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NOTION is hareby given that on Friday, 18th instant, the supply of electricity to Cheung Sha Wan and Lai Chi Kok districts will be interrupted between the hours of

7 a.m. and 6 pm.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

Pthe Sale by Pullie Anction to be hold on MONDAY, the lar DAY of NOVEMBER, 1932, at 3 pr., at the Offcon of the Public Works Department, by Order of His ExCELLENCT TUR GOVER NOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Ma Tau Chung, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a tenn of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rant to be find by the Sarveyor of BIS MAJESTY TO KING, for one further torn of 23 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale.

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No. 3035.

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THE FANLING HUNT AND

RACE CLUB..

NOVEMBER MEETING..

5,113

RAFT Programines and Entry Dr November Meeting

to be hold on SUNDAY, 27th Novem ber, 1932, may be obtained. at the Secretarica Ofice, the Hunters' Arms, Daugkong Club and the Sports Club. Entries close at 12 O'clock NOON on THURSDAY, 17th NOVEMBER, 1932.

By Order of the Stewards,

T

THOMSON & CO., Chartered Accountants, Secretaries.

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THE HONG KONG ·

JOCKEY CLUB.

THE FOURTEENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held HAPPY (Weather Permitting) st VALLEY on SATURDAY, 10TH NU- VEMBER, 1932, commenting at 2:00 p.m,

The First Bell will bo Rúng ut 1.30 p.m.

MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladion must wear their Badges prominently displayed.

No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members' Exciosure,

Non-Members to admitting

Bruges the Atembera Enclosure and Clni. Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladica (Both including Tax) sro obtainable through the SECRETARY apon introduction by a Mombur, each Member to be responsible for payment of all Chits, etc.

to

Members* tad gea admitting Enclosure will NOT be on sale at tho Hace Course.

On no pretext will Children be permitted either Enclosure during the Meeting.

Tina are obtainable at the Club' House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone 21920.

"PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.

The Prica of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00 including Tax, for -all Persone, including Ladise, and is

payable

at the Gate. Soldier and Sailors i uniform are admitted Hall Prics.

etc., Bookmakers, is Tac Mev. will not be permitted to operate with- in the Procinate of THE HONG KONo JOCERY CLUB during the Race Meeting. By Order,

9. A. SLEAP.

Acting Secretary,

Hong Kong, 14th Nov., 1932.

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FLYING HISTORY AT, KAI TAK

SUCCESSFUL NIGHT FLIGHTS

MRS. A. D. BENNETT FIRST LADY PASSENGER

The Wice Judge..

News and Views

"Oh, you are still quite young,' said Judge Rowlande, at Clerkon well County Court, to a woman who gave her age da ur.

Viceroy's Aeroplane Week-ends.

When the Viceroy and Lady Wil- tingdon visited the Queen Mary Technical Institute for Disabled

of

Simpler Lord Mayor's Show.

This year's Lord Mayor's Show was simplified on the grounds of

Living "tableaux economy, Indian Soldiers at Poona after Empire," which had been planned, their arrival by aeroplane, from wore abandoned, and their place. Delhi, they wrote their names in taken by tableaux arranged by the visitors' hook nad gave as their the filovemakers' Guild and the. address the name of their aeroplane Framework Knitters' Guild. These tion Company, and Mr. A D.bury (Berkshire) is to have a woAvro 10. So accustomed have they enphased the centuries-old con- become to travelling by air that section of the City guilds with the

Lord Mayor's procession. the air in the first night Nights Elsie Kimber is to be elected to the they think nothing of going to ever to be accomplished in the post. Colony,

A mere baudful of flying cuthu- siasts wore in attendance at Kai Tak Aerodrome when flying history was made at p.. last night,

Mr. Vaughan-Fowler, Shanghai manager of the Far Eastern Avin- Bennett, testpilot for the company, took an Avro Cadet machine into

Five Flights Made.

