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CLIPPER ARRIVING ON MARCH 1

It is officially announced to-day that the NC18602 Boeing Clipper

will depart from its base at Trea sure Island in San Francisco, (site) of the forthcoming Golden Gate International Exposition) on Feb- ruary 22 and is due to arrive in Hong Kong on March 1.

On this first trans-Pacific cross- ing of Pan American Airways' newest and largest flyingboat, no passengers will be carried in either direction.

cargo

However, mail and air express will be accepted for the flight departing from Hong Kong on March 2.

carry well as 'mail and

Subsequent flights will passengers as

will be on a weekly basis, with re- duced fares and increased baggage allowances.

FRENCH- CONTACT WITH REICH

Paris, To-day.. M. Georges Bonnet, Foreign Minister, received M, Coulon- dre, French Ambassador to Berlin, yesterday afternoon.

It is stated that the Ambas-

sador informed M. Bonnet of

a conversation with Herr von Ribbentrop, the German For eign Minister, and conveyed to M. Bonnet special informa- tion from Herr von Ribben-

trop.

It is believed that the call was made in connection with the Spanish problem Trans-

Ocean.

$2,000 LOSS IN VILLAGE

ARMED ROBBERY

China National Aviation Cor- poration, General Traffic Agents for Pan American Airways at Hong Kong say that they are not at this time in a position to an-

Armed robbery at Sheung Shui nounce what arrangements will be made for receiving the first of the has been reported by Hau Kam Boeing Clippers, but it is hoped

that instructions will be received shing, 26, married woman, of Ho from San Francisco in the near] Sheung Heung Village.

About 1a.m. this morning, she. !|future.

Hong Kong has been awaiting | was awakened by a noise from the for some time the arrival of this roof, and saw five men climbing new giant airliner, which will de in, two armed with revolvers and finitely mark a new era in the one with a dagger.

commercial aviation, progress of and a great deal of satisfaction is felt in that the Colony is soon to be served regularly by the largest commercial aircraft in operation in the world..

MARINE SMASHES WINDOW

She was bound with wire and gagged.

The men ransacked the house and escaped with money, jewellery and clothing to

of the value $1,968.

SCHOOL PRIZE-GIVING

The Director of Education, Mr. Frank Farnfield, 22, Royal Ma-

C. G. Sollis distributed scholar- rines, of H.M.S. Kent, was charged before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest this ships and prizes at the annual morning, with malicious damage, speech day of the Vernacular in smashing a window pane valued Normal and Middle School, Sai- at $15 at No. 126 Gloucester Road. yingpun, which was held to-day.

Mr. Sollis congratulated the ground floor, and with being drunk

school on its past year's achieve- and disorderly.

Defendant pleaded not guilty to ments, particularly in the direction the first charge, but admitted the of Chinese literary studies for which the school was originally second.

founded.

Private E. Simmons, R.A.S.C., giving evidence, said he saw de- fendant break the window.

Defendant was ordered to pay $15 compensation and fined $10.

A LA CHINOISE?

Mr. Li King- The headmaster, hong, in the course of his annual report, said the maximum enrol- ment was 245 and the average at- tendance 97.79 per cent. He drew attention to the fact that since the inception of the school a greater proportion of time in the lower The former Reichsbank Preforma had been spent on Chinese. sident, Dr. Schacht, will shortly In spite of that, the boys make a trip round the world in an entirely private capacity.—Trans- Ocean.

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Miss D. Henderson, of Kowloon Docks, was fined $5 by Mr. Mac- fadyen for leaving her car unattend- ed in Salisbury Road between 11 a.m. and 12.05 pm, on January 21..........