NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & * MINING COMPANY, LTD,
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING ELS & MINING COMPANY, LTD, Announce that during the First Six Months of the Financial Tear ended
on
the 8TH JUNE, NHibe Business of the KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION 'showed satis- factory progress, the Sales of Cont smounting to 2,514,193 tons, com- pared with 2,041,873 tons in the corresponding period of the preceding vedr. For some months past the PEIPING LIAONING RAILWAY, in breach of their agreement with the KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRA- TION, has deliberataly and severply. restricted the transport of coal from the Mines and continues to do so, the tonnage transported at the present time amounting approximate- ly to 40 per cent of that of the prede ding year. Consequently the Board of Directors is compelled to postpone the consideration of a Dividend until "the audited socounts for the year are avallable for presentation to the Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF .RONG KONG..
IN BANKRUPTCY
No. 13 or 1924
J
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
·FOR DISCHARGH.
· R-CHAN SHIU TSUN or No. 63, DES VOEUX Road CentraL, VICTORIA, IN THE COLUNT OF Hong Kong, ULINE,
100%
AND THAT'S WHAT YOU REALISE WHEN
YOU TASTE THESE
DELICIOUS
FRUIT
SQUASHES..
WATSON'S
ORANGE SQUASH
LEMON SQUASH
AND
LIME SQUASH
▼OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TICES, PURE
that CHAN SHIU TSUN, having applied to the Court for his Discharge, the Court, has fixed MONDAY, the 1911 Day of -JUNE, 1981, at 10 O'GLOOK în the FORDNOOK" for hearing the application.
Dated the 5th day of June, 1931,
EL AGASSIZ,
Official Beceiver.
R23}
UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.
NOTICE.
MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND JUNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.
ARE MADE FROM REAL
CALIFORNIAN FRUIT
CANE
SUGAR AND THE PUREST
PURE SPARKLING
OF
WATER.
...
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE
WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather roport, fore. east and remarks, fasued by the Royal Observatory at 5.50 p.m. stated:
expested that France's trade with her colonies may be increased from the present proportion of 15 per cent to one-half of her total trade. It is at once to replace foreign goods sold within the French Em-
1931
*News and Views
A trough of relatively low prea suro extends from Tongking to W.pire by French or colonial-manu- | Admiral Togoʻz Luzon. A depression has develop-factured goods, and to replace ed to the north-west of Haiphong.. Local Forecast:-E. winds, mode.
rate; fair at first; come rain later.
"DEATHS."
LEVY-On May 28, at Shanghai, NISSIM SIMON LEVY, aged 75 years, ROTTONJEE-At Bulsar
Editorial and Business Offices: 11
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanchai Office)
Tol. 24511. London Office: 53, Fleet Street,
E.O..4"
The Daily Press.
foreign raw materials entering France by colonial-grown products, that the whole constructive effort of France's colonial administrators is
now bent."
* Training Ship. Admiral
al Togo, now in his eighty- sixth year, has prosented his signed photograph to the Woroes ter, on which he received his train- ing as midshipman over seventy years ago. CAN
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Pride and Its Fail,
Lord Lieutenant Profers Modern
#Girls,
The "modern" girl" has a warm | defender in the Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire (Sir William Bromley Davenport), who said at the rally
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local and Far East.
H.K.VD,Qordars China Const officers-gazette. —
Pago 6
Mr. Popys in Hong Kong
Fage 11.
Page 6. Nosara. Benjamin & Porta week-
Pago 11. Hunting-
A cable from Yunnanfu states
of the Girl Guido county associay review of the local share market. tion that the modern girl was Mrs Mathieson of the subject of rather harsh criticism don," Stubbe Road, was the com.. A motorist summoned for cbstruc at the hands of, some of the old plainant' in a case in which a public tion at Acton said: I was in a fashioned people. They said that car-driver was summoned for, re- shop on business, and could see she was irresponsible and wolfish faluga fare.
Page 7 my car. I saw the constable walk and that she had no senso cf pub ing round it, but I thought he waslic duty. He thought that, was admiring it, as it is a new one. untrue. Ho preferred the modern girl to the girls of the Georgian or early Victorian period, who were uneducated and artificial, The modern girl at any rate was thoroughly human, and her onjoy. ment of life, to his mind, was per fectly delightful.
f
Madame Sze at Court.
Japanese Cherry Blossom,"
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Another. Cancer Discovery.
that two men have been sentenced to death and one to 12 years im- prisonment for the murder of two missionary ladies last March,
What A Page §.** Wook-end wireless programmes.
Page 5.
