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NOVEMBER 11th

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NOTICE.

ARMISTICE DAY,

11 NOVEMBER, "1930."

PERSONS arriving by Car to attend the Ceremony at the Conotaph are requested to direct their Drivers to prosocd Fia DER VORUX ROAD CENTRAL to STATUE Squarm, where the Parsen- gers will alight and walk to the Cenotaph,

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ARMISTICE DAY DINNER.

DINNER be held at the

HONG KONG HOTEL on ARMISTICE DAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1930, ander the Ansptoos of the EX-AUTIVE SERVICE MEN'S ASSOCIATION.

All Mombers of the Awociation and ost and other Ex-Service Men their Guests will be Welcome The Price of Tickets will be $5.00 Each.

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FLANDERS

POPPY.

IN FLANDERS FIELDS.

In Flanders fold the poppics blow

Between the crosses, low on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky The larke still bravely singing, By earce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead, Bhort days ago, We lived, folt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lo

In Flanders Fielda.

Take up our quarrel with the foo; To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high, If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders Fields.

JOHN MCURAE,

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WEATHER REPORT, gold standard was decided upon in 1028 it was estimated that 240 Yesterday's weather report, fore-million ouneci, or over a year's east had remarks, issued by the world production, should be dis- Royal Observatory at 11 pm, posed of as the authorities thought gtated:-

fit, and up to now the India Trea- sury has sold eighty-five million ounces.

The typhoon is central to the cast of Guam, Depressions are shown to the north of Nagasaki and over Tongking.

Local Forecast E. or variable winds, moderate to light; generally cloudy.

MARRIAGE.

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THE WHITE ELEPHANT,

* News and Views *

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National Liberal “war chest," but in reality because the personal hostility between Mr. LLOYD GEORGE and Asquirn Liberals continued unabated. Even the resignation of

In his speech at the annual meet-

Probably no woman in the world Mr. Asquini, in 1928, from the party leadership and the official ing of Harrisona and Crosfield, bag finer jewels than Queen May; re-union under Mr. LLOYD GEORGz, ¡ Ltd., the chairman, Mr. Eric Mil certainly no other woman could Another big cause of the slump brought little result. Bickerings ler, reforred to now uses for rub-wear such an array as the QueCT is that silver; as an industrial com continued. There were defents at her and urged the desirability of wore at the dinner in honour of the Imperial delegates with gren- modity, has gone the way of many the polls and secessions both among laying rubber-surfaced blocks in other of the world's metals, demand leaders and back bench members. City streets where traffte is heavy, tor dignity. To have seen and price having fallen. In times All the time the Labour Party was and excessivo noise and vibration Queen in such an array is to know with exset judgment her gowns of economic distress, silver, which scizing its opportunity to absorb are almost intolerable. The price are chosen. Sometimes one hears" in a form of investment, inde few the advanced wing of Liberialism. nt which a dependable rubber rond speculation na to why the Queen buyers among the peasants of China It was a young party, confident, way can be laid has now been re- does not follow current fashions and India, who normally put a big well led and loyal to its leader.duced, he said, to approximately more closely, but the airy, formless proportion of their savings into But the strength of the Liberal 22 10, per square yard, a price evening dresses of the past docado. silver for ornament and for hoard- tradition waned slowly, and even in which comparcs very favourably or so would be quite wrong and ing. The civil war in Chian has also 1929 it polled five million votes with the post, £2 per square yard, impractical in conjunction with tho decreased the demand for silver, I against eight and a half by the of laying granite sette. Recently Koh-i-noor, the Lesser Star of The country districts have been Conservatives and just ander that it was stated by a reprmentative Africa and the Garter ribbon. denuded of silver currency, and the figure by the Labour party. But in of Briîsh Rubber and Associated. War Lords have delayed China with the Honso, of Commons the Liberal Productions, Ltd., that the only paper based on little or no reserve party has now less than sixty seats dificulty of finding suitablo me of metal. In former yeara India against the Conservative 260, and and' China absorbed to million the Labour 287. ounces per annum; industry and. the arts 40 millions, leaving 30 millions for other world purposes, principally for coinage. Supply and demond wers, therefore, well balanced.

Nor are the prospects for the future at all favourable. British mentality does not take to the three party system, with its end- less bargaining and compromises. "It is no good voting. Liberat, for they will never get in," has become the attitude of all but the loyal party man. British public men, are not content to bargain, and haggle, and support measures which they We dislike lest the reigning govern mene's fall should prove a tactical disadvantage.

