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INTIMATIONS.

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE.

THE HALF YEARLY GENERAL

TESTING of MEMBERS will

be held in the JOCERY CLUB BOOM, Ho Koro Curs ANNEX, OR FRIDAY, 26TH OCTOBER, 1928, at *5,15 PM.

By Order,

H. R. FORSYTH,

Acting Hecretary.

Hong Kong, 12th Oct, 1928, (6844

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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of gaining exclusive knowledge of the inner working of an organiss tion or of the private affairs of other people. The Colony is deficient in the usual forms of entertainment, and consequently any secret know- ledge which can be obtained is ardently sought, even at the expense

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OBITUARY.

1928.

sion of the nursery and ambulance LATE AUSTRALIAN PREMIER. equipment of the Tang Wah Ho pital.

Two corrections are necessary in the Home football scores published in the Daily Press yesterday. The correct scores in the English League (Division 1.) should be Leeds United of a good deal of personal incon, Manchester City 1; Leicester 10,

Portsmouth 0. venience.

It may be there is some hidden virtue in these committees, some divine purpose which the man in the street cannot see. Indeed there must be or so many good eitizens would not find such delight in join- ing them and, we regret to any, in many cases preventing business from being done. In the course of evolution they will probably, arrivo at the condition of permanent session without the transaction of any business whatever. And now the Chinese seem to be infected with this zeal for forming themselves into small groups.. Nanking is full of boards and committers appoint- ed to deal with this and that aspect of National affairs and CHIANG KAI SEK, & soldier and strategist is presumed to have the qualifications to act as the civil head of the most important of them all. What serious contribution he can make to such a body on affairs of state it is dificult to say. It would have been strange if Lord Hato bad assumed the premiership of England at the close of the Great War, but in China particular fitness for mem In is per GOLD & PRIZE bership does not ecunt.

sonal importance that carries the MEDALS..

weight in these matters.

In many cases A committee is useful for bearing the responsibility when matters go wrong or when the "individual Ends it convenient to have behind him a body of docile people, who can be trusted as a rule to do nothing and, above all, to know nothing, about the prob- lems the committee is supposed to deal with more or less intelligently. They usually shoulder the respon

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BOLE AGENT-

On Sunday morning the Folies found the dead body of a Chiness in a field off Argyll Street, and from the multiple injuries on the body, it is assumed that the unfortunate man was murdered, a blunt weapon having been used. C.I.D. officials are working on the case.

Final shows take place to-day at the World Theatre of Rudolph Valentino's great picture, Sainted Devil. Commencing a re- turn season tomorrow, Beau este," the famous French Foreign Legion story with Ronald Colman in the leading role, will be screened until Saturday.

HIGH COMMISSIONER IN ENGLAND.

The death is announced of the Rt. Hon. Andrew Fisher at the age of

68.

KU KLUX KLAN AND AMERICAN- POLITICS.

ASTOUNDING ALLEGATIONS.

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES EXCHANGE COMPLIMENTS.

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Mr. Fisher went to Queensland in 1865, and entered the Queensland

SEDALIA, Missouri, Oct. 18th. Parliament eight years later. He

The last two Republican Ad- held the post of Minister of Rail- ways in the Dawson ministry. He represented Wide Bay in the Comministrationa monwealth Parliament for the first wasteful than any other adminis fifteen years of ita existence, was trations in the history of the Minister of Trade and Customs, and in 1907 Leader of the Federal United States, Governor Alfred E. Parliamentary Labour Party. He Smith declared in an address here became Prime Minister of Aus- tralia from 1900 to 1909, and later to-day on behalf of his candidacy from 1910 to 1913 and 1914 to 1916 for the Presidency."

He represented. Australia at the Imperial Conference in 1911 and also at the Coronation of King George Y. From 1918 to 1991 he

wa High Commissioner of Aus tralia in England.

MR. FRANK DREW.

