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EMPIRE DAY

Special Services At The Churches

Empire Day was celebrat ed in the usual manner in Hongkong, all schools and Govern- ment Departments being closed while special Church services were heid. Warships in harbour and all merchantmen and ferry bonta were dressed with dags

At. St. John's Cathedral the Very Rev. Dean Swans addressed over 400 school children of, all' na- tionalities at special Empire -Day service. There were children

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THE SHUN TIEN

Successful Trial Rum

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934.

ROYAL AIR FORCE

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THE CANCER CAMPAIGN

Further Donations

Received

The Treasurer of the British Em -- Arable 2nd class)-Flying Offi-pire Cancer Research Fund Cam cer A. E. Fairs.

paign, Sir William Shenton, has Breat pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of the following fur- tio the above her donations

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The single-screw cargo and (Special Air Mall Service) passenger steamer Shuntien, built

London, May 8. by Messrs The Taikoo Dockyard &

The following passed the exami- Engineering Co. to the order of nations for interpreterships held in Messrs. The China Navigation CoJanuary at the various centres -- Ltd. proceeded to sea on Wednes day May 23, for her official trial The vessel's dimensions are 300′ 0′′ × 46′ 0′′ × 25′0′′, and she has two complete steel decks. Ioar pro- menade and boat decks, poop and forecastle. A double bottom is Atted for water ballast and fresh water. There are three large cargo holds and tween decks Tubular steel derricks, fitted on Bamson

French (2nd class)-Squadron Leader P. R. T. J. M. 1. C. Cham- berlame, A.F.C., Flight Lieutenants C. S. Cadell and A. . L. Hughes

Kurdish (1st class)-Flight Lt. C. E R. Felly, M.C.

Spanish (2nd class) ----Leading Aircraftman W. L. Whittaker,

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NEWS FILM CASE

When Band Played "ONE MAN"

"Colonel Bogey”

(Special Air Mall Service).

Landon, May

Au important decision affecting talkies was made in the Cours of Appest, London, yesterday, when it was found that a news film of the Prince of Wales opening a school had infringed upon a copy- right because 90 seconds of "the film produced a boys band playing the march "Colonel Bogey."

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The Master of the Rolls and Lords Justices Slaser and Bomer. yesterday went to see the film which 5.00 showed the Prince of Wales open- 3.00ing the Royal Hospital School at 20.00 Holbrook, Suffolk, Before continu- 50.00ing the bearing of the appeal.

Hawkes, and Son (London), Ltd., took the case to the Court of Ap 3115.00 peal on a judgment of Mr. Justice Eve dismissing their action against ParamountFilm Service, Ltd., And Olympic Kinematograph

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FORGERY PLOT Laboratories

EXPOSED

from Diocesan Boys' School, Dioce

Awards of £30. to Flying Oncer Jan Girls' School, Central British pats and operated by steam Fairs. £12 to Fight Lieut. Cadell, School, St. Stephen's College. St. winches, deal with weights up to £60 to Flight Lieut. Felly are Mr. D. D. Davies ... Stephen's Girls' College, St. Paul's

10 tons. A' powerful steam wind- | payable under paragraphs 418 ́and j Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Goggin.. College, St. Paul's Girls' College,ass is atted forward, steam steer- 419 of the King's Regulations. Wanchal Goverment School, Yau- ing gear is fitted direct on to rud-

Japanese-Flight Lieut. W. M. mati School, Ellis Kadoorle "School | der head and controlled by tele-

C. Kennedy passed the second-year for Indians Gap Road English motor from navigating bridge.

examination in Japanese held in School, Kowloon

School, Junior

Steam winch is atted on poop for Tokyo in December and has re- Belillos School, Queen's College, warping. Electric light is fitted

ceived Garrison School. Peak School and throughout, wireless telegraphy and Fairlea School.

direction finder installed and am- Mr. G. R. Sayer, Director of Edu-ple cold storage space is provided

·cation, was présent and others

for provisions, etc. who attended were Mr. A' O. Brawn. Miss H. D. Sawyer Miss At- kins, Mr. E. G. Stewart, MI, G. W, Reeve, Mr. Lo Yuk Lun. Capt. P. 8. Cannon, Mr, A, T. Hamilton. Rer. L L. Nash, Mrs. P. Y. Stark, Mr. D. M. Richards, Mr. D. J. Crozier, Mrs. N. Evans, Mias B. M Pope, Miss K. Bennington and Miss Hail,

