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THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB:

"RAFT PROGRAMMES And

DANTRY FORMS for the Fourth Extra Rare Meeting to be held in Macao op Bunday, the 27th Decem. ber, 1911 (weather permitting), may be obtained as the Sports Club, Hongkong Jockey Club Stables, or at the offices Hours, Paroy Smith, Seth & Fleming,

Des Tom Road Central,

ENTHTER alore at O'aloat NOON WEDNESDAY, the 10th December,

on

1991.

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THE HONG KONG.

JOCKEY OLUB.

THE FOURTEENTH EXTRA

RACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLET on SATURDAY. 12 DEC EMBER, 1931. Commencing at 2 p.m.

The First Ball will be Rung at 1.30)

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MEMBERS ENCLOSURE, Members are notified that thay and their Ladies must wear their Badgon /prominently displayed.

No one without a Badge will be' admitted to the Members' Enclosure..

Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gostiomen and $8.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) are obtainable through the SECRE TARY upon Introduction by a Member auch Member to be responsible for Payment of All Chite, eta,

Badges admitting to Members' Backpeare will not be on sale at the Baos Couren,

Members on obtain, upon Application to the SECRETARY, Badges (limited to ONE) for the Free Admission to the Members Enclosure of Wives, Lady Belatives and Friends. Names must be stated' when applying.

On No Pretext will Children. be permitted in aither, Engloware, during the Meeting

Tab are obtaiable at the Olab House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy by 3 p., on the 117 DECEMBER. Telephone 21920,

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,

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The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosurs is $2.00, including Tax, for Persons, including Ladies, and iz payable at

blot the Gatore in Uniform are

admitted Half Price,

Bookmakers, To Tea Men. eta... will not be permitted to operate with in the Precineta of Tu Hone Kone JOCKAY OLUB during the Race Meeting. Tiffins will be obtainable in the Ho taurant in the Public Enoloaura・・

By Order,

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Secretary. Hong Kong, 74b Doc., 1081.

FANLING HUNT, AND "RACE CLUB.

REMINDER.

Es close at noon, on Thursday, FINTRIES for the Christmas Moet- Entries should be sent to Mesars Thomson & Co., York Building.

10th December, 1931,

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Hong Kong, 4th Dec, 1931.

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Hopaz. At the Kowloon Hospital, December 9, 1991, ANN CHARLOTTE, beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. 8. Hodge, age 18 months.

Editorial and Business Office: 11,

Ice House Street. Tal, 20251. Night Editor (Wanchai Offos):

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HONG KONG DAILY

from our own people, and we sail to them in England in the workshop, Britain overseas is the producer of raw materials, we brads together and we grow in wealth and pros

Mummy, will you answer more question ??

ECEMBER

10 1931

News and Views

one

Wall, what is it 't before they learn to swim f

Why don't little fishes drown

gua, as well as 100 stone balls, fifty-But Loses His Breakfast.. Tead bullets iron forks, and so on Most of the ammunition, was found in bonvy oak brains which had hoops of Ane Bexible wood. A Bundle of fairly well preserved ropo was found in one wooden siso, also an earthenware jug, which looks as if it originated from the Medi-

perity side-by-side! The figures Tale of the Day. already given show that the theory

Indignantly Mr. Ford went to the is wholly illusory. It may apply

committae. So sure was he of his to paper pulp from Canada for

watch's doourney that he offered to Flest Street journal, but Empire

Ray of the whole debt of the club märkste alone, would not support.

if his watch was wrong. The offer the industrial north, of England. Bossy Women.

was accepted, and a long distance While resiprocity between Britain Professor Eric Waterhouse beterranean countries.

telephone eull proved that Mr. Ford's watch was exactly right. and the Overseas Empire a desir.lieves that women are not "besuy"

by nature, writes a London journ Fres Under Three..

Nevertheless, he got no breakfast, able, Britain must continue to hold nist. This may be true, but I Now. lists of regulations now being The sole authority of opening and her world trade. Fear of tariff venture to suggest that if a woman displayed on London General omni-closing the breakfast-room reposed reprisals and still further loss of put into a position of authority buses contain a provision that chill in the stewardess, a woman of firm. foreign marketa has been the real will often find that she is farron over three years old must be character and formidable resolu

mora bossy than any man In an paid for. Bitherto the regulation tion. When her kitchen clock anid argument in favour of Free Trade, equivalent position.

has stipulated that there shall be nine o'clock it was nine o'clock. no charge for infants in arms. All the other timepieces in the unis always allowing that economic..

