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BATCH OF NEW TREATIES Registered At

Geneva.

BRITAIN'S INTEREST

(By Leslie R. Aldous)

LOCAL NEWS

BREVITIES

The current number of the Government Gazette notifies that Norman Lockhart Smith, Esquire, by virtue of the provisions of the Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom constituting the office of Governor] and Commander-in-Chief of the

cretariat of the League of Na ionssty of His Excellency Sir Wilfrid

and until further notice and has. taken the prescribed oaths.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1935

N. T. AGRICULTURAL Today's Short Story

ASSOCIATION

New Headquarters

To Be Built

SUBSCRIPTIONS INVITED

es-

We Were Sitting

By The River

TE were sitting by the river

a

By G. H. C Askew

apologised for adding the scent

Provided contributions and that fell gently down to the of the grase by saying to myself, Colony of Hong Kong and provide subscriptions are forthcoming water a few feet below on "At any rate it will help to keep! which the sunlight danced like the goats away. I watched them, Of the making of treaties there ing for the Government thereof the New Territories Agricuances of ribbed sifter as the small changing clouds that rose is no end. During July, fourteen yesterday assumed the administratural Association will have their elder bushes on the farther and fell in the shadows beneath the

side swayed to the breeze.

branches new agreements were registered by tion of the Government of the Co long-needed headquarters

tablished by this time next It was really just one of those From where I sat it was almost various Governments with the Se lony during the, temporary incapac year.

small English streams a few yards impossible to believe that behind] at Geneva. These will be publishThomas Sontharn, KRE, CAG † Plans for the proposed building wide which for a score of miles the hills which rose a bare three } will twist and turn through hundred feet a mile or so away

and ⠀mniature across the river, stood-row-zpont meadows, woods ravines until it finally marges with row of small grimed cottages, and that there grim metal structures one slightly larger than itself

Looking to my left I cond follow reared themselves upwards, black its course, a wide half-loop through against the sky; that country, once several open fields, before a screen as peaceful as this around me, had The building will be erected, on

view, been ravished of its beauty to meet the 200-000-square-feet piece of of willows hid it from my

adjoining the Fanling but in my imagination I could trace the needs of men Station, which was granted to it on from there along he Association by the Govern-stretch and bend, and under each ment early this year, and will cool stone bridge it passed comprise general offices, a labora

ed to the world in the League's Article "Treaty Series Under XVIII of the League Covenant, all League members have pledged themselves to take this

Mr. Henry Robert Butters has to step been appointed to be Principal A combat secret diplomacy. No in- sistant Colonial Secretary and ternational engagement is binding Clerk of Councils with effect from until its terms have been register-i

yesterday. ed at Geneva...

Great Britain is a party, to Do Mr. Alexander William George fewer than half-a-dozen of the Herder Grantham has been a latest batch of treaties. Pride of pointed to be Deputy Clerk of place must be accorded to the naval Councils, with effect from yester agreement with Germany, which | day arose out of the recent conversa-! tions in London

have already been drawn, up and are to be submitted to the Asso- ciation's architect for necessary alterations and revisions. It is estimated that the approximate cost of the building will be about $10.000.

land

every.

The heat and glare of the sun were tory and quarters for the Asso-dying, and a thin gold mist scemed jeiation's inspectors. A larke to float in the air, softening the Mr. Robert Andrew Dermodpacious room is to be set aside noce hard blue of the sky. Forrest has-been-appointed to act for meetings.

Already over. in the west, stray Various Engagements -

The land surrounding the woolly halls were forming, which But the others are not confined as Colonial Secretary with effect

from yesterday.

building will be utilised for ex-as the sunset drew fearer woult! to matters of high politics. There

perimental purposes, and a con- join together and pile themselves

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be ATessin Crime" by G. D. H. and M. Cole.

is, for example, the provisional His Excellency the Officer Ad-crete stage will be built either on up into ranges of summer cumulus.

But the thought of what lay agreement with Italy, regulating

Away above our beads a lark'

beyond merely flashed across my imports from the United Kingdom ministering the Government has the side or the back of the build-

enter was singing, and somewhere near brain and was immediately forget- There is another treaty with Brazil appointed Mr. John Henry Burkolling for the purpose for

Lee to be his Private Secretary.taining the villagers by giving, at hand I could hear the chirpingen; it had no reality in this "pre- relating to commercial payments-with effect from yesterday.

on of grasshoppers, but apart from that sent" of ours. On a dull grey] Again comes a record of the ex-

day, with the wind sweeping bleak~j change of Notes with Czechos-

from the east, it might be true- His Excellency the Officer Ad-year lovakia in regard to passports for ministering the Government has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant (Local Captain) William John Roto

seamen.

