NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION,
WITH reference to Customs Noti
fications Nos. 101 & 203 to the effect that on and after 1st August, 1933 all goods imported into China must be marked with the name of the country of origin, I have, under instructions, to notify that the enforce ment of this Regulation is postponed until the end of l'ecember, 1933,
EN. ENSOR,
Commissioner of Chinese Customs,
Kowloon and District.
York Building,
Hongkong: 19th April, 1933.
THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
NOTIL
LIMITED.
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TOTICE is hereby given that un Extraordinary General Meeting
of the above Company will be held at the offices of the General Managers, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Com pany Limited, l'edder Street, Victoris, in the Colony of Hongkong, on Tuesday, the 5th day of April, at 12 NOON for the purpose of receiving ar-port of the proceedings of an Extru ordinary General Meeting of the ab ve Company held on the 10th day of April last and of confirming if thought fit, as Special Resolutions the following Resolutions which were passed as Extraordinary Resolutions at tho above mentioned meeting namely:--
"(1) That the existing 8,000 shares "in the capital of the Company of "the nominal value of 82 ench, "upon which the sum of $100 has "been paid up, be divided into "40,000 shares of the nominal value "of 850 each, upon which the summ "of 82 shall be credited as paid "up.
"(2) That as on and from the 1st day of July, 1933, the regulations "contained in the printed document "submitted to the meeting and for "the purpose of identification "subscribed by the Chairman there "of be approved and adopted as the "Articles of Association of the "Company, in substi-ution for, and "to the exclusion of, all the existing
"Articles thereof."
AND NOTICE is nl-o hereby given that in the event of the above men- ti ned Resolutions being confirmed as Special Nesolutions the Transfer Books
of the Company will be closed from the 20th April, 1033, to the 1st May, 1939, both days inclusive..
Dated the 20th day of April, 1918.
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General Managers.
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We have received an interesting
THE WEATHER!
At Its Old Tricks ! -
Yesterday morning was close and stuffy, typical of super weather in Hongkong, and most people emme out in summer clothes-men in whites, and ladies in sleeveless frocks, etc. By noon the clouds had gathered thickly. and rain started It was not particularly heavy rain for Hongkong, the amount registered at the Observa!
The tem tory baing 435 inches. perature also fell with characteris- tic abruptners. Or Monday d maximum of 82 degrees was regis tered and by yesterday afternoon
it had dropped to 73.
Now, everyone is asking, "is the danger of drought over and are the rains going to start in real earn- „CAI'1"
NOVEL POINT RAISED Hongkong Chinese and Deportation
CHIEF JUSTICE TO DECIDE TO-DAY
* News and Views ★
Stalin's Favourite Opera.
From a musician recently return ed from Moscow we learn that Stalin's favourite opera is "Car
its being men." He insists on sung several times a week.
Ce it be that Stalin is attract ed by the brigand interest!
Rubber-neck,
5.
Park Orator: My friends, if we were each of us to turn and look ourselves squarely in the face; what should we each find we need
al most."
A voice from the crowd: india-rubber neck, mister !''
Glamis Red,
"A
There is a lovely glow about the colour name the Duchess of York has created for the now Scottish tweed: Even to think about it was comforting during March in Scot
land, which goes to prove that the
daughter-in-law
knows!
Americans and the H.A.F..
SUMMARY OF NEWS
General.
Local.
Sentence of twelvo weeks impri- Bomment was imposed on a Peak
Officials at the Air Ministry A proclamation was issued fol were recently parturbed all because lowing, a meeting of the Privy of a handsome American tribute to Council at Windsor Castle, prohi the R.A.F. Do not yet it be biting the iniportation of Russian Full particulars will be thought that compliments are not goods.
- Page 1. as welcome at the Air Ministry as found in. anywhere else. They are, but wher they sing the praises of meribers of the R.A.F. as performers for American films, particularly when British producing companies fing it extremely difficult to get per- mission to "feature" any of the Services, there seems good reason for mild alarm at the Ministry "We have made inquiries here, there, and everywhere," an official said to me, "to try to discover how this story got around. that the R.A.F. are helping to make an American picture in the Arabian desert. Of
planes over the desert."
course,
Monk's Art Revived.
we have no
as.
