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Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 10, 1931.

"It's News-Publish It."

Mr. A. Matsumoto, who is con- nected with Kokusai Shoji Kaisha, Osaka, is en route to Manila on a business trip. He is a passenger on the s.s. President Lincoln now In port.

Mr. F. M. Frenlice, manager of the Alexander Young Hotel. Hono lulu, is a passenger on board the s.s. President Lincoln now, in port. He is accompanied by Mrs. Pren- tice. They are making a pleasure tour of the Orient.

MONDAY, AUGUST

VISCOUNT GREY.

'Definite Liberal Party's .Policy.

SUPPORT GOVERNMENT:

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1931.

`THORBURN AFFAIR.

Dead Body Found?

AT SOOCHOW.

Shanghai, Saturday. shek's order yesterday for a full Following Marshal Chiang Kai.. and careful investigation of the Thorburn

affair, vernacular Papers this morning print re- ports, declaring that. Thorburn's body has been found at Soochow known. So far both Chinese and but the cause of death is un-

of this report. British officials lack confirmation

Rugby, Saturday.' Defining his personal view of the policy of the Liberal Party in the Heuse of Commons in a speech last Whilst bathing in a big pond night Lord Grey of Fallodon said, near Kong Ming Terrace at 50 that' at the beginning of the 'pre- o'clock yesterday afternoon, Chausent Parliament Liberals felt that Hung (39), stated to be a stone the present Government, with breaker living at 16. Front Row, whose Fiscal and Foreign and Bay View district, was accidental Indian policy Liberals were in ly drowned. The body was later agreement, should be supported. recovered and conveyed to the

As regarded Foreign and Indian Publie Mortuary.

affairs, they still felt there was no reason for any change of Govern- The forthcoming marriages are ment but, that on the contrary, the British Consulate fail to con announced of Daniel Victor Maher, Foreign and Indian affairs and firm reports that young Thor- Lighthouse Keeper, Harbour De-auch questions as Disarmament burn's body has been found, no partment, and Olga Vivian Singson, had been handled by the Prime such report having been received of 8, Yue Kwong Terrace, Hong Minister and the Foreign Secretary by either authorities. Reuter. Kong: and of Andries Bakker, of with patience and skill and ability.

8, Edward Ezra Road, Shanghai, and Margaret Mary McCue, of 971, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai.

Seriously injured. whilst engaged in moving a large case near the

Hong Kong Electric station, 2 coolic, Chan Kau, of 8, Tai Wo Street, was removed to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital on Saturday. He refused to be attended there. Yesterday he was re-admitted, and diedut 3 o'clock this morning.

Mr. Ernest Schoedsack and Mr. Gustav Schoedsack. whose numes are associated with that great film of wild animal life-"Chang”— passed through Hong Kong during the week-end on the 3.8. Presi- after months of acrimonious cor- dent Adams. They are bound for respondence and mutual threats Batavin, where they propose to go of litigation, the Editor scored a into the jungle to film another wild professional triumph-at the animal life picture. cost of seeking for a new posi-- tion where the rights of an Editor would be rigidly respected.

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The law of the Press is The President Lincoln will sail peculiar unto itself and, with for Manila at midnight to-day. due deference. it may

be snid that very few members of the legal profession outside such laiminaries as Ogden and Scrut-

ton

The German Consul will hold an official reception to-morrow in the German Club from 11.45 to 12.30.

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Government in domestic affairs and was more critical, of the

Nanking, Saturday. Both the Foreign Office and

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in particular he expressed the view A MISSING AIRMAN. that the danger of the financial position was so real, that the Liberal Party should oppose all in- of public expenditure. trenses (Message Incomplete). British Wireless Service.

FRIENDLY TALKS.

Many Things

"Discussed,

VISIT CONCLUDED.

Not Heard of Since

Leaving Peking.

ANXIETY FELT.

Nanking, Saturday

Sir Miles Lampson has not yet left Nanking owing to the non- arrival of Count de Slbour. It had "bean arranged that the Comtat should pilot the British Minister to Peking.

