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Hong Kong, 31st Dec., 1936.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
1923
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of Mary
McGregor, late of 131 Ivor Road, Sparkhill in the City of Birmingham, England, Spinster, deceased.
ADVERTISEMENTS
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LIMITED.
NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.
We beg to inform our patrons that during the above holidays our Main Store will be closca. but the undermentioned hours of business have been arranged —
Grocery Department will be open at Side Entrance from 9 .m. until 10.30 a.m. on Satur- day, 2nd January, 1937.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT MR. Á. H. KOTEWALL and family desire to thank all friends for their kind expressians of sym- pathy in their bereavement; as well as for the moral tributes and attendance at the funeral. [4927
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Lord Melchett On" Perverse World
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Friday and Saturday until Lp.m, and on Sunday until 3 p.m.
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Chiang And China
Now that the Generalissimo is safe and sound, it is pertinent to 4926 review the situation as it existed previons to the coup and does still exist.
EX.
In Accordance with Govern- ment Ordinance, the CHANGE BANKS
wit
be CLOSED for the transaction of Public Business on FRIDAY, 1st January, 1937 (New Year's Day) and SATURDAY, 2nd January, 1937.
NOTICE IS HEREBY Hong Kong, 28th Dec., 1936.
GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of Section 58 of the
4917
Probates Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
their claims against the above estate to the 26th day of January, 1937.
The office of the Hong Kong Football Association will be re
to room No. 205, 2nd
moved
"
One must begin with the Chinese Communiste.
When the Communist armies were driven out of the province of Kiangs in the South-east in 1934 they started on an historic march across China to the far North- In many groups under west. different leaders they fought their
was held at the Hyde Park Hotel, London, last month; with Lord Melchett presiding.
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DECEMBER 31, 1936.
HONG KONG RIFLE
ASSOCIATION
Practice For The Inter-Colonial Rifle Match
normal.
NAVAL PARADE
Impressive Event Happy Valley
At
C.-IN-C. WILL INSPECT
An impressive Naval Parade in which approximatėly '1,100 o cers. and men will participate, will take The usual mid-week Spoon, and to announce that in future any place this morning at ID o'clock Practice Shoot which was held full member who appiles after 1.50 at Happy Valley, when the Com- yesterday afternoon on the Army p.m. for his ticket, must take his mander-in-Chief of the China Lord Melchett, proposing the Ranges at Kowloon City saw be- turn with the afiliated members Station, His Excellency Vice- toust of the British Association, tween sixty and seventy members as regards his personal squadding. Admiral Sir Charles 3. C. Little, said that though it had 'done' great attending on the firing-point, in Next Wednesday A further K. C, B, will inspect. Naval and and important work it had not spite of the fact that units, árs
change is being made, when Re- | Royal Marines landing parties.” His succeeded in keeping those engaged | stili in camp, and that, therefore,
gister Boards, as were used during | Excelléncy will be accompanied by in the government of this and other I numbers are necessarily below
the Prize Meeting, will be brought his Flag-Lleutenant. Mr. M. 3 2. into operation both in this, and Franckiin, and Staff Special interest is attached to each succeeding, shoot on the The Saluting point will be on the the shoot as it formed the final
Army Ranges. It is to be ander. Happy Valley Recreation Ground practice for the. Inter-Colonial stood. however, that the respon-in front of the Grand Stand, and Match, which is being shot for this ability for marking each other's units from 92 Naval, vessels, will afternoon and keen interest was cards still remains with the rem-take part. The whole will be made displayed in the scores of those
bers themselves, and that, at the up into a battalion consisting of to practice for the conclusion of the shooting in any four seaman companies, one Royal shoot yesterday afternoon.
one detall, members are to check | Marine company and a Howitzer At the conclusion of the shoot-over the scores so shown on their Battery of four guns landed un- in the cards were examined by own cards, with those appearing der the command of Captain E. R. the Captain of Shooting, who an- on the Register Boards. Should Bent, D.S.C., of the H. M. & Ber-
of the there be any discrepancy. the wick. nounced that the names team which will represent the matter will be referred to the
Range Omcer-in-Charge.
