uniforma of the Naval men and bright red turbans of the alias Fung Fau-sang, described as villages. From Kong-peng folk
Honours Awarded.
Indian troops. The aeroplanes a few weeks ago is retiring from has been A.D.C. General to His next year of $20,000.
Hemated deficit on its budget for a chequb messenger employed by are fleeing down to the coast at Active politics. Sir Alfred, who is Majesty since 1926.
the Bank, was charged on two Swabue, and over a thousand are The Hon. Mr. Southorn then again flew low during the march This University has had many counts. 60 years of age, is perhaps
Royal Engineers numbering General Sir George Barrow, trials.
The charges were (1) Tarceny said to have left Tai-on and gone took up a position in front of the past. best known as being the head of the
the Spring
about 50 and to Ho-po again.It is perhaps un- Cenotaph behind a small table
A detachment of who had a long and distin- 1927, Imperial
of by means of a forged cheque, and likely that the movement can be of covered with the Union Jack on Chemical Industries,
ກ serious split decur (2) larceny by servant... Limited, lately Brunner, Mond and guished career in the Indian Army. red owing to the attempt of
The accused, who was arrested more than local significance, but which lay decorations for long Chinese sappers of about the same The number followed the Indian troops Co., and
concerned it service and good conduct. many other important Thinner Star of the China xa radical element to. take it over in Canton, pleaded guilty to both for the village concerns connected with the chemi- Chief of Staff of the China Expedi and give it, to the anti-Christian charge!
For two tionary Force sent to the relief of people. But the loyal members of
means a recurrence of distress. recipients were drawn up outside and then came the Scots Guards, the Hongkong Club, and then headed by their own band playing cul and dye industries,
the regimental march. years, he was Minister of Health, foreigners in China in 1900. He the faculty and student body won remand, and this was granted..
The Scots The police applied for a week's Our Own Correspondent.
marched up to His Excellency and Guards were about 450 strong and prior to which he was First Com was a Member of the Council of out. The foreign President, Dr.
were decorated. The following were followed by the Queen's, missioner of Works for five years. India from 1917 to 1924, and was
were the men to receive long Royal Regiment, also headed by the He has had a crowded public life A.D.C. General to the King in J. Gowdy, resigned and the ad-
service and good conduct medale band, the men numbering about and caused not a little sensation a 1011 and 1912,
First Class Warrant Officers 450. year or two ago when he crossed Sir Esme Howard, G.C.M.G., committee of three with Mr. C. Jed off according to plan, the Sum- mer Commencements being held on
Instructor W. E. Waterson, A.E.C
Then came the band of the King's. the floor of the House.. Of late he P.C., the British Ambassador to Lin as chairman.
June 18.
and Sergt. Major J. R. Marshall, Own Scottiel Borderers with the Recently, Mr. Lin has been ap- has been much in prominence in Washington, an appointment he
As mentioned already, this is
RE. THREE THOUSAND MILES
battalion to the strength of ever connexion with the new Industrial has held since 1924. He has served pointed President, and has proved the fifth school burned within.
"Second Class Warrant Officers. 400 and then a detachment of the Peace movement, and the formation the Empire wholely in the Diplo- himself admirably fitted for the eight months, the fourth within
HOP TO FUJI
Battery Sergt. Major J. Broad- Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps of a big Anglo-American financial matic Service since 1885, among task, being loved by faculty and five months. No one has, yet been
bridge R-A., and Master Gunner headed by the band of the Portu- combine.
his appointments in recent years students alike. This blow that punished for any of these acts of
„Honolulu, June 4, B. F. Fogden, D.C.M., R.A.; Sergt. guese Company. Immediately be Sir George Rowland Blades, M.P., boing Minister to Switzerland, has now come upon him is a severe incendiarien: Is It not about |
The "Southern Croas" which E. Davies, 20th Heavy Battery, hindthe Volunteers was the but it has found for from Honolulu to Kaual, in R A.; Sergt. . Leach and A. Indian Mule Corps, and then the service as Lord Mayor of London. sador to Spain. He was a Mem-students can be accommodated in began to practise the "adequate the Sandwich Islands, successfully Barnes, 31st. Heavy Battery B. Indien kattalion to the strength of prominently concerned with London historic Paris Peace Conference of mainder of the torm, and it is which they speak, de often- og om Kaual to Buys, Fit and Har, Jam Muhd Hongkong pipere For many years past, he has been bor of the British delegation to the an old wooden building for the re- protection" of foreign property of yesterday, has left on a 8,000 mile A.; Sergis. C. Clark, W. Barton, about 400 with its own band and
hoped that the term can be Anish-our Own Correspondent,
and Singapore Brigade, developments, occupying, the posi. 1919.
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