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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY MARCH 1, 1935.
NEW LIFE MOVEMENT
A Sure Way To National Renaissance
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
Press" (Copyright).] ....
:
Nanking, Feb. 18. When the New Life Movement was started by General Chiang Kal. Shek a year ago it was ac- critics ress claimed by the press and
alike. Among the many reasons that have contributed to the hu- for- militations of this country.
the comprise eign. aggressions smaller alf, while the greater
Individual all part lies in the
Chinese people. In ings of the trying to avert the tendency to- wards national deterioration one the roots of must Rrst remove these détects. This is the funda- of the move- mental principle ment.
Hoxo KONG, MARCH 1,1935.
POLITICAL EVOLUTION IN INDIA
Life.
new £
STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER
But enough of this hogwash,
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being
funny
no
of toffee out of your mouth. was merely stating that I had money to buy you toys. Child.--Cannot the Bank give
I thought that some, father? was what they were for, Father-They could, my child, but they are building a new building which is nearly, but not quite as high as the dollar.
NEWS SUMMARY
A meeting of the Legislative Council was held when His Ex- cellency the Governor presided. Several Bills were read and con sidered.
Page 7.
Mrs. Sommerfelt presided over the annual general meeting of the Ladies Recreation Club when a
Page 7. very successful year was reported.
The annual Seven-a-Side Rugby Football Tournament in ald of Civilian and Service Charities is being held next week on the Hong Kong Football Club ground.
Page 10.
St. Andrew's Church was the
Child.Why is the dollar so scene of a pretty wedding yester- high, father?
"With the dollar the way It is i, Eather.Nobody knows, Willie. But i day when Miss Lella Shengle be-
life is hardly worth living, anyway, Why not the rope, the razor, or the small battle of stuff as a gateway to Paradise? Who would fardels. bear?
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broadly speaking it is because the Americans are buying aliver, and India and China are buying and selling it at the same time, and the Slump and the Trade Revival, and Speculation, and Money being Tight, and bankers, and brokers, and over-confidence and timidity and a hundred and one other things which are very economic and technical, such as uni-lateral purchases of basic commoditles. And then there
(BY "NO QUARTER").
'you' To-day is my birthday! I have ̈Child-Are Wang pointed a pleasant feeling that whatever father, or only silly? main forces, Mr. out, that regulate the life of the pap I serve you up, you will have Father. Take that revolting piece I The political to grin. feebly and say:-"Yes, of people of a nation, is embodied in the laws of a na-course. birthdays come but once a tion, and the social is embodied year, Youth! Ah Youth ***
bring Birthdays, old cronies. primarily in the moral standards
The New of the society.
bome to one forcibly the passing of Movement makes use of the latter the years. Time like an ever roll- rather than the former for no-ing stream is master of us all. tional rejuvenation.
The great reaper's seythe will one President Warg
characterized day glean all of us into the those who doubt the effectiveness celestial Barn, of the power of persuasion-In contradictinction to ignorant of the influence of social forces.
National rejuvenation, President Wang emphasized, depends much upon the psychological re-orienta- tion and moral uplift of the peo-
I will tell you. All over the face At the commencement of the
ple, and this could not be better debate Sir Samuel
Life of the globe, urimarked upon any In a speech to-day on the New effected than by the New India B
map, are people with great long Hoare's speech had the valuable quality of reducing the matters Life Movement at the Sun Yat- Movement which fosters about which there were differences sen memoral service at the Cen- spirit among the people and re-asses ears waggling solemnly to Kuomintang Headquarters, gulates their life by the influence and fro, and asking to be pulled. There is work to be done. Keep to their real proportions Rhetoric tral
abdication," "surrender, commemorating the first anniver of higher social standards. about
to-morrow, Mr. In conclusion, President Wang your Napoleons and your Mussolinis, "betrayal" may serve the sary of its birth
every your age arts and little money and purpose of inflaming passion, but Wang Ching Wel, President of the expressed the hope that
reiterated that citizen of the nation would pledge grubbing cheats, and leave me a to the simple craftsman's job-to wield is merely silly when the extreme Executive" Tran opponents of the Bill are prepared the New Life Movement is a so-his or her full support
uncover the knots and flaws in all to concede Provincial Autonomy cial force which aims at regulat- movement as a sure way to na- the smoothing plane of ridicule, to the miniature gods that we set up &single reservation, and ing and elevating the life of the tional renaissance. with
objection Indian Chinese populace. There are two China United Press (hy. Maïl).
