"
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
DANCING.
PALACE HOTEL
THE POPULAR JAZZ BAND
H.M.S.
of
DESPATCH"
Will Play at the above Hotel on SATURDAY, the INT DECEMBER: 1023.
DANCING—315 1.9,
-SOCIAL EVENING AND ENTERTAINMENT;
[1801
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH HALL, KOWLOON:
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10TH, AT 9 PM.
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. CONJURING AND VENTRILOQUISM. ADMISSION-$1 (including Refreshments).
FOR SALE...
[1640
NE-TON ELECTRIC TRAVELLING CRANE capable et dealing with a Work- ing Load of 5-tons on a Single Rope direct from the Barrel at a Radins of 20 feet with a Jib 30 feet long on a flail Gauge of 481 and with the Return Block and Attachment at point of Jih. "Capable of dealing with Loads up to 7
tons.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,
INTIMATIONS
NOTIOR...
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
CANTON, LTD...
ERTIFICATE "No. 4/120 for. Nina Shares, Nos. 99049/99953 standing in the Society's Register in the Name of KWONG SING LUNG of Yokohams has been declared LOST or STOLEN, and if at the expiration of One Month from the Date hereof the above Docuntant bo ust forthcoming the Same will be deemed Cancelled and of No Elet, nud a NEW CERTIFICATE for the said She will lead by the Sociste.
PAUL LAUDER Acting General Manager. Fongkong, 12th November, 1923. [1584
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
N EXTRA GYMKHANA MEETING will be held (weather permitting) & HAPPY VALLET on SATURDAY, 1ST DEC EMBEIL, 1923, commencing 2.48. P.M.
The Charge for Admission to the Publie Enclosure will be $1. Soldiers and Sailors in naiform Half Price Members are ad
e advised that they must show their Badges to obtain Admission to the Members Enclosure,
Each Member has the right of intralucing 2 Non-members to the Members Enclosure, Tickets for whom can be obtained from Messrs. LINSTEAD & Davis at 93 10
up Friday, November 30th,
The Stewards invite the Ladies of Hongkong
[1523 to be present.
THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
JARDINE, MATHESON COMPANY (JaRline's Building, Top Floor), on THURSDAY, NOV- EMBER 29T1, at 3.30 P.L.
Petera and Single Chain Type Grab,THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING wable for handling Dry Gravel, ote complete ANMUrs Society will be held a kind with all Necessary Suspension Chains.
Both the Crane at the Grab are practically permission in the Board Room of Messrs. New and in Perfect Condition and can be seen working in Shanghai. Full Specification and Particulars can be obtained by applying to
TROLLOPE & COLLS (FAR EAST). LIMITED, Glen Line Bailing.
Pelding Road, Shanghai,
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. OCEAN STEAMSHIP, CO., LTD. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION 'CO., LTD.
AND
CONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer
"DARDANUS"
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be dis- abarged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will be a Consigners' risk and subject to terms
and conditions of
of storage at Holts Wharf The Carga will to ready for delivery
on and after 24th November.
will la landed unless notice
Godown on
cargo
from
Optional has been given prior to steamer's arrival.
All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to be left in the Gedowns, where they will be examined any Tuesday and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 AM and Noom within the free storage period
Op
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer Godown, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 4th December, will be subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be Fresented to the undersigned on or before the 18th December, er they will not be recognised,
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong, 28th November, 1923. (1639
KING'S FAREWELL FOOTBALL
MATCE.
KING'S INTERPORT PROBABLES.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER IT.
KICK OFF P.M. SHARP.
THEATRE
SOOKUNTOO GROUND,"
RUBINESS.
1. Presentation of Report azd. Accents for the year ending October 31st, 'i123.
Any other S.P.CA. business that insy be brought before the Meating,
3-Election of Olicers aml General Com- mittee for the ensuing year.
At the conclusion of this Meeting. Aa EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEET- ING will be held to consider Proposals to amend. Nos. 4, 5 and 9 of the Society's Rales as follows:-
INTIMATIONS
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOVEMBER 20TE, 1023.
INTIMATION
HE HALF-YEARLY GENERAL
on WEDNESDAY, 12TH OF DECEMBER 1023, at 5 7.3, in the Jocker CLUS BOON, HoxaxoNG CLUB ANNEN.
