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SIX China Mail

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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1931...

KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE

Borderers now closed, and march ed to the junction of Chater and Murray Roads, whilst the band of the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, stood

YESTERDAY'S

DOLLAR. —-

The closing rate of the dollar on demand, yesterday, was 11d. .

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

through generation after genera. tion.

Long may it flourish!

Round The Town. After passing the Saluting Base,

BRILLIANT SCENES AT THE National Anthem, after which fast in readiness for the March the troops went for a route march,

CENOTAPH

the Guards of Honour came to "Order Arms," and His Excel- lency inspected them.

A Royal Salute. His Excellency then took up his position on the north side of

HUGE CROWD SEES “MARCH PAST" the Cenotaph.

H.E. THE GOVERNOR REVIEWS

THE FORCES.

HONG KONG ON HOLIDAY

To-day is the birthday of His Majesty King George V. And on this day Britons throughout the world will gather to do him

honour.

They do not assemble to render him mere lip-service; our Monarch is conscious of, and confident in, our unspoken loyalty.

But rather is the occasion one for the voicing of a simple expres- sion of friendship, and of the hope for the well-being of the kindly Ruler of one great family, the Chief of a scattered, homogeneous

clan.

Our message to His Majesty to-day conveys, too, reverence for the glorious Tradition of which he is the living symbol, to- gether with the firm assurance of ready and unsparing aid in times of difficulty or danger.

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YEARS ON THE THRONE

On the eastern side of the Cenotaph were the Consular Body, members of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and on

Post.

with their bunds, along the Praya Who could remain unmoved by to Bonham Strand, and returned such a wonderful spectacle as via Queen's Road to their respective this proved to be? Headed by a quarters,

At The Club. detachment of the Royal Navy,

Members of the long Kong Club' swinging along in truc workman- like manner,

detachments of and their friends viewed the parade the verandah, and at noon every unit of His Majesty's re-from

Hong drank the health of His Majesty. gular Forces serving in

past the Saluting Kong filed Base, together with a small de- tachment of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, headed by their own band.

Following the Royal Navy and Marines in the March Past came the Royal Artillery and Royal Corps of Signals, the HKS.B. Royal Artillery, the Royal Engineers, (In- cluding Chinese detachment), the Royal Army Ordinance Corps, the South Wales Borderers, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the Royal Army Service Corpe and Hong Kong Mule Corps, the Jat! Battalion, and the H.K.S., Royal Artillery, Mountain Battery, the Royal Air Force, and finally the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corpa.

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HUGE ITALIAN LOAN.

All Subscribed in the Country.

ASTOUNDING SUCCESS.

By courtesy of the Italian Cónsul-General in Hong Kong, the China Mail is able to announce that the Italian Government loan: for

3,000,000,000 Italian lire, which was opened for. subscrip tion on May 15 last, as fully sub- scribed in nine days (by May 23). On May 26, the closing day sat subscriptions, a further 1,000,000,000 had been received, making an aggregate of 4,000, 000,000 (about £40,000,000)!

for

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

AWARD FOR SIR C.

CLEMENTI.

MANY KNIGHTS

C.M.G. FOR NAVAL

COMMANDER.

London, Yesterday, The following Honours have been graciously awarded on the occasion of His Majesty's sixty- sixth birthday:—

Privy Councillors. The Earl of Athlone, K.G), G.C.B., G.CM.G., D.S.O., Gov ernor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1923 to 1931, the husband of Princess Alice of Albany,

(1922).

Sir Edward Elgar, Kt: (1904); Order of Merit.

It is stated that a very large proportion of the loan has been taken up by industrial workers, and those of the "small investor" class. Banks worked overtime Sir William Allen Jowitt, K.C. accepting applications, the result surpassing all expectations..

The Italian Government con- sider this astonishing result a proof of the trust and confidence reposed in them by the country. They look upon it as a sufficient answer to all rumours as to any Italian loan being floated abroad. Twenty-five Knights have been British financiers and financial created under the Birthday Hon-

Mr. Philip Henry Devilt, found. of the Nautical College at Pangbourne.

