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N Accordance with Ordinance No. 7 of 1930, the EXCHANGE BANKS bs CLOSED for the TRANSACTION of PUBLIC BUSI NESS on FLIDAY, 10TH of OʻTOBER (ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHINESE REPUBLIC), Hong Kong, 6th October, 1930.
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HONG KONG RIFLE LEAGUE, THE ANNUAL MEETING will be held in the Offices of the HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION, FRENCH BANK BRILINE, 4TH FLOOL, on 10r4 OCTOBER, 1930, at 5.30 P.M.
BUBINESS :-
1.To road and conarm minutes of
Laat General Meeting.
2-To adopt Statement of Accounts. 3-Election of Officers for Ensuing
Year.
-Disenssion on re-formation of Hong Kong Ride Association and Site
for proposed Now Range,
5.Any other Business.
All who are interested in Rifie Bbosting are specially invited.
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The Numbers of the Debentures Drawn will be published in the Hong Kong Covernment Gnette and the Local Newspapers, and Holder of Drawn
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1930, to the treasurera Messrs. PERCY A. S. WATSON
SMITH, BED & FLEMING, for Payment
of the Principal and Interest to the
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By Order of the Committes,
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Bong Kong, 6th October, 1830.
NOTICE.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1930.
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WEATHER REPORT, Ari Important Witness,
What followed was as inevitable practical commercint proposition Yesterday's weather report, fore- as the foundering of a liner whose is quite another matter, Travo! cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.35 pun.. - ball has been ripped in half by an facilition must be more then sale. jeeberg. Whether the explision They rust in regular, and they A heit of high pressure extends occurred before or after the air must be cheap, and it is on these
Holowinski, the lender of the The death is announced in Sienn from the Yangtsro Valley to the ship touched the ground is a ques-points that up to the present-air- Ukrainian movement in Eastern of Mgr. Pedro Benedetti, arch- Bonint. There are indications of a typhoon forming to the cast of Yoption of great importance to the ships have failed to make good. Galicia met with the not unusual bishop of Tyr, former apostolic
Local Forcenst:E. winds, mode-expert. To the layman the main It had bron hoped that the R.101, fate of being shot while attempt delegate in Mexico and Cuba, rate; fine..
ing to escape from custody point of interest is the knowledge running for six months between cording to an atheial Polish com- Before the American Bankers? that the 101 was actually flying England and India, would enable muniqué. Another announcement Association, now in convention at so low that she struck a hill just definite data to be worked out con- says that the Polish Communist Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Dan Stephen
deputy Zarski, despite his par- of Fremont, Nebraska, oxpressed a steamship would hit a hidden cerning both costs and regularity.liamentary immunity has been the view that banking is now on reef, The fact that Mr. Leven is Until that information is available, sentenced to eight years hard firmer basis than, at any previous among the few.. survivors of this the sirahip will remain more of a labour for spreading doctrines time, in its history, State banke. likely to endanger the security are thorougfily sound. Mr. Stephen terrible disaster is of the greatest curiosity-an astounding example of the Polish state," Both an said, while other banking institu
His evidence, tore of 'man's ingenuity than as a
nouncements have caused bigtions are in a better position than importance:
sensation in Polish political circles, they were preceding the recent de- than that of any other man, will | serious rival to the steamship.
flation of market values, enable the experts gradually to piece together the essential facts without which some very faulty. deductions might be drawn. Bafety Before. Speed.
ANDREWS-On September 29, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. E. J. ANDREW, a daughter (née GLADYS CHAMPION). PETERK-ON September 1. at
Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs, RALPH W. PETEEK, A KON
Teltoen-On. October 1. at Shang-
hai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. W.
TULLOCH, a sin.
DEATHS. GUTIERREZ.--On September 30, at Shanghai, MARIA LEOPOLDINA BARRETIO GUTIERREZ, aged 83, mother of Mrs, E. E. ESCAR- Ford-On September 30, at Shang-
hai, MATHIAS FOTN, aged 18 rears, second son of Capt, and Mrs. M. FOYN.
