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cross between Moscow and Chicago) tried to make their fellow- Yesterday's weather report, fore- citizens keep the European New cast and remarks, issued by the Year's Day. These efforts were re- Royal Observatory at 5 p.m., prated this year, but outside

stated:-

official and "advanced" circles no

drama.

News and Views.

Professor J. P. Bruce reached the age of sixty-five in the session 1925-26, and bag four times been re- appointed for the space of one. Mr. Noel Coward and the Earl of session to his Chair of Chinese at Antherst, who are visiting Japan,

Cambridge University. Professor The anticyclone remains to the one took very much notice, and were guests of honour at the Christ Bruce is at the top of his forms and north of the lower Yangtaze. when Chinese New Year

mas dinner given at the British comes

health, and the School of Oriental Strong monsoon will prevail along the south-east conet of China and round no, doubt the response of the Embassy in Tokyo. Mr. Coward Studies in London, fighting in a is greatly interested in Japanese friendly spirit against the Univer over the N. China Sea.

general mass of people will be on Local Forecast:-N, winds, fresh, the lines that Canton has followed

sity's rules for, retirement in order, fine.

for thousands of years. The fact

to retain his services, has persuaded the Senate to re-appoint him to the is that the reformers are attempt ing too much. The business com-

Chair for a final period" of one unity is evidently ready to accept

year from September, 1930. the change, and the very consider. able inconvenience which it must

the great social and religious fes- But the suggestion that

tival, with its many associations and special significance, should also be transplanted is another matter.. It carries no advantage, is un-

BIRTHS.

COLMAN-On December 50, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. H. F. C. COLMAN, SCHLE-On New Year's Day, at

Route Honri Riviere, Shanghai, to ALIX, wife of ROBERT SCRLEY,

a son.

MARRIAGE

VOGE-ATKINSON-On December 25,

at Chicago, Ill. Atice GER- TRUDE ATKINSON, second daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A.

ATKINSON, to Licut. RICHARD VOGE, U.S.N...

DEATHS.

BUCKENHAM-On December 31, at

the General Hospital, Shang hai, ERNEST EDMUND BUCKEN HAM, Crittall Manufacturing Co., aged 53 years.

PANKUCHEN-On January 1, at the

Country Hospital, Shanghai, CARL AUGUST EMIL PFANEUCHEN. beloved husband of KATHERINE PPANKUCHEN and father of PA LINK, PATSY and PAUL, aged 64

years.

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necessary, and arouses instinctive opposition. The business propasi tion is reasonable, but the "social

reform" a gratuitous invasion of personal rights and sentimenta The Chinese people naturally see that there is no valid objection to retaining "New Year," in the home, even if there is another New Year in the office. But many of the individuals now guiding the des- tinies of the Republic feel that the opportunity is too good to miss. They see their private fads, and they cannot A chance of furthering

renounce it in the interests of good In fact revelation is abroad, and a revolutionary is sometimes an uncomfortable sort of person who declares he must cut down and uproot a tree which may be old. useful, and beautiful, merely be-' cause it stands in need of a little- judicious pruning, Revolutionaries are always with us, and in China

sense.

Among passengers due here by the Empress of Russia on the 13th inst. are Mr. George Hogg, Manager of the National City Bank, Shanghai, and Mr. and Mrs. H. Burgess. Mr.

Dr. Jonathan W. S. Carver, ar Burgess is Superintendent Engineer cheologist, who has recently been of the C.P.S.S.. Ltd., at Vancouver.engaged in research work in Mexico, was killed at Columbus, Texas, last

It is announced that the full 'ex-week, in an automobile accident. press service on the Kowloon-Canton Special interest is lent the tragedy Railway will be resumed to-day by the fact that Dr. Carver was (Wednesday) The service was in terrupted some weeks ago owing to bridges being blown up during the recent hostilities around Canton.

member of the Curzon party which explored the tomb of Tut Aakh Amen, one of the ancient Egyptian. Pharaohs. The Tut Ankh "Amen tomb was discovered in the, autumn Announcement has been made of of 1993 and the sarcophagus was the forthcoming marriage of Mr. opened in February of 1924. It re- vealed funeral trappings of, the Lawrence James Francis Griffiths, utmost grandeur, value and scien of the Public Works Department,ific interest; but superstitious per- and residing at Empress Lodge,

Kowloon, to Beatrice Mary Killorn Brown, of 5. Wing Lok Buildings,

Kowloon,

At

gaming house, at

Convicted of keeping a common 158, Weosung Street. a Chinese was fired 850 by Mr. Whyte Smith Magistracy yesterday. Five others Kowloon

were niso fined 22 each for gan bling, while nine who failed to ap pear in Court had their bail of 83

estreated.

