NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
FEAST OF THE KINGSHIP OF CHRIST
THE Ave 20th OCTO THE aborn least will take place BER, 1992, at the Catholic Cathedral, with the same services na in previous Joars.
Morning Service 8 A.M. Evening [0714 Borvice 4,30 PM.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
No. of 1931,
R KWONG MEE SHING of No. 48A, Bonham Strand West, Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, Rice Merchants. NOTICE OF INTENDED
DIVIDEND.
Becond and Final Dividend is
A intended to be declared in this
matter.
Creditors who have not proved their debts by the 10th day of January, 1933, will be oxcluded.
Any creditor who has received' a dividend in this hankruptcy from Bangkok must bring the amount of the same into account bofore receiving any further payment.
Dated the 28th day of October, 1932.
E. L. AGASSIZ,
Offeinl Receiver.
NOTICE.
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DELIVERY Order No. 01067 issued by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and covering Ono case Black Cotton Satin marked
CHERRY
a70 Hong Kong.
per H.9 Shipped from Osaka TOTTORI MARU destined for the port of Hong Kong dated 7th September, 1932 (Original only), has been lost and the same is now considered Null and Void.
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CHERRY & CO.
Q.
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I is requested that, all Civil
Associations & individuals, who
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1932.
News and Views
ELIZABETH ARDEN has made guessing ages an impossibly difficult game.
She has taught women to hold on to youth, not to hide the ravages of age with cosmetics but to keep their skin. scientific young, firm and fresh by
care.
HER FREE BOOKLET-"The Quest of the Beautiful" will tell you how this is done, and there is now a SPECIAL DISPLAY of all the Latest Elizabeth Arden preparations at
THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
Est. 1841.
The Problem!
"You know, you've been engaged long time, old man. Why don't you marry her!"
I have been thinking about it. Joe-but where should i̇ ́spend my evenings if I did 1
Anti-Dora Campaign.
The Mayor of Deal, Captain C. Percy Davis, has had great success with his anti-Dora campaign and according to Home papers a meet- ing was to be held at the Albert Hall, on the evening of Wednesday, October 19. Many Lord Mavors and Mayors from all party of the country promised to attend the meeting and members of both Hauses of Parliament were to be on the platform,"
Press the Batton-
Women often choose the begin ning of a season to launch a new fashion in jewellery. It may be a bracelet, it may be a ring, or even a watch,
One remembers how the tiny hidden watch made its appearance in the diamond clip-one pressed a certain stone and a cover sprank back, revealing the face of the watch.
They do not last very long in popularity, these gadgets, but smart women always want to be among the first to wear them.
The Anzac Leader.
Hendon Dwellers.
Perth, WAust-Field Marshall Hendon, which became at the be- Sir William Birdwood, who was in ginning of this month a borough command of the Australian and gun best of a famous manoriai New Zealand expeditionary force lord in David Garrick, the actor, during the war, has been visiting who' acquired the property in 1748, his daughter and grandchildren at just after he became joint manager Boraning in the southwest of of Drury Lane.
wax Egles at the Abbey,
ITALY'S FOREIGN POLICY
MUSSOLINI'S SPEECH AT TURIN
PEACE AND SUPPORT OF
THE LEAGUE!
on
Turin, Oct. 23.-A crowd of over the 150,000 people, missed aquare in front of the historic castle was addressed this afternoon by Premier Bruito Mussolini.
Western Australia. The Field Mar Ho lived in that fine old Georgian shal, who was vory popular with mansion Hendon Hall (now an ho his men, originated the name tel), in grounds of which there are Anzac, which was first used as a two obelisks, on to him and the telegraphie code address for his other to Shakespeare. Garrick's is Army corps in Egypt. Sir William inscribed: "He was owner of this While the Promier was talking. is now head of one of the Colleges Estate, Vicarial Patron, and Lord deep silence lay over the audience, of Cambridge university.
of the Manor of Hendon.
which listened with rapture to the Another famous dweller in Hen-words of their leader. Giant roar don was Goldsmith, who fled from ing loudspeakers had to be employ; the hurly-hurly of Fleet-street toed which carried his powerful ek rural quietude in a single room valce over the whole square and in n farmhouse in Hydelane now into the neighbouring alleys, all Kingsbury road.
She Stomps to Conquer."