SACAO and F. X. B. GUTIERREZ.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The family of the late MAHA DAS DORES NORONHA BEITTO PEREIRA desire to thank most sincerely their friends and relatives for sending wreaths and letters of condolence, in their recent bereavement and also for at tending the funeral. [9642
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The Daily Press.
When the 101 made, her first trip it was said that on, the success
The London Morning · Pout re- ports that during last week end motor car accidente resulted in the death of 10 people, while 41 wire
injured, 11 dying later.
The terrible tragedy in France
At last Wednesday's meeting of provides no final answer to the the now Austrian Cabinet under qucation whether airship travel Chancellor Vaugoin decided to hold can ever be more than a luxury, general elections on November 3. The R.101 was as safe and sturdy
The_Fomische Zeitung reports as any such craft is expected to be from Teheran that the paper's spa-
The death is announced in Lon- She met with disaster, not as a cial correspondent, the well-known
journalist Wolfgang von Weist, and don at the age of.. 74, of Dr. L. of her trials would depend the result of structural weakness or the German paintor Blum wore Mark. He died from a now disenso Future of British airship developmechanical defect, but as the result arrested by the Persian authorities called acromegalia from which ment as a commercial proposition of a collision. That accident, ac in Kurdistan on the suspicion of he suffered for many years. Dr. Arabia and his companion; Thy He stoically studied on himself the father being Consul at Marseille. Should any disaster take pisce, cording to the evidence of Mr.ing the Colonel Lawrence of Mark was educated in France, his airship construction for long-dis-LEECH, who was "on the bridge," were arrested on September 11 but tance services would be finally ann-appears to have been due to one released only on September 27 on effects of the disease, the manifes thoir arrival at Teheran whither tations of which were an abnormal doned in Great Britain. It will be thing, and one thing only. The they had been conveyed under milionlargement of the bones owing to interesting to see whether this fore-navigator did not know at what tary escort. As both were well- a tumour in the brain. His obser- cast is fulfilled. The designers of height above the ground, his vessel known at the German Legation rations are noted in a book ho gave the 101 made safety the first con
was moving. When that amazing there was no difficulty of getting to a London hospital. their identity certified. sideration, and airships have several fact is explained, we shall know how. it came about that the finest dangers to contend with. Explo- sion and fire are two obvious perila, and these, it was believed, were successfully dealt with-though of course, the possibility of collision with a hill would never have been
taken into account. But the R.101
pircraft yet built in any country mot destruction and carried fifty men to death by "fying blind" in bad weather.
Mr. Daniel Guggenheim, the well- known millionaire who died at the age of 74 left 500 million dollars He was called the "Copper King."
By order of the Governor of the Vatican city, the Pope's guards are to wear modern uniforms and a revolver instead of their archaic clothes and arms.
Statistics pulished in Berlin show An army of barberà has invaded that the number of motor cars and the famous villago of Oberammer
where the passion pisy motor eyeles in Germany has under gan
д -close last the pressure of the economic situa-season came to The ocean-going motor-ships com- tion in the year ending June 30, week and the boys and girls now was designed to meet all reason-pleted at British yards in August last, more slowly increased than in want to be shorn of their locks cable strains and conditions, includ. reached the record figure of four former gears Passenger cars in which they had grown for a whole creased by 08,000 to 501,234 whorens year in readiness for the play and teen, totalling 90,000 tons gross. ing the effects of those vertien) gusts Nine more were built abroad, mak-
in the preceding your the increase the foreign visitors Quite & num. of air which suddenly, impose aing 23 in all, of 150,000 tons grenS,
was nearly $2,000, Trucks total, her of emergency barber shops were 137,432 or 13,450 more than on July opened for this special purpose During the same period motor- tremendous strain upon one small sole of 100,000 tons wore contract-1, 1929, motor cycles of the bigger marking the end of the season which part of the framework which mayed for, but unfortunately not one of types number 422,185 and the lighter is said to have been vory successful, be incapable of bearing it. An the orders came to British yards. qnes 309,052 with an. increase of American airship met disaster in Against this only one or two steam- 122,805 for both types together. An average of 200 to 300 cups, nälin is stolen daily, in one of the this way, the air-pressure upon the appear to have been contracted whereas in the preceding year the saucers, spoons and other paraphor.
for during the month, either by increneo was 170,000,
municipal tes-rooms at Moscow. From fractured frame being estimated at British or foreign owners. BRITAIN'S BITTER LOSS.
