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two years before the war. Our lead- ing writers seem to stand aloof, Yesterday's weather report, fore-howover, for no one imagince that east and remarks, issued by the nothing, has ever been offered to Royal Observatory at such great figures as G. B. SHAW, stated:

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Local Forecast:-N.W. to N.E. winds, moderate; fair.

RUDYARD KIPLING, G. K. CHESTEn- TON and H. G. WELLE. Cannot they fellow Sir James Banne, Bart., and the late THOMAS HARDY in uphold ing a worthy survival of a past which they all describe in their works as not wholly ignoble 1

Everyone in Hong Kong'will join in offering congratulations to all

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Pola Negri's Husband.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Search for Radium in Derbyshire. || tho Hopes entertained in Castleton, Local. Miss Mary McCormick, operatie singer, states that she Derbyshire, that radium is likely to expects to marry Prince Serge exist in some of the caverns in the Mdivani, the estranged husband of neighbourhood were given fresh life, the film actress, Miss Pola Negri, when a party of geologists and Blue John cavern at the summit of Prince Mdivani arrived from Europe chemists spent several hours in the laat month. Miss McCormick said that the marriage would not take! Man Tor. A thorough survey was place until next year." Divores made of this cavern, and the party proceedings between Prince Mdivani entered several portions which are known only to a few people. The the local recipients of New Your and Misa Pola Negri were recently investigations were enrried out dur | Sport.

instituted..

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

Honours. H.E. Sir. WILLIAM PREL The following typhoon warkings have been received by the American has already been here long enough Consulate-General from the Manila to win, confidence in his energy Observatory:

and foresight. Of Sir WILLIAM Manila, January 1, 10.50 am. HORNELL's knighthood, the only Cyclone or typhoon W. of Yap, surprise is that it should have been mavitig W. or W.N.W.

Manila, January 2, 4.30 p.m.60 long delayed. The honour is a Typhoop in about 129deg. Long. E. welcome recognition not only of the and 11deg. Lat. N., moving W.

Vice-Chancellor's great services but of the Home Government's interest in our University. A fow honours

ANNOUNCEMENT.

Mr and Mrs. L. H. KING announce

the engagement of their daugh ter, Margaret, to Rupert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivor Foster of Bedford Park, London. [159

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HONG KONG, JANUARY 3, 1081..

NEW YEAR HONOURS.

Nor very many years ago British

honours, especially the orders of knighthood, were in danger of fall-

band of professors would not be amiss.

Certain charges against two of the accused in the argon trial at the Sessions were withdrawn at the Pago 6. fourth day's caring,

Shipping Intelligence, Page 18. To-day's wireless programme.

Pogo

Home football results and fis- Page 11. International rugger match in Page 11.1

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ing the night, the party returning, to the inn in the small hours of the

Their operatures. Holon Wills Moody and the Films. following morning.

tions were canaiderably handicapped A report from Paris states that by the large volume of water flow France. the lawn tennis champion, Mrs. ing through the cavern, and at times Helen Mills Moody, has decided to they were waist deep in the stream. follow the example of Bobby Jones Severa, samples of minerale were Latest Cables. and make a series of instructional taken by members of the party. films, She will not retire from lowo tennis, and the point thotplore Judge Praises the Assizes System.. will be affected. Under the rules

A census of the worlds cattle

Marshal Joffre's condition remaine stationary.

Page 0. President and Mrs. Hoover shook hands with, 6,430 persons on New Page 9. Year's Day at the White House.

Mr. Douglas Fairbanks has start- ed out from San Francisco on hunting trip in French Indo-China.

Pago 9.

£1.

Nino persons were killed in a collision on the Chicago Grand Trunk Railway between a train and’

a motor-car,

arises whether her amateur status, The Assize system in England of the International lawn Tennis was strongly supported by Mr. Federation an amateur is prohibit Justice. Branson in opening the to the able and not very well paided from "gaining pecuniary advan Surrey Assizes at Kingston. Assizes tage by posing for or permitting. the might on occasiona entail some taking of lawn tennis autjen film waste of judicial time, he said, but he was convinced that it was of the pictures."

utmost importance for the main- Time was when the Order of the

tenance of public confidence. that Cattle!

justice should be administered British Empiro did not command

amongst the people and for the great respect, and was supposed to be mainly for the benefit of depopulation shows the following re- people, no that those interested in sults. The accuracy of the figuresa local crime should be able to come feated parliamentary candidates cannot be vouched for as the and soo for themselves the spirit and the A.D.C.'s of more or less respective birth and death rates are of fairness and merey with which judges and jury and everybody con- not to band:-.-

cerned dealt with the cases. For reach Berlin yesterday. No. of Cattle Country distinguished and ornamental per

that reason he thought that at what- 1.-British India...... 148,209,558

over cost and at whatever jucon- 2-Soviet Republica 68,701,800

venience the Assize system should 3.-United States... 65,751,000

bo continued, and that a judge 4.-Argentina ****** 37,004,850

should travel around the country to 3.- Brazil

..... 34,271,324

bring to the people in their own 18,414,130

localities that administration of 15,005,080

justice. 10,477,777 6,703,272

But when the rank of sonages. Officer of the Order is the reward to one of the designers, like Mr. E. W. CARPENTER, of modern Kowloon, and the new towns, villages and roads of the New Territories, the honour acquires real value and significance. Not a very large por- tion falls to Hong Kong on these occasions, but it is safe to say that every honour held in this Colony has been thoroughly well merited.

