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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
KOWLOON ORICKET OLUB.
HE will "AT HOME" on
TATURDAY, the 2722 INSTANT, between
3 am 7 ..
8. E. GREEN,
Hon. Secretary.
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PEAK CLUB.
FORTNIGHTLY DANCES,
SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER, 1924 SATURDAY, 25ru OCTÖRER, 1924
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OFFICES TO LET.
E. B. C. HORNELL,
Hon. Secretary.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH, 1924
INTIMATONS
THE HONGKONG AND. WHAMPOA
DOCK. CO., LTD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
NSHARE REGISTER and TRANSFER
BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 1st to ärit Octonsa, 1924 (both days inclusivo).
Warrants for the INTERIM DIVIDEND can be obtained at the Office of the Company, 2. QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, Hongkong, on or after the 8rx Prox.
By Order of the Board,
R. M. DYER,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 15th September, 1824 [1253
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
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OWNERS ara Reminded that Entries for
the FIFTH EXTRA RACE MEET- GROUND FLOOR ROOMS Facing ING Close on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 DOOR to Trnkari Co., 2724, 1921, at 12 O'CLOCK, NON.
(1292
BUILDING,
Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT BY ORDER OF THE ADMINISTRATRIX.
AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
(1292
TO LET.
TOFFICE 18 2003, No. 14/15, LET-One SINGLE ROOMED
PADDOR STAKET.
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Apply
PROPERTY OFFICE. JARDINE, MATHISCH & CO., LTD.
VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDSCHE
SCHEEPVAART-MAATSCHAPPIJ (UNITED NETHERLANDS NAVIGATION CO) HOLLAND-OOST AZIB LIJN (HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE).
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
FROM AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG AND BREMEN,
THE Steamship
THE
OOSTKERK (5) having arrived from the above porta, Consignesa of Car by her are notified that all Goods aro being famled at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra-hazardons Godowns of the Hong- kang and Kowbon Wharf & Golown Co., Ltd, whence unlfor from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the 25th September,
1924, will be subject to Rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged Packager so to be left in the Godowns, where they will be mined on the 27th September, 1924, at 10
by Misura, Goddard & Douglas. Claims against the Blamer must be presented in writing within Len days after arrival of Steamer, otherwisu they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by the "Dondersigned in any case whatever
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN, General Agents. Hongkong, 20th September, 1924 (1985
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO, LTD.
AND
CHINA MUTUAL, STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
ONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer TYDEUS
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be dis- charged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignees' risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Wharf, The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 2nd September.
Optional Cargo will be landed, unless Notice has been
given prior to Steamer's arrival. All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be on any Tuesday and Friday between examined the hours
out of 10.40 AM. and Noow whhin the
period.
free
have left the Steamer's Godown, and all
All Claims against the Steamer must be
presented to the Undersigned on or before the
PUBLIC AUCTION.
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY Situate at and being No. 11, HART AVENUR, KOWLOON, in the Colony of Hongkong. To be Sold by Auction Without Reserve
от
FRIDAY, the 267s day of SEPTEMkka, 1924, at 3 P.M.
In ONE LOT
By Mr. A. G. DA ROCHA, Auctioneer, at his Anction Room at No. 2k, D'Aguilar Street.
The Property consists of
INTIMATIONS
NOTICE.
THE DAIRY FARM, IDE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY
ANNUAL MEETING of Shareholder
in the above Company will be held at the Company's Town Othice, . LowR ALBERT Bard, Hoaphong, OF SATURDAY, TH ĐẠT
OF
OCTOBER, 1924, at Noos, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July, 1924
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com pany will be. CLOSED from SEPTIER 27TH to OCTOBɛa 4rn, 1924, both days in- clusive.
