NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONG KONG AMUSEMENTS,
LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HERENT GIVEN
Not the BLEVENTH OR
DINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the QUEEN'S THEATRE, Queen's Road, Central, on WEDNESDAY, 18TH SEPTEMHER, 1939, at NOON, to pass the Directors Report and Accounts, to eloos retiring Directors and Auditors, to declare Dividend, and to transact any other Ordinary Business of the Company.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 25ru to the 28t day of SEPTEMBER, 1939, both days inclusive.
Dated the 19th day of September,
1937.
.:
By Order of the Board,"
CHAS. S. ROSSELET, Secretary.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
CLUB,
TER NINTE
EXTRA RACE MEETING is declared abandoned with the exception of the race for the Fifth Aggregate Blakes, which will be incorporated in the TENTH EXTRA BADE MEETING to be held (weather permitting), at HAPPY VALLE on SATURDAY, 24rm SEPTEMBER, 1932.
Entrance Fees and Gate money will be refunded on application.
By Order of the Stowanie,
8. A. SLEAP,
Acting Secretary,
1th September, 1932.
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB.
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HE EXTRA RACE TMLETING will be had the Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 24TH SEPTEMBER, 1932, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
The First Ball will bo Rung at 2.00 p.m.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure,
Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Clab Room at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) #7
obtainable through the SECRETARY пред introduction by s Member, uch Member to be responsible for payment of all Chits, etc.
Badges admitting
to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course,
Ou no pretext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1932.
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HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 19. 1932.
OUR DEBT TO SIR RONALD
ROSS.
Sin RONALD Ross will be conated
Tillas are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from among the great benefactors of the the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone human race. It was he, more than 21820-
lives would have been wrecked through ignorance of the major peril of their surroundings.
There are those who say that it would have been far better for the
World if science had not conquered the barriers raised by Naturo against invasion of: the tropics by the white races.
A great English poet and traveller, WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT hold that Englishmen should stop at home and make their own country great. Ho hated imperialism and declared that the days of Queen ELIZABETH, when we had no overseas possessions, were the Golden Age of England, because we were then wall and self.
News and Views
They Know!!...
Urquhart, introduced the institu- Mr. Mate, however, is a moder. During a children's talk the other tion to London by building the mist Perhaps too, ha das a sense afternoon a wireless uncle naked his baths in the West End which the of humour. He paints as his im- youthful audience if they know Prince often visits. He had been agination bids him, and to his where little boys go who do not puta diplomatist, and had spent many imagination the most beautiful their pennies in money-boxes. Iyears in Turkey,
things about the R.Y.S. were the The Prince in reply to Lady cane chairs on the lawn. Tyrrell's letter mentioned that he So he painted the chairs, empty,
nd frequently noticed the bust of on the lown-and nothing more, Urquhart which adorns the gallery! of the Lain hall of the baths,
understand that several been young donkey-rider innghed quietly up their sleeves
Gas and Electricity.
streets
}
The Happy Land}-
Russian refugees escape teroas
BERN MYSTERY DEEPENS.
FILM DIRECTOR'S FIRST WIFE DISAPPEARS.
SUICIDE PACT THEORY
EVOLVED.
Hollywood, Sept. 10.-The funer- al of the late Paul Bern, motion
Boya Bear-Consciousness,
the Dniester into Roumanis and picture director, who shot himself Soviet patriots will now eat soya toll a sad story of existence under several days rgo, toak place today. beans, according to news from the Soviet. Külaks who were self- Miss Jean Harlow, his wife, at
Boya supporting landowners found their
Russia. They will
dream
The Gold Standard.
