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No. 24467. ##†¤¤¤ #ЯA HONG" KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1937. £## #¤AEfex Price Per Month. $3.

HE THE GOVERNOR, SIR ANDREW CALDECOTT

ARMED ROBBERS

IN YAUMATI

Goldsmith's Shop Looted

A sensational armed robbery, with a taste of the movie aims, was boldly enacted yesterday even- ing in Kowloon when Ave Chinese,

four of whom were armed with

ŚPODE

China And Crushed Bones

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Everybody knows that "Spode" is a china ware of peculiar trans- lucency and beauty. But ask them what or who "Spode" is and they will say vaguely. Oh, pode. How let me see im't he a Roman revolvers, entered the Tsung Woo general," or perhaps, "Spode is goldsmith shop at 243 Shanghai | Just a trade name." Street, Yaumati̟, and made away with $300 in cain, and gold orna- ments the value $5,000.

They remained in the shop for some eight minutes and broke open the glass showcases with the

butts of their revolvers.

Apparently a police whistle was blown from a house on the o posite side, when the gang made a hurried departure, one of them firing two shots as a warning that they meant business.

It is stated that they hurriedly boarded a motor car and made their escape."

On a subsequent search of the vicinity: a revolver and an empty

cartridge case were found on the ground.

ANNIVERSARY OF KING GEORGE'S

DEATH

To-day is the first anniversary of the death of King George V who passed away at Sandringham after

a short illness.

GOVERNOR APPOINTED TO

CEYLON

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Public Regret Followed By Public Action

BUSINESS LEADERS CABLE COLONIAL OFFICE

Retention Of Sir "Andrew Caldecott Requested

The following communique was issued from Government House yesterday:-

A communication has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies stating that His Majesty the King has been pleased to approve the following appointments:

"Sir Andrew Caldecott, C.M.G., C.B.E., to be Governor and Commander. in-Chief of the Colony of Ceylon in succession to Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs, G.C.M.G; Sir Geoffry Alexander Stafford Northcote, K.Č.M.G., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong.

"His Excellency Sir Andrew and Lady Caldecott, who will return to England for a period of furlough before proceeding to Ceylon, will leave Hong Kong on April 16, in the "Empress of Japan"

Editorial Comment

Whilst the community of Kang Kong will offer its sincere and respectful felicitations to His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, on his appointment to the Governorship of Ceylan, yet there must be a feeling of general regret that an Administrator at once so expert and under- standing should have been denied adequate opportunities of time and place for fulaning that which may rightly be termed a very great mission in the Far East.

Few know that Josiah Bpode, 'the great North Staffordshire potter, was the most successful chinatic affairs of the Colony, but also manufacturer of his time, and that he was the first to discover the possiblities of crushed bones in the making of fine china,

In the 1937 British Industries

Fair, a complete display of ware to commemorate the coronation of the King will be exhibited. That ware will be made from the formula adopted by the great Joalah 200 years ago and it will be manufac tured at the same factory and on the same site where Spode himself worked.

ÍEOCA. DANCE

It is but a year, since Bir Andrew When His Excellency became which has in the past elevated Caldecott was appointed Governor Governor of Hong Kong he was mere colonies to the status. of or Hong Kong, bringing to his burdened with a legacy of fantas- | Domitifons, will be raised," " "No" great task vigour of mind, genial-tic schemes graciously charac- laxation without representation” ity of personality and in earlable terised as "developmental At It will be recollected that on a richness of sound common sense. time when a seriously depleted ex- certam occasion a Governor of During that deplorably abbreviated chequer demanded the maximum Hong Kong ungraciously told the period of once His Excellenty has of economy and the minimum of elected members of the Legislative strikingly manifested not merely crédulity: Sir Andrew Caldecott's Council that even though they a tactfulness in the purely domes- advent was a saving in more senses | decided to vote against a certain than the literal one. With a firm measure he could out vote them disregard for the vacuity of "red- because the constitution had pro- taplam His Excellency settled vided him, with nominees numeri- down to business in A manuer cally superior to those who repre- which was as enlightening as Itsented the community of the Co- was inspiring. Various gigantic' lony. No self-respecting people "developmental schemes". were will tolerate such treatment for peremptory cast overboard as one moment more than the exi- dangerous lumber, and the matter gencles of the general situation or reducing administrative over- demand, and it will always be re- head with the object of endeavour-membered of Sir Andrew Calde- ing to achieve budgetary equill-cott's brium became his main purpose. The success of Sir Andrew Calde- cott in this connection has been the subject of general eulogio.

