NEW ADVERTISE- MENTS.
PUBLIC ACTION.
HE Undersigned have mceived
Instructions to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
of
SATURDAY, THE 27TH AUGUST, 1927, COMMENCING at 11 am.
A
THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB Co., Ltd.'s GARAGE,
SALISBURY, KOWLOON.
INTIMATIONS.
"THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25th, 1927.
INTIMATIONS.
LODGE EASTERN SCOTIA. WATSON'S
MEMORIAL SERVICE for the
AYEMORIAL LOGAN will be held at ZETLAND MASONIC HALL on SUNDAY, 29 AUGUST, st 10 AM. All Master Masons of both Constitutions are Invited to Atterd..
Morning Dress.
59-19]
A. W. H.,.. Sre.
مرار
NOTICE.
ONIES Up to $100.000 are Available for investment on
MONIES
MOTOR CARS, MACHINERY. Cse Mortgage Security subject
ETC. (the Property of The Hono KONG & Kowloon Taxicas Co., Isp.) damaged by recent typhoon. Terms: An `Customary","
52573
LAMMERT BROTHERS,
Auctioneers.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersignal have received
Instructions to Sell by
ON
PUBLIC AUCTION,
MONDAY, 5TH SEPTEMBER 1927, COMMENCING AT 9.30 AM.
AT
H.M. NAVAL YARD DEPOT, KOWLOON.
OLD AND. SURPLUS VICTUALLING STORES
Comprising:
to a Trustes Valuation.
5124)
Apply: MIN. DEACONS,
Princes Buildings.
THE SINGAPORE" HARBOUR' BOARD.
WANTED EUROPEA BER.
PURE CARBOLIC SOAPS
¿
One Chiness ease of enteric was reported on Tuesday.
Communista
tremendously дго bloodthirsty, Intellectuals, such as DRAN INGE and Mr. BERNARD SHAW, for example, grant the right of the community to take life. Ther think, however, it should be done painlessly and unexpectedly. Pre- sumably the victim would be placed
Mrs. D. F. Lambert has reported to the police the theft of 8193 worth of jewellery from her room at the Kingsclere Hotel, Kowloop.
Pictures at the cinemas for to-day in what looked like a club room, to "Saturday, are: "Queen's Theatre, but was really a lethal chamber," Sandy"; World Theatre, "Cap- and, a scentless but deadly an tain Blood"; Star Theatre, "Dance esthetic would be slowly pumped Madness." ic. Mr. SHAW shrewdly remarks
Highly recommended by the Medical Profession.
The German Consul, Dr.. Wagner, Guaranteed to contain that murder is not the worst of
will leave to-day by the...s. Hector crimes and perhaps were he vested for Shanghai and the northern ports with supreme power the club bore.en leave of absence. He expects to the amount of Pure Carbolic acid specified. the domestic tyrant and the per be away just over ons month.
5 per cent..
per
nicious public humbug would be
invited to attend.
similarly exterminated. But, w The Hong Kong Theosophical fortunately, to act as a deterrent Society are holding another bathing For Toilet Use the unpleasantness of, the punish-pichic on Sunday. The launch will ment has to be retained. There is leave Blake Pier at 3.45 p.m.,. and Price-$1,25 box 3 an old adage that "prison walls do all members and their friends are
not frighten but Jack KETCH does." Cakes.
Against this opponents of the death penalty argue that the gallows are no brake upon either the man who coldly plans a murder or the
THING ASSISTANT for
Те лея and Unmooring Mooring
21 Applicants having Experience Bustwain or Quartermaster preferred. 10 per cent, Apply to the BOARD'S WHARF MANAGER
[6248
SHARES IN CHINA UNDER. WRITERS, LTD.
WILL the Fresent HOLDER of
the following Shares in the above Company which are registered in My Name please Communicate With. out Delay to the Undersigned, c/o St. CUINA UNDERWRITES, LTD., George's Building.
For The Bath
"$1.75 per box of 3 Cakes.los repugnant felon who commits 20: per cent.
