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HUPEH GOVERNOR'S MURDER VINDICATED

DOCK WORKERS HONOUR RETIRING MANAGER

Presentation To Mr. K.E. Greig

At Taikoo Club

A very pleasant afternoon was spent by members of the staff of the Talkoo Dockyard yesterday when the Talkoo Chinese Athletic Association held their first annual sports, and the op- portunity was taken to present Mr. K. E. Greig, the retiring managen: of the Dockyard, with a scroll of honour on the eve of his departure for Home.

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In the course of his speech MF. Lam Chung-hoo said that this was the first occasion on which the Chinese and European Start mixed together at a party and he expressed the hope that" this would be followed by many more such functions in the future.

CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH

Addressing the gathering the chairman said:-

Me are here to-day to bid fare well to Mr. K. E. Greig on the oc- casion of his impending departure

for home on retirement after 28 years service.

On behalf of the Association I beg to thank our European fellow .employees for joining us here to- day to bid Mr. Grelg farewell. It is a fact that this is the first oc- casion, strice the Dockyard came into being more than 30

years

ago, on which Chinese and Euro- pean employees have gathered to- gether in one party, and in order to bring about closer friendship between the two staffs. I wish we could have more of such gather-

ings in future.

Since we have been working un-

DEATH SENTENCE

FOR TWO MEN

LIU LU YING GETS PRISON TERM

Hankow, June 6.

Charged with complicity in the assassination of General Yang Yung-tal, Governor of Hupeh, on October 25 last year, and plotting attenipts on the lives of General Chiang Kai-shek and other Chinese notables, Liu La-ying, suspended member of the Central Executive Committee and formerly chairman of the Can- tral Publicity Council in Nanking, was sentenced by the Wu- chang District Court to ten years' imprisonment and depriva- tion of civil rights for five years.

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Cheng Hsi-chao and Kung Po- | two years' imprisonment, while Li chow, two other accused persons, Chun-chien was acquitted. were sentenced to death.

In addition to the sentences, Liu Lu-ying, Cheng Hsi-chao, Kung Fo-chow and Chao Ping-jung were ordered jointly to pay $30,000 as damages to the family of the late General Yang Yung-tal- Reuter.

A fourth accused. Chao Ping- jung. was sentenced to life im- prisonment.

Yang Chth-sin and, Nieh, Ching- chuen each received sentences of

der Mr. Grels we have received BOYS CLUBS'

from him vast favours and great kindness. He 15 a kind-hearted and obliging gentleman and is ap- proachable to every one who wants his advice or instructions.

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The Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington opened the new Precious. Blood Children's Hospital on the Castle Peak Road on Saturday, during which the above photograph was taken.

SOUTH ATLANTIC FLIGHT

Port Natal, June 6. Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam has arrived here from Port Aleza preparatory to making the South Atlantic crossing to Dakar.— Reuter.

FRANCE BEATEN IN DAVIS CUP

Prague, June 5. In the Davis Cup tennis quarter- Anal Czechoslovakia beat France by three matches, to one- Reuter.

New Hospital

For Children

The new Precious Biood Child- ren's Hospital, the first of its kind in the Colony. erected solely for the welfare and protection of poor. children in Kowloon and the New Territories, was officially opened by the Hon. Dr. AR Wellington. C.M.G. (Director. of Medical Ser- vices) on Saturday afternoon.

The opening of this new hospital: probably marked the last ofacial duty of the Hon. Dr. Wellington, who is leaving te Colony on retire- ment on Friday, June 11: aboard the R.M.B. Empress of Japan, ac- companied by Mrs. Wellington.

The new building, which is situated at Castle Peak Road, Kow- icon, is a three and a half storeys structure of cement concrete. and has been bullt at an estimated cost of $80,000, which was raised en- tirely through the efforts of the Hospital Committee and Sisters "headed by the Chairman M

Nicholas Tse Tung-kwong with Mi. Chan Wal-huen as Hon. Secre- tary.

ASSOCIATION

Charity Shows At The King's

HOLIDAYS IN HONG KONG

Dastardly Murder Plot Allegation Against Austrian Nazi

KILL SCHUSCHNIGG AND BOMB CHANCELLERY

VIENNA, JUNE 6. A PLOT TO MURDER DR. KURT SCHUSCHNIGG, CHANCELLOR OF VISITING HIS MOTHER'S GRAVE WILL BE ALLEGED BY THE PROSECUTION AGAINST FRITZ AUSTRIA, WHILE WOFTSCHE, WHO IS AN AUSTRIAN NAZI, WHEN THE CASE COMES UP FOR HEARING ON JUNE 22.

