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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1936

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication.

SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong-

Telephone 20022.

London Office:

7, Garrick Street, London,

Notice To Contributors.

WEDDING AT REGISTRY

TSOI

LEE

A wedding of considerable in-

terest to the local Chinese com-

WC2jmunity took place at the Registry,

Supreme Court, this morning

THE INDEPENDENCE

OF AUSTRIA

Here There and E Everywhere.

CHANCES OF COUP

GERMANY

COUP BY

when Miss Nellie Lee, daughter of KING OVER THE WATER

Al communications intended for the late Mr. Lee Kang-tung, and publication should be addressed to Mrs Lee

There are some good lines in!

of No. 22 Fung Fai.

became the Jacobite national anthem in MAY BE FORESTALLED BY OTHER

the Editor, and be accompanied by Terrace. Happy Valley, the Writer's Name and Address the bride of Mr. Tsoi Mang-sen, scribed on an "Amer" glass which Mrs. Tsoi Sau-is to be sold shortly at Christie's.

For instance. not necessary for insertion, but son of Mr. and

shan of Swatow. as a guarantee of good faith.

Subscription Rates.

6 Months..

One Year

9 Months .....

H.K.$36.00

... E.K.$18.00 F.K.$ 9.00 Postage Abroad Extra

Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith off- ciated and Messrs. D. Jackman and W. Shea were the witnesses.

A reception will be held in the Gloucester Hotel this afternoon. and this will be followed by a

Hong Kong. Friday. May 8, 1936. dinner to-night at the Kam Ling

Canton-Hong Kong

Trade

Restaurant, West Point.

The honeymoon will be spent at Repulse Bay.

At the annual meeting of the Hong Kong General Chamberl

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

of Commerce on Monday last, the Chairman, the Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell, spoke of an interchange

1:

God bless his subjects all

And save both great and smal In every station...

And I like the rigour of an-

ARLY

other verse which prays for the EA

Church to be saved

Against all heresie

INTERESTED POWERS

(By Duncan Sandys, M.P.)

this morning de-it is clear that no wholly satis- tachments of German factory solution is possible.

the

Austrian What is needed is a comprehen- troops crossed border.

No resistance was sive European settlement to re- And Whigs Hypocrisie.

The German move the outstanding causes of The wonder is how such a offered. fragile thing could have survived, soldiers were greeted by cheer-future friction.

Other Difficulties as Jacobites were ing crowds." especially

This is what we shall read in A host of further difficulties usually credited with being hard.

an inscription our evening papers on our way are already looming up on the drinkers. Later

the was added to the Old Pretender's back from work one day next horizon, Austria. Memel, Dan-

of zig, the Corridor and

presents its younger son. "To his Royal High-year unless the statesmen

Duke of Europe can learn to look ahead. Colonies--each ness Prince Henry

Many of us for some time special problem. The colonial

for obvious Albany and York."

past urged that the demilitari-question. sation of the Rhineland could graphical reasons, cannot force rot be indefinitely maintained.tself upon us overnight.

*

SIR WILLIAM JOWITT ABROAD

health. In the General

a

geo-

On

of visits between the leading Mr. Bruce K. Carpenter, who is business men of Canton and of connected with the Dollar Steam Like Herr Hitler, Sir William and that the time had come to the other hand, the solution of he ship Line, returned to Hong Kong Jewitt is apt to suffer from throat remove the remaining restricthese other problems cannot was invariably argued insist in ignoring them they will, the Colony, visits which hoped would be repeated from this morning by the s.s. President strain. This has more than once tions upon German sovereignty safely be delayed. If we per

in the past seriously affected his It

trump one by one, beginning with Aus- Election reply that this was time to time, in order that the Collidge.

a bargaining counter to obtain way we least desire.

Ever since the war Austria some important concessions in the future.

has been wrestling vainly with Afraid To Lead Trumps la multitude of economic diffi- Our present embarrassments culties resulting from the dis-. are due to our having commit-memberment of the old Austro- the old mistake of being Hungarian Empire. The con- ted Jafraid to lead trumps.

glomeration of races and terri- The Rhineland question istories under the Habsburg rule but the centre link in an un-was not a mere dynastic coin- breakable chain of German pro- cidence. It was the political

business men of the two cities,! Mrs. Edward J. Barber, wife of last November he had a temporary card which must be reserved as tria, solve themselves in the

who interests are so closely

He has lately again been in his associated, may maintain close the President of the Barber breakdown.

Steamship Lines, accompanied by touch.

That their interests are in Miss Billie Barber, is a passenger doctor's hands. This is the reason. Sb President Coolidge it is believed, why he anticipated the Easter holidays by a fort- reality closely associated should on the

night. be patent to all, South China They are on a pleasure trip.

Sir William is now recuperating being the "hinterland," as re-

Mr. A. Monto, Superintendent gards business, of Hong Kong, which depends largely for its of Schools in Manila, accompanied abroad. living on its entrepot trade; by his wife and sons, is a through the s.5. President and. without flourishing busi-passenger on ness conditions in the "hinter-Coolidge bound for Manila. land," the trade of the Colony! must languish. But unless the Government at Canton is in Chicago's most prominent sympathy with the merchants beys.

Mr. A. R. Shannon.

