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A party of Canton Rover scouts walked along the railway line from Canton" to Hong Kong, taking 38 walking hours for the journey. -

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HEAVY MALARIA TOLL IN CEYLON

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Colombo, Jan. 31. Seven thousand are reported to have died of malaria in the Kegalle. district alone during the epidemic. which has ravaged the island for the past two months.

Persons on the spot claim, that the epidemic is unabated and the situation is as grave as ever. Villa- gers are losing faith in quinine and are less inclined to attend the dispensaries, being continually reinfected by mosquitoes.

It is feared the mosquitoes wil increase when the rains come, and that the plight of the islanders will be even more tragic.'*. Reuter.

PARIS DEMONSTRATIONS BANNED

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Parls, Jan. 31.

The Government has banned all demonstrations planned for Febr uary 6 by the various right-wing organisations as well as the pro- jected counter-demonstrations by left parties in crimemoration of last year's riots at the Palace de la Concorde, which led to man3 deaths and scores of people re- celying injuries- Transocean 'Kuo Min.

KING OF SIAM'S ABDICATION

London, Jan. 30.

No indication that the King of Biam has finally decided the ab- dication question was obtainable The Governor of Queensland, Siron inquiry of the household of Leslie Wilson accompanied by Knowle Park-to-day

Power ompany (1918), Limited, industrialisation, "succeeded material-both for civil and for military pounds - in experiments at Farn. Joce at the Helena May Institute Lady Wilson and their son, is due

advantages, ment spent tens of thousands of to be held at the registered office of ly to cutting down foreign imports aviation Experiments have Just Borough. It also Ohered a prize of

to arrive here on February by still waiting to hear further from It is learned that the King is the Company. St. George's Building President Rachimbajeff of the (2nd Floor), Vintoria, in the Colony Council of Peoples Commissaries Government in which an autogiro which could ascend vertically to a been conducted by the Italian £50,000 for the first machine

the s.s. Chitral and will be staying the Siamese delegation. of Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the of the Soviet Republic, Tajikistan, was able to rise from and land on height of 2,000 feet, remain station-

in the Colony for a few days, Sixth day of March. 1985, at Three stated in a speech that the Ear cruiser while it was steaming at ary there for half an hour and

Last week the delegation re- quested the King to reconsider o'clock in the afternoon, when the vesting of cotton crop in Tajikistan full speed in the open sea. A space then fly for twenty miles as an died on June 20, 1928 at No. 181, Manila to-day for Hong Kong and

The sloop Folkestone leaves his conditions, but it is under- sub-joined Resolution will be propos- this year was greatly hindered by of little more than thirty feet wide ordinary aeroplane would fly. The Szechuen Road, ed as a Special Resolution:-

stood that he replied that he was the acts of sabotage committed by

is expected to arrive in the Colony unable to agree. That the name of the Company a counter-revolutionary group 50

on Monday.

Reuter. be changed to "China Light & that the cotton deliveries did not Power Company, Limited ". Dated the 1st day of January, 1985

By Order of the Board,

NUEL BRAGA,

Becretary.

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reach the figures foreseen in this year's plan. The Tajikistan Gov ernment had therefore decided to settle 15,000 reliable Communist familes in the cotton region in or der to remedy the unsatisfactory state of affairs. Transocean Kuo Min

Shanghai, left

doubt the autogire plot was a man large sums, was needed on the ship's deck. No French Government also offered local estate valued at $84,500. Pro-

Gockchin, manager of the Wing The British com- bate has been granted to Philip

On Co. Ltd.

of great still and experience, but petition remained open till 1026, first flew a fixed-wing ceroplane which even remotely" approached sa were the daring innovators who but no machine was ever produced on and off a ship's deck with the fullling the terms of the com- Manxman and Furious of 1917. petition. But our ever-sanguine The 1917 experiments led directly inventors have by no means aban- to the construction of the ocean-doned "hope.

