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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1932.

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GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC.'

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The Tenders to be le Daplioste, and in Boaled Covers, addressed to the TREA BURY CHEST OFFICER, COM MAND PAY OFFICE, and endorsed ERS FOR GOVERNMENT

elo."

The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is rewarred.

Coples of Forma of Tonder can bỏ had on application.

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tract

uch (Ry made for the allotment of

The provisions in question do not apply to Contracts entered into by any incorporated Company In its corporated capacity and made for the general benefit.

of the Company."

1. A. GEDGE, Major, B.A.PC,

Treasury Chest Offloor. His Majesty's Treasury Úce,

Hàng rong

14th November, 1932.

2779

CANTON KOWLOON RAILWAY.

NOTICE.

ON will come

N and from November 18th, 1932

into force on the express trains bet- ween Kowloon and Canton :---

Kowloon 1st Class 85.10 II.K. C.

to

Canton 2nd Class 83.10 H.K. C.

Canton 1st Cink-$7.99 C. C.

to

Kowloon 2nd Class 24.00 C. C.

There will be no alteration in the 3rd class fares.

R. BAKER,

Manager. Kowloon, nth November, 1932. [2788

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Hosa Koxo, NOVEMBER 15, 1932,

ADVERSITY AND PEACE

assured of popularity, even if the remedy includes a cut in national armaments.

On the other hand the tenacity with which a great nation holds to its right to arin was shown by the re-action of the German, people to the proposal, at the time of Ger- many's darkest hour in the last deunde, that the acceptance of the Hoover Moratorium, should be con- ingent upon serapping any further pocket battleships." The sugges.

A Hard Life

News and

Views

Манога

caused . Ho

havoc tension in the muscular system,

Mrs. Gabble seems to be having among the Turkish shipping, sink- Will, desire, purpose, aime, ideals, bag two gunboats and a transport and attention are all in some, de full of troops.

gree related to the

her usual ups and downs."

"How do you meza 1" "Running up bills and running down her noighbours.”

Boomerang" Torpedo.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling, writing of system.". the affair in the following year,į suggestedi that Captain Boyle should be arrested at the end of the War and forced to tell his story, "You cannot stay in this coun- All he would say was that after try."

sinking one of the gunboats he had had to dip again "as the men in

Official!

"Then I'll leave it." "Have you a passport?” "No."

“Then you cannot leave. I will give you twelve hours to decide what you will do.""

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MAJOR-GENERAL J. W. SANDILANDS

A SHANGHAI TRIBUTE

The British community in Shang- hai were glad to obtain a Beeting musenlarglirupse of Major-General J. W.

Sandilands, the retiring Gonaral Officer Commanding the British Troops in China, who left for Hong Kong yesterday after a brief Rio de Janeiro,-The "boomer visit of farewell, says the North, ng torpedo" has arrived. Its in. China Daily News of November 11, General Sandilands' tenure of com- venton in Euler de Mendonca, Brazilian mechanic, who claims [mand, begun in 1929, tarınimates at not only the end of next month, when ho

a snill steamboat near were lean-that the torpedo can

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of the top of my periscope."

Why You Get Fai.

ing over and trying to catch hold travel in the direction in which it will be relieved by Shanghai's is launched, but, after pursuing | friend, Major-General O. C, Bor- its target for 50 miles, will, if it rett. misses its mark, return to its His distinguished career A8 25 original starting-point, Wireless soldier dating back to the Victorian will direct the invention, days of the War in the Soudan and People get fat through cating too waves French Drinking More Whisky.

much, said Professor Samson which will have an aerial attached including service in South Africa, as well as on various Fronts in the French people are drinking more Wright in a lecture at the Institute to receive the directing waves. whisky than ever. This was reof Hygiene. People went to doe. The torpedo will be capable of Great War, has found appropriate recognition in the difficul: com- vealed on Paris by M. Michel tors and complained of being too travelling at 35 knots.

