BOMB WELL. LAID
YOUNG MARSHAL ON OUTLOOK
CRISIS IN WEST
(Telegraph Special.)
Shanghai, Jan. 12. Marshal Chang Hsuch liang to-day gave an inter- view in which he indicated his attitude on the Chinese political situation and made keen observations on the situation abroad.
R. ABBIT'S CRICKET NOTES
THE SECOND 'DIV.
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piny it should' bo.n very good gamu Indeed. If he cannot, then it is rather an interesting contest between a treed bowling and a good batting side.
THE SECOND DIVISION,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
I am afraid I have been somewhat remiss in dealing with the second Division of the League and I find it hard to get much first hand experience. of the players.
I should be glad of any notes that captains or secretaries of these' teams may care to forward to me Captain Brynmor Eric Miles, chief care of the Hongkong Telegraph. of the London Salvage Corps, who As regards last Saturday, the fea-was committed for trial yesterday on a charge of conspiracy with Leopold the undan ors ever the Ingkong Harris, the fire ralaer. The London Corps ira sami public C.C. second eleven. Set to make a Salvage hundred and seventy-two they got organisation maintained by the fire them thanks to Nazurin in the main insurance companies to protect their part and the younger Arculll.
Juniors
Replying to a question as to what position he was likely to tako in the Central Government, the Young Marshal said that as he was a soldier, he would abide by the orders of the Central Govern-blocking certain batsmen's pet shots. ment. If the Government offered him a post to which he thought his talents were equal, he would unhesitatingly accept it,
I am told that the II.K.C.C..bowlers could not get a length and the setting of the field might have been more carefully studied for the purposes of
One of my informants added that though most catches were caught | the ground Belding on bath sides was lamentable.,
He declared that his personal placed as they have the top of the The Indian Juniors are now nicely views had not changed as the reinble with aix matches played. The sult of his trip abroad. He was only side that can head them at this still for "pence," "Internal unifien-point (ie, when six matches have Leen tion" and the "development of pinyed) are Recreio who can lead them national resources,”
by two pointa if they win their next
interesia.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1934.
CONFLICT IN TIN
WORLD
SIR G. MA ̃WELL'S
RESIGNATION.
London, Jan. 12.
Explaining to the London cor respondent of the Straits Times the reasons for his resignation from the Tin Producers' 'Association, Sir George Maxwell declared that the buffer stock scheme: Is Ilkely to perpetuate control..
-Ho-admits that some form of control (but not the one which in at present bolng considered) might be useful in preventing violent oscillation of prices, but before deciding upon any scheme, the producers must have a definite policy, approved and declared by the governments of the producing countries, that decontrol is the objective.—Reuter.
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Paris.
NEXT STEP IN DISARMAMENT Geneva
MR. HENDERSON'S PROGRAMME
SIMON
The Young Marshal advised his two games. The Recreio have a use- MEETS SIR JOHN countrymen to open their eyes to ful side, though Inst Saturday they the stern realities
of the world were not
Civil Service heavily extended by the aituation, which was pregnant with war possibilities, and to strive in unison for national salvation.
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The R.A.M.C. have a pretty good | side on paper but they have not done well to date. They beat the very enally but the latter side, who lack several of their better men, an slert. leave, were two
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London, Jan. 11.. Sir John Simon, accompanied by Mr. Strang, of the Foreign
Hambay. Office, saw the President of the Disarmament Conference, Mr.
Yokohama Arthur Henderson, at his flat | Montevideo, to-day and informed him of the Beirerade
the more impressed by the fact respectively, t.C.C. and K.C.C. present position arising out of Montreal
2x into
WAR CLOUDS IN WEST,
He was profoundly impressed. he said, by the signs of material progress and constructive work in Western countries. Yet he was that everywhere popular movebe at honte to Recreio. ment were guided by wise lender- I have heard that there are certain ship in every phase of social life. difficulties at the University about The peoples in the West hated raising aides but I hope that this is inentrect. I fear however that this the idea of war. Indeed, but it will mean that they have only a weak was equally true that every nation side. was prepared for the next world war. The unstable conditions in Eurcze were really a reflection of the erlain in the Far East.
"The bomb has been well laid now," concluded the Marshal. "but when it will explode can only be determined by the Fates!"- Central News.
INDIAN COTTON
FOR LANCASHIRE
SIR, R. JACKSON'S
TASK
the "parallel, and supplementary efforts" now in progress through diplomatic channels.
Mr. Aghnides. Director of the Disarmament Section of the Lengue of Nations. “វរ also
The Police are not playing. I have, present. so information about the three Service. sides and 1 should much appreciate their Secretaries would be kind enough to
fixture
cards from them if
forward them.