On the 12th anniversary of The Frese claims this as a record 500 tons per foot! Another danger present indications it would seem
that when a rovival occurs in the Afghan independence the King for petty thievery. The ten-room airship being demand for cargo and passenger Nazir received telegrams from which achieved this proud record, DISASTER has once again overtaken arising from Britain's patient and expensive caught in a vertical gust in the tonnago motor-vessels will have an Presidents Doumergue and Hinden-located on Samatechnoi square, is efforts to solve the problem of air-sudden exprusion and contraction even greater preference than beburg, Mustapha, Kemal and Riza the gathering place of some of the
worst elements in the city, Shah ship transportation. This latest of gas, nu a result of rapid ascent tragedy, and the most ghastly of and descent.· the many, has. jnvolved the loss
Hoxa KONG, OCTOBE!! 7, 1930.
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During the Great War a Zep-
of about fity lives, among them relin was thrown up for a dis several men who were world-famous fance of 3,000 feet in sixty seconds, as -authorities aeronautical and the U.S. airship Shenandoah affairs. It is just twelve months on one occasion, dropped 1,000 feet since the 101, the largest airship in the same brief period. Theed ever built, made her first flight. violent movements, coming without Passing over London on this trip, the slightest warning may cause her appearance was greeted with disaster not because the framework admiration and tremendous onthaails to hold, but from the explosion siusm. She represented the last of gas-chambers due to the rapid word" in airship construction. expansion or contraction of their For eight years Britain had had no
fore.
Local Notes and Events
For the 48 hours ended. October
5 there were three deaths (one non- Chinese) from typhoid fever, and one death from diphtheria.
The exchange banks will be closed for the transaction of public busi- ness on Friday, October 10, the contents at the varying altitudes. anniversary of the Chinese Be Members are notified that they and airships. Construction came to, nn In guarding against such dangers public
the designers of the R. 1er had the advantage of much practical ex. perience and of five years' research and experiment. In fact, so safe
their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No One without a Badge will be
Badges
end in 1921, when the R.38, which cost half a million sterling to build. was destroyed when only two months old, and with the loss of
was the vessel made that speed was'
a slower
A fine of 850, or one month's imprisonment, was imposed by Mr. Butters on Chan Ming, a stowaway on the Nellore which arrived in Hong Kong from Sandakan.:
A fall of debris on Bunday during
A summons was brought against. In a hockey mateb played at 1 Sookunpoo yesterday afternoon the the Hong Kong Telephone Company, Radio Sports Club defeated the ct the Central Magistracy yoster- I.A.0.C. hockey tearn by 8 goals to day, for failing to provide a series of trenches North Point, on the Shaukiwen Road, with sufficient warning to indicate to traffic the presence of excavations. Alter
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festival, when crowds of people are! Taking advantage of the Chinese in the streets, some mischief makers hired a number of small boys to distributo seditious pamphlets. No fewer than a dozen boys were caught in the aet laat evening in various parta of the Central district and they are now under investigation.
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evidence had been taken, Mr. Lind. sell adjourned the summons to visit the scene to see whether two lightt,
one at each end of two-trenches
some distance away on either end of a series of ditches, were sufficient warning.
