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THE BRITISH CORPORATION REGISTER OF SHIPPING

AND AIRCRAFT.

BEAD OPTICA

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TONENOLURY SURVEY HE Undersigned has been appointed OR to the sbare Corporation for HONG KONG.

T. H. G. BRAYFIELD,

3. Queen's Building, . . Hoya KOMA. Telephone No. 30231 (two lines). Bong Kong, 25th August, 1930, 1976

THE BUREAU VERITAS INTER NATIONAL REGISTER FOR

THE CLASSIFICATION · OF SHIPPING,

BEAD OFFICE-

31, BU HIN-ROCHITOIT, PARI,"

HE Undersigned has been appointed SURVEYOR to the above-men-

tioned Society for HONG KONG, CANTON and MACAO.

T. H. G. BRAYFIELD,

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Telephone No. 30231 (two lines),

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NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY

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SHONG KONG REALTY AND

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to pass Certain Important Besointions affecting the Company

Any Shareholder desiring to see or sign the Requisition should apply personally to the Undersigned during Office Hoars when full Particulars will be gladly applied.

HONG KONG SHAREHOLDERS

ASSOCIATION,

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Hon. Secretary. 187 FLOOK, BANK OF EAST ASIA BUILDING, 10, Des Voeux Road.

NOTICE.

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THE PUBLIC 18 HEREBY IN- that Revised TIMETABLE will come into Force on and from TUESDAY, 26TH AUGUST. Attention is DRAWN to alterations to the Time of Arrival and Departure of Certain Local Trains.

As a result of Improvements to the

Track between CANTON, and SHEK LUNG the through journey is Now Reduced to 4 Hours

It is hoped to resume Normal Run- sing by the end of the year.

R. BAKER,

[9766 Kowloon, 12ad Angust, 1930.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 25,

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.37. p.m., stated:-

A China.

Local Forecast:-S. or variable winds; moderate generally over- cast; occasional rain.

shallow depression covers

BIRTHS.

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ANDERSON.OR August 15, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs J A. ANDERSON, & daughter. BENNETT.On July 27, at Frinton- on-Sea, the wife of T. GERALD BENNETT, Hong Kong, a son. BENNETT On July 20, at Kaala Lampar, the wife of J. BENNETT,

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at August 18, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. R MCDONALD, 100.

& 107.

" DEATHS. Fors. On August 15, at Shanghai, HENRY ANSGAR Forn, aged 10 months. The dearly loved in- fant son of Capt. and Mrs. H.

ForN,

HIBBERDINE-On July 28, suddenly, at Lyons, REGINALD LOCKYER HIBBERDINE, M.C., Eastern Tele- graph Company.

HKL-On July 23, at Upper Nor-

wood," EDWARD CHARLES

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respect," but when a mere Chargé d'Affaires is in control of a mission the expression of respect is omitted!

beginning with the men who are financing the Soviet." And men tion of the Soviet brings us to a very serious matter indeed the alleged existence in Hong Kong of Until the days of Lord Cenzor's people who are doing their utmost reign at the Foreiga Office the to whitewash or condone the Soviet invariable formula for the conclud- crimes in the eyes of the public, ing words of this doxology was some of them even expressing them" Your obedient humble servant. selves in such a way as to arouse Lord Curzon, feeling that hum- grave suspicion, that they are ac- ble " was not perhaps the exact tually taking sides with them." epithet to apply, restricted him This most appalling and terrifying self to "obedient" And even that, state of affairs is illustrated by our comic contemporary by quotations

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News and Views

An act of sabotage of unusual magnitude was committed in Lem berg last week when unknown per sons cut all telegraph and telephone wires including those connecting with the railway signals and thus completely isolated the city for

petrators or even connected with them.

as a description of the relations hours. A collision of two incoming between Lord CuBZON and his cor-express-trains was avoided only by from an article published-of all respondents abroad, might be de- the barest chance. The papers say places in St. John's Review. Ascribed as a trifle far-fetched. And that already 21 Ukrainians have now the State Department at Wash-been arrested in connection with Hong Kong parson, is solemnly ac-

the affair though it is by no meLOS used of having written and pub-ington bas awakened to the fact lished words which can be construed that perorations have about them certain that they were actual per As "expressing sympathy with and & favour of flunkeyism. for the Satanic "Soviet system!