An official of the bus company verso-including Mr. Ford's—were sanity would return and tariff walls

said that any child over three and found to be five minutos Blow. be thrown down. Of this, however,

under 14 is now paid for at balf fare. there in no sign and it remains to

The regulation makes a clearer de be seen if Britain's present action

Anition of the child passenger. will bring certain schools, of foreign politicians to their senses,

If the Dominions had Bourished and prospered in something ap proaching to the manner of the United States then economic unity within the Empire would have been

In my time I have interviewed more men wad women in executive positions than I care to remember, and, though it may appear ungallant to say so, I have found that whereas cu very rarely attempt to be bossy,

demineering, or rude, samen not infrequently go out of their way to do so.

phenomenon. In any case, it is not I do not attempt to explain this

one of those problems that keep mo awake at nights."

Marriage of Opposites.

The Soul of Malaya.

A remarkable book, or rather the English translation of a remarkable book, has made its appearance. -

It is oulled "The Bout of Malaya, and in its original French form won for ite author, M. Henri Fauconnier, the Prix Goncourt. M. A French rubber Fauconnier was planter in Malaya, where he found neace and balm for his soul after

Names Ubanged, But True!

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A topical cocrospondence?

From Mosera. Pound Sterling and Money, Army Agents.

To Captain 0, Sovery Poore, Retired Pay.

The Wireless Puót.

A wireless log signalling ap paratus is to be installed early next year by the Great Western Railway on Rame Head, Plymouth, for, tho and guidance of Atlantic linera other vessels arriving as Plymouth in Toggy weather..

The radio directional apparatus` will have a range of 0 to 30-milar. : Thrill for the Future.

October 24, 1931, " Sir,In view of the decrease in the valus, of money, we feel mure that you will agree with us that it is desirable that the rate of Archmologista excavating Verula interest on your loan from usmlum have experienced a great should be increased: to 8 per cent We are; sir, your obedient ser vants,

P.S.. & M... October 25, 1931 II. From Captain O. Sovery Poore," Retired Pay.

To Messrs, Pound Sterling and Money, Army Agents.

Gentlemen,-I should be the first to agree with the suggestion put forward in your letter of yos- terday, had the authorities seon fit to increase my emolumenta in proportion to the decrease in the value of money. So far from this being the case, however, they now deduct 10 par sent, and propose to tax me at 58. in the on what is left..

I

thrill in the discovery of a mosaic floor in excellent preservation. It is up to us, by keeping it in proper condition, not to disappoint. archeologists of 2031 when they un- earth our cork lino

.

Film Actor of 102.

There is a centenarian actor in Bill the Conqueror," a fim which Captain. Norman Walker is direct- at Elstree,

Eo is Mr. Alfred Arnold and he plays the,, small part of a rustic spectator at a fight between Henry: Kendall and Sam Livesey.

Mr. Arnold says be was born in 1829 and remembers, being taken to

Incidentally, Professor. Water. automatic. But the Dominions con- { houso's suggestion of why opposites. centrated a little too fereely on marry may be the explanation why their political independence, and these Alma stars divorce each other so often. The he-man" of the to put up tariff serven could only find happiness in GILMAN & Co., Ltd., Agents their right

a timid, shrink' g woman (walls and, immigration restrictions wedding

And who ever heard or a female against the Mother country with star who was either timid or shrink- the result that economically they ing? are tight little islands," despite their dimensions. This, however, is no time for recrimination, but for a determined policy of developing | Empire Trade, while not losing sight of foreign marketa. The Inat Imperial Conference was barren of ceonomic results, but that summon- ed to meet at Ottawa in the near future should see progress on proethe tical lines. This will mean abandoning of the idea of galling and is at present living in Tunis without taking goods in return. He spent ten years in writing his and the equally unsound attempt to masterpiece. The reviewer has no hesitation in describing it as one force industrialisation in countries

of the finest interpretations of the bettor suited by resources, both of East that have appeared in any nature and man power, for "the language. production of raw material. While

