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HONGKONG. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1936.

THE CROWN COLONIES AND COMPULSION.

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The Mails. English Mail.-Coned per Malta at 11 »,m, to-day,

The Dollar.

To-morrow's Analversary-

| AEROPLANE" "AND"

AIRSHIP RAIDS,

The Fature of Flying.

energy of her people is another HOWITT PHILLIPS fotor in the situation.

The Atlantic will be crossed by an seroplane, and that scon.

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to be imagined that Great Britain will forbid this, or, after it is} London October 26-The accomplished, sar" Thus far bat 8.tieita of molitary hostile aeroplanes no farther"? There is scarcely

Peg o' My Heart" at the

Victoria.

Mr. F. A. Haraland,

DAY BY DAY.

When the news of Mr. F. A. - TEKRE IS BUT ONE THING THAT Ĵ^ Haseland's impending retirement CAN REMER TURK INTO SUFFER- ING. AND THAT IS THE GOOD WE from the Bench was fret madr HAVE DONE Masterlinck public, we refrained, at his own request, from making any remarks thereon. Bat to-day he leaves the Colony, and his many friends will

to the South-East of England and “Dy limit to the folly of nations;

Despite strong counter-attract. agres with as in feeling that bel

the Thames Estuary are obviouly but we may be sure that even if ince, the Victoria Theatre was ought not to he allowed to depart The opening rate of the dollar reconnaissance trips; the enemy England and Europe prohibited well crowded last night, when the withcats public word of recogni on demand to-day wa 26. 3.15/16d. cannot pretend that any serious further flying, the Americana Howitt Phillipe Company made ■ tion and God-speed. Mr. Hes:-

damage in done. Last Sunday's would not come into lins, any welcome reappearance after a land has borne the burden

raider was destroyed during his more than will Australia and successful season in the North. and beat of 1be day

To-morrow is the 11th anni- return journey. The one that Africs and China. för eight-and-thirty

With regard to the crossing of Heart," which the Company had The play ataged was "Peg o' My years, versary of the great Frezeb cams on the following day was sal no min better deserves victory over the Austrians at dying at such a height that he the Atlantic, projects are already produced twice previously in Hong

est; bat the Colony can all too Austerlitz.

could not hare secured any im-soat, and the autumn of 1917 or kong. It was splendidly handled, ill spare him. He has filled mort

1918 is indicated as the probable and those in the cart were given | portant information. If the enemy of the legal offoss here, at ons time or another; has been ever! shing from Paisne Judge's clerk to Acting Chief Justice; and in all capsition bis aprightners and his sterling good sense have made him a most valuable servant of the Orcwn. It is mainly usÀ police-cont magistrate that he

The New Defence Régulation.

The National Mission.

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Small Fire,

Formerly In Hongkong.

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anter.

LICENSING BOARD.

Business at This Morning's

Meetlog.

A meeting of the Licensing

10, seatbolders of St. John's have not yet been manifested. temps. The achievement will be when the final curtain was rung On Sunday December 3 and had any further intentions they date of the first succesful at rousing tribute of applause Cathedral are requested to be in Possibly the

reported one of many factors introducing down. The story of wayward, their seats ten minutes before the adversely. It is an opportune the big aeroplane as a commercial mischievous, impaleire and un- services. After theo, any sest moment to repeat the reminder posibility.

More about the conventional "Peg' is well- not occupied will be filled as thatourown airmen are frequently development of big aeroplanes, known, and all that need be said required.

1000 over German territory, and *6 well as the demand that will of the interpretation of the o far more purpose.

arise and be met for small in-part, which was in the hands We know from experience that expensive craft, in another artinle; of Mies Doris Phillips, is that S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., il berulang tide, so far an won icoipient fre broke out as old wresurable, does not prevent United States and British Colonial Irish girls most lovable char- will remembered, and it is like An at weather, provided the times meanwhile, a word about other she made the rebellions can FEC, before his place will be worthily filled.

yesterday, but was extinguished Zeppelin raids. One reason is th.aviation activitie

The United States Post Office plever all through. Naturally,

Ber acting was very" Mby the workmen of the factory the motors can be rendered im Hozeland know the Chinesefore it had become serious mane from the interference of Department recently advertised the lion's share of the work foll criminal class as probably no one Very little damage was done. The frost. As to the lifting power of for proposals for carrying maile on her, but a word should be said | hare, save the senior polios, will Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which ever know it; and his fund of outbreak was caused by the the gas, it is increased by low by aeroplanes. Eight routes of the manner in which Mi

firing of a motor engine. temperature provided there be no were indiosted, the

distances Label Fladgate portrayed a mont requires them to forward their names and addresses with information rendered bim, a terror

violent fall of temperature dating arying from 52 to 280 miles. difficult role. She was the cold, communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for to evil doers, albeit good and led

fight. On that score the winter. For example, the route between languid soul-less society girl, and publication, Sut as an evidence of their bona fides.

