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THE HONG KONG

JOCKEY CLUB

The Thirteenth Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather rmitting) at HAPPY VALLEY

Saturday, 19th December, 1936, commencing at 2.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be rung st

30 p.m.

By Order,"

C. B. BROWN.

Secretary. Hong Kong, 14th Dec., 1936,

E.

R.

4881

PUBLIC AUCTION

PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 21st day of Dec., 1936, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public

Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land Chuk Un in the Colony of Hong

at

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HONG KONG, DEQEMBER 18, 1936.

ANSWER TO JAPAN

To the Congress of Soviets,) which met in Moscow, two birth day presents were proffered by its leaders a new constitution and a new railway,

The railway has been u well. kept secret. Few knew that it been begun, or what had even

It is

its course is But of one thing there is no doubt its purpose.

an important strategic linea vital link in the Soviets

Siberia against an Japan

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1936.

HONG KONG

RIFLE

THE CHANGING PACIFIC

ASSOCIATION Noted Chinese Philosopher In

Address At Shanghai

Shoot On Saturday,

Afternoon

There will be a Spoon and Prac- tice Shoot at Stonecutters, by courtesy of the Naval Authorities, on Saturday afternoon next, com- mencing at 2 p.m. sharp.

will leave A private launch Queen's Pier at. 1.15 p.m. calling at the Kowloon Publie Pler at 1.25 pm, Shamshulpo at 1.40 p.m. ar- riving at Stonecutters at 1.50 p. The launch. will be available for the return journey on the com- pletion of shooting.

SAYS JAPAN'S SUPREMACY IN ORIENT CHALLENGED

Shanghai.

wer in the West Pacifc and dia- The unification of China has turbed the peace not only of the greatly, been accelerated by Ja- Far East but also of the world in pan's aggression, and is now in general, Japan bas lost her supre- disputably an accomplished fact.macy. By her acts in Manchuria This new nationalistically inspir- she has shown the world the nak- ed China, which is how rapidly ed reality and brutality of her po- undergoing militarization, forms wer, and in so doing she forfeited

Bupremacy by. It is requested that through the one of three factors in the chang- her uncontested Council representatives, the Hono-ing Pacific with which Japan has bringing forth several new factors

to reckon to-day.

with which she must now reckon rary Secretary of the Association

Thus declared Dr. Hu Shih, well- and which tend to contest her may be informed not later than

scholar and philosopher, position of preponderance in the known 2.30 p.m. to-day

who is the Dean of the College of Pacine. Arts and Letters or the National;

REASONS Peking University, in the course The above-mentioned

(Friday) how

many members from each unit or club will be attending.

AIR ATTACK ON an University Club, the Pan-

MADRID

Kong for a term of 75 years, plan for the defence of Eastern Bombers Sweep Over

commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for ous further term of 24 years less the last three days thereof.

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the purchaser will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be pre- sent at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the purchase price. PARTICULARS OF THE LO

Now Kowloon

No. of Bala.

Inland Lot No. 2672,} Registry No.

Chuk Co

Locality.

Boundary

Measure-

meats.

(N, 5.) ZW

As per

ale plan.

Contents i

Annual

Rental.

Equáro

24 |·Oprat Fríos,

Abont

19,000

989

4892

LORD NUFFIELD'S HUGE GIFTS

£3,265,000 In 10 Years

1

attack fromi

Three great railway lines have been built through Eastern Si- teria in the last forty years...

The original Trans-Siberian Railway begun in 1891, was designed to run along the valley of the Amur, which was also the boundary between Siberia and Manchuria, as far as Khabarovsk

This route meant a big detour through difficult country in the Upper Amar Valley, so in 1902 a' second route was planned- the Chinese Eastern Railway, ning largely through Man- thurian territory.

This was the railway used by the" Russians in the Russo- Japanese war of 1904. But it was a most inadequate artery.

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The City

Madrid, Dec. 16. After a week's lull in the aerial bombardment of Madrid, owing to the thick weather, Insurgent planes shattered the sense of security which winter had given the be- leaguered Spanish capital.