Old Yesaai Restored. J the British Dominions will in the

An old war vessel which dates

Modern Torture to be Abolished, An invention by which the torture future get very encouragement to from about the year 1500 and which

In spite of the number of its of the dentist's drill will be relegat trade with the Home country, if was found last year on the bottom they in turn concentrate upon of the Riddarholm Canal in Stock-millionaire members, the club be ed to the horrors of the past is de holm, when a new bridge was built lieves in the simple life. One of scribed in a German dental journal. the products most natural to sachovar the canal, has now been the strictest ralos is that the In future the bad tooth will be "case," sxcept the land there will be world markets thoroughly overhauled, and will be breakfast room closes punctually at enclosed in

part which needs treatment, and on for what they have to offer. Aus one of the principal relics in the nine o'clock.

future city museum. It has been One morning Mr. Ford arrived this & few drops of an acid will be. tralia, for example, would do better a veritable puzzle to reconstruct, just as the door closed. The great be placed. In a few minutes the and contains various pieces such man was nonplussed. His watch decayed portion can be removed complete breech-loading said "five minutes to nine "-and without pain and 24 hours later the cannons and the barrel of a third Henry Ford's watch is never wrong. tooth can be filled.

London Office: 3, Fleet Street,

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The Baily Press.

HONG KONG, DIXCEMBER 10, 1931.

TOWARDS EMPIRE FREE

nesi,

TRADE.

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to export wool rather than to com- Pete as weaver with the experienced skill of Bradford in high quality goods and of, say, Germany, in the. less expensive lines.

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TOM SAYERS' STANCE.

turmoil of a war-stricken Europe. To-day, he has withdrawn himself from Western civilisation,

·0% two

The Up-to-Date Burglar.

I trust, therefore, that you willase Queen Victoria's coronation. appreciato my hope that the wind may be tempered to the shorn lamb the simile may not be apt, but it is the best that occurs to

O.S.P. me. I am, etc.,

Mr. Ford Wins: a Bel

America is chuckling over a new story concerning Mr. Henry Ford: Recently the Motor King became a member of a very select country club devoted mainly to fishing.

London hotel thieves have robbed a guest of the notes and silver in his trouser pocket, but left behind a few sovereigns. Even burglars, it appears, have gone off the gold standard.

Local Notes and Events

One case of enteric fever was re- The Hong Kong dollar remained ported on Tuesday.

at la. 5.9-13d. yesterday, there being. no change in the demand rate.

"

Book of Holland took place last The final dress rehearsal of "Miss" evening at D. p.m. sharp to an audi- once of the Services,

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HONG KONG & KOWLOON.

TUESDAY NIGHTS RAINSTORM.

ALL RECORDS FOR DECEM- BER BROKEN.

The rainfall on Tuesday night broke all previous records. During one hour, from 3.30 to 4.30 aC, 20 less than 2.035 inches were recorded at the Observatory, while during the preceeding hour, from 2.30 to 3.30, 1976 inches were recorded:

There is nothing in the records of the Royal Observatory, which date back to the year 1884, to equal this rainfall either for any hour or any day in the month of December, The previous record was on Decem bar 6, 1800, from 9 to 10a.m., when

0.5 inches fell, while the rainiest December 19, 1883, when 1.870 twenty-four hours had been on inches were recorded. This rainfall for the twenty-four hours ending at 19 o'clock yesterday morning was

Gloom May Continue.

all of Tuesday night as phen

omenal, and ascribed the case to the Chise. Den causing a small text. abnormal, conditions in the north of

imposed by the Home Government ONE effect of the new import duties will be to tend to make the British Empire an economic unit Empire) Free Trade has been preached in the popular British Prece, but. certain political, and personal rami Acations wore considered to have clouded the pure stream of pat- riotism, and the movement aroused Tim statuette of Tom Sirens that suspicion and hostility. The old has been placed in the National theory of the British Empire was Portrait Gallery, London, has, à that we hold certain great open special interest for boxing experts spaces in trust for the world, and Admirers of Jem Mace will perhaps Caldbeck Macgregor & Co., Ltd., We have received from Messrs.

