NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONG KONG TECHNICAL INSTITUTE.
HE Institute will be re-opened.
on. MONDAY, 20th February, 1938, Fruvision will be made for instruction in English Literaturo, Commercial English, French, Short- hand, Book Keeping, Physics, Chemistry, Hygiene, Pedagogy, Electrical Engineering, Building Construction, Architecture, Banit tion, Field Surveying. Physical In- Satruction, Machine Drawing, Applied Mechanics, Cookery, Journalism and any other subject for which there is suficient demand.
* Entry forms and copies of Pros. pectus may be obtained at the Education Department or at the Central British School."
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▲. Q. BRAWN,
*Director,
Technical Institute.
THE
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS
▲ SHIPBUILDERS · OF
HONG KONG.
A Papor entitled
·BUILDING. CEMENTS
ANCIENT & MODERN"
will be road in the Institution
by
PROFESSOR F. A. REDMOND, B.Sc., D.1.C., FO.S...
On
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 16TH; at 5.45 P.M.
Members and their friends are invited to be present.
HONG KONG TẸLEPHONE
CO., LTD.
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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
No
that the EIGHTH ORDIN-
PART YEARLY MEETING of the CHONG KONG TELEPHONE CO., LTD., will be held on Wednesday, the 22nd day of March, 1383, at the BOARD ROOM of the Campany. Second Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, at 11.30 am.. for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Board of Directors, for the financial year ended 31st December, 1992, and re-electing two Directors and the Auditora.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 18th March to the 22nd March, 1933, both daya inclusive,
Dated this 18th day of February, 1988
By Order of the Board,
W. L. MCKENZIE, Secretary.
Des Voeux, Road, Central,
Hong Kong.
Good
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1933.
Selections!
A NEW
SHIPMENT OF THE FAMOUS FOSS CHOCOLATES
HAS JUST ARRIVED.
NEW
FLAVOURS!
ARTISTIC BOXES!
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY, Est. 1841.
Editorial and Bumana Offices: 11,
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251.
Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 53, Fleet Strock
E.C. 4.
The Baily Press.
HONO KONG, FEBRUARY. 14, 1932,
THE LEAGUE'S VERDICT Ir would be interesting to know what has enabled, the Committee of Nineteen to pronounce judgment on the Sino-Japanese issue with such unexpected firmness. The League
MR. C. R. ANDERSON LEAVING H.K.
FINAL CONCERT TO BE GIVEN
* News and Views *
Peace Over Adelaide,
DIARY OLOCAL EVEN
TO-DA (February
( Moon 20th, St. Valentine's Day!' Lammert's Sale Household Furniture, 521, Nathatad, Kow- loon.
Hong Kong Land
Taximen's Wreath for Mrs. Meyrick. It was solemnly reported in one of the Test match cables from Trafalgar square, was crowded with St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, With the departure for home of Adelaide that before play began mourners, for the funeral service the troopship Neuralia in a low dave was seen to be wheeling over of Mrs. Kate Meyrick, the "Night days time Hong Kong is to loss the wicket. This is probably the Club Queen." one of its most popular concert en- bird that has been missing for some tertainers, for the local military time from Geneva; and it is symp-In front of the altar were placed authorities have deemed it neces-tematic of the chaos of modern dozens of wreaths from peers, ac Agency Co., Ltd., Annafecting, sary to relieve Mr. O. Reg. An- values that it should be worrying treases and members of her staff. derson of his duties with the local ever the leg theory and not con-One was sent by the taxi-drivers Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Acentrating on the Sino-Japanese of London." Traffle into Trafal tually Mr. Anderson has not com question."
gar-square was delayed by a long plated a full tour of duty here,
line of cars drawn up outside the church.
station.
all.
.
ment &..
Jardine's Offices, noon.
Sanitary Board Mestia 18 p.m. Exhibition by Mr. Roooper,
of Artistic Miniatures.
·Rotary Cluk Tiffin. Exhibition of Antiquehinese and Tibetan Paintings insula
Hotel.
Whist Drive, Civil Serv ket Club, 8.5 p.m.
Practice of Irish Dancers St.
