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BTAYLER OFFICERS The
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IN THE MATTER OF THE COM.
PANIES ORDINANCE 1911-1921
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IN THE MATTER OF THE CHINA LAND & INVEST. „MENT CO., LTD.
(In Liquidation)
PURSUANT to Noction 181 of the
Companies Ordinance 1911, NOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN that A MEETING of CREDITORS of the above-named Company will be held at the Offices of Mesta. PEROY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING, 6, DES VOLUI ROAD, CENTRAL, Hong Kong, at 12.30 p.m. on THURSDAY, 7TH AUGUST, 1930.
At This Meeting the Creditors will be asked to determine whether an Applica tion shall be made to the Court for the appointment of any person as Liquida- ter in the place of or jointly with myself, the Liquidator appointed by the Com pany, or for the appointment of a Committee of Inspection.
HEREBY
of the
NOTICE IS ALBO GIVEN that the CREDITORS of the above-named Company are required, on or before the 30TH AUGUST NEXT, to and in their Names sad Addressee and particulare of their dents or Claims, and the Name and Addresses of their Bolicitors (if any) to SYDNEY HAMP DEN ROSS, of Messrs. PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMINs, the Liquidator" Company; and, if so required by Notice in Writing from the said Liquidator, are, by their Bolicitors or personally, to come in and prove their debts or Claims, at, such time and place as shall be specified in such Nctice, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any Distribution made before such Debts are proved.
Dated this 17th day of July, 1990.
S. HAMPDEN ROSS,
Liquidato:
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NOTICE.
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of this Company will be CLOSED From SATURDAY, 9TH AUGUST, 1930, To SATURDY, 16TH AUGUST, 1930, Poth Daya inclusive
By Order of the Board of Directors,
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
Hong Kong, 17th July, 1930. [9652FOR Reasons given to Shareholders
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY
CO., LTD.
INTERIM DIVIDEND of ATWO DOLLARS per Share for the Six Months ending 30TE JUNE, 1930, will be Payale on FRIDAY, BTB AUGUST, on which Date Dividend Warrants may be obtained on applica. tion at the Company's Office, 3, CHATEZ Волр.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from THURSDAY. the 31ST JULY, to THURSDAY, the 7rx AUGUST (Both Days inclusive), during which period No Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
L. 8. GREENHILL, Becretary, Hong Kong 17th July, 1930. [9685
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD,
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Certifients No. 12233 for 50 Shares Nos. 291629/891678 issued in the Name of MOK KING-TAK kas boca declared LOST and should the ama not be produced before the 22nd JULY, 1930, it shall be deemed CANCELLED and of NO EFFECT...
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD"; “Agenta. Hong Kong, 7th July, 1990. [9625-
at the Annal General Meeting of the Company held on 7th MAT, 1970, the Directora. have decided to CANCEL the Existing Share Certificates and to REPLACE them by New Bhare Certificates of a different Colour.
All Shareholders are therefore re- quested to send their Share Certificates to the Registered (ffice of the Company at ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, VICTORIA, in the Colony of HoNG KONG, forthwith so that the New Share Certificates may be prepared and issued to them in lieu of the Certificates now held by them which will be Cancelled,
By Order of the Board,
· JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managera, Hong Kong, 20th June, 1930..
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· PEAK MANSIONS”.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1930.
WEATHER REPORTS:
Yesterday's weather report, tore. cast and remarks," issued by the Royal Observatory
stated :-
Local Forecast:-SW winds, moderate; overcast with rain at first; improving later.
TYPHOON WARNING.
The following typhoon warning has been received by the American Consulate General from the Manila Observatory:
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Manila. July 19 2.50 p.m. Cyclone or typhoon E.S.E. of Guam direction unknown,
BIRTHS. HAMILL-On July 13, at Chang- Wan Pang, Woosung, to MARIE, wife of VINCENT S. HAMILL, daughter. SMEDLEY-On July 10, at Tsingtau,
Any book which throws light the book, though this does not do upon any section of a complicated tract from its interest. On the situation is therefore exceedingly contrary, the more familiar the welcome to those foreigners who are reader is with the early history of interested in watching the great the revolution and even pre-revolu- A depression covers S.W. China, crisis through which China is passtion days the more interesting are A typhoon has formed to the S.E.ing, and has been passing for the Mr. TANG's illuminating aidelights of Guam.
