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MONDAY,
FEBRUARY
1, 1937. 日十二月二十
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HONOUR FOR QUEEN
GOVERNOR
Further Recognition Of High Capability
O. B. E. GIVEN FORMER
CROWN SOLICITOR
Sir Andrew Caldecott, C.M.G., C.B.E., Governor of Hongkong, recently elevated to the governorship of Ceylon, has been made a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George in the New Year's Honours List, Reuter cables to-day. The issuing of the List was delayed a month in consequence of the abdication of ex-King Edward VIII.
The only other local honour is an O.B.E. decoration for Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, M.C., former Crown Solicitor of
HEADS
HONOUR LIST
THREE NEW BARONS
London, Jan. 31.
The New Year's Honours List, postponed from January 1, m |consequence of the constitutional crisis, has now been published after revision..
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth is made Dame Grand Cross-of the Royal Victoriath Order, of which she is also appointed Grand Master.
The Duke of Kent. Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Duke Cuntuught, the Duke of Gloucester, the Earl of Athlone and Earl Harewood are ap- pointed personal A.D.C.'s to the King. whilst the Duke of Gloucester is ap pointed Air Marshal.
Two new Privy Councillors are appointed. These are Lord Hutchison, and Mr. Menzies, Attorney-General of Australla.
Lord Greenwood has been raised to a Viscountcy, and there are three ́new
Hongkong, who left for Home on retirement on January Borous, namely, Sir George Hen-
23.
H. E. the Governor, whose transfer to Ceylon is due to reasons of high public policy, will be widely congratulated on the new distinction which he has been accorded, and which may be taken as a further indication of the high appreciation in which his administrative abilities are held by the Colonial Office.
Mr. Hazlerigg spent sixteen years In Hongkong, in which he filed varl- ous offices with distinction, and thej honour accorded him may be taken as recognition of his untiring labours in child welfare work, espécially in connection with the Society for the Protection of Children, of which ke was firs! Hon. Secretary and later Hon. Director.
OTHER HONOURS
Other Eastern honours reported by Reuter are na follows:
G.C.M.G.-Sir
Shenton Thomas
Governor of Straits Sclilements,
K.C.M.G.-Dr. Dingle, of North!
Borneo,
C.M.G.—Mr. Alex Synsmall. O.B.E. Archdeacon Batchelor; and Mr. W. B. Chilton, of Chinwangtao,
M.B.E.-Mrs. Leslie, wife of Mr. Leslie, of the Embassy in Nunking; Mr. G. W. Hunter, of the China In- Jand Mission, Sinking.
Military Medal of the Empire Order.-C.Q.M.S. Boudeville, of the Selangor Volunteers.
News Reel
Pictures
Abdication
HISTORIC FILM AT KING'S THEATRE
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VALEDICTION
IMPRESSIVE
Hongkong people are flocking to the King's Theatre to see one of the most dramatic newsreels ever re- leased in the Colony,
Preceding the main picture, "Born to Dance," Hearst Melrolone News brings to Hongkong for the first time an animated 'and poignant review of the abdication of King Edward VIII. Careful editing has made this news- reel
outstanding
one. The sequence given over to King Edward's abdication and King George's ascen- slon, occupying more than half tha total newsreel, ends with a complete recording of King Edward's last broadcast to the British Empire.
an
His stirring valediction is presented on the screen with much more telling effect than it was by rodio.
HONOURED
MR. T. M. HAZLERIGG
Whose name appears in the New Year's Honours List, recently retired from service here. He was formerly Crown Solicitor and returned to England on January 23.
13 RUSSIAN
LEADERS TO
DIE TO-DAY
Pardon Appeals Refused
Moscow, Jan. 31. The appeals for pardon made by the thirteen Russian leaders condemned to death on Friday for plotting against the state, have been rejected by the Presi÷. dium of the Central Executive Council,
The thirteen men will therefore. be shot to death sometime before mknighi to-morrow,
Only four of the seventeen necused escaped with prison sentences, Reuter.
nessy, Sir McGowan and Sir Arthur Michael Samuel.
There are six new Baronets created, these including Sir Derwent Hali Calne, Sir Clare Lees and Mr. Percy
Malcolm Stewart.
BARONETS AND KNIGHTS
Three
are twenty-nine Knight- hoods, including Mr. Adrian Boult, Music Director of the B.B.C.; and Mr. Nigel Campbelt, Chairman of the £2,000,000 Nuffield Trust for the distressed areas.
Mr.
Alexander Hardinge, has
THIS SWITCHBOARD LINKS H.K. WIth world
The Hongkong Telephone Company's switchboard at Exchange Building through which radio telephone calls to Shanghai are routeil,, Eventually calls to any part of the world will be routed through this switchboard.-
FLOOD DANGER REVIVES
·FURTHER RAIN
H. K. TELEPHONES LINKED WITH
THREATENING OUTSIDE
New York, Jan. 31. The threat of more rain is increasing the anxiety of the
been promoted Knight Commander affected states bordering that for the first time to-day, with the
The Private Secretary to ILM. the King
of the Bath.
Professor H. A. L. Fisher has been appointed to the Order of Merit.