mand which he has directed from Dreyfus, who represents an im fat, but they took as ludicrous and

Hong Kong. portant Scottish whisky combine in insulting the suggestion that they France. He expressed himself a should eat less. They would not dis

The most interesting of recent astonished at the way in which the cipline themselves to cut down their entrants to, the reptile-house of the French are taking to drinking, but diet. But, said the professor; they London Zoo are two Brazilian pointed out that whisky is now all knew those people who ate, tree-boas. Those who have not aunate therefore in being able here les much cheaper in France than it is practically nothing." These peo- in Britain, because of the fall in the pound and lower taxation.

A Counter-Irritant.

When Sir Maurice Jouks, the late Lord Mayor, was making his tour, of the International Exhibition of Inventions, an exhibit which caus- ed him a great deal of amusement was a device for foiling the fire- brigade bonxer.

To call the firo-brigade you enter the call box and pull a lever. This not only flashes through an alarm, hut imprisons you in the box until the brigade arrives. Sir Maurice laughed heartily, and spent some timo examining the device.

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Emerald Boas.

Distance and administrative, con- venience have of course made his authority here

functional than netual. He has been fortu

more

overmastering antipathy to all rely on the discretion of such allis ple probably ate no more at meals! snakes will find them very beauti- commanders as General Borrett and than other people, but it was what ful. Their predominant colour is now Brigadier George Fleming. came in between that made the green, drop on the back and shind- This W na particularly shown difference. Persone who went to ing a paler tint along the flanks during the recent "war," when bed with a pint of milk or who The underparts are bright yellow drank many cups of ten during the or palish orange, which is particu- Brigadier Fleming necessarily had day containing several lumps of inrly vivid on the throat. Along to act as in independent charge and sugar in addition to ordinary meals the ridge of the back runs a par- was in direct communication with could not expect to be slim.

row line of creamy white, from

Just a Matter of Heart-heats!

which at regular intervals offsets, the "War House" regarding the so effectively about an inch long, fall vertically mensures which he These snakes are now somo four took to fulfil the role amigued to feet long. The specica nover al- tains great length or bulk. Their the British Force here.

General Sand lands has been natural food is birds, which are caught by night among the trees. much liked in China and, if Hong. Other snakes of the species have Kong has seen most of him, Shang. been kept in the reptile-house in

Rchictance to start a hard piece of work is just a matter of heart beat and oxygen, according to Mr. Herman J. P. Schubert, of the University of Buffalo. In the first few minutes of muscular work, the past, but they have been ahont hai dues not on that account weaken both the heart-heat and the intake lived because they are most difficult in its esteen for him and its good of oxygen rise rapidly. But once to feed. They absolutely decline wishes for his future in retirement. tho work has started the heart to eat the London sparrow. It was beat and the rate of breathingsuggested that the soot and grime Captain Edward Boyle's retire proceed without much change on with which the feathers of the LINCOLN'S BAND TO PLAY ment on promotion in Rear-Ad- the same level of effort. The same London sparrow are impregnated miral recalls one of the War's most factors may apply to mental work, might have made them distasteful spectacular submarine exploits. He in the opinion of Louis B. Hoising to snakes, but no greater success was achieved when small birds of won his V.C. in 1915 when he diviton, of the University of Oklahoma. ed the Submarino E 14 under enemy He says:-" Determination to, do other varieties and from other minefielda and entered the Sea of something is nothing but a state of i sources were offered to them.

Laconic.

Local and General

tion roused a storm of such inten- Two cases of diphtheria and one 1sity that the demand was dropped. | of meningitis were reported during ADVERSITY is a hard teacher.

Now Germany's insistence that the week end. there had been no Econome Deither nations must come down to pression there would probably be her standard of armamonts or that no Disarmament Conference in she must be allowed to build up session, but a new race of arms.

to, theirs has forced the issue. The enormous significance of the accept- ments in full course.