Pacific Association, the Institute of Pacific Relations; and the, Asso- élation of Universities and Col- leges at the Park Hotel here on the evening of Dec. 3.

factors.

At Kwanti Gymkhana

Mr. Ferguson and a friend photographed at the Gymkhana held recently by the R.W.F.

"LEAVING FOR SHANGHAI- PARIS-"

Modernity To The Fore

BIG NEWS FROM ATHENS?

Fleet-street history is full of stories of scoops secured by the use of devices such

as, crypüle messages quoting verses of Scrip~

ture.

It is said that the first news of the pourparlers for peace in the South African War was given by the cabling of "Bee Genesis 8.11.” Genesis 8.11 reads, "And the dove came in to him in the evening, and to, in his mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off.”

of a lengthy speech at a dinner according to Dr. Hu, are ax fol- given in his honour by the Ame-lows: first, a powerful Soviet Rus- sla returning to the Pacific with a huge number of highly" trained and well-equipped troops of the Red Army, a marvellously deve- loped air force, and highly-deve

When the Sunday supplemen loped industries; secondly, a rise

artist has nothing better to do, he TRANSFORMING WORLD of newly-armed or re-armed non-

draws a fantastic-looking machine Outlining a new and hanging | Astatic nations in the Pacific; and

In view of the present troubled Pacific in which a balance or bo-thirdly, a newly united and rapid taking of from the rooftop of a

25th-century building.

A boxed states of Europe 2 journalist wer is now taking shape. Dr. Huy militarized China.

rewrite man dishes up quotes from friend of mine, who is steeped in told the audience that Japan only

WAR FEARED Dr. Hu predicted that those fac-some crackpot scientist to 80 with this lore, is somewhat disconcerted plays a part in the transforming

the picture, visualizing fight toby a cable he has just received at world and is no longer a supreme tors may drift into an

China Europe in five hours or less, excur- his private address. tional war, Arst between.

This is an unsigned and wholly people entertain the and Japan and gradually involving alons into the stratosphere, daz- erroneous conception that Japan all nations in the Pucic.

aling speed, most of it 18 karað incomprehensible message from still supreme in the Far East "However he remarked, "far- baloney, and fournalism has made Athena, saying, "Close bargain. at present." the renowned philoso-sighted and constructive stater -

pigeons.***

power.

"Must

interna-

its biannual contribution to avia-

Airways is preparing-Late

this summer or, at the latest, next

Twenty huge bombers swept over pher said. "But I wish to point manship may yet discern in this tion. In the meantime. Pan Amer-

ican the city to-day escorted by out that the supremacy of Japan | changing balance of power a new roaring, racing fleet of 32 fighting in the Orient was true 17 years possibility for a peaceful read machines.

ago from the outbreak of the justment of the Pacific world. On Great War to the outbreak of the the foundation of the new balance Manchurian trouble in 1931, hut of power, there may yet build up has been no longer true since that a Pacific regional peace machinery year."

in which the United States, the

The raiders bombed the western areas of the city.

Government planes took off and met the attackers, and sought to | engage them, eventually turning the attack and hanging on to the tail of the retirement. But 18 per

us were killed and 50 Injured in

the

onslaught.

À

PLANES SHOT DOWN

JAPAN'S PAST SUPREMACY Dr. Bu noted the supremacy of Japan during the World War when the West. being the nations in preoccupied with their own.affairs, lett the Far East entirely in the For four hands of that country, years, he sald, Japan's power was supreme, which preponderantly

to fly you safely from Los An- geles to China in three days and nights. That is no dream, but a Practical job,

"

Within Ave years, του may U.S.S.R. and the British Empire leave New York at 8 o'clock of a as well as Japan and China may morning, rain or shine, and land in actively participate or the read- London at 1:05 pm, the next day. justament of the troublesome pro- with half a day left for business. blems, that have for years beset The flying time will be around 24 the nations, and for the mainten-hours. And you will do this for the nace of a collective security for the nrst time in the history of aviation whole Pacific,”

In the utmost luxury and comfort. The designers have stopped fret- ting about speed. The ship of to- morrow is being built with two main considerations-passenger. comfort and fuel capacity.