Only those hopelessly incapable of exercising an ordinary amount of common sense could possibly read into the St. John's Review article any approval or advocacy of Bol- ahevism. It is alleged by the critic in question that there is a certain affinity between polition! revolution aries of the ultra-socialistic type

how sce

and ecclesiastical revolutionaries of the ultra-modernistic type. "Scrip- youngest son of the late Sir STEPHEN HILL, K.OM.G., C.B., ture tells us, that the anti-Christ aged 76...

and the False Prophet will work SKREITUL-On August 22, at Hai-

chow, CHARLES SAREITUL, chief hand in glove. Already, now, we their forerunners are officer, China Merchants S.N. Co., beloved husband of JULIA drawing" together in mutual sy SKREITUL, aged 47 years..

interests." SPARK. On August 17, at Shanghai, pathies and commen

JEAN HARPER, aged 34, beloved And all this pother, headed "St. wife of WM. SPARK, S.M.T. Co., John's Review and the Soviet," third daughter of C. HARPER, simply because of a few generous retired Spirit merchant "Hame- with "School Road, Aberdeen, phrases in intelligent comment on Scotland.

the Russian attitude towards re- WARMING-On July 4, in London,ligion, and the Church's proper

SOPHUS WARMING, of Momiji, Beech Road, Reigate and late attitude toward Russia. We have of Yokohama.

no space for further quotations from WHEELEY.-On July 27, at Catford,

save The China Fundamentalist ARTHUR TOWNSEND, second son of the late EDWARD WEEELEY one-and that is on the last page. of Shanghai.

It is an anecdote of a stranger who asks whether there is a man in this vicinity with one leg named Smith, to which the farmer" re-

Editorial and Business Offices: 11. Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Chee)plies: Dunno. Do you know the

Tel. 24811.

London Office: 53, Fleet Street,

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The Daily Press.

"HONG KONG, AUGUST 23, 1930.

THE "HIDDEN HAND" IN

HONG KONG.

name of his other leg? This story leaves us with a lingering doubt was the farmer just a wag, or is the anecdote intended, to illustrate the mental outlook of a Funda- mentalist 1

"VERY TRULY YOURS.":

words "obedient servant " henceforward to be suppressed in official dispatches. In their place will. figure the democratic, Very truly yours."

Among forms of recreation base- more accidents than ball causes any activity listed in 4.000 claims analyzed by the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York. Pingpong, predecessor of rooftop golf among the manly sports, re- mains safe, even safer than play- ing with children." which led to injuries to eight-nine adults. While only three persons suffered hurts hatting the pingpong balls across the table, 807, mostly non-profes- sionals, were hurt playing baseball. Only 104 were injured by fireworks. Swimming and bathing followed baseball in relative danger. with "wrestling and friendly scuffling next. Bowling, skating and tennis follow in the order named.

Five

C. K. Sun, a Chinese student" at Purdue University, was killed at Hammond, Indiana, last week when his automobile overturned. other Chinese, J. S. Hsu. T. E. Shan, C. P. Li, George Woo and F. K. Shen, suffered injuries of various degrees of severity but they are expected to recover.

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Eight people were drowned and injured when a post office motor bus in an attempt to avoid an on coming vehicle tumbled down a steep embankment into the River Elbe near Hohenelbe, last week.

Dr. Edward Ball Knobel, who died on July 25, at the age of 88, by his knowledge of Oriental languages and of paleography, did work of much value for astronomy at the telescope on the planets and on the brightnesses of the stars. But his most notable contributions were historical, culminating in his edi. tions of Ptolemy's "Almagest" and of Ulugh Beg's Catalogue of Stars. Dr. Knobel also dealt with the Nihongi," the ancient chronicle of Japan.

Large quantities of opium and other drugs were discovered by the Marseilles police on a cargo boat which arrived in Paris last week from the Near East. Over five hundredweight of opium and 50 lbs. of hashish were confiscated.

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Ona workman was buried alive while three were seriously injured when in a petroleum reanery a tank. containing 500 hectoliters of oil ex ploded in Stockholm.

A huge conflagration in Bukarest last week destroyed the main build- and the majority of the ware- Housea of the central customs office, causing damage estimated at 100 million lei. As according to the official inquiry the fire started simultaneously in various places, the anthorities suspect foul play, although no hint is given as to the eventual perpetrators..

The recent attempt at a revolu- tion in Portugal, which was easily. aquashed by the Government, has now been definitely liquidated by the cashiering of twenty high officials, the deportation of nine others to the Azores, and the im- position of heavy anes on the rest. of those implicated in the plot.

