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By Order of the Board of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
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Hongkong, 26th February, 1933.
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*News and Views *
Bad Luck.
"My husband's sin angel." "Mine's still alive."
"Crank It Up.".
economiva.
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Mr. Latham is no stranger to London. During the war, with the
rank of Lieutenant-Commander, he
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local,
The weather. report is: E. winda, fresh; cloudy with drizzle or mist.
Pago 1 was attached to the Naval Intelli- The annual general meeting of gonca Branch, and was Naval Staff the Hong Kong Benevolent Society. In Germany at the moment, the Officer with the Australian Minister taken place today, at St. John's word "ankurbeln" is on every for the Navy (Sir Joseph Cook) in Cathedral Hall at 5.30 p.m. fourth tongue. It is the thing one England and France.
Pago 7. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG used to do to motorcars before the
The Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson It was a characteristic net of] DAILY PRESS.]
days of self-starters. It is the thing unselfishness which, deprived him of the annual meeting of the Hong the Reich is attempting to do to the opportunity of being Prime Kong & Shanghai Banking Cor-
"Crank it up" has Minister of Australia. He handed poration. gave the usual view of become the order of the day over the leadership of the Opposi Far Eastern affairs. Stress was SIR, read with much interest Candy stores sell chocolate in the the letter of Thespian recalling form of large and small granktion voluntarily to Mr. J. A. Lyons, laid on the heavy fall of Chinese the production of The School for Numerous mercantile houses, util - woll grounded, for he has lectured The Bank, despite all difficulties
Mr. Latham's academic tastes are imports and exports during 1932 Scandal by the Hong Kong ing the crank" motif in their an logic and philosophy in Mel increased its profit by 4 lakhs. Amateur Dramatic Club about the ivertisemente, have capitalized the bourne University. lato seventies. The year, in fact, idon as
Pagos 2, 3 and 4. a means of stimulating was 1870. Mr. Breeks, Honorary
Dr. Li Shu Fan is to ask a num- Even the transit lines Secretary of the AD.C., in his let
ber of questions regarding small- ior, deploves that the existing re
pox. prevention
to-morrow'a cords of the Club do not go back
meeting of the Sanitary Board. beyond 1904 when Mr. E. W. Mit
Page 12 chell produced Dorothy." It is
The C.B.A. Lading hockey team. beat St. Andrew's ladies on Satur certainly unfortunate they have not
day by 2 goals to 1. been preserved, for no amateur dramatic club in the East, and possibly within the Empire, has associations more constant, interest ing and creditable than the Hong Kong A.D.C.
stons
the
business,
His son won a Rhodes Scholar- of the city of Frankfurt have shi, which took him to Magdalen taken
¡College, Oxford.. to crank up street-car-business. An award of Missed Misses ten marks is given to every mil lionth strest car rider and the lines carry an average of 20,000,000 passengers weekly.
st
The latest edition of the New York Telephone Directory has re- duced its bulk by ten pages, as com In the Wrestling match at Kow- pared with the previous issue, by loon F.C, ground yesterday Daula, Canada's Seventy-five-year-old! eliminating the title Miss from the giant Indian, defonted Joe The Daily Colonist, of Victoria, the names of over 12,000 unmarried Cross of Manila, in 35 minutes. Canada, 24 петврарег founded subscribers. December 11, 1558, the year after has been effected because so many
The saving of space Kowloon Supplement. So eminent and exacting a critic the Hongkong Daily Perez has been subscribers' names which formerly Saturday and Sunday appear on
Full results of the yacht races on of amateur theatricals as the late receiving congratulations on enter- required two lines of type can now Lieut. - Colonet Newnham Davis ing its seventy-fifth year. The be compressed into one.
Page 10: Ladies stated in a book on Amateur Act paper was founded by the Hon. who are punctilious have been per 2nd XI beat St. Joseph's by 75 At Sookunpoo yesterday LR.C. ing published in 1505 Next to Amor de Cosmos, & picturesque mitted to retain the "Miss," but runs. Simla, the best organised club that character who, born Smith and only on condition that initials and
Page 10. I have found in the uttermost parts christened John, had his nante not full Christian names are insert yesterday the South Wales Border- In the first division of the League of the earth is the Hong Kong changed by act of Parliament to the ed. "Elizabeth Jones" has had ers beat South China Athletic by Amateur Dramatic Club." This is Latin equivalent of "Lover of the the option of having her name in one goal to nil.
