NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
RONALD JOHN STEVENS
DECEASED.
NY persons having any claims against the Estate of the above-name! Deceased, formerly of 800, Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, and c/o The Far East Aviation Co., Ltd., are requested to send the anne to the undersigned forthwith.
Dated this 19th Day of April, 1933.
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JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Executrix."
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HONG KONG ENGINEERING & "CONSTRUCTION. CO., LTD.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Eleventh Ordinary Yearly Meet- ing of Shareholders of the Hongkong Engineering and Construction Com pany, Limited, will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Mercantile Bank Building, Queen's Road (Central), Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 3rd May, 1933, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors and a Statement of Accounts for the Year ended on the 31st Decem ber, 1932, and electing Directora and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be Closed from the 20th April to the 3rd May, 1933, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
B. ALVES,
Secretary.
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MACAO RACES
THE MACAO JOCKEY OLUB.
Third Extra Race Meeting, SUNDAY, 23rd APRIL, 1933. First Suddling Bell at 1.00 p.m. First Race at 1.80 p.m.
ADMISSION :-
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Hembers MUST show their badges "to" gain admittance. LADIES are cordially invited to attend the Races
without charg*.
NO Ladies tickets will be issued. Tiffins, Teas and Refreshments will be obtainable at the Race Course at reasonable prices,
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À DEAL WITH--THE SOVIET PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS THE Sabotage Trial in Russia is
to be held on MONDAY, the 247 over! DAY of APRIL, 1933, at 8 F.M.,
by Order of Department, KYOELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One
ESS, WEDNESDAY,
'REDS' AT GREATEST SIFRENGTH
Growing Menace in Kiangsi
STEADY OCCUPATION OF THE PROVINCE
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
on the
Porters!
APRIL 19, 1933
News and Views *
SUMMARY OF NEWS
King's Bargamaster.
James Phelps, of Putney, father
Local,
An attempt was made on the life
Quebec has undertaken te rogu Inte its roadside billboards, Mr. J. of Ted Phelps, the world's profes- of Mr. Lo Wai Keung, proprietor. E. Perrault, Minister of Roads, selling champion, has been of the Tin Nam Daily News of 53, introduced in the Legislature a appointed the King's Bargemaster Hollywood Road at Lyndhurst measure which moves all new bill-in succession to the late W. G. East. Terrace last evening, An assailant. boards back at least 400 feet from James Phelps was a Royal bar fired Ave shots at him, but for the highway." No sign may be more geman in the reigns of Queen Vic- tunately only one hit him causing. than 12 feet high; its length may toris and King Edward VII., and a slight wound in the left shoulder vary from 10 feet at 400 feet dis his family have served the Crown A suspect has been arrested.. tance to 50 feet at 600 feet dis as Royal bargemen for over 100
Page -7 tance. The law follows a success years. He is 55 years of age, and ful fight of two years ago to re
was in his youth a very fine scul roadside liquor Advertise- move ments Americans are taking no- tice.
At the RH.K. Yacht Club regatta.. ler and won numerous races. He on Saturday there will be trian- has trained nine winners of the gular rowing contest on Saturday Diamond Seulls and supervises the in which the Yacht Club, the training of his son before every one V.RO, and Canton will take past. of his big races. He build Ox-
Page 10. ford's new craft for this year's University Boat Race.
The onthios for Macao Races are given on
Page 10.
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KIUXIANG, April 9. The "Reds" are crazy! I sup- pose they had not a good meal for long, long time, because when they defeated the 52nd and Both Divisions they made such a feast that they never realized that the The Peace Maker, gallant Ilth Division was
A mechanical toy is credited with watch. In fact this 11th Division encircled them in no time, killed a relieving a tense situation involv good many and took back the 6,000 ing possible disruption of the cor-
The Acting Chief Justice passed. rifles abandoned by the 32nd and dial relations between two nations. A Great State Department.
When negotiations between govern- The Government's White Paper sentence of six months' hard labour 10th Divisions."
But now the "Reds have had ment officials of Chile and repre- on a now Constitution for India their revenge! They have come sentatives of large United States is a document the clarity and lucina Chinese convicted of assault- -
precisely pro ing a boat-girl. back in big numbers and occupied business interests had apparently dity of which are numbers of small cities and market reached a critical point, Ambassa portioned to the bewildering com- places; even Sinkan on the Kau dor William S. Culbertson started plexity of the subject. River has been, ocopied. It has a ridiculous pink elephant on its Leen a fine row, and came, as usual, erratic way across the conference like a thunderbolt. And we were table. After the conferees had in teld that in strong places like spected the toy to their satisfac Changshu people were packing and tion, reaching an accord on the is fleeing to Nanchang. It must have sue at stake apparently was child's been serious. That may be the real play. son why Ching Kai Shek moved so fast from Nanking to Nanchang. The presenza of the Generalissimo has an
effect on the population. It is to be hoped that the effect will be the same on the
enormous
soldiers.. 4
Trousers or shorts?
