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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Saturday, NOVEMBER 28, 1938.

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No. Composer

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BEETHOVEN

211

BORODIN

242 BRAHMS

198

CHOPIN

248

DVORAK

164

ELGAR

210

FAURE

195

LALO

224

LEONCAVALLO

50

MENDELSSOHN

216

MOZART

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Choral-Symphony Quartet in D Maj. Sextet in B Flat Maj

Four Ballades Symphony in G Maj Violin Concerto Quartet in C Min

GILBERT & SULLIVAN Complete Operas

103 PUCCINI

RACHMANINOFF

RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF

SCHUBERT

SCHUMANN

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232

68

209

54 STRAVINSKY

TCHAIKOWSKY

192 STRAUSS

114

237 WAGNER

Symphonic Espagnole PAGLIACCI (Complete Operal Trio in D Min. Concerto in A Maj Madame Butterfly

Concerto No. 2 Scheherazade (Symphonic Sultel

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Album of Songs Concerto in A Min. Petroushka (Music for the Balle!! Rosenkavalier (First Act) Pathetique-Symphony

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SATURDAY, November 28, 1926.

PUBLIC HEALTH

PROTECTION

The lamentable outbreak of

These Names Make News

Most Important Man Here Last Night Was....?

Mr. T. V, Sonny craded arenesia's bullet; drank champagne in Hong- lamp on Monday.

Bullet Did Not

Stop Him

they gave him during his short visit here this week.

At 4 p.m. on July 23, 1931, Mr. T. V. Soong stepped off a train at the North Station, Shanghai, and walked towards the exit accompanied by his secretary and bodyguard. From behind a pillar a stream of bullets was let He Honeymooned

Yui-iu, faithful loose. Tong scoretary to the Minister of Fin- ance of China, fell mortally wounded..

An old friend of Sir Robert Ho Tung. Mr. Soong renewed his- acquaintance at the former's Penk mansion. Mr. Soong's sisters are Mesdames Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Yat-sen and K'ung Hsiang-hsi.

On Monday, November 23, 1936, Mr. T. V. Soong drank champagne to mark the re-open- ing of the Bank of Canton, in Hongkong while a dozen alleged conspirators in his attempted as- sassination languished in Nanking gaol still waiting their fate.

In Hongkong

When Count Galeazzo Ciano was honeymooning through Hong- kont six years ago with Musso- lini's daughter. Edda, few realised that he was destined to be the focus of many diplomatic eyes.

Today, na Foreign Minister of Italy, Count Clano is preparing himself to carry on the great work that his father-in-law began,

Baron Lugard was once Governer

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Sung Tsu-wen, to give him his, native designation, is well-known' His experience ns Consul-General of Hongkong. to Hongkong where he lived be- in Shanghai, and his nequaintance fore embarking on the stormy- with Hongkong are a valuable tossed path of Chinese politics, The bullet that killed his secretary is still, unfortunately, emblemn tical of the penalty that Chinese must risk for public honours. Only last year Mr. Wang Ching- wei sustained terrible injuries when holding the same high office, and at this moment he is slowly recuperating in England where he will receive no visitors other than the Chinese Am

asset to him now when the future end to the civil, war after severe of the Far East must weigh fighting, and then administered heavily in the political scales. the territory. On returning to

bassador.

In Shanghai, the handsome England in 1892, he Induced the Italian Was popular. The Liberals to drop the idea of abun- Abyssinian acquisition increased doning Uganda. that liking among his own We next find this great colonial people and, as

leader of "La pioneer in the service of the Royal Desperata" air force squadron, he Niger Company, by whom he was his sent in 1894 to Borgu, a region drew the hero worship of juvenile compatriots. A bullet hitherto unvisited by Europeans, lightly better nimed would have He got ahead of the French, ended a promising career during obtaining treaties with the Kings the African campaign. As it and Chiefs, by which they acknow- was, however. Count Ciano re- ledged the sovereignty of the He risked his where he continued important life on many occasions, but his propaganda work for Fascism. action in Borgu, in putting his life Few realise that Ciano derives in the hands of King Kiam, who. his title from the fact that his as he knew, had been plotting to father was elevated to the nobility kill him a few days previously, by King Emmanuel at Mussolini's was perhaps the bravest thing he ever did. By this audacious request. Count Ciano was once a journalist. His wife is a typical stroke he made a lasting friend of

dysentery has focussed publicHE most important man in this members of an extensive band turned slightly wounded to Rome British company.

attention on the general question of cleanliness so far as it affects public health. On all hands, the view is being expressed that the authorities, profiting from the experience of the past

Colony last night was the Chieftain of St. Andrew's Society, Robert Montgomery McLay of the Clan of Stewart of Appin.

