NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB.
* TREVE¬¬A" TROPHY
THE 18th bi-anunal race for ship's THE
Lifebon will be sailed on Friday, the 14th of October, sizctiav at 4 pm.
Any ship of a Company having offices or responsible Agents in Hong Kong and which is in Port on the day of the race may enter any number of boats.
All entries should, if possible, ba in the hands of the Hon't Becretary R.H.K.Y.C., by noon on the day of the race and competing boats abould be at the starting Hae by 3.30 p.m. Fort entries will how ver la received. COURSE-Start from Channel Rocks,
thence to Howloon Rock (P) Mark off Yacht Club 8), Mark of Cast Bock Beacon (Pi, Anis across Yacht Club line leaving mark boat to Fort and continue ailing until gunfire for fn sh.
A launch will leave Queen's Blatue Piar at 3 p.m. for the convenience of Members and the General Public.
R. J. VERNALL, Hon: Secretary, R.H.KY.O
16th September, 1831.
NOTICE.
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BRITISH TRADERS' INSUR. ANCE CO., LTD.
(INCOBPORATED IN HONG KONG.) CE
YERTIFICATE No. 8422 for Tea
Silver Shares, H.K. $25 per Share paid up, Numbered 2866!/ 28670 in the China Traders' Insur Ance Co., Ltd, now converted into. Thirty four Gold Shares in the British Traders' Insurance Co., Ltd. standing in the name of KHOO BENG CHONG (Deceased) of Singa. pore has been declared LOST, and if at the Expiration of One Month from the date hereof the abore Document Baia forthcoming the be not Cortificate will be deemed cancelled A NEW and of No Effect, and Certificate for the Thirty four Gold Share will be issued in its stand by
the Company.
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager,
Hong Kong, 16th September, 1932.
NOTICE.
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THE Undersigned beg to notify their Patrons that owing to Ball Room renovations which are being the REPULSE BAY effected at HOTEL it will not be possible to hold the usual Dinner and Tea Dances there on the following dates:-
WEDNESDAY, 2187 SEPTEMBER (Dinner Dance) SATURDAY, 247 SETEMBER (Dinner Dance) SUNDAY, 25TH SEPTEMBER (Tea Dance) WEDNESDAY, 23ra SEPTEMBER (Dinner Dance).
It is further notiod that Dinner Dances on the dates above mentioned, namely SEPTEMBER 21ST, 24TH and 28r0, will take place at the UONG KONG HOTEL
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
HOTELS, LTV.
NOTICE.
THE REEL OLDB.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1932.
FINE PORTS
GROWN, BOTTLED AND SHIPPED
By
Robertson Bros. & Co., Ltd.
LONDON & OPORTO.
"So! drink it then, and let us always be Quite free and jovial and all happy.
Should we know of a friend who is
gloomy and sad
Give him wine, and for choice, the best
to be had."
VALOR,
DOURO, OLD RUBY, FINE OLD RUBY, PRIVATEER,
CHOICE OLD. PYRAMID.
VERY FINE OLD TAWNY.
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DEATH.
Est. 1841.
CHUNG KUE.-On Sept. 15, at his residence, 97, Caine Road, after a brief illness, Lo Chokd Kog, compradore of the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Cu Lul.
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Tel. 94611.
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HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 16. 1032.
POLITICAL PARTY CHANGES.
RECENT KOWLOON
TRAGEDY.
EUROPEAN FOUND DEAD.
DEATH ENQUIRY VERDICT.
sur.
The tragic
circumstances rounding the death of Mr. John Kanis, a native of, Amsterdam and an agent of the Commercial and Credit Information Bureau, who was found dead in s'bathroom atj the Trocadero Hotel, Kowloon, on the morning of August 4, were in- quired into at the Kowloon Magia tracy yesterday:
Scotland for Ever]
News and Views
SU
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whose natural larynx has been aur Everything else being in der,. You must give up drink," said gically removed or whose vocal the greater the velocity the longer the specialist, and the fee for cords are paralysed. The speech the drive. Jim Reynolds, cham
advice is two guineas."
manufactured" by the device pion long driver of America, tou Yo're gettin' maethin' out
of in the talking picture possesses n ches the 195 mark. This informa me," said the Scot. "Ah'm no takia įdistinotness that is almost indistin dion is scientifically correct. One guishable from the natural voice. trusts, however, that it will not yor advice."
provoke an epidemic of auick-. How the Davica is Uned. Statistics.
swinging among the 8. handicap. men.
