NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS NOVEMBER
R.
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
18 HEREBY NOTIFIED that
I SEALED TENDERS IN Triplicats
which should be aloarly marked Tendor for Now Kowloon Quarry Lot No. 1," will be reseized at the Colonial Secretary's Office until Noon of MON- DAY, the 2510 day of NOVEMBER, 1931, for the occupation for a period commencing from the date of notition- tion of acceptance of tender and ending on 31st December, 1994 of the picco
or parcel of ground sa shown coloured
WEAR A
11th
FLANDERS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
WILLYS
DELIVERY
POPPY.
TRUCKS,
red on a plan signed by the Director of IN FLANDERS FIELDS.
Public Works and dated 27th Velober,
1981, and anbject to the conditions which can be afportained at the office of the Director of Public Works,,
Upset annual los $2,800.
Each tender must be accompanied by a roooipt to the effect that tho tanderer bas deposited in the Colonial Treasury sum of $100 ass pledge of the bona Ades of his offer, which sum hall be forfeited to the Crown in the event of the tenderer, whose tender is acespted, refusing to carry out the *terms and conditions of his tender,
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On the seceptance of a tender the
deposits of unsuccessful tonterers will be returned to them,
Form of tender and further partiou: lan can be obtained from the office of the Director of Public Works.
The Government does not bind itself to scoopt the highest or any tender.
HAROLD T. CREARY,
Director of Public Works.
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6th November, 1991.
G.
R.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
“ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
In Flanders field the poppies blow
Between the grosses, row on row,'
That mark our place, and in the sky
The larku still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below,
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We are the Dead. Short-days age, Wellved, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you from tailing hands we throw
The torch; be your to hold it high, If ye broak faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow.
In Flanders Fielda,
JOHN MCCRAE
The free to be met to-day by ex-servico men consists of physical disability, trade
Pe Sale by Public Auction depression and consequent quemploy-
to
at
be held on MONDAY, the 16TH DAT of NOVEMBER, 1931, ■-8 PM the Officer of the Public Works Depart mant, by Order of HA EXCELLENT
of One Lot of CROWN
Shamba po, at
the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1808, with the option of renewal at a Crown Hent to be fixed by the Burveyor of Hu
TA
in
ment. This distress is shared by their dependants. Take up this quarrel by giving a Nttle more for your Poppy then you did last year,
MAJESTY SEX KING, for one further A. S. WATSON
text of 24 years less the last three days thermot
\
'. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Bale
Registry No.
Locality.
New Kowloon Inland
Junction of Lot No. 1864
Tai Po Road and
Pei Ho Street.
G.
PART
| Boundary, A
Measuro-
mehta.
As per
sale plan.
Contents in
18,400
Square feet
Annual
Bent.
363
R.
₤1438
Upset Price.
35,800
PUBLIC AUCTION.
BARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Saleby Publio Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 16mm Day NOVEMBER, 1981, at 3.x., at the. Offces of the Public Works Department, by Order of H EXCELLENOY THE GOVER NOB, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Jnnotion of Argyle Street and Waterloo Road, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years. with the option of renewal at Crown Bant to be fixed by the Surveyor of HI MAJEAZY THE KIND, for one farther
term of 75 yours.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
J. No. of Sale..
Registry No.
Locality.
Kowloon Inland Lot
No. 2857.
Junction of Argyle Street and Waterloo Road
Boundary
Measure-
{fl.fuffy.ft.
As por...
kalo plan
Contents in
Square feet.
Annual
Rental.
About
15,266
266,030
** Upset Prics.
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ARMISTICE DAY -
11 NOVEMBER, 1931...
SPAOD for a limited number of ex-servico-men and women, has been allotted at the Ceremony at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day and any oue wishing to attend is. invited to parade in front of Queen's Statue Pier not later than 10.86 a.m. P.M. ROSSER,.
Hen. Secretary,
BETISH LEGION.
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& CO., LTD.
THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above-named Company will be held at the Head Office of the Company, ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, Victoria, Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, the lar DAY OF DECEMBER, 1931, at Noon, when the subjoined. Resolution will be proposed
an.. Ordinary Resolution, viz.:- O
That the Authorised Capital "of the Company be increased to "Ten Million Dollars by the "erestion of One Million New "Shares of the nominal value of $5.00 oach and that such New Shares be issued at such time or "tines and on such terms and cond tions as the Drectors in their "absolute discretion shall sé› út.”
SHEWAN, TOMES &00.,
General Muanges.
