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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

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HONG KONG EVENING

INSTITUTE

The Institute will be re-opened on Monday, 19th October, 1936.

Entry Forms and copies of Prospectus may be obtained at the Education Department or at the Central British School.

T. R. ROWELL,

Director,

4743.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Ninth Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, 24th October, 1936 (weather permitting) may be ob tained at the Secretary's Office, Exchange Building: the Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road,

Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on Thursday, 15th Octo ber, 1936.

By Order,

S. A. SLEAP,

Actg. Secretary.

4744

CURE

PLAN TO UNEMPLOYMENT

Door Closed To Immigration

New Zealand will not consider

a resumption of

migration from

Great Britain until she has sol-

BIRTUS

BANISTER-On October 6, 1938.

at

the Country Hospital, Shanghat, to Marjorie, wife of Roger Banister, Chinese Mari-. time Customs, a daughter. WATSON--On October 6, 1936, "at the Country Hospital. Shang- hat, to Mr. and Mrs. D. Watson,

a son.

BRYSON-On October 2, 1936. at.

Mussoorie, N. India. to Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Bryson, a son.

MARRIAGE MILLIGAN—BOSUSTOW.-On Oct. 6. 1938, at 1.B.M. Consulate- General, before Mr. J. W. O. 'Davidson, John Robert. only son of Capt. and Mrs. Milligan. late of Shanghai, and Kathleen Joyce, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Bosuatow.

DEATH.

PUTNAM. At Savingnone near on September 2. 1936. Genoa Charlotte Brownell Putnam, with

John of

R. Putnam. American Consul General at Genoa, Italy, and daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Ives, of Chambersburg, Penn- sylvania, U.S.A. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam's daughter is the wite of Commander C. J. Whegler U.S.N.. and Mrs. Putnam's sister, Mrs. W.-G. Hare, lives in San Francisco, California:

Editorial

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1936.

FAREWELL

COCKTAIL

PARTY

Cdr. R.H.D. Lane Leaving

NUMEROUS GUESTS

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friends.

PRESENT

The occasion was tinged with re- grets at the departure for Home of one of the most popular officers on the China Station.

BODMIN

FREEMAN OF

Sir A. Quiller-Couch Honoured

BOYISH DREAM-

REALIZED

FUNERAL OF MR. THE GREAT CHINESE |CAMPBELL BLACK

Police Needed To Control Crowds.

MOURNERS ASKED FOR AUTOGRAPHS

The freedom of Bodmin was con- Foot and mounted police were Commander R. H. D. Lane, R.N. ferred recently on two of its most needed to control the crowds when Arthur the coffin containing the body of farewell distinguished sons, Sir gave a most successful

of Eng- cocktail party on Saturday night.Quiller-Couch, Professor

Mr. Campbell Black, the airman, who was killed at Speke Airport. there being a large attendance of lish Literature at Cambridge Uni-

versity, and Mr. John Pethybridge,' | recently, left his home in St. a former town clerk and mayor. John's Wood for Golders Green

The ceremony was preceded by a ¦ Cremtorium. reception given by the Mayor, Leu-

At the crematorium the crowd; tenant-Colonel F. M. M. Bawden, mainly women, surged round the at the Guildhall, from which the entrance to the chapel and on the civic procession walked along the garden cloisters to which the street to the Public Rooms where mourners came after the service.

After the presentation was made.

When the cortege with its long-

car- the addresses had been read by succession of flower-laden the Town Clerk, Mr. E. W. Olll. Sirriages arrived, people stretcher Arthur and Mr. Pethybridge signed four deep from the gates to the the Freemen's Roll The rolls pre- chapel sented to the two new Freemen were placed in handsome copper casketa, and handed to them by

Was

Treading through the maze of the Kowloon Naval Yard, gulded at intervals by smiling"blue jackets. one suddenly encountered a fairy like scene, passing through a pair. of traditional dolphins, one greeted with music from a loud speaker cleverly concealed under an immense 1ghted Good Luck Sign. There were gatly bedecked bear barrels for tables on the fairy

lawn. and

white the Mayor. [WO lighted leghorn cockerels had the place of honour in the centre of the lawn.