"How many men, will follow Bunny Austin's example this sum mer and adopt white shorts in
place of fannal or duck trousers for lawn tennis," writes a Home While one must agree that there is something to he said for the mode on the score of great or coolness and freedom, I, for one, hope that the practice will not become universal.
The Reds" have occupied the South-East of our Province for sportsman. several years already, but they have never been so strong as now in the East. They know that the soldiers do not want to fight them, so they in the East except Nanfeng. Nan. are occupying all the country places cheng and Linchen.
Nes of occasional drives on the "Reds" are not false, but gener ally these drives are ineffective owing to the extreme mobility of the "Reds."
hira. for ever
Of the British prisoners them
Chinese troops have to resist a selves little need be said. They
foreign.. foe alongside the Chins have been through the tortures of Wall, and here they have to solve
time. It is too much to expect at the Red Inquisition and the the "Red" menace at the same travesty of "proletarian ""justice, one time. If Chiang Kai Shek is Not the justice of Russia, as a able finally to defeat the "Reds," people, but of the ingenious vermin Kids Province will be grateful to who control her affairs. If an in-It seems that the Yangtze River dividual goes to Russia, in any manner, or on any mission, the risk he takes is clear. If he is genuine ly indiscreet, or if STALIN Wants to rig up a case to divert attention from someone's blunder or failure, he may at any time be made the victim.
Missionaries and traders
has to be protected against the invader Ceruibilway Co. (Kiu kiang Nanching purchased barbed wires and iron plates to make de- fences dainst possible floods last summer, but quite recently one of the Armies took everything to make
a fort on the River.
Spring's Delay,
It may be difficult to mobilica supporting arguments not subject to criticism sa being based on a purely aesthetic view of a question primarily of practical efficiency. Yet I think many people will feel that with flawn tennis, as with cricket, there is much to be said for a touch of conservatism in this matter of dress,
France ». German: a Draw..
On the magnificent Grunewald Stadium neat Berlin. 50,000 Ger- mans and 8,000 Frenchmen - plauded the international football tema of France and Germany in match which ended in a draw of three goals each.
Dur- Some of its promoters
at the Offices of the Public Works imagine it will go down to history Has 24 great proletariat vindica
Lot of CROWN LAND at Shauki- wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a ton of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Bent to be fixed by the Surreyor of His MAJESTY THE Kizo, for one further berm
of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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Both French and Germans are congratulating themselves on their sporting behaviour. They should not forget a word for the referee, He was Mr. Crew, an English
No Government has ever had so
deeply involved a problem to deal with, and this remarkable White Paper will take ite place in his- tory as being more than adequate to its huge task both in the pre- sentation of its contents and in the spirit of bonevolent statesmanship that pervades it.
Much has gone to the making of this far-reaching plan for a new India. There has been more co- operation on both sides of the water than is generally known. Not only among politicians, but in the spheres of industry and com- merce, too, valuable help and gestions have been forthcoming.
The result is that very rare thing truly great State document.
saller "Ruller of the King's
Naves."
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Pleading Guilty" to the chargo of attempting to kidnap Dr. Wong Cheung Lam, a Chinese was yester day sentenced at the Criminal Ses-
Page 7. sions to seven years' hard labour.
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange re-opened strongly, as regards in vestment stook but business was: slack.
Poge. 13.
Further evidence was given at Central Magistracy yesterday in the Coroner's inquiry into the death of a young Chinese schoolmistress who was killed in a motor-car crash in
Jubilee Road on March 11. Page 7,
Sentence of six months' hard labour was imposed on a district. watchman who was convicted on charges of demanding money with manaces and of assaulting a car-
Page 0..
No Minister in the present Gov-penter. ernment has a more charming per
The opening of the new premises. sonality in the House of Commons than Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, the of the National Commercial and" First Lord of the Admiralty. Savings Bank, Ltd., took place yes-
Though it is years since be servterday with due ceremony. ed in the Navy, he is still the typi
See page 7. cal sailor. He brings the freshness and joviality of the sea into the
Our correspondent from Kiukiang: heavy atmosphere. of Westminster. reports that despite one or two de-
When introducing the Navy ER timates he quoted Pepys and Nel- feats the Reds in Kiangsi are son and told the house of his ef-stronger than ever. forta to get a sailing ship in order that Britain might continue
Bolton
to
From the Files.
LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
train real seamen Any nation could breed mechanics, he said, but few could breed: the type of sailor One who saw the game, talked on that made Britain empress of the the telephone, said there WELS seas.
untoward incident. The But, alas, the sailing ship is, as not an juge crowd stood bareheaded while he described it, a mere fantasy. the French team were played on to the field to the tune of "Lord Beatty. Marseillaise." The Frenchmen stood Lord Beatty was the sole occu
We have repeatedly heard of at attention while the band played pant of the Peers gallery when Sir "Deutschland übe Alles."
was speaking. He gazed vessels being lost on the Pratas al- down apop the junior officer in though a very wide berth had been the same way as he has often stood given to it and considering the on the bridge of a battleship and number of ships which have been surveyed the ship's company on the lost there, we may be sure that a no avoid it than is usual under such decks below. Lord Beatty can on much greater allowance is made to occasions appear stun, bu officer had less of the martinet's circumstances regarding other dan- Here however is positive gers, unnecessary harshness about him.
proof of the existence of a shoal about 150 miles dus. E. of the Pratas. Can it be that some of the ships have struck this. In any case the discovery is alarming, and no time should be lost in making an investigation Capt. Byrie is a The annual meeting of the Hong man on whom peculiar reliance Kong Engineering and Construction may be placed in such matters; and we hope that Commodore Stewart Company, Ltd, will be held at the will soon give a good account of offices of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & it-Hong Kong Daily Matthews on Wednesday, May 3, at 19, 1858.. hoon
Have you got Spring weather yet take the same risk among head-in Hong Kong? Here everything is wrong. According the calea
both sides impartially. hunters and cannibals; their hosts dar Spring should be to the caring the game the crowd cheered may be charming, but the cook-pot everytime he makes an effort, win- ter encroaches from the hilla and tion,"-like the Trials of CHARLES is always handy in the witch doc blows away all the Spring advances. 1., Louis XVI, and the Emperor tor's hut.
It is a hard fight and winter loses little ground. So no wonder small MAXIMILIAN of Mexico Some of
pox, typhoid fever and pneumonia us have in mind the travesties of
have allied with winter and try to justice that stand like mountain
get all the advantage they can of the situation, peaks, not even forgetting the season at which last week's events
THE EXCELSIOR RESTAURANT
OF AMERICANS
man.
Local and General
The cannual athletic sports of the local Military Command will take
Quarantine restrictions have been imposed by Chefoo against arrivals from Hong Kong on account of small-pox.
A large party of Americans Off
The St. John's Cathedral Council the Dollar Liner President Co-
meeting will, be, beld on Friday, lidge were seen dining at the Ex-
The annual general meeting of April 2 at 6.15 instead of May 1 guests there. Monday night
One of the largest parties was will be held at P. & O. Building at before the latter date. that of the Consul fleneral of Cubanoon to-day, in Hong Kong who entertained
Looking Back 25 Can, April
During the discussion on a case before Mr. Kemp at the Magistracy yesterday one of the prisonera sit-
the motives, instead of the honest gorical denial that no information celsior Restaurant among the many the Dougla Steamship Co., Ltd, The Bishop has to go to Shanghaiting in the dock waiting for trial
"Do
jumped to his feet and interrupted with some remarks addressed to the Convicted on a charge of robbing magistrate. The interpreter, ex- Chinese of 880 in money on March plained that the man was asking 27, a Chinese was sentenced to two if his Worship did not intend to years' hard labour by Mr. Justice try him he should let him go. Mr. Lindsell at the Criminal Sessions Kemp told the interpreter to inform him that he would be tried äll yesterday.
right and then they would see about letting him go.-Hong Kong Daily Press, April 19, 1909.
