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A New York message dated October 19th any the people of New York and Chicago were enjoying summer heat with the warmest October since 1858, while a blizzard has buried Wyoming under 18 inches of now.

Clark's Cairdonia World Cruise for 1930 has been deferred on 20- count of the unfavourable condi tions existing and the rolling stock

China, and depression in busines in the United States due to the Presidential election this year. Although reluctant to give up tha

world cruise, the conditions stated have made it obligatory, and there was no alternative.

An ex-soldier named James Powell, who was mourned as dead for 19 years, returned to his home st, Cardiff last month. He served with the Army Service Corps during : the War and in 1918 he was report- On the way home ed missing.

authorities were able to do was to Sunday next is Hospital Sunday, burn down a few all buts ind the occasion is being specially

observed at St. John's Cathedral. which pirates were known to live, and although this action was very necessary and salutary, and the threats that it would be repeated whenever a British ship was attack ed may have caused a certain amount of misgiving, it certainly would not have the same deterrent effect Captain A. E. Suage of ILS. The engagement is announe 1 of to "Miss Margot OLD BROWN the systematic searching of villages Cumberland

Stephen, daughter of the late Mr. until actual traces of the piracy. Stephen, of the Hong Kong were found and a number of those and Shanghai Banking Corpora- regarded as being concerned in it tion, Shanghai. were run" to earth. So far tha

The Japan Aviation Company piratea" have been absolutely safe next week is starting its air-mail after once getting to shore with passenger service between Shanghai Powell visited a cald where he had and Csaka. A Dormer Wahl fying formerly been employed. By a re their booty. This sense of security boat, equipped with wireless ap-markable coincidence he was served must vanish with the re-awakened paratus, will start from Osaka on by his sister, who is employed there Afanday next (nd inst) on its first As a waitress. He says that he has

travelled all over the world. activity of the Chinese Government, fight for Shanghai. and now it has been shown that a very grave danger of being caught, and subsequently executed, on land has been added to the risks at sea, it may be "hoped that piracy will soon cease to be looked upon as a profitable means of livelihood.

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BARRERA, a son.

A naval wireless message states that a big fire occurred at Hankew on the night of the 16th instant in the godown of the Nissan Eisen Kaisha. No damage was done to the Consulate near by, and the Municipal police kept the crowd of onlookers in perfect control.

The submarine detection branch of the British Navy is to be re-. organised as an independent one, equivalent to the gunnery and tor gede branches. The importance of this service justifies such recognition of status as is implied by the change. The primary qualification for a sound-detector is a natural gift of ear, just as in the caan of As we have remarked before, until

Announcement is made of the gunner it is a natural gift of eye. the lesson has been thoroughly engagement of Miss Etta Moore. But the anti-submarine service has learned that piracy does not pay Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Capt. Coleman of the hydrophone to such a degree daughter of Mrs. B. F. Moore, of evolved the elementary possibilities there is little hope of preventing Driver, U.S.A., at present attached that it is not only possible to pick offers from, occasionally being to the American Embassy in Tokyo. up a submarine at a very consider. Capt. Driver is well-known through-able distance, but to locate her taken by surprise and ships from out the Far East. He was formerly exactly and determine her speed With such know- being looted. And the only people Inspector for Military Science at and direction.

Mckinley High School in Hono- edge, her "particular form Inlu..

menace is largely neutraliaed.

who can drive that lesson home are the Canton authoritics. No British

force could have carried through so effectively and expeditiously the plan of campaign arranged for the crews of the three small Chinese

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of

shing junk which

According to the master of the At a fancy dress ball at Minehead W34 pirated (England) "last month some stag- near Chungchow a couple of days hunters became rather exuberant, ago the pirate boat was one and expressed their joie de vivre by masted vessel with black sail, and attacking a local journalist. The carried a crew of six, all of whom curnalist was pitched upon because spoke the Punti dialect, Loot taken he is known to have criticised gunboats. Village after village was away by the pirates included $10 etag-hunting, for ita cruelty. The surrounded and everyone closely in cash, jewellery worth $30, cloth-portamen" dragged him through questioned but all denied knowledge in worth $16, and fishing nets the hotel, across the hotel grounds and the promenade, and then threw of the pirates' whereabouts. Most

him into the sea. But this by no The driver of a motor-lorry had meane satisfied the stag-bunters, for of them confessed entire ignorange

valued at $100.

