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INDIAN PRINCE'S INCOME TAX

WEDDING.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1932.

COMMUNISTS CLAIM HỌNG KONG STOCK AN ENEMY OF THE PRESS.

SCENES REMINISCENT OF MEDIEVAL TIMES.

WINDFALLS.

DEFAULTERS PAYING UP.

DARWIN.

HE IS OURS": BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED IN RUSSIA.

ROCHES

of the

made to the Home Rovbane Moscow-After having provions

Jodhpur.-Gorgeous

ariental splendour recalling

During last month a record num ber of voluntary disclosures were

BU-

ed to make true roturna of their incomes, in the past.

the

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MARKET.

YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL

QUOTATIONS.

Wha 130

galos.

VENTS ANGER ON " D.P." ORANGE ROSTER

An opponent of modern news; papers roaorted to direct action, in expressing his viera yesterday morning in the Central District.

boards belonging to one of our ostromed contemporaries ho

ran

Except that there were enquiries for some investment issues, such as pomp and pageantry of medieval thorities by taxpayers who have failly taken advantage of the Hogel Trams, Star Ferries, Lands, eta, Aftor upsetting a couple of ponter |

noticonble change and Goatha centenaries to claim for there

proletariat

monopolistic in markets generally at yesterday's posicasion of the creative inheri-morning session. tance of these thinkers, Soviet public opinion during the last week. carried out, a similar annexationist polioy in regard to Darwin.. The fiftieth anniversary of Darwin's death was widely commemorated in Russia with meetings, speeches, bro- churm and exhibitions.

Tidia in which scores of Princes, hundreds of nobles, gaily capari soned elaphants and lavish extrava. gance played their respective roles marked the alliance of two of the most ancient ruling houses of Ray- putana through the marriage of the Ruler of Jaipur to the daughter of the Maharaja of Jodhpur.

Supported by i dozyn lending rai- ing princes and hosts of nobles, the bridegroom-elect reached Jodhpur

These disclosures follow the au- nouncement that if taxpayers who had defrauded the authorities made a clean breast of their offence they consicura would be treated wish vien.

The authorities believe that as a rosult the conscience money paid this year will easily eclipse the record total received last year.

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for thu "Buaklup" city

or It is estimated that, if all who nuptial ceremony to the booming have defrauded be authorities own of guns and fanfare of trumpets,ed up the revenue would receive when he was welcomed by his host anything up to £25,000,000, which and his princely guests at the gates would have an appreciable effect on

the next Budget. of the city, and, riding an elephant eld in glittering trappings, you taken in procession through guily: festooned streets, which awoke from

No Prosecution.

"The British taxpayer, on the

As usual in much cases attention was concentrated" not so much, on the objective substance of Darwin's mientifle teachings as on their sup pound significance in relation to the Communist doctrine of clays wor.. For instance, the loading Soviet nowspaper. I:reatin, devoting, two of its four large pages to articles about Darwin, published them with their wanted quies to the tramp of whole, is the most honest man, intheso militant phrases:

the world," an official said to a moniliss millions for struggle thousund fout to his temporary

Daily Mail residence at Rattends Palace.

reporter yesterday against superstitious scientista " Princes and peasants clad in rich" Most of those who have strayed who exploit Darwin's teaching to and vareigate hues rubbed should- from the path of honesty have done justify the rule of the bourgeoisie, ers in festival mecid, alt intent on so because of some urgent nebossity", colonial oppression and imperialis- tie wars! Wo atilise all the such as the provision of special achievements of bourgeois science comforts for sick relatives, or the and technique, critically working education of their children.

"We

giving a royal welcome to their chief guest. Adairing and cheer

them over on the basis of Marxist- ing crowds thronged every point of

Leninist theory Armed with the "In one case a man, whose busi-method of dialectic materialism we vantage along the route of the pro- cassing while the dazzling Indianness became prosperous, when his place evolutionary science at the health began to fail "defrauded the servien of socialist livestock breed- sun reflected a kaleidoscope of co-

ing and plant culture, for the ful- lour from the costly robes and Authorities so that at his death his aliment of the historic decisions of wife might be provided for. He the seventeenthi Party Conference." jewels of the princes and their re-

recovered and made restitution. '

A certain Soviet biologist, 8. G. Levit, ends a long article on "The conscience money payer carwin's Teaching of Race Chauvinismi, be assured that there will be no Social-Fascism" (an abusive Com criminal prosecution or publicity."

manist characterisation of Social Democrney) with the following somewhat grandiloquent outburst:

Linue,

Colour Scenes.

These colourful scenes were enacted in the afternoon when the bridegroom-lect left the Rattenala! Palace astride an elephant with the entire aristocracy and gentry on foot, along a long-winding route to the historic Jodhpur Fort which stands perched high on a prominent hill overlooking the town five miles hway. Hore, in the main hall where the Rajput Princes of the bluest blood were foregathered, WAS a spectacle unsurpassed in wealth and splendour, like a page from Arabian Nights.

The bridegroom, supported by the led Maharajan of Jodhpur. WOB thonce into an inner apartment where in the presence of her father and a sleet gathering of relatives the bride and bridegrocri went through a complex ceremony of mar-" rings which lasted hours, at the end of which the bridegroom claim. éd the bride and took her to the Rabtenda Palaco.

