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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Saturday, November 7, 1936.
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He Will Put New Life Into
Old Business with China
REMEMBERED in Hong-
kong commercial circles is William Maccolin Kirk patrick, the M.P. who is coming East to help in-
British trade
crease
in
China. He is 58 in two months' time and is an ex- perienced London business
man.
Mr. Kirkpatrick, knows the Orient and its commer- cial customs as few London-
Hongkong Hotelers do, and everyone will
Stubbs Rd.
Garage
The
Phone 27778/9.
that
agree
the British Government has taken a wise step in appointing him to assist the trade attache at Nanking.
Mr. Kirkpatrick, who started life in an eastern exchange bank, was in Delhi
MISS WONG CHEW WAN Kuala Lumpur's Aytug girl,
(5,311 tons) was standing in the gangway. "My wife is expecting a baby," he stammered.
Captain, Irvine stared. There was no doctor on board. He had na medical experience. The near- est ship was two days sailing
He had to act alone. away.
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THE Silver Beech was bound from San Francisco to Mani-
In in the Philippine Islands, when this
happened" sald Captain
Irvine in an interview with the London Daily Mirror,
"I was in a quandary. Our radio operator tried to get in touch with a ship carrying a doctor.
"The nearest ship was 700 miles away but finally a doctor was located on the tiny island of Guam, used as a base for the Pan-Ameri- can transpacific air liners,
air
"The doctor ordered, the waves to be cleared for 300 miles around, and then, by Morse, ex- plained to me the duties of my new
Hongkong Telegraph. for many years as an impor- special goodwill ensoy to Tibet and the doctor's orders,
SATURDAY, Nov. 7, 1926.
CAPITAL SHIPS STILL NEEDED.
tite following two years was vice role. Chief of general staff.
"With the aid of my chief An 194 be did good work as the stewart, 1 carefully carried out A 4lb. baby ter of British textiles, so he in 1935 and this year, headed the was born and I was attending to commission #113 Mongolian and it in another part of the cabin understands the point of Tibetan affairs, ite WILA trans- when the stewart called me buck view of the importer as well ferred to his present important to assist in the birth of a second
on July 20 and is also re- baby as of the British exporter. nerv nomber of the Kuomintang
Centrul Executive Committer.
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prost
VILE Mr. Kirkpatrick was in With H. E. Mr. Huang Mu-suny
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A Mayor Arrives
A
Als a
short time in the London office of naturally a few years later to the the Export Credit Department of post of Commissioner of Recon the Board of Trade.
struction in Chekiang Provincia!
Government.
He has been a member of K mintang Central Executive Con
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TEM MOLLISON, husband of the
famous aviatrix Amy, has carved off a fair portion of fame For himself. It Was it record breaking fight by Jins from Eng- land to
brought The Cape that
The idea prevalent in SUIDH
India he took an active as Chairman of Kwangtung, the at sea, including a spell of service quarters that the battleship is
part in the co-operative credit exchange, of courtesy calls marks in the Dardanelles during the War. obsolete, in that it would have movement in Bengal and served the beginning of a new and plea, but bringing twins into the world finde chance against attack by on several local committees.
in sant era of understanding between at seat was the last duty I
pretest," added Capt. Irvine, bombing aeroplanes and that it is eluting the Council of the Asialic Hongkong and South China.
The children, both girls, were vulnerable to submarine attack, is Society of Bengal and the C'al-
called Sylvia Beech and Silver assailed by the report of the sub-culta Zoological Society.
Bath Klasson after the ship. committee of the Committee 1 was responsible for the
NOTHER important official of
When the Silver Beech arrived of Imperial Defence which pioneer
Kwangling who accompanied at Malls the regular quarantine development of hasie
the Chairman on d vinit la has made
exhaustiveminerad properties in Orissa.