The most serious damage from the raid by rebel aircraft to-day It had only a single track for a occurred in the

working class great part of its length, and if quarter of Tetuan de las Vitoria. was interrupted altogether by The Government claims that Lake Baikal, which the trains four of the raiding planes were

chot down. had to cross on ferry-boats. -So

Despite rebel reports that slowly did it work that the lius-Boadilla del Monte has been cap-tinued, when she abused her po-Central News Agency. sian troops in Manchuria could tored. Madrid says that "further on only be reinforced at the rate of aesperate insurgent assaults about 1000 men a day.

the Government positions in this

"The only alternative to such was evidenced by the notorious 21 | peace arrangement," Dr. Hu con- Demanas presented to the then cluded, will be another world Chinese Government, and it was conflagration, the magnitude and considered as legitimate because of horror of which may be beyond her innocuousness.

the boldest stretch of our imagina- tion."-

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pulsed. This announcement

Defence Council contained in a

Since 1931, however, Dr. Hu con-

SCOTTISH MINE- AGREEMENT

London, Dec. 18.

The Japanese acquired control region have been repeatedly re- of Manchuna-now Manchukuo ---in 1932, and the Chinese Eas-communique.

The insurgents, says the com- tern Railway ceased to be of any strategic value to the Russians, unique, were eventually com- Scottish coalfields is assured as

pelled to retire to their original a result of the positions after suffering heavy

The intense cold is holding up operations, but the Government claims to have destroyed an insur- gent position during a new attack on Oviedo, which has been under- going a two-month siege. Heuter

who sold it to the Japanese.

They had then to fall back on losses. the original circuitous route from Irkoutek, at the south end of Lake Baikal, along the Amur valley to Khabarovak, and south to Vadivostock. And this railway. too, was doomed to be come more and more exposed to It was lear than six weeks ago that Lord Nuffield made the original gift & Japanese flank attack.

Lord Nufield's gift of a further £750,000 for the endowment of a post graduate school of medical research at Oxford University, announced recent has raised the total of his dona tions during the past 10 years to the figure of 23,285,000.

to the University of £1,250,000, which

bas now been raised to £2,000,000.

What was to be done to make Chinese

HEAVY DEATH TOLL

London, Dec 16. The casualties in the air raid of yesterday are much higher than was at first reported and it is now Fastern Railway and to ensure estimated that between 80 and 100

the are dead and badly injured.- rapid communication with

This is the largest gift ever made to good the loss of the

any institution by a living person.

At the end

which he

KAYO

of last year durch"

£25,000 to

Tuberculosis Settlement and £60,000 Eastern Provinces? The Soviet Reuter,

to

New Zealand and £50,000 to Government decided on two stepa Australia for the treatment af cripled

children-his gifts had amounted to nearly

£1,000,000

first, to double the existing

single truck from Lake Baikal

to. Khabarovsk; second, to build i

T

QUEEN'S HEALTH

of Three years

peace in the

·

WEALTH FOR SCOTLAND

Mr. Walter Elliot's Prediction

on

Commenting on the Govern- ment's action when speaking" re

Es

CITY CHURCH MEMORIAL

The Lord Mayor, Sir George Broad- unveiled in" St. bridge, recently Ethelburga's Church, Bishopsgate, a window to the memory of Mrs. Geikie Cobb, wife of the Rector.;

BRITISH STEAMER SIGNALLED OFF

Alleged Action By German Cruizer “

circles here.

Well-informed quarters here de- clare the incident could only have been "a friendly greeting 'which the British captain must have misinterpreted"—

Beuter.

balloting for acceptance and 21,000 cently, to members of Glasgow to carry a crew of 40 and a pax- with their strong, high duralumin

the agreement, which against affects more than 50,000 men.— Kleuter.