Among the guests present were Rear-Admiral " C, G. and Mrs. Sedgwick Commander Wauchope, Commander de Sales. Major and the latter looking Mrs. Grune, Office:charming in a pastel floral frock with a posy on the neck, Comm. Street . A. Blanconi, Consul-General for Italy. Major and Mrs. F. M. Bramall R.M. Lieut-Commander and Mrs. Clutterbuck, Commander and Mrs. Bristowe, Mr. Forbes,

Customs. Commissioner of

and Mrs. Forbes, Capt. and Mrs. Eles, Miss Ritchie, looking most attrac- tive in blue checked taffetas.

The Daily Press:

HONG KONG. OCTOBER 12, 136.

CAREERS

Some seventy thousand you the and girls whi belcaving second

ved her own unemployment pro-ary schools in Britain this "your. blem.

This view was expressed by Mr. W. J. Jordan,

They are the post-war babies,

CORNISH SPOKESMAN The roll given to Sir Arthur read:-

"By this act we would recognize with gratitude your great achieve- ment in English public hre, your deserved renown in the realm of letters, your services to education and to your native county. Though many Cornishmen have made con-. tribution to the noble tradition of English literature, there is none that surpasses your own.

In your work you have created a world of Cornish men and women, in which our distinctive life is mirrored for the generations that come after.

"Wherever Cornishmen are gat- Others 'present Included Commdr.

hered together in whatever part Ellis, Lt-Cdr. Selby, Lt-Cdr. Keogh, of the earth, they will recognize in Lt-Cdr.. Barry, Commdr. and Mrs. you the chosen spokesman of the

Lt. Comdr, and Cornish people. For us a Disbrowe, Eng. Mrs. Davies, Captain Parkes, R.A. les upon your work, as upon your Mr. and Mrs. Campling, Mr. and life a true, a kindly observation of Mrs. E. H. Williams, Mr. and Mrs.nature. W. L. Ramsey, Mr. and Mrs. Wat- | humour, san, Mr. and Mrs. Cairns, Mr. and such are the gifts we recognize in Mrs. Kershaw Messrs. Wilkin- you. Your genions has brought son. Neill. Luke, Edwin, Grey and Fairburn, Misses Lowe, Clarke. Naylor, Ritchie. Baskett, Joan Smalley. Mary Smalley, Dr.

A former Lendon buru in that immediate post-war and Mrs. M. Nicholson, Mr. and period when the birth-iate show-Mrs. Dennison.

policeman, who is High Commis-

Bioner-designale for New Zealand, when he arrived recently in Lon don.

ed a natural rise. into what.

sort of world are they going?

A queer world, to judge from Among those who greeted him were Sir James Parr, the retiring The hunts on "Careers for Second- Bri-ary School Buys" which the

High Commissioner, and gadier-General J.

White head. Ministry of Labour has issued. Deputy Commissioner of the Me-The Ministry, and the Head- tropolitan Police.

masters Association which co- Mr. Jordan told 1 "Morning Post" representative that his Gov-operates with it, deserve credit crament earnestly sought the co- for their attempts to ensure the operation of Great Britain in their fitting of round pegs into round efforts to make New Zealand

holes. They deserve credit, too, contented and prosperous unit of

for being alive to modern trends. the British Commonwealth.

Among the fifty careers on which they give hints, the Defence Forces figure prominently.

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New Zealand already purchases more British goods per head than any other overseus country," he added, and it is our desire to extend our trade with Great Bri-

tries to the utmost extent possible, to invite British people to settle in New Zealand after provision ment of the present population of

has been made for the employ-

the Dominion, to purchase from Britain as well as to sell to Bri-Tea and tain, and to meet in full li n- ancial charges in London and csewhere."