Hongkong, was His Excellency Mr,istons were walved and a doctor study of
AL the subject.
sent on board. He complimented When Mr. Kirkpatrick
Tseng Yang-fu. Mayor Canton the captain on his skill as am ama- though it is recognised that the tened to England in 192 he since July and a leader in the
teur docker. matter calls for further investiga- contested the Preston division as reform of the Province,
Conservative candidate but was native of Kwingtung. Mr. Tseng fie owners of the vessel, the tion, the opinion is definitely given hat elected until five years ago, was a graduate of the Piyang and Silver Line, Ltd., have presented that the day of capital ships is not
Pittsburgh Universities. In 1928. the babies with silver cups. over, and that to cease to build
when 36 years old, he became vice- REFORE he leaves for China Chairman of the National Kreon- them would lead to grave risks, B Mr. Kirkpatrick will spend a strution Commission, following His Wife Flew Away The finding is in accord with a recent statement by the First Lord of the Admiralty, when he stated that experts had reached the He is, however, well equipped by Junanimous conclusion that the knowledge and experience for his new post. While he was in Indin capital ship is still essential to the he was a partner of the late Lord mittre sincs March, 1920 and has these two together and if ever a maintenance of British_security, | Cable in Hrd and Company, of been. Political vice-Minister While no-one
can pretend to Culcutta, and bas since visited the Far East on various occasions for foresee with precision the lines
special purposes. Jalong which the next war, if one
He went to Japan on a financial breaks out, will develop, it is re-and commercial mission in 1921-26, Jassuring to know from competent and in 1927 came to Hongkong to sources that the British Fleet is negoliate for the Oriental Tele- not so much scrap-iron. Recent phone Company. events have, however, brought out Two years ago he made a pro- twins, in the world in, mid-Paci- served in the Royal Air Force for five years; was a commercial pilot with painful emphasis that, in longed visit to Chile representing fie.
in Australia. Iz 1971 he flew important London interesis con- The full story in the captain's from Australia to England in the pursuit of the ideal of disarma-cerned in reorganising the nitrate own words is now to hand. The then record time of eight days 22 ment while others have armed at trade and last year he went hers of the story is Capt. W. F. hours 25 minutes and the following an increasing rate, the efficiency Athens on behalf of a London Irving,
year flew to the Cape from Eng- of the British Fleet had been Treasury Bills.
financial group interested in Greek
to break B neord later allowed to deteriorate very seri-
this lowered by his wife. Then he New solo across the North Atlantic and ously. Much has been done and
the South Atlantic. In 1933 im will be done to remedy that state AN interesting sidelight on Mr.
of the is passengers on and his wife together crossed the Kirkpatrick's interests is pre- of affairs. A costly scheme of vided by the fact that the records board the ship--the Silver Beech Atlantic from east to west. reconditioning of warships is in of the Royal Asiatic Society in progress, and the building of new India show that he has rend papers.
on auch an odd subject as "Tribes vessels is being expedited. This Allied to Gypsids." will all take time, but progress has
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He has written articles in the been greater than was expected. Hog Hunters Annual and was at and we have the comforting know one time a well-known pig sticker i ledge that at no very distant date in India.
Railways,
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of
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couple were wedded_by_the public lim and Amy were.
A prelude to another record by Babes at Sea
Jim, his fight across the Atlantic, RECENTLY mention
was made Was Amy's announcement of their intention to separate, after four, of a bachelor' sen Captain,
years of married life. well-known in Hongkong und on the China Const, who brought Mollison is B1 years of age.
A knock at the captain's cabin land door at midnight begra -tramrest of sea dramas,
Our
BULLS AND INNERS
From
D
the Office Butts
the Navy will again be equipped to King Edward, as Prince of discharge to the full its manifold Wales, is reported to have guld
A lot of hight young Inds went responsibilities. While the battle.that. pig sticking is the toughest
sport he had ever known.... soup in the air on Tuesday. ship is not displaced by, the you see the sort of man that is Mr. "Hermes" returned. bomber, it is essential that we Kirkpatrick. Ishould be so strong in the air that,
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any nation will think thrice before Welcome Chinese attacking us. This, happily, is
also a cardinal part in the Govern- HIS EXCELLENCY
Die Chair!
