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WEATHER REPORT:

Yesterday's weather report, fore east and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 6.20 p.m.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1931.

Kwangtung, it is interesting to note, aims at giving Chinn a lead in the production of electrical power on a big scale. A group of Canadian engincora is investigat ing a plan for the erection of An hydro-electrio machinery on N. Yung River, on lines that will mean cheap electricity for the Local Forecast:--E. winds, mode-whole province. Conferences have rate; generally cloudy; some light rain and fog,

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Depressions are shown over the Eastern Sea and over Tonkin. anti-cyclone has formed over China,

DEATHS.

DE MEGLIO. On January 20, at Shanghai, Dr. EDUARD FRANCIS De Meɑlio, aged 47 years. LOCKITT-On January 16, at Han kow, MAURICE STANTON, aged 23 years, beloved son of H. Lockitt, The Tower Mil Bun gay, Suffolk, England.

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, JANUARY 20, 1931. ·

ELECTRICITY FOR KWANGTUNG.

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*News and Views

Tas Blue Business.

The awarding of blues and half- blues at Cambridge is done by the Blues' Committee, a most conserva- | tive body, which has done well in the past by preventing the distinc tion from becoming cheap. The promoters of new pastimes have to apply my times before they re recognised, and they have to form a properly constituted club and carry on their meetings with Oxford for several years. That checke the mushroom growths" such a bicycling.

A Master of Ball Games,

Hunting in America,

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Many people think that the United Kingdom is the only place where fox-hunting exists. In Canada and the United States there are any number of packs. Round about New York and north of it hunting it began in August and goes on until near Christmas or until the frost comes and puts a stop to it. Far- ther south in Virginia and the milder States the season extends to March.

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The Princes' Tour in South

America.

Pussyfoot!

One ́ of approximately

every

1,800 residents of the United || SUMMARY OF NEWS. States was arrested, for violation

of the Prohibition law during the pear

To-day's wireless programmó

Shipping Intelligence.

Sport.

ending June 30, 1930, states Dr. James M. Donan, former Pro-Local. hibition, commissioner and now head of the Industrial Alcohol Bureau, in his annual report. There were 68,173 arrests' during the period, establishing a new ro

The Prohibition Bureau cord. seized 8,033 motor-aire, valued at £000,000, and sixty-four. boats, £140,000. There were 54,083 pro- fiibition convictions in Fodoral courts, and 22,405 gaol sentences. The courts imposed sentence, aggro gating: 14,172 years and fines

mounting to £1,400,000.

been held with General TANG YIN WA, the Commissioner for Recon- struction, and there was also an important interview with General CHRN MING SHU. Both of these

The Prince of Wales and Prince There can be foy, if any, batter able and progressive administra-all-round players of ball games George will arrive in Argentina.on tors expressed the greatest interest than K, C. Ganda Dower, Cam February 27. They will cross the Cordillera froni Chile, and are dus- in the scheme, and, according to bridge University, who ins a the Canton Gazette, a large party Oxford than anyone else for a long anxious to explore the Argentine peared in more contests against at San Carlos de Bariloche that day. The Prince, of Wales is of Chinese and Canadian engineers, time.

His range covers virtually under the escort of a hundred all winter and summer ball games. lake district, and intends to stay in the Nahuel Huapi region until His chief pastimes are lawn tennis, March 1. He will then go to San Canton gendarmes, are making ‘a real tennis, squish, Rugby Antonio, and a few days later board

and preliminary survey. This vastly badminton,

billiards. At

a British naval seaplane, which will important enterprise should not be almost all of them he has appeared be waiting at the Golfo de San against Oxford, and he ie caplain

Matina. The seaplane will be administration in Canton. General fives. The distinction of a half British aircraft carrier, probably beyond tha power of the present of brwn tennis, squash, and Rugby brought to Argentina on board / undoubted defects as a captain out- CHEN MING SHU'S government has blue has recently been given for H.M.S. Eagle. The Princes will the two fives games and badminton may be added to the list. There has been a half-blue for billiards Incidentally

mado very steady progress with the squash, and it is not imlikely that arrive in Buenos Aires by air on that courage, combined with his

improvement and modernisation of the Southern capital, despite the

for

many years.

