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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1931.

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore, east and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.35 p.m.,. stated:

in Kwangsi is desirable and there could be no better settlement than for Citano Far Fur, LI TUNG JEN and PEI CHUNG Har to take v tour of, Europe while Waxo Bai Husa returned to office in his old pro. vince. But the more wish for such

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* News and Views *

Germany's Campaign.

Acquitted.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

St. Patrick's Society formed in Page U Hong Kong,

Averdict of guilty against two in the arson trial at the Criminal

Page-7.: Sessions... prisoners was brought by the jury

An old man charged with begging Local. Thore is nothing half-hearted in

was acquitted and freed at Mari the German econonly campaign. Every section of the community haa borough-street Police Court. As he drawn its belt a few holes tighter. was leaving the dock be turned to And Chancellor Bruning, that the magistrate and said: "I'm determined fanatic, sits in his two going to ask your worshipin favour. Christmas- Amid laughter, the magistrato said: "You must not beg in court. So the old man left. Fourth Time Lucky.

The anti-cyclone cetitral to the North of Korea is unchanged. An eventuality doce not procuro it, depression is forming to the South and peace is still in the balance.

More than the settlement of a Don't count up the days before of the Loochoon. Strong monsoon

along the S.E. const. of China and local war is at stake. The fine body

of trans now defending Nanning,oms in the Wilhelmstrasse work-It you've any funds left over for ing late into the night devising new moderate monsoon Over the N. you go on leave.

find the men watching them, would schemes of economy: China Sea.

together be a valuable risset in sup Local Forecast:-N.E. winds, pressing banditry throughout South Olympus Ahoy!

in exchange this Company is reluctJust ring up Pantly compelled to collect currency charges on telegrais at the rate of Dollars 0.82 to equal Fr. 1.00, commencing 10th instant and until further notice,

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HONG KONG, JANUARY 9, 1931.

PEACE, PROSPECTS IN KWANGSI.

have I got married, but I have got a motor-car and a good husband." Miss M. C. Ivens, relating the story at a Brighton meeting, said that before leaving England the women had three engagement rings without "bringing it off.

the

The summons against a Chinese license for adulteration of spirits was dismissed at Central Magis Page 7 tracy.

A Chinese was charged with an "Sitting. infringement of

Pago 7 The Felix murder case was con-

Page 7. tinued at Central Magistracy yes terday.

Page

Page

China, The Reds" on the Kwang- Dredgers working off the Greek

A woman, sent to Australia under tung-Kiangs border have been port of Pires have brought up

from the men bed, among a haul of the auspices of the Church of Eng- able to ravage the countryside, mud, a figure of the god Apalle, land Council of Empire Settlement burning villages and sacking fair-carved in the Golden Age. Experts has written, saying: Not only Buddha" trade-mark. sized towns because the powerful are now hoping to find a buried Canton Army has been contained temple at the spot at which, like Venus, the handsome god emerged in Kwangai. The Hainan Comfrom the surface of the sea. munists and the Bins Boy pirates have enjoyed immunity for the same reason. Chins in time of práce has amazing powers of recuperation, and when this obetinate and useless war is finished there in a real chance of progress and prosperity in all the provinces south of the Yang

teze.

CHILD ADOPTION AND RELIGION.

Whooping Cough Havoc in the

Solomons.

Shipping Intelligence. To-day's wireless programme.

Weekly Cricket Notes by R. Pake 10.

Latest Cables.

Greyhound Close Season. Reports received on the return of

The stewards of the British Sport. steamer National Greyhound Racing Club the Melanesian mission Southern Cross state that about 500 have decided to declare a close Abbit.

season from January 1, 1931, to children are believed to have died in the Solomon Islands during a February 8, 1931 (and in the case serious epidemic of whooping of Scotland from January 11, 1031, cough. The epidemic began before to March 8, 1931), exopt that dur the arrival of the Southern Cross and was abating when the vesseling these periods tracks niny. hold one race meeting a week unless they can claim further racing under cer itain conditions agreed to between and Track Managements the National Greyhound Racing Society.

left the group.

