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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1936–

The China Mail

Ninety-free Year of Publication.

SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. Telephone 20029. London Office:

17. Garrick Street, London, F.02

Notice To Contributers.

$5,000 LOST EVERY YEAR

Coal Baskets Not Returned

باشه

That a yearly loss of $5,000 was sustained by coal dealers through,

All communications intended for the loss of empty baskets was men- publication should be addressed to tioned by Mr. F. I. Zimmern when

THE PYTHAGORAS

MACAU RACING,

OF FRANCE Loss Of $900

BLUM AS PROPHET OF

MODERN TIMES

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THE

the

Hence

Past Year

On

BETTER TIMES AHEAD-

Chairman's Speech

A loss of $900 as against a loss on the previous year of $18.512.99 was sustained by the Macau and South China Enterprises Ltd. whose annual general meeting was held this morning at No. 10 Ice House Street. Mr. P. M. Hodgson the Writer's Name and Address dealers, complainants against

being in the chair and being sup- not necessarily for insertion, but Shun, a coolie charged with

theft of 29 baskets from the San

ported by Mr. H. H. Priestley and as a guarantee of good faith.

Choi and the Chung Kee coalyards

Mr. Li Chor-chi, representing Mr. between August 1 and yesterday.

Another coolie, So Shung, was

HE strike movement which supplies the country with polit Ko Leong Hoe (a director).

The en- Others present were Col H. B. broke out in charged with the theft of 19 kas

France cians and public men. kets between the same dates.

second half of May trance tests are much more severe L. Dowbiggin, Messrs. G. A. Harri- of the man. P. C. Potts, Ng Hon-ting and at any university Mr. Zimmern said that the comand spread throughout the sub-than plainants were members

sequent fortnight will be remem-[ordinary type, and the students D. Black, while Mr. S. W. Cheng Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 1936 Coal Merchants' Club and had rebered in history as the greatest are compelled to reside in the old represented the Secretaries. cently written to the Secretary for surprise which was ever sprung house of the Rue d'Ulm.

unparalleled esprit de corps. Chinese Affairs and the Inspector upon official politicians in France. an

The Chairman, in his review of General of Police concerning the It came as a surprise that the The Ecole Normale is the great

the year, said: loss of empty baskets. An average Communist and Socialist minorities seminary of French humanism. It

"There is a small loss of $900 should. in the factories, have mechanically endows its inmates and this amounted to something proved so forceful and so strictly with a gift of expression that does

Accounts the previous year's Sir Thomas Inskip said recently nually. It was the custom of the ties of the "stay-in strikke" should trinsic value of their intellect.

Quoting Mr. Lloyd George; like $5,000 loss to the dealers an-disciplined, and that the new tac-not always correspond to the in-approximately on, the year, but M. Blum left the institution at showed a loss of over $18,512.92. have been so quickly assimilated. in the House of Commons, "It dealers when delivering coal

and households to is far easier for a strong coun-restaurants

One heard it said that a revolu- the end of his first year, having There was a profit of $1,55422 on try to gain its objects by peace-leave the coal in the baskets in ful diplomacy than a weak one." which they were brought, as the tion bad set in, of which the far-got into trouble with the author the Race Meetings at Macan held reaching consequences will only be ties Changing his course, he went under the auspices of the Macau Those words were applied customers had, in most cases, no-gradually realised as months and to the Council of State, another Jockey Club. As you are aware originally to Germany. They thing to place the coal in.

re-body that can only be approached the only source of revenue for the were Fears go by. Maybe, but it

exam Company is profit made yearly provide the complete justifica- When the empty baskets

Jockey Club. tion of the rearmament upon called for, they were generally mis-mains to be seen how the economic through a fairly difficult which Great Britain has em-sing. Mr. Zimmers asked that and political body of the nation ination bearing upon all branches upon the racing under the Macau "The Directors are pleased to Real Destiny barked. Argument

for serious view be taken of the case will, in the long run, withstand the of law.

Impact is no The defendants were probably em

The social reforms that

The business of the Council of say that an appeal was made to, strengthening defence

been carried out are not by

any State is to prepare or revise the and granted by the longer required. The necessity plored as coolies by restaurants to

means unheard-of innovations.

A technical side of current legisla-Government, for a reduction of is conceded by all but a small dump ashes. section, which believes that the

The defendants were each ser-40-hour working week, paid holi-tion and to pronounce. upon the the ground rent. This was grant-

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sive resistance to evi. Sir Thomas Inskip was engaged at the same time in the more

of 200 baskets were stalen daily

to

WARM RECEPTION FOR KING EDWARD

Athens En Fete

TWO DAYS SIGHTSEEING

IN CAPITAL

or in

Premier's Character

or

Дате

France

Other Business

Macau

Col Dowbiggin proposed that the retiring Directors, Messrs.

H. H. H. Priestley and Ko Leong Hoe, be re-elected. This was se-

elected in each factory to deal with and the private citizen, a type of Company is now paying a nomin- al rental of only $2 monthly for the management, etc. are to bejlaw-case withdrawn in [found, in whole

part. in from the ordinary courts. The the use of the Race Course as

$100 monthly. immediately important business

many countries. The innovation is "Masters of Requests" and the against the previous figure of of convincing the Commons and

that they were imposed by a well-"Auditors" necessarily acquire an

"It seems that better times for the public that all possible pro-

disciplined popular movement, ir-Junrivalled experience of French gress is being made in provid-

respective of their practical con-administration methods and M. this Club are within sight and the felt Blum excelled among them. Some Company's burden has been great- ing the country with needed

sequences, and that it was monitions and a really powerful

everywhere that Parliament would of his reports are. quoted as lightened.