Sport.
Home cricket results.
Page-10. Last night's water pole at the V.R.C
Page 10. Rooing notes and "selections for to-day: By "Morning Dow."
Page
The most interesting of official French activities on behalf of the Empire, however, are of the psy (India), chological order. A deliberate and DINDAI RUTTOMIRE, mother of highly ingenqus campaign is being J. H. RUTTONJE, aged 69, Deeply regretted. (Shanghai waged to create an Empire-con- and Japan papers please copy.) sciousnces in the mind of the
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French nation. The Colonial Ex- hibition, for instance, one of the
Madame Sre, the wife of the most spectacular and most beautiful exhibitions ever organised, contains Chinese Minister, is presenting her daughter at the forthcoming among other things, a perfect reCourt, and has chosen at Jay's a plien of the long-buried." Anghker charming period" frock in ivory Temple, perhaps the Eighth Wonder taffeta, run through with creamy net insertiona. Madame Ste her- of the World has been constructed self ways adheres to her nation- at Vincennes, just outside Paris, al costume, and will be seen by millions of Frenchmen to whom the French Colonial Empire hitherto existed merely on paper.
Lending French novelists like PAUL MORAND and PIZARR BENDIT are inspired to write on colonial subjects, and prizes are offered by FRENCH IMPERIAL POLICY the French literary academies to encourage unknown colonial writers NEARLY four centuries aftor Jac-irrespective of race, sex or colour QUES CARTIER's famous expedition The great French steamship lines up the St. Lawrence, and nearly have built a magnificent chain of COO years after the first, adventurous hotels in Morocco, Tunisia and French traders, settled on the coast Algeria. Prem tours of the colonies of Guinea, the French Colonial are regularly organised, and no Writing of a recent concert at Empire is definitely entering his effort is spared to enlist the services which Chaliapin the great Russian tory as a world economic and poli- of the great French newspapers in Binger appeared a London criticit certainly sooms as if scientists to Press representatives at Nán tical unit. And when, as will the Empire campaign. The result is had not seen him for a couple of I says Chaliapin scena ageless. shortly be the base, complete Fres the awakening of a national pride ars, but he still dominates by Trade is established between France in the Empire which has slumbered however large and distinguished, sheer personality any gathering,
HONG KONG, JUNE 6, 1931.
Following closely on the claims of a Dutch physician that he has discovered a method of diagnosing cancer from the blood of tho patient, Dr. Haddow, of Edin-. The Japanese cherries are in fullburgh University, details in tho bloom at Kew Gardens and in "Lancet another method designed cther famous gardens in England, for the same, purpose. The process says a Home paper. Lord. Digby is highly technieni, but briefly, it has an avenue of them at Min-depends upon a certain constituent terno House, in Dorset, and Mr. of the blood when incubated with Collingwood Ingram, whose gar a substance named arginine. It den at Bonendo is well known, is stated that there is a significant has also a splendid show. Mr. Fineroaso of this constituent-in-the- Ingram was the first man in Eng blood of certain cancer year had the excitement of dis-show that cancer was indicated land to ocllect these trees, and last Tests of 60 cases of various diseases cases.
covering in England a variety overy time it was present, and al- which the Japanese themselves had though the test was positive in one Iost.
or two cases not cancerous, yet the percentage of differentiation remains very high and must be of great value even at this carly stage Dutch discovery and now this one, of the experiments. Taking the
Challapin the Ageless.
A. S. WATSON & CO., and her colonies, and the produc since the armies of NAPOLEON Car in which he finds himself. Most
LIMITED. Aerated Water Manufacturers.
tion of vital raw materials like ried the tricolour, over half the cf his songs he sang in Russian.. cotton, rubber, coffee, wool, rice, world, and which not even the 1 was much struck by the un- Not all of them were serious, and silk, and sugar has been increased heetio days of the Moroccan crisis animity with which the audience to satisfy" imperial needs, the entirely revived. At a time when decided to smile in the right places. French Empira will be a self-con- the days of colonial expansion were riau Language is becoming more
But perhaps knowledge of the Rus tained producing and consuming feared to be numbered, a vast new general. enterprise which will seriously Empire is emerging from the rival the British Empiro, in the chrysalis stage-an Enipjre based world markets,
upon
internal Free Trade, which The year of the Colonial Ex will furnish France with man. hibition sees the climax of thirteen power, raw materials and incx- TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN NNNUAL ORDINIEN
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN post-war years of unremitting ac haustible new markets against all Nors Examination GENERAL MEMING OF PHARE tivity by successive French governunforeseen emergencies. will begin on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER HOLDERS will be held at the HONG mente in the field of colonial expan 1T, 1931. Forms of Entry and KONG HOTEL, Hong Kong, on sion. Copies of the Regulations and the MONDAY, the 1hra Jung, 1931, at Syllabus can be obtained on Application | 11 AM. for the purpose of reositing
o the REGISTRAR
NOVEMBER, 1931.
