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that the Ninth Annual Ordinary. General Meeting of Shareholders of China Underwriters, limited, will be held at the Offices of the Company, Hong Kong Bank Building, 44, Des Vaux Road Central, Hong Kong, ca Thursday, the 25th day of May, 1980, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors and a Statement of Accountà' for the year ending 31st December, 1032, and of electing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 18th May, 1933, to 25th May, 1933, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
HERBERT E. STURT,
Managing Director.
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OTICE is hereby given that on Wednesday 17th instant the supply of electricity will be inter rupted at 7am. to the area bounded by Nelson Street, the Kowloon- Canton Railway, Soy Street and Nathan Road.
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MAN WHO INTRODUCED BUDDHISM TO THE WEST
*News and Views ⭑
Lawrence Going East?
Easy Money...
SUMMARY OF NEWSİ'
Local,
Bert Wheeler and Robert Wool- The future of ex-Airoraftaman The Free States keeps about Shaw (formerly Lawrence of Ara- £1,000,000 out of the £3,000,000 odd y, the world famous team of bis) is exciting speculation even subscribed to the sweepstake from comedians, arrived in the Colony among his more intimate friends, every corner of the world, so that on the as President Hoover yester- The Ven. Sri Devamitta Dham- If, as is hinted, he has plans to despite the imposing list of win day. They were met on board by mapala, one of the pioneer mis. go out East again he tony reas nors in England and Scotland it a large crowd of film fans, and an sionaries to introduce Buddhism to sume, the name Lawrence-or per- may be taken for granted that a interview with them will be found the West, died on
April 29, in haps adopt still another. It is to good deal more money has gone on page &
Joseph Evangelista Besar was com- Benares, aged 68. His last wish the Arabia, that gave him his chief out of this country than will come. was that he should be cremated at féme that he is said to be planning back to it. Irish methods in mat-mitted to jail,, for 15 days pending
ters financial, may be cute, but they Saranath, in the precincts of the dramatic return-or at least to famous temple which he helped in one of its kingdoms. But he out- a large measure to build.
Montagus Mr. Norman in keeping Mr. E. S. Jayasinha, Becretary of the Miha Bodhi Society, said that a telegram had been despatch ed to Saranath stating that it was the wish of the Sangha as well as the laity that the remains should be brought to Ceylon for cremation and that the ashes might later be entombed at Saranath.
His Onreer,
The Anagarika Dharmapala, as he was known at the beginning of his career, was born on September 17, 1884. After leaving school he apprenticed himself to a notary for eight months, but subsequently be- came a clerk in the Department of Public Instruction.
agarika' was attending St. Thomas' College, Madame Blavatsky and Colonel H. S. Olcott arrived in Ceylon and started an ethico-religi- pus movement which later came to be known 48 the Theosophical Society.
his intentions, secret.
are not dignified. A great deal His Excellency's pleasure in con- was said and written about what nection with his extradition to the winners are going to do with Manila. Details of the case appear their money, but curiously enough on page 6. very little was heard about the benefit to Irish hospitals, which As ons who has apparently, dis was the justification of the sweep- covered the secret of perennial atakes would be equally successful stakes. Very obviously the sweep youthfulness Mr. George Bernard if they were for no better object Shaw, ultra-modern though he
The Shavian Bean.
12
"Boater Mystery.
.M.C.A. and Y.M.M.A,
Mr. G. H. Potts, Chairman of the Stock Exchange, will lay the Exchange Building, at 3 p.m. to- foundation stone of the new Stock day, alembers of the Stock Ex- change will afterwards be at Home to friends in the present Stock Ex- change promises.
An account of the rapid growth and development of Wanchai ap pears on page 7..
'Pte. Price of the South Wales
pleaded guilty and was fined
General.