After the

admitted to the Members' Enclosure,

Badges admitting Non-Mombere to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms ing."

Badges

Bace Course,

admitting

to

ance of this principle by the British Foreign Secretary does not appear to be fully grasped, but it is evident that Sir Jous SIMON's statement was not made independently of

Mr. M. 6. J. Walsh, of the B.A.T., and Mrs. Walsh, have retard from Europe by the s. Sarpedon.

The P.&O. liner Ronpura, by which H.E. the Governor and Lady Peel are returning, is due at 8 am. on Thursday.

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The Orchestral Concert arranged to take place at Exchange Building to day by the band of H.M.S. Suffolk has unavoidably been can- celled.

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hits According to the Ching Times, ised orders for the abolition of the Chinese Consulates in London and Paris.

Mr. Ma Man Fhi, General Mnu- |·

ager of the Sincere Co., ReCoin- panied by the Managing Director of the Shanghai Office, arrived in Hong Kong, Pesterday, aboard the President McKinley.

In the possession of the Water The local Rotary Club has re- Police is a indy's handbag winch printed the principal address at wani found on Sunday at about 7. the Rotary, International Conven p.m. in Taic's Carnival Shows on tion at Seattle which was delivered the vacant plat of ground at the by Mr. Justica M. A. MacDonald junction of Salisbury and Nathan on The Pacific Bowl," and is an Itoada

interesting survey of Pacific prob. les with special reference to the Gaining admittance into an un- Sino-Japanese dispute. The pam numbered house in Ma Cheuk Ling phlet is available to the general village in the Skataukok district, public at Messrs. Kelly & Walsh two armed robbers found nothing and Brewer's bookshops, price 40 of any value to them except a conta a copy. double-barrelled gun and forty rounds of ammunition. There was only a woman in the hut when the robare intered.

A cable has been received by Mr. H. M. de Souza of Singapore say- ing that his son, Mr. P. F. de will be sailing from England at the Souza, has passed his low final, and end of November. Young de Bouza; has been attached to the Middle Temple and, like his father and brother, excels on the field of sport,

from the files.

Looking Back 25 Years.

Interport Cricket. The Commit tes have decided to select the team to represent Hong Kong against Shanghai from among the follow

Mr. Chung Tak Kword who ar rived by the 5.8. Taiping lasting players:

Friday to become a teacher at St.

AT PENINSULA

CONCERT NEXT SUNDAY EVENING

were

Those who attended the Symn. phonic Concert at the Peninsula Hotel last Sunday night treated to an interesting pro- of instrumental numbers granme and again heard Mr. S. Marechek on the violin. Hearty approbation was also shown by the audience of all the numbers. This concludes for the time being a very enjoyable series of Sunday evening instru mental concerts, provided by the massed bands of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., which commenced in May last,

Next Sunday, November 20, how- ever, by kind permission of "Lt.- Col. E. J. de C. Boys, M.C., and Officers, the Band of the 1st Batth. lion the Lincolnshire Regiment, conducted by Mr. C. 8. Trowt, will give a Band Concert at the Pen- insula Hotel commencing at. the vrual time 9.45 p‚æ,

Considered to be one of the best reginental, bands in England, hav ing gained premier honoura in a contest in which fifty-seven compet- ing banda were engaged, prior to their departure for the Far East, this Military Band brings with it a splendid reputation.

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TRADE MEETING will hold War mos of the victor untimas (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY settled down to "make themselves VALLEY on BATUKDAY, 10ru NO- VEMBER, 1932, commencing at 2.00 safe," and sharp tension arose bn tween former friends; while the defeated Powers expressed them selves aghast at their peril. Ac France. The araaments, the self- cusations of secret re-arming were supporting industrial equipment bandied abosit, and their justif- and the hours of, gold, that were ability depended upon the definito be the instruments of security tion of the elastic term,"re-arin-have failed. They have caused that Whon nations are rich they unforeseen and inexplicable disas at 15.00 for Gontlemen and $1.00 indulge in arzaaments on the slighter, the Economic Depression, and for Ladies (Both including Tax) are obtainable through the SECRETARY est provocation. The peaceful Vic- the nations of Europe, in collabora- upon introduction by a Momber, ach torian Age might be cited in dis- tion with America, are seeking to Mamber to be responsible for payment proof, but the early Victoriaa days throw down these walls of nation of all Chits, etc.