By Onler,
MEETING OF MEMBERS BURNETT'S
B. C. BROWN, Secretary.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO. LTD -Iecidfཡུb74#qogd#thoh
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Share- Nader in the above-namel Company
that the Special Resolution to Wind up the Company and the Extraordinary Resolution providing for the Distribution or sale of the Com." pany's holding of Shares in the HONGKONG of which Notice has been given to the TEAMWAYS LIMITED (Incorporated in Hong
holders having been confirmed the REGISTERS OF SHAREHOLDERS in the above named Company both in London and in Hongkong WILL REMAIN OPEN NOVEMBER UNTIL THE 30TH DAY OF
Transfers 1923, for the purpose.cl registering. of Shares after which Date the said Registers will be Clored and the Liquidator will proceed to a Distribution of the Assets of this Com pany among the Persons appearing as Share-- hellers upon the said Registers in accordance with their rights and with the said Extraordi- mary Resolution.
W. F. SIMMONS.
For and on behalf of EDWARD RICE MORRISS,
Liquidator. Hongkong November, 1023,
TO LET
[1395
ARGE GODOWNS with Good Ventilas Li, sunt in RENVEDF TOTN, on the Water front, known as 12, 12 and 13.KZNNEDY Towy, West Point.
16201
Apply to
YAT WING BANK,.
1, Wing Lok Street.
10 LET.
FFICES in UNION BUILDING-One
com on Fifth Floo
Apply
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD,
FINEST LONDON
DRY
GIN
Unique in Character and Flavour.
GIVES THAT DISTINCTIVE EXCELLENCE TO A
COCKTAIL.
BURNETT'S Gin was a
household word in London before most of the men who fought in the big war were born-
AND STILL IS
SOLE IMPORTERS:
With the, reduct carried out in our General. Wu Poi. Eqpis said to be re- flect under the Washington Agreement. epiving 8300,000 per annum from the such a plan, would leave an insignificanty collection of taxes ou oplam in vaut "Heitish naval force in Houio waters. The around. Ichang, where the tobacco und cost of an armila in the Far East would stamp taxes are also a considerable soures. be enormous and additional to the cost of revenue." of the decks and works at Singapore." Our contemporary concludes its article with the words "Let the Admiraltying to meer Dame Adelaide Anderson, drop this Singapore folly, into which it at lunch yesterday at Government Honse: was lured by the exploded Lord JaLUCE, Hon. Sir Cland and Lady Severn, Hen and which is sinking public faith in the Mr. and Mrs. Halifax, Sir Witham and
"Lady" "Brúnyate gid 3g Pitts soundness of its staff work."
I.E. the Governor invited the follow
The Traffic Inspector inform- is thick Admiral Sir L'excx Scott would proty. ably endorse every wohl of this, for in the Stubbs Rond is now opened for traffic for letter in which he draws in comparison with | holders of owners' permits only'; abso that Weihaiwdi he describes the docks scherie na juotor cars will be allowed to run -at Singapore as a futile menace to Japan. after 1 a.m. on the night of the unth, ** Japan," he says, "well knows that she being the occasion of the St. Andrew's could take Singapore any day" she likes,
Rally and that our battleships would be of no
Typhoons are hovering around us veryi avail. A futile menage does no good.": It only breaks friendship. Japan well late this year. That is why the weather
The Manila Obser- 7. knows that, under the modern conditions is so unsensoumble, -of-naval warfare, we cannot send our xatung-pesterday repacted typhoon floot in her waters and she cannot send | E. of Northern Luzou more than 300 miles her dert to Australia. The point of the distant, inclining northward. The Hong- Admiral's letter, however, is that it would kong Observatory gave the position yes- be asenndalous waste of public, money terday is 168, 1975. to fortify Singapore strongly. He gives this account of the harm we did to. Japan in connection with Weihaiwei: In 1895 the Japanese,uiter the most gallant fighting, took the island of Wei- haiwei from the Chinese. In 1505 we took it from the Japanese. When we had got it we did not know what to do with it, Int we spent £270,000 in fortifying it. By or the forts were completed, "all
The death occurred list werk in Shang- except putting the guns into them. They were then stopped, as the Admiralty hat from sente peritonitis of Mr. A. V. discovered that the place was of no use Monk, of the Glen Line Agencies. The except as a holiday resort for mixed deerased, who wre a very well-known' bathing. This Admiralty freak cost the member of the community, had been in British tax-payer only about half Shanghai for a number of years, and million; the Singapore folly will cost rare war record combined with his out- many, many millions."
standing ability in business had given him a place of prominence. He was 37 years
Pan Chi Fan, a soldier from Canton, was committed for tsial yesterday after- nce by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at thes Magistracy for unlawfully having a. dagger in his passession. He was arrest-
in the act of boarding a steamer for Canton and it is alleged that the dagger was found ticked down the leg of bi rock.
