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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES withhold permission to read in the
Library from many members of the public who apply for this con- VALUABLE ADDITIONS MADE cession. Graduates of any Univer- sity are admitied as readers, but owing to lack of accommodation During 1988 the valuable collee.the line has to be drawn there.
DURING 1933
tion of books on China and things The Medical Library is housed Chinese which had been collected by quite apart from the Hankow Club was purchased by the University for $25,000.
This information is contained in
the General Library of the University in the Pathology Building. This arrange- ment is in itself undesirable and expensive, and, this apart, the
the University of Hongkong Annual room in which the Library is now Report, which was released for accommodated is badly needed for publication this week.
the extension of the pathological
The Hankow Club Collection, adds museum. (The re-organisation and of this museum the Report, is a unique collection of Improvement Home 3,000 volumes and contains was one of the matters stressed by many books which are now very Sir Richard Needham).. rare and home that are practically unobtainable.
The Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library now contains 1.002 sets The number of volumes, Govern of books containing 35,456 volumes 9.14 sets of 31,163 ment publications, pamphlets, etc., as against received into the Library up to volumes at the end of 1932. This December 21, 1933, was 34,167. Increase is due to a gift from Mrs. To this has to be added the Morrl Fung Ping Shan of some 4,000 son Collection of over 2,000 volumes, volumes of Chinese books worth The total number of accessions to $2,242. Mr. Cheng Tse Yoong of the Library for 1932 and 1930, in- Shanghai-n graduate of the Uni- cluding the purchase from the Hon-versity-also presented during 1933 kow Club, was 6,520.
fifty-six volumes of the literary anthology compiled by his father.
Dr. Coedes presented the Library Mrs. Fung Ping Shan has also In 1933 with a set of valuable provided the Library with a num- Archeological Memoirs on Indo-ber of useful Chinese magazines China, These memoirs ure written and newspapers.
In French. A largo number of valuable publications have
been
Mr. W. J. Harding, H. 13. M. Con-
given to the Library by the Bul-General at Yunnanfu gave the Carnegie Instituto at. Washington Library a valuable set of rubbings Unfortunately the Library in be-of 12 ancient Chineso tablets. coming cramped not only as regards These tablets are examples of the space for housing books, but niso most famous Chinese handwritings in the matter of the accommoilation of the various dynastics.
In it for readers. This last fact The General Library of the Uni-] makes it necessary for the Univer-versity receives an annual grant of sity Authoritica reluctantly to $10,000.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THE WAR DEBTS
OPINION DIVIDED IN CONGRESS
THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1934.
FACTORY ACT
FOREIGN CONCESSIONS WON'T ADHERE
MILITARY FUNERAL.
tho
LAST HONOURS RENDERED TO PTE. A. MORRIS
New York, June 13.
Geneva, June 13. A military funeral cortego Congressmen appear divided in The thwarting of China's efforts entoring the Protestant Cemetery their opinions of the suggestion of to apply the 1929 Factory Act in Mr. Cordell Hall, embodied in his forelyn concessions was emphasised yesterday afternoon, marked the British soldier, statement in the War Debt Note to-day by Mr. Lie Ping-heng, passing of a
Labour Private Archibald Morris, of the presonted to Britain, that pay-neting-delegate to
Battalion South Walca Conference, when speaking at the lat ments may be made in kind.
Among the Democrate. Air. general discussion of the Directors' Borderers, whose tragic death by William Rainoy, Speaker of the Report.
drowning occurred on Tuesday at House of Representatives, charac- Mr. Lie said that the authorities the Stonecutters Services bathing terisca Mr. Hull's proposal as fine in the concessions refused to allow bench. and the best yet proposed; while | Chinese officers to Inspect and con- A native of Bristol, Pte. Morris Senator Borah, for the Retrol the working conditions in the was only 24 years of age. He join publicana, says that the suggestion | factories. This was Breated the regiment more than requires further study, but frat anomaly, because the concessions
yenra go, and of this period two- impressions reveal no help for the were on Chinese territory.
and-half years wore spent with the American taxpayer.
Mr. Lie mentioned the Govern-1st Battalion in servico abroad. Though the suggestion is ex-ment's efforts to cope with unem-
road tended specifically to Britain, it is ployment, by
building He was unmarried. His parents believed that it would be ap schemes; and particularly thearo living near Potypridd. plleable to all dobtors. There- Three Year Plan.
Fall military fore, according to the Washington Also, he said, the Government rendered at the funeral Tho correspondent of the Horaid contempleted the development of cortege, with the coffin draped in a Tribuse, It may open the way for industrial enterprises, including a Union Jack and drawn ncompromise settlement, under Four Year Plan to cost $25,000, carriage, was headed by a firing which the United States may 000, and mentioned that four large party and Band. With n full accept quantities of rubber, tin. works have already been establish-
muster of "C" the deceased's radium and so forth. The lden is ed.-Reuter.
company, werd detachments from the Lincolns and East Lanes, the whole being under the command
to accept goods not competing with American manufactures,
honotirs
fivo
were
a gun
It it pointed out that, inplying official American 'recogni-¡of Captain C. F. Blackden, of "C" addition to large Imports of tintion of the transfer, difficulties: Company, Int. Batt. Bouth Wal and. rubber, the United States and, secondly, an offering prospects Borderers. Other officers present buys British manganese from of a solution by way of the barter were the Ofleer Commanding the India and chrome from Rhodesia, of possibly tin, rubber, manganese | lat Batt. the South Wales while Belgium possesses Imported and whisky.
Borderers. Major P. Gottwaltz, radlym from hor deposits in It is pointed out that such M.C., and Lt. D. Pool Yates and 2nd transaction may cause serious dis- Lt. R. C. H. Miera, of "C" Con- Mr. Caldwell, a member of the turbances of foreign exchanges, re- |pany. House of Representatives, hassulting in: Firstly, further introduced a resolution authoris strengthening of the dollar, which The service at the gravesido was ing the Committee to study the the American authoritics do not read by the Rev. J. N, Lewis Bryan. possibilities of War Debt pay-desire; and, secondly, the upset- ments in tin.-Reutor.
África.
Stocks Improve
ting of the equilibrium of Empire currencies, as Britain would have to buy the tin and other commo- dities from the Empire.
Three volleys were fired over the grave, followed by the sounding of the "Last Post" and "Reveille."
Wreaths were sent by His Ex- London, June 13.
cellency the General Officer Com- The distinct Improvement on the Others are of the opinion that manding the Troops in Hongkong Stock Exchange late last night payment in kind will not appeal to and South China (Major-General and to-day le attributed to the the British Government owing to 0. C. Barrett); the Battalion Com- American Note on War Debts. the aforementioned difficulties and mander, Major P. Gottwaltz, M.C. The American offer to accept | Mr. Chamberlain's insistance on other military units of the War Debt payments in kind is the inter-dependence of all Inter-Garrison, and from members of most significant. Firstly, as im-governmental War Debin-Reuter, 1st Batt, South Wales Borderers.
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