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UAGH SWEEP TICKET No. 400.
·SECOND RACE—SEVENTA EXTRA RACE MEETING, 1029,
HE above Ticket which war THE
changi by H. TỪNG HÀN. CHT, Having Been Reported LOST. unless the said Ticket is produced to me Within ONE MONTH From THIS DATE, All Rights ander auch Ticket
By Order,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
shall become Null & Void.
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 18th June, 193". (9555
LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN NOT
that the EIGHTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS will be hold at EX- CHANGE BUILDING, Dra Vaux
21ar JUNE, 1930, at 11.50 A.M.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1930.
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 3.27 p.m., stated:-
Local Forecast :-8, or variable winds moderate; generally over ,,cust; ocensional rain.
Editorial and Business Offices: 11,
A police friend reports the
The northern depression is mov- following instance of the bene-ing. N.N.E towards Nemuro. The ficial properties of Whisky. southern depression remains cen- In response to
tral over Tongking. telephone call regarding a burglarious entry into a high class residence, he found the resident in a much happier state than might well be ex- pected. The reason was that although a quantity of plate had been removed, a number of trophies and valuables of a sentimental nature, although gathered together for removal, had been left behind with the following note: "Your Whis- ky was so good and satisfying that I have only taken articles which I think have no great
BOLD, Hong Kong, on SATURDAY, sentimental value for you..
For this thank your Whisky. Bill Sikes."
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED hom 12ra
JUNE. 1930, to 21st JUNE, 1830, Both Days inclusiva.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. W. BROWN, Secretary. Hong Kong, 7th June, 1930. [9520
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The TRANSFER BOOKS, of the Cmpany will be CLOSED from the
11 JUNE 2ND JULY, 1930, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
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HONG KONG, JUNE 18, 1930.
CURRENCY REFORM.
by his own superior officers, and send this money to Nanking. Not to have done so would have been disloyal to the Government he served, but now that it has been necessary "to remove him he has, the personal satisfaction of know- ing that he discharged his duty faithfully so long as it was possible
to: do so.
remained in the North or
of
were
Mr. John Thomson, an account- ant, of Grand Avenne, Muswell Hill, London, gave the following advice in his will to a daughter :-- "I desire that my daughter Ethel Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt The date for the Vienna Autumn shall in all things bear in mind hoisted his dag at Chathami, last Fair, which always follows im- that I have worked hard for the month, as Commander-in-Chief at mediately after the Leipzig Fair, capital which I am able to leave ta the Nore. Admiral Sir E. S. Alex has been fixed from September to her, and if she do so I feel sure ander-Sinclair has completed the 16
she will not be carried away by .
* News and Views *
Probably it was A matter usual tenure of three years in this A bedouin went to the head-specious persons who unfold dazz personal indifference to Mr. Bri post, and is now to become First quarters of the Royal Air Force ling schemes for making fortunes whether the monies he collected and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp in Bagdad recently carrying a large quickly, My experience is that to the King Sir Reginald Tyr-sack. He had in it £700 in sover such schemes are in most cases de- whitt's last servies was as Com- eigns, which he wished to exchange" signed for catching the unwary coll remitted to Nanking. He was con-mander-in-Chief on the Chins for a trip to Jerusalem by ait, inexperienced, and end by specula- cerned with the collection of cash, Station, where he was relieved in The money, he said, was given to tors losing their money. Before my not the spending of it, but it is February, 1929. Paymaster Com him by an Englishman during the daughter takes any steps for invest- mander K. E. Badcock, D.S.O., who war, and had been kept hidden in ment of her capital desire that easy to understand how the Norther was sceretary to Sir Reginald, will the earth. He had no desire to
abe take the advice of a copable and ners regarded the situation. They also be with him at the Nore. The keep the money and no wish to disinterested person."" 52 $500,000 in local
flag-lieutenant will be Lieutenant live if he were not allowed a trip E. W. Thurston, from H.M.S.in one of the "airbirds" which he actually leaving their territory Nelson, who was a sub-lieutenant had seen Aying overhead. every month for that of the and lieutenant in the sloop Blue- bell, on the China Station during "enemy," there to be used to bring
revenues
about their, downfall. It was in evitable that sooner or later action
would be taken to stop this leakage," and it is really sur prising that the crisis did not come about long ago. Further develop ments will be interesting to watch. This is not the first time that THERE is nothing very sensational politics have been brought into play in the interim report of the Cur-in connection with the Customa rendy Commission. Probably no-service, nor is it likely to be the body expected there would be.last. The 23 per cent surtax im The subject is not one which lends posed upon dutiable articles is itself to sensationalism, but is one supposed to go direct into China's which has to be considered very own treasury. The Nationalists soberis. The Commission appears naturally declare that Nanking is to have some suggestions to offer for the proper repository for such the improvement of certain con- funds. The Northerners, with equal ditions in regard to the currency logic, object to finance the military of the Colony, "but is definitely operations of an Administration opposed to stabilisation of the with which they are at war. In dollar. This could be done only by such circumstances the lot of the putting our currency, on a gold unfortunate Commissioner of Cus- basis, and the objections to this toms is an unhappy one. Sceing are two-it would divorce the that his removal had been decided Colony's currency from that of upon by General YEN HET SHAN, China, and in the present state of retirement to the British Con. the ever market such a change sulate with his books and papers would be disastrous Until the ex- was all that Mr. BELL could possibly tended report of the Commission do, there to await developments. is available it is scarcely possible comment upon the decisions
to
reached and suggestions" made,
ments.
