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HONG KONG, MAY 12, 1931.

PLAYING WITH DYNAMITE.

THE course of the recent naval "conversations," in Europe, and

of the whole of the Disarmament

alism, nów rampant all over Europe will impet disaster in these days

Flor

* News and Views ⭑

Man.Hours.

Expectations.

Dominion Guards,

when huge cities are at the nerey, of unexampled powers of destrip- tion. There must, he: 4 wider patriotism and 'self-interest which recognises that immediate. gain, if it inflicts injury and "I wonder how many man-hours The Brigade of Guarda may well humiliation, is ultimate loss. Ons are wasted over morning coffee and be proud that the enthusiasm creat consideration-alone should indien lunch in the City of London alone,' {ed by the band of the Grenadier Guarda in South Africa has result. a glimmer of wisdom in. European-Miss Ellon Wilkinson. politics: if this bluster and

ed in the suggestion that a Dumi- Inton Company should be formed childishness over a, few submarines and cruisers should provoke the "Witnesses will not be sworn, asic attached to one of the Guards war that it threatens, the civilį but they will be expected to tell the regiments. The suggestion is, how. populations will not, as of old, truth."—The chairman at the Road fever, not a new one. During the welcome the conflict with noisy Commissioners' first sitting. exhilaration. The ordinary man and woman knows something of what war means, and even before the hostile 'planes get busy there would be time for vengeance upon those who had released powers of

How Others Manage It.

Norwegian journalists enjoyed n holiday, last month as an industri. al dispute stopped the publication of all newspapera for several days

Toys,

destruction that cannot be recall ed, once the order for aetion has been given. At the moment Europe The Union of German Toy is again becoming an armed camp, | Manufacturers announce that Eng. and unless this process stops there land was their best European cus- can be but one ending.

Lomer Inst year, having bought toys to the value of £1,830,000.

A NEW MOTORSHIP.

Tune are many signs of activity in the Hama shipbuilding industry, and they are indications that British industry generally dore not

movement, shows that Continental regard the future with pessimism, politicians and militarists have Many of the great shipping firms, learned nothing from the Great are adding to their flesta. Old War. They are still like children vessels are being replaced by new playing with dynamite and pieric ones which are, in every resprek, neid. They are blind to the improvements. The Cunard Com economic, interdependence of the pany,, for example, is to hav ́an- nations, and deaf to the warnings other 73,000-ton high-spred liner, of scientists and fighting men as similar to the one now building, to the devastating, nature of Three great new vessels are to be modern warfare. The slatessen of built by the White Star Line. And those two enlightened countries, the Pacific Company's Reina del France and Italy, are equabbling Pacifeo, a 17,000-ton luxury-ship Members Aerated Water Manufacturers. over a matter of 60,000 tons of of the first type, has already set warships. Everyone knows that if out on her maiden voyage to South war broke out between the two America.. nations ench would loose a swarm of aeroplanes to bomb each other's

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Hong Kong, 8th May, 1931,

CHINA ENTERTAINMENT. & LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.

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that the FIRST ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the BE- GISTERED OFFICES of the Company, KING'S THEATRE BUILDING, 5TH FLoon on SATURDAY, the 16t DAY of MAY, 1981, at 11 o'clock in the FORENGON, to receive the Direc tore Report and Accounts for the

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And Notice is further hereby given that the Register and TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 9TH to the 16тm DAY of MAY, 1931: Both Days inclusive.

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HE FIFTIETH ORDINARY

GENERAL MEETING of: SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Oloos of the Undersigned on TUESDAY, the 19TH MAX, at; NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agonte, together with a statement of Accounts for the Year ended the Slat DEGENDER, 1991.

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eities, and all the abominations of poison warfare would be em ployed. The issue would be settled before the cautiously handled var. ships ever caught sight at each other.

The Reina del Pacifico differs from any ship ever before engaged in South American trade. She has claims to distinction both in regard to the structure of her passenger accommodation and the nature of her engines. The 22,000 h.p. motors exered in power those used in any

Argentina.

