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SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1928.

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NEW HONOURS LIST,

H.E. THE GOVERNOR'S KNIGHTHOOD.

SIR CHOW SHOU-SON.

Many Public Services Rewarded.

In the New Year Honours List figure the names of His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, Mr. Cecil Clementi, and the Hon. Mr. -Chow Shou-son, member of the Legislative Council:

to

The Hongkong" honours, gether with others are cabled by Reater

On His Excellency," His Majesty the King has pleased to bestow the distinction of Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George and on the Hon. Mr. Chow Shou-son, tha: of Knight Bachelor.

called for.

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HOTEL FIRE.

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THE CHINA MAIL

TRIPS IN PLANES.

PASSENGER FLIGHTS OVER HONGKONG.

ILLUMINATED ADVERTISING ?

Visiting

Dutch Aviators Enterprise.

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In the course of the next weak, if anticipations are realised, there will be flying over Hongkong a Caudron biplane which is at present being fitted up in the adjunct of the Kowloon Hotel.

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LIBERTY BELL.

THEARD AFTER NINETY YEARS SILENCE,,

-RINGS IN NEW YEAR.

are

thought I heard him say some thing about a fire, so I said, "Sup- pose have got cald, makes light suppose no have got cold, maskee fre." Then the boy became really excited and said "Have got one big piecee fire this hotel." Then I heard the gonge, police whistles and other holass, so I jumped out of bed, grabbed a suit of clothes The First Dutch Air Company posted on the wings and if there held high diplomatic posts in and the office keys and hastened has sent three experienced avia-is the demand for it, nighs dying Turkey and Egypt and was Chair-downstairs. Apart from these Itors to make investigations into with electric light advertisement of the Dominions Royal was unable to save any of my conditions. in the Far East with a designs will be undertaken..

view to establishing a permanent The aviators have come here Trade Commission, also Chair-effects. been man of the Central Control This gentleman added as a touch air line and these are the gentle-from Sourabaya where they car

He had published a of irony that he was to have left men who are at pressnt busily ried out investigations and also Board. modern grammar and (jointly) athe Hongkong Hotel for the engaged in the fitting out of the carried passengers and did a certain amount of advertising. book on the action of alcohol on Repulse Bay Hotel that morning, plane in Hongkong.

and his bags, which were already the human organism.

In the course of the month's They intend going in a month's The Rt. Hon. Andrew Graham packed, were to have gone at ten stay they intend to make here time to Manila.

Two passengers may be carried. Murray Dunedin, a Lord of o'clock. He added ruefully: "They these aviators are open to take Of His Excellency's services to Appeal in Ordinary and a Keeper went all right!"

passengers from the Kowloon in the type of plane the aviators One resident whose room was City Reclamation at $20 a head, have in Hongkong. The advan- the Empire much was written on of the Great Seal of the Prin- the occasion of his appointment to cipality of Scotland. He has been on the fourth floor near the scene and a certain amount of advertage of this machine is that it can the Governorship of Hongkong in Solicitor-General, Secretary and of the first outbreak relates histising of local firms or products land and take off in a very small

Bills will be space. August of last year and reiterk Lord Advocate of. Scotland and is experiences as follows:1 was will also be done.

after nine

If the flying conditions shortly tion of them in particular is not Lord Justice General and Lord awakened

favourable and the prospects' are President Court of Session, Scot-o'clock by the blowing of police

considered good, the First Dutch whistles. Thinking that the mat- Suffice it to state that before land.

Air Company intends to establish Service Awards.

ter was only some minor scuffle. Capt. T: P. Hall, Mr. and Mrs permanent buses out East. his recent appointment His Excel- lency had Far Eastern associa There are two awards of the in the street-I have not lived in w, Hannibal, Mrs. W. F tions extending over many years. Grand Cross of the Most Honour-Hongkong as long as I have done Hamilton, Misses A and F Whilst in the Government serable Order of the Bath, these without learning how ready the Hamilton, Mr. P. M. Hodgson, Mr. vice in Hongkong previously being to

Chinese are to blow a police. S. Horsee, Mr. J. Scott Harston, the Land Court and Magistracy in Frederick Rudolph Lambars, whistle for the slightest reason-Ma Haldsworth, Mr. F. J. Halpine, the New Territories beyond Kow- Earl of Cavan, who has a dis-I turned over and went to sleep Capt. H. Hamilton, Mr. A. Hanson,

A few moments later,. loon knew him as well as the mutinguished Army career and has again. titudinous departments centred been Chief of the Imperial Gen-kowever, the blowing of police Mr. C. H. P. Hay, Mr. E. Haus- in Government Building. offeral Staff since 1922. He served whistles became so insistent that mann, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hender- Garden Road. During his last in the South African War and the I decided to get up and look out son

Mr. J. E. Joseph, Mr. O. C. Van two years in the Colony he Great War and commanded the of the window towards Des Voeux deputised as Colonial Secretary Guards Division. At the 1921 Road to see if I could ascertain de Jande. Mr. J. H. Johnstone, and was a member of the Execu-Washington Conference he was the cause

of the trouble. Not Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Joseph..

