NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONG KONG & YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD. HONG KONG.
(LOST).
APPLICATION has been made to
this Company to issue to Mr.. LI CHI CHIU" of No. 2, Chansory- Lane, Hongkong a duplicate dartifi
•cate for Su ordinary shares in this Company numbered 3616-3535, or other certificate in lieu thereof, apon statement that the original cor
certificate
No. 110, dated the 1st December, 1023, has been lost or mislaid; and Notice is hereby given that, if within thirty days from the date hereof no cisim or representation in respect of such original certificate is made to the Company, the Company will them proceed to deal with such applicaties.
THE HONG KONG & YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD. Hongkong, 17th October, 1932. [2073
THE FANLING HUNT AND RACE CLUB,
AUTUMN MEETING.
"DA for the Autumn Meet-
RAFT Programmes and Entry
ing to be held on SUNDAY, 30th October, 1932, may be obtained at the Secretaries' Office, the Hunters' Arms, Hongkong Club and the Sports Club. Entries close at 12 Unlock NOON on THURSDAY, 20th October, 1932."
"NOTICE is hereby given that the conditions of the Sixth Rngs have been
mended as follows:-
The Ladies Mile (unofficial) Winner $150.00, second. 875.00, Third 850.00. For Chinn Ponies Subscription Griffins of the Hongkong Jockey Club and The Fauling Hunt & Race Club of any season, and Subscription Ponies of the Macao Jockey Club, that have nover won an official race. To be ridden by Ladies, Catch Weight 145 lbs.. No whips or spurs. Eatennoe Fee 85.00. A cup will be presented to the Winning
By Order of the Stewards, THOMSON & CO.,
Secretaries.
Rider."
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HONG KONG AND CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the ELEVENTH OR DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Offices of the Genera Managore, 2. Lower Albert Road, WEDNESDAY, 1971 OCTOBER 1032, at 11 A.M. for the purpose receiving the Heport of the Directors together with Statement of Accounts Declaring a Dividend and Ro eleting Directora and Auditor.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED. from th 6 OCTOBER to the 19rn. OCTO 'BER, 1932, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors. J. D. THOMBON, Secretary, Hong Kong, 1st October, 1932,
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· ANNOUNCEMENT.
Est. 1841.
Editorial and Business Offices: 12
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London Ofke: 43. Flont Street
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quito content to leave it to Ameri- The wedding of Mr. C. D'ASSUMP
cans, who value it and are in a cap with Viss L. OLIVEIRA will position to meet its requirements. take place on Saturday, Octo-That is all very well, but it was ber 22, 1932, at 1 p.m., at the
not in such spirit that the Ottawa Rosary Church, Kowloon. No invitations have been issued but results, which we all approve, in all friends will be cordiallyso-far as they affected other people, welcomed.
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were achieved. Ottawa was a call for immediate sacrifice in the cause of ultimate gains. Some, if not all of these arguments, apply to goods imported into every Colony under a scheme of preference duties. Great Britain is herself giving a worthy fead, breaking or loosening old. established trade relations in the interests of Inter-Imperial com- merce. Surely Hong Kong will not prove the sole laggard 1
Careful stock is certainly being taken locally of the probable effect of the duty; of what we are expect ed to concede, and what advantage we may hope to gain. The Colonial brandy concession is not more than a gesture. Few of us drink brandy, but those who have the habit will no doubt continue to pay extra for the privilege of obtaining the familiar products of France.
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The Daily Press.
Úlovo Kose, October 18, 1032
HONG KONG AND PRE-
FERENCE DUTIES
A CYNICA, poet, with an unfertu- (26 2uate perception of human nature,
wrote the line,
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE
THE TWELFTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 22ND OCTOBER, 1932, commencing at 2:00 p.m.
The First Bell will be Rung at.
1.30
"O the brave music of a distant
drum."
Quite possibly the Government does not view' a diminution of the
DISASTER TO R.A.F.
BOMBER
TWO KILLED
SACRIFICE FOR COMRADES
Trouble!
