ADVERTISEMENTS.
G.
NOTICE.
R.
IT is hereby notified that ay and
from the 29th May, 1933, the Head Office of the Statistical Branch of the Import and Exports Dopart- ment will be transferred to No. 18, Johnston Road, Wanchai.
2. For the convenience of Im- porters and Exporters, a Receiringi Office will be established on the ground floor of the Imports and Exports Office (Fire Brigade Build- ing, Connaught Rowl, Central).
3. Communications may be sent to either address on or after 29th May, 1937.
J. D. LLOYD,
Superintendent,
Imports & Exports.
Hong Kong, 25th May, 1988.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
.1865
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
No the ELEVENTE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Lounge adjoining the Company's Restaurant, 1st Floor, Exchange Building, Hong Kong, on SATURDAY, 10r JUNE, 1933, at 11 am.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Company will be CLOSED from 30rn MAY, 1933 to 10TH JUNE, 1913, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directora
A. W. BROWN,
Manager & Secretary.
Hong Kong, 24th May, 1833.
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U.S. NEWSPAPER PSYCHOLOGY
1933
* News and Views
Interesting Address by commander of the Suffolk.
Mr. V. K. Kwong
CONTRASTS, BETWEEN .. BRITISH AND AMERICAN JOURNALISM
Wis
nt
Presbyterian
Mission Board does not cause much
Hong Kong Fire Engine Made at
Greenwich,
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local,
Today is the last day of the British Empire Fair. In the Pan- insula Hotel the Cinama will close at 3 pm; the Exhibition on the first floor will close at 3.p.m., and The closing hour at the in the ground floor lounge at 8 Pavilion to day (Saturday) will bo Kowloon Supplement. Yesterday was notable for a re 10 p.m.
an Armstrong S.W. 18 Single seater Mr. A. V. pursuit plane by markablo narial demonstration on
Page 19 The Hong Kong Stock Exchange Harvey,
We call the attention of our weekly report appears on Page 13. readers to our Maono Supplement on Page 3.
Commander W. Whitaker, present inaintenance commander and
A demonstration of the giant all- physical training officer, Nore.Com. mand, has been appointed to the British fire engine made by Merry- Suffolk as executive officer when she weather and Sons, Limited, at their recommissions for further service in Greenwich Road, S.E., works, for, China, in succession to Commander Hong Kong, took place on Tues F. H. M. Vaughan. Entering the day. Its most distinctive feature is An interesting and instructive ad- Service as a boy in the Impregnable the welded steel 100tt, ladder, commissioned telephonic communication between. dress," Some Reflections on Amerint Devonport in 1906, Commander which, mounted on a turn-table, has
Whitaker attained
Hitherta.a fire en- can newspaper psychology" delivered by Mr. Victor K. Kwong, rank as a mate in 1915, and served the fireman at its summit and other
ne mate and lieutenant during the firemen below, Franciscu formerly of the Sun Bulletin at a meeting of the Hong War in the cruisers Yarmouth and gine with stee! laddera has been ob- Kong Practical Psychology Club Courageous in the Grand Fleet, the tainable at a reasonable cost only The ladder which was held at Lane, Crawford's former ship being present at Jut- from Germany, but the effect of and He was selected to qualify tariffs has been to the advantage of Restaurant yesterday.
25sec, and the hose is released Air, Kwong said that" the main in physical training duties in 1919. the English product.
Further sales have been reported feature of an American newspaper The Suffolk is due at Portsmouth on can be raised to its full height in automatically with the extension of Lo-day was the concentration on May 18 to refit.
the ladder. The engine will be ship-by stall holders at the British E- Page 19. sensation, such as murder, divores
The Mrs. Paul Buck's Resignation.
pire Fair. and scandals of all kind.
According to a correspondent to ped to Hong Kong, next week.
