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OLDSMOBILE MOTOR CARS G. M. C. MOTOR TRUCKS
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1927. PRICE. $3.00 Per Month.
MONEY FOR WORKS. “OUR BETTY” WINS.
N. LAZARUS.
Hong Kong's Only European Optician- Established Over Forty Years Manager Ralph A. Cooper, M.A.0.A.
Registered Optometrist (Canada).
'NOT A GESTURE.
No. 25,650
FIRED ON.
Flagship & Destroyer Attacked Below Nanking.
ADMIRAL ON BOARD.
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"Noa" Looses 3,000 Rounds at Nationalists.
BOTH PARTIES, SNIPING AT SHIPS ON YANGTSZE.
The American flagship "Isabe!" and the destroyer "Noa" were very heavily fired on by Nationalists' troops below Nanking whilst on convoy duty. The latter replied with over 3,000 rounds.
News of Northern troop movements is at last to hand. It ap- pears that some of these forces have crossed the Yangtsze at various points. Naval wireless despatches confirm the suspicion that they are severing the railway lines on the south side of the river, prob- ably with the intention of cutting off the Nationalists' retreat. Not much opposition from the Southern armies seems to have been en- countered as yet.
Further confirmation has been received regarding the capture of Tungchow by the Northerners. The place referred to is the fair sized city 50 miles or so north-west of Shanghai and not the town away up in the Shensi province.
SUN ADVANCING.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
The American flugship "Isabel,"
with Admiral Hough aboard, and
Kuomintang Manifesto.
Hankow, Aug. 20. The manifesto published to-day
BANK SCANDAL,
Hong Kong Govt. To Raise $5,000,000.
Doing Well In American
Championship. ‹
Indian Councillor Arrested.
Mrs. Rakusen Gets A Divorce.
IN LAST EIGHT.
MILL TRANSACTIONS.
Bengal Bank Manager Yields To Police.
LIVED IN SHANGHAI.
Woman Who Was "Darling Of English Colony."
San Francisco.
THE AERODROME.
Water Works And Harbour To Be Mrs. Mallory Meets With Surprise
Developed.
Defeat.
London Yesterday. Miss Betty Nuthall, who, though
4.* *
Calcutta, Yesterday.
H.K. REALTY CO.
Local Firm Now Turns The Corner.
TO-DAY'S MEETING.
Credit Balance Allocated To Reserve And New Account.
The fourth annual general
A bill will be introduced into the Legislative Council on
B. K. Lahiri, a Bengal Legisla- Life as a bride in Shanghai was meeting of the Hong Kong Realty September 1 making provision}
director of the Bengal Lakshmi Marie L. Rakusen, she testified Exchange Building this morning. for a loan of $5,000,000 for the the youngest competitor, distintive councillor, and ex-managing far more than a gesture for Mrs. and Trust Co., Ltd., was held at carrying out of certain public guished herself at the Wimbledon Cotton Mills and director of the before Superior Judge Johnson. works, as follow:--
lawn tennis tournament, this sea- Bengal National Bank which re- After hearing her story, he
The Chairman said :— cently closed its doors and was granted her a divorce from As the report and accounts compulsorily liquidated, was ar-Charlesworth Percival Rakusen, have been in your hands for rested on a charge arising out of to whom she was married in San several days, I will, with your transactions relating to the cotton Francisco, in April 1920. mills.
(1) Water works de- (2) Aerodrome and
velopment ............. $3,500,000
harbour develop- ment
(3) Other public
works...
1,000,000
500,000
The first item relates to the figure of $3,500,000 is believed Shing Mun water scheme, and the
to be a fairly close estimate.
The second item includes thej contribution of the Colony to the formation of an aerodrome, which! will be partly for military pur- poses and partly for civil pur- poses. It also includes certain dredging operations which will be useful both for the development of the harbour and for the pur- pose of forming the aerodrome. This item cannot at present be precisely estimated.
The third item, "Other public works," is perfectly general, but the destroyer "Nou," of Nanking by the Political Council of the provides that no expenditure is section 3 (1) of, the Ordinance fame when convoying three Bri- Kuomintang regarding the trans-to be incurred in respect of this tish merchantmen from Nanking | fer of the Nationalist capital to Bo Shanghai were very heavily Nanking, is composed of some been approved by a resolution of the Legislative Council and by fired on by the Nationalists 40 1,200 words. Below is a. re- the Secretary of State.
miles below Nanking. The gun-sume:---
None of the Americans were in-
A "Non" officer reports that all foreign shipping in the Nanking section of the river is again sub- ject to attacks by both Northern- ers and Nationalists, and that navies may resume convoying for- eign merchantmen plying on the river. Reuter.
•
Item unless such expenditure has
As it is obviously impossible to
the Shing Mun scheme, and as the
..
Our
OUR $50 PRIZE.
