THE ·HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH SATURDAY,
MAY 11, 1935.
COLONEL EAVES RETIRES
TWELVE YEARS IN COLONY
WAR CAREER
There recently left the Colony on retirement, Lt-Col. F. Eaves, D.S.O., who for the past twelve yours has held the appointment of Acting Land Offer. During that period he had also acted tem porarily as Land Officer and Registrar of Marringos, QMelal Receiver in Bankruptcy and Ro-
·gistrar of Trndo Marks and Letters Patent, First Police Magistrate, and Chairman of Boards of Ar-
·bitrátion "under the Crown Lande Resumption Ordinances,
Of an unauming and £11)- conventional nature, Col. Baves preferred a country life to the social activities of a city, and spent most of his lolsure time at "Greystones," Tai Fo, the Hon. Mr.
N. L. Smith's charming bungalow across Tolo Harbour. In his early years here he was interested in the A.D.C. productions, and played minor parts in "R.U.R." and "St. Joan.'
RADIO BROADCAST
Vocal Recital From The Studio
DANCE MUSIC
From ZBW in a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles):
4-7 p.m. -Chiness Programme,
7 punt Stock Quotations,
7.03-7.30 p.m. Light Orchestral Selections.
Tchaikovsky la Vienna
(arr. Walter).
Fantaste on the Opera "Hoffman
Erzahlungen" (Offenbach).
Old Friends-Potpourr!
(arr. florman Pinck).
Love's Laat word is spoken (Blxiu),
1.30-7.15 p.. Four Songs by
Mavis Bennett (Soprano).
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Picture shows one of the displays in connection with the Silver Jubilee Window Display Competition ar
ranged by the Sincare Company, Ltd. It is by the British American Tobacco Company.
THE MID-LEVELS
Token Coins
To Be Made
Illegal
NEW_LOCAL_ LAW DRAFTED
The Gazette contains the dearti of na Ordinaner to prevent the moking. Issuing and eirculating of pieces of metal usually called tokens.
it la provided that no piece of metal or mixed metals, not being money, shall be made, issued or circulated in the Colony as a tokeh for money, or as purporting that the bearer or holier thereof In entitled to demand any value denoted thereon, either by letters words, figures, marks or otherwise, whether such value is to be paid or given in money,
goods, fares or services, or in any manner whatsoever.
RED ARMY ATTACKS SZECHUEN
OPPOSED BY STRONG GOVERNMENT
*ANNUAL MEETING OF ASSOCIATION
May
Complaints of noise in Road and of the refusal of the Government to allow light cars
along Bowen Road although both
Government and military trucks FORCEnjoy that privilege, were voiced at the annual general meeting, of the Mid-Levels Residents' Asa ciation, held in Messrs. Shewan Tomes and Co's board room yes. terday afternoon.
RAPID EXODUS FROM YUNNAN:
(Special to "Telegraph”)
Chungking, May 11. Following a dramatic forcol
Mr. A. L. Shields presided, and said, in part: You will have seen from The circulated report that in voic- ing the gratification of residents on the completion of the moter road to Magazine Gap, your Com- mittee has expressed
the hope
march through a from that, as soon as funda permit we have attempted to enter Szecheny see the logical completion of Kweichow, the Communist armies)
these facilities by a continuation River at Tungan bul
They crossed the Kinghskians to town via Queen's Gardens. The
there met
opening of the Magazine Gap commanded by General las Wen-section of the motor road has in- opposition from a atrung force,
erensed the traffic on the lower part of the road, which I think re- of Govern-
hui.
Col. Eaves ja very keen on travelling, and, having already visited some 25 different countries, sailed last week on the 8.8. Nellore Every person who acts in con- to pay prolonged visits to Aus-travention of this section will be tralia, Tasmanin, Pijl. New liable on summary conviction to Zbaland, South Africa, Portugal | fine not exceeding $200. and Spain, before returning to England.