About the only thius from which The some people are unable to disso- clate themselves is an interiority complex.
Hammond apparently interprets 31.C.C. na "Make Centuries? Cer- fainly!"
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MISS CHONG SUI-FEN cho made San Francisco pasp
Last week he lowered the Atlan- hours lying solo as preparation-- the record from west to cast by 10.
for another England to the Cape venture.
In March, 1938, it was freely stated that Molilson was engaged to Lady Diana Wellesley, the 18- years-old daughter of
Clare. Countess Cowley. Countess Cowley stuted then that Diana was toe, young and would have to wait.
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women have not adopted fly-
ing as a hobby, but things may be different in the future and Miss China does not mean to be pushed out of the picture
When a new school for training eivil pilots was opened at Shang- hai recently, Miss Lee Ya-ching. the well-known Chinese aviatrix.. was a guest of humour and intro- duced the first girl student at the school, Mias Yang Ching-hsun.
Another Chinese wom flier who is fairly well-known, particu- larly in America, is Miss Chang Sui-fen. She gave a spectacular display of stunt #ying during the Double-Tenth celebrations in San Francisco last year.
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MALAYA has its own Chincae "Amy Johnson." She is Miss Wong Chew Wan, of Kuala Lum- pur, and her lights up and down the
for have earned country her a good deal of publicity.
She joined the Kuala Lumpur Flying Club, more than two years ago and under expert tuition soor became accustomed to piloting a plane and handling the controls.
She passed the test for the "A". Ifcence alx mouths after she joined The Green Island Company's product would be a good thing the club, Last year she made a for cementing the relations bo-light through the peninsula and was given a big reception by tween Ilongkong and Canton,
friends in Penang. 口 П
Now that the wearing of political uniforms is to be prohibited at Home, we wonder what the Social- The famous Ballets Jooss mayists will do with their red tien? man of the Kwangtung Pro-visit Hongkong. Jopss the thing ment's defence plans. It has been vincial Government, Mr. Hunng to pep us up.
"Hongkong Ladies Show Good Form," says headline. Yes, we laid down as a principle from Mu-sung, who this week returned
A particularly enthusiastic Peak noticed that during the bathing which there is no escape that our the goodwill visit of His Excellency air defences must be as strong us the Governor of Hongkong, Sir gardener was overheard to assert season.
Andrew Caldecott, is widely that he had tomatoes us big na those of any nation within strik-travelled man.
gooseberries. Others, we funder- ing distance of Britain's shores.
A native of Kwangtung, he was stand, are trying to ketchup! But if Britain is determined to always marked out for distinction If many more golfers do that see to her security, it is equally and the recently asserted authorityhole in one at Deep Water Bay, it plain, as Mr. Eden bas stated, of Nanking has given him a de-may be expedient to fill it up. that we have no desire to interserved post as head of his own
It is assorted in some quarters February. That'll be a chango meddle in the affairs of other.
Sometime President of the Pei. that Hongkong is rapidly, approach-from the hot air which" Our defence is solely for own illtury College, he learned ing a boom. Must refer to the counter almost daily, LTD. protection, and the value of the art of warfare as a grounding forthcoming naval and military
This ban on political uniforms strong fighting forces in the in the education of a modern manoeuvres. ~
should mean that there'll bo China's dele- preservation of world peace in diplomat. He was
gate to the Geneva. Disarmament So the Republican candidate plenty of cheap bargains in black beyond question...
shirts at Home. Conferences from 1930-32 and for didn't Landon his feet after all.
Province.
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pay
We notice that frost is boing!
for predicted
Hongkong
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in MISS Wong who is 22, was still
we en-
a student at school when she got her licence.
Sho arrived in Singapore on her frat flight through Malaya nocom- panted by the Rev. D. II. Yap and Mr. Loke Yink Foo, having piloted n D. H. Moth, owned by Mr. Lokę Wan Ynt, of Kuala Lumpur.
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