The Admiral's history is a little faulty, Great Britain tlid not take Weihaiwej from of agai the Japanese. Weihaiwci was formerly what was regarded as "a strongly fortified
A Chiness aman, was charged at the
Rutz-Heading sad Silenote, for "O" WHOLE GROUND FLOOR and BEST AS. WATSON & Chinese naval station.". It was captured Marite Cori - yesterday before Cont
TO LET,
OFFICE ROOMS in 1ST FLOOR of
dult to SUNG TẠI,
No. 1, Queen Street.
substitute "Personnel After “Mem- the House, No. 6, DODDELL STREET. Lers" in the last line, insert "Donat- ing Merabera.
ROLE-Healing, for "Constitution" substi- tuta "Management". Line 2 uster "Committee add "of which the President, Vice-President, Hon. Se cretary
and Hon. Treasurer shall be
cfficio,"
RULE
Members ca
the prezent Rale substitute the
-For
following
Aty person may become a lem ber of the Society by paying to the Hon. Treasurer in annual subscrip- tion of 92 (Two loitare), or a Donat- ing Member by paying an annual subscription of $5 (rive dollars), or Member ct payment of a sum Lite of not less than 350 (Fifty dollars) Tovery such person the Hon. Treasurer will issue a Cant of Membership."
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HONGKONG BOXING ASSOCIATION.
SBLOND TOURNAMENT OF THE SEASON,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 187, AT 9.15 F.M. at the THEATRE ROYAL.
MAIN EVENTS:
FOX
2nd, Battalion,
1498]
LOST.
N the Band Instant, af 10.30 A., between
O the 10.244.31.
Flatinum Ear BROOCH OPAL HEART
Substantial sarrounded with Diamonia. Rewari offered for Recovery, Fielder, B. &S.
-11617
→
TO BE LET OF SOLD.
DEDEILL WEST, No. 1 PLANTATION Roan, To Be Let Furnished for Eight Months frops April 16th 1994, or To Be Sold.
Apply
K. L. BRIDGER,
LANE, CRAWFOan, LTD:
*1623)
FOR SALE."
OR SALE by Private Treaty, Valuable Fo
LAND at KOWLOON with Sea Frontage, having Total Area of upwards of 97,000 square feet upon which are created Godowns and four Chinese House.
For particulars apply to JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Solicitors.
Prince's Euilding.
15 ROUND COSTENT
LaGITWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE COLONY AND THE
GEDGE, BELT:
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A. B. CHADWICK, E.MS. Marazioni D
Pte. Firsy,
[1027
ROYAL
MONDAY, 3RD DECEMBER, 1923, at 9.10 p.31.
PIANOFORTE RECITAL
1570]
Ly
Mr. "HARRY ORE Kindly-Asciated by
Mrs. B. SANGER. (Foprano) Mrs. N. MATHIESON (Alto) Mrs. M. BONENFANT (Piano),
USUAL PRICES.
Booking at ANDERSON'S.
HONGKONG WOMEN'S GUILD sad
MINISTERING CHILDREN'S, LEAGUE,
HELP THE CHILDREN'S
P THE O
CHARITIES
by coming to
THE GARDEN FETE AND SALE OF WORK
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8TH. NEW STAILS-NEW BIDE SHOWS TOYS AND CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FORTALE.
[1628
The King's Regiment.
10 ROUND LICHTWEIGHT CONTEST
A. B. EARDLEY, H.M.S. AmbroBa
+
Also.
Pte." SCOTT,
2nd. Battalion,
+
The King's Regiment. OBECEMBER, 1900, or the Parthand or
One Featherweight. One Middleweight. One Bantamweight, One Heavyweight and One Welterweight Contest, ench of Six Rounds.