"WAR NOT

INEVITABLE"

can

The new transoceanic airplane

Berlin, Dec. 16. will gross around 120,000 pounds,

News that the master of the will carry between 30 and 40 pec- British steamer, City of Oxford. ple, and will have pleasarit prl- vate cabins for two or four pas- had reported on arrival at Gibral

tar that he had been signalled off Lengers, with sleeping berths. These cabins will be larger than the Portuguese coast by the Ger- man cruiser Deutschland with re- railroad-train drawing rooms. There

gard to the vessel's origin and deg- will be a dining room seating 20, tination, has astonished political smoking lounge equipped with a bar, a few shower baths, observa- tion lounge, and room to walk Scottish mine

around. It will exceed in space workers' ballot accepting the coal mine owners' offer of a new agree-

and comfort the finest "franscon- Millions of pounds worth ment providing a wage increase of work will come to the West of tinental train and, inside of two Scotland through. the Govern- fears, will make obsolete practi- three pence per day.

The increase gives miners a ments's ́ decision. to assist thecally every type of dying machine commercial use, except minimum wage of nine shillings u special areas, which include the now in day during 1937.

setting up of two or three arma- those used for short; fast hops.

**Ships can be constructed to The rate for the two succeeding ment factories somewhere where passengers are willing to years will be eight shillings nine | Clydeside.

sacrifice comfort for speed. Within withstand the worst tempests of 10 or 15 years, flying boats will which the limitless ocean of the pence a day.

The vote was very even, 23,942,

be built weighing 500,000 pounds air is capable. These same ships will ride out the worst: senger list of 150 There is practi-hulls, Conservative Club, Mr. Walter Elliot, Becretary of State for Scot- cally no limit to the size to which storms on the surface of the ocean, land, said it would mean work they may be built, and the larger if forced to descend. We will sac- valued at many millions, and bus- they are, the safer they are, in the rifice a few hours of speed and in- air or on the surface of the water. stead give you safety. For by ness men must be ready to And

According to Igor Elkoraky, réducing speed, we can increase land facilities and labour power who designed all the Pan Ameri- fuel capacity, and therein lies the to man those factories, It would

real safety factor of the long dis- *Clippers now in service, a not be as easy as it seemed.

cruising speed of 200 miles per tance airplane. Is London fogged "I am sure that heavy and light hour is sufficient. Anything much or storm-lash? Then Hamburg. industries alike have

Lisbon, Marseilles or great faster is impractical from a

the Bordeaur,

Genoa will be clear and safe. future in Scotland," said Mr. point of view of cost, safety, and

"The flying boats of the very Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Elliot. "The light industries have care of passengers. He says det-

*a* Bying Admiralty, speaking at a luncheon in been more developed in the South, nitely: Two notions about avia-near future will have London recently of the Regent group but we have got to get them up ton of the future you may be range of 5000 miles. A word from of the Abbey Division of Westminster to Clydeside as well as the heavy prepared to discard the strato- the radio dispatcher at the port of Constitutional Association, said that industries"

sphere fight for passenger traf- destination, and the pilot ties to the greater past of the naval construc

He thought the large populationc, and the 500-milee-per-hour clear weather and safe harbour. tian programme was going to the special areas, and many of the millions in Glasgow and Lanarkshire alene flight. The stratosphere flight is Taxi planes await the passengers they are spending on the Navy were should be a sufficient inducement a possibility, but the sacrifices are wherever the landing to made.

too great. The cabin of the strato. and Ettle time is lost." being spent in those areas.

The flying boats which will Some people took the view that war facturing in these districts because sphere ship must be a small,

soon ply regularly between Los world in a comparatovely short space

metal box Loss of pressure at Angeles and Shanghat could make of time. I do not believe that war their goods at their very door. is inevitable," said Sir Samuel, “I do “There are a million folk in 50.000 or 60.000 feet of altitude a transatlantic crossing with - not believe, grave xa the situation is clasgow and a million in Lanark would be instantly fatal to every ridiculous ease. The transpacific that we are threatened with an acute

one on board. For what? To bring fight is possible now because the kulaka"; many wornen were

crisis in the space of a few days, or a shire more than

Europe within a span of ten refueling stops and overnight, few weeks or a few months.