Outlawod in Scotland.

Welsh doid and Royal Wedding

Kings.

the

Madame Chang Hsueh Liang, has. wired to Miss Amy Johnson ex- pressing the hope that she will visit Pago 9. China.

Miss Alma Rubeas, charged with snuggling drugs into America from Mexico, has furnished bail amount-- ing to $5,000.

Tage D The Foreign Ministry of Chias is manifesting considerable inter-

·Page 0. est in the Opium Suppression Con ference at Geneva. ́*

The death is nanounced of Pro- prastically completed a monumental history of the United States.

Pago 0. A mecting of the Chinese tin miners held at Selangor unanimous. ly supported the quota scheme for the restriction of the tin output.

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Sentence of outlawry was passed A RECENT judgment of the Court of

in the High Court of Justiciary, Appeal in England is of consider Inverness, on Andrew Ross, a ship's

"Ice-Maiden" Bridal Gown. able importance to the many people manager who failed to answer A who have legally adopted a child charge of having induced a man to Ice-blue was the colour chosen for under English law. The decision make a false deposition. Such her wedding gown by Miss, Evelyn sentence in modern times is unJohnson, daughter of Colonel Sir Oon Canton correspondent gave was to the effect that a mother has umal, although carly this year it Robert Johnson, Comptroller of the yesterday a further account of right to require that the child was passed upon an Edinburgh Royal Mint, and Lady Johnson, for fessor Edward Channing, who had

chartered accountant who failed to her marriage to Lieut. Julian Lid- whom she has handed over to an surrender on a charge of embezzling dell, R. Non of Sir Frederick negotiations' between emissaries of other person for adoption shall be £1,000.

Liddell, R.C., at St. Margaret's, Westminster. Over her long foo- Nanking and of the Kwangsi-brought up in the religion in which

shaped train fell a crisp tallo veil of the same icablue shade as the "Ironside "Coalition. It was an it has been baptised. In this case a Protestant Buciety adopted the

dress, and she carried à posy of optimistic report holding out the

child of a Roman Catholic mother, It is customary to hays a ring waxen camelline. The whole gave prospect of an approaching settle-knowing only that it had been of Welsh gold for wedding in the the illusion of an ice maidea.

Mr. T. V. Soong, Finance Minis ment of this long struggle between, baptised, whether as a Protestant Royal Family, and every now and

of Wales as an Eldorado. There is Many famous 'men have been sent ter, has left Nanking for Tientsin Awange and the Nationalist Govor a Roman Catholis appears not, then some alluring tale gore round Burton of the "Arabian Nights,"".

to have been stated. The mother enough gold mined to provide wedd-down from both Oxford and Cam-to confer with Chang Hrush Liang Page 9. ernment. Several times before hopes, claimed the return of the child on ing-rings for our princesses. but the bridge, but Sir Richard Burton is on the financial situation in North An important announcement was of peace have not been realised, the ground that it was baptised as report on the Welsh Gold Belt," the only English undergraduate issued by the Mines Department. who stage-managed his own expul and there is no guarantee that the a Roman Catholic, and the Court should dispose of the idea that there sion in order to escape the boredom made by Lord Sankey at the meet- present parleys will achieve better of Appeal has upheld this claim. are fortunes to be made from it. of university life. The famous ing of the Federal Structure sub- Profesor Henry Louis says that traveller, who had been educated in Committee of the Round Table Con results. On the other hand, fight. If the judgment meant that any Welsh gold-mining is likely to cost the boarding houses of Tours, Pisa, férence, regarding the Government's

Siena and Perugia arrived at Ox woman whose child had been adopt more than it would yield.

ford, magnificent in his Mediter A. S. WATSON & CO., ing in China is on the wane, the ed had the power to declare sul-

ranean moustachios. He was utter ly different from the ordinary unheld next week or the beginning of dergraduate, and he hated Oxford; the following week. Oxford, too, hated him. He deter mined to come down: Burton de cided that it would be more drama- tic to be sent down. He therefore A Robey Story,

