MONDAY, JULY 25, 1932.
THE CHINA-MAIL-
TUNG WAH HOSPITAL TAEL PLACES BURDEN CANTON AVIATOR'S
YEARLY DEFICIT.
Means Sought to Wipe
Off $100,000.
CHAIRMAN'S SUGGESTION,
Construction of Houses on Po Leung Kuk Old Site
Ways and means of wiping off a searly deficit of $100,000, are being sought by the Tung Wah Hospital authorities.
A suggestion put forward by Mr. Chan Lim Pak, Chairman of the Board of Directors, to construct dwelling houses for rental purposes. on the Po Leung Kuk old site, Is awaiting the decision of the local Government. His suggestion is al so for the construction of houses for the Hospital staff and nurses,
at the rear of the site.
In an interview with the China Mail on Saturday, Mr. Chan Lim- pak stated that expenses to main- tain the Tung Wah Hospital, Tung Wah Eastern Hospital and the Kwong Wah Hospital, amicunted to over $600,000. The rent and medi: cal fees received by the institutions did not adequately cover thin, leav- ing a deficit of $100,000. This lat-
ON CHINA'S POOR
CHANGE IN CURRENCY
DEEMED INEVITABLE
SOONG TO
SEE BANKS
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Saturday,'
SHARP DENIAL.
General Chang-Not-
Resuming Post.
General Chang Wai-cheung has | no intention at the moment of re- suming his past as chief of the Canton Aviator Administration, he
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Won't Fight Compatrists, He Declares
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told to the China Mail on Saturday Bullock's Brafna in an exclusive interview at the
Mr. T. V. Soong, Minister of Finance, in the Nanking Govern-Gloucester Hotel. ment, declares that it will be necessary to further consult with the bankers of Shanghai regarding the plans for the abolition of the tael from China's currency, before any definite decision can be made in the matter.
According to reports appearing in a morning newspaper, General Chan Chai-tong had been approach- ed by members of the South-western China. Political Council to request General Chang to return to his
There are certain of the native banks which are strongly oppost. posed to any such change, but the big European financial institu. tions, the greatest of the Chinese banks and business houses, all have signified their willingness to see the tael abolished,
Just what the attitude of the Government, may be, is not yet definitely known. But it is generally considered that Nanking rather favours the step.
Mr. Chester Fritz, one of the most prominent men of the broker- age community in Shanghai, head of a large American firm, is con- fident that the tael will go eventually, if not immediately. In the first place, it constitutes a tax on the shoulders of those least able
ter sum was met by subscriptions. to bear it: namely, the working people.....
"It is not right that we should depend always on our philanthro- pists to meat the expenses" he de clared. "We should find
some
REDUCTION IN
means to meet these requirements. HOOVER'S SALARY.
and I can think of no other better means than to construct houses in- stead of a hospital on the Po Leung· Kuk old site".
According to estimates, he afat- ed, eight houses could be construct-
ed at a cost of $700,000, and the
nual expense for the Tung Hospital to meet.
Agrees To Cut Of $15,000.
Washington.
President Hoover gave himself a
LETTERS & RADIO.
Addresses Which Cannot Be Traced.
POST OFFICE LIST.
In answer to this suggestion and the report that many of the men Calves' Head & Feet formerly under his command, and Mutton Chop who resigned from the Canton Air Service with him were returning to Canton, General Chang said:
at-
"This news is absolutely unfound Pig's Chitlings ed. My man have not returned to Canton, nor have I taken the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force. Such reports are an which General Chan Chai-tong tempt to create an atmosphere byį
hopes to calm the agitation of the people. I am not a child to directed at his will.
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the Treasury and my men and I. Sucking Pigs, to order; as a matter of fact, have not been Sust, Beef paid for three months. This was merely an excuse given by General Vea! Chan to Mr.-Chu-for-the-internal- troubles of the time."
Won't Accept Planes. Questioned as to the aeroplanes
Mutton
Sausages
No
Fish.
annual rental would amount to $15,000 reduction in salary on July A General Post Office notifica- $24,000. Taxes and aundry expen- 15, and simultaneously reduced the tion gives the following unclaim ses would ictal $4,000, this leaving salaries of his officers and of Vice ad correspondence, etc., waiting ordered through him by the Can- Barbel $20,000 clear. After a period of President Charles' Curtis 15 per at the Post Office and also upton Government, General Chang Bream three-and-a-half years, the Tung cent.
claimed radio telegrams at the said:- The Wah Hospital could get back the
action was
Canton Fresh Water A taken at
Radio Telegraph Office.
