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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

ROTARY CLUB

ADDRESS

(Continued from Page 7)

Public opinion has determined that that should not happen. You will always be the person woo is wise after the event but the con- dict, unfortunate as it is, has been confined to those two nations and. I venture to say, that by mid-sum- mer, it will be over. I do not think you will see war in Abys- sinia in six month's, time and as time goes on the danger will fade

away.

The general trend of public opinion all over the world is in favour of stability of Governmen: We are perhaps, slow to realise and give expression to our views but the Great War was a lesson that we shall not forget for many generations.

Again may I make reference to Great Britain. You will recall the Jubilee Celebrations last May, the 25th anniversary of our Late Ma- jesty, I had the good fortune to

WEDNESDAY,

ACCIDENTAL..

COLLAPSE

WOOSUNG STREET'S

CATASTROPHE RECALLED

No Blame Attached

A verdict of accidental death with blame attaching to no one, was returned by the jury, at the conclusion of an enquiry conducted by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday into the circumstances attending the death of Ko Sze Mul (43) female and seven others who were killed in the disastrous collapse of houses in Woosung Street on February 19.

MARCH 25, 1936.

COMMUNISM IN SPAIN

Aims And Methods *Of Propaganda

"Hong Kong Daily Press" Specia)

Moscow. Mar. 24. Some interesting information | concerning the aims and methods

of Commanist propaganda Spain is volunteered by the Italian

member

In

0.

Communist Ercoil, a the Cominter's executive comm310- tee in the last Issue of the Com- munist paper "Bolshevik".

Ercou is of the opinion that no thing much can be expected from the leit wing Government GX Spain since it would propably con- The jury comprised the follow-

tinue to be afraid of a coming rê. ing gentlemen: Messrs. O. B. Paynevolution and reach a compromise

foreman), A. Krilovsky' and ip Puk Ling.

Detective-Inspector A. H. Elston and Divisional-Inspector R. Shan- non were present for the Police. Mr. D. L Strellett watched the

er. Mr. Wong Tat-yuen.

with the reactionary forces in or- der to check the revolutionary struggle..

To prevent this, so Ercol writes. of a powerful, net

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HOCKEY

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valued

by, Engineering" books peasants alliances-which is vid Teams For The Coming Week

their owner a £15 to £20, which be there and in an official sense, Proceedings on behalf of the own ently unly another name fo: So-

had been sold for only $7.00, were victs-be created to organise a

The following have been chosen the subject of a charge brought mass struggle all over Spain. These

to represchi England in the Inter-gainst Lai Kam Yuen, 21 years national Hockey Tournament

on of age, described as a messenger alliances should be recognised a legal part of the Government Sunday, March 29th. when they boy in the employ of Messrs. since they would constitute the

at the Kowloon meet Portugal on the Royal Navy Alfred Holts, framework of the entire revolu

ground, K.ng's Park. at 10.30 a.m. Magistracy yesterday. tionary manOEUTTE.”

The thefts were alleged to have as to

taken place between February 22 and March 17, and a toal of 14 books in all were stolen.

to take part in the celebrations. The atmosphere was charged with an indescribable and inexpressible devation not only to the persona- lity of the monarch who was uni- que in that respect among all con- trolling inflences of the world, but a demonstration of complete con- Adence in the type of governing limited institution

have-a We monarchy under a democratic con- stitution.

the

No one but many foreign re- ex div. $11.10 presentatives and even. English- men themselves were surprised $3.10

because of his display, to world that not one of those bodies ike Bolshevism, Communism and Fascism have ever found root or even existed in the soil that is ru'tivated by the British people. (Applause).

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This is one lesson that has come home to me in recent years as one of the juniors in the diploma- tie public service.

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The deceased persons were Ko Sze-mui. 43, female; Yip Chot sub- contractor: Yui Yee, 62, female; Ho Yee-ku, 55, female: Li Wan- fun, 39. male; Yuen Nea-nga, aged 6-years, girl; Chan Ping. 31, coolie; and Sung Ching. 20 male Seven other persons were injured."

