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PROMINENT CHINESE COUPLE ENGAGED.

PLEASING FUNCTION AT

-H.K. HOTEL

A large gathering of friends of Dr. and Mrs. Li Shu Fan asser- bled at a tea party at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden on Satur day,, when the Announcement was made of the engagement of their daughter, Nancy, to Mr. Lambert Gockchin, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cockchin.

KWANGTUNG'S MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.

NANKING. IMPOSES COST OF

CRACK DIVISIONS.

· [YROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,

CANTON, August 10.· ́ "Kwangtung has to continue to support its two crack divisions un- der Commanders Tsoi Ting Kai and Chiang Kwong Napi, con- querors of the "Ironsides,” dis-

BIAS BAY PIRATES.

CANTON NAVAL PATROL ON DUTY.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.).

CANTON, August 20. The Canton Naval Department has to-day sent back the gunboats Ming Sang, and the Hoi Fu to on the Bias Bay to keep an eye pirates abounding there.

There had been three gunboats. on duty round that region; name- During tea, the Rev. Wong Oi patched to Shangtung to partici Tong, in a happy speech, spoke on pate in the campaign against they, the On Pak and the two just the customs of China, both old and Shansi troops a month or so ago, mentioned, but the Hai Fu and the The Hotel band provided according to Mr. Fan Ki Mo, Fin Ming Sang were later recalled to Tong Ka Wan to assist in the pleasing programme of music, ance Commissioner, who has re- while Messrs. Li Chor Chri, Geall turned here from Nanking, where development of Changshan Port, and Bailey also contributed items. he had a conference with Mr. T. v. thus leaving only the Op Pak on duty at Bias Bay. When the pirates Many couples took to the floor when Soong, Minister of Finance.

learned of this, they took advant- the band struck up dance music, It was the purpose of Mr. Fan and a pleasant time was spent. to try to persuade Nanking to age of the situation and pirated the British ataamer. Helikon and Among the large number of support the two Cantonese divisions

one other vessel belonging to the guests present were Dr, Jew Hawk,up North, thus relieving some of the burdens of the Canton Govern-

Bew.

Dr. Ma Luk, Dr. E. T. Wong Dr.

Afr. Fen, has to continue to set

aside each month $4,200,000 for military purposes.. "This is over 90 per cent, of the total income of the province.

T. C. Wong, Dr. W. W. Cadbury ment. But this has not met with The Provincial Govern' of the Canton Christian Univers, success. ity, E. W. Kirk, Mr. Loung Wingent of Kwangtang, according to Sun, superintendent of customs at Wuchang Sir Robert Ho Tung, K., LL.D., the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kolewall, C.M.G., LL.D., Profes- sor Gerrard, Messrs Li Yautau, C.B.E., Fung Ping Shan, Li Yick Mui (Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce), Wong Kwong Tin, Li Kwong Tu, Wong Yuk Tong, Tung Shui King, Choy Bing, W. Ngartse Thomas Tam, LL.B., Ma Ying Piu, K. F. fay, How Un Fan, T. N. Chau, Ip Lan Chun and many other European and Chinese guests.

Among the large number of messages received was one from Mr. T. V. Soong, the Minister of Finance.

The Parents.

Di. Li Shu-Fan, M.B., Ch.B, D.T.M., & H., F.R.C.S. (Edin.),

divisional surgeon of the Chin- CSM Y.M.C.A. disision, St. John Ambulance Brigade, and a coun- eir member of the Hong Kong Chin- ese Medical Association. He is the head practitioner of the Yeung Wah Hospital.

Mr. Phi Gockchin is the man-

aging director of the Wing On Company and is a member of the board of directors of the Nation

Levy on Landowners. Attempts are being made to re- auscitate the depreciated Central Baak, of China notes which are quoted at about 83 per cent,

The 815,000,000 loan for the re- suscitation of the Government

bank-notes and other purposes is being floated. Each landowner; beginning from to-morrow, has to take up bonds to the tune of one month's rental.

NEW WORLD FLIGHT

ATTEMPT.

ATLANTIC TRIP TO BE FIRST STAGE.

[UNITED PARSE.]

Los Angeles, August 3-Mr. Ted S. Lundgren, air equipment in ventor, will depart for New York to-morrow in a special Emsco. monoplane to meet the well-known pilot Mr. Roger Q. Williams and another unnamed person who is to al Commercial and Savings Bank,act as relief pilot preparatory to Ltd. Both are very popular mem bers of the Chinese community.

U.S. COMMENT ON

CHANGSHA

NANKING'S POWER

WEAKENING...

(UNITED PRESS.]

that planned by Mr. John Henry round-the-world flight similar to Meara, but which ended in disaster yesterday.

They will depart from Roosevelt Field on Friday, according to pre seat plans. After crossing the Atlantic they will land in Berlin, thenee flying to Omsk, Tokyo, Seattle and back to New York.

