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PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 20th day of Dec., 1937, al 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Pokfulam in the Colony. of Hong Kong for a term of 21 years.

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SOCIETY.

"ENGAGEMENT »

PALMER--WOOD-Mr. and Mrs. W. Cameron Wood announce the engagement of their elder

daughter, Kathleen. to Nor- man, only son of Mr. and Mrs.

F. P. Palmer, of Carbis Bay,

Cornwall, England (late Shanghai)

MARRIAGE

of

TESKE-TULENEFF-On December 7. 1937 at the German Con- sulate-General. Shanghai, Dr.

Katherine Tuleneff to Erich Teske.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1937.

Editorial and Busines" Office:

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The Badly Press.

友之國中

HONG KONG, DECEMBER 16, 1937.

PROPAGANDA

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF MANCHUKUO

Heavy Industry Firm Organised

Hsinking, Dec. 14: A compre- hensive Bill regulating the activi ties ot the

organised newly 400,000,000 yen heavy industry company has been approved by the Government.

The Bill which grants the arm, virtual monopoly for the indus- trial development of Manchukuo will be passed on December 27. The concern wil manufacture automobiles and aircraft and en- gage in the production of iron, coal, salt, lead, copper and quinine, and invest in light and power industry.

WEDDING BELLS

Two Well-Known Families United"

LEE-ZIMMERN

Two well-known local families

were

the brought together by marriage yesterday at St. John's Cathedral of Mr. Robert Lee and Miss Norah Zimmer. The bride- member of, the groom, who is a staff of the Office Appliance Com- pany, is the popular "Intérport cricketer whilst the bride, who, is the only daughter of Mr. A. Zim- mern, a respected Ice House Street and figure, and Mis Zimmer, the sister of the solicitor, Mr. F'. 1 Zimmern. comes from another distinguished sporting family.

The bride, who was given away was charmingly by her father, attired in a gown of white chiffon velvet, trimmed with pearls, with a coronet of silver and an 8-yard She lang train of delicate net. was attended by Miss Molly Churn as bridesmaid. Mr. N. A. E. Mar- kay was best man.

China has won the admiration of the entire world by the deci- sion to carry the war of resistance against Japanese aggression to the bitter end. From the date of the Lukuochiao incident, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-sheh has, courageously and tenacious- ly adhered to the policy that

hinta values her territorial in 500-YEAR OLD CUSTOM Linday Lafford was at the organ.

tegrity as much as any other nation and that her national honour will be defended at all costs,

Half of the company's shares will be held by the Manchukuo Government while the rest will be distributed among Japanese in-

vestors Beular.

REVIVED

London, Dec. 14. King George to-day celebrated his 42nd Birthday at Buckingham Palace. A 500-year-old custom was revived at Windsor when the

King's Birthday was observed by the firing of a salute of 21 guns--- British Wirele

That lies.

Rev. H. W. Baines conducted the marriage service, whilst Mr.

The 2nd Hong Kong (St. Paul's School) Company of Girl Guides, of which the bride is captain. formed a guard of honour for the newly-wedded couple as they left. the church.

DR. KOTEWALL'S SPEECH A reception was later held in.

Mr. R. E. Lee, the Kowloon C.C. and Interport cricketer, and his bride, formerly Miss Norah Zimmern, photographed after their wedding at St. John's Cathedral yesterday afternoon. Cheng Studio).

(Photo,

the Roof Garden of the Hong SCHOOLS' PRIZE ||Letters To

The

Kong Hotel, where a large number of relatives and friends gathered to offer their good wishes. principal toast was proposed by the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, h

said:

One was

DAY

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sat

for

"Forty-five years ago, when 7

The King Edward Government was a school-boy, I was present at

Scholarship of the University was Old Man Zimmern's wedding. remember that happy event vivid-awarded to Patricia Abiong.

All candidates who ly because two things helped to

Trinity College of Music (London) examinations fix it in my memory.

were successful that, for the first time in my life.

several obtaining. honours.

The Headmistress and Staff thank the parents for their helpful, co-operation in promoting the ex- istence of an harmonious spirit which is a great stimulus a pre- the students to become paring useful members of society.

