Page 6.
"The Engineers Outlook" was the subject of the address before the Rotary Club at yesterday's luncheon, Mr. S. B. Freeman Was the speaker,
Page 11. Broadcasting Programme, includ ing the Manila programme and Daventry broadcast
Cinema, Diary Diary of Local Events Echoes of 1860 Home Football News and a pre Around the Courte
liminary forecast of the winners of the week-end matches Page 10.
Special Cinema Supplement
Pages 4 and a Meeting of the St. Patrick's Sosie- Details of the last, Committee
ty are given on Page 7.
The interesting case of alleged yesterday and is given on Page 19. infringing of copyright come
The South China Enterprises ed on Page 11. Company Meeting has been review-
up
A report of St. John's Cathedral Annual Meeting on Page 7.
Rifle Club Meeting
Page 11 -Contract Bridge resulte Page 7
+J
CHANG HSEUH LIANG
To Assist In Bandit
Suppression
Preas" (Copyright.)] s
Paris, January 29. The Italian aeroplane "Savoya Marchetti 71 about which 'grave tears were entertained because she
Nauting, Jan. 30, was overdue on the Atlantic trip Hsueh Liang, will be appointed. It is reliably learned that Chang is now reported as having landed vice-Commander of the Bandit on Monday in South Brazil whither suppression Forces in the five she was driven by bad weather.provinces of Hunan, Hupeh, Klang- Bertin, January 29, The Reichs Chancellor has ex- but both aviators Lombardi and Kal Shek being Commander-in- The plane was slightly damaged sl, Fukien and Kwangtung. Chiang niversary of the National-Socialist Transocean Kuo Min. pressed the wish that the first an-Nazzoti
brated powerful movement will be cele-
Next came the election of the nine representatives for the Diocessan Conference, those chosen being: Miss Armstrong, Mrs. Conald, Dr. Mathews, Mr. Baldwin Mr. Gittins, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Wong and Mr. Ramon.
Captain Elliott-Heywood was restrictest simplicity. The reason on Tuesday with the elected as the Auditor. Several other short reports were then reconstruction of the
given is 'that the great work of Nation's affairs is still so far from complete that the time for rejoicing has to be
read.
read the report of the Church Council. Amongst other things he from the International Fair and mentioned that $800 were realized pageant. As Rev. Rogers said later the church committee had given 2 good account of themselves show- ing that they had not only work- ed hard but had also achieved good results.
Mr. Dan the Hon. Treasurer'
are safe and sound. —
PRUSSIAN "LANDJAEGERS"
Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright.)].
Berlin, Jan. 29, After a lapse of a 100 years the
Chief-Reuter. «
NEW JAPANESE SUBURB
Pelping." Jan 30,
at Shanghai-
Japariese troops
postponed. Those who wish to re- Prussian "Landjaegers" that is the kwan have now moved out of the help some workless countrymen or rie" as a result of a special de- the revolution has done should former designation of "Gendarma nearby the eastward ramparts. gister their appreciation of what police rangers have recovered their Walled City into new barracks
ing paid a special tribute to 170 Japanese auspices and the control A new suburb is springing up family with contributions in kind.
cree. The Früssian Premier Goer- eastward of Shanhaikwan under members of this service who lost of Shanhaikwan virtually remains their lives and 1,300 wounded in in the hands of Japanese. Reuter. disorders under various post-war Governments til Hitler's, accession to power in January, 1933-Trang- ocsen Kuo Min.
at
A memorial session will take place the Reichstag and Prussian Diet at which Hitler and Goering respectively will speak while Goeb bels wifi address the com- memoration mass meeting at the Sport Palace.
||
The Hon. Treasurer Mr. Baldwin gave an account of the finances, Mr. Baldwin then gave an idea of the Anancial outlook for the next
The most striking feature of the year to those present, The pur-
day's programme will be a 24-hour port of this was that the difficult
death watch of 200 men of "the Anancial situation they
found Storm themselves in last year was due income. Mr. Baldwin then gave a to the mortgages, and the loss on saming that this year will by no means be easy and that a special effort will have to be made by all concerned. 'In closing Mr. Bald- win said that though it seems a hard year to look forward to, he is sure that due to the mutual co- operation of all, an effort will be made and the year will close suc-
NICOLL-On January 20, 1034, in his eighty-sixth year, George Nicoll, at Chefoo, passed peace-directed to its powers of destruc- fully away. Home papers please. tion.