Medical Bath Soap
95 cts. per Cake.
Table Linez, Implement, Sergo, Certificate No. Shares Nos. No. of Shares You will enjoy a Most Flannel, Remnants, Blankets, Bundry Articles of Mess sad Table Gor,
Electro Plated
Wore,
Clothing, etc, etcy !!
Seamen's
Terms of Sale-A detailed in Catalogue.
LAMMERT BROTHEES,
Auctioneers.
5255
BY ORDER OF THE OWNER. PUBLIC AUCTION OF THE UNDERMEŃTIONED VALUABLE PROPERTIES, Situats In the NEW TERRITORIES in the Colony of Hong Kong: NEW KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 53, on which is situated the TAI WAN GLASS FACTORY. This Lot is situate at KOWLOON
BAY
A FISH POND situste a NEW KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 8 in the NEW TERRITORIES.
6918 in Nos. 5903. and LOT
SURVEY DISTRICT 1 in the NEW TERRITORIES" (Agricul tural Lots)
TO 81 BOLD
"
BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
:1014 1015
1015
219196/219625
800 219626220125 500
220126/120625
500
KAK FAT LAY Hong Kong, 11th Aug. 1927. [211
HONG KONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD. (IX LIQUIDATION).
FOR SALE
1 BUICK 7 SZATEL SALOON, Excellent
Condition.
1 BUICK BATER ROADSTER, New. Quantity of Spare Parts for Brick, // GAELARD, CARDIAC, Chtzorn CA, G.3.0. & GARNER TRUCKE Quantity of Office Furniture, compris
ing Ben, Deaks, Filing
Cabinets, Typewriters; etc. Further particulars given and In- spection arranged on application to Undersigned.
$2501
A-BITCHIE.
c/o Liquidator.
LOWE, BIGRAM & MATTHEWS, 3, Queen's Road Central.
FOR SALE OR TO BE LET UNFURNISHED.
Refreshing and Luxurious
Bath by using WATSON'S HOUSEHOLD AMMONIA.
SOLE AGENTS:-
it in hot blood. There is little foundation in fact for the conten- tion. Innumerable innocent lives are saved by the penalty that over shadows the crime of murder. In France and in Italy capital punish- ment has been revived with notably good effects in the former case. The few small states that have | abolished it successfully are
criterion. They have no problem of large huddled communities with
Associacao
The twelfth annual meeting of Portuguese de the Socorros Mutuos, is being held at the Club Lusitano this evening, at 3.30. The report of the Sety was published last week.
Lai Piu, arrested on Tuesday in Queen's Road West with 29 tacks of illicit opium strapped round his legs, was fined $3,000, or six months hard labour, in default; on appearance before Mr. R. E. Lind sel yesterday morning.
Lieut. Col. Riley, of the Royal Army Pay Corps, Victoria Barracks, has reported to the Police that an bifice coolie is missing after having cashed two cheques for an amount no altogether of 870, at the Hong Kong
and Shanghai Bank. | ***
The Eastern Scotia Lodge are holding a memorial service for the late Wor. Bro. D., C. Logan at Zetland Masonic Hall on Sunday morning at ten o'clock. All Master Masons of both Constitutions are in vited to attend. Morning dress will
be worn..
THE C.N.C. DISPUTE.
HOPES OF A SETTLEMENT:
PRELIMINARY MEETING AT
SHANGHAI.
FOR THE PEAK.
NEW MOTOR-CYCLE FIRE APPLIANCE.
PORTABLE PUMP FOR TWO
There now appear to be some.
One of the latest fire-fighting hopes that 'n settlement of the China Navigation Company dispute appliances in the Colony is design- will be reached, and that the off- ed as a first-aid appliance with an eers, who have been on strike for ides of its being used to keep an nearly two months-(since June outbreak in check until the brigade 29th) will shortly be resuming arrives with the large engines. Also it would be extremely useful duty. that preliminary meeting was it is not possible to take a
A report was current yesterday in places like Bowen Road where large being held in Shanghai, and that
pute is not known.
