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MARRIAGE

CASSELS-ARNOLD,—On June 28, 1938, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. E, K Quick, M.A.. Edna Hattle, only daughter of Mr. W. Arnold and the late Mrs. ‘Amold, to Harold. Kennedy, second son of the late Rt. Reverend. W. W. Cassels, D.D.

Editorial and Business Office: 11,

Ice House Street. Tel 30281.

Night Editor (Wancha Omice:

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IN THE SUPREME The Daily Press.

COURT OF HONG KONG

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS NO, 22 OF 1936.

IN THE MATTER of The WING ON COMPANY (SHANGHAI), LIMITED.

and

Hosa KONG, JULY 2, 1838.

EDUCATION BY RADIO

HONG

KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1936.

SMALL GIRL IS

INJURED

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Knocked Down By Wanchai Tram

TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

A "distressing · accident occurred last night about 9. pm. in the vicinity of Cleverly Street, Wanchal A girl, aged about 11 years,' was walking across the road when she was knocked down by a tram 'car. She was quickly conveyed to the Government Civil Hospital.

Up to a late hour last night the girl had not recovered conscious- ness and her name is not known.

An eye-witness to the accident said that the girl apparently did not hear the tram car and walked into the vehicle while looking in the opposite direction

OBITUARY

MR, A. D. CAREY

Arthur

By the death of Mr. Douglas Carey. which occurred at

Montreux on June 11 in his

ninety-second year. England loses her oldest explorer.

There is an old true saying that sharper impression is left on the mind by what is conveyed through the faithful eyes" than what is IN THE MATTER of THE transmitted through the car, That COMPANIES ORDINANCE is a standing difficulty confronting the broadcaster, and most of all perhaps the broadcaster to schools The fact is frankly recognised in the new B.B.C. pamphlet which gives the school courses for 1936-7, where it is observed that in order don School and, having passed the to give its full service "broad-1864 examination for the Indian

1932.

NOTICE is hereby given that the order of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong dated the 26th day

One of a famous Anglo-Indian family. the descendants of Dr. william Carey, of Serampore, he was educated at the City of Lon"

Commissioner of Inland

Customs in Bombay.»

POPE'S VACATION

("Hong Kong Daily Fress" Special

Rome, July 1.

His Holiness the Pope left the Vatican City yesterday by motor car for Castle Oodolfo, where this year he is taking up his summer residence.

The Pope is taking his annual vacation a month earlier than usual this year.- Tronancean News Sérvice.

IMPORTANT CHANGES IN R.A.F. ADMINISTRATION

Organisation To Be Split Into Four New Commands

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, June 23.

Important decisions regarding the reorganisation of commands and administration of home commands of the Royal Air Force were announced by the Air Ministry yesterday.

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Relieving Commanders

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Of Work

It is stated that, as a result of NEW POST CREATED the expansion of the Force, the Air Council has decided that the time has come to carry out cer- tain important changes with the object at providing an appropriate organisation for the enlarged Force which will function with speed and efficiency in peace and in war.

One primary feature of the new organisation is that it makes the peace organisation conform Ու the or- closely na possible with ganisation visualised for war. As

A new post of Air Officer in Charge of Administration will be created at each operational Com- This officer mand Headquarters. will relieve the Commander-in- Cher of as much work 9$ possible. Commanders-in-Chief will thus be free to devote more

SCHOOL SPEECH training and operations must be time to the strategical; opera-

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DAYS

Bishop On False Patriotism

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 23,

The Bishop of London, Dr. Win- nington Ingram yesterday de- clared that he was "galled" by the resolution of the Oxford Union "that this house will in no cir

cumstances fight for its King and country"when he spoke at the Ardingley (Sussex) College prize- giving.

separated in war, it is essential that the peace organisation should give effect to this separation as far as possible.