Mr. Lundgren invented the drift peloris which the aeroplane South- Cross used when Captain Kingsford-Smith few from America to Australia.

ern

Tai Chung Wa Navigation Com pany. This has made the return of the Ming Sang and the Hoi Fu all the more urgent. The Canton Government is of the opinion that

with the return of these two gun-

boats to patrol duty, the pirates it Bias Bay will not dare carry on their marauding activities.

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A DISHONEST "BOY.”

SUPERINTENDENT OF GAOL

VICTIMİSED.

For stealing $117, from his ex- ployer, a houseboy formerly in the employ of Mr. J. W. Franks, Super intendent of Victoria Gaol, was sentenced to three months' hard labour when he appeared before Mr. Lindsell at Central Magistracy on Saturday.

According to Sub-Inspector Logan, the defendant absconded when he was employed at Mr. Franks' re- sidence at 151, The Peak. He took away with him $30, together with $87 which had been entrusted to him to pay bills. The defendant could not be found until Friday, when he was arrested in the Central district by a Chinese detective.

Mr. Franks, who was in Court, said that the defendant's conduct had been good, and he could not understand why he should hera

had been employed by him for a committed the theft. The defendant

total period of one and a half years. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three weeks' hard labour on each of the two charges, sentences to run consecutively.

THE ATTACK ON MR. LOUREIRO.

RUSSIANS CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER.

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SUMCHUN MERCHANTS NEWS IN BRIEF.

ON STRIKE.

PROTEST AGAINST STAMP

DUTY BUREAU.

According to the vernacular Press, merchants in Sumchun sus- pended business on Friday last as protest against the arrest of shop proprietor by the inspectors of the Stamp Duty Burean

A passenger and mail plane from Lausanne fell into lako Geneva last week. The crew of two and one lady-passenger were seri ously injured while the two other passengers were' drowned.

Thy Butch Ministry of the Colonics has appointed a commis." sion to proceed to Dutch Guyana sad. Curacao to lay the basis for regular air-services between Hol- land, these colonies and South

Discovering that the proprietor America. of a certain shop had not used a stamp on a bill, an inspector ar- Under the heading "False rum- rested him and took him to theour, about Mussolini' the Berliner statement Bureau for trial, on Thursday. Tageblate publishes a A meeting was held by the mer-regarding the Duce's reported geri- chants to discuss the matter when ous illness, ending, "We have as those present unanimously decided certained that all these reports and Bureau if the arrested man was all foundation. Mussolin is to declare a strike against the rumours are false and devoid of in not released at once.

perfect health."

As he was still detained on Fri

A contract has been signed at day, the merchants closed their doors and the people of Sumchun Angora between the Turkish Gov-.. have bad to purchase their food-ernment and the German firms of stuffs and daily necessities at Kow. Krupp and Hentschel giving the Idon or Hong Kong.

German group five years mono- poly for the supply of railway- materials and rolling-stock for the Turkish state railways and involv

*a.n amount of

$10,000,000.

about

The magistrate in Samchun in. structed the merchants to reopen their doors pending a settlement of the trouble, but without suc- cess. However, business was resum-" con Saturday when the magis trate ordered the dismissal of the present management of the Bureau.visit of inspection to the Chinese Pavilions at the Liege Exposition fnet week. King Albert expressed great admiration for the exquisite OF Chinese art and silk exhibits. He

ALLEGED DISCOVERY

COLD LIGHT.

REMARKABLE CLAIM BY YOUNG SCIENTIST.

[UNITED PRESS.]

The King of Belgium: paid

the

was received and welcomed by Dr. Chu Min Yee who, on behalf of the Chinese Government and people, thanked. His Majesty for his graci- ous compliments.

The executive committee of the association of Indisa residents in Tanganyika has sent to British Los Angeles, August 3. Dr. Secretary of the Colonies, Lord William Schnell, who is but 29 Passfield, a telegram strongly pro- years of age, announced to-day testing against the proposed in- that next Thursday he will give a corporation of Tangyanika into the

British East-African -- demonstration of his claim that he proposed

the has discovered a chemical equival-Dominion and insisting on ent of sunlight.

sacrosanct character of the man-

подросто

In the course of his experimente, dated terrtory. A Dr. Schnell declared, he has been able to produce both hot and cold The Franco-Polish air

agree- rays from a test tube in a labora-ment signed during the prosect tory without assistance of electric-visit to Warsaw of the French [ity.

Air Minister comprise also a pro- Wrecked Machine Salvaged.

A magnifying glass placed bevision for the establishment of a Washington, August 3-Wide.

tween the test tube and a piece of direct air sorvice between Warsaw Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, spread editorial comment has been

wood, according to the scientist's and Paris, vid Berlin, which, sub- August 3.-Undismayed by his dis. occasioned in the Press of the aster of yesterday when his round-

story, produces burns.

ject to Germany's consent, would Dr. Schnell asserted that before oonest the Polish air-traffic net by United States because of the Com-the-work Lockheed monoplane munist seizure of Changsha and crashed in taking off for Dublin, Loureiro, a Portuguese inspector long, electricity will he unnecessary the shortest route with the air

for operating outdoor advertising system of Western Europe. other difficulties of the National occupied in salvaging the radio have been attacked by two Russians

Mr. John Henry Mears was to-day of the Salt Gabelle, is alleged to signs. E

already Demonstrations have and navigating equipment of the in Hungino Road had its sequel been given privately in the pre-last week including the detailing draft

Government at Neaking.