RUSSIA'S NEW POLICY.
Admiral Tyrwhitt's time out there.
Vincent Hong, the first "Chinese toreador seen in Europe, has arriv- at Barcelona from South America.
ed
The new submarine Pandora was commissioned on May 17 at Bar- row, for trials, as tender to the Dolphin, depôt-ship, and service on the China Station. She will be 4. L. Besané, late staff officer for commanded by Lieut. Commander operations on the Admiral's staff in the Nelson and formerly in com dora is another instance of a sub- mand of submarine L25. The Pan-
marine which has taken a name formerly given to surface craft. launched in 1900, which was scrap There was a cruiser Pandora, ped in 1913 after a commission on the Africa Station; and the last of ship, purchased in 1814, and paid the name was a submarine depot
off in 1922.
Mr. Duncan Clark, formerly partner with the late Mr. A. . Skelton in the firm of Lane, Craw ford & Co., has been recuperating at Newquay, Cornwall, after serious operation in a London nursing home.
women bandits has been playing a One of Chicago's bright young novel trick on victims of her own sex. Reports to the police disclose.
A Jewish administrative district. where Yiddish will be the official for the transaction of public busi- language in schools and courts and ness, has been established in the Krivol Rog region of Ukraine. It is the third district of its kind in the Soviet Union and conforms with the Soviet policy of giving all the nationalities of the Soviet Union the official use of their native lan- majority of the population. guages wherever they constitute a
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that she gains admittance to apart An Advice to the Lovelorn" Then, at the revolver's muzzle, the that strives to promote happiness ments when the menfolk are absent. column in a Chicago newspaper intruder will compel the woman or in the home bad the opposite effect women of the house to disrobe and i upon the wedded bliss of J. David to sit in a bath after it has been; Dimne, according to his wife, Jean. filled with water. Thereupon the Mrs. Dunne is suing her husband robber woman carries off all the for separate, maintenance. other women's clothes and otherwise weeks ago, after reading Advice loots the place at leisure..
to the Lovelorn," she said, he announced that I was not at all A, derutation of Chinese Govern- like the wife portrayed in the ment officials are visiting London to paper. He said that the important sanitary work in the Port of keep him. He then left the house obtain a practical knowledge of thing was not to get a man, but to
and I have not seen him since.i
London.
Local Notes and Events
lative Council has been fixed to be The next meeting of the Legis- held on Thursday. H.E. Sir William
Mr. J. L. de Noms, a plumber on board the President Lincoln, has reported the loss of a gold watch.
Mrs. Leigh, of 11, Cameron Road, Kowloon, has reported to the police the loss of a handbag containing
Peel will be present, and it will be It was stated that some person re-about $60 in money. The article the first meeting presided over by moved it from bis cabin late in the was left behind either on a ferry him.
afternoon.
or in a ticksha at noon yesterday,
Legislative Council, the first read ending June 14, show that there At Thursday's meeting of the The health returns for the week
other than to say we agree that An unequivocal warning against too this is no time to engage in experi- drastic interference in the personal
Looking Back 25 Years, ' That we should prepare and home lives of the workers hasing will be proposed of a bill entitled were six Chinese cases of typhoid, plans for action if and when China just been issued in Moscow by the
The Harbour Master in his an adopts a gold basis for her currency Central Commitice of the Com-taxation of light hydro-carbon oils."
"An Ordinance to provide for the three fatal, and three non-Chincen
cases. one fatal. There was also nual report under the heading of "Trade" says:Once more. It is one Chinese case of smallpox, one of diphtheria, three deaths from inuecessary to call attention to the
is sound idea. Meanwhile we can but try to adjust ourselves to
munist Party, whose views on such matters are tantamount to an order.
the new conditions, and by effecting The action speaks volumes for the President Lincain included Lieut.. fluenza, six from malaria, 64 from want of accuracy in the retarns
all reasonable economies minimise the unpleasant effects of the slump from which Chian trade is suffer ing.