Hong Kong, 10th Nov, 1981. "[1411
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SOCIETY
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(Piano, Violin and 'Cello)."
IN TWO
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1931.
ing instinct in deep-rooted in us all Two votorana of the Great War may speak with horror"and" loathing of their experience. But let them turn to some discussion of war technique; of the tactics e! a battle in which they bore a part; of the relative merits of machine guno and tranch mortars; of the uns of heavy artillery, and possibly of what they would like to do not to the former onomy-but to one or other of their allies, and their eyes will glisten and a fervour' seizes thom, showing that "peaon talk"
was but a shadow and war the reality in their ininda,
Tale of the Day.
Maid
News and Views
Mr. Tilson called about his account this morning, si
"And you told him that I'd just left for California 1
"Yes, sir, and that you wouldn't be back till late this evening.
Tahiti's Remedy for Price Collapse.
Disturbing news of the effects of the world crisis have arrived from Tahiti.
And yet the War was not fought in vain. There have been wars in plenty since November 11, 1018, but not between the, major, Powera. Is it, to be wonderod that smoulder- A section of the inhabitants, bad- ing ombers have again and againly hit by the consequences of over. burst into flame, only, however, to production and the collapse of be iralabed, and, in most instancca, prices, have decided to turn their rapidly extinguished. No Renior
backs on civilisation and no longer oleer of the British Services can put their trust in modern idena, forget the tension of the pre-war de- onde. The Dogger Bank incident, the Bosnia crisis of 1908, and the Agadir incident of 1911, brought us to brink of war. There live been no such crises sined the Armistice. De spite manings and suspicions, real danger of hostilities between the Great Powers has been remote. And yet the terms of peace saw four greet Empires dismembered and a host of new nations created
out of peoples who bore no love towards each other.
Among other frinedies for the situation they urge the abandon- mens of European clothes and a return to the simple and healthy life of their ancestors. It remains to be seen to what extent response will be made to this appeal.
Lone Atlantin Crossing.
When off Start Point one day last month the Brixham Ashing smack Fernles spoke to the lone occupant of the small boat Oben. from Quebes to London,
Vast quantities of cocaine, Trespassed Tour Inches, opium, and of firearms were stored
Because he encrenched four inches in secret chambers approached by, on Hanpstend. Heath, George an electrified staircase,
Crane, 1, appeared at Humpetand- The radding of these premises où an L.CC." summons, acousing«< caused a serious riot in Calcutta.hhm of erooting photographie, up- oulminating in the raurder of the informante.
Wild Man of the Woods.
paratus on the Heath without a permit.
He said that he had taken photo- The Serbian Press reports that graph in the vicinity for over 40 a savage man-has been captured in a wood near Kanthi, in Greece. Yes, He stood on Mr. Gray's An attempt sene made to interro fair ground and nos on the Heath, gate him, but this was a complete but the keeper took his name and failure, as he cannot speak and
merely utters inarticulate noises.address because the camera stand
His body is entirely covered with went over on to the Heath.. hair and he has nails like claws, He was ordered to He eats nothing but roots, water of the summons,
pay the costs melons, and loaves of trees. When left for a moment insulciently Land Speed Record Attempt. guarded he aprang upon a gen- darme and all but strangled him.
Alain Gerbault's New Oruise,
Alain Gerbault, the celebrated yachtsman, is now completing his arrangements. for another long ocean cruise. As soon as his new boat is rendy he will take it by canal from Sartrouville on the Soine, where it has been built, to Marseilles, where the final fitting. out will be done...
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News has been received by the Royal Automobile Club from Auok- and that Mr. Norman (Wizard) Smith and his Australian party, in- tend to leave Sydney for New Zea lond with the Fred H. Stewart Enterprise," the car with Schneider Trophy Rolls-Royce engine which he was prepared for an attempt on the world's land speed record on November 26.
New Zealand.
· A.P.8, 1
Our war-time hopes of the penes that was to follow wera pitched bón high. When "militariam "' Was overthrown, no nation would covet another's. territory, and all could disarm; class barriers had been broken down; the spirit of the trenches was to be applied to com- merce; so great were our powers AITON-DAVIS-On November 3, at
of industrial production that in a Shanghai, ROBERT LYLE AFTON decade the world would be a lovely of Glasgow, Scotland,
garden oity, without disease, pover LAURA LOUISE DAVIS of New-, unfriendliness or erime Four port, Kentucky.
hours work a day would be suf- ficient to supply all reasonable needs.
MARRIAGES.
