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HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 17, 1934.

VERDICTS OF HISTORY

Of

Among his "works" fre British

Memorial to Belgium, Brussels, the "Royal Artillery Memorial in Hyde

Statue Park Corner,

of King George V at New Delhi, Statues of Marquis of Reading and Lord- Hardinge.- Rester.

PHILOSOPHIC THEORY

(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily "Press").

the

Tale 1894.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1934.

LIBRARY IN SHANGHAI

Named After The Founder

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Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).3

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Shanghal, Nov. 10. Since the destruction in the Japanese aerial bombardment of Chapel in January and February 1933 of the Oriental Library, the largest in China, the absence of an adequate library is much felt In Shanghai...

Early this wear a sum of $400,000 was donated by a local Industrial- ist, Mr. Yeh Hung Ying, for the establishment of a library to smal-

KING'S SPEECH

Naval Conference Hope

London, Nov. 18. The King's speech at the proro- Sation of Parliament briefly re- views the legislative enactments of the session and refers sympathe- tically to the assassinations of King Alexander and M. Barthou.

NEW CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY

Opened

Cambridge, Oct 26,

"A workshop of new know- ledge and a storehouse of season- ed wisdom,"

This WES the happy phrase which the Kirig used to describe the new University Library, which has been built at a cost of £500,000 to the arresting design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

By King

His Majesty says that in con- tinuation of tast summer's con versations, the 'representatives of the Government are at present engaged in preliminary discussions

Cambridge was looking its love- with representatives of the United liest when the King and Queen, States and Japan In preparation with Viscount Halifax, President for the Naval Conference due next of the Board of Education, as year and concludes: "It is my Minister in attendance, came from earnest hope that their efforts may Sandringham to perform the open- gamate with the existing Jenwen be attended with success in ordering ceremony. Her Majesty wore Library at 50.000 volumes and that the world may be spared the Sapphire blue, with diamond and whose officials are taking charge evil of unrestricted competition in sapphire ornaments. of the organisation of the new in-naval armaments so effectively The route by which they drove averted in recent years by Inter-from the station brought them in A site for the building has been national engagements freely en- view of all the colleges except decided upon recently In the

tered into by the parties concern- Jesus and Magdalene. They cross- mow of ed." French Concession, five

ed the Backs by Queens' Bridge; land being rented from surplus

and all the way to the vast and impressive new library, which has been built in two years, their Ma- 1estles were greeted by crowds in! which youth preponderated.

PICTURESQUE SYMBOLISM

stitution.

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Parliament reassembles on No- Recrired, November 16, 4-50 p.m.)

land contributed by the Rockefel-vember 20 on the new session of ler Foundation funds towards the which the Indian reforms Bill will Cologne, Nov. 15.

building" in Shanghai of the be the outstanding feature.--.. Rejecting the thesis maintained Chungshan Hospital. Construction Reuter. by a majority of previous

the Hung Is starting shortly of philosophers that the individual Ying Library, named after the is the most important object of

founder- philosophic study. Dr. Otto Diet-China United Préin. rich, chief of the national-social- ist party press department speak- ing on "The Fundamental Na- tional-Socialist Philosophy" to 1.500 professors of West German Universities and other representa- tives of science here on Thursday evering, stated that the trend of

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NEW COMMUNIST MENACE

Action By Government

Press" (Copyright.)1

te to-day was away from the in-special to the "Hong Kong Dalls dividual and towards community and that intellectual life and es- pecially philosophy must follow stzit

Individualistic thought, he said, was founded on the assumption that man is an individual” but this assumption declared Dietrich is

Changsha, Nov, 14."

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ROYAL WEDDING Baldwin, Chancellor of the Uni-

CAKES

On the steps of the library Mr.

versity, together with the Heads of Houses, received

and the King Queen. In the brilliant October sunshine the scarlet of doctors' habits, the black and gold of the

Honour Of Making Chancellor's robes, the blue cloaks

Them

(Special Air Mall Service)

Edinburgh, Oct. 26.

In order to cope with the rew menace in Hunan resulting from the Communists' flight, the Gov- If Edinburgh has lost the honour ernment. under pressure from of having a royal Duke, it retains South Kiangsi after the Comman-that of making the wedding cakes

of the proctors' bull-dogs, who carried the insignia of their masters' office the instock, hal- berds, and butter-measure-made a vividly coloured and picturesque group.

The procession

which passed through the catalogue room to the vast reading room was marked by the symbolism which is only rarely

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traditions of the past have been equalled or exceled by the gen-" erosity and public spirit mani- fested in our own day.

NEWS SUMMARY

The first divorce case in Hong Kong came up before the Chiet Justice yesterday.

Our