THE FIGHT FOR FUNDS.
THAT which had been long anticipat ed has come to pass, and the sequel
in the ranks of Communist lender change of temper that has occurred ship. It is clearly in line with the cooler, more conciliatory tactics hurriedly introduced in all depart ments of national life after the recent spell of acrobatic speed on the road towards, socialization.
Proposals for the immediate
Passengers arriving aboard the
by Mrs. and Miss Hawley: Comdr. J. H. Hawley, accompanied
Mr. W. W. Burrell, of the American Asiatic Underwriters, and a popular local baseball player, left for Shanghai in the s.8. President Grant.
is the flight of the Commissioner cornmunization of family life, for P. & 0. Bank, was a passenger on Mr. A. E. McCartney, of the of Customis at Tientsin to his removal of children from their Consal for protection. We are told parents, for the abolition of in-
the outgoing. Dollar liner. Mr. Mc. that General YEN H81 SHAN had dividual kitchens, were accepted by
Cartney is travelling to England repeatedly ordered the Commis the Press only a few short months sioner to cease remitting about ago with great enthusiasm. Now
via the United States.
is
$4.00 each. $500,000 of Customs revenue month- the Central Committee, at the headboard" the President Grant is
H. L. Deakin's THE SECRET OF THE COVE.
A tale of mystery and intrigue taking the reader from Whiteball to the Cornish Coast.
Edwin Dringer's THE ARMY BEHIND · BARBED WIRE.
The diary of a German officer who was taken prisoner by the Cossacks in 1915 and sent to a Siberian prison camp. William McFee's NORTH OF SUEZ,
Port Said, where East meets West in a jumble of tongues, creeds, ideals and mistrusts, is the scene of this interesting book.
Major A. J. Dawson's THE CASE BOOKS OF X 87.
A singular collection of human documents relating to London's underworld.
W. Martyn's THE TRENT TRAIL.
For thrills and excitement the "Trent stories are outstanding.
L. P. Greene's THE FLAME..
An interesting book on Africa's people and the traditions that order their lives."
J. M. Waleh's THE BLACK GHOST.
A gripping plot with quick movement and haunting mystery.
LOST PROPERTY. By The Ranee of Sarawak..
A book charmingly written. It is the pathetic story of an Englishmau who marries a Malay, resulting in two Eurasian children. The names of the persons mentioned in this story are purely fictitious.
W. B 1rowbridge's THE HOUND DESIRE.
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The complex drama of the fate of a lovely girl.
Sarah Salt's STRANGE COMBAT.
A powerful and dramatic story,
John Owen's MANY CAPTIVES.
-4, loyale niece of workimagem
IACorinator's THE TWO TICKETS przzri
The latest detective story. Murder on the Eallway!
KELLY & WALSH, LTD.
Incorporated in Hong Kongh
jy to Nanking, but he refused to of which is JOSEPH STALIN, warns obey this instruction-as, of course, that: The realization of such Hong Kong Excavation and Pile he was bound to do therefore it dangerous and. Utopian ideas with Driving Company, on a business. is now necessary to remove him." out taking into consideration the Fortunately, it is not necessary to material resources of the country,
-trip to the North.
After a short business stay in the
tuberculosis and one non-Chinese under this heading. There being death from the last-named disease. Do Customs: House in the Colony, Against that, there was a clean it is impossible for accurate re- bill of health for the 24 hours ended turns to be compiled, but informa
tion given by the officers and June 18.
agents of ships might with advant- A Chinese, described 15 habitual Criminal and a
En age be of a fuller and more detail life description. It is true that I banished from Singapore, was be-sm empowered to call for copies fore Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at of manifests of cargo imported, Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, for but so long as the favourite and stealing seven bundles of firewood comprehensive term Case of Mer- from a hut in Tai Kok Tsui. He chandise continues to be employed, was sentenced to tour months' hard such manifest will not help us labour. Anather local banishee, much, while to deal with the varí- the expiration of his term, was een-esses, etc., as entered in the mani- who was found in the Colony before ous weights and measures of the need to eight months' hard labour fests would require a very much larger staff than we now possess. As it is the returns are compiled An audience of paid extras by the Assistant Harbour Master accorded Lee Tracy some honest from information given by officers
and 15 strokes. of the birch.