We published an article by Mr. methods were quite different from
Hu Han Min setting out "why he these of the British, particularly Horne paper: The news that Mrs.
and his followers in Canton are In n American Pearl Buck, the missionary au- the headings. newspaper the headings usually thoress, has given her resignation 100 H.P.H. Diesel-Engined Car,
the American
Captain G. E. T. Eyston, the opposed to peace with Japan. He' relates that Accuses Chiang Kai Shek of seek. consisted of the main features of to. the story, and this, in his opinion, was more effected in catching the stir in missionary quarters in. Eng-racing, motorist,
The American newspaper and I find, though in China, where Britain's first high-speed heavy oiling to further his own interests by very prominent in rending public was for the most she has innumerable friends, the motor car is secretly building in a submitting to Japanese demands Fart not very well educated, and to news will no doubt be received with workshop in North London. The This view was also stated by a
Mre. Buck, having ear, he said, will have u speed of gentleman cope with this, the mental standard indignation.
Pago 7. of the average American newspent practically all her life in over 100 miles an hour, and an China and in a position to express papers was that of a twelve-year-old China, understands the Chinese as effort will be made with it to eng-- the views held by a wide circle of
few other missionaries can, and ture the record for Diesel engined opinion.
Mrs. Landau, the wife of Mr. proprietor of Adolphe Landau, Mr. Kwong than went on to say sympathises, probably too thorough cars at present held by America, that proots from newspapers didy for the Mission Board which the The racer in question was brought not come from salsa, but from ad- represents, with the well-known across the Atlantic over a year ago Jimmy's Kitchen, was knocked down Chinese impatience about dogmatic and demonstrated on the Brook...
lands track. Its performance im- by a motor car driven by Mr. H. P. Bailey as Wanchai on Thursday "There will be vertisers. In this respect most of
theology.
pressed the erities. the newspapers in America aimed
neither carburetter nor magneto in night. She received serious injuries at circulation with a view to attract
my car," said Captain Eyston, "the to the Head, and as a result of this advertisers, and by so. doing they
Page 10. and remanded." had to sell the papers at a low
fuel being injected direct into the accident, Mr. Bailey was charged. cylinders Nor, he added, would at Central Magistracy yesterday Mr. J. L. S. Smith of the New price.
Mr. Kwong then compared the
it be a mcing car, but an ordinary
The stream-lining saloon. type of headings in American news- papers with those of Hongkong's.
many of the features will be regard-Zealand Forests Company was cau- Magistracy yesterday for causing He said that the British wrote
ed as futuristic, but he believes they tioned by Mr. Schofield at Central an obstruction by parking his car in in a dignified and literary manner,
will be standard in five years.
the alley between Lane Crawlords whereas the style of the American,
and Gloucester Building Page B was brief and simple and to the point. Usually in American news papers the gist of the story was either fund in the headings or in the first few lines of the article, and this was very important in
eye.
boy.
American Missionaries.
Nordic Ruthlessness.
and
When the American laymen's re- port on foreign missions came out a few months ago she was quick to welcome the Commission's strio tures од American missionaries, many of whom she accuses of nar row-mindedness, and it is scarcely surprising that her cloquent sup- port of the criticisms should be re garded as disloyalty to the Board and to her colleagues in China. In her recent writings she has declared, that she cannot believe in the eternal damnation of the heathen, that she
The population is to be divided does not consider belief in the Deity and that she does not believe in the into families whose descendants are Miracles of the New Testament, desired by the State and families She has provided the heresy-hunters, whose offspring would be regarded therefore, with ample material in a as a burden on the nation.
Compulsory sterilisation will be country where heresy hunts are still regarded as a rather exciting adven- the logical consequence of this ture. An English missionary expolicy. pressing the same views as those
with a Statement of Accounts for the Editorial and Business Office: 11 Atlantic for the Economic Confer-View of the impatience of most of of Christ is essential to salvation,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 7th day of May, to FRIDAY, the 2nd day of June, 1033 both days inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.
Hong Kong, 22nd May, 1933.
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, MAY 27, 1033.
CHINA AND HER SPOKESMAN
BOONG is evidently MR. T. V. proving as successful in represent ing
his country in America as he has been in presiding over the
ment.
ence.
FOG HOLDS UP SIR
JOHN SIMON
Racial mixed marriages are to be prohibited in Germany 60 as to maintain the purity of the "Nordic race."
