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The China Mail closed the meeting-places of the
Hong Kong, Munday, Aug. 17. 1931.
Spain and Ulster.
Mahatma, nor the Congress, can ignore the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce.
A rather parallel position exists to-day in Cuba, according to a Havana correspondent, who main- tains that bankers in the U.S.A.the are really at the bottom or at the back of the revolutionaries..
Floods.
The reports of the floods in China make distressing reading. and the sympathy of the Colony, no doubt, will be materially and substantially expressed in dae course. Few realise what a flood disaster actually means. And usually, those who fare most bad- ly are those who can the least afford to face such a dalamity. In the case of the Yangtsze floods this year, they are of a magnitude ex- cceding those of more recent years, and it is no exaggeration to aay that they are a calamitous national disaster. The Chinese Emergency Flood Relief Commis- sion has not been too soon institut- ed, and it is decidedly n step in the right direction. It has before it a colossal piece of labour to`per-1 form. That it succeed. will be the wish of all.
Further away from here comes news to-day of doods in Mexico, where disease has broken out and alrendy claimed 200 children As victims, and where widespread de- vastation has occurred.'
-News-in-Brief.
in
The regimental concert Botanical Gardens to-night been postponed.
The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 78 degrees. humidity was 84 at 10 am and 87 at 4 p.m.
MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1931.
CLAIM FOR
ASSETS.
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claimants should have an op- portunity, whether the merits of the case as ret out by me appeal to the Court or not, to state their case before the Chief Jus- tice."
Liquidator's Rejection. Mr. Shekion then referred to the formal communication of the claims by the creditors, and their
Q.M.S. HILL.
Sudden Death in Military Hospital.
A KEEN SPORTSMAN.
We regret to report the death of Quartermaster Sergeant William S. Hill, who passed away in the Military Hospital at Bowen Road yesterday at 6 p.m. after a very short illness.
Mr. H, who was'n Sergeant in
rejection in a reply made by the Liquidator. The reply indicated that evidence in support should be produced within seven days, the H.K.S.B.R.A., 5th Heavy Bat- This counsel contended was in-tery, was about 39 years of age. was removed to the Military sufficient time, and gave rise to He the request for an adjournment, Hospital on Saturday suffering from which was refused by the Chief an illness which was not diagnosed.
Justice, in Chambers.
He leaves a wife and a son aged .10 years.
That, repeated Mr. Sheldon,
Sergeant Hill came to the Colony was his whole point. He asked late in 1927, and was exceedingly Their Lordships to decide in Inwell known in local aporting circles. vour of appellants, that they He was a member of the Referees' should have an opportunity to ob- Association, and last year was a tain the evidenc, and then pro-Kowloon Football Club, being close. ceed with the hearing of theirly connected with all the ventures claims.
held by the Club. He was also a member of the R.A.0.B. (Sincerity Lodge).
Circumvention.
member of the Committee of the
Mr. Jenkin, in reply, said:— The refusal of the learned Chief Having 18 years' service in the Justice to grant an adjournment R. A. Sergeant Hili was awarded was based, I think, in large measure the Long Service Medal, and his upon circumstances which I placed denth will be mourned by a large before-himehowing that the number of colleagues.
Mrs. J. S. Landolt.
application to file these proofs by The funeral will take place this these crediton was a very thinly-afternoon at 4.30. the veiled attempt on the part of the has Chinese liquidators in Shanghai to
circumvent the
It is with the deepest regret that effect of previous decisions of the Court. Eight the China Mail records the death of latter throughout Italy, and in
different attempts have been made Mrs. Landolt, wife of Mr. J. S. The by those liquidatora to get money Landolt, of the Purchasing De- Rome their archives were taken
from the Hong Kong assets into partient of the Canadian Pacific. away for scrutiny, with the idea
China, and on one occasion I be Railway...
Your Lordships lieve, into Paris.
Mrs. Landolt died at the French that they would yield evidence of anti-Fascism... The Vatican
Correspondence relative to the should bear in mind that the sum Hospital, following an operation. temporary absence from the Colony mons was heard on May 8 last. She had not been in the best of issued orders that the Bishops of Mr. F. C. Hall will be held at the Creditors had had more than three health for some time. should take over the manage- Sanitary, Board meeting to-morrow: months in which to obtain support- widower, there is a small son, ngeu ment of the branches of the
ing evidence, and it could have been three, left to mourn her less. Catholic Action, a manœuvre in-
Had any ap- got in that time.
