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THE WHITE MAGIC" by Girls of S. Paul's Girls' School "THE STORY OF TOBIT" - by Girls of the Diocesan Girls' School will be presented at'
8. PAUL'S GIRLS' SCHOOL, MACDONNELL ROAD
on THURSDAY, MAY 11Ta
at 3.90 P.M.
Tickets 82.00 and $1.00; Children half price.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY "OF CANTON, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.} NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the ORDINARY YEAR.. LY MEETING of the Society will be. held at the HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, un FRIDAY, 2erb MAY, 1932, at 11 o'clock A.M for the purpose of meriving the Report of the Directors and the State- meata of Account to 31st December, 1832, and of declaring Dividends, otc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED frour 9th MAY to 20th MAY, Both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1933.
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NOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN that the SIXTY-FOURTH ORDINARY YEARLY NEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD OFFICE Union Building, Hong Kong on FRIDAY, 26th MAY, 1933, at 11.15 AB,, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1939, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from th
Editorial and Business Office: 11 öconomic and political problem of
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the age. We all need to know what she is thinking, what she wants,
INFLATION OF CURRENCY
BILL PASSED BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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* News and Views *
The New Arrangement.
Royal Stamps Sold for Charity.
The King sent 156 foreign stamps to a sale at Glandianing's on be
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Ganerul,
The certifiable quantity has now been raised from a bottle per ten days to three gallons-say, a dozen half of the Royal Ear Hospital, turned unopposed, cur-
and a half bottles.
Washington, May 3-The reney amendinent to the Farm Re. lief Bill was passed by the House of Representative to-day
The vote was 307 to 88, major- ity considerably larger than that which agreed to limit debate yes terday, and thus virtually assured the passage of the amendment.
Under the house rules the final passage of the farm relief measure, which is an omnibus bill carrying the inflation program is not pos
sible to-day.
This must surely alter the whole position.
The Type Writer!
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Yesterday, at Normanton Hye- Flection Mr. Tom Smith was re Page ė Reuter reports that Gandhi was London. Seven of the stamps, 18- sued in Trinidad to commemorate released from prison yesterday.
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penny all red" King Edward, pre ria on Sunday appear on Page 10. pared but not issued. They realised £213.
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visit of the King, when Duke of York to the island in 1881, brought Gold, and a Golden Volce.
£53. Only four sets were printed. Mahatına Gandhi starbed his Kari Jorn the famous Wagnerian One was sold on behalf of the Bri- twenty-one day fast at noon yester tenor now heads, his own company tish Red Cross Society during the day,
: Page 8. - gold mining corporation in Co-war, and two other sets are in the
Davis Cup Tennis-results are on lorado. A geologist by training, King's collection. Another rare ex-
Page 10 his rich voice resounds among the ample was a British Guiana 1862 bills as he toils with pick and pan, four cents stamp, and a St. Helena Baseball inatches played in Ame- developing his claim and setting a new style in post-footlight careers
Le Petit Parisien's story of the French war for operatic song birds,
"debts proposal is officially declared to be basoles,
Page 9: Kenneth Thick, it is alleged has So much public ado has accom- confessed his part of the kidnap- panied the conversion of Dry Ameriping of Margaret McMath. Page 9 It was Вы cu into a land where one may legal- Sir Eric Drummond has prepared
ly drink very light beer that an other much more sweeping change seems to have escaped attention,
Americans of the class likely to be interested in fine wines have ob- tained a sweeping concession where by they will unquestionably be en- abled to obtain and consume any form of wine in most adequate quantities.
cele
"The approval of the currency sec tions however, concurring with the Senate's action is equivalent to a
American business woman final authorization of the President brate the sixtieth anniversary of to manage the national credit asia the typewriter, says an American money of the United States without paper. They should any further cheek from Congress. typewriter key that opened for them the door of the commercial The measure will give the prest-world. Prior to 1837 women workers, dent power to issue new currency, entered offices only to sweep them. reduce the gold content of the dol Then came the promising contrap lar by as much as fifty per cent tion that assured speed and legibil and to provide for the free coin ity to letter writing. But it was age of silver with gold at a ratio a machine that operated not with ho may determine,
flexing of mighty muscles or sweep of lordly arm, but only by being poked at Hence women typista, hence women to-day from bottom 10 top of the business structure-What
The amendment, previously pass. ed by the Senate now goes to con- ference committee for final adjust
inents.
Good Wine for U.S.A.
Hitherto doctors and dentists have been entitled to give certificates en titling patients to wine of any kind
a memorandum drawing an anology. between the limitation and control of opium production and the limita tion and control of the manufacture of armamenta.
Page 9.
Local,
Police Reserve orders appear on. Page 30.