LOCK WOOD--HAMILTON.-On October 17 in Brooklyn, N.Y. of Ann FRANKLIN HAMILTON, daughter awakening has-been bitter. What we Such was the vision, and the uf Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hamilleansed in the war was only that ton, of Brooklyn, and EDWARD fighting was a dirty and degrading TOWNE LOCKWOOD, son of Mr. Business for soldiers and civiliane, and Mrs. William W. Lockmen and, women, alike, and the PROPHET HARRIS-On October 31, at Fighting will never give the world
wood, of Shanghai,
glory went to a low producers." Shanghai, ELINOR WHITHORE,peace and security. It will not give daughter of the late Henry us. the English gardens which all Whitmore Harris and of Mreman might own, if we could ever E. L. HARI of Shanghal to become, temperate, calm and HERBERT SHELLEY, Bon of the wiec," late Robert Shelley Prophet and of Mrs. Annie Prophet of Chorlton cum Hardy, cashire.
Lan
Editorial and Business Offices: 12
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Tel. 24511.
Clumsily or smoothly," says H. G. WELLS, in concluding his Outline of History, the world, it seema, progresses and will progress. There may be tragic economia struggles, grim grapplinga of race with
race anch class with clas But, it is not more than five hundred years since the great Empire of the Aztees still believed that it could only livé by the shed
Every year in Mexien hundreds of humon victima died in this fashion: the body whe bent Mke a bow, over the curved stone of the altar, the breast was shashed open and the priest tore out the heating heart of the still living victim. The day may be elone at hand when we shall no longer tear out the hearts of men even for the sake of our national gods."
London Office: 53, Fleet Streetyding of blood.
E.O. 4.
The Daily Press.
Hosa Koso, NOVEMBER 11, 1931.
THE
ARMISTICE DAY.
thirteenth anniversary
secession from Notions.
the
"AFRICAN HOLIDAYS.
མཁན་ཐད་ལ་--
The skipper of the Ferulent said: Wu understood from the advan turer, who refused his name, that he was 88 days out from Quebec, Ho told us that he had run short of petrol and that his food was getting very short. We gave him all the bread we could spare.
"He refused to come aboard, as he said he was doing the voyage for a wager, adding, No more wagers for me. I will never do this again."
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The plan of the eruise includes the Azores and the Panama Canal, whence Gerbault will set his course for the Marquesas Isles. He will remain among the islanders for a considerable time and has even ex- pressed the desire to live the rest. of his life with them.
The Lucky Angler.
Tho attempt is, to be made on the sands at the Ninety Miles Beach, I the weather should be favourable, the attempt on the record will probably be made early in December.
How Argument against Prohibition,
It is observed that the Intest argument which is being advanced against Prohibition in America is that modification of the law would' provide employment for a million and a half unemployed.
Members of the Trent, Fishery Drugs Floating on Bengal Rivera,
Board, at a meeting in Derby 5. in which 32 persons are charged fed in the Trent by an inexperienced things that agriculture would benefit A case is in progress at Calcutta were told of a salmon being hook- It is suggested amongst other with membership of an internation angler who was practising casting, from the requirements of the brew
gang of drug smugglers Chief interest centres in the activities ofbably half a century since a salmon dhistry would benefit from the de- It was reported that it was pro- ing industry; that the motor in-
woman working with a mysterious veiled. Mohaminedan
was caught in the Trent by Ay-mand for delivery vana; that, thou Chinese.fishing. woman.
sands of men would be employed The Chairman (Sir Albert Ball) in distribution, that the need for claimed that real improvement had millions of bottles would revive, the been effected in the condition of the glass trade; that printera would Trent and its tributaries as a con- take on more men to print bottle- sequence of the Board's activities. labels; and that the present Pro- He mentioned the capture on an hibition agents could be employed artificial fly of a 14lb. salmon at in collecting taxes on the drink Caythorpe, between Nottingham soid. There is only one snag that and Newark, big pike caught at can be seen in all this. Kelham, and large
What would catches of bappen to all the unemployed gang- barbel.
sters, racketeers, and bootleggers
The smugglera consist of Chinese,. Japanese, Indians, and Feshawars. The discoevry of Hesled drug-filed containers floating in the Bengal rivers proved an important clue in tracing the gang.
Tho members communicated with each other by racans of a mystic semaphore system with umbrellas, and also used telegraphic codes.
* Local Notes and Events
A small quantity of fireworks will be fired for proof purposes at Stonecutters Rifle Range to-morrow morning,
From the files.