"With these remarks, I will now Air Force. It is in regard to

have been helpless to reject or classies of their kind. output that anxiety exists. Sir!

drastically amend them had it But what the head of the-pre-propose the adoption of the Be- seat French Cabinet regards,, in port and Accounts as presented." Thomas rightly gave first place

Athens, To-day. tried to do so.

The proposal was seconded by to that aspect of his work.

his past life, as the essential, has A large crowd of Athenians as-

austere Col. ER. L. Dowbiggin and car- Phaleron harbour His story

Much, in these circumstances, not been spent in those was one of an sembled, at

of pursuits. As recently as last sum-ried unanimously. achievement no doubt beyond to welcome His Majesty King Ed-depends upon the strength

on character and upon the statesman-mer he said to a friend: "My real popular anticipation, although ward VIII when he arrived not, remarkable to those who board the yacht Nahlin, which was ship of the new President of the destiny was to be a writer!" He and Greek Ministerial Council. M. Leon Blum. has fulfilled it in part, and, beforeį know what are the untapped escorted by British

the destroyers. industrial resources of

Is he a dreamer or a man of ac-the war many books bore witness country. With the new sources Although the visit is one of an tion-a Pythagorean devotee of to his literary activity.

a political master- Co-Ordination Of Work of supply that have been called informal nature, the city is gay numbers

I have most of them on my conded by Mr. D. Black and car- upon seven-eighths of the total with the flags of Great Britain builder?

Lean Blum, as a young man of shelves. They are lacid in thought ried.

The Chairman proposed, and requirements in fuses and car-land Greece, while the streets are tridges-cases have been pro-foodlit at nights-Reuter's Bulletin 20, passed through the mill of the and expression. They deal with vided for. An arms factory at Service.

Ecole Normale Superieure, which current literature, with the clasMr. Priestley-seconded,

the ethical and social Messrs Perey Smith, Setb Nottingham has been taken London. The yacht Nahlin, in was created, more than a century sics, with over. Makers of tools and jigs which His Majesty the King is ago to turn out university pro-questions of the day as reflected in Fleming be re-elected Auditors of

(Continued on Page 6.3- the Company. This was carried. are working to capacity. Shell-on a holiday craise, entered fessors, but which. more and more. filling is being transferred to Phaleron Bay yesterday afternoon three areas less open to attack and the British Minister in than Woolwich. Practically Athens, Sir Sydney Waterlow, all requirements in optical went on board and greeted His instruments are being met by Majesty. Newspaper reports state Britain's own optical industry. that the King will spend two days Freparations are advancing for sightseeing in Athens.-British a new Billingham to be erected Wireless Service. in Wales. Aeroplanes are being produced capable of per- formance that would not have been possible two or three years ago, and three times as many have been delivered during the last three months as in the Much same period last year.

of the additional work has gone to the areas where unemploy ment is heavy. Labour diffi- culties have been overcome, andị MA

EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

The First Lady Of Arkansas

NN

Conway, of a family

additional skilled labour is being A highly distinguished in the

trained in the factories while

state

State.

work is in progress All this, history of Arkansas, had 7 sons, Sir Thomas Inskip claimed, has each of whom served his been done without disturbing with distinction. -Two of her sous, the normal industry of the James S. Conway and Elias Nel- son Conway, were Governors of country.

Con- Arkansas; another son was One effect of a notable speechgressman Henry W. Conway, and Was to leave the Opposition still another, William Conway, was without coherent reply, com-Chief Justice of the pelling Mr. Lees-Smith to pro- Frederick R. Conway, another of pound the policy, not hitherto her sons was Surveyer General of that of his party, of divorcing Missouri. Ann's husband, Thomas the co-ordination of defence Conway, was President of the from the supply of munitions. Senate of the State of Franklin. Sir Archibald Sinclair, on be Her nephew was U.S. Senator Am- half of his Liberal group, had brose Sevier, and another nephew to admit that it would be no was Governor Henry M. Rector of service to world peace if Britain Arkansas. were left in a position of such weakness as would tempt an aggressor. In these circum- stances the criticism of weight was left to Mr. Churchill, with his renewed contention that the vast activities of which Sir

Oslo, To-day-The Norwegian Thomas Inskip had spoken were sufficient, and more than suffi- press unanimously demand the cient, for a Minister charged expulsion from Norway of Trotsky. solely with munitions supply since his presence gives rise to Appreciation of the work that internal, as well as foreign com Sir Thomas Inskip has done plications: It is stated that 10 prompts: the question whether does not matter whether he in one Minister should be expectal cites to world revolution with or ed to carry this burden while against Stalin. The Badical La- primarily occupied with the co-bour Government in Norway is fac- ordination of the work of the ing dinculties, since it would pre- three defence forces, with the fer to have Trotsky out of the coun securing of adequate food sup try, but will not risk open-exgal- Ser plies, and with the full utilsation measure tion of the mercantile marine, Ivice.

EXPULSION OF TROTSKY DEMANDED

:

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

ANN CONWA

WAS THE

WIFE OF A SENATOR

AUNT OF A SENATOR

to AUCE A GOVERNOR

MOTHER OF A CONGRESSM MOTHER OF A CHIEF JUSTICE.

AND

MOTHER OF 2 GOVERNORS OF ARKANSAS

The

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TREE.

NATURAL GROWTH ON UZON CITY HIGHWAY - SOUTH OF NORTH EAST

Eine Ca, Penna

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PITCHED 6 SUCCESSIVE

SHOT-OUTS

- FOR BIRMINGHAM, 1907

Southern League

that and