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At Midnight We Say Farewell To TWELVE MONTHS THAT HAVE
SHAKEN THE
WORLD
Drama came this month with the year ago when we Monday, January 20, King George V collective security. Critics repiled
died at Sandringham, offer in ill- that the Government's plan was put trial in Moscow of Zinoviev, formerly opened our papers ness that had lasted only a few days, forward as an alternative to collee, lender of the Cornmunist Internation. there were two topics A Christmas the King had seemed five security. The dangers from al, and other members of the Bol- to have recovered his strength, His Italy and Germany, it was pointed shevik "Old Guard" on charges of which chiefly held our exertions during the Jubilee year out, rose largely from the Govern- conspiring with the exiled Trotsky had, however. left their mark. ment's encouragement of Fascist against the U.S.S.R. Part of this interest-the first, the Abys- "Death came peacefully," and the dictators.
charge was that the accused were How was this money to be raised? intriguing with the Nazi Gestapo sinian War; the second, the doctor's bulletin. He was burled at
Windsor on January 28.
There was a 2d. duty on ten and (secret political police). Zinoviev, General Election.
In the five days that elapsed mil- 3d. more on Income Tax.
Kamenev and others were executed, lions of people passed the bler, The An additional tax of £1 per barrel Tumsky, foriner leader of the Soviet Mussolini had launched war mourners on the funeral eve stretch- of imported lager was imposed to Trade Unions, committed sulekle
when faced with trint. in Abyssinia on October 3, 1935. ed three miles in procession and took "protect", British brewers.
Interesting was the Weekly
In Berlin the Olymple games gave By the beginning of November nine hours to reach the bler, Repre
sentatives from all the nations of the trated's comparisons, at the time of rise to a great deal of squabbling and his first push was over, In the world attended the funeral, and the Budgets of 1830, 1805, 1968 and even open hostility among the amat- cur sportsinen assembled there. The Adown and wiped out "the stain silence on that day.
King George's reign saw changes 000,000 (total Budget £40,000,000) with almost ruthless effetency. They on Italy's honour" of her de mat shouls the world. He saw the went on the armed forces. In 1880 and the U.S.A. Jeams headed the fent there thirty years before. European war, that brought down this had gone up to £30,000,000, a final table of points.
The month ended well for Dritain, The next objective was Makale. thrones but left his as secure as ever, third of the total revenue; in 1000
for on the 30th the Queen Mary re- from $11.00 and on November 3 125,000 ile saw votes for women, modern the sum was £1,500,000.
ying, the Irish Free State, Labour In 1936 the national · debt took gained, the "Blue Ribond" of the froops set out at daybreak on in power, the Dominions as a free £250,000,000, the largest item of all, Atlantie by crossing from New York their 50-mile march southward, association of Commonwealths, and in payment for past wars, on top at a speed of 30,03 knots. With them went the largest #mensure of self-government in the £170,000,000 for future HONGKONG HOTEL
India,
Most sensational feature of the Bud. September assembly of midget tanks ever King George began his reign with get was the leakage of official in- GARAGE
got together for war. On trouble In Ireland and with the formation.
Irun, Sun Sebastion, and Toledo The tribunal that investigated the were inst to the Spanish Government Stubbs Road Wednesday, the 6th, the advance House of Lords, but at the end the
was halted by Marshal de Bono, ever been. By sheer directness and Thomas, Colonial
nation was more united than it had Budget leakages found that Mr. J. In the clyli war during September Secretary, had and Gen. Franco's armies began their still 20 miles from Makale simplicity he became a great national made in unauthorised disclosure to concerted march on Madrid. affer three-daya constant Agure; the demonstration of loyalty Sir Altred Butt of Information relat The tide of victory was running for
at the Silver Jubilee celebrations in ing to the Budget and that use the rebels. The reason was marching.
1935 was overwhelming proof of the was made by Sir Alfred Butt of that overwhelming superiority in arma- In Britain preparations for the hold he had gained on the affections information for the purpose of his ments. From Italy and Germany Election on November 14 were of his people,
private gain," The tribunal found they had received aeroplanes, guns, Mr. R. H. Kotewall and family in full swing. One of the main King Edward VIII was proclaimed also that Mr. Thomas had made a tanks. Italian and German airmon desire to thank all friends for questions of the Election was the on January 22 his dignity and similar disclosure to Mr. Alfred and gunnery and tank experts were their kind expressions of attitude of the National Govern the natural simplicity of his first pro- Cosher Bates for the purpose of pri- fighting and directing operations for as well as for the floral tributes sion. Sanctions were due to begin had won as Prince of Wales. sympathy in their bereavement ment towards Mussolini's aggres- nouncements to his people at once vate gain.
confirmed him in the popularity he Fighting in.. Palestine involved on November 18. The vital ques-
North his army had captured Britain stopped work for two minutes 1936.
