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BRITAIN'S ARMS

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THE CHINA MAIL - FRIDAY - JULY 10, 1936

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IN PARLIAMENT

ALL SERVICES INVOLVED

London, To-day. Supplementary estimates issued yesterday! bring the total expenditure on Britain's fighting services for the current year to £188,163,700. Yesterday's supplementaries include £11,700,000 for the Air Services, £6,600,000 for the Army, £1,059,000 for the Navy and £293,000 for the Army Royal Ordinance factories, but the total for the year given above also includes the £10,300,000 supplementary estimate for the Navy published on April 28.

The appeal of Mahadeo, a 16

tion in the Supreme Court of Fiji, was alowed last month by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Habadeo had been ordered to -be detained during Majesty's pleasure for The murder of a boy named Kamautar, 13

The committee held that the Chief Justice of Fiji seemed to have treated the case as one of "murder or nothing," but that the facts revealed no more than a case. of manslaughter.

AMENITIES OF KOWLOON

Work Of Residents' Association

MANY IMPROVEMENTS EFFECTED

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

The Repulse Bay Lido announce, The Sincere Co., Ltd., has ́ just ) that starting from to-morrow, and announced the appointment of Mr. continuing on every successive D. Cher See to the position of Saturday night, dinners will be Managing Director. served table Chote at $2.50 per

bead. The Chinese Restaurant The pupils of the Diocesan entertained their in the Bungalow opposite the Lido (Girls". School Restaurant is now open and meals parents and friends yesterday to may" be obtained there during an impromptu concert in aid of jordinary business hours...

the lepers of Pakhoi. The school. breaks up for the Summer holi- days to-day, and classes will be resumed on September S.

Mr. B. A Proulx, who is in charge of Paramount Films of China Inc., is leaving the Colony to-day on a business trip to Hai

The Women's League of Health. phoagi He will be away for and Beauty gave a picnic to the about a month. Mr. Froulx is a Chinese ladies at Middle Beach well-known figure at the Race yesterday. They were entertain- Course

ed to tes apd music, and a ride

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in the canoe Prunella, named after Two cases of enteric fever were the leader of the Women's Health reported to the local Health au- and Beauty League. The ladies! thorities during the

24 hours motored in private ended on Thursday,

held

to

cars to Blake Pier from which the picnic start- ed at 3 pm and returned at seven after a very pleasant and enjoy- able outing.

The Police are offering a reward of $500 for information leading to of the assassin who the arrest shot and fatally wounded Mr. T. T. Ching, in Robinson Road on Saturday last.

A Dinner Dance will be held on the Open Roof of Repulse Bay Lido -- weather permitting and In connection with the addi- In addition the present estimate

at Repulse Bay Hotel in the event tional provision now made for provides for bringing the maxi-

The report of the General Com- of bad weather, to-day at 9 p.m., the Navy, the following addi-mum personnel of the Air Force tions to new warship construc- this year up to 55.000, an increase mittee of the Kowloon Residents and the usual Tea Dance will be the year ended to-morrow at Repulse Bay tion already approved are an-lor 5.000 on the original total Of Association for nounced: Two 5.000-ton crui-the total estimate 8,055,000 is December 31, 1935, has just bees Hotel, at 5 p.m. sers, nine destroyers. one air-for payments likely to mature be issued.

The ms. Tjinegara is due A large number of matters of craft-carrier and four submar-fore March 31 as a result of the

sail for Bali and Java, via Manila orders for direct interest to all residents in and Macassar, on July 21 at 10 ines. This brings the total new policy of long-term construction for 1938 in the large numbers of air-frames and Kowloon were dealt with during Representations were above categories and capital engines and ancillary equipment the year... ships to two battleships. which and stores.

made, among others, on such mat- The m.s. Van Heutsz will sail countancy Secretaris! Institute, be: will be equipped with 14-inch This includes progress pay ters as the bus services, traffic and for Singapore, Penang and Bela-ng proceeds from the Accountants" guns: seven cruisers, of which ments on aircraft equipment and street lighting, road surfacing, wan Deli at 4 pm. on July 23: two of 10,000 tons will be built stores, which will not be delivered public

playgrounds, and in most! in the present calendar year until 1937 and 1938. Much heav-markets, etc. etc. under the existing Naval Trea-ier provision for the bulk of the cases the Association was able to ty, 1930, and five of 5,000 tons; cast of this programme will, it effect welcome changes in the 18 destroyers; two aircraft-car-is stated, have to be made in these amenities provided for Kowloon riers. which will be ordered but later years

residents.

to implement their declared policy of providing the necessary means "both of safeguarding ourselves against aggression and of playing our part in the enforcement by common action of international obligations." It is abundantly clear from the fact that the se-. cond supplementary Navy estim ate has been introduced sa Soon

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300 TAELS OF OPIUM

Police Haul On Sampan

The Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children desires to acknowledge with grateful thanks a sum of $209.80, from the Ac-

Ball held on June 30 last, and to]

of express its high appreciation the success of the function, due to the excellent work of the or- ganisers in the interests of the Society.

Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am today was 0.06 inch. The total since January 1 has been 28.22 inches, against an average of 42.28 inches.

not necessarily completed this It is recalled that the Chancel- The annual general meeting of; year; and eight sabmarines, allor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville the Association will be held under the terms of the 1936 Chamberlain, provided £20,000,000 St. Andrew's Church Hall on London Naval Treaty.

in his budget for defence supple Tuesday next at 6 pm. It is! The supplementary estimate is mentary estimates. These already earnestly requested that members Ma Pau, Ho Chin, Chan Tak important as showing the firm in- amount to £29.659,000. British and all others interested in the and Chan Sam (female) appeared A strange accident occurred in tention of the British Government Wireless Service.

welfare of Kowloon will make ar before Mr. Burgess at the Central Lockhart Boad yesterday, when endeavour to be presen* at the Magistracy this morning charged Wang Wan-yam fell into the road with possession of 300 zzels of from the roof of No. 29 Lockhart| raw opium valued at $600.

Road after being chased by a Chan Sam, the Chinese woman chow-dog. He was admitted to Jowner of the sampar

Hospital on which the Government Civil the opium was discovered, said suffering from series injuries, that she had hired the three men while the dog was sent to Ken-] passengers to help her across the harbour be-nedy Town for observation. of the persistent rum- arrived in the Colony by the seause of the typhoon and after the first not only that theurs prevailing regarding a re-Corfu, from Shanghai and Japan, strong wind prevailing.

Revenue Officer Grimmitt said policy of making good the defi- duction in the bus fares, the China this morning:-

Mr. R. A. G. Moosa, Mr. and Mrs that on information: received he ciencies is rapidly gathering vo- Mail made enquiries at the China fume, but also that there is a great Motor Bus Company this morning A. J. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. F. Ayer hired a motor-boat, and, accom- the as to whether any such steps were and family. Mr. and Mrs. J. A A-panied by two Chinese detectives. potentiality for increase in

The reply, how- and Miss A. G. de Beaufort, Mr. he went across towards the Yau- future, should circumstances re-contemplated.

ever, was the mere statement that H. W. M. Dulley, Mr. and Mrs. Emati typhoon shelter, where they quire it.

"we have not yet decided on any A. Macpherson, Mr. and Mrs. A. spotted the accused's sampan be E. Millard, Mr. W. S. Marshall, the ing towed by a launch. They Misses L. and M. B. Newkirk, Miss boarded the sampan and found the C. M. O'Neill, Mr. W. Wohlfahrt,!

In view

re-steps."

In The Mediterranean Although it is proposed to lease certain- units temporarily attached to the Mediterranean Fleet to a Home station and sta- tions abroad, it is the intention to maintain the strength in the Me- diterranean at a somewhat higher level than formerly. The move- ments contemplated are consider. ed desirable from the point of view of the fleet administration || and the giving of overdue leave.

As Yet

The following

the

MILITARY FUNERAL Mr. J. V. Antic, Mr. W. E. Broadpiam in the well of the boat in

Rifleman Passes In Hospital

BURIAL AT HAPPY VALLEY

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The funeral took place at the

In reply to a question in the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Happy

battleships and battle-cruisers`are:

Military Hospital

at present in every way ready for

a basket. bridge, Mr. and Mrs. W. Chan,

The first, second and third ac- Miss Annie Lee, Mr. Lee Wing-icused stated that they had been sum and Mrs. M. M. Mortons.

asked to help to row Chan Sam across the harbour, the last named being her uncle.

ANOTHER CASE OF BAG-SNATCHING

Sentence Postponed For 24 Hours

His Worship discharged the third and four accused, but cau- tioned them, while the first and second were

six sentenced to months' imprisonment without

House of Commons yesterday, the valley. yesterday, of Rifleman First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Carlin, of the Royal Ulster Rides, Wong Chin, aged 30, unemploy-any option and fined $3,000, in Samuel Hoare, said that seven who died on Wednesday at the ed, appeared before Mr. Burgess default another six months' im

jat the Central Magistracy this prisonment, the sentences A native of Belfast, Rifleman jmorning charged with the theft of consecutively. the sea, with full peace compleCarlin was a single man and ar- a handbag containing a jade ban- ments, and one is now commis-

tached to "C" Company. The gle and a jade ring, which he sioned for trials after completing

band of the Battalion accom- snatched off Mrs. Tam Sieu-yu, large repairs. Seven others are either undergoing modernisation Panied the cortege and the ser- aged 27, in Caine Road yesterday or large repairs, or are refitting vice was conducted by Fr. H. dejevening.