д
this prior to the re-opening of engine, or to deal with a small fire formal negotiations. How the pre- and save turning out the full..
phase of the situation, which brigade. appeared to be very black a day or
Painted the familiar red it is a two ago, has come about in the North is not yet known. Neither compact portable pumping ap is it known whether either side hava paratus, which two men can use, altered their proposals,
Mr. N. S. Brown, of Messrs. and is carried on a platform at- Butterfield & Swire, left Hong Kong tacked to a high-power motor-cycle for the north on the Tenyo Maru
a D.96 B.S.A. machine, capable of on Monday, but whether his trip
The attaining has anything to do with the dis-
high speed. specially built side platform takes the place of the usual side-car. The machine, which is at the Cer- tral Station, looks extremely well for its purpose, and a very useful addition to the fife fighting machin- ery of the Colony. The pumping twin appliance; is known as a British Anzami engine and consists ol a two storage turbine pump... Friends and acquaintances of Mr. Alongside it on the platform are
Yau Sheung, of Queen's College, will be grieved to hear that be the various connections for use on passed away in Canton on the night hydrants, and the other lengths of of the 18th inst.
.
THE LATE MR. O YAU SHEUNG
11
A MASTER AT QUEEN'S COLLE GE
(Contributed.)
The late Mr. O You Sheang was the eldest son of the late ir, O
his Alma Mater...
bose.
The appliance, which has just. Kwan Sheung, of the Hong Kong arrived from Home and cost £190, Government Civil Service. He was is the first of two and is intended born in Canton in 1900 and educated for use on the Peak. It has not yet in Queen's College. He passed the gangs of desperate and well or
Hong Kong University Matricula-been decided where it will be ganised men who live by crime.
tion Examination in 1921 and dis- stationed, but Mount Gough is In Amerios, it has been stated,
tinguished himself by obtaining a suggested as a likely spot. It can Hong Kong Government Education | crime is the biggest profession,
Scholarship tenable at the Univer- be housed in a very small space more people following that occupa-
aity. He left the University to and, of the two men required tó tion than any one legitimate calling." A fuki of the Tin Sing Steamship become a member of the Staff of operate it, one will drive the motor- During the 27 years of his life cycle, and the other will be carried The SACCO-VANZETTI case shows the Company, was yesterday morning
charged before Mr. B. E. Lindsell the late Mr. O Yau, Sheung was as a pillion passenger. It has not need of a "speedier and surer pro-with the embezzlement of 81.888.48 highly respected. One of his great yet been decided whether the eyele cess in dealing with murderers in the property of the Company. It
was the promotion of mass will be manned by Chinese or Euro- was stated by the police that an education in China. He was one that country. Recently the mother sum of $2,000 in the safe was of the founders and for two years be dependable and well trained peans but probably the choice will munity of women from the extreme left untouched by the defendant.the Hon. Treasurer of the Chark
Chinese firemen. " trate that he had taken the money so much for poor Chinese children penalty was followed by a series of Defendant admitted to the Magis Kwan Free School which has done ghastly murdera)
"by women, but the to gamble and had lost it all. The in the Colony,
Profound sympathy will be felt threat of execution in one particu-case was remanded until Saturday. (50
for the members of his family in larly bad case has had the intended Miss O'Dell, of No. 4, Observatory their bereavement.
There will be a memorial meet- At a test carried out at the Cen. effect. In England "the notorious Villas, prosecuted a rickaba coolie
before Mr.-W-Schoßeld at the Eowing or Sunday, September 18th, attral Fire Station yesterdag in the THOMPSON - BYWATER deter- leon Magistracy yesterday morning, 3 p.m. in the Students' Union, presence of the Hon. Mr. É. D. C.
for using obscene language.
The Hong Kong University, when Wolfe (0.8.P. and. Chief Officer of
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY Established 1841.