By Onder,
M. MANUK,
Secretary, Hongkong, 19th September, 1924, [1274
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NOTICE.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
VERTIFICATE No. 7138 for 25 Shares, 24 per Share Paid np. namber 55126/55150 in this Society standing in the Name of ROBERT JOHN JACK SNEDDON, of Hongkong, has been Declared LOST, and it at the Expiration of One Month from the Date hereof the above Document be not forthcoming the said Certi Reate will be deemed Cancelled and of No Effect, and NEW Certificate for the 25 Shares will be issued in its stead by the Bociety.
PAUL LAUDEE,
General Manager. Hongkong, 8th September, 1924.
All that Piece ar Farcel of Ground register. ed in the Land Office as Section D of Kow- loon Inland Let No. 573 together with the message and premises thereon known as No. | DOUGLAS 11. Hart Avenue.,
Particulars and Confiticos of Salo may be obtained fromA
INTIMATIONS
You will »arise refreshed, full of vigour and energy, if you make it a habit of taking
WATSON'S
EFFERVESCENT
LIVER SALT
It acts gently on the liver, kidneys and bowels, and eliminates from the system all impurities. It relieves the congested condition srising from sedentary occupations, overwork; errors of diet, etc., etc.
T1235
Price $1.25 per bottle.
STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NICKETS will be issued
MA2, WILKINSON & GRIST, Solleiters.TRIPS during the Months of ROUND
No. 9, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong,
or from
Ma. A. G. DA ROCHA, The Auctioneer.
G.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
Pale by Public Auction to be held on DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of
MONDAY, the 29th day of September, 1924, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works
Department, by Order of His EXCELLENCY TIE GOTZZNOR, Of Dae Lot of CROWN LAND at Shamshaipo in the Colony of Eung. kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing
From 1st
at Jay, 1898, with the option of renewal
Rant to be fixed by the Sprveyor of HA MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of 24 years loss three days,
'PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. “.
*No. of
New Kowloon
Inland Loi
Reglitzy No.
Shamshulpo.
Lorality.
Boundary vantar malmente.
男。
feat. foar mot, shet-
Andri) Rental.;
事
ka par paše pian.
170.23
(1233
S,S." COMMISSAIRE PIERRE LECOCO."
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NOTICE.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo from ANTWERP,
OCTOBER, from Hoxoxox to Foockow (Pagoda Anchorage) and Return, Calling
at SWATOW and Axor on both the Upward
by the Company's
And Downward appointed Steamer
New
H
Fast
SOLE AGENTS:
HAI-NING the A. S. WATSON
for the Bound Voyage, including Moula while the Steamer is in Port
These Special Ticketa will be available" for Return ONLY by this Steamer, either by the Voyage for which it is issued or by her follow- ing Bailing from Foochow. Duration of Stay at Foochow 48 hours.
pany's Wharf at 5
The Trip ocenpier 8 to 9 days and the Steamer will Leave Hongkong from the Com- p.m. Arriving at Daylight on her Betorn (Weather pertaling).
The Company's Steam Launch will convey passengers from PAGODA Foocrow CIT, I required.
ANCHORADI. to
For further Partionlars and Dates of Sailing, Apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers, -*-
- "Dcoolas Stkamariz Co., Lap. Hongkong, 17th June, 1924.
(908
THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
STEAMER FOR STRAITS, COLOMBO, AUSTRALIA, BOMBAY, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PÖRT; & LONDON.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED FOR BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL, AMERICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.
THE Steamship
THE
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SOUDAN" Capt.
d. RANDALL, G.
carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this Port on or about WEDNESDAY, the 1s OCTOBER, 1934, at Noox, taking Pas
ngers and Cargo for the above Ports.
Silk and Valaabies and Tea for Italy, France and London (under arrangement) will be traz shipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer pro ceeding direct to Marseilles and London.
Parcels will be received at this Offies until
No will be admitted after the GoodDUNKIRK, MIDDLESBOROUGH remaining undelivered after the 29th Sept, and LONDON, in connection with above Steamer are hereby informed that their Gooda will be subject to Kent.
with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their 5 7... the Day before Sailing. The contents riak into the Godewus of the Hongkong and and value of a packages must be declared. Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Lul. For further particulis, apply to— Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO...,”
Agenta immediately after landing.