News
and Views
linquished command of the Battle Some twenty years ago, un even "My dear, I do not like that Cruiser Squadron, deserves the gra-, more famous guide, Emil Roy, slip-- young man who has been taking! titude of the nation for his tactful ped on an ordinary path to his. you out so much."
handling of the situation at Inver-doath, Strange, that two men
in. gordon last autumn, when, oving safe-footed perilous places. to the illness of Admiral Sir Mic- should die so simply, hael Hodges, he was acting Com manding-in-Chief of the Atlantic
"I know, Daddy, dear. The reni London, Catober 8-Another ter- trouble is he can't stand the sight
f. you."
A Hero of Esal Life.
|
Fleet.
His conduct on this occasion was
rible R.A.F. disaster occurred to.. day near Guildford, and had is not been for the self-sacrifice and heroism of the chief pilot nothing
Today's hero of real life is¦ could have saved the lives of any Mohamed ben Mustapha, saya a of the occupants of the giant Home paper. Mohamed is an Al warmly commeneded by the Ad- bomber which crashed.
gerian gentleman at present on a miralty. Thirty-two years ago Ad visit to Paris who was unluckly miral Tomkinson was serving in
China
with Sir Roger Keyes. Details are lacking, but it an enough to be arrested by the police pears that one of the intest type of as a vagabond, his identity papers Again, on St. George's Day, 1018,
not being quite in order. On the the two officers were together B.A.F., bombers was flying ever morning after his arrest he was the immortal raids of Zeebrugge Guildford in the direction of Godal.vited, as a matter of routine, to ming when engine trouble develop. have a bath. Such an idea, how ever, did not coincide with Moham. ed's idone of the fitness of things, and his outraged Algerian pride gave way to a demonstration of Algerian fury worthy of our most careful chronicling.
ed.
The pilot endeavoured to put matters right, and thought he had succeeded when one of the engines suddenly failed entirely.
Chief Pilot Officer Brian Page, who was in charge, apparently told the crew to jump for it, adding that he would try and keep the plane under control until they got
clear.
Four men parachuted to earth and made a safe landing, but the sccond pilot jumped too late.
Failed to Open.
His parachute failed to open and
ho mot a terrible death,
Hundreds of people saw the men jump from the plane, and at first thought that the machine was out on practice work.
Within a few seconds of the
huge leviathan of the air trembled and zig-zagged like a drunken thing
and then lived to earth,
The Untamed..
The First Motor Licenoa,
One of the most treasured posses-- sions of Mr. Henry Ford, who en tered his 70th year last month, is the very first motor licence issued in the United States. It bears hit own name.
When in 1903, he began to experi ment with his first ear for the first Ostend, and their old association of his contraptions that would was renewed in 1997 when Admiral work) in the streets of Detroit, pub Tomkinson became chief of staff to lic and police raised objections, and he overcame them only by getting Sir Roger in the Mediterranean.
this licence by way of a special per- Admiral Tomkinson holds the mit from the mayor. gold medal of the Royal Humane Society for a particularly gallant attempt at life-saving just before
the war, when he was serving in, The Limit of Hitlerism? submarines.
"Bubbles" Now an Admiral.
English and German observors Acem
agreed that Hitlerism has
| reached its high tide mark, writes
First, he drew a large knife and scattered his captors. Then, when they had returned reinforced
a Home correspondent. In the His successor, Rear-Admiral Wil. in numbers, he brandished an ironiam M, James, C.B., who hoisted, Geran elections Herr Hitler has bar which he had wrenched from his fag in H.M.S. Hood on Aug. polled, 13,732,778 votes out of a
window. His attackers were still
further reinfoced by a gas squad, 15, is the original "Bubbles of Sir total of 38,845,279 votes cast. That is an astounding feat, but at the. presidential election, three months. which poured several cylinders of. E. Millais's famous picture, and toar-gas into the bathroom. The strandson of the artist.
ago, he polled 13,400,000 votes. The tackers then retired, and, return His last servico afföat was 45 Nazis, powerful as they are, will ing, found Mohamed more violent Chief of Staff, Atlantic Fleot.. Ad- not be in a position to dictate to than ever, and it was only by arm. miral James is one of those many the new Reichstag by Parliament- ing themselves with iron shields naval officers who combine sea lore ary methods. Are they ready to re- that they overpowered him and car. with ripe scholarship. His "Bri- sort to extra-Parliamentary met- ried him off, still unwashed, to tish Navy in Adversity," published hods? I think not. their strongest strong room. There, six years ago, is a masterly ex- slightly dirtier, from his titanic position of the naval side of the struggle, he probably still remains. Revolutionary War in America, and Nature's Froud Child,
is now accepted as a standard work on that subject.
come
Ten years ago Herr Hitler or
ganised his forces for a march on Berlin from Munich, and although he led them with Ludendorff at his side, he was stopped by a volley Admiral James' flagship, Hood, from the troops on the Odeons- The next move will be with the has been divested of the catapult platz, whose quite junior officers.
