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HONG KONG DAILY ·PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1931.

WEATHER REPORT.

possibility is a crashing of civilisa tion in another war and a return to the Dark Ages. The third is n sane davelopment of simpler and Yesterday's weather report, fore-healthier nude of life, in which east and remarks, ised by the needs are less complex than at pre- Bayal Observatory, at 5.16 p.m, sent, and a wider tolerand: pre; stated:-

vaile- return to the villages and small towns of ancient Greece, but with modern science as the servant of men.

A feeble anti-cyclone ja central near Shanghai and a depression near Tourane.

Local Forecast:-E. winils, mode. rate; generally overcast, some rain.

JESSICA

fornia.

The Pops has warned us in his latest encyclical that there is danger in the extremen alike of capitalism and socialism.

Humanity would not thrive in a world-wide Chiengo with STALI 'as ile Mayor.

One of the most bitter critiça of the Roman Church, Dear Isas, has stated that the future struggle may

★ News and Views ★

Poor But Candid.

Reacted from the river into which she throw. herself at New York,

Edna Wright, aged 20, anid: I could not keep up with the other girls. They all had more money and better clothes than 1.

A House for Alfonso.

of

No Braemar Gathering.

Court mourning has been so much curtailed since Queen Victoria's time, and the King and Queen aro

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SUMMARY OF NEWS

Local and Far East.

Police Reserve orders. Page 5. Hostilities have commenced in Page 7 Hainan. careful that their privato

vietim

*bus of a Inquest on

Page 7 bereavements shall not interfere fatality. with their public duties, that it

Hong Kong Stock Market: Crou ANNOUNCEMENT.

cher & Co.'s daily report. Page 7. An engagement is announced be

will surprise many southerners to tween Flying Officer A. DONALD

Lord Londonderry's offer of Lon hear that the Briemar Gathering A Chinese was shot by a con. BENNETT, L.A. F., son of Mr.

donderry House to King Alfons cancelled this your on account of stable yesterday while trying to

When and Mrs C. L. BENNETT, Not be between Roman Catholicism and is not without precedent. Lingham, England, and Mix Bolshevism, All that is best in the French Bourbon, Louis XVIII, the death of the Princess Royal, esenpe from police custody, Page 7.

BEATRICE

Mr. C. Champkin. Kave an in WINTERS, hunian nature will rally to the cans to England in 1807 he was

Amusing address. daughter of Mrs. CARMANDOA Roman Church against a union of joverwhelmed with offers of houses On Decside the old importance of WINTER, San Francisco, Cali all that is worst in communism and from the English nobility, though the clan persists, and the cancella- teresting and

(780

Page 6, capitalism. A victory for the both George III. and the Govern- tion of the Games is rather because yesterday on "Money Theories" former is predicted, but at the ment of the day were decidedly the Princess Royal was first indy at the Rotary Clus tilin.

Owing to the absence of a medi. sacrifice of liberty of thought and cold. He seempted the Marqud in of the Duff clan than because she

cal witness, the Yaumati murder.

the Sessions has had to be action. Dran INGE expresses the. Buckingham's house at Gosfield Average Englishman's distrust of Essex, the Government allowing was a Princess of Great Britain. trial

Page 7. Rome, n distrust that still flares in to do so under the provim that up in England, now and then. The ho was not to come within fifteen. The Princess Royal nearly always When King attended the Games wearing a Dean of St. Paul's argues that the miles of London. Church of Rome has persecuted Louis disobeyed and visited the pleated skirt of the Duff tarlag and Prince de Condé at Wanstend (not heretics in the past and has never recanted. The constitution of the an abode of princes nowadays) there

was a deuce of a rumpus. Roman Church, he points out, pre- cludes an admission of error, and, he contends that there has Abduction from a Convent. been no change of heart. Citations The Paris Courts have passed a from the words and writings of sentence of two years' imprison great ecclesiastics are, given in upment on Maurice Straus, aged 68, port of this view that the Roman for usurping the functions of th Church does not repugnise that it police officer, Straus, armed, with is fundamentally wrong lo persecute indicating that he was an men for erroneous opinions on re-inspector of the judiciary police, ligious matters. Dean Isaz easily abducted a girl named Sidonie demolishes the ples that this is an from a convent in a Paris suburb

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HONG KONG, May 27, 1931,

VATICAN.

