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ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
BRITISH TRADERS, INSUR. ANCE CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED, IN HONG KONG.)
ERTIFICATE No. 8422 for Ten
Silver Shares, H.K. $25 per Share paid up, Numberal 23681; 23670 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 Ons Mouth from the date hereof the above Document be not forthcoming the Snid Certificate will be deained cancelled and of No Effect, and a NEW Certificate for the Thirty four Gold
Shares will be issued in its stoad by the Company,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager. Fong Kong, 18th September, 1932.
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NOTICE.
THE Undersigned beg to notify their Patrons that owing to Ball Room renovations which are being effected st REPULOE BAY HOTEL it will not be possible to hold the usual Dinner, and for Dances
there on the following datea
WEDNESDAY, 216 SEPTEMBER (Dinner Dance* SATURDAY, 24ra SE TEMBER (Dinner Dance)
SUNDAY, 25TH SEPTEMBER. (Tea Dance)
WEDNESDAY, 28TH SEPTEMBER
(Dinnor Dance),
It is further notified that Dinner
H.K. VOLUNTEER'S BAND CORPS.
TO BE RE-STARTED.
With the knowledge that the Colony possesses a number of pro- ficient bundsmen, all ex-service men now in civilian employment, the Hong Kong Volunteer Dolence Corps has thought fit to re-form the Corps Band and have secured the services of the bandsmen mention- ed
Corps Band has been a Portuguese During the past few years the
unit under the direction of Mr. Rodrigues, Bandmaster, and whitst this unit is now disbanded most of
its members have heen absorbed by the now formation.
In connection with the new band and bandsmen, a committer is just been formed to secure civilian employment for men, bandsmen, at present serving in the army but who are likely to be finishing their tan
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1932.
SCOTS SHOOTINGS AT "CUT" RENTS.
BIGGEST BARGAINS SINCE YEARS BEFORE THE WAR.
FEW AMERICANS FOR 12th.
BACK TO PERSIA? RAID ON A CHURCH.
PARSEES WORTH A TOTAL
OF £70,000,000.
Twenty Indian multi-millionaires are being invited to leave their homes in Bombay to settle in Persia,
London, August 11.-The greatest
The fortunes of these 20 men are bargain season in sporting lots in estimated to total £70,000,000,
The invitation to go to Persia ia Scotland since the war will com mence to-morrow-tho "Glorious boing issued under a scheme which Twelfth "with the crack of the would set aside 1,000 square miles of territory there for Indian first sportsman's gun.
Parsees whose forefathers were driven out of their ancestral home 1,200 years ago,
Throughout the Highlands deer forest and grouse moor tenants are paying less for their sport this year as much as 50 per cont. less
in
some cases-and number of shootings will remain unoccupied.
A further indication of the de- pression which has given rise to this unusual situation will be the almost complete absence of Ameri- can sportsmen.
Last-Minute Inquiries. of service shortly. In the event of
During the last three or four suitable cruployment being found for these men they will also ante- weeks there has been a large num natically become members of the bar of inquiries for grouse moors Corps Band. We had the privilege and deer forests," a representative of attending a band practise recent-of Messrs. Walker, Fraser and ly, and were agreeably surprised at Steele, the Scottislr firm of estate the number of proficient instru-agents, told The Bulletin yes
"Among incutalists present, as well as at the terday.. quality of the music being played. Rome people waiting till the last With its present talent, and the minute to get a bargain. But, of possibility of other equally clever course, the inquiries have been musicians joining, this hand in mostly for the smaller estates, and time should prove an asset to the these have been going at greatly Hong Kong Volunteer Delence reduced prices. Corps. Lient, D. L. Strellett, well-
them
were
"Proprietors who must let for
for Parsees has been granted by Permission to set aside this horae the Shah of Persia, and leaders of Parsee thought in India are now being asked to take part in the great repatriation? scheme,
Many leading Parsecs live in Bombay, and their vast fortunes are mainly in the cotton industry. Others pro prominent merchants thero.
Their Holy Land..
Their religion has been maintain. Persia as their Holy Land. Bumbay to try to put the project A Committee has been formed in
ed unchanged, and all still look on
into execution.
One of the leading members is Mr. Din Shah Irani.
Persian Consule in India have been ordered to give every facility to Paraces who wish to know more about the schermo and to those who decide to make the journey back to their original home.
The success of the scheme would
CRUCIFIX AND FIGURES
REMOVED.
BELL-RINGER SOUNDS THE ALARM.
DIVORCE TANGLE.