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second pilot crashing to earth, the police, and no doubt force of num and seaplane, which for a time oc- had been told to give the order to bers will ultimately defeat this cupied-and disfigured-her quar- fire, if necessary. Being German proud child of Nature. Our social terdeck, completely spoiling the officers, after Herr Hitler's own conscience may applaud the victory clear-cut profile of this symmetri heart, they obeyed the ordet. The of civilisation, for vagabonds in cal ship.
Germans I meet tell me that any need of a bath, even if they do
from picturesque
organised rising by the Hitlerites Algeria,
would meet with the same treatment anachronian a disagreeable are
in Berlin. When Mussolini ordered But we salute Mohamed as the only
the march on Nome there was no- man wo have yet heard of who'
one to resist him. Poor Signor De fulfilled the ambition of every nor
Facta had surrendered before he mal child that he jolly well would
was threatened. not wash, no matter what anyone said or did.”
The survivors revealed, the su preme heroism of Chief Pilot Officer Brian Page.
Realising that by, the failure of one of his engines the plane wus doomed, Page shouted, "Boys we are for it, you had better jump if you like.
It's O.K. for you to jump, and I'll hold the plane until you are clear."
ming heard the misfiring of the
Hundreds of people near Godal
plano's engines and saw the four survivors leap from the machine and parachute gracefully to safety.
Rescue Impossible. Believing this to be a demonstra tion the onlookers cheered excited- ly, but their cheers died and turned to cries of horror when the second pilot, a man named Gully, who had stayed to assist Page jumped too stone, the parachute having failed to open.
lato and fell to his death like n
and a thunderous explosion follow- Then the plane dropped to earth ed. Almost immediately the plane burst into flames, and the heroic pilot was consumed by the leaping flames.
Admiral Tomkinson.
1.
Vice Admiral Wilfred Tomkin son, C.B., M.V.O,, who recently re
An Alpine Guide's, Fate.
All Alpinists who have climbed with Alphonse Paypt, the oldest of all the Chamonix guides, will be saddened to hear of his death. The present Government of the This very popular old man-he was Reich is composed of men of a eighty-was not climbing but ga. very different calibre, They do not thoring strawberries on a monatain mean to resign, and, if General von side when he overbalanced and fell Schleicher gives the order to fire, from a considerable height into a the Reichswehr will obey, when streain.
ever it is given.
Local and General
Mr. 1. H. Genre was amongst the passengers who arrived by the Blue Funnel liner Aeneas on Sunday.
The Generat Post Office notifies that the afternoon service to Macno is suspended until further notice.
The P. & liner Corfu, with the English mails, is due here from Singapore to-morrow at 4 p.m.
The Hong Kong University Union will hold its anniversary dance in the Great Hall of the University on Saturday next, October 22, at
p.m..
Following recently published (her conveyance to hospital and that regulation, the Police are now tak--had cost 83. His Worship's desi ing action against cyclists who, sion was that defendant should neglect to provide their machines make good this expense and also to, with red reflectors attached to in-pay 85 compensation to the woman. diente their presence on the roads: Furthermore, he was fined $10 or to vehicles behind them. One lad 14 days in default of payment of who appeared before Mr. Schoäeld this fine. at the Central Police Court yester- day was fined $1.
From the files.
But like all clever epigrams, the motor trade with any alarm. I later that the body of the brave the Colony by the P., & O. Corfu thel, was fined 850 while the re-terday morning, on board-H.M.S.
phrase contains error as well as the number of foreign ears sold is truth. The patriotism, which it not diminished then & useful source mocks, in a real thing to most of of revenue will be topped, perhaps us who live in the Colonies. There enabling a bolder outlay on many
are
The horrified spectators rushed to the scene but it was impossible to approach within many yards of the wrecked plane so intense was the heat, the famos all the while being fanned to a fury by a sharp breeze. Indeed it was not until two hours pilot was recovered, charred and un- recognisable. could easily have escaped, but he Ono survivor declared. "Page
sentenced himself to death to save us."
