Buick
Each year the burning question among those who follow closely te changing trends of motordom is, "What Will Buick Do?" Now Buick for 1928)ls here. The all-important fquestion is answered-and answered In
a way that is thrilling the world.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
83, Wong Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley.
China Mail
ISHED
1945
No. 25,769 HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928.
DANGER OVER:
IRONSIDES OUT OF KWANGTUNG.
FRIENDLY RELATIONS.
Reports from reliable sources are encouraging as they say that the Ironsides who might have counter-attacked Canton at any time -have at last reached the border of Kiangsi province. The route followed was up the East River and then overland.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
VERNACULAR SCHOOL COURT CAN'T WAIT. NEW CARAVANSERAI.
Mr. W. W. Hornell at Govt. Middle.
ITS SPECIAL PURPOSE. University Chief Speaks On Chinese Learning.
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Problem of Absent Witness.
CHIEF JUSTICE'S RULING.
Chinese Bank Sues Firm For $27,000 Odd.
Hotel Riviera Opens at Macao.
-Your Eyes Are Safe With Us"
N. LAZARUS
Hong Kong's Only Europaan Optician.
(Established Over Forty Years). Manager:-RALPH A. COOPER, MA.O.A., Registered Optometrist by Canadien Govt. Exam. (Personal Attention).
CAPITAL REDUCED.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd. Meeting.
BRIGHT CEREMONY. Splendidly Appointed And Well Equipped Concern.
Macso's up-to-date"
caravan-
An
DETAILS OF PROCESS.
Differences In Livertiment Values.
extraodirnary
general
WHITE NILE.
Opening of New Bridge To-day.
SOUDAN'S DEVELOPMENT.
Khartoum And Omdurman Now Linked Up.
Rugby, Yesterday, What was termed by the Chief Mr. W. W. Hornell, Vice-Chancel-
Another step in the develop- Canton Vis A Vis Hong Kong And Macao.
lor of the Hong Kong University Justice as an unusual application seral, the Hotel Riviera, threw meeting of Lane, Crawford, Ltd., distributed the prizes at the Gov- was made by Mr. C. G. Alabaster, open its doors to the public yester. Was held at Exchange Building ment of the Soudan is marked by ernment Vernacular Middle School, K.C., in the Supreme Court this day afternoon 'midst the banging this morning when the following the announcement that the new bridge over the White Nile, con- "That the capital of the Com- necting Khartoum and Omdur- FIRM CONTROL MAINTAINED OVER THE LABOUR UNIONISTS. Slyingpun, at 11.30 this morning morning when he asked for the of crackers. H.E. the Governor, resolution was passed:
Supporting Mr. Hornell on the adjournment of the case until at the head of a large and dis
pany be reduced from $1,500,- man, for foot passengers, vehicu- platform were Mr. A. E. Wood, after Chinese New Year owing to tinguished gathering of residents
000 divided into 150,000 shares lar trafic, and electric trams, will Director of Education, Dr. John the absence of a witness from the and visitors, led the way into the Fenton, Dr. Au Tai-yuen, Dr. Au Colony,
building after opening the main of $10 each to $900,000, divided be opened to-morrow...
into 150,000 shares of $6 each The bridge, which consists of Tai-tin, Dr. S. W. Tso, Mr. Y. P. Counsel was appearing for the portal with a key of gold.
and that such reduction be seven spans, each 244 feet long Inspector of Vernacular Yue Hong Bank who sued the Tai
effected by cancelling the and electrically operated by a Law, Schools, and Mr. K. H. Li, Head-Hing Wo firmi and Tee Chan Tam,
capital which has been lost or swing span 304 feet long, lies master of the Middle School,
Is unpresented by available across the White Nile at its junc- assets to the extent of $4 per tion with the Blue Nile. share upon each of the 125,000 roadway is 30 feet wide, and pro- ahares which have been issued vision has been made for two and are now outstanding and by footpaths, each 11 feet, wide, reducing in the nominal amount which can be carried. on brackets of all shares the Company's when the volume of traffic capital from $10 to $6 per justifies enlargement.
Wireless Service.
However, another message is that there are still some Ironsides
at Hingning, which is on the road to Swatow's hinterland.
After welcoming Mr. Hornell, Mr. Wood and the other visitors, the Headmaster read the school re-
It seems generally agreed that the Ironsides are moving awayport for 1927. from Canton and that they have now reached a position where dan- ger to Kwangtung province has been materially removed. A Chin ese report from Hainan Island is that Communists have risen in one part and are over-running certain inland areas.