A hundred years ago, only £12,- Germans had organised the games
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'ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
and attendance at the funeral,
Mr. A. M. da Silva and family desire to thank all their relatives and friends, the Sisters of St. Mary's School and the Sisters and pupils of the Canossian Institute for their expressions of sympathy in their sad bereavement, as well a for the floral tributes and attendance at the funeral
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1930.
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW
tion was whether oil and petrol February sanctions were to be imposed as well.
January
*
more troops
June
At five minutes before midnight on A sinister feature of the elections the cowards!"
and an omen for the future, was the that within hours of the elec-
Hongkong, the year now ending in tesults being known Fascists and July has proved an extremely difficult army officers had attempted to secure
one for business concerns, and power by
to the Government as well, by March reason of the 'painful process of
coup.
one
"
them.
their
credentials of,
Fascists generally, Barricades were crecied, paving-stones torn up for ammunitium, shops were boarded up and almost fortiñed by their owners,
Demand for the removal of the ban on arms to the Spanish Government grew with revelations of the Inter- vention of the Fascist Powers.
As Irun was falling, Caballero, Anyone with power to foresee the June was, as usual, the climax of Svelalist trade union leader, formed future would have picked on two the year's sporting events-the chief n Cabinet and took charge in Madrid, events in February, 1930, as out of which, from the British point of and a great effort was made to co- standing far beyond all else in im- view, were Fred Perry's try-out in ordinate the loyal forces.
not yet clear Paris before his third consecutive At Geneva, Iinly's attempt to drive Black-robed Judges of the U.S. Portance it is stil Supreme Court by G to 3 majority which is to have a more vital effect Wimbledon Championship, and Al- Abyssinia from the League of Nations declared Roosevelt's Agricultural upon the world. The first event was fred Padgham's victory in the British was defeated. The Adjustment Act unconstitutional, the success of the Italian armies in Open Golf Championship. British the Emperor's delegates were pro- Before, they and made a similar rul- their assault on the tremendous women tennis players also put up a nounced to be in order.
At home Squadron-Leader F. R. D. ing on the famed N.RA. (National naturat strong-hold of Amba Alag, great battle for the Wightman Cup, Recovery Act) that set out to give the second, the success of the Spanish but the English polo players were Swain broke the altitude record by Left Wing parties in Spain's General defented by the Americans in the lying nearly nine and a half miles U.S. a planned Industry.
Election and its immediate conse Westchester Cup matches by three high; Campbell Black, air sce, was
killed. Anne Cooper Hewitt, beautiful 21-quence, an attempt by the army to victories to none.
seize power.
During this month the Queen Mary year-old San Francisco heiress to In Abyssinia, Badoglio, having made her successful maiden voyage October £2,000,000, flied a sult against her thoroughly reorganised the Italian and Mr. T. 0. M. Sopwith's new mother, Mrs. McCarter, claiming forces and brought up masses of Endeavour took the water.
The worst rioting in London for £100,000 damages. Miss Hewitt sald
In the political world, the British years broke out in the East End early that her mother and Dr. Titon E. heavy artillery (he was himself an Tillman had sterilised her so that she artillery officer), began his advance Government, which had come near to in October, when a crowd 100,000 towards the middle of the month. At disaster at the time of the, Hoare strong massed to prevent a threaten- could not inherit her father's for Amba Alagi the Abyssinians had Laval pact, chose June 18 as the date ed march through the East End by a tune, Father, Peter Cooper Hewitt, every natural advantage. The issue to abandon sanelions.
body of Fascists wearing semi- left her share in his fortune pro-
And the man who made the fateful military uniform. This huge demon- A year full of epoch-makingvided she married and bore children. of the 6-day tattle showed that
natural advantages were not enough announcement in the House of Com- stration was only the culminating events is drawing to a close, and,
against the dreadful battering which mong was Mr. Anthony Eden, suc- point in an antagonism which had Crowds hurried. to Buckingham modern artillery and air bombard- cessor as Foreign Secretary, to 'Sir been going on for many months. despite bright spots here and Palace to read the bulletin and hear ment can give to a position
Samuel Hoare.
