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IN pursuance of Section 3 of the
Fraudulent Transfer of Business Ordinance, No. 25 of 1923. Notice is hereby given that J.B. Tamet (11) of No. B, Lawn Fat Street, Ground floor, Victoria, ju the Colony of Hong Kong carrying ou business at the Hame address under the name or style of Tho China Paper Box l'o. (PRERAD) (hereinafter callel the Transferor") has transferred to The Universal Co. (AT) of No. 204, Queen's Road East, Ground floor, Victorin aforesaid, (hereinafter called the Transferees") AR That the Transferor's business of the said China Paper Box Co. together with the goodwill, stock-in-trade, chattels, fixtures, furniture and effects thereof.
The Transferces intend to carrying on the said business under the same. firm name and will not assume the liabilities incurred by the Transferor prior to the 4th day of November, 1982:
Dated the 10th day of November, 1932, Transferor: J. B. TAMET.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1932.
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November 11th
WEAR A FLANDERS POPPY.
IN FLANDERS FIELDS.
In Flanders Gold the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky The larks still bravely singing, dy Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago, We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Ficida.
Take up our quarro? witli the for;
To you from failing hands wo throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high, If ye, break faith with us who die,
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We shall not aleop, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
JOHN MCCRAE,
The foes to be mot to-day by ex-service men consists of physical lisability, trade depression and consequent unemployment. This distress is shared by their dependanta Take up this quarrel by giving a little more for your Poppy than you did last year.
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MEMBERS and their Friends are reminded that Opening Cruise- will take place on Saturday the 12th November
Yucht whon
racing Rowing, and Fencing events will be held at the Club House. The start ing time of the first Rowing event is
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Hon. Secretary.
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EXCHANGE
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CAR TO BEAT BANDITS
BRITISH POLICE TESTING NEW VEHICLE
ACCELERATION AS MAIN
OBJECT
Economy in U.S.
News and Views
Cursory surveys made as a num
ber of United States colleges and universities opened their fall terms serve to give the impression that
fathers have decided that the stu The Postmaster General, speaking dent-owned motorcar is not an es- in East Ham disclosed that "cer-sential this year. tain measures were being adopt-
ed which would give Post Office
employees adequate protection in Time, Date, and Direction. future against bandit raids.
Scotland Yard is searching for САГА with super-acceleration in order to combat smash and grab raiders and motor highwaymen...
Between the criminals and the police there has for some time and been & sequence of moves countermoves, and one of the most important factors in the conflict hitherto has been speed.
By using faster cars the crimin- als have forced the police to re view their equipment at short in- tervals and to search for machines that will put them on lovel terms.
But exhaustivo tests have now indicated that, for this police work, acceleration rather than extreme ly high top speed is the paramount need
When in casential to take up chase through winding streets and traffe, acceleration counts first, and the latest cars which have been tried are noted in particular for
this feature,
One of the cars which has earned the approval of the police, drivore has an exceptionally high power to weight ratio, with the result that it has the acceleration of a stripped racing unchine.
Sports Models Beaten, It leaps away at a touch of the accelerator pedal, and can take advantage of openings in the traffic Lesides losing no time in golting
away alter rounding a corner,
During testa made through thick London traffe this car has shown & higher average speed than cer- tain famous sports models.
At overy check it shot away ahead, gaining a considerable load up to 40, 50, and even 00 miles an hour. It was only on long, open stretches of road that the sports
There is on sale in London a wrist watch to-day which, is one of the first of its kind. It records the time, to-day's date, and indicates the direction in which its owner) walks. Both the calendar and the compass are perfect miniatures, and the watch an artistic triumph.
Russia Pleased:
Soviet Russia has opened the world's largest hydroelectric plant. at Dnieprostroy. Honours and me dala were bestowed on Col. Hugh
bridge was the one across the River | Exchange Restriction Comedy Oise, linking Saint-Ouen-l'Aumônő | Writen a correspondent from to Pontoise, on the Chemins de Fer Home: I hear overy day of the du Nord, and required almost a strange difficulties which ariss year to build. Placed on rollers, owing to foreign exchange restric it was slowly moved into positiontions. They have a comic and a at the side of the old bridge by 350 tragio side,
mon, no machine power being used.
Hungarians, for instance, somE- Then the two bridges were moved times want to travel to the Italian simultaneously sideways, the old resorts that were formerly in Aus one to temporary piling built to tro-Hungarian possession. But the receive it, the new to the piers Hungarian law prevents purchase which had supported the old. Thus of exchange for such purposes. the train service was suspended less than a day,
Lord Lloyd on Egypt.
Lord Lloyd, who has been abroad for some time has almost complet ed a work on Egypt which he be gan shortly after his term of office as High Commissioner of that country came to an end. The first
The Biggest
it
Yet, I am informed, if the Ita- lian money can be obtained by ex- port of Hungarian cowa and form produce the traveller may have his. wish. Which is very much as if each traveller had to cross the frontier attended by the cow which is to pay for his keep while away from
home.
