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THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING CO., LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM).
PAYMENT OF INTERIM DIVIDEND ON SHANES FOR TUR YEAR ENDING
30 Jusz, 1933.
THE THE Board having declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND of Six Pence Fer Starr, free of Income Tax. for the year eading 30th Je, 1933. holders of Bearer Shares and holders of Dividend Warrants received from Lon- don on account of Reg'stored Shares, will be paid their Divilonds on prerent. ing Coupon No. 42 of the Bearer Sharos. and Dividend Warrants on Registered Shares, to either of the following Banks at Hong Kong, Shangoni or Tientsin:- THE HONG KONG & SHANGBAI
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE Fifty-second Ordinary Gen- Teral Meeting of shareholders
will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Thursday, the 25th May, 1933, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General together with a statement of Agoninta for lite year ended the 31st
December, 1932.
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"January, 1933, the remunera
tion of the Consulting: Com- "mitter. be increased from *#$18,000 0 $24,000 per annum." (2) "That as froin the lat day of
"January, 1933, the remunera
tion of the Auditors be raised * from $3,250 to 81,500 per
'annum for each Firm."
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THE LURE OF THE AIRWAY
Time Table for Summer
Flying
LONDON, April 6 British air transport is now pre- paring for what promises to be the busiest season it has ever known. busiest season it has ever known.
When, the new summer time-tablea come into operation on April 8 on the Imperial Airwas routes, four services in each direction daily will be scheduled between London and Paris, while on May 1 when there will be further nugmentations, as many as five services daily will fy between the two capitals.
News and Views
Tale of the Day.
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Creditor: Look here, I can't keep coming to your house every day for my money..
Debtor: Well, I'll tell you what-suppose you call every other Wednesday 1
19 Years on the Bench
Before the end of the Easter re- Cras recalls Ministers and Judges to their normal work, Lord San- key, the Lord Chancellor, will be able to claim nineteen years ser- vice as a judge.
To have achieved that distinction at the comfortable age of 50 years is due to his having been made a puispe judge when only 47, .on April 21, 1914.
The growth of air travel may be judged from the fact that, whereas, in early days there was for a time only one destination. Paris, to which you could book from Croydon by air, this summer there will be 140 air-stations throughout Europe to which high-speed air journeys The Duchess' Speeches. can be unde and approximately half of these destinations will be The Duchess of York, who has within a day's flying from London. promised to address the annual As to others, few will be more conference of the women's section than a couple of days from Croydon of the British Legion, of which she by the accelerated and inter-com-is president, is rapidly acquiring a nected services which are now be reputation as a speaker. coming available. Moscow, for ex- The Duchess is hot content to ampla, via Berlin, Stamboul via make a few formal remarks when Vienna,, or Madrid via Marseilles, she attenda a function; she fre will all within approximately quantly contributes useful thoughts two days of London. Throughout and suggestions. Europe there are now some thirty-
A few days ago she made quite air transport companies, operating a long speech, perhaps the longest 'approximately 60,000 miles of ever delivered by a lady of the routes, and frequent conferences royal family.
are held at which improved facili
ties are arranged for through air journeys in all directions.
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HONG KONG, MAY 0, 1833
CIVIL AND MILITARY
POWER IN CHINA
MR WANG CHING WEI has written ing article in The People's Tribune,
5
Beginning of Oxford Movement.
| Moving a Staźne,
1
The whirligig of time has seldom wrought a change riore dramatic! than
that which will bring the
Bishop of Durham into the pulpit of St. Mary Abbot's on July 14.
That day is the hundredth anni-i versary of the sermon by John Keble from which Newman said he always dated the beginning of the Oxford Movement, and the service at which Dr. Hensley Henson is to Preach is one of those arranged by the Anglo-Catholic Congress in non- our of the centenary.
