ADVERTISEMENTS Your Car,
AS. WATSON & COMPANY,
· LIMITED.
LL Shareholders are reminded that the EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING called for the purpose of condrming as a Special Resolation the Resolution altering the Company's Articles of Association which was passed on the 19th May, 1998, is to be held at the Hongkook. Hotel at 11.30 o'clock in the Forencon on SATURDAY, the 28th MAY, 1933 and are requested to attend.
JOHN. D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Manager,
(9210
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
CLUB.
NOTION.
THE HALF YEARLY GENERAL
TESTING of Voting Members
will be held at the Club House, Happy Valley, on Monday, 30th May, 1930, at 5.30 p.m.
ALL Members are cordially invited to attend and participate in any dis cussion which may ensue.
By Order of the Stewards, 3. A. SLEAP,
Acting Bocratary, [2108
Hong Kong, 18th May, 1939,
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTIC
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN " that the ANNUAL OR DINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hongkong, on Saturday, the 4th June, 1992 11.30 am for the purpose of receiv ing the Report of the Directora together with Statement of As counts for the year ended 30th Apri', 1982:
The Transfer Books of the Com. pany will be closed from Monday, 30th day of May to Saturday, the 4th day of June, 1932, both daya inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1932, [2228
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932.
mala and there are very possibio TIN OUTPUT
contingencies in which a voluteer
force twice the sino of that at pre- sont enrolled might make a VARD difference to this Colony,
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It is no uss for young men, or even forex-servied on to say, "I
if come
wanted. Bokliers are not made or "re-made in a day. Some time nga Captain' CHAMPEIN dealt faithfully with military that bug-bear of the afflett, the roller up" He means wall, but, without training, the best of ua rull up." in another sense, when under Are, if we have
CURTAILMENT
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DUTCH E. INDIES AGREE TO SCHEME
(THKOUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY.].
AMSTERDAM, May 25. The Dutch East Indies Govern
not been through the mill of diement has assented to the rovised: cipline. It is an axiom born out tin output curtailment scheme. by the whole history of war that bravery of military use in the field depands upon training upon smartness on, parado. Natural pluck does not stand campaigns or carry out tactical orders in the way that is necessary for winning Battion.
Not long ago the Volunteers had an example of what service meana They acquitted themselves admir ably and no doubt many young follows who had to sit at home, instead of patrolling the streets and taking their places with the garrison 'felt uncomfortably small. They would feel smaller still if war come to this Colony and they found themselves horded with the women and children while their betters went out to fight..
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MANCHURIA
[THOUGH REUTER'S ACENOT.)
HARBIN, May 94. The war operations in North Manchuria have now assumed a large scale, the full force of the insurgent organization having been launched against the Japanese and Manchukuo. troops
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General Honjo, the commander- in-chief of the Japanese forces in Manchuria, has arrived from Muk- den personally to direct operations. General Honjo now has columns
AFTER EIGHTEEN MONTHS
DOX RETURNS TO GERMANY
(THROUGH REUTER'S, AOENCY. )"
BERLIN, May 21. After 18 "monthe absence in the United States, the Gorman dying. host Dornier Do-X landed at Lake Mueggel, near Barlin, at 8.30 p. to-day in the presence of a huge and enthusiastic, crowd.
News and Views
Tale of the Day.
What ure you getting now ?! Fifteen ahilling a work, sir." Well, how much do you think you are worth t:"
"A pound, "air"
You think so, do you?"! "Yes, sir. I've been thinking so for two wooks," but I've been, to busy I haven't had time to speak to you about it."
The office boy got his rise.
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The Things You Possess. .4 There is no response in a Mid which is always being Re-Furnish ed; try placing the Things you already possess at different Angles instead.
Viscount Gort, 7.0,
Umpire Pay
In these hard times it is pleasant to find that the first-class cricket umpires are not to suffer any re- duotion in their paya
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Then ure a body of men who are all expert in their work; it would be difficult to replace them. Un- less the umpiring is officient the game is spoiled. Their hours arg leng; their tenure of office is pre- carious.