Rugby, Saturday. Count de Sibour is reported to The Prime Minister and his have hopped off from Peking before daughter, Miss Ishbel MacDonald, five this morning to keep the ap to-day 'concluded their two days' pointment In Nanking at nnon.

Ordinarily the journey occupies visit at the century-old farmhouse Shibererons in Sutherland, Scot-eight hours, but there was no pews land, as guests of the American) of the Count late this afternoon. Secretary of State and Mrs. Stim- Some anxiety is being felt. Pro- vided Count de Sibour arrives to- Mr. Stimson and Mr. MacDonald morrow Sir Miles will then leavo had a long talk yesterday morning for Peking-Reuter,.

[Sir Miles Lampson had gone to and, after luncheon, drove to Dornochto to attend the Highland Nanking in connection with the Games where the Prime Minister Thorburn case.] presented the prizes.

son.

The Prime Minister, when ques- The annual meeting of the Hong tioned, said that in his conversa- are really familiar with Kong & China branch of the Bri-tions with Mr. Stimson, which

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it. Therefore, it is little cause for tish League will be held on Thurs-ranged over many subjects, the wonder that the general public day at 5.15 p.m.

financial situation was naturally flounder so

discussed, but the conversation easily when they criticise an Editor, for either South Wales Borderers will give a have no political significance. Con- The regimental band of the was entirely unofficial and could friendly publishing or refusing to publish concert in the Botanical Gardens versations were purely an item of "news." The Editor, on Monday next.

talks British Wireless Service. right or wrong, is the sole arbiter A Cadillac motor cár

VERY LUCKY ESCAPE Air Liner Forced Down in Kent.

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of that, and no clamour or agita-auctioned by Lammert Brothers on tion to the contrary can have the Thursday at noon. slightest effect.

Apart from these impromptu reflections, it may be said that the Editor of "Scandal Sheet" is not truly typical of American

journalism, in spite of the repu- tation of its members as export] news-gatherers, sensational and

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ALLEGED THEFT.

Attempt to Rob a

In "Scandal Sheet," recently

otherwise. An Editor has to screened in the King's Theatre, local audiences were given, a

look beyond individuals and per- crisp and unusual satire of sonalities. He has in an instant Chinese,

American journalism which is a

Student.

NO CASUALTIES:

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LESSON SERMON.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong.

· "Spirit” was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ,

on Scientist,

Sunday,

August 9.

The Golden Text was:-"If we live in the Spirit, lat us also walk

in the Spirit." (Gal. 5: 25)..

Among the cltations which com- prised the Leason-Sermon was the following-from-the-Bible:God-is-

a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." (John 4; 24.)

Love, the universal, bal's tail which caught the tele- cause, the only creator, and there The is no other self-existence. He is graph wires and pulled off. machine has brakes so can land in all-inclusive, and is reflected by all the smallest field. Reuter.

London, Saturday, Eightceh passengers en route to

The Lesson-Sermon also Includ- Paria from Croydon had a lucky escape when "Hannibal," the big the following passage from gest and most luxurious air liner the Christian Selence textbook, was forced to land "Science and Health, with Key to in the world, in Kent owing engine the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Weng Kai-sang, an unemployed trouble. One out of the four pro- Eddy:-"Everything in God's uni- appeared before Mr.pellers dropped off. There was no verse expresses Him. God is indivi to gauge the possible effect of Fraser at the Kowloon Police panic and no casualties. A tele-tal, incorpercal: Tie is divine trifle surprising creation for even a harmless looking news Court tis morning on a charge of graph post was broken by "Hanni-Principle,

item on the community as

stealing a leather wallet containing- American film producers. The

$11.10 from Wallace Wong. whole. It were better far to lose "hero". was an Editor whose

On behalf

of the accused. Mr. one scoop than to betray his own M. A. da Silva entered a plea of slogan was "It's News: Publishi home town. It can be no satis-not guilty." SHINE OR

It." Cold-blooded and callous, he faction to be responsible for student from the Lingnam Univer The complainant, who is a cared not of the tall of life for creating a public panic in times sity, Canton, was going through the SPOT.

