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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1934.

NOTABLE DEPARTURE

MISS BIRT

the

RETIRING

Kowloon is losing one of its pro-, cational however that Miss Birt minent, residents in the person of will be remembered by Hong Kong. Miss Margaret. Birt who leaves residents, for she has also gained the colony. to-day on the s.3 "Tin-¡ distinction as an amateur actress

having retired from the of ability. gara"

Her excellent perfor- Educational Department of

mance is Annie Marble in "Pay- Hong Kong Government, in which ment Deferred.", presented last service she has served in the cap-year by The Hong Kong Amateur aceity of school teacher since the Dramatic Club, will be remember- was first appointed Assistant Head-] ed by local theatres goers for years to come. Another splendid per- formance Miss Birt gave was as Mrs. Coade in "Dear Brutus," the Barrie play produced for the A.D.C. by Rupert Foster a few years ago. Miss Birt has also given notable performances in a number "of smaller productions

mistress in 1921.

Miss Birt arrived in the colony for the first time at the latter end of December in the year, mention- ed and immediately took up duty at the Wantsal School. Since that time however she has been on the staf of practically every local school, including the Peak "School, and at every institution has left a memorable mark as to her excell- ent qualities as a teacher. Her last appointment was as assistant mistress at King's College in 1928. and she has taught at this place continuously until the end of the last Christmas term.

country

OUTRAGE IN CHITTAGONG

Bombs Thrown At Cricket Match

Chittagong, January 8. Mr. M. F. Cleary, Superintendent of Police, was slightly wounded, three bombs were thrown by a and an Hindu was killed, when

who were watching a ploded, and group of Hindus at Elglishmen killed one assailant and seriously wounded two others.

Only one bomb excricket match. - One arrest was acected-Reater.

A DECISIVE WEEK

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Well-known as well as a travel- ler Miss Birt has visited nearly every country in the world; in or- der to get a glimpse of Canada she

Cabinet. took on the duties of waitress on one of the Empress boats in the [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally well remembered general strike which affected the whole of South

Press" (Copyright)] China and Hong Kong in 1924. Miss Birt arrived in the colony school for a number of years has Most of Miss Birt's vacations from

London, Jan. 7. Ramsay MacDonald 'left' with a reputation representing that been spent in visiting different Lossiemouth on Sunday afternoon she was a force in Educationai

places, China being matters, for prior to her local ap which she now knows intimately.

and will arrive in London On Monday morning to discuss the pointment she had been acting

Miss Birt's plans, for retirement outcome of the Rome conversa- Principal of King's College, Sey-

are not yet definitely known but tions with Sir John Simon, thus chelles, as well as Director of Edu-she hopes eventually to settle in ushering in what the Press des- cation and Inspector of Schools England. There is also a Dos-cribes as a decisive week. The in these islands.

In this capacity sibility of her taking up a position Cabinet will meet on Wednesday she became a personal friend of

in connection King Prempeh who, before his Geneva. With the Hong Kong and European situation and it is ex- with politics at in order to discuss the general death a year or so ago, gained a

Kowloon residents we wish Miss pected that reputation as the notorious king Birt "bon voyage." and with her will be played by the report which ithportant part of this group of islands. The sons friends, of whom she has a large Sir John Simon will submit con- of this royal household were al

number locally, we regret very cerning his one time Miss Birt's pupils.

conversations with much her decision to leave Hong Mussolini.

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It is not only in matters edu Kong.

have a Revenue Officer in atendance FIVE YEAR PLAN

when damaged datable goods, are examined.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowis, where they will be examined on the 11th

Jan, at 10 mm, by Messrs. Goddard

& Douglas.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

Bula of Lading will be countersigned

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTB,

Agente." Hong Kong, 4th Jan, 1024.

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AND

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aced at their disposal.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods

they will be examined on any Tuseday they will be examined on any Tusedays and Fridays between the hours of 10.46. d Noor within the Free Storage period.

No Claims will be admitted after the "Goods have left. the Steamer's Godowa, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 12th January, will be subject

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Details of Programme

PROMOTION

I doubt If at any time in his tory Englishmen have been so popular in Vienna as they are

to-day."

The "Neue Frete

Presse," the leading Viennese newspapr, is giv

azi

Papers foreshadow important decisions, although they are not in agreement to their purpose. The "Sunday Times' says that "Sir John Simón naturally could not be expected to bring about a

definite solution of the compli- cated disarmament problemi from Rome, since the problem does not only concern Italy and Great Britain. Nevertheless, the paper says, that as France is apparent- ly willing to make concessions plenty, but it seems to need an there £

possibility of English-speaking sub-editor.” concluding tentative, even if very The Political Bureau

Its latest issue contains a front- ] limited "disarmament convention Communist Party to-day approv-page article by "Stanley Baldwin,Transocean Kuo Min.

Approved in Moscowing its readers English news in

of the

ed a vast expansion programme embracing all lines of Bovlét 15- dustry and which must be Com- pleted by 1937, it was announced by the "Izvestia," official organ

of the Soviet Government.