IMPERIAL DEFENCE

AIR MINISTRY

SECRETS

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ย generous humanity. fantasy, imagination:

honour and increase to this your native county.

"You have by your teaching and Inspiration created a school In English letters, and a tradition at the University of Cambridge. You have for years taken your part. in the responsibilities of local govern- 3nce as a Magistrate. You have rendered great services to Cornish education. Nor is this the full talê“ of your service and devotion. Your

Engineer Bound Over fe has been singularly rich and

|full and fortunate in achievement whether in private friendship, in many acts of kindness and encour-

agement to your fellows, or in pub

le service and duty."

Evidence was given in camera at Cambridge Police Court recently when Walter John Butterfield, 40, of Spencer Road, Bedford, a me- chanical

niployed by the Alr Ministry.sponding. said that in the casket pleaded "Guilty" to the charge should be treasured many recollec- that, between April 14 and August tons of Bodmin.

engineer and electrical

THE "UNLICENSED" SALMON Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. re-

.on_foot-some

on

A number pressed round Mr. Howes Jack Hulbert, Mr. Bobby. and other well-known people with requests for autographs.

PUZZLE

Japan As Master Mind In- Its Unravelling

BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD)

("Morning Post" Shanghai Correspondent)

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For years past it can hardly with the excuse that the goods are ever have been said that China not smuggled because they have was not in the throes of a crists paid nominal import duties to the of some kind. Yet there has never so-called East Hupeh Autonomous been a time when the outlook has Council, carries no conviction any--- looked more hopeless, than it does where. Protesta from China, and to-day. While struggling with representations from the" British Anancial and currency difficulties and American Governments, have the Central Government is con- left the Japanese Foreign Office fronted with open rebellion unmoved. Sir Frederick Leith the South, and with apparently Ross, the Chief Economic Adviser insoluble local and Sino-Japanese to the Treasury, is reported to lasues in the North.

have done some very plain speak- ing during his farewell visit to Tokyo, but smuggling continues. and gangs of desperadoes not only overload trains running from Tientsin southward, but judging. from Japanese protests over fir-" ing by Revenue cruisers, are now to be permitted to land smuggled cargoes with impunity even out- Bide the

Strong separatist tendencies the Southern have prevalled in

of Provinces

Kwangtung and On the plain oak coffin, round

Kwangst ever since the downfall which was a Union Jack, was a of the Government, which includ- great wreath of crimson and white ed so many Southern naminees. "In Apart from temperamental roses from Mrs. Campbell Black-1932. Miss Florence Desmond the act-incompatibility between the Can- thnese and the Northern Chinese, ress. She chose them because they

this separatism has been fostered were the flowers in her wedding bouquet. Attached was

by personal antagonisms card with the words: "To you, my dear Kwangs!" militarists have never love. Stay near me and comfort forgiven General Chiang Kai-shek for defeating them in the field, in With all my love. Dessie."

1929, and ejecting them from the Kuomintang, although they were formally reinstated in the Party at the end of 1931.

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ANOTHER GRIEVANCE

The

Zone.

80-called Demilitarised

It is obvious that this official condonation of "smuggling-esti- mated to be costing China about 23,000,000 dollars a year in re- venue is a form of coercion, by which Tokyo hopes to effect Teadjustment of Sino-Japanese- relations in North China on a basis satisfactory to itself.

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Few non-Japanese observers can approve of Japan's China, policy. or the methods by' which it is be ing enforced. It is, however, ne- cessary to take a realistic view of the situation. It is quite obvious. after the League's successive fal- lures in connection with Man-- churia and Abyssinia, that no Po wer or combination of Powers is going to war with Japan over the Customs or any other Chinese is- sue. Japan is fully aware of this, and is exploiting her knowledge.

