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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

CRAIGENGOWER

CRICKET CLUB.

Annual AT HOME" and Distribution of Prizes TO. MORROW, Sunday, 25th Octo- ber. TEA DANCE from 6.08 to 8.00 P.M. Members and their Friends cordially invited.

U. M. OMAR,

Hon. Secretary.

Editorial and Business Omice: 15-19, Queen's Road Central Tel. 30251.

Night Editor (Wanchal Omce):

Tel. 24511.

London Office: 53, Fleet Street

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The Daily Press.

HONG KONG. October 24, 1936.

HONG KONG CRICKET STREET

CLUB.

NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, the 27th October, 1936, a drawing for the redemption of thirty (30) Debentures will be held in the Pavilion at 6 p.m.

NOISES

There was a time when Paris Wils Luc most infamous city in the world for street icises. This nitract notoriety did much to tourists who came for a few days and then went on their ways to tell all and sundry that they could scarcely sleep a

wink all the time they were in

the so- The numbers of the Deben called guiest city in the world. That was alright in its way, tures drawn will be published in the Hong Kong Government It attracted more tourists, but Gazette and the local News. with the pace at which city papers, and holders of drawn dwellers have to live life to-day Debentures may, upon giving it became too much even for the notice to the Treasurers walving French of Puris, and so the six months' notice to which there are rigidly enforced muni- they are entitled, apply on the cipal regulations in that centre 31st October, 1936, to the Trea which reduce street, noises to a surers, Messrs. Percy Smith, minimum with the result that in- Seth & Fleming, for payment of stead of an all day and night rist the principal and interest to the of noise there is comparative

quiet. 31st October, 1936.

By Order of the Committee.

A. K. MACKENZIE,

Hon. Secretary Hong Kong, 23rd October, 1936.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

4758

The Ninth Extra Race Meet-

ing will be held (weather per mitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Saturday, 24th October, 1936, commencing at 2.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.

By Order,

5. A. SLEAP,

Actg. Secretary. Hong Kong, 19th October, 1936.

HOW

Tourists have not diminished, so the publicity value of street noises goes by the board."

I here kewise With London.

even more Paris.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, \ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1936.

"Salvation

Through

Aviation" Fighting Planes

"

American Presidency GOVERNOR LAYS FOUNDATION

Governor Landon Ill

'El Paso, Oct. 22. Governor Alfred Landon of Kan-

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sas, Republican choice for the laid on October 23, 1936, by His Presidency of the United States. ISExcellency the Governor, Sir confined to his bed by doctor's Andrew Caldecott, Kt. C.M.G... order aboard his special campaig-

C.B.E. at two Church Missionary

For Birthdaying train en route to Oklahoma Society institutions Fairies (1886),

Chiang's Fund Now $4,786,897

an

Hanchow, Oct. 23. SIX fighting aeroplanes were christened by the huge crowd' of ten thousand people here this morning as

eloquent testi- monial of loyalty by the Cheklang people to the National Government and their best wishes to Creneralis- sino Chiang Kai-shek, for whose Bittern birthday celebration planes were bought

the

the

Chairman Huang Shao-hslung addressed the audience on importance of national saivation He called an rough aviation. the people of Cheklang to be ready to sacrifice everything in possession whenever such were called for by

their

sacrifices national crisis.

A total sum of 24.786,897 was recurved, according to the report by the General Chiang's Fiftieth Birthday Anniversary, Preparatory Committee at its fourth meeting

this afternCON. -—-—- Central News,

FLYING BOATS AT. BASRA

London, Oct. 23.

City.

GOVERNOR LANDON

and Victoria Home (1887). in the founding of the C.M.S.. Heep Yunn School,

HISTORY RECALLED Giving brief history of the Victoria Horne, Miss Hollis - sald:

The first Victoria Home was in a buliding next door to St. John's Hali near the University. It is It now used 45 a Boys' Club. received its name because it was

after fifty years we realise what a labour of love it must have been, and now we are looking forward to a new record in the Heep Yunn School, but will continue our loyalty to the vital traditions of Fairlea and the Victor'a Home,

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OBITUARY

Lord

Hanworth

FAMOUS JURIST

The death was announced from

and will take the great respon- London yesterday of Lard Hanworth Biblity of upholding standards of at the age of 75 years.