peoples of all nations were wel challenge its inscription, which says Johnnie Walkie's Christmas gift of of FRANCISCO XAVIER comed as settlers and given full that SAYERS' was the most famous neat diary letter casa in brown SOARES having been reported lost.

leather. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that equality with our own citizens. It and deanest fighting pugilist of the unless the ORIGINAL CERTIFL has been by faithful observance of nineteenth century, yet Tom de

We are informed by the Secrotary Owing to the inclement weather will be opened on Saturday after DATE is prodsond within ONE

to postpone the ceremony of open-and men will be "at home" to MONTH from the date thereof, it will this principle of the Open Door that serves his niche in the Trafalgar of the Hongkong Horticultural Yesterday it was found necessary noon, when the officers, NCO

Society that according to present thereafter be held by the Company & Hong Kong has prospered, and all Square Valhalla. For three years arrangements, the Committee have Wanchai which has been equipped

ing the Government playground in their friends... NULL AND VOID; and NEW

The Hon. Mr. F. H. May will not CERTIFICATE for the said abares nationalities contribute to its great this eleven-stone London bricklayer decided to hold the Annual Shów of with games apparatus by the Rotarybe sworn in as Aating Governor the extraordinary amount of 3.480,

more than held his own in the old Flowers and Vegetables on Thurs

until Saturday. He has resumed day, March 3, 1032. Other Powers have, however, re-bare-knuckle prize ring against the

Many relatives and friends of the his duties in the Colonial Office, garded their colonies more in the heaviest of the giants. He retired

There will be a song recital dy

An official of the Royal Observa- sorrowing parents attended the and Mr. T. Sercombe Smith has light of close preserves for their after fighting a terrific drawn battle Miss Ida Hoyt Chamberlain, com Lumeral yesterday at the Roman gone back to the Magistracy. Mrtory yesterday described the rain. [1820 own subjects, and foreigners, white with only one arm sound, against poser singer and pianist, on Thurs Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley Hazeland returning to the second

day, December 17, at 5.30 p.m. This of Ann Charlotte, the infant daugh- court. not excluded, are not always, in the American colossus known as the will take the place of the Children's tor of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. B. Hodge, Testerday Mr. G P Laminert practice, on an equal footing. Per- Benicia Boy, when some admiring Ping. Mombers are reminded, who died on Tuesday at the Ko offered, for sale by priblic auction porary depression on the murning ·

loon Hospital as a result of Dr. E. C. Humphreys, son of Mr. meningitin after a short illness last the wrecked British steamer Hong-of the ninth instant I am afraid Henry Humphreys, has recently aring three days. There was also a

kong as she lies of No. 3 wharf of it may take one or two days for the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf this weather to clear up: he re practise dental surgery early in the we should not have found ourselves. To get the right perspective of that new year. Dr. Humphreys was born. The new wing of the Wanchai Leung Ki, contractor, was the pur- thinly covering, more than balf of offer it must be remembered that in Hong Kong but has been away Hospital was opened yesterday chaser, his bid being #7,500. North America, the Continent of BAYERs never got more than £200 in England for a number of years. afternoon when the Hon. Mr. E. B..

Hallifax performed the ceremony: The following will represent the Australia, New Zealand and a huge even for his biggest victories.

In connection with the arrest of The now wing has space for 32 beds Club in a hockey match against proportion of Africa, in addition But the intereating thing about a bag-snatcher outside the St. in addition to six private wards.M.S. Tamar this afternoon on to administrative and commercial that National Portrait

Francis Hotel yesterday morning, and, three wards for consumptives, the Club Grmind at 4.45 pm commitments in our Crown Colories statuette, is its elance. This we understand that the Police are Among those present, at the firre: Her Searle: L. Murphy and A. N- anxious to get in touch with themony were Mrs. Hallifax, Mr. and Other: CP Chater A. G. Jack quite different from that of our gentleman who caught the culprit:Mr. B. H. Kotowall, Hesora. A. E on W Dazee Ga modern glove-fighters with their The lady who was attacked raised Wood, Wong Kwong Tia and Wu Bailer HV Winson, LG. A case of blackmail, in which the Bud, P. P. J. Wodehouse, and W.itame of the prosecutor was, given halt across what boxers call the enught the thief but the former extended left arm and right hooked a cry and a European gentleman" Hay Tong. ⠀

W. G. Ross.--Hong Kong Daily the fullest publicity because of bir mark.” Erect as a Guardman and made off without leaving his name.