Members saw the "hungry forties," and, to ulism, as an ancient city in China, Enclosure will NOT is on eals at the the end of the century, while the like Canton, destroys the city walls On ny pretext will Children be middle classes did well, the state of in which it unce trusted, but have permitted in either Enclosure during the working classes, judged by. to- became a hindrance to expansion the Moeting.

Tilas are obtainable at the Olab day's standards, was disgraceful. and progress.

This is not to say that Arma- House provided they are ordered from As conditions improved in Great'

ments will be, or should be, abolish- the No. 1 Boy in adrance. Tolephone Britain and on the Continent bed.

The need is a federation of 21920,

jingoism flourished, and arguments Western Powers, such as ARISTIDE PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.

BRAND and STRESEMAN visioned, The Price of Admission to the Public increased with the inevitable result.

close knit as the British Empira Mrs. Neil Mathieson (Contralto) Enclosure in ing for Despite the lessons of the "war-to- and having entire confidence in and Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smith (piano) ail-Persone, including-Ladies,-and-is.

·The Matriculation and Senior payable

at the Gate.

end-war precisely the same phen- each other and adjusting arm will give a recital-at-the-Helena

Locat Examination, commenced at ments upon that basis. To achieve May Institute on Thursday next. Soldiers and Baltors in unifarm

the course of conversation between Looking Back 50 Years. omenon was seen directly the World such an end neaps a policy of Mr. Maurice Barton will nesom

8.30 nm. yesterday and will con- admitted Half Price.

the two diplomats, the question of

The explosion of the boiler of the tinue until November 22. The sub- Bookmakers, Tie Tao Men, etc., began to recover from the Great settling outstanding points of dif-pany Mrs. Mathieson, “

the French Government's ratifien will not be permitted to operate with War, except in the British Isles, ference, as the Scandinavian coup.

At a meeting called by the tion of the Sino-French Tranty of steam-tug Foi Lung in this har jects for yesterday were English tries have settled their differences.

tention to the fact that launches Geometry and Elementary Calculus, JOCKET CLUB during the Race Meeting.

not engaged in passenger traffic The subjects for to-day will be Eng- petual labour troubles and disputes The British Empire has not con- Great Shanghai last week it was upon. with India and China kopt our cluded that task, but the deliberate decided that effective measures

M. Pierre Lyautey, forced editor are not under official inspection. lish Essay, Algebra, French, Urdu, searching for Insting peace and should be taken for the protection packets empty. The Washington amity has gone a long way towards of the people during the winter in-chief of La Journée Industrielle Although this is the first disaster Spanish and Biblical Knowledge.. agreement of 1923 called a halt to finding them, The Entente Powers months when violent crime general and a nephew of Marshal Lyautey of the kind which has pecurred on Tomorrow, the following papers dreadnought fleets, but a fashion settled amazingly complex problemsly increases and when there are of France, and M. Loubet, a well- a steam launch in this harbour for will be set: Geometrical Drawing, known French industrial leader many years a fact that either Geography, Chinese Literature, and a grandson of a former Presi shows unparalleled good fortune Cantonese, Portuguese, Japanese, in submarines, destroyers, aircraft- ander the pressure of fear of Germore fixes than usual.

Funny To-day the Economic Da- carriers-and-cruisers took their preson, the destructiveness of Sentence of six months barddent of France, arrived in Shang or considerably more care on the Siamese, Russian and Geometry.