The annual general meetings of the Union Insurance Society of ance Co., Ltd. and the British Canton, Ltd., the China Fire Insur Traders Insurance Co., Ltd, were held at Union Building yesterday.
There is truth in what he the readers.. says, but while out here we politely cover a smile, many at home will swallow it whole, and go on their way rejoicing that they know the
the truth,
about whole truth, China. It they meet someone who has spent a lifetime in the country they will any, you Far Easterners are so biassed and narrow. You! don't set yourself up, do you, a knowing more than Mr. SooNG '1"
The Americars and the Briton JOHN SIMON, when flying of the agriculture department of given to the Press, by the Assistant
Page 0 and 13 Mr. Victor K. Kwong, formerly of the San Francinen Bulletin, de livered an interesting address on "Some Reflections on American newspaper psychology" at a meet- Page S Already. 80,000 schoolchildren haveing of the Hong Kong Faychology
Club yesterday. held by Mrs Buck would not be been examined as to their physical made the victim of a beroey-hunt, and racial qualifications. The ex but whether she would be accepted amination of University students as a missionary by any of the for- and candidates for official positions eiga missionary societies is, I under the State will follow Final gather, very doubtful.
ly the entire population must in dergo these tests.
of liberal and advanced sympa will believe much, and thies forgive and excuse almost any
UNABLE TO VISIT M. DALADIER
[BRITIER WIRELESS SERVICE.)
RUGBY, May 25.
to Paris and London from Geneva this afternoon, encountered such thick fog that the machine had to return.
He set out again later, but had to cancel his intention of seeing
Pence per share on account of the ananas of the National Govern. thing. If there is a particulariy | Monsieur Daladier in Paris and
and
fnancial year ending 31st March, 1934 has been declared by the Directors of the Company in Brisbane, payable to Shareholders on the Registers at Brisbane- Singapore on Thursday, 15th June, 1983.
Notice is also hereby given that be closed from Friday, 9th June to Thursday, 15th June, 1933 (both days inclusive) for the preparation of
His recent address to the bad pirney," well it was all ar Council of Foreign Relations, at ranged at Hong Kong." I a New York, had the true diplomatic ring. If in the future Mr. SOONG missionary or two are killed: "The tires of the Treasury at Nanking, poor fellows take their lives in their any embassy would be more than handa" An excuse can early "The adways be found. Nearly always. graced by his presence. chaotie except where the Japanese; invasion and Japanese intrigue has made it so." Could anything be not say there is no disorder, but the situation is far from chaotic" What is chaos' How well Mr. Canton and Nanking. Soosa's phrase caters for the
the
continued through to London where to-morrow be, will attend Cabinet meeting in the morning and take part in a foreign affairs de- bate in the Commons during the
evening.
Sir John Simen expects to re- turn to Geneva in a few days and will probably see Mr. Daladier on
the Singapore Transfer Registers will | sitüntion in China is, far from but not quite. There is one thing the way,"
Dividend Warrants.
By Order of the Board,
DERRICK & 00, Chartered Accountants, Local Secretaries. Hongkong Bank Chamber, SINGAPORE, 15th May, 1933.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
better expressed? Mr. Scone does
that would not be understood, or command the slightest sympathy,
7
Mrs. Back's resignation may place her husband, Dr. J. L. Buck, in a This forecast of the eugenic laws difficult position. Dr. Buck is head proposed by the Government was Nanking University and a mission State Commissionary for Health He has already ary of the Presbyterian Mission in Dortmund,
"racial office " in Board, of which Mrs. Ruck ranks as established a a missionary only as his wife.
that town.
Local and General
THE EXCHANGE MARKET
MESSRS. ROZA BRÜS.. REPORT
We have received the following report from Messrs. Roza Bros. of the exchange market for yesterday's Silver prices dropped 1/8 yester- day for both deliveries, the quota- tions being 18 11/16 for Ready and 18 for Forward. Silver advices re- ported India as having bought. The As no expenses are to be sent Continent, sold. The market was diphtheria and meningitia were them by the Central Kuomintang, firm. In America the rate was low-
the Foochow District Kuomintanger at 31 for Spot Headquarters suspended work last reported on Thursday.
wenk.