art twenty years. It may be an upon the situation, or, as he calls other twenty years before anything it, the "inner history of those like unity and stability is establish- days and events....Coming down to ed throughout the great Republic-more recent happenings, the author and perhaps not even then. Thir defnitely takes the view that the teen years have passed since the present Nanking règime is doomed, revolution in Russia, where the and that it is only a matter of party in power has a hundred times time before the Left leaders who the authority ever exercised by the
are now taking refuge in places Chinese Government since 1911. As where the Chinese Government can- a matter of fact, the real process
not reach them will be able to take of revolution in China does not go
their places again at the head of back so far; not revolutionaries" the movement for the reconstruction or reformers but men with the of Chida. Mr. TANG's book "ex- peculiar mental outlook of the old plains some very puzzling features time mandarins and militarists have of the political situation, and posed as leaders of the revolution, whether or not one agrees with his with the disastrous consequences to deductions-it must be admitted he to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. SMED-be seen throughout the country has written a most interesting and LEY, twin daughtera.
to-day. It will be many years he informative book. Confident though MARRIAGES:
fore the situation becomes sufficient he is of the ultimate success of the BURGESS COTTAM-On June 18, at ly settled to allow a foreign observer Left Wing, he confesses that the St. Martin-in-the-Fields, W.C., clearly to appreciate the real mean immediate prospect gives no ground Dr. HENRY BURGESS, Whit- church, Salop, to ENID (Poppy)ing of the struggle for control of for excessive optimism. COTTAN, youngest daughter of the Central Administration. That thinks there is no cause for despair, the late J. P. COTTAM, of Hong being so, an account of what has" for if recent revolutionary history Kong, and Mrs. Cor of been and is now going on, written in China has taught us anything, Westmount-road, Eltham Park. CARLES BLAKE. On June 19, at All by a man who is in close touch it is the irresistibility of the demo- Saints' Herriott, CHARLES with political affairs, is of very eratie tide, and the power of WYNDHAM, Eldest son of the late. WR. CARLES C.3.G., and great interest. Mr. TANG makes no enlightened public opinion, which Mrs. CARLES, of Pangbourne, to
secret of the fact that he is no cannot be exasperated indefinitely DOROTHY FLORENCE, youngest admirer of the present Nanking with impunity." daughter of ROBERT BLAKE, J.P.,
régime, nor does he attempt to of Mark's Barn, Crewkerne. HASHAGEN-LOWar-On July 12, in deceive the reader into believing Shanghai, by Judge Milton D. that his reading of past events and Purdy, HARRY O. HASHAGEN to.
forecast of future ones is an ab. HELEN A. LOWRY.. SAVILL THORNE-On June 23," at solutely unbiassed one.
He quite The Chapel of the Savoy, frankly admits to making no claime Strand, LYDALL, son of Si EDWIN and Lady SAVILL, to. to be regarded as an impartial VERY guarded is the tone of the MARGARET, only daughter of the historian, but he does claim to have British answer. to M. BRIAND'S Hon. Mr. JUSTICS THGENE, of tried to be strictly accurate with proposal for establishing what has Johore, and Mrs. THORNE,
,
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Yet he
GREAT BRITAIN'S REPLY
TO FRANCE.
stood that the majority of the especially the strings which France Powers, under the cloak of general wishes to attach to the return of approval with "conditions," have the mines. It is believed Germany re-opened old sores and probed new is attempting to get France' to. wounds, which would frighten any reduce her demands in return for man lesa hardy than the French Germany's approval of the BRIAND federation scheme. Germany's Foreign Minister.
