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Extended Equipment In Science Laboratories

"We have not yet had any specifle answer to our appeal for $100,000 to meet the cast and new and extended equipment In the Science Laboratories, but we still believe that there are

generous people interested in the study and extension of selence who will help us to this end," declared Mr. D. J, SLOSS, C. B. E., M. A., Vice- Chancellor of the University of Hongkong at the 36th Congregation. | held in the Great Hall last night in the presence of a large and distinguished gathering.

In his address, Mr. Sloss said. in part:-

BIG SWEEP

Over 250,000 tickets have been sold in the big cash sweep

for the coming Race Meeting. The first prize will therefore be over $100,000.

• CAIRO'S PROPHET SAYS

VICTORY EARLY

IN 1942

་

The prophet astrologer Moham

31.-1941

SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1941.

FOREIGN MAILS

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 31st MAY, 1941.

GENERAL HOLIDAY

On Monday, 2nd June, the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Sheung wan Branch Post Office will be open from B a.m. to 9 a.m, and the other Branch Post Ofees will be entirely closed.

There will be one collection from the pillar boxes as on Sun- days, one delivery of registered and "ordinary correspondence at 10

3.m.

There will also be one delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11 am, from the Branth Post Offices at Stanley, Talpo and Un Long.

The Money Order Office will be entirely closed,

ed el Hariri, whose war predic An experimental service providing sea transit to U.S.A. and air - tions, including the fall of Ben-transit from U.S.A. to Lisbon and United Kingdom has been institat

hazi, the rout of France and Italy's ed. The inclusive postage rate la H. K. 52.00 per os, for letters

war, have made entry into the

and H. K. $1.00 each for postcards. Correspondence for this ser- bim famous throughout the Nearvice should bear the usual blue air mail label with the superscrip- East has just Issued these further than "By sea to U.S.A." prophecies for the next few

stil months:

His Excellency the Governor and revolt against this emasculation Chancellor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, of learning took place in England K. C. M. G., conferred degrees of at the instance of Pope Gregory M. A., B. Sc. (Engineering). B. A the Great, himself an Engilshman, and B. Sc.. severally on 59 gra- and was the work of the Venerable duates.

Bede, Alcuin and their followers.

VITALLY ACTIVE

"That rebel Impulse Speaking in the name of the vitally, active in all the univer- whole University I offer Yoursities of today which are worthy Excellency a very hearty welcome of the title." His Excellency con to this first Congregation after tinued. "That my own is known your return from England,

to its rivals as the home of lost War conditions have made de- causes' is a source of pride to us: mands on the activities of most for all attempts at reform

not of the senior staff of the Univer-succeed, and at any rate we be- sity, yet developments of our work leve that 'tis better to have fought have not been unimportant. The and lost than never to have fought Government has found itself able at all.

to increase its grant to the Wal- "But for us here in Hongkong versity in the current year by a the clearest evidence on this point sum of $100,000,

will be what happened in China Two developments have heed when the Empire was overthrown. Initiated. First, we can point to, Never before, I suppose, has there a new Science Bullding, approach-been so great an upspringing of ing structural completion. The universities in so short a time as that which followed immediately upon that nation-wide rejection of the effete, and obsolete.

work could not have been under taken had it not been for the generous accommodation given us

Bank,

by the Hongkong and Shanghai As universities - increase. in Second, the Council and numbers and influence the more the Court, recognising the great; do public affairs. and public | need for specialised teaching in interests come within the con- Tropical Medicine and Public trol of men and women who Health, have sanctioned the in-have graduated at them: and to auguration, from the beginning of my mind it is a matter of immense the next academic year, of a post-advantage to the community that graduate diploma course.

£1,000 GRANT

those graduates should enter upon their duties with the self-reliance, the breadth of vision and the balance or mind which life at an university imparts.

The Rhodes Trustees have made a grant of £1,000 to enable us, during the next five years, to send two graduates of this Uni-

NR LIBERALLY SPENT versity to Oxford for post-graduate "And from that it follows that studies. The British Council, of it is in the Interest of the tax- which Lord Lloyd, late Colonial payers that their money should "be Secretary, and one well disposed liberally spent in support of the to this University, for many years university, where will be trained was President, has given us a the bulk of the professional mer grant of £1,000 to be used to en- and women who will in time serve able students from the interior of their needs.”