countries abreast of scientific de- velopment. The capacity of the word to produce increased at the rate of about three per cent. per annum, and a great part of that development was based on nothing more than the power and intell gence of mankind. Yet if they look-nominated ed back over recent years they found that the world had not ad- vanced at all. For a long time they even went backwards and suffered fearful depression. The whole natural order was reversed, and from those chaotic conditions aprang many of the diskters, with which they were faced to-day-the ́f disaster of the German régime, the disaster of Spain, and the whole of the turmoil in which Europe was embrolled. After a period of re- trenchment they were now faced
with a national effort to rearm for war. Was there ever a greater parody of human affairs?' It was fantastic, but it was vital for the protection of Britain. They had In their midst a great unsolved
Colony this afternoon, were
follows:----
Lieut. G. Ratcliffe, 1/RU.R., Bjt. Rattenbury, 1/RUE.. Sit. Blandford, RM, Sjt. Mannell, R.M.,
12
2/Lient. Y. §. Wan, HKV.D.C.,
Captain Rybot, RA.
C.P.O. Pellow, R.N.,
Lt. E D. D. Wilson, 1/R.U.R.
The leading scores made yester-ships, day, afternoon are as follows: –
S.B. (b)
A.F. 300 500 600 Ttl
yda, yds, yda. A.B. Bowerman scr. 34 34 32 100* Lt. Ratcliffe acr. 31 34 34·99 Capt. Rybot scr. 32 31 33 96 2 33 31 32 96
The Reserves are Cpl. Watson | Sgt. Mannell and SIM, Hill, both of the 1st Major Edwards 2 31 34 31 98 Ba. Royal Ulster Rifles.
Sgt. Blandford ser. 32 · 34 30 96 The standard of shooting yester- | Sgt. Rattenbury 4 32 32 31 95 1 29 33 33 ·94 only, chiefly owing to the very Cpl. J. Watson ser. 30 32 32 94 poor light which persisted for the LED.D. Wilson 2 31 31 32 94 whole of the afternoon, but as will SIM, HI
way, always pursued by the Cen- problem. They had not solved the day afternoon was about averageO.P.O. Fellow
tral Government troops of Ohiang Kai-shek and sometimes opposed and sometimes welcomed by the provincial armies into whose ter- ritory they wandered.
conjunction of their infinite capa- city to produce with their infinite capacity to consume. They had to turn back on their tracks and to see that further advance was really
useless unless they were able to
solve this very great problem.
Sir Edward Poulton; who replied,
said the British Association had always done splendid work in `bringing together those engaged in scientific work, and in adding to itself the British Science Guild it would increase its strength,
be seen from the detailed results Mr. G. H.
"
given below A. B. Bowerman of the Royal Navy once again headed the list by scoring a "century, being closely followed by Leut. Ratcliffe, of the 1st Eril Royal
Ulster Rifles, with a score of one point less 1.6. 89.
In order to
ensure that the
Lakeman
scr. 30 33 31 $4
...
5 28 32 32 93: Sgt. Warwick scr. 29 32 30 91 Lt. Pattullo 1 27 32 31 90 Rin. Managh 6 32 28. 30 90 Lt. Sequeira 2 32 30 28 90
All the above competitors used the "1914" rifle. ⠀
S.R. (3).
By July of this year many of the separate groups had once again united in the far North- western provinces of Konso and Shensi, ruling a wider area that All Creditors and others are
31 Floor, of the Gloucester Build ever before. They were thus in accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under.ng, with effect from 1st January, & position to threaten the Japan- signed on or before that date. 1937. The telephone No. will ese in Manchukuo as well as to
Dated the 30th day of Decembe 30751.
receive Soviet influence through Outer Mongolia. ber, 1936.
W
JOHNSON, STOKES &
MASTER,
Solicitors for the Administratrix,
Hong Kong.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
4925
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of Edith
Frances Bernard, late of 61 Highfield Lane Southampton in the County of Hants, formerly of St. Andrewes Kelvedon in the County of Essex, England, Widow,
deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the
Probates Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the time for creditors and others to sendTM in
their clalms against the above estate to the 26th day of January,
1937.