One
сабе
ench
of small-pox,
and that is another outbreak of THE TARIFF TRUCE be sent to the German Government
Civil War, particularly between.
There is
QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS
(ORITION WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, May 25.
In protest against the Nazis, several prominent Japanese literary
In view of the heavy bookings for men are preparing a manifesta to denouncing its attitude towards of the Peninsula Hotel this evening the Boot Garden of that establish the Gala Night in the Rose Room
literature..
ment will also be used. for the In the circum The University Professors, Fede-ccasion, augmenting further bend
arrangements. ration has decided to send a tele
stances the unus! Saturday night gram to the Soviet Government, dinner dance at the Repulse Bay through the Soviet Ambassador to Hotel will not take place. China, strongly opposing the offer of the U.S.S.R. to sell her interests in the Chinese Eastern Railway.
casual visitor. There is no chaos real sympathy for China in her at Canton or Shanghai, and the struggle with Japan. No onn coastal ports are forging ahead thinks the worse of her for failure [244 with reconstruction plans. Go by
river steamer up to Wuchow in the against enormous odds in the West River, or Chungking on the battlefield. But if another struggle
question, to-day, the Chancel- Yangtze. In the latter case you broke out to dispossess General ANSWERING a Parliamentary
An order for 100,000 Japanese de- might get a stray shot or two frora the bank, but probably it would CHIANG KAI SHEK, not even a com- lor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville
unforeseen occurred in regard to the Golden Kite, the Order of the be as quiet as on the Mississipi. mitice of those two kind hearted Chamberlain said that if anything corations, comprising the Orders of And all the time you pass rich old humanitarians, Mr. GEORGS currency levels during the tariff Rising Sun and the Order of the Senator BORAK, truce, the organising committee of Sacred Treasure, for military ser THE May Half Yearly Cuber agricultural lands, peaceful towns LANSBURY and
the Economic Conference would novice, has been placed with the Meating of Voting Members and sleepy villegea Fly in a would be able to discover an excuse. doubt meet again to consider how Osaka Mint. will be held at the Club House, oroplane over Happy Valley on Monday, 29th May country and you will see peasants Mr. WANG CHING WEI's announce to deal with the situation, 1938, at 5.30 pm.
All Members are cordially invited busy with their orope, market ment that China wants a dictator, towns with bustling hordes, wed but it must be a civilian dictator,
NOTICE.
the Communist
to attend and participate in sayings, funerals and all the normal would sound too thin for loss of discussion which may ensue.
tivities of life. It Chase indeed! human life and devastation of the countryside. Diehards, like
"By Order of the Stewards,
C. B. BROWN, '
Eecretary. Hong Kong, 15th May, 1933.
accept-
ATTEND BY KING "AND"" QUEEN
New York advices reported the opening rate at 3.92) and the closing rate at 3.921.
With the exception of the Shang- hai rate which was unchanged at 110 put up to 137, other rates were lowered. and the Bangkok rate which was
Market. Dull, the tone was steady.
Sterling.
A small business was done dur- ing the course of the morning at 1/4.10/32 for near followed later by another small transaction at 1/4.9/10 Kwok Ping, who was recently for cash. The market closed at discharged at the Criminal Sessions lunch time with sellers at 1/4.8/10 by reason of a bad banishment or May/June and 1/4 19/22 July, buy- Mr. Wynne-Jones at Central Ma der was committed: for trial byers at 1/32 higher. respectively gistracy yesterday for returning to the Colony after having been bani- shed. It was stated that the de- fendant, after he was released, was babished again under a correct war rant dated May 13, 1933.
Gold Dollars,
A small business was done early
in the morning at 27 for near de- livery. There were sellers at 27.1/16 May/June and 27.3/16 July, buyers at 27.3/16 May/June and 27.5/16 Jaly.
near
A fine of $10 or, in default, two weeks' imprisonment was imposed by Mr. Wrane-Jones at
Shanghal Dollars. ROYAL TOURNAMENT Watering on a Chidese. While an Erskine car was being Werchants were quoted at 1111 for
who was charged with stealing two brought over from Kowloon on a near delivery., JUBILEE
rolls of cloth from a pile at the vehicular ferry after 9.30 on Thurs- I never saw any of it. There seems r. L. S. AMERY and Mr. WINSTON
entrance of a shop in Queen's Rond day night, smoke was seen to issue Were quoted at 1111 for
from her radiator, The deck hands, livery...
