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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. The Bail Bress.]

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NOTICE.

It is hereby dotified that the following fiences and permits are due for renewal on the January, 1939-

Rickshaw

(1) Private

J;

Driver Licences.

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate 6/NS.4430 dated Hongkong, 18th January, 1926 for Sixty shares of this Bank numbered 95407/ |95466 inclusive registered in the ind name of Mr. Vivian Geoffrey Smyth has been Lost or Stolen.

1st

(2) Private Chair and Driver and should this certificate not be

Licences. (3) Tricycle

Licences. (4) Public

Licences.

and

Driver

Motor Vehicle

(5) Motor Vehicle Permits. Before relicencing tricycles

must be taken for inspection to

No. 2, Police Station, Wanchal, or Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station, Kowloon, between the hours of 10 am. and 12 noon between January 3rd and January 24th, 1939.

(84) T. H. KING, Commissioner of Police.

31st December, 1938. Hong Kong.

NOTICE.

ARMS LICENCES.

produced to the Bank before the 14th January, 1939, a new certi. ficate for the shares will be Issued, and the aforesaid Certi Ecate No. 6/NS.4430 will be thereafter treated by this Cor poration as Null and Vold,

By Order of the Court of Directors,

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager.

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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE,

School

STANLEY,

"The New Term for the Middle and the Preparatory 206 School begins Jan. 3rd. En

trance Examination on Jan. 2nd at 9 a.m. For Prospectus apply to... Fung Man Sul, Esq., or Chan Lim Pak, Esq., Messrs. H. Wicking, Prince's Buliding, (Tel. 30241), or to the College.

Holders of Arms Licences are reminded that Arms Licences 1st are due for renewal On January, 1939 (Fce $10.00 per licence), Licensees should call at the Accounts Office, Police Headquarters between the hours p.m. daily of 9 a.m. and 1 (Sundays and Public Holidays

excepted), with their licences.

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T. H. KING,

LOST

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BETWEEN Peninsula Hotel, Mid- die Road, and Star Ferry, 'on Friday, 23rd midday. Lady's striped silk sash with bow at- Reward. If returned. tached.

Write Box No. 2071 va "Họng.

kong Dally Press."

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Commissioner of Police. PRESIDENT NOT

31.12.38.

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IN THE SUPREME

COURT OF HONG KONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION..

of

TO CUT DOWN CHERRY TREES

報西剿

Editorial and Business Office: 15-19, Queen's Road Central, Tel 30251.

Night Editor (Wanchai Omice):

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HONGKONG, LEMAR 31, 1938.

EDITORIAL

CORRESPONDENCE | Obituary

New Italian Radio Transmission

[To the Editor, "The Hongkong

Dally Prods")..

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Dear Sir, I shall feel much obliged if you will kindly bring to the notice of your readers the following information:

In The Year 1938

ROYALTY

HRH Prince Arthur of Con- naught: Grand Duke Cyril of Rus sin; Prince Fanz I of Liechtens- sein: Queen" Maud of Norway:

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1938.

Personalities

WORK FOR

REFUGEES

IN CANTON

Financial Side

Of Situation“.

In The News In 1938

01

Earl Beatty, handsome son

Al- the late Earl Beatty, had an most miraculous recovery after a

Te-

The work of the Canton Re-horse rolled on him.

to Evangeline Booth, due to tie from General of the Salvation the Army, sald. *I'll take another concluding portion of the report: Hit-year,"

committee The members of the

Mr. Winston Churchill felt very Lord Ashburton; M. Alexander are Dr. J. M. Henry (chairman), badly about it all, and said so. Hit

Rev G. F. Allen (Hon. Secretary then felt badly about

Averescu:

PERSONAGES

Chur-

London Office: 53. Fleet Street | "Beginning from the 1st of Prince Nicholas of Greece tfather fugce Areas Committee is contain-