Mrs. Landolt had very many tended to make it more difficult
plication been made to the Court friends in the Colony. She was the during that me I have no doubt daughter (Cynthia) of Mr. A. E for the civil authorities to inter-
it would have been granted."
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week-ended August 1 amounted to 100,962 tons, and the sales during the period to 98,033 tons.
The suggestion is not made that there is any direct, or in- direct, association between the trouble brewing in the of coun- try. and already broken out in the other. The Empire of the Armada and the Province of the Irish Free State are bracketed together because the trouble is of a religious nature in both is fairly safe to say, lead to carried out by the French sloop tinued:
casea.
vene.
This secret rivalry was bound to lead to a clash, and it will, it
good many more in the future. Both parties are ambitious of all the power they can get, and they will always be quietly engaged in tussle with each other which will now and again break out into
In Spain trouble is brewing be- cause of the impending clash between the Church and State, What form it will take, the next few days will reveal. It will be a quarrel. expected that the Church, as it
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Nine Attempts in All Mr. Jenkin. added that this was
Besides the
Tavares, for many years connected Ross and with th firm of Alex.
She was about S0 years of Co.
be creditors' niuth attempt, and con-age.
I wish to submit on these
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It is notified at the Harbour Office that firing practice will
The funeral, it is understood, will Regulus at Ga Tau rock in Mirs facts that this action is a subter- take place this evening at 5.45.
Mr. H. Somervail, Bay during the week commencing fuge, made by using, the names of to alleged 'preferential creditors, to-day.
get assets into the hands of the It is with regret that we re Correspondence relative to the Chinese liquidatgra. They have cord the sudden death, after a application for the registration of exhausted every legal channel, and short illness, of Mr. H. Wardlaw Then Somervail, of the Callender's No. 8, Morrison Hill Road, ground were defeated in every case. floor, as a dairy will be submitted they bethought themselves of this Cable and Construction Co., Ltd. Neither party, however, is de at the Sanitary Board meeting to matter of preferential creditors. He took ill on Wednesday and These people are attempting to go passed away in the Peak Hospital at five into this liquidation, which has now on Saturday afternoon has always done, will furiously sirous of pushing, matters to a
As the result of a fall down the been current for nearly five years, o'clock. uppose any such restriction asset which would be injurious to
of preferential News of his death the Radical Party in Spain seeks both, and they will continue to stairs from the first ficer of 16, in the guise to impose upon it. It will be re- quarrel and he reconciled until First Street, a woman, Kwon-yan, creditore. Such an allegation must as a great shock to his many
aged 68 years, injured her head be very gravely doubted by Your friends.
Mr. Somervail came to the grettable if
such opposition the day comes - as it probably and was taken to the Government Lordships. causes bloodshed, but it is hoping will sooner or later when the Civil Hospital.
The President (Sir Peter Grain); Colony in July, 1980, for the Your point, I take it, is that the Callender's Cable and Construc- too much of Spain to expect it to Fascist regime is visibly break-
The Naval Armament Supply Chief Justice was quite right in tion Co., Ltd., to take charge of be a bloodless struggle.
ing down and the Vatican thinks oficer has informed the Harbour refusing this adjournment, because the erection of the 22,000 volt Master that a small quantity of the application Was eb obviously transmission line in the New fireworks will be fired for proof useless that it was no good continu-Territories. purposes at the Stonecutter's rifle ing with the matter-Yes, range on Wednesday morning
Mail Commentary.
Gandhi and London,
In Ulster the trouble is. be- it can make a better bargain tween Catholics and Protestante, with some new force in Italy. As and unhappy incidents have alyet, that day has not come, ready to be recorded against the though there are signs that dis- one or other faiths. The Catho-content is smouldering under the the Fasci, lice, it would seem, set the fire surface and that alight by the loving up of authorities are tending to rely bridge, in order to interfere with more upon fear in lieu of the an assembly of Orangemen. On popular enthusiasm they former Saturday, it would seem, the Pro-ly commanded. testants (though it has not yet been proved to them) held up a goods train, derailed the engine and blocked the line to Armagh, where the Catholics were to have
"I'must not sail for London," In held a meeting. And, to-day, the cable records numerous acts of what the Mahatma is reported to have said the other day. It may hooliganism, and one more seri have been truer had he said, "I am ous, in which a Catholic widow's not allowed to sail for London."