Jongg set from Mrs. Strahan of houseboy for the theft of a Malt ou, The Peak and a cigarette case and lighter from Mr. A. C. Beck, the well-known cricketer. Page 11.
Chinese children, day-or rather three day's-was opened yesterday by Dr. Katewall at the Hop Yat Tong Church. There is an exhibi- tion, free axamination of children and finally sports on Saturday,
Page 7.
J. E. Best, the Filipino, whose conviction at the Criminal sessiont Mest of somewhat vaguely King's
was quashed by the Court of more than a little about the psy-sume, possible after seeing the rare
Criminal appeal, asked for a writ chology of salesmanship and ad- volumes in the British Museum
of habeas corpus when brought vertising. No one wears red with that the art of illuminating manu
Schofield yesterday- scripts was one known only to before Mr. better effect than the Duchess her- self. While she was staying at monks centuries ago, and that it The Manila authorities want him, Birkhall last autumn, soft, warm had been lost for several hundred but Besa contended that his de shades of it were her frequent years. This is very far from being tection was illegal. His plea foil. Page 10. As shown by ed. An interesting point of law was choice for morning waar. For in the case, however, raised by Mr. H. C. Macnamara stance, when she came with the some of the work that is done by
Results of the first day's sport Queen to "shop early" at Crathte the Society of Scribes and Illumi- yesterday when Kwok Ping was ar raigned before the acting chiet Kirk sale her sports suit and hat nators, who arranged a most inter
Page 10, were dark cherry red. No colour esting display at a London gallery. Judge at the Criminal Sessions for show-up more perfectly her dali- They have succeeded not merely in breach of deportation orders.
The deportation order against the cate complexion and the silky revising the art but in bringing it
Mr. darkness of her hair.
up to a standard of beauty whien even the ancient monks failed to surpass The books and missala they have decorated with gold leaf and pigments of exquisite hue might well be placed alongside the most famous illuminated manu- scripts of old. They are flawless, but in the eyes of a collector have one fault-they are too new.
accused was made in 1931. Macnamara appeared for the de- fence, instructed by Mr. M. K. Lo, while Mr. J. A. Fraser. appeared for the Crown.
was
Dowager Lady Darnley declares that it was Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who in 1883, when Lord Darnley (then Ivo Bligh) had avenged England's de- feat at the hands of Australia in the previous year, "found a little wooden ura, burat a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and, wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into Ivo's bands."
be
!
The Ashes" on Show. Lord Westmorland, who is put The Assistant Attorney Generating in so much work to assure stated that prisoner was deported success for the forthcoming exhibi-, by the Governor-in-Council under tion of national sporting trophies, an order dated June 15, 1931, where states that the M.C.O. has agreed by he was prohibited from being to permit the inclusion of the urn in the Colony for a period of ten containing the recently regained years. On February 6 this year he Ashes. was arrested in Queen's Road Enst.
The urn and its contents pos8989 When charged at the Police Station practically no intrinsic worth, but accused stated "I am a banishec." their historical and sentimental At the Magistracy accused made value is great. Accordingly the in Germany, but as soon as the general cleaning is finished, there & statement to the effect that he M.CC. has very properly insisted parents died when he three taken for the safety of their small will be a serious selection and all was born in Hong Kong and his that special precautions should be the old, honest Jews, properly years old. His grandmother sup treasure. nationalised, will be reinstated and ported him until he was ten years respected as before. They do not of age. He was then put into the St. Louie Industrial School where subscribe to the actual terror pro- he studied English for ten years. papanda: they know they have! At the end of that time he was sent to ear his own living. He clean shirts and nothing to lear, committed an offence and was ar but the exploiters and battlefield rested. There was proof that he hyenas must be turned out. They was born in Hong Kong and had lived here for over 30 years. Ha misused hospitality accorded to had never been anywhere else and
The inspiration was a "happy them when they came disguised as knew no one outside the Colony. He poer war victims. Their immigra-stated that he was sent to Canton ons, for in 1882 there had appear.
a living there.
tionate memory of English cricket, THE HONG KONG & YAUMATI GERMANY AND THE JEWS tion and accumulation was only without money and could not make ed the famous obituary in affec
No Case.