DEAN'S TRIBUTE While the mourners were taking their seats in the crematorium chapel, the organist played Bir Walford Davies's "Solemn Melody." A number of disgruntled Kuo- Mra. Campbell Black, very pale, mintang politicians chief among sat in the front row on the right-whom was the late Hu Han-min, hand side of the chapel. With pave used- Canton as a base for her was her father-in-law, Mr. a persistent and continuous cam- Milner Black. She wept through paign of calumny and criticism most of the short service..

against the Generalissimo.. Until There was no singing. The Rev. recently, however, he could rely S. N. L. Ford, Vicar of All Souls', upon General Chen Chi-tang. the Hampstead, read the 23rd Psalm. dominant militarist in the South,. In a panegyric. Dr. Dwelly, Dean to veto any evert act of hostility of Liverpool Cathedral, said: against the "Nanking regime.

"With like reserve as that which characterised his life whom we honour this day, we "The recent promulgation of the are about to yield to the con- final Draft of the Permanent Con- suming heat his body, which res-stitution which is to be submitted

What is described in Japanese ponded so "perfectly to his spirit: to a National People's Congress official circles as the stabilisation that body which is, after all, | during the autumn, and which of conditions in the Far East, and all that could die of Campbell provides for greatly enhanced is in reality the assertion, of Ja- Black. It was his spirit that gave powers for the President or the pan's predominant political apd him fullness of lie in body. Republic, "has supplied the South

economic position in this part of mind" and soul for the great with another grievance: It is as-

the world, has become an obses- adventure.

sumed--although General Chiangston among the Japanese of all "Brave living here, and then Kai-shek denies any aspirations classes. They are convinced that beyond, more life and more ad- for the Presidency--that this Con-It involves the very existence of venture for the brave. That is | stitution is intended to pave the

Japan as a nation. They are con- Our faith,"

way for his open assumption of a vinced also, that by tariff barriers. Dr. Dwelly said that Campbell dictatorship

quotas, restrictions upon immigra- Black, as a pioneer in civil avia-

tion, &c., the rest of the world... tion, was among those to whom

large and under-populated ter and especially those Powers with have been committed the trust of creating new great services of hu-

ritories—are seeking to prevent man communications,

Japan from pursuing her national existence by the only means oper to her manufacture and export. Japanese statesmen appear to re- cognise that their country has not- the "Anancial resources to under- take the rehabilitation of "China, single-handed But they will only admit European or American co- operation on the basis of their- predominant interests in this country,

"Let us pray that there may England never be wanting to

During the past eighteen months, using the anti-Red ca-

paign as justification, General Kai-shek has extended his author-

the Western ity over

Provinces of Szechwań. Kwelchow; and Yun- nan. The last two have for years been regarded as being within the orbit of Canton. They are notorious for their upfum pro- And the Kwangs! Pro- vincial Government collected half

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of

such sons," he added, 31, 1938, being a person having in "Among them, as I half lift the The Rev. 6. N. L. Ford, in ine his possession or control informed," he said "emerges one in Committal prayers, referred

to In the case of the other forty-tion which he had obtained, or particular of a day, some 60 years Campbell Black's "good humour,

when I love of simple pleasures, kindly duction. Lain, and with other British coun-nine, however, the emphasis to which he had had access-owing age and probably more,

to his position as a person who tondly imagined myself already a thoughts for those near to him, seems" sometimes a little odd and held office under his Majesty, Freeman of the Borough. It hap- and love of making and keeping of its total revenue, or more, from the selection a little haphazard. he communicated the information pened. I believe, lo a consulship of friends," Law, is given more attention to a person to whom he was not the late Mr. John Richard Collins

WREATHS FOR WAR MEMORIAL who-being an antiquarian in the

As the comin slowly passed from than Agriculture; Librarianship authorized to communicate it..