that any piracy had occurred, and a nasty accident in the New Ter-when the half-drowned journalist to a break- ritories on Thursday. It appears succeeded in climbing the Elders..came forward with sub that the lorry was on its way to water, he was immediately pushed deliver a load of cement and tar into the sea again. This incident stantial guarantees in support of to workers on the Castle Peak Rond is almost identical with one which The occurred a few months ago in that the truth of these statements when the gasoline ran out.

driver foolishly lit a match to see part of the country, except that the Finally three men, who suffered how much was needed in the tank, victim was then a stag, whose from a notoriously bad reputation, with the result that the tank ex- throat was cut when it was com were taken into custody, and under ploded and set fire to the lorry, pletely exhausted. It was this which which was completely destroyed. led to the journalist's criticisms in close examination at last admitted The man received some burns of a the first place. This incident is an that they had been forced to carry not very serious character. The edifying revelation of the mentality

contractor puts his loss at $300.

hai, to Mr. and Mrs. ALEX L.. BARR-On October 13th, at the Country Hospital, "Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. BARE,mediately made to this village and son, DUNCAN FRAZER, KUEHN.On October 18th, at the there evidence in the shape of stolen

Country Hospital, Shanghai, to property was found. « Mr. and Mrs. Karl Krmen, ak daughter.

loot for the pirates to the village |

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Wood. On October 11th, at Harbin, to Mr. and Mrs. M. W. WOOD, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank ing Corporation, a son.

MARRIAGE.

WEGENER-NAUGHTON.-On October 13th, at German Consulate. General, Shanghai, and at Holy Trinity Cathedral, by the. Very Rev. Dean A. C. S. TRIVETT, ANNIE EVELYN NAUGHTON, tô HERMAN OTTO WEGENEK.

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of stag-hunters, and is hardly a convincing reply to those who have. raised their voices against the fol- The many friends of Mr. A. H. iewers of this sport in the past, Abbas will regret to hear that be especially in Devon and Somerset. is very ill, suffering from nervous It rather supports the view that breakdown. As Assistant Secretary this kind of sport has a brutalising of the Hong Kong Club for over ¦ effect on those ddicted to it. Any- twenty-five years, he has always how, if men will mets out such Whether or no it will be possible been a very popular figure among treatment to a human being, it is to connect the prisoners with the the members of the Club. easy to understand that animals

Abbas is undergoing a special can expect little mercy from them.. Aaking piracy and to obtain suf-course of treatment at the Canton It is to be hoped that the affair ficient evidence to secure their con Sanitarium under the care of the will be taken further, and the well-known German specialist, Dr. authors of this outrage made to pay viction in the Canton Courte is, ín Otto, of the firm of Drs. Rummel, in a court of law for their happy one sense, a matter of little import-Schneider, Otto and Breitlaender. evening..

The fact that the Canton is many friends will wish him a

speedy recovery,

Mr. Smit's courageous speech to authorities have recognised their

the League Assembly advocating duty in the matter, and have shown

Misa Frances Weaver, in a paper an international agreement to pre- read at the women engineers' convent "the arming of those African that they will not allow the pirates terence at Bristol University, de- natives who had no use for and no to enjoy umimolested a safe retreat clared that there was a vast field knowledge of military armaments of undiscovered territory for metal or military requirements” was an on the Kwangtung coast line, will lurgists, particularly in the realm appeal to the general conscience probably be in itself sufficient of alloy steels, The annual loss due against one of the least defensible

to the corrosion of iron and steel decisions of the Peace Conference seriously to discourage the organi-

