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HE Anti MutTsai Society of Hodg Kong will hold its Annual Meting
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The Meeting has been delayed this yes on account of the preparating of a comprehensive, History of the Libera- tion of the Mui-Tai in Hong Kong. Three thousandi copies have been printed to be distributed frea. The Public is invited to attend.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
FIFTEENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING.
16TH DECEMBER, 1989.
THE Stewards have decided that
THE
at the abora Race Meeting the "Tardy Stake." shall be run as Race No. 2, at 2.30 p.m., and the." Barrier Ret Handicap "as Race No. 4, at 3.80 p.m., instead of as previously advertised..
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
!Secretary
Hong Kong, 11th December, 1938.
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FIFTEENTH EXTRA
TRACE MEETING will be held
HAPPY SATURDAY, 10TH DECEMBER, 1933, commencing at 200
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The First Bell will be Rung at 1.30 pa
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Fy Order,
C. B: BROWN,
Secretary.
Hong Kong. 11th Dec, 1933..
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HONG KONG, Diczяer 16, 1993.
THE GREAT LIBERATOR
million pounds, an enormous sum in those days-and her sea powel traine under Nelson, against the
in human flesh. To their credit also be it said that most of the other European soon followed the British example in this as in so many other fields
of reform.
Governments
William Wilberforce was born
ANNOUNCEMENTS CANTON LOAN TO WOMAN
BIRTHS.
19, 1933, at the Country Hoa- pital. Shanghai, to Mr." and W. Nufer-Zueblin, ·B daughter, Ruth Margri MAITLAND.-On December 8, 1933,
Bt
the Country Hospital, Shanghai to Cecile, wife of Hugh Maitland, a son.
DEATHS.
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ROWLANDS.—On Qecember 7. 1933, R. P. Rowlands, OBE... FR.CS., Etc., Senior Surgeon Guys Hospital WALTER-On December 9, 1933, at the Shanghai General Hog pital. Harold William Albert Walter, aged 45 "years"
NOTES
CANTON
Efforts to Restore to
Face Value
NANKING
Return Now Requested
(From Our Special Correspondent)
JUMPS NEWS SUMMARY INTO HARBOUR
Excitement on "Star" Ferry
Passengers on
the 9.25 D.M.
wae The ferry
Saturday's and Sunday's Wire lesa Programme' appears on Page
4
Volunteer Orders for the week appear on Paga 12. “
Macao Supplement appears on Page 3.
and
Special Racing Forecast summary of Races by "Morning
Your views and mine" by. The
"Dramas on the Ferry" is the title of the article by our special Kowloon Correspondent.
"Round the Courts" being an assimilation of law casès and with law in Hongkong on Page 6.5 Information in regard to
terry from Hongkong last night Dew appears on Page 1. Canton, Dec. 15. had an exciting experience when In avoiding financial impedia Chinese woman jumped over-Scout on Page 7. ment for the realisation of his board as the vessel was approach. Immediately Three Year Plan Generalng the pier at Kowloon. Chen Chi Tang, commander stopped and eventually, after a in-chief of the First Group brief search Army, sent a petition to Narsighted as she "bobbed" qut or other items in connection
the water king yesterday asking the A deck-hand and the stoker Central authorities to return a immediately jumped into
the
woman
W
thet Rugger appears on Page 10.
were
loan of 190 million dollars water and held on to the sinking
life bouys woman while which had been borrowed hung overboard to them. from Kwangtung for the pre- The woman was unconscious vious, Northern Punitive Ex.when hauled on board the ferry. but thanks to the excellent work pedition,
of Mr. H. M. Britto and a few sailors, she was revived and later conveyed to the Water Police Sta- tion, where, after her name and address were taken she was re- moved to the Kowloon Hospital for attention.
Despite the fact that the (From Our Special Correspondent) (National Government had been
set up in Nanking some eight Canton, Dec. 15. years ago. this sum had not Owing to the financial crisis and been returned to this province. the depreciation of paper money General Chen realises that in. value which has a strong effect upon the local business market, order to carry out the Three the leading merchants here are Year Plan in Kwangtung an to co-operate immense amount will be need. attempting with the government to restore
DOW
the full face value of the bank-ed to meet the various expén- notes issued by the Kwangtung ditures in reconstruction and
CONVERSION
ARSENAL
OF
Provincial Bank as well as the rehabilitation in the bandit Conversion Into Iron
local Municipal Bank.
stricken areas.