ORANGES POPE PUIS XI. is a world-statesman whose immense courage and ability are gaining an influence for his pronouncements far beyond the

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napers

Straus

adjourned until June. **

To-day's wireless programme.

a modified Highland bonnet" of dark velvet with the clan badge Sport. pinned in it.

WHEN ANTHEA DANCED. We danced, one day, Anthen and

I-

She treads a dainty measure And now my frame preserves for:

Lyo

A highly valued treasure:

And I have been most subtly

blessed,

U.8, baseball results. Lawn bowls notts by

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Page 20. Green.'

Page 10.

Prospects for the Derby. By our home racing correspondent.

Latest Cables.

Page 10.

The censorship at Shanghai also (I would not wish her colder !)applies to radiograms and messagea sent hy landline. It includes out- For sometime in that dance she going and incoming news. Page 9.

pressed

Her lips against may, shoulder. It only was her charming Tun-

Her brain is of the wittiest And when this lovely deed was

done.

The death-rell at the Nunlydroog mino in the Kolar goldfields is now

died in hospital.

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who

THE STATESMAN OF THE enlightened age." by pointing in which she had been placed by her not only to events in Russia and guardian. The son of an architect, China but to many recent happen-ind himself. qualified architect, ings in Europe and America.

appears to have played If the great statesman who now many parts, including those of wears the triple crown of the baker and of "inspector" on the

forty-seven, including seven convince the world aff of the Communist newspaper Papacy can

re-Humanité. He met Sidonic, a that his Church has for ever nounced the weapon of persecution young orphau, on a café terrace, against those who differ from her and in a short while the girl and confines of his own Church. Almost | teneta it will be his greatest the middle-aged man became firm He convinced her that from the beginning of the Chris achievement, A working union friends.

Before Straus tian era the papal chair has been between the Christian Churches with his help sho would become a

to-day is neither, practicable nor great persanage. occupied, with rare exceptions, by desirable, but it is deplorable that and Sidonio had known one an. Italian prelates, and the Vatican there should be hatred and mistrust other for very long a sub-prefect in The attitude of so enlightened a little town in the west of France Undeterred. Straus has suffered from a certain narrow-man as Dean Inas is full of signi intervened.

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SEEKING PEACE!

Now that the battle-cruiser Tiger and the battleship Marlborough have been paid-off to be prepared the Iron Duke to be "demilitari for scrapping, there remains only zed, and we shall have completed

*

She smiled at me her prettiest,

The music and the glamour

dies.

Though weary Time may gag

and blind me, Nenth my right ear there'll

always rise

An Angel's whisper to remind

me.

And thou, blest coat, that felt her

Jips.

Never can'st thou grow worn

and old!

Transmuted now thou dost eclipse The finest weave of Chath of

Gold.

JOHN WILLWYN.

The ex-beauty queen, Mrs, Nird- linger has been acquitted on the charge of murdering her husband Page : at Nice."

The. 19th Infantry Brigade and for the 3rd/ioth Punjabis left Burma last night. Other troops are also, waiting orders to leave.

Page 1.

A communiqué issued by the Government of the Malay States says that after careful consideration the Government is prepared to entertain any recommendations for an increased cut in the tin quota and that the Government is now communicating with the Colonial Secretary regarding details.