Col. Eaves' career has not beenture, issue and circulation in the who are led by a Shang-chien, the filter beds. There is barely altogether uneventful. From 1899 Colony of pieces of metal, not be-ia wily and able ofßleer.
room to pass at this point, if a to 1962 he served as gunner in lux money, as tokens for money
car meets a truck going in the the 10th, Batt, Lancaster R.G.A. Is prohibited,
The Government troops are re-opposite direction at any (Vols.), and in 1900 wan commis- The right to authorise the issu! Ported to have captured Chicnko.The incoming Committee, I feel, sioned to the 5th. Bo. The King's
-United Press, Own Royal Lancaster-Regt. (T.F.).
WAR SERVICE
There are no detailed reports of quires the attention the result of the engagements.
ment. Several of the corners re- quire further improvement, parti-
The object of this Ordinance is The First Route Army con-cularly the western end of Bowen to make it clear that the manufac-tinues to barry the Communists, Rand bridge at the entrance
of metalle tokens as money or as the equivalent of money is n prerogative of the Crown recognis-
to
1. The Dell's Song ("Tales of
Hofnian (Offenbach).
Wine, Women and Song
(Strauss). J. The Lass with the delicate Air
(Arue) 4. By the Waters of Minnetonka
(Lieurance).
7.45-8 p.m. Band Selections, The Gondoliers (Sullivan). Geisha (Jones).
8 m. Time and Weather Report. 4.03.8.30 pm. Variety,
Piano SolaLet's fall in Love.
Piano Solos-Love in Love, anywhere. Carroll Gibbana.
喜
Vocal Duets-Roll along, covered
Wagon.
Vocal Duel-Don't forget.
Wish and Barker. Violin Solos-Grinzing. Viola Solo-Remembrance..
Albert Sandier. Band Ballroom Memories
(No. 1-Waltzes). 8.30-8.40 p.m. Vocal Recital, by Gus, d'Aquino accompanied by Mrs. A. W. da Roza,
Programme.
1. Smilin' Thro'. 2. Luna d'Estate.
3. Le Chalond qui passe.. 4. Tell me to-night.
8.40-8.37, p.m... "Old and New" (A Potpourri of Popular Melodies).
8.57.9.10 p.m. "Four Aces" Sulte (Billy Mayer) played by Iaie da Costa.
9.10.9.30 p.m. Vocal Excerpts from Musical Comedy.
Vocal Geme-The Cut and the Fiddle. Songs--Three Wishes ("The Good
Companions").
SongsLet me give ny uppiness to you ("The Good Companions").
Jessie Matthews (Soprano). Vocal Gema-The Love Parade.
9.30 p.m.-12 midnight Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra.
10 p.m. Press Bulletins. Results of the Hongkong Bowls Association League Matches.
10.40 m. spend.
Rugby Mid-day Preis New
NOTE: There will be a Relay from the Tai ling Theatre on ZEK on a Frequency of 640 kiloeycles from 8 p.m.-12 midnight.
On the outbreak of the War, heed by common law, but now for KING AND QUEEN Gay Road and May Rond. The
In
28 a
was practising as a solicitor Lancaster, and in the following February was in Flanders Company Commander In that Battalion under Lt. Col. Lord Richard Cavendisli On Col. Cavendish becoming a casualty. Col. (then Capt.) Eaves command- ed the Battalion at the Battles of Second Ypres, and Loos (1916) receiving his frat mention: in Despatches.
A reconnaisanec
While un
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April 22, 1916, he had the never to-be-forgotten experience of obs serving from the Ypres-Zonnebeke Road the first gas attack in history (on the Gravenstafel Ridge) and its appalling results.
or Order in Counell. the most part regulated by statutel
The private issue of tokens has long been forbidden in the United; Kingdom and Statutes to that, effect are now consolidated in sec- tion 5 of the Colauge Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Viet, e. 10). That Act two Statutes it replaced, namely is not in force in the Colony, but
GO VISITING
SURPRISE TRIPS TO ́SEE ̄ DECORATIONS-
London, May 10.
should urge upon Government the necessity for a footpath for pedes- trians from the top of Garden Road to the junction of Magazine bonds are dangerous and pedes trians. must stand in the gutter to allow traffic
to pass. It 14 particularly dangerous for coolies carrying loads,
A parking place and turning point is a matter of urgent neces- sity in Bowen Road. When am-
structed. Space appears to be
The King and Queen pald a sur-bulances for the Military Hos- 62 Geo., c. 157 and 67 Geo. 3, c.prise visit this morning to Lam-pital and cars belonging to Bowen 46, are apparently in force by both, Battersea and Wandsworth to Road residents are parked on the virtue of section 6 of Ordinance see the Jubilee decorations in bridge, traffic la vury badly ob- No. 3 of 1873. These Statutes some of the poorer districts south to issue or of the river.