The plain oak coffin, covered with Понога, wat followed into the Patrick Society's Ball, Holo May
Chiusse Gordon Gentemary,
and his having recently suffered Puzzling! family bereavement at home is the
The Rev. Pat McCormick, the main cause for his impending dewho have not followed the history vice."
It may seem strange to those vicar, conducted the simple ser parture Whilst in Hong Kong Mr. Anderson has made a host of of the movement that the Filipinos friends particularly among the appear to regard the promise of from the United musical fraternity, and with the independence knowledge of the help he has al-States more as a threat than as a church by a score or more of those ways given at local concerts we gift," says the Manchester Guar who had worked under Mrs. Mey- are sure that one and all of these, dean, stout upholder of Liberty for rick at the Forty-three and other and Hong Kong generally, will re
The answer to the puzzle, clubs which she controlled.
After the service the coffin was gret very much his leaving the co-which may suggest a few moments lony and wish him luck in his next of quint thought to nationalists taken to Kensal Green Cemetery,
everywhere, is the 'sugar trade. On | N.W., where Mrs. Mayrick was "Miss Hook of Holland Recalled. the one hand, the Filipinos cannot buried beside her little grandson, Mr. Anderson will be best re-afford to lose the American mar- the child of her daughter, Lady membered here perhaps for having ket, and, on the other, American innoull.. played with succoss the leading growers are determined to man's part in the Hong Konge that they do.. Altogether it is Philharmonic Society's production interesting footnote to the main "Miss Hook of Holland in 1931, text of international worry." It is therefore pleasing to note that before he leaves the colony for good Mr. Anderson is to give a final radio concert of songs from this comedy at the Broadcasting Studio This concert takes place to-morrow evening, and as a geature of ap preciation members of the South Wales Borderers Band who also took part in the local production of "Miss Hook" are to play in strumental numbers also from this } Accompanying Mr. Anderson in the well-known "Sleepy Canal" duet is Miss Bells Fark who pos- seases possibly the most charming vatce in the colony, a voice that is too seldom heard on the local con- cert platform.
The Law and the Leg-Trap.
Institute; 5.15 p.m.
Theatres, King's "The Big Broadcas Queen's Grand Hotel." Central: Airmail." Oriental: "Tarzan the Apo World: Hell's Divers! Star: "But the Flash is We
Majestio: Sob Sister."
Dances.
Tea Dances at Gloucester Bla ing, King's Restaurant, and g Kong Hotel..
Dinner Dances at Hong Kig Hotel, King's Restaurant, id
Sports.
In connection with the forthcom- ing Gordon centenary celebrations several of the bank notes with which Gordon paid his troops at Peninsula Hotel. Khartoum during the siege, and. vices Museum, are to be Fund for Wishart . F.A.0.0. (King's Fark Hockey-Mamak Tournamen belp the Gordon Appeal *the completion of Khartoum Cap.m.; Tamer e. Veteran (King
thedral and for building other Park). 4.13 p.m. churches in the Sudan.
New South Wales judge has just which are now in the United Ser
How squeamish is this age declared that leg-theory bowling is "covered by the criminal law."
Larwood, therefore, is liable to be used for assault and battery, be cause it is a grave offence wanton- to harm any person, even with- cut malice.
One wonders what dimensions the fuss would reach if old David Harris could come to life again and bowl his fast underbands for the M.CC.
Lawn Tennis:-Open Singles When, in March, 1884, £100,000 W. Leopard D. H. Hasel; L
Lea Yu, Wing . S. W. Liang; ant to Gordon from Osiro was Goldman . K. H. Wong. seized by the Mahdi outside Ber Doubles: A. H. Rumjahn and F Oped Gordon had no money with D. Pareira. G. Gamble and C. A. which to pay his troops. The situs Wright; P. 8. Cannon and H. J.. tion was critical, because the troops Armstrong, Chin Chun Chiu and were discontented and might have W. C. Hung; S. A. and H. D. mutinied. A Ferocious Lob-Bowler.
