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POST OFFICE

CONTEST

Telephone Girl's Golden Voice

"SAN MICHELE" BATTLE OF THE

A Typing Lesson

(Special Air Mail Services

London. June 26, Dr. Axel Munthe, the author of "The Story of San Michele,” 18.im London, June 26. Miss E. W. Cain, of the Victoria London, and rumour says, and Exchange, London, was declared says pretty clearly, that he has £13 yesterday the winner of the Gold-nished a sequel to the book, a sort of companion volume writes en Voice competition run by the

ari" "Evening News" representa- Post Office to discover the most

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Nine girl operators selected from Over 15,000 in exchanges through- ous the country me in the King George V. Hall of the Central Tele- graph Office for the last stage. dr a contest which has made tele- phonists "volcé conscious" and has aroused great interest, and local rivalry. Four of the nine from London exchanges, and the others came from Guildiord, South Shielas, Birmingham, Exeter, and Blackpool. A panel of judges ron- sisted of Mr. John Masefield (the Poe: Laurea'c), Dame Sybil Thorn- dtke, Lord Iliffe. Mr. S: H bberd (chief announcer of the B.B.C

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BOYNE

Celebrations Marred By Fighting

Belfast, July 13, Battle of the Boyne commemora- tion parades culminated in fur- lous fighting in the streets here to-day.

Rival factions met and fought with sticks and stones, and finally shots were fred.

Police reinforcements were rush-

Dr. Munthe bimself was much less definite about it when I found bum to-day." A purling man; you | eḍ to the scene by armoured car,

feel that behind his dark glasses he la laughing at you all the

ti

"What other book?" he said. "I am not an author, you know. Pernaps I would write another book if I were quite sure that it were not going to be a best seler." All the same. I have a strong feeling that the book has berts written and is about to be publish -

ed

1

HIS PUZZLE "Success is a two-edged sword. you know," went on Dr. Munthe. "I have never understood the

for the few officers on hand had been helpless to 'prevent the riot- ing and were merely brushed aside when the marchers went Into

| action.

The armoured cur crew fred· bursts of Lewis gun fire over the heads of the Rghting crowd with- cut effect.

Police were finally forced to fire into the crowd and two per- sors were killed as a consequence.

About forty were wounded by rifle or revolver fire either from the police or the armed section of the crowd. Many persons were hurt. some of them seriously, in the

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The final trial was a severe one for the girls. They learned from their instructions that the judges demanded that "the voice must be beautiful in quality. It must have a fullnes of tone, with nothing niggardly about it and nothing rasping in the breathing of in the The speech must be imper-

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has yet been able to explain it me

""really must read it myself: I never have. I only wrote it because I was going blind, and decided to learn to use a type writer

"I am glad I wrote it, because It helped me through a very diffi- cult time in my life.

"It has been translated into. 26 different tanguages. For a long tinte I would not have it translated into French.

"The French are a literary na- tion, and I was quite sure that they would not like the book But

cuts and broken bones. from blows with sticks and stones.

Police, fighting their way to the centre of the disturburbances,

made numerous arrests, not with

out a struggle.

When order was finally restored police patrols and armoured cars continued to ruise through the

area. There is considerable ten- sion still in the city.

TWO FATALITIES The two fatalities in the rioting were a man cad a woman. Both were shot dead,,

When the disturbances were at

bited.

of the to

protection of private industries. Remarkable results of such legisla- Lion, according to General Hsu, have been achieved in Italy under the Fascist regime.

3. In order to discourage people from speculation and to divert industries, the present high rates their money into investments in

reduced. or interest on bonds should be

4. As an aid to the development of industries, communication faci- itles should be improved. The various railway companies should

Faw

At the request of the Epargne Franco-Chinoise, the Ministry of Finance has outhorized the trans- fer of the entire assets and give every facility to the factories labilities of the A and B Savings for the transportation of Departments

Epargne materials and goods and the rates Franco-Chinoise established Trust Department, un-ed to the minimum.

the newly of transportation should be reduc- der the Central Bank of China,

The Shanghai, Office

China United Press: (by mail), of the Epargne Franco-Chinoise was com- pletely taken" over by representa- tives of the Trust Department last week. The Head Office in Peiping and the branch offices in other

IMPROVEMENT OF, EDUCA- TION IN SZECHUAN

sonal It should be as detached as I consented at last, and they tell their height during the evening, parts of the country will be taken special to the "Hong Kong Daily

the voice of a bird, without trace of over-emphasis or personal ad- vertisement. It should be without any trace whatever of the theatri- cal" Other stipulations were, that the speech must be clear and free from accent, urban or provincial.

PASSAGE FROM MILTON The candidates balloted for the order in which they were to go to the misrophone, and then in turd

by repeated the test passages pusit before them. First, they were re- quired to read some 30 Ines of a passage from Miton's "L'Allegro, beginning-

Mirch, admit me of thy crew. To live with her, and live with

thee,

In unreproved pleasures tree, To hear the lark-begin his fight; And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in

skles........

the

me that 100,000 copies of the French edition have been sold.