Page:7. high praise indeed. Lieut-Colonel World" He was an active figure inserted as "Miss E. Jones," but not Week-end football results are. Newnham-Davis was intimately con- British Columbin politics.
as "Miss Elizabeth Jones." fully reported on Pago 7. In the [nected with the Simla A.D.C. in the
number of women who have pre First Division R.A. Beat the Club 'nineties and perhaps nobody is
ferred to retain the full Christian and Kowloon beat Recreio. likely to quarrel with his prefer
Perhaps because he makes no bid name is enormously greater than ence as expressed in 1898, but for popularity, Mr. J. G. Lathore, the number of those who have fin- amateur theatricals were flourishing the Australian Attorney-Generalsisted upon the title of courtesy,
and Minister for External Affairs
such
Mr. J. G. Latham.
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pound
The
Member to be responsible for payment Editorial and Business Office 11, tariffs, Mr. PATERSON Said
The Secretary's Office, 3rd Floor, Night Editor (Wanchai Office). that "a factor of no little import Amateur Dramatic Club in its pre Australian Courts regarding the None the less, the stationmaster strong plea for settlement of the
of all Chits, etc.
Gloucester Building, (Tel, 27704), wilt | "-""Tel. 24511. ́· ·
close at 12 80 p.m.
Badges admitting to Members London Office:
Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course,
On ne pretext wifi Uhildren be permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.
Tifins are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No. Boy in advanco. Telephone 21020.
PUBLIO ENCLOSURE. The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00, including Tax, for- all Persons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gato
Boldiers and Sailors in uniform ara admitted Half Price,
Bookmakers, Tie Tac Mon, etc., will not be permitted to operate with. in the Precincts of THE HONG KON JocEZY OLOS daring the Race Meeting.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 27.1 February, 1933. [497
CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND ÅLAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
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988, both days inclusive.
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HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 27, 1033.
THE BANK" REVIEWS
THE SITUATION
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Page 10. Six League Cricket matches were I.R.C. in Hong Kong a quarter of a cen-
played over the week-ond. tury before the Simla A.D.C. come and for Industry, is held in highest-Honest-Londoners,
beat the Amiy, the Club best the into being and it is certain that respect and admiration by the rank
Univeraly, and K.C.C. drew with some of the productions of Mr. W. and file of all parties in the Com The honesty of Londoners is daily Craigengower, in the First Divi- Sinclair ten to fifteen years ago, monwealth. The dignity of Privy attested by the pennies left by pursion.
Page 10, Central Pritish School Sports as The Blue Bird," A Councillor, conferred on him last chasers of evening newspapera on Midsummer Night's Dream," "Kis month, while it is a tribute to his the stands of momentarily absent were held at Ting's Park on Satur
day. met," and "Saint Joan. ”
Full account in Kowloon fine character, will be cause of vendors, were on a scale immeasurably ahead of any. great satisfaction, among his fellow. Recenity a young woman lost two Supplement.
Far East, : notes after thing ever attempted by the Simla countrymen.
matinec. A.D.C.
Mr. Latham was in London last Loicester-square Tube station was o America Has expressed herself ne It may be of interest to recall spring in order to appear before the likely spot for the loss, but, one in substantial accord" with the that although the Hong Kong Privy Council when Mr. Lang's ap-would think, an exceedingly unlike findings of the Report of the Com
peal against the decision of the ly one for a recovery.
mittee of Nineteen, and makes a ance has been the uncertain quality sent form was not formally con-
stituted until 1880 it really dates power to abolish the New South had duly been made their custodian Sino-Japanese dispute by pacific Men- of the principal exports."
by someone who had picked them maana
Page 1. tion was, however; made of the back to the earliest days of the Wales upper House was heard.
During that visit he made a deep up. He mentioned, moreover, that Colony when plays were produced
The Jehol invasion continues, and harl passenger efforts of the Government to stay above a. godown in Wanchai known impression on a score or so of the shortly before
messages from Tokyo claim various, The most eminent men of the day. At handed in a hand-bag containing successes for Japanese troops. this process. A great effect of re- as the."Victaria Theatre."