It is pleasing to note that so far as can be perceived there is a sincere desire on the part of the governing power in Canton to re- store friendly relations both with Hong Kong and Macao, and there is no doubt that this desire will be fully reciprocated by both the Colonies.
WEIHWEI BESIEGED.
No respite has been given those sections of Canton labour which have been ordered by the Govern- ment, to cease activities.
Large numbers of unions have either been proscribed, wound-up,
360 MILES OFF?
Units of the Kuominchun (the
year.
"SOME RAIN."
Out of the remains of the old Macao Hotel has the new edifice) rison and the reconditioning has heen done in such a manner that jone will have occasion to connect the Hotel Riviera with what once stood in its stead. The furniture} and tittings and appointments are all new and, moreover, have been selected with taste and care. The old billiard table upon which wild lads, it is said, used to sit and overplay fan-tan is no longer there.
North-east winds, moderate, generally overcast, soma rain, is the official weather forecast until
noon co-morrow..
The anticyclone is now south-west Japan. The monsoon will moderate along the south- cast coast of China and over the N. China Sea.
share.
Mr. T. G. Weall, in proposing In its place is a clean, commodi-the resolution, said: ous and airy lounge.
The notice which has just been On the other side of the double-read will have informed you that frented glass doors is the dining it is proposed to reduce the capital room, well appointed and well set of this Company from $1,500,000 out. Along the passage, but not to $900,000 by reducing the face is the bar, also value of the shares from $10 to
$6 each.
A
The
British
SHARE MYSTERY.
RISE IN CHINESE ISSUES IN LONDON.
He said: During the school year, there have been certain changes in the staff, Mlas U. Gubbins joined us in February, but left in April on medical advice. In her place we welcome Dr. John Fenton who came in May. and successfully took up the responsibility of teaching much of the English work. At the begin- ning of the year, Dr. Au Tai-yuen took up the post vacated by the re-
INVESTORS' DELUSION, signation of Dr. Au Tai-tin. Since last January, the staff has been both of 132, Connaught Road too far away,
London, Yesterday. strengthened by an additional mem-) Central for $27,231.12, moneys modernly constructed.
The brass rail which gives that The issued capital of the Com- According to the "Observer," City ber in the person of Mr. Loh Hoi-alleged due on three promissory touch (or feeling) of homliness pany is $1,250,000 consisting of authorities are completely mystified long, a well-known authority in notes issued in 1925,
Each note, said Mr. Alabaster, Lim-ioc was responsible for the 125,000 shares of $10 each. You at the sensational risc in Vickers, South China on Chinese Historical
was for $10,000. They were
this has been done the bar will realise, therefore, that in Marconte, and Chinese loans which Geography.
The maximum enrolment of the issued in January 1925, two for will rank among the best in this actual fact the amount of issued have doubled in value in ten days year was 178, and average attend payment four months after date part of the world; and that is say capital which is now being written under the Influence of persistent 150 and and the other for payment five ing something, for our taste and off is $500,000. The remainder buying all over the country. It de- Kuominchun & Peking: "Haichi" nnce 165.84 as against
judgment in this direction is gen-is merely a reduction in the face clares that apparently there is no Goes Home.
136.89 respectively in the previous months after date.
news from China to account for the Mr. Alabaster said that a erally acknowledged.
value of unissued shares. Up-stairs are the bed rooms, Your Board has now come to improvement. It suggests that as The school was regularly inspect-material witness had gone to closed or thrown into inactivity army of the "Christian General") ed by the Director of Education in Canton and had failed to return, most equipped with bathroom. the conclusion that the reduction Vickers and Marconi issues. Here through pressure having been are reported by the "Kung Sheung February, June and October; and, although up to the receipt of a On the first floor nice and cosy is necessary in order to place be recently popular investors are mis- brought to bear on the officials. Yat Po' to be crossing the Yellow on his second inspection we were letter from him he (counsel) had single bedrooms, each giving fore you a sound balance sheet at takenly imagining that there is a River northward in a campaign honoured by the company of Dr. S.every reason to believe that the plenty of room for one, and on the the next annual general meeting, connection between the ordinary
second floor fine big double bed- The "China Mail" political, cor- against Peking.
