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THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG),
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of THE HONG KONG AND SHANG- HAI HOTELS, LIMITED, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company (Excuamux BOILDING, DER VOXUX ROAD CENTRAL Hong Kong). on THURSDAY, the 10TH DAY OF APRIL, 1931, at 11.30 A.M., for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Beport of the,, Board of Directors for the Year under on the Bist DECEMBER, 1931, confirming the Appaistment of a Director and ro- electing a Director and
the &nditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will bo CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 187 APRIL, 1931, ‚nntil THURSDAY, the 16ra, APRILI
1931, Both Daya inclusive.
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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore- cast and remarka, issued by the Royal Observatory at 5.10 p.m., stated;
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Local Forecast -S. winds, mode. rato; squally; cloudy; occasional
ably they are all enthusinsts who I mean, well, but we know the way democracy goes. How much better it would be in these days when government is a scienct, that behind the politicians, who seramble into] power, and go after a brief hour, there should be one who has not had to stoop to conquer, whose whole life has been passed in state craft and governing. That there is even now a majority in Spain that favoura a Republic is doubtful, that there is any fixed hostility to the Xing no one but a fanatic would JUSTEE-At Kowloon Hospital, on maintain. If elections were held it April 15, EMILY, the beloved in more than likely, that ronstitu- wife of Andrew W. Juster.tional monarchy would be evolved, Shanghai and London But behind the men, who wish to please.copy.
govern is the mob. The politicians The funeral will pass the haro made the clamourous crowds
rain.
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*News and Views *
Beauty Contests,"
The "Osservatore Romano," the organ of the Vatican, is determin. ally topical, and has denounced a beauty competition in which Italian girls have been invited to compote, Most of us dislike be Vatican doce, ono doubts if the auty competitions as much as the best counterpropaganda lies in suggestions that women who think only of housework and the bring ing up of children are morally superior to all others. The re minders of the subsequent careers of girle who have won beauty con- tests is likely to bo much more effective. Thero must be almost enough of these disillusioned, de
now to hold a mass meeting.
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
Hollywood's "Love Market,"
Chiness wedding. Page 7. A "love market," complete with Foochow nowa appears on Pago 7. card-index containing the names of
Kowloon Residents' Association more than a hundred girls-between meeting.
Page 7. the ages of 10 and 20, and wealthy Hong Kong Realty & Trust Co.. young society men of Los Angeles, meeting.
Page 11. has been discovered in the studio Harry Simon, a Hungarian was of a former publicity agent, who sentenced yesterday for the theft. has been arrested and placed in of a letter from the office of Messrs. goal, together with his assistant. L. E. Gale Co. a former actress. In addition, fve
To-day's wireless programme, young girl "customers" have been taken into custody. The discovery was made in the course of a rald
Sport.
Ракс 0.
Ракет
due to the complaint of a girl of 16 that she had been assaulted
In a senior League football match A wealthy broker of Los played yesterday, the South Wales there, leased in £1,000 bail. It is stated Chinese, by, scoring a last-minute, that further arrests are pending.
Monument at 5.15 this after of the big towns the court of throned queens about Europe by Angeles has been arrested, but reBorderers took the points from the
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Daily Press
HONG KONG, APRIL 16, 1031.
THE MOB WINS.
Or. "The Mob," writes Mr. GALS WORTHY, in an excess of bitterness:
"You are the thing that pelle the "wank; kicks women; howls down "free speech.
This to-day, and that to-morrow. Brain you have nono, Spirit not the ghost of it. If you're not meanness, there's no such thing. If you're not cowardice, there is no coward "iec."
When one looks back at the Roman mob, with its free bread and arena games, at the London mob that took TITUS OATES as its hero,
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appeak Spain will, of course, rab along under a Republic, but that the new race of political leaders are af nll likely to be any better than the old it is not in the nature of things to suppose.
DISAPPOINTED TRADE UNIONISTS.
"Only an Escapade."
to
L.N.E.E. to Discipline Selfsh
Smokers.
of
goal.
Latest Cables.
Page 10.
Page 9.
A campaign for the comfort and The Provisional Government of protection
non-smokors in
the Republic of Spain has issued a LAN.E.R., trains was announced by proclamation. Mr. William Whitelaw, the chair- The Cotton Mission which re man, at the company's annual meet-cently visited the Far East has ing in London.
issued its report.