cetimated

at well over The mandate system, with all its sation of future piracies on a large £500,000,000, and this was being faults, represented a great step for- combated by a more extensive use ward on behalf of what are known scale from this particular quarter. of stainless metal, so called, which, as the subject races. The clause!.. A year or two ago we heard a good although not stainless in the cor. in the Covenant which established rect sense, of the ward, possessed a it forbids **the military training of many facetious remarks about the very high resistance to corrosion the natives for other than police formation of the Bias Bay Piracy With the wide ranges of tensile purposes and the defence of "terri- In the debates an the Company Unlimited" and the stock strength now available the next few tory,"

years should see enormous increases Covenant Commission France de was quoted at a premium. As the in its use. In this age of industrial, clared that she could not renounce developments they were proud that the right raise troops from all result of Canton action, and the the greatest contributions to metal colonial countries under French permanent control which they are lurgical progress bad been made by control. Mr. Lloyd George pointed

their own countrymen..

out that the clause did not prevent now preparing to exercise over the

the raising of native forces, but Hand Kowe, Ogrober 20, 1929. territory concerned, we imagine the What becomes of the Starlight is only the raising of great native shares in this corporation will the title of an interesting article armies," and Clemenceau pro- by Prof. H. N. Russell in the fessed himself satisfied." But

·CANTON'S CO-OPERATION. slump, and trust that its complete Scientific American. Prof. Russell by the time the mandates had to liquidation will not be for long tion of boundless space, by far the vanished, and the French mandates, points out that, on the old concep be drawn up his satisfaction had It would appear that the Canton delayed.

larger portion of the energy poured unlike all the others, permit the forth from the stars would seem to ¦ troops raised to be used for defence authorities have faithfully kept The Chinese Becreation Club is be dissipated in the form of ever- of territory outside that under man- their promise to do everything in giving an

widening and over-weakening waves, date. Although the words merely "At Home" to-day On the conception of re-entrant permit the use of the police forces their power to bring about the (Saturday), commencing at 3 p.m.space, the waves would, after making elsewhere, France has interpreted the circuit of space, go over the same them, with the tacit consent of her capture of the men who were con- sharp.

ground again. The question is allies, as permitting just that rais- examined whether the wave energy, ing of native armies which Mr. which is now considered to come Lloyd George held the Covenant" from the annihilation of matter, forbade. The contradiction between may possibly be built up into matter French practice and her obligatione again. It is shown that this in-under the Covenant is glaring, and volves some difficult conceptions, Mr. Smit has done well to raise The energy required to form a again the question at once so de. hydrogen atom would be spread cisively and so tactfully.... through some 400 cubic feet of space. A reference is made to Dr. Milli- kan's suggestion that the cosmic. rays investigated by him result from the union of 28 hydrogen atoms to form a silicon atom; "it is not easy to see how the 28 electrons remarks, issued from the Royal and 28 protons can all get to the Observatory, Hong Kong. at 4.55 same place at the same time." But p.. yesterday states that the anti-- it must be remembered that know creione continues to increase in ledge of the structure of the atom intensity, and fresh to strong mon in only a quarter of a century old, soon will continue along the coast and it is to be hoped that the and over the North China Bes. future may reveal solutions of these

winds, difficult but fascinating problems

THE HOOVER-SMITH

The death occurred in Hankow on the 18th instant of Alfred H. Coursene, a stoker on board H.M.8. Cockchafer

cerned in the recent piracy of the

During the twenty-four hours dnking. The details of the expedi-ending October 18th no caser of tion to the Tai Chow Huo district, notibable disease were reported in published in the Daily Press yes the Colony.. terday, have been read with the greatest interest and satisfaction, and the arrest of nine suspected pirates, out of a gang of probably twenty or thirty, is generally' re- garded as a very satisfactory result of the preliminary "combing out of this territory. It must be re membered that raids on pirate headquarters have beca carried out previously but no one has ever been taken prisoner. All that the British

The date the dance at the Peak Club has been changed from Satur day, November 3rd, to Friday, November 2nd-Anví.

The date of the acat Congrega tion of the University of Hong Kong for the purpose of conferring degrees has been fixed for Monday, January 14th, 1090 at 5 p.m.

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