to
in the high places of our various the when
snobberies. Federation is limited to the time of its inauguration. There is no party anywhere In the House of Commons that is not deeply com- mifted by its own declarations to political advance in India. No question of principle is any longer in controversy. The doubts that remain centre wholly round ex- pediency. Nor is that surprising. for. as Mr. Baldwin well said in his broadcast address, the Indian proposals have not been born in any revolutionary atmosphere, but are the evolutionary development ct the whole of British rule during
Saarbruecken, Feb. 27. The solemn ceremony of trans- the last 100 years. The British Parliament has been brought to the point at which new decisionsferring the executive power of the Saar territory from the Interna- tional Saar Governing Commission have to be made, not because any Government, Scefallst or National,
to the German' Government will became suddenly enamoured of
take place on Friday forenoon in constitution-making, but because India had plainly outgrown the the offices of President Knox of garments with which Parliament the Commission, in the presence of the Reichsminister of Interior provided her 15 years ago.
The Secretary of State bravely Frick as official representative of the Reich Government, and of faces the dificulty that the Mo-
REUNION WITH GERMANY
Official Ceremonies In The Saar
(Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).]
NEW POST FOR" MR. GAUSS
Leaving Peiping For Paris
Pelping. Feb. 28." Mr. Clarerice "Gauss, Counsellor to the US Legation at Peiping has been appointed Counsellor to the Embassy and Consul General in Paris Another agency recent ly incorrectly reported his trans- fer as Counsellor in Berlin." Mr. Gauss who spent his entire foreign service of twenty-nine years in China with brief intervals in the
State Department, goes to his first European post in about a month's time.
in His previous service China includes consular posts at
derate parties in India have given Baron, Aloisi of the League's Saar Shanghai, Tientsin. Amoy, Tsinan" PHILHARMONIC the proposals the coldest of re- Commission who will open the and Mukden.
SOCIETY
ceremony by delivering a speech ceptions. It is not an Indian
in French which will be immediate- characteristic to show joy in a bargain until it is certain that they translated into German while the subsequent address by Dr. last possible anna. has been ch
Frick
into will be translated any Con-
French. stitution framed by Parliament, or, for that matter, by Mr. Lansbury, was a cerainty, so far as the Indian Congress was concerned. Yet the
Booking Now Open rained. Rejection of
at Anderson's for
HIAWATHA
CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE
imminence of the Bill now before
Parliament has forced. Congress members to fight the elections and return to the Legislatures. For any section to stard aside would be to
MARCH 7th and 9th, throw rule into the hands of its
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Admission: $3, $2 $1 plus tax.
opponents. Belf-government, con- tains within itself the force that compels co-operation. Respon- sibility for legislation begets responsibility among the members of the Legislatures. Sir Samuel Hoare affirms that truth when he'
FAMOUS SINGER holds that if the vote in the Indian-
DEAD
"Woman With Voice Of An Angle
(8pecial Air Mail Service)
London, Feb. 8.
The death of Madame Marcella
Sembrich, the famous opera singer
Assembly could have decided the fate of the trade agreement it would have been given with more regard to India's interests. A responsible vote cannot be expect- ed when, in fact, responsibility is
withheld,
RECALLING A DISASTER
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Feb. 8.
Reuter.
Saar's reunion with the German Fatherland on March 1. No less than 110 special trains will con- vey the visitors to the Saar, fifty of these trains being reserved for
The historic act will be broad- cast by all German radio stations. Several hundred thousands visitors members of Stormtroop detach- from the Reich are expected to ments, labout camps and other Na- arrive here before Thursday even-tional-Socialist party organiṣa- ing in order to participate in the celebration on the occasion of the Transocean Epo Min.
tions.
Li..
NAVIGATION ROUTES IN CHINA
Definite Plans For Opening And Reconditioning
Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright).1 «
Nanking, Feb. 18. With a view to promote domes. tic shipping, definite plans for the opening of navigation routes have been mapped out by the National Water Conservancy Com- mission,
National under the
the of a generation ago, who was de- Those too young to recall the Economic Council. Among scribed by Franz Liszt as the Titanic disaster can experience most important shipping lines under project are those along the Woman with the voice of an something of the shock it caused
Cmdr. angel," is announced in New York by reading
Lightoller's following waterways:- "Titanic and Other Ships," which Madame Sembrich, who was in her 77th year, made here debut in has just appeared. London in 1880, singing as "Lucia"
at Covent Garden.
He says that the delay of a wire- less operator in sending a message to the bridge was a direct cause of the catastrophe.