The First, After 30 Years. ✨

For the first time since its in- corporation, 336 years ago, New

man Mayor.

In all five flights were made, The Distinction. My Vaughan-Bowler making the

A. initial light solo, and afterwards taking as his pasenger Mr. Charles Lambert of the Kowloon-Canton Railways.

Councillor Miss

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nt defendant Clerkenwell County Court referred to the plain- tiff's bulk. "To suggest that little man like me would assault n great big fellow like him is absurd," he said.

Interviewed by a Daily Pre representative prior to taking the flight, Mr. Vaughan-Fowler said that in the event of a

Plaintiff, & butcher (shouting regular air line between Hong Kong,

and Shanghai

Saigon from the rear of the court)-I an being introduced, night dying not a fellow, I am a mon. would became a necessity. The ob- jret of these trial flights was to how that night landings could be effected, and, given the proper ground organisation, the risk in- cured would not be way greater than day flying.

Ground Flares.

Silent Aeroplanes.

spend the week-end 1,000 miles away from the capital. Poona, as the erow lies, is about 800 miles from Delhi, but the actual journey covers a route of nearly 1,000 miles.

Non-Swear Teapot.

Annie Besant at 83.

It was not until some time after ontering her ninth decade that Dr. Annie Besant could be brought to admit the arrival of old age. Until three years ago she kept up her annual visit to England and would wake lecture trips on the Contin- One of the most interesting ex- hibits at the Eighth International ent by air. The nows from Madras is that now at eighty-five her re- tirement is as absolute as it can bo Exhibition of Inventions being

"non-! is a hold in London

made. Her work is completely

ewear" teapot, the handle of which; done. She has ceased altogether is made of bakelite, there being to take interest in the world of adequate protection, on the knuckle which she was an incessantly ac-

A device to silence the roar from side. The handle of this teapot tive citizen for sixty years.

the exhaust of aeroplane engines is stips into a shaped groove that is Her retreat at Adyar, the the invention claimed by Mr. Lan integral part of the pot. Self-Theosophical headquarters outside

The only assistance Mr. Vaughan- | Jeffcoat, an engineer from New supporting socks which require no Madras, is not broken into by any. Fowler and Mr. Bennett hnd the South Wales. He has fitted a large suspenders are an invention of in- thing from the outside, and pre- aumably will not be again so long way of ground facilities in making motor with an aeroplane propeller terest to menfolk. Then there is a us life remains in the body of this their landings was the doubtfull Resistance of five flares, each of to show the efficiency of the op- pneumatic safety bathing and boat extraordinary woman. which consisted of a tin of paraffu pliance, and claims that the inven- soaked felt which, when ignited, xave out on ordinary flame. Four of the flares were set out at 50 and 100 yard intervals in the direction signal patente for all other coun- For Golfers. of the wind, the fifth one being forming an I. shape. Each landing

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. placed at right angles to the others.

Est. 1841..

DEATHS. CLARKE-On Thursday, Oct. 20, 1032, nt. The Briars, Northwood, Middlesex, ISABELLA CLARKE widow of Arthur Clarke, for-

ment and the Chinese autho- ritica.

was made into this L.

Mr. Bennets made two flights and wha accompanied on each occasion by his wife.

The visibility was quite good. and when nearing the ground the hollows and undulations wers quite clear. It was really no differnt day flying, except that we had direction," said Mr. Bennett.

tion is simple and adaptable. He ing costume which inflates and has taken out full Patent Rights keeps the wearer afloat in the water. for the United States and provi

trion.

The Hermit of the Seas.

Of special interest to golfers is club which has the striking face

Sir H. Royce's First Engine.

Few professions have provided more of a career for all talents: than the motoring industry.

