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that of the Marea, which was pur- chased by Japanese interests for use in the fishing industry. Ships of the same age as the Hores, and at least one the Macedonia-which is considerably older, are still in service in the Eastern run. It is stated that replacements will be made with new vessels in some in- stances, but the release of the Nal- fire. A messenger boy, it appeared dera and Narkande will render a which burst and almost overpowersary:~ was carrying a bottle of nitric acid. large building programme unneces ed him and another passenger. Burns on the hands were suffered by a man who was mounting the bus
The P and O. Royal mail steam- ers Naldera and Narkunda,if present intentions are carried out, will be taken out of the Australian service as soon as the two new 21,000-ton vessels now building--the Royal Observatory at 3.33 p... again. take the helm of State The
The Government of Mexico has Strathaird and the Strathaven- stated:
Conservatives in Germany as Le Soir, Belgian paper, last | Pressure is highest to the north body are not monarchist. They are week published a letter by Marshal confirmed reports of the nationali-aro placed in commission. They von Hindenburg, circulated to all zation of Protestant church pro will probably replace older vessels east of Japan, and relatively low in simply men who favour a more the German Ministers in 1918,, an perty in conformity with the con- in the London-Bombay-Japan run. a trough extending from Indo-Chineleisurely manner of political pro extract from unpublished German stitution. The churches will be number of old vessels from the to Guam, A depression over the north-west portion of the greas than some of the more ardent documents. Dealing with the ques allowed to continue to occupy the and O fleet have been sold re toa of the future German borders, property, but they cannot own it.sently, the last reported gale being republicans The Conservativesit ndrisca the creation, east of Ger- have vigorously denounced the many and between Prussia and
Passengers used their handker- violence in thought and deed of the Foland, of a special territory with
an area of about 000 sq. kilometres, chiefs as gas-masks to save them Fascist and Communists, and any consisting of land which should be seles from the strong fumes which Polish filled a Newcastle Corporation 'bus suggestion of government by ditta expropriated from torship however cunningly
dis owners and placed at the disposal recently when a half-gallon bottle of German colonists. Faced with of nitric acid burst. The bus was Eguised-has been vigorously 10- such a fait accompli the Poles diled with dense fumes, and it was pudiated. It has been, indeed, one would have had to look to Germany at first thought that it had caught of the most encouraging aspects of for support, as, without it, their
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LIPTON'S BAD LUCK.
prospects of the trophy being brought back to Britain begin to look gloomy. Of the remaining five. races Sir THOMAS LIPTON has to win four The feat is not im possible, but on form is improbable,
Knights of Columbus in New Haven, Conn. last week announced that the organization has contribut-25 the bottle burst. ed G.$97,000 for relief of drought- afflicted areas in the United States.
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A third and final dividend of 2.285 pence in the pound in the matter of Gerard Loo Bevan, for- merly carrying on business ne El and Co., stock and share brokers, Cornhill was paid recently. In the separate estate of Gerard Leo Be- van a second and final dividend of 3.14 pence in the pound was also paid."
a novel
It is announced that Bystem of propulsion for ships' life boats, invented by G. Tarabull, or Birkenhead, has been adopted the Blue Funnel liners Agamemnon and Menestheus." A
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The dre in the harbour of Piraeus which originated on a "barque loaden with gasoline re-
aulted in the death of six people while ten were seriously injured. Fifteen oil tankers and one liner were gutted.
Seven boys, whose "ages, ranged from eight to ten, were summoned. recently at a children's court at by the Southern Southampton Railway for trespassing at Sway- thing. It was stated that they escaped death by a narrow margin and that the driver of a train pulled up within four feet of the boys. Three of them were actually sitting on the rails. One boy told a policeman he put his head on the
on the line when he saw the train coming, "just for fun." The m ther of one of the boys said she thought the cinema was at the bot tom of the trouble. The bays were' bound over for six months and for bidden to visit a cinema during that period.
The Standard Shipping Com- pany, of New York, have placed an order for six tank steamers of 15,000 tans each, of a total value £1,500,000, with German shipyards.