Germany has attached conditions former allies fear that M. BRIAND'S to her approval which, if accepted plan will put the stamp of status quo upon the present political ar- by France. would constitute an opening wedge into the revision of rangement in Europe, and make the Treaty of Versailles. Germany's more difficult the future unburden- terms, it is understood, are sovereing of pine of their ills begot at and serious, while her former Versailles. Hungary, it is under- allies are to less insistent upon the stood, has officially approved the rectification of certain alleged its which, if adjusted, would practical. ly abolish the Versailles Treaty, The neutralization of the Danzig corridor, in order to allow Germany free communication between Prussia and the remainder of Germany, is understood to be one of the sugges tions the German Foreign Office has made to France as a condition to her approval.
plan, but with the reservation that the federation be not based upon. maintenance of the political status que in Europe,
Generally, it might be said that the plan has the whole-hearted sup- port of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, while Poland and the Little Entente-Roumania, Czecho- Slovakia and Yugo-Slavia-will.
"naturally follow the lead of France. Greece, Bulgaria, Austria, Switzer land. Belgium, and Holland are considered well disposed toward the plan, while Great Britain is not It now appear's
Germany's second condition seeks special economic privileges in trad- ing with Poland, to which France could never agree without 'raising angry protests from her Eastern over-enthusiastic allies. Then there is the vexed that practically all the 28 nations." question of the Saar" basin, over appealed to will, either eagerly or which a France German Commis- cautiously, approve the principle of sion had been meeting in Paris for the plan, leaving the road wide months until the recent complete open for serious political bargain- deadlock. The Germans considering at Geneva in September when the French demands excessive, the League Assembly meets.
* News and Views
his facts. His deductions and his been called the United States of which have been reduced on several tion over the naval base at Anacos-
DEATHS.
forecasts are his own, and more BRITTO-On July 14, at Shanghai, than that none can reasonably
BRENG DE BRITTO,, aged 5
expect from any man attempting months, son of Mr. and Mrs. V to outline so intricate and shadowy F. M. DE BRITTO.. GRANT.-On July 7, at Leeds, Eng-a-subject.
land, Mrs. E. GEANT. mother of
B.C., EDMUNE MOLLOY (former-
SIMB.-On July 12, at Shanghai, DON FRANK SIais, aged 1 year, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C.
SIS.
SMITH, aged 7S, formerly of China and Japan Trading Co.
but-
A
The reduction in Suez Canal Lieutenant Alford Williams, the rates to take effect on September 1 American naval dying ace and should be particularly welcome to Schneider Trophy flier, bade fare- shipping in these depressed times well to the U.S. Navy recently by The transit dues on loaded vessels, giving a spectacular flying exhibi- occasions within the last few years tia. Lieutenant Williama has re- Europe. Great Britain would like are to be lowered by 25c. to 6.63f. signed from the Nary owing to the to see closer political' relations be-The rate for vessels in ballast will decision of the Navy Department duty tween the nations of Europe, but be 3.321. per ton, as compared with to assign him to sea-going duty- is doubtful about the reaction of will benefit oil-tank vessels which would interfere with his high-speed
4.40f. at present. This reduction He maintained that ses such federation upon the League of proceed from Europe to the East dying experiments. Rising to a so much in ballast, and particularly the height of several thousand feet, Mrs. J. S. S. Cooren, nr. Possibly many who read, in the Nations, which covers
large feet of the British Tanker Lieutenant Williams turned his MOLLY-On June 18, at Victorin, daily reports of Chinese political wider a field. Moreover, M. Company. This company was in machine upside down, and gave an
The display reached ly Chinese Maritime Customs activities, references" to the Left BarAND is reminded that such a dividually the largest user of the exhibition of inverted flying at Service), aged 77 years. Wing of the Kuomintang imagine plan, as he suggests would require Canal last year, and only ranked speed,
that this group is in close contact most careful and prolonged dis-cond to the P. and D. and other climax when the flier gave a thril
companies associated with the P&ing performance of the "falling He fluttered with Moscow, and possibly sharing cussion between the British and C. group. It is estimated that, on leaf" manœuvre. in that largely apochryphal stream Dominion Governments. In short, the basis of last year's traffic, the from a height of 3,000 feet to with- reductions of September next in a few hundred fret of the ground SMITH. On June 22, at The Hermi- of "Bolshevik gold" which is be- Britain's attitude is sympathetic, would mean, in the course of 12 before flattening out. Lieutenant
tage, Marlborough,
