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THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET- TNG of the MEMBERS of the bore Society will be held on TUES DAY, DE NOVEMBER, 1947. 3.15 r., in the Board Room of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
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the period ended 30th Junx, 1917-
To elect Officers and a New Com. mittee for the Current Year.
To fix the Date of the Annual Flower Show.
To discuss any matter of interest to Horticulturists in Hong Kong and Outlying Districts.
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SPECIAL TRAINS Leaves KOWLOON
prepared to undertake long term commitments and courageously planned schemes of industrial development upon which a perman- ent revival of "our, basic construc- tional trades depend."
During the week end the. Coleny had a clean bill of health as regards notifiable diseases.
The body of a Chinese beggar, aged about 45 years, was found. hanging from one of the stanchions of the Po Tak Wharf, on the Prayn, A Chinese woman was taken to Connaught Road Central, yesterday the Kwong Wah Hospital daring morning by officers on a police the week-end as the result of in-launch. He had apparently com juries revived during a fight with mitted suicide during the night or another woman at Chunk Tuk early hours of yesterday morning. village, Shamshuipo,..
The two Chinese alleged to have robbed a woman of her jewellery valued at 8238 were again brought before the Kowloon Magistrate yes terday. The case against them was further remanded for a week,
This makes pleasant reading and we could wish that local trade conditions were as promising. But even here things are not so bad as it was expected they would be two or three weeks ago. A camp has Laken place in Conton which has entirely ousted one administration and set up another in its place and rumours are still flying around that: fighting may be expected at any moment in many different parts of the province. But notwithstanding these serious handicaps and the "lack of con5dence in the stability which of underlying conditions" they must necessarily entail there has been no interference with trade As a result of a meeting" after on anything like the scale expected severe fighting with the Southern
AMERICAN the more pessimistic of our merchants. On the contrary, hope ful signs are not entirely lacking. The Strike Committee, with its great army of unemployed, seema now to have disappeared. That is FRUIT IN LIQUER TRU VALUE great gain for, previously, when
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The Chinese alleged to have a woman at Taipo Road robbed a with the assistance of two others, was discharged at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday by Mr. W. Schofield owing to the absence of complaizant.
Army, Marshal Chang Kai Shek is to marry Miss Mei Ling Soung. We felt it would not be long before. those wars in China would, lead to something serious- Punch:
A call for police assistance in an armed robbery was received from Bridges Street yesterday. Detec tives from the Central Police Station hastened to the scene only to find that the principal tenant of a house was trying to prevent a lodger from getting away without payment of rent.
the
The death took place at French Hospital Causeway Bay, yesterday afternoon of Mr. J. M. Pereira, a well-known member of the Portuguese community. Mr. Pereira was a retired employee of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., and was the editor of Religao
Patria, & Catholic periodical. The funeral will take place to-day.
A number of Japanese commer- cial men are opening a sample fair of Japanese merchandise at the The three Chinese charged with Nippon Club, Des Faux Road. to-morrow (Wednesday). the theft of 81 slabs of antimony Central, regulus from the godowns of the The "fair" will be continued until China Provident Loan and Mort- December 2nd and the public are gage Company were again brought cordially invited to attend. The before Major C. Willson at the samples in view will comprise cot- Central Magistracy yesterday. The ton and silk goods and all manner ease was remanded, until this after of other articles made in Japan.
noon.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
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THURSDAY'S MEETING.
THREE NEW BILLS.
A meeting of the Legislative Council will be held on Thursday
afternoon when the chief items on the agenda are the introduction of three news ordinances.
The Attorney General will move the first reading of
THE MOTOR BOAT BLAZE.
SEVERAL PASSENGERS STILL MISSING.
DROWNED BODY OF SUPPOSED PASSENGER FOUND.
Although No. Police launch. went to investigate the burning An Ordinance to amend the motor boat incident, in which a
Ordi- Printers and Publishers
number of people were involved on 'mance, 1886.
Sunday, its return and the report An Ordinance to amend the made by the officers in charge of Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.
An Ordinance to provide for it shows that there still remains the formation, establishment and much to be cleared up regarding regulation of the Hong Kong, the actual number of people Police Reserve.
missing.
