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THE 52nd ANNUAL

AL FRESCO FETE

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SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

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KOWLOON

On the Vacant Plot of Land near Rosary Church,

CHATHAM ROAD

on

11

SUNDAY, 3rd NOVEMBER,

1935

From 3 p.m. to 10 pm.

Under the Distinguished Patronage of

H. E. THE OFFIORE ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT.

ADMISSION 10 CENTS.

1

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Tea and Refreshments will be obtainable. The Grounds will be brilliantly illuminated in the evening. SOME FEATURES OF THE FETE: Toy Bazaar, Ten Cents Stall, Dart Gallery, Fishing Game, Chinese Stall, Sale of Fancy Articles etc, etc. NO WORK OF CHARITY IS FOREIGN .TO THE SOCIETY.

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U.S. EMBARGO

ON ARMS

"The Stigma Of Aggression"

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Oct 18,

Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, told the Press this morn- ment in declaring a state of war and proclaiming an embargo had acted solely on its own initiative from the standpoint primarily of the affairs and interests of the

Arnerican people and "without no- ce to or collaboration with any- body anywhere."

NAVAL " LAUNCH

THE AIR FORCE

First For Many

Years"

!!

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, Oct. 10. H.M.8. Basset, a naval trawler the first propelled vessel to bullt for the Royal Navy on the Firth of Forth, was launched at Leith on Saturday. The ceremony

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performed by Mrs. Brown, wife of the Minister of Labour

The vessel has been built by Messrs. Henry Robb, Ltd.. and is 150 feet in length with a displace- ment of 480 tons and a speed of 12 knots. Its armament consists of one 4-inch run mounted for- ward.

Improved Conditions

(Special Air Mail Service

London, Oct. 10.

An Air Ministry Order, No. A.248 of 1935, introduces revised scales of pay, emoluments, and conditions of service for members of the Princess Mary's Royal Air „" Force Nursing Service.

The scale of pay on entry was previously £85, rising in 17 years to £110: it is now £80, rising in nine years to £125. The scale for Senior Sisters and Matrons Bre also improved and now run up to

£140 and £250 respectively.

There will also be an increase in the number of substantive ap-

the pointments in-

grades of This statement was made as a

Matron and Senior Sister, which result of the inevitable attempt

At a tea to which the firm after- will allow a greater outlet from to secure from the Secretary of wards entertained their employees the grade of Sister, and will result 'State some "Interpretation" of the

Mr. Henry Robb, who presided, in enhanced promotion prospects. American action and, in part emphasised the importance of cular, as a reply to the question Leith in view of its proximity to whether the United States, in ad- the naval base at Rosythi

ass dition to the preservation of its centre where shipyard activities own neutrality, should be under-could be transferred at any stood as desiring to show sym-moment mom peace productions pathy with the efforts of the Lea- to those of national defence. gue of Nations to stop the war. He said he believed it to be of Every person, Mr. Hull said, was vital importance to our national be in at liberty to put whatever inter-defence that there should pretation he saw fit upon the the neighbourhood a fully equipped # highly American action, but he thought | modern shipyard with that the plain words of the Pre-skilled personnel available at any

the two moment for the transfer. sident's statement and proclamations were sufficient

CONSIDERATION FOR FORTH guide.

Provided that a member is duly certified as in all respects suitable for the higher rank, promotion to Sister will be after one year's ser- vice on full pay. Existing staff nurses who are already qualified for promotion under the new re- gulation will be promoted to Sister' with effect from August 1, 1935. Promotion to the rank of Matron and Senior Sister will be by selce- tion within establishment.

Rates of retired pay are also re- vised

the maximum upwards,

yearly rates being increased to

£225 in the case of Matrons and £140 for both Senior Sisters and Sisters, as compared with £170. £115, and £105 respectively at present Rates of retiring gratuity to those permitted to retire volun- £250 tarily are increased from efter 10 years' and £400 after 15 years' service to £325 and £500 respectively,

Few people could remember the Orders in the sense, of the Pre- sident's proclamation have been last vessel built for the Admiralty telegraphed to the seaboard ports on the Firth of Forth, and he of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, thought, therefore, the time had Baltimore, Chicago, Galveston,

come when, in view of the extend- ed naval programme which is to New Orleans, Los Angeles, San

be put into operation. those in Francisco, Seattle, and Norfolk, Virginia. Revenue officers at those authority should consider serious points have also been instructedly if some suitable portion of the

new work should not be given to Applications for appointment that shipments of arms, ammuni-

the East Coast of Scotland in should be addressed to the Matron- tion, and Implements of war as

order to maintain up-to-date ship-in-Chief. Princess Mary's R.AF set forth in the list approved by the President should, if they were Ping facilities in full production. Nursing Service, Air Ministry, 5-6.

5 that its services might be in Clement's Inn, W.C.2. stantly available in time of na- tional emergency.

destined to French Somaliland, be held pending further instruc:Jons.

