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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

IN THE GOODS OF KWONG SUN MOU oli KWONG KING YANG ( = 1), LATH or TIENTSIN IN THE KEPUBLIC OF CHINA, DECLARED.

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Nhat the Court bas, by virtue of

TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN A. S. WATSON & Co.,

the Provisions of Baction 58 of Ordi. nauce No. 2 of 1897, made An Order. Limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the above Estate la 25TH FEBRUARY, 1931.

All Creditors and Others are accord. ingly hereby required to send the Clains to the Undersigned on or befare Tunt Date.

DEACONS,

Solicitors for the Administrator, 1, Des Voax Boad Central, Hong Kong.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.

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IN THE GOODS OF ARCHIBALD

OER EWING, LATE OF Rosz LANDS, WEST END SOUTHAMP- TON, IN THE COUNTY OF HANTS, FORMERLY

CHINA or TIK INLAND MISSION, BHANGHAI CAIXA

Олк AND ALBO OF HANK, SOUTH BOAD, WEBTON- SUPER MARE. SOMERSET, DE- CEASED.

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of the Provisions of Section 68 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made An Order Limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the above Estate to 23RD FEBRUARY, 1931.

. All Creditors and Others are accord. ingly hereby required to wond their Claims to the Undersigned on or before That Date.

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but has also to serve as assembly hall, gymnasium, music-room, and occasional class-room. The prefects Yesterday's weather report, fore-have no room for privato study or east and remarks, issued by tho for the social activities which farm Royal Observatory at 7.30 p., so important a part of public stated:-

school training, while the Inrge staff, men and women, have only the use of two very small rooms with no space for desks, books, and other essential equipment. rooms have also to serve them as dining, and rest-rooms. It is an impossibility for either adults or children to do their best work. in conditions which are physically un- healthy, and, from an educational point of view deplorable.. It may be pleasant to know that we shall bo able to park our cars easily and must keep a scale of values before ou keep bent of a Lecreasing number of people who cannot send their children Home for their schooling, and they deserve better treatment than this.. A question of the health of British children is involved. We hold no brief for extravagance in education, or, in any other. Government Deportment, but it is not true coonorgy to refuse the children of British people who have made the Colony their home, adequate provision for education, This is a trying climate and in many ways the Government takes full cognisance of the fact. But in this matter of the Central British

* News and Views *

Undaunted!

Woman with seventy-seven pro- vious convictions for drunkenness, to the Marylebone magistrate: It hns takon me a few years to sol- lect that record. I suppose I shall see you again next week..

Rich Gold Find in Panama.

Westminster Glee Singers.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The draft of an Ordinnuco, re- ;

So great has been the success of Local. the Westminster. Glee Singers,' nad so great the desire for addi-garding a new sonle of estate details tional concerts, that two farewell has been published in the Gazette. apearances have been arranged for Wednesday next, ut the Thea tre Rayal. The matinee will be at p.m. and the evening concert at

A now gold rush that may rival.15, a completely new programma

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the wife of the Headmaster of drive along the mid-lovels, but we that of the Klondiko was foreseen being presented, in which folk. Hong Kong and its trade. Page 7.

Sacred Heart College, after a long illness for about 10 months passed away yesterday, aged a The funeral will take place at 1 o'clock" and will passed the monume at at Happy Valley at

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HONG KONG. FEBRUARY 2, 1931.

PENNY WISE: POUND

FOOLISH.

School the conditions are forgotten, What a pity one of the Government departments cannot change places with the pupils in this Nathan Road institution I

WORK FOR THE LEAGUE OF

:

A letter from Sir Ernest Thomp- son, Chairman of the British Economie Mission to the Far East, strenuously denies that only super fitial attention is to be paid to A pretty wedding was solemnis- in Colon (Panama), when four songs and the traditional airs of ad at the Rozary Church, Kowloon

Page 7. returned the four Nations will be specialis- yesterday. prospectors American

xd. Other popular features of this excellent company, such as the Sailor Shunties, Humorous Seenas, and their beautiful selections of Old-Timo Part, Music, will all be

from the mountains with the richest samples of gold ore ever seen in Panama. "Wo found a half acro of this oro in the interior of the said one of them. mountains,'

"There's enough up there to as- sure vast fortunes for all of us,"

P.M.'s Model Daughter,

Replying to the toast of honour at the London Commercial Club, Miss Ishbel MacDonald stated that she had no ambition to "follow my father's footsteps and go into Evidently she feels Parliament."

it her duty at present to follow.so closely in the footsteps of the Prime Minisotr that she has no time for auch alien things as constituencies What would the Prime Minister do without this gentle and persist ent mentor } Thore abe is, al- ways boside him, recalling nainen to him and recalling faces.