were alike assured that he would see no min, guilty or innocent, McClelland, R.A.M.C., who was smaller temperature decline with 52 miles, and by seroplanes it able study of the part. Mr. Lieut, and Quartermaster J. His favourable, there being New Bedford and Nantucket i she gave a really remark wronged. Mr. Haseland stood Sergeant Major at the Military altitude as this season. As to the could be covered in less then an Wheeler Dryden

Aliso for all that was good (for the Hospital, Bowen Road, before officers and grew, they can be hour. By existing methods is was some good) in the old Hong receiving his commission, in in-protected against extreme cold.

takes six hours. Machines carry man always promising to start most happy as the smart young tong regime, and, in wishing him claded in a list of those added to An aviation expert" is reporting 500 lbs. of mail could be work but never doing so. Minn happy time and a long life in the names mentioned in the deed by a contemporary to have and up to the number required, Lilian Stanbridge was admirable the Homeland, we feel bound to patches of Sir Charles Monro.

said: "The temperature at an and the fuel and oil for such a Mrs. Chichester, while good add our regrets that he could not

altitude of from 8.000 to 10,000 short journey being a small its work was also done by Mr. | hare seen bis way to remaining •

little longer.

Alice Memorial Hospital. feet is uniformly cold all the year the project appears quite fensible. Charles Howitt and Mr. Percy The Hon. Trassurer of the round, and in the coldest months to the longer routes, inter- Baverstock. Alise Memorial and Affiliated of the year the temperature mediate landings would have to Hospitals begs to acknowledge 'upstairs' is the same either on a be made for fuel. To take another The Compant concludes ite | with thanks the following dona- | warm or cold day on earth.” example, the route from Valdez to

brief seison to-night with “What Reater tells us to-day that the tions to the fands of the Hospitals: That is not the case. To arrive Fairbanks, Alaska, 358 miles, the Bader Baw,” Board of Trade now bas power Lang Ten-po, $100; Chan it the level of uniform seasonal three times a week throughout the take possession of any cost mine Pio. $100; Chai Chan-san, temperature it would be year, is to occupy two days. where it is deemed expedient for $50; L Shin hoi, $50; Li Yan- necessary to ascend to tremendous Penalties are prescribed for non- the defence of the Realm, thus chun, $50.

and at present ansttainable al- falfilment of contract if the failure bringing the ccal trade within

iades. According to Gold and is the fault of the contractor. the scope of the Munitions Act,

Adjourned

Harwood (British Association The offer is not yet likely to be limiting the owners' profite, and At the Summary Court this Report, 1909) at a height of 3 accepted; although there i restricting the freedom which morning, before Mr. Justice Gam-kilometers (9,840 feet) the nothing essentially impossible in miners almost alore enjoyed pertz Mr. Grist mentioned that difference in temperature between in the conditions. Some of the among workers of national import the claim of the Hongkong Gas January and July is about 98ggested services could be start- ance"-But, in Heaven's name, Company agsinat Q. M. Gomes Centigrade (about 17,6 F.)d at once. Au to the more why could not this have been done for $10 28 was in the course of whereas on the ground the difficult one, they are a hundred Board was held at the Council two years ago? All this time our set lement, and be therefore asked difference is about 21.9 Cen-times more probable than appear-Chamber this morning, over whichk msgnific: Government has been for 8z adjournment for a week. tigrade (39.4 F.). Even at 5ed the London-Manchester race Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher (Acting enduring "cheek" from trade This was granted.

filometres (16,400 feet) the project, which two years before it Colonial Secretary) presided. anicaieta and strikere, whom

difference is 8.6 0. (15.4 F.). At was actually fulfilled, came in for There wets sino present Sir Paul most other nations would hars

Oplum Carrier Caught. A man was charged before Mr.thrine 5 kilometres the difference the derision of a section of the Chater, O.MG., Mor met with bayonets or ballow; O. D. Melbourne, at the Palice between January and July is 9.1 London Pres has been asking them if they Court this morning, with

The French showed what could Hutchison, the Hon. Mr. E. Hough, A. Mackenzie, R. O. 0. (16.4 F.). would so very much wind ring seven trels of prepared opium. possess. Lieutenant Commander Wedgwood has once again dirrated the training from hindering the The drug was found oorcealed in peace future of Bring Amerios regular services they inaugurated (Secretary)

