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Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1951.
Poppy Day,
Haig's Fund rose out of the ashes of the Great War; and stands to-day no our greatest and most human memorial to
the millions who gave their lives for the Empire.
The Nelson Touch.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1931.
Mr. T. S. Marrison gave a talk CORRESPONDENCE.
The worldly wisdom displayed, on "The Functions of Lloyd's" at of the Rotary after the Great War, by giving dis- yesterday's timin
He dealt with the humble tinguished commanders large sums Club.
to
AMBIGUITY REMOVED..
To the Editor of "China Mail.”) Sir, In their report of certain Bankruptcy
-Such an
inference is excusable when it is remembered that the: Hong Kong Engineering and Can- struction Co., Ltd., is quoted among the Companies listed by the Hong J.Kong Stock Exchange and the other two local share-dealing associations
of money instead of pensions is beginnings of what is now the big- Hlustrated by the anouncement in gest: shipplug corporation in the the House of Commons that Lord world. It began in a London coffee Nelson is making some repayment house, toward the latter part of the to the Treasury from his pension 17th century, and he proceeded proceedings in the and that Lord Seaton has volun- Interestingly to trace the growth of Court yesterday, certain newspapers tarily suggested a 10 per cent, cut the Society of Lloyd's Register of give prominence in a sub-head line There is just the possibility that from his pension of £2,000 a year. Shipping and the Corporation of to "Construction Co." In the past enormous sums have been Lloyd's to, their present eminent paid by the tax-payer in pensions, position, emphasising that they any reader's eye arrested by the most of them now happily extin were two different bodies' run in conspicuous type of the head-Hines guished. The case of Lord Nelson dependently, but were in the closest might wrongly infer that the said is very much in point. Great as alliance. In conclusion, the speaker proceedings relate to the Hong Kong
Ltd. were the services rendered by expressed the hope that he would Engineering and Construction Co "England's sailor the financial rebe invited to expand his brief paper wards are truly splendid, especially on a future date. when compared with those giyen for great scientific and other benefits
Personal Pars. conferred on the country. More
Lieutenant St. John R. over, the pension went not to his direct line, but to the line of his Tyrwhitt, recently serving in the brother, and in order that it might destroyer Tempest at the Nore, as "Constructions."
Obviously, certain newspapers be made quite certain that collateral whore his father, Admiral Sir Ro- descent, should not. extinguish theginald Tyrwhitt, Is Commander-in-have no idea to suggest, even by reward it was conferred on any "to Chief, has been appointed Naval unintentional implication, that the whom the title of Earl Nelson shall Alde-de-Camp to the Earl of Court proceedings relate to the. descend." To this should be added Clarendon, Governor-General of Hong Kong Engineering and Can- the interesting fact that Horatio South Africa. As a sub-lleutonant struction Co., Ltd. The likelihood Nelson was never Earl Nelson at all he served in the cruiser Carlisle in of misinterpretation, however; re- and that the title was conferred and China in 1927-28, and after promo- maina which, it will be conceeded, the pension enjoyed by an amiable tion to lieutenant in March, 1928, must be the endeavour of this Com- parson who was Horatio's brother he joined the cruiser Suffolk on pany to remove.
I shall esteem it a favour if you A gift of £500 a year, paid annually this station.
will be good enough to permit of for nearly 130 years, is pretty good! going.
Mr. Julean H. Arnold, American the publication of this letter so as The pension given to that dis- Commercial Attache to China arriy- to do away with any doubt of a tinguished gentleman Sir John Coled on the .s. Hatching this morning misconstruction, however remote, of borne, Field Marshal, Governer from Shanghai, Amoy, and Swatow. the ambiguous sub-head in a report General of Canada, and afterwards Twelve years before his appoint- of Court proceedings that have no Lord Senton, was granted in 1839, ment as Commercial Attache in connection with the Hong Kong when public economy was being.A 1914 he served in various Chinese Engineering and Construction Co., little studied, and it does not extend ports as Consular Officer, his career.Ltd. beyond the life of the present baren beginning in July, 1902.
Mr.
It should be added that Lord Arnold has been decorated a num- Nelson's pension is not the most ber of times by the Chinese Govern- costly, of its kind up to date. That ment and is the author of many distinction is generally awarded to monographs and treaties on econo the case of the heirs of William mic and commercial China. This is Hong Kong in remembrance of III's friend Schomberg, whose pen- Mr. Arnold's first visit to Hong those who fell,
sion continued down to our own Kong since the establishment of the The British Legion is the time. Manchester Guardian. friend of ex-Service men. Its activities are not concentrated: Into pne narrow channel, nor are they limited to easing the bur den of only one section of the ex- Service community.
