Numerous changes in the per-
sonnel of the lawnƐ bowls teams will be noticed when they turn out to-day for the first matches of the 1934 Lea- gue season. In addition to several departures from the... Colony, including Hughie Nish of the K.B.G.C., and Hyde-Lay of the K.C.C. quite a number of" players have, changed their loves. Page 10
The Secretary's Office, 3rd Floor, Gloucester Building (Tal. 27794), will close at 12 o'clock Noon,
Badges admitting
androvsky arrived and was Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course,
present, Barthou afterwards told Press representatives that he was. SANJURJO RELEASED
very exhausted after three days travel in Poland but was neverthe-- Gibraltar, April 26.
Benesch General Sanjurjo who led the
less in a good- humour. unsuccessul Monarchist insurrec-Th their
said Barthou had been very loyal. tion at Seville in August 1932 sped relations between
conversation. trlendiy into Gibraltar on Thurday in a
France and high-powered motor
Czecho-slovakia and unanimity of } ------ The Royalist leader had come from the
political policy
ex- was again phasised. State prison of Cadiz less
Before the Barthou that the" Boviet Representative than Benesch talk ended the Soviet, re- discussed with Benesch the ques- twelve hours previously released
presentative, in Pragne, Dr. Alex- tion of "de Jure" recognition as a result of te general amnesty.
re-of Russia and the latter's entry where he was confined since his ceived, by Beresch immediately into the League spectacular failure of the Monar after Barthou left. It is assumed Transocean Kuo Min.
of Nations.~~~ chist coup d'Etat. Sanjurjo states that he intends taking a ship for Lisbon-Transocean Kuo Min.
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On No Pretext will Children be permitted in wither Enclosure during the Mecting.
Tifins are obtainable at the. Olav, House' provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone $1920.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. The Price of Adiniseion to tag Public Enclostire is $2.00 including Tax for all Persons, including Ladise, arid is payable at the Gate.
Soldiera and Sailorgia aniform are admitted Half Price.
In all professions, those who are néed but little well-established
effort to secure a cuentele, but let a young doctor or a young solicitor set out on his own, and no matter how high his qualifications, his early years in his own field are
encountered en our motor roads. A cinema film, taken by men who are well up in their profession, would reveal to those who have not visited the Colony, what pretty remarkably
place Hong Kong really is. The
winter in Hong Kong is mild and not unlike the sunny climate of Italy in the bound to be tollsome. Thus it is winter months. As for our sum
mer, although the essential that professional men
weather is should display a certain amount admittedly trying, yet the bathing In facilities available here more than make up for the heat, and people from the interior of China come here in the summer.
of tenacity
heart and
and optimism. commercial circles these qualities Tifins will be obtainable in the
are no less important and because Restaurant in the Public Enclosure. a scheme or project fails to be Bookmakers, Tie Tac Mon, etc., appreciated at first, there is no will not be permitted to operate with. reason for losing in the Frecincts of Tum HONG KONG abandoning it. Having generalis JOCKEY CLUB during the Race Meeting, ed thus far we shall come down
By Order
to details. A few days ago we O, B, BROWN,
Secretary,
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Hong Kong, 23rd April, 1934.
Mothers!
CUTICURA SOAP
Used Daily Protects the Skin- and Keeps It Healthy EVERY member of the family. should nee Cutleura Song regularly.
Sample each Span, Olament and Talbum on receipt of 25 ell. Address: Muller & Prinse CAMM IRAN 1.0, Ban 25, Hong Kong.
Sold Throughout the World
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The new invention was found satisfactory by Mr. Lip Yun Kai, Chairman of the Kwangtung. Pru- vincial Government and coacur- rently Commissioner of Recon struction, who gave a fee of $10,000 to Mr. Tang for the patent of the gas which is to be produced here. Mr. Yue Kal, chemical engineer of the Reconstruction Department is instructed to draw up plans for a factory to turn out charcoal gas xroducers.