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read any einister meaning into that and the readiness of the population Colony, Mr. J. E. Perkins, of the criticism when he did a four-minute of the ships, or, in some CASES, grim phrase, for Mr. HAYLEY BELL for it, would mean great Josacs of Paramount Picture Corporation. monologue in one of the threatre the agents. It frequently happens was apparently allowed to leave money and a severe discrediting of with Mrs. Perkins, left for Shanghai talking drama, in which he is mation is ignorant of the existence his office unmolested to take refuge the very notion of Socialistic reor-
scenes in "Big Time," the all that the officer giving the infor- in the British Consulate-General.ganization of the way of life. The by the Dollar liner.
leaders in these hasty revolutions
featured with Mae Clarke ander board of certain items which "PUTNAM WEALE" has been ap of everyday life aro described as pointed (by General Yes) to the guilty of
Professor Bristow Adams, of Josephine Dunn, and which will be it is imperatre should be reported. extremely unreasonable, post of Commissioner of Customs, fantastic, and therefore dangerous Cornell University, New York playing this week at the Queen's, Dangerous Goods." - Hong
attempts to overcome with one jump
Theatre. Tracy went on shooting Kong Daily Press, June 19, 1905. with instructions to see to it that all obstacles on the rotum State, arrived in the Colony in the no money leaves Tientsin for Nan- Socialist reorganization of life."
gag after gag at the audience, but Looking Back 50 Years... 1.5. President Lincoln. He is on a king for the prolongation of the them of failure to take into can
The Central Committee
the gags he thought best were not tour of the Orient.
as good as some of those of which This" move at lezat shows aideration the backwardness of the
he was more or less in doubt, prov- very clearly, that the recent talk of country culturally and economical- a settlement of the Northern-Nan. | ly
that on audience, as a whole, foiled to remark the frequent oc- in a better critic than a performer.
currence of the quaint expression king quarrel was far from being
"one piecec ?" This arises from the founded upon fact.
use of classifiers. Tat. Cheong toi of the world's most famous magi- what as follows:-One largo fully translated would read some cians, is now touring the East and
war,"
It has been a long-standing griev ance with the Northerners that, although Peping and Tientsin are well within their "zone of in-
accuses
Among the passengers travelling The revised Communist attitude Grant was Mr. W. M. Meerteus, the to Shanghai in the s.s. President will result in immediate recon. sideration of a score of projects for Far Eastern Manager of the Nether- Bey industrial cities or improved lands Indische Commercial Bank. sections of old cities. The Central Committee has stuck a pin into the
Nicola, who is recognized as one
inflated rose-tinted balloon of the A public car collided with a tram. new all-Socialist cities, where home way standard in Des Voeux Road will be due to play at the Star
mittee instructs that new construc Two women, who travelled as pas
In the ridiculous jargon known |as Pidgin “English who can have
article of household furniture, to
fluence," money has been sent re- life and personal distinctions would Central, tear the Western Market, Theatre, Kowloon, shortly. The "it, a table." But as the China-
be na nearly as possible abolished.
name Nicola is famed the world man cannot well go into all these gularly by the local Customs author After discarding" dangerous and early yesterday morning, somG ities to Nanking. The position of Utopian ideas," the Central Com damage being done to the vehicle bill in almost every big city, age; and as it would not come over, a name which has topped the minutiae and intricacies of langu. the Commissioner of Customs was tion must provide for plenty of senger, received injuries, which, Described "as, "The Whirlwind natural to him to ignore. the classi-. a very dificult one. Obviously he open spaces, a maximum of hygienic however, were not so serious as to Magician," he is at present playing fer altogether by saying "one must act upon instructions received conditions from headquarters, and not upon mon dining-rooms (without pro
Tundra Rica) comfert detain them in hospital.
table" be roussayently sata "ons. bathing facilities,, com-
The Straits Settlements with y comi
pieces table." There are hintyaungatione orrerer fordertoring privat Ritchienst, duos andAt the Marine Court reuerent pany of International Stars and Places AAS TO C from persons whose authority he children's institutions. The publi- two mistresses of passenger boats
to denote, ob beautiful Broadway girls The many cannot officially recognise. Hence, the national conference of the Ce 14 and 18 excess passengers in their where for its music, mystery, long et, etc, animals, brute or cation of this warning just before were fined 814 and 828 for carrying company has been acclaimed every-jects small and large, round, flat, in spite of General Ye's repeated munist Party now sitting is not respective boats. In the latter case, comedy, gorgeous costumes and human, ete, a list of which would notifications to the contrary, Mr. accidental. It seems another move the defendant had also to pay a fine scenery. The opening date of the be altogether beyond the limits of HAYLEY BELL was compelled to carry the wind out of the Opposition sails Harbour Master of the change of when advance booking facilities un the part of the leaders to take of 810 for failing to notify the season will be nonounced shortly,
theso notes-Hong Kong Daily out the instructions given to him by correcting alleged excesses. ownership of the craft.
'will be available.
Press, June 18, 1860.