THREE OPERATIONAL COMMANDS

The new organisation provides three operational commands and one training command, as follows:

of June, 1936 confirming the recasting must be vitalised at both Civil Service, went out at the end AN APPEAL TO YOUTH duction of the capital of the ends, at the microphone and in of 1865 for service in the Bombay above named Company from the class room, by a human per- Presidency. In 1881 he was made $10.000,000 Hong Kong Cur. sonality." A dull broadcaster, like Collector of the Salt Revenue and

a dull preacher, had better be Acting rency to $10,000,000 National dumb for any lasting effect he is Currency prevailing in Shanghai likely to have upon school children. Like his missionary, relations in and the minute (approved by the who are experts in the art of stub-later, times, he was interested in Court) showing with respect to born resistance to whatever bores North-Western India, and in 1825, the capital of the Company as al. them. Similarly." If the teachers accompanied by the ill-fated Mr. cannot improve the occasion, when Dagleish. travelled from Leh in tered the several particulars re-

the talk is over. most of its effect Kashmir west of the Kun

Lun quired by the above ordinance will vanish into thin air.

range to Keria on the North Tibe- were registered by the Registrar Rapid growth in the number of tan boundary. Thence they turned of Companies on the 27th day of schools-now nearly 5,000-taking north and reached Khotan In Chi- now Sinklang, June, 1936. AND furiber take the broadcasts indicates that the nese notice that the said minute is in local education authorities favour where they had a friendly recep- the innovation and approve the

tion. From there they worked the words and figures following: results obtained. Rather more than their way down the Khotan River "The capital of The Wing On seven hours a week of the National and to the Tazim River, which, Company (Shanghai) Limited programme are now devoted to skirting the Takla Makan Desert, henceforth is $10,000,000-Na-these educational broadcasts, and empties itself into Lake Lob Nor. the wide variety of the subjects Reaching, Lob Nor towards the end tional Currency prevailing in

The of the year, they went north-west covered is most attractive. Shanghai divided into 100,000 tendency, however, to overcrowd to Kuchar and thence by a long shares of $100 National Cur the curriculum in all classes of trek through Turkestan. Keeping rency prevailing in Shanghai schools needs careful watching. To north their outward route, they each. At the time of the regis be switched too frequently from came home in 1886 by Yarkand one subject to another is as un- and Kashmir, having covered some 'tration of this minute the sumprofitable as being chained for too/3,000 miles in a very little known for peace, do encourage your sons Reserve

of $100 National Currency prevailing in Shanghal is to be deemed paid up on each of the . said shares."

Dated the 29th day of June, 1936.

HASTINGS & CO. Solicitors for the Company,

Marina House,

Hong Kong.

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G.B.S. 'RETIRES'

FROM STAGE

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LAST SPEECH: "I AM FAR TOO OLD"

(Special Air Mall. Service)

long to too few.

ELECTRIC CURE

FOR HAY FEVER

-UNLESS YOU ARE THE ONE PERSON IN 100

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 19 Just a plece of zinc wire. in sulated with tape and bent into the shape of a "U" coated with ionised zinc and applied to the nostrils with electric current. And there you have the latest, cure for hay fever.

Five years ago an English doctor discovered the formula. He in- terested a doctor at St. George's Hospital, London, in the treat- His "last speech in the theatre"ment, and experiments began. was made by Mr. George Bernard

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Turkestan,

"We want our boys to be brave though and skilful enough to de- fend their country if they are call- ed upon to do so," he said. hate war, but you cannot convince me, we are going to avoid war by being ashamed to defend country and by letting those aimed dictators bully is.

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tional and training aspects of their commands, and will be able to visit units more freely.

Each -operational Command Headquarters will have a Senior Alt Stal Officer and a small air staff, whose Huty it will be to assist the Commander-in-Chief on Important operational" questions which do not lie within the pro vince of a group commander.

! The decision to place the ad-

ministration of personnel in "the

LIAISON OFFICER

HALF-YEARLY PROMOTIONS"

CHINA FLEET

The following Naval promotions have been notified. to date June 30:

Commander to Captain... A. R. 'M. Bridge, of HMS. Lowestoft; E. P. K Oman. of HMS. 'Bruce (who recently left for "Home).

Lieut-Comdr: to Commander, R. C. Allen, HM.S. Mantis.(Yangtze gunboat); J. E. Broome, H.M.S. Rainbow.