Gandar Dower proved that he is no moon speaker by a brilliant effort at a Union Society debate.

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The Man and His Food.

March 5, and will be entertained officially on March 6, 7, and 8. Thoy will then visit Mar del Plata, and will return on March 13 to open the Trade Exhibition on March 14. Afterwards the Princes will tour the Northern Provinces, the Prince of Wales having expressed a particular desire to get to know Tucuman, Salta, and Jujuy,

Civil Service Black-marks.

A protest was made to the Royal

civil wars of the last two years Given peace the process should con- tinue, and, this plan for the orcet ing of power stations driven by the natural forces of a Kwangtung

The records of great men do not, fruition, river, if brought to

in every case, disclose abstenious- should prave, not only a greatness Napoleon and Wellington, in material gain, but a stimulus to is true, were both moderate enters all the forces making for peacs and Bismarck, on the other hand, ato enormously, and must, in the course of his long and healthy life, have Commission on the Civil Service progress in the Republic.

drunk many thousand bottles of against the system of accret black- marks. All too often personal pre- burgundy and havo emptied amay

juice or misunderstanding cause a also have been inclined to self black entry against a man's name, and it only fair that he should indulgence. Evon Tennyson, that

be told of it when the entry is model of nineteenth century pro

made. Such is the system in the pricty, Jiked "his meat in wedges and drank port on the principle Army. Any officer who makes a bad that any port would do "provided report on a subordinate is obliged it be black and strong. Shakes by the regulations to show that pear caught the illness that killed report to the victim himself. The him after a merry evening with whole business is not as simple as quite justly be considered unfitted for certain sides of his business owing to quite trivial defecte, such as tactlessness or dirty naile, Few

Ir is often said that electricity ELSTREE AND ATLANTIC. hundred vats of beer. Our poots

it

ia, after the sun, man's greatest friend in the whole world of] We do not often have the privilege nature. We are only just enter of seeing British films in Hong ing upon the electrical age, but Kong. Hollywood, for a number

source of

whab gifts have already been won in collaboration with this mysterious and inexhaustible force! Has the world over, known so clean, reliable and handy a light? Gas served us well for early a century, but the triumph of electricity is now complete in NEW ADVERTISEMENTS this sphere. It was once said that

PANLING HUNT & RACE CLUB.

PAPER HUNT will be held on BUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18T. Meet POTTS' BUNGALOW at 8.15

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P.M.

electric light was hard and bad for the oyes. But electricity was not to blame; modern shades now diffuse illumination ns soft as the flame of a candle. We turn it on and off by a movement of the fingers. What time and labour has

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of reasons, has obtained a firm

The Empress of Britain. -

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English Cup and League football results.

Page 2. Racing notice and training times.

Pago 4. Full details of Saturday's foot- ball matches appear on

Page #. Local cricket reports on Final Interport rugger Saturday.

Page 8. trial on

Page 9.

Page 3.

Sectland beat France in the Inter- the happy phrase, once said that The Late J. W. H. T. Douglas.

A spectator, with a feeling for national rugger match, Page 8. In a four-ball match yesterday at the inte J. W. H. T. Douglas played cricket liko TOTTE in Others, less sympathetically, naid with the American golf pros., armour. Fanling Shewan and Marton drow that in the field he went at the Cruickshank and Mehlhorn. enemy like a bull at a gate. It is much disputed point whether his which he always faced the most Latest Cables. weighed the stubborn courage with depressing circumstances. Certainly individual merits both as bowler and batsman, made him a most formidable leader. Perhaps his habit of chasing the hall," that is to say, of moving the field every time the ball went wide of it, with out considering whether it likely to go in that direction again. One of his brothers when playing under him used always to take the field with a pocketful of pebbles, one of which he dropped in every position to which he was shifted...

M. Polncaro Speaks.

WAA

The fourth volume of M. Poin-

Incendiarism in the Cuban sugar. enucfelds continues. · Page 7. Capt. Robert Dollar is reported as being seriously ill. Page 7. Chinese reports from Szechuan

state that Wa Pej Fu is organising forces for an invasion of Kansu.

Page 7.

The weavere ballot resulted in a vote against a committed to nego- tiate on the more looms per weaver system.