The Legion shoulders the heaviest responsibility of all, for it helps any one of the millions who returned, irrespective of
As its name implies, the Fund owes its birth to the late Field-rank,
News in Brief.
The
The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 70 degrees. humidity was as high as 78 at 10 a.m. and 72 at 4 p.m.
office of the American Trade Com- missioner here.
WEDDING.
Ceremony in the
Peak Church.
GERMANS UNITED.
A marriage ceremony, in the
Yours, etc.,
J. P. BRAGA,
Managing Director, Hong Kong Engineering and Construction Co., Ltd.
Hong Kong, November 10,
[The sub-head complained of did not appear in the China Mail. -Ed, C.M.]
THEFT OF COAL.
The case in which nine Chinese scumen and a sampan woman werd, charged with the theft of two tone of coal from the lighter Sciron,at Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter last month, came to a conclusion in the Kowloon Magistracy yester day.
First defendant was fined $50 or
The total output of the Kailan German fashion, was solemnised at the Peak Church yesterday after- noon, when Anna Peterson, only one month's jail, the woman, $100 in practically any and every Mining Administration's, mines for Marshal Earl Haig, who realised way in which help may be need-the week-ended October 24 amount daughter of Colonel H. Peterson, of or one month, third, sixth, seventh, ed to 119,820 metric tons, and the
Berlin, became the bride of Mr. eighth and ninth, two months' hard Ex-Service men's depen-sales to 108,592 metric tons.
Curt Von Winterfeldt, youngest son labour cach, and the tenth defen only too well that peace with ed.
of General D. Von Winterfeldt, also dant one month. Fifth defondant, victory would not bring its just dants, too, are the Legion's care,
There will be a Concert at the
of Berlin. Mr. Dich, of the who had a previous conviction, was reward to the men who made it and the widows and children of
Rheinische Mission, officiated. to whose immortal Helena May Institute on the after- noon of Thursday, November 19, at
The bridesmaids were the Misses possible.
Members wishing to As Lord Haig foresaw, the memory the Legion dedicates its 5.30. 11.
work.
reserve tables for tea, please tele-Doll Hahn and Elisabeth Kichn. The groomsmen were Mesure. men who brought us victory, and
H. Michel and F. Reck. That is a big task, but a task phone Matron 22140-Advt. in so doing endured four years
con- H.M.S. Petersfield, with of unspeakable horrors, have for which is faithfully and
the men
the
sent to jail with hard labour for three months.
Two other men, charged with re- Cceiving in connection with the same cose, were remanded until Friday,
A reception was later held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jessen,
the main part suffered great pri.jscientiously carried out. It is a C-in-C (Sir Howard Kelly) on Stubbs Road, after which the happy
vations since the War.
Shanghai.
task which Hong Kong has for beard, rescued seven men from a They
Tripod Island, Steep Island Pass, have in turn been the helpless years associated itself, even in Chung Chow junk in distress off couple left for their honeymoon in victims of recurrent periods of lean years of trade, by the splen- and landed them west of Fisherman
did sums raised on Poppy Day. Island. To-day the call comes round
CATHOLIC LADY DELEGATE.
FIELD OF REMEMBRANCE.
Rugby, Yesterday. The lawns by Westminster Ab- bey are being used as a Field of The Rev. Mother Antonietta Mon- Remembrance in which the public
plant Flanders The "Nellie Farren" girls are
poppy zoni, Delegate General of the may again. Can Hong Kong eclipse now to be seen in a complete change
afternoon, Field Canossian Institute, arrived in emblems. This of programine at the King's previous best effort?
Among their popular Hong Kong from India laat evening Marshal Lord Plumer placed. & AAA Theatre.
numbers is a Russian pot pourri on the Lloyd Triestino s.s. Gange. cross there to the memory of his She was met on the wharf by the troops of the Second Army,—Bri-- which last night met with un- animous approval. A valse and Superior of the Convont here, other tish Wireless Service: several singing and dancing num- bers were also well received.
From Other Pens.
Libel by Record.
HOOVER'S BROTHER-IN-LAW - ARRESTED.
of war economic depression, caused disablement or sickness, or lost opportunities and hopes.
