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DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 28,

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by theį Royal Observatory at 3 p.m.

stated:

TYPHOON WARNINGS."

Moreover, the implications of Pro- fessor BIGELOW's interview are no less embarrassing for being con-

venicht.

It would be some solace to the French to feel that the ex-Kaiser, after a decade of sober reflection,

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The northern typhoon is about 50 miles W. of Nahi, moving W, or WN.W. The position of the typhoon to the east of Luzon is uncertain. It may have been abbad arrived at the conclusion that sorbed by the northern typhoon.

France was, as she insisted at the Local Forecast:-S.W. winds;

time, obliged to fight. But un moderate; fair.

fortunately, as Le Matin observes, it is too soon to expect a French- The following typhoon warnings man to trust a Hohenzollern. In have been received by the American the interests of a much-needed Consulate General from the Manila rapprochement with Germany it would require no violent wrench of conscience to shift the burden of guilt to a regime which no longer exists, and which, because of that fact, can no longer be of service. Nor do the many beaux gestes across the Channel turn the man in the French street from his tradi-

Observatory:-

4.m.-

Manila, July 96, 9.95 Cyclone or Typhoon E. of Northern Luzon more than 300 miles distant, moving W.N.W.

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Manila, July 28, 9.43 a.m. Cyclone or typhoon W. of the Southern Ladrone Ro Mariana Islands, moving W.N.W.

Manila, July 27, 4.43 p.m.-

Label Typhoon in about 197deg. Long. E.

Vat

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Days inclusive), during which period No Agents :— Transfer of Shares can be registered.

By Order of the Beard of Directors.

L. S. GREENHILL, ***.

Secretary.

Hong Kong 17th July, 1930. (9655A. S. WATSON

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and 28deg. Lat. N., moving W...

Manila, July 27, 4.45 p.m.

Cyclone or typhoon E. of Northern Luzon less than 300 miles distant, filling up.

BIRTHS. ELM-On July 15, at Soochow Hos- pital, Kiang, to Mr. and Mrs. J. ELM, a daughter, GUTERRES-On July 19, Shanghai,

to Mr. and Mrs. MARIO A. GUTERRES, a boy. CLAIR.-On July 19,"at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. V. CLAIR, a daughter. STEVENS-On July 19, at the Coua try Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. V. STEVENS, a son..

MARRIAGES: DAKIN ROSS.-On June 24, at Southport, ROBERT GEORGE, second son of Dr. and Mrs. T.

Folkestone,

tional conviction that England is no mon's friend on the Continent.

1930.

*News and Views ★

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In the July number of the National Review, Mr. Kawakami is outspoken on the naval policy of America towards Japan; he con.. tends that Japan is made the object of American suspicion by an ac cidental condition-her proximity to the Philippines--and without gard to her disinterestedness.

scan

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At that time oigarette smaking was becoming more and more a national habit, and the Admiralty wanted to check the consumption of well-known brands of cheap cigarettes by supplying tobacco for

The marriage took place in Paris the purpose. The old scaman still drew his tobacco allowance in the on June 30 of M. René Lacoste, the leaf and made it up into a former international tennis cham perrique with a generous supply of pion, and Mile. Simone Thion de rum and well lashed in a canvas la Chaume, France's leading wo casing. like a huge sausage. This man golfer, the daughter of M. tobacco was wonderfully pure, bas René de da Chaume, manager of the the strength would take the top off Banque, de l'Indo-Chine. the average landsman's head, and profound

Mrs R W. Frazer has resigned the shellbocks had a

Vincent Hong, the first Chinese- contempt for anybody who want the secretaryship of the Royal

Times have Asiatic Society after many years' toreader ed anything milder..