Though they are in the field from the beginning to the end of the match, their pay has heen up to the present 20 or 25 per cent, less that the players receivo. Many think that they should be paid the same as the professionals.
Hamer far Cardiff City?
Hamer, the Dulwich Hamlet cap- The War Offico announces that tain and Welsh international, has Colonel Viscount Gort, V.O., has just taken an appointment na a been appointed Director of Milimaster in a Cardiff school.
An official welcome was accorded tary Training, Army Headquarters, Both Cardiff City and the Cardiff to the officers and members of the India, with effect from, October 1 Corinthians, the leading Welsh orow by the Mayor of Berlin and next. Viscount Gort, who is 48, has amateur club, are seeking his signa- a repremutative of the Government.
Dr. Brown-
The Dernier Do-X arrived at been Commanding Officer of the ture for next season. Southampton Water on May 23, Regiment and Regimental District lec, a director of the Cardiff City having loft Newfoundland at of Grenadiers Guards since 1930. | Club, told me that he hoped Hamer am. on Saturday, May 21. Sho had a successful crowing via the Aozren, and soon after arrival is England flew back to Germany via Vigo and Lake. Constance.
One English Passenger. [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, May 24.
During the war he was nine times would shortly sign amateur forms mentioned in dispatches and, in for the professional side. addition to his V.C., received the
·M.C, and D.S.O. · Hơ was Chief of the Staff of the Shanghai Defence Force in 1027.
The caly passengers aboard the No One Witheat Shelter in dying boat DO-X when she left
Press, rapidly approaching the Evarian Calshot to-day, on the last stage of
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, MAY 20, 1902,
London.
No one need be without
frontiers, while insurgent troops her retura flight from America to Germany, wore Dr. Dornier and are still worrying tenaciously his daughter and Major Gordonat night in London. his Harbin garrison.
Heavy Shell-Fire.
England, Chairman of the British Gliding Association. The DOX Heavy shell-fire was audible inreached Berlin this evening. Harbin all through the night and it is learned that the Japanese are
General Ma
VOLUNTEER OR CIVILIAN?ow engaged with a large force of MSS EARHEART SEES THE
NOTICE IS HERE ORDINARY WHILE the chief message of Empire
TENTH
YEABLY MEETING OF SHARE. HOLDERS will be held in the Company's Board Boom, 1st Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, Bru Juno, 1932, at The TRANSFER DOORS of the Company will be CLOSED from 28TH MAY, 1937, to Brя JUNE, 1932, both days inclusive,
Noon
Hong Kong, 20th May, 1932.
Day is that this great federation
offres nations, bound together by common ties of loyalty, desires to
Chan-shan's
men,
about twenty-five kilometres to the west of Harbin, where the insur
gents have torn up the railway
tracks.
Japanese aeroplanes have been..
very active in the last day or two dospite the fact that heavy rain has been falling practically the whole time and that visibility is extremely poor.
Critical Situation,..
PRINCE
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{THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.]
Oxford Sunday Tennis,
Merton College, Oxford, has won
a Sunday games victory.
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The 'undergraduates may play tennis on Sunday up to tea time.
They appealed, for this permis- sheltersion a term or so ago, but consor
vative ideas were not to be thawed
I have that on the authority of all at once. However, the matter
& Salvation Army woman officer who | has made a special investigation on
sleeping-out," journalist'
..
is settled, and no undergraduate writes a London; need plead that he is driven to parade the streets for want of some- thing to do..
A Change From Ten Years Ago.
She made a similar tour of the cur at night ten years ago, but this time she found the conditions entirely different.