This is the 43rd B.A.F. fatality this year.
on Thursday,
certainly many people in overdue public works; if the British whom the quality of patriotism manufacturers jump in, upon their is deficient, but they mostly opportunity and capture the market stay at Home, and either stand then the duty will be fully justified.
CROWN LAND SALES MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. aloof from public affaire, or elio Even if the net result is that many Members are notifial that ther and adorn the local Labour association. people who would have had cars ge
Two lots of Crown land were prominently displayed. ir kad If one lives in a Crown Colony one without, the position has its com sold at the P.W.1), yesterday. In
No Que without Badge will be has to know something of the pensations. Fewer cars mean less land Lot No. 3504, situated on the admitted to the Members Enclosure.
Badges admitting Non-Members to Empire, and how it is governed, money for road upkeep, and, if Shaukiwan Road, cast of Inland lot No. 2018, was sold to Mr. Lee the Members Enclosure and Club Room and the material prosperity that it people who really cannot afford Iu Cheung, of Mesars, Lee Id Kee, at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) are yields to many individuals. Some cars are debarred from an unjusti: Des Veux Road, for $23,000, the obtainable through the SECRETARY of us may, therefore, feel a little fable extravagance, they should, upset price being $21,000. The area
has about 42,000 square feet and an mati, a Chinese youth was sentenced i will be held at Government House that the chargen were proved except introduction by Member, ruch disappointed to find that Hong in the end, be converted to the annual rental of 8772. пров Member to be responsible for payment
Inland lot No. 3021; adjoining Kong has made no enthusiastic re-Imperial principle, which has made of all Chits, etc,
Kowloon Inland fot No. 2107,on Badges admitting Radiosore will NOT be on sale at the used on the Colony as the outcome upon necessities, instead, of
sponse to the modest demands in them either savers or wiser spenders | Ma Tau Wai Road; was sold to the tained 60 cents in money and other permission of HE. the Officer Court was of the opinion that Race Course,
of the Ottawa Conference.
For soliciting in Kowloon, six women were fined by Mr. Butters at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. A. V. Baker and a military patrol The women were seen by Inspector
accosting some sailors at the junc- Inspector-General of Poliox) and One women, who had a previous
The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolletion of Jordan and Nathan Roads. Looking Back 25 Years. · Mrs, Wolfo are due to return to conviction for keeping a sly bro- A Court Martial' was opened yes
maining five were fined $25 each. Taniar concerning the stranding of Three others who were brought be H.M.S. Flora in Hong Kong Har- After a quarrel with her husband fore the Court were discharged, bour on August 28. The Court was at a, Eastern Street, West Point, there being no evidence against composed of Commodore R. H. S.
Chinese woman attempted to them.
Stokes of the Tamar (president), throat and taking an overdose of commit suicide by cutting her
Captain S. V. Yorke de Hussey of A Chinese who endeavoured dur the Kent, Captain 8. E. Erskine opíum. She was removed to the ing the week-end to pawn an ob of the Bedford, Captain C. Lị Government Civil Hospital.. viously brand new woollen pull Yaughan-Lee of the Astraes and over in a Queen's Road pawnshop. Commander H. L. Mawbey of the That frogs were being sold for "was detained, and subsequent in Monmouth. The officers placed on food was the conviction expressed, quiries proved that the garment trial were Captain Rowland Nugent by Inspector MoWalter in answer had been stolen from the Chosen and Lieutenant K, M, M. Grieve, to the Magistrate's query, when Company, in Des Vaux Road Cen- and the charge against them was charging a hawker at the Central tral, Foo Take, the man arrested, that by neglect they did hazard the Police Court yesterday with selling was found to have been once before Flora on the night of August £9. them without a licence. The hawk in police hands, and, at the Central Captain Take of the Monmouth er who was not in Court had his Police Court yesterday, he was prosecuted while prisoners' bail of 85 estrested.
Bntenced by Mr. Wynne-Jones to friends" were Paymaster A.- six weeks' hard labour.