Here he wrote thronged with naaca of humanity. 11 Dove's aditress embodied a Sir Stamford Raffles, Empire clearcut declaration of Italy's for- builder and founder and first precign policy which is expected to ident of the Zoological Society, is have a profound influence on the
course of events, buried in Hendan Churchyard.
bort Museum, and the suggestion has been made that the muscum would be a more suitable place for their preservation. This may be, but it is unlikely that the Abbey nuthoritien would ever agree to part with what must be a very valuable source of revenue, apart from their other interest,
strangers to one
another.
In his opening words 1 Duco recalled the demand he voiced at
The appeal to the London public of the wax effigies of kings, queens, and others of the great which are displayed in an upper chapel of Westminster Abbey in irresistible. This is witnessed by the fact that people cheerfully pay as much for the privilege of seeing them as for being guided over the whole of the rest of the church. The ancient costumes worn by the figures are to Mr. Bruce and Mr. Hoover.
J bo cleaned at the Victoris and Al Mr. Bruce, the former Australian Naples a year ago and in which Ho expressed Premier, who has been appointed he pleaded for the wiping out of the Lausanne Australian Minister in England-n the reparations. post specially created for him, gratification that Arrived in London last month. He Conference had ended with success, attended the Ottawa Conference, Guided by. Prime Minister Mac and afterwards wont into the Unit Donald's steady hand on the helm, ed States. Ilis visit to President the reparation vessel reached safu- Hoover in Washington caused, ly the port of Lassanno and there widespread interests. They are no enaine now only the question Mr.; whether the great nation across Hoover when a mining engineer the Atlantic intends to launch it spent some time in Australis and again upon the story sens." The three viking ships which reorganised
At this juncture the crowd inter- mines group of were recently discovered in Nor- there. After the Imperial Confer. posed with furious "No's" and This autumn season that is just way have now been placed in one ence of 1927 Mr. Bruco returned to the Premier, taking his cue, cried: starting is already producing fresh building. The building is appro-Australia by the United States, and "I sincerely trust that these no's "Loys" From Paris comes a new priate it consists of three wings there he met Mr. Hoover, who was will be carried across the ocean generous Leart of kind of watch on afternoon and covered by a central tower. The Secretary of Commerce in the Coo- and move the evening bags.
architect, Mr. Arnstein Arneberg, lidge Administration
The conver- that nation." Over the face of the watch, ahas designed a building worthy of sations at their reoent Washington very tiny affair, is a shuttor of the ships. The Tuneship is scarce, meeting are said to have been par- diamond baguettes. When a little fly more than a large ship bottom; ticularly cordial. Mr. Hoover is button is pressed the shutter opens liko a Venetian blind, revealing the Ince for just enough time to see the These are called radiator watches, Leenuse of their slight resemblanes to those motor car radiators that open and close in the same way, They reflect the effect of this mechanical age on women's jewel
Another New "Toy."
hour.
Editorial and Business Offices: 11, tributary, the Black River, a dis
fee House Street, Tel. 30231.
tanee of forty-five, miles. A trian- Night Editor (Wanchai Office): gular area of about 250,000 acres
Tel, 24511.
was thus enclosed, and from the|lery. 53. Fleet Street, London Office:
canal fourteen straight "lateral canals," three miles apart from ench ather, were dug, joining the main canal with the Yellow River.
E.C. 4.
The Daily Press. The farmers in the area have bern
HONG KONG, OCTOBER 29, 1932.
CHINA AND THE ENGINEER
wish to place wreaths on the Cenotaph at the conclusion of the Service The engineering work accomplished on Armistice Day, will kindly inform the undersigned, in writing, before by the International Famine Relief. November Guh, a that accommodation Commission is an admirablo example may be arranged within the Police of quiet and successful co-operation between the Chinese people and highly qualified specialists from Western countries. The great foods of the Yangtzo Valley last year
barrior.
E. D. C. WOLFE, Inspector General of Police. October, 1832-
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tance to Raco Course.
brought home the need for exten sive conservancy schemes in China, but it is not always realised that THE FANLING HUNT AND RACE CLUB ·
admirable work is going on, under the, supervision of the Commission's PECIAL Train leavca Kowloon engineers in eleven proviners of
1.08, p.m. Returning 558. p.10.