Mr. W. T. Monckton, who
WIR
Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, The Mississippi flood is creeping
prominent.at the time of the constfup the 1,200 mile long leveercult was made at 7 a.m, by the tional crisis, becomes Kolght Coin-system between Oairo und New mander of the Victorian Order. He Orleans. was Secretary to the Duchy of Carn-
wall
the
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Excellency
the
Hongkong telephone subscribers became linked to the outside world the rudlophone Inauguration of service between this Culony
and Shanghai, via Canton.
The first inward call on the new. Vice Minister for Communications, Mr. Pang He
Hop-pui, to His Excellency Governor. The Army is prepared to spend The first outward call
by Other honour's include Knighthoods two or three months guarding the mate Iris
Charles Ledinghans, levees and evacuating Mississippi Governor to the Mayor of Shangini, for Mr. John Director of the Lister Institute; Mr. Volley residents if necessary.
Te-chen. Ernest le Fleming. Chairman of the
Tension is increasing at Cairo, Mr. Wu
His Excellency spoke direct from Council of the British Medical Asso-llinois, as the food crest approaches.
Arthur Streeton, the The water is already lapping the Government House, and both calls three foot superstructure atop the were completed without interference, 66-foot flood wall. But there is the circuit being described by officials of the Telephone Company as being still hope the town may escape
"clear and satisfactory." disaster.
Conversations between His Ex- Hundreds of troops have been cellency
the Governor und the drafted to Paduenis to eject, by force | Chinese officials in Shanghai were it necessary, thousands marooned in of an informal nature. their homes, which are awash in mud and silme.
elation; Mr. famous Australian war artist, for his
services to art.
OTHER HONOURS Knight Commanders of the Order of the Bath include Mr. Henry Thumns Tizard, Rector of the Imperial College of Science and Technology.
The Air Force Cross has been awarded to Squadron Leader F. R. D. Swain, who established a world height record in an R.A.F. machine last September.
Dame Commanders of the Order of the British Empire include Lady Jullet Williams, Hon. Treasurer of Queen Charlotte's Fund; and Mrs. Mary Glimore, for her contribution to Australian literature.
Recipients of the Grand Cross of
the Order of St. Michael and S1. George include Sir Miles Lampson. formür Ambassador to China and now Ambassador to Egypt, who negotiated the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty: and Sir Herbert Malcolm, legal adviser to the Foreign Offee.
The C.M.G. decoration has been awarded to Mr. Desmond Morton, Director of the Department of Ovar- seas Trade.-Reuter.
Government
Asked To End Competition
WITH PRIVATE INDUSTRY
ing the
An official of the Telephone Com- pany suld: "A large number of calls
The process of rehabilitation is held have been booked this morning, both up at Loulaville where, owing to fear circuit has been kept fairy busy. in Shanghai and Hongkong, and the of a major outbreak of disease, parts Several news agencies have utilised of the city have been quarantined the service to contact their and 230,000 refugees have forbidden to return to their homes
been
corres-
pondents here.
"That the volume of traffic on the
Armen
until some order 13 restored. This circuit will remain satisfactory is may take weeks. The waters con indicated by the number of calls put tinue to recede up-river
from
business Louisville and the Federal Flood rough this morning by Commission is beginsing its survey to-morrow with a view to Binding the best means of harnessing the Ohio and its tributaries.
Federal land experts estimate the Ollo flood has washed out 300,000,000 tons of, fertile top soll from an area
of 127,000,000 peres. Reuter,
Mr. J. P. Sherry, Munager of the' Hongkong Telephone Company, who is primarily responsible for extension of the Shanghal-Canton service to Hongkong, was present during the Andrew Caldecott and the Shanghai early .converantlons between.
officials.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE VISITS HONGKONG BY MIRACLE
OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Sir
A remarkable process perfected three years ago by the Dunning brothers in America will show Shirley Temple, the demure Twentieth Century Fox star, cavorting in the streets of Shanghai and Hongkong in her new picture, "Stowaway", just completed in Hollywood."
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Hongkong harbour, the Peak, Repulse Bay and several city streets figure largely in this new film, scheduled for release here before the end of winter.
WORLD
Ship Owners Prepare To
Man Vessels
'.
San Francisco, Jan. 31. The striking maritime unións are expected to ballot on the pro- posed settlement with ship owners immediately, and their returns will probably be com- plete by February 3.
Meanwhile, employers are ten- tutively planning recommission of their ships, and it is thought services a recommence on February 4-Reuter.
FRIENDLY
FRENCH GESTURE
DELBOS EXPLAINS
HIS POLICY.
NATIONS AIMS SIMILAR
Chateauroux, Jan. 31. Assurance to Germany that France eagerly welcomed all efforts towards
ATTACK NANKING TROOPS
North Hot-Heads Take Offensive
NEW CRISIS AT HAND
Nanking, Feb. 1. The hitch in the Shenai négo- tiations, which may precipitate civil war in the North, is belleved to be due to the demand of the troops of Yang Hu-cheng and Chang. Hsuch-liang's old army for "the liquidation of ex- penses" and the Communist tendencies of the 105th Division, which has refus- ed to withdraw to the positions designated in the settlement with Nanking by the Tungkwan conference."