FLEA-TRAINER OF MANY
NATIONALITIES.
He was born in what is now tha
During the hearing of a divorca action in the Paris courts against a man described as a showman of performing flens, a eurious nation- ality tangle was revealed,
He was sentenced last year in Remarkable senes took place at his absence to twenty years' im St. Hilary Church, Maration, Corn-prisonment for bigamy, but the divorce claim which followed met wall, when members of the Protest; with considerable difficulties. ant Truth Society, led by Mr. J. A. Konsit, removed and carried off certain ornaments from the church. The raid was a sequel to a dis- pate in. the parish which came be fore a Cansistory Court, held by Sir lor of the Diocese of Truro. last Philip Baker-Wilbraham, Chancel-
February,
Application was then ninde by
three parishioners for the removal of fifteen articles from the church. In his judgment the Chancellor
made an ordor for the removal of certain of the ornaments.
At mid-day yesterday two private cars and two charabanes, in which were both men and women,. drew
who was in the party, later said outside the church. Mr. Kensit,
that they had gathered their forces at Plymouth to visit the church to
vindicate the law."
Vicar Kept in Church,
Five of our people," he said, "ontered the church as visitors and allowed another party to enter be
Dances on the dates above mentioned, known locally for the interest hoftheir income have cut their prices he welcomed by business circles in fore the verger could prevent them.
namely SEPTEMBER 21ST, 94TM and 2811, will take place at the HONG KONG HOTEL.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
HOTELS, LTD.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
CLUB,
Dorras for the Tenth Extra Race RAFT Programmes and Entry Meeting to be held on SATURDAY, 9th NEPTEMBNE, 1939 (weather permitting), may be obtained at the Secretary's Offico, the Olub House, Happy Valley, to Hong Kong Clab, the Sports Club, and the Stables, Village Road.
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on MONDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER,
By Order,
103%.
S. A. BLEAP,
Acting Secretary.
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NEW SHIPPING COMPANY.
ELDER DEMPSTEN LINES
REGISTERED WITH
£2,500,000 CAPITAL.
takes in music, is Defence Corps by as much as 50 per cent. But Band President, and the Secretary even then the inducement has not of this now committee endeavouring born sufficient to secure tenants in to get together a band of practical-many casea. Hardly any Americans
are coming over this season. ly professional instrumentalists.
H.K.V.D.C. PROMOTIÓNS
The following promotions in the Corps, with effect from September Hong Kong Volunteer Defence 3, are announced:—
་
Sport Prospects Excellent.
"Yet the prospects for sport were seldont better. All classes of game are reported to be in better, condition than in any recent season, ind stocks are plentiful. There is many birds are left on the ground the danger, therefore, that if too at the end of the season they will Second Lieutenant D. L. Strellett, not be able to get enough food and Machine Gun Company, to be disease may break out, thus harm- Lieutenant; Second Lieutenant Jing the prospects for next year." H Lawrence, Portuguese Company, to be Lieutenant; Second Lieuten ant J. V. V. das Remedios, Portit uese Company, to be Lieutenant; Second Lieutenant H. J. Silva, Portuguese Company, be Licuten. nnt: Second Lieutenant V. C.
Branson, M.C., Machine Gun Com pany, to be Lieutenant.
WOMAN'S REVENGE ON
LOVER.
MOSE CUT WHILE ASLEEP.
WAB
Lahore, Aug. 29.-A. story narrated before Syed Bashir Haid- Eldor Dempster Lines, Limited,er, Magistrate, of a woman's vin gence against her paramour, who, has been registered to acquire the despite her sacrifice for him, had fleets of vessels and all or any of refused to marry her.
The prosecution story is that when
Any curtailment in the letting of shootings in the Highlands affects the livelihood of ghillics, beaters, and village shopkeepers. The whole community auffers more or less. ! Such situations, I was told yester day will not be uncommon this
autumn.
CEYLON'S GIRLS.
PUT BOYS TO SHAME IN EXAMINATIONS.
Persin.
They feel sure that the returning Parsees would be ready to invest money in local industries and so held to create a trade boom in Parsion goods.
About 80,000 Paraees would be affected by the scheme.
Some have already decided to go back to Persia, but others are won. dering what political advantages they would enjoy there..
NAVAL SAVINGS.
FUTILITY OF SCRAPPING
THE BIG SHIPS
The vicar entered soon after, and we would not allow him to get out..