Our special Kowloon correspon- dent discusses at length the Kow- loon Magistraer-an antiquated
The passage of the bill itself is kingdoms those typewriter kays un up to one, bottle in every ten days and inadequate building. Page 11.
regarded ne assured.
locked!
The Modern Salaman.
"People abhor being soxa to, but they love buying. That is why thousands of women go to Oxford on street.
It has been indicated in some quarters however that the inflation is not mandatory and some persons believe that the President will not exercise the powers conferred him by the provisions of the amend、 ment.
IMMIGRATION LAW FOR ..
CHINA
DRAFT SUBMITTED TO FOREIGN OFFICE
NANKING, May 2 It is understood that the draft of an Immigration Law has been prepared by the Oversens Affairs
"Customers like a salesman who does not take the point of view of his own company. The salesman must always be on the customer's
side.
"Never write business letters; people hate, them, They would much rather be talked to."
"Never use envelopes which have the name of your company on them, and never use envelopes with es luloid windows over the name and address.
Though not obviously suffering from any pathological disability, the bulk of good-class Americans have found no difficulty in getting the required certificates.
Laying Down Cellars.
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Judgment was reserved yesterday by Mr. Justice Lindsoll in a case in which the return was charmed of $1,000 deposited ae rent. Two ment- bers of the Ses Long Firm wore Le- ing sued by a former tenant.
Page 6. The Kowloon Motor Bus Co Hitherto these permits have been used almost entirely for the pur- denies that fares are to be raised, chase of port and sherry, since these except that season tickets will in wines are of about twice
Kowloon Supple the future cost $10. strength of champagne, hock, mosel- ment. lo; claret, and the like. Therefore Hong Kong Stock Exchange Re- on the old basis, the medically cer- port and report on the Exchange tificated American could have one market appear on Page 13. glass of port or sherry a day.
MAY to 28th MAY, Both Days London Ofice: 53, Fleet Street. what is happening, and the trond Committee. The proposed new lawangry with you, ask him to do you outlook on the part of the medical
inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
PAUL LAUDER,
General Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st May 1933.
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ANCE CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG).
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERE,
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OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
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of future development.
Where lies the key the TEES, mystery, The Chingas themselves, austere, sensitive, proud of their race and history, da, not find it easy to assist. Many of those equip ped with both Western and Eastern knowledge are uncertain what they want, and opinion is divided. Traditional courtesies and conven-
HONG KONG, May 9, 1933
CHANGING CHINA
that the SIXTY-SEVENTH CHINA remains to day one of the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING hidden and mysterious places of of the Oompany will be held at its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, the world. How many foreigners Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 26 MAY,really know anything about, it, and 1933, at 11.20 A.M., for the purpo: a of receiving the, Beport of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1932, and of declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED, from STB MAY to 26TH MAY, Both Days inclu sive.
can speak from more than a super ficial acquaintance with its past history, its modern problems, and conditions! Fewer still know the Ianguage and can claim insight into the character of the Chinese people.
tions of conversation still lead to misunderstandings, and the Westeru manufacturer and merchant sk:-- *What are the conditions in the count. Will the Chinese people buy what I can make? Is China, a profitable market, worth initial expenditure
The Hong Kong Daily Press,
By Order of the Board.
Many of us live for years in the Ltd., is seeking to provide an Laswer to some of these conundrums FAUL LAUDER, foreign communities of the Far
General Manager, East, and learn next to nothing in a new quarterly publication, [-75 of those things. We take occasional Changing China, the first number and brief trips into the interior, of which is now on sale. Its con- tents consist largely, but not
Hong Kong 1st May, 1933,
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
we have contact with Chinese
people on a business footing, and
we discard some of the conventional rubbish about China. Most of us
THE
HE Fifty-second' Ordinary Genaro like the clever student, who on eral Meeting of Shareholders taking, his fund examination, oni will be held at the Offices of the
realises his ignorance. And if that undersigned on Thursday, the 25th May, 1943, at Noon, for the purpose of is the position of the Far Easterner, receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a statement of how should he blame the rest of Accounts for the year ended the 31st the world for an indifferent ignor-
December, 1832.
The following Resolutions will also be submited to the Meeting-
(1) That as from the 1st day of
"January, 1933, the remunera tion of the Consulting Com- "mittee be increased from $19,000 to $24,000 per annum." (2) "That as from the 1st day of
January 1933, the remne
from $1,250 to $1,500 per
"ance about China, broken by con- ventional figments, which are only distorted shadows of the truth.
