NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
REMINDER:
TODAY'S MEETING.
GENERAL MEETING . of Import Merchants--including non-members of the Chamber-in called by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce for
4.15 p.m., TO-DAY
at the office of the Chamber of Com- merce, to consider matters of general importance to trade, arising out of certain domands which hard 'ben made by the Chinese Piece Goods Guild and other Guilds.
By Order.
"
Hong Kong, 14th April, 1932.
M. F. KEY,
Secretary.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Forty-seventh Annual Ordinary General Meeting of the Company (since its registration) will"; be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, on Tuesday, the 19th, April, 1982, at 11.30 A.Y, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 81st. Optober, 1981.
The Register of Shares of the closed from Company will be
Wednesday, the 18th. day of April, to Tuesday. the 10th day of April, 1982 both days inclusive, during
which period no transfer of shares: can' be registered. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers." Hongkong, 7th. April, 1992. [2071
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
"E beroby giro"notice that we Love this day removed, our Offer to ALEXANdra Building, Top Floor..
W. A. HANNIBAL & Co. [2068
THE INSTITUTION OF ENGI. NEERS & SHIPBUILDERS
OF HONG KONG.".
NOTICE.
Paper (illustrated by lantern
slides) will be delivered by
P. C. BARBAND, Esq.
on
THE LJUNGSTROM STEAM TURBING
in the premises of the Institution
"}
on
are
THURSDAY, APRIL 14TH. at 6.30 P.M. Members and their friends cordially invited to be present.
A. L, LANDSBERT,
Hon. Becretary.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,
DRAFT Programmes and Entry
Forms for the Fourth Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, 33rd April, 1939 (weather permitting). may be obtained at the Secretary's Offcg the Club House, Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Club, the Sports Club, and the Stables, Village Rond.
STOP THINKING ABOUT CARS
Give
attention
to
the
magnificent
new
British
ones
RILLMAN
HUMBER
an
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932.
News and Views
is plenty of sorum in the Colony. and all possible preparations have boon made to deal with an increased number of cases, Where there is
ending in February, 1002, export of overcrowded population of
wich, and previous to that was cam- Tale of the Day. illiterate and poverty atriakan, per-
"And there, Son, you have the mander' in the Royal yacht, Vic cattle dropped from 810,400,000 to $830,000; wheat from $85,300,000 to sons: the danger of epidemica must story of your dad and the great boria and Albert,
Crunder and her sister ship 82,400,000, wheat flour from 85,700,
launched at Port-000 to $1000; butter from $2.270,000 Comet ware smouth last Outobar, being the first to $143,700 wool from $1,300,000 to destroyars to be built in a Royal 8141,000, and other products in the dockyard for yory, many years.
same proportion.
war
"Yes, Dad, but why did need all the other soldiers ?
they
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Hollywood's Latest,
Harem Girl as Air Pilot.
bo always imminent. The wonder is that more serious outbreaks do not. occur in Hong Kong, especially as the expenditure on medical and sani tary services is most zealously Urban Centros Gaining in Canada. watched, while any real attempt to Cities and toss are winning dut
How far Hollywood is prepared tackle the problems of 'overcrowd-against the country in bidding for Chhada's population, between 53
Less than five years ago Leila ing, lack of open spaces, paur and M out of every 100 persons re-
to go to exploit the vogue for horror pictures is shown by a Bim called Mamed Bekova, a Moslem girl in perism and other human ills, in siding in urban entres.
Baku, was wearing an ugly horse "Frosks." This Metro-Goldwyn. regarded by many prosperous per- Thera, is one province, however, Mayer production is a story of cir-hair veil prescribed for wives and living in the "harem of a husband "grandmotherly. legis-that has grown mors rural in the
eus freaks, horrible beyond belief.
several times her age The charactors include a Living wiek. This has increased from 87.9 last 10 years, namely, New Bruns per cent rural in 1921 to 68.4 in Torso, described as a trunk with- 1881. Prince Edward Island cou-out arms or lege," and a number of tinuos the most rural. province, other human monstrosities. three out of every four persons liv- ing on the farme-there.
