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Dated the 9th day of January, 1939.

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EDITORIAL

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1939.

CORRESPONDENCE/STUD POKER AN SINGAPORE BASE What Moral

RELIGION ON THE AIR]

J

ILLEGAL GAME

When Played For Money

Stud poker, played for money, is illegal. This was the decision of Lord Hewart and Mix. Justice Charles and Mr. King's Justice. Macnaghten in Bench Divisional Court recent- 17.

READY SOON

World's Strongest

Naval Fortress

Long" before the end of this year the new naval base at Selectar, on the Johore Strait

be ready at Singapore, wit

[To the Editor, "The Hongkong Daily Press"] Sir-What a marvellous inven- And what a tion the radio 15! privilege it is, to witness for Christ thereon! What a blessing it is, for the sick in hospital and those whe cannot get to Church, to hear ser-

to function at full capacity, vices broadcast! Pesonally, I and

The dockyard, the most modern the Daily Service for Feace at noon

in the world, will then be capable a. joy and uplift, and at times am

The Metropolitan Police appeal- maintaining and repairing a moved to tears. Surely the worlded against a finding of the Clerk-full-sized battle feet; the forti- needs more spiritual comfort and enwel magistrate (Mr. Walter Acations, probably the strong- co-operation, no matter what co-Hedley, K.C.), who had dismissed est ever bullt to protect a naval дл information against · Adelphi | citadel, will de complete to the AFTER ATATURK lour, what ckiss, or race we are.

The wireless Is a wonderful means Club. Ltd., of New Oxford-street. last gun, and the great air station

of W., and other people connected

which adjoins the base wil be of spreading God's Kingdom Love and Peace on Earth? Tenny with the club, alleging that the in active commission.

things said: "More

are premises had been kept for play- wrought by prayer than this worlding stud poker for money, in con- dreams

of Surely this proved travention of the Gaming Housea

Act. 1854. true in the European crisis.

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HONOTONG, JANUARY 1 1939.

IKELY TO BE of great-possibly the decisive-importance In threatening storm over the Bal-

kans is the fact that Ismet Incenu and not Trethi was named by the laté Kemal Ataturk as his succes- sor and adopted by the National Assembly as second President of

the Turkish Republic. ".

sor.

The world is so full of selfishness and false values. Let us get back

Mr. G. B. McClure (for the Com- missioner, when, arguing the case. to God and listen to Him more, said that that the magistrate had and to his ministers who are in-apparently held that, as skill pre spired. As the Rev. Higgs said in dominated, the game was lawful his address on Friday evening Mr. McClure contended, that that card sumclent, because

within a different

Two of the largest warships built or projected can already be docked as the same time, and "the yard workshops are equipped to undertake repairs of any descrip

tion.

the Western Pacifc.

Bad

Magazines, storage depots all tanks have been planned on HOW IMPORTANT that act may

a scale sufficient for the require be has become clearer by n

ments of any fleet likely to visit comprehensive report on the poll-auring this wilversal week of was not teal situation in Turkey, as it has player: "What of the Church in games came

If a sudden emergency arcse it death

of the category from games played with might be several weeks before a developed since the

of the home?" and "What Considerably summariz-church in schools and colleges?" automatic machines.

battle feet could reach Singa- Ataturk.

Christ His

The submission of Mr. R. N. fightful

pore." This accounts for the ed, the main points of this repors Do we give

place there? May He be the cen- Bibby-Trevor (for the club) was

tremendous strength of the de- mainspring of our lives that, although chance might enter fences and the lavish provision of SIX MONTHS betore

into the game when the cards were

all essential supplies. to enable Ataturk died, the right-wing at and homes?

And please may we hear more dealt. skill predominated

the fortress to withstand a siege the People's Party, which favoured

of indefinite duration. a very conservative domestic policy Services on the air, especially for use of those cards to the fullest ad-

the sick and those in trouble? It vantage. and a foreign policy based ex- clusively on the West, including is they who need our love and Germany. had been very active sympathy, in thought and action. we hear, the more religion pushing as their candidate for the The Presidency the Turkish Ambassa-mure may it enter in and bring dor in London. Trethi, and, in this, forth fruit to the Glory of God,

are as follow:

1 FOR

it is reported, had the support o the Prime Minister. Bayar, himself Strongly opposed to Treth and strongly in favour of Ismét were not only the more progressive elements in the People's Party but the majority of the Army

WHEN THEREFORE. It was re-

scales overwhelmingly against the favourites of the right. It became

tre and

A...