-Hockay.. aerial warfare, vividly described in labour and twenty strokes of the hai from Dairon inst week on board part of the Chiness owners than place. But naval programmes were Mr. BALDWIN's speech, and the need birch, with an additional term of the D.K.K. as Hoten Maru to they are generally credited with- |

The Varsity Hockey Club will reonomic survey. M. the fatal nature of it is sufficient only one item and nothing less for a united policy towards Russia three months' imprisonment if make than the Great Depression could and tho Far Fast are three mighty unfit for the birch was imposed by Lyautey, who assisted his uncle into give rise to the query, whether ment. H.M.S. Medway in n Mamale have called a halt to the intensive gonde driving the European nations Mr. Bohofield at the Central. Police Morocco, is vice-president of the it would not be dosirable, in the League match at 4m to-day at into a fold of amicability. The Court yesterday on an unemployed Fronch National Economic Society interests of the crews and even of the Naval Ground, King's Park. 11. G. Tang, A. M. Rodrigues (Cap application of science to wat

ordinary people do not went war; Chinese who was convicted of a Ho has been attending the Ottawa the owners, to make all steam The undergrads line up as follows

·CITY HALL.

especially to norial war. In these nance and commerce, do not want charge of snatching a bangle from Conference and visiting the United launches plying in the harbour sub- Glits of clothing and household times every tax and every item of it, and stemmen will have ti moko four year old child in Shauki States, Japan and Manduria jest to periodical inspection by theta), A. Basto, E. Le Gosano, K. The defendant threw the Mosrs Lyautey and Loubet expect Government Marine Surveyor.-T. Loke, K. M. Ho; 8. Reed, A. A

de Sousa, good gratefully received at above public expenditure falle 4 direct up their minds to find a basis of wan.

genuine confidence and co-operation bangle into the so when he was to stay in Shangliai for abort Hong Kong Dady Press, November Aziz, R. Woolley, E. L. Foo, hind 0.

15-1682. addensa on Mondays and Thursdays between 10.30 and 11,80 6.0.

chased, but was eventually arrested, period only.

· burden-upon-populations straining between civilised Powers.

Mr. Trowt, the bandmaster, has prepared an extremely interesting- ly entertaining programme of about Messrs. R. Hancock, H. Han- twenty, instrumental numbers by excellent musica] Paul's College, was until latterly cock, W, C. D. Turner, T. E. famous composers and there will no the Headmaster of St. Paul's School Pearce, A. E. Lanning, H. R. Mac- doubt he in Suva Fiji Islands. He has kin, Major H. E. Lowis, Capt. M. evening.

Owing to the expense involved After the Annual General Meet travelled considerably in New Zea- H. Beasly, A. A. Claxton, A. W. ing of the Helenn May Instituto land and Australia, where ho visit- Irvine, A. W. J. Peake, Corp. an admission fee of $1 will be on Wednesday, November 16. theed the schools and colleges in order Sharpe, W. Edwards and R. C. made.

Witchell. A practice match will be 1933 papers and magazines will be to observe their teaching methods.

played on the ground on Wednes auctioned. This will take placo

Nanking, Nov. 9.-M. Wilden, day, November 13, commencing at about 11.30.—Advt.

French Minister to China, arrived 3 p.m., the teams being composed from Peiping yesterday morning and of the players above mentioned.- was the guest at luncheon of Dr Hong Kong Daily Press, November Affairs. It is understood that dur-1 Lo. Wen Kan, Minister of Foreign 15, 1007.

'VARSITY NEWS

MATRICULATION PAPERS

in the Precinote of THE HONG KONG where, a cynic would declare, per- This cannot be attained easily, Commissioner of Public Safety for 1930 regarding Aunam was touched hour,on Monday morning draws at Grammar, Arithmatic, Mandurin,

By Order,

8. A. SLEAP,

Acting Boerotary.

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Hong Kong, 14th Nov, 1932.

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT

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