Gordon, however, was equal to Ng Sze Kwong and Taui Wai Fui Rumjahn v. S. E. and D. S. Green; "Woe to the unhappy weight," lithograph he issued a number of Cassumbhoy.
the occasion. By means of a crude. I. M. A. Razack and J. A. E. said his veracious chronicler, the bank notes, on which was the in- Rev. J. Mitford, "who did not, scription: "The abova sum is
Principal Mails, Outward air mail for Europe by
intensive hearings of both parties THE EMPRESS OF BRITAIN know how to stop his cannonades. guaranteed and will be paid by the
nt Geneva. Now judgment has been pronounced an unsparing condem- nation of Japan. The terms are so decisive that there is every appear ance of willingness to back the Loague's judgment by diplomatic
and economic action. If the Powers concerned were not so prepared thoir representatives would have either continued to play for time or would have insisted on a less outspoken document. For example the reference to Russian and American participation in a confer- ence between that Powers would hardly have been made, even in the form of inviting those nations to be represented, unless the ground had already been prepared at Washington and Moscow. It would
NO LEAK IN THE SHIP.
We find that the information given in our article on the engines of the Empress of Britain was not supplied by Mr. Thompson, one of the Company's Engineers, as stated.
по
We are also asked to mention, lesta falso impression might have leak" in the ship. The use of been conveyed, that thero is
the term was made by a layman' in n attempt to convey to other lay in which use is made of a supply man, an intricate technical device, of water direct from the sen
From the files.
·LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
To be let. From the February 1 Corner of Elgin and
Shelley
Streets, known as the "Retreat?
of Nations can only give expres appear that, the key to the situa (417sion to the policy of the Poweration has probably been a recent
that compose it, and particularly break between Tokyo and Moscow.next, the roomy bungalow, at the of the Powers directly implicated In consequence, it seems that the HONG LONG TRAMWAYS, LTD. in any dispute referred to Geneva. League, with Russian co-operation, and at present occupied by Mr. H. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN t is utterly illogical to blame the has at last found itself in a posi A. Barretto. The bouse stands that the ORDINARY YEARLY Longue for weakness and at the tion to bring pressure to bear upon is laid out as a garden, with good within a compound, part of which GENERAL MEETING of HONG KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED will same time to urge that one's own Japan. With Russia coming into offices and a spring of water, Ap- be held at the offices of Measta country should keep clear of em-line the United States could hardly ply to D. Margesson.-Hong Kong Jardine, Matheson & a Ltd., Heng broilments. That has been a fav. stand aloof. If, however, Moscow Daily Press, Feb. 14, 1885. Kong, on THURSDAY, the 6th day
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS February, 1933, at 12 o'clock noon, ourite device of cortain newspapers and Tokyo had been langued to er transact the ordinary business of and politicians in Europe, not plait China nothing that the League The Catholic Register says:-" A The Company.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO because they were unaware of their could de would have been of the correspondent in Macao writes to IVEN that the REGISTER OF own lack of fairness and reason,
us to say that the Macao officials are at dagger's drawn with the EMBERS of the Company will be but because they wished to dis
The problem from the first as Press. It is asserted that no less LOSED from THURSDAY, the 2nd
THURSDAY, the 18th February, credit the League. Those who want been the curbing of Japanese militan four libel cases have been instituted against both the Inde 933, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
W. F. SIMMONS, Secretary, fong Kong, January 25th, 1833. [883
NOTICE. KINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD..
least avail.
His fingers would be ground to Treasury in Khartoum or Cairo Felix Roussel, I pun..; steamer 2:30 dust against the bat, his bones pul-six months after date." Beneath is pu; for America and Europe viz verised his blood scattered over the Gordon's signature and his Arabic Siberia, by Pres. Jackson, 6 p.m. feld"
Beal...
Sunrise: 6.56 a.m.; Sunset: 6.20- The notes look today like yelp.m. kwing visiting, cards.
Tides-High at 12.16; Low at 6.00 and 17.35,
Let the Australians read that and be thankful f
Peril of the Machins,
Perils of mechanisation in offices and the problem of the now oult in "technocracy" we discussed at the second annual meeting of the In
urance Unions Congress in Lon- don. The conference
represent
of mechanisation in industry and 60,000 insurance workers.
In view of the detrimental effect employment a resolution was pass ed requesting, the constitution bo dies of the congress to report their
VIOWS
Building.
Sports. Association Tournament (Les Thea- Boxing:Hong Kong Boxing
tre), 9.15. p.m.
