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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1930.

POPPY DAY..

EARL HAIG'S BRITISH LEGION

APPEAL FUND.

FOR EX-SERVICEMEN.

GUY FAWKES DAY.

ENJOYABLE CARNIVAL IN KOWLOON.

HELENA MAY WORK.

better case headed policy of old been pur- sued. The Labour Party has among its ranks men of a new school of diplomacy, stronger, of greater foresight, and more dog)

Halg's Fund, which is perhaps The Guy Fawkes Carnival held ged in the pursuit of their prin ciples, but less, narrow in out- the most important contribution in aid of the Kowloon Branch of look, than anyone obtaining in to post-War philanthropy, is apthe Helena May Institute, proved the lists of the Tories. The elecproaching the loss of the first de- to be an unqualified success. The

cade of its useful life.

weather was propitious, and there Instituted by the late Lord Heig was a very large attendance bath, torate of Great Britain has, a qulet confidence in Mr. Macacon after the end of the War, the in the afternoon and the evening. Donald and his Party, and it is Fund has as its main object the The fete was formally opened alleviation of distress amongst ex-by Lady Peel at 8. p.m., previous most unlikely that any section of Service men of all ranks, their to which the Hon. Mr. E. R. the public is willing at the mo-dependants, and the widows and Halifax had explained its object

and alma. ment, that the Government should orphans of these who fell,

In its 3,026 voluntary benevolent 'Lady Peel, was later presented

which committees go to the country. At a delicate

function with a bouquet by Miss Gwennyth time as the present; such a move throughout the Country, the Fund Lloyd Jones, and also inspected a would be to court disaster and has a relief organisation of con- company of the Kowloon Girl ruin the prospects of a peaceful siderable importance and useful- Guides.

Helena May History. ness, and so long as the necessary

The Hon. Mr, Halifax, in his funds are forthcoming this or settlement of all, our disputes.

ganisation can, be relied upon to address, referred to the generosity. befriend and assist in every way of Sir Ellis Kadoorie and Mr. Ho possible those of the ex-Service Kem-tong, in connection with the community who are in need. foundation of the Hong Kong Haig's Fund, with all its respon- branch of the Institute. It bore aibilities, has no assured income the name of Lady May, and from a circumstance which should be the beginning its existence had deplored by every thinking man been more than Justified. It had. and woman. Its annual income-been such a success that an ex- derived mainly from the sale of tension to Kowloon had been de Flanders Poppies and Church Col-elded upon. lections, has necessarily to be re Mr. Ho Kom-tong had again garded as a fluctuating one, depen- come forward, and added $1,000 his previous donations, and dant on the clemeney or otherwise to

News in Brief.

The annual general, meeting of the, Ex-Active Service Men's As sociation is advertised to take place in the Club Rooms 17, Queen's Road Central, to-day, at 6 p.m.

The engagement is announced of Thelma, elder daughter of Mr., and Mrs. G. W. May, Hong Kong, to Horst, son of the late Mr. Her man Heitmeyer and Mrs. Herman Hitmeyer, of Remscheid, Rhineland. Mr. M. Manuk will speak on "Happiness-the Goal" at the usual fortnightly public lecture of the Theosophical; Society, (Hong Kong Lodge), at 7, Queen's Road Central, to-day at 6 pm«

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of the weather on November 11, Mr. Tang Shiu-kin had subscribed the prevailing economic conditions, $500. The Institute itself had and the degree of sympathy in provided the other funds, and' tue which the ex-Service community is Kowloon branch was now a going held by the subscribing. public; concern, with over 100 members.