"whose demise was deeply lament possible because Germany has no
England After evidence had been called ed and whose body would immigration restriction.
to support the Crown caso Mr. cremated and the ashes taken to NOTICE is hereby given the letter from a member of the local and her Colonies are unable Macnamara subraitted that there Australia."
ORDINARY ANNUAL
was no case to answer the Brst rea-
under! MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS German comunity upon the ques-understand the danger, which those
which the banishment was effected will be held at the Chinese Restaurant tion of the recent outbreak of Jews represent to a country, be- son being that the order at No. 20, Des Vooux Road Central,
cause they know only their own,
was not valid under the provisions Victoria, Hongkong, on Wednesday,the anti-Semitism in his country. After 28th day of April 1933 at 1000a.m. for complaining that our leading arti-highly respectable and distinguish of the Deportation Ordinance of the purpose of receiving a statement of accounts and the report of the cle on the subject showed "absoed Jewish citizens, as Germany had 1917. The grounds under which the in law to support the making of Directors for the year ended 31st lute ignorance of the aitantion in them before the War. Therefore order were made were insufficient
better look, if the root is not good such an order. The section under bers of the Peak Chub that the December, 1938.
which he based his contention was final dance of the present season Post-War Germany" our correspon- THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Our correspondent makes the old Section 3, lb, which stated "if an
will be held on Friday, April 21, Company will be closed from Thursday, dent, to whom we are grateful for before you condemn the plant.”
alien has been convicted of an
at 9.30, p.m. the 13th April, 1933 to Wednesday, the a clear exposition of his point of 26th April, 1933 both days inclusive.
view, goes on to say--and we give inistake of condemning a tree be-offence in the Colony." There was By Order of the Board of Director, the rest of his letter in extenso: cause he thinks that it needs prun-nothing in the order to show that
lony, the order merely stating that place between Mr. John Lewis "The actual situation requires a ing. A leading member of the local he had been convicted in the Co- The wedding, will shortly take nese Maritime Customs, and Miss the question, referred to the hold by a trick"
Nordio Theory," upon
Lucilla Victoria da Silva, 400, Lock acorganisation and sanitation are to succeed. The actual anti-Semi- ADOLF HITLER and bis followers,
hurt Road. tism is only and exclusively direct The notion of the superiority of the "blond man from the North" is ed against the immigration wave of discounted by science, and by well Jews mostly from eastern pro-informed people. The greatness of TOTICE is hereby given that the vinces, who are mostly undesirable many of the Jews, notably the he was or was not an alien and stumbled and fell after being sur-
refuta N
tion of the theory. 44th ORDINARY ANNUAL guests, rejected and despised even German Jews, is itself a
But the main fallacy of our cor- MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS by the old honourable Jewish titi-
respondent's argument lies in his will be held at the Offices of the Company, Exchange Building, Ds zens of Germany.
The old Jews were honest mort general condemnation of a section at least. penal laws can only be aimed at the individual. You can- not attack groups, however card. fully you try to define the groups, Nothing of that sort has been
Germany and to done in
on mob-violence is barbarity.
LAU TAK PO,
Managing Director. Hongkong 12th April 1923.
(708
With the Master Marines,
Sir Burton Chadwick, its deputy master and founder was recently asked "what are the prospects of of obtaining its own hall." the Company of Master Mariners
"When those 'better times, really arrice," he said, "then we'll get it quickly enough. But it's no use appealing for money now."
A large oil painting has just been presented, to the company, depicting the first meeting of its court, Sir Burton made a strik ing comment. "If you could see, a review at Spithead of all the ships, sail and steam, that have commanded by those men, it would, indeed, be a sight for the eyes of England."
The artist, Mr. Maurice Ran da51, painted each of his sitters separately. He dovoted about two or three hours to each individual ly, and then assembled them all in the one great group..
Local and General
farting of the Hong Kong Area will be found on
An interesting point of law was raised at the Criminal Sessions yee- torday in a deportation case, the prisoner questioning the legality of an earlier deportation order.
Page 8.
The annual general meeting of the Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd. was held yesterday when the Chair- man, Mr. A. H. White reported a profit of approximately $180,878.
Page 6.
The recent tragedy on board the .. Sui Tai in which Mr. John Gentles Smith, chief officer was found dead in the bathroom, with its sequel at Central Magistracy yesterday when a Coroner's enquiry was held. A verdict of suicide was a bullet wound near the heart, had
returned.