(1283 Hongkong, 24th September, 1924. Cargo will be forwarded on unless Intimation
is received from the Consignees before Noor, To-DAT, requesting it to be landed here,
13th October, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected"
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agenta. Hongkong, 21st September, 1924. (1280
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
AMERICAN AND ORIENTAL-
LINE.
FROM NEW YORK.
THE Steamship
"POLERIC"
г
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by het are informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous andfor extra-bazárdous Godowns of Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence delivery may le obtained.
No Chime will be admitted after the Gooda ve left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- undelivered after 29th September, 1924, will be subject to Rent
All Claims against the Steamer mast be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before 6th
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned Goods remaining anclaimed after the 27th instant, at Noon, will be subject to Rent and Landing Charges,
bo
All Claims must be sent in to me on or before the 30th instant, or they will not recognized.
All damaged Fackages will be examined on Saturday, the 27th instant, at 10 mm.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
R. RODENTUSER,
Agent Hongkong, 21st September, 1924. (1279
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD., COPENHAGEN.
THE
#JAVA"
THE M/S having arrived, Consignees of Cargo aro October, 1924, or they will not be recognized hereby informed that all Goods are being All broken, chafed and damaged Cools landed and placed at their risk into the are to be left in the Godowns, where they will hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godown
be examined on 29th Sept, 1924, 10.00 A.M.
at
No Fire Insurance has been effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
THE BANK LINE, LTD., General Agents, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1924 [1284
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ON SALE..
TONGKONG. HANSARD- REPORTS the MEETINGS LEGISLATIVE. COUNCIL for Esasion 1923.
- Havited by the Mambera,
PRICE
85.
Danx Pass 0. FICE
the the
of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and
Godorn Co., Ltd, where
here delivery can be
| obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowas, and all Croods remaining undelivered October, 1924, will be subject
after the 1st of
to Bent AD broken, chafed and damaged Goods sre to be left in the Godown, where they be examined by Messrs. Anderson & Aahe on the 1st of October, 1924, at 10 am.
All Claims against the Tesas) must be presented to the "Undersigned before the 4th of October, 1924, or they will not be recognized
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.,
Agents Hongkong, 24th September, 1924. (1286
FOR EUROPE AND AMERICA, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, ¿e.
Comprehensive and Complete Record
of the NEWS OF THE FAR EAST Is given in the BONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS with which is incorporated "THE CHINA OVERLAND
TRADE REPORT"
Subscription, paid in advance-$13 per naan for delivery in Hongkong: including Postage to any part of the world $15,
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THE
CORONET.
in
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'WHAT'S YOUR HURRY 2′′
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CO., LTD.,
The Hongkong Dispensary,"
ESTABLISHED 1841.
to spare any of the very, few men who Mr. and Mrs. Hannibal have returfed have any sort of flying experience. from Home and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Bombing aeroplanes would probably Smyth from Honolulu.