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Proletarian Ingratitude.
Made-to-measure suits may now be ordered in Russia, but the Rus sisu press is complaining that, of the two volumes which will com- New and Old Delhi. among other deficiencies, the front prise the book is already in the No greater contrast exista in fu- and lack of a suit are frequently press. All the earlier history of dia than. the differences in ap
was pearance and style which charac." made of different materials and Egypt as a modern nation contrasting colours. Presumably dealt with fully in the admirablaterize new and old Delhi. New the Soviet will now discover, as
book by the lato Lord Cromer, and Delhi marks one of the world's did the Enlightened Despots, that Lord Lloyd's work is more or less most conspicuous examples of no- no one resonts so much as the peo-
dern city planning, It has wide ple-themselves any attempt to make a sequel to it in that it will cover
and tree-lined streets; it is set in the people's life a little brighter. only the period from Lord Crom broad open spaces; it fits in with or's time up to the present day. the pictorial and rugged landeapo
of the country; and its architectur al dignity distinguishes the city as a brilliant example of the city builders' art, Old Delhi on the other hand, displays all the fentures
streets-save. for a few important of ancient building methods. The Cooper, New York engineer, and
thoroughfares are parrow and tor- his six assistants. This great
tuous; shops and homes dovetail plant, costing $110,000,000, is ex-
ora manner; neighbours may talk pected to develop 50,000 horsepower Reconstruction Finance Corpora into each other in the usual East ultimately, the electricity being tion classifies the San Francisco-
to each other from either side of used by 10,000,000 people over 20,000 Oakland toll bridge, centering on the street without raising their square milca. The plant, built by Goat Island, as a self-liquidating voices beyond ordinary speech; and American engineers gave the Soviet
to provide goate, shoep, and sacred cows Wan- newspapers their opportunity 902,000,000 of the $70,000,000 cost. dor at will among the citizens, de- They were almost delirious over Construction will employ 12,000 youring farinaceous foods from the this brilliant accomplishment of men, balf on the job and half in grain merchant's store, or drink- Soviet industry.
plants in various states supplying ing water from the public foun the steel, pipe, wire and other ma tain. But, both cities have their teriale. The bridge, above the tal distinctive charms. If New Delhi lest ships entering the harbour, impresses by its massive magnifi- will be 44 miles long, with two conce, old Delhi appeals for the de- decks for auto and suburban car licate beauties of craftsmanship traffic. At 1 cent per passenger the which may be discerned on old structure will pay in 25 years, San doorways or -casements, and in Francisco's dream of a generation many other aspects of the city's
layout.
San Francisco is happy for has been graciously permitted by Washington to start work at once on the world's biggest bridge. The
project and Government towards the
When these tests have been com pleted the police hope to have equipment which will put them, in the position to combat the bandits so effectively that they will be able to stamp them out entirely.
Philippine Islands shows that there is no intention of allowing more than a minimum of imports. The
models could hold it economic situation is out of the
Another point that has to be hands of the politicians. The com- considered is the appearance of the plexities are such that expert guidar. The less it has the appear ance of a racing maching the bet anes is essential. Bold and drastic Ler, in general, is it adapted to measures, of the kind that the the work. electorat understands and delights to hear discussed on electoral plat, forms are seldom practicable. It 63, Fleet Street, is true that Great Britain has reversed her fiscal policy, but it is seldorf, indeed, in these times, when politics are more than a tourna
A JOSEPHI ment of debate, that CHAMBERLAIN can hold before the gaze of an audience, spell-bound by his thetoric, a Free Trade and a Protection loaf. The electorate at least knows that economic problema are difficult to handle as two-edged Rough and ready methods aro more than suspect,
The Daily Press.
Dosa Koxo, NOVEMBER 10, 1932.,
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
of our Main Building No. 10, Ice Now that the great Presidential House Street, tho business of this election is over, the United States Exchange will be conducted in Exchange Building, Des Voeux Road in particular, and the world in Central
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By Order of the Committes,.
A. NISSIM,
Secretary,
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,
FOURTEENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING.
tools.
ALONG LINE OF PEACE
JAPANESE DELEGATE ON
New Bridge for Old.
Replacement of an old railroad bridge by a new iron structure 120 yards long in the short space of 10 hours was a foat accomplished recently by French engineers. The comes frue.
agrece
Local and General
One case of phratyphoid fever was reported to the Medical Ofleer of Health yesterday.
Dr. Li Shu Fan, M.B., F.R.C.S.,, was among the passengers return- ing to the Colony yesterday by the 8.8. Conte Verde.