pleasure aum oxplained an Imperial Air- ways official Le Touquet, for ex ample, will be only 1 hour minates from Croydon, while after breakfasting in London you will be able to embark in one of our air- liners and dine that same evening in Lugano or Lucerne. A day's air in this political unification of trip to Paris will give you more China. There is a tradition of than six bours in the French unity, but that is not enough. The capital, and you can dine com- Boman tradition of unity did not fortably in the air while on your
Fifteen years ago nothing would return flight to Croydon. save Europe from breaking into aerial week-end you will be able to that Dr. Henson should appear in have seemed more fantastic than fragments that still show few signs visit the wonderful Harz mountains
when
such a milieu, for it was in 1918 of coalescing. In the old day
of Germany, spend Sanday on the that he was raised to the episcopate "the country" really meant the Rhine, or ranch and return from after a storm of protest without
erning cliques in provinces and other continental.beauty-spots which towns, it was easy for a good it would be impossible, between parallel in the Church of England,
oldier to conquer gach in turn and Saturday and Monday, to visit in & Flood of Protests. become emperor: CHIANO KAI SHEK any other than by air. A has many of the qualities of the week's flying tour, carefully plan- soldier-statesman, like the early red, will give you bird's eye views Caesars, while FENG Yr HSIANG has of mont of the great cities of much of the, rough power of Craus or GENGHIS KHAN of yester
Europe.
In an
Mr. Lloyd George, no Prime Min- ister, was deluged with protests from High Churchmen at what was looked on ES
an outrageous ap pointment, in view of what they regarded as Dr, Henson's heretical doctrine. The Archbishop of Can-
SUMMARY OF NEWS
General.
The greatest man-huit in the The memorial to_Quintin Hogg, United States since the kidnapping the founder of the Polytechnic, was of Col. Lindbergh's baby, has start- in the process of being moved on ed as the result of a somewhat April 17 to Portland place. For similar abduction outrage, Page 9. In the House of Commons on years it has been familiar, in the middle of the thoroughfare, near the Polytechnic, Queen's Hall, and Thursday, the report stage of the All Souls Church
Anglo-German trade agreement was reached and the resolution, carried by 301 votes to 56.
Page B
!
Mr. J. H. Thomas made a state-
This part of Upper Regent-street has now, partly as a result of the new coach traffic, become one of the most crowded corners in London.
It also has "blind" spots, and ment regarding the Irish Oath Bill the removal of the Quintin Hogg in the House of Commons on Thurs-
day!
Page D. statue was felt to be necessary.
In Portland-place it will have a The French attitude towards dis- larger setting, and, incidentally, it will be near to the home of its dis-ament has undergone a change. tinguished subject's distinguished son, Lord Hailsham.
Brooklands Enthusiasm.
41
Page &. Far East.
Foreign reports from Chinwang- tao state that the military position is unchanged.
Page 0.
Chinese telegrame stato that the Normally it takes a good deal to stir a Brooklands crowd into dis- situation in the Luanbo region is
Pago 0.. playing anything more than a po- growing serious.
A fresh ultimatum has been issued lite and slightly aloof interest in the proceedings, but recently, per by the Japanese in North China.
Page 0. haps because of the weather, "but certainly not because of the book-
War Clouds are again, gathering makers prices, they were almost in the Far East, making "in- enthusiastic.
evitable" another Russo-Japanese
Page
They cheered young Whitney: conflict. Straight's new" record. and they
General Soong Chih Yuen has cheered Sir Malcolm Campbell and his Blue Bird very heartily.
sent Canton two of the "big" They also showed their apprecia-swords" feet in length and tion of a fine performance by an about 3 inches broad, actually used old "four and a half Bentley, in the fighting against the Japanese.
driven by Mr. C. J. Turner.
Vicar "What induced you to send for me, Mr. Jones ?"
Jones (who is deaf)--"What does ho say, Betty 1
Betty--"E says, what the deuce did you send for him for."
The Mysterious B.B.C.
Page 7.
The Canton Government has done all it can to support the Rame weaving industry. It has been so successful that weavers are buying modern machinery and dismissing hand weavere, who join the un- employed.
"Local,"
Page.j,
The annual Inter-School sports was held at Caroline Hill yesterday, St. Joseph's again winning the championship. The results appear on page 10.