LOCAL FIXTURES
The Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps are fielding a cricket eleven on Sunday when they are due to meet the Police B.C. at Happy Valley, the match to commence at 11. a.m.
will The following Volunteers. C. Beck (Capt.). R. R. Davies, J. Hunter, L. D. Kilbee, R. O. F. King, A. D. Lowson, N. A.
Noronha,
nt tho
During the conversation, 'Mr. Henderson informed the British Foreign Secretary of the nature of the communications he bad re- ceived on the question of adequate guarantees for the loyal execution of the convention on which he had to report to the conference.
Mr. Henderson intimated that he hoped to be able to leave London on Tuesday..
He will break his journey at Paris and proceed to Geneva on Wednesday. He hopes to hold a meeting of the Officers of the Bureau on Friday in order to take a decision as to the date of the meeting of the Bureau.
F. Mackay, I.
I. Melones, W. H. B. Rigg, R. A. J. Simpson and R. T. Tal
Talbot. The following will
will represent the Club
de Recreio in a league gamo London, Jan. against the University juniors to The programme of work adopt- Sir Richard Jackson, Chairman morrow at the University: Jed by the Bureau on November 22- of the Indian Cotton Enquiry Com Noronha (Capt.), W. Reed. H. A fixes no date as to when the con- mittee set up in Lancashire follow Alves, E. Scares, Dr. A. P. Gutteres, ference will resume work, but ing the Ottawa Conference, to pro- L. J. Gutteres, G. Gutteres, II. Barros, mole greater use of Indian cotton A. Prata, A. P. Pereira and H. A. provides that such resumption shall take place during or after in Lancashire, left London to-day for India. He will reach Bombay in their friendly fixture with the Civil Council, the date to be fixed by The Hongkong Cricket Club juniors the January meeting of the League - on 20th January,
Service C.C. at Happy Valley at the President in consultation with This visit is a further move in p.m. to-morrow will be represented by the Officers of the Bureau. These the polley which Lancashire is the following players: 1. J. Arm- energetically pursuing of couraging and developing the Gabagan, J. G. Hunter, J. E. Jupp, greater use of Indian cotton. Sir L. E. Lammert, A. K. Mackenzie, J. and the Secretary-General of the Blenard will investigate the pro-E. Potter, G. A. Stewart, R. T. Talbot League, blems and conditions existing in and J. R. Way.
Vice-Chairman, Mr.
Are the en-strong, C. W. E. Bishop, C. E. Politis, the rapporteur, Dr. Benes,
India in relation to the work of the Committee and will confer with the Indian Central Cotton Committee, its technologient and other Committees, the Bombay Millowners' Association and in- teronta concerned with the market- ing of cotton in various districts.
Wirclass.
Mr. · Avenol- Beitiak
Wong Mee Shun's Sentence
To Stand
.
APPEAL
AGAINST
DISMISS REST-OF-SEASON SUSPENSION
He will also visit the Sukkur Bar-COUNCIL raye at Sind and several f botanical research stations where experiments to improve the. atuple of Indian cottons are being con- ducted,
Wong Mec-shun, noted South China footballer, failed to obtain a revocation of his suspension from participating in local football for the rest of this season, when he made an appeal to the Football Council last night. The meeting decided that the referce's report on the incident which led to Wang's suspension was fair and accurate, and that there was no reason why their original decision should be amended.
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"TELEGRAPH” ⠀ ART SUPPLEMENT
To-morrow's Picture Features
Variety will be the keynote of the illustrations appearing in to-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Pictorial Supple- ment.
. In addition to further plc- tures of the Dreyer-Holme Sumner wedding, a group will appear showing Girl Guides at the marriage of Miss Rosalind Sung, officer of the 4th Kowloon Co., to. Mr. Wan Chia-tro
There will also be groups of the University graduates who were invested with degrees on Monday, and others of officers · and members of the Hong- kong Buddhist Association, of Queen's College basketball championship team, and of members of the S.C.A.A. who indulge in all-the-year open- -air bathing.
Amongst other pictures will be one taken at the opening of the New Territories agricul- tural show, and a remarkably fine photo of the main terraco of the Botanical Gardens show- ing the completion of the ser- vice reservoir scheme.
CHAURIREPARARIESENBUCH
There will be a general meeting of the Hongkong University Engineer- ing Sockty to day at 3 pm, in toont 'K' in the Univeraity main building, All interested are welcome.
The engagemont la announced of the Rev. E. . Quick, Headmaster of the Cathedral School for Boys, Shanghai, and Doris Irene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barber, of Ipswich, Suffolk. Mr. Quick in well-known in Hongkong.
12 midnight. Close Down.
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knowledge. His concern is to apply scientific method to discover the mental ability, the general intelli- gence, of the boy or girl under ex- amination.
He does this by methods not-un- like the physician's by finding out how the subject reacts to standard tests that have been applied to in- numerable boys and girls.