Sir William Morris started s the age of 10 with hardly any bierele rosiir shop in Oxford at capital; Mr. Napier frat built his cars in a back street off Lambeth; and Daimlor started his works in

of the ruins

It there is one man in the world stepped backwards at its lower edge, so that the striking facs propor whose lot many of us envy at the. present moment, that man is Alain, terminates at a level slightly above Gerbal, who sailed Inat month the sole of the club. The latter is frum Marseilles in his nine-ton

anywhere. Such a club makes a yacht, Fire Crest II., bound for the rounded, there being no sharp edge Coventry. South Seas.

shot impossible. To travel freoly over the sea in "gelaffed "

B

merly barrister of Pouang, shortly to move his headquarters | the flares to guide us for th wind one's own bost, with memories and match-box which requires only one foreign cars imported into this

20,

1932,

In the meantime Colonel GLAIZE, the Far East.rn Manager of the French Air-Orient Company, is

Straits Settlements,

from Saigon to Hanoi, where he twill set up the nec.ssary ground CURRIE-On Oct.

Shadox Hurst, Reigate, Azcui-organisation for the terrainus of the BALD MILNE, dearly loved hus-line, he hopes to complote by band of Robin Isabella Currie, January. Hanoi, it should be re apod 42.

membered, is about a four hour's (China and Japan

journey by air from Hong Kong. papers, please copy).

As things are going at present pre- WALKER--On Oct. 21, 1932, at Bar-

net, LOCIRA SHEPHERD, widow arations to give Hong Kong

weekly service, to and from Hanoi, of the Rev. W. H. Walker, late should be completed by the end of of Witney, Oxon, and younger March. sister of the late Dr. J. Hudson' Taylor, F.R.1.8., founder of the China Inland Mission, in her 03rd year,

Editorial and Business Offices:

Ice House Street, Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office):

Tel, 24511.

First Lady to Make Flight. - The honour of being the first Indy to make a night flight in Hong Kong fell to Mrs Bennett, who, when questioned after the flight said: "I think it was wonderful." "It was comparatively easy to pick out the different landmarks, although flying conditions were almost ideal," added Mr. Bennett. He went on to say that the only

cotton mill in Sir Henry Royce, who started Awork in a very small way at the age of 9, bought one of the earliest a few books for company, to see strange cities and people, and to hand to open it and from which country. Ile was so disgusted with cherish the ultimate prospect of the matches are delivered singly its unreliable behaviour that ho hurst out, I could make a better engine myself." settling on some delectable island

He did.

in Polynesia, where Income Tax without, the box being opened is an- demand-notes, rate-collectors, chits, other interesting invention. and the other marks of Western civilisation are unknown-what can A Maronio Event. life offer more inviting than this? The Eternal Gendarme.

Tibetan Art in London.

After a lapse of 19 years, the In the exhibition of Tibetin art seven Anglo-Foreign Masonic Lod- at the Buddhist Mission's head- Yet even Alain Gerbault's life" has had its ups and downs. On his; 509 revived the reunions in London quarters in Gloucester Road, Re- ings, all done on silk. These Inst voyage, when he reached Puer- which were hold for several genre gent's Park, there are thirty paint- to Chico, & representative of the before the war. Those lodges, which paintings are of the seventeenth Republic of Eucador boarded his are all under the jurisdiction of and oighteenth centuries, and were body could have sailed to the is

land alone, and accused him of hav.composed of residents in London ing drowned the other member of who own allegiance to various for

the crew.

Ian and Tnahilhunpo by Bhikku Rahula, the Indian Buddhist monk who has exhibited them. They are Dalai Lamas, gods, goddesses, all fire paintings, and represent kings, and attendants,

The position in China is at the possible tremble that night be in moment une:rtain. The rod under unfavourable condi- present Chinese National Airways Cortions, would be the proximity of These, however, paration, of which fifty-one per the bigger hills, cent of the capital is held by the could be lighted by beacon lights yacht, refused to believe, that any the Grand Lodge of England, äre bought from the monasteries of Chinese Government, and the re-to indicate their exact positiun. 11,mainder has been provided by, and The cost of doing this would not

be prohibitive. Curtiss through, the Americau

Adequate Ground Organization. Company has not found things

When interviewed after the flights

On another-and even more pri- cign countries. There are two Ger- easy. The Shangbai Directors were recently in America, however, and Mr. Vaughan-Fowler said that mitive-island he was grected by a man loges, two French, ons Italian,