Following a lengthy summing up by the Coroner, the foreman in

The question be

whether they should ed to decide the "profusion of the problems raised by the

A. B. Owen. J. E. Potter, Banda- man F. Cox, Li, J. P. Wiliams. J.

S. A. Palmer,

Fowler, GE.R. Divett, Lieut. Wraigh, Lt. CC.

| delivering the verdict said:-Our Spanish revolution" is answered garthwaite and Furht Lt. Las-

verdict is that Ko Sze-mul's death was due to the accidental collapse of No. 4 Woosung Street and the

of death was crushing Nobody is to blame?

rause

THE RIDER

The following rider was added:-- in future, more care should be taken in demolishing old buildings

by the following:

"There is a Communist Party in Spain, whose alms are clearly de- fined and whose banners and slo- gans are to-day backed by m- licns."

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celias

ARMY TEAM

Mr. Jarnes C. L Wong, assistant the superintendent engineer of Blue Funnel Line appeared as the The Army team to meet the complainant, while Detective Sub-

Found en Inspector L. Whant handled the " Club on the Marina March 30th will be represented by case for the Police. the following:-*

The sccused pleaded guilty to che charge.

Sapper Howlet Bandsman Cox Kishen Singh, Sapper Brown. Lt 1. P. Williams, Nk. Alif Din. Kh.

Garthwaite Lt. C. C.

of this type, as from the evidence MANCHUKUO AND Bux, Mohd. Afsar. Lal S'ngh.

as to the condition of the joists in this case, the building authorities are now placed in a definite posi- tion to suspect that part of a China fir pole which is buried in the wall and around which air cannot circulate. Also we recom- mend that, it is Imperative in that is being managed future that all premises which are

CANADA'S PROGRESS

gwn I wh

refer to my HOW country of Canada. It is a large country

or msmanaged by a few peop.e.desired to be demolished must be

Laugher). There is a great out-

seen to have been vacated."

In stating that he agreed with the verdict, his Worship pointed out to the jury, that they had not mentioned on whom the 'respon sibility of seeing that the houses be vacated should fall, but he added that he would. forward the rider.

look ahead......you can put Canada on top of the United States and you can't see it! [Laughter). It is a great trust that we have and we are endeavouring to direct the sound affairs of Canada along and sane lines, and in a spirit of democracy that will be wide en-to the proper authorities.

ough to protect our peoples and our interests.

we ours

Over the past 70 years, the growth of Canada has been re- markable but we have provided ourse.ves with too much machinery for the amount of busness have. The mstake was not a one. We have 10 million people and 42,000 'mes of railways...... nct as long as the United States rallways but just as w.de. (Laugh- The rallways are far more ter). than we need and we cannot get people to travel on them.

JAPANESE AMBASSADOR

DEPARTS

Shanghai, Mar. 24. Japanese consuls from various parts of the country who came here to attend the conference call- ed by Mr. Hachiro Arita, Japanese Ambassador to China, returned to their respective posts to-day.

Ambassador Arita left here yes-

When you think of the greaterday with Mrs. Arlta for Tien- train. He Was national resources and the rapid tsin by through advances it offers at the moment seen off here by Mayor Wu Ten- who attended you wil see that the man who chen., the consu's has invested in Canada has only the meeting. and other. Japanese. to wait to get rich......in a legit At Tientsin, the ambasador wil conference with Major- mite way. (Laughter), Of course, have a

I am not making any reflections General Hayao Tada, commanding against the United States (Laugh-Japanese troops in North China, concerning the new Japanese po- Canada and the United States y towards China. cre great neighbours' and are a From Tientsin, Mr. Arita w gu

of M... great lesson to the world when to Changchun, capita you begin to think of peace and chukuo. and then wil return to

of Japan via Korea. war. There are 3,400 miles imaginary boundary Ene. and not Union News.

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WANTED!

Dead Or Alive

Do. Vibro Pileng

Big game hunters have a chance of winning a reward by tęcking out the tiger or leopard walch has recently been seen on several occasious on the sides in Kow- loon and the New Territor.es,

A notification stued by the Hon. Inspector Genere a Police states. that a reward of $50 will be-paid to the person or persons respon sible for the killing or capture of the beast..