Page 1. cent conditions has been a world only entrance was by steep wooden & dinner party he rose and spoke £46 in cash.
stops outside the building, and as with auch modesty and such force
The Committee of Nineteen Report tendency of industry to increase the godown was used principally for of conviction that none who heard
has had its repercussions in Lon the quality of the finished article the storage of malodorous fish-maws him is likely to forget the occasion
don, where several newspapers are and damaged rice it may be. assum- and to make economies in all pro-ed that patrons of the theatre in
demanding an embargo on BTTDS and money destined for Japan. cesses, from the handling of the raw those days were less meticuloue
Page 1. General, material, to attractive marketing about their bodily comfort than will be the full house of supporters that
At the close of play on Satur- and advertising. There was men- tion of the advance made in this March 14, the opening night of we expect at the King's Theatre on
day at Sydney Test match England had scored 418 for eight wickets. respect, by Japanese industry." Nine Till Six.".
They are 17 runs behind Austra- Russia also is entering the world.
ain's first innings total. Page 1. market and "her oil, timber and piece goods are now in'serious com petition with imports from other countries."
A Characteristic Act.
After all, there would not be, the periodical and Gargantuan sales of lost roperty if the generality of people were not honest.
Local and General
C.B.E.,
Marous Albero Hansen.
The Shanghai Council has ap-, I do not know when the City Hall
The engagement has been was erected, but the first produc proved the proposal submitted by nounced between Mis Mabel Lor- tion of the Hong Kong A.D.C. n the Commandant of the S.V.C. that raine Johnston and Mr. Alfred at present constituted was staged Brigadier, G. Fleming, in the "Theatre Royal Matehod" D.S.O., Commander of the British on a site where now stands the cast Forces in the Shanghai Aren, be re- wing of the City Hall. The theatre quested to conduct the forthcoming. was pulled down every Spring and annual inspection of the B.V.0 rebuilt, generally on new site, every winter.
The Sincere Co., Ltd., announce that their stores will be closed to- morrow for stock-taking and re- open on Wednesday, March 1, for usual business.
BT
Heavy blizzards are being ex- perienced in many parts of Eng- land, with much damage to pro- perty and interruption of com munication,
Page 9.
From the files.
The University Lodge of Free- Since 1860 the A.D.C has pro. masons is holding a dinner party at
A picture of Chinese Militar- duced at least rie play-and once Lane, Crawford's Restaurant to-
night.
ism "
as outlined by Lady as many as nine plays-every year,
Drummond-Hay in except for the years 1875, 1878,
interview The China Entertainment and with Dr. W. W. Yen, is an interest 1883 and 1910, when, for some good reason no doubt, no plays were Land Investment Co., Ltd. will ing feature of the current issue of LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
hold its annual meeting at King's the China Digest.
It would appear that the unfor- produced.
tunate Mr. Gates after purchasing In its long history the A.D.C. Theatre Building at noon to-day.
Ten onses of small-pox were noti- the larcha endeavour, placed her The new Danish Minister, Mr. O.|fied on Friday. Of these were under Portuguese Colours, bring re
.
The annual general meeting of the Hongkong Benevolent Soviets takes place in the Cathedral Hall to-day, at 5.30 p.m. Sir Joseph Kemp will be in the chair.
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föver and meningitis were also nofi- Swatow to Havne culled in bera fied.