For almost Miss MacDonald has an royal. memory for people, and without hor the Prime Minister would be lost.

Tuberculosis Conquered?

represented, in addition there will so a number of request items. Booking opens at Moutrie's this morning..

Russia's Population.

The Soviot Government have just published the statistics of populn tion in the Soviet Union for the year 1827. These figures, the ac caracy of which is not in question, will disturb those who apprehend that Western civilisation will not for long maintain itself against the Musiovito barrians. For the Russian birth-rate for 1827 was 44

Questions on malaria and small-

the Sanitary Board to-morrow. pox will be asked at a mocting of Page 7 To-day's wireless programme.

Page 2.

Sport:

Home Football League and Cup match results.

Page 2. Racing notes and training times,

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Local football results. Week-end cricket: full details. "- Page 10 and 11. Major Malcolm Campbell, in the course of a first practice run of the racing motor-ear Bluebird at Day- speed of tonn Bench, attained a nearly 200 miles an hour. Page 11.

Latest Cables.

per thousand and the death-nite 23 NATIONS' SOCIETY.

thousand. In France the per figures are 18 per thousand births

The flying-bont DO-X has arrived QUITE Apart from the prevailing

at Las Palmas.

Tage 9. economic depression, the year 1931

against 10.6 por thousand deaths. has not opened with much optimism

It thus results that each year seven

The Viceroy has promulgated an million babies are born in Russia, whereas the deaths do not total Ordinance. aimed at suppressing THE Government is going to spend in Europe Home papers are per- sistently warning their readers that

four millions. At this rate dhe pothe state of terrorism now prevail. $50,000, with an extra or two, on despite the general abhorence of

pulation of Russia by the year ing in Burma.

Page 5. Mrs. Modical and veterinary circles 1945 will have reached the enormous taking a census. A census is a very war an avoidance of armed conflict is by no means a foregone conclu- useful thing. It helps to estimate very general opinionis are genuinely impressed by the sue figures of two hundred million. what the Colony, needs in water, in that the next year or fifteen months cessful experiments at the Minis. Even in Germany the increase wil! transport, housing and many others likely to be a critica! period. try of Agriculture's laboratories not have been on such a scale. And public and private services. But The Preparatory Commission on with Professor Calmette's vaccine European culture is likely to be

Disarmament has concluded its for the immunisation of cattle swamped!

The out- useful and interesting though it

labours; in the spring of, 1032 the against tuberculosis. may be, the census is not a neces

World Disarmament Conference standing feature of the French

sity. There is still time to stop will meet: en the trend of political scientist's discovery is that the vac-Triple Literary Personality.

or a move towards Dictatorship, There is a strengthening of ex- tremes, both on the Right and on the Left; dictatorship is in the air; and, as a rale, dictatorship makes for nationalism. This is dis- couraging to the prospect of peace and disarmament. But, despite the nationalist dress in which popular

A

Mra. Adams Beck, who died last month in Kyoto, had the odd gift of being able to write as three per-

"Glorious the "E. Barrington" who wrote the biographical novels but under her own name she wrote Apollo" and "The Chaste Dinna," books on the East, where she had travelled a good deal, and s Louis Moresby" was the author peared in the Evening Standard of "Rubies," a romance which ap

maiden name for she was a grand four years ago, Moresby was her daughter of Admiral Moresby. Her homo was in British Columb, near the Morseby Island which was named after her grandfather. But she was often in England, and her generally find friends could her sitting in the lounge of a a novel, but quite ready to lay Kensington hotel writing away at down her pen and talk in her quietly entertaining way.

Aimee McPherson, the famous evangelist, has sailed from Honolulu on board the President Page 9. Wilson for Shanghai,

The liner Arabia Maru, returning from Vancouver, collided with the freight steamer Takao Mara at the entrance to Tokyo Bay, and was The passengers badly damaged,

Page 0... and crew were transferred to the Takao Maru,

In the course of his summing up

the British delegate to the Geneva speech, Sir Malcolm Delevingne, Opium Committee, said that fuller information was now forthcoming from China regarding the illicit traffic in opium.

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The Hatless Woman.

"There are only two places where a woman is not allowed to appear without a hat," said Mr. Paine, the magistrate at East Ham when a young woman, appeared in the witness-box without a hat, "One is a court of justice," added the

No woman has magistrate, and the other is a a right to appear in a court of place of worship. justice without a hit, and see that. you do not do so again."

★ Local Notes and Events

For the 24 hours ended January 30, there was one case (Chinese) of puerperal fever.