Negotiations are to be opened by and Mrs. Fabre, Count Del Buno. the Shanghai District Rice Ration and Mr. G. M Byvanck, attended ing Association with different local the annual Cossack Ball at Shang- hanks for credit for the purchase hai, arranged by the local Union of rice stocks which are to be of Russian Cossacks. Most of the hoarded and used for relief pur-Cossack officers and men, the
poses.
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majority of whom represented the Siberian and Ussuriaky clans, were in full uniform and several looked picturesque in their king Caucasian
In America the hard fact hit this afternoon, indicating that his flatures are now operating. The Colony on October 31 for Bangkok, tunics. -
people that when Mr. Hoover was elected they were prosperous and during his régime the crash cams. general are asking what will be the Probably most of the voters do not practical effects of Mr. RoceEVELT's protend to know whether or no the victory over President HOOVER? Government might have served the Despite all economic problems, the situation. A populace judges its direct and personal question of statesmen and generals by success Prohibition has played
His famous Thanksgiving Day address, extolling the wealth and greatness of his country, and pro- phosying the dawn of a new era, when poverty should be an more,
Sixty-five Shanghai Chinese silk
is an increase of about 20 over the number in operation last month.
Mr. M. J. van Schreven, vice Consul of the Netherlands, left the
where he has been appointed! Chargé d'Affaires of the Nether- lands. Pending the arrival of his {successor, Mr. H. Bos Chinese The ban on export of cash from Secretary of the Netherland Lega- Hunan Province has been lifted by tion at Peiping, has been tem- General Ho Chien, Chairman of persona
porarily attached to the Consulate. Hunan Provincial Government in General in this Colony. compliance with requests of the
bankera.
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From the files.
MOSCOW TALKS.
Moscow, Nov. 4.-" We Japanese hayo always considered Japan and Russin natural allies with many common interests," Mr. Matsuoka, chief Japanese delegate to Genova, declared in an interview with a re- presentative of the United Press interview with M. Maxim Litvinoff, Commissar for Foreign Affairs, had confirmed his friendly attitude.
Mr. Matsuoka, however, cun- phasised that the meeting, had been merely an exchange of views" but added that the conver- sations had found mutual bope of
Tho "Bloody Group for the Looking Back 25 Years. incrensod friendship and avoidance of misunderstandings.
Presidents of various schools in Extermination of Traitors" "I am unable to disclose the
An "A" team of the Hong Kong a big part or failure. If things go wrong the details of my personal talk with M. Hankow established by the Hupeh extended its activities from Shan Football Club will play a scratch
Provincial Government have tender. hai to Taichang. except to say. in the contest. Mr. Rooseverr de instinct is to let someone else have Litvinoff," he said, " fintely favours a drastic modifica- a chance. President Hooven cor- that it was along the line of peace, ed their resignations because their Pross reports that a large piece XV. composed of saval players cap- wagos bave been in arrears, accord- goods store in that city received a tained by Liout. Tweedie this after- letter from the Shanghai "Bloody noon at 4.15 p.n. playing in colours. Questioned regarding the positioning to a Hankow report. tion of the Eighteenth Amendment, tainly did not foresce the crasti. which both of un deeply desire."
Group," warning the management The team is as follows:-Capt. W. but while Mr. Hoover has also ad.
which Japan will take at Geneva
A mongrel dog owned by Bands against selling Japanese goods and J. Daniel, full back; F. C. Carroll. mitted that a change in the law
when the Loague Assembly takes up consideration of the Sino-man Croft, of the South Wales threatening to bomb the shop pre. G. D. Mellraith, A. N. Other and should the warning be 8. U. M. Body-Else, three quarter backs; A. V. Monk and L. J. Black- DRAFT Programmea and Entry
Forms for the Fourteenth Extra would be advisable, he has been
Japanese dispute, ho said he would Borderers yesterday bit the bands-misce
man's little daughter Joan, who ignored.
burn, half backs; Cript, R. Mi Rams Race Meeting to be held on BATUR cautious in committing himself to
probably issue a formal statement
attary Hospital for treatment. At a meeting of the Chapei kin, W. N. Weston, Lieut. A.-N. -DAY, 10th November, 1939 (weather its exact nature. That, however,
embodying, the general Japanese was subsequently taken to the Mili viewpoint upon his arrival
Devastated Areas Fire Insurance Fraser, R. G. Munro, H. W. Lester, permitting), may be obtained at the Secretary's Oce, the Club House, is a matter for Americans to de- hung a political millstone, round Geneva.