MOONEY.-On September 13; at W the first two races won by the German poet, has resigned the Pro-speed of about four miles an hour line to see if a train was coming. Shanghai, Mrs. JAMES MOONEY defender of the America Cup, the sidency of the Prussian Academy is possible with the use of the sys and another said he put his head
of Poetry to which he was elected tem, by which a crank, connected by shafting to large propellor, is in 1928.
turned by six "oarsmen" on each The proceedings of the first two side of the boat. The oarsmen" days at Geneva are considered to may be inexperienced. Instead of have killed the proposed
new the usual horizontal tiller. Mr. stature of the Hague Permanent Turnbull has devised an upright International Court as the Southjoy-stick" which permite 12 ad- In the second race Shamrock American states refused to give ditional passengers to be accom bad the advantage of the weather their assent. All efforts are now modated. There is room for 72 ̧ ìn berth, but the Enterprise being a concentrated on a nattempt to a the boats. faster craft soon crossed the chalter the present statutes in such a lenger's bows and took the wind out way that the judges may hold office of her sails From then on those for nine years and that their num- on board the British yacht had the ber be increased from the present exasperating experience of watch 11 to 15.
A demonstrasion was given to the ing the stern of the rival vessel
members of the Master Mariners' draw steadily away. Every tack
Club at Southampton recently of made by the Shamrock was prompt
the fog-piercing qualities of the infra-red rays discovered by J. L. WHAT NEXT IN GERMANY?ly followed by the Enterprise, which was faster in turning, and gained time on every change of
Heavy seas, a strong southerly Baird during his research work on course. After about fifteen minutes
gale, and a blinding rain squall television. The latest application of these cat-and-mouse taction the Enterprise stood boldly away on. the The Czecho-Slovakian Foreign prevented Pilot John Chandler of these raya, invisible to the buman from leaving the United States, whereby Baird talls nocte- starboard tack for the ten-mile Ministry has refused to give satis mark, disregarding the Shamrock faction to the Italian Minister to liner President Harding on her vision" may be achieved, is toward been devised whereby a beacon of tacking to port. The Americans Prague when the latter complained departure from Queenstown recent enabling ships to find their way were by this time evidently of concerning the severe attacks made and he had to continue the safely through fog. Apparatus has
journey to New York. The vessel
three beamng of infra-red raye Th opinion that they had the race well by the Prague Press on Italy on was outward bound from Hamburg.
are received in hand and they were right. account of the recent exécution at From this point on the Shamrock Trieste of four Italian Slavs. The Southampton, and Cherbourg, and and was beaten for the second time that steps be taken, by the Czecho- and mails before proceeding from
Queenstown. fought a gallant but losing battle, Italian Minister also demanded embarked a number of passengere by 8 minutes 49 seconds on a thirty. Slovakian Government to prevent mile course
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 17, 1930,
For the next month the BaUENING Cabinet will have a very big job on its, hands. Before the Reichstag meets on October 14 the Government an
Marsha Joffre, who is staying or Iris estate at Louvecines, is sick. No visitors, are allowed by order of his physicians. The great age cf the Marshal causes the news to be received with anxiety.
further similar attacks.
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The Dutch naval mission arrived at Lorient last week and visited the torpedo-boat destroyer Bison which holds the world's record for speed. Later the mission boarded a des troyer bound for the base at Groix. where further tests of speed are to be carried out.