The Fascists, had been relying more there, its passing will not be the news of the King
at mid-
The Abyssinians fought desperate- Mr. Eden, a young politician from and more 0311 anti-Jewish pro- night on January 21 they learned. ly, but you cannot fight acroplanes whom much had been expected, had paganda to attract and excite their widely regretted. So far as "Death came peacefully.
and heavy guns with courage a been regarded by many as a cham- audiences. In the East End they had international relations are con-
On January 22 the Union Jack at lesson that was to be driven home pion of the League and the principle taunted and insulted Jews in the -of-sanctions. against the aggressor. street,-overthrown-their- carts-and. cerned, there have been set in Windsor Castle was flying at half-later on in Spain.
mast. King George was dead.
In the Spanish elections the Left Mr. C. R. Allee, the leader of the barrows, damaged shops and tried motion during 1936 forces which 28.
Wing parties tained a smashing Opposition, charged the Government to prevent customers from visiting King Edward and his three success-und all over the country with having "sold the honour of Jewish shops, attacked solitary still constitute a threat to world brothers, their faces set in lines of Trade Union ofces and Labour Britain." Mr. Lloyd George, point Jewish people in the streets and even peace, so that 1937 will open
sorrow, walked in proud dignity in Party headquarters, closed since 1934, ing, in the House of Commons, to the in their homes. The proposed march the funeral procession on January were hustily thrown open.
Cabinet bench, said: "There they sit was regarded us a challenge by anti- with & feeling that anything may happen. Hope, however, springs eternal in the human breast, and, given a universal
On July 17, Fascist revolt, long and when the police attempted 10. willingness to profit from the
foreseen, but litte provided' against force a passage through the crowd. by the Spanish Government, broke fireworks were flung and marbles mistakes of the, past, there is a
horses hoofs. out suddenly at many points in Spain rolled beneath their
the revolt was directed from Span- At last, after three hours of riotous possibility that a new and better adjusting trade and finances to On Saturday, March 7, the world ish Morocco and had been planned disturbance, to quell which over era may be in store. In political the low dollar. There are still was astonished by the news that Ger- by a group of dissatisfied generals, 10,000 police had to be mustered, the events of major importance those who think that Hongkong man troops had been moved into the backed by the agriculturists, Fascists march was called off by order of Sir. during the year, Germany has has come badly out of the read- out as fe-militarised areas by ed and the Church.
At midnight all communication justment of the dollar to its Treaty of Versailles. That the with the outside world was cut off November. figured more prominently than present level, the benefits from Ringland should be free from Ger- and the Government issued a com- November opened sensationally, st any nation, first by her uni-which have not compensated for man troops or German fortifications munique, stating that it was "master
was one of the keystones of French of the situation. In fact the revolt jeast for Hongkong, with the now lateral denunciation of certain the disadvantages suffered. policy, and all over France there had not met with the instant success Harmous "Keelung incident", which. articles of the Peace Treaty, Certainly, the community is were immediate demands for action planned by its organisers, and within involved the alleged torture by
In reply. Hitler had taken action a week Spain was in the throes of a and, secondly, by the new under. feeling the increased cost of without any consultation or discus- merciless Civil War. The Govern Police in Formosa, of three.
living consequent thereon, whilst slon with foreign powers standings she has reached with the problem of public finance action was strongly denounced by the workers who swore to uphold the whi
and his ment in self-defence issued arms lo
While newspapers were still Italy and Japan. Italy's con- has been immeasurably in- . Eden in the House of Commons. Republic, and the position gradually making front page news of this in-
There were Cabinet meetings, meet became clear. quest of Ethiopia, carrying with creased. There would appear, ings of the Locarno Powers and of All Spanish Morocco and the lower cident came the remarkable results it the virtual breakdown of the however, to ba some signs the Council of the League of Nations eastern provinces of Spain were in of the United States' presidential
business revival, League of Nations' collective of
and held in London--but the fact re- rebel hands. Madrid, however, with elections, when President Roosevelt hopes that the corner security ideals, also figures as have
mained. There were German troops Malags. Valencia and much of the was elected by an almost unprece- may separated from France by no more nurth were for the Government, as dented record, been turned are in than the length of bridge-where were
the Basque Tilden and the Catholics
Vines visited the one of the outstanding events of spired by the fact that last there had been no German troops country and the whole state of Colony on November, 11, and gave the year, whilst at present over-month's trade returns showed since the last days of the Great War. Catalonia, with its capital, Barcelona, three days exhibition matches before shadowing these occurrences is all-round increases for the first occupied territory retention for was opposed to the revolt. As days returning to the United States with
went by it became clear that the a promise of another tour. the terrible upheaval in Spain, time for many a long day, infantry and cavalry and scouts on rebels-backed enthusiastically by to Hongkong newspapermen that... where
the struggle between Britain's relations with China motor-cycles. It was not long be. Germany and Italy--had immeasur- Tilden revealed the world-sensation- fore tanks and light and heavy artil- ably the advantage in arms und ni news of Fred Perry's defection loyalists and insurgents remains the year, which has also wit accommodated in schools, Town Halls, and, in addition, their forces were
have greatly improved during tery followed. At first they were equipment, particularly in the air, from amateurism to professionalism.