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Latest Cables.
Latest British Open Champion ship Galf scores.
Page 9. The race for the Oaks was, won by Braletts.
Page 9. Novel Cricket in Yorkshire.
Page 9, The Royal Commission on Un-
months ago, have issued an interim appointed by the Government six employment Insurance, which was
report.
Page 9. Dr. Bruening and Dr. Curtius arrived aboard the great liver Hamburg, from Cuxhaven, and are to spend the week-end in London and at Chequers as guests of the Dr. C. T. Wang in a staterent
British Government,
Page 8.
thing really useful in their long that an agreement had been reach are at last on the track of smoking, yesterday morning, stated fight with cancer.
ed with the French authorities forme the re-organisation of the French" Mixed Court at Shanghai Page D Steps towards the consolidation
It is semi-officially reported that Now Jersey and the Standard Oil Chinese gendarmerie found some of the Standard Oil Company of on Wednesday morning a body of Company of California will take Japanese police patrolling in the definite form within the next sixty vicinity of Tashichino,07 miles develops in Washington, according them. days, unless formidable opposition south of Mukden, and arrested.
- Page 0. Ito the New York Times,
Page 9.
(ontinued on previous Column.j
Local Notes and Events
Our Chinese and one non-Chinese case of typhoid were reported dur.
An unprecedented effort is, now A CRITIC OF THE HIGHER ing Thursday,·· the Report of the Directors together being made to capture the imagina Year ended 30th April, 1950.
COMMAND.
Entry Forms duly filled in, should with a Statement of Accounta for the tion of the French people by ro]
reach the REGISTRE, together with the Statutory Fees, on or before THURS DAY, JULY 2ND, 1931. Fees shall be paid in accordance with the following
Scale
~Matriculation and Senior
Local Examinations.....HK$2. Junior Local Examination..B.K $19. Candidatos offering more than Five. Bubjects in the Matriculation, Senior and Junior Local Examinatione will ba charged an. Additional Fee of $1 for Bach dubject an offered.
An Additional Fee of $5 will be #aharged for, oach of the following * Subjecta 1--Foreign Languages other than French and Portuguese;. Highor Mathematica (excluding Coordinats Geometry); Hygiens and Physiology.
The following Scholarships, farther particulars of which may be obtained from the REGISTRAR, will be awarded on the Results of the Matriculation and #Local Examinations
(1) Two King Edward VII Scholar abipe of the value of £50-For Annum, open to Britisk Subjeste only. (2) Ono Chator Memorial Scholarship Assof the valus of 3800 Per AnuEM, (8) Four Montargis French Prizes--
Two of the value of $50 - Each for Matriculation and Fanior, and Two of the valus of $15 Each for Junior. Bound Copies of Examination Que tion Papers, set at Past Examinations, may be obtained from the Registran At $1 Par Bet
198th May, 1991,
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Both Days inclusive.
JOAND HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hong Kong, 2nd June, 1931. . [967
INDO.CHINA: STEAM NAVIGA
Chan Kwai, a stall joki, ac- cidontally fell into the harbour from Mongkok Ferry Wharf yester day but was rescued and taken out little the worse for the immersion,
In police raids at Liverpool 'on'' May 10 on Chinese laundries 13 Chinese were remanded on bail on charges of smoking opium,
1
H.M.8. Hermes and Bruce left for. the North yesterday.
on
Looking Back 25 Years. Company will be CLOSED from
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the vealing to them the wealth, the COLONEL HEAD is one of Britain's
Sir Ronald Ross, director-in-chief Saturday night, a very successful
In the St Patrick's Club MONDAY BY DAY of JUR, to splendour and the romance of vast more serious military publicists
of the Institute for Tropical Di-concert was given to members and MONDAY, 15th Day of Juss, 1931, French territories in Asia and, Ho is also a man of courage who
seases, has returned from a holiday friends, and the woll arranged and Africa, and to equip the country
is not afraid of tackling the
in Italy. Sir Ronald is 74, and de- was such as te afford the large du admirably carried out program:no and its colonies in the coming Goliaths of the Higher Command
spite paralysis keeps in close touch dience great enjoyment. Songs world' struggle for caw materials and of the War Office, In his "A Among the passengers leaving by with the work of the institute at
were rendered by Miss Kathleen the R.M.S. Empress of Asia yesterPutney Glance at Gallipoli," which w08- and markets-The Senate-recently
Coyle, Messrs-A-Bacon, W.-G. day were the Hon, Mr. C. G. 8. passed, almost without discussion &
published last month, he is severoly Mackie (for Shanghai) and Mr. and
Jury, W, L. Leckie, A, T, Walatow series of Bills providing for the critical of our system of far back Mrs. Paul Lauder and Mies Lauder Unlawful possession of 94 tacls of Leach, R. G. Turner and Gill. A (encorod) T. Williams (encored), grant of leans of more than £38 commanders and staff telephones,
(for Vancouver).