Parents who have before them the Important problem of deciding on a child's carcer might inquire of the school authorities whether the boy or girl, when compared with children of the same age, is (a) much above the average in general Intelligence: (b) a little above the average: (c) average: (d) a little below the average, or (c) much below average.
It may be for the benefit of the race that all parents regard their own "ducks" as "swons," but the question under consideration is so Important that an unbiased opinion is always desirable.
Lastly, parents can begin a little investigation of their own by con sidering what is the boy's pre- dominant interest. (n) Is he In- terested in books, and does he read whenever he can; or (b) is he fond of social life, is his chief interest. in persons; or (c) is his chief in- terest in "things." experiments, tools, manual occupations.
the things which decide whether he should go in for "black" cont" or overalls.
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Those
21 YEARS AGO
Extracts From the "Telegraph" Files
A meeting to consider the forma
The following extracts are from tion of a Cornish Soclety and/or the holding of an annual reunion of the. Hongkong Telegraph for the
week ended January 11th, 1913. Cornish residents in Hongkong is to be held in. the Board Room of the South China Morning Post, Ltd., at 5.46 pan, on Tuesday. All interest. ed are cordially invited to attend.
One of the developments of the Indian Cotton Enquiry Committee has been the appointinent of Mr. R. Fleming as Collon Commis- sioner, who will remain in India and act as liaison ofBear between the raw cotton trude there and Lancashire users of Indian cotton." support of his claim, but after it Wong Mee-shun was informed that
Wong submitted a long letter in | sentiunt. British Wireless.
had been rend the committee the decision of the Emergency Com- agreed that no useful purpose
alttee was upheld and he intimated would be served by calling further that he would make a further appeal
to the Appeals Board.
NEW COUNCIL MEMBER. In informing Wong of this decision the chairman mentioned that several Mr. R. Hall, on the nomination of members of the Council had been the Kowloon Football Club, WHA present at the match and one and all uhanimously elected a member of the They saw nothing to question the Mitchell, who leaves the Colony to- upheld the report of the referee. Council in the place of Mr. T. A.
Much interest was centred in the wedding, at St. John's Cathedral, Word has been received in Peking of Lieut. J. II. Kent, of the King's referee's handling of the game other-morrow. wiac a roport would have been made Mr. Hall was also elected to servo that King Albert of Belgium, has to the referee's commitea.
The chairman said that he had Mr. Mitchell.
an the Emergency Committed vico conferred upon Sir Robert Ho Tung Own Yorkshire Light Infantry,
the order of Knight Commander of and Miss Muriel Hutton Potts. naked one very keen member of the The chairman rend to the Council the Crown. Council who understood the game a letter -Mince January, 1923. In the last thoroughly, if ho, had been satisfied. Club Kowloon Football exception to certain
SINGAPORE
6.20 INCHES OF RAIN IN A DAY
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Singapore, Jan, 6. Yesterday's rainfall was 6,20 inches, the heaviest fall in one dny
Considerable excitement. 50 years there have only been the referee had handled the game criticism mads at a previous meeting.
Mrs. St. Clafr (widow of the late caused in the Shatin and Kowloon eight days on which more rain has properly and he said he had been, It was agreed that the headlines Major W. G. St. Clair, a former City districts by the appearance of fallen. The record is 9.28 in appent itself, said that the laws of impression and Mr. James on being who lives in Colombo, is paying a
Mr. James, in commenting upon the given to the roport gave an erroneous editor of the Singapore Free Prean), a tiger, which killed many pigs December, 1892,
the game, may be unfortunately, left assured by Mr. Haft that the players visit to Singapore in April on her Thousands of householders in them with no option but to accept the concerned were all bona fide members way to Hongkong. Singapore дте more ΟΣ icas referee's report as fact. Ho the of the Club, withdrew his remark marooned by floods as a result of speaker) rather thought that the about the matter being a twist. the heavy rainfall which has Chinese were under a misapprohon- The chairman montioned that the porelated since Thuraday evening, slon As regards the laws of the remarks were made in a more or less
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Braddell, The chief aufforors are residents Fame.
private discussion among members of with their daughter, arrived from In the Tanglin area, which la Hughes seconded that the decision of
Mr. James proposed and Mr. A. R.the Counell
Singapore by the Conte Vordo to be thoroughly inundated, in
Tenders were invited for the Before the conclusion of the meet. | the guests of Mr. Eu Tong-sen, Bomo the Emergency Committee be upholding a vote of thanks was proposed to 0.B.E., at his new house in Repulso letting of the ground floor of the places to a depth of two or three
On being put to the meeting the Mr. Mitchell in appreciation for his Day. They do not expect to return old Supreme Court, In Queen's foot.
motion was carried with but ono "dis services to the Council.
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