It is estimated that if a man mows a lawn measuring, 20 feet by 15 on warm Saturday afternoon, his wife told him to.
Liquidation!
In order to illustrate how this device is used, ingenious "speech
After medical evidence had been pleasant way of liquidating a doubt od, and the air which is normally mother ship
ful security.
progress:
it is necessary to point out that Mid-Atlantic" Hangar."" when an operation is performed for Germany plans a regular airplane- the removal of the larynx, the service between Berlin and South mouth and throat are disconnected America. Deutsche Luft-Hansa will A Danish fork, no longer needed from the lungs, the windpipe be- bring difficulties within practical for military purposes, is to be turning terminated in a small opening bounds by stationing a 6,000-ton ed into a huge outdoor swimming at the base of the throat. Over this steamer in mid-ocean between Gam- pool, which seems to be rather & opening a little rubber pad is inc bia, Africa, and Natal, Brazil. This will refuel the jexhaled here is conducted thringh Dornier-Wal seagoing planes, car given with regard to the cause of j
rubber tubing to a small metal rying passengers and mail, and Bound box in which is located catapult them on their way. After death-gas-poisoning the Coroner, The Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr. J. A. Frisbi, Head the deposi. Archision of Centerkulered. The force of the exhaled air five years, the projectors estimate, the reed causes it to the mid-ocean base can be aban- Dr. Lang, has made a striking tion of deceased's wife, who is at recovery from the attack of neuri- vibrate, thus producing sound. The doned-five years of air present in Shanghai. In it she is which threatened to become very sound in turn is passed on to the bringing planes that can skip fron stated that she first met her hus serious. He is so well, indeed, that mouth by a rubber mouthpiece, and continent to continent, with ease. he is foregoing meantime his usual through the movement of the throat band in Shanghai in 1928, and was vacation, allowing himself instead mouth, and lips, the sound is mo- Australig's Farm School. married to him in Hong Kong in a leisure hour or two watching a dulated and converted into intel-
game of crickot. The Archbishop ligible speech. Several publie Success has attended the Fair- | May this year.
hopes to make a visit to Scotland speakers have already successfully bridge Farm school at Pinjarra, Western Australia, which is main. On the night of the tragedy, her shortly in accordance with his eus- demonstrated the device.
tained by the Child Emigration husband told her that he was going tom of never allowing a year to
|Society for English juveniles wish- to a party at the Peak, and that s without a brief sojourn in his Why Golf Balls Go Go Far.
native country.
Golfers in England have bron ing to emigrate and take up farm he would not be back that night.
conducting experiments recently in work.
The work of the school is no long- long-driving with a machine-propel- Next morning she was informed by Voice Made by Science,
Science has added yet another led driver, while the General Elec. er an experiment and is coming to the police that her husband had development to its long list of tric Company in America has been be more and more recognized. Lonl been found dead in the Trocadere achievements. It has made a voice testing the velocity of a driver at Astor's Committee on Empire Emi-
The dovico was explained by an the moment of impact.
gration has recommended that fur- Hotel. She and her husband had official of the Western Electric Com The tests, carried out by a new ther farm schools should be sat up always been on good terms, and pony which has just made a talk-system of photo-electric beams, in the Dominions where the Domin- after his death she found that he ing picture of the invention which which can measure speeds hitherto ion authorities agree.
will be exhibited to the medical regarded as immeasurable, prove i had been in financial difficulties and profession. Described as the arti-conclusively that the speed of ¦ To-day's ́ Quotation, had incurred debts both in Hong ficial larynx, the instrument, which driver, when it conner's with 11 Education is an Kong and Shanghai. Her husband was earning $150 a month.
"The Man Upstairs,”
Evidence with regard to the findi- ing of the body was next given by Inspector Lane who stated that ho found deceased lying in the empty bath clad only in pyjamas. The room was full of gass, and he found a pipe, about four feet long, with Now Labour seems to be going the one end in the geyser and the other Independent Labour Party decided was a book, "The Man Upstairs," same way. At the end of July the near deceased's head. On the floor
at a special conference held at
former self. Many of its members weakened on its old basic principle of Free Trade, and the party split into three definite sections.