The City of Westminster Coun cil has contracted for the lighting of about 55 miles of its streets by gas for the next 15 years. A good many of the which are now lit by gas were lit beans, live soya beans, sleep soya land taken in exchange for hun-tended the services, dry-eyed but by electricity in the early years beans, become, in fact, soya bean gor, suffering and pitiless tyranny, with face drawn and a picture of of this century. Now there aro 44 | minded,
They declare they would prefer mental agony. An eulogy was de- miles of streets with electric lights For the soya bean, is to be the Tsarism to Communism. na against with gas. In other Intest salvation of mankind. Se-
livered by Mr. Conrad Nagel. part of London 47 local authori-viet chemists have made it so pala,
Bern's sister, Mr. Friedericke ties favour 1, 2, prefer electri- table that a soya bean banquet was The Institute of Politics at Wil Marcus, said that her brother had city, and 35 divide between the two. | recently offered to a group of liamstown, U.S.A., recently heard scientists and foreign journalists, several noted speakers declare
once considered Dorothy Millette Australian Wine Centenary.
Every course, from the hors for general return to the his wife, although no ceremony took d'asures to the ice cream, was gold standard. Prof. T E. Gre place. Meanwhile, now mystery
bean, gory
of the London School made of this miraculous
who which at one time was fish and at Economics says the stimulus, that surrounded Miss Millette, another tasted like chicken. Even follows suspension is only tempor- travelled on a Scramento river the veneered table top was stuck, ary. England went off the stand steamship for San Francisco last down with glue made of soya beansard, hoping for a large trade out.
There is only one bitch in the let in the Far East, But Japan Tuesday night and disappeared en plan. The bean, magical as it is, took a similar step and the benefis route, leaving her clothes in hei has failed to produce a beanstalk vanished. Some of the score of stateroom. She was believed to have
off saw their up which Soviet Jack can climb, nations that went
committed suicide, the better to chop off the head of economic steps quickened, but as Giant Capitalism.
with other dances to piper must be One theory was that she had settled with countries that waltz- made a suicide pact with Born. ed off easily may have to do a two- step Marathon to get back.
A Centenary worthy of note was celebrated last month, Exactly a hundred years ago were planted the parent vineyards of Australit, which is a sufficient answer to those who are apt to regard Empire wines as of too recent growth to merit serious consideration,
Export in those early days was very mengre, which may account for the fact that there are no con- temporary descriptions of our fore- fathers of the hungry (and thirsty) fortics sipping Australian hocks and burgundies
The occasion is to be marked by
A Cowes Comedy.
f
Charles Quartermaine.
of
Cowes week is a serious old world affair, wrapped in a solem- a lunch which will be attended by nity which humour rarely pene.
that of "pinder," his duties being the Acting High Commissioner of trates. This year, however, it has
Included in the cast of English to deal with stray horses, cattle, Australia, the Agents-general for provided a minor comedy.
stage stars supporting Jack Bucha- New South Wales, South Australia, M. Paul Maze, the French pain-nan in Man of Mayfair" now and sheep which were impounded Western Australia and Victorinter, wished to perpetuate the glor- playing at the King's Theatre, is in and by the Master of the Vintners' ious week in paint. He applied Charles Quartermine, well known Company.
to the Committee of the Royal dramatic actor, and brother of the Yacha Squadron for facilities to equally famous Leon Quartermaine, board their yachts and to enter Many residents will remember that the precincts of the club.
**All-British."*
An enclosure known as the pinfold.
Among the passengers 611 the Mr. Charles Quartermaine appear Dutch steamer. Tjinegara, which
In the window of a London mer- chant I saw to-day a bottle of red The patricians had a shock. For ed at the Theatre Royal some years wine bearing the label, Entirely days they sat in judgment on the ago in a number of Shakespearean recently passed through the Colony, Made in England. of British Mato would-be intruder. Finally are productions. This actor made a was Juliet Breden (Madame Lauru rials."
triumped over exclusiveness, and number of friendships during his The bottle was a claret battle, M. Maze was given the permission short stay in the Colony many of of Peiping), who will be remem which he has retained. Writing bered as the authoress of "Moon soon be, he had so boldly solicited, drinking Chatenu Hurstmonceux or
O presumably we shall
recently to a local amateur Thes- Year" and several other works pian Mr. Quartermaine intimated
with Chinese dealing
customs, Chateau Harlech.
