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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 8ra Day of Juxr, to MONDAY, 15ry Day of June, 1931, Both Days inclusive....

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By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Læn.j. General Manager. Hong Kong, 27th May, 1981, [780

ORIENT. MONTGAGE BANK AND EBYATE AGENTS

WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterday's weather report, fore: cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.40 D.,

stated:-:

The typhoon is passing to the north of Kochi on a north-easterly track. The depression in the Gulf of Pechili is approaching Korea,

Local Forecast:-E winds, mode

rate; rain.

BIRTH, STABLEFORD.--On June 8, at Shang- hai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. H. STABLEFORD, a son,

DEATHS.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1931.

* News and Views

ganisation for the distribution of such funds which is officially re pognised by the Admiralty. The money will bo set aside for those bereaved by the Poseidon disaster, and will be administered by an Musie Pays!. experienced and thoroughly cum- petent authority."

The appeal

Viper Bite in Berlin. Bas. Richard Tauber gets £1,500 a Berlin. The patrons of an week. Chalispino receives £600 for American bar in the west of Berlin. We suggest a most every opera which ho appears... deserving one. An allowance is Kreisler usually nots £1,000 or more were witnessos of a startling scene, made to dependants of men "killed for an Albert Hall concert An the protagonists in which were a or drowned in the Service of the American millionaire entertaining in Englishman named Mandha and a Crown

says the Admiralty Carlton House-terrace once engaged regulation, but it cannot be Melba and cerute to sing a duet viper from the Balkans The Eng- claimed as a right."

from La Boheme and it cost lishman, who came off worst in him £1,400 guineas,

Orange for Bathing Places.

victim of his curiosity. A Gor- man with whom he was sitting had The bathing place at the Ser-communicated to him that inside a pentine is in itself brighter than bag which he was carrying was a over this year, for the walls of the

this

Bluebells of England.

Motoring into London yesterday SUMMARY OF NEWS afternoon I passed car after car,

hiavolo after bicycle carrying the

damp corpses of bluebells picked a

in tl coppices of Kent and

Surrey, writes a correspondent to| Local and Far East. a London paper. The sight in-

plies, in the Arst place, brokon

Mr. Pepys in Hong Kong. Page d. variably fills me with rage. It im

H.M.8. Poseidon Fund: appeal' hedges and trampled-woods -It-im for subscriptions plies that many birds have been

Pago 9.

disturbed from their nests and that the boots of thousands have crushed in and out of thickets, and it im

The scale of pensions to widows of seamen is, for a woman under forty, 106. d. per week. An extra 75. ed. is given for one child and compassionate allowances of 5/- are made for overy other child, these allowances for children ceasing enclosure have been painted bright snake. Mancha did not believe cut and standing in a vase. AMY-On June 7, at Tientsin, when the age of 18 is reached, all orange to match the orange, tonta FREDBRICK OGDEN AMY, Into of those payments are subject to good The general effect is much pleasan the Public Works Department, behaviour on the part of the person ter than this ball description sug. Shanghai. Municipal Council,

receiving them. Another official gests. Perhaps the colour scheme aged 62 years, ·,

clause states: "The parent or will suggest itself favourably to ARMSTRONG-At Whitbaugh, New-parcate of a seaman, who died in those responsible for the ample and Castleton, Scotland, on May 19, circumstances which would have palatial public bathing places that WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, of Whit-rendered his widow, had he been are a feature of this Colony. haugh, lata Director of Criminal married, eligible for a pension Intelligence, Shanghai.

may be granted an allowance Into Hot Water, not excceding 78. ed., if there

Editorial and Business Offices: 11

Ice House Street. Tol. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office)

Tel. 24511.

London Ofice: 83, Fleet Street,

E.C. &

The Daily Press.

HONG KONG, JUNE 13, 1901.

THE" POSEIDON FUND.-

Hong Kong Stock Market; Crou-

cher & Co.'s daily report, Page 7.

It

Page 7.

Round the local cinemas, Page 5.

H.K.V.D.C. orders. Page 12 Week-end radio programmes.

Page 10..

Sport.

League tennis resulta. Page 10.