APPEAL ALLOWED

In the

The appeal was allowed. with costs, and the case was referred to

that, on the facts before the court, the magistrate with the directiom

been offence alleged had

Ithe GOODWILL Hongkong. Jan. 9, 1939.

the

"A.R.P. COURSE

;

proved.

ROYAL VISIT REPORT Little or no ceremony Will attend the

"commissioning" of the base, though it is reported locally that the Duke of Kent

Rearmament

Means To Me

BY BILL ROWELL

agitator.

An unemployed leader, a red hot revolutionary and lived in the East End of London. He was a champion of the cause of his fellow-workers, and thought that he could best serve them by fostering enmity between the classes... Yet with all his professed care for other men and his continuous wärfare in their interests, he was a very devil in his own home.

Bill Rowell here tells how he Jolied a new sort of revolution which revitalized his activities for the interests of his fellow-men and made a new home in his house.

made

Building A New Nation

At the age of 33, I look back on made peace at home, we were able the years and marvel that I am to make peace with the neighbours. no older. From quite an early age with the other party and the other I linked myself up with the strug- class

les of the unemployed. Even at

Suppose every man and wife

a time when I myself had a good were living on that basis, wouldn't that be an answer for crowded divorce courts?

went forward organising the are

work-

ers for the class struggle which I

about.

I

organise and

lead

felt sure would one day come Moral Rearmament starts first in the homies of the people where the family lives out a daily pro- helped many of the demonstrations that unselfishness; where the children gramme of absolute honesty and

adopt a pattern from their parents" Lives which enables them to go Jout into the world as ploneers of la new order of society. This can weeks. braving all the elements. happen: it has happened in my yet determined to win some con- cesalons at any cost. Too often we

feeling those

men

London has seen. ail the time for

and footsore hungry who marched sometimes for five

home, where the children used to

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met the police in battle, and those copy their mother and father and skirmishes always ended up with and quarrel. Instead of which the forces of Law and Order win- they now help one another

A nation's Arst line of defence may pay it a visit on his way toning the day, although thousands

of pounds worth of plate glass is the unity of its people. That Australia

window would often crash to the unity begins in the home and spreads trom the home to the na- ground in a single night.

One realises the force of class tion After twelve years fighting the naval works alene having hatred let loose. Not very long against unity, "I am now working cost £11,500,000. In the course as you can remember what hap a place which has seen violent Act, 1854, was "Jenks against of the work 5.000.000 tons opened in the East End when a racial and political discord for Turpin," decided by Justices Haw-soll have been dredged away and political party was given permis- years, to bring about the creative Jourkins and AL. Smith many years 10,000 yards of rock blasted. Guns slon to march along a certain unity or the people.

Lord Hewart, who delivered the unanimous decision of the court. said that the leading legal author- Ity on the meaning and effect of Section 4 of the Gaming Houses

[To the Editor. "The Hongkong Daily Preas"]

Sir.-May I through vealed that Ataturk, in his

courtesy advise those of your read- testament. had named Ismet as his

was baccarat. suceestor and had thus turned theers who are interested in Air Raid where the game in question Precautions that a course of in- In that cast Mr. Justice Hawkins "Unlawful games are struction will commence on Friday, had said: January 13. at the Headquarters of Ace of Hearts. Faro. Busset. Emergency Unit, Hongkong Hazard. Passage. Roulette, every Police Reserve, No. 20 Tee House game of dice except Backgammon. Street, at 5.30 p.m.

and every game of cards which is The course will consist of about not a game of mere skill." 15 lectures and demonstrations