Fish "As far as the civil struggle money spent on the construction, cabinet meeting at which Curtis
Poste Restante Correspondence. with interest.
WAN present. President Hoover
goes. I keep my hands off. I don't Carp Australian Products Publicity Co., care to take delivery of those aero-Catfish The construction of another took a 20 per cent. reduction, the
and with Codfish- branch of the hospital on the site maximum allowed under the provi- Adamson Glifillan & Co., Brent & planes ordered by me in question would mean greater an-alons of the national economy act Co., Micky Bray, Mrs. F. S. Bridges, which it was planned my own com- Crabs
Wah recently approved by Congress and Miss Kathleen Banks, A. Bandmann, patriots would be killed. I could Cuttle Fish
E. Bruster, Lydia Tyau Chong, not control my men who joined in Dab signed by the president
Hoover has been receiving $75,000 Chang Tao-Run Mrs. T. 0. Cow-the recent struggle and bombed Dace
Dog Fish a year, and now will net but $60,000, ishaw, Mrs. W. H. Camerou, C. A. the Chinese, cruiser Fai Ying,
Colonel. Ting Kee-chu is a hero | Eels, Conger a figure under the income received Carr, G. R. Carter, Jr., G. G. Carter, SHANGHAI FIRE FORCE HAS by scores of wealthy persons in the E. J. Deputy, W. H. Donald, Dr. of that expedition. It is a great Prof. E. Griggs, disgrace to China, that episode. I United States. Babe Ruth, baseball P. M. Fairburn, FINE RECORD.
James Goon, P. C. Greenberg, H. H. am ashamed of my man who thinks Frogs star, gets $75,000.
S. R. Grover, Mr. Paul more of $50,000 than he does of Garoupa By the economy act, complement Green, of the billion-dollar extra revenue Hafemann, Homes, G. E. Houx, G. China. I have clipped the story Gudgeon
Rev. Seland Johnson, from the bill in the attempt to balance the Hoeger,
Hong Kong Sunday Herrings federal budget for the 1938 fiscal E. C. C. Johnson, M. E. Joshna, Herald and sent it to Ting Kec- Xalibat year, which began July 1, all fed-Rev. M. Kolbe, Eng. Y. King, N. A. chu, our civil war hero, but not a Labrus
Lee, M. A. Mero, here of the Shanghai affair. eral employees were given a month's Lislie, Ramon leave without pay, or if they can Vanse May, D. M. Lopez Manzanara, I am a soldier," he went on. Lobsters their duties, Mr. Millings, R. C. Macleay, Mme. "I want to sacrifice myself, give Mackerel not be spared from
Only Trivial Loss During Month Of Great Heat.
(From Our Own Correspondent)'
Shanghai, Saturday. The Shanghai Fire Depart- ment has another feather in its cap. It is revealed by the report of the brigade for
June, an exceptionally hot month.
The risk involved a total
of many millions. But the actual loss was only Taels 12,000.
Loach
Fresh Water Yellow
have to suffer a reduction of one L. Macary, E. L. Otto (c/o Mrs. my life for my country, but I don't. Monk Fish twelfth of their annual salaries. Whitman), W. F. Pease (c/o Sher-want to participate in civil war Mullet
A. D. Parizek, I want my name to occupy a page Oysters In the highest grades, however, wan & Sterling),
the rate of reduction was even high- Heinz Ploentes, C. B. Renale (of N. in Chinese history, I don't want Parrot Fish er. Army and navy officers as well Rhodesia), Lt. Al Reynolds, A. M. to be General Chan who owns bil- as others aside frora enlisted men Reiter, Charles Reubner, C. H. lions in estates in the Colony, but are affected. Army officers suffer- Sartin, R. Selk, H. N. Steptoe, F. with a bad name in Chinese his- ed another blow when by an execu-York Sloan, E. A. Steel, Kopoulos tory," tive order last week President George Tsamtsam, J. Townsend, Hoover reduced by ten per cent. Tribouillet, Miss Beatrice Ude, J. C.. their allowances for food and quar-Winzong, A. W. Wong Sloe, Basilio
ters.
RADIO BRINGS WORLD
TO CHINA'S DOOR
NEW TELEPHONE LINK
TO BE ESTABLISHED
FIR
FOUR GIANT STATIONS
(From Our Own Correspondent).
Shanghai, Saturday.