Fritz Woltsche is alleged to be the leader of a Nazi organisation in Lower Austris which planned the murder of Dr. Schuschnigs and bombing of the Chancellery In Vienna by aeroplane.

A number of altered accomplices will also appear on trial.Benter.

FROM ONE, LUNG

TO ANOTHER

Shanghai, June 8. Mr. Frederick Snite, jar, the **Iron lung," youth, salled this afternoon on the "President Coolidge for San Francisco, and then by special train to Chicago where he will enter Billing Hos pital,

A manually operated pulmonary apparatus kept him alive during the tense four-minute transfer from his iron lung" aboard the tender while being horne by

Reader Supports Our stretcher to the special cabin

Suggestion

Daily Press")..

The funds of the Boys' Club As (To The Editor, "The Hong Kong sociation must have swelled con- siderably as the result of the gala performance of "Pennies From Heaven." at the King's Theatre last night when the ordinary prices of admission were increased considerably, the difference be- tween the ordinary prices and the increased figures belag handed over to the Association.

As an added attraction the band of the Seaforth Highlanders ren- dered an excellent programme of muzic.

His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government, Mr. N. L. Smith, C.M.G., and party at- tended and amongst those present were a number of the Colony's leading residents.

The fim, starring Bing Crosby and Madge Evans, proved to be excellent entertainment and the programme rendered by the band was as follows:-

Excerpts from Opera. "La Travi ta;" Cornet Solo, "The Lost Chord:"Selection of Harry

landla" Scotland for Ever. Lauder's Songs; Tone Poem, "Fin-

Conductor: Mr. E. G. Baker, AR.C.M.

THE DOLLAR

TT. ON LONDON; '15: 2-23/328. ...T.T." ON NEW YORK: 30-3/8, -``

London Silver Market

(From Our Own Correspondent) London, Junë 5.. London' silver prices to-day were "This hospital has accommodation up 1/16 as follow:- for about 100 persona. There are three big public wards, two for Spot

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June 4. 20-5/16

Forward....

20-3/8

Dear Sir-I read the article in your issue of this morning."on the subject of spending one's holidays in Hong Kong, with considerable interest and as one of the very few who has always "summered" here, I can heartily endorse the sug- gestion put forward by your paper.

Last summer. I was fortunate enough to be given the use of a bungalow In Shatin, and the year before I spent two weeks in

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aboard the President Coolidge where he was encased in another artificial respirator-Reuter.

AOYAMA CASE IN SWATOW

Negotiations Bear No Fruit

Canton, June. 6. Cheung Chow and I can honestly vestigation into the Kiyosh! Aoya- After- completing their in- say that, I enjoyed bath holidays as much as I did a trip to Shang-

ma case in Swatow, Dr. Andrew S. hai and Japan a few years back-legate of the Ministry of Foreign F. Lin, secretary of the special/de- before we had the depression on

Affairs, and Mr. Sadaj! Yoshitake, The suggestion about the golf acting Japanese consul in Sha- links in Deep Water Bay was par-meen, returned here to-day, ticularly good and if the arrange- As negotiations in Swatow did ment can be made for guests at not bear any result the matter the Repulse Bay Hotel, during cer-will be settled in Canton. tain months of the year, to be Three given permission to use the course, for a nominal fee during the slack hours. It would be very welcome as facilities for golfing are so de- plorably poor in Hong Kong..

There are many places that one can go to for an inexpensive yet thoroughly enjoyable holiday here and As you mentioned in your article anybody who spends his leave in the Colony helps to keep the money inside Hong Kong. Yours, etc., "HOLIDAY, HERE.” Hong Kong, June 5, 1937.

FOUND SHOT DEAD

New York, June 6. The octogenarian musical critic, June 5. Mr Witham J. Henderson, was 20-3/8"found shot dead at his hotel, -20-7116 | Reuter,"

Swatow are still there. Mayor Japanese warships In Huang Ping-hsün of Swatow has urged Japanese Consul Sellchiro Yamazaki "to withdraw the des- troyers, but his efforts are of no avail.

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