·
The leading merchants are
It is stated that a large contemplating to submit several proposals to the Department of portion of this amount will be Finance for consideration. Before expended for the salvation of submitting these proposals to the the peasants and the fostering authorities the plan will be stu-
More
died by the banking experts and of native industries. will be tendered to the Depart-over, a considerable amount ment of Finance through the of the returned fund will be Chamber of Commerce. It is learned that the merchants urge used for the anti-bandit drive the Government to use every ef- in Kiangsi. fort to redeem the full face value of the banknotes within the shortest possible moment.
to
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They request that as soon as the value of the notes rise $99.50 all payments and transac- tions should be based on basis From now on paper money should be the chief medium for transactions in the market. The the exchange of premium for paper money for silver must not exceed two dollars per thousand, and anyone who refuses to accept banknotes or violate the above rules should be severely punished by the authorities.
· 1.
London, December 15. The Australian Commonwealth Government is making gift of £1,000 to Charles Ulm for services. Ulm with rendered to aviation.
at Hull in 1769, and entered St. FOR SERVICES RENDERED John's College, Cambridge, in 1776. At the age of 21 he en- tered Parliament as representa- tive for his native town, and, whereas previously he had been inclined to idleness, he now began An astonishing quickening of a life of the greatest activity. He became converted to Evangelical moral what might be called the
Christianity, and three years later sense of the British Parliament
began his agitation against slav-" and people manifested. strongly a century ago. The Bery. In that band of British en-
itself
admitting Roman Catholics to Parliament and to all but a few of the highest, civil and military [2060
posts was passed in 1829. Three Fears later the Parliamentary Re- SERVICE TO READERS form Bill, widely extending
franchise, was passed. measures were. Bassed for
HE
the 1833
the
thusiasts which called themselves. the Committee for the Abolition of Slavery" he took his natural position as leader. They won the sympathy of both the political party. Teaders of their time, Pitt and Fox, and in so far their cause became a non-party question, but It nevertheless took Wilberforce's whole lifetime and all his ener. gles to complete the task he had set himself-to prohibit the trade in slaves and to free all slaves within the British, Empire.
to companions holds the Eng and to Australla night record of days, seventeen hours and 56 minutes.-British Wireless..
CHINESE TONGS IN BATTLE
Three Hurt in Street Fight
Montreal,. December 15. Conflict for the control of Chin- ese gambling restaurants led to rival Chinese Tongs staging & pit- ched battle in the local China town yesterday.
Three men were seriously injur- ed while sixteen were arrested- Reuter.
TH HONG KONG. amelioration of the conditions of workers. In 1834 the DAILY PRESS, LTD. factory
growing evil of pauperism was and the HONG KONG checked by the enactment of a WEEKLY PRESS, through Poor Law Bill. The same year a their London Office, at 53, system of national education was
With glowing eloquence Wilber- maugurated and rapidly develop. FLEET STREET; E.C. 47 Tel.
Other reforms and progres force exposed the evils and her 3137, are prepared to give sive measurea
rors or 'slavery in Parliament," and to were also intro- Subscribers and Visitors duced about that time, but the soon he was rewarded by seeing
great achievement which small measures passed for advice regarding accommoda- one
brightly stands out more
than improvement in the conditions of
ed.
11fe and
the
- TỔ CUT EXPENSES Kwangtung is experiencing ex- treme financial stringency and the funds derived from the various revenues cannot meet with the various administrative expenditures in the province. With a view to curtail the ex- cessive expenditure in Kwang ung, Mr. Lin Yus Koy, the chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, sum. moned a financial conference to-day at the Provincial Gov. ernment Buidling. Officials from the various administra tive, military and Party organs attended at the meeting, and Mr. Lin, who presided, submitted
a provincial bud for 1934 and get posed to cut down the general expenditures in the various government organs...
And Steel Works
Nanking, December 10. Plans for conversion of the form er Lunghua Arsenal in Shang- are being made by the Ministry hat into an Iron and Steel Works of War. It is learnt.
With the outbreak of the sind "Japanese "hostilities last year, large portion of the machinery of the Arsenal was removed from Shanghai to
the Nanking and Hanyang Arsenals; the Arsenal and its remaining equipment being placed in charge of a Custody Committee. Later, the Ministry of War contemplated sale of the land occupied by the Arsenal, the
proceeds of which were to be ear- marked for the expansion of the Nanking and Hanyang Arsenals. The scheme was, however, op- posed by the Greater Shanghal
which
the
Notes .on to-day's football matches will be found on page 10.
