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OBITUARY

SIR GEOFFREY SALMOND

BRITAIN'S LATE AIR-CHIEF

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, April 27. SIR Geoffrey Salmond, Chief of the-Air-Staff, who has been seriously ill since the beginning of April, passed away to-day.

He had assumed his new post, the highest ranking in the Royal. Air Force, only u

few days when ha was taken ill and his brother, Sir John Salmond, who had retired, suddenly was recalled to the Air Ministry.

The Air Council have announced that the funeral will take place on Monday,

at

Sir Geoffrey Salmond was born in August 1878, and was educated Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich his father was Major-Gen. Sir W.

Salmond.

Joining-the-Rogal Artillery in 1898, he served with that arm in the South African war, gaining seven clnaps to his medal. He also participated in the suppression of the Boxer rebellion in China.

In 1911, he took a course at the Staff College and passed. At the outbreak of the world-war he was

a captain on the General Staff, but within a year had reached the rank of Lieut. Colonel. He then joined the R.A.F. and, promoted Brigadier-General, was given the command of that force in the Mid- dle East which he held with great distinction until 1921. In 1917 he received the D.S.O., in 1918 the C.B. and in 1910 a knighthood | (K.C.M.G.) and promotion to Air Vice-Marshal. .

Systematic Raids,

* News and Views

Unhatched Chickens.

The Echool Term,

Keeping on the Safe side.

98

a man

SEMMARY OF NEWS

Local.

The case against Sinçer's Branch at Canton, for selling Japanese goods, has been dismissed on fur- Page 8. ther investigation.

An up-country correspondent gives an optimistic picture of the demand of Chinese people for Western goods. They have the wish and the means to purchase.. Page 7. Volunteers Orders for the forth- Page 10. coming week appear on

The Stock Exchange weekly re- Page 13. port is on

The programme for the sixth ex- tra race meeting is on Page 10.

Tokyo. The City Planning Sec- tion of the Tokyo Municipal Goy- The Right Hon. J. R. Clynes, ernment announces all transporta- formerly Home Secretary, who is tion plans are being changed to a 64 to-day, has never given the im commodate a population of 6,007, pression of finding much fun in 000 persons in Greater Tokyo by politics, but he tells a good story 1949. The population of the city of an experience during the war, will reach 6,000,000 by 1945, the when he acted as Food Controller planning experts estimate, assert. He received a letter from ing tramear and subway develop, in a Midland town informing him 1 neighbouring shopkeeper ments must go forward with a view that to providing transportation for was breaking all the rules of the Food Ministry. "You certainly that number of persons.

ought to prosecute her, urged the writer, "but please keep my name Motor drivers seem to find the An animated discussion has been out of the proceedings as she is regulations, hard to keep.. A batch proceeding in the drawing rooms my sister-in-law!"

of them were fined at Central Magistracy yesterday. "Page 6. of Washington on the proposal at Dr. Harlow Brooks, the

famous Sweet Innocence!

The Coroner'a enquiry into the New York heart specialist, that o

death of Yeung Wei Li, a young Says an American Newspaper school teacher who was killed as a grounds of strain and danger to health no President of the United take form as a result of recent Road on March 11 was continued at China sees an interesting society result of a motor crash in Victoria States should be allowed to serve speeches by Government officials Central Magistracy yesterday when

second term of office. The Presi and Kuomintang leaders denounc- the driver of the car, Kwok Hung, dent-of-the-United States, Dr. Brooks maintains, is the hardesting corruption in high places. Ki, gave evidence regarding his re- worked executive officer in the luxurious living and

Accepting the doctrine that lationship with the deceased and world.

loose con- her sister.

Page 7 Our weekly forecast of the local football matches appears on

Page 10. Far East. The French airwoman who is

Force is lent to this argument by the fact that, although the States have no living ex-President, the widows of six foriner Presidents are alive. They are, in order of Presidential seniority: Mrs. Cleve Ind (now Mrs. Preston), Mrs., Harrison, Mrs. Theodore Roose velt, Mrs. Taft, Mrs. Wilson, and Mr. Coolidge.

A Nine Years' Penalty.