One would like to know what the'
Having come down from their that there is possibility of his "materials" are
high seats the members of the making a retura tour of the East legends and religious rites. She is R.Y.3. overwhelmed M. Maze with in the near future. their attentions.. They took him:
Turkish Bath Ploneer.
Empty Chairs.
a niece of Sir Robert Hart, whose biography she has recently publish- ed.
On reading the Prince of Wales on board their yachts. One or two Today's Quotation. recent speech in praise of Turkish members graciously allowed him to In all things throughout the baths, Lady. Tyrrell, the wife of inspect their own efforts in water- world, the men who look for the the British Ambassador in colours. With a natural pride they crooked will see the crooked, and Paris, write to the Prince, wanted to be in the centre of the the man who look for the straight. P. H. Tiedemann, of the pointing out that her father, David picture.
will see the straight-Ruski. British Municipal Council Wharf: age Duce Office, Tientsin, will re. tire from service on October 15 next, having reached the age limit of 60 years. He has been in the employ of the Council since Octo- bar 1923. He arrived in Tientsin in 1014 as the Imperial Russian Consul-General, which post he held until the closing of the consulate in September, 1021.
Local and General
Only one case of cholera was re- ported on Friday.
A site of land near Hainkuan, i Nanking, measuring about 250 mow, has been selected by the The name of Mr. Chiu Kwan Ches Ministries for the proposed Central has been added to the list of autho-Engineering Factory, reports the
Chinese Press. rised architects.
At to-morrow's meeting of the
Owing to confusion and loes as a result of the Sino-Japancae con- flict the pawn shops in Chapci after securing permission from the Social Expansion, he
Bureau have auctioned all goods in contained state,
pawn for which the duplicate pawn maintained, meant weakening and
ticket numbers have been lost. any man, who made the building not strength. There are many an-
Mr. Hu Yen Fu, one of the meat Those in possession of pawn tickets Price of Admission to the Publis of modern cities possible in the awers to this argument. The Eliza Rotary Club, Dr. Alfred Mistowaki prominent Chinese merchants of may obtain 40 per cent. of the value Enclosure is $2.00 including Tax, for tropics, and with them the intro-hethans were themselves incorrigwill give an address on Travel the Federated Malay States, has of such pawned articles. Goods for all Persone, including Ladies, and is duction of the Western manner of ible imperialists, and the last thing Impressions."
arrived in Shanghai and is con-which the number has not been lost payablo at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are
His Excellency the Officer Ad-of a large, modern factory.
templating the catablishment there by the shop may be redeemed in
the usual way. ministering the Government has appointed Mr. R. A. C. North to bo Deputy Clerk of Councils.
'PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,
The
admitted Half Price.
*NOTICE.
THE REEL CLUB.
Goo of the season will commence immediately after the meeting and practices will be held on each succes tivo MONDAY, up to the 21s NOVEMBER,
T. P. SAUNDERSON, Hon. Secretary,
life. Sir RONALD'S great discovery
of the cause of malaria fever was,
that could be said of Mr. BLUNT was that he was a stay-at-home, content with the beauties and amenities of England.
themselves
Or
+
His Excellency tho Officer Ad ministering the Government has ap painted Dr. J. E. Dovey to be an Official Justice of the Peace,
..
Entries for the Colony Swimming Championships at the V.R.G. close at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Heats will be decided a week later if so. equired. The finals will commence. on September £0 and conclude on October 2
From the files.