Mrs. Rakusen was Miaa Marie permission, treat the same as B. N. Bannerjee, managing. Crawford when she became the read:-The Report of the au- director of the Bengal National bride of Rakusen, an Englishman, ditore is as follows:— Bank and a director of Lakshmi in China as an exporter of things
"We report that We have Cotton Mills, has surrendered to artistic. They departed for
Reuter.
Council Prorogued.
the police in connection with a Shanghai, she testified, and al- audited the above balance sheet warrant on a similar charge, most immediately her husband with the books and vouchera began to get sullen, merose and of the Company and that rough, both verbally and physical-in our opinion such balance Calcutta, Yesterday. ly.
sheet is properly drawn The Muslim Minister Guznavi There was no provocation for up so as to exhibit a true and the Hindu Minister Chakra auch demeanour, she said, and it and correct view of the state of Varty have resigned following a humiliated her greatly, for she oc- the Company's affairs at June 80, vote of non-confidence passed in cupied a prominent position in the 1997, according to the best of our the Bengal Legislative Council on English social sphere of the Chin-information and the explanation a motion of the Congress party, ese city. In fact, her witness. given to us and as shown by the The Governor, Sir Cyril Jack-Mrs. Dorothy Martinez, 940 books of the Company. We have son, has ordered the prorogation Sutter Street. testified she was obtained all the information and of the Council. Reuter.
known as the "darling of the Eng- explanations we have required.
the lish colony" and also was "object of great pity on the part of the residents there," because of the way her husband treated her.
|RHINELAND ARMIES.
GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE
CONFER
"VIRTUAL AGREEMENT."
Paris, Yesterday, The Cabinet council has de-
meeting M. Briand announced that the Anglo-French Govern- ments had virtually reached an agreement on the subject.. Reuter.
(Sd): LINSTEAD & DAVIS, chartered accounts, auditors.
I think that the balance sheet and accounts as presented, taken Finally, it was testified, came in conjunction with the amplify the last straw. At a dinner heing remarks thercon appearing in threw into her face the contents the directors' report, show com of a cocktail glass.
YOUNG MAN'S DEATH AT CHEFOO.
[From Our Own Correspondent.
prehensively the financial position
of the Company as on June 80, 1927, and in these circumstances there is no need for me to enter. into detailed explanation in con- nection therewithers
It will, no doubt, be gratifying. to shareholders to observe that the Company has now turned the corner, and that after deducting the debit balance of $32,269.89 brought forward from the pre- ceding year, and making liberal depreciation, the balance standing to the credit of profit and loss account for the year under re- age of 28. Mr. Malcolm was one view amounts to $108,777.84, which amount, your Board re- of the most popular young men commends, should be allocated as
Chefoo, Aug. 13. The death occurred at Chefoo on. Saturady, August 13; of Mr.
Reminder to Cross-Word Puzzle NEW WORLD FLIGHT. William ("Bill") Malcolm, at the
Competitors.
boats replied, the "Non" alone "Inasmuch 28 General Li foresee the exact expenditure on firing 3,000 rounds with machine Tsung-jen and other military second item in the Schedule is ad- son, has reached the fourth round liberated on the note from MR. W. MALCOLM.“ guns, rifles and Springfields. leaders of the Nanking faction, mittedly not a precise estimate, of the American women's singles Britain on the reduction of the jured but a Chinese aboard one of after General Chiang Kai-shek's provision made in scetion 3 championship. When play opened allied armies in the Rhineland the convoyed ships was hit in the resignation from the post of the (2) of the Ordinance for the yesterday all the British players and at the conclusion of the ankle by a rifle bullet.
Commander-in-Chief of the Nan-transfer of money from one item king forces, requested the Wu- of the Schedule to another, but were still in the championship Han faction to transfer the no such transfer can be made un- Nationalist capital to Nanking, less it has been approved by a the Wu-Han Government has de- resolution of the Legislative termined to remove the sites of Council and by the Secretary of the Kuomintang Central Head State. quarters as well as of the Gov.
Redeemable At Par. ernment to that city, with the ap
Sections 4 to 12 are practically proval of the Kuomintang Central copied from sections 3 to 11 of Enlarged Committee. We hereby the War Loan Ordinance, 1916, enumerate below important mat- Ordinance No. 12 of 1916. The ters to be borne in mind by all dates differ of course, but there the Kuomintang members. are no other changes of any sub-
1.-It was
stance in these nine sections. Thei matter of the loan is to be redeemable at par greatest regret that the Kuo- on November 1, 1938, but at any mintang was divided into two time after October 31, 1932, the parties. We persons, with Governor may approve of the the same end in view, must redemption by purchase of bonds hereafter strictly observed partly rules and not repeat determine, and at any time after
to such total value as he may which has never yet been won world flight to-morrow. Ren-Mr. William was only ill for a few ed in the accounts) will meet with similar mistakes in future.