In addition the Boy Scouts Ordi-:
It is stated that there were in alt nance will came up for further about twenty-five in the party that consideration and will probably be embarked on the Tang Fat Fat taken through all the necessary motor boat at the Sai Kung wharf., stages and passed at this meeting.
British Territory, for Nom Tau Sha on the bathing pienie (as re- ported yesterday), but the exact number has not yet been definitely established.
GOLD MEDALS, FOR
MURDER.
SHANGHAI COTTON MILL
"STRIKERS' PAMPHLËT.
THREATS OF DEATH TO DISOBEDIENTS.
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SHANGHAI, November 24th. Two students made their appear- ance in the Provisional Court res terday morning, before Judge Wan and Mr. Shimizu, charged with dis tributing inflammatory leaflets and with being Communists
ever there has been a trade dis- turbance the members of this or- LA MERITA gaisution have always been found at the bottom of it. Following the disbandment of the strikers there TRIBUTE AS YOU LIKE IT is now an agitation in favour of the winding-up of the anti-British
Members of the local branch of and anti-Japanese Boycott Aasocia-
Gairing admittance into a house the St. John Ambulance Brigade, tions. These bodies have not been in Shanghai Street, Kowloon in the numbering 137 out of a strength of particularly active in recent months guise of a clectrical fitter, a Chi-200 odd made the trip to Stanleyed were arrested in Ferry Road and their influence is negligible at nese with two others not in custody, by a number of motor cars and the moment, but their very exist made an attempt to rob the in- buses, and carried
arrested He mates.
and successful field day on Sunday. The ence is a menace to anything in
brought before Mr. W. Schofield at result of the first aid work was the shape of a trade revival and the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. particularly satisfactory, and the the sooner they are entirely elimin-The case was formally remanded drills reflected great credit on the surgeons of the Brigade and in- for a week. ated the better,
structora generally.
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Sentence of four years' hard issued as to the result of the recent labour was passed upon a Chinese meeting of representatives of the yesterday by Mr. W. Schofield and European and Chinese Chambers of Major C. Wilson at the Kowloon Commerce in Hong Kong. The Magistracy for having in his object of that meeting was to dis- possession a loaded revolver and cuss various plans for improving 92 rounds of ammunitions. Defen- trade but it is obvious that there dant was arrested on November can be no gut and dried plans for 17th while he was in a motor car Muar-On October 19th at Glas- trade improvement until confidence on the way to La Long.
gow, WILLIAM MONIVEN MUAT, in the maintenance of peace and C.B.E., M.B., C.M., late Senior Medical Officer, Wei-hai-wei, order in South China has been of a girl found carrying two bottles North China. French Hospital, JOSE MARIA GONZAGA PEREIRA, aged 69 years. Funeral will pass the Manu- ment to-day (Tuesday) at 5.15
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restored. That is a sine que non and consequently we are inclined to believe our Chinese correspondent's report, obtained from Chinese com mercial circles, that the conference did not arrive at any very satis factory or definite conclusion. That
Not being satisfied with the story
of wine at Pedder Street, detectives visited the house of her brother-in law and there found many other bottles of wine. The girl, her brother-in-law and his wife, were charged before Major C. Willson at the Magistracy yesterday for a
On Sunday night it was believed that at least five people were still missing. Yesterday evening it was stated that there might be six ronson for people missing. The doubt is that the exact number boarding the motor boat cannot be definitely ascertained.
Three members of the crew were found and brought back to Hong Kong by the Police launch. The little daughter of Mra Chan Tim has also been found but up to last
girl and two men unaccounted, ae- night there were still ane lady, one cording to the meagre information
Det.-Sergt. Trodd stated that ac
available from official quarters. whilst in the act of distributing There is also one member of the OUT a very leaflets, parported to have been crew of the motor beat missing.
issued by the Cotton Mill Strikers'
KIDNAPPING MENACE IN
SHANGHAI.
YOUNG CHINESE CHILD'S ESCAPE.
SHANGHAL, Nov. 94th, Yesterday morning a young Chinese boy, whose relatives are rich-merchants in the International Concession, was carried off from the front of his house by a gang of four-men. The child had just left his home to go to school when the kidnappers surrounded him and imotor car putting him into the owned by his parents forced the
chauffeur to leave the vehicle. One
Federation.
Accused stated that they picked up a roll of the leaflets in the street, They did not know they were of an inflammatory nature.