available on the cast side of the made an offence
Peak Tramway and circulate pleeps of metal usually
News of the visit apread rapidly, that the making of
I consider called tokens.
and Their Majestles, who travelled point is of considerable urgency, a turning unobstrusively in a closed ear. PLAN TO CARE FOR did not disguise their pleasure at I regret to say that many of us
LEPERS
the warm and spontaneous wel- [still have to grope our way home Jeome they received from people in darkness if out after midnight,
who thronged close round the car because public lamps are
extin- [as it proceeded at walking paco. guished at that hour. In this con- During the afternoon, the Queen (nection, I am indebted to one re- in Council by section 8 (2) 16 of drove through the West End of sidont for the information that he has frequently observed that
In 1016, he received his second mention in Despatches, and was awarded the D.S.0. In 1917, he commanded the 5th. Divisional Raiding School (being awarded ac- (Continued from Page 63 celerated substantive promotion to powers conferred on the Governor Field Rank), and, after passing the Senior Officers Courae at Alder- shal, the 5th. Bn. The Royal North Innes. Regl. at the Battle Messines, and served with that Bn. at the Second Battle of Arras, 1918 (the Drocourt-Queant Line), the Battles of the Hindenburg Line (the Canal de Nord, and capture of Bourion Wood), and the Battle and capture of Cambrai,"
the Public Health (Quara tine and London. Prevention of Disease) Ordinance
THIRD MENTION
of
Mr. Lloyd George, Father of the the lights along the Lugard Road No. 12 of 1935 which is to be House of Commons, will travel are kept on all night.. If he ja brought into force shortly by Pro-with the Prince of Wales to Cardiff here to-day I would like him to clamation. Under section 2 of to-morrow, when, as the King's re-tell the meeting so, as it certainly that Ordinance leprosy is includ-presentative, the Prince will attend
the Welsh Jubilee celebrations.
ed in the definition of "disease."
Section 5 deals with segregation | British Wireless.
in cases where the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services deems it necessary. It is now
In 1918, he commanded the 8th. realised that scgregation is not
Ba. The Scottish Rifles ni
the essential in all cases of leprosy
Battle of the Sambre (the Passage which by modern methods of
CHICAGO WHEAT
seems extraordinary economy that comparatively thickly populated rate-paying are like our own should be denied this often ask- ed for service, whereas Lugard Road, which is off the beaten track; In illuminated all night long and, Chicago, May 10. so I am told, part of the day. Wheat prices were downward on of the Sambre-Dise Canal), recelv-treatment may be cured at an the basis of private estimates that
Children's Playground ing his third mention in Des- early stage and mitigated at all the spring acreage is larger. Also patches.
Turning to the brighter side of stages,
there are reports that the mols- the picture, I am glad to say that With the exception of being
Section 6 provides that when tur conditions are improving our efforta saw the inauguration alightly gassed at the capture of pure are detained in the settle-United Press.
last year of a Mossines (whilst attached to the moats they shall not leave with-
children's play- 3rd. Australian Division) Col.out the written permission of the
ground at Queen's Gardens and, Eaves ended four years' infantry officer in charge.
It is notified that the Far East neodless to say, it has proved service on the Western Front with
Another site very
popular. Flying Training School, Ltd., Kali Scetion 7 controls alien leper Tak Airport, has been provisionally recently been prepared near the out becoming a casualty,
immigration, while. Section 8
cal with the appointment of Services for the purpose of providing and May Roads, and la eminently approved by the Director of Air junction between Magazine Gap Justices of the Pence ns visiters courses of training in instrument suitable for the purpose. How- of leper settlements.
On vacating command of this Battalion, he joined the rd. Lowland Infantry Brigade in the Army of the Rhine.
In 1919, he commanded the 18th. Bn. 1ae Cameronians (Scottish
flying.