Mrs. J. J. Kearney, tive and Legislative Councils. head of the War Office section of being able to see anything there

Mr and Mrs. C. Lauritsen, Miss.

Philadephiu, January 1. Mr. Clementi was transferred the British delegation..

owing to the intervening build-

After ninety years! silence the 4o British Gulana in 1912, and Admirali Sir Alexanderings, I decided to return to. bed. Lillie, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Lacon;

Liberty Bell ring in the New on various occasions during his 10 (Ladovic) Duff who was Com-for another half hour's doze. But Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Langston, Mr.

Yer. The mayor's wife struck the yeurs service there administered mander-in-Chief, China Station, just then I heard the noise of A. Linbird the Government. Since 1922 be 1019-1922 and director of the people running in the small cer- Mr. C. M. McDonald, Mr. and bell with the golden hammer, her neted as Colonial Secretary in Mobilisation Division of the Ad-ridor outside. I opened the door Mrs. G. T. May.. Mr. F. T. May, light strokes being heard throughout Ceylon, which Colonial Island, in-miralty War Staff up to 1914. to find boys, coolies and amahs Mr. F. A. Mackintosh, Dr. J.the United States, by means of a cidentally, has proven a stepping He served throughout the Great hurrying down the adjacent ser- Marrison, Mrs. and Miss Mooney; wireless.

The bell, which is the sacred stone to better things for more War, with particular distinction vice staircase from my own floor Mr. A. Metholfe, Mr. A. G. than one present-day Hongkong at the battle of Jatland Bank. and the floor above. Wondering Maddren, Madame J. Musseboug,symbol of independence, was im- civil servant, including our ex- Created a Commander of the mildly what could be the reasonMr, C. de Mayda.

Most Honourable Order of the for this. I was about to close the Governor, Sir Edward Stubbs,

His Excellency, who is fifty Bath is Afr Vice-Marshal Sir door, when turning my head. I window at Geoffrey years of age, is a son of the late (William)

(Hanson) saw through the Celonel Montage Clementi, who Salmond who has been Air Mem- the end of the coridor the roof was Judge-Advocate General inber for Supply and Research since fully ablaze, the flames and India. In 1912 he married 1922. He served with distinc-smoke crackling and curling in a Marie, the daughter of Admiration with the Royal Artillerymanner that left no doubt as to C. 4. Eyres, and has one son and throughout the South African the seriousness of the fire. Feel

that I could War, in disturbances in China fing three daughters,

myself to help in and, again, throughout the Great do nothing

Mr. A. H. Rowe, Dr. E. C War, in the Royal Air Force. putting it out, owing to the

Other Awards,

hold it had already gained and to Ressig, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Rox- the inaccessible spot where it burgh, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Riddell, Appointed Honorary Comman- present title) ix always der of the Most Distinguished was blazing, I decided that my Mr. F. L. Reed Mr. R. Robertson, best course was to vacate my Miss C. Russell, Mr. W. Russell, -associated with any good Order of St. Michael and St. room as speedily as possible, lest Mr. H. P. Richardson, Mr. S. M.

work that requires to be dona, George is Tungku Ismail, of the flames quickly reach my Rees, charitable or educational, or with Johore.

room itself, or spreading in a Dr. H. Sommers, Mrs. John Merry Le Sage, lute managing assistance to the Government in!

Companions of this. Order ap-manner I could not foretell, cut Starke, Mr. T. S. W: Smith, Mr.editor of the Daily Telegraph, pointed are:-

off my escape down the service. A. Satosky, Mr. C. B. Shank, which he retired in 1923, Mr. William Peel, Penang..

stairs. Therefore I caught up Mr. C. Sibley, Mr: C. M. Sevan. after a distinguished career, as Mr. George Sansom: Tokyo. the garments nearest to my hand, Mr V. M. Smith, Mr. and Mrspecial correspondent and editor. seized a leather bag containing Solnbeck, Dr. R. L. Sutton, Mrs. He was nearly 80 years of age, hav- MURDER TRIAL.

important papers, and hurried O. Stryivskey and child downstairs to learn the extent of the fire. I found that opinions were divided as to whether the blaze would be got under contrat, Mr. G. Woessner, Mr. D: E.

Mr.

Sir Chow Shou-son. The name of the Hon. Chow Shou-son (Sir Chow Shou-! sou as may be assumed is his

such matters as the development of the resources of the Colony.

His interests in public affairs have been many and varied. In addition to his membership on the Council he is an unofficial justice of the peace and he has served in official capacity in almost every organisation for the pro- motion of the interest and welfare; of the Chinese in Hongkong.

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In his direction of banking and other concerns, Sir Chow Shou-

son has won his way to a high

success.

4.

PRISONER FOUND NOT GUILTY,

STATION "ALLEGATIONS.

or whether it would spread. This

Mr. A. Nissim, Mr. J. Nagara.. Mr.. J. E. Ollerton.