Bradford, to disaffiliate from the which was lying open. He found Labour Party and to form a new three letters in case, one address | political party of its own. Toued to his wife and the other two
derstand what is involved in this
it should fe noted that the Labour to friends. '" Party is formed of various organisa. In the letter to his wife he asked tions and individual members. The her to forgive him for what he had organisations consist in the main of the Trade Unions, flanked by done, but in the other two be ac- Co-operative and Socialista. Thecused the company, with which he Socialists, mainly members of the was employed, of deception, and LLP., were chielly responsible for the formation of the Labour Party. anid that he misunderstood the They saw in the Trade Unions alterms on which he was engaged, large field for propaganda, and i they felt that if they could convert and that he has not been fairly the solid trade unionists, with their dealt with. large funds, they could soon build
Д
ornament in
is quite small, will, it is claimed, golf ball, is from 70 to 125 miles prosperity and a rofuge in advers restore the power of speech to those hour.
lity.-ARISTOTLE, per
Local and General
The Hong Kong dollar quoted yesterday at 18, 4d.
WAS
Pte. George Henry Pitcher of was no provision made there with "B" Company, South Wales regard to the confiscation of boats Borderers, appeared before Mr. under such-circumstances, but if the. Schofield at the Central Police Inspector could produce any autho- Only one case of diphtheria was Station: yesterday when he pleaded rity he would hear a further appli- reported on Wednesday.
The eighteenth bi-annual "Tre- vessa Trophy" race for ship's life bonty will bo sailed on Friday, October 14, starting at 4. p.m.
י
It is announced that the marriage of Cyril Edwin Gahagan of Hong Kong and Eileen Barbara Medina of Aldershot, England, will take place shortly.
Mr. Charles Bond, for many years Manager of Messrs. Gande, Price & Co., Ltd., has joined the staff of the
Messra, Dodwell & Co., Ltd. Wine and Spirits Department of
marry.
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guilty to charges of burglary from 302, The Peak, the residence of Mr. D. Bewley and 455, The Peak, the residence of Mr. F. M. Ellis. the application of Inspector Ches- tor. Woods, the accused was To- manded in military custody for one week.
cation.
from the files.
Looking Back 25 Yenra.
being made to the Ball Room at Owing to renovations which are the Repulse Bay Hotel, it will not be possible to hold the usual. Din- nor and Ton Dances there on the Most serious Anti-Japanese and 21st, 24th, 25th and 8th instant. Chinese rioting occurred in Van- Dinner Dances on these dates will couver on Saturday, and was re- the Hong Kongnewed on Sunday evening, but toe take place at decoration of the Repulse Bay armed with clubs, revolvers and Hotel. It is expected that the re-resolute attitude, of the Japanese, Hotel Ball Room will be com knives and the threatened use o Yet another Siamese Princess has pleted for its re-opening on Octo-bombs, intimidated the mob who re- The proprietor of the Trocadero up a powerful Socialist Party. Hotel, Mr. F. Lowe, stated that ronounced her rank in order to her i with a special Dinner Dance.frained from attacking the Japan-
She was H.S.H. Princess
ese quarter. Details of the fighting This was the aim of the pioneer
on Saturday show that the Japanese Socialist leader, J. Keir Hardie, deceased rented a room on the third Chaviwongs Ruchavijaya and the
A Chinose passenger 25 years of shoutingBanzai,' charged and who assisted by the present. Pre- floor of the Hotel on the night of King has been pleased to grant her
request. She is a daughter of age, was injured when he attempt routed a mob of 8,000 who had pur- mier, MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD, Was August 3. So far as witness knew, the recently held Extraordinary ed to leap on to the ferry pier at sued them, using broken bottles in the founder of the I.L.P. But the
Yaumati before the launch had pro- a most effective manner. Labour Party was not filled with he was in cheerful spirits and took General Meeting.
perly tied up. He failed to clear THE British people have always the revolutionary zeal of the I.L.P. six bottles of beer to his room be-
A fatal dose of opium was taken the intervening space, and, to the
The annual meeting of the and it was not until 1918 that it tween twelve and one been noted for their political saga- definitely declared for Socialism as Shortly afterwards a lady on the by a 10-year-old youth at his home horror of the other passengers and Y.M.C.A. Football Club was ek city. At times of crises in national its objective, Post, war problems me floor complained to witness of at 120, Connaught Road West, on a large number of people on the this week when the following offi-
Witness Wednesday. Upon discovery of his pier was seen to stumble and drop affairs they have generally risen to were testing the beliefs and theories the strong smell of gas.. the occasion and, as if by instinct, of statesmen and politicians, and went to deceased's room and found condition, he was rushed by rela backwards. He was caught between cers for the ensuing season were when Labour took office in 1924 its the gas turned on. He told deceas- tives to the Government Civil Hos- the launch and the pier and crush-elected:Hon. President, Mr. W they have shown a grasp of funda- leaders had already decided that ed, who was then reading a book, pital, but dicu soon after ndmised. The man was picked up and D. Braidwood; President, Mr. J. rushed to hospital in a scrious on C. Barlow; Treasurer, Mr. T. G. L. McPherson; Scoretary, Mr. R. of about it, but he replied that he did sion. mental political principles and a the complete transformation
'dition. care at all. Eventually witness
Tarabull; Captain, Mr. A, Hamil readiness to pursue a sane and sen- society was not to be achieved over-switched off the gas and bid deceas
ton; Vice Captain, Mr. A.. Pisaroy; night. Like their political oppen.