Fons
ลบ
WIZARD ation," and the "growing burden
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of taxation is bitterly resented. The curious thing is that those who most resens public expenditure on social services, when all in well, are apt to be the leaders of alarm and indignation when the day of reckon ing comes. Until human welfare is considered as it is in the more advanced Western countries, the
Indians Prefer Blankets.
Judging from the description of a Hollywood film critic, who, declares that "Frankenstein is
Abod-time story by comparison," "Frenke" in a pathological production designed solely tote appal to the morbid
DURO GARAGE danger of epidemies will remain, in their intertribal contests with Barred the Proper.
In Nathan Road, Kowloon
GILMAN & Co, Ltd., Agenis.
BIRTH.
La.. 2
:)
and if we choose to live in Hong Kong we have got to bear up as best we can.
JI
Today Leila wears an air pilot's nund teaches at an aviation school. clothes, flies an airplano
She is known throughout the Soviet Republic of Azerbaidjan as the first woman fyer of that region. Her life's story is being recount-
in the newspapers of Russia as an example of the changing East and the transition of women from medieval conditions to the modera mode. of life.
Leila is only 12. She was 17 and the mother of two children when The following notice in a. Man he threw off the veil and abandon- chaster hall was quoted at the Cityed the harem into which she had Police Court recently as an interbeca sold at the age of 13. eating example of ambiguity: "The management reserves the right to: debar anyone whom it thinks pro per
"
Money Restrictions Cut European
Travel,
In those days to appear without A vei required courage, for many women were murdered by their own "disgraceful" families for such conduct.
The Tarahumara Indians of "Chi-minded. huahua, famed as runners who think nothing of jogging 500 miles 1. cut stopping for a rest, have been landing their hid, to the Govern ment's rond-building programme in the Mountainous sections of their State. For enmpensation, the Dr. Pope insists that conrage and hardy, Indians scorned the custom cheerfulness are of great importary money wages; asking instead auce, especially when there is really that they be paid in food and is blankets. Their request was grant nothing very much to cause alarm. ad by the Ministry of Communica Nervousness and panie do not cause tips and Indians have flocked by meningitis, but they have "a de.the hundreds to the scene of con-
As workmen," International travelling and busi hinting effect, which is specially struction, most of whom have been
given employment.
nass in central Europe may soon be. ervised by expert Mexicaa ongin-come the exception rather than the to be avoided at this time. Colda,these Indiana, who have been sup
And headaches. ATC sore throuts
acra, prove highly satisfactory, ac- rule, owing to continued restric- always with aw, and when these cording to government authorities. tions imposed by different states the school were shocked when the sythptoms are observed the chances.They are now engaged in opening against the outflow of their nre heavily against anything deve up the last two kilometers of the rancy.
important highway from Creel to Young-WHITE-Mr. White leping more serious than influenza. Cuzarare.
wishes to announce the engage- On the other hand, needless risk mont of her daughter MAUDE should be avoided. Needless to say:
STEWART, A EDITH, to Mr. YOUNG, eldest son of Mr. and devotees of Macro fan-tan would Mr. S. Young of London. be advised to forego their amuse-
A BUN.
FRANCIS-On April 7, at Shanghai, wo Mr. and Mrs. R. E. FRANCIS, CROMPTON-On April 7, at Shang. hai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Crompton, a daughter.
ENGAGEMENT.
MARRTAGE.
April STEVENS HOOD.-On
at Shanghai, WILLIAM REGINALD MANSELL STEVENA, eldest son of the lato Mr. W. M. Stevens and
MTB. Stevens of London, to Mar garet BRYAN, second daughter of Major and Mrs. G. W. Hood of Shanghai.