Page 7.
From the files.
LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
Nothing has lately been said in the papers regarding the yacht Emperor. We presume that the Earl of Elgin, wishing to present her to the Emperor of Japan bim- self, must necessarily arrange this Chinese dispute first. The Dutch have been beforchand with us in the matter of cumshawing steamers. Between two and three years ago, it may be remembered that a Dutch paddie wheel steamer arrived, here
| thorough cleaning of the country if German community in discussing he had been convicted of stealing Boyes, a Customs officer of the Chi-veyance of five prostitutes across ese on board-Hong Kong Daily
of the
We are asked to remind mem A film depicting battle scenes en route, to Japan. She is still along the Great Wall is being ex-there in service, as a Japanese man hibited in Nanking to packed of war or trade vessel. The Dutch houses under the auspices of the officers and engineers remained for publicity department of the some time, serving the Japanese Kuomintang. "Recover our Jehol" Government. Before they left, they had taught, the Japanese how to is its title
manage the vessel, and she has since For using her boat for the con-been running with sone but Japan- the harbour, Wong Chuen was fined Press, April 20, 188. Mr. Maenamara also contended
850 by Comdr. Newill, Harbour master at the Marine Court yes-LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS. that the order should have been
terday. It was stated the boat was
In the opium controversy which made on a form 7a and not form 7 as had been utilised in this in-
The Police removed to Hospital going towards Dutch steamer when
Chinese female she was stopped by a police launch, the humanitarian party in England. on Tuesday a stance. It should also have been
keep seething by means of the mentioned on the form used whether hawker who was injured when sho
A decree niti has been granted magazine called the. Friend of whether the offence had been comprised with other unlicensed haw-Court yesterday by Judge P. Grant to denounce the trade, the great the petitioner in H.M. Supreme China and periodical meetings held mitted in the Colony. There was
Jones, when Mr. B. B. Drysdale fact that the drug is now produced no mention also of whether His kers in a city street.
ཀ ཝན
applied for a divorce from her hue- in such quantities in the Central Excellency the Governor had evan
Capt. Fred F. Rogers, Comman-band Mr. I. F. Drysdale on grounds Kingdom as to furnish more: than considered whether the prisoner Kony, on Tuesday, the 25th day of chants, the immigrants are leaders of the community. In peace-time, was an alien or not." He quoted] der of the Destroyer Division 8 of of misconduct, Mr. M. B. Brown half the supply needed for consump several portions of the Ordinance the U.S. scouting force, has been appeared on behalf of the petition- tion is too often lost sight of. While
assigned by the Navy Department er. as Naval Attaché to the American Embassy in Toyko.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
Voeux Road Central, Victorin, Hong: April, 1931 at 11.30 am. for the in dope and other illicit trades, The purpose of receiving a statement of old ones sustained the opera and sodounts and the report of the Directhe arts, the new ones found cabo to's for the year ended 31st December, rets, gambling clubs and low-grade THE TRANSFER, BOOKS of the pleasure holes; the old ones were Thursday, the 13th April, 1933, to talmudistic law contortionista · and
1932.
go
A
in support of his contention.
Raply for the Drown, Mr. Fraser replying, submitted that the question of status was ir relevant in the present proceedings.
17
the anti-opium agitators are con- stantly urging upon the British Plans for the construction of an Government the "duty" of the underground railway in Moscow as withdrawal of India from the trade, One of the resolutions passed at submitted by foreign experts some they fail to recognise that the cessa- time ago, have been sanctioned by tion of production by India 'would Aompany will be CLOSED, from famous lawyers, the new comers are behind the law of the land and act When the Ordinance was made the 181 at. meeting of the Kwang the Soviet authorities and it is affect only in part the supply of defence such as had been raised tung Provincial Council which was hoped that work will be completed spium-Hong Kong Daily Press, Tuesday, the 25th April, 1933, both where the first refused a dirty case law might be passed to the effect that day was never, contemplated.held in Canton on Tuesday, was by the end of the next year. It is April 20, 1883.
"that the application of the Swaproposed to build ten lines and, it Hal tow Harbour Administration Sub-i is stated, seven foreign experts will
Bureau for the building of a public superintend the building opera
tiona. wharf in that city be granted."
days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
ALLAN KEITH,
Secretary,
Hong Kong 4th April 1933.