a brilliance in the higher diplomacy which has resulted in incalculable benefits to British prestige in the vital matter of fur- thering cordial' relationships be- i tween Chinese political and com- mercial leaders and this particular nerve-centre in the Far East. The prospects for a full term of office seemed bright with hopes of even greater harmony being promoted both within and without Hong Kong between all classes and in- terests, when, of a sudden, the Co- lonial Office bas decided that the proven talents of Sir Andrew

Then followed his proper and Caldecott can better be employed potent activities further afield, in another sphere of administra- | culminating in his eminently sue- tion.

cessful visit to Canton and the That this change in Governor- i cordiality of his reception in that centre by those who hare: power The Committee of the Royal | ship should occur at a time when

to iniuence Engineers Old Cområdes Associa- Colonial administration generally

Chinese thought. tuli jannounce that the next fort- is experiencing a measure of tran- Most significant of all was the en- nightly dance will be held at the sition demanding the atmost in thusiastic manner in which the Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, human adroitness to achieve that Governor was received by the Saturday, commencing at 8.30 p.m. success so yital to the well-being Generalissimo, | Mus'c by the 1st Bn. Royal Uister

of the Empire, is a fact which all Kal-shek. The foreign Press was R'fics.

would do well to remember when quick to mark the signs of the assessing the significance and times. It is reasonable to state value of this recent and dramatic that no Governor of Hong Kong announcement by the Colonial has succeeded as has Bir Andrew office. Whatever may be the

Caldecott in a sphere outside his needs of Ceylon, the needs of

domestic influence. Hong Kong are certainly consider- able, and Sir Andrew Caldecott's splendid leadership constitutes a loss which it is almost impossible. to accept with equanimity,

With due deference and respect to. His Excellency's numerous pre decessors, it must be frankly ad- mitted that but a very few have equalled Sir Andrew in ability, tenacity or purpose or caution in the just cause of public economy.

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New Technique

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War Threat

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LADY CALDECOTT

Britain Has 90 Warships, 15,000 Troops Near Spain

London, Jan, 11.-Ninety British warships and 15,000 regular army troops have been concentrated near Spain, an official source disclosed here to-day.

ne of the naval units are in or near the Mediterranean while 49 others are en route to Spanish waters.

British troops at Gibraltar total 2,870, at Malta 3,500 and in Egypt 9,800.

It was learned that four ranking admirals of the British Beete had called at Gibraltar and were moving-their wars ward Spanish Moroccan waters. :

AIR MAIL TO AMERICA

Agreement Signed

An agreement has been signed between tālis Government and Pan American Airways Company for the direct air transport of 1st Class mail to and from America via the Philippines,

that he never failed to give ear to proper public requests and to temper bis power with a generosity of mind

It is hoped that a weekly ser- which inspired the confidence, and loyalty of all sections of the comvice will be put into operation

before Summer. munity,

The postal rates will be publish- ed in due course.

Every public body has felt and appreciated His Excellency's power, and it is most unfortunate that at a critical period in the life of Hong Kong that the Captain who has steered the Ship' of State so suc- cessfully should be appolated to another command. To say that this change in leadership will be calamatous would be to over-state the prospective problems as well as to offer an unworthy impertin ence

to Bir. Geoffry Northcote, who has been announced as Bir Andrew Caldecott's successor; but it must be most emphatically de- What he might have continued present Governor after so short clared that the withdrawal of onr to achieve for the benent of Hong, and so successful a term of office Kong and the furtherance of || Anglo-Chinese harmony must now be relegated to the fanciful realm of speculation, but that Sir Andrew Caldecott would have achieved much is-based purely on al activities during his very short term here beyond doubt.

The time is fast approaching in this Colony when that famous cry,

Action By Public Bodies

is an act which reflects but little credit and even less understanding on those who sit in judgment on Colonial Administration through- out the Empire,

ASSISTANCE TO SHIPPING Statement In House Of Commons

LADY REPORTS THEFT FROM ROOM

Miss Geary, a resident of Rutton Hill, Duddell Street, yesterday re- ported to the Police the loss of $30 in cash and two pairs of stockings from Room 254, between the bours of 9 am, and 10 am. yesterday. The Police are investigating the

Case.

THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON LONDON. ls. 2.7/88.

T.T. ON NEW YORK: 30.3/8

LONDON SILVER

·MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent)

London, Jan. 19. London allver prices to-day were up 1/18 as follow:

Spotli Forward

Jan. 18

Jan. 19

.20-7/16 ....20-5/16

20-1/2 20-3/8

"A NEW SPIRIT IN CHINA. "—

SEE LEADING ARTICLE ON

PAGE B.

Urban Council Urges

Daylight Saving

articles and aders on the subject of daysght saving which have ap peared in the local press

MEMBERS' VIEWS.

With only one member opposing, the opportunity of reading various the motion, the proposal by HE the Governor, Sir Andrew Calde catt, that daylight saving" be effected in this Colony by the ad- vancement of the present Hong

The following correctly sum-

In his weekly broadcast on teers going to Spain and said that "World Affairs"! relayed from while Germany and Italy were London by Z. B. W. last night, cogitating their replies to the note Mr.

P. Hodson remarked' | of the French and British Govern- that the central lesson to be ments there were reports of the, learned from the Spanish conflict landing of some 10,000 Italians in was that nowadays war or threat Spain and' it seemed that the of war was not made by ultimatum sympathisers of both sides were in or mobilisation like in 1914 but a hurry to get so-called volunteers PETITION TO LONDON | General Chamber of Commerce, day, Mr. Oswald Lewis (Con, Col- minutes throughout the year, re- the rather by a mutiny or uprising, into the country before the pro- whether spontaneous or engineer-hibition of volunteers.p

ed, and before the public had, time That move grew extra important able interest was made by Mr. W

An announcement of consider to gather their wits there were in view of the fact that the N. Thomas Tam at the min of foreign troops all over the place. Governments of Italy and der-the Rotary Club of Hong Kong Neither the technique of the many were in consultation en held yesterday in the Roof Gur- their poley in Spain. There was den of the Hong Kong Hotel, that no secret about this, and there a scheme was under considera was the deliberate 'milarities of tion to petition London" to allow

League of Nations nor the tech nique of neutrality or non-inter- vention was sumrient, said the speaker. A new technique was needed and must be developed in advance

Opening his broadcast, Mr. Hod- Bon referred to the ban on volun-'

their replies. The British and H. E. Sir Andrew Caldecott to re- French Governments were en main as Governor of Hong Kong. couraged rather than disappointed by those replies.

(Continued on Back Pare.5.

Subacquently, the Committees of the China Association (Hong Kong Branch), the Hong Kong

London,, Jan. 19

In the House of Commons to-Kong Standard Time by thirty marizes, I believe, the views of members of this Council representatiyes, of the Chinese chester), asked for a further state-cafved the fullest support of the as expressed in the minuter community and all the Unofficial ment in regard to assistance to remaining members of the Urban which they have written and Legislative Councils held a pacific. Members of both the Executive British shipping services in the Counell at its fortnightly meeting the correspondence and in con LEASE, which was held yesterday after versations which I have had with meeting at the offices of the 'Gen-

Dr. Burrin replied that the Im-noon in the Post Office building some of them. Excluding my

there are or were at the thre eru Chamber of Commerce yester- perial Shipping Committee's report

when the papers, were circulated day afternoon when it was de has been considered and the cided to make representations, by United Kingdom Government for cable, to the Secretary of State formulated certain proposals as the the Colonies, through the China basis of discussion with the Cana Association. London, for the redian and Australasian Govern tention of H. E. Biz Andrew Calde ments which will be commualest

ed to there Governments in the next few days-

cott as Governor of Hong Kong.

(Continued on Back Page)

Reuter

MOTION INTRODUCED In 'Introducing the motion," the

Chairman of the Urban Council, twelve members of this Counc and only one member declare Mr. R. R. Todd, said in part:

Each member of this Council that he feels that the disad has been supplied with a copy of vantages of a scheme of daylight His Excellency's speech at the saving outweigh the advantage

and that he is accordingly opt

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Legislative Council on December 2 1936 and in the correspondence ed to the scheme, my tra which has been circulated has had