Layalty To Christ

Accommodation is provided on promenade and upper decks in double and single berth cabins for The 53 Arst class passengers. lounge la altuated at fore end of promenade deck, finished in hard- wood and tastefully painted. The dining saloon is on upper deck, is panelled in light oak and capable of seating 65 persons. The smoke room. finished in fumed oak, ts situated on boat deck.

the appropriate award

Chinese.-Flight Lieut. G. Bar- tholomew passed the arst year. examination in Chinese beld in Peiping in February and has re- ceived (275),

the appropriate award

The Southampton flying-bonts from Singapore which are making a cruise in the South China Sea arrived

Sunday at Saigon, On Thursday

on

French Indo-China. they are due to leave for Kota Bahru, Malaya.

No. 70 Squadron Command Wing Commander H. K. Thorold, Accommodation for 44 second class passengers is arranged to DS.C., D.F.C., A.F.C., whose ap- poop, with dining saloon adjoin-pointment to command Nd: 70 Bomber Transport) Squadron In

In the course of his address, Dean Swann drew the attention of the congregation to the symbol of St. George and the crown of "His Majesty King George V. on an ing..

English E1 note. The effect of Open'

berths for 60 steerage those two symbols so close togeth-passengers are arranged in forward Captain's house and chartroom above. Accommodation for crew is is on boat deck with wheelhouse in forecastle, stevedores and talley- men in forward tween deck. officers and engineers or poop deck and petty officers on upper deck amid- stups.

The machinery, which has been bulit by Talkoo Dockyard, consists of one set of Brown Curtis turbines driving a single screw, timrough single reduction gearing, and sup- plied with superheated steam from two Babcock & Wilcox water tube boflers, coal fired by mechanised stokers.

er he said was a reminder of their tween deck. duty to the King and Emperor ways the standard of St. George and to help keep before them al who was the standard of loyalty above all things to Christ.

his St. George gave life for Christ because he would not put Empire before Christ, and we in the Empire must follow that: Our beloved King would be the Arst to say so. He himself is a man of great personal loyalty to Christ and a man we must loyally fol- low because of that. I want you to take away with you to-day the thought that your membership of the British Empire puta you under an obligation of loyalty not Arst "to King George but first to Christ. "If we are to be truly loyal to our King Emperor we must be loyal to Christ. If we are to do the best for the Empire we must care more for God even more than for Empire. I want all of you here to-day, of all nationalities, to God understand that loyalty to

are must come first and if you loyal to God, then you will be do- to the ing your greatest service British Empire."

CATHOLIC SERVICE

The Makings Of A Good ||

Citizen

The trials, which were witnessed by a large party of guests, were In every way successful and a mean' speed of 18 knots was obtained.

· RUBBËR SHOE PRICES

Fifty Per Cent. Increase Projected

According to news from Japan. a arty per cent. increase in prices is projected by rubber shoe manu- The matter will be studied by the Japan Federation uf. Rubber Industrial Guilds at its

facturers.

Faked InsuranceTM Stamps

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(Special Air Mail Service)

London, May 8. At the Old Bailey yesterday there was told the story of one of the greatest international for gery conspiracies in the history of crime, and three dark, thick

a, word of English-stood in the set men-Poles who cannot speak dock convicted of being in posses- fraq has been announced, served sion of faked insurance stamps to with this unit in 1920 as a fight the tace value of £44.700, which He has since had a good deal they had smuggled into this coun- with false bottoms. Considerations courses at the Staff and Imperial of space unfortunately forbid that of staff service, has taken they in specially constructed trunks Defence Colleges, and served at the Air Ministry. Before leaving for should recount here the com- you will judge of the plot, "but frag, where he is now to commandNicated details of this amazing bold #frontery of the convicted Vickers Victorias, he had a year in command of No. 10 Squadron of:

men when I say that the leader of them, Jacob Najmark, came to this country last year and offered to supply a man whom he believed

Heutenant

Vickers Virginias. Wing Com mander Thorold, who was at Marl borough when the War began, be- came a pilot in the RNAS. and served both in France and the

to be a stockbroker with at least £600.000 worth of forged Polish

Fardanelles, where he was wound- Seven Per Cent. Stabilisation Fund ed. The DF.C. was awarded him scrip. He was shadowed by Bcot- for service during the land Yard detectives and the Yard, in 1921 Nasiriyeh operations: his other in cooperation. with the Warsaw decorations were gained during the police, took care "bever to lose War.