W. Too and the late Dr. Wan Mai- man would have been back in time rooms such as would delight the from the asset side of the balance Issues.--Reuter. respondent understands that
The Kuominchun is said to be kai, both gentlemen being "Hok written to say, however, that he hearts of any honeymoon couple. sheet as follows: opinion in the administration is
at Changteh, in the north-cast Tung" of the school, Chinese mem- had to remain in Canton to collect Hot and cold water is installed in Goodwill slightly divided.
corner of Henan province, and hers on the Board of Education, some accounts and would not be each and they all have specially Depreciation of fix- about 860 miles from Peking as and, above.all, keen supporters and back in Hong Kong before Chin- designed furniture. A pink colour tures and fittings.. 65,000.00 that it is proposed to meet this A small section regrets the tem- the crow flies,
well-wishers of our institution.
ese New Year. In the circumscheme runs through all the bed-Depreciation of Invest- porary passing of labour as a pos-- However, a handful of Fenstien New entrants of the year and the stances counsel asked for an ad rooms and, during the hours of sible political weapon and other troops is besieged in Weihwei school premises were medically in-
The Company's shares are, as officials have heard the pleadings where the defenders are taking spected by Dr. E. M. Minett whose journment until after that event. light, robs the chambers of that Profit and Loss Ac-
drab and lonely atmosphere which
you know, fully paid up and, of some bona fide moderate union- part in "a second Chochow epic. advice has been much appreciated.
Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., leading is then seen and felt."
68,480.84 therefore, as the proposed reduc An overnight cable says that:
tion of capital does not involve for the other side, opposed the ap-
Providing For 200.
Goodwill As Asset. ́Orders issued by the Govern-the Northern cruiser "Haichi"
In the dining room are 24! which came mysteriously to Hong
As regards the item Goodwill any reduction of assets, except in tables. More, if required, can ment are being speedily observed
quickly be erected in the lounge clusion and I feel sure that you ed. This will facilitate the Court your Board has come to the coll- book value, no objection by the by the Police with the result that Kong last month (and was sup-
Company's creditors is anticipat- posed to be joining the National officials of unions which have notista) has returned to Tsingtao and
Ordinarily, 100 people can sit will agree with them, that in view in granting the necessary order been proscribed have absented
down to meals, and a rush of of the nature of the business.car- confirming the resolution which is joined old comrades.
twice this size can be dealt with ried on by this Company and the to-day put before you and we ex- themselves.
The Hotel is equipped, therefore, adverse consequences to such a
ists,
Forbidden to Canvass.
Members of unions are now for- bidden to canvass for new mem- bers. All the "promotion (or initial) premises". of unions in of formation have been course closed up.
NATIONALIST FOLD.
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Groups at Hankow Discuss Peace.
AFFAIRS OF STATE.
7,000 Shansi Troops, Without Arms, At Tungchow.
Scholarships.
Mesara. Fung Ping-shan and Li
to give his evidence. He
Mr. Potter Objects.
ARMS FOR CHINA.
90,000 Rifles For Chang Tao-lin.
It has been decided to write off shares of companies and Chinese
.$100,000.00
also by a transfer from general
ments
count (less balance brought forward)
324,028.51 reserve.
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for dealing with tourist traffic, business of the disturbed condi- pect that this formality will have Italian chairs line the lobby, and tions of the year 1925, and the re-been complied with in time to en- the lounge is artistically laid out, sultant trade depression, the item able us to put before you at the an object of special interest be- is not a reliable asset.
next annual general meeting a
The
the
Manila, To-day. The 8.8. "Praga" from Hedwich Fischer with 90,000 rifles foring a big Chinese mirror. Chang Tso-lin from Hamburg, oriental room, opposite
When the Company changed its sound balance sheet showing the has received clearance papers and lounge, is not yet ready for use, was found necessary to provide aket value of its assets.
premises during the year 1926 it capital of the Company at a
figure more in relation to the mar will probably, sail this afternoon. It will have a colour scheme of large number of new fittings and It is reported in Nationalist red and green with Chinese scenes fixtures and to abandon many of circles here that a Chang Tso-lin and decorations. Rare blackwood the old. Your Directors now feel gunboat is now in the Formosa
furniture and Chinese carios, channel waiting to escort the "Praga" to Chinwangtao-Reu
ter.
Tik-mui, in the name of a body of Chinese friends interested in our school, continued their usual gene- rosity by giving scholarships of $30 each per annum to students ob taining the highest position in en- trance and annual examinations and to those who would otherwise be financially unable to come to study. We have to thank these gentlemen also. for their kind gift of some Peking, Saturday, Pan Fu and other members of useful furniture and a set of the the Cabinet are going to Paoting-Encyclopaedia Britannica in its lat- fu this afternoon officially to cele cat edition.