Butterfield pleaded "Not Guilty" .hours he spared from other activi- sight many men and women in the as much as the Merchant Navy;

to a second charge of having on

tles-conceived an idea that the chapel were in tears. Coffee Tasting-for April 15, 1936, made certain false Borough Bound wanted beating. The mourners had same dif- which we are glad to see a "good statements to Thomas Henry Nor-so torth Bodmin fared; some (In-Aculty afterwards in making their

purpose of assisting cluding the Mayor himself) sense of smell and clean paris for the

way through the crowd. The late recommended-more than Richard Rimmer to gain admis- norse-back, others in the less un- wreaths were taken immediately sion to Cranßeld Aerodrome a stable dignity of chaises and

in cars to the Golders Green War New Zealand must first solve Draughtsmanship. Of the fifty prohibited place. her own unemployment problem. occupations enumerated a dozen

andaus; these followed by a crowd Memorial by Mrs. Campbell Black's Mr. H. G. Parham, who appear-

few of whom, special wish. Mr. Jordan continued, and this at the outside could be describeded for the Director of Public Pro-through a

misunderstanding. dl- the new Labour Government were.

as genuinely productive and secutions, said that he was desir- verged down Dunmere Hill to the trying to do by raising the stan

ed by the Air Ministry to ask for dard of living all round, and by dozen more as necessary ancil-

the case to be held in camera, reducing working hours. They laries to production, Of the

Mr. H. F. Shaw, solicitor, who had stabilised the vitally-import- rest, half a dozen are concerned defended. Butterfeld. raised no ant dairying industry, had In- with selling in various forms, objection to this course, and the troduced a wider and more gen- erous system of pensions, and laid half a dozen with maintenance. Court was cleared.

When the Court was reopen of human health, eight with ed the Mayor (Alderman H. T. Legislation had been passed pro-education and entertainment, Wing), who presided over the viding for a basic wage for each and half a dozen with govern- bench, addressing Butterfield, ald trade, together with a forty-hour ment service. Among the many it was not песетагу for the week and a month's holiday in

possible, unusual, occupations included are Bench, to say that it was a very esch Industry where

serious "charge, and although no The Government had fixed a Museum Service, Statistics, and harin so far as the State was con- rate of 18s a day for a five-day Veterinary Surgery, week for a man, with wife and Do these figures and careers three children, engaged on public works. The minimum, rates for give the reflection of the life each trade were fixed by compul of a great industrial nation? If

arbitration, and employers they did, it would be & more tion of the fact that he had been

down a minimum" wage. "

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as a whole were anxious to give leisurely life than in fact it is. the system a fair trial.

Over half our population of ten Asked about his Government's policy with regard to the question years and more is employed in of Imperial Defence. Mr. Jordan major productive and manufac- sald, he could only reiterate the turing inudstries which receive opinion expressed by Mr. Savage, comparatively little attention in the Prime Minister, advocating the necessity of consultation with the Ministry of Labour's hints Great Britain and Australia for on careers, and some of them no the production of a common de- attention at all. This fact might fence plan. He would not indicate he remembered in any future what elepe New Zealand might additions to a service admirable consider, in carrying out, such a

plan.

in intention.

cerned had been done. that did

not mean that it might not have been done."

In consequence of his previous good record and out of considera-

in custody for 12 days, Butterfeld was bound over on his own, re- cognizances for 12 months in the sum of £10.

Borough Arms; but the main body held on well and truly. I do not recall that Mr. Pethybridge made one of us rabble of boys who cut hazel-boughs and beat the streams that day. defying encroachment in turn it I remember) from Lanivet Helland, Cardinnam, Lanhydrock. But for that matter every mother's son of us urchins was so bemuddied as we trailed home, Into town be- hind pipes and drum to the tune of the Bodmin Riding that it would almost have puzzled our mothers to sort us out. I only know that night in my opinion I felt a worthy Freeman of Bodmin-80, after all much depends on which end you look through a telescope..