"I have conquered the two Ameri- cas, as well as Europe and other continents." So saying, the Spanish dancer Argentina an- nounced her forthcoming arrival in England. Many will remember her visit to Hong Kong. She is really great danger, and all suc- cess to her in London!

"With Snapping Eye!"

Suddenly the door was banged violently open and Mr. Parnell talked in, his head held high and Lis eyes snapping; he march ed straight up to me, picked me up, threw me over his shoulder. asid turned on his heel; still with out a word he marched out of the room.”—A woman's narrative in "Parnell Vindicated."

Haig's Headmaster,

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war, when the Grenadiers. Cold streamers, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, and Welsh Gaards and added to them the Guards Machine Gan Regiment, there was a general dehire that the Brigade should he able to say "We are Seven," and that not merely a company but a regiment should be formed from Great Britain Oversons, and should be called the Guards Dominion Regiment.

Newstead Abboy.

The town of Nottingham is to acquire the park and Abbey of

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SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local.

Police Reserve orders. Page 7 Yesterday's Investiture by H.E.. the Governor nt Governinent House,

Pagi 7.

The .6, President Cleveland and thu s Taiping bath, struck- ob- structions yesterday morning but came into harbour safely in the Раде 7. afternoon,"

A settlement was announced at. the Supreme Court yesterday in the action between the Equitable Eas Lern Banking Corporation and Mr. Chon Po Sien.

Page 7.

Today's wirelik programe,

Dage .

Sport.

Fall ist af winning numbers in the Shanghai Champions "A" and "B" Sweepa.

Page 10.

Draw for the lawn bowls Open Singles Championship appears on ·

Page 10.

Latest Cables.

Newstead, and those cloisters and

Chiang Kai Shek has denounced refectories where Byron, Skinner,

Chen Tani Tong.

Page J. Matthews, Seropo Davies and n profoundly shocked John Cam Hob.

Martial law has been declared in house gloried and drank deep will

Page 9.. now become the resort of tourists | Madrid. and the playground of the

The Manager of the Shanghai employed. M. Venizelos himself branch of the Hong Kong & will journey to Newstead for the Shanghai Bank has resigned. innaguration of this Nottinghatn pleasure house, and he will prono- unce an allocution upon the merits of Byron. How immensely ticked would Byron himself have been could he have foreseen such a cere. mony. And the sight of all those serious people would have given him what he called "my posthu-" mous feol."

Organising Time.

by the side of a pond rather than venor square, His only fitting

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The completeness of the King's recovery is evidenced by an official announcement that His Majesty. accompanied by the Queen, will attend the Royal Connnnd variety performance at the Palladium,

Page 9.

Following the rioting in Madrid when two people were killed, the Government has made a declara. tion that anyone, whether of the Right or the Left, attempting to promote trouble will be considered an enemy of the Republic, Page 0.

were

While on their way to Chongin from Chungking the Missca Marian Grace and Manly, who are attached to the Methodist Mission at Cheng. tn, were robbed by bandits of medient supplies and surgical in- struments valued nt G. $10,000, which they

carrying to Page 8. Chengtu.

Allegations against Lord Loris- dale, who is a great friend of the ex-Kaiser, which are made in the memoirs of the ex-German Chan cellor, Prince von Buelow, who died two years ago, led to the suspension of the publication of the memoira in

notifying the publishers that if the book was issued in its present form they might. he held responsible for abel.

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Local Notes and Events ★

Our case (Chinese), of diphtheria

ended May 10, was reported during the 48 hours

Miss Youra Culler, the well- men's Chali, ram and an Ameri-known musical artiste, arrived in Shanghai on a pleasure trip last can bar. The alley-ways have week, by the President Lincolu. domed ceilings, Rubber-covered floors ensure quietness; and; for the same reason, stewards are summon. ed by lights and not by belle,

The French National fete com- | every department was a vital ques-. memorating Joan of Are was cele-tion for the Chinese Empire;" brated Inst Sunday. At 0.43 a.m.adding:-"It would be necessary. the salute to the flag was given to begin with the Army and Navy. at the French Consulate-General | in order to be able to withstand the and at 10 am, a solemn mass was pressure of too zealous friends and said at St. Joseph's Church. The tu nder Chinese affairs in accord French Consular and taunicipal | ance with Chinese wishes and needs. buildings were dreorated for the Then, if Chinese integrity were at occasion.