A BRAVE EXAMPLE

battle

over by the branch offices of the Central Bank of China in the 'res- pective localities,

Fresa" (Copyright).3"

Nanking, July 5. With a view to bringing the edu cational standard In West China to the same level as that in the more

gunmen were shiping from the house-tops and the York Street police were called upon to reply to them. A prolonged -gun

DEPOSITORS SAFF. The Epargne Franco-Chinoise Most of the casualties occurred. was founded in August, 1918, with advanced provinces, a partial re-

jamt Sino-Frenca capital. It was

A brave thing to do would be ensued. to writa another book under another name. That would be taking a big risk.

men.

S

"I believe Lawrence of Arabia tried it; he wrote a whole series At 1 am. this morning, the po- of articles which were refected,lice had the situation well in hand.

under another

Benter.

when sent

name."..

And then we talked about the bird sanctuary which, in conse- quence of Dr. Munthe's efforts, has been established by Mussolini on the island of Capri,

"It is a great success," said Dr. Munthe, "and I am not unpopular with the people who used to net the birds, either. They are rather proud of having the sanctuary on their island. now that they have heard how much credit it has This was followed by a short ex-brought to the Italian nation, and from R. L. Stevenson's how Mussolini has had hundreds of letters of congratulation from English bird-lovers alone. Italians are like that.

tract

a strictly

Of such

Treasure Island" and practical test made up sentences as "At the third struke It will be one twenty four and Alty 'seconds."

CAUT-

"And I am quite certain that the birds know that Capri is a sanc- tuary, and come there in greater numbers. Somehow the news' gets about among them.

ነኒ

THE WILD SWANS

the

the Ministry of Education.

The decision was made in ac- cordance with recommendations put forth by a group of education-. to Nanking after an investigation al experts who recently returned

in this ares.

The injured include four police-registered with the Chinese Gov-organization of the institutions of higher learning in Szechuan. pro- ernment as well as the French vince has been decided upon by Consulate in Tientsin. In 1926, the society was reorganized into a Chinese Hmited company, HISTORIC BATTLE

French shares" "in the concern The Battle of Boyne, famous in being simultaneously withdrawn in Irish history, was fought in 1890 toto. The reorganization was a between the arm'es of William proved by the Ministry of Finance and James II. The former and the Ministry of Agriculture had an army of British and Dutch and Commerce' ol the Peking scldiers, with a regiment of Huge- Government. In 1933, it was also not refugees: wh'lst King James approved by the Ministries of army was mainly Irish, with some Finance and Industry of the Na- English and French officers.

tional Government at Nankinz

A set of measures for liquidation

Aftera sharp fight, the Irish were defeated and James fied to of the savings business based on France. An obelisk near Drog-premiums or prizes" of the heda marks the scene of the bat- Epargne Franco-Chinoise, has al- ready been torminated by the Ministry of Finance, and will be enfgreed as soon as the taking- over of the various branch offices of the society is completed.

tie.

RECOVERY COMMITTEE

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily

· Fress" (Copyright).]

Shanghai, July 5. The Shanghai industrial and Commercial Recovery Committee, organised by the Shanghat City

Chamber of Commerce will be com-

posed of 52 prominent local citizens." Twenty-five of these will be invited to become members of the Committee while 5 directors

"I remember that some years ago there was a very hard winter in Sweden, and nearly all the open water was frozen, which made life very difficult for the wild swans. A pair of swans struggled down to the very south, and arrived. Xof the Chamber and 22 members hansted. at a lake there. They were almost dead, but the people fed them and were kind to them, and they recovered.

At the end of the trial petitors met the judges and Mr.. Masefield announced the resul Miss Cain, who was placed first. bas been a telephone operator for five years, and has worked in the Croydon and Victoria Exchanges. Her home is in Mitcham Road. West Croydon. After being con- gratulated she admitted that 26 was a good guess concerning her age, and said that she had taken Fart in amateur theatricals and studied elocution. Mr. Masefield made the comment that she had a golden voice. "Is beautiful," sald. Becond place in the com-

and no more wild swans were seen petition was taken by Miss I. Hin that place for three years "

Then came another very hard the Trunk

winter, and a hundred swins

55 ctx" Dunn, of

prem. prem

31

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Wallace Harper......

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H.K. Wing Up

S'bal Do.

168 375

Vibro Pileng...***-ne| $2

WUSIH SHANGHAI HIGHWAY

Wusin, July 6. As the Wusth-Shanghal High way will be completed on the 15th fost, bomibus service will be om- daily opened to trafic on Aug- ust 1, it is announced.

The route, which is 140 kilome- ters long, passes 24 cities and towns, mcluding Shanghai, Nan- ziang, Kiating, Txitsan, Chang- shu, Tungting and Wasih. Under the direction of the Kiangsu Fro- vincial Highway Bureau, con- struction work was started In April last year.

It is understood that the regu- lar bus fare w'll be $4.20 per trip,

NO WHARFAGE DUES

Nancing, July 6. All ships berthing at the new Llenyunkang Fort, easternter- minus of the Lung-Hai Line in northern Kiangsu, are to be ex- empted from wharfage

dues for

Exchange,

London.