fraw opium was the charge pre-recitation was given by Mr. "J millions to French overseas terri- which made the British Army a
ferred against an elderly Chinese Hunt, cartoons and sketches were A Chinese man, fell overboard woman before Mr. Schofield yes contributed by Mr. J. B. Northam, tories in West Africa, Indo-China, French and the German Armies: last night. A police launch which dant was employed as a carrier by and Mesara A Bacon, R. G. Tur slower-moving force than the from the Yaumati ferry, Man Ye,terday. It was stated the defen- Mr. A. King played a clariner sclo, THE FIFTIETH ORDINARY Madagascar, the Cameroons, New He contrasts the close contact patrolled in the vicinity for forty a smuggler well-known to the ner. L. P. Le Grove and T. GENERAL MEETING of 16 Caledonia and Freach Equatorial which MUSTAPHA KEMAL And LIMAN five minutes could fine no trace of Revenue Authorities. She would Williams took part in an accept. Company will be bold at the Offices Africa. The credits are to be used VON SANDERS established with their the unfortunate person. of the General Managers, M1158,
not, howover, say who her employer abo. quartette. The farce. "Bu JARDINE MATHESON & CO., for the construction or improve anemia aloofness of the British troops with what he regards as the
was and a fine of $2,800 or nine shine After Rain" was admirably LTD.. PADDER STAIST, Hong Kong, ment of seaports and railways, Commander-in-Chief. It is a die-court missionary at Marlborough
Lieut. Col. Cecil Bevis, honorary months' was imposed.
sustained by Mr. II. E Moriarty on WEDNESDAY, the 177 JUNË, 1931, at NOON for the purpose of
as Jim Driver, Mr. W. G. Jury postal services and irrigation turbing book, because the author street Police Court, has just return Bir Cecil. Clementi, Governor of as Mrs, Driver, Mr. R. G. Turner receiving the Report of the Dirastors, works, hygiene, road, air and which made for bad generalship in in January, and his trip included ing of the committee of the Empire W. L. Leckie as Tam, their son, seeme to imply that the old faultsed from Singapore. He left England Malaya, addressed a private meet as Sarah, their daughter, and Mr. passing the Accounts, and electing wireless communications. Schemes the British Army have not been visits to the prisons at Singapore Parliamentary Association which is the humour and fun being effe Directors and Auditora.
for the cultivation of cotton, silk, wholly eradicated.
and Penang.
specially studying the "Affairs of tively brought out-Hong Kong Awoording to Colonel HEAD, there wool and other raw materials now
the Colonies and Mandated Ter purchased by France outside her own Empire are to be financed by
'TION: CO., LIMITED.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 10TH JUNE to 182 JULY, 1931, Both Days inclusive....
By Order of the Board,
| JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., La.,
General Managers" Hong Kong, 97th May, 1931, -
(780
Government loans.
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our military efficiency. This was Pong, dealera in metals, 39, Bon- May 7. His subject was, Malaya: Looking Back 50 Yearn. was a man who could have raised The manager of the Tin Pingitories in Westminster Hall on Daily Press, June 6, 1800. Sir WILLIAM KNOX, a-hero of the kam Strand, has reported to the its Interests and Problems." Mr. Bouth African Waraswhowas known police that a foki had disappeared W. Ormsby-Gore, M.P., presided, Captain Slocum of the American' throughout the army as" NASTY with the sum of $3,028 which was to and members of all parties in both bark "Amethyst," which arrived Other projects to which the KNOCKS." Long before the Russo-have been paid to a customer in Houses were present.
here on May 31 from the Philip credits voted by Parliament will Japanese war, Knox foresaw the settlement of an account.
pines, and who passed on the outer be allocated include the develop the necessity for breaking down the importance of trench warfare and
The Government has denied that edge of the late typhoon, has ment of inter-colonial communica barriera between the different arms his taxicab in a negligent manner been rescinded. A member of theservations on the weather experi Admitting the charges of driving the muzzling order for doge has favoured us with the following ob tions by air, wireless and rail, the of the service. He was the first and also in a manner dangerous to Committee of the Society for the eneed:"From morning of May building" of a railway across the chior officer to realise the im the public along Ma Tau Wai Road Prevention of Cruelty was our in-80, in lat. 17 degrees 10 minutes mense possibilities of the machine on May 18, the driver of taxicab formant, after attending a meeting and long, 110.00 till evening of 27th Sahara, the scientific prospecting gun. WAL POWELL, LTD.