stake and it was necessary to repe unsolicited advice, the world would fad as much to surprise them in China as they had found in Japan. Their soldiers were excellent mi- tary material, and if equipped with nudern weapons could not possibly conquered." He added that the Chinese were as little inclined to of their accept a "Japanization country as an Anglicization " or "itusification."-Hong Kong Daily

rex, May 11, 1900, Looking Back 50 Years,

Acpold Bennett, among his many virtues, possessed the gentle art of furnishing an example to his friends. It was not permitted, în Bennett's presence, to complain of overwork. My dear fellow," he Although it is over 50 years since would say, you are merely bou the late Canon Wilson, who has fessing that you have not learnt how died at the age of 94, was a science to organise your time. Allow me to master at Rugly, Jegenda of him make a few suggestions." These till survive there-at any rate, suggestions were eminently sensible, they did a very few years ago, Heif at times drastic. No man pro- made "atinks," popular and he fited more from the example and maintained the Arnold tradition of friendship of Arnold Bennett than Gone are carrying science and natural his-ir. Edward Knoblock. tory into everyday life. He used the days when Mr. Knoblock would to take boys for country walks with fit elegantly from a luncheon in him and to carry out experiments Chelsea to a dinner party in Gros

in a stuffy laboratory. It was as to-day is from a rehearsal in There is no real point of dispute ship of the same size; trials have Wilson made his chief name in the house at Brighton. One result of England following Lord. Lonsdale

Headmaster of Clifton that Canon | Shuficsinry-avenue to his little between France and Italy. Each shown that they are capable of over educational world. When he went this intensive industry is now up should let the other alone. Their so knots an hour. It is, perhaps, there in the late 'seventies he had parent. Last month Birmingham, saarling and rivalry is on a mental the passenger accommodation which among his pupils a promising saw Mr. Knoblock's dramatisation

of The Good Companions,” level with the amenities between will be found most attractive. The youth, by name Douglas Haig. beasts of prey in a tropical jungle number of passengers to be carried Neither country wants war, but will be small, considering the size both are set upon piling up arma- of the ship. But the cabins--both ments, in case one gets a chance first and second class-are most to impose its will on the other luxurious and more spacious than at a Conference table. It is easy in any other vessels, on the route. to say that France has suffered The decorations of public rooms | that -England's post-war diplomacy

are Spanish and Moresque. There has shown her that she can trust is an elaborate winter garden, o tu ao ally, and that having ` göt the biggest air force and army in fine sports' deck, gymnasium, swim- the world she intends, whatever ming pool, children's play room, anyone else may say, to have a Navy hardly second to that of Britain and the United States The thing is madness. To main- tain strategic security means over- whelming superiority, such as no nation could tolerate; for super- iority gives advantage not merely in war but in every small or great dispute which the diplomats settle. France is strong and prosperous at the moment, but Germany enn- not be kept perpetually in chains. If France clings to armaments, in- on the increase, Thore is this to stead of recking new methods of heenid for tile imperamental settling international differences, athlete. His failures may be dan- another Triple Alliance is inevit-gorous, but in moments of exalta- able, with no Entente Cardiule to tion ho rises to heights which the hold the balance. Even the Labour more placid typo never reaches. First Lord of the Admiralty has His nervous reactions, however, are exclaimed in desperation, there curious. There is a famous Text is going to be no guarantee of match cricketer who admits that success in progress towards din for years he used to close his eyes armament merely by one country | before each ball and murmur' always giving way." No special prayer. Then there is a Cambridge blame is attached to France. The stroke, who rowed to a hymnal in- evidence suggests that any other cantation of "Trom Greenland's Continental power in her position Icy Mountains," cooking to make would do much the same. Italy his bump or to pass the winning has been provocative and Ger post on the last bar of the verse. many's pocket, battleships," and There is Mr. Bobbie Jones, who the bluster of the Nazis give real after a long-drawn-out golf cham cause for alarm. But when reapou- | pionship used to, bo violently sen- sible politicians are deceived by sick. Lastly, there is that magni- frothy rhetorie and spasmodic tur ficent forward, Mr. Peter Howard. bulence it hardly suggests the Mr. Howard is a highly-strung mentality that can readjust the giant with an artistic tempora world to the new era that science our wettin after makes essential if civilization is à "Rugger" international is on all to continue. The narrow nation- fours with that of Mr. Jones.