HOLY SPIRIT SCHOOL REPORT

I was given a silk long coat wear, and that garment was of a bright yellow hue. The other was

The manner in which the invading armies gained such easy access to and control of Peiping and Tientsin remains a mystery, but it is a particularly heartening reflection to those in the south- that wherever southern troops be wondering whether, after all, were pitted against the Japanese, Generalissimo Chiang will for the struggle was long and bitter, anke China, sooner or later. where the mischief and in the case of Shanghai atis any rate, it was only the superior Thus, we take this opportunity equipment and armaments of the of waming the Chinese people in invaders which proved the decid-general and the world in parti ing factor. Man for man, the eular to beware of the type of Chinese is an infinitely better propaganda under reference. The fighter, so that the loss of Shang-Generalissimo is first and last a hai was no disgrace. Indeed patriot and he will live or fall defence will go down to history with China. To the Chinese our

an epic of Chinese bravery message at this time of crisis is: help him in getting rid of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Laidlaw, a and grit. Bearing that fact in Be proud of your nationality and

young bucks who, although it was past midnight, were still indulging daughter, Margaret Anne.

game History is being in the merry

of what y BJERGFELT.-On December 5,aind, and bearing in mind also your nation.

called teasing the bride.' I'enlist 1937. at the Country Hospital, that China's great leaders arenade in Chion. Be courageon

ed the collaboration of a" sym- Shanghal to Mr. and Mrs. F. M. perfectly confident of being able and steadfast and you will win

pathetic cousin of mine: we hid Bjergfch", "u" SUN."

to resist the Japanese for two through.

ourselves behind a partition and GAMBLING.-On December 8, 1937,

blew tin whistles whenever the at the Shanghai Sanitarium, to yours at least, it is more thar → Winifred wife of Geoffrey probable that by the end of that

merry-makers attempted to speak. Gambling, a daughter.

time China will emerge from the

until they went away in utter dis- gust. Old Zimmern and I have DEATHS

great ordeal more unified and

been 'sworn brothers' ever since. strengthened in soul, though

(Laughter.) weakened in substance. And. after all, it is the soul of the nas tion that matters.

BIRTHS

LAIDLAW.--At British General

Hospital on November 28, to

HUGHES-On October 21, 1937, a

her home in Santa Barbara, California, Jessie O. Hughes, beloved wife of William Hughes. BRYANT,On November 24, 1937. at Mackenzie Memorial Hos- pital, Tientsin. Rev. Evans Bryant, B.A., B.D., of the

Evan

London Mission, Tsangchow.

Age 59 years. LAWSON GREY. On December 3, 1937. at Comrie, Perthshire. Mrs. E. Lawson Grey, widow of Capt. E. Lawson Grey, late of

Shanghai.. |

BASTON. On December 5, 1937, at

the Country Hospital, Chang-

COMPTON,-On December 6, 1937. at House 2. 15 Carter Road,

Shanghal, Ellen Jane Comp-

ton, aged 65 years, widow of John Samuel Compton, late of Wenchow. ROACH On December 8. 1937. at The Country Hospital, Shang- hat, Eva Marion Roach (née Irllar), aged 34, dearly-beloved wife of Albert Henry Roach and mother of Joyce Maureen.

POPE. On December 8, 1937, at 297 Route Dupleix, Shanghai, Mrs. A. Rope (SN) aged 83 years, widow of the late W. L. Fope, ment of India, and mother of

US

SOLDIER INTO. CIVILIAN

recent

Mr: Elore Belisha's statement m the House of Com- mions that the enlistment figures of one week taken at random showed un 80 per cent, viss apOU the comparable statisties the pre- vious year means that the War Office, with assistance from the

Treasury,

has been finding new ways to make Army service at- tractive. The improvements in barracks, to which action bas

ilt rest

that Old Zimmern bribed me to

some

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IMMENSE PLEASURE "To-day" I have the immense

When

The Editor

AGRICULTURE IN

NEW TERRITORIES.

(To The Editor, "The Hong Kong Daily Press)

Or

a reply to the

Sir. Lack of time prevented full development of some of the topics discussed in my address at the Rotary Club, questions raised by Dr. Herklots. May further trespass on your space to clear up nae or two points?

Chinese farmers working on un- exhausted soils make the best far-

The number of students enrolled averaged just over a hundred anders in the world. on account of- the attendance was 97. Five Sis- their willingness to perform heavy ters were on the regular teaching labour tirelessly, and because they staff assisted by four part-time seem to derive a love and pleasure in causing Mother Earth to pro- duce. But in the New Territories

teachers.

ones.