Reuter's American Service)

ported from England in 1762, was proclaimed a new ident of nation- hood in 1776, but in 1830 it was badly cracked aard apparently silenced for ever.

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Mr. R. H. Pope, Mr. J. Pappo. |į Mr. H.J. Pearce, Lt.-Com. and Mrs. C. R. Price. Mr. and Mrs. H. H Priestley. Mr. H. Pearman, Mr. J. W. Platt, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Percy, Major Peterson, Mr. T. R. SIR JOHN LE SAGE. Parker, Mr. G. H. Potts.

DEATH OF A PROMINENT

JOURNALIST.

(Router's Service.)

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London, January 1 The death is occurred of Bir

Lt. Col. and Mrs. Tukes, Mrs. B. ing been bora at Clifton on April Thompson, Madame T. Tain, Mr.23, 1837. H. W. Talbot,

Wood, Mr, B. Wylie, Mr. and Mrs.

being so I decided to have a shot J.-F. Wright, Mr. JF Wright, A farewell dinner to the Hon. at getting some things out of my Jr. Mr. G. Wagges, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher has been

under

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After a hearing extending into room. Accordingly I slipped some B: W., Weightman, Mr. T H. arranged by Chinese friends. It is pinnacle of financial and business eight days, a record for Hong-clothes over my pyjamas never Williams, Miss V. Walker, Mr. Larunged for the You Wo Restaur

Evidence of the im-kong courts, the Chinese fisher- had dreamt that I should do Waddell, Miss M. Waler, Mr. B. Kant, Queen's Road, at 8 p.m. portance that is attached to his man charged with the murder of such a thing in the public lounge Wallace..

January 2 commercial insight is

to be an Indian constable on the New of the Colony's leading hotel!- found in the fact that he is a Territory hillside was found not and made for the service stair-

Staled tenders in triplicate, which this director of several prominent guilty and discharged at the case again. However by

lis Excellency the Governor has should be clearly marked. Tender companies and his advice is fre- Criminal Sessions on Thursday. time it was clear to me that it

instructions from the for Clearing and forming Areas The Court sat until 7 p.m. in would be hazardous in the extreme quently sought by leading inter-

order that the case might be to venture up to the fourth floor Serdary of State for the Colonies, wast of Kowloon City Road, will ests in the Colony.

ab the Colonial finished in the "sitting."

so near the place where I myself been piensed to recognise, pro- be received New Peers.

The jury were excused from had seen the flames licking up all visionally, Mr. A. Methöfer as Vice-Sxratury's Office until Noon The New Year's Honours list further service for a period of before them, as it was now appar Consul for the Netherlands at Hong- Monday, the 180 any of January, includes the creation of two new two years.

ent that the fire was spreading | kong.—"Government Cluzette.** 1920, Government Gazette.”

When peers, viz., those of:-

The statement of the son of with alarming rapidity The Rt. Hon. Sit Ernest prisoner that he had been told some blackened glass and smould- Murray Pollock, Master of the that his father had shot a con-ering rubble fell into the alley-o Rolls, who was created 1st stable and had fled to Chinese way from a spot that I adjudged Baronet in 1922 and whose high territory was referred to in the to be unpleasantly close to the administrative posts have in- concluding evidence. The son cluded those of Attorney-General, stated that he had been "taught own, Its floor being my ceiling, 1 Solicitor-General, Chairman of

to make this statement by some- considered it wiser to desist from. the Contraband Committee and one whilst he was detained at any attempt to return upstairs Controller of the Foreign Trade Kowloon City police station.

A and re-enter a blind corridor. Department.

Chinese constable had beaten Therefore I betook myself down . Oranmore and Browne, him, he alleged.

Queen's Road Central to find a (Geoffrey Henry Browne

Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn (instructed place where I might buy a pair of Browne), (Irish peer), a member by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton for the shoes to replace the bath slippers of the Irish Convention, 1917-18 defence) spoke for two hours in which I had made my escape who was elected a Senator for after the conclusion of the evid- and which were by this time wet Southern Ireland, 1921 and who ence: The Attorney General ad- through..

was already a representative peer dressed the jury briefly. for Ireland He is now a baron of the United Kingdom,

Viscounties..

There are two elevations of Lords to Viscounties in the list, viz. those of

Lord D'Aberon, ambassador at Berlin since 1920, who has also

A CORRECTION.

Miss M. Dorothy Ray, who pass ed the Matriculation Examination of: Hongkong"; word "whose-Dame- appears on another page in"the, full examination, results, in

The jury were absent for about ten minutes and their verdict of not guilty was unanimous

SOCCER MATCHES.

roof of the room one above my

LIST OF RESIDENTS.":

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At Sookumpoo yesterday the C. P. Anderson Army beat the Navy in the annual Mrs. R. Bellillos, Capt. and charity football match by 4 goals Mrs. A. H. Bates, Mr. D. G. Besle, to T.

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