in Europe, was changed. It is now very seldom one service, and proceeds on a prolong seriously injured in the ring at La finds more than one or two men ined tour in India, Burma, Ceylon, Palma on June 30. Three of his a ship's company who can make up Siam, China and Japan early in ribs wore broken by a bull. Re- perrique in the old way, or who September. Col. D .M. F. Hosted.cently at Barcelona, he angered the can smoke it when it is made up!D.S.O., has been appointed her bullfight "fans" by entering the The tinned tobacco-which inciden- successor. tally is of considerable strength and excellent flavour-is quite enough for mort mes. But many of the ratings do not like the trouble of making up their own cigarettes, and the last of the forty requests that have gone into the Admiralty under the Naval Welfare Scheme is that in future the authorities should stock an issue of made-up-cigarettes as well as the tobacco. There are too few of the real old salts in the Fleet to remark on this as another indication of the way the Navy is going to the dogs!

AF

Mr. Tom Clarke, a former Hong Kong journalist, now managing editor of the News-Chronicle, Lon den, was among those presented to the Prince of Wales on the occasion of the Prince's visit on June 26 to Oak Hill, the beautiful mansion which is available as a home of rest for journalists.

arena in the silk robes of his pative land and by his clumsy slaughter- house methods.

A display of postage stamps bear- ing pictures of beasts and birds has been

arranged in the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington. Many are familiar to juvenile students; the Malay tiger, for instance, and the orang-utan.. On one of the North Borneo stamps is to be seen a picture of the oassowary, a bird which is not in fact found there...

Mr. John Swire. of the China Navigation Co., spoke at the annual

Peanut shells, now used as itol Founders' Day ceremony at the Nautical College, Pangbourne, on with a value of two dollars a ton, June 29. Knowing one profession may become commercially import- thoroughly was nowadays much bet- ant as a source of cellulose to sup- ter than being an "all-round man,"plement cotton lintere and wood- he said. "The prizes were distribut ed by Mrs, Swire.

If that were all, it might seem polite, on the eve of the inaugura tion of the YOUNG Plan, the evacuation of the Rhineland and M. BRIAND's drive for a concerted Europe, to grant Germany's request for a review of the war-guilt question. But that is not all. The

The new Diploma instituted at. French remember that in those Edinburgh University in Tropical || turbulent days of July and August, Veterinary Medicine involves a

The first of six cargo motor vessels for the Bank Line has lately, 1914, there was no monopoly of course of study designed to meet the

recommendations of the Lovat Cem-been completed, the Irisbank, hysteria and hasty action. There

mittee on the Colonial,,Veterinary twenty-seventh motor-ship owned by is & fear that to discredit IsvOLSKY Service. At present the veterinary the company. The new ship is to maintain 13 knots on service, and might be to discredit PoINCARE; officer proceeding to the Colonies is of 9,000 tons deadweight, length has to learn his entire subject on 425 ft., beam 57 ft., and draught that to turn on Grey might mean

the field. Now with the special embarrassing the memory of the classes taken for the diploma (part brothers CAMBON. There has been a

ly at the University and partly at growing feeling in France that all the Royal (Dick) Veterinary Col- even innocent little Serbia-were lege); he will be taught the funda-ed at Washington on June 27. It is somewhat guilty.. Why revise the mental sciences before he

understood that it follows closely goes what is now the conventional model pronouncedient that only the Cen abroad. The course is the first of for arbitration treaties concluded tral Powers were guilty? It re-its kind in the British universities. mains to be seen whether or not

B. DAKIN, of Bedford, to ANNE CONSTANCE, Joungest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Atrx. Ross, of Southport. ESTCOUNT LOOKER.-On June 25, at St. Leonard's Church, Turnors Hill, Sussex, EDWARD N. E. ESTCOURT, RA, only son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. ESTCOURT, of to. JESSIE HELEN JENE LOOKER, elder daughter of Mr. H. W. LOOKER, of FEN PLACE, Turners Hill, and the late Mrs. LOOKER, of Hors the newspapers of the French Left Kong. PHILIPPS KINDERSLEY. On June 21. at St. Margaret's, West- minster, JAMES PERROTT, third son of Sir LAURENCE PHILIPPS, Bart., and Lady PHILIPPS, to ELIZABETH JOAN, daughter of Sir ROBERT KINDERSLEY, G.B.E., and Lady KINDERSLEY.