The New York Evening Post to day characterized the China situa- tion as chaos worse than for years past" and says that communism is spreading like 1 prairie. fire throughout the country.

Foreigners in Chins are threaten ed with expulsion, in the view of the Po, why the general upheaval is tearing up, the very roots of of Chinese civilization.

The Baltimore Sun known as a liberal organ, suggests that the struggles in China will continue for decades.

clared.

The case in which Mr. Pedro

Naval appointments announend

next Saturday. Another attempt Court last week when two Rus Dresden University and of the Uni- to be commandant of the naval

He will depart for New York in the Shanghai Special District sence of several other scientists.

Dr. Schnell is a graduate of of Bear-Admiral Thomas J. Serin to break the round-the-world speed

have base at San Diego, succeeding Rear Admiral Ashley Robert.. record will be made soon, he designs, Anatol I. Zavalin, commis versity of Colorado.

eon. Rear-Admiral Yates Stirling sion agent, and Ivan Ieak, chauf

Jr. is to become commandant of four, ware charged before Judge

the Fourteenth Naval District with Woo with attempted murder. A.

headquarters at Pearl Harbour, reinand was ordered until August

Oahu succeeding Rear Admiral' 13.

George R. Marvell who becomes commander of the now light cruiser division which is now being creat- ed.

REPUBLICAN SPLIT ON

PROHIBITION.

DANGER".OF A DIVIDED

FRONT

[UNITED PRESA.}

-

Det. Sub-Inspr. J.A.. MeFärlane outlined the case.

Accused's Statements. The first accused, says the V.

| Luray, Va., “August 3. Mr. Wil Daily News, said that he was drunk With the power in Nanking ap-Jiam Hill, a publisher from Bing-and did not know what be was do- parently weakening, this newspaper hampton, New York, visited the ing. He did not know that he had is surprised that foreigners have camp of President Hoover here to escaped relatively lightly up to the day, and discuss the political fired, a shot, present time.

LESSON SERMON.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST HONG KONG.

Spirit was the subject of the Lesson. Sermon in all Churches "of Christy Scientist, or Sunday August 10.

The Golden Text was. The Spirit is life because of righteous- neas" (Romans 8:10).

FLYING CLUB'S BUSY WEEK-END,

The unfortunate accident at Kal Among the "citations which com- prised the Lesson Sermon was the Tack recently did not in anyway situation in New York State with The second accused said that they following from the Bible: "This Im the progress of the Flying The Sun is of the opinion that special reference to the "wet" and had gone out for a ride after a say therefore, and testify in the Club, for we have been informed the patience of the Government of "dry" issue,

a few glasses of wine. The tyre blew Lord, that ye henceforth walk not that the Club's instructor had e the United States has been justi- Republicans of New York are out and witness went to fix it up as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity busy time with pupils over the fied, in order to enable China to divided on the prohibition issue, when he heared the first accused of their mind. Having the under-ek-end. The total hours of actual determine her true destiny regard even as the state itself is divided, stop the other car and ask for a standing darkened, being alienated flying was six, but much time was less of the time required or the ex- he explained. The representatives pump. Suddenly there was a shot. from the life of God through the also devoted to "talks informal tent of the suffering entailed. of up-state farming constituencies Ho did not know that the first ac ignorance that is in them, because to the would be aviators on come of

the technical points The Washington Star calls atten reflect the bone-dry, views of the cused eprried a revolver but later of the blindness of their hearts et tion to the fact that three antagonis raral voters, while those from New learned that it had been given to That ye put off concerning the form-Club's engineer, Mr. Hawes in due It is interesting to know that the tio circles, the Northerners, the York City are wetness personified him by a man who had left, forer conversation the old man... Gaverament at Nanking and the Mr. Hill is known to be cager Hong Kong. The first accused and be renewed in the spirit of to arrive in the Colony by the Communists and other Southerners, to achieve a compromise on the pro often got drunk and went out for your mind (Eph 4:37.18,22,23) Mantua on the 14th instant.

are fighting without indication hibition lasua before the Republi- motor, rideg, whilst in that condi- The Lesson-Sermon- also includ- as to when a cessation may be an- can State Convention meets Intion. He often assaulted coolics ed the following passages from ticipated or splution found September, fearing that otherwise. ] und quarefied the the polie cept in the matter of reported con the Democats will be able to take whist under the Thifuence of drink. versations involving Chang Heuch advantage of the divided front of Witness did not gee,why they liang and Wang Ching Wei, the Republicans. It is believed should want to murder complain These reports are considered signi- that be discussed this with the ant because they did not even know cant by the Star.

Chief Executivé.

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Science, and Henith with key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Will the writer of an article. Eddy The Bible teaches trane under the above heading be good formation of the body by the re-enough to communicate with the newal of Spirit (p. 241).

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