They have attempted to give away our natural resources," Gov. ernor Smith asserted in summariz ing the Republican administrations. They have postponed and neglock ed our most pressing needs..

The Democratic standard-bearer directly quoted Herbert Hoover's words in accepting the Republican nomination to the Presidency, in tures have decreased $2,000,000 a year since the Democratic régime.

ment, at Pokfulam Road, was broken FATAL MOTORING ACCIDENT. which Hoover said that expendi-

According to a Police report the residence of Mr. C. J. Tacchi, an official of the Public Works Depart into by thieves during his absence un Sunday. Entry was effected by. forcing a window pane, and a.con- Certina, a telescope and money and jewellery to the value of 894 were stolen.

A parcel of land with an area of 6,580 square feet was yesterday sold by public auction at the Crown Land Office for $17,160. The pur chaser, was Mr. Ip Ka King, of No. 28, Mongkok Street," second Bour. The portion of land is known as Kowloon Inland Let No. 9147 and is situated at the junction of Mongkok and Sai Yee Streets. The condition of sale was that not less than $20,000 must be spent on rate from date of purchase. able improvements within 24 months

A Chinese woman and her son, named Lam Kong Ling, 20 years of nge, were passengers on the Man On ferry boat on the Hong Kong Mongkok run yesterday afternoon at 4 p.m. During the trip across the harbour the son was heard to ask mother for 40 cents for opium, but she flatly refused his request. Just as the launch was nearing the whart at Hong Kong, he jumped overboard. A seaman dived in and the ferry boat stopped, but the youth could not be found. The seaman after a long search returned to the ferry

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New YORK, Och sad. The death is announced as the result of a motoring accident of Mr. Frank Drew, the chairman of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company of Newhaven, Connes

ticut.

MISS MAUDE ROYDEN'S VISIT.

PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS.

In connection with Miss Mande

Royden's visit to Hong Kong the following meetings will be held:-

"I challenge him to make good his statement, cried Smith. He knows it is not sq. It is the most misleading statement that could be made in the campaign, for any re- duction which has been effected re- between

presents the difference peace time and war time cest of Government."

HENRY FORD FOR HOOVER.

SOUTH SUDDAY, Mass.,.

Oct. 18th.

Henry Ford is for Hoover. In a statement given to the Press today, the motor magnate for the first time gave definite assurance

recent speech at Sedalia, Missouri. Said Secretary Mellon:

4. Governor Smith undertook to me of presenting a falic picture to challenge my good faith and accuso. the nation.

"

His whole address" exhibits a most superficial knowledge of what has taken place."

Mellon. attempted in detail to show inaccuracies and inconsisten-

cies in Smith's speech.

The statement given out by Work was similar in nature. He charac

statemente terized Smith's

weak and misleading."

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In a separate statement issued by Work, he attempted a defence of his action in renewing the compacts with the oil magnate Harry Sin enir, including a contract for a Government royalty on oil taken at Salt Creek, Wyoming. The con- tracts and terms offered no alter- Criticisms of the renewal ware, native, he said. according to Work, entirely of campaign origin. "*"

Meanwhile the State Department to-day published papers showing that during Hoover's foreign work, he always secured his passports as on American citizen. It was point- ed out that this disproved rumours that at one time the present Re- publican Presidential candidate let his American citizenship lapse. since American passports are given only to American citizens,

At the same time, other sourcca

Monday, October 9th at 10.30 that his heart beats strong for the opposed this attitude of the State m. Meeting with Clergy and Minister to be held in St. John's Cathedral Hall.

Tuesday, October 30th at 5.30 p.m. Public Meeting in the City Hall.

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Wednesday, October 31st at 9.15 p.m. Public Meeting in the City Ball.

Friday, November 2nd-An At Home is to be given by the Helena May Institute at 4 p.m. for women only. Miss Maude Royden will. give an address at 5.30 p.m.

Republican party.

