"ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB
held
HDMIRST EXTRA RACE TAKETING will be (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VAL. LEY on SATURDAY, TX MARCH, 1983, Commanding at. p.m.
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The First Bell will be Bung at. 130
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badger prominently displayed.
No One without a Badice will be admitied to the Members Esclosure,
the
الرحم
admitting Non-Members to Gambers' Abolosure and Club Rooms at 16.00 or Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax). are obtainable through the SECRE TARY upon Introduction by a Member, anch Momber to be responsible for Payment of All Chits, ato..
Badges admitting to Members Encloaurs will not be on sale at the Bass Course,
On No Protost will Children, be permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting."
Ties are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No 1 Boy by 5 pm. on MAROH 4. Telephone 21020.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
The Fries of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00, including Tar, for all Parsons, including Ladies, azul, in payable at the Gato
Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform aro admitted Half Price.
Bookmakers, Tie Tac Man, ets.,
will not be permitted to operate with.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
THE Final Dividend dcolared" for
...," the Year ending 81st December, 1931, at the rate of Three Pounds Sterling at exchange 1/6t is payable on and after the 29th February, 1982, at the Offices of the Corporation, where shareholders are requested to apply for Warrenis,
By Order of the Board of Directors, V. M. ORAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 27th Feb., 1989. [1883
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE COMPANY, LTD."
'NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTIC# 18 HEREBY GIVEN N ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING that the THIRTY-SIXTA
of the Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Company's Town: Ofice, 2 Lower Albert Read, on WEDNESDAY, 2ND MARCH, 1932, atam. for the purpose of recaiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts, declaring
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Dividend and re electing Directora and Auditor,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 22nd FEBRUARY to fra MAROE, 1932, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
.... M. MANUK,
in the Presinats of Tu Hono Kors Hong Kong, 15th Feb., 1932.
Jo ÜLE daring the Race Meeting,
Tin will be obtainable in the Res
taurano in the Public Enstosarop
By Order,
Q. B. BROWN,
Segretary.
Hong Kong, 19th Feb., 1982. [1882
HONG KONG BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY,"
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held on FRIDAY, 4TH MARCH; at 1a.m., in the Sanitary Board Room, 8rd floor, Post Office.
Mra. Boathorn has kindly consented
to take the Chair.
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HONG KONG TELEPHONE CO., LIMITED,
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that the SEVENTH ORDIN- ART YEARLY MEETING of the HONG KONG TELEPHONE COM- PANY LIMITED will be held on WEDNESDAY, the 9TH Day of MARCH, 1932, at the BOARD BOOM of the Company, Becond Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, at 11a.m., for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounta and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the Financial Year ended 1st December, 1981, and re-electing two Directors and the Auditors,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from"the Srd to 9th MARCH, 1932, Both Days inclusivo.
Dated this 15th day of Bab., 1932.
By Order of the Board,
W. L, MCKENZIE,
Eecretary. 14, Des Voeux Road, Central,
Hong Kong.
(1827
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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that ISTALES TENDERS Trip that which should be clearly marked "Tender for Kowloon Quarry Lot: No. 16," will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office, until Noon of MON DAY, the 7ru day of MARCH, 1932, for the cocupation for a period commencing from the date of notifica tion of acceptance of tender pad ending. 1931, of the pinos
on alat ground at Tai Kok Tani
or parcol of
As shows coloured red on a plan signed By the Director of Public Works, and dated 13th February, 1932, sud subject to the candidiones which can be ascer tained at the offios of the Director of Table Worke.
Upset annual fee 3450 por nautim. Each tender must bɔ accompanied by a receipt to the affect that: the tenderer Las deposited in the Colonial Treasury a sum of $280 se a pledge of the bána fides of bis offer, which sum. shall be forfeited to the Crown in the event of the tenderer, whose tender is accepted, refusing to carry out the terms and conditions of bis bender..
Ou the acceptance, of a tender the deposits of unmocéssful ten terers will bo returned to them,
Form of tender and further partion
Iars can be obtained from the office of
The Director of Public Works
The Government does not bind itself
to accept the highest or any tender
HAROLD T CREASY,
Dienator of Public Work.
10th February, 1932,
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1932.
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Baby's Sweetheart (Corri). Chanson" (In Love) (Fri). -J. II. Squire Celeste Octette, -3807..
"La Cinquantaine " (Marie). Gavotta from "Mimon"
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SHANGHAI PEACE TALK FAILS
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JAPAN'S ADVICE: TO LEAGUE COMMISSION
Tokyo, Feb. 20. Editorials regarding the arrival. of the Longue Commission appear- ingin the leading vernacular papers pecord it a hearty welcome and plead to the Commission to idy and appreciate the tunda mental facts of the situation and to avoid bog misted by cheep sentimentalism."