Mr. North's Awkward Moment,
Mr. F. Keppel. North, Chancellor LONDON, May 24. Ten years ago just over 100 men of Norwich and St. Edmundsbury Miss Amelia Earheart, whose and half a dozen women were sleep-
wonderfui feat in flying the Atlaning on the Embankment; this time and Ipswich dioceses, who presided tic solo is still lauded by the news she saw a few men, butt the police over the Davidson case, was until papers, was received by the Prince showed her tickets they had in their recently a practising barrister o11. of Wales in his private rooms to pocket which would admit these the South-Eastern Circuit. He is day.
wanderers to an LCC shelter.
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Some don't go because & little also chairman of a Norfolk "beach work is required in return for the of magistrates.
This led to an awkward moment. night's lodging.
Mr. North at Norwich Assizes.
counsel, Empty Blackfriars Alcoves.
"was present, with other Ten years ago there was not ac- when a prisoner entered the dock commodation for all the homeless and asked for a dock brief. Invit
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enjoy friendly relations with other Powers, we cannot forget that the first duty of all its citizens is to be prepared to take share in
The situation in the west is ex The Prince warmly congratulated the defence of their inheritance, tremely critical. Communications her upon hor achievement and talk By Order of the Board of Directors,
should the need arise. The dream between Harbin and Taitsihar haveed with her for half an hour. A. W. BROWN,
The Royal Aeronautical Society that the Great War would end been severed. Manager and Secretary.
To-day vary considerable reia-have invited Mrs, Putnam to ant warfare between civilised peoplea forcements have been sent up to the tend the annual dinner which is E1216
has not yet come true and with battle area to the west of Harbin to be hold in London on Thursday; to relieve the pressure on the hard- She has accepted-the invitation and THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE in the Far East war clouds are and Japanese sources report that the dinner.
the grave criais that has arisen pressed Japanese contingent there, will be the first woman to attend Then, the alcoves on Blackfriars ed by the Judge to choose a coun: 1 perfection please come and patronizs COMPANY, LIMITED. once more looming over the whole the Chinese are now in retreat A message from Washington an- nounces that the United States NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN world. We believe and hope that after a heavy engagement.
It is hoped, says the Japanese Senate has passed, without debate, that an EXTRAORDINARY these clouds will pass, but to de report, that communication with a resolution awarding Miss Ear GENERAL MEETING of THE clare definitely that they will pass, Tsitsihar will soon be resumed. heart (Mrs Putnam) the Distin- However, other sources are not guished Flying Cross in recogni- CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COM. PANY, LIMITED will be held at
so optimistic.
tion of her splendid Atlantic flight performance. the Registered Office of the Company, Union Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, immediately after the conclu. sion of the Annual General Meeting, which takes place on Friday, the 27th May, 1932, at 11.15 . when the subjoined Resolution will be pro posed :-
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is an unwarrantable assumption. War in the Far East is, a pos sibility that must be faced, and, should it eventuate Hong Kong would inevitably play a vitally important role, even if the Empire were not involved.
There was, therefore, new point That it is desirable to capitalis and new significance to this appealą | a sum of $1,600,000 being part of made by Major-General J. W. the undivided profit of the Com- pany standing to the credit of the SANDILANDS, Commodore WALKER, Extra Reserve Fund and for that RN., and Colonel L G. Bind for purpose-
further support of the Volunteers. (a) Should the Hong Kong Dollar Thena. appeala åre uttered so con-
the equivalent of Extra
stantly that uk have all got Reserve Fund on the 18th June, 1939 be not of the value hardened to them and are, apt, to of $1,600,000 then there shall say: "They are always asking.
No news has been available to day from the Japanese columns last reported to be advancing along Eastern Railway towards the Raa the eastern esction of the Chinese sian frontier, nor from those ad yancing along the Sungari.
FUTURE CONTROL OF MANCHURIA
GENEVA RETICENT
Bridge each contained a sleeper: sei, he grinned broadly, stretched a | the officer found them empty on stubby forefinger, and exelaimed: this laat journey of hers, between, "T'll have Master North"
After a moment's silence Mr. 1.30 and 2 am.....