Dr. Brooks's contentions are also supported by the insurance actua rios.

Before the Civil War the Pres dents of the United States lived longer as a group than the average per-follow-citizen of that time,

It was his systematic and sistent raids which served more than anything else to break up the Turkish armies. In a lull in the eperations in December, 1919, he accomplished with Capt. Ross Smith the first flight to India. Returning to England, Sir Geoffrey Salmond became, in 1922, the Director-Gen-. eral of Supply and Research at the Air Ministry and a member of the

3.-That Japan intends to create | Air Council.

a small buffer state, around In 1926. he was created K.C.B. Chinwangta between the and a year later was given com Wall and the Luan Ho, prob-mand of the R.A.F. in India, being ably demilitarised, according promoted Air Marshal in 1929.

At hone again in 1831, he was to the Lyrrós theory.

Commander-in-Chief of the The schenies has its advantages to

Air Defence of Britain until he was Japan, but as the area concerned appointed in July, 1932, Chief of is only about a thousand square

the Air Staff, succeeding his miles it would hardly be equivalent younger brother, Sir John Sai value to the resentment roused in mond, who had held the post for China Possibly, such a little stato years and retired to give his brother might be set up and used as a an opportunity to attain the higher pawn at the peada conference, post. The appointment was effec-

sent month.

Since then the average life of a President has been nine years less than his normal life expectancy.

Chinese Birthdays-A Home View. Writes a "correspondent to A Home paper:-

Never having been bidden to a Chinese birthday party, I canno tel! what reckless consumption of choice viands and liquors there may be at such celebrations-what rich bestowal of gifts and lavish gar- nishing of the feast.

Such affairs must, I surmise, be sumptuous, for a decree has been drafted in Nanking, in the inter- will forbid all birthday parties for eats of national economy, which

duct" are the things that lead to corruption, the new society pledges abstain from wine and gambling, all its multiplying members to not to live in luxurious homes and. not to frequent disreputable places of amusement. Here is a kind of the establishing of new standards reform that will get somewhere

by setting an example.

Time-Travelling in London,

have nude philosophic conception Novelists like Mr. H. G. Wells of time into existing and illuminat- ing stories for plain people. Foz instance, Mr. Welle, in his "Time Machine,"

visualised

mankind

travelling both forward and back- ward in time. His fiction" has become a "fact" by the introduc- tion of radio-telephony.

making a return flight, to Paris from Tokyo has arrived in Shang- hai.

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The 170 Chinese who were expell ed from Mexico have arrived in Shanghai where they wera inter- viewed by Press ropresentatives." Details will be found on *** Pago 9. North Manchuria Railway by the The C.E.. has been renamed the Manchukuo authorities. Pago 0.

China is not in a position to wage war against Japan, according to Mr. Wang Ching WaiPage 9. Severe fighting is again taking place on the Naatienmen front

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General,

The engagement is announced of Lord Inchcape and Miss Leonora Brooke, eldest daughter of HH. Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, GC.M.G., Rajah of Sarawak.

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A quiet underground chamber in the Charing Cross Post Office hides in its prosaic interior lined with telephone boothe the means of com- municating with every part of the civilised world, and is the starting- point for actual time travel. It is It is now practically certain that noon in London and the last strokes | President Roosevelt will have the of Big Ben have scarcely died away support of the Senate in his in- before half a dozen people are flation schemes. Full particulars. “ linked with friends or business will be found on

Page: 9. The head of the Stallhelm, Dr. acquaintances in different parts of the world. London is joined to Franz Seldte, Minister of Labour the Vatican City and 1 p.m., to the Nazis, taking the bulk of the Uruguay, where it is 8.30 a.m., to in the Hitler Cabinet, has joined

Moscow and 2 p.m., to Batavia and Steel Helmets with him. Page B. 7 p.m., to Tokyo and 9 p.m., to Sitting without a jury, on an Pnom-Penb and midnight. Time inquiry into the death of Mr. Jus- has become splendidly relative tice McCardie, the Coroner return- through the genius of mankind. ed a verdict of suicide while tem-

A prophecy come true? A mira-porary insane.