education and fulfilling our duty Ernest

Murray Pollock WAS

as the kind of Vernacular School created Baron Hanworth in 1938 by those who after a brilliant career at the Bar which is needed

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desire their children to have

in public life and on the Bench. first rate education given in the From 1910 to 1933 he was Unionist Chinese language...

member for Warwick and Leam- We hope that by the Grace of ington in the House of Commons. opened in 1887, the year Queen God, the sound guidance and ad-fr. 1923 he was appointed master vice of the members of the Coun of the Rolls having occupted such cil, and the co-operation

high offices as Solicitor-General parents of the students and the

(1919-22) and Attorney-General friends of the School, we shall be

(1022). and able to achieve that sim

A have a bright future in front of

Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee.

The Erst to live in the House were a few destitute girls pre- viously rescued and cared for by two C.M.S. missionaries, the Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Ost. The new Home became the responsibility of the C.M.S. who ever since 1837 have appointed workers to carry on the work

During the first 15 years of its the Home proved so institution in the

His doctor stated that Governor Landon is suffering from pharyn-existence git.s. "caused by a sight cold and aggravated by speak ng. He might temporarily lose his voice unless

he rests, the physician" warned:

Governor Landon wanted to "speak at El Paso, but his doctor

would not permit it- Reuter

FLASHLIGHTS

announced Leon Trotsky has that he will not return to Russia. As Russia diso has made a similar announcement, that makes it un-

The squadron of five Short Singapore flying boats to increase the establishment of the Royal Air Force in the Far East command. under Wing Commander W. Hanimous. Dunn, arrived in Basra to-day from Alexandria.- Renter.

he regulations tre stringent tha populace, of course,

Trafalgar Square julegmatic.

Pacific Air Service and Prendilly Circus zre 110 Hunger places which shriek the

Enthusiasm At Hawaii nerves to shreds. The traffic

Honolulu, Oct. 22. moves just as quickly though

A commercial air service across more quietly-us quiet us

Pacific was officially in- the reasonably be expected inaugurated to-day when the first mighty metropolis.

paying and non-offic al passengers Not only have world-centres arrived in Hawaii aboard the big legislated against trathe nuises Hawalan Clipper, of the Pan- 'American Airways fleet. The plane but "spruikers", newspaper.

and, Its passengers received vendors and others who make the tumultuous welcome..." day and night hideous with their cries have been subdued.

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It seems that the time is ripe for hong kong to fallow the precedents established by Paris 4754 and London in the matter Di

minimising street noises.

JUDGE LISTENS TO GRAMOPHONE RECORDS

Deciding Factor In Copyright

Dispute

•

The passengers lunched in San Francisco and had breakfast in Hawall,

The first two air travellers on the Clipper, hoth American

So much is being said by poli- tical writers about his silence that there is some talk of the Prime Minister being wired for sound.

Lord Hewart's house has been broken into for the second time, Burglars should be more careful. because that sort of thing is apt- to give them a bad name.

According to a Mayfair fashion note, "the new swing skirt is cut circular and falls in comfortable fullness from the hips." The skirt that will launch a thousand hips.

An advertisement reminds me that for a small fee we can and out what others think of us if we visit a psychologist. Another good way is to arrive home about 2 am, and let your wife tell you.

women, were smothered with gar- lands by the crowd. They declared REPORTED THREAT. the fight to have been the greatest experience of their lives Reuter.

£500,000 Company

Mr. Gifford Hull's Appointment

RETURNED YESTERDAY

Mr. Gordon B. Gifford Hull, pro- con-

Considering the size of this city and its volume of traffic ther is absolutely no justiucation for the tremendous amount of noise which pierces the main business quarter day and night. Indeed, as matters exist it appears that a wholesale and unwholesome cow- petition is in perpetual and vi-}· Gramophone records of 451 imitation by music hall performers gorous swing us to which noise

minent engineer who was can reach the highest stratum 0. "of an air raid were played to Mr.