According to an announcement Looking Back 25 Years, made in the Government Gazette this week, H., M. the King has not M. Souvorin's "Little Letter" been advised to exercise his power, has become quite a feature of his of disallowance with respect to an newspaper, the Novos Vremyn. Ordinance to provide for the incor. In one of his latest letters, Mr. peration of the Directors of the Souvorin thus expabiates on the Chinese Young Men's Christian As- outlook in Asia:-There are now Bociation of Hong Kong, an Ordin- 1,630,000,000 people in the whole Owing to the inclement weather; ance to provide for the incorpora- world, of whom 830,000,000 live in the annual prize distribution and tion of St. Stephen's College, and Asia, that is, more than half of At Home of the Sacred Heart Colan Ordinance to amend the law mankind. lege, in celebration of their 10th relating to vagrancy. anniversary, arranged to take place | on Saturday has been postponed till to-night at 8 p.m.
success of
And
Bookmakers, Tie Tac Mon, elo, will not be permitted to operate with perhaps, inevitable. During the in the Precincts of Tu HONG KONG latter part of the nineteenth century JOCKEY CLUB during the Race Meeting. the over-population of Europa
The history of smail' nations is, By Order,
created a determined will to con- morcover, a record of their wars 8. A. SCHAP,
Acting Secretary. quer the tropics for purposes of Even those peaks of intellectual Hong Kong. 19th Sept., 1932, [2669 emigration and industrial develop activity, the city states of ancient
His Majesty the King has been ment, and the conquest of the Greece and Renaissance Italy could pleased to issue a Mandate autho tropics implied knowledge and con- not maintain peace either among rizing the Consecration of the Rev.
From Asia civilisation trol' of malaria. Yellow fever had
Ronald Owen Hall, B.A., to be with the outside Bishop.
came to Europe; but from Asia made large tracts of America and world. Empires hesitate long before
came also the peoples who destroy; Africa uninhabitable,
What will The latest organisation to be
Following the
thed that civilisation. but the they fight, and the Great Powers
formed at Shanghai is somewhat
three British-built "Bull-Dog" happen if that terrible mess of snecessful investigation of the evolved after the Napoleonic Wars, out of the ordinary, this being the Sixth Annual Genemli
fighters in the Danish army team, inillipms is fully awakened and Testing of the Real Club causes of this disease and the dis- though neither very ardent nor very Association of Chinese Female A report has been made to the which took part in the recent inter-civilised, and, beginning to erect take place at the Helena May Inscovery of the means of prevention successful in their search for peace
Hairdressers,
police of Ismail Singh, a licensed national aeroplane contest at its own manufactories, will produce titute on MONDAY, 19TH SEPTEM
hawker, of 11, Morrison Hill Road, Zurich, Denmark has decided to for itself everything which now on the whole kept out of warn BER, st 6.15 p.m. All members and showed that neither hent nor low-
The anno meeting of share to the effect that clansman, increase her strength in this type Europe produces for Asia? prospectivo, members are particularly lying country were of themselves better than the smaller countries holders of Hong Kong Amuse Birhára Lal, aged about 30, has of machine by another fifteen. They what will happen in twenty years requested to attend. The firat prae insurmountable hindrances to coloni- of earlier times. Fence, moreover, ments, Ltd., will be held at the been missing from the house since will be built in Denmark on licence: time if China has then an army of Queen's Theatre, on Wednesday, ten o'clock on Tuesday last. but the engines, each of approxini- two millions of men! The prospect antion. If the yellow fever menace gives science its opportunity. Heptember 29, at noon..
ately 560 h.p., will be ordered from is difficult to conceive. Russia's could be vanquished, the battle | Scientific research knows no bound-
Mr. R.J. H. Sidney, M.A., England. It is understood that a international role, thanks to its against malaria was not hopeless, aries of race, and science is knitting Country Hospital, Shanghai, where author and educationalist, visited this order.