Page B. Sir Geoffrey Salmond, Chief of the Government dared to forbid It is not astonishing when one re children and grand-children gather members that on the high seas the ly ill since the beginning of April ing for the patriarchal feast. man who is in yesterday is talking passed away yesterday. Full parti-

I would commend to the unior with the man who is in to-morrow culars on this page. tunate Chinese under 60 Alice's over the time-line, or, if one pres bright idea of unbirthday parties, fers it, the man of to-day speaks

persons under 60.

What the age limit imply I can not guess. It may be that Chinese who have reached the age of 80 do not give birthday parties. On the, other hand, in a land where age

4.-That Japan has designs ou live from the beginning of the pre-is venerated, it might be more than cle? Time travel is in its infancy the Air Staff, who had been serious!

/ the province of Chahar, and, eventually Inner Mongolia In such case the "Luaniho province" would neatly round off this big aren, giving useful

access to the so

It

secured

Surprise is being felt that Chinese

The project is a big one. troops after failing to hold the

would be a useful prelude to fur- Jetol passes, should now be putting ther encroachments on China; up. a stern resistance to Japanese splendid territory would be added operations south of the Wall. The to the Japanese Empire, and a latest Japaness diaim is that they useful strategie buffer have finished their punitive opera. against Russia, Russia is the third tions in China. Proper, and are party in this titanic struggle of accord. Somehow that sounds too and North China. Any point that duly withdrawing of their own three for the control of Manchuria

simple

of an Japag can explanation

secure is of utmost 1750 extraordinarily complex position, value.

If Russia has got Outer although it will be remembered Mongolia, without a protest from that Japancas official statements by China, why should Japan show any the War and Foreign Ministers false delicacy about Inner Mon have been to the effect, that Japan golia It is barren and sparsely has no wish to venture South of the inhabitated, but the Utopian pros Wall, but if Chinese military con perity of Manchuria, might well be centrations were made these would extended weetward 1 be attacked. The most favoured explanations of the position appear in fact to be as follows:---

1-That Japan is genuinely anxious to clear, up the situation, and the recent oporations have merely been a demonstration of her mili- tar omnipotence.

HE FIFTH EXTRA RACE THE

MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on BATORDAY, 2018 APRIL, 1983, commencing at 9.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be Rung at 1,30 p.m.

5. The final suggestion is that

war between Russia and Japan is expected, and the Jull on the Great Wall is duo to a hasty redistribution of Japanese troops,

Thé This possibility is remote. reasons that led the Russian Gov- ernment to stage the recent "trial" in Moscow may drive them to a far greater and more lasting ex-

pretty quiet, and for all we know of her, affair it may be that discontent, at the results of the Five Year Plan necessitates drastic

MR. P. R. WALSHAM

Shanghai, April 24-News has been received in Shanghai of the death of Mr. T. R. Walsham, who was non-resident secretary in charge of the London office of the Chinese Maritime Customs.

of which, you will readily sea, one with the man of the day after or can have 364 in an ordinary year." the day before.

Local and General

Mr. Walsham is well known in China where he was associated with the Customs for many years, hold- ing the position of Chief Secretary of the inspectorate before he went

On Thursday thres cases of small- dence in Horley, Surrey. He re-enterie were reported. to England.

His death occurred in his real-

pox, one of diphtheria, and one of cently underwent an operation from which he seemed to be recovering when a relapse occurred.

Mr. Walsham will be succeeded in the post of non-resident secre tary in London by Mr. J. W. Stephenson.

The second annual meeting of the China Emporium, Ltd., will be held at the Chinese Merchants' Club, China Building, it 4 p.m. to-day.

A reception will be held by the Japanese Consul in honour of the Emperor's birthday at 70, Conduit Read, from 11 to 12 noon to-day.

The Police Recreation Club is holding an informal dance at the Club house, Happy Valley, at 8, o'dock to-night.

MR. 1. YOSHIDA

JAPANESE AMBASSADOR · TO TURKEY.