I to clear, when one hundred and odd of the coolies refused to proceed. Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, These Mr. Gates was employed to
THE Chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation made no pretence of optimism in his review of the Far Eastern posi- The nood, therefore, for China to tion. While he was speaking men set her house in order, politically, were fighting on the Jebol border, industrially and financially, is im- and when war starts prognosticar perative. In the end the task wi!! tion is useless. The Hon. Mr. J. J. be completed. The Chinese people PATERBON contented himself with a comprise one quarter of the human NOTICE is hereby given that the review of the past year, from the race, and, sooner or later they will Third Ordinary General Mest political and commercial stand- adapt themselves to conditions, and ing of Shareholders will be held at the Registered Officer of the Com. Points, and the implication of his stabilisation will be. evolved. The has unobtrusively benefited many pany, King's Theatre Building, 6th address was that China, given a whole instinct of the Chinese people Ipeal charities and its loyal and Oxholm, and Mrs. Oxholm, arrived from Hong Kong and 3 from Kow gistered as Macao Lorcha No. 30. oor, on Monday, the 27th day of reasonable chance could once more is towards a modus vivendi that enthusiastic workers have never in Shanghai last week and are loon. One case each of paratyphoid One of the British ships from failed to respond cheerfully to extra February, 1988, at 12 o'clock noon to prove her power of recuperation; is settled and endures; they have calls on their energy in & worthy staying at the Cathay Hotel. receive the Directors' Report, an but that the country was nearing one of the western desire for cause, but it has always been an Recounts for the year ended 31st the danger point beyond which change merely for change's sake, unwritten law of the Club never to December, 1982, to elect Auditora, and to transact such other bosities! looms the chaos of bankruptcy, and and this instinct will find expres make an appeal to the public for
E.C.B. C.M.G., M.V.O., Comman take back to watow. Prove he support c charitable grounds. may be properly transacted at an the collapse of the economic struc-sion. They have had periods of The A.D.O. has produced plays for
der-in-Chief of the China Station, evidence of four of the crew who will return to Hong Kong from his turned up on Sunday afternoon, it Ordinary General Meeting of the ture by which commercial relations equal stress before, and there are three quarters of &
century and
Southern cruise on the flagship would seem, that when off Swatow, on nothing
The Suining and Wuning, two Kent this morning And Notice is further hereby given are maintained with the West. many factors making for a new and relied for its success
they were attacked by three pirati but the quality of its performances.
new gunboats of the Ministry of better ordering of their afairs.
cal junks, that seven of the Lorchas int the Register and Transfer Books | China. is, in fact, in danger of
In presenting Nine Till Six," Navy, were launched at the Elang- The anual sports of the Kowloon crew (Portuguese) betook them- the Company, will be closed from losing her place in the markets of China has the quality of dogged by what is euphoniously termed an nan Dock, Kiaochangmino, yester Junior School will be held on March selves to the boat and went ashore, he 22nd to the 28th day of February, the world.
"all-female "cast, the Club ap day. ness Things do not come to a
7 on the grounds of the Kowloon and that the Chinese crew ran for 27 peals to the public "only to book standstill, what she has promised early at the King's Theatre from
Cricket Club. The events will begin shelter below. forward (the captain) Some of the facts given wore ho seta herself to full. Emphasis today, not only to avoid disap to arrive early next month from the prizes, will be distributed by and the other Europeans running H.M. Sloop Falmouth is expected of 10.30 am, and at the conclusion (Macdonald), the owner (Gates) startling enough. They were known was laid on the fact that though pointment in, seating, but to assist England. She is replacing H.M.S. Mrs. J. R. Wood.
below aft. The pirates then took already, but their collation by the!
foreign creditors were, "naturally the management of the theatre and Petersfield, which ran aground on Managing Director of Mesars Jar impatient at the delay in the pro-arrangements.-Yours, etc.,
possession and sent the Chiness 'on the Committee of the Club in their Ping-I Taland.
At St. John's Cathedral on shore. What was the fate of the dine, Matheson's, with all their mised taking in band of the ques
Saturday afternoon, the wedding Europeans is not known. Heng-- C. CHAMPKIN, formation of the Hong Kong and tion of overdue debts, they will Hong Kong Clubs,
Mr. E D. McKay, President of was solemnised between Misa kong Daily Press, Feb. 27, 1858, President, Hong Kong A.D.C. the Pacific Pearl and Ivory Co., ar- Frances Wills and Mr. H. Scott LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS Shanghai Bank at his disposal, give China her due for remaining
rived in Hong Kong on board the Bam, of Kuala Lumpur, Federated HE HONG KONG & KOWLOON must act as a warning not only to among the nations which have re-
February 23, 1993.