Press, Deo 10, 1906..

inpocence of the allegation made. cover the disabled vessel, and re- Looking Back 60 Years. beautifully poised on his feet,

against him, came before Me Jur Lice Wright at Glamorgan, Assizes. customer is: India, the United SAYERS holds both fats close to his]: In trying to avoid a woman who turned the following day, having Another shipping disaster near David John Wara, aged 23, 2

face. This is exactly the stance of was crossing: Prince Edward Road failed to find her. She left a boat, Amoy has to be recorded. The clerk, pleaded guilty to demanding, States coming, second, Germany the old fellow who thrashed the on Tuesday afternoon the driver of however, to search for the Pallas German barque Fallas Captain G third and Australia fourth. Of the bullying coachman at the inn where motor lorry had to swerve sud- but meanwhile Captain Kat Kanser, bound from Shanghai to Hedge, a Neath tradesman

GEORGE BORROW was onder Heldenly to one side thus causing the and his crew obtained a passage in sixteen countries to whom we send ou nitude of vehicle to skid and overtum. The a Chinese fahing boat to Amoy, Amoy with a cango of berosene 11 wits stated that Ware wrote to most of our exports, India and the offence, holding his hands crossed woman was struck by the lorry and where they arrived on the after struck on the evening of the 4th Hedge threatening that if he did He told was removed to hospital in a some noon of the bih inst. They laland. The steamer Europe, which neighbours and customers that he inst on the rocks no Quemor not send him op he would tell hi foreign countries took. £331 millions. very near to his face." worth of goods in, 1930" and ten BoRROW he was taught, that guard what serious condition. Anothered that the vessel had become a rived at Amoy on the 5th inst. had been guilty of immoral prac

by the great Sergeant Broodrow, accident at Kowloon was contained total wreck and was breaking up.. foreign countries took Baas millions. champion of England in 1740, who in a police report. It appears that She was accordingly sold at Amor reported having seen, the Pallas tice Mx. Hodge, zather than hide To imperially minded persons the easily won all his fights that way a woman who attempted to cross the by Messys, Maalle & Co., by public ashore on Dodd Island, and the behind a geiled identity, desired his

It is curious to find TOM SAYERS TOAD Was knocked down by another nuetion on the 7th inst, when the German corvette Hertha proceeded name to be giren publinity.

Mr. Justion Wright passed son- thus upholding GEORGE Bonnow in motor lorry and sustained Injuries hull rozlised as The cargo wasthither without delay to render an attitude that would be received to her right leg. She was also knocked downs for Bredongistance but was unable to dis-tenco with decision at the Stadium Club, taken to the hospital.

HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE

ASSOCIATION..

Till be held at the PENINSULA THE ANNUAL DINNER DANCE KOTEL, KOWLOON: on FRIDAY,

DECEMBER 18′′, 1981/MAT

Tables may Peninsula or Hong Kong Hotels Charge for each person 300 Payment must be made when booking tables, tickets will be issued.

be booked at the

1520*

By Order,

B. D. EVANS,

Hon. Secretary:

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oked "and" Semi-detached Villas Vodern Construction with Garage.

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haps it Great Britain had taken patron with a soft spot in his sport- this line attention would have been ing make-up offered him £3,000 on

book tables for tens

concentrated on certain areas and condition he never fought again. I rived in Hong Kong and intends to profession of floral tributes, and Godown. Company. Mr. Wong maked to our representative;

and the Indian Empire.

...

Our Empire, for all its vastness,

does not however, provide anything approaching to a sufficient market for British, goods. Britain's best

ideal of self-supporting and

economically independent Empire

nay seen most attractive:Wo buy

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REQUEST MADE BY INNOCENT

PROSECUTORS

money with menaces from Mr. N.

Kong Dolly Freer, Dee. 10, 1691. (Continued on Previous Column, Tabour.

twelve months

hard