The streat commencing at Nathan Preshaw and R. J. Blackburn; F. Road at the north-west corner of W. Lester, A. Boyd; P. C. Murray, K.I.L. 1134 and running parallel J. C. Steel, E. D. C. Wolfe, J. to Austin Rond in an casterly Harron, S. C. Vickers and H. F. direction through K.I.L. 1207, ter Chard.-Hong Kong Daily Press+ minating at its junction with Cox's February 2, 1908. Road has been named Tak Shing Street.

it without much loss, for a number of census schedules already printed movements and of public opinion rine is a preventive of tuberculosis. can very well be stored and used in the interval will very largely | Hundreds of thousands of children the Continent have been im- depend whether at that Conference on on some future ocensions. A census Europe is to be set more firmly on munised with striking results. In sonnlities. She was best known as: has been taken every ten years and the path of penes or is to degenerate striking at the source of bovine it would be pity to spoil the re

tuberculosis science has found the cord. Many things that are a pity slowly and surely into the men

There is no se- have to be done at a time like this. tality that makes for war. Europe quickest means of alleviating much The usual autumn Cricket Inter- in the next twelve months will be human suffering.

cret about Calmette's method. The port was abandoned! But do not at a turning point in her history.

The economic depression has layman can beat understrind the for a moment think our Govern-

against ment is not economising. Certain produced internal reactions which process of vaccination ly it is. It is saving 82,300 on tend more towards violence than tuberculosis by comparing it with preparing the site for the new composure. Disappointment with vaccination against smallpox, Central British School, and on Parliamentary institutions is wide process with which it is analogous. playing fields. With the playing spread, and has manifested itself Some years must elapse before a Gelds clause most of us will re in many instances in acceptance of, perfect dosage tan be ascertained luctantly agree but does this also

and before it is known how long immunity will last, but boyoned all mean abandoning the building of a

doubt a great step forward has new school! While keeping in mind the urgent need for economy, it is

been made in the prevention of a well to consider for a moment the

dreaded disense. Indeed, it is now scarcely too much to say that we relative importance of things on which publie money should be

can visualise the time when this country will be as free from seri- spent, and we have no hesitation in Baying that expenditure on any.

ous tuberculosis as it is now from disillusion is clothed staallpox.. thing concerning the welfare of

public opinion in the majority of British children should be primary call on public funds even countries remains profoundly on in these days of serious financial the side of peace. Nobody wants a war. It is therefore the duty of, stringency. The present Central all those who would see Europe British School provides for the needs of British boys and girls from and the world saved from disaster to mobilise this public opinion, and the age of ten upward's. It has no Junior Department of its own and a real duty falls upon every branch is already seriously overcrowded: of the League of Nations Society, The new building will have its own and upon every individual member, Junior School so that the children to study the international situa- can be educated under the same tion, to give intelligent support to administration from their earliest those struggling for peace, and years. Anyone with practical ex- to warn the younger generation perience of educational work will realise the value of such an rangement, but even if the full plan cannot be carried out under the present circumstances, there is urgent need of a new building for the senior pupils. The school is the only

one of its kind in tho Colony and performs the function of the ordinary English High (or Secondary) School for all those boys and girls who through néces sity, or the choics of their parents, can never enjoy the benefits of English public school life, and it is the responsibility of the Colony to see that they do not suffer from this deprivation. Mind and body. must be entered for. As far as the academic standard is concerned We are assured (and it in shown by results) that the school feed not fear comparison with an English school of the same type. It has a staff of graduates and specialist teachers of good academic standing and experience, though in the past it has suffered much from lack of It is the books and apparatus, building itself that should be con- demned. The class-rooms are for the most part temporary huts, separated from the main building by a long flight of steps which is a serious strain for any delicate or tired child to climb several times a day in the heat of summer; the rooms are by no means sound- proof, and badly exposed to the extremes of temperature. There is no reference library for staff or

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what war means.

In this last connection we quote from a letter written by one of our ablest and most progressive seamen aviators, Admiral Manx Ke

to the heart. If these are all cut

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. M. I. de Ville to bo Second Lieutenant in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.

we starve in a little over two The community singing and lore of Surgery of the University months. The Navy has to protect musical programme of the social of Hong Kong. those lines at sea, and the Air hour held after the evening service. affords the principal escort at the at Union Church, Kennedy Road, focal points.