Mr. G. Neugebauer has left the F.R.G.S., well-known Malayan sum of £27,000 will be involved by immense possession in Asia, is perhaps only now beginning its ac and the estuaries of rivers might the world into an economic unit, he has been confined since March the Colony on Friday, He was on
tivity, just as now the political life where, the tropics have their place. due to a serious riding accident, his way to Japan and paid a visit It was revealed at the Brighton of the people of Russia is begin. In earlier timos adventurous spirits and is now convalescing at home. the University where he is conference of the Royal Banitary ning. Who knows that perhaps the known to several Malayan students. Institute that over 50,000,000 pre-days may not be very far away in went out to those strange places. According to bankruptcy noti-
scriptions were issued last year to which the United States will be A few survived, either adaptingfication, a third and final dividend South Wall Road is the name insured persons in England and sending their count Witte to St. But because the advancing tide the quives to native ways, and de- of 1.40 per cent, has been declared given to the street commencing at Wales. It was stated that drugs Peterburg to conclude with the in the matter of the Wing Sang the north side of Prince Edward in England cost the insurance Japanese that Treaty of Peace of science, impelled by commerce, generating by abandoning their Bank, of No. 167, Queen's Road Road, near its junction with Ma scheme one shilling a head more which will follow that war which Tau Chung Road and running North than in Beotland, yet there was just has been prophesied so unceasing- would inevitably have swept before own customs and ideals, without Central.
to the South Wall of Kowloon City.as much sickness, in Bootland and ly"-Hong Kong Daily Press, it the menace of tropical diseases, being really imbued with those of
The new road is also that next went it was suggested that to a large Sept. 10, 1907; this does not detract from the the land of their adoption, or else
from Ta Ku Ling Road,
extent the increased demand, and cost in England was dug greatness of the achievement of Sir founding queer, unsatisfactory cities
rather than necessity. Creditors who have not proved their RONALD Ross. But for this patient which were generally, "no place debt by the goth day of September, and determined investigator, work for a decent white woman." To-day 1832 will be exalaried from. this ing with but small assistance from the great cities in the East where dividend
Proofs should be sent to the under the powers, official and commercial, European and Asiatic races meet signed at 6, Des Voeux Road, Central, who were to reap vast gains from enable approximation to the normal Hongkong on or before the 20th day his labour, the discovery of the life of Europe to be maintained; of September, 1839,
Dated the 16th day of August, 1993, cause of malaria might have been a better type of European makes delayed" för years. Attempts at his life overseas, and a more satis colonization would have- gone for factory and mutually helpful con ward, under the pressure of econo- tact has been developed between mio urgency, and thousands of East and Weeb zh
2553]
INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD. (IN LIQUIDATION)
Second Dividend is intended to A be declared in the matter of the Industrial & Commercial Bank, Ltd. (in Liquidation).
2472]
J. HENNESSEY SETH 8. HAMPDEN ROSS
Joint Liquidators.
yet become the sites of flourishing sea-ports, connecting the hinter lands of the tropics with the rest of the world.
A suggestion has been made that the staff of the Chinese Maritime Customs. should contribute a por- tion of their salaries towards the funds for the Northeastern Volun tear Armies de
tv
habit Looking Back 50 Years,
The offices of the Supreme Court will be open daily from 10 to 1 Am during the Long Vacation, Town-crier of Bingley, near Brad except on public and general holi-- ford, for sixty years, is the record During a performance of Chap- days, when the offices will be en-of Mr. William Green, who, man's London Zoo and Circus at tirely closed, and on Saturday, although 81 years of age, still sets Wrexham, Captain Kovah who had when they will be open from 10 a m. in that capacity. At the annual charge of eight tigers was attack to noon, subject, however, to the show of the Airdale Agricultural ed by one of the animals which had provisions of the Supreme Court Society at Bingley recently, he ly mauled his leg. The tiger was (Vacations) Ordinance 1888, so for acted as bellman for the sixtieth driven off by circus hands and the as it relates to the Criminal successive year. His father held injured man removed to hospital Scations. The Long Vacation com the post of town-crier for nineteen where it was found that his leg bad menoes on the 20th instant, and years. Another ancient office which been very badly lacerated, and he terminates on the 17th October, was detained.
|||| 1032 (both days inclusivo).mp
Return of visitors to the City Hall Musen for the week ending September 19 :---
European Chinese
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday... Saturday
58
219
19
321
296
404
427
Sunday.
Noñe
Mr. Green held for many years was-Hong Kong Daily Prest, Sept.
(Continued on next Column.) 18, 1882.