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"TIMES" LITERARY SUPPLEMENT dated 19th October, 1983. CHANGING CHINA. A Quarterly Non-Political Review of Life and Conditions in Modern China. Vol. I. No. 1 April, 1939129 pp. Vai. L, No. 9 July, 19.3. 148 pp. 7ongkong Daily Press (53, Floot Street, E.C.4) 11. 6d. n. 810b. Is a prefatory, ante the editor explains that the pur. pose of this newly established quarterly is to keep a soord of the progress of arents in all parts of China and, by dianominating a faller knowledge of the country's actual conditions and needs, to assist in the promotion of trade and a better understanding be twoon East and West. To this end, qualified corre spondents in avery proviños have undertaken to supply reports, commentaries, and forecasts. The first two numbers contain several articles on interesting sup feotame.g., the industrial", development of the Knang provides, the spread of Communism, the condition of the native cotton 'industry, and the Mind of Young China

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NAVAL APPOINT- THE DEVELOP-

MENTS

(Special Air Mail Service.)

London, Feb. 3. The following appointments were made by the Admiralty yester- day:-

Cdr.-C. A. H. Brooking, to Cum- 'berland (Feb. 8).

Surgn. Cdr.-H. H. Barington, to Drake for R.N. Hosp., Plymouth (Feb. 5).

Payr. Car-D. H. Pasmore, to

President for duty inside Admiral- ty (Feb. 6).

Lt-Cars-F: R. G. Oliphant, to Victory for R.N.B. (Feb. 71; and P. N. Churchill, to-Vernon (Feb. 9).

Instr. Lt-Cdr.-G. K. McArthur, B.A., to Neptume (on commg.).

Lts. J. Hopkinson, to Caradoc (Feb. 8); S. D. Roper, to Dürban (on recommg.); J. S. H. Lawrence, to Acasta (on relief); E. G. Roper, to Daring (on relief); E. G. Roper, to Daring on rellef); and J. P. Scatchard, appt. to Caradoc can- celled,

Schoolmasters (C.W.O.).—A. C. Howard, to Neptune, on commg. (Feb. 22) and J. Denn's B.Sc., to St. Angelo for Malta Dockyard School (March 15).

Commander P. F... Glover to Ramilies, February 5.

Lieutenant-Commander A. Craw

Pembroke for

MENT OF MAN

Improvement Of The Race

STRIKING FACTS

An interesting contribution to the problem of the improvement of the race has been made by Dr.

Harold Diehl, of the University of weight and height of over 17,000 college girls between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, and com- pared them with similar statistics gathered, twenty years ago by in- surance companies.

Minnesota. He has obtained the

FEBRUARY 20; 1934.

MR. JOHN

STRACHAN

Public Works In Ceylon And Malaya

(Special Air Mail Service.)

London, Feb. 3. It is learnt that Mr. John Stra- chan, C.M.G., Director of Trans- fortnight's iness a tthe age of 56. port, died in Trinidad after a He was taken ill while on duty, and death was due to cerebral hemorrhage.

work

CONSIGNEE NOTICES.

NOTICE TO ` CONSIGNEES UUBAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

ASD

CHINA MUTUAL STRAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

YONSIGNEES por Co.'s Vessel

"MEDON." Faox UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENTAL PORTS

will be

VLA SINGAPORE are baraby sotilied, that their Cargo Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie discharged into Holt's at Consignees risk and tubject to Terms and Conditions of Storage st Holt' Whart, The "Cargo will be ready for Uelivery from Godown on and after 15th February.

Optional Cargo will not be landed to Vassal's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option extends.

CONSIGNEE NOTICES.

HAMBURG AZERIKA LINIE

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES THE M.V.