For notable achievements in avia- tion, President Hoover last week" presented the Congressional Medal to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh are.. to spent the week-end with Presi dent and Mrs. Hoover at the Pre- the camp on sidential" summer Rapidan river.

Scores were killed when near the city of of Agram in Serbia a freight-train mowed down hundreds of people crowding the right-of- way, their attention being absorb- ed by a display of fireworks ar

with the ranged in connection Eucharistic congress for which 60,000 thronged the city and its environs after nightfall.

Mr. Uchida, president of the Wireless Telegraph Co.. of Japan, Beauty competitions held at

with a view to establishing wireless- communications with Madrid last week had a very bad has arrived in Sydney (NSW) sequel when the mothers of the re-telephone jected candidates for the honour Australia. of Spanish beauty queen entered into a verbal duel with the mother of the newly elected "Queen charged the jury with bias. Soon, however, the verbal duel changed into fisticuffs when many clothes were torn and faces scratched before

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and The cruiser Caradoc left Devor- port on July-20 for the China Station to replace the Castor. Captain H. T. Baillie-Groham. D.SO.. O.B.E., who had been ap

cornmission, 14 unfortunately in pointed to the Caradoc for her new hospital as the result of an arci der, and his place has been taken Detroit's 140lb. crew last week, hy Captain V. H. Danckwerts. The won the final of the race for the Caradoc is due at Colombo on class when they finished four August 27, Singapore on Septem- lengths ahead of Toronto in the ber B, and. Hong Kong on Septem- Canadian Royal Henley Regatta ber 13, Hamilton Leander were a bad third. Reed, of Toronto, won the 140lb, junior single race.

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The cruiser Vindictive. which began, her career in October, 1918, as an aircraft carrier, and was In conincetion with the Hungarian afterwards converted into a cruiser, monarchy question Honved-Minister was on July 25 paid off into the or Minister of Defence Goemboes Nore Reserve Fleet, for which she van Lakfa who in 1921 squashed the was re-commissioned with a reserve. monarchist raid headed by the Late crew. Vindictive has recently re- ex-Emperor Charles, declared last turned from the Far East. week that this question could be.

The United States State Depart ment has informed the secretariat of the League of Nations that no lave labour will, he employed in the erection of the irrigation dam at the hastily alarmed police succeed Lake Tana, Abyssinia in accorded in ending the fracas. ance with an undertaking given by the contractors. Moreover it is an nounced that at present the plans are merely under consideration and that actual construction work can- not begin pending an agreement be tween Abyssinia and Great Britain, which means the Sudan, regarding the distribution of the water re- In the early days of Chinese retained by the new dam and reser. voir, a problem which will not be lations with foreign countries con-

easily solved. The matter had been siderable difficulty was experienced brought to the League of Nations in the phrasing of diplomatic attention by a protest held by a humanitarian association against documents. The official titles of the the employment of slave labour by

20 comprehensive the American contractors.. Nor for a long time bave we had Emperor were the pleasure of glancing over such that it seemed incredible to Chinese jolly little journal as The China) minds that any other Sovereign.in Fundamentalist. There is a laugh the world could be possibly regard. to be found on every page. On the ed with similar dignity. The ge- first we read that "any theory of tlemen on both sides whose duty it the evolutionary origin of the

write despatches, had to tion. was to human race is false and destruc-exercise the utmost ingenuity in tive. On the Inst we find a joke finding phrases which would save but that particular anecdote can face" and yet not give offence to wait. In between the first and last the recipient. More than once pages we find a score of most amus- Chinese insistence upon the use of ing editorial items. For example, fowery titular phrases led to serious we learn that the League of Nations differences, but eventually things Union in Great Britain, and were adjusted amicably to every

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General Higgins of the Salvation Army, left London London last week for the South-African Union, where he will reorganize the army's work amongst the coloured popula-

come of practical interest only after A Copenhagen message states Hungary'e full recovery of ber that an agent of a foreign Power- sovereign rights which at present a to be China has offered to. are curtailed by the Treaty of

buy the Danish coast. defence ship. Trianon. After that, the problem Niels Juel (4,100 tons) if the Gov- would be decided on the principle ment will sell her. The price that the country needed a strong offered is rumoured to hand and not a child ruler.