Hockey-Mamak Tournament: Signals. German Club. (Marina),
Meet (Miss Fearon's Bungalow), Hunting-Fanling Hunt Hounds
3.15 p.m.
Lawn Teanis:--Open Singles: C. Mr. Ibberson (Guild of Insurance 8. E. Greene. Wong Fuk Nam; D. A. Wright . J. A. E. Caasumbhoy; Offcials) referred to a firm in 8. Green v. A. J. Stocker; Iu Tek Sheffield which had introduced ma- Cheute . D..C. Dunham. Open clinery capable of grinding year's output of razor blades in W. Sewell . Luk Chun Cheung and a Doubles H. Owen Hughes and G. che week. Many composite offices, Wong Shiu Wing: Ho Ka Lau and he said, were housing mechanised Yow Man Kit v. J. W. Leonard and staffs in separate buildings and; Y. Hachiume. giving lower remuneration.
Mr. H. Bernard Grieve, the pre- sident, said that the Guild was Inward from Europe via Nega- Watching very closely the intro-ratam by Terukuni Maru.
action of machines in insurance
offices.
Principal Kails,
Outward for Europe cía Suez by Antenor, 2.30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY (February 15).
(I. Moon 21st Day).: British Medical Association Clinical, Hong Kong and South China Branch, Government Civil Hospital, Outpatient Department, 9 p.m. The
in Singing and Dancing, Sailors & Effervescent Eight" Girls Soldiers' Home, 8.15 p.m.
Theatres.
Queen's: "Grand Hotel.'! Central: 13 Women" King's "The Big Broadcast." World: "Hell's Divera" Oriental: Terran the Ape ManTM Majestic Sob Sister"
Dances.
Tea Dances at King's Restaurant, Hong Kong Hotel, Gloucester Building, and Majestie Dancing Academy,
Dinner Dances at King's Restau- rant, Peninsula, Hong Kong and Repulse Bay Hotels, and Gloucester Wantinued on Previous Voluma y
Local and General
Six cases of small-pox and five of meningitis-four from Kowloon- were notified during the week-end.
Chau Siu Tong, described as an
ties are reported to have issued an
The Shanghai Chinese authori order strictly forbidding mer- chants to sell ries and other coreal to the country's "enemy:"N
manager of Messrs. Lipton, Ltd, Mr. H. P. Surrey, late general die recently in Shanghai.
to see justion done both in the issue tarism and not the least difficulty pendent and the Correio. We are unemployed Chinese, was brought Patrons of the Repulse Bay Hotel at end of the Polo Ground at
*
are advised by the Management when You Sze, a married wornazi, A fatal accident occurred at the
that the usual dinger dance will noted 49, was knocked by a motor Causeway Bay on Sunday morning take place on Wednesday, the 15th lorry. She was rushed to hospital instant.
but died an hour and a half Inter.
Marine Court yesterday.
of a bogus Ambalance fund of Canton As yet no report has been.
printed a list of the entire French rusting of the Hong Kong Land victimised t
recently The forty-fifth ordinary general, received of persons having been
whe the assessing of Japanese not at all surprised at this news, now at stake, and to the organisa-aima Tokya has spokon fair words and hope that the hostile and un- before Mr. Wynne Jones at Central tion that has been, the instrument about respecting the integrity of justifiable crusade made against Magistracy yesterday afternoon on of international action, must per the Chinese Republic. These pro-
certain public functionaries in & charge of obtaining a parcel con pctually bear in mind the nature of interpreted and the question has nouncements have been curiously
Macao will received its well taining two diamond bracelets by the League. The League consists arisen whether it were just and Court. The Macanese, which was Theatre. In asking for a week for having left port without
merited desert at the hands of the fraud on February 4 at King's of three parte 1, The secretariat practicable for the Powers to inter denouncing Governor Graca, in no remand, the prosecuting officer obtaining a clearance from the Har Information has been received at venei The League after enormous unmeasured terms a few weeks stated that the two bracelets were bour Office, two Chinese, trading Falice Headquarters that a number of experts, domiciled at Geneva delay has answered the first point ago, has in its last number an ar- valued at $3,000 and both re-junk-masters were each fined 316 of Chinese are at present in the 2, The Council, and the Assembly, in the affirmative, and couched its ticle eulogising the Governor and covered. The mmand was granted. by Commander, Newill at the Colony collecting money on behalf in which the representatives of reply in terms so surprising that which has taken everybody by sur member nations shape its policy of the second issue. It is easy to stooped to conquer back the Goy Journal de Shanghai,
they suggest the previous settlement prise. Perhaps the Macanese has The French newspaper, La LOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 3 The ideal of justice and on-opera imagine the bargainings and alter ernor to its political clique.Hong that the THIRTY-SIXTH tion between all peoples, which has cations behind closed doors that Kong Daily Press, Feb. 14, 1883.
