1937-03-27 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Saturday, MARCH 27, 1936.

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ANNOUNCEMENT.

DOISE SUTTON-The engagement

IK announced between David Diedrich, eldest son of the late Shanghai, and Mary, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stay-Sutton, London, England.

Mr. Dolise and Mrs. Lacher of

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These Names Make News

China's "Lord Mayor Of Lon- don" Accepts Governorship

Mayor Wu Tel-chen of Shang

Ond of Mr. Wu's most im- In addition to her skating It was, he who conceived the portant missions in the field of tennis and is fond of an outdoor swamp and mud-flat at Kallang Cecilia dances, swims, plays idea of turning many acres of national diplomacy was a task life.

into a great civil airport, with assigned to him by General Chiang Kai-shek. The latter eribes a night at Earl's Court, neighbouring Kallang basin.”

This is how an expert des facilities for flying boats in the sent him to Mukden to secure London, where world champion- the co-operation of Marshal ships are decided. Chang ILsuch-liang in the sup

pression of the Northern Mili-

Consider one pair only-Maxi

It was Sir Cecil who had the courage to go ahead with the gigantic task, when there were some who felt that the dif-

tary Coalition set up in Peking Herber and Ernest Baier, the culties were overwhelming. in 1930 in opposition to the 1937, Fraulein Herber in grey, will be opened with all due world's champions of 1986 and Central Government at Nan- her partner in black. As the

In a month or two Kallang king,

Mr. Wu succeeded, Chang Hsuch-llung sent troops south Ward and the Coalition Govern- ment was crushed.

Mr. Wu Teh-chen was ap pointed Mayor of Greater Shanghai in 1931 as a

reward for his services,"

music began we saw them des- ceremony. High tributes will criba a sweeping are as if a pair deservedly be paid to the great of compass had traced the curve feats of engineering that have upon the ice. We saw them given Singapore 1111 airport leap and twirl; we saw them second to none on her very door-

leaves floating towards, each other like step. Will Sir Cecil's part be

down a swiftly-moving remembered then?' current.

As already reported in The Sunday Times it has been de- If you have seen a pencil, cided that Kallang will have no finely-pointed, scoring its thin special name-just Singapore hair-line across a virgin sheet, Airport-but if this city and the if you have seen a swallow's Colony desire to commemorate flight, a awan's stately progress. Sir Cecil's brilliant conception MAYOR Wu Tch-chen of

a racing yacht heeling towards and foresight, the powers-that- Greater Shanghai who has CECILIA Colledge, Premier the water, you will understand be might consider whether Kal- accepted the Governorship of British figure skater and a what true skating is what it lang might not very appro- Kwangtung has a name which streng contender for world was at Earl's Court that night. priately be called Clementi Field.

in holds one of the most Important Jobs In China. Tact and strength are his main as-,

ясія.

Hongkong Telegraph. national fame.

Saturday, March 27, 1937.

SPEED LIMITS'

Having been strong advocates of the imposition of a speed limit for all built-up areas in the Colony, in line with the policy adopted at Home, we welcome the early prospect of regulations

Cecilia-Coming Queen

Of The Ice

Bound For Spain

is a household word in Shanghai, honours, was born in 1921, the Although Wu Tel-chen had daughter of Lionel Colledge, a skating we watched the judges. still those little matters of the In the intervals between the But perhaps not. There are. held several high official posts, Wimpole St. surgeon. Until it was as Mayor of Shanghai 1928 she had never even seen a They move to the sound of the down.

These officials are well trained, mountain and the pier to live during the Sino-Japanese hosti- skater. Then while watching" lities in 1932, that he won inter- the British women's Champion- but form fours. Last night Retired Naval Officers

whistle. They do everything ship contest in London in 1928 He is Mayor not of the Inter- "I do want to skate like those

when she said to her mother: they acted as sandwichmen."

The explanation? You find it national Settlement and the French Concession, which have

girls."

in this passage from the rules: PETIRED naval officers of all

for the "The procedure is their own municipal adminstra-

ranks, from Admirals to That year, at the age. of tions, but of Greater Shanghai, seven, she began to skate. referee to blow a whistle, on warrant officers, are volunteer- which includes the surrounding When she was only 10, she hearing which the judges turn ing to act as observers for the native areas. The Mayor of this won the National Skating As individually exhibit one or two in the Spanish Civil war.

their backs to each other and Committee for Non-Intervention municipality holds a position as sociation's gold medal for figure important in China as that of skating in international style, numbered cards to indicate the Between 300 and 400 letters:

being the youngest British mark given. The cards printed have been sent to retired naval skater ever to receive the award. in black indicate the whole In the same year she was third numbers and those in red the officers by the Royal Naval and in the British women's cham- decimal points.

Lord Mayor, London.

During the hostilities, in the course of which the thriving commercial and industrial dis

These marks

Royal Mariné Civil Employment Committee. These letters ex-

to this effect being put into trict of Chapel was being shell. Pionship. At the age of 12 she are noted by secretaries on a lained the nature of the tasks force. All motor vehicles, whened to destruction, Mr. Wu did prevent a general moving within urban areas on exodus of Chinese from Nantao both sides of the harbour, will and other Chinese suburbs.

his best to

At the same time he worked miles-per-hour.- Superimposed with all the energy he could

was runner-up to Sonia Henje, specially-prepared form. the Norwegian girl, in the Sir Cecil Clementi European championship.

"Head In Clouds

In 1934 she again held the same position to Sonia in the European championship and the

championship,

MANY of Hongkong's Gover- nors have gone on to posi-

to be performed and called for volunteers. With two or three days, over 200 retired officers of the Royal Navy had offered their services. They included several warrant officers. Among several officers of flag rank and

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Born in the Southern province

Victoria Cross.