BOOKING AT MOUTRIES": Members on the 23th November, General Public from the 30th November.
USUAL PRICES.
THEATRE
[1621
ROYAL
HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB
presents
THE FAMOUS ROBOT PLAY.
ARU. R."
KAVEL GÅPEK.
FOR SALE. VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY.
FFERS will be Received up to the 77 Lease of a Blodern Equipped Nine room,
Firo- proof, Brick and Concrete Residence st PAK HOOK TONG, CANTON, Inclades thres Bath- rooms equipment, Kitchen and Servants Fixtures, Com with Modera modions
Attractive Location. Excellent Views.
CO
LTD.,
Wine & Spirit Merchants.
ESTABLISHED BL. TEARS,
BIRTHS.
by the Japanese when they went to war. W. Beckwith. R.N, with bring absent with China in 1804-5 and was held by without reasonable excuse from his hip, them only pending the indemnity whiel: the British steamer Chan Sang, whilst
in the Bangkok River, on November 11th.. was faally liquidated in 1994. Britain took over the territory on lease He was also charged with assaulting Mr. A. Plamh, engineer of the Chun Surg. from China for so long a period as
The case was remanded until to-morrow, Part"Arther shall remain in the occupa
Great
tion of Russia. So far from this British the defendant being allowed bail in th action doing liarni to Japan, no one persum of $169. ceived more clearly than the Japanese" The Full Court of Appeal yesterday Government of the day that the British continued the hearing of the case in which occupation of Weihaiweiht the time was an important service to Tapat, for it called a halt to further aggression by
Boatbay firm of merchants is appealing against a judgment by the Chief Justice
COWANA Hawkeraig House, Aberdeen, Fife, N.B., on October 26th, the wife of Capt. P. H. Corax, China Navi- gation Co., Ltd. (retired), of both Russia and Germany, who had in favour of a Chinese steamship con- daughter. Grant Shanghai,
תנים n
DEATHS.
on
Mosk-A Shanghai, on November 22ud, Major ALBERT VICTOR MONR, M.C., (late Tank Corps and of the Glen Line Eastern Agencies), aged 3
years.
ETANG-At Shanghai, on November 22ud, RUDOLF EMIL STANG, nged 35 years of the Zybtra Trading Co.
any from whom the merchants agreed to charter the ship, Singaporean, Mr. anti, continued to address the Court G. C. Alabaster, Counsel for the appe yesterday and cited many cases a great length in support of his arguments. The hearing was further adjourned.
{1639 November planted themselves on either side of the id, to Mr. and Mrs. Gzo. F. GROUT. former Chinese naval station, and one or the other would certainly have gone MALCOM.-A "Shanghai," on November
end, to Mr. and Mrs. ALEXANDER there if Britain had not. They were Magom, a daughter.
not then very friendly to Japan, "for they had combined to oust her from the Liantung. península. It has since
Mr. George T. Armitage, executiva. heen divulged that the British occupa secretary of the Hawaii Tourist Bureau. tion of Welhalwe was a Chinese sug of Honclulu, is paying an official visit gestion. Political changes have long since to Hongkong this week in the interest of
travel to the Hawaiian Islands from the.. destroyed the significance of Weihaiuci Far Fast. He carries credentials from as a fortified naval station, and it has II.E the Governor of Hawaii (the Hor been retained to date simply as i sani Wallace R. Farrington). Through travel torium for the Fleet, or as Admiral Sirs the Paciferi Hawaii is increas ig, according to Mr. Armitage, and the PERCY SCOTT prefers to call it " a holiday | bureau is endeavouring to induce a larger resort for mixed bathing, Politically number of the passengers who are making strategically there is no comparison Orient to avail themselves of the stop- a continuous passage to America from the
between Weihaiwci and Singapore. The over privileges which the Pacific, Mail arguments which apply against docks and and Toyo Kisen Kaisha offer, so that fortifications at Singapore- the strate-they cu experience some of the great.
charm of the islands. gie centre of the British Empire."—apply with almost equal force against docks and fortifications in the British Isles., Defence, not aggression, is the motive defence
Hongkong Office: 14, Chater Road. London Office: 181, Fleet Street, E.C.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 2975, 1922.
THE SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE.