A
RONALD JOHN STEVENS DECEASED.
(488
NY persons having any claims
against the Estate of the above-name! Deceased, formerly of
009, Prince Eduard Bead Kowloon,
the latter will try to win it by hook that every person of the Jewish and crook, provided their client faith who entered Germany be. can pay.
tween specific dater shall appear "The old Jews protest against before a tribunal with plenary the Prese propaganda, they under power of deportation. Such an stand that a cleaning is necessary.act might or might not be work Absolutely false is the often re-able- lawyer would probably peated sagument of the numerical revel in its pitfalls, but at least inferiority of the Jewish popula-it would make mob assailants not tion. One does not want a gallon the officers but the breakers of the
Ha contended that there was no duty incumbent on the Governor in Council to use form 7 or 78. could use sither.
After hearing the argument for both sides His Lordship adjourned the Court until this morning, to consider the point.
Sir Ernest Benn, on behalf of Many old residents will be inter- ested to bear of the birth of a son Benn Brothers, Limited, has ac Ito' Capt. and Mrs. J. B. MacDonald quired the whole of the Ordinary on February 23 ft Delhi. Mrs.share capital in the - Newspaper MacDonald is the daughter of Mr. World Press, Limited. Mr. Char lea Baker (uncle of Mr. H. A Hyde Lay, who retired from the
SMALL-POX
77.DEATHS LAST WEEK.
"Deaths from small-pox last week
of strychnine to poison a gallon of law. If the Jewish immigrants are member of the found German com. trendswater, a teaspoonful of cholera engaging upon the nefarious praos
bacteria, thrown in the Hong wees alleged by our correspondent, munity said: "The Nazis are a British Consular service (Japan) in, Cartwright, late Maniging-Editor reached the unpleasantly high total Kong water reservoirs is sufficient, the legislature, the police and the young movement. Many of them-1928 One more for the Centenary of the Hong Kong Daily Press), of 77, compared with 31 for the to develop an epidemic in the whole properly constituted professicaal in their ardour hold wrong beliefs, Celebration!
the founder of the Newspaper previous week. On the other hand, Colony, and in 1911 a gang of three nocieties are some of the authori
World, who is 82 this year, retains new cases totalled only 14 (8 from men could for weeks terrorise the tins to take up cock came and deal like the Nordic Theory. They will Francia capital
with in on its meritsmong those
According to a United Press his interest and will continue to be Kowloon). On Tuesday there were -thingsy and -Riakelit.ap. and c/o The Far East Aviation Co.,
"Ta roorganise, Germany must immigrants, as among all groups of pear that the leaders support them: Akira Ariyothi, Japanese Ministered on, the board of the company
message received froin Tokyo, Mrvivors die be jums new caso Ltd., are requested to send the same start by eliminating the dangerous humanity. Be men and women of But it is great movement, seeking to China, and Mr. Y. Sumaa, secre by Mr. Gordon Robbins and Mr. last week wero as follows: Dipl
Other cases of notifiable disease": to the undersigned forthwith.
elements which form corrupt, com-every sort. There are, as we how to cleanse, and rebuild Germany. tary of the Japanese Legation in Glanvill Bern. No alterations are theria, 2:(1 death); meningitis 4 (2 suunist and deinoralising germs. A said, stam ng a cloth, becomes more either banish them, or control and They have immense probletus, econ-
Shanghai, will leave Tokyo on being made in the personnel and deaths); rabies, 1 (fatal), JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER: visible if you wash it locally put punish the had, and absorb the omic constitutional and diplomatic April 20 for Shanghai, having com staff. The offices will be removed.] the whole cloth in the washing good, Sporadic persecution will do ter solve. I do not think on will pleted the discussions with the
There were 70 deaths from tuber- tub and you will make it clean, nothing but harm, A very wise hear any more of this ant Jewish Foreign Office with regard to as soon as convenient to Bouverie
culosis... Japan's policy toward China. (725 The same process is going on now (Continued at foot of next Column) 1 cutbreak 'r
Dated this 19th Day of April,
1933.
Solicitors for the Executrix.
two
· reasonable"
courses
House
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