Pago 0.
A descriptive secound of the Inst scenes in the Spanish drama is contained in Renter's telegraans,
Pago D.
It is believed that the ex-King of Spain sailed on board, the cruiser Principo Alfonso from Cartegena Page 9.
A woman and a man, whọ had boun keeping company for en years, were secretly married at a registry office in the Isle of Wight while on their summer holiday last June. They parted the next day. Last month the husband arranged
The company, he said, was go for a religious ceremony at St. Clement's Church, Bournemouth. ing make a strong effort to end Half an hour before it was due the failure of the more selfish take place ho telegraphed smokers to observe the regulations raying
regarding smoking in the com- he could not come,
trains. Compartmente The wife, Dorothy Baker,
of Pany's Bournemouth, Burd the hus- will be labelled with notices pro- band, Leonard Waltor Baker,
hibiting smoking, and the staff will of Salisbury, for desertion. Baker be expected to be more energotle for England. said that the registry office marri. than perhaps has hoon the ene Seventy-two per cent. of the go was only an escapade carried heretofore in the prevention of the stockholders in the Bethlehe was ordered to pay his wife 12.
the promotion of the confort of of the bonus system. Page D. unions, Socialists, and the miscela week.
those passengers to whom smoking is a real nuisance. This is a mat laneous collection of "allworkers
ter on which we think we have good reason to appeal for the no- tive assistance of the travelling public, and especially of those who have long enjoyed the privilege of having compartments set aside for smoking."
THE idea of a Trade Union Labour party in England perpetually recurs whenever for one reason or another the trade unions become restive and think they would manage a great deal better than the leaders
of a Labour party in which trait cut on, the spur of the moment. He ignoring of the regulations, and in i Steel Corporation have approved
way. -
Harold Lloyd and Chaplin.
Eleven Americans and an un- known number of British subjects are reported to have been killed by the Nienraguan insurgents at Page D. Puerto Cabezas,
ma-
Page 9.
by hand or brain "are gathered. A Trade Union Labour party to dish
Charles Chaplin has created an the Socialists and pacifists' was one
At the meeting of the Shang- of Mr. HAVELOCK WILSON's ventures odd little figure, a faun of the
hai Ratepayers held yesterday Afternoon, the proposal to pur talk of another attempt, and cir-except for his glassless spectacles: The London Police. just after the war. Now there in gutter, totally unlike his roal, prosperous self. Harold Lloyd,
chase the Majostio Hotel site was rojected by
very large cumstantial stories appear, of the is just himself He uses no "pro-
jority.
Pago D. impatience of the leaders of the ing young man.
porties," and is quite a good-look- Mr. Justice McCardie recently The secret of his made some very timely remarks
A telegram received on going to Trade Unions Congress with the humour is that he
always calm about London police and the de- Press stated that it was authorita- Government, and their feeling that and collected. When as an assistection of crime. The plain truth tively learned that although the tant in a shoe store in hin new in that the Metropolitan Police King of Spain had left the country, they would be better off pushing film, "Feet First," shown at the Force is woefully inadequate in there had been no formal abdien. trade union interests in their own Pinza Theatro, ho stretches a pair numbers to the work it has to do. tion and that no document had
of shoes until they burst he is con. The now building estates give it been signed by King Alfonso, tantrated on watching a beautiful | hugs additional arons to patrol, girl. Harold Lloyd's films always The work of traffic regulation have new "gags." One of them is
grows increasingly onerous. Not when a stowaway on board ship without the legislative greation of his trick of obtaining a breakfast a session of Parliament goes by Aga Khan's Advice. by pretending to feed a little dog, now offences, which throw new The nation of his being hoisted burdens on the shoulders of the on a house-decorator's platform police. Yet the Force, which con. and performing perilous feats insisted of about 19.000 men in 1810, mid-air is the climax of this new consists of only about 20,000 men film. He has done that before, it today. The problem of prevent elaboration. Perish the scribe who suburbs" is, under these conditions. is true, bat never with so muching burglary in the "dormitory explains that Harold Lloyd was growing almost impossible. There
hair breadth escapes from death these suburbs are still very ill-lit over in real danger in making are two factors which multiply the this film. He thrills you with his difficulties. One is that parts of and makes you laugh at the same Another is that many of the houses time. "Feet First" is a little slow are inhabited by young childless at first, hut that has the effect of couples who keep at most one daily making the climax more effective. maid. When they go out for an He, at any rate, is a comedian evening's amusement their houses, who can talk and loses nothing by which are often to a considerable his speech. This film should be a tonic for the depressed.
extent isolated are left with no one to give up alarm.