But his efficiency was too No. 438 was fined $30 on the first of the Committee. A letter asking in lat 20 deg and long: 114.10 wo of colonial territories for oil and exacting for his day, and ho was court and 825 on the second by Mr. that the Government should, with considered ourselves on the NE. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, minerals, the creation of colonial quietly shelved.
E. W. Hamilton yesterday.
draw the order received a sympathe-side of a violent storm. The sky banks of issue to fanatice agricula passion for modernity and phy
KNOK was a great character with |-
tic reply, but, as the President of 1 to 5.W. was unmistakably typhoon NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
While a man was coming off the the Society, Mr. J. Russell, yeater like, and an unusually swell from No
ture and industry, the equipment sical fitness. When ju-jitsu was Canton Wharf on Thursday, Revenue day informed us, the lotter was not that direction went to confirm this that the 80rn ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHARE. of medical missions to fight first introduced ints Europe, the Officers searched bis portmanteau a definite promise to rescind the opinion. Our glass ranged from HOLDERS, will be held at tropical diseases and particularly of instruction and, believing in the preserved fruit. On further in-
gallant general took a course and found several jars, labelled order and cortainly not a recision. 20,60 to 29.65, The wind vored from E.S.E. to N.NE. in 30 hours, EXCHANGE BUILDING, on the scourge of sleepy sickness, value of personal example, deter vestigation, they were found to con- Traffic Inspector CF. Alexander Much forked lightning played WEDNESDAY, 17TH JUNE 1931, at 11:30 A.31., for the purpose of upon efforts to combat which mined to initiate his own troops tain. et taels of opium. The man prosecuted in a case yesterday be, in the sky to the S.W) walle all into the new mystery. At an in- was charged before Mr. Schofield fare Mr W. Schofield, when a te. N.E..of us the weather was re rosdiving the Report of the Directors £72,000 is to bo spent this year. Inspection parade he threw down yesterday when he was fined $1,300 Chinese driver of an Electric Light gular and as fine as sailor could and Statement of Accounts for the all, a big and a far-sighted scheme, challenge to any volunteer. A or seven monthis.....
Company's van was charged with wish for. Once we had a whiff of Year ended 28th FIBRUARY, 1981. planned by Empire builders like stalwart sergeant stepped out, and
driving his vehicle in a manner hot wind from 8.5.W. but it was
• The TRANSFER BOOKS of the LYAUTEY'
to the huge delight of the nasmbled Albert Ebingen, a. seaman on the dangerous to the public. Inspector followed, immediately after by a Company will be CLOSED from the The exports
troops was promptly laid on his .. Golden Dawn was charged bo- Alexander said that he was walking strong breeze from NE. Our track of the French back by the general. The effect was fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton yesterday along Bonhatu Road when the van from Manila: toʻgʻlate 20.00 (long. Brn JUNE to the 17 JUNE, Bothlories have more than doubled impressive, but there is such a with having assaulted a Chinese in came from behind him, At the 114.00 is, I consider. very close to Days inclusive.
thing as excessive zeal, and Kroz Shanghai Street. Ebingen ploaded same time another car was coming the line between fine weather and By Order of the Board of Directors, in value during the past fifteen was not content with leaving well guilty and it wassisted that at from the opposite direction and the late storm ourselves, thank CFE SKINNER, -
years, although in the same period alone. He challenged the sergeant the time of the offence he was under without ever as much as sounding Providence, being on the cheerful Acting Boaretary, the trade of France has only into another bont. This time the pro- the influence of liquor. A fine of his horn, defendant 'sped past the side, The storm has been of great Hong Kong, 2nd June, 1931. (881 creased by 25 per cent. Now it is was reversed, and it was the 15 or 17 days' imprisonment was Inspector, just touching his trousers, dampter Hong Kong Daily
general who took the toss.. imposed,
| 4 fine of $30 was imposed.
Prea June 0, 1881.