Wilts,
This represents the view months, a decline in the revenue of Williams was to have participated lieved by some well-meaning people JOHNSON MALLETT DE BERNIERË
to explain every "expression of of most of the nations which have nearly 50,000,000 paper franes. So in the Schneider Trophy contest in social parest in every part of the given M. BRIAND an answer to his far this year the earnings of the England last year, but a series of Canal Company are much below accidents to his racing machine world: Mr. TANG has taken con- memorandum. Although the French those for the corresponding period prevented him from leaving for refused to of 1959. Difficulties in the Indian, England in time. He will devote siderable pains to show that the Foreign Office has Left Wing of the Kuomintang has divulge the tenor of any of the Australian, and Chinn trades have his time to experimental flying, and no doubt contributed to the lower muy engage in future Schneider
Trophy Faces as a private flier. no connection whatever with Com- official replies received, it is under receipts." munism, either Chinese or Russian. The Left aims at restoring to the masses their rightful position in the traditional, social hierarchy, which placed them above merchants and soldiers. Tac Leit stands for revolutionary settlement of national liberation, but for the reformiet method of dealing with social and economic questions. Instead of a personal dictatorship-such as is now alleged to exist the Left stands for dictatorship of the Party, but only as a preliminary to popular representation. The apparent "similarity of aim and methods between the Communista
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It is a baffling business trying to trace the ramifications of Chinese
politics. Many Europeans who start with a really earnest and sincere desire to follow the develop and the Left Wing of the Kuomin tang-according to Mr. TANG-is ment of affairs in China closely and more superficial than real. There intelligently abandon their quest in despair after a brief but desperate is a sharp distinction between the The Kuomintang-be it as two. battle against overwhelming odds.
Left as one cares to imagine it Biz-roomed & Fire-memed Apartments. First comes an array of personal wants to live in peace with all other Dames exasperatingly alike in their romanised form; next a series of political distinctione, much fine" more difficult to appreciate than those dividing the parties in Euro- pean countries. Further, an extra- ordinary condition of domestic
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*Local Notes and Events
Yesterday's health return shows,
non-Chinese two
cases and one Chinese case of typhoid fever.
It is notified that a meeting of creditors of the China Land and Investment Co., Ltd. (in liquida tion), will be held at the offices of Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth, & Flee ing on Thursday, August 7, at 19.30 The official notice appears elsewhere in our columns.
p.m
:
Sir Peter Grain, who has arrived from Shanghai, will sit at the Full Court of Appeal with the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) and Mr. Justice Wood The Full Court will sit on Monday to hear two local appeal cases.
The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Mr. Stanley William Coleman, Peninsula Hotel, to Miss Olga Baker-Sadler, Airlie House, Kowloon.
On their re-appearance before the Kowloon Magistrate yesterday,"two men and 2 WORLD who Wero Members and subscribers of the charged with kidnapping a small Hong Kong Cricket Club will be boy from Shambhuipo, were dis- at home" to their friends on charged. Detective-Sergt. Meadows Thursday evening, July 31, when offered no evidence against them, the band of the Somerset Light and mentioned that the Police had Infantry will give a concert on the been unable to connect them with After several months on sick Cricket Ground, commencing at the kidnapping. leave at Home, Inspector, L. P.6.30 pm, turned to the Colony and his many Whilst a Chinese constable was Lane of the HK: Police has re- fiends will be glad to learn that in the act of arresting a street he is fully restored to health. hawker, another Chinese tried to Inspector Lane will be stationed in prevent him from doing so, and the Hunghom station where he will would have succeeded but for the be in chargo.
timely arrival of a district watch man. Both men were taken into custody and when brought before the Kowloor Magistrate yesterday for obstructing the Police, the second man was fired $25.
At the Kowloon Magistracy yes terday, Mr. Whyte-Smith imposed sentence of three months hard fabour on a young Chinese, whe pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing $1 from the pocket of a pedestrian in Wing Shing Lane The lad had a previous conviction
nations and is nct anti-foreign- save in the respect that it, wishes obtain & revision of all treaties which humper, Chinese self-expres sion. The real Communist regards the Chinese revolution as merely a part of the world revolution; the unrest and turmoil, in which groups Left Wing of the Kuomintang is for a similar “offence.""
