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FRIDAY,

Y'S MEN ELECT OFFICERS

Prior to the General Meeting held by the Y's Men's Club for the election of officials and directors for the year 1038 at the St. Franels Hotel yester➡ day, the President, Dr. F. I. Tseung gave short speech. He remarked

at the year that

1037 hnd

not been marked by any special activity, al- though towards the latter half of the

the year Y's Men's Club Revue at the Queen's Theatre had raised over $2,600 for North China relief work.

DECEMBER 31, 1937.

STOCK EXCHANGE CHEERFUL

London, Dec. 30.- Several factors combined 10 Impart a more cheerful undertone to the London Stock Exchange to-day, but business continued to bo small, with end of account influences causing some irregularity.

Home

Rails were particularly firm on the excellent hollday trame receipts, Commodities and cocon were firm on Continental buying and covering, but Jute cased "sharply In The Club has recently been up-sympathy with Calcutta. Cotton and pointed a branch of the Hongkong rubber, ratlled alightly. New York Branch of the National Liberty Bond opened firm.-Reuter's Special, Commission, and already over $1,000 had been subscribed to by the mem- bern.:

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The officers for 1938 are:-

WEATHER WILL

BE MODERATE

The temperature as recorded by the Royal Observatory at 10 a.m. to- day was the same as yesterday's Agure, 00 degrees.

Mr. Peter H. Sin, (President) Mr. David W. K. Au (1st Vice-President), Dr. T. Y. Li (2nd Vice-President), Mr. S. B. Tan (Hon. Secretary), Mr. C. P. Wong. (Asst. Hon. Secretary), Mr. Ramson Kant (Hon. Treasurer), and Mr. Wm. G. Poy, Dr. S. P. Li, Mr. S. F.. Yan, Mr. J. T. Choy, Dr. For the 24 hours ending at 10 am. K. W. Chaun, Mr. Chan Kwan-poto-day 0.01 inch of rain fell, making (Directors). Ex-officer, Dr. F. 1. the total rainfall since January 1 of Tseung (Ex-President).

$2.50 inches against an average of 85.12 Inches.

FISHING BOAT SEIZED

Los Angeles, Dec. 30. Federal agents seized a Japanese Ashing boat to-day.

It was anchored in Los Angeles harbour.

The owner is said to be an alien named S. Nakawa-United Press,

DEATH SENTENCE

FOR ARAB

Haifa, Dec. 30, Sentence of death has been passed by the Military Court at Nazareth on an Arab arrested in possession of a rifle and ammunition in the recent operations in the hills of Galilee. Renter.

SHIPS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

To-day's weather report states that the anti-cyclone Is moving eastwards, and pressure is now highest over the Yellow Sea, Karea and South Japan.

Local forecast-East. winds, derate; cloudy generally.

mo-

Teruel Battle Continues With Heavy Losses

Madrid, Dec. 30. There has been little change in the situation around Teruel dur- ing the last 24 hours, though flerce fighting is in progress.

Reports indicate that the In- surgents are still holding out in some sections of the town, while both the Government and the Insurgenta claim to have infileted heavy losses on the enemy. —— Reuter.

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to be in wireless communication with dicating Kwangtung's preparedness NOBLE MAY COMMAND war.

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The following ships are expected

Hongkong radio: Minoo Conte Verde, President Hoover, for eventualities. Santos Maru, Sagres, Paul Döumer. Nancy Moller, Yalou, Nellore, Sul- yang.

Anhui, Tisaroen, Antenor, Fushimi Maru,

Hankow Rd., Kowloon.

PROBABLE CHOICE

The two others are still active but it is the younger of them (Vico- Admiral Noble) on whom the choice. would probably fall.

"The naval system of selection for Important commands takes little notice of the effcer's position in the seniority list."

It is notable, however, that the

WAR NAVY shipment of millions of silver coins to

(Continued from Page 1) the interior is still continuing despite the fact that the Bank of Canton is Admiralty and Government of the at present completing two immense

of the China bombproof dugouts, the tops of which future Importance

Squadron, and particularly of Hong- consist of twelve feet of reinforced Rong and Singapore, geoms indicated, concrete, costing $150,000. The clly "Had there been a

new war in Government is constructing addi- about 1025 the successor to Jellicoe tional shelters, apparently in anticipa-would have been an admiral who bad one good work In minor The tranquil Anglo-French islet, commands in the Great War," says the Shameen, which is likely to be the Express writer, in trouble in the event of hostilities engulfing the surrounding Chinese cities, is sheltering the majority of convictions, which is half of the usual number new Commander-in-Chief for the Fleets, the China Station is the most

Sentence of a week's hard labour and eight strokes of the cane was inflicted on Keng Kwok, 18, un- employed, by Mr. Forrest at the Central Magistracy.this-morning, when the youth appeared on remund, charged with the theft of an earring valued at $15 from Lau King-ho, 45, married woman, at

Road Queen's West on December 28.

tion of increasing alr raids,

Canton's foreign residents, some 700,

With six previbus three of which were for breach of the deportation ordinance, a man named LI Shu-chuen, aged 19, unemployed, he

The strategie landing places on the

Of this total there are 70 Americans. There are 177 more in nearby cities.

protected

arc now

"He is now on the retired list and in the last ten years the Admiralty has three times marked out a possible

emergency of war.

Vice-Admiral Noble is expected to relieve Admiral Sir Charles Little in Hongkong in April. He will be 50 in January and has just relin- quished the post of Fourth Sea Lord. During the Great War he was commander of the cruiser Achilles and Courageous.

After the Home and Mediteranean

important of the British

naval "Each of them has been given commands afloat, and, includes some opportunities for command of 76 units of all types, among them was sentenced to 12 months' hard Shamcen

by different squadrons and fleets so as being the 5th Cruiser Squadron, 8th labour by Mr. K. Keen at the Kow-barbed wire, and the authorities, are to obtain all the training possible. Destroyer Flotilla, 18-gunboats nor- loon Magistracy to-day "for having dally increasing the entanglements. The oldest of the three has now mally stationed in the Yangtse and returned to the Colony after he had There are gunboats off the Bund reached the age at which it is West Rivers, 4th Submarine Fiotilla, been bunished for life on July 20, three British and one American.-practically certain that he would not and the 2nd Mine-sweeping Flotilla 1037,

be considered equal to the strain of at Singapore.

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