"Whatever might be the degree given twice weekly on Tuesdays of still an experienced player at and Fridays, and an examination stud poker might acquire." Lord at its conclusion for certificates Hewart added, "that game, as des- As Air Raid Warden Instructor, or cribed in this case, must always as Alr Raid Warden. Those at-remain a game of chance and, in 2 LIKE ATATURK, Ismet is a de- tending will be required to. com the language of Mr. Justice Haw- termined and consistent supplete the course and to sit for the kins with reference to baccarat, it porter of that foreign policy which examination. has by now become traditional, a policy of friendship with Turkey's neighbours generally and, above all, with Soviet Russia In addi-ing Chinese will attend with a tion: Ismet is progressive in home

view to qualifying as Instructors, affairs and is known to be in favour of a far-reaching agricul- tural reform and a progressive de- mocratization of the Turkish Re public.

that obvious both

·ATATÜRK'S the Intrigues of the

WILL

had falled right HEREBY NOTICE IS

miserably and that GIVEN that the Certificate the crisis predicted by these latter 6/NS.4430 dated Hongkong, 18th | had been averted. In so far as both January, 1936 for Sixty shares Berlin and London were alleged to have backed Trethi, the election of of this Bank numbered 95407;

lemet represented an indirect blow 95466 inclusive registered in the to the designs of the Nazis. name of Mr. Vivian Geoffrey Smyth has been Lost or Stolen and should this certificate not be| produced to the Bank before the 14th January, 1939, a new certi ficate for the shares will be. Issued, and the aforesaid Certi ficate 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,

Chiel Manager.

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CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS

3 THE FACT that in the recon- structed Bayar Cabinet all the Ministers, with the exception of the Minister of the Interior, and the Foreign Minister, were retain- ed is, in this situation, of unusual significance. (These two Minis ters. Sukru Kaya and Rustu Aras. were piolent supporters of Treth! and are stated to have continued to canvass for him.even after the contents of Ataturk's will were re- realod. Moreover, Hustu, Aras, after Munich, openly declared that he saw eye to eye with

HEREBY GIVEN that Certificate No. 8768 dated Hongkong, 30th January, M. Stoyadinovitch

would be a perversion of words to

The course is oper. for men and say it was in any sense a game of women and it is especially hoped mère ski)." that a number of English-speak

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BANK DIRECTOR RESIGNS

India.

As accommodation is limited 1 shall be glad if those who wish to attend will notify me at once by The Chartered Bank of letter addressed to Police Reserve Australia and China announces Headquarters, No. 2 Police Station, that, Sir William Foot Mitchell, Wanchai.

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C. CHAMPKIN, --

D. 9. P. (8)

Hongkong, Jan. 9.

who has been a director since 1910, has decided, for reasons of health, to resign his position on the board.

West End Bridge Incident

May Have Sequel

A new contract bridge "battle" has broken out. Its origin is an incident in a match at a well-known London club in which two pro- minent players were concerned.

The base has taken 15 years build and represents. a capital Investment of about £20.000.000.

on exis- route. It is estimated that

over that Sunday

three-quar-

Lu

of the heaviest calibres in tence are mounted in camouflag- ed emplacements, and the anti-

ters of â million people block- aircraft defences AIA described

ed the entrance to that part of the city. As the police broke through as unique.

Until recently it would have the crowds they found barricades

had been Impossible

built to prevent the been Britain for

carts, heavy make her full weight of sea power march. Vans and felt in the Far East. owing to timber, paving stones, were used-

block the the absence of docks large enough to anything that could

women stood take the biggest warships. The Em-strets. Men and pise has therefore lived through fighting side by side determined

that they would not be beaten. a period during which its pori- tion in a vital strategic area was precarious.

That danger zone has now been passed. In Singapore we have a Portsmouth or a Rosyth at the 'gateway to the Pacife where henceforth the British Navy can formidable strength. operate in

if need be.

'Self-Raising Flour' Magnate Dies In Taxi

Millionaire Sir Robert McDoug `all, of "self-raising dour”” fame, died in a taxicab at Euston Station. re- cently.

He had halled it at Ave minutes past five at the Mansion House, apparently to catch the 8.10 train home to Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.