The anniversary of St. Andrew. the Patron Saiul of Scotland, was celebrated in this Colony yester-

It is said that the would-be assassins on that necasion were pledged to execule the orders of unknown persons of influence and Mr. T. V. Soong was their first abject.

Mr. Soong is stated to be a native of Kwangtung but he does not speak Cantonese. Educated at Harvard he laid foundations of

weeks, should institute a special day for convenience sake, the influence which he was, in after "Fascist woman", fond of riding the King.

actual anniversary falling to campaign based on a determina-morrow, November 30. The tion to tighten up the regula Chief guest was His Excellency tions designed for the protection Sir Andrew Caldecott-English. Governor of this home of exiled of the community from voli-

this one tamination of food supplies and Caledonians-but on

night of the year, the Chieftain from the dangers of dirt. il of the Society and head of the Excellency the Governor, in his Scottish community, took pre- statement on Tuesday, stated cedence over all. lis shield was that in searching for the previse the pivot of the colours, flags and origin of the dysentery epidemic emblems that decorated the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel. he is determined to prosecute He was the first to receive the any line of precaution compatible haggis when it was piped in by with common-sense and thePipe Major Mackie and he was the first to quaff a dram from the Colony's financial resources. -is-reasonable to hope that the qualch (pronounced kway wi' a same determination will animate hech on the end) of neat

whisky which accompanied it. the Government in overhauling Incidentally, but not irrelevant the whole machinery of publicly, a Chieftain's privilega is to health administration. Whilst entertain a large and select dinner it may be true, as Sir Andrew parly before the annual ball. It Caldecott stated, that the public is estimated that the privilege of analysis of all food and drink is being Scot No. 1 runs into a few thousand dollars during the year. impossible, and that, under the

The Stewarts of Appin fought most stringent rules, breaches of some bloody wars in their day but the regulations may go un Mr. McLay, whose name indicates

he

of one discovered, there is a

the feeling that.

of the Stewart clan that much more could be done septs

It

In 1900, when the Royal Niger Company gave up its charter,

Lugard was made High Commis. sioner of Northern Nigeria and eventually he brought the whole Protectorate under British rule. From 1907 to 1912, Sir Frederick Lugard (as he then was) war Governor of Hongkong, his term

life, to use for his country's good and swimming and an excellent notably in negotiating the huge partner for her ambitious hus- cotton and wheat loan from hind. America immediately after the World Economic Conference in Baron Lugard London (1933). In that import- and meeting of the greatest finan- cial minds of this age, the wily Chinese proved to be more than equal to his task of representing Uganda, Northern Nigeria and of office adding further to his his country.

its East African Protectorate.

Here is his career in dates: 1924, President of the Central Bank, Canton; 1925-7. Minister)

of Finance.......toi the Canton Gov ernment; 1928 onwards, Stats Councillor o I the Nationa Government; 1928-33, Minis-) ter of Finanec of National Gov.

And King Kiam

The man to whom Britain owes

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of

laurels, and he then returned to That is an Nigeria as Governor of the two upt and truth- Provinces. When the two admin- ful description istrations were amalgamated, he of Baron Lugard

was given the title of Governor- of Abinger, for- General, a post which he held Governor until 1919, when he retired from Hongkong, the Colonial Service. Through- yho, despite the out his AfricanTM administrations, fact that he is he strove to improve the condition nearly 79 years of the native races, holding that of age, still Britain's object should be to make takes 1 keen, the native a better and more eff- and active in- cient African, and not an imita

Im- :erest in

tion European. perial affairs. A recent letter from His Lord- ship shows that, though he has een out of of icial life for than at present to safeguard the his female ancestry) now does his of the Central Bank, Shanghai: he is extremely busy attending slitule for the study of African

Yuan; Governor Count Clana. a man to watch. some 15 years, community. Our streets are de-fighting in the realms of finance. 1933, delegate to the Work various committees dealing with Anitely dirtier than in other Manager of the local branch of days, with germ-laden dust being the National City Barik of New Economic Conference; 1932 on African affairs and other Empire

wards, Executive Member of constantly whisked into the air York, he was born 53 years ago the National Economic Council;