"Remembering those boundary streams of Camel and Fowey, I half-lift the lid again;

covered my first

PROVOCATION

It must not be forgotten that the Japanese have been subjected to considerable provocation from China and other quarters. Their

the taxation of opium in transit ta Kwangtunk. When Yunnan control, General Chiang Kai-shek and Kwelchow came under bis

re-routed their

opium сгора through the Yangtze valley, thus

of one completely cutting

wangai's main sources of income."

the Kwangsi militariste were refusal to co-operate with the spending money lavishly on the white races dates from the absurd. folly of the passage of the U.S. equipment and training of Pro- vincial Armles and Militia, they Immigration Act. Moreover, it can hardly be doubted that, but for Only three-those on the coffin were exasperated by this inter-

ference with the optura traine.

well-meant, but irresponsible in-- were kept back. These were con- sumed in the names. They were The real grievances of Kwang- terference by Europe and America those of Mrs. Campbell Black, Mr. tung and Ewangel against Nan- in Sino-Japanese disputes-which to 'loot Campbell Black's father and mu-king would make very unsatisfac-encouraged the Chinese

for intervention which never ther-To our beloved son, Tom" tory reading it put forward to

and his brother abroad: "To justify military operations against came-these disputes would pro-. Government. The bably have been adjusted on far- my dear brother who understands, the Central

more moderate lines than can Kiswahili, "Strong greetings to my ploiting China's foreign relations to which was added a sentence in time-honoured expedient of

now be hoped for at very short notice. brother."

to justify a revolt was resorted to. Demanding that Nanking should

The methods by which Japan · declare war upon the Japanesu. is now seeking to gain her ends and resist all further aggression may be open to severe criticism. in the North, the Kwangtung and But they have to some extent Kwangel militarists invaded Bou been forced

ber by the“ upon

of the

The ashes will be taken to Brighton, the "airman's native town, for final burial.

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the::.

ple who write to the newspapers thern Hunan. It was obvious that stimulated recalcitrance that Justices don't know their busi-armies which would have to march Chinese Government and people. overland for upwards of a thou- | The greatest mistake that can ness!".

Referring in conclusion to his sand miles-leaving their coastal | possibly be made is to regard writings, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couchbases exposed to Japanese, attack Japan's China policy as blum. It or blockade-were never seriously is essentially realistic, and it must said that to learn a difficult art

Intended to fight the armies of j.be met elsewhere by reallatic re- had been his devotion. If at times

actions. Some sacrince on or the lid he had poked some fun at his fel- Nippon, Nanking poured, relu of a fishing-basket which once low Cornishmen, that had been forcements into Hunan, and in- part of non-Japanese interests salmon-peal understood that a little mockery timated in no uncertain terms its may be called for if stability in (taken without a licence). On my was the llcence of intimacy and intention to resist any further the Far East is to be restored,

advance of the Bouthern forces.

The rest of the world, however," way home, midway up the hill unquestioned love.

cannot hope to have it both ways. from Tredethy, whom should I en- The roll presented to Mr. John

It cannot exclude Japanese manu- counter but old Squire Hext. Hullo, Petbybridge recorded that he had

so much for the South. "Let factures from markets under Ita There will be a Cocktail Party young Couch! Any sport? Trem-held the office of Town Clerk for

30 years, had been a Justice of the us now turn to North China. The control, and at the same time after the closing game of the bowls bling, I fumbled with the lid. "No. season at the Kowloon CIC. on Saturday, October, 11, at 7.16 p.m. rate put out his hand At your of the Town Council for 12 years: vince has attracted

Do, my son'--that excellent magist Peace for 22 years, and a member smuggling scandal in Hupeh Pro- claim the right to interfere, in the world-wide one market in which she is in a The magician Max Malini will be age I hated old gentlemen to be and had served as Mayor on two attention, and the Japanese Gov-Position practically to dictate her

ernment's evasion of responsibility, own terms. Inquisitive. And yet there are peo-occasions.

No evidence was offered on the second charge, which was not proceeded with.

one of the main features.

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