From November 16 to the end of undecided and threatens the nessed a closer coming together and public buildings marked down fully trained and disciplined; but the month, Hongkong newspaper general peace of Europe in the of Hongkong and Canton. China for the purpose some time in advance, they had no genuine backing among were occupied with the dysentery but before long barracks were under the Spanish people. Their claim epidemic, who claimed the lives of process. The full implications herself is now more united than construction, garages and car and have Introduced the Moors, Spain's five British infants, of the several, developments ever before; the happy outcome tank parks for the transport and em- hereditary enemies, into their own mentioned cannot yet bo estim-further proof of that fact. As
of the recent Sianfu incident is placements for the heavy guns were country for the purpose of saving December
Spain and Christianity," was accepted The first of the 115 witnesses to only by themselves. The Govern
Although Hongkongnewspapers" ated: Thus far, Britain has in Europe, so in the Far East, be called in the murder trial of Dr. ment, on the other hand, though it managed to keep clear of serious there are under-currents which Buck Ruxton came into the box on had ample mnn-power, was badly de- had been receiving ominous tidings international entanglements, al- give rise to a measure of of the murder of his 34-year-old though courageous, was at first quite from
March 2. Ruxton was found guilty ncient in equipment, and its milius, ofa constitutional crisis at Home. American news agencies for though the year has been a most anxiety, but against these fears wite.
Incapable of the discipline needed to many months, the first hints that Alr bombs reduced Harar, Abys carry on ·wor may be placed other indications
with prospects, of these had any foundation were not received from Home sources until Italian planes ralded the city three
December 2. From that day on- words events succeeded each other with bewildering rapidity, until, on King Edward VIII made a tour of December 11, King Edward VIII the Mediterranean in the. Yacht abdlented.
Any other news--such Nahlin. In his party was Mrs. as the startling end to the First Test American Match In Brisbane, was completely.
overshadowed.
Hongkong nows
Rhineland-one of the zones marked
troops
being built.
re-
anxious one for her statesmen. which serve to strengthen the sinla's second city, to a heap of ruins..success. Internally, Britain's position is bellef that no untoward develop- times and dropped high explosive and August showing a decided improvement, ments will occur. The times Incendiary bombs. although 1936 has been marked everywhere are admittedly by dark days, notably by the fraught with big possibilities April
ever,
Philip Game, Commissioner of Pollen.
sailors aboard. H.M.S. Med-
It was
death of one beloved monarch | for good and for evil, ind Mr. Neville Chamberlain's Budget, Edward Simpson, and the abdication of another. prophecy is thus made more presented to the House of Commons, beauty,
The King's holiday was not with- papers were snapped up wet from: These latter happenings, how then usually difficult. We can April 21, caused a storm.
The Government's decision but hope for the best and pry spend
to out reactions in Europe. It was the presses, and printing machines £178,000,000 Jump have, happily, neither that the year about to commence £41,000,000 on the fighting services sistent courting of Yugo-Slavia by proved the greatest in the history of of followed by more than usually per- could not cope with a demand that:
institutions nor the unity of the easing of the troubled world The Government claimed that this had been at open enmity with the simmered down, there was no rest
will be marked by a general was criticised as leading toh new Germany and by a great effort at re- focal journalism.je
armaments"race, NAGPAZAR.
conciliation by Italy, who for years Even when events in England had Empire as a whole. Turning to situation.
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was Britain's price for her share in Yugo-Slave.