He
Page t
Pago 6..
may in his outlook on life, would than to give the promoters an in come. Incidentally, it would be in be the first to deny the right of t resting to know how much pro- anyone, no matter how young, to moters profits have amounted to address him as "Old Bean." It is
date. a title, however, that might now be applied to him with some measure of truth, because visitors say in a London art gallery a bean that was The processional portest which G. B. 8. to the, life. It was the veiled Moslem women made recent Borderers who drove a car round work of a miniaturist artist, who, ly against Lord Allenby, who went the Peninsula on Sunday, without with a surface of little more than to Jerusalem, to open
the new the permission of the owner was About the time at the An-half a square inch to work on, Y.M.C.A. building, was not unex-charged in Court yesterday.
had carved out in delicate - detail | pected. every line of the famous bearded. For, despite its liberal organisa- features. Unless the author were tion, the Moslem have persisted in to give the lie to his own face, he regarding the T.M.C.A. purely as
Wong Chan Pang, a student was could not but admit that in this an organ of religious propaganda.bond over in connection with a case at least he and a bean werd Six years ago, indeed, they found charge of stealing a fountain pen. strikingly alike.
ed as a rival institution a Young. He said he yielded to sudden temps- Life Devoted to Religion.
Men's Moslem Association. The tation. Y.M.M.A., as it is now called, is The Anagarika identified himself
strongest in Egypt. It has bran- whole-heartedly with the movement
ches in Palestine, Syria and Irak, and, abandoning Government ser-
Following the officialsnub " vice in 1888, decided to devote his heralded the first day of spring by All its members are keen Nation.
aliste.
administered to the Nazi envoys, life to religion. In 1893, at the taking in large stocks of
This movement has its headquarheaded by Dr. Frank, it is likely invitation of the Committee of the hats. The manufacturers, apparters in Cairo, where it has a fine that. a strong diplomatic protest
Parliament. 1929 it started a Government to Austria, market, though last year's effort review" in which it was laid. to make it as popular as it was down that the Koran must be the has decided to extend the bounty The Irish Free State Government before the war did not meet with basis of the moral revival of system on exports to Britain and In May, 1891, he started the much success. A fair number of Islam.
North Ireland... Maha Bodhi Society, the aim of them will certainly be
Page 1. which is the restoration of the an
Britain during the summer months, Civil Servants Lazury Travel. The events in Geneva are being. cient Sacred sites in India. Owing but where the remainder go in a
In future Home Civil servants it is generally believed that they. closely followed in Washington for
Buddha Gaya which had been un-
planation perhaps, is that they der Hindu control for centuries are absorbed by the export trade, be allowed first-class fars only if, was partially restored to the Maha big fillip laat year when the Prince are over £1,000 a year and in the and this was undoubtedly given in the case of men, their salaries Bodhi Society.:
his case of women £850. The Anagarika travelled three of Wales consistently wore times round the world spreading "boater" during his visit to the Buddhism wherever be went.
Argentine,
Distributors in London have
Braw
All Members are cordially invited A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. ceeded to Chicago and represented "boater" will bout on the hat clubhouse opposite the House of will be made by the Germans
to attend and participate in, any
discussion which may ensue.
By Order of the Stewards,
C. B. BROWN,
Eecretary.
Hong Kong, 15th May, 1933.
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the Southern Church of Buddhism which Haurishes in Ceylon, Burma, Cambodia and Siam.
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but, for virtually that superiority, to his efforts the ancient site at Puzzle to most people. The X-travelling on State business will will provide the key to the War
&
BRIGGS.-On May 6, at the General which her neighbours enjoy and Hospital, Shanghai, HEATHER strategista call a safe margin of BELLE BACCHUS, infant daughter defence." The British Plan sucks to of Mr. and Mrs. W...G. Briggs.
reduce Continental Armica Do WALTER-On April 21, 1933, at Men-militia basis, long service troops
tone, France, MAUDE MARÍA, widow of Walter Baldwin Wal ter, formerly of Yokobama and Sud Pre, Worplesdon, Surrey Aged 80.
Race Meeting to be held on SATUR- DAY, 27107 MAY, 1933 (weallyr permitting), may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, the Club House, Happy Valley, te Hong Kong Club, the Sports Club, a'd the Stables, | -—--- Village Road.