January, 1939, the programme for of the "Duchess of Kent); Queened in an interesting report the Far East which are now trans-Marie of Roumania.; Prince of hand and below we publish mitted daily from 11 am to 1.30 Pless p.m. tallan time) by the Station 2 RO on a wavelength of 25.40 m. will also be transmitted daily at LOOKING BACK

the same time by the new Imperial HE YEAR 1938 has but a few Radio centre on a wavelength of

18.83 m. (17,820 ka/s.). hours before Father Time her-

The programme, for the Middle alds the birth of the year one thou and Near East which are trans- sand nine hundred and thirty-nine mitted daily by station 2 RO on and between now and midnight we the same wavelength from 4 p.m. survey the dying year in Küspet and bring to mind events that! to 5.15 p.m. (Italian time) will have made history. Taken on the also be transmitted at the same time by the Imperial Radio Centre whole, 1938 has been a dismal year on a wavelength of 19.61 m. (15,300 and it is an unhappy thought, but xc/s.). nevertheless true, that we enter The Italian Consulate General upon a new year with the peace will be pleased to receive informa- of Euripe still in the balance, the tion and suggestions on the re- civil war in Spain stili.raging, the cention of this new transmission. Sino-Japanese hostilles heading

Thanking you in advance. I re-

Sir Charles Bathe, Bart; Lilian and Treasurer), Rev, N. V. Hal- chill, and said 30.

ward, M.C. (Recording Secretary), Flying Officer' Clouston and Vic- Baylis, C.H: Admiral Sir Lewis Bishop Fourquet, Col. Rolfe, Drtor Ricketts flew from England to in less Bayly: Mr. R.W. Bingham (U.S. W. W. Cadbury. Dr. A. J. Fisher New Zealand and back

the than 11 days. It was

first Ambassador in London); Sir Ja-and Fr. McDonald

and direct trip to New Zealand gadis se; Sir Harcourt Butler:

back.

for a seemingly endless confiffet.main. unrest in Palestine and tension between Japan and Soviet Russia. BUT THE YEAR which to-morrow

will be no more has not been without its outstanding events.

mours

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Yours faithfully,

G. PAGANO DI MELITO

R. Italian Consul General

AND NEEDLES

Cyril

dur

necessary, Mr. W. Duff-Cooper, First Lord

of the Admiralty, resigned.

The report states:- Str Feodor Chaliapin';

Our plans are to keep on Camps as long as is Cobb, M.P.: Sir James Crichton- Browne; St. Thomas' Callender;

Gabrielle D'Annunzio; Sir Ed-but to encourage people to return

Capt. GET. Eyston drove at ward Beninam; Duke of Devonshire: to their homes as soon as it

possible. We cannot enlarge our 357 miles per hour in his car. Sir Lewis Dibdin;

Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Se M. de Fleurlau: Sir Johnston camps very much on the available

February. foreign property. We therefore cretary resigned in Forbes-Robertson:

United further Relief Visited the

States in Lord Gisborough; Sir Hyde plan to open up Gowan: FL Griggs, R.A.; Lord Werk Centres wherever It seems December. Hawke (Presiden: of the M.C.C.) most needed. Lord Harlech:

Capt. Adrian Jones:

F.B. Kellogg: Lord Kensington Sir Stephen Klik (ex-Lord Mayor of London): Sir Truby King;

Anton Lang P. de

Laszlo:

Rt. Hon. J. Ramsay MacDonald, MP.: Aylmer Maude: Marquis of Bertrain Milford Haven; Capt.

Milis:

7.

distribu-

tich of the Refugee Committee.

"I the

population mainly stay in the country, then we organizing relief work in the main centres late which they have fled.

>>

Miss Gracie Fields sang her way

of

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If the population begins to re-to a C.BE. But Miss Fields WA turn we shall invite the various companion of the British Em; - Churches to open up centres for Dire long before that.

Viscount Gort, V.C., M.C., D.S.Q.. cheap feeding and for

become Chief of the Imperial tion of clothing in the city.