Lieut.-Comdr. (E) to Commander (E), G. F. Blyth. of H.M.S. Cape-... town (recently salled for Home).

Paymaster Lieut-Comdr. to Pay- master-Comdr.. A. R. Thatcher. H.M.9. Kent;

Royal Marines: Major to Brevet Lieut.-Colonel. C. T. Brown (late F.RM.O., HMS. Kent).

“ARABIAN NIGHTS" SHEIKH

Sees Britain

THE KING WILL INVEST HIM WITH

THE K.C.I.E.

boat

Dressed in a brown, gold-corded. robe and purple and white silk hood held in position by a gold agar, and carrying a gold scimitar, the stalwart bearded Sheikh and his retinue made a brilliant patch

Accompanying "the Sheikh were

Bomber Command, which will

(Special Air Mail Service) control the bomber squadrons or-

London, June 23. ganised into a number of groups.

Like a page from the "Arabian Fighter Command, which will Group Beadquarters, as an ex-Nights" was the scene as Sheikh control the fighter squadrons, the ception to the general principle sir Hamad bin Isa Al Khalliah of army co-operation squadrons, and

underlying the new scheme, is

Bahrein stepped from the the Observer Corps. There will be based on the view that the opera-train at Victoria last night. two groups of regular fighter

tional efficiency of units, and con- Sir Hamad Is to be the guest of squadrons, an army to-operationsequently of the group as a whole, the Government for a fortnight. fighter, and auxillary army co- group, and

a group for auxiliary depends largely on the discipline He has come to Erigland principally and training of the personnel. It to be invested by the King with the operation squadrons.

Is therefore necessary for the K.C.IE. Coastal Command, which will Group Commander to be directly control the flying-boat and general responsible for these matters. reconnaissance squadrons formed into two groups. Certain train- ing units have been retained un- In addition to maintaining direct der this Commad and will be rcs- responsibility for personnel admin- pensible for the administration istration each Group Commander

will also have a "Maintenance of colour. of the Fleet Air Arm..

Training Command, which will Liaison Officer, whose main func- with a few exceptions, control alltion will be to keep his commander the training units at home. Thein general touch with any major groups under this "Command will maintenance, supply, works, consist of one for Flying Training other administrative problems Establishments, one for Ground which may arise and which affect Training Establishments, and one the operational efficiency of units Armament Group. The Super- in his command. This officer will intendent of the Royal Air Force have no executive responsibility.

Stations and units will and Inspector of Civil schools will also come under this municate with Command Head it comes to the Command.

quarters direct on all administra- tive matters, except that they will

Sir Hamad is sometimes called report to their Group Commandérs the Prince of Pearls because of the on personnel questions. The lat way he has improved the pearl- ter will normally be empowered to diving industry of his country-an deal direct with the Air Ministry archipelago off the Haas coast of on personnel matters when ap- | Arabla. proach to the Ministry is neces- During his stay' in England Bir sary.

Hamad will be the guest of honour

Our

"Unless we are very careful, this wave of false patriotism is going to do a great deal of harm in this country. I am glad to see that you here have an O.T.C., and while we all ought to pray for and work

and barren part of Asia. The to be men enough to fight for their Journey was chiefly important for country when the information which both point. Carey and Dagleish collected about

the Trim Basin, a typical Asiatle

desert, and about the curious sys- tem of inland drainage off Lob Nor.

For this Carey was awarded the

MacGregor silver medal by the Royal Georgraphical Society.

"Had we not taken that line

1914 we might have had the Ger-

man Emperor or Hitler in White- hall, and I would rather have dear

old Baldwin,

SHEIKH ARRIVES

Gold-Sheathed Sword And Eastern Dress

Five years later he was a mem- ber of a new Indian Commission on,Customs, Salt, and Oplum, and in the same year, 1891, his know- ledge of the Bombay district caus- ed him to be sent to Lisbon on

London, June 15. special duty while the Goa Treaty The Sheikh of Bahrein, an im- was being negotiated. After thepressive figure, arrived at Folke- conclusion of this treaty in 1893 he stone yesterday with his two sons retired from the Indian Civil Ser- and a bodyguard of four. All were vice, and lived a very secluded life in Eastern dress. with his sister in Switzerland,

SISTER SHIP FOR

QUEEN MARY

PROJECT UNDER

CONSIDERATION

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 23.