In the middle of a sonne in which attended a forbidden race meeting and in due course received his he was adressing the gentlemen marching orders. To explain his roof the jury" Mr. George: Robey was turn he told his father that, having interrupted by the noisy entranc broken all scholastic records, he had of two young men who had dined. been given a special vacation. The over well. He advanced to the foot.. honour, and all went well until he into silence; and waited till the Ah," he proud father gave a banquet in his lights, waved the orchists into rose to propose Burton's health and revellers were seated.

are now with us. Tray let us told the story. Unfortunately for said, "the gentlemen of the brewery

¿continue !'"* sportingly gave the, show away.

SOLE AGENTS:-

LIMITED.

in a losing cause.

Among the participants at a Hong secret conference held in Kong is said to have boon General WONG SHIU HENG, one of the "hig Goods or GEORGE four" of the old Kwangsi clique

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

HONG KONG

An Economy Reflection,

nation is war weary and the group' denly that it must be returned in

It is a distressing reflection that of generals leading the defence of order to be brought up in some

religion to which she had, possibly whereas in Germany the whole Nanning must realise that theirs quite suddenly, become a convert, energies of the nation are to-day it would almost make an end of concentrated on an economy cam paign, at Westminster the necessary adoption. It is essential to the quorum could not be collected for bargain that it shall be find and discussion of the subject. What But the more incisive comment could be're quired upon the decay of Parlia- not liable to be upset.. stress of the remarks of one of the mentarianism in England. In Ger- judges, Lord Justica SCRUTTON, was many a self-denying ordinance has fcen cut down rigidly, from those not on the mother's religion, but on gone forth, and all salaries have the fact of the child's baptism. It of the most humble Civil Servant OF 48, STANHOFF ROAD, Brand a former Governor of Kwangs is no doubt important that the ar bank employee. And the cam ALMING IN THE COUNTY OF Province. There have been many point, left vague in this case,paign is now concentrating upon a Burton, a don was present and un Nthat the Court har, by virtue of Nauking, and it is now suggested whenever a religious society adopts

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tumours of his reconciliation with should be cleared up definitely simultaneous reduction in prices

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a child. Insistence on the necessity Section 58 of Probate Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the time for that he may be appointed Com for such care need not wraken tho creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to tho mander-in-Chief in Kwangsi, with law of adeption: it may strengthen 20TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1931.

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* Local Notes and Events

Page 9.

Mr. MA HSIAO CHUN, another it. Kwangsi man, but who has con sistently supported Nanking in the Provincial present struggle, Governor.

The military position is that the remnants of the Kwangsi-" Iron- side" foren have entrenched them received from the Secretary of State at the Criminal Sossions, the Court elsewhere in our columns. Shanghai only CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME. elves at Nanning. All attempts

to dislodge them have failed for the Colonies that the funeral of the Into Princess Royal will take and an attack from Yunnan was defented with loss. The "Ironsides" place on Saturday. and the Kwangsi men are good fighters, they seem to be fairly well Six-roomed & Five-roomed Apartments FAT FUI, PEX CHUNG HSL and La day.

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For the 24 hours ended January The Committee of the Club and judging by the trials the forth- 7, there were two deaths (one non-Lusitano are holding a reception incoming races, from the point of Chinese) from diphtheria, one from the Club this afternoon in honour view of the sportsman, promise to typhoid and one from cerebro-spinal of H.E. the Governor of Macao, be a successful as heretofore. meningitis.

Senhor Artur Tamagnini de, Sousa Quite a number of ladies visited the Barbosa Full details appear in course on Saturday morning.... an offcial announcement appearing Hong Kong Daily Press, January

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THE LADY WITH BLACK EYES.

..: passion

hoir... Dark as the night that looms

around me, Pure as the light of the Evening Doop in thrall they have held and

At the close of the areon trial adjourned until 10.30 am. next Monday, when a prisoner in Vic toria. Gaol will stand his trial on charges of wounding Warder Bert Pumb,

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Looking Back 50 Years.