General Staff. We shall assist in such work

Lord Halifax, took Mr. Eden's through the funds and organiza-mantle at the Foreign Office.

the Lord Hawke, President

Yorkshire M.C.C.. and ruler of cricket for half a century, died.

Walter R. Hammond proved an Sir Henry Newbolt:

the able English skipper Maharajan of Patiala; Sultan of

"honours even" Test rubber with Perak: Lord and Lady Plunket;

Anancial side. | Australia. He is at present cap- Maurice Ravel'; Sir Landon | Now about the

Before the Government left, they tain of the M.C.C. team touring Ronald;

Eugenie Schumann; Lt-Col Str gave our Committee National Cur- South Africa,

back Captain R.B. Irving won Hon Seymour; Rt.

rency $50,000 for refugee work. Reginald Thomas Shaw: Sir John Snell; We used a large part of this to the Blue Riband for the Queen

of rice. Mary. D.G. Somerville, MP: Lord Stanley cover our first purchase

John, Augustus which has

R.A., rocked Secretary of State for Dominions); and fuel. This sum,

because they Countess of Strathmore (mother come from the Chinese side, en-the art world, resigning from the

abled us to Carry through the Royal Academy. of Queen Elizabeth);

Conway Tearle; Sir Richard Ter-arst emergency with our refugee would not take a friend's picture.

Mr. Geoffrey

Under- Lloyd, camps. It may last for the ex-

be- pense of the camps till the end Secretary for Home Affairs,

ca.ne A.R.P, chief. of the year.

Bertram Mills died, but not be- circus fore he had restored the to its place in English life.

Miss Iahbel MacDonald married a village painter.

The hostilities between China APPEAL FOR WOOL Suzanne Lenglen; F.V. Lucas; and Japan, which broke out on July 7, 1937, have developed into a maior event in the history of the The Emergency Refugee Council world. Though Canton and has arranged to give instruction Hankow have fallen during the in knitting to groups of women in. Chinese resistance is as each of the Government Camps, year, strong as ever and is being pursued, says "Central Newa”

The Council would be very grate- daily with renewed vizur. Ru-

mediation have been ful for gifts of wool and needles. categorically dented by the Chinese Even the smallest ball of wool. left and, following the statement of over in the family basket, and the .Japanese Prime Minister, particularly that suitable for Prince Konoye, on December 22, in babies, is acceptable. which he outlined Japan's policy. Gifts are to be sent to: China's resistance is even more c/o The Clerk, St. John's Cathe- Cetermined than ever as China wilf dral Hall, Hongkong: c/o T. M. never be subjugated by Japan. Fol-C. A.. Salisbury Road, Kowloon; or lowing Japanese occupation of c/o The French Convent. Cause- Canton the war was brought to way Bay, Hongkong. the doorsteps of Hongkong and with it the grim reallation of the suffering and poverty caused among thousands of refugees who under now given shelter are British protection. The charitable i organizatichs in Hongkong are doing a great work. AFTER AUSTRIA was proclaimed part of the German Reich on March 12, Czechoslovakia became the storm-centre of Europe in 1938 and in this European situation

NEW YEAR'S EVE

L

AT GLOUCESTER

ry;

Dr. "W. W. Vaughan; M. Emile Vandervelde;

Lerd Warrington; Filson Young, “

CHURCH

A large fund has been raised Hongkong. The greater part of this fund has been spent on a came through rellet" ship which

Archbishop of Armagh; Rev, C.W. The New Year's Eve dance „at the Gloucester Hotel to-night pro-

Gordon, Bishop of Jarrow; Canon with supplies last month. It has mises to be an even more success. "Dick" Sheppard; Bishop Taylor beer, immensely dificult, to ful affair than the Christmas Eve-Smith; Bishop of Wakefield; Rev, things locally. and still

Dr. Dinsdale T. Young. [functies,

محمد

Rise,vations already received indicate a capacity crowd and it is learned that Queenie and David and their Hawal'an entertainers, critical as in the fateful days of together with. Langhoff and Corry.

with have su prises in store

which in September became

Washington Comedy August. 1914, one recalls

President Roosevelt intervened recently just in time to prevent a legend arising that he, like George Washington, was a destroyer of cherry trees.