Fifteen seasons in St. Petersburg and Moscow followed, but during the intervals between these en- This message, received from an- gagements
Madame Sembrich othe rship, reported heavy pack Ice toured England and the Continent. and a great number of large ice- In 1898 she joined the Metro- bergs" in a position right ahead of politan Opera: Company of Newthe Titanic and not many miles York, where she reigned as "Queen away.
of Song" for more than a genera tion. She made her farewell ap pearance" there in 1909...
Not realising the extreme urgency
of the message the operator laid it aside until he had finished his ac- counts, ✨
Actually it never reached the bridge..
Madame Sembrich was the daughter of a Polish peasant, and was born at Wizniewczyk, a village in Galicia. Her musical talents That delay proved fatal and was developed so early that she began the main contributory pause to the her plano lessons at the age of loss of that magnificent ship and Tour and violin lessons when she hundreds of lives
was contributing to the support of Card. Lightoller was the only hor family by playing in public senior orcer of the ship to be when she was only twelve years saved Subsequently he performed
www.brillant service in the War. old
1-The section of the Grand Canal between Tientsin and Hangchow will be made na- vigable for 1,000-ton steam- era.
2-The Yellow River, the Grand
Canal and the Blaoching Ho, in northern Shantung, will be connected and made a- vigable for 1,000 ton steam- ers. The bay at Yangklokow near the mouth of the Yel- low River will be dredged. 3The Chang and Wel Ho, in
northern Honan, will unk up with the Grand Canal 20 that 500-ton vessels may ply between Pankow and Lo tsing.
The Ten Ho in northern Kiangsu will be dredged so that steamers of 1,000 tong may be operatedEdoriz will also be made to improve the mouth of the Kean Ho.
In north-eastern Klangsun
5-The channel of the Yellow and River between Paotow, Chungwet will be deepened 50 as to allow for the opera- tion of steamers of 1,000- tonk
All of which amounts to prac- tically nothing, as Eve remarked when she saw the first fig-leaf.
*FINANCIAL INTERLUDE Child-Father, I have seen within the windows of a toyshop an aeroplane, a most instructive toy which it would be to your advan- tage to purchase for me. Father-My child, your age is per- haps too tender for you to have realized that the dollar has risen to such alarming heights that I cannot afford to buy you new clothes, let alone toys. Child-What is, this dollar, father? Father (gloomily).It is the only heavier-than-alr machine that manently above its normal level has succeeded in remaining per
came the bride or Lieut: Maxwell Manlove of the East Lancashire Regiment.
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The Hong Kong Horticultural Society held a very successful show at the Volunteer Headquarters yes- "Page T. terday.
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A meeting of the Kowloon Tong Anglican Church branch of the VDMA was held last night.
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are Politics
The programme of fixtures of the Child ̈ (mullshly).--I would rather Open Singles Tennis Championship
have my aeroplane.
matches during the coming week is published on
Page 10-
Tsang Pang Sum was committed stand his trial at the next Criminal Sessions on two charges of committing armed robbery at Kowloon.
Page 6.
MASKED BLONDE PROBE Rapid developements have oc- curred in this baffling mystery, and Dr. Aufgang, who is working on the case, expects to be able to make a statement shortly.
"It all hinges," he said yester- day," upon the psychological element in the case. If we could prove that the blonde, although a blonde, was brunette-minded, we should be on the road to a solu- tion."
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The fourteenth annual Kowloon Marathon Race under the auspices. of St. Andrew's Club will be held on Monday, March 18. Page :10. Further evidence was called yes- Yesterday Dr, Aufgang attempt ed to apply third degree methods, terday when Leung Yin appeared and gave Mrs. Ruglinson a num- at the Central Magistracy again on ber of sharp blows on the posteriora manslaughter charge as a result with a baseball bat in an endea of a motor accident on Island Page 5. Road rour to induce her to make a statement. She made one, but I fear it had little bearing on the case, as she was heard to remark," Lay off my sit-upon you dirty old
geezer."
Read Our Great Seris! Next Week, THE AFFAIRS OF SOSTENUTO BOLONI
Greatest lineshooter of all time.
The man that put the B. in Boll
TAIL PIECE
A BANKRUPT'S RŪBAIYAT
Awake!" For Spring in Sunny Icehouse Street Has rocked the local dollar off its feet. And frenzied, brokers full of frantic doubt,
In brass-bound rickshaws take their mobile seat
Bee, how their tempers grow more frayed, and shorter Because the beastly thing is up a quarter. - Read, mark and learn, and inwardly digest.
Go home, and take more whisky with your water.