In their need they have look-its ed to Haig's Fund, and Haig's Fund can truly he said to have amply justified the hopes of its
Sisters, and a company of Catholic Girl Guides composed of students gallant and very human founder,
of the Convent, who gave her an enthusiastic welcome. On the as with the aid of the ever gen-
The art of being in debt was long)
wharf, too, were several prominent erous British public, work of the since brought to perfection. Many first importance has been car-brilliant methods of owing for over Sanitary Board
devoid of any busincas beyond members of the Catholic com- ried out in alleviating distress are on record for our instruction.
But I would make known the routine matter, the only item out munity. amongst ex-Service men of all plan of the creditor in Warsaw. of the ordinary being a minute by
a stimulating or the President relative to the boun-to Central China to survey flood rested to-day as be was leaving a ranks, their dependants, and the He showed
To his stubborn debtor daries of health districts in Hong damages at Hankow, where there grocery shop. He has been charged Members con-la a House belonging to the Institu- with being in possession of nine-
teen pints of liquor-Reuter. widows and children of those iginality.
he sent anonymously a gramophone Kong and Kowloon. who fell.
record. The judgment of human curred in the redistribution of these tion. The present state of industry nature which made him confident areas.
man would have the in the British Isles is not at all that any
curiosity to try it was justified.
May you
The fortnightly meeting of the yesterday Was
The Rev. Mother is on her way
Santa Monica, Yesterday. President Hoover's brother-in-law, Mr. C. Vanness Leavitt, was 'ar-
To-day's Thought.
She will stay In Hong Kong, at the Italian Convent, Caine Road, "Ladies' Man," now showing at for a few days before continuing an encouraging one, and it is re- The debtor played it, and this is the King's Theatre, is one of the her journey. While here she will
The most helpless person in the flected in the largely increasing the sert of thing he heard: "You finest talking dramas that has aptake the opportunity of making a
A delayer of long peared on the screen in the Colony.general inspection of all the Insti-world is the one who doesn't know
establishments In the what to do with himself. claims for assistance made on the are a dirty dog.
William break Starring
Powell, Kay tution's Fund by distressed - ex-Service overdue bills.
Francis and Carole Lombard, the Colony. It is probable that she your hands and legs." It is men and their families.
The answer of the debtor was a story portrays some of the inmost will also visit the Institution's Hos- libel action, which hae just been and intimate life of New York pital in the Italian Concession, estimated that upwards
On what Society, and the simplicity of the Tientsin. 400,000 of the men who fought settled out of court, for the Empire during the War terms I know not, but I fear the plot is forgotten in the dramatie worst. Everybody has a kindness sequel to the Ilfo of the "Ladies'
The man who wants Man." now, through no fault of for debtors. their own, without employment, his money back has no friends and with their families and other H. C. B. in the Daily Telegraph. dependants, are suffering very Heard in the Lobby.
are
of
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Ten Years Ago.
From the "Chins Mall” of
November 11, 1921.]
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COMMUNIST PUTSCH IN GERMANY.
To-day's dollar is worth 2/8%. Cologne, Yesterday.. Further enquiries into the death
Circumstantial reports of i of people killed during the riota in
Interesting information about our., Kowloon on September 26 were mysterious massing of Hitler's real distress. Their need will be Socialist MP, (boastfully): We held yesterday when Mr. Fraser, and storm troops converging on Breslau bathing beaches is furnished in u greater during the coming Win-shall be back in power here sooner a jury investigated the death of in all manner of conveyances and set of returns just issued from the were killed in afoot, according to the Socialist or Colonial Becretariat. They, allow. Kennedy than you think. You see, we've three Chinese who ter, and Haig's Fund must be
Yaumats, Hunghom, and Kowloon gan "Rheinlachezeitung," has im that during last season got a great slogan.
Two were killed by revolver imensely excited Republicans whose Town had got the most patronage, assured of adequate funds to National M.P. (suitably intrigu- City. help them.
ed) That's interesting. What's shots, and the other. by a stab- Raichsbanner fighting organisation, 58,059 bathing there as against wound. The jury returned three it is stated, is preparing for all North Point's 19,680 and Stone Haig's Fund, therefore, appeals the slogan?
M:P. Socialist
(facetiously):verdicts, one of "Justifiable emergencies in view of the appre-cutter's 8,876. The two last named
expressed by beaches were, of course, not avail"
Was well most earnestly for very generVote Labour and Keep the So- homicide," another, of "accidental hensions recently
advanced. ous support to-day, when Flan- cialist Out."-Peterborough in the death," and the other an open Nazis that a Communist putsch was ante until the season
verdict
Impending-Reuter. ders Poppies are being sold in Daily Telegraph
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