The Sheikh has come to Britain principally to be invested by the King with the KCLE conferred on him in the 1635 New Year Honours List." He will be the guest of the Government for the fort- night, and will visit Ascot, Ports- mouth, Sandhurst, the Air Force display, the Trooping of the Co- lour, and other events of the sea-

As the Sheikh stepped ashore hats were raised and he saluted

Now the doctors can say with Shaw from the stage of the Peo-pride that the treatment has been ple's Theatre, Newcastle-on-Tyne, successful in 99 per cent of the on Baturday, as the allver jubilee cases to which it has been celebrations of the theatre, an plied in the five-year test period. The Queen Mary, Britain's won- with his right hand. His gold amateur organisation, in which he The apparatus is simple and der liner, is to have a sater ship-sheathed sword flashed in the sun- has taken a great interest.

the cost would be low enough for and MPs think she will be named shine. most hospitals to afford." an off-King George. Mr. Neville Cham-

AIR DEFENCE PLANS

Close Co-Ordination."

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his two sons, aged twenty-two and nineteen. The younger wore 1 scarlet robe with curved jewelled dagger -

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"I am delighted to be once again in this country, of which I have

from pleasant recollections previous visit in 1925, when I was deputy ruler of Bahrein" said the Sheikh.

"PRINCE OF PEARLS"

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The air defence of the country has been vested in the Air Defence It is hoped that the devolving at a dinner given by the Govern- of Great Britain Command and in of fuller powers upon commanderament, the Coastal Command as hitherto of all ranks will relleve the Air constituted. The former of these Ministry of various administrative Commands will disappear in its responsibilities which it was neces- present form under the new or- sary to centralise during the early ganisation, and the Coastal Com-years of the Royal Air Force. mand will be reorganized. The air defence of the country will then be vested in the three Operational Commands referred to above.

Close "co-ordination between these is of course, essential, and this co-ordination will be directly exercised, both in peace and in war, by the Air Ministry.

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THE FOUR NEW .COMMANDERS

Brilliant Careers

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He is also expected to attend the Trooping of the Colour "ceremony, Ascot and Hurlingham, while ar- rangements have been "made" for him to visit Sandhurst, the Fleet at Portsmouth, the Air Force dis- play at Hendon, the Aldershot Tattoo and the Queen Mary,

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Captain T. Hughes arrived, here

distinction of having fought on A telegram addressed to Mines land, on sea, and in the air. from Kobe is now lying unclaimed During the war, be was at the at the orices of the Great Northern battle of Jutland as second in com-Telegraph Co., Ltd. mand FMS. Conqueror. He join-

Air Marshal Sir John Steel, who has been appointed to the Bomber The first appointments to these Command, has been Air Officer on Tuesday from Shanghai by the Commands are as follows:

C.-in-C. Air Defence of Great Bri-SS, Nankin. Bomber Command-Air Marshai | tain since last August. He has the Sir John M. Steel

Fighter Command-Air Marshal Sir Hugh CT. Dowding.

Coastal Command.---Afr Marshal Sir Arthur M. Longmore.

Training Command-Air Mar-ed the RNA.B. in 1916 and by 1918 Two small boys were involved shal Sir Charles S. Burnett.

had become a Brigadier-General | in accidents on Tuesday according The new organisation will be in the RAF. Later he was "ap- to police reports. brought into force as regards the pointed Deputy Chief of the Air Bomber, Fighter and Training Staff, and from 1931 to 1935 was Commands in July. The change in Air Offeer. Commanding RA.F. in the Coastal Command will follow India. shortly afterwards.