Ford said that he was supporting Herbert Hoover for President be cause he realizes that there can be no prosperity without sobriety.

For the good of the nation, Ford wants to see a continuation of the upward trend of prosperity, he de 'clared.

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It has long been a policy of the Ford plants to insist upon sobriety on the part of workers, and as the wet and dry" issue became more clearly defined as separating Goy ernor Smith and Hoover, Ford's friends have been confident that he would come out for the Repablican

nonince.

A. S. WATSON sibility while permitting the in-causing considerable alarm amongst Farm Company, had the misfortu- they consider support given Hoover

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MARRIAGE. MCKINNON-FAIRNIE-On October 18th, at Shanghai, ANGUS MAC- KINNON, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. MACKINNON, Isle of Skye, to ANGUS. ANNE FAIRNIE, daugh ter of the late, Mr. FAIRNIE and Mra. FAIRNIE, Glasgow.

DEATH.

October 16th, at MITCHELL-On

Shanghai, Jouy MITCHELL, aged

61.

Hong Kong Ofios:,11, Ics House

Street. London Office: 91, Bride Lane,

Fleet Street, B.Q.

The Daily Press.

Hona Kaxe, October (3gp, 1923.

COMMITTEES.

ONE of the chief features of Hong Kong is the great number of com- mittecs which exist and which func- tion in connection with every fort of activity. Any person so inclined could spend not only the whole of his leisure hours, but also a great portion of his working days, sitting on boards and committees which, in some cases, advance the various in- terests of this Colony, but in, which the work is really done by about one member who alone is actually acquainted with the facts. It is a carious form of pleasure which appeals to a vast number of in- habitants who never refuse

TWO ROAD ACCIDENTS.

Mr. D. Thompson, of the Dairy

Democratic leaders intimated that nate to fall from his motor-cycle Kennedy

on a basis of continuation of pre- yesterday evening in Hoad. The accident was attributed sent prohibition conditions may drive votes towards Smith from to a skid, and it is feared that Mr. both the wets" and from the

of

The outbreak of a couple of cases of cholers in Kobe and Osaka is officials, in view of the coming dividual to realise his aim without. Coronation festivities and the prox- imity of Kyoto to these two cities. their practical assistance. It sounds The first person found to he suffer so much more impressive when a person can say, "I am instructed deck-hand belonging to a British collar bone. He was taken to the hibition enforcement but convinced

by my committee to inform you, etc." Evidently there is a deep craving in the human soul to meddle, in as many concerns pa pos- sible, outside of one's immediate occupation and committees help to satisfy that craving.

the

freighter, the other being a Japanese to whom the disease is believed 10,000 persons have been inoculated to have been communicated. Some with anti-cholera serum, while the sale of aquatic products along the Kobe and Osaka seafront has been prohibited.

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A quarrel is proceeding between two Chinese vernacular papers in statement Kuala Lumpur over alleged to have been made by one

Government Civil Hospital.

A tram accident in Des Yeux is also reported. A Chinese was Road near the Wing On Co., Ltd., knocked down and was taken to hospital in a serious condition..

f H.M.S. HERMES " RETURNS. H.M.S. Hermes, the big aircraft

of them that. Sun Yat Sen was a carrier arrived in port yesterday The Eng-morning from Weibaiwel, and once usurper and traitor.' lish translation of the Yick Kuan again the familar. drone of her o article suggests that the writer Bristol Scouters was heard over the may merely Enve been misunder Colony early in the morning. The stood, but the Chung Hua Sang Hermes is the first ship of the has replied with a vigorous de- China Squadron to arrive in the fence of the Father of the Chinese Colony from the summer visit to Republic," and with a demand for Northern waters. an explanation.

U-BOAT MEMORIAL AT KIEL.

that the Republican concept of suen enforcement is unsound.

Neither Republicans nor Demo- crats appear to be stressing their big business" support, since each party has support of this kind, and the farm and Southern" votes are

considered of increasing impor

tance.