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being employed overseas. Germany naturally wants her quota of long service troops, under the contention that if & European War broke out the defenders of the outposts of
His Last Years.
the British Maha Bodhi Society in A few years ago he established London and the American Maha Bodhi Society in New York.
It was about two years ago, that the Rev. Dhammapala entered the priesthood, At ordination
the
Novelists' Fortunes.
Few English novelists, even the most popular, have left large for tunes, and in this respect Mr. John Galsworthy's 238,000 takes a high place. In literary circles, however, many people expected his will to only because of his great success as a novelist and playwright, but also because he was not entirely dependent on his writings for å living.
Debt problem. Details on Page 1. The call-over for the Derby is announced Please turn to Page 9.
Perry and Hughes beat Groten- felt and Grahn by three straight sets in the Davis Cup.
Page 9:
Entries close at 18 o'clock NOON Editorial and Business Office: empires would dash home at to ceremony which took place "a few be proved at a higher figure, not Committee. The purely personal resignation Details will be found
OB THURSDAY, 18TH MAY, 1933.
By Order,
0. B. BROWN,
Becret817
Becretary.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE GOODS or MARIAN OBREMBSKI, LATE OF NGAU-CHI-WAN IN THE NEW TEER TORIES BUT FORMERLY OF No. 98, NATHAN Road, Kow. LOON, IN THE COLONY OF HOND Koxo, Doctor of Natural SCIENCE, DECEASED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court ban, by virtue of the Provisions of Section 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1887, made an Order limiting the time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claima against the above Estate to the 10TH JUNE,
1933.
All Creditors and Others are socord ingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before that date.
DEACONS, ..
Solicitors for the Executor, 1, Des Voeur Road Central,
Hong Kong.
THE CANTON INSURANCE
...OFFICE, LTD.
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HONG KONG. MAY 16, 1003.
MIGHT IS RIGHT!!!
every
speed! There is something in her Pled. There is much in strategie plea; in the French de- mand for the line of the Rhine for example: If the spirit of harsh aggression is abroad it can always scizo upon strategie considerations. If France and Germany trusted cach other the former would have no objection to a German Army something of the kind that the Nazis want Russia is the real danger to Germany, and to Europe! But France does not trust Germany, and who can blame her in face of
IT is hardly to be expected that the Disarmament Conference should make such progress with Japan the present situation? There is tak embarking upon operations whose of Germany" tacitly disregarding objectives no one knows beyond the the Treaty of Versailles and pro- inner circle of the Japanese Cabinet ceeding with her own re-arming as
weeks ago at Saranath, the Rav. Dhammapala offered the Vibaras made by him to the Sangha.
HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS
FOR WEEK ENDING May 8.
Chittagong Iloilo... Bangkok
Plague.
Cases Deaths.
Bassein Bombay
+
2
2
Cholera.
Calcutta
.186
87
10
2
1
1
1
0
Small-pox.
Alexandrin Baghded
3
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3
2
Beirut
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Bassein
11
3
Bombay
69
55
Calcutta
.118
97
Karachi
11
10
Madras Negapatam Rangoon
06
4
1
1
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2
Vizagapatam Macao Canton Shanghai
Alexandriu
1
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Typhus,
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This is a Treasury decision which will rob many officials of a luxury they have hitherto enjoyed, While there, bag been no Treasury rule on the matter the existing
Far East. practice has been to allow rat class to officials on salary scales Latest news on the situation in rising to £500 and to those whose the north will he found on Page 1. actual salary exceeds £400.
Mr Hachiro Arits, Vice-Minister, The new rule has been made at for Foreign Affairs, caused quite a the instance of the Public Accounts stir in Tokyo when he sent in hig view of Sir Richard Hopkins, the on
Finance and Controllor of the Supply. Services at the Treasury, was that all Civil servants should have third-class fare and, if they With the outstanding exception choose to go first, should themselves of Sir Hall Caine, who left pay the difference. quarter of a million sterling, not
Sir Richard said that he would English novelist has left more than feel no deprivation personally by £100,000.
such a rule, and that he has often Indeed, only one or two have "travelled third" on Government exceeded the £80,000 of Charles businem. Dickens, who was entirely depen- One wonders if self-denial of dent on his own efforts.
this sort is general in Whitehall,
" •
Local and General
Two cases of enteric and three of small-pox were reported over the week-end.