which his policy way responsible. of trouble and unrest. Get and turnstile at the Star Ferry Wharf,

(Continued from Page 7.) He was indifferent to the shatter-publish "honest-to-goodness" Kowloon, when he felt a pull at his

The Chairman's reply with re- ing of homes and reputations. news by all means, but be loyal to pocket. Looking round he saw ference to the telegram received SUITS, GOWNS He was heedless even of the good

his wallet lying on the ground.

from certain influential Share- your own constituents is a much

The affair was witnessed by holders, is exactly in the terms ex- name of his own wife. All were saner slogan than "If it's newa, Star Ferry ticket examiner, who pected, especially the part in which sacrificed on the grim altar of publish it." With rare exceptions called the attention of Mr. J. Betty, he states that the Office Staff are his profession. The only redeem this is the policy that actuates Mr. Beatty took the map to the not the Indo-China Steam Naviga- the Ferry inspector, to the incident, employed by the General Managers,

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The case is proceeding.

Says Miss Amy Johnson.

ing feature was that he stuck re the great majority of British Police Station. solutely to his principle and his journalisis, whose high standard right as Editor, defying even has ever been a model for the his own publisher and owner when the latter sought to dictate whole world. Sensationalism what should not be published, and all that it involves can be left to the gutter Press who care even if it were "news,"

not if lives are lost, homes shat tered, and reputations wrecked, if only, they can increase their circulation the sole barometer of a newspaper's progress. That is not journalism as it is known burning tople of the day, only to and practised by the British

The incident reminds us of an. other that happened "somewhere east of Suez twenty-six years | ago. An Editor, published some scathing correspondence on a

be confronted by his own Board members of the Equrth Estate

of Directors with a demand for the writer's name. Latters to the Editor being sancrosant, it would have been a gross breach

at Home and Overseas...

News in Brief.

VERY BUSY DAY.

FLOATING STAFF.

that is real and eternal and by no- thing else. He fills' all space," and It is impossible to conceive of such omnipresence and individuality ex- cept as Infinite Spirit or Mind. Hence all is Spirit and spiritual.' (p. 331.)

Ten Years Ago,

[From the "Chinm Mall” of August 10, 1921.) ·

To-dayle dollar is worth 2/8 %.

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tion Co., Ltd., and are paid out of the Management Commission; A What he did not tell the Sharehold- The flag of the Hong Kong & I LOATHE DANCING.ers, however was that certain em- Shanghai Bank was lown at half

ployees of

ie General Manageremast yesterday out of respect to Staff rece a yearly commission Mr. Alan Balean, news of whose on the earnings of the Indo-China death at Home wue contained in a Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. which enbio received yesterday by his remtimes amounts to more than brother, Dr. H. Balean.. The de their salary! If the General ceased, who was 39 years of age, Managers can afford to pay com- had been in, the employment of the mission over and above salary, to Bank for 17 years and since the certain of their employees out of outbreak of the war had been sta the General Management Commis- tioned la Hong Kong, where he lat sion the Shareholders referred to terly held the position of sub-as- were not very far wrong when they countant. Mr. Balean was in in- suggested a reduction.

different health when he went In conclusion Members of the Home on twelve months' leave Inst Guilds have acted with considera- September and the tubercular dis- tion for the interests of the Share case from which he suffered caus- holders in the Indo-China Steam od his death: The deceased was a Navigation Co., Ltd, and have now popular figure in Hong Kong and every right to expect retrenchment the news of his passing away will effected by the General Managers in be received with genuine regret în other directions.

many circles.

Tokyo, Saturday." Miss Amy Johnson had a vary busy day. In the morning she went shopping and had invitations

dance in the evening.. to luncheon, tea, dinner and

"I hope there will be no more dances, I loathe dancing and haven't danced since my flight to Australia" 15

Next week Miss Johnson goes to One Chinese case of typhoid Chuzonil to spend several days in the writer, the Editor stolidly fever was notified during the the Summer home of the Lindioys. declined to divulge it. In the end, week-end,"

of confidence to have betrayed

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