Justice Lewis, the Vacation Courturiliness, Judge, in his private room at the "A start in the direction of Law Courts, recently.

street quiet right well be made The hearing of an application with motor cars which are per for an Inter.m injunction to rus- train The Six Harmonises, must. mitted to hurtle through space hall, radio, and im artista. from with the horns full out. "an alleged infringement of copy-ull is said and dons, the pedes

right claimed by The Four Aces.trian has some right to the ro also music hall. Am. and radu and the manner in which motor artists, in a composition, called

Cury are allowed to "Take Cover," was temporarily in-

terrupted for the purpose,

their hooting ways bespeaks

When

cerned with the construction of the Shing Mun Dam, arrived in the Colony yesterday on the s.. President Jefferson, after a busi- ness trip to Manila.

As already reported in these co- fumns from an article appearing in the "Manila Bulletin," Mr. Gifford Hull has been appointed head of a branch of the Marsman interests in Hong Kong.

Brussels, Oct. 22. The reported threat of the semi- Fascist Rexist party to attempt a "coup d'etat," was referred to by the Prime Minister, M. Paul van Zeeland, in a nation-wide broad- cast speech this evening, in which he dealt with the Government's de- cision to ban the demonstration of 250,000 Rexists on Sunday.

the Prime Minister.

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In response to the Government's ban. M. de Grelle, the Rexists' lea der, declared the demonstration would be held despite the wishes of M. van Zeeland, in reply, said his sole consideration in banning the gathering was the preservation of law and order. The Government had tolerated violent party cam- paigns long enough, and because it respected free play in the constitu- tion, it would continue to do so. But when a party declared it would set aside a Government decision and descend on a city and sweep away the legal Government, then Mr. R. O, Wilberforce, on behalf callousness which amounts to management and operating com that Government said flatly. "No, pany similar to Marsman and never," Belgium would never ac-

in China, the Straits Settlements. Reuter, 3op and operate mixing, properties į declared the Prime Minister. and in Hong Kong.

career on

make

The Hong Kong company, which was started by Mr Marsman on "bis recent trip here, will be a mine

of The Four Aces, said that the snobbery. Then the trams mig company in Manila. It will deve-cept a Government from the street, dispute related to the copyright in be disciplined. They

composition which The Four enough noise as it is without ting Aces contended was invented by them, and which they alleged had ling a single bell, but apparantly

The new concem wil bel capata- been infringed by The Six Har-it is deemed essential for their

progress "that every tram driver Hised at £500,000,

monists.

The composition consisted of should jingle and jangle his way the representation by purely vocal from start to stop. Loud spea means of an impression of an air

kere blare into the infernal dio raid with the accompanying noises of aeroplanes and gun nre, crested by motor cars and trans, Counsel asked his Lordship to and then street hawkers add their gramophone records ofconsiderable contribution to the "Take Cover and of the alleged

riot of sound infringing performance by The Bix Harmonists, and thia

hear

done.

was

It is all very interesting and amusing for a time, for a very

Commercial Advices

Sterling on New York: 4.88-7/8. Paris: 105-1/8.

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CHIEF JUSTICE,

STRAITS

SETTLEMENTS

The Colonial Ofice announces that the King has been pleased to In the Stock market, home in-approve the appointment of Mr. dustries show renewed firmness. Percy Alexander McElwaine, K.C. Attorney-General traita. Settle- Shipping shared are active.

ments, to be the Chief Justice of Warloan quoted at 107-15/16. Gold 142/244..

the Straits Bettlements, in succes- sion to Sir Walter Clarence Hug- gard, who has retire.

When counsel and Mr. Justice short time, but for those who British Wireles

Lewis returned to Court, Mr. Mar- have to work and reside in the tin O'connor, on behalf of The Bix Harmonists, sald that they denied city it is nerve-wracking beyond that they had copied from The endurance. Four Aces.

TYPHOID

were

four cases

Mr. McElwaine, who is a mem- ber of the Irish and Albertan Bars and became KC, in Northern Ire of land in 1920, was appointed Acting diphtheria notified by the Health Solicitor-General in Genya in 1925. Authorities for the 24 hours ended Attorney General in Fiji 1927, Da- October in. One case was from paty Public Prosecutor in Singa- Victoria, two from Kowloon and the pore in 1930, and Attorney-Gener remaining case from Aberdeen.

There It took London and other cen- Mr. Justice Lewis, in dismissing tres a long time to contro street the motion, said: "I have had the noises, so lat sooner Hong Keng advantage of hearing both re- cords, and in my view they are makes a start in that direction

the better. completely dissimilar."

al Straits Settlements, in 1933.