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Drouin-On July 23, at the Coun- try Hospital, Shanghai. DAVID WALKER DUGUID, Chief Account- ant, Shanghai Watenworks Co., Ltd., aged 39.

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HONG KONG, JULY 28, 1930.

SOMEWHAT "PREMATURE.

AMONG recent visitors at Doorn was the American historian, Mr. POULTENEY BIGKiow, and on hia fe- turn to New York a few weeks ago he declared that the ex-Kaiser is not only willing but cager to face

will demand frankness, and in the latter event it is a foregone con- clusion that the efort will be abor tive. The general French view is that the Treaty of Versailles will never be revised or softened until those who played the dramatic roles in the Chancellories of Europe of 1014 have joined Fock and CLEMEN. CEAU in the immunity of the tomb.

A SAD DAY FOR "OLD

SALTS."

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An Arbitration Treaty between the Chinese Government and the United States of America was sign-

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pulp in developing the cellulose industry. This discovery, says a Washington message, has been made by Mesars D. F. J. Lynch and M. J. Goss, chemists, of the Depart ment of Agriculture's Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.

At a meeting of the Missionary Council of the Church Assembly held on July 1 Canon Tissington Tatlaw drew attention to the posi tion of Oriental students in Eng. Tand, emphasising the difficulties in contracts with making suitable

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Local Notes and Events *

It is notified by the Peak Tram- It is declared by order of His Excellency the Governor-in-Councilway Company that owing to renew that. Iloilo is a place at which anals in the engine house, no cars will infectious or contagious disease, run after mid-night, August 2 until

morning August 4 at 7 a.m." namely, cholera, prevails.

It is notified that the names of the United Fertilizer Co., Ltd., the Yan Yee Tug and Lighter Co., Ltd.; and the Ying Wah Lighter and Transportation Co., Ltd., have been struck oll the Register.

TUCKED modestly away at the very end of the list of forty suggestions sent in to the Admiralty by the

An application for the discharge Royal Navy Welfare Conference from bankruptcy of Bir. A. D. was a proposal that would provoke Humphreys and Mr. Ernest Hum- profanity from an old-timer in the phreys, partners in the firm of Service. Those of our readers who Messrs. W. G. Humphreys & Co., perused the list recently reproduced is to be heard in the Supreme Court in our columes will probably recall on August 14 at 10.30 am." Come very sensible references to ice- chests and cooler kit in hot climates, but may not have noticed the sig gestion that a type of cigarette be manufactured on the same lines as cigarette tobacco, for use in the Naval Service.". A most modest, unsensational request, and yet one which has a particular interest for

Mr. B. J. Israel, who has been those who are familiar with naval customs fifty-or even twenty-five-acting consul for the Netherlands at Amoy since January 25 last, has years ago..

been appointed Consul in that port

April 28, 1930. Mr. Israel is the

There was no machinery existing

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The King's Exequatur empower- ing Mr. George Blis Lane to Fact a Vice-Consul for the United States of America in Hong Kong has received His Majesty's signa

ture.

His Majesty the King han ng proved the appointment of the Hon." Mr. B. D. F. Beith to be an Un official Member of the Legislative Council, ice Mr. A. C. Hynes re- signed.

Private 'motor car No. 938 19

involved in a collision with a tram- car

on Saturday in Des Voeux Road Central at the beacon opposite: the Post Office. The tram was proceeding from East to West at Sentence of one month's hard the time and the motor-car was pre- labour was passed by Mr. T. S. ceeding" from Chater Road to Ped- Whyte-Smith at Kowloon Magis dar Street. No one was injured tracy on Saturday on a Chinese em- but both vehicles were damaged. ployed at the Kowloon Godown, The tram-car after discharging its bo pleaded guilty to the theft of passengers returned to its depot. two tins of milk. It was stated that the defendant was a trusted servant of the Company.