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admiration and thankfulness the

vellers.

for re-

"See the New Year in at the

watchword of local holiday makers Gloucester" appears to be the

AIR MAILS

swift resolve of the British Prima Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who undertook the sole of flying ambassador of peace to meet Herr Hitler face to face and bring about a four-Power settlement at Munici that saved the world from disaster,

Jeferson, leaders of the four great Power third President of the United States Britain, France, Baly and Ger- which was due this afternoon will Worthing in the County of and founder of the Democratic many-met in Munich, a truly rest arrive at Kal Tak at 5 pm, on

The Air France plane left Kal

ESTATE IN THE

A newspiper campaign has been HUGH FLETCHER raging in Washington for some CARMICHAEL, ·late: of time to prevent the building of a It was on September 29 that the Tax this morning for Hanol. ** Ardshea!,"

A plane of Imperlaj Airways Broadwater,

Sussex, England, deceased.

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, 1938.

memorial to Thomas

REPLACED ELSEWHERE The number of trees which would have to be moved was pre- cisely 88. he said, and they would' all be replaced elsewhere. He the addition of 1,200 favoured cherry trees near the area where

of success. -

CON-

t

Sunday. The return service south

MAJESTIC THEATRE

VOLUNTEER ORDERS

"J

(Orders by Lt. Col. H. B. Rose, M.C.

- Commandant, Hongkong

Volunteer D.C.) PROMOTION

+

Extract from "Government Ga- zette" No. 60 dated 21.12.28.

"No. 097 His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-

buy

more

diffeuls to transport them if Can and them.

We

Vis- Lord Nuffield became count, and' nearly a Ednapper's dream. He also gave plenty more money away.

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We therefore appealed to AL ship Hongkong, to get through with the suppiles of which we were most in need; and we

are deeply grateful The for the ald they rave. Japanese have allowed this ship to come through with very little difficulty. There however, no sigas yet when they will open the River for general transport. We now look to the remaining.

are

Mr. F.W. Ogilvie took over the plum job at the B.B.C. in place

who of Sir John Reth

became Chairman of Imperial Airways.

Lord Runciman had the year's most difficult job, and the most thankless, in Czechoslovakia,

Promenade Bir Henry Wood, Concert boss, celebrated his jubilee as a conductor.

Frank E Woolley, Kent and |England cricketer retired, and is

how coach at

prove the following promotion in winter months; and we feel we Mr. E. Cock, chief manager of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence have an immensely strong claim the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Corps, with effect from December for help from foreign sources:

PARADES

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A New Year's Eve party will be held at the United Services Re- creation Club to-night,

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members of the Amateur Dramatic

1, 1928-Captain Lindsay Tasman we have carried through for the Co. Ltd., together with Mrs. Cock, Ride, MA. M.B, MRCS, L.R.CF.. arst six weeks of the crisis with returned to the Calony yesterday

by the Empress of Japan. party, on the grounds that it in-letter day in modern history.

to be Major. December 22, 1938."

funds from local sources. vowed the destruction of many TURNING TO SPAIN, the year ends departs on Tuesday morning, with

COMMAND

These may last fdr another

few nail and passengers. with Gen. Franco launching an-

Captain F. Flippance took over weeks. After that, there will be NOTICE is hereby given that hundreds of Japanese cherry trees,

The Pan, American Airways' a gift from the city of Tokyo some

other big offensivé.“All through the

the the Court bas by virtue of

20 years ago.

year the conflict in Spain has China Clipper will arrive in Hong-permanent command of the Army the immense population of

The Service Corps Company with effect city destitute, for the rest of the Section 58, of the Probate Or.

Mr. Roosevelt Insisted that he wavered between the Government; kong on Sunday at noon.

Winter, either in the City or in

Commander C. D. Leffler, Jr., dinance 1897, made an Order liked trees as much as the next and the insurgents with little return service leaves at approxi from December 23. 1938.