sona declared that a curse would. follow each member of the party which took part in opening the tomb. In a number of cases, meir bers of the party have met death in more or les spectacular ways,

Shanghai and Service Man. alities shared in a large way the The Service Men of all nation-

New Year's Day in Shanghai, says festivities of New Year's Eve and

Navy Y.M.C.A. was headquarters the North-China Daily News. The for men day and night during the holiday season and it was here that a splendid programme was arranged for New Year's Eve through the generosity of The Little Club and St. George's. The entertainers con- tributed their services and put on responding to many encores, and other the orchestra from St. George's fur- foreign engineers retired at the nished request numbers" for end of last month and Chinese over half an hour. Following this engineers have been appointed to succeed them.

According to the Chinese Press, Colonel G. G. Stroebe, chief survey

Press, they include a large proportion of engineer to the Tangisze River seven different numbers, spart from

HONG KONG JANUARY 8, 1930.

A. S. WATSON NEW YEAR DISSENSIONS.

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tion with regard to A Number of CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME- Share Certificates which have been

ORIENT. Fraudulently obtained from the Com- pay, All Bokiers of Share Certificates of the Company are requested to wear in Fall Particulare of their Holdings, Number of Certificates, Name of Owner..

anch (Ruby made for the allotment of the Actual Distinguishing Numbers of

"The provisions in question do not apply to Contracts entered into by any incorporated Company in its corporated capacity and made for the general benefit of the Company."

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"PEAK MANSIONS"

the educated population, who exer- cise a big influence on those res, ponsible for the Central Govern ment. This revolutionary element is probably at the hack of many of the precipitate and unreason- able actions of Chinese. Ministers of State.

Commission, and several

A huge public bonfire in Peping has marked the culmination of a campaign by the local Bureau of

ngainst Public Safety

held the men to a late hour, after comedy The Brown Derby"

which sleeping accommodations were taxed to capacity. On New Year's

afternoon with a

Day the programme started in the

Splash Party *. in the swimming pool. This was followed shortly by an old fashioned sing-song in the gymnasium in which opium- most of the new theme songs were Large used. A movie The Daughter of drugs the Storm" followed.

were

The great nation of China seems unable to make up its mind about)

This matter of the reform of the the question of the calendar. It calendar is, therefore, symbolical. hesitates between two opinions, The change is desirable and could smoking and gambling. dissatisfied with the old manner of be arranged amicably. So reason- quanities of confiscated

gambling apparatus reckoning, and not yet reconciled able and steady a body as the Hong and

This is not Kong Chinese Chamber of Com-burned amid ceremonies to accepting the new. the only matter upon which the merce is entirely favourable, But were modelled upon those conduct-Looking Back 25 Years, Republic wavers, and foreigners once the extremist politiciar takes ed by social reformers" in the end his life was made by an Ameri- within her gates wish, for example, hand revolutionary principles, emblems of progress, revolt against decision Lo eradicate

that a

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vol-

Yesterday afternoon the Supreme ment's order prohibiting the sale of into the legality of searching the In spite of the National Govern Court held an inquiry in Chambers lunar calendars, Japanese printing French mail steamers for opium stores in Shanghai are reported to brought from Shanghai for Colom- " such calendars and put them on Australia. The question has crop- have produced large quantities of bo, to be transhipped there for sale. Upon receipt of this report,ped up before in this Colony

A most determined attempt to

can named Harold Irvine Roes, 4 years of age, at the Central Police A survey conducted through the Station, on Saturday last. Ross"

was charged with the larceny and gistered and firmiy executed. But backs of the toiling proletarint, United States on January 1 showed forging of a cheque for $68 on the the New Year has brought the begin to flare round the horizon, that liquor was plentiful every International Bank. He was placed where, and in meat centres the a cell to await his trial, which matter of the calendar to the front, The element of violence and con-

in all probability would have come and beyond its merits it has a troversy is introduced, until the supply exceeded the demand, des-on at the police-court to-day. While certain significance. When the re. ordinary Chinese person becomes pite special efforts of the prohibi-passing near the sell the form of the calendar was discussed thoroughly suspicious, for, China istion forces to give America an arid stable on duty in the charge-room. noticed that a pane of glass in one by that very able and level headed still an instinctively conservative Christmas and New Year holiday. of the windows was broken. This body the local Chinese Chamber of