Cano
aims
its own supply of petrol, oil and The pumping apparatus carries water for working the turbine en- gine. Leyland Motors carried out the building of the motorcycle and machine generally,
Large British Company. Apply stating mined that youth and prettiness defendant pleaded guilty, and said friends are earnestly requested to the Fire Brigade) a powerful jet of
that
residence, the complainant kept him waiting for a long time and then only paid him ten cents. His Wor-
alternative of fourteen days' hard labour in default.
THURSDAY, THE 18TH SEPTEMBER, No. 27, PEAK, LUGARD ROAD. WANTED-5/6 Boomed Honors executions "exercise a morbid fas ship imposed a fine of $10, with the
1997, AT 3 O'CLOCK 7.X.
IN FOUR LOTS
M82.LAMMERT BEOS.,Auctioneers
AT THZIE
SALES BOOM,
No. 8. DUDDELL STREET, HONG KONG, For further Particulars and Condi- tions of Sale, Apply to
MEES. HASTINGS, DENNYS
AND BOWLEY,
Vendar'a Solicitors,
8, Dia Veur ROAD CENTRAL,
01 TO
Mass. LAMMERT BROS., The Auctioneers, No. 8, DUDDZAL STREET:
Hong Kong, 19th Aug., 1927. (6233
"HONG KONG FOOTBALL LEAGUE,
TIGHT Boomed HOUSE, with Central Heating, Five Bedrooms, Four Bathrooms, Three Drying Booms, Modern Sanitation, Graas Tennis Court and Garden-Apply: LINSTEAD & DAVIS, ALLANDRA BUILDINGS.
[4776
with venience...
Flush
Apply to:-
SPANISH DOMINICAN
PROCURATION.
near
Lease. Mid-levels or PRAK TRAM preferred. Apply Box No. 5141, c/o Hong Kong Daily Press.
(612)
DEATH.
OBITUARY.
MR. A. W. BARCLAY.
The late Mr. Barclay was a very popular China Coast oficer, and had been in the employ of the Indo-China S.N. Co., for thirteen
years.
At the time of his decease, Mr.
water was thrown right over the top of the Fire Station Building, a structure six storeys high. The test was considered most satisfac tory, and the power of the jet was surprising.
ANTED.-LADY STENO WGRAPHER
Bequired by Experience and Salary Bequired to Be were not sufficient reasons for that after leaving the ricksha at ber attend. No. 5245, c/o Hong Kong Daily Press.
reprieve. [6245
It is an unfortunate fact
cination even over many quite normal people. It is no new thing
A road teat is to be carried out Crowds will always attend a public
to-morrow, to see how the machine execution; no scenes in history are Prosecuted by the Assistant Head
Mesari. Jardine, Matheson & Co. takes the gradients. It is not better known than the death of of the Sanitary Department, Ltd., agents of the Indo-China known what roads will be selected CHARLES 1 and MARY QUEEN of Chinese boatswain was charged be- Steam Navigation Co., Ltd, re for this purpose, but probably Scots; the English journalism of fore Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kow-eived word by cable yesterday of Garden Road will be part of the HOSPITAL NURSE REQUIRen, the eighteenth century was largely loon Magistracy yesterday morning, the death in hospital at Greenock, route. Required lat Novzxz, 1927, taken up with the lives and ends, with removing the dead body of of Mr. A. W. Barclay, chief en Fully Trained Nurse, British Qualifica at Tyburn, of notorious, highway two months old baby without the gineer of the s.8. Kutsang. He Lions including C.M.B. Certificate and men and other criminals. It would sanction of the proper authorities passed away on August 20th, as MR. DONALD MACCRAE C.8M 34.G. Certificate. Nalary: Tis, 100 save a lot of morbid interest and I imposing fine of 823, his the result of an accident.
LEAVES FOR HOME. Per Month with Board and Lodging. | misgiving if the dates of executions | Worship informed the defendant TO LET.
with Copies
of Recent were not announced before hand hat if the baby had died from a Tonials to the AUTING SEC sad the public were merely pre-infectious disease he (the defendant)
AFTER 44 YEARS IN HONG IVE-Roomed HOUSE, No. 4RETARY, BETISH MUNICIPAL COUNCI,sented with the accomplished fact.. VEVILLE BOK, KOWLOOK, TIENTALE,
would have been more severely dealt.