The Victoria Loftus troupe made. At the Kowloon Magistracy year tordoy Mr. Buiters fined a Chinese their first appearance at the City 800 or in default, five weeks' sin-Hall on Wednesday, when they were prisonment, for having kept a favoured with a full house. The gaming houss. A Chinese defective programme was a very, varied one, We have received a quantity of said he discovered the house on presenting a good bill of fare, but most interesting literature about the Wednesday night. There were 17 during the course of the evening, Leipzig Fair, which opens (Spring Chinese present including defend Mr. Davis, the manager, in thank- fair) on March 2. The autumn fair aut. When the police appeared all ing the audience for their atten begins on August: 31. According to the defendants attempted to run dance, stated that such an one was ong pamphlet the Leipzig Technical way. The men who were sleeping by no means their strongest point, Fair and the Building Fair are the were not arrested. The Magistrate but has been adopted because the latest sections of the old Leipzig convicted the six defendants who short interval which had elapsed General Sample Fair which now pleaded guilty and fined them each since the arrival of the company, dator almost one thousand years 83, or in default, six days' im: had prevented other arrangements,

prisonment.

TAUNG JEN three of the "oblest soldiers in Chine. Away in the mountainous districts of Kwangsi thean redoubtable opponents of Nnn- king are most difficult to defeat. Black eyes, modest, but full of There are no railways, primitive Not yet awake, but waiting there: ronds and a river impassable to Beautiful eyes that in heavenly gunboats at this season of the year. 1 fashion The fighting has pétered out for Shine 'neath a halo of blue-black | back the time being, but a centre of SERVICE TO READERS, dissatisfaction and danger remains HE HONG KONG DAILY in a stronghold masked rather than TPRESS, LTD., and the HONG besieged by the Canton troops. KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through On the other hand, the two Canton their London Office, at 53, FIENT START, EC. 4, are prepared to give divisions scat north to help in the Subscribers and Visitors advics campaign against FENO YU HATANO Helpless to gaze on them from afar beloved that this may be connected Happy Valley is contributed the wealth of musical talent to he regarding socommodation available, and YEN HBI SHAN are now march-One day, perchance, they may look with the discovery of 40 jars of they appeared on the course on found amongst our local amateurs; pirit subsequently seized by Re Saturday morning, it was hard to but the company, gave evidence on. Wednesday evening that they would mupimatering facilities table, then kant ong exailable for t

wht tresline that such net-looking ping centres,, etc.

vaudeville piecea, and it ́H YAKHOY", If, when at home, they will call serve in Kwangsi.. A situation

ants for a week, granting bail in arrived from Shanghai not longer unfortunate for them that a differ- 164 IDAR/NAME, GERMANY. thevill receive the utmost assist

their first appearance.-Hong Kong OUTTER of Bemi-precious Stones, ance and the latest available infox peace is to the advantage of all.

the sum of 2500, pending investiga than a month ago. Mr. Gegg's ent selection was not made for

training has had beneficial results, Daily Press, January 9, 1881. REAL STONE NECKLETS. Caps.mation on all subjects of enquiry concerned, with the exception of, a Rough Stones will be placed at their disposal. *. few irreconcileable leaders Peace Fancy Out Good Bought

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION,

P. C. YOUNG,

*General Manager. *

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Star,

bound me,

Looking Back 25 Years.

Three Chinese, who were on Wed- nesday alleged to have 300 forged inbels in their possession, were yes. terday charged before Mr. Lindsell at the Central Police Court. It is day

The following report of Satur morning's trial gallope

at

and that during their stay, other pices, H.M.S. Pinafore would be produced. It is questionable how far the strength of the com- would be able to make pany

Pinafore" a success after the brilliant performance of the Choral Society with ita scenic effects and

EYBER RUDOLE, Hauptstrange or telephone to the above address, has, in fact, been reached in which Then, perhaps, they'll awake and Lindsoll remanded the three defend-ponses were the raw grifins whretentionedier and.

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