The Argentine Republic is the other party to a convention dealing Cragg 1st Battalion. The Lincol with compensation for accidents to shire Regiment, to be his Aide-de- workmen incidentally the

Camp, with effect from yesterday.

fluence of the League's Internation-

al Labour Organisation can here

His Excellency the, Officer Ad-

be traced. Lastly. Great Britain ministering the Government

and France have come to a work-

has

been pleased to appoint the follow-

Chinese concerts or operas certain occasions

during

CORRESPONDENCE

PEACE POSTER

COMPETITION

[To The Editor, "China. MailTM?

be

the the whole world appeared to

asleep in the sun; even the rippling

of the river had long ceased to be a conscious sound.

but not on such an afternoon as this.

I turned to Margery and saw that

My cigarette was burning down} | she also was asleep, lying back with towards its end. I fung it into her fingers laced behind her head-the stream below. The faint hiss I lay back, too, and, pressed of its arrival reached my ears. I shoulders to the firm warm earth.

This 1-thought, is contratment, sat up and looked. It was bobbing up and down in the current, a little and though it seemed in its way hicb of white with threads of yel sacrilege, I it a cigarette and low tobacco spreading from it

ing arrangement over certain mating officers to be his Honorary Sir.-I crave the hospitality of watched the grey-blue smoke curl Then a trailing branch beld up its ters affecting the administration of Aides-de-Camp, with effect from your columns to arouse the interest lazily upwards until the breeze progress, it pressed against this, a

the New Hebrides.

Agreement With China

prizes

M. BAXTER, Hon. Organising Secretary, Care of Lane, Crawford, Ltd, Hong Kong.

Latest List Of Changes

line of ripples spreading behind til slipping sideways it escaped afresh to the safety of midstream.

I watched it till it swirled swift- round a bend and out of sight. follow it along the river bank to A childish desire to leap up and

see how far it sailed before it was finally caught and held or disinte- grated, crept over me, but laziness! fought back and easily conquered.

I turned on my side and lay! listening to the soft stirring in the grass and the faint drum of insects Far away, I thought, so

that it would sound like a memory of peals heard long ago, a church bell should be ringing.

yesterday.

of your readers in the Peace Pos-brake its spiral and swept it out Lieutenant Mervyn Muspratt-ter Competition which is being of sight Williams, 1st Battalion, The Lin-organised by the League of Nations In a rather different

category

colnshire Regiment, Lieutenant Society.. may be mentioned an exchange of

This Competition is being held recently published in your journal. Notes relating to land tenure and Stephen Everard Skey, 8th Heavy taxation in the former British con- Brigade, Royal Artillery, Lienten- under the patronage of Lady can be had from Messrs Lane, cessions at Hankow and Kiukiang.ant Robert Caradoc Rose-Price 2nd Southorn, Sir Robert Ho Tung and Crawford, Ltd, where the

of are at present being displayed. Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusi-Bishop Hall, while the Board This agreement was signed at hers, Subadar-Major Waris Khan. Judges consists of Sir Wiliam Nanking last October, but has only

Hong Kong and Singapore Brigade Shenton. Mr. M. K. Lo, Lady Fol just been registered.

Royal Artillery, Risaldar Mizan lock and Mr. A- N. Macfadyen. Unsettled ecconomic conditions Baksh LDSM, Hong Kong Male The last day for sending in the, and the uncertainties of trade!

Corps. Lieutenant John Robert posters is October 15, and it is without doubt account for the large Crosse Hamilton, Royal Artillery, hoped that many of your readers proportion of commercial agree-

Lieutenant Charles Cecil Stanley will compete for the two Caps POLICE TRANSFERS ments to be found on the list.

Genese, 2nd Battalion. The East which have been generously donat- Lancashire Begiment. Captained by Sir Robert Ho Tung and Commercial Treaties

William Shenton Lady Itary has entered into two such Thomas Addis Martin, Hong Kong Sir

Volunteer Defence Corps, and 2nd Southorn, who evinces very keen arrangements with Sweden. Ger- many has come to terms with Den-Lieutenant. Henrique Alberto de interest in the Competition, has

the Latest transfers in the local Barros Botelho, Hong Kong donated two book prizes for mark for the reciprocal exchange

Youth Section and has kindly Police Force are as follows: of goods, and has modified the re Volunteer Defence Corps.

promised to distribute the prizes Sergeant MacPherson from drinking in he panelled hall-the gime of payments with Sweden A Dinner Dance will be held at on November 9 (the Saturday be- Regular Duty, Central to Cridlink of ice in the shaker, and the the Repulse Bay Hotel to-day and a fore Armistice Day) at the minal Investigation Depart announcer's voice solemnly pre- Tea Dance to-morrow. The last Cathedral Hall at 430 pmment. Central

senting to us the news of the day bus will leave Repulse Bay at 1 It is hoped that teachers in local Sergeant Baldwin

from now seemed like something one! business form the subject of

Persia and am and a half hourly bus service schools will assist in interesting CID Central to C.ID, West might watch acted upon a stage, convention between

will operate to-morrow afternoon. their pupils in the cause of peace Point. vice Sergeant Shepherd knowing well that the footlights Switzerland Lastly, there is ``aļ

by encouraging them to participate to C.I.D. Central.

stood between the real and unreal parcel post agreement between the

from Haynes Two cases of typhoid fever (im in this Competition.