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An Inspiring Sight. It was a kaleidoscope of colour. the varied uniforms blending into a dazzling composite picture. The picturesque Highland tar- ta, and gleeming white spats :: the Western side members of the the soldierly khaki of the South Ex-Active Service Men's Asso-Wales Borderers; swarthy moun- ELECTORAL REFORM journals have passed much con- ours list, including Mr. Ben

Prince of Wales.

After

Duke of York.

ABOLITION OF PLURAL VOTING.

THIRD READING OF BILL

London, Yesterday.. The House of Commons to-day

The Argylls band played the march past for the Royal Navy, passed the third reading of the the Heavy Batteries, Royal Air Electoral Reform Bill, providing an alternative vote at Parliament- Force, and smaller units.

An inspiring thing to witness, aary elections and abolishing plural vision of beauty, and rhythm, and voting.

The voting was as follows:- harmony. Comrades all, united

For ... in one common and glorious

Against cause. A peep at that pageantry which has always been so dear to the heart of the Briton, which has been so proudly preserved

ciation, British Legion, Mercan-taineers from India; the brilliant tile Marine, Boy Scouts, Girl turbans and white tunics of the Guides, and St. John Ambulance Jats Pipe Band, the beautiful Brigade.

horses of the officers, and the The Royal Salute of 21 guns gleaming, sinister little guns of then commenced, fired from Mur- the Mountain Battery, dominated King George is 66 years old, Union Jack, which was in evid-ray Parade Ground by the 1st throughout by the martial strains to-day. He has just enteredence throughout the City, and Mountain Battery, H.K.S. Bri-of the military bands. upon the twenty-second year of troops of holiday-makers soon be- gade, Royal Artillery.

wend their way

to the the seventh, fourteenth, and final his reign; having acceded to the gan to

rounds of the Salute, and 1st Throne on May 6, 1919.

Cenotaph to witness the annual South Wales Borderers fired a review of troops by His Excel-feu-de-joie, following by the first lency the Governor, Sir William part, second part, and whole of

the National Anthem, respective Peel, K.B.E., K.C.M.G.

ly. The troops then removed The inspection, with its wealth their head-dress, and gave three of colour, brilliant uniforms, im- lusty cheers for His Majesty. posing ceremony, and machine- like precision of manoeuvre, is always one that appeals to the Chinese, who form no inconsider- to allay any fears that might able proportion of the spectators. Hong Kong in her Summer array, the ranks of marching men, the sun glistening on their bay- onets, passing the Monument to

Two years ago the Birthday Celebrations held a very special significance, as His Majesty wus then just convalescent after a grave illness that caused anxiety throughout the Nation. This year, too, the King's health has crused some uneasiness, but latest reports are happily such as

have existed.

Early this morning skies were dull, and there was a threat of rain in the air. Later,

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the skies cleared and Honga Nation's dead, frame against

Kong , began to assume the deep green of the towering The light Peak, capped by the clear blue its brighter garb. breeze stirred the folds of the sky, composed a picture that will

be an abiding memory.

Queen Mary.

Setting the Stage.

The Guards of Honour, con- sisting of two officers and 50 men of the Royal Navy, and a similar detachment of the 1st Batin. the South Wales Bor- derers, were first to arrive at the Cenotaph. They took up their places in Chater Road, facing the Cenotaph, the Royal Navy being on the right, and the South Wales Borderers on the left.

Batta.

The South Wales Borderers were then lined up in Connaught Road, facing the Cenotaph, the left flank resting on Jackson; Road. The Band, drums, and: fifes were on the right flank. The band of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highland- ers took up their position in Jackson Road, (outside the Hong Kong Club), facing the Cenotaph, with their centre due East of it.)

The Royal Naval "Detachment were scheduled to leave the Dockyard, to head the March Past, at the conclusion of the preliminary observances at the Cenotaph.