Lord Charicellor of Great Britain.” There is another article in the same issue by Lord Hugh Cecil. He has been promoted by the Viennese

the Bishopric of Exeter!"

to

The programme, a major part of the Second Five-Year · · Plan, | — lays particular empansis upon the consumption of Soviet-made tex- the number of workers by 30 pez tiles, goods and foods In order cent, and also increasing the successful to complete the lan. daily wage scale "greatly:

Approval

of

the

Communist

CHINESE MINISTER TO GERMANY

Arrives At Berlin

Berlin, January 8. The new Chinese Minister to Germany, Mr. Li Chung-Chieh arrived here yesterday, and

WES!

A gigantic programme of fac- Party Congress, which convenes tory construction was also includ-greeted at the station by a Te- in January, must first be obtained in the Second Five-Year Plan Presentative of the German For- ed before it сад be placed In as announced. This part of the eign Offle, the staff of the Chin- ese Legation and numerous Chin- effect but approval is assured in į programme provides for the

ese residents.-Reuter. view of the fact that the Politi-construction of Afteen tertile, cal Bureau itself is the highest twelve cotton, eleven silk, 21 shoe. power in the Communist Party seventeen meat packing, six soap, and has as its members the ten and 23 food products plants and most powerful leaders of Borlet factories. Russia.

The electrification of 5,000 kilo- Further details of the Second metres of new sallroad trackage" Five-Year Plan are expected to be were announced. announced next month, although the Second Plan dates back from

Huge Canals

January 1, 1933. In its first year, | Two have canals on the

Volga

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CONSIGNEE NOTICES.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN,

THE Steamer

LAHN" having arrived from BREMEN, HAM- BURG and Purta, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their Cargo is being landed at their risk into the Go downs of the Hong Kong and Kowloo Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, Where

Delivery can Le obtained. – Consignees are further are hereby notified that: their Cargo the Steamer LAH Nied that has taken at be discharged into Holt's HAMBURG and BREMEN Through Wharf, Kowloon, where it will He Cargo for HONG KONG - S.,

AVIA BINGAPORE

All Goods

affected

by

ga, far surpassing anything now Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Oven, chairman at Consignees risk and subject to "STAR" sud 8.8. OFTMA" from Up to the present time, Soviet Government has been ex-ructed between now and 1937: Company, is undergoing treatment ready for Delivery bom Godown on

the in existence in Russia, will be con- of the British-American Tobacco Terms and Conditions of Storage WIBORG and BAUMO,FER

Hele's Wharf The Cargo wil bo pending millions of roubles In Five militon qualified workers win the nursing home of Alming and after 8th January, indon

the 18th of Jamaning undelivered after 1984, will be subject to Kanta building up its national defences. be used in this "construction pro Countess of Carnarvon, in Ports Noties has been given prior as in.say case whatever.

Optional Dargo will not be landed No Fire Insurance will be The "Evening Standard" under- to Vessel's arrival, but carried on from stands that she is not seriously ill, port to port to the final port of call Godowa for ramination by the Con

Damaged Packages must be left in the but that it is expected she will re- to which the option extends signees and the Company's Surveyors, main in the nursing home for a

All broken, chafed and damaged floods Mowers, Anderson & Asha, at 10 am, are to be left in the Godown, where they on the 13th of January, 1934, 19 few days. S

will be examined on any Tuesdays and Consignees must have a Berente Fridays between the hours of 10.45.1.x Officer in attendance when damaged 1dutisble goods are examined by the

the plan

particularly along the Siberian-gramme, it was announced. Manchukto border, and, therefore, Forty thres thousand specialistă lost some of its momentum in in trade and Industry will also be reaching the goal set for the end put to work in connection with of the first Five-Year Plari,

Complete liquidation of literacy Increased Production

| in the Soviet Union through a Lady Onliffe Owen, who w It was estimated the production schedule of seven-year compulsory Miss Helen Oliver, of New York, total 103,000,000,000 roubles as aation of agriculture is also in setta, in 1938,

No Claims will be admitted after compared with 43,000,000,000 rou- cluded in the programme.

Sir Hugo won the Derby in 1928 Goods have left the Vessel's Godown bles in 1932...

with Felstead, which created a

and il Goods remaining undelivered after Other goals for 1937, set by the modities will be reduced by 35 per Black Watch at the price of a to 1

Retail prices of necessary commarprise by beating Flamingo and to the 18th January, will be subject Political Bureau, include increas cent in order to reward the pro- Lady Cunliffe-Owen herself is be presented to the Undersigned en or

AL CA

sgainst tàn Yousel mast ing the consumption of meat, letariat for the seat sacrifices keenly interested in racing and has before the 20th January, or shey will butter, fish, eggs and sugar three made while building up the heavy owned some good horses. She des not be roognised. fold over the consumption in 1932, indistrial programme and engas- signed the decoration of Sunning- No Finanzance will be elected... at the same time reducing the re- ing in other work under the pro- dale Park; where each bedponti RE

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE tail prices of these commodities. gramme revealed in the Political named after one of their favourite

The plan envisages Increasing Bureau'

in the Soviet Union by 1937. would education and complete collectivi was married at Dudley, Massach and Noor within the Free Storage the Company's Surveyors.

announcement.

£2100

No Claim will be admitted after the Goods are left the Godown and NI aims must be presented within Time Weeks of the Ship's arrival here, aftes Consignes as requested, to surrender which date they will not be recognised,

beading to the Under

Undersigned

the

zinka

KELORERS & 00,

NORADETACKER TROYD, BREWE Hong Kong, 8th Jan, 1924, on (9157