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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

W R. LOXLEY & CO.

NOTICE OF TRANSFER OF

BUSINESS

W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA) LIMITED.

N°

TOTICE is hereby given that

W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (hereinafter called "the Firm ") have as from the 1st day of December, 1934, transferred the whole of the assets and liabilities of the merchant business carried by them at Victoria, Hong Kong and Shamcen, Canton to W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA) LIMITED (hereinafter called "the Company").

On and after the 1st day of Decem. ber, 1934, the Company will carry on the merchant business of the Firm at York Building, Victora, Hong Kong and at Shameon. Canton and wil assume all the outstanding liabilities of the Firm.

Dated the 34th day of November, 1984.

HASTINGS & CO. Solicitore for the Company, Gloucester Building. Hong Kong

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ST. ANDREW'S BALL.

FOR the convenienre, of Members

and Guests of the St. Andrew's Soalety attending the Ball to be held this evening a special 5 minutes service of Star Ferries will run be-

tween 9 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. and from Kowloon to Hong Kong every 15 minutes from 1.15 m.m. to 3 p.m. on 1st December.

The first supper will bo serred, at 11 p.m. and all those desiring to participate therein should be seated in good time before this hour.

Members and guests are requested to note particularly that admis aion to the Ball will be by ticke only and that these cannot be obtained at the door, of the Hotel.

Entrance will be by the Main Door only-Salisbury Road

(8007

HONG KONG ART CLUB.

"ANNUAL

EXHIBITION

11

Gloucester Building, 8th Floor December 5th, 6th & 7th 10th a.m. to 7 p.m. -KEEP ONE OF THESE DATES

OPEN!

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

HE TWELFTH EXTRA THE

RACE MEETING will be held 1. (Weather Permitting) a: HAPPY *VALLEY on SATURDAY... at DECEMBER, 1934, commen ing at 2.10 p.m.

1.30 p.m.

...

B. BEOWN,

Secretary.

Editorial and Business Office: 11

Ion House Street. Tel. 3095). Night Editor (Wanchai Office)(.

Tel. 94511.

London Office: 63, Fleet Stroot

2.0.

The Daily Press,

Hoya Koxo, NOVEMBER" 34, 1931

SOLDIERS AND STATESMEN

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30, 1934.

DEBATE ON IMPERIAL

DEFENCE

British Air Programme

Disclosed

STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER

Away Back In 27 Years

(BY "NO QUARTER ")

With this in mind, he set forth on a long journey (dreed his own weird) and eventually came upon the cave of a hermit (Aberdanian)

Girist That was what I felt in-, he could better himself (make speed of over 230 miles an hour-clined to write when, muddy eyed muckle siller).

and mentally constipated, I started Reuter,

on my long Friday morning pled. What is a chap to do, I mean, dash It, here I say? Outside, in the street. I heard my public clamour- ing: "Give us No Quarter," they shouted hoarsely. "What, is he going to give us?"

OPPOSED TO COMPETITION The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, winding up the debate. which, he said, had turned the

London, Nov. 28. Mr. Stanley, Baldwin, during the Imperial Defence debate in the House of Commons to-day, ex- plained that the British air pro- gramme provides for a very sub- stantial proportion being plet ed within two years. Twenty-House of Commons into a Council two squadrons will be formed for of State, emphasised that there was no difference of opinion in and 1936. home defence in 1935

Britain on the question of defence. for the besides three squadrons

There were no advocates of unlla- Fleet air arm,

teral disarmament.

com-

And here was I, empty as a tal- pan's glass, peering about through foggy eyelids, dad saying "What? Where? How?

Suddenly, I had it. With a cry like a wounded buffalo; I joyfully peaked Dame Fortune on the

The whole of the 25 squadrons will be additional to the four «al- He said that the contents of Mr. ready being formed in the current Baldwin's speech had been deliver- year first line strength will be ed to Germany, France, Italy, and thus increased, by 300 aircraft, plus the United States, with a full ex-beezer! the necessary "reserves, which theplanation by Sir John Simon, be- R.A.F, considers ample.

cause this was not an Anglo-Ger- man proposition. The communi-

In an elaborate enconium...an ardent admirer of Mr. Lloyd George said "It is probably literal truth that there were in Mr. Lloyd George the makings of a better soldier than any general in the War." If we cannot go so far as to subscribe to that ourselves, we are ready to admit that Mr. Lloyd

it. ** George belleved

clearly appears from his "War Memoirs;" and this illusion led at the time to troubles so serious that Field-aerodromes have been inspected,ections to other Governments con- Marshall Sir William Robertson and eleven already selected.. A stituted à new development and was moved to write a book on the new flying training school will be subject, so as to leave a record opened in April. Short-service of the functions proper to "the officers will be increased, and more soidler and to the statesman, in civilian pilots will join the...Air case the country should ever be Force reserve. ` at war again. In that book which

"War Memoirs" ought also to read,

Since July last, ninety sites for

"ST. ANDREWS!" Girls! Do you realize what that Hittle phrase meant to me, what honeyed comfort those words brought to a news-starved scrib- might create a new situation. bler? I am not exaggerating when "We are aiming at internation- I say that the grateful tears al disarmament at the lowest level.streamed down emaciated We stand for regulated limitation cheeks. I had the ideal I could as opposed to competition and un-write my article! Little Flossie could have her Benger; the dog could have its bone!