The following forthcoming" mar. riages are announced: Mr. James Cameron, of the Chartered Bank, Haiphong, to Miss Isobel Margaret Young, who is travelling to Hong Kong on board the s.s. Rawalpindi. Looking Back 25 Years. Mr. Harry Bernard Collier, of the Yesterday was the birthday of" Chinese Maritime Customs, York! His Majesty Victorio Emanuele Building Eong Kong, to Miss Eleanor Edmundson, of Shanghai.
a
1, King of Italy, and to cele brate the cccasion Mr. de S. de Darvasto, the acting-Consul for Austria and Hungary in charge of According to a report made to the Italian Consulate-General, held the police by Miss Holmes, an en Prince's Buildings. Among those reception at the Consulate, ployee, the offices of the Hong, who at attended to proffer their King Excavation, Pile Driving and congratulations were Captain Cole- Construction Co. at 12, Des Voeus cellency the Governor, Mr. H. W. man, A.D., representing His Ex- Rond Central, were entered during Woodward, RN, secretary to Com- the week-end and cash to the amount odore Williams, Mr. C. H. R. of 8100 stolen. A duplicate ey Darling, Bishop Podzon, all the Chesney, R.E., representing Colonel
of civilians. foreign corsula and a large number
An extraordinary general meeting of the China Light & Power Co., Ltd., will be held at the office of the Company, St. George's Building on Tuesday, December 1 at noon.
There will be a concert at the Armistice Day has dawned upon the To the classical world Africa” whe Helena May Institute on the after- grave peril of war in Manchuria, a source of novelties-"Out of noon of Thursday, November 19, at and the possibility of Japan's Africa adways something new." 5.30 p.m. Members wishing to re- Longue of But if Professor JULIAN HUXLEY is Servo table" for tea, are to vines of China far distant from the during an address in Oxford re-
This dispute over a pro- right in the forecast which he gave telephone the Matron, No. 22160. centres of European, civilisation cently, the capacity of that eco- The total cutput of the Kailan may seen remote and unimportant tinent for novelties is becoming Mining Administration's mines for to the great mass of humanity, exuxted; its new things appeared to 119,390 metric tons, and the the week ending Oetcher 24, amount- but, in Manchuria "great commer. to lie in the direction of Europe's salea, during the period to 109,309 | cial interests, strategieal considera-old ones. Professor HUNLEY thinks
tions and grave politica! principles that at the end of another hundred metric tons, are at stake." This is always said years a tropical African Federa at the outset of war, and generally tion" will have come into being the police, Alvena Laihovetsky. former Chinese sniployee is exspect its true. But. the mesenge of with its own factories ready to deal Armistice Dog in that these funda- with its own great variety of mental issues have got to settleil natural resources, Africa, it would by other means than war.
seem is to have an industrial
ces it following so closely, on the
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CHAMBER MUSIC RECITALS
be
AT THE
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According to a report made appears to have been used, and
aged 13, of 2 Saifee Terrace, wused. bitten by a dog belonging to a oighbour Miss Z. Lack on Mon
tion Inter:
La
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Having arned laudatory opin Pleading guilty to a charge of Hotel and the German Club, Hart ions with their concerts at the Peak
Nam School of Stubbs Roed, an
At least we learnt during, the revolution, and Proformor HUXLEY day. She received medical atten larceny of a belt from the Ling Marquardt, violinist, and Madame THE SCHNEIDER TRIO nothing; that the spirit of nation European models for such trans-
war settles
A fine of $3,000 or nine Menthe unemployed Chinese who appeared aquardt, harpist, are giving alism lives long after the laurels formations that he was pleading for yard labour was the sentence ERR./ before Mr. Schofield at the Central' their farewell performance' in the" af victory Are faded, and the fruits early action on the part of Euro-ed on a Chinese by Mr. Schodel Police Court yesterday was sentene spacious drawing room of the Hong of military success are rotten.
Poland and Armeria, Greece and can areas as national parks. If when the man was charged with was stated that the bell had becom will again have the invaluable as- Pen Powers to reserve large Afri at Central Magistracy yesterdayed to one month's hard labour. It Kong Hotel to-night at 9.15. They Albania-weak nations judged by that were done in time," he sug Beets and armies, have shown that gested, Africa and not Switzer- being in unlawful possession of 112eracked and after being placed sistance of Mrs. R. H. Newborn, the national spirit lives, and cannot land would become the playground. tacls of raw opium.
had been left in the garage from soprano, and Mr. George Grimble. where it was stolen.