TH

"SAUERLAND"

having arrived from Hamburg and Ports of call, Consignces of Cargo ara hereby notified that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk into the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf obtained as soon as the Goods are landet. and Godowa Company's godowna at Kowloon, whore Delivery may be

Optional Largo will not be landsd here, unless Notice has been given 49 hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried

on

from port to port 10 the final port of call to which toe option extends

These investigations show that had only recently been appointed i hare, palsam Notice has been given prior Goods have left the Godowns, and all

whereas the average college girl of twenty years ago was 6 ft. 1 in, in height, to-day she is 2 in. taller, while her predecessor of twenty years ago weighed 8 st. lb. against the 8 st. 5 lb. of the student of 10- day,

Mr. Strachan had done valuable

in the Colonial service in Ceylon and the Malay States, and

to his post in Trinidad. The 304' of Mr. John Strachan, A.M." Inst. CE, he received his professiorial training with various docks, rail- ways, and engineering works. In! August, 1911, he joined the Public Works Department. of Ceylon as Using these figures as a text,

chief engineer of the Colombo lake

scheme. a representative of The Observer development

After obtained an interview with Dr. F.

short period as Assistant Director G. Parsons, the former Professor of of Public Works in Ceylon he was Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital appointed in December, 1920, to and President of the Anthropologi- the coresponding post in the Fede- cal Section of the British Associa-rated Malay States. In April, 1923, tlon & few years ago.

he was promoted to be Director of "As an R.N.B..

said Dr. Public Works, chairman of the February 7,

Parsons, "the human body and its Electrical Board, and a member of Lleutenants R. G. W. Hare to development fave, naturally, always the Railway Board. Grimsby on commissioning: A. E. been matters of profound interest Doran to Bruce, February & ap for me, and at one time I kept a pointment to Pembroke cancelled). tally of the students

Sub-Lieutenant G. K. Horsey to

Thomas's Hospital, "I noticed Verity December 28, 1933 (appoint-that the average height of the class ment to Bruce cancelled.

from which the medical students Paymaster Midshipman A. H. Ed-were recruited the upper middle mondson to Durban. February 27. class. I suppose it would be called

Commissioned Gunners

-averaged 5 ft. 9 in, a very high Swales, M.E.E., D.S.M., to Ajax,

average compared with about 5 ft. February 7; M. L. Sonnen- to Ex-

5 p. which we may take to be cellent, February 15.,

the average of the country at Acting Warrant Writer C. Marsh large. to Curacos, February 1.

furd to

AIR PIONEER'S DEATH

J

First To Try To Fly Atlantic

(Specia) Air Mail Service.)

London, Feb. 3.'

anatomist,"

At St.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods remaining undelivered after Wednesday, 21st February, will be subject to fent.

All broken, shafed and damaged (foods are to be left in the Godowns, where ther Goods are to be left in the Godowns, A broken chafed, and damaged will be elamined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.15 *.*

where they will be examined on Toes- and Noon within the Free Storage period.

day, 20th February, at 10 am by our No Claims will be admitted after the Surveyors, Mesara, Goddard & Douglas. Gooda have left the Vessels Godown. To comply with the General Bondod and all Goods remaining undelivered Warehouse Regulations, consignees must after the 22nd February, will be subjecte » Revenue Officer in attendance when damaged dutiable goods are examined. All Claims against the Vessel must be presented to the Undersigned cu or before the 8th March, or they will uot be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be affected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIEE

Agents.

to Rent;

AND

Not long afterwards he returned to Ceylon as Director of Public 16th February, 1934. Works, member of the Legislative Council, and chairman of the Electrical, Public Works Advisory, Local Government, and Prison Boards. In January, 1927, he was appointed general, manager and chief engineer of the Federated Malay States Railways, chairman of the Railway Board and the Johore CausEWBY Commitee, and. member of the Indian Immigra- tion Committee. In October, 1927, he was further appointed an om- cfal member of the Federal Coun- cil. Mr. Strachan, who was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, of the Institute of Structural Engineers, and of

All Claims must reach as before the Wednesday, 14th March, 1994, or they will not be recognized.

No Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JEBSEN 00

Agents.

(2970 Hong Kong, 14th Feb., 1934.

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SILVER LINE.

NOTION TO CONSIGNEES.

FBOM

NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES

Motor Vessel

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO, LTD. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD,

TONSIGNEES per Co.'s Vessel ** MEMNON" "That high average. has been

FROM UNITED KINGDOM steady for a considerable time, for,

TIA SINGAPORE. so far as my researches went, the

are hereby notified that their cargo average has never risen as high as

will be discharged into Holt's Wharf 5 ft. 10 in. or dropped below 5 ft.