Base-
rayı, converted into musical cell which is swung round until the through a lens on to a photographic
sounds," are heard. By means of a geared revolving shutter the differ- ent rays always produce the same nate and with the apparatus shown ax many, as 50 different musica! can be produced. combinations Thus a ship making for the narrow entrance of a harbor on each side of which a noctevisor apparatus was installed would receive the eignals on its receiving apparatus from each transmitter in turn and be able to plot its bearings,
will endeavour to arrange alliance between the dozen or so "moderate" political parties, in order to present a united front
volves. These rays
the
against an equally grotesque com bination of Fascists and Com-
Baseball is the most dangerous The fact that both reasels have muniste. It is, indeed, a fantastic
been built to the New York Yacht The French Minister for the popular form of recreation and situation which has arisen from the recut general election, and it is Club's rating rule makes the pre-Colonies, M. Pietri, visited the ping-pong the least dangerous, ac- Jast week, cording to an analysis of about 4.400 quite impossible to see clearly sent series of contests a rauch more Colonial Exposition [9808 how it will develop. Some weeks even teat of seamanship than somewhere be gained the impression claims for injuries inade by a New
of those which have preceded it. that the work was proceeding with York insurance company. ago, in commenting upon the then Since the famous schooner America giant stride. All the buildings will ball was blamed for 807, or 18 per toming contest in Germany, we crossed the Atlantic in July, 1861 br roofed before the beginning of cent., of the injuries reported. winter. The Minister was Swimming came next with 562 said the result would show wh her she was the first yacht to de so in the
either direction--and won the exp particularly interested in the at cases and restling and "friendly Fascism is to come into author.ty for a race round the Isle of Wight tractive character of the exposition, reaffing" third with 287," Cr whether Germany's power as a against fourteen other yachts, rang. State is, in accordance with the ing from 393 to 47 tons, thirteen terms of the Constitution, "derived attempts have been made to bring the trophy back, and it does not from the people." Well, the Ger-lock as though this year's effort man people have now spaken, but will be successful. It is interesting in so many conflicting voices thet to recall the fact that the America Cup went across the Atlantic it seems an incomprehensible babel.in rather peculiar circunstances. Until the situation becomes more America (170 tons) was eighteen minutes ahead of thecond, settled and clarified, it is useless
Aurora (47 tons), the smallest of speculating at this distance upon the group, but she would not have what seems most likely to happen. done so had the conditions been If the German Press-in close strictly enforced, as she did not contact with and fully informed go round the Nab, and thus gained very considerable advantage. upon, the situation-is "staggered"The protest which Brilliant, the by the turn of events, the bewilder-largest of the group made against ber for not rounding the Nab was, ment of foreign and distant ob- in the sporting spirit with which
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What Live Business Men are Studying To-day TOTAL OF CUSTOMS REVENUE
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the race had been given, nut pro- ceeded with. One wonders whether those responsible for withdrawing the protest had any premonition of what that decision, meant for the future.
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Mrs. Lient. Comdr. A. Schrader, U.S.
Wm. Jackson and Miss by Mis. Audrey M. Jackson returned to the Navy, accompanied Schrader, arrived in Hong Kong on Colony by the, 8.8. Aki Maru yes- Monday by the 8.8. President terday. Pierce. Lieut. Comdr. Schrader will take command of the "U.S.S. Helena.
The forthcoming marriage is an- nounced between Mr. Wallace C. Pyeatt, residing at the Peninsula Hotel, and Miss Francesca Landes, of California, who is now on the way to Hong Kong by the se President Taft.
The rainfall for the 24 hours ended at 10.30 .m... yesterday," Es recorded at the Royal Obser vatory, was 1.20 inches of which 80 inch fell between 9.30 and 10.30 a.m. Added to Monday's total, this makes a fall, of 7.12 inches in two
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An adjourned ordinary meeting of the China Coast Officers' Guild will be held at the Guild Office, 87, Der Vœux Road Central, to-day at 5. p..
Looking Back 25 Years,
The second promenade concert, given by the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, on Saturday night, was cur
tailed suddenly by a downpour of servers must be much more com-
1 rain.