Normal telegraphic working with Shanghai and beyond had been re established.
The P. & O... Kaisar-I-Hind left Singapore for this port on the 13th inst. at noon with the outward English mails, and is due here on the 17th inst" at about 10 a.m.
Wai Kit, a houseboy in the ser- vice of Inspector Dorling, injured his right arm on Sunday by put ting it through a window while deaning it. He went to the Kow. Toon Hospital for treatment.
At to-day's meeting of the Rotary Chub Rotarian D. M. Maynard will speak. on "An Amateur Dude Wrangler."
£
A fine of $20 was imposed by Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magie- tracy yesterday, оп
Chinese woman, who was charged with passing eigarettes and matches to prisonera in the cells of No. 7
Police Station.
*
From the files.
LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS
NURSERY RHYTHMES
Reflections on a recent dispute: between a publican and a sinner.
Sing a song of Bowring
A pocket fuil of Tacis, And even handed justice
A holding of the scales; While half a dozen lawyers
Are making up a din. And thinking this a pretty pie
To put a finger in.
Sir John, is in his private room
Gloating o'er the money the Farmer's witif his lawyers
Looking very funny. The Spy is in his tap room Drinking "tuig blue"- The Public's jeering at the lot.. Of Rogues and converts too.
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS.
The new French Enroy to Annam is the bearer of an autograph letter from President Gravy stating that the definite occupation of Tonquin is necessitious. The King of Ap nam is to receive an annual sub-
and trinkete as security, a Chinese Protectorate. Ample guarantees Handing, a stranger some money sidy, and will be invited to sign & protocol recognising a French woman sought to earn some com are given that, the integrity of mission by undertaking to convert Annam will be maintained; but the
and General Stal. Here is a clear she thinks fit Europe then will be example of the triumph of might faced with a repetition of the Far Over justice, by the tüne-dis- Eastern dilemma" fight or submit honoured method of acting upon to what you don't like!" It is a grawe provocation." Japan's method dangerous game, especially in is, unfortunately, showing signs of Europe where air forces can act sprending westward, where the Dis instantaneously and with hideous
A claim for $610 damages was armament Conferenco appears to be effectiveness. Would France in from
heard before Mr. Justice LindsellHong Kong Daily Press, April in extremis. Much depends upon of such repudiation proceed to ex-
yesterday. Messrs. Reuter Brockel- 16, 1358. the statement of policy which Herr treme measures? In all probability
mann & Co., of Canton Bank Building are claiming this sum HiTza, the German Chancellor, riot, but she would maintain her
from Wing On Co., of 48, Wing On will make to morrow, but the pre-ments, and the old Franco-German present predominance. of arma-
Strest, and Chan Pak Wan, part THE Fifty-second Ordinary Gen Bent tone of German pronounce-strife would be renewed.
A Chinese painter was fined $50 per therein. The Court heard the Teral Meeting of Shareholders ments is not hopeful. It is useless Gerranny stand the economic strain 1 utterance would have ben impo's labour, Mr. Schofield, at the journed the case until June 2.