K.K.K. AND CATHOLISM.

NEW YORK City, Oct. 17th. A sensational article published by the New York World to-day "says that at the time of the recent Democratic convention, the Ku Klux Klan planned to invite a

Fascist march on Rome."

Department by charging that Hoover once voted in the Transvaal election in South Africa, which would mean that he had assumed British nationality.

The Democratic standardbearer to-day was aboard a special train bound for Chicago, where he is to speak on Friday night. It is be- lieved that Governor Smith may make a campaign issue of the latest developments in connection with the oil seandais, although Smith himself has not commented on the subject...

Democratic leaders said that the Republicans were anticipating such a move by Governor Bmith, which was the reason why Work issued his statement on the oil matters to-day. Commenting on his tour of Vir ginis, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, Governor Smith said:-

"I am entirely satisfied that they

all right!" PLAYING ON RELIGIOUS" PREJUDICE.

New YORK CITY, Oct. 18th. Charges and counter-charges New thick and fast in political speeches. delivered throughout the United States last night by protagonists of both the major parties.

Speaking at Ogden, Utab, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency, declared that the Republicans are using religious prejudice as "fla smoke, screen to hide inefficiency and corruption."

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It is fairly safe to say that any evening at 5 c'clock about fifty per cent of Europeans are engaged in discussing something in some forma

He said it would be instructive or another, either in a sub-com.

to penetrate this screen and discern the motives behind: Robinson turn- wittee specially appointed to deal

It was intended to send a "reded his heavy artillery on those who, with the case, or in full committee,

shirt army to Houston, Texas, he said, are striving to mislead the It is an innocuous form of plea-

scat of the convention which was people into the idea that election expected to nominate Governor of Governor Alfred E. Smith to the Alfred L. Smith, in order prevent Presidency

turn the sure, and provides a good deal of

Miss Iahbel MacDonald, eldest harmless and innocent employment. | daughter of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald,

the "pomination of a member of the national executiveship over to the Catholic Church.

Pope at Rome. It seldom happens that these com- speaking at a women's Labour.com- ference at Northampton, said that

This plan failed to materialize, This sort of talk, Robinson assert- mittees cause any, disturbance to though women were trembling at

A memorial to the U-boat officers according to the World, because two ed, is an insult to the intelligence the even tenor of our way. Aa in their new responsibilities she felt

case of the War Memorial they would do their work as citizens and men killed in the War has of the Exalted Cyclops of the Ku of the voters and simply strives to very well. They would not be ideal been unveiled at Kiel on the site Klux Klan. became involved in a stir up blind hatred among the Hospital Committee the joy of de-citizens straight away, and some of the old Moltenorter battery, dispute over details of the demon various religious orders.

Republican leaders paid a call an liberation is protracted sometimes would not vote at once. Education which was demolished under the stration. This clash of authority

was needed, and she thought that Peace Treaty, and near the spot resulted in the whole scheme falling Herbert Hoover in Washington, ̈

bringing pressure to bear in an for years, until in fact the original eventually young women would be where the Brst submarine trials through.

were carried out some 20 years ago. It was intended that the red effort to have the Republican atan- more enthusiastic than young men, members are dead or departed. It

The date was chosen to coincide shirt array" should number some dard-bearer use St. Louis for his as they were more serious minded.

as nearly as possible with the an- 50,000 members of the Klin, accord- one final western address" to - bo is the pleasure of discussion rather

niversary of the sinking by Uing to the World story. The army broadcast by radio. They pointed than sense of achievement that is

on September 22nd, 1914, of the was to march from Peekskill, New out that Governor Smith caused important and satisfying.