Latest Cables.

the encounter was apparently, & plice, above all, a lack of obseries, in which Mrs. Mathe... vation. For the bluebell Aends with refusing to take a fore, ended son charged a public car driver

should have learns from experi-

yesterday. once that this, wild hynainth, although the glory of our woods, is the ugliest of all flowers when

possible, and asked for ocular | flops and wilts; it huddles into the proof, whereupon his companion neck of its neighbour with the opened the bag and drew out a ungainly intimacy of a bunch of reptile wrapped round with a hand-sparagus. It is the plainest of korchief. No sooner had he done all indoor flowers, so than the sanke darted out his head and bit Maacha's hand. Passing the Body. "Shortly afterwards the victim foll insensible to the floor and had to was considered a branch of absorb Years ago, political journalism

be rushed to hospital. Twenty

ing interest, as it provided much minutes after the accident his face of the principal raw material of was already swollen, out this morn-journalism-the unexpected. To It is hoped to raise the wreck of

day there is little unexpected about the Poseidon, to-day. politica, national or international, If any real or alleged crisis de.. volops, there is one, and only one, Finevitable outcome. Someone will I think the time has come to pass the baby to someone alss to protest regarding the number of |hold. But there London streets, writes a correspon-bear this out. The "baby" has beon will be no action or decision. The events" at Genova

being in a great hurry, I took the ent Court of International Jus dent to a London paper. To-day, conveniently, passed to the Perman first taxi on the nearest rank and tice, and when they get tired "of found myself chugging placidly it, they will doubtless pass it to

Page 9. eastward at about eight miles an someone also. Meanwhile, this in- In the Davis Cup semi-final· hour. I therefore stopped at the evitable process is hailed in some Perry (Great Britain) beat Jiroanato next rank and took another, which/quartora aa a "triumph of diplo (Japan) 6-1, 4-0, 7-8, 75.

The Home Secretary, got himself is one parent and not exceeding into hot water by a phrase of his 10s. a week if there are two." Pro-speech at the Royal Academy being he was pronounced much better viso's attached aro that: there are quet: to assist children, women neither children nor a widow, that and the aged."

Probably Mr. parents,

the parent; or

largely dependant on the deceased and that their circumstances justify" the allowance. Allowances of 10s. and 55., respectively, may be given

in cases of a brother or a sister

and in no danger.

obsolete taxis that still infest the

ware Clynes has no anti-feminist motive, | London's Óbsolète Taxis,

and slipped unawares into a hack-

there have been solemn resolutions neyed association of words, but deprecating his implication that passed at women's meetings and the women are feeble and helpless feminist periodicals have broken out into leader notes about it. Am bitious young politicians will learn that "women and children" may be a dangerous phrase.

who was dependant on the decena

ed..

These extracts from Admiralty regulations show that not very much more than bare subsistance is forthcoming from official sources. Submarine men are picked ratings. An excoptionally high standard Bacing Without Jockeys. of ability, physical stamina and

macy."

proved to have a maximum speed- of some 14 miles an hour. I am i The Duellists. aware that I have a legal right, to

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Yuta Captain's story of Poseidon disaster.

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The Vice Chairman of the S.M.R., following the example of his chief, Page 9. has resigned.

The death occurred at Stockholm-

strom, ex-chaplain of Kinkiang. yesterday of the Rev. C. F. Lind-

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It is reported that Dr. C. S, Wu,

steadiness of character is required, in Mexico throws a light on the choose my taxi from the rank, but Finance Bill is taken to-morrow, Chinese Minister at Washington,

When the second reading of the.

Graham will be in the place of patriotism." says a Home paper, Mr. William has resigned on grounds of loes! Mr. Snowden and Mr. Neville

Page 9 Chamberlain will stand where Mr-

The latest development in racing for this branch of the Service. The state of the Turf in that distress young stokers and seamen who lost ful country. It is racing without their lives in the Poseidon were jockeys, and it is intended to don is a unit of the China Fleet, men who had every hope of rising eliminate the possibility of bribery, also that the problem is a difficult Churchill stood last year. The A Labour coueur at Canberra häs

that involves argument and waste of time, and one usually takes one's. chance with the first. I am aware

We have opened a fund on behalf of the dependants of the men lost in H.M.S. Poseidon. The Fose

and we are sure that Hong Kong to petty officer and warrant officer Its inventor believes that it will one, since the old taxis are gen-fre and the icy blasts from Snow scheme adopted at the Premiers House will miss the Churchillinn agreed to the Conversion Loan as the headquarters of that Fleet ránk. A large proportion of the revolutionise racing throughout the would wish to express in tangible casualties had married young beworld, but most of us will feel seep-erally the property of old man who den. There will be more interest

Conference.