I have heard a good deal of com ment concerning the BBC's ver- sion of the Foreign Office report of Thursday's proceedings at the Mos cow trial, writes a home newspaper
Extradition proceedings against correspondent. By one of those etrange lapsos that occur at Broad Timothio Evangelista alias Joseph casting House-nearly always, by Evangelist Besa who is wanted by the way, where foreign affairs are the Philippine authorities in con- was entirely omitted. the subject matter the vital point nection with two alleged armed robberies in Manila, were 'com-
I refer to the sinister passage in menced at Central Magistracy yes- the official account (which the anterday. Evidence was given by Mr. nouncer said he was reading) etat- Douglas Jenkins, the U.S. Consul ing that after Mr. Macdonald had General and Mr. Grantham, the retracted his ples of guilty of the assistant Colonial Secretary. previous day there was an ad journment
Page *** An interesting instance of the "This adjournment, during which Macdonald left the court in activities of the Anti-Japanese Boy hands of his O.G.P.U. guards, was ontt picket in Manila was brought followed by a change in his be to light at the meeting of the Chi- haviour which was remarked by nese. Chamber of Commerce yester Page 7. all observers. He was again ques tioned as to whether he admitted
day.
Books will be closed from the 11th to an extremely interesting and reveal day, or the Shah of Persia to-day. Palestine, Egypt, and the cities and terbudy was urged with the utmost espionage, and replied in low tones dealt with by the Magistrates at
inclusive.
The Share Register and Transfer the 25th May, 1933, both days
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Agents. Hoagsong, 4th May, 1933 ...(722
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED. TOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above Company will be held at the offices of the General Agents, Mesars, Jordine, Matheson & Com pany Limited, Fedder Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong on Thursday, the 25th day of May, 1933, at 12.15 o'clock in the afternoon or so soon thereafter as the Annual General Meeting of the Company shall have been concluded for the purpose of if proposing and considering aart, thought fit, passing (with or without amendment) the subjoined Resolutions as Extraordinary Resolutions viz?—
"(1) That the existing 10,000 shares. in the capital of the Company of the nominal value of $350 each. "upon which the sam of 8100 bas "been paid up, be divided into "50,000 shares of the nominal value "of $50 each, upon which the sum of
820 alall be credited as paid up.
"(2) That as on and from the 1st day of July, 1933: the regulations "contained in the printed docu "ments submitted to the meeting "and for the purpose of identifica- "tion subscribed by the Chairman "thereof be approved and adopted
get
Mr.
But China wants to tread a more or the vital problem of the defence certain path. Her people want a of China. Perhaps the significance civilian republic, controlling the of the article lies more in what it military. But is it possible in shows of the mentality, and growth feudally minded Ohina to of one of China's leading states. troops to obey the civil power as men than in his actual contribution against their own leader? to the problems confronting his country. Mr. WANG CHING WEI has developed, as Mr. LLOYD GEORGE developed, from a mob orator to the responsible statesman. He is learn- ing that the statesman must' so- relate his actions with his words, and in the ability to do that lies the distinction between a politician and
statesman.
WANG CHING WEI has great in fluence with the people of China, but when it comes to a conflict cau this prevail against the militarists CHIANG KAI SHEK is apparently the most powerful men in China be cause he has the biggest army. If his army were destroyed, he and his Government would be turned out the next day by one or other of the surviving militarists.
Lightning sir trips, along the Empire routes, can be rende shores of the Mediterranean. In a week after ascending from London one can be in the heart of the African gamelands, while fascin- ating flights, free from the heat or dust of surface travel, can be made high above the desert by the Indian air-mail, or on down the pictureh que Arabian coast.
Combined Transport, Becoming increasingly popular, now, are combined trips in which tourists go part of the way by air,. and effect other stages by land or sea. In this respect there is a growing co-operation between air- ways, railways, and steaniship lines, and many fascinating tours are available in which aeroplanes, fly. Wherever there has been gooding-boats, ship, motor-ears, and government in modern China, it has trains all play their respective There are those who regard been under the protection of mili- parts.
When you remember the time China's fundamental problem tary force.. FENG YU. SIANG and purely from the mechanical point YEN HSI SHAN were capable and which flying saves, and which gives of view, soing only in purely conscientious provincial administra you so much longer for sightseeing.
Mr. WANG CHING We seizes upon the fact that military effort alone will not save China
solemnity to refuse consecration, one of the leaders of the appeal be ing Bishop Gore.
in the affirmative."
A batch of motor offences were
Central and Kowloon Magistracies. Page 7.
Not a word of this was read over the microphone. Why, I have been The Church papers were full of asked, was the B.B.C.so anxious the "scandal" for weeks, and it was not to hurt the Bolsheviks feel-to-morrow, and Morning Dews," Selections for the Macao Races prophesied that if the thing were ingal Is this the first fruits of the notes on the events appear on page done the Church of England would, "reorganisation" of which be split from top to bottom. bears remarkable accounts?