Such motor fuel is used by the Man Sheng Company in Hankow and owing to its low cost many are using the charcoal gas produc highway buses in Hupeh province
ers. Mr. Tang is an engineer con- nected with the Hankow company. Yue Kal, was used in
Charcoal gas, according to Mr. France shortly after the world war, and England and Belgium once used city gas in lieu of petrol. In China the price of petrol te charcoal gas is bound to good demand, although the filling and starting of the engine take about ten minutes.
"GERMAN HOUSE" IN LONDON
London, Apr. 26. Flans for the erection of a "German bouse" in London in- tended to serve as a meeting place for all Germans visiting the Bri- high, sotish capital, was the subject of a be discussion in the House of Com- mons on Thursday night, a member saking whether the Government consented to this plan, and if not whether it would give the matter Secretary, Sir John Gilmour, said careful consideration. The Home that the Government saw no occ slon for oficial action The plan merely aimed at bringing together all German, societies and associa tions in London for the purpose of creating a centre for social and political meetings. Transocean Kuo Min.
While rich automobile owners minutes to start their cars, motor would not care to wait several buses operating on the many high ways in Kwangtung would find charcoal gas to be very economical and suitable, Mr. Yue continued, because they are running on a fixed Surely lime table and have to use cheap
"Everybody's business is nobody's business," hence Hong Kong has one of the beauty spots of the yet to be placed on the map as world, where British merchants, Dearly Д hundred years ago, advocated -În „ our columns the established an outpost, that was "boosting" of Hong Kong. A cor- to grow into the biggest city in respondent immediately wrote sup- South China, if not in size then porting the idea and suggestins certainly in importance. various aspects of life in this the traditions of the Colony alone fuel in order, to make profits. Colony which might be more justify the expenditure of time. generally made, known. We do not and energy in bringing it more hesitate to commend to the atten
to the fore than has been the case tion of merchants and business to date! men in the Coloriy, the possibilities which "such advertising holds forth. As is well-known. air- routes between Europe on the one side and Singapore and the Dutch East Indies on the other side are now no longer a dream, but a reality, and anyone at Home with a month on his hands could easily make a "Dying visit" to the Far Eastas far as Singapore and all the cities along the route of the air-lines will thus come more
SHANGHAI LOTTERY
Result Of Draw
The afth National State Lottery
Shanghai," April 27,
be placed anywhere la a car. It is The charcoal gas groducer can
in cyclinder form, 14-ft. in dis- meter and 4 feet high. A blower is connected with the produce. and an exebanger is to be attach- ed to the engine...
RAILWAY WAGE REDUCTION
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. IN
LOCAL AND GENERAL
One case of small-pox and two |
to
of cerebro spinal fever were re-take place shortly of Mr. Herbert
The wedding is announced
ported for the 24 hours ended on William Basin. Muskett, 01 254, April 26.
Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, and Miss Maisie Gertrude Martin, of 21, Bellevue Street, Sydney, Aus- tralia.
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Mrs. S. W. Coleman, wife of the Manager of the Western Electric removed to Company, has been hospital, suffering from malaria..
A derelict junk which is stated reported yesterday to be in posi- to be dangerous to navigation was tion 28 degs. 11.5 mins. North and 112 degs 12 mins. East.
His
were Mr. and Mrs. Morris. Mr. Among the passengers arriving by the ss. President Polk yesterday
Dollar Steamship Lines in Hong- Morris 18. a passenger agent of the kong. He is returning with his
wife after a vacation wip to Pie- ping....
Excellency. the Governor, sir William Feel accompanied by According to an advertisement Lady Peel will arrive in the Co-appearing elsewhere in this issue. lony this morning on the RMS. a special. motor trafa will leave, Empress of Canada after a brief Kowloon at 3.30 p.m. on Wednesṁ holiday trip to Japan..
day, May 2 and on subsequent Wednesdays if there be sufficient demand. Diriners should be "or- derad as usual but special cold suppers need not be ordered t arrival. The return train lesayes Sheungshui at 9.07 pm.
