The Archive · 1932

MACAO NOTES

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Macao, July 11.

Twenty tve years ago three Saleists arrived in Bacay.

abllsh a Salesian Institate in ths sty and now they are. celebrating their "Silver Jubii. On dune 28 ult." Bishop Valtorta of Hongkong arrived together with the band of St. Lewis Tndastslat Schoo! to take Part in the celebrations. 'Together vith the students of Macao of the same Institate they' went frst of all to"pay' their respects to His Lon ship BD, Sous da Costa Nunes, Muntcipal Gounelly where. they were re-cived by the chairman, Mr. Tf.

Siva' and other metibers of the 'Council, Messrs. A, "Alexandrine de Mele, B. do-Sena Fernandes and J. J. de' Lima Gracias, After bel fevtained bythe Chal the counelliers they went finally the "Palace of' Santa. Sancho where they were received by Antonio Jose Bernardes de Afi Governor of Macao. noon a. big crowd. was" present, to witness. the distribution "of prizes and dit by the students and very body: Toft the institute. very much Impressed, H Es the Governor with his A-D.G. algo' were. present. "At ight the band of St" Lewis Industrial "School. gave a' concert, but unfortunately after. three numbers of the "excellent programme Fain Started to fall and all' present had to'retire. On June 30a solemn highs mace was sung by the Bishop Jat" Shin-Chow and-at ® pum, there vas a concert by the Buewo' Muni 2 wBrettejohn refused. te rive' out oe Finking, nese play was The [trid all Tet the ap [cibol Band. On the Inst day a Chi-given by the students the work done by the Salesian Tasttate, surprised correspondent was present, and for part of the time, Mr. Steele, who has become famous through his Visit to General Ma Chan-sha The "Harbin Times" now comes out with an article in which they the Japanese adviser to formed them that en taken from Mr. house and these. b pier of courte tres to. give. the impression that all these are-Communist papers and not Customs do-cements, The report on the visit of the Japanese Police Adviser and the Japanese consular secretary was written in such a manner as to lead people to suppose that Hie: Prettejohn was to blame for all his actions, exactly the contrary is the The threats to deport him or 3 other drastic measures will pr ably all end in the same manner a9 the eases of Dr. Lindt and Mr. Steele. The arrest of s0. many Gustoms men is simply a continua: tion of the attack on Mr. Prottojohn, the whole of the staff having remained loyal to him, refusing to work in the Manchukio Customs.

'During the whole of the time that the search of the houses was being made, many aeroplanes soared over= head,' fying over the district where the main Custom house is. situated, and over the houses being searched Whether this was done simply for show, or og a precaution in case of something happening, is not known.

The second sensation was the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway Wharves and warehouses on the Sungari river banks, these generally being known as the sth Section of Harbin. At the beginning of the present navigation season the Manchukuo authorities took over the whole of the river front for city a couple of days ago and re Teal ing-kai arrived in this jeeived a warm reception from the Chinese population. Long before the str. Venezia arrived in the wharf, a big crowd gathered there and as the steamer came in sight, fire Jcrackers were set off and cheers Jarose from the crowd. The Police Jauthorities. took -all®precautions to jaitord protection to the visitor and when he stepped on shore, he was received. by the Commissioner of Police, Chairman of the Chinese JCommercial Association and. pro-Iminent members of the Chinese the wharf to the immense crowd in the streets was by Jand when they reached the Asso-Jciation a reception was held in_his honour. 'The chairman Mr. Fan /Kit-pang welcomed the General, The General in reply said that if China' were united much could be expected from the Chinese army. He said that during the recent fight Jagainst the Japanese, they had to retreat several times, because the equipment of the Japanese army }was of the most modern type and the Chinese "were" handicapped in this direction.

In the afternoon Gen. Tsai Ting-kai called on the Governor and later he attended a big dinner given by his friends and admirers. At six General Tsai Tingekai Tete Zor Hongkong by Venezia deeply touch-fed by the warm reception, received rom, the, Chinese community.

itis with regret that the dea

Jcontracted pneumonia only a few De, 5.F. do Amaral is recorded. He days ago which soon developed into double-pneumonia, Dr. J.-C. Soares, iwas summoned but in spite of all his efforts, Dr, do Amaral died.

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