Sergeant

I was beginning to find it diff- United States, and Malaya. The

Leaflets containing full particu-Waterfront to Tsimshatsui for cult to keep my eyes open. Time latter has been presented by the ported) occurred in the Colony dur-

and again I would catch myself on Washington Government which, ing the 24 hours ended Thursdaylars of the Competition, which were boat searching.

the brink of sleep. The warmth and peace of the day were gently slipping through the whole of my

Another commercial agreement concerns Finland and Turkey.

Conditions of residence and

although not a member of the For snatching a handbag con- Staining $205, a gold bangle set

League, has undertaken to register? all its treaties at Geneva.

with ten. pearls, a powder box Entries And Handicaps For

and a lip stick, Li Kau, 24,

employed, was brought before.

Mr. Thomson at the Kowloon Ma-

INTENSE INTEREST gistracy yesterday morning and

AROUSED

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the birch, and, if found unfit for tra Race Meeting, the first of thedge (158), Glad Eyes (161), Gold might never be again quite the Boxing Eve (164), Badge (158) ner. The ever shifting shadows birching to serve two months second-half of the Racing season, Bation (165), Heart's Glory (161), same. I might miss one second of Real

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which will take place at Happy Iron Grey (145), Jolly Eyes (158), surpassing loveliness. Valley to-day week.

Plain Vier (155), Popular Stær The usual fortnightly whist

(155), Solar Star (147), Sylvandale I thought of waking Margery drive in aid of Shek-lung lepers,

(161), Tammany Hall (161), Tillicum and even turned to do so, but she Big Wave Bay Handicap-

(158) What a Chance (168), Willian looked so happy in her dreams that will be held at the Seamen's In-

Six Furlongs GREAT SIGNIFICANCE

Bonny Dundee (157). Clear View Osier (161) and Zern (161). Intense interest was aroused by stitute at 9 pm, on Monday. The

I gave up the struggle then and Sale One Be Mr. C. T. te Water's declaration, launch Dayspring will leave Kow (158), Flirt (165), Flybynight (160) Tweed Island Handicap "B" Class I hadn't the heart to disturb her.

loon Public Pier at 8.30 pm for Foxbridge (156), Harvest View (1611, as South Africa's first official de-

Jolly Eyes (140), Mersey (140) Bright View (158), Hetman (152), let drowsiness have its way she the benefit of patrons, returning Pacie Hal

The sun shone redly through my legate to proclaim that his coun

(155), Popular Star Hydroplane (153), King's - Bounts

and (162), Macaroni: (160), Rose-Queen closed lids, so I turned up head (140), Royal Romance (151) try will not recoil from sanctions at 1110 p.m.

(157), Soldier of Germany (148), in the crook of my armer h Tammany Hall (140). It is generally believed that M.

Soldier of Victory (147) and The The Ladies Committee of the

All the nittle noises around; me Laval will make a final effort to

retreated further and further from induce Signor Mussolini to a more Cheero Club are holding their Corroboree Handicap Five Furlongs Tiger (145).

Able Amazon (165), Bag Tor monthly bridge and mah jongg (146), Derby Day (152), Goldsmith (First Section) One Mile my consciousness. I half heard amenable frame of mind. Beute drive at the club on Thursday. (135), Mount Pilatus (140). Rose Bistre (155) Bright View (148), fy buzzing sound my, head, my

October 17, commencing at 3Am (149) and Shooting Star (155) High Speed (158), Jungle Jim (165) hand waved feebly to beat him of

Trunk Bay Thép D

Lemberg (148), Monoplane (158), Londons In Glasgow yester-p.m. Admission $1 each

(Second Section)-Six Furlongs Soldier of Chima (168), Soldier of then I slept. day the General Council of the

Belmont Star (145), Copper: Idol Peace (150), Spinaway_(145), Valor-{" Scottish Trades Union Congress, A Mexican woman, Elise Arm (165), Delightful Chance (162), Emer ons (156) and Victoria Hall (155).'- I awoke passed a resolution declaring that endo, 23, unemployed, pleadedney Call (148), Festival Eve (155), Vanelanne Handicap Five Fuciones

11. had been the authority of the League of guilty before Mr. Macfadyen in King's Parade (155), Limelight (158) Atlas (155), Australian Boy (152), Nations and the obligations of the Central Police Court yester Lion Hunter (140), Locky Strike Bobnink Star (165), Just That (1623, but not mas the Covenant should be firmly day to a charge of being ava- (150), Partnership (152), Ton Ho Sancy Face (165), Streamline (142), sun was apheld by the 2 Go grant On-Inspector Nolloth' (161), Touchstone (190), Valley View Alacrity (14) Prome Day (1491

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