Two classes producing note- worthy results during the year were the Oral Composition class for the older girls and the lessons in pleasure of being present at his dramatic reading for the younger only daughter's wedding. he asked me to propose the health of the happy couple "as a favour." I told him at once that I would undertake the job with a pleasure greater even than that I got out

of helping him in driving away the teasers. For the bride, Norah, is a sort of niece to me. and I am very fond of her. But who is not fond of Norah? She is so good- hearted, so genuine" "and sensible. and always so willing to give a helping hand. Her parents dote on her; her brothers are proud of

her female friends call her "a good sort"; and her male friends occasionally punch each other's

beads in strife for her smiles. Yet Norah is not spoilt.

"Though. Norah's time has been fully occupied with her household duties, she has yet found it pos- able to captain a company of Girl Guides. Her zeal and efficiency

have evoked the commendations of her superiors, and her sym- pathy and example have won the affection of her giris. These, then, are some

of the qualities which make Norah so likeable.

That being so, the crafty Nipponese will explore every avenue to break the unity which has manilested itself among the lenders of China to-day. That has Leen the Japanese policy in the past, but in the future such efforts will be redoubled through the mediums, first of guld and end of propaganda. There is

been drawn, are successiully-de- signed to remove to life in the hal, John Punton Baston, aged already ample evidence that gold peace-time Army certum cusolete 13 years, the dearly-beloved is..not proving such a successful discomforts. ine announcement her: the servants worship her husband of Mrs. Bertha Baston. bait as the Japanese had hoped now mate regarong vocational

and that they are how turninguring will set

the more assiduously to propaganda.natural ansicites of a far-sightei The reported resignation of the rut regarding his future when Generalissimo, the fall of Nanhe teases to be a soldier and is king, stories of disanity in South discharged into civilian life. China-all these, if pursued, can

Up till last April' there were be traced to Japanese origins. 8,000 men trained each year at This is merely the beginning of Army vocational training centres a séries of scurrilous and sean-

and at Hounslow, Chiseldon dalous rumours that will, from Aldershot, of whom between time to time, be disseminated and 90 per cent. found inmediate from the Japanese propaganda employment; but those selected headquarters concerning China

for such training formed a mino- But the world will not be fooled rity among the men discharged by them, nor, we emphatically from the Service. It was assert, the, Chinese masses, who cordingly decided to extend the must now, with united effort, vocational training system more stick together and work whole widely and place all the centres heartedly in the common cause. under the Ministry of Labour. No story could have been in- who would take charge when vented better calculated to cause the men had left the Colours. more abject misery and despair This change, however, would in China and among all Chinese have placed the ex-soldiers in the Replying to a question whether the world over than the report of Rame category as other unemploy he was aware of the statement Marshal Chiang's resignation.ed men, and they would simply The Thirteenth Extra Race published in the Government-Its purpose, clearly, was to bring have received the ordinary un- Meeting will be held (weather controlled Italian press that Bri-discredit on the man who, as employment pay. The new mea. permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY tain Intends to annex the Azores guardian of China's" national sure, which is experimental, is a on Saturday, 18th December, Islands, now Portuguese territory,

Men will Mr. Eden said in Commons, "I am honour, refused to sell it or be

great improvement. 1937, commencing at 2.00 p.m.

aware of the publication of the bullied into parting with it now be trained for the last six statement, but I am confident it ineekly, and to tell the world months of their service and will will be everywhere appreciated and the Chinese people that their receive military emoluments, that no significance need be attached to fantastic statements- great hero had forsaken them in without oxhausting any potential of this kind because they are the hour of trial. The paycholo- unemployment benefits. entirely devoid of foundation. In gical effect of the story' in certain proves successful, 11.000 men my view, fabrications of this kind

to remain in some quarters and (instead of 3.000) n wear will be only do harm to people who make will not easily be eradicated.equinned to earn their living in

Friends of China must even now civilian life.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the above Society will be held at the Board Room of Messrs: Jardine, Mathe son & Co., Ltd. (by kind per. mission), on Tuesday, the 14th December, 1937, at 5.15 p.m.

J. T. BAGRAM,

Hon. Secretary." Hong Kong, 1st Dec., 1937.

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THE HONG KONG. JOCKEY CLUB.

The First Bell will be rung at

1.30 p.m.

By Order,

C. H. BROWN,

--Secretary.