Drink up the wine: avert your, weary eyes From, politics, where men of paltry size Divert the issue with the dogs of war, And babble endlessly about Mut Tsais.
What boot it. if`inancial vultures shatter The chances of rich food upon your platter? Remember, if you haven't any cash
The dollar's value scarcely seems to matter.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
There was a further advance of -All rocks and other obstacles a farthing in the rate of the Hong along the Lanchow-Chung-Kong dollar yesterday, the opening wel section of the Grand rate being is 10.5/8d. Canal in Kansu, will be re- moved by dynamite so as to
The RM8. Empress of Russia is facilitate the operation of due this morning from Vancouver 200 ton steamers,
via ports and will berth at the
H
7---Dredging operations will be Kowloon Wharf. She will sail for
conducted on the section of Manila at 5 this afternoon. the Yellow River between
His Excellency, The Right Hon. Psotow and Tungkuan and a 200-ton steamer service will Sir Leslie Wilson, G.CSI, P.C., C.M.G. and Lady Wilson are be operated there.
passengers on 8.5 Tanda from 8-The Paochi-Tungkuan sec- Kobe en route to Brisbane. Bir tion of the Wel Ho and the Leslie Wilson is the Governor of section of the Yellow River Queensland. between Tungkuan and Lit sun near the coast will also be made navigable for ves- sels of 200 tons. 9-After the Yellow River is
dredged, ships of 500 tons A dance will be held at Lane ply between Cheng Crawford's Restaurant on Satur- chow, in northern Horan, day from 9 pm to 1pm. The dance band of HMS. Hermes will an Telnan 10-Conservancy measures will be in attendance. The price of ad- be taken on the Kan Bo, in mission is $1.50 for gentlemen, Shang Ho, ladies by courtesy. The dance is that 500-ton open to the public!
may
The British destroyer Bruce and the submarine Parthian will rem turn from Bingapore to-day.
vessel, may be
the Hong and from the said rivers to The next meeting
Branch of the English Association the Yangtze River
will be held on Tuesday, March 5 at 5.30 p.m. in the Helena May In- when Mrs. Christopher stitute, Chancellor of Shanghai will ad- dress the Association on "Some Later Elizabethan Dramatists."
The final of the Margin Cup Boxing Tournament" of the East Lancs, was held last night. Page 10.
A
very enjoyable concert of Italian music was given in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel last night under the auspices of the Italian Culture Association.
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IRON RATION
Ideal Found After Much Research"
(Special Air Mail. Services
London, Feb. 8. Exhaustive researches have led to the War Offices approving a new form of iron' ration "for soldiers consisting of pure cocoa, cocoa- butter, milk protein and sugar.
Experiments with the iron ration have gone on at intervals since before the war, and this latest de cision is the result of many trials conducted at the Royal Ampy Medical College,
A hermetically-sealed container. 34 ins. square and one inch in thickness, weighing 8 oz., accom- modates the present iron ration- a concentrated food in the form of
emer- pemmican. It will, in an gency, sustain a man for at least 24 hours,
Previously, chocolate, and then coffee, were among the principal ingredients or the ration. On On the eve of the Great War it. was decided that 12ozs. of choco- Inte, the then approved emergency diet, was unsatisfactory.
Substituted for it was a small tin of preserved meat and some small biscuits, tied up in a little bag, and a packet containing a grocery ration of sugar, salt and tea, y
Far Eastern residents will be Interested to learn that among the
After the war experiments were passengis booked from Europe who made with other ingredients. One Joined the RMS. Empress of Japan ration was flavoured with choco- at Vancouver, B.C. on February 23 late and another with coffee. Re- 1835, are the following: Captain ports, after trials with both, in- Fred Langley, Mr. Gaston Blum, dicated that although neither type Mr. G. Withoeft, Mr. Harold compared favourably with the war Ogden, Mr. K. R. Quick, Mr. IL A time preserved meat issue, they Allan, Mr. Mo Tsso, Mrs N. Mwere both superior to the emer- MacRae and Mr. and Mrs. C. Bgency ration tested in 1932.
The Medical College stated that Broadbent
the sustaining properties of both The Hong Kong Amateur types were shown to be consider- Dramatic Club has in active preble, and were capable of bridging paration Noel Coward's The Young & san of 24 hours without produc Idea which will be produced at 18 the China Fleet Club Theatre on the nights of April 3, 4, 6 and 6,
One case of smail por and one case of cerebro-spinal fever were health authorities teds to during the 24 hours Prided February
allsely
ver that the
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