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Local Notes and Events ★

For the three days ended May

the sacrifice of capital ships to 25, there were three cases of typhoid, which we agreed at the London ano case of small-pox and one Conference. There has certainly been ensiderable zeal in carrying so (non-Chinese) of cerebro-spinal out this part of our bargain in less meningitis. than a year from the signing of the Treaty of London. In the cas

The Censorship imposed by the Chinese, Government and Military authorities, we are asked to state, applies to wireless and land lines as well as to cables

The mistresses of two cargo boats were fined $10 each at the Marino Court yesterday before. Commdr. J. B. Newill, D.S.O. R.N., for leaving the harbour without a clear- днее. Sergt. Hill, who prosecuted, said he found them near Ching Yue Island on Saturday afternoon. The stating that they could not get

As a result of a fall down the

meo

stairs at 17, New Street, n named Au Lun died at the Gov- ernment Civil Hospital, shortly after admission, from a fractured skull.

Looking Back 25 Years.

A meeting of the English Colony at Madrid was held on April 21 to discuss a question of a present to Princess Ena. Their efforts in this direction_ars, being seconded by all the English colonies Spain, including those at Barce lona, Bilao, Jirez, Huelva, ein, and Malaga, The Englishmen in the Canary Isles have also been invited to subscribe. The aim is to

in

Valen-

of vision traceable to this fieance. Only the pronouncements risited the Mother Superior at the cause. PUIS XI. one of the of a Pope of the calibre of Puis convent, and informed her that her He XI. can remove such suspicions, chargo had to visit police head- Popes who has been able to see the Surely it is worth while that the quarters for interrogation. world as a whole, with the condivisions of Christianity should be showed her an order covered with Beals and signatues, and the Mother ponent parts in correct proportion. minimised and not magnified by Superior let Straus take Sidonie, His Holiness is a scholar, he has pretation not by ignorant men His arrest followed promptly, and silences which are open la misinter

accompanied by nun, with him. travelled widely, and in his youth only.

upset certain plans which he had was a mountaineer. Mountaineering

made for the girl's fate. in the realm of sport has something of the quality of Catholicism itself. Men will harden' their bodies and risk their lives to climb mountains İlong after blood-sports have been abandoned ne unworthy and in humane. The Pope is in many other ways extraordinarily alive to the modern world. He motors and broadcasts, he denounced, with as- THE

above will CLOSE at NOON on tonishing effect, certain extremes of women's fashions, and he pub

One man is feared 1 have been lished an encyclical against super. By Order of the Stowards,

The fortnightly meeting of the drowned as a result of a mishap stitions, specially rebuking the of the Tiger, for instance, she need Sanitary, Board, was held yester in the harbour at about, 8 o'clock silly fear of the number thirteen..not have been withdrawn from ser- day. No matters of public interest yesterday morning when heavy seas A notable triumph was the solution vice until June, 1939, under the were discussed, the business being caused the sinking of a eargoboat, which was being towed by the terms of the Treaty. Probably of a purely routine nature, of the problem of the Vatican's desire for economy is one reason

atenin launch, Kwong Fat. There were five mon on the uoat, ali be- Extrins CLOSE at 12 O'CLOCK NOON THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE relations with the Italian Kingdom, for anticipating the obligation in

A number of collies in the Kunging rescued by the launch with the For sixty-nine years miccessive pon this respect, but we cannot escape Yen Godown, at Conaught Road exception of a youth, who is misa. on THURSDAY, 28TH MAY,1931.

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the feeling that it is a minor rea [772

(INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.) tiffs maintained a claim to the old son, and that still more peaceful West on Monday, quarrelled over ing and is believed to have been drawued. He was only 18 years papal territories and refused to gesturing" to the other naval división of work and a fight oc NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS move out of the Vatican grounds Powers (with an eye to the World surred in which three of the par of agu.