10,000,000 to 15,000,000 crowns.

be from

The apprehensions left in Spanish- democratic quarters in respect to Although most of the commercial

Bessie Horrocks, aged 3, an the possibility of a protracted con- news of the United States for the

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Local Notes and Events

H.E. the Governor. has appointed Mr. John Heywood Gelling to act as Secretary to the Sanitary Board

are forms of pacificism, which days official despatches between "cannot be condemned too strong Governments are much more busi- ly, being a sinister part of Inter-ness-like in tone than they were s nationalism, intended to utilize hundred, or even ifty, years ago, Christian sentiment for the over-but there is still room for reform- throw of Christian countries." even in the manner of addressing We wonder whether Mr. BALD communications which pass between WIN, Earl GREY, Lord BADEN- officials of much lesser standing POWELL, Earl BEATTY, to say than Ambassadors and Ministers. nothing of the Archbishops of How far the charseters of # Canterbury and of York, are nation can be gauged by the style aware that the guilty secret of their of ita State documents is a question horrid activities in connection with worth examining. It would be the League of Nations Union has possible, for instance, to produce & been exposed in The China Funda pretty essay on the comparative mentalist

psychology of nations by analysing

It is notified that the name of only the formula employed when concluding an official despatch, the Ming Yuen Becreation Garden and to BAMBAY MACDONALD, MUSSO The French, for example, although Wing Fat Company, Ltd., has been [LINI, ⠀⠀ CLEMENCEAU, LENIN, BOES so intricate and so conventional in struck off the Register.

LUXEMBOURG, TROTSKY, VANDER their private correspondence, adopt VELDE, and other well-known figures in official despatches the most teren in European politics, and to inter- and practical of methods. The national financiers whose very despatch is beaded: "The French names are unknown to mankind Ambassador at X' to the Minister

On other pages we observe oblique references to "Anti-Christs'

The name of Mr. R. W. Webber, of Messrs. A. 8. Watson & Co., has been added to the register of chemists and druggists.

The arrest of a smartly dressed young Chinese at King's Park was effected by, the Kowloon police on Thursday evening, when the man was delivering a speech alleged to

but who throw millions of pounds for Foreign Affaire, and no fur

ith no loss, ther trimmings are allowed. British be inciting the gathering to ex with tog prosta fidespatcheswar stjects to many, tremiam Following this arrest. the

into any war,

With

to themselves. There are, however, traditional variations. The Bee

The Secre indications, that Satin may be over tary of State, when writing to a reaching himself and it is foreign Ambassador, signs himself, not beyond the reach of Divine: With the highest consideration; power to abort the coming war by when writing to a British Ambas sador he is With great truth and cutting the roof of war finance,

Local cricketers will be pleased to learn that Mr. Alec Pearce, Fon of the local Interport cricket play er Mr. T. E. Pearce, played for Kent in their last match against Lancashire. It is interesting to Alec" is not yet note that twenty,

Looking Back 25 Years.

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Learned counsel for the defence was interrogating a witness in the manslaughter case at the Supreme Court yesterday." Is it true what the previous witness trgon, and then added, "I think he was a policeman, so it must be true."--Hong Kong Daily Press, August 25, 1906. Looking Back 50 Yeaza.

As a result of a fall from some height when he was engaged with H.M. Dockyard on Friday, a con- new gardens, Kowloon." Tempted

others in dismantling crane at

tractor's coolie suetained multiple) injuries and had to be removed to the Government Civil Hospital. Previous to the man's removal to hospital, a few of the Dockyard staff rendered first aid, but the man

died two hours later.

be co

HE. the Governor has made the following promotions in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps to police raided a Chinese, book store APEXV

pany-Sergeant Major John Henry in Hollywood Road on Friday, and Lawrence to be Second Lieutenant a large quantity of Communist Company Quartermaster Sergeant books were seized. It is stated that Jose Victor Vieira dos Remedios to the Second Lieutenant Sergeant the apprehended person is the man- Henry Joseph Bilva to be Second ager of the book store in question. Lieutenant.

On Monday evening Mr. A. Hann gare an Italian Night at his

by the finents of the weather and the novelty of the entertainment, there was a very large attendance, and dancing and other amusements were indulged in. There was also, a display of Chinese fireworks, in- cluding representations of pagodas and other subjects The gardens. have been well laid out, and afford various facilities for recreation. There is an asphalt platform which

as a skating rink, also swings, a trapeze; and a whirligig. The latter was well patronized on Monday, so much so that it broke down ander the heavy loads it had to carry. Hong Kong Daily Press, Au

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