When the cab drew into the Station a porter opened the door. saw Sir Robert slumped in the cor- ner. He tapped him on the should-

The controversy concerns bridge "conventions," which are de- signed to indicate during the bidding possession of certain higher, sald "Here you are, sir." cards in the building up of a slam declaration. The issue which has arisen is this:

match"

and EXIT favoured a pro-Axis for- RUSTU 1924 for---392-shares of this eign policy. With Kaya, ARAS

"numbered Company,

181285/ Ismet disagreed on ques 181676 inclusive, registered in tions of land reform and the free- dom of the press. Indeed, it was

Ought a player, having departed under the convention for a call of the name of Lee Hysan (dec'd)

the opposition of these two which from a previously-agreed conven- four no trumps and Colonel Waistic has been Lost or Destroyed, and

tion, to make this known to his apologised to his partner for the was alleged to be mainly respon-

slip, saying it had probably cost should this certificate not be pro-sible for Ismet's resignation from opponents if asked?

As to the point duced to the Company before the the Prime Ministership a little over Playing as opponents in a "dup- them the match.

year previous).

licate

were Mr. Edward raised. by his opponent it was his 30th January 1939, a new certi®

Mayer.

the "International player, view that he was entitled to violate cate for the shares will be IT IS UNLIKELY, therefore, that.

and Colonel G. J: J. Walshe, the a convention, but as this call was issued, and the aforesaid Certli. as things stand at the present,

well-known writer on the game, a pure alip the question of who was cate, No. 8768 will be thereafter either the Germans or the British

Without mentioning his oppon- members of the Portland Club. In- treated by this Company as Nullll be able to change Turkey's and one of the most prominent misled never entered his mind.

foreign policy to any appreciable cidentally, it was a match without ent's name Colonel Walshe refer- and Vold

extent, especially, so far as her

red the point of principle involved stakes. friendship with Soviet Russia is

to the Card Committee of the concerned. And it is just this Colonel Walshe and his partner Portland Club, which decreed friendship between the two post-bid up to a small slam in spadet about a year ago that a player is war Republies which may even-In an auction in which one of entitled to depart from a conven- tually wreck many, if not all, of them had called four and the other tion so long as his partner is as Germany's designs in the Near five no trumps. After the bidding likely as his opponent to draw Mr. Mayer asked Colonel Walshe whether, he was playing the Four- Five No Trump convention.

By Order of the Board

of Directors,

J. C, GUTERRES,

Secretary

What do

you want?

It there

Anything

you want to buy or soll, try

6 East.

CROWN LAND SALE

New Kowloon Laland Lot No.

2049, which was put up for auction at the Crown Land sale yesterday. was purchased by Mr. A. V. Alvares,

on behalf of Mrs. Leung Sul-chi, of French Bank Building, $0.075.

for

25 words $1.00 prepaid sau chuk Yuen Road, Kowloon

for 3 insertions.

The lot. which is situated at

City, has an area of 18,150 square feet.

wrong deductions.

Now it is understood that the Club has justified Colonel Walshe's point of view.

There was no reply. He waited a moment, tapped him again on the shoulder, and on the leg.

Then the porter noticed the pul

lor of Sir Robert's face and called a policeman. The officer got into the cab and drove with him to the

Temperance Hospital.

National Hampstead..

Sir Robert had not uttered a word, either to the porter or to the policeman. At the hos- pital the doctors found he was dead.

.-་་ - - Sir Robert was sixty-seven years old. He was

WORLD WAS WRONG

I felt all my life that the - world was wrong. I felt it was wrong that in a world where we had mastered the art of production there should be men, women and chldren liv- ing in a state of destitution, that over six million people should be living on a basic level of less than 4/- a week and four million on less than 8/2 T

Those things week. made me a revolutionary, and I am still a revolutionary, de- termined to give every hour of my life to bring about a new. world order.

POLITICAL QUARREL Take our town council, for Instance. At one time, every meeting was cluttered up with conflicts which, sprang more from

personal antagonisms than differences of policy. One or the leading councillors had not spoken to the Mayor for twenty years because of a poli- tical quarrel, and of course he always opposed any measure the Mayor brought forward, the good or bad.