The fire on the motor boat was. eventually extinguished by those”- who remained on board and the boat was rowed ashore, where it was found by the Police launch, not burned to the water's edge, but only Capital Offences.
with the awning burned out and Translations of the leaflet follow the bows damaged. It would soom Those who do any of the follow-that if all had remained on board ing will be put to death and de-
The hearing was adjourned
prived of the rights of the federa- and not been frightened all would well and a lot of have been tion:--
1.-Betray strike news to deter unnecessary trouble and worry tives or capitalists.
avoided.
e-Propaganda ngainst strikes, 3-Return to work and negotiate with the capitalists privately.
4. Try to break the Federation. Minor Offences.
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The motor, boat was employed in the regular ferry service between Saikung and Nam Tan Sha and in addition to Mr. Chan Tar Cho's Those who do any of the follow-party of 15 persons, mentioned ing will be deprived of rights in the Federation after three warn yesterday, there were nice other ings:
men, one woman, and one little girl 1-Disobey orders of the mem-who were travelling as passengers. There is still the possibility that bers of the committees,
2-Fail to attend the meetings the missing passengers have been three times without any proper
(to committee members rescued by native eraft:
Later yesterday a report came to only).
3Fail to attend representative hand that the body of a woman,
(to representatives proper reason only),
passengers on the motor boat, had 4.Fail to attend general meet-been found at Nam Tau Shs. The ings three times without proper body was removed to the Kowloon reason (to labourers at large),
Mortuary to await identification." Rewards.
reason
does not mean in any way, how revenue offence and the case was of the gang took the steering wheel meetings three times without gay believed to have been one of the
and the whole party and their vic tic drove off to the French Con- cession.
adjourned until this morning ever, that trade is at a standstill.. F. H. Loseby in defending. Trade is being done under dificul
The conclusion of the story in ties and nothing which the mer-
In a hurry to arrive at his chant can do will remove those which two Chinese were censured destination, the driver passed a of the French
PICKS. discuities whilst the threat of server failing to such a fight entween Chinonton, ther The Baily Press.
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..TRADE PROSPECTS.
ALL the trade reports coming from England now are decidedly encour- aging. The pessimistic note, to
tamed, has been definitely dropped and manufacturers generally are confidently anticipating a consider- able business revival in the very The Federation of Bear future. British Industries, an influential The Interport dinner in honour and conservative organization com- of the visiting cricket teams from prising in its membership practic. Shanghai and Malaya will be held ally all of the leading industrialists tornight at the Hong Kong Club, in the United Kingdom, announces The annual meeting of the Hong that trade prospects are better Kong Horticultural Society will be to-day than they have been at nay held at the Board Room of Messrs. period since the end of the world Jardine, Matheson & Co., to-day, war, and it is thought that foreignnt s.15 p.m. trade particularly will soon be back
so-called "Ironsides" first gained peace. their pre-eminence in Canton affairs.
WEATHER REPORT.
Those who arrest or kill anyone who stands against the strike will be rewarded with silver and gold medals,
Those
PENANG HOSPITAL.
CONDITIONS CONDEMNED AT PLANTERS' MEETING,
PENANG, November 21st. The Penang Hospital report was the chief topic of discussion at the meeting of the Malay Peninsula Agricultural Association at Parit Buntar on Sunday.
Mr. C. W. L. King, who presided," denounced in scathing terms the un- satisfactory conditions at Penang.. 2.That there should be no other which he said had been known party within the Kuomintang is un. throughout the district for years. reasonable,"
3.That the country should be He stated that the Association ad- ruled by the Kuomintang is ridicul dressed a letter before the Com mittee resigned, but it had remain 4-That the power of the Kuo-ed unacknowledged. mintang should be extended is non-
ous.
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and disorder hangs over Kwangwomen because they claimed they Police Force taking no notice of
different sex " Was
the signal to stop which had been
Those who are wounded for tung. But although it is true that were "of a
The constable there- heard at the Central Magistracy given him.
struggle in the strike will be hented there will be no trade revival in
yesterday when three women were upon, warned his colleague on the and compensated by the Feders- the accepted case of the term until charged with assaulting another next coiner about 300 yards away tion
who are arrested for pence is established it is cleo true woman: Mr. E, S. C. Brooks ap by means of the whistle. Complete-
whistle, blowing and a feeling that pensated by the Federation. that conditions to-day are not so peared for the complainant, and bewildered by the sound of the struggle in the strike will be com Those who die for struggle in the discouraging as they might appear Mr. L. D. Turner defended. After he was about to be captured, the from a superficial review and cer- hearing evidence the Magistrate driver leapt from the car, which strike will have their families taken tainly not so discouraging as many fined the first defendant 225, bind immediately ran into a tree at the care of; they will be given £1,000.