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But it takes a determined drink. er to dispose of nearly a bottle and a balf of either sherry or port "Make your letters look as un daily. Hence one may conclude businesslike as possible. People low that a new American market is now firms that are unbusinesslike when opening up for other wines. they are asking them for money. Indeed, by intelligent use of cer- "If you know that a customer is tificates, coupled with a progressive a favour. It will change his whole profession, there should now be no it is understood, will govern the attitude of mind. People love help obstacle in the way of any well- immigration of foreign nationals ing other people, especially in this to-do American laying down an ex- into China. The Committee has re- country." Sir William Crawford.cellant cellar. ferred the draft to the Ministry of Foreign Affair and revisions will he made after the Ministry has ex- pressed its views. Following re- vision, the draft will be submitted to the Legislative Yusn for con- sideration and Min.
adoption. Kuo
Local and General
Formal business will be discussed at the fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board to be held at 3:15 p.m... to-day.
over an area of
professional writer. There is in theen pages a picture of roads and
Extensive tin deposits are report ed to have been discovered in Sui railways pushing into new coun-ching,
south-western Chekiang, try; of motor bus services strugglSamples of the ores are being ing with rough thoroughfares, high. analysed to determine their quality It is stated that the deposits extend waymen and inexpert drivers; of
more than 1,000 conservancy work on immenso mow. rivers; the opening of factories and of the part played by Euro- pean experts and returned students. It is no rose-coloured portrayal and the harsher side is plain.. There are the reports, which we specially commend to readers, of what the Communist movement
meras, its"
wholly, of letters from correspond-extent, its method, and how the ents in the coast ports of China Government is trying to counter and far up-country. Many of the danger. If anyone has the idea these letters have already appear that a peaceful agrarian revolution ed in the Hong Kong Daily Press, in progress, or that the Com- but in Changing China the infor- munist of today is the Kuomintang member of yesterday, a glance at mation is collected and collated, to
the evidence of this movement con- throw light on the different districts, and therefore upon the whole coun-tained in Changing China should try. Our orrespondente, men and give a better perspective." Nor is China by pay means. free of the women of all stations of life, of several nationalities, some of them
old scourges of flood and drought and sporadio banditry. But, on missionaries and others laymen, This ignorance mattered little are in touch with the real China. the whole, a picture is unfolded of twenty years ago when a few arms, The things that smare the traveller land struggling with courage, mainly British, dealt in tea, and'
are commonplace to them. They pertinacity and enterprise to put silk, and certain raw ocomodities. know what is of real significance, things right. For the engineer, in China supplied those products and and can tell what the people of particular, a vast field unfolds, received ortain goods in return. their various districts are think and the roads, the bridges, the The system was stabilised and ing, saying and expecting. There power statione, conservancy, and worked well. Modem China is an none of the personal bias of the aviation go forward with a vitality entirely different proposition. The visitor, who views China through that defies political changes and country is seeking a vast moderni the spectacles of an imperialist, or turmoils. Dr. Hu Sain, one of the sation, and in the spheres of poli- a socialist or as the delegate of finest minds in modern China, gave [782 tics, soonomics, religion, national church, an industry or an asso-
A brilliant analysis," published in defence, and social customs is pas cistion. The view is photographic Changing Chine, of the mentality ing through a revolution on a scale rather than a futurist sketch. Thus of the young people, of his country, unequalled in human history, he there emerges what the business but mors eloquent than words, and 8 from MAY 31, 1833, we have in seeking, not to model herself on man, and the man responsible for a better guarantee of the fruition
opened our Office at the National Bank Building, 64. Des Voeux Hoad any other people, but to build a public affairs, wants to know of their plans, is the record of Central (extrance In Ice House Street). new Chinese civilisation, drawing about Chiam. He Tas the solid achievement during the past Telephone 20089.
apon modern science and organisa-dence of the 67% fitness not the ton, yeara tion, but adapting them rather heary; retailed to distinguished ORANGING CHINA, A Quarterly MM, Ikar. C. E;
then transplanting them unchang-guests, or the propagands of the Chartered Civil Engineers.ed. Chins is thus the greatest
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"tion of the Auditors be raised
"annum for each Firm." The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 11th to the 25th May, 1933, both days
inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD. General Agents.
Hongkong, 4th May, 1923.
NOTICE.
LOGAN & AMPS,
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The Council is informed by the secretary to the Court of Consuls that Mr. J. W. O. Davidson, beting Consul-General for Great Britain, has been elected to fill the vacancy. on the Bench of the Court of Con- cuts caused by the departure from Shanghai of Sir John Brenan,
The Colony had a clean bill of health over the week-end except for one case of diphtheria. The beat appears to have already eliminated small-pox.