Arrival of the Governor. His Excellency the Governor arrived by 'motor car at the South side of the Cenotaph at 10 a.m., where he was met by the General Officer Commanding (Major-General J. W. Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G.D.S:0.), the Senior Naval Officer and the Commodore, (Captain A. H. Walker, O.B.E.); and, the Senior Officer, Royal Air Force, Hong Kong, and their staffs.

Upon the arrival of His Excel- lency the "Royal Salute-Present Arms" was accorded him; by the Royal Naval Guard of Honour, BS representative of His Majesty the King. The band of the 2nd Battn., Argyll and Butherland Highlanders then played the

The March Past. The band of the South Wales

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HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FIFTH who to-day celebrates his 66th birthday,

Knights.

gratulatory comment upon the Turner, O.B.E., J.P. Alderman. success of the venture, according

Order of Merit. ' to official Italian messages re-

Sir William Henry `Bragg, ceived here by the Consul K.B.E. General.

FACTORY LAWS.

HOW THE FAR EAST IS

CHANGING.

The International Labour Or ganisation of the League of Nations at Geneva has been cx- tremely gratified at the progress in

Dame Commander of the British Empire.

Miss Sybil Thorndike, the 'amous Shakespearean actress, who playeo, the leading role in Benard Shaw's historical drama, "St. Joan." She has also acted in many Grand Guignol plays at the Little Theatre.

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labour legislation now becoming BOLSHEVIST RISING IN

apparent in the Far East. The effect of the new Chinese Factory Law, the progress of the Japanese social laws and the new Indian Merchant Shipping Bill are indica- tions of the way in which the tide is setting.

INDO-CHINA.

Secret Plans to Attack Whole Country.

STATE OF UNREST.

Paris, Yesterday. The Bolshevist effort to stir up

At the beginning, as is only natural, the chief type of new law passed is humanitarian in charac ter. For instance, in Egypt, which is not a Member of the Interna tional Labour Organisation, stops natives had failed everywhere in

Indo-China

In are being taken to introduce a new French

except labour code with especial reference North Annam, which is in a con- to children. In a recent number tinual state of unrest, said M. Paul of the International Labour Review Reynaud, Minister of Colonies, In (the monthly publication of the speech before the Colonial Com- International Labour Office), there mittee of the Chamber, at which was an article by Dame Adelaide M. Pasquier, Governor-General of Anderson an child workers in French Indo-China, was present. " Egypt. Almost simultaneously M. Reynold read a telegram des- with this, news was received that cribing the Communist outragea in the Egyptian Government had set North Annam and mentioned that up a National Labour Bureau to 175 Communists were killed when

on Communist attack native enforce the decrees that have been a passed and to draft a

complete posts on May I was repulsed. He code of industrial legislation. also read a document found on a There are persistent rumours Communist arrested in Hanoi out- that in Persia, "new ordinances are lining the plans of a general Com-

to be promulgated by H. M. the munist attack without warning Shah and that copecially in the throughout Indo-China.-Reuter, province of Kerman, more attention

is to be paid to children's condi- tions in the carpet factories whe- ther on the large scale or on the small.

So far as ratifications of Inter- national Labour Conventions are any guide to the progress of the standard in industry, China has only sent in one, namely that of the Convention on Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery. Once the new Factory Act is in full operation it may prave possible to ratify others but ratification without enforce- ment is worse than useless and tends to bring the work of the I.LO. into disrepute. India has twelve ratifications to her credit and one more is pending. Japan follows close behind with eleven. The most recent that the Diet has accepted is that of the marking of the weight on heavy packages transported by vetiels.

Even Australia, in spite of all the Imitations of a system of Federal Government, has added two more to her singleton and now stands higher on the list with the total of three. But the member of the British Commonwealth of Nations that has done best is the Irlah Free State who has twenty to her credit. By slow degrees, the world's industrial standard of life la being raised by the work of the International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations.

Prince Henry.