Can nicious folly of VON PAPEN's latest or in default six months hard evidence of the plaintiff and ad that Bible. Had a wealthy gentleman, Central Magistracy yesterday for undersigned on Thursday, the 25th to lay the blame on Germany. To The unfortunate thing is May, 1933, at Noon, for the purpose of keep a great nation disprmed and secondary considerations not only months in wet trenches, of being powder and -1 lb. of white paint finance and commerce ire still in no danger of ever-standing for the larceny of 8 lbs of red lead. Agents, together with a statement of at the mercy of her neighbours was when fighting starts but where blinded, and shell shocked, talked from the Taikoo Dockyard. Accounts for the year ended the 31st to sow dragon's teeth. Armed men armaments pre concerned. Some in his manner, the press would have how the nations in arms can get maintained silence, and he would The following Rosolutions will also are arising. The spirit that drove money and credit, and carries on have been quintly taken by a restane of the new Stock Exchange currency at the nearest money lations, and collect the revenue
The laying of the foundation a packet of banknotes into local French will control foreign re- be submitted to the Meeting out the ruling houses, and was without care for the day of reckon-lative round one of the tragic hos Building will be performed by Mr. changers. She found on arrival at Hong Kong Dally Prem, May 16..
(1) "Jastre from the lat day of genuinely-democratic and ropubing. The chance of immediate war pitals, where the hopeless wreckage G. H. Potts, chairman of the Stock the money changers that the packet 1893.
January, 1831, the remuners; tion of the Consulting Comelican, has been killed, and the Nazis is remote, but Europe is in the of war drags out a living death. Exchange at 3 pm. to-morrow. contained only waste paper: Need- "mittee be increased from
gravest danger of relapsing OBOS Then he would have been reminded After the ceremony, the members of less to say the stranger who held Looking Back 25 Years, *$18,000 to $24,000 per annum athursts are the inevitable explo more into armed carps, carefully that the sacrifice of men and the Exchange will be At Home" the security" could not be found, (3) "That as from the 1st day of mom after fifteen years of strong balanced diplomatically, eyeing each women demanded by war, is not to friends in the basement of Ex-
The Kaiser has sent to President "January, 1923, the ran repression. Leat October, when the deadliest threats into normal ac and reasonable armaments. Those of the Exchange are at present. alias Lam Knu Kin is charged with biggest volume ever printed. The Roosevelt, an enormous, book, for other with suspicion, reading the caused by boundaries, and tariffs, change Building where the promises
The case in which Lam Tai Yung, which it is claimed that it is the from $1,950 to $1,500 per storm was inevitable, Great Britain tions, growing steadily more hostile isshes can be settled by diplomacy
maliciously wounding La Hung and dimensions of the book (are 280 at length persuaded the Powers to and irreconcileable until some | and arbitration. War is caused by -Nine men were arrested when the Wong Tung Lee on April 22, Isst, metres in height 1,50 metres in accept the principle of Germany's worthless issus, a chance assassina the deliberate stirring up of police raided a gambling den on was continued before Mr. Wynne-width, 00 centimetres in thickness, the 25th May, 1033, both days right to equality in armaments in the Antarctic, precipitates crisis of money interests, But perhaps two appeared before Mr. Wynne terday, and was adjourned till this about 0ft, by 41 ft. by 3 ft. It is tion, or a dispute about a boundary racial hatreds, for the exploiting board the Hydrangen Only Jones at Central Magistracy yes- or, in English equivalents, it is ago. Germany would and war. The war spirit had been Vox PAPEX does a good service Jones yesterday, the others prefer afternoon after further evidence enriched by numerous illustrations have accepted moderate, combes let loose and things, intolerable by arousing the memory of the ring to jump their bait of $5 each. had been taken. Mr. FQ E-Ren-presenting landscapes and scener gions, To-day the world is faced few years ago are accepted occurreality of war, and ite background, Thekeeper" "of the school was dalt is for the defence while, the Keiser. The book is, in fact an from German dife selected by the rencer. Not long ago the per-when he drags women and mother fined $50 and the only other defend prosecution is in the hands of Inendlyclopaedia of Germany, long [792 with her claim, not for equality, (Vontinued at foot of next Odlumal hood Intofis political game
spector Chester-Woods.
Kyng Daily Pras, May 16, 1908:5
December, 1932.
"tion of the Auditors be raised.
"annum for each Firm,”
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 11th to
inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON &*
CO., LTD., General Agents. Hongkong, 4th Mar, 1923:
few
Fant to appear was fined $3,