We proceeded first with the tabernacle. We went to the lighted nacle, and took that down; next lamp hanging over the side tabor-
and the stone dais situated under the figure of the Madonna and Child the Crucifix against the north wall of the church.
"We then removed two large candles and stand on each side of this Crucifx and the green-coloured Crucifix above the tabernacle on the Holy Table. Our next proce. dure was to remove the fourteen pictures called The Stations of the Cross, and the Votive candle-stand in the Lady Chapel.
Sanotue Bell and Images.
to do that either.
Lord Stanley (C-Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty), r to remove the canopy, or balda- "We had a great deal of trouble plying to Admiral Suster (C.— Hertford) in the House of Com chino, near the Holy Tablo. Next mons recently, said it would he we took four of the candlesticks on impossible to give any reliable es the table, the Sanctus Bell, the timate of the saving that would images of St. Joseph and St. Anne. accrue if capital ships of over 10,
and then we came to the Mon- 000 tons displacement wore abolish-strance, which we decided to put in ed by agreement with the other na the safe in the church."
The Rev. Bernard Walke, the val nations. Such a policy in all probability would entail addition vicar, said. It was done wilfully Colombo, Aug. 15.-That Caylon al expenditure in other directions and wantonly. They have taken girls are more intelligent than their which might more than offset the two tabernacles. They had only a The brothers, or, at least, that they take savings attributable to the aboli- faculty for removing one.
Venetian bracket supporting the more pains over their school work, tion of the ships in question. examiners of the Cambridge Local bone, Lord Stanley, said that 65 of the wall, but they had no power is revealed in the report of thể In a written reply to Miss Rath substitute of the image of St. Joseph has been taken and dug out Examinations conducted in Decem suming that were practicable t
scrap one-third of the capital ships The number of failures generally which we now is still very high and, on the whole, mate annual saving for mainten the husband of Khurshaid (the ac only $1 per cent. of the 2,587 boys ance would amount approximately
possessed the ulti
cused) died she fell in love with a
fushim youth. All went well for and girls satisfied the examiners.
to £1,305,000. Some of this saving two years when, there was a quar- nuber of boys entering was 1.348 oral years until the personnel ren It the Junior division, the total however, would not accrue for sev rel between the accused and the of whom only 80 per cent, passed, dered surplus by such scrapping Muslim. It is alleged the youth The greatest number of failures was had been absorbed in the equip The nominal capital of the com- was prosecuted she saved him by 27 per cent failed in the vernacu. "I would refer the honourable mers, chisels, and crowbare were
cut the accused's nose but when he in Latin (51 per cent.y while only ments of the reduced fleet. pany, according to Jordan's Daily saying in court that she herself cut lars.
An eye-witness said that ham- Register, is £2,500,000 in £1 shares. her nose under the influence of li
member to the statement previously used to remove the articles. The directors are R. D. Holt,
Two hundred and seventy-two made that having regard to the quor.
It was further alleged by girls took the examination, and 69 widely scattered responsibilities. o ho saw what was happening he The bell-ringer stated that when Hon. L. H. Cripps, G. F. Torrey, the prosecution that she gave him per cent, passed. Latin again was the British Navy it is not practi- went to ring the bell to get assist and P. H. Jones. They are to hold above Rs. 4,000 and alea expressed the weakest subject, 02 per cent, cable for us cut down the number ance, but, he added, "when they office until at least three "nomi- her intention of marrying him but failing, while only 24 per cent. fail. of naval units beyond a certain heard the bell ringing they rushed nated" directors shall have been he did not accept her offer. appointed pursuant to the articles
ed in English. of association,
the other assets of the shipping un- dertakings of Elder Dempster and Co. Limited: African Steam Ship Co., Limited Elder Line, Limited; British and African Steam Naviga tion Co., Limited; and Imperial Direct Line, Limited.
PROPOSED PIPE LINE
CARRYING OIL FROM BOLI-
VIAN FIELDS TO THE PACIFIC
Permission to construct a pipe line from the oilfields of Bolivia
It is alleged that the accused wo man one might made her laver un- conscious by giving him too much drink and when he was fast asleep she tied him on a cut and cut his ose with a kife. The Magistrate fand her guilty and sentenced her to four years rigorous imprison
ment.
ber, 1831.
point.'»
CAVALRY'S OATH.
"The old fifteenth-century font and they have taken away the old Cress. The plinth at the foot of has been smashed into three pieces.
the memorial to Canon Rogers has also been broken up."
"Hammers and Crowbars.""
in and overpowered me, taking the rope away."