"LEAGUE CAN GO AHEAD"

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Comment on the embargo pro- clamation and the President's statement in the American Press nus none of that caution when the Secretary of State displayed this The highly significant morning. statement.is described by the Bal- imore Sun as a "plain warning that the Roosevelt Administration

Mr. E. D. Meryon, superintendent of construction work at the Ad- miralty, said that further inquiries would surely be addressed to the firm in future. Tenders were un- der consideration, but he did not know what was likely to come of ther

NAVAL ATTACHE AT TOKYO

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(Special "Air Mail Service,

London Oct: 10. The King has approved the appointment of Captain H B. Naval Rawlings. O.BE., R.N., B Attaché to HM. Embassies at In proposing the toast of the

Tokyo and Peking, to date January arm, Mr. Ernest Brown, M.P., 3, 1936. He will succeed Captain Minister of Labour, said the energy. G. F. Vivian, R.N.,

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does not intend to stand upon its neutral rights, and will not seek to extend the protection of the of Messrs. Henry Robb. Ltd. had held the post since January, 1933.

Captain Rawlings is at present American Government to citizens been one of the few bright spots who, wishing to trade with Italy. shipbuilding "in the neighbour-attending the Imperial Defence may run afoul of the League block-hood in

IMPERIAL for L the years just behind College in London. He is a gra- ade." Mr. Roosevelt, says the news-them. Since they had been on the duate of the Naval Star College, paper, could not have fatly declared Admiralty list they had done the and was made O.BE in recogni

liaison that he wo support the League work entrusted to them with great tion of his services 29. blockade. First, he has not the

aficer with the British Military to Poland ia 1919-20. Second, legal authority to do so.

of Mission continued enterprise he could not very well state what Henry Robb, Ltd.. had

made it During the War he was torpedo his attitude would be in a situa- possible for a number of the best officer of the cruisers Antrim, Un- tion that is still hypothetical. shipyard workers in the country, daunted, and Coventry. Nevertheless, he has indicated to retain their employment at one es pointedly as he could that of the most vital crafts for this So far as it lies within his country.

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Dower he will support the The people of Leith might be League in its effort to bring quite sure that Messrs Robb would the Imperialik: war in Africa to do everything they could to see a halt. The League Powers...can that their enlarged yard has as now go ahead without fear of in- good a share of Admiralty orders terference from this country. And as its efficiency deserved. they ought by all means to go ahead without delay.

The Basset has ↑ total coal capacity of 180 tons. The engines The Washington Post considers are of the direct acting, surface that in spite of the juridical equal-conderising. triple-expansion ma- ity as between Ethiopia and Italy rine type, working in conjunction preserved by the proclamation, with a cylindrical coal-fired boiler "the stigma of aggression is virt operated under the Howden forced ually laid upon Italy by the Pre- draught system. sident of the United States."

The Post finds a certain irony

pean belief.

He last served afloat in com- flag mand of H.MS. Delhi as captain to the Rear-Admiral Com- manding Third Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet.

NEW POST OFFICE MACHINE

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Loridon, Oct. 10. The Mayors of Brighton and Hove will be present at the in- auguration by the Post Office to- day of an important experiment in sorting letters by machinery at the Brighton sorting office. The huge sorting machine, which has been under construction since

in the fact that the "declaration ships in the absence of a maritime

war will only encourage the Euro-May, is the first of its kind in this of neutrality should be the vehicle through which we add our weight to the gathering forces of collec- tive action," and something of the

REPUBLICAN CRITICISM

country.

A sorter at the existing tables

same sort occurs to the New York remembered, is a Republican or preliminary way to 48 boxes, and

Herald Tribune, though it descri-

gan, and as such is invariably cri- bes as "obscure" the "processes of tical of the President. It does not Roosevelt's foreign policy." What

like the admonition to Americans the newspaper calls his "myster- not to, travei in ships of "either

lous statement" provokes these re- flections:-

items

The Herald Tribune, it must be can divide his letters only in a

the large proportion of necessarily sorted to miscellaneous groups at this Arst handling must be transferred to other nests of 48 pigeon-Holes for more individual belligerent," when one belligerent selection, before they can be de- is a completely landlocked Power, There is no specific authoriza and calls it a startling "perver-patched. The new machine is 70 fret long, and practically the tion in the Neutrality Act for any sion of the obvious intent of the whole of its length on the floor: such general withdrawal of pro Act." Since the only effect will level is occupied by 650 boxes, into tec.ion as this implies; it does, on be to discourage Americans from which the letters fall after treate the other hand, at exactly with travel in Italian ships, "It is itself ment by the sorters who are seat. the famous policy announced by a kind of sanction," and, further-ed at keyboards on a platform Norman Davis in 1933, under which mere, if Great Britain and France above the machinery. Every town. the United States would not assert should apply League sanctions or area of importance has its own her neutral rights against any against Italian commerce, the number on the keyboard. Powers carrying out a League "position would be that the United

The letters are mechanically blockade. That policy (never States had formally withdrawn propelled towards the operator by endorsed by the American people her protection from any of her a slowly moving, belt, and he lifts or Congress) was made specifica - | nationals travelling in Italian cach separately and drops it ly contingent upon the ratifica-ships, but in the absence of a through an aperture with his tion of a disarmament treaty. further proclamation) would still right hand, at the same instant There is as yet no such treaty: be asserting her full neutral rights tapping the code number on his but it has been repeatedly assum- for the protection of her citizens keyboard with his left hand. The ed in Europe that the polley will on British or French ships against letter is conveyed to the storage be adopted nevertheless, the Pre-Italian reprisals.” Here, then, by receptacle. Indicated by the opera-.. sident has never discouraged the a circuitous route would be "full tor's directional number. The ma- idea. and this peculiar use of and unneutral” cooperation with | chine has a total output of 24,000 authority to warn Americans from I the League.

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