The Heart can, and will, be as broadenst last night. attacked by an. Air opponent

The death of Mra, Rebecca J. 8. within 1,000 miles (this distance Shak occurred yesterday. The fun. increases no aircraft get larger), eral will take place at 1 pm to and this, beg the quickest mode day and will pass the monumont, of attack at the vital spot, will Happy Valley, nt 1.30 p.m... take placo. before a Declaration of War is made, an Act of war

Looking Back 50 Years.

The ordinary half-yearly moeting His Excelloney the Governor has The latest additions to the list of appointed Mr. B. A. C. North to medical practitioners are Dr. J. W. of the shareholders of the Hong The Heart the Empire is act as Secretary for Chinese Affairs Barnes, 13, Chatham Road, Kow. Kong Hotel Company, Limited was London, Linca of shipping are during the absence on leave of Mr.loon, and Dr. Carlos Eugenio di held at the hotel yesterday after- noon. There were present Messre, the veins that bring the life-blood | A. E. Wood.

Roza, 138, Caine Road. Both are Bachelors of Medicine and Bache-E. R. Bolilios (Chairman), H. Hoppius, F. Grobin, H. Foss, J. H. Cox, J. F. Mardfeldt, A. E Vaucher, W. N. Bain, A. Newton, It is notified that His Honour T.. G. Williamson, N. J. Ede, and Hauschod (secretary). The. Mr. Justice Wood, has by Commis. L sion appointed Mr. L. R. Androwes, Chairman said.-Gentlemen, our re- Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Torts and accounts for the past half Court, to he a Commissioner to year having been in your hands for administer oaths and take declara- the last few days, I think it will tions, affirmations, and attestations not be necessary for us to read them over again here. You will observe that during the current half year we will be able to recom- mence paying off our loans. Con- sidering that at one time this building was reported to have been in a dilapidated state, I think it is highly gratifying for us to have been able to pay for our repairs, to renovate our furniture, to de clare the usual dividend, and last,

and offence.

The & Kochow, arrived safely

of honour in the Court.

It is notified that under authority conferred by Section 39 (17) of Ordinanco No. 10 of 1800, no vessel shall secure to the Praya sea wall hetween a point opposite Queen Victoria Street and a point on the sea wall 110 feat N.W. from the western side of Jubiley Street.

generally precedes Declara in Hong Kong early yesterday tion), and this is why the Air has morning. She grounded on West become the first line of defence River last Sunday whilst on her It is possible that the heart way from Wachow to Hong Kong, of a country may be so badly was refloated on Thursday, and

arrived here undamaged. damaged by air bombardment that she will ask for peace beforo hor. other forces como into action." -

As passengers were coming off the but not least, being now able to commence to liquidate our debt. Air bombardment connotes drop us in mutual destruction. Governo p.m. ferry from Kowloon on ning poison gas anud sprinkling ments if left to themselves fall into Saturday night, a pickpocket was With judicious management your poison acid (one country, at least, the hands of ambitious men who seen by a Chinese detective to property can and will in 'n few possesses an neid of which three and always ready for that gambler's mingle with the first class passen-years be made over to you entirely unencumbered. The course we have drops on the skin will kill a throw,victory or canihilation." gers. It is alleged that the man man), and this may injure the Only an intelligent public opinion" lifted" a gold watch from a adopted has been pursued very country's heart so that the un-

can keep in check those who have Chinese gentleman, whereupon he satisfactorily and successfully, and damaged veins will not keep it taken the issues of peace and war was promptly seized by the dates- I do not see any reason why the alive.

into their hands. It is not enough tive who had had him under ob same course should not be pursued That other Great Powers recog to elect politicians to do as they servation for some time.

equally successfully in the future. All other matters" connected with nise the truth of all the above please. At a time of crisis was

the company's property are satis Chfz. So keen by dych heramahoiualatron

Linctory.

3. but borove proposing wil expenditure for military actiomen and meet duty of the ↑

of the report I shall be Fadoption of the We shall not improve nur de League of Nations Society is to Looking Back 25 years.

The Hong Kong Football Club glad to answer any questions. No fence by taking the ostrich for not as an intelligent check upon our. 'arest,

international affairs, forcing thoso plays a Tugby Match against the question being asked, the report. This is what war will mean. in power to foresee dangers and to United Servicos to-day (Friday) was adopted and the accounts pass Power of attack has outstripped avoid war perils before an acute kicking off at 4.45 p.m. The Clubed, on the motion of the Chairman, power of defence to such an extent stage is reached. Buch work may team consists of:-T. C. Gray; F.sounded by Mr. Newton-long that the next struggle will involve not be oxciting but it is vitally C.; Kendall, T. E. Pearce, MA Kong Daily Press, February 2,

Murray and W. J. Daniel; C. M. 1881. (Continued at foot of nezi column.). importeat.