Editorial and Business Officer: 11
Ice House Etroot. Tel. 3025); Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel. 84511.
London Office: 83, Fleet Street,
KO. 4.
went, and a gargle, two or three times a day, will do no harm, especially to those who work in- doors and have been to crowded places, That simple precies Syon a plensant confidence and is always exellent for that delicate organism, the thron
Anathor Lease of Life.
One result of the Labour Govern. mont's ill-judged naval economies is called to mind by the completion of the destroyer Crusader.
cur.
The Czechoslovak National Bank, following the lend given by the i Austrian national banks, now do orses that only 1000 Czechoslovak crowns (about 833) in native car rency and double this amount in foreign valuta can be taken by a traveller over the frontier except by special permission of the National Bank.
Canada's Exports Across Border
Drop.
Leila became active in her native village near Baku, Aually becoming head of a women's club there..
In the summer, of 1830 she heard that an aviation school was being rmed in Baku. The organisers of girl asked to become a member. i She has since become one of their
hest pilots.
Making Briand Work.
Many politicians have commented on the affinity between Briand' and the Breton and Lloyd George the Welshmau. Here is a Briand story. which should appeal to the sage of Churt.
In his young days Briand waS A Socialist journalist. The difficulty was to make him write.
He used to come, to the office
She is one of eight boats included: in the Navy Estimates for 1929, which were introduced by Lord Bridgeman. Under the Labour ad- ministration the programme for that year was ruthlessly pruned, The effect of the almost prohibi, about mid-night, Jaurés, who knew two cruisers and four destroyers tive duties levied by the United his man, would discuse with him being among the vessels cancelled. States on Canadian farm products the subject of the article he wished A snggestiin has been made that As a result the "C" class of des- is strikingly shown by comparative hint to write and would then lock
troyers consists of four boats only. export figures issued by the Dom him in his room,
An hour later he would come the sathorities are being remiss informing a half fotilla, which will inion Bureau of Statistics. Where allowing the Mocao races to bo ba difficult to fit into the organisa- held at Kwanti next Sunday. tion of the Flest.
"Crusader will be commanded by Perhaps something on the lines of Capt. E. C. Denison, M.V.O., who was promoted to his present rank an English reee crowd of the sort
at the New Year. He bas just com- that travels from meeting to meet-pleted the tactical course at Green- ing is envisaged as invading as
from the Portuguese Colony com- plete with bookmakers, tie-tac men, Tegsprofessional hackers, tipsters and
The Daily Press.
Hord KoNG, APH 14. 1992.
THE MENINGITIS
EPIDEMIC."
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Entries close at 12 o'clock Noon on IT is good to know that only one Thursday, 14th April, 1938,
ense of meningitia was reported on By Order,
Tuesday and none yesterday up to about 3 p.m. when an enquiry was made by our representative of Dr.
S. A. SLEAP,
Acting Sporstary,
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THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUE SECOND EXTRA RACE MEATING.
B
(POSTPONED from, 8RD APRIL, 1982).
of
T: courtesy of the Stewards
the Faxling Hunt and Race
hatgers on, in addition to the attendants on the ponies. In actual fact the Macho race crowd, includ ing mafoor and owners of the "wenty or so ponies expected, is not likely to exceed a hundred As the three stenmahipa persons. on the Macae run bring in at least ave hundred passengers a day, the racegoera will not add appreciably to the risk
- While the public can rest assured that the situation is being watched with every possible" vigilance, there is, an yet, no ground for taking
as in February, 1991, the export of back to set free his prisoner and these products across the border collect his article. amounted to 811,354,000 in the same month this year their value had dropped to 8405,500.