British cruisers Aboukir, Hogue, York, under leadership of rangers damage to the Republican cause in and Cressy, with 60 officers and tastefully surmounted by nicke: the state of Missouri. some 1,400 men. The memorial; plated trench helmeta. which has been subscribed for by former submarine officers, ship. building firms, and others, takes the form of a granite tower, about "Woe to the vanquished-petuate the tradition of the old Imperial Navy and will transmit to pos terity the unforgettable will to sacrifice of the boat crews."

to the Corey of the Hong Kong Benevolent Society rice Mrs. Me Elderry.

Three footpads set upon a Chinese woman on Sunday night in Re clamation Street, Yaumati. They robbed her of a pair of gold, bangles, valued at $00 and made good their

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Others of the Kian were expected to join en route, so that by the time the army reached Houston it

the

They also strove to get Hoover to follow a route through West Vir- ginin, Kentucky, Kansas and Colo- rade, asking him to make an im propta speech every day that he is en route in spite of his well-known dislike for such speech-making..

It is pointed out by the Republi- cans that, at the time Hoover starts. on October 30th, Smith will be speaking every night along the Eastern scaboard as he tours the const.

The Superstition Exhibition the Museum of Public Health re- cently held at Budapest, included some interesting receipts used by charlatana in former times. To cure The Colony had a clean bill of epilepsy a sick child's coat was put out at the cross roads; when the Devil had carried it away the illness health over the week-end.

was supposed to be cured. Another

might number well over 100,000. Mrs Shellshear, having returned

7aft high, with the inscription : cure for epilepsy was to catch to Colony, has resumed the Hon.

mole before SE, George's Day and consume the heart, baked very crisp To cure diseased ears patients were advised to cut the rope of the bell Coffin-nails on Christmas night. were believed to cure earache, and cat's fur, soaked in sour cream, was prescribed as an application for ab acesses. Drunkenness was cured by a powder made of dried, snake, mixed with powders made from dried bats and moles, administered in brandy. The virtues of precious stones were also emphasised. The diamond symbolised bravery. Mala

The anti-cyclone is moving east- ehite believed to cure cholera invitation to participate in the sales during the period to 82,910 and rheumatisere sapphire, given wards. It extends from the Lower imaginary work of controlling come

to the beloved, was said to change Yangtaze Valley across Japan to the thing or some group of personaAn investiture is being held at colour if she were unfaithful. Gold Pacific

was believed to prevent jaundice. The typhoon is probably about Government House on Friday even- The strength of the appeal liesing when H.E. the Officer Adminis Salt was the symbol of eternity, and 200 miles south east of Guam It of the Treasury, and Hubert Work, spoke at Martinsburg, West Vir probably not so much in the sense tering the Government will decorate when the stars were propitious for appears to be stationar pre-chairman of the of power and importance which the recipients of Honours bestowed a new-born child long life was en- on the occasion of the King's Birth-sured by pouring salt crystals into

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WEATHER REPORT.

The weather report, forecast and remarks issued by the Royal Obser- vatory, Hong Kong, at 5 p.m. yes terday etate

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Hoover is now working on a speech he will deliver in New York City on Monday night.

The World was winner of one of Annual Pulitzer journalism prizes for its fight against the Klan And its exposure of Klan practices. CHARGES AND COUNTER- CHARGES. Warnaton, Oct. 17th... With the time for election rapid ly drawing near, both the Repub- Ilean and tho Democratic parties In a radio address: delivered at are speeding up their campaigus St. Paul, Frank B. Kellogg, Secre- training and experience for high and are launching vigorous battles tary of State, praised Hoover's on the part of individual leaders.

The making and denying of ac office. He likewise commended the cusations is becoming the most im economical administration of the Statements were issued to-night Scaator Charles Curtis, Republi portant feature of these battles. Republicans,

Vice-Presidential nominee; by both Andrew Mellon, Secretary can

Republican | ginis, and is to make another National Committee, denying state speech at Wilmington, Delaware. Local forecast: North cast winds, ments which Governor Alfred E. He is assailing Smith's prohibition

Smith made in the course of his and immigation policies. moderate, fins.