THEFT OF SUITCASE

Sub-Inspector Kirby stated that Yuen Hin, aged 39, unemployed, manned by reduced crews, or per-

full military Angelis with

the accused was seen in the act appeared before Mr. W. Schofield honours. forming training services, but of these seven all but three cap be Lt-Col. R. M. Rodwell, Officer by a Wei-hai-wei constable, who at the Central Magistracy this made ready for sea at short notice Commanding, and Capt. E chased him into Queen's Road bemorning charged with the bar- glary of a large suitcase at No. if required.

Thicknesse, Adjutant, with other fore catching him. officers and the whole of "C

Army Figures

His Worship ordered the accus-145, Jaffee Road, third floor, last The new expenditure of £6,000.- Company, sent wreaths and were fed to be medically examined for Wednesday afternoon at 230 pm. birching and postponed sentence Sentence of six months' hard la- 000 for the Army includes provi-present at the funeral

for 24 hours.

bour was passed by His Worship.

sion for additional charges in res-

pect of the programme for reme BOY DROWNED IN

dying the Army deficiencies, spe.. cial measures taken in connection with the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, including the cost of maintaining || troops away from their normal stations, and the present Pales-1 tine emergency.

POOL

Body Discovered By Police

Three Killed In Traffic-

Accidents During Week

In the Colony of Hong Kong, Of the persons injured, eight

A drowning tragedy was dis-including the Island, Kowloon and were pedestrians who were either Royal Air Force

covered yesterday when the body the New Territories, during the walking or running across the The increased provision for the of Tang Cho-kwan, a 10-year old week ending at 8 am, on Saturday road and were struck by vehicles. Royal Air Force brings the es student, was found floating in last, there were altogether 42 Two tramcar passengers and timated expenditure on that ser-mountain pool on the south side traffic accidents, as the result of one bas passenger were injured vice this year to £50,700,000, of Pokfulam Road near Mount which three persons were kibed while alighting from moving tram- which is £24,715,000 more than Davis-Road.

and 16 persons were injured fears and a moving motor bus

the net estimate for 1935/36. The It appears that on Wednesday Of the persons killed, two Chin- respectively............ new expenditure is necessary to the deceased and two other boys ese males, lorry passengers, died

One tricycle driver, two private implement the policy foreshadow-went to the pool to have a swim, as the result of injuries received ed in the White Paper of March and later the deceased-wandered through falling from two differ motor car drivers and two private motor car passengers were injur 3; which contemplated an increase away and his two companions ent moving (motor Torries. ~

of first-line aircraft at home, to went home. Yesterday morning A Chinese sexmen on board thed as the result of collisions be about 1,750, excluding the Elect the father of the missing boy in-Vehicular Ferry, as. Mm Kim, tween vehicles

Air Arm. The overstas units, formed the Police and Insp. Hou died as a result of injuries receiv- Of the 42 accidents, 21 were comprising ́ 25 squadrons with «rihan, accompanied by the two ed when a private car which start collisions between vehicles; 10| strength of approximately 270 other boys, went to the pool, ad too wood collided with the bar were collisions between vehicles ärst-line aircraft, will be increns-where--they-discovered the "ie-rier plank which he was removing and pedestrians, and 11 sccidents ed by 12 squadron by 1959, Iceased.

from the bow of the ferry Iwere due to other causes

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KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

HOUSEHOLD COAL

ANNOUNCING REDUCED PRICES

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Peak District

$18.00

Bowen Road & lower level

$17.00

Pokfulam

$18.00

Repulse Bay

$23.00

$15.00

Shek-O & Stanley

$23.00

Kowloon

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I combine Health with Pleasure ~in a glass of OVALTINE COLD

The delightful Summer Drink

Don't forget to fi your thermos flask with "Ovaltine" Cold, everyone will ask for more.

Going bathing-to-day ?

Good News! OVALTINE

COLD of Hot

is n

now served in the leading

Cafes and Restaurants

The ideal hot weather beverage is "Ovaltine* · Cold. It is wonderfully refreshing and so delicious in taste. In addition it is briunfal "of the nourishment so necessary to make good the lack of nutriment in the ordinary light summer meals it is easily digested

and helps the digestion of all other foods. eaten.

And after shopping, be sure to ask for a glass of "Ovaltine" Cold. It is now served în all hotels and cafes, and is unequ restoring flagging energy.

for

But be sure you get "Ovaltine," don't be off with a substitute. For quality and

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