In attempting to forecut the be done in colonial aviation by the Shellim aud Mr. R. A. C. North attention of the House of Commons to the question of the applica-efforts of our army and navy; and the soles of the man's shoes re be must be taken into very serions in Africa long before the war. tion of compulsory service to Europeans in the Crown Colonies. It only after two solid years of this was at Kowloon Railway Station consideration. Earape might, in Australia and Caneda could pro- that the question of the Hongkong will be recalled that about a fortnight go he sounded Mr. Bonar sort of fooling has it discovered yesterday. A fine of $250, or a moment of ignoble panic, adoptably use air-craft for the link Hotel's application for br Law on the point, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies what was obvious to every sane three months' hard labour, was a repressive policy towards arising up of widely separate paste, licence in premises spart from Barored him that the it faence of the Colonial Office was being man in the Empire. So with the

the connection of which by rail- the Hotel was to bave been con- directed towards securing the largest possible man-power from the profit grabbers. For two years the

imposed.

tion-more drastic than the mere licensing of pilots and the regular is at present not financially sidered, but he had received a group of Colonies of which Hongkong is one. He has now gone Government has permitted these

Field Glass Fund. Оде pair step further and has suggested that compulsion should be applied sharks to tryannies over lackles

of binoculars tion of aerial navigation. This justifiable. One apprehende dif-

a letter from their solicitors asying well. Mr. Bonat Law's reply to this proposal is that advice, which act in each a manner as to indace Hongkong, is now to be added to take the form of the retention on

Falconer, of Bay and Falconer, again sound the warning-would Canada dering the winter, but a seasonal interruption would not

to withdraw the application.

The only other business wat he had received, has led him to believe that the adoption of the men to grumble and "to strike the list of glassen received and one pretext and another of be a very serions drawback, suggestion would not add any appreciable number to the Army, Why cannot we take a few leaves forwarded to the Lady Roberts present

All these projects are possible tion by a Japanese for a licence the consideration of an applica and he is therefore not prepared to recommend the neosemary lagie out of Germany's book?

Fetco with aircraft of the present day in respect of a restaurant lation. That is as far as the matter is taken at present.

Field Glam Fund. The total now

To avert it we

bat the satisfactory introduction Haiphong Line, Wanchai. At first sight there would seem to be a conflict in the attitude Our Cabinet,

standsne stand telescope,

1, intelligent staisemanship. The revealed by the two pronouncements. In the one instance, Mr.

twelve band telescopes, forty-pablic must never be allowed to of the big machine driven by at

Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared Bonar Law definitely asserts that the Colonial Office is directing ite

Germany foress everything of $75.

seven binoculare; and a Donation forget how Germany succeeded in least triplicate power plant, and for the applicant and map Pred efforts to arcuring the largest possible man rower from the Crown (except defeat); and our pettifog

developing the only first-class air- capable of non-stop journeys of was no question of the licence ship, the best sero-motor, and they, ten hours with a heavy useful being used by Europeans, bat Colonies," and in the other he slows himself as being disinclined gera in the Cabinet foresaw to apply to these Colonies the demands which have been made on practically nothing. Almost the the Colony to-day by the the onczuragement of private exy improvements in the way of His client was instigated to make Among the passengers leaving biggest seroplane fiset: is was by loaderen allowing nothing for only by Japanese and Asistion. young men at Home. It is quite fair to infer from the latest de day before war broke out, the Malta was Hr. F. A. Heseland, periment and industry. There is a cheaper power, which are on the application by the officers claration of the Secretary of State that if ampulsion were put into Radicals were telling as that it who has been firet Police Magisson nearer home; throughout ideally expected by eat to the and oraws of the Japanese coaling force the Army would be strengthened-though Mr. Booar Law was wrong to spend money in trate in Hongkong for a great the early part of the war the and the place of aircraft in the ASYS not appreciably so. That being the care, how can the Colonial ships and guns; they were also number of years. We announced Royal Naval Air Service had the development of the colonies is eleɛmeraat Wanchai, who felt the Office be said to be exercising its it fence to obtaining the "largest telling ur, per Mr. Winston some time ago that Mr. Baselend best and widest choice of machines red.

osed of a hotel where they possible" man-power? But that point is net of great importance. Churchill, that, if Germany was giving up his position to go wimply because they were not tied

No more need be said on these the other Japanese hotels in could obtain refreshment, Al The question is whether the latest utterance of Mr. Bonar Law's should dare to send an air Home on pension. This nor to the apron strings of the R.A.F. points, but it remains only to the Colony were well represents the final decison of the authorities, and whether we can go ship to our cosets, that same siring there was larga number of The War Office aeronautical de consider the probable develop docted, and his client had slong on the astamption that there will be to change in the present ship would be sent about its friends to see him cff, incinded pariment won through only as it mata of the big machine and, testimonials as to his good charac arrangements. There are those who held that view, but for ourselves business, shop-chop, by a swarm among whom were the Chief was forced, under the exigencies

the other end of the scale, of the tor. There were upwards of 1,000 we are by no means convinced that the last has born beard of the of hornete. Soon after hostilities Justice (Sir William Beca Davies) of war, to go farther afield then

small cheap aeroplane asd matter. We have not the figures by us, but we should imagine that had commerosd, Mr. Asquith was and other members of the legal the B.A.F.

facilities to Byit.-Observer.