Island has instructed their engineer

Looking Back 25 Years.

A startling development has oc curred in connection with the

death of mysterious

Gunner Richard Sampson, RA It was

An order was made by Mr. R. E. Lindsell on Saturday. for the con- It is reported from Canton that station of 738 gallons of dutiableThe Netherlands Harbour Works wine seized at the Wing Loong wine Company which was awarded the shop, which was raided on Friday contract for the reclamation of the A warrant for the apprehension of bund opposite the Dutch Folly previously reported in the Daily Press that deceased's body was the master was also granted.

to commence the work of surveying morning of the 17th instant. Al

found lying in Battery Path on the

the land, which is stated to be over

though a wound was discovered on 3,000 feet in length.

the dead man's head, the police had suspicions of foul play until a Chinese boy related to them how he

a huge boulder coming down where ed down by a civilian. This story

Stubbe Road is still closed for

an international court-martial to in those days whereby the Briey-by virtue of a Royal Decree, dated traffic as there is a possibility of had seen a soldier struck and knock-

ances-real or imaginary-of the

Not lower deck could be brought quietly Agent of the Netherland-India Com the landslide occurred during the caused further investigation to be

mercial Bank.

.....

typhoon The mud and boulders made, the result being that Aaron carried down by the landslide has Ellis, a tailor's cutter,, was arrest- been cleared away but it is deemed ed on Friday afternoon-Hong inadvisable to open the road for Kang, Daily Freas, July 31, 1906. traffic again for the present...

determine whether he was respon- sible for the Great War. much notice has been taken of and without prejudice to the notice

His Excellency the Governor has this statement, but the French Press of My Lords at Whitehall." In literally gesps with astonishment fact, when about a quarter of a appointed Sub-Inspector Edward at the report that the American century ago efforts were made by John Ellis to be Examiner of historian and his Doorn host agreed the Admiralty to bring conditions Weights and Measures under the

Looking Back 50 Years. on fixing the responsibility for the of service on the lower deck more Weights and Measures Ordinance,

Charged with being members of a We see by the Straits Times that war on Russia and Great Britain into line with modern life the old 1985, and also an Inspector under For various reasons, however, seamen would not have it at any the Gunpowder and Fireworks Triad society, twenty-four Chinese the British steamer Canton, Capt. again appeared beforez Mr. R. E. Jacques, left Singapore on the 18th French reaction is confined to just price. Jam of a brand well known Ordinance, 1901.

Lindsell at Central Magistracy on instant for Hong Kong. The Can- gasp a very short one-and no to the troops in France was intro- mosa. Admitting that it is ex duced into the Navy at the same His Majesty the King Bas ap Saturday. On the application of ton, which is a new venel, has now marknop sted, Barnale, therefore been twelve days coming tremely unlikely that Protemor tire short service;""

into Hon. Mr. C. G. S. Mackie to be the prisoners were remanded for up. It is to be hoped that no ac BIGELOW will succeed where so that could be made up many have failed in re-opening the cigarettes as well as smoked in a temporarily an Unofficial Member one week. With the exception of cident has befallen her. Captain whole question of war-guilt to a pipe, with the result that the old of the Legislative Council in the the first six men, who mere faced Jacques is an experienced mariner examination, the French would be abellbacks christened all short place of the Hon. Sir Henry Pol with serious charges, bail for the and is well acquainted with the the last people on earth to disturb service men and cigarette-smokers lock, K.C., who is temporarily remaining defendants was reduced China Sea-Hong Kong Daily

to $100 each.

Press, July 28, 1880. absent from the Colony. sleeping-dogs after twelve years "Ticklers."