Comparing the eight months end ing with February, 1991, with those
As often as not he would find an aru-chair, his feet on the stove, and a litter Brianten ad
of cigarette ends on the floor. Of
"there was none. copy
Local Notes and Events
The Hong Kong dollar remained: unchaliged yesterday at 18. 2-5/8d.
i
The Boxing Match between FM.S. Hermes and HMS. Cum- berland, arranged for to-day Friends of Sir Shouson Chow (Thursday) has been postponed the outbreak of will regres to learn that he is at owing present indisposed.
"
Mr. J. Kelleher arrived by the Changte yesterday to join the staff of the South China Morning Post.
One case of small-pox, three of
reported on Tuesday.
Pore. That is particularly satis. steps that would only be justifiable | diphtheria, two of cateric fever and factory after the somewhat alarm if the unfortunate ontbreak showed ane of corebro-spinal fever were ing figure of twelve fresh ensos son signs of increasing. Monday, Dr. Forx takes an op- timistic view of the situation but warns the community that we must wait for warm and sunny weather before the number of cases can be expected to fall to the two or three week.
dlab, the above Race Meeting will that are normally reported every
be held at the Kwanti Race Course
+
SUNDAY, the, 17 APRIL, 1982. First Baddling Bell at 1,45 pm First Reco at 2.15 pm.
Admission to Members' Enclosure
will be limited to Members of This Club and Fanling Hunt & Race Club who must wear their Badges.
Non-Members will be admitted to
the Members' Enclosure upon pay maat of $5 per badge.
The number of cases to date is
sixty-three, of which sixty were
ANTI-GOD MOVEMENT."
CATHEDRAL TURNED INTO MUSEUM.
to
meningitis.
Mr. P. C. Barrand will deliver a paper on "The Ljungstrom Steam Turbine" in the premises of the Institution of Engineers and Ship builders to-day at 8.30 p.m. lecture will be illustrated by tern, aligns
The
From the files.
Looking Back 25 Years.
Saturday night's Y.M.C.A. coll.
successful. Under the patronage of cert in St Andrew's Hall, was very His Excellency the Governor, it attracted a good audience which would undoubtedly have been better but for the atmospherical uncer lan-tainty, and the proceeds aid of the library fund of the Y.M.C.A must have amounted to A satisfactory
·Charged before the Hun. Comdr. The Alexandra Quartette con- tributed two pleasing part songs," "It is understood that, owing to Hole at the Marine Court yester and Mr. G. P. Lammert sang two the outbreak of meningitis, cinemas day with having used his boat for pretty, little songs in each part of the purpose of conveying prostitutes the programme, but as he was a and places of entertainment where within the limits of the harbour, a trifle thrinty he was not heard at crowds gather, have been placed out bontman was fired 850 or, in de his best. Among the other artistes. of bounds for Service men.
of local talent who helped. to make fault, six weeks' imprisonment.
the programme such a success" were Mrs. Bellios, Mr. Jokl, the Rev. A donation of $10 was made to! A report was made to the police M. Longridge, R.N., Hr. Newborn the S.P.CA. by Mr. R. A. D... on Tuesday by Mr. T. G. Stokes and Miss Blair.-Hong Kong Daily Forrest in memory of the late Mr that whilst driving his car at the Press, April 14, 1907. Manuk. The donation is acknow Star Ferry Wharf at 10:30 am an
eight year-old Chinese girl ran out Looking Back 50 Yṇarı: from under the shelter of the wharf, lodged with thanks.
and was knocked down, receiving injuries to her face:
Moscow, March 25.-A further Chinese The League of Nations advance in the State-subsidised anti, Medical Branch take twenty-five God movement in Soviet Russia has
A fine of $20 was imposed by the chap week, in a population of been marked by the forthcoming Hon. Comdr. Hole at the Marine 4,000 as an epidemic, and therefore transformation of the famous Kazan Court yesterday on a bantuan who the position in this Colony, with Cathedral in Leningrad into
its population of at least a million, museum for the history of religions do so by a Police Officer. cannot at present be regarded as and atheism. The new museum is to at all serious. An epidemic, at be opened in November on the Tickets for admission to the
that proportion would involve casion of the 15th anniversary of the Fublic Enclosure $1 each.