The National Anti-Opium Asso- Compensation Association, it was R. O. Hutchison, C. B. Hayward Valley, the Hong Kong Club, Happy
"We are not going to Geneva in Moreover, when, the the Sports Club, and the Stables,cide. Only the Highlands of Scot his neck. Village Blond
land, and the province of Cham-storm was beginning HoOYEE's fighting mood," he declared.ciation, in a telegram to General decided to ask the different local, and W. 8. Stanton, forwards.--- "There is nothing to fight about. Chiang Rai Shek, neks that the organisations to persuade the for- Hong Kong Daily Press, November Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON pagne, in Franes, take more than, appeal was to spend freely,, to Manchako is an established fact authorities of Anhui, Kiangsi and eign insurance companies to adopt 10,1907. on THURSDAY, 10TH NOVEMBER,
an academic interest, in that domus maintain the standard of life, to and for my Government there is no other province be ordered imme- the compensation scheme suggested Looking Back 50 Years.
that, in view of the refusal of the The British North Borneo, is 1832.
keep trade alive and money oires road back. We are determined to diately to abolish the opium mone- by the Chinese authorities and
do our best to explain the real poly."
foreign companies to issue compen- making a good start very early in By Order,
In the matter of foreign and lating. Who is bold enough to say situation in the Far East and to In a series of raids conducted in sation, members were requested to its history as a state is apparent,
make clear why Japan bonsiders. trade policy, even at this carly whether he wore right or wrong itself absolutely right in its course any more than 40 alleged their insurance policies from foreign from various sources of what is Hankow, Hanyang and Wachang advise their relatives to withdraw not only by the accounts received many who stage Reuter predicia that altera but very certainly
of action. We can only hope that Communists, including several lend concerns.
going on at Elopura, but also by tion is not to be expected when Mr. followed his advice were soon wish Europeuns and Americans
The formation at Shanghui of the ers, were taken into custody by members of the Wulan Public: ROOSEVELT takes chargo In these ing they had the money that had understand us."
A sketch map of China, showing Chinese Sabah. Land- Farming Com- Safety Barcau..
the positions of the Soviet districts rany. This Company, as its title days all major powers preserve con- gone on superfluitics.
and bearing Communist slogans, denotes, has been started with a tinunity of foreign policy, unless, Mr. ROOSEVELT enjoys the prestige The country needs a strong ad-
Three Chinese newspapers, the opposing the Lytton Commission's view af engaging planting and of course,
a particular problem of a great name. Many foreigners ministrator, who will restore the Wah Hiu at Po, the Teun Wan Report and urging the masses to agricultural enterprise in North sharply divided a nation, and n nt first placed him as the son of damaged prestige of the forces of Fat Po, and the Tung, Al Yar o bescigo the gaols to secure the Borneo, for which purpose it will new party takes office pledged to THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Actually he law and order, and introducon were each fined $50 by Mr. Scho release of anti-Japanese and anti- take up a grant of 40,000 acres of warriors, was found suitable land provisionally made to better standard of public life. It field yesterday for publishing in Imperialist drastic change. The United States is a distance vousin of his famous was a tragie irony that crime and decent advertisement matter in pasted on a wall in Yangtazepoo Mr. Major, one of the projectors. will certainly not summit them namesake, but the family connee graft roached unprecedented pro their respective newspaper purports to have emanated from the are, it is stipulated, to consist of Road Shanghai: The document Of this grant ten thousarid – acres selves, for instance, to membershiption was brought closer when President, HOOVER, himself & sturdy Fortions during the regime of
Members of this Shanghai French propagands department of the forest, twenty thousand of level of the League of Nations. Nor is FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT married a Puritan and the most. upright of Club, at an extraordinary general Shanghai Eastern and Western Re-country, and ten thousand of hill land. The Company proposes to any change in the attitude towards nieco of the then President. The men. A nation has, however, the meeting at their premises in Route volutionary Mutual Aid Society.
engage at once infelling and pro-" right to hold its rulers responsible Valion, elected the following officere
Botween 000 and 700 guests of paring timber for export and, when For Eastern offairs likely to occur. President-elect has recently on for the whole state of affairs within for the ensuing rear-President,
including the land it cleared, to"raise pepper Under present conditions nehanced his reputation by bin handl z country and it is easy to see ML Lion vice-president. M different nationalities, President would dare, of his owning of the enquiry in the conduct why the electorate has inflicted n Pernot; secretary, M. Benoist; tron Brigadier G. Fleming Colonel N tobacco, indigo, sugar, etc., and to initiative, to tamper with taxiff of Mayor WALKER of New York, defeat on the Republican party turer, M. Lorenzi; and members of WB, B. Thoms, Mrs. C. A. Hor-plant coconut and Bago palms, almost unprecedented in ite the committer, Messrs. Balandre, vath, Mrs. E. D. Lewis-Horvath, cinchona, etc.-Hong Kong Daily,
Mr. and Mrs. Ch. E. Metzler, Major Press, November 10, 1882. Ballandras, Dupont and Niel. walls. The behaviour of the United (Continued at foot of nezt Column) verity.
8. A. SLEAP,
Acting Secretary,
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