Tibetan painting owes its origin negotiations were opened for abfore serious night flying could be gendarme in resplendent uniform, one American, and one Swiss.

to Indian printing. In the seventh taining the necessary equipment for carried on on a commercial basis, complete with well-waxed boots and

Lord Ampthill, the Pro Grand and eighth centuries Tibetan monks ground moustache, who observed some fire. service to Hong Kong and Can adequate lighting and ton, down thi coast. It is expected organisation would have to be pro-arms in the hold, and said with Master, who was born in Rome, vsed to go to study art in the great

Indian Buddhist universities much solemnity, "There is no game that this enterprise will materialise vided.

We did not have a light in on the island, but if you wish to spent some of his boyhood in Ber- Naianda and Vikransila. in the near future. The Chinese

alin, and is a fluent linguist, was on there were Chineso, Uiunr, and the cockpit, and oven with the poor go shooting, you must obtain National Aviation Corporation holds the sole rights of commercial ground lights it was in way shooting licence."

hazardous.

"Oh, blessed gendarme was the Prosoat at the reunion, and overal, even Persian influences on Tibetan With proper lighting

influences Tibetan painting has a his diary.

Freemasone were present.

distinct individuality of its own.

London Office: 53, Fleet Street,

E.0.4.

The

Daily Press

HONG KONG, Novesuer 16. 1932.

AIR-MAIL TO HONG KONG

of

Later

avintion in China, the Euro-Asia facilities, it would have been just comment of the modern Odyssous in hundred of the most promittent painting. But, in spite of all there

Company being not subsidiary like day flying," he added. enterprise, but granted independent

In each of the flights, only about rights on the route between Peiping and Manchuli, as the National one-third of the aerodrome WWE Airways Corporation disclaimed in-used for taking off and landing. terests in that aren

Two local companies, the For Eastern Aviation Company, and Messrs. Arnold & Company have put in petitions the Hong Kong Government for its promised sub aidy of 200,000 per annum on terme that have not been disclosed. It is understood, however, that this offers include the provision of in- atructional and other facilities as well as an air line.

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AMY MOLLISON STARTS WELL

NONSTOP FLIGHT OF 1,000 MILES

The operation of a regular air mail service between Saigon and Europe has at last awakened Hong Kong to the reality of commercial aviation. Until then aviation had been widely regardeil as a matter for the Fighting Services and for stunt fiera. A number of the lattor have visited Hong Kong, but the delays and mishaps which most of

Imperial Airways lately them encountered hardly suggested nounoud that they will not be able a solid and scrious service for the to run to Australia, but Australian Fonsideration of business men. The National Airways are negotiating MRS. MOLLISON (Amy Johnson) French Air-Orient line takes only for the operation of a line to who took off this morning from eight days from Marseilles to Singapore or Calcutta with the Lympas with the object of "break- Saigon, but with transhipment object of meeting Imperial Airways ing her husband's record from Eng. delays and the steamship voyage at one or other of those places land to Capetown, landed at Oran from the Indo-China part, the The enterprising Dutch K.N.1:LM: this afternoon, after a brilliant gain upon the old trans-Siberian also enter the picture, for they have nonstop fight of over a thousand route, win the mail used to come offered to carry Australian Maile miles. down to Shanghai, is not sufficient either to the southermost point

any

[BRITISH WIRCLINS BERVICE;]"

LONDON, Nov. 14.

a

Local and General

The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council meets to-day at 12.30, p.in.