Mr. KANN wisely suggests no remedy, nor does ho venture to prophesy, "The romance of silver," ho says in conclusion, "is con- tinuing, and will load us, let us hope, to a happy ending." One of the Shanghai's leading must await, he implice, settled con- economists, Mr. E. KANN, recently'ditions in China and some now in- gave, in a paper read before the Pan-Pacific Association, a number of facts and figures bearing on the silver crisis, which can be taken as an admirable introduction, for the layman, to this highly technical matter. We all feel the effects. of the crisis; we all know something about the sale of silver by tho

vention or fashion which will create another use, on the grand scale, for what has now become the world's white elephant.

THE TRAGEDY OF LIBERIALISM.

Indian Government, and other SIR ROBERT HUTCHISON's resignation causes of the trouble, but a clear from the poet of Chief Liberal statement of the outstanding facts Whip, and Sir JOHN SIMON's letter has been lacking.

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thods of keeping rubber blocks in position when laid had been prae tieally overcome. Wear and tear was barely perceptible, and there was ice tondency for vehicles to skid on rubber.

Tom Mix, the cowboy film star whose appearances with his famous hoteo Tony" have won a way into thousands of hearts, is seriously ill in Hollywood with a chest infee-. Ition. The ailment is believed to bo

result of tho many injurics which Le has suffered in the course of his frequently rough-and-tumble oinema.

The Turkish Minister of Finance | enterprises. has advised the council of the Otto. man Debt that Turkey, WM no The Chinees Goographical 50- longer able to continue payments under the present conditions and suggested & revision of the Paris convention of 1928.

ciety was one of the many foreign geographical societies represented at the centonary celebrations of the Royal Geographical Society lasa month. Among the speakers were Sir Francia Younghusband, a post- president, and Lord Lugard. The occasion was noteworthy as mark ing the use, for the first time,of the lecture theatro and library which have been added to the So- ciety', house.

Seven years ago a man 62 years of age was grafted with monkey. Iglands by Doctor Serge Voronoff. To-day he has two little girls who, according to Dr. Voronoff, "are Liberalism has been ill-served by absolutely normal in every way; its leaders, Mr. Lloyd George is living refutations of assertions that not a Liberal. By all instincta ho the offspring of grafted people are

Labour man. Though the most almost bound to have simian char H.M.8. Suffolk, Captain G. S., ardent of reformars he has no uso acteristics. There are a number Arbuthnot, D.8.0., Inft Portsmouth and does his best of people," explained Dr, Voronoff, on October 19, after refit and re- .to enforce

scheme upon a reluctant party. lo grafted with monkey glands tion, to resume duty as a unit of which would like to go back to its will think and not like monkeys. I the Fifth Cruiser Squadron. It old principle of economy in govern: have always said that this was a had been arranged for her to visit ment, but cannot bring itself to fallsey, but my assertion was dif- Port Swettenham on the voyage break with the Welch wizard. The fleult to prove because enough time out, but in view of the delay in party has drifted onto the rocks, and not elapsed for children to be leaving this has been abandoned, and only a leader of the fret poli- born to gome of my patients. Such and the ship will only touch at tical enfibre could save it. At the is no longer the case. I personal- Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Suez, moment there is no sign of such ly know of three such children and Aden, Colombo, and Singapore.

for retrenchaoss scheme after who insist that the childron of peo commissioning for the China Sta-

man.

She is due at Hong Kong on November 21,

Much intorost has been aroused

at Stockholm by the announormcat

an

I am sure there are others, to Mr. Lion CEORGE, deelsring At the outset Mr. KANN traced that ho reserves to himself the right Jr. Jamar W. "Davidson of H.M.S. Cornwall, Captain A. N. the enormous development of silver to vote against the Labour Govern Canada, Hon. General Commissioner Dowding, which left Hong Kong production during the past thirtyment when he sees fit, mark a fur. of Rotary International, is staying on October 18 for Davonport to

at the Hong Kong Hotel. He is rest and recommission was docked that ten of tho filme found with the years of the fifteen billion, ounces ther, and perhaps final stage in the here for the purpose of organizing at the new floating dock at Singa- remains of the ill-fated Andree of silver mined since 1483, when the break-up of the Liberal party. Rotary Club in this city. Mr. pore on her way home. Her later Northpole expedition have been discovery of America opened up Few students of politics would have Davidson during the past two years programme is: Penang, November sufficiently restored to admit pro- Ten other still-pictures, has been extending the movement 9-11; Colombo, November 18-20;jection.