Capt. Smyth was for some years Secretary of the National Association for the employment of Ex-regular Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen.

the Colonial service of the |ment compelling drivers to keep

A good deal of Cecilia's train. Empire but few showed such

Captain Malcolm H. S. Mac- their speeds down to even lower of Kwangtung in 1888, Mr. Wa ing was done in London under promise as Sir Cecil Clementi,

donald, D.S.O., RN, has been limits when within specified attended a military academy in

the guidance of an expert now retired.

appointed Administrator of the brought from Switzerland. Sir Cécil was Governor of British observers, and he will control areas. In other words, Japan and on his return to Cecilia was selected as a mem- Malaya after a long term in have as his Deputy Administra-

China took an active part in the although thirty miles is to be revolutionary movement against ber of the British Olympic team Hongkong in which he rose tor Captain A. H. Smyth, R.N. for the 1936 games when she from cadetto high office. A Captain Macdonald was Naval the limit of urban areas gener-the Manchu dynasty in 1911.

was placed second in the wo- writer in a Malayan paper Adviser to the British High ally, that does not mean that this In 1914, when the new Chin men's event of the European makes appropriate reference to Commissioner at Constantinople, speed can be adopted where the ese republic had been in figure skating championships him which I give below:

from 1921 to. 1923. He was Berlin. The winner limit is specifically laid down as existence for three years, he held in

Sir Cecil's critics have so afterwards British representa- was sent to Honolulu to expound was again Sonia Henje. A slip twenty miles. For ourselves, the principles of the Kuomin- on

that he might, tive at the Montreux Conference the ice cost Cecilia the often told us we should have preferred the tang (Chinese Nationalist Par- ladies' figure skating Olympic have been a truly great adminis- f last year. Institution of a flat twenty miles ty) to the Chinese inhabitants title, Sonia winning it with six trator, if his head had not been there. Returning to China two points more than her English in the clouds of scholarship, yet limit in all urban areas, but the years later, he became coun- rival, who, however, gave the Sir Cecil, could be severely variation from the idea in the sellor of the military govern- more original exhibition.

ment at Canton and in 1920 was new rules shortly to be brought into force should at any rate serve to lessen traffic dangers in the busiest districts of the Mr. Wu then regarded as island and the mainland. It one of the "coming men" of the Kuomintang, was given several has been established at Home other important posts, including that the imposition of speed- that of commander of the 1st. limits has been followed by a Independent Division of the Revolutionary Army, which marked decrease in the number later was to sweep the Peking of accidents on the roads. Government out of power and Figures show that while the place the country, nominally at least, under the administration proportion of seriously injured at Nanking.

to slightly injured is 32 per cent.

in the case of speed-limit roads,

appointed adjutant to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the rt- public.

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practical.

BULLS AND INNERS

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From the

the Office Butts

About 180 observers would be needed to supervise the land frontier between Spain and Portugal. These will all be British and will be drawn almost entirely from rotired officers of the Royal Navy and the Customs Service.

For the supervision of ships bound to Spanish ports a large- During last week's Auntle Cyclone thought number of observers would be required, as two supervisors will be allocated to every mer- manoeuvres, one or two couples parasite was a native of Paris. motoring back to Kowloon after

O 0 dark were "captured," in case

chant vessel passing through they happened to be enemy in- Judging from what we've seen certain areas and bound for Which only at Fanling at times, it takes Spain. One of these areas, Later Mr. Wu 'became a mem-telligence officers.

more than going through the which will effect all shipping of Committee,

the Central be.

motions of golf to make you a from the Baltic and North Sea, golfer.

is to be The Downs.

It is anticipated that. 220 "Aberdeen Saves £10,000," supervisors and 330 assistant- says headline in Home paper supervisors will be required to We'll bet it does; and doesn't operate from this area and the take long over it, either.

majority of these are likely to

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it is 155 per cent. on roads with-ber of the Central Executive shows how unromantic war can out a limit. This serves to con- Political Council and of the firm what might reasonably be Legislative Yuan. expected that the greater the

Other couples had to stay out nearly all night to get the full speed, the more severe the in- jury. There has been an agita- move is a step in the right direc-benefit of the "black-out."

tion, and experience may war-

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Oxford bags provide the only

be retired British Naval officers. Rates of pay will vary accord-

tion in some quarters at Home rant an eventual lowering of the that the thirty-mile limit is limit. Meanwhile, it would ap

The real difficulty of getting really too high for built-up are-pear about time to modify the to know the truth about the as, it being stated that in popu- fifteen-mile limit applying to Spanish war is that so many association with Oxford evering to the duties involved, a lous areas in the United States lorries. No lorry anywhere people, far removed from the enjoyed by some of our young supervisor on board ship being the limit is usually twenty or observes this requirement, which information on the subject.

scene of hostilities, have inside bloods who have been boasting paid at the rate of $350 per twenty-five miles. Tho arguis obviously impracticable. That ment applies with even greater lorries are perhaps the biggest force to Hongkong, where the menace on our roads will scarce-

A man made almost '-'dally

If somebody'r not careful. ineligible for pensions and re- majority of pedestrians have not ly be disputed, but to fix a limit trips from Canton to commit the same degree of traffic-sense which is never likely to be petty thefte in Hongkong. That's these scrap metal thieves will tired pay as would be the case one of the risks we run in try-be_running off with the giant if they accepted remunerative as those in England and obeyed is to invito contempt for ing to make the Colony popular crane at the Naval Yard ons of employment under the Crow America. However, the present the law.

Pop Park

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so loudly about the boat race annum. This will ultimately be paid by the. Non-Intervention victory.

Committee, so that retired 口

Naval officers will not become.