KONG. [6284 and Sanitary Сода
Lo the East, where sentiment with. plays a smaller part the question
There-left for Home on the P. The Chinese who was originally Barclay was Home on leave, having & O. Rawalpindi on Tuesday. of abolishing the death penalty has never been raised. CHANG TSO charged before Mr. W. Schofield on been six months away from Hong Mr. Donald MacCrae, of Taiko, LIN would be in entire agreement Monday with being in unlawful Kong. The late officer leaves a host an old and respected resident of with whoever may be head of the possession of two tins of gasolene, of friends in the Cology and along the Colony, who has now retired. Nationalist Party on one thing.
was brought before the Magistrate that it would be impossible to carry again yesterday morning when the the Coast to mourn his loss, and He is going to reside at Wembley, on government in China without charge was altered to one of larceny, ark of respect all merchant and is accompanied home by his
ships in harbour yesterday carried | wife. the power to take the life either of The defendant repeated his plea their flags at half at Mr. Bar- the troublesome criminal or of the that he had found the tins on the clay was unmarried. dangerous political plotter. Trials, seashore. Sub-Inspector Pain, who on which we set such store in the prosecuted on behalf of the Police, West, are less thought of out here. informed his Worship that sincs When CHANG TAO LIN Summarily this prosecution, there had been Bix strangled nineteen Communists the cases of gasolene retrieved from the British Labour Party complained a part of the cargo from the seashore at Hunghom, These were of executions without trial. The junk, which foundered in Causeway Communists, who had not thought Bay during the typhoon. The de of it themselves, seized on this 28T230 original grievance but no one weeks' bard labour.
fendant wa sentenced to three pesred to pay much attention Both before and after the fall of Shanghai Communists and agitar tors were dealt with by execution squads, and heavy se was the hand of Sun CHUAN FANG's deputy, CHIANG KAL SHEX went further and trespassed even upon Chinese The weather report, forecast and toleration in this matter. The in- remarks, issued by the Royal Obser- security of every man's head during vatory at 5:30 p.m. yesterday the latter stages of his regime was stated
big factor in his fall.
Pressure is highest over Japan.
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Phone: No. 791 0.
ROOMS-Beng Kong, Kowloon single, double, Flats furnished or Flat for disposal with
APPLICATIONS for Admission to unfurnished.
to the above Langue maat reach furniture. House $20/30,000 wanted. the Undersigned on or before the 31st
AUGUST accompanied by the En- Also 80,000 Sq. Ft. land on Peak. trance Fee of TWENTY LOLLARS-SMALL INVESTORS. Tel 0. 4830 No Club cau be admitted to the Leigue unless affiliated to the Hoxe
KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.
P.O. Box 233,"
W.E. HOLLANDS,
Hon. Secretary.
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TO LET
HONG KONG FOOTBALL “ASSOCIATION.
Xsch
PPLICATIONS for Affiliation to
the above Association must the Undersigned by the 316 accompanied by the Necessary Fee of Newly affliating TWO DOLLARS. Clube ONE DOLLAR Entrance Fet Extra
W.E-HOLLANDS,
Bon. Becretary.
P.O. Box 233.
"HONG""KONG--FOOTBALL
ASSOCIATION.
REFEREÉS” AFFILIATION:--
PPLICATIONS from Qualified" Refersen for Aliation to the above
OFFICES
STEPHENS BUILDING,
VEUX ROAD -67/69, DEB
DENTRAL,
PRINCE'S BUILDING,
CHATER ROAD..
Kasciation must reach the Undersigned APPLY S. J. DAVID & CO. by the 31er accompanied by the Annual
Subscription of ONE DOLLAR.
“W. E. HOLLANDS,
"PO. Box 233.