Committee: The Captain, sible policy. There have been occaenta, Labour statesmen discovered ed good-night.
Captain, Mesara, Bishop, McCuobiu sions, of course, when waves of the virtues of compromiss and the
and Raven.-Hong Kong Daily sentiment have clouded their judg. necessity of keeping the economic
Press, September 16, 1907. machine going, no matter what
o'clock.
*
•
vice
Sentence of a year's imprison- ment was passed on a young man Two young Chinese Indies, of 3, named Lau Fook by Mr. Fraser at Wing Wah Terrace, closely quca Smell of Gas,
the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday tioned a man whom they found meruing on a charge of possession loitering on the staircase on Tues Early in the morning at about of a revolver and four rounds of day night, with the result that the
Asked if he had stranger fed without having given Looking Back 50 Years. type of machine that should ulti-7.30, Mr. N. Davies, who lived in ammunition.
the room next to deceased's, in anything to say in view of the a satisfactory explanation of his mately be evolved.
presence. The girls raised the There must be wheels within This attitude was bitterly resented formed witness of the strong smell serious charge against him, defen- by the II.P. racmbers of the of gas. Witness then again went to dant steadfastly refused to say alarm and a student of the neigh wheels in the administration of bourhood took up the chase. He affairs in Peking. It would be in. Labour Party in the House of decengod's room but found the door anything. Commons. They pointed to the locked, and, becoming suspicious, Party Programme, which included called for the police
After hearing further evidence, proposals for the introduction. for his Worship remarked that, decens: od's mind was not normal at the Suicide while of Unsound Mind,"
THE Sixth Annual Generalment, stratos political entity have their zeal views might be as to the
of the Club will demonstrated sanity. take place at the Holena May Ins For a long time political expres titute on MUNDAY, 19тα SEPTEM- BER, at 5.15 pm. All members and Bion was through the two great prospective members are particularly parties, the Liberal and the Con requested.
to attend. The frut prac servative.. Each of them by turn tice of the season will commence immediately after the meeting and hold the reins of government. The practices will be bold on each succes Irish Home Rule olement compli- sive MONDAY, up to the 218.eated matters at the beginning" of demanded definite socialist mea time, and returned a vordiet of amalgamation with the Oversen yesterday morning it was stated in windom or prejudices of certain
NOVEMBER.
2553]
T. P. SAUNDERSON, Han. Secretary.
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE.
the present century. Their vigor
ous and sometimes violent interven tion enlivened what might other- wise have been décorous and dull debates; but on the whole they were supporters of Liberalism and out the signing of the Irish Treaty they disappeared from the English asne. In the meantime Labour, a more THE undermentioned certificato important element, hind ome to for 50 Fully Paid up shares in demand a definite share of political this Company registered in the name of Wong Fat has been lost; and power. The Labour Party grew at an amazing rate. In 1924 the first should this certificate, not be pro Labour Government took office, and duced to the Company before 16th there ware now three main poli- September, 1982, a new certificate for tical parties in the House of Com the said shares will be issued and the mons.