While the main ceremonies were being performed in the presence of the princes and the princesses of the ruling houses, the wedding guests were entertained in the mosti sumptuous manner in the spacious t halls and compounds of the palace to refreshmenta, music and dane-1 ing.

The festivities continued for swoj succeeding days when they termin ated with the departure of the Jaipur Ruler and his bride to their State.

This is the Jaipur Ruler's second marrings.

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"The proletariat of the Soviet Union, creator of the cultural re volation, will not give up Darwin, to be devoured by the hirelings of the international bourgeoisie. On this anniversary it says; notwith- standing some occasionally vary arose mistakes Darwin is basically ours, the fundamental substance of his teaching is ours. And, mobilis- ing our forces on this anniversary for the better utilisation of this

fundamental substance, we must not for a moment forget those hundreds of millions of coloured slaves who ar groaning under the yoke of im- perialiam abroad,

of one the weapons of, whose enslavement is Darwinism, as distorted by the bourgeoisie and its Social Fascist adherents."

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INSOMNIA

AND

Over 1,000 doctors have been ask- ed for their opinion to the effect of eveling on health.

down Queen's Road and charged, a wooden clog in each hand, at the poster displayed outside cur office The colour evidently added insult to injury and affected him in the f same way as it might upect the -equilibrium of a Spanish bull. "Ho broko the glass of the poster frame with great guato, and when the policeman on point duty intervened, he turned his weapons on that offieor.

In a brisk struggle, baton versus clogs, the latter hud the best of the exchanges to the delight of the crowd. However, as our critic re- treated up Ico House Stroet, Sght- ing every yard of the way, he had the misfortune to slip. A member of the Day Press staff, Mr. J. E. Sewell, who appeared on the scene At that moment, promptly secured him.

It was then that he proclaimed:

1 hate all newspapers: they are trying to slaughter me."

While his wrists were being secured he broke down and said: "I'm mad: I know I'm mad.”

He was escorted up to the Police Station and sent to the hospital for observation, the officer on duty un- kindly remarking that he might not be as mad as our representative seemed to think.

PASSENGERS.

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The following passengers arrived

The question has been put by the British Cycle, Manufacturers and by the R. M.S. Empress of Russia Traders' Union to medical meg Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire

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Only two have declared against the bicycle. Eleven rofused to give an opinion and three were neutral

|Comd". N. R. Peploe, Miss G. Roosevelt, Miss M. Weldon, Miss M. Nam, Mrs. F. V. Chamberlin. Mrs. N. Fox, Mr. D. de Jesus, Mr. R. J. Manalao, Mr. T.-K. Lay Yia, Mrs. Eay Hang, Master Kok. Su,

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The remaining replies have been Mr. S. Olao, Mr. S. Lee, Master overwhelmingly in favour of the S. Chao, Mrs. L Chin, Master S. bicycle as a means of fitness.

Chao, Mi Cycling is mentioned by various Cho, Master J. doctors as being beneficial in cases Liong, Mr. S. Lee, Mra. T. S. of fint fest, dyspepsia, varicose Laung, Mr. Y.. Yu, Mr. B. Giw, veins, weak nerves and insomnia.

Also it enn be indulged in up to Mr. B. B. Po, and Mr. J. Tiong-

an advanced age.

Somo doctors deprecate

il too- dropped" handle-bars as they tend

son.

The following passengers arrived

6.5.

towards spinal curvature; but Mr. yesterday by the P. & 0. H. R. Watling, director of the Rajputana :-Mr. D. A. E. Bull British Cycle and Motor Cycle and child, Miss Mackie, LA. A. H. Manufacturers and Traders' Union,

Bacchus, Mr. W. E. Burke, L. W.

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Moscow, June 6-A resolution protesting agninat the statements of the foreign press, especially the French, suggesting that the fire which doomed the Georges Philip- pur was the work of a Russian spy,. has been passed by the crow of the Sovietskala Neft on that "vassel's return to Hussie.

It is pointed out in the reyola- tion that if the Russians intended to carry out revolutionary plos why should we have been there to KAYE capitalists and millionaires from destruction! The 483 living passengers whom we saved are wit Dessor to this,"

They refer to the fact that the survivors who were carried aboard the Sovietskain Neft tell with gratitude how the captain and the ship's hospital rendered immediate aid to the burned and injured whom they rescued. Primitive garments were hastily collected from the ship's lines and given to the naked and insufficictly clad survivors, and all that was possible was provided for their comfort and safety.

Rescued Passengers Arrive.

Naples, June 7. The steamer Remo, carrying 62 rescued persons among whom are two officers of the doomed ship, arrived in Naples yes torday from Adon, and later left for Marseilloa.

Marseilles-Jund-The Commis.. zion appointed to investigate the catastrophe met again yesterday at tho Marine Hall, under the pro sidency of M. Calen, Maritime En rolment Administrator.

Memorial Bervice at Ben,

Paris, Juno 7.-The Messageries Maritimes liner Felix Roussel, as- signed for the Far Eastern service, (Continued ut foot of nest column

rider.

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