have B far greater influence on the
An attractive programme has been course of the war in China, than they had in the grent war where the com-arranged for the band concert at Volunteer batants were more capable of meeting Headquarters to-morrow night, Many of the menace. We have heard of one aero-
the Colony's foremost amateur vocalista plane being captured" in the war'ju
and entertainers will appear, in midition to the North, but the repart did not say the hand of the Surreys and the pipe band
whether it was shot down or whether some
nechanical defect, brought about its of the Scottish Company of the Volunteers. descent into enemy territory. But
With regard to a statement quoted, sides modern guns, mountain batteries
from the Handelsblad to the effect and aeroplanen, we read that "Tientsin
that, Dr. Folk, Governor-General of the firms have commenced the manufacture Dutch East Indies, would be succeeded
of gas masks for the Chihli troops." next year by Dr. Zimmerman, the
Nieuwe Courant understands authorita-
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This, if true, goes to confirm rumours which have been published and ridiculed during the past six months that Chassively that Dr. Fock has no intention of Tso Las had in his employ a number relinquishing his post prematurely. The of German experts who were making the post is usually held for at least fire
years, and Dr. Fock only becamo' Gloveṛ- " CL which was employed with such
nor in 1991. demoralising effect in France in the Great War. The war in the North has
The Waichiaopu had addressed a Note marcely yet begun and no proof has yet to 18 foreign Ministeri, requesting them. been given that CRNO, Tso LIN actually to order their respective nationals to has gua among the surprises" in store pay the famine surtax, says the Chinese for his enemy; but the stateuient that Press. The British. Danish, and Ameri- Tientsin Arms have commenced the manu.ean Ministers are asked by the Wai- facture of gas masks, suggests rither chiaopu in another despatch to instruct that We Pr Fr has reason to believe the Eastern Extension Australasia and the rumour that as his been manu. China, the Great Northern, and the factured for CHANG, TAO LIN, or. else, Commercial Pacific Cable companies to
the intention of ive PII Fucoflect the famine surtax on telègrams.
it is
to himself
it. It
may be, of course. that both are prepared to "use this new weapon of warfare. It is not to be doubted that the armies of those two great military rivals are equipped for war as no armies in China have over hoen before. Revelations of the Great War in Europe have had got been un-
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CORRESPONDENCE.
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
· [TO THE EDITOR OF “THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."
J.
¬ed by either of them. One thing that Ste.The above Society, may have no can be confidently anticipated is that rules, as mentioned by Sir Claud Sevarp, with the use of modern weapons of this but surely that is no reason why a notice war, in which we are told there are to of its annual meeting with a statement be no half measures" there will be of accounts should not be sent to local greater destruction, if not greater
members through the post, as is done by slaughter than in any previous war in most organizations seeking public sup port. Some Societies complain of lack of interest in their doings, when it is their own fault through ignoring elemen- tury business routine.-Yours, etc.,
A NOW EX-MEMBER.
Hongkong Ofica: 14, Ohster Bead. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, EO.
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The Daily Press.
Hongkono, SEPTEMBER 25тu, 1924.
MODERN WEAPONS IN THE WAR.
China,
Owing to the failure of the gas supply (required for working the inotype machines we regret we have been coin- pelled to reduce the size of the Daily Press to-day. We trust to have the defect remedied early this morning, and issue, to-morrow, a paper of the usual size,
Sir Gershom Stewart, K.B.E: (formerly, of Hongkong) has been appointed one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of the County Palatinate of Chester.
Ir was said recently of the warfare in
The engagement is announced between the hinterland of Shanghai that it was the B Rev. H. Mowl.D.D., Bishop in type that prevailed in Europea Western China, and Miss Dorothy hundred years ago, with the addition Martin of the West China C.M.S. of a modern touch in the shape of Mission. mountain batteries and three-inch gans. But there have also been reports of the The Rev. H. Copley Moyle will conduct use of an occasional aeroplane for re- the Bible Study Circle at the Helens connoitring and bombing. More use is May Institute to-morrow, September geth, evidently being made of the aeroplane at 14.30 am. The meeting is open to all for bombing purposes in the war area women-Apyr” near Peking, for we are told in" the cables to-day that "the bombing of
Mr. W. G. Darby, who only recently returned to England from a prolonged
CANTON NEWS.
MAIL CENSORSHIP.
[PROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
Since the re-institution of the nail censorship in Canton, more than 200,000 letters have been detained by the Knomin- tang authorities, according to a vernacular the Chinese Post Office list Agust 13, press report. Censura wera despatched to when Dr. Sun Yat-sen had the illusion that the people would riseup against bine. on August 14 as a protest against his unlawful seizure of a consignment of arms to the Canton Merchants Volunteer Corps. Since this unlawful seizure ended pending- settlement of the arms question, the con scrship has never been relaxed, and much. of the mail matter is being held for no good reason whatever, it is complaiped. Up to the afternoon of September 24, the arms which Dr. Sun has repeatedly assured the merchants time and again that be would release were still held.