China to come to the University of His Excellency concluded by Hongkong. The terms of these saying that he was proud to have i scholarships will be similar to his name linked publicly with the those given jointly by the Sino- Hongkong University through the British Culturar Association and new Science Bullding which would the University.

bear his name.

THE GRADUATES Degree of MA

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(1) The greatest naval battle

The public are reminded that it is a breach of postal

Fet seen in this war will regulations to enclose in a postal cover communications intend.

take place shortly in Italian ed for persons other than the addressee.

waters, resulting in the

overwhelming victory

the British Fleet;

(2)

(3)

of

The Navy, helped by the RAF, will effectively pre- vent the transportation of Nazi troops to Africa; . The French Cabinet will be reformed as Hitler wants It; but risings in France will cripple German activities there;

(4). The Nazis

will spaash through and Balkans, cross the Black Ses, and land in Tran, creating a state of ""'extreme tension" between the Nazis. the Turks and Soviet Russia..

(5)

The Nazis will lose a large number of airplanes in the

"

Eastern Mediterranean.

The Printed Matter Service' to the following places in China is temporarily suspended:-

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Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

INWARD AIR MAILS

From

(6) England will again be the Air Mail, by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser-

target of mass raids, but vice" - San Francisco date, 26th May.

will show the same herole Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser- resistance. Thèse raids will vice" San Francisco date, 10th June.

prove even more costly to Hitler than those of last year:

(7) Uprisings and disturbances į

will occur throughout Nazi- cecupied Europe.

(8) Japan will declare war on Great Britain and America. South-east Asia will become

a vast battlefeld,

9, The entry of the United

States into the" war will |

Due

3rd June

17th June

OUTWARD AIR MAILS

For

TUESDAY

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have a decisive effect on Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. "and the Axis Powers, whose, Europe via "Pan-American Airways and Trans- Reg. star will soon be waning. Atlantic Services"

THE PROPHET DECLARES THAT THE AXIS WILL ASK FOR AN ARMISTICE EARLY IN 1942.

as-

To mark his interest in the

SZECHWAN FRONT new development of public-health teaching in the University, Mr. Ho

SHIUKOW, May 30, (Central)- Kom-tong has given $2,500 as an

Mr. Wel Tet, BA, Mr. Chun Zal Severe fighting took place at the endowment of a prize for Public Ziang, LL.B.

northern slope of Chi Feng Shan Health studies. Again, Mr. Li« Tse-

Degree of M.E, D.S. Chia Pee Chye, Lam Shing Kui (hi) on the bank of the Min River fong has recently undertaken to

n May 28 and 27, Sveta Onward, Pang Tang Cheung, pay the cost of publication of a wong shiu Kong, Chow Wal Wes,

The Chinesc made fierce scholarly, but necessarily un-re-Miss Maud Lee. Sie Tioan Djin, Tan sculta. At one place at least 300 munerative book in Chinese, on Luan Hong, Stephen K. H. Wong, Japanese were killed in action. the. Toast Canon."

Miss Lai Chung Yue, Low Nan War The other Japanese fled, abandon- Students activities have pro-Miss R. E. Smalley, Tang Ching Tuan, ing about 150 dead, two trench gressed. The "assdclations of gra- ! Wong Yat Hung, B.Sc.

mortars and a number of heavy duates of the University during; Degree of B.Sc., in Engineering

Among the past year showed a lively in-

Chau Po Cheung, Foo Yeow Sand Hght machine-guts, terest in the University and its IP Hung Hoe, J. F. Levy, Ling Sau the Japanese killed was Captain

Tsin, Wang Tze Sam, Yeon Joo Teik. Sugigama, affalra.

Chu Chce Sze, Goh Kwong Hung. Ip

A considerable number of stu-Hung Shiu, Li Chi Fan, Tjos Som dents are under training in the rin. Wong Feng Choco, Zin Tsang Field Ambulance Section of the Taten, Cheung Sze Yuen, Ip Ching, 'Hongkong-Volunteer Defence Corps. Lani Po Hon, Liew Keng Slong. Tse

and others are enrolled in the local Foo Sing, Yang Hsin Tsang. defence organisation and in the A. R. P. Corps.