ROBBERY AT HUNGHOM.
d by about 6 mows of well laid PhotERTS still continue to be made not against present enemies, beenuse nonethe staff of the Wing Fat grocery at No.
ont Grounds with Ten year old Trees. Tennis Court. Owner's family leaving shortly for Home.""
Particulars, Plans and Conditions of Sal upon application to BasquE DE L'INDO-CHINE BRAKTEN.
[1658
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. AMERICAN ORIENTAL LINE.
FROM NEW YORK.
MKE Steamship
"KILGREDANE"
Benace her from any quarter. The argu- ment, of course, is one for general, this armancnt, but while every nation in the world still deems it necessary to arm for its defence against attack by potential enemies it would be rank folly for the British Empire to neglect to taksiat, its strategic centre, the precautions which its expert advisers recommend for the
against the Naval base project at Singapore. In the latest batch of Home papers to hand, we see that Admiral Sir Percy SCOTT Rives to a letter he sent to the Press the caption "Another Weihaiwei"; while the Daily Mail gives to a leading article discussing the ques tion the heading "Another Kian-Chau A connion ground of both is that the scheure is costly folly in which the nation protection and security of its own vast cannot afford to indulge, The Daily interests, which are world-wide,
|«dall'e 'argument is that "nt the best,
if a great system of docks and works is constructed at Singapore, and if trouble
*
General Wu Pei Fu has named the having arrived, Consigneer of Cargo by her are comes with Japan, we shall have pro- office of Inspector General of Chilli, informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or ved another Kiau-Chau The nation Shantung and Honan. extra-hazardous Godowns of Hongkong and which captured Port Arthur, garrisoned Kowloon Wharf, &Godown Co. Lid., whence delivery may be obtained.
to
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining SATURDAY, Sra DECEMBER, At 9.16 P.a. undelivered after 3rd December, 1923, wil MONDAY, 30TH DECEMBER, 9.15 PM.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before Matinee, WEDNESDAY, 12TH DECEMBER
10th December, 1923, or they will at 6.16 P.3L recognized. SATURDAY, 15TH DECEMBER, st 9.15 PM
58. $2& 81.
BOOLING OFENSA ANDERSON'S":
on 17TH NOVEMBER
(1002
pot.
be
Al broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on 3rd December, 1923, at 10 am.
No Fire Insurance has been cllected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
THE BANK LINE, LTD. -General-Agents- Hongkong, 27th November, 1923. (1630
On Tuesday evening at 8:30 a'clock as
85, Kowloon City Road, Hunghon, were on the point of closing the premises for the night, two men entered the precrises and, after intimidating the inmates, trussed them up. They then took the safe key from the pocket of the master and extracted $1,000 from the safe.
OUR FOOR DAY.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY'S ANNUAL APPEAL,
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which celebrates this year the 60th at niversary of its establishment in the the public, of Hongkong next Monday, Colony, will make its annual appeal to December 3rd, when it will hold its yearly strect sale of roses. Last year's Our Poor: Day" was a great succeas, con- siderably over 84.000 being collected.
The calls on the Society's funds are increasing as a result of the great amount of unemployment and the comparatively The Jazz Band of H.M.S. Despatch is high rentals of even the houses inhabited: announced to play at the Palace Hotel, by the very poor. In addition to relief is normally held by a battalion or two of Kowloon, for the dancing on Saturday in the shape of food, clothing is well
by 60,000 white troops, and Kiao-Chau, garrisoned by 5,000 German and native troops, would make a very small nutter of scizing a position which has a climate unsatisfactory for white troops and which
· There were fourteen more cases of small-pox in the return issued by the Medical Officer of Health yesterday,
coloured infantry. We should have pro- evening. video the suppositious enemy with accom- modation for his feet at the cost of our
The Harbour Regulation, of Weihaiwei
cruel sacrifices The only absolute guar- have been amended and consolidated up aptee for the security of Singapore would s November 10th and have been pub
for the poor, the Bociety, he is known, devotes itself to the education and general well-being of poor children, and at this Christmas, Cason we are asked
to share our good fortune with those upon whom fortune does not smile, and help
to bring a little happiness into the lives
be the maintenance in the Far East of li-hed in the Wothaire Government of those to whom the joys and pleasures
a British fleet superior to the Japanese. Gazrite
of the festive season are unknown.