Hon. Secretary. 15208
PRINCE'S BUILDING,
CHATER ROAD,
BARCLAY.-On Saturday, August 20th, 1927, at Greenock, Aux ANDER WALTERS BARCLAY, aged 35 years, Chief Engineer, Indo- China S.N. Co., Ltd. Result of
accident.
Street.
₤3256
Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House, Londen Office: 21, Bride Lane,
Fleet Street, E..
The Daily Press.
Hoxe' Kong, Auguit 25zx,, 1927
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THE WEATHER.
RAIN LATER.
FAREWELL CONCERT.
A GOOD ENTERTAINMENT
PROMISED.
H.M.S."DESPATCH."
Mr. MacCrae arrived in. Hong Kong with his parents a matter of 44 years ago, and his father was then employed at the China Sugar Refinery,
Mr. MacGras joined Messrs Butterfield & Swire Ind after serving at sea, later went into the augar refinery at Taikoo.
He was an all round athlete in his younger days, and for five years was the cyclog champion of the Colony.
The concert party, of HLM.S. Despatch which is leaving for Home shortly will give a farewell enter KOWLOON 'BUS CONDUC tainment at the Royal Naval Theatre on Monday and Tuesday
next.
TOR ATTACKED.
The concert party of this parti- PUTS UP FIGHT AGAINST FIVE WHENEVER a notorious criminal is
cular ship is an excellent one and
ASSAILANTS." trained by has been thoroughly Capt. Sparrow, H., who is an executed in England or Americs
enthusiast in theatrical production, Shortly after 1 pm, yesterday a the whole question of capital &
To take the life of a human being The eastern typhoon is approaching Recently it will be remembered they Kowloon 'bus conductor was attack- punishment, its ethics and it is a terrible act, repugnant to any the Boris pe Porth, the produced the breezy and original ed by four or five Chinese passen. efficacy as a deterrent are dis humane man. But as society and other appear to be, stationary be musical comedy, with beauty chorus gers while the vehicle was actually complete, entitled" Molly Kenin Kowloon City. No weapons human nature are at present con- tween 200 and 300 miles east of nedy" Certainly they do not do were used and the 'bus conductor cussed by humane and sensitive stituted it is a necessity for the Aparri.
LOCAL
things in a half hearted way. The put up a very stout fight Num winds, FORECAST: W: prople. They usually decide that protection of the peaceful and "the
law-abiding against the violent and moderate, cloudy, rain later..
entertainment which they will give bers soon told, however, and he was “the system of capital punishmeal the overbeating. Those who suffer
on Monday and Tuesday has been very severely injured by his assail- FROM MANILA.
given already in a number of the ants, and when help arrived he had is very cruel and very degrading the penalty acidom consider they
A message dated August 23rd, northern porta. In Shanghai it to be taken to Kowloon Hospital are being unjustly treated." Even
The alarm was soon given and and that the community has no in civilised communities there will 8.30 p.m. states
drew an audience of a thousand and
-police-and-civilians hastened to the Typhoon in about 129deg. Long. mere each evening. right to fnflict either such suffering always be a few black hearted in
The profits from the entertainment help of the salted man. The or a punishment which is irrevac dividuals who will not hesitate to E, 18deg. Lat. N., noving NW
take life in pursuance of their ends. Cyclone or typhoon near or over are given to Naval charitica Beats band scattered however and oply able, and the effects of which are There are other restless spirits who the Northern Ladrons or Marians are one, dollar (reserve) and fifty one was arrested. beyond our knowledge. But the contemplate the possibility. For islands, moving E.N.E.
cents. They will be booked by letter The men are said to have had these the prospect of the death [Unless the typhoon very much to the Manager, B.N. Canteen, or to some grudge against the conductor
said to be revenge, most advanced public thought of penalty in the only warning they alters course it should pass well to the "Indespatchables" Ship's Office, and the motive of their action is
H.M.B. Despatch; are likely to heed...
the North of the Colony.1 the day hardly takes this view
.