Rifles) on the Rhine, and later in DAY BY DAY NEWS IN
BRIEF
of
Ireland at the Curragh. From the
IF WE HAVE NOT PEACE WITHIN | It is notified that the T Carragh he volunteered and was OURSELVES, IT 13 IN VAIN TO SEEK Tropical Trading Company, Limited,
has been struck off the Register.
the
OUTWARD FROM Rochefoucauld,
SOURCES.-
2.
has
ever, I would like to suggest that the Automobile Association might arrange for the fixing of an ap- propriate rond sign warning traf- ile of the proximity of children.
The report and accounts were adopted.
accepted for service with the White
Russian Army in Crimes, but, owing to a subsequent
No discussion took place on the change in Government policy, ho
bus service, opinion being that, it fortunately never arrived 'there.
would serve no purpose until tho In 1021-1922, he served on
efrcular route was prepared. General Staff in Ireland as
The following general commit- The King's Exequatur empowering tee was elected: Messrs. Courts Martial Omeer (G.S.O. 3rd Monday, May 20, at 10 o'clock in Mr. Kosaku Midzusawa to net nx
Consul General of Japan at Hongkong Fraser.
A. Brearley, J. T. Bagram, bus received His Majesty's signature, vico-Chairman; J.
Wiá, Carroll, L. Dunbar. F. A.
A tes dance will be held at te- pulse Bay Hotel on Sunday 4.30 pm, It is notified that Ms Honour theThere is a half hourly bus servico
during the afternoon. the Chief Justice hum ordered that the But Criminal reefors shall be held
the forenean.
The following rilinquishment of
a
grade) at the special request of the War Offico. On leaving tho
TO-MORROW'S PROGRAMME
Relay of Organ Recital From Union Church
STUDIO RECITAL --
10.30-11.30 mm. Union Church Sor- vice. Silver Jubilee of His Majesty King George V Thanksgiving Ser viec
Freacher:-The lev. E. G. Fowell, 11.30 .m.-12 p.m. Chinese Re- corded Music.
12-12.45 p.m. (Chinese). Service.
Hop Ynt Church
12-15-2.30 p.m. European recorded Music.
1 p.m. Time and Weather Report. "Pelit Suite rlo Concert" (5. Coleridge-Taylor) played by the New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra.
A Concert. Bonga-Lo, here the gentle lark
(Bishop). SongsSulveig's Song ("Peer Gynl"), Mayin Bennes (Soprano). Pianoforto Solos-Igoldens Liebestod
(Linzt), Pianoforte Solos-Rondo (Hummel), Henno Moiseivitch. Violin Sotos--Gypsy. Caprice
(Kreisler). Violin Salon Shepherd's Madrigal
(Kreisler).
Fritz Kroller, Songa--In my garden (O'Keefo). Songs-Neappillan Love Song
(Victor Herbert).
Richard Crooks (Tenor). 'Cello Solos Adagio (arr. Salmon). (Continued on Page 5.)
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Servico in June, 1922, Col. Enve Conimission has been. approved by Excullency the Governor has Howard, N. Lampard; T. "A: Mari became a member of Gray'a Inn, Excellency, the Governor: Lieut. approved the promotion of Second tin. II. II. HPriestley, CA da and was called to the Bar in L. G. S. Dadwell, Army Service Corps Meutenant FW. T. Ross to the rank Roza, A. L Shelds, and Dr, L January, 1023,
Cadre of the Hongkong Volunteer of Lieutenant in the Hongkong Shu-fau,
Volunteers Defence Corps
Defence Corps."
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S.S. "EMPRESS of JAPAN"
Amongst the notable arrivals
are. the
1935 MASTER SIXES
CHEVROLET/
Watch their initial appearance on the road and prepare yourself for
a thrill at the beauty of these aristocrats of low-priced cars.
"No comparison" will be your exclamation when you see them
and will they justify your 4 months' of patient
waiting?
Welt all we can say is this:----
Note:-
"JUST WAIT AND SEE"
Should you miss them on the road, phone us for an appointment al, your convenience.
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The children cannot fight starva- tion and disease. We can, but, only with your help. "
Will you help us? No donation
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Hon. Treasurera:
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P. & O. Building.
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