The troops of the 105th Divi- sion have assumed the offensive. against the Central Government forces.
They have cut telephonic and telegraphic communication be- tween Tungkwan, and Sinn. Reuter.
BRADDOCK TO MEET J. LOUIS
HUGE PURSE FOR CHICAGO CLASH-
SCHMELING OUT OF FAVOUR
New York, Jan. 31. Joe Gould, manager of the long-idle Jim Braddock, accepted heavyweight champion of the | world, announced to-day that he had taken an offer of $600,000 (£100,000) with the option of 50 per cent, of the gute receipts as an alternative, for a title fight with Joe Louis, the Detroit negro,
The fight will be staged at Chicago In June. Sheldon Clark is the pro-
moter.
Gould, referring to the threatened anti-Nazi boycott of a Braddock- Schmeling fight, already Axed for June, said the champion was not responsible for the political condl- tions affecting Schmeling's drawing- power and that he had accepted the promoter's offer in fairness to Brad- dock beenuse a match' with Louls would draw a million dollar gute and a fight with Schmeling only one- fifth of that amount.
Schmeling, nevertheless, is the logical first contender for the heavy-
defested weight title, having
Joe
a rapprochement, as long as they Louis when they met in New York were not directed against ony nation, last year decisively and with some- was given by M. Yves Delbos, the thing to spare. Louis, meanwhile, French Foreign Minister, speaking appears to have improved his finish and, if anything, is stronger then here to-day.
when he met Schmeling.. His latest success was against Bob Pastor, New York champion, Friday night, which he won on points, though the New Yorker rallied at the end and seemed to finish the fresher.-Reuter.
ous
It would be arbitrary and danger- to try to exclude Russia," for Instance, from the international com- munity, he said.
There was D Inclination in Germany, he believed, to take offence when France spoke about the limita- tion and control of armaments and economie reconstruction, but France did not oak anything of Germany which she did not ask of all, including
France, In saying she was ready to
The picture exhibits Shirley as action photography of the stars is Ching-Ching, an exiled wait, hopping superimposed on a scenle background, collaborate in clearing up the problem around Shanghai and looking for is used with convincing effect to show of the distribuilon of raw materials.
Her missionary parents chances.
panion-stare gazing with "ödmiration
Washington, Jan. 31. The United States Chamber of Commerce has recommended a pro gramme to curtall the United States Government expenditure on expand- field of competition with private industry. ly, that Government contracts be let have been killed by outlaws. When Shirley Temple and her older com-desired to see to it that the flames of
The programme recommends, firât to responsible bidders rather than it starts raining, Ching-Ching crawls at, and visiting the several scenic War should not be fed. He did not Ailled by the hiring of labour, under into the rumble seat of a roadster, resorts of Hongkong,
doubt the sincerity of the solema do- The King's Theatre has had full
the nets of the Reconstruction Ad- and closes the top. The roadster,
clarations made across the Alpa and houses for almost every scsilon sinco
Hongkong is even honoured by across the Rhine. The divergence of the present programme commenced.
ministration: secondly, repeal of which belongs to a Shanghal "play- The newsreel is somewhat by way of
legislation placing a special burden boy named Tommy Randall (Robert having Shirley sing a song and tap a opinion was not on a question of a on private enterprises contracting Young), goes aboard a ship bound dance on its ultra-conservative soll, goal, but on u qucation of methods, a, surprise, the advertised attraction balug Eleanor Powell's second vehicle
with the Government; thirdly, that for San Francisco.
To-day practically nil "outdoor" M. Delbes concluded. Reuter. the Washington, Jan. 31.
Government should for the serpen--"Bom to Dance."
employ
Hollywood's ship (a Dollar Iner) Alms are made In Hollywood studios, standard accounting practices to en route from Shanghai to San the outdoor scenic effect being ob- The feature film fully justifies the The Revenue Bureau Income tax determine cosis: fourthly. the Francisco must necessarily call attained by utilising the Dunning pro-During his stay in Hongkong the Fox patronage it is receiving in Hong-collections for the first month of 1037
discontinuance of grants of gifts Hongkong, and for several sequences cer
camera-man exposed over 10,000 feet Most of the Hongkong and Shang- of film: only 1,400 feet were used irs kong, and establishes Miss Powell as are $005,041,090.49, an increase of
and
to particular forms of lust Shirley is seen wandering around ! loung a favourite even more firmly than did ing period of 1030, when total colies
desses; and afthly, a regulation pro- this Colony, hand in hand with hat scenes in Stowaway" were taken the "Magic Carpet." The rest was. $138,714,301.01 over the correspond-" her first picture-Broadway Melody
viding that Government competition Arthur Treacher (who plays the by the Fox "Magic Carpet camera carefully stored in the Fox library of 1936."
$2,372,000,000,----United in businesses shall not be made valet), Robert Young and Alice Faye, man who visited Hongkong in 1934 to against the day such a film as "Stow-
permanent--United Press.
The Dunning, process, by which Alm "HI Lights of Hongkong". away" would be produced.
INCOME TAX, UP
tiona wart Prew.
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