Dominion of New

hours? The 24-hour ship will fly rests may be made on American among them, and worked with pick and slovel alongside

at not believe Bulletin the A new railway terminus and

a reasonable beight, between territory: Honolulu, Midway Ta 12 and 20 thousand feet, above all land. Wake and Gusm and They laboured in all wea industrial centre has been built that, it does not mean that I do not push on with every preparation

athospheric disturbances, above Manila.

next step will be nonstops there even when the tempera-Komsomolsk, on the Amur; and we can make in case I am wrong * But it does mean that I believe

the dangerous ice formation strats. ture fell to 70 degrees below zero, the first through train from the time has not come when we should

The passengers, free from air sick-to Europe on four giant motors, deep in Moscow arrived in Komsomolsk revert to war, conditions and па and men wor

ness, will play, exercise, dance in in a flying boats as big as & house, London, Dec Io.

natural consequence put a great on Thursday, The treaties or Alliance between icy water.

obstacle in the

London, Dec 16. the recreation hall walk up and as comfortable, and certainly way of Irade recovery

down the glass observation gal- more beautiful. Two motors wil Fortúgal and Great Britain con- By the end of

e double The announcement that the and in the path of the country The annual grants of King festes in the fading edge of the surce to keep her flying. For all tained specific reference to the de-track had beck it Tom Lake new railway is finished comés economic prosperity. We hold the zerice and protection of Portu-Baikal to Khaborom 1800 miles with dramatic suddenness after view that it la necessary to con. Edward's Hospital Fund for Lon- raven-toothigh wing, sleep com- four of the engines of the nying serve the economic resources of the don, announced to-day tatal, for fortably, eat the finest cooking boat of the future to quit will be suere colonies, Mr. Anthony Eden of track in two park

the German-Japanese agreement country, and, on that account the Afth year in succession, 500, travel, in short, in all the luxury as strange as if all the turbines of

mistake to interfere with 000

the finest transatlantic Uner can an ocean liner should cease It is Russia's answer to the the industrial life of the country

function British Wirelėsa.

provide before it is absolutely necessary. Japanese challenge

His previous donations to Oxford have included:

1928: £70,000 for Spanish studies; 1929: £100,000 to buy the Observatory Site for the joint use of the Infir mary and the University Medical School;

1930 £47,000 to rebuild Wingfield

Orthopaedic Hospital;.

1932: £23,000 for the same parpose; 1830: £16,000 for the Institute for

Medical Research,

an altogether new line parallel

London, Dec 18. It is omelally stated to-day that with the old one, further north, queen Elizabeth, who had been and "safely out of the way of suffering from a mild attack of in- Japanese attacks.

fluenza, is making very good pro- They set about these tacks gress and hopes to be out in a day

characteristically ruthless

or two

The

with

Duke and Duchess energy. Huge masses of forced Gloucester have also fillen victims On Oct. 16 it was announced that labour were sent into Siberis. to influenza. They are confined he had given £100,000 in response to It is estimated that there

were to their rooms at the Royal Pavi- which Oxford University

Hon. Aldershot. Another invalid

Sir S. Hoare And Defence Preparations

for industrialists to start manu-

anching for certain development at one time as many as 100,000 is the Speaker of the House of Was inevitable and was coming on the they would have a market for hermetically sealed, windowles

Wa.

purposes, and had promised to be

responsible for £80,000 required by working on the railways under Commons, who was absent from Gpy's Hospital for nurses home police supervision-criminals, po the chair to-day, owing to a cold extensions. Three days later he gave litical prisoners, "liquidated British Wsertene

£35,000 for talking hooks for the blind.

BRITISH PROTECTION men.

FOR PORTUGAL

"told the House of Commonsst question lime to-day- British Wireless.

A year later, the second stage. of the plan is completed.

“Because I do

in the whole

Zealand."

HOSPITAL FUND

;;