Hong Kong, 13th Dec., 1937.

assistant secretary. Govern-

J. J.. Pope, Shanghai,

NO ANNEXATION OF AZORES

Mr. Eden Answers Italian Charge

them.". 5815) British Wireless

London, Dec. 13.

GOOD SPORT "The bridegroom, Robert Lee, is

indeed lucky in having her, as his

Life-partner. But he deserves his

good fortune. Those who know Robert Lee like him. He is good natured and obliging quiet and

Kong in

PHYSICAL DRILL INTEREST This is the first year in which we can report a really keen interest in the

Physical Drill classes. Credit for the improved attitude is due in part to the work of the Girl Guides. Here we may say a | word of hearty appreciation of the two Guide Captains, Mrs. Herklots and her successor when she went on leave, Mrs. Chaunt.

The children have been kept conscious of their duties in the matter of social service by frequent appeals for the poor both in Hong Kong and other parts of China. Their response to the appeal for material help is always generous

"

PROF. FORSTER'S SPEECH Addressing the gathering, Prot. Forster aald, in part:-

they are labouring under adverse

conditions of acid soils, soils devoid of all humus or vegetable matter, and a five to alx inch top sell worn

out by continuous tillage for 600 or 700 years. The farmers require proper guidance in how to yoke, and plough with two oxen to twice the depth that they can with one. turning up the new virgin soff to sunshine and use for the arst

time.

This new practice, together with and ploughing under growing altrogenous green manure crops, will add the lacking vegetable humus and double the field.

The Chinese fariner knows how to grow pigs, but he needs pure- bred boars to build up his small sized stock. Their sway-backs: and weak feet are indicative of in- breeding and lack of minerals in "their feed to give strength to their

bones.

Small poultry and small eggs are There is something to be said for

not a matter of feed, as Dr. Herk- the Chinese custom of ennobling lots suggested, but, again, the lack not the individual who has done for new improved blood, and of some great thing but his ancestors large breeds producing large eggs. seeing that he has inherited the Distribution of pure-bred cockerels ability from them. I am not sure would rectify this condition. As to that another large fraction of the difficulties concerning poultry feed, award ought not to go to the im- there are many new varieties of mediate parents and one's teachers grains from foreign lands which who have given the guidance and will produce poultry feed in both instruction that have led to £uc- | wet and dry seasons, and cost very Ceas.

little to produce, planted around the farm borders. The Chinese farmers need to be persuaded to use these grains.

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No nation has ever borrowed

of irrigation. In my journeyings in the New Territories I have no- ticed numerous locations where, at money for education. It is ex-

little cost, many small catchment traordinary that the noblest and the best constructive work in the

reservoirs could be built, adequate to conserve rain over the short world, that of education, should be to so large an extent dependent on dry season. Vegetables of one philanthropic effort,

the kind or another can be grown here, armament business which is pri-three-quarters or the year, where- martly concerned with producing as in northern climates they can the great weapons of destruction only be grown one-third of the should be so liberally financed.

year.. SIMPLE, RETREAT

Dr. Herklots, as a student of

while

FRIENDLY QUALITIES A great portion of the world's work does not need a high order

In areas where there is less than of intelligence, but every depart ment of Hre requires the best social one inch of rain in a year (not modest, and a 'good sport in every sense of the word. In the qualities. We have as teachers not

a month), vegetables are grown commercial world he holds a post-only to fill the head, but also to it throughout the year with the help tlon of responsibility. In the the heart. realm of sport be achieved the distinction of playing for Hong the Interport, Cricket match last year, applause. In public service he does his bit as a member of the Police Reserve. One of his outstanding traits is his readiness to oblige others.

young fellow like that is bound to get on. I foretell for him a bright future, as I foretell for him a life of conjugal bliss. At Christmas time we withdraw Ladles and gentlemen, I now ask you to drink with me to the into the quiet, simple, Christian re- these subjects, is doubtless aware health and happiness of Mr. and treat like this, where your teachers that, in all countries, it is an es- that vegetable Mrs. II it

Robert Lee." (Prolonged the sisters of this order have tablished fact applause).

created for you a world that has growing is the most remunerative Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee left little relation to the facts as they kind of agriculture. where it is ad-

jacent to large cities. Yours etc. later for the "Cheery "Ole," Sheung are, but certainly as they should

H. 8. REED, be, Bhul, where the honeymoon is being spent.

Hong Kong, December 14.

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