Three young Americans, two boyÉ Charged before Mr. Lindzell yes and a girl, actually conquer the air terday under the Fugitive Offen- in "The Air Circus Fox, picture, ders Act of 1881, a Chinese named now showing at the Queen's Wong Sai Cheung was remanded | Theatre. The screen spectators ae0 until Wednesday on a charge of David Rollins, Bug Carol, and having stolen £100, the property of Arthur Lako operating their own
admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
Badges admitting Non-members to the Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00,
Per Day for Gentlemen many lives. Mach controversy $2.00 Day for Tadion, are followed regarding the relative sacrificed, and she proved obtainable through the SECRETARY T IS HEREDY NOTIFIED that I SEALED TENDERS in Tri- Momber to be responsible for Fayment but in 1024 the decision was reach it not fast, it was believed she the demolition of building at 133, Qwang Tai Quen' of. Sydney. If planes, doing the loop-tho-loop, fall-
Introduction by a Member, anch merits of airships and airplanes, skip than had been hoped for. But plicate, which should be clearly of All Chits, &c.
admitting to Merabers ed to make another attempt to would be wife under all the con- Keelung Street, Shamshuipo, ro was stated that the defondant (ing leaf, spirals, and other Stunts." marked "TENDER FOR STORES”,
suited in the death of a coolio, Lee agreed to waive local proceedings In less than a month's instruction will be Received at, the COLONIAL Enclosure will not be on sale at the ascertain whether an airship could ditions anticipated on the run from Ming (20), who was killed instantly, and to return to Austrália.
Race Course. SECRETARY'S OFFICE Until
be designed which would he not only England neroes Egypt and the Per- Members can obtain, upon application NOON of THURSDAY, the 2820 to the SECRETARY, Badges (Limited swift but safe. The building of the sinn Gulf to India. DAY of OCTOBEB, 1930, for ¡the to Two) for the Free Admission to the R.101 and R.100 was the direct re- | Amazing Stability. SUPPLY and DELIVERY of Members' Encloure of Wives; "Lady STORES required by GOVERNMEST Relatives and Friends. Names must be sult of this decision. Darazzante during the Year 1981. stated when applying."
·Unknown Altitude. For Specifications and Forms of Tender apply at the Office of SUPERINTENDENT ACCOUNTS AND STORES, Pumic Works DEPARTMENT, from whom further Farticulare may be had. on applica
tion.
On No Protext will Children bo permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.
“โ ·PUBLIC ENCLOSURES
The annual general meeting of When Ip Sze, a married woman, the Hong Kong Cricket Club will appeared before Mr. Butters at the be held at the Pavilion on Tues- Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, it day, October 14, at 5.30 p.m. After was stated that she ran a sly the meeting a drawing for redemp-brothel at Park Street. Detective tion of thirty, debentures will be Bergeant, Ritchie told the Court that three Europeans were found on the premises when it was raided. A fine of 860 or five weeks' impris onment was the sentence passed:
heid,
When the R.100 made her recent trip from England to Canada and
The fact that the R.101 has
back, the public: mind was greatly Boon meet with disaster does not reassured regarding both the safety and comfort of airship travel The
Charged before Mr. Butters yes necesarily mean that the problem The Price of Admission to the Publis of airship transport is still un-Vessel rode steadily all the way, terday with the attempted theft of Enclosure is $1.00 Per Day for all Perolved. Very fortunately it hap without rolling or pitching, except four electric switchea from 8, Maple sons, including Ladies, and is payable at
pens that among the sadly small for an uncomfortable, but brief Street, a Chinese was sentenced to Soldier
stated that the defendant posed as admitted Half Price,
Bookmakers, Tie Too Men, ots.,
at the controls they learned to By. When they had qualified under the tutelage of expert. aviatore, forty Los Angeles newspaper, national syndicate, and other writers were invited to see them perform at Clover Field, Santa Monica, Cal. The writers were amazed at the pro- ficiency of the trio and several of the scribes went up with the youth- ful pilots...
The following forthcoming mar Looking Back 25 Years. Offerson, of Messrs. Jebsen & Co.,
The Government does not bind the Gatenilor in Uniform are number of survivora is a man who i spell of very bad weather over thin six weeks", imprisonment. It was riages are announced: Mr. Cart A coolie, who has just arrived
itself to accept the Lowost or any Tender and reserves to itsol the option of accepting FOR ALL OR ANY PART of Each Specification.
HAROLD T. GREASY.