President Medison, en route to Malay States, The Rev N. V. Hal. I presume it is tolerably well Mavila HARF & GODOWN CO., LTD. China, but to the whole world. The sisted any temptation to enter on
ward officiated. A reception was known that the scourge, amall-pox subsequently held at the Hong Kong is now abroad amongst us, as usual, disease of frozen credits has spread fresh defaults on the plea of the ing made against the Communist re German Logation at. Poiping, ar with the Asiatic Petroleum Com- pose if the disease makes itself pe Mias H. M. May, Secretary of the Hotel. The bridegroom is connected at this season of the your. I sup OTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
to China, Imports in 1832 fell from general economic collapse." Indus bellion, and in financial administrarived in Hong Kong from Shanghai pany, while the bride comes from sent it cannot be helped, but surely $2,322 millions to $1,626 millions, trially there are signs that the pro- tion a greater degree of order it on the liner President Madison on Dorking, Surrey, England,
nothing son justify the occupants of THE FORTY-SIXTH ORDINARY a bad enough record, but the verbial skill of the Chinese artisan
emerging.
Friday on a short holiday trip. ----
& house, in common with one ANNUAL MEETING OF
port figures, a drop from $1,410 is being turned to production of of political reintegration must in-
"China's advance along the road cabaret dinner-dance will be Homiletic Review. The editors, in attending at Church. If you give stricken with the disease, mingling night Sun, is reproduced in the with the outside world, and even AREHOLDERS will be held at
Olee of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson millions to $738 millions "implies modern requirements, though Mr. evitably be slow. Unfortunately held at the Roof Garden of the prefactory note, remark that the me a blow, you know, I can have 20. Lid, on Thursday, the 9th an adverse trade balance of PATERSON seemed less optimistio in the progress is being retarded by Hong Kong Hotel on Friday, value of this short sermon lies in you fined, but if you communicate
OL 1983, BAT NOON, for the pets of receiving the Report of magnitude which is somewhat dis this respect than was Sir Vicron outside conditions: by the slump March 3, by the iSociety of York ite accent of Christian fraternity to me so foul and serious as disease
Directors and the Statement of quieting when one considers that SABSOON 11
which is shutting down her export shiremen in Hong Kong
Its admirable simplicity readers it as the small pox, I have no remedy. unts for the year ended 31st the main counteracting factor, recent interview with the Daily by the ceaseless intrigue of Russia. the course of a trade, by the conflict with Japan,
more effective than a stately had It is true human laws, unwritten Up to the week ending February pretentious oration. The Kaiser and unprescribed, but thoroughly to Transfer Books of the Company als mouss remittances from Preet Railways are in a betterfuch are the conditions soon by the 25 a grand total of 186,347 vnccius- serves that style for secular and
Chinese overseas, is being simul position, and the opening of motor this astonishing situation. Those members of the St. John Ambul by His Majesty was "And they Press, Feb. 27, 1883.
Bank, and the forces at work in tions have been carried out by political occasions. The text chosen ty for instance, Hongkong Daily
well understood the law of humani taneously curtailed by lack of pros- roade and airways give hope of a who know China cannot lose hope, ance Brigade, decreased demand for Chinese p
China, like England, has power com-
to muddle through the jungle," No one sees the light through the
LIANG CHI HAO,
Managing Director.
ong Kong, 14th February, 1938.
iber, 1932.
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be CLOSED from Wednesday
froh, 1988, both days inclusive.
March, 1933 to Thursday, the
order of the Board of Directors ______F. H, CRAPNELL,
Secretary.
perity abroad. Apart from the real improvement in situs bleeding from a hundred wounds members
pro munications. Politically
beckoned unto their partners which
were in the other ship, that they Looking Back 25 The annual ball given by bachelor should, come and help themp And A sermon which was delivered by of the Craigengower they came and filled both the ships the German Emperor on board the C.O. was held in the Club's hall so that they began to sink. Luke Imperial Yacht Hohenzollern, while
27, 1908.
(Continued on precious column
ducts owing to the badness of the tion has also mended progresse tangle, but faith in its presence on Saturday night, and was largely v. 7-Hongkong Daily Press, Feb. coasting round the land of the Mid Long #lat February, 1833. [475 times, and the general system of Continued at foot of neat Coleman) remains strong
attended
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