$5,000 Wanted. and so far as the last consideration

Mr. Hallifax quoted the secre- is concerned it is. unhappily a common fallacy in these days to tary of the Institute as saying was to con- the War recedes that if the branch believe that as into the past, so must the need of tinue, there was immediate need the War's survivors grow less,

of $5,000 for running expenses That was the object The present state of industry in next year. ing that he would vote against A report by the Hon. Mr. A. E. the British Isles le not at all an of the carnival

Fun of the Fair. Secretary for Chinese encouraging one, and it'la reflected the Government in spite of con- Wood,

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The China Mail siderations of tactics, which ap- Affairs, to the Police astifies the in the largely increasing claims

exccadingly pears, sub rosa, to be a sly tilt at of a leather golf jacket, which for assistance made on the Fund were a number of interesting side-

stolen from his motor-car by distressed ex-Servicemen and shows, which wore Mr. Lloyd George. As the Gov- while it was parked at the Star their families. It is estimated well-patronised, and several stalls attracted much custom. that upwards of 400,000 of the men which in advance. Local delivery free]ernment had pledged its support- Ferry; on October 25 last.

who fought for the Empire during The band of the 3rd Battalion of ers to proceed with the Trade

This morning at 230 o'clock the War are now, through no fault the 15th Punjabi Regiment play Disputes Amendment Act this Tong Po-chan (20), a married wo-of their own, without employment, ed during the earlier part of the session, Sir John Simon's letterman residing on the second floor of and with their familles and other afternoon, and later the combin has had the effect of raising the 3, United Terrace, Homentin, was dependants, are suffering very reated pipers of the 2nd Battalion of question of the Government's removed to the Kwong Wah Hos-distresa. Their need will be the Argyll and Sutherland High- future and the Labour Party is pital, suffering from injuries which greater during the coming Winter, landers, and the 15th Punjabis re- Miss Violet Capel's pupils gave the received through accidentally and Haig's Fund must be assured lieved them.

B of adequate funds to help them. said to be preparing for a possible falling from her window into

Haig's Fund, therefore, appeals a very attractive dancing display, sudden "crisis," involving even a garden below.

most carnestly, for very generous and "The Lilliputians" were high- akilled exponents of modera General Election,

Charged at the Central Magis-support on November 11, when y Whilst it is unlikely that thei

trady this morning before Mr. Flanders Poppies will be sold in "jazz,"

Later an excellent concert, was Work of British Legion. given, in which local artistes col- fall of the Government will occur RE. Lindsell with the unlawful remembrance of those who fell.

Rellef of Distress.-Since 1921 laborated with the regimental in the near future, especially possession of 1.6 taels of prepared whilst the Imperial Conference opiuro, a Chinese argued that al-

acute distress have been tem- Highlanders.

A firework display and torch- and the Indian Round Table Con-though there were 80 pots of the approximately four million cases of band of the Argyll and Sutherland

drug, each pot contained only 3.6

porarily alleviated, this section of ference are in progress, the points candareens. After calculat

the expenditure of no less than enjoyable. fuletion. position is disturbing for Labour, ing it, Mr. Lindsell told the de-the Fund's work alone involving light procession wound up a very who may or may not have earned fendant that the result was a tac £1,438,682 108. 1d. Esch case bas to what the Government been investigated on the spot by the invective of Sir John Simon Analyst had stated in his certificate. one or another of the voluntary

benevolent committees of The biggest issue with which the However, defendant. then said that Government has had to deal dur- he did not mean that each pot cou- British Legion, over 3,000 of which ing its term of office has been the tained 3.6 candareens, but that each now operate throughout the coun-

pot of the drug was worth only |try. problem of the unemployed, and five centa. Els Worship' Imposed Migration Assistance, has been the fact that this economic evil a fine of $150 with the alternative rendered to facilitate the resettle- has not been ameliorated cannot of six weeks Jall with hard Inbour be attributed entirely to the in- efficiency of the Government. Unemployment

felt.. 18, being

in the world, throughout America, perhaps, far more than

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TOBACCO EXPERIMENTS.

Effect Of Radium Treatment,

the

ARMISTICE DAY.