Each Member is entitled to 25,000 cases in a week! The League Soviet régime and it will organise Ladles Tickets free on application to has had to deal with a good many numerous anti-religious exhibition
epidemics during the past twelve throughout Russia.
it
From a London paper we observe that a Chinese doctor has establish- ed himself in the West End of
a failed to stop when called upon to Will say person interested in London and is very largely patro stump collection, preferably a pernised. He comes from Australia, so in a shipping office, and who and claims to posses special means. A married woman was removed wishes to correspond and trade for curing certain desense which ere of a cutaneous description. Ee to the Government Civil Hospital stamps with a young Australian on Tuesday after she had taken an business man, kindly communicate employs native drugs to effect his foreigner, had a large travelling overdoes of eucalyptus oil. It is with J, L. White, P.O. Box 28, cures. This medico, who speaks
a fit of depression.
practice in the Colonies, where he For a breach of a condition made some remarkable cures, in believed that she took this step in West Maitland, N.S.W., Australia. English wall, and dresses like a
the Secretary...
It will be remembered that Len- In the absence of the Chairman governing the grant of his food cases of skin diseases. He relied Special Train services. Leaving years or so, and before we alarm. Kowloon at 1.05 p.m. and returning ourselves unduly, it is well to ingrad's other famous cathedral, St. (Mr. J. Ormiston), Me R K Dun-license, a restaurant keeper of mainly on arsenic in treating these from Fanling at 5.68. p.m. 12. are remember what an, epidemie means aac, was converted some years ago can presided at the monthly Couns 282, Hennessey Road was fired 310 cases, and the fact that two or three cil meeting of the Hong Kong by Mr. Schaffold yesterday. It was persons suffered from the effects of including admittance charge to the
Dr. Pore had, in fact, every reason into a workmen's aftüb and, accord. Football Association held yester stated that the defendant used the his treatment, owing to his inju a carpon dicious administration of strong Race Course.
to apply the word "mild" to the ing to Press reports, the former St day. The meeting decided to pre rear of his promisus as
Michael's monastery at Archangelsk Want miniature shields and cups to ter shop. An order was made for drug counterbalanced the advan present ontbreak
There, appears to be very little has been turned into a machinery players of the winning teams and the carpenter's business to be retages that many of patients ex- runners-up in the Shield and moved from the address within a perienced ander hands-on Kong Day Pren April 14, 1882 weok. League competitions, that the authorities can do. There repair sh
By order,
W. I ALEXANDER,
Secretary,
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YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS.
The opening yesterday morning was quietly "stendy, but trading re- mained on a meagre scale,
Bales
Providenta (Old) $4.90. Providenta (New) 82.30. Humphreys $18.65/17, Hong Kong Reallies 11.65, Ewos Tls. 14.90. Hong Kong Electrics $74. Amusements 8221.
Buyers,
Union Insurances 8470. Benguela. $134. Docks $205 Providenta (Old) $4.00. Providents (New) $2. Hotels Cham-Righs 13 Hong Kong Realties 8114.- Chinese Estates. $95. Banguet Explorations 29 cents. Ewb Cottons. T. 14.90 Hong Kong Tramways, 821.60, Star Ferriez 2001. Hong Kong Electrice $74. Telephones (P.P.) 24.80. Lane, Crawfords (Old) $6.30. Sinceres $16.
Amusements #29)
Constructions (New) $1.85. Government Loans 3 per cent.
premium.
Sellers,
China Lights (Old), #211. 8.0. Enterprises $10.
SHANGHAI SHARES. Messrs. Carroll Bros have receive ed the following quotations by cable from Shanghai.
Ewo Cottons Tis. 14.90. Shanghal Lands Tim. 23.80. Shanghai Electric Bearer Market steadier with more quiry,