Then one day he began applying this principle of Moral Rearma- ment. He apologised to the Mayor, and they have become the best of {fitends, "Already there are fourteen.

from eguncillors. drawn

every party, who meet before every coun- cil meeting to consider unitedly what their policy should be in the light of Moral Rearmament.

The Deputy Mayor says the Jeffect is that they get home from ithe Council meetings at nine Jo'clock instead of half-past elevern

Instead of spending hall the night attacking one another, they get down to the job they were elected But two years ago I began to to do in a spirit of goodwill and sec a greater revolution. I found confidence in each other.

in Moral Pearmament a pro-

gramme. of action which went Only the other day my next right down to the hearts of people door neighbour, sald; "Now we've and suived the social problems at started Moral Rearmament, Bill, their source. Instead of fighting there's no need for a fence between poople, it meant fighting the sel-lour back gardens. Good neighbours" fishness in everyone, which is the ¡don't need anything to keep them root cause of every social and spárt." So we took down the Tence. economic evil, I had been up in Here you can see the simple arms against the selfishness I saw philosophy of this man as the in society; but the challenge of answer to world problems. Suppos- Moral Rearmament showed me ing the nations of Europe could vas as selfish myself,

say they had no need of frontiers,

I discovered that, although I was that they were living in a family the a democrat in public life, scorning relationship: how much of everything that savoured of fear which dominates these coun- dictatorship.

dictator

The

yet I was

A tries

would be removed! in my OWNL home. I wealth spent on maintaining a war compelled my children to grow up machine would be released for as atheists. I went when and giving constrictive work to the away where I liked, and I looked on my unemployed, for clearing wife as the

the slums, creating new industries. mother of my children, dictating

housekeeper,

to her what I wanted her to do.

SOMETHING DIFFERENT

That is what we are fighting for

I can't help thinking of the peace platforms I have spoken on, now in the East End of London. one of the best-telling the nations how to live to Every day the postman on our known public figures in Lanca-gether and yet going back to a round drops in to plan with me

shire.

He had given land in Dovedale,

continuous war in my own home. how to carry the battle forward; This kind of thing is largely re- a burly, fighting milkman, who in the Peak District of Derbyshiresponsible for the tragedies we see was always ready for a scrap, is as the nucleus of a national park. in the world to-day, and has got fighting for something different £20,000 to the Quakers for allot- to be cleared up. ments for the unemployed, £15,000 towards the cost of saving the ex-

perimental delds of Rothamsted Agricultural Station, Hertfordshire.

The Colonel said "Yes," and the hand was played. In fact, Mr.

CHALLENGE TO POWERS Mayer's opening lead enabled, the

Mr. Mayer states that he has not contract to be broken by one trick seen either the decision or the doubled and vulnerable. But Mr. statement of facts on which it was, Colonel Walshe's part arises: The Mayer held, that his opponent based.

question is one of principle in ought to have qualified the true

Mr. Mayer feels strongly on the which each party to the dispute statement that he was playing in subject, and is considering means belleves he is right.

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LOVE SPRANG UP

Morat Rearmament meant for me that after twelve years of married life I suddenly dis- covered I'd got a new wife and family. I gave up being a dictator, and immediately new love sprang up between us. As war went out of the home, nitterness went out of public

life.

he

now; a veteran revolutionary who was an agitator in the dock yards for 47 years has started a new con- structive programme, which 'puts this way: "God must be re- stored to leadership; that's the only way to build a new social Jorder."

In this task every man and every woman has a part, There is a con- struotive Job of work for every the match the convention by re-by which the right of the Portland Colonel Walshe has recognised.

unemployed man and every Worker, vealing that in this particular Club to legislate on matters per- that his bid was due to a slip.

indenting the war to end the Ken, our boy aged ten, said one selfishness, the greed and the fear taining to bridge may be challeng-Ought he to have revealed the jed.

fact? That is an intriguing quès- day; "You can't stop war in the which create war and unemploy- It is emphasised that no question of interest to all bridge play-world until you stop war in the frient. Our destiny is to unite in not contain the cards requisite tion of any lack of integrity on ers, u

home," He was right. When we building a new nation.

hand he had departed from it.

APOLOGY FOR SLIP

The hand of Colonel Walshe did'|