"Our latest types of military air-gulated arming." he said:— every reader of these craft," said Mr. Baldwin, "have a -Reuter.

the Field. Marshall made it clear that it is for the statesman make war and for the soldier to JUDGE WANG TO

carry

to

out, The statesman

makes the policy and the soldier makes the plans. It is the duty

of the statesman, as long as be employs the soldier, to give him his confidence; if the statesmaa can no longer give the soldier his confidence, then he has the fur- ther duty to dismiss him and find another. But it will generally be found disastrous for the statesman to interfere with the plans, the dispositions, the strategy and the tactics of the soldier.

Take, for example, the case of the relations between Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Douglas Haig. It is plain from these Memoirs that the Prime Minister never trusted the Commander-in-Chief, yet did not dare to dismiss him. One source of trouble, no doubt, was that Mr. Lloyd George liked men. who could talk, and Sir Douglas Haig, although he expressed him self well in his despatches, was Inarticulate even for A soidler, But whatever the reason, Halg bad to fight his battles in the de pressing knowledge that the states:man who should have sup ported him was, working against him. Haig was unfortunate; he had to fight on two fronts as he eald at the time, "When I 037 facing the Germans I am being

stabbed in the back." Str William Robertson did his best to make things smooth between field and Cabinet, but when he found that the mercurial politician wanted. not to receive explanations but to give orders, he was reduced to saying. "It can't be done Mi, Prime Minister; it can't be done The First Bll will be Rung at He could have explained had he

the time or

the patience the By Oler.

rudimentary principle of interior lines (which Mr. Lloyd George never quite grasped); or such facts as that, say, a range of mountains stood between the proposed base and the proposed" objective, that the line of march exposed to a flank attack in over- powering force, or that it took so many trains to carry a division so many miles in so many days, or any other of the practical objec- tions which occurred to his mind. After several tallures, the CIGS. contented himself with saying. "It can't be done. Mr. Prime Minister; it can't be done."

H Kony, 21 November, 1931.

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DONT FORGET

THAT WHEN You are at Home you can get the

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS at SELFRIDGES.

OPIUM COMMITTEE SESSION ENDS

Geneva, Nov, 28.

or

<

VISIT CANTON

Role Of Mediator

[Special to the "Hong Kong Balls

Press" (Copyright).)

Nanking, Nov. 29. Dr. Wang Chung Hui, judge of the Hague Court, announced his intention of going to Canton to continue his conversatios with the South-west leaders, and time per- milting, he would return to attend the Plenary Session of the C.E.C. Dr. Wang expressed gratification over the encouraging and extend- ing co-operation between the Ceni tral Government and the South-

West, and declared that no one was more anxious that General Chiang Kai Shek for the realisation of closer relations between the Cen-

ANTI-COMMUNIST ARMY HEADQUARTERS

Kiängsi and Fukien Action

COD-

PROFESSOR ARRESTED

Taken To Paoting Under Guard

. Feking. Nov, 20.

'xxx.

THE SNAG

Every silver cloud has a dark lining (whatever Roosevelt may say). All that glitters is not gin, as Mr. Pecksniff never dreamt of remarking to Dombey and son, and I realised that I knew very little about St. Andrew. Indeed, in the tack of my mind I had a faint re collection of "shers of men. which I fancy referred, to someone else, and a more concrete one of a plaster statue outside the Penin-

ese education circles to-day by the

A sensation was created in Chin-sula Hotel. arrest of Professor Feng Yu-lan, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. at Tsinghua University.

He was arrested by a special Brom the provisional head

shek, at Paoting, where he was quarters of General Chiang Kai-

immediately taken under heavy guard

་

Enfin Am I beaten? Not a whit. I intend to make up a much more interesting story about St. Andrew than any archaic book- smeller has ever been able to con-" coct from his musty tomes.

THE STORY OF ST. ANDREW

Once upon a time there was a Scotch boy who Kved in Ichfaur-

known but are generally believed When he attained years of dis The charges against him are un-muckle, a small village near Perth

to be connected with Communism.cretion (Chinese: savvy. Scotch: Professor Feng only recently re- canny) he fell deeply in love with turned from a year's furlough in with the Laird's daughter, a most England where he lectured on attractive young female (bonny Chinesc philosophy

lass). As his attentions, though under the auspices of the Universities of welcomed by the young person, and fighting is imminent.

were abhorrent to the Laird, he Renter.

sought about for means whereby

GIFTS OF PLANES TO GOVERNMENT

Railway Employees Contribute

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Prese" (Copyright).]

Nanking, Nov, 29. Owing to the practically cluded military campaign against the Communists in Klangsi and Fukien, the regular meeting on [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Tuesday of the Executive Yuan

Press" (Copyright).] decided to abolish all the anti- Communist army headquarters ir.