Chin The Engineering Depart First Class Roturn includes admitment of the Relief Commission was Admission Public Enclosure $1.00. Organise in 1923 "for the purpose Bervice Mon in Uniform Half price. of uniting engineering work that had formerly been done by Pio- THOMSON & CO., Chartered Accountants,
vincial Committees." Its first big Secretaries. job was a flood relief projart, in [2800 Shantung, when some two hundred square miles of land, devastated by the Yellow River leaving its banks, were reclaimed and some 250,000
NOTICE.
people were able to return to their There ill be a Dinner work was done in the Yellow River
homes. Other valuable conservancy
Dance to-night in the Glou-area and a number of roads were cester Building Restaurant.built in various parts of China.
Book your table for the
The Inst three years, following the Terrace or Ball-room. Phone severe famines of 1920-1930 in the 28409 or 28128
[280) north-western provinces have been
THE FANLING HUNT AND RACE CLUB.
AUTUMN-MEETING.
left to tap the lateral waterways,
Viking Ships Find Anchor.
Disarmament.
tho
Disarmament
Tuming to
the Gokstadship is a king's ship, a probably the only statesman in the issur, Duce referred to Italy's solid seagoing ship in which the United States with a first-hand disarmament project and vigorous. vikings sailed over the open sea; knowledge of Australia, and they rejected the insinuatons that and the Osebvorship is a queen's story of Australia's sruggle to pre- these concrete and practical pro ship. The queen'e ship has its high serve her solvency and re-establ stposals had a Macchiavellian char. prow richly carved, as well as the her affairs aroused his admiration.acter. "There is quite a simple. stern, and is artistic and lender i The conversation lasted three-quar test of our sincerity-to try it. Let in shape. It suggests a swan in its ters of an hour, and the Ottawa all and particularly those try it elegance. The three ships afford Conference results as they may af. who allege that our motives are good evidence that the old vikinga fect the United States occupied a
good deal of it. were masters in shipbuilding.
Local and
a procoss which they have not hon
The Calony dad a clean bill of alow to start. The present popula-health on Thursday. lion is 80,000, but a rapid increns is expected and no doubt "the desert will blossom like the rose,"
after a few years of intensive cul-
tivation by hard-working pensants of North China. At its intake the main canal had a surface width of 90 feet, a width of 60 feet on the bed, and a depth of 10 feet. The lateral canals have a surface width of 40 feet. The project cost $750,000 of which the Provincial Government found 8300,000, and is repaying the remainder, which the Commission
The China Light and Power Re- creation Club dance for to-night has been cancelled.
Passengers who arrived yester day by the Asama Maru included Mr. J. D. Humphreys and Mrs. It. Leach,
Mr. A. Aoki, Japanese Minister to Rome, passed through the Colony by the 8.8. Hakozaki Maru yoster day.
Blank ammunition will be fired at intervals from forts at Stonecutters, Belchers and Lyemun between noon
November 1, and & all. November Searchlights will be employed during hours of darkness,
0.
advanced, by means of water rates. The local authorities also made a loan of 3,000 soldiers, and the
On Thursday, an elderly woman, enthusiasm with which this soldiers was admitted to the Government and the loral population threw them- Civil Hospital with an injury to her face, received in an accident at selves into the work was not then's Road West, when she was least satisfactory feature of this knocked down by a goods lorry
H.M.8. Hermes returned to the Colony yesterday after a long ab- The Hermes will be here until May when she will be relieved by H.M.S. Eagle, a 22,000 ton air craft carrier, more than twice the size of the Hermes.
nobievenient,
General
It is understood that through the uncoming train, the 1.50 p.in. from efforts of Mr. L. Lau Taun, C.B.E., the Peak, had to apply the emer and other prominent Chinese direcgency brake to avoid hitting the tors of the Handicraft Free School pedestrian. in Aberdeen, inany substantial con tributions have been obtained and construction of the school will be started in the near future.,
Sub-calibre gun practice for the week ending November 6 will take place as follows:-Nov, 1, Devil's Peak, at 10 a.m., area affected, Tai- thong Channel; Nov. 2, Pakshawan, at 5.30 p.m., area affected, Junk Bay; Nov. 3, Mt. Davis at 10.30 a.m., area affected, 8.W. of Mt. Davis:
not honest. What I have to say from thin frontier-town-which never was afraid of want is this:- Italy is pursuing a policy of pesce, of real genuine peace which cannot be divorced from justice. There are still living abroad some muddle-heads who cannot “forgive Fascist Italy for standing tipright and by her very existence make ridiculous their long obsolete prin- ciples."
the
Continuing the Premier denit. with Italy's 'titude towards the League of Nations, declaring that Italy will remain within League particularly now when that body is suffering from. many ill He admitted that the de cisions of the Lesene loss in value in radio to the distaire and that in the Far East and South America they mean nothing what-
"However. the
of Lengte There is no foundation for the Nations is still valuable to Europe.
to a certain extend and moreover report that the Third Division of there have hrest attempts to free the Lunchun, now in Manchuria,
From the files.
