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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1931.

WEATHER REPORT,

Yesterday's weather report, fore. east and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 6.90 jun., stated:-

The anti-cyclone remains central near Tokyo. A depression is still shown over. Indo-China.

Local Forecast:-E winds, nude rate; generally cloudy, seme rain and fog..

BINTH. BunninGE-On April 18, at Fabrica, Decidental Negros, Philippine Jalanda, to Mr.

and Mrs. GILLETT J. BURRIDGE, a dhigh- ter (BARBARA ELIZABETH),

ENGAGEMENT.

KNIGHT-WHITE-The engagement

in announced of Miss II Ware of the Health Depart- ment, S.3.C., second daughter of Mr. ALFRED WHITE, Dundee, to Mr. GLADSTONE How

KNOT, elder son of the late Mr. ALPEED Ksianr, of New haven, England:"

DEATH.

Penvervo-On May 5, 1931, the Government Civil Hopital, Hong Kong, Mr. TITO MARIA PERPETUO, Assistant Superin tendent of Mails, General Post Office. Funeral will pass thei Monument at 5.30 p.m, today.

| side "-Kwangei Armies, and a joint | advance on Nanking is announced. | The Cantan. Fleet, quite an efficient fores, with severnt deep sen cruisers, as well as a large number of river gunboats, has presumably gone over to the new government, and is cap. able of offering stout resistance to any attack by sen. The position is the reverse of that when CHIANG KAI SHER sent Ho Yixo CHEN from Nanking to turn the scale in the fight with the Kwangsi" Iron side invaders, To use the Nor- thern Navy against Canton would be a most hazardous enterprise.

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News and Views *

The Modern Child,

The Metropolitan police reported on Enster Tuesday that, for the first Bank Holiday for many years, no cases of lost children came to their knowledge on Hampstead Heath,

Kwaint Wurde.

The Biggest!

SUMMARY OF NEWS,

Local.

Hong Kong Stock market: Crou- cher & Co's daily report, Page 5.,

According to British Columbia Details of money votes to be sub lumbermen the record. for the lar-mitted at tomorrow's mecting of the Finance Committee, Page 4. gest tree ever, cut down still rests with the Lynn Valley Douglas fir which was 417 feet high, being 300 feet to the first limb. It was 23 feet in diameter and 77 feét în cir- cumference, and was believed to be about 2,000 years old. probably no other tree that will

"There is:

“Our famili okupied Nos, 3 and 4 in Timbroll-street. Mei Tather It is suggested that Hunan, had 11 children and wan hous, wud Yunnan and a group of Northernnot kontain them." These quaintly.! over surpass in Bizo this giant fir,”

Generals, with FENG Y HAND, in the background, are also, aligned against CHANG KAI SHER. Such

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coalition would be formidable

enough, especially as Canton, the faithful, has defectyd. But Chinese | coalitions have a habit of melting away, and what guarantee is there that this heterogeneous array will work together better than in the past? General CHEN TRAI TONG penks of a new revolution, and a' -conquest of China. CHANG KA SuER has doar it once! Must the tortured country go through the process yet again in the interests of a new party of a more rarified purity and patriotism than any

spelt words, written by Sir Isaac as the Canada Lumberman," itmare nearly 10 years ago in the No lumber corporation could afford botanical specimens. "except as phonstle spelling which he invented,

Trowbridge, Wiltshire, where Sir have aroused a controversy

saae was born.

Economy !

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About 2 am, a man knocked up a doctor in a amall village and ask- ed him to come immediately to a place about ten miles away. The doctor dressed and got out his car, and drove quickly to the destina tion. His caller naked: What is your fee, doctor?" "A guinea," replied the doctor, in some surprise. Editorial and Business Office: 12 heard of in the past decades of handing over the money, and "Here it is, then," said the man, fighting? If the Nanking Govern eheap, too. The garage man want Night Editor (Wanchai Office)ment is overthrown does it noted 30 bob to drive me over.

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Ico House Street Tol. 321.

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sec, I missed the last train,"

to let a tree grow to such an age."

Hotels Liable for Lost Shoo8.

Paris.-A little problem which has often worried visitors to hotels hus

The death occurred yesterday of Mr. T. M. Perpetuo at the Govern- Page 5. ment Civil Hospital.

An interesting address on Meteor. ology was delivered yesterday at the Rotary Club tiffin.

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An instructive feeture on Mr. F. English Association at the last W., H. Myers was given by Mr. A. H. Fenwick to the members of the

meeting of the season held yester- day.

Page 10,

To-day's wireless programme.