The Aga Khan in an interviow recently said that he was a firm believer in a scheme for a series of Federal Governments responsiblo to one Federal Government unit lines of the United States, the called "India," patterned on the
whole forming part of the British
perty," he said. "Give the British Empire. There are two ways of protecting British lives and pro-
the same minority rights as those enjoyed by Indian minorities. Make a ten to twenty-year treaty between Free Indin' and England, fixing maximum and minimum tariffs on British goods, thus re- lieving the uncertainty and anxiety for British lives and property.".
It is hard to believe that there the French Revolutionaries, is much more behind the rumours serentning for the blood, first of in the latest batch of Home papers enemies and then of former friends, thin one of the recurring fité of and, to bring it closer, when we impatience with the Government remember the strike pickets of Can- that afflict the Trade Unions Con- ton, whom lạ TAI HAIN put down, gress. When Labour is in office,] there is not much fault to be found the trade union, lenders who happen with the dramatist's indictment. to be outside the Ministry develop Such is the power of rabid and unremarkably acute critical sense, Articles of Association of this Companynte normally shrewd, kindly and that come from ruling the country, surupalous oratory that men who Being debarred from the amenities
humourous, can be bound together they feel they must act as keepers by a telepathic comment and turned of consciences for those who do. So into a monster. When s crowd far in this Parliament the trade assembles every day, and shoating unions have behaved pretty well, and violence become a matter of but tempers have lately been getting routine, it grows into a mob, with frayed. The loss of the Trade a definite entity, and possessed Union Bill, the appointment of the with the spirit of terrorism and Royal Commission on Unemploy Luzstliness.
ment Insurance, the, realisation The Spanish inc is now having that a Labour "Government cannot its hour. Soldiers, civilians, riff- do much to prevent unemployment. raff and women of fashion are or stave off wages reductions have Fraternising, driving about in cars, all contributed to make some of the waving flags, shouting slogans and union leaders anxious to proclaim
Two Chinese went aboard the A Chinese woman was attacked Looking Back 25 Years. singing songs. Messages come in that in their view they might have Tuesday and measured three of the armed robbers who decamped with Colony, at heart will be glad to Blue Funnel 8.8.. Agamemnon on and robbed yesterday by two un- All who have the welfare of the from the provinces of still further managed things better. It is un-ship's officers for clothing. They money and jewellery ta triumphs, and, flashed on screens, are likely that they would, for neither received deposits amounting to $34 value of $218. Some private letters in the New Territory are proceed. a total learn that the railway operations UNION CHURCH, HONG KONG. received with appropriate howls. in the discussions on unemployment and have not been seen since; are also said to have been stolen.
ing space. The greatest progress. We all know that sort of thing nor in those on the Trade Union A young Chinese suffered fatal
is area in the neighbourhood of election nights in England. Bill did the spokesmen of the injuries when he was knocked down Yaumati Ferry, Man Tack, while it pleted embankment are to be seen. A trading junk collided with the Taipo, whore severni mites of com- The President-elect has announced T.U.O., show many signs of superior by a motor bus belonging to the that order will be maintained, that wisdom. Indeed, on many things day. He was taken to the Kowloon Shelter on Tuesday. No lives were
China Motor Bus Company yester was entering the Yaumati Typhoon Visitors there this Easter mesure me that the work is very substan- there will be no bloodshed, and in their minds appear to be rigid and Hospital where he died from the lost although the junk was damaged tit, and judging by the expeditious the bright day that has now old-fashioned,
injuries
to-the-extent of $200.