The Temperamental Athiste,

We hear much of the physical strain of modern sport. The nor- vous strain is equally great, and with the speeding up of games is

The China National Aviation Corporation has ordered four new Loening amphibians for use in con- A European lad, Gilbert Hudden, nection with the proposed extension was injured on Saturday afternoon of the Shanghai-Ichang Air Mail when a motor-cycle combination Service to Chungking.

driven by Mr. W. A. Buckingham in the side car of which he was

overturned

His Excellency and Lady Peel travelling, Chow at the Ko Shing Theatre last machine overturned, were the gursts of Sir Ghou-son round-the-laland rond. night.

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were Others present included Buckingham and the lad Sandilands, Mr. thrown from their seats. Major-General and Mrs. Hallifax, Mr. and Mrs. latter suffered injuries which noces

Shenton and Mr. A. E. Wood,

of Industry.

sitated his being taken to the Vic- toria Hospital by Mr. Buckingham. It is understood that he is not in

serious condition.

the

The report mentioned by the The masters of two trading junk.

correspondent of a Shanghai con- were each fined $100 by Comdr.

temporary that a gold field bas J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.Ñ., at the

buen dimovered on the banks of the -- Marine Court yesterday when they Anub Singh, a Sikh motor driver, river fin, some twenty miles from wore charged with carrying 157 and was charged before Mr. E. W. Fonchow, has also reached us from 102 passengers in excess of the Hamilton yesterday with assault nativa sources in this Colony. The numbers allowed in their licences. ing a ricksha coolie near President old field is said to bear the pre- Apartments, Nathan Road, on Sun- crous metal in payable quantities, Mr. B. U. Zau, the well-known day night. It was stated that and the Chinese, both here and at Shanghai merchant, who has for the defendant hired the ricksha and Foochow are anxious that the director of the Shanghai office of any particular destination. After working of the mines. At the the past two years been serving as did not tell the coolie to go to Authorities should sauction the Ministry of Industry and

streets. "touring several

the nine time it is felt that there is a Labour, has formally taken up his coolie asked for, payment, but not very slender prospect of the man- now appointment as Vice-Minister only did defendant refuse to give darias being induced to give the the man his money, but he also na required permissions. The old bug- saulted him. He was fined $5 and hear Feng-shui will again be invok Russian Boy Scouts in Shanghai

explore the supposed mines.

The celebrated the patron day of their was also ordered to pay $10 eam-ed as a barrier to all attempts to traditional policy of the Chinese enint, St. George, on May 3, with Pusation to the coolie. a special eclebration which began

Government has always been to encourage agriculture, as it is cal with a church parade. Later there

culated to keep the people quier and contented, and to discouraga General Chang, the Chinese mining for any metal for fear it Sinister at Berlin, is reported by should draw the populace away of the soil. At a sale of Crown land held the Berliner Tageblatt to have from the cultivation

Dome very Heuce it comes to pass that ul yesterday at the Crown Lands given utterances to Offee, New Kowloon Inland Lot frank" expressions en the subject though the Middle Kingdom is

The known to be rich an minerals' anÙ· No. 1402, on Cheung Sha Wan of the future of China. Road, was sold to Mr Der Bag Clunos representative is stated to metals, few mines are worked, and Chi and Tong Wing Sheung, 63, have said that recent political and those only on A band to mouth Queen's Rond Central, for 934,600 military events had taught China system.-Hong Kong Daily Press, The upset price was 817,335. that thorough-going reform in May 11, 1881.

was an informal gathering, May 9 Looking Back 25 Years.. was April 23 according to the former Russian calendar.