The Amhe asks it to recognise that the "Japanese troops are Aghting Chines military authori- ties and not the Chinese people,” POPE AND THE FAR EAST WAR
"
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 28.
At the conclusion: of a wireless
broadcast message on the occasion of the reading of the virtues of the missionary, Sister Assunta Oallotta, who died in China in 1905, His Holiness the Pope gave a blessing to those two great peoples of the Eaat upon whom the attention of the world is at present Axed.
The Pope attributed the world's wars and troubles to immorality, avarice and pride.
POWERS STILL IGNORED
SHANGHAI, Feb. 98, 8.50 a.m. Another Japanese transport ar.
H. Squire Celeste Octette.-rived in Shangha this morning, DB300.
going alongside the Wayside Wharf, In the laternational Settlement.
LORD CECIL'S ATTITUDE CONDEMNED
Relay of Canaries Sometimes Sing" from the King's Theatre by courtesy of the manage meat.
p.m.--Stock quotations, mail notice, etc. 7.03 to 7.30 p.m
THE SPADE WORK SQUAD.
'ASSETS
£18,000,000
FINE RECORD OF ENGINEER COMPANY, S.V.C.
JÓB WHICH LÄSTS THE.
CLOCK ROUND.
The community has been given a tow occasional paragraphs about the Shanghai Scottish, a mention or two of the Mih-ho-loongs, some. thing of the Armoured Cars and the Portuguese Company, and a reference here and there to the Light Horse and their equipment but hitherto the men who have done the most and the hardest work in our little local, war-who, indeed, do the most and the hardest, and are at it the earliest on every such ocession-have gone unheralded. When the state of emargoncy was Proclaimed, the Engineer Company of the. 8.V.C.. wore a sort of Fred Karno's Army, boasting hub two officers and five other ranks, mostly. officers. Thoy" non-commissioned commandeertd mon with the re
its, recruited vigorously, and at quisite, experience from other un-
their strongest some days ago. they mustered ten offers and 120 other ranks, with Capt. H. E. Denny in command, and Major H. Berente. on the Headquarters Staff,
The general public havo scon wire and sandbags in the streets and lorries rushing about with more wire and more aandbagı, but only the troops know the work that was done by the Engineers and the transport, two units somewhat of a scratch order, but tremendous-
LONDON, Feb. 28. Both the Morning Post and Daily Telegraph editorially condemn Lord Cecil's attitude towards the Shang hai crisis exhibited in his cosigna- tories letter to the Timer on Feb-ly afficient and willing, and when ruary 18, and bis demand in Batar the Municipal Council gives a day's speech when he called for the thanksgiving dinner after the "Chant Sans Paroles (Tschai Langue, backed up by the Unitedwar," the Engineers and trans-
kowdry).
States, formally to demand anport men ought to have an extra` "Chansom Triste" (Tschaikow.armistice and the establishment of orange. In real wars, the Engine-
ora always, have anathema heaped }
Orchestral.
5
sky).-Court Symphony Orch. -3447R.
Espana" (Waldtenfel). "L'Estudiantina" (Waldtenfol). -Jacques' Jacob's Ensemble.- 9655,
Tha Persian Market" (Ketel by).-Court Symphony Orch.- 3422R.
7.30 to 8 p.my~~-
A Concert,
Song" Homing" (Sainion" and del Riego)-Muriel Brunekill (Contralto).-332aR Instrumental" At Midnight ". (Avlles), Violin, Flute and Harp. Trio,1740R. Piano Solo "Au Couvent " (Borodine). dgn Cherniavsky,
3380R.
TSANG FOOK PIANO CO. Chorus Cominues in Arma
8, Des Vœux Road, Central
Entrance Ice House Street)
Telephone 24648
COMING SHORTLY TO THE KING'S
A Lover by Day...
At Nigh
a Blend
DR JEKYLL
MR.HYDE
Wick che income
pomalo set of *Th¢! Loyal Family" pocted by car of Lover 300,.
Fredric March
Miriam Hopkins Lose Hobart
a Garamatent Patient
(Adam)-The Salisbury Singers (Unaccompanied).-3246R.
ments."
a neutral zone.