Degree of BA

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ROSYLIGHT GOES LAME

'Rosylight, belonging to the Cifo Miss Kay Joan Hung. Look Mang Stable. went lame yesterday In conclusion, I feel that I must Bey, Miss H A Curreem, Miss Marmorning on a training, gallop over revert to our need for help to get Jorie Lee. Miss Cheng Wal Marthe last quarter in preparation for our new science laboratories ade-atna Khutrakul. Miss Lily TV the Beaufort Stakes over aix fur- Tinh Miss Mary Tong Chung quately equipped for normal routine teaching...

Heung Sung, Miss Gertrude Ho shum longs today, The amount

Tau Kwong, Miss Doris, Heni Li Took needed is not great but it is be-Tal Viss Wong Yu Ho, L. Lee yond the present resources of the Jul-Hsien. Miss Patricia Ableng. Miss Mr. Li Shiu-fat, the novice joe- University. We must appeal for Maisie Ketewall. Telle 1. Sung. Wi, key, who sustained concussion help to people who believe that son Heng. Miss M. L. Budiad, Li Hing when he was thrown by Beaufort, the experimental study of science Lan

is a fundamental in the intel- lectual life of a progressive com- munity.

GOVERNOR'S SPERCH

Addressing the Congregation.

Degree of B.80

John Huang ring Tsund.

PRIZE AND SCHOLARSHIP

Wan.

WINNERS Faculty of Medicine

following the conferring of the Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming Post degrees, His Excellency the Chan- Graduate Prize (Dec., 1940): Daphne cellor said that before the word Chum and John Chen. "universities" came to be applied Anderson Gold Medal: Low Nan to the student groups from which have sprung the modern Univer- sity the usual descriptive term for them was "studium generale", im- plying "a centre of instruetion for al"

Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming Prize: 6. Mohindra Nath, and A. Lebedeff.

Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming P-- Gradulate Prize: Teeung Ying Kay

Ng Li Hing Prize for Anatomy: A Lebedef.

Faculty of Engineering

MR. LI SHIU-FAI

In the Fifth Extra Race Meeting, will not be riding again until late In the second half of the season.

Days ofj.

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 31 May to 6 June 1841. -

Week

Month.

Height.

LOW WATER

Hong

Kong

Standard Standard

Height,

HIGH WATEE.

Hong

Kong

Time

Time

h. 1. ink. L0,

h. RL

Sat. 31 ·01 37

SRD. "

05 09

13 8

13

41

88

19 33

10

03 27

1931 BA

BU 93. 1 2

03 22 4.3

1846

·13 32

81 21 17 1.4

Tsai

Middleton Smith Prize: Wong Ting Tues. 3

Williamson Prize: Chung Bze Yuen. Wed.

Faculty of Arts

04 11

46

08 18

1447

56

4

01 87

50,

10 37 13 6

18 10.

3307

30

B 0044 56 18:07

1742 4.82860

2 2

B

06 97.6 1

Ho Fook Prize: Ng Shun Keung." Chan Kai Ming Prize: Wong Ting Mon.. 2

It would be overstating the case to say that universities were essen- tially revolutionary, His Excellency said, but for all that they usually Taal came into being in revolt against fixed, though outworn, Ideas which constituted authority were insisting on guarding as sacrosanet and unquestionable.

Ho Fook Scholarship: Miss Eleer Thu.. Chang,

For Englishmen It was a pleasant Chan Kat Ming Scholarship: Kam" Fri. thought that the earliest known ving Hes and Lau Din Cheuk.

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FRIDAY

Ord.

Fri. 6th June

X.P.O. Reg. 4.00 PM Ord. 4:30 PM

G.P.O.

Air Mail by Air to Rangoon to connect with the Reg. 4.00 PM

"British Overseas Airways"

TUESDAY

Ord, 4.30 PM

Tue, 17th JunLD

EP.O.

Beg. 5.00 PM Ord.

5.30 PM

Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A, and G.P.O...

Europe via "Pan-American, Airways and Trans-Reg Atlantic Services"

5.00 PM Ord. 7.00 PM.

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