China will be linked directly with North and South America and with Europe by radio telephone communications which will be built immediately, following the completion of a contract between the China Electric Company and the Ministry of Communications. This contract will enable the company to start work on the plants wilch are necessary to make the long-distance radio conver- sations possible. The new system of communication, in turn, wil enable every telephone subscriber in Shanghai, and ultimately every. subscriber in the cities of China, to converse with any of more than 32,000,000 persons on the three western continents.
500 person
Ybos.
Would Answer Call. General Chang was asked if he Prawns would go into Fukien to organise Bay.... an air force in compliance with the wishes expressed by overseas Chinese.
Registered Articles. China Machinery Supply Co., "I do not know," he replied. I Catay Pencil Co., Chuen, Mong- have not received any instructions. jahan, A. L. Dodge, Mons. Phil. "But if I am called by my
Droun, P. de Flandor, Mra. Hughes. people, I will answer at once." Burwun Khan, c/o Bahos Saheb,
Perch
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Pomfret, White
Pomfret, Black
Rock Fish Roach Salmon Shark
Skate
Shrimps
Snapper
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Paul Katzenstein, K. W. Law, Lim RENO DIVORCE HELD Tench
Pak-sang, Mee. Fong-hong, South
China Sports, J. Sanderson, Law-
rence Y. Young.
Unpaid Correspondence The undermentioned undeliverable registered articles are lying in the Returned Letter Office, General Post Office, and will be returned to the Jaenderé on production of the certi
ficate of posting:
Galif.
Wantsai 596, for Shanghal. Wantsal 198, for Foochow Hong Kong 921c, for Manila,
P.I
Unclaimed Radio Telegrams. Address. Cathay Pencil Company,
INVALID.
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Into Major Cohn was informed that EDUCATION PARLEY
his wife had obtained a divorce at Reno, Nevada, on the ground of cruelty. Major Cohn had given in- structions for the petition to be op
A rich wife, who was granted a decree in the famous divorce court posed.
FOR CANTON
Delegates To Rally From Many Points.
STARTS AUGUST 19
The Summer Education Confer ence arranged, this year to be held at Canton, from August 19-27, will attract delegates, from many points of China, it is anticipated.
at Reno, Nevada, and then went Mrs. Cohn had stated, for the Hong Kong 180A, for Shanghai. back to London and lived with a purpose of obtaining the divorce, Hong Kong 585A, for Shanghai. second "husband,"
was held by that she was resident' in Reno for Hong Kong 151c, for Shanghai, Sheungwan 20676, for Oakland, the English courts not to have the required alx weeks, and that she
was domiclled in Nevada. a divorce at all, hemog
The ruling was made when Lord Actually, according to English Merrivale granted her real husband law, she was domiciled in England a divorce decree nisi against her. as the wife of Major Cohn..
Major Maurice Davis Cohn, re-The fundamental difficulty of the tired; of The Dicker, Upper Dicker.whole proceedings in Reno," said Sussex, brought the petition on the Lord Merrivale, was that there From ground of the misconduct of his was no Jurisdiction in that court. Kowloon, wife, Mrs. Marjorie Dyer Cohn, That being so, Mrs Cohn has not Sessions will be held in the new Manila,with Mr. Francis Gardner, who was ceased in the eye of the law of this Sai Chien Mei Wah Middle School, Ginntungsestoo
Canton cited as co-respondent. Mrs, Cohn country to be the wife of Major which is bright and commodious Canton. did not do and the petition. Con Country to be 1129 2689 6794, etc.
BG Provision is being made, to recel 6996 The service, moreover, will tend to establish closer relations
*Amoy: According to Major. Cohn's case, She had been guilty of macon-la maximum of 120 persons, Tam Leo Fooktack, Queen's Road W., his wife became discontented at duct in the eye of the English law) presentatives of various schools amongst the peoples of the various provinces of China, who will be
Batavia. Christmas 1920, and said that she by that action, and a decree nie! The following are, pla able to talk between one centre and another with facility 8055 0642.5478 0266,
did not wish to live in England was pronounced against her gistration: the Hor Swabne. Tvie contræet involves the erection of four radio sla ing of high
separation deed was entered In-Addressing Major Cohn's coun-Y.M.G.A., Mr Ho 6782 7189 5891 7009-0022 0948 to in June 1981, the wife having sel, Lord Merrivale said: “Here is charge; the Hong power for long distance telephony in large cities
Chins and 2464 1648 of still more powerful radio stations for the International service 5774ccre
$297 which will link the country directly wit
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a wealthy woman, and you are en- Miss Wong titled to ask for costs. I shall YMCA, MECHT E "said that after make the order for what it is the Canton.W.CA.,
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