Looking Back 25 Years,
Every-
is to be sent to Chientag as a de Europe from this all too universal institution, But no matter, I be monstration against the Japanese. A sum of $1,000 was voted yes There are only about a thousand lieve that it will be possible to terday by the Chinese Chamber of troops in the neighbourhood of the establish the essential conditions fame as their contribution to island, and China bas no intention for co-operation of the four great disabled soldiers of the 18th Route of putting her military forces Western Powers, one of these con
ditions being the recdtnition of Aray. An appeal has reached the against those of Japan.
car rights arising from our whr- Chamber for funds and a sum of thing that can be done to avoid a
sagrifires.' $500 approved by the Executive collision with the Japanese over
Germany's Claim, Committee, was considered too small this frontier dispute is being car at the Committee Meeting held yes- ried out by the Grand Councillor
Referring to Germany's armament terday.
of State Yuan Shih Kai and Chang Chih Tùng with the support parity lain, Il Duce described it The assistance of the Chamber of Prince Ching Negotiaticas are fully justified." insisting on of Commerce is sought in connee still in progress between the Wai- the fundamental necessity of con- The Wri Pei Irrigation Project
tion with an appeal which is to be wup and the Japanese Chargé ceding that clain" the earlier the made to the Canton and the Nan d'Affaires, and a satisfactory settle-better" and adding that, if the meant the irrigation of 90,000 acres
king Authorities relative to the ment is anticipated. The prospect Disarmament Conference should two move negative, Germany could not of good farm land, The scheme was
taking over of the Canton Electric of an alliance between the difficult one, and attempts to
Company by the Canton Govern countries, mooted in some quarters, remain within the League unless mont. The petition, which is to must, however, be regarded as re- the discrimination against her was he forwarded, is on behalf of share-moto; for it is open to, question removed. irrigate. this piece of land have
whether the present feelings of the been made without success, during
"Four menthe hard labour and, holders of the Company.
Chinese authorities towards Japan the past two thousand years. This twelve strokes of the birch was the
A Chinese coolie, who was arrestare better than they were at the triumph of modern engineering in-sentence passed on a bag-nnatcher, volved an elaborate diversion dam, who was convicted yesterday of od in Connaught Road with outbreak of the Sino-Japanese containing 3,000 heroin War in 1891-Hong Kong Daily snatching a hand-bag from Mrs. F. parcel intake tunnel and channel, bridges Haugtland in Queen's Road Cen- pills, was charged before Mr. Scho- Press, October 20, 1907. and culverts, the cost, totalling tral, near Aberdeen Street on Thurs field at Central Magistracy zester Looking Back 50 Years,
day. The coolio told the Magis
about a million dollars.
sence.
day. :
The wedding will shortly take place between Mr. Thomas Charles Hards, merebant, of 38, Whitworth Street, Manchester, at present re- siding at St. Francis Hotel, and Miss Kathleen Elgear, who is ca route for the Colony by the .s. Comorin.
In concluding the speech, which was frequently interrimted by long applauses drowning the speaker's words, Il Duce, with reference to France, declared that Italy would never tolerate the hegemony over Europe of a single state, especial- le if this hegemony would mean
ZEPPELIN AS NOAH'S ARK
The owner of a hippopotamus has
trate that he was carrying thei The Hong Kong, Canton and the consolidation of obvious in- to the slagan for the second Fareist Roads and irrigation works, the
parcel for another person to earn Macao Steamboat Co.'s steamer justice, "and now I will give you
made an excursion Commission has found, are the great
a few cents and his Worship gave Honam
was all that could be wished for march, to rebuild, and it necessary. to fight and to emerge from the needs of China. Where these exist
the coolie the benefit of the doubt Macas on the 20th. The weather decade." Il Duce ended, "To and discharged him.