Sir Mles Lampson was enter- tained at luncheon yesterday.
Page 7. Vocational talks on "Law" and "Medicine" were given recently Page 7.
at the Chinese YM.C.A.
Home football Special Air Mail Service will be
found on page 10.
of then Tuchun
news, by ou
Our Engineering and Building Supplement appears on Page 2
EIGHT PIRATES KILLED
Severe Encounter On Yangtze River
Eight pirates were shot dead, members of the crew of a Shantung drowned, and five marines of the Chunho gunboat wounded in a battle junk were believed to have been
which lasted several hours along the Kiangsu coast outside the Yangtze on Saturday afternoon.
ransom.
The gunboat Chunho under the command of the Fourth District Kiangan Biter Police at Woosung, left on Fri- Woosung for the coast day night following the receipt of information that a Shantung junk by pirates for had been held up.
The Chunho found the junk at noon the following day. Her arrival on the scene was greeted with a fusillade which was answered by the marines. After fully one hour's encounter, the pirates set sail, firing as the junk They were however, botly pursued. headed for the shore,
The pirates abandoned the junk near the shore, leaving sight of their dead comrades on board.
Commerce, Chamber of claimed that the proceeds of any Many Thrown Overboard
During the battle, several men on sale should first be used for the repayment of a loan for 8800,000 the junk jumped overboard to advanced by the Chamber in 1925 escape from the pirates and many for the repatriation of retreating who could not swim were thrown soldiers during the war between overboard. Here the gunboat halted and attended to the rescue work. Of the 16 boatmen seven were picked up Generals Chi Hatch-yuan and Lu Yung-belang, Kiangsu and Cheklang respective-by the gunboat, and the remaining have been nine are believed to ly. The property of the Arsenal
drowned. was given as security for the loan. In compliance with the petition proof the Greater Shanghat Chamber of Commerce, the Ministry of Fin- ance was instructed to devise measures with the various organs concerned for the settlement of the loan obligations. Such mea- sures are being discussed between deputies of the Finance Ministry. and the Arsenal and Commissark at Administrations of the Ministrying about thirty pirates. of War.
To promote the development of domestic industries, it is now learnt that the Ministry of War is contemplating the erection of a large Iron and Steel Works on the site of the Arsenal-Kuo Min.
Ons case of diphtheria, two cases of paratyphoid and three cases of meningitis were reported in the Colony for the 24 hours ended De cember 14. f
Mr.. W. B. Cornaby, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., has been transferred to Foochow where he will be relieving Mr. J. Helling" who is retiring. --
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The Soviet Consulate in Tientsin is to establish a lumber yard there to sell Sovice timber to China.
The sixth annual dance of the Hong Kang Ladies Hockey Club will be held at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant on Friday, January 12. 1934, at 0 p.m.
A deaf mute villager of Taipa was killed by being run over by a' goods train near No. 23 Briage be- Leung Chat, a Chinese boatmer, tween Shatin and Taipo on Thurs-age 40 years, of cargo junk No. 3500 V, appeared before Comman- dag.
der Hole at the Marine Court yes terday, on a charge of failing to carry & white light while lying in the Junk Anchorage.
The prizes will be distributed at the Cheung Chau Government School at 3 pm. next Thursday,
M.A. December 21, by Mrs. P. E. Barker,
According to one of the boatmen, the junk arrived in Shanghai from Ting- kow, northern Kiangsu, about four weeks ago with a cargo of oil and beans, and left here with a quantity of timber and paper ten days ago. Ás soon as she sailed out of the Yangtze she encountered another junk, carry-
Not satisfied with what they had gathered on board, the pirates held the junk and sent one of the boatmen to Shanghai to obtain a ransom of 88,000 for the return of the vessel.“- The boatman, who failed to get the sum, gave information to river police, whose prompt action resulted in the recovery of the junk.
Of the Ave marines wounded in the battle, one was reported to be in a serious condition last night.
GALE IN ENGLISH CHANNEL
Sunshine and Frost in London
London, December 14. The disabled steamer which was seen to sink off Aldeburgh,.... Suffolk, during yesterday's gale identified by the was to-day wreckage, as the coastings.s. "Culmore" (469 tons) of London.