SERVICE IN ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

We are asked to draw the atten

ment in the Dominions of 8,126 tion of our readers to the Armis | men," women and children, for tice. Day Commemoration Service

whom

this country offered no which will be held in Et. John's future, save continued unemploy Cathedral at 9.45 am.

ment and hardship. Of this num There seems to be some mis- ber 90 families (450 souls in all) understanding owing to the fact have been given agricultural train-that the service at the Cenotaph Is ing before departing overseas, to be of a more 'religious character.

tuberculous AX-

in any other country, and its

The origin and relationships of being entirely equipped and main than usual Although we would hesitate to cause has been attributed to the the tobacco plant were described by talced by the Britlah Legion dur The scrvice in the Cathedral at 9.40a.m. will not be an official Tuberculosis. The British service, though H.E. the Governor call it a crisis, a political situs spell of economic depression from Professor T. H. Goodspeed in an ing the period of training, tion of considerable gravity is which the whole world is suffer address given in the Forestry Sec Legion possesses in Preston Hall, will be present and the Order of being created at Home, and the ing. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald tion, of the British Association.

Wild apsies related to the to what is generally considered to be Service will be approximately the clouds of dissension amongst made a startling suggestion the bacco plant, he said, occurred in one of the finest examples of sana same as last year. It will be

Country. This members of the Liberal Party other day when he stated that in America and Austrails, and it seem torium plus settlement in the Anished by 10.20 a.m. already

ominous dustrial international agreements ed that the tobacco plant had been service men's colony, familiarly carry an

widely distributed along trade rumble. The Labour Party has accounted for much unemployed tribes in Africa, the known as the British Legion Vil-

Inge, comprises an up-to-date of this fact, an arrangement has weathered such storms before, ment in Britain and generally Orient, and the Eastern Archi and experience tells us that it hampered our trade. Be that the pelago. It was doubtful on this anatorium, a Training Centre and been made whereby St., Dunstan's takes something in the nature of radical cause of unemployment account if the original home of the a Village Settlement, and has a receive a percentage of the sum tobacco plant could be determined, total population at the present contributed by the public In a Zinicvoff letter to disturb the or not, it is the result of cumult but the plant might have come from time of 700 persone. response to the Remembrance Day Housing, £75,000 has been ex- Appeal for Haig's Fund. Under equanimity of the electorate; tive evils and cannot be expect the mountains of Central or South yet the Government has been ed to be eradicated in a few America. Experiments in crossing pended in putting up houses in this arrangements binded er wild relations of the tobacco plant various parts of the country, Service men have, up to the present which are let. at moderate rentals time. directly benefitted from relying very largely upon the months. support of the Liberals for the In regard to other issues, the suggested that the cultivated plant to disabled ex-Service men who are Haig's Fund to the extent of was a hybrid, perhaps derived from Buccess of some of the sweeping Government have been severely the natural crossing of wild plants definitely unable to procure other £35,000

within their means the organisation has secured many measures and reforms by means criticised ever since they assume of distinct species. The tobacco suitable accommodation at rents General Assistance. Since 1991, of which it hopes to rejuvenate ed office, and one has only to re-plant had been found to be very

sensitive to exposure to treatment Employment Apart from the beneficent reforms and concessiona Britain's shaky economic and in-call the Coal Mines Bill dispute, by X-rays and radium 11 develop special efforts made by the Head-in regard to Great War Pensions} dustrial position, and the split in and the political crisis that it ing sex cells of the plant were quarter and Area Employment expert advice has been given to ex the Liberal Party last night over nost precipitated, the treaty irradiated and seeds afterwards de Bureaux, each one of the Legion's Service men and their dependants veloped, these seeds when sown gare 8.442 Branches strive to find em- in approximately 360,000 cases, the Trade Disputes Law, result negotiations with Egypt, these to plants which might be very ployment or create work for unem and over 60,000 pensioners have: ing from cross voting among decision to discontinue the con- different from their parents, where ployed ax Service man, and thelf been oficially represented before

Singapore the leaders, can only be regarded stru

vál as, seeds from untreated plants gave combined efforts in this direction the Appeals Tribunals. In addi Gort of plants as the bave produced eminently satisfaction, many thousands of ex-Service me and dependants have bene- tory results refusal to assist

Employment of Disabled Men fitted by fres-legal advice and

Manufacture of the Poppies assistance.MAI

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