Payment of the reward. i 19 atated, will be conditional on proof to the satisfaction of the Inspec tor General of Police.

$69 82

a gun or a policeman there......

those except

customa officers! (Laughter). We carry on 35

a past President of the Parlia peacefulty in every respect as it

ment of Ontario. is possible for people to do.

Our Great Lakes which go half

It is a great pleasure to listen to a person such as he with his across America have not a gun reputation in international publie or a gunboat on them because we and poitical affairs. Hong Kong live it peace. And where people is something of a backwater, very want peace they will have peace beautiful and very happy and it is interesting to have somebody ke him to tell us what is going on in the world outside...

the trouble is due to He says

and, as soon as nations of the wor'd make up their minds that they want peace there will be no danger. If we could have some

NORTH CHINA

Direct Freight Traffic

Hsinking, March 24. Negotiations between officials of the Board of General Direction of the South Manchuria Railway company and the Peping-Mukden Railway Bureau cuminated in the

conc.us.cn of a new agreement on direct

between freight traffic North China and Manchukug and upon regu ations governing opera- tion of the service, it was oficially announced by the His.nking office of the S.M.R.

The announcement recalled that sines the conclusion of the Tangku Truce Agreement of 1933, a desire for such an agreement had been various quartera. expressed in

Tt especially business circies, of Man- chukuo. Chna and Japan. added that the agreement, which

May.1. wil wil take effect on contribute much towards promot- ing closer economic relations be- tween Manchukuo and North China.

Nolan.

and Pte.

CLUB TEAM The folowing wil represent die, Hong Kong Hockey Club v. Royal Engineers

Club Ground King's Park, at 5 p.in. to-day. H. F. Shields

ол

J. E Potter (Capt.)

A. A. R. Botelho

J. L. Cotesworth

W. A. Reed

R. A. Bates S. A Fowler J. L. Tetley

D. Carey L. Pracht

D. L. Nooy.

£1

4.

Sub-Inspector Whant said "that" on March 19, Mr. Wong informed the police by letter of the loss c several books from his book cuse In the office at Holt's Wharf. The books in question were found on March 22 in the Reiss Harris Book Shop, No. 220A, Nathan Road, by another: employee of Holt's Wharf, who reported his discovery.

The accused had been employ- ed 15 a messenger bay at a monthly salary of $20, 'and', during the three and a haf months he had been there, he had held a position that carried a certain amount of trust.

་་

Between the dates mentioned in the charge, the accused had dis- posed of the books by twos and threes, being paid a noniinal sum

a time. which eventually. amounted to $7.00. Al the books.

at

KOWLOON TONG GARDEN borne Mr. Wong's name on the

mittee.

CITY ASSOCN.

cover, but, Mr. Reiss Harris, the proprietor of the book shop would say. that he had stuck the inside covers together to obliterate the name, with the exception of one. which was produced in court.

In answer to Mr. Q A. A. Mac- fadyen, the Magistrate, Mr. Hetris said tha, the accused spoke very

At the annua, meeting of the Kowloon Tong Garden City Asso- callon held yesterday, the Chair- man (Mr. F. W. Stapleton) gave an assurance that matters brought before the meeting would have

the Books from the latter because the attention of the incoming comitte Eng ish, and he had bought Mr. Peter H. Sin drew attention he thought that the boy was seil- to the dangerous state of the bad- ing them on behalf of someone minton ground owing to its sipelse. He did not grow suspicious pery state and he asked for some- as the books were twenty years.

old, and it was uqual to consider thing to be done to eliminate the danger.

an engineering book only five years out of date, as an old work."

Six weeks' hard labour was Im-

on the accused. The Magistrate ordered the books to be returned at half payment, but later amended the order to one of repayment without costs."**

Although neither the Japanese nor North Korean railway authori

ini the ties have participated

Mr. G. A. White supported and the agreement,

announcement protested that the price of 52 said, some measures will be work charged for coffee or tea on bad ed out between them along the minton evenings was exorbitant. lines of the new agreement in the Mr. Sin also spoke against the decision to exclude chidren frorn near future. Union Newm,

the Club premises, terming it as a silly resolution which should not have been passed.