Proposals have been made that the airplane be abandoned as a military weapon because of the terrible havoc It might wreak on citles; that airplanes should be handed over to the control of the League of Nations. These sola- tions might be commendable, but doubts arise whether they are practicable. In regard to the League, it is objected that if the airplane is too deadly a weapon to remain in national hands, it would be, ironical to make it the arm of a peace organization. As to the abandonment of military aviation, it is argued that vast Campaigns for increased
air improvements are more likely to forces have been opened in
be made by the states than by TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN number of countries.
private organizations. Germany, THAT THE THIRTY-SIXTH who is
allowed under the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING Versailles Treaty to
Possess danger of a race in air armament Schoot work had been successfully Due to Mrs. Mathews the Sunday OF THIS COMPANY will be held military planes, demands equality which would resemble the race in carried on all through the past at the Office" of "Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co., Ltd., on THURS-
"in this respect 7.8 in others. naval and land forces that pre-year and it is due to her encour.. DAY, the 8th February, 1934, at Italy makes no secret
of ceded the war. The cry, despite 28ement and enthusiasm that the NOON, for the purpose of receiving her intention to improve the the Disamament Conference; is for keenness had been preserved both atmosphere of such goodwill and the Report of the Directors together atr
arm. Brid indeed with a Statement of Accounts for
has re-more airplanes, bigger airplanes, by the children and the teachers. the year ended 3 fat December, 1933. markably shown the qualities of swifter airplanes.
The choir had also been success- swiftness and
The convertibility of commercial both the choir practices and the ful Regular attendance marked The Register of Shares of the
reliability of her Company will be CLOSED from quadrons. France is urginga airplanes - into military airplanes monthly musical programmes. Wednesday, the 31st January, 1934 complete overhauling of her milf has likewise received to Thursday, the 8th February, 1934, both days inclusive."
..fi
THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
No
By order of the Board of Directora,
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 24th January, 1984.
[2195
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE AND
·COLD STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED.
WHY NOT AN AIR CONFERENCE
not
â
#
Yet it is evident that there is cessfully,
attention.
The meeting closed" with the those nominated being. Mr. Robson election of two Church Wardens and Mr. J. W. Baldwin. .. -
WAR IN THE PACIFIC
Prediction By Dr. "W. Yen
the
troops company. The speech of the Minister Roehen chief of the Storm troop detach- ments, will be made at the cross- roads in Charlottenburg where a storm trooper was shot dead a year ago. The crack body-guard of the Prussian Premier will foln a batal-
fore the tomb of the Unknown lion of the Reichswehr in the day. light parade" and ceremonies be-
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" Copyright.}]
Bagdad, Jan. 20. The spot traditionally believed to have been the authentic site of the garden of Eden is soon to be
by the Mesopotamian Government invaded by noisy gangs of modern engineers who have been engaged
to build a giant dam across the valley of the Tigris at Kut-El- SOCIAL WELFARE IN GERMANY Amara. Tenders for the vast pro- Special to the "Hong Kong Daily plan is to build a reinforced con-
ject have just been called for. The j Press" (Copyright.)]
Eoldier-Transocean Kuo Min.
""Duesseldorf, January 28.
SUN TIEN YING DISMISSED-
Nanking, Jan. 30.
The Executive Yuan has dis- missed Sun Tien Ying from the Post of Land Reclamation" Com- missioner at Chinghai, which. -position is now considered abolish- ed. Representatives of public bodies at Ningshia, Kansu, visited. the Executive. Yuan this morning demanding punishment of Bun. Tien Ying-Reuter.
V
SIŅKIANG STILL LOYAL
Nanking, Jan. 30. A telegram has been received" crete barrier thirteen hundred and from the Governor of Sinklang fifty feet long from hill to hul, denying the alleged establishment Mr. Hilgenfeldt on charge of after which come navigation locks of an independent Government in nationalsocialist welfare for the and a system irrigation drains Sinklang-Reuter.. whole of Germany declared that costing altogether one and a half a new campaign will be started million pounds-Transocean Kuo under the slogan Mother and Min
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Four cases of diphtheria and one Lady Southon and the Com- case each of small pox and mittee of the HongKong women's typhold have been reported in the International Club will give an Colony for the 24 hours ended at home to members at the Chang January 29,
Tin Building from 5.15 p.m. on Tuesday, February 6. Tea "will be The troopship Neuralta left served and the business of the Colombo yesterday en route for club will be discussed. All mem- Hong Kong She is expected to bers are invited to attend. reach Singapore on February 4 and Hong Kong on February 9.
UGLY SCENES IN KALGOORIE
Demonstrations Against Foreigners
tary aviation. The United States There is a difference in type and are rapidly increasing their mill-in quality which can scarcely be tary and Naval Air Forces. In confounded. Yet it may well be: Great Britain it is pleaded that that there are, in some countries, the country is no longer an island, designers who are giving their as it was before the airplane could attention to the possibility of treat the span of sea as negligible. camouflaging military planes in
Kalgoorie, Jan. 30.-. Thirty-thousand sterling damage The most recent figures which commercial planes.
was done when 3 hotels, 13 shops are published show the fighting
Unless, therefore, the world is
and 2 boarding houses, were burn- alrpfane strength of the leading now to enter on a perilous course.
ed down by an infuritated mob nations as: France, 3,000: United there is urgent need for
following man's death in an general
The next general meeting of the hotel and the arrest of the foreign States, 2,826;; Japan; 1,935; Italy, agreement regarding the manufac
Bix cases of meningitis. two Hong Kong University Medical barman on a charge of manslaugh- 1,507 Great Britain, 1.434. It may ture of military airplanes; and it
each of small pox, diphtheria and Society will be held to-day at 5.30 ter. typhold have been reported in the P in the Union Assembly Room, A mob of a thousand demanded be that they are in some way would seem desirable to make
London, January 30.