Severe Attack Of Heresy. side of the road. The others of
The Four Words" Principles of the child in the motor-car. The
the Kuomintang. That there should youngster, safe and sound, has been be no other political party except returned to his family by the the Kuomintang is the thought of At this afternoon's meeting of French Police, who are now the Imperialists.
vigorous the Sanitary Board, Dr. W. V. M.gaged in executing a Koch will move that a committee search for the fugitives.-.0.
Daily News. of the Board be appointed, eomn- posed of the President and Dr. S. W. Tao, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, and Dr. S., C. Ho, to inquire into the question of the re-adjustment of rents of market stalls and report to the Board." This matter, it will he recalled, was brought up a few weeks ago by Mr. J. P. Braga and
tion. the motion was to have been moved
7-The Three Principles" are. by him at the last meeting of the 300 will prevail along the const and fresh monsoon over the China
not clear, Forecast:-N.E..."winds, of no value.
8-The Five Powers Policy" is Local Board, but in the meanwhile Dr. Sea,
9.-The Construction methods of Koch had returned from holiday
the Country" cannot be carried. and resumed his seal the Board. fine to cloudy.
into practice. Another matter to come before the
10Military Government" gives A telegram from Manila Observa- Board to-day will be a letter from the Government relative to the tory states that at 6.30 p.m. on good chances to the militarists.
11Political Government" given appointment of Lieut. Col. and November 28th the typhoon was in
12.Constitutional Government" There will be a demonstration at Brevet Col. J. S. Bostock, C.B.E., about 133deg, Long. E. and 13deg. good chances to the politicians
Lat. N., moving N.W. and an inflow of gold sufficient to the Helena May Institute on Mon- R.A.M.C., to be a member of the 10 a.m., Nov. 27th: Typhoon in is far from being adopted.
13.The so-called loyal Kuomin. tang members want nothing but re-establish that feeling of oonday, December 5th, at 5:30 pm, Sanitary Board for a term of three about 131deg. Long E., 15deg. Lat.
8.15 p.m., Nov. 27th: Typhoon in money, fidence in the stability of under- given by Mr. Sohjun Wada on years, vice Lieut.-Col. 6. Boylan N., recarving north-eastward.
is effective only in reading, lying conditions which the business "Japaese Flower Placing." Open Smith, D.8.0.0.B.E., E.M.M.C., about 134deg. Long. E. and 18deg.-14.-The will of Dr. Sun Yat Sen
Lát. N., almost stationary. with effect from November 10th community requires before it is to the public.-ADVT.
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to something approaching the pre- The tolal output of the Kailas war standard. "It seems reason Mining Administration's mince for able to anticipate," add the ex- the week ending November 12th perts,
"that next year should amounted to 104,787 tons and the witness a definite upward turn of males during the period to 65,209 the international price level, accom-tons. panied by a fall in the Bank rate
sense.
Mr. King proposed résolutions The Royal Observatory's weather
5.-That education should be viewing with concern the deplor. report, forecast and remarks, issued. yesterday at 5.40 p.m. ttotes that based on the principles of the Kuo-able condition of the Penang Hos- the anti-cyclone remains unchanged. mintang is despotic. The typhoon is situated about: 300
8-That Bolshevism should be pital, and expressing the view that iniles east of Iehijakijima and is opposed puts an end to the Revalu- the Visiting Committee should bo moving northward.
Strong, mon
MANILA'S TYPHOON
WARNING.
accorded all facilities for obtaining information, and that the Associa tion should be allowed to appoint A member to the new committee,
It was also proposed that a copy of the resolution be sent to the Colonial Secretary for submission to the Governor, and that if no satisfaction was obtained that petition be sent to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Mr. H. H.-Wardlaw, the vice- chairman, seconded the resolutions, which were carried unanimously.
Straits Times.