FUTURE HOPES

con-

DRUG DIVAN

Q. T.

Tientsin, March 24.

The following were elected to A question pending besween North China and Manchukuo for serve on the Committee:

Messrs. F W. Stapleton, nearly two years was solved to- day with the official announcé- Chen Lal, Im Tong (Hon. Secte ment of the cone.usion of a new tary), 'Dr. Kwan Sum Yin, Chan agreement providing "for direct Nal Pan. Wong Chak Nam, C. H. freight traffic between Manchuko Kwan, H. F. Un (Hon. Treasurer), ad North China over the Peping. M. Siu, Dr. B. de Sousa, Mok Mukden Railway.

Lin. Peter H. Sin, A Urquhart. L. The agreement, will take effect A. Osmund. James Wong, Chan May 1, and was signed by Mr. Kam Hung, Ho Shun Hing. Chen Chien-sheng, director of the Pelping-Mukden Railway Bureau, and Mr. Beibei Bakai who ducted the negotiations on behrif of the South Manchuria Railway SINGAPORE KAW organisation such as the carly the fact that there is an insuffi- Company.

Hope was expressed here that constitution of the League of ciency of jobs to go round. That similar agreements can be con- Nations we would all, slt round s is known in China as the policy cluded between the ralway au- of the rice bowl. When the rice bowl is empty there is trouble, thorities of China, Manchukuo and My humble and earnest bellef is and when it is full everything goes Japan, thus facilitating close co-

between the operation

three that under the present leadership along happly. notwithstanding that we have a Public opinion is a great moving countries, in traffic. difficult situation in the Far East and moderating force but how-Union News. --more difficult than in Europe ever great it is, many of our pro- not in the near future at least beins to-day would be better will there be any international handled by diplomats than politi- conflict of arms in Europe of any clans. serious character..

RUBBER

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table and submit to reasonable Erbitration.

VOTE OF THANKS

We are very interested to know, sr, what you are doing in the

AIRSHIPS MAKE SAFE LANDINGS

was the

An opium divan, at No: 108 Ki Lung Street, where It practice to smoke heroin as well

as oplum; was

mentioned

posed

PRESENTATION MADE TO MR. BREEN

A unique cocktail party was held in the studio of Station ZBW on Monday night when the studio

master General (Mr. M. J. Breen) staff said farewell to the Post-

who leaves to-day by the Empress of Britain on Home leave.

During the evening the star gathered in the broadcasting studio where Mr. Stewart Silth, one of the announcers, spoke, and Miss Dunnett, the Secretary, presented Mr. Breen with a sliver cigarette case inscribed "ZBW Hong Kong

Calling." The proceedings were in broadcast,

charges brought by Revenue off- cer O'Neill at the Kowloon Mr- gistracy yesterday, against three R. O. O'Neil said that it was Chinese one of whom was a youth one of the biggest divans that he of 17, who appeared before Mr. had raided: He had found more

оп Macfadyen Q.A.A

various heroin pipes than opium, and in counts arising from a raid by the all 300 heroin pills were discover- the premises. The case the authorities on the premises.ined on

against the third accused however question.

Ip Fat (23). Wong Wong (29) was weak; and he wished to with- After taking the pleas of al, the draw the charge against him. accused in answer to the charges against them, the Magistrate dis- charged the third, accused and of $500. allowed ball in the sum each of the first and second de- fendants.

the possession, of charged with future and whether you will turn ("Hong Kong Dally Press" Special) and Wong Pul Leung (17) were Friedrichshafen, Mar, 23. raw oplum as well as non-prepar- Bir William Shenton, called your attention to the problem m

Both the German passenger air-ed opium, heroin pils and with upon to thank the speaker, said; Canada as to the disputes between

This is a red letter day in the the Federal and Provincialad- ships, "Graf Zeppelin" and "LZ running an uplum divan.

129" made safe landings here on On the application or the pro- anna's of the Rotary Club here ministrations there.

secution, the date was remanded The speech of thanks was warm Monday afternoon. and we are proud to welcome a

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