Aircraft Carrier Attendants The destroyers Sturdy and Stronghold have been selected for duty" as "attendant destroyers on Home Fleet aircraft carriers. The Sturdy has already been commis- sioned at the Nore with a Devon- port crew as tender to the Cour- ageous The Stronghold will be commissioned at น later date. Curing the recent spring cruise the carriers were attended by des- troyers detached from the regular flotillas.

Foreign Officers' Instruction During the past 6 months officers Board of Directors' meeting in from the air services of 1 foreign Kobe on May 19

Since the conclusion of the in- ternational rubber agreement, the price of crude rubber has been boosted up, and sellers now de- mand 47.5 sen per pound. It is believed that the 50 sen record set

The Rev. Fr. O'Carroll, R.C. Chaplain to the Forces, preached at the special Empire Day service held at the Cathedral of the Im- maculate Conception yesterday for July 1929 will soon be broken. children from the Catholic Schools. Tyre traders have already raised Over 500 children participated in their quotation to meet the new the service, which was conducted situation. The Osaka Rubber In- by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Valtorta, dustrial Guild how proposes a 50. Vicar-Apostolic of Hongkong as per cent. increase in the official sisted by members of the Cathed-quotation for rubber shoes. The market quotation already shows a ral Seminary.

The proceedings were opened by rise of 30 per cent. so that this will the Band of the St. Louis Indus- mean a net increase of 20 per cent. trial School rendering March:

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The Seminary Choir then sang the

hymn Regina Coel! laetare." this who has not some regard for the being followed by an address from land of his birth.

But

"Patriotism or love of country the pulpit by the Rev. Fr. O'Car-

virtue. in due measure is a roll.

After Mgr. Valtorta had given the patriotism of the man who the Benediction of the Blessed leaves out of account every country be a positive Sacrament, the congregation sang but his own may the "Addremus." The service end-menace to the peace of the world." The preacher pointed out that ed with the singing of the Nation-

spirit of their Church. which held al Anthem.

Taking as his text "Catholicism a nited membership of 400,000,000 and Citizenship," the Rev. Fr. people belonging to all races and O'Carroll said: The Catholic speaking all languages, and which universal. It was Church teaches that all lawful therefore was authority is from God, and that impossible, he said, to be a mem the just laws of the properly con-ber of the University Church "and" stituted civil government have the to think merely in terms of one's Divine Sanction; and that when own country. Hence it is that an rightly acting within its properly Imperialism which is in accord constituted sphere the properly with Catholic principles and which constituted civil government acts makes for peace and goodwill nations comments with the authority of God himself: amongst the It stands to reason therefore, that itself to the Catholic. if you are practising Catholics, later on as men and women, you will also of necessity be good citizens."

The preacher then outlined the form of religious practice that was to make them good citizens. ***Love “of: country," he continued, 44s all right in its own way, and he is indeed a dull clod of earth

countries-Norway, Finland, Tur- key, Siam, Perala, China, and Uruguay have been attached to establishments and schools of the RAF. for instruction. During the current financial year the amount

received estimated to be Dominion and foreign. Gover- ments for the training of pupils is £18,000, an increase of £3,000 on that of last year.

KEROSENE PRICES

from

A.P.C. Announce Increase

sight of him for long again.

Yesterday, he received from Mr. Justice McNaughten sentence of four years' penal servitude, and his two accomplices were each sentenced to two years' penal ser- vitude.

Account Of Ceremony

They claimed injunctions to restrain infringement of their copyright in "Colonel Bogey" and the exhibition of any sound film containing the music of the mareb without their consent.

Mr. Justice Eve had held there was no infringement of the copy- right, and the appeal raised the issue whether music could be re- produced in a news reel without rendering the makers of the reel liable for infringement.