piaalst.-Hongkong Daily Preis, quenebed by persecution, of the world." Whether the Afri-
Nov. 11, 1000 Nations can coalesce, like England can peoples, (or such of them as aged 85, an inmate of the Tung Wah In a fit of depression, Wong Ban, and Scotland, or like the com- have not become industrialised) Hospital, attempted suicide by cut terest at the fortnightly meeting of
There was nothing of pullie in- Looking Back 50 Years, ponent states of Germany, but the will develop the characteristic Swiss ting his throat with a piece of the Sanitary Board yesterday, the sword is the enemy of union genius for hotel-keeping remains glass frema broken bottle on Mon matters coming up for discussion Justice Jerjeehhay, sold at aue-
The paddle-wheel steamer, Japan may take Manchuria, as olie to he seen; or perhaps while the day. He hart succeeded in inflict being of an ordinary routine nation by Mr. H. N. Medy at noon took Korea, but unks she wins the Africans work in their factories the ing a superfical cut before being tare. Those present were M, G. beauts of the people she will not Europeans will organise the tourist discovered and placed under special R., Sayer (president). Hon. Mr. H.3,000. The purchaser was a China- on Saturday, Fealised the sum of subdus it, and resistance to her industry in the national parks. It pverlordship will endure. It is to sounde a little. Tanciful at the
supervision.
T. Creasy, (vice-president). Dr. G. man. be hoped that co-operation and not moment-it only because Switzer-
W Pone. (Medical Officer of war will settle the future of Mr. lend is a great deal easier to get Doctor of Journalism and Bachelor Mr. T. N. Chau, Dr. R. A. de Admiralty for the total disestablish Miss Mary Joseph Levintoff. Health). Mr. Wang Kwong Tin, Orders have been sent from the churia.
at than Africa. But a hundred of Serial Science, The University Basto, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy and ment of the British Naval Depot at. The Great War of 1914-18 was yenra bence, it is certain that travel of Sorbonne, France, is passing M. J. II. Gelling (secretary), fought with two ends in view: the by air will have become far more through Hong Kong on her way to destruction of German militarism, widely and swiftly organised. than Shanghai from Paris, on board the
Bhanghai, and immediate stepa for and the abolition of war as the it is to-day.
abolishing this store are to ba To reach Central inv. Felix Roussel to-day. Mian M. accepted means for the settle Africa by seroplane may then take Levintoff is..sister of a well-known trace the owner of a forged repre maintenaur will be necessary in The Police are endevouring to taken, so that no provision for its ment of major differences between less time than a journey to Switzer manist in the Colony, Julina isentation of a Hong Kong and the next Navy Estimates. nations. The lesser objective was land by hont and train now im Levintoff, Hong Kong University. Shanghai 830 bill which was given nchioved; End the verdict of alies: for our great-grandsone ave history will be that few things fortnight on the slopes of Kiliman
to the Kwong Tak photographers"
Midshipmen now serving on the have been more admirable than jaro might be just as feasible, in diphtheria were reported on Mon- very nearly that amount of goods, their time for passing in seaman- One case of typhoid and three of shop on Monday, in payment of China Station, who will complete the manner in which Germany point of time and money, as a day. During laat work there were The goods had been delivered at ship before July next are to be jins changed from a domingering contemporary week in The EXORANGE militarism to
"lovely four Casca (three BANES will be OLOSED for the orderly Republic of today. But ing to see it hinted that we should af enteric fever, one death from end time after discovering the their places in the Chine Squadron dentlis) of 14, Scuore Street, hut when the appointed to ships in the Detached the peaceful and Lucerne But it is a little alarm diphtheria, cight cases (four deathe) hon feki called there, for the se Squadron for passage to England, TRANSACTION of PUBLIC PUSI the ending of wan is a far greater pet soon in the matter of reserva-cerebro-spinal NESH on WEDNESDAY, the 132 of task. It can only come slowly, and tions test the Kilimanjaros become ensex (one denth) of puerperal fever found that the customer was not now in the Detached Squadron
meningitis, three apprious nature of the note, he being Billed by junior midshipmen NOVEMBER (ARMISTICE DAY) with deep changes in the mental covered with lumber camps and and 44 deaths from pulmonary there and was informed that it was Hongkong Daily Press, Nov 11
Hong Kong, th Nov., 1931. [1488
canning factories,
Nov. 17th and 20th, at 9.20 p.m. TICKETS-(34.40 and $8,30 EACH INCL. TAX) OBTAINABLE FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INSTITUTE.
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BANK HOLIDAY.
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structure of humanity The fight
fuberculosis
but his temporary residence.
1981.