HOLIDAY

the delta area..

U.S.N., arrived from Shanghai in limiting the time for credl- man, but he also approved of

Corps Headquarters will be

All the main stores and the the Empresa of Japan yesterday was one more suggestion of media.

closed on Monday, January 2, 1938, business and shopping area in the morning. He will reside with his tors and others to send in their Jefferson's memory befig honoured, advantage to either side. There!mately 8.30 a.m. on Monday.

The newspaper campaign the de- tion when Italy withdrew 10,000 claims against the above estate scribed bluntly as "the biggest volunteers in October. The Non-

CORPS DIARY—AMENDMENTS town are burnt up There can family in the Peninsula Hotel and to the 29th day of January, plece of flam-fam" he had wit-Intervention Committee, Is

SHOWINGS-

Page 11-February 5 add "Ken-be no hope of much further sup-return to duty next week.

1939.

ressed for a long time,

linuing its efforts to prevent ex- The times for the daily showings nedy Road Range, M.G. Pt. -No. port from the Chinese side here.

4 M.G. Company.

We must look: toʻald from abroad MÄ J. Weston, son of Captain tension of the war but has met at the Majestic Theatre for to-day,

Page 11-February 26 add "Peak for further help with the desti-W. C. Weston, in the Marine De-

the Range--Table A-No. 4 M.G. Coy."tution which invasion" has partment, arrived from Australia with perhaps only a small degree Sunday and Monday are as fol- lows:-2.30 pm, 5 p.m. 7.20 pm.

Page 12-March 5 add "Peak caused. We have received a grant via the Imperial Airways plane fan, 9.43 p.m.

Range Table A-No. 4 M.G. Coy." of U.S.$25,000 from America, and yesterday morning."

Page 12-March 19 add "Peak we are asking the Lord Mayor's ]'. Range Table A-No. 4 M.G., C0y." | Fund to give us their assistance. In the beginning of February, Until this autumn, we felt in Club will present a mystery play 'Right Section-Thursday, Jan. Canton that despite our constant entitled "I Kuled The Count, m raids, the suffering here was the China Flest Club Theatre, Mr. small' 'compared with the war

J. Robertson, the director, has commenced rehearsing for the we are asking the Lord Mayor's

performance. Signal Section:-Friday. Jan. 6, Fund. and, these had been used for reller work' after the air raids

Mr. F. N. Matthews, of Messrs., and for helping in the equipment Lowe. Bingha & Matthews, char- Armoured Car Section Friday, January 6. H.Q. 5.30 p.m. of Hospitals. Now we have be- tered accountants of Shanghai, Driving instruction and crew drill. come one of the main areas where and Mrs. Matthews arrived here

Motor Machine Gun Platoon help is needed.

help is

yesterday in the Empress of Japan. Friday, January 6, 5.30 p.m. Re-

There will be very serious dis- volver Drill

tress for many months, before George Bellett, one of No. 7 M.G. Company

there can come any revival of Shanghai's leading American law- Monday, January 9, H.Q. 5.30 trade and of general prosperity.yers, who was formerly US. Db- We shall need all we have received trict Attorney for China, arrived .m. See Company circular.

No. 4 M.G. Company

and a very great deal more, If we in Hongkong yesterday in the Em- Sunday, January 8, Stonecutters, are to help the people in town press of Japan. M.G. Part II No. 13 Platoon and country to return again tola Launch leaves Queen's Fler at 8.30 the place where they can earn.: a.m. and Kowloon Police Flex, at their own livelihood and rebuild

their homes. 8.45 am. Dress: Optional.