After removal the articles were loaded on motor-lorries. During the proceedings a woman threw a piece of turf at Mr. Kensit, Police were present while the ornaments
The Senior figures are worse, on the whole, Ir the boys' section 1,026 took the examination, and only 37 per cent. passed. Again the least number of failures was in the vernaculars, 22 per cent. failing to satisfy the examinere. 50 per cent. SABRES DIPPED IN THE SEA were being removed, failed in history.
In the girls section 241 sat for
The church of St. Hilary contains many beautiful works of art. It is the examination and 49 per cent. A profound impression has been known to thousands of people as passed. Only 18 per cent, failed made in Germany-by a demonstra the scane of the antivity play, SHOP EMPLOYEE CHARGED cent, did not satisfy the examiners port on the Baltic, of the Polen cast by the B.B.C. for the past five in the vemaculars, while 45 per tion made at dynia, the Faiian Bethlehem." which has been broad- in history.
determination to resist 1} *at-years. The perantage of passes in the tempts to cut them off from the Senior, was 51.
to the Pacific coast, crossing the ALLEGATIONS OF THEFT AND whole examination, Junior and ses
Ander at a height of 15,000 feet, has been granted by the Chilean Gov- ernment, states a British United
Press message from Santiago. `·
BURGLARY.
DRIVING, CATTLE ACROSS FREE STATE BORDER.
About 100,000 people came from every part of Poland to attend the Festival of the Bea," at which
QUOTA, SYSTEM IN TURKEY,
dent of the Republic, M. Mosaickí..::
The President declared that, it
was due to Polish mothers, who STRONG PROTÉST. MADE BY
had taught their children their no
The proposal, it is understood, Au employee of a shop at Lynd SMUGGLING UP TO DATE. speech was made by the Presi is to run the pipe line from hurst Terrace was charged before Yaguiba, Bolivia, over the Andes Mr. Wynne Jones on Saturday with and through Chilean territory to a the theft of money and jewellery point on the Pacific coast between to the value of $8,021 Iquique and Antofagusta..
The line would be 1,100 miles long, and would cost more than £2,000,000 - factor which is generally ze garded in Chile as rendering the construction of the pipe line. un likely.
...
Details as to who would finance the construction" are unknown, but it was understood that if under taken it would be done by the Standard Oil Company of Bolivia, which owns all the known oil bearing land in Bolivia,
The Chilean Government, in issu, ing the permit, reserves the right to receive a certain amount of the petroleum for its domestic supply.
INDUSTRIALISTS
The defendant was charged with
ther tongue and handed down to feloniously breaking out of the
them the traditions of the race. premises. Detective Inspector John The Ulster police have sought in that the Polish character of the Murphy prosecuted. He intimated vain for the owner of 45 head of maritime province had been pre- The Turkish Government has ra. that the prosecution was able to cattle valued at £1,000, seized on the served during the century and a cently imposed restrictions on im prove burglary by breaking out, Forkhill border by Northern Cus half of foreign rule preceding the ports by means of the quota sys- The defendant, after committing tom, officials and police. The restoration of Poland," the thefts, unlocked the door. Evi drovers diappeared,
There was a dramatic scene when A number of prominent Turkish dence would be given to show that An attempt was being made to four cavalry regiments stationed in industrialists have raised such the property and the prisoner were stuggle the cattle across the bor- the province paraded before the strong objections to this measure in the house when it was locked up der to have them shipped from a President and the officers and men that they have scoured the resigua for the night, but the next morning Northern Ireland port to Great took a solemn oath to defend the tion of the Minister of National beth prisoner and the property wore Britain and thus evade the duty shores of Poland to the last drop Economy. The Government has de. miming. The defendant who not on Free State live stock. Should of blood.bres funny day of sided, to modify the restrictions and seen to commit the theft nor to the owners not be traced, it is Afterwards squadron after squas has appointed Jelal Bey, who is a break out of the house, te
understood the cattle will be sold dron rods into the sea and dipped very prominent banker in Turkey, by auction, and the Crown will reap their colours and cabres in the to be the new Minister of National the benefit
water.
*Economy,
The hearing was adjourned until: to-morrow afternoon...
Vatican City, but he is believed to be of Italian nationality. His first marriage to an Englishwoman in India was never ratified by any consular authority.
tionalised Portuguese, he came to Leaving his wife to become a no-
man, Here counsel, after studying France and married a Spanish wo-f English, French, Italian, Spanish,
and
Portuguese Jurisprudence, eventually succeeded in convincing the Paris court that his client was entitled to a divorce.
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