CHINESE STUDENTS IN BRITAIN.

6. Germany 7-Franco 8-South Africa 9.--Canada

Maurice Chevaller's Philosophy.

Paris 0.

Miss Amy Johnson, who is now. engaged on a solo flight to Peiping, has left Liege, and expected to

Page 0.

The strictest precautions were taken when the Viceroy and Lady: Irwin were driving in state to the railway station on a visit to Assam.

Page 8.

That Europe is drifting swiftly to the most perilous position since the war is the subject of a leading. article in the Government organ, the Daily Herald.

Page 1.

Mr. Chevalier treats the situation

A sensation has been created by- in which he finds himself with a Mr. Edwards, Secretary of the Bergeant Post's Tragic Death.

ahrewd insouciance that seems ad There was one matter in regard mirably right and fittingly philo. Shanghai Municipal Counell, filing. to the tragic death of Police Bergt. Lophic. He knows that the really claim for alleged breach of con

tract against the Municipality. Post which might with advantago clever entertainer, whose work is

Page 0. have been cleared up at the inquest. suited to the talkies, whose parti-

The Burma Rifles stormed and 31r. Harrop stated that on his way cular personality suits the mood of up to the Central Police Station he the moment, becomes a world figure destroyed the headquarters of the passed a Fiat car with several per with a swiftness that used only to rebels in the heart of the forest at ing into disrepute. They were

sons in it including a police serbe dreamed of. He realised that Alantaung. The rebels sustained geant in uniform,

Page D. This car must under such conditions the change in between 2,000 and 3,000 casualties, awarded with painful regularity. Some interesting facts with regard either have passed the scene of the public faney may be as devastating- Striking testimony to the trade

Other talkie stars have "for public and political services," to Chinese students in Great tragedy in Lower Albert Road or ly swift to. gentlemen about whom

the Britain were brought to light in it must have disregarded the fact already learned that. But Chevalier depression and the heavy decline in that there is only one way traffic knows his talent to be versatile. dealings on the London Stock Ex- nation knew and eared nothing. the course of a lecture given in in Ice House Street, In any case, Also the people who tell him that change last year is provided in the Page 9 ed, and even the Fighting Services Sze, the son of the Chinese Ministering cat could miss the group wrong. So when he told someone

incredible that the persons in a and likeableness are not telling him, for 1930. did meagrely compared with these to London, and himself a brilliant round the deceased mat. If the at a fashionable London party: "In persons who in one way or another student. Mr. Sze has taken grent said police sergeant in uniform had spite of the exhaustive rapidity of EMINENT VIOLINIST HERE.. were in a position to help the pains to obtain statistics and been called, he would have prob the talkies I shall hope to remain ably explained that he misunder a favourite for two full years," he organisation of the political party details covering all the phases of stod Mr. Harrop's appeal for help spoke with common sense, and a

was not over in power. There was public outcry, Chinese student life in Britain. and that if he saw a group around confidence that

Sergeant Post, he did not realise boisterous... question should have had an op- portunity to give evidence. have received a letter from a gentle nan who states his name-though he does not wish it to be published

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THE NEW YEAR. TRIOLET.

With Apologies to Dr. Bridger.) In New Year's bliss I did not guess That I had found a cruel master:

In New Year's bliss, I did not guess There seemed so great a happiness The woes of married blessedness, Until the silken bonds drow faster In New Year's bliss, I did not guess

JOHN WILLWYN. That I had found a cruel master!

MR. R. E: NEIGHBOUR, Mr. Robert E. Neighbour, famous violinist from the United States, who arrived in the Colony. on Wednesday, expects to be alle to give a concert here during the

well-known for his rendering of next few days. Mr. Neighbour in sacred music on the viola d'amour. and violin.

He is a pupil of Professor Leopold Aner, who has taught some of the most famous players in the world. including Kreisler, Elman, and Heifetz. After leaving Hong Kong Mr. Neighbour will proceed to the

South Sea Islands.