A remand of 48 hours was grant- ed in a case in which a youth was charged with possession of 60 ten cents and 300 five cents counterfeit pieces. The youngster was arrested near the Macao wharf and had claimed that he was given 20 cents to carry the gains. The remand was finding his employer. to give the boy an opportunity of
On his return to Hong Kong from Shanghai, the Bishop of Victoria, Rt. Rev. Ronald Hall hopes to sail at once to Canton and Kongmoon, where he will conduct a confirmation A railway between Chaton and services. On May 20, the Bishop Swatow will be constructed by the will leave for Pathos and from Kwangtung Provincial Government there he will go to Nanking and so with the assistance of influential on to Yunnan and back direct from merchants in the province. It is Haiphong_early in July, "At Nad estimated that a sum of $40,000,000 king, on Trinity Sunday the Bishop is needed to finance the scheme and will ordain Mr. W. Molyneux to the the money will be raised by public Deaconate, subscription
A verdict of "Death by Mis- adventure ม was returned by the jury at the Coroner's enquiry into the death of a young schoolmistress who was fatally injured in a motor crash in Victoria Road, on March Page 7.
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Far East,
Our Ichang correspondent sends us an account of the recent blasting of the Kungling Rocks in the Yang- taze. He also sends a photograph of the elaborate operations that pro- ceeded the "Anal "bang:" Page 1.
A report of the anenal meeting of the Shanghai, Paper Importers Association appears on Page 6.
Hostilities have again "opened in.. the Chinwangtao and Peitaiho areas.
Page 1. It is officially intimated from Tokyo that the Soviet has offered to sell the C.E.R. to Japan or Man- chukuo.
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from the files.
LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
We understand that the Samp- son brought letter from Sir Michael Seymour addressed to Sir. John Bowring, written at the last moment, stating that the mandarin who had met Dr. Bowring and Dr. Barket, some few years ago Tientsin, had been deputed by the Emperor to meet the foreign. Pleni-
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potentiaries on the 30th ult. Mon had been told off to attack the farts, but the above intelligence had caused matters to assume a pacific tendency, Hong Kong "Daily Press, May 9th, 1668.
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LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS. To-day's Rotary Club meeting,
to New The newest addition A clever piece or shadowing on will be the annual meeting of the
York journalism is a newspaper in the part of District Wachman No. Club. The officers for the coming Chinese, produced thus: The editor, 11D, led to the arrest of a pick-year will be elected and the Mr. Wong Chiu Foo, who is stated pucket who had stolen a watch from Nominating Committee of the Club, to be a political refugee, distates a Chinese pedestrian, In sentene appointed hy the President, havo to a Chinese amanuensis, whose ing the thief to four months' hard the following comes to offer writing in Indian ink is photolitho labour, Mr. Wynne Jones, who President, Rotarian T. B. Wilson; graphed on bright yellow paper. heard the evidense, said he thought Vice-President,, Rotarian M., Lo; The contents of the newspaper are the District Watchman deserved Directors: Rotarians J. P. Sherry, chiefly political. Hong Kong commendation.
J. L McPherson, A. el Arculli, G Daily Press, May 9, 1883. W. Greene, L4 Shu Fan and W. N.
Looking Back 25-Years. When a Chinese was charged be- T. Tam. Joint Hon. Secretaries: fore Mr. Wynne Jones yesterday for Roturila M. F. Key and another to steading a plated radiator-cap, In- be nominated.
Hon. Treasurer: spector Elston sought a remand for N. J. Perrin.
48 hours with a view to ascertain-
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Mr. Johnson, in the House of Commons, moved resolution urging the Government to termin- ate as speedily as possibly, the
ing whether the defendant was a Two inen, one a Police reservist system of licensing opium dens in member of a gang which had been armed with service reviver and Crown Colonies, especially in Hong responsible for the thefs of a num- another who carried a 22 calibre Re-Kong, the Straits and Ceylon. ber of radiator caps. The remand mington target rifle, lost their Major Beely, Under Secretary of was duly granted.
weapons under peculiar circum-State for the Colonies, accepted the stances on Sunday. They had gone motion, because the time had come to take a decisive step forward. Shanghai-A funeral service for out to have some target practice In regard to the Straits and the the late Mr. Reginhild Hooper was and while they were eligrossed in Malay States, he expected the re held yesterday in the Hunging their work, three men approached port of the Commission early in the Road Cemetery, Dean A. 0. 8. and showed in interest in their Autumn, but he promised that alth Trivett officiating. Mr. Hooper was shooting. One of the three squat mate extinction of the opfum, abuso the past eight months had served when an opportunity occurred seized Major Beely read a telegram des a retired Royal Navy man and forted very near to the Reservist and there. In reference to Hong Kong, ne an instructor at the Customs the revolver which the owner had patched on the 4th inst. to Bir College in Shanghai, where he was left lying on the ground at the Frederick Lugard informning. BE. held in high esteem by the officers same time, the other man wrested that, the Government had decided to close the dens as they recognised and cadets. The casket was draped the rife from the second sportsman that it was essential to maintain with the Union Jack and was chr Before the robbers left, they took the standard set by the Chinese. ried to the graveside by six cadets away a gold watch had chain be-Hong Kong Daily Press, of the Customs Collège,
longing to the owner of the rifle. 1908.