Y
All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required" to send their claims to the under signed on or before that date.
Dated the 30th day of Decem ber, 1936,
4915
"COUSIN
MARRIAGES"
Not Biologically Harmful
The men of HMS. Bounty, who
"ฟ
Bir William Bragg," who submit- ted the toast of the build and its incorporation with the British Association, paid a warm tribute to At the same time, whether Bir Norman Lockyer, the real au- directed by the Communist Inter-thor of the Guild, and expressed national or not, they changed their pleasure at the presence of their policy of absolute hostility Lady Lockyer..
they had falled to educate their stated that it had been said that governors in scientific ideals. He did not believe they would ever do so.
to the Nanking Government and Lord Rutherford, F.R.8., in reply. offered instead their alliance in a national war against Japan. This offer was refused, but since then the Communists have declared for a United Front' against Japan and the foreign policy of Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang thus found himself in a mutinied in 1789 and established difficult position. His anti-Com- a colony in 1790 on lonely Pitcairn monist war was identified with Leland, in the South Pacific, have his so-called pro-Japanese policy, inbreeding does not necessarily though the two are really dis- lead to the physical degeneration tinct. To deal with the Com- munist threat he had sent the of the race.
provided fresh evidence that close
habitants, and his findings, tend to
from
shooting was completed before the light became really bad, it was every necessary to put into. де available target on the range but even so, as has been stated above, conditions were far from Ideal.
A new system was tried out for the first time whereby a competi-
tor was handed a card on which appeared the number of his target. his place on the firing-point, and the detail in which he would fire This new procedure appeared to work well, and we are requested
F.C. J. R. Wall 7 28 28 87 Lieut., Jenks 6 27 36 23 81 A.B. Hambrook 10 25 29 25 791
A.H.--Ass1's Handicap. *Denotes the winner of the nett spoon.
-Denotes the winner of the
handicap spoon.
NOTE: The handicap of each winner has been reduced by one- point, as shown. This procedure applies to both 8.R. (a) and S.R. (b) Spoon Shoots.
MASSED BAND Royal Marine Bands from H. M..
Berwick Cumberland, Dorsetshire, and Hermes, will be massed under Warrant Band- master R. E Compton.
The programme will be as fol lows:-
Arrival of the Commander-in- Chief at 10 a.m.; Inspection in Past in Column, Line: March March Past in Closs Column; Com- panies form & Hollow Square."
The Commander-in-Chief will arrive by car and will be received by a General Balute, the Bands playing "Rule Britannia." He wit then inspect the Parade, after which Units will be moved to the Saluting Base for the March Past COMPOSITION OF UNITS The following will be the com- position of Units:1. Battalion Officers.
Battalion Commander-Capt. S R. Bent, D.B.C., H.MB. "Berwick." Battalion Second in Command- Comdr. T. L Beevor, H.M.S. Mea- why :
Officer Instructor-Lieut-Comdr. R. A. Gurrie, H.M.S. "Berwick." · 2. Seaman Ride Companies.
"A" Company HM.& "Cumber land" and H.M.8. "Berwick.".
"B" Company-HMS. "Dorset- shire," RM8. "Hermes" and H.M.S. "Capetown."
"C" Company-HMS. "Medway" and Submarines, H.MS. "Lowes toft" and HMS. "Falmouth.”
"D* Company-HM.S. "Durican”. and 8th Destroyer Motilla.