On the return of the Judges from seeing the film Mr. F. K. Archer.

subruissions were that this was a .C., for the respondents, said his

case of "fair dealing" within the meaning of the Copyright Act, because, his clients wanted to give an account of the ceremony by picture just as Д journalist did by photograph and words in a newspaper. sound and

occurred in the news film were not

The sounds of the march which

the result of a deliberate attempt to make a flm of the music.

The respondents could not photograph the general sounds of the ceremony without recording this piece of

music..

Payment Of Fee

The Master of the Rolls, giving judgment, said, in regard to the suggestion that it would hamper the respondents if they were pre- vented from exercising this right of reproduction, more especially because this was a news film, what Messrs. Hawkes said was that they did not wish to put any real im- pediment on the work legitimately done by the film companies.

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They did not intend or desire to hamper trade. All they said was An Extraordinary Breach Salt

that if this reproduction of i And before, so to speak, we leave copyright of musical work was the Courts, what do you think of allowed or sought by the respon- this extraordinary case, decided a "dents, then on the payment of a few days ago in the Sheriff's Court, small fee it could be granted.

Evans, a London-Lilite

single In his opinion the appeal must Lord Justice Slesser woman, who for 15 years wore a be allowed.

accepted agreed. wedding ring and was

cause

as "married," was awarded £76 Lord Justice Romer, who also damages for breach of promise concurred, said: "I come to that against her husband." George conclusion with some regret, be- I cannot think that the Willis, a Liverpool fruit broker.

It was stated that the defend- respondents in doing what they ant promised to marry Miss Evans have done have caused any real when on Armistic Eve, 1918, she damage to the copyright owners stayed with him in a London hotel, and because "our decision no doubt He repeated the promise frequently will hamper them somewhat in until 1922, when he definitely re- their reproduction of news álms.” fused to marry, and counsel for The appeal was allowed with the plaintiff described this as costs. disgraceful conduct by a man who. "had had his client "dangling about" for more than fifteen years, and so ruined her life.

Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell said the jury must also take into con- sideration Miss Evans' conduct. "Can a woman who has lived so many years with a man as his mistress ever expect that she will be married?" he asked,

FORD MOTORS

(Special Air Mail Service.)

London, May 8.

THE 2,000 GUINEAS

Colombo's Success in First Classic

Special Air-Mail Service

London, May. 8. The race for the Two Thousand Guineas, the first of the Classic events of the season, was decided at Newmarket on Wednesday, when In the general market Ford the King was present. As expect Motors were among the best teaed, the race

was won by. Lord tures yesterday. The rise was due Glanely's colt Colombo, who, rid- primarily to the belief that the den by W. Johnstone, beat the Cases Tins Bulk company's sales are expanding French colt, Easton, who is owned

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rapidly, and investors were fur by Mr. R. B. Strassburger, by a 4.50 $3.80 ther encouraged by the knowledge length, with the outader, Badrud- that, although no dividend was din, the property of the Aga Khan, 4.42

3.72 paid last year, the capital actually third. Colombo was drawn un- 4.24

earned more than 11 per cent favourably and had to race on the

altention far side of the course. Though too much should not be paid to the rumours that the company is about to en- ter the aero engine market on the usual mass production scale, this is certainly a field which can, and probably will, be exploited in the future. On the basis of last year's carnings, plus the general activity

the Garrison School, St. Joseph's The preacher then compared College, La Salle College. Wah Yan this with the benevolent form of College, St. Louls Industrial School Imperialism In the British Empire. Italian Convent, French Convent, which he held as the right kind Holy Spirit School, Kai Lap School of Imperialism, one in accord with Wanchai Chinese School, Put Tali Christian principles and making School, (1st) Hongkong (Bt.-Jose- for peace and goodwill amongst ph's), Troop Boy Scouts, (2nd) Hongkong (Catholic Cathedral) nations, how so sorely needed.

Catholle Schools and Institutions Troop Boy Scouts, (4th) Hongkong represented in the service were (Clarrison) Troop Boy Scouts.

Bright Bird led the field on the Stands side with Valerius and Flamenco close up to him, but when half the distance had been covered Colombo had drawn level! with the leader. Three furlongs from home Colombo took the lead, and, although he was challenged in the motor trade as disclosed by by the French coit, stayed on to the increase in new registrations, 1 win by a length, with Badruddin think that the rise in the shares a length and a half away third to about 36s. is not without Justl- The time taken for the race was

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