THE RED ARMY”
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, popularly known in Can- The 500 recruits of the Labour Corps of
tun as the Red Army, attempted to mutiny and desert near Shitwan last Sunday, because they had not received the arms and equipment promised them. Upon arrival nt Shiukwan recently, the members of the Labour Curps were made work as coin- mon coolies and servants to the body- guards of the more powerful officers, a duty
the Reds' wished to shirk before their enlistment. So far the Reds. hurė been.“ fornished each with a suit of colton and
hahaiwan (by CHANG's forces) has trip to British North Borneo, has had to been successful, the Chihli headquarters undergo rather a serious operation. He there having been practically destroyed." was in a nursing home when the last That both Guang Teo Lix and Wu Permail left on August 28th. Fu had provided themselves with air- craft, was already well known. "The
Dame Amy Henrietta Pelly in her will largest hängar in Asia" has been com- directed her executors to destroy all her pleted this year somewhere in the terri-papers, including those relating to her tory of the Manchurian War Lord. It late husband's Indian and Persian is described as a building of reinforced affairs and her late stepfather's (Sir
Thomas Wade) Chinese affairs. concrete, 750ft. long, and soft wide, and capable of housing fifty of the big
A telegram has been received in Shanga strap. bombing type aeroplanes." The hangar hai by the Admiral Line Pacific Steam- was building under the supervision with warship Co. from its head office, stating that experience, and the cost of it was given the 100 Chinese students from Tsinghua as $100.000. The United States Commer and other colleges in China, who left cial Attaché in Peking in a recent report Shanghai in the President Jefferson on to the United States Department of August 23rd, have been permitted to Commerce write: "It is reported that land at Setttle. They proceeded to their Marshal CHANO To Lix has recently various universities without encounting made, arrangements with American any difficulties under the new Immigra- authorities for sending a group of minetion Law.
students to America to study aeronautics. This group was to leave about August
to
sciences
THE "NORTHERN EXPEDITION.”
Up to the evening of September 23, the Yunnanese mercenaries in Suiukwaa had not seen fit to permait, the bodyguards of their cominal chief and generalissimo, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, to enter the City of Shiokwan. Dr. Bun'4 2,300 followers of the Northern Expedition are still quartering in mataheda and godowns of the Kwangtung Bection of the Canton-Hankow Stalion at Bhiuksin..
TO-DAY IN CANTON. There were '474 more motor cars in the 1st. In this connection it is interesting Colony of the Straits Settlements at the
To-day's Confucius Birthday celebration in Canton will be a memorable one, not note that General Wo Pe: Fu has close of last year than there were a because there will be no, official observance obtained permission of the French Gov- the close of 1832, 09 more motorcycles, of the occassion in the Government circles, ernment to send eight students to France and 78 more commercial vehicles, while but it is expected that the Canton Mer- to study military and aeronautical the number of licensed drivers showed chants Volunteer Corps will publicly
there.
These students, of an increase of 1,714. It is interesting to denounce Dr. Sun Yat-sen for his lack of faith. The Volunteers may have to take course, are not likely to be of any service note that during the year the number of action to force Dr. Sun to keep his word. in the present war, if they have already licences, cancelled suspended or endor-In the meantime they have prepared a the country, though it is possible they red was 54 less than in the previous year. circular telegram withdrawing the recent may have been recalled because they are The total number of cars in Singapore statement of their commandants support
ing Dr. San, as the statement was made all probably men who have gained some was 4,560 out of a total of 6,538, while on a clear understanding that it would bo experience in flying, and neither side out of a total of 11,605 drivers 6,212 were reciprocated by the return of the arms
seized I in this conflict, we imagine can afford | employed in Singapore.
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