October 31, 1932, he may direct an Englishwoman but after Miss Nuthall had won the opening
Northern Advance.
Shanghai, Yesterday, The Northerners crossed the Yangtse east of Nanking, near Lomeree Station, yesterday and early this morning are reported to have started crossing four miles wost of Nanking.
The railway has been cut at Anking. probably by agents of the Northerners, and has also been cut again South of Chin- kiang and a Southern armoured has been derailed.
The Shanghai Labour Union has become active and is distri- "buting propaganda.
A Japanese flying boat, believed to have come from Osaka, arrived here this afternoon.
[This is probably one of the 'planes which was sent from Japan with a view to inaugurating an aeroplane mail service with Shanghai.]
The capture of Tungchow by the Northerners is confirmed. British Naval Wireless Service.
Sun's Crosses.
Shanghai, Yesterday, Following the occupation by Sun Chuan-fang yesterday of Tungchow, 50 miles north-west of Shanghai on the north bank of the Yangtsze, comes the news of the crossing of the river at two points, one 15 miles below Nan king at Lungtan; the other. 10. miles above.
Sun Chuan-fang has apparently intentions to envelop Nanking and prevent a retreat of the defen- ders down the Shanghai-Nanking railway.
The body crossing Lungtan is reported to be cutting the line.
Northern agents are also be- lieved to be responsible for an- other cut which occurred yester day night 20 miles to the west of Shanghai resulting in the derail- ment of a slow train and the tem- porary suspension of the service. H.M.S. “Hermes" Leaving
Shanghai, Yesterday, H.M.S. "Hermes" from Shang- haf to-morrow will carry the No. 2 Flight of the RAF. Bristol Fighters are expected to be replaced shortly by other serÒ- plates from Hong Kong
These
a
The sixteenth cross-word puz- zle of the "China Mail's" new series appears to-day for the last time, and competitors are remind- ed that their entries must teach wyndham Street, not later than the "China_Mall" Office No. 6
'noon on Monday next.
TWO AMERICANS START FROM MAINE.
Old Orchard (Maine),
Yesterday..
follows:-
To transfer to gen-
eral reserve....$100,000.00
To carry forward to , new account ...
8,777.84
in Chefoo as well as being one of the port's best athletes. He was William Brock and Edward the son of Dr. Malcolm, the port monoplane, the Schlee, flying a Stimson-Detroit doctor of Chefoo, who was here "Pride of for a large number of years and Detroit" have left for Harbour was well known and respected by and I trust that this allocation Grace and Newfoundland, whence
(which; for the purpose of they expect to start a round-the-many all along the China coast. elucidation, has been incorporat-
ter's American Service.
days, dying as a result of blood-your approval. poisoning contracted from a mos-
Conserving Resources. quito bite. The funeral took place From a perusal of the report;
the same evening at the East
2.-The split of the Kuomintang drawings by lot of bonds to such
was utilised by Imperialists. total value as he may determine. match of the day against Miss They despatched troops to The interest on the loan is to be Penelope Anderson, of Virginia, UNKNOWN SOLDIER, Beach Cemetery and members of $51,218.50 was retired from the Shantung and other parts-of-6-per-cent, North China, with the result!
all-her-countrywomen-were-beaten.
Section 12 of the War Loan Miss Nuthall's victory takes the that the falling fortunes of Ordinance, 1916, when exempted girl champion of England into the Chang Tso-lin, Chang Taung- from all taxation the bonds last eight-British Wireless Ser- chang, and Sun Chuan-fang issued under that Ordinance, is
vice. have revived. It was the not repeated in the present Or greatest obstacle to our revo-1-dinance.
SURPRISE DEFEAT OF...
MRS. MALLORY.NE
TOMB RECONSECRATED
BY M. POINCARE.
Paris, Yesterday.
all the communities attended to pay their last respects.
M. Poincare, accompanied by BRICK WORKS SOLD. four ministers, formally recon- secrated the tomb of the "Unknown Soldier" which the rioters profaned by spitting. The remained silent in
Ministers Forrest Hills, Yesterday. In the national lawn tennis meditation for several minutes. Then M. Poincare laid a wreath adorned with the colours of the Republic on the tomb.-Reuter.
lutionary movement. There- Section 13 and 15 of the pre- fore, the most important aent Ordinance are copies of duty for us to do, after the sections 13 and 14 of the War unification of our party, is to Loan Ordinance, 1916. Section resist invasion by Imperial 15 of this Ordinance exempts ists and purify the remnants from military contribution all championship Mrs. Chapin beat of the militarists.
moneys appropriated out of re- Mrs. Mallory, the champion, 6-3, venue for the payment of interest 1-6, 6-4. on the bonds and the formation of the sinking fund, and also the
Forrest Hills, Yesterday, Interest on
any investments)
Beatty Nuthall beat Eleanor Goes representing the sinking fund..