Gyles for Captain Nugent and For snatching a purse from Miss
Lieut. Anderson for Lieut. Grieve. Gonsalez in Ningpo Street. Fau
The Anding of the Court was
Butters yesterday. The bag con to six months' hard labour by Mr.
articles. Defendant said he had Architects, Mesare. Hazeland and had no food for some time and was
Gonolla, Koyamally Buildings, 20, driven to the act by hunger Queen's Road Central, for the up- set price of 2,790. The area is 22 square feet and it has an annual rental of 840,
to
Members*
On ne pretext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during
Meeting.
Thus are obtainable at the Clab House provided they are ordered from
the No. 1 Bey in advance. Telephone $1920.
PUBLIO ENCLOSURE.
The proposed addition of twenty per cent of the C.I.F. value of
deteriorating luxury.
Patriotiam, in the flesh, is apt
to
be less pleasing than in the spirit foreign cars to their licence fees of rhetoric The Empire has em has been received with dismay. It barked upon patriotic pro The Price of Admission to the Publicis argued that Hong Kong is gramme, and we have got to got Enclosure is 32.00 including Ter, for free port, and, in our exceptional used to it, and work it with such il Parsons, including Ladies, and is position and circumstances, any in-foresight and wisdom that solid payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are fringement upon that status must advantages will accrue admitted Half Prica,
A concert in aid of M.Q.L. fund).
on Monday, November 24, by kind that relating to negligence. The Administering the
Captain Nugent should be severely Government. hands of Mr. F. Mason and details more careful in future, and that The concert will be in the capable reprimanded and cautioned to he Lieut. Grieve. bo reprimanded.- of the programme will be publish-Hong Kong Daily Press, October ad later. Ten will ha, served at 4 Nanking, Oct. 12.-The 47th an confinement of the late Dr. Sun concert Tickets, 83 each, nyhe Cooking Back 50 Years.. aiversary of the kidnapping and Pm and will be followed by the 18, 100%, Yat Sen by the Chineas Imperial stained from the Secretary, Helens Legation at London in 1835 was Bay Institute, or from Anderson We have received the first num-
Music Co., Ice House Street. commemorated at a memoria! sor-
ber of a now paper published in the late Lord ROUERTS, and the vice held at Central Party Hoad-
Maesa in the Portuguese language, gentlemen who made big money in quarters yesterday Mr. Shoo An elderly woman appeared be called & Carreio de Mayo. It is the War, and wrote atimulating Yuan Chung, President of the fore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Cena diminutive weekly sheet contain- Ottawa articles for popular consumption. Legislative Tuan, after paying a tral Magistracy yesterday withing two lending articles, home and have unfavourable reactions. It is has its hard side, demanding bacri- Since the British Empire is com tribute to Dr. James Canthie for three stitches in her upper lip general news, and a couple of ad-- urged that British cars, as a whole, fice at the outset, if the results are mitted to patriotism, let it be his efforts in effecting the release where it had been cut by a blow vertisements. We read in it that will not be permitted to operate with
gallant and not greedy patriotism of the late Party Leader.em with a wooden clog. Keung Leung, it learns from home papers that in the Procinets of Tun Hoxe Kors are not designed for local condi not to be negative, or exploited The human instincts, seen in sim-phasizes the indomitable courage 36, was accused of having caused over 50 Portuguese sad two French- Jocker Usus daring the Race Meeting. -- rions, that the service facilities are for
for the advantage of the few-plist form at e-children's tea party, and seltetuin, amirit wind Dr. the injury. On a point-of-com- men had her mexstored by negroes -By Order,
deficient, and that British manu There are, in fact, two kinds of are strong and obvious. But if Sun had consistently displayed pensation, Inspector Dick told his at Dabur in Guinea, Portuguese patriotion, symbolised, perhaps, by nation seeks to be Imperial, a place throughout his life-long struggle Worship that it was a Government Africa. We wish our young con- for foresight must be found, or the for the cause of the Chinese doctor who attended to the woman, temporary all success-Hong Kong (Continued at foot of next column,), results will be most unhappy, National Revolution.
but an ambulance had been used for Daily Freet, October 16, 1882,
Bokmakers, The Tas Men, eta
B. A. BLEAP,
Acting Becretary. 17th Ooh, 198R: (966p
facturers, having little interest in this small and peculiar market, are