3. Royal Marine Company.
The idea that they could POPULAR PRESS Innovation In Safety and H.M.B. "Dorsetshire," H.M.S.
greatly influence people, apart from
dresses was a mistake because they a limited number, by popular ad-
and
"E" Company-HMS. “Cumber-
"Berwick," HMS. "Hermes" HMS Capetown.". Safety is the keynote of the Royal Marine Platoons will con- To say that the political in-
1937 Chrysler-Plymouth design sist of 1 Sergeant and 40 Rank of the popular knowledge. The great thing was fluence
Press It begins on the outside, with all and File. to get the young people interested is greatly exaggerated is both surfaces smoothly rounded, and 4. Naval Howitzer Battery."
would only get a smattering of
in scientific matters so that as they grew older their knowledge and
kenness increased.
bad
Battery Commander-Lieut. a trulem and an understate- door handles redesigned to curve
inward so that they cannot catch J. Lamb, H.M.S. "Cumberland." ment; it ia enormously exag-
sleeves or other parts of the cloth- No. 1 Section, Leader-Commis- gerated comments Peter Fleming ing. Even the rear licence plate soned or Warrant Officer, HMS. In the "Spectator.” · Propaganda is moves from Its familiar place "Berwick". powerless without the aid of cir- } above the tall light to a recessed
direction as
No. 2 Section Leader-Commis-
stoned or Warrant Officer. H.M.S. "Dorsetshire."
Battery Chlef Gunners Mate of its own.
But the real safety surprise is C.PO.. from HMS. "Cumberland." No. 1 Gun--H.M.B. "Cumber-, the Chrysler-Plymouth interior,
land which reveals an entirely new in motor car design. approach to the problem of safety
Starting at the front, the whole Instrument panel is redesigned. Throttle, choke and light switch
disappear on special sildes in the
No: 2 Gun-H.M.S. "Berwick." No. 3 Gun-HMS. "Dorsetshire.". No. 4 Gun-HMS. "Hermes.” Each crew will consist of a Petty
oficer as Captain of the Gun and 18 ratings.
5. Royal Marine Bands.
Royal Marine Bands from HM. ships: "Cumberland," "Berwick." "Dorsetshire" and "Hermes" will be massed under Warrant Band- master R. E. Compton.
An American biologist, Dr. Harry Young Marshal, Chang Hench-father, the Old Marshal, cumstances. You need a Zinoveff bracket in the middle of the trunk seperate lighting fixture Shapiro, has made an intensive liang, to command his anti. done in Manchuria before the letter, and a Zinover letter at the lid, with
critical moment, before you can study of the island and its in- Communist army in the North- Japanese invasion.
There is no doubt that Chiang the scales. Where is the Empire Idausibly pretend to have tipped disprove the popular idea that west. Unfortunately Chang, a cousin marriages are biologically weak but clever intriguer, could Kal-shek must have been well Crusade to-day? Where, rougly not be trusted, and the anti-Com- aware of what was happening, speaking, is any post-War political barmful.
Accurate and complete records of munist army wae chiefly formed but, occupied first with suppres.rovement, sponsored by a news- marriages, births and deaths have out of the so-called "Tungpei ring the rising of the Cantonese paper, which didn't happen to be been kept by the islanders almost troops" who had been driven out war-lords, then with the negotia moving in the same
the day when Christian, Young. Mills McCoy, Quintal and of Manchuria in 1981 by the ions with Japan following the the current of affairs? What (to outbreak of riots and murders, take one that did't) has been the
rounded base of the new panel. These desperate, Adams and the nine polynesian Japanese.
result of the personal campaign and even women who went with them from homeless men, filled with a bitter and fually with the Japanese against Mr. Baldwin, who (If they cessed,
the switch key is te The flat panel is raised Tahiti landed on Fitcairn Island, hatred of Japen, were not likely Mongol invasion of Sulyuan, he can't get a near relative to come above knee height of front seat Dr. Shapiro declared.
to fight with enthusiasm against has only now been able to give across with a little inside medical passengers, and the windshield The result is the most extensive the Communists who had declar: the situation his attention. information) is always seen by a crank folds into a iznouth, round record of a human experiment ined "war" on Japan and whose One thing, however, Chiang Mrs. Baldwin's arm"
Staff Reporter to be "leaning op dome.
when he Underneath the panel, the dash and close inbreeding through six plight was similar to their own; Kai-shek has done he has stil walks to his car? The result has has been recessed for greater toe generations that has ever been many, in fact, deserted to the fened his policy towards Japan in been twofold: (a) (which is un-clearance and safer operation of compiled.