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necessary an Colony that it filled to overtlowing present building was erected on the hill outside Kow- and the

loon City, and was ready for OC- cupation belore Christmas, 1902,

Eleven years later a new wing had to be added and it that time the Home was still in the country, but now a new city is growing up around it so the house must be demolished and the site abandon- ed just as we have reached the 50th year of life.

Although we feel that the right step is being taken to-day as part

of our family unite with Fairlea in the founding of Heep Yunn School, yet we naturally cannot help feeling sad at the breaking up and division of the old Victoria Home and Orphanage. Part of the family will come here to the Heep Yuna School and part will go out to the Victoria Home ex- tension Rural Orphanage at Talpo

to

learn practical methods of agriculture and be fitted to be- come helpful home-makers in the country villages

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GOVERNOR'S SPEECH His Excellency the. Governor. said:

foundation The laying of a stone is always a solemn moment to the layer. Unless one is mason by trade one does not on any other occasion In lite con- sclously set a thing in a piaco

where it Kaust stay put for decades or

be. even, it may centuries. So much of our daily round consists of ephemeralities and apparent trivialities that we are apt to forget that a great deal of what we do day by day does nevertheless stay Dut in the moulding of our own

characters and in the reactions of others to our good or bad influence. I want every future inmate of this building to bear in mind that," in their teaching and in their learn-

Was

bestowed rare honour upon this famous jurist by the Warsaw University, which great educational centre gave the late Lord Hanworth an honorary LLD. HLs heir 19 Dav'd Bertram Pollock, who was born in 1916.

Senator Couzens

H

· Londur. Oct. 22,

an- A message from Detroit,

the nounces

death of Senator Couzens, following an operation.

Reuter.

Late Mr. Hu Han Min's Funeral

Canton, Oct. 23.

It is reported that in view of ing, they will (whether they like the idea or not) be for ever laying the fact that the late Mr. Hu Han- foundation stones. The future min was a prominent member of tone and value of this school will the Nanking Nationalist Govern- depend not on any physical stone ment and a leader of the Revolu- such as that I have laid to-day tion, the different foreign minis- but on what each mistress and tera have decided to appoint their pupil contributes of sold worth to respective consuls to act

attending the its moral fabric." It is a Christian presentatives in school and its builders instructions funeral of the late Mr. Hu Han-

min on 25th instant.

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therefore quite plain and direct; they are summed up in the first line of a hymn: "Christ is our corner-stone. on Elm alons we build.”

broader usefulness.

it were, theĮ. before which Miss Victoria solemnize

their

as re

It is expected that the repre- sentatives of the Central Govern- ment and Kuomintang representa- tives from all parts of the country will reach Canton to-moITOW.--- Chinese Evening Preau.....

Wireless Telephone

Between Canton And Shanghai

Owing to the division it is

A MARRIAGE difficult to decide how to celebrate our Golden Jubilee; but we be-

But the stone, which I have just 1teve we can depend on the in- terest and help of everyone in the laid, is not only a foundation for the future but commemoration Colony to bring success to what- ever practical form is selected for of the past and present. It com- helping on the work of the Vic memorates, may I say, a marriage. Two lives of singular usefulness toria Home and Orphanage.

are to be welded into a LOYALTY AND VITAL

life of even greater TRADITIONS

The stone is, The next speaker was Mrs. matrimonial altar and heartily welcomed Mr. Fairlea Cheung, who and thanked His Excellency for Home stand to graciously consenting to lay the union before God and man; their

mutual sacrifice of stone of the new buliding.

Continuing. she said: In 1030 there was an 'urgent need service is exemplified in the sur-ceiving) as decided by the Depart- for a Middie School for higher render by both of their unmarri- ment of Communications having Chinese education. The parents ed names. They will henceforth been completed and in working asked for it, so we started a Lower be Mr. and Mrs. Heep Tunn, and order, it is reported that the ex- Middle School at first, as qwing they will start their wedded fe perimental messages of communi to lack of class rooms we dared with the Joy and Inspiration of cation with the Shanghai stations not attempt to begin the Upper each other's golden Jubilee. God have been successful. Middle School After a few years prosper them! thirty-ve graduates

tradition

Canton, Oct. 23.