Major G. C. Tryun," the Post- master-General, presentes a prize of 10 guineas tu M'ss Cain and one of five guineas to M'ss Dunn.

"In the spring they dew away,

The present reorganization of the Epargne Franco-Chinoise, it is pointed out in official dircles here. in no way injures the interests of its depositors, nor does it in the least affect the monetary situation in the country.

China United Prem (by mail).

Press" (Copyright).]

trip to that farflung province un- der the auspices of the Ministry' of Education,

"

According to the instruction's sent to the Szechuan Department of Education, the four schools of Natural Science, Education. Paliti- cal Science, and Economics of the National University of Szechuan. are to be combined into two. schools, while a College of Agricul- ture is to be added.····

The Instructions further say that. the University or Chungking is to be changed into a provincial in- stitution, and that Its Schools of

beral Arts and Agriculture are to be abolished. Students of the two abolished schools are to be trans- ferred to the National University of Szechuan

TWO NEW SCHOOLS The University of Chungking is to establish two new schools name-

Special to the "Hong Kong Daly, Natural Science and Techno- logy, while its original departaments of Mathematics and Natural Science are to be incorporated into the new School of Natural Beiferte. The school of Technology is to: have three departments, namely, Civil, Metallurgical and Electrical

ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES

Nanking, July 6.

As the result of a one-year world tour which took him to the United

the Executive and Supervisory Committees of the Chamber will be members, ex officio.

Mr. Wang Ten-Sung, member of States and various European coun- the Standing Committee of the tries in the investigation of mill- Engineering, yogy Shanghai City Chamber of Com-tary development, General Hau merce who is General Manager of ring-Yao, commander of the 17th culture, according to the new pro- The Provincial, College of· Agri- the Shanghai Silk Industry Com- Army and the famous "defender gramme, is to be incorporated into

arrived at that lake in the farmercial and Savings Bank, will be of Koupelkow" against Japanese the University of Szechuan while

south. No explanation is possi- ble except that they had been told by the original two swans." Dr. Munthe is staying in Eng- land unthy the end of July, when

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGEI QUOTATIONS APPEAR ON PAGE 2

DISCOVERY OF A GOLD MINE

cne year, so as to encourage

Canton, July 13, trame and help, in bringing pros-. It is reported that another gold mine of considerable richness has Derity to the port..

An order to this effect has been been discovered in the mountains. issued to the Lung-Hai Railway of the Kwan Yin Po of the Yan Administration by the Ministry of. Ping District, a Rallways

Thousands of country people are already on the spot, and it is reported that each person has been able to collect daily a quantity of gold dust valued at from $3 to $40

People from the surrounding villages are now focking to the locality in the search of gold- Nam Wah Tat

Buo. Min

rebate of 20 per cent, win be given in order to encourage pas ecents per senger traffic.

beginning, e Xua Hin,

he goes to Sweden.

"I like England," he said, "and

come here often.”.

This is his first visit since the successful operation which he underwent in Switzerland last autumn for the recovery of his 'eyesight. He now sees quite well.

SINGAPORE RAW RUBBER

Latear Singapore Prices

BENJAMIN & POTT. Mesurs. Benjamin and Potta have received the following Straits cur- tener quotations (buyers) from agapore on Saturday for Raw Rubber.

Spot19) cta Aug/Sept/-20 Oot./Dec. 201 Jan. Mar Market:

21cts Dali.”

the chairman of the Committee.

aggression, declared his fimpression The appointment of the person that consolidation of national nel of this Committee was decib-strength by means of the develop ed upon at the meeting of the ment of industries is the one and Standing Committee of the City only essential to national defence Chamber of Commerce yesterday, in this 20th century. when the Regulations governing its organization were also approv-viewer his suggestion of a pro- éde

gramme of 4 helpful points for the development of industries in China.

the Provincial College of Techno- logy is to be incorporated into the University of Chungking.

In order that better attention

will be paid to primary and mid- die school education, the fastruc General Hsu reveals to the inter-tions direct that the primary and middle schools affiliated with the University of Szechuan and its various schools are to be placed under the direct control or the provincial department of educa-

on

PRIVATE INTERESTS:

The Committee is to have a Ce eral Manager to take charge of routine matters. For the time be- ing, it will have four sections,

1. The Government should en respectively, on General Attairs, courage the developmnt of indus Investigations, Statistics, and tries through private interests: Training, each of which will have The development of private indus- a Chief and a Vice-chief, assisted | tries has both its economic as well by a number of members-

as ita" military importance. China United Press (By Mail) time of war, the Government has to depend to a large extent upon private industrial interests for the rapid production of war equip | ments,

MESSES. H. B. JOSEPA & CO. Messrs. H. B. Joseph and Co. r## ceived the following Straits Cur- rency quotations from /Singapore tor Raw Rubber

Spot

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REICHSMARK QUOTA- TIONS

(Special to the "Hong Kong Dalks. Press” (Copyrights.]

Berlin, July 13. Reichsmark quotations (without

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