GERMANY Dusseldorf, Aprü -26.
We learned that the Southern Speaking at the Rhine Stadium Chinese athletes selected to re- to some 60,000 listeners, Goebbels present China in the Far Eastern said that the National-Socialism Olympic Games which commence stood firmly on the basle position on May, 12, will leave for Manila
of Christianity, and did not comper by the ss. President McKinley on
anyone to accept any form of Saturday, May 5
The destroyers Whitshed, Wren Creed and wanted to see no con- **
and Veteran'left Hong Kong yes- fessional war. The Government Arthur Richard Smith, 16, an terday for Nimrod Bound where would never again tolerate cur- apprentice on the ss. Linder Bar, they are expected to arrive on rency inflation in Germany, they was on Thursday removed to the Sunday. HMS. Cornwall left for would keep currency" stable and Government Civil Hospital with Weihaiwel at 7 am and will tr
He fell rive in the Northern part on May - into the hold of the ship while she 1. HE. the C.-in-C., Admiral Bir was lying outside the Talkoo Bu-Prederic C. Dreyer, leaves Amoy gar Refinery.
to-day on board" HMS. Falmouth for Pagoda Anchorage,"
before the eyes of the public, in was drawn to-day in the presence / Restoration By: US refuse to allow the Reichsmark to an injury to his spine.
Europe than Hong Kong, and ex-of 1,400 people amid tremendous rept for those whose business excitement from the usual large bring them to China, this Colony crowd of foreigners and Chinese will be a closed book.
at the Canidrome ballroom.
Employers
become the plaything of interna tional speculation, Transocean Kuo Min
HITLER ATTENDS FUNERAL
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Washington, April 27. Complying with the wish of Nuremberg, April 25 President Roosevelt and in the Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler interests of National Recovery, the attended the funeral of one of Railway Labour managers agreed the oldest members of the Nate to the restoration of the ten per ional-Socialist-Party, Taylor Jos cent wage reduction which has Heinrichs, who in 1921, in-spite
The case in which Bergeant WII- Ham Francis Bernard Edward It is reported that in the village Pratt of the Hong Kong Singapore | of Guca, in Yugo-Blavia, a wolf Brigade, Royal Artillery is charged was caught by a shepherd in the with having delayed the delivery act of devouring a sheep. The of several postal packets was con- villagers pre ared to dispatch the ttaued before Mr. Wynne-Jones at animal, but the shepherd forbade the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, the killing of the wolf, and secur- ing a bell to its neck, let it escape. The bell is said to be heard 'every long cross examination on army procedure with regard to docu- night in the village, and at its sound the shephers now rise and menta. The case was again ad-
protect their sheep-from: attack
A special travel colour number Ticket, Nos. 349827 and 371485 has recently been issued by "The won the two second" prizes: Times," in which there are pictures $100,000 each. and articles on various parts of Four third prizes of $50,000 each the British Empire. The Dominions were won by ticket Nos. 281320, and practically every Coloriy, are 072908, 302184, and 172576. 27. represented in the views and pie- The first prize number drawn, tures: published, but search how 274265, was unsold and had to be been operating for the last two of heavy economical disadvantages you may, you will not find Rong re-drawn
6 years to openly confessed to National when the accused underwent a
Two and half per cent will be Socialism. The enormous public restored in July, Lye per cent in attendance at the funeral made it January 1935, and two and half one of the largest. Nuremberg has per cent, in April 1935--Reuter.
Journed. ever zen-Transocean Kuo Min.
Kong mentioned in its sixty-one. The special number which came pages of profusely lustrated out in the re-draw winning the printed matter. When we con- first prize of $500,000 was 284888 sider that even such places at the Renter
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