November 20-29: Suez, are also fairly well preserved. vast new sources, it is estimated predicted at the beginning of thein India, Ceylon, Burma, Java, Adeu, that six billions were mined during year 1916 that a breach in the Sumatra, British Malaya and Siam December 1; Port Said, December giving altogether a good view of

now successful 2; Malta, December 5-8; Gibraltar, the landing of the balloon the last thirty years. For the Liberal party was imminent, that it where, there are

and Devonport, White Island. Each of the films clubs in all the principal cities to December 11; period 1493-1900 the average output would be impossible to heal and the number of twenty-one..

December 18.

is about. Do feet long. was 22 million ounces a year, and fatal in its results. For ten during 1000-1020 the average was years the party had governed Eng- 200 millions per annum. But Mr. land, it had fought, and won, two KANN is convinced that over-pre-critical elections, and, under Mr. duction is not the cause of the Asqurri's leadership its position present slump in silver. Until the appeared impregnable. But the present, crisis developed the world cleavage between the Radical left had been steadily absorbing the out-wing, and the inheritors of the put of the wines and there had been Whig tradition was apparent long

no headlong decline in the value before the War broke out, and be of silver. In ancient days silver | came acute as the life struggle with was of more value than, gold and Germany continued. By a curious excavators in Greece hava found paradox the Radical wing, under golden ornaments overlaid with Mr. Ladye Grohor, who had in silver. In the Middle Ages the

proportionate value was 1:113 in favour of gold. By 3800 the ratio had grown to 15, and by 1000 to 33:3. During the war the difference fell to 22 but at present it stands at over 60. One unit of gold is now worth more than 60 of silver.

The slump is primarily ascribed by Mr. KANN to, "the extra supply of huge quantities or silver derived from. do-monetized coin, a move-

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Local Notes and Events ★

lt in notified that the name of

The total output of the Kailan A bankruptcy notification states the Wai Hing Co., Ltd., has been Mining Administration for the week that a first and fond dividend of struck off the register.

ending October 28 amounted to $5 per cent. has been declared in 118,800 tons, and the sales during the matter of the Yue Wo Hing Firm, contractors, or 34, Swatow the period to 100,897 tons.

Street, Hong Kong.

The Gazette intimates that as from to-day, Murray Pier will be closed to traffic until further notice. It is notified that Mr. J. D. Lloyd resumed duty as Superintendent of Imports and Exports, on October

31.

The s.s. D'Artagnan will leave for Shanghai at 0 5.m, to-morrow, Tues- day, and not at the time previously

peace sought by every possible means economy, on the fighting Services, complained that the men who had insisted on adequate arma- ments and an Imperial outlook in the decade before the War, were not prosecuting the struggle with suf ficient vigour and whole-hearted-

Twenty Australian ponies for the neas. The truth as to these charges Hong Kong Jockey Club were land- will never be settled. It will remained yesterday at Taikoo Dockyard a matter of opinion how far Mr. ASQUITH's Government could have

stated.

from the s., Tando.

Collection boxes for the Poppy

II.E, the Governor has appointed Day sale will be ready for distri- bution at the City Hall to-day, from Mr. R. A. C. North to be Chief 9.30 to 12.30; and at the European Assistant to the Secretary for Chi- Y.M.C.A.; Kowloon from 10.30 a.m. nese Affairs, and Mr. R. R. Todi to 12.30 and from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. to be an Assistant Superintendent All lady helpers are asked to call of Imports and Exports. or and for them accordingly.

Station.

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When

John Craig, an American seaman, Serious allegations are

made was before Mr. E. H. Williamas at against two soldiers, both privates the Central Magistracy on Baturday in the Argyll and Sutherland High-00 vagrancy charge. It was. landers, in connection with a fracas stated that Craig arrived in tho which occurred in the On Lok Yuca Colony on the m.v. Defiance on Cafeteria in Queen's Road Central October 27. Since that date the It is alleged that not only did the defendant had been living on some two men refuse to settle their bill, money which he posBCBBCŮ. but one of them struck a waiter in that amount became exhausted he H.E. the Governor has-appointed the face. Various articles were said surrendered himself at the Central ment in which many nations have done more, or whether the Coalition Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg to act as Land to have been smashed by the Police Station, Sergeant Patton taken part." He blames Mr. WAN- merely reaped, what had been owner, DB.D., to nct us. Assistant at and taken to the Central Police white cake Craig away. Deten- Officer and Lieut.-Colonel Frederick soldiers, who were eventually arrest mentioned that the American Consul

ship to STON CHURCHILL as the author of a by the original War Cabinet. But

Land Officer.