As a soldier, Baron Lugard did Uildington. Lanarkshire; by past-moving traffic. The of-in

polished off his education at Chairman of the Board of Direc- much "shirt-sleeve work for the ficial arguments against street-Glasgow University; served in 28 tors of the Bank of China. Empire in his early days.. * He watering are by no means con-branches of the British

Linen To-day, Mr. Soong's financial was badly wounded when in 1888 vincing: as we have previously Bank and came East in 1903 to prestige is playing a great part in he led an expedition against Arab had occasion to remark, the join the International Banking and the Ilongkong business com. Two years later, he was sent by the rehabilitation of Kwangtung, slave traders in Nyassaland. swilling down of the main Corporation. That bank was thoroughfares at night from the later assimilated by the National munity evidenced their interest in the British East African Com- | hydrants would certainly not in-City Bank of New York and since his participation by the welcome pany to Uganda, where he put an

volve unduly heavy expenditure, then. Mr. MeLay has spent most

| (deriving his clan name through

Some of the side-lanes connect-of his time here in their service. ing the principal streets in the

A keen sicer player in his heart of the city are in a dis-younger days, he now finds golf graceful condition, being used. his best recreation and photo- as they are, for all manner of graphy a pleasant hobby. filthy purposes. Neither in ali.

ernment; Vice- President, ther acting Presi dent, of the Executive

matters.

BULLS AND INNERS

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From the

ness nor in general cleanliness are our sider markets anything tendered to certain restaurant- like what they should be keepers to provide special show-

Hoo's yer held? happily, those situated in the cases with covers protecting the

D D central district and in Wanchai food from dust.. It is high time,

Somobody's advertising for are to make way for more too, that measures were devised white elephants. Seems a bit late modern structures. Another for combufting certain age-old

now that they're pulling down the source of possible infection is to Chinese agricultural methods City Hall. be found in the numerous which inevitably result in in-

Such Like hawkers stalls scattered all over fection of vegulables. the city, many of them un-practices ought not to be tolerat-haggis has now been folded licensed. In one raid on suched any longer. In short, there and put away for next year.

O structures this week, when the is an obvious call for a survey of

"The Man Who Could Work under - boards were

removed the whole question of protection kerosene had to be poured on the of food suplies from possible rubbish which had gathered, so danger. There is admittedly a terrible was the stench. Opon limit to what can be done. but, food shops also invite contamina- in a matter of this kind, financial tion of comestibles

the tents

of the Arabs, 1ի

Miracies" has been een by Ilong kong this week. Seems just the fellow to put in charge of a clean- up of our dirty streets.

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Office Butts

There were no candidates for the vacancy On the Licensing Board. Total abstainers!

In 1922, Sir Frederick wax appointed a member of the Per- manent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations, in which capacity he rendered yeomun service; in 1926 he was elected Chairman of the Executive of the newly-founded International In- languages and culture. He was Old residents of Hongkong still made a Baron two years later. have happy memories of his Gov- ernorship here. A First Lord's

Commendation

Commander I. W. Whitehorn. has been appointed to command H.M.S. Terror, the monitor sin- tioned as the base ship at Singa-

pore.

He will succeed Commander C. B. C. Swayne who was appoint- ed in April 1935. It is under-' stood that Commander Whitehorn will not be leaving England for some time. He has been serving on H.M.S. 'Comorant,

Commander Whitehorn, receiv- e carly promotion.to the rank in June, 1926, when in conimand of the gunboat Cockchafer in China. Autitle Cyclone wants to know for his prompt and firm handling when Simbolgi is likely to crupt of the situation when Mr. Hawley, again.

Jan American citizen, was mur- dered at Wan Hsien. His action The cancellation of shore leave led to the two men primarily re- to men of the Mediterranean Fleet

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was officially described as being sponsible being brought to justice due to meteorological rather than and executed, and his conduct political reasons. Naturally, it was commended by the First Lord caused a depression amongst the in the House of Commons, He has since served with the Austen- lian Navy, has been executive

ratings.

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The German-Japanese Alliance officer of the cruiser Devonshire,

is said to resemble an iceberg in and commanded the minesweeper

LTD. in mices offered for considerations should be definite who offered a patent cigarette some respects. But that doesn't Albur

should like to see a general order safeguarding of the community lighter, sald he preferred a Safety necessarily mean that it'll be a along the lines of the advice! from preventable danger.

First.

frost.

"Pop" Parker