Disarmament Conference next year) ticipants were seriously injured. JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN into Italian soil. It was often the primo motive. Beyond the They were subsequently taken to

make the whole affair unofficial, ench English resident giving a THE CHINA SUGAR REFINING NOTICE the SIXTY-SECOND argued that an abandoning of this fact that we are deprived of the the Government Civil Hospital

small sum, Delegates from each centre will go to Madrid to make ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING attitude would result in the Papacy training squadron. for boys sooner

There was no very brisk bid than we need have been, this ap

the presentation. Although the of the Company will be held at its becoming more and more Italian parent eagerness to get rid of these ding at the P.W.D. Olio yester

time is so short it is hoped to raise TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENHEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING,

bat in peregance of Section 187 HONG KONG, on FRIDAY, 29 until the Pope was merely the ships and have done with it will day when an area of 2,200 square Puis XI.,not materially affect our naval feet of land at Wang Nei Chong

3,000. The present will take the form of jewellery, probably, position. MAY, 1981, at 11.15 .., for the Archbishop of Italy.

was auctioned. The upsct price

diamond or pearl necklace. The purpose of receiving, the Report of did not fear this danger and he At the same time, this business was 811,000 but bids can rapidly defendants, admitted the offence,

town of Barcelona is purchasing as the Directors and the Statements of evidently saw that there was some of "scrapping to order mast until 816,000 was reached when the

a present a beautiful and costly ACOount to 1st DECEMBER 1930, truth in a Protestant historian's necessarily challenge some refleclot was knocked down to Mr. Yee clearances on Saturday afternoon diamond tiara. Princess Enn has and of declaring Dividends, etc. dr

tion. The Iron Duke is to be re Tom. Another let of 2,692. equares the Harbour Office was closed. already received many beautiful "The TRANSFER BOOKS of the sneer about "sulking in the tained for instructional duties after feet at Shamehuipo went at the up-

gifts from the Spanish aristocracy. Company will be CLOSED from lira Vatican." The claim to Temperal being deprived of all her fighting set price of 83,825.

The daughter of the Duke of Alba MAY to 29TH MAY, Both Days Power," over the old papal States powers. But the three battleships

Bent

by King Alfonso a lovely gold has been abandoned, inclusive.

The Retrenchment Committee has and the and the Tiger still constituted a

waist-buckle set in rubies. Queen Vatican State formally recognised. capital ship force against which no now

presented its report to the An essentially undignified quarrel naval Power in Europe could havo Government, but, according Criminal Sessions yesterday short Christina is giving Princess Ens a priceless Court mantle which be- was solved by the broad vision of put a corresponding group, either official information, it may not be ly after ten o'clock, the Chief longed to Queen Taabel 11. It is three men, the Pope, Signor in individual power or collective available for publication for several Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) said he of dark red velvet, wonderfully em- MUSSOLINI and the King of Italy. efficiency. Regarded from this point months. The Government is now con-understood that the delay was due broidered in gold. Many of the Papal encyclicals have become of view the wasteful extravagans sidering the report and its findings, to all the jurors not being presentdinussed state carriages are being world events, That on marringe of breaking up these vessels is and a copy has also been sent Home. His Lordship, in drawing attention restored for the wedding proces created a curious hush

among certainly accentuated. We are not It is stated that the full effects of to the fact that 10 a.m. was the sion. The Marquis Viano, who has modern critics of the most funda- mental of human institutions. It suggesting that it is an unfair the report will not be seen until the i propor time for the Court to sit, 1 mpecially sumerintended this work, aid that any jurors who were not has spent £000 on one carriage agreement from the international presentation of the next estimates.

present when their names were alone in painting and decoration. was felt by the self-confideat up-point of view; we certainly are (Incorporated iN HONG KONG.) haldera of" "freedom," that here suggesting that to apply the inter- A half-dermented youth appear called would have to bear the blame The wedding dress will cost £1,400, was a pronouncement founded not national point of view to the coned before Mr. Schofield at the and any consequences that might Brussels lace being used costing nearly £12 a yard.-Hong Koro NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. only upon this highest ideals, but duct of national business, whether Central Police Court yesterday on follow.

Daily Press, May 27, 1000, elao upon the rock of human needs in armaments or anything else, a charge of bogging at the public TOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN and instincts The hard cases and must offer result in procedure entrance to the Hong Kong Jockey

Before Mr. Hamilton, at the Kow.