Mr. Hornell's Speech." brate General Chang Hsu-liang's birthday, but it is hinted in some distributing, the prizes, Mr. Hornell Addressing the gathering after quarters that the question of the
some of great value, will adorn it that it is desirable to bring the ing
item of fittings and fixtures in Presidency will be discussed by said that he noticed in the list of
The halls and stairways are An unexpected hitch has con- the military leaders and politi-successful candidates in the final examination. the name of Fung
covered with fine Axminsters, laid the balance sheet down to a con- fronted Generalissimo Chiang clans.
Ping-wah, the son of his old friend
down under the supervision of rvative market value and in Kai-shek's "now Government" ati Seven thousand Shansi troops
Mr. Scriven, of Messrs. Lane, consequence to write off the
amount of $85,000. Nanking but his political oppon- with 2,000 horses from Chochow Mr. Fung Ping-shan.
Reasons for Reduction, ents, the Kwangsi military faction have arrived at Tungchow, where gratulated both father and son onplication. He said that if it was Crawford, Ltd., who were also re-
The main reason which actuat-! (which is in power at Canton) they are reorganising, but the the success. The father, Mr. granted an impossible situation sponsible for the furniture and and some Generals at Hankow are War Ministry is at present in pos- Hornell said, he had known for would arise. He was not prepared electrical fittings and upholstery, ed your Board when they decided many years, and the first and only; to accept what the other, side sald
to recommend the reduction of believed to have scored a success. session of their arms.
The kitchen, situated on the capital was the figure at which in- The Fengtien leader, General time he went up the Yangteze was about the witness going away and Up till last week, it was report- ed that the Hunanese Army was Yu Chen, who was imprisoned in in one of Mr. Fung's ships. Mr. not coming back because some ground floor, with front and back vestiments stood in the balance entrances is thoroughly; up-to-sheet. From the accounts pub- counter-attacking the groups at the Suaiyuan area at the outbreak Hornell said that he expected at accounts had to be collected.
the year ending Hankow. A Chinese cable now of hostilities against Shansi, has some future date to bow before Mr. Mr. Alabaster pointed out that date in its appointments and lished for states that peace delegates from written several letters from Tai-Fung as a great benefactor of Chin-it was a very special case, as they "gadgets." It is under European February 28, 1927, it will be seen another Rocke expected the man to return in supervision and outside catering that a considerable discrepancy Hunanese have arrived at yuanfu, urging a Fengtien-Shansi ese education, as
time.
will be undertaken. As H.E. the existed between the market quota- Hankow and that General Pei peace. Yu Chen is being treated feller.
Proceeding to address the boys, His Lordship said he could not Governor mentioned in his ad- tion and the book value. Since Chung-si has delayed going to more as a guest than a prisoner.
Before putting to the meeting be expected to await the conveni- dress, the late Commenador Lice that date the market quotation the Resolution proposed by my- Mr. Hornell said:-- the front.
Special Purpose.
ence of witnesses, and did not Lim-loc was responsible for the has further depreciated and your This school has been established think he should be asked to post idea which has given birth to the Directors are now recommending helf and seconded by Mr. Bernard with a special purpose, and the pone a case merely because a wit- Hotel Riviera, and the good work that this item be written down to Brown which, in order to have special purpose is to emphasise neas said he could not come. The of providing a modern place in the quotation ruling when the de- legal effect must be passed by a majority of three-fourths of those The statement by General Feng Chinese learning and at the same application for an adjournment which to eat and sleep has been cision was arrived at.
the
Shasi, Saturday.
Reports are to hand that
Japanese ships have been fired on twenty miles below Shasi-Bri- tish Naval Wireless.
Yangtze, Saturday.
-Reuter.
Feng Yu-halang and the Missionaries.
Peking, Saturday.
meet with
He con-
STILL GROWING.
Its Conception.
. Resolution Adopted. I now formally move the follow-
That the capital of the Extraordinary Resolution:
reduced from Company be $1,500,000 divided into 150,000 shares of $10 each to $900,000 divided into 150,000 shares of $6 each and that such reduction be effected by cancelling the capital which has been lost or is unrepresented by available assets to the extent of $4 per share upon each of the 125,000 shares which have been issued and are now out- standing and by reducing the. nominal amount of all shares in the Company's capital from $10 to $6 per share.