4

one

Your Daily Smile!

the

It is expected that this year's No-blems created by the Treaty of expression of a natural econo be: Peace Prize will be awarded to Versailles. The present_crisis, mic entity founded upon that club which has ruled that a hus-like its predecessors-Repara- community of complementary

-has overtaken the Govern-Danube basin. attor-band and wife mast not be bridge tions and German Rearmament interests of the peoples of the

the ss partners.

on a

There will be no Dinner Danee at Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow; out the usual Tea Dante will be held on Sunday at 5 p.

Incapable

With its tiny population of

In the old days, we are remindedents of the ex-Allied Powers a person who bought stolen goods before they had made up their was sentenced to capital punishment minds how to deal with it.

.the and though

settlement of which are concentrated in This was known as hanging up the Events have forced their hands, six millions, nearly two millions which is being wrung from the great metropolis of Vienna, Owing to the lack of accommoda-them is essentially a wise and cut off by artificial barriers the billiard table of a realist one, the manner of its both from the industrial centres on, two girl hikers were allowed to sleep on

One of them achievement can hardly be cal-of Czechoslovakia and from the Cheshire village inu. quite rightly described herself as alculated to enhance the anthori-rich plains of Hungary, the little State which to-day carries ty of International Law, miss in baulk.

We are faced with the dual on the name of Austria Real Scot

problem of showing the world been left quite incapable of in- Mary: "Is Sandy generous?"

In 1931, to find a way.out of Maxxie: "When it comes to throw-that the Law of Nations can-dependent economic life.

Austria con- ing money about, he's president of not be broken with impunity

and at the same time of not her difficulties, the Anti-Litter Society."

precipitating a war for the sake cluded a Customs Union with restric- Germany. Her action, how- of reimposing treaty totions which we recognise to ever, was declared illegal by a

is a passenger on and works with and for them, President Monroe. He is fourishing trade conditions are pleasure trip round the world. hard to attain.

Singapore, like Hong Kong, Touring the world for three depends

its upon

entrepot years, Mr. A. de los Reyes, a receiver. trade; but it has the great ad-prominent merchant of the Philip vantage of possessing a "hin-pine Islands, is returning to terland." in the Malay States. Manila by the s.s. President that is under British protection Monroe, which is now in port. jand cannot hamper trade with hostile tariffs. These condi- tions do not obtain in Hong Kong. It has long been the policy of the Cantonese Govern ment to discourage the import

next On Sunday of foreign goods as far as pos

the Royal sible, by the imposition of crushing duties, and to estabArtillery Sergeants' Mess at Gan lish factories of every kind to Club Hill, Kowloon, will hold a supply the local demand, with whist drive and tombola, homemade wares-2 legitimate mencing at 3.30 pm. enough ambition, but one that

Pun Chung, 39, unemployed, needs caution in the pursuing. One must learn to walk before was charged before Mr. W. Scho- Unfortunately, field at the Central Magistracy one can run. too, there have been at times yesterday with possession of 549 in the Government men whose counterfeit Hong Kong five-cent javowed aim it has been to pieces at the Ping On wharf. On destroy the trade of Hong the application of Detective Ser Kong and to make Canton itself geant J. Riddell, the defendant the port of entry for the ocean-was remanded for 48 hours for borne

of South further enquiries. commerce

grandiose China Hence the

com-

schemes for the development of A very successful whist drive) Whampoa as a port and the was held at the Kowloon Cricket deepening of the channel of the Club on Wednesday when a large Pearl River sufficiently to allow gathering assembled under the ocean-going steamers to anchor direction of Messrs. C. J. Tacchi, off the Canton Bund. Recently T. Carr and J. S. Smith. they have been forced to see Levening was voted that all the crushing duties on most enjoyable this foreign imports and on the ex-it is hoped to make this form of ports of their own merchants entertainment of regular feature: could never produce the money of the Club's social programme. necessary for the carrying out

of their dreams.

The one of the scason and

The 8.8. Talma is due here from But the Canton Government Singapore next Tuesday morning. apparently does not realise that

China is not yet in a position to The mv. Silverteak, from New do without foreign goods. The York, sailed from Los Angeles on day may come, and doubtless April 11 and is expected here on will, when China will be self-or about May 16. supporting; but it is not yet.

...

All these premature attempts The gala premiere of Charlie to crush the importation of Chaplin's "Modern Times" at the foreign goods can only result in King's Theatre last night drew aj failure and loss, to say nothing capacity house and proved to be of other evils which they pro-a great success. It was preceded duce, such 2.5 smuggling by an extremely entertaining Walt which is being carried on to-day Disney coloured cartoon entitled this had on an unprecedented scale.

"Mickey's Garden”, and also The Hon. Mr. Bell'

the effect of whetting the a- announced, in his address to the dience's appetite for the fare that

the Chamber of Commerce, that the Canton-Hankow Railway was to follow. will really be completed this year. Certai

interests

in

and will

The RMS. Empress of Asia is! Canton have for years fought expected here from Manila next

Wednesday morning strenuously against the com pletion of the six miles of line berth at the Kowloon Wharf. She which would link it up with the will leave for Victoria and Van- Canton-Kowloon Railway and couver, via ports, at 6 am. on permit of through traffic to the Friday next

Colony. Does this consent to

the bridging of the gap imply

a change of outlook on the part reforms, for the benefit of

of the Canton Government? trade, to follow? It is, at any And is it an earnest of other rate, an excellent beginning.

has

Costly Experiment You sent for your daughter come home again?"

"Yes: we found it too expensive to have been ripe for revision. If majority vote of the Hague

(Continued on Page 10). have her living in the city supporting we confine ourselves to the nar-Court.

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