Nanking. Nov. 29. two provinces and also The a regate of $838,000 suff the Kwangsi, Hunan, Hupeh and cient to purchase ten aeroplanes Kwangtung, and instead the pact-have been contributed by em- fication commissioners will carry ployees of Government owned rail- out the rehabilitation measures ways in China. Two planes have Generals Ku Chung Tung an: already been purchased and chris- Chiang Ting Wen have been ap tened while the other eight will pointed Commissioners of rehab-

be officially presented to the Gov- Iltation of Klengst and Fukien.-

ernment in December China United Press. China United Press.

SMUGGLED GOODS SEIZED

Soldiers From Manchukuo

Escape

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Pres" (Copyright).]

Tientsin, Nov. 29:

MR. SUN FO.COMING TO HONG KONG

on

Shanghai, Nov, 29. It is reliably stated this evening that Mr. Sun Fo, who arrives by Lord Carson has told us that,

train from Nanking to-morrow, is as regards the Admiralty, the Prime Minister's favourite expres-

sailing for Hong Kong In the ston was "Sack the lot;" but he

French Mall steamer Athos did not and the dismissal of Haig

Saturday with Dr., Wang Cung Hul for the purpose of visiting Mr. so easy for the reason, as he explains, that he did not know goods consisting of cigarettes and Chi Tang. It is reported that the A large consignment of smuggled u Han, Min and General Chen whom to put in his place. Here, artificial silk, valued at $20,000 visit has considerable political then, Mr. Lloyd George confesses was seized on Monday by the significance to his fallure in the function of Customs Station from a special

Reuter. statesman, He ought to have ap-armoured train. pointed another Commander i have been arrested but the two the Field if he had no confidence soldiers who escorted the train al AIR TO RUSSIAN WOMEN in Halg: it was his business to the way from Manchukuo manag-

know whom to choose. But Mr.

ed to escape-

Lloyd George was unequal to his Chino United Press.

own. part..

It has been left to Major-

General Str. Charles Gwynn, who

Three persODS

Plight of Refugees in Shanghai

is recognised as a master of his denses. In July, 1818, in com-

London, Nov. 28. subject, to defend the memory of menting on an article in a lead- The plight of Russian women The Optum Advisory Committee

dead comrade in regard to ing English paper, be said "... refugees in Shanghat was called concluded its sessions to-day with certain operations in which Mr. is talking of a 1919 campaign. to the attention of the Lord Privy the adoption of slightly modified Lloyd George launches his attack There will be no 1919 campaign. Seal. Mr. Anthony Eden, in the recommendations for the control upon Haig. The reader, we feel We have got them at last. There House of Commons to-day. of the opium traffic............

sure, appreciates the "clarity and spoke the soldier who had worked Replying to a testion, he said Great interest was shown in the the weight of Bir Charles Gwynn's and fought throughout the ár- that the Fifth Committes of the proposed opium reforms in China | exposition. But as Mr. Lloyd duous years of preparation--and League Assembly was anxious that and the progress of the Nanking George constantly sneers at Haig's who knew..

steps should be taken to assist Government's experiment is being failure to estimate the morale, and We all (including Mr. Lloyd these women, and had recommend watched closely,

the mind of the enemy, we may George) owe gratitude rather than fed further enquiries on the spot Reuter.

relate another of Haig's rare con- abuse to that great soldler.

Reuter

"Us it hoch whicht wi' a sonsy gavin bragg' ut," he said carefully."

NEWS SUMMARY

HE Sir Alexander Cadogan, British Minister to` China was 'the guest of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce at luncheon yesterday at the Hong Kong Hotel, when mutual expressions of good..

·will were' exchanged.

At

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terday Mr. Justice Jack heard

the Supreme Court yes» `

an action brought by Ip Tai to recover $933 from Leung Fin-fan, an interpreter, and Leung Yuen- wa, agent for Chinese crews.

Pake. 6

Chan, Lung, who was arrested on "Its a braw bracht moonlaeht

a warrant for a murder which was nacht nacht the hacht," said the committed some four years ago, hermit.

was discharged, the police offering "Wull ye no sprackle a wee?," no evidence against him. sald Andrew.

Uts a lang galt to Ochter- mochty," the Hermit intoned.

At this point, Andrew very pro- perly hit the hermit with a club and slew him. The delighted populace thronged round him, and eventually canonized him for kill- ing the biggest bore the neighbour hood had ever knowIL

He never married the Laird's daughter, which was just as well, as she took up chemistry and even- tually invented the Haggis,

DR. AUFGANG PERSISTS In spite of the ribald and hostile comments that have assailed him, DR. AXEL AUFGANG, the famous local scientist, persists in pursuing his new hobby of HUNTING.

His major difficulty, this week was in persuading his new horse, WINNIPEG, to enter a motor horse box of his own design intended to transport the fly to Fanling.

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An enjoyable dancing display was given yesterday at the King's Theatre by the pupils of Vera Volkova and George Concharoff.