population in Bhanghai The total Investment & Agency Co., Ltd, will KDINARY ANNUAL MEETING
have precoded the public pronounce- Bhareholders in the Company will behind it a great mass of popular ment of the League The greatest Looking Back 25 Years,
number of names was 1,683, This be held at the offices of Mosers Thema Terukuni Maru, from, held in t
the Company's Board Room, support, ill-informed and unstable, factor in shaping the firmer policy Shanghai masage published in French Consulate General and noos
list has been prepared by the Jardine, Matheson & Co. this after London and porta is due at 8 p.m. Floor Exchange Building, Hong but still representing a dynamic of China's own resistance to Japan, Shanghai Chamber of Commerce has It is stated that of the total num- The Hankow municipal authori Kong for Japan porta via Shang
has probably been the doggedness the Japanese papers states that the has not yet been officially closed.
| this evening and will berth at Kow- force of immense power in world for even with Russian and American brought to light the infringement ber of French subjects registered, tice are contemplating the erection hai, at daybreak on Wednesday, the loon Wharf. She will leave Bong Statement of Accounts and affairs, Heport of the Dirvotors for the
aid it is manifestly impossible to of an English trade mark by 1,003 are of French origin, 90 are of a broadcasting station at a cost 16th instant, instead of at 6 pm. ided 31st December, 1938, elect. We all know the story of China's help, China, unless China is able Japanese manufacturer. In the of foreign origin, r Directors and Auditors, and for complaint to the League, that fence, The problem presented by ose imitation, the words "Made in The rapality of restaurant wil be invited shortly for its con- A detachment of the
to take the lead in her own de trade mark appearing on the Japan
f approximately $70,000 Plans on that day, nsaction of any other Ordinary. Japan win alching territory from Japanese aggression in China, Nippon" replace the words "Made "boys is often the subject of struction, the work is to be com- Royal Regiment, t
are now being drafted and tenders P of the Company. MOE in also bereby given lat
verat her, and the Japanese reply: 1, United States, Russia, the British label, all other details on the label markable instance to the contrary two officers and 74-
affects all the Pleite Powers the in Manchester' on the English grumbling by patrons, but are pleted in six month KETEL BOOKS of the That Japanese treaty rights in Empire, France and Holland, but being precisely the same. It is has just come to light. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. B H. Page ofed office and men are leay
itioned at Tientsin con
THE FEBRUARY, 1933, until
be closed from MON Manchuris were being violated.. it is still primarily China's on stated that the imitation has been a Japanese sukiyaki house, Tientsin recently announced the Shanghai on the str. Shengking 344 FEBRUARY 1933 That the Manchi is people were this stage the Powers should inter- Patent Bureau The hope is ex- &
cern. It in woll, however, that at duly registered by the Japaness Shanghai, a member of engagement of their daughter Avis February 13 on the and the vene and that the whole prob pressed by foreign merchants in 85 bill On his next visit, ar of Mr and Mrs H. G. Groves, New their arriy
foreign party dropped a to Mr. Archis Groves, youngest son their homewar Belem of the Pacific and of Japanese Shanghai that when the trade mark from finding that the pota had die Moldeep Say England,ske kobay
markets nad erfgration, stouta be protection question in China is appeared into thin air, as might Groves is connected with the Hong is. ajor issue settled, provisions will be made for have been expected, he was agreeab Kong and Shanghai Banking Coraty her the prevention of such dishonest ly surprised to be handed the portation in Tientsin. Mr R B. the those of which the money, which had been placed in Page, father of Miss Avir Page, and gong an envelope, labelled, and carefully is chief engineer of the Internation the
set aside for its rightful owner. al Export Co.
300x for the purpose of
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