Mahatma Gandhi is today, a shop was burned down..
grent force in Indian national life. These outbreaks of religious He is a force not to be ignored. fanaticism are greatly to be de-But he is not the force be used to plored, especially in the Chris- be a few years ago. Much of his tian Church, which seeks to teach influence, has been usurped by the to men and women of other faiths millionaires of the Bombay Presi
dency. It is they who, having that which it fails so signally it paid the piper, take good care to self to practise.
day to see they call the tune to which they wish their brothers to In writing the foregoing we have dance. not forgotten the incident a It will be remembered that, on couple of months ago between Tuesday of last week, the Federa- Mussolini and the Vatican in re-tion of Indian Chambers of Com-
merce, for a puerile reason, decid gard to the Catholic Action move-ed to boycott the Round Table The next day the ̈ment. Not only was there, more Conference.
or less public rioting between the Working Committee of the Indian National Congress followed galt, young Fascisti and the youth of but astutely advanced another rea-
Lord.
came
Although only 31
My years of age Mr. Somervail was greatly experienced in this par- In fact it was really the case ticular class of work, and had Mr. V. Shewaran, proprietor of that the application was bound to spent many years in charge of the Pioneer Silk Store, left by the fall? That is so. Empress of Canada for Japan on
Late in the Day. 'a business trip to inspeet the
,
the similar construction in Soudan and the West Coast of Africa,
tana.
branches in Yokohama and else- Mr. Jenkin further submitted
He was engaged to be married where in the North. Mr. V. that this was not a really bona-fide and was due to sail for Home Rupchand is now manager of the application. The applicants had· Pioneer Silk Store pending. hla re
never regarded themselves as pre- on Satrady by the s.8. Rajpu turn.
ferred. creditors. The record over A large number of mourners nearly five years, in.this liquidation, attended the funeral at Happy Correspondence relative to the had not even hinted of there being Valley yesterday. The Rev. E. G. appointment of a Select Committee any preferred creditora at all, Powell, of the Union Church, be- to advise the Board in the matter either in Hong Kong, or. Shanghai. ing the officiating clergyman....... of exemptions and modifications Three or four of these creditors from all or any of the conditions had branch offices in Hong Kong laid down in by-law of the by-laws and did know, of the liquidation governing food-preserving estab here, and if so, of their right, were lehments will be read at the fort they preferred creditors, to prove nightly meeting of the Sanitary that. Board to-morrow.
Ten Years Ago.
From the "China Mail" of
August 17, 19213
Today's dollar is worth 2/8.
"If these people were really pre- ferred preditors the point could M. Avenel, Deputy Secretary never have been missed," said General of the League of Nations, counsel, because their claim for and Mr. Loveday, Director of the four lakhe and over would entitie Financial Section of the League, them immediately to the whole of arrived in Vienna yesterday. Their the surplus assets here. visit is in response, to the Austrian "On the assumption that they
A report on the Assessment of Government's request to the Court are bona-fide proferential creditors cil of the League of Nations to they must have qualifications such the Colony for the year 1921-22 examine Austria's economic and as are required by Hong Kong has just been Issued. The Trea
The case is covered eurer and the Assessor say, that by financial difficulties, according to a legislation.
by the Companies' Ordinance, and order of H.E. the Governor in in this event, by the Bankruptcy Council the valuation of the whole Ordinance as well. For that reaColony has been made and the rate, son I contend that this appeal is able value has thereby been in" unsustained. A MALA DA creased from $17,408,959, to The President: I think judg-:$18,695,600, an addition of $1,287,- ment had better be reserved, for 701.
Reuter-message
NEWS IN ADVTS:
The 8.8. President Lincoln salls
the Catholic Associations, but son-alleged breaches of the for New Yoric to-morrow at 10 the Government itself officially Irwin-Gandhi Paet.
Neither the am.
the purpose of giving it in writing. The number of tenements report-
Judgment was accordingly re-ed vacant averaged about
monthly. served, and the Couff rose.
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