Colony. for the week
ended when Dr. Li Shu Fu, M.B., the election of all foreigners, bot- misleading, for they include planes some provision against the con- A war in the Pacific, possibly deaths by tuberculosis
January-27" There were also 55 FR.C.B. will take as his subject ed and set are to foreign -estab- TOTICE is hereby given that which are virtually obsolete, and vertibility
"The Methods of Treatment of lishments, they piled furniture and of peace planes into very soon, is inevitable in Extraordinary General Meeting
Otorrhoea." Tea will be served carpets in the streets, soaked them of The Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold which could scarcely render effec-war planes. It is quite concely-well-known Chinese
opinion" of Dr. W. W. Yen, the
Through the Storage Company, Limited will be tive services. But, in addition, itable that within
diplomalist,
courtesy of "the" at 5.15 pm.
with whisky and set them on fre Japanese years, who is on his way to Nanking.
Consulate General In held at the Company's registered office
-Schedules have been printed for cars and continued their destruc- then commandeered trams and Lower Albert
Hong Kong we have received a Victoria, is calculated that there are thou-unless in the meantime interna- Road
In an interview granted to the copy of the 33rd issue of the the Hong Kong Horticultural' Hong Kong, on Tuesday the 20th day sands of civilian planes. Here the tional checks are imposed, there Daily Telegraph," the Chinese of Japan, Lasued by the Depart able show, to be held on Wednes was powerless as the mob cut the
Bingapore correspondent of the Financial and Economic Annual Society's annual nower and veget
tion February, 1934, at 11 am im- United States leads the way with will be an intensive increase of Ambassador to Moscow said he ment of Commerce in Tokyo,
The Boulder, City Fire Brigade mediately after the Annual General
day, March 7. Several alterations Meeting for the purpose of considering 10,873 machines: France has 1,821; an arm that arouses suspicion and felt confident that the Pacific
have been made to And if chonght fit passing with or Germany, 1.200 Great Britain, fear.
this year's hoses Police were rushed from" would be the scene of the next
Perth and eventually restored thout modification the following BB1; Italy, 598; and Japan, 88.
world outbreak, owing chiefly, he Messrs Elite Stores, Hong Kong, Cap has been donated by LadyAll mines are now closed.
Isabel Agnes Rapley, late ori schedule, and a new Challenge order. They Tested. 20 persons. resolution Special Biation :-
It might, therefore, be well to thought, to the Anglo-Japanese who died at Palma de Malorks, Feel. It will be observed that, with consider the problem of the mill-scramble for the markets of the Spain, on April 13, 1933, left local]
The Grievances against foreign- the exception of the United States tary airplane in
a" conference Far East..
estate of $11,800. Probate has The Directors of The Hong Kong ers are of longstanding owing to and Germany, the military planes apart, as was formerly done for
Dr. Yen was of the opinion that heen granted to Messrs. D. B. Land Investment & Agency Co. the low wages they accept in the Soviet Russia was still not ready Blake and C, E. L. Grist, solicitors Ltd. have declared a Final Divines. There are 7,295 foreigners far outnumber the civilian planes. the problem of the leading navies. to fight Japan, having been com
in the district-Reuter. dend of $200 per share. This with Quite clearly in the view of most There is no reason why arma-
pelled to hold out despite Japan- According to the report of the the. Interim Dividend of $2.00 al- ese provocation.
St. John Ambulance Brigade, the ready paid, makes $1.00 in all for nations the commercial purpose of ments should not be dealt with
He fears that any Pacific im number of people vaccinated dur- the year 1939,
R. Sayer, Hon. Mr. R. M. Hender |"the airplane is subordinated to its piece-meal. On an' acceptable ar- broglio cannot avoid involving ing the week ending January. 25
Bon, Dr. J. M. Gray, Mr. Woog purpose as a weapon. This is rangement civilization may de China, and expressed a belief That was 7,173, as compared with the Only business of a purely routine Kwong Tin, Mr. F. C. Hall, Mr surely almost unfortunate attitude.pend. Why not, then, an air con-
Japanese ambitions were at pre- figure of 3,939 for the previous nature was discussed at yesterday's L. C. F. Bellamy, Dr. Li Shu Fan, sent directed towards the rich week, giving a total of 11,112 for fortnightly meeting of the Banitary Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, and "[8208 | Aviation should be 'que of the most ference?'
oilfields of East Siberia-Renter. the last two weeks,
Board. Those present were Mr. G. Mr. C. J, Roe, Secretary.
That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered by deleting the figures 37,000.00 in the third Tine of Article No. 91, of the Com
pany's Articles of Association and substituting in the place thereof the figures $10,000,00." Dated this 28th day of January, 1921. By Order of the Board,
J. D. THOMSON,"
Secretary,
a few
?
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.