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This trial should finally convince any sane politician in Britain that trade relations with Russia are not merely a bad, but a hopeless were staged We believe both views proposition. The opportunity was to be an error. The case will, in the taken for cartloads of anti-British course of time, be forgotten, except propaganda and, unfortunately, by a few pedants, as the black untruth does not rob slander of its deads of IVAN the Terrible and PARSH THE GREAT, of the French poison. The care and humanity PATHONISED BY BIG PARTY place at Sookuapos to-day Revolution and the outrages of the with which British justice is ad- Ogpu against lesser victims have ministered speaks for itself among been forgotten. It will go into the our people, but hysterical rubbish Jimbo of dead history because it is
has been broadcast to the world. mean and trumpery, with money,
Nor will Sir JOHN SIMON'S cate and lies, and self-advertisement as
fanaticism and the big villainy of has been received from these men the mighty crimes with which Moscow't trulers would like to be make the least impression. associated,
you expect him to say anything several South American friends who During the five days of the Who, in fact, get anything out else," is no unreasonable answer, were very enthusiastic in praising Easter holiday 12 cases of small of this business? Metropolitan This trial should teach the British the Kijevsky Cutlet and other typi-pox, three of diphtheria and one of Vickers, who sought the contract can
cal Russian dishes tery ditistically meningitis were reported. hardly be pleased with the results Government, and the best elements decorated by the Excelsoir's famous
Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, O.M., DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of their effective tenderings. Of in the Labour party, that it is no Russian Ches
There was a big demand for will perform the opening of the Pof the Bale by Public Auction to course, everyone in the civilised good grovelling to the Devil in the be held on MONDAY, the 24TH DAY world sympathises, and no one be hope that you may convert him! Zakouska andai Borshitch and the Children's Health Contest and Ex- of APRIL, 1989, at 3 at the lieves the framed up rubbish testi- Russia hae used Europe to get Chef certainly had a busy time try-hibition at Hop Yat Church, Caine Offices of the Public Works Department,fied by tortured men at the trial, her industrial system going and ing to keep up with the orders Road, At 7 pm today. by Order of HIS EXCELLENT THR GOYAR And yet, when a rival salesman now the idea is to turn it to our which were pooring in at & very
rapid rate. ROR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Lugard Road, in the Colony of talks he would be more than human own destruction. The plan will The Private Dining Room was As a result of a fall in his kitchen Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with--Bayard and Parsival rolled into fail if we leave Russia alone, occupied by a party from the Pen at Tang Lang Street, Wanchai, a the option of renewal at Orawn Boat to one-if he dropped no hint about prey to the cupidity, inefficiency insula Hotel who had a special all Chinees received head injuries and be Ad by the Surrerer of H MAJESTY workmanship that failed, and men and corruption revealed by this Russian menu prepared for them was taken to the Government Civil
trial...
with Piroshiki, Filmene, Beef Stro- Hospital for treatment.
G. T.May (secretary), J. Logan, WASEDA UNIVERSITY TEAM who were at least, indiscreet. The British Government and British Russia, the apparent winner, kas ganoff and other renowned Russian
once of Aix weeks hard Capt. Fleetwood, RA, J. Ralston, PROPOSES A SUMMER TOUR. Sentence Arma thought that the best thing done worst of all, though they may to do with Russia was to help with have twisted the Lion's tail,"
Jabour was imposed by. Mr. Wyżne Goldenberg, F.H. Barnes and
Mok Hing.
Tokyo, April 12-A Waseda Uni the gigantic project of the Five and scored their debating point by they are as nasty fellows as ever. Jones at Central Magistracy yester Your Plan, not to continue to treat remaking that Russian justice was They tortured their prisoners; they day on a Chinese employee of the Nanking, April 10-The Minis-versity track team, numbering
20, are arranging" -- fors the new state ne à parish, sad to not to be diverted by methods which frame up cases for their own ends; Hong Kong Electric Company; Ldd.. try of War, has purchased 6,000 about get a little honestly garned profit might succeed with Mexico. They you never know where you are for the theft of bags and copper) Mongolian horses from Kalgan, a tour in Manchuria in the for themselves and work for em huve drom the limelight upon with them. That is the reaction fittings from 1, Duddell Street. provincial capital of Charhar, for early summer, They will leave ployees who would otherwise be Mpscow during Holy Week, and of Everyman--who is much more
the use of the cavalry forces. The Tokyo in the latter part turned adrift. We do not know if sung their propaganda broader, mportant than the Chancellories The University Union is hold-first batch of 250 is on its way and are to meet track cha
in Seoul and Gulzar, in Kores, they will get their moner The Buber is empiter side, they have of Europe and all the committeesing on Friday evening a debate on from Peiping mattor reats entirely with Russian removed neither the
The Russian people the proposition War is an UG-1 In view of the decrease in the prior to visiting Menahar judgment as to whether more harm discontent_-
desirable Means Of Bettling In- breeding of horses and the backward a series of competition wit ternational Disputes" The motion state of the pastures in the North beams in Dairen, Mukden
the W will be proposed by Mr. Lo Kwes western provinces, the Ministry of olier Manchurian Beorig, and seconded by Mr. Lim War has established horse ranch athletes will to comeTens Lim, and opposed by Mr. at Kuyung, hear Nanking The ternational meet I be fobla Tin Tau, seconded by Mr. Northwestern authorities have also Banking, in which Japanese,
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Friday, been ordered to improve the breed ohurian and other natiɔnata ATT interested are welcome of the horses-Kuo Min.
TR Kits, for one' farther term of 75
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dishes.
and one is sian Bear."
There was nothing of public in terest at the monthly meeting of the Council of the Hong Kong Football Association yesterday, the matters coming up bei
being formal confirmation of the minutes of the JAPANESE ATHLETES FOR
MANCHURIA various committees, and the Trea- burer's statement of accounts for March. Those present, were: Mr. C. M. Manners (chairman), Messrs,