The Perak football team bas de- Mr. Timothy C. Z. Loh has re- manded Tes. 2,000, apart from hotelcently joined the Shanghai Chinese to Y.M.C.A. staff as director of reli- charges, before it will come

Mr. Lob. was Bangkok to compete with local gious education. toams at the stadium of Sunn formerly a member of the staff and Siouens Company is reported to have been awarded a one-million-Sanuk. If the demand is set, the, during the past three years was in dollar contract for the construction team may be expected here about the United States where he gradu

Chinese New Year.

ated from the Auburn Theological Seminary. of the harbour at Haichow.

Comdr. Alexander Kovaleff, the newly-appointed Soviet naval at taché-in-Tokyo, has arrived there. to take up his duties at the Russian Embassy.

Soochow messaged to the China

concubipe of Opium and other noxious druge Times state that Koo Yueh Ju,a millionaire of that confiscated by order of the Second city, has brought action against her Shanghai Special District Court in husband in the Soochow District; the French Concession during the

·Court for getting rid of her with-past three months, as well; as-n out good ground. She is demand-large quantity of opium smoking ing 6250,000 alimony. The onse will paraphernalia, were publicly burn- ed in a piece of waste land next be heard in the near future.

to the court building last week.

A telegram demanding the execu ¡tion of Chen Tu Hein, the Com The Peiping Chamber of Coni- munist leader who was recently mence has telegraphed to the Can-

to bring home the significance of served by them in the Dutch East the position. When aristors speak Indi:s, or alternatively to

Members of the Central Execu point on British territory

280,000 of revenue is expected. conTM of the possibility of am eight or seven

further guarantee of tive Committee of the Kuomintang day service from London, arriving venient to the Australian line. The With here twice a work, in the near Dutch service runs weekly be 200,000 for five years an air lino in Shanghai have, telegraphed, to future, there is still polte septween Amsterdam and Madan in linking Hong Kong with Europe ticism, and perhaps a remark about Sumatra, through Rangoon and could be started within six months. Nanking recommending a pardon A bi-weekly service is needed, if for Cheng Chi Cheng, the assassin magic carpots.

Hangkok. They and the French A brief recapitulation of the lino bava recently agreed to the possible saving of time is to of General Chang Tsung Chang,

former Tupan of Shantung. position may not, therefore, be out collate their time tables so that be fully exploited. All the in- of place The French authorities Bangkok, as from the beginning dications, suggest that an adequate have approached the local goveof this month, has been receiv-air-service will be brought to Hong ment for permission to makeing service twies weekly from Kong, but whether we shall have At the forthcoming meeting of the arrested in Shanghai, has been re-tral Government opposing the pro- series of test flights to Hong Kong. Europe, Aviation is making great any share in the enterprise jean Y's Men's Club which will be held coived by the Central Government posal to enter into a new agreement

Before long the These flights; probably about six in strides in Siam, and the capital is other matter, number, will, we understand, take only about seven hundred miles, or journey will probably be made to at Messra, Lane. Crawford's Res from the Canton Provinciai Kuo with American Interests for the place between now and March. about an eight hours flight from London in about eight days. Then taurant at 1 pm, on Thursday, the mintang. The telegram adds that, purchase of American - wheat - be- Their objcula will be

Hong Kong.

the opportunities for the despatch 17th instant, Dr. E. L. Allen will should such an important Comcause the rice crops in China It has been estimated that it will of documents and samples, and for cost $200,000 per annum to link rush passages on urgent business, speak on Idols of the Cave Dr. munist leader as Chen Tu Hsiu be during the past year have been ex- Hong Kong with one or other of will be realised and a vast source Allen is a well-known speaker and allowed to escape capital punish- ceptionally good and there 1 sufl- these services. The Government has of profit put in the hands of those

mont will be meaningless. guaranteed $60,000, and at least who have acted with courage and the meeting will no doubt be fully ment, the Party Purification Move ciont grain to meet all - æquiro (Continued at foot of next Ociumn) foresight.

1-To test flying conditions in

various weathers.

2.-To test and obtain knowledge

of ground servicca,

3-To carry forward negotiations

with the Houg Kong Govera

attended.

anonts.