WILKINSON & GRIST, Solicitors for the Executrix,

2, Queen's Road Central. Hong xung,

NOTICE

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the original trees were planted, Sore 50 trees aled each year and were replaced in any case,

1st Battery

THE UNREST in Palestine during the year has engaged the attention

"SENT TO SESSIONS of the British Government and in October many more British troop Tang Kwong-sing, 34. Ng Hips. were despatched to deal with the 30, and. Chan Chau, 55, appeared situation The rejection by the Bri-before Mr. E. Himsworth at the 14sh Government of partition as a Kowloon Court yesterday, when, at 12, Belchers. Mr. Roosevelt added, half laughsolution for the Palestine problem the conclusion of proceedings on a ing, a warning that if any of the announced on November charge of receiving 330 cucks, all women who had formed themselves 9, 1938, in a statement published three were committed to the next into & Cherry Tree Defence copied in a White Paper with the report Criminal Sessions. The ducks were the old-time suffragett3s, as they by the Palestine Partition Commis-the property of a dealer, named H.Q. 5.30 p.m.

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had threatened, by chaining them-slon, Partition, it was declared, was selves. to the trees, then the trees found to be not practicable. » A and the women would be removed round-table conference has been together and work on the Jefferson suggested to meet in London early

in the New Year. memorial wel "continue.

The undersigned, Lee Cheung Loong, teak wood shop, No. 42,

With a view to Improving the Belchers Street, West Point, intelligence service in Szechuen begs to announce that the share province, the Ministry of Com- presently held by Fung Chi Yee munications and the Air Defence Headquarters of Ezechuen, are Tong will be bought over by, proposing to install a network of and transferred into the name of. telephones throughout the varions Lee Cheung Loong on 3rd Jan., | villages and towns at a cost of 1939, after, which date the con». $1,500,000,

Let Yung.

COMPLAINANT 'ABSENT; SUMMONS "DISMISSED The summons against Heut. B. THE FISHERIES DISPUTE be D. Carbett, of Whitfield Barracks, tween Soviet Russia and Japan ja for speeding in Queen's Road be causing tension and negotiations December 20, was dismissed by Mr. between the two countries thus far R, A. D. Forrest at the Central have reached a deadlock.

Court yesterday owing to the ab- sence of the complainant,

BUT THERE IS ALWAYS the

brighter side to every picture and in this connexion one notes with much satisfaction the signing of the Trade Pact between Great Britain solutions in pursuit of that lasting and the United States in Washing-peace which surely must be lore- ton on November 17, 1938. It is nt most in, the hearts and minds of achievement which opens up the every individual Hving on the face nection between Fang Chi Yee Mr. Yen Yu-taung, dean of the path to world-wide benefits, and of this earth. Let us enter upon ong and Lee Cheung Loong szechuen Air Force Academy, has has great potentialites for world the New Year with renewed deter- mination and vigour to face the been appointed Deputy Comman-peace and prosperity.

PEACE IS THE HOPE of the whole realitics of life and to be at peace der of the Bzechuan Air Defence Headquarters. He ajzumed his new world and may 1939 bring with it with our neighbours and with one dufles on November 26

new ideals, new hopes and new re- another.

*

1. be entirely severéd,

YLEE CHEUNG LOONG.

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Left Section.-Friday, Jan. 6,

Belchers, 5.45 p.m. Dress-Overalls, of US$25,000 from America, and S.D. cap, gun platform shoes.

B.O.D.C.-Construction. Section Thursday, January 5, HQ. 5.30 Practical work on testing electrical circuits.

p.m.

S. F. HEDOCOE, Major. ***Adjutant, HKV.D.C. AFFILIATED UNIT. Nursing Detachment, HK.V.D.C.

The next lecture on First Aid will

be given by Professor L. T. Ride at the P.W.D. Ofices on Friday, Jan. -6. 1939′at 5.30 p.m. (

((8gd.): MPS, EM. BEGG,

Commandant, Nursing: Detachment, H.K.V.D.C.

་་

Captain A. J. Holland, Marine. Superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company -ar- - rived yesterday in the Empress of Japan from Vancouver accompani- ed by Mrs. Holland,"

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Mr. A. J. Rinke, of the Goodyear **Rubber Co., accompanied by Mrs. Hinke, arrived in the Empress, of Japan yesterday. They are en route to the Dutch East Indies,

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