The wireless telephone receiving individual and despatching stations at Shek

to the call for joint Pai (zending) and Yu Chu (re-

from the And just one word id conclusion. Lower Middle School showed good Many of you here will have read results, so we started the Upper Mr. Burney's Report on Education Middle School." Our own building in Hong Kong. He suggested that our Educational polley should be was insufficient to provide the

It

that official is reported messages will be received and des-

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patched beginning from November The telephone charges as fixed

From Are cations by the Department of Communi- Shanghai International Settlement to Canton, $6 per minute, and from Chinese City. $5 per minute.

as follows:

necessary class rooms, but the such (I quote his actual, words) Principal of S. Stephen's Girls' "as to secure for the pupils, first, College made it possible by lending a command of their own language us some extra rooms both for the sufficient for all needs of thought use of class rooms and dormitories and expression and, secondly. As both schools were making great command of English limited to the of vocational, de- improvement and pupils were in- satisfaction creasing in number at the time, 1 manda" I have it from the Vice-Chinese Evening Press.

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It la expected that wireless tele- phone communication with Hong Kong will soon be established.-

SUCCESSFUL TEST

wes felt that Fairlea should Principal of Fairlea that the alm own of the 'Heep Yunn School authorf- separate and look after its

this time the ties will be to put this service into

Mr. J. F. Sherry, manager of the welfare. Just at Government insisted upon taking effect. And again. I say "God Hong Kong Telephone Company, back the site of the Victoria Home Prosper Them." -

yesterday made a test call from In reply, the Chairman extend- the local office to Mr. J. H. Tag- and Orphanage, and in exchange, a certain suim for a building fund, ed thanks for His Excellency's gart, Managing Director, who is with a site in front of the new presence there that afternoon. It at present in Shanghai. Central British School was given was a most auspicious occasion

The conversation between Mr...

was regarded by the officials of the Company very satisfactory."

to the institute, We took this op- and the speaker added that he sherry and Mr. Taggart came portunity to consult Bishop Hall, hoped that the two schools, on through very clearly, and the test the Chairman of the Council of that historic occasion, would be the associated Schools, the other like the two wings of the Clipper members, and the Principal of the that had only arrived that day, Victoria Home and Orphanage, and carry the new institution to a with a scheme for fusing Fairlea great height of excellence both in

Mr. David Au, the Rev. J. R. and part of the Victoria Home regard to the Christian institution into ane whole school to be named already famous, and the Christian and Mrs. Higgs, the Rev. G. E.. S. "Heep Yunn." These two Chinese character which had already done Upsdell and Mrs. Upsdell, and Messrs. C. Y. Kwan, Richard Lee, Characters "mean "co-operation" so much good.

H. O. Hung, Dr. T. C. Ip and Dr. and "grace" and will signify that The ceremony was brought to a both Fairlea and the Victoria close with the blessing pronounced Kaite Woo.

A small contingent of Chinese Home in being united will here- by the Rt. Rev. 8. T. Mok...

·THOSE PRESENT

girt guides, led by Captain Ethei after help each other In 'one per

On the platform with His Banker, provided a guard of fect school, whose work will be for

and Lady Caldecotti honour. the education and enlightenment Excel'ency of Chinese girls under Christian were the following:

The occasion was graced by the influence and direction. Fairlea in Bishop Mok, of Canton; Mr. G. presence of five of the pupils who to leave '8. Stephen's "Girls' CoR Bayer, Director of Education; attended the Fairlea School ffty' lege," but the latter is giving to Bir William Hornel: the Rev. 2 years ago. They were Mrs. Mok, Fair'e the cost of their site at 8: W. L.Martin; Mrs. Cheung, the the wife of the Bishop of Canton, Headmistress of the Fairies Mrs. Woo, mother of Dr. Katle Stephen's

On Thursday, Fairlea, celebrated School; Miss Hollis, the Head- Woo, Headmistress of St. Paul's its Golden Jubilees and Speech Day mistress of Victoria Home, and Gris School, Mrs. Li Han Ching, MIB. For Chhig Ban, - and Miss the old building in Hong Kong the Rev. Lee Kan Leunde

Among those who attended the Wong a former teacher at Many guests spoke highly of the

Victoria Home. past history of the School, and ceremony were:--

in

the