Mr. F. Jok! had gab Captain A. H. Walker, O.B.F., through a masterly rendering of. plete. The outstanding fact is that two groups of reactionaries each
Owing to the inclement weather, whose selection to be Commodore Wieniawski's "Romance the chairs bitterly hostile to the other have
the Band Concert arranged by the in charge of the naval establish were all empty, and the audience Kowloon Residents' Association, mente at Hong Kong was recently sheltering beneath the trees. Even won seats formerly held by repre-
However, while there's life there's which was due to be held on the announced, will date his appoint there, dripping and uncomfortable, sentatives of more moderate poli- hope, and the disappointing result Kowloon Football Club's ground ment from September 19, but is not the sweet voice of the violin thriled tical schools The BRUENING Ad of the first two races, will have a to-night, has been postponed till expected to assume command until them to applause; but there was no
be succeeds Rear-Admiral B. A. S. more music Love of music is nob, ministration was not-popular, and stimulating effect upon the Sham- next Wednesday, September 24.5
Hill, C.B.E, who was appointed, the love that many waters cannot dissatisfaction with its policy has rock's skipper and crew. They
have been beaten on a fifteen-mile A young Chinese woman residing two years ago, and was promoted quench; and the Muses, bunching to flag raak in April last. The new their skirts, and screaming for expressed itself in two directions.reach and return," and also over
at 288, Reclamation Street, was re- Some have voted for a party which a triangular course of thirty miles. moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital Commodore will shortly complete chairs, were ronted by Jupiter favours a sort of semi-dictatorship; The remaining races will be sailed yesterday aufering from poison. 35 years in the Navy, which he Pluvius-long Rony Daily Frets,
It was stated that she took a entered as a cadet in 1895. During September 18, 1805. on similar courses alternately and others have voted for a party which with the experience gained in the quantity of poison following the War he was torpedo officer of
the battleship Ajax in the Grand Looking Back 50 Years, favours Communistic principles. races already sailed the challengers quarrel with her step-daughter.
Fleet, until selected, for the staff When the tongue of public Both parties have no sympathy for may be able to make a better show-
The Medical Officer of Health of the torpedo school in 1915. In rumour begins to wag the tales it ing. No man can do better than
sea duty as tells are as frequently remote from. what may be called republican de his bost, but he does not always reports that for the 24 hours ended 1017 be returned to mocracy-political principles which know how much better what he September 15 there were three torpedo officer on the staff of Com- the truth as near it. We conse are accepted by three of Germany's thought was his "best" might deaths from typhoid fever (one madoze Tweedie, Commanding the quently give, without youching for have been. The opinion expressed non-Chinese), and one death from Grand Fleet Flotilla. He comits veracity, the fast new thing in most distinguished military men in England that the Shamrock diphtheria. Daring the week ended manded the loop Cadmug in China humanitarianism, which is to the VON
HINDENBURG, VON LETTOW would do better in light winds September 13 there was one death during 1918, and since Jus promo- effect that the Governor contem VORRECK, and VON SEIDET.
rather than heavy weather does not from enteric and one from puerperal tion to captain in June, 1920, be plates permitting the use of certain has been Assistant Director of sites on the hillsides by the indigent, appear to have been confirmed fever, r These three men are probably or at least she does not do better
Torpedoce, in command of the amongst the Chinese free of charge. really monarchist in sentiment, but than her rival in a ten-mile breeze. Two Chinese women were brought cruiser Cairo in the East Indies, This, if true, would no doubt, be a accept the Republic as an establish It would be good sport te see a before Mr. T. 8. Whyle-Smith at Absistant Director of Naval Equip- stroke an captandum es regards decided change of weather in the the Kowloon Magistracy yester.ment, and Director of Torpedoes the natives, and amongst that sec ed fact, and, being realiste, recognext two races, jush to test the day on a charge of stealing 20 and Mining. His Inst duty was in tion His Excellency's popularity nise they can do more for the good merits of the British and American pigeons, the property of Mr. A. A command of the battleship Warepite would be greater than ever, the of their country by supporting the craft in a spanking breeze and a Xavier, of 18, Dorset Crescent, in the Mediterranean, including the results, however, of the menmire, so
on that-Hong Kong Daily democratic régime than by lending my sea such as is frequently Kowloon Tong. Both defendants time that she was flagship of Au far as expedienes goes, are obrion
experienced off Rhode Island at this pleaded not guilty and the case was miral Siz Frederick Fie
ber 17, 18801 remandéd aid or encouragement to those who time of year.
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