The former says: "In the name of peace and sanity we protest upon them because of the jealous against these threats of prejudgway in which they guard their pos sossions, dealing out sandbags in If Japan is really wrong, then dozens when hundreds were asked the first step should be to drive her for and sending them late at that. out and restore the region to China: of tan S.V.C. "Hey Are you the Not so, with the Engineer Company: If China is right other Powers are Engineere! Good, then rush up no more entitled to neutralise than
another couple of hundred sand Japan has to invade her territory,
The Paper also observes that Lord bugs and, twenty knife-rests
Windy Sector chop-chop!" Cocil forgets all about the anarchy; twenty minutes an 8.V.C. outrages, robberies and lawlessness would come tearing up. dump 280- which have forced not only Japan sandbags and twenty-five knife but other Powers to use strong rests for good measure, and debouch fence is their defence. mensures in the past. Japan's de-
to
In
lorry
a figure party to run them into position.
A Huge Task,
ADVICE TO NANKING' The Daily Telegraph "says, it
Nor did they wait to finish their the rumoured Japanese peace tifin, or appear distressed if they terms, providing for the with wore pulled out in the small and drawal of troops under a sup- very cold hours of the morning, ervisory committee, and the convo, And order given to them, whatever cation of a Round Table Conference its nature. and whatever the quan- are authentic, it, hopes the Nanking tits, was executed on the run Government will close with the Statistics are not available, but it offer, which they owe primarily to can at least be stated that every Instrumental A Bright Morn-the outstanding, valour of their picca of the wiring throughout the
ing on the Alps" (Holot). Violin, Flute and Harp Trio troops and the uneasiness it has aroused in Tokyo. The Paper adds, events will move to natural conclusion, if mischief makers, in which category Lord Cecil by his attitude includes himself, rofrain from meddling.
2345R.
Song – The Mountains of
Mourne" (arr. Collisson), Song "A Letter from Mary of Mourne " (Buchaa). Edgar Coyle (Baritone).-2009R.
2
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report. 3.03 to 11.30 p.m.-Relay from the
Ko Shing Theatre.
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nowa,
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The Dutch destroyer Van Galen (Commander Vroode) paid a short visit to Hong Kong on Saturday.
The vessel arrived, at 1. p.m., and after refueling at the A.P.C. Wharf, North Point, left at 6 p.m. for Shanghai to protect Dutch interest there.
POSITION AT SWATOWN
CITY · REPORTED TO BE QUIET
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
CANTON, Feb. 20.
Settlement, with the exception of that in Elgin Road and Kansuh Road (which was done by the P.D. and the Russian Detach- ment) was done by the Engineer Company, as well as all the sand- bag defence and emergency block- houses and redoubts. It is comput- ed that easily 100,000 aandbags have been used, and nobody knows how many miles of wire, and they still have in stock 9,000 filled and 78,000 empty bags, and ovar 240 tons of wire.
The transport has been couplod with the Engineers simply because the two are so closely associated, but it is not a regular unit.of tho S.V.C., being an emergency forma tion in the PW.D., and whoever has been salad with, dhe. respon
ibility for it can rest assured that it has worked amazingly well An other valuable section of the En- gineers is that under Lieut. Ro- berts, dealing with cartography,
Thanked by All. "
If the Engineers have any spe Feial "don't they must be that the unit does not eat or sleep, on BEXVICE, DI if they do, they must do it whilst they are working, for A military communiqué from they unquestionably work harder Swatow, signed by General Li Yang than nay-even the Adjutant, or King, Commander of the Third the Corps Bergt-Major, or a Group Army, received here to-day, states Commander's batman. They do that notwithstanding reports to the not know, the meaning of a stand- contrary, the city is quiet.
́easy, and they do not have time Precautionary measures, the mas- for any of the by-play so beloved: sage added, have been adopted, and by the other units. And nobody.
the city is prepared for any Japan outside seems to know of them, for
cs attack. There is now only one the only etceteras that have found Japanese gunboat in harbour which | thoir way to their quarters are suffi- is showing no signs of creating ciont cigarettes to last, them for the trouble. The people in Swatow, the next three months, and they insist message concluded, have of late been that these really were a present and having a happy time celebrating the were not " acquired?” Chinese successful resistance to the The rent of the Corps have ex- Japanese armed invasion of Shang-nresand thair thanke many a time) hai. The merchants there in co-to the engineers and the latter are operation with other alasses of proud to have been complimented people are subscribing funds for hy Regulars. They fully deserve the purchase of two airplanes for the thaoka, of the community, and the Bwator gaúrison. An order for it is a great pity that it seems thom Ase already been placed with a impossible for them to maintain a certain foreign firm, and delivery is | working strength during · pases | to be made shortly.
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