Yu-hsiang that foreign Imperial time not to neglect the study of would, therefore, be refused. carried on by his brother, The necessity for writing off present at this meeting, I shall be ists in his territory will hence- English as a medium of expression. Mr. Alabaster said he would Mr. Loo Huen-chong. Ad-the-Toss shown by the Proft and pleased to answer any questions From reports to hand it would forth
unreserved For centuries China lived her own raise the matter after his opening mirable advice has been given Loss Account less the balance which you may wish to put to me. The Resolution was put to the the promoters by Mr..
JP brought forward from the previ- meeting and passed unanimously. appear that the stage is being set opposition apparently refers to life cut off from the rest of the address.
Bourne, of the Hong Kong and ous year must be quite clear to The Chairman annonced that the for military operations both in Canadian and other missionaries, world by the strong ring-fence of the Ichang and Wanhsien areas, in Honan, towards whom this her own peculiar civilisation, cul-
Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., who work- ed out the whole scheme of deyou and I do not propose to say confirmatory meeting will take and also in the vicinity of Yochow policy seems already to have been ture and traditions. The ring- carried out. Anyhow, authentic, fence has now many gapa in ft, and
corations and who, with Mr. Loo anything further regarding this place on January 31.
item. and Tungting Lake.
Those present were:-Messrs. There are many rumours about news has reached Peking that amid an amazing welter of ances
and Mr. Chang, the manager, The items I have dealt with T. G. Weall (chairman), W. E. L. made an excellent host yesterday amount in all to the sum of as to the alliance and intrigues of the premises of mary Canadian theories and primitive passions, the the Kuominchun, recently looted tral precepts, strange occidental
Shenton, Chan Tang, E. M. Ray- afternoon, when a large party of $552,454.35, which is $52,454.85 mond, R. L. Bridger, F. M. Craw- different military leaders, but on
(Continued on Page 7.) are stumbling. the surface the situation on the Presbyterians who evacuated Ho- Chinese peoples
more than the amount by which ford and S. J. Jordain (secre- middle and upper river shows no
It is now proposed to reduce the tary);W. McFarlane, W. change. British Naval Wireless.
Issued capital of the Company Stevenson, D. M. Goodall, J. D. The excess will be dealt with by Thompson, C. B. Brown, A. W. applying an equivalent part of the Brown and T. G: Stokes..
A second extraordinary general general reserve in order to extin- guish it.
meeting will be held on Tuesday. January 31, at the same (noon)
A Tea Party.
Shanghai, Saturday.
man in the Spring on the advance blindly along an elusive track the of Feng Yu-hsiang's forces. One end of which is unknown. Many instance is a Girls' Boarding) School which fitted up this year new beds, bedding, equip- ment and books. It was looted
where, missionaries report that personal and mission property has been stolen or destroyed.
According to the Kuo Min and burned.. Similarly, else. Agency the Fourth Plenary Con- forence was not held yesterday owing to unexpected abstentions, there being no quorum,
Therefore the meeting was con- yarted into a tea party at which arrangements were discussed con- cerning the Conference, Reuter.
The Canadians also state that many converts have been despoll ed and ill-treated, some being tor tured and killed. Reuter.
(Continued on page 6.1
WHO KNOWS BOOTES?
A European who gave his name as Bootes was yesterday removed to the Government Civil Hospital by the Wanchal Police. He was found wandering in Heard Street
· REMARKABLE POPULATION
HUMAN FIGURES.
The growth in the population of the Colony is strikingly illustrated by official figures which show that the excess of arrivals over depart. tures in Hong Kong during 1927 amounted to 98,496
For December alone the net in crease in population was 21,866,
BAG SNATCHED.
To Meet Deflelt.
Miss Summerstil, matron of the Kowloon Hospital, reported to the polico that about 4.80 p.m., on Saturday whilst she and three ladies were walking down Kowloon Whilst I am touching on the and place, for the purpose of re- Tsal Gap, two Chinese crept up be- question of general reserve your ceiving a report of the proceed." hind them, one man snatching from Board wish me to say that it is ings at the above meeting and of Age | Miss Summerstili's hand a rattan estimated that a deficit will be confirming, I thought it, as a The cloing rate of the dollar, bag containing some small articles shown by the Profit and Loss Ac special resolution the above re-
count for the current year and solution.” fon demand, to-day was 2/0 9/16. worth $53
TO-DAY'S: DOLLAR,MA