BRITISH WIRELESS BERY(UR.)|

Tokyo, April 24.-An official "re- port received by the Foreign Office

The opening ceremony of the from the Japanese Embassy at Angora, announces the death on Chinese Athletic Association's now! Sunday morning, following an at-bathing pavilion at Quarry Bay saburo Yoshida, Japanese Amas ceremony being performed by Mr. sador to Turkey.

Chan Lim Pak. Deceased, who has been for many diplomatic service, was for a num foms for the sixth extra race meet- connected with," one "Japanese -Draft programmed and entry

The late Air Field Marshals Sir Geoffrey Salmond, KC.3., `K.C.M.G., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., was an uncle, by marriage, of Mrs. John Don Wauchope, a sister of Mr. W. L Plew, hight editor of the Hong Kong Daily Press.

It is reported that the proposed general use of silver as part of the reserves of the Central Banks' tub- sidiary coinage to back all cur- roney has received favourable con- sideration during conversations be- tween British, American and French experta at Washington.

Page 9. The Result of the Thousand Guinea is on

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from the files.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE, "Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badger prominently displayed.

There is much to be said for this No One without a Badge will be view. It coincides" with official pedient: Russia has kept her famine tack of typhoid fever, of Mr.. Is- will take place at 2.30 to-day, 'the morrow for Shanghai. where he is provements. Dr. Birnhise asks admitted to tha Mirpbers' Enclosure.

Badges admitting. Non-Membera to pronouncements from Tokyo, for the Members' Enclosure and Chul, Rooms what that is worth. The financial at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for burden on Japan has been, and Ladies (Both including Tax) are ob still is, almost unbearable, and tainable through the SECRETARY peace with China, and the World, apon the personal application of a Member, anch Member to be responsible appears her urgent need. A small measures, and, further, that intense ber of years a resident in China,ing to be held on Saturday, May ed tour of the Diocese.

close at 12 G'Olock Noon.

Tifias are obtainable": nt the Clau House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone. 21920,

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,

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LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS Mr. T. Mitchell, a young Austra- lian businessman, and a nephew of At Washington it was reported, the late Madame Melba who was, on good authority, that the Pre as everyone knows, one of the finest sident contemplated the withdrawal singers the world has produced, is of the United States troops from at present on a visit to the colony. Utah. Dr. Birahisel, the Mormon Other prominent Australians here delegate, had submitted. proposi- on business are Mr. Dollard, re- tions to the Administration, in- presenting Messrs P. E. Scrivener dicating the willingness of the and Co., and Mr. Bloomfield who Mormons to vacate Utah, and is interested in the Canned and colonisë some of the islands, of the Powdered Milk industry."

sea outside the jurisdiction of the ‚!} "ན།

United States, provided the day- The Rev. Ronald Hall, Bishop of ernment will purchase, at a fair the Diocese, leaves Hong Kong to valuation, the Salt Lake City im- to attend the National Christian that commissioners be sent out to Council. Bishop Hall is to have arrange terms and details. Should an extremely buy summer, for these be agreed upon, the Salt Lake he contemplates making a prolong station. Hong Kong Daily Press, after his return here from Shanghai City is to become a grand military.

As tins, April 29, 1966. he having served in the Japanese Legation at Peiping as Councillor.13, may be obtained at the Secre tour will take between two and Looking Back 25 Years, He was Japanese Assessor to the tary's Office, the Hong Kong Jockey hardly likely that the Bishop will On the night of the Iat instant. League of Nations Commission of Club, the Sports Club and

the farmily residence in Kiukiang of Inquiry, headed by Lord Lytton, Stables, Village Road

HE L Sheng To, at present Chi- last year.

The wedding between Miss

nese Minister at Brussels, was visit Kemal Paaha Cables Sympathy.