(the trip and a large number avail famine loses much of its terrors,
Paymaster-Lioutenant. 8. G. H.ed honfolves of the opportunity struggle as ʼn vietor,” of particular fruitfulness, and the and wealth accumulates under the report of the Commission's Chief natural industry and thriftiness of
Leyh, R.N.R., has been appointed of enjoying the sea breeze and visit to H.M.8. Hermes for training from ing the Holy City. The boat left the 12th November, 1932, inclusive. the wharf here at five minuten. to Engineer, Mr. Q. J. Topp tells the population. The Chief Engin
at Macao at 10.40. From the Nino HIPPOPOTAMUS, MONKEYS remarkable story of work that will cer's Report is insistent upon the Nanking, October 24.-A shipment Mr. and Mrs. Leyh will leave night, and was alongside the wharf
AND FOXES... provo of permanent value to the helpfulness of both authorities and of railway material, consisting of Penang for Hong Kong in the s.s
200,000 wooden sleepers, has arriv. BarDedon on the 3rd November and Irlands she slowed down. Leaving Chineas people in their struggle inhabitants. They are fully alive toou here for delivery to the Tientsin. return in the s.s. Corfu, arriving in Macno again punctually a five against alternate droughts, and the the benefits of this help, which does Pukow Railway Administration. The Penang on the 20th November. Mr. o'clock she arrived at the wharf America by the Ministry of Rail Service, Penang, will take charge there was some little excitement. on WO Buses of the China Motor
bring in its train a concentration.
ways at a cost of over $400,000.- of the Government Monopolies De board as the steamer passed through pelit to transport this animal by Bm To will leave the Star rivers are in food,
partment during Mr. Lesh's ab- a fleet of fishing boats. The small the airship to South America on raft was thickly scattered and it its next trip. Two monkeys And Ferry (Godown Entrance), on BUN
Perhaps the two outstanding of militarist activity. It is along Kid Min
was with difficulty she was steered some foxes will probably accom DAY, 20th instant-One at 10.40 m
will probably settle themselves. As Pleading Guilty to summons
Convicted on charges of trespass-clear of them all; in fact one sam-pany him.
The airship bas already carried and Onent 11.00 a.m.-going direct to achievements have been the Saratsi these lines that China's problema
communities replace for apeeding on his motor cycle on Kwanti Race Course via Castle Peak, Irrigation Project in Suiyuan and prosperous
October 17, between Bowring Street ing on this Peak Tramway Track pan was run into, but the Honam and returning soon after the last
the Wei Pei Project in Shensi, forty famine areas, pence will gain the
and Pitt Street, Mr. J. G. Raven, and obstructing a Peak tram, was going slow at the tinie, and animals, but hitherto they Have Face.
upper hand, and a system of Govern- The Fere there and back fincluding miles north of Sian The annualment will emerge, capable of main of the N.A.A.F.I.. was fined $10 at Chinesd youth was fined 870 in all the samonn steered off the bow and heen considerably smaller than the entrance to the Race Course (Public) rainfall in Sulyuan averages only taining orders of destroying mill the Kowloon Magistracy. Mr. C. M. The case for the Tramway Come nissed by the paddle in safety. At freight which has now been offered. twelve inches and in 1999, a falltarism and of enabling ordinary Gosano was cautioned for driving pany was that the defendant was Macao preparation were being Thay varied in size from becs to a THOMSON & CO.,
eltizens to pursue their avocations his motor cycle without a front found meandering along the tracks, mids for illuminations in honour fox terrier. Chartered Accountants of less than seven inches caused of agriculture, industry and com- white light. Mr. Gosano stated that coming down the incline between of the King of Portugal's birth-The largest and heaviest object
Zeppelin was a piano. serīgus_famine. A main canal was meror, under conditions adjusted to he was taking his oycle to a repair Barker and May Roads. At day-Hong Kong Daily Press, hitherto transported by the Graf
critical moment, the driver of an October 20, 1882, antional idesis and characteristics shop when he was arrested:
Kaclosure), will be $3.00. .
-Secretarice
terrific forces unloosed. when their not, as in the case of the railways consignment was purchased from | W. Gordon, Head of the Proventive here at 8.20. On the return trip naked the agents of the Graf Zep-
cut-from-ti-Yell