Pago 7. President Doumergue asked M. Briand to form a Cabinet, but the latter declined. M. Laval, however, accepted the task,

Page 7- Ricardo Gualino, once rich

years banishment to Lipari Island Italian, has been sentenced to fiver for damaging the nation's fiances.

Page 7..

As the result of a special meeting of the Viceroy's Executive Council Gandhi and about 30 other Congress

day.

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Two hundred American War veterans have started on 138

vices to France is published in a care's imposing record of his ser- translation by Sir George Arthur. It is not exactly the book to cheer one on a wet December afternoon. For M. Poincare, with all his qualities of character and intelli- gence, is deficient in charm. But leaders were to be released yester one thing cartainly emerges from this volume, and that is the courage. Throughout 1015 he enw himself unable to cope with those dissensions and jealousies which threatened to split the alliances without and the Union Saorée with in. But he porsevered. It may be that great statesmen, as distinct from great men, are inevitably suspicious. One cannot hut feel, however, that M. Poincaré in, these memoirs discloses a degree of ran corous distrust which at moments life. hampered his judgment. we all know, had not tho lavish gesture of Fach. tiens whether Joffro was in reality so mean, so soorative or so feminine ly jealous as M. Poincaré supposes.

hold in the East and Elstree, the Daniol and Drayton, two fellow it sounds. A junior official may absolute integrity of M. Poinonre's centre of the English film industry,posts. Dr. Johnson's powers as a hns yet to win world markets. "At- trencherman were prodigious. On lantic," which was shown last week the other hand the favourite dish of Charles XII., the Swedish mili- at the Queen's Theatre, came as

tary genius, was home-made marsuperior officers would have the a revelation of what England can melade. produce for the screen. The story told is a close representation of one of the most tragic and splendid ages of history, the loss of the Titanic, in the year 1912. The mightiest liner in the world, an her maiden voyage struck an iceberg in the Atlantic, and sank with the loss of over a thousand lives. In cidents of intense drama and pathos are recalled in the film with a restraint and a skill that raise the production to the level of very high art. Wo see the cool courage

moral courage to write such a re port if they were obliged to show it to their victim. The difficulty seldom arises in our great public Tho now 42,500-ton Canadian officers. A public opinion" grows Pacife liner, Empress of Britain, up within the office regarding the decorated by famous artists, such capacity of each member, and it as Sir John Lavery, Sir Charles is raro. indeed that the personal Allom, Frank Brangwyn, Heath likes or dislikes of any Under-accre Robinson, and Edmund Dulee, is tary can go against this opinion. to be one of the most artistically The problem occurs rather in the up-to-date liners on the Seven Seas. larger organisations, when ench The main room is to be known 48 official is not intimately known to Muyfair, the dining soon as the the other, or in services, such as Sailo Jnoques Cartier, the hall the foreign service, when those who room as the Empress Room, the make the appointments are smoking room, in tribute to the always personally acquainted with Dastorn influchos of Dulac's de

those whom they appoint. In prae- corative scheme, the Cafe tice, therefore, a rough and ready Cathay. Heath Robinson's humor method has been devised. be known as the Knickerbockur Bar, the marble swimming pool as the and the long Olympian Pool, gallery which connects the public rooms ne the Mall. Other outstand ing features are a full-size tennis court, squash racket court and spectators' gallery.

As

Joffre,

But one ques-

miles' march to Washington to pre- sent an appoal to Fresident Heover to hasten relief for unemployed ex-

· Page 7. soldiers.

The two Bengali youths who were charged with the murder of Police Inspector Mukerjee at Chandpur on December I have been sontene- ed. One was sentenced to death and the other to transportation for Fago. 7.

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At the meeting of the Opium Advisory Committee at Geneva it was decided that tho suggestion of Persia in. favour of quotas for the production of raw opium be coun- municated to the various Govern

ments.

Nor was the then President of France, prudet in jumping to the not conclusion either that we had tricked him over Constantinople or that Kitchener took the Great Seal with him to the Dardanelles. It is unfortunate that the fairies did

sense of humour. The President are carried out. of France when visiting the tren ches felt that it would bo unfitting

A man