Section 14 of the Ordinance
| 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.
Betty is the only European-left makes this loan a trustee invest and will meet Miss Chapin to ment.
morrow in the semi-finals..
Miss Helen Wills meets. Miss Helen Jacobs Reuter's American Ser vice,
Against Communists. 3-As the remnants of the Communists are hiding in various places, and are watching for an opportunity, we must devise strict mea sures against them: 4-The late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, president of our party, de- sired us to govern the coun-
try by the Kuomintang. To JAPAN TO SHANGHAL realise his desire we must, first of all rule over the RECORD FLIGHT WITH armies. There are two mean-
SIX PERSONS. ings in ruling the armies:
one is that the military pow er must be used only for the
Betty Wins.
Nationals Doubles.
VISCOUNT CECIL.
RUMOUR OF CABINET RESIGNATION.
CASTLE PEAK LOT FETCHES
HIGH PRICE.
YESTERDAY'S AUCTION.
you will observe, that the sum of
mortgage indebtedness of the In Company on April 30 last. this connection, you will doubtless recollect that when I addressed you from the chair at the last annual general meeting of the
Company, held on November 6, 1926, I pointed out that a further sum of $250,000 would fall due for retirement on April 80, 1928, and that the balance then out- standing and
amounting to $500,000 would mature on April 30, 1980. We must, therefore, The brick works and factory of for the present, conserve our the Chen Kwong Ceramics Co.. cash resources in order to meet Ltd, situated at Castle Peak, the first of the above mentioned were sold by auction yesterday at obligations. This factor, conse- the auction rooms of Messrs. quently, precludes. your Board Lammert Bros...
from recommending any distri
The property consists of seven button to shareholders at the Lots in Demarcation District No. moment. I would add, however, 131, one of the Lots being sub- that so soon as the mortgage in- ject to a covenant whereby the debtedness of the Company shall tenant must erect a building of have been reduced to $500,000 Viscount Cecil has not denied at least $6,800 in value before your Board will naturally be de- or refused to confirm the strong July 25, 1928. An area of sirous of placing the Company on
London, Yesterday.
In the national doubles Miss Fry rumours that he has resigned 1,130,592 square feet is compris- a dividend paying basis. and Nuthall beat Miss Mallory and from the Cabinet. It is rumoured ed in the property.
| Mies Bouman 6-4; 7-8, 4
I am pleased to be able to in There are erected on the form you that Exchange: Build- premises brick kilns, machinery ing and the Bungalows on house and machinery, trucks and R.B.L. No, 200 at Repulse Bay rail tracks, waggons, barges, a are now fully occupied, and al- junk and other appurtenances though rentals are not entirely up for manufacture, transport etc. to our expectations, the fact that ARGENTINIAN GOLD The upset price was $60,000, we have recently been compelled
Mr. Godfree and Mrs. Harvey he disagreed with his colleagues Shanghai, To-day beat Miss Margaret Blake and Miss regarding the League of Nations. The Dornier-Wal plane flying Anna Hubbard 6-0, 6-3-Reuter's Reuter. party's objects, and the from Japan alighted at Whangpo American Service. other is that the armies must last night, making the flight from qet sincerely and obey the Fukuoka to Shanghai in the re- orders of the party. Inas-cord time of 51⁄2 hours with six much as the placing partyrsons aboard. Reuter. under the military will result)
in predominance of new mill- tarista, such a system must be avoided."
be
TODAY'S DOLLAR,
The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 1/11 7/16.
BANDIT'S VICTIM DIES.
Washington, Yesterday.
Japan Eliminated.
Boston, Yesterday. France beat Japan in the Davis Cup Interzone final Brignon and Cochet beat Harada and Ohta 9-7, 6-1, 6-2.
Hiss Anderson, the American wo man mentioned in the train outrage on August 26 is dead. The Ameri- can Embassy at Mexico City, has winds may be expe made representations for the cap ture of the bandita Reuters to-mor American Service.
Latest Observatory
FAIR WEATHERMENE
Fair weather
PAPER PESO NOW CONVERTIBLE
and this was at once raised to to turn away prospective tenants, $70,000. From this paint bid more particularly in respect of ding progressed by stages of enquirica for up-to-date office $500, with an occasional: $1,000, premises, not only augurs well until the figure, of $98,500 was the future of your unde A Presidential decree reopens arrived at At this stage there but also convincingl the conversion
resson
Buenos Aires, Yesterday,
urrency, which
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office for gold was a jump to $100,000; this be strates closed down Ing followed by a final bidarar central paper peso is other $1,000 at which they Into 44 cen party was knocked downl Imerican Messrs "Yu Yik-yam and
luen for $101,0003
of Its tions and its high odation, your Centerpri
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