Looking Back 50 Years, named That there is no element of spon- that the FIFTY-EIGHTE

ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING the present chaos of meinl condi. The Hawkins glass are to go, Sixth Extra Race Meeting on Mon Kan and woman ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be held at the of the Company will be held at itations would pass away, and in a so as to enable us to build other day. It was stated that the defen-Li Mui were charged with having laneous progress in the Chinese-

were respectable on May 23, in Victoria Harbour. race is a fact which can hardly be HEAD OFFICE UNION BUILDING, HEAD OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, Aner and wiser world the Pope's cruisers which, probably, will be no dant's patents HONG KONGO FRIDAY, 29TH HONG KONG, on FRIDAY, 20TH Pronouncements would be accepted better and certainly not effee and that it was not necesary for had in their possession, four pounds doubted by anyone who has studied

and would endure,"

tively armed. This rather ridi him to go out begging. His Wor-of Chinese tobacco on which duty the genius of the nation. They are May, 1931, at 11 Octook for MAY, 1981 at 11.20 m., for the

There are three probable lines of culous concession to that form of ship registered a caution.

had not been paid. They were fur- imbued with the spirit of ancestral- the purpose of receiving the leport purpose of receiving, the Report of the development for the human political idealism which holds that

ther charged with smuggling one worship in all its forms, religious Secrecy is being maintained by and a half gallons of liquor and also and social, and their view is ever race. The first, and most terrible it is of supreme importance to of the Directors and the Statements the Directors and the Statements of

to contemplate is a collectionism, placate other nations, irrespective the police in regard to the Carstairs with having dumped tobaco from toward the past instead of the something between that being at of our own sacrifices in the procem, tragedy, but it is understood that a junk into the harbour. The first future, Far from letting the "dead past bury its dead they delight tempted by Russia and also by the leads one to wonder whether winvestigations are proceeding and defendant was fined 8200 or two

on the first to move in the shadow of former United States, in which swarms of really gain in respect and prestige before long something tangible, will months' impian discharged on the times, and seek it in preference to men and women, living in super in conséquence. Is it not possible result. The "boy" and the amab two charges, and. WOOLWORTH buildings, and directed that the passing of five of our who were in the employment of Mr. third, while the woman was fined the light of the present. Thus, ed super-ROTHSCHIS and Hety Arst-line ships (well in advance of Carstairs at the time of his death similarly on the first two charges, like a plant deprived of its fait

amount of sunshine, the develop... FORDS, work like insecta for the schedule time) is only regarded with continue to be detained. It is un-and an additional 850, or one.

ment of a national is arrested - good of the hive, machinery and a certain degree of cynical con derstood alto that another perron month, on the third count, the sen organisation having become the tempt by the peoples it is intended has been arrested and detained by tences in both cases to run coneur Hong Kong Daily Preik, May 27,

rently.... the police, [689 masters of mankind. The second to please?

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2) of the Companies Ordinance 1911, GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held in the BOARD

ROOM of Mesars, JARDINE. MATHESON & Co., LTD, Fedder Street Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 27th May, 1931, at 13 NOON, for the purpose provided for in the said Section,

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. LTP, JOHN FLEMING, CA..

Joint Liquidators. Hong Kong, 20th May, 1931.

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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.) NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTION 18 HEREBY GIVEN

of Account to 31st DECEMBER, 1930. and declaring Dividends, ato.

The TRANSFER BOOKS, of the Bociety will be CLOSED from 11ra MAY to 29TH MAY, Both Days

inclusive.

Bye. Order of the Board,-

PAUL LAUDER,

By Order of the Board, PAUL LAUDER.

Goueral Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1981,

(698

BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR, ANCE COMPANY, LTD,

His Worship pointed out that they

could have done so in the morning.

On taking his

вель ле

to

the

NO that tbo, «SIXTY-FIFTH | special circumstances arising out of which violates commonsense. Club at Happy Valley during the loon Magistracy, yesterday Leung

Account to 1st DECEMBER, 1930 Land of declaring Dividends, etc..

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company, will be CLOSED from MAY to 29TH MAX, Both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board, PAUL LAUDER,

General Mausger

General Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1981. [687 Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1981.

1881.