Local Notes and Events

For the 48 hours ended January one death (non-Chinese) from

definitely alleging that the Fiat ut did cot stop. He also states ear passed, the scene of the tragedy, which is of lesser importance that when British universities obtained first aid was rendered by some No one suggests that those the majority of Eastern students, Chinese gentlemen and not by rol not only Chinese, but Japanese, diers, though one Army man rens Indo-Chinese, Siamese and Malay-dered valuable assistence. an, but the facilities offered. in the last decade by American and Japanese scata of learning and industry have been the means of divorting many of the increasing number of scokers after ancient and modern knowledge to these two countries. In this connection Mr. Sze stated that he considered there would be many more students in Great Britain if admission into universities and schools and into firms and factories were less dif- typhoid and one from cerebro ficult As regards the universities, specially Oxford and Cambridge, spical meningitis were reported. the fewness of vacancies was the root of the difficulty in most cases. The present position is a very

A string of pearls which was serious ons when it is considered that the relative rarity of British picked up yesterday in Hankow Labrum, that thieves entered his of Kwangtung, Hunan, and Hupch. degrees to American and Japanese Road, near the Kaploon Hotel, has residence, No. 5, York Road, Kow-Work is expected to be soon re- makes the demand for the greater, been handed over to the Water loon Tong, between the hours of

The great majority of students from China, who are trained in Police and is now waiting a claim-midnight and 7am. on December foreign universitics, return to neant. eupy in most eneca, official and

Colonel Skinner living in rodan commercial poeta of varying import- ance, and it will be understood how desirable, it is for Britain to have 408 of the Peninsula Hotel has re- her share in their education. It is ported to the police the loss of a an axiom that the foreign-trained

honours are not now carefully and justly distributed, and the only criticism to be found in Hotno news papere is, usually, that the list is "correct but dull." What an in- tereating or exciting list would be is not difficult to imagine; a duke dom each for two famous nows paper peers, a barony for Mr. EDGAR WALLACE, knighthoods for the most successful jockey and bats man of the year, and D.B.E.'s for the leading Indies at half a dozen Landon theatres, might figure prominently. But the dazzling butterflies, whose personalities are so well-known to us all, have to stand aside when it comes to die tribution of the King's awarda In the British. Empire an immenso amount of public work is done with out remuneration. The mayor of an English town performs the dutics of the Continental full-time

The new year opened with a new Looking Back 25 Years,

the Hong Kong The Canton-Hankow low record dollar which opened yesterday at 1/0jd.

A report bas heen made to the Kowloon City Police, by Mr. G. B.

Railway.

having been resumed by the Chinese Governmente, funds for its con- struction are reported now to have been raised in the three provinces

sumed on this important line

01 and stole property to the value, Hong Kong Daily Predt, January 2, of $100.

:104,

The Asiatic Petroleum Company

Looking Back 50 Years,

The non-appearance of the report with a picture of a white liner-oil of the Colonial Surgeon on the

burgomnater, and he is, kept busy student always retains an affection gold ring with five diamonds set ouds us ab attractive calendar, Usually a 'alary is attached to the for the land, where he received the in platinum, The value of the rig driven steaming down the Buez health of the Colony for the year

posty which may cover the wine-bill knowlodge which fitted him to tako is placed at £20.

at Mayoral dinners and luncheons, his place in the life of his native

land.

Canal past a number of Shell tanks.

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but in a big city does not! A America, as was to be expected,

A radiator can showing a knight The sky and water are of t Heep 1670 has excited a good deal

blue not often met with even in speculation and comment, and it knighthood for a Black Country has grasped this important point, on horseback was stolen from Egypt, but the decorative effect can only now, le concluded that this mayor is, parbapa, not interest with the result that her universities Willys Knight car, which was left. each have a fair quota of Chinose

important document has been sup- ing," beyond his own town, but it students, and her factories and in Austin Rond outside the Clare Sains at the expense of realism.•.

pressed. But this is not the only is generally very well carned. In firms offer facilities for instruction mont Hotel last night. A report

Kowloon Football Club had this particular list science and the and research that cannot be obtain has been made to the Folice of the ed from British industrialists and

successful cartiival on New Year's lapse of the kind with which the arta havo digured well, and the O..merchants. This long view taken by loss.

day at which Sir Circumference De Government can be charged. The for PULLY STEER is a fitting roog American firms has been emply

In a report to the police on Tong appeared in full regalia as Blue Book for the year 1879 has not nition of the vitality of British borne out by resulta, a Chinese etudents trained by them have," on painting. Even Bohemian circles their return, urged the purchase Thursday, Mrs. F. P, da Silva, of Master of Ceremonies. The fancy yet made its appearance, although will approve, subject to the provise of machinery and goods about which 3, Observatory Villas, stated that dress football match created much we stand on the verge of 1881. It they had learnt. These facts could between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on New amusement, while the motor-eycis should have not been issued months ago, and there must either..bo blend der il rahmade, lines born, AMOPAR Jenamazhard by British dry coach

I football exaided a thrilling soun JOHN Bir NORMAN ANGELL universities and manufacturers, and broken many a lance in the cause pecially by those technical institu-metal missile or a bullet from an ter in which the Volunteers beat | "atrange negreer P of peace and the honour is not - tions where knowledge of the Gront airgun or catapult through her Rowloon by six goals to two. Mr. kept back for some occult reason.

Britain industries, is imparted. We deserved to the author of "The sub this hint to the consideration bedroom window, causing damage Revie, Mr. Russell and Miss Farrell Hong Kong Daily Prem, January Great Illusion," published about of the British Trade Mission,"

the extent of 81

weres winners in the raffles, 2, 1881.

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