Bho looked in the doorways of North said "I confess, my lord, the narrow streets leading from I am in somewhat of a difficulty,
Station
to up Blackfriars
St seeing that I committed the prisoner Paul's, which at one time sheltered for trial." The prisoner finally.se many sleepers, but she found none. lected another counsel.
* Local Notes and Events
The Hong Kong dollar was yeu terday quoted at 1s 27/8d on de- mand,
The Great China Medical Co.,
No. 11, WING LOE STREET› ·
(Opposite The Sun Co.).
A trial will convince yon näd make you antibod
FIGHT ON BOARD SHIP.
PANTRY BOY ARRESTED FOR WOUNDING,
An altercation between pantry boys on board the s.s. Sagros, an- chored near Shamshuipo, bad disastrous ending at about 3 pm, yesterday. The result was that pantry boy Sung Yan Sung receiv ed a deep cut on the left shoulder with a butcher's knife.
The Chief Officer of the 8. In our issue of yesterday, in ra Kuching reported to the police yes ferring to the laying of a basket terday the loss of four pieces of of roses at the foot of Queen Vic canvas during the previous two toria's statue, we stated that it The Bon Line a.. Benrannoch, days. The material was removed was laid by Mr. Creasy. This should have been Mrs. Creedy. The from Laith, Middlesbro', Antwerp, from the ship's locker.
Girl Guides were led by Mrs. T. London and Straits, is due to br
F King and the Sea Scouts by rive here on June 12,
The body of a Chinese male was the Rev. W. T. Waldegrave. found hanging from the wall of
The police arrived on the vessel The Foreign Office has received no The RMB. Empress of Japan the south face of the Railway tunnel-
on receiving a roport and had the be transferred from the Be for Volunteers, but nothing over gard to the Press report that the leaves on June 6, is due at Hong was estimated at about 45 years and tice during the four years that he Hospital. Another pantry boy, confirmation from Geneva, in re: arrived at Vancouver on May 24, on Tuesday afternoon. His age! Because he had not had a convic-injured man takes to the Kowloon insurance Fund to Extra happens in Hong Kong." For League of Nations, will be recom- Kong on June 26, and leaves for he had apparently exmmitted sui-had been a hawker, Mr. Wynne alleged to be the assailant, was Reserve Fund such a sum a8 will with the amount now
F
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
NANEING, May' 25.
cide...
just century lines, in fact, the mened by the Lytzon Commission to Manila the game evening.
Jones, at the Central Police Cours taken into custody, and a charge. exercise control over Manchuria. standing to the credit of the Battle of Waterloo, nothing a Comment on the subjerk is being
yesterday morning, mid that a of cutting and wounding was later The. P. & O.... Rhutan left... Extra Reserve Fund make-up poned in Belgium and Northern withheld.
During a squall on Tuesday Chiness who was charged with preferred against him. He will Singhpore for this port on the 24th! the sum of $1,890,000.
France, As for London and
inst at 2 p.m., and is due to arrive cargo bost which was on its way hawking within the limits of the appear before the Kowloon Ma (b) A call of $89 per share is Scarborough, had not England's
CHINA FLOOD
here on the 28th inet. at about 7 to the 8. Mausang turned turtle market was a remarkable man. He trate.
and precipitated all its occupants cautioned, the defendant. hereby made on the share-
as weli na the cargo into the har holders of the Company suit been sacroscant for centurion?
RELIEF
bour
Fortunately there was no appearing on the Register of We really believed that nothing
casualty abareholders on the 27th May,could hurt us. Great Britain was. 1932, and such call shall be payable on the 18th June, 1982 preserved inviolate, apart from to the General Manager at the naval and aerial raids, because the Registered Office of the Com- nation had sense enough to insist Dy a big Navy and at least the.
pany,
(0) That for the purpose of pays nucleus of a powerful army. - If ing the aforesaid call of 38 Lord Rosaurs and others who knew
QUESTION OF GRANTS FROM ABROAD
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
p.m.