Every educated Chinese Prohibition officials, however, de- aroused suspicion, and on enter- Commerce general approval of the knows that great changes inust be clared that the celebration had ing he found Ross lying on the floor with deep cut in his wrist which he had made with a piece of glass, iden was expressed, but it had to made in the political and economic proved the most orderly in years.."

and a pool of blood covering the bendraitted that though the adop-structure of the country, and when tion of the solar calendar had been thie task of reconstruction is in the principle of rocket propulsion found two pieces of glass in his cost Mr. Fritz Von Opel, inventor of kor. He quickly bandaged up the arm, and on searching the accused advertised, the change-over was im-hands of moderately responsible for aeroplanes, automobiles and

pockets. Evidently he intended, practicable until it was also accept practical persons there is little or speed boats, gave an interview laat should the first prove unsuccessful,

week in New York in which he en ed by Canton, and the country dis-no opposition. Several of the

to make a second attempt on his visioned acroplanes bearing 1,000 life. He was taken to the Govern- military dictators, such as YEN HS: passengers. These planes, propelled ment Civil Hospital, where the in- The advantages of failing into SHAN, FENO YE HANG, and in by periodic explosions from line with the Western world's rec. Kwangsi the late WONG SHIU special rocket mechanism, would Jury was attended to, and he is now under supervizion. Hong attain a speed of 5,000 miles an koning of time are obvious. China HUNG, have made excellent adminis hour, in the opinion of the German Ang Daily Press, January 1905. wishes to enter the commercial trutive progress, carrying the authority. comity of nations, in which busi-people with them. But let the re- ness methods are "rapidly beingvolutionaries touch a problem and standardised the world over, and it becomes exaggerated and distort- endless confusion is likely to arised, until the older elements take from a difference in the ordinary fright and harden into passive ob- references to times and dates. It struction. China's problem is cs is worse than the obtrusion of sentially political. Given a stable the Waichinopu has ordered the whether or not the Freach mail British weights and measures into Government the country would go for Kiangsu to

Commissioner of Foreign Affairs steamers bad the atatus of approach themen-al-war, and were or were the more convenient metric system. ahead. Its recuperative power- Japanese Consul-General with anot liable to be searched under COMPREHENSIVE AND COM-But New Year is much more than springing from the frugality and view to suppressing their sale. certain contingencies which might

a grand settlement day to the industry of its peasant and trad- PLETE REPORT

A change is to take place in the anchor in this barbour. It appears Chinese. It is the most important ing classes,-bas again and again command of the surveying ship that the Opium Farmer, having in- holiday and one of the chief re- amazed the world. The people are Captain J. D. Nares, D.S.O., who through the waters of this Colony, Iroquois, stationed in China waters formation that these carried opium ligious festivals. Not only debts mentally ready for changes; they has been appointed assistant hydro- applied to a sitting magistrate at hut family calls of courtesy must have got over much of their in- grapher of the Navy, will be the police-court for a warrant to be paid, and evil spirits must be stinctive dislike of foreignert, and, screeded in command of the ship search, but without success. driven out by a bountiful explosion given a fair prospect of security, the command of the Endeavour, at was then put in motion, and what by Commander E. F. B. Law, from machinery of the Supreme Court of crackers. There is all the jollity foreign capital would be forthcom- present on her way back to the Red transpired there yesterday we and gift-giving which Europeansing. Every European either living | Sea after a refit at Sheerness. Com knny not, beyond this, that the de-

Opium Farmer to obtain the neces- sary warrant, which was issued and not surprising that when a member will see the Nanking Government has received an order from the Superintendent of Police, who has The Mayor of Greater Shanghai placed in the hands of the Captain- of the Chinese Chamber genially settled in power and both warlords Administrative Yuan in which it is the benefit of previous experience inquired who was celebrating and agitators kept in their places. anid that workers may not demand in the matter of boarding Mer January 1, the reply was that no When we see the reform of the increased wages unless such in sagorics Maritimes eteamers. We one had thought of doing any such calendar quietly adopted without high cost of living. However, reviewed His Excellency the Governor creases are asked for to meet the believe the Chief of Police inter- thing!

any fuss, or any reference to social quests for higher wages may only after receiving the warrant, and At the end of 1028; it will be celebrations, we can take it as

be asked for when it is known that presume that the Opium Farmer business conditions of the.com stright put is arch the rower mufor delivery daBong.coombered, contrizmasdent.couchbare Tencore by which they are employed. te search which has been granted. Kong #13; including Postage to who wish to re-mould Canton nearer spirit in the Government of the have, during the past few years, Hong Kong Daily Prese, January any part of the ---Id-$13. 'to their heart's desiro (presumably patient and greatly tried Republic. proved satisfactory,

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8, 1860.

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