She is known to have been carrying a crew of nine all of
whom were drowned.
easter, abated during the night but increased later, and heavy. seas were again running to-day in the North Sea and English Chan- nel
vessels to engage in the slave trade for any nation whatsoever,
deal drastically with ship
who owners and ship-captains continued to carry slaves and run the risk of paying heavy dnes 11 tion available, motoring facial the rest was the abolition of the slaves. In 1772, during some caught, etc., and in 1811 the con- cities, suitable shopping, the system of slavery which still legal disputes regarding slavers, traband trade in slaves was final-
As the State Lottery tickets have persisted in the British colonies. It was decided that slavery could ly stamped out. The point which entres, etc.
become quite popular in China and Great moral force was needed not be tolerated on English soil, to Wilberforce seemed most im-
free ali The Philharmonic Society are owing to the huge expense involved Short of Policemen for the Pir in the establishment of an agenty If, when at home, they will to accomplish this wonderful re-and a legal anding stated that portant remained--to call or telephone to the above form at that time. England was "as soon as a slave set his foot slaves from bondage. It was ob
grateful if those. having bass ties are not to send any representa death on the soll of the British Islands vious that the slave-owners dta ate of Penzance" and would be in the United States, the authori- address, they will receive the engaged in a
In 1789, in co- not intend to set the slaves free voices, who would cahe to join in tive to America to promote the walehe gale, an icy-cold north struggle with Napoleon which he became free."
municate with the Secretary of T. utmost assistance and the
commanded all her attention, and operation with Pitt, he brought of their own accord, so Wilber-in the production will please Con- there
abolition of force continued to use his "Silver M, CA latest available information on to raise the slave question at such the subject of the
A meeting will be held at the all subjects of enquiry will be a time against so powerful an ad- slavery before the House of Com tongue and his personal charm. slave-and wit in the great cause, now versary seemed an undertaking mons, but friends of the
Helena May Institute on Wednes- placed at their disposal.
doomed to failure. Fortunately, in owners got it deferred in the with the support of the majority day, January 10, next, at 5.30 p.m., a1 when Mr. Peter Manniche, Princip- William Wilberforce, the centenary following year he succeeded in of the British public, until
gradua: the age of 88 years he retired al of the International People's was lying in the Junk Anchorage. of whose death was celebrated in carrying a motion for
Folk High School of Denmark had defendant arrested.
Defendant pleaded guilty ari law, ton, one of his devoted helpers, and on the College? time and the task found a man obstructed its passing into
the news concerning the appoint capable of coping with the sup- and not until 1807 was the first to lead in the final round of the Peking was greatly interested in was fined $10. porters of slavery. But it also re-great step accomplished, with the battle for the slaves, but Wilber ment of a new Apostolie Delegate flects greatly to the credit of the prohibition of slave trading in force knew before his death that Monsignor Mario Tanin, and the
the British Empire.
victory was assured The Eman, rumour from the Vatican City that the former Delegate Monsignor was British nation that in timer of
It took nearly years more cipation-Bill was passed with very among those to be elevated to the serious trouble it found time and
1833 one purple at the next Papel Copsis ain the final little opposition in thought to concern itself with the for Wilbe
tory Monsignor Zenin 18 expect Berfe was laid
er to arrived in Peking some time the negro, and to devict dua
next spring, writes our Peking correspondent Parliament
.
LOCAL MAPS England on the 29th of July, the abolition, but the House of Lords from public life. It fell to Bux-College. Denmark; will speak on the
Peak District,
Kowloon,
Victoria, Territories.
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS te anancial resourc
tion of slavery cost England
forbidding
to test with the greatest honour
A Water Police Sergeant in pro secuting told His Worship that while he was on duty in the Water Police Launch on Thursday night. he saw no white light in the de- fendant's junk, which at that time
He went on board the junk and
Preparations were pushed on by the Yokosuka Narel Dockyard for the laying down of the keel of the first-class cruiser Buzuya (8,500 tons), The ceremony is to take tiss con- place to-day: The auth cerned expect to complete her con
warships struction by 1936 equipment will be equal to that of a 10,000 clase
Cross-Channel services were again curtailed and the boats ran from Folkestone, and not from Dover, where it was dangerous to
the harbours
attempt to move in and out of
In London the weather was several degrees calder: to-day and although the sun shone from a cloudless sky, the temperature re-. mained below freezing point.
Skating is proceeding and many of the smaller rivers are frozen over. The unusual absence of rain has been a contributory factor, having reduced the water streams, several of which are covered for the fist time. many years British wireless
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