The R.M.S. Empress of Russia left Vancouver for Hong Kong,vid Japan porte hnd Shanghai, on May 21, is due at Hong Kang on June. 8, and will leave for Manila the same evening,"
AIRMAN'S ESCAPE.
PLANE CRASHES INTO EMBANKMENT
An R.A.F. Beroplane crashed in to the L.31.8. main line railway embankment near Boxmoor, Harts, after making a forced landing
The machine was badly damaged
Business of a purely formal na turo was conducted at the meeting of the Sanitary Board, Hesterday In connexion with Dr. Li Shu which was prended over by Mr. Fan's recent election as a member W. J. Carris. Those, prosent at the of the Sanitary Board, it is un meeting were the Hon. Mr. HT. dermtood that the Chinese General Cressy, Dr. G. W. Pope, Dr. R. A.. The R.M.S. Empress of Canada Chamber of Commerce has invited Castro Basto, Mr Wong Kwong LONDON, May-94. arrived at Shanghai on Tuesday at him to join the Honorary Exocu-Tin, Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. L. C. F. In the House of Commons to-day, 13 p.m. left yesterday at noon, is tive Committee, and that the in- Bellamy, Dr. Li Shu Fan and Mr.
HGelling (Secretary), per share a special dividend of what they were talking about had Captain Anthony Eden, Under due at Hong Kong to-morrow at 7vitation has been accepted. $90 per share is hereby de been able to make the British Secretary for Foreign Agnirs, in-m, and will leave for Manila at clared parable on the 18th people set a little more clearly the formed Mr. Blys Davies that the 6 pm June, 1981, and shat such Great War might have been avert Government was unable to under special dividend be applied on ad. In a world where militarism is take to urge other. Governments to A report received at the Water small-pox,. four of enteric fever, and arrested by the pellee the previous pilot, Aircraftman Simms, station- behalf of the shareholders by rampant only those able to defend make a grant for flood relief in Police Station at 8.30 am yester two of meningitis were reported night, a Chinese who appeared beed at Baltea Camp, Bucks, was
day states that, while the sa Kin over the week-end. During last fore Mr. Wynne Jones yesterday uninjured. the Directors in satisfaction of themselves are likely to escape de Chius. the call of $80.per share struction.
Mr. Rhys Davis had asked who chow was nearing Hoihow at7 pm. week there were e cison of an ill was fined $3 for hawking without The aeroplane when over Box- Hong Kong, let us remember, is ther in view of the need expressed on May 20, Chinese mais pas 1 pox ( deaths) 2 cases of dephtheris la licence. The Police Officer in moor was auen to be in difficulties. Dated this 11th day of May, 1982.
a wealthy grise, and, in the event in the report of the Flood Relief enger named Tan Choukyam, (1 death) 2 fatal cases of storie charge of the caso told his Wor. The engine failed and the pilot By Order of the Board,
of a Far Eastern conflagration, Commission for a sum of £20.000, aged 22 years, dressed in European fever, case of paratyphoid ship that the defendant was not landed on a strip of common land. would be an obvious point of the Government would urge, at the style clothing, fell overboard and fever, onses (3 deaths) of monin the man arrested, birt as the offence PAUL LAUDER,
attack In the early days of war next meeting of the League of was drowned. No information, as to -gitis :) case of puerperal fever and was a trivial one, bis Worship Im quite small forces exactly where Nations Council, that each member where the unfortunate man es by deaths from pulmonary tubercu- posed fine equivalent to the
barked is known. they are needed often turn the State should make a grant.
General Manager.
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Three cases of diphtheria, ono cf Insisting that he was the man and had to be dianatled. The
"amount of the bail
In taking off the machine, failed to rise and crashed through the the embankment. railway fence, burying. its
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