manner in...which the line-is-being- made, we shall in a comparatively dawned for Spain efficiency, patriot-
short time be hearing the snort of ism and prosperity for all are to
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The Alice. Memorial and Affliated Hospitals, Bonham Road, are bold-1 ber of acceptances for the V.D.M.A. Shateen and comes speeding alone In consequence of the large num- the locomotive as it emerges from to the watchwords. It has all French Aviation Criffolum,
Ing their Pound Day to-morrow At Home which has been an to Kowloon.Hong Kong Daily tions, and we hope that this time criticised in the course of the deception of gifts from 10 am to 8 tea, 5.15 meeting), arrangement Quite a bulky volume is the officia! happened before in countless revolu- Fronoh aviation was considerably open for inspection, and for, the re- Hall on Monday next, April 20 (4.30 Looking Back 50 Yeats, (Friday). The Hospitals will be nounced to be held at Cathedral Prese, April 16, 1800,
these pious wishes will be fulfilled, bate on the budget of the Ministryp.m.
In such manner Spain's constitu- of Air. It was declared to be out of A Chinese women reported to the stitute. Speaker at the At Home and a copy of which had just come have been mado, for the At Home catalogue of the second National to be held at the Helena May In Exhibition now being held in Tokyo," tional issue has been solved and date. Not enough, it was said, was police that while she was walking is to be Miss F. C. Woo, M.B.E.- her ablest statesiaan has been sum being done for givil aviation, and along Eastern Street yesterday
to hand. Some time ago wa repro- marily ejected. The decision is yet civil pilots wore what were re vouchere issued by the Chosen, Why is it that the imp figures porary, an interesting account of morning, her hand bag, containing
duced from a Yokohama contem. probably Ginal, for in politics quired to form the reserve for Sun, and Sincere Companies, respec-1 o prominently in advertisements the opening of this exhibition' by nothing is so irrevocable as the, military pilota.
tively, was suddenly anatched by an of products which guarantee to His Majesty the Mikado. The pres dethroning of a king and the set-j As to niwal aviation, M.. Georges.
drive forth or elay obnoxious in sent show is the second-that-han metal It may be that Keatings liten held in Japan, the first having |ting up of a Republic. Spain her | Leygues, the former Minister of
The St. Joseph's Collego. Division started the fashion, but how much boon oponed in the park of Uyena, self, it is true, has had some Re Marine, said that it was practical of the Ambulance Brigade gave more effectively the story of free Tokyo, in 1877. In in the intentione publican interludes, which are not ly non-existent for lack of suitable their annual concert and dance at dom from dirt and its creatures of the Japanese Government to hold remembered with pride, but, apart machines. M. Dumean, Minister
the Hotel Cecil last night. There can be told is illustrated by the these exhibitions every five years, was a very good attendance and method chosen of advertising Shell and they were instituted for the from Spain, England is almost the of Air stated that being fully dancing went on till midnight. Dur-Tox. The window in Lane, Craw-promotion of industrial and manu only nation that has ever gone back aware of the importance of the ing the evening Mr. Julius Lovintoff | ford's given over to a display of facturing progress. That they are on such a step. and England never Mediterranean problem, he had delighted the gathering with two this product is as clever a plece likely to conduce to this reault has
piano solos.
of propaganda as could be found. already been proved by the fact that. had a true Republic,
just given orders which would pro-
The impression gained from it is while the Government found it When the tumult and the shout- vido Franco with the big seaplanes
An unfortunate little error cropt one of sunshine, strength. and free- necessary in 1877 to encourage the ing are over a little group of men that she needed. In the course of into our report of Mr. F. B. dom. It is no mischievous little manufacturers and producers by
"Cassidy's “qucation at the Rotary imp upon, whom we are asked, to nonetary advances for their e will settle down to govern Spain. the debate, M. Gamard (Socialist) Club meeting on Tuesday. Mr. rely to rid our homes of pests, but penses, this year no pecuniary aid Thers may be a PILSUDSEI & Maid that more than twenty foreign Cassidy, neked if there was any real a strong and fearless figure armed whatever were proffered to them, tyrannizu where the King cajoled machines in preference to those of the Colony. The word in italics effective barrage against the invad-sand-long Long Daily Porn, POINGARE among them, who will air services wore ordering British need in these days of "retrench- not certainly cap a pic" but with and yet the number of exhibitors ment for any more ambulances in the weapon which will put up an amounts to about thirty-one, thou- and accepted a compromise. ProbFrench design and construction.was omitted in the report.
ing hosts.
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