Shanghai Central to be some kidnapping and piracy,
however, alive to the danger, but after all we do a bit in that CHURCHILL would see the view lina, ourselves," would say many a point of two parties fighting for
Before Mr. Schofield at Central promptly got to work with fire ex prosperous business man from the supremacy, but they would never
Magistracy yesterday two school tinguishers and in a few minutes Quiet Sellers were indicated at [815 Middie West after quite a long and accept the earlier preamble, but
boy's were fined $3 and 85 respec- the outbreak was put out. The own-1/2 for near and 1/2.15/16 for
higher. active visit to China. He might merely declare, "those Chinese war
[BRİTİSH WIRELESS SERVICE]"
tively for playing football in er of the car, who was travelling ward, layers probably at 1/16 Yacht Street, Causeway Bay It on the upper deck did not learnIN THE AFTERNOON agree that you hear queer reports lords always went to fight. That's
was stated by Sub-Inspector: Bo of the mishop until it was all over. The market was shade Ausfer in RUGBY, May 25
the afternoon from missionary chaps up coun- how they got power and money.” THE HONG KONG JOCKET
Sterling, pe try," but then, China is a big place Devolution and self-determination CLUB.
THE King and Queen to-day at gers that by playing in the street and you must expect all sorts. Is for Canton, would be
An interesting anniversary which Wesetin Democracy, as bended the opening perform the boys where not only endanger-
Business was done at 1/4.0/16 for civil
fell on April 25 was that of the ap RAFT Programmes and Entry it not the same in Europe? Leaved by
ance of the Royal Tournament at ing themselves, but also damaging
street lamps.
pointment in 1913 of Capt. G. W. June, finishing, with sellers at 1/4 Race Meeting to be held on MON.thesuper civilised
This year marks
From May 10 until June 3 the Vivian to command 11.1.9. Her 17/32 May/June and 1/4.9/10 July,
Hi Gold: Dollars, KONICA DAY 5 JUNE 1988 (weather Britain and Germany with a damage China's prestige in West
er eyes far more than defeat at the Tournament which always con- permitting), may be obtained at the
The market closed with sellers at Secretary Office, the Club House, pretty queer industrialism, and Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Clah some tough nuts among the miners the hands of the Japanese. It is all tributes a large sum to service Chinese Y.M.C.A of Shanghai is mes, the cruiser specially commie buyers at 17a3 higher respectively. the ports Club, and the Stables, and dockers. Then the Balkans very illogical, seeing how the Discurities, and in which Navy, engaged in a campaign to increase signed and fitted out to carry sea Village Road.
Aren't there still brigands in the armament, Conference, delegates are Army and Air Force give display its membership and provide funds planes during the summer of that
tractive features of the London service. The association, which were made, and the experience led 27 May/June and 271 July, buyers
Shanghal Entries close at 13 delock NOON Albanian, hills for example 1 behaving, but the view is that in which is recognised as the most at enabling it further to extend its year. A number of flights from her
Mr. Sooxs no doubt understands times of national emergency poli-season
suffered severely from the unsettled to the purchase of a special vessel at 1/8 higher respectively. on MONDAY, 19TH MAY, 1933.
the sentimental American, and he timians must put up with each The King received a great or conditions of last year, opens itsas explane carrying ship, H.M.S. By Order.
will certainly repent his speech for other, as Mr. Arquina and My-The & over foung men irrespective | Ark loyal, which served at the Dar the benefit of British Liberals and BONAR LAW did during the Great honour provided by all three fight of province, family, religion, or danelles and elsewhere during the 1850 Labourites when he crosses the War.
DRAFT
Forms for the Eighth Extra ing Russia out of it, you have normal and proper, but a
Scandinavia, war, on the old Chinese lines would | Olympia, the Jubilee of
0. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
ing service
business connection.
War,
7/2.15/16-July, sellers at 1/2-
Easier, buyers were indicated