Air Marshal Sir Hugh C. T. Dowding, who will be in charge of the Fighting Command, has filled The change affecting adminia- several important posts in the Observatory reported

At 3.10 p.m. yesterday the Manila tration are also of a far-reaching | Royal Air Force. From 1925 to midway between the Philippines provide for decentralisation of ad-ing, and for the next 12 months removed to the Government Civil 1 typhoon nature, the main objects being to 1929, he was the Director of Train scaffolding at Tai Hang. He was

ministrative duties, for the exer- he commanded the Fighting. Area, Hospital. cise of fuller powers of responsi Air Defence, of Great Britain, bility by the various commandera

The new Commander of the

"I have retired from public

Later the visitors travelled to speaking," he said. I am far too dial of St. George's Hospital stated berlain announced in the Com-London. old-how old do you think I am?,, "The patient's nostrils are first mons yesterday that he had re- Bahrein is a small British island "I do not suppose I look more sprayed with cocaine to deaden celved an application troi the off the Arabian shore of the Per- than seventy, but I am a good deal feeling before beginning the treat Cunard-White Star Company forsian Gulf. older than that, and the time has ment, to which all three types of authority to use the sum available come for me to redre from the hay fever have responded.

under the North Atlantic Shipping footlights.-

“Although there

Act for the construction of a sister methods which eure some kinds of ship.

The play being presented was "Canada" with which the theatre opened its career in 1911, and later

Bre many

hay fever and not others, we be- The Chancellor said the com-

love that this is the only one pany had obtained preliminary at the high percentage of tenders from various yards and in his speech Mr. Shaw sakij--- success in curing all cases," he understood that, after consider

"I have listened to this old play

Recent cures for hay fever having them, they would'negotiate in of mine with a certain pleasure included--nitro-chloride acid. vac- the first instance with Messrs. which I never get from completely cine, treatment in early spring. John Brown and Co. professional performances,

cod-liver oll and yeast, and, most The Government, however, still enjoyable, sea cruises.

reserved the right to further "con-

FARAWAY TYPHOON

and the Caroline Islands.

The approximate situation of the disturbance is long. 130 E. lat. 11 N., moving west-north-west.

ree years, and Clydeside is delighted. It is suggested that a start will be made in August.

"I want to say that because it is

For the new ac treatment sultation before any contract is for just as well people should under-three or four applications are signed. stand that it is in performances of given to free the patient from the It is believed that John Brown's this kind, by people who are doing complaint for a year. Then pre- are practically certain to secure Meanwhile the Queen Mary is the thing for the love of it and cautionary applications are given the contract since the stocks on making excellent progress on her working hard at it, that you get at the end of twelve months and which the Queen Mary was built second trip across the Atlantic. quality of performance that you again a year later.

are available, and the present ship By noon yesterday she had covered cannot get even from the most After that, hay fever is gone for is said to be highly satisfactory. 566 miles since leaving Cherbourg highly-skilled professional actors. ever-if you are among the 99 per The order will mean work for breakwater, at 6.30 am. on Wed-

Mr. Shaw will be eighty in July, ¦ cent.

nearly 200,000 men, in many cases Inesday,

ADMINISTRATION CHANGES

Lin Lol, aged three, of 25, Cir- cular Pathway, is lying in the Government Civil Hospital in a... serious condition, following scalds received when he accidentally fell into a vat of boiling tea

Another boy, Ng Lol-yu, of 4, Chung Ming Street, received in- juries when he fell from

at commands, at groups, and at Coastal Force,' Air Marshal Biz A. thr of Equipment, and Air Offeer stations, and for the reduction to M. Longmore, is one of the East Commanding Inland Ares. In a minimum of the links in the four Naval officers permitted by 1934 he became Air omcer Com- chain of command in order to the Admiralty to learn to fly in manding Coastal Area,, avoid delays and duplicated effort. 1911. Early in the war he helped Air Marshal : Sir Charles ̈ ̈8. This will be achieved by having to bomb the Germans at Antwerp. Burnett has been in charge of the one administrative" link only be in the middle of the war he went Training Command since Janu- tween stations and the Ministry, back to the Navy and was at the ary. "In 1923 he became Deputy Administrative responsibilities, with battle of Jutland. Then he re- Director of Operations and Intelli- the exception of personnel ques-turned to the RNAS.

gence, Air Ministry, and four years tions will be centred at Command

He has been Commandant of the Inter took command of the On- Headquarters.

R.A.F. College at Cranwell, Directral Flying School,