Japanese, people living at Won- from the thousands of eligible white men in the Orown Colonies, good enough to announce that is

ohai and that, with the shipping India, Egypt and Ceylon it would be possible to comb out & by no was a case of “businem as usual”.

profersion.

callers, made the need for a means inconsiderable contingent of fighting men, while at the same statement about as fade as

Stolen Caps.

licence. time taking care not to dislocate really vital commercial and inder-

A tallyman employed at the Wenham, McCardy, Curtis, the A widow, living at 13 Centre A good deal of conversation remuk trial interests, That is not taking into account at all the very large potamia on November

Morc Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf Wright Brothers, Montgomery Strest, West Point, awoke yester-tock place on this matter, and it number of other than white British subjecte who have taken the last year: "I do not think ed before Mr. U. D. Melbourne, at disappointing part in the develop basket containing 385 had been restaurant licence which allows 2of and Godown Company was charg and others, America hes played a day morning to find that her was eventually decided to grant oath of allegiance, many of whom could be treined into really the war, there has been 1 with being in unlawful possessions in some others, she bus ex-extracted. She began a search} mesla between the hours of 12 30

that, in the whole course good fighting material.

of the Polios Court this morning, ment of flying. In this direction, broken open and the money the applicant to an ve drinks with Despite all that has been said, we are still of the opinion that series of operations from Hongkong itself there could even now be raked out of civilian carefully contrived, more brilli Inspector Gordon taste abip was democracy that cffers a glaring living in the house, where she 10.00 ni night,

more of ains caps. It was slated by bibited an uninspiring side of and went into the room of a man and 2.30 in the day and 7.00 and life quite a respectable total of young men who, when it comes antly conducted and with better in a few days ago and it was contrast with, for example, the found a jar of water, at the bottom down to the absoluts bare neasssition of trade, are not serving any prospect of fasl success." If all found that a bale of caps had French demceroy. Bat the mo- of which was $6 in small money. really essential enda here. And we still think it something of an this kind of thing is the reralt of been broken open. It could not ment has arrived for a great wrapped in piper similar to that anomaly that, while great sacrifices are being made by men at patting lawyers at the head of a be found whether any caps were change; although so jejane, and which she had used. She sent St Andrew's Night. Home, the youth of Hongkong and of some other parts of the Empire Government, the sooner a change missing, but these oape now found futile, and blaunt are some recent for a detective, who arrested the In celebration of St. Andrewʻi are bearing little or no part in the war. They are not all slackers: comes, the letter. Paraonally we were undoubtedly of the same activities of American aeronaute men on hom was found another Night, the management of the mary of them would, we do not beaitate to say, welcome the call to would raiber be governed by ort. The caps were very good and aeronautical interests that it $10, which the woman claimed Hongkong Hotel served special As we read the situation, it is that, for the present, there Darice than by these legal wine oner, having been made by needs the eye of perception to see had been wrapped up by herself manna boll in the dining room will be no extension of compulsory service to the Crown Colonies. ROTER. Narrion would at least shop in Old Bond Street, London, the better time that is at hand. But there is no reason to suppose that, if the war gres on indefinite-bava told both strikers and profit and they were valued at $5 esok.

and put in her basket. The other and the Grill Room, During the America will not subscribe to money was not recovered. Before meal the pipers from the Pan ly, the Imperial Government will not revise ita attitude on the ques estohers how many different kinds Defendant's excuse was that he proposals for prohibition, or for Me, O. D. Melbourne, at the Police labis Hand" played" in. tion. In the last resort every man may count, and though we may of scoundrel they wize, and would bought them from two men in unreasonable repression; And Court this morning, the man was Haggis, which was carrie be among the last to come into line, we may be sure that the have hit them on the something Denton Road, His

of charged with theit, bat danied Chi

be had stolen, the manay. The

The Chairman firat announced

to white men not only in these Colonies but in India and Egypt as bouseholders and, worse still, tontributed by Mr. Percy James policy and the writer would foulties in the coldest parts of that the management bad decided

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