Director of Public Works 3rd October, 1980.. [9041
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was actually in the navigation St. Lawrence. An example of the an electrician in his attempt to get Shaineen, Canton, to Miss Bascha hore from Annem was found by cabin at the time of the accident. astounding stendincas of an airship, the articles,
Wilker, of Munich, who is travel-pelicemna, climbing a folding. ling to Hong Kong on board the and when challenged explained. This survivor, in fact, appears to in fine weather is given by the The theft of o cases, of electric 8.8 Fulda. Mr. Arthur Cornelio that he was looking for a friend! JOCKET CLUB during the Race Meeting have been then in charge of the fact that a gines of water, set on bulbs, valued at 80,000, has been Rozario, of 5, Chatham Road, Kow. 4 he had be money and was ship, and from the brief but graphic table when the R-100 left Mon- reported to the police by Messrs. loon, to Hiss Henriette Maric scantily dressed, he was charged facte were presented, by Inspector story cabled by Reuter, it seems to treal, had not spilled a drop when Anderson, Meyer & Co., Ltd. It is Louise Demce, of 12, Tung inga rogue and vagabond. Tas
stated that the goods were in their Road, Kowloon..
Collett, and his Worship.committed be quite clear that the R-101 was the arrived at her base at Carding- godown at David House on August
him to prison for one month in precisely the position of a dis ton, England. With only five of 8, and the loss occurred between The Chinese Catholic community Hong Kong Daily Presa¦. Oct.
are to hold a reception at the 1905 abled steamship passing through her six engines running, she made that date and October 6.
Cathedral: compound on Thursday dangerous and uncharted waters in the homeward crossing in 67 hours, and weather. Mr. LECH says he in spite of the foot that a zig-zas CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME had no idea as to the altitude course was mudo in order to follow
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evidently felt intuitively that the weather. ARENTS.
airship was getting perilously near Whore Airships Fall. the ground. She was labouring Of the possibility of airship heavily in a terrific storms, exactly travel there is, of course, no doubt. like a ship rofusing to answer her The world cruise of the Graf holm. Full speed ahead" was Zeppelin, and the trane Atlantic ordered in a desperate offert to trips of that craft and of, Britain's 11 water legged vessel to a sister-sh to the I.Yöt, have shown:
DRAGON WHERE SEVERAL higher and safer altitude, but her clearly enough that airahija can noso dipped twice and then violent bo built capable of performing long ly struck the top of a small hill. voyages, but whether they can be
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at 8 p.m., when an address will be Looking Back 60 Years.. passing Wellington Barracks yes. celebration of his return from Rome dination of local enterprise, that As a Hong Kong Hotel 'bus was presented to Father Simon Chan in We are pleased to noto, se an in- terday, a restive horse, ridden at after being ordained. A High Maes the Chinese tradesmen of this the time by a British soldier, reared of thanksgiving will be delivered Colony do not intend that the up and one of its hooves, it is on Friday by Father Chan, who will manufacturs of jinrickahng shell, bo understood, struck a glass window give the Papal blessing, by special carried on outside of the colony, to of the vehicle and broke it. Fortu privilege of His Holiness the Pope, wit Japan Several carpenters" nately, nobody was injured.
shops in Wollington Street, and, Putnam Wealec's, Intent book was doubtless, in other localities oİNO, Figuring in yesterday's list of published last month in London by are engaged in putting up vehicles. Departures was the s.8 Teresita Noel Douglas. "The Port of Fregof this class. They seem to com- which was built at the Kowloon rance" is its title, and it has for tiare favourably with those fram Docks. The vessel has a nott ton setting and subject the China which Japan, but are evidently somewhat age of 148-tone she tailed andorite author knows so well The heavier. We were tolda in one sine portmond of Cops. Healm with lnglish communiti in Hong Kong stance that the orice charged s a crow of nine Asiatics for Hoiloand their daily labour and recres twenty-eight dollars, but Em 18
Hong Kong Paily. where she will be delivered to her tians are said to have been given ridiculous.
especial attention.
Preu, Oct. 7, 1880. owners.