dant was committed to the House inrge proportion of the trouble. In the breach between the two sections trying to balance his 1820 Budget of the party was

mul intele Mr. In a report made to the Folicu, A new recoril since 1928 for the of Detention pending completion of

Mrs. Koch, wife of Dr. W. V. H. Christmas parcels mail for Home arrangements for bis repatriation, the then Chancellor of the Ex- Asquith's followers, and most of Koch, stated that she lost a gold from Hong Kong was established on chequer any his way to netting all Viscount Gaży of Falloder, have brooch, set with emeralds and Friday, which was closing day, three million pounds sterling by never forgiven Mr. LLOYD GEORGE rubies, valued at £15. Mrs. Koch when the huge total of 4,101 parcels Looking Back 25 Years,

A cock and "boy" are in missed the ornament outside D. in 300 bags was registered. These reminting Britain's coinage at a for the part which they allege he Chellaram & Co.'s shop in Pedder included 3,005 to the United King custody in Macas charged with lower silver content and selling the took in supplanting his old lender. Street,

dom direct and 203 to Marseilles. putting poison in the soup of their The previous best during the past master and mistress, & Reverend metal thus released. It may be re- During the régime of the post-

Rear-Admiral R.A. S. Bill, four years was 3,011 parcele in 298 American gentleman and his wife. called that the Senior Treasury war Coalition fusion between the C.B.E., who has been Commodore in bags in 1928, while in 1997 the total violent pains and sickness followed Counsel, the late Sir RICHARD LLOYD GEonce, or National Liberals Hong Kong for the past two years, of 3,877 in 204 bags war reached. the eating of it. One theory is that being shown one of the new florine, ut the Prime Minister was over the Macedonia A guard of less, only 3,200 parcele being desanimus another that it was in

honour was provided by the Somer patched in 250 bags.

revenge for a scolding, and a “I have had many a poor fellow happy, after the Armistice, with his set Light Infantry at Queen's Pier,

of their wages. How- cutting scot to prison for five years, for Conservative collongues. When his and launches in the harbour fired Arrested with 10,000 heroin pille ever, these theories should await a making coin no worse than this" personal friend and co-leader, ifr. off strings of crackers as the depart in his possession, a Chinese was

Kong Daily Press, Nov. 10, 1908. Unfortunately, for the silver. BONAR LAW left public life owing ng officer left the pier after taking charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell & verification of the charge. Hong

leave of the gathering present.

at the Central Magistracy, on market, Germany, Poland and to a breakdown in health, the posi

Saturday and fined $1,000, or six Looking Back 50 Years, To-morrow, Armistico Day, the months hard labour in default of Lou Afuk, a hawker, was sen France followed Britain's example, tion soon became impossible, and General Port Office will be open payment. The defendant was carry tenced to six months' imprison- and several European countries the war crisis with Turkey in from 8 a.mto noon, Kowloon Posting a heavy parcel in Connaught ment by, Hon. Mr. M. 8. Tonnochy at Central Police Court, the first have done the same subsequently. 1999 led to a Conservative revolt Office8 ata to 11 m. and the Road, when he was stopped by a In 1929 Indo-China adopted the against Mr. Laprd Grozas, and the other Branch Post Offices 8 a.m. Chinese revenus. officer. At the Im and last fourteen days to be in to 9 a.m. There will be one collecports and Exports Ofco the narcol solitary confecment, the remainder ngakim standard and unleaded en formation of a full Conservative

conservention from the pillar boxes

the pillar-boxes and one was opened and found to contain with bard labour, and to be ex- Strikkomandomspris Allemple de reunile, Algers of ordinary correu no show to top orbit his Defendant pored in the toes for six hours But British India is described as the Liberal party failed, ostensibly as on Sundays, and ond delivery matted that

of registered correspondence at 9 carry the parcels for a friend, and Akong, in the Ko Shing Theatre. "the great enemy

of silver's because Mr. LLOYD GEORus insisted. The Money Order Office will was absolutely ignorant of ita con Hong Kong Daily Press, Nov. 10.

1830, stability." When the move to a upon retaining control of the be entirely closed.

NEW YEAR on, remarked, laconical box one, or National Libond x 15 fond on Saturday by Last year the aggregate was much joycott

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