Local and General
of
Three cases of small-pox, one of enteric, and one of meningitis were reported on Thursday.
Owing to the indisposition of Mr. Butters, Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham occupied the Bench at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.
The wedding will shortly take
one 1.
Six Percy Mackinnon, chairman of Lloyd's, will distribute the prizes to the cadete of the Thames Nauti cal Training College, F.M.S. Worcester, off Greenhithe, Kent, on Thursday, July 27.
A motor-tender belonging to the Shingman Waterworks Scheme, col. lided with a small Chinese boy who
The Hong Kong Lawn Tennis Association's rules governing the current season's Tennis League Competition appear on page 10.“
Volunteer Orders appear on page
from the files.
military measures China's chance tors, and as long as they kept their on land, apkit from the wonderful place between Dr. Archibald Nelson was playing on the Castle Peak of national salvation and hope for armies to protect their respective panoramas you see while aloft, tlie Jones, of the War Memorial: Hus- Rood, near Keelung Street, Japanese-overlooking the fact with the civil wars, they and their compares favourably with that of Pital, and Miss Constance Vera Thursday, and caused head injuries ceived" he proceeded to the Yamen
a successful resistance against the provinces, and refused to meddle
tarism
cost of airway travel, nowadays,
-
travel by any corresponding form of Riley, of 50, the Peak. first-class surface transport, more specially as you avoid when fly ing, many expenses which are in oidental to journeys by any other means. Our modern air-liners have spacious, saloons, in which noise is caused her to commit suicide. reduced to a minimum. Uniformed
Wan Choi, 23-year-old concubine, hanged herself at her home at 100, Keelung Street, Shamshuipo, Domestic troubles are said to have
The Hong Kong University Union
1933,
on
LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
On the 29th ult., Mr.-Commis- sioner Parkas" perpetrated a coup d'etat. "From information here from which the victim died shortly of the Chinese Governor and there, afterwards.
arrested Pah Kwi, the Hoppo, and ne judge, who were at dinner, on the charge of contemplating a va- mon. Peh Kwi did not deny the soft impeachment, and as he had nothing more to gain, he cloaked, is guide in assumed simplicity, and with the most charming naive to asked to be allowed to resign, an he had transferred his authority to
May 6, 1858.
The Nagoya Chamber of Con- merce and Industry will send a big party of about 1,000 merchants and manufacturers to Dairen, where the Manchurian Exhibition opens there
Japan
Ewang-Hong Kong Dail
that military reorganisation is people prospered. In Kwangsi, WONG but part of the whole scheme of SHIU HUNG effected many excellent national reconstruction, that mili- reforms and innovations, but the tary reorganisation alone, in dis-Leung Kwang Wars, and CHANG regard of other, and more funda-FAT FUI's "Ironsides," kept the mental, questions, will inevitably province in a state of uncertainty give an added impetus to the pre and Woro was soon dispossessed, datory activities of a parasitie In the present state of China, stewards serve men's and refresh- quasi-independent feudal mili with semi-independent war lords,ments from well-equipped buffets. will hold a sports dance on Wed-on July 1, for the extension of the with bandite and the great Com-On either long or short journeys nesday, May 13, at 9 p.m., in the market for the merchandise menu In other words a Chinese Army munist movement menacing the fatigue of night travel is avoided, the cricket club for winning the
you By with effortless ease. The University Great Hall in honour of factured in the Nagoya district of "as the Articles of Association of strong enough to beat Japan would people and the offcial government, because you sleep comfortably at a Colony's Senior League Shield for Nanking, April. 29.-By arrange- "the Company, in substitution for, have the nation at its feet, and the semi-military rule seems inevit hotel each night when on long
ment with the Netherlands Govern
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS and to the exclusion of all the general would be Emperor! The civil able in the near future. The posi flights, and are fresh next morning "existing Articles thereof."
power must, in his opinion, control tion, in not unlike that in England for the resantion of your aerial
ment a Board of Trustees will short- The marriage between Miss ly be appointed by the Executive Co.'s last Tea Report, dated Cal- From Messrs. Thos. Watson & AND NOTICE is hereby given the military power, Mr. WANG when the Tudor monarchs, with the voyage. that a further Extraordinary General realises, however, that before this backing of the trading and farming
Fifty Big Air Liners.