In Belgium, Italy, going aircraft-carriers of to-day, Austria, and several other coun- those vulnerable mamoths with tries the experiments have con- which the feets of the Powers are tinued. In 1930 the machine of burdened. To-day's experiments one inventor made a fight of eight may equally foreshadow an minutes; in 1933, M." Florine, in ultimate abandonment of the ar- Belgium, rose to a height of fifteen craft-carrier itself. Granted a suc feet and remained there for nearly cessful fighting or reconnoitring ten minutes. And it is understood plane which can use an ordinary that a helicopter is now building naval unit as its base, and can fly in the works of a famous British

GENERAL EXECUTED AT NANCHANG

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Nanking, Jan:-31. that

The former Commander of the the ORDINARY YEABLY GENERAL MEETING Hunan Aviation Bureau, Generar of HONGKONG TEAMWAYS Huang Fel, was executed on Tues-sufficiently slowly to "keep station aviation: firm in Yorkshire earlier LIMITED will be held at the offices day at Nanchang by order of with the feet or a merchant con-models of which have already made of Messrs. Jardino, Matheson & Co., Marahal Chiang Kai Shek. He was voy, naval strategy and tactics many successful short flights" Ltd., Hong Kong, co THURSDAY, charged with transporting nar the 21st day of February, 1985, at cotics in Government aeroplanes.

12 o'clock NOON, to transact the Reuter.

ordinary business of the Company.

INVASION BY OUTER MONGOLIANS

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must face the need for radical and have been controlled adequate change. No naval battle, even only by persons who had never driven the open sea beyond the range of an aeroplane before. The problems shorebased aircraft, would hence of helicopter design are immense forth conform to any pattern of But so are the prizes which would the past:

fall to success in the search. The Even more exciting (since more azed-wing aeroplane may well re- unexpected) are the reports or main the long-distance carrier of Changchun, Jan. 31.

progress in a third great mode of the air. But the discovery of a The Kwangtung Army has des-mechanical nights, the helicopter. cheap, easily handled form of By patch Japanese troops to Lake The helicopter, which has troubled ing machine which can use a Boir Nor to reinforce the Man the dreams of inventors since the landing-ground no bigger than a chukuo troops to force out the days of Leonardo, is an aircraft city back garden would popul- Secretary. Outer Mongolians.

which could rise or descend ab arise flying for the multitude as [8197 | Reuter

solutely vertically. This even the nothing else could.

AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the EEGISTER: OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 8th, to THURSDAY, the 21st February, 1935, both days inclusive. By Order of the Board,

W. F. SIMMONS,

Four cases of Meningitis and two câses each of Diphtheria and Typhoid were reported to the local Health authorities on Tuesday.

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CAUSE OF PRESSARD'S DEATH

ing of the China Light and Power An Extraordinary General Meet- Company (1918) Limited, is to be China Fleet, left Manila yesterday

HM8. Kent, flagship of the [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally held at the registered office of the for Barawak River, and Singapore,

Freas" (Copyright) Company, St.

Paris, Jan. 30. 2nd floor, on Wednesday March 6.mander in Chief, Admiral Sir conducted by bbe authorities on George's Building, with His Excellency the Com- The post-mortem examination

Frederic C. Dreyer, on board. The the body of the late M. Georges Kent will be joined at Sarawak Pressard at the request of his River by the armed yacht Fal-widow has revealed the fact that mouth

the former attorney general died of pectoral angina.

The forthcoming marriage is an- nounced between Wilhelm Stockle, missionary," of Zugin-Hoshuwan

FRANCO GREEK TRADE NEGOTIATIONS

FRENCH DESTROYER'S SPEED RECORD

(Special to the "Hong Kong"

(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Fress),

Dally Presh””). (ByTelegraph, Copyright, Tats (ByTelegraph, Copyright, Tele graphie Moirages Urdinance.^ < 1891 prepel la Ordinanc», --- 1894- Received, January 31, 4-30 p.m.)

Received, January 31, 30p.m.) Paris, Jan. 31.

Paris, Jan, SI The Franco-Greek trade Dezo- "Le Terrible" France's fastest. tiations are said to have been torpedo destroyer at a trial ruu concluded in principle, according attained a speed of zorty nvé to an Athens despatch which adus knots per hour, thus improving that both countries have taken on the world record ret-up for measures with a view to balancing craft of this class by two knots, the exchange of goods between The torpedo destroyer Cassard France and Greece in future held the previous record, Transocean Kuo Mi

Fransocean Kun-Mind

The object of the widow's ap- plication, that of removing the possibility of any rumours as to the cause of her husband's "death at the outset, has thus been attained

Transocean Kuo Hin

MORE SILVER FROM HONG KONG

Shanghai, Jan. 31.

dollars in Silver from Hong Kong The Afth consignment of 502,000

has arrived in Bunnghal by the

mpress of Japan, ebringing total to 3,840,000 dollars,— Reuter