Page 8. intelligent enough to go round the would be thrown out of work if be a bad thing, but the Snowden- tical about that. After all, a horse have invested all their savings and in the fight than in the principal fighters. This, of course, may not Grand National course by itself their cabs were condemned. But Churchill duels were the only death and eleven seriously injured Two people were crushed to would surely be intelligent enough

bright interludes in the monotony. to understand when a bribe was ought busy Londoners to be made of the Finance Bill debates last when a cyclone suddenly descended, being offered to it..

to suffer for their maintenance f

year.

on Faragonomachi, a town in Japan

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cause their prospects were good, and they had every expectation of ateady, advancement, a pension in early middle age and the good

form, the sympathy which everyone feels for those who have been bereaved by this disaster. A similar tund has been started by a Shang- hai newspaper. Hong Kong, the career ashore which a successful British Naval base in the Far navy man almost invariably enjoya East, would not wish to be behind Shanghai in supporting this cause Hong Kong is a naval port and we all know what we owe to the British Navy. We realise the part which the Navy takes, for example, in the provention of piracy. In fair weather and foul, in fog or when the monsoon is blowing, or a typhoon gathering, Naval ships are at sea, ready to help the mer chant vessel in distress. the rivers the patrol is maintained

*Local Notes and Events

One Chinese case of typhoid was reported during Thursday,

We give, these facts": so that our readers may realise the nature of th material loss to the dependants of these men cut off in early youth. we specially ask for the help of men of the Fighting Services, whose generosity to the relatives believe that Hong Kong will take of lost comrades is proverbial. We

The forthcoming marriage is an this opportunity of expressing its nounced of Mr. Leonard Geoffrey gratitude to the Navy, and of: re Morgan, residing at 1 Bowen moving any suspicion that the load, to Miss Mary Adelaide Kar- Our shipping firms, and the crew the men to render us, at the con-

eivil population is indifferent to slake, of 3, Bowen Road. of every vessel trading in the

stant danger of their lives, services China Sea know what the presence that we perhaps could only appre dealers, of 220, Des Voeux Road West, The master of the Fok Wo, sugar of the British Fleet in these waters means. Need we do more than ciate if they were withdrawn.

has reported to the police that

Far up

mention tho gallant action of Is

when the Irono was pirated, and

the Navy's part in the epics of "Smaranda."

the Haiching and the Sunning

Many colonels have in their day

"

ho handed a foki the sum of $129 to be delivered to the Yuot On. augur shop, also of Des Voeux Road West, but the man has absconded. When missionaries and up-country held the post of Military Attaché traders are in peril it is a warship at Bukarest, but few of them have

According to a report issued by that dashes to the rescue. Let us been emotionally affected by that the police, & European motorist, remember also the Hankow bar-] function: at was the Itte Lord the driver of car No. 1539, collided ricades, and the moral courage of Thomson. The poetry of Roumanic with the lamp standard outside the the Emerald's Captain at Nan- entered deep into his soul. His Star

"Star Ferry Wharf in Con king..

wide human sympathy felt attun- naught Road at 8 pm, on Thurs This Colony is the base of theed to the flat melancholy of that day, breaking the glass shade. The Chinh. Fleet. Let us emulate the strange country: his fastidious man refused to produce his licenco generosity shown by the Naval taste appreciated, the hot-house or give his name and address, ports at Home on these and occulture of the Bukarest salons. He

of

effort.

ག་ ། མས་སོ

Two young English girls, each 21 years old, Miss Enid, Willson and Miss Wanda Morgan, are content- ing the final of the Ladies' Open Golf Championship on Port Mar- Page 10,

Two Chinese appeared before they never were so poor, while the rock course... Mr. Grantham at the Kowloon silverites growl that they are not Police Court yesterday, one on getting enough for their money.

The Foreign Secretary Mr. A. charges of converting to his own Exporters don't like it and import- Henderson, addressing the League uso sums of money given him by era say it has knocked the bottom of

of Nations Parliamentary Com other persons to purchase steamer out of trade generally just in the mittee, on, which all parties an re tickets to France and of using a same old way as when the dollar presented, gave an account of the falsa passport, and the other on a depreciated almost to nothing a few recent league meeting. charge of posing as a police officer. years ago. Thus, we begin to The case was adjourned."

realise that no matter what is done in this connection, the grumblers,