Alberta Cordeiro and Mr. R. M. Yoan for the administration of the eutta, 3rd April, we note that the Meeting of the Company-will be held can be expected there must be civil classes, steadily crushed both feudal All of which being so, it in Marques will be solemnized at St. Dutch Indemnity Refund. It is export of ten from Calcutta to day of June, 1963, at 12 noon for the program-progress in commerce and baron and rival claimants to the hardly surprising that more than Margarets Church, Happy Valley understood that Mr. Shih Ying, Great Britain from 1st January to at the same place on Friday, the 9th: purpose of receiving a report of the industry, in jurisprudence and local throne. The task was done largely fifty big air-liners should, at busy to-morrow at 4 pm Later & recep Mayor of Nanking, will be appoint 31st March was 10,380, 163 lbs., ae proceedings of the above: mentioned government Lawyers and states because the King kept a quoy don's air-port daily, or that trafic on all be held at 22, Wahcha od Chairman of the Board, which compared with 8,583,356, Ibe. in the
will include h Dutch representativo, and of confirming, if thought men aan only get the upper hand of a now weapon, the train, of Road, fit, as Special. Resolutions the above if they are the spokesmen of an artillery. The now weapon of to- should have grown to such an ex
-Kuo, Min. mentioned Resolutions respectively enlightened and prosperous popula- day is the aeroplane. The Central sands of passengers fly to and fro
tent that, during the summer, thou (Nos. 1 and 2)
tion At present the civilians hold- Government of China needs a mono- A copy of the proposed new Articlesing office in China and the puppete poly of aeroplanes to destroy its above the Channel every week. ".. of Association of the Company with the alterations and amendmenta and of the military men. There are opponents and enforce its will. any differences between the existing lose, however, who hold that both When the lawless elements have and the proposed new Articles incor-soldiers and politicians are the serbeen wiped out it should be no tyranny, and again Oromollian porated and indicated in red ink cen vants of other hidden sad, even impossible task to prevent the tyranny, as the alternative to dis be seen during the usual business more sinister forces, a state of military from setting up a tyranny; order, but tyranny for the personal hours at the aforesaid office of Messrs.. affairs worse than the rule of pro- provided the modernisation of the beneft of the Monarch was not the harbour on Thursday resulted complainant appeared in Court with men, including the son of General Jardine, Matheson &
Company vincial dictators and roving soldiers country goes forward and permitted. History does not repeat
his head bandaged, and his uniform Oyams. The bodies of Captain Limited.
of fortune, like CHANG FAT Foi and wealthy and honest class of farmers itself, but China, must inevitably in damage being caused to one to stained with blood. The scented, Yashiro and Lieut. Wajlms have *Dated the 3rd., day of May, 1933. the notorious" Grey Generala", of and merchenteis allowed to come passthrough somewhat simily the extent of $80. The mishap oo Kapoor Singh and Karter Singh were saleep at the time of the dis been recoterad. Most of this crew JARDINE, MATHESON &
the north.
to the fore. In England such a stages, betoru siviling ministers will cured tear the Taumati break were remanded to Tuesday at 2.30 00., LTD.
Even at this, stage few people class rose in the sixteenth century, be able to control the length and water, while one of the vessels was pun, when Mr. Schofield will hear asterHong Kong Daily Press,
clearing for Cleungshawan. the land.
the case. General Agents. [783 realise the enormone task involved For a time they permitted Tudor breadth of t
deny, that the six students fimed on St. Joseph's College puthorities
Wednesday for throwing stones at a lamppost are St. Joseph's boys It appears that one attended the College some time ago, but the others are unknown to the College.
A collision between two junke in
same period of the previous year. -Hong Kong Daily Press, May 6,
1863.
"I think these big sticks shoud be made illegal" said Mr. Wynne-Looking Back 25 Years. Jones yesterday in the Central Ma
The Matsushima hassunk in glitracy, when shown the weapon with which, it was alleged, Badawa Makong Harbour, her bridge being Bingb, à watchman of the King's awash. Her complement numbered 449. Two hundred and seven ATC, Theatre, was assaulted by two other lost among whom are 33 midship watchmen in Wellington Street. The
May 8, 1906.
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