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of armed men move about: the ***
concerned with national-rather- FOTTLES country with no apparent object than international warfare, and Clara Bow and Richard Arlen in Warfare of a new kind engages but to secure for their leaders con- the securing for the Chinese masses trol over certain highly remunera of their proper status in the social
tive and therefore greatly coveted -sources of revenue. And finally, a
Locking Back 25 Years.
When the Criminal Sessions weze called yesterday there were no casca tor trial. After the Chief Justice. (Sir F. T. Piggott) had, taken his. seat the Attorney-General (Sir H S. Berkeley) saiday it please. have great your Lordship, I pleasure in announcing to your Lordship that there are no cases for trial at this Assizes. And I Something unusual in the way have to offer my congratulations to of entertainment is promised at your Lordship and to the com- the Queen's Theatre shortly, when munity on the fact that the peace some well-known artists, compris, of the Colony should be such as to ing the "Montmatre Follies," will call for no occasion for troubling be giving performances in conjune- the inhabitants thereof."--Hong i tion with the regular programme Kong Daily Press, July 16, 1805
feature. The company bas just "Ladies of the Mob, their first been engaged, and will be due in Looking Back 50 Years. picture together since this pair was Hong Kong as soon as their season featured in Paramount's great opic in Shanghai is completed. Further of the air, "Wings." In " Ladies
A later date, ak
there was some difficulty in grant- of the Mob," which is now showing particulars will be made own at at the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon,
ing clearances to overal steamers, Arlen and Miss Bow are cast as a Ten strokes of the cane was owing to there being no Govern- gunman and his wife.
ordered by Mr. Lintell yesterday ment Burveyor to grant the neces when a boy appeared before him sary certificates. Beveral merchant While the 8.6. Chron. Chow, was on a charge of sterling a portion i taptains, accompanied by Cupten Jon her
way from Macan a phlings, of a water meter. It was stated Thoms gath to His Excel passenger, attempted suicide by that the Government have been loney the Governor, and made re- jumping overboard, but immediate troubled recently by the theft of presentations to him, showing that ly the alarm was given, a boat was over a hundred indices from water, it was impossible to furnish the lowered under the charge of the meters and they believed it was the vessels with the appliances stipulat Chief Officer, Mr. Innes, and after work of a gang. “We had hoped i ed for, and the Governor agreed- The Inner History of the Chinese a search occupying some 15 zainutes for something bigger than this" that the clearances should on the Revolution By TANG LEANG in a rough sea, the man was res said a P.W.D. official when he pro- present occasion be granted. - Li-Mesare Routledge, Longued, suffering from the effects of secuted the diminutive defendant Hong Kong Daily Pren, July 19, don; price 168..
his immersion.
Festerday,
11880.7
system,
THE HONG KONG DAILY maze of intrigue, graft, and corrup. Mr. TANG's point of view is that TPRESS, Li, and the HONG tion, resulting in an aitounding of a man intensely interested in KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through turning of coats, repudiated the realisation of the ideals and their London Office, at 53, FLEET PUBLIC WORKS.DHEART pre dve pledges and ablating betrayal principlea.ef the revolution MENT is prepared to receive STREST, E.C. 4, are prepared to give xopk ps for – tha Parchase of Eubscribers and Visitors advice of seemingly sacred causes, and of interpreted by SUN YAT BEN. Many QUANTITY OF OLD MATERIALS NEErding Accommodation avaliable, apparently, felong loyalties, freut feeders will be familiar with comprising Metal Scrap, Old Mutor motoring facilities, suitable shop these factors make the study of the principal events described in Tyres, Empty Drum, Lidgerwood ping centres, etc. We
Chinese politics so Filing Engine, Various Q & A II, when at home, they will call contemporary. Glass, Survey Instruments,
appallingly difficult that many who would like to become intelligent observers of current events abandon the effort in despair and disgust.
or telephone to the above address For Form of Tender and further they will receive the utmost assint. particulars apply it the Office of fance and the latest available infor SUPERINTENDENTOFACCOUNTS mation on all subjects of enquiry
STORES, PUBLIC WORKS. DEPART will be placed at their disposal.
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Yesterday the Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance came into operation for the first time, and