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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18,
GAMES EVENING | DIPLOMATS
TO BE HELD
A Bridgo and Mahjong Drive will be held on Monday, January 17, at 3 p.m., in the Peninsula Hotel in aid of the Hongkong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
HE. The Governor Sir Geoffry Northcote and Lady Northcote have intimated their. desire to be present.
Tickets for this function ($1.80) may be had from Mrs. J. T. Smalley, 51 Kadoorie Avenue, Kowloon. Anyone booking a table should notify
DISCUSS BOMBING
But Saito Brings No Communication
To Washington
M.G. SIGNALS
AT DINNER
Subsections "A" and "B" of the Machine Gun Signals, H.K.V.D.C. field an informal dinner at Volunteer Headquarters on Thursday evening. Every member of the unit was pro- sent and some thirty-five men aat down to dinner.
In the course of a speech, the O.C... LL. A. N. Braude, emphasised the valuable work done by the unit during combined operations in the spring. The experience gained dur
Mrs. Smalley, so that the table may Two Wounded In ing the four days in the field was
be numbered and Identifled with that person's name. Those in charge of tables should also bring his or her own playing cards, or mahjong 'sets, It is anticipated that a humorous auction will terminate the proceed- ings.
Bad Plight
the equivalent, in his opinion, of six months training on the parade ground at Headquarters.
The enthusiasm at Camp, this Washington, Dec. 17, -
year, proved that it was a very The Japanese Ambassador, Mr.
Volunteer the Panay necessary part of the Hirosi Saito, discussed affair with Mr. Cordell Hull to-day, Training programme, and he could communication from the Japanese other units as well, to the lack of camp in 1930. However, the M.G. Signals had been lucky Inasmuch as week-end camp had been arranged
MANY HOMELESS but said he had not brought a specific trace a dropping off in keenness, in
FROM FLOODS
7,000 IN ITALY NEED ASSISTANCE
Rome. Dec. 17. Seven thousand people are now homeless or dependent on pubilc Assistance as a result of the floods in the suburbs of Rome, due to nine days of heavy rain.
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Admiral Yarnell reported to the Navy Department that the condillon of two of the salior wounded during the bombing of the Pansy was critical. The condition of three others was serious and the condition of six others
favourable.-Reuter,
Admiral Mitsunami Recalled
Tokyo, Dec. 17. It is confirmed bere that Rear- Several people were drowned in the Rome provinces, and the River Tiber Admiral Telze Mitsunami, who has Is now. 34 feet above normal fevel. been in elarge of the Japanese air Water has covered the arches of the force in China woters, has been re- Milvio Bridge and is level with the called in connection with the Panay roadway Crowds are watching from Incident.-Router,
banks to see if the bridge will falt. Part of the city is under water causing
big delays in the train ser- vice. Firemen in boats rescued 200 dogs from the Rome Municipal Lost Dog Home just before water over- whelmed the kennels. Many acres of land. ure swamped, grain destroyed and many sheep and cattle drowned.
Reuter's Special.
WARSHIPS TO VISIT HERE
Macao, Dec. 18.
at Whitfield Barracks.
In welcoming the number of new men to the unit, Lt. Braude <?XTM phasised the need for more recruits, particularly for the European Des patch Riding Subsection. He felt that if this branch were more widely known to the motorcycling fans in the Colony, there would be no dimculty in bringing this subsection up to full strength.
In the course of the evening, several films were shown on a pro- jector belonging to Sgt. King. These included the Coronation procession and ceremony and the Naval Review at Spithead.
STOP PRESS NEWS
New Water Pipes For Harbour
Early in the coming week the first- class sloop Bartholomew Dias, under the command of Commander F. Hibelo, and the second-class sloop Recommendations contained in A Goncalo Velho, in the command of Commander, H, O. Pinto, will be leaving Macau on a visit to Hong
kong.
Report on the Water Supply of Hongkong, tabled in Legislative Council last April, are being put in hand by Government with one radical alteration.
The two Portuguese men-of-war. prrived from Lisbon a few months
Instead of adopting the recom- ago, the Bartholomew Dius having mendation for the construction of a, been here since late October and the new 18-inch harbour pipe-line, at on Goncalo Velho preceding it by about estimated cost of $200,000, Govern- ment has decided to construct two the harbour
month.
NO RESTRICTION
Both vessels will remain in Hong-21-inch mains across kong for three or four days before bed, at a much greater cost. returning to Macao.-Our Own Cor-
Notice of proposal to construct the
this! new pipe-lines is contained in respondent.
morning's Government Gazette,
Work has already commenced on dredging the harbour bed to luke the lines, which will be fald down slightly to the westward of the existing pipe-lines.
As soon as the new 21-inch mains Care
the existing lines will be aband Exam
ON FIREWORKS FOR HALF HOUR
early this year by a revealed that the 12-
PICTORIAL
SUPPLEMENT
Owing to the large demand for coples of to-day's "Telegraph" subsequent to the printing of the Pictorial Supplement, this edition Is issued without the Supplement.
Regulations prohibiting the use of freworks in Hongkong will be sus-luch pipeline laid across the harbour SINTATERTAINMENT pended on New Year's Eve for hair an hour.
bas practically In 1929-30
reached The Colonial Secretary's Depart-
the limit of its useful life. Corrosion has so affected ment
the metal that In the announces that Breworks (other than unlawful fireworks) may
of the pipeline event of a fracture of be left off without police interference be affected. Serious
It is doubtful if reinstatement could between 11.45 p.m. on December 31
corrosion has and 12.15 a.m. on January 1.
also taken place in the existing 18- inch main. The mainland makes a
contribution 10
the City's water needs, and
and the import- |
Hongkong Chinese will be able to celebrate the passing of the old year considerable
for half an hour without hindrance. ance of the security of cross-harbour Then, at 12.15 a.m., sharp, the heavy pipelines is recognised to such in ex- hand of the law will once again des-tent by Government that it has de-,
vend.
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cided to secure adequate supplies for many years to comic by laying down two new 21-inch mains, instead of onc 10-inch pipeline, 45 recon mended.
The Report tabled in Legislative Council last April revealed that any damage to existing pipe-lines across A divorce case of interest to naval the harbour would leave the Island circles in Hongkong was heard in in a serious position. These lines, the Divorce Court in London on De-It was stated, form a vulnerable cember 1, when Mr. Justice Langton section of the Island's lines of com- grunted a decree nist to Paymaster munication." Lieutenant-Commander Alan Colqu
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