Socialist legislation, and they
The Acting Manager of the Ho caught the intruder and handed teresting to know how far the ac Hong Bank, Ltd., has received him over to an Indian policemen tions of the Imperial Government cabied information from his head When charged before Mr. Wyane are controlled by Palace intrigue, office in Singapore that the Bank's Jones at the Central Police Court how far they are directed by the sures. Their cry was for "Eocialism
Chinese Bank, Lt, and the Chi- evidence that the man when ques powerful oficials. The real origin in our time." The position became
nese Commercial Bank, Ltd., was 'tioned said he was visiting of many of the memorials addressed more "and" more difficult. Some
unanimously
the policeman friend. The defendant, to the Throne is probably known to. approved by Labour members of Parliament who
shareholders of all three banks at who had six previous convictions but a favoured few. were members of the LLP., led and the pursuance of a definite the recently held extraordinary for similar offences, was sentenced frankness of some of these cutions by ons of the most outstanding socialist policy, irrespective of, or general meeting.
to three months' hard labour and documents is GBBumed for a pur- gures in present-day British polieven opposed to, the Labour Party
placed under police supervision for pose, sometimes a personal one, and two years on a charge of loitering many even of those that advocate reforms and improvement can hard. with intent to commit a felony.
ly perhaps be taken au serieur. The Censors are certainly privileged
The very
But the
tice, MR. MAXTON, chairman of the A special conference was called and Some alarm was caused in the ILP actually voted against Billa by 241 votes to 142 on the 30th of vicinity of the junction of Holly introduced by the Labour Govern July the party decided on disaffilin-wood Road and Peel Street at 0.40 ment itself...
tion. But the opposition against pm, on, Wednesday when the Tire Disciplinary action against the disaffiliation was strong. Some of Brigade was summoned to an out- Whilst patrolling the Yaumati persons, and have little to fear, malcontents was threatened. It the most active propagandiste not break of fire at No. 70, Hollywood typhoon shelter on Wednesday after-apparently, from any outspoken. was pointed out to them that if only demanded that the 1.L.P Road. Two engines were immedi noon, Revenue Officer Humphreys memorials they may choose to ad- they were to enjoy the support of should continue to work in the ately despatched and on their ar observed a deserted Class IV junk, dress to the Throne. the party they must be loyal to Labour Party, but, when the deci- rival it was found that the chimney which was moored to the Prays worthy scholar who thought he could the party and its leaders. They in sion to disaffiliate was reached, they of the second floor had been set wall. Closer examination of the stir up the Empress-Regent to grea- their turn demanded reform of the promptly set to work to mobilise alight. There was no difficulty in craft aroused his suspicious, with tar activity at least for his ent regulations governing the actions of the affiliationists" and to found putting out the flames,
the result that he carried out a snubbing at least his pain.. the members of the party in such a new LLP. to continue to support
thorough search of the boat. His Not, seemingly, because she was 100 away that they would be free to and work within the Labour Party, D. Andrews, the young son of suspicions were confirmed when he exalted a personage, above the pale old certificate No. 268 will thereafter New forces had been at work speak or vote according to the For the time being, of course, the Chief Inspector Andrews, of the found in different compartments of criticism, but for some ther be treated by this Company as however, to disrupt parties and the dictates of their Socialist beliefs. activities of the ILP are not. of Peam Tramways, living at 16, revolver and a rifle with several reason of which the outside world NULL & VOID,
party spirit. The Conservatives held together, but with some difl-ogotiations took place between re-great national importance, but they Bowen Road, was the victim of a rounds of ammunition. These wes- may guess something but can know Certificate No. 265 for 50 shares culty. There were divergent views Presentatives of the Labour Party may be significant later on; and savage, attack by a dog in Bowen pons were produced at the Kowloon nothing. Fossibly the memorial Nos. 2051/8000,
on policy and a die-hard action and of the Independent Labour in any case they are symptomatic load on Wednesday. It was stated Magistracy before Mr. Fraser yes was inspired by the Imperial Jady JOHN D. HUMPHREYS in the party which severely and Party but no satisfactory salution of the changes that are taking place but the lad was severely bitton terday morning, when his Worship herself, who appears to have drop. in British political paychology, and about the arms and legs, by the ordered the weapons to be con-ped out of sight lately, and has, we persistently harassed the leaders was reached. on the question of tarifa. TheThe Left-Wing" leaders of the of the work that remains to be done dog which belongs to a neighbour, fiscated Inspector Elston also ap believe, very much less influence in Liberal Party los supporters to 1.L.P thereupon proposed dis. before Great Britain gets back to Mr. Charleston. It has been found plied for the confiscation of the the guidance of affairs than former Hoth Conservatives and Labour and affiliation from the Labour Party its traditional two-Party political necessary to admit the lad to hos beat, but his Worship, After rey-Hong Kong Daily Freen,
pital for treatment.
forring to the Ordinance, said there September 16, 1882, (2470 it became a mere shadow its (Continued at foot of nezt column.] system.
& BON General Managers. Hongkong, 17th August, 1982. -