Frances Barbam MacFadyen and

ed by a body of bandits armed with FYAROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY,"

| Dr. G. V. A. Grilliths will take

Leaving for England by a Japan- swords, etc., and spoil to the value Tokyo, April 24-Kemal rasha, place at St. John's Cathedral at ese steamer to day is Mr. Arthur of over Tis. 3,000 was carried away. the President of Turkey, to-day 2 o'clock this afternoon. Later & The Hong Kong and Shanghai Kiukiang the next day, as a result Grant, a member of the staff of A report was sent to the Prefect of cabled his sympathy to the Emperor reception will be held at 4, Basilea, Hotels, Mr. Grant is one on the death of Mr. Yoshida, the Lyttelton Road.

of a of which the Magistrate of Telus Japanese Ambassador at Augore.

agall batch of young Canadiana haien, in whose jurisdiction the rob who, on finding conditions in their bery was committed, has been ro own country very unsatisfactory lieved of his post-Hong Kong from a point of view of permanent Daily Press, April 20, 1906. employment, came out to the For East on a speculative errand. All were successful in obtaining em plections develey Meri Eden

the

three months to complete, it is

spend much time at Hong Kong, which is Diocesean Headquarters, until September next.

anti-Japanese propaganda has been for all visitors introduced by him, and straw, now blowing in the wind, is under way in Russia for months. for Payment of All Obits, etc.

an outbreak of Pan-Asia prop There is also the need of encourag- *The Secretary's. Ofico, 3rd Floor ganda. A queer way, perhaps, of ing the Red campaign in China, Gloucester Building (Tel, 27794), will making friends with the World, and Russia, may think she sees, if Badges admitting to Members' though a snart is often as potent she starts a Far Eastern War, the smile, and at least such chance of treating a financial and Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the doctrines may not, in Japanese social debacle in Japan, and an Race Course.

bel opinion, be unwelcome in many overthrow On No Protext will Childre.

of the Nationalist permitted in either Enclosure during Chinese quarters.. the Meeting.

Government at Nanking with the 2That Japan hopes to engineer triumph of the "Red" movement. a break between North and But there is little tangible evidence South China, the former set of so gigantio a scheme. No more ting up its capital at Pei- than the normal snarling betwee!!

Shortly due in the Colony under ping. The Price of Admission to the Public

Russia and Japan seems to have

engagement with the Hong Kong Enclosure is $2.00 ioolading Tax, for This would not necessarily mean characterised the last few months, use every weapon of threat and and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., are Don

IL Persons, including Ladies, and is a second puppet state, with Mr. payable at the Gate.

Pu Y1. aa Emperor, but merely sibilities, but at the mon at th

The East is always full of pos, intrigue to keep war and suspicion and Sally Jennings, who have been tha alive, but the Far Eastern Powers, recognised as among the best Boldern and Easter-iz-uniform-cophom of activity for day

at vidence poin Dadmitted Half Pricg

points to a have no illusion, Dbout RUBI. Tretic turns in the Far East for a enterprise. The name of FENG YU patched up pence between Chinh And as for China, when the long time. They have been Kong Hotel Company. Mr. Grant's tions into the most suitable sites has been stated, with The Hong Canberra, April --Investign= Bookmakers, The Tec Mon,

HSIANG, the super-patriot, has been and Japan in the near future in Japanes: war is wound up, she has ed by the Choidrome, Shanghai, in the Precincts of Tan HONG KONG taken in vain, in connection with peace that has alarut equal chances two alternatives, she can fall back direct from the Ziegfeld Follies and England is in order to undergo a monwealth for the establishment of will not be permitted-to-operate with

specific purpons for journeying to in the various states of the Com JOCERY OLUB during the Race Meeting the scheme. But FENO's name is of becoming either an armed truce into the seasonal civil wars, or she have had enthusiastic success in the necessary operation. He hopes to radio stations are nearing comple

By Order,

the obvious one, to use, and no or the basis of a permanent settle can learn the lesson of the conflict Northern port. It is anticipated return to the colony within a few tion. It is intended to erect one matter who was chosen to rule such ment between the two countrics with Japan, and at about a moral that Don and Sally will arrive in months. With his many friends we station in each state and grants for O... B. BROWN.

Secretary.

a roost the advantages to Tokyo Russia, the mischief-maker, will and material: reorganising of the time to perform on Saturday, May wish him luck that the operation this purpose will be provided in the Horg Kong, 24.h April, 1932, 1748 are too obvious to labour.

(Continued at foot of heat col).epublia

12 naxb in the Rose Room:

will be successful..

·19334'estimates.

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