Communist armies, and the rest the hope that it may satisfy the important and ephemeral) to in- clutch and brake pedals. Wind- accepted their friendship. ・・・ malcontents. For the first time crease the warmth and spontaneity shield wiper controls are of tóft of Mr. Baldwin's reception on his rubber instead of metal Arm return to public life; and (b) | resta, too, are soft sponge rubber. (which is more permanent and more inside door handles are redesign-ilfebelts of the Norwegian steamer relevant to my theme to under- ed. also curving inward with no "Verla" on Tuesday off the west- mine further the credit of the projections. Back seat passengers ern coast of Sweden. The vessel newspapers who thus attacked are protected by a padded roll bad foundered in a storm during him among readers in whom they across the front seat, and a silka voyage from England to Sunds- have themselves inculcated the robo cord replaces the metal rail vall and it is believed that the mean of the smug, silly epithet The dome light is gone and entire crew of 16 is lost.- "un-English."
appears as a reading light over Transman News Service. the back window, behind all pas-
cross mating between two races
Pictures of the healthy children
tion are stated to be almost suf-.
Shapiro's point.:{"
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the
Executors,
Hong Kong. The islanders are robust and 4924 healthy," be declares. Their me-
dical, record is good with no ef dence of degenerative diseases pe-
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that I the undersigned. have severed my connection as a partner in the firm of Messra Weng Vleira & Co. China Buliding, Queen's Road Central as from the 31st December, 1936,
of the sixth and seventh genera- In this way Stanfa, the capital he made no concession to Japan- ficient in themselves to prove Dr. of Bhensk and headquarters of ese demands in the negotiations Chang Hsueh-liang, became the at Shanghai, and he gave direct centre of a new nationalist move assistance to the Saiyaan army ment with strong Communist which was resisting the Mon- sympathies and a rallying cry of gol invasion,
culiar to them
restoring
war with Japan. There seem- It is no doubt true that at the The only general defect attri bled the patriotic students from same time, he has been engaged in butable to inbreeding has been a all over China, discontented with various intrigues that seem in- degeneration of the teeth, but a Chiang's policy, to be trained for consistent with this policy. There similar degeneration might be the day when they would sweep is even reason to believe that ear- sing armamente, on found among other races who had the Japanese out of Manchuria.lier in the year he himself formed unity to the country and im not been forced to mate so closely.
Chang Bauch-liang weakly ac- a temporary alliance with the proving its economic position, Inbreeding has actually resulted
Returned, as it was, from what cepted this development, pretend Communists in order to weaken ing to be inspired by patriotism the influence of General Yen, Hai- appeared to be the very jaws of By 1934, the air mutineers who when in all probability he hoped shan. & too independent ruler of death, Chiang Kai-shek is lived long enough to have children either to replace Chiang Kai-shek the province of Shans. Yet, in stronger than ever before, and, had a living progeny exceeding 200
the main, his policy is logical. He let it not be forgotten, he needs on Pitealin- and Norfolk Islands and an additional 200 who have ernment or to rule an independent has concentrated on creating an the united loyalty of his nation 4914 wandered away.
State in the North-west as his efficient central army, on amas to fulfill his noble purpose,
JOSE MARIA VIEIRA. Hong Kong, 31st Dec., 1936.
In a surprising reproductive vigor,
adds Dr. Shapir.
at the head of the Neaking Gov-
NORWEGIAN ́ ̈ SHIP
· WRECKAGE -
Stockholm, Dec. 29, Fishermen found wreckage and
A wider windshield slopes back st
The famillar Chrysler-Plymouth design sweep back the length of rakish angle in a modified tear chrome surmounted by a flate in sailing ship alants back at a more the hood, in gleaming bars of
drop outline of chrome. New large body colour. teardrop headlamps are mounted on windstream supports attached
wind resistance. Added. slockness to the sides of the radiator
The hood has been lengthened fa gained by the and comes far forward, ex
steel
back to the
a more acute angle, cutting down
to the foremnet edge of the fadial shell in an imbroken line, Langer. Thes deeper hood louvres of modernistic
of the
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