Kowloon, where it will lie at Consig. 9 in, during the twenty years over

nees' risk and subject to terms and which my measurements were ex-

conditions of storage at Holt's Whart: tended. More than this, I am quite

The Cargo will be ready for delivery of Transport. sure that these men are taller Was president of the En- from Godown on and after 16th Feb. than were my own contemporaries Entering Civil Engineerslaga here, unless notice has been given Optional cargo will not be landed Association of Malaya in nty student days forty-five years was made a CMG. last year. Etts prior to steamer's arrival bat carried Kowloon, and stored at Consigusen' risk

on from port to port to the final prot of call to which the option extends

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined onany Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 AM. and Noon within the free storage period.

ago, just as those contemporaries; In their turn, were probably taller

than the medical student, depicted by Dickens,

walked #ho

the Borough hospitals fifty years be- fore them.

"While the male figures are stationary, greatly struck with the improve- I cannot help being

ment in the figures for women, which. Dr. Diehl's investigations have clicited. They correspond

with my own observations." Dr. Diehl have observed in height "Is this increase which you and and weight affected by locality?"

interrupted.

the Institute

home was at Beaconsfeld, Bucks. He married in 1900 Agnes K. Law, and had a son and two daughters

AMY MOLLISON

dade.

& U.S. POLICE

that it was her firm belief that the officers who stopped her were gang. She declared

sters.

claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 3rd Feb, be subject to rent

wil

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 9th Mar,, or they will not be recognised.

N. Fire Insurance will be affected. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

having arrived from the above Port on

SILVERYEW". 12th February, Consignees of Cargo ars hereby informed that their Goods are

Wharf and Godowa Company, Limited, being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon

and sipenas

are to be left in the Godowns, where All broken, chafed, and daranged Goods they will be examined on Monday, 19th February, 1934, us 10 am.

All Claims must be presented within

18 Days of the Vessel's arrival here, after whisk date they cannot be re- cognized

Goods have left the Gotowns, and al Claims will be wimitted after the

Goods remaining undelivered after the Bent. 19th February, 1934, will be' subject to

by

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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN.

THE

Steamer

"TRIER"

No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be onustersigned FURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD., 4th Floor, King's Brilding. "Connaught Road,

**Dial 23165." Bong Kong, 18th Feb., 1984,

PRINCE LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNESS,

12262

Walter Wellman, the great air expert and explorer of an earlier generation, who achieved world fame by making the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by air, has died at his home here, aged 75.

He made his effort in a dirigible

(Special Air-Mail Service) in October, 1910, an andertaking

Loudon, Feb. 3. rendered possible by the financial

Mrs, Amy Mollison left to-day for support of "The-Daily Telegraph"

Miami strongly protesting against "Apparently not," replied Dr. her arrest on Monday on a charge and the "New York Times." This Parsons. It is a matter of com- of reckless driving at Fort Lauder-16th February, 1934. was nine years before Sir John mon knowledge among anthropo- Alcock and Sir Arthur Whitten logists that, after Brown accomplished the first aero-Japanese War, the Japanese adopt she was going rather fast, but it the Russo- Mrs. Mollison's account is that plane crossing of the Atlantic, ed a much more generous proteld was an open road with no cars or

Wellman's vessel was 228 fect diet than they had been accustom buildings in sight. long, with a lifting capacity of 24,-ed to. The result which was no 00015. It was equipped with two ticed in the course of a relative engines, one of 70 to 80 horse- ty few years was that the national power but, for its passage over the ocean it depended on its drift- the weight improved in proportion. Mrs. Mollison denies, she 'scratched are hereby notified that their Cargo is

stature increased by an inch and

According to ones Recrunt, which having arrived from BREMEN, FAM. ing powers.arid, favourable winds. "If you ask me to what I attri the face of one of the policemen, being landed at their risk into the Go BURG and Porta, Consignees of Oargo Actually had covered over 1,bute this remarkable development 000 miles when, after seventy-two I

that bit him, and told him she liked a downs of the Hong Kong and Kowloon unhesitatingly hours' voyaging. It was driven hygiene, better nutrition, and bet-

FROM down, the crew being rescued by ter environment are

fight."

Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, NEW YORK, AND LOS ANGELES Mr. Mollison was fined £10 and where Delivery can Le obtained. the steamer Trent.

responsible for the change. This change is by costs. She complained that she

Consignees are further notified that I remember the incident well, for no means limited to the upper was not allowed to give evidence in the Steamer TRIER" has taken at a special temporary wireless station middle class to which I have just court, that she was detained in cus- HAMBURG and BREMEN Through had been built at Atlantic City to referred as the one from which Dr. tody after her arrest for several Cargo for HONG KONG 83. keep in touch with Wellman, and Diehl and I drew the source of our hours before being released on her "INDALZALVEN ud 9.9."STAR" from there I received his first message investigations. The same is true own recognisances, and also detain-GOTHENBURG and KOTKA. to "The Daily Telegraph" after his with regard to the children of the ed in custody for several hours until the 24th pt. Feb, 1974, will be subject All Goods remaining undelivered after the fine and costs were paid. 'De.

to Heut puty Sheriff Clark, who wears no uniform, and has maly a silver badges in any case whatever, toget

No Fire Insurance will be effected by to identify him, was the chief wit- CHINESE IN THE He said that Mrs. Mollison

tried to

run away several times after being arrested. He also stated that she drove her car through the Dentre of Fort Lauderdale-an old town with many winter residente at about seventy miles an hour.

....

rescue.

Of the crew of tour, ane, Mr. Murray Simon, the navigator, was an Englishman. After their re- turn to America they were feted as heroes.

Wellman was one of the most distinguished-of American journal- lets before he started his aerial career. He Arst attracted atten. tion by an air trip to the Bahamas, where he claimed to have located the landing-place of Columbus.

Afterwards, and before his Transatlantic fight, he made four attempts to reach the Pole from Spitzbergen by dirigible. There was nothing 6f the stunt about als various enterprises He was a genuine explorer and scientific air- man, and his various experiences contributed substantially to the de- velopment of aeronautics

answer

poor."

STRAITS

Statistics Show Enormous Increase

London, Feb. 19.

from 194,469 to 285,318. The re- port adds it is questionable whether Auch a preponderance of any A striking increase in the foreign race, which is largely in Chinese population in the Strait assimilable and retains. Its own Settlements is shown in a Colonial customs and language is in the Office report. It rose from 174,327 true Interests of the social in 1891 to 683,518 in 1931, while the economic progress of the people. Malayan population increased f Reuter.

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godown for examination by the Con gases and the Company's Burveyors, Moara. Anderson & Ashe, at 10 am on the 23rd of February, 1984.

Consignees must have a Revenue Offer in attendance when damaged dutiable goods are examined by the Company's surveyors.

No Claim will be admitted after the Goods are left the Godown and a Claims must be presented within Two which date they will not be recognised Weeks of the Bhip's arrival here, after Consignees are requested to sorrender their Bill of Lading to the Undersigned for Countersignature,

MALOHERS & CO.

MedMAgentai,

KORDDEUTSCHan Laord, BusMKM)

:

THE Motor Vessel

...OINGALESE PRINCE**

having arrived from the above Porton" 16th inst. Consigness of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are Godowar of Bong Kong and Kowloon being landed as their risk into the Wharf and Godown Company, Limited Kowloon, and stored at Consigness risk and expense.

All broken, chated, and damaged Goods

are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examised on Thursday, 22nd watant, 1934, at 10 am

All Claims must be presented within 15 Days of the vessel's: Arrival here after which data they cannot be re- cognised.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Good remaining undelivered after the 23rd instant, 1934, will be subject to No Fire Insurance has been affected, Bent

Bill of Lading will be pouatemogred

by

FURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD,

4th Floor, King Building,

Connaught Ronde

Dial 28168.

Hong Kong, 17th Feb, 1924, (2275 Hong Kong, 16M Feb 1954 [#27